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FAMILY RECORDS

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COLLFXTED AND COMPILED
BY

FRED W. LAMB

A Descendant

Augustine Caldwell, 1900

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ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1901

EXPLANATION OF THE TERM FREEMAN OR FREKDT^IAN.

" To become a freeman, each person was legall}' re-
quired to be a respectable member of some Congregational
church. Persons were made freemen by the General Court
of the Colonies, and also by quarterly courts of the
counties. None but freemen could hold offices or vote for
rulers. This regulation was so far modified by Royal
order in 1664, as to allow individuals to be made freemen,
who could obtain certificates of their being correct in
doctrine and conduct, from clergymen acquainted with
them." — From the " History of Ipswich, Essex and Ham-
ilton," by the Rev. Joseph B. Felt, Hamilton. Cam-
bridge, 1834.

IvAMB FAMII^Y RECORDS.

Issac Lamb bought land near the Mystic River in what
was New London, Conn., about 1695 or 1696. In 1704 all
of New London east of the River Thames was made Gro-
ton. He is supposed to be the same Issac who was re-
corded as baptized and owned the covenant at Watertown,
Mass., July 10, 1687 :

From the History of Watertown, Mass. 1S55.
*• Lamb, Issac, bap. and o. c, July loth, 1687."
Tliere is a well founded tradition that he, with his father,
(name unknown, but believed to have been Daniel,) came
from England, and settled first on a grant of land they had
received at Haverhill, Mass., but were finally driven away
by the Indians ; and Issac went to New London, Conn.,
for safety.

Issac Lamb was said to have been a soldier in Crom-
well's army. In 1714, he bought two hundred acres of
land in Mystic, Conn., which has been the homestead ever

since. He died in 1723. He married Elizabeth .

They first joined the church at Norwich, but through
some minor disbelief in orthodoxy, were excommunicated,
and Issac became one of the organizers of a Baptist church,
(claimed by his descendants as the first Baptist church in
Connecticut,) and was one of the two deacons first elected.

From the Book of Genealogical Records, compiled by the late Rev. Joseph A.
Lamb, of Old Mystic, Conn., who died April 3, 1893. Copied by his daughter,
Mies Lucie A. Lamb. With additions by Frank B. Lamb and Fred W. Lamb:

FIRST GENERATION.
Issac Lamb, the first who deeded property, Jan 15, 1696,

died in 1723. He married Elizabeth . They had

nine children, — six daughters and three sons :
Elizabeth, baptized November 24, 1695
Else, baptized June 19, 1698
Freelove,
Experience,

Ann, believed to have married Samuel Branch,
May 23, 1728

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Jacob, baptized August 17, 1701

Daniel, born 1703

Issac, born 1705

Doroth}', married David Morgan, Dec. 12, 1728

SECOND GEXERATION.

Jacob Lamb, son of Issac, born about 1700, baptized
August 17, 1701; married Jerusha-rr:^ — '— , and had two
sons and one daughter: '' . .,

Am}', %f

Silas,

Timoth}', born in 1733

THIRD GENERATION

Timothy Lamb, son of Jacob, born in 1733, died in 1807,
married Mary Holdredge, April 20, 1767, and had six sons
and four daughters:

Aaron,
— William,

Rufus, born April 9, 1778 -

John,

Jssac,

Mary,

Sabra,

Timothy, born in 1767

FOURTH GENERATION.

Rufus Lamb, son of Timothy, born April 9, 1778, mar-
Tied Poll}' Searls and had the following children :
Billings, born in New London
Rufus, born in 1812, died in 1885
Rodman, born in Preston
Amos, born in Oxford
Albert,

Prudence, married William Whipple
Caroline, married vStephen Holdredge
Julia,
Lydia,
Frances, died at twelve j'ears of age

I.AMB FAMII^Y 5

FIFTH GENFRATION
Rufus I^amb, son of Rufus, born in 1812, died at Man-
chester, N. H., January 25, 1885. He married Sylvia
Conant Lee, Dec. 3, 1836, at Southbridge, Mass. They
had children as follows :

Frederic William, born Sept. 19, 1837

died Sept. 8, 1897
Helen Frances, b. at Grafton, Mass., Sept. 2?, 1842
Franklin Lee, b. ^.t Southbridge, Ms. June 9, 1848
Jennie Stearns, born " April 17, 1852

SIXTH GENERATION.

Franklin Lee Liunb, son of Rufus, born at Southbridge,
Mass., June 9, 1848, married Josephine A. Savory, Nov-
ember 15, 187 1, at Manchester, N. H., and had three
children :

Fred William, born at Manchester, N. H.,

January 22, 1S76
Sylvia Lee, born at Manchester, N. H.,

February 4, 1883
Walter Franklin, born at Akron, Ohio, July 22,
1886, died at Manchester, N. H.
March 16, 1889

Helen F. Lamb, married George W. Nichols, August
16, i860, at Southbridge, Mass. He died May 5, 1897.

Frederic W. Lamb, married Martha C. Howe, Dec. 7,
1865, at Leominster, Mass.. She died at Warren, Mase.,
Dec. 21, 1870, aged 27 years. He died vSept. 8, 1897.

Jennie S. Lamb, married William H. Mould, June

22, 1887.

SAVORY GENEALOGY :

From "The Savory Families of America." By Judge A. W. Savoiy. With
additions by Fred W. Lamb.

Origin of the Name.
" The mo.st rational "etymology of the name is that of
Ferguson, in his excellent work on English Surnames.
He makes it a compound of a word in the ancient Teutonic
languages, saba or sabas, a sword, [whence our modern
sabre;] and the familiar old Oermo-W termination, rih, or
7-ich, implying rule or dominion, and generally rendered
Prince; thus making the meaning of the name, Prince of
the Sword, or, Rule by the Sword. The name occurs in
English history as early as the reign of Henry III.
. " Almost the first mention of the name in this country,
is among the passengers of the ship Mary and John, who
took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy enacted before
leaving England on the 24th day of March, 1633, — which,
in old style, is the last day of the year, Thomas Savery
is the twelfth on the list, and William Savery the twen-
tieth. William T. Davis, author of " Ancient Landmarks
of Plymouth," says that Thomas and William v\cre broth-
ers. We find neither trace nor record of children born to
William, who came \\\\\\'X:\\ovc\?i'~, o\\ \\s.^ Mary and John,
from Wilts or Wiltshire, in the southwest of England;
which vessel arrived at Ipswich on the first of May, 1634,
after a passage of five or six weeks.

The Essex County Branch.
Robert Savory of Newbury : If Robert was a son of
William, — which we must presume, — he was probably born
in England, and was over twenty-two, when he, on Dec.
8, 1656, married Mary, widow of William Mitchell, who
had died July 16, 1654. It is also probable that he was
born in the Parish of Hannington, in the immediate
vicinity of which was the English home of the Rev. Thom-
as Parker, the first pastor of Newbury, who removed
thither from Ipswich, to continue his connection with
Wiltshire friends who had preceded him, while still others
followed to join him there.

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Robert Savorj^ removed to Bradford about 1670. and was
one of the original members of the church there. He died
ID 1690, while returning from Canada. His widow ad-
ministered, March 29, 1692; and his eldest son William
was appointed co-administrator, March 5, 1704 or 5.

FIRST GENERATION.
Robert Savory, married Mary Mitchell, and had the fol-
lowing children:

Sarah, born November 12. 1658

William, born September 15, 1659

Samuel, born March 8, 1662

Rebecca, born January 20, 1663, married Robert

Mullican, Dec. 15, 1687
Robert, l)orn August 8, 1666, died April 9, 1685

SECOND GENERATION.
William Savory, son of Robert, was born September 15,

1659. He married Hannah , and was livingin 1729.

He hJid children as follows :

Hannah, born January 25, 1691

Robert, born June 10, 1694

Samuel, born October 6, 1696, married July 24,

1724, Abigail Ordway, and died May 25,
1729, leaving two children, Abigail, born
Jan. 2, 1725-6, and Samuel, born Nov. 20,
1727. His widow administered, and Nath'l
Ordway was app. guardian of the children,
July 7, 1729

Thomas, born June 23, 1701 or 1702, (so copied from
the records, evidently wrong in month or
year. Probably June should read Januar}-.
He married Mercy Adams of Ipswich, Ms.,
and among other children had a son John,
born May 21, 1736. He was a Captain and
commanded the Second Foot Company of
Bradford, Mass., Minute Men, and was in
command of the Compan}^ at the alarm of
April 19, 1775, and marched with his Com-
pan)' to Cambridge, after the Battle of L,ex-

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inglon, together with two of his sons and a
brother, all in his Company ; one of his
sons being drummer, and his brother a
Sergeant, in his Company. He afterwards
led a detatchment of his Company to the
defence of Cape Ann, November, 1775.

Mary, born vSept. i, 1704, married July 31, 1722,
John Rawlins or Rollins

Dorcas, baptized Aug. 10, 1712, married March 30,
1730, Seth Petty

THIRD GENERATION.

Robert Savory, son of William, born June 10, 1694,
married (i) Jan. 10, 1717-18, Elizabeth Anderton, of
Newbury; (2) Rebecca, daughter of Aquilla Chase. By
wife Elizabeth he had :

Elizabeth, born September 4, 1720
By wife Rebecca he had :

Chase, twin, born Oct. 5, bap. Oct. 6, 1723

Hannah, " " probably died early

Anne, born December 5, 1729

Abigail, born April i, 1731, married Abr. Burbank

FOURTH GENERATION.

Chase Savory, son of Robert, married (i) Priscilla
Hardy; (2) Hannah Burbank. With wife Priscilla he
had ten children; among them were:

Daniel, born 1751, married Sarah Colby
B-njamin, m. Judith Burbank, and had son Nath'l
who was the celebrated Governor of Peel
Island, one of the Bonin group in the North
Pacific, whose strange career and character
are described in Commodore Perry's ac-
count of his eventful expedition to Japan,
and in Harper's Magazine for March, 1856.
The Bonin Islands, or Archbishop Islands
in the North Pacific, were discovered in
1827, by Capt. Beechey, of the Blossom, who
took formal possession of them for England.
In 1830, however, Peel Island, near the

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centre of the group, was settled in connec-
tion with the whaling business, by a motley-
colony : an Englishman, an Italian, a Dane
two Americans, fifteen Sandwich Islanders,
— five men and ten women, — under the aus-
pices of a Union Jack. The inhabitants
adopted a constitution in 1853. Besides
pigs, goats and fowls. Peel Island pro-
duces sweet potatoes, maize, onions, 5^ams,
pumpkins, melons, lemons, tobacco, and
sugar cane. Timber also is plentiful
though not of sufficient size for masts.
Samuel, married Elizabeth Sargeant

FIFTH GENERATION

Samuel Savory, son of Chase, came from Derry, mar-
ried Elizabeth Sargeant, who was born April, 1757, and
settled in Salisbury, then moved into the Gore in Warner,
N. H. They had three sons and one daughter:
Robert,

John, married Sally Straw, March 12, 1807

Daniel, married Mary Straw, April 8, 1813

Rebecca, m. Obadiah Fifield, removed to New York

Copy of Record found on the books of Kearsarge Gore:

Marig Covenant.

12 March 1807 than Alder Watson marid John Savory

and Salley Straw.

SIXTH GENERATION.

Daniel Savory settled on a farm near the foot of Kear-
sarge mountain, in what is called the Gore, in Warner,
N. H. He married April 8, 1813, Mary Straw, who was
born March 19, 1786. Their children were :

Leonard N. born Sept. 12 1819, died Sept. 16, 1823
Albert L. born Aug. 16, 1822. died Sept. 2-6, 1823
Emily B. born June 15, 1821, died Sept. 9, 1821
Cyrus P. born July 21, 1824
Pluma F. born 1S26, married Horace Stanley
Eucy, born Jan 24, 1S30, died Dec. 25, 1893 ; mar-
ried William Montgomery

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At the time the great tornado swept through Warner,
Daniel Savory's house stood in its path. Hearing a fear-
ful rumbling in the heavens, Samuel Savory, aged 72, the
father of Daniel, (who was away,) hastened upstairs to
close the windows. The women of the household started
to his assistance, when the house whirled above their
heads, and instantly rose into the air, while that which
was left,— timbers, bricks, etc., literally buried six of the
family. The body of the aged father, Samuel Savory,
was found at a distance of six rods from the house, where
he had been dashed against a stone, and instantly killed.
Elizabeth, his wife, was very much injured by the timbers
that fell upon her. Mrs. Daniel Savory was fearfully
bruised ; and the infant, Emily B., vi'hom she held in her
arms, was killed. The family were extricated by the as-
sistance of the elder Mrs. Savory, who, though very con-
siderably injured, had the most surprising strength in
removing timbers and bricks, beneath which could be
faintly heard the cries and moans of the sufferers.

Daniel Savor3''s buildings were not only levelled, but
the materials and contents were dashed into ten thousand
pieces, and scattered in every direction. Carts, wagons,
sleighs, plows, sleds, were carried a considerable distance,
and so broken and shattered as to be fit only for fuel.
Stone walls were levelled, and rocks weighing four or five
hundred pounds were taken out of their beds by the force
of the wind. An elm tree, near where old Mr. Savory fell,
that was a foot at least in diameter, (some say seventeen
inches,) and too strongly rooted to yield, was twisted like
a withe to the ground, and lay prostrate like a wilted
weed. Logs that were bedded in the ground, fifty to
sixty-five feet long, were not heavy enough to retain their
places. Not an apple or forest tree were left standing.

The house of Robert Savory stood very near this place ;
and that also was utterly demolished. Mrs. Robert Sav-
ory said that she anticipated a shower and went into a
bedroom to take up a child, and was conscious of nothing
more till she found herself among timbers and ruins,
greatly bruised, but the child unhurt, — her husband

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buried altogether in tlie bricks, vv'ith the exception of his
head, and two children completely covered by the splin-
ters and rubbish. This family of eight persons, were all
wounded, but none dangerously.

There were twenty-four hives of bees at the Robert
Savory place, perhaps the property of both families.
These were swept out of sight in an instant. The ground
was sweetened with honey for half a mile, but no hive and
no sign of a bee has been seen since. Furniture , and
crockery were smashed and scattered about everywhere;,
as was also the legs, wings and heads of fowls. Several
acres of corn and potatoes adjacent to the buildings were
swept off clean, not leaving an ear, save at some distance
a few in heaps.

The Savorys and Abner Watkins had captured a bear,

nid had chained him to a sill of Robert Savory's barn.

Though the barn was entirely destroyed to its foundation,
'he sill to which the bear was chained being a cross sill
and bedded into the ground, remained in its place, and
tb.e l)ear was unhurt.

SKVENTH GENERATION.
Cyrus Pattee Savory m. Helen Harriman ; four children.

Josephine A. born June i, 1S52, m. Franklin L. lyamb

Frank,

George W. born March 29, 1856

Walter Harriman, b. June, 1866, m. Minnie A. Dufhe
Sept. r, i8f6; one child, Ethel
George W. Savory born (as above stated) March 29, 1856,
married March 24, 1884, Ida Harriman, who was born
March 24. 1858. Children :

Harriman, born February 13, 18S5

Solena, born February 13, 1887

Carlie, born June 16, 1^89

Infant boy, born Dec. 5, 1890, died Jan. 27, 1891

Ellis, born November 10, 1892

Vincent, born October 4, 1895,

HARRIMAN GENEALOGY:

From the " History of Raymond, N. H.," by Joseph Fullonton, 1875. With
additions and corrections, by Fred W. Lamb.

ORIGIN OF THR NAME.

" Harriman, is a different spelling of Henryman. U&n,-
r-y. means honor. Harriman, therefore is Honorman, as
t^ meaning.

" John and Leonard Harriman, (brothers,) Yorkshire
Puritans, em'igrated from Rowley, in Yorkshire, England,
about the year 1638, Leonard being sixteen years of age.'
He is believed by some to have been of the first company.'
Yorkshire is the largest county of England, and is situated
in the north central part, midway between London and
Edinburgh.

"John Harriman settled in what is now New Haven, Ct
and died in i68r. He took the "oath of fidelity," July'
1644, and received the "charge of freeman," April, 1646"
In his will he calls himself "stricken in years," and'names"
only one son.

" His son's name was John, born 1647, graduated at
Harvard College, 1667. He was a minister, ai:d preached
twenty years in New .Haven and vicinity. In 1690 he
removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., and was settled over the
church there, until his death in 1704. Some of his de^
scendants, it is believed, are now found in New England •
but are somewhat numerous in the Middle States.

"Leonard Harriman, (brother of John who went to
New Haven.) is found among the earlv settlers of Rowley
Mass., and was "admitted freeman," in 1647, when the
name on the records is given-Hurryman. Rowley then
embraced the present Rowley, and also Boxford Grove
land, Bradford, and Georgetown. He bought, in 166- of
John Todd, the houselot laid out to John Spofford 'on
Bradford street, now the corner of Bradford and Common
streets. He was a farmer and a mechanic; and in the
latter capacity manufactured looms. It is thought the
loom shop stood on the brook, at the rear of the other
buildings, and was run by water. On an ancient tax

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list of Rowley, sometime before 1664, Leonard was taxed

_;^o, 8, 9. His wife was Margaret , who died —

October 20, 1676. He died May 26, 1691,

His will was dated 12 May, 1691, proved 24 September,

1691. Mentions son Matthew to have land in Haverhill.

FIRST GENERATION.
Leonard Harriman and Margaret his wife, had :
A daughter, born 1649
John, born March 1650
Matthew, born June 16, 1652; married Elizabeth

Swan. [See below.]
Hannah, born March 22, 1655 ; married Caleb Boyn-

ton. May 26, 1674
Jonathan, born October 5, 1657
Mary, married June 25, 1691

Elizabeth Swan Harriman.
All that can be learned of the ancestry of Elizabeth
Swan, wife of Matthew^wRnTis the following by Harriet
Swan Cadle of Muscatine, Iowa, in the New York Geneal-
ogical and Biographical Record, October, 1898, page 213.

" Richard Swan, the emigrant, came from England to
America, in January, 1638, locating at Boston, Mass.,
where he joined the church, January 6, 1639. He removed
to Rowley, in 1640 ; was admitted to Rowley church.
May 23, 1644. He was made freeman, in Rowley, May 13,
1640. He was a soldier in King Philip's war ; was promi-
nent in town affairs, representative to the General Court,
1666 to 1675. He died in 1678. His wife was named Ann.
His children, with the exception of the youngest, are sup-
posed to have been born in England. The birth of John,
the .youngest is recorded in Boston. Children of Richard
and Ann Swan :

Richard Swan

Frances Swan, married Mark Ouilter

Robert Swan, married Elizabeth Acie, of Rowley

Jonathan Swan

Susan Swan, married Samuel Sticknev

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Sarah Swan, married Joseph Bo3'nton

Anna Swan, married John Trumbull, of Rowley

John Swan, born Nov. 13, 1638, in Boston

Robert Swan married Elizabeth Acie of Rowley, in 1650.
She died in 16S9. He married (2) Hannah Russ, April i,
1690. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and died
February ir, 1698. He removed to Andover and thence
to Haverhill.

By his first wife, Elizabeth Acie, he had twelve chil-
dren ; the eldest, Elizabeth, born September 30, 1653,
married Matthew Harriman. Her brother John, born Aug.
I, 1668, married widow Susannah Eastman Wood, Aug. i,
1699. He was a Captain in the Indian Wars; and tradi-
tion says when Capt. John Swan was off to the wars,
that Susannah would hang balls of carpet rags in the
upper windows of her home, and have the children move
them about with the yard stick, when the Indians were in
sight, w^hile ihe beat upon an old drum below stairs.
The Indians would think Capt. John was at home, and
would pass them unmolested.

Susannah Swan was twice captured by the Indians.
Her first husband, Thomas Wood, and child, were killed
by them when Haverhill was attacked in 1693.

Chase in his History of Haverhill, page 222, lehsoi
the encounter Susannah had with two Indians:

" Two Indims attacked the house of Mr. vSwan. Swan
and his wife saw them approaching, and determined if
possible to save their own lives, and the lives of their
children from the knives of the ruthless butchers. They
immediately placed themselves against the door, which
was so narrow that two .ould scarcely enter abreast. The
Indians rushed .igainst it ; finding it could not be easily
opened, they commenced their operations more systemati-
cally. One of them placed his back to the door, so that he
could make his whole strength bear upon it, while the
other pushed against him. The strength of the besiegers
was greater than th.at of the besieged ; and Mr. Swan,
being rather timid, (said our venerable narrator, ) des-

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paired of saving himself and family ; and told his wife that
he thought it would be better to let them in i The reso-
lute and courageous woman had no such idea. The In-
dians had now succeeded in partly opening the door ; one
of them was crowding himself in, while the other was
pushing lustily after. The heroic wife saw their was no
time for parleying. She seized her spit, which was nearly
three feet in length, and a deadly weapon in the hands of
woman, and, collecting all the strength she possessed,
drove it through the body of the foremost. This was too
warm a reception for the besiegers. It was resistance
from a source and with a weapon they little expected. And
surely who else would ever think of spitting a nian? The
two Indians thus repulsed immediately retreated, and did
not molest them again.

This account is wholly traditional. We heard it related
by a venerable gentleman, Capt. Nehemiah Emerson, —
who has often heard it told by his grandfather, who then
lived in the garrison of his fatl^r, Jonathan Emerson.

John Harriman, the first born son of Leonard Harriman,
was sacrificed in King Philip's war, at Bloody Brook,
Deerfield, Mass., Sept. 18, 1675. Nearly eighty brave
youth, "the flower of Essex Countj','" perished. John
was a member of Capt. Lathrop's Company, and, upon
Sept. 18, they were sent to convoy teams bringing loads of
grain from Deerfield to Hadley. A strong ambuscade
was made at a place known since that fatal day as Bloody
Brook, by about one thousand of the enemy. The Indians
encompassed Capt. Lathrop and his men, — about eighty
including teamsters, and sixty to seventy were slain.
Reinforcements came up from Deerfield under Capt.
Moseley and Major Treat, and the Indians finallj^ fled.

Matthew Harriman, Leonard's second son, settled in
Haverhill, Mass. He cook the "oath of fidelity," Nov.
28,. 1677. From him are descended the Harrimans of
Plaistow, and Henniker, N. H.

The first Harriman of whom we have an account in

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Plaistow, was John. Farmer, New Hampshire's former
great antiquarian, gives his name — John ; but Mrs. Fel-
lows, of Haverhill, a great-grandaughter, gives us his
name — Joseph. Farmer says he is supposed to have been
the first man in New Hampshire, who adopted Baptist
sentiments. We think his church relations were in New-
town, now Newton, where the first Baptist Church in New
Hampshire was formed in 1755. He was a Deacon, and
died in 1820, aged ninety-seven.

Deacon Harriman had a son David, we think, a good
man, with a very devout wife. Two sons, John and
David, became preachers. John was ordained in a barn
in Plaistow, April, 1812. He was regarded as very useful
in his calling. While living in Canterbury, he was Rep- *
reseutative in the Legislature. He was of great purity of
life, warm-hearted, a good singer, and always happy.
He belonged to the denomination called ''Christian."

David was ordained in Candia, where he lived some
years, in 1817. He was a Free Baptist; was pastor in
Weare some years, and died in Sutton, Dec. i, 1844, and
was buried at his home in Weare. A son, David P. was a
College graduate; a Free Baptist minister; and died in
Strafford, June 23, 1864.

Jonathan Harriman, the youngest son of Leonard, re-
mained on the homestead. He was born October 5, 1657,
and married (i) Sarah, daughter of John Palmer. By
her he had a daughter, Margaret. His wife died June 30,
168S.

He married (2) Margaret (Elithorp) Wood, widow of
Samuel Wood and daughter of Nathaniel Elithorp, of
Ipswich. She was born July 24, 1672, and joined the
church at Rowley, April 17, 1743 Her first husband was
Samuel Wood, of Ipswich, by trade a Saltmaker. She
married Jonathan Harriman, August 19, 1691. He was a
pioneer of Georgetown, — a farmer, miller and iron maker.
He died February J^, 1741. His grave is in Georgetown,
marked by a slate stone, inscribed :

HARRIMAN FAMILY 1 7

Here Lies Burried

The Body of

Mr Jonathan

Herreman who

Died Febr' 15

1741 in ye 85th

year of His Age

SECOND GENERATION.

Jonathan Harriman and Margaret (Wood,) his wife,
had the following children :

Jonathan, born July. 15, 1692, died Nov. 20, 1711
Leonard, born Oct. 5, 1694, m. Martha Plummer
Nathaniel, born December 31, 1696
Mary, born Nov. ir, 1698, married (i) Jacob Hale of
Boxford, 1728 ; (2) Jeremiah Nelson,
February i, 1733
Sarah, born March 19, 1700- 1, married Oct. i, 1723
Samuel Hazen of Boxford ; they moved
to Shirley, in 1749; she d. Aug. i, 1794
John, born June 13, 1703, married Jane Bailey
vSamuel. born Nov. 12, 1705

Jeremiah, born Sept 22, 1709, m. Patience Perle}^
Nathaniel Harriman, named above, married August 25,
1720, Meh.itable, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bisbee)
Spofford. She was baptized May 10, 1698. He was a
Lieutenant and Cornet in the army; and died in front of
Louisburg, Oct. 13, 1745.

Lieut. Moses Harriman, son of Nathaniel and Mehitable
(Spofford) Harriman, was born April 10, 1737; mairied
Jane Hale, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hale. He was
First Lieutenant in the Second Bradford Company of
Minute Men, under Capt. John Savory, and served on the
Lexington Alarm, and in the defence of Cape Ann, in
November, 1775. He died August 24, 1828.

The descendants of Jonathan Harriman, as well as the
descendants of Matthew, who settled in Haverhill, are
found in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Ver-
mont, and many other states.

]8 HARRIMAN FAMILY

THIRD GENERATION.

'Samuel Harriman, (son of Jonathan, son of lyeonard,)
boiu November 12, 1705, married in Newbury, October 16,
1729, Jane, daughter of Thomas Coleman, of Newbury.
She was baptized in the Byfield Meeting-house<April 6,
17 12. At the organization of the second church in Row-
ley, (now Georgetown,) Samuel was one of the members.
He had a farm in this part of Rowley, and lived here
or at Newburyport, at the time of his death, — which re-
sulted from a fall from the beams of his barn, about 1756.
The children of Samuel and Jane :

Samuel, born February 23, 1731-2, died Sept. 13, 1736
aged 4 1-2 years. He was the first child bap-
tized in the Second Parish Meeting-house

Jane, born Nov. 10, 1733, d. Sept. 28, 1736, aged 3 yrs

Dudley, b. Mch 9, 1734-5, d. Sept 27 1736, aged 18 ms.

Phoebe, born 1737, died July 29, 1745, aged 8 years

Anne, born October 8, 1739

Jane, born 1740, married Benjamin Kvans, of Rocky
Hill, Salisbury, who was one of the original
grantees of Warner, N. H.

Asa, born January 30, 1742

Nathaniel, born Sept. 10, 1747, died aged 28 days
The three elder children, Samuel, Jane and Dudley, died
of the "great epidemic," or throat distemper of 1736. —
Nine hundred children in Essex County alone, were swept
off by this disease within six months. There was more
superstition then than now ; and during the prevalence of
the disease, but before it had reached her family, Jane
Harriman, the mother, being in the cellar, heard three
distinct raps, like the striking of the knuckles against the
ceiling. On getting above stairs she looked for the cause
of the sounds, and finding none, she was painfully im-
pressed that it was the '"forerunner" of the deaths of her
children. Tl:e disease entered her home ; and in a few
days her three little ones, [at that time the only children,]
were deposited in the same grave.

HARRIMAN FAMILY IQ

FOURTH GENE^RATION.

Asa Harrimaii, son of Samuel and Jane (Coleman)
Harriman, at the age of fourteen, [bis father having died
from a fall in the barn,] was put under the guardianship
of his uncle Coleman. In 1759, at the age of seventeen,
we find him in the French and Indian War. He served in
Col. Joseph Gerrish's Regiment, raised for the invasion of
Canada. He had hardly attained to manhood, yet he
possessed great muscular power ; and in his leisure hours,
during his military service, he was much engaged in
wrestling, jumping the pole, lifting at stiff heels, etc.
He subsequently served in the Revolutionary War. ■
He obtained a fund of stories and incidents while in
Military service, that lasted him through a long life ; and
he had a great faculty of interesting old and young in
rehearsing the events of the wars.

March 25, 1760, at the age of eighteen, Asa Harriman
married Joanna Beal, of York, Maine. She was sixteen
years of age. She is represented as having been a large,
courtlj'' woman, of fine personal appearance, and much
goodness of heart. Asa inherited the Rowley farm, to
which be took his young bride, in 1760. They lived here
several years, then sold, and moved to Epping, N. H.,
having bought the farm in that town now owned by Capt.
George N. Shepherd, of the Eleventh Regiment, N. H.
Volunteers. The children of i\.sa and Joanna :

James, born 1762

Asa, born 1766, married Sarah Evans, 1786

Phoebe, born 1768
■^Betsey, born 1770

Samuel, born 1773

Dudley, born 1776

Jesse, born 1778

vSally, born 1780

John, born 1783
The descendants of these are in all the New England
States, particularly Maine and New Hampshire.

20 HARRIMAN FAMILY

FIFTH GENERATION

Asa Harriman, (son of Asa and Joanna,) April 20, 1786
at the age of twenty, married Sarah Evans, of Salisbury
Point, Mass. In 1788 they migrated into the wilderness,
and settled in the southwesterly part of Warner, N. H.,
at the foot of Mink Hills. This farm consisted of one
hundred acres of wuld land, sixty acres of which he pur-
chased from his uncle, Benjamin Evans, of Salisbury, one
of the grantees of Warner. The land on being cleared up,
proved to be productive, but the privations of these first
settlers were bitter, and their struggles against want and
hunger severe.

A young family of four children had been born to them.
The sun had begun to shine in the wilderness, and the
circumstances of the family were beginning to wear a more
cheerful aspect, when it was visited by a terrible calamity.
On March f, 1794, Asa Harriman, then but twenty-eight
years of age, was killed by a falling tree. His burial
service was numerously attended, for he was a man of
sterling worth and qualities, and whoever knew him was
his friend. He was a man of great physical strength, was
"six feet two," and weighed two hundred.

In 1796, the widow of Asa Harriman. finding, one night,
that her cows had not come up to the barn, started in
pursuit of them. She became bewildered and had no idea
which w^ay pointed toward home. She pursued the forest
paths for hours. At length a dim light was discernable.
It was at the house of Benjamin Badger, which was rot
less thah two and a half miles from her own. in a straight
line, and there was no road leading from one of these
houses to the other. It was now ten o'clock. Mr. Badger
took his lantern and escorted the lost woman home.
Reaching the house they found the three youngest chil-
dren asleep on the floor; but the oldest, a girl of eight
years, was gone. It was now midnight. The young chil-
dren told them that Nancy went to find her mother, and
had not come back. They at once started in search of the
missing girl, and in a woodpath, half a mile from home,
they found her at the side of a log, where, as the mother

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always expressed it, "she had cried herself to sleep."
Mrs. Harriman died very suddenly, March 9, 1856,

having lived just sixty-two years to a day from the death

of her husband.

The children of Asa and Sarah (Evans) Harriman :

Nancy,
Phoebe,

Benjamin Evans, born January 14, 1791
died October 23, 1856
David,

SIXTH GENERATION.

Benjamin Evans Harriman, was three years old, when
his father (Asa Harriman) died, having been born Jan.
14, 1791. He remained on the old homestead, and added
largely to its acres. He was a good farmer, an upright
man, considerably in public life and represented his town
in the Legislature several years.

He married June 18, 1812, Hannah Flanders, of Warner,
who was born March 28, 1794. The children of Benjamin
E. and Hannah (Flanders) Harriman were :

Henry H. born J'lly n, 1814. He w^as a school teacher
and fanner. He fell dead in his field, April
18, 1878
Benjamin F. born April 7, 1815, married Mary Jane
Aiken, and had three children : Augusta A.,
Sylvanus, Henrietta. He died in 1885 ; and
his wife died in 1893
Walter, born April 8, 1817 ; died July 25, 1884. He
was Colonel of the nth Regiment, N. H. Vols.,
and Brigadier General by Brevet; and subse-
quently Governor of New Hampshire for two
terms in 1867 and 1868. He wrote the History
oj Warner, JV. H. and In the Orient ; and also a
large number of historical papers, notably one
on The Boiuidaries of New Hampshire. He
was editor of the Manchester Weekly Unio?i, in
1861 and 1862. He was captured at the Battle
of the Wilderness, Va., by the Confederates ;

22 HARRIMAN FAMILY

and was one of the fifty Union officers placed
under the fire of the Union guns at Charleston,
vS. C. He married in 1844, Almira R. Andrews
and had three children : Georgia A., Walter C.
and Benjamin Evans,
Alonzo B. born July 14, died Nov. 10, 1819
David C. born August 23, 1S20, died March 4, 1900 ;
married Susan Flanders July 3, 1845, and had
two children, Matilda, born March 30, 1850, and
Belle, born Feb. 6, 1853.
Elhanan \V. born Jan. 8, 182/^? died June 24, 1851
Leonidas. born Feb, 7, 1827, married Dec. 25, 1859, at
Manchester, N. H., Martha Jane George, and
he died Sept. 30, 1891, he had two children, Vir-
ginia, born Feb. 24, 1867. died May 5, 1867, and
Leonard, born Dec. 27. 1872.
Augustine, born April 15, i82|t died Nov. 24, 1S96
Hannah Augusta, born Feb. 27, 1S29, died Nov. 1890
Helen S. born May i, 1S31, died August 13, 1896

married Cyrus P. Savory
Frank P. born February 23, 1835
Dudley and Jane Harriman, children of Asa and Joan-
na (Beale) Harriman, migrated to the State of Maine,
where each became the head of a large family.

Betsey Harriman, another child of Asa and Joanna,
married John Flanders, of Salisbury, and had eight chil-
dren, only two of whom are now living : — Benjamin E. of
Brentwood, N. H., Joseph, late of Boston.

It is stated on page 19, that during the Revolutionary
War, Asa and Joanna Harriman moved from Massachu-
setts to Epping, N. H.. where their three youngest chil-
dren,— Jesse, Sally and John, — were born. About the
year 1785. he moved from Epping to Raymond, and set-
tled on an elevation now known as "Harriman Hill,"
where he closed a life of fourscore years. Joanna, his
wife, survived him three years.

Jesse Harriman, [son of Asa and Joanna,] inherited the
paiernal estate at Raymond, to which he and his descend-
ants have added largely in acres and culture.

HARRIMAN FAMILY 23

He married Abigail Tilton, of Raymond, 1804; she died
Nov. 15, 1824, aged 44 ; he m. in 1825, Hannah Locke ;
she died Feb. 7, 1S68 in her 84th year.

It may be said of Jesse, that he had a sound mind in a
sound body. His physical force was very great ; few of
his contemporaries being able to match him. He possessed
sterling qualities of mind and heart, and among others,
that high degree of cofnmon sense which made him a man
of correct judgment in every thing pertaining to the
sphere of life in which he moved ; fortitude in suffering ;
that true courage, or presence of mind, that renders its
possessor calm, serene, and efficient in times of danger ;
and the benevolence of heart that forgets itself in its eager
desire to administer to the necessities of others. It was a
part of his philosophy, that every man should pursue that
course for which nature designed him ; that no one should
advance his own interests by engaging in any business
detrimental to the public weal. It was his ambition to
subdue and beautify the earth, to render it obedient to the
demands of moral nature ; to rear flocks and herds, to
keep them in high condition, and train them to become the
ready vassals of his will. Having faithfully served his
generation he passed joyously from the friends he loved to
those whose who had gone before, exclaiming, "I have a
hope as an anchor to the soul. I see visions of beauty and
glory !" He died March 28, 1872, aged 93 years.
The children of Jesse and Abigail (Tilton) were:

Samuel M. a public teacher for more than 40 3'ears.

John Dudley

lylary T. [Mrs Henry Hardy ;] Emily B. [Mrs Rawson]

G-. Washington, d. aged 12 yrs ; Josiah, died early
vSanuicI M. Harrinian, resided on the homestead ; mar-
ried Elisabeth Locke, of Seabrook, 1837; she died March
6, 1856, aged 37. He married Hannah Maria Hazelton of
Chester, Oct. 9, 1867. He was a Selectman of Raymond
in 1841, and 1847. To Samuel and Elizabeth (Locke)
were born five children; — three died in infancy, two now
survive: Ellen E.; Luvan A.

24 HARRIMAN PAMI1,Y

J. Dudley Harriman, now residing on the previously
named " Hills,'" was married to Alraira T. Rowson, of
Douglass, Mass., in 1839. To them were born two sons
and a daughter. The oldest was

Adelaide Marsh, died May 30, 1S66, aged 23 3'ears

Angelo, died in infancy

John Wesley

The children of Henry and Mary T. (Harriman) Hardy,
of Raymond Centre :
Albert D.
George H.
Mary Abbie, married J. W. Fiske

Sally Harriman, sister of Jesse Harriman, married
William Stevens.

Sarah Stevens, eldest daughter of William and Sally,
married Joseph Fiske of Derry. They moved to Ray-
mond in 1844, and have one son, J. W. Fiske, who rep-
resented the town in 1874, also elected 1875.

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