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ADDRESS,

DELIVERED IN THE FIRST CHURCH, BRIGHTON, FEB. 14, 1855,

AT THE FUNERAL OF

MRS. SUSANNA [PARK] CHAMPNEY,

WHO DIED i^B. 10, IN HER 95TH YEAR.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING A GENEALOGICAL NOTICE OF THE CHAMPNEY AND

PARK FAMILIES.

By

FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY,

PASTOR OF THE CHURCH.

BOSTON:
CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

111 Washington Street.
1855.

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ADDRESS,

DELIVERED IN THE FIRST CHURCH, BRIGHTON, FEB. 14, 1855,

AT THE FUNERAL OF

MRS. SUSANNA [PARK] CHAMPNEY,

WHO DIED FEB. 10, IN HER 95TH YEAR.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING A GENEALOGICAL NOTICE OF THE CHAMPNEY AND

PARK FAJHLIES. •

BY

FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY,

PASTOR OP THE CHXmCH-

BOSTON:
CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

111 Washington Street.
1855.

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HYMN

SnNG BEFORE THE ADDRESS.

When in the vale of lengthened years

My feeble feet shall tread,
And I survey the various scenes

Through which I have been led,

How many mercies will my life

Before my view unfold !
What countless dangers will be past,

What tales of sorrow told !

And yet my soul, if thou canst say,

I 've seen my God in all,
In every blessing owned his hand,

In every loss his call ; —

If piety has marked my steps.
And love my actions formed,

And purity possessed my heart,
And truth my lips adorned ; —

If I an aged servant am

Of Jesus and of God,'
I need not fear the closing scene,

Nor dread the appointed road.

This scene will all my labors end ;

This road conduct on high ;
With comfort I '11 review the past,

And triumph though I die.

ADDRESS.

The sentiments of the h>Tnn whicli has just been
sung- harmonize with the life and character of the
venerable mother and friend whose remains lie before
us. It was her happiness, especially, to see God in
all the experiences of life ; to own his hand in her
blessings ; and in earthly bereavements and losses to
hear his call. And while a spirit of filial piety ever
possessed her heart, while love and good-will towards
all around her marked her actions, and while truth
adorned her lips, the aged servant of Jesus and of
God had no fear for the closing scene of life, nor did
she dread the appointed road. As her earthly labors
drew to an end, she found comfort in reviewing the
past ; and through her meek trust in her Heavenly
Father, and in Jesus Christ her Saviour, she was en-
abled to triumph over death.

That aged form comes into this house of our wor-
ship to be for the first time an unconscious sharer in
the religious services of the place. She loved the
church of Christ. Its hymns and prayers, its hal-
lowed rites, its wonted meditations, were dear to her
heart. For the last time that aged form comes in
hither, as if bearing its final witness to the reality

and efficacy of that Christian faith which has been
the support and solace and exceeding great reward
of her lengthened life.

As the oldest inhabitant of this town, she claims a
brief notice in the services of this hour. The fore-
most of all who dwell here on the journey of life,
and that life too so adorned with the Christian graces
and virtues which caused her to be loved on earth,
and, as we humbly trust, of God and of Christ, she
may make an exception to the usage which has ever
seemed to me best, — that the voice of prayer, the
hallowed words of the Bible, and the chanted hymn,
should alone be heard in the funeral rites. I know
her gentle spirit would rebuke me were many words
to be spoken here of her worth, and of that Chris-
tian preparation for an exchange of worlds which,
through God's grace, she had made. " Say," she
once observed to me, as we were conversing together
on the event of death, — " Say, if you speak in my
funeral, how good God has been to me, though a
poor, unworthy creature ; say how many kind friends
I have had, and how many mercies I have enjoyed ;
and till then, remember me in your prayers, that I
may be prepared to meet my Heavenly Father and
my Saviour." And so briefly let me tell, as before
those who have been witnesses of her fidelity, the
simple story of her life. Gratefully we recall here,
before the body goes down to its last resting-place,
the memory of her long and useful career; her beau-
tiful example; her devotion to the duties of life;
her strong affections; her patience and submission
to the Divine appointments; her childlike trust in
the Lord, which, as the light of earth gradually with-

drew, sustained her spirit, and shed in her heart
the more glorious light of God's countenance and
the prospect of a better world.

Our friend was a native of this place. Only a few
feet of earth separated the spot of her birth from the
house that became at her marriage, and was ever
after, her happy home, and in which she yielded up
her spirit. She was born on the 10th of October,
1760, and died on the 10th of February, 1855, so
that ninety-four years and four months were com-
pleted on the day of her death. She was the daugh-
of Thomas and Elizabeth (Harrington) Park, an
early family of this town, then the south end of Cam-
bridge. Her father was of the fourth generation in
lineal descent from Eichard Park, who was a pro-
prietor at Cambridge in 1636, and whose large es-
tate of six hundred acres, on which he shortly settled,
lay in Newton, on the northwestern border of Brigh-
ton. Her mother died before she had reached her
seventh year. Her father, whose house was over the
present cellar of INIr. Daniel Shillaber's house, on
Washington Street, shortly after exchanged his es-
tate here with Mr. James Bryant, for two estates in
Connecticut, one in Tolland and one in Mansfield,
and removed his residence to the latter town. In
the year 1776, at the age of sixteen, she came to re-
side with her oldest sister, Mrs. George Dana, at
Ashburnham in this State, and was there twelve
years. She then returned to the place of her birth
and to the family of her brother, Mr. Joshua Park,
whose estate was on the boundary line between
Newton and. this town, not far from the northeast
corner of Evergreen Cemetery. In her brother's

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home she was married on the second day of February,
1792, to Nathaniel Champney, son of Solomon and
Rebecca (Brown) Champney of this place, a descend-
ant in the sixth generation of Elder Richard Champ-
ney, one of the first settlers of Cambridge, one of the
earliest benefactors of Harvard College, and an hon-
ored and esteemed officer in the first Cambridge
church, whose home was on this side of the river.
From the day of her marriage she resided in the
same house in which she died, — a period of sixty-
three years, — an example to her household in the
domestic virtues ; unwearied in her endeavors to do
good to those about her; the frequent and favorite
attendant on the sick and sufiering ; the faithful and
affectionate wife and mother and daughter and sister ;
the kind neighbor ; the steadfast friend ; the humble,
consistent Christian believer, whose society was wel-
comed alike by the old and young.

The first bereavement in her immediate family she
sustained on the 12th of November, 1826, in the
sudden death of her husband, after a most happy
union of thirty-four years. It is now almost thirty
years since his body was borne for its burial service
into this church, on whose worship he had been a
very constant attendant, and who for his private
virtues and his public services enjoyed to an uncom-
mon extent the confidence and esteem of his fellow-
citizens. Twice after this event, but not until she
had gone far into the vale of years, was her home
saddened by the angel of death. Two of her three
children, a daughter and a son, successively, were
summoned before her to the spiritual world ; both at.
the head of families, and both from the midst of use-

ful and Christian lives. It was at the penod of the
first of these bereavements that I became acquainted
with her, at the opening of my ministry. These griefs
went close to the heart of the aged survivor. But
neither did bereavements, nor any of the experiences
of her long life, shake her confidence in the wisdom
and benignity of the Divine Providence. With the
Apostle, she knew in whom she had believed. She
rested in the Saviour's promise of many mansions in
the Father's house ; and with the Christian's serene
and hopeful faith, she looked forward to a happy re-
union with the good who had gone before her, as en-
couraged to do by the words of the Redeemer.

And now, through almost an entire century, she
has dwelt below. What changes and vicissitudes in
human affairs has she witnessed ! She has survived
through the entire period usually allotted to three
distinct generations. How few of her own genera-
tion are now on the earth! Born in 1760 ! There
was then no United States of America. The French
and the English were fighting their old battles on
our north. The former were defeated by the latter
at Quebec, the very year in which our venerable
friend was born. Wars and revolutions and trea-
ties for peace are prominent in the history of the
period. The independence of the Colonies, the exist-
ence of a great Republic here, was not thought of.
The Boston Massacre, the Stamp Act, the destruc-
tion of the tea, the Boston Port Bill, those memora-
ble events which so convulsed the times and rocked
the cradle of our Revolution, occurred, severally,
ten and thirteen and fourteen years after her birth.
She was almost sixteen years old on the declaration

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of American Independence. She shared in the wide-
spread joy at the treaty of peace with Great Britain,
the very year in which this ancient church, the place
of her worship, then the third church of Cambridge,
received its first settled minister. The period of her
birth was but the day of small things with our be-
loved University, now so munificently endowed and
furnished. The yearly average of its graduates was
not quite one quarter as large before her birth as in
the years since. The church which stood on this
spot, and two others, were all then existing in the
town of Cambridge. She lived till thirty churches
had been embodied in the territory embraced at her
birth by these three alone. Her name stands among
the earliest on the list of communicants in this
church; and here, with her husband, she offered
each of her children in Christian baptism. And it
seems to me but a short time since that venerable
form, now still in death, sat here in her accustomed
seat, and partook with us of the emblems of the Sav-
iour's love and death.

Peacefully and trustingly she passed into the vale
of lengthened years. Very gently did the Lord lay
on her the infirmities of advanced life. Her excel-
lent habits, her calm and genial spirit, had nurtured
a firm constitution, and her powers and faculties of
body and of mind were wondrously vigorous to the
last.

" Of no distemper, of no blast, she died ;
But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long."

It was the privilege of her son, the youngest of her
three children, with his family, kindly to minister to
her age in the home where her closest affections were

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twined. Her grandcliiltlren grew up, some about
her, the joy of her daily life; and others came to her
to gladden her by their presence, and to watch with
her, and to smooth the pillow on Avhich she laid her
weary head for its last slumber. From the sunny
window, the accustomed seat of her age, through
which she loved to look out on the beauties of God's
earth, she saw many of her valued neighbors, the
close friends of her mature and of her later life, borne
along before her to the house appointed for all the
living. Beloved and useful fathers and mothers, the
young with the old, — some of them from circles of
kindred whence, to mortal view, it seemed they could
not be spared, — were called from her neighborhood
and society, while she, the aged pilgrim, was left.
Yet ever was the pious sentiment of the Scripture in
her heart and often on her lips, " All the days of my
appointed time will I wait, till my change come." She
enlisted as few have done the sympathies and the af-
fection alike of the young and of the old, through her
whole life. And many, who were at different periods
inmates of her family, retained ever after the same
grateful remembrance' of her kindness and her care,
and loved to visit her and to learn of her welfare.

There is a time to die ; and it came in the wise and
merciful appointment of the good God to our friend.
She had lived long enough, she said, and she was
ready and willing to go hence. It was the saying of
the wise Seneca,* that noble Roman philosopher,
who died as the light of Christianity was dawning,

* Nihil turpius est quam grandis natu senex, qui nullum habet argu-
mentum quo se probet diu vixisse, praeter aetatem.

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that there was nothmg baser, than for a very old
person to have nothing to show, as proof of such
long life, but years. Our friend had more than
years to testify to her great age. She leaves us the
memory of a life fragrant with good deeds and kind
services, and that testifies to her true age. "We
bear wdth us from her tomb a beautiful example ;,
and that testifies how eloquently ! — the example of
the aged Christian mother, who, having fought the
good fight, and finished her course, and kept the faith,
awaits, as we are taught, from the righteous Judge the
promised crown of life. The sympathies and regards
of this large assembly testify to her true age, and the
precious legacy of her virtues which she has be-
queathed to her kindred. Blessed indeed are all they
who may thus come to advanced life, with the aff'ection
and respect of other generations smoothing their path-
way to the tomb ! Sacred and beautiful becomes the
period of virtuous age, when children and children's
children, in the spirit of dutiful reverence and afi'ec-
tion, unite to do honor to the old. What but this
privilege need be added to a cheerful trust in the
Lord, for the aged pilgrim to lay down in peace the
earthly stafi", to cease from all mortal toil, and to go
gladly to the heavenly rest ! We sorrow not for the
departed that she has entered into that rest. We ap-
ply to her, rather, the excellent words of one of the
poets of our own land ; —

" Why weep ye then for her, who, having won
The bound of man's appointed years, at last,
Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors don,
Serenely to her final rest has passed,
While the soft memory of her virtues yet
Lingers, like twilight hues, when the bright sun is set !

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" Jler youth was innocent, her riper age

Marked with some act of goodness every day ;

And watched by eyes that loved lier, calm and sage

Faded her late declining years away.

Cheerful she gave her being up, and went

To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.

" And I am glad that she has lived thus long,
And glad that she has gone to her reward ;
Nor deem that kindly nature did her wrong,
Softly to disengage the vital cord.
When her weak hand grew palsied, and her eye
Dim with the mists of age, it was her time to die."

May the memories and influences of her life and
character remain alike for consolation and edification.
And may Almighty God our Father make us follow-
ers of them who through faith and patience inherit
the promises ; and bring us at length to that world
where sorrow and separation are unknown, and joy
is eternal, through his infinite mercy in Jesus Christ
our Lord ! Amen.

APPENDIX

FUNERAL SERVICES, ETC.

The funeral services were conducted by the Pastor, in the
church, Wednesday, February 14th, at two o'clock, P. M. The
usual burial service was read, — Hymn 511 in the collection,
as given above, was sung before the Address ; and after Prayer,
the following hymn, 464, was sung, and the body was laid in the
family tomb in the ancient burying-ground on Market Street.

" I heard a voice from heaven
Say, ' Blessed is the doom
Of those whose trust is in the Lord.
When sinking to tlie tomb ! '

■' The Holy Spirit spake, —
And I the words repeat, —
' Blessed are they,' — for, after toil.
To mortals rest is sweet ! "

At a meeting of the Brighton Ladies' Association, held at the
residence of Mrs. Charles W. Holbrook, on Wednesday, April
11th, the following Resolutions, presented by Mrs. Frederic A.
Whitney, were adopted : —

" Whereas it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from this
life Mrs. Susanna Champney, one of the original members of this Asso-
ciation, on the 10th of February last, in the ninety-fifth year of her age,
— Therefore

" Resolved, — That in view of the many virtues of the deceased, — her
endearing qualities, — her due appreciation of her Christian privileges, —
her deep sense of gratitude for kind offices, — her fidelity as a friend and
neighbor, and in all the relations of life, — we cherish her memory with,
.sentiments of love and veneration. •

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" Resolved, — That we remember gratefully the length of years our re-
vered friend was spared to us, her lively interest in the doings and suc-
cess of this Association, and in the happiness and welfare of each indi-
vidual connected with it.

" Resolved, — That her presence in our midst, even to the advanced age
of ninety, always gave pleasure both to young and old; and we sorrow
that we shall see her face no more.

" Resolved, — That in the sickness and death of this venerable and valued
member, we have an example of patient submission to the will of God,
and of the power of the Cross to support us in the hour of need.

" Resolved, — That these Resolutions be entered upon our Records, and
that a copy be transmitted by the Secretary to the family of the deceased."

ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN NATHANIEL CHAMPNEY.

It appears that Captain Nathaniel Champney, husband of the
subject of our notice, on the death of his father, April, 1763, went
to live, not then seven years old, in the family of John and Mercy
Stratton, by whom he was brought up, and from whom he inherited
the estate on which he lived and died, and which is now owned
and occupied by his son William. This estate, lying on the north
side of Washington Street, at its junction with Faneuil Street, was
purchased, as I find by the original deed, March 13, 1715-6, of
" Daniel Maccoone of Cambridge, Yeoman," (whether he occu-
pied it then or not, is not stated,) " by Ebenezer Stratton of New-
ton, Tailor," father of John, for 252 pounds. It is described as
comprising " one dwelling-house and barn and ten acres and one
half of land and orcharding." I suppose that then, or shortly after,
Ebenezer Stratton came to reside here ; since by deed, August 27,
1717, Joseph Fuller, Jr. of Newton conveys to " Ebenezer Stratton
of Canibridge " woodland in Newton, ten acres and ninety rods,
for 30 pounds.

This house must therefore be very ancient, since it was pur-
chased of Maccoone,* 140 years ago, by Ebenezer Stratton. Eben-

* This name may be the same as that spelt Makoon in the list of members of
1st Church, Camb., in time of Mitchell, as quoted by Rev. Dr. Newell, in
appendix to his Sermon, 1846, on the Cambridge Church-Gathering. Farmer
gives the name of Magoon, and of Makoon, which he conjectures may be the
same. Jackson, Hist, of Newton, p. 363, speaks of " Daniel Macoy [or Mackay],

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czcr was son of John and Abigail of Watertown; and he m. June
6, 1716, Lydia [Fuller ? D. of Joseph ?] and d. here, 1735. His
widow Lydia d. here 1747-8. His son John, who brought up
Nathaniel Champney, was b. here, August 9, 1727 ; m. as by
Old Cambridge Records, ]\Iercy Norcross, May 3, 1749, and d.
here, Nov. 21, 1791. She d. here, June 27, 1791, cc. Gl.

Nathaniel Champney d. here, Nov. 12, 1826, and was interred
in his tomb on the 14th. The Address has spoken of his worth,
and of the respect in which he was universally held. An obituary
appeared in the Boston Patriot and Chronicle, Nov. 18, 1826, —
and a more extended notice in the Boston Traveller, Nov. 17, in
which his domestic virtues, his public spirit, and his strict integrity
in the various trusts and offices which he sustained, are faithfully
portrayed. He represented the town in the State Legislature.
Fie filled and adorned many of the civil offices of the town. "As
a husband he was most kind and affiDctionate, as a father he was
tender and indulgent, yet careful and strict in the performance of
his parental duties." He died of an affection of the heart, angina
pectoris, with which he had been some months oppressed. Death
came to him suddenly, but not unexpectedly. On the Sabbath
morning of his death, he walked out from his house ; came in
about eleven o'clock ; observed to his wife that he expected another
attack of the complaint which he had before experienced ; sat
down in a chair, and instantly expired.

GENEALOGICAL NOTICE OF THE CHAMPNEY FAMILY.

The family came to that part of Cambridge now Brighton.
Several of the earliest Cambridge families settled in this, the
southern section of the town. The Sparhawk family, one of the
first, came here. Richard Dana, the progenitor of the Dana fam-
ily in this country, came to what is now Brighton, and had his
lame estate here bordering on the entire western side of Market

a Scotchman, -who bought land in Cambridge Village in 1673, and in 1079,"
about on the site of the Champney estate. " Magoone, Henry," was at Exeter,
N. H. 1661. "Magoune, Henry," had land at St. Albans, Vt., 165G. In the
deed to Stratton, the name is written with great distinctness Maccoone, and
the deed is signed as by the tremulous hand of an old man.

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Street, which street was laid out wholly through his estate, in
1656. Brighton was set off and incorporated as a distinct town
Feb. 28, 1807. The Charles River separates it from Cambridge.
Cambridge, Brighton, and Newton were, at first, 1631, one town,
called Newtown. In the records of Massachusetts, May 2, 1638,
"It is ordered that Newetowne shall henceforward be called Cam-
bridge." That pai't lying on the south side of Charles River, now
embraced in Brighton and Newton, was known originally as
"Cambridge Village," "New Cambridge," and " Nonantum,"
which signified, in the Indian language, rejoiciiig. The town of
Newton was set off and incorporated in 1679 ; leaving what is now
Cambridge and Brighton and West Cambridge one town until 1807,
Elder Richard Champney was descended from Sir Henry
Champney, one of the thirty brave warriors who fought at the bat-
tle of Hastings, October 14, 1066, under William the Conqueror.
William, after his conquest, erected a magnificent Abbey at Battle,
six miles from Hastings, over the spot where" the body of the un-
fortunate King Harold was found. The ruins of Battle Abbey are
very stately, and it is still occupied. The names of the thirty'
brave warriors are recorded here, and, among them. Sir Henry^
Champney. His descendant Richard, came from Lincolnshire,
England, to this place in 1634-5. He was made freeman* in
1636, and, with Jane, his wife, was among the first members of the
Church. Shepard, the first Cambridge minister, in his autobiog-
raphy, speaks of "Brother Champney " as a " most deare saint."
He was Ruling Elder in the church ; " whose business," says Cot-
ton Mather, in his Ratio Disciplinse, " it was to assist the pastor in

* To become a freeman, one must be a member of the church. Permission
having then been obtained from the General Court, or from the Quarterly
Court of flie County, the freeman's oath was taken before a magistrate. In
1664, those might be made freemen who brought certificates from clergymen
acquainted with them, of their being correct in doctrine and conduct. Free-
men only could hold ofiices, or vote for rulers. And yet many church-mem-
bers refused to take the freeman's oath, from unwilHngness to serve in any pub-
lic office. The oath, as altered and amended by the General Court, May 14,
1 634, ran thus : — "I, A. B., being by God's providence an inhabitant and free-
man within the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, do freely acknowledge myself
to be suljject to the government thereof, and therefore do here swear, by the
great and dreadful name of the Everlasting God, that I will be true and faith-
ful to the same," &-c., &c. — Records of Massachusetts. The custom of making
freemen ceased about 1686.

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visiting the distressed, instructing the ignorant, reducing the erro-
neous, comforting the afflicted, rebuking the unruly, discovering
the state of the whole flock, exercising the discipline of the Gos-
pel upon offenders, and promoting the desirable growth of the
church." The office, distinct from that of the deacons, was held
in most, but not in all, of the New England churches, and has long
been discontinued.

Richard Champney appears often in " The Regestere Booke of
the Lands and Houses in the Newtowne," as " Grantor " and
"Grantee," — that is seller and buyer of real estate, — first as
early as Sept. 25, 1637, when he buys of William Wadsworth.
His name occurs often in the early town records.

" June 7, 1647. Ordered by the Townsmen that the land on the soutii
side of the water [now Brighton], abutting upon the east side of Mr.
Sparahawk's fields, about 40 acres, more or less, is by these presents sold
unto Richard Champnis, to be prized by the Townsmen at a valuable price.'"

" Also there having been granted unto bira 100 acres of land to be an
addition to his farm, by 12 men that were deputed to dispose to every man
his portion of the common lands, it is by these presents confirmed to him ;
and he is to have it on the east side of the further division on the further
side of the water [Brighton], and is to allow unto the Town what it shall
be thought more worthy than if he had it by his farm on the other side."

" July 30, 1647. Ordered that Elder Champnis shall pay to the Town
20s. per acre for the upland lying by Mr. Sparahawk's raile ; 6s. 8d. per
acre for the swamp. Also he shall allow for the hundred acres in ex-
change for that by his farm either £ 20, or else let the wood lie common
to the Town."

It appears that Elder Richard first built on this side of the river,
in 1647, the date of his purchase. May 13, 1672, a committee
appointed to view a piece of land on the south side (now Brighton)
in dispute, claimed by Samuel and Daniel Champney, sons of
Richard, " testify it is no part of the 40 acres sold to Elder Champ-
ney by the town, when he first built in that place [italics ours]
and testify that it was no part of the 100 acres which the Town
granted him, and was laid out on the westerly side of Mr. Mitch-
ell's lot."

Richard died here, November 26, 1669, bequeathing forty acres
of land on the south side of the river to Harvard College, " as an
expression of his willingness to further the education of youth in
all godly literature."

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This was no inconsiderable bequest, even rating the land at 205.
per acre, as above. An order, we may remember, was passed by
the Court, November, 1644, desiring every family in the Colony
to contribute tivelve pence, or a peck of corn, to the treasury of the
College.

Children of RICHARD and JANE follow in small capitals : —
Esther, b. in England, 1629 ; m. Josiah Converse, of Woburn,
March 26, 1651. Samuel and Mary (twins), b. Sept. 1635. Ma-
ry d. young. Samuel m. Sarah Hubbard, October 13, 1657, at
Billerica. His children, the first 5 b. at Billerica, the 3 others at
Cambridge, follow in italics. Samuel, b. Dec. 8, 1658 ; Sarahs Feb.
17, 1659-60, probably m. James Clarke, Sept. 24, 1685, whose S.
Ebenezer d. Camb. 7 Nov. 1688 ; Mcvnj, May 12, 1662 ; H&st^r,
May 14,1664, d. March 31, 1667; Sami^l, March 9, 1666-7, m.

Hannah , and d. here March 8, 1745-6. She d. Sept. 1,

1748, in her 78th year. Children, 1. Hannah, baptized June 27,
1697 ; 2. Mary, born May 19, 1699, and d. Jan. 29, 1735. She m.
July 7, 1724, Rev. Ebenezer Parkman. (He was b. Sept. 5, 1703 ;
H. U. 1721 ; ordained first minister Westboro', October 28, 1724;
d. there Dec. 9, 1782. He was father of Samuel, and grandfather
of Rev. Francis Parkman, D, D. of Boston. He m. 2d wife, Han-
nah, D. of Rev. Robert Breck of Marlboro'. By Mary Champney,
he had 5 children, and by Hannah Breck 11. Mary, b. Sept. 14,
1725, eldest child of Mary (Champney) Parkman, m. Rev. Eli
Forbes, minister of Brookfield and Gloucester.) 3. Samuel, b. Nov.

12, 1701, m. Abigail (and had Mary, b. April 19, 1741, d.

Sept. 22, 1743, and Mary, baptized August 26, 1744, and Abigail,
baptized July 19, 1747). 4. Rebecca, b. October 8, 1703, perhaps
ra. John Hicks, May 8, 1721 ; 5. Lydia, b. Jan. 4, 1705-6 ; 6. Ruth,
b. Jan. 16, 1707-8 ; m. May 5, 1737, John Barrett. He d. here,
Nov. 16, 1754, ce. 49, and she d. here, Dec. 25, 1768, se. 61.
Their D. Hannah d. here, Feb. 3, 1759, ffi. 21. 7. John, b. Feb.
6, 1709-10, d. June 12, 1710. Joseph, b. Sept. 1, 1669, d. here,
Jan. 19, 1730, His wife Sarah'Xluly 1, 1730, re. 58. Their
children, 1. Sarah, baptized Feb. 21, 1697; 2. Esther, October
9, 1698; 3. Elizabeth, March 23, 1701; 4. Joseph, Sept. 19,
1704; H. U. 1721 ; Librarian H. U. ; ordained Beverly, 1729;
d. 1773. He m., Beverly, October 1, 1730, EUzabeth, D. of his
predecessor, Rev. Thomas Blowers. She d. Jan. 13, 1731,0. S. ;
and he m., 1773^ Thankful Pickens of Lynn, who d. July 31,

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1777, ro. 71. Children, Joseph, b. 1731, O. S. ; Richard, d.
young ; Israel ; Sarah ; Elizabeth ; Thomas. Elizabeth was the
faithful, exemplary, and renowned schoolmistress of IJcverly, —
three successive generations partaking of her care. She d. unm.
April 23, 1806, se. about 66. 5. Abigail, June 24, 1706 ; 6. Susan-
na, Sept. 8, 1709 ; 7. John, June 7, 1713. Rkhard, August 20,
1674 ; Daniel. Sarah, b. May 1638, m. "William Barrett, August
19, 1656, d. Camb. August 21, 1661. He d. there March 16, 1688,
iB. about 60. She joined the church Nov. 4, 1659. Her D.
Lydia, baptized Nov. 6, 1659, and S. John, Feb. 10, 1660. Wm.
Barrett by his 2d wife, Mary, who joined the church in 1661-2,
had William and Edward. Mary, b. Nov. 1639, m. Jacob French,
Sept, 20, 1665, at Billerica. John, b. May, 1641. Daniel, b.
March 9, 1645. Lydia joins church in 1661 ; and I find the mar-
riage. May 20, 1668, of John Hastings and Lydia Champney.

DANIEL (S. of Richard arid Jane), b. March 9, 1645, d. here,
Sept. 19, 1691 ; joins church 1663, March 7 ; m. Dorcas, b. Feb.
16, 1648, D. of Thomas and Dorcas Bridge, Cambridge, Jan. 3,.
1665. She d. Feb. 7, 1683 - 4 ; and he m. June 9, 1684, Mrs.
Hepzibah Minot (she was D. of the famous old Cambridge school-
master, Elijah Corlet, and she m. James Minot, May 21, 1673).
Children of Dariiel and Dorcas on old town records, — Dorcas, b.
August 22, lw7, m. May 6, 1690, Nicholas Bow, whose first
wife, Sarah (Hubbard) m. June 26, 1684, d. Jan. 26, 1688, ce. 27.
Daniel, Dec. 14, 1669. Tliomas, Sept. 12, 1673. Noah, Sept. 27;
1677i^i^upposed m. Martha Hubbard, October 26, 1725, and had,
() /XTlohn, October 12, 1729 ; 2. Noah, Jan. 24, 1731-2 ; 3. Noah,
V ^y/ 1733, d. at Framingham (Abner, b. Jan. 14, 1770; William,

Vy^l March 29, 1773 ; Milly ; Ellen ; children of Noah and Mary) ;
^' \ and probably 4. Jonathan, the Major, about 1743, who d. at

f^ / j Southboro, Feb, 12, 1806, J3e. 63. His wife Damaris d. Sept.
I 14, 1797, ffi. 50. They had William, Nov. 9, 1767; Betsey, Jan.
26, 1770, m. Ebenezer Brigham, and d. June 21, 1799; Benja-
min, August 29, 1772, at Southboro, Captain in the war of 1812,
magistrate; Louisa, March 23, 1775; Samuel, May 21, 1778,
killed by a scythe, September 11, 1784; Sally, Dec. 10, 1780;
m. Nathan Bannister, and d. Sept. 23, 1840 ; Hannah, Jan. 29,
1784 ; d. Jan. 26, 1792 ; Nathan, July 2, 1786 ; d. Jan. 16,
1792; Anna^July 22, 1789j d. Feb. 16, 1792; Phebe, May 9,
1(92^ Doioning, June l, 1680, "d. June 27, 1705, N. S. Abi-
gail, April 26, 1683. Hepzibah, June 27, 1687.

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DANIEL (S; of Daniel and Dorcas), b. Dec. 14, 1669, m. Be-
thiaOOanforth".). Children:— T/tomas,b. 1697. Dorcas, 1699, d.
March 26, 1705. Daniel, July 21, 1700; m. here, Sept. 4,
1723, Tabitha Hancock, and- Sept. 22, 1746, Hannah Emmons.
Baptisms of 8 children of Daniel ^nd Tabitha, as follows : I.
Daniel, April 19, 1724 ; 2. Dorcas, August 22, 1725 ; 3. Mary,
April 21, 1728; 4. Dorcas, August 20, 1732; 5. Nathaniel, Dec.
1, 1734; 6. Tabitha, Ji^y. ...19^-2741, m. here, Sept. 12, 1774,
Samuel Hancock ; 7. Thomas, May 24, 1747 ; 8. Ebenezer,
April 29, 1749. Solomon, March 17, 170-1-2; Noah, Septem- Vl
ber 14, 1704 ; Downing, 1706. His S., Downing, m. Hannah
Reed, Cambridge, July 4, 1765, and had Mary, Dec. 10, 1767.
He d. October 11, 1775, eb. 41. Abigail, wife of Downing, d.
Camb. Sept. 24, 1775, O. S., s. 68. Richard, 1707. Thomas,
October 14, 1709. Were he and Jane parents of Danforth, b.
October 27, 1730, and of Thomas, b. Nov. 7, 1735, and bap-
tized on 16th, and William, bap. April 3, 1739, and Sarah,
July 21, 1751, and Nathan, March 25, 1753, and Daniel, Sept.
26, 1756 }

SOLOMON (S. of Daniel and Bethia), b. March 17, 1701-2; m.,
Cambridge, Elizabeth Cunningham, May 8, 1723 ; and 2d wife,
Abigail Crackbone. Bred a mechanic, he became a soldier and
was stationed at Castle William, Boston Harbor, where he d. 1760.
Children, Elizaheth, Nov. 4, 1723; Solomon, Jan. 7, 1724-5;
Richard, 172- ; Ebenezer, April 27, 1730 ; Nathan, Sept. 27,
1733 ; m. here, June 24, 1760, Elizabeth Osborn, of Charlestown ;
John, Sept. 25, 1735 ; d. 1820 ; Silence (D. of Solomon and Abi-
gail), March 22, 1739-40, d. here, Nov. 29, 1747; Ebenezer,
April 3, 1744.

SOLOMON (S. of Solomon and Elizabeth), b. Jan. 7, 1724-5 ;
m. Rebecca Brown, of New Ipswich N. H., and was killed
here, instantly, having fallen from his loaded bx-wagon, and the
wheel passing over his neck, Tuesday evening, April 5, 1763.
Particulars of this accident may be found in the Boston Weekly
News Letter, Thursday, April 7, 1763. It occurred, as one
tradition has it, on Rockland Street, near the junction of South
Street, as the wagon, going east, was descending a steep hill
near the present estate of Daniel Waugh. By another tradition,
the wagon Avas descending the hill on Washington, near Shepard,
Street. Solomon's widow m. Jan. 2, 1766, James Holton of this

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place, who d. here April 16, 1789, ce. 60. She was admitted,
March 27, 1785, to 1st church Brighton, then 3d church Cann-
bridge ; and d. here, October 27, 1805, te. 71. Their S. Benjamin
(Major) b. here, Feb. 13, 1775, on Washington Street (present
site of Horace Jordan's house) ; m. here. May 2, 1779, Mary, D.
of Thomas and Mary (Winship) Shed, who d. here, April 28,
1844, JE. 67. He d. here, April 15, 1853. Their children all
b. here ; — James, April 12, 1800, owns and occupies his father's
estate, Faneuil Street, unm. Charles, October 22, 1802 ; d. here
Feb. 15, 1854, unm. Mary Wi7iship (Mrs. Aaron Colby), Feb.
9, 1805 ; d. here, October 29, 1851. Benjamin, March 7, 1807 ;
d. here, Nov. 14, 1826, unm.

I fmd on the Records, the names of only 2 children of Solomon
and Rebecca Champney ; Nathaniel and Isaac. But I am in-
formed that there were, also, sons Nathan and Thomas.

NATHANIEL (S. of Solomon and Rebecca), Selectman and
Representative, &c., b. here, Dec. 28, 1756, on Washington
Street, opposite present residence of James Dana ; m. and d. as
stated above, p. 15, and in Address, p. 6. His 3 children, all b.
here, follow in Italics. 1. John Stratton, b. Nov. 14, 1792 ; studied
medicine with Dr. Ingalls, Boston ; M. D. at Brown Univ. 1821 ;
held a commission as Surgeon of the Regiment ; a Physician at
East Bridgewater, and afterwards at South Abington, where he
d. August 6, 1847, from injuries received on 2d inst., while em-
ployed on his farm. He m.. South Abington, August 21, 1823,
Sally, D. of Col. Aaron Hobart. She d., East Bridgewater, May
2, 1826, JB. 35. He m., June 14, 1827, her sister, Abigail Adams
Hobart. She d. Jan. 15, 1844, se. 50. His 5 children, the first
one b. East Bridgewater, the others. South Abington, were, — John
Stratton, July 14, 1824 ; drowned near his home, Dec. 25, 1833.
Sarah Hobart, Dec. 22, 1828. Nathaniel Champney, August 6,
1830 ; d. South A., Sept. 15, 1846. Aaron Hobart, March 20,
1832 ; d. South A., October 23, 1846. Abigail Adams, March 29,
1834. 2. Lucy, b. Jan. 20, 1796 ; m. here March 20, 1827, Jon-
athan Loring Reed, b. March 6, 1791, East Bridgewater, S. of Jon-
athan and Deborah (Porter). She d.. South A., Jan. 12, 1844.
Their 2 children b. there, Susanna Champney, Dec. 30, 1827 ;
Lucy Loring, August 5, 1830 ; m. there, May 3, 1855, Joshua
Vining Gurney, b. there, August 3, 1830, S. of Chandler Robbins
and Sally (Vining), and lives, North Bridgewater. Mr. Reed m.

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(1st wife) Dec. 23, 1817, South A., Charlotte Brown, b. there,
April 2, 1793, and d. there, Dec. 21, 1825, D. of Daniel and
Mehitable (Tirrell). Their D., Charlotte Brown, b. South A.,
May 28, 1821, m. August 15, 1844, Edwin Gurney, S. of C. R.
Gurney, above, and has Edwin Loring, b. South A., June 10, 1845.
Mr. Reed m. (3d wife) Mrs. Ann Wells, D. of Joshua and Sarah
(Seaver) Learned, Nov. 7, 1844, South A., and lives there. 3.
William Richards, Selectman, &c., owns and occupies the an-
cient estate here, b. March 18, 1798 ; m. here, June 12, 1831,
Sarah Maria Shattuck, b. Castleton, Vt., Nov. 5, 1808, D. of Jesse
Shattuck and Mary Earl (Sargeant). Their 3 children, b. and
live here, — Edward Perkins, Sept. 15, 1832; Charles Holton,
August 16, 1834 ; Benjamin Holton, Feb. 4, 1840.

ISAAC (S. of Solomon and Rebecca), b. here, June 13, 1760;
d. here, Sept. 22, 1822. He m. here, May 8, 1792, Jemima, D.
of Ephraim and Martha Hammond of Newton. She d. here
(house Washington St., present site of Horace Jordan's). He
m. here, May 17, 1795, Betsey, D. of Thomas and Mary (Win-
ship) Shed, — b. Roxbury, Feb. 23, 1772; d. here, Feb. 10,
1848. His 6 children, all b. here, follow in small capitals.
Betsey, Feb. 7, 1796; m. here, Jan. 1, 1815, Thaddeus, S. of
Thaddeus and Abigail (Rice) Baldwin, b. Gerry, now Phillipston,
May 28, 1788, d. here, March 6, 1834. She lives now at Nashua,
N. H. Their 7 children, all b. here, follow in Italics. Eliza,
Nov. 22, 1815 ; d. on the 24th. George Loammi, March 29,
1817 ; d. here. May 16, 1840. Sarah Ann, Dec. 29, 1819 ; m.
here, October 13, 1840, John Field of Peterboro, N. H., lives West
Cambridge. He first m. here, May 12, 1836, Sarah Elliot, D. of
David and Mary (Huntington) Worcester, who b. Thornton, N.
H., d. here June 20, 1839, leaving 2 Sons b. here, — Henry Mar-
tyn, Octob. 3, 1837, now in H. U., and John Worcester, June 11,
1839. Children of John Field and Sarah Ann are Sarah Ann
Baldwin, May 9, 1846 ; William Evarts, May 29, 1848 ; Arthur
Dwight, Dec. 23, 1850 ; George Addison, Nov. 10, 1854 ; all b.
West Cambridge. Elizabeth Shed, Aug. 12, 1822 ; m. here,
Octob. 13, 1840, Jeremiah B. Mason, b. Thompson, Con., June 2,
1811, S. of Isaac and Zurviah (Bowen). They removed from here
to Nashua, N. H., 1851. Children b. here, — George Henry,
Aug. 11, 1841; Thaddeus Bowen, June 21, 1843; William
Waldo, July 30, 1846 ; Sarah Ann Elizabeth, b. Nashua, Dec. 27,

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1852. Abigail Rice, Sept. 16, 1824 ; d. here Feb. 20, 1833.
Jolm Murdoch, Jan. 4, 1828 ; d. here, Dec. 5, 1832. Thaddeus
Augustus, Jan. 16, 1830 ; m.. Great Falls, N. H., Harriet Newell
Edwards, and has George Edwards, b. Dec. 7, 1854. Harriet,
Dec. 1, 1797 ; d. here, Sept. 28, 1798. Harriet, July 20, 1799 ;
m. here, October 13, 1840, Nathan Stratton (his 2d wife). He
b. Templeton (that part now in Phillipston), Dec. 12, 1783, S. of
Jonathan and Sarah (Childs), removed from here. May, 1854, to
Nashua, N. H., where she d. April 29, 1855, interred Brighton,
May 2, leaving 1 child, Abilene Eliza, b. here Jan. 30, 1843.
Thomas Shed, October 24, 1802 ; d. here Sept. 22, 1849, unm.
George, April 26, 1807 ; lives Natick, unm. Charles, Sept. 8,
1809; m. Feb. 11, 1837, Olive D., b. April 17, 1815, D. of John
and E. Clement of Sherborn, and lives there. Children, —
Charles Austin, April 4, 1838 ; Benjamin Holton, March 26,
1840, d. Feb. 6, 1842 ; George William, .Tan. 20, 1842 ; Eliza-
beth Shed, Dec. 19, 1843; John Clement, July 10, 1849 ; Clarence
Melville, April 21, 1851.

In the History of New Ipswich, N. H., published in 1852, is
given a particular notice of Judge Ebenezer Champney and his
descendants. He was grandfather of Benjamin C. Champney of
Boston, the gifted artist, whose representations of mountain scen-
ery have been so much admired. We append here, the line
of the Judge, beginning in the fourth generation from Elder
Richard. See p. 20, line 28.

EBENEZER (S. of Solomon and Abigail), b. April 3, 1744 ;
H. U. 1762 ; studied for the ministry and preached about 2 years ;
afterwards read law and practised in New Ipswich, N. H. ; then, a
few years, inGroton, and returned to New Ipswich, where he was
engaged in his profession, and as Judge of Probate, till his death,
Sept. 10, 1810. He m., Groton, 1764, Abigail, D. of Rev. Caleb
Trowbridge. She d. 1775, re. 35. He m., Nov. 1778, Abigail
Parker, who d. 1790, se. 38. He m. Susan Wyman, 1796,
who d. same year. His 10 children follow in small capitals.
Benjamin, b. Groton, August 20, 1764 ; lawyer there and with his
father, at New Ipswich, where he d. 1827. He m. Mercy Parker,
1791 ; who d. 1795, ae. 29. He m. Rebecca Brooks, New Ips-

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wich, October, 1809. His 10 children are in Italics ; — Sarah,
July 22, 1792 ; Maria, July 23, 1793, d. Nov. 1, 1796; Benja-
min, March 12, 1795 ; d. Nov. 13, 1813, while in Dart. Col. ;
Edward Walter, August 18, 1810 ; m. Caroline L. Floyd, 1845 ;
George Mather, March 6, 1812; m. Lucy Ann Brown, Jan. 13,
1836; Maria Louisa, Nov. 14, 1813; m. F. R. Cragin, 1837;
Ellen Eliza, October 17, 1815 ; m. John Clough, 1840 ; Benjamin
C. (the artist), Nov. 22, 1817 ; m., Woburn, June, 1853, Maria
Caroline Brooks, b. New Albany, Ind., and has Benjamin Kensett,
b. Dec. 1854, at North Conway, N. H. ; Manj Jane, Nov. 22,
1819, d. March 2, 1837; He^iry Trowhridge, Sept. 19, 1825;
m. Lydia S. Parshley, 1849. Edw. W., Geo. M., and Henry T.
are merchants, Boston, and live at Woburn. . Francis, b. Groton,
Jan. 27, 1766, d. Feb. 1837 ; m. 1786, Abigail Trowbridge, b.
Groton, 1765, d. October, 1846. He had Francis, 1788, d. 1791 ;
Samuel, 1789, d. 1793 ; Fanny, 1793 ; Francis, 1794 ; Abigail,
1796 ; Samuel T., h. Groton, April 10, 1798 ; m. New York,
August 19, 1827, Mary Turpin Tajdor of Philadelphia, who d. Jan.
8, 1848. He lives at Brooklyn, N. Y. Of his 10 children who
follow, the 1st, 3d, and 4th were b. New York, the others, Brook-
lyn. Samuel Trowbridge, b. Jan. 5, 1829, a physician ; Mary
Turpin, Feb. 22, 1831, d. Brooklyn, Nov. 28, 1851 ; Francis
Treadwell, April 8, 1833; Llerena,'Nov. 14, 1834, m., Brook-
lyn, Dr. B. R. Marsters of Bermuda, October 10, 1855 ; Harriett
Foster, Sept. 4, 1836, d. March 31, 1837 ; Harriett Foster, Jan.
5, 1838, d. Aug. 29, 1838; Addison Weld, May 24, 1839; .Tohn
Morison, Sept. 17, 1841 ; Ella, August 18, 1843 ; Josephine M.,
Jan. 5, 1846. Ferdinand, 1800. Abigail, May 4, 1767 ; m.
Thomas Gardner, Groton, 1790, and d. 1805. Children, —

Thomas Champney, b. 1791, d. ; Abigail, 1792; Eliza,

1794; John, 1796; Walter; George; Mary. Hannah, Sept.
23, 1768 ; m. James Prescott, 1792. ChMxen, — Susan, 1793, d.
1795; Hannah, 1795, d. 1800; Susan, 1797; Lucretia; Lucy;
James, b. and d. 1803 ; William ; Mary ; Hannah ; Maria ;
Benjamin. Elizabeth, Sept. 12, 1770 ; d. August 27, 1775.
Sarah, Dec 25, 1771 ; d. August 20, 1775. Ebenezer, Feb. 5,
1774 ; d. August 29, 1775. Elizabeth, Feb. 6, 1779 ; m. John
Preston, M. D. Ebenezer, July 19, 1781; d. 1820. He m.
Mehitable Goodridge, and had Jonas; Nichols; Ebenezer;
Julius ; Samuel ; Elizabeth ; Leiois. Jonas Cutler, April 17,
1783; d. 1824.

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Notices from the Early Toivn and Church Records^ etc., not

inserted above.

John and Joane Chaimpxey had Mary, m. Theophilus Rich-
ardson, Woburn, May ^, 1664; Sarah, m. John Russell, Woburn,
October 31, 1661; John, d. Feb. 20, 1664, — all baptized, Cam-
bridge. JoANE, m. (2d husband) Goldin Moore. Children, Han-
7ia/t, joins church. May 18, 1666; Lydia; Ruth.

1644, Feb. 11. Born, Deborah, D. of Christopher and Margaret
Champney.

1779, Dec. 24. Married, John Coulson and Bethia Champney.

Children of Richard Champney were William ; Richard ; Jon-
athan ; Noah; Samuel. (Which Richard?)

From Copps Hill Burial-ground, Boston, Caleb Dinsdal Champ-
ney d. Octob. 4, 1802, 3s. 26 : Sarah, wife of Capt. Caleb Champ-
ney, d. Octob. 13, 1800.

GENEALOGICAL NOTICE OF THE PAEK FAJHLY.

Richard Park, the progenitor in this country, was a proprietor
at Cambridge in 1636. In 1647, he crosses Charles River into
that part of the town familiarly known as Cambridge Village (the.
territory now comprised in Brighton and Newton) where he had
11 acres, A very ancient house near the present boundary line
between Brighton and Newton, within a few feet of the present
Eliot Church at Newton {Cor7ier), was taken down about the year
1800 ; and, as Jackson in his History of Newton supposes, was
built by him. A little to the northwest of this lay Richard Park's
larcre tract of 600 acres, which he purchased afterwards, as bound-
ed and described on a map affixed to the History above named.
A particular notice may be found of him in this interesting work,
published 1854. He d. 1665, leaving a widow, Sarah, who was
living, 1678, at Duxbury, two daughters, one of whom, Isabel, m.
Francis Whitmore * of West Camb., and an only son, Thomas.
Jackson relates that Henry Parke, merchant, son and heir of
Edward Parke, merchant of London, deceased, conveyed land

* See Whitmore Genealogy, by W. H. Whitmore, 1855.
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in Cambridge, 1650, to John Stedman ; and he conjectures that
Edward, Sen. of London may have been the grandfather of
Richai'd and of the three known to have been brothers, Deacon
William Park of Roxbury, Samuel of Medford, and Thomas of
Stonington, Ct., and probably of Edward and Robert, proprietors
at Cambridge.

Descending from Richard Park, I select the line which connects
directly with the subject of this notice, Susanna (Park) Champ-
ney.

THOMAS (S. of Richard), b. about 1628, m. Abigail Dix,
Watertown, 1653; settled upon the 600 acre tract. His house
was near Bemis's mills, on the banks of Charles River. He d. Au-
gust 11, 1690. She d. Feb. 3, 1691. Children,— T/tomas, b.
Nov. 2, 1654, d. August 28, 1681 ; John, Sept. 6, 1656, Ahigail,
March 3, 1658, m. John Fiske, 1679; Edivard, Aipril 8, 1661;
Richard, Dec. 21, 1663; Sarah, March 21, 1666, m. John
Knapp ; Rebecca, April 13, 1668, m. John Sanger, Watertown,
1686; Jonathan, August 27, 1670; Elizabeth^ My 28, 1679,
m. John Holland. The estate was divided among the heirs,
1693-4. It then comprised 722 acres, and part of a corn-mill on
Smelt Brook, erected by Lieut. John Spring.

EDWARD (S. of Thomas and Abigail), b. April 8, 1661 ; m.
Martha Fiske, 1679; d. March 1, 1745. Children, — Mari/m,
May 16, 1699 ; Edioard, April 18, 1701 ; Thomas, 1703 ; Nathan,
of Uxbridge.

THOMAS (S. of Edward and Martha), b. 1703 ; Selectman, m.,
Newton, April 14, 1748, Elizabeth Harrington of Waltham. She
d. here, 1766-7. He shortly after exchanged his estate here
with James Bryant for two estates in Connecticut, at Tolland
and Mansfield, removed to Connecticut, and married again. The
Registry of Deeds, Mansfield, shows that he held real estate in
the extreme N. W. portion of that town. A deed is on record
there, which he executed, 1776. It is supposed he died there.
His children b. here, Elizabeth ; Jonathan ; Sarah ; Thomas ;
Anna; Joshua; Susanna (the subject of our notice); Samxicl ;
Daniel Harrington; and by his 2d wife, after removing from
here, Nathaniel and William. We give the Families and De-
scendants of his children.

ELIZABETH (D. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. Jan. 18,
1749, m. George Dana of this place. He descended, in 4th

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generation, from E.icliard Dana, progenitor of the Dana family in
this country, whose large estate lay in the centre of the present
town of Brighton, which, till 1807, was the south part of Cam-
bridge. A writer in " Biographical Sketches of Eminent Ameri-
can Lawyers," N. Y. 1852, on Richard II. Dana, Esq., has very
erroneously stated that the progenitor of the family " settled
at what is now the city of Cambridge." He could not have
consulted the early Cambridge Records, which place Richard
Dana's estate on the south side of Charles River, now Brighton.
Richard came in 1640, and settled here. By Ann Bullard he had
12 children. He died suddenly, about 1695. Four of his sons
survived him; Jacob, h. Feb. 2, 1655; Joseph, May 21, 165- ;
Benjamin, April, 1660 ; Daniel, March 20, 1663, d. October 10,
1749. Daniel had a son, Caleb, b. 1697, d. here, April 28, 1769.
Caleb had 3 sons ; — 1. Caleb,* m. here Sarah Ballard, May 24,
1756. 2. James, b. 1735 ; H. U. 1753 ; ordained, Wallingford, Ct.,
1758, and New Haven, .Tan. 1789, where he d. August 18, 1812.
Samuel Whittlesey Dana, memb. Cong., was his son. 3. George,
b. here Jan. 1, 1744 ; m. Margaret, b. 1743, D. of Dr. Clarke, of
Waltham. She d. here, Octob. 3, 1770. He m. Elizabeth Park,
1771. He d. at Ashburnham, April 11, 1787. She m. there,
about 1789, Alexander Parmalee of Woodstock, Vt., who d., Wind-
sor, Vt., about 1800. She d., Woodstock, Vt., May, 1811. Chil-
dren of George Dana and Margaret Clarke were 3 ; — George, h.
here; m. Hannah Lathrop, Tolland, Ct., 1793; d., Sharon, Vt.,
1821. Polly, h. 1767; m. Dr. Comstock, Danbury, Ct. Phebe,

* Caleb was father of Henry Dana, former Town Clerk of Brighton, who
b. here 1764, m. here, August 31. 1786, Sally Wilson, d. here February
20,1817. Henry had seven children, all b. here; — Sarah, March 27, 1787,
(Mrs. Hill,) deceased. Charles, April 22, 1789; m. here. May 2, 1816, Esther
Deming, and d. here, suddenly, June 1, 1845. His widow and children live
here. Henri/ Ballard, Sept. 2, 1791 ; lives at South Scituate. Mary, March
22, 1794 (Mrs. Lewis E. Morse); lives at Woodstock, Vt. Martha, July
18, 1797 (Mrs. Oilman Henry) ; lives at Woodstock, Vt. Orlando Nelson, De-
cember 10, 1800; d. at Castleton, Vt. about 1838. James, October 9, 1804 ;
m. here, May 20, 1830, Pamelia Bowers, b. at Camden, Me., and lives here.

Benjamin S. (Son of Henry B. Dana) b. at Woodstock, Vt. 1822, m. here.
May 11, 1854, Catharine C. (daughter of Charles Dana), lives here. James
Ballard Dana (S. of Charles) b. here March 8, 1824 ; m. at Eoxbury, May 19i
1847, Lucy Baker (Peck) of Roxbury, and lives here. So that the name is
preserved in the place, to which the ancestor came more than two hundred
years ago, in four families of his descendants.

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m. Rev. Mr. Boardman (Baptist), Me. Children of George Dana
and Elizabeth Park were 3 daughters who d. young, and 7 sons, as
follows. 1. Francis, b. 1772. 2. Edmund, m. at Dayton, Ohio,

had 1 D. Mary. He m, 2d wife, Mrs. Brown, Cliarlestown,

and d. there, 1840. 3. Thomas, d. Watertown, unm. 4. John
Clark, b. 1779, m. Mary Carlisle ; d. Woodstock, Vt., Feb. 24,
1813. Had James, d. Vt. 183- ; Sarah (Mrs. Cooley), lives Mich-
igan ; JoJm, Rochester, Vt. 5. James, b. May 29, 1780 ; m. Har-
riet, D. of Seth Dwight, May 7, 1812, Utica, N. Y., and lives there.
His 9 children follow in Italics. James Dioight, b. Utica, Feb.
12, 1813, m. Henrietta, D. of Professor B. Silliman, June 5, 1844,
New Haven, and resides there, (associate editor with B. Silliman,
Jr. of American Journal of Science,) having Frances Henrietta, b.
July 24, 1846 ; Edward Salisbury, Nov. 19, 1849 ; James Silli-
man, April 16, 1853. George Strong, b. Feb. 13, 1815, m.
Huldah Wright, Utica, 1838, and lives there, having James Wright,
b. Aug. 15, 1842 ; George Silliman, March 7, 1844 ; Mary Brad-
ley, Nov. 30, 1848 ; William Dwight, May 1, 1855. JoJm Wliite,
b. March 28, 1817, d. New York, Aug. 1849. Harriet Dwight,
b. April 8, 1820, Utica, m. May 14, 1846, J. Wyman Jones of N.
Hampshire. Harrisoji Dwight, b. May 29, 1823, d. June 15,
1833, Utica. He7irij, b. Sept. 18, 1825, d. June 2, 1828, Utica.
Cornelia Elizabeth, b. March 23, 1827, d. 1854. William Buck,
b. August 26, 1829, lawyer, Utica. Elizabeth, b. July 7, and d.
Aug. 10, of 1835. 6. Charles, b. Nov. 6, 1781, Ashburnham,
m. Mary Gay, D. of Timothy Swan, at Northfield, Jan. 20, 1808,
and lives at Woodstock, Vt. His 8 children follow in Italics.
Mary Gay, b. Dec. 26, 1809, d. Feb. 1811; Elizabeth Swan,
Feb. 23, 1812, m. Dec. 11, 1834, ElishaL. Sabine of Woodstock,
who d. at Grand de Tour, III., Aug. 1850, leaving 4 children
who live at Woodstock. Charles, Dec. 15, 1813, m. Charitie
S. Loomis, Montpelier, Vt., Feb. 16, 1848, lives at Woodstock,
has 2 children, and 1 has d. Joseph, Dec. 13, 1815, m. Eliza
M. Garfield, Townsend, Vt., Sept. 21, 1847, lives at Woodstock,
has 1 child, and 1 has d. Charlotte Maria, April 7, 1818, m.
Charles Raymond, Bridgewater, Vt., July, 1841, lives there, lias
3 children, and 1 has d. Edicard, July 26, 1820, merchant,
Boston, unm. Henry Swan, October 17, 1823, Dart. Col. 1849,
Teacher, Savannah, Geo., unm. Mary Gay, Sept. 5, 1827, lives
Woodstock, unm. 7. Caleb,

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JONATHAN (S. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. Nov. 6, 1750;
m. Mary, b. Worcester, Feb. 25, 1745, D. of James Trowbridge of
Newton, who in 1739-40 m. Jerusha Park (Jonathan's 2d cou-
sin), b. Nov. 22, 1722, D. of Ensign Richard Park and Sarah Ful-
ler, and went to Worcester. Jonathan had 3 children, 2 sons, one
of whom, James, died in the army, 1812, and the other about that
time; and a daughter, Mary. She taught school in Brighton,
1808, in a small house then standing on corner of Washington
and Foster Streets ; and in 1809, when the old church was re-
moved, on the dedication of the new, and converted into a Town-
House and School-House, she first taught in that. She afterwards
taught in Boston, and m. Mr. Seavy, a writing-master of Boston.
Jonathan lived in Boston ; where, it was supposed, he came to his
end by violence, some 60 years since ; his body being found
under circumstances to justify the suspicion.

SARAH (D. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. June 4, 1752, d. July
1, 1841, m. at Tolland, Ct., Joseph, S. of Joseph Hatch, who, b. at
Tolland, 1750, d. there, March 7, 1823. Their 9 children follow
in Italics. 1. Joseph^ b. Jan. 9, 1773, d. Penfield, N. Y., leaving
1 son, 2 daughters. 2. Betsey, b. August 27, 1774 ; m. Alex-
ander Abbot, at Tolland, deceased. They had 7 children ; 2
died in infancy ; names of others, Lucius ; Luther ; Ephraim,
deceased ; John S., deceased ; Lucy. 3. Anna, b. Sept. 24, 1776 ;
in. Samuel Nye, deceased ; no children. 4. Sally, b. Octob. 24,
1778 ; m. Ebenezer Tilden, deceased, leaving 8 children, —
Welthy ; Fanny ; William ; Marvin ; Maria ; Austin ; Joseph ;
Melissa. 5. William, b. Dec. 30, 1780 ; d. Havana, July 4,
1798, unm. 6. Ephraim, b. March 20, 1788 ; m. Sophia Man-
ning, 1809, and had 4 sons. She d. April 3, 1818, and he m.,
1819, Olive Robinson, of Windham, Ct., and had 4 daughters.
Names of sons, — Seabury, b. 1809, m. ; William Dana, b. 1812,
and has lived since 1840 at St. Francisville, West Feliciana,
Louisiana, unm. ; Ralph, b. 1814, m. ; George, 1816, m. Daugh-
ters,— Sophia; Melissa; Calista ; Sarah Ann; all m. ; 3 in
Aurora, N. Y., 1 in Michigan. 7. Ruth, b. July 20, 1785 ; lives
Tolland, unm. 8. Dana,h. Jan. 3, 1788; d. Dec. 3, 1791, by
the kick of a horse. 9. Frank, b. April 28, 1790 ; m. Melinda
Bingham of Ellington, Ct. ; lives at Tolland. She d. 1837, se. 42.
They had 10 children. One b. 1817, d. 1818 ; Lucius, m. ;
Frances M., m. ; Anson, m. ; Susan, m. ; Curtis B., m. ; Ruth
M., m., d. Feb. 8, 1854 ; Charles B., m. ; Ora L. ; Harriet.

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THOMAS (S. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. March 8, 1754 ; d.
Northboro, Dec. 5, 1821. He m. at Lancaster, Abigail (Kendall),
widow of John Wilder of Ashburnham. She d. at Stow, Jan. 18,
1817. Her children by 1st husband were Gardner and Jolin^
both m. ; and a daughter who d. oe. 5 yrs. Children by 2d husband
were Deborah ; Elizabeth ; Thomas ; Susan ; Daniel ; Abigail ;
Caleb. The 3 sons went early together to Canada, and were not
afterwards heard from. Deborah, b. Ashburnham, Nov. 11,
1780 ; m. here, June 8, 1806, Keuben, S. of Edward Hastings,
b. at Weston, 1774, and d. here, March 4, 1835. She lives now
at West Roxbury. Reuben's 1st wife was Grace, D. of Joshua
Jackson ; m. here, April 25, 1793 ; d. here, July 21, 1805.
Children of Reuben Hastings, all b. here, were nine. 1. Edward,
deceased. 2. Sarah Jackson, b. July 21, 1796 ; m. here, April
30, 1815, Ebenezer, b. here, Feb. 19, 1793, S. of Deacon Eben-
ezer and Martha Fuller of this place, and lives here. 3. Susan
Dana, b. July 21, 1796 ; m. here, Sept. 17, 1815, Michael Tombs,
and lives at Newton (Centre). 4. John, b. June 29, 1808, de-
ceased. 5. Mary Ann, b. INIay 26, 1811, and lives here. She m.
here, July 23, 1835, Albert, S. of Peter and Sarah (Kimball)
Towne, b. at Andover, Sept. 28, 1804, and d. here, Sept. 26, 1855,
leaving Elizabeth, b. here Jan. 18, 1836, and John Hastings, b.
Sept. 24, 1837. 6. Charles ; 7. Charles ; and 8. George Jack-
son, which 3 d. in infancy. 9. Lydia Harrington, b. October 2,
1820 ; m. here, July 3, 1853, Henry, S. of Ebenezer and Abigail
(Murdock) Dudley of West Roxbury (Spring Street), and lives
there.

Abigail and Elizabeth (Park) were successively married to
Deacon Oliver Fisk of Sherborn. He was b. at Weston, August
3, 1786, S. of Samuel and Abigail, and m. here, April 17, 1814,
Abigail, b. Ashburnham, August 8, 1794, and d. Sherborn, Feb.
18, 1820. Pie m. Nov. 9, 1820, Elizabeth, b. Ashburnham, June
15, 1782, and they reside at Sherborn. Children of Oliver and
Abigail were two. 1. Mary, b. Sherborn, Feb. 24, 1815; m.
there, Nov. 24, 1842, James Abbot Cogswell of this place, b.
Concord, Feb. 9, 1816, S. of James, Jr. and Sarah (Robey). She
d. at Sherborn on a visit at her father's, August 21, 1850. 2.
Samuel, b. Sherborn, Nov. 10, 1816 ; m. there, Nov. 27, 1845,
Mary Aon, b. Newton, Jan. 3, 1805, D. of Galen and Sarah Bow-
ditch, and they live at Roxbury.

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Susan (3d D. of Thomas and Abigail Park), m. here, October
16, 1815, Peter Green of Northboro, where they both d. Chil-
dren, — Susan ; Edward ; Jane ; and Abigail, who d. young. Susan
m. Charles Talbot ; live in Indiana, having 2 children. Edward
m. Louisa Hartwell ; live in Berlin, having 4 children. Jane
m. Peter Fitzsimmons ; live in Natick, having Mary Jane and
John.

ANNA (D. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. Feb. 5, 1756 ; m. at
Waltham, Octob. 8, 1778, Converse, b. Weston, Jan. 20, 1755,
S. of Josiah and I\Iary (Harrington) Bigelow. He d. Sherborn,
April 28, 1829. She d. there, Sept. 9, 1843. Their 12 chil-
dren follow in Italics. Betsey, b. Waltham, July 31, 1779; m.,
Sherborn, John Goulding of that place, and lives there. Anna, b.
Templeton, ^March 21, 1781 ; lives at Sherborn. John, b. Tem-
pleton, Jan 26, 1783 ; m., Holliston, Hannah Partridge of Gard-
ner ; and d. Needham, Dec. 8, 1839. Converse, b. Sherborn,
Nov. 20, 1784 ; m., Weston, Mary Viles of that place, and lives
there, having Francis Edwin, b. Jan. 15, 1809 ; Henry Augustus,
August 22, 1811 ; Sophia Viles, Jan. 17, 1815, d. April 30, 1851.
Elijah, b. Sherborn, August 31, 1786 ; m. Rebecca Fisk of Wes-
ton, and d. Sherborn, August 31, 1826. Children, Amos F., b.
March 25, 1809, d. August 31, 1836; Elijah, b. Sept. 1810;
Abigail, May 6, 1812, d. Octob. 17, 1835; Anna, March 25,
1814, d. Octob. 26, 1838; John, b. Jan. 10, 1816, deceased;
Catherine and Caroline, July 24, 1817. Calvin, b. July 27,
and d. Octob. 9, of 1788. Calvin, b. June 30, 1790 ; m., Dover,
Elizabeth Adams of Medway, and lives in Dover. Children all
b. Dover, — Francis A., b. July 22, and d. August 5, of 1820 ;
William A., August 31, 1821, m. I\Iary E. Derby ; Elizabeth
M., March 19, 1823, d. Jan. 13, 1829 ; Francis, Nov. 26, 1824,
m. Robey H. White ; Calvin, June 17, 1826 ; Anna Maria, Sept.
24, 1828, m. Joseph E. Baldwin ; Charles A., July 19, 1830 ;
Warren, March 31, 1834 ; d. Feb. 20, 1835 ; Ellen E., August
15, 1836. Sukey, b. Sherborn, April 17, 1792 ; m. there Josiah
Battell of Dover, where she d. August 12, 1847. Children, all b.
Dover, — Elbridge, May 1, 1813, m. Elizabeth Drown ; Mary Ann,
July 24,1815, m. Frederic Leland ; William, October 1, 1817,
m. Julia A. Gay ; Susanna C, July 14, 1819, m. Caleb Lombard,
Jr. ; Sarah Ann, October 26, 1826, m. Charles L. Drown; J. E.,
b. August 3, 1830 ; G. S., b. March 23, 1832 ; Freeman, June 5,

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1836. Sally ^ Sherborn, Feb. 4, 1794 ; m. there Nathaniel Stearns
of Acton ; lives at Acton. Josiah, b. Sherborn, March 22, 1796,
m. Harriet Sawin of Marlboro, and lives at Groton. Amos, b.
Sherborn, March 17, and d. July 8, of 1798. A7nos, b. Sherborn,
June 29, 1801 ; m. Lucie Stowe of Stow, and lives at Sherborn.
Children, all b. Sherborn, — George C, March 11, 1828; Amos
E., May 16, 1836; Henry, Nov. 25, 1833; Edmund D., Dec. 5,
1838; Lucie A., May 7, 1846 ; Wesley, Nov. 16, 1847.

JOSHUA (S. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. August 6, 1757, and
d. here, at Mr. Davis's, Feb. 11, 1826. He m. July 28, 1779, Sa-
lome Hammond, b. March 20, 1760, and d. March 22, 1783. He
m., 1784, Lois (D- of Capt. Joseph Fuller), b. Brookline, Feb. 13,
1759, and d. here, next house north fr. Champney estate, Jan. 6,
1823. (An error occurs in Hist, of Newton in the date of his death
and list of his children.) His 12 children follow in small capi-
tals. Nabby, or Abigail, b. April 29, 1780 ; m., Newton, April
30, 1801, Samuel Davis, b. Rutland, Sept. 9, 1774. She d. here
very suddenly, Sept. 11, 1818. He m. here, March 11, 1819,
her sister Sukey, or Susan. She is now living at Quincy, 111.
He died there, August 17, 1855. His 16 children, all born here,
and all now living at Cincinnati, Ohio, except otherwise stated,
follow in Italics. Samuel, b. Feb. 1802 ; m., Boston, Martha
Glover, who d. Cincinnati, 1855. Of his 5 children, 3 are
living, — Henry, m., at Eaton, N. Y., Kate O. Langdon,
has 2 children and 1 deceased, and lives at Cincinnati ;
Elizabeth (Mrs. Young of Cincinnati) has 3 children, and 3
deceased ; Samuel. Joshua, b. Nov. 5, 1803 ; d. here Nov. 26,
1807. John, b. Feb. 10, 1805 ; d. here Feb. 26, 1809. Tho7nas
Park, b. March 20, 1807 ; d. here May 6, 1833. Charles, b.
Octob. 10, 1809 ; m., Cincinnati, Mary, D. of Benjamin Porter of
Danvers, Mass., and had Charles and Frank. William Williams,
h. October 7, 1811; m., Cincinnati, Catherine Berch, and had
"William and Charles. John Hammond, h. Sept 2, 1813; m.,
Northfield, Vt., Lucy Kinsman, and had Susan Ann ; George,
deceased ; Elizabeth ; Charles. Susan, b. Octob. 23, 1815 ;
m., Brookline, 1839, Francis Coolidge Griggs, S. of Nathaniel
and Abigail, and had Edward, b. Quincy, 111., deceased ; Charles,
b. there ; Annie, b. Boston ; Herbert and Albert, twins ; Emily ;
Frank ; last 4 b. Cambridge. Abigail, b. August 31, 1817 ; m.,
Quincy, 111., Orlando Hovey ; live in Utah Territory ; have

several chiUlren. George Francis, h. \^rh. 15, 1820; m., Cincin-
nati, Nancy Wilson, and had George ; Francis ; William ; Ed-
ward, deceased; Mary; Gilnnan Robinson. Joshua, h. Sept. 2,
1821 ; m., Cincinnati, and has 1 child. Lucy Champneij, h. April
14, 1823 ; d. Dec. 19, 1824. Ann Judson, h. Feb. 19, 1826 ;
d. April 23, 1831. Adoniram Judson, b. Dec. 19, 1829. Eliza
A7in, b. April 26, 1833; d. Sept. 1, 1834. Henry Dexter, b. Jan.
27, 1835 ; lives at Quincy, 111. Sally, b. August 10, and d.
Nov. of 1781. Thobias, b. October 2, 1782 ; m. here, April 23,
1809, Margaret, b. Sept. 4, 1786, D. of Peter Johnson of East
Sudbury. They removed from here, 1835, and now live at Somer-
ville. Their 8 children, all b, here, follow in Italics. Emeline, b.
1809, m., Boston,' Porter Crosby of Jaffrey, N. H., and d. Boston,
1838, without issue. He is in California. Thomas Hammond, b.
1811 ; m. Clarissa Eaton, b. Amherst, N. H., and lives at North
Chelsea, and has Thomas Eaton ; Theodore ; Edward Gregory.
George Washington, b. 1813 ; went, 1849, to California ; unm.
Francis William, b. 1818, m.. East Boston, Eliza Jane Bazin of
Portsmouth, N. H. ; lives E. B. ; has 2 children, and 2 deceased.
Asa Otis,h. April 19, 1820; d. Nov. 11, 1822. Charles Ham-
mond, b. July 14, 1822 ; d. Jan. 13, 1823. Charles Otis, b. Jan.
17, 1824 ; lives Somerville. John Champney, b. Octob. 6, 1826 ;
rn. Octob. 28, 1852, South Boston, Sarah Matilda, D. of Charles
Griggs of Roxbury ; lives Somerville. His D., Lucy Emeline, b.
Octob. 18, 1853, d. there Dec. 23, 1855. Chaeles, b. Dec. 15,
1784 ; m. Sept. 8, 1811, Rebecca (D. of Richard and Rebecca
Trow, of Dorchester). She d. May 31, 1823 ; and he m. at
Quincy, May 5, 1831, Mary Ann B. (D. of Wm. Whall), and
lives at Weymouth {Landing). His 11 children follow in
Italics. Clarissa Augusta, b. June 24, 1812; m., Weymouth,
June 5, 1835, James M. Beckford, S. of Robert and Hannah
(Dame), b. Durham, N. H., March 9, 1810, and lives at
Quincy. Children b. there, — James Robert, Octob. 1, 1836 :
Charles Francis, Octob. 5, 1838; d. Boston, July 17, 1839;
Richard Smith and Charles Francis, b. August 14, 1840, and
d., Quincy, on 20 and 17 October, 1840. Charles Richard, b.
June 17, 1813 ; m., Boston, Jan. 14, 1841, Rebecca Emerson,
D. of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Emerson) Montgomery, and lives
Boston, having had a D. b. and d. October 23, 1841, and Frank

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-Montgomery, b. Jan. 15, 1849 ; d. Jan. 5, 1855. Ann Rebecca,
b. Nov. 1, 1814; d. Sept 2, 1818. Sarah Elizabeth, b. April 27.
1816 ; in,, Feb. 3, 1839, Andrews Lane, and lives Weymouth.
William Henry, b. Octob. 20, 1820; m., Cambridge (Port), Sept.
10, 1843, Dorcas Babson, D. of John and Maiy Stacy of Wiscas-
set, Ue. She d., Newton, Aug. 31, 1853. He lives at Newton
(Ville). Children, — William Henry, b. Octob. 22, 1844;
Emma Augusta, July 13, 1846 ; Dorcas Amelia, Octob. 22,
1848 ; Edward Babson, June 13, and d. Sept. 20, of 1851 ;
Charles Webster, August 6, and d. Sept. 16, of 1853. Francis,
b. Jan. 22, and d. Nov. 18, 1822. Francis, b. Feb. 22, and d.
Sept. 29, 1823. Josej^h Francis, b. March 11, 1832. A son, b.
August 25, and d. Sept. 18, 1833. Edioard Wliall, b. August 13,
1834. George Otis, b. Octob. 7, 1838 ; d. Octob. 16, 1840.
Manj Anne, b. July 10, 1843. Joseph, b. Sept. 14, 1786 ; d.
here, unm., Sept. 12, 1833. Joshua, b. March 2, 1788 ; d. unm..
at Santa Cruz. (By an error in Hist, of Newton, p. 386, his young-
est brother, William Aspinwall, is given as his son.) Asa, b.
August 16, 1790 ; portrait-painter ; d. unm., Lexington Ky.
SuKEY, or Susan, b. August 2, 1792 (Mrs. Davis), as above.
Salome, b. Dec. 3, 1794 ; lives, Boston, unm. Daniel Harring-
ton, b. Feb. 10, 1797; d. Feb. 3, 1828. He m. Elizabeth
Phipps of Boston, who now lives there. Their only child, Daniel,
b. July 3, 1824, is merchant, Boston. Eliza FIarrington, b.
Dec. 27, 1801 ; m., Royalton, Vt., Benjamin Sargeant, and lives
at St. Armand, Canada, having Eliza Jane, b. Dec. 1840. Wil-
liam Aspinwall, b. Dec. 8, 1805 ; d. Boston, Sept. 2, 1853. He
m. Elizabeth (D. of Jonathan and Abigail Stewart), b. Boston,
May 25, 1808, and now lives there. Children, — William, h.
April 30, 1831 ; d. April 13, 1832. Victorine O., Sept. 13,
1831. Elizabeth, My 5, 1832. Josephine ^., April 1, 1837;
d. June 16, 1853. Adriana, July 2, 1839 ; d. Feb. 19, 1842.
Emeline, August 21, 1841; d. March 29, 1842. William H.,
June 23, and d. Octob. 12, 1845. William H., Nov. 23, 1846.

SUSANNA (D. of Thomas and Elizabeth), b. Octob. 10,
1760 ; m. Nathaniel Champney. See page 21, and the Address.

SAMUEL (S. of Thomas and Elizabeth), d. unm., Tolland,

Ct., about 1800.

DANIEL HARRINGTON (S. of Thomas and Elizabeth),
b. Julv 29, 1765: d. Royalton, Vt., April 17, 1850. He

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m. Hannah Marsli, b. Sharon, Vt., D. of Joel and Sarah,
and d. Royalton, 1798. He ni., Sharon, Vt., VVclthy Ladd
(D. of Samuel and Elizabeth), b. March 14, 1778, and d. Roy-
alton, Aug. 2, 1853. His 8 children, all b. lloyalton, Vt., follow
in Italics. Joel Marsh, b. 1796 ; d. Dec. 1814. Sarah Marsh,
1798, m., Sharon, Vt., Rev. Francis Danforth, and d. South Had-
ley, Sept. 1841. Hannah Marsh, Sept. 13, 1803; m., Royalton,
Dec. 8, 1830, Rodolphus Kinney Dewey, and lives there. Chil-
dren,— Iris, b. August 19, 1832 ; Ann, August 17, 1834; Mary,
May 16, 1836 ; Charles Kinney, June 9, 1838; Welthy, Jan. 27,
1840 ; Franklin, 1842, d. in infancy ; George Wright, March 25,
1844; Henry Kirk, Jan. 18, 1846. Eliza Ladd, b. July 29,
1807 ; m., 1826, Spencer Smith of Tunbridge, Vt., and lives
there. Children, — 1. Cornelia Ann, b. Jan. 26, 1830; m.,
1849, Jesse Carter, Randolph, Vt., and lives there. 2. Wallace
Fernando, April 6, 1831 ; m., 1855, Flarriet Drew of Tunbridge,
Vt. ; lives Randolph. 3. Royal Cornelius, October 1, 1832. 4.
Helen Ardelia, Sept. 28, 1834. 5. Marcia Jane, April 21, 1836.
6. Charles Bruce, April 27, 1838. 7. Mary Eliza, Sept. 10,
1839. 8. Henry Harrison, June 18, 1841. 9. Wilbur Stephen,
Sept. 25, 1843. 10. George Washington, Oct. 23, 1845. 11.
Welthy Adelaide, Sept. 19, 1847. 12. Agnes Arvesta, Nov. 27,
and d. Dec. 1849. 13. Clarence L., March 25, 1851. Electa
Ann, h. Octob. 5, 1810 ; m., Dec. 4, 1842, Robert Smith Benne-
son, b. Dec. 5, 1807, at Newark, Del. They live at Quincy, III.
Children, — Alice Adaline, b. April 8, 1844; Anna Jane, July
24, 1846 ; Susan Caroline, Feb. 8, 1848 ; Cora Agnes, June 10,
1851. Sitsan CJigjji^neii/, b. Dec. 22, 1812; d. unm., 1841.
Welthy Jane, b. Jiine 28, 1819 ; m. here, April 22, 1845, James
Clark of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and has Susan Champney, b. here
August 31, 1846. Charles Dana, b. August 15, 1821 ; m.
Miranda Clark, Royalton, Vt., and d. 1847, leaving Susan, b.
Jan. 12, 1847.

NATHANIEL (S. of Thomas, by 2d wife) was accidentally
shot, when about 18 years old, by a companion, on a gunning ex-
cursion at Springfield, Mass.

WILLIAM (S. of Thomas by 2d wife) went some 60 years
since, at about the age of 21, to Western New York, in company
with a son of Joseph Hatch ; and was living, some 6 years since,
unmarried.

The publication of this Address, which was kindly solicited, on
its delivery, by the family of my respected parishioner, has been
delayed, these months, ihat the genealogical matter accompanying
it might be gathered from widely scattered branches of the parent
stock. This partial notice of the Champney and Park families
may serve as a nucleus, about which other hands may complete
the genealogy.

F. A. W.

Brif/hton, December 25, 1855.

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