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TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS

WADSWORTH FAMILY
IN AMERICA.

(WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.)

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY REUNION, AT DUXBURY, MASS.,
SEPTEMBER I3, 18S2, AND A GENEALOGICAL REGISTER,
PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK,

Horace Andrew Wadsworth,
AUTHOR OF " QUARTER-CENTENNIAL ^ HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, AND PUBLISHER OF THE
LAWRENCE DAILY AND ESSEX WEEKLY EAGLE, LAWRENCE, MASS.

Lawrence, Mass. -.
Printed at the E.agle Steam Job Printing Rooms.
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PREFACE.

It is not without misgivings that this volume is handed to my kinsmen and
namesakes, as a History of " Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth
Family in America." The subject covers a great deal, and could be extended
ad infinitum. To collect, edit and publish, what really should find a place in
the family history, would be the work of at least tw^enty years, and I find
that the family historians of many well known names have been busy at least
that time, and still the task is not completed. But the author of this historj'
cannot delay twenty years, ten years, or even five years. The demand for
the work will not admit of it. Letters have been received, almost daily, with
the question, "How soon will the history be completed.?" Not a few ot
our people who are deeply interested in this work, have reached, or passed,
the ripe age of three score years and ten, and for their benefit, if for no other
reason the promised work should be forthcoming. Therefore, in view of all the
circumstances, it was deemed wise to publish and disseminate, at the earliest
possible moment, such fragments of history and genealogy as have already
been obtained in the limited time, and leave the completion to the future.
Like the publication of all family histories, the work has been largely a labor
of love. No one who has not given the subject thought, can comprehend
the difficulty of spanning across two centuries and a half, and tracing lines of
descent, of which no previous record had been attempted. To this work,
however, nearl}- all our people have contributed what they could, and for
which they have our life-long and profound thanks. That a good deal has
been already done towards a satisfactory work, all of us will admit, and now
that a family association has been organized, let the work of preparing
material go on, and when sufficient information is obtained, and the present
inaccuracies noted and corrected, another work can be published which shall
be a credit to our family and name. H. A. w.

CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.
I. Thoughts and .Suggestions, 8
II. ( )rigin of Name and Coat of Arms, tb
III. Family Traits, 26
IV. The First Settlers, • 30
V. Biographical Sketches, 42
.VI. Biographical Skktc-hes— (Continued), 52
VII. The Wadsworth Name in England, 88
VIII. Wadsworth Family Reunion, . . , . 131
IX. Wadsworth Genealogies, 149

HISTORY.

I.
THOUGHT.S AND SUGGESTIONS.

Two hundred and fifty years ! At first thought, this appears along time ;
seven generations have lived and passed awav and the eighth is now at middle
life with hairs already frosting with age, and soon to be gathered home with
the fathers. We say this with no thought of sadness, for it is as wise a pro
vision of nature to die as it is to be born, and had it not been so, we of to-day
could never have existed, as the world would certainly have been full long
before our time. We take our turn upon the stage in the great drama of life,
make the best " hits" we can while vve are here, put to use the best appli
ances bequeathed by those who have gone before, and delight in handing
down to posterit)' all the knowledge and all the treasure that it has been our
lot to enjoy. But a generation is but an incident in the great march of events.
As the poet Tennyson has sung of the brook :
*' Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever.''
And cvan anv of us, who have lived within two hundred and fifty jears after
the first English settlements in this country, will be set dovvn in coming time
as but the beginners in the great work of forming our country's destiny.
The first settlers by the name of Wadsworth came to this country in 1632.
This was twelve years after the arrival of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower at
Plymouth, and about two years after the first arrivals to form the Massachu
setts colonies at Boston, Salein and Watertown. At that time there were
hardly a thousand white settlers in all New England. Plymouth colony had
not extended beyond the bounds ofthe present town bythe name, except for
temporary habitation. A few planters had homes across the baj', at Duxbury,
during the summer months, but had returned at winter to the principal
settlement for better protection. But there was a great desire among the
settlers at that time to push out into the undiscovered country all around
them. They were like the frontiersmen ofour time, looking for new fields and
nevv wealth. Few of us have a clear conception of this country at that time.
We have read a great deal of the blood-thirsty savages and tiie howling

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wild beasts that infested the country. To be sure, both were here, but
not in such numbers as we might readily infer. When Captain John
Smith surveyed the New England coast, in 1614, he found the savages
so thick and fierce that he did not deem it safe for any of his crew to proceed
in small boats up even the largest rivers any considerable distance. He
represents the banks as literally lined with savages. Settlers at Jamestown,
in Virginia, 1607, compute the number of Indians at that time in New Eng
land at 123,000. But in 1617 this was all changed. A mortal disease broke
out among them, known as the black death, and the bones of more than a
hundred thousand of these savages bleached in the dust during that year. It
was a terrible scourge, and no one as yet, as we have learned, fully
understands the cause or exact nature of this devastating epidemic. This
was three years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth ; and it will be
remembered that the first settlers, in prospecting during the winter of 1620— 21 ,
found quantities of corn in the wiginams, left by those who died or fled
during its ravages, which article of diet ministered greatly to the comfort of
the settlers during that trying winter. The Indians gave them no trouble.
What few they saw were frightened and running away. Careful computa
tion sets the number that escaped the scourge in New England at less than
25,000. Had the Indians been as numerous, as bold and blood-thirsty at
this time as they were five years previous, the name " Pilgrim Fathers"
would never have been pronounced on these western shores, except in
language of misfortune and folly. And is it not fair to presume that this
destruction of savages, to open the way to a new race, new religion and new
civilization, was a part of the great divine plan to work out His dispensations,
as great as that of dividing the Red Sea for the passage of the Israelites, or
other special providences recorded in holy writ ? But the ways of Providence
are past finding out. Of one thing we have become convinced by observation,
and that is, that supply always comes with the demand, whether it be the
work of the Lord or the devil. As the story goes : The poor, lone widow
in her thatched cottage, in hungered condition, got upon her knees before
an open fire and prayed to the Lord for bread. A mischievous school-boy
going past and hearing her plaintive appeal, crawled upon the roof and
dropped down the chimney his dinner basket, wall laden with provision,
which rolled out upon the hearth in sight of the poor widow. ^Vl^en she
beheld the contents she again knelt down and proceeded to thank the Lord
that her prayer had been answered ; but the boy, feeling that she had been
deceived as to the origin of the donation, went boldly in and told her that
he had dropped down the basket, and that she. need not continue thanking the
Lord, but to eat and appease her appetite. The poor widow looked intently
upon the boy a moment and ejaculated : " My, lad, the Lord sent it, if the devil
brought it. " It is not always easy to draw the dividing line in our achieve-

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ments between what \\e accomplish for ourselves b}' the aid of others and
vvhere tavoring breezes of Di\ine Providence are speciall}' apparent. Those
great favoring forces in nature, such as .steam and electricity, existed two
thousand years ago as much as novv, but they were hidden from our gaze till
they were actually needed to minister to our comfort. The great coal fields
oi PennsyKania and the west lay undiscovered till there was a demand for
their burieil treasure. And so it is, and ever has been in the economy of
nature, that her resources are atlequate to meet e\'ery demand of her intelligent
beings, and in some wav or other they are brought to light just at the time
when thev are needed.
i\s we have remarked, the country was ready for the approach ofthe white
man. It is not true that the whole New England country was one dense
forest at that time. The uplands were largely covered l)y a hea\'y growth,
but e\ery little ^vay where the soil vvas light there were openings or cleared
places, where had been Indian villages at previous times. The Indians
had only eflectetl settlements near ponds and ri\ers and on light soil vvhere the
women, who performed all the vvork of husbandry, could scratch the soil with
a stick and make it produce with little labor. The meadows, too, were
many of them cleared and covered with a tall, dense growth of grass. The
Indians were accustomed to burn the grass in the fall that they might more
easily capture the deer, resorting to them to feetl upon the young grass in the
spring. It was these openings and these meatlovvs that attracted the attention
of the early settlers. Tliey were soon "straightened for land." An early
writer states it thus : '-There is an overweaning desire in most men after
meadow land. The constant penetrating into the wilderness hath caused the
wild and uncouth wood to be filled with frequented ways, and the large rivers^
to be overlaid vvith bridges, passalile both for horse and foot." These
meadows were much sought by the early settlers. They cut and stacked the
hay in summer, and in winter drew it home on sleds to feed their cattle.
The people were nearly all farmers, and were vieing with each other in
adding to their worldly possessions, and untold wealth was continuously
before them. It is not, therefore, surprising that in a few years time the
most availalile sites were taken up. Towns were laid out and established
with less than a dozen inhabitants and the people became scattered in every
direction, a few. of course, remaining at the base of supplies. Our ancestors
pushed forward with others, and consequently, in the course of a few genera
tions, were distributed in all parts ofthe country.
It is not without trials and struggles, however, that the "inarch of empire
'takes its sway. " The Indians in a few years became jealous and hostile and
the work of pioneering was not that of a sinecure. Men and women alike
were required to do yeoman service, and toil, privation and hardship met
them on every hand. The appliar|ces, too, for the comforts of life were

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meagre and ofthe simplest kind. The art of properly lighting and heating
of dwellings was not then discovered, and the rude log houses would be any
thing but inviting to those of us today who have learned to know the comforts
of a better style of life. For us with the comforts and conveniences of today, it
would seem that there should be more real solid happiness in store than for
those of our ancestors who lived tvvo hundred years ago, but it must be
remembered that the cup of happiness gets full at a certain point, and when
a person gets about so happy the sum of his bliss cannot be increased. And
it is an open question with the advancement of knowledge and civilization
whether or not the real solid happiness ofthe race increases. To be content
with what we have is the true kev to happiness in everv generation, and there
is more truth than poetry in the old adage, "Where ignorance is bliss,
what folly to be wise ! " And we have every reason for supposing that to
the earlv settlers, a life of privation and hardship and toil was encountered
with cheerfulness, and endured without murmuring for the praiseworthy
object of permanently securing to theiTiselves and their posterity vvhat was
never fullv enjoyed on English soil — a diffusive, civil and an enlightened
religious liberty. Animated by this purpose they moved steadily on, "faint
ing not for weakness, faltering not for pain;" their tears and their blood
watering the soil and yielding their lives a willing sacrifice, to the cause they
loved so well. No one of us can look upon the settlers df the first hundred
years without thinking seriously of their firm convictions of duty and to the
cause of religion. The first thing upon the founding of a town was the
erection ofa meeting house. They did not call them churches in those days.
They were plain structures without steeple or chimnev, the walls unplastered
and the room unwarmed by either stove or furnace, and here the fathers of
the town, with their wives and little ones gathered together from Sabbath to
Sabbath, in summer's heat and winter's cold, listening devoutly to the
mini.st ations of the word of God, and chanting to the quaint, old fashioned
tunes of the day, Sternhold and Hopkins' hymns, deaconed oft" to them, line bv
line, the hymns being printed on the last leaves in the bible. Look at them
now: — The fathers with broad brimmed hats turned up into three comers,
with loops at the sides ; long coats with large pocket folds and cuffs, and
without collars, — the buttons either plated or of pure silver and of the size
ofa half dollar; shirts with bosoms and wrist ruffles, and with gold or silver
buttons at the wrist, united by a link ; the neck cloth or scarf of white linen
or figured stufl" broidered, with the ends hanging loosely on the breast ; the
breeches, close, vvith silver buckles at the knee of gocxlh- size ; the legs
covered with grey stockings ; Ijoots vvith broad white tops or shoes with
straps or silver buckles. The mothers vvith black silk or satin bonnets :
gowns extremely long vvaisted with tight sleeves, or else very short sleeves
with an immense frill at the elbow, and high heeled shoes. These mounted

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upon the "family horse" — -for carriages were unknown in those days, — the
father in front and the "gude wife" seated on a pillion behind; the children
either on foot or in the "horse cart" with a goodly store of bread and cheese
or doughnuts and apple pie for the noon lunch, all moving sedately along
with becoming gravity and decorous deportment toward the "ancient
temple ; " upon arrival, the husband assisting the wife to dismount upon the
bank wall in the rear of the building and she with the children passing
quietly in at the door, whilst the horse is hitched to the post, and the father
also walks in and sits near the pew door, in accordance with the custom of
the times when danger was feared by a sudden attack from the Indians ; and
over the house a stillness reigns, until the minister with ample gown and
powdered wig, walks up the aisle and mounts the long stairs leading to his
desk, from which, as from a tower, high above his hearers, with the sounding
board over his head, to convey the sonorous tones of his voice to his flock,
he dispenses to them the word of life and bears up their prayers to the
throne of grace. This is the heritage to us bequeathed and we glory in it.
It is not gold, it is not silver, but it is of more value than both. It has
imbedded in the hearts of the descendants a sense of integrity ; a sense of right
that is priceless.
But is there no lesson for us today ? We are not face to face with treach
erous savages. We are not subduing forests for the purpose of letting God's
sunlight in upon the face of the earth', so that it may produce food to guar
antee a supply for the coming winter. We are not an.xious about either the
affairs of church or state. These questions that engaged the attention of our
fathers have been solved, but who doubts but the present for us is freighted
with equal responsibilities ? The enemies to our peace meet us at every
turn. Not many of our families are today dwelling in the country where neigh
bors are from a half mile to a mile and a half apart. Two and three
generations ago this was the condition of most of the Wadsworths. They
were largely, farmers and in the country ; but reasons just as cogent as those
that induced them to push into the country has turned the tide the other way
and they are now largely in the great cities of civilization, engaged in the most
active pursuits of life, and continually in the presence of the greatest evils
that affect the race.
The story of those who have preceded us is a creditable one : Royal
Hinman, in his history of the first settlers at Hartford says: "Thatthe
family of Wadsworths," meaning William's, "have sustained the name of
the first Puritan settlers, as well, to say the least, as any other family who
settled in the colony, and has produced as many important and useful men. "
Of Christopher, the first, Justin Winsor, in his history of Duxbury says :
"No family ofthe town presents a greater array of learned men, men who
have been distinguished in the civil and religious government of their native

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town, who have held a high rank in the literary institutions of New England
and whose names stand with honor on the muster rolls of the Revolution. "
And in looking over the family today, we find no cause to regret or complain
that the present possessors of the name are not sustaining its reputation as
well as those who have gone before. But to do this has required an advance
in everything that pertains to greatness. Every generation is greater and
better than the one that preceded it. We are ashamed of the narrowness
and bigotry of our forefathers, who persecuted the Quakers and hung the
witches, and our only apology is that they acted conscientiously. Most of us
of today are pretty well grounded in the theory of evolution. The human
race is pre-eminent because it had the ability to be the lord of creation,
— and a hard struggle it was, too, to obtain the mastery. And since that
time there has been a steady growth in intellectual attainments, — the earth
itself preparing the way for a higher order of intelligences.
This generation of ours will go down in history as a remarkable one. The
advancement in material achievements, far outstrips anything that has pre
ceded it. There is a great turning from the old to the new. Old forms
and old theories are being discarded to give w.iy to the light of established
fact. The individual or the church that stands in the way of this onward
march is sure to get left.
Coming again to the living present, — the past and the future both being
vast eternities to us, — what shall we say.? The greeting to our mind should
be to live so as to make the most of life. The poet says :
" Count that day lost, whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done. "
The man who denies himself the comforts of life for the sake of hoarding
money to enjoy in his old age makes a mistake. The true theorv of life is to
enjoy as we go. This does not necessarily mean that the art of frugality and
economy is not to be practised to a reasonable extent. It is well, and one's
duty, to have laid by sufficient for immediate and prospective needs, and to
this end a commendable efifort should be made. But in regard to this no
definite rule can be laid down.
The Wadsworths are a temperate people. None of them are drunkards,
and very few use ardent spirits as a beverage. At the reunion at Duxbury,
although there was a bar in the house, the landlord hardly had occasion to
open its door during the whole affair. On this score we have much to com
mend. The evils resulting from the use of ardent spirits need not be recited
here. It is the worst enemy to the race in existence at the present day. It
not only brings poverty, misery and disgrace to the users, but it weakens and
injures those who are to come after. The children of users of alcoholic
drinks inherit an appetite also that is terrible to resist, and, as a rule, carries
its victim in the same train. To stamp out this evil is legitimately the work

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of this generation, because this is the generation that has been brought face
to face with its dire consequences. To be sure, wine drinking and gluttony
were among the sins of bible times, but it may be set down as a fact that
until the invention of the still the evils arising from the use of strong drink
were trifling when compared with its effects at the present day. It is the
use of distilled liquors that has made the trouble, and that is of recent date.
The word whiskey does not appear in the old English dictionaries. Rum is
eminently an American production, and in the days of the Revolution and
long since the decanter was considered an indispensable article upon the
dining table when the town minister paid his annual visit. Everybody drank
and it was considered a wholesome, nourishing drink in those days. But
today we know its results, and shame on us, face to face with its manifold
evils, ifwe do not stop this mischief-making still. This can only be done by
national legislation or an amendment to the constitution ofthe United States,
to forever prohibit the manufacture and sale of distilled liquors within our
boarders. This cannot be enacted to take effect at once in view of the im
mense amount of capital engaged in the traffic, but an amendment to take
effect at some future day is feasible and no effort should be spared to make
the people understand and desire such a measure.
There is another subject upon which we feel constrained to say a word.
It is a delicate one and what we say is addressed privately to only members
of our own household. It is respecting the size of the families. Whoever
of us peruses the genealogical register in this book will observe the decrease
in the number of children of the last generation from those of earlier date.
Formerly the children of healthy and vigorous parents numbered from eight
to sixteen, while at present they are less than half that number, and not a few
have altogether abandoned the idea of rearing children. We believe this is
a mistake. It is simply the other extreme of being possessed of a family so
large that they cannot be properly cared for. The presence of children in
the household tends to increase the sacredness of the family. They create a
common interest and a common want. And later in life their aid and comfort
is far greater than can be bestowed by strangers. The evil of the present day
is that the children are in wrong places. Visit the swell front houses sur
rounded by everything beautiful, the inside appointments being models of taste
and comfort, and there are no children to cheer and comfort, while a visit to
the abode of the poor laborer who is obliged to toil six days in the week to
keep the ' • wolf from the door " and the house will be full of half fed and
half clothed children who really suffer for the comforts of life. Now these
existing facts are neither the result of reason or common sense. The people
who have the means and comforts should rear the larger families of children.
And is it not fair to suppose that the day is not far distant when the laws of
increase shall be understood and regulated to that extent that children shall

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be found in their proper places, and not have the whole business the result
of ignorance and accident.? There is no reason why a woman should all her
life be made to do nursery work, unless she so elects. Her talents and her
tastes may lead her to other avocations in life. Women are fast becoming
the peers of the sterner sex, but she can never have her full rights till the
laws of our being are better understood and better obeyed. But we have
reason to believe that such changes and improvements as are needed for our
highest enjoyment will be forthcoming in good time. The world itself moves
and we are moving with it. And in parapharsing the old expression, "the
world moves, " we mean a great deal more than has generally been accepted.
There can hardly be a doubt that the earth is changing from one condition
to another, with as great regularity and precision as winter changes to spring,
spring to summer and summer to autuiTin. One ofour greatest thinkers has
made the remark, " tell me what has been and I will tell you what will be. "
When the geologist tells us that sometime, not very far in the remote past,
this fair land of ours was covered with icebergs which the summer's sun did
not penetrate, and that they worked their way over the face of the country,
grinding down rocks and leaving deposits of their own accumulation all over
the land ; and when from the same source, we learn that also there was a
time, way back in the dim past, that the face or crust of this earth was
heated to the intensest white heat, it becomes almost an axiom that these
conditions will exist again. Just how or when these periodic changes occur
we may not at this time comprehend but the modern theory, that the water
gradually works to the centre of the earth and is doing so now, making it
more and more fitted for higher orders of beings and this condition to continue
till the water disappears when the heating season commences, and then
when the crust gets heated to a certain degree the water is again forced to
the surface, seems a plausible one. The myriads of years that are required to
produce these changes, on this theory, are so great that they hardly need
give us much concern. If water should now burst forth on the face ofthe*
moon, which body now seems to be passing through its dry season, scientists
would probably soon come to a decision as to the changes respecting this
earth. But upon these things it is not in our province to especially speculate.
They do not belong to a family history, only to show that changes are going
on — changes that make us greater than our fathers were, chano-es that are to
effect those who are to come after us. But ours only is the present to use 
to trust — to enjoy.

II.
ORIGIN OF NAME AND COAT OF ARMS.

Family names among the early Saxons and subsequently among the Anglo
Saxons, were derived from trades, callings, professions, names of places,
moral, physical or religious excellencies, and sometimes from acts performed,
sometimes from places and residences, and often from terminal affixes of
parental designations. English literature abounds in this species of
etymology. In early tinies words were written according to the ear of
the writer and were loaded down with diphthongs, double consonants and
silent letters, without rule and without reason. Such was the origin of most
of the English names now in use, having been lengthened, abbreviated or
changed to suit the ideas of the possessor. The name of Wadsworth, being
of this origin, has sufliered in this respect like many others. It is not
necessarv to go into the details in regard to these changes in this place, as
its transmutations and origin are ably treated in this book in articles read at
the reunion by George Wadsworth, Esq., of Buffalo and Dr. M. E. Wads
worth, of Harvard Universitv. to which the reader is referred.
The name Wadsworth is supposed to be derived from Woods Court, or
court in the woods, so that we mav infer that some ancestor held court in
the woods. The name was then :
Literally — Woods-court,
In Germtm — Waldes-hoff",
In Anglo Saxon — Waldes-weorth.
The name Walworth is a corruption of the same original name, some
descendants dropping out the "d" and others the "!;'' some retaining the
"s,"and others dropping it. Thus vve have the name of Walworth and
Walsworth. The name is quite a common one in England, especially in the
Yorkshire district, where it now seems probable our first ancestors hailed
from. In Williani Pavers' pedigrees of Yorkshire, the Wadsworths are

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traced back four generations. The search for the origin of name and location
of individuals of earlier times is now going on in England, and it is not
improbable that within a few j^ears much additional information respecting
our early ancestry will be forthcoming. The change to Wordsworth will
also be studied vvith interest in Dr. Wadsworth's address.
COAT OF ARMS.
The use of the Coat of Arms is to signal
ize merit and preserve the inemory of the
illustrious. Sir John Feme supposes Coats
of Arms were derived from the Egyptian
Hieroglyphics, and Sir William Dugdall
conjectures that they were first used by great
military leaders, to identify themselves the
easier to their friends and followers. It is
related by Homer, Virgil and Ovid, that their
heroes bore figures on their shields whereby
their persons were distinctly known. It is
certain that in all ages symbolic signs of one
kind or another, have been adopted either to
denote the valor of a chief or of a nation, to
render those who bore them more formidable in appearance to their enemies
or to distinguish themselves or their families.
For this reason, says Clark in his introduction to heraldrv, of all ancient
usages it is one of the least likely to become obsolete. Hundreds of persons
may be entitled to the same initials, may possess precisely the same name, but
only the members of a particular family can lawfully bear certain armorial
designs. We of to-day can see little use of the Coat of Arms, but to resi
dents of old countries they had a special significance and value. The Coat
of Arms was used to distinguish persons and property, and record descent
and alliance, and no modern invention has yet been formed to supersede it.
The motto, Aquila non capiat Muscas, in its literal translation is "the eagle
does not catch ffies," but as here applied means, "our great progenitors
stooped not to small things. "
The introduction of Heraldry in England is referred to the Crusades and
about the year 1190, and Washburn says the arms vvere usually depicted
on a small escutcheon and worn at the belt. In regard to the Coat of Arms
of the Wadsworth family very little is known to a certainty. We know of
no one in this country who has made the subject an especial study. The
reader will find in the excellent paper read by Counsellor George Wads
worth, of Buffalo, at the reunion, about all that was then known. There
are other devices than the one here given in possession of members of the

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family, thought to be the correct design. Mr. Fernando Wadsworth, of
Duxbury, has a picture framed which has been in possession of his family
for more than a hundred years vvhich differs considerably. Instead of bear
ing on the escutcheon, the royal lilies of France, it has upon it a wolfs
head vvith other devices. Dr. John Willett Wadsworth, of Saltillo, Mexico,
formerly of New York City, says that the design here given is not like the
one that he had understood our name was entitled to. He writes : "In
regard to our Coat of Arms, I had the impression that besides the three
fleur d' lis — the royal lilies of France — on the body ofthe shield there were
also three British lions Rampant. This was my impression, but possibly it
ma,y have arisen from association of ideas, as I believe the Willett Coat of
Arms had British lions' . Upon careful revision of such information as now
at hand we may safely conclude, however, that the design here given is the
correct one.
In confirmation of this we should add that this is the only design given for
the Wadsworth family in any of the English works on heraldry, in the New
England historical libraries. A full description is given in another portion
of this chapter. The origin of our Coat of Arms is also another interesting
matter connected with the family and we have no doubt but a patient study
of English history would unravel it all. At the time ofthe reunion none of
us had learned of the person upon whom the honor was conferred or at what
time, but since then Joseph Wadsworth of Meriden, Conn., writes: "The
family originally came from Normandy, settled in Kent, had Coat of Arms
dating from the battle of Cressy. The family was broken up from the civil
war, some fought for the king otiiers for Cromwell. Those who fought for
Cromwell emigrated to America. The others went to Yorkshire and begun
woolen manufacturing. There are a great many ofour name still living in
the west of Yorkshire." The Joseph Wadsworth here referred to was born
in Waterbury, Connecticut, 1S50, and has a brother Charles, who is also in
possession of the same information. The father of these gentlemen came to
this country early in the present century from Staniland, near Halifax, York
shire. He had uncles, Joseph and Isaac, who fought at Waterloo, the latter
being killed at that time. If this statement be true regarding the origin of
our Coat of Arms, which seems more than probable considering the source
whence it comes, it accounts for the appearance of the Royal lilies of France.
Cressy is a village of Somme, France, in Picard}' and has a population of about
2000. The battle of Cressy was fought here on August 6, 1346. It is a
memorable fight and was between an army of about 20,000 English under
Edward III and a force of between 50,000 and 60,000 French under Philip
VI. Philip, over confident of success, rashly allowed his advance guard of
Genoese bowmen to open hostilities and they were repulsed by Edward's
archers. The English fired with artillery, which does not seem to have

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been used in the field till this occasion, and Edward, the Black Prince, only
fifteen years old, charged with his men-at-arms on the French. The French
were utterly routed, 30,000 of them being slain, among them the Duke d'
Alencon and the blind old King of Bohemia, John of Luxemburg. The
English loss was comparatively small.
ADDRESS OF GEORGE WADSWORTH, ESQ^., ATTORNEY AND COLTNSELLOR, OF
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, AT THE REUNION. SEPT. I3, 1882.
My Dear Friends and Namesakes:
"Blood is thicker than water." even when it has been mingled with other
strains for two hundred and fift}' years ; and we who bear the same name and
rejoice in a common ancestry, do well to meet this day and look in each
others' faces, grasp each others' hands and see for ourselves what manner of
men and women the W^adsworths of to-day are.
We know what the Wadsworths of other times were ; those sturdy, heroic
men, and gentle, faithful women, to whom we are proud to trace our lineage ;
we know that our family has given to the nation, men wise in council, brave
in the field, bold and daring in action, discreet, sagacious and libertv loving,
whOj strong in the fear of God, feared naught else, and were ready to face
man or the devil when duty or patriotism demanded ; we know that we have
numbered among us, the rich and the poor, the lofty and the lowly ; men
of national fame, and men of humble reputation, and that one of our blood
and partly of our name, has, .with melodious song, cheered the hearts and
won the love of the whole English speaking world, and is known to all
as America's best and greatest poet.
Of these ancient worthies, Hinman, the Connecticut Genealogist declares
that "the family of Wadsworths has sustained the name ofthe first puritan
settlers as well, to say the least, as any other famil}- vvho settled in the colony,
and has produced as many important and useful men." (Gen. Register, p.
.3.32-) Proud and happy are we to meet at this time, in this good old tovvn, the
scene of the early trials and life of our Puritan forefathers, and find such
convincing proof that the family has not degenerated, that it is still worthy
of its sires, and that if their shadowy forms are permitted to mingle with
our more substantial persons, and are cognizant of what our eves behold,
they will not be ashamed of their descendants.
We are proud ofour ancestors, proud indeetl that vve inherit their unblem
ished name ; let us so bear it that those who succeed us may rejoice alike in
us and them. But it is neither my duty nor mv privilege to write the
history ofour family, or to name and eulogize the manv great and good men
whose names adorn our muster-roll, that task has been assigned to others.
Your committee, or perhaps I should sav "our committee," have invited me

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to address }'ou upon a subject of their own selection, and not of mine, viz :
"The origin of the name Wadsworth, its Coat of Arms, etc. I quote
literally from their letter. Therefore, if I say anything which pleases you
or which you consider worthy ofthe place and occasion, please give me due
credit therefor, but if my words are dull and my speech prosy, blame, I pray
you, not me, but the committee.
I am not a Herald, or the son of a Herald, nor of an Earl Marshal, a
King-at-.:\.rms, a Herald-at^-Arms or a Pursuivant-at-Arms, neither have I
eyer been a member of the Fieralds' College, or, for the matter of that, of
any College, and I know not why our committee selected me to write upon
this subject, unless they drew a bow at a venture and smote this Ahab, or
cast lots and the lot fell upon this Jonah. Yet, as that old Roman said
"I ain a man and nothing htiman is alien to me," so may I say, "I ain a
Wadsworth, and nothing pertaining to the family is devoid of interest to me, "
and therefore, not because I have any peculiar knowledge, or a special means
of acquiring knowledge upon this topic ; I consented to prepare a paper
thereon, and because, for such an assemblage, some one should do it, and I
am willing to perform my share of the labor on such an occasion ; and per
haps, also, for the liking we all have, more or less, of hearing ourselves talk,
and a great deal for this excellent opportunity of getting on the platform,
and looking right into the faces and eyes of my good and good looking
cousins, instead of coming in unknown, taking a back seat and looking at
the backs of your heads, hats and bonnets ; and now, I can truly say I am
glad I have done it, and that this goodly sight is worth all, and more than all,
the labor and trouble I have taken and the distance I have traveled to be
with, and see you. I am sure I like your faces better than I should your
backs, although, doubtless, were it needed, we could find now, as in the
olden time, good, stout backers among the Wadsworths. And now all this
prelude brings me to my subject, which naturally and unavoidably divides
itself into three parts or heads : First, the Name. Second, the Arms.
Third, the and so forth.
First, then, the name, for a family must have a name before it can bear
arms. Did you ever stop to think of your family name.? who first bore it.?
where it came from .? how it originated .? what it means .? There is an answer
to each of these questions, and although our time will not allow us to pene
trate very deeply, we will try to say something in reply to them. ¦
Family names, sur, not sir names are of comparatively recent origin ; at
first men had but one name, this was true of all nations and races. Who
ever thought of asking the surname of Moses, Isaiah, Potiphar or Ulysses,
Romulus or Remus, Caractacus or Ethelbert.?
Arthur's Etymological Dictionary of family and christian names defines a
surname as "an additional name added to the proper or given name, for the

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sake of distinction, and so called because originally written over the other
name instead of after it, from the French Surnom or Latin Super-nomen."
The same and. other authors tell us that surnames began to be used in
France about A. D. looo, and in England about A. D. 1066, or a little
earlier under Edward the Confessor, and v.-ere adopted from necessity as the
people became more numerous, and needed more than one name to distin
guish one person from another. So when surnames came into general use
they were manufactured and invented from every conceivable object and in
every possible w-ay, from the names of parents, officers, trades, professions,
localities, personal traits and peculiarities, etc., etc. Time and space would
fail in which to enumerate a tithe of the objects which furnished surnames.
But from whatever derived, each had its meaning when first applied and
used, and to this rule, our name is no exception.
What, then, does Wadsworth mean .? It is evidently a Saxon name, not
Celtic, we are not ofthe old British stock, which fought the Romans, nor are
we of Norman or French extraction ; our name is not found in the roll of
Battle Abbey, nor in the Peerage list, but we are interloping Saxons (carpet •
baggers) who came into England about the fifth century, before the Nor
mans, certainly, but long after the Celts. It is a compound naine composed
of two syllables and formed from two original words, each of wdiich had its
own distinct and separate meaning.
From Lower's Essay on Family Nomenclature the derivation may be had :
Wade, meaning a meadow or a ford ; Worth, (the modern signification of
this syllable is, of course, eminently characteristic ofthe family in all ages,)
but Lower says that no less than six origins have been sought for it, and it
has been made to stand for a possession, a farm, a court, a place, a fort, an
island. Arthur gives substantially the same definitions of the two parts of
the name, but also gives the name and meaning in full : "Wadsworth, same
as Woodsworth, the farm or place in the woods. " Therefore it mav safelv
be assumed that those wdio first bore our name were foresters, or woodsmen,
denizens ofthe "merrie greenwood" as the Robin Hood ballads have it, and
perhaps friends and contemporaries of the great outlaw. This meaning of
the word probably denotes the occupation, as well as the residence ofour an
cestors ; their business vvas with and in the woods, thev' were not townsmen
or farmers, but woodsmen.
(For another derivation and meaning of the name, see the excellent ad
dress of Dr. M. Edward Wadsworth.) But I must pass to the consideration
ofthe second branch of my subject, "The Coat of Arms." We find in all
English Books of heraldr\-, the same arms, crest and motto, assigned to our
family, which are engraved upon our cards of invitation, and are identical
with one that has been in my possession for many vears.

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Anns, or Coats of Arms, are of very respectable antiquity, although not as
old as some people suppose. Blackstone says that "Coats of Arms were
not introduced into use, until about the reign of "Richard I (A. D. 1189 —
1 199) who brought them from the crusades in the Holy Land, where they
were fir.st invented, and painted on the shields of knights, to distinguish the
variety of persons, of every christian nation, who resorted thither, and who
could not, when clad in complete steel, be otherwise known or ascertained."
The devices upon the shield were called the arms of him who bore them,
and the shield, vvith its devices, constitute the "arms" proper. At first every
knight assumed whatever arms he pleased, the result of which freedom of
choice was great confusion, and the consequence was that the assumption of
arms by private persons, was first restrained by a proclamation of Henry V.
(A. D. 14T3-1422) which prohibited every one, who had not borne arms at
Agincourt, to assume them except in virtue of inheritance, or a grant from
the crown. We may therefore assume that our family is older than the bat
tle of Agincourt (which was fought October 25, A. D. 1415) or that the first
Wadsworth who was entitled to bear a Coat of Arms fought in that battle
or that they were given him, at some time thereafter, by a special grant of
the crown. No one, in the United Kingdom, may bear arms without a heredi
tary claim by descent, or grant from some competent authority, and the
wrongful assumption thereof subjects the assumer to certain penalties ; it is
illegal to use not only a Coat of Arms but even a crest, and every figure or
device placed on a heraldic wreath is considered a crest. Coats of Arms are
distinguished, not only by the devices, but also by colors, which are either
metal or fur.
The metals are two : Gold, termed or, yellow ; silver, termed argent,
white. The colors are five : Red, termed gules ; blue, termed azure ; black,
termed sable; green, termed vert; purple, termed purpure.
Burke's Heraldry describes the Wadsworth Coat of Arms as follows :
"Wadsworth. Yorkshire, gules, three fleurs d' lis, stalked and slipped, ar
gent." I find no other Coat of Arms (or crest as herein after described) at
tributed to a family of our name. This indicates that vve are a Yorkshire
family. Our Coat of Arms proper, then, is a red shield with the heraldic
device of three silver or wh'ite fleurs d' lis depicted thereon. The fleurs d' lis
are of French origin and are generally borne with some reference to France.
It is quite probable, therefore, that the first Wadsworth who bore these arms,
won the right to wear them in some ofthe many battles in France, perhaps
at Agincourt itself. It is a simple, plain escutcheon, but has its meaning ;
but just what that meaning is, I have not been able, in the limited time at
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devices are borne, external to it, the whole constituting the "Coat of Arms,"
as that term is commonly used. The external devices are the following :
1. The helmet; which is placed on the arms, and designates by its form,
the rank of the wearer.
2. The mantling ; which is an embellishment of scroll work, flowing
down on both sides of the shield, and emblematical of the scarf, wrapped
around the body, in the days of coat armor. The scroll work on our Coat
of Arms is not a mere fancy ornament, but an essential part of the heraldic
devices. 3. The crest ; which rises from the center of the helmet, originally a
mark of honor, and borne only by distinguished men, or those high in com
mand, is now a part of every Coat of Arms. Occupying the highest place
on the helmet, it is that by which the bearer was commonly known in battle ;
hence the term "cognizance" is properly given to it. Crests are less strictly
under the cognizance of the Heralds than the devices on the escutcheon,
which must always be assigned by competent authority.
4. The scroll ; which is placed over the crest, or below the shield, and
contains the motto.
5. Supporters ; which are figures or animals standing on each side ofthe
shield and seeming to support it. In England the right to use supporters is
confined to the royal family, peers, peeresses, knights of the Garter, and of
the grand Cross ofthe Bath, and a very few families whose ancestors had sup
porters before their general use was restricted.
6. The wreath is an inseparable adjunct ofa Coat of Arms. It was orig
inally two pieces of silk, of the colors of the armorial bearings of the
wearer, twisted together by the lady who had chosen him for her knight.
Our wreath should then be of the colors of our shield and lilies, red and
white. It is now represented' as two stripes of gold or silver lace twisted
into a circular cord. Our crest is described in Burke's Heraldry and Fair-
bank's Crests, as follows : " On a terrestrial globe winged ppr. an eagle 'ris
ing or."" We find then in our Coat of Arms all the essential parts of full
armorial insignia, except the supporters. From the shield with its devices,
rises the closed helmet, which indicates by its shape and position, that our
ancestor who first bore these arms, was neither king, noble, or knight, but a
plain esquire. The mantling flows as gracefully down the sides of the es-
cutheon, as it does from one ofthe proudest and highest lineage. The wreath
is placed over the helmet, from the center of which springs the crest, the
winged globe, and the golden eagle rising therefrom, while the scroll belovv"
the shield bears the motto, "Aquila non captat muscas," "The eagle does
not catch flies," and I hope and believe that from the time when this motto
was adopted, no Wadsworth has engaged in a fly-catching business, as a re
gular pursuit. (I find the same motto borne by Baron Graves of Ireland.)

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The lack of supporters tells the same story which the helmet does : that
our ancestors were not of noble birth or knightly station, and our sturdy
Saxon name points to the same conclusion. Where, when, by whom, or for
what, these arms were bestowed, we know not ; we can hardly imagine the
pride and delight of him who first earned the right to bear them. Baubles
all, they may be called ; but if they are, so are all titles, decorations and
marks of distinction of the present, as well as the ancient time. They are
baubles for which men have fought and died ; they were part of a man's
name, yea, of himself, his dearest possession, the sign and proof of his honor,
they were incentives to valor and virtue, they were awarded for merit, and
protected by law ; an unworthy act tarnished them and disgraced the wearer.
Gorgeous processions of high and mighty officials went every year, into each
county of England, to discover and register those entitled to bear them. The
records of these officials were evidence of birth and pedigree in every court
ofthe kingdom, and to this day the Court of Heraldry is maintained, and
arms and devices, although fallen from their former high estate, still have
their meaning, their value and their uses. Once to disgrace one's arms, was
to disgrace one's self. We cannot appreciate or understand the feelings which
the ancients bore to their Coats of Arms ; they symbolized their dignity,
their honor, their family, almost their religion. Let us respect the feelings
of which these now neglected symbols were the tokens, and remember that
they were once as important, and full of meaning as any decoration, title, or
badge of honor which men strive for now, as eagerly, and wear as proudly
as did ever Englishman who fought for and won his arms and spurs on the
bloody field of Agincourt.
And now we have arrived atthe third head of my subject, the " &c." of the
committee's letter. I doubt whether they attached any special meaning to it ;
nor did I, at first ; but as I have dwelt on their letter, and this my little ad
dress ; this &c., this common place, of course, matter of fact conclusion of
their designation of my topic becomes fraught with a tender, weird and pecu
liar meaning. Two hundred and fifty years ago your ancestors and mine
came from the old English home to this place, where we now stand, to make
for themselves and their posterity a new home in the wilderness. To-day
we meet to commemorate them, and to congratulate ourselves ; the past is
gone, the present is here, but the &c., what of that.? Who can tell.? What
does it mean .? It means all that shall come hereafter. No human tongue
can reveal its secrets, no pen in mortal hands can tell aught of it, the subject
is too vast for us. I cannot write an address upon this part of the committee's
letter. None but the Almighty and Merciful God, who has preserved our
families and ourselves, and brought us by so many different ways to this
beautiful place, to enjoy this delightful reunion, can roll back the curtain
wdiich conceals the great &c. from our view.

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I leave it, the vast hereafter, with each and every one of you, only entreat
ing that all of us, dear friends and namesakes, relatives near and remote,
may so live as never to disgrace the name, arms, or devices of our ancestors,
or ourselves, but that the &c. of this world, and of that to come also, may be
filled with goodness, righteousness, and eternal glory and happiness.
And now permit me to close by reading to you a dispatch just received
from my wife and children :
" To all ye Wads-worths assembled, greeting:
May the red, silver and gold of our Coat of Arms truly symbolize the
brilliancy, purity and glory of to-day's reunion."
Farewell.

IIL
FAMILY TRAITS.

Among the subjects assigned for papers to be read at the reunion was one
entitled, "Prominent Characteristics of the Wadsworth Family." This
subject was given to Henry E. Wadsworth, Editor of the La Porte Argus,
La Porte, Indiana, but owing to other engagements he was unavoidably de
tained, hence the subject was not presented. In his letter of September
Sth to the committee, he says: "I have put off" answering your letter as
long as possible, from the hope that I could finally say I would be with
you at the reunion and talk a little as you requested, but I find it impossible
for me to go ; '' expressing the wish for "the happiness and prosperity of all
the little and big ' W's,' " etc. In another letter upon the subject he says :
" My people moved to Indiana while the Indians were still here, and were
so isolated from relatives that I never knew much about the family."
This want of knowledge of the family would probably hold good with
nearly all of us, for until the recent movement for the reunion and organiza
tion none of us had much knowledge of the family beyond that of a few
relatives. And this, perhaps, is a leading characteristic ofthe family. The
name is a common one in but few localities : but throughout the length and
breadth of the land there is occasionally a family by the name, and hardly
any one has an acquaintance with the other. There has within the last fifty
years been several attempts by difierent ones to collect material for a family
history, and have it published, but the project in every instance has been
given up before being brought to fruition. And whoever contemplates the
amount of labor and patience required, will hardly wonder at it. The late
Joseph F. Wadsworth, Esq., of Duxbury, did the most in this direction of
any one, and in his research made himself tolerably familiar with names of
the descendants of Christopher, of Duxbury, for several of the first genera
tions. He, however, got off" the track in several lines of descent : as in the
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he traces as an orthodox minister to the town of Brookline, N. H., and there
lays him away without issue. But Joseph F. never completed his history ;
for while in the midst of it the " long roll " beat for him, ahd his roll of
manuscripts were taken by Henry Wadsworth, now a resident of Duxbury,
who upon inquiry relative to them writes, " that vYliat papers he had have
got mislaid, and he has not time to look them up." But Mr. Joseph F.
Wadsworth wrote several letters to different members of the family, giving
lines of pedigree, which have been preserved, and have been of service in
the preparation of this work. A little volume was published several years
ago in the interest of the family of Gen. James S. Wadsworth, of Geneseo,
N. Y., which gives information in regard to that particular branch.
But there are certain other traits than that of isolation which seem to have
cropped out in every generation. One of these is a lack of reverence. This
bleaks out, perhaps, more frequently in words than in real sentiment. No
Wadsworth speaks of his grandfather in any stronger terms of veneration
than he does of his next door neighbor. He wants to rate him for what he
was worth and no more. A well known member of our family the other
day was standing by a row of tombstones in an old cemetery, all of which
recorded deaths in the family of his great-grandfather, and they showed that
a half dozen of that family were laid away before they were twenty-five years
of age. This was his first visit to the place, and after reading the inscrip
tions a few moments, he exclaimed : " Well, here is a true bill for galloping
consumption ! " A good story comes to us through Mr. George P. Wads
worth, of Boston, concerning old Christopher ist., of Duxbury. He says:
" Christopher, or Xtopher as they used to write it in those days, was a great
man in his time, and according to tradition, was very eccentric and ex
tremely passionate. In Duxbury, where I was born, when any of the name
got passionate or unreasonable, (as they are very apt to do at times,) it was
a saying that they had got a large share of old Christopher in them. They
tell an anecdote of him, which perhaps is not new to you. One summer
he had got all his hay into his barnyard and was about to pitch it in, when
there came a terrible tempest, and the lightning set his hay on fire and con
sumed it. The next year when he had got his hay in exactly the same
position another fearful tempest arose, and the clouds looked dark and threat
ening. The old man ran into the house and brought out a fire-brand and set
fire to the hay, swearing that he meant to get ahead of God Almight}- this
time." The writer adds, " So you see what an ancestry we have to boast
of." The Wadsworths are uniformly an enthusiastic people, and consequent
ly leaders in the spheres in which they move. They are not all warriors,
they are not all statesmen ; but a large number of them have been quite as
valuable in their day and generation as any of these. Mrs. M. C. Wads-.

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worth Dawson, of Canfield, Ohio, on this subject writes : "The power of
leadership is strong in the Wadsworths, hence we are an original people, and
that is me exactly, or would be if I had not unfortunately been born a woman,
in whom originality and love of liberty are the last virtues that will be al
lowed to bud. They are coming out, all the same, and that is why I am
talking a little bit as I please to one of the 'lords of creation' in this letter.
I hold none of you entirely guiltless of woman repression, hence embrace
every opportunity ofa strike for wider liberty. What I most admire in our
ancestors, climbing that snowy rock on the shore of a new and unknown land,
is their love of freedom, and especially of religious and spiritual freedom. And
he has bequeathed religious freedom, at least, to his daughters ; and I thank
him for that, though I should thank him more if he had transmitted fewer of
the ' old Adam ' charms for the aspirations and ambitions of women. I
think at least half the monument should be given to that thin, pale-faced
woman, looking, not straight on as the man does, regardless of consequences,
but at side issues and possible dangers, not 'minor' to her away off" in the
wilderness. None but one who is a woman and a mother can know how
full of tremolo the song of her heart was as she left that little boat, which
was her last link to the old hearth-stone, and led her first-born as an already
half elected lamb of sacrifice up into the den of the Narragansett and Pequod.
" Two hundred and fifty years are not so very many. I think I could live
as long as that and yet hardly think I was much more than a baby. And
yet what wonderful things have been done in the world since the 'pilgrims'
landed : more in the last fifty years, it seems to me, than ever in the history
of the world before. Why is this .? I answer the question something as
George Francis Train does, only with a wider significance. Mightier souls
have been born into the world, bringing more power and inspiration of the
Spirit of God with them, and we are more than our ancestors were. I am
not one of those who worship the past. ' Present company,' present' God,
inclusive, for me. Present light, present talent, present beauty, I thank God
I can appreciate. There are people, and their tribes are legion, who own
no beauty lower than the lilies on the ' sea of jasper ;' and I doubt if they
would see any in even these, fresh from the forming hand of God. I pro
pose to be, and to actualize to-day, what priests and prophets, sages and
poets, have dreamed of — not on the surface, nor all in a minute, but in my
whole life, and all through me, an exponent of ultra righteousness and con
stant struggle, strong and serene, after ' everlasting life ' and its perfections,
caring little for anything but the everlasting ' now ; ' and it is my opinion,
that if people thought less of 'going to heaven,' in some dim and far off"
future, and more of making one, and getting themselves into heavenly con
ditions 'just now,' the world would get by such means a grander impetus
than it ever had before."

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And this brings us to another subject : that of religion. The Wadsworth
family care little for forms or ceremony. They do right because it is right,
rather than from fear of punishment. Tobias F. Wadsworth, of Camden,
Maine, outlines in a few words his observations regarding the family : " They
are born honest, and it is a trait of their character to be outspoken. What
ever principles they believe in, they are not afraid to speak, no matter how
strong the opposition. They are of an independent turn of mind, and as a
rule, think more of having the confidence and esteem of acquaintances than
of having money." The poet has expressed our sentiments in these lines :
"True worth is in being, not seeming —
In doing, each day that goes by,
Some little good — not in the dreaming
Of great things to do bye and bye ;
For whatever men say in blindness.
And spite ofthe fancies of youth.
There's nothing so kindly as kindness.
And nothing so royal as truth.
" We get back our mete as we measure —
We cannot do wrong and feel right,
Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure,
For justice avenges each slight.
The air for the wing of the sparrow,
The bush for the robin and wren.
But always the path that is narrow
And straight for the children of men.
" 'Tis not in the pages of story
The heart of its ills to beguile,
Though he who makes courtship to Glory
Gives all that he hath for her smile;
For when from her heights he hath won her,
Alas ! it is only to prove
That nothing's so sacred as honor, *
And nothing so loyal as love !
" We cannot make bargains for blisses,
Nor catch them like fishes in nets;
And sometime the thing our life misses.
Helps more than the thing which it gets;
For good lieth not in pursuing.
Nor gaining of great nor of small.
But just in the doing; and doing
As we would be done by, is all.
"Through envy,through malice,through hating,
Against the world early and late,
No jot of our courage abating.
Our path is to work and wait.
And slight is the sting of his troubles
Whose winnings are less than his worth;
For he who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortune or birth."

IV,
THE FIRST SETTLERS.

The ship Lion cast anchor in Boston harbor Sunday evening, Sept. i6,
1632. She brought, says Winthrop, "one hundred and twenty-three passen
gers, whereof fifty were children, all in good health." They had been aboard
twelve weeks, and eight weeks from Land's End. The ship first made land
at Cape Ann, and it being foggy could move only by using the lead. She
was five days in Massachusetts Bay before coming to anchor before Boston.
The ship Lion had made several trips to America before this one, and had
each time brought over a few passengers and a load of supplies. Of the one
hundred and twenty-three passengers on this trip, only the names of about
thirty are preserved, and of these the name of William Wadsworth heads the
list, stating his family to consist of four persons. It was customary for this
ship, Capt. Pierce, master, to return to England by the way of Jamestown,
Virginia, where the English had effected a settlement in 1607. This was his
intention on this trip ; but while on her way there she ran on a shoal in Vir
ginia Bay and was lost. Of the crew, all perished save ten ; and there ¦were
on board nine hundred beaver and two hundred otter skins, that had been
obtained at the New England settlements. This was on November 4th, the
ship having remained in Boston harbor several days, and the captain, during
her stay, had made an overland trip to Plymouth, accompanied by the gov
ernor of Massachusetts Colony and others. The exact date of Christopher
Wadsworth's arrival, or how he came, is not known. Some of our people
think they have seen a statement that he landed at Duxbury on the 15th of
Sept., 1632, or one day earlier than the anchoring of the ship Lion before
Boston. This is not an improbable statement ; for if he was aboard the Lion,
he might easily have been taken off" by some fishing boat, while the ship was
searching about for an entrance to Boston harbor. At any rate, it is very
evident that these men landed at about the same time. There are strong
reasons for believing, however, that William Wadsworth had made one trip

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to America before coming for a permanent settlement ; which point is treated
upon in the paper of Dr. Wadsworth, read at the reunion, to which the
reader is referred.
The settlers who were arriving at this time were quite a different class
from the early pilgrims, who were ofthe laboring classes, and comparatively
poor. The pilgrims were separatists, having openly withdrawn from the
communion of the national church. Few had been raised in opulence or
luxury, and few had enjoyed extensive opportunities for literary culture.
They were men of unwavering faith and of examplary morals, with a pro
found reverence for God and his Word, and were indeed " the servants of
posterity : " breaking the ice, and paving the way for future generations.
The Massachusetts Colony was made up of quite different material. They
were called Puritans and were connected with the National Church, though
not fully conforming to its service and ritual. Their ministers were men of
standing and influence. They had received a finished education at the leading
universities in England, and would have been considered ornaments in the
old world, had not their zeal for reform and opposition to ceremonies in
duced the censure of the bishops and expulsion from their parishes. Of
the laity, many were versed in public aflfairs, possessed fortunes, accumu
lated or inherited, and lived in the enjoyment of external comforts which
the wealth of those times could command. The first Wadsworths were of
this class ; not especially rich in money, perhaps, but they were not penniless.
They had had early advantages in education and society, and hardly had they
effected a settlement before they were recognized leaders in the circles in
which they inoved. From two such men have descended a very large per
cent, of all the Wadsworths now living in America. Let us follow these
men from the time they arrived in this country: William, with his family,
went to Newtown, now Cambridge, only three or four miles from Boston.
He was a man at this time in middle life, at just what age is not known. It
has been stated that hewas born in the year 1600, though the year or the place
of his birth in England is not definitely known. Hinman, in his history of
the early settlers of Hartford, sav's : " In what part of England he vvas born or
emigrated to America from is not known. In Farmer's Journal, giving the
biography of Hon. James Wadsworth, of Geneseo, New York, he (James) is
described as having descended from a native ofthe county of Palatine of Dur
ham," though other places have been designated, probably with equal author
ity. Those people most familiar with history incline to the belief that Wil
Ham was a member of Rev. Mr. Hooker's church before he came to Amer
ica. He went to Newtown with those people, and helped to induce the rever
end gentleman to come to this country with others of his parishioners, after
they arrived here. Rev. Mr. Hooker's church in England, of which he had
pastoral charge, was in Chelmsford, .about twenty miles north ofthe London

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district, which contained about that time thirty parishes ; but from which par
ticular parish these people came is yet uncertain. In the reign of Edward
the Confessor, Chelmsford was a part of the pope pious of the Bishop of
London. The members of Mr. Hooker's church were fervently attached to
him. Soon after their arrival here they solicited him to come over ; and after
his arrival Mr. Wadsworth vvas in full communion and a member of his band.
No one of the family now appear to know anything concerning his first
wife, as no account is found of her death. It is possible that she died before
he came to this country. By this wife he had four children : Sarah, who
married John Wilcox ; William, who died in infancy ; Mary, w-ho married
Thomas Stoughton, and John, who settled at Farmington. Soon after he re
moved to Cambridge he was the possessor of a house and a home. His
residence was on the westerly side of Holyoke Street, near Harvard Square.
On his removal to Hartford he sold his house to Elder Champney.
William Wadsworth was made a freeman Nov. 6th, after his arrival, and
when the town organized, was chosen a member of the first board of select
rnen, holding the office in the years 1634-35. During these years reports
were continually coming to the ears of these settlers of the rich and valuable
unoccupied lands on the Connecticut river. Rev. Mr. Hooker, who had in
the mean time arrived, and, with most of the meinbers of his church, had
resolved to remove thither as early as 1635. Several persons from the Massa
chusetts Colony did go that year ; but this company did not, on account of
the opposition of the other settlers. But in 1636 the journey was under
taken and completed. Among them were William Wadsworth and his fam
ily. The distance from Dorchester, where the company started, to what is
now Hartford, at this time was a long one. There were 00 bridges and no
roads. They pursued their course by blazed trees. There were one or two
invalids in the company, to be carried on litters, and lots of small children,
with no canop}' to cover them at night but the starry heavens. The journey
lasted several days, they largely subsisting on the milk from their herds of
cattle, which they drove along with them. The settlement they called Hart
ford. In 1637 William Wadsworth was chosen collector; from 1643-47
was one of the selectmen, and throughout his life was one ofthe most active
men of the colony, both in church and state. Hinman says: "In 1639 he
held several important offices in the town and colony, and sustained a high
rank with the best puritan families of Hartford, both in character and vvealth."
In 1644 he married for a second wife Miss Ehzabeth Stone, daugbtei- of Rev.
Samuel Stone. The children by this wife were Samuel, Joseph, Thomas,
Elizabeth, Rebecca and Mary. A further account of these children is given
in the genealogical register. William died at Hartford, 1675, his wife sur
viving him. In his will he gave nothing to his daughter Sarah, and but
£10 to his son John, by his first wife, who was then married and settled at

33 wadsworth family history.
Farmington. It is presumed that they had previously received their share.
He gave to his son Thomas his lands, with buildings thereon, at East Hart
ford, upon which he settled. Joseph, of Charter Oak fame, settled and died
in Hartford ; and these three sons of William — John, Thomas and Joseph —
are all of his male children that have descendants by the name of Wadsworth
now living. William's estate at death was £1677 13.? (jd. His widow died
1682. Christopher Wadsworth settled, lived and died in Duxbury. He early
took a prominent position among his townsmen, though such veteran pil
grims as Miles Standish, Elder Brewster and John Alden were his neigh
bors. He is described as being quite young when he arrived among them.
His wife was Grace Cole ; but whether he was married when he arrived at
Duxbury is not known. Christopher Wadsworth, or as it is early spelled,
" Xtofer Waddesworth," was one of the earliest settlers, and the first con
stable of the town : an office at that tinje to wdiich none but the most faith
ful and honest were elevated. His name appears upon almost every page of
the town's history while he was there in active life. He repeatedly held the
positions of deputy, selectman and surveyor. A perusal of the town records
assures us of his worth and respectability. His name first appears in the re
cords of the town in 1633. He had land in 163S at Holly Swamp, and in
1655 bought land of John Starr and Job Cole. The house where he lived
is now standing, about a mile west from Captain's Hill, near what is called
the new road to Kingston. His lands then ran down to the bay, or vvhat
was formerly known as Morton's Hole. Joseph F. Wadsworth, a gentle
man of some note and a descendant, lived on the place until about 18^5.
when he died, leaving no children, and the place was sold to strangers.
Christopher was elected constable of Duxbury Jan. 1834. This was the
highest office of the town. The constable was a sort of high sherifi". He
was to serve as jailor, and keep such as were committed. He was to execute
punishments and penalties, and to give warning of marriages approved by
the civil authorities. He was to act as sealer of weights and measures, and
surveyor of land according to government orders. In his oath he swore lov
altv' to the king, and promised to promote the welfare of his people and
see that the peace was not broken. The vvill of Christopher Wadsworth
bears date July 31, 1677, and was filed at the Court in September, the fol
lowing vear ; so that his decease occurred lietween those dates. He gave
his home-place to his son John, after making suitable provisions for his wife
Grace, and his Bridgewater grant and other lands to his son Joseph. His
only other legatee nientioned is his daughter Mary Andrews. " That his son
Captain Samuel, of Milton, or his heirs, had received a share of his prop
erty previous to this is evidenced in the fact that Samuel was possessed
of a portion of these Bridgewater lands ; and after his decease, these lands

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were taxed to widow Wadsworth, and later to Timothy Wadsworth, of Bos
ton, a son of Capt. Samuel, who was the last non-resident person to dispose
of these original grants. (See Mitchell's History of Bridgcmater.)
There is no evidence to show that Christopher had but four children —
three boys, Joseph and John, who lived and died in Duxbury, Capt. Samuel,
who early removed to Milton, and was killed fighting Indians at Sudbury,
1676, and Mai}-, who inarried an Andrews. As there has been some ques
tion in regard to Capt. Samuel being a son of Christopher, we might add,
that researches establish the fact beyond a reasonable doubt. Capt. Sam
uel's wife was Abigail Lindall. This girl was bom and brought up in Dux
bury, her father living in the neighborhood of Christopher Wadsworth. (See
Genealogy of Lindall Family.) And to further establish the fact we publish
the will of Grace Wadsworth emire, (Christopher's widow,) in which she
places the children of her deceased son Samuel among her legatees. Capt.
Samuel, it will be noted, was killed prior to the date of her will.
Copy of Will from Plymouth County Records.
" Knott) all men by these presents : — That I, Grace Wadsworth, widow, be
ing in daily expectation of my dissolution, by reason of old age and the many
infirmities usually attending the same, yet of perfect memory, do therefore by
these reasons, upon serious consideration, make and ordain these presents to
be my last will and testament, in manner and form following, to remain firm
and immovable forever.
" Item. — I will and bequeath my soul to God, the Father of Spirits, and
my body to the earth, in hope of a bright resurrection through my God
and Saviour, -who is the Resurrection and the Life.
" /&w. — I bequeath to my son, Joseph Wadsworth, a Dutch settle, and to
his wife my red petticoat, with three laers, besides the two pewter dishes
and bible* which they have heretofore received.
" Item. — I bequeath to the children of my son Samuel, deceased, the sum
of five pounds, to be equally divided among them.
" Item. — I bequeath to my daughter, Mary Andrews, widow, a brass ket
tle, being the second in quantity, and my best serge petticoat, besides an up
per quilt which she hath already received.
" Item. — I bequeath to my grandson, John Wadsworth, five shillings silver
money. " Item. — I bequeath to my granddaughters, Mary and Abigail Wadsworth,
to each of them, a pair of my finest sheets ; moreover, to Abigail I bequeath
my bed-bolster, red rug and blankets.
'" Hem. — I will and bequeath to my son, John Wadsworth, (my debts and
legacies being first paid,) all and every part and parcel of my remaining
estate, be it corn, cattle, household stuff, or any other thing whatsoever is
or may be found.
-'-Item. — I do by these presents ordain and appoint my son, John Wads-
* Now in possession of Capt. Ansel Wadsworth, of Lincolnville, Me., to whom it has been
handed down in direct line of descent.

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worth, my whole and sole executor of this my last will and testament, to de
mand and receive whatsoever doth or shall in all or any part be due to me
from all and singular, and those indebted by book, bill, &c., and to pay all
and singular debts and legacies in quantity and quality as above expressed in
the premises, and to see or cause my body to be devoutly interred. Revok
ing all former wills, whether verbal or written, I, the said Grace Wadsworth,
have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of January, Anno
Domoiii, 1687.
" Signed, sealed and delivered to be her last will and testament in pres
ence of us witnesses : Her
Benjamin Bartlett. GRACE X WADSWORTH.
John SpRAGI^E. mark.
"Benjamin Bartlett and John Sprague appeared at the Superior Court of
Common Pleas, held at Plymouth the 13th day of June, 1688, and made oath
that they did do and hear the above named Grace sign, seal and deliver the
.above written instrument to be her last will and testament, and that she then
was of a disposing mind to the best of their knowledge and judgment.
NATH'L THOMAS, Clerk."
For other valuable information upon the subject of early settlers we here
append the
ADDRESS OF DR. M. EDWARD WADSWORTH, OF HARVARD UNU'EBSITY, DE
LIVERED AT THE reunion, SEPT. I3. 1882.
Brothers and Sisters :
It affords me great pleasure to address you to-night, and to look upon the
faces of so many whom I feel I can in truth call brothers and sisters. It is
with a pleasurable but peculiar sensation that I look over this assemblage
and realize that the blood ofa common ancestry counses through every vein.
I feel that, somehow, we are indissolubly bound by ties which, if we would,
we cannot break — that we are all moved by hidden springs of action be
queathed us by our ancestors.
The world is more and more realizing the great truth, that while a certain
portion of our nature is our own, part is an inheritance given us from our
progenitors, which we may. perhaps, control, but which we can neither
change nor subdue.
The law of man's nature is such, that while some are born to be noble,
honest, trusty, to be benefactors of the human race, to do their duty faith
fully, whatever maybe their station, others are born tobe cut-throats, thieves.
and scoundrels, whether they dwell in hovels or stand in the halls of con
gress. The germs of the man are born within him. Opportunity causes these to
grow, blossom and bear fruit. Circumstances develop men, but the man must
exist prior to the circumstance or it will be of no avail. It is then emi-

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nently fit that as we assemble to-day, wc should go over the motives and
characteristics ofour ancestors, in order to gain encouragement and inspira
tion for the future, ;is well as to learn what forces it is necessary to curb and
guide. While it is a great pleasure to me to stand before you this evening, I real
ize in the fullest degree that I was not chosen to address you from any
especial fitness or merit of my own, but solely because it was thought that I
might have a more ready access than others to various sources of information
relating to the especial subject assigned me.
As we are assembled to-night on the shores of this beautiful bay, where
some of our family have been established for two hundred and fifty years, I
ask you in imagination to go back still farther in time and to another region.
Go with me to Virginia. I ask you not to look upon Raleigh's Roanoke
colony of 1585, that returned to England in less than a year, nor upon that
ill-starred settlement in 1587, that so mysteriously vanished. I do not de
sire to dwell upon the founding of Jamestown, in 1607, the adventures of
Capt. Smith, or the slow growth of the settlement itself. I wish rather to
call your attention to a period in which the colony had become established,
and in a manner prosperous — -to the years 1620, '21 and '33, during which
time our puritan fathers landed on Plymouth Rock.
At this period the Virginia colony had become so well established that
various commercial enterprises were undertaken in reference to it, in one
of which we are especially interested. During the years 1620 — 31 an agree
ment was entered into between Daniel Gookin and the Virginia Conipany,
of London, for the transportation of cattle to the Virginia plantation, and
a tract of land was promised him. Accordingly, on the 32d of November,
1621, Mr. Gookin arrived in Virginia, in the ship Flying Harte, "with
fi'fty men of his own and thirty passengers, exceedingly well furnished with
all sorts of provisions and cattle." He then took up- his settlement at New
port News. — -{Neil's Virginia Company, of London, pp. 133, 196, 21S, 240,
314, 317 ; N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., 1847, vol. i, pp. 346 — 34S ; Smith's Hist, of
Virginia, ed. 1819, vol. ii, p. 60.)
In the Lists of Emigrants to America, 1600 — ^1700, edited by John Camden
Hotten, an enumeration of the inhabitants of Virginia is given. Associated
with Daniel Gookin at Newport News, and standing first on the list, is the
name of William Wadsworth, aged twenty-six years, and said to have come
in the Flying Harte, November 33d, 1621. Later, his name is given as being
at Elizabeth City, with the same age, and associated with Daniel Gookin,
but having fewer companions. — (/. c. pp. 343, 254.)
At this time all was prosperity and peace in the Virginia settlements.
The colonists had an excellent government, and every visible thing promised
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37 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
joined them during that year. Suddenly as a tornado in a mid-summer's
day bursts upon the smiling valley, so burst over the heads of the unsus
pecting inhabitants of Virginia a long gathering storm of murder and rapine.
In one short mid-day hour three hundred and forty-nine of the devoted col
onists were massacred — on the 22d of March, 1622 ; just four short months,
to a day, since William Wadsworth landed on our shores. Neither age nor
sex were spared by the treacherous savages ; and the settlements were speed
ily reduced from eighty to six. The council ordered the outstanding posts
to be abandoned, but Daniel Gookin " would not obey the command ; and
with scarce five and thirty men thought himself sufficient against what
could happen, and so did to his great credit and the content of his adven
tures." — {Smith's Hist. Va., vol. ii, p. 76.)
In the Colonial Records of Virginia, published at Richmond in 1874, are
given the names of all living in Virginia Feb. 16, 1623 — one thousand two
hundred and seventy-seven in all ; a list of those who had died since the pre
ceding April — three hundred and seventy-one ; as well as the names of those
killed by the Indians, March 22, 1622. The name of William Wadsworth
is not in any of these lists ; but we read that the news of the massacre was
first brought to England inthe month of July by the Sea Flower, — that brave
Daniel Gookin returned in her, and was present at a meeting of the Vir
ginia Company on July 17. Hence we may be permitted to believe that
William Wadsworth returned with him.
We must now go forward on the page of history to 1630. In that year
the Rev. Thomas Hooker was silenced at Chelmsford, England, by a spirit
ual court — not because he dissented from the faith of the Church of England,
but because he objected to some of its outward forms and ceremonies. To
escape persecution and imprisonment, if not death, he fled to Holland, while
his church emigrated, in 1632, to New England. This company, known as
the Braintree company, took up their residence at Mount Wollaston ; but by
order of the General Court they removed, in August, 1632, to Cambridge,
then called Newtown. At the request of this church, Hooker came to this
country in 1633, and again became pastor of his people. He brought with
him the Rev. Samuel Stone, his friend and associate, who became after
Hooker's death his successor.
In a list of men emigrating to New England, and who took the oath of
allegiance in London on June 22d, 1632, we find the name of William Wads
worth again standing first. Undeterred by the ill success of his former ven
ture he again sought a home and freedom {Hotton, I. c. p. 150 ; Mass. Hist.
Coll., 1852, (4,) i, 94) in the western world. Later we learn that the favorite
ship Lion reached Boston on the Sabbath, Sept. i6th, 1633, with one hun
dred and twenty-three passengers ; while the length of her voyao-e is o-iven as
such, that we know she must have brought Williani Wadsworth and the

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others on the list. — ( Winthrop's Hist, of New England, i, 107 ; Mass. Hist.
Coll. 1852, (4,) i, 94.)
William Wadsworth in that year, 1632, settled in Cambridge, with Hook
er's company ; and on Novi 6 took the oath as a freeman. — -{N. E. Hist.
Gen. Reg. 1849, iii, 91 ; Prince's Annals,' ^. 408.) His residence was on
Holyoke Street, on the spot where the first school-house in Cambridge was
built, in 1648, and where since stood for so many years the well known print
ing establishment of John Wilson, father and son.^{Paige, I. c, p. 15.)
When the first selectmen of Cambridge were chosen, on Feb. 3d, 1634 — 35,
William Wadsworth was oneof the number — '¦{I.e. p. 21). Meanwhile
Hooker's company became disturbed and agitated by the question of a far
ther removal, which was finally effected in May, 1636. About one hundred
men, \vomen and children left Cambridge and traveled " more than a hundred
miles, through a hideous and trackless wilderness, to Hartford. They had no
guide but their compass ; made their way over mountains, through swamps,
thickets and rivers, which were not passable but with great difficulty. They
had no cover but the heavens, nor any lodgings but those which simple na
ture afforded them. They drove with them one hundred and sixty head of
cattle, and by the way subsisted on the milk of their cows. Mrs. Hooker
w^as borne through the wildemess upon a litter. The people generally carried
their packs, arms, and some utensils. They were nearly a fortnight on their
journey. Their adventure was the more remarkable, as many of this com
pany were persons of figure, who had lived in England in honor, affluence
and delicacy, and were entire strangers to fatigue and deiwger."— {Trumbull's
Hist. Conn, i, pp. 64, 65.)
William Wadsworth removed to Hartford with Hooker's company, form
ing one of the band that passed through the wilderness. At this time he is
stated to have been in middle life ; and from the age previously given we
know he was about forty-one. He resided in Hartford until his death, in
1675, when about eighty years of age. Of him Savage says (iv. 38) : " He
seems to have lived in the highest esteem ; no man more often chosen repre
sentative, for between Oct. 1656 and May 1675 hardly a year misses his ser
vices." Every American school-boy knows of his son, the determined Cap
tain Joseph, of Charter Oak fame, who preserved the liberties of Connecticut.
Every one knows, when Gov. Fletcher tried to silence the drums, beaten at
Joseph's command, in order that he (Fletcher) might read his commision
and usurp control of the militia, how Wadsworth with most determined
energy told him: "If I am interrupted again I will make the sun shine
through you in a moment."
Of the Wadsworth family in Connecticut Hinman says {Settlers of Conn.
p. 332) : " I need not remark to those who peruse this work, that the family
of Wadsworths have sustained the name of the first Puritan settler at Hart-

39 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
ford as well, to say the least, as any other family who settled in the colony.
and has produced as many important and useful men."
Let us now turn to that Wadsworth near whose former home we are as
sembled, Christopher, the common ancestor of the Maine and Massachusetts
Wadsworths, as William is of the Connecticut and New York branch. I
regret exceedingly that my information regarding Christopher is very lim
ited. I can obtain no trace of him prior to his settlement in Duxbury, in
1632 ; but this is not to be wondered at, when so many ships were at that
time arriv ing at the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, and such
imperfect records were kept of their passengers.* In the ship in which
William came, out of one hundred and twenty-three passengers we know
the names of but thirty-three ; but Christopher being the younger would not
so naturally be mentioned as the former. f Suffice it to say, that in 1632-33
we find Christopher settled in Duxbury, near the residence of Capt. Miles
Standish, a blunt, honest, energetic, peppery man — a man who not improba
bly came from a neighboring district, and who would present many points
in his character naturally attractive to the true Wadsworth blood. J
We find Christopher's name in the first record of freemen in the Plymouth
colony in 1633 {Ply. Colo. Rec, i, 4) ; and he is recorded as being taxed
under date of March 25 of the same year. His name is appended to a vvill,
as a witness with William Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth colo
ny, under date of Sept. 16, 1633. The same year he was the first constable
of Duxbury; an office of which \Vinsor says {Hist, of Duxbury, p. 81) :
" This was an office of high trust and responsibility, and none were elected
to it but men of good standing."
In 1636 he was chosen as one of eight to revise the ordinances of the col
lony (/. c, p. 83), and sensed during many years as representative, and in
other places of trust ; for the particulars of which I must refer you to Win
sor's excellent History of Duxbury — a most remarkable production for a fresh
man in Harvard College, a boy only eighteen years of age.
* One of the Lion's passengers is known to have settled in Plymouth.
t In the year 1631-32, corresponding to that which we should call now 1632, there arrived
at Massachusetts the ship William and Francis, which sailed from London March 9, and arrived
June 5, with about sixty passengers, of whom we know the name of sixteen; the ship Whale,
which left Hampton April 8, and reached Boston May 26, with about 32 passengers, of whom
two are known; the Charles, of Barnstable, from Barnstable April 10, which arrived June s.
with about twenty-one passengers, one of whom is known; the James, which arrived from Lon
don after a eight week's voyage on June 12, with twelve passengers, of whom eleven are known.
These, with the ship Lion, then brought to Massachusetts between May 26 and Sept. 16 nearly
two hundred children and adults of whose names we are ignorant.— (i)/(;.«. //zj/. C«//., 1852,
(4) i, PP- 92—95-)
% Numerous Standishs lived, in the i6th and 17th centuries, near the home of many of the
Wadsworths.

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Winsor further says of Christopher (/. c, p. 69) : "He was one of the
earliest settlers, and the first constable of the tovvn — an office at that time
to which none but the most faithful and honest were elevated ; also a deputy
and selectman ; and a perusal of the records will at once assure us of his
worth and respectability, which his descendents of every generation liav"e
well retained ; and no family of the town presents a greater array of honored
men — men who have been distinguished in the civil and religious govern
inent of their native town, who have held high rank in the literary institu
tions of Nevv England, and whose names stand with honor on the muster-
rolls of the Revolution." — (/. c, p. 69.)
Is it not remarkable, that by difi'erent men so nearly the same eulogy
should be bestowed upon Christopher and William, and the respective de
scendents of each ?
Christopher was the fiither of Capt. Samuel Wadsworth, who perished in
the Sudbury fight — " a resolute, stout-hearted soldier" — and the grandfather
of the Reverend Dr. Benjamin Wadsworth, the ninth president of Harvard
College. In order that we may gain some idea of the causes that led the Wadsworths
to emigrate to these shores, we must, in the absence of direct evidence,
look at their surroundings and associations both before and after 1632. The
family name is of pure Anglo-Saxon origin, and the fiimily was settled in
Yorkshire prior to the days of Edward III. (1327 — 1377)- The name in the
earlier days was variously spelled Waddesworth, Waddsworth, Wadsworth,
Wordeswoith, Wordisworth, Wordsworth, etc., the same man in the same
manuscript being often spoken of both as Wadsworth and Wordsworth. This
is particularly the case with the Penistone branch, of which Williani Words
worth, the poet, and the Christophers — the Bishop of Lincoln and the Master
of Trinity College — w^ere afterwards such distinguished members. In the
will of Ralph, a prominent member of William Wodsworth's branch in the
17th century, the name of himself and his children is spelled by him " Wads
worth." A town of the name of Wadsworth still exists in Yorkshire, hav
ing in 1857 five thousand five hundred and eighty inhabitants and an area of
1 1,334 acres.
The Wadsworths were a prominent and somewhat numerous family in
Yorkshire, being especially prominent in ecclesiastical affairs ; while the
name was not unknown in other portions of England. The fiimily is by no
means extinct, numerous representatives still existing. The name is even
borne to-day on the rolls of England's twin universities, Oxford and Cam
bridge. The church which landed at Plymouth from the May Flower orig
inally came from Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, on the borders of Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire, while, according to Mather, the flames of persecution
waxed hot in Yorkshire. This county furnished a large number of Puritan

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men of prominence, like Williain Bradford and Sir Richard Saltonstall — a
county in which the name of Washington was common. Some Wadsworths
were prominent Dissenters, or Puritans, in the 17th century, and were im
prisoned in the Castle of York for non-conformity.
From these early associations, if from nothing else, we might readily con
clude' that Williain and Christopher had lived in the midst of a puritanic at
mosphere, and that itwas to obtain religious freedom that they came to New^
England ; but we have stronger evidence than that. Never would William
have taken the oath of freeman so soon after his arrival ; have been elected
one of the first selectmen of Cambridge ; have been the companion of Hooker
in his journey through the "wilderness ; have inarried the sister of Rev.
Samuel Stone, the life-long friend and associate of Hooker as "well as his
successor ; never would William Wadsworth have been trusted and honored
as he was, had he not been a Puritan of the Puritans, had he not been with
them heart and soul. So, too, never would Christopher have been so soon
after his arrival a freeman and constable ; and, above all, never would he
have been appointed to revise the ordinances of the Plymouth colony unless
he had been in perfect accord with the people of that time — a time when
none but church-members could be freemen, and take part in colonial affairs.
Our Puritan fathers had a way of dealing with those not in unison wdth
them, the absence of which in this case proves beyond a doubt that William
and Christopher Wadsworth were not opposed to them. They were of one
spirit and of one mind, or they would not have been what they were nor
where they were.
In looking at the lives pf these noble, honest, respected and God-fearing
men, and their earlier descendents, let it be the resoh^e of every one of us to
strive never to cast a blot or stain upon the family name, but so far as in us
lies do all we can to ennoble it.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

ADDRESS OF HON. LLEWELLYN A. WADSWORTH, OF HIRAM, MAINE, DE
LIVERED AT DUXBURY, MASS, SEPT. I3TH, 1 882, AT THE WADSWORTH
REUNION, HELD IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 25OTH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE LANDING OF THE WADSWORTH FAMILY IN AMERICA.
Mr. President — Ladies and Gentlemen ,
As the religious devotee making his pilgrimage to a distant clime — to the
Palestine or the Mecca of his faith — turns toward the cross or the crescent at
the sunset hour to offer his devotions, so, to-day, all over broad America,
wherever a Wadsworth dwells, his heart, stirred and thrilled with the glori
ous memories of the past, turns instinctively, reverently, to Duxbury.
From the Pine Tree State, the Empire State, the " Land of Steady Hab
its," from the sunny South and from the Western Prairie, we come to the
land of our forefathers, to seal our hearts anew with the inspiration that
clusters around Plymouth Rock, to consecrate ourselves anew in the land of
the Pilgrims to the great ideas for which they lived and died, to listen to the
recital of their toils and sufferings, and to contemplate the virtues of noble
women and the valor of brave men.
Two hundred and fifty times has the bloom of Summer faded and Autumn
twined its wreaths of golden leaves around Time's withered brow since our
ancestors landed on this coast ; and as we stand on this hallowed ground,
with solemn and pathetic recollections of our sires thronging thick and fast,
it is fitting that, like Ossian, the grand old poet of our fatherland, " We call
back the years that have rolled away."
Most conspicuous among the members of our family who have lived in
Maine was General Peleg Wadsworth. He was born in Duxbury, Mass.,
May 6, 1748, to Dea. Peleg and Lusanna Sampson Wadsworth, being in the
fourth generation from Christopher. The line of descent is as follows : Chris
topher, John, John Jr., Dea. Peleg, Gen. Peleg. I regret that no history or
tradition of his early life has ever reached me. He graduated at Harvard

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College in 1769, at the age of twenty-one. Aniong his classmates were
Alexander Scammell, vvho became a distinguished officer in the Revolution,
and Theophilus Parsons, who became Chief Justice of Massachusetts. After
he graduated he engaged in teaching in Plymouth, Mass., where, in 177^' ^^
married Miss Elizabeth Bartlett, a lady of eminent piety and uncommon in
tellectual qualities. Their children, eleven in number, by their mother and
their father's mother, trace their descent from five of the Pilgrims who
landed at Plymouth Rock from the May Flower, including elder William
Brewster and Captain John Alden. He removed to Kingston, Mass., as may
be inferred from the fact that his first child, Alexander Scammell Wadsworth,
was bom there. May 9, 1774. We soon find him among the loyal sons of
Ma'ssachusetts, mingling in the stirring scenes of the Revolution. On Sept.,
26, 1774' a meeting of delegates from Plymouth County met at Plympton,
and Peleg Wadsworth, with others, were chosen a coinmittee of correspond
ence. He recruited a company of minute men, and was chosen captain.
Early in i77S the tovvn of Kingston voted to purchase 33 stand of arms and
equipments for 33 soldiers — the company commanded by Captain Peleg
Wadsworth. Imniediately after the battle of Lexington the Kingston company marched
in Col. Cotton's regiment to dislodge Col. Balfour's regiment of British
troops at Marshfield. On reaching Marshfield a council of officers was held.
Capt. Wadsworth became impatient at the delay and marched his company
to the vicinity of the enemy, but Col. Balfcur and his troops retreated, and
embarking on several sloops sailed for Boston.
I have read that Peleg Wadsworth served as a colonel in the battle of Long
Island, but whether in command of a regiinent or as a staff officer I cannot
ascertain. He was in Col. Cotton's regiment, that formed a part of the de
tachment that was ordered to throw up intrenchments on Dorchester Heights.
On Aug. 28, 1775, while his wife was with him, their first-born died, and
was buried within the intrenchments. In March, 1776, he was appointed
Aid to Gen. Ward when the Heights were occupied. It was the formidable
character of the troops and defences on Dorchester Heights that caused the
hasty retreat of Gen. Howe and the British troops from Boston. In 1776
Col. Wad.sworth was an engineer under Gen. Thomas, and assisted in laying
out the defences of Roxbury. In 1778 he was appointed Adjutant General
of Massachusetts.
In 1779 the British sent a fleet to occupy Bagaduce, (now called Castine,)
at tjie mouth of Penobscot River, in J^Iaine. The Massachusetts Board of
War in return sent a ffeet under Com. Saltonstal, of Connecticut, and a land
force under Gen Solomon Lovell, the Brig. Gen. of Suffolk Co., and Gen.
Peleg Wadsworth was second in command. The attack upon the British
works by the land forces is noted in history as one of the most brilliant and

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. 44
heroic engagements during the war. In 1780 Gen Wadsworth, with a force
of six hundred men, was placed in command of the whole coast of Maine,
to protect it from the British and Tories. He was authorized to execute
martial law, and his firmness and intrepid bearing soon overawed the Tories
of that region. Maine was peculiarly exposed, from its extensive frontier
and its long line of sea coast, and Gen. Wadsworth's responsibilities were
very great and his duties arduous ; but his courage and patriotism never
faltered, his fortitude was wonderful, and his duties were performed with
that careful accuracy of method and system that permeated every act of his
long and distinguished career, and the British could gain no permanent ad
vantage during his occupancy. After the term of service of his troops ex
pired he was left with only a guard of six soldiers at his head-quarters at
Thomaston, Maine, his family being with him, and it being his intention to
leave in a few days. The British commander at Castine heard of his exposed
situation and sent a lieutenant and twenty-five mento capture him. At mid
night on Feb. 18, 1781, he was awakened by loud and rapid reports of mus
ketry and the crashing of glass in his windows. On the approach of the
enemy the sentry had challenged them and retreated to the house. A volley
of bullets were fired after him, "while others were fired into the wiiido"ws.
The British quickly took possession of the house, except one room, which
Gen. Wadsworth occupied alone. Here, with a brace of pistols, a fusee and
a blunderbuss he contended alone against his assailants, driving them awa}-
from the door and windows. The British then attacked another door, which
they broke in. This time the General's blunderbuss missed fire, but with
that fearless intrepidity that ever characterized his career he fought single-
handed and alone against a score of men wih his bayonet. Being in his
night-clothes he was a conspicuous mark, and a bullet soon pierced his elbow,
when, finding himself disabled, he surrendered. Lieut. Stockton compli-
manted him for his heroic defence, when the General replied, that from the
nianner of their attack he inferred that they did not intend to capture him
alive, and he intended to sell his life as dearly as possible. His wound pre
vented him from wearing his coat, and a blanket was thrown over him and
he vvas hurried away to a vessel. After walking a mile in the snow and in
tense cold he became exhausted from over-exertion and loss of blood, and
was placed upon a horse. He was taken to a vessel, carried across the bay
to Bagaduce and imprisoned in Fort George. For two weeks he knew noth
ing of the fate of his family, consisting of his wife, a son of five years, tvvo
daughters, younger, and a Miss Fenno, of Boston, a friend of Mrs. Wads
worth. He was regarded as a man of too much consequence .to be ex
changed, and was refused the privilege of a parole. He was allovved to
write to the Governor of Massachusetts, also to Mrs. Wadsworth, and he
soon learned that his family was safe. Ma . Williani Burton, a brave officer

45 WADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORY.

who served in 1780 under Gen. Wadsworth, was confined in the room with
him. After two month's imprisonment Gen. Wadsworth was visited by his
wife and Miss Fenno ; and he received a hint that he was to be taken to Eng
land, and probably tried and executed. He gave his barber a dollar for a
gimlet, with whicii he bored holes around a large portion of the pine ceiling,
filling them up with chewed bread. At midnight of June i8th, just four
months after his capture, amid the darkness of a tempestuous thunder storm,
that drove the sentinels to shelter, he cut with his penknife the spaces be
tween the gimlet holes, making an opening through which he and Maj. Bur
ton escaped. Gen. Wadsworth let himself down the walls of the fort, twenty
feet high, by means of his blanket. In the darkness he became separated
from Maj. Burton. Gen. Wadsworth waded across the cove, a distance of
a mile, the water reaching about to his armpits. The next morning he found
Maj. Burton, and after three days of toil and suff'ering they reached the St.
George settlement.
In 1797, President Dwight, of Yale College, who had been a chaplain in
the American army, visited Portland, Me., and was the guest of General
Wadsworth, from whom he stated that he received an uninterrupted succes
sion of civilities ; he also received from the General, and wrote, a minute and
thrilling account of his capture, imprisonment and escape. Gen. Wads
worth at the time of its publication vouched for the accuracy of the account,
"which cov^ers twenty-five printed pages. After his escape he resided several
years in Massachusetts. He removed to Portland, Me., in 17S4. In 17S5
he built the first brick house ever erected in Portland, the bricks having been
brought from Philadelphia. The house still stands on Congress St., and
has since been occupied by his son-in-law, Hon. Stephen Longfellow, the
father of the poet. We may "well commend the good taste sliO"wn by Gen.
Wadsworth in selecting Portland as his place of residence, for New England
wears no fairer gem in her coronet of beauty than the Forest City, — the
home of Longfellow's " Lost Youth," — " the dear old tovvn that is seated
by the sea."
Gen. Wadsworth engaged in trade in Portland for several years. He was
chosen president of a convention that met from time to time to consult on
the separation of Maine from Massachusetts. In 1792 he was elected to the
Senate of Massachusetts. In the same year he was elected a Member of
Congress from the District of Maine ; and he discharged his duties with such
ability and fidelity that he vvas elected seven consecutive terms : serving from
1793 till 1807. In 1798 the citizens of Portland gave him a public dinner in
approbation of his official conduct. In 1790 he purchased of the State of
Massachusetts seven thousand five hundred acres of land, now included in Fii
ram, Me., between the Saco and Ossipee rivers, the price being 1 2 i-3 ets. per
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46

VV.VDSWORTH HOUSE, PORTL.^ND, ME.
by a statement in the Eastern Herald, printed in Portland, Sept. 10, 1792, as
follows: " Gen Wadsworth thinks he has raised more than 1000 bushels of
corn on burnt land at a place called Great Ossipee, about thirty-six miles
from Portland." In 1795 he built a house and settled his eldest son, Captain
Charles Lee Wadsworth, on his tract. In 1800 he built a house for himself,
the largest ever built in Hiram, which is still standing. On Jan. i, 1807,
Gen. Wadsworth removed to his rural home, and soon after (Feb. 27th)
procured the incorporation of the township ; and being a Free Mason, had
it named Hiram, in honor of Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abiff. the
first Most Excellent Grand Master. With his son, Capt. Charies L. Wads
worth, he engaged in farming and lumbering. He was a skillful surveyor,
and was of great service and usefulness in the new township. He was
selectman six years, treasurer twelve years, and a magistrate for many years :
being often an arbiter and always a peace-maker. He was regarded as the
patriarch of the settlement ; and his home was the central point in the region
for law, literature, refinement and hospitality. He was a liberal patron of
education. Some of our aged and distinguished citizens revert with pleasure
and gratitude \o one of his last munificent acts, when, in the povert}- of the
settlement, he established a free school at the town house, and rode through
the town on horse-back in his eightieth year, inviting the children to attend.
His family record and history is as follows : —

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Gen. Peleg Wadsworth; born in Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748, died in
Hiram, Me., Nov. 12, 1829.
Elizabeth Bartlett; born in Plymouth, .Mass., Aug. 9, 1753. died in
Hiram, Me., July 20, 1825.
CHILDREN.
I. Alexander Scammell; born in Kingston, Mass., May 9, i774' died
withiii the Revolutionary fortifications at Dorchester, Aug. 28, i775-
2. Capt. Charles Lee; born in Plymouth, Mass., Jan. 26, 1776, died in
Hiram, Me., Sept. 29, 1848.
3. Zilpah ; born in Duxbury, Mass., Jan. 6, 1778, was married Jan. i,
1804, to Hon. Stephen Longfellow, and was the mother of Henry Wads
worth Longfellow, the poet. She died in Portland, March 12, 185 1.
4. Elizabeth; born in Boston, Sept. 21, 1779, died in Portland, Aug. i,
\ 1802.
5. John; born in Plymouth Mass., Sept. i, 1781, graduated at Harvard
College in 1800, admitted to the Bar of Cumberland Co., Me., in 1808,
died in Hiram, Jan. 22, i860. He was an accomplished scholar and
linguist.
^. Lucia; born in Plymouth, Mass., June 12, 1783, died in Portland, Oct.
17, 1864. An elaborate obituary from the pen of Hon. William Willis
closed with the following lines :
" Of no disorder, of no blast she died.
But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long."
7. Lieut. Henry ; born in Falmouth, (now Portland,) June 31, 17S5. A
Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy at the age of nineteen. Killed before Tri
poli, Sept. 4, 1804, while aiding in running a torpedo ship into the ene
my's fleet.
8. George ; born in Portland, Jan. 6, 1788, died in Philadelphia, April 8,
1816. He "was said to have been one of the best penmen in the U. S.
9. Com. Alexander Scammell ; born in Portland, May 7, 1790. He was
for years commodore in the U. S. Navy, and was said to have been one
of the finest-looking officers in the service. He died in Washington,
D. C, April 5, 1S51.
10. Samuel Bartlett ; born in Portland, Sept. i, 1791, died in Eastport,
Me., Oct. 3. 1874.
II. Gen. Peleg; born in Portland, Oct. 10, 1793, and was a general in
the militia of Maine. He died in Hiram, Me., Jan. 17, 1875.
Gen. Wadsworth, the subject of this address, and his excellent wife, had
long been members of the Congregational Church.

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The influence of such a man can never die. I am proud to believe that
the reputation sustained by my native town for exalted patriotism is largely to
be attributed to the fact, that our young men had heard the inspiring story
of his heroic deeds in the Revolution, from their grandsires, around their
hearth stones, and it formed their first lessons of patriotism as it fell from
their mother's lips, mingled with the cradle-hymns of their childhood. One
himdred ofour young men — -the flower and bloom and chivalry of Hiram —
laid the bright May of youth and the glory of manhood upon the altar of
the Union ; and to-day, among the martyred sons of the Republic, forty-two
of them are sleeping the heroes' last sleep beneath the sods of the battle-field
"where they fell, beside the gloomy prisons where they starved, or on the
green hillside of the old homestead, where, weary and worn, they came home
to die. In these days of crime in high places, of failure, embezzlement and
defalcation, it is refreshing to contemplate the character of a man like Peleg
Wadsworth, against wdiom, during his honored career of more than four
score years, the voice of scandal Was never raised. Duty was his guiding
star. His lofty character, founded on truth, justice and integrity, as upon
the Rock of Ages, is still reverenced byhis townsmen and cherished as a pre
cious legacy by his posterity. His methods were as stainless as the snow,
and his motives as pure and transparent as crystal waters.
On a high plateau in the valley of the winding and silvery Saco, whose
majestic cataract makes endless melody as its bright waters roll onward to
the sea, set like a gem in its circlet of hills and mountains, the old ancestral
Wadsworth mansion still stands. On an eminence nearly in the shadow of
" the forest primeval," sleeps the honored patriarch among his kindred, well
worthy ofthe eulogium upon his tablet, "He was a Patriot, a Philanthropist,
and a Christian."
Two sons of Gen. Wadsworth were gallant officers in the U. S. Navy,
and another served in the war of 181 3. Henry, for whom his nephew, the
poet Longfellow was named, was a lieutenant at the age of nineteen ; and
was attached to the schooner Scourge in Com. Decatur's expedition before
Tripoli in 1804. As he took leave of his friends before embarking a sister
remarked, "Henry, I fear we shall soon hear that you are a prisoner." "No,
Lucia," he replied with determined emphasis, "you shall never hear that of
me." The last entry in his journal before the attack in which he lost his
life was this : " We are in daily expectation of the Commodore's arrival from
Syracuse, with the gun-boats and bomb-vessels, and then, Tripoli, be on thy
o-uard." The story of his heroic death is inscribed on a marble cenotaph
erected by his father to his memory in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland.
On the southwest face : "In memory of Henry Wadsworth, son of Peleg
Wadsworth, Lieut. U. S. Navy, who fell before the walls of Tripoli on the
eve of Sept. 4, 1804, in the twentieth year of his age, by the explosion of a

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fire-ship, which he and others gallantly conducted against the enemy. On
the northeast face are these lines :
" My countiry calls, this world adieu;
I have one Ufe : that life I give for you."
On the southeast face is an extract from a letter of Com. Preble : " Deter
mined at once, they prefer death, and the destruction of the enemy, to cap
tivity and torturing slavery." On the northwest face is an extract from a
resolution of Congress: "An honor to his country, and an example to all
excellent youth."
Com. Alexander Scammell Wadsworth, the ninth child of Gen. Wads
worth, was a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy at the age of twenty- two. When
the Frigate Constitution, '¦^ Old Ironsides," fought her memorable battle in
Aug., i8i3, in which she captured the British Frigate Guerierre, Alexander
S. Wadsworth was 3d Lieut, on board the victorious ship. The ist Lieut.,
Morris, was wounded sev'erely early in the action, and Lieut. W^adsworth
took his place. On his return to Portland his fellow citizens presented him
an elegant sword, in commendation of his brave conduct as an officer. He
was an officer on the ship that carried our minister, Hon. Joel Barlow, to
France, in 1811 ; and for courtesies received that gentleman presented him a
sword. He rose to the rank of commodore.
Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, the eleventh child of Gen. Wadsworth, was for
many years the wealthiest man and largest land-holder in Hirani ; but his
merits rested not upon wealth or the pride of ancestry, but upon his pure life
and unswerving integrity. He was a consistent Christian from his youth,
and a member of the Congregational Church of Hiram from its foundation.
He was a good military officer, was a magistrate for many years, and held
other important offices ; and all his business vvas pre-eminently accurate, sys
tematic and exact, and his penmanship was as plain as a printed page. He
kept a diary and record of the weather for seventy years. He was a success
ful farmer, an excellent surveyor of land, and in his youth was a model
teacher : teaching a school in his native town in his twelfth year.
Zilpah, the eldest daughter of Gen. Wadsworth, was married to Hon.
Stephen Longfellow, a distinguished lavvyer of Portland. In her character of
rare excellence was combined all that exalts and ennobles the heart of a
Christian lady. She also possessed intellectual qualities of a very high order.
One fact alone would well cause her name to be spoken with reverence in
every civilized land beneath the sun : she was the mother qf Henry Wadsworth
Longf elloiv.
In conclusion, let us hope that the historian of the Wadsworth family will
give due prominence to those who have fought or died for their native land.
The Wadsworths of Hirani bore an honorable part in the vvar for the Union.

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Seth enlisted and served in the 17th Reg't Maine Vols, three years. Mar
shall L. and Alexander Wadsworth enlisted in the 37th Reg't Maine Vols.,
and were in the battalion of
their regiment, consisting of
three hundred and thirty offi
cers and privates, who received
the thanks of President Lincoln
and Secretary Stanton, also
bronze medals from Congress,
for volunteering, after their
term of service expired, to aid
in the defence of Washington
while the troops from the gar
risons "were sent forward to the
battle of Gettysburg. Charles
Wadsworth Butterfield, whose
mother was a Wadsworth, v\-as
a volunteer in the 9tli Reg't
Maine Vols. , and died in South
Carolina from a bullet wound
in his lungs. Perchance, the
Goddess of Liberty, as she
. roams over the sunny plains
from which she has so long-
been exiled, will pause to weep
over the sacred resting place of her brave defender, whicii will never
bedewed by a sister's tears or consecrated by a mother's prayers.
The Pine Tree State folds notwithin her bosom a martyr more brave, loyal
and chivalrous than John C. Wadsworth, of Hiram, an officer of the lytli
Reg't U. S. A., who fell at the age of twenty-five, bravidy fighting in the
vanguard of Freedom, on the historic sods of Gettysburg. Were vve, his
townsmen, to consult our feelings, our tribute would be the sad, silent elo
quence of tears. But the Tree of Liberty will grow richer and brighter from
the blood by "which it is nourished and the tears by which it is "watered. The
wild storm ofthe battle-field beats no more, and Peace, like an angel of mer
cy, spreads her bright pinions in our native land, and whispers consolation
to the bereaved, that their loved ones have not died in vain. The Union is
doubly dear to us, since the best blood of the fathers has been shed in its
formation, and that of the sons in its defence.
Stronger even than the Constitution are the invisible chords stretching from
southern battle-fields to northern homes ; and sorrowing parents feel their
hearts drawn tenderly' toward the sunny land whose ever green bosom fur-
* Loaned by Houghton, Miffin & Co., Cambridge, authorized publishers of Longfellow's works.

HENRY \V.\l>SVVi;)RTH LONGt'ELLOW.'*

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nishes a sepulchre for their patriot sons. Let us pay our debt of gratitude
to the heroic dead by transmitting the story of their valor to our children and
our children's children ; and teach them also to be patriots, and guard well
the legacy of liberty and union that they have received.
Our meeting here has been pleasant, and our parting will be cheered by
the hope that we shall meet again.
A land of rest is gleaming, where life's sparkling waves roll bright;
A land that knows no sorrows, and no darkling shades of night.
And the hand of Faith points upward, to the bright and golden shore :
May we meet again in heaven to be parted nevermore.

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T-'.-ng^ h^ 1 jJWulcb i,A B "Walter PMlai icCTirL-ttieong-iiiKlTbTlraitlij JWeaglel

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VI.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES CONTINUED.

JAMES wadsworth, THE PHILANTHROPIST OF GENESEO.
"Wadsworth, James, an American philanthropist, born in Durham,
Conn., April 20, 1768, died in Geneseo, N. Y., June 8, 1844. He gradu
ated at Yale College in 1787) and in 1790 removed with his brother to the
Genesee River, purchasing a large tract of land in what is now the town
of Geneseo. In time he became one of the richest land proprietors in New
York. He printed and circulated, at his own expense, publications on the
subject of education, employed persons to lecture on it, and offered premiums
to the to"wns which should first establish school libraries. As early as 181 1
he proposed the establishment of normal schools. He procured the enact
ment of the school library law in 1838, founded a library and institution for
scientific lectures at Geneseo and endowed it with $10,000, and in his sales
of land always stipulated that a tract of 135 acres in each township should
be granted free for a church, and another of the same size for a school. His
donations to the cause of education exceeded $90,000. His son, James
Samuel, born in 1807, distinguished himself by patriotism and philanthropy,
and was mortally wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, where he com
manded a division. May 6, 1864, and died on the Sth."
The above is from Appleton & Co.'s America7i Encyclopedia, and shows
the value of this man from a national standpoint ; and a further detailed
story of his life in connection with that of his elder brother William, as sub
stantially told by Hinman, will be perused with interest. These brothers
"were the sons of John Noyes Wadsworth, bf Durham, Conn., descendants
of William Wadsworth, the first, of Hartford.
During James' collegiate education their father died. He was possessed
of a fair estate, though not enough to be considered a competency even in
those days. But their enterprise proved to them far more valuable than a
patrimonial fortune, with which they might have spent their lives in idleness,
or have become politicians, and a blot on the escutcheon ofthe family shield.
The ambition of these two brothers induced them to look farther into the
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53 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
future than did most young men of their age at that day in Connecticut. In
1790, or previous, Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth, of Hartford, a relative of
theirs, and a gentleman of great wealth, became interested largely in the
wild and uncultivated lands in western New York. In these lands Col.
Jeremiah Wadsworth proposed to William and James to become interested,
by purchasing so much of them as they might feel enabled, and of the bal
ance to become his agents in that (then) distant region. General William,
who "was a farmer, might not have been so much startled at the bold propo
sition of Col. Wadsworth, but the Hon. James, who had been liberally edu
cated, and knew little or nothing of the hardships of a wilderness, or a la
boring life, must have been terror-stricken at the idea of .abandoning the
home of so honorable an ancestry for the many deprivations of a life in the
wilderness. Yet, looking to the future alone, they started in 1790. full of
courage, to reach their purchase on the eastem bank of the Genesee River,
"where Geneseo is now located. At this time a few detached pieces of land
were cleared west of Little Falls, N. Y. The remainder of the way through
"which they had to pass was a solitary wilderness, inhabited only by "wild
beasts, or, what was "worse, the tribes of the Fiv^e Nation Indians, instigated
by English traders. They took with them several laborers from Connecticut,
to clear away the timber, erect log houses, and prepare some land to raise
crops for the next year. The provisions for this little band of adventurers,
with their implements of husbandry, had all to be transported through the
trackless wilderness.
They ascended the Hudson, then to Schenectady through the woods, then
in boats up the Moh.awk Riverj the land but little cleared on either side,
until they found a settlement, where they purchased cattle and some other
necessaries for their future support and for stock. At this point the party
divided, and William with some of his men took the stock they had pur
chased through the forest, while James and his party followed the streams,
probably with most of the provisions and implements of husbandry. They
again met in safety in 'an open field or prairie, near where Geneseo now is.
After a long, tedious and dangerous journey they now had arrived at their
new home, with their cattle, tools and provisions. The first object was to
build a house to shelter them, wdiich they soon did, with no other tools than
their axes, and perhaps an auger. They then attacked the forest, and soon
got their crops into the ground. But the fever and ague of the new country
in the autumn seized their axe-men, which hurried them back to their old
settlements in Connecticut ; but the Wadsworths yet remained there, and in
the following spring they replaced their axe-men and continued their clear
ing. The com they had raised the first year could now be used, bv crush
ing it in a rough mortar cut in the stump of an oak, vvith as rough a pestle,
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they erected a grist and saw raill at Geneseo, The duties of the agency of
lands and oversight of farming had been performed by both of the brothers ;
but the land in that regioii being in the market, and the business increasing,
they divided the labor. James took upon himself the duties of the land
office while William attended to the agricultural interests. The raising of
cattle purchased at the east when" young, grown and fatted at Geneseo, and
then taken to some market for sale, was the principal source of profit arising
from the farm, as no market could be obtained for many years for grain or
other .articles which had to be transported upon wheels. At this time the
Wadsworths "were in the far West ; and though Hon. James ^vas a most effi
cient agent, he found it e.xtremely difficult to sell and settle his wild lands,
as had been the case with other land companies in that region, and in 1796
James Wadsworth was solicited by those interested in western lands to go to
England to interest the capitalists of that country in the lands of western
New York. Being a gentleman of tall stature, of noble countenance and
gentlemanly appearance, he was an honor to his birth-place in the best Eng
lish societv, and perhaps the best selection that could have been made for the
mission. The immense tract of country held by the tvvo brothers could not all be
cultivated for many years. A part of it was improv^ed by themselves, much
of it was leased for years for a small consideration, and other parts cultivated
on shares yearly. The great farm on the Genesee flat, adjoining the river,
containing over two thousand acres, was cultivated and improved as the
homestead ofthe Wadsworths.
The Messrs. Wadsworth had been probably the largest sheep and wool
growers in the United States, and ranked with Gen. Wade Hampton, of
S. C, as being at the head of all agricultural pursuits in the country. While
Gen. Hampton produced his results by slave labor. Gen. Williani and James
Wadsworth produced theirs by free labor, on a farm constantly improving.
Hon. James Wadsworth, by the death of his wife, his brother Gen. Wil
liam, and an affectionate daughter, was greatly afflicted for several of the
closing years of his life. His whole life had been one of industry and care.
After this sore affliction in his family in his old age he continued his general
oversight of his plantations and other interests. He differed from most men
of great fortune. Though he was economical in all his acts, yet he was uni
formly the poor man's friend when in distress, and whose merit recommended
his wants to Mr. Wadsworth. He was a gentleman of general science ; and
was unlike most men whose elementary education closed in a collegiate de
gree, if their attention in after life should by chance be turned to agricultural,
mercantile, or any other than literary pursuits. He was, strictly speaking,
a scientific planter. No man probabl}- in the United States contributed more
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55 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
schools than did Mr. Wadsworth for several years previous to his death.
His contributions so often bestowed for erecting school houses and churches,
paying lecturers to instruct the people in his vicinity upon literary subjects,
publishing books, &c., and forming libraries, must have, in so long and for
tunate a life, been an item in his expenses of no inconsiderable amount. He
vvas modest and unostentatious as a public benefactor.
Politically, Mr. Wadsworth was in former d.ays a federalist ; but after the
political parties abandoned their principles for office, and the name of party
became synonymous with office, he took no farther interest in political par
ties. Professor Renwick, speaking of Mr. Wadsworth as an improver ofthe
breed of cattle and sheep, remarks: "His attention to fine-wooled sheep
was governed by practical and judicious views. He had no share in the
mania under which Merino rams were sought for at the price of thousands
of dollars ; but no sooner did the price fall to reasonable limits than he be
came the possessor ofthe largest flock in the state ; and he did not condemn
it to the butcher when the unreasonable expectations of sudden and enor
mous profits which others entertained were proved to be fallacious." Be
sides the neat cattle and sheep, the breeding of mules formed for several
years an object of his attention. It might have been expected, that with
such extensive concerns to manage as a land agent and landlord, not to men
tion the great extent of his own farm, that farms cultivated on a small scale
could have created but little intere.st in his heart. But this was not so ; for
he delighted in directing the culture of his garden, and in propagating the
finest description of fruits adapted to the climate, although he eschewed the
costly luxury of the forcing house. One peculiarity marks and distinguishes
his possessions, not only from those of small proprietors but from those of
the greater part of large land-holders ; this is the manner in which they are
studded with trees, isolated and in clumps, or surrounded and divided by
belts. In this respect, their aspect is that of the most admired portions of
England, with this difference in their favor : that the trees were not planted
bythe hand of man, but continue to exhibit the grandeur of form and dimen
sions which they had acquired in the primeval forest. In England, accord
ing to his own statement, he learned to love trees ere it was too late to pre
vent their entire destruction on his own domain by the unsparing axe of
the pioneer of civilization. He moreover was taught that a time is finallv
reached in the progress of population when timber is of more value than
any other product, even of the most fertile arable soils. With his love of
the beauty of trees as a mere object of sight, and sense of their productive
value, he willingly encountered the prejudice which represents them as in
juring the meadow, either for the scythe or for pasture, by their shade. To
his surprise, he found no diminution in the product of hay in his sheltered
savannah ; while to his stock, in the summer of our climate, the uinbra<)-eous

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shelter proved of incalculable benefit. More particularly, his rich alluvial
lands, extended in the form of a peninsula from a narrow isthmus, had been
protected from encroachment and from the wash of the river by the native
belt of wood which surrounded it.
FeW' as are the events which mark epochs in the quiet and successfully
industrious life of Mr. Wadsworth, it would be possible to dilate at great
length upon these and other points, in which his example and experience
might be of great value to the proprietor and cultivator of land.
In 1843 he became sensible of a decline in his health. His disorder soon
exhibited symptoms wdiich demonstrated its probably incurably nature. The
certainty of his dissolution at no distant day becanie apparent to him ; and
although he yielded to the wishes of his friends and children, by trying a
change of scene and air, he was himself aware how fruitless must be the at
tempt. The slow and gradual approach of death he awaited with equanimi
ty and fortitude ; and although he no longer manifested his accustomed in
terest in his favorite active pursuits, his intercourse with his friends was not
devoid of his usual cheerfulness ; whicii was damped rather by their anxieties
than by his own. Returning to his residence at Geneseo, he there died on
the 7tli of June, 1844.

captain SAMUEL WADSWORTH, OF MILTON.
The Sudbury fight was a great event in the early annals of New England ;
and it was in this fight that the subject of this sketch lost his life, while in
command of the colonial troops during the last year of King Philip's war.
Of the early life of this valiant soldier we know but little. He was the son
of Christopher and Grace Wa,dsworth, of Duxbury, and was probably their
eldest child. At the time of his death, in 1676, he is said to have been
forty-six years of age. This would make the date of his birth 1630-31, and
about two years before Christopher arrived in Duxbury. About his age at
death, however, there is an uncertainty ; and he might not have been as old
by several years. There are no public records of Duxbury that show he
ever lived there, for unfortunately the early records of that town were de
stroyed by flre. The first record we have of him is in Bridgewater, then
called Duxbury plantation, he being enrolled as a tax payer from 1655 — 65.
It was at about the first named date that he married Abigail Lindall, of
Duxbury. The lands that he owned in Bridgewater were a portion of the
o-rant of his father, Christopher, who was a large proprietor there. Bridge-
water then included most of Abington and Hanson, and he owned one sixty-
fourth part of this whole tract of country. He came in possession of it in
1644; and the inference is, that Samuel went upon these lands soon after
wards. In 1685 Capt. Samuel's share is entered upon the Bridgewater rec-

58 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
ords under the name of Widow Wadsworth ; and in 1686 the name of Timo
thy Wadsworth appears, who was Capt. Samuel's son, then a gunsmith in
Boston. In "Mitchell's History of Ancient Bridgewater " appears the fol
lowing : " Christopher Wadsworth, of Duxbury, was a representative of that
town, and one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater ; and Capt. Samuel
and Joseph, and their representatives, retained an interest and shares in
Bridgewater longer than any of the non-residents."
But the slow-going town of Bridgewater was not the place for a man of
Capt. Samuel's energy and nerve to spend his days. About this time, 1660,
he purchased a beautiful tract of land of several hundred acres in Milton,
then a part of Dorchester, within five or six miles of Boston. This land
lies on an elevation about midway between the Blue Hills of Milton and
Boston, in a direct line. A portion of these paternal acres are still in pos
session of his descendants, handed down to the eighth generation. He was
a man of means and influence, and took an active part in affairs of both
church and .state. His children were six boys and one girl ; and his living
descendants by the name of Wadsworth are more numerons than those of any
other member of the .second generation. Their names were Ebenezer, 1660,
Christopher, 1661, Timothy, 1662, Joseph, 1667, Benjamin, 1670, Abigail,
1673, and John, 1674. His widow survived him many years, retaining the
homestead and educating and caring for the welfare of her children.
We now come to the crowning event of his life : that of a soldier in the
Indian war against- King Philip, the famous Narragansett chief. It com
menced in June, 1775. Hewas at this time captain ofthe militia of Milton ;
and a militia company in those days meant more than to merely play sol
dier. The Indians in all the surrounding country had held a council of war,
and had resolved upon the extirpation of the pale faces from the land.
It is not easy for us to conceive of the e.xcitement and alarm that prevailed
throughout New England, every one being in dread of the " terror by night
and of the arrow that flieth by day." The babe was not safe in the cradle
nor the mother in her home. The blowing of the wind seemed like the
whistling of bullets ; and the war was carried on by stratagem on the part of
a relentless foe, who, with the fire-brand, the tomahaw-k and the scalping-
knife, spread desolation and terror in every quarter. An Indian named Ne-
tus, together with others, who pretended to be friendly, set fire to the dwell
ing and other buildings of Mr. Thomas Eames, which were just within the
limits of Framingham, within twenty miles of Milton, killed his wife, threw
her body into the flames, and carried his nine children into captivity. This
barbarous warfare was carried on simultaneously in all parts of tlie settle
ment. One town after another was laid in ashes. Brookfield, Springfield,
Hadley, Deerfield, Northfield, were attacked, and then Lancaster, Medfield^
Weymouth, Groton, Warwick and Marlborough were assaulted. At Lan-

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caster Mrs. Rowlandson and her children were captured and carried into cap
tivity, and the town would have been consumed if Captain Wadsworth had
not come in great haste to its relief.
Captain Wadsworth had been ordered to repair to Marlborough with fifty
soldiers to strengthen the garrison at that place. On his way he marched
through Sudbury, and passed the Indians, who were lying concealed in large
numbers, but who kept themselves undiscovered. On the next morning,
however, they assaulted and burned most of the houses that were on the east
side of the river. The people, though greatly distressed, made a vigorous
resistance, and being joined by some soldiers from Watertown, under com
mand of Capt. Hugh Mason, a check was given to the enemy, so that "those
that were gotten over the river to the east side of the town were forced to
retreat unto the west side ofthe river, where also several English inhabited."
When Capt. Wadsworth reached Marlborough he learned what had be
fallen Sudbury ; and although he had marched all the day and night before,
and his men were much exhausted, he hastened back with all the speed he
could, being accompanied by Captain Brocklebank, together with those that
could be taken from the garrison at Marlborough. The latter, indeed, had
petitioned the Council that they might be dismissed ; alleging their necessi
ties and wants, inasmuch as they had been in the country's service since the
ist of January at Narragansett, and within one week after their return had
been sent out again, without having had either time or money (save a fort
night's pay upon their march) to recruit themselves. But their request had
not been granted; for the reason, probably, that they could not be spared.
The force arrived in the afternoon within a mile and a half of the town, and
the Indians, who had hidden themselves behind the hills, sent out some of
their number to cross the march of the whites and decoy them into an am
bush. The plot succeeded ; for the savages appearing to fly and to be fright
ened, drew on the English, who followed them for some distance into the
woods. Here they found themselves suddenly surrounded by more than five
hundred ofthe enemy, who, raising the war-hoop, sprang forthwith hideous
yells and began to fire upon them. Our soldiers, says Mather, " fought like
men, and more than so," and after a desperate struggle they retreated, and
succeeded in gaining the westem side of Green hill. Though outnumbered
and fatigued they here gallantly defended themselves for four hours, losing
only five men, while the Indians lost more than one hundred. Night was
now coming on, and their situation becanie perilous. The savages then set
fire to the woods, which, as the grass was dry and the wind blew hard,
burned with great fierceness, so that our fathers were almost blinded and
suffocated by the heat and smoke. They were forced to abandon their posi
tion in disorder, whereupon the Indians fell upon them like tigers, and the
little band was almost literally cut to pieces. Captain Wadsworth, covered

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with wounds, was, it is said, among the last that fell, endeavoring to keep
his company together and encouraging them to the end ; while, during the
terrible encounter, the blasts of Brocklebank's trumpet rang out clear and
strong, urging on his men, though the blood "was streaming from his many
wounds. Thirty, including these and the two other officers, "were slain on
the field, and w'ere buried in a common grave. Only twenty escaped. A
fe"vv of them fled to a mill which was fortified but had been deserted. The
enemy, supposing that it was strong, did not venture to attack it ; and the
soldiers "were afterwards rescued by Captain Prentice and Captain Crowell,
who came thither, but not in season to save Captain Wadsworth. Five or
six were taken prisoners; and, says Cotton Mather, "that the reader may
understand what it is to be taken by such devils incarnate, I shall here in
form him : they stripped these unhappy prisoners and caused them to run the
gauntlet, and whipped them after a cruel and bloody manner ; then they
threw hot ashes upon them, and cutting ofl' collops of their flesh, they put
fire into their wounds, and so, with exquisite, leisurely, horrible torments,
roasted them out ofthe world."*
The date of the battle has from the first been a matter of uncertainty ; and
it has ever since been a matter of dispute. We ought not perhaps to be sur
prised at this, since the distance from Charlestown and Boston was consider
able, the intelligence might be delayed, and different statements inight be
made by persons who had different sources of information. In favor of the
i8th of April are Hubbard, President Wadsworth, of Harvard College, vvho
was pastor of the First Church in Boston, '1696, twenty years after the fight,
and Rev. Peter Hobart, of Hingham ; they are followed by Charles Hudson.
Those who give the 31st as the true date are General Gookin, the Letters of
the Massachusetts Council, a narrative written in Boston in July, 1676, the
Roxbury Records, and the Probate Records of Middlesex ; and this date is
adopted by Savage, Drake, Barry, Gage, Shattuck, Dexter and others. Gov.
Boutwell, in his address at the dedication of the Monument, said : " It mav
not be proved that the battle was fought on the iSth, but it is settled that it
was fought prevdous to the 3 ist;" and afterwards he maintained thatthe
former was the correct date. Dr. Palfrey, in his History, records the defeat
of Captain Wadsworth as having occurred April 20th, thus giving an inter
mediate day, w-hile in his Abridgement it is set down as on the i8th. Since
our most impartial historians thus differ, it seems likely that the exact date
must ever remain an open question. -j-
* Mather's Magnalia, i, 494.
t The fullest discussion of this subject, with an elaborate report upon it, may be found in the
New England Hist, and Gen. Reg., vii, 221; xx, 135, 341. See also Savage's Gen. Dictiona
ry, iv, 380; Hudson's Hist, of Marlborough,^, -jt^: Bar ifs Hist. 0/ yl/ajj., i, 43S ; Palfrefs
Hist, of New England, iii. 192.

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The slaughter of the brave men who fell on these heights was felt as a se
vere loss to the country. Governor Winslow, in a letter which is still pre
served at the State House, says : " God is still writing bitter things against
us. The Lord help us to make a good improvement of every dispensation."*
Even the friendly Indian soldiers, who came upon the battle-ground the next
day, wept when they saw so many English lying dead among the slain. The
t"wo principal officers especially, who were both forty-six years of age at the
time of their death, were most highly esteemed for their character as well as
services. " Worthy and pious captains," they are called ; " men for piety,
prudence and courage eminent, and much lamented." Capt. Samuel Wads
worth is spoken of as "that resolute, stout-hearted soldier," " one worthy
to live in our history under the name of a good man ; " and Captain Saniuel
Brocklebank is described as " a godly and choice-spirited man." There
were also killed in the fight, Lieut. John Sharpe, of Brookline, Lieut. Sam
uel Gardner, of Roxbury, and others, " as brave soldiers as any were ever
employed in the present service."! Besides these, were Josiah Nowell, a
friendly Indian, and John Tahatta, a sagamore or chief of second rank, both
of whom were mortally wounded.
On the receipt of the news of this disaster the Governor and Council di
rected that forty troopers from Suffolk and as many from Middlesex, well
accoutred and completely armed, should march to Sudbury and discover
where the Indians might be ; and if they found them going in the direction
of either Concord or Medfield, that they should visit those places and report
forthwith their condition and the enemy's movements. After this, Ply
mouth, Bridgewater and Scituate were assailed. But the war had culminated.
The tide of success now turned against the Indians. Philip's influence began
to wane. His resources were exhausted, his allies upbraided and deserted
him, his enemies increased, and he retired to Mount Hope only to find it
"Mount Misery" and " Mount Confusion." Here hewas surrounded by
his pursuers, and his wife and son were captured. Driven into a swamp, he
was finally shot by one of his own race, in fulfillment of his prediction that
no Englishman should ever kill him. Thus the sachem of Pokanoket, the
chief of the Wampanoags, who had been the terror of New England, per
ished, Aug. 1 2th, falling upon his face in mud and water, with his gun un
der him.
In a picture of him, which may be seen in Bancroft's history, he is rep
resented as having a large frame and stalwart limbs, a high forehead and
piercing eyes, standing with his arms crossed in an attitude of independence,
* Mass. Archives, vol. Ixviii, p. 243.
t Hubbard adds : " Thus, as in former attempts of like nature, too much courage and eager
ness in pursuit of the Enemy hath added another fatal blow to this poor Country."

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and looking like a wily and formidable foe.* He was terribly and justly
feared ; and though conflicts continued after his death, the prestige and
power of his tribe were broken. During the year, the colony lost six hun
dred of its best men ; so that there was scarcely a family whicii was not in
mouming. Thirteen towns were entirely destroyed, and many more suffered
from pillage and depredation. The expense of the war, including losses,
has been estimated at no less than half a million dollars : no small sum for
those days, and, in proportion to the wealth of the country at the time, as
great as that which a century later was the price of our national indepen
dence. The first monument erected on the battle-field was placed there by Presi
dent Wadsworth, of Harvard College, son of Capt. Samuel Wadsworth. This
monument was falling to decay, and many individuals felt that something
should be done to preserve it. The attention of the town of Sudbury was
first called to it by an article in the warrant, as follows : " To see if the town
will take any measures to rebuild the monument over the reniains of Captain
Wadsworth and his men, who were killed by the Indians near Green Hill."
The meeting at which action was taken on this article was holden on the loth
of November, 1851, and a committee of twenty-five were chosen to investi
gate the subject and report at a future meeting. On the 36th of January,
1852, the committee made a partial report, and were instructed to petition
the Legislature for aid in the erection of a monument. In accordance with
these instructions, the committee of the town presented their petition, and
were heard by the Committee on Military Affairs, to whom the petition was
referred. A resolve was reported, appropriating five hundred dollars towards
defraying the expense of repairing or rebuilding in a substantial manner the
monument in the tovvn of Sudbury, erected by President Wadsworth, of
Harvard College, about the year 1730,10 the memory of Captain Samuel
Wad.sworth and a large number of other officers and soldiers in the service
of the colony, who were slain upon the spot marked by the monument on
the i8th of April, 1676, in the defence of that town against the Indians.
The committee say in their report, by way of urging the passage of the re
solve, " Itwould be an indelible stain upon the escutcheon of Massachusetts
and a source of the deepest mortification to her sons, if a single spark of
patriotic feeling remained in their bosoms, if these sacred memorials of her
past history were permitted to go to destruction niercly because their preser-
v-ation would involve the expenditure of a few paltry dollars from the public
treasury. The resolve was passed by the Legislature, and the mone}- expended under
* Bancroft's Hist, of U. S., tenth ed., 1844, ii, 109. Philip appears far less dignified and
commanding in the likeness which "U'as originally published by Church, and which is prefixed to
Drake's Indian Biography.

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63

the direction of His Excellency the Governor, in connectioii with a commit
tee of the town of Sudbury. The monument, together with a road leading
to the spot, was completed at an expense of nearly two thousand dollars.
The amount above the gift of the State was appropriated by the town. On the
33d of November, 1853, the monument
was dedicated. The reniains ofthe an
cient dead were taken from their former
grave and placed in boxes. Portions of
twenty-nine skeletons, corresponding to
the number recorded as buried there,
were found. The bones were in a re
markable state of preservation, some of
them bearing marks of blows that were
giv-eii two hundred years ago. An his
torical address was delivered by his Ex
cellency, Geo S. Boutwell, then Govern
or of the Commonwealth. The boxes
containing the remains were placed in
the vault beneath the monument, the
aperture was closed, and the ancient slab
erected by President Wadsworth placed
ill front.
On the i8thof April, 1876, the town of .Sudbury appropriately celebrated
the bi-centennial anniversary of the battle of Green Hill. Capt. Edwin D.
Wadsworth, now a resident of Milton, was present, and delivered a short his
torical address to this sentiment :
" The Name of Wadsworth — Cherished in honor and affection by the people of Sudbury for
services upon the battle-field, and by the people of Massachusetts for services in the halls of
learning."

VtONUMENT AT GREEN HILL, SUDBURY.

REV. LEMUEL WADSWORTH, OF BROOKLINE, N. H.
Of the Stoughton branch of the Wadsworths that comprise Ensign George
Wadsworth and his descendants, there has been but one regularly ordained
minister ofthe Gospel, and that one is Rev. Lemuel, of Brookline. This
man was the son of Recompense and grandson of Ensign George Wads
worth. This Stoughton progenitor was of the Captain Samuel branch, of
Milton, being fourth in line from Christopher, as follows: Christopher, Sam
nel, Ebenezer, George. Ebenezer (deacon), of Milton, vvas Capt. Samuel's
eldest son ; and he (Ebenezer), as well as being the father of George, had
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and David, of Grafton, who raay be termed patriarchs in their way, and "who
have a numerous progeny to rise up and call them blessed. Ensign George
had three sons, all of whom lived in Stoughton, viz. : Christopher, Recom
pense and John. His second son, Recompense, was the father ofthe subject
of this sketch.
Rev. Lemuel was the son of respectable but not "wealthy parents, born
March 9, i'j6c). In the early part of his life he possessed no greater advan
tages for an education than were common at that time to all classes. His
circumstances did not allow him to follow his strong inclination to obtain a
collegiate education until his time "was his own. Then, under many forbid
ding circumstances and embarrassments, he applied himself to study with
resolution. With a little charitable aid, but principally by his own exertions,
he maintained himself when fitting for college and through the course of his
studies. While a member of college he conducted himself "with such regu
larity, sobriety, and meekness, such unassuming manners and close applica
tion, as to gain the esteem of the officers and of his fellow students. At the
age of twenty-four he graduated from Brown University, in Providence, in
1793, and without delay applied himself to the study of divinity. He soon
became a candidate for the gospel ministry, the object for "which he had la
bored to qualify himself. Divine Providence directed hira to Brookline,
N. H., then called Raby, and after preaching a suitable tirae for the people
to become acquainted with his gifts, and a church being formed, he received
the almost unanimous call of the church and town to settle as their minister.
He was ordained Oct. 11, 1797. From that time he continued to labor aniong
them and enjoyed the high esteem of his people until suddenly removed by
death, Nov. 25, 1817.
It was in the milder virtues of meekness, huraility, gentleness, condescen
sion, filial piety, brotherly love and Christian kindness that Mr. Wadsworth
shone with distinguished brightness. He was examplary in his life, and a
pattem of Christian forbearance and forgiveness. Philanthrophy and kind
ness were congenial to his heart. His liberality to the poor was to the ut
raost of, if not beyond, his ability. His filial piety and brotherly afiection
shone brightly in his tender care and liberal support of an aged mother and
helpless sister to the close of their lives. His own pains and infirmities he
bore with patience and resignation ; and as the time of his departure ap
proached, his hopes of immortality were strong and full.
Mr. Wadsworth was great because of his steady purpose and earnest, con
sistent zeal. He was the first minister of the settlement, and his life-work
was ainong the people in that locality. His memory is cherished as one of
the fathers of that town. His entire energies and force were spent in one
direction — that of building up the settlement and advancing the welfare of
hig people. In his conversation he was vivacious and witty, and his pres-

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ence was always felt at the ministerial conferences, where he is accredited as
being the butt of several capital jokes aniong his clerical contemporaries.
His wife was a Stoughton lady. Miss Abigail Talbot. They had no chil
dren. She survived him and married a second husband, named Sawtelle,
who died soon afterwards. She lived till over ninety years of age. The
town of Brookline erected a monument to their memory in the cemetery on
the shores of Potanapo Pond, a little way west from the centre of the town.

REV. CHARLES WADSWORTH, OF NEW YORK.
There is nothing that ennobles our conceptions of human character more
than to recite the story of one who, through the grace of God, obtains a tri
umph over himself. It is a greater victory than the defeat of an enemy on
the field of battle ; and if there has been one niember of our family of whom
it might be said, that he "v\^on a triumph through sincerity and honest convic
tions, it can safely be accredited to the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, of Mar
cellus, New York.
This eminent Divdne, and sincere Christian raan, was a descendant of Wil
liam Wadsworth. He was born in Hartford, 1794, and was the fourth son
of Samuel and Patience Wadsworth, of that place. His parents died when
he was but six years old, and he was left to brave life's ills and bear life's
burdens with no father's hand to help, no mother's love to cheer and bless.
He lived with a kind uncle till he was old enough to care for himself. At
the age of seventeen years he experienced a Christian's hope, and joined the
Presbyterian church.
He commenced a course of classical and theological study, but was com
pelled by ill health to give it up. But he must preach ; so, struggling almost
against hope, he persevered in his work, pursuing his studies as he had
strength under Rev. Dr. Perkins, and was at last, after many years of toil,
licensed to preach by the Hartford Association, of which Dr. Joel Hawes
was one of the leading members, and with whom he maintained a life-long
friendship. For many years he labored earnestly as an evangelist, preaching largely
in revival services for ministers in their different congregations. For this
work his earnest, glowdng temperament peculiarly fitted him, suppleraented,
as it was, by a royal gift of extemporaneous speaking of remarkable power,
and ruled by a sturdy common sense and a judgment of men and measures
very seldom at fault. Constant exercise of these gifts in his early New Eng
land home taught hira how to reach the hearts of men, and laid the founda
tion for his subsequent usefulness and success in the arduous vvork of a reg
ular pastorate.

66 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
Meanwhile he had found the comfort and joy a Christian man realizes,
who, obtaining favor of the Lord, secures a loving and faithful wife. He
was married, Oct. i, 1814, to Miss Mary Carter, of Glastenbury, Conn.
The happiness resulting from this union "was soon broken by her early death,
by whicii he was left with two little_^ ones, one of whom, a son, died in
infancy, the other afterwards raarried Mr. E. T. Huntington, of Rochester,
New York.
In March, 1824, Mr. Wadsworth began to preach at Richfield Springs,
N. Y. The people then had no church organization or house of worship.
He soon secured the forraer, and set himself vigorously to the task of erect
ing the latter. In labors, he was abundant. In addition to the care of his
church at Richfield Springs, Columbia and Warren were also the scene of
his unwearied toils for the Master he loved. He preached constantly in
country school-houses, reaching his preaching places through the drifted
snows of winter, speaking in badly warmed, worse ventilated rooms, from
which exposure he contracted the asthma, wdiich followed hira the rest of his
life. In October, 1S34, he w^as married to his second wife. Miss Tryphena E.
Isham, of East Hartford, Conn., who, during his long ministerial life of fifty-
four years, proved a helpmate indeed, gentle, sincere, constant in all the ser
vices of affection a Christian woraan renders the husband she loves.
Five years were passed in this first pastoral charge at Richfield Springs.
Here were born two daughters, the care of whora, with the daughter by his
first wife, proved his ability to rule well his own house. He was accus
tomed to prompt obedience ; and a word or a look was usually sufficient to
control the children conimitted to his care.
Froni Richfield Springs, Providence led the way to Buel. He was in
stalled as pastor of the church by the Presbytery of Otsego, September 34,
1828, having that day been received by the Presbytery from the Oneida As
sociation. Here he continued his work for four years ; the shortest period
he was over one church during his ministry. This was long enough, how
ever, to leave there an irapression for good which is not yet forgotten ; and
where he was blessed by the addition of tvvo sons to his family.
In 1832, Mr. Wadsworth was invited to the church at Carlisle, and was
disraissed to the Presbytery of Albany on June 27th of that year, where he
remained twelve years ; the longest time he preached continuously for one
people. The results of his work in this parish will not be fullv known till
eternity shall reveal them. One of the most powerful revivals of his minis
try was here enjoyed, when over one hundred members were added to the
church. The striking incidents of this work of grace were delightful raera
ories to the faithful pastor, and often alluded to by him in later years. Stal
wart men, under deep conviction of sin, came staggering up the broad aisle

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ofthe church, asking, with strong crying and tears, " What must I do to be
saved.?" So powerfully did the Fioly Spirit move upon the hearts of the
impenitent, that one man in driving home was compelled by his anguish
of mind, in view of sin, to kneel down by his wagon in the muddy road and
pray for mercy.
It was Mr. Wadsworth's invariable rule in conducting his revival services
to bring the meetings to a close at nine o'clock ever}- evening, in order that
the people might not be worn out by the excitement and want of rest. One
evening upon dismissing his congregation he asked the members of the
church to spend an hour in secret prayer for the conversion of those who
"were under conviction. So intense was the interest on the part of Chris
tians, that one man, unable to sleep, spent the whole night in prayer for the
salvation of others. At Carlisle the household "was enlarged by the coming
of two sons and one daughter. Convinced that his usefulness in the ministry
would be increased by entering a new parish, this one was given up in 1S44.
Going from these scenes of toil in the Master's service at Carlisle, so richly
blessed, Mr. Wadsworth passed seven years at Westford in equally laborious,
if not so signally favored "work. He returned to the Presbytery of Otsego
in June, 1S45, and remained a member of it till he went to the General As
sembly and Church of the First-born, whose names are written on high.
The same fidelity to the church marked his ministrations in the pulpit ; and
his pastoral visits here, as in all his congregations, greatly augmented the
value of his services. In this parish a daughter, the youngest child, was
born; and here a beloved son, Henry Martyn, at the age of fourteen years,
was taken by the Good Shepherd to His fold above. While here he became
convinced that his health demanded an entire cessation from his unremitted
labor for thirty years in the ministry, and he accordingly resigned his charge,
to retire, as he supposed, from active duty. But the Master had more good
for him yet to do.
In 1853 he was waited on by a comraittee frora his first parish, Richfield
Springs, who importuned hira to again preach for the church he had organ
ized, and with which he commenced his pastoral work. His reply was char
acteristic. " You need a whole minister; I am now not half a minister."
But the committee answered, " We will take the half if we cannot get the
whole ;" and so he was once more with his old people, For five years, al
most six, he broke to them the bread of life, and then, in the wisdom ofthe
Master, his pastoral life ceased among the people where thirty-five years be
fore it beo-an — his first and his last settleraent. Worn out in the servdce
of the Saviour he loved, he gave up his church and relinquished his active
work. To those who love to mark the dealings of Providence with each
believer, it will show new proofs of His care, that the young man of whom
others said, " he will not live six months in the ministry," should have had

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Strength from God to actually work as a settled pastor more than an entire
generation,. and should have filled out fifty-four years as a preacher of the
Gospel before his Master called him up higher.
Having determined to relinquish his activ^e, ministerial work, Mr. Wads
worth removed, in 1859, to Cherry Valley, N. Y., where for nine years he
raade his home. Here, as the state of his health permitted, he occasionally
preached ; and during the final struggles against slavery, "was an enthusiastic
supporter of the Government. Though debarred by his increasing infirmities
frora speaking in public, yet his prayers went up "without ceasing for the
cause of human liberty and righteous rule.
In 1868 he removed to Butternuts with his youngest daughter, where, be
ing somewhat improved in health, he supplied the pulpit, then vacant, for
three months. This was his last eflbrt at consecutive service ; and the vet
eran of more than three-score-and-ten felt that he could do but little raore in
the pulpit for the Saviour he loved.
In 1871 he renioved to Gloversville, N. Y., and "while visiting his daughter
in Syracuse, preached his last sermon, saying tenderly at that sei-vice, that it
was " in all probability his last raessage from his Master." He spent a year
in Syracuse, at the home of his daughter, then a year again in Gloversville,
when he once more went to Marcellus, as he supposed, only for a visit. But
in the watchful ordering of the same loving Providence who had so often
shown him such marked favor, he was here to spend the evening of his days.
He peacefully slept his last sleep July 15, 1878, being in the eighty-fifth
year of his age. Rev. Jaraes A. Skinner, of Syracuse, preached his funeral
sermon, from wdiich we have raade liberal extracts in this sketch. In closing
his discourse he recited the following hymn, prefacing it with the remark,
that " he (meaning the deceased) now knows all that these words mean,
better even than did the poet himself."
" I thank Thee, Lord, for using me
For Thee to work and speak;
However trembling is the hand.
The voice however weak.
" For those to whom, through me. Thou hast
Some heavenly guidance given ;
For some, it may be, saved from death.
And some brought nearer heaven.
" Oh ! honor higher, truer far.
Than earthly fame could bring.
Thus to be used in work like this,
So long, by such a King.
" A blunted sword, a rusty spear.
Which only He could wield ;
,\ broken sickle in His hand.
To reap His harvest field !

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REV. BENJAMIN WADSWORTH, D.D., OF BOSTON.
No person who has borne the name of Wadsworth in this country deserves
a more complimentary eulogy for real worth than the subject of this sketch.
Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, D.D., twelve years president of Harvard Col
lege. Benjamin was the fifth son of Captain Samuel, of Milton, and grand
son of Christopher ist, of Duxbury. His father was killed fighting Indians
at Sudbury, wdien Benjamin was but seven years old. The family met "with
a severe loss a few weeks before he was born ; the dwelling house in vvhich
they lived taking fire in the night time and burning to the ground. A few
articles of household furniture and clothing were saved, and as a temporary
shelter while a new house was being erected, the faraily resided in the barn ;
and here the future college president was born, in the year 1669. He lived
at home and obtained his preparatory education in the schools in the vicinity
of Boston till he entered Harvard, where he maintained a highly respectable
standing, and graduated inthe class of 1690. He was now twenty-one years
old. For the three succeeding years he devoted his time to the study of the
ology, and ill November, 1693, he received a license to preach the Gospel,
and was invited to become assistant teacher in the First Church, in Boston.
This call he accepted, vvith the understanding that he should preach once a
month. He continued in this capacity until September, 1696, when he was
fully inducted into his office by the neighboring ministers as colleague w-ith
Rev. Messrs. Allen and Bailey. Mr. Bailey lived but a short time, and IMr.
Allen retired in a few years, and Rev. Mr. Bridge was elected as an assist
ant pastor, 1705. In 1717 Rev. Mr. Foxcroft was elected an assistant pas
tor. Rev. Mr. Wadsworth remaining as pastor until he was elected president
of Harvard College, having served the church for a term of twenty-nine
years. A detailed account of his seTvices while connected with this church
would of itself fill a volume. The church was large, influential and power
ful, and his duties while pastor were many. During his pastorate the church
edifice, which was then on State Street, was burned down, and Mr. Wads
worth was foremost in obtaining subscriptions and carrying forward the work
of the erection of a new edifice. Multitudes were converted under his min
istrations and found the " new life," and the marriages he solemnized and
funerals he attended were reckoned by the hundreds yearly. Nor was his
presence felt in religious circles alone ; he was active in colonial affairs, and
to him, in 169S, was confided the trust of representing the ?vlassachusetts
colony in the Congress at Albany.
After the death of President Leverett of Harvard College, in 1734, consid
erable difficulty was experienced in regard to the appointment of a successor ;
and the college actually remained without a president somewhat more than a
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70 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
and though it was a great sacrifice to him to leave his flock, and an equal
sacrifice to them to jDart with him, yet, from considerations of duty, they mu
tually agreed to a separation ; and they parted, not indeed without delibera
tion and prayer, but without the formality ofa dismissing council. He con
tinued to preach to thera, in his tum, for some time after his removal to
Cambridge; and he ever afterwards retained their friendship, and, at his
death, left a legacy to the poor of the church.
His inauguration as president took place on Commencement day, July 7,
1725. The Lieutenant Governor having, in due form, invested him with the
authority of president, he returned the following answer :
"I thankfully acknowledge the respect shown me by the Reverend Corporation, especially by
your Honour, and the Honoured and Reverend Overseers. I freely own myself unworthy of
the honour to which I am called. But I think the call of Providence (which I desire to eye in
all things) is so loud and plain that I dare not refuse it. I desire to have my whole depend
ence on the great God my Saviour, for all the wisdom and grace needful for me in this
weighty service. I hope, by his help, I shall show all proper allegiance to our Sovereign Lord,
King George, and obedience to his laws in this Province, and endeavour to promote the same
among all I shall be concerned with. I shall endeavour to take the best care I can of the Col
lege, directing and ordering the members and affairs of it, according to the constitution, laws
and statutes thereof. I desire the earnest prayers of God's people, that the God of all grace
would make me faithful and successful, in the very great service I am called to."
It was not long after he entered upon the duties of the presidency before
his health becaine seriously impaired ; and, during the rest of his life, it
could scarcely be said that he was ever otherwise than an invalid. He,
however, by husbanding his strength to the utmost, w'as enabled to discharge
his official duties without much interruption, besides devoting a good deal
of time to study. He was confined at the last for a few weeks only to his sick
charaber, during which tirae he enjoyed, in a high degree, the gracious pres
ence of his Redeemer. The Rev. Mr. Foxcroft, who had been his colleague
in the First Church in Boston, thus describes his closing scene, in a sermon
occasioned by his deatii :
"The Lord stood with him in his last encounters, and strengthened him on the bed of lan
guishing, with strength in his soul. As his outward man perished, the inward man was re
newed, day by day ; for which cause he fainted not ; but lay calm and patient, strong in faith
and full of humble submission; desiring to depart and be with Christ, and wishing the blessed
time might be hastened, yet still resigned to the will of his Heavenly Father. Favoured with
living comforts in his expiring moments, he could and did, with a lively hope, commit his soul
into the hands of his dear Redeemer, in whom he had believed, and whom he had preached
and served; leaving his dying testimony for Christ, his truths and w.ays; trembling for the ark
of God, and praying for the peace of Jerusalem, commending all about him to God and to the
word of his grace, and expressing the best wishes in solemn manner for one and another that
made their respectful visits to him."
He died March 16, 1737, inthe sixty-eighth year of his age, and the twelfth
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priate honors, Mr. Tutor Flint delivered an eloquent and pathetic oration in
Latin, whicii was published. Doctors Sewall, Appleton and Wigglesworth
preached on the occasion of his death at Cambridge, and Mr. Foxcroft at
Boston ; and the several discourses were printed.
The followdng is a list of President Wadsworth's publications : — -An Artil
lery Election Sermon, 1700.
A Sermon on Mutual Love
and Peace aniong Chris
tians, 1700. Exhortations
to Piety, 1702. Men worse
in their carriage to God
than to one another : Psalras
sung with grace in the heart :
A pious tongue, an eiirich-
• ing treasure : — Three Ser
mons, 1706. Great and last
judgment : in several Ser
mons, 1709. An Essay to
do Good, by a dissuasive
from tavern haunting and
excessive drinking ; with a
Lecture Sermon, 17 10. A
Sermon on Assembling at
the House of God, 1710.
The Highest dwelling with
the Lowest : A Sermon,
1711. Five Sermons : viz.
the first on the 30th of Sep
tember, 1 71 1 — being the last delivered in the old nieeting house, which was
burnt, Oct. 2, 1711 ; the second, at the South ineeting house in Boston, on
the 7th of Oct., 171 1 — being the first Lord's day after the fire ; the third, on
the i8th of December, 171 1 — being a Fast kept by the old church, occa
sioned by the buming of their meeting house ; the fourth, on the 3d of May,
1 713 — being the first inthe Brick nieeting house, where the forraer was
burnt; the fifth, on the 12th of November, 1713 — being a Thanksgiving
Sermon for God's goodness in providing a new meeting house for the old
church : with a preface, giving some account of the fire. Fraud and Injus
tice Detected and Condemned : A Sermon, 171 1. The Well Ordered Fami
ly : A Sermon, 1712. Explanation of the Assembly's Catechism, 1714. A
Help to get Knowledge,. 1714- Advice to the Sick and Well, 1714. Early
Seeking of God Earnestly Recommended, in two Sermons, 1715. Invitation
to the Gospel Feast: eleven Sermons, 1715. The Saints Prayer to Escape

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73 WADSW'ORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
Temptation : A Sermon, 1715. A Discourse on the Deatii of Isaac Adding
ton, 1715. Election Sermon, 1716. The Churches Shall Know that Christ
Searches the Heart: A Fast Sermon, 171 7. Twelve Serraons on Various
Subjects, 1717. Essay for Spreading the Gospel into Ignorant Places : A
Sermon, 1718. Constant Preparedness for Death a Constant Duty : A Ser
mon at Boston, 1718. Fei-vent Zeal against Flagrant Wickedness : A Lec
ture at Boston, 1718. Benefits of a Good and Mischiefs of an Evil Con
science, in fourteen Sermons, 1719. The Gospel not Opposed but by the
Devil and Alen's Lusts: Lecture Sermon at Boston, 1719- Viscious Courses
procuring Poverty, Described and Condemned : A Lecture Sermon at Bos
ton, 1719. Some Considerations about Baptisra, managed by way of Dia
logue between a minister and his neighbor, 1719. The Lord's Day proved
to be the Christian Sabbath, 1730. Guide for the Doubting and Cordial for
the Fainting Saint, 1730. Faithful Warnings against Bad Company : A Ser
mon, 1733. Christ's Fan in His Hand, 1733. Imitation of Christ a Chris
tian Duty, 1732. A Dialogue between a Islinister and his Neighbor on the
Lord's Supper, 1734. Survivdng Servants of God carrying on the Work of
the Deceased : A Sermon at Cambridge on the Death of President Leverett,
1724. It is Honourable, not Shameful, to Suffer- A Sermon, 1735. None
but the Righteous Saved.
Dr. Se-wall, in his sermon occasioned by President Wadsworth's death,
thus describes his character : —
" Of him, a Reverend person acquainted vi'ith him from his youth, testifieth, ' that in his
early youth he was singularly grave but affable, meek but manly, reverend to his superiors,
courteous to his juniors, prudent in all his behaviour; a hard student, a good scholar, and ever
esteemed to be sincerely pious.' ***** j-j jg f^iyorite study was divinity :
and it must be acknowledged that he Has an orthodox and judicious divine, well accomplished
¦and spirited for the work of the ministry. This, his labours with his beloved flock, and his
printed works testify. His prayers were devout and fervent. His sermons were delivered from
a strong and faithful memory; and often with that affection vvhich had an happy tendency, by
God's blessing, to enkindle the Hke flame in the hearts of his hearers. His preaching was
plain and practical, scriptural and powerful. In doctrine he shov\'ed uncorruptness, gravity,
sincerity, sound speech that cannot be condemned. And if you consider him as a textuary, I
suppose it will be granted that he was second to few, if any; having laid up God's word in his
heart, and being able to bring forth out of his good treasure in a rich abundance. He was
diligent to know the state of his flock and looked well to them, feeding both the sheep and
lambs, from love to Christ. He taught publicly and from house to house. He visited the
fatherless and the widows in their affliction; and was ready to show his pious and charitable
compassions to the souls and bodies of men, as their circurastances called for it. And in other
instances of pure and undefiled religion was it his care to live as well as preach the Gospel.
Being an excellent Christian he might v\-ith propriety use those words, ' Be ye foUov^'ers of me,
c\ en as I also am of Christ. Being an example of the beUevers in word, in conversation, in
spirit, in faith, in purity.'
" Nor were his cares and labours confined to his own flock. The care of other churches
came upon him; and he \^-as ready, as there was occasion, to show his zealous affection for the

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interests of Christ's kingdom among us. Yea, his heart was much engaged in sending the
Gospel to dark places, destitute of so great a blessing; and he employed an active hand in that
excellent v\ ork.
" He was held in esteem for his prudent and faithful advice in cases of conscience, and other
difficult matters. And we may novv justly take up that lament.ation, Isaiah iii: 12. — 'Behold
the Lord, the Lord of Hosts doth take away — the Prophet and the Prudent and the An
cient.' " His translation to the President's chair in the College was in the decline of life; and it is
thought that when entering upon a work new and difficult, vvith too intense labour and close
application, he broke his constitution. However, under this great disadvantage, his zeal for the
glory of God, and great regard for the welfare of the College, carried him almost beyond him
self; so that I think I may say, that to his power, yea, and beyond his power, he was willing
to spend and be spent in the service of that Society. He was constant, when the state of
his health would in any measure allow of it, in performing the religious exercises of the Hall;
and laborious in them — often expounding the Scriptures. And how careful and concerned was
he that the College might receive damage in none of its interests ! How unwearied in attend
ing the business of it even when his bodily infirmities urged him to spare himself ! For the
proof of these things, I might appeal to the witnesses here present, and to the books and
records of the College, where, if I mistake not, stand some peculiar monuments of his laborious
diligence. Indeed, I cannot but apprehend that the power of God was magnified in his weak
ness; in that, under such frequent returns of pain, he was so far strengthened and spirited
to his work; particularly in the extrerae cold of the last vrinter."
JMr. Wadsworth, as has already been remarked, was but seven years old
at the time of his father's death. Yet after he arrived at manhood and had
commenced life for himself, he cadsed to be erected at Sudbury, at his own
expense, a suitable monument over his father's remains, to commemorate
the events of the battle. This monument stood until the State and town of
Sudbury erected the present obelisk, a cut of which is shown on page 63 of
this work.
In 1696 he niarried Ruth Boardman, who survived hira, but had no chil
dren. " He left behind a character in which there appears rauch to love and
respect, and, to human eyes, nothing to condemn." The likeness shown on
page 71 was engrav-ed from a portrait-painting now suspended in Sanders'
Theatre building, Cambridge, and was kindly loaned by President Eliot for
this work.
The year after Mr. Wadsworth was inducted into the presidency of Fiarvard
College, the Legislature, being well satisfied with the condition of affairs at
the institution, made an appropriation for a president's house, which was
shortly erected, and occupied by him during the remainder of his life. It
is still standing and is known as the Wadsworth house, and is now used for
students' lodgings.
By his will, dated Feb. 1736-37, he distributed his estate, naming as lega
tees his wife Ruth, brothers Timothy aud Joseph, and Andrew Boardman,
who by special direction vvas to be regarded as one of his natural brothers,
his sister Ruth, wife of Bryant Parrott, Esq., and also the wives of his de-

74 wadsworth family history.
ceased brothers, Ebenezer and John. He also left a legacy to Harvard Col
lege and to the First Church in Boston.

REV. BENJAMIN W^ adsworth,, D.D. , OF DANVERS, MASS.
Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, D.D., was born at Milton Mass., July 29,
1750, and graduated at Harvard University 1769. He died in 1826, after
having been settled in Danvers fifty-three years. He published seven or
eight sermons on different topics, and long occupied a distinguished position
in the town and araong his clerical brethren. During his ministry he bap
tized sixty-eight adults and eight hundred and ten children, and admitted
two hundred and sixty members into the church. His published v^'orks are
as follows : A Sermon on the Deatii of Hon. Samuel Holton ; A Sermon on
the Death of Dr. Cutler, of Hamilton ; Thanksgiving Sermon, February 19,
1795 ; Eulogy on Washington, Feb. 22, 1800; Dedication Sermon, Nov. 20,
1806 ; A Sermon before the Bible Society of Salem and vdcinity, 1815 ; Dis
course before the Society for Suppression of Intemperance ; A Charge at the
Ordination of S. Gile., and Right Hand of Fellowship addressed to D. Story.
He was called to the First Church in Danvers, Mass., September, 1773,
and was ordained December 23, the same year. The followdng were the
exercises : Introductory prayer by Rev. Mr. Holt, of the South parish ; ser
mon by Rev. Mr. Robbins, of Milton ; charge and prayer by Rev. Mr. Mor
rill, of Wilmington ; right hand of fellowship by Rev. Mr. Smith, of Mid
dleton ; and concluding prayer by Rev. Mr. Swain, of Wenhara. Watts'
hyrans "were used on this occasion, and considering their pleasing effect, the
church voted to try them for eight Sundays. " Hanson's History of Dan
vers " speaks of this affair as follows : " The ordination was a scene of great
joy. All the houses in the parish were thrown open, different kinds of liquor
flowed in every direction, feasting and mirth prevailed, and, on the authority
of Hon. Judge Holton, one man wore out a pair of new boots in dancing on
the sanded floor. Although mid-winter, the air was mild and genial, and
during the ordination services the church windows were thrown open."
In connection wdth these scenes it should be remarked, that this church,
previous to the ordination of Mr. Wadsworth, had been in great disorder for
more than a generation. The church was said to have been in the condition
described in I Cor. i, ii. It was here that some of the horrid scenes con
nected with Salem witchcraft were witnessed, and wa-angle and division in
sentiraent had been the order for a long time. But with the advent of Mr.
Wadsworth harmony vv^as restored and the church resumed its proper atti
tude ; and to him largely belongs the credit of bringing order out of chaos. He
left a legacy of fifteen hundred dollars to the church. He died filled with the

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love of Jesus and full of honors. A burial place in the town is now known
as the Wadsworth Cemetery. His published works show him to be a man of
broad practical common sense, and one who accomplished a vast amount of
good to his fellow men. A monument in the above mentioned cemetery bears
the following fitting inscription : " Consecrated to the raeraory of Benjamin
Wadsworth, D.D., a tender, faithful husband and father, a valuable friend
and judicious counsellor, an examplary Christian and distinguished public
servant ofthe Prince of Peace, who entered unto his rest Jan. i8, 1826, inthe
76th year of his age and 54th year of his ministry in this place. 'T is great
to pause and think in what a brighter "world than this his spirit shines."

GEN. JAMES S. WADSWORTH, OF GENESEO, N. Y.
There has no man lived by the name of Wadsworth in the memory of the
present generation who achieved the national fame and glory of Gen. James
Samuel ^Vadsworth, of Geneseo, N. Y. He was born in the town that he
ev^er made his home in the year i8o8^, and was killed at the battle ofthe Wil
derness, May, 8, 1864, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. Fiis father's
name -was Jaraes, w^hose generous and philanthropic acts are detailed at
some length in this chapter. The line of descent is from William Wads
worth, ISt, of Hartford, passing down through six generations, the crosses
being the best blood of Connecticut's earliest settlers.
Early in the year 1861 the rebellion in the slave states ofthe Union against
the general governraent found Mr. Wadsworth at his temporary residence
in the city of New York. The President of the United States had called for
troops to defend the seat of government from spoliation, and possible capture
at the hands of the rebels. The national treasury robbed ; the navy sent
abroad and scattered in distant seas ; the army — what there vvas of it — dis
persed along our wide-spread frontier, and the material of defence squan
dered or carried away by the parricidal hands of an adrainistration who had
sworn in all solemity to support the Constitution of their country ; in this
hour of its extremity, Mr. Wadsworth, in the impulsive patriotism of his
nature, rushed to that country's rescue. With his own purse and credit he
furnished a vessel with a cargo of army -supplies, went with it to Annapolis,
and gave his personal attention to its distribution among the troops that had
been hastily called to protect the city of Washington. This assistance on the
part of Mr. Wadsworth, so timely rendered in the irapoverished condition of
the public treasury, although afterwards repaid to hiin, was none the less
creditable to both his patriotism and liberality. He then offered his services
to the government in any capacity where they could become useful or ira
portant, and from that tinfe forward abandoned his private affairs to the care

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of his agents and devoted his entire energies to His country. As a volunteer
Aid to General McDowell he engaged in the first battle of Bull Run, and by
his courage and energy retrieved much of the disasster of that ill-fated en
gagement. In July, 1861, appointed a Brigadier General, he was assigned
to a command in the Army of the Potomac. In the succeeding month of
March he vvas ordered to Washington, as Military Governor ofthe city, and
for nine months discharged with signal ability the duties of that difficult and
important post. In December, 1862, at his own request, he "was ordered to
the field. He reported to Major General Reynolds, commanding the First
Corps, and was assigned by that distinguished officer to the command of his
First Division, and afterwards led that division in the battles of Fredericks
burg and Chancellorsville. At the battle of Gettysburg his was the first di
vision engaged, going into action at nine o'clock in the morning and fighting
until four in the afternoon ; encountering the severest part of the action, and
sufiering the heaviest loss of any portion of the army. Our troops winning
the battle and routing the' enemy from the field. General Wadsworth, com
prehending the vast consequences depending on the immediate subjugation
or capture of the rebel forces, urged the commanding General, IMeade, to
their pursuit. But in vain. Other and more timid counsels prevailed, and
that invading host of rebels was suffered to escape with the mild punishment
of a simple defeat. The daring courage and stern energy of General Wads
worth on this decisive field placed him, in all the high qualities ofa soldier,
second to no other general officer of the army.
Nor was he, of his family, alone in his devotion to the public service. Two
sons followed him into the army. The elder one, Charles, was attached to
the Department of the Gulf; serving as Captain under General Banks and
participating in the attack on Port Hudson. With a year of active service,
at the call of imperative duties at home, he resigned his command. The
younger son, Craig, was attached to General Wadsworth's staff for a time,
and afterwards held responsible and hazardous positions vvith other general
officers in various departments, until iniportant doraestic duties called him
home. The son-in-law of General Wadsworth, Captain Ritchie, also joined
the army early in the war. He was engaged in General Burnside's first ex
pedition, afterwards served in the several battles at Port Hudson, and con
tinued in active service until the melancholy event of the Wilderness com
pelled his resignation. If, in the annals of time, an instance of higher patri
otisra and intenser devotion to the honor of their country has been shown by
a father and three sons, possessing millions of wealth, and beckoned by all
the allurements of ease and luxury from personal danger, that instance has
yet to be vvritten. And vvould that the narrative of hard fought battles and
bloody sacrifice could stop here.
General Wadsworth took an active part in the arrangements and prepara-

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tions of the campaign of General Grant, in the spring of 1864, against the
rebel arm}- in Virginia. His judgment in council and energy in action had
placed him in such estimation with the military authorities, that at the out
set of the campaign he was charged vvith a leading comraand. A decisive
work was before the Army of the Potoraac. The country had become im
patient of delay in its long anticipated advance, and anxiously expectant of
better results than had, in the past, marked its checkered fortunes. This
feeling was known to no one better than to Wadsworth. He responded to
it with all the feiwor of his unfaltering nature, and with a determination, on
his own part, that it should not be disappointed. The incidents attending
the opening of the campaign, and its first battle of the Wilderness, so mel
ancholy ill its' results, are of such interest, that we quote a stateraent made
by Captain Craig W. Wadsworth, a son of the General, who was in a part
of the battle :
" When the Army ofthe Potomac was re-organized, my father was placed
in command of the Fourth Divdsion. Fifth Corps. This division was made
up of his old division of the First Corps, with the addition of another, the
third Brigade. He crossed the Rapidan on the 4tli of May. On the evening
of the 5tli his command was engaged for several hours and lost heavily. On
the morning of the 6th he was ordered to report to General Hancock, com
manding the Second Corps, and by him was ordered into action on the right
of that corps. Myfather made several charges with his division, and finally
carried quite an important position, but was unable to hold it, the enemy
coming do"wn in superior numbers. This was about eight o'clock A. M., the
fighting having commenced at d.aylight. About this time General Hancock
sent for my father, and told him he had ordered three brigades, General
Ward's, Webb's, and one from General Burnside's Corps, to report to him,
and he wished him, if possible, with the six brigades under his command,
to carry a certain position. Three or four assaults were made without suc
cess, the fighting being terrific. My father had two horses killed under him.
General Hancock then sent word ' to my father not to make any further at
tempts to dislodge the enemy at present. This was about eleven o'clock A. M.
The enemy did not show anv further disposition to attack. It was Hill's
Corps which my father had been fighting. Everything remained quiet until
about twelve oclock, when Longstreet precipitated his corps on my father's
left, and hurled back Ward's Brigade at that point in some confusion. My
father seeing this immediately threw his second line, coraposed of his own
division, forward and formed it on the plank road, at right angles to his
orio-inal line, the ditch at the side of the road affording his raen some pro
tection. It was in trying to hold this line with his own gallant division, then
reduced to about sixteen hundred men, that he fell. His third horse was
killed that morning, about the time he was wounded. The enemy was

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charging at the time, and got possession ofthe ground before myfather could
be removed. He was carried back to one of the rebel hospitals that Friday
afternoon, and lived until Sunday morning." A few days after the battle his
body was carried to Geneseo for final interment.
Nor vet alone was Mr. Wadsworth great as a military leader. Of his
early life vve present a statement made by Hon. Daniel H. Fitzhugh, of Gen
eseo, who -was his intimate friend :
" I have knowni General Wadsworth since he was a boy of ten years old,
and his early years gave promise of what his manhood vvould be. Although
never quarrelsome, he was, always ready to resent insult or resist oppression.
His friendships were fixed and unwavering ; and to serve a friend, he would
risk to any extent either person or property. His domestic relations were
most happy. A more kind, indulgent or affectionate husband and father I
have never known. His hospitality was unbounded, and, as a host, I have
met with few who possessed so happy a faculty of entertaining their guests ;
his conversation always animated, amusing and instructive. He lived a truly
Christian life, although not a professor of religion. He loved his fellow men,
and was always foremost when any charity was to be dispensed, or any pro
ject was on foot for enlightening, elevating, or benefiting in any way the hu
man family. He was liberal to his tenants, in the abatement of rents when
their crops had been destroyed or injured by insects, ffoods, or droughts.
Brave to rashness, he was generous, liberal, humane. Highly intelligent
and well educated, he possessed all the qualities which make men good and
great. In short, I have seldom known an instance where so many high qual
ities have been combined in one individual, and -would to God we had more
like .hira in this trying crisis ofour country."
Such is the testimony of one who knew him for nearly fifty years. In an
address by Hon. Lewis F. Allen, deliverecl before the N. Y. Agricultural So
ciety, Sept. 23, 1864, he says : "I have seldom or never known one for
whom I had a greater respect. His bearing was manly, his words sincere,
sentiments outspoken. He was direct and cordial in manner, genial in his
associations, affable to all wdth whom hehad intercourse, irrespective of rank
or condition in life, vet decided in opinion and frank in its expression. If
any qualitv of his mind stood out conspicuously beyond another, it was that
ofa vigorous coramon sense, coupled with a ready judgment, applied to all
matters which arrested his attention. This was manifested in various public
questions which agitated the community as well as in the management of the
large estates, both real and personal, under his control, not only to the benefit
of the estates themselves, but to the welfare of the communities vvith which
they were connected. In all his business relations I hav'e never heard of an
act of injustice or oppression at his hands.
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a striking feature ofhls character. In the three vears of his connection wdth
the war he did not, .altogether, spend six weeks of time at his family home.
His soul was in his country's service. Nor vvas his attention alone absorbed
in the simple official duties of the commander. In camp he was among his
soldiers, in tent or in hospital, looking after their wants, ministering t.o their
comfort, promoting their welfare, and correcting abuses where they existed
— thus adding to the efficiency of his corps by every exercise of humanity
as -well as by the sterner demands of the field. No general was ever raore
beloved by his troops than he.
" Those who recollect the Irisli dearth of the year 1847, when the famished
cry of millions of down-trodden sufferers reached America, -w'lW not forget
the merciful bounty with vvhich he contributed to freight a ship wdth corn,
and gratuitously sent it out for distributio.n to the hunger-stricken people.
Nor "was he vaunting in his charities, timely and liberal as they were. It
wa9 characteristic of his benevolence to do good by stealth rather than to be
seen of men. He demeaned himself as one of the great human brotherhood ;
and I might even speak of his expression of indignant commiseration over
the victims ofa boasted ' domestic institution,' as in their crouching helpless
ness, side by side he and myself, some years ago, stood over them at a hu
man chattel-market in one of the ' chivalrous ' Southern States.
" His tastes were elevated and liberal. He esteemed his wealth less for his
own pleasure than for the benefit and happiness of others. He indulged in
no idle display of luxury, yet the elegancies of life and the adornments of
art found in him an appreciating admirer and patron. He loved lands in
all their wealth of vegetable or raineral production. He loved to talk of ag
riculture and its advancement, of crops and their improved modes of cultiva
tion, of horses and of cattle. He loved the grand old trees in his ancestral
•meadow, and every natural and artificial thing vvhich beautified the earth
and ministered to the benefit of man.
" In remarking upon the wealth of General Wadsworth it may possibly be
inferred that undue merit has been given him for the accident of its posses
sion. Not so. It was not because he had vvealth, but because he knew how
to use his wealth that I speak of him in terms of approbation. I strive to
measure him the man he was. In this age of lax education, irregular habits
and impulsive action — an age in which money is the God of most men's
adoration — he had wealth enough to spoil twenty common men ; and it
was a rare merit in him, that with all the tempting opportunities at his hand,
he withstood their fascinations. The wonder is, that he was not a profligate
or a miser.
" But the last great labor of his life — his devotion to a country which he
loved bevond all else — proved the virtue that was in him. Surrounded
with all that could render life enjoyable — friends, fortune, domestic love, and

So

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MONUMENT TO BRIO. e.EN. JAMES S. \V,\l)S\VOR-|"H, AT GENESEO, N. Y.
the consciousness of duty well discharged — he abandoned thera all at the
coming of his country's danger, went forth to its rescue, and, if niight be, to
die for its deliverance. He could equally well, as men would say, have
served his country in contributing of his treasure to its necessities instead of

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leading its soldiers to battle, and his valuable life been spared to his family,
to the community and to the State. But such vvas not his own'sense of duty,
andhis blood paid the sacrifice of his devotion. Sleep! hero — patriot —
benefactor ! Peacefully sleep in your honored grave ! "

COL. JEREMIAH WADSWORTH, OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth was one of the most capable and accomplished
men of Revolutionary fame. He was born in 1743. His father was Rev.
Daniel Wadsw^orth, and Col. Jereraiah also had a son Daniel, the lives of
both these finding a place in this sketch.
Rev. Daniel was son of Dea. John Wadsworth, of Farmington, and grand
son of John, and great-grandson of William, senior, of Hartford ; was born
in 1704, graduated at Yale College in 1726, and was a member ofthe corpo
ration of that institution from 1743 until his death. He prepared for the
ministry and settled in the First Society in Hartford upon the 3Stli day of
Sept., 1732, and became the successor of Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, who
died April 30, 1732. He married Miss Abigail Talcott, daughter of Gov.
Talcott. Rev. Daniel died in the prime of life Nov. 13, i747i aged forty-
three years, and left a handsome estate for his family. He made a will, dated
Dec. 19, 1746, and appointed his wdfe sole executrix. His widow died June
24, 1773, aged sixty-six }-ears. He had four daughters, neither of whom
were ever married. Two, Eunice and Elizabeth, were living at the decease
of their brother, Col. Jeremiah, in 1804. Col. James, wdio settled at Dur
ham, was an uncle of Rev. Daniel.
This branch of the Farmington Wadsworths has consisted, on the male
side, of those who arrived to manhood, only of Rev. Daniel, his son. Col.
Jeremiah, and his grandson, Daniel, Esq., all living in Hartford. In 1765,
the property of Rev. Daniel was divided by the heirs. Col. Jeremiah, Eu
nice and Elizabeth, the two then surviving daughters, took the mansion-
house, and lot of one acre on which it stood, in equal proportions — which
remained in the possession of the family until a part of it was so liberally be
stowed in 1842, by Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., for the purpose of erecting
what is now called the " Wadsworth Atheneum."
Rev. Daniel died when Col. Jeremiah was a child. He was soon after
•placed byhis mother in cliarge of her brother, Mathew Talcott, Esq., of Mid
dletown, where he continued to reside until after his marriage. When about
seventeen or eighteen years of age his health failed, and his friends feared his
illness might result in consumption. Mr. Talcott being largely concemed
in navigation, young Wadsworth was advised by his friends to try a voyage
at sea to improve his health ; he therefore shipped before the mast as a sailor

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in one of his uncle's vessels. His health soon iraproved, and he continued a
sea-faring life 'for several years ; first as a sailor, and afterwards as raate and
captain. In the meantime he married Miss Mehitable Russell, born Nov.
19, 1734, daughter of Rev. William Russell, and grand-daughter of Rev.
Noadich Russell, and had three children, viz : Daniel, Catherine and Har
riet. Harriet was a most interesting, elegant and accomplished young lady.
She died at the island of Bermuda, wdiere she was visiting for health, pre
vious to the deatii of her father. After the death of his mother, in 17731 he
renioved his family to Hartford, where he resided the remainder of his life.
His daughter Catherine married Gen. Nathaniel Terry, of Hartford, who
became an erainent lawyer and member of Congress. He died in 1844; his
amiable wife Oct. 26, 1841, aged sixty-seven. They left children — four
sons and three daughters. Col. Wadsworth died April 30, 1804, aged sixty-
one. His widow, Mehitable, survived him, and died in 1817. aged eighty-
two years. He made a will, and afterwards a codicil, and appointed his
wife, his son-in-law, Gen. Terry, and his only son, Daniel, Esq., executors.
He gave to his sisters, Eunice and Elizabeth, a liberal share of his estate
during their lives. He provided liberally and kindly for his wddow. He
gave a handsome sum to his relative. Major Decius Wadsworth, of Farming-
ton. Also a conditional sum to the First Congregational Society in Hart
ford. Also to his cousin Eunice, of Farmington, for her life, the use of the
house and land he purchased of Ezekiel Scott ; after her decease, to descend
to his cousin Daniel W. Lewis, of Litchfield. The remainder of his large
estate he gave to his son Daniel, Esq., and his daughter, Mrs. Terry, his
only surviving children at his decease.
Col. Wadsworth becarae a very important man to the State and country
during the warof the Revolution. Upon the raising of the six first regiments
in Connecticut, in i775' ^''^- Wadsworth and others were appointed commis
saries to supply all necessary stores and provisions for the troops to be raised
on a previous order of the General Assembly. In 1776, Mr. Wadsworth
and others were appointed a committee to purchase five thousand pairs of
yarn .stockings for the army in Canada. The same year he was one of a
committee to procure £1800 in specie in exchange for bills, for the use ofthe
northern anny, on request of Congress. The same year Mr. Wadsworth and
Col. Fitch were empowered by the Legislature forthwith to furnish a suf
ficient nuraber of kettles for the use of two battalions, then to be raised for
New York. The same year, the Legislature, apprehending there would be
large demands for pork, and that great quantities niight be clandestinely con
veyed to the enemy, or engrossed by individuals, which inight distress the
public and the poor of. the colony, appointed Mr. Wadsworth and others to
purchase all the pork in the colony at the market price, to be kept in store
for public use, or as should be required forthe army. Also, in 1776, he was

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appointed commissary of supplies, to receive and deliver over for the troops,
then or afterwards to be raised in the colony, all such articles of clothing,
refreshments, or necessaries, purchased and delivered to hira by order of the
Assembly, and at such places as was ordered by a Resolution of Oct. 1776.
In 1775' the brig Minerva was ordered on a cruise of six months by Con
gress, and Mr. Wadsworth was directed to supply the brig with provisions
and warlike stores for the cruise, and to provide six hundred pounds of pow
der for the use of the brig. The prisoners in Hartford having become diffi
cult to manage, and four ofthe committee being absent in the army, B. Payne
and Col. Wadsworth were added to the committee to oversee the prisoners.
In 1777' sixteeii bales of cloth were forwarded to Col. Wadsworth to be trans
ported to the clothier general.
In 177^1 Congress sent an express to Col. Wadsworth and requested his
immediate attendance before their body at Yorktown, on business of great
importance to the United States, and he was advised by the Governor and
Council to repair there as soon as possible.
It appears from these facts that Col. Wadsworth not only officiated as com
missary, but was frequently called upon for any and all purposes that the pub
lic interest demanded, and even that Congress held his opinions in high esti
mation. After the arrival in this country of Count de Rochambeau, with the
French army, he soon found great difficulty in having a French comraissary
to purchase provisions for his troops, being neither familiar with our lan
guage or country, and the high standing of Col. Wadsworth at once recom
mended hira to the French General as a proper man for this purpose ; and he
being applied to by the General, at once assumed upon himself the duties and
responsibilities of acting commissary for the French array during the war ;
in which duty he gave the most perfect satisfaction to the French Govern
ment when his account was presented in person in 1783, which was freely
and liberally accepted and paid. After which. Col. Wadsworth vvith his son
visited England, where he remained some time. They then visited Ireland,
and made an excursion for a few weeks.
Col. Wadsworth was' known as an intimate friend of Gen. Washington,
and whenever the General visited Hartford during the war, he made the hos
pitable mansion of Col. Wadsworth his home during his stay. History says
that Gen. Washington and Count de Rochambeau were enjoying the hospi
talities of his liberal board when General Arnold was committing treason
against his country at West Point; and that Gen. Washington returned there
to take a hasty breakfast at Arnold's table an hour after he had left, immedi
ately before his guilt was discovered.
So highly did Col. Wadsworth stand in the estimation of his fellow citi
zens, that at the time the Constitution ofthe United States was referred to the
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member of the convention of Connecticut held for that purpose, and proved
himself an efficient and firm friend ofthe Constitution. After this important
ev^eiit, he became a member of the First Congress, and was re-elected to the
Second and Third Congress. He continued six years in succession in that
body, faithfully giving construction and support to the Constitution he had
rendered such efficient aid in approving.
In May, 1795, he was elected by his native town a representative to the
General Asserably, and also a member of the Council. He took his seat in
the Council, where he remained by re-election until 1801, w^hen he declined
further honors, tie was a gentleman of great vivacity of spirits, honest in all
his raotives and purposes, kind to the industrious poor, and a true friend to
his tried friends. Col. Humphreys said of hira : " He was always the pro
tector ofthe widow, the fatherless and the distressed." His talents for, and
despatch of, business were unrivalled. A French traveller in this country in
1788 (M. de Manville) thus speaks of him : " Fiartford is the residence of
one of the most respectable raen in the United States — Col. Wadsworth ;
universally known for the services he rendered the American and French
armies during the war ; generally esteemed and beloved for his great virtues,
he crowms all his qualities by an amiable and singular modesty. Thus you
cannot fail to love him as soon as you see him." In 1796, he receivied hon
orary degrees at Dartmouth and Yale Colleges for the interest he had taken
in the literary institutions of the countr}'. His services at some periods of the
war were incalculalile.
Daniel, Esq., niarried Faith Trumbull, the eldest daughter of the second
Governor Trumbull. They had no children, and the widow survived him
but a few years. Upon the decease of Mr. Wadsworth the name in this
branch of the famil}- terminated, as he vvas the only male heir of the de
scendants ofthe Rev. Daniel by the name of Wadsworth. He had from his
childhood been in feeble health. When he was about tvvelve years old he
accompanied his father in his tour through France, England and Ireland,
near the close of the Revolution, in 1783, to improve his health, but with
little benefit, as he ever aftewards continued feeble. Few gentlemen in
Connecticut had more wealth than Mr. Wadsworth, and none have im
proved this gift of Providence more constantly for the relief of the needy and
distressed. Indeed, he uniformly used his estate as though he was fully
aware that it was a gift of Providence to hira for his wise distribution for
great and good purposes ; and the community ever endorsed him as having
been a most trusty and faithful agent. Among the many great and o-ood
deeds of his was the grant of the lot of land upon which stood his father's
birth-place — which hadbeen the family mansion-house for three generations
— upon which was erected the beautiful stone edifice now occupying the west
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— an edifice 100 ft. long by 70 ft. broad. It is probable that the grant of
land and other gifts made by Mr. Wadsworth towards finishing the building
would not be estimated at less than $20,000. Mr. Wadsworth, to carry his
views fully into eflect, made a grant in trust to Hon. Messrs. Thonias S. Wil
liams and Alfred Smith, of Hartford, of the land on which the building was
erected. It is built in three principal divisions, separated frora each other
by substantial partition walls, extending frora the foundation to the roof, as a
protection from fire. The central division is appropriated for a Gallery of
Fine Arts, the north division for a Library, Reading Roora, and other ac
comraodations ofthe Hartford Young Men's Institute, and the south division
for the Connecticut Historical Society — with authority to said Society to
grant room in their division for the use of the Natural History Society of
Hartford. No Historical Society in the State of Connecticut has a better suite of rooms
for their accommodation than these. This generous act of Mr. Wadsworth
for the antiquities, the natural history and the general literature of the State
places him high among tlje honored raen of his time. " No other gentle
man in the State," says Hinman, " has done so much."

CAPT. JOSEPH WADSWORTH, OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Capt. Joseph it was who, on the night ofthe 31st of October, 1687, seized
and secreted the charter of Connecticut, when Sir Edmund Andros came to
Hartford in order to wrest it by force from the freemen of this colony. " The
important affair," says Trumbull, " was debated and kept in suspense until
evening, when the charter was brought and laid upon the table, where the
Assembly were sitting. By this time great numbers of people were assem
bled, and were sufficiently bold to enterprise whatever might be necessary or
expedient. The lights were instantly extinguished, and one Capt. Wads
worth, of Hartford, in the most silent and secret manner, carried off the
charter and secreted it in a large hollow tree fronting the house ofthe Hon'.
Samuel Wyllys, then one of the magistrates of the colony. The people ap
peared peaceable and orderly. The candles were officiously relighted, but
the Patent was gone ; and no discovery could be made of it or of the person
who conveyed it away."* His brother, Hon. John, was sitting at the coun
cil board when Capt. Joseph took the charter.
A subsequent act of the colony rewards Capt. Wadsworth for the service
here described. He was a raan of great boldness and energy of purpose.
He had practical good sense, and a capacity /or business. The records prove
* Trumbull's Hist. Conn., vol. i, p. 391.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

that he was frequently elected to represent Hartford in the General Assem
bly. While still a young lieutenant in the train bands of his native town he
served as one of the colonial legislators. He also rendered many important

THE CHAR-fER OAK.

services to the town of Hartford as selectman and as a inember of coraraittees
for laying out roads, looking after the ferries and lands, and for many other
public duties. Frora his frequent services of this nature, frora his plain
and popular raanners, his ready address and resolute bearing, he seems to
have possessed the full confidence of his fellow citizens. His acts prove hitn
to have been an ardent lover of freedora, though he erred sometimes in carry
ing his own acts into excess, when chafed by opposition or dislike. Once he
was formally reprimanded, while a deputy in the Assembly, for words used
in debate, which were " resented as declaring against the validity of certain
acts ofthe Asserably, which were passed by both houses separately, for their
inconsistency with our charter ; " but he " readily acknowledged his concem
that what he had spoken had given any offence to the Assembly, whose con
stitution and proceedings he had no intention to reflect upon." On another
occasion he was fined ten pounds for using " reproachful words against Mr.
Pitkin," oneof the Assistants, and saying " in open Asserably, that Mr. Pit
kin's proceedings in the case were altogether unjust and illegal." This fine,
however, was forraally reraitted. Upon still another occasion he was brought

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. 67
before the Court of Assistants for having threatened, in a certain contingency,
" to knock down Mr. Ichabod V^lls, sheriff of Hartford."
In 1693, Colonel Fletcher, governor of New York, visited Hartford forthe
purpose of enforcing a royal commission constituting him leader of the Con
necticut militia. As this was an infringement of the charter, the Assembly
refused to acknowledge him ; in consequence of which he summoned the
militia on parade. When his instructions were about to be read, Capt. Wads
worth ordered the drums to beat. Fletcher demanded silence, and his secre
tary again coraraenced the reading. The druras beat again, and again silence
was ordered. The intrepid Wadsworth now stepped forward and said stern
ly: " If I am interrupted again I will raake daylight shine through you in
one moment." f^Tliis meaning language exerted a salutary influence, and
Fletcher returned to New York. From this period until the opening of the
Seven Years' War Connecticut steadily advanced in strength and prosperity.
The charter oak tree stood in the southeast part of the city, on land owned
at that time by Governor Wyllys. The tree stood until the year 1856, vvhen
on August 1 3th of that year it fell with a tremendous crash. It was supposed
to have been standing four hundred years.
Capt. Joseph was son of Hon. Williani, Sen., and was born in 1650. He
married for his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholoraew Barnard, of
Hartford. For his second wife he married Mary, the vvidow of John Olcott.
She was also the widow of Thoinas Welles, a grandson of Gov. Welles. Her
maiden name was Mar}- Blackleach, daughter of John Blackleach, Jr. His
first wife died Oct. 26, 1710. His second wife, Mary, survived him. His
children were all by his first wife.
He died in the year 1729, being about eighty years of age, sound in mind,
morals and estate. His second wife, three sons and two daughters survived
him, and quite a number of his direct descendants are now living in Hart
ford. He made his will in 1733, appointing his son Joseph executor. A
jointure was made for his widow, Mary. He gave Joseph, Jr., his Upper
Neck land, where he (Joseph, Jr.) then lived, the upper lot in Long Meadow,
four acres of land which joined his brother Talcott's, and his lands in Coven
try. To Jonathan, he gave lands on the Windsor road, buildings, &c. To
Ichabod, he gave land in Soldiers' Field, lower house-lot, with house and
barn, four acres South Meadow, and sixty acres west of Windsor road. He
gave his three grand-children, the children of his daughter Elizabeth, viz :
Jonathan, Joseph and Elizabeth Marsh, £10 each; and to his daughter
Hannah, (wife of John Cook,) an estate of over £900 sterling. His will and
inventory may be found in Nos. 11 and 12 of the Probate Records of Hart
ford.

vu.
THE WADSWORTH NAME IN ENGLAND.

BY DR. M. EDWARD WADSWORTH, OF HARV^ARD UNIVERSITY.
In pursuing the task assigned me for the 13th of last September I becarae
deeply interested in the history of the Wadsworth family, both in England
and America ; especially in the questions of the origin of the name, the va
rious changes in orthography which it has undergone, and above all, the fact
that in England and America the family should have produced two such
poets as William Wordsworth and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The
connection between the two had, I believe, never been suspected until brought
out by my studies upon the subject ; but I think that no one can doubt its ex
istence after the evidence presented later shall have been examined by him.
I must plead inexperience in work of this kind in extenuation of the faults
that the accomplished genealogist will find herein. The time giveii to the
subject has been very limited, and confined to the few hours that could be
found in the pressure of my other duties ; but it is hoped that enough will
be brought together here to stimulate other, abler and more experienced
hands to take this rude foundation and build upon it a complete history of
the family in England, especially during its early days.
With the very limited time at my disposal it has been impossible to arrange
anything more interesting than a dictionary, of which this paper will strongly
remind any one ; yet owing to the dates and the references it contains, it
will serve a useful purpose in saving some labor in searching for material by
the future historian ofthe English trunk. Ifit shall cause any one to under
take such a work, then the object of this paper will have been accoraplished.
In the prosecution of these researches it has been one source of comfort
that the family has not been of such inconvenient dimensions as some, and
has not increased with such alarming rapidity as many prominent families
have done ; as, for instance, niight be cited from " Lower's Essay on English

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. 89
Surnames," that between July i, 1837, to June 30, 1838, there were born in
England and Wales, 5588 Smiths, 5353 Joneses, 3490 Williamses, 3647 Tay
lors, 2366 Browns, 2253 Davieses, 2336 Thomases, and others in similar
proportions. Or it may be stated thus : that 77388 infant units were in that
one year added to the genealogical lists of only sixty surnames in England
and Wales alone. — (/. c, vol. ii, pp. 177-180.)
It is perhaps unnecessary to say that the Wadsworth family is not classed
with the mighty sixty, and therefore the material will be so much less to work
upon. Less but more definite conclusions can thus be expected than if the
units were to be counted by thousands. '
Of course, until surnames becaine fixed, there is but little, if any, hope of
tracing any family ; and this does not appear to have generally taken place
until in the 13th century, and in raany cases later.
The Anglo-Saxons were accustoraed to give a single name to eaj;h indi
vidual ; but this does not seem to have been handed down from father to
son. In some cases they gave two names to a few persons, but these do not
appear to be surnames as we use them, and were not passed on as distinctive
names for their descendants. — {Turner' s Anglo-Saxon, 1807, 11,35-38; Loiv-
er's English Surnames, 1875? i) 21—30.)
The French used surnames prior to the conquest, and brought their use
into England. The adoption of this system was not rapid, but it was gradu
ally introduced during the 1 2th, i3tli and 14th centuries, although in some
regions surnames have not been used by some even prominent local families
until the 17th and i8tli centuries ; while in some localities, among the poor
est classes, they seera to be almost unknown to-day.
When in the course of time the numbeii of individuals becaine too great for
the stock of christian or single names to sufficiently designate them, another
name or phrase had to be added for distinction's sake, which in time becaine
fixed and marked the descendants.
These added namles, or surnames, were derived in various ways : from lo
calities, from occupations and pursuits, from dignities and offices, from per
sonal and moral qualities, from natural objects, &c. Remembering these
and many other facts to guide us, we can start on our quest for a name and
habitation in the mother land.
In that country we tum our steps to the northward, into the county which
w^as the seat of Roman power during its occupation of Britain — whose
chief city, the birth-place of Constantine the Great, was an imperial city of
the Roman erapire : to a region which that people conquered who gave
their name to our motherland — the county of Yorkshire.
In this county exists two towns bythe name of Wadsworth and Wadworth,
from which, according to the before-mentioned origin of surnames, ours
mio-ht have come. It is, then, necessary to look into the records of the past

90 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
in order to ascertain whence that name originated, and whether the Wads
worths derived their name from the towns or gave theirs to both.
If first an effort is made to ascertain the origin of the name, it will be seen
that Edmunds states that Wad, Waddes, Wade, Waden is old English, /. e.,
Anglo-S.axon, from Waddy, son of Woden, one of the mythic heroes from
whom the kings of Northumbria deduced their lineage. This prefix in some
of its forms is quite coramon in some parts of England. Worth, according
to the same author, is derived in the Anglo-Saxon, i. e. old English, from
wyrth, an estate or manor, usually one well watered. It is a frequent suffix
in southwest Yorkshire. — {Traces of History in ihe Names of Places, 1872, pp.
305^ 318.) .
Haigh states that the names Wadenhoe, Wadsworth, Wadworth, and Wads-
ley were derived from Wada, who is noticed in the " Traveller's Tale " (line
46) as having ruled the Hselsings. He holds that he was present at the con
quest of Britain. — \_Haigh's Conquest of Britain, 1861, pp. 156, 157; Anglo-
Saxon Sagas, 1 86 1, p. 107. J
Later there appeared on the stage of action a Duke Wada in Yorkshire, of
whom it'is stated {Lionel Charlton's History of Whitby, i779i P- 4^*) • "Dur
ing the course of these civil wars, some little time before the year 800, one
ofthe chief leaders or heads of the faction against the government was Duke
Wada, who lived inthe neighborhood of Streanshalh, having his castle at the
place now called Mulgrave. This Wada was one of the principal conspira
tors among those that murdered Ethelred, King of Northumberland ; and af
terwards joining the confederates with "what forces he could raise, gave battle
to his successor, Ardulph, at Whalley in Lincolnshire, but with such ill for
tune, that his army was routed and himself obliged to fly for it. On which
he fortified his castle at Mulgrave, with an intention to defend hiraself; but
being seized with a certain distemper, he soon ended his days, and was in
terred there on a hill, between two hard stones, about seven feet high, which
being twelve feet from each other, gave rise to the current report, which still
prevails, that he was a giant in bulk and stature."
It is further fabled, that Wada and his wife, the giantess Bell, built Mul
grave and Pickering castles, one working upon one and the other upon the
second. But since they had only one hammer, they threw it backwards and
forwards across the country when it was wanted, shouting so that the one to
whom it was thrown inight be ready to catch it. They had a son, who when
an infant could throw stones of enormous size, and becoming irapatient one
day for his raother's return, threw a huge stone across a valley at her,
striking her with such force as to indent the stone itself. The Roraan road,
* See also Glossary of Yorkshire Words, London, 1855, pp. 186, 187; and Camden's Brit
ain, 1637, p. 719.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

which is called Wade's Causeway, was forraed by Wada and Bell ; he paving
and she bringing stones in her apron, whicii sometimes giving way, would
Cause her to drop large heaps, which can now be seen inthe heath. — {Glos
sary of Yorkshire Words, 1855, pp. i86, 187.)
There can be but little doubt that the name Wadsworth originally signified
Wada's or Waddy's residence, but whether derived from the name of either
mentioned here, or some more obscure individual, is unknown. No weight,
as will be shown later, is to be attached to the guess of Bowditch, that
Wadsworth is a mispelling of the name Wordsworth, since the reverse is
nearer the truth, while H. A. Long's statement that Wadsworth means a
dwelling around which wad, lead ore, is found, is utter nonsense. — {Bow-
ditch's Suffolk Surnames, 1861, p. 419 ; Long's The Names we Bear, p. 146 ;
Dixon on Surnames, 1857, pp. 78, 79.)
The town of Wadsworth is near Halifax, in the wapentake of Morley,
while Wadworth is in the parish of Doncaster, and in the wapentake of Straf
ford and Tickhill. Both are in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the latter
not far from the locality from whence came our pilgrim fathers — some ten
or fifteen miles distant. The first mention of these towns is in the Domesday
Book, 1086, but the orthography ofthe name, its changes, and the authorities
therefor, can best be given in a tabular form, which will be found on the
follovvfing page. The wapentake is given as far as I have been able, but
doubt exists regarding the determination in many cases. Taking the order
of time, as "will appear later, there is no doubt that the town names pre
ceded the family name, and from them the family name was derived.
So far as the table goes, the spelling of the names of these towns appear
to have been interchangeable in the past, leaving it a matter of doubt whether
the family sprung from one town or the other ; or whether there were two
or more distinct sources from whence they came.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Table showing Changes of Orthography.

Spellii^g of Name Wapentake.

Wadesuurde, "(
Wadev^'rde, j

Morley,

1086]

Wadeuorde, "l
Wadewrde, J

Strafford,

1086 J

Waddewurth,

Strafford,

1200

Wadev\'urtli,

1204

Wadewurth

Notingham-

manor,

shire Co.,

1204

Waddewrthe,

1231I

Waddewurd',

1248/
Waddevi'urth,
1255
Wadvvurthe,
1257
Wadevv7rth,
Morley,
1274-11274/
Waddesworth,
Strafford,
Waddesworth,
Strafford,
1279
Wadeworth manor,
Strafford,
Waddeworth manor,
Strafford,
Wadeworth,
Strafford,
1281
Wadesworth,
Wadeswrth,
Wadewurth,
Morley,
1291
Waddeworth,
Morley,
1 29 1
Waddworthe,
Strafford,
1310
Waddeworth,
1310
Waddeworth',
1313
Waddesworthe,
Morley, (?)
1322
Wadeworth,
Straff'ord,
1327
Waddeworth,
Strafford, (?)
1340
Wadworth,
Strafford,
1345
Waddeworth,
Strafford,
1363
Waddeworth,
1380
Waddesworth,
Straff'ord, (?)
1393
Wadesworth,
Strafford, ( ?)
1406
Waddesworth,
Strafford. (?)
1438
Waddesworth,
Strafford,
1466
Waddesworth,
Strafford.
1476
Waddesworth,
.
1477
Waddesworth,
1479
Wadsworth,
Morley,
1480
Waddesworth,
1481
Waddesworth,
1498
Wadworth ( ?)
Strafford,
1526
Wadworth,
Strafford,
1535
Wadworth,
Strafford,
1551
Waddesworth,
Morley,
1558
Waddesworth,
Morley,
to
Wadworth, (?)
Strafford,
Wadworth,
Strafford,
1603
Waddesworthe,
Morley,
1580
Waddesworth,
Morley,
1587
Waddesworth,
Morley,
1593
Wadworth,
Morley,
1593
Wadsworth,
Morley,
1594
Waddesworth,
Morley,
1595
Waddeswoorth,
Morley,
1595
Wadsworth,
Strafford,
1731
Wadsworth,
Morley,
1731
Wadworth,
Strafford,
1731
Authority.
Domesday Book, pp. 299, 319, 373.
Rotidi chartarium in Turri Londinensi. 1837, '> 7^-
" i, 123.
Calendarinm Rotiilorum Chartarium, 1803, p. 14.
Surtees Soc. 1870, Ixi, 41, 106, 259.
Excerpta e Rotulis Finimsi in Turbi Londinensi as-
servatis Henrico Tertio Rege, vol. ii, 201.
Calendarium Rotulorum Chartarium, 1803, p. 85.
Rotuli Hundredoruni, 18x2, i, 113, 137.
Placita de Quo Warranto, Edward 1., 1818 p, .193.
" P.434-
" P- 443-
Taxatio Ecclesiastica P. Nicholai IV., A. D. I2gi;
1802, pp. 297, 321, 334.
Calendarium Inquis. post Mortem, 1806, i, 236.
" " " 1806, i, 249.
Registrum Palatinum Deuelmense, i, 332.
Calendarium Inquis. post Morttm. 1806, i, 301.
1808, ii, 72.
Inquisitiones Nonarium in Curia Scacarii Temp. Re
gis Edwardi IIL, 1807, p. 229.
Calendarium Inquis. post Mortem, 1808, ii, 125.
i8o8,"ii, 258.
1828, iv, 457.
" " " 1821, iii, 157.
" " 1821, iii, 308.
1828, iv, 185.
" " " 1828, iv, 270.
" " " 1828, iv, 372.
Surtees Soc. 1864, Testamenta Ebora., iii, 227.
" iii, 246.
Calendarium Inquis. post Mortem, 1828, iv, 398.
Surtees Soc, 1864, Testamenta Ebora., iii, 270.
,' " " i, 247. [1106.
letters and Papers For. and Dom. Henry VIIL iv. (2)
Valor Ecclesiasticus, Henry VIIL, 1825, v. 41, 53.
Calendar to Pleadings, 1834, iii, 289.
Proc. in Chancery in Reign Queen Elizabeth, 1827, i. 2.
" " " " 1827, i, 63.
" " " 1830, ii,li4.
" " " " 1832, iii, 15.
Calendar to Pleadings, Elizabeth, 1834, iii, 100.
" " " 1834, iii, 201.
" " 1834, iii, 314.
1834, iii, 289.
1834,111,385.
" " 1834, iii, 328.
1834, ih, 328.
Camden' s Magna Britanica, 1731, vi, 706.
1731, ^'i, 706.
"  1731, vi. 441-
"--\^.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. 93
The earliest mention ofthe name as a patronymic that I have thus far been
able to find was in the tenth year of King John, 1309 : that of Peter, son of
Henry de Wadworth. Eudo, son of Godfrey de Wadworth, and Peter de
Wadworth severally gave lands to the monks of an adjacent abbey during the
reign. of Henry III., or sometime between 1216 and 1272. That Eudo's gift
was prior to 1336 is rendered probable by the fact that the name of Peter,
son of Eudo de Wadworth, occurs in connection with a deed bearing date of
1236. It is also probable that the Peter who gave the lands to the monks
(46 acres) was the same son of Eudo. The first Peter, son of Henry de
Wadworth, being mentioned in 1209, shows that the name must have been
established, at least as early as the twelfth century.
The true orthography of the names given above as Wadworth is not known
to me, for they were taken from Rev. Joseph Hunter's " South Yorkshire "
(1S28, i, 24S-250). He is very inaccurate in respect to the original spellings,
giving the names as he thought they ought to be spelled now. The sources
from which his data were obtained are unknown to me, so I am unable to
make any examination of them. Hunter further states that cultivation had
been carried on to a great extent in the town of Wadworth prior to the con
quest. The next source of information is the ''Register" or " Rolls of Walter
Gray," Lord Archbishop of York, in which, under date of Dec. 16, 1231,
confirmation is made of a grant to William, Chaplain of Waddewrthe, for
his life, of the vicarage of Waddewrthe ; while in the same, under date of
1348, is given a lease relating to the wood of Waddewurd'. In the same
register is mentioned the institution of Rad' de Waddewurth, clerk of the
churchof Weston, at the presentation ofthe Prior and Convent de Bilda, July
24, 1249. — {Surtees Soc, 1870, Ixi, 41, 106, 259.)
In the " Hundred Rolls," which were made in the second year of Edward
I. (1274), occurs the na-nies of Petrus de Waddeworth, of the Wappentake
of StraflTord, Yorkshire and Joh. de Wadworth of the " Villa de Tresk."'—
{Rotuli Hundredorum, 1813, i, 108, 123.)
In "John de Kirkby's Inquest or Survey ofthe County of York," made in
the 13th year of Edward I. (1284-5), it is stated that Petrus de Waddeworth
holds' a third part of a knight's fee of the fee of Yo'&'&'Sir A..— {Surtees Soc. ,1866,
xlix, 9.)
According to Hunter (/. <:.), Adam, son of Peter de Wadworth, was men
tioned in the sixth year of the reign of Edward II. (1313)- I" the third
vear of Edward III. appears the name of Johannes de Waddeworth in the
'pmdera LittercE, under date of April 14, 1339, (1831, ii, part 2, p. 764,)
while in the fourth year of the same reign the following entry was made,
'^yoh'esde Waddesworth pro Thoma Kyrkeby. Sutton 6 acrterr. ibm Bedf; "
in the Calendarium Inquis. post Mortem (1806, i, 41.)

94 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
April 25, 1337, occurs the first inention found of Willielmus de Wadworth
ofthe numerous Williams who follow after. — {Fczdera LittercB, 1821, ii,
part 3, p. 967.) William appears again on the next year, on April loth, as
Wadeworth, {Ibid. p. 27,) while Jobs de Wadeworth was to be found in the
town of Waddeworth in 1340. — {Inquisitiones Nonarium in Curia Scacarii
Temp. Regis Edwardi III., 1807, p. 239.)
Later in the same reign, in 1353, appears Johes de Waddesworth, of York
shire, {.Abbreviato Rotulorum Originalium, 1810, ii. 268,) while in 1361, it is
stated: '•'•Rex concessit J^ohni de Waddesworth et Robto de Whalton in feodo
omnes terr' in Dighton in com' Ebor' quae fuerunt Goclini de Doyvell Militis
prodiioris Edw' 2" — {Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium, 1803, p. 173)'
Hunter states in a letter to William Wordsworth, the poet, that the earliest
mention of the name Wordsworth with which he is acquainted is in a deed
of the year 1393, among.st the witnesses of "which is a Nic. de Wurdesworth,
of Peniston. — {Memoirs of Wordswo'rth, 1851, i, 460.)
In the third and seventh years of the reign of Henry IV. (1402, 1406) John
Waddesworth appears as treasurer of St. Patricks, Dublin. — {Rotulorum
Pentium et Clausorum- Cancellaria; Hibernix Calendarium, 1838, i, 166, 184.)
Returning to Yorkshire, we find in a wdll of Rev Stephen Percv, under
date of July 28, 1425, the following bequest: ^- jpohanni Waddesworth de
Holme, et Elizabethce, uxori ejus nepti mecB vf s. viif d. — (Surtees Soc, 1864,
Testamenta Eboracensia, III, 59.) Hunter mentions that a Wills Words
worth appears as a witness to a deed at Peniston, May 30tli, 1430 ; but that
genealogist is so careless of the orthography of his proper names, that we
know but little how they are spelled in the original. — {Memoirs of Words
worth, i, 460.) In an undated roll made in the year 1433 or 1433 occurs the
following : '¦^ De 60s. de legato J^oh. Waddesworth et dono Agnetis uxoris suce."
— {Surtees Soc, 1S59, xxxv, 49.)
Hunter further remarks, that in 1450 " at that dav was William Wardys-
worth chaplain in our lady sarvis," quoting from some old work {South York
shire, ii, 341) ; also a "Wills Wordsworth, chaplain, is a legatee in the will
of Robert Poleyn, vicar of Peniston, about 1455. — {Memoirs of Wordsworth,
p. 460.) He was probably the same as the Wordisworth who was instituted
to the vicarage of Peniston on Feb. 7, 1458-9'. His vvill appears under date
of Jan. 13, 1494-5: {'•'Willilmus Wordisworth vicarius eccl. par de Penyston.
Sep. infra ccincellum eccl. de Penyston. Servitio B. M. de Penyston xs. et unam vac-
cam optisnam. Willelmo Wordisworth de Snodenhill if boves optimos. Tliurs-
tano Wordisworth, frati meo if boves. Fabricae pontis qui vocatur Bulderbrig
xl. fd.) Testibvs Willelmo Wodisworth de Penyston,'' etc. In the note ap
pended it is stated that "the testator was probably a collateral ancestor ofthe
poet Wordsworth." In the same place further items of interest are given
relating to the Wadsworths or Wordsworths of Peniston, as follows :

WADSWORTH FAMIIA' HISTORY. 95
Robert Wordsworth was ordained acolyte Apr. 3, 1457 ; sub-deacon June
II ; deacon Sept. 34; priest Dec. 17.
Williain Waddesworth, of Peniston, acolyte Sept. 24, 1491, and priest
June 1 1, 1492.
Nov. 8, 1516, "Nicholaus Wordesworth de Penystone" mentions in his
will j^Margaret, Edv/ard and Nicholas Wordesworth. Also, "John Burdett,
Williara, John and Emma Wordesworth, my children."
Dec. 18, 1535, John Wordsworth par. Penyston raentions his son, Sir
Thoinas, in his will. Sept. 13, 1535, William Wordesworth, of Snodhill,
par Penyston, mentions his sons William, Sir Richard and Ralph. — {Surtees
Soc. 1868, Testamenta Eboracensia, iv, loi.)
Hunter also states, that "contemporary with William Wordsworth, the vicar
[before mentioned], was Johes fil. Willi Wordysworth de Peniston, who, be
ing thus described, conveys with other persons certain lands to the vicar." —
{Memoirs of Wordsworth, pp. 460, 461.)
In a will dated June 35, 1375, inention is raade of "Johannen de Waddes
worth, rectoren ecclsiae de 'Bryttel-y ."—{Surtees Soc, Testamenta Eboracensia,
^95-) In the "Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England"
(Nicolas's Ed. 1835, iv, 77), inention is made under date of Feb. 14, 1491,
of "John Waddesworth, escuir." -
Hunter also notices "Wil'imi Wordsworth et Johannaj uxoris," of Peniston,
in the year 1530 {South Yorkshire, ii, 342).
In 1535 the following record was made: " Thomas Wodisworth, 'Incumb.
Cant sti Nich'i in Eccl'ia Ib'm " {Valor Ecclesiasticus Henry VIIL, 1825, p.
74)- Radulpho Wordysworth, John Wordisworth and Willo Wordisworth are
names given by Hunter of persons living in the first year of the reign of Ed
ward VI. {i$Afl .^—{South Yorkshire, 1831, ii, 356.)
In the first year of Elizabeth's reign [1558] William Waddysworthe was one
of the defendants in a suit relating to goods, chattels and lands in Connton,
Kvrkham and Rybye, in the county of Lancashire. — {Calendar to Pleadings,
1837, ii, 218.) In the thirty -first year of the same reign [1589] William
Wadesworthe appears with others as a plaintiff" in a suit regarding a right of
way in Sowerby, Wakefield Manor, Hepstonstall, Sowerby Chapel, Sowerby
Graveship, Hipperholme, Raistrick, Holme or Holmfrith, Wakefield, Stan
ley, Thomes and Alverthorpe.— (/^/</. 1834, iii, 230.)
In the " Proceedings in Chancery " in the same reign [1558-1603], the
name of Anthony Wadesworth is raentioned, but his residence is not given. —
(1830, ii, 59-) . „ . T ¦ 1 .
In 1573 a William Wadsworth was residing at Boston, in Lincoln county.
 {Thompson's History of Boston, 1856, p. 340.)

96 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
In 1584 a Nicholas Wadsworth married at Ecclesfield, July 22, 1584, Mar
garet Wombwell, third daughter and co-heir of Thoinas 'Woinbwell, of Thun-
dercliff"e Grange (" Foster's Visitations of Yorkshire in 1584-5 and 1612," p.
366) . This marriage is of importance, as it aflbrds a distinct record of the
orthography of the narae of one who undoubtedly was connected with Wil
liam Wordsworth's branch.
Under date of May, 1587, a Mr. John Wadsworth writes to Lord Burghley,
thanking hira for his many favors, and desires to resign a post that is hurtful
to him. — {British Museum, Lansdowne MSS., Nos. 47, 54; 1809, p. 103.)
A will by a James Wadsworth, of Islam, dated 1589, is preserved in the
Probate Court of Chester. — {Record Soc, 1879, ii, 198.)
A Richard Wadsworthe was one of the appraisers of the estate of Sir John
Radcliff"e, of Odsal, Co. Lancaster, knight, Feb. 24, 1590. — {Chetham Soc,
i860, li, 71.)
Anne, daughter of John Wordsworth, of Brookhouse, near Peniston, mar
ried first, Mr. John Cudworth, of Eastfield, second, John Cutler, of Fal-
thwaite, York Co., and for her third husband, John Morley, of Staynton
{Foster's Visitations of Yorkshire in 1584—5 and 1613, p. 511). Her father is
reported as living in 1560. f
A James Waddesworth graduated at Emanuel College as an A.M. in
1593, and a B.D. in 1600. Some account of his life was given by his son,
James Wadsworth, who was born in 1604, in the county of Suffolk. The
son states that the King of England preferred his father to be a double bene
ficed man in Cotton and Great Thorne in Suffolk, and chaplain and ordinary
to the Bishop of Norwich [Dr. Redman] After that. His Majesty sent him
[the father] as chaplain and joint commissioner wdth the ambassador. Sir
Charles Cornwallis, to Spain.
On his first arrival he held discussions with some of the most prominent
Jesuits with success, so that " the Embassador, seeing howvviselv' he quitted
himselfe, sent letters to His Maiesty, informing him how learnedly hee was
accompanied. The King '* "* * sent him [Waddesworth] his Royal grant
of the next falling place of Eminency in his Kingdoms, as an encouragement
to his further seruices." Waddesworth and Lord Watton's son being de
ceived later by a miracle, whicii they supposed to be an actual and not a pre
tended one of the Jesuits, became converted to the Catholic faith. Waddes
worth showed his sincerity by accepting less income and a lo\v-er station than
he had in England.
In the "Calendar of State Papers for Ireland," 1606 — 1608, p. 411, among
the papers seized in the effects of a priest, Francis Tillotson, there is men
tioned a letter in English from one Waddesworth to this priest, but it is said
to be of little importance. It is dated at Madrid, Sept. 36, 1607, and there
is no doubt but what it was written by James Waddesworth.

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An undated letter written by him to the Duke of Buckingham is pre
served in the British Museum, in which Waddesworth " professes himself a
Roman Catholic, and accuses the Duke of the most flagitous, indecent and
disrespectful conduct while in Spain with the Prince, and insinuating that he
had prevented thc prince from becoming a catholic." — {Lansdowne MSS.,
part 2, 1809, p. 3o6.) This letter is in part printed in "The Court of King
James the First," by Dr. Godfrey Goodman.
In 1S55, Goodman abused ^^'addesworth in the vilest manner, as was al
together too common in that day widi persons of difi'erent religious belief.
That Goodman's words are not entitled to credit, and that he had no real
knowledge of James Waddesworth, is shown by the fact that he states that
he was then living in London, when he is known to have died in Madrid
thirty-two years before ! — {Ibid., 1839, ii, 314 — 330.)
In the " Life of William Bedell, by Bishop Gilbert Burnet, London, 1693,"
was printed a series of letters which passed between Bishop Bedell and
Jaraes Waddesworth, as the latter signs his name. Waddesworth's letters are
dated, April i, 1615 ; April 14, 1619; Oct. 38, 1619 ; June 8, 1930 — {I.e.,
pp. 365- — -308). [See also " The Life of Bishop Bedell. By Thomas Whar
ton Jones. Camden Soc, 1873, pp. 10, 95 — 98, 131—133-"]
Bishop Bedell vvas a college mate of Waddesworth, and a true friendship
seems to have existed between them, which the change of faith on the latter's
part appears not to have impaired.
The ambassador, Cornwallis, wrote a number of letters, complaining of
the defection of his chaplain, under dates of Aug. 18 and Sept. 8 and 15,
1605 {Ralph Winwood' s Memorials, ii, 109, no, 131, 136). Cornwallis spells
the name "Wadsworth." An account of the adventures of the son up to
about 1628 was published in 1629, under the following title page :
"The English Spanish Pilgrime. Or, a new Discoverie of Spanish
Popery, and lesviticall Stratagems. With the estate of the English Pention-
ers and Fugitiues vnder the King of Spaines Dominions, and elsewhere at
this present. Also laying open the nevv Order ofthe lesuitrices and preach
ing Nunnes. Composed by James Wadsworth Gentleman, newly conuerted
into his true mother's bosome,the Church ofEngland, vvith the motiues why
he left the Sea of Rome ; a late Pentioner to his Maiesty of Spaine, and
nominated his Captaine in Flanders : Sonne to Mr. lames Wadsworth, Bach
elor of Divinitv, sometime of Emanuell CoUedge in the Vniuersity of Cam
bridge, who was peruerted in the yeere 1604, and late Tutor to Donia Maria,
Ihfanta of Spaine. Published by Authority. Printed at London, by T. C.
for Michael Sparke, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene-Arbor, 1630."
[95 PP-J
According to the son, Waddesworth's wife, after his conversion, went into
Flanders and thence to Spain with her four children: ^^ Hugh, the eldest.

98 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
since dead in Madrid, Katharine who died a Nunne in Lisbone, Mary who
now liveth a Nunne in a Monastery called Camber by Bruxels, and lames
this author, your English Spanish Pilgrime."
James Wadsworth, the son, was educated first at Seville and Madrid, and
later, 1618 — 1622, at St. Omers.
On this return from St. Omers he was captured by Moorish pirates, living
sometime in slavery, and was later ransomed. He returned to Madrid in
1633. The Earl of Carlisle, Lord Hayes, employed him as an interpreter
during the time that he remained in Spain.
The father died of consuinption in November, 1633, but for sometime pre-
vdously had found " himselfe wonderfully mistaken in them [Jesuits] and their
religion." He was English tutor to the Infanta of Spain at the time of his
death, a position which he had held for some time previously.
Sometime after the death of his father, James Wadsworth, having deter
mined to quit the Jesuits, returned to England, but "was sent on a mission to
France. On his return, while on the way to Calais, he was robbed and near
ly drowned by sorae French soldiers. He was on the point of sailing for
Dover when he was recognized by some English Jesuits, who had him ar
rested as a spy and sent to prison. "For the first three days he was left to
himself, without food or drink, in a loathsome, filthy prison, in sight of the
rack, which he was assured would be used upon him unless he confessed
himself guilty of the charge falsely laid against him. At the end of three
days he had a dish of tripe, with some bread and water, given him ; but
thenceforward was allowed no victuals, except what he paid for from the
scanty alms obtained from passengers in the street, by means ofa purse with
a long cord, which they gave him to put out at a hole. He was never per
mitted to leave his cell for an instant ; it was never cleaned ; and the mass of
noisome and poisonous filth in itwas constantly accumulating. His bed was
straw, changed only thrice in ten months, without any covering at all ; he
had no change of linen or clothing ; his hair grew wild and savage-like ; and
his companions were millions of vermin of all sorts." Efforts were made by
Lord Mountjoy, Walter Montague and others to procure his release or trial,
but they were baffled by the Jesuits. At last, "by the address and persever
ance ofa noble-hearted young gentleman of Friesland, named Scipio Intima.
who had been a fellow-prisoner with hini » * » the governor of Calais was
prevailed on to allow him a fair trial." The result was that " he was set at
liberty, and all his Calais adversaries 'condemned to the reparation of honor,
damage and interest.' The credibility of Wadsworth's statements vvas not
questioned by any one in his day, and cannot, therefore, now be fairly <\\xes-
'6.one&:'—{Mass. Hist. Coll., 1871, [4] ix, 86—88.)
The edition of the "English Spanish Pilgrime" of which I have copied
the title page is now in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Societv.

WADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORY. 99
and contains much ijiore material than is referred to here. The learned Rev.
Joseph Mead sent this book, under date of Nov. 7, 1639, to Sir Martin
Stuteville, saying that he would see in it strange passages of a young man's
miseries. — {The Court and Times of Charles ist. By Thomas Birch. 1849, ii,.
42.) The volume of fhe Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. previously referred to giv^es a
very good idea of a portion of his life, and from it I have freely quoted.
In the British Museum is another work written by James Wadsworth, en
titled, " Maxiines of State & War, or an infallible Means & Way by God's
Grace for the Recovery of the Palatinate, with small charge, as also for the
King of France to recover those Territorys whicii are kept from him & other
distressed Princes, Nobles, & Natives by the Kinge of Spain & the House of
Austria ; & also Means to weaken the said House, & it will prove one ofthe
hopefuUest Voyages England ever made for the enriching of his Majesty's
Treasure, as also for all the Commanders & gent. Souldiers that shall go in the
Xavy. Written by James Wadsworth an English Gentleman sometime Pen
sioner to the King of Spain." 44 pages. — {A Catalogue of the Harieian
Manuscripts in the British Museum. 1808, iii, 445.)
Ill " Sir Ralph Verney's Notes of Proceedings in the Long Parliament,"
the follovving entry is made in the inquir}' into the " Array Plot," June 8,
1641, ""James Wadsworth sayes, the eml^assador [from Portugal] told him
hee knew him [Sir John Suckling.?] not." — {Camden Soc. 1S45. p. 88.)
In the ''Gentleman's Magazine, 181 1, Ixxxi, part i, pp. 446, 447<" is an
account of a book then extant, whicii is described as being '' rather more
than 5 inches long by 2 1-2 broad, containing 353 pages, and neatly adapted
for the pocket ; the title page, ' The European Mercury : Describing the
Highways and Stages frora place to place, through the raost remarkable parts
of Christendome. With a catalogue ofthe principall Fairs, Marts, and Mar
kets thorowout the same. Bv J. W. {James Wadsworth) Gent. Useful for
all Gentlemen who delight in seeing foraign Countries ; and instructing Mer
chants where to meet with their convenience for trade. London, printed by
I. R. for H. Twyford, and are to be sold at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street,
near the Inner Temple Gate. 1641.' "
The commentator adds : " It appears to have been printed three years be
fore ; for at the end of the book it says, "Imprematur Tho. JVykes, March
23, 1639.' " Extracts from and comments on the book are given by S. Wool-
mer, printer of the Exeter Gazette.
Jan 22, 1 65 1, a James Wadsworth was a popish recusant and a prisioner,
whose case was acted upon by the council of state on that dav'. — {Catalogue
of State Papers, Domestic, 1651, p. 18.)
In the last three cases, it is not known whether the "English Spanish Pil-

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

grime " was the Jaines Wadsworth mentioned or not ; but it is probable, at
least in the first two of these, he was.
Hunter gives the names of Williani, Ralph, Thomas, Richard and two
• John Wordsworths as amongst the ninety-four persons "who signed the agree
ment 1603, inentioned in the notes to "The Dragon of Mantley." — {Memoirs
of Wordsworth, i, 459 ; Percey's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Wheatley' s
edition, 1877, iii, 383.) All these held lands at that time ill the parish of
Peniston. Nov. 32, 1607, a Nathaniel Wadsworth was presented to the parsonage of
Thorndon, in the diocese of Norwich. — {Calendar of State Papers, Domestic,
1603 — 1610, p. 378.)
In a list of wills now preserved in the Probate Court of Chester is one by
Richard Wadsworth, of Clotton, dated 1616, {Rec Soc. 1879, ii, 198) ; one
by Williani Wadsworth, of Euxton, dated 1623 ; and one by Margaret Wads
worth, of Clifton parish of Eccles, under date of 1638. — {Ibid. 1881, iv, 224,
In the year 1650, a William Wadsworth is mentioned as an inhabitant of
Clifton parish of Eccles, and an attendent upon the Ringley Chapel, erected
in 1635. — {Ibid., 1878, i, 15.)
September 19, 1617, a John Wadsworth petioned, amongst others, to the
East India Company for employment ; and on May 5, 1618, he petitions as
coxswain of the Lion* for relief, havdng received a dangerous wound in each
leg. — {Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, East Indies, 1617 — 1631. pp. 96,
164.) Oct. I, 1633, "Jane Boyde, alias Porter," a widow, petitions the East
India Company for "a debt out of Francis Wadsworth's estate ;" and ^Nlay v
1624, "Joane Boyd, aliasVorter," again petitions regarding "Francis Words
worth's estate." Mar. 5, 1624, Francis Willis petitions the same company
for five pounds owing from Francis Wadsworth, deceased. Sept. 26, 1634,
Agnes, wife of John Cliiigo, petitions to the same company regarding her
brother Francis Wadsworth's estate. — {Ibid. 1683-1624, pp. 221, 479, 480,
483-) In the "Visitations of Essex," published by the Harieian Society (xiii, part
I, p. 486), Edmond Shea, of T.arling, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Wordsworth, of Brilesey [Brighttingsea] , are given as having a fami
ly of six children in 1634.
In 1636, in the household of William Ffearington, high sherift" of Lanca
shire at the summer assizes, was one Nicholas Wadsworth, who probablv vvas
* Was this the " good ship Lion," so well known later to the Massachusetts colonies, and in
which Williani and Christojjher Wadsworth carae from England?

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. IOI

the Nicholas whose son Hugh gave a genealogy at Preston in 1664, which
will appear later in this paper.
In the diary of Captain Adam Eyre are good illustrations of the common
use at that time of the name Wadsworth and Wordsworth indiscriminately
[1646-7]. He loaned his Dalton to Ralph Wordsworth, of Water Hall, but
it was returned to him by Ralph Wadsworth, of Water Hall. — {Surtees Soc,
1875, Ixv, 43, 93.) Captain Eyre also borrowed £50 of Ralph Wadsworth,
of Water Hall (I. c, p. 74), but records himself twice as owing it to Ralph
Wordsworth, of Water Hall (I. c, pp. 98, 105). Eyre uses the narae of Ralph
Wordsworth, of Water Hall, on pages 35, 29, 33, 33, 34, 36, 37, 43, 59, 69,
80, 98 and 109, and that of Ralph Wadsworth, of Water Hall, on pages 63,
64, 65, 73, 74. 91, and in all these cases they refer to the same individual —
the Ralph Wordsworth of Josepii Hunter, mentioned on another page as
marrying a JMicklethwaite, and died in 1663. It will also be seen that in his
will Ralph spelled his name, himself, Wadsworth. Eyre further mentions
this same Ralph on pages 18, 19, 31, 27, and 81. He states that Ralph vvas
church warden at Peniston (Apr. 20, 1647, /. c, p. 27). Svlvanus Rich,
"who died in 1683, is said to have inarried Ralph's daughter Mary (/. c, p. 4).
Captain Adam Eyre gives as other niembers ofthe family, William Words
worth, of Softl}' (/. c, pp. 2, 68, 69, 76, 87, 98) ; William Wordsworth,
of Carlecoytes (/. c, p. 36) ; John Wordsworth, of Rodmore, assessor ofthe
Peniston district (Jan. 10, 1646-47 ; /. c, p. 3, also pp. 21, 33, 36, 42, 108,
114) ; William Wordsworth, of Falthwaite, who was buried Mar. 5, 1666-
67 (/. c, p. 9) ; Christopher Wordisworth, constable for Shorehall, 1643-44
(/. c, p. 2) ; Mich. Wordsworth, sexton. Mar. 18, 1646 (/. c, p. 31) ; and
Isaac Wordsworth (/. c, pp. 32, 108). He further states, that on Aug. 36,
1647, two of Williain Wordsworth's sons came from London ; and that Wil
liam Wordsworth's wife, of Softley, was buried Feb. 13, 1646-47 (/. c, pp.
16,58). A Captain John Wadsworth, ofthe British navy, preferred charges against
his company for mutinous conduct, Oct. 1650. His ship, the /%««/jr, "was
captured later bythe Dutch in the Straits. Under date of Oct. 22. 1653, he
is reported to have escaped from the Dutch and returned to England. — {Cat
alogue State Papers, i6<,o, Domestic, pp. 373, 373, 446, 498; 1652, p. 453 ;
1652-1653, pp. 14, 166, 255, 261, 425, 534; .1654, p. 465.) Captain Wads
worth was later (April 6, 1653) appointed to the command of a merchant
ship in the state service. — {Ibid. 1652-53, p. 361.)
In a list of clergymen who had died at London within the ten or twelve
years preceding 1667 the name of a Mr. Wadsworth is given. — {Mass. Hist.
Coll., [4] viii, 583, 584.)
In the church at Falthwaite is an inscription, of which the following is a
copy of a portion: ^" MemorcB Sacrnm 'S.icnA^-Di Cvdwq-rth, gen. * -* *

I03 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
Ex Susanna filia Tho. Binns de Thorpe quinque suscepit liberos, et eorum binas
( Richardi, vie. filii unici et Susanncefiilarum natu maximcs) vidit exequias, ce-
terorum nuptias: nam Gratiam disposuit in matrimonium Jo. Ellison, nuptam
postea Will Wadswoi-th. "* "* "* ' Aitatis suce 62, annoque christi i6jj." —
{Meinoirs of Wordsworth, 1851, i, 465, 466.)
In the Wordsworth pedigree whicii appears later Richard in this paper, Cud
worth is given as having been baptized May, 19, 1596, and died in 1657. He
married Susan, daughter of Thomas Binns, of Thorpe. His eldest daughter,
Grace, is said to have inarried first, John Ellison, and later, William Words
worth, of Wraith House, and son of William, of Falthwaite, who died 1666.
The son died 1658. The name of the latter, it can be seen above, was spelled
Wadsworth. From him in direct line Williain Wordsworth, the poet, de
scended, through Richard, of Wraith House and Normanton, son of the above
William Wadsworth ; then Richard, of Normanton and Falthwaite ; then John,
of Cockermouth ; then William Wordsworth, of Rydal Mount, the poet.
This then gives legitimate and definite evidence that the original orthogra
phy of Wordsworth was Wadsworth.
Rev. Oliver Heywood mentions in his Diaries, 1630 — 1702, the following
persons :
Mr. Wadsworth's raother was buried at Peniston about Friday, Nov. 10,
1665 (i, 199). "Mr. Wortsworth," of "Swath hai," Tuesday, Aug. 10,
1666 (i, 231). This is a mispelling for a Mr. Wadsworth, of Swath Hall,
also spoken of under dates of Nov. 1666, June 33, 1668, April 35, 1678-79
(i) 233, 256; ii, 61, 91, 98). Isaac Wadsworth, of Brookhouse, Peniston
Parish, Oct. 1666, Aug. 1667, June 22, 1668, and July 33, 1678 i, 333, 344,
256 ; ii, 68). William Wadsworth, of Alverthorpe, 1667, 1668, 1678, 1679,
1680 (ii, 40, 64, 68, 87, 99, 113, 243). C. Wadsworth, of Ratchdal, April
16, 1680 (ii, 122). '
Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Wadsworth, of Flanset Lane near Wakefield,
died in 1679.? This at least seems to be the only plausible explanation of an
entry amongst his list of births, in which he inixed marriage and death rec
ords. — (ii, 131.)
Joh. Wadsworth, of Wakefield, died 1682.? is a similar entry. — (ii, 133.)
Mr. Joseph Wadsworth, of Flanshaw, and Mrs. Crook, of Wakefield, are
recorded by Heywood as married at Bramhup on Saturday, May 10, 1690,
and our good parson quaintly adds, "she a widow with 3 children." — (ii,
I35-) 1690, a Mr. Wadsworth, a meraber of Topliff, died, and of him Heywood
remarks : "A very useful raan ;" also John Wordsworth, probably from Wake
field, died. — (ii, 155.)
Williain Wadsworth, of Flanshaw, died at Horbury and was buried at
Wakefield, Dec. 3, 1691, aged 84. — (ii, 160.)

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. 'IO3
Josiah Wadsworth's wife, of Water Hall, was buried Tuesday, Feb. i6,
1692, aged 60. — (ii, 162.)
"Judith Wadsworth, a quaker in Shelf, buryed at their burying place by
Bradford, Apr. 8, 1693, aged 71 " (ii, 163).
"Henry Wadsworth buryed in his own garden at Kershey-house," April
10, 1678. "A little before, his brother Tim Wadsworth dyed suddenly" (ii,
168). A William Wadsworth is inentioned by Heywood under dates of June 16
and Dec. 37, i679) ^^^^ ^'~' locality is given. — (ii, 313, 213.)
Besides the Henry Wadsvv-orth above, he speaks of another one as an old
man in 1679, whose son was an " attorney" (ii, 263).
In 1681, Heywood states that W. Wadsworth's daughter was John Wild-
man's first wife, but he does not give the date of her decease. — (ii, 3770
He also records that T. Wadsworth, M.A., was ejected from his living in
1663 for non-conforraity. — (ii, 353.)
If now attention is more particularly given to the literature in which more
recent authors have indiscrirainately used the name Wordsworth for those
who employed a difTerent orthography, the following extracts will be of in
terest :
Hunter states : "The Wordsworths first appear at Peniston in the reign of
Edward III. ; and from that reign no name appears more fi-equently as wit
nesses or principals in deeds relating to this parish, or in connection with
parochial affairs. One of the family in the reign of Henry VIII. adapted a
singular, but, as it has proved, a secure method of recording some of the early
generations of his pedigree. On one of those large oak presses, which are
to be seen in some of the old houses' in the country, he carved the following
inscription: ''Hoc of fiebat A" D'ni Mo CCCCC^XXVo g^ suptu Will' mi
Wordesworth, fillii W. fil. Joh. fil. W. fil. Nich. vin Elizabeth filim et hered.
W. P'ctor de Peny std q°rli aniabus f picietur De' ." It would seera from this
as if they had been brought to Peniston by the marriage of the daughter and
heir of Williain Proctor, of Peniston, where it is a litde uncertain whether
Proctor is to be read as a proper name, or that Williain was the proctor of
Peniston under the parties to whom the rectory was appropriated.
"Ralph was the son and heir of William, and from him I believe descended
Nicholas Wordsworth [Wadsworth],* of the house called Shepherd's Castle,
who inarried one of the co-heirs of Wombwell, of ThundercliflTe-grange, by
whom he had several sons, of whom Thomas the eldest sold Shepherd's-
castle to Shaw, the vicar of Rotherham, and Edward was in the service of
Sir Horatio Vere.
* In order to enable the reader to trace the connection, there will in places be put the name,
inclosed in brackets, as it is believed or known to have been written at that day.

I04 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
"But there were many other branches of the family, and it would not nov.^
be easy to show how they shot oft' from the main stock. The Wordsworths
[Wadsworths] were at Water-hall, an ancient mansion at the foot of the hill
oil which stands the church and town, and in a bend of the Don, in the reign
of Henry VIIL, where lived a John Wordsworth of that place ; and in the
reign of Elizabeth, a William Wordsworth. From him doubtless descended
Ralph Wordsworth [Wadsworth], of Water-hall, who died in 1663, the hus
band of the co-heir of Micklethwaite.
"From hiin descended in the fourth degreejosiah Wordsworth [Wadsworth],
vvho purchased Wadworth, having had a great accession of fortune frora his
cousin, Samuel Wordsworth, a London merchant, son of Elias Wordsworth,
a mercer of Sheffield. Mr. Wordsworth [Wadsworth], of Wadworth, had
two daughters, as hath been stated before, Lady Kent and Mrs. Verlelst, his
co-heirs. "The Woidsworths have used for arms three church bells, which seem to
be borrowed from those of Oxspring. Frora the branch of this family of
Wordsworth, whicii was planted at Falthwaite, near Stainborough, spring
the two brothers. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and William Wordsworth, the poet." — {Joseph Hunter's South
Yorkshire, 1831, ii, 334, 335.)
Elsewhere Hunter states of the Nicholas who is mentioned in the inscrip-
tioned carved on the old oaken press above spoken of, that he " must have
lived at the same time with the Nicholas Wordsworth who appears in the
deed of 1393, and was in all probability the same persoii ; brought hither by
his marriage with the heiress of Proctor. * '* "* From whence he came
I known not. But in the reign of Richard II. , we are arrived nearly at the
time when the great body of our personal nomenclature first becarae settled.
The name is evidently local, and whenever any hamlet shall be discovered
having the name of Wordsworth, there would probably have been the deposit
of the family upon the settlement at Peniston. But from whatever place
Nicholas came, he seems to have been the coramon ancestor to numerous
families, of the name settled in Peniston and the parts adjacent, most of
whom possessed lands, and some of whom were families of consideration.
I find a Ralph [1553], son and heir of Williain, in i Philip and Mary; and
a Williain, son and heir of Ralph who in 1543 was to marry a daughter
of Thoinas Beaumont of Brampton near Wath ; also a Nicholas, vvdio in
1584 married one of the co-heirs of Wombwell of Synocliffe, an esquire's
family, and had Thomas of Shepherd's Castle in Peniston, gent., and Ed
ward, who was in the household of Sir Horace Vere. This Thomas sold
Shepherd's Castle. Some part of his family vvent to the West Indies, while
others reniained at Peniston. Another part of the family vvas seated at a
place called Water-Hall, near the church of Peniston, where was living a

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. IO5
John Wordsworth in the 23 Henry VIII. [i53i]i and a William Wadsworth
in 6 Elizabetii [1564]. After him was a Ralph Wordsworth [Wadsworth],
of Water-Hall, who was buried Aug 14, 1663. This branch ofthe family
possessed considerable property in Peniston, at Swath-Hall near Worsbor-
ougli, at Sheffield, and finally became enriched by successful commerce in
London, by some of the younger branches, particularly Josias of Mincing
Lane, a director of thc East India Company, who died in 1736, and Samuel
who died in 1774. The fortune of this family centered in Josias Wordsworth
[Wadsworth] of Severscore in Kent, who made considerable purchases at
Peniston and also at Wadworth, which descended to his two daughters and
co-heirs. Lady Kent and Mrs. Verelst, the lad)- of a former governor-general
of Bengal. Other branches of the family vvere seated at Brook Plouse, at
Monk-Bretton, .at Falthwaite * * * ; and it is from this branch that I con
ceive your own family [Williain Wordsworth, the poet] to have sprung, be
cause I find a Richard Wordsworth, described as of Normanton, gentleman,
in 1693, selling land called Wraith House, which had belonged to the Words-
worths of Falthwaite." — {Memoirs of Woi-dsworth, i, 46, 462.) "I regard
your [Wordsworth, the poet] grand-father as the son of Richard who, in
1693, sold Wraith-House." — {Ibid. p. 460.)
Hunter further gives as branches of the Wordsworth family, i Words
worth [Wadsworth], of Water-Hall ; 3, Wordsworth [Wadsworth], of Fal
thwaite ; 3, Wordsworth, of Softley in Peniston; 4, \Vordbworth, of Monk-
Breton and New Lathes, both near Barnsley ; 5, Wordsworth [Wadsworth],
of Swathe-Hall, also near Barnsley — a branch of Wordsworth [Wadsworth],
of Water-Hall ; 6, Wordsworth [\Vadsworth], of Brooke-House, in Peniston,
from whom came a family w^ho resided about Wakefield and Horbury, now
extinct. He regards the Wordsworths [Wadsworths] of Shepherd's Castle
as the main branch. — {Ibid., p. 458.)
Hunter further gives as living Dec. 33, 1663, William Wordsworth, of Fal
thwaite. Grace, widow of his son, William Wordsworth [Wadsworth], de
ceased, and Richard Wordsworth, an infant grandson of the first-mentioned
William. He also calls attention to the will of the above Williapn Words
worth, of Falthwaite, who mentions his children, Priscilla Ragney, Thomas,
and Susan Bingley ; also his grandchild and his brother Lionel Wordsworth's
daughter's child. Apr. 10, 1665.
Sept. 6, 1666, "Williani Wordsworth of Falthwaite, gent., makes his trusty
and-well-beloved friends, John Wordsworth, of Swathe-Hall, gent., Ambrose
Wordsworth, of Scholey-Hill, ih the township of Peniston, gent., and Hen
ry Ragney, of Darfield, gent., his attornies, to perform certain things." —
{Ibid., p. 465.) , , , ^
William Wordsworth, of Falthwaite, was also mentioned in a deed dated
Jan. 30, 14 Charles I. [1639].— /-^/rt'., p. 465.)

Io6 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
Hunter likewise gives this statement; "On a brass in the chancel floor of
Betchworth church, near Dorking, in the count}' of Surry, is the following
inscription: 'If ic facet Dus Willmus Wordysworth, quondam Vicarius hujus
Ecclesice, qui obiit V^° die Jannarrii, Anno Did MC C C C CXXXIII" . Cujus
Anime ppcietur Deus. Amen'" — {Ibid., p. 469.)
Of the Nicholas Wordsworth, mentioned above. Hunter states elsewhere
that Margaret Wombwell, third daughter of Thoraas Wombwell, of Tliun-
dercliffe-Grange, and one of his co-heirs, married at Ecclesfield, July 22,
1584, to Nicholas W^ordsworth. — {Hunter's Hallamshire, 1819, p. 266.) But
as said before, if vve take any of the published editions of the v isitations of
Yorkshire in 1584-^^ and 161 2, the name is spelled Nicholas Wadsworth (Jo
seph Foster's Visitation of Yorkshire, 1875, p. 366), and there is no doubt but
that this is the correct orthography — Wadsworth.
Besides, Nicholas, Ralph, John, one William and the two Josias Words-
worths inentioned by Hunter are known either to have their names spelled
by themselves or by others Wadsworth.
The following extract will show how, when the writer of it had before
him the authentic spelling of the name bv the person himself, he has chosen
rather to use a dift'erent one :
"Ralph Wordsworth [Wadsworth] of Water hall was one of the lords of
the manor of Peniston. He filled the office of chief constable ofthe wapen
take of Staincross in 164S. The Wordsworths are stated by Mr. Hunter to
have been settled in the parish in the reign of Edward III., from whicii time
no name appears more frequently as witnesses or principals in deeds relating
to the parish.
"One of their ancestors would seem to have been engaged in the service
of the Worthleys of Worthley, as appears from an ancient unpublished deed
dated 1521, wherein Thoinas Worthley, esq., lord of the manor of Worthley,
in the county of York, granted to Williani Wordsworth, of Peniston, for the
good seiwices rendered to him, a messuage and lands in Waldershelf, at a
place called Townend, during the term of the natural life of the said Wil
liam. Dated at Wortley, Oct. 12, 13 Henry VIII. * * * The family of
Wordsworth seems to have been vv idely spread over the parish of Peniston,
and the district immediately adjoining. « » * Besides those of Water
hall, there were others of Softley, Rodmore, Brookhouse, Snodden hill, and
Shepard's castle ; also of FuUthwaite, and of Swath hall, in Worsborough
dale. The name is still to be found in the parish, though the representatives
no longer hold their former social position.
"Ralph Wordsworth [Wadsworth] died at the age of seventy-two years, as
recorded on his tombstone in Peniston church-yard, where he was interred
on the 14th August, 1663. He was succeeded by his second son Josias Words
worth [Wadsworth] at Water Hall. His daughter Mary married Sylvanus

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. I07
Rich, of Bullhouse. ^ ^^ .^ Ralph Wordsworth eventually became the
owner of Hazlehead. ^ ^ ^ The follovving extracts from his will and
codicil will be of interest: ' 17 June, 15 Car. II. To Martha Wadsworth,
my younger daughter £300. To Martha, daughter of Sylvanus Rich, my
grandchild, £200 — when 31 or married, to be paid by my lovinge sonne John
Wadsworth, out of messuage and lands of tlazlehead. ^ ^ ^ To Josias
Wadsworth, my sonne, the materials for buildinge at my house of Water hall.
To my eldest sonne John Wadsworth and his heirs my messuage and lands
of Hazlehead. To the outed ininisters of these parts of the West Ridinge
of Yorkshire about Pennistone, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 40J. per annum,
soe longe as it shall please God to continue them in their outed condition.
^ ^ #' On IMarch 2, 1643-4 administration tothe testator was granted to
Elizabeth, his \vidow. ^ ^ ^
"Martha Wordsworth [Wadsworth], the daughter, afterwards married
Francis Haigh, of Hazlehead, yeoman, the son of Francis Haigh of Carle-
coats. She vvas interred at Peniston February 13, 1716, aged eighty years.
"It is probable that John Wordsworth [Wadsworth] of Swaith hall, above
mentioned, who owned the estate, and vvho died in 1690, dev ised Hazlehead
to his sister Martha and her children, as tvv"o or three generations of her de
scendants continued to reside there." — {Surtees Soc, 1875, Ixv, 18, 19.)
"Swaith hall (in Worsborough dale) was built in 1618, by Richard Mickle
thwaite, of that place, who at his death left two daughters co-heiresses, one
of whom, Elizabeth, inarried Ralph Wordsworth [Wadsworth] of Water
hall, near Peniston, and had tvvo sons and tvvo daughters. Josias, the younger
son, succeeded his father at Water hall ; John, the elder, succeeded to his
maternal grandfather's estate at Swaith hall, and was married four tiines.
Only three ofthe marriages are known, but whether in the order here stated
is not certain, viz. : Jvlary, daughter of Sir Edward Rodes, of Great Hough
ton ; Sarah, daughter of Williain Spencer, Esq., of Bramley Grange, a lieu
tenant colonel in the army of the Parliament ; and Debora, third daughter
of Robert Hyde, of Hyde hall, esq-, Cheshire. The families here named
vvere all staunch Puritans.— Wilkinson's Hist, of Worsborough, pp. 196-197.
John Wordsworth [Wadsworth] was buried at Worsborough church the 4th
June, 1690." — {Surtees Society, 1875, Ixv, 33.)
Of the above John, one marriage is recorded as follows : "Debora 3d
daughter of Robert Hyde and Alice Crompton marr. to John Wadsworth of
Swathe, York Co." — {Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire, Chitham Soc. 1873,
Ixxxv, 163.) Visitation Mar. 11, 1664.
This spelling, as said before, was that given by his father Ralph, but at
a later marriage, Dec. 5, 1664, the orthography is given as Wordsworth, as it
also is at the time of his death.
It may be mentioned here, that in the original documents the Church of

I08 ' WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
England people seem inclined to use the Wordsworth, and the Dissenters
the Wadsworth form.
Josias Wordsworth [Wadsworth], of Water hall, Apr. 25, 1668, is stated to
be the son of Ralph [Wadsworth], before raentioned. — {Surtees Soc, 187^,
Ixv, 356.)
Thomas Wadsworth, of Lanchshire, was admitted to the Jesuits Sept. 7,
1713, and died at Liege, July i6th, 17191 aged 36 years. — {Oliver's Collec
tions towards Illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English, and Irish Mem
bers of the Society of Jesus. 1845, p. 3i2.) Whether he was or not a near
connection of the Joseph Wadsworth who joined the Jacobite Rebellion of
1 715 is not known to me.
In "Burke's Landed Gentry," Jacob Hans Busche it is said came to Leeds,
England. He was of ancient family in Sweden, and married in 1717 Rachel
Wadsworth, by whom he had ten children. Sir Wadsworth Busk, Knt., is
her son. — (p. 169.) Also Wm. Elmhirst, of Worsborough, married, Oct. 20,
1757, the daughter of John Wordsworth, of Hermit Hill, Tankerslev, whose
wife was Martha Mokeson. — {Supp., p, 108.) Further, John Wordsworth,
(Wadsworth), of .Swaithe Hall, is said to have married the daughter of Wil
liam Spencer.
In a church of Dissenters organized at Sherclif-hall (Sheffield^, July 28th,
1676, the names of Williain and Mary Wadsworth occur aniong the 18 mem
bers forming the society. — {Hunter's Hallamshire, 1819, p. 163.)
Rev. John Wadsworth was pastor over the Dissenters Chapel in Sheffield
from 1 714 to 1744, and had been the assistant for some years previously.
He married Rebecca, the daughter of Mr. Field Sylvester, and died in May,
1745- His son. Field Sylvester Wadsworth, was assistant in the same chapel
from 1740 to 1758. He died in Sheffield in 1759, aged 42. Rev. John
Wadsworth's father, Mr. William Wadsworth, of Atterclift'e, had been im
prisoned in the castle of York for nonconformity. — (Hunter's Hallamshire,
1869, p. 296.)
We now come to the time of that ill-managed, ill-fated rebellion of 171s.
celebrated both in sober history and lighter fiction. In Rev. Peter Rae's His
tory of that Rebellion, in the list of prisoners captured at Preston and tried
at Liverpool is the name of Joseph Wadsworth, of Catteral, whose trial took
place on Jan. 34, 1716. He was sentenced to be executed at Preston, Feb.
9 {Ibid., sec. ed., 1746, pp. 378, 379), but from the following it seems that
the place and time of execution was changed.
This Joseph Waddesworth or Wadsworth, for the name is spelled both
ways, was executed at Garstang with three others, Feb. 14, 1716. It is
stated that he was designated as Joseph Waddesworth of Catteral, Lancaster,
gent., at the tirae of the tr'\a\.~{Chetha7n Soc, 1S45, v, 192, 201.) He was

WADSVVOUIH FAMILY HISTORY. IO9
the son of Nicholas Wadsworth, of Hayhton, whose father, Hugh Wads
worth, recorded a pedigree in 1664-5. — {Dugdale's Visitation.) The parish
registers record the burial on 16 feb. 1715-16, of "Mr. Joseph Wadsworth
and Thoinas Goose, of Catteral, and Thos. Cartinel of Claughton, Rebells."
— {Chetham Soc, 1878, civ, 70, 72, 73.)
A stone on the nothern side of the church of Garstang is inscribed, "Here
lieth the bodies of Air. Josepii Waddesworth and Thomas Goose, of Catterall,
vvdio died the 15 of Febuary, 171"^. — {Ibid., p. 98.)
In '-John Hobsen's Journal," 1725-26, Mr. Wordsworth of Newlaths, is
inentioned (p. 247) ; while it is stated that Mrs. Sarah Wordsworth was
brought from London and buried at Peniston, Nov. 13, 1729, (p. 393.) —
{Surtees Soc, 1875, Ixvi.)
In a will dated Mar. 38, 1747, Alexander O-sbaldeston, of Preston, left
£300 for Hugh Wadsworth, for an annuity. — {Chetham Soc, i860, li, 53.)
In a recent genealogical work it is stated that Josias Wordsworth [Wads
worth], Esq., of Mincing Lane, and later of Wadworth, York Co.. and
Sevenscore Minster, Isle of Thanet, Co. Kent, was born 1719,' and died July
16, 1780. Son of Josias Wordsworth [Wadsworth], of Water Hall, Penis
ton, Co. York, who married Oct. 18, 1656, Sarah Beaumont. The former
married Ann Robinson, who was born 1737, on Feb. 9, 1749. She died
Nov. 19, 1S14, aged 93, and was buried at Wadworth. Daughter Anne
Wordsworth mar. Harry Verelest, June 1771, died Dec. 4, 1835, aged 84.
Mary Wordsworth, the Second daughter, was born 1751, and niarried June,
1771, to Sir Charles Kent, bart. She died Sept. 17, 1817, and was buried at
\yadworth. — {Foster's Pedigrees, vol. iii. Mason Family,)
For the mixed Wadsworth and Wordsworth form of these names the reader
can refer to the extracts from the Wadworth Parish Register given later.
In the "Gentleman's Magazine" it is stated that Josias Wadsworth and
Josias Wadsworth, Jun., were elected directors of the East India Company,
Apr. 4, 1732 (1732, ii, 719), but in the preceding volume (1731, i, 171) it
had stated reg.arding these two that Josias Wordsworth, Jun., was chosen a
director ofthe East India Company in the place of Josias Wordsworth, Esq.,
on April 7, 1731.
Of Sevenscore, near Ramsgate, on the Island of Thanet, Hasted states that
Josiah Wordsworth [Wadsworth], Esq., of London, first owned it and that
afterwards it was in possession of his son, Josiah Wordsworth, who died
about I'j'ii^.— {History qf Kent, 1800, x, 378, 279.) In "Paterson's Roads of
England (15 ed., 1811, p. 411), a Mrs. Wadsworth is given as living at Sev
enscore. In this same work a Mrs. Wordsworth is said to live beyond Wad
worth, Yorkshire, on the left on the road towards Lovesall (p. 216) ; but in
"Carey's Roads" (7 ed. after 181 1, but undated, p. 353), the name of the
lady is spelled Wadworth.
\

WADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORY.

In the "Gentleman's Magazine" we find the announcement that Drs.
Wadsworth and Jurin were chosen governors of St. Thomas Hospital, May,
1733 (17335 iiij 270), while Dr. Wadsworth is later stated to have died the
same year on June 22. — {Ibid., p. 327.)
Again it is stated that on Feb. 9, 1749, "Josiah Wordsworth [Wadsworth]
of Mincing Lane, Esq.," was married to " Miss Robinson of Hull, 30,ooo£."
— {Ibid., 1749, xix, 92.)
On Jan. 16, 1750, "Josiah Wadsworth, Esq., Russia merchant and gov
ernor of several hospitals," died. — {Ibid., 1750, xx, 43.)
Oct. 1757, Miss Wordsworth, of Ewel, Surry, was married to Wra. Henry
Chancy, of the Inner Temple. — {Ibid., 1757, xxvii, 482.)
Jan., 1758, "John Wordsworth, ofthe Isle of Thanet, Esq.," was married
to Miss Townsend. — {Ibid., 1758, xxviii, 46.)
May 3, 1763, a Miss Wordsworth, of Wakefield, was inarried to " Wm.
Stamforth, Junior, Esq., of York." — {Ibid., xxxiii, 357.) Also, James
Wadsworth, Esq., to Miss Skinner, of Newington, Surry, on Sept. 4, 1763.
—{Ibid., p. 465,)
Dec. 17, 1765, "Thos. Wordsworth of Yorkshire, Esq., was married to
Miss Betty Howard, of Bath. — {Ibid., 1765, xxxvi, 590.)
R. Wadsworth is also announced as preferred to Wolston Parva in Bucks,
in i^6^.—{Ibid., p. 593.)
Rev. Cha. Wadsworth, of the R. of How and of Yelverton, died July 38,
1767. — {Ibid., xxxvii, 14,30.)
Jan. 4, 1769, a Miss Wadsworth was married to Rev. Mr. Thwaites, 01
Leeds. — {Ibid., xxxix, 54.)
Rev. R. Wadsworth above given as preferred to Little Wolston, Bucks,
died at Old Stratford, Northamptonshire, March 23, 1781. He had retained
his appointinent until then. — {Ibid., 1781, li, 194.)
Jan. 7, 17S3, John Wordsworth, Esq., was married to Miss A. Gale.—
{Ibid., liii, 92.) The next year Mr. H. Wordsworth married Miss Sallv Hill,
Nov. 6.— {Ibid., 1784, liv, 815.) ,
Died 1794, about June, at his son's at Braithwaite, Richard ^^"ordsvvorth,
Esq., collector ofthe customs at Whitehaven. — {Ibid., Ixiv, 675.)
Rev. C. Wadsworth was preferred to the South Lanbath chaplaincy in
1815. — {Ibid., ii, 369.)
"Mrs. Wadsworth, of Ovenden near Halifax, has erected a very elegant
national school," etc. — {Ibid., 1817, Ixxxvii, part 2, p. 35S.)
So the record inight be continued from the pages of this magazine, but this
brings us as late as we care to go.
In the Catalogue of Cambridge University graduates between 1 659-1823
are the following: Car. Wadesworth A.B. 1724, who with the name spelled
Wadsworth received the A.M. 1728; Nat. Wadsworth A.B. 1689; Tho.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. Ill
Wadsworth, M.D. 1717; Ri. Wadsworth, A.B. 1744, A.M. 1748; Joh.
Wadsworth, A.B. 1745; Geo. Rob. Wadsworth, A.B. 1753, A.M. 1756;
Ri. Wadsworth, "A.B. 1794, A.M. 1799.
The only Wordsworth who had at 1833 graduated were William, the poet,
A.B. 1791, and Christopher, his brother,' A.B. 1796, A. M. 1799.
Graduates of Oxford University : Robert Wadsworth Magd. Coll. M.A.
Nov. II, 1703. — {Catalogue of Oxford Graduates between Oct. 10, j6§g, and
Oct. 10, 1770; 1773, p. 369.) In a revision of this catalogue brought up to
Dec. 31, 1850, and published in 1851, the name of John Wadsworth is given
as taking the B.A. degree, Dec. 3, 1763. The above Robert Wadsworth is
placed with the name Wordsworth as having taken the B.A. degree, Feb.
II, 1700. No Wordsworth graduated at Oxford until 1809. Of this name
Williain, B.A., [809; Williani (the poet), D.C.L., 1839; Charies, B.A.,
1830; John, B.A., 1836; Cullen Forth, B.A., 1S44.
In 1819 the signatures of George, John J. and two Jonas Wadsworths, and
those of William, Thomas and three John Wordsworths were appended to a
Declaration of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of York. York,
October, 1819.
At this point a list of family names is added as they occur in the text in
order to show the changes in orthography, and by the dates to aid in recog
nizing the same persons when the spelling of the surname has been given dif
ferently by various persons.
When original or authentic sources have not been examined so as to render
the orthography presumably correct a query mark has been placed after the
name.

VV.VDSVVCniTII FAMILY IIISl'l HtV".

List of Wadsworths Me.n'tioned in the Preceding Text.

1 2th f Henry de Wadworth. ( ?)
Century \ Godfrey de Wadworth. ( ?)
1209 Peter,sonof Henry de Wad worth. (.?)
. f Eudo son of Godfreyde Wadworth ( ?)
1210— 72 I pgjg^ ^jg W.idworth. (?)
1236 Peter, son Eudo de Wadworth. (?)
1249 Rad' de Waddewurth.
f Petrus de Waddeworth.
'^74 , Joh. de Wadworth.
i;?84-l285 Petrus de Waddeworth.
1313 Adam, sonof Peter de Wadworth (?)
1329 Johannes de Waddeworth.
1330 Joh'es de Waddesworth.
1337 Wilhelmus de Wadworth.
1338 Willielmus de Wadeworth.
1340 Johs de Wadworth.
1352 Johes de W.nddesworth.
1361 Johannes de Waddesworth.
1375 Johannes de Waddesworth.
1392 Nic.de Wurdesworth. (?)
1402 John Waddesworth.
1406 " "
1425 Johannes Waddesworth.
1430 William Wordsworth. (?)
l432or 33 Joh. Waddesworth.
1450 WiUiam 'Wardysworth.
455 I " Wordisworth.
1495 i
1455-95 (?) John Wordysworth.
1457 Robert Wordsworth (?)
1491 John Waddesworth.
1491 "I „,.,,. ,,
^' W ilham "
1492 J
1495 William Wordisworth, of Snodhill.
1495 Thurstan "
1516 Nicholas Wordesworth. (?)
1516 Margaret " "
1516 Edward " "
15 16 Nicholas " "
1616 William
1 5 16 John Wordesworth. (?J
1516 Emma Wordsworth. (?)
1 52 1 William " "
1525 1530
1531 John Wordsworth (?)of Water Hall.
Dead 1533 WiUiam Wordysworth.
1535 John Wordsworth. (?)
1535 Sir Thomas Wordsworth. (?)
1535 William Wordesworth.
1535 " "
1535 Sir Richard "
1535 Ralph
1535 Thomas Wordisworth.
1542 WilliamWordsworth(?)son of Ralph
1547 Radulpho Wordysworth. (?)
1547 John
1547 William Wordisworth.
1553 Ralph Wordsworth, (?) son uf Wm.

1558
1558I,1603/ 1560
15641572
1584
1584 1587
1589 1589
1590
1593

1603

L
1604 1607)6i6
16171618 1623
Dead 16231633163616381639 1641
164316461646
164.61646 16461647
1650
1650 X
1653 J
1651
1657 1662
Died 1663 1663166316631663 16631663
1666

1666

WUliam Waddysworthe.
Anthony Wadesworth.
John Wordsworth{?)of Brookhouse.
William " (?) of Water Hall.
" Wadsworth.
Anne dau. of John Wordsworth(?)
of Brookhouse.
Nicholas Wadsworth,
John "
WUham Wadesworth.
James Wadsworth.
Richarde Wadsworthe.
James Waddesworth.
WiUiam Wordsworth. (?)
Ralph
Thomas " "
Richard " '
John
John .
James Wadsworth.
Nathaniel "
Richard " of Clotton.
John William " of Euxton.
Francis "
William Wordysworth.
Nicholas Wadsworth.
Margaret " of Chfton.
\Villiam Wordsworth ( ?) of Fal
thwaite.
James Wadsworth.
Christopher Wordsworth.
Ralph Wadsworth of Water Hall.
William Wordsworth of Softly.
" " of Carlecoytes
John " of Rodmore.
Mich. "
Isaac William Wadsworth of Clifton.
John Wadsworth.
James "
WiUiam " of Wraith House.
T. Wadsworth, M.A.
Ralph " of Water HaU.
John " of Hazelhead, or
Swath Hall.
Josias W.idsworth of Water Plall.
Martha " [thwaite.
WiUiam Wordsworth (?; of Fal-
Grace Wadsworth.
Richard " grandson of Wm.
Thomas Wordsworth (?) son of
WUliam. [ Wadysvvorth]
Ambrose Wordsworth ( ?) of Schol-
ey PlaU.

WADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORV.

List of Wadsworths Mentioned in the Preceding Tmci— Continued,

167SI -"^^^ac Wadsworth of Brookhouse.
J^^^ I John " of Swath H.all.
Died 1667 WUliam Wordsworth (?) of Fal
thwaite.
1680 ( Wihiam Wadsworth of Alverthorpe,

1676 [,

Mary
Died 1678 Henry
1679 "
1679 William
1680 C.
Died 1682 Joh.
16S9 Nat.
1690 Joseph
Died 1690 John

of Kershey-house.
of Flanset Lane.
of Ratchdal.
of Wakefield.
of Flanshaw.
[Wordsworth.]
of Swath Hall.
Died 1690 John Wordsworth of Wakefield.
Died 1690  Wadsworth at Topliff.
Died 1691 WiUiam " of Flanshaw.
1692 Josiah " of Water Hall.
Died 1692 Judith " of Shelf.
1693 Richard Wordsworth of Normanton
and Wraith House.
\ L°.^ c Robert Wadsworth.
1 71 1 1
1714 ) John Wadsworth of Sheffield, son of
1 745 ) Wm. of Attercliffe.
Died 1716 Joseph Waddesworth orWadsworth.
1 71 7 Tho. Wadsworth, M. D.
171 7 Rachel "
1 728 ( ^^^- Wadesworth and Wadsworth.
Burr. 1729 Sarah Wordsworth, from London.
Died 1732 Josias Wadsworth, Jun.
1733 Dr. Wadsworth, of St. Thomas Hos
pital.
Died 1736 Josias Wadsv^'orth of Mincing Lane,
London.

1740/1759 S
1744!
•1748S 1745
1747 1749
Died 1750
1752 1757
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Died 1764
1765
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Died 1780 ¦783
1784
Died 1794
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1819
1819 1819 1819
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1819

Field Sylvester Wadsworth of Shef
field, son of John of Sheffield.
Ri. Wadsworth.
John "
Hugh "
Josiah Wordsworth of Mincing
Lane.
Josiah Wadsworth.
Geo. Rob. Wadsworth.
John Wordsworth of Hermit Hill,
Tankersley.
John Wordsworth of the Isle of
Thanet.
John Wadsworth.
James "
Rev. Cha. "
Theo. Wordsworth.
Rev. R. Wadsworth.
Samuel Wordsworth.
Josias Wadsworth of Sevenscore
and Wadworth.
John Wordsworth.
H. Richard "
Ri. Wadsworth.

Rev. C. Wadsworth.
George Wadsworth
John "
J-
Jonas "
Jonas "
William Wordsworth
Thomas "
John

of Yorkshire

114

WADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORY.

The only genealogy, given in any of the old visitations, of the faraily is
the following, which applies to one branch only : —
Wadsworth of Hayton.*
Arms — Gules three fleurs-de-lis, stalked and slipped, argent.
Crest — On a globe ofthe world, winged proper, an eagle rising, or.
James Wadsworth
of Halifax, York Co. I

William Wadsworth = dau. of Mr. Sherburne, of Helagh.

John Wadsworth = dau. of William Farrer, of Oldroyd.

Dau. of William = Hugh Wadsworth — dau. of Mr. Robert Jackson, of Reedley, vvidow of

Ffarington, Esq.
Ob. s. p.

John Fletcher, of Burnley.

Robert Wadsworth = dau, of Mr.  HUl, Nicholas.
I of Kirkby, Malham Dale, York Co.
I
Hugh Wadsworth = dau. of Mr.  Gouge.

Dauof George=John Wadsworth=dau and dau. of^ Nicholas W"adsworth=dau of Robert

Rogerson, heir of John  of Hayton near Pres-
ob. s. p. Braithwayte. ob. s.p. ton, Co. Lancaster.
Second wife.

Albin, of
Whittingham
Co. Lancaster.

Hugh Wadsworth, =

= Margaret dau of

1
Robert

1
Mr. John=Ehzabeth

= Mr. Thomas

of Haighton.

Christopher Town-
ley, gent., second
son of John Town-
ley of Townley,esq.

went be
yond the
sea to
study, 1 65 5.

Singleton,

Casby.

Nicholas Wadsworth, Roliert. Christopher.
Aet. 9 an. 19 Sept., 1664,
Preston, 19 Sept., 1664. Hugh Wadsworth.
In order to still further show the variations inthe orthography of the name,
and how the spelling changed even for the same person, the following ex
tracts from parish registers, etc., are taken from the MiscellancB Genalogica et
Heraldica. 1881 (3), iv, 9-12.
The Silkstone extracts were in part given by Hunter many years ago, and
in those cases in which he gives a different orthography or names which are
not in the list published in 1881, the}' have been added in brackets.
* Visitation of Lancashire. By Sir WUUam Dugale. 1664-65. — (Chet/iam Soc, 1873, Ixxxviii,
322.)

t las. ¦)" 1 A / ^ , X

WADSWORTH F.-VMILY HISTORV

It will be seen from the additions that some mistakes must have occurred
in copying frora the registers, and that the original ought to be carefully ex
amined. "EXTRACTS FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS IN THE CIIURCH OE SiLKSTONE,
Co. York, relating to the family of wordsworth."
1556, Jan. I. Godfray Waddysworth, b.ap. Sponsers, Mr. Godfray Bosville,
Rich'' Kaye and Anne Tempest.
1561, Dec. 14. Jane, Jone [John] and Francis Wadysworth, bur.
1572, July 13. Johannes Wardesworth et Elizabetha Oxeleye, tiup.
1582, Aug. II. William Wadysworth [Wordsworth] et Helen Crossland,nup.
1589, Jan. 14. William son of Godfray Wadysworth [Wordsworth], bur.
15S9, Jan. 16. William Wadysworth [Wordysworth] and Margaret Cud
worth, nup.
1590, Apr. 17. Joan fil. William Wordsworth, bur.
1592, Sept. 4. William Wordesworth de Wellhouse, Silkstone, bur.
15.93, Mar. 35. Agnes fil. Godfridi Wordsworth [Galfridi Wardsworth] de
Noblethorpe, bap.
1^94, June I. Helen uxor Williain Wordsworth, bur.
it;95. May 26. Isabel, fil. Galf. Wordsworth [Wardesworth], bap.
159=;, Jan. 18. Richard, fil. William Wordsworth [Wardesworth] de Wraith
House, bap. (Richard Wordesworth [Wardesworth],
grandfather, a sponsor.)
1597, Nov. 39. Dionis fil. Godfridi Wordsworth de Noblethorpe, bur.
1579, Apr. 30.  filia William Wordesworth [Wardesworth] de Wrathe
House, bap.
1600, Dec. 38. Helen fil. Godf. Wordesworth [Wardsworth] de Noblethorpe,
bap.
1600, Feb. 15. Dorothy fil. William Wordesworth [Wardsworth] de Wraithe
House, bap.
1603, Nov. 18. Uxor William \Vordesworth [Wardesworth] de Noblethorpe,
bur.
1605, July 4. William Wordesworth [Wardesworth] de Noblethorpe, bur.
1609, Jan. 4. Anthony Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Fawthwaite, bur.
161 1, Dec. 3. Alice uxor Richard Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Faw
thwaite, bur.
1615, May, 7. Williain fil. William Wordesworth [Wardsworth] de Faw
thwaite, bap.
1617, Dec. 35. William Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Fawthwaite, bur.
bur.
1617, Jan. I. Richard Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Fawthwaite, bur.
1633, May 36. Robert fil. Willlam Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Faw
thwaite, bap.
1625, July 10. Priscilla, fil. William Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Faw
thwaite, bap.
1637, AUO-.I3. Adam fil. William Wordesworth de Staneboro, bap.
1627, Oct"^ 18. John fil. John Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Caricowton,
bap.
1639, Jan. 25. Thomas fil. William Wordesworth [Wordsworth] de Faw
thwaite, bap.
1632, Mar. 24. Ambrose Wadysworth [Wordsworth] et Eliza Hurst, nup.

Il6 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

163"^1653 1655
16551656,1658165916591660166016601 661
1664 16651665
16661666 166616661667,1668,16691670167I16751676,1677,1678 1678167S167816791679 1679
167916791680 16801680
1 681
1681
1 681
168116821682 1683168316831684

Aug. 14. Richard fil. William Wordesworth de Fawthwaite, bap.
Nov. II. Elizabeth Wardsworth, Silkstone, bur.
Nov. 9. Jane dau. of Christopher Wardsworth, Hoyland, bap.
Nov. 33. John Mokesone & Jane Wardsworth [Wordsworth] mar.
Dec. 30. Robert son of Adam Wardsworth, Stainbro, bap.
Apr. 16. William Wardsworth [Wordsworth] Wrath House, Penis
ton, bur.
Apr. II. Marv dau. of John Wardsworth Thurgoland, bap.
May 39. Jarvis son of Adam Wardsworth, Stainbro, bap.
Mar. 38. William son of William Wardsworth, Thurgoland, bur.
Dec. 3. Ann wife of William Wardsworth, Thurgoland, bur.
Dec. 21. Elizabeth dau. of John Wardsworth, Thurgoland, bur.
July II. Christopher Wardsworth, Hoyland swaine, bur.
Aug. II. William son of Adam and Ann Wardsworth, Stainboro, bap.
Mar. 4. Adara son of Adara and Ann Wadsworth, Stainboro, bap.
Apr. 4. Richard son of Mr. Williani Wadsworth, Fawfet, bur.
Mar. 5. Williain Wordsworth, Falthwaite, bur.
Oct. 8. Christopher son of Jane Wadsworth, Heela, bur.
Oct. II. Jane dau. of Jane Wadsworth, Heela, bur.
Dec.. 28. William son of Jane Wadsworth, Heela, bur.
Aug. 39. Elizabeth Wadsworth [Wordsworth] of Peniston p'cli., bur.
Nov. 30. Thomas [John] W'ordsworth and Ann Burdett. mar.
Jan. 8. Amos, son of Thomas and Ann Wordsworth, bap.
Oct. 27. John Wordsworth and Jane Heape, mar.
Aug. 12. Mary, dau. of John and Jane Wordsworth, bap.
Feb. 3. William, son of John and Jane Wordsworth, bap.
May 35. Francis Wordsworth and Mary Smith, mar.
July 10. Francis, son of Francis and Sarah Wadsworth, bap.
Jan. 3. Joshua, son of John Wordsworth, bap.
Feb. II. Anne dau. of John Wordsworth, bap.
Sept.ii. Mary dau. of Richard Wordsworth, bap.
Nov. 7. Francis Wordsworth and Martha Samson, mar.
May 16. Sara, dau. of Francis Wordsworth, bap.
Sept. 5. Elizabeth, dau. of Mr. Richard Wordsworth, bap.
Aug. 39. Ann Wordsworth, bur.
Sept. I. John Wordsworth (of Swaith Hall), bur.
Oct. 10. Mary Wordsworth, bur.
Jan. II. Susanna, dau. of Mr. Richard Wordsworth, of Falthwaite,
bap.
Oct. 7. Francis Wordsworth and Sarah Pollard, mar.
Aug. II. Mary Wordsworth, Thurgoland, bur.
Apr. 4. John, son of Jonathan Wordsworth, Thurgoland, bap.
July 33. John, son of Francis and Sarah Wordsworth, Stainboro, bap.
June 7. Adam Wordsworth, Stainboro, bur.
Feb. 13. Sarah Wordsworth, Thurgoland, bur.
Mar. 33. Joseph, son of Jonathan Wordsworth, Thorgeland, bap.
Nov. 7, Sarah, dau. of John Wordsworth. Thargeland, bur.
May 37. William, son of Mr. Richard Wordsworth, Fawthwaite, bap.
Oct. 31. Sarah, dau. of Francis Wordsworth, bur.
Apr. 10. John Wordsworth, Thurgoland, bur.
Oct. 9. Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Wordsworth, Thorgeland, bap.

WAD.SWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. I17
1684, Dec. 26. Joseph, son of Francis Wordsworth, Thorgeland, bap.
1685, Sept. 3. Hannah, dau. of Robert Wordsworth, Thorgeland, bap.
1685, Jan. 19. Thomas, son of Mr. Richard Wordsworth, Fawfett, bap.
1685, July 6. William Wordsworth, Stainbro', bur.
1686, Aug. 7. Mary, wife of Francis Wordsworth, Thorgeland, bur.
1687, Sept. 30. Jonathan, son of Robert Wordsworth, Thorgeland, bap.
1688, Sept. 18. Jonathan, son of Jonathan ^Vordsworth, Thorgeland, bap.
1692, Dec. II. Mary, dau. of Robert Wordsworth, Thurguland, bur.
1702, Dec. 31. William ^Vordsworth and Mary Roberts, both of Hoyland-
swaine, mar.
1707, Oct. 12. George Womersley and Mary Wordsworth, both of Silkstone
parish, raar.
1710. Apr. 18. Robert Wordsworth and Anne Brainha, both of .Silkstone par
ish, mar.
1 713, Oct. 29. Jeremy Kenerly and Martha Wordsworth, both of Silkstone
parish, mar.
1714, Aug.31. Robert Wordsworth of Silkstone, and Ann Harper of Dar
field, mar.
1715, Apr. 23. Edward ^Vilkinson of Peniston, and Sarah Wadsworth of
Tankersley, mar.
From the tombstones in the parish churchyard at Silkstone the follow
ing names and dates were obtained :
Joshua, son of Robert Wordsworth of Thurgoland, died July 171 1, aged 24
years.
Robert Wordsworth of Thurgoland, died Sept. 6, 1747, aged 59 years.

Martha, daughter of John and Elizabeth Mokeson, and wife of John Words
worth of Hermithill, in the parish of Tankersley, died Nov. 14, 1764,
aged 68 years.
John Wordsworth [husband of Martha,] died 6th March, 1773, aged 88 years.
Benjamin Wordsworth of Stainborough fold, died Dec. 8, 1758, aged 71 years.
John Wordsworth of Stainborough foulds, died Jan. 12th, 1793 ; and Sarah,
his daughter, died July 21st, 1771, aged 7 years.
Ann, wife of Robert Wordsworth of Heely, died Nov. 19th, 175S, aged 70
years.
Robert Wordsworth of Heely, died July 5th, 1769, aged 78 years.
Williain Wordsworth, late of Heeley, died April 20th, 1786, aged 70 years.
Sarah, wife of Thomas Wordsworth of Thurgoland Hall, died 9th of July,
1820, aged 70 years.
Thonias Wordsworth, died March i8th, 1824, aged 78 years.
Thomas son of above Thomas, died Sept. loth, 1842 aged 69.
Sarah Ann, daughter of John and Sarah Cocker Wordsworth, died June ist,
i845,.iiged 34 years. Parish Registers — Wadworth.
1770, May 30. Harry Verelst, of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, and
Anrf Wordsworth of this Parish, raar.

ii8 wadsworth family history.
1 77 1, May 20. Charles Kent, of the Parish of Turnham St. Genieve, in the
County of Suffolk, and Mary Wordsworth of this parish,
mar.
1780, Julj' 20. Josias Wadsworth, bur.
iSii, Mar. 14. Sir Charles Kent, Bart., who married Mary, co-heiress of Jo
sias Wadsworth, was buried in this parish, aged 66.
1814, Nov. 28. Ann Wordsworth, widow of late Josias Wordsworth, Esq.,
buried, aged 93.
1817, Sept.17. Mary Kent, Relict of Sir Charles E. Kent, Bart., was buried
in this parish, age 66 years.
Sheffield.
1652, Apr. 23. Silvanus Riche and Mary Wordsworth, mar.
1664, Dec. 5. John W^ordsworth, gent., and Mrs. Sarah Spencer, raar.
As pointed out before, the father, Ralph, of both Mary and John Words
worth recorded here spelled his name Wadsworth.
St. Dustan's in the East, London.
1749, Jan. 24. Josias Wordsworth, Esq., bur.
1770, Oct. I. RIarv Wordsworth, Relict of Josias Wordsworth, Esq., bur.
St. James, Westminster.
1777, Feb. 3. Harry Verelst, son of Harry, Esq., and Ann, bap.
VVORSBOROirOH, CO. YORK.
1=567, Nov. 30. Francis Rockley & Margaret Wordsworth, mar.
1605, Feb. 35. Richard Mickelthvvaite & Diones Wordsworth, mar.
1606, June 3. Williani Wordsworth & Jane Ellison, mar.
1657, Apr. 9. Mabell wife of John ^Vordsworth bur.
1663, Apr. 4. Deborah " " " " "
1669, Feb. 8. Sarah " " " "
^678, Oct. 8. A child of Eliasapli Wordsworth buried according to v'^ act.
1690, June 4. Mr. John Wordsworth, bur.
1767, May 31. Thomas Wprdsworth, alias Silver Thomas, bur.
A genealogical table, giving the pedigree of ^^'illianl Wordsworth, the
poet, was published in 1881 in the MiscellancB Genealogical et Heraldica [(2)
iv, 41-4S], which is transcribed, witli the exception ofthe Wordsworth sur
names. This genealogy is very misleading in its orthography of the sur
names. It begins with Richard ( .^Wordsworth) , then passes to Nicholas de
Wordysworth, then to William Wordesworth, and finally to John Words
worth, after which this orthography extends throughout. Sufficient varia
tion and changes exist in the first part to cause any one to think that the given
derivation was correct. It looks as if it had designedly been made in this
respect a deceptive pedigree ; and I have left blank all Wordswcuth naines
except those whose orthography is knovvn to be different, and the reader can
supply either Wordsworth or some other form ofthe name.

PEDIGREE OF WORDSWORTH OF PENISTONE, Etc, CO. YORK.
COMPILED BY EDWIN JACKSON BEDFORD.
FOR MUCH INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE THE COMPILER IS INDEBTED TO CHARLES JACKSON, ESQ., WILLIAM J. WORDSWORTH, ESQ.,

AND THE LATE CHARLES HENRY BEDFORD, ESO.

Richard, of VV'ater Hall, 1379, = Alice. .-
r   ' >
Nicholas de Wurdesworth (?), of Peniston, 1392, = Elizabeth, dau'r ot William Proctor, of Penistone. S

I  -¦ ^
William W  .witness to a deed of loh. del RoHps. r„«tr,= i^o„»H« c„„„t; T.i  .•- j..-j .,r  .„ .. 9

-, witness to a deed of Joh, del Rodes, Custos Capella; Sancti Johannis, doited May 20, 1430, at Peniston = 3

&^ndt''lr£uh(eyr'?he*v:Tc1ro?'liii?sJjf T Vicl^;;^ ^:^'r°'^i '^.^^r ¦" ^¦^\°'^"^"^ P^'y-. Thurstan Wordisworth, Robert of Peniston, ^
.Xa,nedinadeedlni464,ar"rohnW sin" X'J'^,J..k F"."',''™;,'?'^ ¦=? f 'r'^.- ^7' '+5S. Instituted Vi- named in his brother priest, Dec. 17, i^?! 2

John Wordysworth, livinij at Water Hall in 145S -
''-:rtJ^^^:^^4''r&^\ ::^^^-Z^'^t^,:i:i^^^^'^^ ^^J^:;- — priest; Dec: i7;-^«7: I
i  ¦  -'  , ' i
?y,'i'ri^Hnr'„'"''^^"T''"'',°^/''"''''°?''"'^'^'" "530, {See old =Joan, who died before John W , living at W^ater I-Lall = '¦<
inscription on wood work of a seat in Penistone Church.) I her husband. in i«i. Will dated Dec. 18 IC« I

his'^lTwi^^^'''T^"lfJ;:"^^^^^ Leaves to = Jolin W  , of Brook =. .. I H
K.JnT, agieatark, etc., my landes and my tackes." Residue to his sons Richard and ', House, trent. ii;6o ! O

nndlr^^in,S5°!nZfu!'J  oJsnoThilJ' JI^T J^'"'^"''' " Ri*ard Wordesworth, of =, Alice, d.au'r ol ... . John Cudworth = Ani.
1604, son and heir. ^ before ,«' J'"^ S?'^''T"° '" '®S ' ^"'¦- ^' ¦'*i"'St°n<=- of Eastfield, '
^   I oeiore 1553. 1604. Died 1617. . Dec. 3,1611. Esq.

 Bur. 1594 at Silkstone. , '

A. ' T, stone. of Thorpe.
¦  '^¦1  C. I D,

Pedigree of Wordsworth of FEmsTONE— Coii^hzticd.

li. I

I
Thomas \Vordesvvorth, of Don
caster, Grocer, executor to his
father. Will proved at York,
Dec. iS, 1667, Burried at Don
caster, Dec. 6, 1667, aged 35.

c. I

Priscilla, mar.
Sept. 26, 1650.
Died in 1^2,
aged 6S.

Ilenrv R.iyney
ofTyers Hill,
Ejent. Bnrried
at DartlcKI,
Nov. 16, 1OS2.

Maiy -

- James Croft,
of Hessle, co.
York,yeoman.mar. settle
ment dated
Oct. 14, 1642.

Susan = John Bingley,
j of Adwick —
I upon Dearne.
A

AViJIiam Wadswortli = Grace, eldest
of Wraith llnuse, par.
of Penfstone, cldci^t
son. Bapt. May 7,
1615. Bur. at Silk
stone Apr. 16, 1658.

d<au'r and co
heir, widow
of John Ell
son gent.
Living: 1697.

Richard W , of Wraith House and Norm:inton, bapt. Feb. 23, 1654,
¦ Buried at Normanton Aug. 1721. He sold Wraith House.

: Elizabetii, dau'r of
.... Nicholls.

I

Richard A\ , of Normanton and Falthwaite, = Mary, dau'r ol fohn Robinson of Appleby.
born Circa 16S0. Buried at Barton in 1762. Pur- ]. P. Buried ;it Sl. Nicholas Church,
chased an estate at Sockbridge. \Vhiteha\'cn, circa 1770.

Ann, married = Redman Favell, eldest son of Jame.^
• . ¦ -1714 ' I Favell of Normanton, bapt-Jan.S,
1694; bur. at Normanton, 1729.

John W , attorney at = Ann, only dau'r of \\'illiam
Law, born at Sockbridgc, I Cookson cf Penrith, mercer.
N0V57, i74[. Died Dec. Born Jan. 1747. M^irr. Feb.
30, 17S3, bur. at Cocker- | 5, [-ibii. Cur. at Penrith,
mouth. I Mai'. 11, 177S.

I
Ann. == Rev. Thos. Myers,
I LL.B . ofthe Brow,
I Barton, Vicar of La-
zonby, 1763.

I I
Richard W , Collector of = Elizabeth, mar. at Ackworth
the Customs at Whitehaven, j June 2^, 175?. Bur. at White-
Disinherited by his father. haven V
Died June 16, 1794, aged 51. |

I Sog,

¦ed 7S.

Richard W ,
Attorney at Law-
Staple's Inn, Lon
don. Born at Cock
ermouth 19 and bapt.
Aug. 29, lyoS. Died
May 19, iyi6.

AVilliam W
of Rydal Mount.
The Poet. Born at
Cockermouth Apr.
7, 1770. Died Ap. 23
and bur. at Gras
mere Ap. 27, iS^o.

¦ Mary, dau'r of John
Hutchinson, Esq., of
Penrith. Born Au".
]6, 1770. Married in
1802. Died ]-^n. 17,

John \A'
born Dec 4, 1772
Comiuander ()t
H. E. I. Co's
ship ?* Earl of
Aberga%'enny." Drowned off
WeyraouthFeb.
5. 'S05

74-

John W , I
only son died at J'^^hn W

Christopher AV ,
D.D., b<nn at Cocker-
mouth lune 9,
Master ot Trin
Camb. Dean of Book
ing iSoS. Rector of
LambetJi. Surrey ; Sun-
bridge, Kent; and Ucli
Held, Sussex. Died at
Burte, Sussex, Feb. 2,
1S46.

Priscilla,
dau'r of
Charles Lloyd. Ksq., of
B i r in i n g-
ham. Banker.

I

Dorothy W
born at Cockermoutli
Doc. 2S) '77'- Died
at Rydal Jan. 25, 1S55,
unmarried

Ambleside Aug
18, 1846, agef! 31,
unmarried. Staff
Assistant-Surgeon to H. M.
^Forces in the Io
nian Islands.

Stockljridge, M.A. Rector
and _ J'limb-
lands. Born
1S02.

E.

-ISt wife Isabel,

= 2nd wife.

= vl

wife,

t
Catherine,

Willian

eldest dau'r ol

Helen,

M

iriann,

born Sept.

AV

Henrv Curwen

dau'r of

dau'r of

rt, 1S08.

Esq., ot Work

. . . Rnss

Died June

—

ington Hali.

ol Edin

D'

lan.

4, 1812.

Fanny,

Died at Lucca.

burgh.

dau'r of
Died
Thomas,
R. Gra
iS54,s. p.
born . . .
Died Dec.
I, 1812.
ham,Esq.,
Carlisle
Dorotliy AA' ,
2d wife, horn
Aug. 16, 1S04
Marr. May 11,
1H41. Died s. p.
jnly 9, 1847.
=Edward Quillinan, := Jemima Anne
Esq., of the 3rd
Dragoon Guards.
Died at Loughrigg
Holme, Ambleside,
lulv S, 1S51,
aged 59.
Deborah, 1st
\%ife. dau'r of
Sir Sanuiel
Egerton
Brydges. Bart.
Mar. Feb. 4,
1S17. Died
May 25, J822,
¦'^^^-<^' 27-
 f.;g.
I'J
E. I
Henry W

F.f G.iH.

dau'r" of .... Troubeck.

William.

John.

Jane Stanley = Rev. Bennet S. Kennedy.

John AA'
of Trin. Coll.,
Died 1839.

.... ISt wife,-
dau'r of Rev.
Geo. Day.

-- Charles W , D.D., of Glenalmond, = .... 2d wife,
Perthshire. Bishop ot united dioceses dau'r of Rev.
St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dumblane. \Villiam Bar-
Born 1S06. ter.

Christopher W , D.D., --
born 1S07. Cannon of West
minster. Bishop of Lincoln
1869.

. . . dau'r of
. Frere.

1.1.

Thomas Myers, Esq., Accountant. = Lady Mary, eldest dau'r of Henry,
General of Bengal. Born 1704. zd Earl of Abergavenny.

John Myers, I>a
rister at Law.

: Rachel Bridge, Dover Mary Myers :
Court, Harwich. living in 1S50.

- Hugh Robinson
Captain R. N

Thomas. Mary.

Catherine.

lulia Rachel, born 1811.

John, in Holy Orders

Henry, Attorney at Law.

Mary Ann, marr.
Rev. AV. IL Dixon.

Richard W ,= Mary, dau'r and
Attorney at Law, I heir ot J. Scott,
born at Norman- | Esq., Branth-
ton, 1752. waite, Cumb.

ist wife Anne,
dau'r of . . .
Gale,of White
haven.

I

John AA' , born at -
Norman ton, 17=;;. Cap
tain IL E. 1. Co's Ma
rines. Died 1820, s. p.

= 2d wife EUzabeth,
dau'r of . . '. . Lit-
tledale of \\'hite-
haven.

James ^^' ,
In Civil Service,
Bengal. Died s.p.

Favel W
In Ci\'il Service,
Madras. Died s. p.

1
loseph W ,
'in H. E. I. Co's
Service Died
unmarried.

I
John W
died 1816, un
married.

I
Richard W
died unmarried.

Captain W . Peake, R. N., :
eldest son of Admiral Sir
Henry Peake. Killed in
action.

: Mary = W. R. Smith,
j Purser, R. N.
Died 1853.

Dorothy, = Benson Har-
I rison, Esq.,
Green Rank.

Robinson W , = Matilda,
Collecter ot Customs dau'r of
at Harwich. lioru ...
1775. Died 1856. Forth.

Mary ^ Richard.
j Smith,
Esq.,
A 

Elizabeth,
Died s. p.

- William Anne, died = 1st husband Rev. Charles -
Barker. Alav 18, Favel, Rector of Brington
iS4^, s. p. Hunts._ Born Jan. 30,
1739-

Died May 13, 1807.

¦ 2d husbiind Rev. = 3d husband
G. Ii-eland. Can- J. Coombe,
non of Chester. Esq.

Charles, (^j^ C,

i

Eli2abeth.

William W , of Snodhill.
Died Oct. 5, 1646, bur. at Pen
istone.

:(?) Ann, dau'r of . , . Died
Aug. 24, 1653, bur. at Penis-
tone.

Nicholas Wadsworth. of Shepherd's = Margaret, dau'r and co-heirof Thomas AA'"ombwel[
Castle. Dead in 1592. of Thunderclirte Grange. Marr. July 22, 15S4, at
Kcclcstiuld.

AVilliam W
Bur. at Penistone, iMarch 27.
1694.

, of Snodhill = Mary, dau'r of .

4, 1690, bur. at Penistone.

ded June

Ambrose AVady^worth, Schole Hill, ChurchwardL-n == Elizabeth, dau'r of . . . Hurst.
1650-54. Bur. at Penistone Feb. 9, 1680. Marr. Mar. 13, 1633. Bur. Sept,
Z2, 1682.
L- M.

O

N -•

Pedigree of Wordsworth of Penistone — Continued.

John W , of Snodhill, bapt. = .
of Penistone, Sept. 23, 1652.

I
Mary, bapt. March 6, 1657.

Sarah, bapt Jan. 15, 1654.

I
Martha, bapt. May 27, 1657.

John,8, 1687.

bapt. Aug.

Susanna, bapt. Oct.
27, 1690.

Elizabeth, bapt. Feb.
27, 1692.

William, bapt Dec 7,
1695. Died May 8, 1696.

Jonathan, bapt. Apr.
22, 1697.

AVilliam, bapt. Sept.
5, 1700.

John AV ,
of Handbanak
Langsett,bapt.

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William, Martha, bapt. = William
who died Dec. 21, 1644, Earn-
young. shaw.

Anne, bapt.

= John Mars

Nov. 4,

den, marr

1649.

Aug. 30,
16S8

ist wife Prisci
dau'r ot Lyon
Banforth of Pule
HiU. Mar. Feb.
4, 1667. Died
July, 17, 1683,
bur. at Penistone.

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^^-Ciregory W ,
Schole Hill, yeo
man, hapt. May
25, 1646.
Died Jan. 15, 1717.
Bur. at Peni.'^tone.
Acquired Gravels
through his sec
ond wife.

^ 2nd wife Anne,
widow of John
Couldwell ot
Gravels, yeo
man, Marr.
Nov. iS, 1688.

Elizabeth, bapt.
May 25, 1681.
Sarah, bapt.
Oct. 7, 1682.

Ambrose W ,
bapt. Jan. 11, 1671 .
Supposed to have
settled in the AVest
Indies and died there.

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John VV ,  ^
veoman, bapt. May 21, 1674
l!ur. at Penistone May 3,
1732. Inherited ainoiety of
Schole Hill estate.

, Schole I Iiil, = Diana, dau'r of ...
Gelsthorp. Married
Oct 6, 1698. Bur. at
Penistone, Nov 10,
1775-

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Phineas of Pen
istone bapt.
Mar. 10, 1676.
Churchwarden in 1733. Unmar.

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Gregory,
died in
intancy.

Mary, bapt. ^ John
Apr. 3. 16S0. New-
Warr. Aug. ton,
1%, 1709. Esq.

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John \V
mercer, bapt. Dec. 26, 1703.
Bnr. at Penistone Feb 10,
1770. Heir to moiety of
Schole Hill estate under his
father's will.

, of Penistone, == Anne.
~ dau'r
of

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Phineas AV , of Penistone, = .
bapt. Mar. 4, 1710. Died Mar.
6, 1776, buried at Penistone.
Heir to moiety of Schole Hill.

Mary, bapt. Jan. 7, = Joseph Par-
1702. Marr. Nov. kinson,
20, 1725. See M. I. apothecary,
in Penistone Penistone.
Churchyard.

Gregory, Ambrose, Jonathan,
Margaret, Priscilla and Martha.
All died in infancy. See M. I.
at Penistone.

John, bapt. Oct. 27, 1731.
Bur. June 3, 1737.

William, bapt. July 29,
1735. Died young.

Betty, bapt.
Mar. 9, 1738.

Nancy, bapt. April k),
1735. Unmarried.

Phineas, bapt. Feb. 2, 1760.
Died s. p.

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Elias W , of Gravels, yeoman, bapt. Jan. 7, 1691. Churchwarden in
1744. AA'iU dated Jan. 14, 1777. Leaves his sons John and Elias lands in
Penistone; Elias sole executor. Bur, Dec. 26, r77S. O.

Betiy, dau'r of ...
Bur. Oct. I, 1777.

Gregory, bapt.
Mar. I, 1693.
Died young.

Martha, bapt.
Aug. 20, 1689,

Ann, bapt.
Nov. 21,
1669.

P. Q^'

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Elias W , of Gravels, bapt. Dec 5. = ist
1727. Churchwarden in 1773-74. Over- W
seer of the Poor, in 1796. Died Sept. 2S,
iSoo, bur. at Penistone, o. s. p.

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fe Sarah, dau'r of John = 2nd wife Elizabeth, dau'r of William, Gregory, bapt. Gregory, bapt.
, mercer, of Penis- Atkinson, of Langsett. She marr. May 24, 1730. June 27, 1732.
tone, Mar. Ang. 9, 1757. secondly William Lockwood, of Pen- Died young. Died young.
istone. Died s. p.

John 'W , of Gravels, = ,^Marv. dau'r of  Ward of
bapt. Dec. 14, 1734. Died 1 Thurlstone. Marr. Sept. 9,
Mar. 3, 1802, bur. at Penis- | 176;. Bur. Nov. 21,1777.
tone. I

Mary, named :
in her father's
will.

: Thoinas Ann, bapt. June 6. 1718. = John Schofield,
White. Named in her father's Mar. June 25,
will. 1740.

Elizabeth, bapt.
Apr. 29, 1720.
Bur. Mar. i,
1735.

John, hajit. Sept. 7,
1766. Died young.

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Elias, bapt. Nov. 4,
1767.

Williain, bapt. Dec. 25,
1774-

Sarah, bapt. July
17, 1772.

Elizabeth = Benjamin Reyner, who sold Gravels.

Q.

Thomas who sold Shepherd's Castle to the
Rev. John Shaw, Vicar of Rotherham.

William W

, = Mary Sylvester.

Edward, in the service of
Sir Horatio Vere.

Barbara = Richard Burdett.

Thomas.

William.

Jonathan W , of Schole Hill. Overseer 1689. Church warden =
1698. Died Jan. 24, 1702, bur. 2t Penistone. |

John.

Elizabeth. = Thomas Greaves,
of Penistone.

Elias W bapt.
Jan. 10, 1661. Bur.
Nov. 26, 1678, o. s. p.

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Jonathan W
of Schole Hill,
Apr. 14, 1663.

bapt.

Josias and Martha.
twins, bapt. Ap. 14,
1666. Died in infancy.

Richard, bapt. Nov. 21,
1674. Buried Aug. 12,
1679.

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William,
bapt. Oct.
9, 1677.

Sarah, bapt.
Jan. 6, 1659.

Elizabeth,
bapt. Mar. 4,
1668.

Sarah, bapt. Elias W , of Schole Hill,
Apr. 12, yeoman, born Oct  , 16S5.
1684. Bur. at Penistone.

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Jonathan W , mercer, of == Sarah, dau'r nf ...
Penistone, bapt. Apr. 30, i6qo, | Bur. Jan. 18, 1761.
Bur. May, 24, 1763.

Richard, bapt. = Esther, dau'r

Oct. 20, 1692.

of ,

Elias W , of Schole Hill.
bapt. M.ay S, 1725.

Ann, bapt.
June 18,
1718.

Sarah, bapt. Nov. 23, 1711 = John Morton, marr.
Died Sept. 21, 176S. June 24, 1734.

Mary, bapt. Aug.
5, i7'i3. Mar.
Aug. 9, 1757.

: William Silver-
wood of Not
tinghara.

Richard,born 1726.

John W , mercer, nf Penistone, = Martha, dau'r of  Crossley.
bapt. Dec. 26, 1703. I Marr. June 8, 1723.

Mary, bapt. April 26, 16SS.
Bur. Nov. 23, 1693.

John W , Mercer, of Penistone. =
bapt. Oct. 19, 1731 I

Ambrose, died
young.

William, bapt.
July 29, 1735.

Sarah, bapt.
A p. 24, 1724.

Ann, bapt.
June 34, 1726.

Barbara, bapt. Apr. 16, 1730. = John
Marr. May I, 1750. Greaves.

Sarah = Elias W

, of Gravels, marr. Aug. 9, 1759.

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Peiiiukee of Wordsworth of Penistone — Continued.

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Fhomas ^A , of Lhurlebtone, born 1523, living 1578.

John W , of Redwood, Lower Thuistone, par. of Penistone, 1600-1650.

, ot Water Halt, born 1538, living 1578. =^ .
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William W , 1605.

Josias W , of Cumberworth and Walton Mall. Will dated Feb. 28, 1670. = Mary, dau'r of . . . John, living i(S49-5o,

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John AA , of Nostal and = ftlary, dau'r ot Robert AA'ood
Monk Briton, gent., born i6r)7, 1 of Monk BriLlon, born l6!^7.
Died Aug 10, 1721, Bur. at Marriage seltlement in 16^5.
Roysinn. Had i^ioo by will 1 Died Jan. 2.5, 1707. bur. at
of Martha Adams. AA'ill I Royston.
dated Aug. 3, 1721,

Josias", named in Mary, named =:Jnhn Hutchinson
\he will ol his m her father's ' of Royston.
father. 1670. will.

Elizabeth, named = Anthony
in her father's I Cawood.

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John.

Martha.

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John. Martha. Mary —Joshua Pearson, of AVortley.

Thomas A\' , of New I.aithes, Carlton, living 17.^3 Had £iao by will of AJartha Adams — Anne.
A\ lil dated Oct. 24, 1719, mentions three grandchildren, John and "Francis AA'est and Anne I

AA'iUiam W , of New Laithes, = Anne, dau'rof Thonias Stead, at Ones-
only son and executor, described as j acie, gent., marr. at Bradrittd, Dec. 6,
cousin of Elias W , in 1722 and I 1722 Died April 26, 1702, aged 90, bur Jan. 21, 1741, agtd ^8,
i7-i4- 'It Bradficld.

Eliz.ibcth, born 1703. ^John Matson
Burned ;it Roystnn of Riivstnn.

Mary. Anne. Jime
Each of these daughters to have
;^400 when aged 12.

AVilliam W

, of New Laifhes, died May 14, 1765, aged 26, bur. at Royston.

John W , of Hermit = Martha, dau'r 
Hill, par. of Tankertiley, Mokeson of lAlill
and Walton, snn and Farm, par. of Silk-
heir, stone.

Anne = Thomas Smith of
I Wakcriuld.

Eleanor, mar. at Barnslev= Nathan Laverick of Syke House, eent ,
Oct. 25, 1716. "1 ' fo '

Anne. ^ Thomas W

, of London.

John W , of Walton,^ .... dau'rof
named in his fathers' will. I Goodier, Ksq.

Frances.

Mary.

One marr. ... Kaye, the other  Wright.-

Thom.as W
second son.

Robert.

) — Ann Smith, his cousin, cousin
I ot Mrs. Gill, of Notton.

John, of AValton. AA'iUiam.
Hoth marr. dau'rs ot .... AVood of Oltenshaw,

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Thomas. John.
Both of .. , near Rochdale; had each a'daughter who died very young

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Mary, died unmarried.

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Elias W , of Monk Bretton, gent,, born 1698. AA'ill dated
Mar. 28, 1734. Died July 4. 1734, bur. at Royston. Executor
to his father's will. Prohihit<.d by it from marrying any ot his
Uncle Thomas's daughters.

= Rebecca, dau'r of William Wood,
born Dec. 24, 1702. Marr settle-
' ment dated 1722. Died Aug. 30,
I 17S7.

Josias of Aldgate,
High Street, Lon
don.

S. |T.

. =: Thomas Wainwright of Royston.

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John'W , of Monk Bretton,
gent., born 1723. Will dated Aug.
10, 1754- Died April 12, 1755, bur.
at Royston.

— Elizabeth, dau'r and sole heiress of Joshua Pear-
] son ut Wortley, by Mary, daughter of Anthony
I Cawood above. Born 1724. Marriage settle-
I ment dated 1744. Died Dec. 3, 1775.

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Thomas AV , = Elizabeth, dau'r of
of Barnsley, Sur- j  Leatham,
geon, b. I7H- '3"''* ' Esq., of Barnsley.
at Royston, Dec, i
1774- ' I 

William, died Nov.
28, 1726, aged 2 yrs.
Bur. at Royston.

John W , of Nottingham and = Mary, dau'r of  Henson,
Monk Bretton. Will dated April I of Nottingham. Died Aug. S,
15, 1789, Died June 24, 1789. | 1791-

Thomas of Monk
Bretton, died un
married.

William of Monk
Bretton, died un
married.

Elizabeth, only child and heiress,
resided at Carlton, near Ponte
fract. Died in 1840.

Rev.. William W , of NottiuglK  
Nov. 5, 1784. Qualifled for a Magistrate for the West Riding, of
Yorkshire, 1S46. Died at Monk-Bretton May 15, 1869, bur. at 1^
Royston.

d Monk Bretton, born = Frances, dau'rof William Taylor of
Nottingham. Died May 12, 1S26, at
New Lodge, aged 29, bur. at Roy
ston.

John, died
unmarried.

Thomas, died
unmarried.

Mary, died
Julv, 14,
1791.

Helen, born at Sheffield June 8, = Rev. Robert Spofforth, Vicar of Market
1816. Married at Royston Mar. 1 Weighton, fourth son of -Rev. Ralph
iS, 1840. Spofforth, Vicar ot Howden.

of Monk Bretton and South = Margaret, dau'r of 
..,4.„„j xJ^^fI^ u^^T, PpV. t-7 Gannon, married at Roy-

WiUiam W , ^. .    -
Hill, Hemel Plempstead, Herts. Born Feb. 17,
1818, at Ardwick, Manchester. Died Aug. ii, 1877.

ston Dec. 1870.

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Markham.

Ethel Margaret, born at Monk Bretton, Dec. 24, 1871.

Jane Cawood, born Dec. 18, 1S21, = Henry Judson Spencer,
at Ardwick, Manchester. Died I of Barnsley and Robroyd.
Feb. 2, 1844, bur. at Royston. Marr. at Barnsley in 1843.

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John Cawood W , F
sight, Manchester, June i,. „
April 7, 1S56. Now of 20 Harley St., Cavendish Sq

R. C. S., born at Long- = Mary Anne, eldest dau'r of William
i83j. Marr. at Smyrna, | Chasseaud of Smyrna, Asia Minor,

born April 14, 1826.

Jane Cawood W , born at Barnsley in 1S44.
Died there June 3, 1849, bur. at Royston.

W'illiam John, born
April 27, 1^57.

i\Iary Chasseaud, born Blav 10, 1S58.
Died Jan 18, i860.

Thonias W. , of Barnsley, born :
Jan. 28, 182s, at Monk Bretton. Marr.
at Falkirk, Dec. 26, 1850.

= Anne, eldest dau'r of Benjamin
Day, Esq., of Falkirk.

Fanny, born at New Lodg?, Monk Bretton, =
.\pril 10, 1826. Married in 184S. Died at
B.irnsley in 1854.

" Frederic Jervis Jackson, Esq.,
of Barnsley, Surgeon.

Fanny.

Helen.

I
Jane.

William.

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^i'rederic.

I.

Frederic Jervis, born in 1850.
in 1863.

Died at Barnsley

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Pedigree of Wordsworth of Penistone — Continued.

John w

, of Water HaU. Will dated Sept. 13, 1603.

Gregory named in his nephew John's will.

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William, Ralph Wadsworth, of Water HaU, gent , born =
son and in 1591. Died Aug. 14, 1663. Will dated June
heir. 1715 Chas. II Buried at f*enistjne.

¦ Elizabeth, dau'r and coheir of Richard Mickle- Henry.
thwaite, of Sw lithe Hall, gent. Died Nov. 11,  '
1665, aged 6S, bur. at Penistone. Richard.

John of Water Hall.
Will dated March 15,
1613.

Jane.

John Wadsworth, of Swaithe -
HaU, 1690, aged 64. Had hve
children, but it is not known
by which ot his wives he
had Joshua, Mary and Eliza
beth.

: 1st wife Deborah, = 2nd wife Sarah, dau'r =^ 3rd wife Sarah,

dau'r of 'Robert
Hyde of Denton.
See Harl. MS. 2161,
fo. 256. Bur. Ap.
4, 1603.

of WiUiam Spencer of
Attercliife, gent.
Marr. at Sheffield,
Dec. 15, 1664.

dau'r of
Rich. Mar. at
Penistone, Aug.
I, 1665.

- 4th wife Mar}', dau'r of
Sir Kdward Rodes of
Great Houghton.
Died Oct. 14, 1673, bur.
at Darfield.

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Mary, marr. at ;
Shefiield, April
23, 1652. Died
June 6, 1704,
aged 72, bur.
at PcnisLone.

John, bapt.
"Dec. I, 1650.

Eliasaph, bapt. June 24, 1652. :^ Mercy, dau'r of Peter
Bur. at Worsbro, Aug.2'3,1689. Jackson of Leeds.

Joshua, bur. at Worsbrn',
July 26, 1667.

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Elizabeth, .

: John Nettleton
of Dewsbury.

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Mary -

-- Sylvanus son
of i\ illiam Rich
of BuU House,
Esq., a Cap
tain under
Lord Fairfax.
: Samuel Sykes of
Hull, Alcrchant.

Jnsias HaU.aged

Wadsworth, of Waters
Died Feb. 18, 1709,

: Sarah
Marr.

dau'r of George Beaumont of the Oaks, Darton.
in 1656. Died Feb. j6, 1691, aged 66.

Elias W
et egregi:

, •' Artium magister junenis pius
'-1 eruditus." Died s. p. Nov. 19, 1660.

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John W
HaU, born
Feb. 8, 1657. W
Penistone, Feb. 4, 1685.
Died Feb. iS, 1709.

of Water ~- Ann , dau'r of Wil-
at Darton, , liam Milner of
Burton Grange,
Esq. Died" Mar.
15, i7ii,aged53.

Josias Wadsworth, of Mincing Lane, ¦— ? Mary, dau'r Samuel W ,
London, lUercliant, a Director of tlie of . .. Bur. Merchant of
K. L Co. Bapt. at Darton, Jan. 29, | at St. Uun- Mincing Lane,
16&1. Bur. at St. Dunstans in the East , Stan's, Oct. London, born
July 5, 1736. WiU dated April 12,1732. 1,1770. Jan. 23, 1607.
Left ;r^5oo to a Foundling Hospital.

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EUas W
01 Sliefficld, Mer
cer, born Jan. 24,
1664. Died July
20, 1723, bur. in
Nether Chapel yd.

- Ruth, dau'r of
.... Died in
1712. Bur. in
Cpper Chapel,
Sheffield.

Josiah AA'adbworth (?), born;= .
at Burton Grange, April 30, 1
1691, bur. at Darton (?j.
Will dated Feb. 2, 1748. ]
[Died 1750 ? ]

Sarah, bnrti -=^ Robert Peirce

at Burton
Grange,
Jan. 4, i6Sj.
Died iVov.

of l..ondon.
Merchant.Marr. June
12, 1729.

Elizabeth born at
BurtnnGrange,
Ajn-il 27,
1694.

A son who
succeeded
his father
as Director
of E l.Co.

John, eldest son,
died May 3, 1721,
aged 28, bur. in
Nether Chapel,
Sheffield.

Elias of Sheffield, Mer
cer v<"'ne ot the seceders).
Died Nov. 14, 1740, aged
45, bur, in Nether
Cnapel.

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Samuel, of London, third
son, Mercer. Left his for
tune to Josias W..of
Water Jlall, Penistone.
Died in 1794,
aged 73.

Josias Wadsworth, Mincing Lane, Merchant, Lon., born 1719 Pur- i
chased estates at W" ad worth, Co York and Sevenscore, Cii.I<.i;ut Built
theCloth Hall at Penistone m 1763. Bur. at Wadworth July 16,1760.

: Anne, coheiress of ..Arthur Robinson, Collector of
Oubtoms at Sunderiand Marr. Feb 9, 1749
Died Nov. 19, 1814, aged 93, bur. at Wadworth.

A dau'r -

William Henry
Chauncey, Esq.

: Sir Charles Egleton Kent, Bart., of Fordham
St. Genevieve, Co. Suffolk. Died LMarch 14,
i8ri, aged 6j, buried at \V;idwurth.

Mary, eldest dau'r and coheiress :
born in 1751- Marr. May 20,
1771. Died Sept 17, 1S17, bur
at Wadworth. .[,
Note— On the 23rd May, 1S26, SirC. E. Kent, Mrs. Ann Verelst, and Henry Verelst, Esq., convej'ed the Manor of Penistone, WaterHall in Penistone, and Ileelev
Farm in Hoylandswaine, to F. \V . T. Vernon Wentworth, Ksq., of Stainborough, Casilt^.

.iVnn, d.tu'r and coheirc;
Marr at Wadworth, De
20, [770. Died Dec. 4,
1^55, aged 84.

^ = Ha--i-y A'erelst, of Aston Hall, Co. York, and
IStvenscore, Co. Kent, born 1731 Died at
Boulogne, Oct. 24, 17S5, bur. at Minster.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. I I'J
Wiilliam Wadysworth, who married Helen Crossland, Aug. ii, 1582, is
regarded as a lineal ancestor of William Wordsworth. The name is spelled
as above on the Parish register at the time of the marriage, but at the death
of his wife it is given as William Wordsworth. William, of Wraith House,
who married Grace Allison, has his name spelled Wardsworth in the record
of his death, but in a monumental record of his day, it is given as
\\'adsworth. This latter, being open to public inspection, would be more
accurate than a transcribed parish register would be. As pointed out previ
ously, William Wordsworth the poet, \\'as his great-great-grandson.
The two spellings W'adsworth and Wordsworth, it has been shown, have
been in common use to designate the same persons, as well as different
members of the same fomily. The great fame of William Wordsworth, the
poet, his brother Christopher and his nephews, the bishops, Charles and
Christopher, have brought that orthography^ into so much prominence, that
the tendency in England has been in recent years to write the name as
Wordsworth. In the original writings this or a similar spelling has been rarely seen, but
the more recent writers have been prone to employ whatever orthography
thev chose when taking their materials from more ancient sources. Had
they not done so that which is now pointed out would ha^e been obvious
lono- ago. The comparative absence of the Wordsworth name in the early
times, with the corresponding prevalence of the W'adsworth name then
and the reversal in the iSth and 19th centuries all point to the common
origin. It has been seen that Hunter found himself unable to ascertain the deriva
tion of the name Wordsworth, but referred it to the name of some obscure
hamlet which he hoped might be found. This is unaccountable when he
had before him the original sources which plainly showed the derivation
when he transcribed the names and in general altered their spelling to suit
his ideas. He was also perfectly familiar with the town of Wadworth and
must have been with that of Wadsworth.
The same difficulty seems to have existed in the work of others, as for
instance we find that Lower says Wadsworth is a township_in Yorkshire,
where the familv resided in eai Iy times, but Wordsworth means " the posses
sion of Orde, " and is name of soms locality which he cannot find.
{Patronyniica Britannica, i860, pp. 368,360.)
Hunter states that the Wordsworth arms were derived from those of
0.x;spring and also affords us the following collateral information which shows
the association between the different parties which might readily lead to the
assumption of .arms which were " in the market. "
Radulpho Wordysworth, John Wordysworth and Will" Wordisworth,
were witnessess to the granting by Richard Kaye to Godfrey Bosvile of the

128 WADSWCJRTH FAMILY HISTORY.
arms of Oxspring, in the ist year of Edward VI. (1547), {Himter, South
Yorkshire, ii., 356), and 1556, Jan. i. Mr. Godfrey Bosville, Rich"* Kaye
and Anne Tempest were sponsors atthe baptism, in the church of Silkstone,
of Godfray Waddysworth {Misel. Gen. Herat., 138 1, {2), iv, g ; Memoirs of
Wordsworth, i, 466). The arms of Wardesworth are given as Ar. 3 bells
az., crest, a stag pass. ar. ; and of W^ordsworth as Ar. bells az., crest, an
antelope's head erased ar. (Burke, Gen. Armory).
The arms assumed by the Wadsworths of America, are those of Wads
worth of Hayton, but it has probably been done, as is customary in such
cases, solely from similarity of name and not proved descent, since, so far as
anything has been found by me, the probabilities are that those arms were
granted since William and Christopher Wadsworth landed in America.
The variations which have been given the name and which with one
exception are probably authentic, are as follows :.
Waddewurth, Waddeworth, Waddesworth, Waddysworthe, Waddj's-
worth, W'ardysworth, Wordysworth, Wadysworth, Wardesworth, Woidis-
worth, Wordesworth, Wadesworthe, Wadesworth, Wadsworthe, W'ards-
worth, Wurdesv\orth (.?), Wadeworth, Wadworth, Wadsworth, Words
worth. One point in the writer's experience may serve to illustrate how certain of
the above changes in the orthography are brought about. It is nearly a daily
experience with him, that persons not used to writing his name, almo.st
invariably insert an r, making it Wardsworth. In the handwriting of most
persons, when this is transcribed or printed, the a is naturally taken for an
o, and the transference to Wordsworth is completed.
The W^adsworths and Wordsworths appear to have unquestionabU' come
from Yorkshire formerly, but during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
they are found scattered over much of the southern portion of the West
riding of Yorkshire, and to have migrated into the adjoining counties, as well
as into Norfolk, SuflTolk, Essex, Ireland, Flanders, Spain and elsewhere.
Several were also in the service of the East India Company.
Ecclesiastical and Maritine affairs appear to have been largely the cause of
this dispersion. Owing to such dispersions and the distance from the origi
nal sources of infonnation, great difficulties lie in the way of tracing anv of
the early immigrants into this country back to their native places. This has suc
cessfully been done with but few ; even authentic inform:ition appears to be
wanting in the case of such prominent names as Washington and Standish.
No doubt is felt by the present writer but William and Christopher Wads
worth, who reached our shores in 1632, sprung from the Yorkshire stock,
but on what spot they lived before coming here is vet a problem unsolved.
That William Wadsworth landed in Boston, Sept. 16, 1632, has long been
known, but Christopher's date of landing has been unknown. However,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

information has recently been placed in my hands by Mr. Horace A. Wads
worth, of Lawrence, Mass., \vhich determines that also.
A bible that was formerly the property of Rev. John Pierce, of Brookline,
Mass., and later that of his son, John T. Pierce, of Geneseo, 111., has
recently come into the possession of Mr. S. W. Cowles, of Llartford, Conn.
This was printed in London by Bonham Norton and John Bill, 1625.
This work has been seen bv Mr. Wadsworth, who informs me that in it
are written in the handwriting of Christopher ^Vadsworth the following :
" Christopher Wadsworth, His Book "
" Christopher and WiUiam Wadsworth landed in Boston by ye ship Lion,
1 6th September, 1632, together in ye ship. "
Elsewhere in the same bible the name of Thomas Wadsworth is written
before Christopher's in such a way as to convey the idea that he was proba
bly the father, or at least, the near relative of Christopher.
The emigration together of William and Christopher from England, the
fact that \Villiam's name alone is given in the list of passengers, indicates
that the popular belief is correct, that they were brothers — or at least, near
relatives. From Christopher by direct decent on his mother's side, comes Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.
As stated before, the birthplace of William and Christopher, has not been
ascei'tained. In the life of James Wadsworth, of Geneseo, New York, (Am. Jour.
Education, 1858, v. 3S9-406), it is stated that William came from the
Palatinate of Durban.
He is also reputed to have come from Kent, and from Braintree and from
Chelmsford in Kent.
The Kentish derivation ^vould naturally follow from his association with
Hooker and the Braintree Company after his arri\al in this country, but he
did not come with the Braintree Company, nor has the writer been able to
find any evidence that he was ever associated \vith the Braintree Company
previously to his arrival in this country, unless we can regard as such
evidence the statement of Thomas Day in his Historical Discourse delivered
before the Connecticut Historical Society, Dec. 26, 1843, at the time of the
first meeting in the AVadsworth Athenum in Hartford. He says that '• Wil
liam Wadsworth, the younger brother of James, was born in Long Buckly,
Northamptonshire, England ; removed thence to Braintree, in Essex ; emi
grated thence, with his family, to New England, and was admitted a free
man of Massachusetts, * * * November 5, 1632. " (l.c. p. 31).
Regarding the correctness of the above nothing is known. Who the
James W^adsworth was above referred to, is a mystery. Whether William

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was born at Long Buckby or not, this much is certain that some families of
Wadsworths have long been residents of that town. Daniel Gookin, with
whom, in 1622, William first came to America, was a native of Kent, England.
It certainly seems that the prominence attained by some members of the
Wadsworth — Wordsworth family, both in America and England, is such that
thev are entitled to a complete family history of both branches, as well as of
the main trunk. This prominence has been obtained as poets, generals,
divines, scholars, presidents, masters of colleges, and in various other walks
in life. If each member of the family, both in England and Amenca would
do what he could in searching old wills, records registers, memoranda, etc.,
etc., the broken links might be taken up and the chain rendered nearly or
quite complete. Successful work of this kind is impossible without the aid
of our English cousins, for they alone are within the reach of the material
necessary to be examined for that end. Tradition should not be used except
as a hint in what direction to search, but written evidence only should be
relied on. The orthography ofthe original records should be carefully pre
served in order that the various changes and relationships can be noted.
Brethren ! will you not for the common good try to place all the material
bearing upon the family history and genealogy in perraanent form ere it is too
late, so that it may not be lost to future generations, but serve as a bond of
union between them.
It is with a feeling ofthe deepest regret that the writer finds himself com
pelled to take leave of this paper — the labor of weeks, insteadof, as it ought
to be, of years — in its present crude, and ill-digested shape ; but the printer
is inexorable, and hence bidding the brethren and the subject farewell, the
writer will betake himself to burrowing in his mother earth again.

VIII.
WADSWORTH FAMILY RE-UNION.

HELD AT DUXBURY, MASS., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. I3, 1882.
Pilgrims, we gather here upon the shore
On which our fathers dwelt in days of yore.
Their foot-prints oft have pressed upon these sands;
Their sons have left their mark in many lands.
Where'er our country's flag has been unfurled,
(And their stout hands have borne it round the world)
And they who bore our own immediate name,
Have left it high upon the scroll of fame.
Where'er our fathers on the sea or land
Have battled for the right, with sturdy hand,
Those of our name were foremost in the fray :
TJiat name we meet to honor here to-day.
May we, their sons, who bear that honored name,
Ne'er tarnish that bright heritage of fame;
But in the coming years, as tirae rolls on.
Add luster to the fame our sires have won.
Geo. p. "Wadsworth, Chelsea.
Sometime early in the spring of 1881 the writer opened a book which he
found lying upon his office table entitled "Sprague's Annals of Eminent
Clergymen." The book belonged to the Lawrence Public Library, and had
been accidentally left there by some one employed about the premises. The
head-line across the page where the book opened vvas "Rev. Benjamin Wads
worth ; " and upon glancing down the leaf it was observed that the sketch
was upon one Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, of Danvers, Mass., who was for
many years a minister of that town, and who died about the year 1825.
The sketch revealed that the man was one of far more than average intelli
gence, an earnest Christian, and one who had been a leader in his day and
generation. It struck me at once as a little remarkable, that this man thus
spoken of had lived a long life of usefulness and of considerable notoriety so
near, less than fifty miles from where I was born, and where my father re
sided for more than fifty years, and never knew that such a man lived. In
these days of rapid communication such a thing could hardly happen. The

132 WADSWORTH KAiMILY HISTORY.
sketch there recorded made such an impression upon my mind thatlresolved,
when opportunity offered, I would find out who this Rev. Benjamin Wads
worth was ; and at the same time thought I would see who I was myself,
as up to this time I had known scarcely anything of my ancestry, and could
hardlv tell the name of my grandfather. I had ever acted under the im
pulse of the common remark, that if ancestors were worth knowing about,
or ever did anything that made their memory worth perpetuating, such facts
would come without searching for them. In this theory, no doubt, the past
two or three generations have been quite content ; and nearly all of the de
scendants of thefirst settlers, after the first hundred years, havebeen at sea in
regard to their ancestrv, until it has been looked up bv parties in interest of
the present generation. The pleasant lines of Pope, to us of to-day. are full
of meaning : " Know then thyself,
Presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man, "
And to know ourselves we are obliged to study the lines of descent from
which we originated, for it has now become thoroughly recognized that
" blood is thicker than water, " and to know ourselves we must know from
whom we descended. In the great economy of nature, men do not gather
grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles, and the human race in its course of
development, is dependent the same upon the laws of nature, as is anv other'
life and growth.
How best to accomplish this object Avas the question that presented itself
for a practical solution. I had no doubt but there were others of the name
who would gladly unite in the research, but as I did not have a blood rela
tive by the name, excepting one brother, and not even an acquaintance, it
became at once patent to me, that little could be accomplished in the direc
tion of procuring historical information, unless there ^vas some means of
awakening an interest. The idea of a reunion to be followed by a history,
seemed feasible, and after employing the spare hours for a few weeks in
looking up the project, early in May of the same year. I prepared and printed
about a hundred circulars setting forth the following ;
THE WADSWORTH FAMILV.

Office of the L.mvrf.xce D.\ily E.vci.k, 1
Lawrence, Mass., M.iiV, i88r. T
The purposes of this circular are to suggest to you the propriety of gathering and putting
in some proper form for preservation, the history and geilealogical record of the Wadsworth
Family in America. From what information I have gleaned, I am inclined to the opinion that
nearly all now living are descendants of William and Christopher Wadsworth, whose appear
ance here was cotemporaneous with the earliest settlers. In the public records I find the gen
ealogy complete for three generations, and the history of perhfips half their descendants is

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traced down to the year 1800. Since that time there is no feasible way of obtaining it except
by' information and personal knowledge of those now living. We all know something of our
ancestry as it has been told to us, and were such knowledge as is now possessed collated,
together with what is now recorded for public information, the task would be well nigh com
pleted. We of this generation take just a little bit of pride in being able to say that our ances
tors were among the first upon the soil and those ^^ ho are to come after will take even more
pride than we, and if the history of the last hundred years is preserved it must be done by parties
in interest and can best be done by the present generation.
There are few if any family names that have a local history so early, that the present posses
sors, (considering the numbers), know so little of one another as do those by the name of
Wadsworth. For the first two hundred years after William and Christopher landed upon these
shores, the courses of their offspring were remarkably divergent. Like many of the early set
tlers they were soon " straightened for land, " and in about four years after their arrival WiUiam
and his family moved to Connecticut, and though Christopher remained and died in Duxbury
his sons and grandsons were distributed through Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. But
frora causes no doubt just as natural, goodly numbers of their posterity have drifted back to the
great centres of population and business.
No one claims for the Wadsworth Family that they have been especially noteworthy as
leaders in the great march of civilization, though it may truthfully be said that they have con
tributed their full share in what tends to make a people great and noble, and there certainly
have been several of the family, that, in whose achievements, all who bear the name take just pride.
For the purpose of carrying out this idea and to see and discuss " the changes time hath
wrought, " I would suggest the propriety of holding a family reunion which shall include all by
the name of Wadsworth or ever possessed of that narae, and think that September 16, 1882,
would be a time most opportune for holding it, as it will be the 25otli anniversary of the land
ing of the good ship Lion in which William Wadsworth and not improbably Christopher were
passengers. And I would further suggest for the purpose of considering this project that a
business meeting be held in Boston some afternoon or evening in the near future, and if thought
desirable a committee of arrangements raight be selected. Whjit say you?
Respectfully, HORACE A. WADSWORTH.
In the directories I had at hand, I found the names of about forty Wads
worths, and to each of these I sent this circular unsealed.
The response was all I had anticipated. From these circulars I received a
dozen letters all fully endorsing the project, and offering such aid and assis
tance as in their power. One of these letters I feel specially called npon to
allude to. It was sent by George Wadsworth, civil engineer, of Apopka,
Florida. It breathes of the spirit of life and enthusiasm, so natural in the
Wadsworth family, but sad to relate, only a few days after the letter was
written, he was stricken down with malarial fever and went to the great
family above where all is joy and unity forever. His widow soon after came
north and joined with the family at the reunion. Following is the letter :
ApoPK.'i City, Fla., ii, 7, '81.
My Dear Horace A.: — I am glad to receive your circular, regarding the Wadsworth Family.
Have often wished I had the time to take hold of it myself. Vou are just the one to do it, and
I shall be glad to give you all the help I can. (Excuse me if I tell you your printer's finger

134 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
slipped in an o for an a in the word genealogical). You no doubt have raore data on the
subject than many others. Joseph Wadsworth, raember of Legislature from Duxbury, a few
years ago commenced the work and after his death I tried to find his manuscript but learned it
was lost. His vvidow did live in Boston near the reservoir, I think, Mt. Vernon or Dearn
street, perhaps. Of course you have consulted the records in the Historical Society Room.
Dura Wadsworth, my mother'^ -oldest brother, if living is prohably the oldest member, must be
ninety-five or thereabouts. I think you would do well to run down and see him at Duxbury.
Was hale and vigorous two years ago. His son Dura, a man of say 65, has a very good
list of his branch of the family, he lives at Duxbury also. You would do well to visit both
Duxbury and Plymouth, with a view of drawing some inspiration for this work. (I was at
Provincetown last November, and for the first time learned that the Pilgrims, so called, touched
there first, and indeed, the first of their .American offsprings saw light of day at that place. I
had always supposed Plyraouth Rock to be the stepping stone. I have something of a list
myself frora Christopiier down, but it is not in hand, but in Hiram, Me. I would look it up.
Presume you have or will have it from some source soon. Llewellyn A. Wadsworth, Hiram,
Maine, (2d cousin to rae), will give you as rauch help as any one, a late descendant of Gen.
Peleg W., my father's father. I dare say you have sent him a circular, though I do not know
how you got his name, or raine either, as for that; but drop him a line, he is interested and will
be good help in Maine. Write also my sister or send circular to Mrs. Lusannah W. Hubbard,
Hiram; Samuel L. W., Eastport-; Bro. Dr. Peleg W , Maiden, Mass.; Alex. W., surveyor,
Boston. You will find all these pleased with the undertaking, and will help. I take it you
raay have sprung from William. Was not the original name. Wordsworth? A good suggestion
to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the landing of the "Good Ship Lion,'' with her worth-y of
freight. Get the cut of some substantial old craft and dub her the " Good Ship Lion, " if you
cannot get the fac simile. It will do just as well and we will all believe it. The coat of arms
is a noble one too. The Eagle, bearing the world in his talons, or something of that kind. It
is the sarae as the war departraent of the U. S., I think. I have taken some interest in this
\ery idea and -will try to get my notes together for you, perchance you may not have them. I
would like to see photos of those old folks, William and Christopher, too, and they can be had.
A funny idea, you raay think, but if you will send to Charles H. Miller, 17 Willoughby St.,
Brooklyn, N. \'., for Nos. 8 and 9 of Miller's Psychometric Circular, you will see cuts of Julius
Ceasar and of Claudius, Prince of the Volsci, of the Augustine Age. You will be well repaid
for getting these papers if you have not seen them. Ten cents a number or Si. 00 a year,
monthly. I hope you will get them for it is a subject I am much interested in.
Well, you have undertaken a great work and have a vast correspondence in hand. The
name is scattered in every State that I have been in, and that is nearly all. It is just the work
I would like to help you in, and may be I can do so. Expect to remain in Florida this summer
but next — God willing — hope to spend north, and shall see you of course.
GEO. WADSWORTH, C E.

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The thirtieth of November of that year appeared to be a favorable day for
the business meeting, and accordingly I prepared and issued the following :
CIRCULAR.
" The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benediction. "— JforrfswoW/t,
Office of the Lawrknce Daily Eagle,

THE Lawrence Daily Eagle, )
Lawrence, Mass., Nov. i6, 1881. (

Dear Sir : A meeting of gentlemen of the name of Wadsworth is to be held at Young's
Hotel, Boston, on Wednesday P. M., Nov. 30, 1881, at 2.30 o'clock, to make arrangements for
a family reunion, and also to take action, if thought advisable, to have the genealogical record
of the family properly preserved.
HORACE A. WADSWORTH.

INDORSEMENTS.
*' I shall be very glad to attend such a gathering as you propose. "
George P. Wadsworth, igS Commercial St., Boston.
" Vour circular meets my hearty approval, and I shall be happy to co-operate with you to the best of my
ability in bringing the matter to a completion. " J. D. Wadsworth, Barre, Mass.
" I shall be very happy to attend such a meeting any time, business permitting, and have no doubt wre
shall find many more cousii^S than we are aware of, " I P. Wadsworth, M D., Maiden, Mass.
" I shall be pleased to see the undertaking meet vvith success and will do all in my power to aid you. "
Wm. a. Wadsworth, Quincy, Mass.
" I like your project pf a family reunion." Samuel L. Wadsworth, Eastport, Maine.
" We received your proposition and are greatly in favor ofthe meeting. "
loHN Wadsworth, \ xt *.uk -mt ..^
ISfOAH Wadsworth, i Northboro, Mass.
" I am pleased with this plan of a gathering of the Wadsworth family. Anything I can do to aid you
you are free to ask of me. " Geo. F. Wadsworth, Union Safe Deposit, Boston.
" I approve of the suggestions you make. " L. L. Wadsworth, 97 Central St., Boston.
'* You can rely on me to take hold of tlie raatter with you, and shall be glad at any time to know of the
progress of the work. " Samuel D. Wadsworth, Hiram, Maine.
" I will cordially co-operate with you so far as I can. "Fernando Wadsworth, 39 West St., Boston.
" I perfectly coincide with your idea of calling together as raany as possible ofour name. "
Charles Wadsworth, East Boston.
*' I shall be glad to assist you in the matter and hope to hear from you again. "
Geo. a. Wadsworth, E. Winthrop, Maine.
" The subject of your circular is on§ in which I feel deeply interested. "
Edward B. Wadsworth, 12 Kneeland St., Boston,
" I am in favor of a reunion of the Wadsworth family, and also a business meeting as you suggest. "
Robert T. Wadsworth, Camden, Maine.
'* Shall be glad to give you any information I can. " Ja.mes T. Wadsworth, 390 Federal St., Boston.
At that meeting were present the following gentlemen :
Geo. P. Wadsworth, Chelsea ; Dr. Peleg Wadsworth, Maiden ; John Wads
worth, Northboro; Geo. W. Wadsworth, Boston; Alden B. Wadsworth,
Maplewood; Horace A. Wadsworth, Lawrence; Edward B. Wadsworth,

136 WAD,S\VORTn FAMILY HISTORY.
Boston ; Cephas Wadsworth, Roxbury ; Lewis L. Wadsworth, Chelsea ;
Geo. F. Wadsworth, Boston ; Fernando ^Vadsworth, Duxbury ; Albert
Wadsworth, Saxonville, and two or three others whose addresses were not
obtained. The meeting was organized by the choice of L. L. Wadsworth,
Chairman, and H. A. Wadsworth, Secretary. The result of the meeting
can be noted by the following circular w'hich was soon after issued :
Lawrence, Mass Jan. i, 1882.
Dear Sir :
On Wednesday afternoon, November 30th, last, a meeting was held at Young's Hotel in Bos
ton, composed of gentlemen hy the name of Wadsworth, at which it was voted to hold a family
reunion at Duxbury, sometime during the coming Summer or early in the Fall, provided suitable
arrangements can be made.
At this meeting a General Coramittee was chosen, with full powers, to carry out the project,
composed of the follovving :
Hon. Lewis L. Wadsworth, Chelsea, Mass. ; Horace A. Wadsworth, Lawrence, Mass. ; Dr.
Peleg Wadsworth, Maiden, Mass.; Fernando Wadsworth, Duxbury, Mass.; Edward B. Wads
worth, Boston, Mass.; Hon. S. D. Wadsworth, Hiram, Maine; Albert Wadsworth, Saxonville
Mass.; Geo. F. Wadsworth, Boston, Mass.
A cordial invitation is extended to you and your family to participate. You will be further
notified when the arrangements are completed.
Address communications to
H. A. WADSWORTH,
Sec'y General Committee,
Lawrence, Mass.
The work of finding our people and obtaining information was then com
menced in earnest. The committee sent all the addresses of Wadsworths
that they knew to the Secretary, and others as they became acquainted with
what was going on lent valuable aid in this direction.
Subsequent meetings were held at Young's Hotel, in Boston, at which the
time and place of the reunion were decided upon, and other details of the
affair arranged. In good time the following invitation was promulgated,
printed on a four page tinted card, with gilt edge ; the first page, on opposite
corners, at the top having the figures 1632— 1882, while in the centre was the
coat of arms of the Wadsworth family in lake red, over it being the word
Reunion, and underneath the word "Wadsworth, Duxburv, Mass., Sept.
13, 1883."

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On the fourth page was a cut of the landing of the Pilgrims, shown else
where in this book. The inside pages of the invitation card contained the
following : WADSWORTH FAMILY RE-UNION.
To all persons by tite name of Wadszuorth, Greeting:
A Family Re-union of allpersons by this name is to be held at
DrxBURY, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Septe.mber 13TH, 1882,
to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the binding of the first settlers of the name in America.
To this gathering all persons by the name of Wadsworth are invited, and also those whose
parents or grandparents bore that name.
Please notify the Secretary of the Committee how many merabers of your family will attend,
which notice must reach him before August 30th, so that suitable accommodations can be pro
vided in the way of transportation and hotel accommodations.

Hon. Lewis L. Wadsworth, Chelsea, Mass.
Horace A. Wadsworth, Lawrence, Mass.
Dr. Peleg Wadsworth, Maiden, Mass.
Fernando Wadsworth, Duxbury, M.iss.
Edward B. Wadsworth, Boston, Mass.
Samuel D. Wadsworth, Hiram, Me.
Albert Wadsworth, Saxonville, Mass.
George F. Wadsworth, Boston, !Mass.

Committee

Re-union.

Address communications to
H. A. WADSWORTH, Secretary, Lawrence, M.ass.
PROGRAMME.
Every person upon arrival on the day of the re-union is requested to call and register at the
rooms of the general committee, at the Standish House, which house will be the headquarters
of the company.
Dinner will be served at 12.30. After dinner there will be an address of welcome by the
Chairman of the General Committee, toasts, responses, singing, etc., etc. During the afternoon
carriages will be in readiness to convey all who may wish to visit places of historical interest
in that vicinity.
Supper served at 6 o'clock. public services
will be held at 7 o'clock in the evening, commencing with a business meeting, to be followed
by short historical papers, read by different members of the family.
promenade concert
at 8.30, to be followed by dancing. Music by the Standish House Orchestra. The Duxbury
Era.ss Band has been secured to furnish music during the day.
conveyances, hotel accommodations, etc.
A special express train will leave Boston, Old Colony Depot, at 9 on the rabrning of the
re-union for Duxbury, and ample accommodations will be provided for the return to Boston.
Round trip tickets, ,«[.oo; children half price, to be had at the Old Colony Depot on the
morning of the re-union.* Persons desiring to reraain at Duxbury a few days can have their
tickets endorsed by Fernando Wadsworth of the General Committee, making them good for
two weeks, at no extra expense. Dinner and supper tickets will be $r.25, includmg both meals;
children, half price.
Nine hundred invitation cards were given out.

I3S

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

STANDISH HOUSE, DUXBURY, MASS.

THE GATHERING.
No pleasanter autumnal morning was ever ushered in than that of Wed
nesday, September, 13th, 18S2. The rain of the previous day had driven
away all dust, and the atmosphere was clear, cool and bracing. At nine
o'clock a special train of seven cars backed into the Old Colony depot at
Boston, to convey the company to Duxbury. The waiting rooms at the
station were nearly filled with those who were to participate in the festive
occasion, and a remarkable company it was. Wadsworths and their de
scendants were there representing nineteen different States and Territories,
and strange faces greeted one at every turn, yet all were cheerful and in good
humor, and few waited introduction or ceremony. The cars were soon
loaded and away. The train being a " special" there were few stops, and
the forty miles were made in about an hour and a half. While the train was
on its way a gentleman canvassed the train to determine the politics of each
voter and it was found that there were seventy Republicans and six Derao
crats on board. Carriages were provided at the South Duxbury station for
those who wished to ride to the Standish House, it being about a mile dis
tant. Standish shore where the hotel is situated had assumed a gala-day ap
pearance. Flags were displayed and at the house of Mr. Drew, descendant
of the Wadsworths, the entire front of the residence was decorated with
bunting and evergreens, while over the main entrance«was placed a large
motto in evergreen, bearing the name " Wadsworth." At twelve o'clock
Mr. Gardner, a photographer from Boston, took several views of the com
pany in front ofthe hotel. Dinner was served at one o'clock in the spacious
dining hall of the hotel, gotten up by Copeland, the well known caterer of

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY. I39
Boston. At the table the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Lewis L.
Wadsworth, of Boston, called the company to order and invited Rev. Dr. H.
Weston, of New York City, to invoke divine blessing. The dinner was
gotten up in fine style, and beside each plate was a tinted card announcing
the following as the menu: WADSWORTH RE-UNION.
Standish House, Duxbury, September 13th, 1882.
Henry Copeland, Boston, Caterer.

BILL OF FARE,

Boiled Salmon,

FISH, Baked Blue Fish,

ROAST.

Beef.

Lamb, Turkey,

ENTREES,

Escalloped Oysters,
Squash. Beets,
VEGETABLES.
Corn. Tomatoes. Sweet Potatoes,
pies.
puddings.
Cocoanut, Apple. Squash,
Indian, Plum. Tapioca.
DESSERT,
Watermelon.
Grapes, Pears,
ICE cream.
TEA AND COFFEE.
When the " inner man" had been supplied the company were invited to
the parlors of the hotel and the Chairman after imposing silence said :
Friends : — About a year ago a number of gentlemen by the name of Wadsworth, strangers
to each other, met at Young's Hotel, Boston, where it was decided there should be a re-union
of the Wadsworth family held at Duxbury on the 250th anniversary of the landing of William
and Christopher Wadsworth upon these shores. To-day we meet to celebrate that event. At
the building of the Pacific Railroad it was the custom of the workmen as they finished each
hundred miles to put down a stake to denote the progress on the work, so it is a suitable thing
for people of the one name to occasionally meet, renew old associations and form new ones
that those to come after us may know with what honor and pride we cherished the name, and
imbue in them a desire to cherish and honor the name in time to come. The representatives
from nearly every State of the Union have come together to-day for this purpose, and it gives
me pleasure as Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements to welcome you all to the old
town of Duxbury, where Christopher settled and only a short distance frora where William first
found a New England home.
He then introduced Hon. Isaac N. Wadsworth, of Manchester, Maine, as
master of ceremonies. In assuming the position, he remarked as follows :
Mr, Chairman. Brothers and Sisters:— It gives me great pleasure to meet so large an
assemblage of persons bearing one name, drawn together by ties of blood and common kin
dred, I am proud to be one of your number and to greet you as a member the same family.
140 WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.
I certainly did not anticipate being called upon to participate publicly in the more formal cere
monies of this auspicious occasion; but since it is easier to ask questions than to answer them —
to announce toasts than to respond to them, especially in this dense crowd, perhaps I should
deem myself fortunate and accept the position assigned me, Mr, Chairman, with profound
gratitude. The exercises except the papers published elsewhere in this voluiTie were
iiTipromptu. Gc(jrge Wadsworth, Esq., of Buffalo, before reading his paper
spoke of this the first reunion of the family, and the toast master also called
upon Dr. Weston who gave some very pleasant remarks. He next toasted
the ladies, and Mrs. Elizabeth W^adsworth Parmiter, of St. Louis, re
sponded substantially as follows :
As the Jew to Jerusalem, the Moharamedan'to Mecca, so the Wadsworths have come from
their homes on the mountain, and from the cottage by the sea — -from the crowded city and
from the broad praries to the stamping ground of the Wadsworths, We join hand and heart
in bringing tribute of grateful memories to our ancestors. The spirit of William and Christo
pher comes to-day, reproduced through seven generations.
My theme is women. Eulogy is not in keeping with their character — they are noted for
deeds rather than words. E^¦ery Wadsworth chose his mate, if life's stormy passage was
often made more stormy, and the sunshine more brilliant by the woman of the house. So the
Mother in Israel kept the heart when the harp strings were broken, as Miriam cheered with
songs and Timbrel when the waters were before and the foe following. So the Wadsworth
women have preserved the sweetness of their tempers, and the sharpness of their wits from the
time of William and Christopher till now, and though not a subject of history I have no doubt,
it was Joseph's wife who told him how to manage the Charter on that auspicious day.
The possession of vigorous coraraon sense, strong religious faith, and a stern perseverance to
benefit her age, is a legacy bequeathed to this family, I bring kindly greetings from many who
are not with us, but of us, with best wishes for all vvho have met this day.
In behalf of '• Our Western kinsmen " the toast master called up James
^V^^dsworth, Esq., real estate agent of Chicago, to which he responded:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I rise with diffidence to respond to the senti
ment which has been read, yet feehng it a privilege to tender thanks to our Eastern kinsmen
for this delightful re-union. Yielding to none in veneration for our ancestors, Christopher
and William, we wish to express in some degree the gratitude we owe to God, whose will it was
that they should prefer a wilderness to tyranny at horae. Landing near the close of the year,
they could expect little else thfin suffering, yet, having put an ocean between them and their
oppressors, they prepared to spend the «'inter on a strange and inhospitable shore. Could
we look in upon their hearts as they journeyed and builded, what thoughts, hopes and fears
would raeet our gaze. With a resolution to do or die in an efiort to plant broad and deep, the
foundations of a great and free state they knew no wavering in their purpose. Now we of the
West bring greeting to our Eastern cousins.
Leaving a New England home over fifty years ago, for my own part, I have spent a lifetime
in the west. Arriving at Chicago vvhen little more than a village existed, there my years have
been spent in building and re-building — a life of work rather than words. In our raoving west
a model of free institutions was left behind, worthy of admiration, the foundations of \\ hich
were laid by the sacrifices, and devotion, of these pilgrim friends, whose arrival in .\merica we
this day celebrate."

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The next sentiment was " The Medical Profession," in which the Wads
worth family has been conspicuous, and Dr. Hiram Nichols Wadsworth, of
W'ashington, D. C, responded. He said :
Gentlemen and Ladies : — I was not aware when I accepted the nomination to respond to
the toast of " The Medical Profession " that there was any medical gentlemen of our name
present, or I should have declined in favor of the older and more worthy because more neces
sary and useful parent of a profession of which I am but an humble branch, I take pride,
however, in responding because my heart goes out to that noble, and self-sacrificing profession;
and I am full of adrairation and veneration for its members, for I sincerely think there is no oc
cupation, no business, and no profession that comes nearer to the command of Jesus Christ to go
out into the highways and hedges and bring in the " poor, the maimed, and the blind," than the
educated and kind-hearted physician, who at all times and at all hours is going round doing
good, not more to the rich than the poor, and often, oh, so often, without money and without
price. It makes me exultant to look around over such a large assembly of ladies and gentlemen of
our name for many reasons, and one is because my wife has always said she " would like to see
a tall Wadsworth," forgetting perhaps how many years of life a small one has guided her
through the rough billows of life in safety, interspersed with, I trust, many happy moments, and
is still ready to love, to care for and shield her ! I think she is now satisfied that the Wads
worth race has neither degenerated in mind or in body.
Another reason why I am proud to meet this large assembly of our name is because in all my
life I have never met with a dishonorable man, or a friiiolous woman of the name of Wads
worth ! Born and raised among the ( Ireen Mountains of Vermont, I early drank in a love of
liberty, of independence and self-reliance. Five years of my youth were spent at school under
Simeon Hart at Farmington, Connecticut, where my father was born, and where my uncle
Sidney Wadsworth lived and died; and' the last thirty odd years of iny life I have done all
that I could to uphold the honor of our family in the Capital of our country,
"Our Provincial Kinsmen," were next toasted, and Hon. W. O. Harring
ton, M. P., of Halifax, N. .S.. responded.
Ladies and Gentlemen: — Being called upon by your Chairman to respond to the toast,
" Our Provincial Kinsmen," I do so with much pleasure, not that I ara entitled to do so by
being a member of the Wadsworth family, so many of which have gathered here to-day, but
by marrying one of the best of the Wadsworth women, becoming thus, if not a real Wads
worth, a part and parcel of one, I rejoice that I ara able to be present with you to-day, to hear
the words of welcome given in your opening address, to be introduced to many, whom I hope
may be life-long friends, and to be a participator in the festivities and enjoyments of the day,
"¦The reverend gentleman who preceded me, said that the Wadsworths vvere a belligerent race, I
can only speak for myself, I have raarried one, who has descended from the fighting branch
of this family, and I can assure that gentleman and all who are here that she is the very reverse,
\_Hear, Hear'] being gentle, loving, and endowed vvith all the qualities of a true wife, \_Hear,
Hear,-] and I advise that gentleman, for delays are dangerous, that if he can induce a Wads
worth woman to have him [Laughter] to marry her at once, and he will find in her not only a
loving wife, but a helpmate who will smooth the vvay, and also brighten the days of his declin
ing years. Now, ladies and gentlemen, you see standing before you the grandson of a Loyalist,
united by marriage to the granddaughter of a Revolutionary general, thus fulfilling in part the
prophecy that the lion and lamb, in this connection, I should say, the lion and the eagle, (see
* Rev, H, Weston, D, D,, N, Y, City, whose address I have been unable to obtain, [Ed,

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new version) shall lie down together. [Laughter,] Hoping that Mrs, Harrington and I will
have the pleasure of meeting vvith you at the next re-union, I thank you kindly for the privilege
of addressing you.
The addresses of Hon. Llewellyn A. Wadsworth and Dr. M. Edward
Wadsworth are inserted elsewhere. The Chairman read the following reso
lution which was unanimously adopted .
Whereas, The Hon. Sarauel D, Wadsworth, a member of our Executive Committee, has
recently been bereaved by the death of his first born, and is now detained at his home in
Hiram, Maine by the dangerous illness of his only daughter and his youngest son, therefore,
Resolved, That we extend to our stricken brother our kindest emotions of sympathy in his
bereavement, and also the grevious disappointraent of his enforced absence from our re-union,
and that a Copy of this resolution be forwarded to him by the Chairman and Secretary,
During the exercises the following telegram was received :
New York, Sept, 13, 1882,
Horace A, Wadsworth, Secretary Re-union, Duxbury,
Mrs, Wadsworth unites vvith me in regrets that serious illness prevented our attendance, hope
to be sufficiently recovered for the five hundredth, STRONG WADSWORTH,
The exercises closed by all joining in singing the following ode which was
printed on the back of the bill of tare card :
PARTING HYMN.
by MRS, e. s, wadsworth, malden, mass.
Tune — Old Hundred.
( )ur fathers' God ! To Thee we Hft
Our grateful hearts in joy and praise,
That on this hearthstone worn with age,
Thou'st kept the fire through nights and days.
We thank Thee for our sires so true ;
Their lives of wisdom, peace and love;
The mantle rich to us bequeathed
Was wrought by Thee in Heaven above.
We thank Thee for our welcome here :
This hallowed ground, this storied shore ;
On memory's walls engraved 'twill be,
Till time with us shall be no more.
We thank Thee for our kindred dear,
Sb large of interest and of plan;
Their health and wealth we pray Thee guard,
And vouchsafe peace to all our clan.
And now, in parting, on each head,
Thy hand in blessing richly lay.
And keeping them safe beneath thy wing.
All through life's weird and narrow way.

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During the afternoon it being represented that Miss Mary Wadsworth and
her sister, two aged ladies who resided in that neighborhood were in some
what -destitute circumstances, the " hat" was passed around and they were
handed a donation of thirty' dollars.
Following these exercises a business meeting was held and after some
discussion it was voted to form a Wadsworth Family Association, and the
following officers were elected :
President, Lewis L, Wadsworth, of Chelsea; Vice Presidents, George Wadsworth, of Buffalo,
M. Edward Wadsworth, of Cambridge, Samuel D, Wadsworth, of Hiram, Me,, Theodore A,
Wadsworth, of New York, David L, Wadsworth, of Wellington, O,, H. Nichols, Wadsworth, of
Washington, D, C; Secretary, Horace A. Wadsworth, of Lawrence; Treasurer, Edward B.
Wadsworth, of Boston; Executive Committee, James Wadsworth, of Chicago, David Wads
worth, of Auburn, X, Y,, E. Clifford Wadsworth, of Brooklyn, N, Y„ Isaac N, Wadsworth, of
Manchester, Me,, Alexander Wadsworth, of Duxbury.
The follovving Rules and Regulations were adopted :
I. This organization shall be known as the Wadsworth Family Association.
2, The purposes of this association are : To unite fraternally persons by the name of
Wadsworth, and those whose parents or grandparents bore that narae. To aid in collecting
material for a complete genealogy and history of the Wadsworth family. To hold re-unions at
such times and places as shall best subserve the desires of the association,
3, The officers of the association (at the expiration of the present terra) shall be a Presi
dent, a Vice President frora each State where a membership exists, Secretary, Treasurer and
three Directors, which, together with the President, ist Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer
shall form a Board of Management to whom shall be entrusted the entire business of the
association ,
4, The President may call special meetings when the interests of the association so demand,
and shall call a meeting when a majority of the board so request in writing.
5, The terms of the officers shall be one year or until their successors shall be elected,, which
business shall be in ordet at the first meeting of the association after the expiration of that
time. The fee for membership shall be One Dollar to all males over 21 years of age; others
may join by signing the rules and regulations in the hands of the Secretary, These rules and
regulations may be altered or amended by a two-thi'rds vote at any regular meeting of the asso
ciation, THE EVENING PROGRAMME.
At an early hour the Standish House hall was brilliantly lighted, and as it
proved the evening entertainment was no insignificant part of the exercises.
J. Howard Richardson's orchestra, of Boston, furnished the music, and it
should be here noticed that in addition Mr. J. H. Wadsworth, of Boston,
leading musician at the Boston Theatre, gave his services in augmenting the
orchestra. The line of march was soon taken up under the direction of
Edward B. Wadsworth, of Boston, as floor manager, and George F.
Wadsworth, of Boston, Hiriam W. Wadsworth, of Harvard College, and
William Wadsworth Reed, of Lexington, as aids. Many of the ladies
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jewels was especially noticeable. Handsomely engraved souvenirs, with the
coat of arms of the Wadsworth family, printed in red on last page of cover
were distributed, announcing the following as the order of dances :
ORDER OF DANCES.

I

Quadrille,

2

Waltz, '

3

Money Musk,

4

Quadrille,

5

Quadrille,

6

Schottische,

7

Quadrille,

8

¦ Virginia Reel,

9

Waltz,

IO

Quadrille,

II

Hull's Victory

12

Quadrille,

13

Lancers,

14

Galop,

15

Caledonian,

16

Quadrille,

MARCH AND CIRCLE. Our Re-union. Old '96,
250 Years Ago.
Polka.
Portland Fancy,
J Fioward Richardson,
Wadsworth,
Our Forefathers,
Blue Danube,
Our Western Friends,
Duxbury, Waltz.
The Good Ship Lion,
Social,
Our Family,
We Part to Meet Again.
At the close of the dance before intermission, H. A. Wadsworth was
called into the hall, and James Wadswortli, of Chicago, called the attention
of the company by saying that there had been a great call to see and hear
the man who had conceived the idea of a Wadsworth family re-union and
who. had been largely instrumental in making it a grand success; he there
fore introduced Mr. Wadsworth, of Lawrence, who said :
I do not feel that words of mine at this time are needed to emphasize the part I have taken
in this affair. They will neither add nor detract from my stature one whit. It is true, as the
gentleman who has introduced me has stated, that I was the projector of this re-union, but this,
to my mind, is but a small matter. The success of an enterprise does not lie entirely in the
person who conceives it, but its success depends in the main whether its consummation be any
thing that fills a popular demand. If this be so then there are others raore capable probably
as executors, than the projector, vvho bear it on to full fruition. And to this I attribute largely
the success of this re-union; other Wadsworths before me have conceived the desirabihty of a
history and a re-union, but their efforts not being seconded they came to naught. And is it
not true, my friends, in the great economy of nature that all plans are executed and all discov
eries made about the time they are needed to minister to our comfort? The wonderful forces
in nature such as steam and electricity existed in the early stages of the world's history, but
had they been discovered at that time there would hardly have been demand enough to make
their apphcation valuable, and so all the way along we find things coming to pass about the time
the people are ready for thera. An* so vvith this gathering, it is a success because the Wads
worths were now feeling ready and willing to have it. And this being ready and willing re
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voted a nuisance because of her tattling propensities. This woman was upon her death-bed,
and as is the custom the minister called to give her a few words of consolation. The old lady
talked freely of her resignation to the decrees of Providence, winding up with the phrase, " I now
feel ready and willing to go." "This is well," exclaimed the good minister, " but allow me to
add, I have consulted all your friends and your neighbors and they too are ready and willing to
have you go also.'' This gathering, I trust, has been a pleasant and profitable one to all of us.
It is a gathering I am sure that each and all vvill remember .as a prominent episode of our
lives. yVnd in closing the thought again comes across my mind as to to the reason that I am
introduced at this stage of the proceedings. You all remember that sweet song so much ad
mired by Philip Phillips, the chorus of vvhich runs — "Though you may forget the singer you
will not forget the song," and though you may and vvill forget those who have labored so zeal
ously to make this re-union a success yet the song — the refrain — this gathering will not be forgot
ten and vve trust the results will live to bless generations yet unborn.
The dancing was not concluded until past one o'clock, though a portion
of the large company left for Boston on a special train an hour before.
Thus ended an event which from every standpoint was a decided success,
and which will long be remembered by those vvho participated.
For some reason a few who attended did not enter their names upon the
Secretarv's register, but those who did are as follows :

Dr. Hh-am N, Wadsworth, Dentist, Washington,
D, C,
Robert Singleton, Tin and Sheet Iron Worker,
Chester, Penn,
Hiram W. Wadsworth, Student, Barre, Mass,
J, B, W^adsworth, Morrisville, N, Y,
Mary A, Wadsworth, Hiram, Me,
Dr. E, GlifFord Wadsworth, Dentist, Brooklyn,N, Y,
Mrs. E, Clifrord Wadsworth, Brooklyn, N, Y.
Mrs, Hiram N, Wadsworth, \Vashington, D, C,
Elizabeth F, Wadsworth, Teacher, Hiram. Me.
Mrs, Marcus FuUerton, Brockton, Mass,
Ella I, FuUerton, " "
Emma J. FuUerton, " "
Mrs, George B, Poole, " , "
Mrs, Susie Walker Wadsworth, Albany, N, Y,
Mrs, Zilpah Wadsworth Spring, Portland, Me,
Albert T, Poole, Artist, Brockton, Muss,
Nellie .M.Poole, "
Nathan F. Wadsworth, Farmer, Hopkinton, Mass.
Mrs. Hellen Mai Bartley, Boston, Mass.
Luther W. Bridges, Hopkinton, Mass.
Martha Mear^, Quincy, Mass,
Cephas Wadsworth, Blacking Manufacturer, Brock
ton, Mass,
Mrs, Cephas Wadsworth, Brockton, Mass.
Maria F, W:idsworth, "
Mary Edna Wadsworth, Chelsea, Mass,
Winnifred Wadsworth, Maiden, Mass,
J. Elmer Rounds, "
Lulu W. Rounds, "
George W. Rounds, "
Emma A. Wadsworth, South Franklin, Mass.

James Wadsworth, Farmer and Real Estate Agenl,
Chicago, 111.
\\"alter S, W.">dsworth, Chelsea, Mass,
Lillian W, Bridges, Hopkinton, Mass,
Nettie A, Wadsworth, South Franklin, Mass.
Wait Wadsworth, Plymouth, Mass,
Mrs, M.T'.eytcs. " "
M, E. Wadsworth, Cambridge, Mass,
Barker Alden Neal, Gardiner, Me,
M;lry Barker, Hopkinton, Mass,
Joseph Wadsworth, Farmer, Livermore Falls, Me,
Elijah Wadsworth. " " " "
Willie Wordsworth, Drummer, Brookfield, Mass,
Sarah Wadsworth Hackett, Chelsea, Mass.
George Wadsworth, Carpenter, Brockton, Mass,
Joshua E, Drew, Duxbury, Mass,
Joseph H. Wadsworth, Post Master, South Frank.
Iin, Mass,
Frank H, Wadsworth, Senior in Yale Lavv School,
Farmington, Conn,
Harry H, Wadsworth, Attorney, Farmington, Conn,
Lucy E, Wadsworth, Landlady Wells House,
Syracuse, N, Y,
Robert T, Wadsworth, Contractor and Builder,
Camden, Me,
Mrs. Robert T, Wadsworth, Camden, Me.
Harry S. Wadsworth, Business Manager, New
Lisbon, O.
Lusanna Wadsworth Hubbard, Hiram, Me.
N, W, Stoddard, Patent Leather Manufacturer,
Brockton, Mass.
Eveline Stoddard, Brockton, Mass.
Mrs, C, H. Taber, "

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Mrs. A. II. Bumpus, Roxbury, Mass.
George W. Wadsworth, Commission Merchant,
Roxbury, Mass.
Eliza S. Wadsworth, Hopkinton, Mass.
F. E. W. Bridges,
Amy T. Bridges, " "
Lillian W. Bridges, " "
Lizzie W. McMecham " "
Mrs. H. M. Wadsworth Gaylord, New Hartford,
N. Y.
Paul Wadsworth, Agent D. & H. C. Co., Albany,
N. Y.
Mrs. E. iM. Day, AVest Winfield, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary Strong Wadsworth Filer. Warehouse
Point, Conn.
Mrs. Jant Wadsworth Viers, East Granby, Conn.
C J. Viets, Manufacturer, New London, Conn
Lewis E. Wadsworth, House Joiner, Camden, Me.
Dexter E. Wadsworth, Milton, Mass.
Llewellyn A. Wadsworth, Farmer and Teacher,
Hiram, Me.
Emily E. Pierce, Hopkinton, Mass.
Mrs. Sarah S. N. Pierce, Hopkinton, Mass.
Frederick Snow, Becket, Mass.
Lewis S. Wadsworth, Painter, Plymouth, Mass.
Minnie H. Hubbard, 'i'eacher, Hiram, Me.
Peleg T. Wadsworth, Farmer, " "
William F. Hayden, Brookfield, Mass.
Earnest T. Hayden,
Jesse Wadsworth, Chelsea, Mass.
Mrs. John Wadsworth, Winthrop, Mass.
Mrs. Edward I. Wadsworth, Winthrop, Mass.
Ruth R. Wadsworth, South Hiram, Me.
Rispah B. Wadsworth, " " **
Emma Wadsworth Emerson, Boston Mass.
Sarah Louisa Wadsworth, Weston, Ont.
Elizabeth Wadsworth, " "
Charles F. Wadsworth, Farmer, South Hirara, Me.
E. \V. Goodier, Clergyman, Mansfield, Mass.
Annie Wadsworth, Chelsea, Mass.
Henry C. Keene, Lieut. U. S. N., Chelsea, Mass.
Stanley Harrington, Banker, Providence, R. I.
Lois J. Wadsworth, Lowell, Mass.
Mrs. Harriet L. Hunt, Wakefield, Mass.
Mrs. Helen M. Bailey, Charlestown, Mass.
Rev. H. \Veston, D. D., New York.
Tiraothy A\'adsworth, Farmer, and wife. West
Winfield, N.Y.
Geo. H. Wadsworth, Farm(fr,and wife. West Win
field, N. Y.
Wallace D. Wadsworth, Farmer and Lumberman,
Hiram, Me,
Mary L. Wadsworth, Milton, Mass.
Elmira T. Wadsworth, " "
Edwin D. Wadsworth, Master Mariner, Milton,
Mass.
Ellen M. Wadsworth, Milton, Mass.
Annie M. Wadsworth, " "
Fernando Wadsworth, Duxbury, Mass.
Nancy B. Wadsworth, Plymouth, Mass.

Ahbie W- Briard, Mew York City.
Mrs. Lucina Fowler, Grafton, Mass.
Miss M. L. Fowler, " *'
Otis Bradford, U. S. Customs, Detroit, Mich.
Charles S Cobb, INIachinist, Plymouth, Mass.
Wclthia E. Savery, " "
Elmira F. Savery, " "
Isabella Wadsworth Palmiter, St. Louis, Mo.
Joel Wadsworth, Farmer, Herkimer, N. Y.
Elizabeth Wadsworth Fuller, Portland, Me.
I-Ienry Wadsworth, M. D., Philadelphia, Penn.
George H. FuUerton, Post Master, Brockton, Mass.
Theodore Augustus VA'adsworth. D. D. S., New
York City.
Charlotte E. Wadsworth, Camden, Me.
Jeremiah Wadsworth, " *^
Ellen Sampson, Scholar, Newton, Mass.
Florence Sampson, Newton, Mass.
Harriet F. Wilson, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. J. W. AVilliams, Fall River, Mass.
J. W. Williams, Dry Goods, Fall River, Mass.
J. F. Hutchinson, Produce Dealer, Boston, Mass.
Sylvia B. Reed, Lexington, Mass.
Nellie Wadsworth, West Newton, Mass.
Jennie E. Wadsworth, \Vinthrop, Mass.
Mrs. P. Wadsworth, West Newton, Mass.
Carrie J. Wadsworth, Athol, Mass.
Charles Wadsworth, Dry Goods and Clothing,
Athol, Mass.
William Wadsworth, Boston, Mass.
Peleg Wadsworth, M. D., Maiden, Mass.
Mrs. E. S. Wadsworth, "
Susan Wadsworth Claflin, (93 years old, written in
her own hand) Hopkinton, Mass.
Frederick A. Claflin, Quincy, Mass.
Susanna Holbrook, Hopkinton, Mass.
Mrs E. H. Raymond, South Weymouth, Mass.
Charles D. Wadsworth, New York City.
Mrs. L, L. Wadsworth, Chelsea, Mass.
Preston F, Lewis, South Weymouth, Mass.
Mks. Preston F. Lewis, South Weymouth, Mass.
J. D. Wadsworth, Barre, Mass.
jMrs. Louise M'adsworth Rounds, Maiden, Mass.
J. C. Rounds, " '*
Briggs Wadsworth, West Newton, Mass.
S. M. Wadsworth, Boston Highlands. Mass.
W. A, Wadsworth, Kingston, Mass.
Mrs. W. A. Wadsworth, '* "
Cora A. A\'adsworth. " "
Ansel Wadsworth, Lincolnville, Me.
Mary C. Wadsworth, " "
Hiram Wadsworth, Barre, Mass.
Mrs. Hiram Wadsworth, Barre, Mass.
Mr^. Elizabeth Wadsworth I-Iarrington, Halifax,
N. S.
W. O. Harrington, Halifax, N. S.
Mrs. Lucia Wadsworth Shead, Eastport, Me.
Edward E. Shead. " "
George Wadsworth, Attorney, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Mrs. Kate Wadsworth Bosworth, Plymouth, Mass.
D. L. \Vadswr)rth, Lumber Manufacturer, Wellint^-
ton, O.
Eliza F. Wadsworth, Hopkinton, Mass.
Flora Drew Sampson, Newton, Mass.
Emma M. Drew, Duxbury, Mass.
Horace A. Wadsworth, Lawrence, Mass
Mrs. H. A. Wadsworth, " **
Cora M Wadsworth, " "
Grace Wadsworth, " "
Blanche Perkins, Becket, Mass.
Mary W. Hutchinson, Lexington, Mass.
George L. O. Wadsworth, Brooklyn, X. Y.
Alex Wadsworth, Duxbury, Mass.
Marcus C. Williams, Fall River, Mass.
Albert Wadsworth, SaxonviUe, Mass.
Arabella S. Wadsworth, " "
Alice B. Wadsworth, *' "
Joseph O. Bullard, Cambridgeport, Mass.
Seraph Wadsworth Bullard, Cambridgeport, Mass.
Constant W. Wadsworth, Peekskill, N. Y.
Flora C. Keene, Chelsea, Mass.
Selina H. Wadsworth, Duxbury, Mass.
Catherine Wadsworth Ford, Duxbury, Mass.
Mrs. George Wadsworth, Apopka, Florida.
George H. Reed, Lexington, Mass.
Cephas Wadsworth, Boston Highlands, Mass.
Alden B. Wadsworth, Maplewood, Mass.
Mrs. S. B. Wadsworth, Maplewood, Mas.s.
Mattie C. Wadsworth, **
Helen H. Wadsworth, '* "
Mrs. Belina Wadsworth Gay, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Hannah Wadsworth Sears, Duxbury, Mass.
Mrs. Sarah B. Wadsworth Soule, ** '*
Mabel P. Soule, Duxbury, JIass.
Henry Wadsworth, Farmer, New Hartford, N. Y.
Sara Wadsworth, Auburn, N. Y.
Mrs. D. L. Wadsworth, Wellington, Ohio.
Cora Wadsworth, Ravenna, Ohio.

Julian S. Wadsworth, Student, Jacksonville, 111.
L. Wadsworth Tuck, Studeni, South Weymouth,
Mass.
Mrs. Dr. L. W Tuck, oflice 28 Winter Street, Bos
ton, South Weymouth, Mass.
Isaac N[. Wadsworth, Farmer, Manchester, Me.
Nathan S. Wadsworth, Manchester, Me.
E. E. Wadsworth, Manufacturer of Jewelry, ofiice
14 John Street, N. Y , Englewood, N J.
Caroline E. Wessels, (nee Wadsworth) Litchfield,
Conn.
Mrs. E B. Wadsworth, Boston, Mass.
E B. Wadsworth, Fish Dealer, Boston, Mass.
G. F. Wadsworth, 40 State Street, Boston, Mass.
J. H. Wadsworth, 37 Alpine Street, Roxbury, Mass.
Lewis L. Wadsworth, 30 Cary Avenue, Chelsea,
iSIass.
Warren Norton and wife, Charlestown, Mass.
Dr. T. A. Wadsworth, New York City.
John Wadsworth and wife, Winthrop, Mass.
C. F\ Pressey and wife, Manchester, N. H.
David Wadsworth and wife. Auburn, N. Y.
Joseph B. Wadsworth, San Francisco, Cal,
Welthy Wadsworth, " *'
Experience Ruth Wadsworth, San Diego, Cal.
Truman R. Wadsworth, Denver, Col.
Hartwell Wadsworth, Suro, Ma.
John A. Wadsworth, Springfield, Mass.
Flora A. Wadsworth. Chelsea, Mass.
J. Whiting and wife, Randolph, Mass.
Fred S. Soule, Duxbury, Mass.
Herbert F. Wetherelf, Boston, Mass.
Isaac Claflin, Chicago, 111.
James E. Wadsworth, New Haven, Conn.
Hammon Reed, Lexington, Mass.
Mrs. Hammon Reed, Lexington, Mass.
Rhoda F. Wadsworth, •' "
Mrs. Christina M. Wadsworth, Brockton, Mass.
Walter A. Wadsworth, Brockton, Mass.

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IX.
WADSWORTH GENEALOGIES.

In the following Register characters and abbreviations have been mainly
omitted, the principal ones being a dash [ — ¦'] which means deceased.
Therefore, when it precedes a date it ineans that the person died that vear,
and when it follows a date of birth it means the person is dead, but the
year of the death is not known to the author unless given. The superior or
siTiall figure after a name denotes the number of the generation from the
first settlers. It will be observed that the line of descent of each person is
traced as far as known.

Aaron", John^, George'*, Ebenezer^,
Samuel-, Christopher^ ; Litchfield,
Me. ; born 1769 — 1844; married
Lucy Stevens. CHILDREN,
James, removed somewhere in the West
early in life,
Calvin, died without issue,
Aaron, 1800,
Lucy,
Susan, married Drew, residence Lewiston,
Me. Spencer F,, 1810,

Aaron^, Aaron^, JohnS, George**, Eb-
enezer^, Samuel^, Christopher* ;
Pittston, Me., 1800,— 1867. Mar
ried  . CHILDREN,
Ehas, now a resident of Monmouth, Me,,
and several other children,
Abiah^, Elisha^, Joseph^, Christo
pher* ; Duxbury. Mass. ; born in
1703; — removed to Knux Co.,
Me. ; married  .

! Abiah'', Sedate^, Abiah*, ElishaS.
Joseph^, Christopher' ; Lincoln
ville, Me.; born 1778, — 1S55 ;
married Sarah Head.
He was the voungest son of Se
date ; his home was a log cabin and
his advantages for an education were,
very limited ; was a farmer, sober,*
industrious and honest ; had a firm
trust in his Creator which was his
guide in all the pursuits of his life ;
a member of the Methodist church.
' children,
William, 1804,
Zealur resided in Lincolnville with his
father until of age, when he married and set
tled in Searsmont, where he remained until
his death,
John H., 1820
And eight daughters.

CHILDREN,

Sedate, 1746,

Abiah', Sedate^, Sedate^, Abiah-*,
Elisha^, Joseph^, Christoper* ; car
penter and joiner ; Hooperville,
Utah Territory ; born in 1810 ; Lin
colnville, Maine ; married Mrs.

150

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Eliza Hardv, 1831 ; 2d wife. Phebe
A. Hulbert, 1852.
CHILDREN,
Joseph W,, 1831,
Susanna A,, 1836,
Nancy E,, 1839,
Eliza A,, 1842,
Abiah, 849,
Lucinda M,, 1851, Married, resides in Salt
Lake City.
Charles W,, i860,
Mary E,, 1863,
Susan, 1866,
Flora, 1868,
Zubia, 1870.
Sarah, 1873,
Freddie T,, 1876,
Daniel C, 1879.

Adrian R.~, Thoinas Hart^, Asahel-'',
Williams Williams, John^, Wil
liam* ; lawyer at Norbeck, Mont-
gomerv Co., Maryland ; graduated
at Yale College, 1837 ; born at
FariTiington, Conn., 1815. Is a
very active, capable man and has
held many positions of trust. Mar
ried M. H. Radcliffe, 1849; 2d
wife, M. A. Mallorv, 1869 ; has no
children.

Adrian R.s, Winthrop M.'^, Thomas
Harte, Asahel^, William*, Wil-
liam^, John^, William* ; Farming-
ington. Conn. ; born 1855.

AhiraS, SenecaS, Waif, Elisha^,
Joseph^, Christopher* ; Duxbury,
Mass. ; born 1777, died 1867 ; mar
ried Deborah Sprague, died 1813 ;
2d wife, Olive Wadsworth, 1S22.
CHILDREN,
Celenah, 1801; married Ezra W, Sampson,
Catherine, 1802; married Clark Drew;
second husband F, G, Ford.
Marinda, 1805; married Captain Joshua
Drew, Alexander, 1808,
Deborah, 181 3,
Harriet, 1822.
Henry, 1829; died young,
Horace, 1830, " "
Helen, 1833,
Hamilton, 1838,
Harrison, 1842; residence, Duxbury, Mass.

Albert^, Ahah', John'', John-'',
George*, Ebenezer^ Sam'l^,, Chris
topher' ; baker ; .Saxonville, town
Framingham, Mass. ; born, 1840,
Hallowell, Me. ; married Arabella
S. Pearson, 1863.
Completed his school education at
Kent's Hill Seminary ; worked for
awhile at lumlser business in Aros-
took County, afterwards learned the
machinists' trade and worked in the
Springfield Armor3- ; established the
baking business at Saxonville, Mass.,
1877, where he now resides ; member
of the Baptist church.
CHILDREN,
Alice B,, 1865,
Nettie F,, 1871.
Hattie M,, 1872,
George A„ 1878,
Albert B.9, William R.'^. John
Ogden'', Elisha^, Recompense-"",
George*, Ebenezer^, Sam'l-', Chris
topher*, Lapeer, Town Co., Mich. ;
born 1854.
Albert Orson^, La^^¦ton", Jona
thans, Jonathan-'', Recompense*,
Ebenezer^, Samuel^, Christopher,*
Saranac, Mich. ; born 1819, Becket,
Mass. ; married Sarah C. Mason,
1850.
Spent most of his early life farm
ing and trading. Now has a large
farm at Saranac, but lives in the vil
lage at the present time, only a short
distance away. Attends the Congre
gational church. Believes most in
those truthful lessons taught through
out all nature.

Bird Lawton,
Edgar Orson,

childr*;n,
1853- 1859-

Albert Pease^i, Moses*^, Jesse'.
Christophei-6, Christopher-'', Geo.*,
Ebenezei-s, Samuel-, Christopher,*
East Livermore, Maine ; farmer ;
born 184S, at Jay ; married Marv
A. Cooledge, 1877 ; no children.

wads\'\'ortii family historv.

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Albert W,*^, Josh.', Moses^, John^,
Geo.*, Ebenezer, 3 Samuel^, Chris
topher*, bookkeeper, with Moline
Plow Co. ; Moline, 111. ; born 1S63,
Cincinnati, O.

Aloen Bradford', Peleg, jr.'', Pe-
legS, Peleg*, John^, John^, Chris
topher* ; a book-keeper in Boston.
Maplewood, Mass. ; born in 1837 '
Married Lydia B. Parsons, 186^.

CHILDREN,
Mattie Culbert, 1866,
Helen H„ 1869, "

Alexander', Charles Lee", Peleg^,
Peleg*, John^, John^, Christopher*,
Civil Engineer, Boston ; born 1806,
Hiram, Me. ; married Mary E.
Fairfield, 1836.
Cominenced the business of Land
Surveyor and Civil Engineer in Bos
ton, in 1825, and has followed that
profession ever since. Was educated
at the Fiyeburg Academy and the
Gardiner Lyceum. Served in the city
council of IBoston for eight years ; on
the Cochituate Water Board seven
years, and two years, 1876 and 1878,
in the House of Representatives.
Was elected a deacon in the West
Church, Boston, June, 1S42 ; on the
Standing Committee of the society,
called " The West Boston Society, "
1844 ; and as Chairman ofthe Stand
ing Committee in 1856, and has held
those offices ever since.
CHILDREN,
Oliver Fair&eld, 1838,
Alexander F,, 1840
Ijucy, 1841; married William E. Furness,
Chicago, 111,
Adelaide Elizabeth, 1844,
Cirace, 1.848,

Alexander', Ahira^^, Seneca-'", Wait*
Elisha^, Joseph^, Christopher* : sea
captain, retired ; Duxbury, Mass. ;
born in 1808 ; married Beulah
Holmes, 1835 ; died in 1853 ; 2d
wife, Selina Hilton, 1858 .

Capt. Wadsworth for nearly forty
years was in the merchant marine
service and passed through nearly all
the scenes incident upon a sea-faring
life. His wife frequently accom
panied him on \'0}ages to the old
world, and his 3'oungest son was born
in the Ba\' of' Bengal. Mrs. W.
lived onl)' two weeks after this event
and the babe survived on ship fare
till the vessel arrived home.
CHILDREN.
Francis G, F,, 1843,
Alexander Seaborn, 1853,

Alexander'^, Eli', Charles Lee''.
PelegS, Peleg*, Johns, John^ Chris
topher* ; Hiram, Me. ; born 1839 ;
married Jane Huntress, 1865.
CHILDREN,
Onsville, 1873,

Alexander Fairfield^, Alexander'
Charles Lee", Peleg-% Peleg*,John-*,
John^, Christopher*, con\-evancer.
oflice, Devonshire Street ; Boston ;
born 1840; married Lucy Good
win, 1876 ; no children.

Alexander Scammell'', Peleg-'',
Peleg*, JohnS, John'^ Christo
pher* ; Washington, Warren Co.,
Va, ; born in Portland, 1790, died
1851 ; married Louisa J. Denni
son, 1824,
He was second lieutenant on board
the -ship Constitution when she cap
tured the Guerriere. The citizens of
Portland, his native place, in testi
mony of their high sense of the brave
and important part he took oil that
memorable occasion, presented him
with an elegant sword, decorated
with appropriate devices.
CHILDREN,
Alexander S., 1828,
LouisaD ,, 1833, Married Charles G. Bay
lor, New Bedford,
Annie D,, 1841, Married Rev, John D,
Wells, Laconia, N, H.

152

wadsworth F.AMILY HISTORY'.

Alexander Scammell', Alexan
der S.", Peleg-% Peleg,* John^,
John^, Christopher*, Washington,
"D, C, ; born in 1828, — 1863 ; mar
ried Helen McMorine, 1855.
CHILDREN.
,\lexander S , 185S,
Helen M,, 1855,
Mari(}n M,, died in infancy.

Alexander Scammell^, Alexan
der S.', Alexander S.", PelegS,
Peleg*, JohnS, John^, Christopher*.
Elizabeth City, N, C. ; born 185S,
Washington, D. C.

Alexander Seaborn^, Alexander',
Ahira", Seneca-', Wait*, Elisha^
Joseph^, Christopher*, Binghamp
ton, Conn. ; born 1853, on board
ship " Seth Sprague, " in the bay
of Bengal ; married Lizzie F. Bal
lard, 1879. CHILDREN.
Ehzabeth Ballard, 1879,
Alexander, Jan, i, 1883,

Almon D,8, Elisha', Elisha", Recom-
pense^, George*, Ebenezer'', Sam
uel-, Christopher', of Georgetown,
Otta-wa Co., Mich. ; farmer; born
1830 ; niarried Mary J. Davis, 1855.

William, 1856,
Byron, 1858,
Fluta, 1862,
Ella, 1865,
Lulu, 1869,
Myrtle, 1871.

Alfred, baker and confectioner ;
^Varsaw, New York ; born Hoy
land, Yorkshire, England ; married
Florence A, Miller, 1868.
Came to this country in 1858 ;
father's name John, now living at
Brockport, N. Y., aged 63 ; grand

father, John, of Yorkshire, England ;
died in London. CHILDREN,
Frank Herbert, 1870,
Arthur Holland, 1872,
Emery Miner, 1874,
Martin .Miller, 1876,

Alfred A. M.', Alfred Wiswell",
Wiswell-5, Wait*, ElishaS, Joseph^,
Christopher*, Providence, R. I. ;
born 1853.

Alfred C.*, John Atherton', John",
John', Benjamin*, John^, SamueP,
Christopher*, Providence, R. I.,
II Camp, St. ; born 1838, Provi
dence ; married Marv A. Morgan,
1864.

CHILDREN,

Annie L,, 1865,

Alfred Wiswell", Wiswell-'',Wait*,
Elisha'^, Joseph-, Christopher* ;
Providence, R, I. ; born in 1S24;
Boston ; married Anna E. W. Fer
guson, 1850. CHILDREN.
E, Adelaide M,, 1851,
Alfred, A. M., 1S53.
Oscar, A, M,, 1S55; died in infancy,
F, Helen A,, 1857,
Clarence Percy, i860,
I, Henry F,, 1862,
Frederick Wiswell, 1866.

Allen', Solomon", Thomas^, Thtjm-
as*, Thomas", Thomas'^, William*,
farmer ; East Hartford, Conn. ; born
1794 ; living ;_maiTied Jerusha Bid-
well 1819-

-18S2.

CHILDREN.
Edgar L,, 1837,
Henry W., [821, Glastonbury,
William, Hartford,
.\llen, Jr,, 1828, New London \avy Yard.
Jane, married Martin Paisley, N. V. City,

wadsworth FAMILY HISTORY.

153

Allen E ^, Allen', Solomon", "fhom
as-', Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas"-^,
Williain* ; ship keeper in the gov
ernment navy yard. New London ;
born 182S ; Groton, Conn. ; mar
ried Martha B. Parker, 1869.
Served in the nav}' during the re
bellion, \v()unded at Fort Darling,
and was in the engagement of Ad
miral Farragut, at Mobilebay. Mem
ber of Episcopal church and Masonic
fraternity. CHILDREN,
Allen W,, i,S7(),
Delia A., 1S77.
Myrtle, 187S.
Al\'in Morton'", Lewis Sylvester',
Cephas", Cephas-'', Peleg*, John",
Tohn-. Christopher', of Kingston,
Mass, ; 1S52,

Alpheus R."^, Calvin Smith'. Jos
eph", Joseph-'', Joseph*, Joseph",
Joseph'^, William* ; a machinist ;
Adrian, Mich. ; born, 1845.
\Vas a soldier in the Rebellion ; he
enlisted in 1863, aged 17 years ; was
wounded July 22, 1864, at the battle
of Atlanta ; was in Co. B, 32d O. V.
In., was discharged in 1865 at the
close of the war. CHILDREN.
Alpheus W,
Furney.Roy Calvin,
.'Vlvah', John", John-', George*,
Ebenezer", SamueP, Christopher* :
Winthrop, Me. born in 1797, —
1872 ; married Sally Thing, 1827.
CHILDREN,
George A,, 1831.
Albert, 1840,
Ann Maria, 1829 — 1849, Married Ed
ward E. Pinkham, of Hallowell, in 1848,
Ellen L., 1835, married Gray, Walpole,
Mass. N, Augusta, 1842, married Freeman, Wal
pole, Mass,

AMr.ROSE",Joseph5, Joseph*, Joseph"
Joseph^, \V illi am*, Onondago,
N, Y. ; born 1773, Llartford, —
iS^o; married Sarah Marsh,

CHILDREN,
John Marsh, 1 80 1,
Horace, dead,
Ambrose Sidney, iSii,
Sarah, dead,
Eliza,

Ambrose Sidney-', Ambrose", Jos
eph-"', 'Joseph*, Joseph",' Joseph^
William* ; carpenter, Onondago,
Nevv York; born 1811 at Ononda
go ; married Louisa Field, 1834.

Eliza Ann, 1S35,
Maria L., 1S3S.
Charles, 1S40.
Edward S., 1843,
Franklin P., 1852.

Amos Milton^ John \Vesley',
Thomas", ThomaV, Thomas*.
Thoma,s", Thomas^, William* ;
Webster City, lo'.va ; born, Litch
field, N. Y., 1833; married Lucv
M, Dodge, 1856.'
CHILDREN,
Jimmie D,, 1S60,

Andrew Clarence ; father's name
Richard ; grandfather James ; not
traced farther ; 10 Russell Street,
Hartford, Conn ; born, 1833 ; mar
ried Ruth H. Robinson, 1855 ; no
children.

Andrew^ J.', Hezekiah", Samuel-',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas^. Wil
liam* ; manufacturer of harnesses,
collars and saddles ; Lockport, 111. ;
born 1830, Middlebury, Vt. ; mar
ried Melissa E. Barnes, i860.
CHILDREN,
Francis A., 1862,
George .\,, 1S64,
Lydia Louise, 1870,

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wadsworth family history.

Andrew Snider^, Edward Wheeler'
John"-, John^, John*, Joseph",
Joseph^, Christopher* ; Henrietta,
N. Y. ; born 1830; married Caro
line Louise Kirby, 1854.
CHILDREN.
Ed\«ard Kirby, 1857.

Andrew W.^, Jeremiah', Sedate",
Sedate^, Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph^,
Christopher* ; Lincolnville, Me. ;
born, 1844 ; married Lizzie ^Vright
in 1871 ; 2d wife, Susan A. Fielden,
1S79. CHILDREN,
Augustus, 1S81,

Angus W. ; father's name Mathew
Troop; — 186S, aged 70; grand
father John ; — died in London,
England, aged 98 ; 1556 Myrtle
Ave., Brooklyn, New York ; born
1856, Blackwell, Poplar, London,
England ; married Huldah Angel,
1880.

CHILDREN.

Willie, I SSl.

AnselS, WilliaiTi', Abiah", Sedate-%
Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph^, Christo
pher* -
Capt. Wadsworth was born in Lin
colnville, Me., Jan. I, 1839, on a farm
about four miles back from Penob
scot Bay ; had advantages of a com
mon school ; at 16 years of age com
menced going to sea, which was con
tinued a greater part of the time until
20 ; in 1859 went to Europe one vov
age. Dec, 30, i860, married Mary
C. Pottle, of Searsmont ; enlisted in
Co. I, 26th Maine Regiment, at Bel
fast, Me., August 10, 1862 ; was or
derly sergeant, 2d lieutenant, then
captain of Co. G, same regiment;
participated in movements of regi
ment from Bangor to Virginia, thence
to the Mississippi river, also in the
campaign of the 19th Army Corps

in Lousiana, which resulted in the
surrender of Port Hudson, July 1863.
Was mustered out of service August
18, 1863, at Bangor; appointed cap
tain of Co. H, 2d Maine Cavalry by
Governor Abner Coburn in October,
1863, but was obliged to give up the
position on account of poor health.
In 1879 was appointed deputy sher
iff' by Charles Baker, sheriff" of Wal
do county ; September, 1S82, was
elected sheriff' of same county. Mem
ber of Patrons of Husbandry; King
David's Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons, No. 62, Lincolnville ; Grand
Army Republic, Thomas Marshall
Post 42, Belfast, Me. ; Corinthian R.
A. Chapter, No. 7, Belfast, Me,

CHILDREN.

Clarence, 1864.
Albertie, 1870.
Edward, 1872,

Anson Bidwell", He
Solomoi

Alle

Thomas^, Thomas*.
Thonias", Thomas'^, William* ;
farmer at Glastonbury, Conn. ;
born in 1856 ; not married.

Artemas R.8, Peleg C, Charles
Lee", PelegS, Peleg*, John", John^,
Christopher* ; grocer ; is justice of
the peace, and in earlv life engaged
for a season in school teaching ; a
past ofiicer in I. O. O. F., and Re
publican in politics ; born in 1841 ;
married Emma M. Smith, 1S73,
CHILDREN,
Edwin .A,, 1874,
Arthur Peleg, 1876.
Roy Elmer, 1 880,

Arthur ; watchmaker at Newark,
New Jersey ; born at Warwick,
England in 1822 ; married Eliza
Wiseman, 1S44; his father's name
was Thomas Rawbone, who died
in 183S, aged 37 years; mother's
name, Martha Kilber ; brother's

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WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

155

and sisters all in England ; grand
father Arthur ; great grandfather
Arthur ; born in Northampton
shire. CHILDREN,
Henry Arthur, 1845, at Newport, Ky.
Arthur Danbey, 1847,
Eliza, 1849,
William Newton, 1857, in LeMars, Iowa.
George Frederick, 1853, in Chicago,
Thomas Francis, 1857.
Robert Lewis, 1861.
Minna, 1864,
Lincoln, 1866.

Arthur**, Samuel', Charles Lee",
PelegS, Peleg*, John", John^, Chris
topher* ; farmer, member of ma
sonic order ; Hiram, Me. ; born in
1843 ; married Ruth Durgin, 1868.

CHILDREN,

Nina, 1869.
Jennie, 1874.
Zilpha Lillian, 1880.

Arthur Clinton^, Dura', Dura",
Dura-% Peleg*, John", John^, Chris
topher* ; teacher, Oliver Grammar
School, Lawrence, Mass. ; gradu
ated at the Bridgewater Normal
School ; born in 1854, at Bridge-
water.

Arthur F.^, William Alexander',
Cephas", Cephas-5, Peleg*, John",
John2, Christopher* ; Kingston,
Mass. ; born in 1850.

Arthur L.**, John', John", Cephas-'^,
Peleg*, John", John^,- Christo
pher* ; Medwav, Mass. ; born in
1862,

Archibald', Reuben", SamueP,
Samuel*, Samuel". JohnS Wil
liam* ; Homer, N. Y. ; much re
spected citizen, prominent mem
ber Congregational church ; borr^,
in Tyringham, Mass., in 1787, —

1873 ; niarried Eunice Main, who
died in 1872, aged 79.
CHILDREN,
Manly, 1817,
Ela, 1826,
Waty Jane, 1827; married Goodsell.
Electa, 1 83 1; married Kennelly.

Archibald Clark', Edward", Gen.
Elijah^, Joseph*, Joseph, jr.", Jos-
eph^, William* ; hardware, etc ;
Jacksonville, 111. ; born, Canfield,
Ohio, 1S27; married Delia With
erby, 1848. CHILDREN.
Edward Witherby, 1850, — 1859.
Walter Clark, 1852, — 1855,
William Perry, 1856, — 1859,
Harry Eugene, 1858,
Julian Sturtevant, i860,
Frederick M,, 1862,— 1865,
Willie, 1865,
Ariul Parker ; resides with his
mother, Sarah E., at 422 North
Street, Indianapolis, Indiana ; born
i860 ; his father, Ariul S., died in
1882, and was born in Kentucky in
1808; he left other children. Geo.
W., born [863 ; Walter E., 1865 ;
Nancy, 1868 ; Spelton, 1S70 ; Leola
and Leon, 1873.
The family has records to show
that their ancestors formerly lived in
Worcester County, Mass.

Asa-\ Samuel*, Samuel", John^, Wil
liam* ; Tyringham, Mass. ; born,
173^, in Connecticut.

AsAHEL=, William*, Williain", John"2.
William* ; Farmington, Conn. ;
born, 1743, — 1817, aged 74; 1769,
married Mercy Woodruff^, who died
in iSii; 2d wife, Hannah Wads
worth, daughter of Nathaniel, jr.,
who died in 1818, aged 61.
CHILDREN,
Manna, 1768, — 1791-
Ruth, married Washburn, of Vermont,
Thomas Hart, 1771,

156

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY'.

AsAHEL William', Ezekiel", Gad-'',
William,*, William", John^, Wil
liara* ; Avon, New York ; born in
Avon, 1818 ; niarried Mary Ann
Chase, 1846, CHILDREN,
Sophia, 1847, — 1881,
James Edward, 1S49,
William Mo,5ley, 1850,
Josephine, 1853,
Romeo, 1856,

Benjamin", Samuel^, Christopher* ;
clergyman ; pastor ist church in
Boston, and president of Harvard
College; born in 1669, — i7.'57 i
married Ruth Boardman ; no chil
dren ; see biographical sketch.

Benjamin*, John", Samuel^, Chris
topher* ; Milton, a prominent and
well to do citizen ; for 28 years
deacon Congregational church ;
born 17071 — *774 > niarried Esther
Tucker, i7,35' CHILDREN,
Elizabeth, 1736 — 1751,
Ruth, 1737; married Ralph Houghton,
John, 1739,
Abigail, 1741,
Mary, 1743,
Ann, 1745 — 1745,
Sarah, 1747 — 1783; raarried Ebenezer
Glover, Her tombstone at Braintree ceme
tery bears the following : " In memory of Mrs.
Sarah Glover, wife of Mr, Ebenezer Glover,
and daughter of Deacon Benjamin Wads
worth, of Milton, in the 35th year of her age.
Stop here, my friend, and cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so you must be,
Prepare for death and follow me.
This verse is also seen in Copps Hill Ceme
tery, in Boston, near the Old North Church,
and directly under the inscription some wag
has added these lines in chalk :
" To follow you I'm not content.
Unless I know which way you went, "
Benjamin, 1750.
Esther, 1752; married Nathan Vose,
Joseph, 1755 — 1755,

Benjamin*, Ichabod", John^, Chris
topher* ; sea captain; Duxbury,

Mass., born 1735, — 1782; mar
ried Luna Wadsworth, 1759 j she
after his death married Jotham
Loring.

CHILDREN,

Fiannah, 1760; died young; Ichabod, 1762,
died young; Daniel, 1764; Marshal, 1766,
died young; Frederick, 1767, died young;
Selah, 1769, died young; Sophia, Ann, and
others. The eleven children died before 1782.

Benjamin-', Benjamin*, John", Sam
uel'^, Christopher* ; clergyman,
Danvers; (sketch) ; born 1750, in
Milton ; married Mary Hobson.
The portrait of Rev. Benjamin
Wadsworth, D. D., of Harvard Col
lege, now hanging in the University
building at Cambridge, was presented
to the institution b}' this man. A cut
of the portrait is seen in this book.
CHILDREN,
Polly, 1775; married Rev, Wm, Balch.
Betsey, 1777; married Hon, John Ruggles,

Benjamin", Jonathan^, Recompense*
Ebenezer", Samuel^, Christopher* ;
farmer, Becket, Mass. ; born 1746,
Milton, Mass., — 1827; married
Olive Sharpley, 1768 ; — 1827.
CHILDREN,
Benjamin, 1774,
Sarah, 1776; married Jesse Johnson of
Chester, Mass,, 1795,
Olive, 1779; married Leonard Williams,
1799; William Pratt, 1803,
Clarissa, 1781, married Gordon Spencer,
1808, Joseph, 1784,
Ruth, 1789; married Timothy Snow, 1812,

Benjamin', Joseph", Ebenezer'', Re
compense*, Ebenezer", Samuel-,
Christopher* ; merchant, Worces
ter, Mass. ; born 1815 ; niarried
Thankful Parker, 1837.
CHILDREN,
J.ine Elizabeth. 1839; married EHot Brig
ham, Worcester,
Mary Elmira, 1843.
Henry Sinclair, 1849,

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Benj.vmin", John-'', Benjamin*, John"
Samuel^, Christopher* ; a plow
maker ; Milton, Mass. ; born 1765,
— 1829; married Marv Babcock,
1789. CHILDREN,
Rebecca, 1790 — 17110,
Sarah, 1791 — 1791,
Isaac, 1792,
Jason, 1794 — 1810,
Mary, 1795; now hving in Milton,
Catherine, 1797; married Thomas Copeland,
Thomas Thatcher, 1799 — 1882,
Benjamin, 1800 — 1800.

Benjamin", John-''. John*, Joseph",
Joseph^, Christopher* ; born 176S ;
Dover, Duchess Co., NewYork;
married Marv Piatt,

CHILDREN

Zilpha, 1795.
Pratt, 1797,
Sarah, 1799.
Marv, 1801,
Alvah, 1803.
Ira, 1805.
Mina, 1807.
Amv, 1811,

Benjamin', Benjamin", Jonathan-'',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel-,
Christopher*; tanner; born 1774,
at Becket, Mass.,— 1S37; mar
ried Pollv Ames, 1797.

CHILDREN,

Judson, 1797,
Loring, 1800,
Mary Rachel, 1808; married Dr, St, Johns,
Wellington, Ohio,

Benjamin Cutter^, AVilliam Ro
meo', Romeo", William-'', Wil
liam*, William", John^, William* ;
seaman; born 1834; shipped from
San Francisco, February 22, 1S81,
on British barque Victoria; not
since heard from.

Bbniamin Franklin', Ricliard",
Gad-\ William*, William", John2.
William* ; farmer, Arvado, Jeff'er-
son Co., Colorado; born in 1827,

at Avf)n .Springs; married, 1850,
Jvlary Ann Grove.
Mr, W gives the following narra
tive concerning his life.
" The first nine years of my life were at that
lovely spot, .Avon Springs, N. Y, The next
twenty-three years was of Sandusky, Ohio,
where the country was new and prolific in all
that would develop muscle and enjoyment,
besides a sprinkling of ague at intervals. My
father gave his large family as good a chance
for education as -the new country afforded for
farmers' boys and girls, 31y last two terms of
school were at Sandusk;}', to better prepare me
for a farmers' Ufe; that I have lived with the
exception of eight years in the mines of Colo
rado, Moving with my wife and little faraily to
Johnson Co,, Mo,, in the year 1859 we found
lt rather unpleasant, so in i860 we moved to
Douglas ("o,, Kansas, just in time for the
famine. There learning some of our best
lessons. There doing the best year's work of
my life, .A year that would be the most
dreadful of my life to repeat, but the most
precious of niy life to remember, as my wife
and I devoted most of our time to helping
others; the good ladies nf Sandusky furnish-
'ing substantial aid for us to distribute to the
needv. Crossing the Plains in 1861 for the gold,
mines of Pike's Peak, in our ox wagons, was a
joyous trip, but so common that the romance
was somewhat destroyed. But, common as it
was, there was a certain enchantment in the
carap Hfe, that brin'gs joy to a comfortable
home after the journey is over. We were
Methodists when we started on our western
trip, and by keeping up family worship we
succeeded in crossing those dreaded streams
where it is said so many " disrobed their re
ligion, " and today are rejoicing that we hold
fast the faith, and trust that our efforts in the
Sunday School and temperance cause have not
been in vai'n.
I am now interested in the coal fields of Gun
nison Co. Mv farm (the town site of Arvado)
is our home, situated in the morning shadow
of Denver, surrounded by beautiful scenery
and deUghtful climate, I assisted in the
Grange movement in our State and now hold
the office of Secretary, My eight years in
the gold and silver mines though instructive,
and not unpleasant, has served to bind me
closer to the farmer's Ufe. "
J CHILDREN.
John Grove, 18^4—1876.
Mary Emily, 1S54; married Graves and has
four sdns residing at .\rvado.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Bird Lawton", Albert Orson^, Law-
ton', Jonathan", Jonathan'', Re
compense*, Ebenezer". Samuel^,
Christopher' ; Saranac, Ionia Co.,
Michigan ; born in 1853.

Briggs'', Peleg', John", Dura-'', Pe
leg*, John", John^, Christopher*,
dealer in butter and cheese ; Fan
euil Hall Market, Bostoii ; born in
i860.

Burton^, William', Abiah", Sedate-^,
Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph^, Christo
pher* ; drover and stock dealer ;
Presbyterian ; Marshall, Missouri ;
born 1840; Lincolnville, Me. ; —
Dec. 8, 1882 ; married Abbie C.
Crockett, 1865. CHILDREN.
Geneva, 1866,
Addie, 1872,
Wm, Burton, 1874,

BYRON^ Almon D.8. Elisha', Elisha"
Recompense-'', George*, Ebenezer",
Samuel^, Christopher* ; George
town, Michigan ; born in 1858,

Calvin', Joseph", John'', John*,
Joseph", Joseph^, Christopher* ;
physician, Cleveland, Ohio ; born
1801, Onondago Co.,N. Y ; mar
ried Lucy Beardsley, 1825.
The doctor is a remarkably well
preserved man for his years ; has
published several tracts on religious
and secular topics, and takes great
interest in the welfare and happiness
of mankind. CHILDREN,
Joseph S,, 1825.
Edward P,, 1830,
Helen M,, married Taylor.
Theodore Lyman, 1836.
Mary E., married Savage.
Adrianna L,, married Hamilton,
Calvin, 1843,

Calvin®, Calvin', Joseph", John-'',
John*, Joseph", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Chicago, 111. ; born 1843,
at Bufi'alo, New York ; inarried
Wina Kennedy, 1865.
CHILDREN,
Williara Seward, 1867,
Calvin, 1868,
Joseph Thomas, 1 871,
Charles Sheer, 1874.
George Kennedy, 1877,
Theodore Lyman, 1879,
Raymond Arthur, 1881.

Calvin Smith', Joseph", Joseph^,
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; eclectic physician ; Adrian,
Michigan; born 1819 ; married
Laura J. Florence, 1832 ; 2d wife,
Lydia Raymond, 1838.
A member of the Baptist church
for about fifty years. As to educa
tional advantages, received a good
common school education, well im
proved, and a medical education and
graduated from the Eclectic College
at Cincinnati. CHILDREN,
Alpheus R., 1845,
Vevia, 1855; has quite a reputation as a
public speaker; is president of the W, C,
T, U,,of Lewanna Co,

Cephas-% Peleg*, John",
Christopher* ; Kingston,
born 1743, — 18 19.

John¦^ Mass. ;

Peleg, 1768; drowned at sea in 1790,
WilUam, 1770; died in infancy,
Lucy, 1772; married Frederick Lewis,
Alfred, 1774; -— 1846; married Lydia
KnighL MoUie, 1777; married Jabez Washburn.
Cephas, 1781,
Welthea, 1779; married Perkins; second
marriage. Constant Sampson,
Lavina, 1783; married James Woodward,
Damariscotta, Maine,
Zylpha, 1 785 ; died in infancy,
John 1788; married Sallv Woodw.ard,

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Cephas", Cephas'', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; sea captain ;
spent most of his life in marine
service ; Kingston ; was a niember
of Congregational church ; born in
1781, — 1861 ; ]Manied Lucy Syl-
\ester. CHILDREN.
William, 1805, died in infancy.
Lewis Sylvester, 1807.
Lucy S., 1810, — 1869.
Evelyne, 1812, Brockton,
Augusta, died in infancy,
Cephas, 1820,
WiUiam Alexander, 1824,
Hannah W,, 171 7; Boston Highlands,

Cephas'. Peleg", Peleg^, Peleg*,
John", John'-, Christopher* ; Rox-
burv, Mass; born 1841 ; married
Sarah M. Lord, 1862.

Cephas', Cephas", Cephas-'', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; em
ployed with the Lincoln Blacking
Co., Brockton, Mass. ; born 1820 ;
Kington ; married Mary J. Wood
ward, 1846.
Received a common school educa
tion at North Bridgewater, now
Brockton, residing at this place since
12 years of age ; Swedenborgian.
CHILDREN,
Maria Frances, 1848.
Frank Elmer, 1853; died in infancy.

Charles'^, Jonathan*, Jonathan",
Joseph®. William* ; purser U. S.
Navy; Alexandria, Va, ; born
1 77 1, Hartford, — 1809,
CHILDREN.
Julia .\nn, Edwin, EUzabeth, all rUed before

Charles'^, SaiTiuel^, Thomas*,
Thomas", Thomas®, William*;
Presbyterian ininister for over 50
vears; New York State; born in
"jyc)4. — 1878, aged 84; married

Mary Carter, 1814; Typhena Is
ham, 1824; see sketch.
CHILDREN,
Sarah P., 1816; married Huntington.
Charles, died in infancy,
Harriet N,, married Giles,
Mary, 1828; married Rev, Levi Parsons,
D, D,, Mt. Morris, N, J,
Charles, 1830,
Chester I., 1832.
Henry Martyn, 1836; died in infancy,
Ellen Louise, 1S38; married Rev, Dwight
Scovel, Wilson, N, Y,
Gordon H,, 1841,
AnnaT., 1848; married Hakes,

Charles', Charles Lee", Peleg-'', Pe
leg*, John", John®, Christopher' ;
Hiram, Me, ; born 1800, — 1880;
inarried Sarah H, Lewis, 1S24.
" His character depended not upon the
pride of ancestry, but upon the sterling princi
ples of truth, justice and integrity. He was a
worthy meraber of the Methodist Church for
thirty-eight years, and scores of clergymen of
various denominations have been welcomed
at his house, reUeved by his purse, and cheered
by his God-speed at parting. He was one
of the steadfast pillars in the cause of tem
perance and freedom in the dark days of its
direst extremity, when its advance was con
tested inch by inch through the fiercest storm
of opposition. He voted at every town and
State election for 60 years. He was a Whig un
till 1853. but a Republican frora the formation
of the party. He was an industrious farmer,
but occasionally public office came to him un
sought. He stood weW in his own community
as evidenced by his neighbors having elected
hira to an office in his school district twenty-
four successive years. He possessed a nice
sense of honor, and paid hundreds of dollars
to persons who had ceased to have any legal
claira upon him. He was ever kind and gen
erous to the poor, and a friend in need to the
distressed. CHILDKEN.
Ruth, 1826; married Samuel Poindexter,
1849. Caroline, 1829,
Andrew C, 1831,
Edwin R., 1833. ,
Marshal L,, 1836,
Llewellyn A,, 1838.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

Charles ; father's name was Joseph
Brittle, died in England in 1838,
aged 68 ; grandfather, Joseph ;
lived at Barnsle}', in Yorkshire ;
. has brothers and sisters in England.
Toronto, Canada ; born in Birm
ingham, England, 1839; married
Emma G. Homer ; 2d wife, Emma
Ed-wards. CHILDREN,
Victoria, i860,
Emma, 1 86 1,
Bertha, 1863.
Agnes, 1864,
John Edwards, 1866.
Chades Butler, 186S ; — ,
George Walker, 1871.
Frances, 1S72.

Charles', Harry", Elijah-', Joseph*,
Joseph", Joseph®, William' ;clergy-
man and D. D., Philadelphia, Pa. ;
born 1815, — 1882 ; married Sarah
Jane Locke, of Boston.
Mr. Wadsworth at his death was pastor of
the CUnton Street Emmanuel Presbyterian
Church, of Philadelphia. He was aman wide
ly known, and his talents were of no ordinary
mien. He had a deep insight into rehgious
truth and held a high social position, Fiis
father died when he was a youth, and he strug
gled under difficulties to procure an education,
being fiirst at Hamilton College and afterwards
at Union College, where he graduated with
honors in 1839, Soon after he entered the
theological Seminary at Princeton, whence he
emerged, already noted, to take charge of a
church in Tmy, New York, ministering to
crowded houses from the very beginning of
his work. After remaining here eight years,
he went to Philadelphia, and after twelve
years there, to San Francisco, Caf, His ca
reer in the New Eldqrada, was brilliant, but
after eight years a call from his old parishon
ers, brought him back to Philadelphia, About
this time his voice failed, which arrested the
growth of his fame as a brilliant preacher,
though his published sermons still attracted
marked attention, being ever full of the scin-
tiUations of genius, which is more than talent.
The whole length of Dr, Wadsworth's pastor
al service under the church of his choice,
was the same as that of Moses in the Wilder
ness, forty years. He entered at Troy in 1842,
and died of pneumonia after an illness of less
than a week's duration, in Philadelphia, April

ISt, 1S82, in his sixty-eight year. His widow
survived him and she now resides at German-
town, Pa. Her eldest son Charles is now at
the Divinity School, N'ew Haven, a candidate
for honors in the Episcupal church,
CHILDREN,
Edith, 1S5S.
Charles, 1S60.
William Scott, 1868.

Charles ; manufacturer and mill
owner, Weston, Ontario ; born in
1801, — 1867.
He came to Canada from England,
in 1828, and bought the Weston mills.
His brother, William Reim Wads
wortli joined him the same \ear and
a partnership was formed, C, & W.
Wadsworth, and business has been
carried on since under the same firm
name. He had but one child, .Thomas
Rodney, who succeeded his father
in business and married Elizabeth
Wadsworth for a wife, daughter of
William Reim. Other matters of
interest connected with this famil\-
will be found under head of William
Reim and Tliomas Page Wadsv^'orth.
(See portrait).

Charles ; born in cit-y of London,
Eng., 1812; father's name Charles ;
came to this country 1836 ; Brook
lyn, New York ; niarried Esther
Denny. 1S31 ; Suft'olk, Eng.
ClIILDREX,
Charles, 1840,
Edon Mercer, 1S4N.
Sabrina, 1851,
Wm, Franklin, 1854,
Oscar, 1S56,
Jessie, 186 1,
Charles**, David', David", David^,
Recompense*, Ebenezer". Samuel®.
Chrjstopher' ; graduate of Brown
University, New York ; born iSo^,
— 1866; married Eliza Baldwin.
CHILDREN,
Charles Augustus, —
William Baldwin, 1840,
Charles David, 1847.
Samuel J., —

wadsworth family history.

Charles*, Isaac*, Benjamin", John-',
Benjamin*, John", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Milton, Mass. ; born in
1817 ; married Elvira T., 1842.
CHILDREN,
Abby F,, 1S45,
Emma L,, 1S47.
Ella F,, 1863,
Mary L,, l866,
Ch.^rles*, Sedate', Sedate", Sedate-'',
Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher' ; soldier in rebellion ; Lin
colnville, Me. ; born 1827 ; mar
ried Almeda J, Tyler, 1848.
CHILDREN,
Sedate M., 1846; — 1877,
Lucy A,, 1852,
AUce J,, 1853,
Emma A,, 1854; — 1877,
Charles D„ 1859,
Frank L,, i860,
George M,, 1863,
William B,, 1866,
Randall E,, 1868,

Charles', Charles", .Samuel-',
Thomas*. Thomas", Thomas®, Wil
liam' ; Brighton, N.Y. ; born 1832 ;
inarried Augusta H. Yale, 1880.
Was liberally educated ; of late
years, severely impaired in health,
and unable to labor most ofthe time.

Charles*, Horace', Solomon",
Thomas'', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thoma.s®, William*; silver plater ;
Wethersfield, Conn. ; born 1833 ;
inarried .Susan Robinson, 1859.

CHILDREN.

Minnie, 1861.
Cora, 1862,
Bell, 1865,

Charles*, Charles', Harry", Elijah-'',
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liain* ; student of Theology ; New
Llaven, Conn. ; born i860, Phila
delphia, Pa.

Charles'', David*, David', David"
David-', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* : grocer, at
Athol, Mass. ; born 1836 at Barre ;
married Josephine Adams, 1861.
CHILDREN,
Caroline Josephine, 1862,

Charles'' Samuel*, Joseph', David",
David-'', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; Binghamp
ton, New York ; born 1S45 ; mar
ried Louisa jNI, Scudder, 1874,
CHILDREN,
Alice, 1879,

Charles B.^, John N.*, Wedworth',
John N.", John N.'', James*.
James", John®, \^'illianl* ; farmer,
Whitefield Centre, Munroe Co.,
Micliigan ; born 1834; niarried
Francis A, Randall, 1S59,
CHILDREN,
Daniel, 1850,
Mary 1-;., I'Nl'l.
Martha .\ , 1865,
EUen A., 1868,
Chariotte J,, 1870,
Maria L,, 1875,
Frances, 1878,
Harriet, 1882,

Charles B.'. Edward", Horace-'^
Jonathan*, Jonathan", Joseph®
William'; Hartford; born 1852,

Charles Bailey*, William', Ed
ward", Elijah', Joseph*, Joseph",
Joseph®, William* ; civil engineer,
Ravena, Ohio; born 1853; high
school education.
Charles Battv ; father, Joseph ;
grandfother, Thomas came from
England ; has brothers, Joseph and
Frederick, living at Meriden, Conn .
Born 1846, at Waterbury, Conn. ;
inarried Martha Field, 1878.
CHILDREN,
Charies Field, 1879.

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wadsworth family HISroRY'.

Charles Curtis", Joseph S.*, Cal
vin', Joseph", John-'', John*, Jos
eph", Joseph®, Christopher' ; phy
sician ; San Francisco, Cal., 528
Hayes St, ; born 1S49. Madison,
O. ; married Mary M. Craig, 1876.
Graduated from the Medical De
partment, Wooster University, at
Cleveland, O., 1874. Practised at
Menomonee, Wis., one year; re
turned to California, 1875 ; is a Mas
ter Mason, Workman, and Knight of
Honor, Episcopal. CHILDREN,
Mary Edith, 1878,

Charles D", Charles'', Sedate,' Se
date", Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher' ; Lincoln
ville, Me. ; born 1S59.

Charles David", Charles*, David',
David". David', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Plainfield, New Jersey ; born 1847 ;
married Clara L, Blanchard, 1871.
A Wall street broker, doing busi
ness at 44 New street ; senior partner
of the firm of \\"adsworth & White ;
is a inember of the New York Stock
Exchange ; graduated at Harvard
College, class 1867 ; his father was a
graduate of Brown's Universitv.
CHILDREN,
Augustus Baldwin, 1872,
Clara, 1876; died in infancy,
Emma L,, 1875,

Charles Drelincourt-"', George
Marsh', Joseph", Joseph', Joseph*,
Joseph". Joseph®, William* ; 82^
De Kalb Avenue, 13rooklvn, N.Y, ;
born 1823, Waterford, N, Y. ; mar
ried Martha A, Brummell, 1850.
CHILDREN.
WiUiam Marsh, 1855.
Charles Wesley, 1858.
Frank Edward, 1862,
Lillie Emma, 1866,

Charles Frank*, Frank', Charles
Lee", Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher* ; South Hiram, Me. ;
born 1844 ; married Evelvn M,
Libby, 1867, — 1872 ; 2(1 wife,
Mary B. Edwards, 1874.
Was educated at Westbrook Sem-
inaiy. Me,, and Eastman's Business
College, Poughkeepsie, N, Y. At
his fiither's decease he inherited a
good farm and large tract of pine
timber. He is engaged in the laud
able and lucrative business of plant
ing meadow or bog land with cran
berries, having several thousand dol
lars invested. He has never sought
office but has served on the school
committee of Hiram. He spent the
winter of 1872 in California. He is
a prominent member of the Odd Fel
lows fraternity. He has sometimes
paid the highest tax in Hiram.

Cii.\RLES Frederick*, James Sam
uel', James", John Noyes', James*,
James", John®, William* ; Geneseo,
N. Y. ; lawyer and real estate ;
born 1835, at Phila ; (See sketch
Gen. Jaines Sam'l, jsoldier in rebel
lion ; married Jessie Burden, 1864.
children.
Mary Wharton, 1866,

Cii.YRLES Henry*, Peleg', Moses".
John', George*, Ebenezer", .Sam
uel®, Christopher*; 2^13 Folsom
Street, San Francisco, Cal. ; born
1839, Hallowell, Me. ; married
Emily C. Lewis, 1866.

Cii.vRLEs H,'. Moses". Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thonias®, Wil
liam* ; Oxford, Furnace Co., Ne
braska, children,
John Wesley.
'Ciilbert Clark,
Erastus Eugene.
All grown to manhood.

wadsworth FAMILY' IlISrOHY.

163

Cii.vrles E,", William R.*, John
Ogden', Elisha", Recompense'',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Lapeer, Tcnvn Co.,
jNlichigan ; born iS^7-

Ci-L\RLES KiLSBY ; father's name
Joseph, died 1S24, aged 56 ; has
three uncles who came to this coun
try about 1828 ; the oldest, Joseph,
settled at North Ridgc\ille, Lorain
Co., Ohio ; mother's maiden name
Bradbrook ; East Boston, Mass. ;
born in London, Eng., 1S29; mar
ried Susan Martin, 181^2.

CHILDREN.

Elizabeth, 1865,

Ch-Vrles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*, John"
John®, Christopher' ; tlirani, Me. ;
born 1776, — 1848 ; married Ruth
Clemens, i795) Jane Ingalls, 1S41.
CHILDREN.
Betsey, 1795; married Fienry Barnes.
Peleg C, 1797,
John, 1798,
Charles, 1800.
Jane, 1801,
l.ucia, 1802; married Edward Butterfield,
Fienry, 1804.
Alexander, 1806,
Frank, 1808.
Eli, 181 1.
Samuel, 1S15,

Charles Osgood*, Moses Stevens',
Moses", John', George*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; city
clerk, Gardiner, Me. ; born 1839 ;
married Angie M. Baldwin, 1873.
Is citv clerk of Gardiner, a justice
of the peace, member of G. A. R.,
and I. O. O. F. Enlisted in 1862,
Co. B, 3d Maine \^ols. ; lost right
leg above the knee at Petersburg,
1864. Attends the Methodist church.
CHILDREN.
MUdred Baldwin, 1877,
Frank Cole, 1880.

Charles Newbury*, Gad Newbury'
.Ezekiel", Gad-'', William*, Wil
liam", John®, ^^'illiam* ; Avon,
New York; born 1841.

Cii.YRLES ,S,8, John', John", Cephas'.
Peleg*, John", John®, Christopher' ;
Medway, Mass, ; born 1855,

Charles Titus", George G.*, Titus
V,', Samuel", David'. Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; clerk at Minneapolis,
Minn. ; born Franklin, N. H., 1862.

Charles R,', William S.", Reuben',
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; born 1S19 in Hartford ; —
1853 ; niarried Sarah W. Higley,
.1S49. CHILDREN,
Charles .\., born in Hartford,

Charles Richard'', Henry True-
man', Richard", Henry-'', Jonathan*,
Jonathan", Joseph®, William,*;
harness maker, Springville, N, Y. ;
born 184^ ; married Edna Wright,
1867. CHILDREN,
May, 1869,
Lena, 1871,
Charles Wesley", Charles Drelin-
court*; George Marsh', Joseph",
Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William' ; Brooklyn, N. Y. ; born
i8^8.

Chester', Jabez",- Jonathan', Re
compense*. Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher' ; a farmer, Becket,
Mass..; born at Becket, 1797. —
1874; married Stella Foote.
CHILDREN,
Oliver Chester, 1824,
Ellen EHza, married Elias Chapman,
Laura Isabella, — ,
George Francis, 1837; — 1873,

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wadsworth family HISTORY',

Chester I.', Charles", Samuel',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®, Wil
liam* ; born 1832, Cooperstown,
N. Y. ; married Cynthia Caroline
Barrett, 1858,

CHILDREN,

Charles, 1S59,
Fannie T,, 1861,
Edwin T,, 1863,
Chester, 1866
Harriet G., 1868,
Louisa B,, 1871,
Anna, 1874,
Charies, 1878,
Cari, 1880.

Christopher*, came over in ship
Lion that landed in Boston, Sun
daj', Sept. 16, 1632. The date of
his birth is not known or the name
of his father, but it is thought to
have been Thomas as this name
appears in a bible owned b}^ Chris
topher about the time he came to
America, the book now being in
possession of Samuel W. Cowles,
of Hartford. There is another
bible which no doubt he owned
later in life, now in possession of
Capt Ansel Wadsworth, of Lin
colnville, Me. These subjects are
treated elsewhere in this work.
Lived in Duxbury, Mass., and
must have gone there shortly after
his arrival in America ; married
Grace Cole.

.Samuel.
Joseph, M ary.
John.

Christopher", John®, Christopher* ;
Duxbury, Mass. ; born 16S5, —
1748; married Mehitable Worm-
all, 1713.
By his will he gave his farm and
lands in Duxbury to his son Christo
pher, also lands in Middleboro, Pem
brook, and Plympton. He also re
membered liberally his daughters.

Christian Phillips, Zenobe Bartlett,
and Abigail Russell. CHILDREN,
Christian, 1715; married Blaney Phillips,
1732, Mr, PhiUips left a large family and has
a nuraerous Une of descendants now living.
Mr, Calvin T, Phillips, of South Hanover, is
of this line,
AbigaU, 1 7 18; inarried Joseph Russell in
1740, Christopher, 1721,
Zenobe, 1723; inarried Nathaniel Bartlett,
1742,

Christopher", Samuel®, Christo
pher* ; Milton.
There is no record that this man
was ever inarried. He died quite
young; born 1661. His will bears
date of 1687, giving his property to
his brothers, and was possessed of
considerable wealth. He -was en
gaged in mercantile business in Bos
ton.

Christopher*, Christopher", John®,
Christopher' ; Duxbury, Mass. ;
born 1721 . CHILDREN,
Prince, 1 744, He lived to manhood, mar
ried and resided in Duxbury,
Eunice, 1 746,
Sarah, 1747.
Ephraim, 1749,

Christopher', George*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; Stoughton,
Mass. ; born 1728, Milton, Mass. ;
— 1793 ; married Anna Paul, 1753 ;
2d wife, Abigail Withington, 1760.
CHILDREN,
Sarah, 1754; married Jacob Hixson,
Ann, 1756; married Elijah Monk,
George, 1758,
Abigail, 1762; married Lerauel Drake,
Christopher, 1765,
Elijah, 1767, — 1791,
Deborah, 1770, — 1799,
Jesse, 1773,— 1778,
Joseph, 1776, — 1795.
Phebe, 1778, — 1778,
Rebecca, 1783, — 1796,
Phebe, 1779; miirried PhiUp Reynolds,

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wadsworth family history.

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Christopher", Christopher',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Stoughton, Mass. ;
born 1765, — 1790; married Ruth
Howard,"^i788.
CHILDREN,
Jesse, 1788.

Christopher*, Jesse', Christopher",
Christopher', George*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; Livermore
Falls, Me.; born 1810, — 1880;
married Huldah Additon, 1834;
2(1 wife, Almira Attwood, 1841.
CHILDREN,
Abbie L,, 1S35; married Rodolphus P,
Thompson, Jay, Me,
Huldah Additon, 1839; raarried Eben
Whitteraore, i860; East Deerfield, Me,

Clarence Edgar*, John Atherton',
John", John', Benjamin*, John",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; 19 Park
Street, N. Y, City; born 1844, at
Providence, R. I. ; married Lucy
Willard Eddy, 1871.
CHILDREN,
Elizabeth Atherton, 1873,

Clarence Eugene*, Spencer F',
Aaron", John', George*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; furni
ture manufacturer ; Pittston, Me. ;
born i8s2 ; not married.

Clarence Herbert*, John', Jos
eph", Ebenezer'. Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher' ;
Jefferson, Iowa; born 1861.

Cl.vrekce Percy', Alfred Wiswell",
Wiswell', Wait*, Elisha". Joseph®.
Christopher* ; Providence, R. I. ;
born i860.

Claudiu.s', Eden", Eden', Wait*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
Duxbury, Mass. ; born 1823, —
1870; married Ellen Bosworth.
CHILDREN.
Claudius, 1849.
Ellen C, ; died in infancy.

Claudius*, Claudius', Eden", Eden',
Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Reading, Mass. ; born 1849,
Newton Upper Falls ; married
Abbie E. Polsey, 1S69.
CHILDREN,
Claudius, 1872,
I-Iarry Polsey, 1874,
Walter Hopkins, 1876,
Albert Wyatt, 1878,
Mercie Ellen, 1880. '

Claudius Buchanan, David Drake,
Ichabod; (see sketch of Ichabod
of Ellington ; Ellington, Conn. ;
born 181^, — 1881 ; married !Min-
erva M. Alford. CHILDREN.
George E,, 1859.

Clifton Haley", George G.*, Ti
tus V,'', Samuel", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer". Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Minneapolis. iSIinn, ; born
i860.

Constant Webster', John", John',
John*, Joseph", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Bridgeport, New York ;
born 1784; married Patsy Cone,
1804. CHILDREN,
Mary A. 1807; married BiUington,
Palmyra, 1 8 10; married Orcott,
Elemander Cone, 1813,
John Edwin, 1816; — 1852,

Constant ^^'EBSTER*, Ebenezer S.',
John", John', John*, Joseph", Jos
eph®, Christopher* ; jewelry man
ufacturer, Peekskill, New York ;
born 1834; inarried Elizabetii M.
^"odges, 1858. CHILDREN.
Frederick C, 1859,
George A,, 1862,
Charies v., i868; — 1868,
Cornelius Van Dorn', Richard",
Henry', Jonathan*, Jonathan",

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wadsworth FAMILY' HISTORY.

Joseph®, \Villiam* ; harnessmaker.
Polo, 111. ; born 1827, — 1866 ;
inarried Maty E. Dixon.
CHILDREN,
Nettie Rachel,

Craig Wharton*'^, James Samuel',
James", John Noyes', James*,
James", John®, Williain* ; Gene
seo ; N. Y.;, soldier in the rebel
lion; (see sketch Gen. James S.)
born 1840, died at Phila., 1872;
inarried Evelyn W. Peters, 1869.
Mrs. W. has a home in Washing
ton but spends most of her time
abroad. CHILDREN.
James Samuel, 1870.
Craig W,, 1872,

Cyri's*, John', Ebenezer", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Westboro, Mass, ;
born 1S18. CHILDREN,
Two sons and one daughter.

Daniel', Moses", John', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Auburn, 111.; born 1799; Win
throp, Me, ; married Margaret F.
Goodwin, 1833.
Acting Notary Public of Sagamon
County for the past ten years ; also
held many important positions of
trust and responsibility ; member of
Commandery Knights Templar at
Springfield, and representative to
Grand Lodge ; joined the Methodist
church in 1823, and has been an ac
tive inember since that time.
CHILDREN,
Moses Goodwin, 1826,
Edward Kent, died in infancy,
Eraily N,; married, ist, John Harlan; 2d,
Wm. M, Cozine.
Sarah Annette; mairied J, N, WilUams,
Boulder, Col,
Abbie J.
Harriet, — ,
Hannah, died in infancy.

Daniel", Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathan
iel", John®, Williatn' ; Chicago,
111, ; born 1797 ; Farmington, Ct. ;
1857 • maiTied Martha Williams
Moore, of Hartford, 1824.
Apprenticed to the business of a druggist
and apothecary, with Gen, Geo, Cowles, Farm
ington, Conn., about 1812, where he remained
several years. Was a clerk for his uncle,
Asahel Strong, Bennington, Vt, Engaged in
general trade with Selah Whiting and Hiram
Briggs, New Hartford, Conn,, about 1823;
style of firm. Whiting cS: Wadsworth. Leav
ing there he spent several years in the South
ern States, Was in trade at Towanda, Brad
ford Co,, Pa,, with F)nos Tomkins and Lucius
F'uUer; firm Tomkins, Fuller & Co. Removed
in October, 1831, to Hastings, Oswego Co,,
N, Y,, and in 1835 *° Mexico, in that County,
where he lived till September, 1845, having a
large acquaintance and many friends. Was
an active politican and an ardent supporter of
the Whig party; took a great interest in edu
cation; at one time he buUt a school house
and employed a teacher at his own expense,
rather than have his children deprived of the
means of getting an education. Removed to
Chicago in Sept., 1845, where he engaged
first, in the grocery trade, and afterward deal
ing in hats and caps. He united with the
Congregational Church in New Hartford,
Conn,, about 1820, and continued his connec
tion «ith that church through the remainder
of his life, 'He was a man of agreeable man
ners, pleasing address of first rate general in
formation , CHILDREN,
James, 1828.
Lucretia, 1S25; — 1S55,
Strong, 1833,

Daniel", Jeremiah', Daniel*, John".
John®, William* ; Hartford, Conn. ;
inarried Faith Trumbull, the eldest
daughter of the 2d Gov. Trum
bull ; they left no issue ; (see sketch).
Daniel', Daniel*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William* ; Hartford, Conn. ; born
I 762, CHILDREN.
John F., 1796,

Daniel*, Joseph", Jo.seph®, Wil
liam*; born 1720. — 1762.
CHILDREN,
Daniel, 1762,

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167

Daniel*, John". John®, .William* ;
a clergyman ; Hartford, Conn, ;
graduated at Yale College, 1726;
born 1704, — 1747; niarried Abi
gail Talcott. daughter of Governor
Talcott; (see sketch).
CHILDREN.
.. Abigail, 1735.
^ Daniel, 1741; — 1750-
EuiiBft, 1736; — 1825,
EUzabeth, 1738; — 1810.
Ruth, 1746; died in infancy,
Jeremiah, 1743,
Daniel, William, Ignatius; (see
Ignatius) ; removed from Moore
Co,, North Carolina, to Autauga
Co., Alabama, when quite young ;
born 1806, — 1876 ; married Sallie
Mathes ; 2d wife, Martha Adelaide
Norris. CIJILDREN,
.Mary Frances, 1837,
Malcolm .S,, living in Autaugo, Co,, has five
liovs, WiUiam White, 1841,
John Wesley and James P,, died near the
close of the war from sickness in the army,
Charlotte EUen, 1848; Montgomery, Ala,
Ne«ton Young, 1850; Arkansas.
Patrick D,, 1841; — 1881,
.Sarah EUza; — young,
MUes .\,, 1854; Texas,
Florence A,; Miskeyan, Mich,
Katie Maria; — young,
Issac A,, 1863; Montgomery, Ala,

Daniel', Abiah". Sedate', Abiah*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher' ;
farmer; Lincolnville, Me,; born
1814; married Lucy Blood, 1839;
no children.
Daniel was the second son, now
resides on the old homestead in Lin
colnville, where he has remained from
his boyhood ; is a farmer and a man
of e\-en temperament and good judg
ment ; is a Methodist, and enter
tains a firm trust in his Ci'eator, by
which he is guided in all the duties
of life ; he married Lucy Blood, a
lady possessed of more than the aver
age intelligence, and it was through

her thoughtfulness that the fly-leaf of
Christopher's old bible was preserved.

Daniel', Solomon", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®, Wil
liam' ; carriage maker ; Manches
ter, Conn.; born 1821, Hartford;
married Anna J. Dean, 1844; 2(1
wife, Hannah F. Lamb, 181^0.
CHILDREN,
Annie L,, 1849.
Addie L,, 18^4; — 1871).
Herbert C, LSi^y.

Daniel", Joseph", John', John*.
Joseph", Joseph®, Christopher' ;
River Falls, Wisconsin ; born in
1799 : married Mar\' Miller.
CHILDREN.
JohnG., 1828; Dakota Ter.
Joseph M., 1830; Xebraska.
Daniel D., 1834; Nebraska,
Catherine, 1836; married Sidney Joslyn,
Council Bluffs, Iowa,

Daniel', George", \\'illiam', Wil
liam*, William", John®, William' ;
dealer in colors ; oflice 207 Pearl
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y, ; born in
1821, Burlington, Vt, ; married
Sarah E. Alford. 1850.
chiluken.
Kate P., 1850,
Eda L,, 1853,
Frank A., 1857.
Harry D,, i860,
Daniel*, John Ogden', Elisha". Re
compense', George*, Ebenezer".
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; contractor
and builder, Lapeer City, Mich. ;
born 1831, in Wayne Co., N. Y. ;
married Catherine Morton, 1854,
CHILDREN,
Della A,, 1855,
Mary A., 1872.
Daniel E,*", Charles B.^, JolinN.*.
Wedworth'. John N,", John N.'.
James*, Jaines", John®, William* ;
Englewood, 111. ; born at Summer-
field, Michigan, 1859.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Daniel Sidney*, Sidney', Elislia",
Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathaniel",
John®, William' ; Hartford, Conn. ;
born 1848.

David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher' ; Grafton'j
Mass. ; born 1720, in Milton, —
1749; married Hannah Paul.
CHILDREN,
David, 1742,
Ebenezer, 1744,
Sarauel, 1747,
Sarah, raarried Joseph Merriam,

David', Elihu*, Ichabod", Joseph®,
William* ; born in Hartford, 1743 ;
removed to Ohio, then called the
" Western Reserve," about 1814,
and settled near Cuyahago Falls,
where he died in 1838 ; married
Irene Olcott. CHILDREN,
EUhu, 1802,

David", David', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®. Christopher* ; at
Grafton, Mass. ; born 1741, Graf
ton; — 1821; inarried Elizabetii
Whipple, born 1744? died 1827.
CHILDREN,
Susannah, 1764; married Peter Farnum.
David, 1767,
Jonathan, 1769,
John, 1771.
Jacob, 1773; — 1774
Sarauel 1775,
Ebenezer, 1777; — 1777
Moses, 1778,
Paul, 1 781; — 1782,
Joseph, 1784.
Day'id", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Ohio; born in 1764, Stoughton,
Mass. ; married Eleanor Capen,
1788. CHILDREN,
Eliza; — at Quincy, Mich,, 1877; left no
children, Samuel, 1789; died in Iowa some years
ago.

Azuba, 1 7511; married Bartholomew Hewett,
of Rutland Vt,, in 181 7; afterwards re
moved to Michigan; Dr, N, B, Hewett, of
Gilead, Branch Co,, Mich., is her son,
Milly, 1795; — 1839,
Lucy, 1797; — 1842,
David, 1 800; — 1832 in Ohio; three daugh
ters living near Marshaltown, Iowa,
Eleanor, 1808; — 1832.

David', David", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; a scythe manufacturer ;
Barre, Mass. ; Ijorn 1767, — 1835 ;
married Virtue Willard.
CHILDREN.
Betsey, 1790.
Perley, 1791; Master Mariner, lost at sea.
Susannah, 1793; married Claflin now living
in Hopkinton,
Patty, 1796; — 1796,
David, 1797,
WUlard, 1800,
Martha, 1802; married J, D, Holden,
Samuel, 1804; — in infancy,
Charles, 1805,
Mary, 1808; married Hiram Parker, Hop
kinton,

David', Da^id", Recompense',

George

Ebenezer", Samuel®,

Christopher*; Ohio; born iSoo ;
— 1S32 ; married 1822.
CHILDREN,
Eliza Ellen, 1823.
Timothy Burr, 1S26,
Hannah W, ; — in infancy,
David W,, 1S31,
None supposed to be living.

David, John, David Drake, Icha
bod ; (see Ichabod of Ellington) ;
fanner, Ellington, Conn. ; born
1830; lives on the old homestead;
married Harried E. Bond, Somers,
Conn., in 1882,

David', Jonathan", Jonathan', Re
compense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; a farnier, Becket,
Mass., and Cambridge, Pa. ; born
1780, Becket, j\Iass. ; . — 1842, in
Pa. ; married Hannah Rockwell,
1805. CHILDREN,
Williara, 1806; — about 1830.

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169

Da\'id', Thomas", Thomas', Thom
as*, Thomas", Thotnas®. William* ;
moved to Michigan fifty years ago ;
dead many years ; born i795-
CHILDREN.
Believed to have left several.

David*, David', David", David', Re
compense*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®,
Christopher* ; Athol, Mass. ; born
in 1797, — 1S58; married Sabra
Hotchkiss. CHILDREN,
David, 1829; — at Athol, 1S63,
Charies, 1836,
One daughter who died at Athol, 1869,

D.vviD*, Jonathan', David", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; at Cambridge, Vt. ;
born 1803, South Boston ; — 1877 ;
inarried Caroline Metcalf, 1825.
CHILDREN,
Caroline EUzabeth, 1826; married H. M,
Safford, Sarah Ann, 1829; married U, S, Hall,
Jonathan, 1834,
Lois Jane, 1836,
David, 1838,
John, 1840; — 1843,
Mary Augusta, 1842,
• Stephen, 1S44; — 1874.
George Farnum, 1849.

Da\'id*, Joseph', David". David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher' ; manufacturer edge
tools over forty years ; business now
carried on under firm name of Da
vid Wadsworth & Son, Auburn,
N. Y. ; born 1S24; inarried Phebe.
E. Partlow, 1849.

children.

Sarah, 1850,
David, 1852.

DavidS, David*. Jonathan', David",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; jail keeper,
Manchester, N, H, ; born 183S ;

married Sarah A. Moore, 1849; 2d
wife, Mrs. Mary E. Buell, 1873.

David Drake, Ichabod ; (see Icha
bod). farmer, Ellington, Conn.;
born 1770, — 1825 ; married Es
ther Andrews, 179*-
CHILDREN.
Chloe, 1793; married Jonathan Carpenter.
Lydia, 1794; married Enos Lyraan.
Laura, 1796; married Geo, Lyman,
David, 1798; — in infancy,
Esther, 1799; married Asa Phillips.
John, 1803,
David, 1805,
Cordelia, 1809; married Philo Foster,
Samuel Andrews, 1811,
Claudius B, 181 5,

David Lulher*, Lawton', Jona
than", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher' ;
Wellington, Ohio ; born 1825 ;
Becket, Mass, ; removed to Ohio
1833 ; married Rossina C. Wood-
worth, 1850.
Favored in early life with a good coraraon
school education and a few terms at Oberlin
College, he prepared as a teacher, teaching
seven yeats during a portion of the year. In
1841 he commenced reading medicine with
Dr, Hall of Orange, Ohio, but he had a dis
taste for medical pursuits. In 1867 and '6S,
was connected with a New York commission
house, as also in Cincinnati, 1869 purchased
a planing mill and lumber yard and engaged
in manufacturing business; also in erecting
dvvellings and business houses, adding raate
rial growth and prosperity to the vUlage, His
present poUtical faith was developed and es
tablished upon the breaking out of the Rebel
lion, when he became a zealous war Democrat
and raaterially aided at all times the work of
enlistraents by furnishing Uberally of his own
means. Since assuming a prominent part in
political history, he has participated in nearly
all County, State and ^Jational Conventions,
a prominent candidate in 1875 before the
state convention for its nominee for treasurer,
defeated by a few votes only. Appointed by
th e Governor soon after, as a trustee of the
Cleveland Insane .\sylura, which position he
filled with honor and credit. In 1879 he was
selected as candidate by his party for State
Senator, though defeated ran his opponent

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

some nine hundred votes behind his ticket.
.\ candidate for Congress the following year,
but in a large RepubUcan district like the Sen
atorial, could not overcome the vast odds
against him, Mr, Wadsworth was one of the
early members of the Masonic Lodge, No,
127, Wellington, filling many of its various
offices, being W, M, many years; is also mem
ber of Oriental Commandery of Sir Knights,
at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1875 Mr, and Mrs,
Wadsworth celebrated their twenty-fifth anni
versary of married life, with regal entertain
ment, in which upwards of three hundred
guests participated, and presented a multitude
of silver offerings, precious mementos of a
joyous occasion, iVIr, Wadsworth's public
spirit takes wide scope of action, and towards
building churches, always reaching out an as
sisting arm, irrespective of creed," He is an
attendant of the Congregational church, to
which his whole family belong, and to the
building of which he gave liberally of his time
and money, CHILDREN,
Kitty May,
Georgie,Leon H,

Dawson, Slippery Rock, Butler Co.,
Penna. ; (see Dr. Henry of Phila. ;)
boru at Rockcorry, Ireland, 1807 ;
married Jane S. Robinson, at Pitts
burg, 1835. CHILDREN.
John R,, 1837,
James M,, 1841 ; — ,
Jaije, 1843,
Annie, 1844,
Dawson C, 1847,
WilUam, 1849,
Margaret, 1852.
Henrietta, 1854.
All reside in Butler Co,, Penna,

Decius', George", William', Wil
liam*, WiUiam", John®, William' ;
Brooklyn, N. Y, ; deceased.
CHILDREN.
M, Theresa,
Fanny S.
Agnes R, ; married Chas. M, Howard,

Decius", William', William*, Wil
liam", John®, William* ; clerk in
ordnance department ; graduated
from Yale College, 1785 ; born
1768, — 1 82 1 ; never married.

Dexter*, John', Ebenezer", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Litchfield, 111. ; born
1824; married Mary Miller, of
Holliston. CHILDREN,
One daughter, two sons; all living.

Dow Vincent*, Ebenezer Sackett',
John", John', John*, Joseph".
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Canaan,
Columbia Co., N. Y. ; born 1841 ;
New Lebanon, N. Y. : married
Sophronia E. Davis.
CHILDREN.
Allen Davis, 1872.
Ebenezer Sackett, 1875,
Elbert Elmore, 1877,
Edith (— 18S0) and Effie, 1880,
Dow Vincent, 1882,

Dura', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; Duxbury, Mass. ; born
1763; inarried Lydia Bradford.
CHILDREN.
Dura, 1788.
Peleg, 1 791.
Seth, 1792,
John, 1794,
Hannah, 1796; married Stephen C, Brad
ford, Susanna, 1797,
Zilpha, 1800; married Benj, Barker,
Lydia, 1802; married Jos. Butterfield.
Uriah, iSoS,

Dura,", Dura', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher* ; carpenter bv trade,
and later in life manufactured fish
lines, Duxbury, Mass., after 1S41 ;
Universalist ; always paid lOO cents
on the dollar; born 1788, Maine;
— 1881 ; married iSIercs- Tayler,
1S14; 2d wife, Abigail Cushman.
CHILDREN,
Mercy, Henry,
Lucy Abigail,
Gamaliel, Dura, 1825,
EUzabeth.Briggs, WilUam, died in the army.

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171

Dura', Dura", Dura', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; Bridgewater,
Mass. ; born 1S25, in Plymouth ;
married Olive Wentworth, 1853 ;
taught school in early life ; after
wards worked at ship carpentry.
Novv engaged in manufacturing
cotton gins. CHILDREN.
Arthur Clinton, 1854.
Mary AUce, married Orin B. Cole, Kingston.
Annie Ruth, l86o.
Dura, 1862.
Edith Cushman, 1S64.

Dura*, Dura', Dura", Dura', Peleg*.
John", John®, Christopher* ; lives
Bridgewater, Mass. ; born 1862.
Eames", Edwin R.*, Joseph', Jos
eph", John', John*, Joseph", Jos
eph®, Christopher* ; Newark, New
Jersey ; born 1848.
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
a deacon, and one of the early
settlers of Milton, Mass ; born
there 4660; — 17*7; his tomb
stone now stands in Milton ceme
terv, near that of his brother Chris
topher, who died in 1687, the
oldest tombstone in the cemetery ;
inarried Mary  .
CHILDREN.
Mary, 16S4; married Simpson,
Samuel, 1685-
Recompense, 1688,
George, 1698,

Ebenezer, 1778; had one chUd,

Ebenezer', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher*;
Grafton, Mass. ; born in Milton
about 1725 ; married Patience
Swift. CHILDREN,
Joseph, 1760,
Ebenezer", David', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
born 1744, in Grafton, Mass.;
— 1820; married Lucy Brooks.
CHILDREN,
Lucy, 1771; married WUliard,
Hannah, 1775; married Scott,

Anna, 1783;
John, 1780,
Cyrus, 1783,
SaUie, 1787;
Mary, 1791 ;
WUliam, 1794,

in infancy.

married Stratton,
married Forbes,

Ebenezer", John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Amster
dam, N. Y ; born in New Leba
non, N. Y., 1778; — 1863 ; mar
ried Hannah G. Cornwall, 1806.
CHILDREN,
Joseph C, 181 2,
Charlotte E , 181 7; married Geo, R. Har
rison, Bloomfield, N, J
Mary J,, 1820; raarried Cady E, Howe, of
Phelps, N, J,
WilUam A. R,, 1822.
Hannah A., 1829; married Wm, Stearns, of
Phelps, N. J.
Ebenezer S.', John", John', John*,
Joseph", Joseph®, Christopher' ;
New Lebanon, N, Y. ; born 1802 ;
— 1880; married Jerusha Vin
cent, 1830,
Col, Ebenezer was born in New Lebanon,
Columbia Co,, N. Y,, on the "Old Wadsworth
Homestead, " now owned by his children. It
was bought by his grandfather one hundred
and eleven years ago, (1771,) FUst by John
Wadsworth, then by his son, John Wadsworth,
and in 1836, Ebenezer S, came in posession of
it, and owned it untU he died, June 17, 1880,
It is now owned by the children, as the estate
is still unsettled. He was appointed Lieuten
ant in the 73d Regiinent of Infantry 1831,
and in May 5, 1832, Captain. In 1836 he was
appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the same
regiment. The quality of the man is plainly
visible in the portrait in this work ; stern and
resolute but honest and philanthopic,
CHILDREN,
JohnGilbeit, 1831.
George Kirby, 1832,
Constant Webster, 1834.
Silas Wheeler, 1835,
Maria A,, 1836; — 1865,
Jane Ann, 1838.
Rachel Rebecca, 1840; married W, S.
Fowler, Dow Vincent, 1841,
Elbert Ebenezer, 1845,
WilUam Perry, 1847,
Joseph G, Ford, 1849.
Andrew W,, 1853; — 1862,

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E. Clifford*, Edward L.', Thom
as", Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, William*.
E, Chfford Wadsworth, D. D, S,, the oldest
son of Rev, E, L. Wadsworth, was born Octo
ber 27th, 1838, in Homer, N, Y,, his father
being pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in that place. His early life was given
to study in dift'erent schools and academies,
and at nineteen years of age he began the
study of medicine with Dr, L, Stone of
Auburn, f>/, Y,, but after a few months he
chose dentistry as his profession, accepting a
favorable offer made by Dr, L. Mattison, a
prominent dentist of that city. In 1861, at
the beginning of the civil war, he was asso
ciated with Dr, Stephen Bailey, of Washing
ton, D, C, whom he soon left to render effi
cient service to his country, in the office of
Quartermaster General Meigs, then located in
the Corcoran Art Gallery. Here, as " Chief
of Section," he directed the work of nearly
one hundred clerks for about three years,
with rare success, winning the cordial approval
of those both above and below him in office.
To this day he cherishes, as a valued souvenir
of that time, the handsomely engrossed and
numerously signed testimonial of his efficiency
and courtesy, presented to him on his retire
ment frora that office. In 1864, he raarried
Mrs. Sarah E, Wells, a descendent of the
Hubbard family of Connecticut, In 1866, he
retired to his native place, in central New
York, for the benefit of his health, greatly
impaired by his work in Washington, After
a year's rest, he , entered upon the practice of
his profession in Brooklyn, N, Y., and during
the past sixteen years has established a large,
lucrative, and steadily increasing business. In
1870, he received from the New ^'ork College
of Dentistry, the degree of Doctor of Dental
Surgery, Dr, Wadsworth is a progressive
man in everything pertaining to his profes
sion. His office is complete and elegant,
fitted with every appliance that ingenuity can
suggest, and in the freely expressed judgment
of the numerous agents of dental raanufac
turers, superior in its equipments to any other
that they have had the opportunity of seeing.
During his residence in Brooklyn he has held
at various times, in different literary and social
organizations, presidential, and other promi
nent official positions; has been trustee of the
Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn; is trustee of
the Brooklyn Homeopathic Dispensary, and
for eleven years trustee and treasurer of the
New England Congregational .Society, being
also a member of that church. In politics he
is Republican, (See portrait,)

Eden', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; Duxbury ; born in
171^9 ; was drowned in 1818 ; mar
ried Ruby Soule who died in 1816.
CHILDREN.
Eden and Zenith, (twins), 1793; Zenith died
at sea,
Nancy, married Barstow,
Beulah, married Charles Winsor,

Eden", Eden', Wait*, Elisha", Jos
eph®, Christopher* ; farmer ; Dux-
bur}' ; born 1793; — 1878; mar
ried Mercy Bosworth..
Went to sea at the age of 14 years,
was on a privateer in the war of 1812.
Also was one of the company that
manned the battery at the Gurnet
¦when the English Frigates threatened
that point. As master of a vessel
made several voyages to the East
Indies ; also several voj'ages to St.
Petersburg. After returning served
several years in the St.ate legislature.
CHILDREN, '
Eden, 1825,
Claudius, — in Duxbury, »
Walter H., — in Havana,
Fernando, 1839,

Eden', Eden", Eden', Wait*, Elisha".
Joseph®. Christopher* ; Sacramen
to, Cal. ; born 1825, in Duxburv ;
married Caroline Bosworth of Lex
ington, jNIass., 1S54,
Served an apprenticeship with Mr.
Jabez Coney of South Boston, as a
machinist. In 1847 and 1848 was in
the Island of Cuba, as an engineer
on a sugar estate. Went to California
in 1848, enduring manv hardships
and privations. While crossing the
Isthmus of Panama, out of the party
of fourteen who started in compan\"
from Havana, there died of cholera.
The year 1S50 was spent at hard
labor in the mines of California ; was
there at difierent times since, with
varying success, sometimes with a
fortune within his grasp, and again
"dead broke," Has, since 1856,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

*7.3

resided at Sacramento City, and fol
lowed the occupation of an engineer
of steamboats ; at present engineer of
U. S. Steamer Seign, used as a Snag-
boat on the Sacramento River. A
member of the Pioneer Association
of that City, and of the First Congre
gational .Society. CHILDREN,
CaroUne Mercy, 1855; — 1SS2; married
Chas, iM Iwagn,
Hattie H,, l85l ; — in infancy,
Geo, F,, 1865 ; — in infancy,
Kate Washington, 1865,
Lucy B,, 1866; — died in infancy,
Eden, 1870; — in infancy.
Ruby Soule, 1872,
Edg.yrL.*, Allen', Solomon", Thom
as', Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®,
Williain* ; cigar manufacturer at
Hartford, Conn. ; born 1S37 ; mar
ried Rosella M. Dickinson, 1866.

Edgar Orsox", Albert Orson*, Law-
ton', Jonathan", Jonathan', Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher' ; Saranac, Michigan;
born 1859.

Edmund Doane^, George W.*. Wil
liam', Ebenezer", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher' ; Boston ; born 1861.
Edw.vrd", Elijah'', Joseph', Joseph",
Joseph®. William' ; captain in the
war of 181 2 ; Canfield, Ohio ; born
1791 ; — 1835 ; married Parmelia
.Schofield. CHILDREN.
Henry E.; — 1837,
Rhoda; married Hine,
WiUiara, 1820; — i860,
Mary; married Tanner; — 1855.
Archibald Clark, 1827.
Chester B,; - 1S27,
Sehon G,, 1S30.

ury keeper, Hartford Safe Co. ;
Hartford; born 1807; married,
Martha Wooley, Jan., 1846.

CHILDREN,

Edward, 1847; — ''^48
Wm, Henry, 1849; — i
Fred Adams, 1851; — i
Charles Buck, 1852.
Robert Anderson, iS6[,
Martha L,, 1863,

8si.

Edward*, Edward Perry', John",
Dura', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher' ; Steuben, Me. ; born 1852 ;
married Mattie J. Storer ; 2d, Nan
cv Storer,

Edw.vrd", Horace', Jonathan*, Jon
athan", Joseph®, VViUiam' ; treas-

Edward, Thomas, Ignatius, (see
Ignatius) ; Methodist clerg\ man ;
Greensboro, Ala. ; born at New
bern, N. C, in 181 1 ; married
A. E. Felton ; 2d wife, M. \\',
Sledge, 1850; no children living.
He took the degrees of A, B. and
A, M, from Randolph Macon Col
lege, \'a,, and entered the Methodist
ministry.; received the degree D,D.,
in 1847, from Randolph Macon, Em
ory and Henry colleges; in 1S46
was elected president of La Grange
College, Ala. ; elected professor of
nioral philosophy in the Southern
University, Ala., 1857; was presi
dent of La Grange College, being
the successor of Bishop Payne, six
and a half \ears, and professor in
Southern University thirteen years,
and a portion of the time chairman
of the faculty. Now on the super-
anuated list of the Ala, Conference.

Edward Baldwin ; genealogy not
direct; father's name Baldwin,
His grandfather Wadsworth re
moved from New Haven county to
Ohio many years ago ; fish dealer,
Boston; born in Oxford, Conn.,
1843 ; inarried Lucena P. Stuart,
1881 ; no children.

174

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY'.

Edward Henry', Samuel Bartlett",
Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher' ; Eastport, Me, ; born
'835-

Edward I,*, John', John", Dura',
Peleg*, John", John®, Christopher* ;
Winthrop, iVIass, ; born 1846.

Edward Lyman*, John J.', John
Marsh", Ambrose', Joseph*, Jos
eph", Joseph®, William* ; Erie,
Pa. ; born, 1857.

Edward Kirby*, Andrew Snider',
Edward Wheeler", John', John*,
Joseph", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
Henrietta, N. Y. ; born 1S57.

Edward L.', Thomas", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®.
William* ;' clergyman ; Sauquoit,
N. Y. ; born in New Hartford,
N. Y., 1806; married Charlotte
C. Clarke, 1838 ; 2d wife. Pru
dence G. Nealy, 1844.
Educated at Cazenovia Seminaiy ;
admitted to Oneida Conference in
1832, and for over twenty years fol
lowing performed the work of a
faithful minister, filling appointments
in many of the leading churches in
the conference.

E, Clift'ord, r
Theodore A,.
Charlotte C,
Sarah F,, 18,
Libbie S,, 1858,

1 841,
843-

Edward Payson*, Calvin', Joseph",
John', John*, Joseph", Joseph®,
Christopher' ; pli3'sician at Paines
vUle, Ohio ; born in Buffalo, 1830 ;
inarried Sarah L. Judson, 1856;
no children.

Edward Perry', John", Dura',
Peleg*, John", John®, Christopher' ;

physician ; Boston, 75 Montgom
ery St. : born 1826, Duxbury ; mar--
ried Judith Randall, 1849 ; 2d
Sarah Jane Mears, 1857.
CHILDREN.
Edgar, 1852; — in infancy,
Edward, 1854; Steuben, Me,
Fred M,, 1S58; in Colorado,
NormaLUlian, 1859; married F, B. Buffum,
Lynn. Lottie Gertrude, 1861; married A, D.
Handy, South Boston,
Sarah Ina, 1863,
Samuel Grant, 1865.
Edwin; bom 1836, in the Parish of
Berrick, County of Oxfordshire,
England ; father's name Thomas ;
mother's name Temperance S.
Coster ; grandfather, Jonathan ; 106
Division St., .Paterson, N.J. ; mar
ried Margaret Faulhurst, 1858.
CHILDREN.
Emily Ann, 1862,
Ellen Augustus, 1865.
Edwin Phillips, 1870,
Frederick Faulhurst, 1873,

Edwin", Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathan
iel", John®, William* ; Winsor,
Ohio; born in 1787; — in 1858;
married Livia Judd.
CHILDREN.
Seth Lafayette, 1824; — 1864,
Huldah, married Rockwell in Chicago.
Jane L,, married Winslow, Winslow, Ohio,
Ellen, married Corbin, in Chicago,
Henry, — in infancy.

Edwin Lafayette*, Seth Lafay
ette', Edwin", Seth', Hezekiali*.
Nathaniel", John®, Williani* ; rail
roading ; New Lisbon, Ohio ; born
in 1859.

Edwin Dexter*, Thonias Thatch
er', Benjamin", John', Benjamin*,
John", Samuel®, Christopher* ; sea
captain ; Milton, Mass ; born 1S32 ;
niarried Ellen M. Emerson, 1862.
Capt. Wadsworth, whose portait
is in this volume, was liberallv edu
cated in the schools and academy of

wadsworth family HISTORY'.

175

his native town ; was one ofthe gold
seekers of California in 1849, after
which he followed the sea, and was
master of ships in California and
China trade ; also in the steamship
service in China and on our own
coast ; was chief officer of the first
American merchant ship to Japan.
He v\'as engaged in transport ser
vice during the rebellion. Since re
tiring from the sea has resided on the
old W^adsworth homestead in Milton,
originally owned by Capt. Samuel,
who was killed at wSudbury, while
fighting Indians, in 1676, the proper
ty having remained in the family ever
since. He has held nearly all the
public ofiices within the gift of the
citizens of his town.
CHILDREN,
Dexter Emerson, 1866,
Annie Mary, 1868,

Edwin R.*, Joseph', Joseph", John',
John*, Joseph", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; 97 Clark street, Chicago,
111, ; born 1823 at Aurora, N. Y. ;
married Emilv Eames, 1847.
CHILDREN,
Earaes, 1848,
Fannie, 1864,
Martha, 1873.

Edwin Ruth van*, Charles', Charles
L.", Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher* : Hiram, Maine ; born
1833 ; married Sarah A. Benton,
1858. CHILDREN,
Austin, 1859,
Dor.a, 1 86 1.
Abbie, 1864; married Brown, Cornish.
Ruth, 1869.
Weston, 1S71,
Ela*, Archibald', Reuben", Sam
uel', Samuel*, Saniuel", John®,
William* ; a farmer ; Cortland, N.
Y. ; born in 1826, at Homer, N.
Y. ; niarried Amanda Howe, 1847.
CHILDREN,
Alva A,, 1849; — 1863,

Helen M,, 1851; married David C, Beers,
William H,, 1852; — 1861,
Harvey K., 1856; — 1S58,
Myron IT,, 1858; — 1 861.
Mary L,, 1861; married Geo, T, Lattimer,
Clark H,, 1863,
Marion W., 1866.
MUton E,, 1869,

Elbert Ebenezer*, Ebenezer Sack
ett', John", John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher' ; a jewelry
manufacturer, 44 John St., N. Y. ;
Englev^^ood, N. J, ; born 1845,
New Lebanon, N. Y. ; married
Myra L. Breckenridge, in 1880;
went to Ne^v York Cit}- in the
vear 1866. CHILDREN,
Elberta, 1SS2.

Elemander Cone*, Constant ^Veb-
ster', John", John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Bridgeport,
N. Y. ; born 1813;-— 1880, at
Brunswick, Missouri ; married to
Catherine Morser, 1838 ; born in
AVirtenberg, Germany,
CHILDREN,
Mary S,, 1S39,
Lucius Webster, 1S43; — 1862.
Martha Estella, 1858,
Eli', Charles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Hi
ram, Me, ; born iSii ; — 1851 ;
married Mary Chancy, 1832.
CHILDREN,
Adelaide W,, 1834; married Franklin Hun
tress, 1S59,
Leander, 1836; — 1S48.
Alexander, 1839,
Eli', Samuel*, Jonathan", Joseph®,
William*; Hartford, Conn; born
i'j^2, — 1787; married Rachel
Ca'ldwell. children.
WUliam, 1777; married Sally Warland of
New Flaven.
Eli, 1787,
Lucy, 1780; — 1799.
Nancy, 1782; — 1803,
Katy, 1785; — 1805,

176

wadsworth family HISTORY.

Eli", Eli', Samuel*, Jonathan", Jos
eph®, ^Villiam' ; Hartford, Conn. ;
Born, 1787; — 1830; married t.::
Laura Boardman, of Hartford.
children,
Catharine, niarried William Sherwood; now
resides in Cincinnati, 0,; has four children,
Delia, Laura, Caroline, Eli, Julia, Lester
Mary, Henrietta, all are dead.

Eli*, John', Charles Lee", Peleg',
Peleg*, John", John®, Christo
pher*; Hiram, Me.; born, 1828;
— 1854; married Sarah J. Chad-
burn, 1854,
Elihu H,^, John N.*, Wedworth',
John N.", John N,', Jaines*.
James", John®, William' ; Summer-
field, Munroe Co,, Mich. ; farmer;
born at same place, 1837 ' married
Fannie E, Pew, 1868.
children.
Charles Noyes, 1869,
Fred Elihu, 1872,
John Fay, i'^76,
Lynn, O , 1 879,
Louis G,, 1 88 1,

Elihu*, Ichabod", Joseph®, Wil
liam' ; Hartford ; — 17S2.
children,
Elihu, David, 1763,
Chloe, married David Collins; Ohio,
Jerusha, reraained single,
Esther, raarried James Butler; residence,
Pennsylvania,

Elihu", David', Elihu*, Ichabod".
Joseph®, Williani* ; Kendallvillc,
Indiana ; born in 1802 at Hartford,
Conn. ; — 18S2 ; married Phebe
Ulmer, 1829. children.
Joseph T,, 1830; residence, KendallvUle,
WiUiam F,, 1S32; — 1873,
Edwin N,, 1833; — 1866.
(.'hloe E,, 1836; married Parker; — - 1882,
Henry E,, 1839,

Elijah', Samuel*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher' ; Milton, Mass. ;

born 1731 ; married Susanna Rob
bins, 1754. children,
Thomas, 1755; no chUdren; — 1799.
Eunice, 1757; — 1759-
Jerusha, 1759,
Nathaniel, 1760; — 1762,
Susanna, 1762,
Sarah, 1764,
Stephen, 1766.
Molly, 1768,

Elijah', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
\Villiani* ; Litchfield, Conn. ; born
1747, at Hartford — 1817; mar
ried Rhoda Hopkins, 1780.
On hearing of the battle of Bunker Hill on
the 17th of June, 1775, he volunteered to go
to Boston, but on arriving at Hartford, and
learning the temporary conflict was over, the
irregular party returned. Immediately there
after, he assisted in raising Sheldon's regiment
of Light Horse or Dragoons, He was soon
commissioned Lieutenant of the' Company, of
which Benjarain Talmadge was Captain, (or
probably Thoraas Y, Seymour) was first Cap
tain, and served during the entire war in that
regiment with acceptance to the array and
country, Hc was in the battles of Monraouth,
Long Island and Pound Ridge — and was on
the guard, having the custody of M<aior .\ndre,
the night after his capture, ' Before the close
of the vvar, he was coraraissioned (Captain in
the same Regiment," In 1799, having be
come associated with the corapany who pur
chased the Connecticut Western reserve from
the State of Connecticut, he first went to the
N(n-th Western Territory, and in the fall of
1S02, he removed his faraily from Litchfield,
Conn,, to Canfield, TrurabuU County, North
Western Territory. On the organization of
the state government of Ohio, he was elected
Sheriff of the County of Trumbull, at the first
general election in January 1803. and when
the Militia of the state was organized by the
Legislature in the winter of 1803-4, he was
elected Major General of the 4th Division of
Ohio MUitia, which embraced more th.in one
third of the north part of the state. When
Gen, HuU surrendered Detroit, and the North
Western ;\,rray to the British, on the i6th of
.Vugust, 1S12, it threw open to incursions from
the British and Indians, the whole North
Western frontier, which was almost entireb-
within the military Division commanded by
Gen, Wadsworth, He immediately ordered
out a large force of militia frora his division,
for the protection of the frontiers, and started
himself with .Major Elisha Whittlesev, ime of

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY,

177

his aids, and a company of cavalry; and his
olher aid, a Major Benjamin Tappan, soon
joined them at Cleveland, Gen, Wadsworth
soon received orders from the Secretary of
war, and from Gov, Jleigs, of Ohio, to protect
the frontiers and organize a force of fifteen
hundred men from his division, put them
under the command of a Brigadier (.General,
and report them to Gen, Winchester, or other
officer, commanding the northwestern army,
wdiich order was complied with, and in No
vember following, they were reported over,
under command of Brigadier General Simon
Perkins, to Gen. Harrison, who then com
manded the northwestern army, and Gen,
Wadsworth then returnct to his home in
Canfield, children,
Epaphras removed from Litchfield about
1770 to Fiuntingdon County, Penn,, with a
familv of children, girls and boys. It is more
than probable that this man «'as the father of
Ignatius. Rhoda, 1784; raarried Archibald Clark, at
St. Mary's, Ga,; one daughter, Mrs, Louise
M, King, .Vtkinson, Wayne County, Ga.
Harry, 1 78 1; — 1830,
Frederick, 1786,
Edward, 1791; — 1835,
George, 1793; — 1S32,

Mary L,, 1S52; — in infancy,
liarry L,, dS57,

Elijah*, Jesse', Christopher", Chris
topher', George*, Ebenezer", .Sam
uel®, Christopher*-; Livermore
Falls, Me. ; born 1825 ; married
Ruth A, Record, 1861.
children,
Harriet, A,, 1863; —1863,
MUlard J., 1866,
Herbert E , 1868,
Johnny, 1876; — 1876.

Elijah Milford*, Lawton', Jona
than", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Berlin, Wis. ; born in 1815, at
Becket, Mass. ; inarried Clarisa
Battell, 1840.
College education ; has held many
important positions, and for the past
dozen years has been superintendent
of the schools of his city ; also does
a large legal business, settling es
tates, etc. children,
Henry J., 1 841,

Elijah', Frederick", Elijah', Jos
eph*, Joseph", Joseph®, William* ;
Banker ; Oakland, Cal. ; born in
1822, at Edinburgh, Ohio ; mar
ried Mary J. Kelly of Ba.ldwin,
Md,, 1857 rPresbyterian. children.
Fred E,, 1859,
Mary E,, 1S60,
James H,, 1864,
Elisha*, Ichabod", Joseph® Wil
liam* ; born 1721 ; inarried Cald
well. children,
Elisha,
James,

Elisha', Elisha*, Ichabod", Joseph®,
William* ; Johnston, N. Y.
children,
Theodore and others.

Elish.y", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", .Samuel®, Christopher* ;
fanner; Pittsford. Rutland Co.,
Vt. ; born in 1769 at Stoughton,
Mass.; — 1836; moved to Nevv
York in 181S ; married Parthena
Ogden ; Methodist. children.
John Ogden, 1795,
Recompense, 1796,
Elisha, 1800,
Rebecca, — .
Parthena, — .
Danford, — ,
David, 1816,

Elisha'. Elisha", Recompense',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Chrisopher* ; farmer ; Garrettville,
Otto Co., Mich; born in 1800, at
Stoughton, Mass. ; married Elida
Weldon, 1829; 2d wife, Mary
Salmon. children.
Almon D., 1830,
Hiram, 1831; Viola, Olmstead Co,, Minn.
Ann Elizabeth, 1833; married Brimmer.

178

wadsworth FAMILY' HISTORY.

Antha Maria, 1836,
William, 1837, — ,
Justin ( ),, 1841, — ,
¦Elisha, 1842, — ,

Elisha', Tertius", Seth', Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", John®. William* ; mer
chant ; Chicago.

Elisha", Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathan
iel", John®, William* ; New York ;
born 1778; — iS^4; inarried Lucy
Woodford, 1797. CHILDREN,
Lucy Ann, 1801,
Jeremiah, 1804; — 1828,
Nathan W., 1S08; — 1830,
Sidney, 1813,

Elisha", Joseph', Wait*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Winslow,
Me.; born 1792; — 1S66 ; mar
ried Roxanna Spaulding.
CHILDREN.
Henry M,, 1838.
Julia, raarried Thayer,
Emily,
Joseph, lost at sea.

Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher*;
Duxbury, Mass. ; married Elizabeth
Wiswell ; — 1741-
Elisha was the voungest son ; his
elder brothers, Samuel and Joseph,
renioved to Lebanon, Conn., soon
after they became of age. Elisha
lived and died in Duxbury. His will
is dated January, 1741. In it he
gave one-half of his lands to his son
Wait, one-fourth to his son Abiah,
and the other fourth to his daughter
Elizabeth ; to Alice, £40 ; Patience,
=£52 ; Fear, £20 Elisha \\'as not of
age at the time of his father's death,
in 1689-90. CHILDREN.
Elizabeth, 1695,
AUce, 1697; married Thos, Preston,
Annie, 1700,
Abiah, 1703,
Patience, 1706; married Samuel Gray,
Fear, 1709; raarried Staraford,
Wait, 1 7 14.

1722,

Elmer D.*, Xenophon', Seth", Jon
atlian', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; butcher ;
Garrettsville, Ohio; born in 1820,
at Windham, O. ; married Wealthy
E. Smith, 1843. CHILDREN,
Smith E., 1848,
Arthur D,, 1850; — 1880.
Alida E., 1853.
Treasure H.'A,, 1858.
J, Xenophon, 1864,

Ephraim', Moses", John', George*.
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
wheelwright; Litchfield, Maine;
born 1801 ; — 1864; niarried Sa
rah H. Bailey. 1825 ; Qiiaker.

CHILDREN.

George, 1829.
Franklin, 1831,
JuUa Ann, married Jona Estes, Vassalboro,
Lizzie W,, 1830; inarried James H, Buck,
W, Gardiner,

Ephraim Eden', Moses", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®.
William* ; New Hartford, X, Y. ;
born 1837 ; married Marv Dris
coU, 1858. CHILDREN.
Emma Jane, 1859.
IMartin Thomas, i860,
Mary Elizabeth, 1863,
Levi Jerome, 1867,
Laura Ann, 1871,

Eugene*, Samuel', Charles Lee".
Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher* ; farmer ; Hiram,
Me, ; born 1847 ; married Abbv
Jane Plummer, 1877.
Resides on the ancestral homstead
of his father and grandfather. It is
a part of the tract known as the
''Wadsworth Grant," purchased liy
Gen. Peleg, in 1790. Belongs to the
Royal Arch Masons. Educated at
Limerick ^Vcademv. No children.

Eugene Marsh,^ Washington*.
George Marsli', Joseph", Joseph',

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179

Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; New York City, 304 West
31st street ; born 1855, Long Island,
Patchugua County ; married Nellie
O. Smith, 1877. CHILDREN,
Eugene Marsh, 1879,

Ezekiel", Gad', William*, Williani",
John®, William' ; Avon, N. Y. ;
born ill 1783; — 1827; married
Elizabetii Newburv, CHILDREN.
Gad Newbury, 1S13; — 1845,
Ashael William, 1S15.
Ann Elizabeth, married Johnson,
Fred .'^,'^, Spencer F.', Aaron",
John', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Jersey City,
N. J. ; born 1839.
CHILDREN,
Edward G,, 1867,
Fred S„ 1873

Fred M.*, Edward Perry', John",
Dura', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; Colorado; born in 1858,
at Boston.

FredE*., Elijah', Frederick", Eli
jah', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William* : Treka, California ; born
1859.
Fred", Oliver Sardine*, Lawton',
Jonathan", Jonathan', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®. Chris
topher* ; Westfield, Mass. ; born
about 1830.
Frederick Em.mons*, George Nel
son', Moses", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thoinas", Thoinas®, Williain* ;
Hartford, Conn. ; born in 1855. at
Washington Mills, N. Y, ; mar
ried Mary Jane Davies. 1874.
CHILDREN,
George Nelson, 1875.
Mary Etta H,, 1877,
Hannah R,, 1879,
WilUam Emmons, 188 1.

Frederick Charles', Richard",
Henry', Jonathan*, Jonathan", Jos
eph®, William* ; hardware mer
chant ; A''icksburg, Aliss, ; born in
1817, at Canandaigua; married
Cytheria M. Bevens, 184=;.
CHILDREN.
WiUiara Richards, 1846,
Ellen, 1849,
Clara, 1852; — of yellow fever, 1878,

Frederick C', Constant W,*. Eb
enezer', John", John', John*,
Joseph", Joseph®, Christopher' ;
Peekskill, N, Y. ; born 1859.

Frederick Augustus*, .Moses Stev
ens', Moses", John', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher' ;
Spring manufacturer ; Gardiner,
Me.; iiorn 1849; niember of the
Richards Light Guards and K. of
P. ; married Abbie Frances Patten,
1875. 'CHILDREN,
Frederick Stevens, 1877.
Charles Lewis, 1879.

Frederick A.*, Winthrop R.'.
Thomas Hart", Asahel', William*,
Williani", John®, \Villiam* ; Farm
ington, Conn. ; born '857.

Frederick", Elijah', Joseph*, Jos
eph", Joseph®, William* : Trum
bull, Ohio; born 1786, at Litch
field, Conn, ; — 1869, at Treka,
Cal. ; inarried Statira Smith.
He was a most excellent type of
the Wadsworth family, which, per
haps, is eulogy enough for One man,
though pages might be written with
propriety concerning his sterling
worth. He was one of the few men
of his generation who believed it
important to preserve ancestral lines.
CHILDREN,
CorneUa, iSiS; married Beebee, Akron, O,
Elijah, 1822.
George, 1823; — 1873.

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wadsworth FAMILY' HISTORY.

Rhoda. A., 1824; married Chambers.
Anna Maria, 1826; married Orcutt; — 1854,
Frederick, 1827; — 1S56,
Pamelia, 1829; — 1S60,
Henry, 1831.
Edward, 1834; — 1838,
Frances, 1S37; married Burrows.
William, I1S41; — 1855,

Freedom*, Llenry', Charles Lee".
Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; Iliram, Me. ; born 18^0;
married Ida Clemens, 1876.
CHILDREN,
Bertha, 1878.
Minnie, 1880,

Franklin Augustus*, Samuel', Se
date", Sedate', Abiah*. Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Camden,
Me. ; born 1843 ; married Jose
phine Stinson. CHILDREN.
Emma Mabel, 1S75; — in infancy,
Cora Ada, 1876,

Franklin", Henry*, Franklin', Tim
othy", Thomas', Thomas*, Thom
as". Thomas®, William* ; Portland,
Chaut. Co., N. Y. ; born 1854,
Franklin*, Seth', Samuel", Sam
uel', Samuel*. Samuel", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; watchmaker and jew
eller ; Keene, N. H. ; born i8'52,
Roxbury, N. H.

Franklin', Timothy". Thomas',
Thomas*, Thoinas", Thomas®, Wil
lim* ; West Winfield, N. Y. ; born
*795: — 1835; married Sarah
Marsh. CHILDREN,
Minerva, 1818; married Ensworth, New
Hartford. Henry, 1820,
WUliam, 1823,
Elraira, 1825; — 1856; married Butler.
Marsden S,, 1828; S.an Francisco, Cal,;
wdfe; no children,
Harriet, 1830; raarried Gaylord, New Hart
ford, Newton F,, 1832,
Miranda, 1835 ; married Arnold, Santa Rosa,
Cal,

Frank Madison*, James Bar', Ti
tus", Samuel', Thomas*, Thoinas",
Thomas®, William* ; Girard, Erie
Co., Pa.; mechanic; born 1S54;
married, Mamie E. Judd, 1SS2.

Frank L.^, Charles*, Sedate', Se
date", Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Lincoln
ville, Me. ; born i860.

Frank Hebbard*, Winthrop M.',
Thomas Hart", Asahel', William*,
William", John®, William* ; law
student, Yale College ; Farming-
ton, Conn. ; born 1859.
Frank Arthur ; father's name Wil
liam Bland, who came to this
country in 1821 ; Frank Arthur
has brothers as foUow'S : Williain
T., Lincoln, Neb.; Charles W.,
Springfield, O. ; George H. and
John B. , Cleveland ; Cleveland, O. ;
born 1850. at Elyria, O. ; married
Agnes C, Christian, 1870.
CHILDREN.
WiUiam Arthur, 1871,
May Agnes, 1873; — in infancy,
Frank Thomas, — in infanev.
Helen, — in infancy,
Grace Herbert, 18S0,
Frank A.*, Daniel', George", Wil
liam', William*, William", John®,
William* ; Brooklyn, N. Y, ; born
1857,

Frank; father's name John, living
at Brockport, Munroe Co.. N. Y. ;
San Francisco, Cal. ; born at Shef
field, England ; soldier in rebellion,
lost right arm in the service while
attached to a Maine regiment ;
married Emma McDonough of St.
John, Newfoundland, 1872,
CHILDREN.
John, 1873,
Thomas E,, 1S76,
Frank C, 1879,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY,

l8l

Frank*, Williani W.', Joseph", Jos
eph', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
Williain* ; .St. Paul, Minn. ; born
1852.

Frank*, Ephraim', Moses", John'.

George*, Ebenez (

.Samuel®,

Christopher* ; furniture manufac
turer ; Augusta, Me, ; born 1S31,
at Litchfield, married Phebe M.
Fair, 1S55 ; member of the Friends
Church. CHILDREN,
Florence, 1856.
WendaU F, 1S62.
Jennie M,, 1867,

Frank', Charles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; farm
er ; Hiram, Me.; born 1808; —
1871 ; married Marv W, Ingalls,
1832. CHILDREN.
David Ingalls, 1837,
Jane I,, 1840; married Jaraes Edgecomb,
1861, Charles F,, 1S44; had a twin brother who
died in infancy.

Francis Sage*, Lawton', Jonathan",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; no
church but believes in dealing hon
estly and justly by all ; painter and
builder ; Wellington, Ohio ; born
1 82 1, Becket, Mass ; married Sarah
A. Leonard, 1854.
CHILDREN,
Etta R., 1858; graduate, of Fligh School;
married B, B, Herrick,
Franklin Lawton, 1866,

Frank O.^, Francis O.*, Xenophon',
Seth",, Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Indianapolis, Ind. ; born 1846, at
Ravenna, Ohio. ; inarried Minnie
C. Hixley, 1879.
Was a graduate ofthe graded union
schools, of Newton Falls, TrumbuU
Co., Ohio, in 1865 ; at age of eigh
teen, graduated at Eastman's Nation

al Business College, of Poughkeep
sie, N, Y. Was then engaged for
some years in selling goods at a coun
try store ; then studied law in the
office of the Fion. C. B. Conant, of
Ravenna, Ohio, and was admitted to
the bar and entered upon the prac
tice of his profession ; health demand
ing more of an active life than office
work gave, removed to Indiana and
has been for the last ten ^'ears engaged
in the real estate ag-encv business.

Francis O.*, Xenophon', Seth",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel '-, Christopher*

Windham, O. ;born 1819 ;
inarried 01i\e Hoadle)'.

1852;

CHILDREN,

Frank O,, 1846.
Flora V,, married J, N, Elder, Worthington,
Indiana,

Fr-IiNcis Li\'inc;ston', Seth", Jon
athan', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher' ; merchant;
Montgomery, Alabama ; removed
there ^vhen quite young; born in
1808, at Becket; — 1851 ; married
Margaret Hendrickson. CHILDREN,
Francis Livingston, 1S43,
Mary Elizabeth, 1845 ; Montgomery,
WilUam Dwight, 1S46.
CaroUne, — 1867.

Fr.a.ncis Lrtngston*, Francis Liv
ingston', Seth", Jonathan', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; civil engineer, and also
engaged in mining and raanufac
turing; Birmingham, xVla. ; born
1843; married .'>ue Keyle 1873,
— "1881 ; 2d wife, Betsey Jane
Harris, 1S82, CHILDREN.
WUUam Rives, 1S74; kiUed in raUroad
accident, 1879.
Mary LurUne, 1876,
Nina Keyle, 1877,
Jennie Bella, 1880,
Francis Livingston, 1882,

I02

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

Francis Libby'*, John', Charles
Lee", Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher* ; jjhysician ; Chicago,
111. ; born 1833, at Hiram, Me, ;
inarried Ellen J. McDonald, 18^4 ;
Louisa J, Nye, 1868, Sarah' P".
Robinson, 1872. CHILDREN.
Frank EU, 1854; — 1874.
Fred Eugene, 1S55,
Charles Freer, iSyn,
Frank Russell, 1S74,

Francis Gray Ford*, Alexander'.
Ahira", Seneca', Wait*, Ehsha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Lieutenant,
L', S. N^avy ; Duxbury, Mass. ;
born, 1844; inarried Lydia Fran
ces Harlow, 1863.
CHILDREN.
Beulah Holmes, 1865,
Louisa Grey, 1867,
Frances Harlow, 1869,

Frank Edward^, Charles Drelin-
court*, George Marsh', Joseph",
Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William* ; Brooklvn, N. Y. ; born
1862.

Francis A.*, Andrew J.', Heze
kiah", Samuel', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thomas®, William* ; Chicago ;
born 1862.

Fernando', Eden", Eden', Wait*
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher* ; an
advertising agent, office, 39 AA'est
Street, Boston ; South Duxbury,
Mass. ; born 1839 ; not niarried.
Gad', William*, William", John®,
William' ; Avon, Genesee ^"allev,
N, Y. ; born 1743, Connecticut;
— 1820; inarried Ehzabeth Hul
bert. Went to Avon, N. Y.,with broth
er Williain, in the year 1792, the
original settlers of lands in Genesee
"Valley, including A\on Springs.
CHILDREN,
Ezekiel, 1783; — 1S27.

Richard, 1786; — 1850,
Henry, 1787; — 1873,
Ehzabeth.

George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; born 1698, Milton ;
— 1778 ! married Hannah Pitcher.
Farmer and miller, at Stoughton,
Mass. ; was possessed of considerable
military note ; was Ensign in Capt.
Goffe's Conipany in the French war,
and was familiarly known as Ensign
George. CHILDREN.
Lydia, 1720,
Esther, 1722; married E, May,
Ruth, 1724; married E. Tilden,
Christopher, 1727.
Recompense, 1729.
Susanna, 1731,
John, 1735.

George', .Samuel*, Jonathan", Jos
eph®, William* ; born 1755, Hart
ford ; married Elizabeth Turner.
CHILDREN,
Mellicent; married Allyn,
Elizabeth, — single,
George ; — in Baltimore unmarried,
Lucy; married R. Wiedman.

George", Christopher', George*,
Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Christopher' ;
Stoughton; born 1758; — 1808;
married Fiannah Bird 1783,
CHILDREN.
Cynthia, 17-6; married Phillip Reynolds;
she lived to upwards of 80 years and has
many descendants now living in Brockton and
elsewhere. Sally, 1788; — 1807,
Hannah, 1790; married OUver Hayden,
Deborah, 1793;, — 179S,
Abigail D,, 1797.
Anna, 1799,

George", William', William'. Wil
liam", John®, Williani* ; Burling
ton, ^"t. ; born about 1771 ; — 1823,
at Washington, D. C. ; married
Laura Lyman of Durham, Conn.
CHILDREN,
Decius, — ,
Roxanna, married H. B. Sawyer, U. S, N,
George, 1814.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

*83

Laura, married Gen. Halsey, Plattsburgh,
Fiiram Nichols.
Daniel, 1S21 ; 207 Pearl St,, N. V,

I )iic daughter, who niarried D, M, Bos
worth of North Plymouth, and resides there.

George", Peleg', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; born in 1788,
at Portland; — 1816, at Phila.,
Pa. ; niarried in 1830.
CHILDREN,
George Ferdinand, 1808; removed in 1872
to Cherrytown, Pa.

George", Elijah', Joseph*, Joseph",
Joseph®, William* ; Canfield, O. ;
born 1793 ; — 1832.
CHILDREN,
Maria C, married Dawson; now resides at
Canfield. She is a lady of Uterary taste and
ability,- and at one time published a monthly
raagazine.

George', Timothy", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thoma.s®,
William* ; Sauquoit, N, Y. ; born
1799; living at New Hartford,
N. Y. ; married Laura Gaylord,
1822 : 2d wife, Flester Ann Briggs.
CHILDREN.
Martha B., 1825; raarried Royce; — 1S62,
Mary Esther, 1827; — 1850,
Munson Gaylord, 1S32,
CorneUa Maria, 1S35; — 1850,
Laura Eveline, iS^i; raarried R, Adrian
Smith, Washington ^iills, N, Y,
George', Frederick", Elijah'. Jos
eph*, Joseph", Joseph®, William* ;
California; born 1823; — 1873;
niarried, and left one daughter,
now residing in San Francisco,
with her mother.

George', Robert", Wait', Wait*,
Elish.i". Joseph®, Christopher* ;
caulker ; Plymouth, Mass. ; born in
1802 ; — 187S ; married Catherine
E. Alexander.
Under the administrations of Pres
idents Pierce and Buchanan, he was
connected \vith the revenue service.
CHILDREN,
Samuel,George Wait.

George', George", William', Wil
liam*, Williain", John®, William* ;
Ne\v York City, 93 8th St., 6th
A\enue ; born 1814, Burlington,
Vt, ; married Sarah Ann Stevens,
of London, Eng., 1844; she died
in 1881. CHILDREN,
Christopher Stephen, 1845; — 1846,
Sophia Amanda, 1S51; — 1852,
George', Peleg", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; civil
engineer; Apopka, Florida ; born
1826 ; — 1881 ; married Mary B.
Hawthorne, 1856 ; 2d Mrs, Mercy B.
Eldridge, 1880 ; no children.

George*, Isaac', Benjamin", John',
Benjamin*, John", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Milton, i\Iass. ; born 1817 ;
— 1880 ; niarried Sophia R, Chee\'-
er; 2d Mary Hall.

CHILDREN,
Gcnrge F., 1S44; - iHSO.
William H,, 1850.

George*. Peleg C, Charles Lee",
Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher' ; Mount Chase, Pat
ten, Maine ; born 1825 at Hirani
Maine ; married Maria Benton.
CHILDREN.
Mary, 1855,
Louise, 1858,
Fred L,, 1S60,
Lucia, 1865.
Frank E,, 1871,
John M., 1873,
George*, Jaines Cowles', Luke".
James', Samuel*, Samuel", John®,
\Villiaiii' ; attorney-at-law, many
years citv attorney of Bufl'alo ;
Buffalo. N, Y, ; born in 1830, at
Litchfield, Conn. ; married Emily
O. Marshall, 1S58.
His early education was in the
schools and academies of Connecticut.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Studied law at Litchfield, and was
admitted to the bar in Connecticut in
1851. Removed to Buffalo in 1852,
and has resided there since, having a
large legal practice. (See portrait.)
CHILDREN.
EUzabeth White, 1S60,
Henry Cowles, 1861.

George*, ^\'illialll', Abiah", Sedate',
Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; carpenter, Brockton, Alass. ;
voungest son of William ; Metho
dist and belongs to the Knights of
Honor ; born in Lincolnville, Me. ;
married Christianna M, Marriner,
1867. CHILDREN.
WaUer AUen, 1876,

George^, Milo L.*, Lawton', Jona
than", Jonathan^, Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Hopedale, 111. ; born 1S37, at Wel
lington, O. ; married Miss Fenn ;
has two children.

Geojige*, Ephraim', Moses",
John', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Manchester,
Me. ; born in 1829, Augusta, Me. ;
inarried Sarah Gifford, 18^7, of
Adamsville, R. I.
CHILDREN,
Mae, i860,
Mattie, 1862.
Edward D,, 1864.
Rose, 1872,
Leroy S, 1881,

George, father's name Thomas,
now living in Halifax, England,
75 years old ; grandfather George,
great-grandfather William, who
died at the age of 94 ; dealer in
brushes; .53 West 3rd St,, N. Y. :
Born 1844, Halifax, Yorkshire,
England; married Hannah Smith,
1863. CHILDREN,
Thomas, 1864,

Harry, 1867,
George, 1S71.
Edgar, 1874,
Frank, 1879,
George A.*, Alvah', John", John^,
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; is postmaster at
East Winthrop, Me. ; born 1S31,
HoUowell, Me. ; married Mar)- L.
Packard, 1850; Baptist.
CHILDREN,
Flora M,, 1854; married L, H, Hammond,
Manchester, Me,
Emraa L., 1858,

George A. 9, Constant ^V,*, Ebene
zer', John", John', John*, Jos
eph", Joseph® ; Christopher* ; born
1862, Peekskill, N. Y.

George B.^, Henry*,
Timothy", Thomas',
Thomas", Thomas®,
New Hartford, N. Y. ;

Franklin', Thomas*,
William* ;
born 1862.

George E., Claudius, David, Icha
bod, (see Ichabod of Ellington) ;
oflicer at state prison ; Wethers
field, Conn. ; born 1856, at Elling
ton, Conn.

George Edwin', Timothy", Seth'.
Hezekiah*, Nathaniel", John®,
\V^illiam* ; East Winsor, Conn. ;
born 1S36, at Farmington ; mar
ried Sabra A, Filer, 1864.

George FUer, 1865,
Francis Gillette, 1869,
Burton Timothy, 1872,
Alice Rossanah, 18S1,

George F. ; born in England, 18^3 ;
not niarried; Chicago, 111., 67
East Washington Street ; father's
name Arthur, Newark, N. J. ;
mother's maiden name Eliza Wise-

w^adsworth family historv.

185

George Farnum'', David*, Jona
than', David", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris-
toper' ; Safety Deposit vaults, Bos
ton ; born 1849, Cambridge, Vt. ;
inarried, R. E.-Southee, 187S,
CHILDREN,
Stephen Franklin, 1879,
George Ferdln'and', George", Pe
leg', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; Eastport, Me. ; born 1808,
Baldwin, Miss. ; he married Mary
Cutter, 1830; 2d wife Florence A.
Walton, 1872. CHILDREN,
Mary EUen, 1832; married I, H, Vilby, 1854.
Ferdinand C, l'*37,
Francis Adelaide, 1835; married Geo, W,
Sabine, 1853,
Henry Howard, 1S43,
Charles Lee, 1841; — 1842.

George G.*, Titus V.', Saniuel",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel-. Christopher* ; farmer, at
Franklin, N. H. ; born, 182S Hen
niker, N. H. ; married Martha E.
Hosley, 1 85 1,
CHILDREN.
John Frank, 1853. ,
Mary Josephine; married P, M, Chandler,
Denver, Col.
Helen Frances; married C, C, Morton, Mel
rose, Mass,
Clifton, Haley, i860,
Charles Titus, 1862.

George H.*, Saniuel F.', Reuben",
Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel", John®,
^V'illiam''; Larned, Pawnee Co.,
Kansas ; born 1830, in Cortland
Co., N. Y. ; married Adeline F.
Woodward, 1S54, Stock raiser.
CHILDREN,
Metta Dell, 1856,
Charles Freeman, 1858.

George H.*, Warner', Thomas",
Thomas', Thonias*j Thomas",
Thomas®, William* ; Racine, Wis. ;
born 1S46.

George FIenry*, Joel', Timothy",
Thomas', T h 9 rn a s*, Thomas",
Thomas®, Williain* ; AVest Win
field, N. Y. ; born 1833, at Stock-
bridge, N. Y. ; married Henrietta
Phinney Stout, 1846.
CHILDREN.
Joel Edward, 1866,

Giles Henry^, Hen

ry

Alle

Solomon", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thomas", Thomas®, \ViIliam* ;
farmer ; Glastonbur\-, Conn. ; born
1S48 ; married Aurelia Hollister.

George Herbert^, .Samuel Young*,
Samuel', David", Recompense',
George*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®,
Christopher* ; general manager of
the Ohio Electric Light Compan}-,
Cle\'eland, Ohio ; married Mary
H. Kidnay, '1876.
CHILDKEN.
Laura J., 1877,
Mary ,Vlice, 1879,

George Kilby*, Ebenezer .Sackett',
John", John', John*, Joseph", Jos
eph®, Christopher* ; New Leba
non, N. Y. ; born 1832,

George Lafayette, Thomas, Ig
natius, (see Ignatius) ; salesman in
wholesale dry goods house, New-
burn, N. C. ; born 1836, Dover,
N. C. ; inarried Christiana Han
cock, 1859, whodied 1879 ; she was
the daughter of John W Hancock
and grand-child of John Hancock.
CHILDREN,
John Hancock, 1S61; — 1861.

George Lawrence*, Peleg', John",
Dura'', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; grocer, in Aut>urndale,
Mass. ; born 1855, Duxbury; mar
ried Susan Alice Hardie, 1880.

CHILDREN,
Lawrence Granville, 1S81,

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wadsworth family history.

George Leonard Ormsby, Samuel
Andrews, Da\id Drake, Ichabod,
(see Ichabod of Ellington) ; Brook
lyn, N. Y. ; born, 1850, Glaston
bury, Conn. ; inarried Letitia H.
.Stevens, 1877.

George M.', Seth", Joseph', Benja
min*, John", Samuel®, Christo
pher* ; farmer ; Soutii Franklin,
Mass. ; born 1836; married Eme
line Metcalf.

CHILDREN.

Alvah, 18
Elmer, 18

George M.*, John', John", Cephas',
Peleg*, John", John®, Christo
pher* ; Medway, Mass. ; born 1856.

George Marsh', Joseph", Joseph',
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; NewYork; born 1796, at
Hartford; — 1854; married Annis
Sherman. CHILDREN,
George Birdseye, — .
Charles Drelincourt, 1823.
Washington, — .
Harriet E,, married Miller; — ,
Sarah D., married Carpenter, Manorville,
Long Island,
Mary ,\., married Kenyon, Greenbout, Long
Island.

George Milton'', John Milton*,
John Ogden', Elisha", Recom
pense', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher*; W^alcott,
Wayne Co., N, Y. ; born 1856.

Gad Newbury', Ezekiel", Gad',
William*, William", John®, Wil
liam* ; born 1813; — ^1845; mar
ried Maiy Ann Chase, 1834,
CHILDREN,
William Henry, 1835.
Martha Ann, 1837; married Kenney,
Mary Elizabeth, 1S39; married Kellogg,
Charles Newbury, 1841,
Frances Maria, 1844; raarried Drehraer,

George Nelson', Moses", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thoinas®,
William*; Washington Mills,
N. Y. ; born 1822 ; married Fian
nah T. Route. CHILDREN,
Frederick Emmims, 1855,
Jerome, 1859,
Lucy Anna, 1 861,
Frank Grant, 1865,

George Priest^, ISIunson Gaylord*,
George', Timothy", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®,
William* ; Fairfield, N, Y. ; born
1862.

George P.', John D.", Seneca'.
Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher' ; furniture, 98 Commercial
St., Boston ; Chelsea, Mass. ; born
181 1, at Duxburv, Mass.; mar
ried Eliza Webb, "1835.
Has been several vears a member
of the city council, and is a citizen
well known and highly respected.
CHILDREN,
Eliza Ann, 1836; in Michigan,
George P,, 1839,
CaroUne W,, 1844,

George Perkins*, Lewis Sylvester',
Cephas", Cephas', Peleg*, John".
John®, Christopher* ; Seaman ;
Plymouth, Mass, ; not been home
for four years ; born 184^.

George Ribv-', ]Ma nly", Archiliald'.
Reuben", .Samuel', Samuel* Sam
uel", John®, Williani* ; Cincinnati,
O., 205 McMicken A\'enue ; born
1841, at Homer, X, Y. ; inarried
Mamie Estep, i88i.

George W *, ^Villiam', Ebenezer",
Da\id', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; commis
sion merchant ; Boston ; born in
1831 ; married Louisa A. Do.ine,

wadsworth FAMILY' HISTORY.

1857, — 1878 ; 2d wife, Mary A.
Stanwood. CHILDREN,
Richard, 1858; — in infancy.
Edmund Doane, 1S61,

Gilbert Munson^, Munson Gay
lord*, George', Timoth)", Thom
as', Thomas*, Thomas". Thomas®,
William* ; (jloversville, N. Y, ;
born 1858 ; inarried Harriet Eliza
Sutclifte, 1881.

Goodman Cotter ; miner, Castle
Shannon, Alleghany Co., Penna. ;
born 1858. Fiis father's name is
Joseph, born about 1825, and be
lieved to be lix'ing near Alleghany
City. Goodman's mother's maiden
name was Sarah J. Phillips, His
brothers are, Harvey, James, Da
vid and Henry ; the three latter
are somewdiere in the West ; has
one sister, inarried and living in
Alleghany City. His brother Har-
\-ey, he belie\'es to be living at
Snowden, Pa., but a letter directed
to him at that place was not called
for. He knows nothing of his ped
igree beyond his lather.
Gordon H.', Charles", Samuel',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thoinas®,
Williani* ; retail grocer ; Kansas
Citv, Mo. ; born 1S41 at Carlisle,
N. Y, ; married iVIargaret Low,
1864 ; Methodist CHILDREN,
Charies H,, 1865,
Mary; — in infancy.
George S,, 1872,
Florence, 1876,
Albert, 1878,

Gurdon', Samuel*, Jonathan", Jos
eph®, William*; twin brother of
George; born 174S, — 1820 at
Hartford ; he married Mehitable
Wright of Wethersfield. CHILDREN,
Polly, 1776; married Carter.
Samuel, 1777; — in infancy.

Sally, — in infancy,
SaUy 1780; married Guy Talcott,
Samuel, 1783,
Harriet, 1785; — in infancy,
Lydia Wright, 17S8,
Martha, 1791; married Russell, —

Hamilton', Ahira", Seneca', ^Vait*,
Elisha". Joseph®, Christopher*;
carpenter; Duxbury, Mass. ; born
1838; inarried Lucv E. Peterson,
1865. CHILDREN.
PMwin H,, 1867,
Frank M,, 1869,
Clara A„ 1873.
Grace Ii,, 1876,
Daniel B,, 1879.
Harrison', Ahira", Seneca', Wait*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher' ;
farmer; Duxbury, Mass, ;-born in
1S42 ; several children.
Harrison L.^, Joseph*, Jes.se',
Christopher", Christopher',
George*. Ebenezer", Samuel®.
Christopher' ; broker and insur
ance agent ; Denver, Col. ; born
1S42, at Li\ermore, Me, ; married
Mary S. Payne, 1S66,
He received a good common and high
school training, and at the breaking out of the
rebellion, was a member of Maine State Sem
inary (Bates CoUege ) at Lewiston, Maine. In
1863, enlisted in '29th Regt., Maine Veteran
Volunteers, leaving Bates College at this time,
and entered inactive service with Maj. Gen.
Banks in his Red River campaign. At Alex
andria, La,, went on board steamer, Rob Roy,
and proceeded up the Red River with the
gun boats. The falling of the river forced a
return, and as Banks had been defeated
at Pleasant HiU, the boats were almost
continually exposed to the attack of the
rebels along the river bank. For several d.ays
there was close and severe fighting and the re
cord of this trip shows many narrow escapes.
In the fall of 1864, went to Shenendoah Val
ley and entered the campaign under Sheri
dan, and fought at battles of Winchester,
Cedar Creek (Sheridan's Ride), and Fishers'
HUl, At the batde of Cedar Creek was lUt
twice, wounded slightly, and his blanket
shot through several times. After the war
was over, went to South Carolina wdth the

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"WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

army and remained there until 1866 in miliary
service. After his discharge frora service,
went to Minnesota and was appointed County
.Superintendent of Public Schools for Meeker
Co., Minn. Since 1880, has resided in Den
ver, Colorado, CHILDREN,
LiUian M,, 1872.
Clarence R,, 1S77,

Harry", Theodore', Timothy*, Na
thaniel", John®, William' ; physi
cian, Farmington, Conn. ; — 1S43 ;
married Anna Mix, 1807 ; — 1824,

CHILDREN,

Theodore H,, 1807,
Betsey Mix,

Harry", Elijah', Joseph*, Joseph®,
William' ; born 1781, at Litchfield,
Conn.; — 1830; married Mary
Ann Bradley, of Litchfield,
CHILDREN.
Charles, 1814,
Jaines Leaming, 1820,
Mary Ann, 181 1; married Rev, WUUam
Pitcher; — 1841,
Jane Elizabeth, 181 7; married Rev, Wil
liam Pitcher; — 1853; has children living.

Harry Eucjene*, Archibald Clark',
Edward", Elijah', Joseph*, Jo
seph", Joseph®. William' ; Jackson
ville, 111. ; bom 1858.

Harry Hinman*, Winthrop M.',
Thomas Hart", Asahel', WiUiam*,
William", John®, William' ; attor
ney and counsellor-at-law ; Farm
ington, Conn. ; born 1856.
Graduated at Yale Law School in
1881 ; given the degree of LL. B.,
in 1882 ; is registrar of elections of
Farmington.

Harry Lawton^, Elijah M.*, Law-
ton', Jonathan", Jonathan',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher' ; Aberdeen, Dakota,
Ter. ; born 1857,

Harry Seth*, Seth Lafayette', Ed
win", Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathan
iel", John®, WiUiam*; New Lis
bon, O. ; born 18^7-

Harvey .Samuel*, Samuel', Sam
uel", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Christopher' ;
expressman ; Ayer, Mass. ; born
1827, at Milford, N. H. ; married
Eliza A. Blood, 1S62 ; — 1877 ;
2d wife, Sarah A. Davis, if

CHILDREN,

George Samuel, 1866.

Henry', Jonathan*, Jonathan", Jos
eph®. Williani* ; Hartford, Conn. ;
born 1764; — 1821 ; inarried Eliz
abeth BidweU. 1767, — 1804; 2(1
wife, Lucy Nichols, 18 13.

Oliver, 1784; — 1798,
Abigail, 1786; — 1816; married Charles
Hosmer, Richard, 1788; — in Vicksburg,
Sally, 1790; married Truman McLean,
Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Royal
Paine, who resides in Brooklyn, N, Y,
Frederick, 1792; — unraarried at Canan-
dagua, N, Y.
Chauncey, 1795; — unraarried,
Samuel, 1797.
Oliver, 1799.
Elizia, 1802; married S, Mathews,
Jared, 1804 — 1829,
Henry Nichols, 1814; — at sea,
Mary AbigaU, 18 17; married B. F, Had
dock, Buffalo.

Henry-", Gad', William*. Williain".
John®, ^\'illiam* ; Avon, N, Y. ;
born 1787;— 1873. The follow
ing sketch has been furnished :
Few men have left a more blameless record,
honest, industrious and frugal. To -the last
he was methodical in business and managed
his farming interests with skill and abiUty.
His father. Gad W., Esq., was a highly re
spected inhabitant of Hartford, now .\von.
Honorable mention is made of him by O,
Turner in his " History of Pioneer Settle
ment, " He was one of the early magistrates

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY'.

189

of this region. In 1797 all the region be
tween the Genesee and Lake Erie was made
a separate town of Ontario county, called
North.ampton, The first town meeting was
held at the house of Peter Shaeffer, " The
vote was taken by Gad Wadswurth, Esq,, of
the town of Fiartford, and Josiah Fish ^vas
chosen Supervisor, and EU Granger Town
Clerk, " Captain Ezekiel NV adsworth, a brave
officer of the war of 1S12, and Richard W.,
formerly proprietor ofthe Avon Springs, were
brothers of the deceased. The family emi-
gi'ated from Connecticut, and were araong the
first in this region to push on the march of
improvement. The subject of this notice,
though a bachelor, was social in his nature
and delighted in the companionship of kins
men and friends.

FIenry', Charles Lee", Peleg', Pe
leg*, John", John®, Christopher* ;
Hiram, Me. ; born 1S04 ; inarried
Mary Ann Wentworth, 1831 ; 2d
wife", Catherine S. Wentworth,
1849. CHILDREN.
Mary Ann, 1832,
Jane, 1833; married James S, Gould, 1864,
Elizabeth F,, 1836,
Dolly J,, 1838.
Henry H,, 1S40,
EUen M , 1842,
John, 1845,
Freedom, 1850,
Dolly, 1854,
Henry', Joseph", Jo.seph', Wait*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
ship carpenter ; Duxbury ; born
1806 ; — 1878 ; married Purington.
CHILDREN.
Joseph Fienry, 1841,
Samuel L,, 1851 ; — in infancy.

Henry', Dura", Dura', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Dux
bury, Mass. ; inarried Abby Win
sor. CHILDREN,
EUa W., 1848.
Fierbert, 1851.
Ernest 1855; married Nellie Chandler.
Thomas H,, 1858,
Henry B„ i860,
WUliam W,, 1S65,

Henry', Frederick", Elijah', Joseph*,
Joseph", Joseph®, William* ; Oak
land, Cal. ; born 1831 ; married
Marv A. Burrows ; has two sons
and two daughters.

Henry; father's name Williani,
grandfiither John, who vvent to Ire
land, from England, with his
brother, who was an Episcopal
clergyman ; physician ; Frankford
Avenue ; Philadelphia, Pa. ; born
1815, in Ireland; came to America
in 1825 ; married Rebecca McGlue,
1850, 2d wife Kate Pennell, 1854,
both of Philadelphia.
All of the Wadsworths in this
country that were born in Ireland
are of this branch as far as known.
CHILDREN,
Rebecca, 1852,
Jane, 1856,
J. Preston, 1858; — 1880.
Henry, i860,
Dawson, 1863,
William 1864,

Henry*, Alien', Solomon", Thom
as', Thomas*, Thomas", Thoinas®,
William*; tanner; Glastonbury,
Conn.; born 1821, at East Hart
ford; married Julia Smith, 1845;
Episcopalian. CHILDREN,
GUes Henry, 1848.
JuUa MadeUne, 1851.
Hobart Allen, 1852; — 1852,
Emma Jane, 1854; — 1869,
Anson Bidwell, 1856,
AUce Elizabeth, 1S5S: married Fred L,
Pratt, Hartford.

Henry*, Franklin', Timothy",
Thomas' , Thomas* , Thomas " •,
Thomas®, William*; New Hart
ford, N. Y. ; born 1820 ; married
Martha B. Ensworth, 1S45.
CHILDREN.
Frances Elmira, 1845; married Blackstone;
New Hartford,
Harriet Louisa, 1848; married Gmbey;
Welda, Anderson Co,, Kansas.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY,

Martha Elizabeth, 1849; raarried Granger;
Portland, ChauL Co,, N, Y,
JuUa A., 1851; — 1866.
Frankhn, 1854,
Timothy, 1856,
Susan, i860,
George B,, 1862.
John, 1865.

Henry*, John Ogden', Elisha", Rec
ompense', George*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; a singing
school teacher many years ; Wol
cott, Wayne Co., N. Y. ; married
Sarah Ann Kiiidig, 1855.
CHILDREN.
Susan Rebecca, 1856,
John Ogden, 1858,
Horace, 1862.
Daniel, 1664,
Frederick Arthur, 1867,
Frank, 1S69,

Henry Addington*, Henry Frost',
Jaines", James', Samuel*, John",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; lawyer and
surragate of Orange Co., N. Y. ;
Goshen, N. Y, ; born 1842 at
Springfield N. Y. ; married Esther
M. Tuthill, 1867; 2d Mary W.
Smith, 1874. CHILDREN.
Blanche Addington, 1868,
Gertrude, 1870,
Esther TuthiU, 1872,

Henry C.*, Thomas', Moses", John',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; pistol manufacturer ;
Captain of ist Light Battery at
Worcester ; Boston, Mass. ; born
1838, at Augusta, Me. ; married
Laurette Allen, i860.
CHILDREN,
Harry Lincoln, 1865,

Henry Cowles^, George*, Jaines
Cowles', Luke", James', Samuel*,
Samuel", John®, William* ; Buffa
lo, N. Y. ; born 1861.

Henry Elihu', Elihu", David',
Elihu*, Ichabod", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; editor and publisher, Argus,
La Porte, Ind. ; born 1839 ^^ Ken
dallvUle, Ind. ; inarried Sarah E.
Van Akin, 1870.
CHILDREN,
Laura, 1871,
Dudley Leland, 1872,
Lulu, 1874,

Henry' Frost', James", James',
Samuel*, John", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Presbyterian clergyman ;
Unionville, Orange, Co., N. Y. ;
born in 181 1, at Cornwall, Conn. ;
married Elizabetii B. Addington,
1840.
Henry F. graduated at Union Col
lege in 1836, and was licensed by the
Litchfield South Association in July,
1838. He was ordained as an evan
gelist, in the Tabernacle in the city
of New York, in 1842, by the Man
hattan Association. In the same
month he was settled a-s pastor over
the Presbyterian Church at New
foundland, JSIorris Co., N. J. He
resigned this charge in November,
1858, for the Presbyterian Church at
Unionville, Orange Co., N. Y.,
where he continues to labor.
CHILDREN,
Henry Addington, 1842,
Sarah Elizabeth, 1845.
Mary Frances, 1850; married W. S, Smith,
Unionville.

Henry Howard*, Geo. Ferdinand',
George", Peleg', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher*; Eastport,
Me. ; born 1843 ; married Emma
Augusta Bucknam, 1S68.
CHILDREN,
WUUam B.; — 1875,
Mary Howard, 1872,
Irene Hume, 1874.
Helen Prince, 1880,

Henry J.s, Elijah M,*, Lawton',
Jonathan " , Jonathan ' , Recom-

WADS^\ORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

191

pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Minneapolis, Minn. ; born
1841, Oberlin, Ohio; inarried to
Ruth A. Carris, 1867.
CHILDREN.
Frank M,, 1876,

Henry M.', Elisha", Joseph', Wait*.
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher*;
Philadelphia, Penn., 1453 Race
St. ; born 1838, Winslow, Me.
Served in the rebeUion, first in the
army, and later in the navy as officer's
mate ; was in the engagement at Fort
Fisher. Has been post office clerk
at Philadelphia seven years. Now
crier of the courts.

Henry T.9, WiUiam C.*, Jaines C,
Luke", James', .Samuel*, Samuel",
John®, WiUiam* ; born 1861 ; Da-
vernport, Iowa.

Henry Tru.m an', Richard", Henry',
Jonathan^, Jonathan", Joseph®,
Williain* ; harness maker, retired ;
SpringviUe, Erie Co., N. J. ; born
1813, Canandaigua, N.J. ; inarried
Louise Jones, 1843.
CHILDREN,
Charies R,, 1845,
Morris, 1S49,
Helen, 1854; married Frank Prior,
Louise, 1865,

Herbert*, William Wolcott',
Jaines", John Noyes', James*,
James", John®, William*; born
1851, Geneseo, N. Y. ; Avon, Liv
ingston Co., N. Y. ; unmarried.

Herbert C.*, Daniel', Solomon",
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, WiUiam* ; office of the
Hartford Fire Ins. Co. ; Manches
ter, Conn. ; born 1859.

1740; no evidence that he was
ever married.
His brother Thonias was executor
of his will, to whom he gave his es
tate, at whose decease the property
went to Rev. Daniel Wadsworth.
Hezekiah*, Nathaniel^, John®, Wil
liam* ; Farmington, Conn. ; born
1724; — 1810 ; inarried Lois Judd.
CHILDREN,
Hezekiah,
Elisha, — in infancy,
Huldah, — unmarried,
Lois, married Col, Israel Jones, and has
many living descendants. She was the grand
mother of Judge Henry R, Jones, now resi
dent of Nevv Hartford, Conn,
Seth, 1747,
Ruth, married Whittelsey,
Sarah,

Hezekiah", John®, William* ; Far
mington, Conn.; born 1682; —

Hezekiah*, Ichabod", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; married Miss Seymour, of
Hartford.

Jonathan, Hezekiah, — in New York, duringthe Rev
olution, 1776,
A daughter, who married J. FiUey,

Hezekiah", Seth', Hezekiah*, Na
thaniel", John®, William* ; farmer ;
Farmington, Ct. ; born 1782 ; — in
Farmington, 1813 ; inarried Han
nah Eells ; left one son, Hezekiah
1814, born after his father died.
Hezekiah", Samuel', Thomas*.
Thomas", Thomas®, William* ;
Middlebury, Vt. ; born in 1792 at
Hartford ; inarried Olive Hunting
ton, who — in 1852.
Left Middlebury in 1835, for Auro
ra, N. Y., and from there removed
to Louisville, Ky. ; has not been
heard from since 1852, when he was
in New Orleans. CHILDREN.
Andrew J,, 1830,
Margaret E., raarried Fiddgmont, Lockport,
Illinois,

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WADSWORTII family HISTORY.

Hezekiah', Hezekiah", Seth', Hez
ekiah*, Nathaniel", John®, Wil
liam* ; farming for the most part;
T(n\'inille, Crawford Co., Penn. ;
born 1814, Farmington, Conn. ;
niarried Elsitha M. Coburn, 1849.
CHILDREN. 7; married P, J. Fritts,

Flora Mattille,
Townville. Laurel Ozias, 1S59.
\'iola Elsitha, 1861 ;

1862,

Hiram*, John', David", David', Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Barre, Mass. ; born
1808 ; — April 21, 1883 ; married
Louise Dennis, 1729 ; ®d Adelphia
Joslin, 1S63.
In early life was extensively engaged in
business at Barre, He was chiefly instrumen
tal in the building of the factory and viUage
later known as Dennyville, and was in trade
there almost continuously frora about 1829 to
1856, It was about the latter year that he
went to Boston, where he became connected
with the firm of Wadsworth & Co,, (previously
Wadsworth, Crooker & Co,), at No, 38 India
street, remaining some five or six years, after
whieh he retired from general business and
returned to Barre to reside. For some seven
years preceding his death he had been presi
dent of the First National Bank of Barre, and
he was 'a trustee of the Barre Savings Bank
from the time ofits incorporation in 1869,
CHILDREN,
Joseph Dennis, 1839,

Hiram Nichols', George", Wil
liam', WiUiam*, Williani", John®,
William* ; surgeon and dentist ;
Washington, D. C. ; married So
phia, daughter of Reuben M.
Whitney of Washington ; 2d Maiy
Puck of Baltimore ; three children
by first wife, two by second.
Hiram Warren*", Joseph Dennis^,
Hiram*, John', David", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; student. Har
vard College ; born 1862, at Barre,
Mass.

Horace', Jonathan*, Jonathan", Jo
seph®, William' ; deputy sheriff!"
for 30 years ; Hartford ; boirn i774 j
— 1836 ; married Abigail Adams,
1801, — 1824. CHILDREN,
William Henry, 1802; — 1831,
John, 1805,
Horace, 1806,
Edward, 1807,
Charles, 1809; — 1834,
Mary and Julia (twins), 1812; M.iry —
1862, Julia — 1875,
Sarah, 1814; — 1867, unmarried.

Horace", Horace', Jonathan*. Jona
than", Joseph®, William' ; born in
1806; — 1871 ; Texas; probably
left children. v

Horace', Solomon", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thoinas", Thomas®,
William* ; farmer ; Wethersfield,
Conn. ; born 1802; — i860; mar
ried Rebecca Butler, — i860.
CHILDREN,
Horace, 182S,
James Edward, 183 1,.
Charles, 1833,
Emeline, married Frederick Little, Hart
ford; — 1853,
Ella, — i88l; was a successful teacher at
Vernon and Hartford,
Lucius, 1836; — in the late war, in Mary
land, in 1861, 14th Conn, Regt,; his body was
taken to Wethersfield and interred.

Horace*, Horace', Solomon" Thom
as', Thomas*, Thonias", ^Thomas®.
William* ; moulder ; soldier in the
late war ; Hartford; born 1828.
CHILDREN,
Florace, — in infancy.
One daughter, married, Wethersfield, Conn.

Horace*, John Ogden', Elisha".
Recompense', George*. Ebenezer",
.Samuel®, Christopher* ; carpenter
and farnier; ^\"olcott, Wayne Co.,
N. Y. ; born in 1S29, atButler;
married Amanda M. Morris, 1S52.
CHILDREN,
Frances Helen, 1S53; — 1S61,

wadsworth family HISTORY',

*93

1856;

John Ogden,
Ida May, 1858.
Edward A,, 1863

Horace^, Henry*. John Ogden',
Elisha", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Wolcott, Wavne Co., N.Y. ;born
1862.

Horace Andrew*, Samuel', Sam-,
uel", Recompense', George*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher*
printer and publisher, Lawrence
Mass ; born 1837, Milford, N. H.
started Essex Weekly Eagle, 1867
Lawrence Daily Eagle, in 1868
early education at New Ipswich,
Appleton Acadeiny ; married Char
lotte E. Harris, of Lunenburg,
Mass., 1862. (See portrait.)

CHILDREN,
Cora Mabel, 1864,
Grace, 1865.
Alice Mary, 1868; — in infancy,
Annie Harris, 1874; — in infancy,
Alexander Harris, 1878,
Henry LongfeUow, 1 881,

Horace PL", Reuben', Joseph*, Jo
seph", Joseph®, William* ; removed
to Louisiana in 1820; born Hart
ford; — 1847; married in Penn
sylvania. CHILDREN.
Martha A,, married George Goodwin, of St,
Louis. Alfred, 1829, in Louisiana,
Catherine, married in the South.

Horace L.*, Joseph', Joseph",
John', John*, Joseph", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; fiirmer ; River Falls,
Wis. ; born in 182 1, in Erie Co.,
N. Y. ; married Ann B. Bolckom ;
1841. CHILDREN,
Emma, 1842,
Horace E,, 1843.
Mary, 1845,
Dexter C, 1847.

Edwin B., 1849,
Jay E„ 1852,
Sarah S,, 1855.
Lavina R,, 1857,
Josepii S,, 1859.

Ichabod", John®, Christopher* ;
Duxbury; born 1687; — 1746;
married Margaret Marshal, 1720.
His will bears date 1745, by which
he gives all his lands in Duxbury, to
gether with all his right in the fifth
original lot in Great Cedar Swamps,
to his son Benjamin, reserving to his
wife, Margaret, their use, till Benja
min became of age. To his daugh
ters, he gave his lands in Pembroke.
CHILDREN.
Joseph, 1720; — 1721,
Sarah, 1722.
Mercy, 1724; married Col, Briggs Alden.
Daniel, 1726; — 1730-
Eunice, 1727; married Joshua Tubbs of
Pembroke, 1773.
Hannah, 1732,
Benjarain, 1735,
Lydia, 1736.

Ichabod", Joseph®, William* ; Hart
ford ; born in 1688; — in 1778;
inarried .Sarah Smith, 17-20; —
1778. CHILDREN,
Elisha, 1 72 1,
Elihu,
Hezekiah,
A daughter, raarried Whiting,
A daughter, married R, Goodman,

Ichabod*, John", John®, Christo
pher*; Duxbury; born in 171 2;
— 1771 ; married Annie Hunt,
1736. CHILDREN,
Rhoda, 1737.
Luna, 1739; married Benjamin Wadsworth,
Ichabod, 1741, (prob.ably,)
Luke, removed to Middleboro.
Alpheus 1744,
Selah, 1746; — in infancy.
Anna, 1748; married Thaddeus Peterson,

194

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

Ichabod ; EUington,
Conn. : born 1741 ;
- 1815.
Capt. Ichabod Wads
worth, when a mere
stripling, was " put
out " to a Mr. John
Bingham, to remain
until he was sixteen
years old. When his
term of service expired
he sold his hair for one
shilUng, the first money
he ever had, and en
listed in the Continental
Army, 1757, and was
in the expedition to
Cuba in 1762, and the
closing scenes of the
French War. Return
ing home, he niarried
Miss Chloe Webster,
an adopted daughter of
David Drake, of Win
sor. Mr. Drake gave
her, as a marriage por
tion, forty acres of land
in. the northern part of
Ellington. For his
second wife, he married Lydia Por
ter in 1771 . The author of this book
has spent considerable time in trying
to trace the pedigree of this man,
and is weU confirmed in the belief
that he was the son of Ichabod*, of
Duxbury. His tombstone stands in
the cemetery at Ellington and bears
these lines :
" Stop, reader, spend a mournful tear
O'er the dust that slumbers here,
And, whUe you read the fate of me,
Think on the glass that turns for thee,"
CHILDREN.
David Drake, 1 770,
Ignatius ; planter ; — 1 806 ; removed
from Connecticut to the eastern
part of North Carolina, about the
year 1770 ; think his father's name
Epaphrus, son of Gen. Elijah ; set-

W.iD.SWORTH

HOMESTE.^D, ELLISGTOS, CT., BUILT 17S:5,
tied on a farm in the upper part of
Craven Co. ; 2d wife nanied Sarah
Morris. CHILDREN,
By first wife : William, Keziah, one daughter.
By second wife : Thomas Elizabeth, Katie,
Laura, Clara,

Ira', Peleg*, John", John®, Christo
pher' ; Cambridgeport, 1789 ; born
17:^7, Duxbury ; — 1826 ; married
Sarah Freeman, who died in 1836.

Sarah, 1784,
Ira, 17S9,
Joseph F,, 1792

Ir.v D,*, Rensom', Josiah", Josiah',
Thomas*, Thoinas", Thoinas®,
William' ; farmer ; Hastings, Ne
braska ; born 1846, Hamilton Co,,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

195

N. Y. ; he inarried F. E. Palmer,
1864. CHILDREN.
Count Rensom, 1866.

Isaac', Benjamin", John', Benjamin*,
John", Samuel®, Christopher*;
Milton ; born 1792 ; — 1857 ! '''*ar-
ried Lucinda Jordan, 1816.
CHILDREN,
Charles 1819,
George, 1817; — 1880,
John, 1821; — 1842,
Elizabeth S,, 1823; — 1844; married Galen
WilUams, MUton,

Isaac', John", John', George*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher*;
farmer ; deacon Baptist church 50
years ; Winttirop, Me. ; born 1793 ;
— 1873 ; married Rebecca Hew
ins, 1820 ; — 1880.

Sarah Elizabeth
Kilbrith. Isaac Newton, 1823.

CHILDREN, 1S21 ; married Sullivan

Isaac Newton*, Isaac', John",
John', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Manchester,
Me. ; born 1823 ; married Mary A.
Briggs, 1848 ; 2d Charlotte N.
Stuart, 1866, who died 1872.
Graduated from Bowdoin College, Bruns
wick, Me,, in 1845, with high rank as a schol
ar. After graduation went to North Carolina,
engaging in teaching and merchantile busi
ness for a period of two years. During this
time 'his health became broken down by
malarial fever and he returned to Maine,
With health only partially restored, he en
gaged in farming and teaching, abandoning
the law for which he had spent some time in
study. In 1852 made an engagement with
Samuel H, Thurston, first delegate from Ore
gon to Congress, to enter his office at Salem
as law partner. The death of Thurston on
his return from Washington, broke this ar
rangement, and he remained on the Pacific
coast six years, from the Columbia to San
Francisco, returning to Maine in December,
1857, Has held about all the public positions
in town, a^ member of the State Legislature in

1864 and 1877. Was on the State Valuation
Commission in 1880, and is now connected with
the State Educational Departraent.
CHILDREN.
Charles Edwin, 1849; — 1863,
Isaac Classon, 1852,
Mary Evelyn. 1858; Boothby.
Nathan Stuart, 1868,
John Hartwell, 1870,

Isaac Classon ", Isaac Newton*,
Isaac', John", John', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher' ;
Colorado ; born 1852, Manchester,
Me. ; married.

IsAAc9, Joseph* John', Ebenezer",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; Manches
ter, 111. ; born 1S43,

Isaac R. ; Superintendent of Port
Huron & N. W, Railway; Port
Fluron, Mich. ; born in 1843, in
Westmoreland Co., Pa. ; married
Mary J. Fowler, 1866.
We are sorry not to be able to trace the
descendants of the Wadsworths who left Con
necticut during the last half of the last cen
tury, and settled in the eastern counties of
Pennsylvania and the northwestern portion of
North CaroUna, The subject of this sketeh
gives some particulars concerning his ances
tors that may 'serve some future historian in
establishing the connecting link. His father's
name was Thomas, who died in 1862, at the
advanced age of 94 years. His mother's name
was Jane Best. He has half-brothers and
sisters, named William, Thomas, John, Joseph,
Margaret and Mary; brother, David P, ; sis
ters, Sarah and Nancy, In regard to the
family, Mr, W, says : " I belong to the sec
ond wife's faraily, my half-brothers and sisters
being about thirty years older than myself.
My father dying when I was quite young, 1
failed to get much of our family history. My
father's side of the house was English, from
Manchester, England, emigrating to this
country in its early days, settling in Virginia
and Pennsylvania, They were extraordinarily
large muscular men, I recollect my father
saying the smallest of his brothers weighed
265 pounds. Two of his brothers' names

196

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY'.

were William and John. My father served in
the war of 18 12, and was stationed at Balti-

CHILDREN,

Lizzie Fowler, 1867;
Fiarry Watkins, 1869
Nellie Grace, 1870,
Lillie Blanch, 1872.
Nettie May, 1874,
Hall McLaud 1S76,

¦1878,

Jabez", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Christopher* ;
farnier ; Becket, Mass. ; born i775i
Becket; — 1807; married Anna
Ferguson ; 2d Lydia Francis, 1809.
He was the first male child born in
Becket, and the cradle which his
father made to rock him in, is now
in that town. CHILDREN,
Hanuah, 1786; — 1805,
Isaac, 1788; — 1804,
Stephen, 1790; — 1821,
Chester, 1797,
Isaac Sherman, 1805; married Mary Bow
dich, who died 1865 at Becket,

Jacob Bradbury*, John Caton',
Jaines Douglass", Joseph', Sam
uel*, John", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
farmer and stock raiser ; Cotton
wood, on Hooker Creek, Shasta
Co., California; born 1844, Pike
Co., 111. ; married ^^lary Alice
Stewart.

CHILDREN.

Cora Ann, 1869.
Charlotte Jane, 1871.
Mary Eliza, 187;,
Lulu EUa, i88i,~

James", John®, William* ; born in
1677, Farmington; — *756, at
Durham, Conn. ; married Ruth
Noyes. Hon. James, in 1708, with thirty-
four others, obtained a patent, con
ferring to them the proprietorship of
the land in Durham. He had resided
there previous to this. He was also

familiarly known as Major and Colo
nel. He was by profession a law3er,
and enjoyed, by his ability and qual
ifications, as many of the responsible
offices of Durham as he desired, and
received several appointments of
trust and honor from the Colony.
He was the first military Captain,
the first Justice of the Peace, a Judge
of the Court, and was Representative
in 1710 — 1718. CHILDREN,
James, about 1700,
James*, James", John®, William* ;
Durham; born about 1700; — in
1777 ; married Abigail Penfield.
He was familiarly known as Squire
James ; held many important posi
tions ; was Representative for about
twenty vears, beginning with 1738,
and in the year 1759, he and his son
James were both Representatives to
the General Court from Durham.

CHILDREN.

James, 1730,
John Noyes, 1732.
Ruth, 1743.

James', Samuel*, Samuel", John®,
William*; born 1729; — i773;
niarried Abigail Le\\is, 1749.
CHILDREN.
Fenn, 1752; died unmarried in 1785, at
Hartford. Luke, 1754; — in infancy,
Anna, 175S; — 1775,
Luke 2d, 1759,
Susanna, 1764; — in infancy.
Orange; married Rev. Osgood of Gardiner,
Lucy, 1772; married J^angead ; died at sea,
/<.!¦','' *- ¦-'¦I'^n
James', James*, James", John®. Wil
liam' ; born 1730. Durham, Conn. ;
married Catherine Guernsey.
He was liberally educated, and regarded as
a gentleman of importance in the Colony, and
was advanced in mjlitary rank. During the
war of the revolution, 1775, being then Col
onel, was appointed \\ith Erastus Wolcott and
others, a committee to pro\ide for the officers
and soldiers, and their families, who were

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

'97

prisoners of war at Hartford, In 1776, he was
a Brigadier-General of the forces raised to re
inforce the Continental army at New York,
In 1777, he was appointed Major-General in
the place of General Huntington, He was for
one session a member of the Continental Con
gress, In 1777, he was one of an important
committee appointed to revise the mihtia laws
of the State, for the more effectual defence
and safety of the country. There are many
other instances on reeord of valuable services
he rendered He died iSi^aged 86 years.
He had two children, Abigail and Catherine,
both of whom, died in infanev.

James', Samuel*, John", Samuel®,
Christopher' ; Cornwall, Conn. ;
born 1750, at Killingly, Ct. ; — ¦
in 1S21; married Irene Palmer,
I774- CHILDREN,
James, 1781,
Two daughters, one married Ingersoll, the
other, Hawley Reed.

James", James', Samuel*, John",
.Samuel®, Christopher' ; Cornwall,
Conn, ; born 1781 ; — 1867 ; mar
ried Mary Frost.
He was chosen* a deacon in 1826, "He
was, " says the historian of Cornwall, F, S,
Gold, "about as near a 'blameless' man, doubt
less, as men become. He exemplified his faith
by ' walking in the light,' and seems to have
deserved Paul's requirement to be put as his
epitaph, for he ' he held the mystery of faith
in a pure conscience.' " He presented a com
munion service to the church,
CHILDREN,
John Palmer, 1804: — 1878, at New Mari
boro, Mass.
Isaac Slvles, 1806; — 1842, Mt, Vernon, O,
James Franklin, 1808,
Henry Frost, rSii,
Mary Eliza, 1820; married Darius I). Miner,
Torringford, Conn,

James", Wait', Wait*, Elisha", Jo
seph®, Christopher* ; Plymouth,
Mass. ; born in 1792,31 Duxbury;
— in 1879 ; he married Lydia Syl
vester. CHILDREN.
James F., 1S25,
George E,, — 1863.
Charies, — 1864,

Susan, — 1868,
Sylvester D,, 1835.
.\.bby, married O, E, Wood; — 1870,
George and Charies, — in the Army during
the rebeUion,

/James", John Noyes', James*,
James", John®, William* ; Gene
seo, N. v., born 176S, Durham;
— 1S44; inarried Naomi Wolcott,
East Wins(jr, Conn. (.See portrait
and sketch.)

Harriet, 1S05; — 1835; "larrieil Hon,
Martin Brimmer, of Buston.
James Samuel, 1807,
[The date of Gen, W'litlsworth's birth is given
incorrectly in anntlier plan; in this work, but tlic
cUite here yiven, 1S07, is correct,]
William Walcott, 18 10.
Elizabeth, 1815; — 1851; married Augus
tus Murray, Meraber of Parliament from Hast
ings.
Jame,s', Daniel", Seth', Hezekiah*,
xNathaniel", John®, Williain* ; Chi
cago, 111, , born 1828, New Hart
ford, Conn, ; inarried Emil}- Wads
worth Whittlesev, of Farmington,
Conn., 1856.
At the age of fifteen years entered a coun
try store at New Hartford, Conn,, and after
ward at Mexico, N, Y, Removed to Chicago,
111,, Sept,, 1845, Engaged in the wholesale
grocery trade in August, 1S52, from which he
retired in February, 1857, \iith a large prop
erty. Engaging again in business in May,
1859, he was caught by the panic which en
veloped the West in the fall of that year, was
compelled to suspend payment, and the en
tanglements of that year cost him every dol
lar of his previous accuraulations, and left him
a poor man, Becaine interested inthe cotton
trade in Tennessee and Mississippi, in 1862
and 1863, and raade money rapidly; in 1871,
had an ample fortune and a fine income. The
fire of October 9, 1871, swept his entire pro
ductive estate away, and left him only proper
ty producing taxes. He made great efforts at
rebuUding his property, and in May, 1S73, his
gross income was near, or quite, thirty thous
and dollars per annum. He becarae, about
1868, very much interested in raising horses
and Jersey cattle, which he has continued to
the present time. Carries on .an extensive
farra in Cook Co., near Chicago ; is engaged

198

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY'.

in selling real estate and making loans on real
property in Cook Co, Been active in politics
and is a Presbvterian,

CHILDREN,
Robert Strong, 1857; — 1
Grace Lucretia, 1859; —
James Robert, 1863,
Ellen Ruth, — in infancy,
AUce EmUy, 1870,

1 861,

James; born in 1805, at Milltown,
County of Monoghan, Ireland ; —
in 18S1, at HuU, Canada ; married
Jane Wadsworth, of Quebec Co.,
for his second wife, wiio now re
sides at Hull, Can. ; she was born
in 1836. Mr. Wadsworth left no
children. Dawson Wadsworth, of
Penn., and Dr. Henry Wadsworth,
of Philadelphia, \vere his brothers.

James; father's name, Richard;
mother's, Mary Keys ; grandfath
er's, Richard ; both lived and died
in Ireland ; 777 Qj-ieen St., Toron
to, Can. ; born in 1834, in Ireland ;
married Jane Elliott, 1S60.

Margaret, 1861,
John Robert, 1863.
James, 1866,
Lucinda Jane, 1869.

JamesS, Seth', Seth", Dura', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Hi
ram, Maine ; born i860; married
Emma A. Leighton, 1878.

James ; father, Williani ; Fall River,
Mass. ; born 1861.

James", James^, Wedworth', John
Noyes". John Noyes', James*,
James". John®, Williani* ; with
Otherman, Dyer & Southwick,
dealers in woolens, 22 White St.,
N. Y. ; Brooklyn; born in 1858,
at Buffalo.

James^, Wedworth', John Noyes",
John Noyes', James*, James",
John®, William* ; lawyer. New
York City ; Plainfield, N. J. ; born
1819, Durham ; Yale College 184 1 ;
inarried Rose F. Robinson.
Formerly resided in BuflFalo; been
mavor of that city, state senator, &c.

Wedworth, 184
Rose F,, 1855;
Brooklyn, James, 1858,

married Louis F, Phillips,

Ja:\ies A.9, ^Villiam R,«, John Og
den', Elisha", Recompense',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®.
Christopher* ; Lapeer, Town Co.,
Mich. ; born i860.

James B.^, Marcus North', Thomas
Hart", Asahel', William*, Wil-

N. Y

John®,
; born

William' ; Minetto,

=;o.

CHILDREN,
Marcus North, 1873.
Lena .May. 1879,
Infant not named, 1882,

James Bar', Titus", Samuel'.
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®.
William* ; farnier ; Girard, Pa. ;
born 1825 ; married Lucinda A.
.Silverthorn, 184S.
CHILDREN,
Frank Madison, 1854,

James Cowles', Luke", James',
Samuel*, Saniuel", John®, Wil
liam* ; merchant; Litchfield, Ct. ;
born in 1782; — 1S74 ; inarried
Harriet Delavan, who had two
children, both of whom died in in
fancy; 2d wife, Sally Cooke, of
Danbury, Conn., 1823, — 1869,
aged 75. CHILDREN,
James Cowles Luke, 1824,
Fiarriet D., married Kilbourne,

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

199

CaroUne Elizabeth, married Gen, Wessells,
Litchfield, Conn,
William Cooke, Davenport, Iowa,
George, 1830; Buffalo, N, Y,
Fienry T., — 1872, Rock Island, 111; left
widow, residing with her father, P, L, Mitch
ell, Rock Island,

James Cowles Luke^, James
Cowles', Luke", James', Samuel*,
Samuel", John®, Williain* ; San
Francisco, Cal., 401 California
,St, ; born 1824, Litchfield, Conn. ;
married Dora Tenney, 1874.
Went to California in 1846, and
has since been engaged in banking,
mining and manufacturing ; has held
manv important positions.

James Douglas", Joseph', Samuel*,
John", .Samuel®, Christopher* ; Or
ange Co., N. Y. ; born in 1786,
Litchfield Co., Conn.; — ¦ i8iS;
married Annie Marsh, who died in
1S20, aged 34. CHILDREN,
John Caton, 1803,
Rachel, 1,804; — 1826,
Samuel,'i8o7; —1827,
Hezekiah, 1S09,
WiUiam Marsh, 18 10; — 1841,
Elizabeth, 181 2,
Susan E,, 1815,
Mary, 1819; — 1821,
Jauies Edward^, Horace', Solo
mon", Thomas', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thonias®, William' ; \Vest
Haven, Conn.; born in 1831, at
Wethersfield, Conn. ; he married
Martha Jane Webster, 1857.
CHILDREN,
EUa G,, 1858; — in infancy.
Isaac Newton, i8ii2,
Fannie Durhara, 1S70.
Lizzie M.ay, 1S72,
Mattie Jane, 1875,

James Franklin', James", James',
Samuel*, John", Samuel®, Christo
pher* ; druggist ; CoUinsville, 111. ;
born 1808, at Cornwall, Conn. ;

is deacon in the Congregational
Church ; niarried Ruth Jerome,
1837. CHILDREN,
James LaRue, 1838.

James Francis Daniel^, Moses
Goodwin*, Daniel', IMoses", John',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Auburn, 111. ; born
in 1857.

J.YMES LaRue®, James Franklin',
];imes", James', Samuel*, John",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; physician ;
CoUinsville, 111. ; born in 1838, at
North Cornwall, Conn. ; married
Carrie Platt Halsey, 1863.
Educated at Olierlin College, and
graduated at the Chicago Medical
College ; is a member of the ^Madison
Co. Medical Societ)', Illinois State
Medical Society, and the American
Medical Association ; he is also ob
server for the U. S. Signal Oflice
(volunteer), and a member of the
St, Louis, Mo., Academy of Science.

Anna Ruth, 1S64,
Katie E., 1865,
Bella, 1868,

J.VMES Le.-vming', Henry", Elijah',
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; Northport, Long Island,
N. Y. ; retired ; formerly book
keeper ; born 1820, at Litchfield,
Conn, ; married Martha M, Bun
nell, i86o. No children.

James Robert®, James', Daniel",
Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathaniel",
John®, Williani* ; Chicago ; born
1863.
Ja^ies S.8, Rensom', Josiah", Josi
ah,', Tlioina.s*. Thomas", Thomas®,
WiUiam*; Janesville, Rock Co.,

WADSAVORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Wis. ; born in 1850, at Onandago,
N. Y. ; married Sarah J. Harris ;
— 1881. CHILDREN,
WiUis Irwin, 1871; Charley Lyman, 1873;
both died with scarlet fever the same day,
July, 1877,

James Samuel', James", John
Noyes', James*, James", John®,
William* ; Brigadier General, was
killed at the Battle^ of the Wilder
ness ; born 180^; married Marv
Craig Wharton. (See engravings
of portrait and inonument.)
The monument stands in the burial ground
of the Wadsworth family on Temple Hill, It
is built of granite, about eight feet long and
five feet wide at the base, and about two feet
wide and five feet long at the top. It is about
ten feet high, and is surraounted with a flag-
draped urn raade of bronze,. On the four
corners are four miniature cannon. On the
west side of the monument is the inscription
in bronze letters :
Brigadier-General James S, ^^'ADswoKTH,
DiEO May 8, 1864,
From a Wound received in the Battle ot the
Wilderness,
Aged, 56 Yeaks,
Above this inscription is an emblematic de
sign in bronze, coraposed of a sheaf of wheat,
a cluster of fruit, scythe, sickle, and a reaper's
hook. On the east side is another design of
a sword, epaulets, and laurel wreath. Under
these are the names :
Manassas, CliancellorsviUe,
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg,
The Wilderness,
CHILDREN,
Charles F,, 1836,
CcjrneUa, 1839; married to Montgomery
Ritchie; 2d John ,\dair,
Craig Wharton, 1841,
Nancy, 1843; inarried E, M, Rogers,
James W,, 1846,
Elizabeth, 1848; raarried Arthur Post.

James Thomas'. Jame.s", Wait',
Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; machinist, of the firm of
Thomas Carrol & Co., 390 Federal
.St,, builders of printing presses
and machiner)- ; South Boston ;
born 1825, at Plymouth, Mass. ;
married Mary E. Emerson, i86v
CHILDREN.
Lydia S,, 1876,

James W. ; born 1829; North 5th
Street, Harrisburg, Pa. : father's
name James, who left New York
and went to sea when, a young
man, about 1830; his wife was
Susan Hood, of Baltimore.

James Wedworth 3, Wedworth^,
Wed\\'orth', John Noyes", John
Noyes', James*, James", John®,
William*; a printer; Westville,
Conn.; born 1S41, at Durham,
Conn. ; inarried Evelina A. Elliott,
1863, CHILDREN.
Fred ElUott, 1868,
Evelina James, 1872.

James Wilbur"^, Samuel', Timothy",
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®. William*; .Sauquoit,
N, Y, ; born 1840, New Hartford,
N. Y. ; married Julia R. Mould,
1864. No children.

James Wolcott^, James Samuel',
Jaines", John Noves'. James*,
Jaines", John®, \Viriiam' : AI, C. ;
Geneseo, N, Y. ; born in 1846, in
Philadelphia, Jefterson t^o. ; mar
ried Louisa Travers, 1876.
He entered Vale Scientific .School, but in
1864, after the death of his galLant father,
and when but seventeen years old, he entered
the army as aide-de-camp on the staff of the
late General Warren, commanding the Fifth
Corps of the Array of the Potora.ac, He con
tinued in aclive service till the close of the
rebelUon, He then assumed charge of the
famUy estates, and represented Genesee, X. V,,
in the Board of .Supervisors, for three terms.
He was elected a memberof the Lmver House
ofthe State Legislature in 1878 and 1S79, and
i\as made a meraber of the ways and means
and other important committees, as well as of
the railroad investigating cominittee of the
Legislature of the latter year. He was elected
ComptroUer in 1879, on the same ticket with
CorneU, and ran far ahead of the rest of the
ticket, notably of the candidate for Governor,
He was the youngest Comptroller e\'er in

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY'.

office in New York, He was elected to fill
the unexpired terra of Representative Lapham
in the 47th Congress,

CHILDRENw

James Wolcott, 1S77,
Harriet Travers, 1881,

Jeremiah'. Daniel*, John", John®,
Williani* ; colonel ; lived at Hart
ford ; born 1743; — 1804; lived
on the estate of his father, Rev.
Daniel, who died when Jeremiah
was small ; married Mehitable Rus
sell. (See sketch Rev. Daniel.)
ClULIiREN,
Daniel,
Catherine; married Gen, Nathaniel Terry,
member of Congress,
Fiarriet; died at the island of Bermada.

Jeremiah', Sedate", Sedate', Abiah*,
EUsha". Joseph®, Christopher*;
blacksmith ; Lincolnville, Maine ;
born in 1803; — 1854; niarried
Mary Cooper Porter ; Advent.
CHILDREN.
Robert Thorndike, 1828,
Lewis O,, 1830; unmarried,
William E,, 1834; — 185 1,
Samuel Eben, 1836,
Jereraiah, 1839; unmarried,
Mary P,, — ¦ in infancy,
Andrew W,, 1844.
George Warren; — in infancy,
George R, ; — in infancy.

Jeremiah', Elisha", Seth', Heze
kiah*, Nathaniel", John®, Wil
liam* ; Hartford, Conn. ;born 1804 ;
— in 1828; married Betsey Ann
Phelps, 1824. CHILDREN, ,
Elizabeth; married Dr, D, E. Stillman, now
a resident of Baltimore,

Jeremi.a,h8, Jeremiah', Sedate",
Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®.
Christopher* ; Camden, Me. ; born
*839- .

Jerome^, George Nelson', Moses".
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, William* ; Washington
Mills, N. Y ; born 1859.

Jesse', Samuel", Samuel', Samuel*,
Samuel", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
hotel keeper ; Boston ; born 1824,
Roxbury, N. H. ; married Mary
L. Lees, 1859. CHILDREN,
Walter Scott, i860,
Florence Loraine, 1864,
Mary Edna, 1866,
Esther Bernice, 1870,
Jessie Gertrude, 1879.

Jesse', Christopher", Christopher',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; E. Livermore, Me, ;
born in 1788; — 1859; married
Abigail B. Loker; 2d wife, Phebe
Additon ; 3d wife, Sabrina Page,
1858. CHILDREN,
Christopher, 1810; — 1S12,
Christopher, 1812, — ,
Jessie, 1813; — 1831,
Moses, 1815,
Joseph, 181 7,
Abigail, 1S20; — 1824,
Phebe, 1822; married L, Warren; 2d hus
band, Rev, R, Ela.
Elijah, 1825,
Jimmie D.^, Amos Milton^, • John
Wesley', Thoinas", Thomas',
Thomas*. Thonias", Thomas®,
William* ; Webster City, Iowa ;
born i860.

Joel', Timothy", Thomas', Thom
as*, Thomas", Thoinas®, William* ;
farnier ; West Winfield, N. Y. ;
born in 1800, at Nevv Hartford,
N. Y. ; niarried Sarah Goodier,
1830; 2d wife, Mrs. R. Dunham,
1871, who — 1S83.
CHILDREN,
Hester Ann, 1S32,
George Henry, 1834,
Emily Maria, 1836.
Lizzie, 1840,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

John®, William*; married-Samti  John"-, John®, William*; Farming-

Stanley of Hartford in 1662, she
— in 1 7 18.
He early removed to Farmington,
Conn. He did not receive a legacy
in his father's will, and it is sup
posed that he had previously received
his portion. He resided in Farming-
ton untill his death, in 16S9. His
widow, Sarah, survived him. John
Wadsworth, as well as being one of
the prominent men of Farmington,
was also one of the wealthiest. In
1669, there were eighty-four taxable
estates, and Mr. Wadsworth's was
the third in value, being rated at
£183. In the records, his name ap
pears as Sergeant John Wadsworth.
He was a member of what is now
the State Senate, and was present
when his brother Josepii seized the
Charter and secreted it in the Oak.
CHILDREN.
Sarah, 1657; married Stephen Root.
.Samuel, 1660, ''
John, 1662, ¦¦
Mercy, 1665, — in infancy,
WiUiam, 1671,
Nathaniel and James, twins, 1677,
Thoraas, 1680,
Hezekiah, 16S3; had no children,
John®, Christopher*; Duxbury,
Mass. ; born 1638 ; — 1700; mar
ried Abigail Andrews, 1667 ; she
— 1 72,3 •
He lived and died on the home
stead of his father, Christopher ; he
was a deacon for many years.
Children.
Mary, 1668.
Abigail, 1670,
¦John, 1671.
Christopher, 16S5,
Ichabod, 1687,
Isaac, 1724; cUed in Pembroke, 1749; left
two daughters.
Lydia; Sarah; Grace, married William
Spragure; Flopstill, married Wm, Brewster,
1708; Mercy,

ton. Conn; born 1662; — 17*^;
his brother William was executor
of his will ; inarried Elizabeth Stan
ley ; — 1 713 and in the year 17 14
he married Mrs, Mary Gridly,
maiden name Humphries, who
survived him. children,
.Sarah, 1697; married Cowles,
Elizabeth, 1700; — in infancy,
John, 1702,
Daniel, 1704,
Lydia, 1706,
Ruth 1711.
Mary, 1713; — in infancy.
No children by last wife.

John", John®, Christoper* ; resided
in Duxbury; born 1671 ; — 17S0;
inarried Mercy Wiswell, 1704 ; she
died 1 716, aged 36 years ; 2d Mary
Verdie, 1718. children,
John, 1706.
Urrah, 1708; — 1784,
Dorathy, 1 710; married Joseph Bartlett,
Ichobod, 1712,
Peleg, 1 71 5,
Mary, 1721; married Dea, EUsha Phillips,
1756.

John", Saniuel®, Christopher* ; Mrl-
ton. Mass, ; born in 1664 — 1734 :
married Elizabeth Vose, — 1750.
He was a wealthy man, leaving an
estate valued at £7,082 ; was Repre
sentative man}? years. He had a ser-
\'ant, C;esar, who was baptised 1732.
children,
Mary, 1699; marriedRobt, Anderson, 1720,
.Abigail, 1700; married Benj, Fenno,
Elizabeth, 1701 ; married T, Tolman,
John,' 1 703,
Ruth, 1705; married Parrot, of Boston.
Benjarain, 1707,
Joseph, 171 2; not married,
Grace, 1710; married Dean of Dedham,
Margaret, 1714; married Benj, Fuller,
Hannah, 1716,
Ebenezer, 1718; married Patience Swift;
had one daughter.
Sarauel, 1720,

WADSWOR'ril FAMILY' HISTORY.

203

John*. John", John®, \Villiam* ; Far
ington, Conn. ; born in 1702 ; —
1760; married Eu lice Porter.
children,
Thomas. Lydia, 1736; — 1H13.
Ruth, 1750; — i8iS"

John*, John", Saniuel® Christopher* ;
clergyman ; Canterbury, Conn. ;
born 1703, at Milton, Mass, ; —
in 1766; Harvard College, '1723 ;
married Abigail Sprout of Mid
dleboro.
In iljustration as to how the Wadsworths
have always determined to think for them
selves, note an account of the settlement of
John Wadsworth, of Milton, Mass,, over the
church at Canterbury, Connecticut : Mr.
Wadsworth was a graduate of Harvard, 1723,
and the call was extended to him January 25,
1729, The church agreed " that they wotdd
not make any farther tryall of any other per
sons in the work of ye ministry, but would
call Mr. John Wadsworth, offering him one
hundred pounds a year, and one hundred and
fifty pounds settlement, to be paid fifty pounds
a year — adding ten pounds yearly to the set
tlement, after the first three years,"' Mr,
Wadsworth, after due consideration, thus re
plied :
To the Town of Canterbury :
God having, in His own unsearchable Provi
dence, bereaved yoii of your pious pastor
(whose meraory be blessed), and graciously
disposed you, with unwearied endeavors to
seek after a settlement (notwithstanding your
frustrations), so that you might enjoy God in
all ways of His appointment, and your hearts
being disposed to invite me (however unwor
thy of so sacred an office), to be your Shep
herd, under Christ, I, wUh most strong con
victions of mv natural inability to perform ye
arduous duties of so high a station, with entire
reliance on Christ's promised presence, and
the Spirit's gracious assistance, accept your
vocation, I trust, with a suitable resolution to
walk worthy of it. Under these considerations,
I accept, that whUe I shall be your gospel
minister, I have a gospel maintenance, not
only in youth, but also in old age, if spared
thereto; in sickness, as well as in health, that
I raay ha\'e physic, as well as food, which I
think is not so clearly exprest in ye town vote,
.\s touching the annual s.alary, I look upon an
hundred and ten pounds as ye stated sum,
but not as unalterable. Times are change

able and we in them. If, for my comfortable
raaintenance, ;^i5ii, ;/^20o or .^300 per an
num is necessary, as is requisite in Carolina,
I shall expect it be freely offered; on the
contrary, if ten be sufficient, I remit you an
hundred. As for ye settlement, I am per
suaded you are all sensible what an inconsid
erable sum 150 pounds is to procure one
withal, I desire it may be paid ye first year,
but if that be too burdensome, ye hundred ye
first year, and ye fifty ye next,"
The account continues ; " The town was
somewhat perplexed by these ambiguous re
quirements, and was obliged to ask an explan
ation of the answer, and insist upon having
terras more ' fixedly stated,' This part, how
ever, was easil)' settled, but another difficulty
arose, Mr, Wadsworth was asked to enter
into a covenant to govern the Church accord
ing to the Cambridge platform. In taking his
degree, he had signed his name to the thesis,
'that the Congregational Church was most
agreeable to the institutions of Christ of any
human composures, of that nature,' but de
clined to tie himself absolutely to ' govern
according to any human composure whatever
new light he might have.' This refusal ' put
the church inlo agreeable surprise.' There
were consultations in this and that part of the
room, Mr, John Bacon, afterwards deacon,
with 'great affection and concern,' begged
them not to break in pieces. He believed
the published opinion, of the candidate would
suffice, and upon this ground they finally
unanimously consented to confirm the call.'
One of the brethren afterwards wrote him,
that had he not signed the thesis, ' he would
have as soon trusted a Papish Jesuit,' During
Mr, Wadsworth's ministry, till 1741, the
church grew rapidly in strength and numbers.
During the last year of his ministry at this
place, sorae scandal arose concerning his pri
vate character, and he returned to his native
town. Tradition has it that he fell dead in
his pulpit from apoplexy. His tombstone is
in Milton cemetery "

John, 1732; kUled by being thrown from a
horse in Milton, in the 21st year of his age.

John*, Joseph", Joseph®, Christo

ph

Lebanon, Conn. ; born in

Lebanon, 1705; inarried Elizabeth
Richman.
This man died in 1837, about four
months before his last child John was
born, and on his death-bed he made
this prophetic remark : " Though I

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

die, yet shall my name live forever. "
The prophecy apjDears to hold good
thus fiir, as he has probably as many
descendaiits now living by the name
of Wadsworth as any other persoii
ofthe fourth generation.

CHILDREN,

Zerviah, 1735,
John, 1737,

John*, John", John®, Christopher* ;
served in the Canada war as an
officer, and captain in the Revolu
tion ; physician ; Duxbury, Mass. ;
born 1706 ; — 1799 ; married Mary
Alden, 1734; — 1789
Winsor's History of Duxbury gives the fol
lowing regarding Dr, John V^^adsworth, who
was noted as rather an eccentric individual :
" On one of the roads leading from the in
land towns, was situated the house of the doc
tor, and by his door frequently passed the
adventuresome sons of the farmers of the in
terior, eager to ship themselves on board some
of the comparatively many fishing vessels
which were then often leaving Duxbury at the
proper season. At one tirae a party of these
going by, asked the doctor the distance to
' the village, ' and other questions concerning
the prospects before thera, who met them with
the reply : ' Ah, you are going there, are you?
That place is Sodom. I tell you it is going
to be sunk ; it isl Well now do you want me
to make you a rhyme ? Well then : —
The Swampineers avoid all fears,
A fishing tliey will go,
Ilthej' 'scape li — 11, it will be well,
But that they will n't, I know.
And with this solemn warning he dismissed
thera. That portion of Main Street, west
frora the Methodist Church, was long called
Sodom in consequence of this event, "
In his private character, Dr, Wadsworth
was eccentric, and the raanner of his life was
characteristic and amusing. In his speech he
was rapid and witty. He was a man of strong
passions and prejudices, and when excited was
as invincible by remonstrance as he was im
movable in his opinions. Dr, Wadsworth
prided himself much on possessing the art of
prophecy, and was frequently consulted by the
credulous ctmcerning stolen property, absent
friends and coming events. It is still reported
that he conjured with wonderful accuracy,
and individual instances are often related, Fle
always denied that his power vvas superhuman,
but affirmed that it was capable of being learned

and as simple as any operation in arithmetic,
and that all errors in his foretelling were oc
casioned by mistakes in his calculations. As
a physician, Dr, Wadsworth was self-taught,
and of considerable erainence in his profession.
He was a man of energy and activity, and re
tained his physical powers until late in hfe,
CHILDREN.
Mercy, 1736; married Joshua Cushraan in
1763- John, 1739, Graduated from Fiarvard Col
lege in 1762, and from that time forward to
his death in 1777 was tutor at that institution.
He died of sraall pox, "He was a man of
eminent talents, of clear conceptions, a per
spicuous reasoner, fluent in speech and above
all, mild in the exercise of his authority." Ilis
monument stands in Cambridge Cemetery,
Salumith, married Ezra Weston, 1770,
Sarah, 1744; married John Neal, 1774,

John', George*, Ebenezer", .Sam
uel®, Christopher*; Stoughton,
Mass. ; born 1735, at Stoughton,
Mass. ; — from disease in the Rev
olution ; married Jerusha White,
*759- CHILDREN.
Susanna, 1761 ; married Joseph Cheeney,
John, 1763,
Jerusha, 1764; married Stewart Foster.
Eunice, 1766; married Daniel Robbins,
Mary, 1768; married Ezra Briggs,
Aaron, 1770, inarried Lucy Stevens.
Miriam, 1772.
Moses, 1774; married Hannah .Stevens,

John '. John*, Joseph", Joseph®.
Christopher*;- settled in Dover,
Duchess Co., N. Y., 1761 ; born
1737, at Lebanon, Conn. ; — 1788 ;
married Sarah Webster, 1760,
CHILDREN,
John, 1762,
Joanna, 1763; — 1829,
Joseph, 1765,
Sarah, 1766; — 1S18,
Benjarain, 1768.
Jerusha, 1770; — 1814,
Betsey, 1772; — 1772,
Constant Webster, 1774,
Betsey, 1776; — 1777,
Ebenezer, 1778,

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205

John', Benjamin*, John", Saniuel®,
C h r i s to pher* ; Milton, Mass. ;
born in 1739; — 1775! married
Catherine Bullard, 1760.
CHILDREN,
Rebecca, 1761; — 1761,
Joseph, 1763; — i8i6,
Benjamin, 1765; — 1829,
WUliam, 1768; — 1824.
John, 1770; — 1847.

John',, Jonathan*, Jonathan",
Joseph®, WiUiam* ; chair maker ;
Canandaigua, N. Y- ; born 1771 ;
— in Hartford, in 1843 ; married
Nancy Parker, — 1824.
CHILDREN,
Henry Franklin, 1820; died unmarried in
1850 at Utica,
Augusta, — in infancy,
Helen Augusta, 1824; married G, 0, Hall,
Little Falls, N. Y ,

JoHx", John', John*. Joseph", Jo
seph®, Christopher* ; Nevv Leba
non, Columbia Co., N. Y. ; born
1762; married Rachel Wheeler,
1783-
A good mechanic and a successful
former. He entered early into pub
lic life, was distinguished by his in
terest in all that concerned the wel
fare of the community. In the mili
tia service he rose to the rank of Col
onel, which ofiice he held for a num
ber of years. He was a zealous
Christian, and planned and built a
church upon one corner of his farm,
which still .stands and is in good re
pair. He was for many years the
magistrate of the community, and
was looked upon as a safe counselor
ever ready to advise with those of his
neighbors' and friends who eagerly
sought his counsel.. He died, in full
heatth and strength, of heart disease,
at the, age of 78. CHILDREN,
Rachel, 1783,
Lydia, 1 785 ; married Carpenter,
Sarah, 1787; married Johnson,

Harriett, 1789; married Joseph G, Ford.
Betsey, 1791,
.Sophia, 1793; married AUen Earl,
John, 1796,
Grange, 1798; married D, L, Dewey.
E, Wheeler, 1 800,
Ebenezer Sacket, 1802, ^
Anna, 1805; married Pierce; had one child
now Mrs, Theodore L, Wadsworth, Buffalo,.
N. Y,
Constant Webster, 1807; — 1834.

John", John', George*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; soldier in
the Revolution, and Cominissioned
Ensign ; a butcher and tanner ;
Winthrop, Me.; born in 1763, at
Stoughton, Mass. ; — 1S34. mar-
mried, H«nnah Clapp, 1787-
CHILDREN.
John, 1789; — in 1 85 1,
Mary, 1791; — 1853.
Hannah, ^— in infancy,
Isaac, 1793;— *^7j-
Stratton, — in infancy.
Alvah, 1797; — 1869,
David, — in infancy,
Sally, — in infancy,
Hannah. 1801, E, Winthrop,
Eliza, 1S03, E, Winthrop.
Jerusha, 1806; — 1S52,
David, 1809; — 1S34.

John'", John', Benjamin*, John",
Samuel®. Christopher*; Provi
dence ; born 1770, Milton ; — 1847 ;
married Elizabeth Tucker.
CHILDREN.
John Atherton, 1794.
Three daughters; — in infancy.

John", Cephas', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher* ; Strong, Me. ; born
lySS ; — 1861 ; married to Sarah
Woodward. CHILDREN.
Maria C, 1824; married WUUams, FaU
River, , ,
Lucy W,, 1828; m;i.rried Tuck, practicing
physician, 24 Winter St,, Boston.
John, 1831.

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WADSWORTH FA.MILY HISTORY.

John", Dura', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher*; Duxbiuy ; born
1794; — 1858; he married Lydia
Perry. CHILDREN,
Lydia; married Bryant.
Catherine, Belina; married Gay,
John, 1820,
Sarah B,; married Soule,
Edward P,, 1826.
Peleg, 1828,

John", Horace', Jonathan*, Jona
than", Joseph®, Williain* ; jeweller.
New York City; born 1807; —
1875 ; married Caroline Masi.
CHILDREN.
Charles Masi, — .
Horace Frank, — ,
Philip, — ,
Caroline Antonette; married Hart; —
Eraraa V, , — .
John Henry,
WUliam P,

John', David", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Barre, Mass. ; born 1771 ;
— 1833 ; niarried Lois Warren.
CHILDREN.
Lucy, 1799; Barre,
Joseph, 1880; — 1S24.
Sally; Barre,
JuUa, 1804; — 1838,
Paul, 1806; — 1869,
Hiram, 1808,
Lois, 1810; — 1849,
Phila, 1812; — 1871.
Delphia, 1814; —1836,
Samuel, 1816; — in Boston, 1858,
Caroline ; — in infancy,
Adelaide, 1823; — 1856.

John', Ebenezer", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Westboro, Mass. ; born
1780; — 1828. CHILDREN,
Mary Ann, 1808; married John Whitney,
Manchester, 111,

Persis, 181 2; married A. Cutler, Holliston,
Mass, John, 1814, Northboro, Mass,
Cyrus, 18 18, Westboro, Mass,
Joseph, 1 82 1, Manchester, 111,
Dexter, 1824, Litchfield, 111.
Hannah, 1827; married DeWolfe, Man
chester, 111,

John', John Noyes", John No3'es',
James*, James", John®, William* ;
lawyer; born 1781 ; Williams Col
lege, 1802; New York City; he
received an injury by being hit by
a boom of a vessel, which termi
nated his life in 1816 ; he married
Alice Colden Willett; she — in
New York in iJ

CHILDREN.
John WUlett, 1807,
WUliam Murray, 1813, lawyer; — 1S40, at
Savannah, Ga.
Susan, relict of Rev, Elizur Goodrich ,Smith,
Ne\A' York Citv.

John', John", John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; New Leba
non ; born 1796; — 1S77 ; mar
ried Mary Dickerson, 1820.
CHILDREN,
John WUUam, 1822,
Ann Mary, 1828; — 1848,

John', Charles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Hi
ram, Me. ; born in 1798 ; — 1842 ;
married Mary Benton, 1S24,
CHILDREN.
Jacob B,, 1825.
(iharles, 1S26,
Eli, 1828,
Samiiel D,, 1829.
AUen, 1831,
Francis L., 1S33,
Mary B., 1S35; married Kmile Solomon.
Bertha, 1836; married Wm, H, Warren.
John Charles, 1838, corporal in the army of
the rebeUion; killed at Gettysburg July, 1863,
The following is an extract from a letter «'rit-
ten by the Captain of his Company to his
brother :
There was no raan in ray company whom I
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207

only for his soldierly qualities, but for his un
blemished character and conduct. He was
always at his post, and did more than his
mere duty whenever practicable. He was an
example to the men, and I held him up for
imitation, because of-the cheerfulness with
which he performed every duty and endured
every hardship. In all actions in which the
company was engaged his bravery was con
spicuous. In the engagement in which he lost
his life, mv company held the most exposed
position on the field. We were exposed to
three lines of fire and the men were rapidly
falUng, ,V change of front was ordered, under
a terrible shower of balls, and the men being
flat upon the ground and partiaUy sheltered,
hesitated about executing it, I called to your
brother — he came up at once, I stood him
in proper position and called upon the raen to
dress up upon hira, Fle was cool as upon
drill, and, struck by his example, they imme
diately came into line. He never faltered or
wavered under any circumstances. Shortly
after this incident, when all were lying down
and firing, I heard him cry out " oh, oh, oh !"
Fle dragged himself round toward rae, I being
only six feet distant, and said, "I'm wounded
in the groin," I took him by the shoulders
and drew him to me — turned him upon his
back — gave him water and opened his cloth
ing. By this time his eyes glazed and his
color was gone. The wound was directly in
the groin, severing the main artery, and he was
insensible from the second moment.

John, David Drake, Ichabod ; (see
Ichabod of Ellington) ; Ellington,
Conn; born 1803; married Mary
Warner, Ellington, 1829.

Elizabeth, 1829; married Edward W. Bar
ber, Ellington,
David 1830,
Mary 1831 ; married J, FL Gardner, Put
nara, Conn,
Philo, 1832; — 1863,

John', Joseph", Ebenezer', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Jefferson, Iowa ; born in
181 2, Woodstock, Conn. ; inarried
Martha Jane Daniels, 1851.
CHILDREN,
Martha Emma, 1852; niarried M, N, Can-
field,

Marion Eunice, 1854; married M, E, Mar

hn,

Carrie Eveline, 1856; married R, W, Peck.
Ida Leora, 1859; married J, W. Brock,
Clarence Herbert, 1861,
Cora Bell, 1862.
WiUiam Arthur, 1863,

John', John", Dura', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; Winthrop,
Mass. ; born 1820, Duxbury ; mar
ried Catherine P. Josselyn, 1846.

CHILDREN.

Edward L, 1846,
Erama L,, 1850; married Wood, Boston.
Jennie E., 1863.

John', John", Cephas', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher' ; stove
and tinware dealer ; Medway,
Mass. ; born 1S31 ; inarried Eliz
abeth Leonard, 1854.
CHILDREN,
Charles S,, 1855,
George M,, 1856.
John I,, 1857; — in infancy,
M, Ella, i860, ,
John F,, 1861.
Arthur L,, 1862,
Fred W,, 1867.

John ; father's name John, grfind-
father WiUiam ; Brockport, N. Y, ;
born 1819, at London, England;
came to this country in 1848 ; mar
ried H. Norton, 1840.
CHILDREN.
, Alfred, 1844, ^^'arsaw,
John, 1846, Brockport,
Frank, 1848, San Francisco, Cal,
Robert, 1850, Wyoming, N, V,
Annie, 1S52, Warsaw,
Harriet, 1854, Brockport,

John; born 1824, at London, Eng. ;
— in 18S0, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ;
married Mary McGaghran, 1847,
wdio now resides at 346 Jay St. ;
his father's name was John, grand
father's Charles ; both lived near

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wadsworth FAMILY HISTORY.

Cambridge, Eng. ; his grandfather
was born in 1770, — 1846.
CHILDREN,
Mary, 1848,
Ellen, 1850.
WilUam W,, 1856,
John and George, 1852, (twins.)
Maggie, 1858.
Nettie, i860.

JoHN^, John', Ebenezer", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; storekeeper ;
Northboro, Mass. : born in 1814,
Westboro ; married Sarah Eliza
Bowen, 1839, CHILDREN,
.Sarah Eliza, 1840 ; — 1857,
John, 1843; — 1845-
Noah, 1846,
Mary, 1853; — 1856,
John; father's name Malichi, (not
living) ; grandfather John, who
lived in Moore Co., N. C, and
had one brother who went to Missis
sippi, left several children. Law
yer, Franklenton, Washington
Parish, La. ; born 1822, in Marion
Co., Mississippi ; married in 184^ ;
2d wife, Lucy A. Garrett, 1862."
CHILDREN,
Josephene, 1846,
Ellen, 1848.
William 0„ 1850,
Daniel, 1864,
Margaret C, 1867.
John ,A, 1873,
Sarah L,, 1878.

JoHN^ Pauls, John', David", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; merchant, Boston,
ofthe firm of Wadsworth Bros. &
Howland ; does a large business
in paints and colors ; West New
ton ; born 1842, in Barre; married
Lucy A. Tumer, 1S62 ; no children.

JohnS, Josephs, John', Ebenezer",
David', Recompence*, Ebenezer",

Samuel®, Christopher*; Man
chester, 111. ; born 1S45 ; married
Clara Sumner; no children.

John Adelbert, Samuel Andrews,
David Drake, Ichabod, (see Icha
bod, of Ellington) ; spectacle man-
ufijcturer in early life but of late
years magnetic physician ; Spring
field, Mass. ; born 1838, at Hamp
ton, Conn. ; niarried Sarah C.
Bliss, 1S62. CHILDREN,
Howard Bliss, 1866,
Robert Edwin, 1869.

John Almon^, Xenophon', Seth",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Ebene
zer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; hor
ticulturist ; Ravenna, Ohio ; born
1822, Windham, Ohio ; married
Charlotte P. Coe, 1849.

John Alonzo Clark^, William
Romeo', Romeo", William', Wil
liam*, William", John®. Wllliam* ;
New Orleans, La., 70 Can.al St. ;
born_ 1842; Brooklyn; married
Erminia Stewart, 1871.
CHILDREN.
Clarence, —
Stewart, 1874,
Lawrence, 1876,

John Atherton,', John", John', Benj
amin*, John", Samuel®, Christo
pher* ; apethecary, M. D. ; Provi
dence, R. I. ; born 1793. Milton;
— 1S66 ; married Elizabeth Mott,
1S22, — 1840; 2d Charlotte T.
Barker, 1842. CHILDREN,
Alfred Cadmus, 183S,
Eliza M., 1823; marrried H. H, Burrington,
Providence, R. I.
Emraa Anna, 1826; married Rev, James
Araden, Providence, R, I,
J, Leon, 1830; — 18S1, leaving widow and
two daughters at Providence,
luigene X, ; — in infancy.
Clarence E, 1845,
.\tloff S, ; — in infancy.

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209

John Barrent^, Richard", Henry',
Jonathan*, Jonathan", Joseph®,
William* ; Springville, N. Y. ;
born 1825, at Bufialo ; — 1877.
Several years in the California gold
mines, obtaining vast wealth ; never
niarried ; was in the 32d degree of
the ISIasonic Order. A very costly
monument marks his resting place in
the cemetery at Springville.
John Caton', James Douglas", Jo
seph', Samuel*, John", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; farmer ; Yuba City,
Sutter Co., Cal. ; born 1803 ; mar
ried Ruth Bradbury. CHILDREN.
WiUiam Marsh, 1829.
Jacob B,, 1S44.
Eliza Ann, married Richardson,
Harriet E,, married Tipton.
Annette, married Curtis,
Patience, married Cooley,

John E.", Daniel', Daniel*, Jo
seph", Joseph®, William* ; mer
chant ; Richmond, Va. ; born in
1796, at Hartford, Conn. ; — in
1873; married Thatcher, of Ches
terfield Co., Va.
. CHILDREN,
John Talcott, about 1837,
Mary Ann, married Col, L, W, Spratt, C,
S. A,; she — 1880, at JacksonvUle, Fla,

John Edward**, John W.', Thom
as", Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",

Thonias®, Williai

Pulaski,

Jackson Co., Michigan; born in
1826; married Harriet Nowlin.
CHILDREN,
Clifford, Luie, Nellie, Carrie,

John D.", Seneca', Wait*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Hingham ;
born 1782 ; — ¦ at sea ; married Re
becca C. Price. CHILDREN,
Eleanor P., 1809; married Hopkins, living
in San Francisco,
George P., i8li.

John Edward'-", John Noyes^, Wed
worth', John Noyes", John Noyes',
James*, James", John®, William* ;
dealer in standard carbon oil ;
Englewood, Cook Co., 111. ; born
1S42, Peter.sburg, Mich; never
married.

John F.'^, John', John", Cephas',
Peleg*, John", John®, Christopher* ;
FaU River, Mass. ; born 1861.

John Franklin'^ George G.^, Ti
tus V.', Samuel", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", .Samuel®.
Christopher*; farmer; Tilton,
N. FL ; born in 1852, at Franklin,
N. H. ; he inarried Emma Jane
Perkins, 1873. CHILDREN.
Linnie Bell, 1874,
George Frank, 1876,

John G.', Timothy", Seth', Heze
kiah*, Nathaniel", John®, Wil
liam*; Chicago, 111.; born 1827,
at Farmington, Conn. ; married
Bertha L. Bean, 1870 ; no children.

John Gilbert^, Ebenezer Sackett',
John", John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; New Leb
anon, N. Y. ; born 1831 ; married
Sarah Ashley, 1856.
CHILDREN,
Ann Mary, 1858; — i860,
Annie M., 1862,
WiUiara E,, 1867,
Andrew S,, 1869.
Hattie F,, 1872,

John Heal', Abiah", Sedate',
Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; farmer; Stantland, Cam
den Co., Mo. ; born 1820, at Lin
colnville, Me, ; married Lavina J.
Bowen, 1840. eiriLDREN,
Eunice A,, 1842,
Elena M., 1848.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

John Henry', John", Horace',
Jonathan*, Jonathan", Joseph®.
Williain* ; 43 White Street, New
York City ; not married.

John J.', John Marsh", Ambrose',
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, ^^'il-
liam' ; freight agent; Erie, Penn. ;
born 1830, at Onondago, N. Y. ;
married Theresa Baum, 1852,
He received a common school edu
cation. Is actively engaged in mer
cantile and transportation business.
He is Vestryman of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Has taken the
32d degree of Masonrj', and is D. D.
G. M. of Erie Co,
CHILDREN,
. Eva Josephine, 1852; raarried Burrows,
Chicago, Edward Lyman, 1857,

John Marsh", Ambrose', Joseph*,
Joseph", Joseph®, William* ; Hast
ings, N. Y. ; born 1801, at Hart
ford ; he inarried Hannah Adams
Smith.

CHILDREN,

John James, 1830,
WiUiam Wallace, 1836,
Lizzie, 1838,
Horace E , — ,

John Milton^, John Ogden', Eli
sha", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
farmer ; Wolcott, Wayne County,
N. Y. ; born 1820; married Har
riet Ann Welch, 1844.
CHILDREN,
Willis, 1845.
Mary Elizabeth, 1849; married Alva More
house. South Butler.
Harriet Frances, 1854.
George MUton, 1856,
Rufus Slosson, i860.
Anna Bell, 1864,

John Noyes', James*, James", John®,
William* ; farmer ; Durham ; born

1732; — 1786; married to Esther
Par.sons, 1757. O^-'^l

CHILDREN,

John Noyes, 1758.
William 1761,
James, 1768,

John Noyes", John No.yes', James*,
James", John®, WiUiam* ; farmer ;
Durham; born 1758; married to
Susan Cdmp. CHILDREN.
John, 1781,
Wedworth, 1782,

John Noyes^, Wedworth',' John
Noyes". John Noyes', James*,"
James", John®. William* ; Peters
burg, Mich. ; born 1805 ; — 1877 ;
married Maria M. Ward.
CHILDREN,
Charles B,, 1834,
Ehhu, 1837,
Nelson Cox, — .
Mary M,, —
Orry FI,, — ; widow Louisa, Indianapolis.
John E,, 1842,
Lida R,; married to Goodwin, Cassopolis,
Mich, Mina I.; married Davis, Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, Emma O, ; married Baker, Petersburg,

John Ogden', Elisha", Recom
pense', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; soldier of 1812 ;
Wayne Co., N. Y. ; born in 1795,
at Rutland, Vt. ; ^ 1847, "* Wol
cott, N. Y, ; he married Fanny
Gillette. CHILDREN.
John MUton, 1823,
Henry, 1825.
WiUiara R,, 1827, Lapeer, Mich.
Horace, 1829,
Daniel, 1831, Lapeer, Mich.
One daughter.

John Ogden^, Henryk, John Ogden',
Elisha", Rocompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Wolcott, Wavne Co., N. Y. ; born
1858.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

John Talcott", John E.", Daniel',
Daniel*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; Richmond, Va. ; born 1837 ;
not married.
Served in the Confederate army,
and was with Gen. Lee at the sur
render of Appomatox.

John Warren*, Peleg'. Moses",
John', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; in Brooklyn,
N. Y., 222 Spencer St, ; born in
1846, Bath, Me. ; niarried Statira
p. Crafts, 1867. CHILDREN,
Susie, 1868,
Williara Lincoln, 1869; — ,
AUce, 1871 ; —
Warren George, 1876,
Adele, 1878; — ,
Arthur, 1879

John Wesley', Thomas", Thom
as', Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®,
William* ; carpenter ; 433 Mon
roe St., Chicago, 111. ; born 1801,
at New Hartford, N. Y. ; mar
ried Electa Maria Harvey, 1822 ;
2d, x-\bbie Ruhana Burbee, 1S42 ;
Congregationalist. CHILDREN.
Amity, 1824; married Townsend, Lake
City, Iowa,
John Edward, 1826, Pulaski, Jackson Co.,
Michigan. Norman, 1829, DeKalb, 111.
Mary Cornelia, 183-1; married Burbee, Chi
cago, 111,
David Norton, 1836; — 1855.
Sarah Lucy, 1838,
.Amos Milton, 1833.

John Wesley', Rigdon", Williain®,
Ignatius*, (see Ignatius) ; Char
lotte, North Carolina ; livery stable
keeper; born 1835, in Davidson
Co. ; .married Mary Houston in
1862, and she — 1863; 2d wife,
Margaret B. Cannon, 1867.
CHILDREN,
John C, 1863, (by first wife.

Mary E,, 1868,
Charles F,, 1871,
Laura C, 1872,
James W,, 1874,
George P,, 1879,
Margaret, 1881.

John Willett*, John', John Noyes",
John Noyes", James*, James",
John®, William' ; Michigan, born
1807 ; — 1S47 ; married Maria F.
Chedsey, Durham, 1834.

CHILDREN.

John Willett, 1837.
Joseph Chedsey, lawyer, Eagle Pass, Texas,

John Willett^, John Willett'',
John', John Noyes", John Noyes',
James*, James", John®, William* ;
physician at Saltillo, Mexico, and
U. S, Consul at that place; form
erly resided in New York City ;
born 1837, Durham, Conn ; mar
ried Louise Charlotte Quackenbos.
CHILDREN,
Willett Quackenbos, 1870.

John William*, John', John",
John', John*, Joseph", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; New Lebanon, New
York ; born 1822,

CHILDREN,
John William, 1847,

John William^, John William*,
John', John", John', John*, Jos
eph", Joseph®, Christopher* ; New
Lebanon, N. Y ; born 1847 ; tnar
ried Marv E. Cady, 1867.

CHILDREN,

Johnnie C, 1S6S,
Addie Cady, 1873.

Jonathan", Joseph®, WiUiam*;
sergeant ; celebrated Indian fight
er ; born 1687, at Hartford; — in
1739; married Hepzibah Marsh,
1711, she— 1724; 2d wife, Abi-

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

gail Flagg, 1724; inarried Jacob
Kellogg tin her second husband.
CHILDREN.
Hepzibah, 171 2; married CoUiei,
Hannah, married Daniel Bull,
Samuel, 1716,
Abigail, 1 7 18,
Rebecca, — in infancy,
Helena, 1724; — 1796,
Second wife's children: Rebecca, 1725;
Mary, 1728; Jonathan, 1739; Lydia, 1731,
married John Seymour.

Jonathan*, Jonathan", Joseph®
liam* ; Captain, killed in the
olution, near Saratoga, N
Sept. 19, 1777; born 1739,
ford ; married Abigail Flagg.
CHILDREN.
Henry; — 1821. /
Horace, 1774,
John, 1771; married Nancy Parker,
26, 1819, of Canandagua; no issue.
Samuel, 1769; — at sea, unmarried,
Jared; — at sea; married; no issue,
Charles; purser in U, S. Navy; — iS
Mary, 1776; — l8l2; unmarried.

VVil-
Rev- Y.,
Hart-

Aiig,

Jonathan', Recompense*, Ebene
zer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; farm-'
er ; Becket, came from Milton,
Mass,, sometime between 1752
and 1755; born 1722, Roxbury,
Mass. ; — 1798) by being gored by
a bull, at Becket, Mass. ; maj-ried
Rebecca Davenport, Milton, 1742 ;
she was born in Roxbury, 1723.
CHILDREN,
Joseph, 1742,
Mary, 1744; raarried Amos Kingsley, Beck
et, 1757,
Benjarain, 1746,
Rebecca, 1748; married Oliver Snow, 1771,
Becket, Jonathan, 1750,
Stephen, 1752.
Jabez, 1755.
Ehzabeth, 1759; married Asa Snow, 1782
Becket, Sarah, 1762; married, Enos Kingslev, 1787
Becket, "II'
Seth, 1766; remained in Becket and died
on the old homestead.

Jonathan", Jonathan', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; farmer ; Becket,
Mass. ; born 1750, Milton, ]Mass. ;
— 1832, at Becket; married Dei
damia Snow, of Becket, 1776.
CHILDREN,
David, 1777 — in infancy,
David, 1780,
Lawton, 1785,

Jonathan', David", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,,
Christopher* ; Grafton, Mass. ;
born 1769 ; — 1850 ; married Tabi
tha Warren. CHILDREN,
Mary, 1791; married Martin.
.Sally, 1794; married P. Farnum; — 1829.
Nancy, 1798; married E. Hewitt,
David, 1800; — in infancy,
David, 1803,
Eliza Ann, 1806; married Z, Frost,
Lucina, i8o8; married Adolphus Fowler,
1829, Susan, 1810; married Calvin Taft, 1834,
Jonathan, 181 6; — in infancy.

Jonathan Dwight', Setli", Jona
than', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; farmer,
Windham, Ohio; born 1799, at
Becket, Mass. ; — 1836, Windham,
Ohio; married Prudence Slocum,
1822. CHILDREN,
Stanley Dwight, Lake Mills, Iowa.
Elizabeth, — .
Elmira; married Sabine, Lake MUls, Io«a,

Jonathan Whit.^ian', Stephen",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
fanner ; Appanoose, Kansas ; born
at Becket, Mass. ; — in 18S2, at
Appanoose; married Angeline L.
Kingsley, 1842. CHILDREN,
Stephen Lester, 1843.
Edson, 1845,
Laura Emeline, 1848,

wadsworth family HISTORY'.

213

George Parkman, 1849, — 1856,
Jesse, 1852.
Charles, 1S55; — • in infancy.
George, 1858.
Flora Viola.

Joseph®, ^^'illianl* ; Hartford, of
Charter Oak fame (see sketch) ;
married Elizabeth Barnard ; 2d
jNIrs. Mary Orcutt, maiden name
Blackleth, — 1713.
CHILDREN.
Joseph, 1682; — 1778,
Jonathan ; — in infancy.
Ichabod, i688.
EUzabeth, Hannah,Jonathan, 1687,

Joseph®, Christopher* ; Duxbury ;
born about 1S36; — 1689; mar
ried Abigail Wait, i6s^; 2d wife
Mary, CHILDREN,
Samuel, Joseph, Elisha, Mehitable, Ruth,
Bethia,

Joseph", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Boston ; many years treasurer of
Boston, and was a noteworthy and
leading citizen ; born in 1667 ; —
17^0; married Hannah.
CHILDREN,
Joseph, 1697; — -in infancy,
Hannah, 1699,
Abigail, 1 701,
Joseph, 1706.

Joseph", Joseph®, Christopher*;
married Lydia Brown, the mar
riage being recorded in the records
of Lebanon but with no date at
tached ; — 1759-
This Josepii removed from Dux
bury to Lebanon, Conn., about the
year 1702. This fact is established
by deeds now on record at Plymouth,
Mass. (See notes on Samuel, his
elder brother, who also went to Leb
anon.) CHILDREN.
John, 1705,
Mary, 1707,
Martha, 17 10,

Joseph", Joseph®, William*; Fiart
ford; born in 1682 ; — in 1778;
married Johanna Hovey,

Joseph, 1707; — 1758,
Daniel, 1720; — 1762,
WiUiam, 1723,
Elizabeth, married R, Seymour, 1 740,
Johanna, 1710; raarried Timothy Good
man, 1735.

Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; Avon, N. Y. ; born 1707,
at Hartford; — in 1758; married
Elizabetii Cook, 1742.

Thomas, 1736; — 1811; no children,
Joseph, 1738,
Timothy, 1745; — 1826; moved to Ohio;
had one claughter, Adna,
Elijah, 1746,
Ambrose, Reuben, 1753.

Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William* ; Onondago, N. Y. ; he
was a Captain of Cavalry, and
was a member of the Washington
Life Guards ; he left Hartford in
1802; born 1738; — 1824; mar
ried Jerusha Marsh.

Joseph, 1769; Ambrose, 1773; Ira, Heze
kiah, Jerusha, Betsey, Christie.

Joseph, fiither's name Joseph, El
lington, Conn.; born in i747j —
1784; niarried Roxanna Allen, of
Winsor. Graduated at Yale college 1776.
This man has no descendents living
by the name of Wadsworth. He
was a surgeon in the revolution, and
practising physician. Hinman puts
him down as a descendent fro.111
Charter Oak Joseph, but we fail to
find authority for such classification.

CHILDREN,

Roxanna,

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY,

Joseph', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®

Christopher*

a Captain in

the revolution ; born 175O1 Dux
bury ; — 1825, Winslow, Maine,
from 'the effects of a wound on
the lip, received in the army, whicii
produced a cancer ; married Anna
Drew, 1773. CHILDREN.
Joseph, 1774,
EUsha, 1792,
WiUiam, drowned in Plymouth,
Huldah, Eliza,
Abigail; married Seward.

Joseph', Benjamin*, John", Samuel,®
Christopher* ; blacksmith ; Milton,
Mass. ; born 1763 ; — 1816; mar-
reed Mary Whiting, 1790.
CHILDREN,
Seth, 1794; — 1882,
Nancy and .Susan, twins, 1792; the latter
married Abijah Clark; — in Frankhn, Mass,
Charles, 1796; — 1796,

Joseph', Samuel*, John", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Orange Co., N. Y. ;
born at Killingly, Conn.
CHILDREN,
James Douglass, 1786,
Samuel, died in Orange Co,, N, Y,
Joseph, died in Ohio,
Joseph", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chrtstopher' ;
farmer ; Becket, Mass. ; born in
1742, at Milton, Mass. ; inarried
married Rozubah Lee, 1766.
CHILDREN.
Miriam, 1772,
Rebekah, 1774; married Jonathan Chaffee,
Becket, Mass,, 1792,

Joseph", Ebenezer', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Millbury, Mass. ; born in 1760 ; —
1846; enlisted in the Revolution
ary ^^'ar at the age of sixteen ; he
inarried Chloe Barrett.
CHILDREN.
EUza, married Charles Cummings, of Brook
field, 1848.

Joseph, 1808,
John, 1812.
Ebenezer, 1813; — at Milbury; no issue.
Benjamin, 1815-
Emma W,, 1817; married Broadbent, Mer
cer, Pa,

Joseph". John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Beloit,
Wis. ; born 1765 ; — 1850 ; married
Mary McKay. CHILDREN.
John, 1780; — 1841, Buffalo.
Joseph, 1792; — 1873, Beloit, Wis,
Daniel, 1800, River Falls, Wis.
Calvin, 1801,
.Sarah, 1802,

Joseph", Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Williain* ; Onondago,
N. Y. ; born 1769, Hartford; ¦ — •
1838 ; married Dorcas Andre\vs.
CHILDREN,
George Marsh, 1796,
Samuel A,; — Adrian, Mich,
Joseph Edward, 1806,
Calvin Smith, 1810.
Frederick O, ; — Natehes, Miss.
Lulu; married Hall, Syracuse, N, Y,
Philo; raarried Sage, .Syracuse, N, Y,
WilUam W., 1818,

Joseph", Joseph', Wait*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher*; Duxburv.
Mass.; born 1774; — 1846.
CHILDREN,
Welthea, 1797,
Joseph, 1799; drowned 182 1,
Mary D , 1801,
Fienry, i8o6.

Joseph", David', DaA'id', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
.  1  1 .  i.l_ _  r. -. \

pense*.topher* ; scythe manufacturer ; Au
burn, N, Y. ; born 17S3 ; — 18^4 ;
inarried Anna Barnes.
CHILDREN.
Elizabeth, 1806; married Anthonv.
Samuel, 1809,
Anne, i8ii,
Susannah, 1813,
Joseph, 1815; — 1819,

W,\ns WORTH FAMILY' HISTORY'.

-*5

Jane, 1818; married Henry Dame,
Joseph, 1821; — 1825.
Hannah, 1823; married B, Edson,
David, 1824,
Joseph, 1826,

Joseph', Benjamin", Jonathan',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; farnier ; Beck
et, Mass. ; born 1784, at Becket;
— 1862, ; married Lydia Harris,
1807 ; 2d wife, Asenath Brown,
1839. CHILDREN,
James StUlman, 1808; — 1812,
Lydia Elvira, 1810; married Alvan Buck,
1S27, Sarah Amanda, 1812; married Rev. Fl. D,
DooUttle, 1835,
Olive Celina, 1814; married Rev. Norman
Harris. Martha CeUnda, 1 814,
Charity Emeline, 1816; married N, W.
Harris, 1S36.
Sally Harris, 1818; married Rev, E Tuttle,
Mary Ann, 1822,
Julia Eliza, 1S25; married Theodore Chap
man, 1844;- 2d, Rev, Norman Harris, 1858.

Joseph', Samuel", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Chris
topher* : New Hampshire ; born
1787 ; — 1859 ; married Olive Gib
son. CHILDREN,
Dorothy, 1813; married B, Fuller, Peter
boro, N, H,
Almira, 1815; married B, Colby, Henniker,
Joseph, 1S21,

Joseph', Joseph", John', John*, Jos
eph", Joseph®, Christopher* ; Erie
Co., N. Y. ; born 1792 ; — 1864;
married Sophia Morton.

CHILDREN.

WilUam W,, 1818,
Horace L,, 1821,
Edwin R,, 1823,
Celia Hobart, 1825,

Joseph', Joseph", Ebenezer', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris

topher* ; carpenter and builder,
Worcester, Mass., 18 Chandler
vSt, ; born 1808 ; married Caroline
Warren, 1834. CHILDREN,
Carrie, 1836.

Joseph ; born in Rastrick, Yorkshire,
England, 1808 ; father's name Wil
liam ; -;- 1826; Norwichtown,
Conn. ; married Hannah Garside,
1827.

Ann, 1830,
Jane, 1832.
Jaob, 1834,
Lizzie, 1843.
Robert, 1846,
Mary, 1848,
Richard, 1850,

Joseph ; father's name Thomas ; re
sided in England ; this Thomas
had two brothers, Josepii and
Isaac, who fought at \Vaterloo, one
being killed, the other wounded ;
Meriden, Conn. ; born 1822 ; mar
ried Kayiar Newton.
CHILDREN.
Charles B,, 1846,
Thomas L,, 1848;
Joseph, 1850.
Frederick, Meriden,
Addie,

Joseph, Joseph, Thonias, born in
England ; Meriden, Conn. ; born
18^0, Waterbury, Conn. ; married
Agnes A. McElroy, 1877.

CHILDREN.

WiUiam Frederick, 1878.
Arthur Winfield, 1880.

Joseph ; born 1849, in Macclesfield,
Cheshire, England ; father's name
James, grandfather Hugh ; manu
facturer of dress goods, ofthe firm
of Doherty & Wadsworth ; Pater
son, N. J. ; has two sisters in this
country, Martha A. and Mary E.,

!l6

W.VDSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY'.

both at Paterson ; inarried Eliza
beth Schofield, in 1873 ; 2d wife,
Margaret Grimshaw, 1S78.

CHILDREN.

John, 1874,
Mary, 1879,
EUen, 1880,

Joseph*, Jesse', Christopher", Chris
topher', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Livermore
Falls, Me.; born 1817 ; married
Nancy Fidelia Eaton.

CHILDREN.
Harrison L., 1842,
Marshman Edward, 1847,

JosEPPi*, John', Ebenezer", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Manchester,
111. ; born 1821 ; married Gertrude
Rightmore. CHILDREN,
Isaac, 1843,
John, 1845,
Mary J., 1848; married Wm, Tash, Paola,
Kansas, Ellen, 1851; married Wm, Fisher, Man
chester, IU,

Joseph C, Ebenezer", John',
John*, Joseph", Joseph®,' Wil
liam* ; New Lebanon, N. Y, ;
born 1812; killed by falling of a
tree, in 1843 ; inarried Lillie T.
Hicks, 183S. CHILDREN,
WiUiam E,, 1S38; — 1850.
Laura F,, 1841 ; married Marvin I, Green
wood, of Newark, N, J,

Joseph Chedsey", John Willett*,
John', John Noyes", John Noyes',
James*, James", John®, Wiliam* ;
lawyer ; Eagle Pass, Texas ; born
1841, Michigan.

Joseph Dennis^, Hiram*, John',
David", David', Recompense*.
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;

druggist and apothecary ; Barre,
Mass. ; born 1839 ; inarried Ann
Jane Rice, 1861 ; educated at Barre
high school and Pliilips Exeter
Acadeiny. CHILDREN,
Hiram Warren, 1862,
Joseph W, ; — in infancy,
Marion Louise, — in infancy,
Lizzie Barrett, 1868,
Fred Fienry, 1872; — in infancy.

Joseph Edward', Joseph", Joseph',
Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; furnace man, now retired ;
Adrian, Mich. ; born 1806, Onon
dago, N. Y ; married to Adelia
Wheeler, 1828,

Emily C,

CHILDREN.
1S29; married John R, Clark,

Joseph F.', Peleg", Dura', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Hi
ram, Me., born 1848; inarried
Etta N. Brown, 1870.

Charles Henry, 1871,
Harry Linwood, 1879,

Joseph G.^, Joseph', Saniuel", Da
vid', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher*; farmer;
Henniker, N. H. ; born 182 1 ; mar
ried Mary R. Chase, 1847.

Joseph G. F.*, Ebenezer Sackett',
John", John', John*, Joseph", Jos
eph®, Williani* ; New Lebanon ;
N. Y. ; born 1849,
Joseph Henry^, Henrv', Joseph",
Joseph', Wait*. Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; musician ; Boston ;
born 1 841; married Miss Smith,
1863 ; 2d wife. Miss Myers, 187s.
CHILDREN,
Joseph V,, — in infancy.
Blanche, 1880.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

217

Joseph Hawes', Seth", Joseph',
Benjamin*, John", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; postmaster ; South Frank
lin, Mass. ; born in 1826 ; niarried
Abbie L. Metcalf, 1857.

CHILDREN,

Nettie A,, 1858,
Frank J,, 1861;
Emma A,, 1864.
WilUe L,, iS6(>.
EUa M,, 1869.
Eva L,, 1877,

in infancy.

Joseph Smith^, Williard*, David',
David", David'. Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Hopkinton, Mass. ; born in 1836;
Married Miriam M. Woolson, in
*S57- CHILDREN,
Charles W., 1858; — in infancy,
Nathan F,, i860,
Eliza F,, 1865,
Joseph Solomon*, Calvin', Joseph",
John', John*, Joseph", Joseph®,
Christopher' ; San Diego, Cal. ;
born in 1825 ; — 1870 ; married
Sarah Elizabeth Curtis.
CHILDREN,
Charles Curtis, 1S49.
J, F,, San Francisco,
Fannie C, married Bradford.
Grace E,

Joseph T.', Elihu", David', Elihu*,
Ichabod", Joseph®, William* ; a
farmer ; born 1830, Summit Co.,
O. ; Kendallville, Noble Co., Ind. ;
married Rachel Haynes, 1865.

CHILDREV.
Edwin Elihu, 1868,
George Thomas, 1869.

Joseph W.*, Abiah', Sedate", Se
date', Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; Hoopersville, Utah ;
born 1 83 1 ; married Abigail Higley,
1855 ; Lydia Stoddard, 1857.
CHILDREN,
Joseph Warren, 1855,
OUve .AbigaU, 1S57; — in infancy.

in infancy.

William Myron, 1858,
Edwin Alonzo, i860,
Mary Rosette, 1863,
Hyrum Spencer, 1S63;
Annie Percilla, 1865,
Sarauel W,, 1867; — in infancy,
Orson and Orlin, 1868.
Clara Ellen, 1871,
Alice, 1874,
Nora, 1S78.
EUzabeth Elmira, 1857,
Frank iVbiah, 1859.
Eli Amos, l86i,
George Martin. 1862,
Eliza Jane, 1865,
Elsa PermeUa, 1868,
Fienry, 1870; — in infancy,
Lucinda Adeline, 1872; — 1877
Laura Josephine, 1878,
Archie Warren, 18S0,

Joseph; merchant; Wilmington,
Del. ; born in 1850, at Richmond,
Va, ; married Louise Stiles, 1877 ;
father's name Mathew, who — in
1882, aged 64 years; his mother's
maiden name was Sarah King.
His grandfiither, Jonathan, came
to this country, from Firth, England,
with a famil)- of nine children, in
1826, viz. : Jonathan, Joseph, Mary,
George, Mathew, Eliza, Timothy
and Lydia. Mathew lived at Mana
yunk, near Philadelphia, and was an
operative. Besides Joseph, the sub
ject of this sketch, he left children as
follows: John, 1857, who is an
operative at Wilmington, Del. ; Wil
liam, 1861 ; Mathew Henry, George
Timothy, operatives; Lydia and
Sarah.

Joshua', Moses", John', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
physician, Monmouth, 111. ; born
1817, at Litchfield, Me. ; married
Sarah J. McGaw, 1842.
CHILDREN,
Anna Sybil, 1843; graduated at Woodward
College; married Prof, J. C, Gordon, of Wash
ington City, Delaware,
Samuel P,, 1845; — in infancy,
WUUara W,, 1S49; — in infancy.

2l8

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORV.

Clara B,, 1854; married J E, Blaekmore, of
Moline, 111.
Albert W,, 1863,

Josiah', Thomas*, Thoinas", Thom
as®, William* ; born Hartford, re
moved to Schenectady, N. Y, ;
— 181S ; married Susanna.
CHILDREN.
Mary, 1770,
David, 1772,
Wait, 1773; — in infancy,
John, 1775,
Wait, 1777,
Sarah, 1779,
Josiah, 1780,
Daniel Marsh, 1782,
Susanna, 1785,

Josiah", Josiah', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thomas®, William* ; lumber
man, running mills and employing
a large number of men ; born 17S0,
Conn. ; — 1843, Hope, Hamilton,
Co., N. Y. ; married Mary Whit
man ; Methodists. CHILDREN,
Rensom, 1813,
Josiah, 1826,
Harry, 1828,
Nancy, 1832; married Sayles, Rock Island,
Wis, Theodocia, 1819; married Fitch, Saranac, 111,
Harriet, 1821; married WUliams, Hope,
N. Y.

Josiah', Josiah". Josiah', Thomas*,
Thoinas", Thomas®, William* ;
farmer; Evansville, Rock Co.,
Wis. ; born 1826, at Hope, N. Y. ;
married Hattie E. Adains, 1866.
CHILDREN,
Jerome Adains, 1871,
Mary Mildred, 1873,
Daniel Clinton, 1876,

Josiah', William", John', Benja
min*, John", Samuel®, Christo
pher' ; Milton, Mass. ; born 1791; ;
— 1870; married Eunice Swift.
CHILDREN,
Elizabeth Ann, 1824; married Wm, Ayers;
2d, Wm, Wentworth.
WUUam, 1826.
Alice, 1829; — in infancy.

J. XENOPHON^ Elmer D.*, Xeno
phon', Seth", Jonathan', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Garrettsville, O. ; born
in 1863.

Judson*, Benjamin', Benjamin",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel ®, Christopher* ;
farmer: Wellington, Ohio, and
\^'insted, Conn. ; born 1797, at
Becket, Mass. ; — i88i, at Win
sted ; married Lucinda Latimer, in
1818 ; 2d wife. Clarissa C. Barbour,
1 85 2, CHILDREN.
Judson Lewia,
George, — ,
Mary, married Fred Manley, WeUington, O.
Jane. EUen, married Austin, WeUington, O,
Arthur,

Julius', Tertius". Seth', Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", John®, William* ; well
known railroad official, 17 East
41st St., New York City; born
18 15, Hartford, Conn. ; inarried
Cornelia de Koven, 1856.
CHILDREN.
Clarence Seymour, 1871,

Julian Stuhtex'ant*, Archibald
Clark', Edward", Elijah', Joseph*,
Joseph", Joseph®, Williani* ; Jack
sonville, IU. ; born i860.

Laurel Ozias*, Hezekiah', Heze
kiah", Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathan
iel", John® Williani* ; Townville,
Cra^vford Co., Penn. ; born 18^9.
CHILDREN,
Arthur, Clara,

Lawton', Jonathan", Jonathan',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; a farmer ; Becket,
Mass,, and after 1830, Wellington,
Ohio; born 1785, Becket, Mass, ;

W.VDSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

219

— 1876, Wellington; married to
Nancy Rowena Lawton, of Otis,
Mass., 1806; Congregationalist.
CHILDREN.
MUo Lawton, 1807,
OUver Sardine, 1809;
Jabez Lorenzo, 1S13;
Elijah Milford, 181 5,
Albert Orson, 1819.
Francis Sage, 1821,
David Luther, 1825, all born in Becket,

1877.

Leland^, Samuel*, Joseph", David",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher' ; manager of
the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. tele
graph office, Schenectady, N. Y.,
also stenographer and correspond
ent of the Albany Press and Knick
erbocker ; born in 1858, at Auburn,
N. Y. ; inarried Jennie M. Vroo
man, 1880. CHILDREN,
Leland, 1881,
Lemuel", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Christopher* ;
clergyman ; Brookline, N. FI. ;
born 1769 ; — 1817 ; married Abi
gaU Talbot, of Stoughton, 1797;
no chUdren. (See sketch.)

Lewis Chester^, Robert Thorn
dike*, Jeremiah', Seciate", Sedate',
Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Camden, Maine ; born in
1858.
Lewis E.*, Jeremiah', Seciate", Se
date', Abiah*, ' Elisha", Joseph®.
Christopher* ; Camden, Maine ;
born 1830; seaman; unmarried.
Lewis Lee*, Thomas', Thomas".
William', William*, William",
John®, William* ; 228 Michigan
St., Chicago.

Supt. Pembroke Iron Works from
1S44 to 1874 ; AUston, Mass. ; born
1804, Duxbury ; — 1879 ; married
Maria Hall, 1831 ; — 1S78.
CHILDREN,
Lewis Lumber, 1832,
Maria H,, 1834; — 1835.
Maria, 1839; married E. N, Harris,
Augusta FL, 1838; married L, G, Downs,
Calias, Me.
Herbert, 1840; New RocheUe, N, Y,; mar
ried Alice Mowe, of Eastport; two boys, Ber
tie and Mowe, 14 and 10 years,
Williara, Topeka, Kansas; raarried Delia
Leonard, of Pigeon Cove, M.ass,; child Wil
liara, 10 years old,
Fielen B,; — in infancy,
Emraa B ; married Ferd, Emerson, Boston,

Lewis Lumber", Wait', Wait*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher*;

Lewis Lumber', Lewis Lumber",
Wait', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; with Surprise Yeast
Co. ; Chelsea, Mass, ; born 1832,
at Plymouth, Mass. ; married .\n-
nie M. J. Kelley, 1861.
Removed to Maine when but ten
years old, and spent his early life in
the towns of t'embroke and Calais.
He was educated at Bridgewater
Acadeiny. Was State Councillor in
1861, 1862, 1872 and 1873; and
was State Senator in 1864 and 1865.
He was engaged in lumber manu
facture and ship building while in
Maine. Removed to Massachusetts
in 1874. (See portrait.)
CHILDREN,
Anne Augusta, 1862,
Lewis L,, 1864; — 1865,
Mamie D,, 1866,
Florence, 1870; — 1873,
Lewis L,, 1872,

Lewis Sylvester', Cephas", Ce
phas', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; Plyniouth, Mass. ; born
in 1807, at Kingston; he married
Nancy B. Perkins, 1832.

CHILDREN.
Rebecca Frances, 1835,
Lucy Sylvester, — in infancy,
William Lewis, 1840,

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

Abbie Williams, 1842,
George Perkins, 1845,
Nancy Erama, 1848,
Abram Morton, 1852,
Sylvester Swett, 1855,

Llewellyn Andrew*. Charles',
Charles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Hi
ram, Maine : he married Annetta
Clemens, 1868.
He was educated at common and
high schools, and is a farmer and
teacher. He is engaged in writing
a history of Fiiram, his native place.
Was representative to the Maine
Legislature in 1879. Has been a
magistrate twelve years and a Notary
Public seven. He is a member of
the Grange of Patrons of Husbandrj',
Odd Fellows, and Free Masons, and
has served as Supervisor of Schools.
Congregationalist. CHILDREN,
EU Clemens, 1871.

Loring*, Benjamin'. Benjamin",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher' ; farm
er ; Wellington, Ohio ; born 1800,
Becket, Mass. ; — Wellington ;
inarried Miss Kingsbury, Ohio.

Benjamin, OUve, Martha, Celia, Charlotte,
Homer,

Luke", James', Samuel*, Saniuel",
John®, William*; Litchfield,
Conn. ; inarried Abigail,^*; whose
mother was a Hooker.

Suky, 1783; — 1814,
Jaraes C, 1784; — 1876,
Amos, 1786; — 1850,
Catherine. Laura, 1791; — 1808.
Fenn, 1793; — in infancy,
Fiarriet, 1796; inarried Gay, J a
Eliza, 1801; married Curtis, jt(l <¦ ,

Luke', Aloses", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thoinas", T h o m a s ®, William* ;
Graefenburg, N. Y. ; — about
1880; married Fidelia Rowland-
son. CHILDREN.
James Albert, 1851,
Fannie Maria, 1853,
WiUiara P., 1859.
Herbert, 1862,

Manna", Asahel', William*, Wil
liam", John®, William* ; Farming-
ton, Conn.; born 1769; — *79'^-
CHILDREN,
Frederick M,, 1796; went to Virginia; no
further traces.

Manly'*, Archibald', Reuben",
Samuel', Samtiel*, Samuel", John®,
William* ; Homer, N. Y. ; born
1817, at Cortland; inarried Louise
Howe. CHILDREN,
Enos, George IC, Bernice.

Marcus Morton^, Paul*, John',
David", David', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
paints and colors, of the firm of
Wadsworth Bros. & Howland,
Boston ; West Newton ; born in
1836, at Barre ; he niarried IMaria
Elizabeth Henry, 1859.
CHILDREN,
Maria Louise, 1863,
Grace, 1866,
Alice Gertrude, 1873,
Edith Brenda, 1876.

Marcus North', Thoinas H,",
Asahel', William*, William".
John®, William* ; Minetto, N. Y. ;
born 1806 ; — 1867 ; he married
Julia M, Burt. CHILDREN.
Lucy Elizabeth, landlady at WeUs Edouie,
Syracuse, N. Y,
James B,, 1850,
Thoinas H., 1852.
WilUam M , 1856,
Mary J,, —

>c iu

-r

uri I

WADSWORTH FAM1L\ HISTORV.

Marshman Edward^, Joseph*,
Jesse', Christopher", Christopher',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; instructor, Harvard
College ; Cambridge, Mass. ; born
1847, at East Livermore, Maine;
married Mary EUzabeth Sweet, in
1870.
Graduated at Bowdoin College, in
1S69. Taught as principal of high
schools and academies in Minnesota
and Wisconsin, until the summer of
1873. Professor of chemistry, Bos
ton Dental College, 1873-74. In
structor in mathematics and miner
alogy in Harvard University, 1874-77.
Assistant in Lithology in the Museum
of Comparative Zoology of Harvard
University, from 1877 to the present
time. Degrees: A, B., Bowdoin,
1869 ; A. M., Bowdoin, 1872 ; A. M.,
Harvard, 1874; Ph. D., Harvard,
1879. Has published some thirty
scientific papers and works. (See
portrait.) CHILDREN.
Edward Whitney, 18S2,

Marshall L.*, Charles', Charles
Lee", Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher*; Hiram, Me.; born
1836; niarried Lavinia A. Libby,
1867. CHILDREN,
Frank, 1868.
Charles Hanson, 1870,

Martin Thomas*, Ephraim Eden',
Moses", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thomas" , Thomas® , Williain * ;
New Hartford, N. Y. ; born i860.

Marvel Bliss', Seth", Jonathan',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; farmer ; Mantua, O. ;
born 1766, at Becket, Mass.; —
at Mantua, O. ; married Hannah
Bacon, 1825. CHILDREN,
Seth, — ,
WilUam, now living at Mantua,

jNIelvin Cutts*, Spencer F',
Aaron", John', George*, Eben
ezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; fur
niture dealer ; Gardiner, Me. ; born
1842, at Pittston, Me. ; niarried
Georgie Muzzey, 1866.
Enlisted as private in Co. B, Sixth
Maine regiment, inthe Rebellion, in
August, 1862. Six months after was
commissioned Second Lieutenant.
Was taken prisoner at the battle of
'Gettysburg, July i, 1863, and held a
prisoner of war until March, 1865.
Was honorably discharged at the
close of the war. Has held seyeral
city offices, and two years in the
Maine Legislature.

Milo L.*. Lawton', Jonathan", Jon
atlian', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher' ; Welling
ton, Ohio ; born 1807, at Becket,
Mass. ; married Huldah .-\ndrews,
1836. CHILDREN.
George, 1837,
Uraine, 1839; married Geo, Bradley, Fiart,
Mich, Hattie, 1844,
Eugene, 1850,

MosEs", Thomas', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thomas®, Williani* ; Washing
ton Mills, N. Y. ; born in 1783 ; —
1866 ; niarried Anna Forbes.
CHILDREN.
George Nelson, 1822,
Charles H,, Nebraska,
Ephraim E,, Utica, N, Y,
Two daughters,
Luke,

MosEs", John', George*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; Qriaker
preacher forty years ; born 1 774, at
Stoughton, Mass. ; — 1851 ; mar
ried ' Hannah Stevens, 1798, who
was born at Winthrop, Me.
CHILDREN,
Daniel, 1799.
Ephraim, 1801, — ; raarried Sarah Bailey,
Thomas, 1S03,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Peleg, 1805; married Emily Stone,
Anna Foster, 1807; married Nathaniel
Weber, Detroit, Mich,
Eunice, 1808; married Wm Farr,
Miriam, 1811; married Andrew Pinkham,
Moses S,, 1814; — ,
Joshua, 1817; now livingat Monmouth, 111,
.Sybil, 1819; — 1843,
Nathan, 1823; — 1824,
John, 1824; — 1846,

-Moses*, Jesse', Christopher", Chris
topher', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Fayette, Me. ;
born in 1815 ; — in 18S2 ; inarried
Nancy Bishop, 1841.

CHILDREN,
Charles Henry, 1847; — 1863.
Albert Pease,' 1848,

Moses Stevens', Moses", John',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Gardiner, Me, ; born
1814; — 1875 ; married Margaret
Osgood Knox.
Was ISt Sergeant in the Mexican
War. Served three years in the
RebeUion, in the Fourth Maine Reg
iment of Infantry, then in the Veter
an Corps. CHILDREN.
Charles Osgood, 1839.
Frederick Augustus, 1849,
Margaret E,, married Smith,
Elnora Helen.

Munson Gaylord*, George', Tim
othy", Thomas', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thomas®, Williani* ; clergy
man ; Fairfield, N. Y. ; born 1832 ;
married Rebekah P. Priest.
CHILDREN,
Gilbert Munson, 1858,
Mary Esther, 1859,
George Priest, 1862,
Arthur Bristol, 1865,
Rufus Gaylord, 1869,
Harry Flyde, 1874,

topher* ; Dover, Mass. ; born 1778 ;
inarried Elizabeth T. Tisdale.
CHILDREN.
P31iza, 1806; married Thomas Smith,
James, 1807, -

MosEs', David", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris-

MosES Goodw^in*, Daniel', Moses",
John', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher* ; Auburn, Illi
nois ; born 1826, Flallowell, Me. ;
married to Elizabeth F. Wheeler,
1826; 2d Mary E. Day, 1862.
Publisher of the Auburn Citizen ;
held numerous town offices, and posi
tions of trust. A Mason and a mem
ber of the Christian Church.
CHILDREN,
Eugene Wheeler, 1848,
Margaret Catherine, 1850; married D. H,
Tomlinson, Flora EUza, 1852; married J. Bellinger,
Susan E. Maria, 1855; married W, W,
Lowry, Jaraes Francis Daniel, 1857.
Rose Amelia, 1863; — .
Harry Elmer, 1865,
Charles Frederick, 1867,
Cora EUen, 1869; — ,
Mary Florence, 1872,
Ada Clyde, 1874 —
Eva Margaret, 1877.

Morris*, Henry Truman', Rich
ard", Henry', Jonathan*, Jona
than", Joseph®, William* ; agri
cultural store ; Red Oak, Iowa ;
born 1849, at Springville, N. Y.
Nathan', Samuel*, Jonathan". Jo
seph®, \Mlliani* ; born in 17S3;
— in 1831 ; married Sally Wells;
2d wife, Sarah Bliss.~
CHILDREN,
.\nn (by first wife), inarried Loomis,

Nathan Frederick*", Joseph
Smiths, \ViUiard8, David', David",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; farmer ;
Hopkinton, Mass. ; born i860.

wadsworth family historv.

Nathaniel", John®, William* ;born
1674; — 1 761 ; married Dorothy
Ball, New Haven, 1705.
CHILDREN,
Eunice, 1706; married Bird,
Timothy, 1 709 ; — .
Esther, 171 3; married J, Root,
Sarah, 1717; married S, Gridley,
Nathaniel, 17 18,
Mary 1720; married E, B+waing, 'nftt'da
Hezekiah, 1723,
Timothy, 1727,
Nathaniel*, Nathaniel", John®,
William*; Hartford; born 1718;
— 1789 ; married Hannah Gridley,
— 1750, aged 28; 2d Esther,—
1775, aged 32, CHILDREN.
Eliphalet, 1747,
'Nathaniel, 1748,
Abel, 1756; — in infancy,
Hannah, 1757; — 1818,
Anna, 1761; — 1810.
Esther, 1764; — 1806.
None married except Hannah, who mar
ried Asahel Wadsworth in i8ir, aged 54.

Nathaniel', Samuel*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; Milton,
Mass.; tiorn 1721 ; maried .Sarah
Barnes. CHILDREN.
Eunice, 1748.
Samuel, 1750,
Ann, 1752,
Ruth, 1756,
Nathaniel', Nathaniel*, Nathan
iel", John®, William'; Hartford;
, born in 174S ; — in 1823 ; married
Mary Young ; 2d wife, Mary Hart,
of Berlin ; left two daughters.
Newton Franklin*, Franklin',
Timothy", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thomas", Thoinas®, 'WiUiani* ;
farmer ; New Hartford, N. Y. ;
born in 1832 ; married Caroline S.
Wright, i860.
CHILDREN.
Angle A,, 1861.
Adelbert O, D., 1867,
NeUie M , 1864; — in infancy.

NoAH^, John*, John', Ebenezer",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; storekeep
er ; Northboro, Mass. ; born 1846,
at Wesboro ; inarried Arvilla W.
L. Page, 1876, who — Jan. 13th,
1883. CHILDREN,
Willie Lorenzo, 1882,

Norman', Solomon", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thoinas", Thomas®,
William*; ^Vashington Mills,
N. Y. ; born in 1806, at Hartford ;
— in 1843 ; went to New York in
1808 ; niarried Ruth Flammond.
CHILDREN,
Samuel H,, 1829, and seven others, all — ,

Oliver", FIenry-', Jonathan*, Jona
than", Joseph®, William* ; harness
maker; Hartford; born in 1800;
— -in 1853; he married Rosanna
Isham, 1828. CHILDREN.
Catherine, 1830; married Henry J, John
son, 1852; has six children.
EUza, 1S34; married J, L, Noyes, principal
of deaf and dumb school, Faribault, Minn.;
has one daughter.
Hattie, 1S41 ; married Edwin H, Arnold, of
West Hartford, 1861; has one son.

Oliver Chester*, Chester', Jabez",
Jonathan', Recompense*, Ebene
zer", Samuel®, Christopher* ; Mo
bile, Ala.; born 1824; — 1853;
married Lucy Ann Spaulding.
CHILDREN.
Robert Chester, 1852,
Oliver F,airfield*, Alexander',
Charles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; physi
cian ; Boston, 139 Boylston St.;
has several published works ; born
1S38 ; married Mary C. Goodwin,
1867. CHILDREN,
Oliver Fairfield, 1868,
Lucy Goodwin, 1869,

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WADSWORTH FAMILY" HISTORY.

Elizabeth Fairfield, 1871
Richard Goodwin, 1874,
EUot, 1876.
PhUlip, 1881,

Oliver Sardine*, Lawton', Jona
than", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Christopher* ;
Wellington, Ohio; bom in 1810;
killed by cars, 1877; married Alma
L. Van Deasen, 1832.
CHILDREN.
William Henry, 1845,
Charles M., — from wounds in army of the
rebellion, Fred, at Westfield Mass.
Emma J,, married E, O, Powell,
Eddie, — in infancy.

Oscar A. M.', Alfred Wiswell",
WisweU', Wait*, Elish.a", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; Providence, R. I. ;
horn 1855.

Parker G.^, William*, Franklin',
Timothy", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thomas", Thomas®, William*;
born 1862, New Hartford, N. Y.

Paul*, John', David", David', Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher' ; Barre, Mass, ; born
1806; — 1869; inarried Abigail
H. Felton. CHILDREN.
Marcus Morton, 1836,
John, 1842,
Seraph J,, 1844; married Joseph O, Bullard
lard, Carabridgeport, Mass,

Paul9, Samuel*, Joseph', David",
David', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; Albany,
N. Y. ; born in 1854, at Auburn;
he inarried Susie \Valker, of Pitts
burg, Pa., 1876.
Entered Auburn Academy in 1866,
and remained a student there one
year, when his parents removed to
Geneva, N. Y,, and he resumed his

studies at the high school of that
place, which he left one year before
graduating, to enter the telegraph ser
vice. After learning the trade of tel
egraphing, he removed to Saratoga,
where for four seasons he was em
ployed as operator. At the expira
tion of that time, he entered the rail
road branch ofthe telegraph service,
with the D. & H. C. Co., and has
been promoted successively from op
erator to ticket agent, freight agent
and train dispatcher, and at present
employed by the same company as
freight agent and superintendent of
coal chutes, with office at Albany,
N.Y Presbyterian. (See portrait.)

CHILDREN.

Paul, 1877,
LiUian, 1879,

Peleg*, John", John®, Christopher' ;
man}' years deacon; Duxbury;
borni7i5; — i774; married Su
sanna Sampson. CHILDREN,
Zilpha, 1742; — in infancy.
Cephas, 1743; lived in Kingston,
Jeptha; — in infancy,
Zilpah, 1746; married Perez Drew, 1772.
Peleg, 174S,
Uriah, 1751; married Eunice Bradford, in
1789; — 1795, ¦
Ira, 1757,
Welthea, 1759; raarried Maj, Alden, 1780.
Dura, 1763,
Lucy.

Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; General in the Revolu
tion ; Duxbury ; went to Portland,
Me. ; born 1748 ; — 1S29, Hiram,
Me, ; married Elizabeth Bartlett,
Plyniouth. (See sketch.)
CHILDREN,
Alexander S,, 1774; — in infancy,
Charles Lee, 1776,
Zilpha, [77S; married Stephen Longfellow,
father of the poet Longfellow,
John, 1 78 1,
Elizabeth, 1779.
Lucia, 1783,

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY'.

"5

Henry, 17S5.
Alexander Scammell, 1790,
George, 1788.
Samuel B., 1 79 1.
Peleg, 1793,

Peleg", Dura', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher*; Hiram, Me.; born
1791 ; — 1858 ; inarried Theodosia
Burbank, 1815; 2d Eliza Ann
Burbank, 1845.

CHILDREN,

Mary Ann, 181 7,
Jane, 181 9,
Sarah, 1821,
Henry, 1823.
Caroline, 1825.
Susan, 1828.
James B,, 1830.
Hannah; 1833,
Elizabeth, 1836.
Eliza Jane, 1845,
James, 1847,
Joseph F,, 1848,
Francena, 1851.

Peleg", Peleg', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher*; Portland,
Me.; born 1793; — 1875; mar
ried Lusannah Wadsworth, daugh-
of Dura ; — 1815.
CHILDREN.
George, 1816,
Joseph M,, 1818.
William, 1820,
Elizabeth, 1824,
George, 1826,
Frances, 1828; married Joseph Rounds, of
Maiden, Mass,
Lusannah, 1830; married J, E, Osgood, in
1849; and John P. Hubjjard, 1853, Hiram,
Louisa, 1832; married John Rounds, of
Bridgeton, Me.
Peleg, 1834,
Alden Bradford, 1837.
Cephas, 1841,

Peleg', Moses", John', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
school teacher in early life ; Gard
iner, Me. ; born 1805, Winthrop ;
— 1859 ; married Emily Stone,
183 1 ; Methodist. CHILDREN,
WUUam P,, 1834,
Charies H., 1840,

George A,, iS
Adelia, 1838;
John W,, 1841

¦ in Kansas, 1877.

Peleg', John", Dura', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; Duxbury,
Mass. : born in 1828 ; — in 1883 ;
inarried Susan Mears.
CHILDREN.
George Lawrence, 1855, Auburndale,
Walter B,, — in infancy.
Briggs, i860.
S, Ellen, 1862, West Newton.
Luella J,, 1870,
Florence E,, 1876,

Peleg', Peleg", Peleg', Peleg*.
John", John®, Christopher* ; phy
sician ; Maiden, Mass. ; born in
1834; married Hannah Carey, in
iS'62 ; 2d, Della Willard, 1865 ;
3d, Ellen Sylvester, 1877.

Anna Cora, 1863; — 1863,,
Winnifred, 1866.
James Stevenson, 1871,
Louisa Elizabeth, 1879,

Peleg C, Charles Lee", Peleg',
Peleg*. John", John®, Christo
pher'; Hiram, ^le. ; born 1779;
married Bethiah Spring, 1S22 ; 2d
Marv M. Richardson, 1837.
A very highly respected citizen,
and has voted at every election since
1817. CHILDREN.
Sarah, 1823; married Albion P. Benton,
Hiram, 1843,
George, 1825.
Mary Ann, 1827; married Benj, J, Stone,
1861. Lucia, 1829; married J, L, Covell, i860;
Sebeus Bailey, 1876.
Frank, 1832,
Elizabeth, 1834; married Edwin Slater, 1858.
Bethia S,, 1839; married Chas. H, Gould,
1866. Artemas R., 1841,
EUen L,, 1843, married Lorenzo Moore,
1864,

2 2f)

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY

Johanna R,, 1844; married Hazen W,
Spring, Buenos Ayres, S, A,. 1862,
Peleg T., 1845,
Ruth R,, 1847.
Rispah P., 1 85 1.
Frank L,, 1854,
Louisa, 1856,

Peleg Thompson*, Peleg C,
Charles Lee", Peleg', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; farmer; Hi
ram, Me. ; born in 1845 ; married
Evelyn Nason, 1878.

Philip', Tertius", Seth', Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", John®, Williain* ; mer
chant ; 204 Market St., Chicago,
IU. ; born 1832, at New Hartford,
N. Y. ; he inarried Georgiana H.
Loomis, Suffielgl, Conn., 1855,
CHILDREN,
Emily Elizabeth, 1858,
Philip, 1859; — 1862,

Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; born 1688, Milton ;'
— 1729; inarried Sarah Morey.
CHILDREN.
Sarah, 1715; — 1728.
Mary, 1718; married Jeremiah Tucker,
David, 1720.
Jonathan, 1722,

Recompense', George*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher' ; Stough
ton, Mass. ; born 1729; — 1798;
married Hannah  , — 1759 ;
2d wife, Abigail Lyon, 1760.
CHILDREN,
Hannah, 1755; — 1784,
Joseph, 1757; — 1776,
Rebecca, 1760,
David, 1764,
Samuel, 17^2,
Benjamin, 1766; inarried in Stoughton;
had a daughter Ruth, 1801,
Lemuel, 1769.
Elisha, 1775,
OUver, 1773.
Ruth, 1775; — 1777,
Lucy, 1777,
Nathan, r779; — in infancy,
Ruth, 1784.

Rensom', Josiah", Josiah', Thomas*,
Thomas", Thomas®, William*;
Onondago, N. Y. ; born 1813 ; —
1876 ; married Lydia Dorrance.
CHILDREN,
Harry T,, 1834,
Ira D,, 1836.
Lue, 1838; married Dibble.
Louisa P,, 1842,
Mary A,, 1846,
James S., 1850,

Reuben', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William*; Hartford; born 1753;
— 1836; married Elizabeth Stev
ens, 1779. CHILDREN.
William Stevens, 1783.
Florace H,; — 1847,
Catherine, 1786; married Samuel, son of
Gurdon Wadsworth ; settled in New Haven,
Elizabeth; married Horace Bruce.
Emeline, 1802; — 1829,
Martha, 1800; married George Francis, of
Hartford, 1819; — 1872; Dr. Charles E,
Francis, New York City, is one of her sons.

Reuben", Samuel', Samuel*, Sam
uel", John®, \\ illiam* ; Tyringham,
Mass. ; born 1763 ; — 1837 i mar
ried Ruth. CHILDREN,
Archibald, 1787; — 1873,
Electa, 1784; married Gideon Hobart.
Bernice, 1793; — 1809,
Sylvester, —
Samuel F,, 1798,

Richard", Gad', William*, William",
John®, William* ; first improved
Avon Springs, N, Y. ; born 1786;
— 1850; married Susan Barnes.
CHILDREN,
Richard. — aged 66, Sandusky, Ohio ; has
two sons at Castalia, O.
Sophia W,, 1817; married HuU, Denver, Col,
Mary, 1S19, Fountain, Col,
Benjamin Franklin, 1827.
Romeo, — .
De Witt Clinton, kiUed at the battle of
Chickamauga in the Rebellion,
Capt, DeWitt Clinton \\'adsworth is deserv
ing of special raention for his services in the
war of the rebellion. The Register, of San
dusky, Ohio, where he raised a company of

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY,

soldiers, (Co, C, 24th, Ohio), speaks of him
as follows : " Mr, F, D, McNitt of Margaretta
reached here yesterday on his way home from
Chattanooga and Chickamauga in the vain at
tempt to recover the remains of Capt, Wads-,
worth, who was mortally wounded and died in
the hands of th§ enemy in the terrible conflict
of September last. Col, Grose of Indian.!,
now brigadier general, with the proper escort
was of the party who visited the field on that
day. He was in command of the brigade that
included the 24th Ohio during the battle of
Chickamauga, and supposed he knew the grave
in which Captain Wadsworth was buried. He
was mistaken, as all efforts to discover it were
in vain. The entire brigade expressed anxiety
that his remains might be found, as he had
been recognized by all as a brave soldier and
valliant officer. At the time he received his
death wound he was in the act of rallying his
own company, the flank of the regiment hav
ing heen turned to oppose the advance of the
rebel brigade, " He has three sons Uving:
Henry Gad, at Coldwater, Mich,, and De-
Witt and Nicholas at Green Springs, O.
Elizabeth Hulbert, 1834; married McNitt,
West Toledo, Ohio,
EmUy Juliet, 1846; married Prentice, Cas
talia, Ohio, _
WUUam Henry Harrison; a soldier in the
Rebellion; died while home on a furlough;
was a lieutenant; left a vvidow.

Richard", Henry', Jonathan*, Jon
athan", Joseph® ; William' ; chair
maker ; Springville, N. Y. ; born
in 1788; — at Vicksburg, Miss.,
1861, while on a visit, falling dead
from a chair, without a moment's
warning ; married Ann McLean,
1810. CHILDREN,
WaUer McLean, 1811,
Henry Truman, 1813,
Ann Maria, 1815; — in infancy,
Frederick Charles, 181 7,
John Barrent, 1825,
Cornelius V,, 1827, Polo, IU,; — r866,
Richard, 1829.

Richard', Richard", Henry', Jona
than*, Jonathan", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; Red Oak, Iowa ; born 1829,
at Buffalo; married Mrs. Martha
Shaw Eustis, 1867 ; no children.

Rigdon, Williain, Ignatius; born
and lived at -Charlotte, N.C; —
at the age of 81 vears.
CHILDREN.
John Wesley, 1835.

Robert", Wait', Wait*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; mariner,
master of a vessel in the coasting
trade ; he removed to Plymouth,
Mass., 1825; born 1774, at Dux
bury; — 1850; inarried Wealthea
Delano. CHILDREN,
Robert, 1799; — 1806,
Thomas C, 1809; — 1810,
Wait, 1805.
George, 1802, Plymouth, — 1878.
James T,, 1815; married a Mrs, Moulton,
Plymouth; reraoved to California and —
there in 1877; no children,
Welthea, 181 5; — 1837; raarried Henry
Mange, Rebecca, 1 820 ; raarried Chas, Cobb, Kings
ton; has four children.

Robert Anderson', Edward", Hor
ace', Jonathan*, Jonathan", Jos
eph®, Williain* ; Hartford ; born
1861.

Robert Chester^, Oliver Chester*.
Chester', Jabez", Jonathan', Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Boston ; born 1852,
MobUe, Ala.

Roger', William*, Joseph", Joseph®,
William*; born 1756; — 1801 ;
married Ann Prior.
CHILDREN.
Mary 1779; married Jaines Church.
Algernon Sidney, 1781; —at sea; no faraily.
Fanny, 1782; married Joseph Pratt,
Chariotte, 1787; married Joseph Pratt, his
second wife,
Suky, 1 785 ; — in infancy,
WUliam, 1786; unmarried.
Roger, 1789,

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\v adsworth family history.

Roger", Roger', William*, Joseph",
Joseph®, William* ; Brattleboro,
Vt. ; born 1789; inarried Cornelia
Thompson. CHILDREN.
Sarah Cornelia, — in infancy.
Algernon Sidney,
Henry A.
Jeremiah, 1797; — unmarried at the South,
Abner Prior, 1800; married Mary Capen,
and removed to Brattleboro, Vt,

Robert Thorndike*, Jeremiah',
Sedate", Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; house car
penter and builder; Camden, Me. ;
born in 182S, at Lincolnville ; mar
ried Deborah Frances Blondin,
1855 ; Universalist.

CHILDREN.

Kate ArabeUa, 1856; married.
Lewis Chester, 1858,
Minnie Clive, 1 861 ; niarried.
Parker Weymouth, 1867.
Marion Edith, 1871,

RoMEo", William', William*, Wil
liam", John®, William*; New
York; born 1769; — 1850; mar
ried Eunice Nichols, Bennington,
Vt., 1 801:

CHILDREN,
William Romeo, 1807.

Rufus*, Solomon', Solomon", Thom
as', Thomas*, Thoinas", Thoinas®,
Williani* ; coppersmith ; East Hart
ford, Conn. ; born about 1825 ; mar
ried Adeline Watson, of Bolton,
Conn ; — ¦ 1880, leaving three child
ren, one daughter, two sons.

Rufus Slosson^, John Milton*,
John Ogden', Elisha", Recom
pense', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher' ; Wolcott,
Wayne Co., N. Y. ; born i860.

Samuel®, William* ; Hartford ; born
1646; — 1682; unmarried.
He gave his estate, of £1108, to
his brothers and sisters. To his
brother Thomas, he gave his man
servant for life.

Samuel®, Christopher* ; Milton,
Mass. ; killed while fighting In
dians, at Sudbury, in 1676, (see
sketch) ; married Abigail Lindall,
of Marshfield, who died 1687.
CHILDREN.
Christopher, 1661; — 1687, oldest tomb
stone in Milton cemetery.
Ebenezer, 1660; — 1717, tombstone in Mil
ton cemetery,
Joseph, 1667,
John, 1674; — 1734, tombstone in Milton
cemetery, Timothy, 1662,
Benjamin, 1670,
Abigail, 1672; married Andrew Boardman,

Samuel", John®, William* ; Farm
ington, Conn. ; lieutenant in the
inilitia ; representative to the Gen
eral Court in 1699 ^'i*^ *7** > born
1660; — 1731 ; married Hannah
Judson, 1689.

Hannah, 1693,
Sarah, 1695,
Sarauel, 1698,

Samuel", Joseph®, Christopher*;
Lebanon, New London County
Conn., going there from Duxburv,
Mass., about 1705 ; married Hunt.
In 1703, .Samuel, then a resident
of Duxbury, with Joseph, his broth
er, then a resident of Lebanon,
Conn., sold land in Bridgewater, to
one Thoinas Snell, Plymouth Co.
(Plyniouth Co. records, Vol. 7, Page
56). This shows that Joseph went
to Connecticut before Samuel. But
in 1706, Samuel, then a resident of
of Lebanon, in a joint deed with his

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wadsworth family HISTORY'.

229

mother M;iry, the widow of Joseph,
sell their interest in Bridgewater
lands, to Elisha Wadsuorth, 76 acres,
for £20. (Plymouth Co. records.
Vol., 6, Page 91). This establishes
the fact that Samuel and Joseph,
whose names appear in the Connec
ticut records of Lebanon, at that
time, were descendants of Christo
pher, of DuxlnuA'. CHILDREN,
Samuel, about 1700,

Samuel*, Saniuel", Joseph®, Chris
topher' ; Tolland, Conn. ; born
about 1700; — in 1752; inarried
about 1732, to Miss Granger of
Suffield, Conn. CHILDREN.
Mary, 1734,
Ciemence, 1736,
Amptras, 1738,
Samuel, 1740,
Elizabeth, 1742,
Joseph, 1744; — 1747-
Elisha, 1746.
Abiah, 1750.
Joseph, 1753; was whipped to death, 1773,
for deserting the British at the Castle in Bos
ton Harbor,

.Sa:muel*. John", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; Killingly, Conn. ; born
1720; Milton, Alass. ; — 1762.
We have no account that this reverend gen-
leinan ever received what is termed a classical
education. His early life was spent in Milton,
and when he left he took a letter from the
church at Milton to the church at Canterbury,
Conn, His brother John, who had graduated
at Harvard College, and prepared for the min
istry, with his wife took letters to the same
church, Samuel was evidently in full com
munion with the church at Canterbury when
his brother John was pastor there. He, how
ever, was among the earliest, who was deter
mined to separate Church from State, and
being a Baptist in beUef, was a leader and
exhorter among those of his belief in that
locaUty, A church was accordingly estab
lished at South Killingly, and he was ordained
pastor in 1747, which position he hald tUl his
decease, 1762, He is described as a man of
excellent gift in prayer, very fervent in exhorta
tion, his conduct extraordinarily religious, and
his conversation heavenly and pure. He was

a man of advanced thought, and at one time
was under discipline with the Windham Coun
ty Conference, because he refused to comply
with the rules, one of which was that public
confessions of scandal raust be made before
the full congregation, instead of members of
the church only, CHILDREN,
Samuel; — in CornwaU, 1813; married
Sarah Douglas and had one daughter, Rachel,
who married Hezekiah Gold, Mr, Gold inher
ited the Wadsworth home farm, and it is now
in possession of one of his descent. Samuel
was 64 years of .age at the tirae of his death.
Sarah his wife; — 1820, aged 67.
James, 1750,
Joseph; . — in Orange Co., N, \.; married
Eunice Douglas and had three sons, Warren,
Samuel and Douglas, He, with his faraily,
reraoved to Goshen, N. Y,, 1800.
Selah ; married Leonard.
Daughter, married Sprague,
Daughter; married Miller,

Samuel*, Ebenezer", Samuel®.
Christopher* ; lieutenant in the mil
itia ; Milton ; born 1686 ; — i75+i
tombstone, Milton cemetery ; mar
ried Ann Withington. CHILDREN,
Nathaniel, 1721.
Hepsibah, 1727,
Elijah, 1 73 1,

Samliel*. Jonathan", Joseph®, ^^'il-
liam* ; Captain in the militia ; Hart
ford ; born 1716 ; — 1798.
CHILDREN,
Gurdon and George, twins, 1748; George
— in infancy,
ITann.ah, 1750; married Bigelow.
EU, 1752.
Nathan 1753,
George, 1755,
Samuel, 1757; — m infancy,
Samuel*, Saniuel", John®, William* ;
Farmington, Conn. ; born 1698 ; —
1745 ; inarried SusannaFenn, 1728,
— 1732; 2d Rebecca Porter; —
I757- CHILDREN,
James, 1729,
.Samuel, 1732.
Asa, 1735.
Hannah, 1736; married Asahel Burnham.
Samuel and Asa inoved to Tyringham, Mass,

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WADSWORTH family HISTORY.

Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel", Jos
eph®, Christopher*; Roxbury,
N. H. ; bon; 1740 ; — 1783 ; mar
ried Huldah Heaton, Keene, 1762.
CHILDREN.
Esther, 1764; married Dwinnel.
Abiah, 1766; married Goodridge, Grafton,
Verraont, Rachel, 1768: married Carter, Grafton, Vt,
Samuel, 1770; — in infancy,
David Granger, 1772; — in infancy, scalded
to death,
Samuel, 1775 ; — in infancy,
Huldah, 1777; married Graves, Swansey
N. H.
Thankful, 1778; married Burges's, Grafton,
Vermont. Samuel, 1783.

Samuel', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®j William* ; East Hart
ford, Conn. ; bom 1746 ; — 1798 ;
married Prudence, who — 1822.

CHILDREN.

Molly, 1782.
Mabel, 1783.
Samuel, 1784,
Oliver, 1790,
Hezekiah, 1792,
Charles, 1794,
Titus, 1796.
PoUy, 1799.

Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel", John®,
William*; Tyringham, Mass. ;
born 1732.

CHILDREN.

Reuben, 1763,

Samuel", David', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Henniker, N. H. ; born 1747, at
Grafton, Mass. ; — 1S42 ; married
Margery Hutchinson. CHILDREN,
Samuel, 1772; — 1861.
Aaron Hutchinson, 1775; — 1856,
Margery, 1777; — ,
Joanna, 1779; —
Joseph, 1787; — ,
David, 1790; — 1882,
Titus Vespasian, 1792; — 1882.

Samuel", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
farmer and trader; Francestown,
N. H. ; born 1762, at Stoughton,
Mass. ; — 1826 ; married Abigail
Elliott, of Portsmouth, N. H.

Abigail, 1791; married Wm, Bullis.
Hannah, 1793; married Benj. Wetherbee,
South Ashburnh.am, Mass.
Samuel, 1795.
Olive, 1797; married John Davis.
Nathan, 1802; — 1817.
Lucy, 1801; married Walter Blood,
Eliza, 1804; married Hezekiah Beard.

Samuel", Gurdon', Samuel*, Jona
than", Joseph®, William' ; New
Haven, Conn. ; born in 1783, at
Hartford ; he married Catherine
Wadsworth, 1808; she — i860.
CHILDREN,
Catherine, married Hotchkiss,
Elizabeth, i8og.
Henry Stevens, 181 1,
Sarauel Wright, 1813.
Charles, 1816; — 1828,
EUza, 1824; — unmarried.
Edward 1827; — 1828.
All dead but Mrs, S. N, Foster of Brooklvn,
N, Y,

Sa.muel", Samuel', Samuel*, Sam
uel", Joseph®, Christopher* ; he
was brought up in Nelson, N. H. ;
born 1783 (after his father's death),
at Keene, N. H. ; — 1835 ; mar
ried Betsey Lawrence, 1S07.
CHILDREN.
George, 1809; — 187 1, in Boston; no_issue,
Seth, 1810,
Jesse, 181 2; — .
Elvira, 1815; raarried Carpenter, Troy, N, H.
Mary, 1817; married Craig, Hartford, Conn,
Sarauel, 1820, in California; not ilrarried,
Betsey, 1S22; married Hawes, Stoughton,
Mass, Jesse, 1824,
Esther, 1826; raarried Raynes, Kittery, Me,

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231

Samuel", Samuel', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thoinas®, William*; Hart
ford, Conn. ; born in 1784 ; — ; he
married Hannah Roberts, 1805.
CHILDREN,
Elizabeth, 1807,
Emeline, 1810,
Stanley, 181 3,
I )Uver, 1815,
Charles W,, 1821 ; — 1831,

Samuel", Henry', Jonathan*, Jona
than", Joseph®, \Villiam* ; sea cap
tain, sailed on the Great Lakes;
Ohio ; born 1797 ; — 1832, Huron ;
married Cynthia Ledyard, Huron.
CHILDREN,
William, Capt. of brig Lake Erie, lives in
Sandusky, Ohio,, 01 Huron.
Eliza 13; married, 1858,

Samuel Bartlett", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; East-
port, ]\Ie. ; born 1791 ; — 1874;
inarried Eliza C. Harrington, 1823.
CHILDREN.
Elizabeth Fiarrington, 1824; married Au
gustus Norton, 1848; G, E, Richie, 1857; Wm,
D, Harrington, M. P,, 1870, Halifax, N. S,
Anne H,, 1827,
Mary N,, 1829; married Charles C.Norton,
Eastport, 1S48,
Samuel L,, 1830,
Edward Flenrv, 1835,
Lucia, 1839, married E, E. Shead, Eastport,
1 868,

Samuel', David", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Chris
topher* ; Grafton, Mass. ; born in
177^ ; — 1812 ; niarried EUzabeth
Barnes. No children.

Samuel', David'. Recompense',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Chittenden, Vt. ;
born 1789, Stoughton, Mass. ; mar
ried Sarah Lemans, 1813.
CHILDREN,
Samuel Young, 1814,
S<arah, 1815; married Dr, C, A, Clarke,
Fairfield, Iowa; Lieut, C. A. Clarke, U. S,
Navy, is their son.

Mary, 1818; married O, B, Barrows, Mar
shaltown, Iowa,
David M,, 1820; — .
Jane C, 1821 ; — .
Charlotte, 1823; married Eli Manville, Mar
shaltown, Iowa,
George M,, 1827, — .
EUza, 1830; — ; married Edwin True,

Samuel', Samuel", Recompense',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Milford, N. H. ;
born 1795, at Winthrop, Me. ; —
1873; inarried Rhoda Felch, 1826.
An extract from a sketch of his life, as
written by himself, will be of interest to those
of his branch who descended from Ensign
George, of Stoughton, Mass, , " My father's
name was Samuel, He was a son of Recom
pense, born in Stoughton, 1762. He worked
in that and adjoining towns a number of
years, and then went down East, to the State
of Maine, then a district belonging to Massa
chusetts, He bought him a place in Winthrop,
County of Kennebec, and Uved there a num
ber of years after he was inarried. My mother
was AbigaU ElUott, She was born in 1769, at
Portsmouth, N, II, Her father was a sea
captain, and died at sea. Her mother died in
Derry, or Londonderry, N. H., at the advanced
age of 90 years. My mother went to Maine
with one 'Doc" Hubert and his famUy, she
having a sister there that was married at that
time, 1 was born in Winthrop, 1795. About
the year 1798, ray father, becoming somewhat
larae, sold his farm in Winthrop, and bought
a store in the adjoining town of Readfield, at
a place called the fork of the roads. He also
carried on butchering business. In the fall of
1808, U came into his heart to visit his broth
ers in ^'ermont. He performed the journey
on horseback. He was gone from home three
weeks. While there, he bargained for a small
place, near the foot of a mountain called Nick-
walket, in the town of Philadelphia, but was
afterwards annexed to the to«'n of Chittenden,
county of Rutland. In the following winter
he moved his family there, he having two
brothers and one sister Uving near that place.
While there we caught a bear in a wooden
trap which my father and myself made. After
wards we caught several sables in a smaller
trap. In 181 1, we moved down to BrookUne,
N, H,, my uncle, Lemuel Wadssvorth, then
being the minister of that place. Father soon
after moved to Mason, N H,, and I, with
others from that town, volunteered in the
war, I went to Portsmouth, and was assigned
to a company commanded by Capt. Timothy

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WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY'.

Putnam, 22d Regiment, Was honorably dis
charged and returned to Mason," The sub
ject of this sketch went to, Milford in 1816,
purchased lands and erected raills, and was a
tax-payer in that town over fifty years,
CHILDREN.
Harvey Sarauel, 1827.
Amanda R,, 1830; — • 1863; married J. Q,
A, Hutchinson.
Sylvia J., 1835; married Hammon Reed,
Lexington, Mass,
Florace Andrew, 1837,
Lucy Philena, 1840; 1857,
MUo H,, 1847; — 1876.

Samuel', Timothy", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®,
William' ; Sauquoit, N. Y. ; born
1797, New Hartford; — 1880;
married Miranda Davis.
CHILDREN,
James Wilbur, 1840.
Miriara C, 1835; married Royce,

Samuel F.', Reuben", Samuel',
•Samuel*, Samuel", John®, Wil
liam* ; Cortland, N.Y. ; born 1798 ;
— 1873 ; married Marv Wheeler.
CHILDREN,
George II,

Samuel', Sedate", Sedate', ,Abiah*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
Camden, Me. ; born 1815, Lin
colnville, Me. ; married Lois Whit
ing, 1840. CHILDREN.
John P,, 1 841; — in the army of the Rebel
lion, at Port Hudson, 1863.
Franklin A,, 1843,
Martha A, 1847; — in infancy,
Charlotte E,, 1850; — in infancy.
Tobias F,, 1852.

Samuel Longfellow', Samuel
Bartlett", Peleg', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher*; merchant;
Eastport, Me.; born 1830; mar
ried Anne E. Bibber, 1861.

CHILDREN,
Frank Tenney, 1862.

Samuel', Charles Lee", Peleg', Pe
leg*, John", John®, Christopher* ;
farmer ; Captain in militia ; Hiram,
Me.; born 1815 ; married Mary
Jane Rowe, 1840 ; 2d Jane I. Clem
ens, 1845.
Held several town offices and pays
the heaviest tax of any individual in
Hirani. CHILDREN,
Zilpha, 1841; married Austin N, Durgin,
1875. Arthur, 1843.
Imogene, 1846; married Eli Clemens, 1869,
Eugene, 1847,

Samuel*, Joseph', David", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; engaged most of the
time at Drs. S. S. & S. E. Strong's
Remedial Institute, at Saratoga
Springs ; Auburn, N. Y. ; born in
1809 ; married Amanda Allen, 1833.
CHILDREN,
Ann Eliza, 1835,
Samuel, 1837,
Amanda, 1840.
Joseph, 1842,
Mary, 1843,
Charles, 1845.
Edward, 1848,
Paul, 1854.
Leland, 1858,
Sajiuel*, John', David". David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®,
Christopher* ; trader ; Boston;
born in 1816 ; — ; married Huldah
Jenkins. CHILDREN.
Ehzabeth W,, 1844.

Samuel*, Jeremiah', Sedate", .Se
date', Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; carpenter and joiner ;
Camden, Me.; born 1836; mar
ried Marv Wilson, 1866.

CHILDREN.

Jennie, 1867,
George Wallace, li

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233

Samuel*, Seth', Samuel", Samuel',
Samuel*, Samuel", Joseph®, Chris
topher* ; jeweller ; Keene, N. H. ;
born 1846, at Roxbury, N. H. ;
inarried EUa Frances Reed, 1873.
CHILDREN.
George Reed, 1875.
Samuel Frederick, 1877,

S.-VMiiEL Andrews, David Drake,
Ichabod ; (see Ichabod of Elling
ton) ; Ellington, Conn. ; born 181 2 ;
— in 1869 ; he married Jane Eliza
Smith Ormsby. CHILDREN,
John Adelbert, 1838. -
George L, O,, 1850.
Samuel Edwin; —
Lillie ; — ,
Anna E, R, ; Springfield, Mass.
Mary I,; raarried Mclntire,
Julia; — ,
Helen; married Payne, Troy N. Y,

Samuel Dean*, John', Charles Lee",
Peleg', Peleg*, John", John®, Chris
topher* ; Hiram, Me. ; born 1829;
niarried Sarah Augusta Warren,
1851.
Has been intrusted with most of
the town offices, such as Town Agent,
Supervisor of Schools, School Com
mittee, Selectman, Overseer of Poor,
and Assessor of Taxes ; also repre
sented the district, in the Maine
House of Representatives, in the
year 1872, and Oxford County in the
Senate, in 1876 and 1877. Has been
trial justice in Oxford County, eleven
years, and in York County, some
four years. CHILDREN.
Zelia Elfine, 1852; — 1882,
Wallace Dean, 1856.
Elida Viola, 1859.
Ralph Ambrose, 1861,
John Eraile, 1870.

Thoinas®, William* ; hotel keeper ;
Waverly, Tioga Co., N. Y. ; born
1829, Penfield, N. Y. ; married
Malissa Jane Angle, 1853.
CHILDREN,
Maud, 1855; married Prof, Webber, Boston.

Samuel W., father's name Jaines R.
grandfather, lived in Genesee Co.,
N. Y. ; Wilmington, Del. ; born
18^2, Wetheredville, Md. ; inarried
Mary A. Forwood, 1878.
CHILDREN,
WaUer G,, 1879.
Samuel Young*, Samuel', David",
Recompense', George*, Ebenezer",
Saniuel®, Christopher* ; physician ;
Berea, O. ; born 1814; — 1881 ;
inarried Susan B. Lewis.
CHILDREN,
George H,, 1850,
Mary Jane, 1851,
Sarah Mehitable, 1854; married E,T. Peck,
DetroU, Mich,
Charlotte Theodosia, 1857.

Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; Leeds, Me. ; born
1746 ; — 1812. CHILDREN,
Abiah 1778, Heman, Nancy, Sedate 1774,
Hannah, Lois, Phebe, Lolo, Xancy,

Samuel H.*, Norman', Solomon",
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",

Sedate", Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Lincoln
ville, Me.; born 1774; — 1846;
married Susan Hassen.
CHILDREN.
Charles, 1798; — 1876,
Susan, 1808; married Josiah Harden,
Sedate, 1800.
Jeremiah, 1803.
Elisha, 1806; — 1859,
Abiah, i8io, Utah,
Sarauel, 1815, Caraden,
Chariotte, 1819; — 1851,
Lolo, — in infancy.
Phebe, — in infancy.

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Sedate', Sedate", Sedate', Abiah*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher*;
Lincolnville, Me. ; born in 1800;
married Abbie Heald.

CHILDREN.

Mercy E,, 1S20,
Charles, 1827,
Mary A,, 1828,
Lavina, 1829,
EUsha, 1832,
Fiorina, 1834,
Lottie, 1836,

Sedate", Charles*, Sedate', Sedate",
Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher' ; Lincolnville,. Maine ;
born 1846 ; — 1877.
CHILDREN,
WaUer, 1876.

Seneca', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; Duxbury ; born in
1753 ; — 1825 ; inarried Dewsbury
Soule, 1:777. CHILDREN.
Ahira, 1777.
Wiswell, 1778,
Lucy, 1 7 80; married Seth Stetson,
John, 17S2; removed to Hingham,
Daniel, 1784,
Celenah, 1786; — in infancy,
Sophia, 1791,
Charlotte, 1793; Talbery, N, Y.

[801.

Sehon G.', Edward", Elijah', Jos
eph*, Joseph", Joseph®, Williain* ;
Chicago, 111. ; born 1830, Canfield,
O. ; married Lydia A. McClel
land ; 2d Carrie E. McClelland.

CHILDREN.

One, adopted ; raarried T. W, Johnson, in
Chicago,

Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathaniel",
John®, William* ; hotel keeper ;
Hartford, Conn.; born 1747; —
1830; inarried twice, first Mary
Strong, — 1804; second, 1822.
CHILDREN.
Flezekiah, 1782; — 1813,
Strong, 1784; — 1810,

Edwin, 1787; — 1858,
Timothy, 1794; — 1841,
Tertius, 1789; — 1782; he became very
wealthy in Chicago.
Daniel, 1797; — 185 1.
Elisha.

Seth", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
farmer; Becket, Mass.; born in
1766; — 1840, at Windham, O. ;
niarried Isabel Ferguson, 1792 ; 2d
wife, Miranda S. Matthews, 1811.
CHILDREN,
Xenophon, 1792,
Achsah, 1794; — 1826,
]\Iarvel Bliss, 1796.
Zelophed, 1797,
Jonathan Dwight, 1799,
WUlard Johnson, 1801.
Stanley Waters, 1802,
Arvilla, 1804; raarried John Hitchcock,
182S, Anne, 1806, married Jones J, Rudd, 1828.
Francis Livingston, 1808,
Isabel, i8io; married Dr. John G, Stephens,
1831. Philander, 1812; — 1833,
Mary Amanda, 1819; married Dr, John G,
Stephens,

Seth", Joseph', Benjamin*, John",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; black
smith ; So. Franklin, Alass. ; born
1794, at Milton ; he married Olive
Metcalf. CHILDREN,
Joseph Hawes, 1826,
George M,, 1836.
Mary 1824, married H, B, Miller, South
Franklin, Nancy, — in infancy.

Seth", Dura', Peleg*. John", John®.
Christopher* ; Hiram, Ale. ; born
1792 ; — 1870 ; niarried Jane, 1822.

Jane, 1823,
.Vnn, 1S25.
Marv, 1827,
Seth, 1829.
Ruth, 1 83 1,

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235

.Seth', Samuel", Samuel', Samuel*,
Samuel", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
Keene; born in 1810, at Roxbury,
N. FI. ; married Keziah Wood
ward, 1844. CHILDREN,
Samuel, 1846,
George, 1849; — 1851,
Franklin, 1852,

Seth', Seth", DiM-a', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; Hiram, Me. ;
born 1829, at Duxbury; niarried
Mary Ann Wadsworth 1850.
CHILDREN.
Emma J,, 1853; married William Cleraens,
1879. WilUs T, 1 85 1,
James, i860,
Seth', Timothy", Seth', Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", John®, William* ; Au
rora, 111. ; born 1831 ; married
Marion Adelaide Colton, i860.
CHILDREN,
Alice Marion, 1862,
May Strong, 1867,
Cora Jane, 1868,

Seth Lafayette', Edwin", Seth',
Hezekiah*, Nathaniel", John®,
William*; New Lisbon, Ohio;
born 1824 : — 1864 ; inarried Ade
line Morgan Green.
CHILDREN,
Harry Seth, 1857.
Edwin Lafayette, 1 859,
Alice; married Bower,

Sereno D.*, Warner', Thomas",
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, William* ; Racine, Wis
consin ; born 1833.
Sidney', Elisha", Seth', Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", John®, WiUiam' ; Hart
ford ; born 1814; married Eliza
A. Sisson. CHILDREN,
CaroUne E, , 1 838, married Dr,John Stradley,
of Gloucester City, N, J,

Daniel Sidney, 1848,
Elizabeth S,, 1850, married E, F.^MiUer, of
Avon, Conn,

Silas Wheeler*, Ebenezer Sack
ett', John", John', John*, Joseph",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; Beatrice,
Gage Co., Nebraska; born 183^,
at New Lebanon, N. Y. ; he mar
ried Celia N. Perry, 1859.

Smith E.^, Elmer D.*, Xenophon',
Seth", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
hotel keeper ; Garrettsville, Ohio ;
born 1848, Garrettsville, Ohio;
married Hannah .Styles, 1875.
CHILDREN,
Arthur J,, 1877.

Solomon", Thomas', Thoinas*.
Thomas", Thomas®, William*;
East Hartford ; born , 1 763 ; —
18^3 ; married Lucy Kirby.

East H.irtford, 1871 ;

AUen, 1795.
Rebecca, 1797;
not married,
Solomon, 1801,
Horace, 1802,
Lucy, 1805; married Joseph Arnold.
Norman, 1806,
Laura, 1807.
EmeUne, 1810; — in infancy.
Maria, 1813,
Mary 1819; married E. GiUette.
Daniel, 1821,

Solomon', Solomon", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®, Wil
liam* ; farmer ; Wethersfield,
Conn. ; born 1801 ; married Sarah
Dow.
CHILDREN,
Rufus,Stanley,Sarah, married Stephen Forbes, East Hart
ford. Urania; married Martin Fox,

236

wadsworth FAMILY' HISTORY.

Spencer F.', Aaron", John',
George*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Pittston, Me. ; born
; 1810, at Litchfield, Me. ; — 1882 ;
married Catherine Cutts, 1836.
CHILDREN,
Kate W,, 1837; married Hendree, Dunwel-
len, N. J,
Fred S,, 1839, Jersey City, N, J,
Melvin C, 1842,
Eunice L,, 1844; married Dubois, Dunwel-
len, N, J.
Addie F,, 1849, Pitston,
Clarence E,, 1852,
Stanley Waters', Seth", Jona
than', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; a farmer ;
Windham, Ohio ; born 1802, Beck
et, Mass.; — Windham, Ohio;
married Sarah M. Ward, 1835.

Stanley'*, Solomon', Solomon",
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, William* ; farmer; East
Hartford, Conn. , born 1827 ; mar
ried Locham, Marlborough, Conn.
CHILDREN,
One son, resides at New Britain, Conn.

Stanley Dwight*, Jonathan
Dwight', Seth", Jonathan', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Chris
topher* ; farmer and merchant;
Lake Mills, Winnebago Co., Iowa ;
born at Windham, O. ; inarried
Rachel  , 1842 ; 2d wife,
Harriet Swift. CHILDREN,
Dwight Austin, Clark, Iowa,
Benjamin Franklin, soldier in the RebelUon;
— at Andersonville prison.
Elizabeth R,, married H, P, Kirke, Mason
City, Iowa.
Wallace Stanley.

Stephen", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
fanner ; Becket, Mass. ; born 1752,
at Milton, Mass. ; — in 1829, at

Becket; married 'Hannah Baker,
1775; 2d wife, Rachel Putnam,
1816. CHILDREN.
Stephen Stillman, 1819,
Jonathan Whitman, 1821,

Stephen Stillman', Stephen", Jon
athan', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; farmer ;
South Worthington, Mass. ; born
1819, Becket, Mass. ; married Mary
Elizabeth Clark, 1847.
CHILDREN.
Mary Isabella, 1848; — 1862.
Charles Wright, 1850,
Sarah Frances, 1851; married Wm, H, Pom
eroy, 1883.

Stephen', Jabez", Jonathan', Rec
ompense*. Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; farmer and mechan
ic ; Becket; born 1790; — 1821 ;
married SaUy Haskins, 1815.

Sylvester D.', Jaines", Wait',
Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Plymouth, Mass. ; born in
1835 ; unmarried.

Sylvester Sweet*, Lewis Sylves
ter', Cephas", Cephas', Peleg*.
John", John®, Christopher* ; Rock
land, Mass. ; born i8';5.

Strong', Daniel", Seth', Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", John®, Williani* ; Stap
leton, Richmond Co., N. Y. ; born
1833, Hastings, Oswego, Countv,
N. Y. ; married Maria C. Phelps,
1862.
Prepared for Yale College at Bel
oit, Wis., and entered College there
in 1847. Entered Yale College in
1850, and graduated in 185 1. Read
law with Scammon & McCogg, Chic
ago, IU., and admitted to practice in
Dlinois, 1854. Engaged in banking
business, 1855, '*'*'^ continued till

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY'.

237

1867. In that year he went to New
York, since whicii time he has been
connected with the New York Stock
Exchange. A fine scholar and de
cidedly literary in his tastes. Resides
at present at Stapleton, N. Y,
CHILDREN,
Amy Bird, 1866.
Richard Charies Wells, 1870,

Tertius", Seth', Hezekiah*, Nathan
iel", John®, William* ; gentleman
of wealth; Chicago, 111. ; born in
1789 ; — 18^1 ; niarried PoUv .Sey
mour. CHILDREN,
Elisha.
Julius, 1815,
Walter T,, Chicago.
Philip, 1832,

Theodore', Timothy*, Nathaniel",
John® ; William* ; physician ; born
1753, in Vermont; — 1808 ; mar
ried Betsey, who — in 1806; 2d
wife, Asenath Clark, 1808.

CHILDREN,
David,
Theodore, — in infancy,
Nancy, married C, Whittlesey,
Harry,

Theodore Augustus*, Edward L.',
Thomas", Thomas', Thomas*.
Thomas", Thomas®, William*;
dental surgeon ; 68 West 37th St.,
New York City ; born 1841 ; mar
ried Elizabeth O. Wilber, 1875.
Theodore A, Wadsworth, D, D, S„ the
second and youngest son of Rev, Edward L.
Wadsworth, named above, was born in Nel
son, New York, May I, 1841. His early life
possessed both the advantages and the dis
advantages incident to the children of itin
erant ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. His educational advantages were
such as his father could provide in the different
tovvns in which his ministry was passed. At
twenty years of age, he obtained the position
of assistant to Mr, Charles Stebbins, the post
master of ( )nego, N. Y. In 1863, at the age
of twenty-tux), Ex-Ciov. E. D, Morgan, then
U, S, Senator from New York, appointed him

to a position in the War Department at Wash
ington, D, C, as examiner of the accounts of
army officers. This position he filled nearly
four years. During this time, he attended one
course of lectures in the medical departraent
of Georgetown College, after which he chose
dentistry as his specialty. He entered the
College of Dentistry, in New York City, in
1867, and on the completion of the prescribed
course of study, two years later, he received
from that institution the degree. Doctor of
Dental .Surgery, Immediately after this, he
became the associate partner of the well-known
Dr, John Allen, one of the most prominent
and successful dentists of New York, celebrated
for the invention of that class of artificial
work known as "Continuous Gum." Dr. Allen
gave his entire tirae to the construction of
artificial dentures, whUe Dr. Wadsworth de
voted himself exclusively to operating on the
natural teeth. After a most pleasant and suc
cessful business partnership of more than eight
years. Dr. Wadsworth, in 1877, established a
sole practice, which has been, and continues
to be, increasingly successful, (See portrait,)
Theodore Lym.\n*, Calvin', Jo
seph", John', John*, Joseph", Jo
seph®, Christopher' ; Buffalo, New
York, 232 Prospect Avenue ; born
1836, Aurora; inarried Mary Ann
Pierce, 1863,

Thomas®, William*; farmer; East'
Hartford ; he inherited his father's
lands on that side of the river;
born in 1651 ; was alive at 1716;
married Elizabeth  , 1677.
CHILDREN.
John, — in infancy.
Sarah, 1681; married Burr.
Elizabeth,
Rebecca, 1686; — 1708; niarried James
Gross; no children.
Thomas, 1689,
Hannah, 1690.
WUUam, 1692; — 1725; ^° children.

Thomas", Thomas®, Williain* ; born
1793 ; married Sarah  , who
was his executrix; he — in 1716,
before his father, leaving an infant

son.

CHILDREN,

Thomas, 1716,

23S

wadsworth family history.

Thomas", John®, William* ; farmer ;
Farmington, Conn. ; born in 1680 ;
— 1771 ; inarried Miriam Beckley.
There has been some controversy
as to whether this man was not the
father of Thomas*, instead of Thom
as, the son of Thoinas, in which event
all of the descendants of Thoinas*
would be of the Farmington branch.
But we are satisfied this man died
without issue.

Thomas*, Thomas", Thoinas®, Wil
liam* ; East Hartford ; born 1716 ;
— 17^3; niarried Sarah Arnold;
she — 1778. '
CHILDREN.
Thomas, 1739.
John, 1742.
.Samuel, 1746.
Josiah, 1748,
WiUiam, 1753.
Jerusha, Sarah, 1754,
Rebecca, 1757,
Elizabeth, 1761,

Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, William* ; farmer ; East
Hartford; born 1739; — 1810;
married Thankful Hills ; — 1816.
CHILDREN.
George, 1762; — 1806; unmarried,
Thoraas, 1763,
David, 1767 ; — Gainsville, N, Y,
Timothy, 1770,
Soloraon, 1772,
Joel, 1774; — 1S23; unmarried,
Moses, 1776; — in infancy,
Anna, — in infancy.
Anna, 1780; married Asahel Potter,
Moses, 1783.
Thankful; married Abby,
Thomas, Moses, David and Timothy, re
moved early in life, to New Hartford, Oneida
Co,, N, Y,, and located on what was called
afterwards, " Wadsworth HiU, "

Thomas', John*, John", John®, Wil
liam* ; New York ; born 1739 ; —
1810 ; inarried Gridley.
CHILDREN,
Horace; Abigail, married Wright; John,
married and had several children ; all — young.

Thomas", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thomas", Thoinas®, William*;
niarried Lydia Warner, 1792.
He was born in East Hartford, Conn,, in
1763, At sixteen years of age he enlisted in
the Continental Army as a private, and was
one of the heroic victors at Yorktown, at the
surrender of Cornwallis, During that seige
he was detailed to supply rations to Washing
ton's army, driving an ox team from the allied
fleet to the camp. At the close of the war he
came to New York State, and in partnership
with his brother Timothy, purchased land in
New Hartford, N. Y,, for §1,75 per acre,
located only four miles south-east from the
present flourishing city of Utica, then only
an insignificant settleraent, having among its
log cabins and corduroy roads, only two
framed dwellings. These brothers, to pay for
their land, cut down the timber in drives,
burned them, and from the ashes, carefully
gathered, made potash, which they shipped to
Albany, by way of the Mohawk River, there
being neither railroads nor canals at that time.
On the cleared land he raised grain, which in
the winter season he carried to Albany with
his own teams. He successfully pursued his
farming interests until old age. The govern
ment acknowledged his services in the Revol
utionary war, by granting him a small pension.
He was an earnest Christian, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Chiuch, and frequently
conducted religious meetings. He di?d in
1856, at the ripe age of ninety-three years and
four months.

CHILDREN.

Thomas, 1793.
David, 1795.
John W., 1 801,
Warner, 1803.
Edward L, 1806,

Thomas", William', William*, Wil
liam", John®, William* ; Farming-
ton ; born at South Hartford ; mar
ried Harriet Seymour, relative of
Horatio Seymour.

CHILDREN.

Thomas, 1804,
Thomas', Thomas", Thomas', Thom
as*, Thomas", Thomas®, William* ;
New^ Hartford, N. Y. ; born 1793 ;
— 1859; married twice ; had two
daughters, both dead.

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239

Thomas', Moses", John', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Augusta, Me. ; born in 1803 ; —
1870; married Roxanna Weber,
1830. CHILDREN.
Henry C, 1838.
One daughter, married S, S, Brooks, Augus
ta, Maine.
Charles A,, Augusta, Maine,

Thomas', Thomas", William', Wil
liam*, William", John®, William* ;
Memphis, ^Slich. ; born in 1804, at
Farmington, Conn. ; he married
Mercy Lee, 1834.
CHILDREN.
Thomas A,, 285 Croghan St,, Detroit, Mich,
Lewis Lee, 228 Michigan St , Chicago , 111,
Thomas, Ignatius, (see Ignatius) ;
North Carolina ; born about 1781 ;
— in 1841 ; married Pheroba VV.
Brinson, for second wife.
CHILDREN.
Edward, i8n, clergyman.
Sarah, 1 816; married Schenck, Mrs, S, is
a widow, her husband dying in 1869 She
resides in Brooklyn, N. Y., and has a family
of children,
Augusta C, 1818, Charlotte, N, C.
Richard A,, 1825; — 1859,
George Layfayette, 1836,
Albert, Judge of Probate; — in Mattagor-
das, Texas, 1843,
Thomas, lawyer; — in New Orleans, 1845,
William B,, — in Craven, N, C, 1868.

Thomas Abner*, Thomas', Thom
as", WiUiam', William*, William",
John®, WiUiam*^;- Detroit, Mich.,
285 Crogham St. ; has a familly.
Thomas Artpiur ; came to this
country from Northamptonshire,
England, 1831 ; has one iDrother,
Joseph, at Elyria, Ohio ; William
Bland, another brother, at Cleve
land, Ohio ; Congregational clergy
man ; Union Grove, Racine, Co.,
Wisconsin; born in 1821, Long
Buckley, England ; married Mary
Eliza Fowler, — 1866.

Thomas Hart", Asahel', William*,
William", John®, William* ; Farm
ington, Conn. ;born 177* ! — 1853 ;
niarried Sarah North, — .in 1809;
2(1, Elizabeth Rowe, 1812.
CHILDREN,
Anna Deming, 1805; — ¦ in infancy,
Marcus North, 1806,
Lucy, 1808; in Moulton,
Winthrop M,, 1812,
Adrian R,, 1814,
Elizabeth A,, married Rockwell, at Aiken,
S, C, 1820,
Thom.\s Hart*, Marcus North',
Thomas Hart", Asahel', WiUiam*.
William", John®, William* ; farm
er ; Council Bluft", Iowa ; born in
1852, at Oswego, N. Y. ; married
Fannie J. Atwood, 1881.
CHILDREN.
Florence May, 1882,
Thomas L. ; father, Joseph ; grand
father, Thomas, came from Eng
land ; great-grandfather, Thomas,
born in England; Gloucester,
Mass. ; born 1S48, at Waterbury,
Conn. ; inarried Mary E. Keatin,
1876. CHILDREN,
Thomas A,, 1877.
Addie N,, 1880,

Thomas Page, William Reim;
grandfather, Thomas, who was
born near Brentwood, County of
Essex, England ; Indian commis
sioner ; Weston, Ontario, (see Wil
liam Reim) ; born 1838; married
Annie Sullivan, 1868.
CHILDREN,
Adelaide Vernon, 1869,
WilUam Reim, 1871,
Annie Edith Sarah. 1875.

Thomas Rodney ; father, Charles ;
manufacturer; Weston, Ontario;
married Elizabeth Wadsworth,
daughter of WiUiam Reim Wads
worth, of Weston, Ontario; no
children.

240

W^ADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

Thomas Thatcher', Benjamin",
John', Benjamin*, John", Saniuel®,
Christopher* ; farmer and real es
tate broker ; Milton, Mass. ; born
1799; — in 1882; inarried Mary
Bradlee, 1829. CHILDREN,
Edwin Dexter, 1832.

Timothy", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
gunsmith; Boston; born 1662;
married Susana Cocke.
CHILDREN,
Susanna, 1687; married Edw, Langdon,
Recorapense, 1688; Harvard College, 1708,
and becarae master at North School, Boston,
and died aged 29; tombstone at Copps Fiill
ceraetery. Timothy, 1692; no account of him further.

Timothy*, Nathaniel", John®, Wil
liam* ; Canaan 1768, afterwarcls in
Vt. ; born 1709; married Mary
Cowles, of Suthington, 1750; 2d
wife, Hepsy Kilburn, 1758.
CHILDREN.
Theodore, 1753,
Rhoda', 1755; married Stanley.
Elijah, 1759; — 1763,
Ebenezer 1760.
Esther, 1762.
Elijah, 1765,
Mary, 1768,
Dorothy, 1769,

Timothy", Thomas', Thomas*,
Thoinas", Thoinas®, William* ;
New Hartford, N. Y. ; born 1770 ;
— 1847; inarried Lydia Tyler.
CHILDREN.
Franklin, 1795; — ,
Sally, 1797; married Cooke; — .
Samuel, 1798; — 1880,
George, 1799.
Joel, 1801; West Winfield,
Betsey, 1803,
Timothy, 1804,
Erastus, 1805; clergyman; — in Illinois,
Julia, 1807,
Mary, 1809, Utica,
Flester Ann, 1810; inarried Goodier,
Maria, 181 2,
Nancy W., Utica,

Timothy", Seth', Hezekiah*. Na
thaniel", John®, Williain* ; born
1794; — 1841 ; inarried Mary Gil
lette. CHILDREN.
Jane; married J. J, Veits; E, Granby, Ct,
JohnG, Seth, 1831,
Ruth.George Edwin, 1836,
Timothy D„ 1838,
Mary Strong; inarried Filer, Warehouse
Point, Conn,

Timothy D', Timothy", Seth', Hez
ekiah*, Nathaniel", John®, Wil
liam* ; Boscobel, Wis. ; born 1838,
Farmington, Conn. ; married Caro
line A. Peck, 1866.
Agent ofthe Chicago, Milwaukee
and vSt. Paul R. R. Graduated from
the New York Homoepathic Medi
cal College, 1866, and commenced
the practice of medicine at Southing
ton, Conn. Went to St. Louis in
1869, continuing the practice of med
icine there till 1871, and in Chicago
till 1879. Has been in the railroad
service since that time.

Francis Strong, 186c
Mary Harriet, 1871,
Sarah Grace, 1873.
Timothy Benjamin,

875,

Timothy'-', Henry*, Franklin', Tim
othy", Thomas', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thomas®, William* ; New Hart
ford, N, Y. ;born 1856.
Titus", Samuel', Thomas*, Thom
as", Thonias®, \^'illiam* ; cabinet
maker; Girard, Pa.; born 1796,
at Hartford ; — 1850, in Erie Co.,
Pa. ; married Elizabeth B. Lowr\-,
1818. CHILDREN,
EmeUne, 1823; — 1878; married Van Gas-
beck, Jennette, 1830; niarried E, L, Nason; — at
St. Louis, 1882.
Prudence, 1832; married llr, ^Y, B, Smith,
Durgin, 111,

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WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

241

Henry W,, 1S27; — ¦ 1873; surgeon in the
rebellion WiUiam, 1822,
James Bar, 1826.

TiTUS FIuTCHINSON*, Titus Vcspa-
sian', Samuel", David', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®, Chris
topher* ; teacher, farming at pres
ent ; Franklin, N. H. ; Born 1826,
Henniker, N. H. ; not married.

Titus Vespasian', Samuel", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; soldier in the war of
1812; Henniker, N. H. ; a well
known and valuable citizen ; born
1792; — 1882; married Susanna
Ward. CHILDREN,
Betsey, 1820; married LaSang, Fondulac,
Wis, Titus H., 1826; Franklin, N, H,
George G,, 1828,
Susan, 1831; married McCoy, Templeton,
Mass, Caroline S,, 1833; married Rev. Mr. Haley,
Lowell, WiUiam B,, 1831; Silver Cliff, Col.
Mary L,, 1835; married Dr. Bassian, Breusa,
Turkey, Franklin C, ; — in infancy.

Tobias Fernald*, Samuel', Se
date", Sedate', Abiah*, Elisha",
Joseph®, Christopher* ; stone cut
ter ; Camden, Maine ; born 1S52;
married Ada M. Young.
CHILDREN,
Lena Bell, — in infancy.
Louis EtheU, 1876,
Edward Merton, 1878,
Lottie Paris, 1880,
Edna L,, 1881.

Uriah", Dura', Peleg*, John", John-,
Christopher*; Lincoln Co., Me.;
born 1808 ; married Phebe Boston.

CHILDREN.

\" ERNON Bayley, (see William
Reim) ; Dominion land surveyor,
Toronto ; Weston, Ontario ; born
1845 ; married Laura Ridout, 1875.
CHILDREN,
WUUam Ridout, 1875.
Helen Vernon, 1877,
Marion Violet, 1879.

Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Captain in the militia ; Dux
bury ; married Abigail Bradford.
CHILDREN,
Abigail, 1749; — young,
Joseph, 1750; married Anne Drew, 1773,
Ahira, 1751,
Seneca, 1753,
Wait, 1754,
Cynthia, 1756; married Ezekiel Soule, 1777.
Robert, 1757; — young,
Eden, 1759,
BeiUah, 1762; raarried ,\rthur Howland,
Celenah, 1763; raarried William Keene, of
Bristol, 1784,
Elisha, 1765,
Zenith, 1766,
Abigail, 1768,
Wiswell, 1770,

Uriah, Phebe, Hiram, Lucy, Zilpah, Joseph,
Almond, Joseph May, Alfred,

Wait', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; ship builder ; Dux
bury ; born 1754; — 1840; mar
ried Jerusha Robinson, 1774; 2d
wife, Mrs. Priscilla Stetson Wes
ton.

Robert, 1774.
Matilda, 1776; married James Chandler,
Silvia, 1781 ; married Ziba Hunt,
Lucinda, 1785; married Zenas Winsor,
Jerusha, 1789; married Zenas Faunce,
Janaes, 1792,
Waity, 1797; married Nathan Sampson.
Caroline, 1804; niarried Allen Hunt; 2d
husband, Daniel Bradford,
Jane, 1802,
Lewis L,, 1804,
Wait', Robert", Wait', Wait*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher* ;
Plymouth, Mass. _; born 1805, in
Duxbury ; unmarried.
Worked in early life at ship car
pentering. In 1840 bought land and

242

WADSWORTH FAMILY HIST.ORY.

built a residence upon whicii he nov^r
resides, having an excellent and well
cared for farm. During the adniin
istratioii of BLichanan, was coUector
of the port of Plyniouth.

Walter Scott*, Jesse', Samuel",
Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel", Jo
seph®, Christopher' ; Bostoii ; born
i860.

Warner', Thoinas", Thomas',
Thomas*, Thoinas", Thomas®,
Williain* ; a physician ; Racine,
Wis, ; born 1803, New Hartford,
N. Y. ; married to Thankful H.
Olmstead, 1S32, neice of the late
Prof. Olmstead, Yale College.
CHILDREN.
.Sereno D,, 1833; Racine.
William O,, 1S36; Racine,
Frederick E,, 1838; - 1S46,
Emma E,, 1839; — 1868.
George H., 1845; Racine,
Lucelle, 1849; married at Chicago,
Mary C; married at Chicago,
Romeo R,, 1855; — in infancy.

Washington*, George Marsh', Jos
eph", Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph",
Joseph®, William*; Patchogue,
L. I. ; — ¦; married Sarah E. Kirby.
CHILDREN,
Irving D,, 1S51,
Eugene Marsh, 1855.

Walter McLean', Richard", Hen
ry', Jonathan*, Jonathan", Joseph®,
William* ; Dixon, 111. ; born i8n,
Hartford, Conn. ; niarried Emily
Benjamin, 1S34, Branford. Canada.

Ann Maria, 1844; married Charies E,
Worthington, SterUng, IU,, editor of the Ster
ling Gazette,

Wedworth', John Noyes", John
Noyes', James*, fames", John®,
William*; farmer; born 1782; — •

i860; married Content Scranton,
Durham. He was a member of the General
Assemblv of Connecticut, from Dur
ham, the town where he was born,
and spent his life. He also held
I other places of trust.

John Noyes, about 1805.
Wedworth, i8ii.
Abraham ,S,
Williara, town clerk of Durhara many years ;
— single,
James, 1819,

Wedworth*. XVedworth'. John
Noyes", John Noj^es', James*,
James", John®, William* ; born in
181 1 ; — 1876 at Durham, Conn. ;
married Margaret D. Swathell.
CHILDREN,
Margaret E,, 1837: married Geo, P, Mor
riU, Truckee, Cal.
Harriet C, 1838; — 187 1; married .A, A,
Van Voorhees, of Sacramento, Cal,
James Wedworth, 1841,

Wedworth", James*, ^^'edworth'.
John Noyes", John Noyes', James*,
James", John®, Williain* ; govern
ment employ for the last fifteen
years, New York Custom House ;
born 1846. at Buflialo ; Yale Col
lege, iS^; married Harriet Bab
cock Camp, 1867, of Durham ; one
child, deceased.

Whiti.ng', Hezekiah", Joseph'. Jos
eph*. Joseph". Joseph®, WiUiam* ;
Brooklyn, N, Y. ; born in 181 1,
Hartford ; inarried Mar\- Ann Case,
Seabury, Conn., 1832,

Fiarriet Ursula, 1834; — 1838.
Mary Emeline, 1835.
Sarah Ann, 1837; — 1841.
Emily Minerva, 1843; — 1847,
EUa Matilda, 1845,
William Whiting, 1850; — 1881.

WADSAVORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

243

William* ; Cambridge, Mass., 1632 ;
H-artford, Conn., 1636; — 1675;
married 2d, Eliza Stone, 1644; —
1680. (See sketch.)
Was ainong the wealthier and
more influential proprietors and set
tlers of Hartford. His house lot was
nearly co-extensive with the square
enclosed by Asylum, Trumbull, and
\Vest Pearl Streets, and the road by
the river ; whicii continued in the
Wadsworth family until i773i when
it went into the hands of George and
William Burr, who were relatives of
the family.

(By first wife,) Sarah ; married John Wil
cox. William ; — in infancy,
Mary; married Thomas Stoughton,
John. (By second wife.) Elizabeth 1645; mar
ried John Terry,
Samuel, 1646,
Joseph, 1648.
Sarah, 1650; married Jonathan Ashley,
Thomas, 1651,
Rebecca, 1656,

William", John®, William* ; repre
sentative, 1718-40; Farmington,
Conn. ; born 1671 ; — 1751 ; inar
ried Abigail Lewis, 1696 ; she —
1707 ; 2d wife, Sarah Bounce, 1707.

WiUiam, 1697; — in infancy.
Mary, 1700; — 1722.
Hannah, 1701; married Joseph Root.
Abigail, 1702; married John Smith.
Ezekiel, 1704; — 17 12.
WUUam, 1709,
WiLLi.\M*, WiUiam", John®, Wil
liam* ; Farmington, Conn. ; born
1^09; — 1769; he married Ruth
Hart, 1740.

Willia.m*. Joseph", Joseph®, \V'i\-
liam* ; born 1723; — 1771 ; mar
ried Mary Cook, 1751.
CHILDKEN,
WUliam, 1752; — 1786; no children.
Roger, 1756.

William', William*, WiUiam",
John®, William*; Farmington;
born 1742 ; — 1816 ; married Mer
cs' or Marv Clark. '
CHILDREN.
Decius, 1768. Colonel, U, S, A,
Romeo, 1769, New York.
George, 1771,
WiUiam, 1781; — 1807,
Sidney, 1786, Farmington, ('onn, ; — 1812;
married Clarissa Buck; two children, both —
young. Thomas, (probably,)

William, Ignatius, (see Ignatius) ;
born in Craven Cu,, N.C; — in
Charlotte, N. C, aged 86 years,
CHILDREN
Adam, Rigdon, Daniel, 1806, James, Wil
Uam, Maria, Hiram,

WilUam, 1742,
Asahel, 1743,
Gad, 1743,
Ezekiel, 1746;

1748,

William', Thomas*, Thoinas",
Thoiii^is"'. William* ; East Flart-
f.ird ; born in 1753 ; — 1811 ; mar
ried Jemima  , who — 1824.
CHILDREN
Prudence, 1772,
William, 1773,
Seth, 1776; — 1806,
James 1778,
Miriam, 1780,
Leonard, 1782,
Chester.
Joseph, 1786.
, Anson, 1788; — 1826.
Abner, 1790,
William". John Noyes', James*,
James", John®, WiUiam* ; Geneseo,
N. Y. ; never inarried ; was an ac
tive man, and achieved military
fame ; (see sketch of Ins brother
James) ; born 1761, Durham; —
1833-

244

WADSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

\Villiam", John', Benjamin*, John",
Sumuel®, Christopher* : Milton,
Mass. ; born 1768 ; — 1824 ; mar
ried Mary R. Vose, 1790.
CHILDREN,
Esther, 1 793 ; married Rev, J, 'Fucker,
Josiah, 1795.
Mary, 1801; married Warren Reed,

William',, Abiah", Sedate', Abiah*,
Elisha", Joseph®, Christopher*;
farmer ; Lincolnville, Me, ; born
in 1804; — 1863; married Mary
Drinkwater.He was an active inember of the
Methodist Church. There are upon
his tombstone these words: "An
honest man, the noblest "work of
God." They are expressive of the
sentiment of those who kne'w him.
CHILDREN.
Ansel, 1839.
Burton, 1840.
George.Louise, married Warren Pottle, Rockport,
Me,; has five children.

William', Peleg", Peleg', Peleg*,
John", John®, Christopher* ; Cali
fornia ; born 1S20 ; — 1856 ; mar
ried Lucv Bradford, Duxbury, in
*843i CHILDREN.
Flora A., 1845; married Charles E, Hub
bard, 1867,
EUa B,, 1852; raarried John W, Hubbard,
1879.

Williaji', Edward", Elijah', Jos
eph*, Joseph", Joseph®, William* ;
printer and editor of Portage Co.
Democrat ; Ravenna ; born 1820,
Canfield, Ohio ; — i860 ; inarried
Elizabeth R. King.

Edw.ard WilUam, 1S49; — 1875,
Frances EUzabeth ; married Dewey, Geneva,
Ohio. Charles Bailey, 1853,
Cora Bell, i860.

William', Ebenezer", David', Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; trader and a hotel
keeper ; Petersham, Mass. ; born
*793' — 1868; married Azuliah
Ingersoll, 1824 ; — 1876 ; aged 74.
Was commissioned Ensign by Gov.
John Brooks, July 4, 1821 ; Lieuten
ant, June 4, 1822, of a coinpany in the
Third Regiment, Second Brigade,
and Sixtii Division ; on the 5th day
of Alay, 1853, Captain of a Company
in the Light Infantry, find on the 3rd
day of July, 1826, Major of the Third
Regiment, by Gov. Levi Lincoln.
On July 19, 1826, Lieut. Col. of the
Third Regiment, and on the 21st of
June 1728, Gov. Lincoln commis
sioned him Col. of Third Regiment
of Infantry, Second Brigade, Sixth
Division of the militia of the Com
mon-wealth. children,
Mary 1825; — 1832,
Theodore, 1828; — 1828.
Charlotte, 1829; — 1835,
George W,, 1831,
Junius, 1832; — 1842,
Lucy 1837; — 1837,

William', Titus", Samuel',
Thomas*, Thomas", Thomas®. Wil
liam* ; cabinet maker and musi
cian ; PainsvUle, O. ; born 1822,
at Girard, Erie Co., Pa. ; inarried
Caroline  , 1847.
Was on board the steamer Erie,
when she was burned, and only twen
ty-eight out of three hundred saved.
He was one of the eight musicians,
of which all drowned but one other
and himself.

Alice, 1851; married C, L.Smith, Cam
bridge, Crawford Co., Pa,

William*. Franklin', Timothy",
Thomas', Tho 111 a s*, Thomas",
Tho 111 a s®, William* ; Methodist

W.YDSWORTH FAMILY' HISTORY.

245

Episcopal Clergyman ; New Hart
ford, N. Y. ; born 1823 ; — 1875 ;
married Nancy Parker.
He left a flattering business open
ing for the work ofthe ministry, and
in that profession he was a clear and
instructive preacher, a safe counsellor,
and an able expounder of the word
of God. His ministrations were at
Vernon Centre, Mount Upton, Nor
wich, Undalia and Cooperstown.
" His remains are resting in the cem
etery at New Hartford, to await the
resurrection morn." children.
WilUam M., i860,
Parker G,, 1862,
Erastus J., 1868,

William*, Alien', Solomon", Thom
as', Thomas*, Thomas", Thoinas®,
William* ; drayman ; at Hartford,
Conn. ; born about 1825 ; married
Fidelia  . No children.

William*, Josiah', WiUiam", John',
Benjamin*, John", Samuel®, Chris

topher*

indow shade manufac

turer ; Boston ; born 1826, Milton ;
inarried Maria Louise Littlefield.
children,
Etta Louise, 1854: — in infancy,
WiUiara Arthur, 1857,

William ; father's name James,
mother's name Nickless ; both lived
in England ; grandfather's- name
Nicholas, — 1830, aged 66 ; man
ufacturer of loom pickers ; Fall
River, Mass. ; born 1824, in Eng
land ; he married Martha Nevins,
1847. CHILDREN.
Mary, 1849,
Ellen, 1 85 1,
James, 186 1,
William^, Almon D.*, Elisha',
Elisha", Recompense', George*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Georgetown, Mich. ; born 1856.

William Alexander', Cephas",
Cephas', Peleg*, John", John®,
Christopher*; painter; Kingston,
Mass.; born 1824; niarried Mar
garet J. Cushman, 1846.
CHILDRE-N.
Arthur F,, 1850.
Kate C, — in infancy.
Cora A,, 1858,

William A. R.' ; Ebenezer", John',
John*, Joseph", Joseph®, Christo
pher* ; Cohoes, N. Y. ; born 1822 ;
inarried Ann Eliza Benedict. No
children.

William Austin*, ^V^Uialn Wal
cott', James", John Noyes',
James*, James", John®, William* ;
owns and manages a large amount
of real estate and other property ;
Geneseo, N. Y, ; born 1847.

William Arthur", William*, Josi
ah', William". John', Benjamin*.
John", Samuel®, Christopher';
salesman ; Boston ; born 1857.

William Baldwin", Charles*, Dav
id', David", David', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
of the firm of Wadsworth & White,
Wall Street brokers, and member
of the New York Stock Exchange ;
Plainfield, N, J. ; born 1849. New
York City ; married Mary M. Til-
ney, 1872, CHILDREN.
WUUam Baldwin, 1875,
Joseph Tilney, 1876,
Willard. 188 1,
William Bland; father, Thomas,
born in Long Buckly, near North
amptonshire, England, — in 1854,
at Elyria, O., aged 71 ; grand
father's name John ; has many rel
atives in this country ; Cleveland,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Ohio ; born 1818, Chingford, Eng
land, near London ; niarried Mary
Miller, 1841 ; 2d wife, Lydia Bar
nard, 1850. CHILDREN.
Mary Ella, 1842; married T, J. Adams,
Junietta, Neb,
William Franklin, 1844; Lincoln, Neb,
Charles Winston, 1847, Springfield, (),
Frank Arthur, 1850,
Kittie Louise, 1853,
Carrie, 1854; — 1855,
George Herbert, 1856.
John Barnard, 1858,

William Booth*, Titus V.', Sam
uel", David', Recompense*, Eben
ezer", Saniuel®, Christopher* ; min
ing ; Silver Clifls, Colorado ; born
1832, Henniker, N. H. ; inarried
Sarah J. Witherell. CHILDREN.
Minnie M,, 1862,
Jennie B,, 1865,
Lula, iS6S,

William Cook*, James Cowles',
Luke", James', Samuel*, Samuel",
John®, William' ; drygoods jobber ;
Davenport, Iowa; born in 1826;
married Annie Mitchell, 1858.
children,
WiUiam M,, 1859,
Henry T,, 1861,
Mary H,, 1879.

William Dwight*, Francis Living
ston', Seth", Jonathan', Recom
pense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®, Chris
topher* ; bookseller ; Montgomery,
Ala.; born 1846, Montgomery;
unmarried.
A member of the Masonic Frater
nity in 32d degree ; been Grand Mas
ter ofthe State of Alabama.

William F.', Elihu", David', Elihu*,
Ichabod", Joseph®, William* ; Ken-
(iallville, Ind. ; born in 1S32 ; —
1873 ; niarried M;irgaret Snyder.
CHILDREN,
Leona Kate, Nelis Franklin,

William H.9, Oliver Sardine*, Law-
ton', Jonathan", Jonathan', Re
compense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher*; Gunnison, Col.;
born 1845, at Wellington, Ohio ;
married Marcella Lowrev, 1870.
CHILDREN.
Charles Lowrey, 1871.

Willia.m Henry; born 1841, Hali
fax, Yorkshire, England ; father's
name Thomas, born 1817, lives in
England; grandfather George,
gre.at -grandfather William; one
brother George, resides at New-
York City; 53 West Third St.,
New York City ; inarried Sarah
Bramhall, 1865. CHILDREN,
Eliza Jane, i856.
Joseph Edward, 1868,
Frances Catherine, 1870,
Thomas Alfred, 1872,
Edith, 1874,
Ernest, 1876,
LiUian, 1880.

William Henry'', George*, Isaac',
Benjamin", John', Benjamin*,
John", Samuel®, Christopher*;
boat maker, of the firm of V. K.
& A. H. Jones ; Lynn, Mass. ; born
1850 ; married. CHILDREN.
Two boys.

William Lewis*, Lewis Sylvester',
Cephas", Cephas', Peleg*, John",
John®, Christopher* ; at Brockton,
Mass, ; born 1840.
William M.", WiUiam C.*, James
C, Luke", James', Samuel*," Sam
uel", John®, WiUiam* ; clerk ; born.
1859; Davenport, Iowa,
William M.", William*, Franklin',
Timothy", Thomas'. Thomas*,
Thomas", Thomas®, William';
Rockwell's Mills, Chenango Co.,
N. Y. ; born 1S60; marriedT8S2.

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

247

William Moulton*, Marcus North',
Thomas Fiart", Asahel', William*,
WiUiam", John®, William* ; farm
er ; Oswego, N. Y. ; born 1857;
married Rosie B. Tuckerman, 1879.

Hattie L,, 1879.

CHILDREN,

William Marsh^, Charles Drelin
court*, George Marsh', Joseph",
Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph", Joseph®,
WUliam* ; Brooklyn, N. Y. ; born
i8qv

William Marsh*, John Caton',
James Douglas", Joseph', Sam
uel*, John", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Yuba City, Sutter Co., Cal. ; born
1829; Morgan Co., 111.; inarried
S. M. Lovett, 1759; 2d wife, M.
J. Wynecoop, 1865.
CHILDREN,
WilUam U., 1867, '
Edson S,, 1868.
Frank A,, 1870.
Minnie E., 1873.
Jennie M,, 1879.
Eva M,, 18S2.

William Newton ; father's name
Arthur, now resides at Newark,
N. J., and has several brothers in
this country ; farmer ; Le Mars,
Plymouth Co., Iowa; born 1S52,
at Birmington, Eng. ; unmarried.
William O.*, Warner', Thomas",
Thomas', Thomas*, Thomas",
Thomas®, William* ; Racine, Wis. ;
born 1836.
William P.', John", Horace', Jona
than*, Jonathan", Joseph®, Wil
liam* ; 305 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
William Penn*, Peleg', Moses",
John', George*, Ebenezer", Sam
uel®, Christopher' ; insurance busi
ness, Bath, Me. ; born 1834, Gardi
ner ; marriedSarahE. Ballou, 1858.
CHILDREN,
NelUe ,V„ 1862,

William Perry*, Ebenezer Sackett',
John", John', John*, Joseph", Jos
eph®, Christppher* ; at Peekskill,
N, Y. ; born, 1847.

William R*, John Ogden', Elisha",
Recompense', George*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; dealer in
fruit and ornamental trees ; La
peer, Mich, ; born 1827, at Butler,
N. Y. ; married Mary Frances
Norton, 1853.

Albert B,, 1854.
Charles E,, 1857,
James A., i860,
WilUam R,, 1867,

WiLLiA.vi Reim; Weston, Ontario;
born 1804; inarried; wife — .
Fle came to America, in 1S28, and joined
his brother Charies, at Weston, Ontario, but
not Uking the country, he went to France,
After two years, he returned and went into
partnership with his brother Charles, under
the firra name of C. & W, Wadsworth, lumber
manufacturers. His fathers name was Thomas,
who died at Wavley, near Brentwood, Essex,
England, in 1805,' aged 35 years. He was
buried in a vault in South Weald church yard.
Upon the slab are the following inscriptions :
"Here lieth interred ye body of Mr. John Smith,
who departed this life ye 30th June, 1729, aged 37
vears. Also, Elizabeth, his wife, (one of the
daughters of Captain Nehemiah Earning), who
departed this life ye 23rd of April, 1733, aged 44
years Likewise, Thomas Wadsworth, late of this
Parish, who departed this life August the 25th,
180S, aged 35 years,"
His mother's maiden name was Sarah Bird.
His children, brothers and sisters of WiUiam
Reim were : —
Ehzabeth, who married George Richardson
of Essex, England; born 1799 — 1855, No
chUdren, Thomas Page, 1800 — 1862; at London,
Eng,, unmarried, and was buried at Kensal
Green Cemetery. (See portrait) He was
a captain in the East India company's service
and one of the oldest members of the reform
club. He commenced to follow the sea at the
age of nine years, and became an accom
plished man, knowing several languages, in
cluding that of Hindostan which much assisted
him in East India speculation. He was six

248

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

times shipwrecked and received several valu
able testiraonials frora those he rescued from
a watery grave,
Charles, 1801, (Sketcl* and portrait in
this book,
Williara Reim's grandfather was a freeman
of the City of London, though his family was
in Yorkshire. He was contractor for the large
barracks at Warley, His mother's maiden
narae was Elizabeth Bayley of Brook Street,
Essex, England, and niece of Sir Charles
Wager, who is buried in Westminister Abbey,
CHILDREN.
.Thomas Page, 1838,
Vernon Bayley, 1845,
William' Reim, manager of the Bank of
Toronto, Port Hope, Ontario,
Elizabeth, married Thomas R, Wadsworth,
Sarah Louise,
Britannia,

William Richmond*, William Rom
eo', Romeo", William', William*,
William", John®, WiUiam* ; Brook
lyn, N. Y. ; born 1840; inarried
Lillian L. S. Barker, 1863.

CHILDREN.

William Richmond, 1864,
Edwin Stanley, 1867.

William Romeo', Romeo", Wil
liam', William*, Williani", John®,
William* ; San Francisco, Cal. ;
now at 60 Wyckofl" St., So. Brook
lyn, N. Y. ; born 1807, New York
City ; inarried Viola Longworthy,
1833-

Benjamin Cutter, 1834,
William Richmond, 1840,
John Alonzo, 1842.
Henry Darcey, 1844; — in infancy.

William Stevens", Reuben', Jos
eph*, Joseph", Joseph®, William' ;
Hartford; born 1783; — IBS'!;

married Catherine Bunce, in 1815 ;
2d Elizabeth Seymour, 1830.

CHILDREN.

Elizabeth, i8i6; — 1868; married Horatio
W. Shipman.
Frances A., 1818; married James Terry, Pa.
Charles R., 1819,
Jane, 1822; unmarried.

William W.*, Joseph', Joseph",
John', John*, Joseph", Joseph®,
Christopher' ; St. Paul, Minnesota ;
born in Pompey, Onondago, Co.,
N. Y., 181S; married Louisa Mor
ton, 1843.

CHILDREN,

Sophia a,, 1S44 — ig
Louise R,, 1849,
A, Frank, 1852.
Alraa J,, 1854,

William Wallace', John Marsh",
Ambrose', Joseph*, Joseph", Jos
eph®, William* ; farmer; Hastings,
Oswego Co., N. Y. ; born 1836,
West Monroe, N. Y. ; married to
Charlotte R. S. Brimmer, 1863,

Fielen Theresa, 1866.
James WiUiam, 1868,
Edith Josephine, 1870,
Mary Lorena, 1872,

William AVhite, Daniel, William,
Ignatius ; (see Ignatius) ; lumber
merchant and manufacturer ; in
Wadsworth, Autouga Co., Ala. ;
born in same County, 1S41 ; mar
ried to Idella Pauline Thompson,
1866. CHILDREN.
William Mtilcolm, 1867,
Frances Ellen 1871,
Sally Magnolia, 1875,
Mary Idella, 1882,

wadsworth FAMILY HISTORY,

249

William Wolcott', James", John
Noyes', James*, James", John®,
William* ; Geneseo, N. Y. ; born
1810; — 1852 ; married Emeline
Austin, of Boston, 1846.
children.
WiUiam Austin, 1847.
Livingston, 1849; — 1855,
Fierbert, 1 851,

Williard*, David', David", David',
Recompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher* ; Flopkinton, Mass. ;
born 1800; — ; he inarried Eliza
Spring. CHILDREN.
Joseph Sraith 1836.

Williard Johnson', Seth", Jona
than', Recompense*, Ebenezer",
Samuel®, Christopher* ; farmer ;
Portage Co., Ohio ; born in 1801 ;
— 1872; married Edith Dewey.
CHILDREN.
Wilson S, 1844,
Cordelia C, ; married Collins; resides in
Edgarton, Johnson Co,, Kansas,

Willis^, John Milton*, John Og
den', Elisha", Recompense',
George*, Ebenezer", Saniuel®,
Christopher*; Fairhaven, Cayuga
Co., N. Y. ; born 1845, at Wol
cott ; inarried. CHILDREN.
MUton, Earnest, Carieton,

Wilson S.*, AVilliard Johnson',
Seth", Jonathan', Recompense*,
Ebenezer", Samuel®, Christopher* ;
Eureka .Springs, Ark. ; born 1844 ;
niarried Jennie Loftus, 1871.
CHILDREN.
.Archie, 1872; — in infancy.

Winthrop M.', Thoinas Hart",
Asahel', William*, Williain",
John®, William* ; farmer ; Farm
ington, Conn.; born 181 2; mar
ried Lucy A. Ward, 1853.
He occupies the freehold which has been
in the possession of his lineal ancestors for
five generations, since 1682, Is the oldest
selectman in service in the state, having held
the position of first selectman of Farmington,
twenty-two years, vvhich position he now holds.
He is also president of the State Dairymen's
Association of Connecticut, Has several
times served as representative to the State
Legislature, He has been president of the
Farmington Creamery from the time it was
first started. This was the first association of
the kind started in New England, He has
been president of the Union Agricultural
Society, comprising five towns, for fifteen
years, Fle is also a charter member of the
Farmington Savings Bank, which has now a
deposU of nearly i2, 000,000, and has always
been one of its directors. CHILDREN,
Ward M,, 1854; — 1878,
Adrian R,, 1855,
Harry FL, 1857,
Frederick A„ 1858.
Frank FL, 1859,
IsabeUa, i860 — in infancy,
George B,, 1864,

Willis T.*, Seth', Seth", Dura',
Peleg*, John", John®, Christo
pher* ; Hiram, Me. ; born 1857.

Wiswell', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher*; Duxbury, .Mass.;
born 1770 ; — 1854 ; niarried Cath
erine Bigford, of Boston, 1813.
Went to sea at the age of 13 years,
and was in the service thirty years.
Afterwards held a position in the

w,\nswoRTH familv history.

Boston Custom House for nearly
twenty-two years. CHILDREN,
Alfred Wiswell, 1824.

Xenophon', Seth", Jonathan'. Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer", Samuel®,
Christopher*; farmer; Windham,
Ohio; born 1792, Becket, Mass. ;
— 1835, Windham, Ohio ; married
Lucina M, Messenger, 1819,
CHILDREN,
Francis Orton, 1819.
Elmer Dwight, 1820,
John Almon, 1822,
Julia, 1824, deceased wife of J, A, Morgan,
Terre Haute, Ind.
Isabel, 1827; married E, M, Parmiter, St,
Louis, Edwin, 1830 — 1852,
EmUy Madura; married William R, Elder
of Terre Haute.

Zelophed', Seth", Jonathan', Rec
ompense*, Ebenezer". Samuel®,
Christopher*; farmer; Windham,
Ohio ; born 1797, Becket, Mass. ;
— Windham, Ohio ; married Han
nah Maria Lovejoy, 1825.

James; Clarissa, married Noble; Charles;
Martha, married Greenleaf

Zenith', Wait*, Elisha", Joseph®,
Christopher* ; Duxbury ;born 1766 ;
— 1832 ; married Mahala Winsor.
CHILDREN,
^OUve, 1797; married Ahira Wadsworth,
Rufus, 1799.
John, 1801 ; — 1822,
Daniel, 1803,
.Uden, 1805,
Mahala, 1807; married iir, Thompson; 2d
Thomas Blasland, South Boston,
Harvey, 1811,
Laurence, 1813.

INDEX OF NAMES OF THOSE WHO HAVE ALLIED THEM
SELVES WITH THE WADSWORTHS BY MARRIAGE.

Abby, 238.
Adams, IGl, 192,218, 24(j,
Additon, 105, 190, 201.
Alden, 19,!, -204, 234,
Alexander, 1S3.
Alford, 163, 167.
Allen, 190, 213, 232,
Allyn, IS2.
Amden, 208.
Araes, 157.
Anderson, 202.
Andrews, 169, 202, 214, 221.
Angel, IM.
Angle, 233.
Anthony, 214.
Arnold, ISO, 223, 235, 238,
Ashley, 209, 243.
Attwood, 165, 239,
Austin, 218, 249.
Ayers, 218.
Babcock, 157.
Bacon, 221.
Bailey, 178, 221,
Baker, 210, 236, 248,
Baloh, 156,
Baldwin, 160, 163,
Ball, 223,
Ballard, 152.
Ballou, 247,
Barber, 207.
Barbour, 21R,
Barker, 170, 208.
Barnard, 213, 246.
Barnes, 153, 163, 214, 223, 2-20, 231,
Barrett, 164, 214,
Barrows,, 231,
Bai-stow, 172,
Bartlett, 164, 202, 224,
Bassian, 241.
Battell, 177.
Baum, 210.
Bayley, 248.
Baylor, 151.

Bean, 209,
Beard , 230.
Beardsley, 1,18.
Beebee, 179.
Beers, 17,"),
Beckley, 238,
Bellinger, 2S23,
Benedict, 245.
Benjamin, 242,
Benton, 175, 183, 206, 225,
Bevens, 179.
Bibber, 232,
Bidwell, 1,=)2, 18H,
Bigford, 249.
BiUington, 1G5.
Bird, 182, 223, 247,
Bishop, 222,
Blackleth, 213,
Blaekmore, 218,
Blackstone, 189,
Blanchard, lil2,
Blasland, 250,
Bliss, 308, 223.
Blondin, 228,
Blood, lii7, 188, 230,
Boardman, 156, 176, 22S,
Bolckom, 193,
Bond, 168,
Boston, 241.
Bosworth, 1(;5, 172, 183,
Bounce, 243,
Bowdich, 196,
Bow-en, 20S, 209,
Bradbrook, 163,
Bradbury, 209,
Bradford, 170,224, 241,244,
Bradlee, 240,
^ Bradley, 188, 221,
Bramhall, 246,
Breckenriage, 175.
Brewster, 303,
Briggs, 183, 195, 204,
Brigham, 156.
Brimmer, 177, 197. 248,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Brinson, 339,

Coe, 208,

Broadbent, 314,

Colby, 215,

Brook, 207.

Cole, 164, I7L

Brooks, 171,239.

Collier, 212,

Brown, 175, 213, 215, 2](;,

Collins, 176, 249,

Bruce, 230.

Colton, 235,

Brummell, 162,

Cone, 165,

Bryant, 206.

Cook, 213, -243,

Buck, 178, 213, 343,

Cooke, 198, 240,

Bucknam, 190,

Cooledge, 1.50.

Buell, IG9,

Cooley, 209,

Buffum, 174,

Copeland, 1,57,

Bull, 212.

Corbin, 174,

Bullard, 205, 224.

Cornwall, 171.

Bullis, 230.

Coster, 174,

Bunnell, 199.

Cowles, 202, 240,

Burbank, 225.

Covell, 223,

Burbee, 211.

Cozine, 166.

Burden, 1()2,

Crafts, 211.

Burgess, 2,30,

Craig, 163, 230,

Burnham, 239,

Crockett, 1,58,

Burr, 237, 243.

Cummings, 214,

Burrington. 308.

Curtis, '209, 217, 220,

Burrows, 180, 189, 210,

Cushman, 170, 204, 24,'),

Burt, 220,

Cutter, 18,-),

Butler, 176, 180, 192,
Butterfleld, 163, 170,
Cady, 211.
Caldwell, 175, 177,
Camp, 210, 243,
Canfleld, 207,
Cannon, 211,
Capen, ,1CS, 3-28,
Carey, 223,
Carpenter, 160, 18S, 205, 230,
Carris, 191,
Carter, 230.
Case, 242.
Chadburn, 176,
Chaffee. 2]4,
Chambers, 18C.
Chaney, 175.
Chandler, 185, 189, 241,
Chapman, 163, 215,
Chase, 136, 186, 316,
Chedsey, 211,
Cheeney, 204,
Cheever, 183,
Christian, 180,
Church, 227.
Claflin, 168,
Clapp, 205.
Clark, 177, 214, 2111, 2,36, 237. 243.
Clarke, 174, 231.
Clemens, 163, 180, 32M, 232, 2,35,
Cobb, 227.
Coburn, 193.
Cooke, 240.

Cults, 236.
Dame, 215,
Daniels, 207,
Davenport, 211,
Davies, 179,
Davis, 1,32, 170, 188,210, 230, ?33
Dawson, 183.
Day, 3-22.
Dean, 167, 303.
De Koven, 218.
Delano, 227,
Delavan, I9S,
Dennis, 192.
Dennison, 131,
Denny, 160.
Dewey.205, 244, 249.
De Wolf, 206,
Dibble, 226,
Dickinson, 173, 200,
Dixon, 166.
Doane, 186.
Dodge, 153.
Doolittle, 213,
Dorrance, 22ii.
Douglass, 229,
Dow, 285.
Downs, 219,
Drake, 164, 194.
Drinkwater, 244,
DriscoU, 178.
Drehmer, 186.
Drew-, 149, 150, 214, 2-24, 241,
Dubois, 336,

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

^53

Dunham, 201.

Gay, 206, 220.

Dunning, 223,

Gaylord, 180, 183.

Durgin, 165, 232,

Gibson, 215,

Dwinnell, 230.

Gifford, 184,

Eames, 175.
Earl, 205,
Eaton, 216,
Eddy, 165,
Edgecomb, 181.
Edson, 215.
Edwards, 160, 162.
Eells, 191,
Ela, -201,
Elder, 181, 250.
Eldridge, 183,
ElUott,198, 200, 230, 331.
Emerson, 174, 200. 219.
Ensworth, 180, 189.
Estep, 186.
Estes, 178
Eustis, 337,
Fair, 181,
Fairfleld, 151,
Farnum, 168, 213,
Farr, 2-23,
Faulhurst, 174,
Faunce, 341.
Felch, 231,
Felton, 173, 234.
Fenn, 184, 239,
Fenno, 202,
Ferguson, 153, 196, 234.
Fiddgmont, 191.
Field, 153, 161.
Fielden, 154
Filer, 184, 240,
FUley, 191.
Fisher, 316.
Fitch, 218.
Flagg, 213,
Florence, 158.
Foote, 163,
Forbes, 171, 221, 2,33,
Ford, 150, 205.
Forwood, 233.
Foster, 169, 204, 230.
Fowler, 171, 195, 213, 239.
Fox, 233.
Francis, 196, 230.
• Freeman, 153, 194.
Fritts, 193,
Frost, 197, 312,
Fuller, 302, 215.
Furness, 151.
Gardner, 207,
Garrett, 208.
Garside, 215.

Giles, 1.59,
GiUette,210, 2,33, 340
Ginby, 189.
Glover, 156.
Gold, 239.
Goodier, 301, 240.
Goodman, 193,213.
Goodridge, '230.
GoodseU, 155,
Goodwin, 131, 166, 193, 210, 223,
Gordon, 217,
Gould, 189, 225.
Granger, 190 2-29,
Graves, 1.57, 231),
Gray, 153, 178,
Green, 23,),
Greenleaf, 250,
Greenwood. 216.
Gridley, 202, 2-23, 238
Grimshaw, 216.
Gross, 237-
Grove, 147,
Guernsey, 196,
Haddock, 188.
Hakes, 159,
HaU, Hosmer,
Halsey, 183, 189.
Haly, 241.
Harailton, 158.
Hammond, 184, 223,
Hancock, 185,
Handy, 174,
Hardie, 183,
Harden, 233,
Hardy, 150,
Harlan, 166,
Harlow, 182,
Harrington, 231,
Harris, 181, 193, 300, 215, 219.
Harrison, 171,
Hart, 206, 323, 243,
Harvey, 311.
Haskins, 236.
Hassen, 333.
Hawes, '230,
Hawthorn, 183-
Hayden, 183,
Haynes, 217,
Head, 149.
Heald, 334,
Heaton. 330.
Hendree, 2,'i6,
Hendrickson, 151.
Henry, 230.
Herrick, 181,

254

WADSWORTH FAMILY HISTORY.

Hewett, 168, 212,
Hewins, 195,
Hicks, 216.
Higley, 163, 217.
Hills, '238,
HUton, 151.
Hine, 173,
Hitchcock, 334,
Hixley, 181.
Hixon, 164.
Hoadley, 181,
Hobart, 226,
Hobson, 156.
Holden, 168.
Holliston, 206,
HoUister, 185.
Holmes, 151.
Homer, 100.
Hood, 200.
Hooker, 320.
Hopkins, 176, 209.
Hosley, 185.
Hotchkiss, 169, 230.
Houghton, 156.
Houston, 211.
Hovey, 213,
Howard, 165,170.
Howe, 171, 175, 220.
Howland, 241.
Hubbard, 223, 344.
Hulbert, 150, 183.
Hull, 226.
Humphries, 203.
Hunt, 193, 228, 341.
Huntington, 159, 191.
Huntress, 151, 175,
Hutchinson, 330, 332.
Ingalls, 163, 181.
Ingersoll, 197, '244.
Isham, 159, 323.
Iwagn, 173.
Jenkins, 232.
Jerome, 199.
Johnson, 156, 179, 305, 223.
Jones, 191,
.lordan, 195.
Joslin, 193,
Joslyn, 107.
Josselyn, 207.
Judd, 174, 180, 191.
Judson, 174, 228.
Keatin, 239.
Keene, 241.
Kelley, 219.
KeUy, 177, ,
Kellogg, 186, 212.
Kennedy, IBS,

Kennelly, 1,55.
Kenney, 186,
Kenyon, 186.
Keyle, 181.
Keys, 198,
Kidnay, 185.
Kilber, 1.54,
Kilbourne, 198.
Kilbrith, 19,5.
KUburn, 240,
Kindig, 190,
King, 177, 217, -244,
Kingsbury, 320,
Kingsley, 213,
Kirby, 1,54, '2:i3, -242.
Kirke, 236.
Kuight, 158,
Knox, 232,
Lamb, 167.
Langdon, 240.
Langood, 196.
La Sang, 241.
Latimer, 218,
Lattimer, 175,
Lawrence, 330.
Lawton, 219,
Lemans, 231.
Ledyard, '231,
Lee, 214, 239.
Lees, 201.
Leighton, 198.
Leonarcf, 181, 307, 219, 229,
Lewis, 158, 159, 162, 196, 233, 243.
Libby, 163,221.
Lindall, '228.
Little, 192.
LltUefleia, 245.
Locham, 236,
Locke, 160.
Loftus, 349.
Loker, -201.
Longfellow, '2-24.
Longworthy, 24S.
Loomis, '2'23, an.
Lord, 159,
Loring, 156.
Lovejoy. 250.
Lovett, '247.
Low, 187.
Lo-wrey, 246.
Lowry, 222, 340.
Lyman, 169, 182,
Lyon, 226.
Main, 1,35.
Mallory, 1,39,
Mange, ',!27,
Manley, 218.

W-ADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORY.

255

ManviUe, 231.
Marriner, 184,
Marsh, 133, 180, 199, 211, 313.
Marshall, 183, 193.
Martin, 163, '207, 212.
Masi, 206,
Mason, 1,30.
Mathes, 167.
Matthews, 188, '234,
May, 182,
McClelland, 234.
McCoy, -241,
McDonald, 182,
McDonough, 180.
BtcElroy, 215,
McGaghran, 207,
McGaw, 217.
McGlue, 189,
Mclntire, '233.
McKay, 214,
McLean, 188, -227,
MoMorlne, 1,33.
McXitt, 227,
Mears, 174, '223,
Merriam, 168.
Messenger, 249.
Metcalf, 169, 186, 217, 334,
Miller, 153, 167, 186, ¦2'29, '234, 2:!5, 246.
Miner, 197.
Mitchell, 199, -246,
Mix, 188.
Monk, 164,
Moore, '225.
Morehouse, 210.
Morey, 226,
Morgan, 1,52, "249,
Morril), '242,
Morris, 19-2, 194.
Morser, 175.
Morton, 167, 185 213,248,
Mott, 208.
Mould, 200.
Moulton, 327,
Mowe, 219,
Murray. 197.
Muzzy, 221,
Myers, 216.
Nason, '226, 240,
Neal, 304.
Nealy, 174.
Nevins, 243.
Newbury, 179,
Newton, 313.
Nichols, 188, '2'28,
Nickless, '243-
Noble, 2.50.
Norris, 167,
North. 239.
Norton, 207, 231, '247,

Nowlin, 209.
Noyes, 196, '223,
Nye, 182,
Ogden, 177,
Olcutt 168.
Olmstead, 242,
Orcutt, 165, 180, 213
Ormsby, 233.
Osgood, 196,335,

Packard, 184.
Page, 201, 223,
Paine, 188.
Paisley, 1,33,
Palraer, 195, 107,
Parker, 1.53, 136, 168, 176, 205, 312, 243
Parmiter, 250.
Parrot, 202,
Parsons, 1.51,1,59,210,
Partlow, 169.
Patten, 179.
Paul, 164, 168.
Payne, 187, 233,
Pearson, 1.50.
Peck, 207, '283, '240.
Penfleld, 196.
PenneU, 189.
Perkins, 158, 209, 219.
Perry, 206, 233.
Peters, 166.
Peterson, 187, 193.
Pew, 176.
Phelps, 201, 236,
PhUlips, 164, 169, 187, 198, 203,
Pierce, 303, 237.
Pink)iam,153, '222.
Pitcher, 132, 188,
Plummer, 178.
Poindexter, 1.59.
Polsey, 163.
Pomeroy. 236.
Porter, 194, 201, 203, 229.
Post, 200.
Potter, 238.
Pottle, 1.54, 244,
PoweU, 3'24.
Pratt, 156,1.57,189 227,
Prentice, 3'27.
Preston, 178.
Price, 209.
Priest, 2'23,
Prior, 191,227,
Puck, 192.
Purington, 189.
Putnam, "236,

Quackenbos, -311.

1,6

WADSWORTH FAMILV HISTORY.

Radcliffe, 150,
Randall, 161, 174.
Eaymond, 153.
Kaynes, 230.
Record, 177,
Reed, 197,-2,'i2, '233, '244.
Eeynolds, 164, 183.
Eice, 216.
Richardson, 209, 235.
Richman, 203,
Ridout, 241,
Rightmore, 316.
Ritchie, '200, 231.
Robbins, 176, 304.
Roberts, 231.
Eobinson, 153, 161, 170, 183, 19S.
Eockwell, 168, 174, 3,39.
Eogers, 300,
Root, 202, 223, 243,
Rounds, 225.
Route, 180,
Rowe, 232, 239.
Rowlandson, 330.
Eoyce, 183, 232.
Eudd, -234,
Euggles, 156.
RusseU, 164, 187,201.
Sabine, 185, 212,
Safford, 169.
Salmon, 177.
Sampson, 1,30, 158, 224, 241,
Savage, 158.
Sawyer, 182,
Sayles, 218.
Schenck, 239.
Schofleld, 173, 216,
Scott, 171.
Scovel, 1,39,
Scranton, 342.
Scudder, 16i.
Seward, 214.
Seymour, 191, 212, 218, 237, 238, 248.
Sharpley, 156.
Shead, 231.
Sherman, 186,
Sherwood, 176.
Shipman, '248.
Silverthorn, 198.
Sisson, 235,
Slater, 225,
Sledge, 173.
Slocum, 213.
Smith, 154, 178, 179, 183, 184, 189, 190, 193, 20
210, 21R, '223, 240, 243, 244,
Snow, 156, 213.
Snyder, 346.
Solomon, 206.
Soule, 172, 306, 334, 241.
Southee,185,

Spaulding, 178, 223,
Spencer, 156,
Sprague, 160, 202, 229,
Spratt, 209.
Sprout, 203.
Sprmg, 225, 2'36, 249.
Stamford, 178.
Stanley, 202, 240.
Stanwood, 187.
Stearns, 171.
Stephens, '234,
Sletson, 234,
Stevens, 149, 183, 186, 204, 221, 220,
Stewart, 196, 308.
Stiles, 217,
Stillman, 201,
Stluson, 180,
St, Johns, 157,
Stoddard, 217,
Stone, 3-23, 225, 243,
Storer, 173.
Stoughton, 343.
Stoui, 185,
Stradley, '235.
Stratton, 171,
Strong, 234,
Stuart, 173, 193.
Styles, 235.
Sullivan, -239,
Sumner, 208.
Sutciiffe, 187,
Swathell, '243.
Sweet, '321,
Switt, 171, 202,318, 236.
Sylvester, 159, 197, '225.
Taft, 213.
Talbot, 219,
Talcott, 167, 187.
Tanner, 173,
Tash, 216,
Taylor, 158, 170.
Tenney, 199.
Terry, 201, 243, -248,
Thatcher, '209.
Thayer, 178.
Thing, 153
Thompson, 165, 2'2S, 248, 2,50.
TUden, ls2,
Tilnej . '245.
Tipton, 209.
Tisdale, 2'23,
Tolman, 202.
Tomlinson, 323,
Townsend, 211.
Travers, 200.
True, 231.
TrumbuU, 166.
Tubbs, 193,
Tuck, 205.

\V.\DSWORTII FAMILV HISTORY.

^57

Tucker, 156, '205, 2'26, 244,
Tuckerman, 247,
Turner, lb2, 208,
TuthiU, 190.
Tuttle, 213.
Tyler, 161, 240,
Ulmer, 176.
Van Akin, 190.
Van Deasen, 224,
Van Gasbeck, 249,
Van Voorhees, 243,
Veits, 240.
Verdie, 202,
Vilby, 183,
\'incent, 171.
^'odges, 165.
Vose, 156, 202, '344,
Vrooman, 219,
Wadsworth, 150, 155, 1,56, 160, 193, 198, 205, ¦2'23,
'225, '226, 230, 233, '239, '248, 2.50,
Wager, 248,
Wait, 313,
Walker, '2-24.
Walton, 185,
Ward, 210, 236, 241, -249,
Warlau'l, 173.
Warner, 207, 238.
Warren, 201, 206, 312, 215. 2:!3,
Washburn, 155, 1,58,
Watson, '228.
Webb, 186.
Webber, 2,33, '239,
Weber, 222,
Webster, 194, 199, 204,
Welch, 210.
Weldon, 177.
Wells, 151,172,222,
Wentworth, 171, 189, 218,

Wessells, 199.
Weston, 204, '241,
Wetherbee, 230.
Wharton. 200.
Wheeler, 203, 216, 222, 232,
Whipple, 168,
White, 204.
Whiting, 193,214, 232.
Whitman, 218.
^Vhitney, 192, 206.
Whittemore, 165,
Whittelsey, 191, 197, 237,
Wiedman, 182,
Wilber. 237.
Wilcox, '243.
Willard, 168, 171, 225,
WUlett, 206.
Williams, 1,56, 166, 195, 21)3, 218,
Wilson, 232.
Winslow, 174.
Winsor, 172, 189,241,250.
Wiseman, 154, 184,
Wiswell, 178, 202
Witherby, 165.
Witherell, 246,
Withington, 164, '230,
Wolcott, 197,
Wood, 197, 207,
Woodford, 178,
Woodruff, 156.
Woodward, 158, 159, 185, '2(13, -235.
Woodworth, 169.
Wooley, 173,
Woolson, 217,
Wormall, 164,
Worthirigti>n,242, Wriaht, 1,34, 163, 187, '223, '238,
Wynecoop 347.
Yale, 161,
Young, '2'23. '241,