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THE NEW YORK
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MARY ELISABETH NEAL HANAFORD
FAMILY RECORDS
OF BRANCHES OF THE
HANAFORD, THOMPSON, HUCKINS, PRESCOTT,
SMITH, NEAL, HALEY, LOCK, SWIFT,
PLUMER, LEAVITT, WILSON, ^ V
GREEN, AND ALLIED
FAMILIES
BY
MARY ELISABETH(nEALJhANAFORD
Member of the New England Historical and
Genealogical Society
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
1915^
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
List of Illustrations v-vi
Dedication viii
Preface ix
Hanaford Family Records i
Huckins Family Records 17
Webster Family Records . 25
Thompson Family Records 29
Prayer from the Army and Church Manual 34
Prescott Family Records 35
Poem, "The Mothers of Our Forest Land" 42
Wine or Wein Family Records • 43
Bolton Family Records 47
Nelms Family Records 57
Richard Smith Family Records 59
Poem, "Oh, The Mountain Maid New Hampshire," Miss Proctor 60
Neal Family Records . . — 73
Captain Walter Neal Petition 78
Poem, "The Quaker of the Olden Time" 79
The Indian Deed of 1629 to Wheelwright 83
Poem, "Apostrophe to the Piscataqua " 105
Poem, "Lake Winnesquam," Mary E. (Neal) Hanaford 107
Haley Family Records 113
Loch, Lock, Locke Family Records 117
Robert Smith Family Records 125
Henry Lyman Smith Branch Family Records 130
Marston Family Records 139
Captain Elisha Smith Branch Family Records 141
Sheafe Family Records 147
Shepard Family Records 147
Reuben P. Smith Branch Family Records 151
Poem, "Our Granite Land," H. H. Metcalf 152
Poem, "The New Wife and the Old," J. G. Whittier 154
Frank Percy Smith Branch Family Records 157
Poem, "The Lake Side, " John Greenleaf Whittier 158
Hill Family Records 161
Poem, "On Winnesquam, " Clarence H. Pearson 162
Barnes Family Records 166
Codman Family Records 167
Poem, Read At the "At Home" of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Hill, Mrs. Harvey
Jewett 168
Nicholas P. Smith Branch Family Records 169
IV FAMILY RECORDS
PAGE
Poem, "The Smith," H. W. Longfellow 170
Will of Nicholas Smith 173
Will of Nicholas Smith 175
Lewis Cass Family Records (Cass, Casse, Cash) 181
Philbrick Family Records 185
Bartlett Family Records 189
Poem, " The Spinners, " Longfellow 201
Leavitt Family Records 203
Dudley Family Records : 209
Plumer Family Records 213
Poem, "The Pilgrim Fathers," Felicia D. Hemans 214
Samuel Bidfield Will 215
The Hermit of Meredith Hill 223
Wilson Family Records 243
Merrill Family Records 251
Parsons Family Records 257
Poem, "A Song of the Pioneers, " William D. Gallagher 262
Green Family Records 263
Greene Family Records 263
Nutter Family Records 275
Old Days at Winnipesaukee, Bertha Green 280
Swift and Swyft Family Records 283
Poem, Miss Stevens 284
Smith Family Records 291
Poem 295
Conclusion, Mary Elisabeth Neal Hanaford 297
Additional Genealogical Notes 299
Batt Family Records 301
Webster Family Records 302
Military Service, John Webster 303
Genealogical Gleanings, Handfort, Etc 305
The Bartlett Family, by Horace E. Stowe 308
Descent of Judith N. Bartlett 310
Descent of Gov. Thomas Dudley 310
Prof. Lyman Brooks Hanaford 313
Ethan Allen Anecdote 314
Index of Names 315
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Mar>' Elisabeth Neal Hanaford Frontispiece
Map, Where Our Worthy Ancesters Originated xi
Hanaford Coat of Arms xiii
Four Generations of Hanaford ii
Portrait — Benjamin Hanaford 1 1
Deacon John Huckins 1 1
Winthrop T. Hanaford 1 1
Nathaniel P. Hanaford 1 1
John P. Hanaford 1 1
Jennie M. Webster 1 1
Webster Coat of Arms 23
Prescott Coat of Arms 33
Bolton Coat of Arms 45
Rev. Robert Bolton Gravestone Inscription 53
Richard Smith Coat of Arms 59
John Smith Monument, Isle of Shoals 62
Neal Coat of Arms 71
Old Jackson House, Portsmouth 84
Old Ocean, Rye Beach, N. H 92
Location of Joseph and John Neal in (New Salem) Meredith, N. H 94
Oxen Produced by John Mead Neal 96
Portrait — John Mead Neal 97
John Frank Neal 97
Mary Neal Robinson Residence 100
View of Old Home in Sanbornton, Lake Winnesquam 106
Portrait — Smith Neal 108
Sarah Elisabeth Smith Neal 108
Haley Coat of Arms 1 1 1
Loch Coat of Arms 115
Robert Smith Coat of Arms 123
Portrait — Henry Lyman Smith 132
Joseph Marston Smith 132
Memorial Stone Smith Family 134
Marston Coat of Arms 137
Portrait — Nicholas Smith 178
Nicholas Marston Smith 178
Lewis Cass Smith 178
Frank Nicholas Smith 178
John Nicholas Marston Smith 178
Old Garrison House, Exeter, N. H 184
Bartlett Coat of Arms 189
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PAGE
Portrait — Dudley Leavitt 207
Reward of Merit Reproductions (2) Master Leavitt to Smith Neal,
following 208
Dudley Coat of Arms 209
Plumer Coat of Arms 213
Old Hermit House 224
Portrait — Benjamin Franklin Plumer 232
Benjamin Franklin Plumer Family 233
Drusilla Leonette (Plumer) Stevens 233
Ellen Maria (Plumer) Richards 233
Benjamin Wilson Plumer 233
Hannah Wilson Plumer 233
Harriet Plumer 234
Benjamin Wilson Family 236
Franklin L. Plumer 236
Mrs. Bertha A. (Plumer) Cherry 236
Mrs. Elvira (Green) Plumer 236
Benjamin Wilson Plumer 236
David Worthen Plumer Family 237
Benjamin Smith Plumer 237
Harold Rodger Plumer 237
Jesse Frederick Plumer 237
Dudley Leavitt Plumer 237
Helen Elisabeth Plumer 237
Lottie Wilson (Plumer) Rahn 237
Daniel Worthen Plumer 237
Mrs. Leonora Leavitt (Smith) Plumer 237
Wayne Worthen Plumer 237
First Wentworth House, Portsmouth, N. H 239
Wilson Coat of Arms 243
Green Coat of Arms 263
Smith Coat of Arms 291
IN MEMORY OF OUR HONORED ANCESTORS
WHO FOUGHT AND DIED THAT
WE MIGHT LIVE
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Where our Worthy Ancestors Originated
TI=[E l^EW '^'^■'''
mD£N FOUNDATiQNs
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HANAFORD
The Hanaford crest was a unicorn's head surmounting a crown, an en-
circHng scroll, bearing the motto, "Ad Finem Esto Fidelis." (Be Thou
Faithful to the End).
"A pedigree is a ladder by lahich we mount into past
ages, and on any round of which we find a convenient
resting place for stopping to look about us"
FAMILY RECORDS
HANAFORD
Items — In the French family Record, of Ipswich, Eng., one
Mary French was a sister of John Hanniford, who mentioned her
in his will of 1567. From Old Norfolk and Essex wills, Massa-
chusetts.
Nathaniel Handforth born 1608.
Nathaniel Handforth born 1615,
Nathaniel Handforth, 1638, London, Eng., haberdasher,
bought house and land in Lynn, Mass., September 6, 1638; was
constable May 10, 1645; escourt. He deposed 1665, aged 50
years and upward.
Nathaniel Handforth and brother Pill, in 1646, lived in Essex
and Old Norfolk.
Thomas Handforth of Scituate, 1643, Massachusetts.
Hanaford was called Hanver in England.
Apeilis, 1635, Eglin Handford and two daughters, Margaret
and Eliza, came to New England in the boat Planter; another
daughter, Lettice, came earlier; married Edwin Foster of Scituate,
Mass.
From Scituate and Barnstable Church Records; Eglin Han-
ford "joyned" the church November 21, 1635.
Widow Eglin Hanford was a sister of Timothy Hatherly. He
was admitted Freeman, September 4, 1638; was deacon of the
church in 1653.
John Hanford, mariner, of Boston, Mass., married Hannah
Button; admitted to the church, ii (2), 1647. She died 16 (6),
1653. Their children:
Samuel b. i (3), 1645; bapt. 18 (2), 1647.
John, bapt. 7 (11), 1648; d. aged 12 days.
Hannah b. 5 (11), 1650.
John b. 1652.
John Hanaford m. second, Abigal (Hands) Dill, widow
George Dill; married by Captain Wiggin.
Children by Abigal, second wife:
Sarah b. March 8, 1656.
Abigal b. March 8, 1660.
2 FAMILY RECORDS
Will probated April 15, 1661. He bequeathed to wife, also
children, father-in-law, John Button, sister Mary French, and
Rose Morrish.
Jno. Hanaford, in 1709, signed a petition to Gov. Joseph Dud-
ley, in her Majesty's Province, in New Hampshire for a meeting
house; he was living within the bounds of Quamscott, some six
miles from Exeter, N. H. (probably in Stratham, where he later
resided).
January i, 1715-16, in a petition to set ofif a township, and
church in Stratham, N. H., John Haniford signed with otners, as
Freeman, and took the oath of allegiance to the Government of
Massachusetts.
Just across the road from Richard Scammons, former bank
commissioner, in Stratham, N. H., is where one of the early
Hanifords, or Hunefords, settled; this was John Hanaford; he
lived here in 1716. The cellar of the house can be pointed out,
Mr. Scammon stated in 1911. There were some old apple trees
that were a part of the Hanaford orchard, as Mr. Scammon told
the writer of this book.
John Hanaford was a proprietor of land in Bow, N. H., in 1727.
Then moved to Canterbury, N. H.
Haynes Hanaford of Norwalk, son of Capt. Samuel, and
Jasabel (Haynes) Hanaford, and grandson of Rev. Thomas
Hanaford, married Elisabeth Ketchum. Their children were:
Jedidiah; Joseph born in 1742; Esther; John born in 1775; Mary.
John Hanaford of Northfield, N. H., married Cordelia Russell.
Their children were :
Benjamin John born October 20, 1787; married Jane San-
born of Northfield, N. H.; they had four children. He married,
second, Nancy Flanders; they had one son and one daughter.
Jabez Hanaford married Ruth Noyes. They settled in Bos-
cawen, N. H., and had a daughter, Ruth.
Amos C. Hanaford, born 1797, married Hannah C. Lyford,
born in 1800. They had nine children. She died, and he married,
second, Mrs. Sarah Fifield, of Tilton, N. H. He was a man of
literary tastes, and a devout Methodist.
Children of John and Jane (Sanborn) Hanaford : Martin Reuter
born in 1808; John Hanaford born May 6, 1817, in Northfield,
N. H., worked for a time in Tilton, then went to Colebrook, N. H.,
where he married and had two sons; later went to California,
then to Idaho ; died in Ohio, Wife and sons live in Texas.
HANAFORD 3
The children of John and Nancy Jane (Flanders) Hanaford,
above, were:
Benjamin Franklin, born in 1830, married Caroline Follansby.
They had three daughters.
Samuel Gray Hanaford, born in 1828, married Lucy Hanaford
of Boscawen.
Jeremiah L. Hanaford, born in 1834, was ordained by Bishop
Hamline; married Caroline Brainerd of Barre, Vt.; died at Mel-
rose, Mass.
Mary Elisabeth Hanaford, born 1827, married Ezekiel Ferrin.
They had five children.
Susan Gray Hanaford, born in 1830, married Lyman
Sawyer.
Rev. Charles Harding Hanaford, born February 4, 1834, mar-
ried Jennie A. Nason of Springfield. They had one son, Fred A.,
who resides at South Lancaster, Mass.
Maria Sweet Hanaford, born in 1839, was a popular teacher
at Andover. She married in 1868, James Wilkins of San Fran-
cisco, Cal.; resided also in Denver. He was a hotel keeper con-
nected with the Cliff House at Golden Gate, San Francisco,
Cal.; she died at Tucson, Ariz. She is said to have been a
lovely lady.
John A. Hanaford came to Northfield, N. H., from Newton,
Mass. He had two daughters at Newton: Maria A. Hanaford,
born in Newton, August 27, 1857; married John F. Leighton.
Emma born at Newton in 1853.
Joseph N. Hanaford moved to New London, N. H., from New
Hampton, N. H., in 1854. Mrs. Hanaford was matron of the
boarding house connected with the academy ; he was a shoemaker
by trade. She was Betsy Prescott. They later moved to Man-
chester, N. H., and are buried there. Mary and Jane Hanaford,
sisters of Joseph N., remained there and died in New London,
N. H. Sons of Joseph N. and Betsy (Prescott) Hanaford, born
in New Hampton, N. H.: Sidney born 1862, married Abbie J.
Story; was a photographer by trade; died in Portland, Me.
J. Boardman Hanaford graduated at New London; studied and
became a physician in Warwick, R. L William, the third son, is
a grocer in Providence, R. L
William G. Hanaford married Mary Jane Kennison ; they had
Parker W., born September 18, 1845; he was educated at New
4 FAMILY RECORDS
Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, N. H., and inherited
his father's occupation of being a carpenter, and worked for the
Maine Central Railway at Augusta, Me.; was promoted to
general superintendent; married, in 1865, Mary Upton of Bow,
N. H.
Azuba Hanaford, married in 1844, Ebeneezer Carter of Canter-
bury, N. H., whose home was on the site of the old Canterbury
Fort.
Mary A. Hanaford, born in 1855, married Alfred Lake of
Canterbury. She was a good teacher.
Allen Partridge" (Phineas\ EleazorS James\ John-, John^,
born January 18, 1804, married, first, Nancy, daughter of John
Emerson, who died in 1845; he married, second, June i, 1847,
Sarah, daughter of David and Nancy (Pearson) Hanaford, born
in New Hampton, N. H. They resided at Amoskeag, N. H.
She was born December 31, 1809; died April 21, 1900. They
had one son.
William Foster Hanaford, son of Alfred Hanaford, was born
in Plymouth, N. H., February 22, 1841. He enlisted in 1861
from Sanbornton, N. H. In 1864 he was appointed corporal; in
1864 he was made sergeant; and, later in the year, was first
sergeant; he was a volunteer at Port Hudson; was discharged
at Natchez, Miss. He married, in 1867, Amanda G., daughter
of Jeremiah Ward. His brother, Oliver, born in Sanbornton,
N. H., 1849, married Julia, daughter of James M. Lake, born
in England.
In Jno. Hanneford will, dated "11 Mch An° Dom I735," he
deeds to son, David, of Stratham, N. H., land.
David Huneford and wife, Sarah, deeded land in Stratham to
John Clark, Jr., 1745.
David Hanaford deeded land in Exeter, and wife, Mary Robe-
son, to Edward Mason, in 1764; also in 1766 they deed to Josiah
Hanaford land and buildings in Stratham.
John Huniford was of Exeter, N. H., 1707. See the Bow
Charter, 1727.
John Honyford of Stratham was from Bedeford, York County,
Eng. His father's name was Stephen. Had land in Bow, N. H.,
in 1748. Had a son, John, who married Margaret, in Stratham
and Greenland, 1764.
Zachariah Honiford had land deeded to him in Bow in 1748.
HANAFORD 5
John and Anna Hanaford of Stratham, N. H. Their
children : ' '
John b. April 6, 1712.
David b. June 4, 1716.
Thomas b. April 17, 1718.
Sarah b. Feb. 23, 1725.
John Hanaford 's ear-mark for cattle was a hole in each ear.
Among Cocheco Quakers
Nicholas Hanaford married Betsy Rickford, 1741.
David Hanaford was of Stratham, N. H., June 24, 1746; voted
at a town meeting there.
John Hanaford of Stratham, N. H., was in the Lexington
(Mass.) fight April 19, 1777.
At a "Reighcord of Meetings Peter hunnifield was Serwayer
of hy wais, at Northfield, N. H.
Peter Hanaford, a captain in the Revolutionary War, was at
the battle of Bennington, Vt., under General Stark, August 15,
1777. Also served as a private in Capt. Benjamin Sias' Company.
Tradition Through NATHAi\iEL Perkins Hanaford
John Hanaford married Abigal Norris. Their children: The
seventh son was Capt. Peter Hanaford ; he was a tailor by trade
and moved to Canterbury, N. H., from Stratham, N. H. There
he traded his farm with the Shakers for wild land in New Hamp-
ton, N. H. This farm is the present Shaker settlement in Can-
terbury, N. H.
The Hanaford farm in New Hampton, N. H., now occupied by
George Huckins, was where Capt. Peter Hanaford settled ; he
was in the battle of Bennington, Vt., under General Stark of
New Hampshire; also served as private in Capt. Benjamin Sias'
Company, July 20, 1777, from Loudon, and adjacent towns; he
served two months at Stillwater, and Bennington, Vt. He was
born in 1751; married Nancy Pierson; died January 19, 1834.
He was a son of John Hanaford of Stratham, N. H., and had a
brother, Benjamin.
Peter Hanaford was born 1751; died, January 19, 1834;
married Nancy Pierson. Their children:
David b. July 28, 1771; d. 1833.
Benjamin b. Oct. 29, 1776; d. Oct. 3, 1863.
Sarah (Sallie Dows) m. Magoon.
6 FAMILY RECORDS
David Hanaford, born July 28, 1771; married February 10,
1794, Nancy Taylor, daughter of Taylor, Jr., and Molly
Leavitt (relative of Dudley Leavitt) ; She was born April 17,
1775; died November 12, 1859. He died in 1833. There were
ten children:
Peter Hanaford b. Nov. 18, 1794; d. July 14, 1833.
Mary L. b. Oct. 2, 1796.
Abigal H. b. April 22, 1798; m. John Drake of New Hamp-
ton, N. H.
Major Taylor P. b. Jan. 8, 1800; a shoemaker.
David, Jr., b. April 6, 1802; went to St. Cloud, Minn.;
family resides there.
Benjamin K., b. Aug. 14, 1804; d. 1831.
Elizabeth H. b. Nov. 12, 1806; m. a Leavitt.
Sarah H. b. Dec. 31, 1809; m. a Patridge; lived in Manches-
ter, N. H.
Joseph N. b. Sept. 7, 1817; lived in Manchester, N. H.
Peter Hanaford and Polly Davis were killed by lightning
in a heavy shower in 1833; he was sitting by an open window
holding a young child in his arms; the child was not harmed.
Their children:
Charles.
Lyman b. Oct. 1818.
Joseph.
Martha.
Mary Ellen m. a Partridge of Manchester, N. H.
Hibbard.
Walter.
Martha Hanaford m. Amusa Lord. Their children were
Nellie and Eugene.
David had four children, Warren, Arthur, and two daughters.
St. Cloud, Minn.
Taylor Hanaford married Amanda Newell. Their child,
Amanda, married Augustus Newell. Their children were May,
Adell, Viola, Carrie and Maud; all are married, and each have
children.
Joseph Hanaford (son of Peter Hanaford and Polly Davis)
had three sons.
Dr. Hibbard Hanaford (Peter Hanaford, David Hanaford) was
quite a writer on health and health foods; he lived in Reading,
Mass. His request was to be buried in the Hanaford yard in New
Hampton, N. H. He married Phoeba Anna Coffin, born in Nan-
HANAFORD 7
tucket, Mass., May 6, 1829; she was daughter of Capt. George
W. and Phoebe (Barnard) Coffin. They had a son. Rev. Howard
A. Hanaford, who resides in New York state. His mother was
the first woman ordained in New England ; she held pastorates
in Hingham; Waltham, Mass.; New Haven, Conn.; and Jersey
City, N. J. Member and officer of many literary and temperance
societies; also author of many books and poems.
Harry M. Hanaford of Elgin, 111., writes: "My great-grand-
father was Peter Hanaford, who was captain in the Revolutionary
War, and long resided at New Hampton, N. H. My grandfather
was Benjamin Hanaford (i 776-1 863). My father was Thomas
Milton Hanaford, a carpenter by trade, and for many years on
the C. & N. W. R. Ry. in the fifties and sixties. He came early
in life to Illinois, living in Chicago, and Rockford, where I was
born, 1865; then in Huntley until about 1884; several years in
Worthington, Minn.; then he moved to Woodstock, 111., where
he resided until his death, the direcc result of a runaway injury.
I have a brother, Ben, living in Chicago, with son, H. M., and
two daughters. A sister, Belle Lemmers, at Hebron, 111., with
son and daughter. A brother, Arthur, left a widow and daugh-
ter, Blanche, at Jewell, Iowa. Brothers, Fred and Archie, died
in infancy, and Mertie when about 9 years old. In 1890, I mar-
ried Grace L. Smith, daughter of Joseph G. Smith of White-
water, Wis., an old settler in southern Wisconsin, a farmer now
living with my family. We have three children, Clara, 16; Earl,
10, Ernest, 2|, in 1907. My father, Thomas Milton Hanaford,
remarried Carrie Tompkins of Chicago, 111.; no children."
None of the following are closely connected :
There was a Stephen A. Hanaford from Devonshire, Eng., who
had a son, George W., born in Albany, N. Y., and lived in Con-
necticut; had a son, George E. of Chicago, 111., a commercial
traveler.
A. M. Hannaford, police magistrate, at Roodhouse, 111.
H. M. and H. P. Hannaford of Denver, Col., in 1893.
From H. M. Hanaford's Father's Grandfather's Bible
(Capt. Peter Hanaford of Elgin, III.)
Benjamin Hanaford (i 776-1 863), married January 8, 1800,
Sarah Wait (April 11, 1781; April 13, 1809); was a brother of
Peter. H«^ m^rrif'd, second, Nancy Gate (November i, 1785;
8 FAMILY RECORDS
August 2, i860). She was the oldest of thirteen children. Their
children :
Frances (Oct. 9, 1800; Dec. 7, 1859) m. Eliphalet Huckins
(see Huckins).
Eliza (Jan. 24, 1802; 1831) m, Josiah George.
Peter (May 6, 1803; May 3, 1882) m. Nancy Smith, Sept.
7, 1881.
WiNTHROP Young (Aug. 18, 1804; March 15, 1896) m.
Dorcas Huckins, 1826.
Alfred (Dec. 15, 1806; Aug. 3, 1875) m.Loraine Smith, (1876).
Athaliah (Apr. 15, 1808; ) m. Otis Drake (Apr. 2,
1811; July 7, 1887).
Children of Benjamin Hanaford and Nancy Cate, second wife:
Aaron (July 18, 1811; July 7, 1891) m. May 11, 1836,
Sarah A. Curtis (Sept. 24, 1814; March 10, 1888).
Mary (Apr. 18, 1816; May 2, 191 1) m. Jan. 21, 1844, John
Kelly (Oct. 1818; 1898).
John (Aug. 30, 1816; Feb. 9, 1900) m. Jan. i, 1844, Abby
Hunt ( ; Jan. 9, 1896).
Isaac D. (Aug. 16, 1825; Nov. 23, 1836).
Thomas Milton (Jan. 2, 1831; Sept. 19, 1898) m. Dec. 30,
1857, Mrs. Clara (Pert) Lynch (Feb. 25, 1835; May 4, 1882).
Aaron (July 18, 1811; July 7, 1891) m. May 11, 1836, Sarah
A. Curtis (Sept. 24, 1814; March 10, 1888).
Mary (April 18, 1816; May 21, 191 1) m. Jan. 21, 1844, John
Kelly (Oct. 1818; 1898).
(U^ ; John (Aug. 30, 1818; Feb. 9, 1900) m. Jan. i, 1844, Abby
Hunt ( ; Jan. 1896).
Peter Hanaford born May 6, 1803, married Nancy Smith.
Their children:
John.
Franklin.
Oliver.
Rachel. ' ■■
Esther.
LUCIEN.
Thomas Milton Hanaford, born January 2, 1831, died Sep-
tember 19, 1898. He married Clara Pert Lynch December 30,
1857; she was born February 25, 1835; died May 14, 1882. He
married, second, Caroline E. Tompkins, June 16, 1883; she
died August 23, 1914. Their children :
Wilfred b. Jan. 29, i860; d. July 13, 1862, in Rockford, 111.
Harry Milton b. May 2, 1865, in Rockford; m. Oct. 15,
1890, at Whitewater, Wis., Grace L. Smith, she was b.
HANAFORD 9
June 3, 1869. Their children were: Clara Agnes b. Oct. 2,
1891, at Chicago, 111.; Glen Ernest b. March 26, 1905, at
Elgin, 111.; Earl Joseph b. Dec. 17, 1897, at Chicago, 111.
Mertie Estelle b. Oct. 2, 1867; d. 1876 at Huntley.
Arthur John b. at Huntley June 16, 1869; d. Feb. 19, 1902,
at Chicago, 111. He m. Nora Feral at Webster City,
Iowa. Their children: Blanche Feral b. March 4, 1891.
Archie b. June 16, 1869; d. 1869 at Huntley.
Benjamin Louis b. June 16, 1871, at Huntley; m. at Chi-
cago, 111., Jan. 29, 1896, Mary Ellen Lynn, b. March 10,
1872. Their children: Harold M. b. Nov. 6, 1896; Mary
Leono b. Sept. 6, 1901 ; Corina Frances b. Feb. 27, 1905.
Ida Belle b. Nov. 21, 1877, at Huntley, 111; m. Guy C.
Lemmers, Dec. 25, 1898, at Woodstock, 111. Their chil-
dren: Ervin Lemmers b. Dec. 10, 1899, at Woodstock;
Helen b. Jan. 28, 1904, at Hebron, 111.
Aaron Hanaford married Sarah A. Curtis. Their children:
Mary Elisabeth b. June 9, 1837; m. Morris Parks. Their
children: William, Herbert and Nathan.
Ann Olivene b. Sept. 18, 1839; d. July 15, 1849.
Frank Edwin b. Dec. 8, 1841; m. July 3, 1865 Melissa
Melvina Sears, b. May 17, 1841.
Alonzo Curtis b. Nov. 2, 1843; d. March 30, 1849. ."^
Susan Josephine b. Dec. 8, 1845; d. April 9, 1849.
Lindley Eugene b. Dec. 25, 1847; d. June 25, 1849.
Ida Ann b. May 3, 1851 ; d. March 28, i860.
Carrie Isadore b. May 28, i860.
Frank Edwin (Aaron Hanaford and Sarah) married Melissa
Melvine Sears. Their children:
Edwin Lester b. May 17, 1866; m. Alice Gibson Jan. 21,
1891. Their children: Mabel Clare b. June 10, 1895;
Frank Clark b. May 19, 1869, m. Eva Lascelle Aug. 16,
1896.
Mabel b. Feb. 12, 1871. (To whom we are indebted for
much information regarding the Hanafords.)
Charles b. March 31, 1873; d. July i, 1873.
Daisy Maude b. Oct. 16, 1874; d. Sept. 21, 1901.
Ida Clare b. June 27, 1882; m. Walter E. Shepard June i,
1905. Their children: Ruth Abigal b. March 12, 1906;
Hanaford Eugene b. Feb. 23, 1912.
Carrie Isadore born May 28, i860, married Fred Lester Kim-
berly, February 8, 1877. Their children:
Ray Judson b. Oct. 22, 1883; m. Eliza Merchant Breed; d.
Mar. 13, 1914.
Bessie Belle b. Aug. 9, 1886.
lO FAMILY RECORDS
Mary Hanaford married John Kelly (sister of Aaron Hanaford
and Sarah Curtis). Their children:
Willie W. D. b. July 20, 1851 ; d. March 27, i860.
Marietta C. b. June 15, 1854; d. April 5, i860.
Ann Olivene b. Aug. 11, 1856; d. April 24, i860.
Charles L. E. b. March 12, 1859; d. Aug. 26, 1890.
John Hanaford married Abbie Hunt. Their children:
Bradley H. lives in Michigan; wife died. Children, Walter
and Adelaide.
George Agustus lives in Pocatello, Idaho. Children, Will
and Vittie Brooks.
Clara Hanaford married Thomas Milton. Their children:
Harry.
Myrtle.
Arthur.
Benjamin. -
Belle.
Winthrop Young Hanaford (Benjamin, Capt. Peter, David,
John, John) married Dorcas Huckins, born December 9, 1803
(see Huckins). Their children:
Nathaniel Perkins b. Oct. 28, 1827; d. Nov. 15, 1903.
Lewis Burleigh \
Sarah Burleigh /
Mariah Dorcas b. July 3, 1832.
Mary Jane d. aged 26 years.
Arrah Rockwood m. Caroline Ward, b. 1845 ; d. July 2, 191 5.
Nathaniel Perkins Hanaford (Winthrop Young, Benjamin,
Capt. Peter, David, John, John) married Zulema Webster Pres-
cott, born in Holderness, N. H., daughter of Col. John Prescott,
and Lucinda (Webster) (see Prescotts). They were married
May I, 1852. She was born May i, 1832; died April 10, 1872.
Their children:
John Parker b. Sept. 14, 1853.
Jenny Mariah b. March 31, 1856.
John Parker Hanaford (Nathaniel, Winthop Young, Benjamin,
y-ji^p Capt. Peter, David, John, John) married Mary Frances Smith,
daughter of Nicholas Marston Smith and Lydia Kimball; she
was born in Sandwich, N. H. (see Smiths). Their child:
Frances Lydia b. April 27, li
<^
Four Generations of Hanafords
Benjamin Hanaford
WiNTHROP T. Hanaford
John P. Hanaford
Deacon John Huckins
Nathaniel P. Hanaford
Jennie M. Webster
12 FAMILY RECORDS
John Parker Hanaford married, second, Mary Elisabeth Neal,
January i, 1890. They Hve in Rockford, 111. (1915).
Jenny Mariah Hanaford (Nathaniel, Winthrop Young, Ben-
jamin, Capt. Peter, David, John, John) married Edwin Webster,
born June 9, 1 85 1. Their children:
Celia ZuLEMA b. Sept. 22, 1877. !
Frank H. b. March 11, 1879.
Nathaniel Prescott b. Jan. 19, 1881; d. Feb. 17, 1915.
Eliza Jane b. Oct. 12 1882; d. Feb. 24, 1884.
Flora May b. June 6, 1884.
Elbridge Hoyt b. March 10, 1887; d. Feb. 25, 1888.
Lyman Watson b. Aug. 5, 1890.
Nathaniel P. Webster (Edwin and Jenny M. (Hanaford)
Webster) married Clara Bessie Welty January 19, 1903; she was
born January 30, 1885. Their children :
Harry W. b. July 17, 1903.
Pearl Irene b. Nov. 22, 1904. •
Clarence Edwin b. March 6, 1906.
Wayne Eugene b. Oct. 15, 1907.
Wanda Bessie b. Aug. 5, 1909.
Lyman Watson Webster (Edwin and Jenny M. (Hanaford)
Webster) born August 17, 1889, married Pearl Taylor of Chad-
wick, 111., daughter of James Taylor. Their child:
Kenneth b. July 12, 1908.
Flora May Webster (Edwin and Jenny M. (Hanaford)
Webster) married Jesse J. Ports Febuary 20, 1908; he was born
September 14, 1885. Their child:
Edwin S. b. Dec. 9, 1908.
Lewis Burleigh Hanaford (Winthrop Young, Benjamin, Capt.
Peter, David, John, John) married Marion F. Cady, daughter of
Lyman and Emily (Patrick) Cady, born in Windsor, Vt., May
8,1832.
Sarah Burleigh Hanaford (Winthrop Young, Benjamin, Capt.
Peter, David, John, John) married Eben S. Thompson, son of
Rev. Samuel and Miriam (Morrison) Thompson ; born in Holder-
ness, N. H., March 16, 1828; died in Stoneham, Mass., Februaiy
3, 1887. One daughter, Eleanor Thompson, who married Rev.
Nathan Palmeter.
Mariah Dorcas Hanaford (Winthrop Young, Benjamin, Capt.
Peter, David, John, John) married June 12, 1855, Collin Cady,
son of Lyman and Emily (Patrick) Cady of Newton Center, Mass.
HANAFORD 13
Arah Rockwood Hanaford (Winthrop Young, Benjamin, Capt.
Peter, David, John, John) of New Hampton, N. H., married
Caroline Ward, daughter of Samuel and Nancy B. (Pease) Ward;
born May 21, 1845. Two children. Dr. Howard of Newport,
N. H., and Carrie, who married Guy Buswell and has one son.
Extract from a letter, written Nov. 11, 1907, by Rev. W. H.
Hannaford of Lancaster, Wis.
My interest is always aroused when I see or hear of our name, for it is not
so common as "Smith"; I would be glad to trace my pedigree back farther
than I can, and know something of the original stock. My great-grand-
father lived and died in Canterbury, N. H., only about twenty-five miles
south of New Hampton, N. H. [about fifteen miles]. His oldes: son went west
sometime prior to 1832, and was never heard from. His third son died
young. His second son, Reuben Morrill, my grandfather, came to Ohio in
1832. He was the father of five daughters and four sons: Eliza married Chand-
ler Dunwell, and died in two or three years, and is buried in a lonely cemetery,
ten or twelve miles from Rockford, 111.; Mr. Dunwell still lives somewhere in
Iowa. Minerva married Albert M. Smith and died in Cleveland, Ohio,
about 1880; Mr. Smith, is an architect and still lives in Cleveland. Jane
married Fenner Bosworth, a farmer, in Solon, Ohio, and died late in the 8o's
and is buried in the Solon cemetery, near her father, mother, sister Minerva
and brother William; Mr. Bosworth still lives in Solon. Catherine married
Henry B. Chase, a farmer, and settled near Rockford, III.; she died in Rock-
ford, in 1905; Mr. Chase still lives there; Prof. F. A. Chase, principal of
schools in Oak Park, and J. R. Chase of Chicago, are sons. Charles Augustine
is now living in Traverse County, Michigan; he is a retired farmer, has two
sons, Roy and Albert, and a daughter living near him, and a daughter in
Cleveland, Ohio, all married. William Foster Hanaford, my father, was a
carpenter; he had a varied experience in Ohio and Michigan, and died May i,
1901, in Grand Blanc, Mich., and is buried in Solon, Ohio. I am the only
living son. His older daughter is the wife of Rev. George Benford, White
Cloud, Mich., with whom our mother still lives. His younger daughter, Mrs.
W. W. Kreamer, is with her husband on a homestead near Kadoka, S. Dak.
Lyman Beecher died near Calumet, Quebec, Canada, in the 8o's, leaving a
wife, now in Watertown, N. Y., a son, Rollin M., who is on the railroad some-
where in Texas, I suppose; two daughters married and living in Calumet, and
one in the city of Mexico, and one is still with her mother. John Roy lives in
Cleveland, Ohio; he is a carpenter, now broken in health; has two sons, Albert
and Frank, both with him; Mary, a daughter by a second marriage, is a widow,
living with her mother, in Cleveland, Ohio. My uncle, Charles, had a son
Charles, who married and later died, leaving two children. I have three
children, two boys and a girl. I am 41 years of age. Uncle Charles has
two living sons, married, but I do not know of sons being born to them.
Cordially,
W. H. Hannaford.
14 FAMILY RECORDS
In Auburn, Neb., 1907, lived Richard Hannaford, ex-liveryman^
who had sons or brothers: James, a painter, and George, mail
carrier. Richard's grandfather lived near Cincinnati, Ohio, and
came direct from England.
George S. Hannaford in 1907 was traveling for a candy com-
pany. He and his wife were killed in an auto accident in Indiana,
or Michigan, in July, 1915. His father, George W. Hannaford,
born in Albany, N. Y., lived in Connecticut. The grandfather,
Stephen A. Hannaford, lived in Stokehill, Devonshire, Eng.
Laura Hannaford, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1915, stenographer
in city attorney's office, is a cousin of George S. Hannaford,
mentioned above.
An Alabaman told of a Captain Hannaford in the Confederate
army, from Mississippi, after the war living at Morrilton, Ark.;
he died before 191 3. Was an elder in the Presbyterian Church,
and a promoter of orphanage — "one of the most urbane and
gentle, most polite, polished and good men — could pray."
J. M. Hannaford, St. Paul, Minn., president, Northern Pacific
Railway.
Lyman Beecher Hannaford, superintendent of schools, Brook-
lyn, N. Y., about 1880. Said the name was derived from Hanna
— by name living near a ford of river.
Hannafourde, traveling exhibitor of "miracle" painting, at
Knoxville, Tenn., Appalachian Exposition, 191 1.
Charles B. Hanford, Shakespearean actor, Washington, D. C.
Hanaford or Hannaford, architect, Cincinnati, or Cleveland,
Ohio, about 1890.
Hanaford, in eastern Washington, about 1883; later
moved to California, living several years at or near Santa Cruz,
or San Jose.
Several Hanfords and Hannafords in Chicago, 1880-1915.
In Seattle, Wash., 1908, a lot of Hanfords, including Judge
Cornelius H., Arthur, Clarence, Earl, Edward, Frank, Harry,
Horace, Louise, Fort Scott, Kan.
Colorado Springs, Col., 1909, Peter Oliver Hanford, physician-
surgeon.
Clifford C. and William J. Hansford, miner.
Denver, Col., 1909, Thomas Haniford, carpenter; Mrs. Johanna
Haniford, groceries.
Charles N. Hanford, Ella F., George H., Leonard E., Marcus
P., J. Hannaford, mentioned in Black's "Lorna Doone."
HANAFORD I5
Elgin, 111., 1912, Dr. — ■ — — Hanford; daughter Mildred.
Probably Rev. William H. Hannaford's (of Lancaster, Wis.)
great-grandfather was a brother of Captain Hanaford of New
Hampton, N. H.
Aunt Mary Kelly (Elgin, 111., 1908) and Mrs. Mary Ellen
(Hanaford) Partridge remembered visiting cousins at Canter-
bury, N. H., in their youth.
Rev. William H. Hannaford, Congregational pastor — Lan-
caster, Wis., 1907; Sierra Madre, Cal., 191 1 — wrote, in 1907,
that his grandfather lived in Canterbury, N. H.; that his oldest
son went West sometime prior to 1832 and was never heard from,
the third son died just after attaining manhood; second son,
Rueben Morrill Hannaford (Rev. William H.'s grandfather)
came to Ohio in 1832, and was the father of five daughters and
four sons: Charles Augustus, Lyman Beecher, John Roy and
William Foster; they and descendants mostly lived in Ohio and
Michigan — Lyman B. near Calumet, Quebec, Canada. Rev.
William H. was the only living son of William Foster Hanaford.
Rev. William H. corresponded with Rev. Howard A. (son of Dr.
Hibbard Hanaford of Reading, Mass.), and Rev. Phoebe (Coffin)
Hanaford, but found no clue to relationship. Another family
was found in Michigan, who traced back to Vermont and claimed
relationship to the Canterbury branch. (See addition.)
Note — The writer of this book thinks there was a blood relation,
as John Hanaford, who married Abigal Norris and resided in
Stratham, N. H., had seven sons; moved to Canterbury, N. H.,
and his seventh son, Capt. Peter, a tailor by trade, lived in Can-
terbury, N. H., and traded his land to the Shakers for wild land
in New Hampton, N. H. Capt. Peter took land for military
service. There were very few Hannafords in New England at
this time. They settled near Boston, then went farther inland,
to Exeter (from which Stratham and other towns were taken).
Reuben Morrill Hanaford, born May i, 1800, in Canterbury,
N. H., married, first, July 8, 1828, Nancy, daughter of AbieP
and Susannah (Moore) Foster; she was born in Canterbury
February 9, 1803. They moved to Solon, Ohio, in 1832, where
both died. He was second, . Children by first wife :
Eliza m. Chandler Dunwell; d. in 111.
Minerva m. A. M. Smith, about 1852.
Jane m. Fenner Bosworth, in Solon, Ohio. They had two
sons, Archibald and Newton, Bosworth.
l6 FAMILY RECORDS
Catherine m. Henry B. Chase; d. in Rockford, 111., 1905.
They had six sons and one daughter.
Charles m. Helen Sill; d. in 1909 in Traverse City, Mich.
They had ten children.
William Foster m. Julia M. Barnard; d. in Grand Blanc,
Mich., May i, 1901. Their two sons d. young; a daughter,
Ellen, m. Rev. George Benford. They had four sons,
one, William Henry, a clergyman in Lancaster, Wis.; he
had two sons and one daughter.
Peter Huniford (Hanaford) was a volunteer at Bennington.
In the Train Band and Alarm List from Canterbury, N. H.
Among the Canterbury signers of the Association Test was
Peter Hanaford, who signed about 1780.
HUCKINS
HUCKINS
By Henry Winthrop Hardon
Robert Huckins (Huggins) was born probably in Devonshire,
or Cornwall, about 1620. History states he was one of the forty'
two signers of the Dover Combination. In 1641 he was in
Oyster River (Durham). As he was not taxed the writer infers
he was in the fish business, as the fishermen were exempt. "Old
Mr. Huckins" was killed by the Indians at Oyster River, July
18, 1694, history states. No name of his wife has been found,
but names of two children are James, born about 1644, and
Sarah, borli, 1654.
Lieut. James (Robert), husbandman and miller, married Sarah
Barnham about 1671 ; she was a daughter of Robert and Frances
Barnham. Sarah deposed December 31, 1673, age 19 years.
Lieut. James Huckins had a Garrison House on the road from
Durham to Dover. In August, 1689, the Indians ambushed and
slew him and seventeen men belonging to the garrison, while they
were at work in the field. This place, in 1908, belonged to Mrs.
Joseph W. Coe, near the Huckins Brook. The victims of the
massacre were all buried under a mound in the southeast of the
field, which could be distinguished in 1908. The Indians fired
the Garrison House and carried away the inmates. Lieut,
Huckins' wife was recovered, after a year of captivity, at Fort
Androscoggin.
Robert Huckins (Lieut. James, Robert), yeoman, miller, was
born at Oyster River Parish, Dover, about 1672. He married
in 1692, Welthean Thomas; she was born in Dover, N. H. Doubt-
less Robert Huckins rebuilt the Garrison House on or near the
old site. In 1701 he had a mill on Huckins Brook. He was
successively selectman, assessor, and constable at Dover. They
had ten children, among them James Huckins (Robert, James,
Robert) born at Oyster River Parish about 1701; in 1719 he
married Hannah Williams, born at Oyster River; he is probably
the James Huckins who married. May 6, 1756, Abigal Spencer of
Durham.
James Huckins was killed in the French and Indian War,
I755~i763. In 1740 he was a member of the Second Foot Com-
20 FAMILY Rij:CORDS
pany at Dover, N. H. In 1755 he was in Taskers Company, for
the Crown Point expedition, wh" -h took part in the battle of
Lake George on September 8, 1775.
His son, Deacon James Huckins (James, Robert, James, Ro-
bert), was a cordwainer, born in Madbury District, October 14,
1746; he married, first, about 1774, Dorcas Bickford, daughter
of John Bickford; she was born in Newington, N. H., October 29,
1755; died October 24, 18 10; he married, second, Ruth ;
third, Huldah Batcheldor Garland, born in New Hampton, N.
H., May 10, 1757. Deacon James Huckins died March 2, 1837.
He lived in Barrington, Barnstead, in 1773 in Gilmantown, and
in New Hampton, N. H., in 1783. He bought fifty acres of land
in Gilmantown about 1776; in 1783 he sold it and bought eighty
acres in New Hampton, N. H. He later bought 244 acres and
settled on it, on the north side of Cooley's Hill, at the head of
Ames Brook, in New Hampton, N. H., which later fell to his son,
Robert; later to his grandson, Stephen P., and in 19 10 was owned
by his great-grandson, Almon Huckins. In 1782, he enlisted
for three years in the Revolutionary War. Among children by
his first wife, Dorcas Bickford, was Deacon John Huckins (James,
James, Robert, James, Robert) of New Hampton, N. H., farmer
(his picture is in the Hanaford group of four generations) ; he was
born at Gilmantown, N. H., December 17, 1782; died October 3,
1877. He married, first, February 17, 1803, Judith Perkins,
daughter of Nathaniel and Judith (Smith) Perkins; she was born
at Haverhill, Mass., March 4, 1785; died June 20, 1820. He
married second, Mary Burnham, March 4, 1821; she was born
October 2, 1796; died June 17, 1867.
Eliphalet Huckins (Robert^, James'', James'*, Robert •\ James^,
Robert 0 of Holderness, N. H., was born in New Hampton,
March 17, 1802; died, June 3, 1835; married November 19, 1826,
Frances Hanaford, daughter of Benjamin Hanaford and Sarah
(Wait); she was born October 9, 1800; died in Chatham, III., in
1859.
Stephen Pitman Huckins (Robert'', James ^, James ^, Robert*,
James^, Robert^) was born in New Hampton, N. H., June 5,
1826; died February 12, 1906; married May 7, 1856, his first
cousin, once removed, Rachel Jane Hanaford, daughter of Peter
Hanaford and Nancy Smith; born in New Hampton, N. H.,
August 14, 1827; died January 18, 1906.
HUCKINS 21
Nancy Smith, daughter of John Smith, son of John Smith, at
New Hampton, N. H. NanVy born, February 6, 1807; died
September 7, 1881 ; married December 19, 1825, Peter Hanaford,
son of Benjamin Hanaford and Mary Wait; born May 6, 1803;
died May 3, 1882.
Deacon John Huckins (James^, James^ Robert^ James^,
Robert 0 of New Hampton, N.H., was born in Gilmantown,N.H.,
December 17, 1782; died October 3, 1877; married February 17,
1803, Judith Perkins, daughter of Nathaniel Perkins and Judith
Smith; born in Haverhill, Mass., March 4, 1785; died June 20,
1820; he married, second, Mary Burnham. Child by first wife
was named Dorcas, born December 9, 1803; she married Win-
throp Young Hanaford, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Wait)
Hanaford.
WEBSTER
Coat of Arms, Az, on a bend arg cotised or, between two demi-lions' rampant
erm, a rose gu, seeded and leaved ppr, between two boars' heads, couped sa,
languid, of the fifth. Crest, a dragon's head couped regardant quarterly per
fesse, embattled vert and or, flames issuing from the mouth ppr. Motto,
Fides et Justitia (Faith and Justice).
Lineage, John Webster of Bolsover Co., Derby, was returned into chancery
in the twelfth year of King Henry VI, 1434, who made oath of the observance
of the peace and of the King's laws; through Peter Sir Godfrey, Sir Thomas,
Sir Whistler, down to the Creation, May 21, 1703, of Arms.
I THE Ni:V/ \l::^:
PUPIIC a'"RAHY
i TlLCEw f uL'^Oh. IONS
WEBSTER
John Webster came from Ipswich, Eng., settled in Ipswich,
Mass.; was Freeman in 1635. He married Mary Shatswell.
Their children were, John, Thomas, Stephen, Nathan, Israel,
and four daughters. He died in 1647.
Thomas Webster, born in 1632, lived in Hampton, N. H.;
married in 1656; died in 1715. His children were: Ebenezer,
Thomas, Nathaniel, and others.
Ebenezer Webster, son of Thomas, was a grantee of Kingston,
N. H., in 1692; his son, Hon. Ebenezer, born in 1739, settled in
Salisbury in 1763.
Thomas Webster, son of Thomas of Hampton, married Mary
Greely of Haverhill, January 19, 1717. His son, Thomas, married
Judith Morse in 1738. Their children were: Levi, Enoch and
Caleb.
Caleb Webster, born in 1751, died in 1808; married Mary
Tilton of Hampton, N. H. The children were: Elijah Clough
and Mary. By second wife (Abigal French) : Sally, Levi, Lois,
Nathaniel, Betsy, Eunice, Abigal, Caleb, Samuel.
Caleb Webster, son of Caleb, born in 1791, married Hannah
Peaslee in 1826. Their children were: Sidney and Warren.
THOMPSON
THOMPSON
The name of Thompson has long been known in England,
Scotland and Ireland. In England it was first spelled Tompson.
From Hartfordshire Pedigrees: "Rob* Thomson, that com
out of y^ North of Watton, in Hartfdsh, wife Elizb*^^, dau of
John Harnsett, of Watton, Hartf'd."
His descendant. Sir William of 1664, settled in Ipswich, Mass.
His will was dated March 25, 1676; his wife was Rachel. They
had a son, William.
The History of Durham, N. H., states that William Thompson
had a grant of land in Dover, N. H., in 1656, the same year,
that a dozen Scotchmen, who had worked in the sawmills of Kit-
tery, Me., had their grants. The tradition that he was a Scotch-
man is found in both the Maine and New Hampshire branches of
the Thompson family.
The indications are that he was one of the prisoners taken by
Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar, and sent to Boston.
The grant of land to William Thompson, in 1656, lay "beyond
Cochecho log swamp"; it was conveyed by John Thompson of
Dover, Nov. 8, 1715, to John Tuttle. The conveyance states it
was land "granted to my father, by the town of Dover," It is
probable he married a daughter of John White. He died in
1676, and left a house and orchard at Kittery, Me., and fift>-
acres of land in Dover, N. H.
John^ Thompson married, between 1678-1680, Sarah, daughter
of Capt. John and Mary (Field) Woodman. He was the son of
William of Kittery, Me. He and brother, James, conveyed
land at Cold Harbor, now Eliot, Me., to Francis Allen; the deed
was wit by Robert Huckins.
John Thompson and Mary (Woodman) Thompson had a son
John^ born in 1687, who married Mary . They had a
son, Nathaniel*, born May 29, 1726, who married Elisabeth
Stevens of Durham.
Nathaniel* Thompson (John^ John 2, William 0 is called "En-
sign." He was a surveyor in 1768; was of Durham, 1770. He
had land in Pembroke, N. H., but settled in Holderness, where he
was selectman in 1773. He was killed while assisting in launch-
ing a ship at Durham, N. H. He married Elisabeth, daughter
30 FAMILY RECORDS
of Deacon Hubbard and Mary (Thompson) Stevens. Their
children :
DoLLY^ b. Oct., 20, 1761.
JoHN^ b. March 15, 1763.
Nathaniel^ b. April 21, 1765; m. April 11, 1786, Olive Dow
of Gilmanton, N. H ■
Elisabeth^ b. Aug. 17, 1767.
James^ b. Aug. 27, 1769.
PoLLY^ b. Feb. 6, 1772; m. John Hill.
Jane^ b. May 9, 1774.
Ebenezer^ b. July 15, 1776.
Rev. Samuel^ b. Feb. 28, 1779; d. 1853.
Hubbard b. 1783.
Rev. Samuel^ Thompson, (Nathaniel^, John\ John-, William^),
Free Baptist minister, was ordained as an evangelist in 1836. He
labored in Holderness, N. H., in 1836-1853. He was postmaster
in Holderness from 1824-1828; represented New Hampton and
Center Harbor in the Legislature of 1811-1812, and Holderness
in 1828-31-38. He died August 12, 1853. He married first,
Polly (Mary), daughter of Nathaniel and Anna (Prescott)
Chandler of North wood, N. H., about 1801; she died in Holder-
ness. He married second, Miriam, daughter of Jonathan and
Esther Jane (Perkins) Morrison of Sanbornton, N. H., Septem-
ber, 1823; she died at Stoneham, Mass., May 6, 1872. Children
by first marriage:
Joseph C.*' b. March 18, 1801; d. July 17, 1855.
Eliza'' b. Nov. 4, 1802; d. Sept. 12, 1803.
David S.^ b. June 10, 1804; d. Nov. 30, 1870.
Nancy C.*' b. April 22, 1806; d. April 22, 1839.
John H.'' b. May 23, 1808; d. Aug. 2-/, 1862.
Samuel P." b. June 5, 1810; d. Dec. 16, 1865.
James M.'^ b. Aug. 15, 1812; d. April 18, 1872.
Nathan H.'^ b. June 19, 1814; d. May 12, 1841.
Children by second marriage :
Nathaniel S.'^ b. April 26, 1825; d. Jan. 5, 1908.
Eben S.« b. March 16, 1828; d. Feb. 3, 1877.
Person Cheney^ b. Oct. 24, 1829; d. March 29, 1898.
Eben^ S. Thompson married December 31, 1851, Sarah ^ Bur-
leigh Hanaford, born August 22, 1829; died November 22, 1855.
She was the daughter of Winthrop* Young Hanaford and Dorcas
Huckins. Benjamin^ and Mary (Wait), Capt. Peter^ and Abigal
(Norris), John Hanford. (See Hanaford family.) Eben S.
THOMPSON 31
Thompson married, second, Martha A. Neal (John, Joseph,
Samuel, Samuel, Walter, Capt. Walter) (see Neals).
Eben S.*^ Thompson and Sarah Burleigh (Hanaford) had one
daughter, Ellena'^ Hanaford Thompson, born December 4, 1852;
married Rev. Nathan Sanford Palmeter, born May 9, 1846; died
November 10, 1901, at Loudon, N. H. He was born at North
Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. They both were graduates of the
Academy at New Hampton, N. H. He later graduated at Bates
College, Lewiston, Me., in 1875. He is buried at Stoneham,
Mass., where his wife resides; she is quite a prominent woman
in public work.
Nathaniel"* Thompson was one of the pioneers who aided in
settling Holderness (Ashland) N. H. He removed from Durham
about 1 77 1. He was baptized an infant at "Oyster River"
May 29, 1726; married Elisabeth Stevens of Durham, N. H., as
early as 1761. He was a trader and shipwright. Ensign Na-
thaniel Thompson was a cousin to Judge Ebenezer of Reverend
Fame. In 1771 he was in Pembroke, N. H., and was offered a
large tract of land if he would build and run a grist and sawmill
in Holderness, N. H. At the outlet of Lake Asquam he made a
home, and settled with five children, and built his mills. Polly
(Mary) the fifth child, was born in 1772; married John Hill of
Durham, N. H., when she was 13 years old. Her father Nathan-
iel^ Thompson, was sent for to come to Durham, to inspect a
ship. He made the trip on horseback. He pronounced the ship
seaworthy. When it was launched and slipping into the water,
one of the skids broke and flew with great force, striking his
limb and causing a compound fracture, from which cause he
died four days later, in 1785.
Polly Thompson was the ancestor in the second generation of
Frances Willard, late president of the W. C. T. U.
PRESCOTT
Orders of Knighthood were conferred on some branches of the family; the
Prescotts were among the noble families of England. A Coat of Arms was
conferred on James Prescott, of Dr>'by, in Lincolnshire.
The Coat of Arms was as heraldry. Ermine, a chevron sa (sable or black)
on a chief of the second two leopards' heads or (gold or yellow). Crest, out of
a ducal coronet or, a boar's head and neck or (silver or white), bristled of the
first. The owls signify, a prudent caution, patient endurance, and vigilant
watchfulness, especially at night. The owl is Minerva's bird, and was from
and borne by the ancient Athenians at their armorial feasts.
The surname of Prescott means priest and cottage, or priest's house.
Prayer from the Army and Church Manual
''0 Lord oj Heaven, and earth, who leadest our fathers forth, mak-
ing them go from one kingdom, to another people; we yield thee
hearty thanks, for all that thou didst for them, and art doing for the
land to which they came.
''May we always remember them, in thee, a?id be grateful to them
through thee. We remember that their communion, was to eat bread
in exile; their sacramejit, was to pour out their blood for others.
"We remember them not only as valiant in fight, but as wise in
council; not only as brave ivarriors, but as far-seeing statesmen,
and incorruptible patriots. We give thee thanks for them, and we
pray that we may follow their good example, and bequeathe to our
children, a nation worthy of such founders, meet to do thy will, a
country subject completely to thee, and to Christ. Amen.''
PRESCOTT
'"Blood will tell ' and an ancestral excellence is an invaluable
legacy. The marked physical and moral and mental traits of a
prominent family will reappear in many successive generations."
A Prescott descendant, Elvin J. Prescott was born in Hampton^
N. H., August 27, 1865, where has been the home of Prescotts
since 1670. The New Hampshire Prescotts descended from
James Prescott, who came to America from Dryby, England, in
1665. His father was Lord of the Manor in Lincolnshire, and
his ancestry can be traced back to 1564.
From the Prescott Memorial '
From history it seems that the Puritans were persecuted in
many ways for their form of religion, in England. Early in the
fifteenth century they did not have the right to a private opinion.
The ceremonial part of the Church of England was established
by an act of Parliament, and Puritanisnfi claimed independence,
and would not accept any form except the Bible. They would
not accept any ceremony except it was enjoined by the word of
God.
Queen Elizabeth was inclined to respect the faith of the
Catholics and admired their form of worship.
From 1553-^1557, in the reign of Queen Mary, there was bitter
strife, and the Puritans came out and were firm in their views
and suffered much, and finally, later on, started for New England,
where they could worship God according to the dictates of their
own conscience.
King James entered power in 1603, was false and deceitful
and stated "as to the Puritans, I will make them conform, or
drive them out of the land, or hang them " ; and afterward boasted
he had soundly "peppered of the Puritans." In 1604 Puritan
ministers were imprisoned or exiled. They went to Holland
where they suffered much, but, the country being small, they
concluded to trust in God and seek a larger territory in America.
In the settlement in Hampton, N. H., the meeting houses were
owned by the town and were built of hewn logs. They had none
of the modern ways of heating their meeting houses of the pres-
ent day; later on the little foot warmer was invented, with a wood
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bottom and a tin holder to put in a piece of candle; they were
made of tin perforated, about ten inches square, and ^\ith a little
door on one side that would open; this heat from a candle was
all the warmth they had for a time when they went to church.
Tradition says this crude article was used until the fireplaces
were used. How many of us today would attend church with this
form of heat, with the mercury below zero?
Under the Massachusetts Colony, none were regarded as
freeman until they took the oath of allegiance to the govern-
ment. The first freemen were admitted October 19, 1630; no
man could hold any office or vote until he was admitted a free-
man. "The Freeman's Oath" was the first paper printed in
New England, at Cambridge, Mass., in 1639. The oath was
established in 1634 in Massachusetts:
I (A B) being by God's providence, an Inhabitant and Freeman within
the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth; do freely acknowledge myself to be
subject to the Government thereof: And therefore do here swear by the great
and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that I will be true to the same,
and will accordingly yield assistance thereunto, with my person and estate, as
in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavor to maintain and preserve
all the liberties and priveleges thereof, submitting myself to the wholesale
Laws and Orders made and established by the same, and further that I will
not plot or practice any evil against it, or consent to any that shall so do;
but will timely discover and reveal the same to the lawful Authority now here
established for the speedy preventing thereof.
Moreover, I do solemnly bind myself in the sight of God, that when I shall
be called to give my voyce touching any matter of this State in which Free-
men are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I judge in mine own con-
science may best conduce and tend to the public weal of the body. So help
me God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Prescott Memorial gives the ancestors of the Prescotts;
mentions an item that over 3,500 people have descended, in this
country, from John Prescott who settled in Massachusetts, and
James Prescott, who was first heard of at Hampton, N. H., in
1665. They came from Standish in Lancashire, England. Mr.
Prescott states that from English research they were second
cousins.
Tradition states that an ancestor of James Prescott was
James Prescott, who was required by an order from Queen
Elizabeth, dated August, 1564, to keep in readiness horsemen,
and armor for her service. The oldest son of this James Prescott
was James, Jr., who married Alice MoUineaux.
PRESCOTT 37
The James Prescott that settled in Hampton, N. H., was a
descendant of James, Sr., by wife Standish, of the fifth genera-
tion— the fourth generation from James, Jr., and Alice Mollin-
eaux, through their son, John, and grandson, John.
The name Prescott is the name of a town in Lancaster Co.,
England, 198 miles from London; has large manufacturing plants
of watches and watch tools. About 2,000 people are employed
in the collieries there.
James Prescott, Sr., married Standish, and they had
James, baptized, who married Alice Mollineaux. For his bravery
and military achievements, he was created Lord of the Manor
of Dryby, in Lincolnshire, and was styled Sir James Prescott.
He died March i, 1583, leaving a son, John, and daughter, Anne.
John, born at Dryby, had a son, James Prescott, of the fourth
generation from Sir James through his son, John, and grandson,
James, who was the emigrant at Hampton, N. H.
The descendants of James Prescott of Hampton, N. H., were
for the first four generations almost wholly farmers and mechan-
ics, but later generations have become lawyers and doctors, and
have followed other honorable professions. During the Revolu-
tion, they served, and took an active part. The Hon. Benjamin
Prescott was one of the signers of the Association Test, also on the
committee to watch non-signers of the Test.
James Prescott, of this branch, came from Dryby, Lincolnshire
Co., Eng., in 1665, and settled in Hampton, N. H., on land as a
farmer, until hie moved to Kingston in 1725, now Hampton Falls;
the farm owned by Wells Healy in 1870, about two miles north of
the Falls toward Exeter, is the place he settled on. James Pres-
cott was admitted as a freeman in 1678, was transferred to the
church at Hampton Falls in 1712, and transferred to Kingston
September 29, 1725. In 1668, he married Mary, daughter of
Nathaniel and Grace Boulter, born at Exeter, N. H., May 15,
1648; she was the maternal ancestor of the New Hampshire
Prescotts; her father, Nathaniel Boulter, was born in England
in 1625 and settled in Hampton, N. H., in 1642. He lived in
Exeter, 1645, which compiised Hampton and the towns adjacent
down to Portsmouth, N. H. On December 19, 1700, James
Prescott was an extensive land-holder, and he and Ebenezer
Webster were chosen a committee to run the line between King-
ston and Hampton (towns taken from the original Exeter). He
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was granted two hundred acres of land in (Kingston) July i8,
1 701, for service; he later had several grants of land for town
service.
In 1709 James Prescott, Sr., signed a petition for a new Parish,
"at the Falls," which was set off April 20, 1712. His death is
recorded November 25, 1728, "James Prescott, an aged father,
died." Mary, his widow, died at Kingston, N. H., October 4,
I735> aged 87 years.
A son of James Prescott and Mary (Boulter), Joshua Prescott.
was born March i , 1669 ; no record of his marriage has been found.
He lived at Hampton, N. H., in 1772. Tradition states he did
not marry until about 40 years old.
A son of Joshua Prescott and . They had a son,
Joshua, born about 1713; married Abigal Ambrose. They had
four sons and four daughters. The first wife died and he married,
second, Mary Moulton, about 1763. Near this time he moved
from East Kingston to Chester, N. H., where he died July 12,
1785- By the second wife he had five sons. Joshua Prescott
signed the Association Test at Chester, N. H., in 1776. He
served from April to October, 1758, in a regiment commanded by
Col. John Hast of Portsmouth, N. H., and in a company com-
manded by Capt. Trueworthy Ladd of Exeter, N. H.
A son of Joshua Prescott and Abigal Ambrose, Lieut. John
Prescott, born in 1744, married, in 1766, Molly Carr, born Feb-
ruary 26, 1747. In 1767 they, with their eldest child, then a few
months old, moved to Sandwich, N. H. They were among the
first settlers of that town. They suffered great privations and
hardships; later they moved to Holderness, N. H., where she
died, March, 1823, aged 76 years; he afterward died, in Sand-
wich, N. H., aged about 80 years. He signed the Association
Test in 1776.
A son of Lieut. John Prescott and Molly Carr of Sandwich,
N. H., was Joshua Prescott, born in February 1769; married,
Polly Clark of Haverhill, Mass., born, March 10, 1762, died,
November 25, 1843; he died in January, 1826.
A son of Joshua Prescott and Polly (Clark) Prescott was Col.
John Prescott, born October 28, 1804; died, February 17, 1865;
married Lucinda Webster, August 31, 1826; she was born. May
15, 1806; died August 2, 1888. He was colonel in the New
Hampshire militia; died in Rock Creek Township, Carroll Co.,
Illinois. Their child:
PRESCOTT 39
Joshua Clark Prescott (Col. John, Joshua, Lieut. John,
who signed the Association Test) b. Feb. 28, 1828; d.
April 26, 1910; m. first, Emeline Beatey; she d. June
28, 1859, aged 29 years. He m. second, Caroline Lois
Beatey, June 10, 1856; she was b. July 10, 1834; d.
Sept. 28, 1914. They were born in New Hampshire,
moved to Salem township, 111., later to California, and
d. at Long Beach, Cal., and both are buried there.
Their issue that lived to grow up was Omar White Prescott,
b. Oct. 26, i860; he m. Mary Catherine Wine, daughter
of Michael and Frances (Bolton) Wine of Milledgeville,
111., July 23, 1888; she was b. Aug. 20, i860. They live
in Long Beach, Cal. (see Boltons, and Wines, Nelms).
Zulema Webster Prescott was born May i, 1832; died April 10,
1872; was married Nathaniel Perkins Hanaford, who was born
August 8, 1804, and died November 15, 1903. Their child:
John Parker Hanaford b. Sept. 14, 1853, in New Hampton
N. H. They moved to Wysox, 111., when he was 9 years
old; he m. Mary Frances Smith, daughter of Nicholas
Marston Smith (see Smiths). She was b. Feb. 15, 1856;
d. May 12, 1880. Their children were Lydia Frances
Hanaford, b. April 2-], 1880; Jane Maria (Nathaniel P.
Hanaford and Zulema Prescott Hanaford) b. March 31
1856 (see Hanafords).
Isaac Stillman Prescott (Col. John Prescott and Lucinda
Webster Prescott) was born February 6, 1836; married Luella
Fifield, born in Holderness, N. H. They moved to Rock Creek,
111., and now residing in Ripon, San Joaquin Co., Cal. Their
children :
Nathaniel Hanaford Prescott of Los Angeles, Cal.
Erville Smith Prescott lives in Ripon, San Joaquin Co., Cal.
John Hardy Prescott, was born January 10, 1842 (Col. John
Prescott and Lucinda Webster Prescott). He married Rebecca
Pettit February i , 1 865 ; she was born January i , 1 846. Their child :
Lucinda Prescott b. Oct. 2, 1879; m. Feb. 19, 1903,
Philip Hohnadel, b. June 17, 1878; d. Aug. 30, 1912.
Lucinda Aurilla Prescott (Col. John Prescott and Lucinda
Webster) was born October i, 1848, in Holderness, N. H. ; married
Edwin L. Hughes of Ashland, N. H. They were married in
Rock Creek, 111., about 1869 and are now living in Monon,
Col. Their children:
Carrie Nesmith Hughes d. June, 1891.
Charles Hughes lives in Monon, Col.
WINE OR WEIN
'The mothers of our Forest-Land!
Stout hearted dames were they;
With nerve to wield the battle-brand,
And join the border fray.
Our rough land had no braver
In its days of toil and strife —
Aye, ready for severest toil.
Aye, free to peril life.
' The mothers of our Forest-Land !
How shared they, with each dauntless band,
War's tempest and Life's toil?
They shrank not from the foeman —
They quailed not in the fight —
But cheered their husbands through the day
And soothed them through the night.
'The mothers of our Forest-Land!
Such were their daily deeds —
Their monument! — Where does it stand?
Their epitaph! Who reads?
No braver dames had Sparta,
No nobler matrons, Rome —
Yet who lauds or honors them,
E'en in their own green home!
'The mothers of our Forest-Land!
They sleep in unknown graves,
And had they borne and nursed a band
Of ingrates or of slaves
They had not now been neglected."
WINE OR WEIN
George Wein emigrated from Germany about 1744. His son,
Michael Wein, was born May 27, 1747, and died in 1823. He
married Susanna Miller; born November 24, 1754; died March
9,1848. Their children :
George Wine b. June 3, 1774.
John b. June 24, 1776.
Dan:el b. Oct. 29, 1777.
Samuel b. Nov. i, 1779.
Elizabeth b. May 5, 1781,
Barbara b. April 27, 1783.
Catherine b. April 20, 1785.
Susanna b. Sept. 5, 1787.
Michael b. March 12, 1790.
Saboma b. May i, 1792.
Christian b. Feb. 6, 1795.
Magdalena b. Oct. 5, 1797.
Christian Wine married Barbara Beahm, born June 9, 1800;
died December 9, 1879. They were married August 22, 1820.
Their children:
Benjamin b. Oct. 8, 1821.
Joseph b. Feb. 15, 1823.
Susanna b. Dec. 21, 1825; living in 19 15.
Isaac b. May 14, 1827.
John b. Feb. 23, 1829.
Anna b. Feb. 25, 1831.
Michael C. b. March 22, 1833; living in 1915.
Samuel b. Aug. 4, 1835; living in 1915.
Jacob b. Sept. 26, 1837.
Catherine b. Oct. 12, 1840.
Elisabeth b. April 23, 1843; living in 1915.
The Wines settled in Virginia, and later went to different
places.
BOLTON
.Creation, 20 October, 1797.
Coat of Arms, sa, three swords in pile, points downward, arg, pommels
and hilts, or; on a canton of the second, an escocheon of the field, charged
with a salmon haurient ppr. Crest, a falcon rising or, charged on the breast
with an estoile, gu, gorged with a ducal coronet, az, and holding in the beak
a salmon, ppr. Supporters, Dexter, a hind, ppr, gorged with a ducal coronet,
or, and charged on the shoulder with a rose, arg, barbed, vest, seeded, gold,
sinister, a Cornish chough, ppr, charged with a rose, as the dexter.
Motto, Aymer Loyaulte. (Love Loyalty.)
Seats, Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Haute; and Bolton Hall, Leyburn,
R. S. O. Co., York: Clubs, Carlton: Junior Carlton, Yorkshire, Eng.
BOLTON
Duke of Bolton, in 1747, Sir Henry Vane, "Knight of the
Garter," Duke and Marquis, died at Raby Castle, Durham,
Eng., January 18, 1747, age 75 years. He was also Earl of
Darlington, Viscount and Baron Barnard, and Baron Raby.
He was the eldest son of William Henry, first Duke of Cleveland,
whom he succeeded, January 29, 1842, by Lady Katherine
Margaret Powlett, daughter and co-heiress of Henry, the last
Duke of Bolton ; born August 16,1788. He was a lineal descend-
ant, in the seventh generation, from Sir Henry Vane, governor
of Massachusetts Colony, in 1 636-1 637. He was also descended
from King Charles H, who brought Sir Henry to the block,
through his illegitimate son, Charles Fitzroy, by Barbara,
Duchess of Cleveland. His grandmother, the Duchess of
Bolton, was the Katherine Lowther to whom James Wolf was
betrothed. He married November 16, 1809, Sophia, eldest
daughter of John, fourth Earl Poulett. No children.
BoTTON, Boulter, Bolter, Boulton, Bollen, Boten, etc.
Nathaniel Bolter of Hampton, N. H., removed to Exeter,
N. H., in 1649.
Nathaniel Bolter's name was on the town books of Exeter,
N. H., between 1 640-1 680. He also signed a petition with
others to the Massachusetts General Court that Exeter might
be received under their jurisdiction, 1643.
Granted at a town meeting, in Exeter, N. H., November 16,
1644, to Nathaniel Bolter, 30 acres of land.
Nicholas Bolter of Dorchester, Mass., admitted to church,
8 (i), 1644; he was bellringer, and messenger for selectmen;
had wife Elisabeth. Their children:
Thankful bapt. 4 (8), 1649.
Elisabeth bapt. 18 (11), 1656; m. Oct. 25, 1676, Experience
Willis.
John b. 1660; d. May 27, 1683.
Nicholas Bolton's will probated in September, bequeathed to
wife, son John, and daughter, Experience (Bolton) Willis.
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From Savage
John Bolton, Bridgewater, son probably of Nicholas; although
Mitchell is cautious and calls him descended from Nicholas of
Dorchester; states he came from Stonington, Conn., with wife,
Sarah. Their children:
John b. 1686.
Samuel b. 1688.
Sarah b. 1690.
Elisabeth b. 1692.
Nicholas b. 1695.
Mary b. 1697.
Elisha b. 1700.
Joseph b. 1704.
Nathaniel b. 1706.
Abigal b. 1709.
It seems he was son of Nicholas Bolton of Dorchester, Mass.,
of 1643.
William Bolton of Newbury, Mass., was a proprietor in 1645.
He married January 16, 1654-5, Jane Bartlett; she died. He
married, second, November 22, 1659, Mary Denison. Child by
first marriage :
Mary b. 25 Sept. 1655.
Children by second marriage :
Mary d. young.
William b. May, 1665.
Ruth b. Aug. i, 1667.
Elisabeth b. 1673; d. 1674.
Sarah b. April 5, 1677.
Hannah b. July 18, 1679.
Joseph b. July 8, 1682.
Sarah d. young.
William Bolton died March 27, 1697, having bequeathed to
wife Mary, sons, Joseph and Stephen, daughters Jane, Ruth,
Elisabeth and Hannah. The son, Stephen, gave bond, 1696-
1697, to care for his father and mother the rest of their lives.
From Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the
Revolution
There were Jabez Bolton, John Bolton, of Scarborough, Me.;
John Bolton, at Falmouth; John Bolton, at Rhode Island;
Timothy Bolton, Groton, Chelmsford, Billerica.
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William Bolton, first sergeant in Capt. Aaron Jewett's Com-
pany, Col. Job Cushing's Regiment; engaged July 27, 1777; dis-
charged August 29, 1777; marched to Bennington on an alarm;
company raised from various towns in Middlesex County,
Massachusetts; was also second sergeant in Capt. Jewett's Com-
pany, Col. Samuel Bullards Regiment; engaged August 29, 1777;
discharged November 29, 1777; service at North River, at the
taking of General Burgoyne; roll at Littleton, also private, Capt.
John Hasting's (6th) Company, Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment;
enlistment, three years, reported on command at Newton; also
Abraham Bolton.
Benjamin Bolton was on defense of eastern Massachusetts.
John Bolton, stationed at Springfield, Mass.
Nathaniel Bolton, detached from Cumberland County.
Thomas Bolton of Newbury, Mass., went to Quebec, also
Springfield, Mass.
Aaron Bolton, at Cape Ann.
Abraham Bolton, Salem, Mass.
Daniel Bolton.
David Bolton, Murrayfield, Boston.
Eben, or Ebenezer Bolton, in battle of Bennington.
Elias Bolton, Oakham, Taunton, Mass.
Jabez Bolton.
James Bolton.
John Bolton, Dartmouth, Colrain, Bridgewater.
Joseph Bolton.
Matthew Bolton.
Nathaniel Bolton.
Philip Bolton, Bridgewater.
Savage speaks of Seth and Thomas Bolton.
From Daughters of American Revolution (Vol. 12; page 239)
A descendant of Gen. Josiah Whitney, Josiah Whitney, Jr.,
Asa Taft, corporal, Ebenezer Bolton, and David Damon, all of
Massachusetts.
Ebenezer Bolton married Elisabeth Damon. He was at Bunker
Hill, and served until the evacuation of Boston; he reinlisted for
the defense of Bennington, under Capt. Elisha Jackson. David
Damon was a minute man from Reading, Mass.
Richard Bolton, son of John Bolton, of Bristol, Eng., was a
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50 FAMILY RECORDS
merchant; Richard Cole gave Richard Bolton a house, June i6,
1599-
Isleham Bolton married Deborah Leech; their children were
Robert Bolton, " D'' of Physick, " and John Bolton of Bucklesham,
a celebrated writer, and rector of Bucklesham. Isleham Bolton
died and his widow married, January 2, 1604, Rev. Samuel Ward,
"M'' of Arts." His will was dated October 19, 1639, in Ipswich,
Mass.
From English Research
Henry Batcheldor of Wimmering, in Co. South, was born
March 14, 1612. The Cathedral Church of Winchester, in the
parish of Wimmering; wills free lands to John Bolton, and his
heirs, son of John Bolton, of Hilsea, in Wimmering. Also to
Elisabeth Bolton, daughter of John Bolton, of Hilsea, five pounds,
to be paid "out of my lease at Hankworth"; to John Boulton's
three children, "who he now hath, five pounds a year, during the
term of lease of Hanks worth."
Lower Norfolk, Virginia, May, 1637. Certificates of Head
Rights in the County of Lower Norfolk, Virginia. Certificates,
to Mr. Thomas Willoughly, for 3,200 acres land, for transporting
64 persons, among them John Boulton, October 16, 1663. Fifty
acres each.
Robert Boulton of Saffron, Walden, in England, a seaman, was
accidentally "slaine at Nantasket, in New England, by a ship
Gunne, 28:5: 1653."
Newbury, and the Bartlett family: Jane Bartlett (John^
Bartlett, Richard^ Bartlett) married William Bolton, January
16, 1664-5.
William Bolton took the Oath of Allegiance at Newbury, Mass.,
1678.
Newbury (Mass.) Troubles (without date)
"May it please the honr^ Court, to vnderstand, that theise
prsons, named vnderwritten, which are mentioned in John Emer-
yes Petition, are sons and servants, vnder their parents, and
masters, of which some haue not taken the Oath of fidelity, and
some do flatly deny that eur they gaue power, or liberty to put
their names, and some profess, they neuer saw the petition, or
heard it read " ; among these was Will Bolton.
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Taxes under Governor Andros: Town rate of Newbury, Mass.,
1688. William Bolton had 2 head; 6 acres plow land; 2 horses;
I oxen; 5 cows; 8 sheep; 3 hogs.
William Bolton of Harrow on the Hill, Middleson, clerk, April
8, 1691, wills to son, Archibald Bolton, if he lives; if not, the
property goes to Henry Bolton of Virginia.
In the Captain Kidd narrative, July 7, 1699, on the Mocha
frigate, Kidd took some passengers for New England. Sailed
for Mona, between Hispaniola and Porto Rico, where they met
a sloop, the St. Anthony, from Curacoa, for Antego, on this sloop
were William Bolton, merchant, and Samuel Wood, master of
the sloop; Kidd bought the sloop of Mr. Bolton, for the owners
account, then sailed for New York, thence to Boston.
Robert Bolton married Anne . He made his will in the
Co. of Suffolk; was "Doctor of Physick, " December 17, 1746.
Had a son, William; brother-in-law Joseph Ward of Cleveland,
Eng. ; a brother-in-law, Richard Golty, who married ' Deborah
Bolton.
On Records of Falmouth (now Portland, Me.) William Bolton
of N. Marblehead, with Rachel Haskell, of Falmouth, November
II, 1756.
Massachusetts Soldiers at Halifax
In 1759, from New England Register (Vol. 28; page 414): In
Capt. Josiah Thachers' Company of Yarmouth, in Col. John
Thomas's Regiment, landed in Halifax, May 11, 1759, was Will
Bolton; listed in the Rangers.
From the Bolton Genealogy
By Robert Bolton
Robert Bolton, son and heir of Robert Bolton, Esq., and Su-
sannah Mauve, was born in Christ Church Parish, Savannah
County, Ga. (now Chatham), December i, 1757, and was
an only son. His maternal grandfather, Mathew Mauve,
bequeathed to him, in 1777, "all the lot of land in the town of
Hardwick, granted him by his Majesty King George II, on De-
cember 2, 1757." About this time began the troubles between
Great Britain and the Colonies ; and he espoused the latter.
He served in several expeditions to the North, and was with
General Washington, when he surprised the Hessians at Trenton,
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N. J., December 25, 1776. He was also actively engaged at
sea, and assisted in the capture of a British privateer, off Sandy
Hook, when Savannah was taken by the British, December 29,
1778; he was active in defense, and was captured by a party of
Highlanders, and, because he refused to enlist for British service,
was placed on board a prison-ship ; from the ship he was removed
to some wretched buildings, and escaped; his negro guard rec-
ognized him and swam him across the river to South Carolina.
When there, he again joined the patriots. His small, silver-
mounted sword was the gift of Washington; he gave it to his
youngest son, James McClean Bolton, with the injunction,
"Never to be unsheathed, but in a virtuous cause." He mar-
ried Sarah McClean of Charlestown, S. C, in 1781; he moved
to Philadelphia, and later returned to Savannah. He was first
to export "Sea-Island cotton," under the firm name of "Newell
& Bolton," later "Robert & John Bolton." When the French
invaded American commerce, he suffered great loss.
He was a talented and religious man. He took a severe cold
on a visit to his country plantation," Bolton's Retreat," in Wash-
ington, Wilkes Co., from which he died, December 4, 1802, aged
45 years. In his will, among others, he bequeathed to Francis
Lewis Bolton, land and negroes, and ten thousand dollars; and
to a daughter, Rebecca; a son, Robert; and James McLean
Bolton. Will was proved February 7, 1803.
' ... "A skillful workman he
In God's great moral vineyard; what to prune,
With cautious hand, he knew; what to uproot,
What were mere seeds, and what celestial plants,
Which had unfading vigor in them, knew;
Nor knew alone, but watched them night and day,
And reared and nourished them till fit to be
Transplanted to the paradise above."
— From the Bolton Genealogy.
Rev. Robert Bolton of Lewisboro, N. Y., was born in Bath,
Somerset, Eng., April 17, 1814; died in Pelham, N. Y., October
II, 1877, aged 63 years. He was the eldest son of Rev. Rob-
ert Bolton and Anne (Jay) ; she was the eldest daughter of Rev.
William Jay of Bath, Eng. ; author of the " Morning and Evening
Exercises."
Rev. Robert Boulton published a genealogical and biographical
account of the Boultons in England and America. He married,
BOLTON
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BENEATH THIS STONE
REST THE MORTAL REMAINS
OF THE
REV ROBERT BOLTON
rector of
Christ Church, Pelham,
AND Chaplain to the Earl Ducie.
Born in Savannah, Georgia, U. S. A.
ioth September, 1788. Died in Cheltenham
19TH OF November, 1857.
He held forth the word of Life, faithfully, for forty
YEARS IN MANY PLACES. ChRIST WAS HIS CONFIDENCE, AND
Christ his theme; the last text which he preached from
was: "He that testifieth these things," &c.. Rev xxii, 20.
His wife and family have record in thankfullness to God
FOR his tender AFFECTION, PREVAILING PRAYERS, AND PURE
EXAMPLE.
ALSO OF ANNE
HIS TENDERLY BELOVED WIFE, ELDEST DAUGHTER &
CHILD OF THE
REV WILLIAM JAY OF BATH
WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 28tH, 1 859
AGED 65 YEARS.
54 FAMILY RECORDS
^rst, January 8, 1838, Elisabeth Rebecca, daughter of Jame^
Brenton, Newport, R. I.; married second, January 5, 1854, Jose-l
phine, daughter of Brewster and Elizabeth Woodhull. They
Jiad eight sons and three daughters. He was educated at Mill
Hill, ten miles north of London, Eng.
i i
ipROM Tradition of Mrs. Frances (Bolton) Wine of Fori!
j Myers, Fla. !
I William Bolton came from England with his family, consisting
of three children: Noah Bolton, who married Catherine Fred-
erick; their child was Wesley, born August, 1812, who married
Martha Nelms. Alanson married Steele; his descend-j
jants live in Texas. Theresa Bolton married Archibald Nelms.
Wesley Bolton married Frances Nelms. Their daughters
Frances Bolton, was born November 16, 1837, in Kingsportj
Sullivan Co., Tenn. She had brothers, Lemuel, Samuel, Noahj
John, William, Charles, Robert, and sisters, Elisabeth, Catherine]
Martha. Frances Bolton married, in 1856, Michael Wine, born
in Virginia and rai^sed in Tennessee. Their children were Joseph,
Martha, Mary, Lemuel, David, Elisabeth, Edwin, Alice, Wesley,
Noah, Fanny and Eva D. j
NELMS
Coat of Arms, Barry of lo, argent and vert, over all a griffin sergeant, or
Crest, An arm embowed in armor, tied around the wrist with a bow vert, hold-
ing in hand proper, a broad arrow or, feathered and headed of the first.
' Through the long vista oj departed years
The kindling eye now gazes, dimmed with tears;
And now, with magic power, behold it brings
The sweets of memory, without its stings!
But tongues more tuneful shall these scenes rehearse
For mine but heralds many a nobler verse.''
■ )
NELMES, NELNE, NELM
Richard Nelme, age 20 years, emigrant to St. Christophers;
"imbarqued" in the Mathew of London, Eng., May 21, 1635, to
the West Indies.
In will, John Abington of London, Eng., merchant, January
14, 1692, gives to Mrs. Alice Nelmes certain money for her use.
"My will is, that my land in Maryland, Negroes, Servants, all stock, and
debts, be sold, so soon as that can be done, and the produce equally divided
into so many shares, as the children of Mrs. Alice Nelmes, shall then have
living; of the three she is supposed, and now to have, that is, John, Charles,
and one she is now big with, each to have an equal part."
Catherine Dowing of 1780 married, first, Capt. William Black-
well of Northumberland County, Virginia; married, second,
Capt. Ebbin Nelms of "Travelers' Rest," Virginia. Children
of Capt. Ebbin Nelms and Catherine, his wife:
Eliza Nelms m. Thomas S. Snyder of " Hill Valley," North-
umberland Co., Va.; no children.
Edwin.
Thomas d. unm.
Edwin Nelms, who served with distinction in the C. S. A.,
married Dianah Omohundro of Westmorland Co., Va. Their
children :
LuciAN, line untraced.
Byard, line untraced.
Edwina, of whom later.
Elisabeth, line untraced.
EviROD, line untraced.
Kate, line untraced.
Mary, line untraced.
Edwina Nelms married John H. Reagon of Palestine, Texas,
born 1818.
Presley Nelms, M. D., married Margaret Lackey. Their
children :
Andebron m. unknown.
Edwin m. Miss Brown.
Kate m. Robert Blundon of "Fairfields," Va. Their chil-
dren: Lelia, Howell, Margaret, Henrietta; Catherine m.
John Betts of C. S. A.; their children, Edwin d. unm.,
Luther d. unm.
58 FAMILY RECORDS
GusTAVus m. Mary Miller (Lawndale) Blackwell, widow of
Oscar Blackwell; had children, Cammiel, Oscar and
Estelle.
Ann Eliza m. Ogle Brent of "Gallons Oaks," Northumber-
land Co., Va. They had child; John who m. Annie Barber;
they had Lillian, Raymond and Grace.
Charles N. Nelms (Rev.) married Miss Lewis.
John E. Nelms (Lieut.), C. S. A., married Mrs. E. V. Downing;
no children.
Estella married Lloyd Smith of Loudoun Co., Va. Children,
Hugh, Eliza, Genevive, Estelle and Margaret.
Hannah Nelms married Hiram Rice of "Mountain View,"
Va. Their children :
Mary unm.
Annie m. Judge Samuel Downing of "Edgley," Northum-
berland Co., Va. They had children.
RICHARD SMITH
LONDON, ENG., 1509
Coat of Arms, sable, on a chevron engrailed between three crosses pattee
fitchee argent, as many fleur-de-lys gules.
OH, THE MOUNTAIN MAID, NEW HAMPSHIRE"
A goodly realm! said Captain Smith
When he told the story in London streets,
And again to court and prince and king;
And in sixteen hundred and twenty-three.
For Dover meadows and Portsmouth river,
Bold and earnest they crossed the sea.
And the realm was theirs and ours forever.
Up from the floods of Piscataqua,
Slowly, slowly they made their way
Back to the Merrimack's eager tide.
Poured through its meadows rich and wide;
And to Winnipesaukee's tranquil sea.
Bosomed in hills and bright with isles. ' '
Up and on to the mountains piled.
Peak o'er peak, in the northern air.
Where the Great Stone Face looms changeless calm;
They labored and longed through the dawning grey and fair,
For the blessed break of the larger day.
Land of fame and of high endeavor,
Strength and glory be thine forever!
— Miss Proctor.
SMITH
" Those who care nothing for their Ancestors are ivanting in
respect for themselves, and deserve to he treated with contempt, by
their posterity.
" Those who respect and venerate the memory of their Forefathers
will he led by a pious reverence to treasure their memories."
From English Research
In the inventory of the estate of Thomas Pike of Remscombe,
Parish of North Newnton County, England, Richard Smith and
John Smith served April 22, 1625.
In 1614 John Smith, the celebrated navigator, visited the Isles
of Shoals. He called them Smith's Islands.
Among the first settlers of Barnstable, Mass. (1644), was John
Smith.
Scottish Research
Smith of Giblifton (Scotch) is of great antiquity; was written
Smyt, Smyth, also called Gow, which is Gaelic for Smith. Tradi-
tion accounts for their origin as the descendants from the clan
Chattan, that Neil Croomb, third son of Murdoch, of that clan,
who lived in the reign of William the Lion, was progenitor of all
the Scottish Smiths. They were descendants of the primitive
iron-workers.
From English Research
In 1634 Richard Smith of Abingdon = Mary, daughter of
Pawle Dayrell, of Livingston. This Richard Smith of Abingdon
served as usher to Queen Elisabeth, in medieval Smith times,
when the Heralds visited the people.
Ancient Ipswich, Suffolk County, Eng., received its name
from a Saxon queen whose name was "Eba," her residence or
wych signified home, hence wych translated from Ebawych to
Ipswich. We cannot find any date when it was founded. The
first authentic record is its devastation by the Danes in 991. It
is located sixty-nine miles northeast of London, Eng.
Richard Smith was the ancestor of Richard Smith, sheriff, in
London, Eng., 1508-9. The fleur-de-lis was granted to this
family.
SMITH 63
Richard Smith married Joane Porredge; died before 1582.
Henry Porredge of Beakesbourne, County of Kent, November
7. I593> willed to daughter of Richard Smith and Joane Porredge,
20 pounds.
In early records of Boston, Mass., Richard Smith of Lancaster,
Eng., was married to Johanna Quarlls, "the 2-5-1654," by Mr.
Richard Bellingham, governor, of Yorkshire, Eng.
Thomas Smith of West Clandon, Surry, yeoman; his will
proved June 13, 1651; he willed to his cousin, Richard Smith,
"son of my brother, John Smith," five pounds, to be paid in one
year. The will was proved in London, Eng.
Ipswich, Mass., was established August 5, 1634, from common
land called "Agawam." Boundary lines between Ipswich and
Gloucester were established in 1892.
In 1634, May 14, the General Court ordered "to the end the
body, of Commoners may be preserved of honest and good men,
that for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the free-
dom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the
churches within the limit of the same."
Richard Smith came over on the boat Planter, age 14 years,
and John Smith, aged 13 years, of whom the Mother Alice, and
John the son, are noted in the "List" of passengers from Sud-
burie, wife and children of John Smith of Lancaster, Mass.,
about 1635.
John Smith, Jr., was born in 1632; married Sarah Hunt of
Sudbury, Mass.
Richard Smith married in 1654, in Boston, Mass., Joanna
Quarlls, a kinswoman of Francis Quarlls.
Richard, George, Robert, and Thomas Smith were inhabitants
of Ipswich, Mass., in 1645.
In 1645 Richard Smith had a difficulty with the town officers;
he got angered and said, "Though Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
were against, yet he had the victory." For his, what was called
basphemy, he was fined 40 shillings.
Among the first settlers of Bay of Agawan (Ipswich), in 1648,
was Richard Smith, where his name appears for the first time
in Ipswich in 1645.
A deed of land in Bay of Agawam (Ipswich), was given by
Masconnomet, sagamore of Agawam, to John Winthrop, for 20
pounds, June 28, 1638, now Ipswich, with part reserved, and
64 FAMILY RECORDS
distributed to English settlers. From the primitive settlers of
this ancient community can be traced many families scattered
all over the country, which attracts many descendants to trace
for "olden time" ancestors, and gives many of the present day
pleasure and information.
Richard Smith of Ipswich, proprietor, 1641; his daughter,
married Edward Gilman, Jr., who bought land of him at Ipswich,
October 9, 1647; this land he mortgaged, 2 (10), 1648, to his father
Edward Gilman, Sr., who sold it October 2, 1651, to his brother
Richard Smith of Shroppum Co., Norfolk, Eng., evidently the
same man.
In 1626 Richard Smith of Claxton, weaver, was the supervisor
of wills in Ipswich, Eng.
Richard Smith, Ipswich, son of Richard in England.
Richard Smith signed the Groton Petition to the Honorable
Court, March 3, 1656.
In Middlesex County Court Records, among names of persons
that took the "Oath of Fidelity" in 1652, was Richard Smith.
In a deed made by Richard Smith, April 9, 1658, he deeded to
his son, Richard Smith, of Ipswich, singleman, property.
The will of Richard Smith of St. Dunston's, west London,
dated January 13, 1660, mentions Ann Hawthorne, and her sons,
John, Nathaniel, and William Hawthorne.
A houselot of one and one half acres was sold by Andrew Burley
to Richard Smith, March 24, 1680, Ipswich deeds.
January 3, 1692-3, under the General Court called "Court of
Assizes and General Goal Delivery," convened at Salem, Mass.,
Mr. Robert (Elder) Paine and Richard Smith were on the "jury
forTryalls." Elder Paine was foreman. The jury found nothing
against thirty, who were indicted for witchcraft.
Richard Smith of Ipswich, Mass., died September 24, 1714,
aged 85 years. He was born in England.
Here lies ye body
OF Mr. Richard
Smith, age 85
years, died
Sept. 24, 1714.
Richard Smith and Thomas Smith were commoners, in 1641,
in Ipswich.
Richard Smith^ was born in 1641, and married Hannah Cheny,
daughter of John and Hannah Cheny of Newbury, November,
SMITH 65
1660, when he was 19 years old. They had nine children, among
them was Daniel Smith, born in 1673.
Richard Smith was a voter in Ipswich in 1679; had horses on
common in 1697; he had the title of Mr. and occupied a place on
the second seat in the meeting house assigned to him in 1700; he
subscribed six shillings toward the bell, in 1699.
In 1672 Mary Smith, daughter of Richard Smith of Shropham
Co., Norfolk, Eng., married Henry Bennett, born about 1629.
When the terrors of King Philip's War broke on the Ipswich
Colony, in Massachusetts Bay, the General Court discerned it
the rebukes of Almighty God, and issued fresh edicts against
flagrant abuses. Check was made on the pride that "long hair
like women's haire, was worn by some men; or made into peri-
wiggs. " The evil of pride in the new strange fashions, with
naked breast, and arms, prisoned with superstitious ribbons,
were an offence (1676).
From Newfield Town History '
Richard Smith came from Shropshire, Norfolk Co., Eng., to
Ispwich, Mass., in 1642. Among his children was Elisabeth,
who married a Gilman, who was lost at sea in 1653.
Richard 2 Smith married Hannah Cheney, November, 1660,
DanieP (Richard, Richard), born 1673, married, first, Elisa-
beth, daughter of Daniel Payne and granddaughter of Robert
Payne, the founder of Ipswich grammar school. He married,
second, Deborah Wicom (Wilcomb), March 24, 1721. Children
by first wife, Elisabeth Payne :
Elisabeth b. 1703.
Richard b. 1704.
Daniel^ b. 1705; m. Pickering, ancestor of John Pickering
Smith of Gilford Village, N. H.
Payne.
Jeremiah, d. young.
Jabez b. 1709.
Moses b. 1711.
Aaron b. 1713, clergyman at Marlborough, Mass.
EzEKiEL b. 1 7 14.
Children by second wife, Deborah Wicom:
Moses b. 1724.
Deborah b. 1725.
Mary b. 1727.
Jeremiah* b. 1733.
Ebenezer* b. 1735.
66, FAMILY RECORDS
;^ ' ■ Provincial Wills
Daniel Smith of Exeter, N. H., willed his son, Daniel, land at
home in Exeter, to be his at the decease of his mother, or at the
time that she should marry again, also cattle, sheep, and swine.
Item — I give to my son Jeremiah, 30 pounds of old Tenor, to be paid to him
by my son Daniel.
Item — I give to my son Ebenezer, 30 pounds old Tenor, to be paid to him
by my son Daniel, within ten years of my decease. A dau Susanna, 30
pounds, a son Payne, 30 pounds, old Tenor, A son Jabez, 3 pounds old
Tenor, A dau Mary, and a daughter, Elisabeth, each 30 pounds,
Signed Daniel Smith.
Brentwood, N. H. • , ^
Dated June 8, 1752, . • ■.
Witnesses . ,..
Jabez Smith. ■ ,' '
Theodore Smith. ? ^ \ ■ ■ ■■■
Provincial Deeds
Daniel Smith deeded to his brother, Jeremiah Smith, land on
which is settled Joseph Smith, six miles square, fourth lot, second
Range, of hundred acre lots in Gilmantown, now Meredith, N. H.,
April 12, 1765. . ..■ : '.
; ' ■ From the History of Gilmantown, N. H.
Honorable Ebenezer Smith (Daniel, Richard) was a brother
of Jeremiah Smith; they both went to Meredith (New Salem),
into the wilderness, and made homes. They were two sons of
Daniel Smith of Exeter, N. H., where they were born. Ebenezer
became a proprietor of Gilmantown (from which Meredith was
taken) and was one of those who gave bonds for its settlement;
and in consequence he became an extensive land holder, in the
town. Two of his sons, Ebenezer and John, were settlers in that
part of the town which is now called Gilford, but Judge Smith
was an early settler of Meredith, and moved there about the
year 1768. He married Sarah Spiller of Exeter, N. H. They
had one child when they moved to Meredith; the journey was
accomplished on horseback, and that part of the way which lay
through Gilmantown was a path to be followed by spotted trees.
Mrs. Smith, not being able to guide a horse herself, took a seat,
as was the custom in those days, behind her husband on the
same horse and thus mounted, with his child in his arms, and a
SMITH 67
favorite dog in his pocket, they arrived one evening just before
sunset at the camp which he had previously erected on the north-
west shore of one of the bays in Lake Winnepesaukee River, and
afterward settled on Meredith Parade.
This was the man who afterward sat upon the bench of justice;
and whom the Senate delighted to honor, by appointing him to
preside over them. His children were Ebenezer, Daniel (who
was the first male white child born in Meredith), John Washing-
ton, and five daughters, one of whom married Hon. John Mooney,
Judge of Probate. Another married Samuel Kelly, Esq., the first
settler of New Hampton, N. H.; another married Col. Ebenezer
Lawrence, and another married Winthrop Dudley of Brentwood,
N. H. Judge Smith was a father to the settlers of the town for
many years. He was successively representative and senator
in the State Legislature and for two years was president of the
Senate; was Judge of the County Court, from 1784 to 1787; was
Judge of Probate from 1797 to 1805. He died August 22, 1807,
aged 73 years. His memory will long be preserved with venera-
tion and respect. One half brother, Payne Smith, settled in
Meredith. Near him, they are all laid to rest in the yard above
Laconia, near Mr. Heads' farm, also his brother, Jeremiah, the
three brothers and wives.
Judge Ebenezer Smith (Daniel, Richard, Richard) of Exeter,
N. H., married in 1766, Sarah Spiller of Exeter, N. H. They
had five daughters, and two sons, Jacob and John Smith.
Jacob's family are all laid in the Union Cemetery at Laconia,
N. H. John Smith has a daughter, Mrs. Carson, who lives in
Lakeport; also a daughter, Rhoda Smith, living in Meredith,
N. H., born November 5, 1831; her two brothers, Eben and
Jeremiah, have passed on.
On the tombstone of Judge Ebenezer Smith, "In memory of
Hon. Ebenezer Smith, Esq., died August 22, 1807, in the 74
year of his age." Mrs. Sarah (Spiller) Smith, consort of Hon.
Ebenezer Smith, died January 17, 1807, in the 68th year of her
age.
Jeremiah and Ebenezer Smith took up land in Meredith, N. H.
They both went to Gilmantown (Meredith) in 1766, from Exeter,
N. H., and settled on Meredith Parade. Ebenezer settled below
Jeremiah, towards Laconia. Their half brother, Payne Smith,
moved there later, and settled still below them.
68 FAMILY RECORDS
Jeremiah Smith was in the Revolutionary War (State Papers
by Hammond, Vol. 3, page 11); served three years, April 30, 1777 ;
was a private, April 30, 1780; returned home, July 30, 1782,
with a discharge.
Jeremiah Smith married Hannah Lock and lived on what was
later called the Jacob Smith farm, on Meredith Parade, in what
was then a wilderness. Tradition, through my father. Smith
Neal (a son) said they had a daughter Hannah who went out
one day to get a hemlock broom, and, when gathering the hem-
lock boughs, she got lost; she accidentally dropped a gold ring
and saw to pick it up by the flash of lightning; she was lost all
night in the storm. She was said to be a very aristocratic young
lady, and very methodical in her ways, and had high ambitions.
Hannah Smith married Joseph Neal (see Neals). She had a
brother, John Rice Smith, and a sister, Nancy, who married
Simeon Cate.
Jeremiah Smith (Daniel, Richard, Richard), (from Revolu-
tionary Rolls, Vol. 2, page 219), states he was on the pay roll
in Capt. Stephen Parkers' Company, Col. Moses Nichols' Regi-
ment, General Stark's Brigade, and marched from New Ipswich,
Mass., and Exeter, N. H., to Stillwater, July 19, 1777, in the
Northern Continental Army.
Jeremiah Smith died May 29, 1794, aged 61 years.
Hannah Lock Smith, wife of Jeremiah Smith, died November
II, 1815, aged 72 years.
Military Service
Daniel Smith of Portsmouth, N. H., was dismissed from service
in the army, December 25, 1724 — April 25, 1725.
From Quint's Ancient Dover: Daniel Smith (Daniel, Richard,
Richard) served in the Somersworth army, July 23, 1746.
In the Muster Roll of Capt. James Grant, volunteers, from
June 25 to August 4, 1725, was Dan Smith, from York, Me.,
corporal.
April 9, 1765, Jeremiah Smith of Exeter, N. H., had a deed of
land, from Ebenezer Smith; the land was in Gilmantown, now
Meredith, N. H.; land was in New Salem. And in 1762 he
deeded land to Jeremiah Smith, in Nottingham.
State Papers give an account of a petition, signed by several,
among them Jeremiah Smith, for a town to be set off from Gil-
SMITH 69
mantown, to be called Meredith, in 1803. And in 1808 the
upper part of the parish was set off as Meredith, N. H.
Jeremiah Smith was born in 1733, and died in 1794. He mar-
ried Hannah Lock, born February 18, 1737/8, died November
II, 1815. They settled in Meredith, N. H., on the northwest
bay near the Weirs. She was a daughter of Deacon William
Lock, and Elisabeth, his wife, as Savage Dictionary. They are
both buried above Laconia, N. H., near Mr. Heads; a half
brother, Payne Smith, is also buried there.
Heraldry was employed in the feudal ages to display the
exploits of chivalry, and reward its triumphs over oppression and
violence. Amid the imperfections of uncultivated eloquence,
and general ignorance of written language, the ensigns of heraldry
were peculiarly significant. At a glance they showed important
events in history, of persons, families and nations.
In all countries of Europe, they were believed to be endowed
with a "mortal immortality" and stable as the rocks that gird
Great Britain. Crests were first introduced into Britain about
A. D. 1 199. The chief sources from which heraldic instruction
is to be derived are the seals of manuscripts, tombs and
buildings.
NEAL
Coat of Arms, Lynn, Magna, Leicestershire County, Eng., 20 Henry VL
Gules, three greyhounds' heads erased argent, collared sable, ringed or. No
crest.
\
4
NEAL
By Mary Elisabeth Neal Hanaford
When young I had a rather inquisitive disposition, and when
opportunity afforded (I probably asked many foolish questions)
I often asked my father about his ancestors, and in this way
gleaned much tradition. He said his grandmother's name was
Betsy (Elisabeth) Haley; that one grandfather, farther back,
married a Lock, and some relative married a Philbrick. He
often spoke of relatives by name of Foss also, among the early
Neals. I have classed them here, as first, second, third and
perhaps fourth Samuel Neals, but I am sure of three Samuels.
He also told me his father, Joseph's father, died young, and he
(Joseph) was bound out to a Mr. Barker of Greenland, until he
was 21 years old, and that his grandfather, Samuel, was also
bound out to a Mr. Wiggin, proof (see Wiggin's will).
The Walter Neal will in the State House in Concord, N. H.,
names son Samuel, also grandson Samuel if he lives to be 21 years
old, so I feel from the proof of these old wills and what my father
told me of the early Neals, that I have the line, pretty clear, for
some generations back.
I find that a Walter Neal came here about 1623, before the
early explorer ; this I found in the National History. Undoubt-
edly they were all related, but early records are so "scarce, we
are in the dark on some points.
From Rev. J. W. Haley's Memoranda
The Neal family of England is a very ancient one. One
reference made to them was in the reign of Edward IV (1461-
1483). In some old records of Visitation, 1566 to 1618, mention
is made of a Walter Neal; Richard Neal, knight, one of the
Justices of Common Pleas, and Lord of Prestwould, died in 1485.
A Thomas Neal (1519-1596), professor of Hebrew in the Uni-
versity of Oxford , was also a distinguished author. In the middle
of the seventeenth century, John Neal, Esq., of Dean Co., Bed-
ford, Eng., married Annie, daughter of Henry Cromwell, a cousin
of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England. Their son,
John, came to New England, and settled at Salem, Mass. The
Neals of Salem, Mass., are his descendants, without doubt. A
74 FAMILY RECORDS •
Francis Neale, Esq., an auditor of the Exchequer to Queen Elisa-
beth, married and had a son, William, who was also one of the
auditors to Queen Elisabeth. William- married Agnes, daughter
of Robert Bowyer, sister of Francis Bowyer, Alderman of Lon-
don, Eng. William, by Agnes, first wife, had a son, Walter,
who died about 1612. Capt. Walter Neal comes into view in
1612, but Mr. Haley thinks it is not the preceding one, probably
a relative, but if one of the preceding ones, he was the son of
Henry and Elisabeth (Lacon) Neale, born earlier than 1595.
These facts were gathered from the record of the Visitation of
Bedfordshire, in 1566, and the one of Northamptonshire, in 1618.
This Capt. Walter Neal entered the English army about 161 5;
he served in Bohemia, and the Rhine country under Count Ernst
Von Mansfield, where he gained the rank of captain.
In a personal letter from Rev. Haley, dated May i, 1899, he
states: "Here I will say that in person or by proxy, I have care-
fully explored the Church and town records, and the old ceme-
teries of Greenland, Portsmouth, and New Castle, and gleaned
what I could."
At Greenland, the home of the Neals, the early town records
were burned and the church records go no further back than
1 813; except that there are lists of baptismals and births extend-
ing somewhat further back.
I find the following: Walter Neale, son of William and Agnes
(Bowyer) Neale, of Warneford, Hampshire Co., Eng. Walter
was of a knightly family, and had a brother. Sir Thomas Neale,
who died in 1620. William and his son, Sir Thomas, were audi-
tors to Queen Elisabeth. This Walter married, first, Frances
Oglander, daughter of Sir William Oglander, and, second, a
Lamberte. This Walter's will was made in October, 1613, and
contains no evidence that he had children by either wife.
Walter Neale, captain and explorer, may have been a nephew
of the preceding. This Walter had fought under Count Mans-
field, in Bohemia, and the Rhine country, where he gained the
rank of captain. In 1630 he came over to this country, at the
instance of Gorges and Mason, to be governor of the lower settle-
ment of New Hampshire (what is now Portsmouth, Newcastle,
and part of Greenland), as Capt. Thomas Wiggin was to be
governor of the upper settlement (what is now Dover). While
here Capt. Walter Neal explored the lake region, and visited the
NEAL 75
White Mountains. In 1633 he went back to England, and, in
1639, was appointed lieutenant-governor of the military station
and arsenal at Portsmouth, Eng. So far as I have been able to
learn he never returned to America. Walter NeaP was of Dover,
Greenland, and Portsmouth, N. H. According to Dover Rec-
ords, in 1661-1668, children were born to Walter Neale and his
wife, Mary — a son, Samuel, and a daughter, Mary. No other
births are recorded for that family, so far as I can find.
In 1666 a military company of Portsmouth, N. H., chose
Walter Neale as lieutenant, and in a list of Portsmouth miHtary
officers (1689-1690), he is styled captain. In 1678 the selectmen
of Portsmouth appointed Lieutenant Neal "tythingman, for
all the families in Greenland." In 1693 a committee appointed,
at a Portsmouth town-meeting, to seat the people in the church,
assigned Lieutenant Sloper and Capt. Walter Neal to the seat
of honor — the front seat, facing the pulpit. Though I have made
diligent search, I have not yet learned where this Walter was
born, who his parents were, or how many children he had, or
where he died, but it is clear that he lived in Greenland, and was
sometimes reckoned as a citizen of Dover, also of Portsmouth.
Each town claimed Greenland as a part of its territory.
I incline to the opinion that Walter^ was a son of Walter 2, the
explorer, if so, it might be that Capt. Walter married soon after
his return to England in 1633. He might have had a son, 26 or
28 years old in 1661, old enough to have come to this country,
and be married, and living in Dover or Greenland as above.
Nothing could be more natural than that an enterprising and
energetic young man would wish to emigrate to the new world of
which he had heard his father tell so much.
From English Research
The line of Neals traces back pretty clearly to Queen Elisa-
beth's reign, 1 533-1 603.
Among the pedigrees contained in William Pavers' consoli-
dated Visitations of Yorkshire, Eng., 1584 to 1665, was Neale.
The will of Robert Morely was dated February 2, 1598, proved
October 16, 1602. He willed Walter Neal, his brother-in-law,
also Fleetwood and Francis Neal, 30 shillings each, in Essex.
William Glover of Dedham Co., Essex, clothier, made a will,
January 6, 1609, witnessed by Samuel Neal of Dorset, Eng.
(This shows the family name.)
76 FAMILY RECORDS
Walter Neal of Abbotts, Southampton, Eng.,in his will, Octo*
ber 9, 1612, requests Sir Francis Neal to be sole executor. He
mentions a brother, Sir Thomas Neal; he also wills to his wife, if
she bring a child into the world, etc.; also wills his farm to his
dear wife, Anne of Abbotts. History states that it is thought
this unborn child was Capt. Walter Neal, the explorer.
From Old Eliot
The Laconia Grant to Gorges and Mason, November 17,
1629, was from the mouth of the Merrimack River, along the
coast, to the Sagadahock (Kennebec) River north and west
to include Lake Champlain, and territory to the St. Lawrence
River.
Captain Mason, in 1630, sent Capt. Walter Neal on the War-
wick, as governor of this section. They took possession of the
Thompson House at Odiorne Point, and began the settlement of
Strawberry Bank (which twenty-three years later was named
Portsmouth), and began a settlement at the head of Newicha-
wannock (Piscataqua) River; this settlement was known as
"Great Works." Captain Mason died in 1635, and left the
settlers to shift for themselves. They took all the property
they could lay hands on, and that was the end of Masonian
settlement.
Pascataway, November 3, 1631, the portion of land on the
sea coast five miles west of Odiorne Point, possessed by Captain
Neal in the harbor of Passataquack, alias Bassataquack, alias
Passataway, eastward, northeast along the coast, including land
now known as Portsmouth, Rye, Hampton, Greenland, and part
of Newington, Hilton's Point, now called Dover Point. (Is it
any wonder that Walter Neal's posterity came here to establish
a home on their father's land?)
Our forefathers came into an unbroken wilderness of valuable
land which was obtained for a trifle, and every man desired to
become a land owner. It was hard to obtain help; a few early
settlers were willing to work as servants, and were bound out
for a few years; and, after a time of service, bought land, and
became independent farmers. The captive Indians were put to
work out to service, and often sent to the West Indies to be sold
as slaves. It was shortly after this that the slave trade crept
into New England. It was abolished in 1807.
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From Old Kittery and Her Families, by Stackpole
This states Capt. Walter Neal arrived June i, 1630, at Little
Harbor or Piscataqua, as governor of Mason's Province. He
found few to govern. Some servants came with him. In 1632
Capt. Walter Neal, Jocelyn and Darby Field set out to see the
"beautiful lakes," and to open a trade with the Indians. During
their travels they discovered the White Mountains, and called
them the " Chrystal Hills. " It is stated Neal and Wiggin located
the boundaries of Portsmouth, Dover and Hampton, and helped
Wheelwright in fixing the boundaries of Exeter.
From the Maine Genealogical Register
Neal, on his return from exploring the White Mountains,
raised forty men, and in company with twenty more from Boston
pursued the pirate Dixy Bull, to Pemaquid, which place Bull had
pillaged, and gone farther east; but on account of bad weather
they returned in their four vessels to the Piscataqua, stopping
off at Richmond's Island, and hanging an Indian. They had
done little of farming, and the inhabitants suffered for food, and
lost interest.
Capt. Walter Neal is described as a true soldier, always ready
to work. He claimed he never had any profession but his sword,
nor any fortune but war; his debts were clamorous, wants nu-
merous. When in England, and not otherwise engaged, he acted
as drill master of the London militia and was among the last of
the knight-errant of the Round Table.
One writer states Capt. Walter Neal was one of the first settlers
in Kittery, Me., in 1623.
In 1 63 1 the " Great House " was built three miles up the Piscat-
aqua, from Mason's Hall. Its location was on the present Water
Street, on the southeast corner of Court Street, Portsmouth,
N. H. ; back of this on the bank was a large growth of strawberries ;
this is why it was called Strawberry Bank.
History states that from 1623-1635 John Mason settled a
colony at Newichawanock, built a large house and store, and
fenced them in with a strong palisade, and mounted with six
guns; upon the falls of the river he erected four sawmills and
houses for his tenants and servants, committing the government
unto Capt. Walter Neal, who continued in the employment until
1633, when he returned to England.
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Provincial Records state that a letter, dated August 6, 1634,
acknowledged Capt. Walter Neal, left "land, goats, mault and
sacke in New Eng. "
From English research we find Capt. Walter Neal married
and had children ; if so it looks reasonable that, as he left property
here and land in New England, he sent his son over to claim it.
Provincial Papers state that Neal was agent for the "pattent
of Laconiah, and the pattent for twenty thousand acres of land at
Randsvough (rendezvous) on the south side of the Piscataway
river."
History states that the barque Warwick, 1630-1636, was a ship
of 80 tons "burthen," under Captain Weatherill. It sailed from
the Downs in England ; was sent out by Gorges and Mason for the
discovery of the great lake in New England, so as to intercept
the trade in beavers. The vessel arrived safely April 8th at
Piscataqua. She brought over Captain Neal with others. It
is stated he had a contest with Captain Wiggin over a tract of
land, which Wiggin forbade Neal to come onto; it laid between
Dover and Exeter, now called "Bloody Point," but both had
more wit than to draw a sword, and the contest ended. It is
now called Newington, and is where the railroad crosses the river
to Dover.
In Old Eliot, on the trolley line from Kittery to Dover, is the
Neal Garrison, 1 632-1 802. On this place are buried seven
generations of Neals; some of the ancestors adopted the Quaker
religion. It was called the Andrew Neal Garrison; the house
has been repaired and the present owners (Neals) use it as a
summer home. Andrew Neal Garrison, Jan. 28, 1704, was in
the lower part of Berwick, called Kittery, Me. In 1721 Friends
had a meeting at Andrew Neal's house, Newichawanock. There
were Friends or Quakers at Kittery. Shortly after the Baptists
established churches in this section. Newichawannock is on
the Piscataqua River, opposite Hilton's Point on Dover Neck.
From Colonial State Papers
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF CAPTAIN WALTER NEALE
To the Kings most excellent Ma''®.
Your Ma''® being graciously pleased to take unto yo"" Roiall consideration
the government of the plantations in New England, May your Ma*'" likewise
favourably vouchsafe to accept the pretences of your humble peticoner to the
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said government, which are breifely these. I your Ma*'** most humble peti-
coner, hath Hved a Soulder, these twenty yeers, and served with command in
all yo'' Ma*'® expedicions; (2) Hee hath commanded these fowre yeers the
Companie of the Artillarie garden in London and with great charge and con-
tinuall labour hath brought to that perfection, that no Prince in Christendome
hath a companie equall to it of Citizens.
(3) He hath lived three yeers in New England having had a Patent and
Commission for that country, during which tyme he hath made greater dis-
coveries of y® inland pts than was ever made by any before or since.
(4) He hath also exactly discovered all the rivers and Harbours in the
habitable parts of y" country.
(5) He hath done more during his being there for the generall good of y*
country in reforming the irregularities and abuses of those that frequented
those parts than any man before.
(6) With greate hazard and much travell hee hath punished the extreame
cruelties of y« natives of y® country, and enforced them to a peaceable con-
fornitie in neighbour-hood and commerce.
(7) By reason of y'' many experim'^, hee hath made of all the comodities in
that countrie, he is able to settle a staple trade of some comodities for y*
profitt & advantage of this Kingdome, espetically for ye building of Shipps.
THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME
The Quaker of the olden time!
How calm and firm and true, !
Unspotted by its wrong and crime, .
He walked the dark earth through. ,
The lust of power, the love of gain.
The thousand lures of sin
Around him had no power to stain
The purity within. >
***** .
O spirit of that early day.
So pure, and strong and true,
. Be with us in the narrow way .
Our faithful fathers knew.
Give strength the evil to forsake.
The cross of truth to bear,
And love and reverent fear to make
Our daily lives a prayer!
From Ancient Dover, by Quint
The first church in Dover was organized in 1638. The Rev.
Daniel Maud was the first regular minister. This first church
was Baptist. The veritable Cotton Mather thought Indians
were descended from the Devil, and heretics were akin to both,^
and Baptists were the worst kind of heretics; hence this church-
8o FAMILY RECORDS
was, in his opinion, composed of "the looser sort of people."
Referring to doctrine only, they were come out from the Quakers,
but Rev. Daniel Maud was deservedly venerated. He settled in
Dover in 1642, and died in 1645. The tolerant neighbors of
Massachusetts Bay slandered them, but the church prospered.
In 1662 Mary Tomkins, Alice Ambrose from Old England,
George Preston and Edward Wharton of Salem, came to Pas-
cataqua River, passed up and landed at Dover, N. H., whither
to go it was with them from the Lord. The people reasoned with
them, then the priest asked the people why they went to the
Quakers. Priest Rayner then asked, "What came ye here for,
seeing the Laws of the Country are against such as you?" "What
hast thou against us?" replied Mary Tomkins. The priest replied
"You deny Magistrates and Ministers, and the churches of
Christ." ^Mary Tomkins replied, "Thou sayest so," and he
replied, "You deny the Three persons in the Trinity." She
answered, "Take notice, People, the man falsely accuseth us;
for Godly Magistrates and the Ministers of Christ we own, and
the church of Christ we own, and that there are Three that bear
record in Heaven, which three are the Father, Word, and Spirit,
that we own, but for the Three Persons in the Trinity, that is for
thee to prove." Said the priest, "There are three Somethings,"
and flew away in a rage calling his people to come after him; but
Mary called to him to come back and not leave his people
amongst them; he called wolves, whereupon she said unto the
people, "Is not this the hireling that flies and leaves the flock?"
So truth came over the people ; many were convinced of the truth
that day, and, notwithstanding the terror of the wicked laws,
many waxed bold and invited the Quakers to their homes; and
the power of the Lord reached them that day; they went over
into Mayne, but their stay was short there, as the priest insti-
gated a cart-law, and order was made to "whip and pass them
away as followeth."
The constables were ordered in eleven towns to make them
fast to the tail of the cart, and draw them through the towns,
and to whip them not exceeding ten stripes apiece, on each one,
in each town, and draw them about eighty miles; it was bitter cold
weather at this time. "Oh, the Mercies of the wicked, how are
their cruelties?" From whom sprang this unreasonable warrant,
and who influenced all this cruelty? "Omne malum," saith the
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proverb, "incipit a Sacerdote," that is, "All evil begins from the
priest," or from the priest all evil hath its beginning. The
constables took them by order of Priest Rayner to Hampton,
through dirt and snow, half leg deep; at Salisbury the}' forced
them after the "Carts Tayl," where he whipped them in a cruel
way on the road, which was a cruel sight to those observers; but
the Quaker women sang in the midst of these cruelties to the
astonishment of their enemies. This disgraceful sentence was
executed no farther than Salisbury. After their release they
returned to Kittery; Andrew Neal's was one of their meeting
places. They met with many persecutions along the way.
Many people were fined for entertaining the Quakers.
Second Walter Neal
The Pied Cow boat arrived July 8, 1634, and on the 13th
"cast anker halfe a mile from the falle near Strawberry Bank."
Among names of Stewarts and servants, sent by John Mason,
Esq., into the Province of New Hampshire, was Walter Neal,
Stewart, with fifty men and twenty-two women, who soon became
wives after their arrival. Eight Danes were also on this boat.
This second Walter Neal had land granted to him in Ports-
mouth, 31 acres and 39 acres in 1657 (Portsmouth at that time
comprised Greenland). According to the early records of Dover,
in 1661-1668 there was a Walter Neal, supposed to be the son
of the captain; he was early called lieutenant and later captain;
he lived in what is now set apart as Greenland, which was origin-
ally Portsmouth, N. H. This is the Walter Neal that Brewster,
in his Rambles, and Hackett in his Portsmouth Records, 1643-
1656, refers to. He is also the one who received the seat of
honor in the church.
At a town meeting in Portsmouth, N. H., January 22, 1660,
land was apportioned to all persons over 21 years old; Capt.
Walter Neal received 39 and 31 acres.
June 3, 1678, Lieut. Walter Neal was of Greenland, N. H.
Walter Neal subscribed for the minister, 1658-1666. He lived
in Portsmouth, N. H. (that included Greenland).
Portsmouth Landmarks and Surveys, "By vertue of a Town
grant at a publique meeting hild the lo-july 1655. Unto Walter
Neal this July 22-1655, his home lot doth extend from Goodman
hayins, his fence due north and by east unto Winicont River."
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82 FAMILY RECORDS
Masonian Papers state that Captain Neal lived in a stone
house at the mouth of the " Perscataqua " River, later called
Little Harbor; the house was called the Capt. Mason House.
Under the Swedish and New England Colonies, in June, 1644,
the Boston merchants coveted a part of the fur trade. It was
imagined in Massachusetts that the supply of beavers came from
a great lake that was in the northwest of their patent which they
called "Lake Lyconnid," which was in the Laconia Grant to
Mason and Gorges, given November 17, 1629, and brought out
in 1630, by Capt. Walter Neal. The Lygonia or Plough Patent
comprised land about Lake Champlain.
History states that the men that came over in the Warwick,
about 50, engaged in fishing, salt making, trading and farming.
The settlement of New England was chiefly a religious enter-
prise for the advancement of religion; and proved a good illus-
tration of the Psalmist David, who said, "Surely the wrath of
man shall praise thee."
Neal in his History of the Puritans states that there were 77
divines ordained in the Church of England, who came to America
before 1640, and became pastors of churches.
Bell's History states that Walter Neal signed the Indian deed
of 1629 to Wheelwright.
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THE INDIAN DEED OF 1629 TO WHEELWRIGHT & ALS
SamU Sharpe Rowls mark*
Memorand""; on y" Seventeenth day of maye one thousand six hundred
twenty & nine, In the ffith year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles
King of England, Scatland ffrance & Ireland, Defend-- of y« ffaith &ct Wahang-
nownawit Sagamore, of Squamscot in Piscataqua River, did in behalf of him-
self and the other Sagamores aforementioned then Present, DeliV, Quiett &
Peaceable Possession of all y<= Lands mentioned in the w'^'in writen Deed, unto
the w'l'in named John Whelewright for the ends w'^^'in mentioned in Presents
of us Walter Nele Governer, Geo Vaughan factor and ambros Gibins Trader
for y'' Company of Laconia, Rich'^ Vines Governer and Rich^ bonithan Assis-
tant of y« Plantation of Sawco, Thom« Wiggin agent and Edward hilton,
Stewart of the Plantation of Hiltons Point, and was signed sealed & Delivered
In our Presents. In Wittness whereof we have hereunto sett our hands the
day & yeare above Written.
RiCH<i Vines Walter Neale
RiCH<^ BoNiTHON Geo Vaughan
Thom^ Wiggin Ambrose Gibbins
Edward Hilton
Entered and Recorded Acording to the originall the 20th may, 1 7 14.
Pr W'" Vaughan, Record'.
*The marks or totems of the Indians are affixed to their names as follows:
Passaconway, a man with extended arms; Runawit, a deer's antlers; Wahang-
nowawit, a bow and arrow; Rowls, a one armed man. What the marks of the
two Indian witnesses, Wadargascom and Mistonobite, are intended to repre-
sent, it is not easy to say.
— Copied from History of Exeter.
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Walter Neal
In the assiduity of Farmer, he thinks Walter Neal of 1660, who
by wife, Mary Ayers, married in 1660, had Samuel, born June
14, 1661. He was in 1673 lieutenant in the company of which
James Pendleton was captain; was the son of Walter, the ex-
plorer. This second Walter joined the most of his neighbors in
desiring jurisdiction of Massachusetts in 1690.
Samuel Neal, born June 14, 1661, died about 1702.
Samuel Neal, son of Walter, married Jane Foss. Another
place married Jane Philbrick.
Samuel Neal married Elisabeth Lock February 28, 1710-11.
Samuel Neal married Elisabeth Haley February 7, 1754.
William Philbrick, born April 27, 1670, married Mary Neal,
daughter of Walter Neal of Greenland, N. H., October 10, 1689;
lived in Portsmouth, 1694.
December, 1688, residents of (Sandy Beach) Rye including
Greenland and Newington, was Samuel Nele.
Walter Neal, a citizen of Dover in 1661-1668, and of Ports-
mouth, 1 666-1 693, resided nearly all the time at Greenland,
N. H.
In 1690 New Hampshire was left without a government; the
people were quarreling. A petition was signed by 372 people of
New Hampshire to join Massachusetts; this was desired on ac-
count of the breaking out of King William's War. About 1692,
during this union, Walter Neal was captain of the military force
of Portsmouth, N. H.
April 3, 1693, Capt. Walter Neal was selectman, and ordered
the seating of the people in the meeting house.
In the Indian and French wars Walter Neal was a soldier from
Portsmouth, August 23 to September 6, 1708, at Fort William
and Mary, also his brother John.
In 1725, 30 acres of land was distributed to Walter Neal.
Among men who signed to hire 25,000 pounds loan December
I, 1743, was Walter and Samuel Neal.
In 1683, a Walter Neal was a freeholder in Portsmouth, N. H.,
and signed a petition to the King, which was sent to England by
Nathaniel Weare.
86 FAMILY RECORDS
Will of Walter Neal
Walter Neal willed to his grandchildren, children of his son,
Samuel Neal of Greenland, N. H. (late dec) :
Parcel of land meadow ground 50 acres, where he now liveth, and where the
house and barn stands on the easterly side of common road way from Hampton
to Portsmouth, this to be given to my grandson Samuel if he lives to be 21 yrs
old (the one apprenticed to Wiggin), if he dont live to be 21 yrs old, it is to be
given to the children, as they become of age. Was called Neals Marsh or
Meadow.
That Walter (son) put Samuel in peaceable possession of above land, if he
becomes 21 yrs, if not to go to the younger son of Samuel Neal my son.
Signed Walter Neal.
Dated Feb. 3, 1702-3.
Recorded Nov. 21, 171 7.
From Greenland Provincial Papers
Walter Neal, in 1659, petit juror at Dover, N. H.
Walter Neal, in 1661, grand juror at Dover, N. H.
Walter Neal, in 1662, grand juror at Portsmouth
Walter Neal, in 1669, lieutenant at Portsmouth.
Walter Neal, in 1689, captain of military company at Straw-
berry Bank.
Among Provincial Deeds is Walter Neal's will. He willed to
his grandson, Samuel, if he lived to be twenty-one years of age,
land from Portsmouth to Hampton, in Greenland.
In Jonathan Wiggin's will, dated March 23, 1737, of Stratham,
N. H., he willed to Samuel Neal, his apprentice, "thirty pounds
in money or cattle at money price, provided he faithfully serves
his prentiship out (besides what I am obliged to give him by this
indenture), to be paid to him by my son-in-law Andrew Wiggin. "
It seems it was a custom with people who had large families of
boys and did not have work for them at .home to apprentice them
out to some man who could furnish work, and needed help. It
was not considered any disgrace to be put out to work, but helped
in an education.
Samuel Neal
From New Hampshire State Papers
Samuel Neal married Jane Foss in 1660. They had a son
Samuel, born June 14, 1661.
Samuel and John Neal were in a scouting party under Captain
Weeks, 1712.
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Samuel Neal, son of Samuel and Abigal (Brier) Neal, was
born September 5, 1681.
From Ne-wfields History
Samuel Neal was lieutenant in Captain Pendexter's Company,
1673.
Capt. Walter Neal married Mary of Greenland Parish,
in Portsmouth, N. H.; was a soldier in 1673. He joined in re-
questing the jurisdiction of Massachusetts October 22, 1677, also
in 1689-1690. He was appointed captain in 1690.
From Massachusetts Archives (Vol. 68, page 212)
Samuel Neal was under command of Capt. William Turner in
King Phillip's War, April 7, 1676, to June 24, 1676, from Hatt-
field, near Hampton, N. H.
Samuel Neal, June 24, 1676, was at what is now called Hadley,
under Captain Poole. }-m^Jt fii^^^-c^^--^-
April 21, 1695, Thomas, Walter, Jeremiah and John Neal, chil-
dren of Samuel Neal and Abigal (Brier), his wife, were all bap-
tized in Portsmouth, N. H. % f^wi- ;
Greenland, a part of Portsmouth, was incorporated as a town
in 1703. In 1695 there were 320 inhabitants.
History states that at a town meeting in Portsmouth, N. H.,
April 3, 1693, Samuel Neal was apportioned a seat in the meeting
house at Portsmouth, and Walter Neal, was of "ye Committee,
and Sam Neles wife had a womans seat in ye gallery."
Items
From the North Church Records of Portsmouth, N. H., 1671-
1697, Samuel and Walter Neal were admitted to the North
Church of Portsmouth, November 29, 1694.
On April 21, 1695, the children of Samuel and Abigal (Brier)
Neal, John, Thomas, Walter and Jeremiah, were admitted to
the North Church in Portsmouth.
History states that Samuel and Walter, and John Neal, con-
tributed to a History of Greenland, February 5, 1711-1712
(by A. M. Haines, Galena, 111.).
Samuel Neal was in a scouting party under Capt. James Davis
in 1 712, mustered by Captain Weeks. (From French War
Rolls.)
88 FAMILY RECORDS
February 23, 1714, John Neal, brother of Joseph Neal, son of
Samuel Neal, sold land to Samuel Neal in Greenland, N. H.
Samuel Neal of Greenland signed a petition in 17 14 to have
the boundaries established, as Portsmouth was taxing them, also
Greenland.
Samuel Neal and Walter Neal signed a petition for a bridge
from Stratham to Newmarket, November 21, 1746, also Novem-
ber 21, 1748.
April 27, 1748, Samuel Neal of Greenland deeded land to W.
Jenkins.
From Early Town Papers
September 24, 1750, Samuel Neal signed a petition for a ferry
over Exeter River.
November 25, 1755, Samuel Neal signed a petition for a bridge
across Exeter River to Newmarket.
Items
Samuel Neal, Greenland, N. H., brother of Dea. John Neal,
allowed land, June 30, 1756, for service in war.
In 1813 Elisabeth Neal, wife of Samuel ^ Neal, joined the church
in Greenland, also two daughters, Elisabeth and Mary Neal.
In 1 714, Jonathan, son of Samuel Neal was baptized.
Lieut. Samuel Neal died February 10, 1715-16.
1717, Elisabeth Neal, daughter of Samuel, joined the church,
also Hannah Loak.
Samuel Neal joined the church in Greenland, 1722.
Samuel Neal, in 1723, paid Provincial rate, in Greenland,
N. H., eight pounds and three pence.
In 1728 Hannah Neal, daughter of Samuel, owned the Cove-
nant.
1733, Comfort Neal, daughter of Samuel, joined the church.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution
(Vol. 2, page 301)
Walter and Samuel Neal served.
In 1722 Samuel Neal was among the troops for defence, from
Greenland.
In 1723 Samuel Neal of Parish of Greenland was on the Prov-
ince rate.
From Greenland death record, Samuel Neal died, 1756.
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Samuel Neal, born March 22, 1755, was the son of Samuel Neal
of Stratham, N. H., "Head of family," Rockingham Co., in first
census of United States, 1790.
January 10, 1756, John Neal of Stratham, N. H., brother of
Joseph Neal, son of Samuel Neal, sold land in (New Salem)
Meredith, N. H., to Jonathan Wiggin.
From French and Indian War Rolls (Vol. 2, page 335), Samuel
Neal enlisted March 16, 1762; discharged December 3, 1762.
Samuel Neal of Kittery, Me., enlisted May 3, 1775.
From Massachusetts Archives (Vol. 68, page 212)
In King Phillip's war, April 7, 1676, was Samuel Neal, under
Capt. Will Turner. Captain Turner was engaged at North-
hampton, Mass., guarding and protecting against the great body
of Indians. He had 151 men, mostly single, largely boys and
servants. Hadley was headquarters, and some were sent out in
different places, to Hatfield, Springfield and Northhampton,
Mass.
June 24, 1679, Lieut. Walter Neal was guardian of Joseph
Cotton.
November 28, 1679, Walter Neal deeded land to George
Huntress.
Portsmouth, N. H., 1808, among men who served her Majesty's
Court, William and Mary, at Province of New Castle, N. H., was
Walter and Samuel Noel.
Samuel Neal '
Samuel Neal died in Greenland, N. H., 1756.
Samuel Neal married Elisabeth Lock, February 28, 1710-11
(see Locks). Their son, Samuel Neal married February 7, 1754,
Elisabeth Haley (Andrew Haley and Mary Briar, Andrew Haley
and Elisabeth Scammon, Andrew Haley and Deborah Wilson).
He being extensively engaged in fisheries, at the Isles of Shoals,
the "Haley Island" was named for him; he was a wealthy man
and was known as the " King of the Shoals."
From Stratham Town Records
Samuel Neal and Elisabeth Haley had the following children:
Samuel b. March 22, 1755.
Andrew b. Jan. 19, 1758.
90 FAMILY RECORDS
Jeremiah b. Nov. 4, 1759; d. young.
Joseph b. March 23, 1762.
John b. March 10, 1764.
Elisabeth b. May 29, 1768.
Mary b. June i, 1770.
Sarah b. June 23, 1773.
Abigal b. Jan. 29, 1775.
Deborah b. Jan. 22, 1778.
Widow Neal died May 4, 1785.
A Samuel Neal lived in Newmarket in 1782.
Andrew Neal, born January 19, 1758 (Samuel, Samuel, etc.),
li\ed in Canada. He had a son, Joseph.
Samuel Neal's Family of Stratham
Rev. Samuel Haven baptized Joshua Stackpole, August 2,
1779, undoubtedly a son of Ebenezer and Mary Stackpole.
This Joshua Stackpole married. May 29, 1800, Miss Sally Neal,
daughter of Samuel Neal and Elisabeth Haley of Stratham,
N. H. Sarah Neal died two years later and he married, second,
Mary Davis of Portsmouth, N. H.
He was a ship-caulker, and worked in the Kittery Navy Yard.
A son by Sarah Neal was Andrew Neal Stackpole, who married
Elisabeth Rogers of Tamworth, N. H. She was a daughter of
VVilHam Rogers, a ship-builder of Bath, Me.
Children of John and Anna Hannaford :
David Hannaford b. June 4, 1716.
Thomas Hannaford b. April 17, 1718.
Sarah Hannaford "dafter," b. Feb. 23, 1725/6.
Dudley Leavitt and wife Fanny deeded land in Northfield,
Rockingham County, N. H., to John Hannaford. February 17,
1808; sixteen acres for $55.
Joseph Carr and wife Mary deeded land in Canterbury, N. H.,
35 acres for thirty pounds, October 10, 1781, to Peter Hannaford.
From Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors
(Vol. II, page 301, Samuel Neal's Military Service)
Samuel Neal of Kittery, Me., private in Capt. Samuel Leigh-
ton's Company, Col. James Scammon's (30th) Regiment; muster
roll, dated August i, 1775; enlisted May 3, 1775; service, 3
months, 6 days; also company on return, endorsed October 3,
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1775; also received order for bounty coat, or its equivalent in
money, dated Cambridge, October 28, 1775; was also a private
in Capt. Simeon Brown's Company, Col. Nathaniel Wade's
Regiment; service, 6 months, 7 days; to Rhode Island, includ-
ing travel 140 miles home. Discharged at East Greenwich.
Regiment raised in Essex and York counties. Samuel Neal was
on the Boy Brigantine, Freedom, commanded by Capt. John
Clouston; entered service, February 4, 1777; service to August
4, 1777; also was on the crew of the ship Thorn, sworn to at Mar-
blehead September 14, 1780.
Samuel Neal
Samuel Neal and Elisabeth Haley were married by Rev. Beng
Stevens, February 7, 1754. Elisabeth Haley was a sister of
Richard Haley, born in Kittery, Me., in 1741, who was great-
grandfather of John W. Haley who got out the "Haley Piper,
Neal, and Ricker Families in 1900. Genealogical Memoranda
of Maine and New Hampshire."
From the Continental Registar: In 1781, Samuel Neal was
a private, is recorded.
In 1746 Samuel Neal, with others, petitioned for a lottery to
raise money to build a bridge over Exeter River, and for it to be
located at what is now Newfields. In 1 759-1 760 a petition was
sig'ned for a bridge over Squamscott River also in 1772. He
signed the Association Test in 1776; died about 1778.
In 1769 Walter Philbrick, Jr., married Margaret Neal, daugh-
ter of Samuel Neal. He was a cabinet maker in Greenland, N. H.
John Neal (Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.), born March 10,
1794, married a Ray in Meredith, N. H., and had sons, William
and John. He and his family moved to St. Albans, Vt.; tradi-
tion states the sons went to Ohio.
John and Joseph Neal went to (New Salem) Meredith and
settled in the wilderness; John later sold to Jonathan Wiggin,
and moved his family to Vermont. (I have never been able to
trace these sons. I have corresponded with over twenty Neals,
but as yet not the descendants of John.)
Mary Neal, born June i, 1770 (Samuel, Samuel, etc.), married
a Watson and lived in Topsham, Vt.
Sarah Neal, born June 23, 1773 (Samuel, Samuel, etc.), mar-
ried a Davis and lived in Lee, N. H.
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Abigal Neal, born January 29, 1775 (Samuel, Samuel, etc.),
married a Cheney and lived in Limington, Me.
Deborah Neal, born January 22, 1778 (Samuel, Samuel, etc.),
married a Samall and lived in Cornish, Me.
Joseph Neal, born March 23, 1762 (Samuel, Samuel), died
March 24, 185 1. He married Hannah Smith (Jeremiah, Daniel,
Richard). (See Richard Smith.) She was born March 27, 1771,
and died March 24, 1851. Their children:
William b. March 27, 1789; d. Jan. 29, 1830; was a ship
builder.
John Neal b. Oct. 20, 1790; d. Sept. 30, 1864.
Elisabeth b. Sept. 18, 1793.
Mary b. Sept. 15, 1795; d. April i, 1879.
Joseph b. Nov. 11, 1797; d. Dec. 25, 1854.
Hannah S. b. Sept. 15, 1799; d. March 19, 1855.
Smith b. Feb. 16, 1806; d. Dec. 15, 1887.
Nancy b. Sept. 15, 1810; d. March 19, 1854.
Irene b. Sept. 26, 1813; d. June 20, 1902.
My father. Smith Neal, told me his father, Joseph Neal, was
apprenticed to a Mr. Barker of Rye when he was 7 years old.
He also told me there were two Joseph Neals who went to Mere-
dith, and settled in the wilderness. One was his father, called
"White Oak Joe," and Richard Neal's father was called "Red
Oak Joe," for distinction. "White Oak Joe" went from Rye to
(New Salem) and "Red Oak Joe" went from Newmarket to
New Salem; but both were born in Stratham, N. H. The latter
settled above William Neal's farm, on the Center Harbor road,
the next farm above W. Neal's.
Joseph and John went up beside Lake Winnipesaukee into
the woods and cut trees and hewed out logs and built a house and
barn, and cleared up land to cultivate for homes and to feed their
families, and for their posterity to enjoy. It was a beautiful
location, above the water, where the present John Neal lives, on
the road from Meredith to the Weirs.
John Neal (Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.) was born October
20, 1790, and died September 30, 1864. He married Louis Mead,
born August 13, 1795; died April 17, 1875. Their children:
Hannah S. b. Nov. 18, 18 15; d. July 23, 1901.
Mary Jane b. July 3, 1817; d. Feb. 28, 1839.
Son b. Sept. 9, 1818; d. Sept. 30, 1818.
Martha b. Dec. 10, 1819; d. Aug. 29, 1824.
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Betsy M. b. Nov. 14, 1822; d. Sept. 27, 1854.
Darius J. b. Oct. i, 1824; d. Feb. 23, 1908.
Martha A. b. June 27, 1828; d. Nov. 12, 1914.
Susan Maria b. Feb. 12, 1831.
John Mead b. June 23, 1833.
Harriet N. b. June 23, 1835.
Ezra Dixi b. June 21, 1839; d. May 26, 1910.
Hannah S. Neal (John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.) married
Rev. Mark True.
Darius J. Neal (John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.), born
October i, 1824, married Francis Susan Elliott (Moody), born
March 27, 1832, at Canterbury, N. H. Died, October 22, 1893,
in Chicago, 111. Francis Susan Elliott's father died when she
was 5 years old and her aunt (Mrs. Moody) raised her (she took
the name of Moody), with whom she lived until her marriage,
but probably was not legally adopted. Darius J. Neal was a
very smart, prosperous business man. With his brother, Dixi,
they were burned out in the Chicago fire, but with the Neal pluck
they started again and prospered. They both were dealers in
wood and coal. In earlier days Darius dealt in cattle in Ne-
braska, at some seasons of the year. The son, Charles, is still in
the wholesale lumber business, in Chicago, 111.
Charles Ames Neal (Darius J., John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel,
etc.), born May 19, 1862, in Chicago, 111., married Melanie Thorn-
ton Norton, born February 20, 1870, in Portland, Me. Their
children:
Elliott Jay b. Dec. 17, 1897.
Kimball Ladd b. July 4, 1900.
Martha A. Neal (John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.), born
June 27, 1828, married Eben S. Thompson, September 14, 1858.
She was a second wife, his first wife being Sarah Hanaford (see
Hanaford), daughter of Winthrop Young Hanaford and Dorcas
Huckins. He had one daughter by the first marriage, Eleanor
Thompson; she married Rev. Nathan Palmeter; he died some
years ago and she lives in Stoneham, Mass. She was educated
at New Hampton, N. H., and is quite interested in woman's
club work; has been president of the Stoneham Club and an
officer of the State Federation.
Susan Maria Neal, born February 12, 1831, lived in Chicago
some years, but at present lives in Stoneham, Mass.
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John Mead Neal (John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.), born
June 23, 1833, married Jane Wadleigh, who was born June 21,
1833. She was a daughter of Stephen Wadleigh and Olive Neal
(Olive Neal, daughter of Joseph Neal of Newmarket, called " Red
Oak Joe" for distinction).
John Mead Neal is a prosperous farmer and lives on the old
Neal farm; he is much interested in raising fancy stock. They
were married November i, i860. John Mead Neal's father,
John Neal, son of "White Oak Joe Neal," married Louis Mead,
daughter of Stephen Mead (who was killed by a log rolled by
John Mead Nkal
JoHX Frank Neal
Wiggin when Weirs Bridge was built). Child of John Mead
Neal and Jane Wadleigh :
Emma Jane b. June 19, 1863; m. June 10, 1897, Clarence
Alberto Clark, b. June 10, 1866. Their children were
Helen Neal b. Feb. 6, 1901; Clarence Henry b. Aug. 6,
1902; Harold John b. April 18, 1906.
Sarah Estella Neal (John, John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel,
etc.) b. Sept, 13, 1864.
John Frank Neal (John, John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel,
etc.) b. Oct. 22, 1867.
Ezra Dixi Neal was born June 21, 1839, and died May 26,
1910 (John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, etc.). He married Lavina
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Smith Leavitt, born January 7, 1871, daughter of Isaac Leavitt
and Sarah Smith (see Leavitt). She died September 22, 1889.
Ezra Dixi Neal was deacon of the First Baptist Church in Chicago
111., for over forty years. Their children:
Edith Leavitt b. Aug. 4, 1875.
Grace Lavina b. April 7, 1878. .
Edith Leavitt Neal (Ezra Dixi, John, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel,
etc.) married Charles H. Perrine, April 29, 1905, a professor in a
Chicago school. Their children:
Judith Grace Perrine b. March 2, 1908.
Dudley Neal Perrine b. Aug." 20, 1914.
Grace Lavina Neal, daughter of Ezra Dixi Neal, married Harry
C. Mills, August II, 1903. Their children:
Harry Neal Mills b. June 10, 1904.
Charles Edward Mills b. Sept. 8, 1906.
Louis Mills b. Sept. 10, 1910.
"Red Oak" Joseph Neal from Newmarket, N. H., tradition
quotes, was a cousin to "White Oak" Joseph Neal of Stratham.
They both came to Meredith previous to 1779.
"Red Oak" Joseph was a Revolutionary soldier and lived in
Epsom or Lee, and received a grant of land for military service
in Meredith, which included the water power of Meredith, where
he operated a grist mill in early days. He married Nancy Per-
kins of Newmarket, N. H. He was born in 1759, and died in
1836. He settled on the Richard Neal farm and is buried on the
farm which later fell to his son, Charles, and is now occupied by
Capt. Charles Dslv'is on the Center Harbor road, in Meredith,
N. H. "Red Oak" Joseph Neal had a daughter who married
James Wadleigh of Meredith.
"Red Oak Joseph" Neal (i 759-1 836) enlisted as a private at
the age of 18, and survived to receive a pension. He served in
Col. Nicholas Oilman's Regiment of Militia, raised to reinforce
the Continental Army.
Betsy (Elisabeth) Neal, daughter of "White Oak Joseph,"
was born September 18, 1795 (Samuel, Samuel, etc.). She
married Richard Neal, son of "Red Oak Joseph" Neal and
wife Abigal, and came from Newcastle, on Great Island, N. H.
Their children:
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Col. Joseph b. 1812; d. June 27, 1879.
Catherine b. 1818; d. May 7, 1875.
Hannah b. April 23, 1821.
Mary E. b. 1824; d. May 5, 1901.
Charles b. 1837; d. June 7, 1892.
Col. Joseph Smith Neal, son of Richard and Betsy Neal, mar-
ried EHsabeth Gordon, born in 18 19; died October 6, 1 88 1. Their
child, Clara Neal, was born in 1846 and died December 30, 1894.
She married George Hilton, who commenced the practice of law
in Meredith, N. H., in 1886, and continued there about a year,
then moved to Paterson, N. J., where she died.
Catherine Neal, daughter of Richard and Betsy Neal, married
Jonathan P. Norris, born in 1808 ; died May 7, 1875. Their child :
Julia Norris b. March 7, 1844; d. Jan. 4, 1890; she m.
David Whicher, b. June i, 1831, d. April 21, 1815. Their
children were Lucy C. d. Jan. 9, 1847, aged 5 months;
Ellen d. Oct. i, 1855, aged 3 years.
Hannah Neal, daughter of Richard and Betsy Neal, married
Joseph M. Bean, December 22, 1853. She was his second wife.
Their child :
Ellen Catherine b. June 30, 1858, in Gilmantown, N. H.;
m. first, Otis Clark of Manchester, N. H.; they had one
daughter, Carlie, who has m. a Healy. Ellen Bean m.
second, Frank Davis of Canterbury, N. H. They had
one daughter, Dorothy Davis.
Mary E. Neal, daughter of Richard and Betsy Neal, married
J. N. True, born 1823, and died in March, 191 2, Their children:
Edward N. b. 1848; d. March 29, 1865.
Mary R. b. June 6, 1852; m. David Ambrose. Their child
was David Edward, b. Dec. 10, 1892; he m. Nov. 1912.
Their children: Adele Victoria Ambrose b. Aug. 18, 1913;
Dorothy Blanchard Ambrose b. Nov. 20, 19 14.
Charles Neal, son of Richard and Betsy Neal, married Georgia
Lambert of Belmont, N. H. Their children:
Abbie b. 1868; d. April 3, 1900; m. James Youngman.
George Richard b. May 20, 1872, in Meredith, N. H.; m.
Oct. II, 1900, at FrankHn, N. H., Ada Maria Eastman,
b. Sept. 13, 1872, in Danbury, N. H. Their children:
Rachel Irene b. Feb. 26, 1902, at FrankHn, N. H.; Charles
Richard b. Jan. 7, 1904, Laconia, N. H.; Robert John b.
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Oct. 3, 1907; d. Dec. 13, 1910, at Allston, Mass.; Fred-
erick Eastman b. March 5, 1909; George Franklyn b.
Aug. 16, 1910. Live in Woburn, Mass., 1915.
Mary Neal was born September 15, 1795 (Joseph, Samuel,
Samuel, etc.) and married Joseph E. Robinson of Portsmouth,
N. H. ; he died in 1854. They at one time tended the Fort Point
Light at Newcastle, N. H. (the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor).
She married, second, Nathaniel Batcheldor and lived at Meredith
Village, N. H., and there died with her sister, Irene Neal Smith.
Joseph Neal, born November 7, 1796 (Joseph, Samuel, Samuel,
etc.), died of consumption. He married Lucy Dow, born May
12, 1804, died October 7, 1854, of dropsy. Their children:
Hannah Jane b. April 9, 1829; d. April 14, 1899, of heart
failure.
William b. Aug. 27, 1830; d. Sept. 18, 1895, killed at Bridge-
water by the cars.
Lydia b. April 15, 1832; d. April 15, 1832, of cancer, at
East Deering.
Smith Lock b. Aug. 2, 1840; d. Jan. 16, 1889, of paralysis.
Hannah Jane Neal, born April 9, 1829 (Joseph, Joseph, Samuel,
Samuel, etc.), married Charles H. Roberts; died August 13, 191 3.
Their child :
Joseph Neal Roberts b. June 13, 1865, at Tamworth,
N. H.; m. Pauline Annie Davidson, in Houston, Tex.;
she d. Dec. 25, 1888. He came to New Hampshire in
1889. Children: Mary Jane Roberts b. Dec. 29, 1890; at
Holderness; Henry Joseph Roberts b. May 22, 1893;
Francis Pauline Roberts b. April 22, 1901; Charles Heze-
kiah Roberts; Dixi Guy Roberts; Arthur Sidney Roberts.
Henry Joseph Roberts entered the Massachusetts Pharmacy
College September 29, 19 14, for a three-year course, at West
Roxbury, Mass.
William Neal, born August 27, 1830 (Joseph, Joseph, Samuel,
Samuel, etc.), was killed by the cars at Bridgewater Crossing,
N. H., September 18, 1895. He married Mary Esther Smith
(Deacon Benjamin Noris Smith, Josiah, Elisha, Joseph), born
June 7, 1842; died Aug. 30, 1892, of measles; they were married
May 6, 1863. Their children :
Arthur Joseph b. March 3, 1864; d. April 12, 1882.
William Howard b. July 5, 1871.
Bertha b. July 8, 1873.
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(William Neal was named for William Lock, his ancestor,
three Williams later.)
William Howard Neal, born July 5, 1871 (Joseph, Joseph,
Samuel, Samuel, etc.), married Lucy M. R. Neal April 28, 1904.
She was born November i, 1872, daughter of James H. John
Neal of Moultonborough, N. H. (see note). Their child:
William Joseph b. Aug. 3, 1905.
William Howard Neal deals and raises fancy blooded stock;
has taken first premiums on stock from coast to coast, and is a
member of the New England Breeders' Association.
Note — Joshua Neell married Abigal Haines March 23, 1720-
21, at Greenland, N. H., ancestors of Lucy Neal,
His Mark
Joshua Moall.
Olive, daughter of Joshua and Abigal (Haines) Neal was born
December 15, 1721, at Stratham, N. H. (Stratham Records).
Walter NeaH married Hannah of Greenland, N. H.,
and died in Tuftonborough, N. H. A son, Joshua Neal, born
June 23, 1756, died November 4, 1840; married Mary Tarlton
of Newcastle, N. H., on June 16, 1776. She was born August
12, 1756; died December 10, 1825. She was a daughter of
Richard Tarlton and Mary Cotton. Mary Cotton's family
lived on Cape Ann.
Joshua Neal served in the Revolution for the defense of Pis-
cataqua Harbor. There were six children; among them was
John Neal, born October 13, 1793: died September 23, 1855;
he married Nabbie Hersey, daughter of Jonathan Hersey of
Wolfeboro, N. H., decendant of William Hersey of Hingham,
Mass., in 1635. She was born September 28, 1789 and died
May 9, 1872. Their child:
jAMEsH.NEALb. Jan. 29, 1835 ;d. Nov. 12, 1906; m. Adeliza
J. Copp, b. April 4, 1835; d. Nov. 19, 1813. Their chil-
dren: John Neal b. March 6, 1863; F. William b. Feb. 11,
1865; J. Newton b. March 9, 1866; Lucy M. R. b. Nov. i,
1872; m. William Howard Neal (Joseph, Joseph, Samuel,
Samuel, Walter, etc.).
Bertha Neal, born July 8, 1873 (William, Joseph, Joseph,
Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.), married Deacon Charles H.
Eaton, of Meredith, N. H., October 27, 1902.
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Lydia A. Neal (Joseph, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.),
born April 15, 1832, and died June 21, 1895. She married,
June 14, 1853, Oilman Whitaker, born June 30, 1827, died June
18,1914. Their child:
Jennie Lydia Whitaker b. Feb. 29, 1856; d. October 14,
1882.
Smith Lock Neal (Joseph, Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter),
born August 2, 1840, died May 6, 1886. He married EHza
Heath, born July 17, 1841, died May 6, 1886. (Smith Lock
Neal was named for his grandmother, her maiden name being
Hannah Lock, and she married Jeremiah Smith, hence Smith
Lock Neal.) (This is as my father told me.) Their children:
Alice E. b. June 29, 1862.
Oeorge Elmer b. July 20, 1864.
Charles Everett b. July 25, 1866.
Franklin Pierce b. May 16, 1870.
Baby Clarence b. May 19, 1873; d. July 20, 1873.
Joseph Warren b. Aug. 8, 1874.
Alice E. Neal, born June 29, 1862 (Smith Lock, Joseph,
Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.), married Frank W. Swain,
June II, 1898. They live in Laconia, N. H.
Oeorge Elmer Neal, born July 20, 1864 (Smith Lock, Joseph,
Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.), married Martha D,
Moore, June 3, 1890. She was born September 9, 1867. They
live in Center Harbor, N. H. He is a prosperous blacksmith.
Charles Everett Neal, born July 25, 1866 (Smith Lock, Joseph,
Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.), lives in Laconia, N. H.
Franklin Pierce Neal, born May 16, 1870 (Smith Lock, Joseph,
Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.), married May 27, 1893,
Nellie M. Davis, born December 31, 1871, died May 12, 1908.
Their children:
Herbert Frank b. July 27, 1894.
Clarence Ermah b. Sept. 24, 1898.
Ralph Davis b. Oct. i, 1900.
Lives in Laconia, N. H.
Joseph Warren Neal, born August 8, 1874 (Smith Lock, Joseph,
Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.), married, December 24,
1898, Laura Bessie Rice; she died October 10, 1900; he married,
second, January 14, 1903, Julia Elisabeth Barlow, born March
11,1883. Their children:
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Arthur Mortimer b. Oct. 14, 1903.
Louise Rae b. July 6, 1907.
Elsie May b. Oct. 20, 1909.
Hazel Dell b. Feb. 10, 1912.
Live near Laconia, N. H.
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APOSTROPHE TO THE PISCATAQUA
[From Rambles about Portsmouth, N._H.]
Through how many rolling ages
Have thy waters, broad and free,
In their grandeur and still beauty
Swept their current to the sea?
Thou hast seen the tangled wildwood,
Where the lonely wigwam rose;
Thou hast echoed the wild war-whoop
When the red men met as foes.
When the pine and oak and maple
Over them their shadows threw,
Then was heard the rippling eddies
Of the glancing birch carroe;
When the wild beasts, unmolested,
With the birds of air roamed free,
And the beaver built his dwelling
Where the mason's art we see.
Say, what didst thou see, O river,
In the centuries gone by?
Saw you the same tangled forest
All along your borders lie?
Did no fair and spreading city
Rise up in that distant day.
With a race whose wealth and honors
From the earth have passed away?
Away in the distant future
Thou still on thy course wilt flow.
When we to our rest are gathered,
And these busy homes laid low:
Through the wrecks of time and changes
Thou unfettered still wilt flow
Through the ages of the future,
As the centuries come and go.
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LAKE WINNESQUAM
By Mary E. (Neal) Hanaford
When the skies are soft, and south winds blow
O'er thy pure bosom, so sweet and low,
Scarce stirring the quivering wavelet's rest,
On the light sleep of the waters' breast;
And the morning shadows come to bathe
Their airy forms in thy bright, cool wave,
I love to ramble, from care set free,
Winnesquam, my own fair lake, by thee.
But lovelier still, when the full moon steals
From her ocean bed, o'er Belknap's hills,
Tinging the shades with a softer light
That clusters around each breezy height.
Till the lake beneath, like a polished glass.
Mirrors the shadows that o'er it pass;
While softly steals o'er meadow and hill
The plaintive chant of the whippoorwill.
Then when the fisher, with rustic oar,
Is pushing his light skiff off the shore.
Or dropping his net along the side
Of some green bank where the minnows glide;
Or when some weary rambler from o'er the lea
Has carelessly come to muse on thee.
To stray over valley and forest glen.
Thou art not lonely, Winnesquam, then.
Often I think, as I fondly gaze
On thee, sweet lake, of my childhood's days;
When in frolic sport I chased the bee
From off the rose by the maple trees;
Or on the emerald turf reclined,
A wreath* of the moss and arbutus twined;
And wish, as along this lovely lake I roam,
That my life were gay as then.
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Smith Neal was born February 16, 1806, and died December
15, 1887 (Joseph, Samuel, Samuel, Walter, etc.). He married
December 2, 1852, Sarah Elisabeth Smith (Nicholas, Deacon
Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas) (see Smiths),
born August 27, 1824, in New Hampton, N. H. Smith Neal
was born in Meredith, N. H., but they moved to Sanbornton,
N. H., in 1855. He was a prosperous farmer, noted for keeping
fine oxen. Buried at Meredith, N. H. Their child:
Mary Elisabeth Neal b. Oct. 2, 1853; m. Jan. i, 1890,
John Parker Hanaford of Chadwick, 111. (see Hanafords).
She has been much interested in club work for some years
and is a member of the Chicago Chapter, Daughters of
American Revolution; the Chicago Chapter, Colony of
New England Women ; the National Geographical Society
of Washington, D. C, and the New England Genealogical
Historical Society of Boston, Mass. Thev live in Rock-
ford, 111.
Irene Neal was born September 26, 1813, and died June 20,
1902. She married Charles Smith and lived in Meredith, N. H.,
and is there buried.
HALEY
History states the name of Haley is derived from hay and lea, or a hay-field.
Fairbairn, on crests, states the crest of the Haleys of Shropshire, or Salop,
Eng., one of the westernmost counties, bordering on Wales, where it is thought,
this branch of Haleys came from.
Coat of arms, or, on a cross azure, a cinquefoil between four marcles of the
field. Crest, on a crescent argent, a cross patonce gules.
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HALEY
From J. W. Haley's Memoranda
The Haley family were early settlers of Kittery and
Biddeford, Me.
Andrew Haley was extensively engaged in fisheries at the Isles
of Shoals, and for him was named "Haley's Island." He was a
man of wealth and social standing and was know^n as "King of
the Shoals." He lived in the part of Kittery known as Spruce
Creek; tradition states he owned a tract of land one mile square,
where he lived about 1684. He married Deborah, daughter of
Gowan (Smith) Wilson, and they had six children, among them
Andrew, Jr., born July 25, 1697; he married Elisabeth, daughter of
Humphrey Scammon. July 15, 1697, they settled on the Haley
homestead. They had seven children, among them Andrew, 3d,
born January 22, 1700. He married Mary Briar of Kittery, Me.,
August 7, 1727; died in 1775. He received his father's home-
stead. They had six children, among them Elisabeth Haley.
She married Samuel Neal of Stratham, N. H., February 7, 1754.
LOCH
Arms, or, a saltire engr, sa, between two swans naiant in fess, in lochs undy
ppr, a bordure vert. Crest, a swan, with wings addorsed, devouring a perch,
ppr. Supporters, a tartar cavalry, soldier, in profile, habited, accoutred and
holding in the exterior hand a musket all ppr, and on the sinister side a Matabele
Zulu in profile, holding with the exterior hand three assagais, in bend, sinister,
surmounted by a native shield, all ppr.
Motto, Assiduitate non dessdia (By assiduity, not by sloth).
Lineage, Richard Loch, of Edinburg, 1492, had as issue two sons, William
and Edward. A descendant through the Johns and James, George, was
James M. P. for St. Germains and the Northern Burghs, Governor of Forth,
and Clyde Canals, born 1780.
LOCK
From The New England Historical Genealogical
Register
(From the Historical account of the Lock Family of England).
William Lock (Lock, Lok, or Loke) had two sons: John,
who died without children, in 1519, and Thomas, citizen and
mercer of London, who died in 1507 ; his wife was Joanna Wilcock
of Rothersam, York; she died in 1512, and was buried with her
husband in Mercer chapel; they had one son. Sir William Lock,
knight and alderman of London, who was born about i486, as
he was admitted to the freedom of London; at the time of his
apprenticeship in 1507, he succeeded to his father's business and
estate and became an eminent tradesman and citizen. He re-
ceived the royal appointment of mercer to King Henry VHI, with
whom he was a favorite.
In the twenty-fifth year of Henry VII Ls reign, William Lock
undertook to go over to Dunkirk and pull down the Pope's bull,
which had been posted up as a curse to the King and Kingdom;
for this exploit the King granted him a freehold of 100 pounds
per annum, dubbed him knight and made him one of the gentle-
men of his privy chamber.
The crest given by Burke to the Lock's probably symbolizes
the upholding of the Protestant pulpit; the crest was "a hand
holding up a cushion." There are records in existence showing
material furnished by him to the royal household, including
Queen Anne Boleyn and the princess, afterward Queen Elisabeth.
Sir W^illiam Lock married four wives : Alice, in 1522 ; Catherine,
daughter of William Cook of Salisbury, who had eleven children,
and died in 1537; Eleanor, widow of Weaker Marsh, who died in
1546, no children; and Elisabeth, widow of Robert Meredith,
citizen and mercer of London, no children. Sir William Lock
died, aged sixty-four years, August 24, 1550. Sir William Lock, by
his first wife, the ninth child was Elisabeth, who married Richard
Candeler; their daughter, Elisabeth, married Fernando Richard-
son, who was called groom of the privy chamber to Queen Mary,
about 1541. Sir William Lock, by second wife, Catherine Cook,
had eleven children, the last child being John Lock. Sir William
Il8 FAMILY RECORDS
had a brother, Michael Lock, who in the fourth generation
descended from him was John the Philosopher.
John Lock (i 632-1 704), the Philosopher, son of John Lock,
born August 29, 1632, at Wrington, Somerset, about ten miles
from Bristol, had one brother, Thomas, born August 9, 1637.
He was a celebrated writer, later studied medicine; he was a
shareholder in a company to settle the Bahamas.
John Lock (i 606-1 660) had two sons, Thomas and John (the
Philosopher). He married Agnes Keene (1597), second wife.
John Lock died February 13, 1660, leaving his property to John
and Thomas who soon died, and John inherited it all.
LOCKE
From Pioneers Massachusetts Bay Colony
William Lock came to Watertown, Mass., in the Planter,
May 22, 1634, when six years old, with his kinsman, Nickelson
Davis, from London. William Lock was born December 13,
1628. Mr. Davis settled at Woburn, Mass., and there brought
up the orphan boy. William Lock bought land of Goodman
Parsons in Boston, Mass., in 165 1.
Middlesex Files state he bought land in Charlestown, Mass.,
and married, November 27, 1655, in Watertown, Mass., Mary,
daughter of William and Margery Clark; she died July 18, 1715.
William Clark of Watertown, 1631, freeman. May 22, 1639,
by wife Margery had Mary, born December 10, 1640; Elisabeth,
born November 26, 1642, and Lydia; then they moved to Woburn;
there Hannah was born February 3, 1646. William Clark died
March 15, 1682; his wife died October 11, 1694. Their daughter,
Mary, married December 27, 1656, William Lock. The children
of Deacon William Lock and Mary Clark:
William b. Jan. 18, 1658.
John b. Aug. i, 1661.
Joseph b. March 8, 1663.
Mary b. Oct. 16, 1666.
Samuel b. Oct. 14, 1669.
Ebenezer b. Jan. 8, 1673.
James b. Nov. 14, 1677.
Elisabeth b. Jan. 4, 1680; m. Samuel Neal of Greenland,
February 28, 1710-11.
William b. June 28, 1684; d. June 16, 1720.
LOCKE 119
Rye was formerly called New Castle, near Sandy Beach.
Among parties that signed a petition were William, Elisha,
James, Joseph, John, William, Jr., and Richard Lock.
Ebenezer, born January 8, 1673 (Dea. William of Woburn,
Mass.), married October 18, 1697, Susanna, daughter of Israel
Walker; they had Ebenezer, born April 28, 1699; his wife died,
and he married Hannah, daughter of David Mead. They had
Samuel, Josiah, Joshua, Nathan, and Hannah, born April 11, 1716.
Ebenezer was wounded on the battlefield, and left while his
father, Dea. William, marched on with the troops. Jonathan,
his son, served on the sea.
Benjamin, born in 1765, was a soldier and settled in Deering,
N. H.
Ebenezer Lock, born in 1734, a Revolutionary soldier, is buried
at East Deering, N. H., also his three sons. He was the first
American to fire upon the Brifish. He was born in Woburn,
Mass., which has been the home of an unbroken line of Locks
since 1650. He was the seventh child of and only surviving
son of Ebenezer and Elisabeth Lock, a grandson of Dea. William,
and great-grandson of William, the orphan boy who came over
in 1634. He was a cousin of John Lock, the Philosopher.
The Granite Monthly, No. 13, 1890, states that Ebenezer mar-
ried Lucy Wood at Woburn, Mass., February 22, 1759.
From Savage
Thomas Lock was born in London, Eng., and married Christian
French, July 26, 1634. They had a son, Capt. John Lock
(Thomas), born in London September 16, 1627, who came to
America, and married in 1652 Elisabeth Berry, daughter of
William Berry of Portsmouth, N. H. He was killed by the
Indians at Rye August 26, 1696. Their children, according to
Savage, were eleven.
Wilham (Capt. John Thomas) of Portsmouth, N. H., ninth
son of Dea. John Lock of Hampton, N. H., married, November
23, 1699, Hannah Knowles. They settled in Rye. Their chil-
dren:
Jonathan b. March. 15, 1702.
William.
Abigal.
Hannah d. young.
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Patience b. 1710. . '
Sarah.
Elijah.
Elisha.
Eliphalet d. young.
Jemina b. Jan. 20, 1721.
Hannah b. 1724; m. Jeremiah Smith, 1754.
Another date, "Hannah y^ dau of W"" & EHsabeth Lock, b
y« i8th Feb^, 1737-8."
History gives an incident of Capt. John Lock, who was one
of four brothers that came from England in 1639. He was son
of Thomas Lock and Christian French, born in London Septem-
ber 16, 1627; came to America; married Elisabeth Berry, daugh-
ter of William Berry of Portsmouth, N. H., was killed by the
Indians August 26, 1696. He located, first, at Dover where he
had a right of land in 1 640. lie was also in Portsmouth, where
he framed the first meeting house built there. He afterward
settled upon Fort Point in Newcastle; later moved to "Locks
Neck" in Rye, where he was killed by Indians while reaping
n his field. Although in the seventieth year of his age at this
time, he made a gallant fight, as by his side lay a broken sickle
(now in the Historical Rooms at Concord, N. H.) and part of
an Indian's nose, which had been clipped from his savage assail-
ant. It is said a few years later one of Captain Lock's sons was
out gunning along tlie beach between Portsmouth and Rye, and
met an Indian who had lost part of his nose. Young Lock
inquired how he lost it. The Indian replied, "Ole Lock, cut of
at Rye." Instantly young Lock raised his gun and killed him,
thus avenging his father's death.
Among residents of Rye (Newcastle) in 1721 was Edward
William, Samuel, James, Frances, Jethro, John, Jr., Joseph.
LOCKE
John Lock of Hampton, N. H., came from Yorkshire, Eng.,
in 1638-44, and settled at Dover, N. H., where he owned a right
of land. He married, about 1652, Elisabeth, daughter of William
Berry, who was probably the first settler in Hampton, N. H.
Jonathan Lock, son of John and Elisabeth (Berry) Lock of Rye,
N. H., was born March 15, 1702, and died January 2, 1774.
He married, March 2, 1727, Sarah Haines of Greenland, N. H.
LOCKE 121
They had twelve children: Sarah, Patience, Jonathan, Mary,
David, Abigal, William, Margaret, Abner, Sarah, Hannah and
John.
John Lock, son of John Lock of Hampton, N. H., was born
April 17, 1677, and died January 22, 1768. He married, Novem-
ber 23, 1699, Hannah Knowles of Hampton, N. H. They had
eleven children: Jonathan, William, Abigal, Hannah, Patience,
Sarah, Elizah, Elisha, Eliphalet, Jemina and Hannah.
J
ROBERT SMITH
Coat of arms, sable a chevron between three griffins sergeant, or, on a chief
of the last, three fleur-de-lys, gules. Crest, a talbot per pale, or and sable, in
the mouth a rose ppr leaved vert.
Among the most useful men in the colonies, were the Smiths. They made,
by hand, all the nails used in the construction of buildings, and nearly every
implement of iron used in the rude life of the pioneers.
A century previous the country people of England were Smiths by occupa-
tion, and took the name for a patronymic.
ROBERT SMITH
The first Smith is Robert Smith, Esq., mayor of Exeter,
Eng., in 1469, who entertained King Edward IV, to whom he
delivered the keys to the city gates, and maces which he
returned to him.
The link between Robert Smith, the mayor, and William
Smith, the mayor in 1533, is vacant, and so the name Smith as
far as known came down to now. Hunting Smiths is a problem ;
the history of the name and race of Smiths has yet to be written,
although several families have partially traced them. So far
the Smiths represent a type, that without them England would
have been sparsely populated. Longfellow sings, "The Smith
a mighty man is he" ; this was true physically as well as socially,
when a Smith sat on the right side of the King.
The old family motto of the Smiths of Exeter, was Semper
fidelis, the motto of the city of Exeter (I) . The arms were proba-
bly granted by Edward IV to Robert Smith, at the time he
presented the sword as some personal acknowledgment of the
good entertainment he (the King) had received, the consideration,
the sum of 100 nobles presented to him, the arms, as used, are to
be found painted on the south wall of Exeter Cathedral under one
of the aisle windows; they are also found in the Middle Temple
Hall, where they were placed on behalf of Nicholas Smith, the
Accountant General to the Court of Chancery in Lord Eldon's
time.
The Smith coat of arms, which has been used by several
branches of the Smith family, with slight variations, is evidence
that the grant was Sir George of Exeter, and the arms were used
by his son, Sir Nicholas of Larkbear. It is stated that the grey-
hound crest, given to Sir Nicholas Smith in the Visitation of
Devon, in 1619, is that of his mother. Miss Walker of Exeter, Eng.,
who was an heiress. Perhaps much of this is tradition, yet we
find it in history.
From English Research
In London Directory there were said to be over fifteen hundred
Smiths. Among this prolific race there are those that have
occupied the Church, the Bar, the Bench, the Army, the Navy,
126 FAMILY RECORDS
Law, Physic, Science, etc. The ancient history of the Smiths is
yet to be written; but they inherit some of England's best blood.
In 1588 history states there was a Smith who distinguished him-
self against the Spanish Armada.
The Register of St. Peter's Church, Sudbury Co., Suffolk, Eng.,
states Robert Smith and Marye Waterbury were married the
ninth daye of August Anno dom 1599."
January i, 1599 (1600), Robert Smith was one of the god-
fathers to baptism of Wilfry Tayer, in the Parish of Thornbury,
in western part of Gloucestershire, a short distance from the river
Severn. It is eleven miles north of Bristol, Eng. This Register
is from 1538 to 1684. Several from this parish came to Braintree,
Mass., and settled there from 1639 to 1668.
A Robert Smith, Esq., was a foremost citizen and draper of
London, who died March 23, 1609, having had issue of eleven sons
and six daughters. Robert, his son, was the father of the first
Baronet of Upton.
There are the Smiths of Worcestershire. A Robert Smith was
buried at Christ Church. Their arms, "a chevron between
three grifhns, on a chief of the laft, three fleur-de-lis gules."
John Smith of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, ironmongers,
April 12, 1612, willed to his son, Robert, his tenement on Bridge
Street, occupied by Richard Hatheway, the baker.
John Smith had a son, Robert, 1611-1706; wife Susanna, 1680.
Robert Smith of Hampton, N. H., 1657, took oath of allegiance,
December 1678. He was born in 161 1, and died in 1706.
In John Smith's will of Southwold, Suffolk, Gentleman, Novem-
ber 4, 1650, proved February 8, 1651, he bequeathes to son,
Robert Smith, among others.
Hester Burnell of the Spittle Midd, widow, March 14, 1663,
with codicil dated May 17, 1664, wills to brother, Robert Smith,
and his wife four pounds each, among other bequests.
From English Archives, Essex File
In will of Elcebeth Combers of Borndwood (Brentwood),
dated August 19, 1633, "I will my body be decentlie buryed at
the discretion of myne executrix, which I have mad choyvhe of
Edward Bretton, and for my goods, I equally denid it to my
tooe children, Robert Smith, and Ellcbeth Smith." Proved Oct.
8, 1634.
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SMITH 127
The first Smith in Boston, Mass., 1638, was Robert Smith; his
children were John, Joseph (Nicholas), Jonathan, Miraba.
Savage claims Robert Smith of Exeter was one of the formers of
Compact of 1639, with Wheelwright.
In will of Hopestile Tilden, Port of Sandwich, Col. Kent,
dated November 19, 1661, gives to grandchildren, Robert and
John Smith, "sons of my late dau Sarah deceased." Robert
had three fourths and John one fourth, of certain goods and
real estate, in Sandwich in the "Isle of Thanet." She made
Robert and John, executors of will.
In brick church, 1 722-1 775, among persons connected was
Robert Smith, baptised October 10, 1731.
In the division of land of early settlers of Exeter, N. H.,
between 1639 and 1643, the division was on the river between
Hiltons (Newmarket) and Rocky Point, which is about south
of Exeter Village, N. H. Robert Smith got three shares of land,
which was six acres, thirty poles. The land was allotted in this
way: a man with a wife and child got three shares; a single man
got less, as an allotment for army service; this land was on the
river road eastward.
Among Hampton, N. H., tax payers in 1709 the paper, "The
Province Ratte," 1709, states Robert Smith "pd tax, 0-11-6
pence."
Nicholas Smith, father of Robert of Exeter, N. H., was in the
French and Indian War June 23, 1710.
Wheelwrights Combination was at Exeter, N. H., in 1639.
"It seems from history they came from Willoughby, the birthplace
of Capt. John Smith, of the Lincolnshire line.
When the town came under Massachusetts government, Sep-
tember 7, 1643, Robert Smith was appointed one of the magis-
trates to end small business at Exeter, N. H,; later moved to
Hampton. He took the oath of allegiance, with many others,
at Hampton, N. H. He was one of the early planters of New
Hampshire.
One Robert Smith signed the Combination with his mark,
June 4, 1639, for a regular government.
A Robert Smith came to New England in boat Virginia,
February 16, 1623, and landed at Elisabeth Cittie.
Robert Smith, age 22 years, born in 1601, came over on the
Providence boat in 1623.
128 FAMILY RECORDS
Robert Smith took oath of allegiance, April 17, 1644, at
Hampton, N. H.; took oath as freeman October 10, 1648.
Among first settlers of Bay of Agawam (Ipswich), 1648, was
Robert Smith.
One Robert Smith settled in Exeter, N. H., 1654, and bought
land of Indian Sachem. He came to Exeter from Boston, Mass.;
took oath of freeman at Exeter July 14, 1657.
Robert Smith was a soldier in King Philip's War February to
May, 1675-1676.
In Hampton, N. H., was a stone, which is now gone, but the
ground is enclosed. It was part of "Meeting House Green,"
the old burying ground. In it was a stone marking the grave of
"Susanna, wife of Robert Smith, who was slain by y® thunder,"
June 12, 1680.
Robert Smith of Hampton, N. H. (tailor by trade) settled
there in 1657. He was born in 161 1, son of John Smith. He
was signer of the Constitution at Exeter, N. H.
From Gleanings in England
Margery Smith of Southwold, Eng., widow, January 24, 1624,
willed among others to "Nicholas, Elisabeth and Francis Smith,
children of my son Nicholas. To my son Roberts children,
Nicholas, Elisabeth, Robert, Thomas, Daniel. To my son
Williams children, Nicholas, Anne Ellen, William, Thomas,
Margaret, John, and Mary," certain articles. (These above all
show the family name.) — From Ipswich Wills.
Robert Smith was member of a church in Leyden, Eng., about
1614.
Sarah Tilden was born in 161 9, and died in 1661. She married
John Smith, and had two sons, Robert and John, who lived in
Sandwich, Eng.; a wool draper.
. Massachusetts Archives
Robert Smith, wine cooper, came to Boston, Mass., in 1637,
with wife and sister, Mary Smith. She married John Scarborough.
Sudbury (Massachusetts) Records, incorporated 1639; Robert
Smith was born May ii, 1654, son of John and Sarah Smith.
Robert Smith of Ipswich, Mass., died in 1674. He had a
daughter, Mary, born October 28, 1658.
SMITH 129
Robert Smith
In September, 1755, the citizens contributed two hundred and
seventy pounds to be divided among six volunteer troopers to go
to Crown Point. The New Hampshire regiment was stationed
at Fort Edward; after the battle at Lake George, under Capt.
Jethro Pearson and Lieut. Nicholas Gilman, five volunteers,
Nathaniel Thing, Eliphalet Giddings, Samuel Conner, Jr.,
Joseph Smith and Robert Smith, the sixth name unknown.
Tradition, through Reuben P. Smith of Jefferson, Iowa, states
that Dea. Christopher Smith of Hampton, N. H., was a lieuten-
ant in the Revolution. He had a son, Benjamin, in service, and
a younger son, later called "Shaving" John, who was very anx-
ious to enlist the next day with the volunteers, but, lacking
suitable breeches, as each one had to furnish their own clothes,
he hesitated. However, his mother told him if he would go out
and shear the black lamb she would make him some, and this
he hastened to do. His mother carded the wool with some white
that night and spun and wove it into cloth and made them up,
and in the morning, he was ready to enlist with the regiment and
fight for his country. He later settled on Beech Hill in New
Hampton, N. H., where he raised his family and was a frugal,
prosperous farmer, and left respected descendants.
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I30 FAMILY RECORDS
HENRY LYMAN SMITH BRANCH
The early emigrants to New England were mostly artisans and
had little learning. They possessed strong characters; the pen
was an awkward instrument to many, but they were industrious,
and helped conquer the wilderness. Among the most industri-
ous were the Smiths, who made all the nails.
Military Service
In the Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. i, page 261, Robert Smith
was first lieutenant; page 333, he was paid for two months'
wages, in Capt. Joseph Parker's Company, July 18, 1776; page
420, he served in Capt. Abijah Smith's Company, September 21,
1776. Vol. 2, page 162, he was lieutenant, in service, 31 days;
page 197, was adjutant, 65 days, in Colonel Nichol's staff;
page 127, he entered as private July 5, 1777; was discharged
July 12, 1777, in Colonel Stickney's Regiment; page 164, he
entered as lieutenant, August 25, was discharged September 25,
1777.
In New Hampton, N. H., August 6, 1784, Robert Smith,
Capt. Elisha Smith, and Nicholas Smith signed a petition to be
appointed justice of the peace.
Nicholas Smith of Exeter, N. H., bought house and land
September 8, 1658.
Nicholas Smith, who settled in Exeter, N. H.; married Mary
; he died June 22, 1673. Their children:
Nathaniel b. June 9, 1660.
Nicholas b. Sept. 3, 1661.
Anne b. Feb. 8, 1663.
Theopolis b. Feb. 14, 1667.
Nicholas Smith (Nicholas) had a large family, among them a
Nicholas.^ He settled in Brentwood, N. H., and had four sons,
Nicholas, Robert, John, Edward.
Robert Smith (Nicholas,^ Nicholas, ^ Nicholas^). This is the
Robert Smith who moved to New Hampton, N. H.; he is buried
on the Henry L. Smith farm, near Winona, N. H. (formerly called
Fogg's Station). He married Abigal Cass, daughter of Joseph
Cass. They went to New Hampton, in 1779, from Epping, N. H.
(old Hook farm), near the Nottingham line.
Robert Smith was in the Revolution, served as first lieutenant.
SMITH 131
First Generation at New Hampton, N. H.
Robert Smith was born July 10, 1724, and died in 1815. He
married Abigai Cass, born in 1724. Their children:
Dea. Joseph b. March 19, 1760.
Phoeba b. July 24, 1762.
Dea. Nicholas b. July 9, 1764.
Moses b. July 24, 1767.
Dea. Joseph Smith married Elisabeth Marston. Their chil-
dren:
Joseph.
Abigal m. Theodore Hart; they had four children.
Mary.
Nancy m. Whicher.
Susan m. Meader; had two children, Joseph and Deborah.
Elisabeth.
Matilda.
Phoeba m. Whicher; had children, Joseph, David and Daniel.
Phoeba Smith, born in 1762, married William Pike of Mere-
dith, N. H.
Dea. Nicholas Smith (Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas)
married Mary Marston of Meredith, N. H. Their children:
Robert m. Sarah Merrill; had children, Harrison, Eliza,
Dexter, Sarah.
Polly.
Nicholas.
Dr. Jeremiah.
Charlotte m. Joseph Smith; had children, Henry Lyman,
Rufus.
Moses Smith (Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas) died
September 24, 1848, aged 81 years. He married Susannah Mars-
ton of Meredith, N. H.; died June 5, 1845, aged 78 years. Their
children :
Haven.
Moses G. b. Feb. 1808; d. Dec. 4, 1826.
Samuel; had children. Electa, Abel.
Sarah m. a Mead.
Mahala.
Clarissa.
Nancy.
Aseneth.
Jane.
SMITH 133
Phebe P. Smith, born March 7, 1799, was a daughter of Joseph
Smith of New Hampton, N. H., and EHsabeth Marston; married
David Whicher. After the death of Mr. Whicher, in 1835, she
returned to New Hampton, N. H., with her children, and died
there July 20, 1880. She was an aunt to Henry Lyman Smith
of Winona, N. H. They had a daughter, Catherine, who married
a Norris. She had a daughter, who married a Whicher; their
daughter, Ellen, married a Bartlett of Center Harbor, N. H.
Written by Henry Lyman Smith of Winona, N. H., June, 1915
"These facts seem more like a fiction or a romance, than like
anything real," — how three brothers married three sisters.
Robert Smith and his wife, who was Abigal Cass, and their
three sons came, in 1779, from Epping, N. H., to New Hampton,
N. H., to that part'of the town which is now known as Winona,
and commenced a home in the wilderness; here they withstood
the rigors of the climate and the hardships and privations incident
to reclaiming in a dense forest for their abode. In 1777, Reuben
Marston and wife, who was Mary Batcheldor, a descendant of
the Rev. Stephen Batcheldor, first minister of Hampton, N. H.,
with ten children, came from Hampton, N. H., and settled on
what is now known as Marston Hill, in Meredith, a little below
Meredith Center. One of their daughters, Betsy, married
Joseph Smith, one of the Smith brothers, who was a soldier in
the Revolutionary War. Another of their daughters married
Nicholas, a brother of Joseph, and yet another daughter, Susan-
nah, married the third brother, Moses Smith. In the meantime
Robert Smith made of his tract of land, three farms, one for each
son. Here they lived all of their lives within hailing distance, the
three Smith brothers and the three Marston sisters, and shared
together their joys and sorrows, their smiles and tears, hopes
and fears.
On the old homestead is a beautiful little cemetery and within
repose all that is mortal of the three sisters and three brothers,
surrounded by about forty of their descendents.
The sixth generation from Reuben Marston are now living on
the old homestead, likewise on the Smith homestead the sixth
generation reside. The living descendants have placed, in the
center of the cemetery, a marble stone, on which is inscribed
names of the Smith family, commencing with the Robert Smith,
and the names all back to 1638.
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FAMILY RECORDS
This is no fiction, unique as it may seem. Oblivion hides
much.
A MEMORIAL STONE OF THE SMITH FAMILY
1724 Robert 1816
1724 Abigal 1816
his wife abigal cass, dau. of joseph and phoeba
(nASON) CASS, NATIVES OF BRENTWOOD, N. H., CAME TO
NEW HAMPTON, FROM EPPING, TO THIS FARM, IN 1 779.
THEIR CHILDREN
1760 DEACON Joseph 1848
1762 PHOEBA 1857
MD WILLIAM PIKE.
1764 DEACON NICHOLAS 1 823
1767 MOSES 1848
ROBERT SMITH, SON OF NICHOLAS (iv) , SON OF NICHOLAS
(ill), SON OF NICHOLAS (ll), B SEPT 3-1661 , SON OF NICH-
OLAS (l) SON OF ROBERT OF BOSTON MASS, 1638.
"O MAN THOU FEEBLE TENANT OF AN HOUR."
This was erected by Henry Lyman Smith of the sixth genera-
tion from Robert Smith of New Hampton, N. H., on the old
Robert Smith homestead, in the family burying ground.
HENRY LYMAN SMITH LINE
Robert Smith was born July 10, 1724, and died March 13, 1816.
He married Abigal Cass, daughter of Joseph Cass and Phoeba
Nason. They had a son, Dea. Joseph Smith, born March 10,
1760; died November lo, 1848; married Elisabeth Marston, born
June 3, 1763; died June 17, 1827. Their children:
Abigal Smith b. April 28, 1783; d. April 15, 1857; m. a
Hart.
Polly b. Sept. 4, 1784; d. Jan. 26, 1842; m. a Pease; second
a Boynton.
SMITH 135
Nancy b. Dec. 29, 1787; d. April 28, 1818; m. a Whicher,
Susan b. Aug. 19, 1790; d. Sept. 28, 1830; m. a Meader,
Elisabeth b. May 24, 1792; d. Aug. 8, 1809.
Matilda b. Dec. 29, 1796; d, Jan. 20, 1873.
Phoeba P., was born March 7, 1799, and died July 22, 1880; she
married Joseph M. Whicher, born July 13, 1803. Their children:
Joseph Whicher.
David Whicher.
Daniel Whicher.
Joseph Marston Smith was born July 13, 1803 (Dea. Joseph,
Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas, Robert of Boston) and
died October 10, 1861. He married March 16, 1829, Charlotte
Smith, daughter of Dea. Nicholas Smith and Mary Marston;
born February ii, 1801 ; died February 9, 1870. Their children:
RuFUS Smith b. Dec. 30, 1829; d. Feb. 15, 1841.
Henry Lyman b. Oct. 23, 1835 (lives on the old homestead
of Robert Smith, the emigrant) ; m. Mary Elisabeth Brown,
March 30, 1868; she was born in Campton, N. H., March
7, 1848, daughter of William D. Brown and Eliza Smith
(Robert, Nicholas, Dea. Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas,
Nicholas, Nicholas, Robert of Boston). (See Browns.)
Their children were Charlotte Josephine b. July 30, 1870;
d. Jan. 18, 1886. Joseph Henry, b. Dec. 31, 1872; d.
Feb. II, 1873. Joseph William, b. July 27, 1875; m.
Florence Hawkins Oct. i, 1902; their children were Ray-
mond Joseph b. Nov. 18, 1905; d. May 18, 1908; Esther
Florence b. Sept. 15, 1909.
Robert Smith, brother of Nicholas (son of Nicholas, Robert),
born in 1788, married Sarah Merrill (her mother a Marston),
born in 1790; died February 24, 1866. Their children:
Harrison Colby m. Sarah Ann Hawkins.
Elisa b. 1817 ; d. Dec. 26, 1885 ; m. in 1842 WilHam D. Brown
b. 1816; d. July 5, 1889; lived in Campton, N. H.
Sarah Smith, daughter of Nicholas above, married Newell C.
Ladd of Concord, N. H. They had ten children.
Dexter Smith, born in 1819 and died February 5, 1847. He
was a son of Nicholas above.
Elisa Smith (Robert, Nicholas, Dea. Nicholas, Robert, Nich-
olas, Nicholas, Nicholas, Robert of Boston) married William D.
Brown. Their child :
William Harrison Brown b. 1843; m. Sarah Jane Ames, b.
1845.
136 FAMILY RECORDS
Mary Elisabeth Brown married Henry Lyman Smith, 1875.
(See Smiths.)
Nellie Estella Brown was born July 6, 1859, and married John
B. Adams of Laconia, N. H.
Josephine Alima, born February 22, 1853, married Daniel
Batcheldor Whicher. Their children:
Phoeba Mabel m. Harry E. Flanders.
Mary Elisa m. Joseph S. Gordon; live near Portland, Me.;
had four children.
MiNA Josephine m. Carl M. Meader; live in North Haver-
hill, N. H.
I
Milton Joseph \ ,• -77 ^ iv/r
Algie Daniel | ^'^^ ^" Freeport, Me.
The origin of surnames did not exist until after the Norman
Conquest, in 1066.
In the reign of Edward H (A. D. 1307) the surnames were
assumed and settled upon by the common people; they only had
one name in those days. Those names had a meaning, and were
derived from places, objects, a town, a trade, as Smith, a trade.
MARSTON
Prelude — In the manuscript of David Jeffries was found a drawing of the
arms and crest, and below it, in his handwriting, was this inscription: "Mar-
ston of Hemmedhemstead, in the County of Hertford, Anno 1639"; also the
Blazon of the arms; ''Azure, a chevron embattled, or, between three lion's
heads, erased, crowned, or. (Mantled) : Crest; a lion's head, erased, per chevron
azure, and or, crowned, and langued, gules."
The above engraving was found with Admiral John Marston of Philadelphia;
also with Mr. Sanford K. Marston of Onarga, 111., having been brought from
England a few years ago.
Coat of arms— A blue shield, with a chevron of gold, embrasured as battle-
ments, and situated between three golden, crowned lions' heads, broken off.
Crest, a lion's head, same as the others, placed above the escutcheon, open
mouth, and protruding red tongue. Mantled; embellished with scroll work,
foliage and flowers on both sides of the escutcheon.
THE YORKSHIRE ESCUTCHEON
This escutcheon was one of the most honorable, most magnificent and costly
in the whole domain of English heraldry. Every one of its charges are charac-
teristic of royalty, and wrought of gold. The lion is an emblem of Sover-
eignty, and only those who are in some manner connected with the royal
family are permitted to bear it for a charge on their shields; hence this family
must have married with royal blood at some early date. The crowned lion's
head broken off signified that a royal crowned head had fallen, — a royal line
was broken by force of arms, referring to the overthrow and death of King
Harold, at the battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066, by William the Conqueror,
and his allies, of whom was a Marston, titled, and commanding an army corps.
The chevron embattled also suggests war and battles. The blue shield reprer
sents the British Kingdom, and the yellow golden charges point to the Prince of
Orange, who had seized the throne. The mantle is of the most beautiful and
elaborate scroll-work, surmounted by roses. Doubtless this part was added
since the War of the Roses, when Henry VII of Lancaster married Elizabeth
of York, daughter of Edward IV, in 1485, and thus united the two houses.
We presume, on the sinister side, is the Rose gules, for Lancaster; on the dexter
is Rose argent, for York.
Note. — The right and left sides of a shield are the reverse of that of the be-
holder. In heraldry the rose has no stalk.
MARSTON
Marston is derived from mars. History states that " Marssie, "
of the ninth century, had only a surname, which name was con-
ferred on him by the King as a warrior. He was of noble descent:
Commander of an army corps, he came over to England with
William the Conqueror, in 1066, from Germany, and for his mili-
tary service in the capture of England, he was granted large
estates in Yorkshire Co., wherein is situated "Marstons Moor,"
made famous by the memorable battle between the RoyaHsts
and Cromwell, July 2, 1644. These estates still remain in the
possession of the aristocratic descendants of the Marstons.
Yorkshire Co; borders on Scotland, hence some of these descend-
ants married with the Scotch lassies.
In the seventeenth century the Marstons held county con-
ventions or visitations and entered their coat of arms and pedi-
grees for record. John Marston (1575 to 1634), in the reign of
King James, was a famous writer.
William Marston^ of Slauston, in Leicestershire, had a son
William 2 who died at the age of 36 years, in the reign of Queen
Elisabeth.
William,? son of William of Slauston, had two sons, a William^,
born about 1792.
William of Hampton, N. H., was our first American ancestor,
who left England in 1694, with three sons and one daughter. He
was noted for his firm faith, and piety, with the object to serve
God and do right. Most of the descendants inherit and live up
to the example of their forefathers.
William Marston, Sr., patriarch of the Hampton, N- H.,
branch, was born in England, Yorkshire Co., about 1592; came
to Salem, Mass., in 1634 with his family, and two brothers,
Robert and John. In 1636 he received a grant of land, from the
General Court of Massachusetts. In 1638 he went to Winni-
cumet, where, with fifty-five others, he settled on lands granted
them by the court, and called the place Hampton, Norfolk Co.,
after the English home of a part of the settlers, and afterward it
was incorporated by that name. He was a kind, benevolent,
godly man, and a member of the Quakers or Friends church,
and suffered persecution for his religious belief. He died in
140 FAMILY RECORDS
Hampton, N. H., June 30, 1672, aged 80 years. He had five
children, among them was William, Jr., born in England in 1622.
Capt. William Marston, Jr., second son of William, Sr., born
in Yorkshire Co., England, came with his father to America in
1634, thence to Hampton in 1638. He died there January 22,
1703. aged 81 years. He married Rebecca Page October 15,
1652, who was born in 1636. They had eight children ; the fourth
child was Capt. Samuel Marston, born July 8, 1661, who was the
only son that lived to any age.
Capt. Samuel Marston, only living son of William, Jr., born
1663-4, married Sarah Sanborn. She was born February 10,
1666, and died April 17, 1758, They had eleven children:
William, born in 1685, Samuel, Lucy, Stephen, Joseph, Reuben
born September 24, 1696, Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, Mary, Obadiah.
Reuben Marston=* (Capt. Samuel, William, Jr., Wilham, Sr.)
was born at Hampton, N. H., and married Sarah Leavitt, about
1717 and settled in Hampton, N. H., as a farmer and there died.
Their children were, Sarah, Love, Reuben born October 22, 1722,
Eliphatet, Mary, John, Mary.
Reuben Marston, Jr. (Reuben, Sr., Samuel, William, Jr., Wil-
liam, Sr.), was born in Hampton, and married Sarah Batcheldor
March 28, 1745, of Hampton. In 1777 they moved to Meredith^
N. H. He was lieutenant in the second company of Second
Regiment, New Hampshire Troops, in the French war. Sarah
Batcheldor, who married Reuben Marston, Jr., was a daughter of
Stephen,^ Stephen,^ Nathaniel,^ Rev. Stephen Batcheldor, who
helped found Hampton in 1638. Their children:
Reuben b. April 19, 1746.
Sarah b. Oct. 14, 1747.
Jane b. March, 1749.
Stephen b. March i, 1751; d. same year.
Abraham b. June 10, 1752; d. young.
Mary b. Jan. 2, 1759 ; m. Dea. Nicholas Smith. (See Smiths.)
John.
Elisabeth b. 1763; m. Joseph Smith. (See Smiths.)
Jeremiah.
Susan b. July 20, 1767; m. Moses Smith. (See Smiths.)
CAPTAIN ELISHA SMITH BRANCH
'The Glory of Children are Their Fathers, — Proverbs 17:6'
CAPT. ELISHA SMITH
From Massachusetts Archives
November i6, 1776, in a Petition of Massachusetts settlers, at
Harrington, Nova Scotia, filed in Massachusetts, they asked the
"Hon'^'^ Congrefs to see that they had part of the profits of the
Schooner 'Hop,' which they had loaded with Fish & Liver Oyl,
bound for Salem, or Newbray in the Probince of Massachusetts
Bay, to be layed out in provifsions as they were very destitute, ^
and a long Winter Approaching, God only knows what will be-
come of us"; Elisha Smith was one of the Petitioners.
On the back of this Petition the House of Representatives
voted to "return this settlement of Families to Mass to escape
from British tyranny; as they had proved themselves Friends of
the United States of America."
Capt. Elisha Smith
Capt. Elisha Smith of Exeter was a soldier, and was recorded
in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, in Revolution, Vol. 14,
page 390.
Lieut. Elisha Smith from New Salem (Meredith), N. H., was
in service September 9, 1814. — From Reminisences 1812 War.
Capt. Elisha Smith married Sarah Huse. Their children:
Elisha b. Aug. 16, 1777.
Sally b. Oct. 17, 1778.
Hezekiah b. Jan. 3, 1780; d. Feb. 16, 1817.
Ebenezer b. Jan. 7, 1782.
Anna b. Oct. 6, 1783.
Huse b. Oct. 10, 1785.
Molly b. Dec. 14, 1787.
Betsy b. July 17, 1790.
MosES^ b. May 4, 1792; d. Dec. 29, 1877.
Lavina b. March 3, 1794.
Moses Smith^ was born May 4, 1792 and married Hannah
Cram, born May 4, 1790; died December 23, 1815. Their chil-
Hrpn r
dren:
Sally b. Oct. 2, 1816; d. July 30, 1898.
Charles Brooks b. April 18, 1820; d. Feb. 5, 1847.
Elisha b. Oct. 20, 1822; d. March 27, 1845.
144 FAMILY RECORDS
Levi Woodbury was born June ii, 1826; no date of death.
The last letter received from him was dated Honduras, City of
Truxillo. In this letter he stated that twenty-five men of his
acquaintance were in the party and they were going back some
1,500 miles to the gold mines, and that it would be some time
before he could write home, and this is the last ever known of
the party.
Sally B. Smith (Moses, Capt. Elisha, Nicholas) was born Oc-
tober 2, 1816, and married Samuel Cram, June i, 1844. Their
children :
Elisha Smith Cram b. March 9, 1846.
Charles Henry b. April 9, 1849; d. July 29, 1863.
LuciNDA Jane b. June 13, 1854; d. Nov. 10, 1883.
Sarah Smith Cram died July 30, 1898.
Samuel B. Cram died December 27, 1899.
Elisha Smith Cram (Samuel B. Cram and Sally B. Smith)
married Annie Batchelder August 15, 1868; she died September
4, 1875. He married, second, Almena E. Avery, December 24,
1878. They are living in Crossville, Tenn. Their adopted
daughter, Mabel A. Cram, they took when she was thirteen
months old and adopted her September 19, 1882. Her birth
name was Mabel Page ; her mother's maiden name was Bronson.
A List of Captain Elisha Smith's Family
As it appears in Moses Smith's Bible, in the possession of
Elisha S. Cram, formerly of New Hampton, N. H., now of
Crossville, Tenn.
My father, Elisha Smith, born January 2, 1755.
My mother, Sarah Smith, born May 4, 1754.
My mother-in-law, Lydia Smith, born March 3, 1766.
My brother, Elisha Smith, born August 10, 1777.
My sister, Sally Smith, born October 17, 1778.
My brother, Hezekiah Smith, born January 3, 1780.
My brother, Ebenezer Smith, born January 7, 1782.
My sister, Anna Smith, born October 6, 1783.
My brother, Huse Smith, born October 10, 1785.
My sister, Molly Smith, born December 14, 1787.
My sister, Betsy Smith, born July 17, 1790.
My sister, Lavina Smith, born March 3, 1794.
Moses Smith was born July 24, 1767 (Dea. Nicholas, Robert,
SMITH 145
Nicholas) and married Susan Marston, daughter of Reuben
Marston and Sarah Batchelder, born 1759. Their children:
Haven.
Moses G. b. Feb., 1808; d. Dec. 4, 1826; m. Hannah Cram.
Samuel.
Sarah.
Mahala.
Nancy Jane.
ASENETH.
Nicholas Smith
Nicholas Smith married Sarah. Their children:
Ebenezer.
Elisha.
Hezekiah.
Captain Elisha Smith was in the Revolution, and was a
nephew of Robert Smith, the first settler of Smiths in New
Hampton, N. H.
Capt. Elisha Smith was born 1754 and died June 28, 1834.
He married Sarah Huse; she died August 11, 1811, aged 58 years.
He married, second, Mrs. Thyng of Gilford, N. H.
Elisha Smith went to New Hampton, from Brentwood Corner,
and settled at the foot of Beech Hill, in 1834.
He saw service in the Revolution and was mustered May 16,
1777- — Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 2, page 628.
Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. i, page 42, Elisha Smith was a pri-
vate, 8 months, in Col. Jonathan Chase's Regiment. September,
1777, he went to Saratoga, and was discharged October 24, 1777,
135 miles from home.
Vol. I, page 721, Elisha Smith was private in 3d Company;
January i, 1780, was also in Peter Coffins' Company.
He was a son of Capt. Elisha Smith and Sarah Huse.
Ebenezer w^as born January 7, 1782 and died December 30,
1846. He married Abiah Stevens, born October 4, 1792, died
December 13, 1872, She was a daughter of Peter Stevens, born
in Hamstead, England, April 6, 1748; his wife, Molly Pillsbury,
was born in Newburyport, Mass., December i, 1753. Their
children:
JosiAH.
GiLMAN.
Richard.
146 FAMILY RECORDS
Hezekiah.
Betsy b. Feb. 20, 1809; d. Aug. 11, 1865.
Sally m. Daniel Veasy.
Anna.
Relief Rogers b. June 26, 1813; d. May 21, 1878; m. Noah
Woodman.
Relief Rogers Smith (Ebenezer, Capt. Elisha, Nicholas) mar-
ried Noah Woodman November 26, 1835. He was born March
19, 1809 and died July 25, 1888. Their children :
John H. Woodman b. March 30, 1837; d. young.
Mary Abiah b. July 6, 1843; m. George C. Lawrence.
Sarah Francis b. Jan. i, 1846; m. Noah Ward, Feb. 4, 1865.
Clara Ann b. Dec. 5, 1853.
Clara Ann Woodman (Relief R. Smith, Ebenezer, Capt. Elisha,
Nicholas) married Albert Sumner Hawkins, a son of Benjamin
Hawkins of Center Harbor, N. H., December 25, 1872. Their
children :
Elmer W. b. Sept. 16, 1874; d. Dec. 18, il
Florence E. b. July 23, 1879; m. Joseph W. Smith (see
Smiths).
Arthur W. b. Aug. 2, 1881; d. Dec. 23, 1901.
Bessie M. b. Jan. 14, 1889; d. May 10, 1894.
George F, Smith was born August 21, 18 14, and died Novem-
ber 18, 1846. He married Ruth Woodman.
Mary Smith was born June 22, 1821, and died April 17, 1853.
She married Taylor.
Ruth C. Smith (Ebenezer, Capt. Elisha, Nicholas) was born
July 6, 1828, and married Richard Shephard, who was born De-
cember 6, 1826, and died September 25, 1864. Their child:
Ella Florence Shephard b. Jan. 14, i860.
Simeon D. Smith (Ebenezer, Capt, Elisha, Nicholas) was born
November 12, 1837, and died February 3, 1885.
Marriages
Elisha Smith married Harper.
Huse Smith married Perkins.
Moses Smith married Hannah Cram.
Anne Smith married Geo. Rand of Lowell, Mass.
Sarah (Sally) married Reuben Smith. They are buried below
SMITH 147
Meredith, N. H., about a mile beside the lake. They are the
grandparents of Reuben Smith of Jefferson, Iowa.
Mary Smith married Sawyer.
Betsy (Elisabeth) Smith (Capt. Elisha, Nicholas) married a
Johnson; second, Sanborn, of Sanbornton, N. H. (See Hill
branch.)
Lavina Smith (Capt. Elisha, Nicholas) married Nicholas Smith,
son of Deacon Nicholas; buried in Plymouth Cemetery, Meredith,
N. H., on the Lewis Cass Smith lot.
Hezekiah Smith married Polly Sinclair. Their son Eben
lived on the Weirs road ; buried on the old home place.
Elisha Smith was buried at the head of Long Pond.
Huse Smith buried in Vermont.
John Huse buried probably at Woodstock, Vt.
Anna Smith and Mary lived in Vermont .
(Sheafe) Shephard
Inscription in St. George at Tombland, in the city of Nor-
wich, Norfolk:
SHEFF THOMAS
1480.
Here are buryed under this ston,
Thomas Sheff and his wyff Marion;
Somtym we warr, as ye now be,
And as we arr, so be schall yee;
Wherefore of your charitie,
Pray for us to the Trinitie.
Obiit (Marion) MCCCCLXXXXHI.
Richard Sheef
37 Hen 8
1545-
William, Richard, Alexander and Thomas Sheafe, had money
willed to them in small amounts.
On Cranbrook Parish Register are names on tombstones,
among them :
1584, Dec. 20, Katherine Sheaffe, filia Richardi.
1587) June 5, Thomas Sheaffe, filius Richardi.
1591, Feb. 20, Anna Sheaffe, filia Richardi, also Mary, William,
Richard, Margaret, Elline, Harmon, sonne of Richarde.
1649, Sept. 22, Richard Sheaffe, son of Richard Sheafife,
husbandman, was born of Katherine Miller, his wife, 22d day
of Sept., 1649.
148 FAMILY RECORDS
1581, Oct. 12, Richard Sheaff, excom plague.
1625, Sepf 14, Richard Sheaffe Sen^
Sampson Sheafe, the son of Edmund, married Mehitable
Sheafe, daughter of Jacob Sheafe, from which American an-
cestors, the famiUes in Portsmouth, N. H., trace their descent.
Mary Sheafe, of Portsmouth, the great-great-granddaughter
of Edmund and Jacob, was the wife of Joseph Willard, president
of Harvard University.
It seems the Shephards were Puritans in the reign of James I,
when the people were struggling for political and religious liberty,
and they sailed for America, where "Savage" states they settled
at Watertown, and later scattered to the north and to the
interior.
They spent the early part of life in the Colony of Massachu-
setts Bay, and there reared families. "A Brief History of the
Shephard Family" by William Albert Shephard, contains the
Coat of Arms and an interesting story of the life of George
Albert Shephard, second son of John Shephard, born June 28,
1792, at Hallowell, Maine.
Among the Friends Records at Vassal borough, Maine, is
Daniel Shephard and Avis, his wife. Among their issue is:
Richard Shephard b. June 13, 1781.
In the descendants of Robert Huckins is Melissa Huckins,
daughter of Nathan ^ Huckins of New Hampton, born April 5,
1808, and Sophia S. Kelly, daughter of Wyzeman, and Elisabeth
E. (Hadley), who was born at Rumney, N. H.
Mehssa, born July 8, 1840, married October 29, 1864, Richard
Shephard, son of Richard and Elisabeth (Shephard) of Holder-
ness, farmer, who was born at Holderness July 31, 1818, and
died May i, 1869. She married, second, July 19, 1872, Samuel
Shephard, brother of her deceased husband, of Ashland, farmer,
born at Holderness September 30, 1815, died August 25, 1884.
She married, third, John H. Baker of Dover.
Tradition states that Richard Shephard landed at Portsmouth,
N. H. He was born April 25, 1748, and died March 6, 1825.
He married a Portsmouth woman. Later married Abigal
Folsom, born August 6, 1760, who married first, Israel Oilman
of Tamworth, N. H., and second, Richard Shephard of Holder-
ness.
SMITH 149
Abigal Folsom was daughter of Nathan ^; Jeremiah ^; John -;
John ' Folsom.
Richard Shephard married again Mrs. Nancy (Robinson)
Marston, whose mother was Lavina Marston.
A daughter Eleanor born September 6, 1772, married July 7,
1791 (her cousin) John Shephard, born October 9, 1767.
Their son Samuel Smith Shephard went as a ship carpenter,
from New Bedford, Mass. He was taken sick on the voyage,
and sent back in a boat to Baltimore, where he died and was
buried by the Masons, without any relatives present.
Richard Shephard, son of Samuel Smith Shephard and Lavina
Marston (she was daughter of Josiah ''), was born December 6,
1826, and died September 25, 1864.
Richard ^ Shephard married Ruth Currier Smith, daughter
of Ebenezer and Abiah (Stevens) Smith, born July 6, 1828.
She is living with her daughter, Ella Shephard, in Exeter, N. H.
(See Smiths.)
Tradition states that one English Shephard married an Agnes
Glass in England of a wealthy family. He was a British general.
Probably the father of John Shephard.
REUBEN P. SMITH BRANCH
OUR GRANITE LAND
By H. H. Metcalf
Lift up your heads, O mountains
O silver lakes, shine bright !
Send forth your streams, O fountains
In crystalline delight!
Proclaim the beauty of our Granite Land,
Decked by a thousand charms on every hand!
REUBEN P. SMITH BRANCH
At the time of Governor Winthrop's arrival in New England,
the Mother Country was overpopulated ; many people finding it
difficult to make a living. Labor troubles were frequetit, which
caused a feeling to get to a place where there was more freedom,
and many heard of the opportunity to rescue themselves, and to
secure land in New England. Some emigrated to this country.
The ship money tax levied in 1635-7, which many were unable
to pay, caused them to "flee to a land beyond the sea. "
From English Research, (Shows Family Names brought
Down.)
William Pynchon, in his will of Wrasbury, alias Wyrardis-
bury. County Bucks, gentleman, dated October 4, 1662, wills
to children of my son, Master Henry Smith, and to his son,
Elisha, twenty pounds, and to each of other children in New
England.
Master Henry Smith married Anne Pynchon.
Elisabeth Kent, of Sunning, Berks, in her will, dated September
16, 1679, gave her cousin, Christopher Smith, of London, gold
wyer drawer, five pounds.
Early Settlers
Henry Smith, with his sons, John, Henry, Daniel, Judith, and
daughter Elisabeth, all came over to Hingham, Mass., in 1638,
on the boat Diligent, from Norfolk, England; whence Henry
Smith, his sons Henry and Daniel and daughter Elisabeth, moved
to Rehoboth, about 1643.
Lieut. John Smith, "called the cooper," son of John Smith, of
Martha's Vineyard, married, February 26, 1667, Huldah Hussey,
died 1708; they had eleven children.
A Christopher Smith, born December 12, 1677, died August
16, 1701.
Elisha Smith, called Lieutenant, a farmer, born 1685, married
Abigal, daughter of John Marston.
John Smith was born 1695, and died 1739. He married Rebecca
Marston; she died 1654.
154 FAMILY RECORDS
State Papers by Batchelder (Vol. 31)
In will, 1909, of John Smith, of Hampton, N. H., he gives
Elisha, John, Philip (wife Hulday), son Samuel, daughters
Hulday, Abigal, and Mary, certain articles.
John Smith, son of Henry Smith, of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.,
had a son John, who sold his interest in land there and moved to
Hampton, N. H. A son, John Smith, had the title of Captain,
this Capt. John had a son Benjamin Smith, who married, March
23, 1727, Mary Hobbs. They lived in North Hampton, N. H.,
and had eight children, among them a son Christopher, who was
born October ii, 1736, married Mary Page, and died December
7, 1 8 14. History states that Christopher Smith followed the
sea, and had a vessel chartered to fight the British ; he was taken
prisoner, and went to Halifax, but was released. Christopher
Smith had a sister who married a Moulton, who secured a grant
of land, and called it Moultonborough, up in the state. Tradi-
tion states that this Moulton tired of his wife, when she advanced
in life, and he, having had smallpox early in life, took his wife to a
place and exposed her to smallpox, he not being afraid of it. She
took the disease, and died from it; he then married a younger
woman. Tradition gives the item that Whittier's poem, "The
New Wife and the Old," is said to be based on this incident of
Moulton.
THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Dark the halls, and cold the feast,
All is over, — all is done.
Twain of yesterday are one!
Autumn in the arms of May;
"Yet," she sighs, "he loves me well,
More than these calm lips will tell
And I bless him though he be
Hard and stern to all save me."
. . Ha! — that start of horror— Why
That wild stare and wilder cry.
Full of terror, full of pain?
Is there madness in her brain?
Hark! that gasping, hoarse and low,
"Spare me, — spare me — let me go!"
Ah! the dead wife's voice she knows — •
That cold hand, whose pressure froze.
"Wake thee! wake thee!" Lo, his eyes
Open with a dull surprise.
SMITH 155
" Nay, my dearest, why this fear? "
"Hush!" she saith, "the dead is here. "
And as o'er the past he thinketh,
From his young wife's arms he shrinketh;
He alone in prayerless pride •
Meets the dark past at her side. ■ ' .
Ah, the dead, the unforgot!
From their solemn homes of thought,
Or in love or sad rebuke.
Back upon the living look.
And the tenderest ones and weakest,
Who their wrongs have borne the meekest.
Lifting from those dark, still places.
Sweet and sad-remembered faces
O'er the guilty hearts behind
An unwitting triumph find.
Within the original Hmits of Providence, R. I., as first laid out,
a short distance west of Scott's Pond, at head of Narragansett
Bay, is where Deacon Christopher Smith and others, made a
settlement and became Quakers, in connection with Richard
Scott who came to New England with the Hutchinson party on
the Griffin, in 1634.
Richard Scott landed near Boston, Mass., then moved to
Rhode Island. They joined this religious sect to be distinguished
from the Baptists.
Reuben Page Smith (Dea. Christopher, Benjamin, John, John,
John, Henry, first settler) was of Gosport (Isle of Shoals), in 1735,
but belonged in Hampton Falls.
Rev. Origen Smith, and Reuben Page Smith, were the only men
by name of Smith on the Islands since the Islands were discovered
by Capt. John Smith, in 1614.
This Reuben P. Smith married Sarah Huse, oldest daughter
of Capt. Elisha Smith of New Hampton, N. H. He is buried
about a mile below Meredith, on the Neck road, beside the lake
on his old farm.
A son, Christopher Smith (Reuben, Dea. Christopher, Ben-
jamin, John, John, John, Henry), married a daughter of Stephen
Giddings of Newburyport, Mass.; saw service in the Revolution,
was a Sergeant, October 28, 1776, in Col. Jonathan Chase's
Regiment of Militia; helped to reinforce the army at Ticonderoga,
N. Y. (See Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 4, page 108.)
156 FAMILY RECORDS
This Christopher Smith moved to Campton, N. H., in 1785,
and was a cooper by trade. He followed the sea in early life.
Christopher Smith had a sister, Sarah Smith, who married
Isaac Leavitt, son of Dudley Leavitt, the astronomer, mathema-
tician, and almanac maker.
Christopher Smith was first lieutenant in 3d Company, in 3d
Regiment of Militia, in the Colony of New Hampshire. (See
Leavitts.) His son, Reuben Page Smith (Christopher, Reuben,
Dea. Christopher, Benjamin, John, John, John, Henry) born
September 2"], 1846, in Campton, N. H., married Martha Ermina
Mitchell, born in Campton, N. H., July 26, 1849. He served
in the war of the Rebellion. Their children:
Lewis Smith b. Jan. 31 1869, in Campton, N. H.; m. Mrs.
Catherine George, May 7, 1906. They live in Dubuque,
Iowa.
Perley B. Smith b. Dec. 6, 1876, in Grant Township, Iowa;
m. Edna May Enos, Oct. 4, 1906; live on the home place.
Kate Ermina Smith b. March 12, 1892, is an able respected
teacher in Iowa.
John Smith, up over Beech Hill in New Hampton, N. H., called
"Shaving John," was a brother of Reuben Smith, son of Dea.
Christopher. "Shaving John," so called, married a Drake;
they came from Hampton, N. H. The reason he was called
"Shaving John, " to distinguish him from other John Smiths, was
because he showed his frugality by measuring his stock of meat
for the season; he put wood shavings in between the layers of
pork, so that so much must last until Candlemas day, which
showed his good sense in caring for his family, that their stock of
meat should not become exhausted. How many of us of this
generation look out as closely to provide for a rainy day?
Reuben Smith's wife, Sally (Smith), was Capt. Elisha's oldest
daughter. She was sister to Ebenezer (Mrs. Ruth Shephard's
father), Moses Smith, and Lavina Smith (who married Nicholas
Smith).
Reuben Smith had a son John, who married a Badger. She
had a daughter who married an Adams and lives in Plymouth,
N. H.
FRANK PERCY SMITH BRANCH
THE LAKE-SIDE
By John Greejileaf Whittier
The shadows round the inland sea
Are deepening into night;
Slow up the slopes of Ossipee
They chase the lessening light.
Tired of the long day's blinding heat,
I rest my languid eye,
Winnepesaukee, where, cool and sweet, -
Thy sunset waters lie. . .. -.
So seemed it when yon Red Hills crown,
Of old the Indian trod.
And through the sunset air, looked down
Upon the "Smile of God."
To him of light and shade the laws
No foreign sceptic taught:
Their living and eternal cause
His truer instinct sought.
FRANK PERCY SMITH BRANCH
Captain Elisha Smith (Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas) was
born May 2, 1755, and married Sarah Huse, who was born May,
1754. Died August 14, 1811.
Their son Hezekiah Smith married Polly Sinclair. He was
born February 2, 1780. Their children:
Mary M. b. Jan. 27, 1802. %
Ebenezer H. b. April 7, 1804.
Moses B. b. Dec. 27, 1805.
Moody Huse b. Sept. 30, 1807; d. Dec. 19, 1888.
Sally Huse b. Sept. i, 1809.
Thomas M. b. April 11, 181 1.
Nancy P. b. April 30, 1813.
Lavina b. June 19, 1815.
Eliza b. March 16, 1817.
Moody Huse Smith (Hezekiah, Capt. Elisha, Nicholas, Nich-
olas, Nicholas) married Caroline Warner, May 15, 1839. Their
children :
Augustus M. b. May 26, 1840; d. June i, 1900; m. Laurelia
Clifton, Nov. 18, 1864.
Charles B. b. June 15, 1842; d. July 28, 1909; m. Clara H.
Burleigh, Nov. 22, 1880.
William E. b. June 7, 1844.
Francena C. b. April 17, 1846; m. J. Frank Smith, Nov. 6,
1878.
Horace W. b. June 27, 1848; d. March 21, 1897.
M. Elizabeth b. Nov. 3, 1851; m. Joseph Shephard, May
30, 1883.
Frank P. b. Nov. 16, 1852; d. March 6, 1911.
Fred H. b. Feb. 9, 1856; m. Lindie C. Smith, Nov. 21, 1888.
George H. b. April 7, 1857; m. Laura Cram, Dec. 7, 1886.
Carrie E. b. Feb. i, 1861; m. Rolfe L. Smith, March i,
1884.
Ebenezer Smith of Meredith, N. H., was born April 7, 1804,
and died June 18, 1885. He married Sarah Cram, who was born
October 27, 1814, and died November 21, 1873. Their children:
Hanniel p. b. Oct. 18, 1839; d. March 23, 1913.
Simeon P. b. May 2, 1841; d. Nov. 7, 1863.
George Frank b. Nov. 9, 1845.
Mary Ellen b. Aug. 14, 1847.
Flora L. b. May 19, 1851.
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Sarah Luella b. Jan. 21, 1854; d. Feb. 15, 1864.
Jessie T. b. May 14, 1857.
George Frank Smith (Ebenezer) was born November 9, 1845,
and married, April 26, 1876, Charlotte Porter Kent. Their
children :
Frank Percy b. March 10, 1877. .
Marion K. b. June 30, 1878.
Frank Percy Smith (George Frank, Ebenezer) was born in
Meredith, N. H. He married, first, Bertha Pease; second, Vera
Berry.
Marion K. Smith (George Frank, Ebenezer) married Waldron
W. Hodsdon. Their children:
Marshall Sinclair Hodsdon b. Dec. 11, 1901.
Charles Kent b. April 19, 1904.
John Wisley b. Feb. 17, 1906.
Emily Bracket b. Feb., 1908.
Alice Robbins b. May 15, 1913.
HILL
Crest, a horse, current, gu, in mouth of broken spear-head, sa.
12
ON WINNESQUAM
By Clarence H. Pearson
On Winnesquam my light canoe
Drifts idly half the June day through,
The while I look with half-shut eyes
To where the azure of the skies,
Blends with the mountain 's deeper hue.
Or gazing dreamily into
. The waters clear and pure as dew,
I watch the ripples fall and rise
On Winnesquam.
Green are the shores and fair to view.
Content and peace the air imbue,
A low-hung cloud of comfort lies
Upon the waves, and worry dies.
And haunting cares may not pursue
On Winnesquam.
THE HILL BRANCH
November i6, 1776, in a petition of Massachusetts settlers at
Barrington, Nova Scotia, filed in Massachusetts, Archives,
1 776-1777, they asked the "Hon'''*^ Congrefs to see that they
had part of the profits of the Schooner 'Hop,' which they had
loaded with Fish, & Liver Oyl, bound for Salem, or Newbray in
the Province of Mass Bay, to be layed out in provisions, as they
were very destitute; and a long Winter approaching, God only
knows what will become of us." Elisha Smith was one of the
Petitioners. On the back of this petition the House of Repre-
sentatives signed a vote to "return this settlement of families
to Mass., to escape from the British tyranny, as they had proved
themselves Friends of the United States of America."
Captain Elisha Smith
Captain Elisha Smith (Nicholas, Nicholas) was born January
2) 1755. and died June 28, 1834. He married Sarah (Huse),
born May 4, 1754, died August 14, 181 1. Their children:
Elisha b. Aug. 16, 1777; m. Harper.
Sarah Huse b. Oct. 17, 1778; d. Oct. 17, 1867; m. Reuben
Smith, of Campton, N. H.
Hezekiah b. Jan. 3, 1780; m. Polly Sinclair.
Ebenezer b. Jan. 7, 1782; m. Abiah Stevens.
Ann b. Oct. 6, 1783; m. Geo. Rand, of Lowell, Mass.
Huse b. Oct. 10, 1785; m. Perkins.
Molly b. Dec. 14, 1787; m. Sawyer.
Betsy b. July 17, 1790; m. Deacon David Sanborn, San-
bornton.
Moses b. May 4, 1792; m. Hannah Cram.
Lavina b. March 3, 1794; m. Nicholas Smith, New Hamp-
ton, N. H
John B. b. May 30, 1797; d. Oct. 31, 1798.
Elisabeth Smith was born July 17, 1790 (Capt. Elisha, Nich-
olas, Nicholas, Robert) and married, first, John Johnson, a store-
keeper at (Meredith Bridge) Laconia, N. H., second, Deacon
David Sanborn, of Sanbornton, N. H., and had eleven children,
by this marriage. A daughter recorded:
Elisabeth b. Aug. 4, 1822; m. Aaron Hill, Sept. 5, 1846.
Their children were: Charles Kirk b. April 28, 1847; m.
1 64 FAMILY RECORDS
Ruth Hunkins and had two children: Adna Ernest b. Nov.
i6, 1870; m. Ina Johnson b. Oct. 3, 1871; had one son,
Harold b. Nov. 24, 1892; d. Nov. 15, 1914. Waldo Kirk
(Charles Kirk) b. Dec. 18, 1868; m. Frances Pickett; she
was b. Aug. 3, 1871, at Concord, N. H.; had one daughter,
Eveline b. Sept. 28, 1906, at Laconia, N. H.
George Sanborn Hill (Aaron and Elisabeth Hill) was born
August 14, 1851, and died November 25, 1913. He married
Emma Barrett, May, 1873. Their children:
Lucius Everett b. May 6, 1874.
Arthur Sherman b. Feb. 5, 1876.
Clarence b. June, 1878.
Orbut b. Feb. 5, 1880.
• Frank David (Aaron and Elisabeth Hill) was born February
21, 1853, and married Mary Jane Dalton, January i, 1879. She
died in 1914. He married, second, Adelaid M. Young, (see
Barnes and Codman) who was born i860.
Sarah Elisabeth (Aaron Hill and Elisabeth Hill) was born
October 9, 1855, and married January, 1875, George Gladding,
of Washington, Vt.; he died March 29, 1915.
Fred Aaron (Aaron and Elisabeth Hill) was born December
II, i860, and died August 31, 1908. He married, October 15,
1886, Mattie A. Hackett, who was born in 1871, in Vergen, Vt.
One son:
Forrest Hill b. May 16, 1892, at East Tilton, N. H.
Mary Angle (Aaron and Elisabeth Hill) had two children.
Frank David Hill lives on the "Boulevard," near Mohawk
Point, in East Tilton, N. H. He is an experienced Mason, by
trade, as well as fraternally, is a much respected citizen and
farmer.
Tradition states that the name of Hill was "Hemphill," mean-
ing raising hemp on the hills.
Items
Elisha Smith, son of Capt. Elisha, is buried at the head of
Long Pond.
Reuben and Sarah (Huse) Smith are buried in Meredith, beside
the Lake.
Hezekiah, who married Polly Sinclair, is buried beside Lake
Winnipesaukee.
HILL 165
Ebenezer, who married Abiah Stevens, is buried in New Hamp-
ton, N. H.
Ann, who married Geo. Rand, is buried in Lowell, Mass., I
think.
Huse is buried in Vermont.
Molly, who married a Sawyer, is buried in Woodstock, Vt.
Elisabeth, who first, married Johnson, second, Dea. Sanborn,
is buried at Sanbornton Bays churchyard, Sanbornton, N. H.
Moses, who married Hannah Cram, is buried under Beech Hill,
New Hampton, N. H.
Lavina, who married Nicholas Smith, is buried at Plymouth
Cemetery, Meredith, N. H.
John Smith was born in Vermont.
BARNES
Joseph Barnes, son of Thomas, was baptized in 1655, in Con-
necticut.
"Joseph Barns of London in Great Brittain and Mary Knight
of Kittery w"" marry"* 29 Dec"" 1726 in Portsmouth, N. H."
Joseph Barnes of Stafford Town, England, married Barbara
Archedale.
Joseph Barnes of Maine was mustered in 1722 in the Indian
War.
Elisha Barnes, was a native of Massachusetts. He removed
from Heniker, to Washington, N. H., about 1821.
Darius Young Barnes was a son of Joseph Barnes of Merri-
mack, N. H., born February 4, 1831; married Mary Melvina
Codman. (See Codman, Buntin, Hill.)
Adalaid Melvina Barnes, daughter of Darius Y. Barnes, and
Melvina Mary (Codman), was born in Hillsborough, N. H.
Darius Y. Barnes was born at Merrimack, N. H. They moved
to Washington, N. H. in 1857, where they raised a family of
five girls :
Lydia Ella b. Dec. 7, 1853; rn. (i) Hiram Oilman, (2)
Charles Wilkins of Minneapolis, Minn.
Ada Irene b. April 26, 1858.
Adalaid Melvina b. March 29, i860. She m. (i) Ben-
jamin C. Young in 1876; lived in Washington, removed to
East Tilton, N. H., in 1888, where he d. in 1906. She
m. (2) Frank David Hill, March i, 1915. They live in
East Tilton, N. H. (See Hills.)
Mary Etta b. Feb. 26, 1862.
Laura L. b. Oct. 7, 1871 ; d. young.
CODMAN
Robert^ Codman, "seaman," Salem, 1637, received land in
Salisbury in 1641. He removed to Hartford, Ct., about 1650;
to Saybrook, 1654; Edgartown, where he died, 1678. His chil-
dren:
Benjamin b. 1641, in Salem.
James b. 1644.
Joseph d. 1678.
Stephen^, mariner in 1678, was a cordwainer, sea-captain.
He married Elisabeth Randall. Their children:
Stephen b. 1675.
Elisabeth m. Joseph Clark.
Robert.
Joseph.
Benjamin b. 26 (28) 1693.
John^ son Stephen^, John^ son John^ married Abigail Asbury
at Haverhill, Mass. Hon. John^ son John^ married Margaret
Russell. He was a merchant in Boston, Mass.
Note. — I fail to find the link between the above and Peter Codman of
Hillsborough but probably the ancestors of Peter.
Peter Codman had a son Gardner Codman, born in Hills-
borough, N. H., June 13, 1812, who married Irene Buntin of
Deering, N. H. She was a sister of John Buntin, who was a tin
pedler in Sanbornton, N. H., for many years (a man strictly
honest). Gardner Codman, who married Irene Buntin, had a
daughter Mary Melvina Codman, born November 20, 1835,
who married Darius Y. Barnes. (See Barnes.)
John Buntin was one of the Americans commited to "Old Mill
Prison," in 1776, on the Brig Dalton, August 6, 1777. Second
Lieutenant Buntin and four others were brought back.
From English Research
In will of Francis Archer, of Bocking, Essex, England,
clothier, dated 25 Nov., 1578, wills to wife tenement occupied
by John Buntinge.
October 6, 1748, "Robert Buntin and son Andrew were taken
at Suncook, by y^ Indians prisoners to Canada. " (See Codmans.)
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LINES READ AT THE "AT HOME" OF MR. AND MRS. F. D. HILL
By Mrs. Harvey Jewett
We're here tonight, dear friends,
Our kindest wishes to extend.
May life for you be happy,
'Till your days on earth shall end.
It means to all of us so much,
In this home once more to meet,
Where sorrow's hand has called us oft,
In winter's cold, and summer's heat.
But sorrow now has hid her face
We're here with joys tonight.
Two of our dearest friends to see,
, And wish them a future bright.
To us this home will be dearer.
Its doors still be open wide.
Our Grangers, be always welcome
Lake Winnesquam's waters beside.
I saw two summer currents.
Flow smoothly to their meeting.
And join their course, with silent force.
In peace each other greeting.
Calm was their course through banks of green,
While dimpling eddies played between.
Such be your gentle motion,
'Till life's last pulse shall beat.
Like summer's beams, and summer's stream,
Float on, in joy, to meet
A calmer sea, where storms shall cease,
A purer sky, where all is peace.
NICHOLAS SMITH BRANCH
'The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can.
And looks the whole world in the face
For he owes not any man.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend
For the lesson thou hast taught.
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought ;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought."
— Longfellow.
NICHOLAS SMITH BRANCH
Gleanings
Nicholas Smith of Theddlethorpe in Lincolnshire, Eng., was
a descendant of Thomas Smith, of Staffordshire, Eng.
Nicholas Smith, aged i8 years, came over in Bona Nova,
1 62 1. He was born in 1603.
In the division of Exeter Uplands, Nicholas Smith was assigned
60 acres, 30 poles, and his name was affixed to the Combination
in 1643.
Among early settlers of Old Norfolk were Essex Robert Smith,
1654, and Nicholas, 1658, of Exeter, N. H.
From the History of Exeter by C. H. Bell
The boundary line between Hampton and Exeter was estab-
lished after much bickering July 10, 1671, by Nicholas Smith,
John Bean, John Young, and John Folsom, Sr.; if any refused
to serve he was fined ten shillings; it seems there was quite a
dispute regarding this territory.
History states Exeter only contains less than a twentieth
part of the land that the Indian Sagamores granted originally.
Newmarket, South Newmarket, Epping, Brentwood, were taken
from the orignal town and called parishes.
The common lands were at the disposal of the inhabitants
of Exeter — no equality at this early settlement of 1639 was
granted, but history states later they gave to each inhabitant
as much as the town saw fit to grant, which created much dis-
satisfaction and finally they gave every man a farm. The main
settlement was near the Squamscot Falls, on west side of the
river.
In 1698 Nicholas Smith was granted 20 acres not far from
Pickpocket mill.
Nicholas Smith
In 1658 Nicholas Smith was one of the Selectmen of Exeter,
N. H.
In King William's War, when the Indians took up the hatchet
with the French of Canada, and most of the attacks were on the
border of Maine and New Hampshire, there was a massacre
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at Oyster River, July i8, 1794, which caused Exeter to furnish
men to range the woods, among these men was Nicholas Smith,
from January 9, to February 6, 1696.
Nicholas Smith was in a scouting party, in 17 10, from Exeter,
under Capt. Nicholas Gilman, with 91 men.
From York, Me., Marriages, — ^Nicholas Smith and Hannah
Hodsdon were married June 25, 1695.
From New Hampshire Records, Vol. H. — November 2, 1696,
on the payroll was Nicholas Smith ; he served from November
4, 1695 to April 2, 1696 from Exeter and Oyster River.
In a letter of Capt. Hills dated July 10, 1697, he states that
Nicholas Smith was killed by the Indians.
Nicholas Smith was born November 12, 1703. His wife
Abigal had a grant of land of 80 acres. They had children, a
son, Nicholas, born May 4, 1729.
Huldah Smith, daughter of John Smith "the cooper" was
born January 2, 1701.
Born in Exeter, Benjamin, son of Nicholas and Mary Smith,
February i, 1702.
An interesting item of Old Kittery, Maine, across from Ports-
mouth, N. H., states Nicholas (Smith) Gowen was nephew of
Mayor Charles Frost of Eliott, about 22 years old; also states
that his father was part of the time called Smith, because the
name Gowen was Scotch for Smith, but when his generation
had families of their own they were recorded in the family name
of Gowen. It is also evidence that the signers of the Kittery
Petition saw service against the French and Indians in the trouble-
some years of 1 689-1 690.
History states there were three Nicholases previous to Robert.
Robert and Nicholas were sons of Nicholas.
Capt. Elisha's father was Nicholas, and Robert his uncle.
September 28, 1707, Nicholas Smith was wounded by the
Indians, but escaped and lived.
Daniel Smith, Jr., married Polly Pickering February 14, 1791.
From Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. i. — Nicholas Smith went to
New York and was mustered by Nicholas Gilman.
Revolutionary Rolls, pp. 451 and 532. — Nicholas Smith was
enlisted 2 months, 1 1 days, as a private in Capt. Daniel Gordon's
Company, March 15, 1777.
Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 4, pp. 21 and 435. — Nicholas Smith
SMITH 173
of Brentwood, was engaged in September 23, discharged Novem-
ber II, 1781, in Col. Reynold's Regiment, under Capt. Joshua
Woodman.
Children of Nicholas Smith :
Nathaniel b. June 9, 1660.
Nicholas b. Sept. 3, 1661; killed by the Indians, July 5,
1697.
Anne b. Feb. 8, 1663.
Theopolis b. Feb. 14, 1667.
Nicholas was Selectman in Exeter in 1658, and died previous
to date of will of his son Nicholas which was February 13, 171 5.
Children of Nicholas Smith (born September 3, 1661):
Richard.
Nathaniel.
Daniel.
Nicholas b. Nov. 12, 1703.
Benjamin.
Edward.
John.
Mary.
Elisabeth.
Patience.
In 1794, at Concord, N. H., Nicholas Smith signed a petition
for the incorporation of the Baptist Society.
Will of Nicholas Smith
In the name of God amen, the 31st day of Dec 1753, I nicholas Smith of
the Parrish of Brintwood, in the Privince of New England yeoman, being
of sound mind and memory thanks be given unto God: but calling to mind
the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once
to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say
Principally and first of all, I give and reccomend my soul unto the hands of
God that gave it; and my body I reccomend to the earth to be burried in
decent christian burial at the discretion of my Extrx hereafter named nothing
doubting but at the General Resurection I shall receive the same again by
the mighty power of God. and as touching worldly estate wherewith it
hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give dismiss and dispose of the
same in the following maner and form.
Imprimus — My will is that my just debts, legacies and funeral charges
shall be paid by my Executrix out of that piece of land which I have lying
on the northeasterly side of the highway near my dwelling house in Brint-
wood, aforesaid, and that my Extrx shall sell so much of said land as shall
be sufficient for that purpose and shall answer that end.
Item, — I give and bequeathe to my beloved wife Susanah Smith, all the
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estate both real and personal, which she brought me, or had when I married
her, and all my stock of Cretours and my household goods and other personal
estate to be hers and at her disposal for ever; and the improvement of my
dwelling house, barn and all my land, except what shall be sold to pay my
debts, legacies and funeral charges as above said, so long as she shall remain
my Widow.
Item, — I give and bequeathe unto my son Nicholas Smith, five shillings
old tenor, I having given him the rest of his portion here to fore.
Item, — I give and bequeathe unto my son Robert Smith, five shillings
old tenor, I having given him the rest of his portion here-to-fore.
Item, — I give and bequeathe unto my sons Edward Smith, and John Smith
all my home place lying on the south-easterly side of the highway and my
dwelling house and barn and all other buildings standing thereon to be equally
divided between them at my said wifes decease, or as soon as she shall marry
again, to be theirs, their heirs and assigns forever.
Item, — I give and bequeathe unto my five daughters viz, Susanah, Anne,
Abigal, Judith, and Mary their heirs and assigns for ever all my land lying
on the northeasterly side of the highway aforesaid which may or shall be left
unsold after my debts and legacies, and funeral charges are paid, to be equally
divided between them immediately after my wifes decease, or upon her marry-
ing again.
Item, — I give and bequeathe unto my son aforesaid, his heirs and assigns
all the other Estate which may be found belonging to me, either in Brintwood,
aforesaid or elsewhere.
Finally — I do constitute, make and ordain my wife Susanah Smith my
sole Execustrix of this my last will and testament, and I do hereby utterly
disallow, revoke and disanul all and every other will and testament by me
made here-to-fore, or expressed to be made, ratifying and confirming this
as my last will and testamint in witness whereoff I have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the day and year above written.
(Signed) Nicholas Smith.
Witnesses
Daniel Thing
Samuel Gilman
Samuel Folsom
Nicholas Smith
April 12, 1725, Nicholas Smith was granted 30 acres of land
by the committee, in another part of Exeter, N. H. -
Nicholas Smith married Mary Beebe, July 30, 1773.
Nicholas Smith, and Andrew Neal, and others, petitioned, at
New Hampton, N. H., in 1784.
Nicholas Smith had children:
Ebenezer.
Richard.
George.
Anna.
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Elisha.
Mary.
Hezekiah.
Nicholas.
Judith.
Mehetible.
Moses.
Will of Nicholas Smith, of Brintwood, N. H.
In the name of God amen, this tenth day of March Anno Domini, 1775, I
Nicholas Smith, of Brintwood, N. H. in the state of N. H. and county of
Rockingham, husbandman, although at this time in health of body, and
sound in mind, I consider my mortality and not knowing how soon I may be
deprived of my life or reason, I do make and ordain this my last will and
testamint, in manner as following:
First, I give my sould into the hand of God who gave it and my body I
commit to the dust, to be decently burried at the direction of my Executor
hereafter named and respecting such worldly inheritance as it has pleased
God to bless me in this life, I dispose of it in the following manner, — I will
that my honest debts be paid and my funeral charges, in convenient time,
after my decease, also equally my two sons Ebeneezer Smith, and Hezekiah
Smith, their heirs and assigns, and also such legacies as shall be hereafter
be bequeathed to the persons to be named in this will to be equally paid by
my sons aforesaid out of what is bequeathed to them in this my last will. Also
I give unto my beloved wife Sarah Smith twenty bushells of Indian corn, ten
bushels of rye, to be delivered her yearly and seasonably, two bushels beans,
thirty weight of good flax from the Swingle, two barrels of cider, and what
green sauce she needs, and what turnips, and cabbage for the winter yearly
she needs, likewise the keeping of two cows, winter and summer, and six
sheep, and a gentle good horse beast be found her to ride when she sees fit,
also what apples she pleases to eat or cut and dry for her use, likewise I will
her sufficient good firewood hailed and cut up and brought into her house
seasonably, and suitably cut for her, to suit either her fireplace or oven, as
she shall want it all the above mentioned particulars I will shall be done for
her during her natural life, if she chooses to abide in her present dwelling
house, and if she see fit to live with either of her children elsewhere I will
she shall have the value of what I have above willed her, paid her seasonably
and yearly to make her comfortable, wherever she pleases to live, likewise
i will her the whole use of my northwest corner room, and the liberty of useing
the corner kitchen, and oven when she needs, for washing and baking &c,
and to pass and repass, she or her assistants anywhere she has occasion in the
house, likewise to use as much of the cellar as she needs, and the barn and well,
&c. I will her thirty bushells of potatoes yearly, and that her room and
fireplace, and all appurtenances, be kept in good repair; likewise every charge
of doctoring or nursing, she may need provided and paid as above discribed;
likewise I give my wife all my household goods to be disposed of as she sees
fit, and also two good cows. Also I give unto my sons Elisha Smith, and
Nicho'as Smith, and to my daughters Mary Mudgett, Judith Veazy, and
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Mehetable Labaree, that parcel of land I own in Nottingham, being part of
a 200 acre lot originally belonging to a Daniel Sawyer, to be equally divided
among them, except my sons Hezekiah and Ebeneezer should choose to pay
them the worth of it, if they do I will they viz, Elisha, Nicholas, and my three
daughters, have an equal proportion of the money paid them for the land.
Farther I give my son Nicholas, fifty dollars, and I give my daughters
Mary Mudgett, and Judith Veazy, twentysix dollars each, and my daughters
Mehetible Labaree fortysix dollars to be equally paid them by my two sons
Ebeneezer and Hezekiah, their heirs or assigns, one third part in one year
after my decease, one third in two years and one third in three years except
one or more of them should bring any account against my estate. Also I
give unto my son Ebeneezer, his heirs or assigns the one half number of acres
lieing on the north side of the great road leading from Exeter to Epping,
beginning from the east side of my land joining to land of my son Ebeneezer,
bought of Levi Thing thence keeping the length of said land until it contain
one half except a privelidge of passing and repassing across said land with
sleds or wheels and other necessary things upon proviso of keeping up bars
and fence that may be necessary to be took down in order to pass, likewise
I give him one half of the number of acres of my land on the south side of
the road afore mentioned, excepting nine acres at the northwest end or corner
of my land joining to land of Nicholas Roberson, and Capt York, and on the
afore mentioned road, the half at the southerly part of said land begining
from the Brentwood road and running to land in possession of the Thyngs,
excepting one acre where my house stands, is not to be reckoned in the
division, but half an acre is to be allowed him more for not begining at the
house. Further I give my son Ebeneezer twenty feet of my barn next to the
highway and the one half of what stock I shall leave, not otherwise disposed
of in this my last will. Also I give unto my son Hezekiah Smith, his heirs
or assigns the other half of my land lying on the north side of the great road
afore mentioned with fifty feet of my barn standing on said land being what
is called the old barn, likewise the other half of my land lying on the south
side of the great road, aforesaid joining to the nine acres afore mentioned
and excepted togather with my dwelling house and hoghouse standing on the
premises, upon my son Hezekiah paying to my son Ebeneezer fifty dollars in
one year after my decease, in consideration for said house, likewise i give
my son Hezekiah the one half of what stock, I shall leave, not otherwise
disposed of in this my last will. Also I give my tools, utensils for husbandry,
and whatsoever shall appear not disposed of in this will to my four sons,
before mentioned to be equally divided between them.
Also I give to my son Nicholas Smith my wearing apparell.
Also my will is that either of my children mentioned in this will shall after
my decease make any difficulties concerning the will or evidently appear
unkind toward the other brethern or sisters on account of this my last will,
I give that part which is bequeathed to that son or daughter in this will to
be equally divided among the rest which are peaceably disposed.
Lastly I constitute and appoint Capt York Jr of Brentwood to be sole
Executor of this my last will and testament hereby giving him full power
provided my sons Ebeneezer and Hezekiah, or either of them should neglect
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to pay what is ordered in this will or should not truly perform what I have
ordered to be done for their Mother, to perform the contents of this will,
what is ordered at the expense of either Ebeneezer or Hezekiah or either of
them taking it out of either of them that neglects fulfilling what I have ordered
in this will, and I do hereby disannul all former wills, heretofore made by me,
rattifieing and establishing this to be my last will and testament, the day and
year before written. Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the aforesaid
Nicholas Smith, to be his last will and testamint, in presence of
Nicholas Smith.
Deacon Nicholas Smith was born July 9, 1764, and died
March 16, 1823. He married Mary Marston, who was born
January 2, 1759, and died August 15, 1841. Their children:
Robert b. Oct. 27, 1788; d. Dec. 24, 1857. Sally, wife of
Robert, d. Feb. 24, 1868, aged 76 years.
Polly b. March 13, 1790; d. Oct. 15, 1865.
Nicholas b. March 24, 1794.
Dr. Jeremiah b. March 24, 1796; d. July 9, 1863; Char-
lotte, his wife b. 1810; d. June 2, 1856.
Charlotte b. Feb. 11, 1801.
Deacon Nicholas Smith (Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas,
Thomas) was born July 9, 1764, and married Mary Maston.
Their child :
Nicholas Smith m. Lavina Smith (dau. of Capt. Elisha
Smith), March 3, 1822. She was b. March 3, 1794; d.
April II, 1 87 1. Their children were: Sarah Elisabeth
b. Aug. 24, 1823; d. Aug. 27, 1886; Nicholas Marston
b. Sept. 15, 1825; d. Aug. 6, 1898; Lewis Cass b. April 23,
1829; d. June 26, 1911.
Sarah Elisabeth (Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nich-
olas, Thomas and Lavina Smith) (Capt. Elisha, Nicholas, Nich-
olas) married December 2, 1852, Smith Neal (Joseph, Samuel,
Samuel, Samuel, Walter) who was born February 16, 1606, and
died December 15, 1887. Their children:
Mary Elisabeth b. Oct. 2, 1853; m. John Parker Hana-
ford (Nathaniel Winthrop Young, Benjamin, Peter) Jan.
I, 1890; he was b. Sept. 14, 1853.
Nicholas Marston Smith (Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas, Nich-
olas, Nicholas) was born September 15, 1825, and married
Lydia Kimball of Sandwich, N. H. She was born in 1829
and died June 30, i860. Their children:
13
/■
Nicholas Smith
Nicholas Marston Smith Lewis Cass Smith
Frank Nicholas Smith John Nicholas Marston Smith
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Francis Lydia Smith b. Feb. 15, 1856; d. May 12, 1879;
m. John Parker Hanaford of Wysox, 111., Feb., 1876.
Their child was: Francis Lydia Hanaford b. April 21,
1879. (See Hanafords.)
Nicholas Marston Smith moved to Fairhaven, 111.; married
second, Clara Ferrin, born January 15, 1844, at Bridgewater,
Vt. (daughter of Alfred Ferrin and Nancy (Holt) Ferrin). Their
children :
Ida B. b. Jan. 25, il ^
Frank Marston b. Feb. 8, 1871; lives in North Dakota.
LiLLA M. b. Dec. 17, 1873; lives in North Dakota.
Ida B. was born January 25, 1869, and married Mike Dil-
schneider. They have five children and live in Montana.
Frank Marston was born February 8, 1871, and married
Olivia Alice Carter, of Mohall, N. D. Their children:
John Nicholas Marston b. Oct. 10, 1904.
Ura Elisabeth b. Feb. 16, 1914.
Lilla M. Smith was born December 17, 1873, and married
Thomas Fitzgerald of Marcus, Iowa. Their children:
Lewis Marston Fitzgerald b. Sept. 7, 1903.
Morris Alfred Fitzgerald b. Aug. 10, 1905.
Clara Ann Fitzgerald b. May 7, 1907.
Ida Elisabeth Fitzgerald b. Sept. 25, 1910.
Thomas Franklin Fitzgerald b. July 24, 1912.
» Mary Blanch Fitzgerald b. June 2, 191 5.
Lewis Cass Smith (Nicholas, Dea, Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas,
Nicholas) was born April 23, 1829, in New Hampton, N. H.,
and died at Chadwick, 111., at the home of his niece, Mary E.
(Neal) Hanaford, with whom he had made his home for many
years.
LEWIS CASS
"Thus one by one we pass away
Like flowers that bloom but for a day;
Like flowers that close with early night
To bloom again in heavenly light. "
CASS, CASSE, ALSO CASH
Lewis Cass
General Lewis Cass of Michigan was a descendant of John
Cass and Martha Philbrick, who were married in i66'7, of Hamp-
ton, N. H.
General Lewis Cass married a daughter of Doctor Spencer, in
1794, she was a descendant of Mrs. Martha Brainerd Wilson.
She married, in 1798, Stephen R. Wilson, son of Col. Benjamin
Wilson, an officer in the Revolution.
Hannah Sanborn, born December 12, 1735, married Joseph
Cass, born 1734, the parents of Lewis Cass of Exeter, N. H. She
was a daughter of Nathan Sanborn and Catherine Sattalee, of
Newmarket, N. H., born May 29, 1708. He, Nathan Sanborn,
was son of Ensign John Sanborn, born November 6, 1681;
married in 1701, Sarah Philbrick, born 1683. Ensign John San-
born was the son of Richard Sanborn, born in 1655; he married,
in 1678, Ruth Moulton; this Richard Sanborn was the son of
Lieut. John Sanborn, born in 1620; he married Margaret Moulton
(widow) daughter of Robert Page. Lieut. John, son of John
Sanborn, was born about 1600, and married a daughter of Rev.
Stephen Bacheldor, he born in England about 1561, was ejected
for non-conformity in religion. History states he was ejected to
Holland, later came to America with the Puritans, in the ship
William and Francis, landed in Boston, Mass., June 5, 1632,
settled in Lynn, Mass., where he preached until about seventy
years old; he then moved to Ipswich, thence to Newbury, thence
to Hampton, in 1638.
Lewis Cass, son of Joseph Cass and Hannah Sanborn, was born
in Exeter, attended school there, and later the Academy there
with Webster. He was born October 9, 1782; his ancestors were
among the first settlers of that part of the country. Jonathan
Cass bore a commission in the battle of Lexington, Bunker Hill,
Saratoga, Princeton, Monmouth, and German town. In 1799,
he moved to Marietta, Ohio; later settled at a Shawanoese town
called Wackalomoca, near Janesville, Ohio. Major Cass drew
4,000 acres of land for military service.
Lewis Cass was U. S. Senator from Michigan, in 1845; he spent
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more than fifty years in official life; he was conscientious and
inflexible, pure in public and private life, faithful in friendship,
prompt in business. It is said that to his wisdom the Democratic
party owed a great debt; he was elected President of the Michigan
Historic Society in 1828.
Cass, Philbrick
Thomas Philbrick, 1583-1667, came from Lincolnshire, Eng.,
in 1630, on the ship Arrabella, one of 17 ships that brought Colo-
nists to Massachusetts, in 1636. He was Master of a vessel, and
settled at the corner of Belmont and Lexington Streets, N. W.,
at Watertown, Mass. In 1645, he had a grantee of eight lots,
later sold at Watertown. In 1650 he moved to Hampton, N. H.,
where he died suddenly in 1667. His wife, Elisabeth — ,
died December 19, 1663.
William Sanborn deeded land to him, in Hampton, in May
1647. His sons John 1639, Thomas 1651, settled in Hampton,
N. H. Their daughter Martha Philbrick married John Cass.
In John Cass' will, he mentions children Joseph, Samuel,
Jonathan, Ebenezer, Abigal, Mercy, and Mary.
From New England Genealogical Register "^
Jonathan Cass, son of John Cass, of Exeter, N. H., bore a
commission in the army of the Revolution, which he joined the
day after the battle of Lexington, Mass., in which he continued
until the close of the Revolution. He was in the battle of Bunker
Hill, Saratoga, Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth, and Germantown.
Was afterward appointed Major in army of General Wayne.
An incident of Major Jonathan Cass, at the Exeter Mob in
1786, who had coal black eyes, was very commanding in appear-
ance. It is said he went through between the armed men knock-
ing up their guns and bayonets, and proceeded to the Legislature.
He inquired if President Sullivan would like to be liberated
from the mob? If possible, he replied. Major Jonathan Cass
took him and knocked the guns and bayonets up from all that
were posted around the church, where they were prisoners, and
conducted him safely to his hotel.
Major Jonathan Cass drew 4,000 acres of land for his military
service in Hampton, N. H.
Major Cass was born about 1750, was a blacksmith by trade.
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1 86 FAMILY RECORDS
He served through the Revolution ; after coming out of the army
he worked at his trade, then re-entered into service again.
He married Mary Oilman, of Exeter, N. H. by whom he had
several children, born at Exeter, N. H. They were married
December 20, 1781 ; Mary Oilman was a daughter of Theophilus
and Deborah Oilman. Their children:
Lewis Cass b. Oct. 9, 1782; d. Oct. 9, 1827.
Deborah Webster b. April 16, 1784.
Oeorge b. Jan. 25, 1786; d. 1873.
Charles Lee b. Aug. 15, 1787; d. 1842.
PoLLy b. Aug. 12, 1788.
John Jay b. Feb. 28, 1791 ; d. April 29, 1782.
John Cass of Hampton, N. H., was a Quaker, August 30, 1730.
John Cass of Hampton, N. H., bought a house of W. English, in
1652, married Martha Philbrick, daughter of Thomas and Elisa-
beth Philbrick, in 1667. They had a son Joseph, who married
Phoeba Nason, November 28, 1720, both of Hampton. The
date of their marriage is to be found in her own handwriting, in
the record of Rev. Theo Cotton.
The Nason Family came from Bainsford County England, in
1648, settled first in Maine, where one was killed by the Indians.
The Nason Family lived in Exeter, on the south road toward the
Kensington line. The daughter of Joseph Cass and Phoeba
(Nason) ^Abigal Cass, married Robert Smith (see Smiths) of
Brentwood, N. H.; later they moved to New Hampton, N. H.,
and settled on the farm now owned by Henry Lyman Smith, near
Winona Station, N. H.
Dr. Jeremiah Smith (Deacon Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas,
Nicholas, Nicholas) was born March 24, 1796, ,and married
Charlotte Smith, November 3, 1853. Their children:
William Prescott Smith b. 1826; d.
Henry.
Francis Ann b. 1833; d. 1907; m. William Fogg. Their
children were: Clara, Edwin, Susan Fogg.
Charles Darwin b. 1838; d. 1912.
Frank.
William Prescott Smith was born in 1826 (Dr. Jeremiah, Dea.
Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas, Thomas) and
married Mary Jane Bartlett, born 1828, married November 3,
1853. She was a descendant of Dudley Leavitt, and the
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Dudleys and Bartletts (see their genealogy) ; daughter of Joseph
Bartlett and Elisabeth Leavitt.
Dudley Leavitt, and wife, Judith Glidden, had a daughter
Elisabeth, who married Joseph Bartlett. He was a carpenter
by trade; he built the Isaac Leavitt house on the old farm. They
had a daughter Mary Jane Bartlett, who married William Pres-
cott Smith. (See Smiths.) They moved to Salem, 111. Both were
fine musicians; he taught singing school for some years in winter.
They went west in 1866. William Prescott Smith, of Salem, 111.,
paid for his first farm wagon, teaching singing school, in winter.
Children of William Prescott Smith and Mary Jane Bartlett:
Charles Harvey b. 1855; d. July 10, 1856.
Charlotte Elisabeth b. Jan. 30, 1858.
Leonora Leavitt b. 1861. (See Plummer.)
WiLBERT H. b. Aug. 15, 1869, in Salem Township, III.
Charlotte Elisabeth Smith was born January 30, 1858, and
lives in Oregon. She married Henry S. Puterbaugh, October 14,
1879. Their children:
Edith Bartlett Puterbaugh b. Aug. 10, if
Ethel Sword Puterbaugh b. Aug. 21, 1881.
Lenore Grace Puterbaugh b. March 16, i<
Helen Leavitt Puterbaugh b. Jan. 16, 1887.
Walter Henry Puterbaugh b. July 6, 1889.
WiNNiFRED Audrey Puterbaugh b. July 6, 1889.
Lois Margaret Puterbaugh b. Jan 3, 1896.
Edith Bartlett Puterbaugh (Charlotte Elisabeth Smith and
Henry S. Puterbaugh) married Emory Hinshaw, December 19,
1 901. Their children:
Mildred Elisabeth Hinshaw b. Oct. 28, 1902.
Walter Emory Hinshaw b. April 25, 1905.
Florence Edith Hinshaw b. June 28, 1909.
Alice Lenore Hinshaw b. Sept. 8, 1912.
Ethel Sword Puterbaugh (Charlotte, Elisabeth (Smith)
Puterbaugh, and Henry S. Puterbaugh) married Ernest Robert
Miller, October 12, 1912. Their child:
Helen Charlotte Miller b. Dec. 16, 1913.
Lenore Grace Puterbaugh (Charlotte Elisabeth (Smith)
Puterbaugh and Henry S. Puterbaugh) married George C. Dixon,
November 16, 1907. Their children:
Katherine Bethea Dixon b. April 24, 1909.
John Dixon b. Sept. 28, 1914.
1 88 FAMILY RECORDS
Winnifred Audrey Puterbaugh (Charlotte, Elisabeth (Smith)
Puterbaugh and Henry S. Puterbaugh) married Harry D. Rhodes,
June 12, 1911.
Helen Leavitt Puterbaugh (Charlotte Elisabeth (Smith)
Puterbaugh and Henry S. Puterbaugh) married George R. Kin-
caid, November 4, 1914.
Leonora Leavitt Smith (William Prescott, Dr. Jeremiah, Dea.
Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas, Thomas) was
born in 1861, and married Daniel Worthen Plumer. (See Plumer.)
Wilbert H. Smith born Aug. 15, 1869 (William Prescott, Dr.
Jeremiah, Dea. Nicholas, Robert, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas,
Thomas) married Loretta M, Weir, born in Salem, 111., July 8,
1874. They were married January 22, 1890. Their children :
Ralph Wilbert b. Jan. 21, 1892.
Raymond William b. Sept. 21, 1894; d. Dec. 14, 1908.
Ruth Edna b. Feb. 16, 1896.
Arthur Leavitt b. Sept. 1 1 , 1899.
Dorothy Lenora b. March 28, 1901.
Robert Clare b. April 18, 1914, at Sunnyside, Washington.
Charles Darwin Smith (Dr. Jeremiah, Dea. Nicholas, Robert,
Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas, Thomas) was born in 1838, and
married in Potosi, Missouri, Eliza E. Wallace, who was born in
1843, and died in 1914. Their children:
Maud b. 1865.
Edward b. 1866.
George Wallace b. 1870; d. 1904.
Mamie Wallace b. 1872.
Charlotte Wallace b. 1878; m. Hugh Lee White.
Ben Blewett b. 1884; m. Marple Woods.
BARTLETT, BARLET, BARTELET, BARTELOT, BARTLAT, BART-
TLED, BARTLET, BARTLIT, BARTLITT, BARTTALELOTT,
BARTTLETT, BAUTLE, BORTLET
Arms, quarterly, first and fourth, sa three sinster gloves, pendent, arg,
tasselled or, for Barttelot, second and third quarterly, per fesse indented arg,
and gu, four crescents, counter indented, arg, and gu, four crescents counter
changed for Stopham.
Crests, a swan, conchant wings endorsed, arg, second a castle with three
turretts sa.
Motto, Mature.
Seat, Stopham House, Pulborough, Sussex.
Lineage, The first of this family, Adam Bartlett (Barttelot) came to England
with William the Conqueror, and seated himself at Ferring, Sussex; in the
family pedigree it is said that he was buried at Stopham, in iioo, where he had
grants of land, and a son William, thence down through the John, Richard,
Adam, John who took the Castle of Fontenay in France, for which the Black
Prince, Edward, gave him a castle as his crest. He died in 1428 leaving a son
John of Stopham, who fought at Agincourt and represented Sussex in Parlia-
ment in 1434, and down through the Richard, Thomas, John, William, Walter,
Henrys, and Walter, high sheriff of Sussex, 1754, who married Elisabeth,
daughter of Thomas Hooker, of Great Chart, Kent. They had a son Walter,
who assumed the name of Smyth in compliance with the will of his great-aunt
Mary Hamilton, daughter of George Smyth. He married Barbara Smyth;
her father was Rector of Petworth and Tillington, Sussex, his wife being co-
heiress of the Osbaldiston estates. She left issue. On the death of his father
he re-assumed the name of Bartlett. He was an officer of the Royal Horse
Artillery, and received a war medal with five clasps for service during the
Peninsular war. He was a descendant of the Right Hon. Sir Walter Barttelot.
BARTLETT
Wiltshire Bartletts
Visitation of Wiltshire, Eng., 1623.
John Bartlett was of Cherton (Cherington), four miles south-
east of Devises; where the wealthier families of Bartletts lived.
John Bartlett married Agnes, daughter of John Benger, of
Alton Co., Wilts.
John Earbusie, of Alford Co., Wilts, issue.
Richard, aged 20, 1623.
Robert.
William.
John.
Anne.
Jane.
Margaret.
Ciciele.
John, son and heir of Alcanings, married Jane, daughter of
Rich Lavington, of Welsford; son William Bartlett, "fil et haer, "
married Elijh, daughter Anthon Goddard, of Cleevepip. An-
thony Bartlett married Jane, daughter of Daniel WTiite of
Knighton. Their children, William, John; his children, Will'm,
aged 7; Elisabeth, aged 3; Jane, aged i.
It has been claimed that Richard and John Bartlett, of New-
bury, Mass., and Thomas of Watertowne, were three brothers —
sons of Edmund Barttelot, of Ernley, who died in 1591, who was
a son of Richard Bartlett, of Stopham, Eng., and they sold their
portion of land in England to make a start in New England.
» Bartletts
The ancestors of the Bartletts came from Normandy, with
William the Conqueror, and fought the battle of Hastings,
Stopham, England, is the ancestral seat of the family.
The Bartletts were among the Wiltshire Colony that came
over on the boat Mary and John, March 24, 1633, and settled at
Newbury, Mass.; among this colony was Richard Bartlett and
family. He died in Newbury, Mass., May 25, 1647.
No colonv in the Province of Alassachusetts had so definite a
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purpose in its settlement as Newbury, Mass.; none furnished men
of more sterling character than this old town.
Newbury was the first stock-raising town in the Province.
Richard Bartlett was probably married about 1610, as their
first child was born in 161 1, in England.
John Bartlett, son of Richard, born in England, 161 3, was one
of the ninety-one Proprietors of Newbury, Mass., of waste and
common land.
Richard (Richard), born 1621, married Abigail , and
died in 1698, leaving six children, one of them John Bartlett, a
tanner, born June 22, 1655, who married Margaret Rust, October
29, 1680; he died May 24, 1736, and left ten children.
Joseph Bartlett, of Plymouth, Mass., married Hannah Pope;
they had seven children; they are all buried on Burial Hill,
Plymouth, Mass.
Joseph Bartlett married, June 5, 1736, Sarah Adams, who was
born September 5, 171 1.
John and Joseph Bartlett sold five acres of land in Stratham,
N. H., in 1773.
John Bartlett sold one acre of land, of Smith's Grant, near
Piscassic River, 1774, in Greenland.
The Committee of Safety, April 12, 1776, made a Resolution,
and requested the Selectmen of Newburyport, Mass., "to desire
all males above twenty-one years of age (Lunaticks, Idiots, and
Negroes, excepted) to sign what was known as the Association
Test, and make returns. The Test was as follows,
"We the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise
that we will to the utmost in our Power, at the Risque of our
Lives and Fortunes, with Arms, oppose the Hostile Proceedings
of the British Fleets, and Armies, against the United American
Colonies."
Among those signing this Test were Jonathan S. Dudley,
Walter Neal, Abraham Parsons, Thomas Hannaford (born 1745),
Josiah Hall Bartlett, Samuel Neal, John Bartlett.
John Bartlett, of Epping, N. H., was sent to Fishkill, N. Y., to
drive Continental teams, 1777.
Joseph Bartlett was mustered September 12, 1777, to go to
Saratoga, N. Y., in Captain Zebulon Gilman's Company, Col.
Stephen Evans' Regiment.
On the pay roll of Capt. Joseph Paine's Company, Col. Senter's
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Regiment, at Newcastle, N. H., No\ember 6, 1775, was Josiah
Hall Bartlett.
A Company of minute men, enlisted by order of Committee
of Safety, November 22, 1775, mustered at Portsmouth, N. H.,
went to Winter Hill; among them was Josiah Hall Bartlett,
Serjeant.
Lieutenant Thomas Bartlett was Major of the Militia, 1775.
Colonel Thomas Bartlett's Regiment served at West Point,
N. Y., from July 4 to October 28, 1780.
Military Service
Joseph Bartlett was in the battle of Bunker Hill, February 23,
1781; he received a pair of snbwshoes at this time, from John
Slafter, for service.
John Bartlett was in the North Company of Militia, of New-
market, N. H.
Marriages
Joseph Bartlett, married, October 28, 1778, Lucy Bradford.
Richard Bartlett married Deborah Thurston, December 15,
1790, in Newfield, N. H.
Passengers, on the "Mary and John" in 1634
"Whereas by a Warr* bearing date, 22 ond of 1634, the sev^'all
ships, following bound for New England, and now lying in the
River of Thames, were made staye of until further order from
their L'opps Viz't; the 'Clement & Job'; the 'Reformation'; the
'True Love'; the 'Elisabeth Bonadventure' ; the 'Sea Flower';
the 'Mary and John'; the 'Planter'; the 'Elisabeth and Dorcas';
the 'Hercules'; and the 'Neptune'; The Masters of ships, gave
bonds of one hundred pounds each, 'That all and every Person
aboard their ships, now bound for New England, as aforesaid,
that shall blaspheme, or profane the Holy name of God, shall be
severely punish 't; 2ond, That they cause the Prayers be said
Morning and Evening, aboard their ships. ' "
Among those on the Mary and John was John Bartlett.
Bartlett
On the Mary and John, the religious leader of this moving
colony was Rev. Thomas Parker; like most of the Pilgrims, he
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194 FAMILY RECORDS
found solace in singing tunes of his own home, while surrounded
by those speaking a foreign tongue.
The daily service on board the vessel was looked forward to
with pleasure. Mr. Parker was stigmatized by one of the Boston
ministers, as being like "a colt who kicked her dam" because he
was averse to bishops, as they had persecuted his father in pre-
vious years.
Among the moving Wiltshire Colony was Richard Bartlett
and family, one of the children of son John.
Richard Bartlett probably married in 1610. In 1612, he pur-
chased a Bible; when this sacred memento was displayed at the
Newbury, Mass., celebration, it showed its daily use on ship
board, and in the churches at Ipswich and Newbury, Mass.
In Coffin's list of grantees, dated 1642, the names of Richard,
John, and Christopher Bartlett appear.
Richard Bartlett died May 25, 1647; a daughter Joane,^ born
January 29, 1610-11, married William Titcomb; probably
Thomas'^ and Anna Bartlett^ were born in England. John-
Bartlett (Richard), born in England, November 9, 1613, came to
New England on the Mary and John boat, March 24, 1633; he
was among the 91 proprietors of Newbury, Mass., December 7,
1642, having proportionate right in all waste lands. John^
Bartlett, and wife Joane, were members of the Church, 1674.
Their child, John, was born 1639; he took the anti-papal oath,
required by the King. He had an only son, Gideon, and daughter
Mary, who married a Rust.
Jane Bartlett, born , married William Bolton (see Boltons),
January 16, 1664-5.
Christopher Bartlett^ (Richard) was born in England, Feb-
ruary 25, 1623-4; he died March 15, 1669-70. He had a daughter
Mary, and a son Christopher,^ who lived in Haverhill, N, H.,
after 1741, who left a son Christopher, and daughters.
Richard Bartlett, ^ (Richard), born in England, October 31,
1 62 1, married Abigal ■ ■; was prominent in church affairs,
under Rev. Parker, who appeared to be a petty-pope in his own
parish. In 1671, Rev, Parker had a majority to act with him,
and secured a judgment in the Court of Ipswich, Mass., in con-
sequence of which Richard Bartlett, and brother-in-law, Wil-
liam Titcomb, were fined four nobles each — 26 shillings, 8 pence —
and John Bartlett, Sr., and John Bartlett Jr., — the brother and
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nephew of Richard Bartlett, each fined 13 shiUings, 4 pence, each
because they would not conform to Rev. Parker's views, but the
respect shown him (Bartlett) in Newbury, Mass., later, was
evidenced by the fact that he was sent as a delegate to the General
Court, for many years, about 1679.
There being some controversy about mill privileges, the town
of Amesbury unanimously voted in 1678, that Richard Bartlett
be granted the privilege to set a sawmill in Haverhill, on the
north meadow river, probably on the site of Peaslee's Mills. He
owned three parcels of upland and meadow, in Amesbury bounds;
300 acres valued at 80 pounds. In items of his inventory were
wearing apparel, woolen and linen, and books (Bible) that his
father bought in 1612, also carpet flax, wool, piece of cloth, yarn,
a "cutlass," which was no doubt the identical cutlass that was
girt by Richard, himself, around the loins of his son Samuel, as
he mounted his horse to hasten to Boston to join in the over-
throw of Andros; this was in April, 1689. This Samuel Bartlett
was the great-grandfather of Bailey Bartlett, of Haverhill, w^ho
accompanied John and Samuel Adams to Philadelphia, in 1776,
when the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed ; Bailey
Bartlett was grandfather of that intrepid hero. Gen. William F.
Bartlett, who left his studies at Harvard, in 1861, to join in
suppressing the Rebellion. When Richard- Bartlett made his
will, he committed his soul, body, and spirit, " into the everlasting
arms of God, all sufficient, my Heavenly Father, " and had "hope
of a happy and glorious resurrection, in the great day of the Man
Christ Jesus." There was no cant in these expressions; their
idea of religion has been expressed by a West of England poet:
. as designed,
To warm, and cheer the human mind
And make men happy, good and wise,
To point where sits in love arrayed
Attendant to each suppHant call,
The God of universal aid —
The God, the father of us all;
The Bartlett family held together, and when the first church
troubles arose, on the broad ground of equal brotherhood, in
heart and voice. After the second church had been formed near
their homes, a mob, in February, 1709, ruthlessly tore it down,
and carried it away; eleven of the Bartlett family signed a peti-
196 FAMILY RECORDS
tion against the removal of this meeting house to Pipe-stave
Hill, namely Richard, Sr., and Jr.; Tertius; John, Sr., and Jr.;
Samuel, Sr., and Jr.; Thomas; Daniel; Nathaniel; Tertius. As
their old church building had been destroyed, they would no
longer consent to pay toward the expense of "the dissenters."
The Governor promptly replied, " favor the views of the
petitioners"; and the Bishop was happy to pray "God prosper
your pious endeavors"; this was in 1712
The Bartletts possessed a violin, and after prayers and collect,
the instrumental music was a correct guide for the voices in time
and tune. Samuel^ Bartlett, son, Richard^, was widely known
as a fine fiddler.
These Wiltshire men had hopes, of the restoration of the Stuarts,
but were disgusted with Charles II.
The Prayer-book of the Bartletts contained a prayer for Queen
Ann, of Denmark, wife of James I (the first of the Stuarts).
When her great-grandmother. Queen Ann, was on the throne, this
first Episcopal Church, at Newbury, Mass., was named in her
honor — Queen Ann's Chapel.
The youngest daughter of Samuel Bartlett married Rev.
Matthais Plant, third rector of this church. He records the
earthquake of October 9, 1727-8 The note says, " it opened a
new spring in the meadow by my fathers, Samuel Bartletts
house,"
The will of Richard Bartlett, Sr., mentions my father Richard
deceased, sons, Richard and John, grand-daughter, Tirza Bart-
lett, daughter of my son Thomas, daughters, Abigal, Hannah, and
Rebecca Bartlett. Will proved July 18, 1698.
The Bartlett Bible and its Record
The copy was of the Breeches style Bible; it belongs to Miss
Elisabeth G. Hoyt, of Chelsea, Mass., in 1885.
On the front margin of the page is "Richard Bartlett, Bought
this book Anno Domyne 1612."
At the end of the Prayer Book is this Record, "I Richard
Bartlett, writ this for the age of my children. "
" Joane Bartlett, borne in January 29, 1610 wensday 8, of the
cloke at nyght.
"John Bart borne, the 9, of november, 1613, a 11, of the clok
in the day.
BARTLETT I 97
"Thomas Bart borne 22, 1615
"Rich Bart was borne October the 31, 1621, wens'^^y mor 3 clok
"Cris Bart, the 25 of febru being y* yeare S, mathais, 1623
between, 12 & i, in the morn
"Anna Bart, was borne the 26, of februarye being sonday,
about 12 of the clocke in the day in the yeare 1625. "
Miss Hoyt states "This Bible came to my fathers mother,
Sally Kennison, the dau of Dolly Bartlett, and Moses Kennison;
Dolly my great grandmother, was a sister of Joseph Bartlett,
who lived in my fathers boyhood, at Bartlett Corner, about half
way between Amesbury Ferry, and 'The Mills.' " Joseph
Bartlett lived on the corner; they descended from the Bartletts,
who originally, in 1635, settled at Bartletts Cove, near the chain
bridge.
Richard^ Bartlett, the immigrant ancestor, was a shoemaker,
born about 1575 in England ; he came to America with six children,
and settled in Newbury, Mass., about 1637. He brought with
him a "Breeches Bible," in which appears the record of births
of his children, Joane (or Joanna), John, Thomas, Richard,
Christopher, and Anne.
Richard^ Bartlett, third son of Richard S was born in England
October 31, 1621. He married Abigal . Their children:
Samuel.
Richard.-
Thomas.
Abigal.
John.
Hannah.
Rebecca.
Richard^ Bartlett, second son of Richard'^ and Abigal Bartlett
was born February 21, 1649, in Newbury, Mass., and died
April 17, 1724. He was a cordwainer and currier by occupation.
He married, November 18, 1673, Hannah Emery, daughter of
John and Mary (Webster) Emery; she was bom April 26, 1654,
and died May i, 1705. Their children:
Hannah.
Richard.
John.
Samuel d. young.
Daniel.
Joseph.
Samuel.
Stephen.
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Thomas and Mary. It is probable he married (2) Mrs. Israel
Dimond. His son, Joseph, was the father of Mary Bartlett who
became the wife of Gov. Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire.
John Bartlett, second son of Richard^ and Hannah Emery,
was born Sept 23, 1678. From 1700 to the death of John (2),
1708, he was called John "Tertius" and after that John (2) or
Jr. He died in 1741. His occupation was a tanner and weaver.
He lived in Newbury, and married, November 18, 1702, Mary
Ordway. Their children were born from 1703-12; later he was
known as John, Sr.
Moses Bartlett, second son and eighth child of John Bartlett
and Mary (Ordway) was born January 2, 1714, in Newbury,
Mass., where he was styled yeoman. He died in 1804. He
married, May 17, 1744, Judith Rogers of Newbury, Mass., who
died between 1771-1800. Their children, all born in Newbury:
Moses.
John.
Judith. ,
Abiel.
Hannah.
Mary.
Humphrey.
Abiel Bartlett, third son and fourth child of Moses and Judith
(Rogers) Bartlett, was born September 16, 1751, in Newbury,
Mass., and settled in Deerfield, N. H., where he received land by
his father's will. He signed the "association test," in Deerfield,
N. H., in 1776 and served as a soldier in that struggle, being a
member of Capt. Simon Marston's Company, and Colonel Joseph
Senter's Regiment; was in service in 1777. He later moved to
Rumney, N. H., where he was a farmer and lumberman, and
later removed to Meredith, N. H., where he lived back in the
field near the present Austin Moulton home (no roads in those
days) and there died. He and wife are buried in an old yard
unkept and will soon be lost to view, above the William Neal
farm where are many early settlers laid, among them Joseph
Neal, called "Red Oak Jo," one of the "Pioneers" of Meredith,
N. H., with nothing to tell their last resting place, and their
graves will soon be lost to the present generation.
On his stone, hard to distinguish, is this: "Sacred to the mem-
ory of Abiel Bartlett, who died Aug. 16, 1816, aged 67. Sacred
BARTLETT I 99
to the memory of Mrs. Maria, wife of Abiel Bartlett, who died
April 2, 1826, aged 76." The children of Abiel Bartlett and
Maria Goodhue:
Abiel.
John.
Joseph.
Moses.
Mary.
Joseph Bartlett, son of Abiel and Maria (Goodhue) Bartlett,
married EHsabeth Leavitt, daughter of Dudley Leavitt the as-
tronomer.
They are buried in the Leavitt burial yard. On the double
stone is this inscription:
BARTLETT
MOTHER FATHER
BETSY JOSEPH BARTLETT
WIFE OF DIED
JOSEPH BARTLETT MCH 8- I 859
D AE 68 YRS. 4 MOS.
MAY 16-1858
AE 62 YRS. ID MOS.
The children of Joseph Bartlett and Elisabeth Leavitt:
(i) Betsy m. Twitchell. They had issue of Helen,
who m. Adelbert Buckingham Bowles of Fitchburg,
Mass. Their child, Guy Bowles. Betsy (Bartlett Twitch-
ell) m. (2) Samuel Townsend. Their child, Fanny m.
William E. Stevens of Sioux City, Iowa. Their children,
a son, , a daughter, Clara, who m. Frank Rockwood.
They have one son, Henry Stevens, who m. Betty
Schuelein of Sioux City, Iowa. Ethel Townsend m.
Daniel Baxter Hayward of Braintree, Mass. Children,
Helen Hayward, Mary Baxter Hayward.
(2) Joseph Bartlett (Joseph and Elisabeth Leavitt) m.
Charlotte Bruce.
(3) Dudley Bartlett m. Hannah Pease ; lived in Tamworth,
N. H. They had child, George Dudley Bartlett, who
lives in Haverhill, Mass.; m. Elisabeth Meader of Tam-
worth. Their child, Henry Judson Bartlett, who m. Elsie
Fernald of Haverhill. Their child. Hazel, aged about
5 years.
(4) Lorenzo Bartlett m. Ellen Brown of Tamworth, N. H.
Their son, Leland Bartlett, has one child, Elroy Glenwood
Bartlett. Evelyn Bartlett has two children; Lorenzo d.
200 FAMILY RECORDS
young. Ella Bartlett m. Hollis B. Ballard; lived in
South Tamworth, N. H; no children.
(5) Judith Maria Bartlett m. James Bryant of Laconia,
N. H. Their child, Jessie Bryant, m. Horace E. Stowe;
they live in Washington, D. C. Their summer home is at
South Sandwich, Mass. Their children: Barbara, m. Pro-
fessor Blatherwaite ; Vira m. Marshall of New
York; issue, two children. George Bryant m. Emogene
. Their child, Clyde Bryant. Elisabeth Bryant
m. — • Brown; issue, one son, lives in Cornwall on the
Hudson. Abbie Bryant d. about 1885.
(6) Mary Jane Bartlett m. William Prescott Smith.
(See Smith and Plumer.)
(7) Henry Martin Bartlett m. Sarah Cragin; d. Aug.
13, 1913, aged 78 years. His widow b. 1840, lives in
Laconia, N. H. Their children: Emma May Bartlett;
Henry d. aged 2 years; Clarence Cragin b. March 2,
1868; m. Eleanor A. Tarbett of Stoneham, Mass.
Their child, Lorna Tarbett Bartlett b. Aug. 18, 1910.
Mr. Clarence Bartlett is a manufacturer of wood in the
rough for tennis goods in Laconia, N. H. Bertha Leavitt
Bartlett b. 1871 ; m. Thomas Hibbard of Dorchester, Mass.
Their children: Henry Bartlett Hibbard, Eleanor Bartlett
Hibbard.
(8) Judson Bartlett went to Nevada and never heard from.
(9) Orlando Bartlett m. Helen ; moved to
Kankakee, 111.
FROM HISTORY OF NORTHWOOD, N. H.
"Here the lamented dead in dust shall lie,
Life's lingering languors o'er, its labor done;
Where waving boughs, between the earth and sk>%
Admit the farewell radiance of the sun.
And here the impressive stone, engraved with words,
Which grief sententious gives to marble pale,
Shall teach the heart; while waters, leaves, and birds
Make cheerful music in the passing gale."
The Association Test
"We the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise,
that we will, to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our
Lives and Fortunes, with Arms, oppose the Hostile Proceedings
of the British Fleets, and Armies, against the United American
Colonies."
Among signers in Deerfield, N. H., was Abial Bartlett.
BARTLETT 201
From Rambles About Portsmouth, N. H.
"Spinning of street yarn," is the rambler's occupation; there-
fore spinning generally is not out of place, and rope spinning of
the stoutest thread, to make the rope walk. It was made in a
factory, in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1825, and the rope walk was
used on what is now Rock Street, near the Jail.
The tar-house, nearby, was where Robert Bartlett lived many
years. There were several rope walks in the vicinity of Ports-
mouth, and a cordage factory has been there many years. One
of these rope walks was used for barracks, to protect a certain
portion of soldiers, drafted from other towns, for the defense of
Portsmouth. Among these soldiers was Ichabod Bartlett (after-
ward member of Congress), a drafted militiaman from Durham,
N. H., in 1812. Several ships were rigged with Portsmouth
cordage. Longfellow illustrates the rope spininng, thus:
"As the spinners to the end
Downward go and reascend,
Gleam the long threads in the sun;
While within this brain of mine
Cobwebs brighter and more fine
By the busy wheel are spun.
Two fair maidens in a swing,
Like white doves upon the wing,
First before my vision pass;
Laughing, as their gentle hands
Closely clasp the twisted strands.
At their shadow on the grass.
Then a homestead among farms,
And a woman with bare arms,
Drawing water from a well;
As the bucket mounts apace,
With it mounts her own fair face,
As at some magician's spell.
Then an old man in a tower
Ringing loud the noontide hour,
While the rope coils round and round.
Like a serpent at his feet,
And again in swift retreat
Almost lifts him from the ground.
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Ships rejoicing in the breeze,
Wrecks that float o'er unknown seas,
Anchors dragged thro' faithless sand ;
Sea-fog drifting overhead.
And with lessening line and lead
Sailors feeling for the land.
All these scenes do I behold,
These, and many left untold.
In that building long and low;
While the wheels go round and round,
With a drow^sy, dreamy sound.
And the spinners backward go. "
LEAVITT
{Avi memorantue avo rum.)
'The grandfathers, of grandfathers, are remembered."
LEAVITT
Dudley Leavitt was born in Exeter, N. H., May 23, 1772, and
died September 15, 1851. He married Judith Glidden, who
was born in Gilmanton, N. H., March 13, 1778, and died March
20, 1853. Their children:
Betsy (Elisabeth) b. June 20, 1795; d. May 16, 1858; m.
Joseph Bartlett of Meredith, N. H.
Isaac b. June 17, 1797; d. March 2, 1798. j
Isaac b. Dec. 31, 1798; d. Nov. 8, 1881.
Enos b. Jan. 30, 1801; d. June 6, 1819.
JosiAH b. Dec. 13, 1802; d. Nov. 3, 1837; m. Patience Canney.
Judith b. April 8, 1805; ^- Nov. 15, 1813.
Jane b. June 29, 1807; d. March, 1851. She m. Rev. John
Seymour, and was a missionary among the Indians;
they had a daughter, who was the first white girl born in
what today is the state of Minnesota.
Dudley b. June 19, 1810; d. Jan. 7, 1842.
Mary Ann b. March 25, 1813; d. July 4, 1842; m. Josiah
Prescott. . '^U'^'. i'6't'C' .
Judith b. Sept. 24, 1815; d. March 21, 1846; m^ Rev. John (r', \\sW^ue"5,
Taylor Jones. They were missionaries to Siam. Mr.
Jones was the first man to translate Scripture into Siamese.
His wife, Judith (Leavitt) Jones was sick, and as they were
returning to America, she died on the way home, and
was buried at sea. They had a daughter, Lavilla, b.
July 16, 1818, d. July 21, 1855. She m. Charles Prescott.
Isaac (Dudley Leavitt and Judith Glidden) married Sarah
Huse Smith (Capt. Elisha Smith, Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas,
Robert). He was born August 7, 1803, and died July 29, 1893.
Their children:
^ Arthur Eastman b. Feb. 7, 1831 ; d. Feb. 18, 1911.
•v^ Huldah Jane b. June 23, 1836.
Z Lavina Smith Leavitt was born August 22, 1843, and died
September i, 1889. She married Ezra Dixi Neal, January 7,
1 87 1. (See Neals.)
Arthur Eastman Leavitt (Isaac, Dudley) married Elisabeth
Drew, Their children :
Dudley.
Eddie C. d. young.
Alice M.
Marion S.
206 FAMILY RECORDS
Leavitt
John Leavitt, tailor of Dorchester, Mass., 1634, was admitted
Freeman, March 3, 1635-6. He removed to Hingham, Mass.,
and was deacon of church, town officer, deputy. He married
Mary Lovitt; she died, and he married, December 16, 1646,
Sarah, daughter of Edward Gilman.
In an ancient burying-ground in Hingham, Mass., was a
gravestone with this inscription: "Here lyeth buried y Body
of Deacon John Leavitt, d November y"^ 20, 1691, born in Eng
in 1608, was the ancestor of all the Leavitts in that part of the
country. Two sons Moses and Samuel, settled in Exeter.
Moses is said to have been b in Exeter Aug 12-1650. m Doro-
thy Dudley, Oct 26-1681, of Exeter, N. H. he d there in 1731."
Moses lived in Stratham, N. H.
Dudley Leavitt, or "Master Leavitt" was known from the fact
that he was one of the most noted schoolmasters of his day.
He was born in Exeter, N. H., May 23, 1772, and was from the
fourth generation of John Leavitt the tailor, and Moses Leavitt,
who married Dorothy Dudley. She was from Gov. Thomas
Dudley; thus we see where Dudley Leavitt inherited back some
generations for his scholarship. It shows the old adage "Blood
will tell." Some historians claim "Master Leavitt" only at-
tended school three months, yet another claims he was in Har-
vard.
In the early part of the eighteenth century, he taught school
many winters, and young people went from far and near for
instruction. He gave rewards of merit, for good work, of his
own make, consisting of animals and mythical subjects, done
in water colors, in a crude way, but nevertheless quite attract-
ive to the young eye of that period. He was very neat in his
work, as you can see by the illustrations contained in this Record,
which are facsimiles of the original that he gave my father. Smith
Neal, as showing his good work in studies. These were given
him about 1820. Dudley Leavitt married Judith Glidden of
Gilmanton, N. H., when he was 22 years old. They moved co
Meredith, in 1806, where he located on a farm three-fourths
of a mile from the lake. He died suddenly September 15, 1851.
Their issue was eleven children, nine grew up.
They had a son Isaac who married Sarah Smith (sister to
LEAVITT
207
Christopher Smith and daughter of Captain EHsha Smith, see
Smiths), of New Hampton, N. H. Their daughter, Huldah
Leavitt and her brother's family live on the old home place.
A son of Arthur Leavitt, Dudley, residing there, is often alluded
to as the "weather man," although he never made any special
study of weather conditions.
Since the Leavitt Almanac passed from the hands of the
founder, it has been edited by a relative, William B. Leavitt,
Dudley Leavitt
who has died, leaving many manuscripts, yet probably this
famous publication will soon pass into another's hands.
"Old Master Leavitt" was noted as a mathematician, astron-
omer, and well versed on navigation; he also studied many lan-
guages. His "Meredith Academick School" was opened in
August, 1 8 19, where he taught until he was 74 years old.
Master Leavitt was noted for his politeness; I have often
heard my father tell how he would rebuke a scholar, if he was
unruly. His pupils came from far and near. The Leavitt
Almanac is still published, and many families consider that it
208 FAMILY RECORDS
is law on the weather. Tradition states he was not a church
member, and rather sceptical on religious views. On one occa-
sion at an evening prayer meeting, his wife made a fervent
prayer that her husband might be saved. After she closed,
Dudley Leavitt arose and said, "We read in God's word, that
the unbelieving husband shall be justified by the prayers of the
believing wife," put on his hat and walked out.
A Sketch by Huldah J. Leavitt, Grand-daughter of Dudley
Leavitt and a Descendant of the Dudleys
The statements about Grandfather Leavitt are correct.
Grandfather was not a church member, neither was he sceptical.
The anecdote about his wife's prayer one evening that her hus-
band might be saved was true. It occurred in the home of a
near neighbor. But it always seemed to me that grandfather
was the better Christian of the two. Two of my grandparents'
daughters were missionaries. Aunt Jane married Rev. John L.
Seymour, and was with the Indians many years. Once when
the whites had cheated the Indians, the latter threatened to
kill the missionaries, and Aunt Jane and Uiicle Seymour sat up
all night expecting to be murdered. Fortunately a heavy thun-
der shower came up and the thunder and lightning were terrific.
The Indians came the next morning without their war paint,
and told the missionaries the Great Spirit was angry with them
for threatening their lives. Aunt Judith became the second
wife of Rev. John Taylor Jones and went to Siam with him.
Aunt had consumption after a few years and her doctors told
her nothing would save her life unless she returned to America.
Mr. Jones took her and their little daughter and sailed for Amer-
ica. Aunt grew worse and died on the passage and they were
obliged to bury her at sea in the ocean. Dear little Martha,
their only child, used to say "I haven't any mother, they put
her in the ocean."
My nephew Dudley Leavitt is a good "weather man." We
often ask him what he thinks the weather will be the next day,
and his answer is almost invariably correct.
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Leavitt," for Smith Neal of Meredith, N. H., for Scholar-
ship, ABOUT 1820
DUDLEY
Dudley Coat of Arms, Barony March 23, 1643-4, Chequy, or an az, a
bend, erm. Crest, out of a ducal coronet or, a lion's head, az. Supporters,
two angels, ppr, hair and wings or, under robes sanguine, uppermost az.
Motto, Comme je fus (As I have been).
Seats, Himley Hall, Dudley County, Stafford, Eng. Wildey Court, Stour-
port County, Worcester, Crogen, near Corwen County, Merioneth and Inver
Lodge, Maam Cross County, Galway.
Lineage, John Sutton, first Lord Dudley, son of John de Sutton of Dudley
Castle, and Margaret, his wife, daughter of Roger de Somery of Dudley
Castle. He was created a Baron by writ February 25, 1341-2. He married,
1329, Isabella, daughter of Lord Cherlton, who died November 23, 1359,
having by his wife John, second Lord Dudley. He had descendants down to
Edward, sixth Lord Dudley, born 1400, then the seventh John Lord Dudley
and down to William Humble, tenth Lord Dudley, in holy orders, born Jan-
uary 9, 1 78 1, thence down to William, first Earl of Dudley, born March 27,
1817.
There was a crescent in the dexter chief, of the escutcheon, that signified
they descended from the second son of the Baron Dudley.
15
DUDLEYS
Governor Thomas Dudley was of a family descended from the
Barons of Dudley. He was born in 1576, an only son of Captain
Roger Dudley, a warrior slain in brttle when his son and daughter
were very young. Capt. Roger Dudley's wife was a relative
of Sir Augustine Nicolls, of Faxon Kent, keeper of the Great Seal
to Prince Charles.
Not having much of a heritage except blood, he was befriended
by a lady, and served as a page, later he acquired much skill
in law. At 20 years of age, Queen Elisabeth sent him on a Cap-
tain's Commission, where he led a large company to the siege of
Amiens, in Picardy. On his return he married; later he became
a zealous Puritan. For some years he was steward to fourth
Earl of Lincoln, until 1630, when the spirit of persecution arose
against the Nonconformists. He then came to the deserts of
America for the sake of liberty.
Before leaving England, he was chosen Assistant and Deputy
Governor of Massachusetts Colony, John Winthrop, Esq., being
Governor. He was esteemed for his piety, justice, and zeal.
He died at Roxbury, Mass., in 1653. Of his issue of eight
• children, only one son was born in England.
^^ In 1623 he married Governor Winthrop's daughter Mary.
'They moved to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, later to Salisbury.
About 1649, he was a temporary preacher in Portsmouth,
N. H.; the next year he settled as minister of Exeter, N. H. He
did much to improve the morals of the community. The town
granted him 600 acres of land near the Great Hill, since called
Brentwood. He died in 1682, is buried in a yard west of road
leading from" the Court House to Newmarket, N. H., where
stands an old tombstone supposed to be his, but the inscription
is gone. One of the descendants joined the Friends or Quakers.
A parcel of verse found in the pocket of Thomas Dudley,
Governor of Massachusetts Colony, born 1576, in Northampton,
*^. IL., son of Capt. Roger Dudley:
1 " Dimme eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach shew
' My dissolution is in view,
Eleven times seven near lived have I
And now God calls, I willing die.
My shuttle's shut, my race is run, ^
My sun is set, my deed is done,
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My span is measured, my tale is told,
My flowers faded and grown old.
My life is vanished, shadows fled,
My soul's with Christ, my body dead.
Farewell, dear wife, children and friends
Hate heresy, make blessed ends.
Bear poverty, live with good men,
So shall we meet with joy again.
Let men of God, in Courts and Churches wale
O'er such as do a toleration hatch.
Least y« ill egg bring forth a cockatrice.
To pay you all with heresy and vice.
If men be left and otherwise combine.
Mine epitaph's — I did no hurt to thine."
Captain Roger Dudley ^ who in early life "was slain in the
wars" (in England about 1586-88 probably at the time of the
Catholic succession under Queen Elisabeth), left two sons.
One was Gov. Thomas Dudley, born in 1576, at Nottingham,
Eng., and died in 1633, at Roxbury, Mass.; second Governor of
Massachusetts Bay Colony. His oldest son was Rev. Samuel
Dudley, born 1606, at Nottingham, Eng., settled at Exeter,
N. H., 1650, and died there 1683 after an approved ministry of
33 years. His first wife was Mary Winthrop, daughter of
Governor Winthrop. They had a daughter Dorothy who
married Moses Leavitt.
An Interesting Item in Regard to Rev. Dudley Leavitt
The Dan vers Church Records of 1747 record a church row,
May 19 — "A church meeting was called to consider y^ petition
of Cap* John Gardner and wife to be dismissed from y® chh in
Salem, Mass under Mr Leavits Ministery; the church proposed
voting, that the chh was under scandalous imputation, at least
suspicious of having broken y*' Rules of y" Gospel & y^ Order of
the Churches, and to dismiss any of the members to y^ copi-
munion until they have cleared up a good understanding with
the sister Churches. It had been rumored that some of the
members had consult reputed Witches, of Fortune Tellers,
which was impious and scandalous, and a violation of y*' Chris-
tian Cov* sealed in Baptism; none were found guilty, only sus-
pected, and y'' Pastor publickly gave his disapprobation of the
ungodly practice of consulting them.
Rev. Dudley Leavitt."
PLUMER
Coat of Arms, A demi-lion, rampant ar, in dexter a sprig, vert.
THE PILGRIM FATHERS
By Felicia Hemans
The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches toss'd;
And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and water o'er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.
Not as the flying come
In silence and in fear; —
They shook the depths of the forest gloom
With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Not as the conqueror comes,
They, the true-hearted, came;
Not with the roll of the stirring drums.
And the trumpet that sings of fame;
Amidst the storm they sang.
And the stars heard and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
To the anthem of the free!
The ocean-eagle soared
From his nest by the white wave's foam;
And the rocking pines of the forest roared —
This was their welcome home!
There were men with hoary hair
Amidst that pilgrim band; — -
Why had they come to wither there.
Away from their childhood's land?
There was woman's fearless eye.
Lit by her deep love's truth;
There was manhood's brow serenely high,
And the fiery heart of youth.
What sought they thus afar? — •
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?—
They sought a faith's pure shrine!
-Ay, call it holy ground.
The soil where first they trod —
They have left unstained what there they found, —
Freedom to worship God.
Note. — Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Plumer suggested that Mrs. Heman's poem,
"The Landing of The Pilgrim Fathers," shows much of the suffering and
hardships that the grandparents of our grandparents endured for their descend-
ants of this and days preceding these.
PLUMER
In 1 63 1, England was over populated, and the labor troubles
were frequent. The ship-tax, levied in 1635-7, caused many to
flee beyond the sea, from in and around Suffolk, Eng. At Clare,
nine miles from Sudbury, John Plumer was rated as gone beyond
the seas, to avoid the tyranny of ship-tax.
Samuel Bidfield Will, 12:3:1659
I giue unto my wife, my dwelling house, and yard with the out house, in the
yard during her life, p''uided she stay in the Cuntry, and keepe the sayde house
in repare; and after her decease or going out of the Cuntrie into England, my
will is, saide house shall fall to Samuel Plumer, my grand-child, and to his
heires. If he dye with out issue it shall goe to the next son, and his heires;
and so on to the rest successively; Unto my wife, 40 £ and halfe the household
goods; the other halfe to bee devided to my two daus children, that is to say
Samuel Plumer, John Plumer, Ephraim Plumer, Mary Plumer, John Steuns,
Samuel Sreuns.
Unto my son Samuel Plumer, all my wareing cloths, both linell and wollin,
and to William Densdale, my joynter, axes, orders, and all my tooles, w*^ on
coat and pare of britches.
My wife executrix, and James Penn, and Samuel Plumer, overseers.
Witnessed
Madott Enges
Nathaniel Williams
Who deposed Sept. 20, 1660.
Joseph Plumer, Newport, May 11, 1670, admitted freeman.
Joseph Plumer, of Newbury, admitted freeman, age 23 years,
in 1678.
Joseph Plumer was taken prisoner from the BrigDalton Decem-
ber 24, 1776; he was of the crew. "This prison was situated on
a promontory, projecting into the sound, between Plymouth Eng
and Plymouth Dock," two prominent towns, formerly there
stood windmills on this eminence called "Mill Hill." Tradition
states that one of the mills was built in Queen Ann's time.
Taxes under Governor Andros, of Newbury, Mass., 1688, was
Jos. Plumer's son, his Invoyes, August 1688, was 2 heads, 2
houses, 14 acres plow land, 24 acres meadow, 10 acres pasture, i
horse, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 3 three year olds, 3 two year olds, 20 sheep,
2 hogs.
Joseph Plumer, Jr., August 1688, Invoyes, i head himself, i
horse, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 2 two year olds cattle, 12 sheep, 2 hogs.
Joseph Plumer of Newbury, Mass., son of Joseph Plumer,
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married in 1685, Hannah, daughter of Captain Benjamin Swett.
Their children:
Samuel b. May 4, 1686.
Abigal b. Dec. 11, 1687.
Miriam b. Jan. 16, 1691.
Aaron b. Jan. 16, 1693.
Eleanor b. Jan. 29, 1694.
Joseph b. Jan. 12, 1695. ■
David.
Samson.
Hannah. ,
Sarah.
Deborah.
Eliphalet.
Benjamin Plumer, took oath of allegiance, at Newbury, Mass.,
in 1678; was 22 years old, and settled in Glastenburg, Conn.
Sarah Adams, who married Benjamin Plumer, was a descend-
ant of Robert Adams, lineally descended from John "Ap" Adams,
of Somersetshire, who married Elisabeth, daughter of John Lord
Gourney, Baron of the Realm, from 1296 to 1307.
From Plumer Line
"Broken by the share of every rustic plough;
So perish monuments of mortal birth,
So perish all in turn, save well recorded worth."
In an old Cemetery, at Oldtown, Newbury, Mass., is this
inscription.
HERE LIES Y^' BODY OF
MRS JANE PLUMER
WIFE OF
MR BENJAMIN PLUMER
DAUGHTER OF CAP WILLIAM
& MRS RUTH ILLSLEY
WHO DIED dec" 24
1774 IN THE 35 YEAR
OF HER AGE.
HERE LIES THE
BODY OF MR
JONATHAN
PLUMER, WHO
DIED SEPTEMBER
y'^ 27TH, 1726
IN y""" 59 YEAR
OF HIS AGE.
PLUMER 217
Benjamin Plumer's will of Portsmouth, N. H., Province of
New Hampshire, in New England, May 7, 1740, was proved in
London, Eng.
Benjamin Plumer was appointed Collector of Piscataway, in
New England, Feb. 11, 1736.
The New Hampshire Provincial Papers, Vol. IV, page 864,
is a letter recommending him as a gentleman of good sense,
and of a very good family, and good circumstances. He was
an Englishman sent over to the New England Colony as Col-
lector.
Married in New Castle, N. H., November 30, 1790, Mr. Ben-
jamin Plumer.
Items
Jonathan Plumer, of Dover, N. H., witnessed a will in 1706.
Also, in 1712, he witnessed the will of Joshua Furber.
Hannah Plumer, Dafter of Daniel Plumer, by wife Sarah, was
born April 25, 1722.
Sarah, wife of Daniel Plumer, was baptized August 9, 1724.
Benjamin Plumer, son of Daniel Plumer, of Dover, N. H.,
was born June 3, 1728.
Mary Dole was born September 13, 1731, and married Samuel
Plumer, April 8, 1755. They were the parents of Governor
Plumer.
Ebenezer Plumer, son of Daniel Plumer, was baptized April,
1731-
Daniel and Richard Plumer signed a petition in Dover, N. H.,
1729-32.
Richard Plumer, of Dover, was among the training men, in
1740.
Daniel Plumer, Jr., grandson of Samuel of Epping, N. H., in
1740.
Col. Daniel Plumer, born 1740, was brother of Governor
Plumer. He died in Epping, N. H., March 16, 1821. He was
a son of Samuel Plumer, Esq., who died in 1803, age 81 years.
Col. Daniel left a widow and three sons.
Daniel Plumer of Rowley, Mass., in 1740, was a partner of the
"Land Bank" of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; this land
bank was a bank intended to establish currency on security on
real estate, but fell through. Also, David Plumer was a partner
of Gloucester, Mass.
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Thomas Plumer, of Rochester, N. H., was baptized March lo,
1812, aged 72 years.
Daniel Plumer was in the Cochecho Parish, Dover, N. H.; also
John.
Samuel Plumer was of Newtown, in 1743.
Daniel Plumer was of Newtown, now Dover, in 1743.
Rich 'J Plumer, age 24 years, of Dover, N. H., was mustered
from Province of New Hampshire, ag^* Louisberg.
Samuel Plumer was in Hampstead, N. H., in 1746.
Jn° Plumer and wife renewed their covenant, and baptized
their daughter Elisabeth, October 28, 1748.
Jonathan Plumer was of Boscawen, N. H., in 1748-58.
David and John Plumer were residents of Stratham, N. H.,
in 1748.
Daniel Plumer drew land in Wakefield, Mass., in 1749.
Daniel Plumer was of Dover, N. H., in 1753.
Samuel Plumer was a grantee of land in Unity, N. H., in 1767.
Benjamin Plumer's estate was in controversy, in Portsmouth
N. H., between the wife and children, on account of her marriage,
in 1768.
William Plumer was of Portsmouth, N. H., in 1762.
Samuel Plumer, and son Dodavah, were baptized June 17,
1764, in Dover, N. H.
John Plumer was among the training men of Dover, in 1768 .
Jesse Plumer was born in Newbury, Mass., February 6, 1768.
Ebenezer Plumer, son of Samuel and wife, was baptized in
Rochester, N. H., November 26, 1769.
Samuel Plumer, son of Samuel and wife, was baptized in
Rochester, N. H., August 6, 1770.
Ebenezer Plumer drew land in New Durham, N. H., in 1770.
Benole Plumer and James Wilson were of Londonderry, in
1771.
Jno Plumer, Esq., granted town of Success, near Shelburn, in
1773-
Nathan Plumer was born in Newbury, Mass., in 1772.
Joseph Plumer was born in Londonderry, N. H., in 1774.
Abel Plumer went from Rowley to Londonderry, in 1775.
Joseph Plumer was mustered into service "June y*^ 22, 1778."
Stephen Plumer was born in Sanbornton, N. H., in 1779.
Another branch from Francis Plumer, was John Plumer, a
PLUMER 219
judge for many years. He had two sons, Joseph and Bard, who
settled in Rochester, N. H., in 1780.
John Plumer was of Rochester, N. H., in 1784.
Samuel Plumer was of Danville, in 1785.
Joseph Plumer was of Rochester, N. H., 1785-1802.
Daniel Plumer was of Londonderry, N. H.; was accidentally
drowned in Portsmouth, N. H., April 15, 1786.
Nathan Plumer was of Londonderry, N. H., in 1786.
Samuel and William Plumer were of Epping, N. H., in 1791.
Jesse, Moses, Amos, Nathan, Joseph Plumer, were of Meredith,
N. H., in 1784, and in 1797, Jesse, Jr., Plumer, signed a petition
for the incorporation of the Baptist Society, which was sent to
Concord, N. H.
Governor William Plummer Branch
Ffrauncis Plummer was one of the early settlers of Newbury,
Mass. He died there January 17, 1673. His son, Samuel
Plumer, was born in England, 1619. This Samuel's fourth son,
Sylvanus, born 1658, was admitted Freeman in 1690. He mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Samuel Moody. Their second son,
Samuel, born 1685, married Mary Dole, April 8, 1755. This is
the ancestry of Governor Plumer. The Governor married Sarah
Fowler, of Ipswich, Mass. He had two brothers and several
sisters; one brother, Daniel, married Sarah, daughter of Simon
Drake, of Epping, N. H., and one married Col. Daniel Cilley,
of Epsom, N. H. The Governor had several sons, no daughters.
Hon. William Plumer, of Epping, died December 22, 1850,
aged 92, he was a Revolutionary soldier, born in Newbury. He
moved with his father to Epping, in 1768. He was a great
student, a lawyer, and one of the members of the convention
that formed the present Constitution of New Hampshire. In
1 812, he was elected Governor of New Hampshire, and was first
President of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Plumer
Ffrauncis Plumer was born in 1594, and came from Woolwich,
or Wales, a division of Great Britain noted for its rare attractions
of beautiful scenery, about 1633.
The law was at that period, that each person that transported
himself and family at his own expense to America, was granted
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fifty acres of land, and this grant was in Newbury, Mass., and
an additional 200 acres for every fifty pounds he invested in com-
mon cattle. Some of this land that was granted to Francis
Plumer is still in the Plumer family of his descendants.
September i, 1629, Ffrauncis Plumer was licensed to keep an
Ordinary (tavern) in Newbury, Mass. He died in Newbury,
January 17, 1673. He was one of the original grantees of the
town. He brought his wife, Ruth, and three children. Tradi-
tion states that they landed on the north bank of the Quatcacun-
quen river (Parker) through Plum Island Sound, and that Plumer
was the second person to step on land, followed by his wife and
two sons, Samuel and Joseph. He was a weaver of linen by
trade. Five of his descendants, bearing his name, have been
members of Congress. One of them, George, son of Jonathan,
was the first white child born in Pennsylvania. Branches of the
family are said to be in every state in the Union. This Francis
Plumer and family sailed from Ipswich, England. Ruth, the
first wife, died August 18, 1646. He married, second, March 31,
1648, Widow Ann Palmer, who died October 18, 1665. He
married, third, Beatrice, widow of William Cantlebury, of Salem,
Mass. He died January 17, 1673, aged 71. Another record
states he married Mary Blodgett, when she was 28 years old.
Francis Plumer and wife, and two sons, were in Newbury,
Mass., in 1633. Joseph and Samuel were born in England in
1619; they had daughters born in Newbury, Hannah and Mary.
Francis Plumer was admitted Freeman March 4, 1633, and
Joseph was admitted in 1670, of Newburyport, Mass. Joseph
Plumer was a soldier in King Philip's war, February 29, 1675-6.
(From the Mass. Archives.) He was allowed four pounds credit
for service, was enlisted in Capt. Prentice's Troopers. On the
back of the list was written "Capt. Prentises 73 Troopers," also
" Capt. Appletons Troope contained Joseph Plumer." Ten of
the troop were under Plumer.
A writer in Drakes "Old Indian Cronicle," relates that on one
occasion Capt. Prentice's troop took fifty-five Indians, killed ten,
burnt 150 wigwams. He had four of his own men killed and
wounded in "Pomhams Country," January 31, 1676.
From "Essex Institute," Francis Plumer's son, Samuel, born
in England, in 1619, was granted land in Newbury, in 1642. He
married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Elisabeth Bitfield, prob-
PLUMER 221
ably of Boston, Mass. Samuel Plumer and Samuel Bitfield were
important citizens of Newbury, holding many important offices,
the latter colonial, legal, and town offices. Several pages are
devoted to these two men in the Essex Institute wills, transfer of
property, etc. Children of Samuel Plumer and Elisabeth Bit-
field Plumer:
Samuel b. April 20, 1647.
Mary b. Feb. 8, 1650.
John b. May 11, 1652.
Ephraim b. Sept. 16, 1655.
Hannah b. Feb. 16, 1657.
Sylvanus b. Feb. 22, 1658.
Ruth b. Aug. 7, 1660.
Elisabeth b. Oct. 19, 1662.
Deborah b. March 13, 1665.
Joshua b. July 2, 1668, \ .
Lydia b. July 2, 1668, / ^^^"''•
Bathshua b. July 31, 1670. He ran the ferry over the
Merrimac.
Samuel Plumer and Mary Bitfield had a son:
Joshua b. July 2, 1668 (twin of Lydia); m. Elisabeth,
daughter of Richard and Sarah (Greenleaf) Dole, Nov. 6,
1699.
Nathaniel Plumer, son of Joshua and Elisabeth (Greenleaf)
Dole, was born June 19, 1708. He married Mary Stevens, who
died in 1745. Their children:
Jesse b. Sept. 18, 1740.
Abigal b. Jan. 24, 1745.
Nathaniel Plumer married, second, Mary Greenleaf, October
5,1750. Their children:
Judith b. Sept. 14, 1751.
Ruth b. March 15, 1755.
Amos b. April 7, 1756.
Nathaniel.
Nathaniel Plumer enlisted in Continental service for three
years, 1777-8 from Londonderry, N. H.
The New Hampshire and Massachusetts Genealogical Records,
give no clue to the parentage of Jesse Plumer. Many historians
have failed to find any trace of him, but Mr. Eben Little, of New-
buryport, Mass. has recently found the ancestry in the Essex
222 FAMILY RECORDS
Institute wills and transfers of property, and the credit is due
him for these dates and ancestry of Jesse Plumer.
Jesse Plumer, son of Nathaniel Plumer and Mary Stevens, was
born September i8, 1740. He married Sarah, daughter of Benja-
min and Hannah (Bartlett) Merrill, of Newbury, Mass., Septem-
ber 13, 1763, and they lived in Londonderry, N. H., then moved
to what was called by the Indians, Crotch town (Sanborn Town),
from its position in the fork of the two rivers. She died in Mere-
dith, N. H., August 15, 1824. He died December 26, 1824.
History states there was quite a controversy about establishing
the boundary of Sanborn Town, and whether the Massachusetts
line should extend to that limit or not. Belknap states the line
was established by the Lords of Council of London. It seems a
cavalcade was formed from Boston to Salisbury, and Gov. John
Endicott rode up there in state, attended by a troop of horse,
which has been described, to see if the bounds of Massachusetts
should extend to Aquedockton, the junction of the two rivers;
where the pine-tree was spotted thirteen years previous on San-
born Town soil.
Runnells quotes this following "pasquinade in an assumed
Hibernian style " : . .
Dear Paddy, you ne'er did behold such a sight,
You in all, your born days saw, nor I didn't neither.
So many fine horses and men ride togather,
At the head, the lower house trotted togather two in a row,
Then all the higher house pranced after the low;
Then the Governors coach galloped on like wind,
And the last that came foremost were troopers behind
But I fear it means no good to your neck or mine
For they say tis to fix a right place for the Massachusetts line.
Several settlers from the lower town of the state went up there
and settled. Jesse Plumer moved to Sanbornton in 1779, into
the Woodman House, on the "Ministers Great Lot," No. 76 on
the original plat of Sanbornton, what is at present Sanbornton
Square.
About three years later he moved to near the line between San-
bornton and Meredith, N. H., and there made what has since
been known as the Plumer Home; he married Sarah Merrill (see
Merrills) and died December 26, 1824. Their children:
Nathaniel b. May 29, 1764; d. June 13, 1853; m. Su-
sannah, daughter of Rev. Nicholas Folsom.
PLUMER 223
Moses b. Oct. 20, 1765, in Newbury, Mass.; d. June 14,
1859; m. Nancy Fox, Sept. 10, 1808.
Molly b. Nov. 27, 1766, in Newbury; m. Capt. Elisha Piper.
Jesse b. Feb. 6, 1768, in Newbury; d. Oct. 23, 1839, in
Meredith.
Amos b. Sept. 11, 1769, in Newbury; d. June 17, 1850.
Nathan b. Oct. 3, 1772, in Newbury; d. July 5, 1850.
Joseph b. Oct. 28, 1774 (the Hermit), in Londonderry,
N. H., d. Dec. 3, 1863, in Meredith, N. H. (See the
Hermit.)
Parker b. May 20, 1777; d. Dec. 12, 1861, in Sanbornton,
N. H.
Stephen b. March 14, 1779; d. June 26, 1858, in Sanborn-
ton, N. H.
Richard b. June 10, 1781, d. Jan. 28, 1861.
Sarah b. April 2"], 1783; m. John Folsom.
The united ages of this family of children at the death of the
first was over 556 years.
Jesse, Jr., Plumer (Jesse, Nathaniel, Joshua, Samuel, Francis)
married Sarah Pearson, who was born January 18, 1778, daughter
of Taylor Pearson and Mary Leavitt (sister of Dudley Leavitt).
Their children:
William b. June 8, 1800; m. Elisabeth Eaton. '
Benjamin Franklin b. Aug. 16, 1802; m. Hannah Wilson,
of Holderness.
Nancy b. July 23, 1804; m. Nathaniel Eastman, second,
Chase Jaques.
Hannah b. Oct. 31, 1806; m. John C. Gove.
Mark b. Feb. 19, 1809; m. Nancy Clark, daughter of John
Clark, of Campton.
Sophia b. Sept. 26, 181 1 ; d. aged 22 years.
Jonathan Pearson b. Nov. 6, 1815; d. aged 3 years.
The Hermit of Meredith Hill
(From Reminiscences of the Laconia Democrat)
Joseph Plumer, the far-famed hermit of Meredith Hill, was
born in Londonderry, N. H., October 28, 1774. His parents,
Jesse Plumer and Sally (Pearson), soon after his birth moved to
Sanbornton, N. H., with six children. They were respected
people, and reared a family of eleven children — Moses, Nathaniel,
Jesse, Amos, Nathan, Joseph, Stephen, Parker, Sally, and Polly.
They were all persons of good standing.
Joseph was peculiar from a child ; he did not care to associate
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FAMILY RECORDS
with the family and spent most of his time alone; if a stranger
came suddenly upon him he would dodge under a bed or into some
dark corner. He attended school and got a good district school
education of his time. In 1795, when he was about 21 years old,
he bought seven acres of land at the foot of Meredith Hill, and
there built a log hut in the solitary forest. He built a barn some
thirty feet square, and had an ox which he used in a cart harnessed
as we do a horse, reining him by the horns. Later he owned
.^•^rife^'^rT
Old Hermit House
another tract of land of 43 acres. He was ingenious, he had a
foot lathe and a good supply of tools; he made baskets, chairs,
tubs, wooden scales, violins and played on them.
In 1826, a severe storm swept down over Meredith Hill, which
overflowed Salmon brook, a stream near his home. He at-
tempted to get out in the night, but had to return to his barn.
The water washed away his house when he fled from the lowlands
to the top of the hill in the tempest. He was so alarmed that he
at once moved his home to his other lot nearly a mile distant, out
of the reach of the brook. There he built a house about fifteen
feet square, of logs doweled together, tightened with mortar.
PLUMER 225
The new house was in the forest, near the line between Meredith
and Sanbornton, not far from the so-called Plumer Road. The
house did not have any windows, except a hole in the garret,
which he closed with a board. There was one door, about four
feet high and three feet wide, with a trapdoor in front of it so
that any one who might enter without his permission would tum-
ble into the cellar. The chimney was built of stone with scythes
edge turned upward, protruding to prevent people from coming
down the chimney on him unexpectedly. He had no steps to
enter his house which was two feet above the ground. The house
had one room, and a ladder upon which to ascend into the cham-
ber. His bedstead was made of spruce poles, worked out and put
together, with boards for the sides, ends, and bottom — a box on
legs — with scanty bedclothes. His fireplace was of the ancient
kind and his wood was in long sticks which he run into the fire
endwise, pushing the sticks in as fast as they were consumed.
His diet was very plain and he used little meat, except what he
took in the woods. Wild meat, fish, roots and herbs, potatoes,
and corn bread of his own making, comprised his diet. Occasion-
ally he made a wheat cake, patting it down in a spider, for which
he constantly wet a spoon with his tongue to pat it down. He
baked his potatoes in an old teakettle, cooking up quite a supply
at a time and ate them cold. In the proper season he used much
mustard, making a meal of the green leaves. He had great faith
in herbs as a preventive of disease, and he kept brimstone in his
house also to prevent disease. He made a mill to grind his corn,
kept a strict account of his expenses, and said it cost him about
thirteen cents a week to live. He had a small box, and in the
center of the inside of the cover was a spot marked. In this box
he kept two kernels of corn of different colors. When a matter of
doubt occured to him, he would shake this box, turn it over, and
if the kernel nearest the spot was that which was distinguished to
signify do, the thing would be done, otherwise not. His niece
at one time asked him to give or sell her a rolling-pin. He shook
the box and the corn told him not to give; he shook it again and
it told him not to sell, so his niece went home without the rolling-
pin. This illustrates his mode of solving doubtful questions.
He had an orchard and made his cider by hand. He raised
tobacco and made snuff, tapped his trees and made his maple
sugar, which he sold to visitors. He had an apparatus in the
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house for weighing his visitors — steelyards suspended from a
beam with a sort of hoop attached in which the person sat. He
had a large stack of wood piled up as high as a barn, with sticks
five or six feet long. He made candles, but seldom used them.
His cabin contained many curious things which this ingenious
solitary tenant of the forest made. In the early days of his
hermitage, he kept a small stock of cattle but gradually reduced
them to a single steer, which he used for work and carriage, rein-
ing him by the horns. This animal became after some years
afraid of every one but the hermit himself, and he had to give
up driving him on the road. For a quarter of a century before
his death he had no animal on the place.
It was quite a resort in his later life for the young people, and
he would receive them cordially and treat them to cider and
apples. His home became quite a place for strangers to visit, to
see the hermit. He was shrewd enough to make a penny by the
sale of his wares, and the use of his weighing machine, for lady
visitors, yet he watched strangers with an eagle eye; when he
went from home he carried a sort of cane for defence, one end
armed with an iron spear. He was sharp in a trade, quick in
figures, read history, and a great Bible student, having much of
it at his tongue's end. The students of theology at the New
Hampton Literary Institution would often resort to his home to
discourse on the Bible. His eye was undimmed to the last, and
he could see to read plainly when he died, at 88 years, as well as
in his prime.
He never read newspapers, and one of the greatest trials of his
life was the laying out of a new road over his land. He wrote
some verses fiercely denouncing turnpikes and railroads, and
what we ought to hate is riding free horses to death, and wasting
time and property, for fear we shall have something left when we
die. These are some of his verses:
Iron stoves and wooden clocks,
, Awful storms and dismal shocks.
Railroads and turnpikes through the land.
Forebodes destruction near at hand.
But who can make the people see,
If blind as bats they choose to be.
Deaf as an adder, they appear.
The truth they cannot bear to hear.
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Devil's lies they much esteem,
Because it suits their wicked scheme;
His hook is baited with deceit,
And they no doubt will bite the bait.
Then oflF to fly in vain they try.
Like fish that from the hook would fly,
The barbed hook will not let go
But draws them down to endless woe.
He became much attached to his sister's son, and when he died
he went to the grave, but not into the church, where the service
was held. This was the only time he ever attended a funeral.
He never attended church, yet his views were of the Calvinist
Baptist. He never attended town meeting. His dress was
usually of uncolored cloth and he wore no hat. He shaved his
hair close to his head, and face, also, with shears. Tradition
states he made only one attempt to marry. Two of his
brothers married into the family of Deacon Fox, and on one
occasion Joseph made up his mind to sally forth from his retreat
and woo the remaining daughter. He was somewhat original
in his method. He went to the Deacon's house and quietly took
his position in the bedroom of his lady love, and when she, on
retiring for the night, opened her bedroom door, her eyes fell on
the white-robed specter sitting on her bed. She screamed and
rushed downstairs into her father's bedroom, with Joseph close
after her. The Deacon, on learning the facts, solemnly said,
"Joseph, that is not the way to court," to which the hermit
replied, "There is more than one way to do it." Meanwhile the
girl fled to a neighbor's, half scared to death. This ended
Joseph's effort for a wife. Old Suke Edgerly, years afterward,
called one night to stay all night with him (she traveled from
house to house). When he got ready to take a nap, he put up
his ladder, went up into the second story, pulled the ladder up
after him, and left Old Suke to get comfort on his bed down-
stairs.
On December i, 1862, Mrs. Freeman Plumer, his nephew's
wife, often went to care for him, and December 3 she found him
dead. He died as he had lived, alone. Money was found in
nearly twenty places secreted in the cabin. All his brothers and
sisters had died previously; the house still stands. His grave is
enclosed by a stone wall, with a marble slab.
228 FAMILY RECORDS
THE GRAVE OF A
HERMIT
JOSEPH PLUMER
OF MEREDITH >
DIED
DEC 3, 1862.
AGED 88
CONTENT WITH SEEKING HAPPINESS FOR HIMSELF ONLY, HE LIVED IN SECLU-
SION. HE DIED ALONE. PEACE TO HIS ASHES.
Death of an Aged Hermit
Mr. Joseph Plumer of Meredith, N. H., well known to many of
the residents of Belknap County as "Old Jo Plummer, the Her-
mit," who has passed sixty-seven years of his life by himself in
a kind of log house situated in a remote locality, died on the 3d
inst., aged eighty-eight years. This eccentric individual was a
son of Jesse Plumer and the last of a family of eleven children
who, as a class, were industrious and wealthy people. His
habits when a youth were singular. When engaged in the field
he would choose the center of the piece, and enclosing himself
with a fence, there work. On attaining his majority he com-
menced his life of solitude in a small house on a seven acre lot.
In 1837 he selected a more remote situation in a woodlot, and
erected a house, which, with its furniture and everything used
by him, all being of his own manufacture, was no less singular
than the old man himself. Here he passed his life, cultivating
his land, reading the Bible, and devoting a few moments to each
of his many visitors who were yearly attracted by curiosity to
his dwelling. One of his friends called on him the evening
previous to his death and requested permission to pass the night
with him; but he replied, "You can do me no good, I shall die
before morning." The friend granted his wish and left him, and
during the night he died, as he had lived, alone.
Rev. William Parsons was born in Boston, April 21,1716. He
graduated at Harvard and married Sarah Burnham, of Durham,
N. H.
Abraham Wilson was born 1751, and married Joanna Maine
(Main), born 1754 (1774). Their children:
Nathaniel.
Hannah.
Noah.
Eunice.
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ASSANATH.
Zadok b. June 23, 1788; m. Anna Robinson, of Raynham,
Mass., 1815; lived at Woodstock, Windham County, Conn,
Grafton.
Anna.
Tradition states Abraham Wilson lived at Pelham, N. H.
Items
Parker Plumer, son of Amos Plumer, born May 29, 1777,
was a popular school teacher, Justice of the Peace, and land sur-
veyor. It is related that while surveying a boundary line, and
establishing the corner stone of a piece of land in the Plumer
neighborhood, near his home, quite a number of men and boys
gathered around to see how the work was done. After completing
the work. Uncle Parker went to the fence corner, and cut a small
stick, then he caught each of the boys, and gave them three or
four cuts with the stick. The men standing by marveled at this,
and remarked that the boys did not require punishment, but
Uncle Parker remarked, "I want to establish these boundaries in
the minds of these boys; they will never forget this incident, nor
the boundaries."
Jesse Plumer, son of Jesse Plumer, born February 6, 1768, was
a farmer in Meredith, N. H. In the year 1816, which was the
coldest season on record, and water turned to ice every month
of the summer, Mr. Plumer had planted quite a large field to
corn; and when the corn was in the milk stage, it was killed by
the freeze; Mr. Plumer, fearing a famine, hired men to go through
the field, and strip the husks from the ears, and left the ears to
hang and dry, and saved the crop from spoiling entirely; he was
able to furnish his neighbors with food to save them from starva-
tion.
The winter and spring following the season of the year 181 6
was always remembered by people living at that time.
It is related by Hannah Wilson, wife of Benjamin F. Plumer,
that the rye was the first bread crop to mature, and as soon as
the rye was near ripe, the farmers took their hand sickles, and
harvested some and spread it on the ground to dry, thus hasten-
ing along the time that they could have rye bread.
One day during that summer the Worthens, of Holderness,
N. H., with whom Hannah Wilson lived, were without meat;
230 FAMILY RECORDS
they decided to slaughter a lamb. The men and boys drove the
sheep in the barn- yard, to catch a lamb; the fence was high all
around, except the little gate entrance. Mr. Worthen told
Hannah Wilson to sit on the top of the gate, and keep the sheep
from jumping over, but the sheep were frightened and Hannah
could not hold the fort, and the sheep went over the gate, and
Hannah went with them, which created quite a sensation. His-
tory does not state whether they had lamb chops later or not.
The family of Worthens was of Salisbury, and Amesbury, Mass.
In the book of "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass. "
published in Providence, R. I., 1905, is the Worthen family.
Written by Benjamin Wilson Plumer, and
Daniel Worthen Plumer
Benjamin Franklin Plumer, son of Jesse, Jr., and Sarah (Pear-
son) Plumer, was born on the Plumer homestead, in North
Sanbornton, N. H., August 16, 1802, and died on the home farm
in Fairhaven, Carroll County, 111., February 27, 1864. He was a
direct descendant of the original Francis Plumer family who came
from Wales, England, in the year 1633, and settled at Newbury,
Mass. Mr. B. F. Plumer attended the public schools in his native
town, the school terms consisting of six or eight weeks each year,
and to round out his education attended an Academy in New
Hampton, N. H., for a few weeks; the intervening time he worked
on the home farm. After completing his studies at the Academy,
he engaged in teaching school, winters, and farming in summer.
He followed teaching very successfully for twenty years, handling
some of the most difficult schools very ably. On November 3,
1829, he married Hannah Rogers Wilson, daughter of Jonathan
Wilson and Elmira (Wyatt) Wilson (see Wilsons). She was of
direct English parentage; her grandfather's home was in London,
Eng. Hannah Rogers Wilson was born at Livermore Falls,
N. H.,and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gould Stevens,
in Salem Township, near Chadwick, 111.
She was left fatherless when five years old, and was taken into
the family of Daniel Worthen, of Holderness, N. H., whose ex-
ceptionally good will and Christian influence helped to mould
her character, and fitted her so admirably to be their companion
and helper, and forged the links of friendship so strong, that they
were like parents and child; these influences in childhood pre-
PLUMER 231
pared her perfectly for the mother of a home and made her the
idol of her husband and children. Her memory will be cherished
by them until life's latest hour.
The same year after their marriage they moved on to the old
Plumer home, that had been in the Plumer name for three gener-
ations, located in Sanbornton, N. H., near Plumer Pond, where
they spent four prosperous years farming, the father teaching
school in winter. Here their daughter, Harriet Wilson, was
born April 26, 1834. Four years later they moved to Plumer
homestead on the ridge road, where they farmed, and he taught
school in winter. Meanwhile, Mr. Plumer studied and prepared
himself for land surveying, which he followed for many years in
Belknap County, substituting for farming, work in Probate
Courts, was Justice of the Peace, also Superintendent of Schools;
was also Captain of the Militia. About the year 1850 he pur-
chased the surveying instruments, formerly owned by his uncle
Parker Plumer, who had become too old to continue the work,
and from that time until he left for the West, he devoted his
time largely to surveying land, drawing legal papers, and was
also an insurance agent; also settled estates.
He moved his family to Fairhaven, 111., in December, 1857,
and settled on what is now the Plumer homestead. When they
went there they found a bare prairie with no improvements, and
the ground was covered with hazel brush and wild barn grass.
After they got a start and as circumstances would permit, they
commenced with others to reduce the privations as much as
possible, and build up and develop the resources of the prairie
lands, and to start church service, and develop the public schools.
He taught school until his death, in 1864.
Benjamin Franklin Plumer was born August 16, 1802; he mar-
ried Hannah Wilson of Holderness, N. H., and they lived in
Meredith, N. H., on the old homestead. They moved to Fair
Haven, 111., and he died there February 12, 1864. He is buried
at the Chadwick, III., cemetery. Their children:
Harriet, a school teacher, d. in Meredith, N. H.
Benjamin Wilson b. March 17, 1837.
Daniel Worthen b. 1844.
Ellen Maria b. Jan. 9, 1846.
Drusilla Leonette b. Oct. 15, 1849.
Benjamin Franklin Plumer
Daniel Worthen Plumer
Drusilla Leonette (Plumer) Stevens Ellen Maria (Plumer) Richards
Benjamin Wilson Plumer Hannah (Wilson) Plumer
Benjamin Franklin Plumer Family
234
FAMILY RECORDS
Benjamin Wilson Plumer (Benjamin Franklin, Jesse, Jr., Jesse),
married Elvira Green, November 24, 1867; she was born October
27, 1847. (See Greens, Nutters.) Their children:
Franklin Leroy b. Aug. 13, 1871; m. Cora Edith Hall, b.
April 15, 1880. They were m. Feb. 24, 1903.
Bertha Ann b. Feb. 10, 1877; m. Charles Cherry, b. Jan.
29, 1877.
Erwin G. Plumer b. Feb. 24, 1882; is an office superintend-
ent in the Emerson Brantingham Company, of Rockford,
111.
Harriet Plumer
Daniel Worthen Plumer (Benjamin Franklin, Jesse, Jr., Jesse)
of Chadwick, 111., married Leonora Leavitt Smith (see Smiths),
in 1883. Their children:
Wayne Worthen b. March 24, 1884.
Lottie Wilson b. Dec. 5, 1885.
Benjamin Smith b. May 7, 1889.
Jesse Frederick b. Oct. 31, 1892.
Harold Rodger b. 1895.
Dudley Leavitt b. March 19, 1898.
Helen Elisabeth b. Oct. 14, 1901.
Wayne Worthen (Daniel Worthen, Benjamin Franklin, Jesse,
Jr., Jesse) married Mary Miller, January i, 1908. Their chil-
dren:
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Elsie Lucille b. Oct. 26, 1908.
WoRTHEN Irvin b. Aug. 19, 1910.
Orville Wilson b. Nov. 2, 1913.
Lottie Wilson (Daniel W^orthen, Benjamin Franklin, Jesse, Jr.,
Jesse) married Elmer C. Rahn. Their children:
Evan George b. June 18, 1908.
Leonora Elisabeth b. Dec. 30, 1910.
Benjamin Smith, of Bassano, Alberta, Canada (Daniel Worthen,
Benjamin Franklin, Jesse, Jr., Jesse) married Florence McClary
of Chadwick, 111. Their child:
Jean McClary Plumer b. April 6, 1914.
Jesse Frederick (Daniel Worthen, Benjamin Franklin, Jesse, Jr.,
Jesse) married A. lona Haynes. Their child:
Helen Frances Plumer b. Sept. 22, 1915.
Ellen Maria Plumer, of Sunnyside, Washington (Benjamin
Franklin, Jesse, Jr., Jesse), born December 21, 1846, married
William Richards, December 2^] , 1871. Their children:
James Wilson Richards b. Oct. 6, 1872.
Odessey L. Richards b. Sept. 13, 1875.
Drusilla Leonette Plumer, of Lanark, 111. (Benjamin Franklin,
Jesse, Jr., Jesse), married Gould Stevens, January 18, 1883. No
issue.
The making of cider, at this period, was a great event on an
October morn. The apples were crushed by large cog-wheels
driven by a crank, to which a horse was hitched walking around
in a circle, and the apples passing through made a peculiar dull
groan, as if protesting against being so unmercifully squeezed.
One or two boys, with wooden paddles, sat on a board to scrape
the pulp out from between the cogs. After being ground, the
pulp was put on a layer of rye straw, alternately, until there were
three or four feet deep, and left to drain over night. Oh! the
jolly fun of sucking sweet cider through a straw at the press. It
was a joy almost forever, for a boy would manage to put himself
outside of an immense quantity of apple juice, and for an indefi-
nite time. His stomach took on an elasticity which would dis-
courage the most yielding gutta percha, and suggested the thought
of a bottomless reservoir.
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238 . FAMILY RECORDS
Tradition states that Benjamin Plumer used to tell the story,
that one young man having quite a taste for cider, drank quite
a copious supply of new cider of fourteen drinks (each drink not
a glass, but consisting of one quart, each), which caused some
wrangling in his stomach, and not feeling well, he called at a
neighbor's on the way home, to get a drink of old cider (which
consisted of about one quart), to settle his digestive organs.
After having one drink (one quart), he thought he must have
another to feel right, and it terminated in his drinking four drinks,
on top of the fourteen drinks (quarts) of new cider at the press.
From History of Rockingham County, N. H.
The Garrison House, in Londonderry, N. H., is where Mr.
John A. Plumer was born; he remembered looking through the
holes, cut in the immense timbers, through which an assailed
party could thrust their guns (when he was a boy), not far from
1718.
Daniel Plumer of Dover, N. H., married Sarah Wentworth,
January 28, 1720.
ARaingof Lots, known as the Letter C, was where John Plumer
got his grant of land, on the right of his great-grandfather,
Joseph Plumer, No. 5. This was granted to soldiers in the
Narragansett War, 1735. (This was an Indian War.)
Daniel Plumer and wife Sarah (Wentworth), had a son Ephraim
born October 12, 1720, and a daughter Hannah, born April 25,
1722.
Benjamin Plumer died in Portsmouth, N. H., May 8, 1740,
aged 24 years.
Benjamin Plumer married Sarah Adams, born March 2, 1756.
They were married June I, 1777. She was a descendant of Robert
Adams, of Devonshire, England.
Benjamin Plumer (son of Sylvanus, and Sarah Plumer)
of Newbury, Mass, married Keziah Storer, about 1719. Their
children :
Sarah.
Benjamin.
Hannah.
Kezia.
Elisabeth.
Seth.
Ebenezer b. July 10, 1727.
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239
Anecdote
(Some places of historic interest on Christian Shore, now called
North Portsmouth.)
Christian Shore took its name at Portsmouth, N. H., from the
fact that a few families lived there in the north part of the city,
where the north hill bridge now is, that were very strict in Puritan
principles. About 1646 there were a few that were more loose
First Wentworth House, Portsmouth, N. H.
in their habits and when censured they named this place Christian
Shore. Earlier it was called "Strawberry Bank Creek."
In 1664 a William Ham lived on the other side of the Bank.
There is also the old Jackson house, of two stories, built as early
as 1664, which is the oldest house in Portsmouth. The roof
reaches the ground on the north side ; the frame is of oak, and the
timbers which form the sills extend into the lower rooms, affording
a stationary seat for the children of six generations. It is now
occupied by Nathaniel Jackson, a descendant of the original
proprietor.
240 FAMILY RECORDS
Not far away is the Timothy Water house, old site of the tanner
and shoemaker, who married Miss Moses. Among their six
daughters, was Lydia, who married Captain Colby, who sailed
in the employ of Sir William Pepperell.
Captain Ephraim Dennett of Christian Shore, after Colby's
death took a liking to the widow, and to save the trouble of fre-
quent visits to Kittery in the winter, he paid her board at a
relative's on Christian Shore by furnishing the family with wood
for the winter. In the spring they were married and took up
their residence in the prominent Dennett house, now known as
the "Beehive." After a few years she again became a widow,
and, like a good housewife, in those days when factories were
unknown, she kept her flock of sheep, and attended to the various
processes of converting their product into cloth; somehow her
fame extended beyond the limits of the town, and brought her
to the notice of John Plumer, of Rochester, N. H. Near the
house was a spring which still flows on as of old. It was the time
of wool washing; laying aside the widow's weeds, and dressed in
a leather apron, a man's broad brim hat and other apparel to
match, she was washing wool at the spring when a stranger on
horseback approached, and inquired for the residence of the
widow Dennett. Nothing daunted, she pointed to the house,
directing him to the front door, while she stepped round and
entered the back door. He was not long waiting before the lady
of the house in comely apparel appeared. The gentleman in-
troduced himself as John Plumer, of Rochester. He told her he
had heard of her good reputation, said perhaps it was too soon to
come courting, but would ask the privilege in proper time of
proposing himself to her favorable consideration. In due time
Judge Plumer came again, and they were married. They lived
together happily many years, and their gravestones in Rochester
record the ages at about ninety years.
Whether he ever inquired who it was he found washing wool at
the spring, history fails to tell, but if the events at the well where
Rebecca was found were of sufficient importance to be perpetu-
ated, there is certainly enough of the primitive simplicity in the
meeting at the spring to keep it in lasting remembrance by the
descendants of that respectable family. Tradition states that
whenever we pass by the old mansion across the mill-pond, there
appears the vision of the Judge on his horse and the industrious
PLUMER 241
widow disguised under her broad-brim and leathern apron. A
little variation from Maud Muller, and not the same results.
She had one son, Jeremiah Dennett. John Plumer had children
by a previous wife, George, Ephraim, John, Mark, Jeremiah,
William, Lydia, Susannah, Ann, and Catherine.
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WILSON OF AIRDRIE
Coat of Arms, Arg, a lion rampant between three mullets sa, on a chief vert
a crescent of the first two mullets pierced or. Crest, a demi-Iion sa, charged
on the body with a crescent arg between two mullets pierced or all pale.
Motto, Semper vigilans (Ever Watchful).
Lineage, The family of Wilsons is of antiquity in the upper Ward of Lanark-
shire, and in the parish of Carnwath. William Wilson, of Erdhous, raised an
action for spoliation against his neighbor in 1484. A son of his son John,
James, purchased the lands of Hinschelwood. He married in 1655, Janet
Somerville; after the descendants of three Williams was James, born in 1777,
who married Helen Menzeis. They had a son James of Airdrie County,
Lanark; he married Agnes, daughter of William Motherwell; their issue, a son
John, was created a baronet.
WILSON
Thomas Wilson came from Scotland to New England in 1633.
He came to Exetor prior to 1638; joined the Exeter Combination;
died in 1643. He left issue of a son Humphrey, who married
Judith, daughter of William Hersey; he died in 1698. They left
six children.
Deacon Thomas Wilson (Humphrey, Thomas) born May 20,
1672, married Mary Light. He received a grant of land, in 1798,
of 50 acres and another of 200 in 1825.
Humphrey Wilson, ** born 1699, had a son Capt. Nathaniel,
born 1739, who married Elisabeth Barber who was killed by the
Indians, March 15, 1762.
May I, 1649, the town of Exeter entered into an agreement
with Gowen (Smith) Wilson to "keep all the neat herd of the
town from one year up until three weeks after Michaelmas; to
drive the cow-herds into the woods and watch them and drive
them back at night, and keep them all day in the best feeding
places on both sides of the river; and to keep them every third
Sabbath day. The inhabitants to pay him as followeth, at the
first entry to have a peck of corn, a^head, for all, and for each and
every milch cow, a pound of butter a cow." The cattle had to
get their feed in the woods and a cow herd was necessary to keep
them from straying. The mode of compensation shows the
lack of money among the people. Tradition states that Thomas
Wilson was located in 1638 on the eastern side of the river and
was undoubedtly one of Wheelwright's Company, also Thomas
Leavitt.
The falls of the Squamscot formed a basin which was the well
known fishing place of the Indians at Exeter Village.
Thomas Wilson came to this country in 1633, with his wife and
three sons, Humphrey, Samuel, and Joshua and had children
born here. He settled in Roxbury, Mass., being in sympathy
with Wheelwright; he came with him to Exeter, but later made
peace with the church he had left. He was a signer of the Com-
bination. In the first division of lands he received 4 acres, 28
rods, of marsh. He built the first gristmill in town. He died in
1643 leaving a will; his wife married, the next year, John Legat,
and she had trouble with the son Humphrey about the estate,
which was referred to the County Court at Ipswich, Mass.
246 FAMILY RECORDS
Humphrey Wilson spent his life in Exeter, and kept up the
gristmill after his father's death.
The files of Old Norfolk show the town at an early date be-
stowed upon Thomas Wilson the island in the river at the falls,
on which his house and grain-mill were located, and reserved to
the inhabitants only the right to land their canoes, and lay their
fish there. That part of the stream on the eastern side of the
island was known as Wilson's Creek. The town granted to
Thomas Wilson that creek or water course at the higher fall to
dig and draw water without limitation, also the "little island on
which his mill and house standeth." In 1640 the town passed
an order for "the millers toll."
In the engagement of Rev. Samuel Dudley, 1650, as a pastor,
"every inhabitant of the town shall pay for every thousand pipe
staves he makes, two shillings for the maintanance of the minis-
tery; and for every thousand of hogshead staves one shilling six-
pence; and for every thousand of bolts sold before they are made
into staves, four shillings; and what is due from the saw-mills
shall also be used for the ministery."
An agreement was signed up with Mr. Samuel Dudley, signed
by Humphrey Wilson and five others for him to locate as pastor.
In 1696 there was an assignment of pews in the new meeting-
house. Mr. Humphrey Wilson, and his wife, son Thomas, two
daughters, Martha and Mary, had a pew joining to Richard
Hilton's, on the east side of the meeting-house.
In 1664 it was voted that a lean-to should be added to the
meeting-house, with a chimney which should serve as a watch-
house. At the same time Samuel Dudley was preaching there.
In 1679 a few, among them Moses Leavitt, asked for better ac-
commodations for the church-goers. The men voted for another
gallery for the women to sit in. Thus it appears that the little
meeting-house of twenty feet square, which had been enlarged by
a lean-to, and a chimney, and two galleries, was now to have a
third.
Rev. Samuel Dudley died in Exeter, February 10, 1683, aged
73 years.
About 1700 there was a re-organization of the church, and Rev.
Clark, whose wife's grandmother was a sister to Rev. Samuel
Dudley, preached there. After Mr. Clark's death his wife
married Rev. John Odlin, so that for more than a century and a
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quarter the clergymen of the town, from 1650 to 1776, were
connected by ties of blood or marriage.
History states that in 1744, during the Rev. John Odlin's
pastorate, the Rev. George Whitefield was coming to Exeter to
preach, and Rev. John Odlin met him at the border of the town
and solemnly adjured him not to trespass upon his parochial
charge. He was said to be somewhat unyielding in his opinions,
but was a faithful, zealous pastor, and lived in a time of strong
religious excitement and division of opinions. He died in 1754;
his last wife Elisabeth (Leavitt) was a widow of Capt. Robert
Briscoe.
About the middle of the seventeenth century, there were a few
Quakers, among them Samuel and John Dudley, grandsons of
Rev. Samuel Dudley. It is stated that "The Quakers, Samuel
Dudley and others came into our meeting and spoke," and that
"on Mch 7th the Friends were carried into Court, and on the
Lords day Dudley spake after the first singing A. M. The dis-
turbers of the meeting were two women who were fined five
shillings and made to find sureties for future good behavior."
The fines were paid and no more trouble arose from the Quakers.
In 1800 the Baptist society was organized at Exeter, N. H.
The Dudley family dates from 1650. The Rev. Samuel Dudley
had no less than eighteen sons and daughters; they married with
many families and the christian name of Dudley is still widely
used and remembered as a noted name.
Robert Pierce, of Woburn, Mass., born about 1620, married
Mary Knight, daughter of John Knight, of Charlestown, Mass.
They had a son, Jonathan, born March 6, 1658, who married
November 19, 1689, Hannah, daughter of John Wilson.
Thomas Wilson, son of Theophilus who was in Ipswich, 1636,
moved to Brookfield, 1667, and was known to the Indians as
Major Wilson.
He was wounded by the Indians, when the town was destroyed
(Brookfield), and returned to Ipswich, where his daughter
Hannah died in 1682.
"Felt" states he was allowed i pound, October 7, 1675, for his
losses by the enemy at Quaboag.
In Robert Clark's will, September 16, 1662, he "Intreatsmy
Loving friend, Jonathan Wilson, carpenter, to care for my busi-
ness, which he may haue to doe in New England, for y* better
248 FAMILY RECORDS
understaning y^ Magistrates ordered others to helpe y® inventory
of y'' Estate."
ShubaeP (Robert), born January 31, 1639, married Hannah
Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel Wilson, February 7, 1668, of
Lynn, Mass.
Nathaniel Wilson, of Roxbury, married, 1645, Hannah Crafts
of Roxbury, Mass.
Hannah, daughter of Robert and Anna Wilson, was born June
29, 1746.
Jonathan Pierce, born February 2, 1663, married Hannah
Wilson of Woburn, Mass.
Tho Day married Hannah Wilson, daughter of John Wilson,
September 21, 1698, in Hartford.
From Rehoboth Church Records. — Benjamin, Jonathan, and
Hannah, children of Benj. Wilson, were baptized November 14,
1702.
Lancaster, Mass., James Butler and Hannah Wilson were
married March 19, 1723-4.
Under the military life of Major Thompson Maxwell (born in
the fiftieth year of his mother) September ii, 1742, at Woburn,
Mass., speaks of December 16, 1773, when the tea was over-
thrown in Boston Harbor, and states that "seventy-three spirited
citizens, volunters, dressed in Indian Costume, in defiance of
Royal authority, done the daring exploit.
"1775, Apr 18, was at my brother-in-laws, Captain Jonathan
Wilsons and staid there, and sent my team home to Amherst.
"At the bridge, 500 men were stationed. This day, Capt.
Jonathan Wilson was killed."
From Records of Londonderry
The Romance of Ocean Mary Wilson
Previous to 1720, many families of Scotch peasantry crossed
the North Channel and made homes on the near coast of Ireland
for a short time. Thus Londonderry became the residence of a
large number of Scotch yeomanry.
In those days of slow ships, and many perils of the sea, it was a
far cry from Londonderry in Ireland, to Londonderry in the
Granite State. Tradition, often the truer part of history, failed
to record the name of the ship that sailed in July, 1720, from
Londonderry, for Boston. Of those on this ship, who were
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strong of limb and will, was James Wilson and his young wife.
A year before, Wilson married Elisabeth Fulton, and they were
among those who had grants of land in Londonderry, N. H.
Their trip was a stormy one, but all were saved alive. When
nearing land one sultry eve, the lookout saw on the horizon a sail
standing like a grey silhouette against the early rising moon. All
through that hot summer night the strange craft came nearer,
and when morning came her low hull could be seen like a black
shadow, under her set of canvas. The pirate ship was within
gunshot of the emigrant ship, they could neither run away nor
fight, as they had not a dozen muskets on board, so they waited
in suspense. The robbers came on board and bound them all,
but none were killed. Valuables were gathered into parcels to
be transferred to the pirate ship. The head robber, on going
below to search the officer's quarters, threw open the after-cabin
door with a rough hand, but seeing a woman lying in the berth
stopped: "Why are you there?" demanded the ruffian. "See!"
The terrified woman uncovered a baby's face. Then the pirate
drew near. "Is it a boy or girl?" "A girl." "Have you
named her?" "No." The pirate then went to the cabin door
and commanded that no man stir until further orders. Then
returning to where the woman lay he said gently, " If I may name
that baby, that little girl, I will unbind your men afid leave your
ship unharmed. "May I name the girl?" "Yes." Then the
rough old robber came nearer, and took up the unresisting hand
of the baby. "Mary" was the name the woman heard him
speak. There were other words, but spoken so low she could not
hear them. Only his Maker, and his own heart knew, but when
the child drew its hand away the mother saw a tear on the pink
fingers.
As good as his word, the pirate ordered all captives unbound,
and all valuables restored to their places; then with his crew he
left the ship, but the emigrant ship had hardly got under sail
when a new alarm sprang up, that the pirate was returning.
They were surprised to see him return alone to the cabin where he
took a parcel of brocaded silk of marvelous texture and beauty
to the mother and said: "Let Mary wear this on her wedding
day. " The pirate left the ship and was not seen again.
The emigrants soon reached Boston, and there James Wilson
died after landing. His wife Elisabeth (Fulton) Wilson, and
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daughter Mary, soon went to Londonderry, with friends; here
the widow married James Clark, great-great-grandparent of
Horace Greeley.
In 1738, Thomas Wallace came to Londonderry, and married
"Ocean Mary." On her wedding day she wore the pirate's
dress, December 18, 1738.
Tradition states that Ocean Mary was tall and slight, with
blue eyes, light hair, and a touch of aristocracy in her nature,
but her kind manner was charming.
William Wilson's will of 1710, of Hampton, N. H., granted to
the widow one third of the estate, and the rest, less the funeral
expenses, were to be divided between the four daughters, Abigal,
Martha, Hannah, and Elisabeth. She gave bond for settlement
of the estate, and the court gave license to sell the real estate for
the children.
MERRILL
MERRILL
The first settlers of New England were a noble race of men, as
Bancroft states, they were most free from credulity. The
Puritans emancipated themselves from a crowd of observances.
They established a worship purely spiritual; they invoked no
saints; they raised no altar; they kissed no book; they saw in the
priest nothing but a man.
The church was to them a meeting house; they, unlike their
posterity, married without a minister, and buried without a prayer
at the parting of the dead.
Rev. William Thompson, of Braintree, Mass., had a record
book. In this book John Thompson, of Berwick, Me., was the
first minister of Standish, Me., born 1740; he married Sarah Small,
and second, Sarah Merrill, daughter of Elisha Allen of Salisbury,
Mass.
Moses Plumer of Scarboro, Me., married Mary Dyer, of Fal-
mouth, Me., August 26, 1744.
John and Nathaniel Merrill came over to New England soon
after 1630. John had no sons, but left one daughter. He died
in 1673.
Nathaniel Merrill's children :
Nathaniel b. 1638.
John.
Abraham.
Susanna.
Daniel.
Abel b. 1644. These sons all left large families.
John Merrill, son of Nathaniel, by Lucy, his first wife, they
had in Newbury, Mass. Nathaniel was born July 26, 1687.
History states there were three Nathaniel Merrills living in
Haverhill from 1 702-1737, who had 18 children; one of these
married Sarah Woodman, probably the mother of Sarah Merrill,
who married Jesse Plumer, and who settled in the Woodman
house, on the "minister great lot" and later settled in Sanborn-
ton, near the Meredith line, in the so called "Plumer neighbor-
hood."
Nathaniel Merrill settled in Haverhill, N. H., 1723, and had a
family, Sarah, born 1732, a son, James, born 1728, who married
254 FAMILY RECORDS
Molly, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Smith) Emery, of Haver-
hill.
In 1679, Deacon Abraham Merrill was one of the tything men
to oversee ten families, to inspect and look over them, and see
that they attended public worship of God, and do not break the
sabbath ; among the names of these families were Samuel, Richard,
and Christopher Bartlett, of Portsmouth, N. H.
Daniel Merrill lived in Newbury, Mass., and had a son, John,
born 1674; this John had 13 children, among them John, born
1704, who married, January 15, 1722, Lydia Haynes. They had
four children, born in Haverhill, Mass.; then moved to Concord,
N. H., where Major Nathaniel, Jonathan, and Hannah were born.
James Henry Pearson, of Chicago, 111., born in Haverhill,
N. H., had a son, Isaac Pearson, called Major Pearson; he had
nine children, two by first wife, Major Merrill's daughter, and
seven by the second wife. Nathaniel Merrill went to Haverhill,
N. H., from Haverhill, Mass., and married Sarah Hazen, daughter
of Capt. John Hazen; they had twelve children.
Major Merrill was a prominent citizen of the town, held many
prominent positions. Rev. Ethan Smith said: "He knows more
than any man who hasn't more education than he has."
As illustrating his character, a young man was visiting one of
his daughters, and staying as was the custom in those days till,
if not broad daylight, at least until early dawn, when about to
mount his horse to ride away. Major Merrill stopped him and
said, " Abner, stay to breakfast and then go home." The bashful
youth, not wishing to ride home in daylight, replied: "No, I'll
go now." "Well," was the unconditional answer, "If you're
ashamed to go home in broad daylight, you needn't come to see
my daughter." He was quite eccentric, writing receipts with
great humor, using this phrase, "from the beginning of the
world, up to date." He was a man of strong character, large
common sense, and somewhat blunt, but honest, and full of fun.
On one occasion, he had two men working for him whose
honesty needed looking after; he noticed they seemed inclined to
linger about the premises until dark. Major Merrill extinguished
the lights, and took a position at the window for observation.
Pretty soon the loiterers approached the cellar window. Going to
the window. Major Merrill found one of the men holding a bag,
who at once beat a hasty retreat. When the other man came
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with his hands full of salt pork, Major Merrill was holding the bag,
and after bringing several lots, the man asked if he hadn't about
enough, to which Major Merrill, in his usual vigorous English,
replied, " I should think so, by ."
The thief undertook to get out of the window, but was pre-
vented, and he compelled him to go up through the house where
the Major met him. " I want you and the other man to come to
my house to dinner tomorrow, at twelve o'clock, and take dinner
with me." The man could do no more than promise. At twelve
the two men appeared, and a most bountiful boiled dinner awaited
them. They sat down and the Major carried on a lively conver-
sation with them. Dinner over, he leaned back in his chair, and
said to the two men, "When you want pork again, come to my
house, and you shall have all you wish," and then kindly dis-
missed them. They were ever after Major Merrill's most
devoted friends.
One time being asked to give money to civilize the heathen, he
replied, "I'll give twenty dollars to civilize the heathen within
five miles of my home." Major Merrill was a more than usual
striking man; Mrs. Merrill was a woman of rare character, and
came of gentle blood. One of her grandchildren said of her,
" It was a warm sunny spot in my life, when I visited her at
North Haverhill, N. H., and felt her soft hand on my head and
saw her smiling face, as she gave me a slice of bread to eat."
It seems the Pearsons were early settlers of Haverhill, and inter-
married with the Merrills.
Benjamin Merrill of Haverhill, N. H., called Captain, kept a
store. One night, as he locked up, he took a ham, and finding he
had forgotten something laid the ham in a feed-box, and went
back; when he returned the ham was missing. He did not men-
tion it to anyone, but some months after a man asked him, "Cap-
tain, did you ever find out who took your ham?" "Yes, you
are the fellow, walk up and pay for it."
PARSONS
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PARSONS
Fatherland Farm is situated in the parish of Byfield, Newbury,
Mass., of Essex County, and consists of 150 acres. This farm is
part of a tract of land granted by the General Court of the
Colony, in 1635, to Richard Dummer, for the pasturage of
"net cattel," brought over in Dutch ships, to this locality, called
by the Indian name of Quascucunquin, meaning the waterfall,
so called, by a natural barricade of rock across the small river,
over which fresh water flows, to the tide river, and through
marshes, to the Plum Island river, and on to the sea.
Here was set up the first woolen mill in America, in 1739, and
the town name was changed to Newbury Falls. The carding
machines were set up in Lord Timothy Dexter's barn.
Tradition states that John G. Whittier asserts that at Newbury
Falls the old-time witches were baptized here by Satan, and took
the oath of allegiance to his sable Majesty.
Eben Parsons, the founder of Fatherland Farm, was the
second son of Rev. Moses Parsons; he had a son, Eben Parsons,
whom he tried to educate, but the boy preferred to hunt his own
way, so he took his clothing in a bundle, his shoes under his arm,
and started for Gloucester, where he engaged in fishing, off Cape
Ann; he prospered, and soon owned several vessels, and became
one of the largest importers, and had the reputation of being a
"Princely Merchant." He married in 1767, Mary Gorham, of
Barnstable, Mass. Mrs. Alexander Forbes, the present owner
of Fatherland Farm, is a descendant of Rev. Moses Parsons, who
was a native of Brechin, Scotland.
Timothy Dexter was born in Maiden, Mass., in 1747, and was
a leather dresser. He married widow Elisabeth (Lord) Frothing-
ham, daughter of John Lord, of Exeter, N. H., who had some
property, and he was lucky in all his trades. With wealth came
large ideas and vanity. He built a home on ten acres of land in
Newburyport, Mass., laid out the grounds in European style,
put minarets on the roof of the large house, with gilt balls, and
columns, fifteen feet high, in front, about forty in all, having
wooden statues, on each one of them, of some distinguished man.
On each side of the entrance were two huge lions, with open
mouths, to guard the entrance.
26o FAMILY RECORDS
In the most conspicuous place was a statue of himself, with this
inscription: " I am first in the east, the first in the west, and the
great Philosopher of the world." These statues were all carved
in wood by a young ship carver, Joseph Wilson, gaudily painted,
which gave the place a queer appearance, which attracted
crowds of people. It is said he paid Joseph Wilson £ioo, each,
for the statues. He bought much foreign furnishings for his
home, and made a tomb in his yard, and had his coffin made,
then had a mock funeral, where he, in an intoxicated state, sat
back and watched the mourners, but his wife did not shed as
many tears as he thought becoming, and he caned her severely
after the ceremony.
The boys at one time bent on mischief, wanted to crown him
Lord, so they placed him on a table full of liquor; and all had a
carousal.
On one occasion the minister called on him, and offered
prayer; at the close Dexter said: "That was a d d good
prayer, wasn't it, Sam?"
Being persuaded of his greatness by the boys, he wrote a book,
called "Pickle for the Knowing Ones"; it had some sense, and
much nonsense mixed, with no punctuation marks, which was
commented on; so he got a second edition out, with this note:
"Mister Printer, the Nowing ones complane, of my book, the first
edition, had no stops, I put in a Nief here, and they may peper
and solt it, as the plese." He gave away a thousand copies.
Having heard that the kings of England had a poet laureate,
Dexter thought he also should have one. He found Jonathan
Plumer (descendant of Francis Plumer), a young man, peddler
of fish, and then of songs, sermons, etc., and enjoying fun.
Dexter took him into his service; gave him a suit of black livery,
ornamented with stars, and crowned him with parsley, and the
young bard, thus equipped, went around selling verses, in praise
of Lord Dexter, as follows :
Lord Dexter is a man of fame,
Most celebrated, is his name;
More precious far than gold that's pure,
Lord Dexter shine forever more.
Dexter was superstitious, and consulted a fortune-teller,
Madame Hooper, and after her death, Moll Pitcher.
He made a large sum of money speculating in Continental
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money. He was shrewd and quick witted, but would not trans-
act business when intoxicated. One of his noted speculations
was sending 48,000 warming pans to the West Indies, all of
which were bought in Great Britain. He sold them as cooking
utensils, but tradition states that they used them to dip and strain
molasses.
Another speculation was sending mittens to the West Indies.
He told large stories of his stories, of his "Tricks without malice,
when questioned about the secret of how he made his money,
and instead of being the fool he is commonly regarded, he fooled
others."
Rev. William Parsons was born in Boston, Mass., April 21,
1 716, and graduated from Harvard. He married Sarah Burn-
ham, of Durham, N. H.
South Hampton, N. H., was incorporated in 1742. It com-
prised the territory cut off from Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass.,
by the Province Line.
The family of Worthens was of Salisbury, Mass., and Ames-
bury. In the book "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury,"
published in Providence, R. I., 1905, of several volumes, is the
Worthen History.
262 FAMILY RECORDS
A SONG OF THE PIONEERS
By Wm. D. Gallagher
A song for the early times out west,
And our green old forest home,
. Where pleasant memories freshh- yet
Across the bosom come ;
A song for the free and gladsome life.
In the early days we led,
With a teeming soil beneath our feet,
And a smiling Heaven o'erhead !
■ • Oh, the waves of life danced merrily,
And had a joyous flow,
In the days when we were Pioneers
Fifty years ago.
We shunn'd not labor; when 'twas due,
We wrought with right good will;
And for the homes we won for them.
Our children bless us still.
We lived not hermit lives, but oft
' ■■ ,. In social converse met;
And fires of love were kindled then.
That burn on warmly yet.
Oh, pleasantly the stream of life
Persued its constant flow,
' In the days when we were Pioneers
Fifty years ago.
Our forest life was rough and rude.
And dangers closed us round;
But here, amid the green old trees.
Freedom was sought and found.
Oft through our dwellings wintry blasts
Would rush with shriek and moan;
We cared not — though they were but frail.
We felt they were our own!
Oh, free and manly lives we led.
Mid verdure, or 'mid snow,
In the days when we were Pioneers
Fifty years ago.
But now our course of life is short;
And as, from day to day.
We're walking on with halting step.
And fainting by the way,
' Another land, more bright than this,
'To our dim sight appears.
And on our way to it we'll soon
Again be Pioneers!
Yet while we linger, we may all
A backward glance still throw.
To the days when we were Pioneers
Fifty years ago.
GREEN
Creation, 5 March, 1886.
Coat of Arms, Vert guttee d'eau, three stags trippant, or, and two roses
in fesse arg.
Crest, in front of a mount ppr, thereon a stag trippant or, gorged, with a
collar gemel vert, three roses fessewise, arg.
Motto, "Waste not."
Seats, Ken Hill; King's, Lynn County, Norfolk; Heath, Old Hall, Wake-
field County, York.
Club, Carlton.
"Ho far-off ancestors!
Ho! men of other days:
Help me recount your deeds
In lays of fitting praise."
The head of the Greene family was Lord Alexander de Greene de Boketon,
who received his titles and estates, A. D. 1202. He was a knight, at the
King's Court, was a great grandson of one of the Norman nobles who in-
vaded England with William the Conqueror in 1066.
King John bestowed the estate of Boughton, in Northampton, on him, in
1202. At one time the Greenes were the largest landholders in the Kingdom.
Lord Alexander assumed a surname, after his chief estate — de Greene, de
Boketon — namely "The Lord of the Park, of the Deer Enclosure" (A green
in early days, was a park, Boketon, means the bucks (bokes), ton, or poled, in
enclosure, lies in Northampton, Eng.)
Lord Alexander was one of the greatest barons; for five generations, the
Green's spoke the Norman French.
The stecond baron was Sir Walter de Greene; Sir John; Sir Thomas. In
1270, Prince Edward was known as "The Hammer of Scotland."
Sir John perished in Palestine, in 1271.
There were three John Greens in the early days of the Colony.
John, of Quidnessett, sailed from England, on the Mathew, in 1635, aged 29
years; went to St. Christopher, West Indies, but the population being a God-
less set, it did not agree with his Puritan ideas; he sailed to Massachusetts,
and later went to Rhode Island. In 1637, he was with Richard Smith, the
Indian trader, at Quidnessett, Narragansett Baj^; he lived some years with the
Smith family.
In 1637, John Green and Smith were the only white men in the Indian settle-
ment of Quidnessett. John Green, now to be called the first Green of his line
in America, was married in 1642, when 36 years old, to Joan Beggarly, of Mas-
sachusetts, one of Gov. Winthrop's Colony; they raised a good-sized family,
mostly boys.
The great land muddle came on between Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, about the land purchased from the Indians; John Green was a
prominent figure at this time.
July 29, 1676, John Green signed a petition to the King, to put an end to
the troubles which caused havoc in business.
John Green had nine children, four sons, old enough to be freemen, in 1671.
The oldest, Capt. Edward, was born about 1643; Lieut. John; Daniel Henry;
a daughter; Robert, born 1653; James, born 1655; Benjamin; a daughter,
Enfield, named for a town in England; this name passed down five generations.
John Green divided his land among his sons, in Rhode Island; he is thought
to have died in 1695, aged 89; after his wife's death, he went to live with his
son John, at Coventry, and is buried, in the "Old Field Lot," among unmarked
graves.
All the Quidnessett Greens descended from Edward, John, Daniel, James,
and Benjamin. John Green was in the fifteenth generation from Lord Alex-
ander de Green, de Boketon, of 1202.
H. L. Green, Compiler of the Greene family, claims to find evidence of a
great family quarrel. John^ Green disinherited his sons, Edward, Robert,
and Henry, and that they left Rhode Island; Edward went to New York;
Henry went to New Jersey; and Robert went to Virginia. These sons, to
spite their father, who was punctilious to spell his name with the final e,
dropped the last letter. Edward returned and received a portion of his
father's land. Most of the descendants spell their name with the final e,
although it is doubtful if they know how the change came about.
GREENE
Robert, son of Marmaduke Greene, was apprenticed to Giles
Penn, in 1602.
Ann Greene, of Westhoughton, her will proved 161 7, was
probably daughter of William Penn, of Minety, England, the
great founder of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Greene who was born in England in 1606, came to
America; he was a wool draper, of England, having large trans-
actions with London merchants. He came to Maiden, Mass.,
which was named in his honor; he took the freeman oath, in 1645 ;
was captain of a military company, in Maiden, Mass. ; was select-
man, also Representative to General Court, sixteen years;
Speaker of General Court for some time, and to him the juris-
prudence of the Colony is said to have been specially indebted.
Mather calls him a benefactor of the library of Harvard College.
He had a wife, Elisabeth, who died August 2, 1658. They came
to Ipswich, Mass., about 1636, were at Maiden, 165 1. He
married, second, Frances, widow of Robert Cook, and left four
sons and five daughters.
Thomas Greene, son of Thomas, born in England, in 1630,
came to America with his father, and was a farmer of Maiden,
Mass. He took the freeman oath, May 31, 1670, and died Feb-
ruary 13, 1672. He married Rebecca Hill, daughter of Joseph
Hill; she died June 6, 1674.
Thomas Green was a passenger for Virginia, May 28, 1635, on
the Speedwell, of London, England; was under the discipline
of the Church of England, and took the oath of allegiance, at
the age of 24 years,
Thomas Green was of Ipswich, Mass., December 19, 1648.
Thomas Green was born in 1630, and died June 5, 1717, aged
88 years. He married, June 30, 1659, Elisabeth, daughter of
Rufus Barton, of Warwick, R. I., who died August 20, 1693.
Their children, Elisabeth; Thomas; Benjamin; Richard; Wel-
thyan; Rufus; and Nathaniel, born April 10, 1679.
Thomas Greene, of Stanford Ryvers, Essex, England, yeoman,
March 23, 1534, will given of Thomas Greene, of Stanford Ryvers,
1534-1537, states in the Visitation of Herts, that Thomas Wilson,
of Codreth, Herts, had a daughter, wife of Greene, a sister of
266 FAMILY RECORDS
Edward Wilson, who later married Thomas Greene. She mar-
ried first, Thos. Elliott, before she married Greene.
Thomas Greene, of York, England married Frances, only
child of Thomas Feilde, residing at Shipley, Parish of Bradford
with his wife, Ann. Frances (Feilde) Greene conveyed Shipley
Manor to the trustees for the Countess of Rosse, for Feilde
descendants, in 1577.
William "Claiborne's Rebellion" in Virginia, is compared to
Myles Standish leadership in Plymouth Colony; both were
leading pioneers in the settlement of land. William Claiborne
went to Virginia in the party of Sir Francis Wyatt, who was
appointed by King James I, surveyor of the new country; Gover-
nor Calvert became commander of Maryland, a second time.
In June, 1647, he deceased. He was succeeded by Thomas
Green, who was soon deposed, in favor of Mr. W'" Stone, a
Virginia planter.
"A Booke of Entrie for Pafsengers, by y^ Comifson, and.Soul-
diers, according to the Statuti^ pafsing beyond the Saes, begun at
Chriftmas, 1631, and ending at Chriftmas 1632."
"20 Aprilis, 1635, Theis vnder written names, are to be trans-
ported, to New England, imbarqued in the 'Planter.' Nic:
Trarice M'' bound thither the p'ties have brought Certificate
from the Minister of St. Albans, II in Hertfordshire, and Attista-
con, from th# Justices of peace, according to the Lords Order."
Among those were Tho. Greene, 15 years old, Nazing in Essex.
John Greene, who came from Salisbury, England, and was an
associate of Roger Williams in the Providence Purchase in 1638,
was buried at Connimicut farm, Rhode Island; will proved Jan-
uary 7, 1658-9. He had sons, John; Peter, who married Mary,
daughter of Samuel Gorton; James, from whom General N. Green,
of the Revolution, was descended, being great-grandson; Thomas;
and Mary, who married James Sweet, the progenitor of the bone-
setting Sweets.
" Certificates of Head Rights, in the County of Lower Norfolk,
Virginia; 15 Feb 1653, certf, to Thomas Greene, for 300 acres
land for six persons, vz Jane Harvey; Thomas Harvey; John
Haule; William Scott; James Bradshawe; & Thomas Brown."
In 1659, Thomas Greene was in Rhode Island.
Margaret, wife of Thomas Green, died June 22, 1667. Her
son, Thos. Green, died December 19, 1667.
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Maiden, Mass. — "Thomas Green, son'' & Frances Clark, by
Capt Marshall, 05: 7: 1659."
In 1673, Thomas Green was governor of Virginia; Delaware
was after taken from Virginia. There was much dealing in
slaves at this period. Previous to Governor Green's reign, Ben-
nett was governor. He asked that some Puritan ministers be
sent to preach the pure gospel to non-conformists in Nansemond
County, Virginia.
Thomas Green, son of Thomas Green, died April 15, 1674.
Thomas Green was in King Philip's War, December 10, 1675.
They were fighting the Narragansetts, in Rhode Island.
Thomas Green, of Maiden, Mass., married Hannah Vinton,
about 1680, daughter of John Vinton, a worker of iron; he lived
in Maiden about 20 years. The Vintons came from France,
about 1685, originally they settled in Essex, England, before
they came to America.
John Greene, of Parish of Petsoe, in County of Gloucester,
Virginia, was a mariner and bound out to sea, in the ship, Thomas
and Francis; Captain Simmons, Commander, April 15, 1685,
mentions in his will, six hundred acres land, in the Parish of
Petsoe, with house, etc., bequeathed to him by his father, John
Greene, deceased ; he bequeathed to all his relations twelve pence
each. Thomas Greene was granted 270 acres land on Elisabeth
River, June 11, 1652.
Thomas Greene died April 28, 1694.
Thomas Greene, Jr., married Ann Greene, May ly, 1686, in
Warwick, R. I.
Thomas Greene and Hannah Haseltine were married January
I, 1 700-1.
Thomas Greene (1731-1810) served as second lieutenant in
Capt. Benjamin Adams' Company. He was born at Reading,
Mass., where he died.
A sermon preached in Trinity Church, at the funeral of Thomas
Green, Esq., August 5, 1763, in Boston, Mass., states his wife
was a widow, with several children when he married her; and his
own children are spoken of. A most excellent character is given
him. His trade and business was extensive. There were six heirs,
and the respected mother undertakes for two of them under age.
Thomas and Samuel Green were printers, in New Haven, Conn.,
1769.
268 FAMILY RECORDS
The settling of Marietta, Ohio, marked the opening of the
Great West; and dates more than eleven decades. Those who
have read of the early pioneers, have a deep regard for them.
The founders of this state were grander men than Romulus or
Remus, and were more tried warriors, and nobler than any
Trojan. The heroes of 1788 were soldiers, tried in battle, and
all lovers of equality, and jealous of the rights of men. Picka-
way County, Ohio, was formed, January 12, 1810, from Ross,
Fairfield, and Franklin counties. The name is a miss-spelling
of Piqua, the name of a tribe of the Shawanose. Piqua means
"a man formed out of the ashes." The original settlers were from
Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Thomas^ Green (Thomas^, John^, Thomas^, Thomas^, John^),
born December 6, 1745, was a (posthumous child); provisional
legacy, by his father's will. He married Mercy, daughter of
Capt. Peter and second wife, Mercy (Wanton) Cooke, born
July 8, 1746; died "1-5-1825." Thomas Greene was a Quaker
preacher, of Smithfield; on account of his Quaker views, he was
obliged to flee to Nova Scotia; he afterwards went to Rutland,
Vt., and later to Nantucket, Mass. He had a son, Thomas,
who went West, where he died.
Thomas Greene had two wives, the first was Elisabeth, daugh-
ter of John Gardner, of Gardner's Island. The second was Mrs.
Martha (Coit) Hubbard; below is the proposal for Miss Martha
Coit's hand, in marriage, by Daniel Hubbard, whom she after-
ward married, of New London, Conn.:
To Mr Jhon (sic) Coit.
att
N-LONDON.
Honoured Sir & Mad™, J blush & tremble on my knees while J study how to
approach your Presence, to ask of you a Blessing for which J have long ad-
dress'd y« Skies. From my first Acquaintance at your House I have wish'd
my Happiness thence; nor have J yet found it in my Power tos seek it from an
Other.
My careful Thoughts with ceaseless Ardors command y® Affair to that
Being, who alone inspires a pure & refined Love. The Eye-Lids of y* Morning
discover me in my secret Places, with my first Devotions, sollicting y« dear
i'mportant Cause: and y" Evening Shades are conscious to y^ Vows J make for
y® f' Creature, who next to Heaven holds the Empire of my Heart. And now
while J write J pray y^ great Master of Souls, to incline yours to favour my
Address. By y® Love of God, J beseech you — y® happy Parents of my Partner
Soul — but J forbare till J may be honored with y® Oppertunity of a personal
GREEN, GREENE 269
Application: In y" mean time J consecrate my best Wishes To >■•= Jnterest of
y® Family — & with yf higest Respect subscribe my Self, Sir and Madame y
most devoted humble Servant.
D. Hubbard.
Stonington, Decem^t"- 1730.
Written in chronicles of the Indians, on Colonel Spotswood,
who in a company of rangers, in scouting for Indians on the
frontiers of Virginia was lost and perished in the woods, in 1757;
his bones were found the next year 1757:
"Courageous youth, were now thine honor'd sire
To breathe again, and rouse his wonted fire;
Nor French, nor Shawnoe durst his rage provoke
From great Potomac's springs to Roanoke.
Or had brave Oglethorpe our warriors led,
And tribes of Indians to his friendship wed;"
Indian Troubles
A short time after the settlement of Marietta, Ohio, an associa-
tion was formed under the name of the "Scioto Land Company."
A contract was made for the purchase of lands in the Ohio
Company's Purchase. They tried to secure titles, and finally
applied to Congress in June, 1798, when a grant was made to them
of a tract of land on the Ohio river above the mouth of the Scioto
river, called the " French Grant."
The state of Virginia, early in the Revolutionary war, raised
two descriptions of troops, State and Continental, to each of
which bounties of land were granted. These lands were situated
on the northwest bank of the Ohio river.
In 1789, a treaty was made at Fort Harmer, between Governor
St. Clair and the Sachems, and warriors of the Wyandot, Chip-
pewa, Potawatamie, and Sac nations; it did not prove favorable,
and the Indians assumed a hostile appearance; a force of 2,300
men conquered the Indians. In 1791, General Butler and 600
men were killed.
Quite an army from Virginia was raised to subdue the Indians
in Ohio. About 1774, an army from Virginia went to Piqua
County, under Lord Dunmore, with a force of 3,000 men to the
Scioto towns.
The first white child born in Fairfield, Greene County, Ohio,
was the son of Mrs. Ruhama Greene. This lady emigrated to
Ohio in 1798, and settled three miles west of Lancaster, Ohio,
270 FAMILY RECORDS
where her child was born. This sketch appended to her, is from
Col. John M 'Donald, of Ross County. Mrs. Ruhama Green
was born and raised in Jefferson County, Virginia. In 1785,
she married Mr. Charles Builderback, and with him crossed the
mountains, and settled at the mouth of Short Creek, on the
western shores of the Ohio, a few miles above Wheeling.
Her husband was a brave man who had on many occasions
distinguished himself in repelling the Indians, who had often
had sure aim by his unerring rifle, and they were determined to
kill him.
On a beautiful morning in summer, in June, 1789, at a time
when it was thought the enemy had abandoned the western
shores of the Ohio, Capt. Charles Builderback, his wife, and
brother Jacob Builderback, crossed the Ohio, to look after some
cattle. On reaching the shore, a party of fifteen or twenty
Indians rushed from ambush and fired on them. Jacob was
wounded on the shoulder. Charles was taken while running to
escape. Jacob returned to the canoe and got away. In the
meantime, Mrs. Builderback secreted herself in some drift-wood.
As soon as the Indians had secured and tied her husband, and
not being able to discover her hiding place, they compelled him
with threats of immediate death, if he did not call her to him.
With a hope of appeasing their fury, he did so. She heard him
but did not answer. Here, to use her words, "A struggle took
place in my breast, that I cannot describe. Shall I go to him and
become a prisoner, or shall I remain, and go to our cabin and care
for our two children." He shouted to her a second time, saying
if she came perhaps it would save his life. She no longer hesi-
tated but surrendered herself to his savage captors; all this took
place in view of their cabin, on the opposite shore, and where they
left their son, three years old, and an infant daughter.
The Indians, knowing they would be pursued as soon as the
news of their visit reached the stockade, at Wheeling, Va., com-
menced their retreat. Mrs. Builderback and Husband, travelled
together that day and night; the next morn, the Indians separated
into two bands, one taking Mr. Builderback, the other his wife,
and continued westward by different routes.
In a few days the band having Mrs. Builderback in custody,
reached the Tuscarawus river, where they encamped, and were
soon joined by the band that had her husband in charge. Here
GREEN, GREENE 271
the murderers exhibited his scalp, on top of a pole, and to con-
vince her pulled it down and threw it in her lap, to convince her
they had killed him. She recognized it at once by the redness of
his hair. She said nothing, and uttered no complaint. It was
evening; her ears pained with the terrific yell of the savages,
and she was so wearied by her long travelling that she leaned
against a tree and fell asleep. When she awoke the scalp was
gone, and she never learned what became of it.
Note. — Captain Builderback commanded a company at
Crawford's defeat. He was a large noble-looking man, and a
bold intrepid warrior. He was in the bloody Moravian campaign,
he shed the first blood on that occasion, when he shot and toma-
hawked and scalped Shebosh, a Moravian chief. But retribution
and justice was meted out to him. After the Indians killed
Builderback they asked his name. "Charles Builderback."
After a pause, the Indians stared at each other in malignant
triumph, "Ha!" said they, "you kill many Indians — you kill
big Captain — you kill Moravians."
As soon as the capture of Builderback was known at Wheeling,
a party of scouts followed the trail and found the body of Builder-
back. He had been tomahawked, and scalped, and no doubt
suffered a lingering death.
The Indians, on reaching their towns on the Big Miami,
adopted Mrs. Builderback into a family, with whom she resided
until released from captivity. She was a prisoner nine months,
performing the drudgery of the squaws; such as carrying in meat
from the hunting grounds; preparing and drying it; making
moccasins and clothing for the family. After her adoption, she
suffered much from the rough and filthy manner of Indian living,
but was treated fairly.
In a few months after her capture, some friendly Indians in-
formed the commandant at Fort Washington that a white woman
was in captivity at the Miami towns; she was ransomed, and
brought into fort, and in a few weeks, sent up the river to her
lonely cabin, to her two orphan children. She then re-crossed
the mountains, and returned to her native county.
In 1 791, Mrs. Builderback married John Greene, and in 1798,
they emigrated to the Hockhocking valley, and settled about
three miles west of Lancaster, where she resided until her death,
in 1842. She survived John Green about ten years.
272 FAMILY RECORDS
(This John Green and wife, formerly Mrs. Charles Builder-
back, are the great-grandparents, of Mrs. Elvira (Green) Plumer,
wife of Wilson Plumer of Rockford, 111. See Plumers.)
This article was taken from the Ohio Historical Collections,
published in 1869, by H. Howe.
Charles Builderback, son of the captain, went to Huntsville
County, Ky., in 1834, to Birmingham township, Schuyler and
Brown counties, 111. He was a farmer and stock raiser. He
married Sarah L. Crawford, who died August 21, 1881.
Greene
The Greenes of Virginia are of an ancient English family;
their lineage traces back to the fourteenth century.
March 28, 1689, William Greene, with others, refused to go on
a voyage in an unseaworthy vessel.
Robart Greene, the first of the family in Virginia, came to the
Colony in 171 2; he died in 1795; located first in King George's
County, later in Orange County. In 1731, he was vestryman of
St. Mark's Parish. He inherited 120,000 acres of land in the
Valley from his uncle. Sir William Duff ; he married Eleanor Dunn.
September 30, 1737, William Greene and Mary Amos.
June 24, 1746, in a letter from Gov. William Greene, governor
of Rhode Island, to Governor Clinton, of New York, requesting
him to release so many persons, that were freemen, subjects of
the King of Spain, as can be found in his government.
December 18, 1760, in will of William Greene, of Cron Elbow
Precinct, in Duchess County, N. Y., leaves the choice of his
negro slaves to his wife Martha, etc., and to sons Stephen; Wil-
liam, Jr; and Joseph, etc.
March 9, 1774, among list of Justice of the Peace, was Thomas
Greene, for Charlotte County, N. Y.
Married in New York, June 3, 1782, Thomas Greene and Debby
Tucker.
May 2, 1785, Caleb Greene, of North Casrel, Westchester
County, N. Y., willed to son, Thomas Green, a tract of land, also
to William Green, some land.
William Green, of Culpepper County, Va., married Lucy Wil-
liams; one of their sons, John, son of William Green, of Culpep-
per County, married Mary Brown.
William Green, LL.D., born 1806, married Columbia Slaugh-
ter.
GREEN, GREENE 273
John Green, of Virginia, married Mrs. Ruhama Builderback
(widow of Capt. Charles Builderback, who were both captured
by the Indians, in 1789. See the Indian troubles.) They were
married previous to 1798, as their son William was the first
white child born in Green County, Ohio.
Tradition saith, they went overland to Ohio, from Virginia.
William Green, son of John Green, and Mrs. Builderback, had
issue of a son Thomas, who married Rebecca -^ — ^^'." i ^ ^
Thomas Green (William^; John^) married, in Ohio, Christiana
Nutter (see Nutters), daughter of Thomas Nutter, and Mary, or
Nancy McBride. The Nutters went to Ohio about 1832.
Thomas Green and family moved to Fulton, 111., about i860;
he farmed in summer and taught school in winter, very success-
fully. In 1 861, they moved to York Township, 111., and later
bought a farm in Salem Township, 111. Later in life, they moved
to Nebraska, where they both died. They had children:
Elvira Green b. 1848; m. Wilson Plumer. (See Plumers
and Nutters.)
Eden Green m. Clara H^dkinson, of Nebraska.
Elmina Green, married Orlando Howe, of Fairhaven, 111.
Their children:
Elmina Howe m. Henry Marts.
Cora Howe m. Harry McLoughflin.
Rebecca Howe m. Frank Bufington.
Frank Howe m. Neva Coughfiin.
Children of Lewis P. Green, and Anna W. McGaw Green. He
was born in 1855.
Mable m. Minard; lives in Clinton, Iowa.
Gertrude m. Romsdal; lives in Missouri Valley,
Iowa.
Thomas L. Green lives in Sargent, Neb.
IvA m. — Thomas; lives in Crawford, Neb.
Helen m. — — — • Baldwin; lives in York, Neb.
Margurette m. Newman; lives in Aurora, Neb.
Lenora m. Smith; lives in Missouri Valley, Iowa.
Robert L. Green (V. S.) lives in Woods River, Neb.
Clara Green, aged 19 in 191 5.
Bess Fern Green, York, Neb.
Lois Green, York, Neb.
Pauline Green 1 ^ . , . ■ ^^.r. \/ 1 im u
LuciLE Green / ^^^"^' ^^^^ '^ ^^^'^^ ^" ^915- York, Neb.
Bernice Green; lives in York, Neb.
19
274 FAMILY RECORDS
Christiana Green married Elias Spencer, of Chadwick, 111,
They had children:
William A.
Lee B. m. Bertha Loechael; they had five children.
Ola E. m. Forrest Doherty; they have one child.
Rebecca Green married William Myers, of Nebraska. Their
children : . "
Fred. '
Albert.
Catherine.
Beaver.
Sophronia Green married Ray Kinkaid of Nebraska. Their
children: . . .
Leslie.
Myrtle.
Guy.
Ellis. '
NUTTER
NUTTER
Lucinda Cleveland (descendent of Edward Doton, who came
over in the Mayflower, 1620, and married Faith Clark) married
Christopher Nutter, of Palermo, Maine.
Among the Yorkshire pedigrees, of England, was Nutter, who
had Visitations for Coat of Arms, in 1584, and 1612.
Hatevil Nutter, an elder and preacher, was born in 1603; he
was one of a company induced to leave England with Captain
Wiggin in 1635, and to help found on Dover Neck, N. H., a "com-
pact town" which never went farther than "High Street, &
Dirty Lane"; he received lots of land, in different localities. In
1643, he received a grant of land between Lamprill and Oyster
River, which was laid out to his son Antony, in 1662 ; he also gave
the " Welchman's Cave," to Antony, to go afterward to Antony's
son, John Nutter.
"The Elder was rich, and respectable, disliked the Quakers,
and died in a good old age, about 7 1 yrs old ; his wife Anne
mentions in will, Antony; Mary (Winget) ; and Abigal (Roberts).
Anthony Nutter lived for a time on Dover Neck, afterward at
Welchman's Cove, on Bloody Point, where his home, a garrison
house, was built.
In 1667, he was corporal; in 1683, lieutenant; freeman in 1662.
"He was described as a tall, big man named Antony Nutter."
He was with Wiggin, in Cranfield's time; visited Mason when
Mason got his wig burned, his teeth knocked out and other acci-
dents.
He married Sarah, daughter of Henry Langstaff, who outlived
him; he died February 19, 1686. Their children:
JOHN^.
Hatevil^.
Henry^.
Sarah, whom. Capt. Nathaniel Hill.
HateviF Nutter lived in Newington (Bloody Point) ; was twice
married, and died in 1745. He gave his wife "Negro Caesar,"
to sons Hatevil, and Antony, all lands in Rochester, N. H. To
sons John and Joshua, all lands in Newington, N. H. To five
daughters, Eleanor, Sarah (Walker), Abigal (Dam), Elisabeth
278 FAMILY RECORDS
(RawHngs), and Olive, he gave ten pounds each. The chil-
dren by first wife were Hatevil, Antony, Eleanor, Sarah, by
second wife, John, born February 24, 1721; Joshua; Abigal;
Elisabeth; Olive. John, son of Hatevil, born February 24, 1721,
married, November, 1747, Anna Simms, born October 20, 1727.
Their children : Hatevil, born December i, 1748; Mary; Hannah;
Dorothy; John, born March 5, 1759; Anna; Joseph, died young;
Anthony, born February 17, 1764; Hannah; Abigal. There are
numerous descendents in Strafford County, N. H.
John Nutter married Elisabeth , who was born January
22, 1714, and died in 1785. Abigal Nutter married Isaac Went-
worth, descendant of William Wentworth. John Nutter was
son of Anthony Nutter, his wife, Sarah, was born December 27,
1663. John Nutter was killed by the Indians, March 14, 1675,
at Groton, Mass., in King Philip's war time.
Lemuel Nutter, 1767, in North Hampton, N. H.
Anthony Nutter and Sarah had John, born December
27. 1673, and others.
Sargeant John Nutter lived on Dover Neck, had a daughter
Hatevil, who married Thomas Roberts. Their children: Joseph,
Hatevil, Thomas, Abigal ; he was a delegate to the New Hampshire
Convention in 1689.
Among New Hampshire petitioners, in 1689, was John Nutter,
for defense of the country.
In the winter expedition of Major Walderne; Lieut. Nutter,
and Capt. Frost captured Megunnaway, a notorious rogue, and
carried him on their vessel. In 1678, this war with the Indians
closed, and many Indians were captured and sold as slaves; and
to many nothing was left but hate and vengeance upon the Eng-
lish.
May 16, 1716, were married in Newington, N. H., Hatevil
Nutter and Leah Furber.
March 12, 1721, John Nutter, son of Hatevil and Leah (Fur-
ber), was baptized.
In a Muster Roll, "of Capt. Joseph Heath, & Company, from
May 2^ to Novem"" 14th, 1722, was Eben Nutter. Sent, sent
to St Gorges Garrison, and near y'' mouth y" River, or near y*"
sea."
In the lineage of President Abraham Lincoln, a deed was made
December 14, 1725, in Pennsylvania, between Mordecai Lincoln,
NUTTER 279
and Samuel Nutt, for goods and tools, and for iron work. The
location was Coventry, Chester County, Penn. ; the consideration,
five hundred pounds. They quitclaimed to William Branson,
of Philadelphia, Penn.
June 28, 1727, Hatevil Nutter married Rebecca Ayers.
February 18, 1728, Hatevil Nutter, "ow, cov, and bap, and ad
to full com."
April 7, 1728, Sam'l Nutter "ow cov, and bap."
April 8, 1733, Sam'l, son to Sam'l and Sarah Nutter, was
baptized.
September 2, 1736, Henry Nutter, son to Henry and Mary
Nutter, was baptized.
October 24, 1736, Mathais Nutter, and wife, "ow, cov, had a
son Mathais and Thomas, baptized."
December 19, 1736, Mark, son of Hatevil and Rebecca Nutter,
was baptized.
March 4, 1739, Samuel, son to Samuel and Sarah Nutter, was
baptized.
November 17, 1747, John Nutter, of Newington, N. H., mar-
ried Anna Syms, of Portsmouth, N. H.
January 22, 1749, Joshua Nutter married Sarah Richards.
September 13, 1753, Charles Dennet married Hannah Nutter.
January 15, 1755, John Nutter married Mirriam Nutter, of
Newington, N. H.
James Nutter, of Dover, N. H., married Ester Dam, daughter
of (John\ John^, John^, John^ born 1695, married Elisabeth
Bickford, February 29, 17 18, Uved on the ancestral farm, at
Dam's Point) ; she was born 1736, married December, 1755.
June I, 1756, Antony Nutter, of Newington, N. H., married
Sarah Nutter, of Portsmouth, N. H.
In Billeting Roll "of Capt Lawrence's Cpany, 1758, Comorp.
Nichols Rigment, was Simon Nutting, Apr 10, out 46 days, also
Benjamin Nutting, out 53 days."
February 9, 1769, Jotham Nutter and Elisabeth Downing;
married March 21, 1771, Christopher Nutter and Mary Layton.
Jacob Nutter was taken from the sloop. Charming Polly, May
16, 1777, to Old Mill Prison, England, and exchanged. This
prison was situated on a promontory projecting into the Sound,
between Plymouth, and Plymouth Dock, England, called "Mill
Hill," because formerly there were many wind-mills on this high
SWIFT
POEM
By Miss Stevens
' Roll back, thou tide of time,
Nor let thy pace be slow.
And place us where our fathers stood
A hundred years ago.
Theirs was a thorny way,
A rugged path they trod;
Theirs, too, a noble courage was,
To dare so wild a road.
Heroic, brave and true
In Heaven alone their trust,
Our fathers faced a savage foe,
Nor deemed the act unjust."
SWIFT
From the Swift Genealogy
William Swift came from Booking, Suffolk County, England,
in the great Boston immigration of 1630-1, and settled at Water-
town, Mass., where he was a proprietor in 1636.
In the Great Dividends of Town Lands, July 25, 1636, William
Swift drew No. 14, being a forty-acre lot. In 1636-7 he drew a
five-acre lot at "Beaver Brook Plowlands." In 1641, he sold
and moved to Sandwich, Mass., the farm he bought there was the
largest farm in Sandwich, was owned in 1887 by his lineal de-
scendant, Shadrach Freeman Swift.
William Swift married Joan Sisson; he died in 1643-4; she
survived him about twenty years. Her will, dated November
26, 1663, bequeathed to Daniel Wing's two sons, Samuel and
John, and to her grandchildren, and others; her son William was
made executor. Children of William^ Swift, and Joan (Sisson)
Swift.
William^ b. in England, about 1627; d. at Sandwich, Mass.,
/ Jan. 1705-6. He was deputy to the General Court.
' Hannah m. Daniel Wing, Nov. 5, 1641.
Easter m. Ralph Allen, 1645.
William m. Ruth — — — -.
William^ Swift married Ruth — -. Their children:
Hannah m. — — — Tobey.
William'' b. Aug. 28, 1654.
Ruth d. young.
Ephraim b. June 6, 1656; m. Sarah
Mary b. April 7, 1659; m. Ezra Perry.
Samuel b. April 16, 1662; m. Mary
JiREH m. Abigal Gibbs. , ^,^AC.
Temperance m. Deacon Timothy Bourne.
Easter m. — — — - Gibbs.
Dinah m. — - Perry, j, /^'•'jA-r5 .' '
JosiAH m. Mary Bodfish; second. Experience Nye.
1643 Records of Sandwich, Mass. — Able to bear arms, William
Swift. Wm^ Swyft, will, December 15, 1705-6.
William^ Swyft was born August 28, 1654, and married Elisa-
beth , of Sandwich, Mass. He was a carpenter by trade.
Their children :
286 FAMILY RECORDS
William b. 1679.
Benjamin b. 1682.
Joseph b. 1687.
Samuel b. 1690.
Joanna b. 1692.
Thomas b. Dec. 16, 1694.
JOSIAH.
Ebenezer.
Benjamin Swift^ was born in 1682 (William^, William^, William^
of Sandwich, Mass. He married Hannah Wing, February 24,
1703-4. The Wings were Quakers, from the days of John Wing,
the first emigrant, who married Deborah Batcheldor. He was
among the Quaker remonstrants, of 1731, and was fined for dis-
turbing the pubHc peace by his silent worship. He had a son
who married Mercy Wing.
Zebulon^ Swift (Benjamin*, William*, William^, William^),
second son of Benjamin and Hannah (Wing) Swyft, was born
April 15, 1712, and married Rebecca Wing, of Sandwich, Mass.,
November 15, 1739. They settled in Falmouth, Mass. Their
children :
Joseph b. July 16, 1741; m. Martha Crowell, Nov. 19, 1772.
Samuel b. Sept. 12, 1743.
Abraham b. Dec. 31, 1745; m. Joana Sisson, of Nine Part-
- ners, N. Y.
Hannah m. Dillingham.
Dorothy m. Nathan Hatch, April 3, 1799.
Elisabexh m. Gifford.
Rebecca.
Deborah m. Stephen Tripp.
HuLDAH m. Clifton Bowerman, 1793.
Jemina published to Richard Landers, Dec. 6, 1793.
Abraham*' Swift was born in 1745, and married Joana Sisson.
Their children:
Zebulon^ Swift 1 , ^ , ^. ^^^^
Lemuel^ Swift | b. July 26, 1776.
Zebulon Swift^ died August 16, 1823. He married Sarah
Titus, who was born March 24, 1790, and died January 16, 1870.
Their children:
Deborah b. Dec. 11, 1808; d. Dec. 21, 1827.
Elisabeth b. Jan. 31, 1810; m. Josiah Bartlett, Jan. 21, 1828.
SWIFT 287
William b. Oct. 6, 1811; m. Anna Wanza, Sept. 24, 1840.
Phebe b. Nov. 6, 1815; d. 1876.
Richard T. b. Sept. 26, 1817; m. Hannah Deuel, Dec. 9,
1839.
Sarah H. b. Nov. 2, 1819; d. 1895, unmarried.
Isaac b. Nov. 19, 1822; m. (i) Lydia Almy; (i) Rhoda Ann,
Almy.
Thomas^ Swift was born May 11, 1727 (Thomas^, William^,
William^, William^). He married Rebecca Clark, of Plymouth,
Mass., October 21, 1746. In 1748, they moved to Rochester,
N. Y. They had children:
Nancy.
Deliverance.
Fear.
Priscilla; and others.
Silas Swift was born August 2, 17 13, and married Abigal
Tupper, who was born in 17 16 and died February 15, 181 1.
Among their children was Roxalana, born October 8, 1761, and
died in 1850.
From Plymouth, Mass., Colony Records
Thomas^ Swyft was born December, 1694 (William^, William^,
William^). He settled in Plymouth, Mass. He married,
January 23, 1718-19, Thankful Morey, of Plymouth, Mass.
Their children:
Lydia.
Deborah.
Elisabeth.
Thomas b. May 11, 1727.
Jerusha.
Phineas.
Rhoda.
-Lemuel^^ J twins, b. Feb. 26, 1737, in Plymouth, Mass.
Lemuel* Swift (Thomas'*, William^, William^, William^) mar-
ried Rebecca Whitfield, of Rochester, Mass. He was a soldier
in the Revolution, in Captain Nye's Company, Fourth Plymouth
County Regiment, in 1776, at the defense of Elisabeth Island.
He was a Corporal in the service, in the Rhode Island Campaign,
in 1780. At the close of the war, he went to New Hampshire;
thence to Wareham, Vt., where his brother Thomas settled. He
moved to New York, in 1804.
288 FAMILY RECORDS
Lemuel Swift was one of the pioneers of Potsdam, N. Y., and
is buried in the old Garfield burying-ground, two miles from
Potsdam village. Potsdam is in Potsdam township, St. Law-
rence County, N. Y., on the Raquette river, twenty-five miles
east by south of Ogdensburg.
Herman Swift, Joseph Swift and Levi Swift, were sons of
Thomas, or Lemuel, and had families in Barnard, Mass.
Levi^ Swift (LemueP, Thomas^, William^, William^, William^),
born in Sandwich, Mass., about 1775, was with his father at
Potsdam, N. Y., where he cleared a farm now occupied by Judge
Theodore H. Swift. He married a Boyden.
Among Judge Swift's maternal ancestors, was Major Lyon of
the Revolution.
His mother's father, Peter Ault, son of Nicholas and Catherine
Loucks, married Roxanna, daughter of William and Mehetable
(Lyon) Eaton.
The Ault family came from Saxony and Hesse, Germany.
Judge Swift's parents moved in 1823 to New Hudson, Alle-
gany County, N. Y., later to Cuba. They were descendants of
William Swift.
Abraham Swift, son of Zebulon Swift, was born December 31,
1745. He married Joanna Sisson, of Nine Partners, N. Y.,
(Perhaps the father of Zebulon, born in 1790, who moved to
Illinois.)
We have some of the branches of the family, also the root and
top, but the unchangeable cannot be changed. But could the
little dust that names represent here, be reanimated, with thought
and speech, we might produce the names, existence, and places
these people inhabited, which would be a great satisfaction to
the present generation.
(The writer has hunted many volumes of history of New York
and the counties situated therein, but New York Vital Records,
have not as yet been published (if any) so that we are not quite
sure of the ancestry of Zebulon, born in 1790; but think he
belongs here, or to Lemuel, Jr., who married Anne McWharter,
January 29, 1784.)
In records of United Brethren Church, Staten Island, N. Y.,
May 31, 1829, Vincent Bowdine married Mary Ann Burbank.
They had a child, Vincent Bodine. May 7, 1830, Isaac Swift
married Eliza Bodine. They had sons, John and William.
SWIFT 289
William Bodine married, March 19, 1832, Rosanna, child of
Abraham; baptized at grandfather James Bodine's.
September 4, 1834, Isaac Swift and Eliza Bodine had a son,
James Bodine. April 25, 1836, they had a son Jeremiah Swift.
Mr. Jonathan Wing settled in New Haven township, Oswego
County, N. Y., in 1807-8, and was one of the early magnates of
New Haven, N. Y.
One of the early settlers of New Haven, Oswego County, N. Y.,
was Solomon Smith ; he put up the first frame building there in
1812.
Zebulon Swift (perhaps a brother to Levi Swift) was born in
1790, and died November i, 1852. He married Abigal ,
who was born in 1790, and died June 22, 1853. They had chil-
dren :
Solomon.
David.
ROXANNA.
Phila.
Edgar
Edwin ^ ^^^"^-
Laura.
Roxanna Swift married James Smith, of New York state.
Their children:
Mary Sylvania Smith b. in New York state ; d. in Pecatonia,
111., July 6, 1861, aged 21 years, and is buried with her
mother, in Durand, 111., near the old Swift home.
Henry Smith m. a Starkey, in Iowa.
About this period, Charles Billick and James Smith started to
emigrate west. In Jackson, Mich., Mr. James Smith and wife
had a daughter, Cordelia Augusta, born in 1845. She married
a Johnson, in Rockford, 111., and there died.
Mercy Smith, daughter of James Smith and Roxanna (Swift)
Smith, was born May 21, 1848, in (Lysander) Pecatonia, III.;
and married John G. Henry, in Pecatonia, who was born in
Plymouth, Mass., in 1848. He was a successful salesman for
many years, but has retired from active life. They live in Rock-
ford, 111., in 1915.
Roxanna Swift, daughter of Zebulon Swift and Abigal, married
second, D. A. Spencer; no issue.
James Smith had a sister, Mercy Smith, born in New York
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290 FAMILY RECORDS
state, who came to Illinois, and married in Rockford, George
Wyatt, who helped found Rockford, Iowa.
In the gold excitment of 1849-50, which drew many to Cali-
fornia, James Smith was one of the number, with a cousin, who
went to Colusa County. The cousin came home, but Mr. Smith
had not collected all he thought he might get, and stayed longer;
was heard of for awhile, but after awhile all trace was lost of him,
and he undoubtedly was killed for his money, as he was an
upright man, of sterling qualities. After some years, she mar-
ried D. A. Spencer.
In 1834, Germanicus Kent extended an invitation to some
friends to come to "Midway," a settlement between Chicago
and Galena, to a place called by the Indians Rocky-ford. Here
the New Yorkers came to "Illini," signifying "Superior Man."
" Peeketolika " (Pecatonia), which was settled in 1835, com-
prised Seward, Burritt, and Pecatonia; here Zebulon Swift and
family settled, and are buried in Durand, with two children,
Zebulon, Jr., and Roxanna (Swift) (Smith) Spencer, in Winne-
bago County. (Winnebago is translated "fish-eater" from the
Indian name.)
The lands in Winnebago County did not come into market
until the autumn of 1839; they were many of them settled by
New England people, who lived some years in New York state,
and were descendants of English stock. The only means of
transportation to the new west, was by ox teams, or a few horses.
There was much controversy about the settlement of lands, in
1834-5, of Winnebago County. In 1842, Congress passed an
act that became a law, removing the incubus, and authorizing
the entry of land in parts of Winnebago County for pre-emption,
like other government land, which had been occupied by a band
of outlaws and horse-thieves.
Another cause of discord was the road question ; every settler
wanted the road to center or corner near his location.
SMITH
In the early ages of the world every king and chief had a smith, and
great was the honor paid to him.
In the early days, the smith then shaped armor and military weapons, and
part of his duty was to teach young warriors how to use the weapons he had
made for them.
As a surname, it is one of the oldest. Some historians claim it is the oldest,
except the name of King.
In old records, the name appears as Smith, Smithe, Smeith, Smyth, Smythe,
Smijthe.
Germany has its Schmitts, Schmits, Smids, Smidths, Schmitzes.
In France, the name is Lefevres; in Italy, it is Fabbroni; in Scotland, one
would hardly recognize it as Gowans.
The Smiths of England trace back to Rev. William Smith, who was born in
Lancaster County, England, about 1460. He was bishop of London and
Litchfield, and one of the founders of Oxford College.
One of the immigrant ancestors of the English Smiths was the old familiar
John Smith, who was born in England about 1609, and came to this country
in 1638, landing in Boston, with his brother Nemiah. Edward, a nephew,
came in 1652. He was the first regular custom house official in the Colony.
To John Smith, the second mayor of Newcastle, England, and the fifth in
descent from Bishop William Smith, was granted a crest in 1624, the family
arms having been recognized in 1561.
The arms — a token of prowess— displayed a lion rampant; the crest was a
tiger passant wounded on the shoulder.
The proudest earldom in England is that of the Smiths — the real name of
the sirname of the Earl of Derby.
The guild mayor for 1902 was the Earl of Derby, who was the fifteenth one
to bear the title.
An American Smith boasts of the fact that his country's hymn was written
by a member of his family. Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, of Newton Center,
Mass., in 1832, and was used July 4th, that year, at the Park Street church
in Boston, Mass.
SMITH
Smith, of New York, in Early Days
In the will of William Smith, of New York, who had a house
and lot and land in Flushing, N. Y., land at Fresh Meadows,
also salt meadow, called Ragged Swamp, of 200 acres, also land
up the Hudson River, at a place called Quaspack, near Verdreda
Hook, in Orange County, 826 acres, is mentioned wife Susannah.
The will states if my son William die without issue, my estate
goes to the children of my brothers, James, John and Thomas.
The will was dated June 23, 1718.
The house was at No. 7 Broadway, N. Y., that was the home
of W™ Smith, which was the home of Gabriel Minveille, whose
widow Susannah he married.
In will of Joseph Smith, November 14, 1746, he gives to five
daughters, Hannah, Mary, Sarah, Elisabeth, Phebe, and four
sons, Joseph, Benjamin, Richard and James.
In will of James Smith, of Newburg, Ulster County, N. Y.^
dated February 25, 1747, he leaves to four sons, William, Ben-
jamin, Ephraim, and James, his farm and lands at Newburgh,
to be sold and the money put out to interest, except one third for
wife, to maintain schooling for the children.
In will of John Smith, of Ulster County, N. Y., dated April 13,
1755) he leaves to eldest son, James Smith, real estate.
In will of Nathan Smith, of Crom Elbow, Precinct, Duchess
County, N. Y., dated March 25, 1759, he makes brother, James
Smith, executor.
In will of Elisabeth Searing, of Hempstead, Queens County,
N. Y., she makes son-in-law, James Smith, and John Smith,
executors, dated November 27, 1760.
James Smith witnessed will of Benarah Brotherton, July 28,
1763.
May I, 1758, warrant was made in favor of Lieut. James
Smith for bounty for 160 men in Suffolk County, N. Y.
Anna Smith, wife of James Smith, Sr., Hempstead, Queens
County, on the island Nassau (Long Island), Province New York,
dated April 26, 1765, gave to son, James, land, and to grandson,
James, and others, land; he had a large property.
294 FAMILY RECORDS
John Smith, in will dated September 4, 1765, Ulster County,
N. Y., wills to brother, James Smith.
James Smith witnessed several wills about 1776. He was a
yeoman.
October 3, 1778, James Smith administered on Daniel Smith's
estate.
In Benjamin Smith's will, of Hempstead, Queens County,
N. Y., January 10, 1779, he makes brother, James Smith, execu-
tor.
James Smith's will, of Precinct of Goshen, speaks of wife Ruth.
It is dated December 6, 1782.
In will of John Smith, dated March 6, 1783, he wills, among
others, to his grandchildren, James Smith, of Hempstead, Queens
County, N. Y.
Stephen Smith, of Smith Town, Sufifolk County, wills to
grandson, James Smith, a tract of land, and house, where his
father lived; dated February 27, 1784.
James Smith, who witnessed so many wills, was an attorney-
at-law.
Shubael Smith, born March 13, 1653, was a son of John, of
Barnstable, Mass. He married Susannah Hinckley. They had
a son, Shubael.
Shubael Smith, of Sandwich, Mass., married, February 8,
1678, Mary Swift. Their children:
/' Mercy b. Feb. 3, 1679.
Susannah b. 1681.
Abigal b. Feb. 2, 1683.
The Widow Smith died in 1689. She was probably a descend-
ant of Richard Smith, of New London, who came over in the
Speedwell July, 1655, who married Bathsheba, daughter of John
Rogers, who had James Smith, baptized April 12, 1674.
On the church record of Walpeck, N. Y., is James Smith, born
March 4, 1822, also Lydia, born in 1820 and Benjamin, born
1824. These were children of Benjamin Smith and Susannah
Quick.
In 1799, Mr. Spencer located in Mexico, Oswego County, N. Y.,
with Welcome Spencer, his son.
SMITH 295
' O tell me no more of the wild prairies fair
The tall waving grain and the giant-like corn,
Of clustering vines and of flowerets rare
Where peaceful herds graze on plains unshorn.
The mountains and hills of the Old Granite State,
So changeful, and free from monotonous scenes
Have charms in themselves, which naught can create
'Mong dark muddy creeks, and loathsome ravines.
Ah, give me the home of my childhood again.
The home where I sported, light-hearted and gay.
The graves, where the dearest of kindred are laid,
Their home, may I share, when from this torn away. '
CONCLUSION
I have completed my work. Our forgotton and unknown
ancestors have been reviewed. Do we count age by dates, or
the poet's juster rule that "He who lives most, who most endures,
most loves, and most forgets is best"?
Our births, marriages, and deaths, are the most important
events of our lives; some have lived out of wedlock, and were
happy ; they gave their lives a sacrifice of labor for helpless parents
or friends. What is the reward of their life hereafter?
Is there no life after the pulses cease to beat and hearts to
palpitate? A few of us wander through life as in a cool calm
vale, content to love, live, and leave events to God who gave.
" Is it all of life to live, or all of death to die? "
We have gathered a few threads of the past that are not en-
tirely eluded from the web of life, as we know man's memory is
ever faulty, and that passing time presents a different view on
every mind as days go by ; and we forget the item as it was pre-
sented to us, and it changes with time. We desire to thank the
editorial fraternity for much valuable information, and our
kindred, and friends for their valuable aid.
Mary Elisabeth (Neal) Hanaford,
ADDITIONAL GENEALOGICAL
NOTES
FROM ENGLISH RESEARCH
Ann Batt, daughter of Nicholas Batt, and Lucy ,
married, June 13, 1653, John Webster, of Newbury, Mass.
Nicholas Batt and family came to New England on the ship
James, from Southampton, England, April 5, 1635; they settled
at Newbury, Mass. He was a linen weaver. The Newbury
pioneers were intenvoven in blood with many of their neighbors
of-Oldtown and Rowley, Mass.
John Webster came from Ipswich, Sufifolk County, England,
to Ipswich, Mass., where he was made freeman in 1635. He died
soon after coming here, leaving four sons and four daughters.
His wife's name was Mary. Their children:
JOHN^ b. 1633; m. Anna Batt.
Thomas.
Mary m. John Emery.
Hannah m. Michael Emerson.
Stephen b. 1639; m. Hannah Ayer; moved to Haverhill,
Mass.
Eliza.
Abigal.
Israel b. 1644; m. Elisabeth Brown (2) Elisabeth Lunt.
Nathan b. 1646; m. Mary .
Michael Emerson, the emigrant, baptised in 1627, was son of
Thomas and Margaret (Frol), of Howsham, in the Parish of
Cadney, Lincolnshire, England. He settled at Haverhill, Mass.,
in 1656; there married, April i, 1657, Hannah, daughter of John
and Mary (Satchwell) Webster. Their issue were fifteen children,
among them Hannah, who married Thomas Dustin, and is known
in history as the woman who killed the Indians at Contoocook,
N. H.
The Indians murdered her infant child before her eyes, and
captured her and her nurse, Mary (Corlis) Nye, and took them
up the river to Contoocook. She rose in the night and, with the
assistance of her nurse and a captive boy named Samuel Leonard-
son, they slew ten Indians and scalped them, and took a canoe
and rowed down the Merrimac to their home in Haverhill. At
this time she had five sons and seven daughters.
302 FAMILY RECORDS
FROM THE HISTORY OF HAMPTON, N. H.
Thomas Webster, of Ormsby, Norfolk County, England,
married Margaret ; they had a son Thomas^. Thomas,
Sr., died in England; his wife married, second, William Godfrey.
They, with her son, Thomas Webster, came to Hampton, N. H.
Thomas Webster married, November 2, 1657, Sarah Bruer
(Brewer); died, January 5, 1715. Their children:
Mary b. Dec. 19, 1658; m. WiUiam Swaine.
Sarah b. Jan. 22, 1661; m. William Lane.
Hannah b. Dec. 27, 1663; d. 1664.
Thomas* b. Jan. 20, 1665; m. Sarah .
Ebenezer b. Aug. I, 1667, was one of the grantees of Kings-
ton, N. H., in 1694; his grandson Ebenezer, b. in Kingston,
1739, was one of the first proprietors of Stevenstown, in-
corporated as Salisbury, 1767. He settled in Franklin,
N. H., m. Mehitable Smith (2) Abigal Eastman, who was
the mother of Daniel Webster.
Thomas, son of Thomas, m. Sarah .
Isaac, son of Thomas, m. Mary Hutchins of Newbury,
April I, 1697.
John baptised June 27, 1697, probably the ancestor of
Edwin S. Webster.
Ebenezer* Webster, son of Thomas"^, was a grantee in Kingston
in 1692, settled there 1700, where his son, Hon. Ebenezer, was
born, 1739, and settled in Salisbury, 1763, who was the father of
Hon. Ezekiel and Hon. Daniel Webster.
John Webster born in 1741, was probably a brother of Hon.
Ebenezer, as the descendants of E. S. Webster claim a cousinship,
once, twice, or thrice removed.
In Mr. Eddy's pamphlet on the descendants of John Webster
of Ipswich, Mass., he states that little has been written on the
Webster family. John Webster was supposed to be the father
of Thomas of Hampton, N. H., the first ancestor in the country
of the Hon. Daniel Webster.
Daniel Webster was the youngest son of Hon. Ebenezer Web-
ster and Abigal Eastman, born in Salisbury, N. H., January 18,
1782. His ancestor, Thomas, of Ormsby, Norfolk County,
England, died there April 1634, leaving a wife and son Thomas
admitted freeman 1644, who married Sarah Brewer, November
2, 1657, and died at Hampton, January 5, 1715, leaving a son,
NOTES 303
Ebenezer, born at Hampton, August i, 1667; he married Hannah
Judkins July 25, 1709. Their children:
Ebenezer b. Oct. 10, 17 14; m. July 20, 1738, Susannah,
descendant of Rev. Stephen Batcheldor of Hampton, N. H.
They had eight children: Ebenezer^, the oldest, b. at
Kingston, April 22, 1739; m. Mehitable Smith, Jan. 8, 1761.
This Ebenezer was apprenticed to Col. Ebenezer Stevens,
of Kingston. In 1749, he became a leading proprietor
of Salisbury. About 1770, he built the house at Franklin,
N. H., where Daniel Webster was born called the "Web-
ster Place."
From Port of Hull, February 28 to March 7, 1774, John Web-
ster emigrated from England.
From Runnells History of Sanborntown, N. H.
It is told that Daniel Webster went to visit one of his chums,
wh?) was teaching a district school about 1799. He is described
as being clad in a blue homespun suit, and the scholars laughed,
in spite of their good manners, at his tall ungainly stature, and
awkward movement. His complexion was dark as an Indian's,
with great black eyes looking out from heavy eyebrows. It was
he who, in later years, being asked "What is the greatest thought
that ever occupied your brain?" replied "It is the thought of my
personal responsibility to God." That great thought helped
found his character, and showed his thoughts when he said
"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the
sun in Heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dis-
honored fragments of a once glorious Union : On states disheveled,
discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,
it may be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering
glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic . .
bearing for its motto, . . . that other sentiment dear to
every American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one
and inseparable!"
John Webster was born in 1741 and died August 27, 1814.
He married Abigal , who was born in 1751 and died April
27, 1829.
Military Service of John Webster
John Webster was in Capt. Thos. Pry's Regiment of Light
Infantry, Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment September 13, 1778.
304 FAMILY RECORDS
John Webster signed with others paper praying to be freed from
the Jurisdiction of Massachusetts, July 26, 1665.
In 1780, Col. John Webster was an officer with twenty-five
privates at West Point.
Col. John Webster returned to Chester, October 6, 1781, in
obedience to orders from Exeter.
John Webster was Lieutenant at Ticonderoga, N. Y.
Isaac Webster, son of John Webster, born February 21, 1774,
married Sally Watson. She was born May 8, 1774. They were
married October 31, 1799. Their children:
Ira Webster b. Aug. 5, 1800.
Heaty b. May 17, 1802.
LuciNDA b. May 13, 1806; m. Col. John Prescott, Aug. 31,
1826. (See Prescotts.)
Elmira b. Sept. 6, 1808; m. Daniel Watson, June 22, 1837.
HuLDAH b. Nov. I, 1810; m. Benjamin Burleigh, Feb. 16,
1837.
Elbridge Heath b. Apr. 2, 1814; d. young.
Sally Beedee b. Sept. 22, 181 7; m. Ira Marston, March
22, 1840.
Lyman Watson b. Oct. 5, 1819, in Wolfeborough, N. H.; m.
Feb. 4, 1844, Eliza Jane Smith, daughter of Jeremiah
Smith and Dorothy Etheridge of Sandwich, N. H.
Lyman Webster d. July 18, 1899; his wife d. Jan. 8, 1900.
Their children: Celia Ellen, b. May 4, 1845; d. Oct. 29,
1863; m. Henry George Page. She is buried near the
home of Edwin S. Webster, in Wysox, 111. Edwin Solon,
b. June 9, 1 85 1. (See Hanafords).
Tradition states Jeremiah Smith's father was a Revolutionary
soldier; he had a son 18 years old who was drafted; they both
served seven or eight years in the service, and both came out of
the Revolutionary War with the honors of Captain.
Jeremiah Smith married Dorothy Etheridge. Their children:
jeremla.h.
Dorothy.
Ruth.
Andrew.
James.
Andrew (again).
Eliza Jane.
Julia M.
Lewis C.
Jeremiah S.
NOTES 305
One of the old-time stories, through Edwin S. Webster, of
Wysox, 111., states that Mr. Moulton, of Moultonborough, N. H.,
one of the pioneers, had acquired much property. The story
goes that he sold himself to the devil for a boot full of gold.
Tradition states that when he died, he requested everyone to
leave the room. After a time someone outside opened the door
where he was and a black dog ran out of the room; and they
found his body divided into four parts, a quarter in each corner
of the room.
This mutilating the body was a punishment on him for cutting
a hole in the toe of the boot and letting some of the gold run out,
and his beating the devil, from filling the boot; thus the devil
squared himself by this act, as the story goes.
FROM GENEALOGICAL GLEANINGS
Robert Handfort, Philip Ludwell, and Richard Whitehead,
received a grant of 20,000 acres of land, October 24, 1673, in
Rappahannock County, Va.
Among early settlers in Essex and Old Norfolk, Mass., was
Nathaniel Handforth,aged 54, in 1662; also Nathaniel Handford,
aged 50, in 1665.
In the diary of Noahkiah Russel, tutor at Harvard, "Anno
Dom, 1682, 26th 1st; It being Sabbath day and quite warm. At
night between 4 and 5 of ye clock, a thunder shower came from
the sou west, wherein was a great storm of hail, ye hail stones
were nearly ye bigness of a bullet; they broke several s(juares of
glass at Colle — for they came with a strong wind, and broke
much glass at other places; moreover at Lyn after sun down as it
began to be darkish, an honest old man Mr. Nanthaniel Hand-
forth went out to look for a new moon, when in the west he espied
a strange black cloud, in which, after some space, he saw a man,
in arms complete, standing with his legs straddling, and have a
pike in his hands, which he held across his breast — ^which sight
ye man wath his wife and many others saw.
After awhile he man in ye cloud vanished in whose room ap-
peared a spacious ship seeming under full sail, though she kept
the same station. They saw it they said as apparently as ever
they saw a ship in the Harbor, wh' to their imagination was the
handsomest of ever they saw — ^with a lofty stem, the head to the
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306 FAMILY RECORDS
south, the hull black, the sails bright, a long resplendant streamer,
came from ye top of ye mast; this was seen for a great space both
by these and others of ye town. After tarrying awhile and look-
ing out again the sky was clear."
Hanaford
Robert Hanaford married . His son Nathaniel, born
January 5, 1791, married Mary Green, born January 12, 1789,
both of Enfield, N. H. Their children:
Edward b. Sept. 10, 1816, in Enfield, N. H.
Allen Worcester b. Jan. 14, 1818, in Enfield.
Riley b. Feb. 23, 1820, in Enfield.
Theopolis b. Jan. 11, 1823, in Underbill, Vt.
Mary b. Nov. 10, 1825, in Underbill, Vt.
Riley Hanaford married Sarah Gleason, June ii, 1845, in Essex,
Vt. Their children:
Marvin L. b. Feb. 20, 1853, in Underbill, Vt.; m. Melvina
Euphema Hall, b. in Chicago, 111. They were m. in
Beloit, Wis.
Dr. Riley L. Hanaford is a very successful dentist of over
forty years practice, in Rockford, III. He is president of
the Art Guild Association, of Rockford, also ex-president
of the IlUnois State Dental Society, also the Northern
Illinois Dental Society, and others.
Rev. W. H. Hanaford, of Ventura, Gal., writes, October, 1915,
that his great-grandfather was Amos Hanaford, born January 13,
1766, died in Northfield, N. H., who married . Their
children :
Betsy.
Polly.
Joseph. /
Reuben.
Philip.
Ruth.
Joseph Hanaford went West and was never heard from by
the family.
Amos married, second . Their children:
Sarah.
Mary.
Abigail.
Martha.
NOTES 307
Reuben Morrill Hanaford married Nancy Foster, and they
moved to Ohio. She was daughter of Abiel Foster (his father
was a graduate of Harvard, in 1756, and ordained over the church
in Canterbury, N. H., which at that time included Loudon and
Northfield, January, 1761. He was chosen delegate to Congress,
under the Confederation, February 18, 1783, was present when
Washington resigned his commission. Hon. Abiel Foster served
fourteen years in Congress). Reuben M. Hanaford married
Nancy Foster, July 8, 1828. She died in Ohio. He married
second Nancy W. Richards, December 30, 1858. Children of
Reuben Morrill Hanaford:
Eliza Ann b. July i, 1829; m. Chandler Dunwell, in 1852.
Martha Jane b. Nov. 17, 1830; m. Fenner Bosworth, in
1847.
Susan Minerva b. July 15, 1832; m. Albert M. Smith, in
1853-
Catherine Foster b. May 12, 1834; m. Henry B. Chase;
1857, moved to Rockford.
Charles Augustus b. Feb. 26, 1836.
William Foster b. Feb. 24, 1838; m. Julia Barnard, 1858.
Lyman Beecher b. Aug. 9, 1841; m. Mary Shinfield.
John Roy b. April 27, 1843; m. Ella Beardsley.
Mary b. April 27, i860; m. Fred. H. Mowrey, 1880.
Reuben Morrill Hanaford died November 26, 1884, aged 84
years.
The issue of H. B. Chase, and Catherine Foster Hanaford, was
Charles Agustus, William Foster, Lyman Beecher, John Roy
Chase.
Charles Chase had a son, Charles, who died, leaving a widow
and two children.
Roy Hanaford lives near Cleveland, and Albert Milton lives
in Alpens, Mich.
William Hanaford had a son, Rev. W. H. Hanaford, and two
daughters.
Lyman B. Hanaford left a son, Rollin Meredith, who lives in
Colorado.
John Hanaford left two sons, Albert Milton, who has a young
son, John; also Frank; both live in Cleveland, O.
Charles and Lyman both left daughters, also Reuben, who
married a second wife, and had a daughter by her.
Rev. W. H. Hanaford has two sons, William Fiske, and George
Good; also Ruth. William and Ruth are both married.
3o8 FAMILY RECORDS
In Los Angeles, Cal., Charles N. Hanaford resides whose
father was born in Vermont and died in Michigan. They were
descendants of the Canterbury Hanafords. He had a brother,
Anson, in Detroit, Mich., and another, Myron.
THE BARTLETT FAMILY
Notes by Horace E. Stow^, of Washington, D. C.
I have been unable to establish any connections between my
wife's (Meredith, N. H.) branch of the family and that of Gov.
Josiah Bartlett, of New Hampshire, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence. It seems probable that both lines come from
the same source, but that they branched off some generations
back. My definite records begin with Abiel Bartlett.
Abiel Bartlett was born probably in Amesbury, Mass., in 1749.
He married Maria Goodhue. Abiel died in August, 1816. His
wife died April 2, 1826. Both are buried near the southeast wall
in the old burial ground, on Squire Towles place (where Joseph
Neal settled, "Red Oak Joe," so called). At one time Abiel
lived at Mount Delight, in Deerfield, Mass. It is stated that
he was one of the first settlers of Meredith, N. H. (he was one of
the early pioneers). He was a tanner by trade and had some
vats near the Arthur Leavitt home in Meredith. On the author-
ity of Henry M. Bartlett of Laconia, N. H., and Huldah J.
Leavitt, it is stated that Abiel had a brother Humphrey, who
lived near Pow Pow Hill, and who ran a ferry between Amesbury,
Mass., and Newbury, or Newburyport. H. M. Bartlett sug-
gested that Abiel had a sister Deborah. In a letter to me in
February, 1915, from George H. Bartlett of Haverhill, Mass., he
states that he can find nothing definite about Abiel, but, he says,
I have heard my father (Dudley) say that his grandfather used
to run a ferry between Salisbury and Newbury — also from the
history of Newbury, that Edward Bartlett was given a permit
to run a ferry. Of this Edward I know nothing. It is not im-
possible that Abiel (probably in early life) may have been con-
nected with this ferry.
Search in the towns about, viz., Amesbury, Salisbury, New-
bury, Newburyport, may disclose the missing link.
Abiel had sons, Abiel, Moses, Joseph (the ancestor of our
line), John and James, also a daughter, Mrs. Olive Leavitt, of
NOTES 309
Meredith, N. H. It is thought that all the sons were born in
Deerfield. Abiel, son of Abiel, moved from Meredith to Riim-
ney, and thence to Sharon, Vt.; there he married and had sons,
Samuel and Smith. Moses moved from Meredith to Sutton,
Vt. John lived in Meredith Neck, and moved to Epsom, N. H.
James had a son, Samuel, in Meredith, and moved to Center
Harbor, N. H., again. John had a son, John Oilman Bartlett,
who lived in Suncook, N. H. Joseph Bartlett, father of Judith
M., was a farmer, and manufactured wagons, rakes, etc., in
Moultonborough and Meredith, had a mill on the brook, near
the Arthur Leavitt home, but on the road leading to Center
Harbor. Parts of thie old dam are still to be seen, in 19 14.
Abiel Bartlett was born in 1749, and died August 16, 1816.
His wife, Maria Goodhue, born , died April 2, 1826. Their
issue, a son Joseph G., born August 4, 18 16, married Charlotte
Bruce. Their children:
Dudley b. Aug. 24, 181 6; m Hannah Pease (2) ;
they had a son, George Bartlett.
Betsy (Elisabeth) b. Nov. 10, 1820; m. Samuel Townsend.
Lorenzo b. March 23, 1824; m. Ellen Brown; they had a
son, Elroy G., lived lastly in Tamworth, N. H.
Judith M. b. May 13, 1826; m. James Bryant. Among
children was Jessie B., who married Horace E. Stowe (the
writer of this article).
Mary Jane b. Sept. 5, 1829; m. William Prescott Smith.
(See Smiths.)
Henry M. b. May 9, 1833; m. Sarah Cragin. He d. Aug.
15, 191 1. They had children: Emma M., Clarence C,
Bertha L., Ethel T.
JuDSON b. Aug. 19, 1836.
Orlando b. May 23, 1842; lived in Kankakee, 111.; d. 1899.
Judith M. Bartlett, who married Bryant, had child:
Elisabeth M. b. May 22, 1855; m. Frank J. Brown; had a
son, Vernon D.
Jessie Bartlett, married Horace E. Stowe;. their children:
Barbara m. Norman R. Blatherwick, of Iowa, in 1915.
ViRA Frost m. 191 1 , Walton H. Marshall of Virginia. They
have children: Horace Stowe Marshall, and Walter Har-
per Marshall, Jr.
Abby Holden Gertrude b. Oct. i, 1858; d. Oct. 19, 1896.
single.
Eva Madeline b. Sept. 24, i860; d. March 31, 1861.
310 FAMILY RECORDS
George L. James b. Jan. 29, 1862; m. Emogene Drake; they
lived mostly in Laconia, N. H.; they had a son, Clyde L.
Emogene, wife of George, died July 3, 1914, being thrown
from a carriage at Winnesquam, N. H., the horse being
frightened by the train which came upon them suddenlj'-.
Descent of Judith M. Bartlett from Gov. John Winthrop^
Mary Winthrop-, daughter of the governor, was the first wife
of Rev. Samuel Dudley. (See Dudleys.)
Ann Dudley^ born in Salisbury, Mass., October 16, 1641,
married Edward Hilton.
Dudley Hilton^ married Mercy Hall.
Mercy Hilton^ was born in 1709, and died in 1782. She mar-
ried Kinsley James, in 1735.
Elisabeth James^' married Joshua Leavitt^.
Dudley Leavitt^, the astronomer. (See Leavitts.)
Elisabeth Leavitt^ married Joseph Bartlett.
Judith M. Bartlett^ married James Bryant.
Descent of Judith M. Bartlett from Gov. Thomas Dudley
(i) Gov. Thomas Dudley.
(2) Rev. Samuel Dudley had, by his second or third wife,
Dorothy. ^ ^
(3) Dorothy Dudley married Moses Leavitt.
(4) Joseph Leavitt, born March 23, 1699, died 1792, married
Mary Wadleigh.
(5) Joshua Leavitt married Elisabeth James.
(6) Dudley Leavitt, the astronomer, born May 23, 1792, mar-
ried Judith Glidden.
(7) Elisabeth Leavitt, born June 20, 1795, married Joseph
Bartlett.
(8) Judith M. Bartlett, born May 13, 1826, married James
Bryant.
DESCENT OF GOV. THOMAS DUDLEY
Statement of Researches on the parentage of Gov. Thomas
Dudley, made in England by George Ellsworth Koues. — In this
paper Mr. Koues gives a line of descent going back to King
Henry I of France. While there is no distinct record to connect
Governor Dudley with this line, yet the circumstantial evidence
NOTES 311
is so strong as to leave little or no doubt of the fact. The dif-
ficulty has been to show that Governor Dudley is the son of
Roger Dudley. This line of descent is taken from Browning's
"Americans of Royal Descent," Pedigree LXXXVII, page 341,
and is as follows (Mem. by H. E. Stowe) :
Before proceeding with Browning's table of descent from King
Henry I, I take occasion to state that I have traced the line five
generations back from Henry I. In order not to disturb the
line numbers as adopted by Browning, I use letters to designate
the lines disclosed by my researches — my authority is the Stu-
dent's History of France, published by Harper Brothers of New
York.
The additional line is as follows:
(A) Robert the Strong, Grand Duke of Anjou, A. D. 867.
(B) Robert, Duke of France.
(C) Hugh the Great, Count of Paris, A. D. 956.
(D) Hugh Capet, King of France, 987-996, married Adelidate
of Aquitaine.
(E) Robert, King of France, 996-1031, called "Robert the
Pious." He married in 995, Princess Bertha, daughter of Courad
the Pacific King of Asles and Burgundy, and widow of Eudes,
Count of Bias and Tows. Bertha was mother of Henry I;
afterwards, through the influence of the church, Robert was
divorced from Bertha and married Constantine.
Henry I, as given by Browning:
(i) Henry I, King of France, 1031-1060, married Anne of
Russia,, daughter of Tars-Slav-Grand Duke of Muscovoy.
(2) Hugh the Great, Count of Vemandois, who had
(3) Lady Isabel de Vemandois, who married, first, Robert de
Beaumont, created Earl of Leicester, and had
(4) Robert, second Earl of Leicester, who had
(5) Gewaise Pagnel, Baron of Dudley, who had
(6) Hawyse, Baroness of Dudley, who married John de Sonien,
Baron of Dudley in right of his wife, and had
(7) Ralph de Sonien, Baron of Dudley, died 12 10, who had
(8) William Percival de Sonien, Baron of Dudley, who had
(9) Roger de Sonien, second son, who married, secondly. Lady
Annabel, daughter of Robert de Chancowl, and had
(10) Roger de Sonien, Baron of Dudley, who died 1290, who
had
312 FAMILY RECORDS
(ii) Lady Margaret cle Someri, Baroness of Dudley, who mar-
ried John de Sutton, Baron of Dudley in right of his wife, and
had
(12) John de Sutton, second Baron Dudley, who died 1359,
and had
(13) John de Sutton, third Baron Dudley, who died 1371, who
had
(14) John de Sutton, fourth Baron Dudley, who died 1407,
who had
(15) Sir John de Sutton, Knight of the Garter; first had
Dudley, who had
(16) Edmund Sutton de Dudley, second son, d. v. p., who had
(17) Thomas Dudley of London, eldest son, who had
(18) John Dudley of London, d. v. p., who had
(19) Roger Dudley of Canons Ashby, Northampshire, who
had
(20) Thomas Dudley, elected Governor of Massachusetts Col-
ony, in 1634; and three times re-elected, and died, at Roxbury,
Mass., July 31, 1653.
From pamphlet No. 6, page 5, Mr. Koues states of Governor
Dudley: His mother's family was of gentle blood; an ancestor
was Anne Pheltiplace, of Sheffield; a Berks was descended from
Beatrix, daughter of Alexander, King of Portugal, according to
the manuscript pedigrees of the Phettiplace family in the British
Museum (London).
Regarding tiie Bartletts, there is a triple tradition that three
brothers came over. From a careful research I made many
years ago, I believe that is not true; there were two brothers;
these triple traditions are common in many families; why I do
not know. There is an ancient superstition that some things go
by threes; this may be an outcome; may be the cause or may be
the effect of the theological belief in the Trinity.
In the history of the Goodhue family; Samuel Goodhue'* b. 1719,
mar. Deborah Wadleigh; they lived in Stratham, N. H., and in
Deerfield, N. H. They had a daughter, Maria Goodhue, b. 1752,
who mar. Abiel Bartlett, and lived in Meredith, N. H. Their
issue, Samuel; Moses; James; Abiel; Joseph; John.
The Meredith relatives state that Abiel, Sr.'s wife was a Good-
hue, and that Abiel, Sr.'s wife Marie (Goodhue), her mother was
Deborah Wadleigh.
NOTES 313
In the history of the Bartletts, preceding, I stated from the
genealogical history of New Hampshire that Abiel Bartlett mar.
Elisabeth Barnard. There is where I took my authority from.
Possibly Abiel, Jr., son of Abiel, might have been taken for
Abiel, Sr., I am as yet unable to state. The history of the
Bartletts, preceding these notes, gives the residence of Abiel and
his occupation.
Yours truly,
Horace E. Stowe,
Washington, D. C.
Prof. Lyman Brooks Hanaford
Principal of Public School Number 22 at Manhattan and Java
Streets, Brooklyn, N. Y. He had been at the head of the school
nearly 33 years. He invented a system of abbreviated longhand
reporting, a system of easy bookkeeping, and a short method of
computing interest; all three inventions have been largely used.
Prof. Hanaford was, in the fullest sense of the expression, a self-
made man. He was absolutely self-educated. He was born on
a farm in New Hampton, N. H., in October, 1818. His early
years were passed on the farm; his parents died when he was 17
years old, and he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker in Bristol,
N. H. When his daily duties were over he read and studied by
the light of a log fire until almost daylight. When his apprentice-
ship was up, instead of working at his trade, he taught school in
the country districts thereabout, reading and studying when he
had any spare time. After this he had a better position in
French's Business College in the same city. Then, with Jesse W.
Payson, of penmanship fame, he established the Boston Mer-
cantile Academy. He was a member of Brooklyn School
Teachers' Association; Brooklyn Principals' Association; Brook-
lyn Astronomical Society; Schoolmasters' Association of New
York City, and of the Meroy Avenue Baptist Church. A widow,
two sons and a daughter survive him.
Long John Wentworth, famous afterward in national affairs, a
member of Congress from Illinois, mayor of Chicago, etc., boarded
in the Hanaford family, and he induced Lyman to study Latin.
Lyman placed his book on a shelf, before him and studied as he
worked. He also studied nights. In the Java Street School
there are 26 teachers and about i ,000 scholars. — Copied from an
314 FAMILY RECORDS
eastern paper, at the time of Lyman Hanaford's death. Date
unknown to Mary M. Hanaford.
Note. Lyman B. Hanaford was a son of Peter Hanaford and
Polly (Davis) who was kitied by lightning in 1833.
The New England Register, in an article by William C. Todd
on Lord Timothy Dexter, states that Prof. James D. Butler of
Madison, Wis., informed him that his grandfather, Israel Harris,
was present and heard Ethan Allen demand for the surrender of
Ticonderago from the British; which is an amusing illustration
of the popular cherished fictions through tradition of that period.
He has introduced the Harris language thus: "A guard
attacked the ofificer in charge and wounded him with his bayonet.
Allen strikes up the weapon, and deals a blow at the assailant's
head; his life was saved by a comb. 'Where is the Officer in
command?' thunders Allen. He was shown to a room on the
second floor of the officers' quarters; he summons Capt. Dela-
place to come forth, saying in Allen's own language, 'Come out
of here, you d — d old rat,' or he would sacrifice the garrison.
Aroused from sleep, half naked, half stupefied, he appears, and in
reply to Allen's demand for immediate surrender, asks by what
authority? 'In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Con-
tinental Congress,' was the answer."
Thus we see the quaintness of many of the old traditional
stories; Lord Timothy Dexter, who employed Joseph Wilson
(see Wilsons), a young ship carver who made wooden statues, and
Jonathan Plumer who (see Plumers) was Lord Dexter's poet
laureate.
INDEX
Page
Abington", John 57
Adams, 156
Benjamin 267
Elisabeth Goumey 216
John 195-216
John B 136
Nellie Estella (Brown) 136
Robert 216-238
Samuel i95
Sarah • 195, 216, 238
Allen, Easter Swift 285
Elisha 253
Ethan 314
Francis 29
Ralph 285
Sarah (Merrill) 253
Alma, Josephine 136
Almy, Lydia 287
Rhoda Ann 287
Ambrose, Abigal 38
Adele Victoria 99
Alice 80
David 99
David Edward 99
Dorothy B 99
Mary R 99
Ames, Sarah Jane 135
Amos, Mary 272
Andros, Govr 51-215
Anne, of Russia 311
Appleton, Captain 220
Archedale, Barbara 166
Archer, Francis 167
ASBURY, Abigal 167
AtTLT, Peter 288
Avery, Almena E 144
Ay'er, Hannah 301
Ayers, Mary 85
Rebecca 279
Bachelor, see Batcheldor
Stephen 183
Badger, -• 156
Baldwin, Helen Grace 273
Ballard, HoUis B 200
Baker, John H 148
Melissa (Huckins) 148
Barber, Annie 58
Elisabeth 245
Barker, 93
Barlow, Julia Elisabeth 103
Barnard, Elisabeth 313
Julia 307
Barnes, Ada Irene 166
Adelaid Melvina 166
Barbara Archedale 166
Darius Voung 166, 167
Elisha 166
Joseph 166
Laura L 166
Lydia Ella 166
Mar>' Etta 166
Mary Knight 166
Mary Melvina 166
Barlet, see Bartlett 189
Barnham, Frances 19
Julia M 16
Robert 19
Sarah 19
Page
Barrett, Emma 164
Bart, see Bartlett 189
Anna 197
Chris 197
John 196
Rich 197
Thomas 197
Bartelot, see Bartlett 189
Bartlat, see Bartlett 189
Barttelot, see Bartlett 189
Edmund 191
Bartled, see Bartlett 189
Bartlet, see Bartlett 189
Bartlett 189, 191, 308
Abial 200
Abiel 198, 199,308,309,312, 313
Abiel, Jr 313
Abiel, Sr 313
Abigal 192, 194, 196, 197
Adam 189
Agnes Benger 191
Anna 191, 194, 197
Anthony 191
Bailey 195
Bertha Leavitt 200, 309
Betsy 199, 309
Charlotte Bruce 199. 309
Cicicle 191
Christopher 194, 197, 254
Clarence Cragin 200, 309
Daniel 196, 197
Deborah 308
Dolly 197
Dudley 199, 308, 309
Edward 308
Eleanor Tarbett 200
Elisabeth 191, 301
Elisabeth H 189
Elisabeth Leavitt 199, 310
Elisabeth Swift 286
Ella 200
Ellen 133
Ellen Brown 309
Ellen Wheeler 133
Emma May 200, 309
Elroy Glenwood 199, 309
Ethel T 309
Evelyn 199
George 309
George Dudley i99
George H 308
Hannah 196, 197, 198, 222
Hannah Emery 198
Hannah Pease 309
Hannah Pope 192
Hazel 199
Helen 20
Henry 189, 200
Henry Judson i99
Henrj' Martin 200, 308, 309
Humphrey 198, 308
Ichabod 201
James 308, 309, 312
Jane i, 48, 50, 191
Jane Lavington 191
Jane White 191
Jessie 309
Joane 194, 196, i97
Joanna 197
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INDEX
Bartlett, John 50, 189
191, 192, 193. 194. 197
198, 199. 308, 309, 312
John, Jr 194, 196, 198
John, Sr 196, 198
John Oilman 309
Josiah 198, 286, 308
Josiah Hall 192, 193
Joseph 187
192, 193, 197, 198, 199
205,308, 309,310, 312
Joseph G 309
Judith 198
Judith Maria 200
Judith M 309, 310
Judith Rogers 198
Judson 200, 309
Leland 199
Lorenzo 199, 309
Lorna Tarbett 200
Margaret 191
Margaret Rust 192
Maria 199
Maria Goodhue 308,309, 312
Mary 194, 198, 199
Mary Jane 186, 197, 200, 309
Mary Ordway 198
Moses 198, 199,308,309, 312
Nathaniel 196
Orland 200
Orlando 309
Olive 308
Rebecca 196, 197
Richard 50
189, 191, 192, 193, 194
19s, 196, 197, 198, 254
Richard, Jr 196
Richard, Sr 191
Robert 191, 201
Samuel 195, 197, 254, 309, 312
Samuel, Jr 196
Samuel, Sr 196
Sarah Adams 192
Sarah Cragin 200, 309
Smith 309
Stephen 197
Tertius 196, 198
Thomas 189, 191
193, 194, 196, 197, 198
Tirza 196
Walter 189
William 189, 191
William F 195
Bartletts, Wiltshire 191
Barton, Elisabeth 265
Rufus 265
Barttett, see Bartlett 189
Barttaleott, see Bartlett 189
Batcheldor, Annie 144
Deborah 286
Henry 50
Mary 132
Mary Neal loi
Nathaniel loi, 140
Sarah 140, 145
Stephen 132, 140, 303
Susannah 303
Batt, see Bartlett 189
Ann 301
Lucy 301
Nicholas 301
Bautle, see Bartlett 189
Beardsley, Ella 307
Beahm, Barbara 43
Bean, Carlie 99
Ellen 99
Ellen Catherine 99
Hannah Neal 99
John 171
Joseph M 99
Beatey, Caroline Lois 39.
Emeline 39
Beatrix, Alexander 312
Beaumont, Robert de 311
Beebe, Mary 174
Nicholas Smith 174
Beggarly, John : 264
Benford, Ellen 16
George 13-16
William Henry 16
Benger, John 191
Bennett, Governor 267
Henry 65
Berks, A. 312
Berry, Elisabeth 1 19, 1 20
Vera 160
William 119, 120
Bertha, Princess 311
Betts, Anna Eliza 58
Cammiel 58
Edwin 57
Estelle 58
Gustavus 58
John 57
Luther 59
Oscar 58
Bellingham, Richard 63
Bickford, John 20
Dorcas 20
Elisabeth 279
Bidfield, Samuel 215
Bii.LiCK, Charles 289
Bitfield, Elisabeth 220, 221
Mary 220
Samuel 220, 221
Blackwell, Mary M 58
Oscar 58
William 57
Blatherwick, Barbara Stone 309
Norman R 309
Blatherwaite, Professor 200
Blewett, Marple W 188
Blodgett, Mary 220
Blundon, Catherine 57
Henrietta 57
Howell 57
Lelia 57
Margaret 57
Robert 57
Bodine, Eliza 288, 289
James 289
Rosanna Swift 289
William 289
Vincent 288
Bodfish, Mary 285
BoLLEN, see Bolton 47
Bolter, see Bolton 47
Grace 37
Mary 37
Nicholas 47
Bolton, Aaron 49
Abigal 48
Abraham 49
Alanson 54
Alice 54
Anne 51-52
Archibald 51
Benjamin 49
Catherine 54
Charles 54
Daniel 49
David 49-54
Deborah 51
Eben 49
Ebenezer 49
Edwin 54
Elias 49
Elisabeth 47-48, 50-54
Elisha 48
Eva D 54
INDEX
317
Bolton, Fanny 54
Frances 54
Frances Lewis 52
Hannah 48
Henry 51
Isleham SO
Jabes 48, 49
James 49
James McLean 52
John 47, 48 49, SO, 52, 54
Joseph 48, 49, 54
Lemuel 54
Matthew 49
Martha 54
Mary 48, 54
Nathaniel 37, 47, 48, 49
Nicholas 48
Noah 54
Philip 49
Rebecca 52
Richard 49, 50
Robert 50, 51, 52, 54
Ruth • 48
Samuel 48, 54
Sarah 48
Seth 49
Stephen 48
Thankful 47
Theresa 54
Thomas 49
Timothy 48
Wesley 54
William 48, 49, SO, Si, 54
BoNiTHAN, Richard 83
BoRTLETT, see Bartlett 189
BoswoRTH, Archibald 15
Fenner 13, 15,307
Jane 13, 15
Martha Jane Hanaford 307
Newton 15
BoTEN, see Bolton 47
BoTTON, see Bolton 47
Boulter, see Bolton 47
Grace 37
Mary 37
BouLTON, see Bolton 47
Bourne, Temperance Swift 285
Timothy 285
Bowles, Adelbert 199
BowYER, Agnes 74
Bowerman, Clifton 286
Huldah Swift 286
Bowles, Guy 199
Bowdine, Mary Ann Burbank 288
Vinvent 288
Boyden, — 288
Boynton, Polly Smith 134
Bradshawe, James 266
Brainerd, Caroline 3
Branson, William 279
Brent, Grace 58
John S8
Lillian S8
Ogle S8
Raymond 58
Bretton, Edward 126
Elisabeth R 54
James 54
Brewer, Sarah 302
Brewster, 81
Briar, Mary 89, 1 13
Brier, Abigal 87
Briscoe, Robert 247
Brotherton, Benarah 293
Brown, Ellen 199, 309
Eliza Smith 135
Elisabeth 301
Elisabeth M. Brant 309
Frank J 309
Josephine Alima 136
Brown, Mary 272
Mary Elisabeth 135, 136
Nellie Estella 136
Sarah Jane Ames 135
Simeon 9
Thomas 266
Vernon D 309
William D 135
William Harrison 135
Bruce, Charlotte 199, 309
Bryant, Abbie 200
Clyde 200
Elisabeth 200
Elisabeth M 309
Emogene 200
George 200
James 200, 309, 310
Jessie 200
Jessie B 309
Judith M. Bartlett 309, 310
BuFFixGTON, Frank 273
Rebecca Howe 273
Builderback, Charles . . . .270, 271, 272, 273
Jacob 270
Ruhuma Green 270, 273
Bull, DLxy 77
Bullard, Samuel 49
BUNTIN, 166
Andrew 167
Irene 167
John 167
Robert 167
Buntinge, John 167
Burbank, Mary Ann 288
Burke, 117
Burleigh, Benjamin 304
Clara H 159
Huldah Webster 304
Burley, Andrew 64
BURNHAM, Mary 20, 21
Sarah 228, 261
BuRNELL, Hester 126
BuswELL, Guy 13
Butler, General 269
Hannah Wilson 248
James 248
James D 314
Button, Hannah i
John 2
Cady, Collin B 12
Emily 12
Lyman 12
Marion F 12
Cantlebury, Beatrice 220
William 220
Carr, Joseph 90
Mary 90
Molly 38 '
Carter, Ebenezer 4
Olivia Alice 179
Cash, , see Cass 183
Cass, see Cash 183
see Casse 183
Abigal 130, 133, 134, 184
Charles Lee i86-
Deborah Wilson 186
Ebenezer 184
George 186
Hannah Sanborn 183
Lewis 181, 186
John 184, 186
John Jay 186
John 183
Jonathan 183, 184
Joseph 130, 134, 183, 184, 186
Lewis 183
Martha Philbrick 183, 184, 186
Mary 184
Mary Gilman 186
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INDEX
Cass, Mercy 184
Pheoba ' 134
Phoeba Nason 186
Polly. . 186
Samuel 184
Casse, see Cass 183
Gate, Nancy.- 7, 68
Simeon 68
Chase, Catherine 13, 16
Catherine Hanaford 307
Charles 307
Charles Augustine 307
F. A 13
Henry B 13. 16, 307
J. R 13
John Roy 307
Jonathan 14S, 155
Lyman Beecher 307
William Foster 307
Chanco\vl de, Robert 311
Chandler, Anna Prescott 30
Nathaniel 30
Cheney 93
Bertha Ann Plumer 234
Charles 234
Hannah .64, 65
John 64
Cilley, Daniel 219
Cleveland, Ann Nutter 280
Lucinda 277
Palmer 280
Valentine Nutter 280
Clairborne, William 266
Clark, Clarence Albert 97
Clarence Henry 97
Elisabeth 118
Elisabeth Codman 167
Elisabeth Fulton Wilson 250
Ellen C 99
Faith 277
Frances 267
Hannah 118
Harold John 97
Helen Neal 97
James 250
John, Jr 4
Joseph 167
Lydia 118
Margery 118
Mary " 118
Nancy 223
Otis 99
Polly 38
Rebecca 287
Reverend 246
Robert 247, 248
Shubael 248
William 118
Clifton, Laurelia 159
Governor 272
Codman, Abigal Asbury 166, 167
Benjamin 167
Elisabeth 167
Elisabeth Randall 167
Gardner 167
Irene Buntin 167
James 167
John 167
Joseph 167
Margaret Russell 167
Mary Meloma 166, 167
Peter 167
Robert 167
Stephen _. 167
Coe, Joseph W., Mrs 19
Coffin, George W 7
Peter 145
Phoeba Ann 6
Phoeba Barnard 6
CoiT. John 268
CoiT, Martha
Colby, Captain
Lydia Watson
Cole, Richard
Combers, Elisabeth
Conner, Saml, Jr
Conrad, King
C0NST.\TINE
Cook, Catherine
Frances
William
Cooke, Mercy Wanton
Peter
Robert
Copp, Adeliza
CORLis, Mary
Cotton, Joseph
Mari'
Theodore
CouGHLiN, Neva
Crafts, Hannah
Cragin, Sarah
Sarah M
Cram, Almena E. Avery
Anne Batchelder
Charles Henry
Elisha Smith
Hannah 143, 145,
Laura
Lucinda Jane
Mabel A
Mabel Page
Samuel
Samuel B
Sally Smith
Sarah
Sarah Smith
Crawford, Sarah L
Cromwell, Annie
Henry
Oliver
Croomb, Neil
Crowell, Martha
Curtis, Sarah A
Gushing, Job
146, 163,
Dalton, Mary Jane
Dam, Abigal
Betty
Ester
Damon, David
Elisabeth
Davidson, Pauline Anne
Davis, Charles
Dorothy
Ellen
Frank
James
Marv
Nellie M
Nikelson
Polly 6,
Sarah
Day, Hannah Wilson
Thomas
Dayrell, Mary
Pawle
Delaplace, Captain
Denel, Hannah
Denison, Mary
Dennet, Charles
Dennett, Ephraim
Hannah Nutter
Jeremiah
Lydia
Densdale, William
Dexter, Elisabeth Frothingham
Lord Timothy 259,
Timothy
Dill, Abigal Hands
268
240
240
SO
126
129
311
311
117
265
117
268
268
26
102
301
89
102
186
273
248
200
309
144
144
144
144
165
IS9
144
144
144
144.
144
144
1 59
144
272^
73
7a
73
61
286
10
49
164
277
28a
279
49
49
lOI
9&
99
99
99
87
90
103
118
314
91
24&
248
61
61
314
287
48
279
240-
279
241
240
215
259
314
259
INDEX
319
Dill, George i
Dillingham, Hannah Swyft 286
DiLSCHNEiDER, Ida B 179
Michael i79
DiMOND, Israel Mrs 198
DuNMORE, Lord 269
Dixon, George C 187
John 187
Katherine B 187
Lenore G 187
DOHERTY, Forrest 274
Dole, Richard 221
Mary 217,. 219
Sarah 221
Doton, Edward 277
Faith Clark 277
Dow, Lucy loi
Olive 30
Dows, Sallie 5
DowiNG, Catherine 57
Downing, Elisabeth S8
Samuel 58
Drew, Elisabeth 205
Drake, 156
Emogene 310
Otis 8
Sarah 219
Simon 219
Dudley, • 209
Ann 310
Barron 311. 312
de Edmund Sutton 312
Dorothy 206, 310
Edward 209
Hawyse, Baroness 311
Jonathan S 192
John 247, 312
John Lord 209
John Sutton 209
Joseph, Gov 2
Margaret 209
Mary Winthrop 310
Roger 211, 212, 311, 312
Samuel 212, 246, 247, 310
Thomas. . . . 206, 211, 212, 310, 311, 312
William 209
William H 209
Winthrop 67
Duff, Eleanor Dunn 272
William 272
DuMMER, Richard 259
Dunn, Eleanor 272
DuNWEij., Chandler 13
Eliza 13
DusTiN, Mary Webster 301
Thomas 301
Dyer, Mary 253
Eastman, Abigal 302
Ada Maria 99
Nancy Plumer 223
Nathaniel 223
Eaton, Charles H 102
Elisabeth 223
Mehetable 288
Mehetable Lyon 288
Roxana 288
William 288
Earbusie, John 191
Edgerly, Zuke 227
Eldon, Lord . 125
Elliott, Frances Susan 95
Thomas 266
Emerson, Hannah Webster 301
John 4
Margaret Froe 301
Michael 301
Nancy 4
Thomas 301
Emery, Hannah 197, 198
Emery, John 197, 301
Joshua 254
Mary 197
Mary Webster 301
Sarah Smith 254
Emeryes, John 50
Endes, Count 311
Endicott, John 223
Enges, Madott 215
English, W 186
Enos, Edna May 156
Etheridge, Dorothy 304
Evans, Stephen 192
Fabbroni, see Smith 292
Feral, Nora 9
Ferrin, Alfred 179
Clara 179
Ezekiel 3
Nancy Holt 179
Feilde, Ann 266
Frances 266
Thomas 266
Fernald, Elsie 199
FiFiELD, Luella 39
Sarah 2
Field, Darby 77
Mar\' 29
Fitzgerald, Clara Ann 179
Ida Elisabeth 179
Lilla M 179
Lewis Marston 179
Mary Blanch 179
Morris Alfred 179
Thomas Franklin 179
Flanders, Harry E 136
Nancy 2
Phoeba Mabel 136
Fogg, Clara ^ 186
Edward '. . . 186
Frances Smith 186
Susan 186
William 186
Follansby, Caroline 3
FoLSOM, Abigal 148-149
Jeremiah 149
John 149-223
John, Sr 171
Nathan 149
Nicholas 222
Samuel 174
Sarah Plumer 223
Susannah 222
Forbes, Alexander, Mrs 259
Foss, 73
Jane 85-86
Foster, Abiel 15-307
Edwin I
Nancy 15-307
Susannah M 15
Fowler, Sarah 219
Fox, Deacon 227
Nancy 223
Frederick, Catherine 54
French, Abigal 25
Christian 1 19-120
Mary 1-2
Frol, Margaret 301
Frost, Captain 278
Charles 172
Frothingham, Elisabeth Lord 259
Fulton, Elisabeth 249
Furber, Joshua 217
Leah 278
Gallagher, William D 262
Gardner, Elisabeth 268
John 212-268
Garland, Huldah B 20
George, Catherine 156
320
INDEX
George, Josiah, 8
GiBBixs. Ambrose 83
GiBBS, Abigal 285
Easter Swift 289
Gibson, Alice 5
GiDDiXGS, Eliphalet 129
Stephen 154
GiFFORD, Elisabeth Swift 286
GiLMAN, Abigal Folsom 148
Deborah 186
Edward 206
Edward, Jr 64
Elisabeth 65
Hiram 166
Israel 148
Lydia Ella Barnes 166
Mary 186
Nicholas 98, 129, 172
Samuel 174
Sarah 206
Theopilus 186
Zebulon 192
Gladding, George 164
Sarah Elisabeth Hill 164
Glass, Agnes 149
Gleason, Sarah 306
Glidden, Judith 187, 205, 206, 3 10
Glover, William 75
Goddard, Anthony 191
Elijah 191
Godfrey, William 302
Goodhue, Deborah Wadleigh 312
Maria 99, 308, 309, 312
Samuel 312
GoLTY, Richard Si
Gordon, Daniel 172
Elisabeth 99
Joseph S 136
Mar>' E. Whicher 136
Mary Elisa Wicher 136
Gorges 76, 78, 82
Gorham, Mari' 259
Gorton, Mary 266
Samuel 266
GouRNEY, Elisabeth 216
John Lord 216
Gove, John C 223
Plumer Hannah 223
Gow, see Smith 61
Gowans, see Smith 292
GowEN, Nicholas Smith 172
Grant, James 68
Greeley, Horace 250
Greely, Mary 25
Green, 263
Anna W. McGaw 273
Beaver 274
Benjamin 264
Bemice 273
Bertha Loechall 274
Bertha 280
Bess Fern 273
Christiana 274
Christiana Nutter 273
Clara 273
Columbia Slaughter 272
Daniel Henry 264
Eden 273
Edward 264
Elisabeth Barton 265
Elisabeth Gardner 268
Elmina 273
Elvira 234, 236, 273
Enfield 264
Frances Cook 265
Gertrude 273
H. L 264
Hannah Vinton 267
Helen 273
Iva 273
Green, James 264
John 264, 268, 272, 273
Lee B 274
Leonora 273
Lewis P 273
Lois 273
Lucile 273
Lucy Williams 272
Mabel 273
Margaret 266
Marguerette 273
Marmaduke 265
Martha Hubbard 268
Mar>- 306
Mary Brown 272
Mercy Cooke 268
Ola E 274
Pauline 273
Rebecca 273, 274
Robert L 273
Ruhama 270
Samuel 267
Sophronia 274
Thomas 267, 268, 272, 273, 280
Thomas L 273
Welthyan 26s
William 272, 273
William A 274
Greene, Ann 265, 267
Benjamin 265
Caleb 272
de Alexander 264
Debby Tucker 272
de John 264
de Thomas 264
de Walter 264
Elisabeth 265
Elvira 272
Frances 266
Hannah Hazeltine 267
James 266
John 266, 267, 271, 272
Joseph 272
Martha 272
Mary 266
Mary Amos 272
Mary Gorton 266
N 266
Nathaniel 265
Peter 266
Rebecca Hill 265
Richard 265
Robert 264, 265, 272
Rufus 26s
Ruhama 269
Stephen 272
Thomas 265, 266, 267, 272
Thomas, Jr 267
William 266, 272
W'illiam, Jr 272
Greenleaf, Mary 221
Sarah 221
Hackett, — 81
Martha A 164
Hadkinson, Clara 273
Edna Green 273
Hadley, Elisabeth E 148
Haines, Abigal 102
A. M 87
Sarah 120
Haley, 91
Ill
Andrew 89-1 13
Andrew, 3d 113
Andrew, Jr 113
Deborah Wilson 113
Elizabeth 73
Elisabeth 85-89, 90, 91. 113
Elisabeth Scammon 113
INDEX
321
Haley, J. W 73
John W 91
Mary 89
Mary Briar 113
Richard 91
Hall, Cora Edith 234
Melvina Euphema 306
Mercy 310
Ham, William 239
Hamilton. Mary 189
Hamsett, Elizabeth 29
Hanaforx), * I
Aaron 8,9, 10
Abigal 1, 306
Abigal H 6
Adelaide 10
Albert Milton 307
Alfred 4. 8
Allen Worcester 306
A. M 7
Amanda 6
Amos 306
Amos C 2
Anna 5
Ann Olivene 9,10
Anson 308
Archie 7,9
Architect 14
Arrah R 10, 13
Arthur 6, 7, 14
Arthur John 9
Athaliah 8
Azuba 4
Benjamin 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21,
30, 177
Benjamin Franklin 3
Benjamin John 2
Benjamin K 6
Benjamin L 9
Betsy 306
Blanche 7, 9
Bradley H 10
Captain IS
Capt. Peter 7
Carrie 13
Carrie Isadore 9
Catherine 16
Catherine Foster 307
Charles 6,9. 16
Charles Augustus 307
Charles Harding (Rev.) 3
Charles L. E 10
Charles N 308
Clarar 7, 10
Clara Agnes 9
Clarence 14
Corina Frances 9
Cornelius H 14
Daisy Maude 9
David 4, S, 6, 10, 12
David, Jr 6
Dorcas 95
Earl 7. 14
Earl Joseph 9
Edward 14, 306
Edwin Lester 9
Elizabeth 6
Eliza 8, IS
Eliza Ann 307
Ella Beardsley 307
Ellen 16
Emma 2
Ernest 7
Esther 8
Frances 8, 20
Frances Lydia 10, 179
Hanaford, Frances Lydia Smith 179
Frank 14, 307
Frank Clark 9
Frank Edwin 9
Franklin 8
Fred 7
George Augustus 10
George E 7
George Good 307
George W 7
Glen Ernest 9
Harold M 9
Harry 14
Hary M 7
Harry Milton 8
Haynes 2
Hibbard 6
Helen S 16
Horace 14
Howard 13
Howard A 7
H. M 7
H. P 7
Ida Ann 9
Ida Belle 9
Ida Clare 9
Isaac D 8
Jabez 2
Jane 3, 15
Jane M 39
Jasabel 2
J. Boardman 3
Jenny Mariah 10, 12
Jeremiah 3
John I, 2,3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15
John A 3
John P 10, II
John Parker 10, 109, 177, 179
John Roy 307
Joseph 6, 306
Joseph N 3,6
Josiah 4
Julia 16
Julia Barnard 307
Lewis B 10
Lewis Burleigh 12
Lindley Eugene 9
Louise 14
Lucien 8
Lucy 3
Lydia F 39
Lyman 6
Lyman Beecher 307
Lyman Brooks 313
Mabel 9
Mabel Clare 9
Major Taylor P 6
Maria A 3
Mariah D 10
Mariah Dorcas 12
Mariah Sweet 3
Marietta C 10
Marion L 306
Martha 6, 306
Martha Jane 307
Martin Reuter 2
Mary 3, 8, 10, 306, 307
Mary A 4
Mary Elisabeth 3,9, 177
Mary Elisabeth Neal 109, 179, 297
Mary Ellen 6
Mary Green 3 06
Mary Jane 10
Mary L 6
Mary Leone 9
Mary Shinfield 307
*See Hanaford, Handford, Handfort, Handforth, Hanford, Haniford, Hanifords, Hannaford,
Hannafourde, Hanneford, Hanniford, Hansford, Huneford, Hunefords, Huniford, Hunyford.
22
322
INDEX
Hanaford, Melvina Eupenma Hall 306
Mertie 7
Mertie Estelle 9
Minerva 15
Myron 308
Nancy Foster 307
Nancy W. Richards 307
Nathaniel 10, 177, 306
Nathaniel P 11, 39
Nathaniel Perkins 5, 10
Nicholas 5
Oliver 8
Parker, W 3
Peter. . . .5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21,
30, 177
Peter 0 14
Philip 306
Phoebe C 15
Polly 306
Rachel 8
Rachel Jane 20
Reuben 306, 307
Reuben Morrill 307
RUey 306
Riley L 306
Robert 306
Rollin Meredith 307
Roy 307
Ruth 2, 306, 307
Samuel 2
Samuel Gray 3
Sarah i, 4, 5, 6, 95, 306
Sarah B 10, 30, 31
Sarah Burleigh 12
Sarah Gleason 306
Sarah H 6
Sarah W 21
Sidney 3
Stephen A 7
Susan Gray 3
Susan Josephine 9
Susan Minerva 307
Taylor 6
Theopolis 306
Thomas 2,5
Thomas Milton 7,8
Vittie Brooks 10
Walter -....6,10
Warren 6
W. H 306, 307
Wilfred 8
Wm '. .. . 10
William 3, 307
Waiiam F 16
William Fiske 307
William Foster 4, 307
William G 3
Willie W. D. . . ; 10
Winthrop 12
Winthrop T 11
Winthrop Young.. 4, 8, 10, 12, 30, 95, 177
Handford,* Apeilis i
Eglin I
Eliza I
Lettice i
Margaret i
Nathaniel 30S
Handfort,* Robert 305
Handforth,* Nathaniel i, 305
Pill I
Thomas i
Hands, Abigal i
Hanford,* Charles B 14
Charles N 14
Ella F 14
George H 14
Haxford, Hannah i
John I, 30
Leonard E 14
Marcus P 14
Mildred 15
Samuel i
Haniford,* Mrs. Johanna 14
Thomas 15
Hanifords,* 2
Hannaford,* Albert 13
Alonzo Curtis 9
Anna 90
Catherine 13
Charles 13
Charles Augustus 13
Charles A 15
David 90
Eliza 13
Frank 13
George 14
George S 14
George W 14
Howard A 15
James 14
Jane 13
J. M 14
John 90
John P 39
John R 15
John Roy 13
Laura 14
Lyman B 15
Lyman Beecher 13, 14
Lyman Brooks 314
Mary M 3 14
Minerva 13
Peter go, 314
Polly Davis 314
Reuben Morrill 13, 15
Richard 14
Rollin M 13
Roy 13
Sarah 90
Stephen A 14
Thomas 90, 192
William F 15
William Foster 13
W. H 13
William H 15
Hannafourde,* 14
Hanneford,* David 4
John 4
Mary Elisabeth Neal 104, 107
Hanniford,* John I
Hansford,* Clifford C 14
William J 14
Hanver, I
Hardon, Henry W 19
Harper, 146
Harris, Israel 314
Hart, Abigal Smith 131, 134
Theodore 131
Harvey, Jane 266
Thomas 266
Haseltine, Hannah 267
Haskell, Rachel 51
Hast, John 38
Hastings, John 49
Hatch, Dorothy Swift 286
Nathan 286
Hatherly, Timothy i
Hatheway, Robert 126
Haule, John 266
Haven, Samuel 90
Hawkins, Albert Summer 146
Arthur W 146
*See Hanaford, Handford, Handfort, Handforth, Hanford, Haniford, Hanifords, Hannaford,
Hannafourde, Hanneford, Hanniford, Hansford, Huneford, Hunefords, Huniford, Hunyford.
INDEX
323
Hawkins, Benjamin 146
Bessie M 146
Clara Ann Woodman 146
Elmer W 146
Florence 13S
Florence E 146
Sarah Ann 13S
Hawthorne, Ann 64
John 64
Nathaniel 64
William 64
Haynes, a. lona 235
Lydia 254
Hayward, Daniel Baxter 199
Helen 199
Mary Baxter I99
Hazen, John 254
Moses 303
Sarah 254
Healy, see Haley ....» ,. 91
Carlie 99
Wells 37
Heath, Eliza 103
Joseph 278
Hemans, Felicia 214
Henry, I ' 311
John G 289
Mercy Smith 289
Hersey, Jonathan 102
Judith 245
Nabbie 102
WMUiam 102, 24s
Hibbard, Eleanor Bartlett 200
Henry Bartlett 200
Thomas 200
Hill, 161
163
Aaron 166
Adalaid Melvina Barnes 166
Adelaid M. Young 164
Adna Ernest 164
Arthur Sherman 164
Charles Kirk 163
Clarence 164
Elisabeth 164
Elisabeth Smith 163
Emma Barrett 164
Eveline 164
F. D 168
Forrest 164
Frances Pickett 164
Frank David 164, 166
Fred Aaron 164
George Sanborn 164
Harold 164
Hattie A. Hackett 164
Ina Johnson 164
John 31
Joseph 265
Lucius Everett 164
Mary Angle 164
Mary Jane Dalton 164
Nathaniel 277
Orbut 164
Rebecca 265
Ruth Hunkins 164
Sarah Nutter 277
Waldo Kirk 164
Hilton, Ann Dudley 310
Clara Neal 99
Dudley 310
Edward 83, 310
George 99
Mercy 310
Mercy Hall 310
Richard 246
Hinckley, Susannah 294
HiNSHAW, Alice L 187
Edith B 187
Emory 187
Florence E 187
Mildred E 187
Walter E 187
HoBBS, Mar>' 154
HoDSDON, Alice Robbins 160
Charles Kent 160
Emily Bracket 160
Hannah 172
John Wisley 160
Marshall Sinclair 160
Waldron W 160
Hohnadel, Philip 39
Holt, Nancy 179
Honiford, Zachariah 4
Honyford,* John 4
Margaret 4
Stephen 4
Hooker, Thomas 189
Hooper, Madam 260
Hoyt, Elisabeth C 196
Howe, Cora 273
Elmina 273
Elmina Green 273
Frank 273
H 272
Neva Coughlin 273
Orlando 273
Rebecca 273
Hubbard. D 269
Daniel 268
Martha Coit 268
HucKiNS, 17, 19
Almon 20
Dorcas 8, 10, 21, 95
Eliphaled 8
Eliphalet 20
George 5
James 19, 20,21
James R 19
John II, 20, 21
Melissa 148
Nafthan 148
Robert 19, 20, 21, 29, 148
Sarah 19
Sophia S. Kelly 148
Stephen P 20
Hugh, Capet 311
the Great 311
Hughes, Carrie U 39
Charles 39
Edwin L 39
Huneford, * David 4
Sarah 4
Hunefords* 2
HuNiFORD,* John 4
Peter 16
Hunkins, Ruth 164
HuNNiFiELD, Peter 5
Hunt, Abbie 10
Abby 8
Huntress, George 89
HusE, John 147
Sarah 143, 14s, 15s, 159, 163
HussEY, Huldah 153
Hutchins, Mar>' 302
ILLSLEY, Ruth 216
William 216
Jackson, Elisha 49
Henry 49
House 84
*5eeHanaford, Handford, Handfort. Handforth, Hanford, Haniford, Hanifords, Hannaford,
Hannafourde, Hanneford, Hanniford, Hansford, Huneford, Hunefords, Huniford, Hunyford.
324
INDEX
Jackson, Nathaniel 239
James, Elisabeth 210
Kinsley 310
Mercy Hilton 310
Jaques, Chase 223
Nancy Plumer 223
Jay, William 52
Jenkins, W 88
Jewett, Mrs. Harvey 168
Johnson, Cordelia Augusta 289
Elisabeth Smith 147, 163, 165
Ina 164
John 163
Jones, John Taylor 205, 208
Judith Leavitt 205, 208
Lavilla 205
Martha 208
JuDKiNS, Hannah 303
Keene, Agnes 118
Kelly, Elisabeth E. Hadley 148
John 8, 10
Mary 15
' Samuel 67
Sophia S 148
Wyzeman 148
Kennison, Molly 197
Sally 197
Kent, Charlotte Potter 160
Colonel 127
Elisabeth 153
Germanicus 290
Ketchum, Elizabeth ..... j 2
Esther . . H-tl'*»i;W.V\A.- 2
Jedidiah ...,.-,.. J. .,..-. , 2
John .>..'tf.,ty^/..,., 2
Joseph ."'..'.') . '.I' ... 2
Mary 2
Kimball, Lydia 10, 177
KiMBERLY, Bessie Belle 9
Fred Lester 9
Ray Judson 9
KiNCAiD, George R 188
Helen L 188
KiNKAiD, Ellis 274
Guy 274
Leslie 274
Myrtle 274
Ray 274
Sophronia Greene 274
Knight, John 247
Mary 166, 247
Knowles, Hannah 119, 121
KoNES, 312
George Ellsworth 310
Kreamer, W. W 13
Lab.\ree, Mehetable 176
Lackey, Margaret 57
Ladd, Newell C 135
Sarah Smith 135
Trueworthy 38
Lake, Alfred 4
James M 4
Julia 4
Lambert, Georgia 99
Lamberte, 74
Landers, Jennie Swift 286
Richard 286
Lane, Sarah Webster 302
Langstaff, Henry 277
Sarah 277
Lascelle, Eva 9
Lavington, Jane 191
Richard 191
Lawrence, Captain 279
Ebenezer 67
Layton, Mary 279
Leavitt, — 203
Alice M 205
Leavitt, Arthur 207, 308, 309
Arthur Eastman 205
Dorothy 212
Dorothy Dudley 206, 310
Dudley 6,90, 156, 186, 187, 205
206, 207, 212, 223, 310
Eddie C 205
Elisabeth 187, 199, 205, 247, 310
Elisabeth Drew 205
Elisabeth James 310
Enos 20s
Fanny 90
Huldah 207
Huldab Jane 205
Huldah J 208, 308
Isaac 98, 187, 205, 206
Jane. . .'. 205, 208
John 206
Joseph 310
Joshua 310
Josiah 20s
Judith 205, 208
Judith Glidden 187, 205, 310
Lavina Smith 98, 205
Marion S 205
Mary 206, 223
Mary Ann 205
Mary Jane Bartlett 187
Mary Wadleigh 310
MoUie 6
Moses 206, 212, 246, 310
Olive Bartlett 308
Samuel 206
Sarah 140
Sarah Gilman 206
Sarah Smith 98, 206
Thomas 24s
William B 207
Leech, Deborah 50
Lefevres, see Smith 291
Legat, John 24s
Leicester, Earl of 311
Leighton, John F 3
Samuel 90
Lemmers, Belle 7
Ervin 9
Guy C 9
Helen 9
Leonardson, Samuel 301
Light, Mary 24s
Lincoln, Abraham 278
Mordecai 278
Little, Eben 21
Loch, iis
See Lock 117
See Locke and Loch n8
Lock, 73
Abigal 119, 121
Abner 121
Alice 117
Agnes Keene 118
Benjamin 119
Catherine n? -
Christian French 119, 120
David 121
Edward . . . ^.~-.— rrr- . . rrr. . 120
Ebenezer 118, 119
Eleanor 117
Elijah 120, 121
Eliphalet 120, 121
Elisha 119, 120, 121
Elisabeth . . .69, 85, 89, 117, 118, 119, 120
Elisabeth Berry 119, 120
Elisabeth Meredith 117
Frances 120
Hanna 68
Hannah 69, 88, 103, 119, 120, 121
Hannah Knowles ii9t 121
Hannah Lock 119
James 118, 119, 120
INDEX
325
Lock, Jemima 120,
Jethro
Joanna Wilcock
John 117. 118, 119, 120,
John, Jr
Jonathan ii9, 120,
Joseph 118, 119,
Joshua
Josiah
Lucy Wood
Margaret
Mary 118,
Mary Clark
Michael
Nathan
Patience 120,
Richard
Samuel 118, 119.
Sarah 120,
Sarah Haines
Susanna Walker
" Thomas 117. 118, ii9,
WilHam. .69, 102, 117, 118, ii9, 120,
William, Jr
Young
Locke, see Loch
LOECHAEL, Bertha
Lok, see Loch
See Lock
LoKE, see Lock
Lord, Amasa
Elisabeth
Eugene
John
Nellie
LoucKS, Catherine
Nicholas
Peter Ault
LoviTT, Mary
LuDWELL, Philip
LuNT. Elizabeth
Lyford, Hannah C
Lynch, Clara Pert
Lyon, Mehetable •
Major
Lynn, Mary Ellen
121
120
117
121
120
121
120
119
119
119
121
121
118
118
119
121
119
120
121
120
119
120
121
119
120
118
274
117
117
117
6
259
6
259
6
288
288
288
206
30s
301
288
9
Main, Joanna 228
Maine, Joanna 228
Marsh, Eleanor ii7
Walter ii7
Marshall, Captain 267
Horate Stowe 309
Walter Harper, Jr 309
Walton H 309
Vira 200
Vira Frost Stone 309
Marston, 137
Abraham 140
Abigal 153
Betsy 133
Elisabeth 131. I33. i34. 140
Eliphalet 140
Frank i79
Hannah 140
Ira 304
Jane 140
Jeremiah 140
John 139, 140, IS3
Joseph 140
Josiah 149
Lavina I49
Love 140
Lucy 140
Mary 131, i35, 140, I77
Mary Batcheldor 133
Nancy Robinson i49
Obadiah 140
Rebecca i53
Rebecca Page 140
Marston, Reuben 133. 140. i4S
Robert I39
Ruth 140
Sally Beedee 304
Samuel Captain 140
Sarah 140
Sarah Batchelder I45
Sarah Batcheldor 140
Sarah Leavitt 140
Simon 198
Stephen 140
Susan 140, 14s
Susannah 131, I33
Ura Elisabeth I79
William I39
William, Jr 140
William, Sr 140
Marts, Elmina Howe 273
Henry 273
Mason, 78
82
277
Captain 76, 82
Edward 4
John 77. 81
Maston, Mary I77
Mather, Cotton 79
Maud, Daniel 79, 80
Mauve, Mathew 5i
Maxwell, Thompson 248
McBride, Mary 273, 280
Nancy 273, 280
McClary, Florence 235
McDonald, John 270
McLouGHLiN, Cora Howe 273
Harry 273
McWharter, Anne 288
Mead, 131
David 119
Hannah ii9
Louis 93
Louise 93. 97
Stephen 97
Meader, Carl M 136
Elisabeth i99
Joseph 131
Meader, Mina Josephine 136
Susan Smith 131. I35
Meredith, Elisabeth 117
Robert ii7
Menzeis, Helen 243
Merrill, 251
253
Abel •• 253
Abraham 253. 254
Benjamin 222, 255
Daniel 253, 254
Hannah 254
Hannah Bartlett 222
James 253
John 253. 254
Jonathan 254
Lucy 253
Lydia Haynes 254
Molly Smith 254
Nathaniel 253, 254
Sarah 131, I3S, 222, 253
Sarah Hazen 254
Susanna 253
Miller, Ernest Robert 187
Ethel S 187
Helen Charlotte 187
Katherine I47
Mary 234
Susanna 43
Mills, Charles Edward 98
Grace Lavina 98
Harry C 98
Harry Neal 98
Louis 98
326
INDEX
Milton, Albert 307
Arthur 10
Belle 10
Benjamin 10
Harry 10
Myrtle 10
Thomas 10
MiNARD, Mable 273
MiNVEiLLE, Gabriel 293
Susannah 293
Mitchell, Martha Ermina rT^. . 156
MoELL, Joshua 102
MoLLiNEAUx, Alice 36, 37
Moody, Frances S. E 95
Samuel 219
Sarah 219
MooNEY, John 67
Moore, Martha D 103
Susannah 15
Morely, Robert 75
Morey, Thankful 287
Morrish, Rose 2
Morrison, Esther J 30
Jonathan ' 30
Miriam 30
Morse, Judith 25
Moses, Joseph 140
Miss 240
Motherwell, William 243
MOULTON, IS4
305
Austin 198
Margaret 183
Mary 38
Ruth 183
MowREY, Fred H 307
Mary Hanaford 307
MUDGETT, Mary 175, 176
Murdoch, Clan 61
Myers, Albert 274
Catherine 274
Fred 274
Rebecca Green 274
William 274
Nason, Fred 3
Jennie A 3
Phoeba 134, 186
Neal, Abbie 99
Abigal 87,90,93, 98
Abigal Haines 102
Adeliza Copp 102
Agnes 74
Alice E •. 103
Anne 76
Annie 73
Andrew 78,81,89,90, 174
Arthur Joseph 10 1, 102
Arthur Mortimer 104
Bertha loi, 102
Betsy 98, 99
Betsy, M 95
Catherine 99
Charles 95,98, 99
Charles Ames 95
Charles Everett 103
Charles Richard 99
Clara 99
Clarence 103
Clarence Ermah 103
Comfort 88
Darius J 95
Deborah 90, 93
DLxi 95
Edith Leavitt 98
Elisabeth . . .74,85,88, 89,90,91,93, 98
Elisabeth Gordon 99
Elisabeth Haley 113
Elisabeth Lock 118
Neal, Eliza Heath 103
Elliott Jay 95
Elsie May 104
Emma Jane 97
Ezra Dixi 95.97, 98, 205
Francis 74, 75
Franklin Pierce 103
Frederick Eastman loi
George Elmer 103
George Franklyn loi
George Richard 99
Georgie Lambert 99
Grace Lavina 98
Hannah 88,93,99, 102
Hannah Jane loi
Hannah S 93, 95
Harriet 95
Hazel Dow 104
Henry 74
Herbert Frank 103
Irene 93, 109
James H 102
Jane 85, 86, 97
Jeremiah 87, 90
J. Newton 102
John . . .31, 73, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93
94.95,97, 102
John Mead 95,96, 97
Jonathan .- 88
Joseph. . . .31, 68. 73, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92
93, 94, 97, 98, 99, lOl, 102
103, 109, 177, 198, 308
Joseph, "Red Oak Joe" 98
Joseph Smith 97
Joseph Warren 103
Joseph, "White Oak Joseph" 98
Joshua 102
Julia E. Barlow 103
Kimball Ladd 95
Laura Bessie Rice 103
Lavina 97
Louise 93
Louise Rae 104
Lucy 102
Lucy Dow loi
Lucy M. R 102
Lydia loi
Lydia A 105
Martha 31, 93, 93
Martha A 95
Martha D. Moore 103
Mary E 99
Mary Elizabeth 12, 109, 177
Mary Esther Smith loi
Mary Jane 93
Mary Tarlton 102
73
Nabbie Hersey 102
Nancy 93
Nancy Perkins 98
Nellie M. Davis 103
Olive 97, 102
Rachel Irene 99
Ralph Davis 103
Richard 73, 93, 98, 99
Robert John 99
Sally 90
Sarah 90, 91
Sarah Elisabeth 177
Sarah Elisabeth Smith 108, 109
Sarah Estella 97
Samuel 31, 68, 73, 75, 85, 86, 87, 88
89, 90, 91, 93, 95, 97, 98, lOI
102, 103, 109, 113, 118, 177
192
Smith 93, 108, 109, 177, 206, 280
Smith Lock lor, 103
Susan Maria 95
Thomas 73, 74, 76, 87
INDEX
327
Neal, Walter 31, 73. 74, 75. 76. 77
78, 81, 82, 83. 85. 86
87, 88, 89, 93. 102
103, 109. 177, 192
William 74. 9i, loi, 102, 198
William Howard loi, 102
William Joseph 102
Neale, Agnes 74
Henry 74
Mary 75. 8s. 87, 88, 90,91,93. loi
Samuel 75
Walter 75. 83
William 74
Neall, Joshua 102
Nele, Walter 83
Neles, Samuel 87
Nelme, see Nelms 55
Richard 59
Nelmes, see Nelms 55
Mrs. Alice 59
Charles 57
John 57
Nelms, see Nelm 55
See Nelmes 55
. . . 55
Mrs. Alice 57
Archibald 54
Audebron 57
Byard 59
Catherine 59
Charles N 58
Ebbin 59
Edwin 57. 59
Eliza 59
Elizabeth 59
Estella 58
Evirod 57
Francis 54
Hannah 58
John E 58
Kate 59
Lucien 54
Martha 59
Mary 57
Presley 57
Thomas 57
Newell, Adell 6
Amanda 6
Augustus 6
Carrie 6
Maud 6
May 6
Viola 6
Newman, Green Margurette 273
NiCHOL, Colonel 130
Nichols, Moses 68
NicoLLS, Augustine . . 211
Noll, Samuel 89
Walter 89
NoRRis, Abigal 5. I5. 30
Catherine i33
Catherine Neal 99
Jonathan P 99
Julia 99
Norton, Melaimie Thornton 95
Noyes, Ruth 2
NUTT, Samuel 279
Nutter, 275, 277
Abigal 278
Abigal Dam 277
Abigal Roberts 277
Ann 280
Anna 278
Anna Simms '. 278
Anna Syms 279
Anne 277
Antony 277, 278, 279
Betty Dam 280
Christiana 273
Christopher 277, 279
Nutter, Dorothy 278
Eben 278
Eleanor 277, 278
Elisabeth ; 277, 278
Elisabeth Bickford 279
Elisabeth Downing 279
Elisabeth Rawlings 278
Ester Dam 279
Hannah 278, 279
Hatevil 277, 278
Henry 277, 279
Jacob 279
James 279
John 277, 278, 279, 280
Joseph 278
Joshua 277, 278, 279
Jotham 279
Leah Furber 278
Lemuel 278
Lieut 278
Lucinda Cleveland 277
Mark 279
Mary 278, 279
Mary Layton 279
Mary McBride 280
Mary (Nancy) 273
Mary Winget 277
Mathais 279
Mercy Tasker 289
Mirriam 279
Nancy McBride 280
Olive 278
Rebecca Ayers 279
Samuel 279
Sarah 277.278, 279
Sarah Langstaff 277
Sarah Richards 279
Sarah Walker 277
Thomas 273,278,279, 280
William 280
Nutting, Benjamin 279, 280
Simon 279
Nye, Captain 289
Experience 285
Mary Corlis 301
Odlin. Elisabeth Leavitt 247
John 246, 247
Oglander, Frances 74
William 74
Omohundro, Dianah 57
Ordway, Mary 198
Page, Celia Ellen Webster 304
Henry George 304
Mabel I44
Margaret Moulton 183
Mary i54
Rebecca 140
Robert 183
Pagnel, Ge Waise 311
Paine, Joseph 192
Robert Elder 64
Palmer, Ann 220
Palmeter, Eleanor 95
Nathan 12, 13. 95
Nathan S 3i
Parker, Joseph •' 130
Stephen 68
Thomas, Rev 193
Parks, Herbert 9
Morris 9
Nathan 9
William 9
Parsons, '- 257
Abraham 192
Eben 259
Goodman 118
Mary Gorham 259
Moses 259
Sarah Burnham 228, 261
328
INDEX
Parsons, William 228, 261
Partridge, Allen 3
Eleazor 4
James 4
John 4
Mary Ellen 15
Phineas 4
Patrick, Emily 12
Paver, William 75
Payne, Daniel 6S
Elisabeth 6S
Payne, Robert 65
Payson, Jesse W 3 13
Pease, Bertha 160
Hannah 199, 309
Nancy B 13
Polly Smith 134
Peaslie, Hannah 25
Pearson, Clarence H 162
Isaac 254
James Henry 254
Jethro 129
Mary Leavitt 223
Nancy 4
Sally 223
Sarah 223
Taylor 223
Pendleton, James 85
Penn, Giles 265
James 215
William 265
Pepperell, William 240
Perkins, Judith 20, 21
Nancy 98
Nathaniel 20, 21
Perrine, Chas. H 98
. Dudley Neal 98
Edith L. Neal 98
Judith Grace 98
Perry, Dinah Swift 285
Ezra 28s
Mary Swift 285
Pettit, Rebecca 39
Pheltiplace, Anne 312
Philbrick, 73
Elisabeth 184, 186
Jane 85
Margaret 97
Martha 183, 184, 186
Mary 8s
Sarah 183
Thomas 184, 186
William 85
William, Jr 91
Pickering, Daniel 6s
Polly 172
Pickett, Frances 164
Pierce, Hannah Wilson 247, 248
Jonathan 247, 248
Mary Knight 247
Robert 247
Pierson, Nancy '. 5
Pike, Phoeba Smith 131-
Thomas 61
William 131, 134
PiLLSBURY, Molly 14s
Piper, ^ — 91
Elisha 223
Molly Plumer 223
Pitcher, Moll 260
Plant, Matthais 196
Plumer, 213
Abel 218
Abigal 216, 221
Aaron 216
A lona Haynes 235
Amos 219, 221, 223, 229
Ann 241
Ann Palmer 220
Bard ftg
Plumer, Bathshua 221
Beatrice 220
Benjamin 216, 217, 218, 238
Benjamin F 229
Benjamin Franklin 223, 231, 232
234. 23s
Benjamin Smith 234,235, 237
Benjamin Wilson. 230, 231,233, 234, 236
Benole 218
Bertha Ann 234, 236
Catherine 241
Cora Edith Hall 234
Daniel 217, 218, 219, 238
Daniel, Jr 217
Daniel Worthen 188, 214, 231, 233
23s, 236, 237
David 216, 218
Deborah 216, 221
Dodavah 218
Drusilla Leonette 231,233, 235
Dudley Leavitt 234, 237
Ebenezer 217, 218, 238
Eleanor 216
Eliphalet 216
Elisabeth 218, 221, 238
Elisabeth Bitfield 221
Elisabeth Dole 221
Elisabeth Eaton 223
Ellen Maria 231, 233, 23s
Elsie Lucile 235
Elvira Green 234, 236, 272, 273
Ephriam 215, 221, 238
Erwin G. Plumer 234, 236
Efrauncis 219, 220
Florence McClary 23s
Francis 218, 220, 223, 230
Franklin L 236
Franklin Leroy 234
Freeman, Mrs 227
George 220, 241
Gov 217, 219
Hannah. . . .216, 217, 220, 221, 223, 238
Hannah Rogers Wilson 230
Hannah Swett 216
Hannah Wilson 223, 229, 231, 233
Harold Rodger 234, 237
Harriet 231
Helen Elisabeth 234, 237
Helen Frances 235
Jane 216
Jean McClary 235
Jeremiah 241
Jesse. .. .218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 228, 229
234, 235. 253
Jesse Frederick 234, 23s, 237
Jesse, Jr 219, 223, 230, 234, 235
John 215, 218, 219, 221, 240, 241
John A 238
Jonathan . . . .216, 217, 218, 220, 260, 314
Jonathan Pearson 223
Joseph. . . .215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 223
227, 228, 238
Joseph, Jr 215
Joshua 221
Judith 221
Keziah 238
Keziah Storer 238
Leonora L 188
Leonora Leavitt Smith 234, 237
Lottie Wilson 234, 23s, 237
Lydia 221, 240, 241
Mark 223, 241
Mary 215, 220, 221
Mary Bitfield 220
Mary Blodgett 220
Mary Dole 217
Mary Dyes 253
Mary Greenleaf 221
Mary Miller 234
Mary Stevens 221, 222
INDEX
329
Plumer, Miriam 216
Molly 223
Moses 219, 223, 253
Nancy 223
Nancy Clark 223
Nancy Fox 223
Nathan 218, 219, 221, 222, 223
Orville Wilson 23s
Parker 223,229, 231
Polly 223
Richard 217,218, 223
Ruth 220, 221
Sally 223
Sally Pearson 223
Samuel. . . .215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220
221, 223
Samson 216
Sarah 216,217,219, 223, 238
Sarah Adams 216, 238
Sarah Merrill 222
Sarah Moody 219
Sarah Pearson 223
Sarah Wentworth 238
Seth 238
Sophia 223
Stephen 218, 223
Susannah Folsom 222, 241
Sylvanus 219,221, 238
Thomas zi8
Wayne 234, 237
William 218, 219, 223, 241
Wilson 272, 273
Worthen, Irvin 235
Poole, Captain 87
Pope, Hannah 192
PoRREDGE, Henry 63
Joane 63
Ports, Edwin S 12
Jesse J 12
Prentice, Captain 220
Prescott, 33
Anne 37
Benjamin 37
Betsy 3
Charles 205,
Elvin J 33
Erville S 39
Isaac S 39
James 33. 36, 37, 38
James, Jr 36, 37
James, Sr 37. 38
John 10, 36, 37. 38, 39. 304
John H 39
Joshua 38. 39
Joshua Clark 39
Josiah 20s
Lavilla Jones 205
Lucinda A 39
Lucinda W 39
Lucinda Webster 304
Mary 30, 38
Nathaniel H 39
Omar White 39
Polly M 30
Standish 37
Zulema Webster 10, 39
Preston, George 80
Proctor, Edna Dean 60
Pry, Thomas 303
Puterbaugh, Charlotte 187
Charlotte E 187
Edith B 187
Elisabeth 188
Ethel S 187
Helen L 187, 188
Henry S 187, 188
Leonore G 187
Lois M 187
Walter H 187
Winnifred A 187, 188
Pynchon, Anne iS3
William I53
QuARLES, Francis 63
Joanna 63
Quarlls, Francis 63
Joanna 63
Johanna 63
Quick, Susannah 294
Rahn, Elmer C 235
Evan George 235
Leonora Elisabeth 23s
Lottie Wilson 235, 237
Rand, Ann Smith 163, i6s
Anne Smith 146
George 146, 163, i6s
Randall, Elisabeth 167
Rawlings, Elisabeth 278
Ray, 91
Rayner, Priest 80, 81
Reagon, John H 57
Reynolds, Colonel i73
Rhodes, Harry D 188
Winnifred A 188
Rice, Annie S8
Hiram 58
Laura Bessie 103
Mary 58,
Richards, Ellen Maria Plumer. . . .233, 235
Jesse Wilson 235
Nancy W 307
Odessey 23s
Sarah 279
William 235
Richardson, Elisabeth Lock 117
Fernando ii7
RiCKER, 91
Roberson, Nicholas 176
Robert, Duke of France 3ii
Earl of Leicester 311
The Pious 3ii
The Strong 311
Roberts, Abigal 277
Arthur Sidney loi
Charles H loi
Charles Hezekiah loi
Dixi Guy loi
Francis Pauline loi
Hannah Neal 101
Hatevil Nutter 278
Henry Joseph loi
Joseph 278
Joseph Neal loi
Mary J loi
Pauline A. D loi
Thomas 278
Robeson, Mary 4
Robinson, Anna 229
Joseph E loi
Mary Neal 100, loi
Nancy I49
Rockwood, Frank i99
Rogers, Bathsheba 294
Elisabeth 90
John 294
Judith 198
William 90
Romsdal, Gertrude 273
Russell, Cordelia 2
Margaret 167
Noahkiah 305
Rust, Margaret 192
Samall, 93
Sanborn, Betsy Smith 163
Catherine Sattalee 183
David 163
Elisabeth Smith 163, 165
Ensign John 183
330
INDEX
Sanborn, Hannah 183
Jane 2
John 183, 184
Nathan 183
Richard 183
Ruth Moulton 183
Sarah Philbrick 183
Thomas 184
WilUam ; 184
Satchwell, Mary 301
Sattalee, Catherine 183
Savage, 1 19
Sawyer, Daniel 176
Ebenezer 176
Lyman 3
jMar>- Smith 147
Molly Smith 163, 165
Sca.\l\ion, Elisabeth 89, 1 1 1
Humphrey 113
James 90
Richard 2
Scarborough, John 128
Mary Smith , 128
Schaefe. Jacob 148
ScHUELiN, Betty 199
Scott, William 266
Searing, Elisabeth 293
Sears, Alelissa Melvina 9
Senter, Colonel 192
Joseph 198
Seymour, John 205
John L 208
Shatswell, Mary 25
Sheafe, see Sheaffe, also Shepard 147
Alexander 147
Edmund 148
Mary 148
Mehitable 148
Richard 147
Sampson 148
Shephard 147
Thomas 147
William 147
Sheaffe, see Shephard 147
Anna 147
Elline 147
Harmon 147
Katherine 147
Katherine Miller 147
Margaret 147
Mary 147
Richard 147, 148
Thomas 147
WUliam 147
Sheff, Marion 147
Richard 147
Thomas 147
Shepard, see Sheafe, also Sheaffe and
Shephard
Hanaford Eugene 9
Ruth 156
Ruth Abigal 9
Walter E 9
Shephard, see Shepard
See Sheafe 148
See Sheaffe 147, 148
Abigal Folsom 148
Agnes Glass 149
Avis 148
Daniel 148
Eleanor 149
Elisabeth 148
Ella 149
Ella Florence 146
George Albert 148
John 149
Joseph rS9
M. Elisabeth 159
Melissa Huckins 148
Shephard, Richard 146, 148, 149
Ruth, see Smith 146
Ruth Currier Smith 149
Samuel 148
Samuel Smith 149
William .Albert 148
Shinfield, Mary 307
SlAS, Benjamin 5
Sill, Helen 16
SIMMS, Anna 278
Simmons, Captain 267
Sinclair, Polly 159, 163, 164
SissoN, Joan 285
Joana 286, 288
Slafter, John 193
Slaughter, Columbia 272
Sloper, Lieutenant 75
Smith, 61, 291, 292
See Gow 61
See Smyth 61
See Smyt 61
Aaron 65
Abel 13 1
Abiah Stevens 145, 149, 163, 165
Abigal . . 131, 134. 154, 172, I74. 289, 294
Abigal Cass 130, 133
Abigal Marston 153
Abijah 130
Albert M 13, 307
Alice 63
Andrew 304
Ann 163, 165
Anna M 143, 144, 146, 147. 174, 293
Anne 130, 146, 172, 174
Anne Ellen 128
Aime Pynchon 153
Arthur Leavitt 188
Asenath 13 1, 145
Augustus M 159
Bathsheba Rogers 294
Benjamin. . .129, 154, 155, 156, 172, 173
293, 294
Ben Blewett 188
Bertha Pease 160
Betsy. 143, 144, 146, 147, 163
Betsy Marston 133
Caroline Warner 159
Carrie E 159
Catherine 133
Catherine George 156
Charles 109
Charles B 159
Charles Brooks 143
Charles Darwin 186, 188
Charles Harvey 187
Charlotte 131, 135, 177, 186
Charlotte Elisabeth 187
Charlotte Josephine 13s
Charlotte Porter Kent 160
Charlotte W 188
Christopher. . 129, 153, 154, 155, 156, 207
Clara Burleigh 159
Clara Ferrin 179
Clarissa 13 1
Cordelia Augusta 289
Daniel 65,66,67,68,93. 128, 131
153. 173. 294
Daniel, Jr 172
Deborah 65, 131
Dexter 131, 135
Dorothy 304
Dorothy Etheridge 304
Dorothy L 188
Eben 67, 147
Ebenezer. . .65,66,67,143,144,145, 146
149. 156, 159, 160, 163, 165
174.17s, 177
Edna May Enos 156
Edward 130, 173, 174, 188, 292
INDEX
331
Smith, Electa 131
Elisabeth 65,66, 126, 128, 131, 135
147. 153. 163. 173. 188
293
Elisabeth Marston. . . . 131, 133, 134, 140
Elisha 130, 141, 143. 144. 145. 146
147, IS3. 154. 155, 159. 163
164, 172, 175. 176, 177. 20s
207
Eliza 58, 131, 135, 159
Eliza E 188
Eliza Jane ; . . 304
Ephriam 293
Estelle S8
Esther Florence 13 5
Ethan 254
Ezekiel 65
Flora L 159
Florence Hawkins 135, 146.
Francena B 159
Frances Ann 186
Frances Lydia 179
Frances 128
Frank 186
Frank P. . 159
Frank Percy 157, 159, 160
Frank Marston 179
Frank Nicholas 178
Frank Nicholas Marston 179
Fred H 159
Genevive 58
George 63, 125, 174, 189
George F 146
George Frank 159, 160
George H 159
George Wallace 188
Gilman 145
Grace L 7, 8
Hannah 68, 93, 293
Hannah Cram. . . 143, 145, 146, 163, 165
Hannah Hodsdon 172
Hannah Lock 69, 103
Harper 146, 163
Hanniel P 159
Harrison 131
Harrison Colby 135
Haven 131, 145
Henry 153, 154, 156, 186, 289
Henry L 130
Henry Lyman. . .130, 131, 133, 134, 135
136, 186
Hezekiah .... 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 159
163, 164, 175, 176, 177
Horace W 159
Hugh 58
Huldah 172
Huldah Hussey 153
Hulday 154
Huse 143, 144, 146, 147, 163, 165
Huse Perkins 146
Ida B 179
Irene Neal loi, 109
J. Frank 159
Jabes 6s, 66
Jacob 67, 68
James 289, 290, 293, 294, 304
Jane 131
Jeremiah 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 103
131. 177, 186, 188,304
Jeremiah S 304
Jessie T i6o
John 21, 61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 126
127, 128, 130, 153, 154, 155
156, 165, 172, 173. 174
292,293, 294
John B 163
John, Jr 63
John Nicholas Marston 178
John Rice 68
Jonathan 127
Smith, Joseph. 66, 127, 129, 131, 133, 134, 293
Joseph G 7
Joseph Henry 13s
Joseph Marston 132, 135
Joseph VV 146
Joseph William 135
Josiah 145
Judge 66, 67
Judith 27, 153, 174. 175
Julia M 304
Kate Ermain 156
Laura Cram 159
Laurelia Clifton i59
Lavina 143, 144, 147, 156, I59, 163
165. 177
Leonora 273.
Leonora Leavitt 187, 188, 234, 239
Lewis 156
Lewis C 304
Lewis Cass. . . 147, 177, 178, 179, 280. 304
Lilla M 179
Loraine 8
Loretta M 188
Lloyd 58
Lydia 144. 294
Lydia Kimball i77
Lyman Henry 132
Mahala 131, 145
Manuel W 188
Margaret 58, 128
Marion K. . . 160
Mary 65, 66, 128, 130, 131, 146, 147
154. 172, 173, 174. 175, 293
Mary Elisabeth i59
Mary Elisabeth Brown 135, 136
Mary Ellen 159
Mary Esther loi
Mary Frances 10, 39
Mary H 189
Mary Hobbs 154
Mary Jane 187
Mary Jane Bartlett 309
Mary M i59
Mary Marston 131, 135, 140, i77
Mary Page 134
Mary Swift 294
Mary Sylvania 289
Marye Waterbury 126
Matilda 131, I3S
Maud 188
Mehitable 175.302, 303
Mercy 289, 294
Minerva 13
Miraba 127
Molly 143, 144, 163. 165
Moody Huse IS9
Moses 65. 131. 133. 134. 140, 143
144,146,156,163,165, 175
Moses B 159
Moses G 131, 145
Nancy 8, 20, 21, 68. 131, 13S
Nancy Jane 145
Nancy P I59
Nathaniel 130, 173, 293
Nicholas .... 109, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131
133. 134. 135. 140. 144. 145
146, 147, 156, 159. 163. 165
169. 171. 172, 173. 174. 175
176, 177, 178, 179, 186, 188
205
Nicholas Marston. . 10,39, 177, 178, 179
Olivia Alice Carter 179
Origen 15S
Patience 173
Payne 65, 66, 67, 69
Perkins 163
Perley B 156
Phebe 133, 293
Phoeba 131, 134
Phoeba P 13s
332
INDEX
Smith, Philip
Polly 131, 134, 147,
Polly Pickering
Polly Sinclair 147, 159, 163,
Ralph Wilbert
Raymond Joseph
Raymond William
ReBecca Marston
Relief Rogers
Reuben 129, 146, 147, 156, 163,
Reuben P
Reuben Page 151, iS3> iS5,
Rhoda
Richard 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67,
145, 155, 173, 174.
293,
Robert 63, 109, 123, 125, 126,
128, 129, 130, 131, 133,
135, 144. 145, 163, 171,
174, 177, 179, 186, 188,
Robert Clark
Rolfe L
Roxanna
Roxanna Swift
Rufus 131,
Ruth 294,
Ruth C
Ruth Currier
Ruth Edna
Ruth Woodman
Sally 143, 144, 146, 156,
Sally B :
Sally Huse
Samuel 131, 145,
Samuel Francis
Sarah 67,98, 127, 128, 131, 135,
145, 146, 156, 175.206,
254.
Sarah Ann Hawkins
Sarah Cram
Sarah Elisabeth 109,
Sarah Huse 143, 145, 155, 159,
164,
Sarah Luella
Sarah Merrill 131,
Scottish
Shadrach Freeman
Shuball
Simeon D 146,
Starkey
Stephen
Susan 131,
Susan Marston
Susan Minerva Hanaford
Susanna 66, 128, 173, 174, 273,
Susannah Hinckley
Susannah Marston 131, 133,
Susannah Quick
Thomas . . .63, 64, 128, 177, 186, 187,
Thomas M
Theodore
Theopolis 130, 173,
Thyng
Ura Elisabeth
Vera Berry
Wilbert H 187,
William 125, 128,
William E
William Prescott . 186, 187, 188, 200,
Smyth, see Smith
Barbara
Solon, Edwin
SoMERl, de Margaret
SoMERViLLE, Janet
SouiEN, de Annabel
de John
de Ralph
de Roger
de William Percival
Spencer, Abigal
154
177
172
164
188
135
188
153
146
164
155
156
67
68
264
294
127
134
172
159
290
289
135
304
146
149
188
146
177
144
159
154
292
144
253
293
135
159
177
163
205
160
135
61
285
294
159
289
294
135
145
307
294
294
140
294
188
159
66
293
145
179
160
188
293
159
309
61
189
304
312
243
311
311
311
311
311
19
Spencer, Christiana Green
D. A 289,
Dr
Elias
Roxanna
Roxanna Swift
Welcome
Spiller, Sarah 66,
Spotswood, Colonel
St. Clair, Governor
Stackpole, Andrew N
Ebenezer
Elisabeth
Joshua
Mary
Steuns, John
Samuel
Stevens, Abiah 145, 149, 163,
Benjamin
Clara
Drusilla Plummer 233,
Ebenezer
Elisabeth 29, 30,
Gould 230,
Henry
Hubbard
Mary 30, 221,
Miss
Peter
William E
Stickney, Colonel
Stone, William
Storen, Keziah
Story, Abbie, J
Stowe, Abby Holden Gertrude
Barbara 200,
Clyde L
Eva Madeline
Emogone Drake
George L. James
Horace E 200,308,309,311,
Jessie Bryant
Vira
Vira Frost
Sutton, de Dudley
de John
Swain, Alice E. Neal
Frank W
Swaine, Mary Webster
W' illiam
Sweet, James
Swett, Benjamin
Hannah
Swift, see Swyft
Abigal
Abigal Gibbs
Abigal Tupper
Anne McWharter
Anna Wanza
Benjamin
David
Deborah
Deliverance
Dinah
Easter
Ebenezer
Edgar
Edwin
Elisabeth
Eliza Bodine 288,
Ephriam
Experience Nye
Fear
Hannah
Hannah Deuel
Hannah Wing
Herman
Isaac 287, 288,
Jeremiah
Jireh
274
290
1.83
274
290
289
294
67
269
269
90
90
90
90
90
2IS-
215
16s
91
199
235
303
31
235
199
30
222
284
145
199
130
266
238
3
309
309
310
309
310
310
313
309
200
309
312
312
103
103
302
302
266
216
216
286
289
28s
297
288
287
286
289
286
287
28s
28s
286
289
289
286
289
285-
28s
287
28s
287
286
289
28s.
INDEX
333
Swift, Joan Sisson 285
Joanna Sisson 288
John 288, 292
Josiah 28s
Joseph 288
Laura 289
Lemuel 286, 288
Lemuel, Jr 288
Levi 288, 289
Lydia Almy 287
Mary 285, 294
Mary Bodfish 285
Nancy 287
Phebe 287
Phila 289
Priscilla 287
Rebecca Clark 287
Rebecca Whitfield 287
Rhoda Ann Almy 287
Richard T 287
Rosanna 289
Roxalana 287
Roxanna 289, 290
Ruth 285
Samuel 285
Sarah 285, 287
Sarah Titus 286
Silas 287
Solomon 289
Tebulon 286, 288, 289, 290
Theodore H 288
Thomas 287, 288
William 285, 286, 287, 288, 292
Zebulon, Jr 290
Zemperance 285
SwYFT, see Swift 286
Abraham 286
Benjamin 286
Deborah 286, 287
Dorothy 286
Elisabeth 285, 286, 287
Hannah 286
Huldah 286
Jerusha 287
Jemina 286
Joana Sisson 286
Joanna 286
Josiah 286
Joseph 286
Lemuel 287
Lydia 287
Martha Crowell 286
Phineas . . '. 287
Rebecca 286
Rebecca Wing 286
Rhoda 287
Samuel 286
Thankful 286, 287
Thankful Morey 287
Thomas 286, 287
William 285, 286, 287
Syms, Anna 279
Taft, Asa 49
Tarbett, Eleanora 200
Tarlton, Mary 102
Mary Carleton 102
Richard 102
Tasker, Mercy 280
Tayer, Wilfry 126
Taylor, James 12
Mary Smith 146
Nancy 6
Pearl 12
Thachers, Josiah Si
Thing, Daniel 174
Levi 176
Nathaniel 129
Thomas, Iva Green 273
John SI
Thomas, Welthean 19
Thompson, 27
David S 30
Dolly 30
Ebenezer 30, 31
Eben S 12, 30, 31, 9S
Eleanor 12, 95
Elisabeth 30
Eliza 30
EUena H 31
Ensign 29
Ensign N. . . 31
Hubbard 30
James 29, 30
James M 30
Jane 30
John 29, 30, 253
John H 30
Joseph C 30
Martha 9s
Mary 29
Miriam 12
Nancy C 30
Nathan H -^-scT
Nathaniel 29, 30, 31
Person, C 30
Polly 30
Polly Mary 31
Sarah 9s
Sarah Merrill 2S3
Sarah Small 2S3
Samuel 12, 30
Samuel P 30
Thomson, Rachel 29
Robert 29
William 29, 30, 2S3
Thurston, Deborah 193
Thyng, 14s
Tilden, Hopestile 127
Sarah 128
Tilton, Mary 2s
TiTCOMB, William 194
Titus, Sarah 286
TOBEY, Hannah Swift 28s
Todd, William C 314
ToMKiNS, Mary 80
Tompkins, Caroline 8
Carrie 7
TowLES, Squire 308
TowNSEND, Elisabeth Bartlett 309
Ethel 199
Fanny 199
Samuel 199, 309
Tripp, Deborah Swyft 286
Stephen 286
True, Edward N 99
Hannah 95
J.N 99
Mark 95
Mary E. Neal 99
Mary R 99
Tucker, Debby 272
TUPPER, Abigal 287
Turner, William 87, 89
TuTTLE, John 29
Twitchell, Betsy 199
Helen '. 199
Upton, Mary 4
Vaughan, George 83
William 83
Veasey, Sally 146
Veasy, Daniel 146
Veazy, Judith 17s, 176
Vemantdois, Isabel 311
Vines, Richard 83
Vinton, Hannah 267
John 267
Von Mansfelt, Ernst 74
334
INDEX
Von Mansfield, Count Ernst 74
Wade, Nathaniel 91
Wadleigh, 98
Deborah 312
Jane 97
Mary 310
Stephen 97
Wait, Mary 7, 20, 21, 30
Walderne, Major 278
Walker, 125
Israel 119
Sarah 277
Susanna ' 119
Wallace, Eliza E 188
Mary Wilson 250
Walter, Thomas 87, 250
Wanton, Mercy 268
Wanza, Anna 287
Ward, Amanda G 4
Caroline 10, 13, 159
Jeremiah 4
Joseph 51
Nancy Pease 13
Noah 146
Oliver 4
Samuel 13, 50
Sarah Francis 146
Washington, John 67
Water, Lydia 240
Moses 240
Timothy 240
Waterbury, Marye 126
Watson, Daniel 304
Elmira Webster 304
Man,- 91
Sally 304
Weare, Nathaniel 25-85
Weatherill, Captain 78
Webster, 21
Abigal 25,301, 303
Abigal Eastman 302
Ann Batt 301
Betsy 25
Caleb 25
Celia Ellen 304
Celia Zuluma 12
Clarence Edwin 12
Daniel 302, 303
Ebenezer 25, 37, 302, 303
Edwin 12
Edwin S 302,304, 305
Edwin Solon 304
Elbridge H 12
Elbridge Heath ^304
Elijah C 25
Elisabeth Brown 301
Elisabeth Lunt 301
Eliza 301
Eliza Jane 12
Eliza Jane Smith 304
Elmira 304
Enoch 25
Eunice 25
Ezekiel 302
Flora May 12
Frank H 12
Hannah 301, 302
Hannah Ayer 301
Hannah Judkins 303
Harry W ' x2
Heatv .
304
Huldah 304
^'•a ■ , 304
Jsrael 25, 301
Jennie N n
John 25,301,302,303, 304
Kenneth 12
Levi 25
Lois 2,
Webster, Lucinda 10,38, 304
Lyman 304
Lyman Watson . 12, 304
^Jary 25, 197,301,' 302
Mary Brewer 302
Mari' Hutchins 302
Mary Satchwell '. . .- 301
Mehitable Smith 302, 303
Nathan 25,' 301
Nathaniel P ' 12
Pearl Irene 12
Sally - 25
Sally Beedee 304
Sally Watson 304
Samuel 25
Sarah 302
Sidney 25
Stephen 25, 301
Susannah Batcheldor 303
Thomas 25,301, 302
Wanda Bessie 12
Warren 25
Wayne Eugene 12
Weeks, Captain 86, 87
Wein, see Wine 41 1 43
Barbara 43
Catherine 43
Christian 43
Daniel 43
Elisabeth 43
George 43
John 43
Magdalene 43
Michael 43
Saboma 43
Samuel 43
Susanna 43
Weir, Loretta M , . 188
Weltv, Clara Bessie 12
Wentworth, Abigal Nutter 278
Isaac 278, 302, 304
John 313
Sarah 238
William 278
Wharton, Edward .' . 80
Wheelwright, 77, 82, 245
John 83
Whicher, Algie Daniel 136
Daniel 135, 136
Daniel Batcheldor 136
David 99,131, 133, I3S
Enen. 99, 133
Joseph 135
Joseph M 135
Josephina A 136
Julia Norris 99
Lucy C 99
Marj' 131
Mary Elisa 136
Milton Joseph 136
Mina Josephine 136
Nancy Smith 135
Phebe P. Smith 133, 135
Phoeba Smith 131, 135
Pheobe Mabel 136
Whitaker, Gilman 103
Jennie Lydia 103 ^
Lydia A. Neal 103
White, Charlotte W 188
Daniel 191
Hugh Lee 188
John 29
Whitefield, George 247
Rebecca 287
Richard 305
Whitney, Josiah '.[ 49
Josiah, Jr 49
WiGGiN, 77. 86, 277
Andrew 86
Captain i, 78, 277
INDEX
335
WiGGiN, Johnathan 86, 89, 91
Thomas 74. 83
WiLcocK, Joanna 117
WiLCOMB, Deborah 65
WiLKixs, Charles 166
James 3
Lydia Ella Barnes 166
WiLLARD, Frances 31
Joseph 148
Mary Sheafe 148
Williams, Hannah 19
Lucy 272
Nathaniel 21S
Roger 266
Willis, Experience 47
WiLLOUGHBY, Thomas SO
Wilson, — 243
Abigal 250
Abraham 228, 229
Agnes Motherwell 243
Anna 229, 248
Anna Robinson 229
Assanath 229
Benjamin : 183, 248
Deborah 89
Deborah Gowan Smith 113
Edward 266
Elisabeth 250
Elisabeth Barber 24s
Elisabeth Fulton 249
Elmira Wyatt 230
Eunice 228
Gowen Smith 245
Grafton 229
Hannah 223, 228, 229, 230
231, 233, 247, 248, 250
Hannah Crafts 248
Hannah Rogers 230
Harriett 231
Helen Menzeis 243
Humphrey 24s, 246
James 218, 243, 249
Janet Somerville 243
Joanna Maine 228
John 243, 247, 248
Jonathan 230, 247, 24S
Joseph 260, 314
Joshua 245
Judith Hersey 24
Lottie 23 5
Martha 246, 250
Martha Brainard 183
Mary . . . .' 246, 249, 250
Mary Light 245
Nathaniel 228, 24s, 248
Noah 228
Robert . 248
Samuel 245
Stephen R 183
Theophilus 247
Thomas 24s, 246, 247
William 243, 250
Wilson, Zadok 229
Wine, see Wein 41, 43
Anna 43
Benjamin 43
Catherine 43
Christian 43
Elisabeth 43
Frances Bolton 39
Isaac 43
Jacob 43
John 43
Joseph 43
Mary Catherine 39
Michael 39, 54
Michael C 43
Samuel 43
Sasanna 43
Wing, Daniel . 285
Deborah Batcheldor 286
Hannah 286
Hannah Swift 285
John 285, 286
Jonathan 289
Mercy 286
Pebecca 286
Samuel 28s
WiNGET, Mary 277
WiNTHROP, Gov 153, 264
John 63, 211, 310
Mary 211, 212, 310
WOOD, Lucy 119
Samuel Si
Woodbury, Levi 144
WOODHULL, Brewster S4
Josephine S4
Woodman, Clara Ann 146
John 29
John H 146
Joshua 173
Mary Abiah 146
Marj- F 29
Noah 146
Relief Rogers Smith 146
Ruth 146
Sarah 29, 253
Sarah Francis 146
Woods, Marple 188
Worthen, ■ 229, 230
Daniel 230
Wyatt, Elmira 230
Francis 266
George 290
Mercy Smith 289, 290
York, Captain 176
Young, Adelaid M 164
Adelaid Melvina 166
Benjamin C 160
John 171
Youngman, Abbie : 99
James 99
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