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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY

HISTORY

OF THE

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF A
COMMONWEALTH AND THE FOUNDING OF A NATION

Compiled Under the Editorial Supervision of
EZRA S. STEARNS

Ex-Secretary of State; Member American Antiquarian Society, New England Historic-Genealogical

SoGiETY, New Hampshire State Historical Society; Corresponding Member Minnesota

State Historical Society; Member Fitchburg Historical Society

ASSISTED BY

WILLIAM F. WHITCHER

Trustee New Hampshire State Library, Member New Hampshire State Historical Society and New

England Methodist Historical Society

AND

EDWARD E. PARKER

Judge of Frobate, Nashua

VOL. i

ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

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1908

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THE present work, "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hamp-
shire, ' ' presents in the aggregate an amount and variety of genealogical and per-
sonal information and portraiture unequalled by any kindred publication. Indeed,
no similar work concerning New Hampshire Families has ever before been presented.
It contains a vast amount of ancestral history never before printed. The object, clearly
defined and well .digested, is threefold;

First. To present in concise form the history of New Hampshire Families of the
Colonial Days.

Second. To preserve a record of the prominent present-day people of the State.
Third. To present through personal sketches the relation of its prominent families
of all times to the growth, singular prosperity and widespread influence of New Hamp-
shire.

The reading public of New Hampshire, as well as other States, has long been famil-
iar with the historical and genealogical work of Mr. Ezra S. Stearns. He has contrib-
uted much to the perfection of family history embodied in many of local histories pub-
lished by various towns of the State, begide those published wholly from his pen. His

latest work of this charac-
ter, the History of Plymouth in
two handsome volumes, has re-
ceived many encomiums from
press and critical literary author-
ities. The work herein embod-
ied may be justly regarded as the
crowning effort of a life devoted
largely, in the midst of other
public services, to genealogical
research. His pains and tireless
efforts in the interest of accuracy
and thoroughness are well known
and need no sponsor. His efforts
have been seconded by several
able assistants, including Miss
Frances M. Abbott, of Concord;
tiist Mecciue Place oi Lctibiaiurc at Concord, 1783. J. C Jeuuings, of Wayne, Maine I

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James A. Ellis and Francis L. Gownen, of Boston, genealogists, and many others, to
whom thanks are hereby tendered.

It is to be regretted that indifference or unwise prejudices on the part of a very few
have interfered with a proper representation of their families, but it is confidently assert-
ed that this work covers all that can be reasonably expected from finite efforts. No mat-
ter has been printed that was not first submitted to persons most interested for revision
and correction, and many articles have been submitted to several individuals in order to
secure most complete criticism and revision. In some cases family traditions have been
put forward, and in these there is sometimes conflict; where such was the only authority,
effort has been made to reconcile as far as possible.

There are numerous \oluminous histories of the State, making it unnecessary in this
work to even outline its annals. What has been published, however, relates principally
to civic life. The amplification necessary to complete the picture of the State, old and
nowaday, is what is supplied by these Genealogical and Family Memoirs in more ample
degree than heretofore. In other words, while others have written of '.'the times," the
province of this work is a chronicle of the people who have made New Hampshire what
it is.

Unique in conception and treatment, this work constitutes one of the most original
and permanently valuable contributions ever made to the social history of an American
commonwealth. In it are arrayed in a lucid and dignified manner all the important facts
regarding the ancestry, personal careers and matrimonial alliances of those who, in each
succeeding generation, have been accorded leading positions in the social, professional
and business life of the State. NorJias it been based upon, neither does it minister to,
aristocratic prejudices and assumptions. On the contrary, its fundamental ideas are
thoroughly American and democratic. The work everywhere conveys the lesson that
distinction has been gained only by honorable public service, or by usefulness in private
station, and that the development and prosperty of the State of which it treats has been
dependent upon the character of its citizens, and in the stimulus which they have given
to commerce, to industry, to

the arts and sciences, to
education and religion — to
all that is comprised in the
highest civilization of the
present day — through a con-
tinual progressive develop-
ment.

The inspiration underly-
ing the present work is a
fervent appreciation of the
truth so well expressed by
Sir Walter Scott, that
"there is no heroic poem in
the world but is at the bot-

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torn the life of a man. " And with this goes a kindred truth, that to know a man, and
rightly measure his character and weigh his achievements, we must know whence he came,
from what forebears he sprang. Truly as heroic poems have been written in human lives
in the paths of peace as in the scarred roads of war. Such examples, in whatever line of
endeavor, are of much worth as an incentive to those who come afterward, and as such
were never so needful to be written of as in the present day, when pessimism, forgetful
of the splendid lessons of the past, withholds its effort in the present, and views
the future only with alarm.

Every community with such ample history as New Hampshire, should see that it be
worthily supplemented by Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of its leading families and
prominent citizens. Such a work is that which is now presented. And, it should be ad-
mitted, the undertaking possesses value of the highest importance — in its historic utility

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as a memorial of the development and progress of the community from its very founding,

and in the personal interest which attaches to the record made by the individual. On
both these accounts it will prove a highly useful contribution to literature, and a valuable
legacy to future generations. Out of these considerations the authors and publishers
have received the encouragement and approval of authorities of the highest standing as
genealogists, historians and litterateurs. In the production of this work, no pains have
been spared to ensure absolute truth — that quality upon which its value in every feature
depends. The material comprising the genealogical and personal records of the active
living, as well as of the honored dead, was gathered by men and women e.xperienced in
such work, and acquainted with local history and ancestral families. Much has been
gathered from the custodians of family records concerning the useful men of preceding
generations, and of their descendants who have lived
useful and honorable lives. Such custodians, who
have availed themselves of this opportunity of having
this knowledge placed in preservable and accessible
form, have performed a public service in rendering
honor to whom honor is due, in preserving the dis-
tinction which rightfully belongs to the Colonial Fam-
ilies, and which distinguishes them from later immi-
grations; and in inculcating the most valuable and en-
during lessons of patriotism" and good citizenship.

Than New Hampshire, no other State or region
offers so peculiarly interesting a field for such re-
search. Its sons — "native here and to the manner
born," and of splendid ancestry — have attained dis-
tinction in every field of human effort. An additional
interest attaches to the present undertaking in the
fact that, while dealing primarily with the history of

native New Hampshire, this work approaches the dig- , ,^ ■ " — ■ ■^"' ►-i-w MHjl

nity of a national epitome of genealosrv and biography. "

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of the old families of the State, the authentic account here presented of the constituent
elements of her social life, past and present, is of far more than merely local value. In
its special field it is, in an appreciable degree, a reflection of the development of the
country at large, since hence went out representatives of historical families, in various
generations, who in far remote places — beyond the Mississippi and in the Far West —
were with the vanguard of civilization, building up communities, creating new common-
wealths, planting, wherever they went, the church, the school house and the printing
press, leading into channels of thrift and enterprise all who gathered about them, and
proving a power for ideal citizenship and good government.

These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and personal
sketches relating to lineal family heads, and the most conspicuous representatives in the
present generation. There is an entire avoidance of the stereotyped and unattractive
manner in which such data is usually presented. The past is linked to the present in
such style as to form a symmetrical narrative exhibiting the lines of descent, and the his-
tory of distinguished members in each generation, thus giving to it a distinct personal in-
terest. That these ends have been conscientiously and faithfully conserved is assured by
the cordial personal interest and recognized capability of the supervising editors, of prom-
inent connection with the leading patriotic societies, all of whom have long pursued gen-
ealogical investigations with intelligence and enthusiasm.

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The name in England, as records
KIMBALL show, appears in the various forms

of Kymbolde, Kembold, Kembould,
Kembolde and KembaU. Henry Kemball, a brother
of Richard, has descendants in New Hampshire (see
Kemball).

(I) The common ancestor of the great majority
of Kimballs in this country was Richard Kimball,
who with his family embarked at Ipswich, in the
county of Suflfolk, England, April lo, 1634, in the
ship "Elizabeth," William Andrews, master. He
arrived at Boston, and from thence went to Water-
town, Massachusetts, where he settled and became
a prominent and active man in the new settlement.
He was by trade a wheelwright. He was pro-
claimed a freeman in 1635, May 6, and was a pro-
prietor in 1636-37. Soon after this date he was in-
vited to remove to Ipswich, where was needed a
competent man to act as wheelwright to the new
settlement. Here he spent the remainder of his
days as one of the leading men of the town. He
died June 22, 1675. Richard Kimball married (first)
Ursula Scott, daughter of Henry Scott, of Rattles-
den, in the county of Suffolk, England. He
married (second), Margaret Dow, widow of Henry
Dow, of Hampton, New Hampshire, October ■ 23,
1661. His children, eleven in number, w-ere by his
first wife: i. Abigail, born in Rattlesden, county
of Suffolk, England. She married in England, John
Severans, and they came to America. She died at
Salisbury, Massachusetts, June 17, 165S, and he died
at the same place, April 9, 1682. They were the
parents of twelve children. Their youngest child,
Elizabeth Severans, married in 1686, Samuel East-
man, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. Her grand-
daughter, Abigail Eastman, born July 10, 1737.
daughter of Thomas and .\bigal (French) Eastman,
married Ebenczer Webster, and was'the mother of
Daniel Webster, the statesman. 2. Henry is men-
tioned at length below. 3. Elizabeth, born in Rattles-
den. Suffolk county, England. 4. Richard, receives
further mention in this article, with descendants. $.
Mary, born in Rattlesden, England, in 1625, married
Robert Dutch, of Gloucester and Ipswich, Massa-
chusetts. 6. Martha, born in Rattlesden, August.
1629, married Joseph Fowler, who was born in Eng-
land in 1622, and was killed by the Indians, May 19.
1676, near Dccrtield, Jilassachusetts. 7. John, born
in Rattlesden, England, 1631, died May 6, 1698. 8.
Thomas, born 1633, died May 5, 1676. 9. Sarah,
born at Watertown. Massachusetts, 1635, died June
12, 1690. She married, November 24, 1658, Edward
Allen, of Ipswich, }ilassachusetts. 10. Benjamin is
the subject of a paragraph in this article. 11. Caleb,
born at Ipswich, ^Massachusetts, 1639, died 1682.

(II) Henry, eldest son and second child of

Richard Kimball, was born in Rattlesden, Suffolk

county, England, baptized August 12, 1615. and came

to America in the ship "Elizabeth" with his father

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in 1634. He first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts,
but some time after 1646 followed his father to Ips-
wich, and about 1655 removed to Wenham, and spent
the remainder of his life in that town. November 8,
1657, he subscribed £3 as minister's rate, one half
in wheat, the other half in Indian corn, "at Mar-
chant's price." In 1659 he subscribed ^3.50, one-
half in corn; and in 1660-1, he contributed los toward
the new meeting house. He was chosen constable,
October 22, 1669. He died in Wenham in 1676,
leaving an estate inventoried at £177 12s. He mar-
ried (first), about 1640, Mary, daughter of John and
jNIary Wyatt, who came to America in the same ship
with him. Mary died in Wenham, August 12, 1672,
and he married (second), Elizabeth (Gilbert) Ray-
ner, widow of William, son of Thurston Rayncr,
and daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth Gilbert.
Henry and Mary (Wyatt) Kimball were the parents
of thirteen children : Mary, Richard, John, Caleb,
Dorcas, .Abigail, Sarah, Henry, Mehitable, Benjamin,
Joseph, Martha and Deborah. (Mention of Joseph
and descendants appears in this article).

(III) John, second son and third child of Henry
and Mary (Wyatt) Kimball, was born at Water-
town, December 25, 1645, and died previous to May
20, 1726. When sixteen years of age he went to
live with his grandfather, John Wiatt, of Ipswich,
where he remained until the death of Mr. Wiatt,
in December, 1665, when he became heir to the
property left by him, provided he performed certain
conditions. This property was bounded by the
"Meeting house Green," which shows where he lived.
He sold his estate March 25, 1667, and removed to
Newbury, where he was living June 17, 1668. About
1669 he removed to Amesbury. where he afterward
lived. He testified in the trial of Susan Martin for
witchcraft. May 16, 1692. A full report of his testi-
mony may be found in Increase Alathcr's account of
witch trials. He was a yeoman and wheelwright,
and took the oath of allegiance December 20. 1677,
was made a freeman in 1690. served as appraiser
of dift'erent estates, and died in 1726. He married
(first), October, 1665, Mary, daughter of Francis
and Jane Jordan. He may have married (second),
February 9, 1713, Mary Pressey, of Amesbury, as
a marriage is recorded at Newbury between John
Kimball and Mary Pressey. If this be so she soon
died, and in April, 1715, he married (third), the
widow Deborah (Weed) Bartlett, born June 15,
1659, daughter of John Wceji, who survived him.
He had seven children, all by the first wife. Their
names are : Mary, John, Abigail, Joseph, Abraham,
Hannah and Deborah.

(IV) John (2), oldest son and second child
of John (i) and Mary (Jordan) Kimball, born in
Newbury, July 19, 1668, was a wheelwright by trade,
and lived in Amesbury. He married Hannah, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Gould, as is shown by a deed made
February 11, 1714, in which John Kimball, Jr., and

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wife Hannah, of Amesbury, Samuel Gold, Joseph
Gold, Thomas Beedle, and ISIary Jones, widow of
Joseph Jones, children of Nathaniel Gold and Eliza-
beth his wife, convej'ed property that they inherited
from Nathaniel Gould, who died in 1693. The nine
children of this marriage were : Benjamin, who died
young; Sarah, Jonathan. Judith, Benjamni, Hannah,
Mary, John and Nathan.

(V) Nathan, fifth son and ninth child of John
(2) and Hannah (Gould) Kimball, was born in
Amesbury, June 21, 1719, died in 1753, and resided
in Amesbury. He married, December 16, 1742, Han-
nah Ring, and they were the parents of children :
Nathan, Josiah, Bachelder, Hannah, Esther, Judith
and Thomas.

(VI) Nathan (2), oldest son and child of Nathan
(l) and Hannah (Ring) Kimball, was born in
Amesbury, March 3, 1743, and died December, 1816.
At the time of his marriage he resided in Hopkin-
ton, New Hampshire, where he was a farmer. He
afterward removed to Weare, and lived there at the
time of his death. He married Judith Kimball,
born May 12, 1739, daughter of Benjamin Kimball.
She died May 2, 1785. They had five children :
Betsey, Hannah, Judith, Benjamin and Mark.

(VTI) Hannah, second daughter and child of
Nathan and Judith (Kimball) Kimball, married
Samuel Muzzey, of Weare, and settled in Newbury.
(See Muzzey, VHI).

(HI) Joseph, sixth son of Henry and Mary
(Wyatt) Kimball, was born in Wenham, January
20, 1661-2, and died 1713. He married Elizabeth
Needham, born February i, 1674, at Lynn and died
October 6, 1708. He lived in Boston and followed
the sea, and probably was lost at sea. Administra-
tion on his estate was granted his brother-in-law,
Ezekiel Needham, April 14, 1713. Children: i.
Joseph, born February 24, 1701, mentioned below.
2. Mary, born May 27, 1703, in Boston.

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (l) and Eliza-
beth (Needham) Kimball, was born in Boston, Feb-
ruary 24, 1701 ; died 1767 at Preston, Connecticut,
where he was an early settler. He married in Bos-
ton, May 25, 1721, Bethia Mackerwithe, of Dedham,
Massachusetts. Children, all born in Preston : i.
Benjamin, born April 15, 1722; died August, 1796.
2. Bethia (twin), born February 18, 1723-4. 3.
Sarah (twin), born February 18, 1723-4. 4. Joseph,
born December 29, 1731 ; died (jctober 22, 1822,
in Plainfield, New Hampshire ; mentioned below.

(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) and Bethia
(Mackerwithe) Kimball, was born in Preston, Con-
necticut, January 9, 1732; married May 2, 1754,
Hannah Morgan, who was born October i, 1731.
and died March l, 1756, in Preston. He married
second, Mary Clift, daughter of Samuel and Lydia
(Do.ggett) Clift, born at Marshfield, INIassachusetts,
October i, 1738, died July 9. 1781. He married
third, Eleanor Dunlap, born at Killingly, Connecti-
cut, October 25, 1743, died December 18, 1833, at
Plainfield, New Hampshire. Eleanor Dunlap was
the daughter of William and Sarah (Ledlie) Dun-
lap, emigrants from Ireland, some say Scotland.
Her brothers were': John, Joshua and Robert. Her
sisters were: EHzabeth^and Mary. Joseph Kimball
settled at Plainfield. New Hampshire, in 1764. Fle
was a soldier in the Revolution, and took part in
the battles of Fort Ticonderoga and Bennington.
The inscription on the family monument reads : "He
was the first proprietor of a farm inclosing this
cemetery, a successful hunter and kind neighbor, a
soldier of the Revolution at Fort Ticonderoga in ^
1776." The original slate-stone slab, still standing,
is inscribed "Lieutenant Joseph Kimball," but

whether he was lieutenant in the regular army or
the militia is not known. He settled first in the town
then known as Plainfield Plain, and later removed to
a farm near the village of Meriden, New Hampshire,
where he lived until his death. Joseph Kimball had
one brother, Benjamin, who died at Plainfield, Au-
gust, 1796, aged seventy-seven. Benjamin Kimball's
son, Daniel Kimball, died February 27, 1817, aged
sixty-three years. He was the founder of Kimball
Union Academyat Meriden, New Hampshire. Han-
nah Chase Kimball, wife of Daniel Kimball, died
June 17, 1S47, aged eighty-nine. Joseph Kimball's
only child of first wife : I. Hannah, born March 22,
1/55, died May 10, 1756. Children of second wife,
born in Connecticut: 2. Wills, born March 31, 1760,
died August 13, 1843, married ]\Iercy Roberts; their
son Elisha died April 3, 1873, married Tryphena
Ticknor. 3. Hannah, born September 6, 1761, died
August 19. 1788. 4. Benjamin, born March 6, 1763,
died March 18, 1815. 5. Elisha, born March i, 1765,
died September 3, 1766. Children of second wife,
born in Plainfield, New Hampshire : 6. ISIary Clift,
born November 30, 1767, died January 27, 1855. The
second white child born in Plainfield, New Hamp-
shire. 7. Sally, born July 15, 1769, died l\Iarch 9,
1803. 8. Lydia, born April 3, 1771, died October 2,
1775- 9- Joseph, born September 9, 1775, died Sep-
tember I, 1823, at Deerfield, near Utica, New York.
Children of third wife : 10. Eunice, born January
19. 1783. at Plainfield, New Hampshire, died Oc-
tober 4, 1862, at Hopkinton, New Hampshire; mar-
ried Abraham Brown, who died December 15, 1852.
II. Betsey, born December 16, 17S4, in Plainfield,
New Hampshire, died January 19, 1866, at Meriden,
New Hampshire, unmarried. 12. Robert, born De-
cember 16, 17S6, mentioned below.

(VI) Robert, youngest child of Joseph and
Eleanor (Dunlap) Kimball, was born in Plainfield,
New Hampshire, December 16, 1786, died Septem-
ber 20, 1876, at Lebanon, New Hampshire. He mar-
ried at Wolcott, Vermont, November 19, 1817, Fanny
Willis, born January 3, 1792, in Hanover, New
Hampshire, died at Lebanon, New Hampshire, Sep-
tember 15, i860. She was the daughter of Dyer
and Elizabeth (Warner) Willis, of Hanover, New
Hampsliire. Children: i. Daughter, born and died
September 4, 1826. 2. Robert Byron, born October
24, 1827, died March 16, 1877, at Lebanon, New
Hampshire. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born January 21,

1834.

Robert Kimball was a worthy representative of
his race, a race of men strong physically and intel-
lectually. Like the Kimballs who preceded him, he
was ready in the defence of a friend, a cause, or an
opinion. With the Vermont volunteers he saw
ser\'ice in the American army iri the War of 1812,
and was present at the battle of Plattsburg. In
early life a merchant in Morristown, Vermont, he
removed to Plainfield, New Hampshire to assist
in the management of his aged father's farm. Each
of these towns, during his residence in it, chose him
as its representative in the state legislature. On the
death of his father he removed to Lebanon. New
Hampshire. He was at once recognized as a leading
citizen, and continued to exert a wide influence in
the town until the infirmities of age compelled him
to step aside from active life. He represented
Lebanon in the legislature in 1842 and 1843, was a
member of the convention which revised the consti-
tution, and was president of the Bank of Lebanon
for twenty-five years. Mr. Kimball was a Mason,
when it cost to be a Mason ; an original owner in
both the Concord and the Northern railroads, and
their staunch supporter ; an abolitionist, wiien abo-

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litionism was most unpopular. When at the age
of eighty-nine, he died, full of years and of honor,
it might well be said of him that he had "fought the
good fight."

(.Vll) Robert Byron, only son of Robert Kimball,
was born October 24, 1827, in Plainfield, New tlamp-
shire, and died March 16, 1877, at the family home-
stead in Lebanon. He never married. He was a
successful business man and financier, and a director
of the Savings Bank and the National Bank of
Lebanon. His was a busy, useful life, too full of
business cares and private enterprises to admit of
his holding public office. But his deeds of charity
and his unblemished character caused him to be
widely beloved, and he still lives in the memory
of his lownpeople, a Christian gentleman.

(VH) Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Kim-
ball, born in Plainfield, New Hampshire, January

21, 1834, has lived since her infancj' in the Kimball
homestead in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is un-
married, and has an adopted daughter, Anna Cunn-
ingham Kimball, born in Lebanon. New Hampshire,
October 2, 1881.

(.H) Richard (2), fourth child and second son of
Richard (i) and Ursula (Scott) Kimball, was born
at Rattlesden, county of SufTolk, England, about
1623, and came to America with his father in the
ship "Elizabeth." He went to Wenham between the
years 1652 and 1696, and was the first settler of the
name in that town. He was called a wheelwright
and yeoman. He was a large landowner, and ap-
pears to have been the largest taxpayer among the
early settlers. He was a grand juror of the town
of Wenham in 1661. He died in 1676. He married
twice, both of his wives having Mary for the given
name. It is probable that his second wife was Mary
Gott. His first wife died September, 1672. He had
nine children, of whom eight were alive at the time
of his death, as is shown by an agreement made
between them and his widow. Their names follow :
John, Samuel, Thomas, Ephraim, Caleb, Christo-
pher, Richard and Nathaniel. (Samuel, Thomas and
Caleb and descendants are mentioned at length in
this article).

(HI) John, oldest child of Richard (2) and
Alary Kimball, was born about 1650 and died about
1721. He was an inhabitant of Boxford as early
as 1669. August 24, 1665, Richard Hubbard con-
firmed to Richard Kimball of Wenham his farm in
Rowley village (now Boxford). John probably set-
tled on this land. He was made a freeman March

22, 1689. By the frequency with which the name
of "Corporal" Kimball is found upon the early
records of the town it is evident that he was a man
of much importance in town affairs. In 1675 he was
tax collector. In 171 1 his name and those of his sons
are upon the tax list. He was a member of the
Church of Topsfield, and was dismissed to the
Church in Boxford in 1702. His will is on file at
Salem, Massachusetts, and bears date February 19,
1718, and was probated April 15, 1721.

He married (first), Sarah , who died July

27, 1706; married (second) October 29, 1707, Han-
nah Burton, daughter of Isaac Burton. She was
born in 1686, and survived her husband sixty-five
years, dying October 16, 1786, aged one hundred
years. Their children were : Sarah, May, Richard,
Abigail, Elizabeth, Hannah and John.

(IV) Richard, son of John and Sarah Kimball,
was born September 28, 1673, and died April 22,
I7S3- He resided in the southerly part of Boxford,
Massachusetts, on the place where Major Samuel
Perley erected a house in 1833. He dealt consider-

ably in real estate. His will, approved May 7, 1753,
is on file at Salem, Massachusetts. In the ancient
burial ground where he and his wife are buried
there are but fourteen very old and sadly neglected
stones. (1897). He married February 22, 169S-9,
Hannah Dorman, daughter of Ephraim Dorman of
Topsfield, jMassachusetts, born 1682, died March,
1748. They had nine children: Jacob, born June 9,
1700, resided at Andover, Massachusetts; died 1787.
Hannah, born June 30, 1702. married, April 28, 1724,
John Andrews (3rd). Aaron, born January 17,
1704-5, died 1732. Amos, born September 8, 1707,

died January 26, 1788. , born June 11, 1710,

died December 19, 1785, at Rindge, New Hampshire.
John, born March 6, 1713, resided in Boxford, Mass-
achusetts. j\Iary, born October 10, 1715-16. Moses,
born August 23, 1718, died in Amherst, New Hamp-
shire. Ephraim, born April 11, 1721, resided m
Boxford, Massachusetts.

(V) Amos, third son and fourth child of Richard
and Hannah (Dorman) Kimball, born in Boxford,
September 8, 1707, and died January 26, 1788. He
was a farmer in Boxford. He married (first),
March i, 1736, Margaret Hale, born February 23, 1712-
13, and (second), June 23, 1765, Abigail Session. His
children were: Jesse, born April 15, 1738, died March
18, 1814; Joanna, born September 24, 1739, died
young; Jethro, born August 23, 1741, died March 11,
1828; Enoch, born February 28, 1742-3, died 1816;
Eli, born July 5. 1/44, died in Swanzey, New Hamp-
shire; Peggy, born January 7, 1746, died young;
Lydia, born 1749, died September, 1S35 ; Amos, born
November 9, 1752, died January 9, 1824; Joseph,
born February 6, 1754, died October 9, 18I3.

(VI) Jesse, eldest child of Amos and Margaret
(Hale) Kimball, was born in Boxford, Massacliu-
setts, April 26, 1738, and cfied at Manchester, New
Hampshire. March 18, 1814. He resided in Box-
ford and Andover, Massachusetts, until 1775, when
he removed to Chester, New Hampshire. His home
was on the river road between Martin's Ferry and
the Derry line. He married at Andover, Massachu-
setts, May 5, 1763, Susanna Jackson, born in An-
dover, July 2, 1744, died at INIanchester, New Hamp-
shire, April 22, 1808. They had twelve children :
Jeremiah, born at Andover, November 20, 1764,
died July 18, 1765. Jedediah, born at Andover, May
25, 1766, died November 5. 1814. John, resided in
Chester and went to Bangor, Maine. Peggy, born

in Andover, May 16, 1769, married Gould,

died in Chester, New Hampshire, July 17, 1794.
Nathan, born in Andover, JNIarch 29, 1771, went to
Bangor, Maine. Ruth, born in Andover, May 7,
1773, died at Manchester, New Hampshire, October,
1831, single. Ezra, born in Chester, November 14,
1775, died October, 1831. .A.mos, born in Chester,
July 26, 1778, died 1854. Stephen, born in Chester,
January 28, 1781, died July 13, 7852. Phebe, born in
Chester, September 4, 17S3, died in Chester, Febru-
ary 27, 1819, married Whittier. Daniel, born in
Chester, November 23, 1786. Sarah, born in Chester,

August 13, 1791, married (first), Cheever;

(second), William Foster, of Argyle, Maine. (Men-
tion of Amos and descendants appears in this
article).

(VTI) Nathan, fourth son of Jesse and Susanna
(Jackson) Kimball, was born in Andover, Massa-
chusetts, March 29, 1771. He resided in Chester
and Manchester, New Hampshire, and Bangor,
Maine. He married Eunice Hoyt. They had five
children: Mary, born June II, 1796, married David
Martin, of Martin's Ferry, Hookselt, New Hamp-
shire. Eunice, born May 29, 1798. Susan, died

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aged nineteen years. Lucinda, married Benjamin E.
Sawyer, and resided in Canada. Stephen, born
March 7, 1808, died July, 1S89.

(VIII) Stephen, fifth and youngest child of Na-
thaniel and Eunice (Hoyt) Kimball, was born in
Manchester, New Hampshire, }ilarch 7, 1808, and
died in Auburn, New Hampshire, July, 1889. He
resided in Hooksett about twenty years, and for the
last thirty-three years of his life in Auburn. He was
a farmer by occupation, a Universalist in religious
belief, and a Republican in politics. He served as
selectman in Hooksett, and also in Auburn. He
married, November 26, 1834, Mary Anna Woodbury,
of Dunbarton, born August 1814, daughter of
Ebenezer and Susanna (Hoyt) Woodbury, who died
in Auburn. She was a member of the Methodist
Church. Their children were : I. Frederick Smith,
born December 17, 1835, died November 5, 1894.
2. George .Clark, born April 10, 1840, married three
times. 3. Emily Ann, born October 18, 1845. 4.
Eliza Ordway, born August 27, 1850.

(IX) George Clark Kimball, second sou and
child of Stephen and Mary Anna (Woodbury) Kim-
ball, was born -in April 10, 1840. In early life he
learned the trade of shoemaker and also served on
a railroad, where he was employed many years. His
residence is on Hackett Hill, three miles from Hook-
sett, and commands a tine view of the country.

(VII) Amos, eighth child and sixth son of Jesse
and Susanna (Jackson) Kimball, was born in An-
dover, Massachusetts, July 26, 1778, and died in Man-
chester, New Hampshire, in 1858. He married, De-
cember 24, 1801, at Pembroke, Amia Stark, and they
had 'children : Peter, Bestey, Fanny Stark, Mar-
garet, Almira Stearns. Reuben, Frederick, Emily,
Mary Ann and Harriet.

(VIII) Frederick, seventh child and third son of
Amos and Anna (Stark) Kimball, died in 1871. He

married !Martha , and they had one child,

Emma, who married Hugh K. Ramsey. (See Ram-
sey).

(III) Samuel, second son and child of Richard
(2) and Alary Kimball, was born in Ipswich, about
1651, and died in Wenhani, October 3, 1716, aged
sixty-five. He resided in Wenham where he was
surveyor in 1676, constable in 1677, was made free-
man !May 24, 1682, and was selectman in the same
year. He was also an ensign in the militia. On
March 2, 1701, he and his wife deeded a lot of ten
acres and a house to their son Samuel. His estate
was settled by the son Samuel, who took the prop-
erty and paid off the claims of his brothers and sis-
ters. Their settlement contains the signatures of
the husband of the married sisters, and serves to
identify them. Samuel Kimball married, September
20, 1676, Mary Witt, daughter of John and Sarah
Witt, of Lynn, Massachusetts. Their thirteen chil-
dren, all born in Wenham, were : Samuel, Sarah,
Martha (died young), Mary, Richard, Jonathan,
John, Ebenezer, Martha, Thomas, Benjamin, Abi-
gail and Jerusha. (Mention of Ebenezer and de-
scendants follows in this article).

(IV) Jonathan, sixth child and third son of Sam-
uel and Sarah (Witt) Kimball, born in Wenham,
Massachusetts, in 1686, died February 19, 1758. He
removed to Boston about 1708, and probably returned
to Wenham about 1718. He served on a jury in
1721, and is then called of Wenham. He was a
cordwainer by trade, was a captain in the militia
and town clerk 1751-52. He and his wife united
with the church, February 27, 1737, and he was
made a deacon of the first church in Wenham, No-
vember 26, 1742, holding that office until his death.
He was married in Boston, July 28, 1729, by Rev.

Cotton Mather, to Hannah Hopkins, of Boston.
Their children were : Jonathan, Hannah, Samuel,
Sarah, !Mary and Abigail.

(V) Jonathan, eldest child of Jonathan and Han-
nah (Hopkins) Kimball, was born in Boston, Oc-
tober 9, 1710, resided in Wenham, and was town
clerk of that town in 1751-52-55-59-60. He married,
April 21, 1732, in Ipswich, Martha Ober, of Beverly.
Their children were: Martha, died young; Mar-
garet, died young; John, Martha, Isaac, Ezra, Mar-
garet, Mary, Abigail, died young; and .\bigail.

(VI) Isaac, second son and fifth child of Jona-
than and Martha (Ober) Kimball, was born in
Wenham, January 18, 1742, resided in Wenham and
Beverly, Alassachusetts, Temple, New Hampshire,
and Waterford, Maine. He married, November 9,
1762, .'\bigail Raymond, of Beverly, Massachusetts.
They were the parents of twelve children : Abigail,
died young; Isaac, John, David, Mary, Jonathan,
George, Abigail, Sarah, Hannah, William and Betsey.
(IMention of John and descendants follows in this
article).

(VII) Isaac (2), second child and eldest son of
Isaac (i) and Abigail (Raymond) Kimball, was
born in Beverly, June 17, 1765, and died in Temple,
New Hampshire, June 13, 1804. He went to Temple
soon after marriage, and there he resided for years.
He owned a farm in Andover, Vermont, upon which
he built a barn. While this was in progress of con-
struction he went into it after dark and fell through
the floor to the cellar, injuring himself seriously.
He soon afterwards sold the farm in Vermont, and
was carried on a litter to Temple, New Hampshire,
where he died after months of suffering. He mar-
ried Sally Cutter, who was born June 30, 1767.
They had eight children : Isaac, Benoni Cutter,
John B. (died young), Sally, George B., William
Barber and Simeon Gould.

(VIII) Benoni Cutter, second son and child of
Isaac (2) and Sally (Cutter) Kimball, was born in
Temple, New Hampshire, jNIarch 13, 1791, and died
there March 29, 1868, aged seventy-seven years. He
was a house carpenter and resided on the second
farm in Temple, on the Mason Village road, from
which he removed to the new house at Mason Vil-
lage, in which he resided for a time. Afterward he
built another house there in which he lived until he
bought a two-third interest in the Dunster home-
stead, about 1835. He bought the other third at
the death of the Widow Dunster in 1858. He was
an influential member of the Congregational (Ortho-
do.x) Church, and took a prominent part in or-
ganizing the new church at Mason Village. In all
enterprises connected with their church, he and his
wife took an active and leading part. He married,
December 28, 1815, ]\Iary Dunster, who was born in
Mason, February 16, 1796, and died May 31, 1864,
aged sixty-eight. He parents were Jason and Mary
( Meriamj Dunster. (See Dunster, VI). Fifteen
children were born of this marriage, as follows :
Benoni, George, Mary Ann (died young), Eliza
Ann, Addison (died young), Franklin, Isaac New-
ton, Samuel Dunster, Frederick, James, Marshall,
Mary. Ellen Maria, Edward and Abby Jane,

(IX) Marshall, eleventh child and ninth son of
Benoni C, and Mary (Dunster) Kimball, was born
in. Mason Village, October 2, 1832. He was edu-
cated in the public schools and at Appleton
Academy, at New Ipswich, and after leaving the
latter institution he taught school three terms. He
is a lifelong farmer, and Owns the Dunster home-
stead. Lot 10, in the eighteenth range. In 1867 he
built the commodious barn, from the cupola of
which he fell, striking on the roof and other por-

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tions, till he reached the ground, a distance of forty
feet. He was seriously injured, and has never fully
recovered from the lameness succeeding the injury.
In 1870 he was one of the selectmen of the town,
and has held other town offices. October 18, 1862,
he enlisted in Company C, Sixteenth Regiment New
Hampshire Volunteers, and did duty with his regi-
ment, principally in Louisiana, until it was mustered
out at Concord, New Hampshire, August 20, 1863.
He united with the Mason Village Congregational
Church, Way 6, 1849, by profession ; and November
5, 1858, was elected deacon of that church, which
office he still retains. He was married. Way 15, 1859,
at the village church, by Rev. George E. Fisher, to
Louisa Judith Allen, who was born October 7,
1832, daughter of Oliver and Harriet (Harding)
Allen, of Wason. She graduated at Appleton Acad-
emy, and taught school in Wason and other towns
constantly for ten years, and until her marriage.
She is a gifted writer, and is the author of the
"Song of Welcome," sung at the Mason Centennial
Celebration in 1868. She died November 4, 1900.
Six children were born of this union : i. Elmer Allen,
born January 18, 1862; graduated from Dartmouth
with the class of 1S85 with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. He was afterward a successful lawyer in
Chicago, and is now president of the Ogden Gas
Company of that city ; he married Ella Howard,
and they have one child, .^llen Howard, born Jan-
uary 23, 1899. 2. Mary Lillian, born June 2, 1864;
married Ernest L. Sawyer, and has six children :
Bertha Roxana, born July 24, 1887; Ralph Marshall,
February 18, i88g, died April 26, 1902; Ruth Ernes-
tine, born December 27, 1890; Ethel May, April 6,
1895; Catharine Louisa, April 9, 1899; Marguerite
Ainsley, May 20, 1904. 3. Fred Benoni, born March
18, 1866; married Wartha A. Russell; they have five
children : Marion, born April 6, 1891 ; Esther, April
17, 1893; Hazel, November 25, 1894; Bernice Naomi,
June 6, 1899; Russell Marshall, December 27, 1905.
4. Lena Harriet, born November 22, 1870, married
Charles Thomas Wheeler, of Greenville, and they
have two children : Doris Wabel, born October 27,
1896; and Elsie Faye, born April 19, 1901. 5. Flora
Louisa, born February 8, 1872, resides at home. 6.
Edward Marshall, born September 13, 1873, married
May Newby, January 22, 1906. They have one child,
Marshall, born May 11, 1907. The mother of this
child died May 31, same year.

(VH) John, third child and second son of Isaac
and Abigail (Raymond) Kimball, was born in
Temple, New Hampshire, March 8, 1767, died in
Wilton, New Hampshire, December 13, 1853. He
resided in Temple until 1802, when he went to Wil-
ton, and bought a farm in the southeast part of the
town. He was a prosperous farmer and a good citi-
zen. He married (first), March 8, 1797, Abigail
Billings, who died Octoljer 31, 1814. He married
(second), April 11, 1816, Anna Livermore, born
August 20, 1781, died June 5. 1824, daughter of Rev.
Jonathan Livermore. Married (third), March 26,
1829, .^chsah Spaulding, born September 2, 1788,
died April 27, 1873, daughter of Jonathan and Mary
(Marshall) Spaulding, of Wilton. His children
were : John, Anna Hunt, Harriet, Achsah, Daniel
Raymond. Granville, Augustine, Samuel Livermore,
Abigail, Jonathan Bowers and Mary.

(VIII) Anna Hunt, second child and eldest
daughter of John and Abigail (Billings) Kimball,
born in Temple, August 4, 1800. died May 16, 1864.
§hc resided in Wilton, was a school teacher in early
life, and was noted for her kindness to the poor
and unfortunate. She married. May 29, 1823, Moses
Spaulding. (See Spaulding, VII).

(IV) Ebenezer, eight child and fifth son of
Samuel and Wary (Witt) Kimball, was born in
Wenham, about 1690, and died in Hopkinton, Mass-
achusetts, in 1769, aged seventy-nine. He resided
in Wenham and Beverly, and was a yeoman and a
mason. In 1740 he moved to Hopkinton, Massachu-
setts, and bought property and resided there the
remainder of his life. His will, probated in 1773,
is on file in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married,
June 9, 1712, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Carr,
of Salisbury, Massachusetts. They had nine chil-
dren : Elizabeth, Jilary, Dorothy, Ebenezer, Richard,
Abigail, Sarah, Anna and Boice.

(V) Richard (3), fifth child and second son of
Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Carr) Kimball, was born
in Wenham, December 20, 1722, and died in Newton,
Massachusetts, Warch 2, 1803, aged eighty-one. He
went from Wenham with his father to Hopkinton,
Massachusetts, wdiere he lived till about 1764. March
5 of that year he bought a house and lot in Natick,
Massachusetts, and resided there till 1790, when he
bought land in Newton, and removed to that place,
where he spent the remaining thirteen years, of his
life. His wife's forename was Sarah. Their eleven
children were : Sarah, Abigail, Wary, Elizabeth,
John (died young), Thomas, Sibilla, Richard, Eben-
ezer, John and Edmund.

(VI) Richard (4), eighth child and third son
of Richard (3) and Sarah Kimball, was born in
Hopkinton, Wassachusetts, April 17, 1773, and died
in Rindge, New Hampshire, November I3> 184S.
aged seventy-two. He removed to Rindge, New
Hampshire, in 1807, and bought one hundred acres
of land about one-half mile west of the village of
West Rindge, and was a farmer and the first manu-
facturer of clothes pins in the town. These latter
he made with a knife and a hand saw. He whittled
them into a desired form, and made the wedge-
shaped opening with a handsaw. He sold them dur-
ing his accustomed travels through Rindge and the
adjoining towns in quest of customers. He was an
ardent Methodist, and was licensed to preach. He
married Lydia jNIcIntyre, in Boston, Massachusetts,
April 16, 1793. Their children were: Sibilla, Rich-
ard, Sally (died young), Samuel M., Ebenezer, Dew-
ing, Sarah. Lydia, James W., Mary, Tryphena, Try-
phosa and Elijah S.

(VII) Samuel Mclntyre, fourth child and second
son of Richard (4) and Lydia (iNIcIntyre) Kimball,
was born in Natick, Massachusetts, March 28, iSor,
and died in Rindge, 1882. He was educated in the
common schools and grew up on his father's farm.
In 1839 he bought one hundred acres of land near
the village of West Rindge, and there engaged in
farming and also carried on the business of wheel-
wright until the time of his death. He was a Re-
publican in political sentiment, and for more than
twenty successive years was elected sealer of weights
and measures. He was a Methodist, and for many
years steward and trustee of the JMethodist Church.
He married' Melinda Peirce, who was bona in
Rindge, May 3, 1803. daughter of Elipha and Phebe
(Streeter) Peirce, of Rindge. Their children were:
Samuel D., Elipha S., Mary M., Susan H., Charles
D., George E., S^ Warren, Harriet E. and Martha
Jane. Samuel D. died young; Elipha S., born July
13, 1823, was a manufacturer of woodenware, and re-
sided in West Rindge. Mary M., born .\ugust 13,
1826, married, August 13, 1846, Edmund Bemis, of
Troy, New Hampshire, and resided in Rindge.
Susan H.. born October 12, 1829, married Elijah
Bemis, of Rindge. Charles D., born June 4, 1832,
resided in Rindge. George E., born June 20, 1833.
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W. is the subject of the next paragraph. Harriet E.,
born February 21, 1843, married, December 23, 1861,
Ambrose Butler. Martha Jane, born April 17, 1844,
died February 21, 1864.

(VIII) S. Warren, seventh child and fifth son
of Samuel M. and Melinda (Peirce) Kimball, was
born in Rindge, December 31, 1835. He was edu-
cated in the common schools of Rindge, and was
variously employed until 1864, when he began the'
manufacture of woodenware, such as butter prints,
mauls, rolling pins, etc., on a small scale. By atten-
tion to business and by turning out good work he
built up a good trade, to supply which required the
assistance of two or three hands. He was engaged
in manufacturing until 1902, when he retired. He
is a Republican, and has been a member of the board
of selectmen and filled minor town offices. He has
been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for fifty-four years, and has been steward twenty
years, and class leader twelve years. He is a mem-
ber of Mary L. Weare Grange, No. 192, Patrons of
Husbandry, of which he has been chaplain and
master. He married (first), October 2, 1855, in
Keene, New Hanipshire, Emilie F. Davis, who was
born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, September 15,
1835, 3nd died in Rindge, September 17, 1S74, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Hannah (Lawrence) Davis, of
Ashburnham. He married (second), October 13,
1875, Lucia O. Austin, of Gardner, Massachusetts,
who was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, December
13, 1849, daughter of William and Lucy (Richard-
son) Austin, of Gardner. They have an adopted
daughter, Annie B., who married Elwin Jewell, and
resides in Rindge.

(III) Thomas, third son of Richard (2) and
Mary Kimball, was born November 12, 1657, and
died October 16, 1732, near the close of his seventy-
fifth year. His wife, Elizabeth Potter, died Decem-
ber 4. 1823. They had several children.

(IV) Daniel, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Pot-
ter) Kimball, was born 1684, and died December 17,
1754, aged seventy j'ears. His wife, Esther Foster,
died June 12, 1753.

(V) Thomas (2), son of Daniel and Esther
(Foster) Kimball, was born July 29, 1716, and died
December S, 1767, in his fifty-second year. He was
married March 3, 1743, to Penelope Johnson of
Andover, Massachusetts, and their children were:
Phebe. John, Rebecca and Thomas.

(VI) Thomas (3), youngest child of Thomas
(2) and Penelope (Johnson) Kimball, was born
July 17, 1753, and was a soldier of the Revolution,
serving in Captain Samuel Johnson's company in
1776. He died October 20, 1825. He was married
March 6, 1781, to Olive Lovejoy, who was born 1754.
and died January 28, 1842, in her eighty-eighth year.
Their children were: Olive (died young), John,
Sally, Rebecca, Thomas, Olive, Betsey, Phebe and
Susan.

(VII) Olive, fourth daughter and seventh child
of Thomas (3) and Olive (Lovejoy) Kimball,
was born INIarch 15, 1794. and became the wife of
David Cross, (see Cross, V).

(HI) Caleb, fifth son and child of Richard (2)
and Mary Kimball, was born in Wenham, Massa-
chusetts, April 9, 1665. He was a mason by trade.
He bought land in Exeter, New Hampshire, as early
as 1720, and resided there for a time, then returned
to Wenham. He sold his farm to his son Abraham,
on condition that he should pay the other children
their shares. (Mention of Abraham and descend-
ants follow in this article). His wife's name was
Sarah. She died February 20, 1731-2, and he died
in Wenhaiii, January 25, 1725-6.

(IV) John, third child and second son of Caleb
and Sarah Kimball, was born December 20, 1699,
in the town of Wenham. He was a carpenter by
trade, and resided on land in E.xeter, New Hamp-
shire, that he obbtained from his father. He also
owned land in Kensington and Chester, New Hamp-
shire. He married (first), February 14, 1722-3,
Abigail Lyford, who died February 12, 1737-8. He
married (second), September 18, 1740, Sarah, daugh-
ter of Deacon Thomas and Mary L. Wilson. She
was born November 23, 1709. He died in Exeter,
1785. He was the father of fifteen children.

(V) Joseph, fourth child and second son of
John and Abigail (Lyford) Kimball, was born in
Exeter, New Hampshire, January 29, 1730-1. His
first wife, according to tradition, was Olive Wilson.
He married for his second wife, in 1762, Sarah
Snu'lh. born 1740. They resided in Exeter, and in
1788 removed to Canterbury, New Hampshire. He
became blind before leaving Exeter, and never saw
the town of Canterbury, in which he resided for
twenty-six years. He and his wife died in Canter-
bury, November 6, 1814, and March l, 1858, respec-
tively, and are buried in the cemetery near Hackle-
borough, where a monument has been erected to
their memory.

(VI) John, eldest son and third child of Joseph
and Sarah (Smith) Kimball, was born in Exeter,
New Hampshire, November 20, 1767. He married,
November 21, 1793, Sarah Moulton, daughter of
Benjamin Moulton, of Kensington, New Hampshire.
She died April 30, 1853. They moved from Exeter,
to Canterbury, New Hampshire, February 17, 1794,
and settled on the farm owned by his father, just
north of the Shaker village, where he lived for
sixty-seven years. He was "a farmer, wheelwright,
and hay-rake manufacturer, and did a large business
through central New Hampshire, buying wool. He
died in Canterbury, February 26, 1861.

(VII) Benjamin, eldest child and son of John
and Sarah (Moulton) Kimball, was born in Canter-
bury, New Hampshire, December 27, 1794. He
married, February i, 1820, Ruth Ames, daughter of
David and Phebe (Hoit) Ames, of Canterbury, New
Hanipshire. After living two years with his father
on his farm, he resided two years on a farm in
Northfield. He moved to Boscawen, New Hamp-
shire, in the spring of 1824; and purchased the
farm on High street, then known as the Frost place.
In 1830 he purchased of Hon. Jeremiah Mason, of
Portsmouth, attorney for the United States Bank,
its land and water power at the south part of the
town (now Penacook). He removed there and re-
sided in the house he had bought, situated next
east of the hotel. He was an active and influential
business man. In 1831 he built the lower dam across
the Contoocook river, and erected and put in oper-
ation the brick grist and flouring mill now in use.
This was the first improvement of the water power
at the upper falls, now the centre of the growing
village of Penacook. In company with his cousin,
William JNIoody Kimball, he carried on an exten-
sive lumber trade. In March preceding his death
he was elected to represent the town in the legis-
lature, but his health did not permit him to take
his seat. He died at Penacook, July 21, 1834. His
wife died October 22. 1874, at the residence of her
son John, with whom she had lived as a widow
forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball were the parents
of five children: i. John, born April 13, 1821. 2.
Elizabeth Jane, born April 12, 1825. She was
drowned in the pond near the carding mill of Ca^i-
tain Samuel M. Durgin, in Boscawen, September 20,
1S40. 3. Joseph Ames, born October 8, 1826, died

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February 20, 1827. 4. Lucy Ann, born August 28,
1829, died August 25, 1832. 5. Benjamin Ames, born
August 22, 1833.

(.Vlll) Hon. John Kimball, eldest child of Ben-
jamin and Ruth Ann Kimball, was born April 13,
1821, in the town of Canterbury, New Hampshire.
At the age of three years, in 1824, he went with his
father to the town of Boscawen, and at the age of
seventeen he was apprenticed to his cousin, William
IMoody, to learn the trade of millwright. In 1848
he took charge of the new machine and car shop
of the Concord railroad at Concord, New Hamp-
shire, and in 1850 was made master mechanic, a
position he held for eight years. He became ac-
tively identified with various important interests,
and has been for many years treasurer of the INIer-
rimaclc County Savings Bank, and a director of
the Alechanics' National Bank at Concord; presi-
dent and treasurer of the Concord Gas Light Com-
pany, to which he was elected in 1880; and is a
director in the Concord Republican Press Associa-
tion. He has ever been deeply interested in chari-
table and religious institutions, and has been active
in his aid to the New Hampshire Odd Fellows'
Home and the Centennial Home for the Aged, of
both of which he is president, and the New Hamp-
shire Orphans' Home and the New Hampshire Bible
Society, of both of which he is treasurer. He be-
came a member of the South Congregational Church
of Concord by letter, June 28, 1849, and was one of
the committee of nine that built the present house
of worship of that society. For thirteen years he
was a deacon of the church.

Mr. Kimball has been conspicuously useful in
the public service both at home and in the state at
large, and the city in which he resides owes much of
its advancement to his wise and long continued
effort. In 1856 he was elected to the common coun-
cil of the city of Concord, and when he .was re-
elected in the following year he was chosen to the
presidency. From 1859 to 1862 he served as city
marshall and collector of taxes. He was elected
to the mayoralty in 1872, and the efficiency of his
administration finds evidence in his re-election to
three consecutive terms following. During this
period the system of water supply from Long Pond was
successfuly completed under his immediate direc-
tion as president of the board of water commis-
sioners. During his administration as mayor one
wooden and two iron bridges were built across the
river within the city limits, and the fire department
was provided with new buildings and apparatus.

In 1S58 Mr. Kimball was elected to the house of
representatives of the state of New Hampshire, and
again in 1859. In 1S62 President Lincoln appointed
him collector of internal revenue for the Second
District of New Hampshire. This highly important
position he held for a period of seven years, during
which time he collected and paid over to the treas-
urer of the United States the sum of nearly seven
millions of dollars, and keeping so accurately the com-
plicated accounts indispensable to this immense busi-
ness that their final auditing at his retirement was
promptly accomplished and without inaccuracy to
the amount of a dollar. In 1876 Mr. Kimball was
elected to the convention for the revision of the state
constitution, and he bore an active part in the de-
liberations of that body, and aided in formulating
some of the most important provisions in the new
organic instrument. In 1877 he was appointed by
the governor one of the three commissioners to
whom was committed the erection of the new state
prison. In 1880 he was appointed by the supreme
court of the state one of the three trustees of the

Manchester & Keene railroad. In November of
the same year he was elected to the state senate,
and at the beginning of its session received the high
honor of being elected president of that body.

Mr. Kimball was an original Republican, aiding
in the formation of the party in 1856, under the first
standard bearer, John C. Fremont, and from that
time to the present has been one of the most stead-
fast of its supporters. He has frequently sat in the
state and other conventions of the party, and has
enjoyed the intimate friendship and confidence of
many of the most eminent statesmen of his day,
and particularly during the Civil war period, when
he rendered all possible aid, by effort and means,
to the administration of President Lincoln in its
gigantic struggle for the preservation of the Union.
Of cultured mind and reflective habits of thought,
Mr. Kimball is deeply informed in general afifairs
and in literature, with a particular mclination to-
ward historical and genealogical research, and his
attainments found recognition at the hands of Dart-
mouth College, which in 1882 conferred upon him
the degree of INIastor of Arts. Entirely regular
habits of life and total abstinence from stimulating
beverages and drugs (through conviction of con-
science as well as for other reasons) have preserved
to him excellent physical powers, and his form is
tall and erect, and his presence commanding. While
firm and decided in his views, he is ever genial and
courteous, and his wealth of information and fine
conversational powers make him a welcome ad-
dition to the most polished circle in his state. His
residence has long been in Concord.

Mr. Kimball was first married- May 27, 1846, to
Maria Phillips, daughter of Elam Phillips, of Ru-
pert, Vermont. She died December 22, 1894. Of
this union there was born one child, Clara Maria.
Mr. Kimball married (second), October 15, 1895,
Charlotte Atkinson, of Nashua, New Hampshire.

(IX) Clara Maria, daughter and only child of
Hon. John and Maria (Phillips) Kimball, wa»
born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Iilarch 20, 1848.
She married, June 4, 1873, Augustine R. Ayers, who
was for many years a merchant in the city of Con-
cord, and is now a resident of that city.

(X) The children of Augustine R. and Clara
Maria (Kimball) Ayers are: Ruth Ames Ayers,
born March 11, 1875; John Kimball Ayers, born
July 9, 1876; Helen SicGregor Ayers, born October
26, 187S; Joseph Sherburne Ayers, born January
17, 1880, died February 7, i88o; Josiah Phillips
Ayers, born November 15, 1881, died April 27, 1S82 ;
Augustus Haines Ayers, born March i, 1883; Ben-
jamin Kimball Ayers, born March 28, 1888.

(VIII) Benjannn Ames, youngest son of Ben-
jamin and Ruth (Ames) Kimball, was born in Bos-
cawen, August 22, 1833. His father died in the
autumn of 1834. and when the subject of this sketch
was sixteen years of age his widowed mother, whose
memory is precious to her children, established a
home with her oldest son, Hon. John Kimball, at
Concord. In youth and in manhood Mr. Kimball
has lived and labored in the capital city of his native
state. He was prepared for college in the Concord
high school, supplemented by a course of study at
the'Hildreth preparatory school at Derry. He was
graduated from Dartmouth College, Chandler Scien-
tific Department, with the highest honors in the class
of 1854, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science.
Immediately afterward he entered the service of
the Concord railroad as a draftsman in the mechan-
ical department, where his industry and ability won
for him an ear^)' promotion, for two years later, in
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the part of the corporation, he was appointed super-
intendent of the locomotive department. In this
employment the dreams of the youth were realized,
and the drawings and mechanical studies of the
former student were tested and matured in the cul-
ture and experience of manhood. The well-remem-
bered locomotive "Tahanto" and others were con-
structed from the drawings of Mr. Kimball, revised
in the more practical school of experience. These
years of discipline, vivid and gratifying jn the
memory of the subject of this sketch, constituted the
superior school of preparation for future and graver
responsibilities.

At the completion of eleven years, Mr. Kimball
resigned his position as master mechanic of the
Concord railroad, and for several years was actively
and successfully engaged in private business, but no
other calling could permanently separate him from a
predestinated career in the world of railroads. In
the ambition of his youth and in his first employ-
ment 'in the mechanical department in rail-
road work, his future was clearly outlined and fore-
told. The story of his ready comprehension of and
of his firm grasp in railway affairs in later years,
was the natural sequence of his first employment
and of his lively and constant ambition and his suc-
cess was early assured. If in later years and in a
broader field he has borne graver responsibilities,
and if the sword of his resources has been often
tempered in the heat of fiercer conflict, he has
fought his way with the same qualities of courage
and intelligence which attended him in early man-
hood. Mr. Kimball was recalled to the railway
service when in i'873 'le was elected a director of the
Manchester & Nortli Weare railroad. In January,
1879, he was chosen a director of the Concord rail-
road, succeeding ex-Governor Onslow Stearns, who
died in December, 1878. He has since been elected
annually to the board of the Concord, and its suc-
cessor, the Concord & Montreal railroad, to the
present time, and he has been president of the
corporation since 1895. He is a director and presi-
dent of nearly all the leased roads connected with
the Concord "& Montreal railroad system, which is
now leased to the Boston & Maine railroad, includ-
ing its electric branches.

In the progressive and liberal policy of the Con-
cord, and later the Concord & Montreal railroad, in
the construction and control of contributory roads,
in the substantial ^character and attractive architec-
ture of the depots and the equipment of the system,
in the memorable controversies with rival corpora-
tions, Mr. Kimball has been sagacious in council and
efficient in action. He originated many and has ably
supported all of the comprehensive measures which
developed and expanded the Concord & Montreal
system, and which made it a potent factor in the
growth and prosperity of New Hampshire. At all
times he has given a willing and efficient support to
the enlargement of the system and to the construc-
tion and management of the connecting and sub-
sidiary roads. To him the people of the state and
the summer tourists are forever indebted for his
foresight and loyal attitude in the vexatious and pro-
longed litigation, in the interest of the public, for the
control of the summit of Mt. Washington.

In association with the managers of the railroads
of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Mr. Kimball
clearly comprehended the increasing volume of
traffic over the trunk lines from the west to tide
water, and the necessity of a more systematic and
economical management of the connecting roads.
From the beginning of the discussion he has been
an intelligent and consistent supporter of the con-

solidation of the connecting systems. In advance of
many of his associates and until other events ren-
dered the plan impossible, he was an intelligent and
earnest advocate of a Merrimack Valley system,
combining the roads from Canada, through Concord,
Nashua and Lowell to Boston. In the leases of the
subsidiary roads and in the union of the Concord,
and the Boston, Concord & Montreal roads, this
plan was practically consummated. The transition
from the support of the proposed Merrimack Valley
system to an approval of the lease of the Concord &
-Montreal to the Boston & Maine was only an en-
largement of an original plan, and was firmly sup-
ported by Mr. Kimball. In the consummation of
the lease he labored successfully to preserve the in-
tegrity of the subsidiary corporations, tlie property
rights of stockholders and the larger interests of the
public. In consequence of several measures by him
proposed and successfully advocated, the union of
the separate interests is harmonious, the state is the
recipient of an increased revenue, and the public en-
joys the benefit of lower rates of fares and freight.
In 1865, at the time of his temporary retirement
from railroad business, he became an active partner
of the firm of Ford & Kimball, manufacturers of
brass and iron castings. To a prosperous industry
he added the manufacture of car wheels which for
the past forty years has been an important feature
of the business of the firm. He was one of the
founders and is a director and president of the Cush-
man Electric Company, and is a director or president
of several other successful manufacturing corpora-
tions.

In the monetary institutions of Concord his abil-
ity has been recognized and his service has often
been sought. During the life of the institution he
was a trustee and president of the Concord Savings
Bank, and he was also a trustee of the Merrimack
County Savings Bank. At the organization of the
MeChanicks National Bank he was elected a director
and vice-president, and he has been president of this
institution since 1884, succeeding the Hon. Josiali
Minot. In the securing of a new city library build-
ing under the liberal donation of William P. and
Clara M. Fowler, in the perfected project and in the
construction of the city waterworks, and in the lo-
cation and spacious surroundings of the postoffice
and state library buildings, Mr. Kimball has ren-
dered enduring and valuable service to the city of
Concord. Immediately succeeding the passage of
the valued policy insurance law in T885, the foreign
companies withdrew from this state, leaving- property
owners an inadequate protection from loss by fire.
It was a season of unusual solicitude. Mr. Kimball
was one of the resolute and self-reliant men who
came to the rescue by joining in the organization of
new companies to succeed the ones which refused to
renew expirinpr policies. He was one of the in-
corporators and a director of the Manufacturers
and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In
any review of the unusual insurance problems of
twenty years ago. the prompt action and the com-
prehensive plans of Mr. Kimball and his associates
will merit attention and commendation.

From early manhood Mr. Kimball has been allied
with the Republican party, and he has been an in-
fluential factor in the conventions and councils of
the organization. He has never sought political
preferment. If he has had any ambition to partici-
pate in governmental affairs, it has been restrained
by the accumulating demands of an active business
career, and he has declined many complimentary
overtures of his friends and political associates. In
1870 he was a representative in the state legislature

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and a delegate to the "constitutional conventions of
1876, 1889 and 1896. and was an alternate delegate to
the Republican national convention of 1S80 and a
delegate at large in 1892. At the state election in
1884 he was elected to the executive council, and
served with distinction during the administration of
Governor Currier. He was an agent, representing
the council, to designate and prepare the site of the
statute of Daniel Webster in the state house yard.
In the autumn of 1886 Governor Currier appointed
Mr. Kimball a commissioner to represent New
Hampshire in a convention of commissioners from
the states which assembled at Philadelphia, Decem-
ber 2, 18S6. At this time the commissioners outlined
and subsequently conducted the historic and mem-
orable ceremonies of the commemoration of the one
hundreth anniversary of the promulgation of the
constitution of the United States. In accordance
with the arrangements determined at the first meet-
ing of the commissioners, the demonstration oc-
curred at Philadelphia on September i^, 16 and 17,
1887.

In 1889 he was appointed one of a commission of
five to mature plans accompanied with recommenda-
tions for the erection of a state library building.
His associates in this commission were : John W.
Sanborn, Charles H. Burns. Irving W. Drew and
Charles J. Amidon. The recommendations of the
commission were adopted by the legislature, and
were incorporated without amendment in an act
providing for the immediate construction of the
edifice, which was completed in the autumn of 1894.
In all of its appointments the structure is an endur-
ing testimonial of the ability and good judgment of
the commission, and of their appreciation of the
present and future needs of the people of the state.

From 1S90 to 1895, succeeding Charles Francis
Choate and associated with Jeremiah Smith, Mr.
Kimball was one of the hoard of visitors of the
Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth, College,
and since 1S95 he has been a trustee of the college.
He is regarded by his associates as an able and
useful member of the board, and in the financial af-
fairs of the corporation and in the construction of
new buildings his experience has been of value
and the ripeness of his judgment has been approved.
Mr, Kimball was among the first of the alumni of
the Chandler Scientific School to realize the im-
portance of its complete consolidation with the col-
lege-proper, and took a most active and influential
part in the negotiations that finally resulted in the
accomplishment of that object. ■■ He is a member of
and a trustee of the Alpha Omega Chapter of the
Beta Theta Pi of Dartmouth College; for the past
four years he has been chairman of the finance com-
mittee of the board of trustees of Dartmouth Col-
lege, a position in which his well-known pliility and
love of his alma mater find a useful field. Since
1890 he has been a member of the American Social
Science Association, and for manv years an active
member of the New Hampshire Historical Society
and president of the society 1895-1897. .At the pres-
ent time Air. Kimball is interested in the project of
a new and modern building, for the latter, and in the
possible find happy rea'ization of his ideals this
society will enjoy a home of ample dimensions and
ornate architecture.

.At a meeting of the New Hampshire Historical
Society held June 29, 1907, Beniamin .A. Kimball,
Samuel C. Eastman and Henry W. Stevens, of Con-
cord ; Frank N. Parsons, of Franklin, and Frank W.
Hackett, of Portsmouth. New Hampshire, were ap-
pointed a building committee witli full authority to

procure a suitable lot and erect a new building for
the Society.

Mr. Kimball, chairman of the committee, has
from time to time during the past three years, con-
ferred with prominent members of the society rela-
tive to the growth and needs of the Society, and the
absolute necessity of a new and commodious fire-
proof building for its use. They believe
that it should be of classical Greek architecture, and
should meet all the requirements of the Society.
Mr. Kimball has procured from Mr. Guy Lowell, a
prominent architect of Boston, several studies of the
proposed building, which have been approved. A
commanding location has been selected among the
notable group of public buildings at the capital of
the state.

In his relations to the public. Mr. Kimball is con-
scientious in the discharge of his duties, and is gen-
erous in a willing support of every commendable
institution or enterprise. He has ever maintained
personal and friendly relations with his associates
and with men in his employ. His friendly greetings,
his words of kindness and sympathy and often his
substantial favors in times of need are secretly
treasured in the memory of many who have been
employed by the corporations with which he is con-
nected. In the lives of men and the growth of a
state, the parallels of development run close and
far. The history of New Hampshire is mirrored in
the biographies of the men who have shaped events
and have given direction to public and business af-
fairs. In the early childhood of Mr. Kimball the
people of the inland towns were not far removed
from many features of pioneer life. Labor was the
common inheritance of all. The first mile of rail-
road in this state had not been constructed, and the
conveniences of life, compared with the present,
were few and limited. From such conditions the
state has advanced, and under such conditions the
life work of ^Ir. Kimball was begun. His success
is the merited reward of industry, ability and in-
tegrity. Possessing a vigorous mind, disciplined by
a liberal education and strengthened by a ripe ex-
perience, he has ever been an active and an able
promoter of the best interests of the city of Con-
cord and a potent factor in the development of the
material interests of the state. Mr. Kimball has
taken many trips to Europe, has a large, well se-
lected and very valuable private library and a choice
collection of costly paintings and statuary. His at-
tractively located residence and grounds have been
embellished under his personal supervision and his
home is one of the most noted in the Granite State.
The summer residence of the famil)' is a baronial
structure, kno'wn as "The Broads," on the shore of
Lake Winnipesaukee. Mr. Kimball is a lodge and
encampment member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and is a member of the South Congre-
gational Society of Concord.

Mr. Kimball was married, at Canterbury, Jan-
uary 9, iS6r, to Miss Myra Tilton Elliott, a daughter
of ira Elliott, of Northfield. In his domestic rela-
tions he is very fortunate and in the happiness of
his home he receives much needed rest from the
cares and burdens of his busy life. They have one
son, Henry .Ames Kimball, born in Concord, Octo-
ber 19, 1864. He was a delicate boy, and was not
sent to the public schools. His early education,
under the direction of a tutor, was secured in the
light and love of home. Later he pursued a prepara-
tory course of study at Phillips .Andover Academy,
then imder the direction of Rev. Cecil F. P. Ban-
croft, LL. D. Relinquishing a collegiate education.

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he renewed his study under the instruction of an
accomplished tutor with whom he studied and trav-
eled in Europe, visiting many places of historic in-
terest in England and on the Continent. While in
London in 1887 he was admitted, on examination, a
fellow of the Society of Science, Letters and Art.
Returning to his home in Concord, he addressed
himself to the more exacting concerns of a business
career. He is and for several years has been a
partner and associate manager of the firm of Ford &
Kimball, and of the Cushman Electric Company.
He is a member and now recording secretary of the
New Hampshire Historical Society, and for many
years he has been an interested and active member
of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was
married at Nashua, November 17, 1904. to Miss
Charlotte Atkinson Goodale, born at Nashua, May
26, 1875, and daughter of John Harrison and Jose-
phine Bonaparte (Atkinson) Goodale, She is a
graduate of the Nashua high school and of Welles-
ley College, class of iSgS. Mr. Goodale, her father,
was secretary of state, and was prominent and
esteemed in the literary and political circles of his
time.

(IV) Abraham, third son and fourth child of
Caleb and Sarah Kimball, was born in Wenham,
Massachusetts, August 19, 1702, and died in 1772,
aged seventy years, in Wenham, where his whole
life had been spent. He united with the church Jan-
uary 13, 1730. His intentions of marriage with
Elizabeth Houlton were published April 26. 1729.
She survived him. Their children were : Caleb,
Sarah, Elizabeth, Keziah. Ebenezer, Mehitable, Ben-
jamin, Abigail, Hannah, Henry and Anna.

(V) Benianiin. seventh child and third son of
Abraham and Elizabeth (Houlton) Kimball, was
born in Wenham, January 5, 1745, and died in Hills-
boro, New Hampshire, June 4, 1813. He resided in
Wenham and Topsfield, Massachusetts, and went to
Hillsborough. New Hampshire, in 1776. He mar-
ried at Topsfield, Massachusetts, July 7. 1768. Han-
nah Parker, who was born in Bradford, Massachu-
setts, and died in Hillsborough, August 21, 1825.
They had thirteen children : Abraham. Hannah,
Mehitable, Sarah, Samuel, Benjamin, child died
young, Keziah. Betsey, Retire P., Henry, Abigail
and an infant that died young.

(VI) Mehitable. second daughter and third
child of Benjamin and Hannah (Parker) Kimball,
was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, October xo,
1773. and married Fisher Gay, of Hillsborough, New
Hampshire. (See Gay, H).

(H) Benjamin, tenth child and fifth son of
Richard Kimball, born in 1637, about the time his
father moved from Watertown to Ipswich, Mass-
achusetts, died June 11, 1695. He was probably a
resident of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1659, a car-
penter by trade. He removed to Salisbury, Mass-
achusetts, in or before 1662. and was a resident of
Rowley, Massachusetts, May 12, 1663, when he
bough.t land w^hich is within the limits of the present
town of Bradford, then a part of Rowley, On Feb-
ruary 20, 1668, at the first town meeting in Merri-
mack, afterwards Bradford, he was chosen overseer
of the town. He was called of that town March 16,
1670, and March 15, 1674. On November 23, 1667,
he bought several tracts of land ; among them was
land which once belonged to his brother, Thomas
Kimball, who was killed by an Indian May 3, 1676.
He was a wdieeUvright and farmer, and his house
was in the west parish of old Bradford, not far
from the ancient cemetery. He was a cornet of
house troops and was known as "Cornet Kimball."
He and his brother Richard Kimball were soldiers

in 1683 and 1684, under Captain Appleton. His in-
ventory showed that he was well ofl for the times,
the total amount of his estate being one thousand
and sixty pounds, seven shillings. Among the as-
sets was a quarter interest in a saw mill in Haver-
hill, near the Amesbury line, which he bought of
Matthew Harriman. This interest was handed down
in the family for several generations. The grave-
stones of Benjamin and Mercy Kimball may still be
seen in the cemetery at Bradford. Benjamin Kim-
ball married, April, 1661, in Salisbury, Mercy, daugh-
ter of Robert and Ann Hazeltine. born "16, 8 mo,
1642," and died January 5, 1708. She \vas one of
the first members received into the first church in
Bradford, when she with sixteen other women were
admitted January 7, 1683. The children of Benja-
min and Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball were: Anna;
Mercy; Richard; Elizabeth; David; Jonathan;
Robert ; Abraham ; Samuel ; Ebenezer ; and Abigail.
(David, Jonathan, Robert, Samuel, and Ebenezer
and descendants are noted at length in this article).

(III) Richard, oldest son and third child of
Benjamin and Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball, born
December 30, 1665, died January 10, 171 1, lived in
Bradford, and was prominent in town affairs, being
town clerk for many years. In the division of his
father's estate he received one quarter of his interest
in the saw mill in Haverhill, also land and meadows
in that place and in Amesbury. He married, Sep-
tember 6, 1692, Mehitable Day, born January 26,
1669, daughter of John and Sarah (Pengry) Day.
After Richard Kimball died she married her cousin
Richard, the son of Thomas, and survived him. She
was the wife of two Richard Kimballs, and had a
son and stepson Richard Kimball. The seven chil-
dren of Richard and Mehitable were : Sarah, Ben-
jamin, Abraham, Abigail. Job, Stephen and Richard.

(IV) Benjamin (2), oldest son and second child
of Richard and Mehitable (Day) Kimball, was born
in Bradford, July 11, 1695, and died in 1752. He
married in Haverhill, February 17, 1719, Priscilla
Hazen, a woman of great strength of character and
ability. She was a daughter of Richard and a
granddaughter of Edward Hazen, who settled in
Rawlcy as early as 1648, Her mother was Hannah,
daughter of Robert Andrews, the emigrant ancestor
of Governor Andrews, of Massachusetts. She mar-
ried a Peabody for her first husband, and Richard
Hazen for her second. Priscilla Hazen was born in
Haverhill, November 25, 1698, and died November,
1782. After Benjamin's death his widow married,
February 26, 1756, Captain Daniel Ames. The chil-
dren of Benjamin and Priscilla (Hazen) Kimball
were eleven in number, as follows: Mehitable,
Mary, Abigail, Obadiah, Sarah, Richard, Priscilla,
Benjamin, John, Bettie and Dudley.

(V) John fourth son and ninth child of Ben-
jamin and Priscilla (Hazen) Kimball, was born in
Bradford. February 5, 1739, and died in Concord.
New Hampshire, December 31, 1817. He lived on
the homestead in Bradford, Massachusetts, until his
marriage, when he moved to Concord, where he
lived on the place now (1897) occupied by Samuel
S. Kimball. He was a man of strong religious con-
victions, and at the age of eighteen united with the
church of Bradford, and during his long life honored
his Christian profession. During thirty years he
was absent but once from public worship. He was
very hospitable, and clergymen were always his
welcome guests. For twenty-nine years, 1789 to
1817, he was an officer in the church, and was noted
for the fidelity and promptness with which he per-
formed his_ public and private duties. Mr. Kimball
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and proposed to Rev. Mr. Walker, the pastor, to
abolish "lining the hymns," as it was called, on
the Sabbath, and adopt the present style of singing.
This was done, and took effect in the time of the
Revolutionary war. He was on the committee of
safety in 1777 and 1778. The number of offices he
held was large, and he filled some of them for many
consecutive years. He was chosen tything man in
1767 and again later; constable two terms; surveyor
of lumber many years ; was sealer of yveights and
measures; field driver; selectman, 1775 and 1778;
clerk, 177S to 1786 inclusive ; and treasurer 1785-6.
He married iVlarch 23, 1765, Anna, daughter of
Samuel and Ann (.Hazen) Ayer, born in Haverhill,
Massachusetts, October 3, 1740, died in March, 1819.
Their children, born in Concord, were : Hazen,
John, Benjamin, Anna, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah
and Samuel Ayer.

(VI) Hannah, third daughter and si.xth child of
John and Anna (Ayer) Kimball, was born in Con-
cord, June 24, 1777, and died in Concord, November

16, 1846. She married, JNlarch 2, 1802, Rev. Syl-
vester Dana. (See Dana, V).

(HI) David, second son and fifth child of Ben-
jamui and Mercy (^Hazeltine) Kimball, was born
July 26, 1671, in Rawley, Massachusetts (that part
which is now Bradford), and died in Bradford,
June 14, 1743. He resided all his life in that town,
and his father gave him from his estate si.K acres
of land on which his house stood, January 21, 1697.
This was adjoining the ferry. His first wife, Eliza-
beth Gage, daughter of John Gage of Ipswich,
was born March 12, 1674. No record of her death
has been found. Mr. Kimball was married (second),
about 1717, to Ruth (surname unknown), who was
born 1682 and died March 14, 1770. There were
ten children, all of the first wife and two of the
second, all born in Bradford, namely : Hannah
(died young), Samuel, Hannah, David, Rebeckah, a
son unnamed, Jeremiah, Aaron, Elizabeth, Abraham,
Ruth and Abigail. After the death of Mr. Kimball,
his widow resided with Ralph Hall, her son-in-law,
in Salem, New Hampshire, and he was, at that time,
forced to give security that she should not become
a charge upon the town.

(IV) Jeremiah, fourth son and seventh child of
David and Elizabeth (Gage) Kimball, was born
October 15, 1707, in Beverly, and died in May, 1764,
in Warner, New Hampshire. He was a resident of
Beverly until April, 1733, when he and his brother
David, of Concord, New Hampshire, sold land to
Thomas Richardson. In the'' settlement of his
father's estate he sold land to James Head, June
10, 1734. He subsequently resided in Hopkinton,
and Warner, New Hampshire, and was buried at the
old fort on Putney Hill, in Warner. He was mar-
ried, January 20, 1732, to Elizabeth Head, and their
children all born in Bradford, were : Elizabeth,
Sarah (died young), Jeremiah, James, Reuben,
David, John, Betty, Mary, jNIoses, Sarah, Abraham,
Phoebe and Richard.

(V) Reuben, third son and fifth child of Jere-
miah and Elizabeth (Head) Kimball, was born .-^pril

17. 1738, in Bradford, and died May 2, 181 1, in War-
ner, New Hampshire. He lived for a time in Hop-
kinton, and settled in Warner in 1762. He accom-
panied his father-in-law to that town and they were
among its earliest settlers. Reuben Kimball built a
log house and barn and he and his wife moved to
their humble abode in the wilderness Jun» 30, 1762.
Their eldest child was the first white born in VVar-
ner. I-Iis tombstone stands near the wall in the
south east part of the cemetery in Warner, and bears
the inscription "In memory of Mr. Reuben Kimball

who died May 2, 181 1, aged seventy-three years."
He belonged to that class of sturdy and industrious
citizens who cleared from New Hampshire soil the
virgin forest now enjoyed by his descendants and
many others. He was married about 1760, to Han-
nah, daughter of Daniel Annis, of Hopkinton, and
after her death he married Elizabeth (surname un-
known). His children, all born of the first wife,
were : Daniel, Jeremiah, Richard, Johnson Guill,
Jane Betsey and Persis.

(VI) Jeremiah (2), second son and child of
Reuben and Hannah (Annis) Kimball, was born
December 14, 1767, in Warner, and died in that
town, where he resided all his life, March 27, 1841.
Besides farming he worked as a cooper and made
flour and fish barrels, and pursued a quiet and un-
eventful life. He was married, November 21, 1793.
to Molly Foote, who was born April 30, 1771, and
died May s. 1855. Their children were: Challis
Foote, Hannah, Nancy Foote, Reuben (died young)
and Reuben.

(VII) Rev. Reuben, youngest son and child of
Jeremiah and Molly (Foote) Kimball, was born in
Warner, April 29, 1803, and died in North Conway,
November iS, 1871, aged sixty-eight years. The
father being .1 farmer, Reuben was taught to culti-
vate the soil, and early earned his bread in the sweat
of his face. Behig the younger son, his parents
placed their reliance on Reuben and he continued
with them upcp the homestead, his older brother,
who was his senior by some years, having gone from
home while Reuben was yet a youth. There was
that, too, in the dutiful and affectionate spirit of
this son which led them, particularly the mother, to
look upon him as "the one to live at home and have
the farm," and to be the solace of their advancing
age.

The son; however, had been earnestly desirous as
a boy to obtain an education. He liked his book
better than the farm, and as he grew up made the
best possible use of the means of intellectual culture
within his reach. His parents, not seeing perhaps
at first whereunto this would grow, encouraged his
bent in this direction, by giving him the best oppor-
tunities in their power. These were supplemented
by his own persevering endeavors — teaching when he
became qualified to procure the means of extending
his privileges at the academy. He proposed to his
parents, if they would consent to his leaving home
to obtain an education, that he would educate him-
self, and would never ask for any portion of the
patrimonial estate. But to this they did not feel
that they could consent, and the appeal of the mother
to the tenderness and fidelity of his filial affection,
wss more than he could resist, and he determined, as
a dutiful son, to remain at home with his parents.
In this expectation he married. A year of two be-
fore his marriage he had become the subject of re-
newing grace, and at the age of twenty-four united
with the Congregational Church in his native town.
His jcining the church stimulated his desire for edu-
cation. With this concurred the establishment of
the Gilmanton Theological Seminary in his near
neighborhood, in which facilities were afforded to
persons desirous of entering the university, who
could not take a full college course, to obtain their
object by an abbreviated or a condensed system of
classical and theological studies. He heard of some
who had removed their families into the vicinity of
the institution for the purpose of receiving its bene-
fits. He visited the seminary and conferred with its
professor, who encouraged him in his desires, pro-
vided he could make it compatible with his duty to
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joined the ^church and gladly consented to this plan.
He now entered the seminary and pursued his
studies with such success that he graduated in 1840,
and shortly after obtained from the Hopkimon As-
sociation license to preach.

Mr. Kimball's first field of labor was at Kittery
Point, Maine, where he was ordained January 27,
1841. He remained here nine years, until his dis-
missal, January 9, 1850. From Kittery he went to
Andover and Wilmot, in this state, laboring half
of the time at each place, for the first two years,
and afterwards, exclusively at Wilmot. In De-
cember, 1855, Mr. Kimball commenced his ministry
in Conway. The church here was small and so
situated, territorially, as to make it necessary to
maintain worship in two places — one at Conway
Corner, so called, and the other at North Conway,
four miles distant from each other. 'Mr. Kimball
resided for sometime at the corner, but later at
North Conway, preaching every Sabbath in both
places. The population at the North was much in-
creased during his ministry through the summer
months especially, owing to the large number from
the cities who resort to this locality at that sea-
son for health and recreation. This peculiar fea-
ture of his parochial charge in Conway rendered
his post one of much responsibility, and, to a some-
what shrinking and sensitive spirit like his, one
of no small solicitude and wearing anxiety. Yet
it was here and on these accounts that his rare
ministerial gifts and peculiar traits of personal ex-
cellence were rendered eminently conspicuous,
through the many appreciative minds upon which
successively they shone, and which have carried
sacred remembrance of him, as a model minister,
into all parts of the country, and of the world,
even. His parish, under the shadows of the great
mountains, was one of the high places of our Ameri-
can Zion.

His ministry here continued until about two
years before his death when his health, for a long
time slender, becoming more seriously impaired, he
felt his strength to be insufficient for so arduous
a service and resigned his pastorate. Subsequently,
however, he performed missionary labors in some
destitute sections of the country, under a com-
mission at large from the New Hampshire JNIis-
sionary Society. He was especially instrumental of
a good work in Effingham, in procuring the repair
of the dilapidated meeting house of the well-nigh
extinct Congregational Church there, with whom he
resided and labored for seven months.

It was pleasant to Mr.' Kimball to be actively
employed in the Master's service, and he used every
degree of his remaining strength in the work of the
ministry so long as opportunity was granted him.
A very useful department of labor in which he em-
barked with characteristic efficiency while at Con-
way, was the Bible distribution throughout a large
and destitute section of the country, of which that
place was the center. For this work he was ad-
mirably fitted by happily combining with the agency
the labor of an evangelist — awakening attention and
winning interest in the minds of the careless and
ignorant, especially the children, in behalf of the
divine word, which they were induced to receive at
his hands.

As a minister Mr. Kimball was eminently faith-
ful and devoted, while he often lamented that he
had not enjoyed advantages of a more thorough'
education, yet seldom, if ever, -was any deficiency
in this respect apparent in his public perform-
ances. He made diligent and successful use of all
the helps, literary and professional, which were at

his command. His knowledge of the Bible was
intimate and extensive. His faith in its doctrines
was sound and discriminating. His preaching was
serious, plain, practical, direct, tender, while he
was the farthest possible from being harsh or dog-
matic in nis style of address. Yet he was never
deterred by fear of man from a full and faithful
setting forth of unwelcome truths. The visible
fruits of his labor were many and of a desirable
character. . While there were no very extensive
revivals under his ministry, there were frequent
seasons of religious interest, in which some were
converted and a few at a time were added to the
church. His ministry was peculiarly adapted to
promote the spiritual edification of believers. As
a man and as a Christian, he was himself an ex-
ample to the flock, having also a good report of
them that were without.

The last days of the life of this beloved man
of God, though oppressed with bodily sufifering,
were serene and peaceful. He labored to the last
in Bible distribution, and when he gave it up and
realized that he should not return to it agam, he
expressed regret that he should not be able to
finish all that he had hoped to accomplish, as he
had enjoyed these labors much, and felt that therein
he was doing good. But when he immediately
acquiesced to his Heavenly Father's will, saying that
"he might as well go now as any time." A member
of the church who came to see him, said he w-ould
like to know his views while looking on death or
near. He said in reply that he had not those
ecstacies which some have spoken of, but he could
trust his Savior now, as in life he has professed
to do. Two or three days before his death, while
his power of speech remained, in the morning,
after a chapter had been read, he wanted the
children to sing a hymn ; and then, saying he would
try to pray, he oft'ered up a prayer in which he
commended all his family and friends and the
church to his heavenly Father for protection, being
quite exhausted by the effort. This was his last
audible prayer on earth; and for the last twelve
hours he did not speak nor move a muscle, but lay
as quiet as though dead, until he ceased to breathe.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright,
for in the end that man is peace." To his brethren
in the ministry and his christian friends, his death
seemed sudden and premature. He worked up to
the last few days and none knew his danger until
it was over. "He walked with God, and was not;
for God took him."

Mr. Kimball was married. May 21. 1829, to
Jndith Colby, who was born in Warner, and died
in Ipswich, aged about seventy-three years. She
was the daughter of John and Sarah Colby, of
Warner. Mr. Kimball was eminently happy in his
domestic relation — the wife of his youth, who sur-
vived him, having adv.iiced with equal step from
the humble and private sphere in which they began
life together, through the stage of its elevated and
more responsible duties as a helpmeet, and in the
full sympathy with the joys and sorrows incidental
to his work. Nine children were born to them,
whose names are as follows: Molly Foote (died
at three years), Marcia Aletta, Edward Payson,
Anna Louise, Reuben, Jeremiah, John Elliott, Sarah
J\Iehitabcl, Moses Colby.

(VIII) Edward Payson, eldest son and third
child of Rev. Reuben and Judith (Colby) Kimball,
was born in Warner, New Hampshire, July 4, 1834.
He was educated in the common schools of Kittery,
Maine, and Hampton and Andover Academies.
From 1855 to 185/ he was engaged in mercantile

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business in Kittery. In the latter year lie removed
to Portsmouth, and has since been engaged in
banking. He was first a clerk in the Piscataqua
Exchange and Portsmouth Savings banks. He be-
came cashier of the First National Bank in 1871,
and in 1882 was made president of that bank, and
also of the Piscataqua Savings Bank. In addition
to the interests named and others in Portsmouth,
Mr. Kimball has business interests in the West.
From his youth up he has adhered to the Republi-
can party in all political contests, and has been a
staunch supporter of the measures advocated in its
plat'forms. He has been a member of the city
government, and in 1885-86, served in the New
Hampshire legislature. Since 1871 he has been a
deacon of the North Congregational Church, and
has held office as clerk and treasurer of the church
since 1867. His liberality to the church is well
known, also his deep concern for the welfare of the
public educational institutions of the state, and
the benevolent and charitable organizations of a
private nature. He has been a member of the
Portsmouth school board, is a trustee of the Cottage
Hospital, the Chase Home for Children, the Ports-
mouth Seaman's Friend Society, and is president
of the Howard Benevolent Society, and the Young
Men's Christian Association. Mr. Kimball was in-
strumental largely in building the beautiful Young
Mens Christian Association building in Portsmouth
and contributed freely for the same. In fact it
is one of i\Ir. Kimball's acts which has given him
satisfaction. He is a member of Piscataqua Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and one of its
board of trustees.

Mr. Kimball is emphatically a man of business,
and though he has held political offices, it has been
more from business interests with a view to proper
legislation than any desire for official honors. He
is in no sense a nominal member of the various other
organizations in which he holds official rank, but a
worker for the end for which each institution was
organized. He married in Wilmot, New Hampshire,
September 13. 1864, Martha Jane Thompson, who
was born in Wilmot, daughter of Colonel Samuel
and Anna True (Smith) Thompson, of Wilmot.
They have had three children : Elizabeth Coiby,
born January 27. 1866, died March 7, 18S0. Martha
Smith, February 28, 1870, who graduated from
Smith College in the class of 1892. Edward Thomp-
son Kimball, September 29, 187,3. a graduate of
Amherst College, in the class of 1896.

(Ill) Jonathan, third son -and si.xth child of
Benjamin and Mercy (Haseltine) Kimball, was
born November 26. 1673. in Bradford, and passed
his life in that town, where he died September
30, 1749. He was a prosperous man, as indicated
by his frequent purchases and sale of lands. In
hjs possession were lands in Chester which he
divided equally November 12. 1733, among his four
sons, Benjamin, Nathan. Jonathan and Isaac. He
was married (first), July 15. i6g6, to Lydia Day,
who was born March iS, 1676, daughter of John
and Sarah (Pengry) Day, and died September 16,
1739. He was married (second), November 3,
,17.59. to widow Jane Plummer, and died in 1764.
It is apparent that his last marriage was not a
happy one, as his will contains this clause, "since
my wife, Jane, has eloped and refuses to live
with me, I give her five shillings and a pair oi
leather gloves." It would seem that the widow
refused to accept this legacy, and contested for
a share in the estate, and the matter was- prob-
ably compromised, as her receipt is on record for
the sum of fifty pounds. Jonathan Kimball's chil-

dren, born in Bradford, iNIassachusetts, of his first
wife, were: Benjamin, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Lydia,
Moses, Isaac, Rebecca, Ruth, Abraham, Mehitablc
and Hannah.

(IV) Benjamin (2), eldest child of Jonathan
and Lydia (Day) Kimball, was born May 16, 1697,
in Bradford, and resided in Haverhill, where he
died August 5, J741. He lived in the northern part
of that town and when the line was run between
the two provinces in 1741, his property was found
to be in New Hampshire, in the town now known as
Hampstead. He and his wife were members of the
church in Plaistow or North Haverhill, in Novem-
ber, 1730. He was a deacon of the church there,
being elected February 3, 1731. He owned land in
Chester, which was inherited by his son Moses.
It is said that he married at the age of eighteen,
and went three miles north of the river into the
woods to clear a farm, and his mother was very
much depressed because of his danger from attacks
by the Indians. He married Mary Emerson, of
Haverhill, who was born March 21, 1696. She was
the daughter of Joseph and Martha (Toothaker)
Emerson, and granddaughter of Robert and Ann
(Grant) Emerson. Their children were: Mary,
Jonathan, Benjamin, Lydia, Martha, Hannah, Moses,
Abigail, Joseph and Mehitable.

(V) Jonathan (2), eldest son and second child
of Benjamin and Alary (Emerson) Kimball, was
born April 14, 1720, in Haverhill, Massachusetts,
and died October 17, 1807, in Plaistow, New Hamp-
shire. According to the family tradition, he was
one of the first to settle in the northern part of
the last named town. In building his log cabin
in the woods he was assisted by twenty men, two
of whom stood guard against Indian attacks while
the others worked. He subsequently returned to
the present .town of Plaistow, and served for a
period of twenty-one years from 1757 to 1778 as
town clerk. He joined the church at Plaistow,
February 5. 1738, and for fifty-seven years he was
a deacon of this society, being first elected Janu-
ary 25, 1739. He was married (first), August 22,
1738, to Elizabeth Little, who was born November
12, 1719, a daughter of Daniel Little. She joined
the church May 18, 1740, and died February 8,
1753. He was married (second), November 29,
1753. to Abigail True, of Salisbury, Massachusetts,
who was born November 26, 1722, and died January
23, 1814. There were five children of the first
marriage and four of the second, including: Benja-
min, Jonathan, Daniel (died young), Nathaniel,
Daniel, Elizabeth, True. Martha and Joseph.

(VI) Benjamin (3), eldest son and child of
Jonathan (2) and Elizabeth (Little) Kimball, was
born August 5, 1741. in Plaistow, and lived in that
town, where he died August 25, 1779. aged thirty-
eight years. He was commissioned first lieutenant
in Captain Samuel Oilman's company of Colonel
Enoch Poor's regiment. May 25. 1775, and rendered
valuable service as a Revolutionary soldier. He
was promoted to captain at Ticonderoga, September
6, 1776, and was commissioned captain and pay-
master in the First New Hampshire regiment in the
Continental service, and remained in that connection
until his death. He was shot throuth the heart
at Tioga, Pennsylvania, by the accidental discharge
of a soldier's musket, while on Sullivan's expedition
against the Indians. He was buried at Tioga the
following day. He was much respected and highly
regarded both at home and abroad. His widow
was left with a large family of small children, and
received half pay in accordance with a resolution
of Congress passed August 24, 1780. She was mar-

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ried (second), June 2, 1780, to Jonathan Poor,
of Poor's Hill in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Cap-
tain Benjamin Kimball was married in early life
to Sarah Little, daughter of Samuel Little, who
survived him and was married (second) as above
noted. She died July 6, 1823. Their children were :
Benjamin (died young), Jonathan, Tamar, Eliza-
beth, Benjamin, Abigail and Sarah.

(VH) Benjamin (4), third son and fifth child
of Captain Benjamin (3) and Sarah (Little) Kim-
ball, was born January i, 1771, in Plaistow, and
died in Kingston, New Hampshire, September 25,
1825, He was a farmer in Kingston, and was mar-
ried April 16, 1793, to Abiah Kimball, who was
born September 24, 1771, daughter of Jonathan Kim-
ball and died August 21, 1861, almost ninety years
of age. Their children were ; Abiah, Sarah, Rus-
sell, Mary, Benjamin, Daniel and Richard (twins),
Hazen, Amos and Elizabeth.

(VIII) Russell, eldest son and third child of
Benjamin (4) and Abiah (Kimball) Kimball, was
born December 7, 1798, in Kingston, New Hamp-
shire, and resided in Piermont, New Hampshire,
where he was a successful farmer. He was mar-
ried to Louisa Bean, who was born in Lyman, New
Hampshire, and died February 18, 1866, at Haver-
hill Corner. They were the parents of four chil-
dren, of whom only the eldest survives, the others
having died in infancy. They were : Peabody W.,
Sarah L., Charles R., and Ellen L.

(IX) Peabody Webster, only surviving son of
Russell and Louisa (Bean) Kimball, was born
October 24, 1834, in Piermont, New Hampshire.
He had a fair opportunity for acquiring an edu-
cation, being a student of the public schools in
Haverhill, of Newbury Seminary, Newbury, Ver-
mont, and of the Orford and Haverhill academies.
After leaving school he was associated w'ith his
father in a general merchandise store at Haverhill
Corner, where he continued two years. He then
became a partner in the business and so continued
until his father's death in 1862. For a short time
thereafter he conducted the business, which was
ultimately closed out. He then engaged in farming
on a small scale in Haverhill, and for fifty years
this continued down to the present time. He has
been an active citizen and has taken part in the
management of local affairs, and represented the
town in the general court in 1864-65. Politically
he is a Republican. He is a member of Grafton
Lodge, No. 46, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and of Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
sons, of Lisbon. He was married on Christmas
Day, 185s, to Jane Pearson, who was born April
26, 1834, in Orford, New Hampshire, a daughter
of George and Mary (English) Pearson. They are
the parents of two children : Ellen L. and George
Russell. The former was born January 5, i860, and
is the wife of Dr. Henry A. Hildreth, of Bethlehem,
New Hampshire.

(X) George Russell Kimball, son of Peabody
Wejjster and Jane (Pearson) Kimball, was born
August 31, 1866, in Haverhill, and received his
early education in the public schools of that town.
He was subsequently a student at St. Johnsbury
Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Returning to
his native town, he was engaged in the printing
business for two years. He then removed to Haver-
hill, where he was engaged one year in the print-
ing business in company with F. W. and J. F.
Bittinger, at Woodsville, New Hampshire, and then
sold out to his partner. He returned to Haverhill
Corner and , was engaged three years as a printer
with W. E. Shaw. He was afterwards employed

for a period of two years as a clerk by Poor &
Wesgate, general merchants. Their business was
terminated by destruction of the store by fire. Mr.
Kimball is quite active in fraternal circles, being
a member of Grafton Lodge of Free Masons, at
Haverhill ; Franklin Royal Arch Masons, at Lisbon ;
St. Gerard Commandery, Knights Templar, of Lit-
tleton ; Northern Star Lodge of Perfection, of Lan-
caster ; Washington Council, Princes of Jerusalem,
at Littleton ; Chapter Rose Croix, at Littleton, and
Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Thirty-second de-
gree, at Nashua. He is also a member of Bektash
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord;
and of the Eastern Star Chapter at Lisbon, New
Hampshire. He is a member of Haverhill Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Concord Chap-
ter, Sons of the American Revolution.

(III) Robert, seventh child and fourth son of
Benjamin and Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball, was
born in Bradford, March 6, 1676, and died Febru-
ary 24, 1744. He bought, March 3, 1703, of his
father-in-law, Philip Atwood, land which formerly
belonged to Henry Kemble, blacksmith, of Boston.
He resided in Bradford, and he and his wife was
buried in the old cemetery there. He married Su-
sanna, daughter of Philip and Sarah Atwood of
Maiden. She was born in "Mauldon," February

I, 1686. Their children, all born in Bradford, were :
Susanna, Rachel, Philip, Sarah, Ebenezer, Joseph,
Abigail, Oliver and Solomon. (Mention of Oliver
and descendants follows in this article.)

(IV) Ebenezer, fifth child and second son of
Robert and Susannah (Atwood) Kimball, born in
Bradford, December 29, 1716, died June i, 1798;
was a farmer and resided in the town of his birth.
He married, April 4, 1740, Mary, daughter of Ben-
jamin and Priscilla (Hazen) Kimball, born April

II, 1723, died September 22, 1819. Their children,
thirteen in number, were : Mary, Phineas, Ebe-
nezer, Priscilla, Benjamin, Susanna (died young),
Edward, Susanna, Obadiah, Dudley, Daniel, Asa and
Betsey.

(V) Lieutenant Phineas, second child and old-
est son of Ebenezer and Mary (Kimball) Kimball,
was born in Bradford, December 8, 174S, and died
November 6, 1826, aged eighty years. He removed
to Concord, New Hampshire, and settled at Apple-
town, east end of Turtle Pond. He was a revo-
lutionary soldier, and April 23, 1775, was in Cap-
tain Isaac Baldwin's company. Colonel John Stark's
regiment. He was at Bunker Hill, and in service
throughout the year, being in Captain Hale's com-
pany, October 4, 1775, when he receipted for four
dollars as full compensation for a coat promised
him by the colony of New Hampshire. He was a
lieutenant in the militia after the war. As a
citizen he was honorable and prominent, and ac-
quired considerable estate. He married, December
13, 1770, Lucy Pearl, daughter of Richard and
Sarah Pearl. She died April 21, 1821. She was an
amible, accomplished, and much respected woman.
Her family name has been bestowed upon many of
her descendants as a christian name. The children
of Phineas and Lucy (Pearl) Kimball were: Pearl,
Hepzibah, Molly, Sarah, Obadiah, Benjamin, Rob-
ert and Betsey, mention of whom follows.

(VI) Betsey, eighth child and youngest daugh-
ter of Phineas and Lucy (Pearl) Kimball, was
born in East Concord, July 12. 1787, and died in
Concord, January 23, 1870. She married March
6, 1808, Colonel Joshua (2) Abbot, of Concord
(see Abbot, V).

(IV) Oliver, eighth child avtd fourth son of
Robert and Susanna (Atwood) Kimball, was born

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CHARLES LESTER, CHARLES, CHARLES F., CHARLES ALLEN.

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in Bradford, Massachusetts, May 24, 1724, and died
in Salem, New Hampshire, June 23, 1806. He re-
sided first in Bradford, and later removed to Salem,
where he spent the remainder of his life. He was
a man of some means and, like the other settlers,
allowed his young stock to run loose in the woods
in the summer. The registry of his mark in the old
town record of Salem is as follows : "July 22,
1747. The mark of Oliver Kimballs cattel and
other cuachers is a swalous tail of ye right ear,
and is an a halfany ye upr sid of ye left ear."
He married, March, 1745, Mary Ober, who was born
May 23, 1725, and died June 23, 1806. Their chil-
dren, all born in Salem, were : Oliver, Hilary,
Susanna (died young), Elizabeth, Susie, Mehitable,
Abigail, John and Sarah.

(V) Oliver (2), eldest child of Oliver (i)
and Mary (Ober) Kimball, was born in Salem, De-
cember S, 1745, and died there April 20,' 1821. He
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and served
at Bunker Hill, August i, 1775. Salem town meet-
ing adjourned to August 22. at which time Oliver
Kimball, Jr., was chosen ensign. October 16, 1775,
he was in Captain Woodbury's company,, and he
was in the same company in 1776. He was select-
man in Salem in 1793, where he resided all his life.
His tombstone in Salem bears the following in-
scription : "Death's sudden stroke dissolved my
feeble frame, Reader, prepare, your fate may be the
same." He married INIary Allen, of Salem. She
was born March 17, 1751, and died February 6.
1846, aged ninety-five. Their children were : Su-
sannah, Molly (died young), Joseph and Molly.

(VI) Joseph, third child and only son of
Oliver (2) arid j\lary (Allen) Kimball, was born
in Salem, December 25, 1786, and died April 28,
1867, aged eighty years, four months and three
days. He succeeded his father on the homestead,
and was a cultivator of the soil. He married,
February 2, 1815, Rebecca Hazeltine, born Au-
gust 5, 1792, died January 29, 1854, daughter of
Asa Hazeltine, of Auburn. Their children were:
Harriet, Rebecca, Charles, Washington and Joseph
Allen.

(VH) Charles, third child and eldest son to
grow up of Joseph and Rebecca (Hazeltine) Kim-
ball, was born in Salem, April 18, 1822. He grew
up on the homestead and was educated in the public
schools. After he started in life on his own ac-
count he worked principally at farming, gardening
and lumbering. For four years, however, he was en-
gaged in mercantile business at -Salem depot. For
two years he has been out of active business. He
is a Democrat, and was a leader of his party in
local affairs. He was selectman three years and
was chairman of the board all this time, and served
two terms as town treasurer, and represented the
town in the legislature one term. He married, Au-
gust I, 1844, Celenda Jane Hazeltine, who was born
in Salem, July 31, 1825, daughter of Silas and Lydia
(Hall) Hazeltine. Her father was born in Alan-
chestcr, and her mother in Salem. Mr. and Mrs.
Kimball are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Six children were born of this union ;
three grew up: Aroline Francena, Charles Frank-
lin, and Nellie E. Aroline F. married Walter G.
Woodbury, of Salem. Charles F. is mentioned be-'
low. Nellie E. resides in Salem.

(Vni) Charles Franklin, second child and
only son of Charles and Celenda J. (I-Iazeltine)
Kimball, was born in Salem, March 15, 1853. He
received his education in the common schools and
at Tilton Seminary and Pinkerton Academy. From
1870 to 1S73 he worked on the farm. In 1874 his

father bought a store at Salem depot and there
Charles acted as clerk and assistant postmaster
until 1878. He then returned to the farm and for
a number of years made a specialty of supplying
JNIanchester market with vegetables. He put his
farm under a high state of cultivation, and from
fifty acres of land he cut annually one hundred
tons of hay. His first crop of corn was thirteen
hundred bushels, which was ground on the place
by a wind mill erected for the purpose. In 1903 he
built a large barn and storehouse, and in 1904 he
began the construction of an elevator with a ca-
pacity of twelve thousand bushels, and engaged in
the grain business on a large scale. In 1905 he
occupied the elevator, and accepted his son as a
partner, forming the firm of C. F. Kimball & Son.
June 10, 1905, he sold for $30,000 the ancient Kim-
ball farm upon which five generations of the family
had resided, and it became later part of the Salem
Race Track upon which six hundred thousand dol-
lars were expended.

In politics Mr. Kimball is a Democrat. His
interest in public affairs has always been a lively
one, and he has been called to fill various offices.
He was tax collector in 1874, a member of the
school board several years, and a member of the
committee which built the present school house.
He was chairman of the committee to purchase the
Salem town waterworks, a member of the w-ater
board one year, during which time he was chair-
man of the committee to dispose of the town farm.
He has served as road commissioner, and 1896-97
represented Salem in the legislature. He is a
staunch member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and since 1877 has been superintendent of its
Sunday school and for many years treasurer of
the Pleasant Street Church. He is one of the
stewards and. a member of the board of trustees
of the Royal Arcanum, and a member of Enter-
prise Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He married,
September 3, 1874, Martha Ella Copp, who was
born September 3, 1855, in Windham, daughter of
Millett G. and Rowena (Wentworth) Copp. The
only child of this union is Charles A., whose sketch
follows.

(IX) Charles Allen, only child of Charles F.
and Martha Ella (Copp) Kimball, was born on
the old homestead July 17, 1876. He obtained his
education in the public schools and at Tilton Semi-
nary. After leaving school he was engaged in
agriculture with his father until 1S98, when he be-
came junior partner of the firm of C. F. Kimball
& Son, grain and lumber dealers, and has since de-
voted his attention principally to that enterprise..
He has been very successful in business, and has
one of the finest and best finished country residences
in New Hampshire. He is a Democrat, and is
chairman of the board of selectmen. He is a
member of Enterprise Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and of the United Order of Pilgrim
Fathers. He is a member of the Pleasant Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, and one of its
stew-ards. He married, November 16, 1898. Lena
Mabel Hall, who was born October 30, 1874. daugh-
ter of Oscar O. and Henrietta (Cross) Hall, grand-
daughter of Oliver, and great-granddaughter of
Jonathan Hall, the first settler of Salem. They
have three children : Gertrude Hall, Charles Les-
ter and Ruth Ella.

(Ill) Samuel, ninth child and sixth son of
Benjamin and Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball, was born
in Bradford, Massachusetts, March 28. 1680, and
died in 1739. aged fiftj'-nine years. He married
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1739, and proved August 27, 1739. His son James
was to have his right in Penny Cook aHas Rum-
ford (.now Concord, New Hampshire). His son
Andrew was to have his father's property in Ches-
ter, New Hampshire. Samuel bought of Moses
Day all that land and right in the saw mill which
had been set off to "Abigail, formerly Kimball,
now my wife, out of her father Benjamin's Estate."
The children of this marriage were : Mercy,
Samuel, Edmund, William, Mary, Timothy, James,
Andrew, Joshua and Ann. (Mention of Edmund
and descendants appears in this article.)

(IV) Samuel (2), eldest son and second child
of Samuel (i) and Eunice (Chadwick) Kimball,
Vi'as born in Bradford, August 17, 1714, and died
in Plaistow, New Hampshire, in 1789, aged seventy-
five. He was a farmer, and lived in that part of
Haverhill which after the survey of the Ime be-
tween Massachusetts and New Hampshire became
Plaistow, New Hampshire. He seems to have lived
on the border line between Plaistow and Atkinson,
for February 17, 1768, he petitioned that his prop-
erty, both real and personal, might be transferred
from Atkinson to Plaistow, which was done.
Samuel Kimball, of Plaistow, was guardian of the
children of Jonathan Dow, of Plaistow, February
27, 1768. In his father's W'ill he is called of Haver-
hill, and received the portion of his father's estate
situated in that town. He represented Atkinson
and Plaistow in the provincial congress at Exeter,
December 21, 1775, and was a member of the same
body in 1776. Administration of his estate was
granted to his son, Joseph, then of Plaintield, New
Hampshire, August 28, 1789. He married, Decem-
ber 12, 1736, Hannah Abbott, of Andover, Massachu-
setts. They had seven children ; William, John,
Hannah, Samuel, Joshua, Joseph and Asa.

(V) Samuel (3), fourth child and third son of
Samuel (2) and Hannah (.Abbott) Kimball, was
born in Plaistow, June 5, 174S, and died December
6, 1802, aged sixty-seven years. He resided in
Plaistow and Henniker, New Hampshire. His
brothers William and Joseph, were charged with
being Tories, and some of the family of Samuel
went to New York state and others to Canada.
Samuel Kimball, of Henniker, was coroner in 1776,
Samuel, of Henniker, was also captain in Aaron
Adam's company in 1776. He married, January 21,
1769, Abigail Eastman, who was born January 30,
1748, and died March 3, 1819, aged seventy-one.
Their children were : William, John, Samuel, Han-
nah, Abigail, Joseph, James, Molly, Fanny, Wil-
liam and Sophia.

(VI) Samuel (.4), third son and child of Samuel
(3) and Abigail (Eastman) Kimball, was born
January 22, 1770, and died February 3, 1852. aged
eighty-two. He resided in Henniker. He mar-
ried (first), November 17, 1797, Betsey Sargent,
who died March 2, 1813, and (^second), February
10, 1818, Jennie JNIannehan. Their children were :
Mary, Betsey, Abigail E., Lucy, Joseph, Fannie,
Catherine and James.

(VII) Betsey, second daughter and child of
Samuel (4) and Betsey (Sargent) Kimball, was
born January, 1800, and married, INIarch 15, 1821,
Nathaniel Patch (see Patch, VI).

(IV) Edmund, third child and second son of
Samuel and Eunice Chadwick Kimball, was born
in Bradford, April 6, 1716, and died there November
10) I79S- He was a farmer, and had a large landed
estate after he gave each of his sons a handsome
inheritance. His residence was in the center of the
village, and he was succeeded here by his son Wil-
liam. He loaned the town of Bradford, May 5,

1778, one hundred and thirty dollars for the pur-
pose of raising men for militia service. He was a
man of great influence. He married, January 25,
1742, Dorothy, daughter of Ephraim and Ann
(Tenny) Kimball. She was born June 30, 1724,
and died April 30, 1797. Their children, seven
in number, were: Timothy, born April 27, 1743.
Michael, born April 21, 1745. Ann, born April 14,
1747. David, born June 15, 1749. Edmund, born
!May 2, 1751. Eunice, born December 11, 1753.
William, born December 19, 1757.

(V) Michael, the second child of Edmund and
Dorothy (Kimball) Kimball, was born in Bradford,
Massachusetts, April 21, 1745, and resided most of
his life in Pembroke, New Hampshire. In 1777
he petitioned to be annexed to Colonel Stickney's
regiment. He belonged to the first militia company
of Pembroke. His will was made January 4, 1802,
and proved December 21, 1803. He married (first),
in 1763, Bettie Runnels, born July i, 1748; and

(second) Anna . His children were:

I. Hannah, born August 16, 1764. 2. Daniel, Oc-
tober 7, 1767. 3. David, January 12, 1769. 4. Polly,
May 16, 1772. 5. Betty, January 19, 1774. 6. Sarah,
June 27, 1776. 7. David (2), March 7, 1782.

(VI) David, second son and third child of
Michael Kimball, was born in Pembroke, Novem-
ber 7, 1782, where he lived and died. He married
(first) Abigail Perkins, and (second) Betsey Per-
kins, and had nine children : Betsy Perkins. Asa,
born March 8, 1808. Perkins, March 7. 1810. John
Shackford, April 28, 1812. Abigail Perkins, Oc-
tober 15, 1816. Sarah Towie, May 5, 1819. Joseph
Lewis. Mary' Lewis, October, 1821. Harriet Robin-
son.

(VII) John Shackford, fourth child of David
and Abigail (Perkins) Kimball, was born in Pem-
broke, April 28, 1812. He was educated in the com-
mon schools and at New Hampton Academy. While
a student at the latter place he was one of the
students who founded the "Social Fraternity Li-
brary." After leaving the academy he was em-
ployed for some time in a bakery in Concord. He
left that place to enter the printing office of Hill
& Sherburn at Concord, where he learned book and
job work, and was later in the office of Hill &
Barton, where he became well known as a card
printer, and introduced enameled work. After some
time spent in the Franklin book store he went to
Portland, Maine, where he served three years in the
post office.

While in that city he began the study of law
with Mr. Haynes, then district attorney for Cum-
berland county. He continued his studies in Har-
vard Law School, and finished his preparatory
course in the office of Robert Rantoul, Esq., a dis-
tinguished lawyer of Boston. After his admission
to the bar he was a partner with his preceptor for
six years. Failing health compelled him to aban-
don the law, and about 1838 he became a partner
in the firm of Kimball & Chase, of Burlington,
Iowa, succeeding to the interests of his brother,
Joseph L. Kimball. About 1840 Mr. Chase died
and Samuel B. Wright, who married !Mr. Kimball's
sister, Mary Lewis Kimball, entered the firm, the
name of which was changed to J. S. Kimball &
Company. This firm become noted as a wholesale
dealer in dry goods and groceries, both in the
east and west, doing the largest business of any
concern of its class in its section of the country.
Mr. Kimball became known as one of the most
skilled buyers in the trade. In 1865 he retired
from active business, disposing of his interest to.
William Bell, of Salt Lake City, Utah. He resided

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in Boston, ilassachusetts. About 1854 he pur-
chased an estate in Hopkinton, New Hampshire,
when he became a permanent resident. In poli-
tics he was a Repubhcan and represented the town
of Hopkinton in the legislature in 1866 and 1S67.
Governor Walter Harriman appointed him colonel
on his staff and he filled that place during the gov-
ernor's term of office.

He married, October 15, 1843, Mary Eldredge
Stevens, born January 16, 1818. Mr. Kimball died
in Boston, Massachusetts, April 19, 1888. Their
children were : John Stevens, born in Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, July 31, 1845, resides in Hopkinton, New
Hampshire. Robert Rantoul, born in Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, March 17, 1849, was a resident of Hop-
kinton. Mary Grace, born in Boston, October 9,
1853. Kate Pearl, born in Boston, January 3, 185(3.
George Alexander Stevens, born in Boston, Novem-
ber 26, 1859.

(,Vni) George Alexander Stevens, fifth and
youngest child of John Shackford and Mary El-
dridge (Stevens) Kimball, was born November 26,
1859. He was educated in the Boston public schools,
and at sixteen years of age entered the employ of
Charles B. Lancaster, shoe manufacturer, Boston.
Later he was in their employ at Pittsfield, New
Hampshire. In 1881 he removed to Hopkinton,
New Hampshire, where for twenty-two years he
has kept a general store. In 1898 he was appointed
postmaster, and has .since held that office. He
was appointed deputy sheriff in 1897, and in 1904
was elected high sheriff', as a Republican, of wliich
party he has been an ardent member since he
attained his majority. He is an Odd Fellow, mem-
ber of Kearsarge Lodge, No. 23, of Contoocook,
New Hampshire, and Eureka Lodge, No. 70, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons ; Trinity Oiapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; Horace Chase Council, Royal and
Select ^Masters ; Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights
Templar ; Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, all of Concord, and
of the Wonalancet Club of Concord. Mr. Kimball
has been long recognized as a counselor as well
as a worker in party matters. In business he has
been a very successful man like his father before
him. He married, March 3, 1880, Theresa Green,
daughter of Cotton Green, of Pittsfield, New
Hampshire, born January 21, 1862. They have
one son, Robert Warren, born February 3, 1881.

(III) Ebenezer, tenth child and seventh son
of Benjamin and Alercy (Hazeltine) Kimball, was
born in Bradford, Massachusetts, June 20, 1684.
and died January 23, 1715. He lived in Haverhill
and Bradford, and owned land in Mcthuen. His
wife was Ruth Eaton, who married after his death
Aaron Johnson, of Ipswich, and had children :
Lydia, Sarah and Richard Johnson, and died April
6, 1750. The children of Ebenezer and Ruth
(Eaton) Kimball were: Jemima, Abner and Abra-
ham.

(IV) Abraham, third and youngest child of
Ebenezer and Ruth (Eaton) Kimball, was born
January 3, 1714, and resided in Bradford and
Haverhill, Massachusetts. He married, first, De-
cember 13, 1739, Hannah Hazeltine, who died Janu-
ary 9, 1747, and second, April 16, 1747, Mary Pike.
His eight children were : Timothy. David, Abra-
ham, Hannah, John, Amos, Abigail and Abner.

(V) Abner, eighth child and sixth son of
Abraham and Mary (Pike) Kimball, was born at
Haverhill, April 10, 1755, and died March 11, 1818.
He was a private in Captain Ebenezer Colby's com-
pany, April 19, 1775. August 15, 1777, he enlisted
in Captain Carr's company for three years, and was

discharged February 12, 1780. August 12, 1781,
he enlisted as sergeant in James Iilallon's company,
Putnam's regiment, and was in the same company
September 5, 17S2. He removed from Haverhill,
Massachusetts, to Sanbornton, New Hampshire. He
married, first, December 18, 1781, Abigail Gage, of
Bradford, Massachusetts, born 1761, died May 24,
1803; and second, July 10, 1803, Mrs. .Mercy Jud-
kins Colby, widow of Anthony Colby, who died
January 28, 18(35, i"- her ninety-ninth year. His
children were : Rebecca, Hannah, Moses, Abigail
and Abner.

(VI) Moses, third child and eldest son of,
Abner and Abigail (Gage) Kimball, was born in
Sanbornton, February 27, 1787, where he lived and
farmed many years and then moved to Pembroke
where he died September 20, 1848. He married,
first, March 15, iSoS, Polly Shaw, born March 7,
1787, died March 24, 1809, daughter of Josiah
Shaw; second, August 11, 181 1, Dolly Shaw, sister
of his first wife, born December S, 1793, died March
4, 1S17; and tliird, April i, 1818, Sally Eastman,
daughter of Thomas Eastman, born .March 17,
:79i; died December 16, 1858. His children were:
Syrena, Asa, Everett and Sally, twins; Polly, John
E. and Mary.

(VII) John E., sixth child and third son of
Moses and Sally (Eastman) Kimball, was born in
Pembroke, April 20, 1819, and died in Saco, Maine,
January 7, 1892. He was graduated from the Ver-
mont Medical College in 1847, served as surgeon
of the Twenty-seventh Maine Regiment during the
war, and was one of the most eminent physicians
in Maine. He was a Democrat, and a member of
the Congregational Church. He married, January
16, 1880, Emma Staniels, died June 17, 1881. They
had one child: Sarah Eunice, born June 3, 1881,
in Pembroke, who, in December, 1902, married
George T. Hillman, of Pembroke (.see Hillman).

This name is found early in the
WIGHTMAN Colonies of Rhode Island, that
community established upon the
broadest foundation of religious liberty, which has
contributed so much to the moral, intellectual and
material development of the United States. It is
the home of the busy spindle and other tools of
industry, as well as the abode of institutions of
learning, and exercises an influence in the history
of the nation far beyond its territorial importance
or relative numbers in population. The family
herein treated furnished some of the pioneers of
western New Hampshire, and has been well and
favorably known in the development of this sec-
tion.

(I) George Wightman is of record in Rhode
Island as early as 1669. He was an inhabitant of
Kingstown, and took the oath of allegiance to the
colony May 20, 1671, and was made a freeman in
1673. He was constable in 1686, was a member of
the grand jury in 1687, and for some years was a
niember of the town council. He was one of the
eighteen persons who bought seven thousand acres
of land in Narragansett, sold by the general as-
sembly in 1710. Tradition makes him a descendant
of Edward Wightman, who was burned for heresy
at Litchfield, England. April 11, 1612, being the
last to suffer death for religion's sake in that
country. He was a relative (perhaps a brother) ot
Valentine Whitman, who settled early in Provi-
dence. The descendants of George have more gen-
erally preserved the spelling of the name as Wight-
man, though they occasionally use the ether form.
Whitman. George Wightman was born in Janu-

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ary, 1632, and died in January, iy22. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Gilbert and Catherine Smith
Updyke. She was born in 1699, and was the mother
of the following children : Elizabeth, Alice, Daniel,
Sarah. John, Samuel and Valentine.

(II) George, second son and fifth child of
George (l) and Elizabeth (Updyke) Wightman,
was born January 8, 1675, in Kingstown, and was an
inhabitant of Warwick, Rhode Island, becoming a
freeman in 1716. In 1719 he bought one hundred
and fifty acres of land in the town of East Green-
wich, Rhode Island, and was a deputy from that
town in 1729. His will was made September i,
I7S9, and a codicil was added March i, 1760. He
probably died about the beginning of the succeeding
year, as his will was proven January 16, 1761. He
married (first) Elizabeth (surname unknown), and
(second), August 30, 1738, Sarah Todd. His chil-
dren were: George, John, Samuel, Elizabeth,
Phoebe and Deborah.

(Ill") Samuel, third son of George (2) Wight-
man, was married, November 11, 1729, to Margaret
Gorton, and their children are given upon the War-
wick town records as: Samuel, Benjamin, Pene-
lope. George, Freedom, Margaret and Asa.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and
]\Iargaret (Gorton) Wightman, was born Janiiary
23, 1738, in Warwick, Rhode Island, and resided
in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, at the time of
his marriage, December 4, 1760, to Amy Lawton,
also of East Greenwich. Their children appear on
the record of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where it is
probable they afterward lived. They were : Sarah,
Israel, Mary, George. Amy, Lydia and Samuel.
Samuel Wightman came to Walpole in 1801, and
purchased of Isaac Redington three hundred and
fifty acres of land, lying in the vicinity of the mouth
of Cold river. The land had been owned previously
by Colonel John Bellows, and he had erected on
the site of the residence of Thomas Keyes a public
house. To this house Mr. Wightman moved with
his family, and remained two or three years. In
the meantime he built what is now known as the
Carpenter stand. He died in 1827, in the eighty-
ninth year of his age, and his wife Amy died in
1837, aged ninety-eight years. Deacon Samuel
Wightman's family consisted of seven ^ children,
three sons and four daughters, of which Israel
was the second, who died in 1838, aged seventy-
four. The father gave his son Israel the place
on the plain, w-hich was the largest portion of his
estate, where he lived during life, after coming to
Walpole, New Hampshire. _ ,

(V) Israel, eldest son and second child of
Samuel (2) and Amy (Lawton) Wightman, was
born December 12, 1765, in Rehoboth, Massachu-
setts, whence he moved to Walpole, New Hamp-
shire, and died there March 21. 1838, in his seventy-
fourth year. The records of Rehoboth, Massachu-
setts, show that the intentions of marriage of
Israel Wightman and Frances Allen were published
March 30, 1788. She was the sister of William H.
Allen, whose son, Daniel B. Allen, married Ethe-
linda Vanderbilt, the daughter of the Commodore,
and was for many years at the head of the Pa-
cific Mail Steamship Company. They had ten chil-
dren: Samuel Allen Wightman, who married Ma-
tilda, daughter of Solomon Bellows, who was a
brother of Alexander Hamilton Bellows, the father
of Dr. Henry W. Bellows, the noted Unitarian
divine. Samuel Allen Wightman went to Ashta-
bula, Ohio. He served in the war of 1812. John,
Maria, Herman, Sarah, Hannah, Frances, Pamelia,
Content and Herman Allen.

(VI) Herman Allen, the youngest child of
Israel and Frances (Allen) Wightman, was born in
180S. He married Maria Retsey Lovell, of Clare-'
mont. New Hampshire, in 1834, and removed to the
old homestead in Walpole, New Hampshire. They
had five children: Frances M., Nellie S., Martha L.,
Mary J. and Caroline E.

(VII) Mary J., the fourth child of Herman
Allen and INIaria Retsey (Lovell) Wightman, was
born January ig, 1S43, in Cambridgeport, Vermont,
and married Dr. Osman B. Way, February 22, 1882
(see Way, VIII).

This is one of the most distinguish-
WEBSTER ed names in the annals of New

Hampshire, having been especially
honored by that distinguished patriot and states-
man, Daniel Webster. It has furnished many good
citizens, who, though not nationally known, like
their compatriot and relative, have supported the
cause of human liberty in all struggles, and per-
formed well their part in the various walks of
life.

(I) Thomas Webster, first known ancestor of
the New Hampshire family, resided with his wife
Margaret in Ormsby, Norfolk county, England,
where he died in April, 1634. His widow subse-
quently married William Godfrey, with whom she
came to America, bringing her son, Thomas Web-
ster (2).

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) and
Margaret Webster, was born in November, 1631,
in Ormsby, England, and came to Watertown, Mas-
sachusetts, in company with his foster father and
other early settlers of that town. He removed with
the pioneers to Hampton, New Hampshire, where
he died January 5, 1715, aged eighty-three years.
He was married, November 2, 1656, to Sarah,
daughter of Thomas Brewer, of Roxbury. Massa-
chusetts, and had the following children : Mary,
Sarah, Hannah. Thomas, Ebenezer, Isaac, John,
Joshua and Abigail. (l^Iention of Ebenezer and
John, with descendants, is a feature of this article.)

(III) Ebenezer, fifth child and second son of
Thomas (2) and Sarah (Brewer) Webster, was "
born August I, 1667. He served in the Indian
war, and was pilot to Captain Gilman's company,
August, 1710, which went in pursuit of Indians.
He was one of the proprietors of Kingston, New
Hampshire, and a settler there. He married. July
25, 1709, Hannah Judkins, who died February 21,
1756. Their children were : Rachel. Susannah,
Ebenezer, William, John, Hannah, and Mary and
Joseph, twins.

(IV) Ebenezer (2), third child and eldest son
of Ebenezer (i) and Hannah (Judkins) Webster,
was born October 10, 1714, and lived in Kingston,
where he was identified with the clearing up of that
portion of the wilderness. He married, July 20,
1738, Susannah Batchelder (see Batchelder, V), of
Hampton.

(V) Ebenezer (3), son of Ebenezer (2) and
Susannah (Batchelder) Webster, was born April
22. 1739, in Kingston. Here he grew up without
a day's schooling, knowing almost nothing of books,
but fully equipped to fulfill the mission of life on
the frontier of civilization, where strong bodies,
sound sense, and courage were required to cope
with physical impediments, want of learning, and the
lurking foe that haunted the hundreds of miles of
unbroken wilderness which lay between his home
and the French settlements in Canada. He came
of age during the great French war, and about
1760 enlisted in the then famous corps known as

Daniel Webster's Birthplace

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

"Roger's Rangers." In the dangers and successes
of desperate fighting, the "Rangers" had no equal ;
and of their hard and perilous experience in the
wilderness in conflct with Indians and Frenchmen,
Ebenezer Webster, strong in body and daring in
temperament, had his full share. He served under
General Jeffrey Amherst in the French war, and re-
turned to his native town with the rank of cap-
tain. After eleven years spent in clearing his farm,
in the northernmost part of Salisbury, where he
settled in 1763, there being no white man's abode
between him and Montreal, the Revolution broke
out, and Ebenezer raised a company of two hundred
men and marched at their head to join the forces
at Boston. At Dorchester, Washington consulted
him about the state of feelings in New Hampshire.
He served at White Plains, and at Bennington was
one of the first to scale the breastwork, and came
out of the battle with his swarthy skin so blackened
with dust and gunpowder that he could scarcely be
recognized. He was at West Point at the time
of the discovery of Arnold's treason,' and when
on ,Luard before the general's tent Washington said
to him, "Captain Webster, I believe I can trust
you !'' That was the sentiment ever felt by those
who knew him. He was uneducated and silent,
but stroi.g and unquf-tionably trustworthy. His ser-
vices brought him the rank of colonel. After the
war he returned to his farm, and his neighbors
elected him to every office within their gift, in-
cluding the offices of representative, state senator,
and judge of the common pleas court, of Hills-
borough county. This last office he held from 1791
until his death, which occurred .\pril 14. 1816.
Judge Webster filled one other office, in the per-
formance of whose duties he probably derived more
pleasure than from any other. He was one of
the electors of the president in New Hampshire,
when Washington was chosen to that office. In
the intervals of his toilsome and adventurous life,
he had picked up a little booklore, but the lack of
more barred the way to higher honors, which would
otherwise have been easily his.

Ebenezer Webster married, January 18, 1761,
Mehitable Smith, born at Kingston, and who died
March 28, 1774. Of this marriage there were five
children : Olle, a daughter, and Ebenezer, a son,
who died young: Su?annah, born October, 1766,
married John Colby ; David, a farmer who reared
a large family, and died at Stanstead, Canada; and
Joseph, who died in 1810. Mr. Webster married
(second), October 13, 1774. Abigail Eastman (see
Eastman), in Salisbury, New Hampshire, who was
born July 10, 1737, and died April 14, 1816. Her
father was Thomas Eastman. The children of the
second marriage were: Mehitable. .\bigail, Ezekiel,
Daniel and Sarah. Mehitable died unmarried.
Abigaiil married a Mr. Haddock. Ezekiel and
Daniel are mentioned below. Sarah married Colonel
Ebenezer Webster, of Hill. (See Webster, second
family, VII.)

(VI) Ezekiel, third child and eldest son of
Colonel Ebenezer and Abigail (Eastman) Webster,
was born in the log house of his father in Salis-
bury, April It, 1780, and died in Concord, March
10, 1829. After various struggles with poverty,
he graduated from Dartmouth College in August,
1804. For a time he taught school, and read law
in Boston, but in the autumn of 1807 he took charge
of the paternal farm, his father having died in 1S06,
and in conjunction with Daniel assumed the support
of his mother and sisters. He was admitted to the
bar in September, 1807, and succeeded to the busi-
ness of his brother Daniel, in Boscawcn, when the

latter moved to Portsmouth. Although intellectual-
ly not the equal of his gifted brother, Ezekiel Web-
ster was one of the leading men of the state, and
an uncompromising Federalist. Had he been less
rigid in his political belief, he might easily have
been elected to congress, but he would never com-
promise principle. He dropped dead j\larch 10,
1829, at Concord, while addressing a jury in the
court house. "He was a man of high talent, much
professional learning, and great solidity of charac-
ter." From their earliest youth Daniel depended
on Ezekiel's sound judgment while he lived. "He
has been my reliance through life," was the testi-
mony borne of the elder by the younger brother.
He married, (first), January 15, 1809, Alice Bridge,
of Billerica, Massachusetts, who died in 1821. He
married (second), August 2, 1825, Achsah PoUord,
born at Dunstable (now Nashua). Two children
were born to Mr. Webster: Alice, married (first),
June I, 1836, Professor Jarvis Gregg, the first pre-
ceptor of Bo;cawen Academy, and after his death
Rev. George Whipper, of Oberlin, Ohio. .She died
March 6, 1876. Mary, married, December 11, 1837,
Frofesscr Edwin D. Sanborn, LL. D., of Dart-
mouth College. She died December 30, 1864.

(VI) Daniel, fourth child and second son of
Ebenezer and Abigail (Eastman) Webster, was
born in a "frame" house, near the original log house
of Ebenezer, in Salisbury, January iS, 1782. About
a year after the birth of Daniel, his father removed
to what has since been called the "Elens Farm,"
situated in the present town of Franklin, and here
Daniel grew to manhood. He was a sickly child,
and had but limited educational advantages iii child-
hood. He was a few months at Phillips Academy,
Exeter, New Hampshire, hastily completed his
preparation for college as the private pupil of Rev.
Samuel Wood, of Boscawen, and in 1799 entered
Dartmouth College, where he partially supported
himself by teaching in winter and by local news-
paper work. He soon made up the deficiencies of his
earlier education, distinguishing himself as a de-
bater in the college societies, and became the fore-
most scholar in the institution. Graduating in Au-
gust, 1801, he commenced the study of law in the
office of Thomas W. Thompson, Esq.. a lawyer of
Salisbury, his father's neighbor and friend. 'While
reading his law course, he also read a great deal
of general literature, and filled up his leisure hours
with dog and gun and fishing-rod. In order to
obtain means to keep his brother Ezekiel in col-
lege, Daniel pursued the study of law but four
months before going out as a wage-earner. He
was offered and at once accepted the charge of an
academy in Fryeburg, i\Iaine, where he was to re-
ceive one hundred and seventy-five dollars for six
months' labor. Four evenings each week he copied
deeds for the registrar of the county, earning liy this
means two dollars a week, which paid his board.
His serious and high-toned deportment, and his
success as a teacher, secured him many friends;
he was offered a large increase in salary, and could
have been clerk of the common pleas court, but the
mysterious power which operates unconsciously
upon men of great intellect in their youth, leading
them toward tile destiny which genius creates for
them, took him away from Fryeburg and hack to
the law office, where he remained until February
or March, 1804, and then went to Boston, Massa-
chusetts. Fie he entered the office of Hon. Chris-
topher Gore, afterward governor of Massachusetts,
where he remained from July until the following
February, and was admitted to practice in March,
1805. Soon afterward he established himself in

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the village of Boscawen, New Hampshire, and be-
gan his professional practice, spending the next two
and a half years at that place. In May, 1807, he
was admitted as a counsellor in the supreme court
of New Hampshire, and soon after removed to
Portsmouth, where he at once took rank as a lead-
ing lawyer. In 1812 Mr. Webster was nominated
as a representative to the thirteenth congress, to
which he was subsequently elected, and in which
he took his seat on the 24th of May, 1S13. He
succeeded to the oflice in the fourteenth congress.
After a residence of nine years in Portsmouth, he
removed to Boston, 1816, and for several years
devoted himself to his profession. In 1822 he was
almost unanimously elected to congress to repre-
sent the district of Suffolk. He was re-elected
in 1824, and in 1826 as the representative of the
Boston district. In June, 1827, he was chosen
United States senator. At the end of his term he
was re-elected, and continued in office by re-election
until 1841, when he resigned to become secretary
of state in General Harrison's cabinet, a position
he held till the 8th of May, 1843, when he resigned
and retired to his home at Marshtield. In the wmter
of 1S44-45 J^ir. Webster was again elected to the
senate of the United States by the legislature of
Massachusetts to hll the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Mr. Choate. Immediately after the
accession of Mr. Fillmore to the presidency, he
offered the department of state to Mr. Webster, and
a second time Mr. Webster resigned his seat in the
senate, to accept the place, which he held until
his death, October 24, 1852. Mr. Webster's ofiices
were not all great offices. He was a member of the
Massachusetts constitutional convention, and gave
it the benefit of his great knowledge of constitutional
questions. He was once a presidential elector, and
also sat ten days in the Massachusetts legislature.
The above mere enumeration of the places Mr.
Webster filled is all that the scope of this article
permits. The writing of details has been left to
his biographers. His forensic ability, his exalted
statesmanship, his knowledge of constitutional law,
his wonderful influence over men, and his illus-
trious record in general, are too well known to need
mention here.

Daniel Webster married in Salisbury, May 29,
1808, Grace Fletcher, born January 16, 17S1, daugh-
ter of Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton, New
Hampshire. She died in New "Vork while on the
way to Washington with her husband, January 12,
1828. They were the parents of five children :
Grace Fletcher, the eldest child, died young.
Danfel Fletcher, born July 23, 1813, was a colonel
in the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia,
and fell in the service of his country, August 30,
1862. Julia, married, September 24, 1839, Samuel
A. Appleton, a member of the Boston family of that
name, and died April 28, 1848. Edward, died of
disease while serving in the Mexican war. Charles,
died in infancy. In December, 1832, Mr. Webster
married in New York, Caroline Bayard Leroy, sec-
ond daughter of Herman Leroy, a wealthy merchant,
descended from one of the early settlers of New
York.

(Ill) John, fourth son and seventh child of
Thomas (2) and Sarah (Brewer) Webster, was born
February 16, 1674, in Hampton, and settled in Rye,
where he passed his life as a farmer. He was mar-
ried September 21, 1703, to Abiah Shaw, iind they
were the parents of the following children: Jere-
miah, Charity and Josiah (twins, the first of whom
died young), John, Thomas, Caleb, Abiah, Elizabeth

and Charity. (Mention of Josiah, John and Thomas
and descendants follows in this article.)

(IV) Jeremiah, eldest child of John and Abiah
(Shaw) Webster, was born December 21, 1704,
in Hampton. He was among the few of the original
grantees of Stevenstown (1749), now Salisbury,
New Hampshire, who settled with their families.
Most of^ the grantees did not remove to the town.
At the first meeting of the proprietors it was voted
that "Jeremy Webster shall be the surveyor to-
assist and join with the s'd com'te in laying out
the land, as above s'd." In 1760, at a meeting of
the proprietors, Jeremy Webster was moderator.

(V) Jeremiah (2), son of Jeremiah (.1) Web-
ster, was a prominent man in the early settlement
of Salisbury. Fle came previous to 1769, and set-
tled on the site now occupied by Phineas Clough.
He married, June 9, 1774, Anne Sleeper, who died
January 10, 1841, aged eighty-six years. He died
March 4, 1817, aged seventy-four years.

(VI) Jeremy (3), son of Jeremiah (2) and
Anne (Sleep.er) Webster, was born June 19, 1775.
He built the Clough House and was a famous singing
master. Fie married Phebe Wardwell. He died August
20, 1841, and she January 20, 1847. Their chil-
dren were : Amos, born November 24, 1801, died
August 30, 1821. James R., March 20, 1804, removed
to Georgia, where he died September, 1S41. Phebe,
March 4, 1806, married Hubbard Hutchinson, of
Merrimack, and died in that town. Nathaniel F.,
March 4, 1808. Mary A., May 20, 1810, married
(first) Joshua Burpee, of Boscawen, and (second)
Samuel Gilman, of Lake Village, where she died
about 1850. Joseph W., November 12, 1812, a
merchant . of Savannah, Georgia, where he died
March, i860. Emily, December 20, 1815, died
February 26, 1838. Elizabeth, August 28, 1818, died
June 10, 1S39, unmarried. Eliphalet. January 4,
1821, died JJanuary 16, 1822. Amos E., September 17,
1828, died in Georgia, August, i860, where he mar-
ried Eliza Savage.

(VII) Nathaniel F., third son and fourth child
of Jeremy and Phebe (Wardwell) Webster, was
born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, March 4, 1808,
died in Georgia, September 24, 1854. He married
Miriam Couch, daughter of John and Lydia Ann
(Bean) Couch, of Salisbury, who married (second),
Jonas Merriam; she was born March ir, 1810, and
died April 6, 1887. The issue of this marriage was
one child, John Francis Webster, born November 18,
1837. In 1S42 or 1843 Nathaniel F. Webster, who
was a cabinetmaker by trade, went to the state of
Georgia and became a partner with Isaac W. Morrill,
of Savannah, under the firm name of Isaac W. Mor-
ril & Company, wholesale and retail furniture and
pianos. Mr. Webster's three brothers, James R.,
Joseph W. and Amos E., also settled in Savannah.
James R. and Joseph W., were partners in the
wholesale grocery business, and Amos was a book-
keeper. Nathaniel Webster was prosperous in busi-
ness and became a man of means. It was his custom
to send his wife and son north in the summmer,
and join them in the fall when he went north to
buy goods. In the summer of 1854, while the wife
and son were absent, Mr. Webster was attacked by
yellow fever, and died September 24, aged forty-
six years. Mrs. Webster survived until April 6,
1887, dying in Concord at the age of seventy-seven
years.

(VIII) John Francis, only child of Nathaniel F.
and Miriam (Couch) Webster, was born in Dor-
chester, Massachusetts, November 18, 1S37. His
education began when he vcas about seven years

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old, and attended Chatham Academy, at Savannah,
Georgia, till he was seventeen years old. Subse-
quently he attended Professor Barnes' Academy at
Concord, obtaining a commercial education with
Rodney G. Cutting. He began his business life
with the hardware firm of jMoore, Cilly & Com-
pany, where he remained a year. He then entered
the employ of the Concord Railroad Corporation,
assuming the duties of way-bill clerk, March 14,
1857. In one month he was promoted to local
freight cashier, filling that position till 1S6.2, when
he was made chief clerk of the general freight office
of the road. May I, 1865, he was appointed cashier
of the Concord Railroad system, and retained that
position until September, 1S89. He was appointed
cashier of the Manchester & Lawrence railroad,
August I, 1S67, and remained with that company
until its absorption by the Boston & Maine rail-
road. When the Concord railroad and the Boston
Concord & Montreal railroad united, forming the
Concord & Montreal, September, 1889, he was then
elected treasurer, a position he has ever since held.
Mr. Webster was elected as a Republican to the state
legislature in 1889, representing ward 4, and serving
as chairman of the finance committee. Besides be-
ing treasurer of the Concord & Montreal railroad,
Mr. Webster fills a similar position for the Mount
Washington Railway Company, the Nashua Acton
& Boston railroad. New Boston railroad, and is
assistant treasurer of the Boston & Maine rail-
road. Mr. Webster is a trustee of the Loan &
Trust Savings Bank and a director in the Me-
chanics' National Bank. Mr. Webster became a
Mason in the year 1866, and is now a thirty-third
degree member in that order. He has held almost
every office in the gift of his jurisdiction, and is
one of the most prominent members of the Masonic
fraternity in tlie Granite state.

June 18, 1856, Mr. Webster married Mary J.
Cutting, daughter of Gilman and Eliza (Davidson)
Cutting,' of Concord. She was born September 10,
1837, and died November 23, 1893. The children of
this marriage are : Jennie Margaret, born October
20, 1857, married Edward E. Brown, of Concord,
superintendent of the William B. Durgin Silverware
Manufacturing Company. She died January 16,
1905. Clara H., born July 24, 1850, married Joseph
Swett Matthews, a native of Franklin, now an at-
torney in Concord. Jessie Marion, born NovL-mber
13, 1865, single, at home. Frances May, born No-
vember 9, 1867, married Frederick L. Richardson,
of Concord, clerk in the Manchester Savings Bank.
All the daughters are graduates of the Concord
schools. Mr. Webster married (second), February
6, 1897, Stella Hutchinson, of Manchester, daughter
of Hubbard and Phebe (Webster) Hutchinson, of
Merrimack, New Hampshire. That Mr. Webster
has served one corporation and its successors con-
tinuously for almost half a century, and has risen
step by step to his present place of responsibility
and trust, leaves no occasion for comment on his
ability as an officer and his integrity as a man.

(IV) Josiah, second son of John and Abiah
(Shaw) Webster, was born April 2, 1706. His twin
sister died soon after they were born. He resided
in Rye, New Hampshire, where he died March 11,
1764, in his fifty-eighth year. He was married Sep-
tember 21, 1738, to Patty Goss, given in the vital
records of New Hampshire as Martha Goss. She
was born September 9. 1714, daughter of Richard
and Martha Goss, one of the first settlers of Green-
land, New Hampshire. She died November iS,
1798, having survived her husband nearly thirty-
five years. Their cliildrcn were: John (died young),

Elizabeth, Abiah, Sarah, Josiah (died young), John,
Richard, Martha and Josiah.

(V) Richard, fourth son and seventh child of
Josiah and Martha or Patty (Goss) Webster, was
born January I, 1754, in Rye, and died in that town,
January 16, 1836. He was a soldier of the Revo-
lutionary war, and served under Captain Parker
at Fort Sullivan, and Captain Parsons in Rhode
Island. He was also engaged in several privateer-
ing cruises. He was married October 29, 1778, to
Elizabeth Randall, who died March 14, 1826, at the
age of seventy-one years. Their children were :
Betsy, Abigail, Martha, Sarah, Hannah, Olive, Rich-
ard and Mark Randall.

(VI) Richard (2), elder son and seventh child
of Richard (l) and Elizabeth (Randall) Webster,
was born October 6, 1788, in Rye, and resided in
Epsom and Rye. He was a shoemaker by occupa-
tion, and after working at his trade some time in
Epsom returned to Rye, but had taught school in
Rye previous to his going to Epsom. He also en-
gaged in farming in Rye, in which he was successful
and continued until shortly before his death, which
occurred November l, 1856, in Portsmouth. He was
married in 1813, to Mary Philbrick, who was born
February 5, 1792, in Rye, daughter of Joses and
Sarah (Smith) Philbrick, of that town. Their chil-
dren were; Daniel, Roswell, Mary, Sarah Ann,
Ursula, Benjamin F.. David S., Richard, Emily J.,
John P.

(VII) Benjamin Franklin, third son and sixth
child of Richard (2) and Mary or Polly (Philbrick)
Webster, was born September 7, 1824, _ in Epsom,
New Hampshire, and received his primary edu-
cation in the public schools of that town. He was
also a student at Pembroke and in Rye.- At the age
of seventeen years he went to Portsmouth and was
employed by Benjamin Norton as an apprentice to
the carpenter's trade. He was a ship joiner for
several years and since then has been engaged in
building operations in Portsmouth. Through his
perseverance and great industry, coupled with upright
business methods, he has been prosperous down to
the present time. His operations have included the
erection of the following notable buildings : The
Kearsarge house, the Cabot street school hou';e, re-
modeled three churches, also built many residences.
Mr. Webster partakes of the characteristics for
which his long line of ancestry has been noted, and
is a progressive and useful citizen of his home town.
He is frequently called upon to fill official positions, and
has served as ward clerk and assessor. In politics, he
is an ardent and enthusiastic Republican. He is a
valued member of the Masonic fraternity, in which
he has attained the thirty-second degree. He was
married, January 2, 1849, to Sarah A. Senter, and
they have a son and daughter, Merit V. and Stella
C. Webster.

(IV) John (2), third son and fourth child of
John (i) and Abiah (Shaw) Webster, was born
February 10, 1712, in Hampton, and settled in Hamp- .
stead. New Hampshire, where he died February 11,
1780. His wife was Elizabeth Lunt, who survived
him and passed away September 9, 1785, in her
seventy-si.xth year. Their children were : Elizabeth,
John, Mary, Ann and Caleb.

(V) Mary, second daughter and third child of
John and Elizabeth (Lunt) Webster, was born
March 20, 1747, and became the wife of Moody
Chase. (See Chase, VIII).

(IV) Thomas- (3), fourth son and fifth child of
John and Abiah (Shaw) Webster, was born July
I, 1715, in Hampton, and settled in Haverhill, Mass-
achusetts. The poll lists of that town show him to

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have been a resident of the west parish in 1745. He
was on the alarm list for the French and Indian
war, which was established April 14, 1757, and was
deacon of the church from 1771 to 1782.

(V) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) Webster,
was born in August, 1767, in Haverhill, where he
read medicine with Dr. Brickett, and began practice
in 1790. Three years later he moved to Warner,
New Hampshire, where he continued in practice
for a period of seventeen years, with gratifying suc-
cess, and endeared himiself to the people. In 1810
he removed to Sanbornton, this state, and was
noted there for his success in healing, though his
career was soon cut off by death. An epidemic of
spotted fever raged through the state in 1813, and
Dr. Webster was noted as having lost not a single
case of the disease treated by him, though he fell
a victim to its ravages. While visiting patients at
Laconia he was stricken, and died there within
forty hours of the attack, August 8, 1813. Thus was
a most brilliant career suddenly closed, and the state
sustained a great loss. His wife, Sarah West, of
Haverhill, Massachusetts, died April 3, 1830, in
Claremont, this state. Their children are noted as
follows : Thomas, lived and died in Sanbornton.
William West, died in Windsor, Vermont. Sarah,
became the wife of John Hitchcock, and died in
Hanover, New Hampshire. Pamelia, married a
man named Marsh, and resided in the West. Edvrin,
died young. Arthur settled in Minnesota, where he
died. Charles Henry, died at Center Harbor, this
state. Mary S.

(VI) Mary S., youngest child of Dr. Thomas
(4) and Sarah (West) Webster, was born July 20,
1807, in Warner, and was married November 12,
1840, to John Tyler, of Claremont. (See Tyler,
VII).

(Second Family).

Not all the Websters in New Eng-
WEBSTER land are of one stock, though all are

of good stock. The present line,
which descends from John of Ipswich, has furnished
many good rjen of local prominence in pioneer days
and later times, several of them being college grad-
uates. This line was united with the family of the
ancestor of Hon. Daniel, in the seventh generation,
by the marriage of Eliphalet K. Webster, of the line
of John and Emily Webster of the progeny of
Thomas.

(I) John Webster came from Ipswich, Suffolk
county, England, to Ipswich, Jilassachusetts, where
he was made a freeman in 1635. He died about
the year 1646, and his family afterward removed
to Newbury. His wife was Mary Shatswell. They
had four sons and four daughters, as follows : !Mary,
John, born 1633 ; Hannah, Abigail, Stephen, Eliza-
beth, Israel and Nathan. On October 29, 1650, John
Webster's widow married John Emery, of Newbury,
and she died April 28, 1694. (Mention of Stephen
and Nathan and descendants forms part of this
article).

(II) Stephen, second son and fifth child of John
and Mary (Shatswell) Webster, was born about
1637-39, ill Ipswich, and was a tailor, residing in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he took the free-
man's oath, in 1668, and died August 10, 1694. He
first settled in Newbury and moved thence to Haver-
hill in 1653. He was married, March 24, 1663. in
Haverhill, to Hannah Ayer, who died June 2, 1676.
He married (second), May 26, 1678, Widow Judith
Broad. His children, all born of the first wife, were:
Hannah, John, Mary, Stephen, Nathan and Abigail.
(Mention of Stephen and descendants appears in
this article).

(III) John (2), eldest son and second child of
Stephen and Hannah (Ayer) Webster, was born
March 15, 1668, in Haverhill, and died in 1742. He
was married, June 14, 1693, to Triphena Locke, and
the Haverhill records give him ten children.

(IV) Stephen (2), son of John (2) and Tri-
phena (Locke) Webster, was born June i, 1698,
and was married February 21, 1722, to Abigail
Berry.

(V) Stephen (3), son of Stephen (2) and Abi-
gail (Berry) Webster, was born March 3, 1731,
was married February 28, 1754, to Susanna Ladd,
and died March 2, 1803.

(VI) Stephen (4), son of Stephen (3) and Su-
sanna (Ladd) Webster, was born March 15, 1758,
and was married April 15, 1779, to Chloe Wheeler,
who was born November 28, 1760.

(VII) Atkinson, son of Stephen (4) and Chloe
(Wheeler) Webster, receives mention elsewhere
(see Wyman, VIII).

(III) Stephen (2). fourth child and second son
of Stephen (l) and Hannah (Ayer) Webster, was
born in Haverhill, January i, 1672, and died March
9, 1748, aged seventy-si.x. He was one of eigfht men
in the garrison of Johii Webster, March, 1690. He
married Widow Mary Cook, and they had six chil-
dren : Samuel, John, Stephen, William, Ebenezer
and Mary.

(IV) Ebenezer, fifth son and child of Stephen
(2) and Mary (Cook) Webster, was born Septem-
ber 20, 171 1. He married Mehitable Kimball, of
Bradford, Massachusetts, and they were the parents
of Lydia, Isaac, Mary, Ebenezer, Jonathan, Stephen,
Moses and John. (Mention of Ebenezer and descend-
ants forms part of this article.)

(V) Isaac, eldest son of Ebenezer (l) and Me-
hitable (Kimball) Webster, was born in 1740. He
also served in the revolutionary war. He married
Lydia Woodbury and had children: Phineas, see
forward; Jonathan and Kimball.

(VD Captain Phineas, son of Isaac and Lydia
(Woodbury) Webster, was born March 4, 1775,
and died September 11, 1858. He was captain of a
company during the war of 1812. He married,
1797, Hannah Hazelton, who died October 4, i860.
Their children were : Jesse, see forward ; James,
Alfred, Moses, Lydia, Caroline and Isaac.

(VII) Jesse, eldest child of Captain Phineas and
Hannah (Hazelton) Webster, was born in Atkinson,
New Hampshire; February 14, 1798, and died May
iS, 1845. He was a carriage builder for many years
at Derry, and for twelve years prior to his death
was engaged in farming. He was educated in the
district school and at Major Dudley's military school
at Windham. He became a private in the Sixth
Company, Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Mili-
tia, commanded by Colonel Samuel Richardson, and
was appointed sergeant August I, 1817; was ad-
vanced to a lieutenancy April 25, 1S20: to a cap-
taincy June 2, 1820, by Governor Samuel Bell. He
served until November 18, 1824, and then resigned.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and
for a number of years served as an elder. He mar-
ried, November 28, 1823, Betsy Wilson, born in
Pelham, December 16. 1798, died February 4, 1874.
She was a daughter of Benjamin Wilson, a lineal de-
scendant of John Wilson, the first minister of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts. The children of this marriage
were: i. George .Mfred, died young. 2. Ann
Elizabeth, also died young. 3. Caroline Elizabeth,
see forward. 4. Lydia Ann, born August 19, 183 1,
died February 9, 1862, was a successful school teach-
er. 5. Otis B., born January 3, 1834. died in Ches-
ter, New Hampshire, January 26, 1862. He w-as
graduated from Princeton College in 1859, entered

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the Princeton Theological Seminary in i86r, and
died the following year.

(VIII) Caroline Elizabeth, third child and sec-
ond daughter of Captain Jesse and Betsy (Wilson)
Webster, was born in Derry, May 19, 1829. She was
educated in the public schools and in Adams Fe-
male Academy, from which latter institution she was
graduated September 24, 1844. She was engaged in
teaching during the following six years, and taught
in District No. 9, where her mother had taught, and
where her daughter Annie subsequently taught. She
married. May 19, 1853, Nathan Spalding Morse, born
in Orange, March 30, 1830, died in Chester, October
23, igo2. He was educated in the schools of Chester
and at the Pembroke Academy. He was an- auc-
tioneer and a dealer in real estate and resided in
Chester. In politics he was a Democrat, and for
twenty years was moderator of the annual town
meetings. Mr. and Mrs. Morse had five children: i.
Roger Spalding, born May 23, 1855. died at Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, March 17, 1876. 2. Lawrence
L., born July 10, 1856, died March 28, igo6. 3. Car-
rie. 4. Morris W., born November 12. 1S64. He
was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. and
from the Hartford Theological School in 1890. At
Hartford he won the Welt fellowship, which enabled
him to attend theological lectures at the University
of Leipsic, Germany, for two years, following his
graduation. Returning to America, he preached at
Hollister, California, two years; Crete, Nebraska,
five years ; Ferndale, Washington, five years ; then
at W'ilbur; and later at Ilwaco. Washington. He
married in Orange, California, July 15, 1890, Laura
M. Blasdale, daughter of Dr. Charles and Julia Dick-
inson Smith, They have children: Annie Mabel,
Marion and Walter. 5. Annie L., born August 12,
i866, was educated in the public schools and Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary, where she attended
1883-85. She taught school for two yeari in and in
the vicinity of Derry. She married. May 7. 1894, in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, Charles Adams Sprague,
of that city, and since 1898 they have resided in
Derry. They have children : Daniel L., and Roger
Edmund.

(V) Ebenezer (2), fourth child and second son
of Ebenezer (i) and Mchitable (Kimball) Webster,
was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, February i,
1744. and died in Pelham, New Hampshire, March
13, 1823, aged seventy-nine years. He was, like
his ancestors, a farmer, and settled first in London-
derry, New Hampshire, wdiere he passed most of his
life, an industrious and respected ci.tizen. He was
married three times, (first) No.vember 29, 1770, to
Rebecca Baldwin; whose children were: Sarah,
Ebenezer and Rebecca; (second) December 31, 1775.
lo Martha Barker; (third) to Elizabeth Bradford,
of Beverly, Massachusetts, born September 6, 1755,
uIio died in Amherst, New Hampshire, March 27,
iS4i. They were married in Salem, October 13,
1778. by Rev. Abner Bayley, and had children born
to them as follows : Ro.xana, Betsey, Asa, John,
Nancy, Sully, Rebecca, Mary, Catherine, William G.,
Heriot (or Harriet) and lienjamin. (Mention of
William G. and descendants forms part of this ar-
ticle).

(VI) John (2), son of Ebenezer (2) and
Elizabeth (Bradford) Webster, was born in Pelham,
December 25, 1791. and died March i, 1883, aged
ninety-one years and two months. He lived on the
paternal homestead in Pelham, excepting one year in
Meredith, and one in Hudson (formerly Nottingham
West),- until 1841, when he sold his farm in Pel-
hawi and bought one in Amherst, where he resided
until 184(1, when he returned to Hudson, and buy-

ing a farm on Bush Hill, lived there twenty years ;
then resided with his daughters, Sally Titcomb and
Lov'isa Baker, until his death, which occurred at the
residence of the latter in the town of Hudson. He
was drafted in the war of 1812, and served in Cap-
tain Haynes' company of New Hampshire militia
at Portsmouth. From February 14, 1871. until his
death he received from the United States a pension
for his services, Mr, Webster was an energetic
and industrious man, a quiet citizen who abided by
the law, did his duty in every position, and for many
years was univer.-^ally called "Honest John Web-
ster." He married, August 22, 1815, Hannah Cum-
mings, of Nottingham West, who was born in Not-
tingham, .\ugust 4, 1794, and died in Hudson, Feb-
ruary 3, 1871. She was the daughter of Eleazer and
Sarah (Hale) Cummings and great-granddaughter
of Deacon Henry and Mary Hale. Mr. Cummings
was a farmer and taught school and singing school.
His wife was born April 20. 1767, and died May 7,
1852, aged eighty-five years. She was a woman re-
markable for physical strength and endurance. While
her husband was absent engaged in teaching, she
performed her household duties and also took charge
of a herd of cattle. She was a member of the Con-
gregational Church, and made her Christianity apart
of her daily life. Mrs. Hannah (Cummings) Web-
ster first became a member of the Congregational
Church in Pelham, and during her residence at other
places was a member of the other churches of the
same denomination, in all of which she was a highly
esteemed sister. The thirteen children of John
and Hannah (Cummings) Webster were: Eliza-
beth B., Moses, Sally Hale, Eleazer C, Lovisa N.,
Lucv Ann, Kimball, Hannah J., John C., Nathan P..
Willard H., Milton E. and Orrin P.

(VII) Kimball, seventh child and third son of
John and Hannaii (Cummings) Webster, was born
in Pelham, November 2, 1828, and educated in the
common schools of Pelham and H-iidson., He grew
up a farmer boy inured by hard work and prepared
for the toil and labor that has since befallen him.
In April. 1849, six months before attaining his ma-
jority, he heard of the great gold discovery at Sut-
ter's Fort, now Sacramento. California, and at once
set out for the Pacific slope. He left home April
17, 1849, and went to Independence, Missouri, where
he outfitted, and with a company of about twenty-
eight persons went by horses and pack mules over
the trail to California, arriving at Sacramento Val-
ley, California, in the month of October, after spend-
ing six months on the trail and experiencing wdiat
ica. He engaged in mining on the Feather and Yuba
it is impossible for any traveler to experience today
anywhere in the Union, or hardly in North Amer-
rivcrs, and in June, 1851, went to Oregon City, and
was deputy surveyor on government surveys in
the Willamette and Umpqua valleys. After passing
two years in California and nearly four in Oregon,
he returned to the states in the fall of 1854 by the
Isthmus of Panama, arriving at home in the fall
of 1854. In 1855 he was employed as a surveyor
on the line of the Hannibal &' St. Joseph railroad
in Missouri. In 1855 he returned to New Hamp-
shire, and in 1858 resided in Vinal Haven, Maine.
Since that time he has been a resident of Hudson,
New Hampshire, where he owns and occupies a
portion of the land which his great-grandfather,
Eleazer Cummings, bought in 1728. He is a surveyor
of long experience and has a wide reputation, being
one of the most accurate and reliable in the county.
In politics he is a Democrat, and has been a leader
of the minority party in his town and county for
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usually polled more than the' p&tiy vote. In
1901-02 he was a member of the legislature and
served on the committee on appropriations, and dur-
ing the famous Northfield-Tilton case he was a
member of the committee having it in charge; the
case was an important one, and was long and stub-
bornly fought. He was a selectman four years, and
three years of that time was chairman of the board.
In 1S59 he was made justice of the peace, and has
held tliat office ever since. His interest in the past
in promoting the use of the best methods of agri-
culture, and a desire to see the farrner obtain the
greatest possible reward for his toil made him
from the time of its establishment an industrious
worker for the promotion of the effectiveness of
the Grange movement. He was the first petitioner
for the establishment of a grange in Hudson, and
upon the estabHshment of Hudson Grange, No. ir,
of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, December
8, 1873. he' was chosen its presiding officer, and filled
that place three years. He was one of the few who
organized the New Hampshire State Grange, De-
cember 23, 1873, and also Hillsborough County
Council. March 4, 1874, of which he was master
two years, and secretary from December, 1876, until
the organization, April 17, 1883, of its successor,
Hillsborough County Pomona Grange, when he was
made secretary of that liody and continued to hold
tliat office until about 1888. His intelligence and ac-
tivity have made him a useful and valued member
of this order. Mr. Webster is a member of Rising
Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of Nashua, which he joined in 1869.

His interest in historical matters and ancient
landmarks is lifelong, and has grown stronger with
the lapse of years. He has done much to preserve
the latter by carefully drawn and creditable copies
of niany of the much \vorn and injured plats of
lands, ancient grants, etc., in Old Dunstable. At
the present, time (1907) he is at work on a history
of Nottingham and Nottingham West, now Hud-
son. He has been president of the Cummings fam-
ily reunion for the past twenty-six years, and which
are held on the Merrimack River banks, opposite
his home. Mr. Webster has marked the spots
where the Blodgett and Hill's garrisons were locat-
ed, with large bowlders, which bear the following
inscriptions: "Hill's, the first settlement of Hud-
son, was about 1770. Nathaniel Hills, April 12,
1748, aged sixty-five years. Henry plills, died
August 20. 1757, aged sixty-nine: erected in 1901."

"Blodgett. Joseph and Dorothy Blodgett; their
eldest son, Joseph, born here February 9, 1718. being
the first white child born in the town ; erected 1904."

He is a quiet, mild mannered man, remarkable
for his energy and executive ability. These qual-
ities have attracted to him many friends who' have
known him from his youth and now honor him in
his age. He has always been regarded as a safe
and honest man whose wisdom and judgment were
relialile, and a worthy type of the intelligent New
England farmer.

He married, January 29, 1857, in Hudson, Abiah
Cutter, who was born in Pelham, February i, 1837,
daughter of Seth and Deborah (Gage) Cutter, of
Pelham. Ten children have been born to them as
follows: Lizzie Jane, January 11, 1858; Ella Frances,
August 19, 1859; Kimball C. and James (twins), June
26, 1861 ; Kimball C. died August 22, 1861, and
James on day of birth; Eliza Ball, July 14, 1862;
Latina Ray, July 26. 1865, died November 12, 1887;
Julia Anna, October 26, 1867; Mary Newton, Au-
gust 9, 1S69; twins, male and female, who died
at birth.

(VI) William G., ninth child and second son of
Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Bradford) Webster, was
born in Londonderry, August 20, 1803. He was a
tinner and resided in Dover, New Hampshire. Wil-
liam G. Webster and Hannah J. Foss, both of Dover,
were married by Rev. Benjamin P. Hoyt, of Dover,
May 15, 1828. Their children were: George. Eliza-
beth, who married and died in East Boston. Harriet
who married Cyrus Littlefield of Dover. Helen,
deceased. Olive, deceased. Charles E., who served
in the Civil war four years, resided at Boston, and
is now deceased. Benjamin K., whose sketch fol-
lows.

(VII) Benjamin Kimball, third son of William
G. and Hannah J. (Foss) Webster, was born in
Dover. April 21, 1839, and educated in the public
schools. He learned his father's trade and was as-
sociated in business for a time with his uncle, Dan-
iel K. Webster, in Dover. In 1868, he took charge
of the Varney tannery of Dover. He enlisted at
Dover as a private August 18, 1862, and was mus-
tered into the United States service as a private in
Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteer
Infantry, September 21, 1862, and was later appoint-
ed corporal and subsequently -sergeant. He was nnis-
tered out June 4, 1865, after having campaigned in
Alaryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ten-
nessee, and participated in the battles of Fredericks-
burg, Vi(.1<sburg, the Wilderness and Cold, Harbor.
He participated in seventeen important battles of the
war. After his return to New Hampshire he worked
at his trade for a time and then engaged in fanning
on North Main street. Wolf borough, which he car-
ried on until 1906, when he sold his one-half inter-
est in the farm to his son-in-law. John Frank Good-
win, a prominent contractor and builder. Mr. Web-
ster's place commands a fine view of Lake Winne-
pesaukee and the mountains and has been a favorite
with many wJio have spent summer vacations there.
He ran a boarding house several years, accommodat-
ing thirty or forty guests from the city of New York,
Boston and other cities. Mr. Webster is a member
of James R. Newell Post, No. 61, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Wolfborough, of which he was a
charter member. He married (first), at Wolfboro,
in 1870, Emma C. Libby, who was .born in 1840,
daughter of Dudley and Sarah A. Libby, of Wolf-
boro. She died October 7, 1875. He married (sec-
ond) Eliza C. Wiggin, who was born July 15, 1849,
daughter of James M. and Caroline (Wiggin) Wig-
gin, (see Wiggin 11.) of Tuftonborough. They have
one daughter. Helen C, who was born in Wolf-
borough, January. 1881. She graduated in 1889.
from Brewster Free Academy, and June, 1906, mar-
ried J. Frank Goodwin. They reside on the old
homestead.

(II) Nathan, youngest child of John and Mary
(Shatswell) Webster, was born in Ipswich. Massa-
chusetts, in 1646. He settled in Bradford, where he
died in May, 1694. He was married June 30, 1673,
to Mary Hazeltine. born December 9, 1648, daugh-
ter of John Hazeltine, of Haverhill. She was ad-
mitted to Bradford Church from Haverhill in 1682.
Their children were: John, Mary, Nathan, Joaiina,
Abigail. Israel, and Samuel. Joanna married Rich-
ard Bailey (see Bailey, III).

(III) Nathan (2), eldest of the. three children
of Nathan (i) and Mary (Hazeltine) Webster, was
born March 7, 1679, and was one of the proprietors
of Chester. New Hampshire. He removed to that
place about 1729 and owned two home lots, Nos.
71 and y2. and resided on 72. That Nathan Web-
ster was a man of ability and standing, and an active,
efficient and highly respected member of the church.

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is evident from "the fact that the record shows him
to have been chosen selectman in 1729-38-42-50-51-
57-61-63-66-70-71. At a town meeting in August,
1739, "Voted that Capt. Sam Ingalls, mr Nathan
Webster, and mr John Taltord Shall be a Commit-
tee to take bonds of the Inhabitants of Rumford
(now Concord") for the making and maintaining a
good soficient Roads for Passing Massibeecik Pond
towards their town, agreeable to their proposals
made to us, and to Enter into bonds to them to make
and maintain one on this side, and over the said
pond, as good."

At the town meeting held January 13, 1730, he
was appointed on a committee "to treat \vith the
Rev. Mr. Moses Hale, and to acquaint him with what
ye town hath done, and to invite him into the work
of ye Ministry among us in Chester." He was sub-
sequently twice appointed on committees for sim-
ilar purposes, and was a member of the committee
appointed to build the meeting-house.

By his first wife, Martha, Nathan Webster had
the following named children : Daniel. Nathan,
Stephen, (founder of the Webster family of Plym-
outh, New Hampshire, mentioned at length here-
inafter). Abel and Mary. He was married (second)
August 3, 173S, to Mary (Stevens) Godfrey, whose
first husband was Thomas Sargent, and her second
Peter Godfrey. She was a daughter of Deacon
Thomas and Martha (Bartlett) Stevens, of Ames-
bury, and survived her third husband several years,
dying !May 24, 1766. (Stephen and descendants
receive mention in this article.)

(IV) Nathan (3), second_^ child and son of Na-
than (2) and Mary Webster' was born in Chester,
July I, 1715, died 1794. He was a farmer and lived
on house lot No. 117. In the year 1764 he was one
of the three chosen by the town as a committee to
settle about highways in Raymond and make return.
He signed the association test in 1776. Chase's
"History of Chester" states that, "At the Septem-
ber term of the Superior Court, 1771, Andrew Jack.
Nathan Webster and John Robie, the selectmen of
Chester, were indicted because Chester, having more
than 100 families, had no grammar school. At the
March term, 1772, Jack and Webster were tried and
fined £10, and cost taxed at £7, 12s. 4d."

This does not imply that Nathan Webster, the
ancestor of many college graduates, living in a
communit>' now so intelligent, was opposed to the
oittlay of money for the support of schools. On
the contrary, the financial conditions were such
that the men of that communitv did not feel able to
bear the burden of schools, and had voted to secure
the selectmen from fine for failing to act. He mar-
ried, February 10, 1742. Martha Blasdell, and they
had eleven children, all but two of whom died
young. Those who grew up and had families
were : Nathan and Moses.

(V) Nathan (4), third child of Nathan (3) and
Martha (Blasdell) Webster, was born in Chester,
November 19, 1747, and resided on the old home-
stead. He married. May 8, 1771. Elizabeth, daughter
of Isaac and Sarah (Healy) Clifford, of Candia.
and granddaughter of William Healy. Isaac Clif-
ford was the son of Samuel Clifford, of Kingston,
and Martha Healy, his wife, was the daughter of
William and Mary (Sanborn") Healy, formerly of
Hampton Falls. The ten children of Nathan and
Elizabeth Webster were : Josiah. Sarah. Mary, John
Ordway, Nathan, Elizabeth, Martha, Huldy, Susanna
and FTannah. (Mention of Nathan (s) and descend-
ants appears later.)

(VI) Rev. Josiah, eldest child of Nathan (4)
and Elizabeth (Clifford) Webster, was born in Ches-
ter, January 16, 1772. and died March 27, 1837. He

graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798, studied
theology with Rev, Stephen Peabody, of Atkinson,
was ordained pastor of the South Congregational
Church of Ipswich (Chebacco), 1799; dismissed,
1S06: installed June 8, 1S08, at Hampton, where he
remained till his death. He married. December 2,
1799, Elizabeth Knight, born June 11, 1771, daugh-
ter of Eliphalet and Martha (Webster) Knight, of
Atkinson. She died April 9, 1849. Their children
were: Eliphalet Knight, Josiah, Elizabeth Clifford
(died young), John Calvin, Joseph Dana. Eliza-
beth Knight and Claudius Buchanan. John Calvin
graduated at Dartmouth in 1832; Joseph Dana,
1S32, and Claudius Buchanan, 1836.

(VII) Eliphalet Knight Webster, M. D., eldest
child of Rev. Josiah and Elizabeth (Knight) Web-
ster, was born in Esse.x, Massachusetts, May 3. 1S02,
and died in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, November
9, 1881. He received his medical education at Dart-
mouth College, practiced medicine in Litchfield, Xew
Hampshire, for a short time; in Hill from 1S33 to
1844, and from 1844 to 1870 in_ Boscawen. Dr.
Webster was a prominent man in his profession, and
was once president of the New Hampshire Medical
Society. He was active in politics and held the
office of postmaster in Boscawen. In religion he
was a Congregationalist, and a loyal supporter of
the church. He was married August, 1833, to Emily
Webster, daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Webster, of
Hill, New Hampshire, and his wife, Sarah, young-
est sister of Hon. Daniel Webster. (See Webster,
first family, "V.) Emily Webster was born Febru-
ary 12, 1809, and died October 19, 1882, at Pitts-
field. They had four children: Daniel Dana, Sarah
Elizabeth. "Emily Maria and Edward Knight,

(VIII) Edward Knight, youngest child of Dr.
Eliphalet K. and Emily (Webster) Webster, was
born in Boscawen, August 5, 1848, He was educa-
ted in the public schools of Boscawen and at Pem-
broke Academy, and Putnam School, Newburyport,
Massachusetts, and was a bookkeeper for a com-
mercial house for a time. In 1872 he engaged in the
drug business at Pittsfield, which he carried on suc-
cessfully for twenty years. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
He has held several town offices, was trustee of
Pittsfield Public Library six years, member of the
constitutional convention, 1900, and was deputy
sheriff for Merrimack county for eight years. He
was made a Knight of Pythias October 15. 1874,
becoming a charter member of Norris Lodge, No. 16,
of Pittsfield, was elected keeper of the records and
seal at its institution, and afterward filled the
several chairs, and became past chancellor October
24, 1S83.' He took the Grand Lodge Rank, February
7. 1S84, and was elected grand outer guard at that
time. He was made grand master-at-arms, 1885 ;
grand vice-chancellor, 1886; grand chancellor, 1887:
elected supreme representative, June 12, 1889; and
became a member of the Supreme Lodge, August.
T890, at IMilwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2, 1901,
was elected grand keeper of records and seal at the
convention of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire,
held at Franklin, and has been re-elected at each an-
nual convention since that time. He was commis-
sioned assistant commissary general, with the rank
of colonel, on the staff of Brigadier-General C. P..
Hoyt, commanding the New Hampshire brigade, uni-
form rank, Knights of Pythias, and held that posi-
tion until 1905, and was then commissioned colonel
and assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Briga-
dier-General Orman T, Lougee, A company of the
uniform rank. Knights of Pythias, was formed in
Pittsfield in 1896, and named Edward K, Webster
Company, No. 16, in his honor. In November, 1905,

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Mr. Webster took up his residence at Concord,
where the office of the grand keeper of records and
seal is maintained.

(IV) Stephen, third son and child of Nathan
(2) and Martha Webster, was born February 18,
1718, in Chester, resided for a time in Candia, and
later in Hollis, where he was selectman in 1762-63-
65. By purchase of the right of one of the grantees
of Plymouth, this state, he became a proprietor of
that town, where he settled about 1765. He was an
intelligent and useful citizen, and acted as teacher
in the early schools of the frontier settlement. He
died in 1798. He married Rachel Stevens, of Ames-
bury, Massachusetts, probably a daughter of Samuel
and Rachel (Heath) Stevens, of Amesbury. She
was admitted to the church there Januai-y 14, 1728,
was dismissed to the church in Chester, May 10,
17.39, and died January 3, 1754. Mr. Webster mar-
ried (second) Sarah, widow of Daniel Clough, of
Kingston, and daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Heard) Baker, of Salisbury. The first wife was
the mother of five children, and the second of two,
namely : David, Stephen, Lydia, Sarah, Amos, Daniel
Clough and Rachel. (Mention of Stephen and de-
scendants follows in this article).

(V) David, eldest child of Stephen Webster
and his first wife, Rachel Stevens, was born De-
cember 12, 1738. He wr.s a colonel and rendered
conspicuous service in the Revolution. After his
marriage he- lived for one year in Hollis, New
Hampshire, but moved to Plymouth in November,
1764, where he became prominent in town affairs,
and served as sheriff of Grafton county for many
years. He was twice married, but his children were
all by his first wife. On April 20, 1761, Colonel
David Webster married his step-mother's daughter,
Elizabeth Clough, daughter of Daniel and Sarah
(Baker) Clough, who was born in Kingston, New
Hampshire. September 23, 1745. They had twelve
children: Sarah, David, mentioned below; Eliphalet'
William, Josiah, a son who died at birth, Elizabeth,
menlioned below ; George Washington, Ralph,
Sarah, a daughter who died at birth, and Walter
Raleigh. Mrs. Webster died May 22, 1809, and on
September 3 of that year Colonel Webster married
Susanna Qiase. who was born in 1749, and died
April 6, 1821. Colonel David Webster died May 8,
1824.

(VI) David (2), eldest son and second child of
Colonel David and Elizabeth (Clough) Webster,
was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, November 30,
1763. The next year his parents moved to Plym-
outh, where he lived till he was twenty-five years of
age. From 1789 to 1799 his home was at Moulton-
boro. New Hampshire, and for the succeeding seven-
teen years at Haverhill, New Hampshire; but in 1816
he returned to Plymouth where he lived till his
death nearly thirty years later. He was an active
man of ability and influence, and for several years
was deputy sheriff. He owned two or three farms
in Plymouth, and was largely engaged in the cultiva-
tion of hops. He belonged to the state militia for
some time, and was made captain on July 5, 1794.
On November 18, 1785, David (2) Webster married
his cousin, Lydia Cumraings. daughter of Samuel
and Lydia (Webster) Cummings, and granddaugh-
ter of Stephen Webster (IV). She was born Au-
gust 31, 1769. They had thirteen children : David,
Samuel Cummings, mentioned below; Eliza Clough,
Lydia, Harriet, Susan Smith. Ralph. Arthur Liver-
more, Mary Lawrence, Ann Maria, Jane Livermore,
a daughter, who lived but a few weeks, and Eliza-
beth Clough. Captain David (2) Webster died at

Plymouth, June 4. 1844, and his widow died Septem-
ber 2, 1865, aged ninety-six.

(,VI) Elizabeth, second daughter and seventh
child of Colonel David (i) Webster and his first
wife, Elizabeth Clough, was born at Plymouth, New
Hampshire, July 8, 1773, On December 23, 1790,
she married Moor Russell, of Plymouth (see Rus-
sell, V).

(VII) Samuel Cummings, second son and child
of Captain (2) and Lydia (Cummings) Webster,
was born June 28, 1788. He was graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1808, and was a lawyer at
Plymouth, New Hampshire. He was a representa-
tive to the state legislature in 1822-26-27-30-32, being
speaker of the house' in 1830. He was a member of
the governor's council in 1S31. In 1833 he was ap-
pointed sheriff of Grafton county, and removed to
Haverhill, New Hampshire, where he spent the last
two years of his life. On May 5, 1816, Samuel Cum-
mings Webster married his cousin, Catherine, second
daughter and third child of Moor and Elizabeth
(Webster) Russell, who was born at Haverhill, New
Hampshire. May 28, 1797 (see Russell, V). They
had ten children : 'Samuel Cummings, Dominicus,
David Henrj^ Ann Eliza Gushing, Jeremiah Mason,
Rufus Boliver. Catherine Cabot, Edward Gushing,
Charles Carroll and Catherine Russell. Samuel C.
Webster died at Haverhill, New Hampshire. July 21,
1835, at the early age of forty-seven. In 1844 his
widow married Joseph Edmonds, of Brooklyn, New
York, who lived five years. She died in Plymouth,
New Hampshire, September 24, 1880, at the age of
eighty-three.

(V) Stephen (2). second son and child of
Stephen (i) and Rachel (Stevens) Webster, was
born probably in Candia, New Hampshire, July 7,
1 741. He moved from Candia to Plymouth, this
state, where he was a pioneer settler in 1764, and a
man of character and influence. On October 21,
1762, Stephen Webster married Hannah Dolbeer, of
Chester, New Hampshire, and they had eleven chil-
dren: Sarah, married Samuel Heath; Lydia, mar-
ried Nehemiah Phillips : Hannah, married Joshua
Heath ; Polly, married Christopher Sargent : Peter,
Moses, Luc.v. married Solomon Sanborn ; Stephen,
married Pol'lv Fuller; Amos, David, mentioned be-
low ; and Betsey, born April 30, 1782, married Joseph
Fletcher, of Rumney (see Fletcher, VII). She died
March 10. 1863, in Rumney. Of these children the
eldest was born in Candia, and the other ten in
Plymouth : and it is interesting to know that Lydia,
the second child, born June 2, 1765, was the first in-
fant of white parentage to see the light in the new
settlement (Plymouth). Stephen (2) Webster died
in 1 788, at the early age of forty-seven.

(VI) David (2), fifth son and tenth child of
Stephen (2) and Hannah (Dolbeer) Webster, was
born July 6, 1779, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.
He moved to the neighboring town of Rumney.
where he reared a large family. He was converted
to the Christian religion under the preaching of Rev.
Lorenzo Dow, and joined the Baptist Church. The
marriage intentions of David (2) Webster to Lucy
Hutchins were published on January 21, 1S06, and
they were married five days later. She was a woman
of strong religious convictions, gave freely to mis-
sions,, and kepi Fast Day in the early Puritan fash-
ion. She early espoused the cause of the slave, and
left a legacy to the Freedman's Bureau, David (2)
and Lucy (Hutchins) Webster had nine children:
George Webster, George Hutchins, Selomy, Dardana
S., Emeline Mary and Adeline Martha (twins),
David Peabody, Elizabeth Hutchins, and Nancy
Hutchins, Three of these children, George W. and

C. C. WEBSTER.

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George H., the two eldest, and Dardana S., died in
infancy, while Adeline Martha, one of the tw^ins,
died October 27, 1821, during her seventeenth year;
but of the five who lived to grow up, three attained
to extraordinary longevity, and two are now living
at present (1907). Seloiny, born April 23, 1809,
married David W. Doe, and died November I, 1907,
in her ninety-ninth year. Emeline Mao', born May
I. 181S, married Ichabod Packard Hardy, and is now
in her ninety-third year. (See Hardy, HI). Eliza-
beth Hutchins. born April 8, 1S20, married David
Hadley, of Manchester, and is now in her eighty-
eighth year. It is doubtful if there is another trio
of sisters in the state who can show such length of
years. The youngest sister, Nancy Hutchins, born
April 22. 1824, married John W. Peppard, of Runi-
ney, and died in February, 1888, in her sixty-fourth
year. David (2) Webster, the father, died at Rum-
"ney. New Hampshire, May 12, 1841, in his sixty-
second year.

(VI) Nathan (5), fifth child of Nathan (4) and
Elizabeth (Clifford) Webster, was born April 9,
1780, and married Mary Simonds, daughter of
Widow Simonds. who married Captain Pearson
Richardson, of Chester. Captain Richardson had
no children, and Mr. Webster became his protege
and lived on his farm, where he died March 30, 1815.
His widow subsequently married John L. Glidden,
and died December 19, 1863.

(VII) Nathaniel (6) Webster came from Lon-
donderry to the eastern part of Manchester, settling
near Lake Massabesic. Later he moved to the west-
ern part of the town, near Gofi''s Falls, where he
died in 1862-63, at the age of fifty-five years. His
death was the result of exposure and hardship in
the line of militan,- duty, as a member of the Ninth
New Hampshire Regiment in the Civil war. His .
wife, Martha ^Maria Corning, supposed to have been
a native of Manchester, survived him many years,
passing away in the spring of 1884. Their home
was on the farm now occupied by their son's widow,
near Goff's Falls. They were the parents of seven
children, noted as follows : Eveline, the eldest, died
before twenty years old. Caius C. is mentioned at
length in the succeeding paragraph. Jane became
the wife of George Durgin, and died in West Man-
chester, in 1895. Ellen resides in Manchester. Abi-
gail died in 1S67, unmarried. Josephine resides in
Manchester. Plumer C, the youngest, is a citizen
of Hcnniker. thi^ state.

(VIII) Caius Cassius, second child and elder
son of Nathaniel and Martha Maria (Corning)
Webster, was born October 10.'' 1839, and died Oc-
tober ID. 1897. on the farm in Manchester, near
Goff's Falls. His education was supplied by the
common schools of the neighborhood, and most of
his life was devoted to agriculture. Soon after at-
taining his majority he went to the defense of his
country's honor, as a soldier in the Civil war. He
enlisted August 13, 1862, in Company A. Tenth New
Hampshire Infantry, and served in the Army of the
Potomac. His first severe battle was that of Fred-
ericksburg, and he was soon after detailed as a
teamster in the army train. He was present at the
fall of Richmond, and was discharged in June. 1865.
On his return to his home, he spent three years in a
flouring mil! at Lawrence, after which he devoted
his summers to agriculture, and was occupied in
w-inter in getting out timbers for building purposes.
l\Ir. Webster was a very temperate man. and knew
not the taste of liqors. He was a regular attendant
of the Methodist Church, and was a member of the
Grand .■\rmy of the Republic and the Improved Or-
der of Red Men. He was a firm believer in the

principles enunciated by the Republican party,
though not a seeker of official honors. In 1894 he
represented the town of Manchester in the state
legislature with credit to himself and his consti-
tuency. He was married, August 10, 1862, to Caro-
line Calef. daughter of John Calef (see Calef, IV).
She was born May 17, 1838, and was tw'elve years
old when she went with her parents to the farm on
which she has since lived. She is a member of the
Methodist Churdi. Her son, Frederick Elmer Web-
ster, died at the age of twenty-six years. A daugh-
ter Edith Aroline, resides with the mother.

Representatives of families bearing this
FROST name came early to America. The first

of whom we have record was Nicholas
Frost, who arrived here in 1632 and settled on the
banks of the Piscataqua, and there is good evidence
that he was esteemed a trustworthy citizen as he was
honored with appointments to responsible positions.
There were also several others of the name who
later settled in that vicinity and became prominently
identified with the leading interests of the com-
munity.

(I) Edmund Frost, came from England in 1635
and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which
was' evidently the home of the family for several
generations. ]\Ir. Frost was a ruling elder in the
church, and is said to have been a man of great
moral worth, "leaving his children the example of
a Godly life." No mention is made of his wife. He
died July 12. 1672, in Cambridge.

(II) Ephraim Frost was a son of Edmund the
emigrant, and w'as born in Cambridge, but unfor-
tunately the data is very incomplete concerning him
and several of his descendants.

(HI) Ephraim (2) Frost married Sarah Cooper,
daughter of Deacon Samuel Cooper, of Cam-
bridge.

(IV) Samuel, son of Ephraim (2) and Sarah
(Cooper) Frost, married .A.bigail, daughter of Dea-
con John Cutter.

(V) Cooper, son of Samuel and Abigail (Cut-
ter) Frost, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
November 3, 1790. and died in Franklin, New Hamp-
shire, in 1876. He was a hatter by trade, and re-
moved from Cambridge to Concord. New
Hampshire, in 181 1, where he carried on
the business for a large part of the time
for more than half a century. He was
a soldier in the war of t8i2. Mr. Frost possessed
much mechanical ingenuity, and was a man of im-
mense muscular power. He married. July 18, 1815,
Sarah Trumbull, daughter of John Trumbull. She
was born in CoiTcord, and died in Franklin, New
Hampshire, in 1874, aged eighty-seven years. Her
ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Con-
cord. Her grandfather, Judah Trumbull, was one
of thirteen men w'ho with their families were sta-
tioned at the garrison around the house of Ebenezer
Eastman, and his name appears among the officers
of the town as early as 1740. The children of
Cooper Frost and Sarah Trumbull Frost were:
Charles H., Willard, Luther T., George W., Thom-
as, Mary S. and Lucy A.

(VI) Luther Trumbull, son of Cooper and
Sarah (Trumbull) Frost, wasborn in Concord, Nc^v
Hampshire, about 1824, and died in Franklin. New
Hampshire, October 24, 1894. He was a practical
paper manufacturer, and spent nearly fifty years of
Iiis life in Franklin, where he was manager of one
of the mills of the Winnepesaiikee paper mills. He
several times represented Franklin in the legislature

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

in Concord. He was a member of the Mt. Horeb
Commandery, Knight Templar, of Concord, and a
Democrat in politics. He was a man of good busi-
ness ability and a worthy citizen. Luther Trumbull
Frqst married, March i6, 1845, Lydia G.. daughter
of Major Samuel and Betsey (Brown) Pike. She
was born in Franklin, March 14, 1822. Major Sam-
uel Pike was the son of James and Alice George
Pike, and was born November 30, 1795, in Goffs-
town. New Hampshire. His grandfather Simeon
emigrated from the Highland district of Scotland;
data is lacking regarding the time of his arrival,
but it was previous to 1752, as his son James was
born that year in Goffstown. The family removed to
Franklin, then Salisbury. New Hampshire, in 1757.
The name of James Pike appears among the sol-
diers of the revolution from Salisbury and he was
wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. The chil-
dren of Luther Trumbull and Lydia Pike Frost
were: Lorenzo L. and Leroy B. Leroy B. Frost
was born in Franklin and married in November,
i86g, Eleanor Smith, of Entield, New Hampshire.
He is a practical paper maker in Brattleboro, Ver-
mont (1907).

(VH) Lorenzo L., son of Luther and Lydia
(Pike) Frost, was born September 27, 1846, in Mill-
bury, Massachusetts, and died suddenly from heart
failure at the country home of his son, at Pearl
River, New York, May id, 1906. He' was educated
in the public schools, in the academy at Franklin
Falls, and attended Boscawen Academy at Boscawen,
New Hampshire. When quite young he learned
the paper maker's trade, working under his father
at the Winnepesaukee Paper Company mills long
before that company was absorbed by the Interna-
tional Paper Company. He displayed marked ability
and advanced so rapidly that while little more than
a youth he was placed in charge of one of the
mills while his father operated the other. He con-
tinued as superintendent at Franklin Falls for sev-
enteen years, with the exception of one year, when
he was called to Bellows Falls. Vermont,' to put the
mills of the Fall Mountain Paper Company in order,
and to adjust certain labor troubles, for which task
he was admirably fitted. In 1890 Mr. Frost became
part owner and manager of the Sunapee Paper
Company at Sunapee, New Hampshire, where he
remained until 1S94, when he sold his interest. Af-
ter a few months as manager of the Frontenac
Paper Company at Dexter, New York, he acquired
an interest in the Racquettc River Paper Company
of Potsdam, New York, Avhich he retained until the
fall of 1901, when Mr. Frost and his two sons or-
ganized the L. L. Frost Paper Company and built a
mill at Norwood, St. Lawrence County. New York,
which on January 4, 1904, was totally destroyed by
fire. With characteristic energy, which knew no de-
feat, he directed the increase of the water power
from 1500 to 3,000 horse power and constructed, of
steel and concrete, what' is probably one of the
model newspaper mills of the United States. In
August, 1905, this property was sold to Northern
New York capitalists, and Mr. Frost with his sons,
incorporated the Frost & Son's Paper Company, and
purchased property at Napanoch, Ulster .county,
New York. Here mills were built for the manu-
facturing of jute tissue paper. Mr. Frost was sev-
eral times urged to accept a nomination to the New
Hampshire Legislature, but he declined, not caring
for political office. Lorenzo L. Frost was endowed
with a unique personality; naturally of a cheerful
temperament, he m^de friends easily and retained
them to the last. In his home he was an ideal hus-
band and father. Mr. Frost also had the rare faculty .

of considering the subject from the otlier man's
• standpoint, as well as his own. Hence he knew little
of labor troubles, and his employers recognized in
him their best friend. It is said of him that no one
in need was ever spurned by him. From early man-
hood he was a member and a most liberal supporter
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a force
for righteousness in every community in which he
ever lived, and when he passed from earth he left,
as a benediction, the influence that comes from a
good man's life. October 31, 1867, Lorenzo L. Frost
married Harriet L. Hayward. She was born Oc-
tober 31, 1846, in Alexandria, New Hampshire, and
was the youngest daughter of Jonas Reed and i\Iar-
cia (Sleeper) Hayward. Jonas Reed Hayward was
the son of josiah and Rebecca Hayward, and was
born in Antrim, New Hampshire, April 25, 1805, and
died in Alexandria. January 9, 1873. He was a mer-
chant for many years in Concord, New Hampshire,
represented the town of Alexandria in the legis-
lature several times, and was generally a man of
public affairs. He took a great interest in what-
ever helped onward the uplift of humanity. He
married (first), October 30, 1832, Marcia Sleeper;
(second) in August, 1855, Mary Bodwell, a widow.
Marcia Sleeper w-as the daughter of Moses West
and Ruth (Worthen) Sleeper. She was born De-
cember 26, 1809 ; she was descended on her fathers
side from Thomas Sleeper, who was born in Eng-
land, about 1607. He emigrated to this country when
a young man and settled in Hampton, New Hamp-
shire, in 1640. The Sleeper and Worthen families
are very numerous in various parts of the country,
and have borne well their share in its civic, political
and military affairs. The grandfather of Marcia
Sleeper was David Sleeper, who commanded a com-
•pany of militia in the Revolutionary war. Her
father, Peter, also a member of the Continental army
served as sergeant of his company and later became
prominent in military and civic affairs. The children
of Lorenzo L. and Harriet L. (Hayward) Frost
are: Fredric Worthen, Lorena May and Luther
Hayward, all born in Franklin, New Hampshire.

Luther Hayward Frost fitted for college in the
public schools at Franklin, Andover. Massachusetts,
Academy and Potsdam, New York, Normal School,
and graduated from Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Connecticut. On the death of his father, he
succeeded him as business manager of the Frost
& Sons Paper Company, at Napanoch, New York,
which position he still holds. He married Alice J.,
a daughter of President Bradford P. Raymond, D.
D., LL. D., of Wesleyan University (recently re-
signed), and Lula (Rich) Raymond. They have
one child ; Dorothy Raymond Frost, and reside in
Ellenville, New York.

Lorena May Frost graduated from the high
school in Franklin and attended Tilton Seminary
one year. Later she graduated from the State Nor-
mal School in Potsdam, New York, after which she
took a course of study at Pratt's Institute, New York
City, and finally was graduated from Columbia
Colege, in June, 1905. She has been connected with
the College Settlement in New York City for two
years, but has recently been engaged as a teacher
in the schools of Summit, New Jersey.

(IX) Fredric Worthen, oldest child of Lorenzo
L, and Harriet L. Hayward Frost, was born January
8, 1870. He completed the full course of the high
school in his native town, Franklin, New Hamp-
shire, and later graduated from Tilton Seminary.
He was also graduated from Wesleyan University
in 1894 with honors. The next two years he taught
in Shady Side Academy, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

ThfLems^iHshiT^ C-

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During the summer of 1896 he acted as tutor for
two boys, taking them through Europe. Mr. Frost
then studied law, graduating from the New York
Law Sehool in 1898, and was admitted to the New
York bar the same year. He is at present (1907)
practicing law at 60 Wall street. New York City.
October 25, 1S99, in Brooklyn, New York, he mar-
ried Christine Kellogg, daughter of Rev. Charles
E. and Rosabella (Hallock) Glover. Charles E.
Glover received -his education in part at the Biblical
Institute in Concord (later merged into Boston Uni-
versity), and was ordained a minister of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church. On her mother's side
Christine Glover Frost is descended from Stephen
Hcpkins through the line of his daughter Constance.
Both were passengers on the "Mayflower." She is
also of the famous Paine family that included Rob-
ert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of In-
dependence, and her great-grandmother, Ruth Ad-
ams, was an own cousin of President John Adams.
Mrs. Frost is naturally interested in colonial history.
She is a member of the New England Chapter of
the Society of the Mayflower Descendants, and on
the Adams side is eligible to the Society of the
Colonial Dames. Fredric \V. and Christine (Glover)
Frost have two children: Fredric W. (2) and
Constance Hopkins Frost. Their winter home is
in New York City, and they reside in summer at
Pearl River, Rockland county, New York.

The name Slade has an interesting or-
SL.'\DE igin. It meaning as a common noun is

"a small strip of green plain within a
woodland." One of the rhymes about Robin Hood
runs:

"It had been better of William a Trent

To have been abed with sorrowe,
Than to be that day in ereenwood slade
To meet with Xittle John's arrowe."

In England we have the de la Slades of the
Hundred Rolls. The word is seen in many com-
pounds like: Robert de Greneslade (of the green-
slade) ; William de la Morslade (the moorland-
slade) ; Richard de Wytslade (the white-slade) ;
Michael de Ocslade (the oak-slade). Sladen, that
is slade-den, implies a woodland hollow. The name
Slade in this country has sometimes been written
Sled and Sleed.

(I) Stiles' Ancient Windsor gives three resi-
dents of that town, named Slade, including Wil-
liam, Junior, from which we may infer that they
were sons of William. No account of the latter is
given. His origin is unknown, but he probably lived
in Windsor where were born to him three sons.

(II) John Slade, one of these, was married
September 12, 1751, in Windsor, to the Widow
Martha Gleason, of Enfield, and their children in-
cluded: John, Martha, William. Thomas, Daniel
and Samuel. He settled in Alstead, New Hampshire,
in 1773. He received a grant of land there and is
said to have been a revolutionary soldier. The Rev-
olutionarv Rolls of Connecticut mention a John
Slade, who served eighteen days from Wallingford.

(III) Samuel, youngest son of John and Martha
(Gleason) Slade, was born in Windsor, Connecti-
cut, and was in the neighborhood of two years old
when he came with his father to Alstead, New
Hampshire. He died there September 28, 1S60. at
the age of ninety-eight years, his death being caused
by a fall which broke his hip bone. He, and his
brother remained on the paternal homestead in
Alstead. They lived and dwelt in great peace and
harmony, although they held opposing principles in
both religion and politics. Samuel was an ardent

Democrat, while his brother was quite as earnest in
support of Whig policies. Samuel enlisted at Keene,
New Hampshire. July 6, 1779, for the defence of
Rhode Island. He was a member of Captain Ephra-
im Stone's Company of Colonel Bellow's regiment.
He enlisted July 26, 1799, in Colonel Hercules
Moony's regiment, and was discharged January 10.
17S0. He received a bounty of thirty pounds and
traveling expenses of twelve pounds for his Rhode
Island service, being credited to the town of Al-
stead. He married Hannah Thompson, who lived
to the age of eighty years. They are said to have
had eleven children', but they do not appear in the
vital records of New Hampshire. (Mention of their
son, Samuel, appears in this article).

(IV) Enoch, son of Samuel (i) and Hannah
(Thompson) Slade, was born April 12, 1787, in A\-
stead. New Hampshire, and settled when a young
man in Brookfield, Vermont. When his children
had become partially grown he removed to Thetford,
Vermont, to secure the advantages of the academy
there in the education of his family. He was the
owner of a farm, but was kept employed in the trans-
action of public business, in probate matters and
other local affairs. Although he was not a licensed
lawyer, vet he transacted most of the legal business
in his town. He filled all of the chief oflices, to
which he was repeatedly elected. He was trustee
of Thetford Academy, aiid a member of the Congre-
gational Church. He was a very earnest adherent
of the principles of the Republican party, and ever
aimed to promote the welfare of the community in
which he resided, as well as of the state and nation.
Mr. Slade was possessed of an unusual degree of
intelligence and executive ability, and occupied a
verv influential position in the community where
he lived. He was a man of large stature and usually
weighed more than two hundred and fifty pounds.
He married Penelope Wellington, who was a daugh-
ter of Palsgrave and .\bigail (Sparhawk) Welling-
ton. The last named was famed for her beauty,
and before her marriage to Mr. Wellington was the
wife of Hall Sewell, a wealthy Englishman, who was
a graduate of Harvard College, and died early in
life. Enoch Slade and wife had five children The
first, a daughter, died in infancy. The second,
Samuel Wellington, became a distinguished lawyer,
residing in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont. Laura, the
third, is the widow of Asa Snow and lives in Bos-
ton. William lived and died in Thetford, Vermont.
Hannah, the youngest, is the widow of Governor
Moodv Currier, of Manchester (see Currier).

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and Han-
nah (Thompson) Slade, was born May lO. 1797,
in Alstead, New Hampshire, He was a farmer
in that town. He saw some service in the War of
1812. He enlisted in Captain James M. Warner's
company, in the Second Regiment of Detached
Militia. He enlisted September 25. 1814, for si.xty
days. Samuel (2) Slade married Emma .A.ngier,
daughter of Benjamin and Enice (Johnson) Angier.
Shewas born November 3, 1799, and had the distinc-
tion of living in three centuries. Her death occurred
May 12, 190T, at the remarkable age of one_ hundred
vears, six months and nine days. The children of
Samuel and Emma Slade were: Lucius, whose
sketch follows; Eunice, Lora, Ira, Dana, Orrissa
and Orrilla.

(V) Lucius, eldest son and child of Samuel
(2) and Emma (.^ngier) Slade, was born in Al-
stead, New Hampshire, .April 12, 1818. He attend-
ed the public schools in Ludlow, New Hampshire,
and was graduated from the school in Unity, New
Hampshire, taught bv Dr. .Monzo A. Miner, after-
wards the noted L'niversalist clergj-nian in Boston.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

For a time Lucius Slade taught school in Surry
and other places in his immediate neighborliood.
At the age of tw^enty-four he moved to Boston, and
for six months was employed by Aaron Aldrich, a
butter and egg dealer in Faneuil Hall market. He
was afterwards employed by John Miller in the same
business. In 1851 Lucius Slade formed a partner-
ship with George Rust, for the purpose of conduct-
ing the butter, cheese, and egg business in Faneuil
Hall market. Mr. Rust retired in 1851, and Mr.
Slade removed to Faneuil Hall Square, w'here he
conducted this business alone for forty-four years.
In 1896, as Mr. Slade was approaching eighty years,
he felt the need of an associate, and he took W. J.
Haves into partnership. The firm then became Lu-
cius Slade & Company. l\Ir. Slade lived on Poplar
street, on the lower slope of Beacon Hill, Boston,
till 1896, when he removed to North Cambridge,
where he died at the age of nearly eighty-six. Dur-
ing Lucius Slade's long and active life he served
as councilman two years and alderman for eight
years in Boston. He was a member of the Massa-
chusetts senate from 1862 to 1864. While alder-
man he was chairman of the committee on sewerage,
paving and public buildings. He was also a mem-
ber- of the school board. He made the public good
his chief object and he w'as a thoroughly upright
and much respected man. He was one of the oldest
of the Boston Lancers, being a member for half a
century. He was captain of the Lancers for eight
years, and was in command at the time of the Cooper
street riot, one of the draft riots of the Civil war.
After the war he was made major of a batallion
composed of the National Lancers, the Roxbui-y
Horse Guards, Prescott Light Guards and Dragoons.
During the Civil war Captain Slade was active in
forming several companies from the Lancers for the
Union army. He belonged to the Masons and Odd
Fellows, and was one of the oldest members of the
Boston Club. While in Boston Major Slade lost his
interest in New Hampshire. He bought several
farms in Walpole, on one of wdiich his daughter,
Mrs. Sawyer, now lives. Lucius Slade married Lucy
Rust, daughter of Daniel Rust, who was born in
Alstead, New Hampshire, December 3, 1817. She
was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Rust, who had
a government grant of land in Alstead, and came
there from Windsor. Connecticut. They had three
children : Franklin, who lives in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts ; Carrie, who died young; and Lelia L.,
whose sketch follows. Major Lucius Slade was a
man of great energy and business capacity, and of
a kind and genial disposition and, many people have
reason to remember his generosity. His long and
useful life ended January 13, 1904. His wife lived a
little more than a year after her husband, dying
April 5. 1895, in her eighty-eighth year.

(VI) Leila L., second daughter and youngest
child of Major Lucius and Lucy (Rust) Slade, was
born in Boston, January i, 1S57. On I\Iarch 12,
1883, she married Henry Holmes Sawyer, who was
born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. (See Sawyer,
HL)

There were several ancestors
WAKEFIELD bearing this name who settled

very early in the New England
colonics, and their descendants have been conspic-
uous for good citizenship through the numerous
generations that have taken their turn upon the
stage of life. A town in Massachusetts has been
named for the family, and its members have been
conspicuous in the fields of education, medicine,
law and the ministry. They have also been active

as business men and have contributed universally to
the mental and moral growth of society as well as
the material development of tlie 'commonwealth
in which they lived.

(I) John Wakefield, the progenitor of the fam-
ily which has been very numerously represented in
Maine, was a native of England. The first record
of him found in this country bears date January i,
1637, when at the town meeting held at Salem he was
assessed fifteen shillings as an inhabitant of Marble-
head in the Colony of Massachusetts Baj'. It is
presumable that he came as early at least as the
previous summer. On the fourteenth of the same
month, among the several portions of land laid out
at INIarblehead. he received four acres "on the Neck."
Prior to 1648. he lived in Salem, which then includ-
ed the present town of Marblehead. He first ap-
pears on record in JNIaine in 1641, when he and his
brother-in-law, John Littlefield, received a grant of
what is known as the Great Hill Farm. The hill at
that time extended much farther into the sea than
it now does, and with the projecting land at the
eastern end was called the Great Neck. This was
in the ligonia patent, and neither of the grantees
took possession probably on account of the uncer-
tainty as to their title. John Wakefield settled in
the town of Wells, where he attained considerable
prominence. Fie served as commissioner and select-
man in 1648-54-57. In each instance his father-in-
law, Edmund Littlefield, served in the same capacity.
In 1652 John Wakefield purchased Wakefield's Is-
land and removed to it in that year and there re-
sided for a time. He subsequently purchased land
in Scarboro and resided upon it several years. Thence
he removed to that part of Biddeford which is now
Saco, where he remained until his death. That he
was a man of considerable substance, is evidenced by
the fact of his buying and selling lands, and he was
frequently called upon to v.-itness deeds for other;.
In 1670, when he was probably incapacitated by ill-
ness or the infirmities of age, his wife acted as his
attorney in selling parcels of land. He died Feb-
ruary 15, 1674, and was buried at Biddeford. The
destruction of the records of Wells, Maine, leaves
us no accurate data as to the time of his marriage
or his birth or the births of his children. His wife
Elizabeth was a daughter of Edmund and Annis
Littlefield. of Wells. Her death is not recorded.
Their children included: John, James, Henry, Wil-
liam, Mary and Katherine.

(II) William, fourth son and child of John and
Elizabeth (Littlefield) Wakefield, was probably born
at Biddeford. Maine. He was possessed of some
property as is shown by the record of a deed of ten
acres of land in York township. On October 25,
1707, he went out with his brother James and four
others in a small sloop tn fish. There was a heavy
sea at the bar, and as they attempted to drive the
sloop it was upset and all were drowned. One of
the bodies was never recovered. Bourne's History
of Wells says, "These men were all valuable citizens
and their aid was greatly needed." William Wake-
field was married at Salem, March 13, 1698, to Re-
becca Littlefield. There is but one child on record,
namely : William. Tradition gives three others :
Joseph, Jonathan and Benjamin.

(III) Jonathan, third son and child of William
and Rebecca (Littlefield) Wakefield, was born in
Maine and settled in Sutton, Massachusetts, before
1734. He was a soldier in the Colonial wars, and
died in October, 1765. He was married June 22,
1732, to Abigail Smith, and his children, born in
Sutton between 1734 and 1755, were : Abigail (died
young), Jonathan, Rebecca, Tabatha, Amasa, Sam-

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uel, Silas, Isiah, Luther, Mary and Abigail.

(IV) Jonathan (2), eldest son and second chdd
of Jonathan (l) and Abigail (Smith) Wakefield,
was born October 16, 1736, in Sutton, Massachus-
etts, and served as a soldier of the Colonial wars
and also in the Revolution. He was killed in the
service at Dorchester Heights in March, 1776. Soon
after his widow and her children settled in Newport,
New Hampshire. He was married May 21, 1760,
to Anne Wheeler. Their children were: Jonathan,
Josiah, Joel, Sarah, Peter, Jesse, Lucy, Chloe and
Anna. The migration of the family to Newport oc-
curred in 1779.

(V) Peter, fourth son and sixth child of Jona-
than (2) and Anne (Wheeler) Wakefield, was
born probably at Sutton, Massachusetts, about 1767.
He came to" Newport, New Hampshire, and lived
many years in the west part of the town near the
plumbago mines. He was the father of Methodism
in this section and built the chapel at Northville,
near Newport. He also built what was afterwards
known as the Reed sawmill there; he spent his lat-
ter years at Northville. He married Hannah, sis-
ter of William Haven, and they had ten children:
Nancy, bom May 17, 177S; Lovina, mentioned be-
low; "Hannah, M'arch 31, 1793, married Cyrus Mc-
Gregor; Lucy, August 17, 1795, married Jeremiah
Adams; Simeon, ."^pril 20, 1798: Ruth, September 8,
iSoi. married. September 22, 1822, Lorenzo Freeto;
Orpha, October 24. 1804: Mahala, April 26, 1809;
Peter, June 21, i8ro; Philena, July 31, 1812.

(VI) Lovina, second daughter and child of Peter
and' Hannah (Haven) Wakefield, was born March
8, 1791. She maried, November 16. 1810, Stephen
'Aeeh, of Newport, New Hampshire. He was born
December g, 1790, and came from Plainfield, Ver-
mont, at the age of nine years. They lived at the
Reed sawmill in the northeast part of the town.
Thev had five children : Erastus, born March. IS.
180 : lioena, married .-^zor Paul; Jackson, February
20, 1819: Rowancy. married Gilman Davis; Rosella,
became the second wife of .A^zor Paul, of Newport
(quod z iilt)

This family is typical of the patient,
AFRICA persevering, progressive German stock

which peopled Pennsylvania, cleared
away the forest, settled farms, developed mines, and
made it the second state in the Union in point of
wealth and population.

(I) Christopher Africa, a native of Hanover,
now a part of Prussia, came to America about 1750,
and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, from
which he afterward removed to Hanover, in York
county. He had two sons, Michael and Jacob.

(II) Michael Africa, elder son of Christopher
.A.frica, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, and
settled in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1791. He
became one of the founders of the Lutheran Con-
gregational Church of that place, in which he was
an elder. He married Katherin Graflius, of York,
Pennsylvania.

(III) Daniel, son of Michael and Katherin
I Graffius) Africa, was born March 19, 1794, in
Huntingdon, and passed his entire life in that town.
He was a man of much intelligence and ability, and
became prominent and influential in the community.
He was deputy sur\-eyor of Huntingdon county from
1824 to 1830, was justice of the peace for twenty-two
years, and was noted for the extent and accuracy of
his legal knowledge. He married a daughter of
John Simpson, a native of Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, and a Revolutionary veteran, probably of
Scotch ancestry. His wife was a daughter of James

Murray, who took part in the Revolutionary war as
captain of the Lancaster company. The latter was
born in Scotland, and came to America in 1730,
while still very young, and resided in Paxton, now
in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.

(IV) John Simpson, only son of Daniel .-Vfrica,
was born September 15, 1832. in Huntingdon and
died there .August 8, 1900, near the close of his
sixty-eighth year. He acquired his education in the
common schools and in the academy of his native
town. For the pursuit of his chosen profession,
surveying and civil engineering, he received practical
training under the instruction of his father, and his
uncle, James Simpson. In January, 1853. he be-
came a member of the engineering corps of the
Huntington & Broad Top Mountain railroad, on its
organization under Samuel W. Mifflin, chief engineer,
and assisted in the location of the road. He was
just twenty-one years old when he received his first
public office, that of county surveyor of Huntingdon
county, i;i October, 1853. He was the Democratic
nominee, and although the normal Whig majority
was over six hundred, he obtained a majority of one
hundred and sixty-five. In 1856, a Presidential year,
he was again a candidate, the vote resulting in a tie.
But the court six months later appointed his op-
ponent. In the meantime he kept up his surveying
and became known as one of the most competent in
central Pennsylvania In 1853 he and Samuel G.
Whittaker established a weekly paper called the
Standing Stone, and for two years he was the pro-
prietor and one of its editors. In 1883 he edited
the History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, a
valuable work. In public addresses, newspaper arti-
cles, and in various other ways, he largely con-
tributed to the history of the commonwealth, and
especially that of the Valley of the Juniata.

During the sessions of the senate of Pennsyl-
vania, in 1858 and 1859, he served as journal clerk.
In October, 1859, he was elected member of the
house of representatives, serving during the session
of i860. During the Civil war, while he did not
forsake the Democratic party, he supported the
government. When the office of the Monitor, the
organ of the Democracy of Huntingdon county,
was wrecked by a mob, he was among the first to
join in a letter publicly denouncing the outrage,
and helped to re-establish the paper. In May. 1875,
he was appointed deputy secretary of internal af-
fairs, serving until May, 1879. The department was
created by the Constitution of 1873, and its organ-
ization devolved upon Mr. Africa. In 1880, at the
request of William A. Wallace, then United States
senator, President Hayes appointed him supervisor
of the census for the seventh district of Pennsyl-
vania, takin in fourteen counties in the center of
the state. The duties of this office he discharged
very thoroughly. Soon after he was appointed
cashier of the First National Bank at Huntingdon.
In 1882 he was elected secretary of internal afifairs,
and resigned his cashiership. His term was for
four years, which ended in 1887. He was one of
the incorporators of the Union Trust Company of
Philadelphia, in 1882, and was one of its directors
until his death in 1902. October 13, 1887, he was
chosen president, and held this position until he
died. He was d'tcctor of the First National Bank
of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania,, and of the Fidelity
Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia. He was
a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 300, .-Vncient
Free and Accepted Masons, and of Standing Stone
Chapter. No. 201, at Huntingdon. He served as
grand master of Masons of Pennsylvania during
1891-92, and was on standing committees of the

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Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter. He also be-
longed to the Engineers' Ckib, the Franklin Insti-
tute, and the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society.

On January I, 1S56, Mr. Africa married, at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dorothea Corbin Green-
land, of Huntingdon, who was born 1834, and died
November 15, 1S86. She was the daughter of
Joshua and Elizabeth (Wright) Greenland. Five
children were born of this union, of whom three
are now living: Benjamin Franklin, the second
child, is manager of the Gas and Electric Light
Works at Huntingdon ; James Murray, the third
child, is a civil engineer and resides at Huntingdon.
He is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic
School at Troy, New York. Walter G., twin
brother of James, is the subject of the next sketch.
Benjamin F., the eldest, and Bessie, the youngest
child of this family, died young.

(V) Walter Greenland, fourth son and child of
John Simpson and Dorothea Corbin (Greenland)
Africa, was born in Huntingdon, April 11, 1863.
He was educated in the public and private schools
of that town, and at Huntingdon Academy. After
graduation he took a place in the First National
Bank of Huntingdon, where he remained about a
year and a half, devoting his evenings and other
leisure time to the study of civil engineering. Leav-
ing that place he became connected with the firm of
Elkins & Widener, the well known gas promoters
of Philadelphia, who with their associates controlled
the gas franchises of Philadelphia and many other
cities in the United Slates. In 1885 he leased the
Huntingdon Gas works, which he successfully oper-
ated until, June 1887, when he removed to Man-
chester, New Hampshire, at the time of the organ-
ization of the People's Gaslight Company, which
soon acquired control of the Mancliester Gaslight
Company. He served as superintendent of the new
company for two years, and was then elected treas-
urer, and has since filled both positions. Before
leaving Pennsylvania his abilities and techanical
knowledge had been recognized by the state author-
ities, and he was appointed to investigate the glass
sand mining industry of that state, and at the con-
clusion of his labors in 1886 published an illustrated
report upon it. In addition to his work in connec-
tion with the People's Gaslight Company, he has
many other cares in his business relations with var-
ious industries in Manchester. He was treasurer
of the Manchester Electric Light Company twelve
years, and was president of the Manchester L^nion
Publishing Company; is treasurer of the Brodie
Electric Company; treasurer of the Ben Franklin
Electric Light Company ; director of the l\Ierchants
National Bank ; director of the Amoskeag National
Bank; director in the Elliot Manufacturing Com-
pany; trustee of the Hillsborough County Savings
Bank; president of the Manchester Garment Com-
pany ; treasurer of the Robey Concrete Company ;
president of the Cohas Building Company; director
in the East Side Company; and director of the
Derryfield Company. Mr. Africa is connected ac-
tively with so many of the leading enterprises of
Manchester that few have a greater influence upon
its industrial life than he. He is a comparatively
young man. an untiring worker, and a success in
everything he has undertaken. He is an active mem-
ber and_ first vice-president of the New England
Association of Gas Engineers, and a member of the
American Gas Institute and secretary of the Guild
of Gas Managers of New England. In politics he
is a Democrat, but not an active personal participant
in party affairs. He is a member of the Franklin
Street Congregational Church, and president of the

Manchester Young Men's Christian Association. He
is a member of the following named Masonic bodies
in ^Manchester : Washington Lodge, No. 61, in which
he is senior deacon ; Mount Horeb Royal Arch
Chapter, No. 11; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Royal
and Select Masters ; and Trinity Commandery,
Knights Templar, in which he is eminent com-
mander ; of Edmund A. Raymond Consistory of the
Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret of Nashua;
and of Bektash Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order
of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is also a
member of Wildey Lodge, No. 45, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, November 17, 1887, Maud Eva Cun-
ningham, who was born in Huntingdon, Pennsyl-
vania, daughter of Robert and Agnes Myton (Oaks)
Cunningham, of Huntingdon. They have four chil-
dren : Dorothea Cunningham, born November 18,
1S88; Esther Bessie, January 21, 1890; Walter Mur-
ray, April 22, 1892 ; Maud Isabel, April 8, 1907 ; all
born in Manchester.

This noted old English name
WELLINGTON was very early transplanted to
America in the settlement of
the New England colonies. It has been worthily
identified with the settlement and development of
New England and has spread to the remotest dis-
tricts of the United States, where it has sustained
the well known traits of New England character,
and has contributed by its industry, perseverance
and sound sense, to the upbuilding and moral worth
of many communities.

(I) Roger Wellington, the emigrant ancestor,
was born about 1610, in England, and came to Amer-
ica in 1630. He was a planter, and one of the
founders of Watertown, Massachusetts, his name
appearing on the earliest list of proprietors. In the
division of lands he received a home stall of si.\-
teen acres, four acres of meadow and two of plow-
land, and the balance distributed in five other parcels.
To these he added lands and buildings by purchase.
He was elected to town offices, and shared with his
associates the duties and privileges of townsmen.
He married Mary Palgrave, eldest daughter of
Dr. Richard Palgrave, a physician of Charlestown,
^Massachusetts. Roger Wellington died ^larch 11.
1698. His children were : John, Mary, Joseph, Ben-
jamin, Oliver and Palgrave. Hon. Roger Sherman,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and later a United States senator of Con-
necticut, was a grandson of Roger Wellington.

(II) Joseph, son of Roger and Mary (Palgrave)
Wellington, was born October 9, 1643, in Watertown,
and was a farmer of that town. His first wife
Sarah died childless, February 5, 1683, and he was
married (second), June 6, 1684. to Elizabeth
Straight, daughter of Captain Thomas and Elizabeth
(Kimball) Straight, of Watertown. Both were ad-
mitted to full communion with the Watertown
church, July 31, 1687. He died July 30, 1714. Their
children were : Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary and Sus-
anna.

(III) Thomas, only son and second child of
Joseph and Elizabeth (Straight) Wellington, was
born November 10, 1686. in Watertown. and lived in
that part of Cambridge which is now Arlington,
^Massachusetts. He was one of the prudential com-
mittee men in 1737, and a foundation member of
the Precinct Church, of which Rev. Samuel Cook
was pa'^tor. He married (first), Rebecca Whitteniore.
who died November 6, 1734, and he married
(second), in 1735. to Cherry Stone. He died Julv
3. 1759. and his widow subsequently married Captain

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James Lnnc, of Bedford. Thomas Wellington's
children were : Rebecca, Joseph, Thomas, Susanna
and Elizabeth. Susanna married Abraham Hill and
their son Isaac was a distinguished governor of
New Hampshire.

(.IV) Thomas (2), second son and third child
of Thomas (i) and Rebecca (Whittemore) Welling-
ton, was born August 6, 1714, in Cambridge, and
was a farmer and inn holder. He lived in the part
of Watertown which was incorporated as Waltham
in 1638. He was married, March 13, 1734, to Mar-
garet Stone, who was born September 15. 1718,
daughter of Jonathan and Chary (Adams) Stone
of Lexington. She survived him nearly seventeen
years, dying September 7, 1800. He passed away
November 4, 1783. Their children were: Thomas,
Elizaljeth, John, Jonathan, Susanna (.died young),
Sanniel, Jo.^'iah, William, George, Rebecca, Susanna,
Thaddeus, Sarah and Joel.

(\') George, seventh son and ninth child of
Thomas (2) and JNlargaret (Stone) Wellington,
was born October 21, 1749, in Waltham, and resided
in that town and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and
Cavendish, Vermont. He was a soldier in the Revo-
lution, participating in the Concord tight, the siege
of Boston and the battle of Bunker Hill, and was
later in the Continental regiment. He was married
in Waltham, December 24, 1772, to Lucy Peirce,
who was born March 27, 1755, daughter of Ephraim
and Lydia (White) Peirce. She died in Waltham,
April 29, 1793, and in 1796 Mr. Wellington removed
with his children to JafTrey, New Hampshire, and
thence to Cavendish, Vermont, in 1801. His chil-
dren were : Ephraim, Lydia, married Richard Wicks
of Royalton, Massachusetts; Lucy, married Deacon
David Gilmore, of JafFrey; Leonard; and John and
George, who settled in Maine.

(VI) Captain Leonard, second son and fourth
child of George and Lucy (Peirce) Wellington, was
born 1780, in Waltham, Massachusetts, and bap-
tized March 5, of that year. He grew up in his
native town and settled in Rindge, New Hampshire,
in 1S03. He was a hatter by trade and established
a hat shop in Rindge Center, in the wing of his
house. He subsequently engaged in farming, in
which he was successful. In the War of 1812 he
was in command of a company serving at Ports-
mouth in the autumn of 1814. For many years he
was an auctioneer, and conducted a majority of
the local vendues. He was married, December 4,
1805, to Eunice Earle, who was born September lO,
I777. daughter of John and Rebecca (Page) Earle,
of Rindge. She died in 1808 and he was married
(second), September 6, l8og, to Dorcus Priest, who
died August 3, 1S17, He was married (third), Jan-
uary, 1818, to Lucinda Page, who was born January
26^ 1790, in Rindge, daughter of Abijah and Mary
(Sautel) Page. She died December 22, 1847, and
he survived her a year and a half, dying May 22,
1849. There were two children by the first marriage,
four by the second, and eight by the third, namely :
Adeline L., Eunice E.. Eliza G., Leonard W. (died
young), Charles W., Leonard P., Gilman P., Lu-
cinila, Gcorgp P., Alary Ann, Lucy G., Joel, John
and Caroline.

(VII) Joel, son of Captain Leonard Wellington
and third son and sixth child of hi.s, third wife,
Lucinda (Page) Wellington, was born July 7, 1831,
in Rindge, and grew up in his native town, where
he early began the manufacture of lumber in the vil-
lage of East Rindge, In 1870, in connection with
Colonel Otis Wright, of Nashua, he bought the box
factory -of Reuben Ramsdell and a productive area

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of timber land. They founded at this time the
Union Box and Lumber Company, which has long
been a successful institution of the tow'n. In a few
years Mr. Wellington purchased the interest of his
partner, and continued - the business thus auspi-
ciously begun. He has ably conducted an important
industry. His factory was burned in 1880 and
again in 189 — . With fortitude and courage he has
erected new factories, and was the proprietor and
active manager of this substantial industry until
very recently, when he retired from business. He
has been a useful and interesting citizen in the con-
duct of town ai?airs, and was a selectman eight
years, moderator, six years, and representa-
tive of the town in 1873-4 and 1893. He
married, November 30, 1854, Harriet Eliza-
beth Ramsdell, who w-as born JMarch 16, 1837, a
daughter of Amos and Harriet (Wright) Ramsdell,
and a lineal descendant of Prudence (Cummings)
Wright, whose defense of the bridge in Peppered,
Massachusetts, and the arrest of Leonard Whiting,
the Tory, is one of the heroic exploits of the Revo-
lution. Mrs. Wellington died November i, 1902.
She was the mother of three sons : Herbert D.,
Arthur J. and Elsworth. Tlie youngest died in
childhood. The others are mentioned at length
below.

Herbert D., eldest son of Joel and Harriet E.
(Ramsdell) Wellington, was born in Rindge, Sep-
tember 18, 1856. He married, September 15. 1881.
Harriet A. Wright, born April i, 1862. daughter of
Laban and Susan Adaline (Sawin) Wright of Ash-
burnham. Massachusetts. He was supervisor; select-
man and representative of Rindge, and removed,
in 1899, from that town to Fitchburg, Massachusetts
wdiere he now resides. Two of their three children
died in infancy. Their daughter. Bertha .Elizabeth,
born June 16; 1884, graduated at the Fitchburg
high school, class of 1902.

(VIII) Arthur James, second son of Joel and
Harriet E. (Ramsdell) VN'ellington, was born Feb-
ruary 28, i860, in Rindge, and received his primary
education in the public schools of his native town.
He was subsequently a student at Gushing Academy,
Ashburnham, Massachusetts. At an early age he
became the foreman in the factory of his father and
for several years conducted a store owned by the
Union Box & Lumber Company. Trained to the
business of manufacturing, he easily and naturally
assumed the management of the lumber trade and
the manufacture of bo.xes when his father retired
from the business, and he is now actively carrying
forward this enterprise which was founded so long
ago in the town. He was a man of excellent busi-
ness capacity, has long been a member of the board
of education, and has served as supervisor and post-
master at East Rindge since 1897. His energy and
industry are indicated by the fact that he became
foreman in the factory while yet a youth, and his
easy transition from factory to store and vice
versa. The business requires the employment of
tw'enty-five hands and is flourishing under his charge.
He attends the Congregational Church, and is a
member of Monadnock Lodge No. 90, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of East Jaffrey, New Hamp-
shire. In politics he has always been an ardent
Republican. He is clerk and treasurer of the Me-
chanics Hall Association of East Rindge. He was
married in Rindge. June 7. 1886, to Susan Eliza-
beth Lloyd, daughter of James and Agnes Wilson
(McAdams) Lloyd. They are the parents of four
children, all of whom are graduates or students of
Gushing Academj' — Ida Maud, the eldest, gradu-

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ated in 1904; Alice Georgia in 1907; Beatrice Agnes
is a member of the class of 1910; Ralph Arthur
John, is the youngest.

This family is traced from very
WILKINS early times in English history, and

was founded in New England by
an ancestor who was one of the most prosperous
men of his time in the Colony. The oldest families
of this name in the United States are all from one
ancestor and include many members of promi-
nence.

The ancestor of the Wilkins family in Wales,
Robert de Wintons, went from England to Gla-
morganshire (now Breckmock county), Wales, in
the year 1090. He was one of the nobles sent by
William Rufus, the King, to subdue the Welsh
who caused him much trouble. The expedition was
led by Robert Fitz Hamon. After the Welsh had
retreated to the mountains Robert de Wintons re-
mained and built a castle and was lord of the
manor. The line of the Wilkins family in Wales
is published in several histories of ancient Wales,
with the crest and coat-or-arms — a Wyvern.

(I) Bray Wilkins, the ancestor of the Wilkins
family in New England, was born in 1610. He came
from Wales and settled in Salem, Massachusetts,
in 1628 or 1630. There is a record of his being there
in 1630, and the family tradition in Salem states
that he came in 162S with Endicott. As the list
of passengers on that vessel has not yet been found,
there is no documentary proof that he came with
Endicott, but it is probably true, as the ancient
tradition during the generations has so positively
asserted it to be so. Bray Wilkins went to Dor-
chester and was one of the first Jand owners, or
proprietors, as they were called in Colonial times
in Dorchester. He took the freeman's oath. May 14,
1634. Fifteen years or more he lived in Dorchester,
and then returned to Salem and purchased a tract
of seven hundred acres of land which had been
granted to Governor Richard Bellingham by the
general court. Afterward he added smaller tracts
of land to this until he owned nearly a thousand
acres, and his domain extended two miles along
the line of Reading. His estate was known as
Will's Hill, as the hill on the place had formerly
been the home of an Indian known as Black Will.
On this estate Bray Wilkins spent the remainder
of his life, living, according to the records, "like
a patriarch surrounded by his children and chil-
dren's children, and their children," for he died
January, 1702, at the age of ninety-two, most highly
esteemed by all. The record of the baptism of
his children is found in the book of the First
Church in Dorchester. After returning to Salem,
he and his wife and older children were mem-
bers of the First Church in that town, and Bray
and Anna Wilkins are the first signatures to the
petition for permission to withdraw from the
church in Salem for the purpose of forming one at
Salem Village, as his estate was nine miles from
Salem and but two and a half miles from Salem
Village (now Danvers), where a church was founded
when a sufficient number of families had settled
in that part of the town. This was the church of
which the minister, Samuel Paris, took so active
a part in the witchcraft delusions in 1692. About
twenty-five years after the death of Bray Wilkins,
his estate and some of his neighbors were set off
to form the town of Middleton. Bray Wilkins'
wife's name was Anna Gingell. and they had eight
children, six sons and two daughters ; Samuel,

Jolm, Lydia, Thomas, ^Margaret, Henry, Benjamin
and James.

(H) John, second son and child of Bray and
Anna (Gingell) Wilkins, was baptized March 2,
1642, and died before the completion of his thir-
tieth year, in January. 1672. His wife's name ap-
pears to have been Mary, but no record of their
children's births has been discovered.

(Ill) John (2), son of John (i) and Mary
Wilkins, probably resided for a time in that part
of Salem now called Danvers, and subsequently
lived for several years in Middleton, Massachu-
setts, whence he removed to the northerly part of
Marlboro, and there resided for the remainder of
his life, and died May 14, 1763. The church rec-
ords of Salem show intention of marriage, pub-
lished October 24, 1713, of John Wilkins and Mary
Goodale. Their children, born in Middleton, were :
Josiah, John and Edward.

(,1V) Josiah, eldest son of John (2) and Mary
(Goodale) Wilkins, was born July i, 1718. He
married Lois Bush, who was born March 8, 1721,
daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Bush. Lois died
May 25, 1796, surviving her husband, whose death
occurred August 21, 1784. Their children were:
John, Jonathan (died young), Mary, Josiah, Jona-
than, Levi, Lois and David.

(V) Jonathan, fifth child and fourth son of
Josiah and Lois (Bush) Wilkins, was born in
Marlboro, June 19, 1755. He was a student in
theology at Dartmouth College, from which he was
graduated in 1779, and subsequently went to Concord
as a candidate for the pastorate. He continued to
preach in that capacity until December 17, 1786,
when he received a unanimous call from the church
to become its regular pastor, and on the following
day a similar invitation was tendered him by the
town, guaranteeing a salary of one hundred pounds,
with the use of the parsonage (excepting the
Meadow lot) and the sum of two hundred pounds
towards a settlement. This offer he declined, and
abandoning the pulpit he turned his attention to
agriculture, purchasing a farm at the "Eleven Lots"
(so called), located at the juncture of the roads
on the west side, in the immediate vicinity of the
residence of the Countess of Rumford. His house
was still standing in 1855. Jonathan Wilkins served
as a selectman for Concord for the years 1801-03-
04-05, was commissioned a justice of the peace in
1802, and frequently officiated as moderator at town
meetings. In 1797 he was chosen clerk of the
church, and in 181 1 was made a deacon, in which
capacity lie continued to serve until his death, which
occurred March 9, 1830. July 3, 1787, he married
Sarah Hall, who was born August 29, 1770, daugh-
ter of Jeremiah and Esther Whittemore (Wood-
man) Hall, and granddaughter of Deacon Joseph
Hall, Senior. She became the mother of twelve
children, namely : Sophia Janette, Jeremiah Hall,
Joseph H., Sarah, Esther, Fanny, Cynthia, Caroline,
Rufus, Mary T., Erastus and Charlotte. Sarah be-
came the wife of Dr. John L. Sargent (see Sar-
gent, VI). The mother of these children died
February 16, 1826. ,

■ (VI) Jeremiah Hall, second child and eldest
son of Jonathan and Sarah (Hall) Wilkins, was
born in Concord, December 25, 1791. He went from
Concord to Pembroke about the year 1815, and for
a period of forty years was a prosperous merchant
dealing in dry goods, groceries and other merchan-
dise. At the time of his death, which occurred
October 20, 1864, he was considered one of the
wealthiest residents of Pembroke, and he was also

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one of the ablest business men and astute public
ofiicials, possessing to the fullest extent the esteem
and confidence of his fellow-townsmen. As select-
man, town treasurer and representative to the legis-
lature, he was instrumental in forwarding the inter-
ests of the community of which he was for half
a century a prominent and honorable member. In
politics he was originally a Whig, but his opinions
in relation to the slavery question led him into the
ranks of the Republican party at its formation, and
he was a loyal supporter of the Union during the
Civil war. He was a Congregationalist and an
active church-member. On September i6, 1817,
he married Mary Thompson, who was born in
Bow, New Hampshire, December 4, 1799, daugh-
ter of Robert and Judith (Noyes; Thompson, of
that town (see Thompson, V). She died in Pem-
broke, May 19, 1S79, having been the mother of
fourteen children, whose names are : Sarah, born
February 28, 1818, married David Austin. Charles,
December 21, 1819, died November 2, 1820. Alan-
son, jNIarch 31, 1822, died June 16, 1S63. Sophia,
August 5, 1824, married Samuel Chandler, of Pea-
cham, Vermont, June 23, 1847, and died November
24, 1869. Francis, April 23, 1826, married Ann
George, of Warren, New Hampshire, July 30, 1854,
and died March 15, 1901. George, December 29,
1827, died July 22, 1829. Caroline, September 15,
1831, married, January 23, 1844, Franklin Hale, of
Chester, died September 15, 1857. Thompson, De-
cember 27, 1S32, died October 3, 1833. Henry, July
7, 1836, served as a marine in the United States
navy during the Rebellion. Charlotte, June 27,
1838, died June 13, 1840. Mary Esther, March 23,
1840, married Dr. John Sullivan, December 7. 1863.
Hall, September 14, 1S42, married Lizzie H. East-
man. Joseph, the date of whose birth will be re-
corded presently. Harriet, April 25, 1848, married
Dr. Frederick E. Potter, United States navy (see
Potter, Vni).

(.VH) Joseph, youngest son of Jeremiah Hall
and Mary (Thompson) Wilkins, was born in Sun-
cook, New Hampshire, May 24, 1844. After con-
cluding his attendance at the public schools he went
to Chicago, and in the summer of 1864 enlisted as
a private in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-
second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with
which he served in the Civil war until December of
that year, when he was honorably discharged and
mustered out. He participated in the battles of
guerrilla warfare. Learning the art of photography
he has followed it continuously from 1867 to the
present time, and for the past thirty years has
been identified with that business in Suncook, hav-
ing attained a most gratifying success. Politically
he acts with the Republican party. He is a comrade
of the Grand Army of the Republic and belongs
to Louis Bell Post, No. 3, of Manchester, New
Hampshire. On June 23, 1897, Mf- Wilkins was
joined in marriage with Lora Emery, who was
born in Allenstown. New Hampshire, daughter of
Seth and Lorinda H. (Ames) Emery.

(II) Thomas, third son of Bray and Anna
(Gingell) Wilkins, was baptized March 16, 1647,
and died October, 1717. He married Hannah
Nichols, May, 1667. Their children were : Hannah,
born 1669, Thomas, Bray, Joseph, Isaac and Henry.

(III) Bray (2), second son and third child of
Thomas and Hannah (Nichols) Wilkins, was born
in Salem, Massachusetts. He married February
10, 1701-02, Rebecca Knight, of Salem, and they
had nine children, five sons and four daughters:
Rebecca, born May 18, 1703; Penelope, Septembel
22, 1704; Israel, January 6, 1706; Phineas, Decem-

ber 26, 1708; Ithamar, September 15. 1711; Me-
hitable, September 6, 1712; Abigail, July 28, 1716;
Joshua, August 26, 1718; Ichabod, July 7, 1720.

(IV) Israel, third child and eldest son of Bray
(2) and Rebecca (Knight) Wilkins, was born in
Salem, Massachusetts, January 7, 1706. He mar--
ried Margaret Case, July 18, 1726, and they had
children: Israel, Bray, Hannah, ?klargaret, Rachel
and Mary.

(V) Bray (3), second son of Israel and Mar-
garet (Case) Wilkins, was born in Salem, April
20, 1729. He was a minute man and answered
the Lexington alarm on the 19th of April, 1775;
he enlisted for eight months immediately after, at
Cambridge, and served in the battle of Bunker Hill,
June 17, 1775, in Captain Archelaus Thomas's com-
pany. Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's (Twenty-seventh)
regiment. He married, April 11, 1750, Lucy W'il-
kins, born March 16, 1729, daughter of Hezekiah
and Mehitable Wilkins. (i\Iention of sons. Bray
and Hezekiah, and descendants appears in this
article.)

(VI) Bray (4), son of Bray (3) and Lucy
(Wilkins) W'ifkins, was born April, 1755, in Middle-
ton, and lived in that town. He was a soldier in
the Revolution. He was married, jNIarch 6, 1781,
to Lucy French Blanchard, of New Boston, New
Flampsiiire, a n' afterwards lived on Wolf Hill, in
Deering, that 5-ate. She was born April 21, 1755,
a daughter of Nicholas and Priscilla (French)
Blanchard, of Hollis. They had children : Lucy,
Sally, Ann, Betsey, Polly, David, James, John and
Isaac and Rebecca (twins).

(VII) James, second son of Bray (4) and
Lucy French (Blanchard) Wilkins, was born in
Deering, New Hampshire, November 10, 1791. He
moved to Henniker, New Hampshire, April 18,
1831, and erected the buildings near the center of
the town, where his son James afterwards lived.
He was a wheelwright by trade, a man of skill
and an excellent citizen. He was a Republican in
politics, but never cared to hold office, and was
a member of the Congregational Church. He was
a strong advocate of, the temperance and anti-slavery
movements. He married (first) Abigail Chase, of
Deering, New Hampshire. They had one daughter,
Abigail. On November 28, 1820, Mr. Wilkins mar-
ried his second wife, Sarah Fulton, daughter of
Alexander and Sarah (Blair) Fulton, the last
named a native of New Boston. Mrs. Wilkins was
born in Deering, New Hampshire, February 10,
1804, and was a woman of fine taste, excellent judg-
ment and high ideals. Most of her married life
was spent in Henniker, where she was a member
of the Congregational Church, and where she reared
a family of ten children, six of whom she was
called to bury in infancy and youth. In later years
Mrs. Wilkins found a home with her daughter,
j\Irs. Oliver Pillsbury, at Concord, New Hampshire,
where she was devotedly cared for and where her
well spent life came to a peaceful close, January
21, 1892, at the age of eighty-eight years. Mr.
James Wilkins died June 7, 1869. The ten chil-
dren of James and Sarah (Fulton) Wilkins are
thus briefly described: Gawn. born January 16,
1822, wheelwright, merchant, postmaster, served in
the Civil war, where he was first lieutenant of the
Seventeenth Illinois Regiment; married Lucy W.
Cogswell, November 17, 1870, and resided in Hen-
niker. Sarah, born July ig. 1824, died October
21, 1825. Betsey Jane, born January 9, 1827, died
August II, 1869. Sarah is mentioned below. James,
born January 10, 1831, married Charlotte A. Abbott,
December 23, 1858; was a wheelwright, farmer,

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selectman and town treasurer in Henniker. George
May, born October lo, 1833, died in the Civil war.
Charles, born July 7, 1835, died in the Civil war.
Henrietta, born November 21, 1837, married James
S. Taylor and (second^ Charles A. Sayward, of
Ipswich, Massachusetts. William H. (twin of
Henrietta), born November 21, 1837, died March
13. 1S39. Mary Childs, borri Alarch 13, 1840, died
July b, 1859. Few parents made a larger sacrifice
for their country than iMr. and Mrs. James Wil-
kins. Of the four sons who lived to maturity three
served in the Civil war, and two gave their lives
during the summer of 1863. Lieutenant Charles
Wilkins enlisted in Company B, Second Regiment,
New Hampshire Volunteers, June i, 1861, for three
years. He was severely wounded at the first battle
of Bull Run. Before his wound was healed he
received a commission in the First Regiment,
United States Infantry, and joined his command
then stationed at Corinth, Mississippi. He took
part in several battles and skirmishes, was fatally
wounded during the siege of Vicksburg, and died
at a hospital in St. Louis, June 20, 1863. His body
was brought home and was buried with Masonic
honors amid the mourning of the whole town. His
was the first body buried in the new cemetery.
Lieutenant George M. Wilkins enlisted as a private
in Company K, Sixteenth Regiment, New Hamp-
shire Volunteers. He entered the service November
20, 1862, and saw active duty with his regiment
in Louisiana ; was promoted to quartermaster-ser-
geant and second lieutenant, and died at Belle-
fontaine, Ohio, on the return of the regiment by
way of the Mississippi river. His death occurred
August 26, 1863, and his body was brought home
and buried with Masonic honors, barely two months
after his younger brother had been laid away.

(VHI) Sarah, third daughter and fourth child
of James and Sarah (Fulton) Wilkins, was born
in Deering, New Hampshire, January 6, 1829. She
was married to Oliver PiUsbury, December 24,
1850 (see PiUsbury, VH).

(VI) Hezekiah, son of Bray and Lucy (Wil-
kins) Wilkins, was born in j\Iiddleton (formerly
a part of Salem) and baptized May 22, 1763. He
moved to New Hampshire, and settled in Deering,
where he died November 10, 1837, aged seventy-
four years. He married Margaret Armor, born
1762, daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Spear)
Armor, of Windham, New Hampshire, who died
December 26, 1841, aged seventy-nine. Children:
Gawn, Polly, Sally, Isaac, Rodney and Andrew.

(VII) Rodney, son of Hezekiah and Margaret
(Armor) Wilkins, was born in Deering, New
Hampshire, July 26, 1805, and died at Hillsborough
Bridge, November 3, 1861. He married, April, 1842,
Harriet L. EUinwood, daughter of David and Alice
(Aiken) EUinwood, born August 28, 1819, died
January 16, 1893. They had four children: Har-
riet Alice, born September 17, 1843 ; Charles Taylor,
February 15, 1846; Eudora Calista, December 29,
1847, died January 13, 1857 ; Clarence Herbert, May
12, 1855, married, June 11, 1889, Alice Wade, born
October 19, i860.

(VIII) Charles Taylor, son of Rodney and
Harriet L. (EUinwood) Wilkins, was born on a
farm in Deering, February 15, 1846. He resided
for a time at Lebanon, and later removed to Man-
chester where he has since lived. He learned the
trade of woodmoulder, and is an ingenious man
and expert w^orkman. He married, December 13,
1871, Emma A. Stewart, born May, 1850. They have
one child,. George Clarence.

(IX) George Clarence Wilkins, M. D., only

son of Charles Taylor and Emma A. (Stewart)
Wilkins, was born at Lebanon, New Hampshire.
]\Iarch 8, 1876, and came with his parents to Man-
chester ivhen a boy of four years of age. He
acquired his literary education in the schools of
Manchester, and graduated from the high school
in 1894. As a youth he was fond of athletic sports
and popular among his fellows. He was first lieu-
tenant of the Manchester High School Cadets, busi-
ness manager of the school paper and a manager
of the base ball and football teams. He spent a
j-ear taking a special course in preparation for the
Harvard Medical School, having Dr. William W.
Parsons as his medical preceptor. Entering Har-
vard in 1895, he graduated M. D. magna cum laude,
in 1899, being tenth in a class of one hundred and
ten students. After graduation he was house sur-
geon to Carney Flospital, Boston, for a year ; then
house physician to the Boston Lying-in-Hospital
till June, 1901. Taking the position of assistant
physician at McLean Hospital he filled that place
from June to September, when he became assistant
superintendent and resident physician at the Boston
Harbor, where he remained till January i, 1903.
Returning to Manchester at the latter date he
opened an office and has succeeded in establish-
ing a paying practice and an enviable reputation
in the profession. He is vis^iting surgeon to
Elliott Hospital, member of the New Hampshire
Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society,
New Hampshire Surgical Club, Manchester Medical
Association, of which he is secretary, and of Man-
chester Academy of Medicine. He is also a jSIason,
a member of Washington Lodge, No. 61, Man-
chester. He is a political worker, but votes the
straight Republican ticket. June 17, 1903, Dr.
Wilkins married Sara L. Stuart, daughter of Zach-
ariah B. and Rose L. (George) Stuart, born in
jNlanchester, September 20. 1877.

(IV) The first of .whom authentic record can
be found in this line was Stephen Wilkins, who
was born 1712, in Salem, Massachusetts, as shown
by his family record. The records of Salem contain
no mention of him and it is quite possible that he
was born in some town near Salem. He may have
been a son of John (2) Wilkins and his w'ife Abi-
gail, who were married April 10, 1710, in Salem.
On September 15. 171 1, Nehemiah Wilkins. of Box-
ford, was married to Susanna Wilkins, of Salem.
We have no record of their children. It is pos-
sible that Stephen might have been among them.
He died April i, 1742, aged thirty years. He was
married, August 24, 1732, at the age of about twenty
years, to Hannah Curtis, who was born in 1714.
Their children were : Phoebe and Stephen.

(V) Stephen (2), only son of Stephen (i)
and Hannah (Curtis) Wilkins, .was born May 17,
I733> in IMiddleton, Massachusetts. He was a sol-
dier in the French and Indian war and participated
in the storming of the fort at Ticonderoga under
General Abercrombie in 1758. At the beginning
of the Revolutionary struggle he was captain of a
militia company at Middleton, ^Massachusetts. On
the night of the i6th of June, 1775, he marched
with his company to Charlestown arriving there
on the morning of the 17th after the British had
placed batteries to attack Charlestown Neck. The
colonel commanding the regiment of which Captain
Wilkins' company was a part, refused to permit
his command to pass over the Neck and join their
comrades on Bunker Hill in the memorable battle of
that day. Soon after this Captain Wilkins was made
lieutenant in the Continental army, and was sta-
tioned for a period of eight months on Winter Hill

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in Charlestown. He was subsequently commissioned
captain and ordered with his company to Ticonder-
oga. Returning from the army in the spring of
1777, Captain Wilkins sold his farm in Jvliddleton,
Massachusetts, and purchased one in ^lerrimack,
New Hampshire. This was situated on the north
bank of the Souhegan river, there and one-half miles
above its mouth. His residence on this farm re-
mained standing until within a short period of
the present time. It was occupied as a residence
for more than one hundred years. Previous to the
construction of a meetinghouse in Merrimack, re-
ligious meetings were held in this house, then owned
by Captain Joseph Blanchard. The farm remained
in the hands of Captain Wilkin's descendants until
1848, when it was sold. He and his wife were for
many years consistent members of Rev. Dr. Bur-
nap's church. Both lived to a good old age and
were respected and beloved by their contemporaries.
Stephen (2) Wilkins was married, April 11, 1760,
to Anna Berry, at Middleton, Massachusetts. He
died at Merrimack, August 27, 1832, having sur-
vived his wife more than twelve years. She died
April 22, 1820. Their children were : Andrew,
Stephen (died you4ig), Hannah, Lucy, Stephen,
Levi and James.

(VI) Levi, son of Stephen (2) and Anna
(Berry) Wilkins, was born January 23, 1776, in
Middleton, Massachusetts, and was a child when
taken by his parents to Merrimack, New Hampshire,
where he grew up and passed his life. He died
there August 14, 1845, in his seventieth year. He
was a farmer by occupation and resided on the
homestead of his father in Merrimack. He was
an active member of the Congregational Church,
and his example was entirely consistent with his
professions. His nature was 'pleasant and social,
he was kind to both his family and his neighbors
and was almost universally beloved and respected
in the town. For seven years he was elected to the
office of selectman, which he tilled with credit to
himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents.
He was married, January 27, 1803, to Ann Mc-
Cauley, who was born Sep<sember 15, 1779, in
Merrimack, and survived her husband more than
eighteen years, dying at Nashua, November 9, 1863,
in her eighty-fifth year. They had severt children,
namely: Alexander ]McC., Roxanna, Levi T. (died
young), Lucy A., Hannah, Levi and one which died
unnamed in infancy.

(VH) Alexander McCauley, eldest child of
Levi and Ann (McCauley) Wilkins, was born
February 25, 1806, and died November 28. 1896,
aged ninety years. He obtained in the district
school an education that enabled him tO' teach
winters for many years. He spent the remainder
of his time in cultivating his farm and in lumbering.
He owned a mill on Souhegan river, where he cut
considerable lumber. In 1856 he bought the farm
on which he spent the remainder of his life. He was
a man of means and sterling integrity and of much
influence in his town. He settled many estates
and was a director in the Indian Head Bank of
Nashua. In the political affairs of the town he was
a central figure. He held the office of justice of
the peace thirty years, town clerk, chairman of
the board of selectmen five years, and represented
the town in the legislature in 1855. He was a mem-
ber of the committees which had charge ol the
Thornton ^lonument and the Soldiers' Monument.
He married, December 2, 1834, Caroline Richmond
Stearns, who was born August 13. 1812, daughter
of James and (Lydia) (Glover) Stearns, of Am-
herst. She died June 13, 1894, aged eighty-three

years. Their children were: Lucy Ann, Frank-
lin Addison, James M. and i\lary Caroline.

(VIII) Lucy Ann, eldest child of Alexander
McG. and Caroline Richmond (Stearns) Wilkins,
was born in Merrimack, January 22, 1836, and was
educated in the district schools, at Magaw Insti-
tute, and at Nashua and Francistown, graduating
from the McGaw Institute at the age of eighteen.
She soon afterward began teaching ancf made that
her vocation in life for several years. She taught
successfully in every district in Merrimack, con-
tinuing her labors until 1879, when she left the
school room to become the housekeeper and com-
panion of her father who was then seventy-three
years old. She faithfully discharged her duties
to him until his death in 1894. December 11, 1895,
she became the wife of James W. Fosdick, of Msr-
rimack.

(I) Aaron Wilkins, son of Uriah and Lydia
Wilkins, was born in Middleton, Massachusetts,
October 20, 1745, and was killed in Amherst, New
Hampshire, by a falling tree, April 23, iSoo, aged
fifty-five. He settled in Amlierst with his fam.ily
in 1779. He married Lydia Smith, who was born
November 9, 1755, and died March 25, 1837, at the
age of eighty-two. Their children were : Aaron,
Alexander, Lydia (died young), Naomi, Lydia,
Uriah, Eliab, Clara Smith and Orpah.

(II) Aaron (2), eldest child of Aaron d)
and Lydia (Smith) Wilkins, was born in INIiddle-
ton. Massachusetts, February 17, 1778, and died
in Amherst, June 3. 1862, aged eighty-four. He
succeeded to the paternal homestead, . and was a
substantial, progressive citizen, and an upright and
honest man. He married, September 16, 1824, Sarah
Flint, widow of Simeon Flint, and daughter of Dea-
con Jacob and Sarah (Lamson) Kendall, of Amherst.
She was a great-granddaughter of Samuel L;un-
son, who resided in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1676.
She was born January 17, 1784, and died September
14, 1861. They had but one child, Aaron S., whose
sketch follows.

(III) Aaron Smith, only child of Aaron (2)
and Sarah (Kendall) Wilkins, was born in Am-
herst, January 25, 1827, and died April, 1900, aged
seventy-three. He resided on the ancestral acres,
and was a man of substance and influence. Jle
was selectman in i87S-76-77> was commissi ined
justice of the peace in 1874, and elected deacon in
the Congregational Church, April 9, 1874, serving
until his death. He was a skillful farmer of ad-
vanced ideas, and a past master of Souhegan Grange,
No. 10, Patrons of Husbandry. He married, No-
vember 18, 1852, Martha Abigail McClure, who was
born in Merrimack, April 15, 1829, daughter of
Asa and Mary (Allen) McClure. They were the
parents of seven children : Aaron ^lilton, George
Henry, Frank Edwin, Charles, Lincoln, Bertha
Maria, Harry Albert and Lizzie Lawrence.

(IV) Aaron ^Milton, eldest child of Aaron S.
and Martha A. (McClure) Wilkins. was born in
Amherst, January 22. 1854. He was educated in
the public schools and at McCoUum Institute, j\Iount
Vernon. He was a teamster for a time, and in
1S73 began work in the saw mill of Frank Harts-
horn. He is now a niember of the firm of Wil-
kins Brothers, box manufacturers, of Milford. For
years he has been a leading man in the business
enterprises of Milford. He has been a town super-
visor, police judge, chairman of the board of edu-
cation, and was senator from the fifteenth district
in 1903. He is a moderator of the town, an oflice
he has filled continuously for eleven years, and is
a past master of Souhegan Grange. No. lo. Patrons.

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of Husbandry, and of Custos Morem Lodge, No. 42,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a deacon
of the Congregational Church at Amherst, and
superintendent if its Sunday school for twenty
years. He married, September 23, 1880, Lucy A.
Hartshorn (see Hartshorn), who was born in Am-
herst, December 10, i860, daughter of Frank and
Elizabeth P. (Knight) Hartshorn, of Amherst. She
is a member of the Kings Daughters, and active
in church work. They have three children :
Harold, born April 25, 1887; Aaron Wallace, Au-
gust 5, 1889; Miriam E., September S, 1894.

Several Watsons came to this
WATSON country prior to 1650. Tradition has
it that they were brothers, or near
relatives, but the only fact in corroboration of this
is the circumstantial evidence of similarity of family
names, which was maintained for two or three
generations, and some of them to the present time.
It is said that they came from England, and it is
known that Robert, who settled in Windsor, Con-
necticut, in 1632, was a bellfounder from London.
John owned an estate in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
as early as 1638. Thomas was admitted to the
church in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1639. Another
John was in Hartford, Connecticut, as early as
1644. Nicodemus sailed from England for Vir-
ginia in 1635.

(I) John Watson, the ancestor of this line,
resided in Salisbury, jNIassachusetts, and on March
22, 1687-88, married Ruth Griffin. He died April
25, 1710. He and his wife were signers of the
Bradford Petition. Their children, born in Salis-
bury, were : Abraham, John, Ebenezer, Hannah,
Jonathan and Ruth.

(H) Jonathan, son of John and Ruth (Griffin)
Watson, was born October 12, 1696. When the town
of South Hampton, New Hampshire was incorpor-
ated in 1742, it was constituted from a part of Ames-
bury and Salisbury, Massachusetts, and in the trans-
action Jonathan's estate and that of several others
were included in the new town, so that during the
remainder of his life he was a citizen of the town of
South Hampton, New Hampshire. His occupation
was that of a cooper. He saw considerable service
as a soldier. In 1724 he served in Captain Samuel
Wheelwright's company, in an expedition against the
Indians in Maine ; in 1745 he served in Captain
Ladd's company. Colonel Moore's regiment, in the
expedition against Louisburg. He was for many
years a prominent citizen of South Hampton, taking
an active part in the affairs of the tow-n, particularly
in the religious controversies of the time with re-
spect to church affairs in that section of the state,
as is shown by the numerous documents and peti-
tions now on file in the state department. He mar-
ried, in Amesbury, Massachusetts, Eleanor Flanders,
born January 19, 1701-02, daughter of Daniel and
Sarah (Colby) Flanders. Their children were:
Nicodemus, Zebediah, Daniel, Peletiah, Parmenas
and John, and it is said by some of their descendants
that there were also an Obediah, a Nathaniel, a Ben-
jamin, and perhaps others. Of the first six we have
authentic records, with their family histories.

(Ill) Nicodemus, son of Jonathan and Eleanor
(Flanders) Watson, was born about 1725. probably,
and died in Weare, New Hampshire, in 1812. He
settled in Hampstead, New Hampshire, where he
resided until a short time before the Revolution,
when he removed to Weare. His occupation was
farming, and he was one of the citizens of the town
who, in 1776, signed the New Hampshire Declara-
tion of Independence, known as the ".'^association

Test." Evidently he was one of the more prominent
citizens of the town. In 1782 he was elected one
of a committee of five to report upon a "form of
government." He married (published January 16,
1750, marriage recorded, 1754), Elizabeth, born
August 8, 1732, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth
(Simonds) Harriman, and a descendant of Leonard
Harriman, who emigrated from Rowley, Yorkshire
county, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, 1638.
The children of Nicodemus and Elizabeth (Harri-
man), Watson, all born in Hampstead, New Hamp-
shire, were: Daniel, Abijah, Caleb and Ithamar.

(IV) Caleb, son of Nicodemus and Elizabeth
(Harriman) Watson, was born December 15, 1761,
died April 28, 1832, at Salisbury, New Hampshire.
In 1778 he removed with his family from Weare to
Salisbury where he built a log house and endured all
the hardships incident to pioneer life; and developed a
valuable farm, and became a trusted citizen of the
locality. His chief business was farming, but he
was a natural mechanic, and was skilled in the mak-
ing of cart wheels, ox yokes, barrels, boots and
shoes, and other necessaries of life. He was for
many, years a deacon in the Freewill Baptist Church.
He served as a soldier in the Revolution, in "Capt.
Samuel Runnels' Company of Foot from the State
of New Hampshire now in the service of the United
States of America Stationed on the Western front-
iers under the command of IMajr. Whitcomb," and
also served as a soldier in 1780 in the Coos country.
He married, December i, 1781, Lydia, daughter
of Thomas Howlet, of Hillsborough, New Hamp-
shire. She was born November 23, 1761, died March
20, 1842. Thomas Howlet was one of the earlier
settlers of Henniker, New Haihpshire, having come
from Massachusetts in 1766. He was a man of
some prominence in' town affairs. The children of
Caleb and Lydia (Howlet) Watson were: Thomas,
Ithamar, Caleb, Lydia, Safford, Moses, Alice, Han-
nah and Mark K. (Mention of Caleb (2) and his
descendants is given below).

(V) Ithamar, son of Caleb and Elizabeth (How-
let) Watson, was born in Weare, New Hampshire,
September 7, 1784, died in Salisbury, New Hamp-
shire, November 2, 1855. He was a school teacher,
mechanic, and later a farmer. He made wool card-
ing machines, spinning jennies, etc., and was said
to be a master workman. In the War of 1812 he
was captain of a company of minute men, and for
some years of the Blackwater' militia company at
Salisbury. His fine physique and military bearing
well fitted him for a commander. For many years
he was master of the Warner, New Hampshire,
Lodge of Masons. On December 25, 1807. he mar-
ried Dolly (Dorothy), born October 4, 1784, daugh-
ter of Stephen and Keziah (Cheney) Thurston, of
Rowley, Massachusetts. She was fifth in descent
from Daniel Thurston, who emigrated from England
to New England about 1650. She died June 6, 1859.
Their children were : Henry Lyman, Malinda
Cheney, Joseph Warren and Porter Baldwin.

(VI) Porter Baldwin, son of Ithamar and Dolly
(Thurston) Watson, w^as born in Corinth, Vermont^
July 13, 1825, and died in Littleton. New Hamp-
shire, January 22, 1894. He settled in Salisbury,
New Hampshire, and was a farmer by occupation.
Fle was one of the selectmen of that town in 1858-
60, and representative to the legislature in 1862-63.
In 1864 he removed to Newbury, Vermont, and in
1869 to Littleton, New Hampshire, where for a few
year he was actively engaged in the manufacture of
leather and gloves. In 1883-85 he was treasurer of Graf-
ton county, declining a re-noniination. In 1889 he
was selectman and overseer of the poor ; was an

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Odd Fellow, and a member of the Unitarian Clnirch.
Married, October 17, 1848, Luvia Ellen Ladd. of
Lunenburg, Vermont, born November 25, 1830,
daughter of Pascal P. and Catherine (Rice) Ladd,
being seventh in line of descent from Daniel Ladd,
who emigrated from England to New England in
the "Mary and John of London," and took the oath
of allegiance, March 24, 1633-34, and who became
one of the original settlers of Haverhill, Massachu-
setts. He was a soldier in the Narragansett war.
The children of Porter Baldwin and Luvia Ellen
(Ladd) Watson were: Irving Allison, Idella, Wal-
ter Warren, Fred (died young), Alice May, Fred
Alland, Angle Bell, Minnie Candace and Albert
Ladd.

(VH) Irvin Allison, son of Porter Baldwin and
Luvia Ellen (Ladd) Watson, was born in Salis-
bury, New Hampshire, September 6, 1849. He re-
ceived a preliminary education in the common
schools of New Hampshire, and at the Newbury,
(Vermont) Seminary and Collegiate Institute; com-
menced the study of medicine in 1868; attended lec-
' tures at Dartmouth Medical College, and at the
medical department of the University of Vermont,
and was graduated M. D. from the latter institution
in 1871, receiving from Dartmouth College the
degree A. M. in 1885. Immediately after graduating
in medicine. Dr. Watson commenced practice at
Groveton (Northumberland) New Hampshire, re-
maining there ten years. During his residence in
that town he was several years superintendent of
schools ; was twice, in 1879 and 1881, elected to the
state legislature ; and was surgeon to the Grand
Trunk Railway. He was largely instrumental in
securing the passage of the act creating the state
board of health, was appointed one of its members,
and at its organization in September, 1881, was
elected secretary and executive officer of the board.
In October of that year he removed to Concord,
where he has since resided, still holding the office
of secretary and executive officer of the state board
of health.

■ In 1S89 the state board of health was also created
a state board of lunacy, and the executive work
of the latter board has also devolved upon Dr.
Watson. He is registrar of the vital statistics of
the state; has been president of the state board of
cattle commissioners since its organization in 1891 ;
was five times elected secretary of the American
Public Health Association, holding the office con-
tinuously from 1883 to 1897, when he resigned on
account of other duties ; was vice-president of the
Conference of State and Provincial Board of
Health of North America in 1894, and presi-
dent of the same in 1903 ; is a permanent
member of the American Medical Associa-
tion ; honorary member of the Academia Nacional
de IMedicina de Mexico ; was assistant secretary-
general of the First Pan-American Medical Con-
gress ; member of the Societe Francaise D'Hygiene
of Paris; of the Medico-Legal Society of New York;
of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of which
he was president in 1903 ; of the Centre District
(New Hampshire) Medical Society, and of numer-
ous other organizations. He is also a registered
pharmacist in the state of New Hampshire.

December 12, 1884, he was appointed surgeon,
with rank of major, of the Third Regiment, New
Hampshire National Guard; May 20, 1889. was pro-
moted medical director, with rank of lieutenant-
colonel, of the First Brigade, New Hampshire
Guard, resigning the commission in 1894. Dr. Wat-
son has compiled and edited the reports of the state
board of health, and of the department of vital

statistics since 1881 ; the report of the state com-
missioners of lunacy since 1890; the reports and
papers of the American Public Health Association
from 1883 to 1897 — a total of over fifty volumes. He
is the author of numerous papers and articles pub-
lished in these reports and in the various sanitary
and medical journals of the country, and editor
and compiler of "Physicians and Surgeons of Amer-
ica," 850 pages, illustrated, 1896. In 1891-92 Dr.
Watson traveled extensively in Mexico and Central
America. He is a Knight Templar.

Married, April 17, 1872, Lena Allen, daughter of
Oilman and Philena (Allen) Farr, of Littleton,
New Hampshire. She was born, Januar\- 8. 1S49,
and died January 30, 1901. Has one child, Bertha
May Watson.

(V) Caleb (2), third son and child of Caleb and
Lydia (Howlet) Watson, was born in Weare, New
Hampshire, February 8, 1787. He moved to War-
ner. New Hampshire, where he conducted the car-
riage business. In 1820 he removed to Salisbury,
New Hampshire, where he died April 12, i860. He
married, November 24, 1814, Rachel, daughter of
John and j\Iolly (Gordon) Couch. She died July
9, 1863. Their children were : Harriet Byron,
Sophronia Evans, Ithamar Howlet, Louisa Jane,
John Couch, Lucinda Hayes and Livonia.

(VI) John Couch, second son and fifth child of
Caleb 'and Rachel (Couch) Watson, was born in
Salisbury, New Hampshire, ^lay 13, 1828. He was
educated in the common schools. In his youth he
learned the carpenter's trade, and he followed that
and farming all his life. In politics he was a Re-
publican. He married Hannah A. !\Iorrill, daughter
of James Moore and Deborah (Woodman) Morrill,
of Warner, New Hampshire. Their children were :
Clarence Herbert, a sketch of whose life follows.
Mary E., born July 12, 1854. Alma E., June 6, 1S61.
William W., J\Iay 31, 1864. John C. Watson died
April 22, 1890, and his wife died ^larch 10, 1902.

(VII) Clarence Herbert, eldest son and child of
John Couch and Hannah A. (Morrill) Watson, was
born April 27, 1856, in Warner, New Flampshire.
He was educated in the common schools of Warner.
He first went to farming on his father's farm ; in
1893, the year of his marriage, came to the hundred
acre farm, where he now lives. He carries on a suc-
cessful dairy business, and is also engaged in lum-
bering. In politics he is a Republican, and was elec-
ted selectman in 1906. He belongs to Warner
Grange, No. 90, and attends the Congregational
Church. January 26. 1893, he married Mrs. Mary
Bates Morrill, daughter of John and Ann Elizabeth
(Thompson) Bates, of Wilmot, New Hampshire.

(I) Daniel Watson was born and

WATSON died in Meredith, where he had a

farm of one hundred acres, and was

all his life engaged in agriculture. His children

were : Job, John, Winthrop, Sally and Mary.

(11) Job Watson, son of Daniel Watson, was
born in Meredith, January 2. 1781, and died in Gil-
ford, in 1839. aged fifty-eight years. He had a farm
of one hundred acres, was a stock raiser of note,
and took a just pride in the cattle he raised. He was
a member of the Free Will Baptist Church, and in
politics a follower and admirer of General Jackson
and Thomas Jefferson. He married, Feliruary 2,
1812, Elizabeth Fiske, who was born in Ncwburj'-
port, Massachusetts, in 1793, and died in Gilford,
February 9, 1857, aged sixty-four years. Thirteen
children were born of this union, three of whom
died in infancy. The other ten living to attain
more than sixty years each. The children were:

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Eliza, Samuel, Mercy Fiske, Sarah Ann, Nancy,
Mary Jane, David, John, Elizabeth, Laura, William
W. and Samuel Orriu (twins), and Charles.
Chaplin Watson was a successful Congregational
minister who filled pastorates in Peabody, Dover,
Warham, ^lalden and Lynn.

(Ill) William Warren, eleventh child and fourth
son of Job and Elizabeth (Fiske) Watson, was born
in Gilford, July 20, 1833, and was educated in the
district schools of Gilford and at the Laconia Acad-
emy. Soon after attaining his majority he went to
New York City, where he was employed two years
in the manufacture of bolts in the shop of C. H.
Emerson Screw Bolt Company. Since that time he
has resided in Gilfprd where he has a farm of
three hundred acres, and besides carrying on that
does a large lumber business. He has built a large
residence, and in summer accommodates a number
of persons who seek health and recreation amid the
picturesque scenery of the region of Lake Winni-
pesaukee. He is a Republican, has held local offices
and is a Free Will Baptist in religion. He married,
1866, Mary E. Emerson, who was born in Hebron,
daughter of Charles H. Emerson. They have seven
children : Nellie, married Fred Potter. Charles
Henry, married Clara Gove. Winnie, who died at
twenty-two years of age. Abbie, married Frank
Smith. Nathaniel, who died young. John William,
who died at the age of twenty-one'. Alice, who
married George Lamprey, all of Gilford.

Various persons named Shaw settled

SHAW in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in

the very early years of its existence.

All seem to have come from England, but most of

them were not related to each other.

(I) Roger Shaw, the progenitor of many of the
present day families, was born in England. He
was of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, where
he was made a freeman March 14, 1639. He re-
turned about 1647 to .Hampton, New Hampshire,
where he bought the right of John Cross to cer-
tain tracts of land, and also received some grants
from the town. He soon became a large land-
holder, and an influential man. He was a select-
man in 1654: a constable also in the latter year; a
connnissioner for small cases in 1651 ; and he rep-
resented the town in the general court (of Massa-
chusetts) in 1651-52-53. He married (first) Anne;
and (second) Susanna, the widow of William Til-
ton, of Lynne. She died January 28, 1655. He
died May 29, 1662. He is known to have had
seven children, probably all by the first wife. The
children were: A daughter (Margaret, probably),
Joseph, Esther, Mary (died young), Mary, Ben-
jamin and Ann.

(H) Benjamin, son of Roger and Anne Shaw,
was born about 1641, and died December 31, 1717,
aged seventy-si.x. He was a trader, and lived on
the homestead occupied by his father. He mar-
ried. May 25. 1663, Esther Richardson, who died
May 16, 1736, aged ninety-one years. Their twelve
children vi'ere : Mary. Esther. Sarah, Abigail. Ruth,
Benjamin, Roger, Joseph, Edward (died young),
Edward, Hannah and John. (Mention of Edward
and descendants forms part of this article.)

(HI) Joseph, eighth child and third son of Ben-
jamin and Esther (Richardson) Shaw, was 'born
in Hampton, New Hampshire. November i, 1681,
and resided at Hampton Falls. He married, De-
cember 12, 1705, Hannah Johnson, born about 1684,
daughter of James and Sarah (Daniels) Johnson,
of Hampton. Their children were: Gideon. Jer-
usha, Esther, Elihu, Moses, Caleb, Mary and Sarah.

(IV) Caleb, probably a son of Joseph and
Hannah (Johnson) Shaw, was baptized July 14,
1717, and died in Kensington, December 25, 1791.
aged seventy-four. He was a patriot soldier in the
Revolutionary war. His name with others appears
on a receipt dated Medford, October 4, 1775. for'
"Four Dollars (each man) in full Satisfaction for
the regimental Coats which were promised us by
the Colony of New Hampshire." He was probably
in Captain Richard Wcare's company, as an order
on him (then lieutenant) dated Winter Hill, Jan-
uary 30, 1776, signed "Caleb Shaw." may still be
seen. His son "Caleb Shaw," Jr., of Kensington,
aged 20, is named as a soldier, June 3, 1775. A
clock inscribed "Caleb Shaw, 1749," remains in
the old home at Kensington, The clock was made
by him. In his will, made in February, 17S7, he
mentions children : Caleb, Elijah, John, Nathan-
iel (married Abigail ). Hannah and Sarah.

The Hampton Falls Church records contain the fol-
lowing: Caleb Shaw married, October 16, 1747,
Elizabeth Kimball, of Exeter, children : Hannah,
Josiah. Simeon and Hilyard.

(V) Elijah, son of Caleb and Elizabeth (Kim-
ball) Shaw, was born in Kensington, in 1760, and
died in May, 1830, aged seventy. He first resided
on the place now called the "Tuck farm." from
which he removed to his homestead on "Orchard
Hill." He married (first) Deborah Nudd, Ken-
sington: (second) Sarah Batcheldcr. of North
Hampton. He had six children by his first wife,
and two by the second: Mary, Joseph. Elijah, John
Weare. Sally, Nancy, Nathaniel and Abigail Col-
ton.

(VI) John Weare, fourth child and third son of
Elijah and Deborah (Nudd) Shaw, was born in
Kensington, June 3, 1788., and died April 23.
1852. aged sixty- four. He married (first) his
cousin, Sarah Nudd. daughter of Weare Nudd of
Kensington, (second) Ruth, dau.ghter of Thomas
Currier, of Newton, New Hampshire, (third) Sarah
(Stilson) Goodwin, (fourth) Elizabeth Stilson. sis-
ter of his third wife. He had one child by the first,
ten by the second, and four by his fourth wife, as
follows: John Eherburne. Sallv Nudd. Susan Cur-
rier, Judith Ann, Elijah Morrill and Thomas Cur-
rier ftwins), Mary Abigail. Weare Nudd. Gecrge
Washington. Nathaniel Jackson, Winborn Adams,
Zachariah and Elizabeth (twins), a child (died
voung) and Edna Elizabeth.

(VII) Captain Elijah Morrill Shaw, fourth child
and eldest son of John W. and Ruth (Currier)
Shaw, was born July 16. 1S26, in Kensington, New
Hampshire. He began securing an education in the
district schools of Exeter, New Hampshire, and the
periods of attendance on in.struction were inter-
spersed with terms of labor in the cotton factory
of that town. He had inherited from his ancestors
a natural bent for mechanics, and readily actiuired
n knowledge of the machinery employed about him.
The great success of his life was due to this tal-
ent, counled with a capacity for close application
and a disposition for persistent endeavor. He has
well been stvled a fine type of the selfmade man.
After spending a little more than a year at Phil-
lips-Exeter .Academy, he entered the employ of
the Exeter Manufacturing Company in 1848. and
thus began a business career which covered a per-
iod of more than forty years — and in which he
attained a steadily increasing prominemce among
the cotton and woolen manufacturers of New Eng-
land. When he first entered the mills of the Exeter
Manufacturing Company, his stipend was fixed at
eighty-five cents per day. This was gradually in-
creased until it amounted to seven thousand five

NEW HAAIPSHIRE.

hundred dollars per annum. During this time he
never asked for an increase of salary ; he was never
discharged from any position ; was never heard to
complain of his work and never abandoned any
employment except to enter upon a more advanced
one. He was yet a young man when his practical
knowledge of every step in the production of both
cotton and woolen goods was thorough and .com-
prehensive. Leaving E.xeter. in 1853, he became
overseer in^ the Victory mills in Saratoga. New
York, and a'fter four years in' that position, became
overseer in the Bates mill at Lewiston, Maine.
When the Civil war broke out in 1861 he was
among the first to enroll himself as a defender of
his country's integrity, and he served successively
in the First, Tenth and Twenty-ninth Maine Regi-
ments. In the first regiment lie was made second
lieutenant of Company F., but soon left this posi-
tion to accept a promotion. On October 3, 1861, he
was commissioned as adjutant of the Tenth Regi-
ment of Maine Volunteers. He became a captain
in the same regiment, March 12. 1863. Hi.s mili-
tary experience did not begin with the w'ar, as he
had previously held official stations in both Maine
and New Hampshire militia. From 1863 to 1866
Captain Shaw was employed in the Everett mills at
Lawrence, Massachusetts. During the succeeding
three years he was agent of the Crocker woolen
mill in Leominster, Massachusetts : he went from
there to Lewiston, Maine, becoming superintendent
in the woolen department in the Bates mill : sub-
sequently to this he constructed the Farwell mills
in Lisbon, !\Iaine, and was their agent until 1883.
He was subsequently agent of the Great Falls, Ver-
mont, mills, which had been on a commercial de-
cline, and were placed by him on a paying basis.
He was called to Nashua, New Hampsln're, in 18S6,
to becorne agent of the Nashua Manufacturing
Company's cotton mills, the leading manufacturing
concern there, and he filled this position until 1891,
when he resigned and retired from active business
life. Soon after this he was appointed chairman of
the board of commissioners of the state of New
Hampshire to the Columbian Exno?ition held in
Chicago in i8qs and the duties of this position were
fullfilled by him in a manner both acceptable and
creditable to the state. In the midst of his busi-
ness activities he found time to devote to many
lines of endeavor, and was much interested in
schools and church work. He also became inter-
ested in a business way as a director of the Nashua
Trust Companv. In 1S04 he was chosen treasurer
of the New Hampshire Baptist Association, and
filled that ofiice for five years. He was an active
member of the First Baptist Church of Nashua, and
was a liberal contributor to its various branches of
work, including the building fund for the Crown
Hill Mission Church, which was located upon land
donated by him. He was also a warm supporter of
every movement for the enforcement of the pro-
hibition law. He was warmly interested in geneal-
ogical research and aided in 'procuring the publica-
tion of a history of his family. In iSgg Mr. Shaw
was elected business manager of Colby .Academy at
New London, New Hamnsbire. During the' re-
mainder of his life he held this position, and made
every effort for the success of the institution. The
dearest wish of his heart was to sec it free from
indebtedness, and for this he praved, planned and
worked untiringly. He often sai'd that he asked
only to live to see this desired end brou.ght about.
On February 23. 1903. he attended the Evangelical
educational loonference held in Manchester, and
made a most effective appeal before that body in

behalf of Colby Academy. This appeal was suc-
cessful and Captain Shaw left the assembly with a
very light heart. He proceeded at once to the old
hom.e in Kensington wdierc he was born, and made
a visit to his twin brother then living there. He
had had his wish and God took him that night.

Captain Shaw was not in any sense a politician,
but he entertained well settled principles on matters
of public policy as he did upon religion, and he
was a faithful supporter of the Republican partj'.
His chief official ser\-ice was in the capacity of
representative to the state legislature, which he
held in 1881-83, in Lisbon. Maine. While in Lewis-
ton he was a member of the common council and
served as its president. He also filled other official
stations in that state. He was at one time com-
mander of the Maine department of the Gi'and
.Army of the Republic. He was a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Loyal
Legion; and was affiliated with the orders of Free
Masons, Patrons of Husbandry, and the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married -Vpril
20, 1859, to Amantha C. Sanborn, of Brentwood,
New Llampshire. She died before 1865, and in that
year he married Mary H. Davison, of Prince Ed-
wards Island. There were three children of the
first marriage: Irving Chase, Annie Elizabeth and
.Susie Shaler. The son is a carpenter residing in
Kensington. New Hampshire. The elder daughter
is the wife of Winfield S. Libbey, of Lewiston,
Maine. The younger died when two years old.
The children of the second wife were: Elijah Ray,
Susie McNeil and Helen Maude. The last two
died in childhood. Elijah Ray is the subject of the
succeeding sketch.

(VIII) Elijah Ray, only son of Captain Elijah
M. and Mary Helen (Davidson) Shaw, was Iioni
May I, 1872, in Lisbon, Maine. After passing the
minor grades he attended the Nashua high school,
Phillips Exeter Academy, the Berkley School (Brs-
ton). the New Hampshire State College, and spent
two years at the Boston University Law School.
Having decided upon a business career, in
1900 he engaged in business as a florist witli
Gaedeke & Company, of Nashua. Lie resides upon
the paternal homestead in that city, and is well-
known in business and fraternal circles. He is in-
terested in the Granite State Knitting Company, of
Nashua. He is a thirty-second degree Sir Knight
Mason. ' He is also a member of Granite Lodge,
No. T. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr.
Shaw takes an active and intelligent interest in
questions of public policy, and has been frequently
selected by his fellow citizens to fill official sta-
tions. He has served two years as a member of
the common council of Nashua, and is now (1907)
aldennan of the second ward of the city. In 1906
he was commissioned by Governor !\IcLane as
major and brigade quartermaster of the Brigade
staff. New Hampshire National Guard. He was
married in Nashua, June 9, 1904, to Louie Ethel
'I'olles who was born in Nashua, December 29, 1875,
a daughter of General Jason E. Tolles of that city
(see Tolles).

(Ill) Edward, tenth child and fifth son of Ben-
jamin and Esther (Richardson) Shaw, lived on the
paternal homestead. The records of the family
.show that his house was struck by lightning. He
married (first), June 27. 1716, Mary Johnson, born
November 4, 16S8. daughter of James and Sarah
(Daniels) Johnson, of Hampton. Married (sec-
ond), July 2, 1727, .Abigail Marshall, of Ipswich,
who died June 4. 1757. aged seventy-one years. His
children were : Jeremiah, Samuel, Mary, Ichal)od,

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Edward, and Benjamin. (The last named and de-
scendants are mentioned in this article).

(IV) Edward (2). second son and third child
of Edward (l) and Mary (Johnson) Shaw, was
born March 2, 1724, and died July 16, 1787, aged
sixt3'-three. He married, May 7, 1746, Ruth Fel-
lows, of Salisbury. Massachusetts, and died on the
homestead. She died May, 1798. aged seventy-five.
Their children were: Jeremiah, Samuel, Mary, Ich-
abod, Abigail, Simeon, Levi, and John, whose
sketch follows.

(V) John, eighth and youngest child of Ed-
ward (2) and Ruth (Fellows) Shaw, was baptized
June 14. 1761, and died August 9, 1844, aged eighty-
three. He was the successor of his father and
grandfather on the homestead. He married. No-
vember, 1801, Zipporah Towle, who was born in
Hampton, February 5, 1774, and died December 31,
1850, aged seventy-six. She was the daughter of
Samuel and Rachel (Elkins) Towle. They had:
Ruth Fellows, Simeon Brackett, Edward and
Elizabeth.

(VI) Simeon Brackett, second child and eldest
of the two sons of John and Zipporah (Towle)
Shaw, was born in 1804, and died November 16,
1871, aged sixty-seven years. He was a steady,
progressive farmer, and lived on the homestead.
He was chairman of the b^ard of selectmen several
years. He married, in 1829, Jane Perkins, who was
born June 15, 1806. and died January 7. 1878,
daughter of John and Joanna (Elkins) Perkins, of
Hampton. Their children were : Simeon and John
Brackett.

(VII) Simeon, son of Simeon B. and Jane
(Perkins) Shaw, was born March 7, 1831. He was
educated in the common schools and at Hampton
Academy. He lives on the ancestral acres and in
many ways has followed in the footsteps of his
father. For twenty-nine years he was in the em-
ploy of the Boston & Maine railroad, and a portion
of that time was section foreman. In politics he is
a Republican, and has taken some part in town af-
fairs, having been a member of the board of select-
men two years. He is a member of the Congrega-
tional Church. He married, October 26, 1855, Sarah
Elizabeth Lamprey, who was born October 26. 1835,
daughter of Captain Jesse and Mary (Johnson)
Lamprey, of Hampton. Of this union have been
born ; Simeon Albert, Mary Esther, George Ed-
ward, Martha Adelaide. Flora Webster. Charles Ed-
ward and Fred Merrill. Simeon Albert is men-
tioned below. Mary Esther married John C. Blake.
George Edward died young. Martha Adelaide mar-
ried Jotham P. Blake. Flora Webster married Al-
bert C. Wilbar and lives in Boston. Charles Ed-
ward, unmarried. Fred Merrill married Emma
Taylor, of North Hampton.

fVIII) Simeon Albert, eldest child of Simeon
and Sarah E. (Lamprey) Shaw, was born August
23. 1856. After leaving the common schools he at-
tended Hampton Academy four years and a com-
mercial school in Boston one j'ear. He resides on
the farm which has been the homestead of genera-
tions of Shaws in an unbroken line since 1647. a
fact that is worthy of particular attention, and has
scarcely a parallel in the history of New Hamp-
S'hire. He cultivates the soil, giving special atten-
tion to growing fruit. For six winters he taught
school ; since 1S73 he has been town librarian.' In
politics he is a Republican, and has been selectman
four years. He is a charter member of Oceanside
Grange. No. 260, Patrons of Husbandry, of which
he is a past master. At present he is town agent
for the Rockingham Farmers' Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Companj'. He married, in i88r, Abbie Isabel

Cole, who was born in Portsmouth in 1859, daugh-
ter of William G. and Hannah T. (Brooks) Cole.
(See Cole, II). Their children, who are of the
ninth generation on the same homestead, are : El-
rov Garfield, Everett Simeon, Ethel Brooks and
Thelma May. Elroy G., born October 18, 1881,
married Jessie Crosby, daughter of Charles H.
Crosby, of Hampton Falls. They have three chil-
dren: Harold Douglass, Eveline and Isabella.
Everett S., May 12, 1885, resides at home, is pre-
paring for college. Ethel Brooks, January 11, 1887,
married Archibald Lantz, of Hampton Falls, and
has one child, Eva May. Thelma M. was born June
17, 1900.

(IV) Benjamin (2), youngest child of Edward
(l) and Mary (Johnson) Shaw, was born March
i;, 1727. He removed to Sandown, New Hamp-
shire, where he afterward resided. He married,
August 7. 1747, Rebecca FoUansbee, and they had
Edward, Benjamin, Thomas, Joshua, Joseph and
Hannah.

(V) Lieutenant Benjamin (3), second son and
child of Benjamin (2) and Rebecca (FoUansbee)
Shaw, was born at Sandown in 1758, and died in
1825. aged sixty-seven. He removed to Weare, and
in 1815 to Salisbury, settling at what was called in
his honor. "Shaw's Comer." and purchasing the Ed-
ward Quinby house, which was burned in 1875. He
married, in Sandown, Sarah, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Sargent) Sanborn, who died April 16,
i860, aged ninety-six. She sat upon the father's
woodpile at Sandown. and heard the firing while
the battle of Bunker Hill was in progress. The
children of this marriage were : John. Elizabeth,
Benjamin. Sanborn. George, Dimond, Abram. Eli-
phalet and Ira. (Sanborn and Dimond and de-
scendants receive mention in this article).

(VI) John, eldest child of Lieutenant Benja-
min (3) and Sarah (Sanborn) Shaw, was born in
Sandown. May 22, 1785, and died March 31, 1869,
aged eighty-four. He was familiarly known as
"Farmer John." He purchased, December 10, l8ri,
lot No. 57. of the first range in Andover. and settled
upon it. Early in 1815 he removed to Salisbury,
settling on the farm now (1906) occupied by his
grandson. Jarvis B.. erecting the present buildings
in 1831. his being the first family to settle on the
hill. He was a tall and stoutly built man. an indus-
trious worker, and a person held in high esteem by
his fellow townsmen. He was an active member of
the Baptist Church. He married (first) Abigail
Nichols, who was born in Bow in 1789, and died No-
vember 26, 1842, at the age of fifty-three : he mar-
ried (second) Widow Nancy Philbrick. who died
.August 7, 1865 '■ and (third) the widow of Stephen
Sawy-er. His children were : Lorena, Oliver. San-
born. Eliphalet. Augustus. Eliza and Mary Jane.

(VII) Sanborn, third child of John and Abi-
,eail (Nichols) Shaw, was born in Andover. May I,
1814. and died in Salisbury. December i. 1901, aged
cight}--seven years. He lived on his father's farm
until he married. He then bought a farm of one
hundred and seventy-five acres on Sanborn's Hill,
where he resided six years, until 1843, and then re-
turned to Shaw's hill, where he spent the remainder
of his life. He was a prosperous farmer and stock
raiser, a respected man. of Baptist Church, and a
Democrat of the Jacksonian type. He married, No-
vember 23. 1837, Salina Severance, who was born
November 12, 1814. and died June 13. 1893. She
was a daughter of Deacon James and Sarah (True)
Severance, of Salisbury. Their children were:
Sarah J.. James S.. Abbie, Ann J., John. Byron and
True.

(VIII) John (2), second son and fifth child of

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Sanborn and Salina (Severance) Shaw, was born
January 25, 1846. He was educated in the common
schools and at East Andover Academy, and after
leaving school worked at farming in Andover for
two years. He then went to Concord, where he
was engaged in driving a quarry team until April
I, 1872, when he returned to Salisbury and in that
year with his brother, James S., bought the "Gookin
Mills" ; his brother died the following year, and
John purchased his interest, and by attention to
business and keeping a line to the times, he has
gained a good reputation throughout his own and
the surrounding towns. It is said "In his mill he
can grind more flour, and of finer quality from a
given amount of wheat, than any other flour mill in
the state." He took his son, Lewis C, into partner-
ship in 1897, and formed the firm of John Shaw &
Son, and they conduct a large and profitable busi-
ness. He owns fifty acres of land at West Salis-
bury, where he resides. He is a man of energj',
and his fellow citizens have confidence in his ability
and integrity, which they have often shown by
elcL-ting him to various town offices. He has been
a member of the school board a number of years,
was town treasurer from iS/S to 1881. selectman
eleven years, and for twenty years was moderator,
representative in 18S3, but finally declined to serve
longer. He has been a justice of the peace since
1882, and has sotlied a number of estates. In poli-
tics he is a Democrat, like his father. He is a mem-
ber of Bartlett Grange. No. 104, Monnamake Lodge,
Improved Order of Red Men. of Franklin, and
Blackwater Council, Order United American Me-
chanics. He married. September 21. 1872. Annie A.
Stevens, born August 5, 1S47. daughter of Moses J.
and Phebe W. Rogers, of Salisbury. They have had
four children: James S.., Abbie F., Lizzie (died
young) and Lewis C. James S., born November 2,
1873, is a graduate of Proctor Academy, Andover.
He studied in the office of Dr. Foster, of Boston,
received his diploma, and is now an optician in
Franklin. Abbie F.. born November 28, 1874, mar-
ried Fred. A. Dunlap ; have had two sons who died
in childhood, and lives in Antrim. Lewis C. born
January 12, 1878, is a partner in business with his
father. He married, October 6, 1904. Alice E.
Sleeper, of Franklin, and they have one child,
Mason.

(VI) Sanborn, third son and fourth child of
Lieutenant Benjamin and Sarah (Sanborn) Shaw,
was born February 20 170,3, in Weare, New Hamp-
shire, and settled in Salisburv', ,on the North road.
Late in life he removed to Northfield, where he died
February 5, 1881. He was remarkably sound and
healthy and never employed a physi'cian during his
life. He was respected as a thoroughly upright
man. He was married (first), October 19, 1819, to
Nancy A. Sherburne, of Salisbury, who died in 1841.
He was married in October, 1843. to Louisa (Smith)
Evans, a widow of Northfield, who died June 2,
i8So. The last named was the mother of two of
his children. Arabella V. and Warren. The first
wife was the mother of nine children, namely:
Elvira, Emmeline. Nancy. Elbridge, Harry. War-
ren, Sarah, Lucy J. and Peter B.

(VII) Lucy j., fifth daughter and eighth child
of Sanborn and Nancy A. (Sherburne) Shaw, was
born November 22. 7833, and became the second
wife of Moses F. Little (see Little. VII).

(VI) Dimond, fifth son and sixth child of
Lieutenant Benjamin and Sarah (Sanborn) Shaw,
was born November 5, 1798, in Weare, and settled
m Sahsburj', in 1826. He removed thence to Hill,
and died in that town May 13, 1874. He was a

farmer and a good citizen. His place in_ Salisbury
is now occupied by his son. He was married (first)
May 21, 1826, to Rachel Dresser, who was born
June 9, 179S, in Sutton, and died November 14, 1851,
in Salisbury. He married (second), February 26,
1852, Mrs. Sarah Quimby, of Hill. His children, all
born of the first wife, were: John, Mary C, Fred-
crick C. and Abigail.

(VII) INIary C, elder daughter and second
child of Dimond and Rachel (Dresser) Shaw, was
born January 6, 1828, and was married February 19,
1852, to Moses F. Little (see Little, VII).
(Second Family.)

No less than thirty-two men by the
SHAW name of Shaw were among the pioneer

settlers of New England during the sev-
enteenth century. The family whose line follows
is not descended from any of these ; the ancestor
of the present branch came direct from Scotland
in 1730.

(I) William Shaw came in 1730 from the Scotch
Highlands to Charleston, South Carolina, as aid
to an English general. Later he settled in North
Concord. Massachusetts, where he died July 10,
1S08. At the outbreak of the Revolution he en-
listed in the Continental army. He married Martha
Mills and they had one son, William, Jr., whose
sketch follows.

(II) William (2), son of William (l) and
Martha (Mills) Shaw, was born in Concord, Mas-
sachusetts, February 25. 1778. He was a farmer
and shoemaker, and came from Boston, Massa-
chusetts, to Milford, New Hampshire, in 1802.
His change of location may have been due to his
marriage, for on November 7, 1802, he married
Asenath, daughter of William and Abigail (Lewis)
Hopkins, of Milford. She was born in that town
August 19. 1869. They had five children, all bom
in Milford, New Hampshire: William (3), born
January 4, 1803. Benjamin, February 19, 1805.
George H., March 20, 1807, married Lydia, daugh-
ter of Cyrus and Hannah (Berry) Stiles, of Am-
herst, New Hampshire, was a farmer in Amherst
where he died November 8, 1895. Abigail, Decem-
ber 12. 181 1, married George W. Davis, of Prince-
ton, Massachusetts, and died February IS, i860.
Olive, June 6, 1813. married Dexter Farwell, of
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and died October 21,
1S57. William Shaw, Jr., died February 25, 1856,
on his seventy-eighth birthday.

(HI) William (3). third son of William (2)
and Asenath (Hopkins) Shaw, -was born in Mil-
ford, New Hampshire, January 4, 1803. He was a
manufacturer of violins, a phrenologist and a bo-
tanic physician. On November 20, 1823, he mar-
ried Betsey, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Burn-
ham) Hutchinson, who was born in Milford, March
21, 180S (see Hutchinson family). They had four
children, one son and three daughters. The chil-
dren were : Christopher Columbus, whose sketch
follow-s. Lutheria Adaline, born October 17, 1837,
died in Boston, October 4, 1834. Mary Jane, No-
vember 13. 1841. died September 29, 1843. Ella
Francilla, July 12, 1846, married Fred. H., son of
Alfred J. and Ann (Huse) Lj-nch, of Milford,
died February 4, 1872. William Shaw (3), died
October 25, 1870. His wife died June 22, 1889. by
accident on the railroad.

(IV) Christopher Columbus, only son and eld-
est child of William Shaw (3) and Betsey (Hutch-
inson) Shaw, was born in Milford, New Hampshire,
March 20, 1S24, on the place where he now lives.
This land was originally granted to the town of
Charlestown, Massachusetts, for school purposes.

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It was held in this way from 1659 to 1744, when
Charlestown sold it to William Hopkins, of Mil-
ford, New Hampshire, fhe great-grandfather of
Mr. Shaw. It did not descend directly, however,
for Mr. Hopkins sold it to Nathan Hutchinson,
through whom it passed to Jacob and then to Reu-
ben Hutchinson, the father of Mr. Shaw's wife.
C. C. Shaw was educated in the common schools
and at Mil ford Academy. He iirst worked on a
farm till his health failed : and at about eighteen
years of age he began retailing dry goods from
house to house. In 1844 he opened a country
store at Milford, where he continued till 1848, when
he closed out and established himself in the dry
goods business at Lawrence, Massachusetts. In
1850 he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he
was similarly engaged for a time on Hanover street.
He then connected himself with the large import-
ing and jobbing dry goods house of J. W. Blod-
gett & Company, in which he has continued either
as proprietor or salesman, most of the time since.
The firm was burned out during the great fire of
1872. and for nearly eight years Mr. Shaw .gave
up his business in Boston and retired to his farm
in Milford. About this time Mr. Shaw was attract-
■ed by the Grange movement sweeping over the
west. Mr. Shaw was one of the first men in New
Hampshire to see the possibilities of this order,
and he sent for the first organizer. General Deputy
Eben Thompson, to visit him at Milford. In two
days Granite Grange, No. 7. was organized in
Milford, with Mr. Shaw as master. A few weeks
later the State Grange was organized, and he was
elected secretary and appointed general deputy.
Subsequently he was made purchasing agent for
the state. In January, 1877, the State Mutual Fire
Insurance Company was organized with Mr. Shaw
as president. He held this position for seven years.
In December. 1884. he was chosen secretary of the
Patron's Relief Association, of which he became
president in January. 1893. From 187.3 till t88o,
at which time he resumed mercantile business in
Boston, Mr. Shaw was dargely occupied in organ-
izing subordinate granges and otherwise develop-
in.g the order in the state. He organized thirty-two
others in various New Hampshire towns. At pres-
ent Mr. Shaw is secretary of the State Grange,
and has been chairman of the executive committee
for several years (1907'). No man in the state
has done more for the interests of the order than
himself, and no one is held in higher esteem by the
older members.

Mr. Shaw has been esoecially interested in the
culture of fruit, and he has sent noteworthy ex-
hibits of fruit, fancv poultry. Chester swine and
Jersey cattle to the New England and other fairs.
He has been a trustee of the New England Agri-
cultural Society, and for many years has been a
life member of that society, also of the Massa-
chusetts Horticultural and .'\merican Pomological
societies. He was one of the committee in charge
of New Hampshire's exhibit at the Columbian Ex-
position in Chicago in 1893. Being dissatisfied
with the state's display of fruit, he decided to or-
ganize the New Hamnshire Horticultural Society,
of which he has been the continuous president. Be-
sides his other interest? Mr. Shaw is a Mason of
the thirty-second degree, and is president of the
Historical and Genealogical Society of Milford.
In politics he was born a Whig, but he early be-
came an .'\bolitioTiist. whence he joined the Repub-
lican partv upon its formation. He represented Mil-
ford in the state legislature of 1875 and 1876. and
for seven years was a member of the Republican

state committee. At one time he received the un-
solicited nomination for slate senator. In religion
he is a Liberalist, and is president of the Veteran
Spiritualist Union of Boston.

Christopher C. Shaw was united in marriage Au-
gust 27, 1846, with Rebecca Peabody, eleventh child
of Reuben and Lucy (Hutchinson) Hutchinson, of
Milford. New Hampshire. Her great-grandfather.
Captain Nathan Hutchinson, was a Revolutionary
soldier, and one of the first settlers of Milford.
(See Hutchinson family). Three children were
born of this marriage : Horatio Christopher, born
in Milford, July 31. 1847, ''^ a salesman and farm-
er at Milford, married, January 26, 1870, Eliza J.,
daughter of William and Mary (Colby) White, of
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. One child. Hattie
May, born in Wilton, New Hampshire. July 8, 1879.
Charles Jacob, born in Alilford, December i.S,
1851. was at the time of his death, November 6,
1904, a merchant in Philadelphia, he married (first)
Anna M., daughter cf Joseph A. and Elizabeth L.
(Plympton) Twitchell of ^lilford, and (second),
Elizabeth A., daughter of Thomas A. and Sarah A.
(Perkins) Worden, of Boston. He had two chil-
dren : Ralph Jacob, born February 5, 1885, and
Adele Louise, born October 21. 1888, who married
Emmett E. Boone, of Philadelphia, December 5,
1906. Hattie Lutheria, born in Boston, Massachus-
etts, July 14, 1858. died in Milford. New Hamp-
shire, January 7, 1861.

Shaw is an old English name, denoting
SHAW a grove of small trees, and was first

used in reference to persons in the
expression "atte shawe," or "at the shaw," and
finally adopted as a surname by the person living
"at the shaw," and kept by his descendants after
all local reference had been lost.

(I) Benjamin Shaw was born in Hampton.
New Hampshire. December 25, 1766, and settled
in Chichester when a young man. being the first of
the Shaw family in that town. In politics he was
a Democrat. He was a member of the Congrega-
tional Church of Chichester. He married (first)
Abigail Paige, born in 1773, died January 17. 1S31.
She had two children. John and David P. He mar-
ried (second) Ruth Sherburne. She died May 4,
1849. leaving no issue.

(II) David P., second son and child of Benja-
min and A'oigail (Paige) Shaw, was born May 27,
1797. He was educated in the common schools
and at Pembroke .^^cademy. He was much inter-
ested in militia matters, and was appointed- .'Xpril
17, 1826. captain of militia in the Thirty-eighth New
Hampshire Regiment. He also served in the War
of 1812. and was stationed at Portsmouth. He was
like his father a member of the Congregational
Church, and a Democrat. He married, October
16, 1823, Clarissa Carpenter, daughter of the Rev.
Josiah and Hannah (Morrill) Carpenter, of Chi-
chester (see Carpenter, XV), and they were the
parents of John, Josiah C, David C, Charles C.
and Benjamin.

(III) Josiah Carpenter Shaw, second son of
David and Clarissa (Carpenter) Shaw, was born in
Chichester, 1826,. and died in Concord, September
29, 1886. He left home when of age or sooner and
took up his residence in Concord. From about
1850 to 1870 he was steward in the Insane Asylum
at Concord, where by economy and a careful in-
vestment of his savings he gained a competency.
He was a Democrat in politics, and a constant at-
tendant at the Congregational Church. He mar-
ried Rosetta R. Danforth, born in the western part

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of Boscawen, now Webster, March ir, 1843, daugh-
ter of Edmund and Rhoda S. (Clough) Danforth
(see Danforth VI). There is one child of this mar-
riage, Clarence Eugene Shaw, born September 22.
187s, residing in Concord.

This name originated in Scot-
McCLINTOCK land, and the family now being
considered is descended from
a worthy Scotch Presbyterian who early in the
eighteenth century joined his compatriots in the
nortli of Ireland, whence he came to New England.
Bearers of this name have acquired distinction as
scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, notably :
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, an Irish Arctic
explorer, and John N. McClintock, the well known
civil engineer and sanitary expert of Boston, who
will be again referred to.

(I) William McClintock, a native of Scotland
and a devout Presbyterian, went to the north of
Ireland early in the eighteenth century in order
to participate in the freedom of thought and action
in religious matters enjoyed by his fellow-country-
men who had previously settled there. After re-
siding in Londonderry for a time he emigrated to
New England in 1730, and settled in Medford,
Massachusetts, near Boston. He was married four
times, three times in the old country, was (he father
of nineteen children, and lived to be ninety years
old. His third wife accompanied him to this coun-
try.

(II) William (2), son of William (i) McClin-
tock and his third wife, was born in Londonderry,
Ireland, 172Q, and was brought by his parents to
New England during his infancy. He was a resi-
dent of Medford, Massachusetts, 1757, but later re-
moved to Boothbay, Maine. His death occurred
June 3, 1779. He married second, Margaret Fuller-
ton, who bore him two children : William of Bris-
tol, Maine, see forward ; John, of Boothbay.

(II) Rev. Dr. Samuel, son of William (1) Mc-
Clintock, the immigrant, and his third wife, and
brother of William McClintock, abovementioned,
was born at Medford, Massachusetts, May i, 1732,
died April 27. 1804, in his seventy-second year. He
•was a graduate of Princeton College, a resident of
Greenland, New Hampshire, and served as chap-
lain of a New Hampshire regiment which parti-
cipated in the battle of Bunker Hill, commanded by
General Starke. He married in Portsmouth, in the
fall of 1754, lived with his wife thirty-one years,
and they were the parents of fifteen children. Four
of their sons engaged in the revolutionary war at
the same time, namely : Nathaniel, Samuel, Wil-
liam and John. Nathaniel, the eldest of the sons,
was born Alarch 21, 1757. He graduated from Har-
vard College. 1775. He was offered an ensign's com-
mission in the British army, but refused. Soon
after the battle of Lexington he joined the Ameri-
can army as lieutenant of one of the companies of
the New Hampshire line. He was appointed ad-
jutant in Colonel Poore's regiment and promoted
to the rank of brigade major when Poore
was advanced to that of brigadier-general. He
was with General Washington at the cap-
ture O'f the Hessians at Trenton in 1776,
was at Ticonderoga, and in various engage-
ments with Burgoyne's army until its final capture.
In 1780 he was killed in an engagement on board
a man-of-war. Samuel, the second son. was born
February 21, T758. was a midshipman on board the
"Rollo," a frigate in. the United States service;
was afterward a lieutenant of a frigate ship-of-
war. and was lost at sea on a merchant vessel.

William, the third son, born Februarv 4, 1759,
was killed at the battle ^ of Trenton. 'John, the
fourth son, born August 28, 1761, was in four dif-
ferent private armed ships, in three actions, and
was successively mate, prizemaster and lieutenant
before he was twenty years of age. He was the
only one of the four brothers who survived the
war. He resided in Portsmouth. New Hampshire,
and, served as naval officer for the city for a long
period of time, during the administrations of Har-
rison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore and Pierce. At the
time of his death, November 13, 1855, lie was the
oldest man residing in Portsmouth.

(III) Hon. William (3), son of William (2)
McClintock, was born in Boothbay, Maine, Sep-
tember 29. 1778. For a number of years he fol- .
lowed the sea as master of a ve'ssel, owned a farm
in Bristol, of which town he was a resident the
greater part of his life, and served as land sur-
veyor. He was quite active in public afifairs, hav-
ing served as trial justice, in the lower house of
legislature of Massachusetts and Maine, and as
a member of the first constitutional convention of
Maine. He married Fanny Young.

(IV) Captain John, son of William (3) and
Fanny (Young) McClintock, was born in Bristol,
.April 9, 1807. Like the majority of the residents
of his town, he was a seafaring man. and becom-
ing a master mariner visited all parts of the world
as captain of a merchantman. The following in-
cident will serve to emphasize his ability as a mar-
iner. While in the port of Yokohama, Japan, he
found it advantageous to accept a cargo for Callao,
Peru, and although his chronometer was disabled
and he was not in possession of the necessary
charts, with the aid of an atlas of the world and
his watch he guided his ship accurately across the
Pacific ocean and brought her safely into port. He
settled in Hallowell, Maine. He married Mary-
Bailey Shaw, daughter of William Stanley Shaw,
and had a family of six children, four of whom are
living, namely: John N., see forward. Hon. Wil-
liam E., of Chelsea, Massachusetts, chairman of
the state highway 'commission. J. Y., county en-
gineer of Monroe county, New York, resides in
Rochester. Mary E., w'ho is residing in Read-
field, Maine.

(V) John Norris McClintock. A. M.. C. E.. son
of Captain John and Mary Bailey (Shaw) Mc-
Clintock. was born in Winthrop, Maine. May 12,
TS46. HLs early education was acquired in the pub-
lic schools of Hallowell, and he w-as graduated
from Bowdoin College, 1S67. later receiving the
degree of Master of Arts from the same institu-
tion. Prior to the 'completion of his collegiate
course he was appointed to the United States
coast survey, and immediately after leaving college
he entered the government's service, in which he
was later advanced to the position of sub-assistant.
He continued in that service eight years, or until
1875, w'hen he relinquished his govenmient position
in order to establish himself as a civil engineer in
Concord, New Hampshire, in \\-hich city he had lo-
cated some four years previous. He was, how-
ever, for some time afterwards connected with the
United States engineer corps. At Concord he
built up a large and profitable general civil engin-
eering business, being employer in several import-
and undertakings, including electric railways, etc.,
and he was also connected with the geological sur-
vcv of New Hampshire. In 1879 he became owner.
publisher and editor of the Granite Monthly at
Concord, New Hampshire, and he continued to
direct the affairs of that publication until 1891, at

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the same time attending to his professional duties.
In the latter named year he found it advisable to
transfer his headquarters to Boston, where his rep-
utation was such as to enable him to comniand a
large share of general engineering work in that
city, and he was subsequently employed by the
city, the state and numerous corporations.

For the past twelve years Mr. McCHntock has
devoted his time and energies to the important mu-
nicipal problems of the proper disposal of sewage
and the purification of water, with the result that
he has succeeded in perfecting an improved sys-
tem of filteration hascd upon a thoroughly scien-
tific principle. Having purchased certain patents
which he improved through the introduction of in-
. ventions of his own, he organized what is known
as the American 'Sewage Disposal Company of
Boston, and also the Water Purification Company,
both of which have become successful enterprises of
unquestionable sanitary importance. The process
for the rapid filteration and neutralization of sew-
age, known as the Biological System, can be ap-
plied with equal efficacy to the purification of water
for domestic purposes, and in all probability con-
stitutes the most important advance in the art of
filteration yet accomplished. .^s a sanitary im-
provement its value cannot be too highly estimated,
and its adoption by the large municipalities of
America, Europe, including the city of London,
and cities in the Orient, has been attended with ex-
cellent results.

Mr. McCHntock resides in Dorchester. In addi-
tion to his duties as president and manager of the
above mentioned enterprises, he has created a large
business as a consulting engineer, particularly in ref-
erence to sewage purification, in which science he
is regarded as one of the leading experts in the
United States, and at various conventions of scien-
tific bodies he has read papers which have become '
standard authority. He is a memher of the Maine
and New Hampshire Historical societies, and other
organizations. Aside from his professional ability
he is widely and favorably known in New Hamp-
shire as the author of an excellent history of that
state. In his religious belief he is a Congregation-
alist.

Mr. McCHntock married,, October 3, 1871. Jo-
sephine Tilton, daughter of Joseph C. Tilton, of
Concord, and granddaughter of Dr. Timothy Til-
ton, of Canaan. The children of this union are:
John Tilton, an architect in Boston. .Edward
Pratt, deceased, who was a broker in New York
City, .'\rabella Chandler, resides with her parents.

A time-honored name in Ameri-
CHANDLER can annals, among the first in

New Hampshire, this has been
conspicuous in many states, and is among the
most prominent of this commonwealth today. As
jurists and legislators-, as business men and phil-
anthropists, its bearers have done service to New
Hampshire and received honor at her hands. It
has been said that Roxbury, Massachusetts, re-
ceived the best of the English emigrants in Puri-
tan days, and this family has furnished since those
olden days many of the best pioneers in many
states of the Union.

(I) William Chandler, the immigrant ancestor,
with his wife, .^nnis and four children settled at
Roxbury in 1637. Annis is supposed to have been
a sister of Deacon George Alcock, of Roxbury.
One child was born to them at Roxbury. In a
list of inhabitants at Roxbury between 1638 and
1640, William Chandler appears as the owner of

twenty-two acres of land, with seven persons in
his family. He was charged with the care on the
commons of one goat and kid, the least of any of
the residents. He took tlie freeman's oath in 1640,
and was at that time stricken with disease which
caused his demise November 26, 1641. He was
among the proprietors of Andover, w'ith his son
Thomas, and tradition says he was the owner of
the tannery at the corner of Bartlett street and
Shaw-mut avenue, Roxbury. A chronicler of his
time says he "Lived a religious & godly life among
us & fell into a Consumption to which he had, a
long time, been inclined ; he lay near a yeare
sick, in all which time his faith, patience & Godli-
ness & Contentation So Shined that Christ was
much glorified in him — he was a man of Weake
parts but Excellent faith and holiness ; he was a
Very thankful man, and much magnified God's
goodness. He was poor, but God prepared the
hearts of his people to^ him that he never wanted
that which was (at least in his Esteem) Very plent-
iful and comfortable to him — ^he died in the year
1641, and left a Sweet memory and Savor behind
him." William Chandler's widow was married
Tuly 2, 1643. to John Dane, of Barkhampstead, Eng-
land, who died in September. 1658, and she married
(third) August 9, 1660, John Parmenter of Sud-
bury, Massachusetts. The children of William and
Annis Chandler were: Hannah. Thomas, William,
John and Sarah. (Mention of William and John
and descendants forms an important portion of this
article.)

(II) Captain Thomas, second child and oldest
son of William and ."^nnis (Alcock) Chandler, was
born in 1630, and died "15 day, 1703." He came
with his parents to New England in 1637, when he
was about seven years old. He was one of the
proprietors and early pioneers in the settlement of
Andover, and his name is twenty-third "of the house-
holders in order as they came to town." He was
employed with George Abbot, senior, and others, to
lay out lands granted individuals by the general
court. An old record reads : "It is ordered, that
Thomas Chandler be leften'nt in ye ffoot Com-
pany in Andover, John Stephens. Ensign, under
the command of Dudley Bradstreet, Capt." He
was representative to the general court in 1678 and
1679, from Andover. Loring's "History of .\n-
dover" says : "Thomas Chandler was a blacksmith,
ultimately a rich man, carrying on a considerable
iron works." It is a tradition that iron works
existed where Marland village now is. Thomas
Chandler's son. Captain Joseph, sold, 1718. "one
half of ye whole Iron works in Salisbury on ye
falls commonly called ye Powwow River." Thomas
Chandler married Hannah Brewer, of Andover.
She died in .Andover, October 25. 1717, aged eighty-
seven. Their children were: Thomas (died yohng),
John, Hannah, William, Sarah, Thomas, Henry and
Joseph.

(III) Captain John, second son and child of
Captain Thomas and Hannah (Brewer) Chandler,
born March 14, 1655. died in Andover, September
19, 1721, in the si.xty-seventh year of his age, was
a blacksmith and landholder. His homestead was
on the west side of the Shawshin river, in Andover.
He was chosen moderator for the day at the an-
nual town meeting, March 6, 1710, and on the same
date was elected one of the selectman, to which
office he was several times re-elected. He was
first selectman in 1715. and subsequently highway
surveyor. He m.arried Hannah Abbot, third child
of George and Hannah (Chandler) Abbot, of .An-
dover (see .Abbott). She was born June 9, 1650,

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and died IMarch 2, 1741, aged ninety. Their chil-
dren were: John (died young), John, Zebediah,
Abiel, Hannah and Sarah.

(IV) Tohn (2), second son and child of John
(i) and "Hannah (Abbot) Chandler, born March
14. 16S0, died May .S, 1/41, in Andover, was a
farmer in West Parish, on "the Chandler Home-
stead," where his great-grandson. Captain Joshua
Chandler, resided in 1871. He and his wife were
admitted to full communion with the church in
Andover, July 13. 1712. Sergeant John Chandler
was surveyor 1716-20; selectman 1720. Ensign
John Chandler was selectman and overseer of the
poor in 1725-26-28. He ''was chosen a trustee of
the town, to take out of the Provence Treasury
their aforesaid part of £60.000," and September 19,
1732, Captain John Chandler was moderator of a
town meeting in .-Vndover. The Church Records.
South Parish, Andover, November 8, 1730, state:
"Ensign John Chandler was made choice of as a
messenger to the ordination of Rev. Timothy Wal-
ker, at Penny Cook, which is to be on the i8th."
"The great-grandson of Ensign John Chandler used
to relate that on one occasion, when his ancestor
Ensign John Chandler, of Andover, w-ent to Nev^-
burvport, he was impressed by three of the king's
officials, saying to him, as they laid their hands on
his shoulder, "the King needs your services." He
told them he wished to be excused, as his family
needed his care, u:c., to which the reply was, 'we
can't help that; the King needs your services; you
will go with us.' Apparently yielding, he walked
quietly along until they reached a spot where a
house had been burned and where there was a
deep cellar, with ashes and half consumed timbers
still burning, then turning round quickly he seized
them, one by one. and threw them all into the cel-
lar, where he left them and went his way." His
will was dated April 20, and proved June i, 1741.
He married, June 4, 1701, Hannah Frye. born April
12, 1683, died August i, 1727, aged forty-four years.
She was the daughter of Samuel Frye, born 1650,
by his wife Mary, daughter of John Aslett or Asle-
b'ee, granddaughter of Robert Frye. who married
Ann. who died in Andover, October 23. 1680, and
great-granddaughter of John Frye, of Basing,
Hants. England. The children of this union were:
John. Joshua, Nathan. Hannah. Alary, Phebe. Abiel,
'Samuel (died young 1, Lydia, Samuel, Isaac and
Dorcas. Hannah became the wife of Timothy
Ballard (see Ballard, IV"). (Abial and descendants
receive extended mention in this, article.)

(V) Captain John (3), eldest son of Captain
John (2) and Hannah (Frye) Chandler, born in
Andover, Massachusetts. 1702. died in Concord,
July 26, 1775, aged seventy-two, was one of the
original proprietors of Concord, and a man of much
influence. In 1733 he was tithingman and treasurer
of Pennycook. In 1746 he was captain of the gar-
rison round the house of Rev. Timothy Walker,
in Rumford (now Concord), and in 1747 captain
of the garrison round the house of Jeremiah Stick-
ney. In 1750 he was one of a committee "to advise
and order Deacon John Merrill how he shall pursue
and defend the action, brought against said Alerrill
by the proprietors of Bow," &c. Captain John
Chandler had command of a company of nine men
"in his majesty's service" for eight days. 8th to 17th
of September, 1754. probably scouting for Indians,
for which he received ii. 2S. lod. October 8, 1771,
Captain John Chandler, Mr. Philip Eastman, and
Mr. Abiel Chandler were chosen a committee to
take a plan and survey the common and undivided
land and lay out the same to each proprietor "his

or their equal proportion in a just and equitable
manner. Captain Chandler was a man of great
muscular power and a great wrestler. It is related
"that being informed that Rev. Mr. Wise, of Ipswich,
excelled in the art of wrestling, and had not been
thrown, he made a journey on purpose to try his
strength and skill. Mr. Wise on being requested,
declined, having relinquished the practice as un-
suitable to his profession. But being earnestly solic-
ited by Air. Chandler, they went into a door-yard
which was fenced by a wall set in the bank, took
hold, and began to play; when Mr. Wise suddenly,
with a trip and a twitch, threw him over the wall
upon his back. Chandler arose and requested another
trial, but Air. Wise refused. So the Captain re-
turned home sadly disappointed." He married,
Tabitha Abbot, daughter of Nathaniel and Dorcas
(Hibbert) Abbot, (see Abbot, 11) and they were
the parents of John, Timothy, Daniel, Joshua and
Hannah.

(VI) Lieutenant John (4), oldest child of Cap-
tain John (3) and Tabitha (Abbot) Chandler, born
in 1731, died Alarch I, 1807, was a prominent man
in Pennycook (now Concord), of wdiich he was one
of the proprietors. He drew house lot No. 7. con-
taining one and a half acres in the first range, and
lot 68. containing si.x and sixty-six hundreths acres
in the Great Plain. He was named first of the com-
mittee of three which laid out the ''Second Division
of Interval" in 1727, in which he had lot No. 13,
containing four acres. At a legal meeting of the
proprietors of Penny Cook, March 26, 1733. it was
voted "That Lieutenant John Chandler, Mr. .Abra-
ham Bradley, and Ensign Jeremiah Stickney shall
be a committee to let out the common meadow be-
longing to the proprietors (which shall not be laid
out to particular persons), to the highest bidder for
the year ensuing." In June, 1734. it was "voted that
Lieutenant John Chandler and Air. Timothy Clement
be a committee to be with the clerk whilst he is
recording the land, and to see that he make a fair
record of the same." At a legal meeting of the pro-
prietors of Rumford (now Concord), Alarch 11,
I735> it was "Voted that (Lieutenant) John Chand-
ler shall have liberty to build a saw mill on Rattle
Snake brook, and liberty of a convenient yard for
his logs and boards, and liberty to flow the great
pond called Rattle Snake pond, the said Chandler
to pay what damages he shall do to the proprietors
by flowing the pond; the said Chandler to enjoy
the said privileges during the term of fifteen years
from the twenty-fourth day of February, 1734." In
the same year Lieutenant John Chandler was on a
committee "to dispose of the common meadow within
the township, for the year 1735," and was chosen "to
assist the proprietors' clerk in recording the house-
lots and interval six acre lots, and to see that the
clerk makes a true record thereof." He married,
1751, Alary Carter, who died June 9, 1793. aged
sixty-four. Their children were: John, Nathan,
Isaac, Joseph, Jeremiah and Aloses. (Ihe last
named and descendants receive notice in this
article).

(VII) Captain John (5), son of Lieutenant John
(4) and Alary (Carter) Chandler, was born in
Concord. December II, 1752, and died January 24,
1825. He settled in the village of Penacook, on
Boscawen side, and built the first tavern in the
place, now standing (on the corner of Main and
Water street?") and known as the Penacook House.
He married Naomi, daughter of Ephraim Farnuni,
of Concord. She was born April. 1760. died Alarch,
1832. (see Farnum. IV) and they had John. Nathan,
Ephraim, Alary, Susannah, Judith H. and Rhoda C.

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(VIII) Nathan Chandler, second son and child
of John (5) and Naomi (Farnum) Chandler, born
in Hoscawen, April 15, 1782, died in Concord, April
I, 1835. He was a farmer and lived in Boscawen,
his residence being the house next below the hotel
above mentioned, on Water street. He was select-
man 1812-13-16. He moved to the Concord side
in 1829. and settled near the present Penacook rail-
road station. He married, in 1805, Jane Rolfe, born
January 21, 1783, daughter of Nathaniel {2) and
Judith (.Walker) Rolfe, of Penacook. They were
the parents of Abial Rolfe, Judith Walker, Naomi
Farnum, Nathan, Harriet, Sarah B. and William P.

(IX) Nathan (2), second son and fourth child
of Nathan (1) and Jane (Rolfe) Chandler, was
born in Boscawen, June 12, 1812, and died at the
Concord homestead June 21, 1884. In his youth he
assisted his father on the farm, and got a common
school education. After arriving at man's estate he
bought a farm on the interval near the railroad sta-
tion at Penacook, which he carried on the remainder
of his active life. He was a man of sound judg-
ment and highly esteemed by his neighbors'; was
assessor in ward one for a number of years, served
on a committee to review valuation, as selectman,
and representative in 1874-75, and was a prominent
member of the Congregational Church. He married,
December 8, 1840, Lovisa W. Ferrin, born in West
Concord, 1815, daughter of Philip and (Cleasby)
Ferrin. They had four children : Edward Web-
ster, now a resident of Denver. Colorado ; Sarah
Blanchard, died while the wife of James L. Gerrish
of Webster ; Frederick G. and William Palmer,
residents of Penacook.

(X) Frederick Gray, second son and third child
of Nathan (2) Lovisa W. (Ferrin) Chandler, was
born at Penacook, December 31, 1845, and educated
in the common schools of Penacook and the Bosca-
wen Academy. He taught school winters and worked
on his father's farm during the summer for several
years. In 1877 he bought his father's farm, which,
with other land he has since purchased, makes him
a fertile interval farm of one hundred and twenty-
live acres, upon which he resides, and makes a
specialty of raising a fine quality of hay. He also
owns a half interest in the Eagle and Little blocks,
in the village of Penacook, whose ownership is erron-
eously credited entirely to another in Browns History
of Penacook. For twelve years he kept a dairy
herd, and supplied a milk route in Penacook. Like
his father before him, Mr. Chandler is a man of
integrity and influence, and has performed public
service, having been selectman three terms and coun-
cilman two terms. He and his wife are members of
the Congregational Church. He married, June 21,
1877, Mary S. Abbott, born in West Concord, Au-
gust 24, 1841, daughter of Simeon and jNIary (Far-
num) Abbot (see Abbot, VI). They have one
child, Annie Mary Chandler, born July 12, 1880, a
well known church organist and teacher of music.

(V) Abiel, seventh child and fourth son of John
(2) and Hannah (Frye) Chandler, born in Andover.
November 14, 1717, baptized December i, 1717,
died before 1754, was an early settler in Rumford
(Concord), New Hampshire. He was chosen fence
viewer, March 20, 1740; highway surveyor, March
31, 1743, in Rumford. In 1746 his family went to
seek protection from the Indians in Henry Love-
joy's garrison in the West Parish, Concord. But
"Jilarch ye 21, 1746-7" Abiel Chandler was ordered
to do duty round the house (garrison) of Rev.
Timothy Walker. He owned house lot No. 7 in
the Second Range and eighty acres of farm land in
Concord. He married, March 17, 1742, Rebecca

Abbot, of Concord, born in Andover, 1717, died
February 13, 1803, aged eighty-six years, daughter
of Nathaniel and Dorcas (Hibbert) Abbott. They
had four children: Abiel, died young; Abiel, Peter,
a soldier at Bunker Hill ; and Sarah. After the
death of Mr. Chandler, his widow became the wife
of Amos Abbott. (See Abbott, IV).

(VI) Major Abiel, second son and child of Abiel
and Rebecca (Abbot) Chandler, born in Concord,
New Hampshire, May 11, 1744, died of small po.x
at Crown Point, July 12, 1776, in his thirty-second
year. The town of Concord paid Abiel Chandler
for school-keeping and for surveying from 1771 to
I775> fifty-five pounds, fourteen shillings and two
and a half pence; and for "surveying roads and
taking the number of the people," from 1774 to 1775,
five pounds, ten shillings. He was commissioned
captain of the Second Company of militia in Con-
cord, the Sixth Company in the regiment. February
26. 1774. As soon as the news of the battle of Lex-
ington, April 19, 1775, reached Concord. Captain
Abiel Chandler raised a volunteer company of
thirty-six men and marched to Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, where they remained a fortnight. The
town of Concord voted "That Captain Abiel Chand-
ler and those who went with him to Cambridge,
upon the alarm of April last, be paid by the Parish
at the same rate as other troops in this Colony are
paid." Lieutenant Abiel Chandler was in Captain
Joshua Abbott's company at Bunker Hill, and acted
as ensign in Starke's regiment, and that company
was on the extreme left and had not the slightest
protection of rail fence or hay even in the fight. At
Ticonderoga. 1776, he was adjutant of Colonel John
Stark's regiment, under Brigadier-General Sullivan.
He died at Crown Point while in the service. He
married Judith Walker, daughter of Rev. Timothy
Walker (see Walker, V), of Concord, by his wife
Sarah Burbeen, daughter of James, of Woburn,
JNlassachusetts. They were the parents of three
children: Sarah; Judith, born October 9. 1770. mar-
ried, June 12. 1784, Timothy Carter (see Carter,
VII), and Rebecca.

(II) William (2), second son and third child
of William (l) and Annis Chandler, was married
August 18, 1658, to Mary Dame, who was born 1638,
in Ipswich, and died May 10, 1679, in Andover. She
was a daughter of Dr. John Dane ("chirergen")
and his first wife, Eleanor Clark. Dr. John Dane
was a son of John Dane, of Bishop's Stortford,
Herts, England, whose second wife was Annis,
widow of William Chandler (i). Dr. John Dane
was the author of "A Declaration of Remarkable
Prouidences in the Corse of my Life." (republished
in the "New England Flistorical and Genealogical
Register" for 1S54), in which he declares that he
was a "Taylor by trade." when residing near
Bishop's Stortford, England. William (2) Chand-
ler was married October 8, 1679. to Bridget (Hinch-
man). widow of James Richardson. She died March
6, 1731, aged one hundred years. ]\Ir. Chandler was
admitted a freeman in 1669. He was a brickinaker
in Andover, and kept an inn on the road from Ips-
wich to Billerica, being licensed June 17. 169-- He
died in 1698, in Andover, and left a large estate.
His children, all born of the first wife, were : Mary,
William, Sarah, Thomas (died at two years), John,
Philemon (died at eight months), Thomas, Phile-
mon, Hannah, Thomas (2), Joseph, Phebe, Joseph
(2), and Rhoda.

(III) William (3), eldest son and second child
of William (2) and Mary (Dane) Chandler, was
born January 31, 1661, in Andover, and was married
December 28, 1682, to Sarah Buckminster. They

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lived next door to the parsonage in South Andover,
and the wife was a member of the church. He died
October 27, 1727, being survived by his wite until
October 3, 1735, when he was seventj'-four years
old. Their children were : Josiah, Philemon, Sarah
and Zachariah. His estate was appraised at three
hundred and seventy pounds.

(,IVj Zachariah, youngest child of William (3)
and Sarah (Buckminster) Chandler, was born May
I, 1695, and was married in Roxbury, January iH,
1715, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Bishop of Rox-
bury. He lived in West Roxbury, on the north side
of the Dedham road, and was a shoemaker. In
the record of a sale of land by him he is alluded to
as one of the Narragansett soldiers. This land was
in Narragansett township, on the ^ilerrimack river,
next to Dunstable. He was elected sealer of leather
in Roxbury, Marcli 3, 1717, and several years there-
after. In a bill of sale executed at Boston, Novem-
ber u, 1740, wherein it is shown that he paid one
hundred and ten pounds for a negro boy, he is re-
ferred to as a cordwainer. His will was made April
29, 1750, and his estate inventoried July 14, 1752,
showing that his death occurred between those dates.
The will speaks of his "only son Thomas," who
was the only one then of age, and he was charged
with the funeral expenses and received the bulk
of the estate. The funeral charges were five pounds
five shillings, and the appraisers fixed the value of
the estate at eight hundred thirty-four pounds, three
shillings, three pence. His children were : Thomas,
Mary (died seven years old), Sarah, Mary, Zach-
ariah (died at two), Mary, William, Hannah, Abi-
gail and Zachariah.

(V) Thomas, first child of Zachariah and Mary
(Bishop) Chandler, was born December 7, 1716,
in Roxbury, and was baptized when nine days old.
He was among the pioneer settlers of Bedford, New
Hampshire, his marriage being the first in that
town. He built the first frame house in the town,
having lived some time previously in a log house.
At the first town meeting, June 6, 1750, he was elect-
ed selectman. His grandfather, Thomas Bishop,
had received a grant of land in Bedford, and this
led to the settlement there of the grandson, who
died there November 2, 1752. He was possessed of
six lots of land, and his estate was valued by ap-
praisers at two thousand eight hundred pounds.
His wife, Hannah Gofie, of Bedford, was a daughter
of Colonel John Gofife, who was born 1701, probably,
at Boston, and participated in the French and In-
dian war. After the death of Mr. Chandler his
widow became the second wife of Captain Andrew
Bradford, and lived in what is now Milford, New
Hampshire. She bore her second husband five
children. The children of Thomas and Hannah
(Gofife) Chandler were: Peggy, Hannah, Sally
and Zachariah. The mother died December 14,
1819, aged ninety-six. leaving sixty-three grand chil-
dren, one hundred and thirteen great-grand children
and one of the fifth generation.

(VI) Zachariah, only son and youngest child
of Thomas and Hannah (Goffe) Chandler, was born
May 28, 1751, in Bedford, and was among the pa-
triots of the Revolutionary period. He was select-
man in 1784, and fish reaf in 1791. By his will he
divided his farm between his sons, and died April 20,
1830, at the age of seventy-eight years. He was married
in Amherst, this state, in 1771, to Sarah Patten,
who was born March 17, 1749, and died November
20, 1842. aged ninety-three years. She was a daugh-
ter of Samuel and .\lar>- (Bell) Patten, the former
of whom came to America when nineteen years old
and settled in Bedford, about one-fourth mile west

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of his subsequent son-in-law. During his minority
Mr. Chandler lived at Roxbury and drove a milk
cart into Boston. Because of this the Patten family
objected to him as a prospective husband of their
daughter, but when he assumed charge of the pa-
ternal estate these objections were withdrawn. His
children were named, Thomas, Samuel and Sarah.
(VH) Thomas, eldest child of Zachariah and
Sarah (Patten) Chandler, was born August lO,
1772, in Bedford, where he was a farmer and a most
active and useful citizen. In 1S03 he began teaching
music among his relatives, and gradually extended
this work until he was in demand in many localities,
and became quite noted as a teacher. He was justice
of the quorum in 180S, and licensed as publican 1827.
He was captain of militia in 1815, W'as subsequently
representative of the town in the legislature, was
a member of the state senate in 1817-S and 1825-6-7.
He represented the district in congress from 1829
to 1833, and was an expounder of old-time Jeft'er-
sonian Democracy. He was a tall and spare man,
standing six feet in height, vigorous and energetic,
and continued to help in the fields until he was in
his eighty-eighth year. He died in Bedford, January
28, 18(36, 'in his ninety- fourth year. He was married
November 26, 1793, to Susannah McAflfet, who
was born JNIarch 30, 1772, and died Noveml)er 23,
1857, aged eighty-five. She was the youngest daugh-
ter of -Matthew McAftee, who was born in Roch-
ester, New Hampshire, and died April 15, 1797, and
second wife, Sarah }ilorrison. Mr. and Mrs. Chanil-
ler had four children, namely : Asenath C, Sarah,
Hannah and Adam.

(VIII) Adam, only son of Thomas and Sus-
annah (McAffee) Chandler, was born June 7, 1805.
in Bedford, and was a farmer all his active life, on
the homestead on the river road; he died in Man-
chester, September, 1887. In October, 1841, he was
licensed to dispense liquors at his home, was ap-
pointed a justice of the peace in the same year, and
a justice of the quorum in 1861. He was married,
December 21, 1829, to Sally McAllister, who was
born March I, 1804, and died November 7, 1870. She
was a daughter of John and Jane (Aiken) j\lc-
AUister, the latter a daughter of James and ^iary
(Waugh) Aiken. John McAllister was a son of
John and Jerusha McAllister, of the sturdy Scotch-
Irish stock which settled a considerable portion of
southern New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler
had three sons and a daughter, namely: Henry,
George Byron, John McAllister and Sarah H. Tlie
daughter died at the age of two years. The young-
est son was a merchant in Manchester. The others
the subjects of following sketches.

(IX) Henry, eldest son of Adam and Sally
(McAllister) Chandler, was born October 30. 1830,
on the family ancestral homestead in Bedford,
where he grew to manhood. His education was
supplied by the local public schools and Gilmanlon
Academy, supplemented by that school of practical
experience which is the best tutor for most men.
Of sound sense and steadfast application he had
good store, and he achieved the success which awaits
earnest effort. Like most of those w'ho bear the
name, he was regarded as a successful and useful
citizen by his contemporaries. On attaining his ma-
jority Mr. Chandler went to Nashua and took em-
ployment as clerk and salesman in a grocery and
hardware store. Here he came in contact with the
public and acquired the know^Iedge of busimess
which laid the foundation of his fortune. From
October. 1854. his residence w^as in Manchester
until his death, which occurred October 20, iQrio,
just ten days before the close of his seventieth vear.

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On coming to Jilanchester he became a clerk with
Plunitr &. Bailey, clothing merchantf, and in a short
time became a partner in the concern, which did
business many years under the style of Plumer &
Chandler. While continuing in this business jMr.
Chandler went to Boston and became a partner in
the tirm of Sibley, Cumner & Company, later and
long known as Cunuier, Jones & Co., wholesale
dealers in Jailor's trimmings, but did not remove his
home from Manchester. After a successful mer-
cantile career of a quarter of a century 2\lr. Chandler
disposed of his interests in that line and became con-
nected with the Amoskeag Savings Bank, of which
he was elected treasurer in 1884. so continued
during the remainder of his life. He was also a
director of the Amoskeag National Bank, treasurer
of the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad Company,
and president of the Brown Lumber Company, of
Whitefield. A strict Democrat of the old school, he
acted upon his principles, but desired no political
preferment, though he consented to serve as a mem-
ber of the board of water commissioners of Man-
chester as a matter of public duty. He was a mem-
ber of the Unitarian Church, and of Washington
Lodge, No. I, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
Of genial nature, courteous and affable in manner,
upright to the last degree, he was a model banking
officer and enjoyed the respect of the whole com-
munitv. :Mr. Chandler was married. November 14,
i860, to Abbie Jane Bond, who was born October 11,
1840, in Bow, New Hampshire, a daughter of
Thomas J. and Anna (Brown) Bond, the latter a
daughter of James Brown of that town. Brief
mention of Mr. Chandler's children follows : Sally,
born November 11, 1861, is the wife of James W.
Hill of Manchester. Annie Bell, January 5, 1864,
resides in Manchester, unmarried. Alice Maria,
March 9, 1866, married Joseph Benjamin Hart,
and lives in Wawbeek, New York. George Henry
is the subject of the following notice.

(X) George Henry, only son and youngest child
of Henry and Abbie J. (Bond) Chandler, was born
February 18, 1869, in Manchester, and grew up in
that city, where he received his education, grad-
uating from the high school in 1887. He at once
entered the Amoskeag National bank as clerk, and
has risen by gradual promotion to the place of
director, being also treasurer of the Amoskeag
Savings Bank. He was made a trustee of the savings
bank in 1889, assistant treasurer in 1900, and suc-
ceeded his uncle as treasurer upon the death of the
latter in the spring of 1905. He became clerk of
the Manchester & Lawrence railroad in 1898, and
succeeded his father as treasurer in 1900. He is a
director of the Concord Axle Company, the Man-
chester Gas Light Company and New Hampshire
Fire Insurance Company; treasurer of the East
Side Company, a Manchester manufacturing con-
cern, and Cohas Building Company; and is presi-
dent of the James W. Hill Company, ^[anchester s
largest mercantile establishment. It will thus be
seen that Mr. Chandler is identified with the leading
interests of his native town, as well as some of
statewide importance and, being a busy man, he has
little time for social diversions. He is a member of
the Derryfield Club of Manchester, and of the Uni-
tarian Church of that city and endeavors to fill
the part of a good citizen. His political allegiance
has been given to the Democratic party until its
platform made free silver the leading issue, since
which time he has not supported the national ticket.
He was married. October 6. 1885. to Mary I. Gould,
who was born October 6, 1871, at Hillsboro Bridge,
a daughter of George E. and Addie Augusta (Ells-

worth) Gould, the former a native of Hillsboro and
the latter of Deering, New Hampshire. A daugh-
ter completes the family of Mr. Chandler, namely,
Marigold, born October 2, 1886.

(IX) George Byron, second son and child of
Adam and Sally (McAllister) Chandler, was one
of the most useful, philanthropic and highly re-
spected citizens of Manchester. He was widely
known, his friends being limited only to the extent
of his acquaintance, and he was honored by niany
who did not enjoy the pleasure of personal inter-
course with him. He was born November 18, 1832,
in Bedford, and passed his earlier years upon the
home farm there. His parents were determined
that he should have a good opportunity for educa-
tion, and he spent some time in academical study at
Piscataquog, Gilmanton, Hopkinton and Reed's
Ferry. Having made proper use of these oppor-
tunities, he was employed three years as a teacher
in Amoskeag, Bedford and Nashua, before his ma-
jority, and spent the first year of his manhood as
a civil engineer in the service of the Boston, Con-
cord & Montreal railroad. Having decided upon
a business career, in the spring of 1854 he entered
the grocery house of Kidder & Duncklee. at Man-
ichester, as bookkeeper, and there gave such prom-
ise of his subsequent success as a financier that he
was invited the next year to take a similar position
in the Amoskeag Bank. This he accepted, and here
his capacity was so demonstrated that he was pro-
moted in eighteen months to the teller's position.
After more than seven years of faithful and efficient
attention to duty, upon the organization of the
Amoskeag National Bank in 1864, he was made
cashier. As such he was the real executive officer ,
of the institution, and his friends may well be proud
of the record in growth and strength of this bank
under Iiis administration. This relation continued
until 1892, when Mr. Chandler became president of
the bank, succeeding the Hon. Moody Currier.
Upon the organization of the People's Savings
Bank in 1874. Mr. Chandler was made its treas-
urer, and so continued_ as long as he lived, and dur-
ing this time its assets rose from one hundred and
thirty-eight thousand dollars to approximately one
million. The New Hampshire Fire Insurance Com-
pany was another of the institutions to prosper
under Mr. Chandler's fostering care. He was one
of its incorporators in 1869, and was its treasurer
while he lived, during which time its capital grew
from one hundred thousand dollars to one million.
In speaking of his other interests the Manchester
Union said:

"While these have been the interests dearest to
Mr. Chandler, he was ever inclined to assist other
worthy enterprises, those calculated to build up
Manchester having the preference. It would be a
difficult if not impossible task to enumerate the var-
ious enterprises in which he was interested. It is
safe to assert that to Mr. Chandler, more than to
any other person, is due to the strides taken in the
shoe industry in Manchester in the course of the
recent years. Mr. Chandler was a director in the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the IManches-
ter & Lawrence railroad, and for several .vears he
was the railroad's treasurer. He w'as also a direc-
tor in the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company, the Moline Plow Conipany. and ^ numer-
ous other large enterprises. Aside from his other
business connections he was entrusted with numer-
ous trusts, involving wise and skillful management
of important and extensive interests. His advice
was often sought in matters pertaining to invest-
ments and so universal was the confidence in his

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tact and proper conservatism that a good word
from him set doubts at rest forthwith. His well-
known inclination to help home industries resulted
in a unanimous choice of Mr. Chandler for president
of the Manchester Board of Trade when that or-
ganization was formed, and he took hold of the
work with the vim characteristic in everything he
undertook, for there was nothing of the lackadaisi-
cal order in Mr. Chandler. And when he retired
from the presidency of the board a system had been
formulated which made the board a most material
factor in the city's industrial progress.

"Mr. Chandler was also an organizer and one
time president of the New Hampshire Club, which
was recently merged in the New Hampshire Ex-
change Clui). His love for the arts and sciences
led him to take a deep interest in the Manchester
Institute of Arts and Science, of which organization
he was a benefactor of incalculable value from its
inception. The Philharmonic Society owed its ex-
istence to him, and, if he had not been freely dis-
posed to make good the deficits certainly anticipated,
the musical festivals, with world-famous artists as
soloists, would not have been Manchester's portion.
The Chandler course of lectures, another boon to
Manchester, was likewise the fruit of his public
spirit.

■'For several years Mr. Chandler was an officer
in the Amoskeag Veterans, which organization was
formed the same year he came to the city. He was
a member of Royal Arch Chapter, Adoniram Coun-
cil, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar,
having joined LaFayette Lodge of Masons in 1854.
He was transferred to Washington Lodge in 1857,
and became its first secretary. He was also a mem-
ber of Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and the Dcrryfield Club. Governor Batch-
elder appointed him on tlie board of trustees of the
New Hampshire Agricultural College. While Mr.
Chandler always took an active interest in politics,
he never sought political preferment. In 1874 the
Democrats nominated him for State senator and he
was elected in a nominally Republican district. He
was also nominated for Congress by the Democrats.

"Mr. Chandler had read much and traveled ex-
tensively in this and other countries. He possessed
a wide acquaintance with distinguished men in all
walks of life, and had, therefore, a valuable
knowledge of the resources, customs and character-
istics of various sections, which stood him in good
stead in his business transactions, as well as
furnishing him invaluable material for public ad-
dresses and private 'conversations. .'Vs a public
speaker Mr. Chandler was most pleasing."

Mr. Chandler was married, Mav 20. 1862. to
Miss Flora Ann Daniels, who died May 3, 1868,
aged twenty-five years and two months, being sur-
vived only a few days by her only child, a daughter.
She was a daughter of Darwin J. and Eliza
.'\nn (Forsaith) Daniels. On October 27, 1870. Mr.
Chandler w-as married to Fanny Rice Martin, only
daughter of the late Colonel Benjamin F. and Mary
Ann (Rice) Martin, and she survives him, with the
eldest and youngest of their three sons — Benjamin
Martin, Alexander Rice and Byron (see Martin,
VI). Mr. Chandler passed to the reward awaiting
just men, on Thursday morning, June 29, 1905, at
8 :5o o'clock in the morning. His demise caused uni-
versal mourning in New Hampshire, and wherever
known. The following tribute from the local press
sums up his character in fitting terms :

"Mr. Chandler was in many respects the city's
foremost citizen. -One of the wealthiest men of
Manchester, he was at the same time one of the

most democratic. He was public-spirited, and in-
terested in everything that pertained to the city's
commercial, industrial and intellectual welfare. He
prospered in business by the aid of his own ability
and industry, as did few Manchester men. He was
charitable, and his 'charity kept pace with his profits.
There was, probably, no worthy public charity in
which he did not interest himself. While many of
his gifts were known to the public, there were many
more of his charities that were known to no one but
himself and the beneficiary. Many kindnesses to
individuals will never be known, in fact his private
charities were legion. It was Mr. Chandler's cus-
tom every winter to fit out the men on the Beech
and Bridge street car lines with gloves. The news-
boys that delivered him papers were remembered
by him. Almost everybody who came in contact
witli him had occasion to know his goodness.
Though in his own church afiiliations he was a
L'nitarian almost every church in the city has had
at one time or another occasion to thank him for *
some substantial gift. To the rich and the poor,
Mr. Chandler was the same modest, helpful citizen.
His conservative judgment, ripened by long and
wide experience, was highly valued by friends and
acquaintances, and his advice was never sought in
vain. His good counsel gave hope and ambition to
many a young man, and to many an older man,
pressed by difficulties, as well."

On the fiftieth anniversary of his connection with
the -Amoskeag Bank, Mr. Chandler was unable to
attend the celebration of that event, but he was
presented with a magnificent loving cup by the in-
stitution.

(VII) Dr. Moses, sixth son and child of
Lieutenant John (4) and Mary (Carter) Chandler,
was born November 23. 1765, and died September
to. 1822, aged fiftyvsix years. He practiced his pro-
fession in Newmarket and Lee. New Hampshire,
but removed to Fryeburg, Maine, where he died and
was buried on his own farm. When about fourteen
years old he ran away from his father and enlisted
in Concord, in Captain Frye's company of Captain
Cilley's regiment, and ser\'ed his country in the
Revolutionary war about one year, for which he
received in after life a pension of fifty-six dollars
and sixty-six cents per annum. He was a skillful
physician, a good citizen, but fond of the sports of
that day. He married first, Sally Goodwin, of Xcw-
markct. New Hampshire, who died September 24,
i8or. in Fryeburg, leaving four children. He mar-
ried second. Mary Langdon, who was born March
21. 1782: and died in Ma}', 1S63, aged eighty-one
years, and was buried beside her late husband. She
was the dau.ghter of Paul Langdon, long the pro-
prietor of the academy at Fryeburg, and grand-
daughter of Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard
College. Dr. Chandler was the father of fifteen
children, four by the first wife, and eleven by the
second, named as follows : Jeremiah, Enoch. Fol-
som, Mary .Ann. Nathan, David Sewall, Sarah Good-
win, Samuel Langdon, Joseph, Moses. Betsey
Chase. Isaac (died young), Judith, Isaac, Paul
Langdon, and Anna Maria.

(VIII) Samuel Langdon. third child and sec-
ond son of Dr. Moses and Mary (Langdon) Chan-
dler, was born in Fryeburg, Maine, October 7. rSo/.
and died in Fryeburg, February 16, 1882, aged
seventy-five. He had an apothecary store and kept
the postofficc in North Conway, New Hampshire,
and practiced law there. He removed to Fryeburg.
Maine, about 1853. where he was lawyer and iustice
of the peace, insurance and pension agent. He was
representative from Fryeburg, and selectman. He

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owned a farm near Fryebiirg and was a member of
the Grange. He married first, Mary S. Kilgore, of
Fry-eburg, who was bom December 13, 1S13, daugh-
ter of Major James Kilgore, who was born May 10.
I7g2. and married, November 21, 181 1, Mehitable
Stearns, who was born October 10, 1705, and died
September 21, 1841, daughter of Timothy Stearns,
of Billerica, Massachusetts, by his wife Mary,
daughter of Edward Carlton. Mary Stearns Kil-
gore was granddaughter of James Kilgore, of
Lovell, Maine, who stood in his place and fired his
gun thirty-nine times at the enemies of his country,
and was "loading the fortieth time when ordered to
change his place, in one of the fights during the
Revolutionary war. The children of Samuel L.
and Mary S. (Kilgore) Chandler were nine, as fol-
lows: Mehitable Kilgore, Mary Stearns. Maria
Lord, Paul Langdon. James Everett, Paul Lang-
don. Mary Abby Lord, Adrianna, and Frederick,
whose sketch follows.

(IX) Dr. Frederick, youngest child of Samuel
L. and Mary S. (Kilgore) Chandler, was born in
North Conway, New Hampshire, March 27, 1852.
He was educated in the common schools and at
Fryeburg- Academy. He was a clerk in Charles-
town, Massachusetts, and then took one year's
course in the medical department of Har\'ard Col-
lege, and then three years at Bowdoin Medical Col-
lege, graduating in T877. He soon after began
practice in Minot. Maine, whence a year and a half
later he went to Scarbbro, and still later settled in
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. In 1890^ he re-
moved to .Amherst, where he has since built up a
large and lucrative practice. While in Mont Ver-
non he filled the office of town derk two years. He
is a member of P_\i:hagorean Lodge, Artcient Free
and -Accepted Masons, of Fryeburg, and of the
Congregatinnalist Church of Amherst. He mar-
ried, November 14, 1878, Ann Eliza Millett. of
Minot. Maine, who was born June 16, 1856, daugh-
ter of Lemuel and Mary A. (Milliken) Millett.
They have one child, Willis Clifford Chandler, born
August 2. 1879, a dentist in Farmington, New
Hampshire. He is a graduate of the Milford high
school, and of Baltimore Dental College.

(II) Deacon John, fourth child and youngest
son of William and .'Vnnis Chandler, was born in
t6to. and removed from Old Roxbury to New
Roxbury (Woodstock, Connecticut), in 1686; was
selectman in idg."! and afterward ; deacon of the
church ; one of six men who bought the Mashamo-
quet purchase of fifteen hundred acres, and was one
of the prominent men of the town until his death,
April 15. 1703. He married Elizabeth daughter of
William" Douglas and his wife Anna Mattle, daugh-
ter of Thomas Mattle, of Ringstead, in Northamp-
tonshire, England. William Douglass was of Ips-
wich, Massachusetts, in 1641 : in Boston, 1645 ; was
made freeman, 1646; moved to New London, Con-
necticut, 1650; and was one of the grantees of that
place, in 1663. from Charles II. The children of
Deacon John" and Elizabeth (Douglass) Chandler
were: John. Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Hannah, Me-
hitabel, Sarah and Joseph.

(III) Captain John, son of John and Elizabeth
(Douglas) Chandler, was born April 16, 1665, and
at the organization of the town of Woodstock was
chosen to\vn clerk, and also appointed to "instruct
the children to read, write and cipher." In 1693-94
he was one of the town committee, selectman in
1694, representative to the general court at Boston
as early as 1711, and for several years. He lived
several years in New London, and in 1698 was li-
censed to keep a house of entertainment there. Later

he returned to Woodstock, and in 1703 was town
surveyor. During the. period of early Indian
troubles he was first captain, later major and then
colonel. He held many offices of trust, and was
judge of the first probate court in Worcester county.
Massachusetts, in 1731. In 1735 he was appointed
to read the address to Governor Belcher and his
council ; was a commissioner of the peace nearly
forty years, and seven years a member of his
majesty's council. He died in Woodstock, August
10, 1743, in his seventy-ninth year, and was buried
there, as desired in his will, with a fiat stone to
cover his remains, without any inscription. He mar-
ried Mary Raymond, of Woodstock, fifth child of
Deacon Joshua and Elizabeth (Smith) Raymond.
Their children were : John, Joshua, William, Mary,
Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah, Mehitabel, Thomas and
Hannah.

(IV) Captain William, third son and child of
Colonel John and Mary (Raymond) Chandler, was
born in New London. Connecticut, November 3,
1698, and died June 20, 1754; married. May 22, 1725,
Jemima Bradbury, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who
was born in Salisbury, January 25, 1703-04. and
died June 24, 1779. Captain Chandler was a farmer
and owned aboa.it one thousand acres extending over
Chandler hill. He was a surveyor of land, and in
1724 was 'captain of a company stationed at Leicester
and Rutland. The children of Captain William and
Jemima (Bradbury) Chandler were : Thomas Brad-
bury, William, Lemuel, Theophilus, Jemima, Sam-
uel, Mary. Mehitable, Henry and Winthrop.

(V) William, second child and son of Captain
William and Jemima (Bradbury) Chandler, was
born March 10, 1728; died February 23. 1756; mar-
ried, July 5, 1753, Mary Hodges, who died Septem-
ber 14, 17915. daughter of Captain Williain Hodges,
of Taunton, by his second wife. William Chandler
was admitted freeman in Woodstock, April 8, 17S4,
and his occupation was ship joiner. The children
of William and Mary (Hodges) Chandler were:
William and Henry.

(,VI) Henry, elder of the two children of W^ill-
iam and Mary (Hodges) Chandler, was born in
Woodstock, Connecticut, June 17, 1756. and died
June 5, 1813. He was a tailor by trade, which he
went toi learn, at the age of fourteen, of Samuel
Waldo, of Pomfret, Connecticut. He set up in his
trade in Pomfret, and had for his sign a cabbage
painted as large as life. He was lame, one leg be-
ing an inch and a half shorter than the other, caused
by disease of the hip joint when he was young.
About 1795 he removed from Pomfret to Hanover,
New Hampshire, and had a farm about four miles
east of the college. Henry Chandler married, -April
10. 1781, Martha Brown, of Pomfret, by whom he
had nine children: Nancy, William, Henry Hilton.
Mary, William Brown, Jeremiah, John, Rebecca
Brown and Nancy.

(VII) Henry Hilton, third child and second
son of Henry and Martha (Brown) Chandler, was
born June 7, 1786, and died in i86g. He was named
by Mary Hodges, his grandmother, who added the
name of Hilton for his ancestor, Edward Hilton, of
Exeter, New Hampshire. He was about ten years
old when his father removed to Hanover. In 1800
he went back to Pomfret and worked for his uncle,
Major John W. Chandler, on the Chandler home-
stead, but eventually returned to Hanover and car-
ried on a wool-carding business at Mill Village,
and also attended a saw and grist mill there, besides
attending to his official duties as town clerk. He
was about five feet ten inches high and weighed in
his best days about one hundred and ninety pounds.

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He married, September li, 1811. Anna Wright, who
was born May 20, 1790, daughter of David and
Lydia (Tenny) Wright, of Hanover, New Hamp-
shire (see Wright, 1). Their children were: Clem-
entine Celesta, William Henry, David Wright, James
Hilton. Clementine, and Celestina. ,

(VHI) Clementine, daughter and fifth child of
Henry Hilton and Anna (Wright) Chandler, was born
at Hanover, New Hampshire, November 12, 1818;
married first, January I, 1845, David C. Whipple
(see Whipple. V) ; married second, July i. 1855,
John Wright Dodge, who died February, 1897. By
her first husband, Clementine had two children —
Henry Chandler Whipple and Maragret Perritt
Whipple; by her second marriage she had two chil-
dren—an infant, born January 21, 1857, died Octo-
ber 2, 1857, and Fanny Louisa Dodge, born April
30, i8S9- '

The Ledoux family, which originated
LEDOUX in France, was transplanted to Canada

by an early emigrant who arrived
there during the period in which Pere Marquette,
La Salle, Joliet and other venturesome Frenchmen
were exploring the country and opening its portals
to European settlers. The posterity of its original
ancestor in Canada is quite numerous and the
majority of them are residing in the province of
Quebec.

(I) The emigrant above referred to was Louis
Ledoux of Notre Dame de La Couture, France, who
came over about the year 1668, and was married in
Montreal, March 20, 1679. He was forty years of
age at the time of his arrival in this country.

(IP) Jacques Ledoux, son of the immigrant, re-
sided in Boucherville. province of Quebec.

(III) Jacques (2), son of Jacques (l), was a
resident of Varennes.

(IV) Louis Ledoux, son of Jacques (2), also
resided in Varennes.

CV) Amable Ledoux, son of Louis, was a native
of Varennes and established his home at Beloeil;
later he immigrated to the United States.

(VI) Marcel Ledoux, a son of Amable, went
from Beloeil. his native town, to St. Albans, Ver-
mont. He married Angele Jodoin.

(VII) Toussaint, son of Marcel (6) and .\ngele
(Jodoin) Ledoux, was born in St. Albans. October
27. 1S48. After serving an apprenticeship at the
machinist's trade he followed it as a journeyman in
St. Albans until 1879, when he moved to Nashua,
and has ever since resided in that \hy. He is still
engaged in the activities of life, and for some years
has occupied the responsibile position of foreman
of the International Paper Box Machine Company's
plant. As a Democrat in politics he has figured
quite prominently in local civic afifairs. having served
in both branches of the city government and as rep-
resentative to the lower house of the state legis-
lature. He belongs to the Independant Order of
Foresters and when ever occasion demands he dis-
plays an earnest interest in Catholic institutions.
He married Elmira Bourgeois, who has borne him
eight children, four of whom are now living: Henry
T., Edmond L., Regis and Elphege.

(VIII) Henri Toussaint, son of Toussaint and
Elmira (Bourgeois) Ledoux, was born in St. Albans,
Vermont. November 4, 1873. His preliminary studies
were pursued in the public schools, and he was a
student at St. Therese College in Canada. His
legal preparations were completed at the Boston
Univcrsitv Law School, from which he was gradu-
ated in iRgC. He established himself in the practice
of his profession at Nashua, in the same year, and is

now conducting a general law business with gratify-
ing success. From the time of his majority Mr.
Ledoux has evinced a lively interest in public affairs,
having served with marked ability in the common
council in 1895, was representative to the legislature
in 1897-99, lia5 served four years upon the board
of public works, and is now tax collector. In politics
he is a Democrat. In 1906 he was Democratic can-
didate for congress from the second district. He
is president of the Montagnards Club and also
afiiliates with the Independent Order of Foresters,
and Knights of Columbus. He married, June 6,
1904, Agnes Manseau, daughter of John B. Manseau,
of Nashua.

This is a name almost unknown
LANGLANDS in America, though it is probably
of ancient origin. It dates from
the time when man, lacking other patronymics, was
distinguished by his surroundings, and was doubt-
less first applied to some great landholding English
squire or Scottish chief. ■

(I) William Langlands was born in Scotland,'
in 1800, and came to America in 1834, settling on
Indian Hill, Newburyport, iMassachusetts. He was
a man of ability, was educated at a university in
France, and studied law. Upon coming to this coun-
try he made the acquaintance of Major Ben. Perley
Poore, who was for years the well known
Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal
under the signature of "Perley." Major Poore's
summer residence was at Indian Hill, and Mr.
Langlands worked for him three years, going thence
to the town of Newburyport, where he performed
the legal business for the town until his death.
In 1824 William Langlands married Catherine
Campbell, daughter of Daniel Campbell, of Scot-
lend. They had six children: George Edward,
Margaret, William E., Hannah, Daniel Campbell,
whose sketch follows, and Emeline. George Ed-
ward gave his life to his adopted country. Dur-
ing the Civil war he enlisted in the Eighth Massa-
chusetts Regiment, and was at New Orleans under
General Butler. At Baton Rouge the "Constitu-
tion" was disabled, and he was helping to get out
the ammunition wdien he fell down the hold, break-
ing his kneecap. He re-enlisted after that, but was
so disabled that he was obliged to give up the ser-
vice. He returned home, but his death, which oc-
curred only five ysars later, was due to that injury,
which he received on board ship. Margaret Lang-
lands, the eldest daughter, married John Ewins, of
Newburyport : Hannah married John W. Young, M.
D., and Emeline married Lemuel Fuller, of Am-
herst, New Hampshire. William Langlands died
March 9. 1848, after a residence in America of
only fifteen years. His wife died July 7, 1907, at
the age of one hundred and three years.

(II) Daniel Campbell, third son and fifth child
of William and Catherine (Campbell) Langlands.
was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts. May
13, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of
his native town, and learned the shoemaker's trade.
He afterwards went to South Newmarket. New
Hampshire, where he was foreman for thirty-three
years of Amos Paul's Machine Company. He re-
mained there till after Mr. Paul's death, and then
came to Lancaster, New Hampshire, where since 1895
he has managed the large farm for the Mechanics'
National Bank and Merrimack County Savings
Bank of Concord, New Hampshire. He was one
of the organizers of the Connecticut Valley Milk
Producers' Association, and he was unanimously
elected its first president. He is a Republican, and

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a very influential man in political circles in the
northern part of the state. He has held all the
town otfices; was selectman for ten years and was
representative in 1883 and 1895. He has never been
defeated for any office. He attends the Universalist
Church, and belongs to the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. Daniel Campbell Langlands has been
twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth R.,
daughter of Captain Cutting and Olive Pettengill, of
Newburyport. They have one son, Daniel G., born
March 20, i860, now connected with the firm of
James B. Roberts Company in Boston. Mrs. Lang-
lands died October 9, 1885. October 12, 1887, Mr.
Langlands married Carrey Oaks, daughter of Henry
and Olive Weitzel. of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
They have one daughter, Catherine Campbell, born
September 3, 1888.

Charles Miller Floyd, one of the most
FLOYD active, progressive and successful busi-
ness men of the city of Manchester,
was, like a large proportion of the prominent busi-
ness men of the world, reared in the rural districts.
His grandfather, John Floyd, was a native of the
town of Derry, where he lived and died, passing
away in 1829, at the age of about thirty-two years.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and
a man of sound character. He had four 'children.
viz. : Joseph, Sevvall, John and Martha. The elder
son died in Boston, and the younger in Maine.

Sewall Floyd lived and died in Derry, where he
was born August 26, 1820, and passed away January
5, i88,s. The common schools of his native town
afforded the limited education which he was privi-
legerl to enjoy, and though his life was passed in a
humble way, his integrity was never doubted, and
he was ever conscious of a moral responsibility to
himself and his neighbors. His earlier years were
passed in teaming and farming, and late in life he
purchased a small farm at East Derry. on which he
passed his last years. He was a faithful member
of the Presbyterian Church ; was a Whig in early
life and a Republican from the organization of the
party under that title, but never sought or accepted
any political station. .His tastes were domestic, his
temper very even, and he was in every way an up-
right and respectable citizen. He was married in
1841 to Sarah Sleeper, of Derry, a daughter of John
and Elizabeth Sleeper, natives respectively of Kings-
ton and Derry. She was born february 13, 1824,
and died May 21, 1882. aged fifty-eight years. They
were the parents of eleven children : Edward, the
eldest, entered the Union army at the age of
eighteen, and was one of the martyrs who perished
in .'Kndersonville prison. Laura, married Martin
Taylor, and died in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Linnae, died at the age of twenty-one years. Will-
iam H., resides in Haverhill. Joseph, died at the
age of fourteen years. John, a- resident of Derry.
Benjamin,- a resident of Boston. Minnie, who
makes her home in Derry. Ernest, died at the age
of sixteen years. Charles M., the subject of the
following paragraph. James Edward, died in in-
fancv.

Charles Miller Floyd was born June 5, 1861, in
Derry, and received his primary education in the
brick schoolhouse at East Derry. He was subse-
quently a student at Pinkerton Academy, and the
last of his attendance at school was at the age of
fourteen years. During the summers when he was
twelve and thirteen years old he was ernployed at
farm labor by Benjamin Adams, a fanner in Derry.
He subsequently worked in the shoe shop of Will-
iam S. Pillsbur\'. With the natural Yankee apti-

tude for trade, he very early began speculating in
produce, and when twenty years old went to Haver-
hill, where he was employed in a hardware store
and remained nearly two years. After the death of
his parents he returned to his native place and
bought the home farm, which he cultivated for two
seasons and then sold. He was subsequently em-
ployed in Haverhill by his elder brother in the
clothing store, where he worked two and a half
years.

In 1888 Mr. Floyd removed to Manchester, and
bought the clothing establishment of N. W. Cum-
ner, which he carried on for five years, on the west
side of Elm street. At the end of that time he
bought out the Manchester One Price Clothing
House, which occupies its present location at the
northeast corner of Elm and Manchester streets,
where he has ever simce continued business. Under
his management the patronage has been greatly ex-
tended, and he now carries one of the largest
stocks of clothing and gentlemen's furnishings to
be found in the state. His business activities have
not been confine;' to the clothing trade, and he has
been instrumental in bringing to Manchester sev-
eral industries, and in their successful operation now
give employment to several thousand people. In
1891, in partnership with F. M. Hoyt, he purchased
sixty-five acres of land in the southern and eastern
part of the city, and made extensive additions to
the city streets and blocks, and on these they built a
large shoe factory which now employs seven
hundred people. He was a stockholder in the Ken-
nedy Land Company, and had charge, as treasurer
and chairman of the building committee, of the con-
struction of the large manufacturing building sub-
sequently occupied by the Joslyn Furniture Factory,
and now the home of a heel factory, employing
two hundred and fifty people. Mr. Floyd's next in-
vestment was in the wood-working establishment of
Austin, Flint & Day, and he formed a stock com-
pany to operate it, known as the Derryfield Com-
pany, of which he is the president and one of the
board of managers. This establishment makes a
large output of doors, sashes, blinds and interior
fittings. He was president of the East Side Build-
ing Company, which erected a large shoe factorv,
now employing eight hundred hands. He was also
president of the Cohas Building Company, which
has erected one of the finest modern shoe manufac-
turing plants in the state of New Hampshire, where
seven hundred people are now employed. Mr.
Floyd was ten years a trustee of the .'Kmoskeag
Savings Bank, and is a director of the Manchester
National Bank, of the Manchester Traction, Light
& Power Company, and of the Manchester Building
& Loan Association, and is extensively engaged in
a wholesale way in lumbering. In 1895 he re-
purchased the homestead on which he was born,
consisting of one hundred acres, which he managed
as a fann and where he has his summer home. He
has been a member of the school board of Man-
chester, and is now a member of the board of water
commissioners.

Mr. Flo3'd has been among the most active and
influential members of the Republican party of New
Hampshire, and served as state senator in 1899 and
IQOO, and became a member of the governor's coun-
cil, January i, 1905. He was elected governor of
the state in 1906. The contest for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination in 1906 was the fiercest
in the history of the state. It began during the
session of the legislature of 1905 when several
men who had long nurtured an ambition to fill the
executive chair and had been prominent in political

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affairs anounced their candidacy. At that time Mr.
Floyd was just beginning a term as a member of
the governor's council, to which he had been elected
from the Manchester district by a large majority,
which attested his popularity among his neighbors.
Outside of that district he was little known. In re-
mote sections of the state he was not known at
all even by name. He had been a liberal contrib-
utor and a zealous worker for his party and his
friends, many of whom owed their political success
largely to him, but his activities had been confined
to a comparatively narrow circle, and beyond this
he had neither following nor acquaintance, and
when in the summer he published, over his own
name, a statement that he would be a candidate
before the state convention, many of the leaders
looked upon it as a joke, and other aspirants and
their supporters were astonished by and afterwards
savagely resented the audacity of the man, who,
without official record, wath only a local reputation,
with the organization nearly solid and the leading
men of the party nearly all against him, had dared
enter the lists for the highest office in the gift of
the people. Later on there was added the hostility
of those whose battle cry was "revolution" and as
the canvass went on it increased in rancor, slander
and recklessness. Never was a candidate more sav-
agely assailed, more shamelessly villified. publicly
and privately, than was Mr. Floyd, but the storm
that swept over him neither stopped nor swerved
him and it is sufficient to say that when the conven-
tion met, he went into it with two hundred delegates
who could neither be bribed, scared or stampeded,
whose motto was "Floyd Forever." who were there
to win if it took all summer and who djd win.
The disappointments and bitterness of the canvass
remained to some extent during the campaign, caus-
ing some who had been active workers to sulk in
the tents, others to give aid and comfort to the
Democracy, whose campaign consisted in circula-
ting the insinuations and falsehoods of the struggle
for the nomination. But it did not avail. Mr.
Floyd was elected governor. His inaugural was
awaited with great' interest by his friends, who ex-
pected it would be a creditable business paper, and
b}- his opponents, many of whose minds had been
so poisoned by what had gone before that they
looked to see it reveal an ignorant, presumptions
man who owed his elevation to his audacity and in-
excusable persistency. It surprised his friends, for
it was better than they had dared to "lope^ for, and it
converted into friends his candid opponents, for
disclosed a knowledge of state affairs, an apprecia-
tion of the dignity and duties of the office, a clear
conception of what was right and a high purpose
to bring it about, which was wholly unexpected by
them. No governor's message was more heartily
acclaimed by those who heard it, more universally
applauded by the press or more generally ap-
proved by the people. The course therein outlined
by him has been followed w'ith scrupulous fidelity,
and the people of the state hold him in high regard
as a strong, self-made, honest and fearless man wlio
is devoted to their interests and worthy to stand in
tlie long line of illustrious governors who have
served the commonwealth to the public good and
with honor to themselves. He is a member of the
Second Congregational Society of Manchester. He
is affiliated with the Masonic Order, with Ridgely
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with
the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the
Thornton Naval Veterans, the Grand Army of the
Republic and Derryfield and Calumet clubs.

He was married September i6, i8S6, to Carrie
E. Atwood, who was born December i6, 1861, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
have a daughter, Marion Beatrice, aged sixteen
years, who is now a student of the Walnut Hill
Preparatory School, at Natick, Massachusetts.

It is not every Arnerican family
i\IORGAN whose pioneer ancestor is honored by

a noble statue like that erected to
Miles Morgan in Court Square, in the beautiful city
of Spring-field, Alassachusetts. This statute was _n-
veiled in 1879, just two hundred and ten years after
the death of the man whose virtues it commemor-
ates. The Morgan name has been notable in Amer-
ica in many ways, especially in military records.
Major General Daniel jNIorgan was one of the
famous officers of the Revolution. He was voted
a gold, medal by the Continental congress for his
victory at the Cowpens, where he met and defeated
General Tarleton. His corps of riflemen with which
he marched to join Washington before Cambridge
were the first skirmishers known to militarv' science.
When the British troops returned to England they
carried with tliem the tradition of "Morgan's buck-
skin devils." Dr. John Jilorgan, of Philadelphia,
was another distinguished officer of the Revolution.
At the age of twenty-five he volunteered his services
in the French and Indian wars. In 1760 he went to
Europe, where he remained for five years, studying
his profession at Edinboro, Paris and Padua. In
1776 he became surgeon-general of the American
army by appointment of the first Continental con-
gress, resigning in 1780 to resume practice in Phila-
delphia. Brigade Major Abner Morgan was another
Revolutionary patriot. His home was at Brimfield,
Mas-sachusetts, and he w-as a warm friend of Gen-
eral John Sullivan, of New Hampshire, in whose
command he served. In 1783 he built the largest
house in Brimfield from timbers cut in his own saw
mills, and he introduced through the heavy masonry
a rivulet to lave a hollowcd-out rock in which to
cool his wine. In l8g6 this house was still stand-
ing in perfect condition, and the rivulet was still
running. During the second war with England,
Brigadier General David Banister Morgan, born at
West Spring-field, JNIassachusetts, w-as second in
command with Jackson's army at the battle of New
Orleans. Commodore Charles William Morgan,
United States navy, of Virginia, was in the engage-
ment between the "Guerriere" and the "Java" in ,
1812. The family was represented in the Mexican
war by Colonel ^ Edwin Wright Morgan. United
States army. During the Civil w-ar Brigadier Gen-
eral John H. Morgan, of Lexington. Kentucky, was
one of the most daring officers of the Confederate
side. He organized a band of guerillas, and "Mor-
.gan's raid" struck terror to Indiana and Kentucky.
There were several generals on the Union side.
General Thomas J. JMorgan, born in Franklin, Indi-
ana, was but tw-enty-five years of age when the Civil
war closed, and was one of the 3'oungest men on the
Union side to be made a brigadier-general for gal-
lantry and meritorious services. Another Morgan
who became illustrious during the Civil war was
Edwin Denison Morgan, the great war governor of
New York. He later became United States senator,
and twice declined the secretaryship of the treas-
ury. During his lifetime and by his will he gave
more than a million dollars to philanthropic and edu-
cational work. The Morgans are .scarcely less illus-
trious as financiers than soldiers. Daniel Nash Mor-
gan, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was treasurer of
the United States from 1893 to 1897. The history

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of J. Pierpoiit Morgan and his father, Junius
Spencer Morgan, both eminent bankers, is too well
known to need further recital here.

The word Morgan is a Cymric derivative, mean-
ing one born by the sea (tntiir, sea; gin, begotten).
The little town of Caermathen in Wales is the place
where this famous name originated. The town itself
is supposed to be the IMaridunum mentioned by
Cfesar in his Commentaries. It may have been the
place that Shakespeare had in mind as the scene of
those parts of Cymbeline that are located in Wales.
It will be remembered that Belarius in the third
scene of the third act of that play speaks thus :
"Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan called." Prior
to the Roman invasion this district was inhabited
by a warlike tribe called by the Romans the Demetae.
A chieftain of this tribe, Cadivor-fawr, died in the
year 1089. His wife was Elen, daughter and heiress
of another chieftain, Llwch Llawan. The names
of the two oldest sons are unknown, but the Morgan
line finds its first ancestral with the third son. Bled-
dri. Mr. George T. Clark, the antiquary, has pre-
pared a table tracing the lineage of the ^Morgan
family in England and Wales to this Bleddri. In
the sixteenth generation from Bleddri we find Sir
William Morgan, of Tredegar, knighted in 1633,
member of parliament from his county, 1623-25.
He died at the age of ninety-three. His first wife
was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Winter, of
Sidney. Their daughter Elizabeth, the youngest
of the ten children, married William Morgan, a
merchant of Dderw. They went to Bristol, England,
in 1616, where Elizabeth died in 1638, and William
died in 1648. Their son. Miles Morgan, born in 1616,
is the ancestor of the Morgan family in America.

(I) Miles Morgan emigrated from Bristol, Eng-
land, to Boston, Massachusetts, in January, 1636.
Soon after reaching this country, in company with
a number of other colonists, under command of
Colonel William Pynchon, he set out for western
Massachusetts. They were attracted by the reports
they had heard of the exceedingly fertile meadows
in the "ox-bows of the long river" (the Connecti-
cut). Of this company Miles Alorgan, though the
youngest and the only one under twenty-one years
of age, soon became second in command. The
party settled in what is now the city of Spring-
field, Massachusetts. They gave it the name of
Agawam, which it bore until 1640, when for some
unexplained reason the name of Springfield was
bestowed. INIiles Morgan speedily became one of
the most valued men in the colony, an intrepid
Indian fighter, a sturdy husbandtnan, and a wise
counsellor in the government. In the practical di-
vision of the sumptuary duties of the colony he
became the butcher, wliile Colonel Pynchon was
the grocer and justice of the peace. Miles Mor-
gan's allotment comprised the lands now occupied
by the car and repair shops of the Boston & Elaine
railroad, and they remained in the family at least
two hundred years before the alienation. In the
early days of our country it was customary to
seat persons in the meeting-house according to their
rank ; so when we find that in 1663 Sergeant Miles
Morgan was given the third seat from the pulpit
in the Springfield meeting-house, that fact suffi-
ciently attests his dignity in the infant colony.
There is a pretty romance connected with Miles
Morgan's marriage. Captain Morgan, as he soon
began to be called, came over in the same ship with
Prudence Gilbert. In fact, there is a tradition to
the effect that it was on her account that he em-
barked. It is said that he first saw the fair Pru-
dence while he was wandering about the wharves

at Bristol, and that he decided at short notice to
sail with the ship on which she was going, that he
did not even have time to send word to his parents.
Her people_ settled in Beverly, now a suburb of
Boston. As soon as Captain Morgan had received
his allotment of land in Springfield he started back
to Boston on foot with an Indian guide to claim
his bride. After the wedding the return trip was
made, also on foot, but, in addition to the bridal
pair and the Indian, a horse, bought in Beverly,
was brought along, which like the Indian was loaded
down with the household goods of the newly mar-
ried couple. The two burden-bearers walked in
front while Captain Morgan, matchlock in hand,
followed with his bride. The town of Springfield
was sacked and burned by Indians in King Philip's
war in 1675. Colonel Pynchon being absent, the
command devolved upon Captain Morgan. Among
the killed was his own son, Peletiah, only fifteen
years of age. The houseless colony took refuge in
the stockade about Morgan's house. A friendly
Indian in Captain Morgan's employ made his escape
to Hadley, where Major Samuel Appleton, com-
mander-in-chief of the Massachusetts Bay troops,
happened to be stationed at the time. Major Ap-
pleton was able to spare fourteen men, who re-
turned to Springfield, and dispersed the Indians.
Eight children were born to Miles and Prudence
(Gilbert) Morgan: Mary, Jonathan, David, Pele-
tiah, Isaac. Lydia, Hannah and Mercy. Mrs. Pru-
dence (Gilbert) Morgan died November 14, 1660;
and more than eight years after, February 15, 1669,
her husband married Elizabeth Bliss, of Spring-
field. They had one child Nathaniel, born June
14, i67i._ Captain Morgan died May 28, 1699, aged
eighty-fo'ur years.

(II) Nathaniel, only child of Miles and his
second wife. Elizabeth (Bliss) Morgan, was born
June 14, 1671. He married Hannah Bird, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts, June 19. 1691, and built a
house at West Springfield, on the east side of what
is now Chicago street, where he died August 30.
1752. Their children were: Nathaniel, Samuel,
Ebenezer, Hannah, Miles. Joseph; Isaac and Eliza-
beth. It is from this branch of the family that the
noted banker, J. Pierpont Morgan, is descended,
he being the great-great-grandson of Joseph.

(III) Ebenezer, third son and child of Na-
thaniel and Hannah (Bird) IMorgan, was born
March 6, 1696. He married !\Iary Horton. Janu-
ary, 1719. His second wife was Sarah Warner,
whom he married June 20, 1737. He had five chil-
dren, and from the dates of their birth they must
all have been offspring of the second marriage.
The children were Ebenezer, Samuel, Sarah, Cather-
ine, and Chloe.

(IV) Sarah, eldest daughter and third child
of Ebenezer and Sarah (Warner) Morgan, was
born November 18, 1742, and married her cousin,
Titus (2) Morgan. It has been impossible to trace
the antecedents of Titus Morgan, but he was prob-
ably a near cousin of his wife's. They were married.
^Nlay 19. 1763. and had nine children': Erastus,
Gains and Quartus (twins). Julius, Pliny. Archip-
pus, Titus, Sally and Hiram. The classical names
which distinguished si.x of the children make an
interesting contrast to the plain Yankee cognomens
of the two youngest.

(V) Erastus, eldest of the nine children of
Titus and Sarah (Morgan) Morgan, was born in
Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, March 29, 1764. He
built the first dam on the Connecticut river at
Holyoke, Massachusetts. He married Clarissa

• Chapin, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, De-

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•cember 31, 1789. They had six children: Calvin,
Clarissa, Warren, Lewis, Huldah and Quartus Miles.

(VI) Quartus Miles, fourth son and youngest
child of Erastus and Clarissa (Chapin) Morgan,
was born in Huntington, Massachusetts, June 17,
iSio, and was educated at Chicopee Academy. He
was a veterinary surgeon, shoemaker and farmer,
and a very successful man. In politics he was a
Democrat, and he held va-rious town offices. He
was married (lirst), January 13, 1836, to Lucy
Horton, and they were the parents of six children,
namely: Hosea Edward, Laura Jane, Fanny A.,
Mary A. Russell. Charles Louis and Henry Lorell.
The mother died August 3, 1861, and Mr. Morgan
was subsequently married to Hannah Mills, daugh-
ter of Gardiner and Mary JMills, of Warwick, Mas-
sachusetts. They had six children : Henry, Clara,
Fanny, Mary, Laura and Edward Myles. Quartus
M. Morgan died in 1889, and was survived about
nine years bv his widow, who passed away in
1898.

(VII) Edward Miles, only living child of
Quartus Miles and Hannah (Mills) Morgan, was
born in Warwick, Massachusetts. May 31, 1867,
and was educated in the common schools of that
town. He was always identified with the lumber
business in his native state. He came to New
Hampshire in 1902, and to Warner in 1906, and
operates several large saw mills. In his native town
of Warwick he served as selectman, assessor, con-
stable and supervisor of the poor. He is a Republi-
can in politics, and attends the Congregational
Church. He married Minnie Louise Jaynes, daugh-
ter of William D. and Elizabeth L. Jaynes, of War-
wick, Massachusetts, August 20. 1892. and they have
eight children : Dorothy L., born April 25, 1893 ;
Stephen and Rachel (twins), August 25, 1894;
Miles Edward, November 26, 1895 ; Joseph Giles,
May 20, 1897; Olive Eleanor, December 21, 1899;
Clarissa, October 4, 1900; Esther Minnie, November
€, 1905.

(Second Family.')
Another line of this name is traced
MORGAN from a, very early period in the set-
tlement of Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, and includes numerous well known and use-
ful citizens of the state.

(I) Richard Morgan arrived at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, previous to 1659. It is presum-
able that he was of Welsh birth or at least of
Welsh ancestry. Probably he was induced to come
to .America by the freedom here afforded in re-
ligious matters. He immediatelj' settled at Dover,
where record of him appears. In the same year
he finally settled in Brentwood, near E.xeter, and
a deed given by him to Teter Coffin in 1699, shows
that he was alive at that time.

(II) John, only child of Richard Morgan,
married Mary Powell, and they had two sons, John
and Simeon.

(III) John (2). elder son of John (i) and
Mary (Powell) Morgan, was born in Brentwood,
where he died in 1786. He married .'\bigail Cove,
of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and their children
were ; Joanna, David. Parker, Judith, Elizabeth
and .^bigail.

(IV) Parker, second son and third child of
John (2) and Abigail (Cove) Morgan, was born
December 12. 1757, in Brentwood. A considerable
portion of his early manhood was spent in Gil-
manton. He was a Revolutionary' soldier and in-
formation at hand states that he enlisted shortly
after^ the battle of Bunker Hill in Colonel Enoch
Poor's regiment at Winter Hill, Massachusetts, that

he was wounded at the battle of Bemis Heights
and subsequently discharged on account of physical
disability. He recovered, however, and enlisted in
the navy at Portsmouth on board of the ship of
war "General Mifflin," which captured numerous
prizes. In the New Hampshire Revolutionarj' Rolls
the name of Parker Morgan cannot be found. Those
of Massachusetts contain the following entry:
"Parker JNIorgan, Private, Captain Stephen Jack-
son's company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's regiment.
Enlisted August 18, 1777, discharged November 30,
1777, served 3 mos., 27 days under Gen. Gates in
the northern department. 14 days (280 miles )
travel home, order for payment of amount of roll
dated at Newburyport and signed by Captain Jen-
kins." After leaving the Continental service he
went to reside in Brentwood, but later removed to
Kensington, subsequently to Gilmanton and finally
to JNIeredith, where he died October 21, 1821. June
7, 1781, he married Betsey Sanborn, daughter of
Richard, Jr., and Elizabeth (Batchelder) Sanborn,
of Kensington, who were married June 21, 1713.
and her death occurred September 30, 1S38. Their
children were: John, born January 24, 1782, died
September 12, 1795; Jeremiah, April 16, 1784, died
September 27, 1856; Betsey, January 18, 1789. died
September 26, 1877; Taffen, April 3, 1793. died
.August 7, 1793; Nancy, April 7, 1796; died Au-
gust 14, 1824; Charles, April 30, 1799, died Decem-
ber 16, 1S82; Fanny. August i, 1801, died Febru-
ary 3, 1897; John Taffen, January 31, 1805, died
April 10, 1845.

(V) Charles, third son and fourth child of Par-
ker and Betsey (Sanborn) Morgan, was a native of
Kensington, born April 30, 1799. He was an engineer,
both civil and mechanical, and actively concerned in
the building of several important industrial enter-
prises in New- Hampshire and Maine. He super-
intended the erection of the first cotton mill in Iilan-
chester ; was associated with others in erecting the
Gilford and Meredith Company's mill at Laconia ;
assisted in surveying the Concord and Montreal
railway; and was subsequently for a time in charge
of the Amoskeag Company's machine shops at
Manchester. He was afterward superintendent of
the Saco Water-Power Company's plant at Saco,
Maine. He finally engaged in the furniture busi-
ness at Biddeford, Maine, which he carried on suc-
cessfully until his retirement, and he died in Saco
December 16, 1882. He was a member of the
Congregational Church and while residing in La-
conia was actively interested in the erection of a
church edifice in that place. He married Sar.ah
Ann Robinson, a descendant of Thomas Wiggin,
the first proprietary governor of New Hampshire,
also from the Dudley family which dates its lineage
from the time of William the Conqueror and was
of the English nobility. She was a native of Mere-
dith Village, and a daughter of Colonel Noah Rob-
inson, who was the son of an officer in the Revo-
lution. She became the mother of five children,
three of whom are living, namely: Eustis Parker,
a resident of Saco, Maine ; Sarah E., widow of
Hiram M. Goodrich, late of Nashua (see Goodrich) ;
and Charles Carroll Morgan, a well-known resident
of Nashua, and a retired lawyer.

(VI) Charles Carroll, son of Charles and
Sarah A. (Robinson) Morgan, was born in Mere-
dith (now Laconia) July 25, 1832. From the Gil-
ford Academy, Meredith, he went to the Manchester
high school, and from the latter he entered Brown
University, remaining there until the close of his
freshman year. He then began the study of law,
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a position as manager of the New England branch
of a New York publishing house, with headquar-
ters in Boston, and he later went to the metropolis,
where for the ensuing five years he as employed by
the same firm in the preparation of geographies.
During the progress of the Rebellion he prepared
a "Battle History" of that memorable civil strife.
He next became connected in a managerial way
with the Union Paper Collar Company in New
York City, having the general care of that concern's
litigations comprising some three hundred law
suits. He was engaged in that work for some tinie,
which necessarily brought him into close touch with
the legal profession. Resuming his neglected law
studies he perfected them and was admitted to the
bar at Indianapolis, Indiana, in the late seventies.
He shortly afterward returned to Boston, where he
established himself as a specialist in patent litiga-
tions, and practiced successfully for many years,
In 1901, he retired from his law practice, and re-
moved to Nashua, where he is now residing.

Mr. Morgan united with the Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, in 1863, which was during the most
vigorous period in the long pastorate of the famous
Henry Ward Beecher. Since coming to Nashua he
has evinced an earnest interest in social and liter-
ary matters, and in the affairs of the First Congre-
gational Church, of which he is a member. He
was the principal organizer of the Fortnightly Club,
which is widely known in New England and other
states. He married Miss Mary Anna Roliinson
Gove, daughter of George W. and Nancy (Robin-
son) Gove, of Exeter, this state. Prior to her mar-
riage she was engaged in v educational work and
was an accomplished student in botany. Airs. Mor-
gan died October 29, 1873. Two children were
born of this union, Anna May, born December 13,
1859, was a student at Olivet College, Michigan,
where she also pursued a post-graduate course and
was appointed assistant librarian. She later turned
her attention to vocal music, had charge of a de-
partment in the conservatory of Albion College,
Michigan, and later a like position in Wells Col-
lege, New York. She subsequently studied in Flor-
ence, Italy. Upon her return to the United States
she had full charge of instruction in the vocal de-
partment of Wilson College, Chambersburg. Pennsyl-
vania, but her career of usefulness was unfortunately
terminated by her untimely death, which occurred
February 13, 1896. The second child, Alice Helen,
was born May 25, i860, and died July 27, 1862.

Coming as he did in the first dec-
CHAMPNEY ade of the settlement of Mas-
sachusetts Bay Colony, there is
no room to doubt that the first of the Champneys
in New England was a sturdy, strong-willed man,
whose love of personal liberty far outweighed his re-
gard for personal comforts, and sent him across the
ocean to worship God as he chose, in spite of the
hardships his act entailed.

(I) Elder Richard Champney came from Lin-
colnshire, England, in 1634 or 1635, ^nd settled in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1736 was made
a freeman. He was a man of "good understanding
and great piety," and was made a ruling elder in the
church which was organized there. Honorable
mention is made of him in the "Cambridge Church

Gathering." He married, in England Jane

of whose parentage, birth and death nothing is now
known. He died November 26, 1669. Their chil-
dren were: F-sther, Mary (died young). Samuel,
Sarah, Mary, John, and Daniel, whose sketch fol-
lows.

(IT) Daniel, youngest child of Richard and

Jane Champney, was born in Camibridge, in March,
1644, and died in 1691. aged forty-seven. He re-
sided in Cambridge. He married, January 3, 1665,
Dorcas Bridge, who died in 1684, aged thirty-six.
They had seven children : Dorcas, Daniel, Thomas,
Noah. Downing, Abigail and Hepzibah.

(III) Daniel (2), second child and eldest son
of Daniel (l) and Dorcas (Bridge) Champney, was
born in Cambridge, in December, i66g, and married
Bethiah Danforth. Their children were : Thomas,
Dorcas, Daniel, Solomon, Noah, Downing. Richard
and Thomas.

(IV) Solomon, third son and fourth child of
Daniel and Bethiah (Danforth) Champney, was
born in Cambridge, in 1702. He was an artisan,
but became a soldier in the time of King George
III, and was stationed at Castle William in Boston
Harbor, where he died in 1760, aged fifty-eight. He
married, in 1723, Elizabeth Cunning'ham, and they
had six children: Richard, Ebenezer (died young),
Nathan, John, Silence, and Ebenezer, who is the
subject of the next paragraph.

(V) Judge Ebenezer. the youngest child of Sol-
omon and Elizabeth (Cunningham) Champney, was
born in Cambridge, April 3, 1744, and died in New
Ipswich, September 10, 1810, aged sixty-seven. He
was a bright young man, and in 1762, at the age of
eighteen, graduated from Harvard College with the
de'gree of Bachelor of Arts. He was educated with
the intention of becoming a minister of the gospel,
and to that end he studied divinity. After preaching
for about two years he received a call to settle in
township No. I, now Mason, New Hampshire, which
he declined. He soon after abandoned the ministry
and began the study of law in the office of Hon.
Samuel Livermore, and was admitted to the bar
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1768. In June
of the same year he settled in New Ipswich and
entered upon "the duties of his profession. In the
spring of 1783, he went to Groton, Massachusetts,
where he remained until 1789: was representative
in 1784, when he returned to New Ipswich. His first
commission as justice of the peace was received
from Governor John Hancock, of Massachusetts,
the celebrated signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. In 179s he was appointed judge of pro-
bate of the county of Hillsborough. The duties of
this office were appropriately discharged until his
resignation a few months before his death.

Judge Champney's course in college, his early
graduation, and his apparent success in the ministry
give evidence of superior mental endowment : and
that he did net attain higher honors is probably
due to his not seeking them. He was everywhere
regarded as a man of talents, and where he was
known he exercised no inconsiderable influence.
During the earlier years of his practice he was
the only lawver between Keene and Groton, and
he had offices" both at the latter place and New Ips-
wicli, in conjunction with his son. The labor of
attending the courts at that period was very great,
the circuit being extensive, and all journeys were
necessarily made on horseback.

During the controversy between England and
her American colonies. Mr. Champney opposed the
measures that culminated in the Revolution. He
was a man of peace, a moderate Tory, and depre-
cated the call to arms, believing that with prudent
and moderate counsels all causes of disaffection
might be satisfa(;torily adjusted. He wished to pre-
serve his lovalty and' the peace of the country, but
like many others who forebore to take part in the
contest he lived to acknowledge the beneficent
effects of that struggle which gave the American
people liberty and free institutions.

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Judge Champney married (first), at Groton,
Massachusetts, in 1763, Abigail Trowbridge, born
November 3, 1740, daughter of Rev. Caleb and Han-
nah (Walton) Trowbridge. This marriage connect-
ed him with the distinguished families of Cottons
and Mathers. Abigail (Trowbridge) Champney
died in 1775, aged thirty-five. Judge Champney
married (second), November, 1778, Abigail Parker,
who died in 1790. aged thirty-eight. He married
(third), in March, 1796, Susan \V>-man, who died
the following September. By his first wife he had
seven children: Benjamin, Francis, Abigail, Han-
nah, Elizabeth. Sarah and Ebenezer. The last
three died young. By his second wife, Abigail
Parker, he had three children : Elizabeth, Ebene-
zer and Jonas Cutler.

(VI) Benjamin, eldest child of Judge Ebenezer
and Abigail (Trowbridge) Champney, was born
at Groton, Massachusetts, August 20, 1764, and
died at New Ipswich. May 12. 1827. aged sixty-
three. He grew up on a farm, and received his edu-
cation in the common schools of his native town,
with occasional assistance from his father. Be-
fore he attained his majority he began the study
of law in his father's office, and in due time was
admitted to the bar. In 1786, he became a partner
in business with his father at Groton, where he
resided until 1792, when he removed to New Ips-
wich. New Hampshire. There he continued his
chosen vocation the remainder of his life. Es-
quire Champney was well read in his profession,
and had a good knowledge of English literature.
As a gentleman he was courteous and afifable, and
as a man public-spirited and honorable. Few men
have enjoyed the confidence of the community in
which they lived to a greater degree than he.
Possessed of a candid and liberal mind, he saw
things in their true and just relations, and was
capable of weighing in his well-balanced judgment
the various and complicated issues that were offered
for his advice and adjudication. For many years he
served the town as a member of the board of select-
men. He received the appointment of postmaster upon
the removal of the office to the village, which he
held for twenty years. He w-as also for a number
of years president of the Hillsborough bar. As a
townsman he was one of the foremost in devising
and executing measures for the promotion of learn-
ing and the general improvement of the town. He
was one of the projectors and original proprietors
of the first cotton factory built in New Ipswich.
This enterprise he commenced in ^1804. in conjunK:-
tion with Charles Barrett .and Charles Robbins.
This factory, together with those which later grew
out of it, has been of much importance to the
trade and prosperity of the town. For a time it was
a great attraction to the neighborhood and even to
places quite remote on account of its entire novelty.
For some years it was conducted with much suc-
cess, but subsequently it proved a source of loss to
all concerned.

Benjamin Champney married (first), in 1791,
Mercy Parker. She died in 1795. aged twenty-nine.
He married (second), in 1809, Rebecca Brooks.
■ The children by the first wife were : Sarah and
Benjamin, and by the second wife: Edward Wal-
ter, George Mather, Marie Louisa, Ellen Louisa,
Benjamin Crackbone. Mary Jane, and Henry Trow-
bridge, whose sketch follows.

(VII) Henry Trowbridge, youngest child of
Benjamin and Rebecca (Brooks) Champney, was
born in New Ipswich. September 19, 1825. After
obtaining his education in the common scliools and
at the Academy of New Ipswich, he went to Boston

where he engaged in mercantile business, and has
made a competency and retired from active life.
His home is at West Medford, Massachusetts, and
there he resides the greater portion of the year,
spending the warmer season, however, at New
Ipswich, his boyhood home, where he has a beauti-
ful summer residence.

JMr. Champney married (first) Lydia S. Parkley,
of Stratford, New Hampshire. She died February
14, 1895. He married (second), April 30. 1896,
Amelia Knight Hanson, of New York, daughter of
Vernon and Helen (Smith) Hanson, of St. Johns,
New Brunswick. One child by the second marriage,
Edith Trowbridge, born January 17, 1898.

The Scales family in England dates
SCALES from the landing of William the Con-
queror in 1066. The origin of the
name came from the commander of that division
of King William's army, which came over to Eng-
land with him from Normany, whose duty it was
to scale the walls of a besieged city when the prop-
er time came to make such an assault. The general's
name was Hugh ; they had only one name then ;
in the historj' of the time he is called Hugh de-
Eschalers ; that is Hugh commander of the Scalers
of city walls and fortifications ; in the course of
years the spelling became Hugh de Scales and after
two or three centuries the de was dropped.

Burke's Extinct Peerage has the following which
gives some idea of what place the family held :
Scales-Baron Scales. By w-rit of summons dated
6th February 1299 — -7 Edward I, Lineage. Of this
name and family (anciently written Eschalers and
Scales) the first recorded is Hugh de Scales, who
in the time of King Stephen was Lord of' Berk-
hampstead, in the county of Essex. This feudal
lord gave to the Monks of Lewes the churches of
Withial, Wadone, Ruthwall and Berkhampstead. by a
deed sealed with the impression of an armed man,
standing on his left foot, and putting his right on
the step of a ladder with his hands on the same,
as if he were climbing, around which was the in-
scription : "Sigillum Hugonis de Scaleriis." And
following this is the account of many other members
of the noble family of Scales, who were disting-
uished in both peace and war. This family resided
for many generations in great splendor and power
at the Castle of Middleton, near Lynn Regis in
the county of Norfolk, about one hundred miles
north from London. The Scales family, other than
the barons, lived in the counties on the east side of
England and north of London, in the the counties
of Hertford. Cambridge, Huntingdon, Norfolk and
York.

(I) William Scales, immigrant ancestor, was
born about 1612 : the place of his birth is not known ;
it may have been in London, and his parents may
have been William and Margaret (Greene) Scales,
slie daughter of Robert Greene, as they are mentioned
in the will of "Dame Bennett, widow of Sir Wil-
liam Webb, mayor and alderman of London," 14
January, 1604, William being kinsman of the for-
mer mayor. It is known that he lived in Rowley,
England, near Hull, in 16.^8, and joined the party
of which the Rev. Ezekicl Rogers was leader, which
came to Boston or Salem in '16,39, and in 1640 or-
ganized the town of Rowley, Massachusetts. Mr.
Rogers was pastor of the parish of Rowley, but on
account of religious persecution he and a large num-
ber of his parish emigrated to New England: they
named their new town for their old home in Eng-
land. William Scales was accompanied by his wife
and three children. He, with the other heads of fam-

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ilies in the town, was made a freeman by the general
court, May 13, 1640. His house lot, like his neigh-
bors, contained one acre of land. He built his
house on it and resided there till his death in
1682. the record of which is as follows : "William
Scales buryed July ye tenth day, anno ; 1682."
The record of his wife's death is as follows:
"Ann, widow of William Scales, buryed ye 26 day
September, anno; 1682."

William Scales, received numerous grants of
land from the town ; he was a zealous supporter of
his pastor, Mr. Rogers ; he was largely engaged in
lumber business, farming and stock raising. When
Mr. Rogers and his party came over they brought
the Rowley parish records with them, so that
in that old town in England the present parish
records do not date back of 1650. Unfortunately,
that first book of Mr. Rogers' English parish is
lost, and it is not possible to ascertain the parent-
age of any of that party. Probably there were about
twenty generations between Hugh de Scales, of
Berkhampstead. and William Scales, of Rowley.
William and Ann Scales had three children of rec-
ord, only one of which lived to marry and leave
children.

(II) James, son of William and Ann Scales,
was bornin 1654, and died in 16S6. He was a farm-
er and resided on the homestead in Rowley village.
He married, November 7. 1677, Susannah, daughter
of Zacheus Curtis. Zachens Curtis was of Rowley,
and embarked on the "James." April 5. 1635, at
Southampton, England, as from Donnton. probably
in county Wilts. He is called husbandman. She
died in 1691. Their children were : James. Sarah,
William, and Matthew, wbose sketch follows : _

(HI) Matthew, third son and youngest child of
James and Susannah (Curtis) Scales, was born
March 29, T685. He was only one year old when
bis father died ; his mother died when he was
six years old, and he was left in the care of John
Harris, of Ipswich, as appears by the probate rec-
ords of Salem. Soon after 1712 he began house-
keeping in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The
record book of the North Parish of that city has
the following entry made by the pastor. Rev. John
Emerson: "April 25, 1714. Matthew Scales owned
ye Covenant and his son Matthew was baptized."
in the same book are these further records: "April
18, 1715. James Scales baptized." "June 2. 1717,
Mary Scales baptized." "October 26. 1718, .Abraham
Scales baptized." At Portsmouth Matthew Scales
was engaged in housebuilding and general carpen-
ter work; he was a master mechanic, a good citi-
zen and a devout church member. He does not ap-
pear to have taken anv part in public office holding.
In 1718 he went to Falmouth, Maine, and joined
bis brother William, who had settled there three
years before. In 171Q he moved his family there,
where they continued to reside until his_ death,
at the hands of the Indians, at the same time his
brother William was slain, Apvil. 1725. .^t Fal-
mouth he was selectman several years, while his
brother was representative in the general court of
IMassachusetts. He served under Major Moody as
a soldier in the fort there, and was one of the
leading citizens. Matthew Scales married Sarah
, of Ipswich. Massachusetts in 1712. She prob-
ably returned to Ipswich after the death of her hus-
band. The date or place of her death is not known.
She had three sons who lived to grow up : Mat-
thew. .'\braham and Edward.

(IV) Abraham, son of Matthew and Sarah
Scales, was born in 1718, and was but seven years
old when his father was killed. When he was four-

teen years old he commenced to serve his appren-
ticeship of seven years with a house carpenter in
Boston, the trade then being called the "joiners."
.A.braham and his older brother, who was also a
carpenter, went to reside in Durham, New Hamp-
shire, about 1739, and practiced their trade there
and in the towns around. The fact that they were
born in Portsmouth and that their mother was ac-
quainted with Durham people may have been the
cause of their going there to settle. June 16, 1748,
Abraham Scales, "joiner," and Theophilus Hardy,
"feltmaker," both of Durham, bought lot 41 in
Nottingham, consisting of one hundred acres of
land, covered with a heavy growth of oak and pine.
Later Mr. Scales bought Mr. Hardy's half and also
two other adjoining lots, making three hundred
acres in all. In 1749 he completed building his house
On the original purchase, which is standing at the
present time (1907), perfectly sound and strong.
It is a large, two-story dwelling, and was the first
two-story house built in Nottingham. That house
and farm remained in possession of the Scales fam-
ily more than a centur.v. Abraham Scales and his
wife went there to live in 1749, and resided there
till his death in 1796, when it passed into the pos-
session of his grandson, Samuel Scales. Abraham
Scales was not only .an expert house builder, but
made furniture and about everything that was
needed or could be used about the house, that
could be made of wood. He was a man of strong
personal character of the old Puritan type, inde-
pendent and progressive. He was selectman of that
town in 1754-5.S, was moderator at numerous town
meetings, and held various minor offices. He was
a zealous churchman, but did not like the Rev.
Benjamin Butler for pastor of the church in Not-
tingham, fo joined the Baptists in Lee in 1772, and
remained a Baptist to the end of his life. July 8,
1747. he married Sarah Thompson, of Durham, born
Januarv 5, 1724. and died in 1804, daughter of John
and Mary (Davis) Thompson, and granddaughter
of John and Sarah (Woodman) Thompson ; Sar-
ah Woodman was daughter of Captain John Wood-
man, of Durham, and Newbury. Massachusetts.
.Abraham and Sarah had five children who lived
tn grow up: .Samuel, Hannah, Abigail, Lois and
Ebenezer.

(V) Samuel Scales, son of Abraham and Sarah
(Thompson) Scales, was born September g, 1754,
and died March 20, 177S. aged twenty-four. He re-
sided with his father on the homestead. He served
in the Revolutionary army, on guard duty at Ports-
mouth, in November and December, 1775, and in
the siege of Boston, in 1776, until the town was
evacuated. IMarch 17, of that year. He married
March. t774, Hannah Langley, daughter of Sam-
uel and Hannah (Reynolds) Langley, of Lee; they
had one daughter Mary, who died young: and a
son Samuel, who was born one month after the
death of his father.

(VI) Samuel (2). only son of Samuel (i) and
Hannah (Langley) Scales, was born April 20. 1778,
and died September 21, 1840. His father died a
month before his birth, and he was brought up by
his Grandfather Scales, and at the death of the lat-
ter in T70C, he inherited the home farm and resided
there until his death. He was united in marriage
with Hannah Dame, daughter of Moses and Anna
(Hunking) Dame, of Lee, April 20. 1799; she was
born February 16, 1772, and died July 30, 1847.
Her mother was daughter of Captain Mark Hunk-
ing, of Portsmouth, and Barrington, and grand-
daughter of Colonel Mark Hunking of Portsmouth,
who was royal councillor with Lieutenant Cover-

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nor John Wentvvorth, his brother-in-law, 1716, to
1729. Moses Dame was born in Newington,
and was fifth in descent from Deacon John
Dam(e), one of the early settlers in Dover, and
second deacon of the First Church in that town,
which was organized in 1638. Samuel and Hannah
(Dame) Scales were excellent persons, and managed
the farm and the household in a successful way for
forty years. It was said of them that no one ever
heard a cross or uncomplimentary word pass be-
tween them, and they brought up their children in
a very exemplary manner. When their children
attained school age they had the district teacher
hold the school at their house, and gave them the
best education that the times afforded. That was
shortly after the towns in New Hampshire were
divided into districts for school purposes ; that
particular district was the "Scales district." To
them were born two sons and two daughters :
Samuel, Mary, Nancy and Levi.

(VH) Samuel (3), eldest child of Samuel (2)
and Hannah (Dame) Scales, was born July 18.
1800, and died January 12, 1877. He received a good
education ; before his marriage he was for several
winters a successful teacher in district schools in
Nottingham and Lee ; he took a lively interest in
military affairs and became captain of a company in
the state militia. He was a strict disciplinarian and
popular commander. He was one of the school
committee of Nottingham for a number of years,
selectman several years, and representative in the
general court in 1849-50, in which he served on
important committees. He was an up-to-date farm-
er, always raising big crops of corn and potatoes.
He had a blacksmith shop and a carpenter shop on
his farm, in which he shod his o.xen and horses,
and sometimes those of his neighbors. He made his
own carts and wheels, sleds and yokes, and all the
sort of tools used on a farm in tliose days. He
took special pride in having the best stock of cat-
tle in town, and his ox teams were beautiful to
every one who admired handsome oxen. He was
found of music, and had a deep clear bass voice that
made him the best bass singer in the town ; He
was choir leader for years. He and his father be-
fore him were liberal in their religious views, be-
ing old-fashioned Hosea Ballou Universalists, as
was his wife. In politics he was a Democrat from
the days of Andrew Jackson, and was delegate to
innumerable conventions of that party, and gen-
erally he was elected chairman, as he was an ex-
cellent presiding officer, preserving order in the
most stormy and exciting to^vn meeting or conven-
tion. It was said that he could make his voice
heard a mile. He was a justice of the peace for
half a century, and did much business in that line;
in all his later years he was known as Esquire
Scales. He was a genial, kind-hearted man, and
delighted to relate anecdotes of his wide experience.
He was a man of much reading and clear intel-
lect, forming his own opinions and standing by his
conclusions until strong evidence was presented
to change his mind, hence, his conclusions as a jus-
tice were rarely disputed or overturned. He was
an indomitable worker, and early riser, always busy,
in storm or in sunshine. He died of heart failure,
January 12, 1877, though he had been active about
his work down to the beginning of that winter.
He was one of the charter members of Sullivan
Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at
Lee Hill. He received his degree of entered ap-
prentice. May 2g, 182S; fellow craft. November 5,
1829: master mason, June 3, 1830. He was junior
warden, i83i-3.{; worshipful master, 1835-36-44-47;

grand steward of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
of New Hampshire, nine years in succession, 1836-
45; also 1849-50.

He married, December 23, 1828, Betsey True, of
Deerfield, January 11. 1805. and died in Dover. Oc-
tober 4, 1883. She vv-as the daughter of Benjamin
and Mary (Batchelder) True, of Deerfield, whose
father. Deacon Abraham True, of Salisbury, Massa-
chusetts, was one of the first settlers in that town.
1754. i)eacon True was a grandson of Captain
Henry and Jane (Bradbury) True, of Salisbury,
whose father, Henry True, was the immigrant an-
cestor (See True I and II). Jane Bradbury was
a daughter of Captain Thomas Bradbury, one of the
foremost men of Newbury, and Massachusetts Bay
Colony. Benjamin True, father of Betsey, inherited
the homestead farm in Deerfield, and was one of
the leading citizens. He was a soldier in the Rev-
olution. His wife. Mary Batchelder, was daughter
of Captain Nathaniel Batchelder of Deerfield, who
was a private in Captain Henry Dearborn's company.
Colonel John Stark's regiment, in the battle of Bunk-
er Hill. His grandfather. Nathaniel Batchelder,
was a grandson of Rev. Stephen Batchelder, the
immigrant. (See Batchelder I, II, III.) Samuel
and Betsey (True) Scales had three sons: True,
John and George.

(VIII) True, the eldest son of Samuel (3) and
Betsey (True) Scales, was born January 20. 1830,
and died July 27, 1892. He was a brickmason by
trade, resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
was a contractor arid builder for many years.
He was a member of various Masonic fratemities.
receiving his degree of entered apprentice in Ami-
cable Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
C.-imbridge, January 14, 1865. In 1866 he became
a member of Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter. In
1871 he took the degree of Royal and Select Mas-
ters in Boston Council. In 1873 he became a Knight
Templar in William Parkman Commandery of East
Boston. He held the highest offices in these organ-
izations, ending with that of eminent commander
in 1879-80. He was in office thirteen consecutive
years, and was acknowledged to be one of the mosr
efficient presiding officers in the Masonic Orders.
He married, October 4, 1853, Mary Bird Shattuck,
of Burlington, Vermont, who died October 14, 1905.
They had one son, Frank, born September 26,
1859; he resides in Cambridge: he married and is
the father of three children: Marion Bird. Walter
Francis and George Burton.

(VIII) John, second son and child of Samuel
(3) and Betsey (True) Scales, was born October
6, 1835 ; was graduated from New London Academy
in 1859: from Dartmouth College in 1863; he en-
gaged in teaching from 1863 to 1882 ; he was editor
and one of the proprietors of the Dover Daily Re-
(inblican and Dover Enquirer (weekly) from 1882
to 1898 ; since then he has been engaged in literary
work, and has published a volume of Historical
Memoranda of Old Dover (New Hampshire), and
various historical papers. . He has been a member
of the Dover school committee several years ; trus-
tee of the State normal school. He is a member
of the New Hampshire Historical Society: the New
Hampshire Society Sons of the American Revo-
lution ; the New Hampshire Society of Colonial
Wars ; Moses Paul Lodge. Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons ; Belknap Chapter ; Orphan Council ;
St. Paul Commandery. Knight Templar, and has
received the Scottish Rite to the thirty-second de-
gree. He was united in marriage, October 20, 1865,
with Ellen Tasker, of Strafford, born in Strafford,
May 30. 1843, daughter of Deacon Alfred and

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Mary Margaret (Hill) Tasker, of Strafford. They
have two sons: Burton True and Robert Leighton.
(IX) Burton True, son of John and Ellen (Task-
er) Scales, was born August lo,, 1873 ; was gradu-
ated from Dartmouth College in 1895; he was en-
gaged in newspaper work for two years, then took
up the teaching of music in the public schools of
Dover. In 1898 he was appointed instructor rn
music in the William Penn Charter School for Boys
in Philadelphia, which position he now (1907) holds.
He is a fine bass singer and has had marked success
as an instructor in music. He was united in marriage,
September 15, 1900, with Kate Hubbard Reynolds,
of Dover, daughter of Captain Benjamin O. and
Martha (White) Reynolds. They have one daugh-
ter, Catherine Bradstreet, born January 11, 1903;
and one son, Benjamin Reynolds, March 24, 1907.
_(IX) Robert Leighton, son of John and Ellen
(Tasker) Scales, was born June 10, 1880; was
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1901 : he was
instructor in English literature and oratory at Dart-
mouth from September, 1902, to Juh'. 1904; he grad-
uated from Harvard Law School in June, 1907.
He is the author of a te.xt book on Argumentation
and Debate.

(VIII) George, youngest child of Samuel (3)
and Betsey (True) Scales, was born October 20,
1840; was graduated from New London (New
Hampshire) Academy in 1861, and was about to
engage in the study of law when the Civil war
broke out, and he enlisted in the First Company of
New Hampshire Sharpshooters of Colonel Berdan's
regiment. He enlisted in September, 1861, and
served in the regiment in McClellan's campaigns in
Virginia; he was killed July I. 1S62, at the battle of
Malvern Hill. He was an expert marksman. He
graduated at the head of his class at New London.
He was very keen in debate, six feet tall, well pro-
portioned; black hair and black eyes, with a fine
looking head and features, genial in his ways and
generally liked. He was a young man of great
promise for a brilliant and useful career had he
been spared in health.

The progenitor of the numerous Jor-
JORDAN dan family was a very early settler
in Maine. He was fortunate in his
selection of a wife, in his business relations, and in
most of the other affairs of life, and was the' forbear
of a race among whose members are many men of
ability and distinction.

(I) Rev. Robert Jordan, the immigrant, was
probably a native of Dorsetshire or Devonshire,
England, where the Jordan name is quite common,
and whence came many of the first settlers of Fal-
mouth. It is probable that he came in 1639, in
one of the regular trading vessels of .Robert Tre-
lawney, merchant and landholder of Richmond's
Island, then a part of ancient Falmouth in Maine.
He was a clergyman of the church of England, a
man of superior education, and as early a? 1641.
succeeded Mr. Gibson in his clerical capacity at
Richmond's Island. F6r more than thirty years
Rev. Robert Jordan occupied a large share" in the
affairs_ of the town and of the province. He was
an active, enterprising man, and well educated. Al-
though being a Presbyter of the Church of England,
he came hither as a religious teacher, the
affairs of the world in which he lived
and the achievement of his ambitious de-
signs appear soon to have absorbed the most of
his attention, and to have diverted him from the
exercise of his profession — a result originating and
hastened doubtless by. the hostility of the govern-
ment. He and Rev. Richard Gibson were the pi-

oneers of Episcopacy in Maine, and though Mr.
Gibson left the country in 1642, Mr. Jordan re-
mained at the post of duty, and never relinquished
his stand as a churchman or his professional char-
acter. He was the soul of the opposition to Massa-
chusetts, and a chief supporter to the royal com-
missioners and the anti-Puritan policy. Owing to
his religious affinities and associations he was an
object of suspicion and hostility to the Puritan Gov-
ernment of Massachusetts, who forbade him to marry
or baptize. He paid no attention to this order and,
continuing to discharge the duties of his office, the
general court of Massachusetts ordered his arrest
and imprisonment in Boston jail. This occurred
twice, namely, in 1654 and in 1663. For a long
time he was a judge of the court. Edward God-
frey, the fir.st settler of York, and for some time
governor of the western part of the state, was
long associated with Mr. Jordan as a magistrate,
and speaks of him in a "letter to the government at
home, March 14. 1660, as having long experience
in the country "equal to any in Boston;" and adds,
"an orthodox divine of the church of England,
and of great parts and estate." He began early to
mingle in the aft'airs of the settlers, and in 1641
was one of the referees in a controversy between
Winter and Cleaves.

Robert Trelawney and ]Moses Goodyear were
granted land and trading privileges in 1631. In
1636 Mr. Trelawney alone is mentioned as pro-
prietor of the patent, and on March 26, of that year
he committed the full government of the plantation
to John Winter who appears after tliat time to have
an interest of one-tenth in the speculation, and a
salary of £40 a year for his personal care and
charge. In 1645 John Winter died, and three years
later his plantation and all its appurtenances were
awarded to Robert Jordan, his .son-in-law. as heir
and administrator of John Winter. Winter had set-
tled on Richmond's Island, and as agent for Tre-
lawney kept a trading house, bought furs of the In-
dians and dried fish upon the island, having at one
time sixty men employed in the fishing business,
and four ships which were loaded at the island
with fish, oil, furs and pipe-staves for voyages to
England and Spain. By his marriage with Sarah
Winter, Mr. Jordan became one of the great land
proprietors and wealthy men of the region ; "a
source of influence which he failed not to exert in
favor of his church and politics." After 1648 he sold
the property of Trelawney and settled the estate
of Winter, and soon afterward settled on the main-
land portion of the estate of Winter, The planta-
tion there was called Spurvvink, a name which has
been retained to the present day. It lies in Falmouth,
now Cape Elizabeth. He resided there until the
second Indian war of 1676. when he was compelled
to leave and flee from the Indians. He left home
hurriedly, and everything about his house was in
flames before he was out of sight. He went to
Great Island in the Piscataqua river (now New-
castle), then part of Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
and there died in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
His will was made at Great Island, January 28,
and proved July i, 1679. He had lost the use of
his hands before his^ death, and was unable to sign
his will. He left six sons, among whom his im-
mense landed estate of ten thousand acres or more
was divided.

Rev. Robert Jordan married Sarah Winter,
daughter of John Winter, who survived him and
was living at Newcastle, in Portsmouth Harbor,
in 1686. Their children were: John. Robert, Do-
minicus, Jedediah. Samuel and Jeremiah.

(II) Jedediah. fourth son and child of Rev.

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Robert and Sarah (Winter) Jordan, was born be-
fore 1664, at Spurvvink, now Cape Elizabetli, Cum-
berland county, Maine ; and died in 1735. He left
Spnrwink with his father's family on the outbreak of
the Indian war in 1675, and settled at Great Island,
now Newcastle, New Hampshire. He afterward
settled at Kittery, Maine, which is show-n by his
having given his son Robert a deed to land dated
at Kittery in 1726. In 1729 he made a w-ill of which
his sons John and Thomas were the executors.
There is no record of the marriage of Jedediah Jor-
dan at Newcastle or Kittery. as no records were
kept at that early date. It is probable that his chil-
dren were born in Kittery. One of his daughters
was married there in 1724. His children were:
Jedediah, Abigail, Keziah. Mary, Sarah, John^
Thomas, and Robert, whose sketch follows.

(III) Robert, youngest child and fourth son of
Jedediah Jordan, was born in 1704. probably at
Kittery. York county, Maine. In 1726 his father
conveyed land to him in Spurwink, where he after-
ward lived as a farmer. He married, in Dover,
New Hampshire, in 1727, Rachel Huckins, and they
had twelve children : Robert, Edmund, Hannah,
Abigail, Lucy, Sarah. Olive, Temperance, Rachel,
Margery, Wealthy and Mary.

(IV) Edmund, second son and child of Robert
and Rachel (Huchins) Jordan, W'as born at Spur-
wink, in 1729.

(V) Benjamin, son of Edmund Jordan, was born
in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1760. He served
one month as substitute for his father, in April and
May, 1776. under Captain Ray in Colonel Fry's reg-
iment, and again another month in the same capac-
ity under Captain Remington, January, 1777. In
Februar3% 1777, he volunteered as fifer with Captain
Roy for a month. " He also served another month
in .-Vpril and May under Captain Bennett. In June,
1777. he enlisted for ten months under Captain
Gibbs, Colonel John Topham's regiment. When
discharged in March. 1778, he immediately re-en-
listed for one year with Captain Traffern and was
discharged in March, 1779. His service in the
patriot army amounted to four years, and he was
a member of the little band w'hich made the daring
capture of the British General Prescott on the Is-
land of Rhode Island. He removed to Plainfield.
New Hampshire, in May. 1780, and to Columbia in
1816, where he died in 1S46. He married. May 15,
1780. Mary Walker, of Rehoboth, a descendant of
"Molly Walker." She was born in 1760 and died
in i860. Each was at the time of death a pensioner.
Their children were : Joseph, Mercy, Ruth, Mrs.
Sweet. Mrs. Hadley. Johnson, Lyman and Polly.
When the mother died she had seven children liv-
ing, the youngest, Polly, being sixty years old.

(VI") Johnson, son of Benjamin and Mary
(Walker) Jordan, was born in Plainfield, New
Hampshire, April 5, 1798, and died in Colebrook,
.August 16, 1873. in 1818 he settled in Colebrook,
and spent the remainder of his life there. He was
a farmer, a strong man physically — subduing forests
and wild beasts with about equal facility. In re-
ligious sentiment he was a Congrcgationalist ; in
politics he cast his lot first with the Whig party,
and when that gave place to the Republican party
with its broader views and intenser interest in hu-
manity, he aligned himself with it. He married, in
Colebrook, in 1822, Minerva Buel, born in Hebron.
Tolland county, Connecticut, July 19, 1801, and died
in Colebrook, March 13, daughter of Captain Benja-
min and Violetta (Sessions) Buel. She was a
beautiful woman, lovely in character, refinement
and disposition. She was a Congrcgationalist, and

departed this life in the triumph of a faith she
long had cherished.

The Buel family was a noted one, of means,
education and social standing, while the Sessions
family was equally famed and artistocratic. They
intermarried with the Bradleys, the Lords and
others. Captain Buel removed to Colebrook in
]So2. For several winters he taught school. He
was a fine scholar for his day, and a most excellent
gentleman. He was born August 20, 1767, and died
in Colebrook, in 1826. His wife was born also in
1767, and died in Connecticut, in 1856. One of their
daughters, Sharlie Maria, wife of Sidney Allen,
died in Chelsea, Vermont. Another Abigail, mar-
ried Daniel Egery, and went with him to Beloit,
Wisconsin, where she died. The children of John-
son and Minerva Jordon were: Julia, Mary Ses-
sions Lord, Benjamin Buel, Malvina, Violetta. and
Chester Bradley, whose sketch follows.

(\^II) Governor Chester Bradley Jordan, the
younge^t and only surviving child of Johnson and
Minerva (Buel) Bradley, was born in Colebrook,
October 15, 1839. He wrought on a farm until he
was twenty-one, early and late for his father and
others, going to the distant district school winters.
When he became of age he went to the academy
spring and fall, working for wages summers and
teaching school winters until he had taught eighteen
terms of district and private schools, including two
terms as principal of Colebrook Academy. He
graduated from Kimball Union Academy at Meriden
in 1S66. and previous to that time had served three
years as superintendent of schools of his native
town. In 1867 he was one of the selectmen and
his party's candidate for representative. In }ilarch,
1868, he w-as appointed clerk of the Supreme Court
for Coos county, took the office the following June
and held it till October 23, 1874. He discharged
his duties with so great fidelity and promptness
that he received the unqualified approbation of the
court and the lawyers, and when a change of
parties in power came and a Democratic administra-
tion demanded his removal, it was made over the
protest of nearly every attorney in the county.
Meantime he had been reading law and observing
court and court methods, and after going out of
office continued his reading in the office of Judge
William S. Ladd, of Lancaster. Subsequently he
finished his course in the office of Ray. Drew &
Hey wood, and was admitted to practice in the state
courts in November, 1875, and in the United States
courts in May, l88r. Mr. Heywood retired from
the firm in May, 1876, and Mr. Jordan w-as admitted
to the new office of Ray, Drew & Jordan. In
1S82 this firm, by the admission of Philip Carpenter,
became Ray, Drew, Jordan & Carpenter ; later
Drew, Jordan & Carpenter : then Drew & Jordan,
next Drew. Jordan & Buckley, and now Drew,
Jordan, Shurtleff & Morris. Mr. Drew and ?ilr.
Jordan were fellow students in Colebrook, Stew-
ardstown. and at Kimball Union Academy, room-
ing together, boarding themselves and graduating
together, and now for over thirty years they have
practiced law together. In Volume IV of the work
entitled "The New England States" it is said of
Mr. Jordan: "Closely attached to his home life,
in which he is especially happy, and loth to be
separated for ever so short a time, Mr. Jordan early
found himself becoming essentially 'the office man'
of the several firms of which he has been a useful
member. As a lawyer, therefore, he has devoted his
attention to the duties of a counselor, and to the
drafting of legal papers (in which he excels),
rather than to the trial and advocacy of causes. As-

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sociated in business with two such noted advocates
as Hons. Ossian Ray and Irving W. Drew, and
unwarrantably distrustful of his abilities in this
direction, Mr. Jordan has seldom ventured into the
lield of advocacy. When, however, by reason of the
illness or absence of his partners, or from other
cause, he has, been impressed into this service, he
has displayed a power of forensic oratory which was
a revelation to his professional brethren, and fur-
nished an occasion of regret to his friends because
he had not made it his life work. His style of
address in the argument of causes is ol the rapid,
ardent, intense, almost vehement, character. rlis
apt and ready words follow eacli other in ceaseless
and quick, succession, and go home with the force
and precision, and rapidity of the Catling's tire.
And herein lies the secret of his power wncii his
voice has been heard in advocacy or defense of
his political faith in the heated campaigns of the
North country." "f-'oUowing the bent oi his early
years, Mr. Jordan has sought and found relaxation
from the burdens of a busy practice in historical
and political reading and writing. « » * in
1870, amid the multitudinous duties of clerk of the
court, he purchased the "Coos Republican,'' be-
came its editor, and gave it high rank among the
papers of the state, tor many years he contributed
political and historical articles to the "Boston
Journal," "Concord Monitor," the "Statesman," and
the local press. Few pens have been oftener or more
potently wielded in defense of the Republican party
of New Hampshire and of the Nation than Mr.
Jordan's. The chief charm of his style is its per-
spicuity and force; and so natural and easy to him
are both the manual and the mental uses 01 the pen,
that almost unconsciously — certainly without ef-
fort — his facts array and arrange themselves in
fetching and forceful order, and nis hrst dralt is
almost sure to be the finished product. Epigrammatic,
perspicuous and forceful in style, accurate in state-
ments of facts, an adept in the graces of rhetoric,
he has won an enviable reputation as a writer on
current political questions. "For forty years he has
written political matters for the press. But his
writings have not been confined to one topic. He
was the mover of the Lancaster town history, and
he also wrote much and furnished much information
for the 'Flistory of Coos County.' He wrote an
essay on the Life of Colonel Joseph Whipple for
the New Hampshire Historical Society; and among
his contributions to the Coos County work were
biographical sketches of Hon. Amos W. Drew, Dr.
Frank Bugbee, and Philip Jordan. For the Cral-
ton and Loos Bar Association he wrote the bio-
graphy of Richard Clair Everett, and other valuable
papers."

At the remarkably early age of nine years Mr.
Jordan began to take a lively and intelligent interest
in politics, and from that time until now his interest
in parties and party measures has never abated. In
early life he espoused the Republican cause and
has ever since been one of its most active supporters.
His first vote in Colebrook was for Lincoln, and in
Lancaster for Grant. In the fall of 1864 he pre-
sided over the meetings addressed respectively by
Senator Patterson, Senator Daniel Clark and the
Hon. Walter Harriman. The famous joint debate
of Harriman and Sinclair began in Colebrook, and
Mr. Jordan presided. In Lancaster he was long
time chairman of the town and county committee,
and as such showed his ability as a leader by
triumphs in hotly contested campaigns.

After a hard fight to redeem his town, in which
his party had made a gain of over one hundred,

Mr. Jordan was elected representative to the gen-
eral court in 1S80. This -was his first term as a
legislator, but such was his reputation as a fair-
minded man and as a parliamentarian that he was
chosen speaker by a very handsome vote. The
house was a most able one, yet the speaker's keen-
ness, accuracy of judgment of men and measures,
alertness, sagacity and general efficiency were so
conspicuous, his conduct of the business of the
house so easy and expeditious, and his courtesy and
fairness so universal that he received the warmest
commendation not only of his own party, but of the
leading journal of the Democracy m the state. In
September, 1882, he presided at the Republican Con-
vention in the great Hale-Currier campaign, when
factional feeling ran high between the adherents
of the rival candidates for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation. It was a full convention, and three ballots
were necessary before a choice was made. Mr.
Jordan was then and there importuned to take the
nomination from the floor, the delegates to drop
the other candidates. This he refused to do, and
by his tact and adroit management the work of the
convention was successfully and harmoniously ac-
complished.

In 1S86 he was unanimously nominated in the
Coos District, a Democratic stronghold, for state
senator. He made a vigorous campaign, made a
gain over his party vote of three hundred, but then
lacked about one hundred of an election. In 1S96
he was again unanimously nominated for that ottice,
conducted a masterl}' canvass, and was elected by
a majority about as large as his opponent's whole
vote. At the senatorial caucus he was nominated
with unanimity for president of the senate for the
years 1S97-98, and the following day was unanimous-
ly elected — the two Democratic senators voting for
him. The honor of an election to this office without
a dissenting vote had not been given a candidate
before in this state for more than one hundred years.
Fie entered upon the discharge of his duties with a
familiarity born of experience, and proved himself
an ideal presiding officer. He also made an ex-
cellent record as a debator on the floor. The re-
election of United States Senator Gallinger came
during this session of the legislature, and Senator
Jordan was designated as the seventh and last
speaker to present his name to the Republican
caucus. His eloquent and polished speech was a
glowing tribute to the character of Senator Gal-
linger, producing a most favorable impression on
his audience, which gave expression to its sentiments
in w-ild enthusiasm.

Senator Jordan's successful career in politics, his
distinguished ability, honorable conduct and long
continued service in public life now began to cause
him to be mentioned as a candidate for governor.
Members of his party repeatedly approached him
on the subject, but he constantly set his face against
any movement to nominate him. In 1898 he was
compelled three times to decline to take the nomina-
tion before his party would accept his refusal. In
1900 the Republicans again urged him to accept a
place on the head of the ticket, and he finally said
that if the nomination could come unsolicited and
unbought he would accept. It so came through,
and by a magnificent convention which gave him
all its votes but about seventy. The candidate then
appeared before the convention, and in a graceful
and telling speech accepted the nomination and ap-
proved the platform. His canvass in the campaign
that foUow^ed covered about a month, and during
that time he made logical, forceful and winning
speeches to large crowds. Election day came an<l

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at its close his majority was found to be nearly
twenty thousand. In his town and county his vote
was unprecedentedly large. He took the oath of
office in January, 1901, and served two years. Dur-
ing his administration he was always provident,
economical, against unwise appropriations and ex-
travagant expenditure. By a sagacious use of his
influence, tact and legislative knowledge, he kept
down useless appropriations by the legislature to
the minimum, and guided both branches success-
fully. His message was well received and most
favorably commented upon. The old court was
abolished and a dual court established with live
judges on each bench. The ten judicial appoint-
ments were all made by Governor Jordan. The
court bill passed one day, and the judges were
all named the next, and not a murmur was heard
or a ripple felt. His choice had been so wisely
made as to bring universal satisfaction to the citi-
zens of the commonwealth. Justice Blodgett sub-
sequently resigned, and it became the duty of the
governor to name another chief justice and some
one to succeed him on the bench. These appoint-
ments were as well received as the first. Gov-
ernor Jordan's aim and object was to afford the
greatest good to the greate^t number of his fellow
citizens — to benefit the people to the furtherest prac-
tical limit. In order to do this he put himself in touch
with the colleges of the state, the Prison, the State
Hospital, the Orphans' Home, the Industrial School
— in fact with all the state's institutions and inter-
ests. He familiarized himself with the duties of
each department and commission or bureau, but
he did not feel it his duty to visit all the fairs,
granges and like exhibitions and organizations. He
attended the annual meeting of the New Hampshire
Veterans' Association, the State Grange, and the
State Fair, the commencement exercises at Dart-
mouth, the New Hampshire College of Agriculture,
the St. Mary's School in Manchester, and visited
St. Anselm's College, and at all these he addressed
the students and faculties. ' He received the statue
of Commodore Perkins on behalf of the state in an
address on New Hampshire and the navy in the
presence of many thousand persons. He also ac-
companied President Roosevelt from Concord to the
Weirs, and delivered the address of welcome, and
then attended him back to the State Fair at Concord.
He represented the state at the Webster Centen-
nial in Hanover, and then spoke of w'hat Webster
was to the state, before a most distinguished as-
semblage. On this occasion the degree of LL. D.
was conferred upon him by the college ; that of A.
M. having been given in 1882, that of B. S. by the
New Hampshire College in 1901.

The state debt was reduced over four hundred
thousand dollars during Governor Jordan's adminis-
tration, and when he left the office, the treasury
had reached a plentitude never before attained—
there being over si.x hundred thousand dollars in
its vaults. There had been no pleasure tours of
the governor and his council at the state's ex-
pense; and at the close of his term over fifty dol-
lars of the governor's contingent fund of live hun-
dred dollars was returned to the treasury. Many
of the old fish hatcheries were sold, and the three
remaining ones enlarged, and made better and more
productive — the one at Colebrook having about four
thousand dollars expended on it. The prison was
put in better condition, painted and whitewashed,
and new bathtubs and safe boilers put in. Proper
insurance was put upon the state house, state library
and state prison. There was improvement in con-
ditions at the Industrial School, and Dartmouth

College received a larger gratuity from the stale
than ever before. President Tucker introduced the
governor to the alumni at the Webster cclebratioii
banquet as "the first governor of the state to fairly-
state" the true relations between the college anJ
state. The governor received many letters com-
mending his message, his state papers, especially his
thanksgiving proclamation, his letter to Mrs. Mc-
Kinley, the proclamation on President McKinley's
death, and his public addresses during his term o£
office.

Ill politics Governor Jordan has been cliar-
acterized as "u^ close canvasser, a good organizer,
and a natural leader;" as the chief executive of
the state it can be said that he was sound, con-
servative, practical, highly successful, and almost
without exception on tne right side of public ques-
tions.

Although the incumbent of many official pc>-
sitions. Governor Jordan has not always seen tit to
accept every office that has been tendered him. He
was once offered the postmastership of Lancaster,
also the position of special agent of the United.
States treasury department, but declined them. He
has been urged to accept an appointment to the
supreme bench of the state ; in 1867 he was tendered,
but was compelled to decline, a position on the staff
of Governor Harriman ; but the honor was again
proft'ered in 1872 by Governor Straw, and Mr.
Jordan's acceptance and service justified his title to
colonel.

Governor Jordan has assisted many to official
positions, and he has kept in touch with men and
affairs all over the country. He has a large library,
especially versed in tow'n, county and state history,
is found of searching out the records and historv
of the past, and has much interest in and respects
for the pioneers.- It is a fact worthy of notice that
he has missed only one town meeting and no state,.,
congressional or presidential election in his forty--
six years as an elector.. In Colebrook, before com-
ing to Lancaster, he was pitted against the late-
Honorable Hazen Bedel for the moderatorship, a^.
that was deemed the test vote of the day; and in
Lancaster against Honorable Henry O. Kent, for
a like position, sometimes -winning over. Colonel
Kent being the only man who ever did beat him foe
the place.

Governor Jordan's ability in business affairs ha.s
been recognized from his youth. He has 'been the
guardian of many private trusts, the administrator
of various estates and prominent in local banking
circles, holding the offices of vice-president in and
director in Lancaster Trust Company, and director
in Lancaster National Bank and the Siwooganock
Guaranty Savings Bank. Popular among the mem-
bers of his profession, he was for years first vice-
president and then president of the Grafton and
Coos Bar .Association, and an officer of the State
Bar Association. He is a. Mason, a member ot
Evening Star Lodge, No. iT, at Colebrook, where
he took his degrees and was secretary more than
forty years ago ; he took the Royal .\rch degrees
in North Star Chapter, of Lancaster, thirty-eight
years ago, and the consistory degrfes in Edward .-V.
Raymond Consistory in Nashua, lu 1902.

He belongs to no church. Fie was brought up
in the Congregational faitli and attends that church
now, yet sees good and evil in all, and outside ot
all. He has always been bcnificent and charitable,
helped to found the Orphans' Home, and has con-
tributed to it nearly every year since its foundation ;
has given to other institutions as their circumstances,
seemed to appeal to him, and has helped geiierou-ly

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in the erection of soldiers' monuments. In short,
he has tried to do his part in church enterprises
and for benevolent objects and for education in
town and state. He is an honorary member of the
Veterans' Association, and of several regimental
organizations.

Governor Jordan married, in Lancaster, July
19, 1879, Ida Rose Nutter, born in Lancaster,
March 31, i860, daughter of Oliver and Roxana
(Wentworth) Nutter, of Lancaster. ilr. Nutter
was born in Wakefield, and was a merchant, post-
master, and farmer. His father, Alpheus Nutter,
was born in Newington. Roxanna Wentworth was
born in Jackson, and was a descendant of Governor
Wentworth, a relative of the famous "Long John"
Wentworth, of Chicago, and a cousin of General
M. C. Wentworth. As "the first lady of the state,"
Mrs. Jordan won much praise in all her w'ork and
functions for her whole-heartedness, vivacity and
simplicity. She was instrumental in organizing the
Unity Club in Lancaster, and was its first president.
She is also active in the work of her church (the
Congregationalist). She is domestic and refined
in her tastes, possesses rare musical talent, is a
faithful and devoted wife, -and an indulgent and
much-loved mother. P'our children have been born
of this union : Roxannah Minerva, born in Lan-
caster, January 9, 18S2; Hugo, May 26. 1884, died
May 2, 1886; Gladstone, May 15, 1888; and Chester
Bradley, February 15, 1892. Roxanna M. received
her literary education at Lancaster, New Hampshire,
and Northampton, Massachusetts, and her musical
education in Boston. Gladstone, six feet, two and
one-half inches in height in his stocking feet, and
weighing two hundred and fifty pounds, is a student
at Dartmouth, class of 191 1. Bradley, fifteen years
old, six feet high and weighing two hundred and
twenty pounds, is a student at Lancaster.

The Perry name is an old English one
PERRY and is exceedingly numerous in this

country, and boasts many distinguished
representatives. There were no less than ten irn-
niigrants bearing this surname who had come to this
country by 1652 or earlier. The-se were Arthur, of
Boston, a tailor and town drummer in 1638; Francis,
a wheelwright in 1631 ; Isaac, who was at Boston
in 1631; John, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1632;
John, of Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1643 ; and
Richard, of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1640.
Others of the name who settled in Massachusetts
at an early date were William, of Scituate, in 1638;
Thomas, of Scituate, in 1643; Thomas, of Ipswich,
in 164S; and Ezra, of Sandwich, who married Eliza-
beth Barge, on February 12, 1652. From these dif-
ferent ancestors a numerous progeny has descended.
Without doubt the most distinguished American
member of the family is Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, whose famous message at the battle of Lake
Erie, "We" have met the enemy and they are ours,"
is familiar to every school boy. Other members of
note are: Commodore Matthew C. Perry, brother
of the hero of Lake Erie, Bishop William S. Perry,
Governor Edward Perry, of Florida, Governor Ben-
jamin F. Perry, of South Carolina, Bliss Perry,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Nora Perry,
the author. In our own state Dr. William Perry, of
Exeter, and his sons Have filled honorable positions.
Horatio J. Perry, born in Keene, was for many years
secretary of the legation at Madrid. He mar-
ried the Spanish poetess laureate, Carolina Cor-
onado.

(I) John Perry, the first of the family in this
country, was born 1613, in London, England, and

is the progenitor of one of three prominent families
of the name in New England. He came to America
about 1605 and settled at Watertown, Massachu-
setts. His wife, whom he married in England, was
Joanna, daughter of Joseph Holland.

(Ilj John (2), son of John (.1) and Joanna
(Holland) Perry, was a native of England and
settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was mar-
ried there December 13, 1607, to Sarah Clary, who
was born October 4, 1647, daughter of John and
Mary (Cassell; Clary, of Watertown. Of their
nine children three died j'Oung. The survivers
were ; John, Joanna, Sarah, Ehzabeth, Josiah and
Joseph.

(HI) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and
Sarah (Clary) Perry, was born March 3, 1670,
in Watertown, and resided there through life. He
was married July 19, 1693, to Sarah Price, who
was born September 27, 1667, daughter of William
and INlary (Marblehead) Price, of Watertown. She
died October 11, 1730.

(IV) James, son of John (3) and Sarah (Price)
Perry, was born January 27, 1712, and baptized Sep-
tember I, 1717. He was a chair maker of Charles-
town, Massachusetts, and later lived in West Cam-
bridge (now Arlington), Massachusetts. He was
a precinct collector there in 1770. He was married
in Charlestovvn, October 14, 1742, to Lydia Tuft,
who was born 1724, daughter ot James and Lydia
(Hall) Tuft. He died May 30, 1771, and she was
married (second), November 29, 1773, to Josiah
Mixer, who was born November 17, 1716, a son of
Deacon Josiah and Anna (Jones) Mixer. He was
a prominent citizen of Walton. The children of
James and Lydia Perry were: Lydia, Ruth (died
young), Mercy, James, Ruth, John, Jonathan, Eliza-
beth, Joseph and Benjamin. The younger of these
had their home with their step-father.

(V) John (4), second sun and sixth child of
James and Lydia (Tuft) Perry, was born Decem-
ber 9, 1754, and died August 7, 1834, in Rindge,
New Hampshire. He resided in Lincoln, Massachu-
setts, until he removed to Rindge in 1789. He
settled in the northeast part of the town, removing
a few years later to the farm familiarly called the
"Perry Farm" and now occupied by his grandson.
He was a man of superior intelligence and char-
acter, who commanded the willing confidence and
respect of his fellowmen. He was married in Wal-
ton, Massachusetts, February 28, 1775, to Persis
^lixer, who was born November 6, 1756, a daughter
of Josiah and Sarah (Mead) Mixer. She died in

1780. He was married (second), November 21,

1781, to Abigail Bigelow, daughter of Joseph and
Abigail (Whit) Bigelow, of Marlboro, Massachu-
setts. She died in Rindge, New Hampshide, Sep-
tember II, 1818. He was married (third), February 17,
1820, to Lucy Weston, who was born March 31,
1/59. in Wilmington, Massachusetts, daughter of
Isaac Weston, who died in the army during the Revo-
lution. She died January 15, 1857, surviving her
husband more than twenty-two years. His children
were: Lydia (died young), Percis, John, Betsy,
Lydia, Benjamin, Chauncey, Abigail, Sarah, Selinda
and Jason B. Among his descendants are sturdy
men who have honored their name in business, in
letters, at the bar and on the bench.

(VI) Jason Bigelow, youngest child of John
(4) and Abigail (Bigelow) Perry, was born Septem-
ber 27, 1801, in Rindge. He was a thrifty farmer,
tilling the acres of the paternal homestead. In the
New Hampshire militia he was honored with suc-
cessive promotion and declined a commission as
brigadier-general. He retired with the rank of col-

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onel of the Twelfth Regiment. In later life, in the
speech of his fellowmen, he was Colonel Perry and
except on a ballot or an antograph he had no other
name. He was representative in 1852-53 and select-
man twenty years, a service unequalled in the num-
ber of years, and unexcelled in efficiency in the town.
Colonel Perry was an able, reliable and faithful
man. His character and service was conspicuous
in the annals of the town. He died February, 1883.
He was married, November ir, 1828, to Sally Wil-
son, who was born September 22, 1804, in New Ips-
wich, New Hampshire, daughter of Major Supply
(Scripture) Wilson, and granddaughter of Supply
and Susanna (Cutter) Wilson, of Woburn, Massa-
chusetts, and New Ipswich. (See Wilson, VI).
She died November 14, 1875. They were the parents
of a large family of children, namely : Mary, Eliza,
Susan, John Wilson, James Bigelow, Harriet, Sarah,
Jason Stanley and Jane Sophronia.

(VII) Jason Stanley, third and youngest son
and eighth child of Colonel Jason B. and Sally
(Wilson) Perry, was born January 8, 1847, in
Rindge, New Hampshire, and owns the ancestral
farm on which he lived until 1902, when he removed
to the village of East Rindge, but now resides in
Rindge Center. He was educated in the schools
of his native town and at Appleton Academy, New
Ipswich. Mr. Perry is a prominent citizen of Rindge.
He is a thoughtful student of literature and is well
informed in public affairs. In the social circles he
is a genial companion, and in public assemblies a
ready and convincing speaker. He is a charter mem-
ber and past master of Marshal P. Wilder Grange.
He is a justice of the peace, and has been repeatedly
elected moderator of schools and town meetings.
He is an efficient member of the board of edu-
cation, was three years a selectman, and was repre-
sentative in the legislatures of 1889-1907. In 18S6
he was appointed by Governor Currier a member of
the state board of agriculture and was still in this
service until, at the completion of nine years, he
declined a reappointment. He is a steadfast Re-
publican in political sentiment, and entertains strict
views in matters of religion. Mr. Perry was rnar-
ried November 8, 1871, to Elsie Augusta Page, who
was born November 20, 1851, daughter of Joel and
Sarah (Pierce) Page, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
She died September 3, 1S99. He was married
(second), January i, 1902, to Martha (Hale) Rice,
widow of George G. Rice, and daughter of John
F. and Rebecca (Bailey) Hale. She was born Sep-
tember 4, 1849, in Rindge. Following is a brief
account of his children : Mary Gushing, born Au-
gust 8, 1S72, married Frank A. Tuttle ; four chil-
dren ; their home is in Temple, New Hampshire.
Belle Lelia. born August, 1875, married Arthur Z.
Norcross, three children ; resides in Poinfret, Con-
necticut. John Wilson, Ijorn May 26, 1879, resides
in Clinton, Massachusetts, unmarried. James Bige-
low, born March 21, 1884, graduate of the Highland
Military Academy, unmarried, in business in New-
York City. Stanley Jay, born September 6, 1887.
drowned while skating at the age of nine. Susan
Pauline, born August 12, 1890, a student at Apple-
ton Academy.

Although the Perry family is so numerous, it
is impossible to trace the present line farther than
three generations.

(I) Hosea Perry lived in Woodstock, Vermont.
He was a farmer and stone mason. He also did
carpentry work, and was noted for his skill in
moving buildings. His children were: William,
John F., Horace A., Charles F., Lucy and Eveline,
and George and Frank by the second marriage. Wil-

liam Perry, judge of probate, lived at Woodstock
.in 1790, and was one of the founders of the Uni-
versalist Church in that place. It is not known
whether he was related to Hosea.

(II) John Frederick, son of Hosea Perry, was
born at Woodstock, Vermont, in 1822. He attended
the public schools of that town. He then became
a stage driver, being one of the last of that section.
He first drove between Walpole and Claremont,
New Hampshire, then between Walpole and Keene,
and after the Cheshire Railroad was built he drove
for a year between Walpole and Brattleboro, Ver-
mont. In 1850, he was made ticket agent for the
old Vermont Valley Railroad Company, subsequently
absorbed by the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rail-
road, at \Yestminster, Vermont. On taking this
position he moved from Walpole, New Hampshire,
which had previously been his home, to Westminster,
where he lived the remainder of his life. He was
a Republican in politics. He married Clarissa Jane,
daughter of Joshua Whitney, of Bridgewater, Ver-
mont. They had three children : Horace A., whose
sketch follows ; Elmira and Edward, both of whom
died young ; John F. Perry died at Westminster,
Vermont, September 25, 1878. His wife died Sep-
tember 28, 1S89.

(III) Horace Augustus, eldest child of John
Frederick and Clarissa J. (Whitney) Perry, was
born at Bethel, Vermont, February 15, 1841. In
early life he attended the public schools of Walpqle,
New Hampshire, where his father lived. When the
family moved to Westminster, Vermont, he studied
for two years at Professor Ward's college pre-
paratory school in that town. He then engaged in
the silver-plating business with E. H. Cook at West-
minster. He was employed in this work for six or
seven years, plating all work on harnesses and car-
riages. He then moved back to Walpole and for ten
years was in the hotel and express business. In
1883, in company with Warren W. Porter, he formed
the firm of Perry & Porter. They carried on a
general mercantile .business till November i, 1906.
During this time they were agents for the American
Express Company, which business they still con-
tinue. Mr. Perry has been in the express business
since 1864; he began as agent for the old United
States and Canada Express Company, and when
that was merged with the American Express, he
continued with them. He is a Republican in politics,
and has held the ofiice of deputy sheriif' or high sheriflf
since 1880. for fourteen years of which period he was
high sheriff. He has always declined to hold other
offices, although frequently urged so to do. He has,
however, been delegated to the state convention.
He is a trustee of the Walpole Savings Bank, also
of the Unitarian Church, of which he is a member.
He is custodian of various trust funds, amounting
to fifteen thousand dollars, which belong to that
church. For more than a quarter of a century he
has been treasurer of the Walpole Horse Thief
Society, a very strong organization, one of the strong-
est of the kind in New England. Its funds now
(1907) on hand approximate one thousand seven
hundred dollars. Mr. Perry is a Mason, and be-
longed to Columbian Lodge of Walpole till it dis-
banded, of which he was secretary for a period of
fifteen years.

Horace A. Perry married Sarah Jane, daughter
of Captain Edward Bridgeman, of Northampton,
Massachusetts. She was born at Williamsburg,
Massachusetts, January 18, 1844, and was married
February 22, 1863. They have two children : Carrie
A., born December 9, 1864; and Fred J., April 8,
1872. Carrie A., married Warren W. Porter, of

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Walpole. (See Porter Genealogy, IV). Fred J.

is a paper manufacturer at Bellows Falls, Vermont.,

He married Anna B. Williams, and they have one
daughter, Delia Coy Perry.

Baldwin is a very old name, and
BALDWIN was in use a long time before men
had surnames. It was in England,
as appears by the records, as early as the year 672,
and quite common in that country in the days of
the Conquest. It appears in the roll of Battle Abbey.
The five Baldwins, earls of Flanders, were men of
distinction, the fifth marrying the daughter of
Robert of France. His daughter Matilda married
William the Conqueror. The name was common in
Flanders, Normandy and Italy. It is of Saxon ori-
gin, and signifies "Bold Winner." The general pre-
valence of the name dates from the crusades, when
it was taken as a title of honor. Baldwins were
earls of Devonshire. The family of this sketch is
one of several which came to New England in
pioneer days, and from those early settlers have
sprung numerous noted citizens.

(I) Nathaniel, probably second son of Richard
and Isabell Baldwin, of the parish of Cholesbury,
Buckinghamshire, England, is supposed to have
been a great-grandson of Richard of Dundridge, of
the parish of Aston-Clinton, Buckinghamshire, Eng-
land. The date of the will of Richard of Dundridge
is January, VI Edward, that is, 1552, and that of
Richard of Colesbury is May 23, 1630. Nathaniel
Baldwin was a brother of Timothy and Joseph, and
came to Milford, Connecticut, in 1639, in the New
Haven Company. His name appears in the Milford
records as a "Free Planter." He was a cooper bj'
trade, and in 1641 a resident of Fairfield, where he
died in 1650, and where the probate of his estate
appears. He married (.first), Abigail Camp, who
joined the church at Milford on June 9. 1644, and
died there March 22, 1648. The children of this
union were : John, Daniel, Nathaniel and Abigail.
He married (second), Joanna Westcoat, widow of
Richard, of Fairfield, Connecticut, and moved there
perhaps the second 'ime. By her he had : Sarah,
Deborah and Samuel. After the death of Nathaniel
his widow married, third, George Abbott, of Fair-
field, and died in 1682. She is mentioned in records
as "Goodwife Baldwin," and was a witness in a trial
for witchcraft in 1654. An unusual number of the
descendants of Nathaniel have been emhient, and the
family generally has been of high respectability.

(II) Daniel second son and child of Nathaniel
and Abigail (Camp) Baldwin, was baptized in Mil-
ford, Connecticut, in June, 1644, and continued to
reside there. He is said to have died in 1711. He
married, June 27, 1665, Elizabeth Botsford. daughter
of Henry, one of the original settlers of Milford.
He and liis wife joined the church June 27, 1669.
Their children were: Daniel (died young). Daniel.
Elizabeth. Mary, Samuel (died young), Nathaniel,
John and Samuel.

(III1 Sergeant Daniel (2), second son of Daniel
(l) and Elizabeth (Botsford) Baldwin, was born in
Milford, Connecticut, March 3, 1668. He was a
member of the local military organization, and his
name appears often on the records, where he is
referred to as Sergeant Daniel. His will was dated
March 8, 1719, and probated May 2, 1725. His
death prnbablv occurred not long before the latter
date. His wife's christian name was Sarah, but her
surname is not known. She joined the church. June
28, 1691, and died December 18. 1710. Her name
may have been Sarah Camp, as in 1708 Samuel
Camp conveys to his brother, Daniel Baldwin, and

Joseph Camp. Their children were : Daniel, Na-
than, John, Gideon, James, Enos, Sarah, Caleb and
Jeremiah.

(IV) Nathan, second son and child of Daniel
(2) and Sarah Baldwin, was baptized November 23,
1691, in Milford. May 2, 1720, he is executor of
the estate of his father, with his brothers John and
James. In 1756 he was executor of the estate of
his brother James, of Newtown, where he had set-
tled. By legislative enactment in 1739 he was made
captain of the "2nd Company or Train-band, in the
town of Newtown." His will is dated July 19, 1761,
and was proved July 4, 1769, between which dates
he died. His wife's name was Elizabeth. They
had four children : Nathan, Sarah, Elizabeth and
Jabez, whose sketch follows.

(V) Jabez, youngest child of Nathan and Eliza-
beth Baldwin, was born in Newtown, Connecticut
April 8, 1733, and died March 31, 1803. He took
in Newtown, with his brother Nathan, land given
them by their father. Jabez Baldwin was a man of
wealth but the great depreciation in Continental
money and the loss of a ship of which he was part
owner materially reduced his fortunes, although he
still owned a residence on Newtown street. As he
could not live in the manner to which he had been
accustomed, he determined to join those who were
forming new homes in the "Upper Cohos," as it
was termed, of which such glowing accounts were
given, and where his eldest son had taken up a
claim as early as 1785. He was one of the grantees
of Stratford, New Hampshire, and before going
there selected from the plan of the town the lot now
included in the interval of the Granite State Stock
Farm ; but, on arriving there he found that the num-
ber he had selected designated the lot next below
the one he had chosen, but eventually the desired
land came into the possession of his children.
March 13, 1788, with his wife and children Nathan.
John, Lucinda, Lucia and Marcia, he left Newtown
and made his way up the Connecticut river to Strat-
ford. In January, 1790, he located upon the place
now known as the Baldwin Homestead, still in pos-
session of his descendants, where he erected a frame
house with luntber brought up the river from
Guildhall, Vermont. This was the first frame house
in that section of country. He was a man of much
energy, and cleared the forest away and made a
farm where he and his family were comfortable
without the luxuries of the older settlements. Of
the privations of pioneer life none were so keenly
felt as the lack of schools. Mr. Baldwin at last
secured the services of a young student who taught
in his family for several months. This eagerly
coveted opportunity was rudely interrupted by the
advent of smallpox. In 1803, during Mr. Baldwin's
absence in Connecticut, his family was attacked by
this disease. When he reached Lancaster he re-
ceived a message from his wife to remain there, but
he went home, took the disease and died. Mr.
Baldwin married (first), in Connecticut, in 1755.
Mary Peck, of Newtown. The children of this
marriage were: Heth, born 1756; Mary, 1757;
Sarah, 1760; Bete, 1762; and Anna, 1766. He mar-
ried (second), in August, 1770, Judith Brace, of
Newtown. She was a woman of strong character,
of great capacity, resource and cheerfulness. Their
children were: Lucinda, born September 28, 1771,
died October, 1774; Nathan, born September 28,
I773i died in Ohio, aged over ninety years; Emmiel.
born January, 1775, died February, 1775; John,
born January, 1776. died September 14, 1810: Lu-
cinda, born November 9, 1779, died January 31,
1863; Lucia, born January 12, 1782, died September

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4, 1822, married Jonah Grover, 1804 or 1805 ; Marcia,
born February 17, 1784, died at Jamestown; New York,
at an advanced age, married Ahaz French; Elisha.
born September 19, 1788, died August 26, 1875; and
Charlotte, (Mrs. Enos Alger), born October 8. 1892,
died June, 1877. Jabez Baldwin adhered to the faith
of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

(VI) Elisha Baldwin, youngest son of Jabez and
Judith (Brace) Baldwin, was born in Stratford, Sep-
tember 19, 1788, and died there August 26, 1875, aged
eighty-seven years. He was educated in the public
schools and those of private tutors, and remained
as he had grown up, a farmer. He was a Federalist
in politics, and tilled with tidelity places to which he
was elected. He was a Baptist in religious faith,
and prominent in the church at Stratford, of which
he was one of the original meinbers. He married
Huldah, daughter of Edmund and Huldah (Loth-
rop) Alger, of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
March 10, 1818. She was a woman of courageous
spirit, indomitable energy and excellent executive
ability, and acquired an education which, though
limited as compared with, the present standard, was
considered fine in those days. Hospitable and untir-
ing in her ministrations to the poor and sick, she
was the "Lady Bountiful," and for many years, the
beloved physician of the community, a woman
who would have been prominent in any place and
at any time, Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin were among the
charter members of the Baptist Church and for
years defrayed a great portion of the expenses for
sustaining preaching, making many sacrifices in
order to build the churches at North Stratford. The
children of Elisha and Huldah (Alger) Baldwin
were : Elisha Alger, born December ,so, i8t8, died
May, 1895 ; William Lothrop, born May 18, 1820,
died December 27, 1878; John Brace, born Novem-
ber 12, 1822, died September 17, 1842; Edmund
Willis, born March 24, 1825, died June 12, 1847;
Jedidiah Miller, born March 9, 1827, died February
2, 1887; Lucinda Annette (Mrs. Jabez Alger),
born November 14, 1829, died August 14, 1892 ;
and Lucia Annie (Mrs. R. R. Thompson), born
February 27, 1833.

(VII) William Lothrop. second son and child
of Elisha and Huldah (Alger) Baldwin, was born
on the ancestral acres in Stratford, May 18, 1820.
He attended the common schools and Lancaster
Academy, and acquired a good education. While
still a youth he developed a strong love for agri-
culture and a capacity as a judge of cattle; but
over-work impaired his health, and before he at-
tained his majority he was compelled to .abandon
farming. For several years he taught successfully
in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and the province
of Quebec, and also gave lessons in vocal music.
About 1848 he returned to Stratford, and in connec-
tion with his brother, Elisha A., he engaged in
building mills. This was before railroads had been
run into the upper country, and the machinery had
to be hauled from Portland, i\Iaine, a distance of
one hundred and thirty miles. On Mill brook they
constructed a saw and grist mill ; then added a
turning lathe, shingle and clapboard machines, and
manufactured machinery. Thus the Baldwins' mill
was the first of modern pattern in that section. They
afterward built many more mills in the Upper Coos
country. In 1849 the Baldwin Brothers built a mill
on the Vermont side of the Connecticut, at the
mouth of the Nulhegan river, which was destroyed
by fire, February 20, 1885. It stood on the site now
occupied by the immense mills of the Nulhegan
Lumber Company. William L. Baldwin removed
to Bloomfield, and resided there fourteen years.

The first lumber this firm sawed there was rafted
in May, 1851, and was the first sent to Massachusetts
through the canal at Fifteen-mile falls, and also
was the first lumber rafted for transportation down
the Upper Connecticut. The flourishing village of
North Stratford grew up around the site of this
industry, which gave employment to many persons.
Under a charter granted July, 1850, the Baldwin
Bridge Company erected the toll-bridge across the
Connecticut at Stratford, which was opened for
travel in June, 1852. Mr. Baldwin's identification
with the development of business in Stratford was
highly important in many ways, as the above state-
ments show. From 1865 to the date of his death,
December 27, 1878, his business life was in Strat-
ford, and comprised lumbering, merchandising and
farming. He was a man of warm heart and gener-
ous impulses, and in order that his employes might
have work and not suffer he operated his mill at
a loss from 1856 to 1858, during a period
of great depression consequent upon scarcity
of money, and the worthlessncss of the paper cur-
rency of that day. In politics he was a staunch
Republican, and served as selectman and justice of
the peace in Bloomfield, and was the first postmaster
at North Stratford. He gave evidence of his acumen
as a business man by buying timber lands before
most men had any conception of the value they
would soon attain. He was one of the original
thirteen charter members of the Baptist Church in
Stratford, and was a markedly consistent and prac-
tical Christian. He married, February 8, 1850,
Maria Jane Holmes, born in Colebrook, New Hamp-
shire, December 17, 1822, daughter of John and
Sarah (Towne) Holmes, of Colebrook. (See Holmes
elsewhere in this work). She died June 12, 1904,
aged eighty-two years. She was a woman of strong
individuality and great executive ability. Her en-
ergy and capability were powerful factors in the
household, and to her husband she was an efticient
helpmeet, a wise councillor and an intelligent com-
panion. The six children born of this union were :
Edmund William, John Holmes, Mary Annette,
Mira Agnes, Isabella Sarah and Jane Maria. All
except the eldest of these died young.

(VIII) Edmund William, eldest and only sur-
viving child of William and Martha' J. (Holmes)
Baldwin, was born in Stratford. May 7, 1852, and
was educated in the common schools and at Kimball
Academy, and as he grew up became familiar with
the different lines of business in which his father
was engaged. After leaving school he taught in
Colebrook Academy, and then went to Manchester.
Delaware county, Iowa, and was in the grain and
stock, lumber and coal business thirteen years, a
part of the tiine on a salary and a part of the time
for himself. In 1884 he returned to New Hampshire
and settled at North Stratford, and has carried on
farming and also dealt in farm machinery. He is a
member of Stratford Lodge, No. 30, Knights of
Pythias, and Coos Grange, No. 256, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, of Stratford. He married, August 14, 1878,
at Rock Island. Illinois, Flora R. Madison, who was
born May 16, 1852, at Elizabeth, Illinois, and edu-
cated in the public schools of Galena, Illinois, and
Dubuque, Iowa, daughter of John R. and Susanna
(Smith) Madison, of Dubuque. Iowa. John R.
Madison was captain of Company I. Nineteenth
Regiment, Third Infantry, during the Civil war. and
was a great-grandson of Colonel James Madison,
of Virginia, who, being unable to go into the field,
was commissioned colonel of militia for home de-
fense and chairman of the first committee of safety
of Orange county, Virginia, during the Revolution.

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Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Baldwin: Mary A., born July ii, 1879, died August
28, 1881 ; Flora E., born August 5, 1881, died April
2, 1885; Berta Edith, born May 6, 1884; Jeanelte
Holmes, born September 28, 1886; and William
Lx)throp, born November 19, i88g. All these chil-
dren were born at North Stratford, with the excep-
tion of Berta Edith, who was born at Newell,
Iowa. William Lothrop is a studei;t at Dartmouth
College, and Berta Edith and Jeanette Holmes are
students at the Brown University.
(Second Family.)

There are various reasons for sup-
BALDWIN posing that the Baldwins are of

Norman origin, and one of them
is the fact that the first earl of Devonshire, who
received his title from William the Conqueror, bore
that name. The name was prominently identified
with the ancient nobility of France, and antedates
the period of the first crusade, during which Bald-
win (1058-1118) was made king of Jerusalem.

(I) Henry Baldwin, the emigrant ancestor of
the family now being considered, was of Devon-
shire, and arrived at Charlestown, Massachusetts,
prior to 1640, in which year he signed the order
for the settlement of Woburn. In- 1652 he was
admitted a freeman in Woburn ; was a selectman
there in 1681 ; and a deacon of the First Church
from 1686 until his death, which occurred February
14, 1697-98. He resided at New Bridge in North
Woburn. November l, 1649, he married Phebe
Richardson, daughter of Ezekiel and Susanna
Richardson, who were also among the original set-
tlers of Woburn. Phebe was baptized in Boston
June 3, 1632, but may have been born in England.
She became the mother of eleven children : Su-
sanna (died young), Susanna, Phebe, John, David,
Timothy, Mary, Henry, Abigail, Ruth and Benja-
min. The mother died September 13, 1716.

(II) Henry (2), fourth son and eighth child
of Henry (i) and Phebe (Richardson) Baldwin,
was born in Woburn, September 15, 1664, and died
there January 17; 1739. He was married ilay 4,
1692-93, to Abigail Fiske, daughter of David and
Abigail (Seaborn) Fiske, who subsequently settled
in Lexington, Massachusetts. Abigail Baldwin, who
survived her husband, was the mother of Henry,
David, Isaac, Abigail (who died young), James
(who died young), Abigail, James and Samuel.

(III) James, fifth son and seventh child of
Henry and Abigail (Fiske) Baldwin, was born in
Woburn, October 19, 1710. He resided on the
family homestead all his life, which terminated
January 28, 1791. May 29, 1739, he married Ruth
Richardson, who was born in Woburn, June 17,
1713, daughter of Joseph Richardson, granddaughter
of Samuel Richardson and great-granddaughter of
Samuel Richardson, the latter a brother of Ezekiel
Richardson, previously referred to (see Richardson,
I). She was the mother of Cyrus, Ruel (died
young), Loammi and Ruel. Ruth survived her hus-
band but a short time, her death having occurred
May 13, 1791, in her seventy-eighth year.

(IV) Ruel, youngest son and child of James
and Ruth (Richardson) Baldwin, was born in Wo-
burn, June 30, 1747. He spent his entire life in his
native town, but the date of his death does not
appear in the records at hand. October 4, 1769,
he married Keziah Wyman, who bore him four
children : Ruel, Ruth, James and Josiah. Keziah
married for her second husband a Mr. Johnson, by
whom she had six children.

(V) Lieutenant James, second son and third
child of Ruel and Keziah (Wyman) Baldwin, was

born in Woburn, October 7, 1773. He resided for
some time in Dunstable, Massachusetts, from whence
he removed to Westford, same state, and he died
November 24, 1827. He was a prominent church-
man and a deacon. His marriage took place in De-
cember, 1798, to PrisciUa Keyes, who was born in
Westford, December 26, 1772, daughter of Issachar
Keyes. She died August 11, 1849. Their children
were: Stephen Keyes, Josiah, Josephus, who were
born in Dunstable; Eliza.

(VI) James, fifth son and eighth child of
James and Priscilla (Keyes) Baldwin, was born
in Westford, May 13, 1812. In early manhood he
entered the employ of his brothers Josephus and
Edvyin, who were engaged in the manufacture of
textile mill appliances in Nashua, such as spools,
bobbins, shuttles, etc., and remained there until
about the year 1859, when he established the present
James Baldwin Bobbin and Shuttle Company of
Manchester under the name of James Baldwin &
Compatiy, and engaged in the manufacture of bob-
bins, spools and shuttles. This business has ex-
panded into large proportions, becoming one of the
most important industrial enterprises in that city.
When the U. S. Bobbin and Shuttle Company was
organized, this company was among those whicli
constituted the combination, and it is now known as
the James Baldwin Company Division of that con-
cern. Mr. Baldwin died in Manchester, May 22,
1893. He was one of the most able and successful
business men of his day, and is justly entitled to an
honorable place among the pioneer manufacturers
of that city, whose foresight and perseverance made
possible the development and present magnitude of
its industrial activities. Like his ancestors he par-
ticipated conspicuously in religious affairs and was
a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Nashua,
and later of the First Baptist Church in Manchester.
His first wife, whom he married October 12, 1834,
was Harriet Robbins, of New Ipswich, New Hamp-
shire; she died March i, 1835. He married (sec-
ond), April 9, 1S40, Mary Buttrick, of Concord,
Massachusetts, who died July 30, 1857, aged forty
years. He married (third), August 4, 1858, Julia
Ann Hiinton, of Nashua, who died October 28,
1877. He married (fourth), February 22, 1880, Mrs.
Eliza W. Brown, of Manchester. His first wife