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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY
HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
A PECnRl) OF THF ACHIFVHMENTS OF WiU PEOl'I.E IN THE MAklNC OF A
COMMONWEALTH AND IHE FOLINUING OF A NATION
CoMPiLF.n Under tiik Kditokiai. Supervision of
EZRA S. STHARNS
Kx-Secrktaky or State, Member A.mkruan Antii,;uari\n SuriEiv, New ICnglanu lIisTORir.-CENEALor.icAi.
Soi-iETV, New Hampshire State Historical Society; CoRRESPONniNr; Member Minnesota
State Historical Society; Member Fitciiburg Historical Society
ASSISTED BY
WILLIAM F. WHITCHER
Tfi'stee New Hampshire State Library. Member New Hampshire State Historical Society anii New
Kngi.anu Methodist Hisiorkal Society
AND
EDWARD E. PARKER
]l-dge of Probate, Nashua
VOL. Ill
1 L L U S L R A T E D
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
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This is a name famous in Scotch
CAMPBELL history and it has contributed in
no small measure to the honor and
glory of America. It has long been well repre-
sented in New Hampshire, and is widely and cred-
itably known throughout the United States.
(I) Sir John Campbell, as duke of Argyle, as-
sisted at the coronation of James the First of Eng-
land. He was an otScer of William the Prince of
Orange in 1690, and participated in the battle of
the Boyne Water in the north of Ireland. He later
settled in Londonderry, Ireland, where he married
and became the father of several children, one of
whom was Henry.
(II) Henry, son of Sir John Campbell born
1697. married, 1717, and in 1733 came to America,
accompanied by his wife and five children, and set-
tled in Windham, New Hampshire.
(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Campbell,
married Jeanette Mack, who was born on the ocean
and died 1776. In 1765 the family moved to Lon-
donderry, New Hampshire, and later Henry Camp-
bell resided in Fletcher, Vermont, where his death
occurred in 1813. He was the father of five sons,
among whom was John.
(IV) John, son of Henry (2) Campbell, born
1786, was a blacksmith and farmer at West Henniker,
and was among the best known and most respected
citizens of the town, his influence for good being
felt throughout the community. ' He was honored
by his townspeople with many offices of trust, the
duties of which he performed in an efficient and
creditable manner. He married, December 23, 1S12,
Sarah, daughter of Oliver Noyes, and their children
were : Eliza, Cyrus, James, and John C. John
Campbell, after an active and useful life, died Sep-
tember 7, 1863. His wife died April 30. 1858.
(V) John C, son of John Campbell, born in
Henniker, New Hampshire, January 11, 1822, was
reared on the homestead and received his education
in the district schools. In 1861 he removed to ■
Hillsborough and accepted a position as cashier in
the Hillsborough National Bank, which he held
up to the time of his death, 1896, the unusual period
of thirty-five years, his tenure of office being noted
for ability and integrity. His active career was
characterized by the sterling qualities which insure
good citizenship, and he won and retained the es-
teem and confidence of those with whom he was
brought in contact, either in business, political or
social life. For more than two decades he served
as town treasurer, and during the greater portion
of this time was elected by both parties, this fact-
amply testifying to his popularity. He was a di-
rector in the Petersborough & Hillsborough Rail-
road and was instrumental in having the line com-
pleted from Hillsborough to Petersborough. _ He
was treasurer of the Society of the Congregational
Church, and was a member of the Blue Lodge and
Chapter of Masons at Henniker, in which he held
many offices and took great interest. Mr. Campbell
married Julia Darling Butler, born in Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, who bore him six children, namely:
E. Jennie, married Almon Oate, of Manchester.
Mary E., married George A. Upton, formerly a
lumber dealer of Townsend. Massachusetts, who
died 1899. Julia D., married Walter Steele, of
Stoneham. James H., died in infancy. James H.,
see forward. John B., born December 21, 1866, en-
gaged in the express business in Concord, New
Hampshire. The mother of these children died in
1898.
(VI) James H., son of John C. Campbell, was
born in Hillsborough, July 27, 1865, was reared
in Hillsborough Bridge and attended the
schools there, also high school and business college
of Manchester, New Hampshire. Prior to entering
the insurance business in Manchester, in which
line of work he is engaged at the present time
(1907). he served in the capacity of teacher, for
which calling he was thoroughly qualified. Mr.
Campbell married Sarah Louise, daughter of Bush-
rod W. Hill (q. v.). Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have
two childriin : Bushrod Hill, born July 12, 1893 ;
John Clififord. April 6, 1897.
This is unquestionably of English
RIXFORD descent and was early planted in
New England. It is probably an
offshoot of the Connecticut family of Rexford, but
the connection has not been established by exten-
sive research. The family was strongly represented
in the Revolution by William Rixford and his sons,
in Massachusetts.
(I) William Rixford was found in ^ledway,
Massachusetts, as early as 1751. The records of
Mendon, Massachusetts, show that he was married
November 13, 1751, to Anna Thayer. He is then
stvled of Medway and he resided in that town until
March, 1761. when he removed to Grafton, Massa-
chusetts. At the Lexington alarm in 1775 he
served in Captain Luke Drury's company of Minute
Men, and marched April 19, and remained under
arms sixteen days. He was still livin,g in Grafton
in 1782, and it is conjectured that he removed to
Hardwick, Massachusetts. Five children were born
to him in Medway, namely: Elizabeth, William,
Samuel, Henry and Simon ; and six in Grafton,
namely: Anna, Phoebe, Samuel, Elijah, died young;
Joseph and Elijah.
(II) William (2), eldest son and second child
of William (l) and Ann (Thayer) Rixford. was
born December 7, 1754, in Medway, Massachusetts,
and lived a few years after 1774 in Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts. He served three enlistments in the
Revolution from that town, and about 1782 he re-
moved to Winchester, New Hampshire, accom-
panied by his brothers Henry and Simon, and set-
tled there permanently. He was a Revolutionary
soldier, and in the Massachusetts rolls is credited
with having marched from Grafton in Captain Luke
Drury's company of Minute Men, belonging to Col-
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onel Artenias Ward's regiment, April 19, 1775.
Having cleared some ten acres and erected a log
cabin he returned to Grafton for the purpose of
bringing to their new habitation his family which
consisted of his young wife, an infant son and his
aged mother, all of whom journeyed thither on one
horse. He reclaimed from the wilderness and
brought to a good state of cultivation the farm
which is now or was recently owned by A. A. Put-
nam, and the primitive log cabin that originallly
sheltered the pioneer family, stood directly opposite
the present dwelling house. It contained a Dutch
fire place capable of holding a log eight feet long,
and afforded ample protection from the wolve.s
which frequently besieged it at night, but finding it
impregnable they contented themselves by devour-
ing the sheep. He married, January 28, 1779, Lucy
Wilson, of Northboro, Massachusetts and his chil-
dren were : Luther. Lucy, Ephraim, William, Sally,
Artemas. Harriet, Solomon, and Finis, all of whom
were natives of Winchester except the eldest.
(HI) Captain William, third son and fourth
child of William and Lucy (Wilson) Rixford. was
born at Winchester. It is quite probable that he ac-
quired his title in the militia. He remained upon the
homestead farm, and having assisted his father in
erecting a more pretentious frame dwelling, he was
left in possession of the cabin, ^ which he continued
to occupy for some years, or until completing an-
other frame dwelling. Some twenty-five years later
he removed to his father's residence, and his death
occurred at the old homestead in 1869. He was an
upright, conscientious man, a good neighbor and
an honored citizen. He married Betsey Willard,
daughter of Lieutenant Amos Willard, .and was the
father of five children : Eliza, now the widow of
Clark Dodge and resides in Keene. Emily, who
married (first), Willard Farrington, and (second)
Ebenezer Clark, of Keene, where she spent the re-
mainder of her life. William, Jr., Willard and
Lucius, the two last named being twins.
(IV) Willard, of the children of Captain Wil-
liam and Betsey (Willard) Rixford, was born in
Winchester, July 25, 1812, and died July 16, 1906.
He grew to manhood as a farmer at the homestead,
and his active years were devoted to that indepen-
dent calling. He resided in the house erected by
his father nearly one hundred years ago. up to his
decease, when he had attained his ninety-fourth
year. He married Rhoda Coombs, and she became
the mother of five children : Emily E., Henry W.,
Harriet E., Mary C. and William, who died in in-
fancy. Of these the only survivor is Henry W.,
of Winchester.
(V) Henry W., second child of William and
Rhoda (Coombs) Rixford, was born in Winchester,
January g, 1842. He attended the public schools,
and at an early age began to assist his father in
farming. Like his ancestors he has found agriculture
an agreeable and satisfactory occupation, and for
many years he has ably managed the homestead
farm. Mr. Rixford has always refused to hold
office, although he is a Republican of the stalwart
type. The family attend the Universalist Church.
On January I. 1868, he married Elsie P. Stowell.
born in Winchester, January 18, 1847, daughter of
Roswell Stowell, whose birth took place in Ches-
terfield, this state, November 17, 1815. Mr. and
Mrs. Rixford are the parents of three children:
Delia G., Nellie R. and Jessie P. Delia G. married
Burton G. Willard, and has two children: Elsie M.
and Ella R. Willard. Nellie R. married Jesse Loreno
Putnam, and thev have six children: Willard A.,
Harold R., Marshall H., Bertha M., Marian B. and
Clarence E. Jesse P. married P. H. Willard.
The original bearer of this cognomen
MOSELEY took it without doubt from the lo-
cality in which he dwelt. The as-
sumption of the name indicates that He was one
who dwelt permanently at that place, and was a
person of settled habits. When the religious
troubles of the seventeenth century arose, a de-
scendant of the first Moseley found his environ-
ment made intolerable by fanatical oppression and
removed from England to the freedom of the New
England forest, and settling there was the first of
five generations who lived contentedly, like their de-
scendants, in the same town. The name and the
record of the family both show that the Moseleys
were (and still are) of that class of citizens who
are well thought of by their neighbors, love
home and can succeed wherever they choose to
make their abiding place.
(I) John Moseley, whose name in the ancient
records is spelled with many variations, as Mawdes-
ley, Modesley. Madesley, but has long been fixed as
Moseley, came probably in the ship "Mary and
John," which sailed from Plymouth, England,
March 20, 1630. settled at Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, in 1630, was admitted freeman, March 14.
1639, and died there August 29, 1661. He married
(first) Elizabeth (surname unknown), and by her
had a son Joseph or John, born 1638, but whether
any more children or not is unknown. His second
wife. Cicely , died November 3, 1661. She
named in her will three children: John, Elizabeth
and Thomas.
(II) Thomas, youngest child of John and Cicely
Moseley, was born in Dorchester, where he died Oc-
tober 22, 1706. He was admitted to the church in
1658. He married, October 28, 1658, Mary, daugh-
ter of Thomas Lawrence, of Hingham. She died
.\pril, 1723. They had nine children: Increase,
John, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, L'nite, Ebenezer,
Nathaniel and Joseph.
(III) Ebenezer. fifth son and seventh child of
Thomas and Mary (Lawrence) Moseley, was born
in Dorchester, September 4, 1673, and died Septem-
ber 19, 1740. He was constable, 1705, town treas-
urer, 1720, town clerk,' 1721, and selectman, 1719-21.
He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of William
Trescott, and (second) Hannah, daughter of John
Weeks.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth
(Trescott) Moseley, was born May 19, 1695, mar-
ried. May 29, 1718, Elizabeth Atherton, born April
14, T701, daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth
Atherton, of Dorchester.
(V) Thomas, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth
(. Atherton) Moseley, born in Dorchester, June 2.
1728, married. April' 23, 1752, Esther Davis, born in
Dorchester, November 7, 1731, daughter of Jona-
than, Jr., and Sarah Davis. She died April 21,
1811.
(VI) Samuel Moseley. son of Thomas and
Esther (Davis) Moseley, born in Dorchester, Mas-
sachusetts, October 3, 1765, died in Weathersfield,
Vermont, June 20. 1828, aged sixty-two years. When
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^ young man he went with his brother Ebenezer to
Weathersfield, where he resided and carried on the
business of tanning. He married, December 29,
1793, Priscilla Baker, daughter of Ebenezer and
Abigail Baker. Mr. Baker died May 24. 1798, aged
fifty-seven years. His wife died January 24, 1780.
The children of Samuel and Priscilla (Baker)
Moseley were : Baker, Fanny, Elmira, Laurena,
Franklin and Francis (twins), Abigail Preston, Es-
ther Christia and Eleanor.
(VH) Franklin, second son and fifth child of
Samuel and Priscilla (Baker) Moseley, was born in
Weathersfield, Vermont^ August 4, 1S04, and died
January 12, 1894, in Concord. His boyhood was
passed in his native town, where he went to school
and between terms rendered such aid as he could to
liis father. When about sixteen years of age he
went to Boston, and as he had but little money, but
was possessed of a sound physical constitution and
plenty of energy, he made the journey on foot, as
was not an uncommon thing in those days. On his
arrival in Boston he took a place as clerk in a dry
goods store, where he worked for a time. From
Boston he went to New Chester, now Hill, New
Hampshire, and in January. 1828, he and his twin
brother Francis entered into a partnership and
opened a general store.
In those days money was not plenty, and many
who bought goods could only pay for them in
work. To accommodate this class of customers the
Moseley firm bought palm leaf strips which the wo-
men wove into hats that were sent to Boston to be
sold. After the partnership had existed some years,
Francis Moseley died June 30, 1833, and Franklin
continued the jjusiness alone, and also had other
stores at Sanbornton and Danbury. In addition to
the mercantile business he engaged in the manu-
facture of shoes. He had a shop in which he em-
ployed twenty or thirty men, and this constituted a
large business in those days, when all the goods
were hauled by teams between Hill and Concord,
twenty-seven miles distant, and transportation be-
tween Concord and Boston was principally done by
the Boston and Concord Boating Company, which
ran a line of boats between those two cities by
canal and the Merrimack river, a distance of eighty-
five miles, until 1842, when the Concord Railroad
was finished. Mr. Moseley's business ability and
personal integrity are made evident by the fact that
while a resident of Hill he was elected to and filled
the offices of town clerk, selectman, justice of the
peace, and representative in the state legislature.
In 1852 he removed to Concord and entered the
employ of J. A. Gilmore & Company, wholesale
dealers in fleur and grain, and October 30, 1854, he
and David T. Watson bought out the interest of J.
A. Gilmore (afterward governor), but kept the old
name of J. A. Gilmore & Company. This firm then
consisted of Asahel Clapp, John H. Pearson, Benja-
min Grover, David T. Watson and Franklin Mose-
ley. Subsequently the name of the firm was J. H.
Pearson. Barron & Company, Barron, Dodge &
Company, J. V. Barron & Company, Howe, Moseley
& Company, John H. Barron & Company, and
Moseley & Company.
AiteT his removal to Concord, Mr. Moseley
never sought official recognition at the hands of his
fellow citizens. He attended the South Congrega-
tional Church, of which he was a libera! supporter.
His political affiliations were Democratic. He was
emphatically a business man, and his life was one
of steady and active devotion to business and family.
He retired from active mercantile pursuits about
1870. with success achieved through long years of
faithful attention to business and upright dealings.
He married, in Hill, February 24, 1835, Lydia
Rowell Hoyt, born in Amesbury, Massachusetts,
April 12. 1806. (see Hoyt VII) and their children
were : John Francis and Carroll and Carlos Beck-
with (twins).
(VIII) John Francis, oldest of the three sons
of Franklin and Lydia R. (Hoyt) Moseley, was
born in Hill, July 20, 183S, and died in Concord,
August 12, 1905. He received a common school
education, and learned how to transact mercantile
business in his father's store. On the removal of
his father's family to Concord John F. accompanied
them, and from 1853 to 1898 was actively engaged
in the flour and grain business, from which he re-
tired in 1900. During this period he was associated
cither as clerk or as partner in most of the firms of
which his father was a member in Concord. For
several years before his death he was interested in
the firm of G. N. Bartemus & Company, though not
in an active personal sense.
Mr. Moseley was a good business man and took
a pride in doing things well. He was a man of
high principles and sterling character. Of a natur-
ally reserved and retiring disposition, the number
of his acquaintances was not large. Those who
were brought into his favored circle speak in terms
of highest admiration of him. Without display he
acted well the part of an exemplary citizen, and
found true success in business by giving every man
his due. In the sphere where he was best known
he is greatly missed and truly mourned. His prin-
ciples were thoroughly established, and he was a
sincere Democrat, though he took no active part in
political movements. While he shunned often-
proffered official responsibility, he never shirked his
duty as a citizen, always expressing his convictions
at the polls, and leaving political preferment to
others who might desire it.
He married, August 23, 1880, Abbie Fletcher,
born June 6. 1845, in Loudon, New Hampshire,
daughter of James and Catherine (Orr) Fletcher,
the former a native of Loudon and the latter of
Chester or Auburn. James Fletcher was a son of
Joshua and Elizabeth (Chase) Fletcher, who were
married in 1799, and Joshua was a son of James
Fletcher. Mrs. Moseley resides in the beautiful
home erected in 1899-1900 by her husband, located
on Warren street, Concord.
(VIII) Carlos Beckwith. youngest son of
Franklin and Lydia R. (Hoyt) Moseley, was born
July IS, 1843, in Hill, and educated in the common
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schools of that town and in Concord, after the re-
moval of his father to the latter place. In i860 he
was appointed to a clerkship in the Concord post-
office and filled that place a year. From 1861 to
1863 he was employed as a telegrapher, and the
following seven years as a clerk in the offices of the
Concord Railroad Company. In 1870 he took a
position in the flour and grain business, where he
was steadily engaged for the following thirty years,
devoting his time and energy to that business, first
as a clerk and later as a partner, and meeting with
well deserved success. He retired in 1900, at the
same time as his brother John, and has since that
time been interested in real estate at York Beach,
Maine. Diligence in business, reliability, and an
affable manner have been three important factors
in Mr. Moseley's success. He is a Democrat, but
takes no active part in political affairs, and attends
the South Congregational Church.
Carlos B. Moseley was married in Concord. No-
vember 28, 1872, by Rev. F. O. Aj'er, pastor of
North Congregational Church, to Helen A. Morgan,
daughter of Charles L. and Josephine A. (Spiller)
Morgan, of Concord. They have two children :
Charles Franklin, the elder, married Lida B.
Knowles, of Fort Fairfield, Maine. Lydia Jose-
phine, married Frank Webster Sanborn, and has
one child, Waldo Moseley Sanborn. All reside in
Concord. In 1S98 Mr. Moseley began the erection
af his handsome home, on Merrimack street. Con-
cord. It was completed in 1900, and is fitted with
the appointments, adornments and comforts of a
thoroughly modern dwelling.
The Scotch blood which is borne by
DUNLAP many citizens of New Hampshire has
done much to maintain the high
moral standard of the state, and has also been active
in clearing away the forest and developing its re-
sources and industries.
(I) Archibald Dunlap removed from the north
of Ireland and was among those to early arrive in
New Hampshire, settling in~ Chester. He located
on home lot No. 26 of that town. In 1741 he mar-
ried Martha, daughter of Joseph Neal, of that town,
and their children were : Joseph, James. John,
Mary, William, Sarah. Samuel and Martha. The
father and the three daughters died within a period
of three weeks of a throat disorder, which was
probably diphtheria.
(II) Samuel, youngest son and seventh child of
Archibald and Martha (Neal) Dunlap, was born in
Chester, and was bound out to learn the carpenter's
trade. While residing in Chester he worked largely
at his trade in Concord, and assisted in erecting the
steeple of the first church built in that town in 1783.
Soon after attaining his majority he married Nancy
Corcoran and settled first in Henniker. In 1797 he
removed to Salisbury, New Hampshire, and there
died August 2, 1830. On December 30, 1806. he
bought a half interest in the saw mill of David
Pettingill. on the site of the present Prince Mill,
and on the tenth of the following March he pur-
chased the other part of the property, thus becoming-
sole owner. To this he added a gristmill and the
records show that on April 13, iSii. he sold saw
and grist mills to his sons, John and James. His-
children were : Sarah, Joseph, Samuel, John, James,
William, Mary, Thomas (died young), David,
Nancy, Thomas, Daniel and Joel.
(III) David, seventh son and ninth child of
Samuel and Nancy (Corcoran) Dunlap, was born
April 2, 1794, in Henniker, New Hampshire, and
early in life went to Schenectady, New York, where
he learned the trade of saddler with his uncle, Will-
iam Dunlap. He settled in Newburyport, Massa-
chusetts, and died there in November, 1S29. He
married in that town, February 4, 1824, Fanny,
daughter of Abel and Bridget (Smith) Bartlett.
She was born January 15, 1801, in Newburyport,
where she died September 24. 1829. Their children
were : Joseph D., William and Henry S. The eld-
est son resides in Westfield, Massachusetts. The-
second in Salisbury and the third in Concord. New
Hampshire.
(IV) William, second son of David and Fanny
(Bartlett) Dunlap, was born August 23, 1826, in
Newburyport, Massachusetts, and went to Salisbury,
New Hampshire, when three years of age to live
with his uncle, James D. Dunlap, and remained with
him sixteen years. In the meantime he had the ad-
vantages of the excellent schools of Salisbury, and
at the same time learned the milling business which
he continued for many years. He was a student
for a time at Tilton Academy and then entered the
employ of Cyrus Gookin at West Salisbury. At the
age of eighteen years he went to Concord and for
two or three years was employed in the manufacture
of sash and blinds, which was conducted by Daniel
H. Dunlap. Returning to Salisbury he became a
partner of Cyrus Gookin, January i, 1857. and for
seventeen years they conducted a mercantile busi-
ness at West Salisbury. After the death of Mr.
Gookin Mr. Dunlap continued the business alone
and purchased the interest of his partner from his
heirs, and thus continued until old age compelled
his retirement from active labor. He died Febru-
ary 23, 1897. For many years succeeding the estab-
lishment of a postofKce at West Salisbury he was-
the postmaster in charge. He was several years-
clerk of the town, and in 1893 represented the town
in the legislature. In political principles he was a
Democrat. He married (first). May 22, 1851,
Emelia T. Severance, daughter and thirteenth child
of Joseph and Anna (Currier) Severance, of
Andover. She was born April 12, 1826, and died
March 31, 1855, in Concord. Mr. Dunlap married
(second). May 2, 1858. Ellen C. daughter of Rich-
ard and Alice H. (Watson) Fellows, of Salisbury.
She was born 'July 16, 1S34. She is the mother of
all of his children, namely: Frank H., Willie G.
and Fred A. The second resides in Concord and
the third in Antrim.
(V) Frank Henry, eldest child of William and
Ellen C. (Fellows) Dunlap. was born Jaiuiary 8,
t86o, in Salisbury, New Hampshire, where he now
resides. After attending the common schools he
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was a student at Proctor Academy in Andover,
after which he was employed as a clerk in the store
of his father at West Salisbury. In 1857 he went
to Meredith, New Hampshire, and was there em-
ployed by J. W. Bead & Company, grocers, until
1880. In that year he was engaged by J. T. Taylor,
■of Tilton, with whom he continued four years. He
then returned to Salisbury, and was engaged in his
father's store until the death of the latter, when he
became his successor and is still conducting the
business. In 1S84 Mr. Dunlap established a poul-
try business in Salisbury, beginning with twenty
hens and has now five hundred and out of their
•earnings has built thirteen houses for them. Since
1880 this business has netted him about ten thousand
dollars. This is a very positive, affirmative answer
to the oft-repeated question in agricultural journals,
"Do hens pay ?" Mr. Dunlap is a Democrat in prin-
ciple, but is independent in political action and is
popular with his townsmen. For four years he
served the town as treasurer and was elected repre-
sentative in 1889. He is a member of Merrimack
Lodge, No. 28. Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Franklin, and of the Royal Lodge, Ancient Or-
der of United Workmen, of the same town. He is
a regular attendant and supporter of the Baptist
Church. He has been successful in business as a
result of his industry and correct calculations.
Mr. Dunlap was married. March 25, 1884, to
Cara Prince, daughter of David and Caroline E.
(Pierson) Prince, of Salisbury, and his three chil-
dren are: Ralph, born February 4, 1888. Clifton,
born July 26, 1891. Bernard, born May g, 1S94.
The first two are students at Kimball Union Acad-
emy, Meriden, New Hampshire.
In the records of the times when sur-
HULL names were beginning to be used are
found mention of Nicholas atte Hulle.
Jordan de la Hulle, Geoffrey de la Helle and John
de la Hill, each designating a person more particu-
larly by adding to his name Nicholas. Jordan,
GeofTrey or John, a reference to the hull, or hell,
that is, hill, on which h« lived. In later times de la
was dropped and Hull and Hill became surnames
without further reference to the person's place of
residence.
(I) George Hull was at Concord in 174", and
was taxed there in 1757 and 1758, and were the tax
lists preserved they would probably show that he
was taxed there about twenty years. He removed
to Plymouth in 1765, and February 13 of that year,
George Hull, weaver, of Concord, purchased one
full right or share in Plymouth, which originally
belonged to Meshech Weare, one of the grantees.
He died in 1807. His wife's baptismal name w-as
Mehitable. Their children were : Nathaniel, Sam-
uel, Joseph, George, Mehitable, Moses, Jonathan
and John.
(II) Jonathan, seventh child and sixth son of
George and Mehitable Hull, was born in Plymouth,
1768, and died September 23, 1S49, aged eighty-one.
He lived in Hebron from 1791 to 1807, and then
purchased of his brother John the paternal farm.
He was an intelligent, amiable man, fond of reading
and music, and took care that the musical taste,
which his children all inherited, should be developed
in thein. Pie married (first), March 19, 1795, Bet-
sey Lovejoy, born in Hebron, daughter of Abial
and Mary (Hobart) Lovejoy. She died November
3, 1815. He married (second), July 15, 1816. Lois
Merrill. She died January 21, i860. His children,
all by the first wife, were : Betsey, Jonathan, Moses.
Olive, Jacob Lovejoy, Nathaniel, Isaac Baxter and
Phineas.
(III) Moses, third child and second son of Jon-
athan and Betsey (Lovejoy) Hull, was born in
Hebron. March 29, 1800, and died in Plymouth,
July 25, 1878. He inherited the paternal acres, and
later owned and tilled what is known as the Phillips
farm. He was a man of ability, and an honest and
worthy citizen. He was a fine performer of the
tenor drum, and for many years was drum major
in the militia. In his age he was blind and infirm,
but his ability to play the drum still remained. He
married, November 24, 1825. after a courtship of
eight years. Zilpah Ward, born June 11, 1799, and
died September 10, 1875, daughter of Isaac and
Polly (Thurlow) Ward. Their children were:
William Gould, Harriet Ann, Arthur Ward and
Mary Ellen.
(IV) William Gould, eldest child of Moses and
Zilpah (Ward) Hull, was born in Plymouth, De-
cember 13. 1826. He received his education in the
district school and at Holmes Academy. At the
age of fifteen years he made his personal belongings
into a small bundle which he took under his arm,
and went to Plymouth and secured a place where he
worked for his board and attended school. After
attending Holmes Academy two terms he taught
school a term, and then accepted a position as clerk
which he filled several years. From 1872 to 187S
he was a member of the firm, Webster, Hull &
Company, merchants of Plymouth. He then be-
came a member of the firm of Ward. McQuesten &
Hull, glove manufacturers, then the largest firm of
the kind in the town. He was in that business five
years, and then opened a summer boarding house,
known as "Rose Lawn." in the central part of the
village, which he managed until 1880, when Mrs.
Hull died. After her death he was employed by
the lumber companies as clerk and superintendent
in Livermore and Woodstock, but retained his legal
residence in Plymouth nearly all that time. In
town affairs Mr. Hull's services have been fre-
quently sought, and he has been selectman, road
agent, representative and postmaster, and has filled
acceptably many other positions. While a repre-
sentative he served as a member of the committee
for the Asylum for the Insane at Concord, and as
chairman directed its business. In 1895, upon the
request of his fellow citizens, he accepted the post-
mastership of Plymouth, and served four years. As
a member and treasurer of the Town History Com-
mittee, he is kindly remembered by his associates
and the writer and his services were fully appre-
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ciated by his townsmen. His duties in all positions
have been performed in a faithful and efficient man-
ner, and received the endorsements of his fellow
citizens. In politics he is a Democrat of the Jack-
sonian type. Always mindful of the difficulties he
had in acquiring his education, and desirous of help-
ing young people to qualify for higher stations in
life, he has assisted many of them in obtaining their
schooling by lending them money. In social, poli-
tical and financial circles his name is respected and
honored. He married, July 12, 1854, Laura Eliza-
beth Taylor Crockett, born July 6, 1828, and died
October 0, 1S80. She was the daughter of Benaiah
S. and Mary (Taylor) Crockett, of Holderness, and
granddaughter of Rev. John Crockett, of Sanborn-
lon. She was a lady of culture and literary attain-
ments, and her memory is a sacred treasure of the
family. Two sons were born of this union: Arthur
C. and Heber W.
(V) Arthur Crockett, son of William G. and
Laura E. T. (Crockett) Hull, was born in Plym-
outh, April 30, 1857, and educated in Plymouth,
Exeter and New Hampton. He is a traveling sales-
man, representing the firm of J. C. Norris & Com-
pany, of Concord. He resides in Plymouth. He
married, May 24, 1896, Annie P. Burgess, daughter
of Joseph and Carrie Burgess, of Wareham, Mas-
sachusetts.
(V) Heber William, second son of William G.
and Laura E. T. (Crockett) Hull, was born in
Plymouth, October 29. 1861, and is a conductor on
the Boston & Maine Railroad, with residence at
Plymouth. He takes a lively interest in politics, is
a Democrat, and was selectman in 1902-04; served
as chairman of the board one year. March, 1907,
he was Democratic candidate for county commis-
sioner. He married (first), March 15. 1S87. Mary
J. Drinkwater, born in Portland, Maine, October
27, 1859, daughter of A. and May (Patrick) Drink-
water. She died August 29. i8go. He married
(second), July 3, 1898, Rosa Frances Heath, born
in Holderness, June 19, 1877. They have one child,
Laura Frances, born in Plymouth, November S,
1901.
(I) Nathaniel Ladd Drury was born in
DRLTRY Malone. New York, June 11, 1823, and
died in Claremont, New Hampshire,
December 5, 1872. He was a cutler by trade and
carried on the manufacture of cutlery for some
years in his native town. Later he removed to Clare-
mont and spent the remainder of his life there.
His wife's maiden name was Harriet Adelaide
Brown and she was born in Charlestown. N. H.,
October 24, 1827. They had three children : Kate,
William Herbert and Nellie M. Of the two daugh-
ters. Kate died in childhood, Nellie M. still resides
in Claremont.
(II) William Herbert Drury, the only son and
second child of these parents, was born in Clare-
mont, December 22. 1855, and died in Manchester,
New Hampshire, April 13, 1901. He was educated
in the public schools of Claremont and graduated
from the Stevens High School of that town in the
class of 1876. Later he attended St. Lawrence Uni-
versity of Canton, New York. As his parents were
possessed of only moderate means he was compelled
to work his own way in part, which he did with
much ability. On completing his preparatory studies
he entered the law office of Hon. Hosea W. Parker,
of Claremont, with whom he read law for three
years and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar
in the summer of 1880. He located in Epping, New
Hampshire, where he practiced his profession from
1880 to 1887. For a time he also had a law office
at Derry, New Hampshire, where he was associated
with the late Fred. R. Felch. In November, 1S88,
he removed to Manchester and in January, 1889, he
formed a partnership with Hon. Robert J. Peaslee
under the firm name of Drury & Peaslee. This
partnership continued until Mr. Peaslee's appoint-
ment as a member of the Supreme Court of New
Hampshire in July. 1S98. From that time Mr.
Drury continued in business alone imtil February,
1899, when the partnership of Drury & Hurd was
formed, Henry N. Hurd, of Manchester, becoming
the junior partner. This firm continued until De-
cember, 1901, when Mr. Drury became associated
with Hon. David A. Taggart and Hon. George H.
Bingham, the firm being known as Taggart, Bing-
ham & Drury. Here his prospects were of the
brightest when, after a few months, he was stricken
with the illness which ended in his death. During
his residence and practice in Manchester Mr.
Drury became recognized as one oi her soundest
and most capable lawyers. He was a tireless
worker and patient and constant in all of his re-
search ; he was a man of the strictest integrity,
honorable in all his dealings and was implicitly
trusted by those associated with him as well as by
all with whom he came in contact. Upon first ac-
quaintance he was somewhat retiring, but when
once a friendship was formed he was known and
appreciated as a genial and sympathetic companion
and a firm and helpful friend. He gave to his
many clients unsparingly of his ability, and his suc-
cess was ol steady growth and was constantly
broadening. A great lover of home, his most en-
joyable moments were spent with his family at his
own fireside. In politics Mr. Drury was a Dem-
ocrat and took an active part in political affairs.
His judgment in business affairs was ever practical
and sound, appreciating which his constituents
twice elected him to the office of selectman in the
town of Epping; and he was also sent to represent
this town as a member of the Constitutional Con-
vention of 1889. In religion he was of the Univer-
salist faith and attended the First Universalist
Church of Manchester. He was both a Mason and
an Odd Fellow and in the former order had attained
high rank as past illustrious master of Sullivan
Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Ep-
ping ; he also held membership in Washington
Lodge. Mount Horcb Arch Chapter. Adoniram
Council and Trinity Commandery of Manchester,
and of Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd'
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Fellows, of the same city. Shortly after coming to
Manchester he became a member of the Calumet
Club, a social organization^ and was one of the
originators and founders of the Manchester Gym-
nasium. November 21, 1S8S, Mr. Drury united in
marriage with Mary Evelyn Tolles. a daughter of
Edwin Wharton and Harriet Elizabeth (Mason)
Tolles. The father was a native of Claremont and
by occupation a merchant ; the mother was a native
of Hartford, Vermont. Mrs. Drury was born in
Hastings, Minnesota, but spent most of her early
life in Claremont and was there educated in the
public schools^ being graduated from the Sfevens
High School in the class of 1878. She is also a
member and attendant of the same church as was
Mr. Drury. Three children were born of this
union, two of w^hom, Ralph Howard and Ruth Liz-
beth, are now living, and are being educated in the
public schools of Manchester.
This ancient occupative surname,
DRAPER like Weaver and Taylor, which
came from the calling followed by
him who bore it first, is found in the early records
of New England, and from those Puritan settlers
who brought it here have descended generations of
worthy successors.
(I) Jacob Draper was born in that part of
Kingston which is now Sandown, about 1750, and
died in 1817. He removed to Plymouth and settled
in the south part of that town before 1776. He was
in the Revolution, serving as a soldier on the fron-
tier, in Captain Jeremiah Eames' company from
July to October, 1776. He married, in Plymouth,
December 4, 1777, Elizabeth Ladd. born in Kings-
ton. January 6, 1756, daughter of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Clifford) Ladd, of Kingston and Alexan-
dria'. Their children were : Jacob, Jonathan, Will-
iam, Sarah, Joseph, Nathaniel. Peter, Reuben, Han-
nah and Betsey.
(II) Nathaniel, sixth child of Jacob and Eliza-
beth (Ladd) Draper, was born in Plymouth, in
1790, and died August 10, 1875. For a time he
was a farmer on Ward Hill ; he then removed to
Plymouth village, where for several years he con-
ducted a meat market and was a dealer in produce.
He bought various kinds of goods in Canada which
he disposed of in Plymouth. He was selectman in
1824-25. He married (first), in 1814, Mary Gill,
born August 24, 1796, and died in Plymouth. De-
cember 22, 1837. She was the daughter of William
and Ruth (Haselton) Gill, of Newmarket and Bos-
cawen. He married (second). February, 1841, Re-
becca (Shute) Shattuck, widow of Enos Shattuck.
His children, all by the first wife, were: Mary
Jane. Jason C, Eliza. Harriet, Nathaniel Fletcher,
Emily (died young), and Mary Emily.
(III) Nathaniel Fletcher, second son and fifth
child of Nathaniel and Mary (Gill) Draper, was
born January 12, 1826, and died November 5, 1S71.
After spending some years in farming he went to
Manchester, where he was engaged in the retail
grocery business for some years as a clerk. From
there he went to Lowell. Massachusetts, and was ins
the employ of Puffer & Company, grocery mer-
chants, for some years, and also spent a year ir^
Bridgeport, Connecticut. He afterward went to
Hunterstown, Province of Quebec, Canada, and
had charge of the mills and store of a large corpor-
ation six years. In 1857 he returned to Plymouth.
He carried on a grocery business in Lower Inter-
vale, and was also a partner with T. R. Hawley, in
the firm of T. R. Hawley & Company, manufac-
turers of gloves. At the end of five years Mr.
Draper sold out his business, both grocery and
glove manufactory, and formed a partnership with
Samuel Blanchard under the name of Blanchard &
Draper, for the manufacture of gloves. This firm
lasted until Mr. Draper's death. Mr. Draper was a
staunch Republican. He married, June 16, 1S49,
Emma Bridgman, born in Dorchester. January 12,
1827, and died September 21, 1892, daughter of
Elbridge Bridgman. Five children were born of
this union : Jason Fletcher, Harriet Emeline, Hen-
rietta Florence. Walter Kendrick and Jennie I\Iay.
Jason Fletcher is the subject of the next paragraph.
Harriet E., born July 5, 1852, married, March 28,
1872. John F. Maynard of Manchester, and died
April 12, 1879. Henrietta F., became the wife of
John F. Maynard. February 24, 1881. Walter K.,
born August 23, 1859. died April 19, l8go. He mar-
ried (first) Helen Clough, and (second) Lillian
Fadden. He lived in Ashland.
(IV) Jason Fletcher, eldest son of Nathaniel
F. and Emma (Bridgman) Draper, was born in
Lowell, Massachusetts, October 10, 1850. He was
educated in the schools of Plymouth, at Master
Hiram Cass's private school at Center Harbor, and
at Tilton Seminar}-. The two years next succeed-
ing his school days he was in the employ of Sargent
Brothers & Company, dry goods merchants. Boston.
Then returning to Plymouth he became a traveling
salesman for his father, selling gloves throughout
New England and Canada, Continuing for fifteen
years. On the death of his father in 1871 he took
his place in the business, and was a partner with a
Mr. Blanchard for six years, until the latter retired,
and Mr. Draper formed a partnership with George
A. Draper, of Bristol, and Lemuel Draper, of Win-
chester. Massachusetts, which continued for two
years. A son, F. Draper, then continued the busi-
ness with his brother-in-law, John F. Maynard, o'
Manchester, under the firm name of J. F. Draper &
Company, until November, 27. 1897. The business
was then incorporated under the name of the
Draper-Maynard Company, with a capital of $25,000.
The company conducted a factory in Ashland nine-
teen years, removing the manufacture to "a new fac-
tory in Plymouth in December, 1900. In February
of the same year the capital stock of the corpora-
tion was increased to $50,000, and December 31,
1902, again increased to $100,000, and in July. 1906,
raised a third time to $150,000; the officers being:
President, John F. Maynard : treasurer. Harry S.
Huckins ; general manager. Jason F. Draper ; di-
Vectors, the above named officers. The regular
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manufacture of gloves gave place to the manufac-
ture of sporting goods in 1904. The average num-
ber of pairs of gloves manufactured for some years
was many thousands. The number of persons now
employed by the establishment is one hundred and
fifty. In political faith Mr. Draper is a Republican.
He is a member of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; and Plymouth
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Plymouth, and of the New Hampshire Club of Bos-
ton, of which he is one of the early members.
Mr. Draper married, February 26. 18S1, Hattie
Cora Russell, born June 3, 1855, daughter of Pela-
tiah and Mary Ann (Woodman) Russell, of Plym-
outh. Four children have been born to them : Mary
Emma, May S, 1882 ; Catherine Muriel. February
25, 1884, died March 21, 1885 ; Harriet Marguerite,
July 17. 1S89; and Jason Russell, May 27, 1900.
Dr. Shea, of Nashua, is descended from
SHEA the Sheas of county Kerry, Ireland, and
therefore belongs to one of the most
noted families of the Emerald Isle. Many of this
name, which is of great antiquity in Ireland, emi-
grated to the United States, becoming useful citi-
zens, and their children and grandchildren are now
in the midst of successful careers in business and
professional life.
(I) John Shea resided in county Kerry and
was contemporaneous with the patriots of 1798.
(II) Timothy Shea, son of John, also resided
in county Kerry and was a veterinary surgeon.
(III) Daniel Shea, son of Timothy, was born
in county Kerry, August, 1840. Emigrating to this
country at the age of sixteen years he found em-
ployment in the cotton mills of Nashua and was
subsequently enabled, through his habits of indus-
try and thrift, to purchase a farm, which he culti-
vated energetically for the rest of his life. He mar-
ried Catherine McDonald, also a native of Ireland,
and a daughter of Edward McDonald. Her father,
who was at one time the steward of an Irish estate,
went to the island of Jamaica, West Indies, where
he purchased a plantation, and while visiting the
old country for the purpose of removing his family
to their new home, he was' seized with a violent at-
tack of fever which proved fatal. Mrs. Catherine
Shea became the mother of eleven children, six of
whom are living: John, who is now superintendent
of the Clinton Manufacturing Company's Mills, in
Clifton, South Carolina; Timothy H., who is now
serving in the United States Marine Corps ;
Augustus W., M. D., who will be again referred to ;
Mary B., wife of Michael Kelly; Adeline, wife of
Thomas F. Mulvanity; and Ann G., who is a school
teacher. The family are members of the Roman
Catholic Church.
(IV) Augustus Washington Shea, M. D.. son
of Daniel and Catherine (McDonald) Shea, was born
in Nashua, August 9, 1865. His early education
was acquired in the public schools including the
Nashua high school, and after being graduated
from the medical department of the University of
Vermont in 1887, he pursued a special coarse of
study in New York City and completed his profes-
sional training abroad. Returning to Nashua, he
inaugurated his professional career in the midst of
his friends and acquaintances, and having rapidly
acquired a high reputation as both physician and
surgeon, he has built up an extensive practice. In
addition to his private practice Dr. Shea finds ample
opportunity for professional work of a semi-public
nature as president of the Nashua Emergency Hos-
pital, member of the Nashua Hospital Association
and local surgeon for the Boston & Maine Railway
Company. He is a member of the New Hamp-
shire State Medical Society, the American Medical
Association, the New York Association of Railway
Surgeons ; the Order of Foresters, and the local
grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Politically he acts
with the Democratic party, and at the present time
is serving on the board of public works. He mar-
ried. June 25, 1902, Lucy Kelly, of Brooklyn, New
York, and has two children : Lucy and Kathryn,
The ancient family of this name
BOISVERT has been long established in the
province of Quebec, Canada, where
it was founded by an immigrant from France long
previous to the English occupation of the country.
(I) Onesime Boisvert was born in St. Thomas
of Pierreville. province of Quebec, Canada, and
died in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1873. He
resided in Pierreville until he came to the United
States, and settled in Manchester, New Hampshire,
in July, 1865. He married Zoe Faucher, who was
born in St. Thomas and died August 23, 1906. at
the age of seventy-three years. The children of
this union were : Adelia, Adeline, Aime Edward,
Emma, Vitaline, Amelia, William W. and Clara.
(II) Aime Edward, eldest son and third child of
Onesime and Zoe (Faucher) Boisvert, was born in St.
Thomas of Pierreville, July 8, 1863, and came with
his parents to Manchester when two years old. He
was educated in the public schools of Manchester,
St. Joseph's High School and the New Hampshire
Business College. When he was ten years old his
father died and from that time he earned his own
way in life and worked at such occupations as
offered the greatest inducement, the law at that
time not prohibiting child labor as at present. Up
to the age of twenty he was employed as a clerk in
dry goods houses in Manchester. He then became
the owner of the National Laundry, which he con-
ducted four years. May 26, 1889, he was appointed
special agent of the General Land office by Presi-
dent Harrison, and served until April, 1893. He
traveled over the United States and Mexico, in-
specting local offices and investigating land claims,
also ascertained the birthplaces of all the Indians at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, in order to determine whether
the Indians were entitled to land in the United
States, a number being found at that time who
were natives of Canada. In 1893 he began the
study of law in the office of Edwin F. Jones, then
citv solicitor of Manchester, and was admitted to
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the bar of New Hampshire, June 25. 1895, ^"d to
the bar of the United States District Court, Decem-
ber 20, 1898. Immediately after his admission to
the bar he began practice in Manchester, where he
has since continued to reside. His progress has
been rapid and continuous and his practice success-
ful. In politics he is a Republican and he has been
active in public affairs since he attained his twenty-
first year. In 1897 he was elected to the New
Hampshire House of Representatives, and served
as chairman of the committee on unfinished busi-
ness. In 1902, and again in 1904, he was an un-
successful candidate for the Republican nomination
for county solicitor for the county of Hillsboro.
In 1906 he was again a candidate, received the
nomination, was elected on November 6 of that
year and assumed the duties of the office in April,
1907. Mr. Boisvert is essentially a selfmade man,
having received nothing but what he has obtained
by his own efforts. He is thoroughly American,
having lived practically all his life in the United
States, and yet he may be considered the advanced
representative of the French Canadian in politics
and in law in New Hampshire. He is a bright, ani-
mated and logical speaker, and possesses the ad-
vantage of speaking both French and English with
equal fluency and correctness. His speeches have
always received favorable criticism from the press
and the public generally. In religious faith he is a
Roman Catholic, and a generous supporter of his
church. He is connected with various socieites.
He is a member of the Society of St. Jean Baptiste
d'Amerique, in which he has held the office of
doyen or elder ; member of the Association Canada-
American, of which he drew the first charter and in
which he has held nearly every office, and is the
general legal adviser; a member of the Queen City
Tent, No. 7, Knights of Maccabees, and Manesquo
Tribe, No. 28, Improved Order of Red Men. He
married. May 10, 189,3, in Manchester, Alexina
Amabilis Jeanclle, who was born at St. Thomas of
Picrreville, province of Quebec, Canada, April 10.
1S66, daughter of Francois and Adelaide (Belisle)
Jeanelle. She came with her parents to Manches-
ter when a child and was educated in the schools of
that city and at the Convent of St. Hyacinthe,
province of Quebec. The children of this union
are : Amelia A. E., William Edward, Clara Arline.
Robert Arthur (died young), Ida Robertine, George
Ernest and Theodore Robert.
This name which is also found
TURCOTTE with the variations Turcot. Tur-
cault and Dutaut, is one of the
very early names among the Canadian immigrant
settlers, and among the Turcots (as the name was
originally spelled) were soldiers. Indian fighters,
voyageurs and coureurs de bois. Abel Turcot,
miller, of Moulleron, diocese of Maillezais Paitou,
was born in 1631, and died Septcinber 17, 16S7. at
Ste. Famille, Isle of Orleans. He married Marie
Giroux, who was born in 1641, at La Fremblade,
diocese of La Rochelle Annis, and died February
25, 171.3. Their children were: Francois, Marie
Renee, Marie Madeleine, and Louis. From them
there are many descendants.
(I) Jean Turcotte was born at St. Pierre,
province of Quebec, in 1822, and died in 1862, aged
forty years He was always connected with enter-
prises of navigation and for years before his death
owned and operated a ship, which he used to con-
vey passengers across the St. Lawrence river be-
tween St. Pierre and Batiscau. He married Olympe
Gauvreau. and they were the parents of children :
Alfred, Rezaine. Evangeliste, Xerias, Joseph Octave,
Eloise and Arthur. Four others died young. In
1867 Mrs, Turcotte moved with her family to Man-
chester, New Hampshire, where the children now
reside. She died in 1894, aged seventy-three,
(II) Joseph Octave, fifth child and fourth son
of Jean and Olympe (Gauvreau) Turcotte, was
born at St. Pierre, province of Quebec, Febrtiary
18, 1858. His father died when Joseph was six
years of age. and the mother and a large family of
young children were left to make their own way in
the world as best they could. Three years later
Joseph came with his mother and the other chil-
dren to New Hampshire and settled in Manchester.
He received his primary education in the schools of
that city and at the age of sixteen went to Assomp-
tion. province of Quebec, where he attained a higher
institution of learning one year. He was ten years
old when he began work in the cotton mills, being
employed first in the Manchester Mill, then in the
stocking mill. At eighteen he became a clerk for
Barton & Company, dry goods merchants. A year
later he entered the employ of P. McDonough,
grocer, and three or four years later, clerked for
Gauvreau & Morency, and finally for McQuade
Brothers. Since 1885 he has been engaged in trade
for himself. Starting in a small way he has con-
stantly increased his stock, and now has a large
supply of goods, and does a good business as a
house furnisher, carrying all kinds of house furn-
ishing goods. He is a Catholic in religion and a
Republican in polities. He is a member of various
societies, among which are the Maccabees, the So-
ciety of St. John the Baptist and the St. Augustine
Society. He married (first). June 24, 18S3, Mary
Louise Monette. born in St. Hyacinthe, province of
Quebec. She died in 1900, and he married (sec-
ond) Corrine Cabana, of Manchester. The chil-
dren of the first wife now living are: Edward L. ;
Bcrthilda. married Napoleon J. Pichette, of Man-
chester, has one child : Alexie : Corona ; Regina.
Of the second wife: Leonard and Yvonne.
With the settlers of Nutfield. the
NEALLEY founders of Londonderry, came the
ancestor of the Nealleys of New
Hampshire and Maine. He was a man of energy
and sterling worth, and his descendants, now
numerous, partake of the characteristics that made
him a worthy man and a respected member of the
pioneer settlement.
(I) William Nealley was of a Scotch family,
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born near the city of Londonderry in the north of
Ireland, in the latter part of the seventeenth cen-
tury. He came to this country with his family in
1718, they being one of the one hundred and twenty
families who emigrated from Londonderry and vi-
cinity with their religious instructors, and came to
New England, landing at Boston, whence they set-
tled in several towns, the larger number founding
the present towns of Londonderry and Derry. It
is not known where William Nealley and his family
passed the few years preceding their settling in
Nottingham, about 1725, but probably in Boston,
and some of his children may have been born there.
William Nealley purchased a tract of land from
one of the Boston proprietors of that town, just
then beginning to be settled. This farm has always
been called the "Ledge Farm" from the fact that
the house stands on a ledge, about a mile below
Nottingham Square. One ledge is on a location
which commands a beautiful landscape view, and
the farm land is very fertile. The farm has always
remained in possession of his descendants since his
death, six generations. The name Nealley is
spelled in various ways in ancient documents, as
Nealy, Neely, Nealley, but the latter has long been
the established orthography. William Nealley was
a sturdy Scotch Presbyterian ; he was a man of
great energy and force of character ; he was not
given to office seeking or officeholding, but he did
his share in subduing the earth and making it yield
its bounty as the Good Book directs. He does not
appear to have had any trouble with the Indians, as
he is not on record as making any complaint ; but
it is quite probable that while he read his Bible and
had his morning prayer with the family he was
careful to have his trusty gun handy and kept his
powder dry. ready for any emergency. He died in
1760; while sitting in his chair before the broad,
open fire he suddenly expired without a struggle or
murmur. So far as known he had four sons and
one daughter. Three of them were: William, Mat-
thew and John, who married and had families.
(II) Matthew, son of 'William Nealley, was
born at Ballygarry in the county of Derry, Ireland.
He came with his parents to America, and grew up
in Nottingham. There is no mention of him except
his birth record earlier than the time of his mar-
riage. He was an industrious, prosperous and
worthy citizen, but does not appear to have held any
public offices. He brought up his children, as he
had been trained by his father, in the good old
Scotch Presbyterian ways of living and thinking
and walking in the ways of rectitude. The Bible
was their text book of schooling, and in its teach-
ings they were thoroughly trained by that mother
of whom so little is known. He married Margaret
Beverland. a native of Ireland, November 27, 1739.
The marriage ceremony took place in Portsmouth
and the marriage certificate was signed by Governor
Wentworth, so probably he performed the nuptial
ceremony as he was accustomed to do on many oc-
casions. It appears that they resided on the home-
stead farm at "The Ledge." They had two sons
and four daughters : Joseph, Andrew. Sarah. Jenny,
Peggy and Molly.
(Ill) Joseph, son of Matthew and Margaret
(Beverland) Nealley, was born in Nottingham about
1746. He resided on the northwest side of Nottingham
Square, a most beautiful spot which commands a
grand panoramic view from the White Mountains
to the Atlantic Ocean. He was a prominent citizen
of Nottingham. He held various offices, and was
a soldier in the Revolutionary army. At the be-
ginning of the war for independence, in August,
1776, he refused to sign the "Association Test"
when the selectmen canvassed the town, by order
of the committee of safety, to find out who were
willing to take up arms against King George III if
it became necessary to fight for their legal rights
under the British constitution. The Association
Test was a pledge indorsing the rebellion. Joseph
Nealley was a man who did his own thinking, in-
dependent of what others might say. Like many
others he did not then think that all hope of paci-
fication had expired; hence he manifested his sturdy
independence of opinion by refusing to sign the
test. Six months later, however, January 24, 1777,
the events that had happened had convinced him
that all hope of peace was lost without fighting for
it. He decided to fight, hence on that date he en-
listed in Captain Weare's company. Colonel Scam-
inell's regiment, for three years. During that term
he '.vas engr.ged in some of the hardest service of
the war. In 1777 he was in the battle of Ticon-
deroga, from" which he retreated with the New
Hampshire troops before the advance of the British
forces. On the retreat he participated in an en-
counter at Fort Ann, where the captain of his com-
pany, Richard Weare, was killed. Soon after this
he was engaged in the battle of Stillwater, follow-
ing which he was in the fiercest of the fight at
Bemis's Heights, and last of the series at Saratoga,
where Burgoyne surrendered the whole British
army of the north. Previous to this he had been
promoted from the ranks to sergeant of his com-
pany. Sergeant Nealley had the proud satisfaction
of seeing the haughty Burgoyne and his army march
past the American troops after the surrender.
Scarcely was the scene over when word was re-
ceived from Albany that General Clinton was ad-
vancing up the Hudson with a strong force, with
the design to capture that town. Sergeant Nealley
was one of the command which made a forced
march at and from Saratoga to Albany, and arrived
in season to prevent Clinton's proposed attack.
From Albany Sergeant Nealley went with his regi-
ment into the campaign under General Washington
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. One of the great
battles in which he was engaged was at Monmouth,
where the New Hampshire men fotight so bravely
and skillfully that they received the special praise of
General Washington. In 1779 he was w^ith General
John Sullivan in the great and hazardous campaign
against the Seneca Indians in New York. In 1780
he was with the army at West Point when Arnold
attempted to betray the post into the hands of the
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British. In 1781 he was in the southern campaign
with Colonel Scammell, and participated in the
siege of Yorktovvn, where he finally witnessed the
surrender of Cornwallis and the British army which
practically ended the war. Thus it appears that
Sergeant Nealley was present at the greatest crises
of the war, the surrender of Burgoyne and the sur-
render of Cornwallis. Sergeant Nealley's record
is without a flaw.
Sergeant Nealley married, in 1/71, Susannah
Bowdoin, who was born about 1752, daughter of
John and Huldah Bowdoin, of Exeter. John Bow-
doin, a descendant of Pierre Baudoin, a settler at
Casco Bay. Maine, in 1687, was a wealthy man. He
died in 1765, and the inventory of his estate shows
property valued at £7,717. He was of the same
family as was James Bowdoin, the distinguished
merchant of Boston and governor of Massachusetts,
who founded Bowdoin College. Joseph and Susan-
nah (Bowdoin) Nealley had six children, all of
whom married and left descendants. They were :
Jane, Matthew, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Ed-
ward. Jane married Greenleaf Cilley, son of Gen-
eral Joseph Cilley, of Revolutionary fame, and was
the mother of children, two of whom — Colonel
Joseph Cilley. of the War of 1812, and Hon. Jon-
athan Cilley, Congressman from Maine, had distin-
guished careers. The sons also had distinguished
descendants.
(IV) Benjamin Nealley, fourth son and fifth
child of Sergeant Joseph and Susannah (BowdoinO
Nealley, was bo-rn in Nottingham, April 4, 1782.
He resided in Nottingham, engaged in farming
until all his children had grown up and settled else-
where, when he finally removed to South Berwick,
Maine, where several of his sons resided, being well
established in business. He did not hold public
office of any kind, but was an industrious and suc-
cessful farmer, a good citizen in every way. and he
and his wife trained up a family of boys who were
successful in their various walks of life and were
good citizens. Benjamin Nealley married, in 1806,
Sally Ford, daughter of Captain Eben Ford, of
Nottingham. She was born October 22, 1784, at the
old Ford farm on the north side of Nottingham
Square, w-here her ancestors settled early in the
history of the town, coming there from Newbury,
Massachusetts. The children of this union were
eleven: Eben Ford, John Bowdoin, Benjamin
Mason. Andrew Jackson, Charles M. T., George
Kittredge, Sarah J., Susan P. and Sylvester, who
grew up, and Joseph and Margaret, the fourth and
ninth, who died young.
(V) Benjamin Mason, third son of Benjamin
and Sally (Ford) Nealley, was born October 3,
181 1, and died July 29, 1S88. He learned all about
farming, and when a young man went to Dover
and entered the employ of the Cocheco Manufactur-
ing Company, at the upper factory where the com-
pany first operated a mill. A few years later he
went to South Berwick, and engaged as overseer
of the card room in the cotton mills there, which
position he held until 1858, when he accepted an
oflfer to become overseer of the card room in the
mill of the Laconia Manufacturing Company, Bidde-
ford, Maine, in which position he worked ten years.
In 1868 he became agent of the jute mill in Salem,
Massachusetts, which position he held several years,
when his health failed and he retired from active
labors and went to live in Dover, where his sons
were already located in business. He continued to
reside in Dover until his death. In all of the posi-
tions which he occupied Mr. Nealley was an indus-
trious, efficient and faithful man. He was a mem-
ber of the Congregational Church in Biddeford.
When he went to Dover to reside, in his last years,
he became a member of the Washington Street Free
Baptist Church, and kept his connection there until
his death. He was a sincere Christian worker to
the end, ever ready to help in any good cause. In
his early years he was a Whig and remained such
until that party was dissolved and the Republican
party was formed, when he identified himself with
it and ever after voted that ticket. He married,
August 8, 1836, Abby Pray, born May i, 1817, and
died January 29, 1895, aged seventy-seven. She
was the daughter of James and Annie (Fogg)
Pray, whose ancestors were among the very earliest
settlers of Old Kittery, Maine. Nine children were
born of this union, five of whom died young, and
two sons and two daughters grew to maturity and
were married. They were: Benjamin Frank, A.
Josepliine, Mary Emma and John Haven. Benja-
min F. is mentioned later. A. Josephine, born Feb-
ruary 25. 1844. married. May 12, 1S63, Joseph G.
Deering, of Saco, Maine, one of the leading busi-
ness men and lujnber dealers in that city. Mary
Emma, born December 28, 1849, married, January
I, 1889, Robert H. Foss, of Chicago, Illinois, who
was for many years one of the prominent business
men of the city, but a native of New Hampshire.
Mr. Foss died in July, 1893, and his widow resides
in Dover with her brother, B. Frank. John H.,
born August 4, 1853, is a dry goods merchant, and
resides in Dover. He married. September 12, 1S79,
Emma Caroline Gushing, daughter of Thomas Har-
rison and Caroline (Torr) Gushing, of Dover. He
has been mayor of Dover, representative and state
senator.
(VI) Benjamin Frank, eldest son of Benjamin
M. and Abby (Pray) Nealley, was born in South
Berwick, Maine, October 24, 1839. He was edu-
cated in the common schools of his native town
and in South Berwick Academy. At the age of
eighteen he went to Dover, New Hampshire, and
engaged in the dry goods business, in which he con-
tinued thirty-six years with marked success. In
1893 he retired from that business, but has kept him-
self busy in various useful ways, as the public has
made liberal calls for him to serve it. In city
affairs he has been identified with many of its most
important enterprises. He was one of the directors
of the Dover National Bank for nine years, re-
signing in 1885. For several years he has been vice-
president of the Strafford Savings Bank, and has
been one of the trustees of that institution for more
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than a score of years. He has been a director in
the Strafford National Bank many years. When
the Masonic Building Association was organized
lie was made one of the trustees, which position he
lias held continuously to the present time, and when
it was voted to rebuild the Masonic Temple, after
its destruction by fire in March, 1896, he was placed
at th^ head of the building committee and superin-
tended the construction. In 1878 he assisted in
organizing the Dover Navigation Company, and
has been its secretary and treasurer since its in-
corporation. In 1883 he was representative from
Tiis ward in the general court, and served efficiently
on important committees. In 1887 he was state sen-
ator from the twenty-third district, and was one of
its influential members. In 1889 he was elected
mayor of Dover and was re-elected in 1890, and his
term of office was one of the most important in the
history of the city, as measures were devised and
steps taken which have had a far-reaching influence
for the benefit of the municipality. The old City
Hall was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1889,
which necessitated erecting a new one, resulting in
the fine structure which will be a credit to the com-
mittee as long as the building stands. Mayor
Nealley served on the committee until the edifice
was completed, in 1891. being the chairman from
the beginning to the end. He has been prominent
in Masonic circles since 1880. He is a member of
Strafford Lodge, No. 29, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons: Belknap Royal Arch Chapter. Orphan Coun-
cil. Royal and Select Masters, and St. Paul Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, all of Dover. He was
worshipful master of Strafford Lodge, 1886-87; and
eminent commander of St. Paul Commandery. 1900-
01. In Scottish Rite Masonry Mr. Nealley has re-
ceived thirty-two degrees, and is a member of the
Ineffable Grand Lodge of Perfection, and Grand
Council Princes of Jerusalem, both of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, Chapter of Rose Croix. Dover,
and of the New Hampshire Consistory at Nashua.
He is a member of the First Church (Congrega-
tional), also a member of the. New Hampshire So-
ciety of Sons of the American Revolution. He
served several years as member of the school com-
mittee, in which he rendered efficient service in
managing the financial affairs of the board as well
as in other ways. He was also city treasurer sev-
eral years. In all the years of his residence in
Dover. Mr. Nealley has been followed by the con-
stant favor of his fellow-citizens, who have repeat-
edly placed him in positions of trust, honor and
responsibility, and in no instance has he betrayed
the confidence placed in him.
Benjamin Frank Nealley married, August I,
1866, Harriet Ruth Colby, of Dover, ' daughter of
the Rev. John Taylor Gilman Colby, whose wife
was Cornelia Home, of Rochester. Mrs. Nealley
■was born May 14, 1846, and died October 12, 1903.
Both of her parents were descended from the first
settlers of New England. She was a woman of re-
markable gifts as a singer, and beautiful in personal
appearance, and was ever ready to lend a helping
hand to any good work. She was a member of the
First Church, member of Margery Sullivan Chap-
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of
the Northern Colonist Society, a local historical
society. She took a keen interest in historical re-
search, as regards local history, and read several
valuable papers before both the chapter and society.
This is one of the oldest French
LECLAIR names that has been brought to
America, and is traceable to a very
early period in the history of Canada and from that
region back to France. Its representatives in New
Hampshire, are men of worth, including the pastor
of the Holy Rosary Church, at Hooksett.
(I) The first of whom we have record is Jean
Leclair, "dit, La Frenaye," whose wife was Perrine
Marceau. They resided in the parish of Saint Nich-
olas, in the city of Nantes, France.
(II) Jean (2), son of Jean (l) and Perrine
(Marceau) Leclair, "dit Francoeur." was the
founder of the family in Canada in 1691. He set-
tled at LTslet, near Quebec, Canada, and thence re-
moved to Saint Ours, where the family has since
been continually represented. His wife was Made-
line Langlois.
(III) Alexis Leclair, son of Jean and Madeline
(Langlois) Leclair, was born at Saint Ours, 1749.
He married Maria Josette Ville, daughter of J.
Baptiste Ville.
(IV) Joseph Leclair, son of Alexis and Marie
Josette (Ville) Leclair, was born January 7, 1782,
at Saint Ours, province of Quebec, Canada. He
was married to Josette Gatineau, daughter of Jean
and Marie L. (Menard) Gatineau.
(V) Francois J., son of Joseph and Josette
(Gatineau) Leclair, was born October 10, 1S21,
at Saint Ours, and married Marie Ann Thibault,
daughter of Toussaint and Marie (Carpentier)
Thibault.
(VI) Aime Leclair, son of Francois J. and JMarie
Ann (Thibault) Leclair, was born in August, 1832,
at Saint Ours, and was reared on his father's farm.
After attaining his majority, in 1853, he came to
New Hampshire and located at Nashua. He was
one of the first to protect the integrity of his adop-
ted country, and enlisted July 23, 1861, in Company
E, Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer
Infantry. He was known in the army, by the name
Emery LaClair, which arose no doubt, from the
difficulty of pronouncing French names, among his
American comrades. He was mustered into ser-
vice, August 23, 1861, as a private, and re-enlisted
and was mustered in, February 15, 1864, serving
during the war of the Rebellion. On August 16,
1864, he was wounded at the battle of Deep Bottom,
Virginia, and was discharged on account of his in-
juries, December 31, 1864. This regiment endured
great hardships and very severe service, and Private
Leclair was never known to falter in his duty. The
following e.xtract from the history of Nashua de-
scribes some of the experiences of that regiment.
"Drewry's Bluff leads the entire line for fatalities.
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In this regiment were many Nashua men. No
less than fifteen were wounded and three killed.
The engagement following at Bermuda Hundred,
in front of Petersburg and Ware Bottom, were mul-
tiplied and resulted in severe losses, while at Deep
Bottom, Virginia, on August i6, the regiment was
nearly annihilated in repeated charges and counter
charges. Entering the fight with less than two
hundred men, it captured some three hundred pris-
oners with many of its men having but seven days
to serve, before being entitled to return to their
homes. Its killed, wounded and missing numbered
ten officers and eighty-three men." Mr. Leclair
passed away at his home at Nashua, March 7, iSSg.
After the war he was employed, for many years,
by the Nashua Manufacturing Company as plumber.
This was his occupation until his last illness. He
married, March 17, 1864, Marie Lambert, daughter
of Edward and Marie (Lusignan) Lambert. Ed-
ward Lambert was a member of the Third New
Hampshire Regiment, under General Burdette, in
the service about New Orleans, and rose to the
rank of sergeant. He died in Nashua, in the fall
of 1879. Aime Leclair and wife were the parents
of nine childen, four of whom are now living:
Aime, the eldest, resides at Hooksett; extended men-
tion of the second, Francis X., see forward ; Albina,
the third, is the second wife of Ernest F. Tessier of
Nashua, in which city the youngest, Mary, also re-
sides.
(VII) Reverend Francis Xavier Leclair, son of
Aime and Marie (.Lambert) Leclair, was born Sep-
tember 19, 1871, in Nashua, New Hampshire, where
he grew up, receiving his primary education in the
public and parochial schools of that city, subse-
quently attending college at Saint Hyacinth, in
Canada, and finishing his theological course at Saint
John's Seminary, Brighton, a suburb of Boston,
Massachusetts. He was ordained to the priesthood,
December ig, 1896, and his first labor in this calling
was in the capacity of assistant priest of Saint
Francis parish, Nashua. He was subsequently, for
two years, stationed at Lebanon, New Hampshire,
and went to Saint Aloysius, Nashua, in 1903. In
October, 1904, he was appointed in charge of the
Holy Rosary parish at Hooksett, where he has since
remained and is also in charge of the mission at
Pittsfield, New Hampshire. In each of these charges,
about seventy-tive families are included and a paro-
chial school is maintained at Hooksett, in which
two teachers are employed. Father Leclair is an
earnest worker in his field of labor and is highly
respected by the citizens of Hooksett, and loved
and venerated by his parishioners. He is a culti-
vated gentleman, a genial companion and a most
excellent citizen of the commonwealth, cherishing
the warmest setiments of American patriotism in
common with those whose ancestors were "to the
manner born."
This is among the best names of early
PATTEN New Hampshire, and is intimately as-
sociated with the history of ancient
Chester, in connection with several of the present
day towns that originally formed it. It is of Scotch
origin, and has been borne by men noted for the
strong virtues and characteristics of the race.
Among the most notable was the Rev. Moses Pat-
ten, whose death at Hooksett was widely lamented
and which took from earth one of its best and
ablest men. A theologian and student, he left an
impress upon the life of his time, and his treatise
on infant baptism is destined to be an authority
among theologians for many generations to come.
(I) The first of the name in this country was
Deacon Robert Patten, who came from the vicinity
of Edinburgh, Scotland, and settled in Boston about
1725. He was a stone mason and was employed
by the colonial government upon the fortifications
of Boston Harbor. He had several children born
in Boston. In 1739-40 he moved to Exeter, New
Hampshire, and soon after to "'Long Meadows," in
that part of Chester which is now Auburn. July
7, 1741, he purchased from Samuel Emerson, Lot
No. 79, of the second part of the second division of
land in Chester, and lived upon it until his death
in 1754. He had three sons, Thomas, John and
Robert, the last named being the son of the second
wife.
(II) Thomas, eldest son of Deacon Robert Pat-
ten, was born about 1725 in Boston, on what is now
known as Common street, and attended school in
that city on Pemberton Hill. In 1740 he went with
his father to Exeter, and later to Auburn. In 1752
he married Mary, daughter of David McClure, and
two years later he purchased from McClure the
west half of the latter's farm, which was Lot No.
30, in the same division as his father's farm, being
in what is now Candia. Here his wife died in 1815,
and he in 1816, at the age of ninety-one years. Their
children were : Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, Jean,
Martha, Sarah, Richard, Margaret. Hannah, Ruth,
Samuel and Moses.
(III) Moses, youngest child and fourth son of
Thomas (2) and Mary (McClure) Patten, lived on
the paternal homestead in Candia. He married
Hannah, daughter of Ephraim Eaton (see Eaton,
V).
(IV) Rev. Moses, son of Moses and Hannah
(Eaton) Patten, was born July 4, 1824, in Candia,
and grew up on the paternal farm. He was bred
in the New England rule of judicious use of time,
as of other things, and applied himself to study
with the same diligence which characterized his
attention to farm duties. He attended a high. school
and Pembroke Academy, and was graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1850. Pursuing a thorough
course of preparation for the gospel ministry, he
was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary
in 1855. After supplying several congregations, he
was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational
Church and in the pastorate at Townsend, Massa-
chusetts, June 7, i860. He remained three years
at Townsend, and was subsequently in charge at
Plympton, West Dracut and Carlisle, in the same
state. His health was never rugged and he was ob-
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liged, during this period, to take sea voyages and
rests to recuperate his strength. He was in charge
of parishes at Greensboro, Rochester, Ripton and
Danby, Vermont, and retired from the ministry in
1888, because his health would not permit contin-
uous labor as a pastor. He continued to preach
occasionally, as opportunity offered, or his strength
would permit, until 1900. From the time of his
retirement he resided in Hooksett, New Hampshire,
and devoted much of his time to the preparation
of a work on infant baptism. His deep study and
steady application doubtless shortened his life and
robbed the world of a most useful and beloved man.
The failure of his strength almost prevented the
completion of his treatise, which was a work very
dear to his heart, and he was barely able to com-
plete its publication, being taken away before he
could make arrangements for its circulation. It is
an exhaustive work, showing deep research and
the work of a master mind. No doubt it will find
its way into theological schools in time and will be
a valued authority, thus continuing the work of this
good man in the world. During the last five years
of life he was an invalid and suffered much but
without complaining. He was a most companion-
able man, highly esteemed by his fellow clergy,
as well as by all who were priviledged to know him.
A contemporary says of him : "He was a fine Bible
scholar, conservative in his theology, a keen critic
and a clear thinker." Mr. Patten married (first),
1862, Lydia (Eames) Parsons, a widow who died
June I, 1884, in Ripton, Vermont. She was the
mother of three children: Edith Parsons, now the
wife of Edward Green, residing at Lancaster, IMas-
sachusetts; Mary Elizabeth and Dana Albee Patten,
the latter a citizen of Brooklyn, Greater New York.
The second daughter died in 1902, unmarried. In
August, 1885, Mr. Patten married (second), Lydia
S. Goss, widow of Joseph Towle Goss of Hook-
sett, (q. v.), and daughter of Simeon and Lydia
(Bailey) Stearns (see Stearns, VI). She was the
companion and stay of his last years, and cherishes
his memory as that of a noble and kind man.
The influx of Scotch-Irish immigrants
HOGG into New England in 1718 was followed
for years afterwards by occasional
parties and individuals, friends of the earlier set-
tles; among these latter was Robert Hogg, the sub-
ject of the next paragraph.
(I) Robert, son of James Hogg, was born in
the North of Ireland, February 25, 1732, and came
to America at the age of twenty-two, and resided
for some time in Londonderry, where his elder chil-
dren were born. In 1764 he settled in New Boston
and bought three lots of land, including the farms
of Solomon and Israel Dodge and John Cochran,
and built his house on the hill back of Solomon
Dodge's house, and there he and his wife died.
Both were members of the Presbyterian Church,
and were highly esteemed for their consistent piety.
Her maiden name was Margaret Gregg; her parents
were Samuel and Mary (Moor) Gregg, of London-
derry. Mrs. Hogg died of consumption at the age
of fifty-five or fifty-six. Mr. Hogg died January 23,
179s. aged sixty-three. They had thirteen children,
some of whom died young.
(II) Abner, son of Robert and Margaret
(Gregg) Hogg, was born in Londonderry, Febru-
ary 15, 1759, and went with his parents to New
Boston when he was five years old. He remained
with his father until 1776, and then enlisted in the
Revolutionary army, his brother James having been
in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, I77S- Abner
enlisted in June, 1776, under Captain Barnes, of
Lyndeborough, and went to Ticonderoga in the
division under General Horatio Gates, and returned
in December. The next spring he enlisted for three
years in Captain Livermore's company, in the Third
New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by Colonel
Alexander Scamn-.el, went to the vicinity of Ticon-
deroga and suffered greatly from sickness and fre-
quent skirmishes with the enemy, in one of which
he lost everything but his life. He was in the battle
of Saratoga and witnessed the surrender of Bur-
goyne. Subsequently he joined Washington's army
near Philadelphia, and took part in many of those
signal conflicts that resulted in the independence of
the colonies. He returned home in May, 1780, after
having taken part in ten battles. He held the office
of sergeant two years, and from March, 1831, until
his death he drew a pension. After his marriage he
settled on a farm where he passed the remainder of
his life. He was chosen second lieutenant by the
town in 1787, all military, like civil, officers, at that
time being chosen by the voters of the town at their
legal meetings. In the years 1844 and 1845 he was
elected to represent the town in the legislature,
which he did with credit to himself, though more
than eighty-five years old. For many years he was
a member of the Presbyterian Church, but in 1805
he united with the Baptists. He possessed a firm
constitution, and retained both physical and intel-
lectual powers to a remarkable degree, unimpaired
even to the last year of his life. He rendered much
valuable aid to the historian of New Boston in the
preparation of the sketches of the early settlers of
that town. He died October 16, 1856, aged ninety-
seven years eight months and one day.
He married, October 21, 1784, Rosanah person,
whose mother was born in 1718, during a passage
across the Atlantic to America. The children of
this union were: Sarah F., Robert, Hannah (died
young), Flannah, Jennet F. and Rebecca. Sarah
the eldest child, married David Tewksbury, and
lived in New Boston (See Tewksbury II). Robert
took, as did some of his brothers, the name of
Bently.
From several unrelated ancestors
EDMUNDS who were early settlers in New
England a numerous progeny of
Edmundses have sprung, whose surnames has been
written in various forms. Edmonds, Edmunds, Ed-
mands, being some of them. Among the distin-
guished men of the name are an English writer of
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the time of Queen Elizabetli and James, an Ameri-
can painter, an American jurist, and an American
senator. In the Revolutionary war were seven men
who spelled their name Edmond ; fifteen who spelled
it Edmonds ; one, Edmun ; two who spelled it Ed-
mund; and twenty who spelled their name with
the final "s," Edmunds. The vital records of New
Hampshire afford little information concerning the
name.
(I) The first mention in the New Hampshire
archives is Lieutenant Edward Edmonds, of Candia,
New Hampshire, who was married in that town
December 7, 1790, by Rev. Jesse Remington, to
Molly Bagley. Their children were : Jacob Sar-
gent, Polly, John, Sally and Edward.
(H) Edward (2), youngest child of Lieutenant
Edward (i) and Molly (Bagley) Edmonds, was
born November 5, 1802, in Candia, and resided in
Chichester, New Hampshire, where he was a farmer
and innkeeper throughout his life. He was married
in Chichester, December 28, 1820, by Rev. Josiah
Carpenter to Betsey Lane, and they were the parents
of a large family ; five children grew to maturity :
Jefferson, Nathaniel, whose sketch follows ; Eben-
ezer ; Sarah Ann and Susan.
(IH) Nathaniel Edmunds, son of Edward and
Betsey (Lane) Edmunds, was born in Chichester,
and died in the same town. He was a farmer. He
married Hannah Goss, and the children of this
union were : Edward S., of Suncook, New Hamp-
shire. Ida Roxie, wife of William Fowler. Noah,
a farmer of Chichester. Frank M., who is mentioned
below. Anson, a farmer in Chichester.
(IV) Frank Mack Edmunds, fourth child and
third son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Goss) Ed-
munds, was born in Chichester, October 15, 1852,
and educated in the common schools. He worked
at carpentering about home for a time and about
1873 removed to Franklin, where he continued in
the same employment for about three years longer.
For the next twelve years he had charge of the
wood and iron repairs of the Franklin Paper Com-
pany. He next became a retail vendor of wood and
coal, in which business he has been successfully
engaged. In the fall of 1904 he organized the Mer-
rimack Coal & Fuel Company, of which he is the
principal owner. He married, in Franklin Falls,
October 14, 1875, Mary Scribner born in Salisbury,
May 24, 1855, daughter of Lowell and Charlotte
(Bean) Scribner of Salisbury. They have had two
children: Edith Frances, deceased wife of Arthur
Chase ; and Arthur Lowell, graduate, 1907 of the
Chicago Veterinary College, and now practicing in
Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he and his
wife are members of the Order of Pilgrim Fathers,
a fraternal insurance society, and New England
Order of Protection.
France and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. It is
said that these three were the younger brothers of
a marquis, and that the original family name was
Lorraine.
(II) John, son of John Loring, the immigrant
ancestor, was living in Methuen, Massachusetts,
about the year 1797 when he immigrated to New
Hampshire and settled in Francestown. Three years
later he removed to New Boston, where he died
December 29, 1804, aged thirty-si.x years. He mar-
ried Johanna Morse, a native of Methuen, and a
sister of Jacob Morse, of Lyndeboro and Frances-
town. She died in Lyndeboro, December I, 1848,
aged eighty years. Their children were : John, born
in Methuen, Massachusetts, July S, 1793. Hannah,
born in Methuen. Thomas, born in Methuen.
Sally, born in Francestown. Betsy, born in Fran-
cestown. Silas, born in New Boston.
(III) John, son of John and Johanna (Morse)
Loring, born in Methuen, July 14, 1792, died in New
Boston March 24, 1868. His boyhood was spent
with the family of Joseph Kingsbury, of Frances-
town, and he was afterward employed by Daniel
Fuller for nine years, upon his quarry. He enlisted
in the war of 1812, being the first man from his
town to offer his services in that war. He knew
much of the early history of the towns in his vicin-
ity. He married Desire Fuller, daughter of Daniel
Fuller, of Francestown, December 30, 1821. She
was born September 18, 1802, and died September
24, 1861. Their children were: Lorinda, born Oc-
tober 22, 1823. John Eaton, born July 18, 1825,
died on the Pacific Ocean on board the old "Golden
Gate," April 11, 1853. Daniel Fuller, born July 10,
1827, died March 11, 1838. Aaron Fuller, born
August 6, 1829, died August 6, 1854, in Sonora,
California. Desire Abigail, born October 27, 1832,
wife of James Paige Todd. (See Todd). George
Fuller, born June 8, 1834. Sarah Elizabeth, born
July 14, 1838, died April 8, 1845. Catherine Hannah,
born July 14, 1841.
The Lorings of Tilassachusetts and
LORING. New Hampshire descend from three
brothers, John, David and Solomon,
who emigrated from the province of Lorraine, in
Among the French families long
THERIAULT resident in the Province of Que-
bec which now have representa-
tives in New Hampshire, is that of Theriault.
(I) Jean Theriault, the descendant of a long
line of French-Canadian ancestors, born in St. Jac-
ques, Province of Quebec, Canada, June, 1801, died
in 1879, was a stone mason by trade, and resided at
St. Gabriel of Brandon, and later at Joliette. He
married Adele Houle, and they were the parents of
five children : Jean, Constance, Julienne, Delphine,
and Elie, who is next mentioned.
(II) Elie, second son and fifth child of Jean
and Adele (Houle) Theriault, was born in St.
Gabriel of Brandon, Province of Quebec, Canada,
July 22, 1832, and died October 11, 1899. He was
an upright and influential citizen, a prosperous tin-
smith and hardware merchant, and was several times
alderman of Joliette. He married Louise Morin,
born in St. Paul de Joliette, in 1839, died at Joliette,
October 6, 1901, daughter of France and Marie
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(La Fortune) Morin. They were the parents of
thirteen children : Marie Louise, Philomene, Ce-
lima, Joseph, Narcisse. Frank, Edward, Elise, Phil-
ias, Julia, Adelard, Alfred and Gaspard.
(Ill) Joseph Theriault, M. D., eldest son and
fourth child of Elie and Louise (Morin) Theriault,
was born in Joliette, Province of Quebec, Canada,
March 9, i860. He received his primary education
in the common schools of Joliette, then attended
Joliette College, and subsequently took the course
in medicine in The Montreal School of Medicine
and Surgery (now a department of Laval Univer-
sity), from which he graduated in 1883. He first
located at Ishpeming, Michigan, where he practiced
one year, and then removed to Lake Linden, in the
same state, where he practiced successfully the next
six years. In 1889 he removed to Laconia, New
Hampshire, where he practiced seven years, and
then, 1896, removed to Concord, where he is the
only French physician in a population of one thou-
sand, five hundred French-Canadians. Dr. Ther-
iault is a man of good judgment, an enterprising,
skillful, and successful physician, a good citizen and
an entertaining conversationalist. He is a member
of the American Medical Association, and New
Hampshire Medical Society. He is a popular leader
among his countrymen, and was a member of thi?
New Hampshire legislature from Laconia in 1893.
He is a Democrat of the liberal type, and an ad-
mirer of President Roosevelt. Among the fraternal
orders of which he is a member are the following :
French-Canadian Association, Franco-American
Foresters, and Canadian Literary Circle. He mar-
ried, in Laconia, in 1895, Mary Foy, daughter of
Patrick and Angcle (Bulduc) Foy, the former a
native of Ireland, and the latter of St. Marie de la
Beauce, Province of Quebec, Canada. They have
two daughters, Yvonne and Edwina.
The Huses of New Hampshire are all
HUSE descended from an earlier Massachusetts
branch and the still older Welsh family
of the same name, which is. one of great antiquity in
that country. The progenitors of the New Hamp-
shire branches were three brothers who came from
Amesbury, Massachusetts, soon after the Revolu-
tion and settled in the town of Sanbornton. Each
of them served with credit in the war then just
ended, and each in his new place of abode made
for himself a comfortable home, a good name, and
raised a family.
(I) Nathan Huse, with whom this sketch begins,
was born about 1716 and for many years was a
physician in the west parish of Amesbury. He died
April 23, 1809, being then in his ninety-third year.
He marred Rachel Sargent, who bore him eleven
children : Sargent, Elizabeth, Hannah, Nathan, Jo-
seph, Ebenezer, Rachel, Sarah, John, William and
Nathan (the elder child of that name having died
young).
(II) William, son of Dr. Nathan and Rachel
(Sargent) Huse, was born in Amesbury. Massa-
chusetts, August 22, 1760, and died in Waterbury,
Vermont, in 1838 or '39. Like his brothers he
served in the Revolution and soon afterward came
to the town last mentioned, locating first on lot 51
of the first division, but afterward settling on the
old Mountain road next to the New Hampton line, ,
where he was the first settler. There all of his chil-
dren except the eldest were born. He was a devout
member of the Congregational Church, having beer»
received in full communion September 24, 1786.
On the same day his wife took the covenant and was
baptized and received communion. The town rec-
ords in Epping show that William Huse married
Rachel Bryer (Brier), July 18, 1780. After living
many years in Sanbornton he removed to Orange,
Vermont, later returned to Sanbornton, but event-
ually went back to Vermont with one of his sons
and died in Waterbury. William and Rachel
(Brier) Huse had children: Rachel, Joseph, Nathan,
Hannah, Theophilus N., Mercy, William, Sarah,.
Ebenezer, Mary and Abigail.
(III) Joseph, second child and eldest son of
William and Rachel (Brier) Huse, was born March
2, 1783, in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and died in
Waterbury, Vermont, January 24, 1856. For many
years he was proprietor of Huse's mills at North-
Sanbornton, and lived there until 1835, when he re-
moved to Waterbury. He married, November 5, 1805,
Sarah Emery, born August 26, 1782, died June 27,
1855, daughter of Josiah and Rebecca (Woodman)
Emery, and a descendant of John Emery, of Rom-
sey, England, who was one of the first settlers in
Newbury, Massachusetts (1635). Joseph and Sarah
(Emery) Huse had five children: Rachel, Daniel
Morrison, William Brier, Woodman Emery and
Ebenezer B. Huse.
(IV) Daniel Morrison, second child and eldest
son of Joseph and Sarah (Emery) Huse, was born
December 8, 1808, and was a farmer in Thornton,
New Hampshire, until 1847, afterward in Sanborn-
ton and removed thence to Northfield, New Hamp-
shire, in 1880. He married, November 25, 1830,
Eliza Dudley, born June 16, 1807, daughter of Sam-
uel C. and Mercy (Thorn) Dudley, and a descend-
ant of Captain Roger Dudley, of England, whose
son, Thomas Dudley, was the second governor of
the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Children of Dan-
iel Morrison and Eliza (Dudley) Huse: Lovina A.,
Sarah Emily, married Benjamin Ward Plummer,
see Plummer, VII, and Ann Eliza Huse.
This name is not a common one in
COLLIS New England, but it was probably-
brought to America in a later emigra-
tion than that of the Puritans. Only one man of the
name appears in the Massachusetts war roll. There
were and are families of the name in New Jersey.
It appears only once in the seven books of Connec-
ticut marriages. It has, however, borne an honor-
able part in the present day civilization.
(I) The first that we find on record was John
Collis, who with his wife Lois lived in South Brim-
field, Massachusetts, several years previous to 1778.
This town was a parish of Brimfield from 1762 until
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1775. '.vhcii it was incorporated as a separate town,
and tliis was subsequently divided and the towns of
Wales and Holland were created from it. In the
Revolution John Collis was a soldier credited to
South Brimfield. He enlisted May 13, 1775, as a
private in Captain Amos Waldrich's company of
Colonel David Brewer's ninth regiment of Massa-
chusetts troops. The muster rolls show that his
services at this time cover two months and twenty-
three days. He enlisted, September 26, 1777, in
Captain Reuben Munn's company of Colonel Elisha
Porter's regiment, and was discharged in October
following, having served seventeen days, travel in-
cluded, in the northern department. He was also
with the Massachusetts troops detached to General
Gates' army in New York and was credited with
thirty days service. He participated in the siege of
Boston and the battle of Bunker Hill, and was at
Ticonderoga in 1777. In 1778 he removed from
South Brimfield to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and
it is probable that he removed thence after 1796
to Western, now Warren. Massachusetts. Five chil-
dren were born to him in South Brimfield and six
in Sturbridge, namely: Solomon, Thankful, Jonas,
Benjamin. John. Olive, James, Joseph. Rhoda,
Susanna and Jonathan.
(II) Jonathan, youngest of the eleven children of
John and Lois Collis, was born October 16, 1790, in
Sturbridge, and resided in Brimfield, ;Massachusetts,
where he died October 27, 1868. He was a farmer,
but had lived in Herkimer county, New York, and
later returned to IMassachusetts, and only one child
was born in Herkimer county. He married, Novem-
ber I, 1810, Phebe Parker, who died May 6. 1864.
The children of Jonathan and Phebe (Parker) Col-
lis were : Luther, born July 23, 1811, married April 5,
1837, Delina Converse. Maranda, died young.
Louisa, married Lemuel Moores. Joseph, born July
23, 1717, married Lydia Howard. John, married
Cyntha Ciloway. Charles married Martha Belknap.
Ann. died unmarried. Silas, born October 26, 1825.
Cyntha, married George Smith, of Amherst. Mass-
achusetts. Mary, died young.
(III) Luther, son and eldest child of Jonathan
(2) and Phebe (Parker) Collis, was born in the
town of Herkimer, New York, July 23, 181 1, and
by principal occupation was a farmer, although he
spent much time in teaching school during the early
part of his life in the towns of Brimfield and Pal-
mer, Massachusetts. His first wife, whom he mar-
ried April 5, 1837, was Delina Converse. She died
December 17, i860. He married, (second)) Decem-
ber 30, 1863, Elizabeth Palmer. His children, all by
his first marriage, were as follows : Luther W., born
January 11, 1838, married November, 1858, Lemira
Potter, who died .August 6, 1898. James M., born
July 3, 1839, died January 19, 1843. Henry H-., born
July 17, 1841, married (first) March 8, 1876, Estella
Fermin and (second), March 23, 1880, Dorcas Fer-
min. Marcus M., born October 19, 1843, married
Josephine Griswold. Mary A. D., born July 29, 1846,
married, November 22, 1866, Willard Nelson. Sarah
A., born October 25, 1848, married, September 4,
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1873 Franklin Royce. Charles H., born June 25,
1851, married. May i, 1872, Abbey Morse. Martha
M., born February s, 1854.
(IV) Marcus Morton, fourth child and fourth
son of Luther and Delina (Converse) Collis, was
born in Weare, Massachusetts, October 19, 1843.
and was a boy when his parents removed to Palmer,
Massachusetts. He lived at home on the farm and
went to school until he was seventeen years, and
early during the Civil war enlisted as private in
Company H, Twenty-first Massachusetts Infantry,
and from that time until his muster out in 1865 was
constantly on duty or, still worse, a prisoner at An-
dersonville, Georgia, or Florence, South Carolina.
A complete narrative of his army services and ex-
periences belongs to a volume, and in this place
mention can be made only of some of the more im-
portant battles in which he took part with his reg-
iment. After muster-in the Twenty-first went to
Annapolis, Maryland, and was assigned to guard
and garrison duty, but a little later its fighting began.
He was with Burnside's expedition to North Car-
olina, and was in battle at Roanoke Island, New-
berne and Camden, then at Newport News, where
the regiment was attached to the Ninth Army Corps.
After that he fought at Fredericksburg, Chantilly,
Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam,
Bull's Gap, Blue Springs, Campbell Station and also
took part with his regiment in the siege of Knox-
ville. On May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Mr. Col-
lis was captured with many of his comrades and
from that time was a prisoner at Andersonville and
Florence until February 26, 1865, when he was re-
leased on parole. On May 4 following, he returned
to what was left of his regiment and found it con-
solidated with the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts In-
fantry; and before his service was ended the regi-
ment last mentioned was compelled to consolidate
with the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts in order to main-
tain its numerical strength.
Mr. Collis was mustered out of service with his
regiment at Readville, Massachusetts, July 12, 1865.
He then went to Palmer, Massachusetts, worked
there for a time, then learned the trade of carpenter
and millwright and afterward worked in Boston.
In 1873 he came to Portsmouth and engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits until i8g6. In 1895 he was appointed
deputy sheriff and jailer of Rockingham county,
under Sheriff Weston, whom he succeeded in office
in 1901. This office he still holds. For many years
Mr. Collis has been proininently identified with
various fraternal organizations and orders. He is
a Templar JNIason, an Odd Fellow, past department
commander of the Grand Army of the Republic,
department of New Hampshire, a Son of the Rev-
olution, and a Granger. He married, January 21,
1S70, Josephine Griswold, daughter of Mr. George
Griswold, of Granby, Connecticut, and has two chil-
dren, Grace A., born April 10, 1871, at Boston,
married Clifton Stewart Humphreys, April 30, 1894;
they have three children : Mildred Josephine, born
April 9, 1895 ; Grace Stewart, born November 30,
1896; and Philip Morton, born October 3. 1898, all
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born at Madison, Maine, where they now live.
George L. Collis.
(V) George L., only son of Marcus M. and Jo-
sephine (Griswold) Collis, was born July i6, 1S73,
and received his education in public schools in Ports-
mouth. For twelve years he was a clerk in his
father's store, and afterward was a student in Bos-
ton University Law School. In 1902 he was ap-
pointed deputy sheriff of Rockingham county. New
Hampshire, and is now serving in that capacity. He
married, June 8, 1904, Carrie L. Brown, of Rye,
New Hampshire.
The early history of this noted New
H.ARVELL Hampshire family is not easily dis-
covered from existing records and
genealogical references to the surname are very few.
The history of Amherst, New Hampshire, gives the
name of John Harvell, who was born in 1736 and
died in 1S21, and furnishes a reasonably complete
record of his children and some others of his de-
scendants, but nothing of his parentage and the
earlier generations of the family in New England.
The descendants of John Harvell are quite numer-
ous in Hillsborough county, and others of them
are scattered throughout the east.
James Harvell was a brother of John Harvell,
but whether older or younger is not known. The
"History of Plymouth" mentions James Harvell as
one of a family prominent in the early annals of
Litchfield, in Hillsborough county, and the year of
his removal to Plymouth is given in 1767. He was
an intelligent and honored man, selectman of
Plymouth in 1774-75-76; coroner of Grafton county
by appointment dated January 9, 1789; one of the
committee of safety in 1775 and grand juror from
Plymouth in 1805.
James Harvell, of Plymouth, died December 13,
1819. He married (first) Mary Snow, May 10,
1770, daughter of Joseph Snow. Married (second),
December 23, 1784, Anna Flagg. Married (third),
in Rumney. New Hampshire, November 26, 1794,
Mary Morey, of Rumney. In the written papers
used in connection with the settlement of his estate
appear the names of four "children: Mary (or
Polly), who married (first) James Keyes, and (sec-
ond) Johnson. Betsey, married
Hough. Gershom and Esther. The mention of
only these names is not conclusive evidence that
James Haiwell had no other children and there is
good reason for the belief that he had a son James,
who is known to have lived in Plymouth at a time
contemporary with that of the children whose names
have been mentioned, although the scene of his life
was chiefly laid in the province of Quebec in
Canada.
(I) James Harvell lived at one time in Plym-
outh. New Hampshire, and removed from that town
to Compton, Canada. Of his early life little is
known, but it is certain that he was a person of
superior education and attainments, and family
tradition has it that he was a school teacher of con-
sideraldc note ; and upon the same authority it is be-
lieved that he came of a military family, as his bear-
ing indicated an association with men in that arm
of the service. During his residence in Canada he
was for a number of years connected with the
militia of the province, and when the so-called
Patriot war was in progress (1838) he held a cap-
tain's commission. Later he was commissioned
major and was so known and addressed. He also
was invested with the title and office of Esquire, in-
dicating a connection with the judicial branch of
government and a familiarity with the laws of the
province and their administration. In private life
he was a farmer, and his home in Compton was on
what is known as Sleeper hill. His wife before
marriage was Pettie Spafford, and she bore her hus-
band four children: John W., born (probably) in
July, 1818, and died in Coadicook, August 28, 1906.
Charles, who removed when a young man to New
York. He entered the United States Military
Academy at West Point and afterward served in
the Union army during the Civil war. He married
and his family now lives in New Jersey. Spafford.
whose business life was spent in the cities of Boston
and New York, and who died of fever in a Boston
hospital. Amanda, who died in childhood.
(II) John W.. eldest child and son of Major
James and Pettie (Spafford) Harvell, was a school
teacher during the earlier part of his life and later
became proprietor of a paint shop and business. He
retired from active pursuits several years before
his death, .-^bout 1845 he married Sarah Ann
Jameson, daughter of William and Nancy Margaret
(.Armstrong) Jameson, and had four children:
I. Mary, died at the age of seven years. 2. James,
a skilled mechanic, who died unmarried .August 15,
1895. In April, 1875, he went to California and
from there to Gold Hill, Nevada, where he worked
at his trade in connection with the operation of the
famous Belcher mine. After about five years in
that region he returned to New Hampshire and
lived in Laconia imtil about 1883 and again went
west, locating in Arizona. After something like a
year and a half in that territory he came back to
Laconia, much broken in health, and after recovery
worked as a machinist in the car shops until a short
time before his death. Mr. Harvell was a Mason,
having become a craftsman in Coadicook, province
of Quebec, in 1874. ^nd afterward demitted to the
lodge in Gold Hill. Nevada. He also was a Knight
of Pythias. 3. Clara A. (twin), born in Compton,
province of Quebec, December 6, 1856, married. Oc-
tober 24, 1894, Stephen Coffran Robinson (See
Robinson III), of Laconia, New Hampshire, who
died August 10, 1905. 4. Charles A. (twin), born
in Compton. province of Quebec, December
6, 1856, now lives in Laconia. Mr. Harvell has
been 3 member of the Laconia police force more
than ten years and since September, 1906, has been
assistant marshal. He married Emma Burbank, of
Upper Bartlett, New Hampshire. Four children
have been born of this marriage : Ralph, born Feb-
ruary, 1805 : child, died in extreme infancy ; Ruth,
born 1899: Eddie, born 1903. died February. 1905.
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The origin of this name is traced
riASELTON to the Hazelton (now town)
where hazel bushes grew. This
was in the early history of England. Hazelton was
sometimes added to the single name of some citizen
of that place, or some person who had come from
there, as a distinction, and finally became fi.xed as
the surname of the family. The same license has
been taken with the orthography of this name that
was common in centuries past, and it is spelled
Hazelton, Hazleton, Haseltine, Hesselton, Hezzle-
ton, and in divers other ways. The forbears of
the race came to Massachusetts in 1637, and founded
a family which has an enviable record for the piety
and sturdy probity of its members.
(I) The immigrant ancestor, John Haselton, is
first found in Bradford. Massachusetts. Late in life
he removed to Haverhill, same colony. While re-
siding in Bradford, he gave an acre of land for the
site of the meeting-house in that town. He mar-
ried Joan Auter, who died July 17, i6g8. having
survived her husband more than seven years. He
passed away December 23, 1690, in Haverhill. Their
children were : Samuel. Mary, Deacon John, and
Nathaniel. (John and descendants receive extended
mention in this article).
(H) Lieutenant Samuel, eldest son of John
and Joan (Auter) Haselton, was born February 20.
1646, and died August 10, 1717, in his seventy-
second year. He lived on the paternal homestead
in Bradford, and was an ardent member of the
church in that town. He married, in Haverhill,
December 28, 1670, Deborah Cooper, of Rowley,
born August' 30, 1650. in that town, daughter of
Peter and Emma Cooper. Their children were:
Deborah, Elizabeth, Samuel, John, Nathaniel, died
young: Hepsebah and Nathaniel.
(HI) Samuel (2), eldest son and third child
of Lieutenant Samuel (i) and Deborah (Cooper)
Haselton. was born May 30, 1676, in Bradford. He
married, June 10, 1701. at Newbury, Emma Kent,
daughter of John and Sarah (Woodman) Kent.
She was born April 20, 1677, and died September 7,
I7.35> in Tewksbury. She was admitted to the
church in Bradford in 1711, and her husband the
following year. In 1723 they removed to Billerica,
and lived in that part of the town which is now
Tevv-ksbury, where he died May 29, 1760. His chil-
dren were : Judith. Sarah, Hannah. Stephen, Emma,
Samuel. Tabitha, Rebecca and Deborah.
(IV) Stephen, eldest son and third child of
Samuel (2) and Emma (Kent) Haselton, was born
January 28, 1707, in Bradford, and in manhood set-
tled in the town of HoUis, New Hampshire, where
he died in 1801. He was twice married, and his
first wife was the mother of the .son, mentioned in
the succeeding paragraph.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Stephen Haselton,
was born 1735, in Hollis, and removed to Hebron,
New Hampshire, where he died January, 1812. He
married (first) Mary Farley, and (second) Mary
Graves, who died December 12, 1801, and both are
buried in the private cemetery on his farm in
Hebron. The children by the first wife were: Ben-
jamin. Mary, Rebecca, Betsey, Samuel, Sally, Lucy,
Johanna and Daniel.
(VI) Benjamin, eldest child of Samuel (3) and
Mary (Farley) Haselton, was born February 25,
1762, in Hollis, and died October 8, 1812, in Hebron.
He married, , November 20, 1788, Deborah Cross,
born 1761. in Methuen, Massachusetts, and they
had the following children: Benjamin, Deborah, died
young; Mary, William. David, Jonathan and Deb-
orah.
(VII) William, second son and fourth child
of Benjamin and Deborah (Cross) Haselton, was
born June 20, 1794, in Hebron, New Hampshire,
and died December 3I, 1838, in Dorchester, same
state, where he was a shoemaker. He enlisted as
a soldier in the War of 1812, and was drum major,
and served in the battle of Plattsburg. He was an
old line Democrat, and a man of firm principles.
He married. May 22, 1821, Sally Elliott, born No-
vember 14, 1800, vyho survived him many years,
dying June 5, 1877, in Canaan. After his death she
became the wife of Josiah Clark. Jr., with whom
she removed to Canaan. William Haselton's chil-
dren were : William, Sarah, Deborah, Elizabeth,
Charles, David and George W.
(VIII) David, third son and sixth child of
William and Sally (Elliott) Haselton. was born in
Dorchester, September 2, 1832, and educated in the
common schools of Groton and Canaan. Leaving
school at the age of twenty-one, he was engaged in
farming for nine years in Canaan. He then sold
his farm and became a bridge builder for the Bos-
ton & Lowell Railroad, and followed that occupa-
tion twenty-five years, retiring in iSgo after the
road passed into the hands of the Boston & Maine.
He had charge of the bridges and buildings of the
entire system, and had his office in Boston, but re-
sided in Winchester, Massachusetts. After his re-
tirement he moved to Concord, and now (1906) re-
sides with a daughter in that city. He cast his first
vote for Franklin Pierce as a presidential candidate,
but since that time has acted with the Republican
party. He is a consistent and generous member of
the Advent Church. He married, in Canaan,
.August 20, 1854, Paulina Dean, born August 18,
1830, in Danbury, New Hampshire, and died April
13, 1902. She was the daughter of Joel and Mary
(Sleeper) Dean, of Canaan. At the time of her
death she and her husband had been wedded forty-
eight years. Two children were born of this union,
one of whom died in infancy. Mary Esther, the
surviving child, was born January 17, 1S57, and
married, in Concord, November 28, 1S76. Isaac
Franklin Mooney, of Concord. He was born in
Sandwich, New Hampshire, October 2S, 1852, and is
a son of Isaac F. Mooney, who was horn in Sand-
wich, December 11, 1808. and died December 11,
1892, aged eighty-four, and his wife Mary .Ann
(Vickery) Mooney, who was born July 25, 1822,
and is now living in Concord. Isaac F. Mooney
has been a conductor on the Boston & Maine Rail-
road for twenty-five years, and is now on the
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Woodsville division. Mr. and Mrs, Mooney have
had four children: Edward Frank, died yoimg;
Emma Mary, Edward FrankHn, deceased ; and
Harry Haselton.
(II) John (2), third child and second son of
John (l) and Joan (Auter) Haselton. was born
probably on that part of Rowdey, now called Brad-
ford, in 1650. By occupation he was a carpenter
and ship builder. He was a deacon in the First
Church in Haverhill, where he made his will which
was dated June 16. 1732, and proved x^pril 23, 1733.
He was eighty-two years old at the time of his
death. He married, July 17, 1682, Mary, daughter
of Philip Nelson, and they had eight children:
John, Philip. Sarah, Mary, Joseph, Benjamin, died
young: Elizabeth and Benjamin.
(fll) Philip, second son and child of John (2)
and Mary (Nelson) Haselton, was born March 13,
1685. He was mentioned in his father's will in
1732, but had probably left Haverhill before that
time. He married, January 9. 1718, Judith Web-
ster. They had ten children: John and Philip
(twins), James, Tryphena, Ann, Lois, Joseph and
Benjamin (twins), Stephen and Asa.
(IV) James, third son and child of Philip and
Judith (Webster) Haselton, was born March 28,
1721. He married (first), at Haverhill, Massachu-
setts, November 13, 1741, Elizabeth Hutchins. who
died July 12, 1750. Married (second), November
5, 1751,' Ruth Ladd. His children were: Asa,
Philip, Annie, James, John. Elizabeth, Ruth, Ladd
and Trvphena.
(V) Asa, eldest child of James and Elizabeth
(Hutchins) Haselton, was born June 15. ^ 1/42.
He lived in Atkinson and elsewhere, but died in
Manchester, New Hampshire. He married, Decem-
ber 6, 1763. Mary Ober. and they were the parents
of ten children: Asa. David, Philip, John, James,
Stephen, Polly, Betsey, a daughter unnamed, and
Nancv.
(VI) John (3). fourth son and child of Asa
and Elizabeth (Ober) Haselton, was born in Atkin-
son, and died in Manchester, aged seventy-seven.
He settled in Manchester and owned a farm near
the Londonderry line. He frequently engaged in
teaming, and hauled lumber to Newburyport and
brought back loads of provisions, using oxen to
draw the load. In politics he was a Democrat. He
married Lydia Flint, of Reading, and they had
twelve children: Lydia. Stephen, Kadmiel. Caleb,
Betsey, John, Lucinda. Lavina, Washington, Ada-
line. Leonard and Reuben.
(VII) Stephen, eldest son and second child of
John (3) and Lyciia Flint Haselton, was horn in
Manchester, December 25, 1800, and died in Man-
chester. March 15. 1872. He purchased a home
near the iiaternal homestead, and resided there all
his life. He. like his father, was a Democrat. He
married, 1840, Mary Malvina Messcr. daughter of
John aiid Sally (Hadly) Messer, of Gofifstown.
John Messcr died in 1S20, aged seventy, and his
wife died in 1844. aged about seventy-two. Mrs.
Haselton died at the hou^c of her son Henry in
Manchester, in 1882. aged seventy-five. Two chil-
dren were born of this marriage : George W., long
time superintendent of the cotton mills at Chicopee
Falls, Massachusetts, now superintendent of the
Pittsfield Mills, Pittsfield, New Hampshire; and
Henry I., the subject of the next paragraph.
(VIII) Henry Irving, second son and child of
Stephen and Mary (Messer) Haselton, was born
in Manchester. March I, 1847. He attended the
district schools until he was seventeen years old,
and then (1864) became an employe of the JMan-
chester Mills. There he worked till 1880, when he was
offered better wages to go to the lower Pacific Mills^
in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which he accepted,
and was employed there as second hand two years.
At the end of that time he was invited to return to
Manchester to take charge of the worsted combing
department in the then Manchester, now Atnoskeag
Mills, at an increased salary. He accepted the offer
and is still holding this position ; he has since re-
sided in Manchester. By a diligent use of his
ability for the benefit of his employers, Mr. Hasel-
ton has gradually worked his way from size-boy,
card grinder, section hand and second hand to his
present position. He is now overseer of the worsted
washing, carding, combing and drawing depart-
ments of the Amoskeag Mills. Mr. Haselton is a
Republican, and has been a member of the school
board one year, and of the common council one
year, but he is not inclined to take a part in politics,
and the oflSces came to him unsought. In religious
sentiment he inclines to Universalism. and attends
the church of that faith. He is a Thirty-second
degree Mason, and is an honored member of the
following named divisions of that body : Lafayette
Lodge. No. 41 ; Mount Horeb Royal Arch Chapter,
No. 11; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Royal and Select
Masters ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar,
of which he is a past commander, all of Manchester ;
and Edward A. Raymond Consistory, of Nashua.
He is also past grand master of the Grand Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of New Hampshire.
He married, in Manchester, January I. 1877,
Emma French, born in Norwich, Vermont, Febru-
ary 4, 1854, daughter of George and Ellen (Critten-
den) French, and great-granddaughter of Nathaniel
French, who removed from Connecticut and settled
in Vermont. George J. French and wife removed
to Plainfield, New Hampshire, and he died after a
residence there of more than fifty years. She is
still living. Mrs. Haselton is a member of Ruth
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and is a promi-
nent worker in that order, and in the Universalist
Church. Of this marriage there is one child,
George Irving, the subject of the next paragraph.
(IX) George Irving, only child of Henry I.
and Emma (French) Haselton, was bom in Man-
chester, July 19, 1878, and educated in the common
schools. When twenty years of age he entered the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's Mills, and
was employed in the dye house until the fall of
1906. For two years he was a second hand. After
leaving the mill he went to Washington, D. C,
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where he is now (1907) taking the law course in
the George Washington University. He is a Re-
publican, and talces an active interest in politics.
He was made president of the common council of
Manchester, and was also ex-officio member of the
school board, and served in these bodies from 1904
till 1906. He is a past master of Lafayette Lodge,
No. 41, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of
Mount Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. 11. Adon-
iram Council. No. 3, Royal and Select Masters,
Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, and Bek-
tash Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the
Mystic Shrine. He married, in 1905, Fanny Tren-
holm. born in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, May 15,
1881, daughter of Robert Trenholm.
It is probable that John Hasel-
HASELTINE tine, who was born November
19, 1780, was a native of Haver-
hill, Massachusetts, or that his father was, but noth-
ing can be found in the vital records of New Hamp-
shire or of Haverhill to locate him. The record of
his birth is found in his own handwriting in his
family Bible. He died August 5, 1865. in Amherst.
He married (first) Betsy Eatchelder, daughter of
Captain John Batchelder, who was born in that part
of .A.mherst, now Mont Vernon, June 19, 1825, and
died April 20, 1842. He married (second), Febru-
ary 25, 1845, Mrs. Hannah Smith, born 1793. who
survived him nearly twelve years, dying March 10,
1877. The children of the first wife were: Charles,
Eliza. John, Roxanna, Frances, Mary A.. Caroline
and James G.
(H) James G., youngest child of John and
Betsey (Batchelder) Haseltine. was born February
22. 1825, in Amherst, and died May 7, 1903. He at-
tended the district school and an academy. Early
in life he learned the trade of blacksmith and be-
came a machinist. He also engaged in farming,
and was an auctioneer. He married at Milford,
New Hampshire, Mary J. Hinds, born March 19,
1822. in Sandwich, New Hampshire, daughter of
Barzillai and Patience Hinds (see Hinds, H).
(HI) John Edward, eldest son and second
child of James G. and Mary J. (Hinds) Haseltine,
was born April 9, i860, at Chestnut Hill, in Am-
herst. New Hampshire. His education was supplied
by the common schools and Mont Vernon Acad-
emy, and he abandoned the school-room at the age
of eighteen years to engage in farming upon the
homestead, wdiere he continued until he was twenty-
two years of age. For one year he was a clerk in
a grocery store at Amherst, and then removed to
Reed's Ferry in the town of Merrimack, where he
w-as for five years a clerk in the general store of 1.
A. Porter. At the end of this time he purchased
the store from his employer, and conducted the
business for eight years with a partner under the
style of Haseltine & Co. They erected a building
on the corner opposite that occupied by the old
store, and in this continued business until 1898,
when Mr. Haseltine bought the interest of his part-
ner and became sole owner. On January i. 1903,
the business was consolidated with the Fessenden
& Lowell JManufacturing Company, and Mr. Hasel-
tine has continued as manager of the store and is
vice-president of the corporation. For eight years
he was assistant postmaster, and September 20,
1894. was appointed postmaster, which post he has
continued to fill until the present time. Mr. Hasel-
tine is a member of the Congregational Church.
He has been the school treasurer of the town since
1897, and takes an active interest in every move-
ment calculated to promote the welfare of the com-
munity. He is a Republican in politics, and was a
member of the Grange from the time he was
eighteen years old until 1902. He was a member of
Hillsboro Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, of Manchester, and became a charter member
of the lodge at Reed's Ferry, in which he has filled
all the principal chairs. In 1905-06 he constructed
a handsome residence at Reed's Ferry. He mar-
ried. November 22, 1892, Mabel Lucrecia Lowell,
born November 15, 1870, daughter of Levi F. and
Hannah B. (Hutchinson) Lowell, of Reed's Ferry.
(See Lowell VIII). She was educated at McGaw
Institute and Tilton Seminary, and is a member of
the Congregational Church. They have three chil-
dren. Hazel Louise, born June 14. 1894: Franklin
Lowell, born April 10. 1896: and Elizabeth Hinds,
born November 4, iSgg.
The name of Brackett, the antique
BR.ACKETT spelling of which was Brocket,
originated in Wales and became
distributed through England and Scotland. Among
the nine hundred colonists who embarked with
Governor Winthrcp at Yarmouth, England, .'\pril 7,
1630, were four brothers of this name, said to have
been natives of Scotland. They were Captain Rich-
ard, who first settled in Boston but afterwards went
to that part of Braintree which is now Quincy;
Peter, who located in Connecticut : William and
Anthony, who came to Portsmouth with Captain
John Mason, in 1631. The Bracketts of Plymouth
now being considered are probably descended from
one of these brothers, and there is some reason for
believing that their original American ancestor was
Captain Richard.
(I) Samuel Brackett, probably a descendant of
Captain Richard, the immigrant, was residing at
Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1762. The christian
name of his wife was Elizabeth.
(II) William, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
Brackett, was born in Dedham. May 7, 1762. He
married, November 22, 1784, Anna Lauchlen. born
December 26, 1765, daughter of Samuel and Sarah
(Haws) Lauchlen, and settled in Sudbury, IVIassa-
chusetts.
(II) William (2). eldest son and child of Will-
iam and Anna (Lauchlen) Brackett, w-as born in Sud-
bury, October 9. 1785. In 1799 he went to Little-
ton, New Hampshire, as a lad of fourteen years,
and in early manhood engaged in trade, opening a
general store on the meadows. He subsequently
transferred his business to the village, where he
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became a prosperous general merchant and one of
the most prominent residents of the town. When
Andrew Jackson was nominated for the presidency
he withdrew his allegiance from the Federalists in
order to support the hero of New Orleans, and he
was thenceforward allied with the Democratic party.
He served as town clerk from 1814 to 1826, as
selectman in 1817 and as representative to the legis-
lature in 1819-20. He was a staunch Free Mason,
belonging to Morning Dawn and Burns lodges, and
is said to have deserted the Federal party on ac-
count of its anti-masonic attitude. In his religious
belief he was a Gongregationalist. Mr. Bra'ckett
died December 7, 1859. February 10, 181 1, he mar-
ried Lorana Campbell, born June 12, 1791, daughter
of Hector Campbell, of Chester, Massachusetts.
Her death occurred May 11, 1874. She bore him
six children, namely: William C. Cephas, Laura,
Charles W., George S. and Caroline A.
(IV) William Campbell, eldest son and child
of William and Lorana (Campbell) Brackett, was
born in Littleton. October i., 1S12. Having ac-
quired a good knowledge of mercantile pursuits as
clerk in his father's establishment, he opened in
company with his brother. Charles W., another gen-
eral store, which prospered as the population in-
creased, and he also engaged quite extensively in
lumbering. After withdrawing from trade he be-
came local express agent and continued in that
capacity until his death, which occurred February
14, 1S63. In politics he was originally a Whig and
later a Republican. He married, January 8, 1842,
Mrs. Julia A. Hutchins (nee Ross), born in Bath.
New Hampshire, February 9, 1817, daughter of
Samuel Ross, and widow of George Hutchins, by
whom she had two daughters, Julia and Emma R.
Mrs. Brackett married for her third husband Col-
onel Cyrus Eastman, of Littleton, and died in Bos-
ton, May 15, 1898. William C. and Julia A. (Ross-
Hutchins) Brackett were the parents of four chil-
dren, namely : William R.. who is referred to in the
succeeding paragraph ; Edward Dudley, born No-
vember 6, 1845 ; Horace, bom May 8, 1848, died
June 18, 1849 ; and Harvey Smith, born December
22, 1852.
(V) William Ross, eldest son of William C.
and Julia A. (Ross-Hutchins) Brackett, was born
in Littleton, • November 24. 1842. He began his
education in the public schools of his native town
and completed it in Lock Haven. Pennsylvania. His
first opening was in the express business at Con-
cord with Messrs. Cheney & Company, in whose
employ he remained about a year, at the expiration
of which time he became telegraph operator at Lit-
tleton, and a few years later went to Plymouth in a
similar capacity. He was shortly afterwards ap-
pointed general ticket agent of the Boston, Concord
& Montreal Railroad, and when that road became a
part of the Boston & Maine system he was made
gene.al baggage agent with headquarters in Boston.
This latter ;>osition he retained for eleven years,
ana since relinquishing the regular service he has
lived in retirement at his pleasant home in Plym-
outh. Mr. Brackett is a Master Mason and a mem-
ber of Burns lodge in Littleton.
May 13, 1868, Mr. Brackett married Ella Eliza
Stearns, born in Worcester, Vermont, December 15,
1850, daughter of Wilbur C. and Lucy (Reed)
Stearns. Mr. and Mrs. Brackett have had three
children, of whom the only survivor is Lucy
Stearns, born June 23, 1879, was graduated from
the Plymouth high school and completed her edu-
cation at the Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Massa-
chusetts. She resides in Plymouth. The others
were: Bessie Stearns, born August 3, 1874, and
William Cephas, bom March 15, 1876, both of
whom died in infancy.
Like so many surnames, the name
SCRIBNER Scribner is derived from the ori-
ginal occupation of the early mem-
bers of the family. In this case the word scrivener,
a professional writer or conveyancer, and the Amer-
ican pioneers, following the English fashion, spelled
their patronjTnic with a "v." There were at least four
families in England named Scri\ener, who we're the
owners of considerable landed estate. The first of
the name in America was Matthew Scrivener, a
member of the Council of the Virginia Colony in
1607. He was spoken of by Captain John Smith as
"a very wise understanding gentleman," but he was
drowned in the James river a week or two after his
arrival. Benjamin Scrivener, of Norwalk, Con-
necticut, is said to be the ancestor of most of the
Scribners in the United States, He married Han-
nah Crampton. March 6, 1680. and they had four
sons : Thomas, John, Abraham and Matthew.
Matthew Scribner was the great-grandfather of
Charles Scribner. the eminent publisher and founder
of Scribner's Magazine, The following line does
not appear to be connected with the Virginia or
Connecticut Scribners, but to be descended from
another pioneer, who came directly from England,
(I) John Scribner, born probably in England,
settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1662. His
wife's christian name was Mary, and they had sev-
eral children. Among them was Thomas, men-
tioned below. John Scribner died in October, 1675.
(II) Thomas, son of John Scribner, was bom
in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and
lived in Dover, New Hampshire. He moved to
Kingston, this state, where he made his will in 1718.
The name of his wife is unknown, but one of their
children was Samuel, mentioned below.
(HI) Samuel, son of Thomas Scribner, was
born early in the eighteenth centur}' and lived in
Kingston, New Hampshire. His early married life
was spent in that town, wdiere six of his children
were born, but on March I, 1753, he bought a lot of
land in Salisbury, this state, then called Bakerstown.
The land was bought from Jonathan Sanborn, who
like most of the other grantees of Salisbury, lived
in Kingston, and never actually moved to the new
settlement. Samuel Scribner is recorded as fifth in
the list of actual settlers of Salisbury, and it is
probable that he built his log cabin there in the
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Slimmer of 1753, though his family remained in
Kingston for some time after that. On August 17,
1754, Samuel Scribner and his fellow workman,
Robert Barber, were captured by the Indians while
engaged in haying on the Proctor meadow on Salis-
bury North road. They camped that night on the
shore of what is now Webster lake, and in the early
morning the captors and their victims started for
Saint Francis, Canada, which place they reached
after a journey of thirteen days. For the last nine
days they subsisted on berries, roots, and whatever
they could pick up in the wilderness. Scribner was
sold to a Frenchman at Chamblee ; Barber was also
sold to a Frenchman, but succeeded in making his
escape. September 26, 1755, while Scribner remained
in Canada for almost two j'cars or until ransomed
by the state government. After his return from
captivity he went to Kingston where he found his
wife and children. Just before Scribner's capture
he had got out the lumber for a large two-story
house. This had remained untouched during his
absence, and after his return he built the house on
Salisbury North road. Samuel Scribner married,
November 4, 1740, Hannah Webster, daughter of
Ebenezer and Susan (Bachiler) Webster, and a sis-
ter of Ebenezer, father of Daniel. They had chil-
dren : Hannah, married Samuel Raino, lived at
Andover, this state ; Captain Iddo, who served in
the Revolution, married (first) Mrs. Judith Brown,
(second) Mrs. Huldah (Morss) Jewett; Josiah.
whose sketch follows : Ebenezer, moved to Tun-
bridge, Vermont, afterward returned to Dover ;
Susan.
(IV) Captain Josiah, second son and third
child of Samuel and Hannah (Webster) Scribner,
was born in Kingston. New Hampshire, about 1753.
He moved with his people to Salisbury about 1757,
and afterward became a drover and cattle dealer
at Andover, this state. There seems to be some
confusion about his marriage. The Grafton County
Gazetteer gives the name of his wife as Phebe
Cross, while the "History of Salisbury" says that he
was twice married, and that his first wife was
named Webster, and that his second was Mrs. Mary
A. (Wliite) Farmer. The names of the thirteen
children correspond, except that the "History of
Salisbury" has omitted John, whose sketch follows.
Assuming that its record is correct in other respects,
the children of the first marriage were: Samuel,
Josiah, Parker and William. The children of the
second marriage were: Benjamin F.. Isaac W., a
physician and author, Jonathan F.. Phebe, Hannah,
Arethusa. Polly, Mary A. It is probable that John
was one of the earlier children.
(V) John, son of Captain Josiah Scribner. was
born at Andover, New Hampshire, January 28, 1784.
He was a successful farmer and cattle drover in his
native town, where he lived most of his life, though
he spent the last three years in Ashland. John
Scribner married .Abigail Emery, daughter of Josiah
limery, who was born in Loudon, New Hampshire,
October 19. 1787. They had six children: Ambrose,
Franklin, John C., Darius, Lewis and Asenath.
John Scribner died January s, 1887, in Ashland,
aged eighty-three years, and his wife died there De-
cember 18, 1878, aged eighty-nine years.
(VI) Franklin, second son and child of John
and Abigail (Emery) Scribner, was born July 9,
1819. at Andover, New Hampshire. He moved to
Ashland, and with his elder brother Ambrose began
the manufacture of shoes for a Massachusetts firm.
Franklin Scribner afterward sold out his interest,
and with his brother Lewis built a paper mill, and
they manufactured nianila paper and straw board
for many years. In 1880 Franklin Scribner was
elected treasurer of the Ashland Savings Bank. On
May 20, 1855, he married Marcia E. Hackctt, daugh-
ter of Chase T. and Susan Hackett, of New Hamp-
ton, New Hampshire, where she was born July 6,
1833. They had three children : Ida G., Carrie A.,
and George E., whose sketch follows. Franklin
Scribner died February 9, 1885, at Whitefield, New
Hampshire, and his widow died December 3, 1889,
in South Framingham, Massachusetts.
(VII) George Edwin, only son and third and
youngest child of Franklin and Marcia E. (Hackett)
Scribner, was born December 7, 1863, at Ashland,
New Hampshire. He was educated in the common
schools of his native town, graduated from the
Tilton Seminary in 1883, and afterward took a com-
mercial course at the New Hampton Institute, this
state. After competing his education he entered
the employ of the Ashland Savings Bank. In 1886
he helped organize the Ashland Knitting Company,
taking the office of treasurer, which he has held
ever since. Mr. Scribner is a Republican in politics,
and was representative to the New Hampshire
legislature in 1907. He is a member of Mount
Prospect Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, of Ashland, and a member of Pilgrim Com-
manderj'. Knights Templar, of Laconia. On June
I. 1897, George Edwin Scribner married Emma H.
Mead, daughter of Edward Hilton and Loanna
Stevens (Sherburns) Mead, of Northwood. New
Hampshire, where she was born November 28, 1863.
There are no children.
The McElroys are of Scotch-Irish
McELROY origin, and although late-comers to
America they possess the same ster-
ling qualities as those which predominated in the
characters of their predecessors of the same re-
ligious and liberty-loving race.
(I) Samuel McElroy, a native of Scotland,
went to the north of Ireland and settled in Lon-
donderry.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Mc-
Elroy. was born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1800. He
learned the trade of gunsmith, which he followed
in connection with that of shuttle maker, and also
had a small shop for the weaving of linen. He de-
voted his attention to these various occupations
until his death in January, 1863. In the fall of the
year 1863 his family emigrated to the United States,
locating in Manchester. New Hampshire. His wife,
Martha CMcLane) McElroy, was the mother of
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four sons and four daughters, six of whom attained
j'ears of maturity. Their children were: I. Samuel,
enlisted in the Seventh Regiment. New Hampshire
Volunteers, for service in the Civil war, was
wounded three times, and participated in several
notable engageinents. 2. Elizabeth, married Daniel
Price, resides in Manchester, New Hampshire. 3.
Sarah, deceased. 4. Mary, widow of Fred. Holt ;
she re'sides in Sunapee. 5. William, see forward.
6. John, deceased. 7. Martha, died young. 8. An
infant son, deceased. The mother of these children
was a member of Grace Episcopal Church. She
died 1887, aged seventy-seven years.
(HI) William, son of Samuel (2) and Martha
(McLane) McElroy, was born in Londonderry, Ire-
land, March iS, 1851. He arrived in Manchester,
New Hampshire, with his mother in 186,3, when
twelve years old, and the untimely death of his
father made it absolutely necessary for him to con-
tribute at that tender age toward the support of the
bereft family. The textile mills, wherein so many
men of genius began the activities of life, were open
to him, and for some years he was an operator in
the spinning departinent of one of the large Man-
chester corporations. But an inherent ambition for
advancement caused him to devote his spare time to
study, and after completing a commercial course at
a local business college he obtained a position as
bookkeeper with the firm of Horatio Fradd & Com-
pany, of Manchester, grocers, which he retained for
a period of twenty-three years. He then engaged
in the tailoring business, but relinquished it seven
years later and turned his attention to dealing in
real estate, in which line of work he has attained
success. He also conducted a retail wood business.
Prior to his majority he was elected ward clerk,
and for the past thirty-tive years has been an active
participant, officially and otherwise, in local civic
affairs. He was chosen a delegate to the constitu-
tional convention of 1902; was elected a member of
the street and park commission in 1905, and in 1906
was re-elected for a period of six years, and was
appointed chairman of the -board, in which respon-
sible position he is still serving, having fully demon-
strated by his marked ability the wisdom displayed
in his selection. Aside from his duties as general
supervisor of repairs and improveinents in the
streets and parks, he is interested actively in other
important matters of a semi-public nature, being
president of the Manchester Building & Loan Asso-
ciation, being re-elected for a third term in 1907.
and his knowledge of the relative value of real es-
tate makes liim especially serviceable to that insti-
tution. In Masonry he is well advanced, being
officially connected with Lafayette Lodge. No. 41. of
which he was chaplain many years. Mt. Horeb
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Adoniram Council.
Trinity Connnandcry, Knights Templar, in which
he held office many years, all the Scottish Rite
bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree,
and Bcktash Temple, .A-ncient .Arabic Order Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, in which body he is a inem-
ber of the orchestra. He also affiliates with the
-American Benefit Society. Politically he is a Re-
publican, being a firm believer in the principles of
that party. His religious affiliations are with St.
-Andrew's Church, in which he is the present senior
warden and treasurer. Previous to joining St. -An-
drew's Church he was a member of Grace Church,
in which he served as vestryman many years, and
as treasurer of the Sunday school for fifteen years.
He is a member of the Art Institute and also of the
orchestra there. He is proficient in both vocal and
instrumental music, and directs the choir at St. An-
drew's Church.
Mr. McEIroy married for his first wife Mary H.
Schofield, and the children of this union are : Joseph
W., a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
John Samuel, who now assists his father in the
wood business. Gertrude M. William F., a student
at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Mrs.
McElroy was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but
resided in Manchester, New Hampshire, where her
father was engaged in the machine printing depart-
ment of the Manchester Print Works, now the
.Amoskeag Corporation, for many years. Mr. Mc-
Elroy married for his second wife Fronia -Adams
Richards, of GofTstown, only child of Eliphalet
Richards, now deceased, who was a noted lumber
merchant in Goffstown, Weare and New Boston.
This family name has been widely dis-
GOODWIN tributed not only over England, but
over most of the northern countries
of Europe, and instances of its occurrence are to be
met with in very early times. -As early as the fifth
century it appears in Germany in the forms Gudwin
and Godwin. In English records it also appears
very early. In 1238 Robert Goodwin was a citizen
of Norwich: in 1300 Adam Goodrich was a burgess
of Calchester : and in 1347 Galfridas Goodwin was
assessed for his lands at Rockland in Norfolk, when
Edward III levied an aid for the marriage of his
son. Two Goodwins from whom the greater num-
ber of the name in New England have sprung are
Elder William Goodwin and his brother Osias. The
former sailed from London in the ship "Zion," June
22, 1632, and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 16 of the same year. He settled at New-
town, where he was very soon made a ruling elder
in the church, and was for the remainder of his life
a leading member of the cominunity. When Osias
Goodwin came to -America is uncertain. He first
appeared as a landholder in Hartford in 1640. He
was not a man of prominence. On account of the
loss of some records and ill-kept condition of others,
there are many families of Goodwin in New Eng-
land who descended from one of these two progeni-
tors, but cannot be traced.
(I) Deacon Joshua Goodwin lived in London-
derry at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
His wife Rebecca died May 27, 1806. aged forty-one
years, three months, and twenty days. His second
wife was Elizabeth.
(II) Josiah, son of Deacon Joshua and Eliza-
beth Goodwin, was born in Londonderry, November
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28, 1807. and died July 27, 1893, aged eighty-six.
He was a very well known man, of excellent char-
acter, a hard worker, and a good neighbor. He
was thoroughly conversant with the Bible, which he
read regularly and often and interpreted literally.
For more than sixty years he was a member of the
Presbyterian Church, and active as a superintendent
or teacher in the Sunday school. He was a man of
great physical strength and possessed of exceptional
powers of endurance. He was married in Milford
by Rev. Humphrey Moore, D. D., November 24,
1831, to Esther Jones, born December 5, 1810, and
died March 9. 1888, aged seventy-eight. She was
the daughter of Abram and Hepzibah Jones. No-
vember 24, i88r. this couple celebrated with much
cheer their golden w'edding, and lived yet seven
years to enjoy life on the old homestead in London-
derry, where they began life together. Six children
■were born of this marriage : Daniel, Henry, John,
Esther, Miranda and Joseph Stone.
(HI) John, third son and child of Josiah and
Esther (Jones) Goodwin, was born in Londonderry,
May 23, 1838. and died October 27, 1875, aged
thirty-seven years. He grew up on his father's
farm, and when a young man removed to Charles-
town. Massachusetts, where he operated a McKay
stitching machine in a shoe factory until a short
time before his death. He was a good man, and a
faithful and skillful mechanic. He married, in Lon-
donderry, New Hampshire, May 17, 1863, Caroline
W. BoUes. who was the eldest child and only daugh-
ter of Lewis and Eliza H. (Whorf) Bolles, of Lon-
donderry ; she was born in Londonderry, December
17, 1843, and died June 18, 1867, aged twenty-four
years. One child was born of this union, Elmer D.,
whose sketch follows.
(IV) Elmer Daniel, only child of John and
Caroline W. (Bolles) Goodwin, was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, October 12, 1866. He
was educated in the public school of Charlestown, at
Pinkerton Academy in Derry, and Tilton Seminary.
The death of his mother, when he was eight months
old, left him in the care of his maternal grandpar-
ents in Londonderry, and the father dying when the
son was eight years old, he was early thrown on his
own resources. In 1882 he was employed for a
short time by George S. Rollins, grocer at Derry
Depot, and then entered the employ of the Man-
chester & Lawrence Railroad, now a part of the
Boston & Maine system, as assistant station agent,
where he remained about six years, until the forma-
tion of the firm of Priest & Goodwin, dealers in
coal. Later Mr. Goodwin, the junior partner, sold
his interest to Mr. Priest, and took a position in the
employ of Brooks & Company, Boston, retail house-
furnishers, who had a store at Derry. In 1892 he
removed to Manchester, and became bookkeeper for
Clark M. Bailey, a prominent wholesaler. In 1899
he bought out the undertaking businej^s of Alfred
E. Morse, which he has since carried on with suc-
cess. Mr. Goodwin is a gentleman and a man of
sterling integrity, and has many warm friends. In
politics he is a Republican, and is now serving his
second term as a member of the city school board.
He attends the Franklin Street Congregational
Church. He is a member of the board of trade, of
the Derryfield Club, and a director of the Young
Men's Christian Association. He is a member of
General Stark Grange, No. 277, a member of Wash-
ington Lodge, No. 61, Free and Accepted Masons ;
is past high priest of Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chap-
ter. No. 11; is past thrice illustrious master of
Adoniram Council, No. 3. Royal and Select Mas-
ters ; is past commander of Trinity Commandery,
Knights Templar ; member of Edward A. Ray-
mond Consistory of the Sublime Princes of the
Royal Secret, of Nashua ; is past patron of Ruth
Chapter, No. 16, Order of the Eastern Star, and a
member of Bektash Temple of the Ancient Arabic
Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is a
member of Oak Hill Lodge, No. 97, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Manchester ; is past chan-
cellor of Rockingham Lodge. No. 29, Knights of
Pythias, of Derry ; past master workman of Derry-
field Lodge,. No. 342, Ancient Order of United
Workmen ; member of Evening Star Council, No.
10, Order of United American Mechanics ; James
E. Shephard Colony. No. 118, United Order of Pil-
grim Fathers ; Mt. Hope Lodge, No. 348. New Eng-
land Order of Protection ; the Order of High Priest-
hood (Concord) ; the Passaconaway Tribe of the
Improved Order of Red Men: honorary member of
Tresche Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic.
He went to California as commander of the Trinity
Commandery. Knights Templar. 1904, and traveled
over Europe, 1906, with DeMolay Commandery, of
.Boston, Massachusetts.
Mr. Goodwin married. August 15, 18S7. in Derry,
New Hampshire, Ella L. Sargent, of Searsport,
Maine, daughter of Edward M. and Elizabeth A.
(Green) Sargent, and they had one child, Louis
Byron, born June 22, 1893.
The name of Pottle appears in the
POTTLE early town records of Hampton, New
Hampshire, in wdiich it is sometimes
written Pottell, but the family now in hand is the
posterity of an English emigrant who came over in
the latter part of the eighteenth century.
(I) Rev. Henry Pottle, who was bom in Eng-
land, came to America when a young man and lo-
cated in Maine. He became a Baptist clergyman
and settled near Fryeburg. Maine, about the year
iSoo.
(II) Aaron i\Iaztin, son of Rev. Hen i->' Pottle,
was born in Maine, 1810. He followed agriculture
in his native town and at Sugar Hill, from which
latter place he removed to Jefferson, and his death
occurred in that town in 1891. He was quite active
in political affairs, and supported the Democratic
party. He married Serena M. Martin, daughter of
John Lang Martin, of Jefferson, and had a family
of eight children, three of whom are living, namely:
George A., who is residing in Boston ; Serena M.,
wife of Edwin Moulton. of Lakeport, this state;
and John Lang, of Jefferson.
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(Ill) John Lang, son of Aaron M. and Serena
M. (Martin) Pottle, was born in Landaff, April 6,
1851. His preliminary studies were pursued in the
public schools, and he completed his education at
the Lancaster Academy. He was reared to farm
life and is therefore an expert tiller of the soil, but
being a man of energy and progressive tendencies
he does not confine his efforts exclusively to that
occupation. Perceiving the advantages of Jefferson
as a summer resort he located in that town, and in
addition to general farming established himself in
the hotel business. At the present time he is
proprietor of the Highland House, which has ample
accommodations for fifty guests, and his table is
supplied with the products of his nearby farm of
one hundred and thirty acres, all of which is under
cultivation. He also conducts a winter resort at
Southern Pines, North Carolina, which is delight-
fully situated and well patronized by northern
tourists. An unusually active and enterprising man,
Mr. Pottle is realizing excellent financial results as
a reward for his efforts, and he enjoys the esteem
and confidence both of his fellow-townsmen and his
guests. He is a Master Mason, and a member of
the blue lodge at Southern Pines.
He married Charlotte Crawshaw, of Jefferson.
His children are: Frank B. and Florence Irene.
Frank B. Pottle, who is associated with his father
in business, possesses that keen intelligence and
capacity for enterprise which characterized the elder
Pottle, and a successful business career is undoubt-
edly before him.
Call is a name that is intimately associated
CALL with the very earliest settlement in New
Hamp.shire. north of Concord, and the
Calls, whose record has come down to us, have been
men in the best sense of the word, strong, courage-
ous, patriotic, and ever at the front in war or
peace.
(I) Philip Call is said to have been one of two
brothers who came to America from England.
Philip is known to have been at Contoocook (Bos-
cawen), as early as 1733. He was the first settler
in that township after the granting of the Masonian
proprietors, and was subsequently made a grantee,
as is shown by the records. In 1753 the grantees
voted "to build four houses, and that Philip Call's
shall be one of them." This shows that Philip Call
already had a house there. His name appears upon
the roll of Captain Jeremiah Clough's Company as
a scout, from September 26 to December 16, 1733.
For his service he received one pound and fifteen
shillings, provisions being extra. Again in 1746,
from July 4 to December 4, he was on scout service,
for which he received eight pounds and thirteen
shillings, and again in 1747, from January 5 to No-
vember 2, receiving sixteen pounds, ten shillings
and ten pence. The Call family was noted for the
muscular activity, swiftness of foot and bravery in
Indian fighting of its members. The site of the
Call house is to be seen and easily recognized by a
pile of jjroken bricks and stones, which once con-
stituted the chimney, and a large apple tree in close
proximity. The sitfe is on the "Orphan's Home
Farm," southwest from the house on the west side
of the railroad track, a mile north of the Boscawen
line, and near the Salisbury fort. Indians, under
Captain John Sasup, attacked the place whcj-e the
family resided, August 15, 1754. Philip, his son
Stephen, and Timothy Cook, whose father had been
killed in 1746 at Clay hill, were at work in a field
and witnessed the attack. Mrs. Call and her son's
wife and infant were in the house. Upon the ap-
proach of the Indians, Mrs. Philip Call met them
at the door, and was instantly killed by a blow from
a tomahawk. She fell across the threshold. Mrs.
Stephen Call, with her infant, crawled into a hole
behind the chimney. The Indians, about thirty in
number, rifled the house, but she succeeded in keep-
ing her child quiet, and was not discovered. When
the savages appeared and the purpose of their visit
became evident, Stephen wanted to shoot at them,
but his father, discovering that there was a large
party, would not let him do so for fear the Indians
would kill them. The Indians seeing the three
whites, pursued them. Cook fled toward the Merri-
mack, plunged in, but was shot and scalped. Philip
took the path for the fort at Contoocook (Bos-
cawen). but finding the Indians close upon his heels,
plunged into the Merrimack river and swam to the
Canterbury shore. The Indians still pursuing, he
swam to the western shore, and thus continuing, he
swam back and forth six times, and eventually
reached the fort. Stephen ran into the woods and
saved himself only by dropping his "nice new hat,"
which so pleased his pursuers, that while examining
it he escaped. Philip served in Colonel Nathaniel
Meseroe's Regiment, Captain John Titcomb's Com-
pany, in the expedition against Crown Point in 1757.
It is said that Philip Call built the house subse-
quently occupied by Colonel Ebenezer Webster as a
tavern. His son may have owned it, as Philip died
previous to November 28, 1763. and probably be-
fore 1759, and was buried in the eastern side of the
Webster yard. His wife's name is not known. We
have a record of children, Stephen and Sarah.
Sarah Call, of Durham, spinster, by deed dated May
30. 1759. fc" one himdred pounds old tenor, con-
veyed to Stephen Call one-half of two tracts of land
in Contoocook, which she had of her father, Philip
Call.
(II) Stephen, son of Philip Call, like his
father, did scout duty, serving in Captain Jeremiah
Clough's Company one month and three days. In
Captain Ladd's Company he did scout duty about
Canterbury and Concord, in 1746, receiving for his
services one pound and ten shillings. He also
served in Captain Goff's Company, scouting on the
frontier from May 28 to July 15. 1748, receiving
four pounds, fourteen shillings and three pence, and
in Captain Ebenezer Webster's Company, Colonel
Nichol's Regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign
of 1776. He was chosen one of the selectmen at
the first town meeting after the incorporation of the
town and subsequently held other offices. He was
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a man of character and ability. He married a sis-
ter of Nathaniel Danforth, who settled at Franklin,
formerly Andovcr, about 1750. She died in 1816,
and he a few years later. Their children were:
John, Nathaniel, Philip, Sarah and Susannah. This
John Call was the first white child born in Salis-
bury.
(III) Philip, third son and child of Stephen and
(Danforth) Call, was born in Salisbury, New
Hampshire. He removed to Sanbornton, where he
was engaged in milling operations, and finally went
to Stanstcad, province of Quebec, about 1805. He
had a farm of one hundred and fifty acres near
Magog, in connection with the cultivation of which
he carried on blacksmithing. He married Keziali
Morrison, daughter of David Morrison, and they
had seven children : James, Richard, Daniel,
Phoebe, Polly, Whiting and Amanda.
(IV) Daniel Call, third son of Philip and
Keziah (Morrison) Call, was born in Magog, April
14, iSop, and died in Magog, August 14, 1S76, aged
sixty-six years. He was a farmer and lived in Hat-
ley from 1837 to 1850, when he removed to the
paternal homestead where he resided until his death.
He was a Conservative in politics, and in religion a
Calvanist Baptist, as was his wife. He married
Almeda Turner, born in Magog, December, 1809,
daughter of Daniel and Adaline (Willard) Turner,
natives of Vermont. She died at eighty-five years
of age. They had six children : Lucretia W.. de-
ceased ; Augusta V., deceased ; Whiting R. ; Philip
O., deceased; Emma E., married Henry Gazaille,
resides in Manchester ; and Mary P., deceased, all
of whom removed to New Hampshire.
(V) Whiting Rexford, third child and eldest
son of Daniel and Almeda (Turner) Call, was born
in Magog. September 30, 1839. He attended the
public schools and the Magog Model School, from
the latter of which he graduated in i860. The
three years following he taught school, two years
of the time in the vicinity of Magog, and one year
in his alma mater. In 1863 he removed to Man-
chester, New Hampshire. The six succeeding years
he was employed as a clerk in the grocery house of
Childs & Company. In 1867 he opened a photo-
graph studio on his own account, and from that
time until now (1907), forty years, he has kept
steadily at that employment. He is one of the vet-
eran photographers of New Hampshire. The ex-
cellence of his work has brought him a large and
profitable business, which receives his careful per-
sonal attention to the same extent now that it did
the day he started out to establish a business for
himself. He is a member of the Free Will Baptist
Church, was treasurer of the Sunday school from
1889 to 1906. and for more than forty years has been
a member of the Independent Order of Good Tem-
plars. No man in Manchester is more highly es-
teemed for his Christian character and moral worth
than Mr. Call. He married, in Manchester, 1868,
Ellen Brown, who was born in Bethel, Vermont,
September 19, 1845, daughter of Jonathan and Susan
Stone (Turner) Brown, the former born in Mere-
dith. New Hampshire, October 20, 1816, died in
Manchester, November 16, 1899. aged eighty-three ;
the latter born in East Randolph, Vermont, Febru-
ary 26, 1817, died December 8, 1892, in Manchester,
aged seventy-five.
Right Reverend Denis M. Bradley,
BR.'^DLEY D. D., the first Roman Catholic
Bishop of Manchester, was born in
Castle Island, county Kerry, Ireland, February 25,
1846, and was the eldest son of Michael and Mary
(Kerins) Bradley, who were the parents of five
other children : Patrick, Mary, Margaret, Cornelius
and John. Margaret and John died in childhood.
Shortly after the death of his father, and when
the boy Denis M. was but eight years old, his
widowed mother, with her family of five small
children, came to the United States, settling in ^lan-
chester, New Hampshire. The future bishop at-
tended the Park Street grammar school several
years, and under the direction of the veteran master,
Thomas Corcoran, was fitted for college. In 1863
he entered Holy Cross College, Worcester, where he
continued until he closed his academic course, in
June, 1867. His course in ecclesiastical science was
made in the seminary at Troy, New York, and here
he was prepared, by the reception of the different
orders, for the priesthood, and June 3, 1871, was or-
dained priest at the seminary chapel by Bishop
McQuaid, of Rochester, New York.
Shortly after his ordination to the priesthood,
Father Bradley was assigned duties at Portland,
Maine, under Bishop Bacon, and subsequently under
Bishop Healey, by whom he was named rector of
the cathedral, chancellor of the diocese, and bishop's
councilor. For some years he discharged the many
responsibilities of his several important charges at
Portland in a manner that justified the confidence
reposed in him by his ecclesiastical superiors, and
merited for him the appointment to the pastorate
of St. Joseph's Church, Manchester, which had
recently become vacant.
The ceremony of the consecration of Bishop
Bradley took place at St. Joseph's Church, now
raised to the rank of cathedral, on June II, 1884.
The concourse of the people who came from all
parts of the city and state to witness this unique
and imposing function was immense, only a fraction
being able to enter the church. The consecrating
prelate was Most Reverend John J. Williams, arch-
bishop of Boston, assisted by Right Reverend Louis
de Goesbriand, of Burlington, Vermont, and Right
Reverend John Moore, of St. Augustine, Florida.
Right Reverend James A. Healy preached an elo-
quent sermon, in which he paid a well merited and
glowing eulogy to the first bishop of Manchester.
Other prelates and nearly two hundred of the repre-
sentative clergy of New England occupied places
within the sanctuary. The Very Reverend John E.
Barry, V. G., was assistant priest, while Right Rev-
erend Flenry Gabriels read the papal bulls. The
esteem and affection of his colleagues in the priest-
hood was strikingly shown by the presentation to the
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bishop of the generous sum of $4,000. jNIany other ap-
propriate gifts, elegant and costly, were given him by
admiring friends ; but the one that was particularly
pleasing to him was a beautiful gold church service,
valued at $1,000, which had been bequeathed by the
late Rev. John J. O'Donnell, of Nashua, to the first
bishop of New Hampshire.
The diocese was officially organized, and the
bishop entered actively and energetically into the
work of spreading religion and upbuilding the faith
in every part of the state. So zealously did he
apply himself to this subject, that four years after
his consecration twenty-seven active and zealous
young priests had been added to the clergy of the
state. In the large towns and cities new parishes
were formed, and handsome churches began to mul-
tiply. Parochial schools were built that in material
equipment and in educational proficiency are not
surpassed by any under the public management.
Religious societies and confraternities for the faith-
ful were established, whose members and devotional
enthusiasm continue to be the cheering evidence of
a living and ardent faith. In the semi-annual con-
ference in May, 1890, Bishop Bradley e.xpressed a
sincere wish to make still further efforts to bring
the blessings of religion to those Catholics located
in manufacturing villages and in rural communities.
His desire was heartily responded to by both clergy
and laity, and churches at twenty-nine villages attest
the success of the efforts to this end, and masses
are now said at stated periods in every town of the
state where there are Catholics to be found, and
wherever it is possible a church edifice can be built.
Within the ten years preceding the death of Bishop
Bradley, much missionary work was done. In that
time and since priests, encouraged by their bishop,
toiled and suffered, walked and drove over long
rough roads, in the blazing heat of summer, and
the depths of winter, slept in lumber camps, partook
of coarse fare, bore with ignorance, sustained con-
tempt, and spent years of their lives in the solitude
of New Hampshire hill towns. Alone and unseen
they progressed, and Catholic faith and Catholic
feeling penetrated much deeper into Puritan society
than one would suspect. Whole townships and
counties received the leaven, and it is fermenting;
and communities where prejudice and ill-disguised
hostility for anything Catholic once strongly pre-
vailed, now fraternize with Catholics, many of them
regularly attend Catholic churches, and are received
into the fold.
The tenth anniversary of the creation of the
diocese of Manchester was marked by the solemn
consecration of Saint Joseph's Cathedral. Two
years previous the original church had been en-
larged, the capacity of the sanctuary increased, and
the whole interior richly ornamented in a manner
which reveals the highest artistic taste. Costly altars
of marble and Mexican onyx, stained glass widows,
enriched with beautiful paintings, stations and
statues, masterpieces in design and coloring, have
contributed to effect such a transformation that it
is almost impossible to recognize the lines of the
original structure. Beautiful, chaste and dignified,
it has become a noble sanctuary, and worthy of the
title of a cathedral church.
But the zeal and activities of the bishop were not
confined to the episcopal city, and churches and
chapels sprung up to meet the pressing demands.
The entire ecclesiastical body had become imbued
with the earnest progressive spirit of its worthy
head. The system of parochial schools was ex-
tended and improved, new charitable institutions
were added to those already existing, and the finely
equipped hospital of the Sacred Heart under the
management of the Sisters of iSIercy was opened to
supply a need long felt, not only in Manchester but
throughout the state. Fifteen years form but a
brief period of the life of an organization, never-
the less, within that very limited space of time the
Catholic growth in New Hampshire was phenomi-
nally rapid, and its results effected in no email
degree the religious thought and life of the people
of the state. The forty-five thousand Catholics who
in 1884 were transferred to the jurisdiction of
Bishop Bradley increased to one hundred thousand ;
eighty-one diocesan and ten regular priests labored
in a territory where thirty-seven had been em-
ployed. In the same period the number of churches
doubled, fifty-two having resident pastors and nine-
teen being used as missions. There were in addi-
tion twenty-one chapels, and thirty-three stations.
Charitable and eleemosynary institutions multiplied,
and their flourishing condition is the best guarantee
of their utility and efficiency. There were five
orphan asylums, in which four hundred and thirty-
two orphan children were cared for by the Sisters
of Mercy, four houses for aged women, four homes
for working girls, one night refuge for girls, and
four hospitals, that of the Sacred Heart, Man-
chester, being in every respect equal in efficiency and
equipment to any under public management.
Bishop Bradley was ever a popular man. He
ma'de a visit to Rome in 1887, and again in 1897,
On his return from each of these visits the love and
regard of the Catholics of Manchester gave evidence
of their attachment for their chief pastor by a great
popular demonstration, a grand outpouring of gen-
uine affection and esteem, that was not confined to
Catholic circles, but was heartily participated in by
representative men of all creeds, and of no creed
at all. Not only were addresses of welcome read,
but generous purses were presented as tokens of
sincere gratitude and affection on the part of the
people for one whose life and labors were conse-
crated to their best interests.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of Bishop Bradley's
ordination was celebrated June 3, 1896. It had been
his intention to have a private observance of the
event, but so great was the love and reverence of
his clergy for him, and so important did they deem
the event, that they strenuously urged that it should
have a public recognition. For once he yielded and
the celebration of his silver sacerdotal jubilee was
one of the most brilliant and successful ceremonies
ever witnessed in St. Joseph's Cathedral.
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In the autumn of 1903 Bishop Bradley's health
became infirm, but he discharged the duties of his
office until a very few days before his decease ; he
departed this life December 13, 1903, at 2 -.3$ o'clock
A. M., at the cathedral residence. The body lay in
state, watched by the Sheridan Guards until the fol-
lowing Thursday. Long before the hour appointed
for the burial rites, thou.sands of people filled the
square about the cathedral to wait the opening of
the church doors. Business throughout the city
was suspended, the busy looms of the great mills
were stopped, the hum of industry was hushed, all
the stores without exception closed their doors dur-
ing the hours of the service, and many of them ex-
hibited in their windows portraits of the bishop
draped in morning. Even the post office was closed
for some hours, a thing almost unheard of ; but one
of the most touching marks of respect was that
given by the management of the street car service.
Just at the moment of twelve, all the street cars in
Manchester stopped and remained standing two
minutes. Within ten minutes after the church doors
were opened the entire edifice was filled as it never
was before. No church in America could have
held all wlio desired to bo admitted. Thousands
were disappointed, but even these tarried about the
church in the cold, blustering winter morning, hop-
ing against hope by some means to gain entrance.
Never did Manchester see such an illustrious assem-
blage as was gathered within the walls of the
cathedral. An arch-bishop, seven bishops, five
monsignori, vicars-general, and heads of religious
orders, directors of seminaries and colleges, and dis-
tinguished churchmen from all over New England,
together with two hundred and fifty priests, testified
by their presence their veneration for the illustrious
dead prelate. The bishops present were the Most
Reverend Archbishop Williams, D. D., of Boston,
who consecrated Bishop Bradley, on June 11, 1884;
the Right Reverend Bishop Harkins, D. D., of Pro-
vidence, who delivered the eulogy; the Right Rev-
erend Bishop Beaven, D. D., of Springfield, cele-
brant of the pontifical requiem mass ; the Right
Reverend M. Tierney, D. D., bishop of Hartford;
the Right Reverend John Michaud, D. D., bishop
of Burlington; the Right Reverend William H.
O'Connell, D. D., bishop of Portland; the Right
Reverend Bishop Gabriels, D. D., of Ogdensburg,
who was in charge of St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy,
New York, when Bishop Bradley was a student
there. The prothonotaries and monsignori were :
the Right Reverend John INIichaud, D. D., bishop
Manchester ; the Right Reverend William Byrne,
P. A. V. G., of Boston ; Monsignor Dionysius
O'Callaghan, D. D., of Boston; the Right Reverend
Monsignor Thomas Griffin, D. D., of Worcester ;
the Right Reverend Monsignor Arthur J. Teeling,
D. D., of Lynn. The priests filled the sanctuary
.with its enteral chapels, and occupied a row of
seats placed in front of the pews, and another ex-
tending down the main aisle. In the front pews
sat His Excellency Governor Nahum J. Bachelder,
with a number of his staff in full uniform. There
were also present the mayor and members of the
city government, post office officials, the officers of
the board of trade, the agents of the mills, the
board of license commissioners, nearly every min-
ister of the Protestant denomination, the vestrymen of
Grace Church, and distinguished laymen from every
walk of life, and from every part of the state. In
the front pews, on either side of the middle aisle,
sat the members of the religious orders of women
teaching in the church schools. There were Sisters
of Mercy from the various houses. Ladies of the
Sacred Heart, Sisters of Providence, and Grey
Nuns ; all the sisterhoods were represented, two
coming from each house. There were brothers of
the Christian schools, Marist Brothers, and Brothers
of the Sacred Heart. In the same section of the
church sat the Bishop's two nieces, and his cousin, a
Sister of ]\Iercy, and more Sisters of Mercy looked
down from the windows of the girls' school adjoin-
ing. The number and character of individuals con-
stituting this great concourse assembled to pay the
last tribute of respect to the Bishop of Manchester,
shows what sort of a man Bishop Bradley must
have been, and how highly he was appreciated in
life to merit and receive such distinguished honors
in death. After the very solemn and deeply impressive
funeral ceremonies were concluded, the mortal re-
mains of the dead prelate were borne on the
shoulders of the body guard of soldiers to the crypt
of the church, where the benediction was sung, the
last prayer said, and the stone slab shut out forever
from view the form and face of the beloved Bishop
Bradley.
At his death he left nothing. He kept only one
bank account, and that was in the name of the
"Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester," the legal
title of his office, so that his successor has but to
sign his name and he inherits all that the bishop
possessed. During all the years he acted as pastor
of the cathedral parish, he drew no salary, and all
he asked was that the parish pay his funeral expen-
ses. The collection of Christmas day was taken
up for that purpose. A small amount of insurance
was divided between two orphan nieces of the
bishop, and the charitable institutions of the city.
The story of the life of Bishop Bradley is the
record of a life devoted to what he believed to be
the greatest and highest interests of man. In all
things he was intensely in earnest. At alb the schools
he attended he was easily noticeable for close ap-
plication to study, for docility of conduct, for re-
tentive memory, and a firm grasp of the knowledge
imparted to him. Froin the day in early manhood,
when he heard the call to God's service, to the day
of his death, he knew no other object in life, and
followed no other than his divine Master. For
more than thirty-two years he labored in the min-
istry, and many a time in the two years preceding
his death, when his labors made grave inroads on
his health, he was expostulated with by well mean-
ing friends, and urged to take a well earned rest.
In answer to one of these, he once said, "When I
was ordained I promised God to do all that in me
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lay for His service, and I must go on to the end."
The twenty years of his episcopate were full of
arduous labors. Long journeys had to be under-
taken, and conveniences of travel were not then
what they are now. All over New Hampshire went
the bishop. Every city, town and hamlet knew his
care. During these journeys he bore all kinds of
hardships and discomforts. He preached many
times in the same day, often driving twenty and
thirty miles over mountain roads between mission
stations. On these visitations no fatigue ever caused
him to omit long hours in the confessional. He was
always accessible to the humblest in the parish. No
man in the state had so extended and varied acquain-
tance, and no one followed with such interest all
that concerned the individual members of the flock,
whatever they might be. He lived to see the popu-
lation of his diocese increase almost three fold, and
the number of priests to multiply in the same ratio.
New churches sprang up everywhere, and to-day
every part of the state is provided for spiritually.
He built the beautiful cathedral, the chapel of the
Blessed Sacrament, St. Patrick's Church, the Rosary
Chapel, and various schools, orphanages, hospitals,
and an asylum.
He always rose at six, no matter what the
fatigues of the day before. His morning medita-
tion and prayer over, he celebrated the Holy Sacri-
fice of the Mass at seven o'clock, and even on week
day mornings he addressed the people a short in-
struction appropriate to the feast or the season. All
day long he was ready to receive any callers, and
his threshold was worn by the footsteps of the poor
and the unfortunate. Patient, indulgent, sympa-
thetic, he listened to their tales and relieved their
wants. As the beginning of the day was spent in
meditation, so was the end of it. He passed many
hours in the little chapel of the household, seeking
light and refreshment.
The relations between the bishop and his priests
were most intimate and cordial. Bishop Bradley
never had a case of contention in any ecclesiastical
court. When correction or reproof was to be ad-
ministered it was always done in the kindest, gent-
lest manner, and the one admonished never bore
resentment. He was more like a father than a
superior, and no bishop was ewer more beloved by
his priests. No guest was more welcome than he to
their homes. His intercourse was always affable,
and his conversation easy and entertaining. No
man ever heard him say an unkind or uncharitable
word of another, and he was always ready to take up
the defense of tlie timid, the weak or the unfor-
tunate. He in turn held in high esteem the priests
of his diocese. To him they were the best priests
in the world ; they were to him a source of pride
and joy, and he loved every one of them, to the
least and last, with the tenderness of a fond father.
In his dealings with people in general Bishop
Bradley was "All things to all men," that he might
win all to God. He remembered names and faces,
and never forgot family concerns. Though always
dignified and reserved, he always made one feel at
ease in his presence and inspired confidence without
fear, and the greatest sinner, as well as the timidest
child, felt no hesitation in approaching him in the
sacred tribunal of penance.
In the passing away of Bishop Bradley the dio-
cese of Manchester mourns the loss of a good shep-
herd; the people of the city a devoted pastor;
the state an eminent citizen; the poor a friend; the
suffering a comforter; the bereaved a consoler; the
doubtful a counselor; and all a benefactor.
This name was transported from England
RIX to America before the middle of the seven-
teenth century, and has since been identi-
fied with the progress of New England and other
sections of the country. It was very early planted
in New Hampshire and is still numerously repre-
sented in this state.
(I) Robert Rix was a resident of Canninghall,
England, and probably died there.
(II) Thomas, son of Robert Rix, was born 1622,
at Canninghall, and was in Salem, Massachusetts,
as early as 1649. He was a barber surgeon, and
spent his last days with his son James in Old Pres-
ton, Connecticut, where he died October 30, 1718.
He was buried in the "Rixtown Cemetery" in Old
Preston. He was married (first) to Margaret,
widow of Miles Ward, who died May 24, 1660. He
was married (second) September 3, 1661, to
Bridget (Musket), a native of Pelham, England,
then the widow of Williarn Fiske. She was the
mother of his youngest child. His children in-
cluded : Remember, Sarah, Esther, Thomas, James
and Theophelus.
(III) James, second son and fifth child of
Thomas and Margaret Rix, was baptized in the
First Church of Salem, October 18, 1657. He lived
in Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts, and in 1703
removed to Old Preston, Connecticut. He was a
shipwright and farmer, and had a farm in the last
named town, on which he died. He was buried
September 29, 1729, in the "Rixtown Cemetery."
His wife's Christian name was Margaret, but no
record of her beyond that appears. Their children
were : Abigail, James, Sarah, Margaret, Thomas,
Lydia, Mary and Elizabeth.
(IV) James (2), eldest son and second child of
James (i) and Margaret Rix, was baptized in the
First Church of Salem in April, 1685. He was not
of age when the family removed to Old Preston,
Connecticut, where he resided and where his children
were born. Before 1752 he removed to Mendon,
Massachusetts, and the date of his death does not
appear of record. He was married, September 7,
1711, to Anna Herrick, who was born February 5,
1696, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Cross) Her-
rick, The date of her death does not appear, but
it occurred before his removal from Preston to
Mendon. He was married in the latter town in 1752
to Mehitable Palmer, of Rowley, Massachusetts,'
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Felt) Palmer. His
children, born of the first marriage, were ; Abigail,
Nathaniel and Anna.
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(V) Nathaniel, only son of James (2) and Anna
(Herrick) Rix, was born June 6, 1714, in Preston,
Connecticut, and was one of the first settlers of
Boscawen, New Hampshire, where he located in
1733- He afterward lived in Concord for a time,
the first two children being born there, and then re-
turned to Boscawen. He was a soldier of the Co-
lonial Wars; first, in 1745, in John dough's com-
pany, and second, in 1755, in Captain Joseph East-
man's company. His death was caused by falling
down a flight of stairs in a hotel in Concord. He
was married in that town April 17, 1743, to Mary
Peters, daughter of Seaborn Peters. Their children
were : James, Peter, Sarah, Nathaniel and Christo-
pher, besides a daughter who died unnamed.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), third son and fifth child of
Nathaniel (i) and Wary (Peters) Rix, was born July
i7i 1/53. in Boscawen, New Hampshire, and settled
in Landaff, in this state, from which town he
served three enlistments during the war of the
Revolution. He removed to Stansted, Canada, in
1799, but subsequently returned to New Hampshire
and died in Littleton, October 12, 1828. He mar-
ried Esther Clark, who was born April 13, 175S,
in Newmarket, New Hampshire, daughter of John
and Esther (Knights) Clark. She survived him
nearly four years and died in the same house, July
18, 1832. Their children were: Nathaniel, Esther,
John, Ebenezer, Polly, George, Ruth, Clark, Hale,
Margaret and William.
(VH) Nathaniel (3), eldest child of Nathaniel
(2) and Esther (Clark) Rix, was born November
26, 1777, in LandafT, New Hampshire, and resided
in Stansted, Canada, until the war of 1812 broke
out, when he returned to his native state and settled
in Littleton. He was an active citizen of that
town and employed many years in town afifairs.
He died in Dalton, New Hampshire, October, 1856.
He was married March 3, 1802, to Rebecca Eastman,
who was born September 23, 1780, in Bath, daughter
of Obadiah and Elizabeth (Searls) Eastman. (See
Eastman VH). She survived her husband more
than ten years, and died in Dalton, April 27, 1867.
Their children were : Guy C, Lucretia, Narcissa,
Percis, Wilder P., Benjamin F., Charles and Re-
becca J.
(Vni) Guy Carlton, eldest child of Nathaniel
(3) and Rebecca (Eastman) Rix, was born Decem-
ber 14, 1802, in Stansted, Canada, and was brought
up in Littleton, New Hampshire. Like most young
men of his time he was reared on a farm, and in
the old acceptance of that term was not liberally
educated. His schooling was confined to the com-
mon schools, but this training was supplemented
by careful study and voluminous research. To a
strong practical training he added by his own exer-
tions an unusual literature culture. He possessed
a great taste for the study of classics. In early life
he learned the trade of edge-tool making and proved
to be a skillful workman. He became an itinerant
mechanic, and lived in Barnston, Compton, and a
second time in Barnston, Canada ; in Kirhy, Water-
ford, Danville and East St. Johnsbury, Vermont ;
Runiney and Littleton, New Hampshire ; Middle-
fort, Hartland and Jeddo, New York; and Man-
chester and Dowagiac, Michigan. Before living in
Dowagiac he spent a second period at Jeddo, New
York. He died in Dowagiac, January 14, 1879.
He was married January 4, 1826, to Martha Gates,
who was born August 10, 1807, in East St. Johnsbury,
Vermont, daughter of Thomas and Patty (Plumley)
Gates. She survived him thirteen years, and died
.A.pril 28, 1892, in Dowagiac, Michigan. Their chil-
dren were : Caroline, Guy Scoby, Joel Eastman,
Joseph, Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Martha, Benja-
min Franklin, Charles and Wilder Pierce.
(IX) Guy Scoby, eldest son and second child
of Guy Carlton and Martha (Gates) Rix, was born
November 12, 1828, in Littleton, New Hampshire.
He received a limited education in the common
schools, and attended one term in the high school at
Rumney, New Hampshire, and one winter in the
common school in Middleport, New York, which
was his last schooling. At the age of sixteen he
accompanied his parents to Western New York,
and in the fall of that year (1844) they removed
from Hartland to Middleport, about ten miles
away. A year latter they removed to the little
town of Jeddo, about five miles from Middle-
port, on the "Ridge Road." There he re-
mained, working for his father in the shop until
185 1, when his parents removed to Michigan and
he returned east to visit his grandparents, who
were living at Haverhill, New Hampshire. Here
he met the lady whom he afterwards made his wife,
and in consequence concluded to live in his native
state. He entered the employ of Jonathan S.
Nichols, of Haverhill, working in the blacksmith
department, and remained until the spring of 1853,
when he went to Littleton, his native town. Here
he entered the employ of Daniel C. Quimby, a
carriage manufacturer, but in July of the same year
he left and went to Manchester, Michigan, where
his parents were then residing. There he entered
into partnership with Mr. Munroe Ingraham in the
foundry and machine business. In May, 1854, he
returned east for his bride and was married on the
date of their meeting after a separation of almost
three years. Immediately after their marriage he
returned to Michigan, but was taken down in the
fall with fever and ague, which malady also at-
tacked his wife. Being dissatisfied with conditions
there he disposed of his interest in business and
returned to Littleton, and again entered the employ
of Mr. Quimby. In the spring of 1855 he removed
to Concord, New Hampshire, and took employ-
ment in the shops of Lewis Downing & Sons, car-
riage makers, where he remained until the war of
1861, when he removed to western New York and
located in a village between Niagara and Orleans
counties. In company with his brother Joel he here
began the business of carriage making and custom
blacksmithing, and this continued until July I, 1862,
when he enlisted as a soldier in defence of the
Union and became a member of Company A, One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth New Y'ork Volunteer In-
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fantry, under Captain Erastus Spalding and Colonel
Peter A. Porter, of Niagara Falls. He was
mustered into the service August 22, 1862, at Lock-
port, and on the next day the regiment was on the
way to Baltimore, Maryland, where it did guard
duty in and around the city for some time. On
December i8th of that year the regiment was re-
organized as the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery.
In Grant's campaign, 1864. it was ordered to the
front. ]\Ir. Rix was appointed armorer at Federal
Hill, Baltimore. October 26, 1862 and became bri-
gade armorer at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Way
17, 1863, and artificer in May of the following year.
He participated in the battles of North Anna River,
Cold Harbor (June 30, 1S64) and the engagements
in front of Petersburg (June 16-17-18-22). In the
last engagement he was wounded and taken to the
rear. He was taken to Washington. D. C, and
placed in Mount Pleasant hospital, where his right
leg was amputated July 7, 1864. His wife went to
Washington and cared for him until early in No-
vember of that year, when they both went to Jeddo,
to the old home of his father, which he had pur-
chased while in the service. In February, 1865, he
returned to the hospital again in Washington, and
was discharged March 25 of that year. He returned
to Jeddo and commenced the carriage business
anew, which he continued for eight years. In 1873
he made a visit to the east, and finding a favorable
opening for himself he returned to New York and
sold out his plant, and in November, 1873, moved
his family to Concord, New Hampshire. Here he
entered the employ of the Concord Carriage Com-
pany as foreman of the blacksmithing department.
In 1879 he was offered flattering inducements to
go to St. Louis as superintendent Of a large carriage
manufactory, and accepted, and a year later he
moved his family to St. Louis, but the climate
proved injurious to his wife's health, and he re-
turned his family to Concord, but continued to hold
his position in St. Louis for a period of four years.
At the end of that time his employers abandoned
carriage manufacturing and .engaged in the pro-
duction of street cars, and he resigned his position
and returned to Concord and re-entered the service
of the Concord Carriage Company. Since 1898
he has been retired from labor at his trade. Mr.
Rix has always possessed a strong taste for litera-
ture, and despite his lack of education has turned
out some very creditable works. He is the author
of an exhaustive history of the Eastman family and
of the Rix famib', and has done a great deal- of
genealogical work in connection with various fam-
ilies. He has been a contributor of material to
numerous town histories in his native state, and
still at his great age manipulates the typewriter and
produces genealogical matter of value to many peo-
ple. He has been a strong temperance man all his
life, and is probably the oldest "Son of Temperance"
in this state, if not in the United States, having
been initiated in June, 1847, in Jeddo Division No.
27. by the great temperance advocate, Philip S.
White, of Philadelphia. He was also made an Odd
Fellow in Moose Hillock Lodge, No. 25, in Haver-
hill, New Hampshire, in January, 1852. He is a
member of E. E. Sturtevant Post No. 2. Grand
Army of the Republic, at Concord. He is a justice
of the peace and quorum. Both he and his wife are
members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
of Concord. He was married in Warren, New
Hampshire, May 28, 1854, by Rev. James Adams,
to Abigail Augusta Place, who was born February
I, 1835, in Haverhill, New Hampshire, daughter of
James and Mary Lovejoy (Gould) Place. Follow-
ing is a brief account of their children: Mary Louise,
born in Strafford, New Hampshire, is the wife of
Samuel Alfred Clay, residing in Concord, and has
two children : Martha Abbie, a native of Concord,
resides in that town, the widow of Herbert L. Tre-
vette, and she has three children ; Guy Carlton, born
in Concord, resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and
had two daughters; Minnie, a native of Jeddo, New
York, is a wife of Howard S. Smart, and resides
in Concord, having two children, Frank, a native
of Jeddo, is unmarried and lives with his parents.
The same is true of James Carlton, who was born in
Concord.
The family herein traced was not
WHIT,A.KER among the Puritan Pilgrims, but
has long been identified with
Massachusetts and New Hampshire in a worthy
manner. It seems impossible to discover positively
the time of arrival in America.
(I) The first of record appears in Shirley,
Massachusetts, where John Whitaker had a son
born in 1744. John Whitaker is supposed to have
come from England, but no record is found of his
birth, death or marriage.
(II) John (2) Whitaker. son of John (i), was
born. 1744. in Shirley, Massachusetts, and died Oc-
tober I, 1829. He was married in Groton, Massa-
chusetts, December 23, 1766, to Thankful Pierce,
who was born in the same year as himself, and
survived him nearly two years, dying September 6,
1831. They were the parents of ten children,
namely : David, John, Susan, William (died
young), Susanna. William, Lucy, Asa, Levi and
Anna.
(III) David, eldest son of John (2) and
Thankful (Pierce) Whitaker, was born January 26.
1767, probably in Groton. and died September 24,
1852. in Pittsford, Vermont. His first wife was
Lydia Fish, who died November 24, 1791, leaving
one child, Polly, who became the wife of John Rice,
and the mother of eight children. Mr. Whitaker
married (second) Anna Beach, who was born
.Vugust 3. 1771. at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and
died April 21, 1867, in Bethel, Vermont. They were
the parents of twelve children, all of whom were
born in Windsor. Vermont, namely: David (died
young), Ira, Nancy, Marshall. John. David. George,
Reuben, Chancey, Lydia Fish, Caroline and Paschal.
(IV) Lydia Fish, second daughter and tenth
child of David and Anna (Beach) Whitaker. was
born December 23, 181 1, in Windsor, Vermont, and
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died June 21, 1886, in Montpclicr, same state. She
was married January 11. 1S2S, to Mulfred Dayton
Eullard. (See Bullard, VII).
This is a family long identified with
BISHOP the history of New Hampshire, and
early implanted in Massachusetts. It
was conspicuous in struggles w'ith the Indians, in
the days of settlement in the Merrimack \'alley,
and bore its part in subduing those enemies of
civilization. It was also identified with the pioneer
times of other 'sections of the state and aided in
settling the Connecticut Valley, as well as the Mer-
rimack.
(I) Edmund Bishop, emigrant ancestor of one
of the several Bishop families early in New Eng-
land, settled before 1640 in that part of Salem
Village which is now in Beverly, Massachusetts.
He was a husbandman and also a sawyer. His first
wife Hannah, the mother of his children, died be-
fore 16S0. He married (second) Budget Oliver,
widow of Thomas Oliver. She was executed as a
witch June 10, 1692, and he married (third), March
9. 169.3. Elizabeth Cash. He was not living in 1715,
and his children were : Hannah, Edward and
Mary.
(ID Edward (2). only son of Edward (i) and
Hannah Bishop, was born in 1648 and baptized April
23, of that year. Previous to 1703 he was a resi-
dent of Salem Village, and removed thence to
Rehoboth. Massachusetts, where he w-as an inn
holder, and there died May 12. 171 1. He married
Sarah Wildes, of Topsfield. Massachusetts, and
their sons were : Edward, Samuel, Jonathan and
Ebenezer.
(III) Edward (3), eldest son of Edward (2)
and Sarah (Wildes) Bishop, was born about 1680
in Salem Village, and lived in Salem, Ipswich and
in Newbury. The Christian name of his wife was
Susanna, and they had sons, Josiah, James, Daniel
and Benjamin.
(IV) Josiah. eldest son of Edward (3) and
Susanna Bishop, lived in Ipswich until 1727, when
he removed to Newbury, Massachusetts. About
1740 he removed to Boscawen, New Hampshire,
and was there engaged in clearing land, but it is
probable that his family remained in Newbury.
Only one member became a resident of New Hamp-
shire. In the summer of 1746, while at work in his
fields at Boscawen. he was surprised and captured
by the Indians, and because of his resistance he was
slain. He was married February 7. 1704, to Sarah
Adams, who was a daughter of Thomas Adams.
Four_of their children were born in Ipswich, and
four in "Newbury. They were: Bethia. Susanna,
Sarah. Enos, Jeremiah (died young), Lydia, Benja-
min and Jemima. ,
(V) Enos, eldest son of Joseph and Sarah
(Adams) Bishop, was born January 31, 1705, in
Ipswich. Massachusetts. Soon after attaining his
majority, before 1739, he removed from Newbury.
Massachusetts, to Boscawen. New Hampshire, and
in 1754, when the Indians made their memorable at-
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tack on the cabin and the family of Philip Call,
Enos Bishop was one of the thirteen men who set
out in pursuit of the enemy. The company fell into
an ambush, and he was captured and taken to Can-
ada. He subsequently escaped and returned to
Boscawen, where he lived until 1769, when he re-
moved to Lisbon. New Hampshire. In 1775 he
served in Captain Jane Osgood's company of
rangers upon the northern frontiers, and in the
following year he completed an enlistment in Col-
onel Bedel's regiment. In the autumn of 1776 he
enlisted in the Continental service and served in the
first New Hampshire record of ■ Colonel Cilley's
regiment. In the descriptive roll of New Hamp-
shire soldiers in 1778 he is called fifty-two years of
age, and described as five feet seven inches in
stature, with light complexion. He was reported
sick Januan,- 10, 177S. and died in the service
August 8 of that year. He was married in New-
bury, Massachusetts, November 21, 1749, to Eliza-
beth Belamy. She 'died while he was in captivity,
and he sub'^equently married Anna (surname un-
known). Two children were born of the first wife,
namely : Josiah. who was a prominent citizen of
Lisbon (his name is erroneously printed Jonah in
the "History of Boscawen") ; and Susanna. The
children of the second wife were : John, who lived
in Lyme, New Hampshire ; Elizabeth. Sarah, Han-
nah, Benjamin (who was a Methodist minister and
lived in Lancaster), and Enos, who lived in Lisbon,
(VI) John, second son and third child of Enos
Bishop, and eldest child of his second wife. .\nna,
was born December 10, 1757, in Boscawen, and was
twelve years of age when his parents removed to
Lisbon. He was a soldier in Colonel Bedel's regi-
ment in 1776. and in the autumn of that year went
into the Continental service and was assigned ta
Colonel Cille.v's regiment, in which his father served.
He was discharged in 1780, and in old age drew a
pension for his military services. He resided in
Lyme, New Hampshire, and was living as late as-
1840. The records of this town have been burned,
and full account of his family cannot be secured.
(VII) John (2), son of John (i) Bishop, was
born 1784, probably in Lyme, and resided in Han-
over, New Hampshire, where both he and his wife
died in 1826. Both were admitted to the church at
Hanover Center in 1816. He was chosen -a town
officer at the annual meeting in March. 1812. He
was married in Hanover, October 29, 1809, to Abi-
gail Parker, who was born March 7. 1789. in Han-
over, daughter of Dan and Beulah (Smith) Parker.
They had children : Harriet ; Mary Ann : John Gil-
man, born August 28, 1817; James Monroe, whose
sketch follows ; and Isaiah Moody, born September
21. 1824. Dan Parker was a Revolutionary pen-
sioner and was living as late as 1840 in Canaan.
New Hampshire.
(VIII) James Monroe Bishop, second son and
fourth child of John and Abigail (Parker) Bishop,
was born in Hanover. New Hampshire. May 14,
1821. and died at Stamford. Connecticut. June 16,
iSoi. .^t the age of seven years the death of both
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of his parents left him an orphan, after which he
was adopted by his maternal grandparents, who re-
moved to Canaan, New Hampshire, about 1840.
While living in Hanover he had attended school
and there laid the foundation which he had not the
means to complete in an academic course, but by
working out among the farmers of the locality of
his home, and by teaching school during the winter
seasons, he earned money sufficient to improve him-
self in the academies at Lebanon and Canaan. In
the spring of 1846 he took up the study of medicine
with Dr. Jones, of Canaan, afterward continued it
with Dr. Wheat, and still later spent two years
under the preceptorship of Dr. Mead, of East
Andover. During this time in connection with his
studies he taught school as a means of supporting
himself.
In the winter of 1848-49 Dr. Bishop taught
school in Maine, and in the following spring went
to Plymouth as assistant to Dr. Goodrich, with the
intention to succeed him in practice upon his re-
moval from that town, which then was his purpose ;
but as Dr. Goodrich afterward decided to remain in
Plymouth he went to Bristol, New Hampshire, and
began practice there in November, 1849, and from
that time until his death he was one of the most
prominent and popular figures in medical circles in
Grafton county.
His professional career was begun in accordance
with the teachings of the old school of medicine,
and at a time when the doctrines propounded by
Hahnemann were attracting great attention in the
medical world but were not tolerated in any of the
established schools of medical instruction; nor were
those who proposed to practice according to the law
of similars permitted to matriculate at any of the
so-called regular schools. Although he was well
grounded in medicine and held a license to practice,
Dr. Bishop felt the need of a medical course leading
to the degree, and with a determination to accom-
plish that end he entered the Eclectic Medical Col-
lege at Worcester, Massachusetts, completed the
course of that institution and .graduated M. D. in
1855. After graduation Dr. Bishop practiced gen-
eral medicine in Bristol and its vicinity under the
eclectic system for about fifteen years, and then be-
came a full convert to the doctrine of siinilia sim-
ilibus curantui: As an eclectic he "was a member of
the New Hampshire Eclectic Medical Society,
serving as censor, vice-president and president of
that body. During the last tvventy' years 'Of -hi*
professional life he adhered strictly to the homoeo-
pathic practice and was one of the ablest exponents
of that school of medicine in the state. He held
membership in the Homoeopathic Medical Society
of the State of New Hampshire and served as its
vice-president, president and sccrctarj-, holding the
latter office at the time of his death.
Dr. Bishop was seventy years old at the time of
his death, which o'ccurred at Stamford, Connecticut,
while on the way to attend the session of the Inter-
national Hahnemannian Association at Atlantic
City, New Jersey, in June, 1S91. During the forty-
three years of his residence in Bristol he was
closely associated with the best interests and his-
tory of that town. His practice always was large and
occupied much of his time, yet he took an earnest in-
terest in the welfare of the town and its institutions.
He was town treasurer from i860 to 1870; one of
the incorporators of the Bristol Savings Bank in
1868 ; member of the superintending school com-
mittee in 1866, 1872, 1875 and again in 1884; mem-
ber of the board of education of Union School Dis-
trict No. 2 in 1878 and l88r ; trustee of the Minot-
Sleeper Public Library from 1884 to the time of his
death, and at one time a member of the Bristol
Board of Health. He was a member and one of the
officiary of the Methodist Episcopal Church of
Bristol, a Free and Accepted Mason, and in politics
was a Republican.
Dr. James Monroe Bishop married, November
II, 1852, Margaret Ayer Locke. She was born in
Concord, New Hampshire, August 13. 1832, daugh-
ter of Samuel B. and Betsey (Philbrick) Locke.
Their children : Mary Abbie Bishop, their eldest
child, was born in Bristol, graduated in Classical
course from Tilton Seminary, taught school in
Bristol one year, and studied music at the New
England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massa-
chusetts. She now lives in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Daniel Locke Bishop, their second child, was born
in Bristol, May 15, 1856, and died August 26, 1856.
Lizzie Belle Bishop, their third child, was born in
Bristol, graduated from Chelsea (Massachusetts)
high school in 1877, and from the classical depart-
ment of Tilton Seminary in 1878. She afterward
taught four years in the graded school of Bristol
and on^ year in Dickinson Seminary at Williams-
port, Pennsylvania. She married. August 23, 1893,
Edwin H. Johnson, of Lynn, ]\Iassachusetts, who
died March 22, 1894. Channing Bishop, their young-
est son and child, is a practicing physician of
Bristol.
(IX) Channing Bishop was born in Bristol,
July 26, 1864. His earlier literary education was
acquired in the Bristol public schools and Tilton
Seminary, and his higher education at Brown Uni-
versity, Providence, Rhode Island. He was edu-
cated for the profession of medicine, first under the
instruction of his father, and afterward at the Bos-
ton L^niversity School of Medicine, where he made
the course and graduated M. D. in June, 1889.
Since he came to the degree in medicine. Dr. Bishop
...has engaged in active general practice in Bristol,
and iii' connection with professional pursuits has
taken a commendable interest in that town and its
institutions. He was appointed a member of the
board of education of Union" School District No. 2
in 1891, and served as superintelident from 1893 to
1896. On the death of his father," in 1S91, he was
appointed to succeed him as secretary of the board
of trustees of the Minot-Sleeper Public Library,
and since 1891 he has been a member of that lioard.
He is a member, and in 1S99 was master of Union
Lodge, .•\ncient Free and Accepted MasouN; mem-
ber and secretary of Cardigan Lodge, Independent
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Order of Odd Fellows ; charter member of Merrill
Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and ex-
member of the Bristol Board of Health
Dr. Bishop married, May 15, 1893, Lena B.
Cragin. She was born December 24. 1866, a daugh-
ter of Richard W. and Nancy Jane (Emery)
Cragin. Richard W. Cragin was born November
21, 1825, in We.ston, Vermont, and was married July
15, i860, to Nancy Jane Emery. She was born June
29, 1834, at East Andover, New Hampshire, a
daughter of William A. Emery. The children of
Richard W. and Nancy J. Cragin were : George E.,
born April 10. 1861 ; and Lena B., December 24,
1866.
Investigation tends to establish the
WILL.\RD origin of the name Willard in the
old German duchy of Alsace or in
Lorraine, its neighbor. In the time of William the
Conqueror, the family was fully established in Eng-
land, and from the time of the compilation of
Doomsday Book until now, Willards have been resi-
dents in the counties of Sussex and Kent. The im-
mediate ancestors of Simon Willard, the immigrant
progenitor of the Willards of this article, resided
in the southwesterly part of Kent in the hundred of
Brenchley and Horsmonden.
(I) Richard Willard was a man of substance
in the village of Horsmonden, and was residing
there at the time of his death, February, 1616 (Old
Style). He was married three times, his last wife
surviving him only a few days, and being buried on
the 25th of the same month. Seven children sur-
vived him : they were : Margery. Simon, George,
Mary, Richard, Elizabeth and Catharine.
(II) Major Simon Willard. son of Richard
Willard, was born at Horsmonden, probably in the
early part of the year 1605, and was baptized in the
church at that place April 7, 1605. His mother died
before he reached the age of four years, and when
he was twelve years old his father and stepmother
died. He seems to have been well educated, and was
probably engaged in active business during the
years of his majority at Horsmonden. He em-
barked from England in April, 1634, in company
with his sister Margery, and her husband. Captain
Dolor Davis, and arrived at Boston about tlie mid-
dle of the month of May, after a short and very
prosperous voyage. Six ships arrived at Boston
about this time, and there is no record to show in
which of these Simon Willard crossed the Atlantic.
Soon after his arrival he established himself at
Cambridge. He is entitled "Merchant" by Governor
Winthrop in 1635. He dealt also extensively with
the Indians of the interior, and engaged in the pur-
chase and exportation of furs. August 4, 1634, a
tract of land was granted him, consisting of one
hundred acres, upon which he had a dwelling house.
This w-as bounded on the east by Charles river. In
the village of Cambridge he had a house lot. which
he sold, probably about 1639. By trading with the
Indians he had become acquainted with the situa-
tion of Musquctaquid, a place of pleasant aspect and
easy cultivation and to this he directed his attention.
A grant was made by the general court, September
2, 1635. of "a plantation at Musquetaquid * * *
six myles of land square to belonge to it." Winthrop
says that this grant was made "to Mr. Buckly
(Bulkeley) and (Simon Willard), mer-
chant, and about 12 more families," and was named
Concord. Here he was one of the leading men of
the town, being town clerk till 1654, and representa-
tive fourteen years. He was chosen assistant twen-
ty-two years from 1654 to his death, and was very
nutch employed in the public business of the coun-
try. As a surveyor he was celebrated. About 1652
he was sent as a commissioner to establish the
northern boundary of Massachusetts at the head of
the Merrimack river, and it is said that the letters
S. W. which some years since were found upon the
Bound Rock near Lake Winnepesaukee are probably
the initials of his name.
For prominent service in the settlement of Lan-
caster he was presented with a large tract of land,
and it is supposed that he moved to that town in
1659. Subsequent to his removal he acquired a strip
of territory in Groton, now situated in the town of
.Ayer. This land has been known as the Nonas-
coicus grant, it being adjacent to a brook of this
name. L^pon this tract he erected a house, probably
in 1671. This house was attacked and burned by
the Indians, March 13. 1676. The family were ab-
sent at the time, warning having been given of the
approach of the Indians. The more prominent mil-
itary service of Simon Willard as related to the
public began when, in 1653. he was appointed ser-
geant-major of the forces of Middlesex county. In
October, 1654, he was made commander-in-'chief of
a levy of a little more than three hundred footmen
and horsemen who were sent out by the tmited
colonies in an expedition against Ninigret, the
Sachem of the Niantics, returning to Boston with
his troops by October 24. The result of the ex-
pedition was the obtaining of a satisfactory agree-
ment w'ith Ninigret and also with the Pequod In-
dians.
In the early part of King Philip's war he organ-
ized the Colonial troops, and one of his first acts in
the field was the relief of the Brookficld garrison.
Soon after he was in command of a considerable
force sent to range the country about Brookfield.
In this service he was employed from September 20,
1675. to April iS, 1676. An old record states "the
Major was employed about the country business,
Settling of Garrisons in towns and settling of In-
dians at Concord and Chelmsford, and other busi-
ness." For several months Major Willard was oc-
cupied in the various towns assisting in their de-
fense, and soon after the return of the Narragan-
sett expedition at the arrival of Canonchet in the
Nipmuck country, the council ordered him to raise
a large force of mounted men to do duty in the vi-
cinity of Groton, Lancaster and Marlboro. He re-
turned from the war and went to Charlestown,
where he died April 24. 1676. He was not an ultra
religionist, and was a very useful man in the colony.
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He married (first), in England, ]\Ian,- Sharpe, born
at Horsmonden in 1614, daughter of Henry and
Jane (Feylde) Sharpe. ilarried (second) Elizabeth
Dunster, sister of Rev. Henry Dunster, of Harvard
College. She died about a year after marriage.
Married (third) Mary Dunster, a cousin of Eliza-
beth. She survived the major and married Deacon
Noyes, of Sudbury. To Major Willard were born
seventeen children, of whom nine sons and five
daughters arrived at mature age. The children of
the first wife were: Mary, Elizabeth (died young),
Elizabeth, Dorothy, Josiah, Samuel and Sarah. By
the third : Abovehope, Simon, Mary, Henry, John,
Daniel, Joseph. Benjamin, Hannah and Jonathan.
(HI) Henr}-, fourth child and second son of
Major Simon and Mary (Dunster) Willard, was
born at Concord, June 4, 1655, and died in Lan-
caster, August 27, 1701. He died, leaving a good
estate, and a large heritage of children. He resided
first in Groton, but spent the greater part of his life
in Lancaster. He married, July 18, 1674. when at
the age of nineteen, Mary Lakin, daughter of
Lakin, of Groton. She died probably not later than
1688, and he married (second), about 1&S9, Dorcas
Cutler. She survived him, and married (second)
Benjamin Bellows, for many years a resident of
Lancaster. There were seven children born to
Henry Willard by his first wife, and seven by the
second. They were : Henry, Simon, John, Heze-
kiah, Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Samuel, James, Josiah,
Jonathan, .Abigail, Susanna and Tabitha.
(IV) Henry (2), eldest child of Henry (l)
and Mary (Lakin) Willard, was born at Groton.
April II, 1675. He resided in Lancaster, and by a
change of town lines in Harvard after 1732. He
married (first), July 21, 1798, Abigail Temple.
Married (second), previous to 1810. Sarah Nutting.
He had tw-elve children, as follow'S : .Abraham,
Henry, Simon, James, William. Daniel. Benjamin,
Mary, Abigail, Sarah, Lydia and Ruth.
(V) Henry (3), son of Henry (2) and Abigail
(Temple) Willard, was born at Lancaster about
1700, and died in Harvard, January 6, 1774. After
1732 he lived in Harvard, where ten or eleven chil-
dren were bom. He married. May 24. 1726, Abigail
Fairbanks, of Lancaster. Among his children were
sons Oliver, Timothy, Jacob and John, who were
residents of Ashburnham.
(VI) Deacon John, son of Henry (3) and Abi-
gail (Fairbanks) Willard, was born in Harvard,
July 26, 1739, and died July 3, 1793. He moved to
Ashburnham in 1768, and settled on a farm. He
was a leading man in town affairs until failing
health prevented a continued service. In 1772 he
was chosen a deacon, and in 1788 expressed a desire
to be relieved of the duties of the office. The
esteem of his brethren is reflected in their respon-
sive vote : "That the church thank him for his past
services, and they wish him better health, and that
he would officiate as often as his health will admit."
He died after a lingering illness of consumption.
He married, in 1765, Sarah Willard, born Novem-
ber 14, 1746, died November 18, 1834. Their mar-
riage intentions were recorded in Harvard, January
6. 1765. Their children were: John, Silas, Simon.
Sarah, Henry, Susannah, Abigail, Elijah, Ezra and
Jonas.
(VII) Captain John (2), eldest child of Deacon
John (i) and Sarah (Willard) Willard, was born
October 26, 1766, and died March 23, 1S50. aged
eighty-three years. He was a farmer, a captain of
militia, and a selectman several years. He married,
April s. 1792, Deborah Wilder, born in Lancaster,
in 1774, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth (Wood-
ward) Wilder, of Ashburnham. She died October
24, 1859. aged nearly eighty-six years. Their chil-
dren were: John, Caleb, Deborah (died young),
Emery, Nelson, Elizabeth, Merrick, Deborah, Susan,.
Abigail, and an infant which died May 16, 1816.
(VIII) Emery, fourth child and third son of
Captain John (2) and Deborah (Wilder) Willard.
was born in Ashburnham, November 24, x8oo. He
lived in Brighton. He married Irene Benjamin,
daughter of Daniel and Tamezin (Felton) Benja-
min, of Ashburnham. She was the youngest of ten
children, born February 20, 1805. They were the
parents of eleven children.
(IX) Louisa Maria, daughter of Emery and
Irene (Benjamin) Willard, was born in Ashburn-
ham, and married Edward M. Simmons (see Sim-
mons III).
The name of Lovewell, or Lovell.
LOVEWELL is connected with some of the
■ most hazardous and daring acts
recorded in the history of New England ; and the
name and ser\'ices of Captain Lovewell will not be
forgotten as long as the history of Indian warfare-
is read.
(I) John Lovewell is said to have been an en-
sign in Cromwell's army about 1653, and to have
died about 1754. at the remarkable age of one hun-
dred and twenty years, but there is perhaps no cer-
tain proof of his military service or of his remark-
able longevity. However, he witnessed a will in
Boston in 1660; and if he was then twenty years old,
which is probable, he was one hundred and sixteen
when he died. He probably settled first at Wey-
mouth. Massachusetts, and later -at Dunstable, in
that part of the township (near Salmon brook)
which afterward fell within the town of Nashua,
New Hampshire, where he was one of the first
permanent residents. He was with the famous
Captain Church during King Philip's war, and in
the great Narragansett swamp fight, December 19.
1675, He was one of five persons whose indomit-
able courage prevented the abandonment of the town
of Dunstable by its white inhabitants on account of
Indian troubles, not many years after its settlement.
His name frequently appears in the town records,
and he held the office of selectman and other offices.
He was a man of remarkable courage and physical
vigor. "In 1745, when he must have been about
one hundred and ten years of age," says a writer,
"he was very constant in attendance at church, and
after 1752, 'used to chase the boys out of his orchard'
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■with his caiic' " He had four children : John, men-
tioned below ; Zaccheus, a colonel in the French
war; Jonathan, a preacher, and afterward a judge;
and a daughter Hannah, who married Lieutenant
Josiah . who was killed at Pequawket.
(H) Captain John (2), eldest son of John (l)
Lovewell, of Dunstable, was born October 14, 1691,
and died at Pigwauket, May 8. 172S, aged thirty-
four. He grew up in a very new country, inhabited
by Indians and wild beasts, and was a typical man
of his age and locality. Like his father, he possessed
great courage and was fond of engaging in adven-
turous and daring enterprises. He was particularly
successful in hunting wild animals, and in time of
war was engaged in exploring the wilderness to find
the lurking places of the Indians. There is a tradi-
tional account of his attacking and killing seven In-
dians on Lovewell's mountain in the town of Wash-
ington, in the southeast corner of Sullivan 'COunt\%
but there is no proof to ~ substantiate the legend.
The whole township was once the property of the
Lovewell family, and the mountain takes its name
from them — or him.
The story of Captain Lovewell's expeditions
against the Indians is intensely interesting, but as
it is part of the history of New England and is to
found in various published works, it will be given
only in brief form here. The depredations of the In-
dians had caused the deaths of many settlers in Mas-
sachusetts shortly before 1^24, when, thoroughly
aroused, Captain Lovewell and others petitioned the
general assembly for leave to go against the enemy.
The various earlier expeditions which had gone out
from Dunstable and the surrounding towns had
met with such poor success that Lovewell could
raise only thirty men instead of "near 40 or 50" as
he desired, but with these he started on an excur-
sion to the northward of Winnepiseogee lake. On
December 10, 1724, the party killed an Indian and
captured a boy, and returned home. January 27,
1725. Lovew-ell with a company now of eighty-seven,
hut later reduced to fifty-seven by sending away
thirty, went up the Merrimack and before daylight
of the 2ist stole forward and killed an entire party
of ten well armed Indians, who were on their way
to ravage the New Hampshire frontier. As a re-
ward for this signal success the company received
in Boston a bounty of one thousand pounds from
the public treasury. On April 16, 1725, Captain
Lovewell, with forty-six men. started against the bold
chief Pangus at Pigwauket, now Fryeburg, Maine.
After building a fort and leaving a garrison at Os-
sipee, with thirty-three men besides himself pro-
ceeded to Pigwauket where they ambushed and
killed a lone Indian, but not before he had shot and
killed Captain Lovewell. The command soon after
engaged with thrice their number of Indians. The
"battle was a desperate one and lasted for ten hours.
At sunset the enemy drew off the field, and at mid-
night the English started on their retreat to the set-
tlements. The battle was stubbornly fought ' to a
draw. What the issue would have been if Captain
Lovewell had lived can not be decided now. Forty
Indians including the chief, Pangus, were killed on
the spot, eighteen more died of wounds later, and
about twenty escaped unharmed. Of the Colonists
twelve were killed on the battlefield, eleven were
badly wounded and nine others less seriously
wounded. The percentage of mortality on both sides
was very high. Captain Lovewell's body and the
bodies of his dead comrades were left on the field.
This battle was a disaster severely felt in all the
communities sending forth men on this daring ex-
pedition, but these brave men did not perish in vain.
The forces of the Indians were broken up and the
remnant driven to seek other settlements, thus
largely destroying their power to do harm. The
fame of Captain Lovewell and his men has come
down to us in song and story ; his memory is per-
petuated in the local nomenclature of the Country.
The pond which was the scene of the exploit in
Wakefield, at the head of a branch of Salmon Falls
river, has ever since been known as Lovewell's pond.
The body of water on the banks of which the fight
at Pigwauket took place is also called Lovewell's
pond, and the battle is often referred to as "Love-
well's fight." The several expeditions against the
Indians are often referred to as Lovewell's war.
Only one other person in New England has had a
war named for him, and that one is King Philip.
June 8, 1726, the widow of Captain Lovewell, in a
petition to the general court represents that by rea-
son of his expense in raising volunteers to go
against the Indians, &c., his estate is so much in-
volved that it cannot pay the debts without selling
the real estate. The inventory of his property,
taken November 22. 1725, amounted to four hundred
and forty-four pounds, five shillings and six pence.
His lands and meadows were estimated at two hun-
dred acres, and these and the buildings thereon, and
the half part of a saw mill, were appraised at four
hundred and twenty pounds. Another inventory of
personal property at Chelmsford, made June 29,
1725, contained a list of property valued at fifty
pounds and nineteen shillings. The general court
responded to the widow's petition with a resolution
to pay fifty pounds of Captain Lovewell's debts, and
later made other appropriations for the relief of
his widow. Suncook was granted in 1728 to those
men who took part in the Pigwauket expedition as
a reward for their services.
Captain Lovewell married Hannah , and
they had three children: John, Hannah, and Ne-
hemiah (a posthumous child). His widow married
(second) a man named Smith. She died January
5, I7S4-
(III) Hannah, only daughter of Captam John
and Hannah Lovewell, was born in Barnstable. July
24. 1721. and married Lieutenant Josiah Farwell,
and settled in Pembroke, New Hampshire. (See
Baker IV).
An immigrant from England to
HAYNES America, as early as 1638, was the
ancestor of a numerous progeny of
this name, now scattered throughout the United
States. The character of the family seems to have
been excellent from the beginning of the record.
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(I) Walter Haynes was born in England in
1583, in the town of Sutton, Mandeville, county of
Wilts. He also owned a house and outbuildings in
the village of Shaston, situated on the island of
Purbeck, in the southeastern portion of Dorset-
shire. He, with family and servants, arrived in
Boston in 163S, in the ship "Confidence." In the
same ship came Peter Noyes, yeoman, of Penton,
county of Southampton, with children and servants,
Walter Haynes was a linen weaver, and was fifty-
five years of age when he came to this country.
About a year after his arrival, he with others re-
moved from Watertown, having obtained a grant
for a township named Sudbury, where they settled,
December 22, 1639. He was made freeman 1640.
was representative in the years 1641, 1644, 1648, and
1651, and was one of the selectmen of Sudbury for
ten years. He died February 14, 1665, aged eighty-
two. Nothing is known of his wife Elizabeth.
They had children (date or order of birth un-
known) : Thomas, John, Josiah, Suffrance, Mary,
and another, name unknown.
(H) Josiah (i), son of Walter and Elizabeth
Haynes, was born in England. He married, No-
vember 13, 1646, Elizabeth, daughter of Peter
Noyes, widow of John Freeman. They had chil-
dren : Josiah, Caleb. Joshua, Deborah and Abigail,
(i) Peter Noyes came from England in 163S, in the
same ship with Walter Haynes, bringing with him
three sons and three daughters. At this time he
was forty-seven years of age. His children were :
Thomas, Peter. Josephus, Dorothy. Elizabeth and
Abigail. (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Noyes,
married first. John Freeman, had one son, Joseph,
and a daughter, who married Thomas Gats (?), of
Stow; and after the death of Freeman, married
(second) Josiah Haynes, as above stated.
(IH) Josiah (2), eldest son and child of
Josiah (i) and Elizabeth (Noyes) Haynes, was
born in Sudbury, April 27, 1655, He married Abi-
gail Stark, and they were the parents of several
children.
(IV) Josiah (3), son of- Josiah (2) and Abi-
gail (Stark) Haynes, born 1701, died about 1793-5.
(V) Josiah (4), son of Josiah (3) Haynes,
born December 31, 1732. died December 29. 1814.
He married Susannah (probably Willis), born Sep-
tember 26, T733, died January 15, 1818.
(VI) John, son of Josiah (4) and Susannah
(Willis) (?) Haynes, born September 10, 1762,
died November 21. 1829. He married, October 27.
1785, Sally Forbush, born January 12, 1765, died
March 31, 1826.
(VII) Reuben, son of John and Sally (For-
bush) Haynes, born April 2. 1789, and died' May I,
1854, married, September 26, 1813, Roxana Puffer,
born October 37, T795. died April 18, 1826. He re-
sided in North Sudbury, was a master builder,
owned a farm and kept a tavern.
(VIII) Sarah and Roxana, daughters of
Reuben and Roxana (Puffer) Haynes. became suc-
cessively wives of Daniel Holden. (See Holden
VI).
Michael Sullivan, a native of
SULLIVAN county Kerry, Ireland, emigrated
to this country and settled in Leb-
anon, New Hampshire, from whence he removed
to Bradford, and in 1859 took up his residence in
Manchester. He was a trader throughout the active
years of his life. He married Julia Kane, a native
of county Kerry, Ireland, and nine children were
born to them, three of whom are now living:
Michael J., Roger G., see forward, and Mary B.,
wife of Benjamin J., Spaulding; all reside in Man-
chester. Mr. Sullivan and his family are members
of the Catholic Church.
Roger G. Sullivan, son of Michael and Julia
(Kane) Sullivan, was born in Bradford, New
Hampshire, December 18, 1854. He obtained his
education in the public schools of Bradford and
Park grammar schools of Manchester. He began
work in the Manchester Print Works at an early
age, and continued thus employed until fourteen
years of age. He then went to South Amesbury,
Massachusetts, and served three years' apprentice-
ship at the trade of carriage painting, which line of
work he followed for two years thereafter. In 1874
he returned to Manchester and engaged in the
manufacture and sale of cigars, employing but one
man, but by industry, thrift and rare good manage-
ment he steadily built up the business, and at the
present time (1907) ranks as the largest manufac-
turer of a ten cent cigar in the New England states.
In 18S9 he built his first factory ; in 1895 '^'s business
had increased to such an extent that he was obliged
to make a large addition to his factory; in 1906 he
opened a branch factory at the corner of Auburn
and Canal streets, Manchester, and now (1907) he
gives employment to four hundred hands, his pay
roll amounting to two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year. He manufactures twelve million
cigars annually, ninety-eight per cent of which are
of the brand known as "7-20-4," which are hand-
made and composed of pure Havana filler and im-
ported Sumatra wrapper. This make of cigars
is widely known and very popular, as is evidenced
by the immense sale thereof. Mr. Sullivan pays to
the United States a tax of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars annually.
Mr. Sullivan is a director in the New Hampshire
Fire Insurance Company, Amoskeag National Bank,
Manchester Traction and Power Company, and a
trustee of the Public Library. He is a member of
the Derryfield Club and of the Knights of Colum-
bus. He attends the Catholic Church, and gives
his allegiance to the Democratic party, but has no
time to devote to politics except in a quiet way.
Mr. Sullivan has achieved success by understand-
ing his business thoroughly and strictly attending to
same. He has been alert and quick to discern his
customers' likes and dislikes, and by paying due
regard to them and by industry, perseverance and
square dealing has built up an extensive and lucra-
tive business, one of the principal industries in the-
city.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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Mr. Sullivan married, 1871, Susan C. Fernald,
daugliter of True O. and Susan G. Fernald, of Man-
chester. They have tliree daughters: Mima E.,
Susati A. and Frances E.
This old New England name has
THAYER been borne by some of the ablest men
of New Hampshire, and appears to
have had some prominence in old England before
brought to the Western World in its early settle-
ment. A coat-of-arms was conferred at an early
date upon Augustine Thayer, of Thaydon, a village
in the County of Essex, England, about eighteen
miles north of London. In early days the name had
various spellings, as is common among the colon-
ists of New England, and is found in the old world
as Thear, Their, Theyer, and in its present form,
as conforming to that used in the coat-of-arms. Its
representatives have been potent factors in the
development of the new world in various walks of
life, and have been found ready to support the up-
lifting influences of the world generally.
The first of the name to come to Atnerica were
Richard and Thomas Thayer and their families.
The first record of these two families is that
Richard Thayer was made a freeman in 1640, and
Thomas Thayer was a freeman and received titles
of lands in 1635. From the best information obtain-
able Richard and Thomas Thayer and their families
must have come with the Massachusetts Colony in
1630 or thereabouts, as they were with other fami-
lies that came from Braintree, County of Essex,
England, and who named their town in the New
World the same as the one they left in their native
land. (Thomas and descendants are noticed in
this article).
(I) Richard Thayer, the ancestor of this par-
ticular branch of the family, was born probably in
the county of Essex, England, and came to Boston,
IMassachusetts, w-ith his wife and three sons. He lo-
cated with his family in the town of Braintree, Mas-
sachusetts, where he became a freeman in 1640, as
above mentioned, and was one of the worthy citizens
of his town, residing there until his death, August 27,
1695. He must have been a man of more than the
ordinary mental endowments as the history of his
descendants in each generation has shown men of
remarkable attainments and executive ability. (His
son, Nathaniel and descendants receive mention in
this article).
(II) Richard (2), eldest son and child of Rich-
ard (l) Thayer, was born in England, probably in
the county of Essex, and came to America with
his parents, landing at Boston, and settled at Brain-
tree. He married, October 24, 165 1, Dorothy Pray,
and seven children were born to them : Dorothy,
June 30, 1653; Richard, July 31, 1655; Nathaniel,
January i, 1658; Abigail, February 10, 1661 ; Joanna,
December 13, 1665; Sarah, December, 1667; and
Cornelius, August 18, 1670. The deaths of Richard
and Dorothy (Pray) Thayer occurred December 4,
1705, and December 11, 1705. respectively.
(HI) Nathaniel, third child and second son of
Richard (2) and Dorothy (Pray) Thayer, was born
January I, 1658, in Braintree, Massachusetts. He
resided in his native town throughout his entire
lifetime, and was a man of worth and influence in
the community. He married, May 27, 1679, Hannah
Heydon, and eight children were the issue: Nathan-
iel, Richard, Hannah W., Zachariah, Ruth, Dorothy
L., Lydia H. and David. Nathaniel Thayer (father)
died March 28, 1729, and his estate was settled by
his widow, Hannah Thayer, as appears on the pro-
bate records of Braintree.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest child and son of
Nathaniel (i) and Hannah (Heydon) Thayer, was
born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1680, and died
January 3, 1752. He married (first), November 25,
1704, Sarah Wales, who bore him two children —
Sarah and Hannah — and died in 1707. He married
(second), January 13, 1709, Relief Hyde, and by
this union there were eight children : Nathaniel,
Elizabeth, Josiah, Caleb, Abraham, Hannah, Relief
and Lydia. Mr. Thayer, like his ancestors, resided
in the town of Braintree and was an honored and
highly esteemed citizen thereof.
(V) Nathaniel (3), eldest child and son of Na-
thaniel (2) and Relief (Hyde) Thayer, was born in
the town of Braintree, Massachusetts, October 7,
1709. He was an active and prominent citizen of
his native town, exerted a powerful influence in
behalf of educational interests, and gave his chil-
dren all the advantages obtainable in that early
day. He married, April 3, 1735, Mary Faxon,
daughter of Richard Faxon, and they were the
parents of ten children.
(VI) Rev. Elihu Thayer, D. D., seventh child
and fourth son of Nathaniel and Mary (Faxon)
Thayer, was born in the town of Braintree, jNIassa-
chusetts, JNIarch iS, 1748. He graduated from
Princeton College, New Jersey, and settled in the
ministry at Kingston, New Hampshire, where he
was ordained December 18, 1776. His salary was
si.xty pounds of lawful money, use of parsonage,
and twenty cords of wood a year. He had clear
and logical ideas of what a church in a community
should be, and these ideas he carefully put into
practice with the result that his church was instru-
mental in bringing" many into the fold, and in aiding
his parishioners to lead better and more useful lives.
He was a man of deep piety and spirituality, an
excellent scholar, an eminent and renowned
preacher of the Gospel for more than three and a
half decades, and a staunch adherent and supporter
of the tenets of the Congregational Churci:. His
earnestness, his clear reasoning, his logical argu-
ments and his gift of oratory attracted large audi-
ences, and his work was particularly successful not
only in his own parish, but in the community about
Kingston and throughout the state. From the or-
ganization of the New Hampshire Missionary So-
ciety, Dr. Thayer was annually elected president
of that institution until 181 1, when he publicly
stated that his health obliged him to decline a re-
election, which statement caused universal sorrow.
He married, December 28, 1780, Hannah Califlf, who
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
was born Alarch 14, 1757, daughter of Colonel John
Califf, one of the leading men in the eastern part
of the state. Their children are as follows : Mary,
born February 24, 1782; Nathaniel, August 6, 17S3;
Judith, February 26, 1785; Hannah, July 29, 17S7;
Samuel, July 31, 1789; Sarah, May 16, 1792; John,
April 4, 179s; Martha, June 11, 1798; Calvin, July
2, 1800; died October 24, 1802; Elihu, August 25,
1802 ; and Calvin, June 20, 1805. Dr. Thayer died
April 3, 1812, aged sixty-five years. His wife sur-
vived him for many years, passing away March 4,
iSS9.
(VH) Calvin, youngest child of Rev. Elihu and
Hannah (Califf) Thayer, was born in the town of
Kingston, Rockingham county. New Hampshire,
June 20, 1805. He was educated in the schools of
his native town, and became a teacher there. Sub-
sequently he kept a hotel at Meriden, New Hamp-
shire, whither he removed about 1855. In 1865 he
went to Concord, this state, where he engaged in
the insurance business, with satisfactory results. He
was active as a business man, and took a promi-
nent part in public matters in early life. While
residing in Kingston, he was often employed in the
settlement of estates, and represented the town in
the State Legislature. He also served as treasurer
of Rockingham county. He was a steadfast sup-
porter of Republican principles, and in Concord
was a member of the South Congregational Church.
He died February 28, 1881. He married, November
25, 1841, Sarah Wheeler Fiske, who bore him three
children: Elihu F., born February 15, 1845, died
August 5, 1863; William F., :\Iarch 13, 1846; and
Clara E., October I, 1848.
(VHI) Wtlliam F., second child and son of
Calvin and Sarah Wheeler (Fiske) Thayer, was
born in the town of Kingston, Rockingham county.
New Hampshire, March 13, 1846. His education
was received at the public schools, and the Kimball
Union Academy at jNIeriden, New Hampshire. In
1865 he went to Concord, and, accepted a position
as clerk in the post office, Robert N. Corning being
at that time postmaster. He soon became chief
clerk and remained in that position for four years.
Upon his return from the West, where he spent a
few months, he entered the counting-room of the
Elwell Furniture Company and remained there
about eight months. In 1871 he entered the First
National Bank of Concord, New Hampshire, as. a
clerk, and by faithful attention to his duties won the
appointment of assistant cashier in 1873, and the
following year was promoted to that of cashier, in
which capacity he served until January, 1885, when
he was chosen president. This responsible position
he has held up to the present time (1906). Mr.
Thayer's career as a bank official is remarkable
and highly creditable to his ability as a financier
and man of affairs. His industry, sound judgment
and pleasing address won for him the favpr of the
employes and patrons of the bank, and under his
management as executive officer the institution ha>
attained a leading position among the national banks
of the state. His loyalty and patriotism have ever
I
been marked, and those who know him best esteem
him for his many sterling qualities. For a number
of years he has held a directorship in the Contoo-
cook Valley Paper Company, and the Northern New
Hampshire railroad. In 1879 he was appointed
treasurer of the city of Concord, which position he
has since held with the exception of two years, 1899
and 1900, and he has also been treasurer of the Mar-
garet Pillsbury General Hospital since its organization
and is a trustee of the New Hampshire State Hos-
pital. He is a member of the South Congregational
Church of Concord, a member of Blazing Star
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Mount
Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a
Republican in politics, and although no office seeker,
exercises a potent influence in behalf of the party
whose principles he advocates. He has been treas-
urer of the Republican State Committee since 1892.
Mr. Thayer married, October 20, 1874, Sarah
Clarke Wentworth, who was born in the town of
Sandwich, New Hampshire, April 19, 1850, daughter
of Colonel Joseph and Sarah (Jones) Wentworth.
(See Wentworth, XXVII). Their children are:
Margaret, born August 9, 1882, and William Went-
worth, April 15, 1884. The former graduated at
Bryn Mawr College in 1905, and the latter at Har-
vard the same year. In that year he was appomted
to a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, England, where
he is now in attendance.
(I) Thomas Thayer came from Essex county,
England, in 1630, and settled in Braintree, Massa-
chusetts. Richard Thayer, who accompanied him,
also settled there, and although it has been claimed
that they were brothers, the fact has never been
fully proven. Intermarriages between the two fami-
lies were of frequent occurrance during the earlier
generations, and still continue as will be seen later
on. Thomas and his wife. Margery were the par-
ents of three sons: Thomas, Jr., Ferdinando and
Shadrach, all of whom were born in England.
(II) Ferdinando, second son of Thomas and
Margery Thayer, resided in Braintree until his
father's death, when he went to ISIendon, Massachu-
setts, as one of the original proprietors of that town.
He married Huldah Hayward, of Braintree, Jan-
uary 14, 1652, and their children were ; Sarah,
Huldah, Jonathan, David (died young), Naomi,
Thomas, Samuel, Isaac, Jonah, Ebenezer, Benjamin
and David.
(III) Ebenezer (l), seventh son and tenth child
of Ferdinando and Huldah (Hayward) Thayer,
resided in Mendon. In 1695 he married Martha
White, who was born August 28, 1675. She became
, the mother of Deborah, Ebenezer, Abigail, Hannah,
Uriah, Daniel, Esther and Jerusha.
(IV) Uriah, second son and fifth child of Ebe-
nezer and Martha (White) Thayer, resided in Bell-
ingham, Massachusetts, where he married Rachel
Taft. February 18, 1727-8. His children were:
L'riah, Ebenezer, Rachel, Martha, Simeon and
Grindall.
(V) Grindall, fourth son and youngest child
of Uriah and Rachel (Taft) Thayer, was an early
f ■
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1033
settler in Richmond, New Hampshire, and in ad-
dition to carrying on a farm he engaged in the
manufacture of brick. September 3, 1767, he mar-
ried Sarah Parkhurst, who lived to the advanced
age of ninety-five years, and was the mother of
eight children, namely: Turner, Timothy, Thomp-
son, Tryphena, Prentice, Sarah. Uriah and Wy-
man C.
(VI) Uriah, sixth son and seventh child of
Grindall and Sarah (Parkhurst) Thayer, was one of
the prosperous farmers of Richmond in his day. He
was married in 1807 to Florilla Rockwood of Win-
chester, New Hampshire, who was the mother of
Alanson B., Lucy R., William W., Lorenzo R.,
Maria, Sarah M.. Henry F., Lewis A., Thomas W.
and Marcena. Uriah was born in 1781.
(VH) Alanson B., eldest child of Uriah and
Florilla (Rockwood) Thayer, was born in Rich-
mond November 4. 1804. He was a well-known
lumber merchant of that town. His death occurred
in Winchester, September 21, 1853. On August 9,
1832, he married Lois Thayer, daughter of Ellis
and Lois (Swan) Thayer, and also a descendant
of Thomas, the immigrant, through Ebenezer (IV)
Thayer. »
(IV) Ebenezer (2), second child and eldest son
of Ebenezer (i) and Martha (White) Thayer,
married Sarah Wheelock of Bellingham, Massachu-
setts, in 1724, and settled in that town. His chil-
dren were: Jeremiah, Sarah, Noah, Ebenezer (died
young), Ebenezer, Jerusha (died young), Patience,
Jerusha, Ezekiel and Nehemiah.
(V) Jeremiah (i), eldest child of Ebenezer and
Sarah (Wheelock) Thayer. He went to Richmond,
New Hampshire, settling upon a farm in the north-
westerly part of the town. April 21, 1747, he mar-
ried Alice Holbrook and was the father of Caleb,
Jeremiah, Ellis, Nehemiah, Lydia, Rhoda, Hamlet,
Comfort and Nathan.
(VI) Jeremiah (2), second son and child of
Jeremiah (i) and Alice (Holbrook) Thayer, mar-
ried for his first wife Ann Page. January 13, 1772.
His second wife was Elizabeth Mann, a widow.
She was the daughter of Caleb Cook. He resided
in Richmond and was a farmer. His children were:
Asa, Caleb and Ellis, all of whom were of his first
union.
(VII) Ellis, youngest son of Jeremiah and Ann
(Page) Thayer, inherited the homestead in Rich-
mond, and was one of the representative farmers
of the town. On January 20, 181 1, he married Lois
Swan, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Swan. She died
October II, 1828, and he married for his second wife
Delia Ballard, whose death occurred February 8,
1854, at the age of eighty-four years. He died .
The children of his first union were: Nelson, Lois,
-Andrew Jackson, Leander, Galinus and Phebe
Lionel. Those of the second marriage were: Etta
Esther and Alviras Leroy.
Alanson B. and Lois (Thayer) Thayer, were
the parents of two children : Harriet S., born June
r6. 1836; and Sarah L., born January 11, 1838.
(VTII) Sarah L., youngest daughter of Alanson
B. and Lois (Thayer) Thayer, was married July i.
1857, to Charles Jackson of Winchester (see Jack-
son ) .
The principal subject of the fol-
LAPL,A,NTE lowing sketch is a member of one
of the ancient families of Canada,
many of whose members were tillers of the soil and
leading citizens of their neighborhoods. The La-
plante family is now one of the largest in Canada,
and men of that name are prominent in nearly all
professions and employments.
(I) Louis M. Laplante, son of Joseph La-
plante, was born in Nicolet, Province of Quebec,
Canada, 1815, where he was a teacher, and subse-
quently went to St. Gregory, where he vi-as in-
spector of schools. He died in 1879, aged sixty-
four years. He married Adelaide Duval, born in
Nicolet. 1818, and died January 2, 1907, in Berlin,
New Hampshire. Her parents were Joseph and
Marie Duval. Teh children were born of this mar-
riage.
(II) Louis yi. (2) Laplante was born in St.
Gregory, province of Quebec, May 6, 1848, son of
Louis M. (i) and Adelaide (Duval) Laplante, and
was educated in the seminary of Nicolet, graduating
from the latter institution in 1872, and was conse-
crated a ' priest for the Diocese of Three Rivers,
province of Quebec. Immediately afterward he be-
.gan his work of teaching mankind the better way
of life, and for thirty-two years has been a faithful
pastor in various places in Canada and New Hamp-
shire. He was at Three Rivers, Canada, four and
one-half years, and then went to Manchester, New
Hampshire, in 1880, where he remained not quite a
year. He then had the spiritual guidance of the
people of the Roman Catholic faith four and one-
half years at Lebanon, three years at Hooksett, nine
years at Rochester, and in 1899 was stationed at
Berlin, where he has since been curate of St.
Anne's. His ministry has been a long, busy and
successful one, and he has done all he could to
make better men and women of those who have
been under his care and guidance.
This race is of Eng-
BURLEY, or BURLEIGH lish origin, and the
name of varied or-
thography and doubtful derivation. If from burgh,
a castle, and ley or leigh, a sheltered place or an
untilled field, then it suggests that the first taker
of the name assumed it from the place of his resi-
dence, on the Burghley, or Burghleigh, the field
belonging to the burgh. The orthography Burley
was earliest employed in New Hampshire, in San-
boruton, and is now most common among the family
in that town, though Burleigh is claimed by some
as the more ancient, and is far more in vogue in
other places. The records show nearly thirty dif-
ferent ways of spelling the name.
(I) Giles Burley was an inhabitant of Ipswich,
Massachusetts, in 1648, and a commoner in 1664.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
He was a planter, and lived eight years on Brooke
street, and owned division lot No. IDS, situated on
Great Hill, Hogg Island. July i8, 1668 (O. S.)
"Ghils Berdley" made his will which he signed with
his mark. The inventory of his estate was £241 4s
6d. He left a widow, Elizabeth, and children, An-
drew, James and Giles. Perhaps there was a child,
John, younger than any of those, who died before his
father. February 23, 1669, Rebecca, widow of Giles
Birdley, married Abraham Ffitt, of Ipswich.
(II) James, second son and child of Giles and
Elizabeth Burley, was born in Ipswich. February 10,
1659, and died in Exeter, New Hampshire, about
1721. He married (first), May 25, 1685 (?), Re-
becca, daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Wor-
cester) Stacy, a granddaughter of Rev. Witham
Worcester, of Salisbury. She died October 21, 1686.
In an agreement in 1723 between Joseph, Josiah.
Giles and James Burley, they are mentioned as sons
of James Burley, late of Exeter. In a list of the
children of James, the names appear as William,
Joseph, Thomas, James, Josiah and Giles.
(III) Joseph, second child and son of James Bur-
ley, was born April 6, 1695. He removed to New Mar-
ket with an ancestor of the Hersey family, being
attracted by the oak and ash timber. He died in
New Market, and administration on his estate was
granted in March, 1761. The name of his wife is
not known. His children were : Joseph, Samuel,
Nathaniel, David, Susannah, Jemima, and Alice.
(IV) Nathaniel, was the third son and child of
Joseph Burley. The date of his birth is unknown ;
he died in Sanbornton, February 7, 1805. Runnel's
History of Sanbornton says: "Having married
Sarah Powell, he settled, first, in New Market ;
was then for a few years in Canterbury, and came
thence to this town in April of the third year after
the first settlement, i. e., 1767, as reckoned by the
age of the oldest son. They crossed the river at the
bridge, then covered with birch poles, a little east
of the present Hill's Block. ' The mother rode
horseback with her two youngest children, one and a
half bushels of meal, and barnyard poultry, slung
over their horse's back, in a straw bed-tick, saddle-
bag fashion, with "breathing holes for the birds,"
out of which their heads protruded ! While the
father, with the two oldest boys, seven and six
years of age, drove the two cows on foot. In this
style they presented themselves .at a small log
cabin, previously built in what is now Mrs. Daniel
Davis' orchard, southeast corner of lot No. 35, first
Division. The husband helped the wife to dismount,
swung open the bark door and politely said, "Walk
in Ma'am !" The good lady both laughed and cried.
Mr. Burley was a carpenter and joiner, having
learned his trade in Chester. It is said that he re-
ceived the fifty acres on which he located from the
proprietors as the first house carpenter in town,
but there is no documentary evidence of this. He
was obliged to go down-country the first two years
to work for the means of subsistence, at one time
bringing corn meal home on his back from Deer-
field, a distance of forty miles. The cows meantime
ran m the woods, and hay was gathered from the
meadow below for their winter keeping. Nathaniel
was a signer of the "Petition of 176S, and of the
Association Test in 1776. He was a highway sur-
veyor in town as late as 1795. He died February
27, 1805. His wife died November 28, 1818." Their
children were: William, Joseph, Nathaniel, Sarah,
Robert, David. Polly, Daniel and Nancy.
(V) William, eldest child of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Powell) Burley, was born in New Market,
March 28, 1760, and died in Sanbornton, December
28, 1796, aged thirty-six. At the age of seventeen
he was furnished by his father as a three months'
man in 1776. He subsequently volunteered six
months, then enlisted April 20, 1777, for three
years, and was twice wounded in arm and rib,
serving out his time partly with General Sullivan,
in the Indian country, and' returning to his home in
17S0. He never attended school, but after his re-
turn ■from the war, he chopped wood two winters
for board and tuition, and was privately instructed
by his cousin, James Hersey, and became a . good
mathematician and an excellent surveyor. About
the time of his marriage he opened a farm on
Calef Hill on Lot No. 18, First Division, north end,
building the first house. •Being with his cousin,
Jacob Hersey, when the latter was drowned, he
made .great exertion to save him, and so injured
himself, that he never did a day's work afterwards,
and, after four months, died in consequence. His
gravestone reads: "A soldier of the Revolution at
the taking of Burgoyne." He married, June 13,
17S4, Sarah Ames, of New Market, who was born
April 23, 1752, and died September 14, 1841, in the
ninetieth year of her age. Their children were :
Peter, Sally, William, Charlotte and Susan.
(VI) Sally, second child and eldest daughter
of William and Sarah (Ames) Burley, was born
January 27, 17S8, and married Caleb Ames, of New
Hampshire, January 30, 1809 (See Ames III).
For considerable more than two hun-
BARNES dred and fifty years the name of
Barnes has existed as a patronymic in
America, taking root in New England early in the
Colonial period and gradually distributing itself
throughout the entire country. It is to be found in
the Revolutionary rolls, also in those of the second
war with Great Britain (1812-15) and in the more
recent civil strife, which for a time threatened to
divide the Union into two integral parts. In civil
life several of this name have won distinction as
clergymen and writers. All of its bearers are of
English descent and the origin of the name in the
mother country is enveloped within the impene-
trable mists of antiquity. The line of descent, on
this side of the ocean, of the late Captain William
M. Barnes, of Nashua, is as follows :
(I) Among the passengers in the "Speedwell,"
which arrived at Boston from England in May, 1636,
was Thomas Barnes, an honest, industrious yeo-
man, a non-conformist and, above all, a young man
of sufficient courage and energy to render excellent
service in transplanting European civilization into the
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western hemisphere. His whereabouts for a num-
ber of }-ears subsequent to his landing has not as
yet come to hght, but the records of Marlboro show
conclusively that he was one of the early settlers in
that town, as he purchased real estate there at least
three years prior to its incorporation (1666), and
he resided there for the remainder of his life, which
terminated in 1679. He married Abigail Goodnow,
daughter of Thomas Goodnow. of Sudbury, who
became one of the original proprietors of Marlboro,
and it is quite probable that Thomas Barnes went
there from Sudbury, as did most of its pioneer set-
tlers. He was the father of six children: Thomas,
Dorothy, John, William, Abigail and Susanna.
en) Deacon John, third child and second son
of Thomas, senior, and .\bigail (Goodnow) Barnes,
was born in Marlboro, December 25, 1666. He was
a lifelong resident of Marlboro and participated ac-
tively in the early religious progress of that locality,
having served as a deacon of the church during the
pastorate of the Rev. Mr. Beck. His death oc-
curred .^pril 5. 1752. The maiden name of his wife
was Hannah Howe, -and she died November 8. T742,
aged sixty-six years. Their children were: .Abigail,
born October 5. 1695, married Joseph Morse : Dor-
othy, born March 24. l6gS, married James Woods ;
Daniel, born .'\pril 2, 1701, married Zerumiah
Eager; Jonathan, who will be again referred to;
David, born June 24, 1708, died May 9, 1720; Han-
nah, born February 17. T712, became the wife of
Andrew Rice ; and John, born March 23, 1716, mar-
ried Elizabeth Cranston.
(HI) Jonathan, fourth child and second son of
Deacon John and Hannah (Howe) Barnes, was
born in Marlboro, November 26, 1703. He attained
the ripe old age of nearly eighty years, and died in
Marlboro. October 10. 1783. The Christian name
of his wife, whom he married prior to 1735, was
Rachel, and she survived her husband but a short
time, her death having occurred January 20, 1784.
She was the mother of nine children : Silas, born
January 21. 1735. married Betty Bigelow : Elisha,
born October 28, 1736, died June 7, 1740; Fortuna-
tus, the date of whose birth will be recorded pres-
ently : Rachel, born July 13, 1740. became the wife
of John Warren, Jr.; Lucy, born July 7, 1742. mar-
ried Joseph Hosmer : Dorothy, born December 18,
1747, became the wife of Solomon . Bowker ; Jon-
athan, born November 6. 1749, died August 5. 1785 ;
David, born September 21. 1751, died January 28.
1756 : and William, born March 21, 1753, married
Sarah Merriam.
(IV) Fortunatus, third child and son of Jon-
athan and Rachel Barnes, was born in Marlboro.
September 25, 1738. When a young man he went
to reside in Berlin, Massachusetts, settling in the
locality which has ever since been known as Barnes
Hill, and was a prosperous farmer of that town
during the remainder of his life, which terminated
November 9, 1807. For his first wife he married
Persis Hosmer, of Concord. Massachusetts, born
April 19. 1730, and his second wife was Peletiah
Jones. She survived him and died September 16,
1821. His children, all of his first union, were:
David, born August 27, 1765; Lydia, born July 20,
1767, became the wife of Amherst Bailey ; Hannah,
born June 20, 1770. married Ephraim Howe ; and
Captain William, who is referred to at length in the
succeeding paragraph.
(V) Captain William, youngest son and child
of Fortunatus and Rachel (Hosmer) Barnes, was
born April 5, 1773, probably in Berlin. He was al-
lotted a portion of the homestead farm, whereon he
erected a substantial dwelling house, and he died
there October 24, 1853. He was one of the most
prominent residents of Berlin in his day and is re-
ferred to in the town records as Captain William
Barnes. On May 28, 1793, he married Hannah God-
dard. daughter of James Goddard, Sr., and her
death occurred January 6, 1863. at the advanced
age of eighty-nine years. The six children of this
union were: Artemas, see next paragraph; Betsey,
born December 20, 1798, became the wife of Josiah
Cotting and died at the homestead January 28, 1883 ;
Hannah, born September iS. 1801, died unmarried
January 8, 1864 ; Lucy, born January 20, 1S04, became
the wife of Lowell Hubbard, of Northboro, Massa-
chusetts; Sarah, born May 5, 1808; and Martha W.,
born ApvW 11, 1811, died August I, 1814. The Cap-
tain William Barnes liomestead in Berlin remained
in the possession of his unmarried daughter, Sarah,
until her death, which occurred October 3. 1894, at
the age of eighty-six years, and the property is now,
or was recently, owned by William H. Brown.
(VI) Artemas, eldest child and only son of
Captain William and Hannah (Goodard) Barnes,
was born in Berlin, June 7, 1796. He was an un-
usually prosperous farmer, tilling the soil on quite
an extensive scale, and morally, intellectually and
religiously speaking he. represented the very highest
type of the New England country gentleman. His
interest in the welfare and prosperity of his native
town was always apparent, although much of his
active life was spent elsewhere, and in addition to
donating the land for the town house, he presented
the town with two beautiful monuments perpetuat-
ing the memory oi the Rev. Dr. Puffer and Lieuten-
ant Timothy Bailey, and an excellent portrait of
himself, commemorative of his generosity, now
occupies a conspicuous position in the Berlin town
hall. .Artemas Barnes died in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, February 2, 1877. His first wife, whom
he married -April 15, 1822, was Nancy Merriam, of
Leominster, Massachusetts, and she died July 16,
1832. On September 3, 1839. he married for his
second wife, Alice Stetson, of Boston, and her
death occurred in Princeton, Massachusetts. No-
vember 16, 1849. He reared a family of five chil-
dren, all of his first union; Martha W., born Janu-
ary 29, 1823, became the wife of George A. Cham-
berlain, of Worcester : Captain William M., w'ho
will be again referred to ; Betsey Maria, born
August 25, 1826, became the wife of John C. Tabor,
of Montpelier. Vermont, and died January i, 1883 ;
Nancy Jane, born February 14, 1828, became the
wife of William H. Brown, of Princeton, and died
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May 26. 1854; and Sarah Ellen, born April 15, 1832,
became the second wife of William H. Brown.
(VII) Captain William Merriam, second child
and eldest son of Artemas and Nancy (Merriam)
Barnes, was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Jan-
uary 23, 1825. At the Leicester (Massachusetts)
Academy, where his early education was concluded,
he stood at the head of his class, and displayed to a
marked degree that untiring industry and capacity
for learning which, throughout his entire life, were
predominating features in his character. Prior to
his majority he made himself useful to his father in
the latter's extensive farming operations, but an un-
quenchable desire for a seafaring life made agricul-
ture uncongenial to him. and on attaining his
twenty-first birthday he sailed from New Bedford
before the mast on a whaleship, bound for the Arctic
ocean on a three years' cruise. His natural ability,
regular habits and firm determination to work his
way aft to the quarter-deck, soon enabled him to
gratify his ambition, and having acquired the neces-
sary experience and other qualifications constituting
the principal equipment of a master mariner, he
found no difficulty in obtaining the command of a
New Bedford ship engaged in the whaling industry.
His many voyages to the far north were always at-
tended with excellent financial returns, and his
good seamanship and unceasing vigilance for the
safety of his crew obtained for him the somewhat
unusual record of never having lost a man by ac-
cident. Applying his leisure time on shipboard to
his books he not only became proficient in the
various departments of science, but also acquired a
good knowledge of history and other branches of
learning. He was familiar with the islands of the
central and northern Pacific, also with the northern
shore of Alaska beyond Point Barrows and had
sailed through Behring Straits more than thirty
times. During his last voyage to the Arctic ocean
lie was seized with a severe affection of the heart,
which proved to be of an organic nature. He was,
however, permitted to reach his home in Nashua,
where he went to reside shortly after his marriage,
and his exemplary life, which slowly ebbed away
in the presence of his grief-stricken wife and daugh-
ter, terminated March 8, 1887. It has been truth-
fully said that "no thoughtless act or word of his
ever caused a moment's pain to others. His court-
esy and sympathy were as spontaneous as the pulsa-
tions of his kindly heart, and his generosity was
equally apparent." His affection for his wife and
child was unfathomable in its depths and his last
thought was for their welfare. On April 3, 1875,
Captain Barnes married Emily Frances Cummings,
of Nashua, daughter of Richard Montgomery and
Almira (Nichols) Cummings. of Woodstock, Con-
necticut. The only child of this union is Anna
Frances, who is now the wife of Oliver P. Hussey,
of Nashua, and was the mother of one child : Oliver
Webster, deceased. Mrs. Barnes is a member of
the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedcnbor-
gian), which was the religious faith of her late
husband.
(Second Family).
The earliest traces of the Barnes
BARNES race are found in the southeast part
of England, and those who first bore
the name are supposed to have come into England
under the Norman kings, 1066-1154. Whether the
name is a corruption of the Norse bjorn, signifying
warrior, or of Baron, is a matter of conjecture.
Records of the church in Surrey, England, show
that Barnes families lived there five hundred years
ago, and that the name is extant there now. Pre-
vious to 1638 three men of the name, Thomas Barnes,
migrated from England to America, who have since
been known as Thomas Barnes of Hartford,
Thomas Barnes of New Haven, and Thomas
Barnes of Hingham. They were the ancestors of
three large branches of Barnes families in America.
(I) Thomas Barnes was an original proprietor
of Hartford, Connecticut, where he located soon
after the first settlement in 1635. He had six acres
of land allotted to him in the land division of Hart-
ford in 1639. In 1640 he resided quite in the north-
west part of the village, where the intersection of
Albany avenue and High street now is. He was
one of the soldiers in the Pequot battle of 1637,
when ninety white men exterminated the Pequot
tribe of six hundred Indians, the most hostile and
powerful of the New England savages. For his
service he was granted fifty acres of land in 1671.
He also had lands distributed to him east of the
river in 1663. In 1641 he removed to the new set-
tlement of Farmington, where he lived until 1689 or
1691. In 1688 he disposed of his estate by deeds.
He was appointed sergeant of train band, October
6. 1651, joined the church in Farmington January
30. 1653, and was admitted freeman in 1669. He
married Mary, daughter of Thomas Andrews, of
Farmington, and they^ had Benjamin, Joseph,
Thomas, and Ebenezer. next mentioned.
(II) Ebenezer, fourth son of Thomas and
Mary (Andrews) Barnes, was a deacon in the
church, and is said to have resided in Waterbury,
Connecticut. He became blind before he died. His
wife's first name was Deborah.
(III) Ebenezer (2). son of Ebenezer (i)
Barnes, was born in Farmington, Connecticut. The
town records show that in 171S Ebenezer Barnes,
of Farmington, was paid six shillings for killing
wolves ; also Ebenezer Barnes was appointed ensign
of a train band at the parish of Southington. in
Farmington. in 1737, and appointed captain in 1742.
The number of the name Barnes and the incom-
pleteness of the records make the history of the in-
dividual members of this family very difficult to
trace; but as family tradition refers to this member
as Captain Ebenezer, there is little doubt that he is
the person who received the appointments noted.
(IV) Daniel, son of Ebenezer (2) Barnes, is
the next in the line of descent. Daniel Barnes was
born April, 1701. and died May 24, 1773. Fie was a
deacon in the church and captain for a train band.
He married Zuriah, daughter of Abraham and Lydia
Edgar. Asahel and Bill were two of their children.
THE BILL BARNES HOMESTEAD. CLAREMONT.
EUGENE SUMNER BARNES.
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(V) Bill, son of Daniel Barnes, was born in
Farmington, Connecticut, in 1753, and died Febru-
ary 24, 1842, in the ninetieth year of his age. It
has been said that Daniel Barnes had a son Williaro
that died in infancy, and Bill, born later, was called
Bill to escape the fatality supposed to follow
naming a second child for one deceased, but still to
hold in memory the child that was taken. Bill
Barnes removed to Claremont, New Hampshire, in
1722. when nineteen years old, and bought a tract
of land on the north side of Sugar river, opposite
the present village of Claremont, which had de-
scended in the family and is now owned by de-
scendants in the fourth generation from him. After
having done some clearing and built a house he re-
turned to Farmington, where he married, and took
his wife home by ox-team. He combined the voca-
tions of farmer and innkeeper, and soon after his
marriage built the large two-story house now stand-
ing on North street, about midway between Han-
over and North streets, and opened it as a tavern.
When the second New Hampshire turnpike was
opened, about 1800, this tavern was left some dis-
tance from the principal thoroughfare of travel, and
he had it moved to its present location on North
street. Near the present junction of Spring and
North streets was a swinging sign on which was a
lion, painted in colors unknown to natural history,
pointing the way to "Bill Barnes's Tavern." In this
house was a large hall in which the Masons held
their regular meetings for a time, Mr. Barnes being
an active member of the order, and it was used for
balls and other festivities. By industry and thrift
he accumulated a considerable fortune, and when a
special tax was laid for the support of the govern-
ment during the War of 1812 he was the third
largest tax payer in town. At one time he owned
what was known as the Lafayette mill privilege,
■which he sold in 1S2S to Arvad Taylor.
The family of Bill Barnes were inembers of the
Episcopal Church, which was much persecuted by
the patriots during the Revolution on account of
their pastor's keeping up public service for the King
and royal family. Mr. Barnes was a prominent
member of this church, and one of its first wardens.
In 1785 he was chosen to represent the church in
Claremont at the adjourned convention to be held
in Boston, "Oct. 26, inst." Although an Episco-
palian, Mr. Barnes was not a Tory, and subscribed
the Association Test in 1776. A statement of the
bounties and hires given to soldiers in the Conti-
nental army and militia during the Revolution by
the inhabitants of the town of Claremont credits
him with the payment of nine pounds. He was one
of the board of selectmen in 1787 and 1790. He
married (first), in Farmington, Eunice Andrews.
After seventeen years of married life she died July
22, 179.3, leaving no issue. He married (second).
May 4, 1794. Esther, daughter of Captain Dyer and
Elizabeth (Parkhurst) Spaulding. of Cornish. The
six children of the marriage were: Eunice, William
A,. Ira K.. Orilk, Lyman S. and Ovid D. William
was killed by a falling tree, and Ira was fatally
scalded while boiling sap.
(VI) Lyman Spaulding, fifth child and third
son of Bill and Esther (Spaulding) Barnes, was
born on his father's farm June 18, 1809, and died
November 18, 1888. He was educated in the public
schools, and always lived on the old farm he in-
herited from his father. He was brought up an
Episcopalian. In his early years he was a Whig.
After the formation of the Republican party he
was a member of that organization. He neither
sought nor held office. He was an upright citizen,
a good neighbor, and an honest man. He married
Nan'cy Ann Kidder, died in Claremont. The chil-
dren of this union were : Eugene Sumner, Edna
Marion, Isabelle Angcline and Imogen Eliza.
("VII) Eugene Sumner, eldest son of Lyman
S. and Nancy Ann (Kidder) Barnes, was born in
Claremont, December 9, 1838. He was educated in
the public schools and at Kimball Union Academy.
For years he was in the employ of the Boston,
Hartford & Erie Railroad at Hyde Park, Massachu-
setts, and later of the Old Colony Railroad in Bos-
ton. Since 1891 he has been in the insurance busi-
ness in Claremont. He is a Republican, and a
member of the Episcopal Church. He married
(first). July 32, i86r, at Pomfret, Vermont. Linda
J. Child, who died the following spring; and (sec-
ond) in Fairmount, now Hyde Park, Massachusetts,
December 17, 1863, Lucy Emeline Bean, daughter
of Phinehas B. and Rebekah Houghton (Worster)
Bean (see Bean VII), born at Crown Point, New-
York, December 11. 1843. She was educated in the
public schools and at Kimball Union Academy.
They have one child, Fred Eugene Sumner Barnes,
who was bom in Claremont, October 10, 1864. He
acquired his education in the schools of Claremont
and at the Eastman Business College oi Poughkeep-
sie. New York. . He is associated with his father in
the insurance business and manages the Claremont
Ice Company. For five years he was in the loan
and investment business at Rapid City, South Da-
kota. He married, November 2, 18S8, Ellen Eliza-
beth Macomber.
(VII) Edna Marion Barnes was born August
17, 1840. Belle Angeline Barnes was born July 22.
1845: married Levi B. Judkins. November 13, 1866,
and died December ir, 1876. Imogen Eliza Barnes,
born June 15, 1852, still lives on the Barnes home-
stead in Claremont, where four generations have
been born. She h'as been prominent in connection
with benevolent enterprises.
.A.odh (or Hugh) Balbh, of ancient
BARNES Irish fame, was the ancestor of
O'Beirin, which name is anglicized
O'Bcirne. Beirnes, Barne. Barnes, Barnewall, and
Barnawell. The family herein mentioned is of re-
cent arrival in America.
(I) Barnabus Barnes was born probably in
county Fermanagh, Ireland, and was subsequently
in England, whence he reinoved to Canada and set-
tled in West Farnham, province of Quebec, where
he was a farmer. He died December 3, 1868, at
the age of about ninety years. He married Ellen
Mullen, who was born probably in Ireland nr Scot-
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land. After the death of her husband she married
(second), at the age of sixty-eight, Joseph Garner,
of Farnham, where she died two years later.
(11) John, son of Barnabus and Ellen (Mullen)
Barnes, was born at West Farnham, province of
Quebec. September 12, 1836, and died in Man-
chester, New Hampshire, February 10, 1894, aged
fifty-eight. At the age of twenty-one he left Can-
ada and settled in Vermont, where he learned the
blacksmith's trade. In July, 1857, he removed to
Manchester, New Hampshire, where he lived the
remainder of his life except about a year, which he
spent at West Farnham. For eight years he worked
at his trade in the employ of the Stark Mills, and
then built for himself a shop at the corner of
Walker and Main streets, West Manchester, where
he carried on business until 1893. He was a skillful
and industrious mechanic, and a prudent and thrifty
citizen. From his earnings he saved money and
bought lots adjoining the lot occupied by his shop,
which are now of considerable value. He and his
family were all members of the Catholic Church.
In politics he was a very pronounced Democrat, tak-
ing an active part in political affairs, but never
holding office. He married, in Manchester, Novem-
ber 2, 1857, Martine Archambeau, born in St. Vin-
cent de Paul, province of Quebec, August 23, 1836,
daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Mathieu) Ar-
chambeau. The father was born in St. Vincent de
Paul, and the mother in St. Henry in Maschouche,
province of Quebec. Ten children were born of
this union. Those now living are : Mattie G.,
Lizzie A., and Israel H. Mattie G. married George
F. Bowen, now of Bedford, and has one child,
George J. Lizzie A., for years a saleswoman in
Manchester, now resides with her mother. Israel
H. is a painter in the employ oi the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company. He married, August 20,
1900, Armandine Poris. who was born in St. John,
province of Quebec, daughter of Lubin Poris, now
of Manchester. George B., born in West Farnham,
province of Quebec, August 3, 1861, died in Man-
chester at the age of thirty-tlijee years. Joseph B.,
Daniel N. and Rosie E. M. all died young.
The immigrant members of this family
HEALD were residents of Massachusetts and
pioneer settlers of Concord in less than
fifteen years after the settlement' of the Puritans at
Plymouth. The Healds have always been found
among the steady and progressive citizens of the
country.
(I) John Heald came from Berwick in North-
umberland county. England, and settled as early as
163s in Concord, Massachusetts, where he was with
the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Elder John Jones and
other first settlers of the town. He was made a
freeman June 2, 1641. In 1655 he had four lots of
land containing eighty-six acres. He made his will,
and died five weeks later. May 24, 1662. His wife's
name was Dorothy, his children included : John,
Amos, Timothy, Ebenezer. Samuel, Israel. Ephraim,
and Dorothy. John and two or three others may
have been born in England.
(II) John (2), eldest child of John (i) and
Dorothy Heald, born perhaps in England, is spoken
of as John of Chelmsford. He was made a free-
man in 1680. John Heald. of Concord, was a soldier
under Major Simon Willard. August 7, 1675, to
January, 1676. April 19, 1689, during the trouble
with Governor Andross, Lieutenant John Heald
mustered the military company of Concord and
started for Boston to assist in the expected revolt.
He married at Concord, June 10, 1661, Sarah Dane,
and they had Elizabeth, John, Gershom, Sarah, and
perhaps other children.
(HI) John (3), eldest son of John (2) and
Sarah (Dane) Heald. married, i6go, Mary Chandler,
and died November 25, 1721. They had nine chil-
dren, Mary, John, Timothy, Josiah, Elizabeth,
Samuel. Amos, Ephraim and Dorcas. (Mention of
Ephraim and descendants appears in this article).
(IV) John (4), eldest son and second child of
John (3) and Mary (Chandler) Heald, married a
Hale and settled in Acton, Massachusetts, where he
died in 1775. aged eighty-two. He had five sons,
John, Joseph, Oliver, Israel and Asa.
(V) Oliver, third son of John (4) and ■
(Hale) Heald, was born in Acton, Massachusetts,
and died in Sliptown, New Hampshire, in January,
1790, aged fifty-six. He removed to Sliptown in
1759 and settled on Lot 4, Range VII. "So great
was the distance then considered and the means of
communication so limited, that his friends despaired
of ever seeing him again." He married, in 1739,
Lydia, daughter of Deacon Isaac Spaulding. of
Townsend, Massachusetts. She died in March,
1802, aged sixty-five. They had eleven children,
Daniel, and three daughters all at one birth, who
died in infancy — the first deaths in Temple ; Amos,
David. Lucy. Lydia, .\sa, Abigail (died young), and
Abigail.
(VI) Amos, fifth child and second son of
Oliver and Lydia (Spaulding) Heald, was born in
Temple. New Hampshire, June 16, 1765, and settled
in Nelson, New Hampshire. He married, in 1789,
Sybil Brown, of Temple, and they had five sons :
Amos, Oliver, David, Asa and Jefferson ; and two
daughters : Anna and Lydia.
(VII) Oliver (2), second son and child of
Amos and Sybil (Brown) Heald, was born in Tem-
ple, October i, 1790. He was a cloth dresser and
farmer, and resided in Nelson. In 1849 he removed
to Milford, where he lived imtil 1857. when he re-
moved to Peterboro, where he died October 5. 1867.
He was familiarly known as major, and was the
family's representative in the War of 1812. He
served as selectman of Nelson and held other offices
of trust. He became a Whig, and a Republican
when the party was formed, and was a staunch anti-
slavery man. He was a member of the Baptist
Church. He married (first), April 30, 1816, Patty
Wright, who was born in Nelson. jMarch 28. 1704.
daughter of Oliver and Martha (Dunster) Wright.
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(See Dunstcr VII). She died in Milford. August
19, 1854. He married (second), March 16, 1858,
Relief Little, who was born in Peterboro, December
3, 1800, daughter of Thomas, Jr. and Relief (White)
Little. She died April 27, 1886. The children of
Oliver and Patty (Wright) Heald were: Addison,
Albert. Sarah Dunstcr, Emily, Henry, Lydia, Wil-
liam, David, Alniira and Edwin.
(VIII) David, eighth child and fifth son of
01i\er and Martha (Wright) Heald, was born in
Nelson, October 6, 1832. His boyhood was passed
in his native town, where he obtained a common
school education. At the age of fourteen he began
to learn the cabinet-maker's trade, and three years
later removed to Milford. where he worked some
years as a journeyman. In 1856 he began business
for himself, and in a short time employed five or
six men. He was the sole proprietor until 1S88,
when he associated himself with C. H. French, now
of Maiden, Massachusetts, and J. W. Howard, of
Nashua, the three forming the firm of Howard,
French & Heald. Mr. Howard retired from the
firm in 1893 and since that date the business has
been conducted under the firm name of French &
Heald, employing more than one hundred opera-
tives. They have a factory equipped with all the late
facilities and turn out annually about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars worth of goods, consisting of
chamber suits, chiffoniers, sideboards, book cases,
etc., for the trade only. They have display rooms in
Boston, where they exhibit a large and attractive
assortment of the products of their factories. In
business hours Mr. Heald has generally devoted
his time to his business, but he has not felt that the
accumulation of money is the one great object in
life, and has taken a deep interest in the welfare of
his town and immediate environment. He has
looked after the educational affairs of the town, be-
ing for years a member of the school board and
later holding the position of chairman of the build-
ing committee which had charge of the plans and
construction of the new high school building. In
politics he is a Republican, and for one term rep-
resented his town in the state legislature. At the
age of about twenty-four years he became a mem-
ber of the Baptist Church, and for many years has
demonstrated the compatability of a successful busi-
ness career with faithfulness in every other relation
of life. Mr. Heald has always believed that money
laid out for the improvement of the educational de-
velopment and moral and social elevation of the
community is money well spent, and has always
freely contributed his share to these ends.
He married (first), November 17, 1856, Mary
Susan Frost, who was born in Ashburnham, Massa-
chusetts, March, 1833. daughter of Ebenezer and
Sally S. Sawyer Frost. She died in Milford, No-
vember 9, 1858. He married, October 22, 1862,
Mary Elizabeth Stone, who was born in Marl-
borough, New Hampshire, June 19, 1840, and died
in litilford, March 15. 1892. She was the daughter
of Calvin and Elvira (Wallingford) Stone. He
married (third), November 19, 1896, Lucretia A.,
widow of Edward A. Burns, and daughter of Still-
man S. and Emeline G. (Lull) Hutchinson, born in
Milford. November 19, 1837. His children are: Ella
Frances, Edward Stone, Frank Herbert, Florence
Mabel, Clara May. Mary Susan and Harriet Louise.
Ella Frances and Clara May died young. Edward
is the subject of the next paragraph. Frank H. is
with the Corbin Cabinet Lock Company, New
Boston, Connecticut. Florence Mabel married
Charles F. Morse, civil engineer, of Maiden, Massa-
chusetts. Mary Susan is the wife of Frederick N.
Hutchinson, of the firm of Hutchinson & Averill,
grocers of Milford. Harriet Louise married Dr.
George W. Tong, of Brooklyn, New York. The
children were by the second wife with the exception
of Ella Frances, she being by the first.
(IX) Edward Stone, eldest child of David and
Marj' Elizabeth (Stone) Heald, was born at Mil-
ford. January 31, 1864. and was educated in the
schools of Milford, graduating from the high school
in 1882. Following his graduation he took employ-
ment in the furniture factory, of which he became
superintendent in 1886, retaining that position until
the present time (1907). He is familiar with the
details of the business, both mercantile and me-
chanical, and is always alert to save expense and
improve the quality of their products. He is fond
of music, excels as a singer and is in great deinand
at all places, in that locality, where music is a
feature. He is a member of Benevolent Lodge,
.Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons, of ^Milford, and
also of the Milford Golf Club. He married, in Mil-
ford, October 6. 1886, Annie L. Epps, born in
Francestown, November 9, 1862, daughter of Henry
D. and Cynthia A. C. (Hardy) Epps, of Frances-
town. They have four children : Edna G.,
born .^ugust 16, 1887; Emory D.. .-Vpril 4, 1890;
Hermann L., March 13. 1S96; and Mary E., .A.pril
20, 1900.
(IV) Ephraim, sixth son and eighth child of
John (3) and Mary (Chandler) Heald, was born
February 19, 171 1, in Concord, Massachusetts, and
reared a family of seven children.
(Mention of his son John and descendants forms
part of this article).
(V) Ephraim (2), eldest child of Ephraim (i)
and Eleanor Heald, was born September 29, 1734,
and died September 12, 1815, in Temple, New
Hampshire, where he was a pioneer settler. He
was married November 17. 1757, to Sarah Conant,
and they were the parents of eleven children.
(VI) Nathan, youngest of the eleven children
of Ephraim (2) and Sarah (Conant) Heald, was
born April 25, 1779, in Temple. He married (first)
Annie Stickney.
(VII) Emily, twin of Eleanor, daughters of
Nathan and .'Vnnie (Stickney) Heald, was born
August 26, 181 1, and became the wife of Gustine
Marshal. (See Marshal VI).
(V) Deacon John (5), son of Ephraim and
Eleanor Heald, was born September 11, 1741, and
died in Shirley, September 13. 182T, aged eighty.
He married and became a resident of Shirley. Mas-
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sachusetts. in May. 1776, and was settled on a farm
in the northernmost part of the town. "He was a
man of standing and influence, and was appointed a
deacon in the church, September 13, 1790, during
the ministry of Whitney. At a subsequent period,
while !Mr. Tolman was minister, the deacon became
dissatisfied with the doctrines of Mr. Tolman, which
were of a severe Calvinian stamp, and utterly at
variance with the Arminian faith, which had be-
come the accepted belief of the worthy deacon. He_
therefore, with his daughter. Eleanor Bowers, took
himself from Mr. Tolman's church and ministry,
and they became connected with the IMethodist
Church at Lunenburg, where his Arminian ideas re-
ceived cordial fellovvship and sympathy." He mar-
ried, December 8, 1763, Rachel Tuttle, of Littleton,
and they were the parents of six children : Lucy,
Abigail, Rhoda, Esther, John and Eleanor.
(VI) John (6), fifth child and only son of
Deacon John (5) and Rachel (Tuttle) Heald. was
born in Shirley, February 28, 1773, and died July I,
1798. He married, December 4, 1794, Polly Gasset,
of Townsend, published October 19, 1794, and they
had two children: Brigham, and Benjamin Harvey,
whose sketch follows.
(VII) Benjamin Harvey, second son and child
of John (6) and Rachel (Tuttle) Heald, was 'born
in Shirley, September 20, 1797, and died in Ash-
burnham. March 12. 1867. He was a farmer and
carpenter, and resided successively in Hinsdale,
Lanesborough, Royalston and Ashburnham. In
Royalston he operated a saw mill and was engaged
in manufacturing various kinds of lumber until 1844,
when he removed to Ashburnham, and settled on
the old Kibling estate, where he resided until his
death. He married, November 9, 1826, Susan
Kibling, who was born December 27, 1799. and died
March 27, 1865, eldest child of Captain Henry and
Sukey (Hobart) Kibling, of Ashburnham. Henry
Kibling was a captain of the militia company in
Ashburnham in 1801, and in the War of 1812 was
in the service in a Vermont regiment. The children
of Harvey and Susan HeaLd were : George, New-
ton, Henry, Susan, Charles Harvey, and Lewis
Brigham, next mentioned.
(VIII) Lewis Brigham, si.xth and youngest
child of Harvey and Susan (Kibling) Heald, was
born in Royalston, Massachusetts, March s. 1839.
He was educated in the common schools of Ash-
burnham, and after leaving school became a worker
in wood, and was emploj'ed in his native town until
he was twenty years of age. He then went to
Louisville. Kentucky, and soon after to New Al-
bany, Indiana, where he was employed by Howard
& Cash, inanufacturers of sashes and doors. He
remained there until i860, and then returned to
Louisville, where he engaged in the same line of
business in the employ of Minot. Lewis & Company,
the senior partner being a native of Manchester.
New Hampshire. He remained with this firm until
after the election of Lincoln to the presidency, when
the disturbed condition of business forced the clos-
ing of the mill. In April, 1S61, Mr. Heald enlisted
at New Albany, Indiana, in Company C, Eleventh
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served three
months in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.
September 5, 1861, he re-enlisted in Company C,
First United States Fusileers, and was stationed at
Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, until February,
1S62, when the regiment was mustered out by order
of the secretary of war. Mr. Heald then enlisted a
third time in Company H, Fifty-ninth Indiana Vol-
unteer Infantry, and took part in the campaigns
about Corinth and Vicksburg, accompanying Sher-
man in his famous march to the sea and through
the Carolinas. He was discharged at Raleigh, North
Carolina. April 26, 1865, after serving in all forty-
four months, and soon after went to Vermont,
where he resided in various places during the fol-
lowing thirty years. In the fall of 1895 he removed
to Littleton, New Hampshire, where he was later
commissioned justice of the peace and in quorum,
and in 1897 was' made special justice of the muni-
cipal court of Littleton, in which office he has since
served. In 1896 he became clerk to Judge James
W. Remick, and discharged the duties of that office
until February I, 1899, when he was made deputy
collector of internal revenue. He is still serving in
the last named office.
He married, in West Concord, Vermont, October
12, 1867. Mary Sophia Remick, who was born in
Hardwick. Vermont, February 25, 1847, daughter of
Samuel K. and Sophia (Cushman) Remick, of
Hardwick. They have four children : Harry Lewis,
mentioned below. Hattie May, born in St. Johns-
bury, Vermont. October i, 1869. Walter Nelson,
Lawrence, Massachusetts. October 7, 1876. Nellie
Sophia. St. Johnsbury, November 11, 1879.
(IX) Harry Lewi.«;, eldest child of Lewis B.
and Mary Sophia (Remick) Heald, was born in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont, August 2, 1S68. He was
educated in the common schools and at the acad-
emy in his native town. In February, 1888, he be-
gan the study of law with Albro F. Nichols, and
continued until December, 1890. when he went to
Littleton, New Hampshire, and entered the office of
Hon. James W. Remick, where he continued his
studies until March, 1892, when he was admitted to
the bar at Concord. He soon afterward opened an
office for himself and practiced in Littleton until
1895. In that year he removed to Topeka, Kansas,
where he devoted himself to his profession until
1901, and then returned to Littleton, where he has
since practiced. He is a Republican, and has been a
member of the board of health since 1904. Mr.
Heald married, in Bolton, June 19, 1899, Mary E.
Mooney, who was born in Bolton, province of
Quebec. Canada, July 21. 1S64, daughter of George
and Eusebia Mooney, of Bclton. They have one
child. Mary, born in Topeka, Kansas, July 21. 1900.
(IX) Hattie May, for the past five years has
conducted the Woman's Store in Littleton, carrying
an up-to-date line of ladies' and children's furnish-
ings.
(IX) Walter Nelson, married Fannie Isabel
Billings, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, September
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10, 1905. She was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
July 15. 1882, of parents, Myron L. and Martha E.
(Fulhim) Billings. He has been connected with
the New England Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany for a number of years, and is now (1907) in
charge of a large district of the northern division.
(IX) Nellie Sophia was married November 17,
1902, to John Billings Nute. He was born in Rox-
bury, Massachusetts, August 14. 1876. He is as-
sistant superintendent of the Littleton Shoe Manu-
facturing Company. Three children have been born
to them: Paul Billings, December 11, 1903. Ralph
Cushman, September 3. 1905. Mary Isabel, June 8,
1907.
The name in the early records appears
HALE as Heale, Heales, Hailes, Held, and
Heald. For several generations a ma-
jority of the descendants have written the name
HcaJd, while a few branches of the family have
written the name Hale and are sometimes erron-
eously supposed to have been descendants of Robert
Hale, of Charlestown, or Thomas Hale, of New-
bury.
(I) The first generation in America is de-
scribed above, under the title as there spelled,
Heald.
(II) Israel, son of John and Dorothy Heald,
was born in Concord, Massachusetts, July 30, 1660.
He was a fanner and one of the substantial citizens
of the town of Stow, Massachusetts, to which he
removed from his native town. His wife, Martha
Heale, bore him, among other children, Oliver, see
forward; and Israel, born December 2, 1687, who
was the father of Samuel Heale, who was known as
Samuel Hale, of Leominster, Massachusetts.
(III) Oliver, son of Israel and Martha Heald.
born September 8, 1686, resided in Stow, Massa-
chusetts. His wife, Hannah Heale, was the mother
of eight children, born in Stow between the years
1714-1730, but a record of the marriage has not been
discovered. Their children were : Dorothy, Beza-
leel. Dorcas, Oliver, Jacob. Joseph. Hannah and
Mary.
(IV) Oliver Hale, son of Oliver and Hannah
Heald, born in Stow, Massachusetts, January 22,
1720, removed from his native town to Leominster
in 1742, accompanied by his wife, Sarah Hale. He
was a captain of militia, and for many years a
prominent and influential man of that town. His
first wife, Sarah Hale, was the mother of seven
children. She died April 13. I7S6. His second
wife, Catherine Hale, wdio survived him, dying July
16, 1821, was the mother of five children. Oliver
Hale died May 7. 1799. Their headstones are to
found in an old cemetery in Leominster.
(V) Oliver (3), son of Oliver (2) and Sarah
Hale, born in Leominster, Massachusetts. April 15,
1750, removed to Jafifrey, New Hampshire, in 1772,
where he served as town officer several years, and
as selectman in the year 1786. He married, in Leo-
minster, Massachusetts. December 25, 1771, Mary
Wheclock. He died about 1807. They had five
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sons: Luke. Oliver, Josiah, Luther and Thomas;
and six daughters, four of whom married residents
of Henniker, New Hampshire, two died unmarried.
(VI) Josiah Wheclock, third son of Oliver and
Mary (Wheelock) Hale, was born in Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, November 23, 1783, educated at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, read medicine in Grafton,
Vermont, attending lectures at the medical depart-
ment, University of Vermont, Burlington. He set-
tled first in Salisbury, Vermont, removed to Bran-
don, where he practiced nearly forty years. He
was not only an eminent physician, but a man
prominent in public affairs ; he represented his town
in the legislature for several years, and was a mem-
ber of the convention for the revision of the con-
stitution. He was an active abolitionist, and was
nominated for state senator by the Liberty party ; a
member of the Presbyterian Church. He died in
Brandon of heart disease at the doorstep of a
patient's house, JMarch 12, 1851. Dr. Josiah
Wheelock Hale married (first) Rhoda Green,
Marcli 12, i8ii. She died in Brandon. July 24,
1820. They had five children, two died in infancy.
Pie married (second) Marcia Tracy, daughter of
Solomon and Phoebe (Hudson) Tracy. She was
born in Prandon. April 14, 1797, was educated at
the Emma Willard School, then located at Middle-
bury. Vermont, later the famous school of Troy,
New York. She died March 22, 1863. Solomon
Tracy was a native of Norwich, Connecticut, served
through the war of the Revolution, being at Valley
Forge. He married Phoebe Hudson, of Walpole,
New Hampshire. He died in Brandon, Vermont,
August 17, 1819, aged sixty-four years. His wife
died January i, 1843. aged seventy-six.
(VII) Charles Stuart, only child of Dr. Josiah
and Marcia (Tracy) Hale, was born in Brandon, Ver-
mont, April 30, 1835. He was educated at Brandon
Academy and Trinity College, Hartford. He read
theology with Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins,
bishop of Vermont, by whom he was ordained
deacon and priest. He was commissioned chaplain
of the Fifth Vermont Volunteers, April 24. 1S62 ;
was mustered out of service September 15, 1864.
He has been rector of the following parishes : St.
James Church, Arlington. Vermont ; Emmanuel
Church, Bellows Falls : St. Mary's on the Hill,
Buffalo ; and assistant minister of St. Paul's Church,
Buffalo; rector of Christ Church, New Bern, North
Carolina ; and Trinity Church, Claremont, New
Hampshire. He has been deputy to the general
convention from the diocese of Vermont, a member
of the standing committee of the diocese of western
New York, and a chairman of the committee on
canons of the diocese of North Carolina. He mar-
ried (first), at Buffalo, July 6, 1875, a widow,
Louise (Weed) Stevens, daughter of Thaddeus and
Louise Chapin Weed. She died at Asheville, North
Carolina, July 25, 1880. One child, Harry Tracy
Hale, died in infancy. He married (second), in
Claremont. New Hampshire, October 2, 1884, Clara
Farwell Blodgett. She was born in Claremont,
April 1.9, 1852, the daughter of George Weston and
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Martha Carey (Farwell) Blodgett. and was de-
scended from the earhest settlers of the town. She
was educated in the public schools and Stevens high
school in Claremont. They have four 'children, all
born in Claremont: i. Edward Stuart, born Jan-
uary 31, 1S86, educated in Stevens high school and
St. Paul's, Concord, entered Harvard, class of
igoS. 2. Charles Stuart, Jr.. born November 4,
1888. 3. Mary Deming, born June 19, 1890. 4.
George Blodgett Stuart, born December 24, 1S91.
(Second Family.)
The representatives of this family in-
H.ALE elude men of high standing in various
walks of life, who inherit in a marked
degree the characteristics and traits of their illus-
trious forefathers, who left behind them a reputa-
tion for honesty, integrity and probity.
(I) Thomas Hale, the first American ancestor
of this branch of the family, was the son of
Thomas Hale, of Watton-at-Stone in Hertfordshire,
England, and Joan Kirby, his wife. No record of
the American Thomas's birth has been found, but
his baptism is recorded in the parish church at
Watton, June 15, 1606. He was the only son, but
there were four daughters, one older than himself.
Dionis, and three younger, Mary. Dorothy and
Elizabeth. Thomas Hale with his wife, Thomasine,
came to Newbury, Massachusetts, and he heads the
list of the selectmen chosen there in 1646. In 1647
he was appointed to try small cases, and in 1648 to
keep a ferry. In 1659 his name appears on a list of
glovers in Salem, Massachusetts. Thomas and
Thomasine (Hale) had four children: Thomas,
whose sketch follows. John, born in England, April
19, 1635. Samuel, born in Newbury, Massachusetts,
February 2, 1639-40, married Sarah Ilsley. Apphia,
born in 1642, married Benjamin Rolfe, November 3,
1659. Thomas Hale died December 21, 1682, aged
seventy-eight; and his wife died January 30, 1683.
(II) Thomas (2), eldest son and child of
Thomas (i) and Thomasine Hale, was born in
England, November 18, 1633. He came to New-
bury, Massachusetts, with his parents, and seems to
have always lived there. He was selectman, 1665,
1675 and 1678. He was fence viewer, trial juror,
tything-man, highway surveyor, way-'warden and
on various town committees. At his death at the
comparativey early age of fifty-five he left an estate
of over five hundred pounds. His homestead had
been deeded to his son Thomas before his death.
His house, a large and substantial structure of two
stories and an attic, was built about 1661, and in
1889 was still standing at Newbury. He was evi-
dently a prosperous man who stood well with his
townspeople. Thomas Hale married at Salem, May
26, 1657, Mary, daughter of Richard and Alice
(Bosworth) Hutchinson, of Salem, Massachusetts.
They had nine children, all of whom but the eldest
survived their father. The children were : A son,
born February 17. died a few days later. Thomas,
born February 11, 1658-59, married Sarah Northend.
Mary, born July 15, 1660, married Jcwett.
Abigail, born .\pril 8, 1662. married Henry Poor.
Hannah, born November 29, 1663, married William
Peabody. Lydia, born April 17, 1666, married
James Platts. Elizabeth, born October 18, 1668,
married Samuel Pickard. Joseph, born February
20, 1670-71, married (first) Mary Watson, and (sec-
ond) Widow Joanna Dodge. Samuel, whose sketch
follows. Thomas Hale died at Newbury, Massa-
chusetts, October 22, 1688. His widow married
William Watson, of Boxford, Massachusetts, Feb-
ruary 5, 1694-95, who- was father of her son Joseph's
wife. William Watson died June 27, 1710, at Box-
ford. Massachusetts, and Mrs. Mary (Hutchinson)
(Hale) Watson died December 8, 1715, also at Box-
ford. ■
(III) Samuel, fourth son and ninth child of
Thomas (2) and Mary (Hutchinson) Hale, was
born at Newbury, Massachusetts, June 6, 1674. He
became a resident of Bradford. Massachusetts, about
1699, and lived in what is now Groveland ; the
corners wherfe his house stood is still called "Hale's
Corners." He was a man of property and local
standing, and a farmer of superior order, especially
in fruit growing. He v!a.s twice married, and had
six children, all by his first wife. He married, No-
vember 3, 1698, Martha Palmer, daughter of Samuel
and Mary (Pearson) Palmer, of Rowley, Massa-
chusetts. She was born April 24, 1677, at Rowley,
and died June 14, 1723, in the forty-ninth year of
her age, and was the first person buried in Grove-
land cemetery. Six months later, December 30,
1723, he married Mrs. Sarah, widow of Edward
Hazen, of Newbury, and daughter of John Perley,
of Boxford, Massachusetts. His children, all by
his first wife, were: Samuel, born October 23, 1699,
married (first) Hannah Hovey, (second) Sarah
Hazeltine. Tonathan, whose sketch follows. Mary,
born May 17, 1705, married George Carleton.
Martha, born January 15. 1709. married Moses
Jevvett. Jane, born August i, 171 1, married Deacon
Philip Teimey. David, born September 30, 1714,
married Sarah Bond. Samuel Hale died December
13. 1745, aged seventy-one years. His widow Sarah
(Perley) (Hazen) Hale, probably survived him
several years, as her will was not proven till July
24, 1769.
(IV) Jonathan, second son and child of Samuel
and Martha (Palmer) Hale, was born in Bradford,
Massachusetts, January 9, 1701-02. He was a
farmer. After 1747 his name disappears from
Bradford and Essex records, and he probably then
removed to Sutton, Massachusetts. He married at
Ipswich, Massachusetts, November 10, 1729, Susan-
nah Tuttle, "Jr." They had six children, all prob-
ably born in Bradford: Elizabeth, born 1730, mar-
ried Moody Chase. John, born October 24, 1731,
mentioned in the next paragraph. Abigail, born in
1733. married Colonel William Prescott, the hero of
Bunker Hill. Samuel, married Mindwell Tillotson.
Jonathan, married Silence Goddard. Martha, mar-
ried Rev. Peter Powers, of HoUis, New Hampshire.
It is not known when Jonathan Hale died, but in
May. 1770, intentions of marriage were published at
Ipswich, Massachusetts, between "widow Susannah
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Hale" and John Pitts, l}oth of Ipswich. She died
March 22, 1787.
(V) John, eldest son and second child' of Jon-
athan and Susannah (Tuttle) Hale, was born in
Bradford, Massachusetts. October 24, 1731. About
1747 he removed with his father to Sutton, Massa-
chusetts. John Hale became a physician, and about
1754 settled in Hollis, New Hampshire, near his
distinguished brother-in-law. Colonel William Pres-
cott, who lived in Groton, afterwards Pepperell,
Massachusetts. He was a leading citizen of his
town and state, both in military and civil affairs, and
may well be called the foremost resident of Hollis
during his day. He served at three different times
during the French war. In 1755 he was assistant
surgeon in Colonel Joseph Blanchard's regiment
against the French at Crown Point. In 1757 he en-
listed as a private for the defense of Fort Edward.
In 1758 he was commissioned surgeon in Colonel
John Hart's regiment for defense of the western
frontier. In 1767 he was lieutenant-colonel of the
Fifth New Hampshire militia, which office he held
till 177s, when he became colonel of the same regi-
ment. He took part as a volunteer at the battle of
Bunker Hill, serving under his famous brother-in-
law. Colonel Prescott, between whom and himself
there appears to have been a close friendship. In
1777 Colonel Doctor Hall was commissioned sur-
geon of the First Regiment of the New Hampshire
Continental troops. Dr. Jonathan Pool, the assistant
surgeon of- the regiment, afterwards became Dr.
Hale's son-in-law. Dr. Hale continued as surgeon
till June, 1780. Three of his sons, John, David and
William, served actively in the Revolution, the
latter enlisting at the age of fourteen for a term of
three years. Dr. Hale was representative to the
New Hampshire legislature from 1762. .0 1768, and
again in 1775, in which latter year he was also rep-
resentative to the New Hampshire Provincial con-
gress. He was repeatedly moderator of the town
meetings and chairman of important committees ;
he was also selectman, town clerk and justice of
the peace. In 1779 he was put in charge of the
smallpo.x hospitals at Hollis. He- was a member of
the church at Hollis from before the breaking out
of the Revolution. After the war he continued to
live in Hollis in the active practice of his profession.
Dr. John Hale married in Sutton, Massachusetts,
about 1755, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Dr. David
and Elizabeth (Prescott) Hall, who was born in
Sutton, February, 1734. Her father. Rev. David
Hall, was a graduate of Harvard in 1724, and was
fourth in descent from John Hall, who settled in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1630. John and
Elizabeth (Hall) Hale had children: John,
born September 8, 1756, married Lydia Tillotson.
David, born June 8. 1758, married Elizabeth Holden.
Elizabeth, born September 28, 1760, married (first)
Jonathan Pool, and (second) James Woodward.
William, born July 27, 1762, married Esther Pool.
Rebekah, born March 26. 1765, married Moses
Ames. Jonathan, born in 1767, married Eunice
Mo.sher. Susan, married Deacon Dewey. Aaron,
died at about si.xtcen years of age. All of these
children were born in Hollis, New Hampshire. Dr.
John Hale died in Hollis, New Hampshire, October
22, 1791, aged sixty years. His grave in the old
central burying ground at Hollis has a quaint in-
scription worth quoting :
"How soon our new-born light attains to fnll-
agcd noon :
And that how soon to gray-haired night :
We spring, we bud, we blossom and we blast.
Ere we can count our days, they fly so fast."
Dr. Hale's record is also inscribed on the Sol-
diers' Monument in the village common. Mrs.
Elizabeth (Hall) Hale, who seems to have been a
woman of superior character and ability, survived
her husband many years. She died at Hollis, Octo-
ber 2. 1830, aged ninety-six years.
(VI) David, the second son and child of Dr.
John and Elizabeth (Hall) Hale, was horn at
Hollis. New Hampshire, June 8, 1758. He married
Elizabeth Holden, of Hollis. June 3, 1787. They
had twelve 'children: David H., born May 31, 1789;
Aaron. April 10, 1791 ; William, April 18. 1793;
Betsy, February 19, 1797: the record of the fifth
child is unknown; Susannah, March %o, 1799; John,
October 21, 1800: Sarah. May 3, 1803; Anna, May
25, 1805: Artemas, whose sketch follows; Luke, Oc-
tober 13, 1809; Rebecca, September 18, 1812.
(VII) Artemas, fifth son and tenth child of
David and Elizabeth (Holden) Hale, was born No-
vember 26, 1807, at Hollis, New Hampshire. He
was a farmer in his native town, and died at the
comparatively early age of forty-nine. On January
18. 1836, he married Mary .■Xnn Wheat, daughter of
Solomon Wheat. They had three children : Sarah
C. born April 30, 1841, died June 3, 1S57 ; Charles,
September 10, 1844. lives in Hollis ; and George
Franklin, the subject of the next paragraph. .Arte-
mas Hale died March 25, 1853.
(VIII) George Franklin, second son and
youngest of the three children of Artemas and
Mary Ann (Wheat) Hale, was born June 30. 1847,
at Hollis. New Hampshire. He had a common
school education. He first drove a baker's cart in
Cambridge. Massachusetts. Later he traveled
through New Hampshire and Massachusetts for a
cracker company in Somerville. Massachusetts. He
then bought out a milk route in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, and managed that for one year and six
months. He then returned to his native town of
Hollis where he now lives. He has been selectman
for three years, and in 1904 and 1906 was chairman
of the board. He joined the Knights of Pythias in
1870. and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
in 1868. In the latter order he has been through all
the chairs twice. He also belongs to the Grange.
March 28, 1876, he married Addie L. Ruston, daugh-
ter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Beck) Ruston. They
had four children : Carrie E., born April 12, 1S79,
died September 22, 1879. Maud A., born .April 24,
18S2. Fannie Isabellc. .August 31, 18S4, died July
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22, 1S87. Arthur, born August Ji, 1SS8. Mrs. Hale
is active in the Grange, being secretary (1907), and
is president (1907) of the Woman's Relief Corps.
(Third Family.)
This name was originally spelled Hales.
HALE It was borne in England by three dis-
tinct families, those of Hertfordshire,
Gloucestershire and Kent. The Hales of Kent are
known to have existed as early as the reign of
Edward HI. Sir Robert Hales, son of Nicholas
Up Hales, was prior of the Knights of St. John
and lord high treasurer of England. He was killed
in Wat Tyler's insurrection on Tower Hill, London,
in 13S1. The latter's brother. Sir Nicholas de Hales,
was the progenitor of three branches of the family
known as the Kent, Coventry and Essex Hales.
(I) Some of the Hales of New Hampshire de-
rive their origin in America from Robert Hale, who
was born about the year 1609, emigrated in 1632,
settling first in Boston. Shortly after his arrival
he removed to Charlestown, where he united with
the First Church. He was a blacksmith by trade,
but seems to have devoted much of his time to the
public service, as he held several positions of trust
including that of surveyor of new plantations, to
which he was appointed by the general court. He
died July 19, iSsg. The christian name of his wife
was Jane. She survived him and married for her
second husband Richard Jacobs, of Ipswich. Her
death occurred in July, 1679. The children of
Robert Hale were; Rev. John, JNIary, Zachariah,
Samuel and Joanna.
(II) Rev. John Hale, eldest son and child of
Robert and Jane Hale, was graduated from Harvard
College in 1657, and was ordained the first minister
of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, re-
taining that pastorate for the remainder of his life.
He was one of the three chaplains of the regiment
which was sent to Canada in 1690 and was captured
by the French, but shortly afterwards was released.
During his Beverly pastorate occurred the famous
Salem witchcraft excitement, and he appears to
have been a believer in the -delusion until an accu-
sation was made against his wife, whereupon he
renounced his belief, and wrote an able work de-
fending with spirit his change of view. For his
first wife he married Rebecca Byles, daughter of
Henry Byles, of Sarum, England, and she died April
13. 1683, aged forty-five years. March 3, 1684, he
married Mrs. Sarah Noyes, of Newbury, whose
death occurred JNIay 20, 1695, at the age of fortj'-
one, and on August 8, 1698, he married for his third
wife Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, of Newbury, who sur-
vived him. His children were : Rebeckah, Robert,
Rev. James, Samuel, Joanna and John.
(III) Samuel, third son and fourth child of
Rev. John and Sarah (Noyes) Hale, was born in
Beverl)', August 13, 1687. For many years he re-
sided in Newburyport, and all of his children were:
born in that town. Late in life he removed to
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and died there about
the year 1724. He was married August 26, 1714,
to Apphia Moody, who was born June 23, 1693,
and the children of this union were : Joanna, Rich-
ard. Samuel. Hannah and John. (N. B. Richard
Hale, son of Samuel, was the father of Captain
Nathan Hale, whose capture and execution as a
spy by the British was one of the most unfortunate
episodes of the American Revolution).
(IV) John, youngest son and child of Samucl
and Apphia (Moody) Hale, was born in Newbury-
port, January 16, 1722. He resided in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, and died there about the year 17S7.
The maiden name of his wife does not appear in
the records at hand. It is known, however, that he
was the father of Samuel, John, Benjamin, Eben-
ezer, Jane, Sally and Hannah.
(V) Samuel, eldest son of John Hale, of Glou-
cester, entered the legal profession and was prac-
ticing law in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during
the agitation which culminated in the American
Revolution. He was loyal to the crown, and just
prior to the commencement of hostilities went to
England, where he remained until the close of the
W'ar. Upon the resumption of diplomatic relations
between the mother country and the United States,
he was appointed consul at one of the American
ports, but died on the passage over. Prior to his
departure for England he married Lydia Parker,
daughter of Hon. William Parker of Portsmouth.
Her grandparents were William and Zerviah (Stan-
ley) Parker, the latter a daughter of the Earl of
Derby, and they were married in England, Feb-
ruary 26, 1703, against the wishes of the bride's
father. They immediately came to America in order
to escape the vengeance of the Earl, who was an
arbitrary and vindictive man, and thenceforward
lived a secluded life in Portsmouth. William Par-
ker was a gentleman of education and refinement.
Hon. William Parker, Lydia Parker's father, was
admitted to the bar in 1732 ; was clerk of the com-
missioners who settled the boundary line between
New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 1737; was
appointed register of probate by Governor Belcher;
afterwards became judge of admiralty and was for
many years the only notary public in the province.
From 1765 to 1774 he was a member of the general
assembly. In August, 1771. he was appointed a
judge of the superior court, and held office until
the end of British authority. In 1763 the cor-
poration of Harvard College conferred upon him
the degree of Master of Arts (honorary). He died
April 29, 1781, aged seventy-seven years. His chil-
dren were : Zerviah, Stanley, William, John, Eliz-
abeth, Mary, Lydia, Catherine, Samuel, Sarah and
Matthew Stanley. Lydia married Samuel Hale, as
previously stated, and was the mother of one son.
She died in September, 1878, at the age of forty-
seven years.
(VI) John Parker, only child of Samuel and
Lydia (Parker) Hale, became a lawyer and prac-
ticed in Rochester, New Hampshire. He married
Lydia O'Brien, of Machias, Maine, daughter of
William O'Brien, who participated in the capture
of the British ship "Margaretta" during the Revo-
lutionary war. Among their children was Hon.
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John Parker Hale, for sixteen years United States
senator from New Hampshire, and afterwards min-
ister to Spain.
(VH) Hon. John Parker Hale (2), second child
of John Parker (i) and Lydia (O'Brien) Hale,
was born in Rochester, March 31, 1806, and died
November 19, 1873, aged sixty-seven years. When
but thirteen years of age he was left fatherless, but
by the efforts of his mother who was equal to the
duty imposed on her, the family was kept together,
and the son who was destined to play so prominent
a part in his country's history was able to obtain
an education commensurate with his mental powers.
After receiving the training the schools of his
native village afforded, his mother's exertions en-
abled him to prepare for college at Phillip's Exeter
Academy under Principal Abbot, who remarked
years afterwards that he had live of his boys in
the United States senate, "and pretty good boys,
too," Webster, Cass, Hale, Dix and Field. He en-
tered Bowdoin College, passed through the course
of study with ease and graduated in 1827, with a
high reputation for general scholarship and extem-
poraneous oratorical ability. At this time he was
twenty-one years of age.
His natural mental trend, his aptness to grasp
and manipulate ideas and his manifest fitness for
the law, all indicate that profession as his vocation
in life. Accordingly on leaving college he entered
upon his legal studies. His first reading was in
the office of J. H. Woodman, Esq., of Rochester.
Later he had an opportunity to complete his course
with Daniel M. Christie, Esq., for many years the
honored head of the New Hampshire bar. In the
three years during which he was preparing himself
for his profession, he was developing a breadth and
power of mind and character that none who knew
him could mistake. As a law student he displayed
all his character in his traits of quickness, aptitude,
ease of acquisition and tenacity of memory, so that
his future eminence was conlidently foretold. To
natural ability he joined an activity of intellect and
a love of literature that led him to read extensively
and with great pleasure the classics, in both prose
and poetry, and to peruse with marked satisfaction
the speeches of the great orators of ancient and
modern times. Thus equipped, in 1830, John P.
Hale was admitted to the bar, and opened an office
at Dover. With his qualifications and already ex-
tensive local acquaintance his was not the fate of
the patient plodder who must take years to win a
clientage; he at once took high rank at the bar,
and soon had a profitable practice. In his case he
showed great perspicacity in discerning the point
at issue, and adroitness in handling thepi. In the
examinations of witnesses he exhibited consummate
skill and tact, and in his addresses to juries he
showed that he had inherited from his maternal
ancestors that power of eloquence that has made
many an Irish lawyer famous. In civil and crim-
inal practice he was equally skillful. The class of
business to which he was introduced as leading
counsel often pitted him against such men as Mr.
Christie, his old preceptor, and other hardly less
distinguished men, but equipped as he was with wit
and humor, and a consummate master of the art of
oratory, he knew his powers and won success
second to none of those with whom he contended.
His practice was not long confined to Strafford
county, but extended into the adjoining counties
of Belknap, Carroll and Rockingham.
As a man INIr. Hale "felt a sympathy for mankind,
for the masses against the classes, as it is now ex-
pressed. This sentiment showed itself early and
was ever manifest in his action on great public ques-
tions. He believed the people have rights, and never
faltered in support of them, regardless of whoever
or how many opposed him. In the early years of
his professional life he had a spirited contest with
Chief Justice Porter in the supreme court of New
Hampshire over his claim of right of the jury to
be judges of the law as well as the facts in criminal
cases. In support of his theory on this question, he
published a pamphlet which an eminent authority
has said "contains well-nigh all the learning on a
question of the deepest importance in its day, which
has been substantially settled at last by the amel-
iorations of the criminal law, the progress of so-
ciety, and the growth of institutions of liberty. Al-
though Mr. Hale was not distinguished for re-
condite learning, this publication exhibited too com-
plete a mastery of authorities to be dashed off at
a sitting, too profound an argument to have been
prepared in a day. This debate is chiefly interest-
ing to-day as a proof that Mr. Hale had unquestion-
ably devoted time in his early years to the study
of the great books of the common law, to the history
and development of English liberty, and was deeply
grounded in its leading principles." Judge Parker's
reply is contained in the report of the case of Peirce
and others against the State in volume 13 of the
New Hampshire Reports.
Mr, Hale's reputation as a lawyer soon spread
beyond the limits of his own state. When Shad-
rach, a fugitive slave, was rescued in 1851 from
the courthouse in Boston by Lewis, Hayden and
others and sent to Canada, great excitement arose
all over the country, and when the leaders in the
rescue, Hayden and Scott, were brought to trial,
Mr. Hale was their leading counsel. The character
of the testimony was strongly against the defend-
ants, as was also the charge of the presiding judge,
but Mr. Hale's masterly speech for his clients, one
of the most noted efforts of the times, so influ-
enced the jury that they failed to agree, and the de-
fendants were discharged. Three years later the
case of Anthony Burns in Boston created still
greater excitement. Theodore Parker, hearing of
the arrest, with difficulty got access to the man,
procured counsel for him and obtained a continu-
ance of his case in order to allow him opportunity
to make a defense. An immense meeting was held in
Faneuil Hall to consider what the crisis required,
and while it was in session a party stormed the
jail where Burns was confined and attempted his
rescue. In doing this one of the assistants of the
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marshal having Burns in charge was killed. Public
excitement over this act was at the highest tension ;
the President ordered the adjutant general of the
army to Boston, and United States troops in New
York were kept under marching orders, ready to
act in case they were needed to quell further riot-
ous disturbances. Theodore Parker and others were
indicted, some for murder, and others for assault
and riot, mainly for the speeches made at the meet-
ing at Faneuil Hall. Mr. Hale was called to take
the place of leading counsel for the defendants, and
under his management the indictments broke down,
and the case was never called for trial. Theodore
Parker prepared a "defense" in the case, and as
there was no opportunity to avail himself of it in
court, he published it with a dedication to his law-
yer, John P. Hale.
It is usual for young men who possess the gift
of oratory and a power to influence their fellowraen
to enter the political arena, and John P. Hale was
no exception to the rule. His sympathetic nature
and his love of justice and a square deal led him to
became a candidate for the legislature in 1832, on
a workingman's ticket. He was elected, but his
position did not permit of his distinguishing him-
self at that time. He soon afterwards became a
supporter of the Democratic party, and in 1834,
when twenty-eight years of age, was appointed by
President Jackson United States district attorney.
This position he filled with distinction until he was
removed for political reasons by the Whig ad-
ministration in 1841.
Hitherto Mr. Hale had made the practice of
law the chief aim of his life, and by his skill had
won in the legal forum laurels that might well have
been coveted by older and more experienced prac-
titioners; but henceforth his time and his efforts
were to be devoted to the solution of the great
national problems that convulsed the commonwealth.
His record to this time as a lawyer justifies the opin-
ion that he would have been the peer of any law-
yer at the American bar had he continued to prac-
tice his profession. But he" chose another, and per-
haps more useful course. Not only as a lawyer,
but also as an orator, Mr. Hale's development had
been rapid, and having now identified himself with
the Democratic party his ability and his eloquence
were called to its aid, and he became one of its most
able supporters. In 1843 he was elected to the
national house of representatives. In the opening
days of the session, he entered freely into the debates,
taking a very prominent stand as an advocate of
Democratic principles, and attracting wide and ad-
miring attention by his oratorical powers. Such
was the character ' of his oratorical power that he
was referred to as the "Democratic Boanerges,"
the "Granite State Cataract," and by other like ex-
pressions. He proposed measures of retrenchment
in regar.d to West Point, the army and the navy, and
advocated the reduction in postage rates, and the_
abolition of corporal punishment in the army. June
3, 1844, he moved the abolishment of flogging in
the navy, and by his eloquence the measure was car-
ried in the house, but it was lost in the senate.
When congress assembled in December an exciting
debate arose upon the question of continuing what
was termed the gag rule, which required "that every
petition, memorial, resolution, proposition or paper
touching or relating in any way, or to any extent
whatever, to slavery or the abolition thereof shall,
on presentation, without any further action thereon,
be laid on the table, without being debated, printed
Or referred." This rule suppressed the right of
petition if it in any way touched slavery and
during the debate Mr. Hale, with Mr. Hamlin, of
Maine, and a few other Democrats, avowed their
opposition to it. Here appeared Mr. Hale's dis-
position to think for himself, and act, when he saw
fit, in opposition to party dictates. This was the be-
ginning of his anti-slavery action in congress, his
declaration of independence of the rights of any man
or set or men to require him to act in opposition
to the dictates of his conscience. The pursuit of
this course brought him conspicuously before his
fellow citizens as a national character.
In the presidential campaign of 1844 Mr. Hale
gave his efforts for the success of his party, and
distinguished himself as a political speaker. The
extension of slavery was a thing necessary for the
continued political supremacy of the South, and
the pro-slavery element of the Democratic party
in that section led by John C. Calhoun and aided
by President Tyler were using every effort to effect
the annexation of the young republic of Texas to the
United States, as slave territory. When this scheme
fully developed it found opposition in the North.
All the newspapers of New Hampshire opposed the
extension of slavery, and in this they were in-
dorsed by the leaders and by the masses of the
party. But when, by the election of 1844, the South
obtained complete control of the national councils
and patronage, its influence was such that the Dem-
ocratic newspapers and party leaders in New Hamp-
shire obeyed the dictation of the dominant element
in the South and ceased their opposition to the
measure they so recently had condemned. The domi-
nation of the slaveholders was so complete that at
their dictation the Democratic party of New Hamp-
shire reversed its course, and the legislature in
December, 1844, passed resolutions instructing the
state's senators and representatives in congress to
vote for the annexation of Texas. Mr. Hale's op-
position to the admission of Texas had been known
at the time of his election, but as "obey or resign"
had long been the Democratic doctrine in New
Hampshire, it was expected he would act in accord-
ance with the wishes of his his constituents. Con-
gress assembled in December, 1844, and the advo-
cates of annexation submitted several schemes for
the consummation of their designs. On the loth of
Januarj', 1845, Mr. Hale, evidently with no idea of
breaking with his party, proceeded to act in accord-
ance with the opinions he had all along entertained,
and moved a suspension of the rules to enable him
to introduce a proposition to divide Texas into
, two parts, in one of which slavery should be for-
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ever prohibited, but though this motion was carried
by a majority it failed for want of a two-third vote.
Mr. Hale was not following the instruction of
his party in New Hampshire, and in order to vin-
dicate himself, under date of July 7, 1845, he ad-
dressed to his constituents his famous letter in
which he justified his course, laid bare in no meas-
ured terms the Texas scheme of annexing territory
to perpetuate slavery, stigmatizing the reasons given
by its advocates in its behalf as "eminently calcu-
lated to promote the scorn of earth and the judg-
ment of heaven," and thus appealed to the patriotic
traditions of the men of the Granite State : "When
our forefathers bade a last farewell to the homes
of their childhood, the graves of their fathers, and
the temples of their God, and ventured upon all
the desperate contingencies of wintery seas and a
savage coast, that they might in strong faith and
ardent hope lay deep the foundations of the temple
of liberty, their faith would have become skepti-
cism, and their hope despair, could they have fore-
seen that the day would ever arrive when their
degenerate sons should be found seeking to extend
their boundaries and their government, not for the
purposes of promoting freedom, but sustaining
slavery," and added that if his constituents were
favorable to such a measure, they must choose an-
other representative to carry out their wishes. Says
Hon. Jacob H. Ela in his article on Hale in the
Granite Monthly : "It was a great step to take and
a less daring spirit would not have ventured it.
Poor in property, with a family to support, tlie most
popular man in his party, with power to command
and ability to adorn anj' public position his am-
bitions might seek on the one side, with alienation of
social and political friends, ostracism in business and
politics, by a party which had for sixteen years had
unbroken sway and remorselessly cut down every
man who dared to oppose its declared will on the
others, were the alternatives. Few men have shown
such greatness of soul and loyalty to convictions
under such temptations. While most men would
have yielded, Mr. Hale did not falter, but sent
his letter which for a moment paralyzed political
movements in New Hampshire, but was soon fol-
lowed by a storm of condemnation and denuncia-
tion from the party leaders. The Democratic state
committee issued a call for the reassembling of the
Democratic convention, February 12, 1845, and every
Democratic paper that could be influenced to do
so joined in denouncing Mr. Hale, and asking the
convention to rebuke and silence him. The oppo-
sition to him by officials seemed to be almost un-
animous. Franklin Pierce, his college companion,
and long time political associate and personal friend,
toured the state to organize the opposition. At
Dover, Portsmouth and Exeter, the Democratic
papers and almost every one of the party leaders
renounced all allegiance to John P. Hale and his
anti-slavery principles. Mr. Hale had not taken
this step without foreseeing the probable conse-
quences, and now prepared to enter upon the prac-
tice of his profession in New York. The convention
met, the nomination of John P. Hale was rescinded,
his name struck from the ticket and another sub-
stituted. But his friends, of whom there were still
a few among the leaders of the party, organized the
first successful revolt against the slave power.
While the election was pending Texas was annexed
as slave territory, not in the usual manner by a
treaty of annexation, the ratification of which would
have required a two-thirds majority of the houses
of congress, which the slave-holding element knew
could not be got, but by joint resolution, which re-
quired only a majority of votes, and was carried
in the house by a vote of one hundred and thirty-
four to seventy-seven, John P. Hale and Hannibal
Hamlin alone among the Northern Democracy re-
fusing to support the measure. This proceeding
had a grave and sobering influence upon the minds
of many of the more thoughtful and far-seeing
Democrats of New Hampshire, and when the elec-
tion was held, John Woodbury, who had been sub-
stituted on the ticket for Mr. Hale, failed of elec-
tion. Another election was necessary to fill the
vacancy, and it was called. During the campaign
just closed Mr. Hale had remained at his post in
Washington. When the second canvass was opened,
he appeared on the scene and by his magnetic pre-
sence and convincing oratory infused a vigor and
excitement into the contest that was felt in every
hamlet throughout the state. The last election had
come off March 11, 1845; this campaign opened at'
Concord, in June following, on the week for the
assembling of the legislature in the old North
Church. An unusual assemblage of people was in
town in attendance upon various religious and
benevolent anniversaries. The Democrats, fearful
of Hale's eloquence upon an audience so intelligent
and conscientious, decided that he must be answered
on the spot and selected Franklin Pierce as the only
man at all fitted for such an encounter. The size of
the audience taxed the capacity of the church to the
utmost."
The eloquent Colonel Hall in describing this
event in his oration at the unveiling of the statue
of Hale at Concord, August 3, 1892, said : "Mr.
Hale spoke two hours, making a calm, dignified and
effective vindication of his principles and conduct.
Occasionally rudely interrupted, he never lost his
temper, nor that splendid equanimity which availed
him on so many occasions in debate. He rose to
surprising eloquence in denunciation of slavery, and
at the end it w'as manifest that whether they agreed
with his conclusions or not, all were convinced that
he had been actuated by pure motives and a high
sense of public duty. Mr. Pierce was himself a
nervous, energetic and brilliant orator, but. for the
task set before him, he was handicapped by the in-
consistencies of the Democratic record, and by
Hale's glowing appeal to the nobler sentiments of
humanity, lifting the plane of discussion entirely
above the ordinary dead level. He replied to Mr.
Hale in a passionate and imperious, not to say in-
solent manner, accusing him of ambitious motives,
and defending, as he only could, the party in power
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for its efforts to extend the area of the republic by
bringing the vast territory of Texas under its sway.
The advantage in temper was very manifest, and
wlien Mr. Hale had rejoined with a triumphant
vindication of his own motives and purposes, he
closed with this magnificent appeal: '1 expected to
be called ambitious ; to have my name cast out as
evil. I have not been disappointed. But, if things
have come to this condition, that conscience and
a sacred regard for truth and duty are to be publicly
held up to ridicule, and scouted at without rebuke,
as has just been done here, it matters little whether
we are annexed to Texas or Texas is annexed to us.
I may be permitted to say that the measure of my
ambition will be full if, when my earthly career
shall be finished and my bones be laid beneath the
soil of New Hampshire, when my wife and children
shall repair to my grave to drop a tear of affection
to my memory, they may read on my tombstone,
"He who lies beneath surrendered office, place and
power, rather than bow down and worship slaveo'-" '
In the opinion of Mr. Hale's friends, his victory
was indisputable. No debate in New Hampshire
ever had such interest, and none results at all com-
parable with it in importance. Beyond all doubt Mr.
Pierce's efforts that day made him president of the
United States, and Mr. Hale's led to the triumph
of his party, whereby he became the first anti-
slavery senator and the recognized pioneer cham-
pion of the Free Soil movement. On the 23rd of
September, 1845, t'^e third trial was held for the
representatives in congress, resulting in a Demo-
cratic defeat by about the same vote as before, the
Hale men holding the balance of power between
them and the Whigs. November 29, 1845, a fourth
trial left the Democrats in a still more decisive
minority, and then the final struggle for mastery
in the state was postponed to the annual election,
March 10, 1846. During the winter, Mr. Hale can-
vassed the state again, everywhere the admired
champion of a cause now manifestly advancing to
certain triumph. The result was a complete over-
throw of the party in power in New Hampshire,
the Whigs and Independent Democrats together
having both branches of the legislature, and a con-
siderable majority of the popular vote, though there
was no election of governor or congressman by
the people. ^Ir. Hale was chosen a representative
from Dover, and, by a coalition of Hale men and
Whigs, was made speaker of the house, and on the
gth of June, 1846, was chosen United States senator
for the full term of six years, commencing March
4, 1847."
Mr. Hale's election was not merely a personal
triumph of the man over his opponents, it was a
great moral victory marking the beginning of the
overthrow of the slave power. The ideas of Mr.
Hale were now known to the intellegent people of
the nation, and many advanced thinkers embraced
the doctrines he advocated, and zealously propa-
gated them. The state of New Hampshire was re-
moved from the ranks of the supporters of the slave
power and forever set in array against it. He took
his seat in the senate, December 6, 1847, and for
two years worked and struggled alone as an anti-
slavery independent. In 1849 his principles bore
fruit in Ohio, and Salmon P. Chase was sent to
join him, and in 1S51, Charles Sumner, of Massa-
chusetts, became the third of the trio of intellectual
giants whose voices no power could silence, and
whose influence no opposition could control. He
entered into the business of the senate as he had
that of the house, boldly, as one having a right to
be there and a mission to fulfill. He stood alone.
"Every means of silencing him was resorted to,
threats, insults, sneers, ridicule, derision. He was
treated with studied contempt by the South, and
with cold neglect by the North.'' He was denied,
says Colonel Hall, "the common courtesy of a place
on senatorial committees, being told publicly by a
senator who was afterward expelled from the body
for disloyalty, that he was considered outside of
any healthy political organization in the country.''
But in the face of all this he persevered as one
conscious of the greatness of the work he now
seems to have been specially appointed to execute.
In 1848, when the question of the admission of
Oregon was under discussion, he proposed as an
amendment the '.vdinance of 1787 excluding slavery,
which brought up a fierce debate. He was accused
of provoking a "useless and pestiferous discussion."
To this he good naturedly replied that he was "will-
ing to stand where the word of God and his con-
science placed him, and there bid defiance to conse-
quences."
A mob demonstration against the office of the
National Era in Washington was the occasion of a
debate in the senate, during the progress of which
Mr. Hale introdiiced a resolution copied from the
laws of Maryland, providing for the reimburse-
ment of persons whose property should be destroyed
by mobs. In the controversy which followed Sen-
ator John C. Calhoun said he "would as soon argue
with a maniac from Bedlam as with the senator
from New Hampshire on this subject." INIr. Hale's
reply to Mr. Calhoun's attack was spirited, as would
be expected, and in closing he said to Calhoun that
his was "a novel mode of terminating a controversy
by charitably throwing the mantle of a maniac's
irresponsibility upon one's antagonist." In this debate
Mr. Foote, of Mississippi, after many insulting ex-
pressions, and denouncing j\Ir. Hale's bill as "ob-
viously intended to cover and protect negro steal-
ing," turned to Mr. Hale and said: "I invite him
to visit the good state of Mississippi in which I have
the honor to reside, and will tell him beforehand in
all honesty, that he could not go ten miles into the
interior before he would grace one of the tallest
trees of the forest with a rope around his neck,
with the approbation of every virtuous and patriotic
citizen; and that, if necessary, I should myself as-
sist in the operation." To this Air. Hale replied:
"One senator invited me to visit the state of Missis-
sippi, and kindly informs me that he would be one of
those who w^ottld act the assassin, and put an end to
my career. * * * Well, in return for his hospit-
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able invitation, I can only express the desire that he
should penetrate into one of the 'dark corners' of
New Hampshire, and, if he do, I am much mistaken
if he would not find that the people in that 'be-
nighted region' would be happy to listen to his
arguments, and engage in an intellectual conflict
with him, in which the truth might be elicited."
The nobility of this reply was in great contrast to
the ruffianism of the assault, which consigned Sen-
ator Foote to the pillory of history with a nickname
bestowed upon him by the public which will never
be forgotten while he is remembered.
Believing with Daniel Webster that the war with
Me.xico was "an iniquitous war made in order to
obtain, by conquest, slave territory," he opposed
all the measures pursued in prosecuting it. In
December, 1849, Mr. Foote introduced a resolution
declaring it to be the duty of congress to provide
territorial government for California, Deseret and
New Mexico. Mr. Hale offered an amendment
that the ordinance of 1787 should be applied. Dur-
ing the debate which followed, Daniel Webster
made his 7th of JNIarch speech. Mr. Hale occupied two
days in an elaborate argument, vindicating the
principles, measures and acts of anti-slavery men.
This is said to have been the most powerful of his
senatorial efforts. In it he analyzed in a masterly
manner Mr. Webster's speech, grappling resolutely
with its morality, statesmanship and policy. Among
other things he said : "The senator declares he
would not re-enact the laws of God. Well, Sir,
I would, when he tells nic the law of God is
against slavery. It is a most patent argument why
we should incorporate it in a territorial bill." His
peroration was a brilliant presentation of the prin-
ciples and aims of the Free Soil party.
In the midst of his struggle to abolish slavery,
he did not lose an opportunity to ameliorate the
condition of the nation's defenders. While in the
senate he introduced a bill for the abolition of
flogging in the navy similar to the bill he had pro-
posed in the house. After repeated defeats his
measure was carried as a part of the appropriation
bill in 1852. Twelve years later he secured the
abolition of the spirit ration. For each cf these
measures his name deserves much honor. Senator
Hale's position as the sole representative of the
Free Soil party in the American senate, where the
contest over slavery waged so fiercely fo.r years,
has made that part of his life of greatest interest
to the student of history. The record of his un-
daunted, persistent and ultimately successful on-
slaught upon the slave power, possesses an interest
to the friends of human freedom second to that in
another epoch in the history of the constitutional
period of America. His manliness, courage and
nobility of character entitled him to respect and
compelled attention; and with logic, wit, ridicule,
sarcasm, humor and brilliant repartee he maintained
himself against all opponents, and saw his cause
daily grow stronger, where a man of ordinary ability
and less fertile in expedient would have been over-
whelmed. When his term expired the Democratic
party had obtained control of New Hampshire, but
in 1855 the death of Charles G. Atherton left a
vacancy in the senate, to which Mr. Hale was elec-
ted, and he served the remaining four years. In
1858 he was again re-elected for a full term.
He was nominated as a Free Soil candidate for
the presidency in 1847, but declined after the nomi-
nation of Martin Van Buren by the Democrats in
1848. He was again nominated for president by
the Free Soil party with George W. Julian for vice-
president, at Pittsburg, in 1852, and received at
the election one hundred and fifty-five thousand,
eight hundred and fifty votes. He closed his sena-
torial career in 1865 and was appointed by Mr.
Lincoln minister to Spain, where he served five
years, much of the time in ill health. In 1870 he
returned to his home and never afterwards held
official position. He had lived to see the efforts suc-
cessful which he had made for the emancipation of
a race of slaves. With so great a triumph he had
reason to be satisfied.
John P. Hale married Lucy H. Lambert, a
daughter of William T. and Abigail (Ricker) Lam-
bert, the former of Rowley, Jilassachusetts, and the
latter of Somersworth. They had two daughters,
one of whom married Edward V. Kinsley, of West
Point, New York, and the youngest, Lucy L. Hale,
married William E. Chandler, of Concord, New
Hampshire. They have one son who is named John
P. Hale Chandler, and is now a senior of Harvard
University.
The name of Williams is of ancient
WILLIAMS Welsh origin, and has become one
of the most prolific names in Great
Britain and America. In Wales it was formerly Ap
Williams, and it is worthy of note that Morgan ap
Williams, of Glamorganshire, gentleman, married
a sister of Lord Thomas Cromwell, afterward Earl
of Essex, who was an ancestor of the famous Pur-
itan reformer, Oliver Cromwell. The family now
in hand is the posterity of the Glamorganshire Wil-
liamses just mentioned, and Roger Williams, the
founder of Providence, Rhode Island, was also
descended from the same source.
(I) Richard Williams, who was born in Gla-
morganshire, Wales, about the year 1599, emigrated
to New England in 1632, and went to Taunton,
Massachusetts, as one of its original settlers in
1637. He became one of the original proprietors of
Dighton, and was also among those who made the
North Purchase (so called), which included the
present towns of Easton, Norton and Mansfield,
and a part of Attleboro. He was deputy to the
general court of the Plymouth colony in 1646-48-50-
51, and several years subsequent, and he outlived
the Plymouth government, his death having oc-
curred at Taunton in 1692. He left a good estate,
which is still in the possession of his descendants.
In local history he is sometimes referred to as the
"Father of Taunton." He married Frances Dighton,
a native of Somersetshire, England, and a sister
of the first wife of Governor Endicott. She was the
titular founder of the town of Dighton. Richard
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Williams was tlie father of nine children. (N. B.
The posterity of this emigrant is numerous and
among the more notable of his descendants were
Hon. John Mason Williams, an eminent jurist of
Massachusetts ; General Seth Williams, of Augusta,
Maine, a graduate of the United States Military
Academy at West Point and a distinguished officer
in the Mexican war; Hon. Reul Williams, of Au-
gusta; and Hon. Lemuel Williams, member of con-
gress from Massachusetts).
(H) Benjamin, son of Richard and Frances
(Dighton) Williams, resided in Easton, Massachu-
setts.
(III) Jacob, son of Benjamin Williams, settled
in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
(IV) Seth, son of Jacob Williams, was born in
Bridgewater, May 21, 1722. At the age of eighteen
years he went to Easton, where he acquired title
to one thousand acres of land from the Colonial
government, and he erected a substantial dwelling-
house which is, or was recently, still in a good
state of preservation. May 21, 1750, he married
Susannah Forbes, born in Bridgewater, May 26,
1732.
(V) Edward, eldest child of Seth and Susannah
(Forbes) Williams, was born in Easton, January 28,
1751. He inherited the homestead and occupied it
for the remainder of his life. His wife, whom he
married December 3, 1772, was Sarah Lothrop, born
at Bridgewater, in November, l/SS-
(VI) Lieutenant Seth Williams, son of Edward
and Sarah (Lothrop) Williams, was born at the
homestead in Easton, January 29, 1776. He suc-
ceeded to the possession of the homestead in turn,
and in connection with farming carried on a tannery.
He served in the War of 1812-15. His death oc-
curred at Easton, in November, 185 1. In the year
1800 he married Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Col-
onel Abial Mitchell, a native of Bridgewater, who
participated in the Revolutionary war and for
several years represented Easton in the Massachu-
setts legislature. She became the mother of eight
children.
(VII) Hon. Charles Williams, third son of
Lieutenant Seth and Sarah (^Mitchell) Williams,
was born in Easton, August i, 1816. His educa-
tional opportunities were confined to the district
school system then in vogue, but his subsequent
business career discloses the fact that he made good
use of his limited advantages for study. When
eighteen years old he began an apprenticeship at
the iron-moulder's trade in the foundry of the
Easton Iron Works, then owned and operated by
General Shepherd Leach, and was to receive as
compensation twenty-five dollars the first year, fifty
for the second, and seventy-five for the third, and
one hundred and twenty-five dollars for the fourth
year. This contract was subsequently annulled by
the death of General Leach, but young Williams
continued with the succeeding proprietor, Lincoln
Drake, until the financial panic of 1837 caused a
general suspension of industrial activities through-
out New England. .Attracted by the inducements
oft'ered by the middle west, he went to Illinois and
purchased several hundred acres of land in the im-
mediate vicinity of Springfield with the intention
of engaging in farming, but owing to the long
distance to market, together with the inadequate
means of transportation existing prior to the advent
of railroads, he at length became convmced that the
outlook for agricultural prosperity in that section
was discouraging and accordingly returned to Mass-
achusetts. Resuming his trade in North Chelms-
ford he remained there some years, and for the en-
suing three years was employed at the Amoskeag
foundry in Manchester, New Hampshire. His am-
bition for advancement was, however, unchecked
by his western experience, and with full confidence
in his ability to attain success in the iron industry,
he diligently sought for the most desirable location,
which he ultimately found in Nashua. In 1845 Mr.
Williams and his elder brother, Seth, became asso-
ciated under the firm name of S. & C. Williams,
and erecting a building in Nashua one hundred feet
long by eighty feet wide, they engaged in the
foundry business, commencing with a force of
twenty-five workmen and making an excellent start.
Four years later, July 2,- 1849, the foundry was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a t(>tal loss of forty thou-
sand dollars, which was not covered by insurance,
and although the blow was a severe one, the young
men displayed their courage and energy to a re-
markable degree by taking steps on the very day
of the fire to replace the demolished wooden
building with a substantial brick structure. In 1859
Mr. Williams became sole proprietor of the estab-
lishment through the withdrawal of his brother
from the firm, and he conducted the business alone
for the remainder of his active life. In addition
to the iron works, which continued to e.xpand un-
der his energetic management until an average force
of one hundred and twenty-five men was necessary
in order to adequately keep pace with constantly
increasing demands, he was quite extensively in-
terested in financial affairs, having been instru-
mental in organizing the Second National Bank,
of which he served as vice-president for many years.
Shortly after the incorporation of Nashua as a
city (1853), Mr. Williams was chosen a member
of the common council. In 1876 he was elected
mayor, and his administration of the city's public
business was of such a character as to cause his
re-election by a much larger majority than that
which had been accorded him the previous year.
During his term of office he was called upon to
receive and entertain, in behalf of the city, President
Hayes and the members of his cabinet, which he
did in a most cordial and hospitable manner, and
the public reception held by Mrs. Hayes at the
mayor's residence was an elaborate and exceedingly
interesting function. As a progressive business
man and public-spirited citizen, he participated ac-
tively in developing the natural resources of
Nashua, and he lived to see the city attain the impor-
tance as an industrial center which it now enjoys.
His death occurred May 9, 1894. Mr. Williams
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was a Master Mason and a member of Rising
Sim Lodge. In liis religions belief he was a Con-
gregationalist.
He married, September 21, 1846, Eliza A. Wes-
ton, born May 15, 1824, wlio survives him. She is
a daughter of Captain Southwick and Sarah (Mc-
Cauley) Weston, of Antrim, this state, and is widely
known as a lady of culture who has devoted much
of her life to charitable work and to the interests
of the First Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs.
Williams reared three children, namely: Seth Wes-
ton, M. D., deceased, see succeeding article; Charles
Alden, born August 18, 1851, died March 11, 1887;
and Marion Eliza, born March 4, 1854. Charles
Alden Williams, who was a graduate of Phillips
(Andover) Academy and of the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology, succeeded to his father's
business. He married, October 26, 1881, Kate N.
Piper, who died January 4, 1885, leaving one son,
Charles, born December 13, 1884, a graduate of
Princeton. Marion E. Williams, who was gradu-
ated from the Nashua high school and from Madam
Porter's school for young ladies in Farraington,
Connecticut, was married, November 8, 187S, to
Herbert Allen Viets, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
they have one daughter, Edith Marion, born No-
vember 8, 1883. She married, June 10, 1907, Harold
Bowen, of Newton, Massachusetts. John Weston,
an ancestor of Eliza A. (Weston) Williams, born
1630, came from Wing, England, where he mar-
ried Marie Sanders. Mrs. Williams is a descendant
of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick (on the
grandmother's side), who were among the first per-
secuted Quakers.
(VIII) Seth Weston Williams, A. B., M. D.,
eldest son and child of Hon. Charles and Eliza a!
(Weston) Williams, was born in Nashua, April
15, 1849. His early education "was acquired in the
public schools of Nashua, including the high school.
He was prepared for college at Phillips (Andover)
Academj^ took his bachelor's degree at Yale Uni-
versity, with the class of 1873, and received that
of Doctor of Medicine from the Bellevue Hospital
Medical School, Nev/ York City, in 1876. These
professional preparations were supplemented by
post-graduate studies abroad, including courses in
the German classics and microscopy at the Uni-
versity of Heidelberg, the latter in the laboratory
of Professor Arnold, and he studied with Virchow
in Berlin, and was for a time a student in the gen-
eral hospital at Vienna. At Bellevue he won the
Flint prize in physiology and successfully competed
for the Sayre prize, presenting an unusually bril-
liant and scholarly thesis on "The Etiology and
Pathology of Potts Disease." At the conclusion of
his senior services at Bellevue Hospital, in 1879, he
was assigned to the third medical division and was
to have begun his duties as regular house physician
on October i, of that year, but while visiting friends
m Portland, Maine, he was stricken with a severe
attack of congestion of the brain, which resulted
fatally on September 20, 1879, at Portland, Maine.
The untmiely end of a professional career so full of
promise for immediate success was the cause of gen-
uine regret among his instructors and classmates, and
his bereaved parents received many touching mes-
sages deploring the sad event. That from Phillips
Academy, Andover, states that "Seth's fine mental
and moral culture, his lofty character and splendid
attainments led us to expect great things of him."
Professor Louis Sayre's feelings were expressed
thus : "I was grieved beyond the power of language
to express, to learn of the death of your brilliant
son. I had formed a most profound professional
regard for him, and looked forward with pleasure
to his distinguished promotion. Life and health
were all that he required to reach the highest dis-
tinction in his profession." The record of the class
of 1873 at Yale contained the following: "To his
preparation of his life work Mr. Williams brought
a capacity and zeal which gave ample promise of
success. Purity of thought and action were the
silent forces that drew about him a large number of
friends."
(Second Family.)
(I) William Williams, the immigrant ancestor,
came from Wales as early as 1637, when, according
to Felt, he was a grantee of land at Salem. In
1641 he was in the employ of John Humphrey, at
Lynn. Soon afterward he removed to Oyster Bay
River, or Dover, New Hampshire. He had a grant
of land in Dover in 1653 and bought land there of
John Goddard in 1659. He was a taxpayer of
Dover from 1657 to 1668. He had one son, Will-
iam, mentioned below.
(II) William (2), son of William (i) Will-
iams, was born about 1640. He married Margaret
Stevenson, daughter of Thomas Stevenson. Chil-
dren, born at Dover : William, born December 22,
1662; John. March 30, 1664; Elizabeth. October 25,
1665: Samuel, mentioned below; perhaps others.
(III) Samuel, son of William (2) Williams,
was born in Dover, New Hampshire, about 1670.
He married Elizabeth Stevenson, daughter of
Bartholomew Stevenson. Children : Samuel, Jr.,
born about 1700, mentioned below. Probably others.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Williams,
was born about 1700. in Dover or vicinity. He re-
sided in Barrington, New Hampshire, and late in
life probably at Enfield. He married Anne Bum-
ford: children: William, taxed at Enfield in 1790;
Robert, mentioned below ; Asa, was taxpayer in
Enfield in 1790.
(V) Robert, son of Samuel (2) Williams, was
born about 1740-50. He lived at Barrington. New
Hampshire, at the time of his marriage. Before
1790 he removed to Enfield, New Hampshire, and
when the national census was taken Robert. .Asa and
William Williams had families in Enfield. Robert
had three sons under sixteen and one daughter in
1790. He married, January 13. 1777, Sarah Pink-
ham, also of Barrington. Among their children was
Stephen, mentioned below.
(VI) Stephen, son of Robert Williams, was
born in Canaan or Enfield, New Hampshire, in
17S9. and died November 6, 1S53. He married
Elizabeth Longfellow, born June 10, 1785, at Byfield,
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Massachusetts, and died March 12, 1S43, at Canaan,
where he was a farmer. She was a direct de-
scendant of William Longfellow, of Byfield, a dis-
tinguished soldier of the Revolution. Children,
born in Canaan : Lorenzo, William, Abraham, Sam-
uel, mentioned below ; Stephen, Susan, Marj-.
(VII) Samuel, son of Stephen Williams, was
born in Canaan. May iS. 1820, and died at Enfield,
February 4. 187S. He married, in 1848, Ursula
Day, born in Enfield, November 6, 1829, died Feb-
ruary 9. 1904. He was brought up on his father's
farm, and his early education received in a small
district school supplemented by a few terms at
Canaan Union Academy. He taught in the district
schools of Canaan and adjoining towns for several
terms. When he was twenty-five years old he went
to Utica, Mississippi, to teach in the public schools
and remained two years. He returned to Canaan
and settled down on the homestead after his mar-
riage in 1848. In 1857 he sold the farm and re-
moved to Enfield, again following the profession of
teaching, also conducting a farm. In March, 1861,
he was elected chairman of the board of selectmen
of Enfield and filled the position with credit and
efficiency until he resigned in the fall of that year
to enlist as a private in Company C of the Seventh
New Hampshire Regiment. His company was mus-
tered into the service of the United States and he
was commissioned second lieutenant, dating from
November 15. 1861 ; was promoted to first lieuten-
ant April 29, 1862. The severe service and debilitat-
ing climate of Florida and South Carolina, where
the regiment had been stationed, caused a heart
trouble to develop which finally resulted in his death.
He had to resign his commission July 23, 1862, and
return home. He partly recovered in 1865 and was
able to engage in business in the firm of Dodge.
Davis & Williams, in Enfield, in the manufacture of
flannels and hosiery. The firm occupied the old
Shaker Mills at Enfield. In 1875 he retired from
active business. He was a Republican in politic*
and prominent in public life. In 1870 he repre-
sented the town in the state legislature, and in 1871
and 1S72 was chairman of the board of selectmen.
He died February 4, 1878. Children of Samuel and
Ursula (Day) Williams; Abbie Jeanette, Lewis
Melville, Miriam Elizabeth, Susan Augusta, Henry
Herbert, and Frank Burton, mentioned below.
(VIII) Frank Burton, son of Samuel Williams,
was bcrn in Enfield, New Hampshire, November
29, 1864, He was educated in the district schools
of Enfield, at the a,gricultural college at Hanover,
New Hampshire, and at the New Hampton Acad-
emy. New Hampton. New Hampshire. He was a
clerk in a store in Enfield for a time, and later
bought out the business, which he has conducted
under his own name since, with uninterrupted suc-
cess. He has a stock of general merchandise in
connection with a drug store. He is a Republican
in politics ; is serving his second term as postmaster
and is town treasurer. He is a prominent Free
Mason. He married, June 23, 1897, Grace Elwin
Parker, daughter of Captain John Parker, of
Gloucester, Massachusetts. Children, born in En-
field: John Parker, born June 2, 1898; Samuel
Longfellow, April 24, 1902.
This family is descended from Philip
STORRS du Storrs, who accompanied William
the Conqueror into England in 1066.
as the records in the College of Archives in London
show. A village near Sheffield, England, is said to
be named from the family, as is also the celebrated
Storrs Hall, in Lancashire, near Lake Windermere,
this being an ancient stone castle- held by the repre-
sentative of the Storrs family since the fifteenth
century. The family has produced several distin-
guished members. Admiral Johtu Storrs. com-
mander of the red squadron of the British navy, in
the Mediterranean sea. was buried in Westminster
Abbey in 1733. Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago, was
one of the most distinguished lawyers at the Amer-
ican bar. Nearly all of the name in America have
descended from the immigrant Samuel. From him
have descended a line of clergymen to this day.
Twelve members of the Storrs family were in the
Revolution, which was a large number then, as the
family was small in America. Members of this
family gave six hundred acres of land to Dartmouth
College.
(I) William Storrs was a resident of Sutton
CHiii Lcund. Nottinghamshire. England. His wall
was proved at York, October 6, 1557. His wife's
name is not given. He had one or more children.
(II) Robert, son of William Storrs, raised a
family of children, among whom was "Cordall."
Robert's will was proved at York, February 5, 1588.
(III) Cordall Storrs seems to have followed
the same occupation and lived in the same place as
his father, as is the custom in the old settled coun-
tries of Europe. His will was proved October 10,
1616, at York.
(IV) Thomas Storrs and his wife. Mary, who
resided at Sutton-cum Lound. Nottinghamshire,
England, in the first half of the seventeenth cen-
tury, had at least four children and perhaps more.
(V) Samuel, sometimes called Sir Samuel,
fourth son and child of Thomas and Mary Storrs,
was baptized at Sutton, December 7. 1640. a year
made memorable in history by the opening of the
famous long parliament, wherein developed the op-
position of the Commons to the arbitrary acts of
King Charles the First, which culminated in the
trial and execution of that monarch. In 1663 he
emigrated to New England, settling first at Barn-
stable on Cape Cod, where he remained for thirty-
five years, and in 1698 he removed to Connecticut.
He and his only son, Samuel, were among the first
proprietors of Mansfield, which was originally a
part of Windham, and records show that the first
recorded title to land in the new settlement of Mans-
field was given in the year 1700 by parties in Nor-
wich to Samuel Storrs. .\llusions to him in the
early town records make it quite clear that he was
both prominent and influential in civil and religious
affairs. His death occurred April 30, 1719. and his
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remains were interred in the South Parish hurial
ground, which was laid out in i6g6 at wdiat was
then known as the "Ponde- Place," and is the oldest
cemetery in Tolland county. Tradition asserts that
he was large of stature and exceedingly prepossessing
in his personal appearance. His first wife, whom
he married. in Piarnstable, December 6, 1666, was
Mary Huckins. horn March 29, 1646, daughter of
Thomas Huckins, and she died September 24, 1683.
December 14, 1685, he married for his second wife,
Estlier Egard, who was born in 1641, and died .^pril
13- 1730. The children of his first union were:
Mary. Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Samuel and Lydia.
Those of his second marriage were : Thomas.
Esther and Cordial. (Thomas and descendants are
mentioned in this article).
(VI) Samuel (2), fifth child and only son of
Samuel (l) and IMary (Huckins) Storrs, was born
in Barnstable, May 17, 1677. He was a prominent
resident of the South Parish of Mansfield, an indus-
trious, capable and useful citizen, and a member of
the First Church. He died August 9, 1727, and on
his footstone, in addition to his name, is the follow-
ing Latin inscription : "Mors Omnia Vincit." Oc-
tober 31, 1700, he married Martha Burge, who was
born in 1671, and died September 3, 1728. Their
children were: Samuel, John, Huckins, Joseph,
Martha, Elizabeth and Mary,
(Vn) Major Joseph Storrs, fourth son and
child of Samuel (2) and Martha (Burge) Storrs,
was born in Mansfield, March 8, 1711-12. Being
but sixteen years old when his father died the Rev.
Eleazer Williams was. at his request, appointed his
guardian. He eventually acquired a substantial for-
tune, becoming the largest real estate owner in the
North Parish, where he established his residence,
and he erected, just east of the Congregational
Church, the most pretentious dwelling house in
North Mansfield, using in its construction timber
of unusual size and strength, a fact whi'ch came to
light when the building was torn down. He was
not only active and influential in the affairs of his own
town, but rendered valuable aid in establishing new
communities, being one of the original proprietors
of Hanover, New Hampshire, and the first gather-
ing of the Mansfield proprietors of that town took
place probably at his house, in 1761. He was one
of the early benefactors of Dartmouth College, hav-
ing contributed to that institution one hundred and
ten acres of land, and in other ways he emphasized
his interest in the advancement of civilization and
education. He too possessed a large well-developed
figure, and his statuesque appearance was made still
more attractive by a quiet, unaflfected manner,
which upon all occasions retained its accustomed
dignity and complacency. Major Storrs died Octo-
ber 5, 17S5. He was first married May I, 173S. to
Haimah Porter, probably a daughter of Deacon Ex-
perience Porter, and she died August 29. 1741. Of
this union there v.as one child, Hannah, w'ho died
in infancy. He was again married in 1743 to Ex-
perience Gurley, who was born in 1725, daughter of
Samuel Gurley, then of Coventry, Connecticut, but
later of Mansfield. Her deatli occurred June 9,
1767. She bore him nine children, namely: Eunice,
Mary, Hannah, Experience, Joseph, Cordial, Wil-
liam. .Augustus and Royal.
(Vni) Augustus, fourth son and eighth child
of Major Joseph and Experience XGurley) Storrs,
was born in Mansfield, December 18, 1762. Instead
of availing himself of the privilege of entering
Dartmouth College oflfered him by his father, he
declined in favor of his brother William, and
turned his attention to agriculture. Accompanied
by his wife he journeyed on horseback from Mans-
field to Hanover, and settling there as a pioneer
cleared a large farm, which in due time became ex-
ceedingly productive. He was prominently identi-
fied W'ith the early growth of the town and the de-
velopment of its agricultural resources, was for
many years a leading spirit in its public affairs,
serving as a selectman, and acting as a justice of
the peace, and for a period of elcveti years repre-
sented Hanover in the state legislature. Naturally
energetic and persevering, scrupulously honorable in
his dealings, and possessing the requisite amount of
courage and intelligence to conquer the numerous
emergencies which invariably obstruct the progress
of a pioneer, he was eminently fitted for the task of
building up a community, and his efforts in that di-
rection are worthy of the highest commendation.
In addition to the striking personalities of his an-
cestors he inherited many of their most coinniend-
able characteristics as well, and it has been said of
him t^iiat although he was a man of few words, those
he chose to utter always had a meaning, and while
in his outward appearance he was somewhat stern
he possessed a tender heart, which not unfre-
quently prompted him to kindly acts of generosity
and benevolence. .Augustus Storrs died in Han-
over, August 7. 1838. He was married March 6,
1788. to Emma Forbes, who was born July 8, 1764.
She was in every way a model housewife, and al-
though constantly occupied with the many duties
devolving upon her, including the spinning and
weaving of woolen and linen cloth with which the
family were clothed, and tlie making of butter and
cheese, in which she was an expert, she, neverthe-
less, found time to seek out those in need of assist-
ance and dispensed her charity with a liberal hand.
Mrs. Emma Storrs was the mother of children,
namely: Libeus, Augustus, Lucy (became the wife
of John Goodell, of Lyme, New Hampshire), Nancy
(married Eli Barnes), Fanny, Percy (died in in-
fancy), Polly (became the wife of Agrippa Dow. of
Hanover), Daniel, Adna, and Laura (who married
David Hurlbert, of Hanover). Libeus settled in El-
bridge. Ohio. Augustus became largely interested in
trade between Missouri and Mexico early in the last
century, and in 1825 furnished the LTnited States sen-
ate, at the request of Hon. Thomas Benton, soine val-
uable statistics relative to our commercial inter-
course with that country.
(IX) .-Xdna, fifth son and ninth child of Augus-
tus and Emina (Forbes) Storrs. was born in Han-
over, O'ctolier 6. iSOt. Succeeding to the owner-
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ship of the homestead propert3-. containing three
hundred and twenty acres, he devoted his energies
almost exclusively to agriculture and was for many
years one of the substantial farmers of Hanover.
He was an upright, conscientious man, a useful cit-
izen and an earnest supporter of religious and
benevolent work, being a member of the Church of
Christ at Dartmouth College. He was quite largely
interested in the Hanover National Bank, and at
the time of his death, which occurred March S, 18S4,
he was one of the oldest directors of that institution.
In politics he was originally a Whig and later a Re-
publican. October 28, 1835, he married Asenath
Goodell, a native of Lyme, daughter of Luther and
Martha (Waterman) Goodell. The children of this
union are : Augustus, born August 25, 1836, mar-
ried Fanny D. Clark. Helen Frances, born April
17, 1838, became the wife of Rev. E. J. Alden. Ed-
ward Payson, who will be again referred to. Laura
Asenath, born December 12, 1850. became the wife
of J. H. Foster, of Hanover.
(X) Edward Payson, second son and third
child of Adna and Asenath (Goodell) Storrs, was
born in Hanover, May 18, 1842. He was educated
in the public schools, including the high school in
Lyme, and at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden,
New Hampshire. His business training was began
in a country store at East Lyme, and continued in
the store of Major L O. Dewey, in which the post-
office was located. Going to Ohio he was employed
as a telegraph operator on the Marietta & Cincin-
nati Railroad for a year, at the expiration of which
time he became a conductor and continued in that
capacity some three or four years. Returning to
Hanover in 1865 he opened a general store in part-
nership with H. H. Clough, which under the firm
name' of Clough & Storrs was carried on for some
time, and in 1S72 he succeeded by purchase to the
business of the Claremont Stationery Company,
which necessitated his removal to that town. In
1878 he again sought for a business opening in Han-
over and established the Hanover Stationery Com-
pany which he conducted for six years, or until sell-
ing out in 1884. He then inaugurated his present
business known as the Dartmouth Book Store and
has built up a profitable trade in books, stationery,
etc.. employing three clerks and transacting a busi-
ness of from thirty to forty thousand dollars an-
nually.
Mr. Storrs is one of the leading Republicans of
Hanover, and an active participant in local public
affairs, having served as a selectman for fifteen
years and chairman cf the board for ten years: was
representative to the legislature in 1902-03, being
assigned to the committee on insurance, and for the
past three years has been precinct commissioner.
Besides these valuable public services he has filled
for many years the position of trustee and auditor
of the local savings bank, was one of the pro-
moters of the Hanover Water Works Company and
is now its superintendent. He is well advanced in
the Masonic Order, belonging to Franklin Lodge
and St. Andrews Chapter, of Lebanon, and Sullivan
Coniniandery. Knights Templar, of Claremont. He
attends the Church of Christ.
On June i, 1869, Mr. Storrs married Juliette
English Steele, who was born in Lyme. May 12,
1845. daughter of David and Harriet (Southard)
Steele, both of whom were natives of that town.
Mr. and Mrs. Storrs are the parents of six children,
namely : Mary Louise, a graduate of Abbott Acad-
emj', Andover, Massachusetts, and now a teacher in
the high school at Medford, that state. Caroline,
also a graduate of .Abbott Academy and now the
wife of Dr. George H. Parker, of Wells River, Ver-
mont. Adna, wdio attended Kimball Union Acad-
emy, Meriden, spent two years at Dartmouth Col-
lege -and is now assisting his father in business.
Edward Payson, Jr., who was graduated at Dart-
mouth in 1900, pursued a post-graduate course there
and is now with Sears, Roebuck & Company, Chi-
cago. Harriet A., a graduate of the Hanover high
school and Mount Holyoke Seminary. Harry C,
a student at Dartmouth, class of 1907, who will also
pursue the regular course at the medical depart-
ment. Mrs. Storrs is an active member of the
Church of Christ.
(VI) Thomas, eldest son of Samuel and Esther
(Egard) Storrs, resided in Mansfield and died in
that town, April, 1755. He married, March 14. 1708,
Mehitable (surname unknown), who died March
10, 1776. Their children were: Mehitable. Rebecca,
Zerramiah, Cornelius, Thomas. Prince. Josiah,
Judah, Lemuel, Amariah and Anna.
(VII) Judah. eighth child and sixth son of
Thomas and Mehitable Storrs, was a resident of
Mansfield, where he died May 29, 1791. He mar-
ried, December 3, 1744, Lucy, daughter of Henry
Cleveland. They were the parents of these chil-
dren: Asahel, Lucy, died yoiing; Olive, Justice,
Henry, Justus, William Fitch, Lucy, Bezabel, Fred-
erick and Chester.
(VIII) Asahel. eldest child of Judah and Lucy
(Cleveland) Storrs, was born in Mansfield, May 3,
1745. He married a Miss Bliss, and they were the
parents of one child, John, mentioned next below.
(IX) John, son of Asahel and (Bliss)
Storrs, was born at Mansfield, July 29, 1768, and
died November 25, 1814. He moved to Vermont in
early life and settled at Royalton. where he died.
John Storrs married (first), at Lebanon, New
Hampshire, April, 1791, Betsey Lathrop, who died
-Vugust I. 1794, leaving one child, Asahel. He mar-
ried (second), at Canterbury, Connecticut, June 8.
1795, Thankful Spaulding, of Plainfield, who died
in 1S55. They were the parents of seven children,
all born at Royalton, Vermont. They were: John
Spaulding, Dan. Constant, Reuben. William. Charles
and Marrilla.
(X) Constant Williams, third son and child of
John and Thankful (Spaulding) Storrs, was born
April 7. 1801. His father died when he was thirteen
years old, and he was placed in the family of a Mr.
Williams, whose treatment of the boy was so kind
and considerate that Constant, as a mark of esteem
and affection, added his foster-father's surname to
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his own Christian iinnic. He became a large mer-
chant m Montpelicr, Vermont, where he died March
2,^, 1872. He was a deacon of the Congregational
Church, and a highly respected and useful citizen of
the town.
Constant Williams Storrs married, September
10, 1827, Maria C. Cadwell, born at Montpelier. Ver-
mont, February 14, 1803, daughter of Wyllys and
Betsey (White) Cadwell. Betsey White (mother of
Maria C. Cadwell), born at Hatfield, Massachusetts,
married, at Hartford, Vermont, was a descendant of
Elder John White, who came to Massachusetts in
the ship "Lion" in 1632, and was a member of Rev.
Hooker's famous expedition to Connecticut. Wyllys
J. Cadwell entertained the Marquis de La Fayette at
his house in Montpelier, when he visited Vermont
in 1825. All the children of Constant and Maria
Storrs except one died without issue, and most of
them in infancy or childhood.
(XI) William Williams, the only child of Con-
stant W. and Maria C. (Cadwell) Storrs who left
issue, was born in Montpelier, Vermont. July 21,
1835. There he spent his early life, and was edu-
cated in the public schools and academy. He lived
several years in Concord, New Hampshire, then in
Illinois, and later again in Montpelier. where he
died September 2, 1883.
He married, at Joliet, Illinois, November 2, 1857,
Lizzie A. Roberts, born in Vernon, New York, July
22, 1833, daughter of Ebenezer and Martha A.
Roberts. She now resides in Concord. Ebenezer
Roberts, father of Lizzie A. Storrs, was the son of
Rev. John Roberts. Ebenezer married Martha Ann
Griffith, daughter of John Griffith and his wife Mary
Morgan. John Griffith and Mary Morgan were
born probably at or near Bala, county Marioneth.
South Wales, where they were married. They
came to the United States in 1800, and settled in
Utica, New York. He was a carpenter by trade,
and built there the first Presbyterian Church
(which was Welsh), and in it Rev. John Roberts
preached the gospel. William Williams and Lizzie
-A. (Roberts) Storrs were the parents of: John W.,
William C., Nellie R., and Jennie M., who married
Herbert D. Whitney, of Concord.
(XII) John Williams, eldest child of William
Williams and Lizzie A. (Roberts) Storrs, was born
it; Montpelier. Vermont, November 24, 1858, and
was educated in the public schools of Concord. New
Hampshire. He spent the greater part of si.x years
as a clerk in the service of several grocery firms in
Concord, but employed a considerable part of his
time as a member of an engineer corps. He learned
practical civil engineering under the instruction of
Charles C. Lund, a well known civil engineer of
Concord, who had charge of a great deal of work
for the city of Concord, and for the railroad enter-
ing Concord. He also engaged in the grocery busi-
ness for himself two years in Concord. In 1890 he
entered the employ of the Concord & Montreal as
assistant civil engineer, and has since continued in
the service of that road and its successor, the Bos-
ton & Maine. In April, 1903, he was appointed
state engineer by Governor Batchelder, and served
in the office for the two years following. Mr.
Storrs is a member of Rumford Lodge, No. 46, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows ; of Tahanto En-
campment, No. 18; and of Canton Wildey. No. i,
and while L. S. Richardson was colonel of the
Patriarchs Militant, served with the rank of captain
on the staff of that officer.
John W. Storrs married, in Concord, April 29,
1885, Carrie E. Dow, born in Concord, June 27, 1858,
daughter of Edward and Lavinia D. (Colby) Dow.
Edward Dow was born in Lemington, Vermont,
July II, 1820. and died in Concord, July 31, 1894.
He came to Concord in 1845, and soon took high
rank as an architect, and had charge of the con-
struction of many buildings, the college buildings at
Durham being perhaps the finest monument to his
skill as a constructor. He was a soldier in the war
of the Rebellion, and served as second lieutenant in
Company G, New Hampshire Battalion, Second
United States Sharpshooters, and was afterward
prominent as a member of E. E. Sturtevant Post,
Grand Army of the Republic. He was a Thirty-
second degree Mason ; was master of Eureka
Lodge, in 1872-73, and high priest of Trinity Chap-
ter in 1874-75 : commander of Mount Horeb Com-
mandery in 1873-74. I" 1877-78 he was representa-
tive in the legislature from ward five of Concord,
and in 1881 and the three following years alderman-
of Concord.
He married, at Auburn. New Hampshire, Octo-
ber 21, 1849, Lavinia D. Colby, born at Canandaigua,
New York, February 3, 1822, daughter of Abner
and Deborah (Gunnison) Colby. Abner was a son
of Abner Colby. John W. and Carrie Etta Storrs
have one child : Edward Dow Storrs. born February
20, 1886, now employed in the engineer's office of
the Boston & Maine Railroad.
The name Bradford is one of the
BRADFORD most distinguished in the early
Colonial history of Massachusetts,
and the record of the Bradford family from the es-
tablishment of the Puritans in Holland to 1657 in-
cludes a great part of the history of the Puritan
colony. Frorti this family have sprung a great part
of the Bradfords of New England.
William Bradford, the "Mayflower" Pilgrim, was
born or baptized, Thursday, March 19, 1590, at Aus-
terfield, a village which may have taken its name
from lying in the extreme south of Yorkshire, Eng-
land. After having acquired some, education from
William Brewster and John Robinson, he left Eng-
land at the age of eighteen lo seek freedom of wor-
ship in Holland. Constant in his devotion to the
cause of the religion he had espoused, he suffered
the trials and tribulations incident to the wanderings
of the little colony, crossed the Atlantic in the
"Mayflower," and settled with the others of his
faith at Plymouth in 1620. He was chosen governor
after the death of Carver, early in 1621, when
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thirty-one years of age. and until his death. May
9, 1657, the date of his nuncupative will, he was an-
nually elected to the gubernatorial office, except
three years, when Edward Winslow, and two, when
Thomas Prence. took the burden. His piety, con-
stancy, courage, wisdom and tact were more than
once called into action to save the colony from
ruin, but they never failed him. He married (first),
at Leyden. November 30, 1613, Dorothy May, who
accompanied her husband to America only to be
drowned at the anchorage in Cape Cod Bay, Decem-
ber 7, 1620. He married (second), August 14, 1623,
Alice, the widow of Edward Southworth. Her
maiden name was Carpenter, and Governor Brad-
ford had known her in England. She came to
America in the ship "Ann," and was married a few
days after her arrival. She survived until March 26,
1670, and died at the age of seventy-nine. There
was one child, John, by the first wife. The chil-
dren of the second wife were : William, Mercy, and
Joseph.
John Langdon Bradford, a descendant of Will-
iam Bradford, the immigrant, was born in the year
1813. died February 19, 1882. His wife, born 1813,
died in 1903.
Charles Henry, son of John Langdon Bradford,
of Pelham, New Hampshire, was born in Man-
chester, 1S43. and died January 7, 1888. He learned
the carpenter's trade when a young man and worked
at it until he was about thirty-five years old. He
then engaged in business as a grocer, in Manches-
ter, and conducted a large and profitable business
until 1878, when he retired. About 1856 he bought
a tract of five acres of land then covered with pine
timber on what is now Union street. There he
cleared away the timber, pulled the stumps, set out
an orchard, and built a large house tc^ether with
other buildings at what is now 1009 Union street.
Here his widow- and son now live. He was a Con-
gregationalist in religion, and a Democrat in politics.
He was a member of but one secret fraternity, the
Passaconoway Tribe of the improved Order of Red
Men. He married Julia Hatch, born June 16, 1843,
daughter of Hatch, of Norwich. Connecti-
cut. They had but one child, Arthur C, whose
sketch follows.
Arthur Clinton, only child of Charles H. and
Julia (Hatch) Bradford, was born in Manchester,
February 28, 1871. He attended school until eigh-
teen years of age, and at twenty-one became a fire-
man on the Concord Railroad, later a part of the
Concord & Montreal, and the Boston & Maine Rail-
road, and has ■ been in their employ since. Mr.
Bradford is an intelligent, faithful, and reliable
railroad man. and enjoys the confidence of the com-
pany he has served for seventeen years. In politics
he is an independent Democrat. He is a member
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and of
Rock Rinnion Lodge, No. 44. Knights of Pythias.
He married, June 17. iSgo, Belle Person, daughter
of James R. and Nancy (Richards) Person, of
Dunbarton. They have one child. Ruth, born
August 16, 1892.
Warren has been a distinguished
WARREN name in both Great Britain and
America for generations. Sir Peter
Warren, born in 1703. was an Irish admiral; Sir
John Borlase Warren, G. C. B., born 1754. was a dis-
tinguished English naval commander and M. P. ;
Henry Warren, born 1798. painter and author, and
Samuel Warren, novelist, born 1877, w-ere English-
men : James Warren, born at Plymouth, Massa-
chusetts, 1726, was a prominent American patriot ;
and Major-General Joseph Warren, who fell at
Bunker Hill, is said to have been the ablest and
most prominent man in New England at the time of
his death.
(I) James Warren, founder of the line herein
traced, is said to have come from Berwick, Scot-
land. He settled in the parish of Whitney, Kittery,
Maine, and July 15, 1656, a lot of land was laid out
for him "by the w-aterside." His wife, Margaret,
was a native of Ireland. He died in 1702, and his
wife sur\-ived him about eleven years, dying in 1713.
The children were : Gilbert, Margaret. Grizel, Jane
and James.
(IT) James (2), youngest child of James (l)
and Margaret Warren, w-as often one of the select-
men of Kittery and was otherwise prominent in
town affairs. He died about the beginning of the
year 1725, and on July 6 of that year his wife was
appointed administratrix of his estate. He was
married in 1691 to Mary Frost, daughter of John
and Elizabeth Frost, of Dover. Their children
were : Mary, Margaret, James. Rachel, Gilbert and
John.
(III) James (3). eldest son and third child of
James (2) and Mary (Frost) Warren, was bom
June 8, l6g8, in Kittery. and resided in that town.
He married Mary, daughter of Moses and Abigail
(Tailor) Goodwin, of Kittery. She was born Sep-
tember 18, 1699. Their children were : Sarah, Ben-
jamin. Elizabeth. Moses. James, Samuel, Chad-
bourne. William and Martha.
(IV) Moses, second son and fourth child of
James (3) and Mary (Goodwin) Warren, resided
in Kittery, where his will was probated in 1802. He
was married November 27, 1765, to Mary Cooper,
daughter of John and Mary (Goodwin) Cooper, of
Kittery. She was born March 21, 1747. Their
children were : Moses, John, Daniel. James and
Eunice.
(V) Daniel, son of Moses and Mary (Cooper)
Warren, was born in Kittery, and was a farmer for
many years in York count}', Maine, whence he re-
moved to Rochester, New Hampshire, where he
died in 1844. aged seventy-six years. He married
Sally Lord, of Maine, who died in i8s7, aged eighty-
nine years, and they were the parents of five chil-
dren : James, Joseph, Emily, born 1796, died 1861 ;
Hannah and Mary.
(VI) Rev. James Warren, eldest child of
Daniel and Sally (Lord) Warren, was bom in
Lebanon, Maine. March 13. 1802. He was educated
in the public schools of Maine, where he spent his
early life, was converted and joined the church.
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"His life as a preacher began in the old Northfield
circuit, where he was widely known and respected.
He was one of the pioneers of the Maine Confer-
ence, an earnest co-laborer with the heroes of Meth-
odism in early times. He acquired a wonderful
familiarity with the scriptures and the sacred songs
of the Wesleys, so that his sermons and exhorta-
tions had the solid foundation of God's Word, and
his songs of triumphant joy w-ere only excelled by
those he now sings in Heaven. After his active
life was over, he returned to Rochester, where he
died February 5, 1880," aged seventy-eight.
He married, May 28, 1835. at Alfred, Maine,
Lydia Perkins, of York, Maine, who was born in
Sanford. Maine. November 13. 1812. Their chil-
dren were : Horatio. Arethusa K.. Osman B., Wil-
bur Fisk. Melvin F., and Frances, the last two dying
in infancy.
(HI) Osman B.. tliird son and fifth cliild of
Rev. James and Lydia Perkins Warren, was born
in Rochester. September 15. 1845. As soon as he
was old enough he entered the public schools, which
he attended until he was thirteen years of age. He
then went to work in the Rochester Woolen Mill,
where he continued two years, and then took
service with George Johnson & Company, shoe man-
ufacturers. He afterward left this firm and went
into the employ of E. G. & E. Wallace, shoe manu-
facturers, with whom' he remained until August.
1862. He enrolled his name as a soldier from
Rochester. August i, 1862, for a term of three
years, and was mustered in at Concord, August 13,
1862. as a private in Company H, Charles W. Ed-
gerly, captain. Ninth Regiment. New Hampshire
Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Enoch
Q. Fellows. This regiment was recruited in May
and June. 1862. and was mustered into the United
States service from July 3 to August 23, at Camp
Colby, Concord. It left the state on the 2Sth, and
proceeded to Washington, D. C., arriving on the
27th. and the next morning moved to Camp Chase
near .\rlington Heights, where it was assigned to
General Whipple, commander of the defence of
Washington. September 6 it was transferred to the
First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps.
It joined the Corps at Lisbon. Maryland, and moved
forward to check Lee's advance, September 14.
Within twenty days after leaving the state, it was
engaged at the battle of South Mountain. Though
a new regiment and under fire for the first time, it
took a creditable part in the action, alone charging
a rebel brigade, driving it from the crest of the
mountain. Three days later it fought at Antietam,
Maryland, remaining there a few days. It then en-
camped at Pleasant Valley until October 27, when it
marched to Falmouth. Virginia, and encamped on
Stafford Heights. December 13 it took part in the
battle of Fredericksburg, after which it returned to
camp, and suffered greatly from sickness and de-
privation. February 9. 1863. it was ordered to
Newport News, Virginia. March 25 the Ninth
Corps moved to Kentucky, and was stationed at
various points of the state. In June it joined
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Grant's army then besieging Vicksburg. Mississippi.
After the fall of that place it pursued Johnston's
retreating forces to Jackson, ^lississippi, where they
were engaged, tlien returned to camp at Milldale,
near Vicksburg, and in .August returned to Ken-
tucky, remaining until April 2, 1864. It was en-
gaged in guarding the Kentucky Central Railroad
until January 15. 1864. then moved to Nicholasville,
then to Camp Nelson, thence. January 25, to Camp
Burnside. and on February 27 was sent to Knox-
ville, Tennessee, as an escort to the First Ohio
Heavy Artillery, returning to Camp Buniside March
27. Thence it moved to Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
April 2 it proceeded to Annapolis, Maryland, where
the Ninth Corps was reorganized, and was assigned
to the First Brigade, Second Division. April 2t, it
moved to join the Army of the Potomac, and par-
ticipated ;.i the following engagements, viz. : Wild-
erness. Spottsylvania. North .Anna, Totopotomoy,
Bethesda Church. Cold Harbor, Siege and .Assault
of Petersburg, Mine Explosion, Weldon Railroad,
Poplar Spring Church, Hatcher's Run, and the Fall
of Petersburg, all in Virginia. It also took part in
the grand review at Washington, D. C, May 23,
1863, and was mustered out near Alexandria. Vir-
ginia. June 10. 1865. O. B. Warren was promoted
to corporal. January. 1864. and to' first sergeant,
March i, 1864. for meritorious service. He was
constantly with his command, and during its service
as above until the battle of Spottsylvania Court
House. Virginia. May 12. 1864. when he was c.ip-
tured by the enemy and held prisoner at Danville,
Virginia ; Andersonville, Georgia ; Charleston and
Florence, South Carolina, until February 27, 1865.
when he was paroled and sent to the hospital at
Annapolis. Maryland. He rendered brave and ef-
ficient service to his country in its time of need,
service for which it must ever be his debtor. He
received an honorable discharge at Concord. New
Hampshire, June 15. 1S63, by reason of the close of
the war.
On returning to civil life he resumed his em-
ployment in the shoe business and continued to
work at that until he was appointed postmaster by
President Hayes. March 25. 1878. He served that
term out and was re-appointed by President Arthur,
March 31. 1882, and served faithfully in that posi-
tion until September i, 1886, when he retired with
tlic incoming of Cleveland's administration. He was
next engaged in the express business until after the
election of President Harrison, when he received
the appointment of revenue storekeeper at Ports-
mouth, a position he held four years, until the ad-
vent of another Democratic administration. He
then went to Biddeford, Maine, where he managed
a sanitorium for a year. He was then clerk of the
Hotel Thatcher, at Biddeford, Maine, a year, and
returned to Rochester, and for two years was en-
gaged in the insurance business. In i8g8 he was
elected city marshal, and held that office for eighteen
months, resigning to accept the postmastership to
which he was appointed by President McKinlcy,
and which he has ever since held. In 1875-76 lie
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was representative to the general court, and again
in 1898-99, and in 1900 was messenger to convey
the electoral vote of the state to Washington, D. C.
He is a charter member of Sampson Post. No. 22,
Grand Army of the Republic, instituted in Roches-
ter, February 3, 1870, and was post commander in
1871 and 1872, and is now (1906) department com-
mander of the state. He is a charter member of
Kennedy Lodge, No. 57. Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, which was instituted August 24, 1875, and
is one of its past grands. He is also a member of
Humane Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons,
of which he has three times served as worshipful
master ; Temple Royal Arch Chapter ; Orient Coun-
cil. Royal and Select Masters ; and Palestine Com-
mandery. Knights Templar.
He married, at Norway, Maine, April 20, 1870.
Luella J. Brown, who was born in Norway, Maine,
1844, daughter of Ephraim and Jane (Lander)
Brown. They have had three children : Frank S.,
deceased; Fannie C, and Alice, died in infancy.
This name is derived from the
WEY:M0UTH seaport at the mouth of the Wey
in Dorsetshire. England. Immi-
grants named Weymouth appear in New England
history at Kittery as early as 1652. Plymouth. 1656,
and Dover, 1662, and they have been closely identi-
fied with the business, professional, political and
musical interests of this section of the country.
(I) Shadrach Weymouth was probably born as
early as 1728, perhaps in Rye, New Hampshire, where
his life was spent, but the records with regard to
him are very imperfect, as is the case in many
other families. It is to be presumed that the maiden
name of his wife was Cotton, as that name occurs
frequently in the subse{|uent records of the family.
His children were: George (see forward). Eunice,
Thomas Cotton, James and Samuel.
(II) George, presumably the eldest son of
Shadrach Weymouth, was born in Rye, New
Hampshire, August 29, 1749; He settled in Gilman-
ton, now Belmont, Belknap county. New Hamp-
shire, where he died in August, 1811. His chief oc-
cupation was that of farming, and his religious af-
filiations were with the Quakers. He married
Huldah Folsom, born in Epping. New Hampshire,
1753, died in 1841. She had a brother, George, born
in Kittery. who lived and died in Gilmanton, and
two of whose sons — John and Dudley — died there
more than sixty-five years ago. The children of
George and Huldah (Folsom) Weymouth were:
Elizabeth, born 1774, died 1856: Abigail, born 1776.
died 1864; Anna, born 1777, died 1865; Hannah,
horn 1779. died 1864; James, born 1781. died 1866;
Huldah. born 1783, died 1832; John, born 1785, died
1864; George, born 1787, died 1S44: Joseph, born
1789. died 1867; Polly, born 1790: Daniel (see for-
ward) ; Sally, born 1794, died in infancy: Sally, born
1797. died 1834. (Daniel and descendants receive
mention in this article).
(III) James, fifth child and eldest son of
-George and Huldah (Folsom) Weymouth, was born
and spent his entire life in Gilmanton. He was a
farmer in moderate circumstances, a member and
deacon of the Free Will Baptist Church and a man
much respected in the community in which he lived
so long. His wife, Polly (Chase) Weymouth, was
a daughter of Colonel John Chase, and a descendant
of one of the highly respected families of New Eng-
land. James and Polly had four children : Maria,
born 1808, died 1845 ; married John F. Lambrey and
had three children. George W., born 1812, died
1890; married Sally Norris and had three children.
James Sherburn, see forward. Mary Swain, born
1823, married John T. Dudley (deceased) and now
lives in Belmont. New Hampshire.
(IV) James Sherburne, third child and second
son of James and Polly (Chase) Weymouth, was
born in that part of Gilmantown which now is Bel-
mont, November 6, 1819, and by principal occupa-
tion has been a farmer in that town and also in
Andover, having lived twelve years in the latter
town. He was educated in the common schools
and Gilmanton Academy, and after completing his
studies engaged in teaching for about ten years. In
1897 he took up his residence in Laconia, and has
since lived in retirement in that city. He became a
member of the Free Will Baptist Church at Bel-
mont in 1839, and served as deacon in that church
for eighteen years. He served for five years as
selectman in Belmont, as moderator of the town
meeting several times, as tax collector for two
years, and as a justice of the peace for fifteen years.
He is one of the honored, respected citizens of
Laconia. He married. February 5, 1843, Sarah B.
Dearborn, born September 7, 1818, died August 30,
1891. daughter of David and Mary (Bracketl)
Dearborn, and granddaughter of Samuel Dearborn,
of an old Northampton family. Children of James
and Sarah B. (Dearborn) Weymouth: Herman
Cassius, of Lajconia, superintendent of the Belknap
county farm. Frances Ella, born June 10, 1848,
died March 28, 1851.
(V) Herman Cassius. only son of James Sher-
burne and Sarah E. (Dearborn) Weymouth, was
born in the town of Gilmanton (Belmont), Febru-
ary 9, 1845, and has been in some useful and prom-
inent manner identified with the business and poli-
tical history of Belknap county for several years.
He was educated in district schools and Gilmanton
and New Hampton academies, and at the age of
twenty years went to Boston and for the next three
years engaged in a meat and provision business in
that city. He then returned to New Hampshire and
settled in Belmont, lived there until 1880 and then
opened a summer boarding house in Meredith.
Later on he engaged extensively in farming in con-
nection with his other enterprises, and in 1885 pur-
chased a large farm in Andover and carried on
dairying in connection with his summer boarding
house. In 1896 he built a large and modern resi-
dence in Laconia and has since lived in that city,
although since 1898 his official duties as superinten-
dent of the county farm have made it necessary
that he live temporarily at that institution. While
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Hiving in Belmont Mr. Weymouth held the offices of
superintendent of schools and selectman, and in
Andover served as selectman and road commis-
sioner. In politics he is a firm Republican. He is
a member of Aurora Lodge, No. 408. Knights of
Honor, a former member of Highland Lake Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, of East Andover, and in
religious preference is a Free Will Baptist. Mr.
Weymouth married, November 9, l86g, Abbie Smith,
born June 6. 1851, daughter of Daniel P. and Abi-
:gail (Doloflf) Smith, and granddaughter of Joseph
C. Smith, a native of Corinth, Vermont, and an
■early settler in Meredith, New Hampshire. Two
-children have been born of this marriage : Maude.
Tiorn February 14, 1872, married, February 14, 1907,
Ellsworth H. Rollins, of Alton, New Hampshire,
and a descendant of an old family of the state.
Mr. Rollins is serving his third term as a commis-
sioner of Belknap county. He is engaged in lumber
"business at Alton, New Hampshire. Blanche, born
September 18, 1873.
(HI) Daniel, fifth son and eleventh child of
■George and Huldah (Folsom) Weymouth, was born
in Gilmanton. now Belmont, New Hampshire,
August 17, 1792, died in Andover, New Hampshire,
September 20, 1877. He was educated at the Gil-
manton Academy, and supplemented this education
with diligent home study, later becoming a teacher
in the district schools, and following this occupa-
tion for some time. He subsequently devoted his
time and attention to farming exclusively until the
€nd of his days. His religious connections were
with the Free Baptist Church, and he was a member
of the anti-slavery and Republican parties. He took
an active part in the military affairs of his time and
rose to the rank of captain. He married Honor
(probably Honora) Hall, born in Exeter. New
Hampshire, April 7. 1790, died February 22, 1864.
She was a member of a family noted in the musical
circles of those times, all of her brothers and sisters
being well-known singers. She was the daughter
of Kinsley and Honor (Randlett) Hall, the former
born in Exeter in 1759, died in the same place in
1838; the latter died September 8, 1845. The
paternal grandfather of Mrs. Weymouth was Sam-
uel Hall, of Exeter ; the maternal grandfather, Cap-
tain Charles Randlett, was of Exeter. Among the
children of Daniel and Honor or Honora (Hall)
Weymouth was Henry Augustus (see forward).
(IV) Henry Augustus Weymouth, M. D., son
of Daniel and Honor or Honora (Hall) Weymouth,
was born in Gilmanton, now Belmont, Belknap
county. New Hampshire, October 14, 1820. His
preliminary education was acquired in the acad-
emies at Gilmanton and Meredith, and he then
commenced the study of medicine in his native
town, under the able preceptorship of Nahum
Wight, M. D., and attended lectures at Dartmoutli
College and in Woodstock, Vermont, being grad-
uated from the latter place in June, 1843, with
honors. He immediately settled in Andover. and
commenced the active practice of the profession of
medicine and surgery, with which he has been con-
tinuously and beneficially occupied up to the present
time (1907), and in which he has achieved more
than a merely local reputation. He has kept well
abreast of the times in every direction, all his spare
time having been devoted to diversified reading. In
addition to his professional work he has found time
to attend to many other matters of importance — is
a trustee of the Savings Bank of Franklin, and
trustee of the Proctor Academy. His political affil-
iations have always been with the Democratic party,
and he has been one of its most stanch supporters.
He. has taken an active part in the public affairs of
Andover. and held a number of public offices with
great benefit to the community. Among them may
be mentioned : Member of the legislature 1869-70,
1879-S0, 1899; justice of the peace since 1870; town ^
clerk four years; member of the school committee;
moderator, fifty times; and physician to the board
of health since that office was created. He is a
member of the Unitarian Church , and has con-
tributed liberally to the support of that institution
as well as to the Proctor Academy. He is also a
member of the following organizations : Free and
Accepted Masons, New Hampshire State Medical
Society, and National Medical Society. For many
years director of the East Andover Free Baptist
Church choir. He married, in Gilmanton, January
I. 1844, Louisa Young, who died June 13, 1890.
She was the daughter of Bailey and Polly (Rand-
lett) Young, and granddaughter of Ebenezer Young.
Most of the members of the Young family were en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Weymouth
had two brothers- — Ansel and Alfred — the former
of whom died in battle, and both were in active
service during the Civil war. The children of Dr.
and Mrs. Weymouth were:
1. Hattie Elizabeth, born in Andover, New
Hampshire, January 18, 184S, died December 21,
1889. She was educated in and graduated from the
Andover Academy, and taught in the district schools
for a number of years. She married, in 1870, Will-
iam A. Walker, at present employed with the Bos-
ton & Maine Railroad as assistant superintendent of
the Concord & Petcrboro Division, and resides in
Concord. New Hampshire. Their children were:
Henry Weymouth, horn at Andover. March, 1873,
died in infancy. Alma Louise, born in Danbury,
New Hampshire, November 20, 1874, resides at
present with her grandfather in Andover. She is
a pianist and organist of note, and has given in-
struction in music in Andover and Franklin, New
Hampshire; and in Pennsylvania, Kansas and Ar-
kansas. Leon Willard, born in Andover in 1880,
died at the age of five months.
2. Daniel Bailey, born in Andover, New Hamp-
shire. August 25. 1852. Acquired his education in
the New London Academy in New Hampshire. He
is at present one of the successful merchants of
Bristol. New Hampshire, where he is highly re-
spected. He is a stanch supporter of the Dem-
ocratic party, and was assistant postmaster and town
treasurer for ten years at Andover. He was for a
time engaged in business in Penacook, New Hamp-
shire. He married Ida Edmunds.
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3. George Weare, born in Andover, New Hamp-
shire, August 24, 1856. He obtained his prepara-
tory education at the New London Academy, from
which he was graduated, and then matriculated at
Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated
in 1878 as A. B.. and in 1881 as M. D. Later he at-
tended lectures in the city of New York. He has
devoted much time and attention to literature and
music, which were favorite studies with him, and has
also taken an active interest in the political affairs
of his town, affiliating with the Democratic party.
He is now a physician in excellent practice in Lyme,
New Hampshire. He married Minnie Morgan, of
Maine, and they have 'had children : Louise Morgan,
bom Anril, l888, now studying music in Boston,
Massachusetts. Henry Gerry, born August 11,
1890, attends school at Wellesley Hills. Massa-
chusetts. A child which died in infancy.
Henderson is a name derived
HENDERSON from Henry— Henry's sou— or
from Hendrick — Hendrick's
son ; in time it became Henrison, Hendrickson, Hen-
derson. The name is an old one in Scotland, and
the family has been living in Fife four hundred
years and over. The chief seat is at Fordell ; "Hen-
derson of Fordell" is a term of distinction, and well
known throughout the United Kingdom.
The Hendersons have been well represented in
all the wars of this country. Captain Timothy
Roberts, father of Margaret, wife of William Hen-
derson, Sr., of Rochester, New Hampshire, was a
captain in the French and Indian war. His son,
Timothy, Jr., was captain of New Hampshire troops
during the war of the Revolution. Timothy Hen-
derson, his grandson, w-as a soldier in the War of
1812. John Henderson, a descendant of Richmond,
who was a brother of Captain Howard, served in
the Mexican war. Major Thomas A., son of
Samuel Hoyt Henderson, was a distinguished of-
ficer in the Civil- war. (See Henderson V).
One progenitor was Robert, a man of promi-
nence in the reign of James HL James of Fordell
was a great figure in the time of James IV, Lord
Justice and King's Advocate, and he received a char-
ter under the great seal. Accompanying James in the
unfortunate expedition into England, both he and
his eldest son lost their lives, with their royal
leader, at the field of Flodden.
George Henderson, of the next generation, was
granted lands fn the shires of Fife and Edinburgh
by Queen Mary of Scotland, and his wife was one
of her maids of honor. He, too, gave his life for
his country.
James Henderson, son of George Henderson,
married Jean, daughter of William Murray, Baron
of Tullibardine. James Henderson was a man of
parts, and in great favor with James VI, who con-
ferred a singular favor upon him. on terms of great
honor both to himself and his family. "James Hen-
derson of Fordell is hereby excused from attending
the wars all the days of his life, in consideration
of the good, true and thankful services not only
done by himself, but also by his predecessors, to
us and our predecessors, of worthy memory, in all
times past, without defection at any time, from the
roj-al obedience, that becomes good and faithful
subjects. Dated at our palace of Holyroodhouse,
February 27, and the twenty-first year of our reign."
Signed by the King.
Gallant officers in Danish and French wars were
of Henderson stock, and Sir Francis, a colonel un-
der the Prince of Orange, like so many of his race,,
was slain in battle.
One of the great names in the history of Scot-
land is Alexander Henderson, and next to Knox,
the most famous of Scottish ecclesiastics. The
Presbyterian body in Scotland largely owes to him
its dogmas and organization, and he is considered
the second founder of the Reform Church. Of the
assembly of 1641, sitting at Edinburg, he was mod-
erator. Here he proposed that a confession of faith,
a catechism, and a form of government should be
drawn up. Afterwards he was one of those
sent to London to represent Scotland in the as-
sembly at W'estminster. He was chaplain to King
Charles, when he visited Scotland, and was more in
sympathy with his religious views, perhaps, than^
his friends liked to believe. While nominally pro-
fessing respect for the royal office, the covenant pre-
pared by Henderson was entered into, for "the de-
fense of the true religion, as reformed from Po-
pery." The spirit in which it was signed was that
of great fervor. Many subscribed with tears on
their cheeks, and it was commonly reported that
some signed with their blood. Those were the days
when men died for their religion, and when women
did not possess their souls in patience. At a church
service, where a certain ritual was introduced, un-
popular with the people, its use provoked an uproar,,
of which the stool flung at the dean by Jenny Ged-
des was the symbol.
A scholar of great linguistic attainment was-
Ebenezer Henderson, Scottish missionary, living
at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Before the Revolution Hendersons found iheir
way from Scotland to New Hampshire, Virginia
and North Carolina and were prominent in the
Continental army.
Leonard Henderson, son of Richard Henderson,
was chief justice, and a man of national reputation.
His brother, Archibald Henderson, of Salisbury,
North Carolina, was also a great lawyer. A monu-
ment was erected to his memory by the bar of the
state.
A partner of Daniel Boone, in the purchase of
Kentucky from the Indians, was Richard Henderson,
son of Samuel Henderson, who was born in Vir-
ginia, 1700, and married Elizabeth Williams, of
Wales. Samuel Henderson, brother of Richard
Henderson, married Elizabeth Calloway, who had
a romantic career, like the heroine of a novel. She
was captured by the Indians and rescued by her
lover, Samuel. Their daughter Fanny was the
first white child born in the present state of Ken-
tucky.
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James Henderson, of the sonthern liranch of
the family, was one whom his state and his country
-delighted to honor. He was secretary of state
■of Texas in 1837, having removed early in life from
North Carolina, where he was horn, to Texas. He
was minister to England to procure the recognition
of Te.xan independence, and a few years later he
was special minister to the United States to secure
the annexation of Te.xas. He was member of the
state constitutional convention, and afterwards
chosen governor. His was also United States sen-
ator.
The Hendersons ever proved themselves patriots.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Henderson was in the
Revolution, throughout the war, and in every battle
fought in South Carolina. He was popular with his
soldiers, requiring nothing of them not shared by
liimself. The roster also includes Sergeant-Major
Pleasant Henderson, Captains Thomas and Samuel
Henderson.
The family were among the principal founders
■of the state government at the close of the war. .■\s
a family they have ever been distinguished for in-
tellectual endowments. We find a great number of
■college graduates, and the women, even in early
days, were educated as well as the men. Other
characteristics are hatred of effeminacy and scorn
■of cowardliness and physical pain. Marriage con-
nections include the families of Governor Alexander
]\Iartin. of North Carolina; the Wallaces, the Dal-
tons of Mississippi, and the Brodauz family of
North Carolina, the latter armigers from the time
of Henry VI, of England. The Scottish branch
inter-married with the families of Bruce, Stuart,
Balfour of Burleigh, and Sir John Hamilton, Lord
Chief Justice.
The arms reproduced, that of the Hendersons
of Fordell, and taken from the Baronage of Scot-
land, is gules, three piles issuing out of the sinister
side argent, and on a chief of the last, a crescent
azure, between two spots of ermine, with the baro-
nets' badge in the center. Supporters, two matrices
ermine. Crest, a hand holding a star, surmounted
by a crescent. Motto, Sola Virtus Nobilitat.
(I) William Henderson, the pioneer ancestor
of the family, came from Glasgow, Scotland, at an
early date, and was known to be in Dover, New
Hampshire, in 1650, and perhaps earlier. He was
a ship carpenter and builder, constructing ships
for himself as well as for others. That he was a
man of excellent standing in the community is evi-
denced by the fact that he received grants of land
from the town, and was one of the larger tax-
payers. A further evidence of his good standing is
shown on the tax list of July 3, 1677, where he is
recorded as Mr. William Henderson, as during that
period of the history of New England no one was
called Mr. unless he were a man of high standing
in the community, and more especially in the Con-
gregational Church. It may be of interest to re-
■cord in this place an extract from the Massachusetts
archives: "October 15, 1679, Isaac Walderne of
Boston complains of \\'illiam Henderson of Dover
for not working on a ship according to agreement,
he having paid said Henderson in advance." There
are no. further particulars recorded, so the business
was presumably settled out of court to the satis-
faction of all parties concerned. The probability
is that Mr. Henderson had more work than he could
accomplish in the allotted time, and was unable to
finish the ship for Mr. Walderne when he expected
it to be done. William Henderson married Sarah
Howard, and from that time these two names —
William and Howard — are to be found in each gen-
eration down to the present time. They had chil-
dren : I. William, born about 1670, married Sarah
Fernald, daughter of Thomas Fernald, of Kittery,
Maine, who resided on Seavey's Island in the Pis-
cataqua river, now (1907) a part of the Portsmouth
navy yard. They were married in 1700, and as
a dowry Mr. Fernald gave his daughter a part
of the island, which from that time and for a period
of two hundred years was known as Henderson's
Point. It projected into the river just below the
navy yard, and was removed by the government of
the United States in 1905-06 to widen the river
and make the approach and new entrance to the
new dry dock easier and safer. One million dol-
lars was expended on this piece of work, and Mr.
Henderson's name is preserved in that section only
by the point, as he left no children. 2. Howard,
see forward. There may have been daughters,
but there is no record of them.
(II) Howard, second son of William and Sarah
(Howard) Henderson, was born about 1672. He
had his residence on Dover Neck, as his father had
before him, and also like his father was a ship
carpenter and builder. He was noted as a sailor,
and the tales of his courage and ability in that call-
ing have come down to the present day with un-
diminished splendor. One tradition is that he served
in the British Navy for a while and took part in
the siege of Gibraltar, which resulted in its sur-
render to the English in 1704, and it is probable
that this story is authentic. He never held any
public office. He died at the home of his son. Cap-
tain Howard Henderson, on Dover Point, in 1772,
at the advanced age of one hundred years. His
grave is in the old cemetery on Dover Neck, near
where are interred his son Howard, and his grand-
son Thomas. Until about the year 18S0 there was
a slate stone at the head of his grave with his name
and age inscribed thereon. Nobody seems to know
what has become of this stone, but the spot is per-
fectly well known, and in this connection it may be
well to note that in this, the oldest grave yard in
Dover, are the graves of many of the older settlers.
In the northeast corner is the grave of Thomas
Roberts, Sr., and his wife, the immigrants. In the
yard are the graves of the jNIillet family, the Nutters,
Clements, Halls, Dames, Tibbetts, Canneys, Tuttles,
Pinkhams, Wentworths and others. Ordinary field
stones are the only markers, so that but few graves
can be identified at the present time.
Howard Henderson, Sr., married, June 8, 1704,
Sarah Roberts, daughter of either John or Thomas
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Roberts, of Dover Neck, and granddaughter of
Thomas Roberts, Sr., who settled at Dover Point
with Edward Hihon in 1623, coming with him
from England when Dover was first settled. Rev.
John Pil<e, pastor of the First Parish of Dover,
officiated at the marriage. They had children : i.
Howard, Jr., see forward. 2. Richmond, born about
1712, settled in Rochester, New Hampshire, and left
many descendants there. There is no record of
any daughters of this marriage. The house in which
this family lived for generations stood on the site
of the present Dover Point Hotel. It was probably
built by Howard, Sr., and his son and grandson in
succession inherited and resided in it. It was re-
moved to make room for the present hotel, and the
spot is one of the most beautiful in that section
of the country.
(Ill) Howard, Jr. (2), eldest child of Howard
(i) and Sarah (Roberts) Henderson, was born
about 1710. Like his father and grandfather he
was a ship carpenter and builder, but he advanced
a step farther and became a ship owner and a sea
captain, building ships and sailing them himself on
the Atlantic Ocean to ports in Europe, Africa and
the West Indies. In addition to this he was also
engaged in the New England coasting trade. From
middle age until his death he was a well known
figure, and his name has come down in history.
There was another reason why he was invariably
addressed by his title of captain, and that
was that although he attained the advanced
age of eighty-two years, his death preceded
that of his father by but ten years, and
to distinguish the two, the older man was al-
ways called Howard, and the son Captain Howard
Henderson, when spoken of. Captain Henderson
not alone built ships and sailed them, but also op-
erated the ferry from Dover Point to Bloody Point
in Newington, which was one of the main routes
of travel from Massachusetts to Maine before the
war of the Revolution, as well as from Portsmouth
and the towns along the coast to the country north
of Dover. He owned Negro slaves, whom he prob-
ably bought in Africa and brought home with him
on some of his voyages, for it was the custom of
that day for captains to carry cargoes of New Eng-
land rum to Africa and sell it to the chiefs of
tribes in that country in exchange for Negro slaves,
which were carried to the West Indies to be there
exchanged for sugar, molasses and salt for the
home voyage. Sometimes some of these slaves
were brought to New England, and thus slavery
was introduced into New Hampshire and JNIassachu-
setts. A number of the best families of Dover had
Negro slaves down to the close of the war of the
Revolution, and a still larger number were held in
slavery in Portsmouth. Captain Henderson was a
man of importance in the public affairs of the town
as well as in matters of business. He was select-
man in 1758-59-60-61, representative from Dover
in the general court of the province from 1756 to
1765, and took a prominent part in the proceedings,
so it is evident he was a very capable man. He was
baptized November 19, 1758, by Rev. Jonathan'
Gushing, pastor of the First Church from 1717 to
1769. The inscription of Captain Howard Hender-
son's tombstone reads that he died "November 4,
1791, aged 75 years." This is incorrect as he died
November 14, 1792, aged eighty-two years. This
is proven by two facts. He made his will in 17S9,
and it was not probated until the first Wednesday
in February, 1793. Had he died in November, 1791,
they would not have waited until February, 1793,
before presenting it for probate ; dying in Novem-
ber, 1792, just the proper time would have elapsed
for the presentation in February. Another proof
is the record kept by Deacon Benjamin Peirce, whO'
had known Captain Henderson for many years and
recorded the time of his death and his age. Captain
Henderson made his will December 4, 1789, and the
copy, which is well written and preserved, is in
the possession of his great-grandson, John Henry
Henderson, of Dover, New Hampshire. Following,
is an extract of its contents and provisions :
To his widow, Elizabeth Henderson, he gave
outright one-third of his estate, real and personal.
To William Henderson, his son, five shillings
which, with what he already had received made his
full share.
To grandson, Benjamin Henderson, five shill-
ings, and my late son Benjamin's share of ray estate.
To son, Daniel Henderson, after the death of
his widow Elizabeth, thirty acres of land on the
west side of Dover Neck at Back River, "which I
purchased of Rudfield Plummer," also my right in
the homestead dwelling house and farm of Thomas
Millet, late of said Dover, deceased, provided my
son pay to my daughter. Love Tripe, the sum of six
pounds. Also to Daniel one-half of all the stock,
of cattle I shall leave at my decease and one good
bed of bedding.
To his son, Thomas Henderson, on the death
of his widow Elizabeth, "The house wherein I now
live, and all my land at Dover Neck (below the gate)
with the buildings thereon ; also the privilege of
the Ferry and Ferry Ways, provided my said son
Thomas shall pay to my daughter Betty the sum.
of six pounds. Also to Thomas one-half of the
stock of cattle and one good bed and bedding.
To his daughter. Love Tripe, one-half of the .
household furniture after the death of his widow
Elizabeth.
To his daughter Betty, one-half of the house-
hold furniture after the death of his widow Eliza-
beth, also one room in the homestead at Dover
Neck, and one cow, both winter and summer dur-
ing the titne she remains single and unmarried.
Also six pounds of lawful money.
To his negro servants, "Caesar and Fortune."
he gave their freedom from the time of his death,
"but if they choose to still continue in my family,
in the manner they have heretofore done, it is my
will that they be supported out of my estate, and I
hereby order my executrix and my sons Daniel and
Thomas that they support them accordingly."
Lastly, he appointed his wife Elizabeth sole ex-
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ecutrix. Dated December 4, 1789. When the will
was probated the widow refused to serve, and the
court appointed Daniel and Thomas in her place.
Captain Howard Henderson married, about 1750,
Elizabeth Millet, born in 1727, baptized by Parson
Gushing, December 4, 1737, daughter of Thomas
and Love IMillet, of Dover Neck. Captain Millet
was a noted ship builder, merchant and public of-
ficial, and took a high rank in the councils of the
province of New Hampshire. He was a man of
much importance in his time and held numerous
public offices, among them being representative in
the general court, councillor and judge of
the superior court. His daughter Elizabeth in-
herited his excellent executive ability, and it is
said by those who knew her that she could super-
intend the building of a ship as intelligently as her
husband, and frequently did so in his absence on
his many voyages. Captain and Mrs. Howard Hen-
derson had a number of children all of them but
one, Betty, being baptized by Rev. Jonathan Gush-
ing, and this ceremony was usually performed when
the child was three to four weeks old. The names
of the children are as follows: l. and 2. Benjamin
and Lovey, who were baptized on the same day as
their father, November 19, 1758. 3. Thomas, bap-
tized August 17, 1760. 4. Stephen, baptized April
25, 1762, the only one of the children who did not
marry, died at sea, August 16, 1785. 5. William, see
forward. 6. Daniel, baptized June 3, 1766. He was
the last ship builder of Dover ; married and left chil-
dren : Howard of New York, Henry, of Baltimore,
and William, of New Orleans, Louisiana. The
latter was a very prominent man and the owner of
the only dry dock in the city. 7. Betty ("Elizabeth),
baptized October 4, 1769, by Rev. Jeremy Belknap.
8. Thomas, see forward.
(IV) William, fourth son of Captain Howard
and Elizabeth (Millet) Henderson, was baptized
September 25, 1763, died November 14. 1834, aged
seventy-two years, four months. He was the orig-
inal settler on the proprietary lot of land granted
James Durgin in what is now the town of Roches-
ter. This farm or lot of one hundred acres passed
to Captain Thomas Millet, and in the distribution
of his estate to his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of
Howard Henderson. It was conveyed by Elizabeth
and Howard to William Henderson, who settled
upon it. The farm is still in the possession of the
Henderson family, being owned by Daniel F. Hen-
derson. Five generations of Hendersons have lived
or are living upon the old homestead farm. Wil-
liam Henderson married Margaret Roberts, daugh-
ter of Captain Timothy Roberts, Sr.. of Rochester,
who was an officer in the French and Indian war.
Eleven children were born to William and Margaret
Henderson, as follows: i. Stephen, born 1785, died
March 5, 1862. He married Sarah Roberts, and had
four daughters who married and left descendants.
2. Sally, born 1787, died May 19, 1861. She married
Colonel Eliphalet Willey, and had six children, one
of whom, Mrs. Betsey Brown, lives in Dover, aged
ninety. 3. Timothy, born 1789, died 1867. He mar-
ried Olive Burnham, and had four sons and two
daughters. 5. Betsey, born 1794, died 1872. ?\lar-
ried James Pickering, left no children. 6. Mary,
born 1797, died July 15, 1876. Married Abel Peavey,
left one son and three daughters, one of whom is
living, Mrs. Maria Amazeen, of Farmington. 7.
Abigail, born November 23, 1800, died October 20,
1882. She married (first) John Place, May 7, 1826;
married (second), March 17, 1833, Jonathan Place,
twin brother of her first husband. By her first
marriage there was one son; by the second two
daughters, now living, Mrs. Mary E. Roberts and
Mrs. Sarah Hurd. 8. Susan, born 1801, died 1879.
Married William Willey, and had nine ' children,
four sons, William Henry, Howard B., Joseph F.
and James H., all prominent business men of New
Hampshire. 9. William, see forward. 10. Margaret,
born June 23, 1808, died September 30, 1889. Mar-
ried Benjamin Canney, and had five children, the
only survivor being Thomas Canney, of Farmington,
New Hampshire, ir. Daniel M., born March 20,
1812, died October 8, 1894. Married Ruth Mc-
Duffce, born August 30, 1815, died October 8, 1902,
daughter of Thomas JNIcDuffee, of Rochester, fami-
liarly known as "Selectman jMcDuffee." They were
married November 8, 1835. Their children are :
Hannah ^I., Daniel F., who owns the old homstead
before mentioned, where five generations of Plen-
dersons have lived; Charles IT. and George !M.
(IV) Thomas, sixth son of Captain Howard
and Elizabeth (Millet) Henderson, was baptized
October 4, 1771. He resided at Dover Point, his
house standing on the present site of Dover Point
Hotel. He followed the business in which his
father and grandfather had been so successful, but
was not a sea captain. He branched out into a new
line of business, about 1810, that of brick making,
which has since that time been engaged in so ex-
tensively in that section of the country. His first
brickyard was on the east side of Dover Neck, about
one mile above Dover Point, on Fore river. In
order to be nearer his place of business, he erected
his later residence on the Neck, which is still oc-
cupied by the Henderson family, and removed to it
in 1812. His son Thomas, and his grandson. John
Henry, lived in it until they moved to the more '
thickly populated section of the city a few j-ears ago.
As a manufacturer Mr. Henderson was noted for
the excellent quality of the brick he turned out.
His ships loaded directly from his yards and car-
ried the brick to Boston, Massachusetts, and all
the towns along the coast. His death occurred April
10, 1863. He was a man of medium height, active,
vigorous and a hard worker until the end. He took
no active part in political affairs. He was a devout
and consistent Christian and a regular attendant
with his family at the First Parish jNIeeting House.
He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence,
and formed his own opinions. He was inclined to
be liberal in his views, especially in religious mat-
ters, and when dissension arose in the First Church
by the doctrine of Unitarianism, which was intro-
duced, he went with tlie liljeral party which organ-
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ized Unitarian Society and built the brick house
of worship in Locust street, in 1829. His family
went with him, and the larger part of the descend-
ants have adhered to the new doctrine. He married,
1793, Elizabeth Hoyt, born in Newington, August
9, 1770, died June 12, 1872. Her ancestors were
among the first settlers in Newington, the Hoyts
being one of the noted families of the town. The
graves of I\Ir. and Mrs. Henderson are in the old
cemetery in Dover Neck, and are suitably marked
with white marble slabs. Their children were :
Lydia, born November 13, 1794; Samuel Hoyt. Oc-
tober 4. 1798; Elizabeth. December 31, iSoo; How-
ard Millet, August 17, 1S03; jNIary P., July 5, 1807;
Thomas, see forward; William, born February 21,
1813.
(V) William Millet, known both as William M.
and William, Jr., fourth son and ninth child of
William and Margaret (Roberts) Henderson, was
born on the homestead farm, April 30. 1805, and died
in Dover, November 4, 1891. At the age of sixteen
he was indentured to learn the cabinet-maker's
trade. At twenty-one he went to Boston, Massachu-
setts, where he was employed by Chickering & Com-
pany in the manufacture of fine piano cases. He
next became pattern maker at the Lowell machine
works. After his marriage, in 1830, he settled in
Dover. In 1831, at the age twenty-six, and without
outside assistance, this farmer's son purchased from
the Cocheco Manufacturing Company one hundred
and eighty-nine feet frontage at the corner of Third
street and Central avenue, built a residence on Third
street and a block of stores on Central avenue. This
lot is now occupied by the Morrill Block. He later
purchased the property and furniture business of
Stephen Toppan and continued there in trade until
the panic of 1837. He afterwards removed to Ro-
chester, but returned to Dover, engaging in various
ventures until his death. He w'as a man of most
generous impulse, and freely extended a helping
hand to those less fortunate. Were each one to
whom he has shown some -loving kindness to lay
a single flower on his inanimate dust he would
sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers. He was a
^ member of the Masonic fraternity, and a lifelong
Democrat. He married July 4. 1830, Maria Diman,
daughter of Captain Samuel and ^lercy W. (Kenn-
iston) Diman, and a lineal descendant of Rev.
James Diman, for fifty years pastor of the First
Church of Salem, Massachusetts. Captain Samuel
Diman died of yellow fever in the West Indies,
and Mercy W., his wife, born June 8, 1780, died in
Rochester, May 22, 1873. The children of William
and Maria (Diman) Henderson were: i. Sophro-
nia Ann, born October 4, 1831, married September
18, 1855, Alexander Frazier, of Dover, born Feb-
ruary 14, 1824, died August 17. 1893, had five chil-
dren: Isabella. Mrs. Clarence Wendell, of Roches-
ter; Fanny, Mrs. Charles S. Kingman, of Madbury.
who has a daughter Lotta S; Harriet ^1.. !Mrs. E.
J. Purinton, of Dover, who has children : J. Wilbur,
Helen and Charles; William Henry; and Daniel W.,
of ^Massachusetts, who has si.x children. Mrs. Fra-
zier resides in Dover. 2. Eliza J., born December
19. 1833, died ]May 25. igo6. She never married.
She was highly educated and became a noted and
expert mathematician. She was a graduate of Mt.
Holyoke Female Seminary. She was a woman of
great benevolence and fine character. She was pos-
sessed of means and generously educated several
young women of her acquaintance. 3. Amanda A.,
born March 14, 1836, died December 14, 1867. She
married Albert Bradwick, of Dover, and had one
child, Lizzie A. (Mrs. Frank Manock), born July
24, 1866, died December 16, 1889, leaving a daughter,
Bessie Manock, now living in Lawrence, Massachu-
setts. 4. James William, see forward. 5. Harriet
M., who died October 3, i860, at the age of sixteen
years, ten months and tw-enty-five days, just budd-
ing into beautiful young womanhood, and was a
great favorite with all. 6. Sarah F., born August 19,
1846, married Alvin Haynes, of Maine, and had two
children : Alvin and Sarah. They lived in Somer-
ville, Massachusetts. 7. George Henry, died De-
cember 17, 1861, aged twelve years, nine months
and three days. Mrs. Maria (Diman) Henderson
was for fifty-four years a devoted member of the
Methodist churches of Rochester and Dover. She
died November 12, 1875, of a paralytic stroke, aged
seventy years, two months, nine days.
(V) Samuel Hoyt, eldest son and second child
of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hoyt) Henderson, was
born October 4, 1798. He was one of the foremost
business men of his day in Dover. He erected the
large brick block at the corner of Chapel and Main
streets, in 1833, and at that time this was the finest
block in the town. He married (first), April 12,
1827, Delia Paul, of Somersworth. by whom he had
six children, one of whom was Thomas A., born in
Dover, 1833, who was a graduate of Bowdoin Col-
lege, and a distinguished ofiicer in the Union army
during the Civil war. He was appointed adjutant
of the Seventh Regiment of New Hampshire Vol-
unteer Infantry, November 4, 1861, and was mus-
tered in on the same day. He was advanced to the
rank of major, August 26, 1862, and lieutenant-col-
onel, July 2, 1863. Haldirnen S. Putnam, of the
United States Engineer Corps, a West Point gradu-
ate, was the colonel. This regiment served three
years, and was in some of the most hard fought
battles of the war. It was actively engaged at i\Ior-
ris Island, Fort Wagner, Fort Sumter, Drury's
Lane, Bluff, Bermuda Hundred. Petersburg, and
Deep Bottom, Virginia, where Lieutenant-Colonel
Henderson was wounded, August 16, 1864, and
soon after succumbed to the effects of his injury.
He was one of the bravest and most gallant officers
New Hampshire sent to the war, was a highly
accomplished scholar, and a gentleman as well as
soldier of the first rank. Samuel H. Henderson
married (second), after the death of his first wife
in 1S37, July 5, 1838, Sarah Ann Guppey, of Dover,
by whom he had six children, among them : Charles
T., a member of the present board of aldermen of
the city of Dover; William C, is the head of the
Christian Science Church in the city of Dover.
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(V) Howard Millet, s-econd son and fourth child
of Tliomas and Elizabeth (Hoyt) Henderson, was
born August 17, 1803. He was a college graduate,
was well known as a teacher, and distinguished in
educational matters in Kentucky, where he founded
a seminary for the education of girls and young
women, the first institution of the kind that had
been established south of Mason and Dixon's line.
He married , who was descended from one of
the best families of Kentucky, and among their
children were: Rev. Howard Millet Henderson, a
clergyman in high standing in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church of Ohio.
tV) Thomas (2), third son and sixth child of
Thomas (l) and Elizabeth (Hoyt) Henderson, was
born March 25, 1810. He was engaged in the brick
making industry, and when old age compelled his
father to retire from active participation in business
matters, he carried on the work with the assistance
of his son. There are at present (,1907) time under
their management two yards on the Back river and
three on the Fore. This business has now been
under the personal management of four generations
in a direct line. Mr. Henderson did not devote
much time to political matters, but he was a stanch
Jeflfersonian Democrat, all his life, as had been his
father before him. He was elected a member of
the first board of aldermen when Dover became a
city in 1856, and helped organize the new city gov-
ernment. He was kind and courteous in his manner,
and a most superior man of business. He took an
active interest in all matters of public importance
until his death, which occurred September 16, 1894.
He married February 28, 1843, Olive Bickford, born
in 1820, died April 3, 1891. She was a descendant
■of the Bickford family of Dover, who were among
the earliest settlers after the immigration of 1633.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson were: i.
John Henry, see forward. 2. Edwin, born August
19, 1S45, died unmarried March 19, i88i.
(V) William, youngest son and child or Thomas
and Elizabeth (Hoyt) Henderson, was born Feb-
ruary 21, 1813. He was also a college graduate,
and was associated with his brother in the conduct
of the Female Seminary, in which he held a pro-
fessorship. He died unmarried September 4, 1839.
(VI) James William, eldest son and fourth child
of William and Maria (Diman) Henderson, was
born in Rochester, February 18, 1840. He was edu-
cated in the public schools and academy of his
native town, Dover public schools, and Franklin
Academy. He read law in the office of George W.
Stevens, of Dover. He taught for several terms in
the schools of Rochester and Farmington, and in
the office of the Dover Inquirer learned the trade
of printer, and worked at the same for several years
in the Massachusetts state printing office and on the
columns of the Boston Journal. He returned to
Dover and was connected with the Morning Star
and other papers of the town. During the years
1S71-72-73-74-75 he was a member of the Dover
board of education. During these years he had
thoroughly prepared for the profession of law, and
in 1877 removed to Florida, where he commenced
the practice of law and became a distinguished and
influential member of the bar of that state. He was
admitted to the Florida supreme court bar, June 20,
18S9. to the United States district court, and De-
cember 17. 1894. to the supreme court of the United
States. His first admission to the circuit court was
March 14, 1882. His office in St. Augustine, Florida,
is in a brick block bearing his name, where he con-
ducts a successful and profitable general practice.
He served the state as acting states attorney. Mr.
Henderson has large realty interests in Florida,
Chicago, Illinoi.s, and in Dover, and resides in these
localities alternately attending to his varied interests.
He is an ardent Democrat. He is a Free Mason of
Apollo Lodge, Chicago, and an Odd Fellow of
Wecohanet Lodge, Dover.
James W. Henderson married. May 18, 187S,
Ellen Compton, born at Lockport, New York,
daughter of Jacob Compton, of Chicago. Two sons
have been born to them. William H., born in
Dover, May 27, 1879, died in St. Augustine, ^iLirch
14, 1880. J. Compton, born at the Clifton House,
Niagara Falls, Canada, July 8, 1880. He was grad-
uated in the St. Augustine, Chicago and Dover
public schools, and Phillips Exeter Academy. He
graduated from the South Division high school,
Chicago, and from Southwestern University, Jack-
son, Tennessee, with the degree of LL. B. He was
prominent in the debating and literary clubs, and
while at Jackson, Tennessee, was president of the
Law Club of the college. On reaching his majority
he was admitted to the state courts of Tennessee,
and later to those of Florida. He is the junior part-
ner with his father in the law firm of Henderson &
Henderson, St. Augustine, Florida. He is a lover
of athletics, and all through his preparatory and
college life was a valuable member of the various
athletic teams.
(VI) John Henry, youngest and only surviving
son and child of Thomas and Olive (Bickford)
Henderson, was born April 2, 1849. He devotes all
his time and attention to the atifairs connected with
his business, and has large holdings of real estate
in Dover. He takes no active part in political mat-
ters, except in so far that he attends the elections
and votes for whom he considers the best men. He
married, April 24, 1871, Maria Roberts, born May
30, 1854, daughter of Aaron and Ann Eliza
(Arnold) Roberts. Mr. Roberts was a lineal
descendant of the Thomas Roberts, previously men-
tioned, who settled in Dover in 1623. Anu Eliza
(.\rnold) Roberts came from Rhode Island, and
was descended from one of the prominent families
in that state. Her mother was the daughter of
Thomas Williams, a great-great-grandson of Roger
Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson were: Harry
Preston, see forward. IMaud Olive, born Decem-
ber 25, 1876, died March 6, 1894. She was a most
amiable young woman, intelligent and intellectual,
beautiful in person, and charming in manner.
(\TI) Harry Preston, only son and only surviv-
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ing child of John Henry and Maria (Roberts)
Henderson, was born October 30, 1872. He is en-
gaged with his father in the brick manufacturing
business, and also has an office for the transaction
of insurance business in the city of Dover. He is
a graduate of the Dover high school, and takes a
lively interest in educational matters. He is a mem-
ber of Moses Paul Lodge, No. 96, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, and has served as its secretary four
years ; is a member of Belknap Chapter, Royal Arch
Mason; Orphan Council, Royal and Select Masters;
St. Paul Commandery; the Knights Templar, in
which body he is at present captain general. He
married June 10, 1895, Alberta Parker, born October
7, 1870, daughter of Dr. Henry Rust and Ella
(Thompson) Parker, of Dover. Dr. Parker is one
of the eminent physicians of Dover, and has been
mayor of the city. He is a descendant of William
Parker, of Portsmouth, who was one of the early
settlers in that town, and has had many distin-
guished descendants. Mrs. Parker is the daughter
of Moses Thompson, of Wolfboro, and had illus-
trious ancestors, among them being the historian.
Major Richard Walderne. The children of Mr. and
Mrs. Henderson are : Maud Olive, born September
23, 1896; Ella Parker, born July 8, 1900.
This name appears very early in New
COPP England, and was prominent in the first
settlement and development of Boston.
The connection, if any, between these pioneers and
the Haverhill family has not been discovered. The
name appears in Haverhill, Massachusetts, before
the close of the seventeenth century and has numer-
ous representatives in that region.
(I) Aaron Copp was in Haverhill as early as
1698, and was married there December 30 of that
year to Mary Heath. She was born May 8, 1672. a
daughter of Josiah and Mary (Davis) Heath, and
granddaughter of Bartholomew Heath, one of the
original proprietors of Newbury and Haverhill.
(H) Moses, son of Aaron and Mary (Heath)
Copp, married, in Haverhill, July 17, 1732, Mehitabel
Griffin, widow of Peter Griffin, and daughter of
Stephen and Elizabeth (Dustin) Emerson. Soon
after his marriage he removed to what is now
Hampstead, and his wife was admitted to the Hamp-
stead church by letter from the Haverhill church,
June 3. 1752.
(HI) Joshua, son of Moses and Mehitabel
(Emerson) (Griffin) Copp, was married Septem-
ber IQ, 1758, by Rev. Henry True, to Sarah Poor,
of Rowley, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Searl) Poor. Joshua Copp and wife owned the
Covenant at the Plampstead church, November 28,
1761. Their children were: Molly, Elizabeth,
Moses, Eliphalet, Sarah. Joshua. Susanna, Mehita-
bel, George Washington, Benjamin Little and Na-
thaniel Peabody.
(IV) George Washington, fourth son and
ninth child of Joshua and Sarah (Poor) Copp, was
born August 26, 1776, in Hampstead, and settled in
Warren, New Hampshire, where several others of
his family also located. He died there December
9, 1822. He cleared up a farm in the wilderness
and engaged in its cultivation throughout his life.
He married ]\Iary Abrams, born February 2. 1775,
in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and died October 6,,
i860, in Warren, New Hampshire, having lived a
widow almost thirti'-eight years. Their children
w«re: Joseph M., William (died young), Louisa,
Nancy, George W. and Benjamin S.
(V) Joseph M., eldest child of George W. and
Mary (Abrams) Copp, was born October 15. iSoi,
in Warren, New Hampshire, and settled in the town
of Nashua, where he lived retired and died No-
vember 2r, 1887. He married, in Warren. October
30, 1828, Hannah H. Brown, born 1.S08, and died in
1851. She was the mother of six children, five sons
and one daughter. Mr, Copp married (second), in
1887, Martha S. Russell, of Greenfield, New Hamp-
shire. She became the mother of one child, Frank
F., who died aged about sixteen years.
(VI) Colonel Elbridge J. Copp. youngest son
of Joseph M. and Hannah H. (Brown) Copp, was
born in Warren, July 22, 1844. His education was
obtained in the common and high schools of
Nashua. In 1S61, when a little above sixteen years
nf age, he enlisted as a private in Company F. Third
Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers. The following
year he was appointed sergeant major of the regi-
ment, and a short time after was promoted to sec-
ond lieutenant. In 1863 meritorious conduct
brought him a commission as adjutant of the regi-
ment. At that time he was eighteen years of age,
and the youngest commissioned officer in the service
who had risen from the ranks. For a time he served
as assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Col-
onel and Acting Brigadier General Louis Bell, who
was killed at Fort Fisher, and held his commission
until he was mustered out, on account of disaliility
from wounds, in October, 1864. During his term
of enlistment he participated in many important en-
gagements. While in the service he acted upon the
theory that to fight is the province of a soldier, and
was present at every battle in which his regiment
took a part, unless so seriously disabled as to be
prevented from doing so. He was wounded in the
shoulder at Drury's Bluffs, in front of Richmond, and
for a time was compelled to remain away from the
firing line, but before his wound was fairly healed
he was again in the saddle and was in his place
when the advance upon Richmond was made. In
that frightful and fruitless charge, General Haw-
ley's brigade entered the fortifications of the enemy,
and there the young adjutant was shot through the
body and was rescued during the battle by General
Hawley, who upon finding him sent an aid to bring
him across the line. One hundred or more of the
Third were wounded in this battle, and nearly all
were captured. Adjutant Copp thus escaped what
would have been almost sure death in a rebel prison,
had he lived to reach one. He was taken to Chesa-
peake Hospital, Fortress Monroe, where he was
skillfully treated, and in October of 1864 was able
to be removed to his home. He has never recovered
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from his injuries, and often suffers from them for
long periods.
After regaining his strength to some extent,
Colonel Copp traveled for some time for a Chicago
and Indianapolis book-publishing house. Later he
settled in business in Nashua, with his brother,
Charles D. Copp, late captain in the Ninth New
Hampshire Volunteers. Colonel Copp was ap-
pointed register of probate for Hillsborough county
in 1878, and from that time till the present (1907)
has had no opposition for re-nomination and has
been biennially re-elected to that position for a per-
iod of twenty-eight years. His interest in military
affairs has never abated, and to his efforts and in-
fluence many noteworthy steps in the military mat-
ters of New Hampshire should be credited. In
1878. after the military spirit which had waned for
some years following the war was revived. Mr.
Copp was commissioned captain of the Nashua
Guards, which through his tireless efforts in drill-
ing and disciplining attained a standing above that
of any other militia organization in the state. In
1879 he was commissioned major of the Second
Regiment, New Hampshire National Guard, and
soon after was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. In
1884 Colonel D. M. White was made brigade com-
mander, and Lieutenant-Colonel Copp was advanced
to the colonelcy of the regiment. In i88g. upon the
expiration of his commission, Colonel Copp was
urged to accept a new commission, but this he de-
clined to do, as he did not regard such action as
just to deserving officers who had earned promo-
tion. The colonel's regard for the welfare of the
military of the state did not expire with his com-
mission, but directing all his energies to local im-
provement and advancement, he organized a stock
company with a capital of $30,000 for the con-
struction of an armory in Nashua. In this he was
completely successful. The money was raised, the
plans drawn, and the building erected under the
colonel's supervision ; it is one of the sights of the
city and a source of much local pride. Colonel
Copp is a member of John G. Foster Post, No. 7,
Grand Army of the Republic; of the Massachusetts
Commandery of the Loyal Legion ; of Pennichuck
Lodge, No. 44, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ;
and of Ancient York Lodge. Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons. In political faith he. adheres to the
principles advocated by Abraham Lincoln, and was
chairman of Nashua Republican City Committee for
eight years. Colonel Copp is one of the best known
and most respected citizens of Nashua. He is a
true-hearted friend, a generous comrade, and a good
neighbor. His long and honorable record as a gen-
tleman and as an official is a monument to his mem-
ory. He married, June 9, i86g, S. Eliza White, born
December. 184.3, daughter of James and Rebecca
(McConnihe) White, of Nashua. She died Decem-
ber, 1893, leaving two daughters : Charlotte Louise,
wife of Frederick B. Pearson, of Maiden. Massa-
chusetts; and Edith Alice, married Dr. Harrison
P. Baldwin, of Manchester. One child, Robert
Copp, has been born to Mrs. Pearson.
(II) Jonathan, who was perhaps a son of Aaron
Copp, above mentioned, was a resident of Ames-
bury, Massachusetts, where he married Elizabeth
Dow. She was probably a daughter of Henry and
Elizabeth (Colby) Dow, and was born October 12,
1702. in Amesbury, a great-granddaughter of
Thomas Dow, the ancestor of a numerous family
of that name.
(III) Solomon, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth
(Dow) Copp, was born March 3, 1720, in Ames-
bury, Massachusetts, and resided in that town until
1752. Five of his children were baptized in that
town. He removed from Amesbury to Canterbury,
New Hampshire, and subsequently removed to San-
bornton, becoming one of the early settlers of that
town, and building his house on the Bay shore. He
died there May 8. 1796. He was survived for more
than twenty-four years by his wife, who passed
away October 21, 1822, at the age of ninety-nine
years, nine months and twenty-eight days. He was
married in Amesbury to Elizabeth Davis, born there
August 29, 1723, a daughter of Jonathan and
Martha (Dow) Davis. Their children were:
Elizabeth, Jerusha, Irene. Eleanor, Ruhama, Thomas,
Lois, Mary, Solomon. Hannah and Judith.
(IV) Thomas, sixth child and eldest son of
Solomon and Elizabeth (Davis) Copp, was born in
1754. died July 3, 1824. He was a soldier during
the war of the Revolution, and the following inci-
dent is declared to be authentic : While serving at
the head of the guard he stopped the coach of Gen-
eral Washington because the countersign was not
forthcoming, and for this action was "warmly com-
mended at headquarters." He married. March 6,
1783. Alice Kimball, of Meredith, who died October
7. 1S54, and their children were : Alice Elsie, David,
Solomon, Elizabeth, Thomas, see forward ; John,
Charles, died in childhood ; Mary, Jacob, Amos.
Abigail, David, Charles (second), Peter and
Luther.
(V) Thomas, fifth child and third son of
Thomas (2) aud Alice (Kimball) Copp, was born
July 20, 1790. His earlier years were spent in New
Hampton. New Hampshire, and he later removed ta
Gilford, in the same state, where he died May 13.
1S74. He was a cooper by trade and a man of in-
fluence in the community. In politics he was a
Democrat, and in religious affiliations a member of
the Congregational Church. He married, March J,
1815, Dorothy Rowen, daughter of John and Sarah
(Hancock) Rowen, and they had children: Hazen,
see forward ; Jason, who follow-ed the sea in the
merchant service for a period of twelve years, and
was a soldier in the Mexican war; Polly; Abigail;
Sarah ; Edmund, was a soldier during the Civil war
in the Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment, and died
while in service; Orrin P. and Clarinda.
(VI) Hazen. eldest child of Thomas (3) and
Dorothy (Rowen) Copp. was born in Sanbornton,
Belknap county. New Hampshire, August 6, 1816,
died January 8, 1901. He went to New Hampton
when a young lad. and when he attained his ma-
jority removed to Bristol, where he engaged in the
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lumber business and remained six years. He re-
moved to Gilford. New Hampshire, in 1849, con-
tinuing in the same line of business until 1876, when
he removed to Tilton. where he became the proprie-
tor of the grist mill and the woolen factory on the
Northfield side opposite. He built a new factory
helow his grist mill in 1877. He was a very suc-
cessful man of business, accumulated a considerable
amount of property, and was influential in the com-
munity in many directions, holding a number of
public offices. He was at one time a representative
in the legislature. In politics he was a Republican,
and in his religious affiliations a member of the
Methodist Church. He was a Thirty-second degree
Mason, a member of the grand lodge, and was the
treasurer of his council chapter for twenty-two suc-
cessive years. He was also a member of the Order
of Odd Fellows. He married, January 17, 1834,
Betsy Glover, of Compton, province of Quebec,
where she was born July 14, 1818. still survives and
resides in Tilton. New Hampshire. Their children
were: i. Gust Aulando, see forward. 2. Abbie Ann,
■born in Bristol, December 22, 1845, married (first)
Freeman F. Elkins, of Gilford: married (second)
Thomas Mark Hill, of Laconia. 3. Lizzie Etta,
■born in Gilford, June 10, 1S52, married William
Philip Blaisdell. of Gilford.
(VH) Gust Aulando. eldest child and only son
■of Hazen and Betsy (Glover) Copp. was bom in
Bristol, New Hampshire, July 12. 1839. He was
educated in the public schools of his native town
and in the New Hampton Academy, and was well
equipped for his business career. He succeeded to
the lumber business of his father, and was also a
contractor and builder. During the winter he
operated a saw mill, doing custom work, and had
six men constantly in his employ for this purpose.
Mr. Copp was a man of enterprise, progress and
executive ability. He built forty-eight cottages at
Lake Shore Park, Gilford, and owned a farm of
ninety acres, part of which is heavily timbered. He
■enlisted in Company F, First New Hampshire Regi-
ment, Heavy Artillery during the Civil war." and
was in active service until the close of the war. He
was in Company G. in the above mentioned regi-
ment, in 1864. and engaged in the defence of Wash-
ington, District of Columbia. He was a Republican,
and took an active and beneficial interest in the
political affairs of his township, having served in
the legislature in 1895. been surveyor of highways,
and overseer of the poor. He was a member of
Mount Lebanon Lodge. No. 32. Free and Accepted
Masons, of Laconia. He married. March 31. 1S61,
Sara Jennie Thurston, born in Gilford, February
29, 1844, daughter of Benjamin G. and Sallie M.
(Goss) Thurston; no children.
Benjamin P. Thurston, father of Mrs. Gust. A.
Copp. was the only child born to Miles L. and
Sarah (Perkins) Thurston, and was born in Gil-
ford on the homestead farm, July 16. iSoi. He ac-
quired a fair education in the common schools of
that time, and his entire life, was spent in a.gricul-
tural pursuits. He died .April 24. 1863. He mar-
ried, in Gilford. Sallie M. Goss, daughter of John
and Abigail Goss, who was born in Gilford, New
Hampshire, August 8, 1809, and died December 6,
189S. Their children are : Roxanna S., born Sep-
tember 9, 1836, widow of Francis P. Rand, and has
two sons, Oscar V. and Fred A. 2. Mrs. Copp,
widow of Gust. A. Copp ; no family.
Originally spelled Rosseter, this
ROSSITER name is of undoubted Saxon or
Norman origin, and probably was
carried into England with the conquering army of
William the Nonnan. It is still a conspicuous one
in England, as well as in the United States, and
has borne its part in developing this country in the
various branches of progress.
(I) Sir Edward Rossiter, the founder of the
family in the United States, came from a good, sub-
stantial family of the English gentry, and owned
quite an estate in the county of Somerset, England.
He was commissioned in London in 1629 as one ol
the assistants to Governor Winthrop. and embarked
for the colonies from Plymouth, England, March
20, 1630, in the ship "Mary and John," commanded
by Captain Syuet, with one hundred and forty per-
sons aboard. Their original destination was the
Charles river, but the captain decided to land them
at Dorchester Neck, at the end of a two months'
voyage. In the histories of the colonies Edward
Rossiter is spoken of as a "godly man of good re-
pute." who left England for the sake of religion.
He lived to fill his position but a few months after
his arrival in this country. He died October 23,
1630. There is no mention of Sir Edward's wife,
and it is supposed that she had previously died.
(II) Dr. Brayard Rossiter, son of Sir Edward,
was the only member of his family who came with
him. He was accompanied by his wife. ^Elizabeth
(AIsop) Rossiter, whom he married in ' England.
Dr. Rossiter is spoken of in history as a finely edu-
cated man from the best schools in England. He
was one of the principal men who commenced the
settlement of Windsor, Connecticut, in 1636, where
he was a magistrate for eighteen years and where
he became widely known as a physician. In 1652
he moved to Guilford, Connecticut. On March 11,
1662, he performed the first post-mortem in the
Connecticut colony, and history has it that it was
the first autopsy of which there is any record in
New England, and antedating by a dozen years the
one in Boston, in 1674, an account of which is given
by Dr. Greene in his "History of Medicine." Dr.
Rossiter died in Guilford, September 30, 1672. He
had six children, but the only son who had descend-
ants was Josiah.
(III) Josiah was born in Windsor, Connecti-
cut, and went with his father to Guilford. In 1676
he married Sarah Sherman, daughter of Hon. Sam-
uel Sherman, of Stamford and Woodbury, Con-
necticut, from whose grandfather descended Roger
Sherman of Declaration fame. General William
Tecumseh and Senator John Shemian. Josiah
Rossiter became a man of prominence in the col-
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onies. He was judge of the New Haven colony
courts and one of the assistants to the governor for
ten years. He was the first naval officer of the port
of Guilford. He died in Guilford. January 31. 1716.
Josiah and Sarah (Sherman) Rossiter had seven-
teen children, who married and inter-married with
the old Guilford and New Haven families.
(IV) Theophilus, son of Josiah and Sarah
(Sherman) Rossiter, was born in Guilford, Febru-
ary 12, 1696. He married Abigail Pierson, of
Bridgehampton. Long Island. She was the niece of
the first president of Yale College. Theophilus
Rossiter was one of the founders of the first church
at North Guilford, and was deacon at the time of
his death, which occurred April 9, 1770; no further
record appears concerning him. There were twelve
children, the name of only one, William, being
given.
(V) William, son of Theophilus and Abigail
(Pierson) Rossiter, was born in North Guilford,
February II, 1740. He married Submit Chittenden,
a direct descendant of Major William Chittenden,
one of the signers of the covenant of Guilford and
the principal military man of the settlement. His
estate — purchased from the Indians at that time — ■
has been and still is owned by his descendants, who
occupy it during the summer. William Rossiter
died December 28, 1820. He had a family of eleven
children, one of whom was Sherman Rossiter.
(VI) Sherman Rossiter was born in North
Guilford, April 20, 1775, and became the progenitor
of the New Hampshire Rossiters. He came to
Claremont in 1800 and entered quite extensively
into the lumber business. In 1804 he married, in
Guilford, Connecticut, Olive Baldwin, who on her
mother's side was a direct descendant of Theophilus
Eaten, first governor of the New Haven colony, and
of William Jones, one of the later governors of the
colony, and on her father's side she was a descend-
ant of Mary Bruen whose royal ancestry marked
her as one of the aristocrats of the early New
Haven colony. He returned to Claremont with his
bride, where he settled on a fann in the eastern part
of the town. Here he reared and educated a large
family, and by dint of hard work and careful man-
agement accumulated quite a large property for
those times. Being one of the early settlers of the
town his life was necessarily harder and more primi-
tive than it had been in old Guilford, which had
nearly two centuries' start of Claremont, but which
today in the modern march of progress has fallen
far behind the enterprising New Hampshire town.
Sherman Rossiter died October 2, 1838. His wife
survived until August 5, 1863. Memorial windows
for both adorn the Congregational Church in Clare-
mont, which they helped to found. They had nine
children : William, Luzerne S., Stephen J., Timothy
B., Chittenden. Lorette C, Pomeroy M., Submit C.
and R. Van Ness Rossiter. (Mention of Timothy
B. and descendants appears in this article).
(VII) \\Mlliam (2). eldest child of Shemian
and Olive (Baldwin) Rossiter, was born on a farm
in Claremont, September 24, 1805, and died in his
native town. Febr\iar>- 29, i860. He was educated
in the public schools and very early displayed
marked business talent ; he settled in Claremont
Village and engaged in general mercantile business
which he followed for a number of years ; he later
became active in the manufacture of woolen goods
and operated the Sullivan Woolen Mills in company
with Thomas Sanford for several years ; he was
also for a short time connected with a cutlery com-
pany.
William Rossiter held at different times nearly
every office within the gift of his towm ; he was a
representative in the New Hampshire legislature in
1847-48, and was a member of the constitutional
convention. He was one of the promoters of the
Sullivan Railroad from Windsor, Vennont, to Bel-
low's Falls and one of the first directors. Mr. Ros-
siter was a very genial man, was public-spirited and
generous to a high degree, and appeared to have a
much greater interest in w'hatever would promote
the welfare of his town than in the accumulation of
a large property. Although an attendant and a
liberal supporter of the Congregational Church his
giving was not confined to the narrow limits of
one denomination, and it is recorded that when the
Baptists started a subscription for a bell for their
church Mr. Rossiter headed the paper with a larger
sum than given by any other, with a single excep-
tion. Although he was for many years a great suf-
ferer from asthma, he did not yield to the infirmity
and his energy, a strong characteristic, carried him
through many a struggle in which one less endowed
must have yielded. September 20, 1834, William
Rossiter married Lucy Barrett, daughter of Joseph
and Lucy (Damen) Barrett, of Windsor, Vermont
(see Barrett). Their children, all born in Clare-
mont, were : Sarah Baldwin. Adelaide, born June
ID, 1838, died December, 1899. William Henry,
born October 5, 1841, died in Faribault, Minnesota,
November 5, 1862. Albert, born May i, 1843. Al-
bert Rossiter was educated in the public schools of
his native town, in Meriden, and at Kimball L'nion
Academy ; he took high rank in mathematics, be-
came an expert in figures and naturally w-as inter-
ested in banking. He was assistant cashier of the
Claremont Bank for thirty-two years, and was for
a long time treasurer of the Sullivan Savings Insti-
tution ; he has now retired from business and re-
sides in Claremont. He is an attendant of the Con-
gregational Church, and is a Republican in politics.
(VIII) Sarah (Baldwin) Rossiter, eldest child
of William and Lucy (Barrett) Rossiter, was born
July 31, 1836. She was educated in the public
schools and at Kimball Union Academy. May 3.
1858, she married Darius Shaw White, who was
born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, and removed from
that town to Claremont. about 1845. He operated
a stage line from the Claremont & Pullman Rail-
road station and one from the village square to
Claremont Junction. He was also proprietor of the
old Vermont House, then a leading tavern (as it
w^as then called) of the town. Mr. White removed
to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1856. and resumed the
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hotel business. He was afterward associated with
his brother in the same business at Hastings, Minne-
sota. He died in 1883, aged sixty-one years. Mrs.
White returned to her native town after the death
of her husband, and has since made her home in
the fine old Colonial house in Mulberry street,
Claremont, a gift to her from her father.
(VH) Timothy Baldwin, son of Sherman and
Olive (Baldwin) Rossiter, was born in Claremont,
September iS, 1807. He married. May 30, 1836.
Elvira Dustin, a direct descendant of Hannah Dus-
tin, of Indian fame. Starting out in life with a
mortgaged farm, by economy, honest toil, and rare
judgment, he accumulated quite a fortune, being
the largest individual taxpayer in the town of Clare-
mont at the time of his death, which occurred Jan-
uary 16, 1893. They had three children : George
Pomeroy. Edward Augustus, born March 16, 1844,
who later in life became quite prominent in the
clothing business in Albany, New York ; Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania ; and Hartford, Connecticut. He died
at the age of thirty-four, leaving no heir. Ellen,
died at the age of ten years. Elvira (Dustin) Ros-
siter died February 5, 1898.
(VIH) George Pomeroy, eldest son of Tim-
othy Baldwin and Elvira (Dustin) Rossiter, was
born in Calremont, May 6, 1840. He was educated at
the old academy at Claremont, and at Kimball
Union Academy. April 27, 1865, he married Caro-
line Lewis Gleason, whose grandmother, (maiden
name) Lucy Scott, was the first white woman to
spend the night in the town of Plainfield, coming
as a bride on horseback from Connecticut. George
P. Rossiter served the town of Claremont as select-
man in 1864, representative at the legislature in 1891,
and was a member of the constitutional convention
in 1902. He resides in Claremont, in relig^ion is a
Congregationalist, and in politics a Republican.
Children: I. Charles Timothy, born December 21,
1869, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1904 ; in
consequence of poor health he took up farming,
conducting the same on a modern scale ; he married
Gertrude Rindlaub, February' 17, 1906. 2. Edward
J. 3. Robert Gleason, born June 13. 1875. After
attending the Claremont schools he conducted a
lumber business in the town of Claremont.
(IX) Edward J., second son of George P. and
Caroline Lewis (Gleason) Rossiter, was born in
Claremont, April 29, 1871, graduated at Dartmouth
College in 1895, after which he engaged in banking
and real estate in his native town ; a Congrega-
tionalist, Republican, and Mason. On August 22,
1899, he married Sarah Edith Jones, daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Bill) Jones, of Worcester.
Massachusetts. Sarah Edith (Jones) Rossiter was
born in Burten Head, near Liverpool, England, Oc-
tober 20, 1871, and came to America with her par-
ents when very young. She was educated in the
schools of Worcester. Her father, Thomas Jones,
has been a large stone contractor, having erected
stone buildings all over New England and the mid-
dle west, and is still living in Worcester, Edward
J. and Snrah Edith (Jones) Rossiter have two chil-
dren, Olive, born December 6, 1900. and Brayard
Thomas, May 16, 1902.
The name of Lamson is often spelled
LAM SON Lambson or Lampson, but the earliest
form appears to be Lambton. Robert
de Lambton, feudal lord of Lambton castle in the
county of Durham, England, died in 1350, and the
estate is still in the possession of his descendants.
Like many other ancient British families they are
said to have been of Danish origin. William, the
first American ancestor, came from Durham county,
and his name first appears as Lambton. This soon
underwent modifications in the early records. In
1834 two bearing the name of Lamson or its allied
forms had graduated from Harvard, and four from
other New England colleges.
(I) William Lamson, or Lambton. came from
Durham county, England, to Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, in 1637. He came over in the fleet with Win-
throp. He settled in that part of Ipswich now called
Hamilton, and w'as made a freeman there on May 17,
1637. His wife was Sarah Ayres. He died February
I. 1659. leaving a w'idow, Sarah Lamson, and eight
children. She married. April 10, 1661, Thomas
Hartshorn, of Reading, Massachusetts.
(II) John, son of William and Sarah (.\yres)
Lamson, is found in the list of those entitled by law
to vote in town affairs in 1679. He was one of the
trial jury in the superior court at Salem in 1693 for
the trial of those charged with witchcraft. He mar-
ried Martha Perkins, who was born in 1649, daugh-
ter of Thomas and Phoebe (Gould) Perkins.
(III) William (2), son of John and Martha
(Perkins) Lamson, was married, in 1706, to Lydia
Porter, daughter of John and Lydia (Herrick)
Porter.
(IV) Jonathan, son of William (2) and
Lydia (Porter) Lamson. was commissioned ensign
in the Revolutionary war. He married Anna Dane.
(V) William (3), son of Jonathan and Anna
(Dane) Lamson, was a native of Ipswich, and re-
moved from that town to .Amherst, New Hampshirfe,
in 1783, being the first of the family to remove to
this state. He settled in the northwest parish of
.'Vmherst, which became Mont Vernon twenty years
after he located there. He signed the association
test in .Amherst in 1776, and was chosen by the town
two years later to provide for the families of sol-
diers in the war. In the last year of the war he
was one of a committee to hire soldiers. He was
active in securing the incorporation of the tow-n of
Mont Vernon, and was in every way a useful citi-
zen. He married Mary Lummas.
(VI) William (4), son of William (3) and
Mary (Lummas) Lamson, resided through life in
Mont Vernon on the farm that he inherited from
his father. He married Sebinh Jones, and they had
six children : William O., Mary. Seviroh, .Augusta,
.■\daline. Nancy E.
(VII) William Osborn, son of William (4)
and Sebiah (Jones) Lamson, was born September
It, 1808, in Mont Vernon, He w-as a farmer and
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lived on the old homestead originally owned by his
grandfather. He was captain of the state miHtia
for a number of yeajs. He was a Republican in
politics, but he never cared to hold office. He at-
tended the Congregational Church, and was a man
of excellent standing in the community. On Jan-
uary 10, 1849, he married Orindia Felton Odell,
■daughter of Luther and Betsey (Green) Odell.
She was born in Amherst. New Hampshire, Feb-
ruary 16, 1819, and died in ]\Iont Vernon, Novem-
ber 24, 1874. Captain Lamson died July 12, 1896,
at the advanced age of eighty-eight. Their chil-
dren : Harriett P., born April 6, 1850. Marriett A.,
April 6, 1850. Ella T., December 4, 1851. Ellen
O., December 4. 1851. Ida H., September 20, 1853.
Frank O., October 20, 1858.
(VHI) Frank Osborn, son of Captain William
O. and Orindia F. (Odell) Lamson, was born at
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, October 20, 1858.
He was educated in the public schools, and has
been a farmer all his life. He owns about four
hundred acres of land, of which he keeps sixty
acres under cultivation. He makes a specialty of
the raising of Holstein cattle. He is a Republican
in politics, and active in the interests of his party.
He has held many town offices, has been a select-
man since 1903, and representative in 1906. He
served on the school board for twelve years. He is
a member of the Grange Lodge. Mr. Lamson is a
man of pleasing personality and progressive ideas.
He belongs to the Congregational Church. Onl
January 9. iSgo, Frank O. Lamson married Marcia
Ellen Batchelder. daughter of Deacon George Gage
and Mary Elizabeth (Horn) Batchelder, of Mont
Vernon, New Hampshire. She was educated in the
schools of her native town. Her father was a cur-
rier and farmer. He served as selectman, belonged
to Prospect Grange, and was a deacon of the Con-
gregational Oiurch. Mrs. Batchelder came from
Dover, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Frank O.
Lamson have four children : Albert Batchelder,
born July 31, 1891 ; Ella May. March 5. 1895; Will-
iam Osborn, July 29, 1900, and Frank H., October 7,
1906.
According to Cogswell's History of
WOOD Henniker, New Hampshire, Eliphalet
Wood was the fifth in descent from Wil-
liam Wood, who came from Matlack. Derbyshire,
England, in 1638. and settled in Concord, Massa-
chusetts, where he died May 14. 1671. aged eighty-
nine years. But no Eliphalet of that generation is
mentioned in the Wood genealogy, nor are the
names of his descendants indexed in that work;
hence, the line cannot be traced farther back than
his record.
(I) Eliphalet Wood lived in Concord. Massa-
chusetts, afterwards in Westboro, where his chil-
dren were born. The name of his wife is unknown.
They had eight children : Jonathan, born April 13,
1753: Joshua, mentioned below; Jesse; Jabez ; Lucy ;
Molly, married John Harthorn : Betty, married
Joshua Whitney; Patty, married W. Adams.
(H) Joshua, second son and child of Eliphalet
Wood, was born in 1756, in Westboro, Massachu-
setts. On December 25, 1777, he married Elizabeth
Bradish, and settled upon the farm which after-
wards descended to his grandson, Joseph. He died
October 22, 1836, and his wife died October 28,
1827. They had seven children : Patty, born July
27, 1780. married Elisha Rice. Levi, mentioned be-
low. Betsey, born July 22, 1785, died August 7,
1807. Eunice, born July 9, 178S, died July 13, 1866,
unmarried. James Bradish, born April 17, 1791.
Elijah, born September 10. 1795. Lucy, born
August 24, 1798, died October i, 1873, unmarried.
■ (HI) Levi, eldest son and second child of
Joshua and Elizabeth (Bradish) Wood, w-as born
April 15, 1782. He married Prudence Chamberlain,
February 26, 1S07, and they lived on the homestead.
He died March 14, 1866, and his wife died Novem-
ber I. 1863. They had four children: Imri, born
April 25, 1808. Alanson, mentioned below. Ly-
man, born November 7, 1813, married Zylphia A.
Gould, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, became a
carpenter, and died in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Hannah H., born October 3, 1816, married C. P.
McAdams.
(IV) Alanson. second son and child of Levi
and Prudence (Chamberlain) Wood, was born at
Henniker, New Hampshire, May 3, 1810. He lived
in Henniker all his life, and was a miller and
farmer. He was a Democrat in politics, and at-
tended the Methodist Church. His first wife, the
mother of his children, was Mary Colby, daughter
of Silas Colby, whom he married January 13, 1834.
She died May 13, 1865. In June, 1866., he married
his second wife, Mrs, Poor. The si.x children of
Alanson and Mary (Colby) Wood were: Levi, born
1834, died July 31, 1S37. Lenora A., born October
17, 1836, married Jason H. Whitney. Silas F., born
April 17, 1S40. Horace H., mentioned below.
Marietta, born February 9. 1849, married George M.
Poor, vv'ho served in the Civil war in Company C,
Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers. Ida
F., born January 17, 1S54. Alanson Wood died
November 13, 1873.
(V) Horace Hanson, fourth son and fifth child
of Alanson and Mary (Colby) Wood, was born in
Hillsboro, New Hampshire, April 21, 1842. For
three years he was a farmer in Hillsboro, then went
to West Concord. New Hampshire, and worked in
Holden's mills for about a year. He removed to
Manchester, New Hampshire, and stayed in the
mills there for one year. He then came to Laconia,
New Hampshire, where he worked in the mills for
twenty-five years, starting as second hand, and be-
ing promoted several times. He then started a
shoddy mill in the adjoining town of Lakeport, which
he managed for two years. For the next five years
he was overseer in the Gilford Hosiery Mills. In
1880 he started large woolen and hosiery mills on
the west side of the river in Lakeport. In 1903,
when fire swept Lakeport. both mills were burned.
He immediately started to build again, and in the
meantime he managed a mill on the otiier side of
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the river. In 1906 his new mills were running.
Mr. Wood is a Republican in politics. He is a
Thirty-second degree Mason. He is a member of
Mount Lebanon Lodge, No. 36, Free and Accepted
Masons; Union Chapter, No. 7. Royal Arch Ma-
sons; Pythagorean Council, No. 6, Royal and Select
Masons; Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar,
all of Laconia ; New Hampshire Consistory, Nashua,
and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Concord. Mr.
Wood married Mary J. Lovejoy, daughter of David
and Melinda (Chase) Lovejoy, of Meredith. New
Hampshire.
A casual glance into the origin of the
WOOD Woods in America discloses the fact
that the majority of them are descended
from two immigrants: William, who came over in
1638, settling in Concord. Massachusetts, and John
(see Atwood), who arrived at Plymouth, same
state, in 1643. Both came from England. The
New Hampshire Woods are undoubtedly the poster-
ity of the first-named immigrant, through the lat-
ter's only son Michael, but the writer has thus far
been unable to identify with certainty the ancestors
prior to those herein mentioned.
(I) Joshua Wood, who was born in Pomfret,
Connecticut, in 1755, went to Keene in the latter
part of the eighteenth century and was actively
concerned in the early development of the town,
where he died in 1S20. Joshua Wood was one of
the valued and valuable citizens of the early yeans
of Keene, and is said to have owned the first wagon
in that town. He contributed in many ways to its
substantial and moral development. He and his
wife w-ere among the early members of the First
Congregational Church of Keene, and the family
identification with this church embraces a period of
one hundred years. Joshua Wood and his son
Amos were soldiers in the War of 1812. He mar-
ried Esther Estey, and his children were: Esther,
Hannah, Polly, Judith, Daniel. Amos, Sally. Lucy,
Nathan. George, Isaac and David. All of these
children save one. George, who died at sea, lived to
be over fifty years of age.
(II) Nathan, son of Joshua and Esther (Es-
tey) Wood, was born in Keene, May 31, 1800. He
acquired his education in the district schools. Hav-
ing learned the blacksmith's trade he established
himself in business on what is now Mechanic
street, which he carried on with unusual prosperity
until injured by a horse, and finding himself in
comfortable circumstances he determined to gratify
his long cherished ambition of becoming an inde-
pendent farmer. From his properties in Keene Mr.
Wood gave to the city the land now occupied by
Woodburn, Davis and Mechanic streets. Mr. Wood
was thus an important factor in the development of
Keene, the streets named containing much of the
best residential and some of the leading manufac-
turing properties of the city. Going to Walpole,
New Hampshire, in 1850. he purchased a piece of
agricultural property located on a bluff overlooking
the entrance of Cold river into the Connecticut, and
he remained there some three years, at the expira-
tion of which time he returned to Keene. There he
continued to follow agriculture with success, and
was one of the most prominent citizens of his day.
Prior to relinquishing his business in Keene he had
purchased the land lying between the General Wil-
son homestead and the Elliot residence and extend-
ing to the river. The farm, which he purchased
upon his return, comprised the land now bounded
by Court street, Portland street and the Ashuelot
river. Mr. Wood lived a life of generally' rec-
ognized usefulness, and died a Christian gentleman.
Mr. Nathan Wood was an ensign in the Twentieth
Regiment of Fifth Brigade of New Hampshire
Militia. His honorable discharge bears date of April
16. 1822. His death occurred December 4, 1861.
He married Lorinda Ruggles, of Rutland, Ver-
mont, born April 4. 1804, died August 18, 1841.
She became the mother of four daughters, namely :
Julia R., born August, 1825, died in Washington,,
D. C., February 16, 1905, the widow of Levi Potter.
Susan E., born May 22, 1828, married Hon. J. J.
Allen. Jr., whom she survived. She died in Keene,
August 20. IQ02. Sarah L., born May 20, 1833. now
residing in Keene. Mary L., born June 20, 1841,.
died March 16, 1846.
(I) Gardner Wood was born in Orange,_ Mass-
achusetts, December 27, 1806, and died in Athol,
same state. April 15, 1873. His wife was before
marriage Joan Dunbar.
(II) Wright, son of Gardner and Joan (Dun-
bar) Wood, was born in Orange, Jime 18, 1835. At
an early age he entered mercantile business as a
clerk in a general store in his native town, from
whence he went to Richmond. New Hampshire,
where he occupied a similar position for about five
years, and from the latter place he removed to
Ashuelot in order to accept a clerkship with Messrs.
Hammond and Weeks, general merchants of that
town. In company with A. W. Ball he later pur-
chased the store vVhich was carried on under the
firm name of Ball & Wood for the succeeding
twelve years, when Mr. Wood became sole proprie-
tor of the business and conducted it successfully
for the remainder of his life. He died in Ashuelot,
February 24, 1895. He married Augusta M. Bar-
den, of Winchester. New Hampshire, and reared
two sons, Herbert W. and Garry D.
(III) Herbert Wright, elder son of Wright and
Augusta M. (Barden) Wood, was born in Rich-
mond. December 14, 1861. He was educated in the
Ashuelot public schools, and at the age of seven-
teen years entered his father's store as a clerk. He
continued to assist his father until the latter's de-
cease, when he took charge of the business and has
ever since managed it with profitable results. In
politics Mr. Wood supports the Republican party.
He married Lizzie H. Wood, daughter of Eben and
Hannah (Patten) Wood, of Cherryfield, Maine.
Houghton was a very common
HOUGHTON name in Massachusetts in the
Colonial times, and one hundred
and sixteen Houghtons are mentioned in the list of
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Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolu-
tionary war. Ralph Houghton, one of the earlier
of this name in New England, was born in England
in 1623, and died April 15, 1705. He immigrated
from England between 1635 and 1647, and was one
of the founders of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He
removed to Woburn in 1675, to jMilton in 1682, and
returned to Lancaster in 1685, and to Milton in
1690. He built in Milton a homestead in which
seven generations of his descendants were born.
He was the first town clerk of Lancaster, Massa-
chusetts, about 1647. and representative in 1673 and
1689. He married Jane (surname unknown), born
1626, died January 10, 1701. Tradition says he was
the son of Sir Richard Houghton. Baronet, of
Hoghton Tower, Lancashire, England, and fought
against Charles I. although his family fought for
the king. The Houghtons of Hoghton Tower are
descended from Roger de Busli, one of the follow-
ers of William the Conqueror, A. D., 1066.
(HI) Henry Houghton, who was probably a
grandson of Ralph, resided in Lancaster, and was a
soldier in some of the expeditions against the In-
dians. The records of Sergeant Thomas Buckmin-
ster. of Framingham, show that he served in his
command one week and six days but the character
of the services is not indicated. He was married
in Watertown, Massachusetts. Januar>' 2, 1700, to
Abigail Barren.
(IV) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) and Abi-
gail (Barren) Houghton, was baptized in Lancaster,
April 19, 1702, and lived in that part of the original
Lancaster, which is now Harvard. He was a prom-
inent citizen, active in town affairs, and died De-
cember 23, 1777. The records show that Henry
Houghton served in Captain Josiah Willard's com-
pany from June 3 to November 10, 1725. This was,
no doubt an expedition against the Indians, and the
Henry Houghton here referred to is probably
Henry (2). as his father at that time would be
somewhat advanced in years. He was married, No-
vember 24, 1725, to Elizabeth Rand, of Stow, and
their children were : Asa, Joseph, Aretas, Elizabeth,
Abigail, Sarah and John.
(V) Asa Houghton, son of Henry (2) and
Elizabeth (Rand) Houghton, was born January 20,
1727. in Lancaster, and was a captain in the militia
in 1774 during the Revolutionary war. He was a
member of the committee of safety in Lancaster.
A few years after that struggle his homestead was
annexed to Boxborough. He was married January
4, 1750, to Elizabeth Rand.
(VI) Asa (2), son of Asa ii) and Elizabeth
(Rand) Houghton, was born February 14, 1758, in
Harvard, and lived in that town, where he was cap-
tain of the militia and a useful and active citizen.
He was married December 9, 1779, to Dorcas
Moore, of Bolton. Their children were : Levi, Jacob,
Reuben. Asa, Jabez. Thirza, Obed and Oliver.
(VII) Jacob, second son and child of Asa (2)
and Dorcas (Moore) Houghton, was born January
21, 1782, and lived in Boxborough, perhaps all the
time on the same home.stcad. Hi's wife's name was
iii — 17
Sarah and their children were: Lucy, Jane, Sarah,
.■\lvin W., Whitcomb, Mercy, Abel and George W.
(VIII) Alvin W., eldest son and fourth child
of Jacob and Sarah (Whitcoinb ?) Houghton, was
born February 28, 1813. in Boxborough, Massachu-
setts, and died in San Francisco, California, Octo-
ber 8, 1899, aged eighty-five. He was employed for
some years in the cotton factories of Lowell. When
he left there he removed to Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, where he became overseer in the spinning de-
partment of the Amoskeag mills. He gave up this
employment to go into the furniture business, which
he carried on foT five years. In the early days of
excitement over the discovery of gold in California
he went there and engaged in mining for some time.
He made three visits to California, on one of which
he took his son, and rounded Cap€ Horn. He
finally returned to California, and from that time
until his death was successfully engaged in the
furniture business. He married, in Lowell, Esther
H. Runnells, who died in Manchester, 1892, aged
seventy-four. Five children were born of this mar-
riage : Wealthy Maria, Sarah, Alvin Oscar,
George Albert and Revilo Gardner. Sarah died in
infancy, and Alvin Oscar and George Albert were
drowned in Stevens Pond, in June, 1865. both being
grown young men.
(IX) Revilo Gardner, youngest and only sur-
viving child of Alvin W. and Esther H. (Runnells)
Houghton, was born in Manchester, August 15,
1S57. After leaving the common schools he be-
came a clerk in the dry goods store of Joseph Wes-
ton, where he worked from the time he was fifteen
until he was seventeen years old. Then entering
the Amoskeag machine shop he worked two years
at the tinner's trade. Afterward he learned the
plumber's trade, while in the employ of Thomas A.
Lane, and later took service with the People's Gas-
light Company of Manchester, where he has been
employed for twenty years, and for a number of
years has been foreman of repairs. He is an able
and faithful employe. For the past thirty years he
has been a call member of the Manchester Fire
Company. He is also a member of Wildey Lodge,
No. 45, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He
married, 1877, Theresa Gillis. daughter of Michael
Gillis. He married (second), in Wolfboro, June,
1901, Blanche L. Chase, daughter of Charles F. and
Sarah (Getchell) Chase. By this first marriage
there was one child, Maud E., who married H. W.
Caswell, and lives in Gardner, Massachusetts.
The Garvins or New Hampshire are
GARVIN of Irish extraction, and descended
froiTi an ancestor who came to the
state in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Many of both the earlier and the later generations,
like the immigrant, have shown their liking for
salt water by becoming seafarers.
James Garvin, the immigrant, was born in Ire-
land, and came to America, it is said, as a stow-
away after 1700. He was a sailor and finally a sea
captain. He settled in Rollinsford (then Soniers-
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worth), probably before 1740, and built a store at
what is now known as the lower landing, and be-
came a trader in West India goods. He was a
man of substance and influente, and lived until
1787, perhaps. He married Sarah Hobbs, and they
had seven children: James, Sarah, Elizabeth, Ra-
chel, John, Thomas and Paul.
(I) Benjamin F., youngest son and .child of
Jacob and Margaret (Watts) Garvin, was born
in Litchfield, February 16, 1820, and died in Derry,
June, 1904. He learned shoemaking and followed
that occupation for a number of years. In 1861 he
became station agent at Londonderry, for the Man-
chester & Lawrence Railroad. During the Civil
war he owned and conducted a store in London-
derry near the railroad station, and also dealt in
ship timber. He was a good business man and a
member of the board of selectmen. He married,
1842, Nancy Spinney, who was born in Manchester,
January 9, 1824, and died 1904, daughter of Alex-
ander and Zila (Dow) Spinney, of Manchester.
They had seven children: Augustus F., Eldora J.,
George Spinney, Norman (died young), Clarence
Norman, Elwin W. and Arthur O.
(H) Captain George Spinney, second son and
third child of Benjamin F. and Nancy (Spinney)
Garvin, was born in Londonderry, March 18, 1845.
He was educated in the district schools, and at the
age of sixteen left home, and in November, 1861, en-
listed at Boston, Massachusetts, in an independent
company for service in the Civil war. In six months
he was discharged from this organization and be-
came a member of Company B, Third Maryland
Infantry. After seeing six months service in Balti-
more, Maryland, he was glad to be discharged at
Washington, and returned home. April 9, 1864,
he again left home and soon after shipped at New
Bedford, Massachusetts, on board a vessel called
the "Aurie Taft," for a whaling voyage. The ship
returned after a voyage of eighteen months with a
cargoe of one thousand barrels of oil, having visited
Hudson Bay, where they were frozen in one winter.
He continued to follow the" sea and passed through
the grades of boat steerer, third mate, second mate,
first mate, and finally was made captain of the ship
"Isabella" in 1878. He sailed out of San Francisco
twenty-two consecutive years, and during his life
as a mariner made thirty-seven voyages and never
experienced a wreck or serious accident. He has
visited almost all the maritime countries of the
world. The ships he commanded were "Isabella"
spoken of above, and the steam whaler "Orca"
owned by the Pacific Steam Whaling Company of
San Francisco, and this was the largest vessel en-
gaged in whale fishing in the Arctic Ocean. In
1891 he built a handsome residence and outbuildings
at Londonderry Depot, New Hampshire, v.-hich has
been his residence since. In 1903 he forsook the
ocean and returned to Londonderry, where he has
since resided.
He married in Londonderry, October 26, 1877,
Laura Furbcr, who was born in Massachusetts, and
died in 1895, daughter of John S. and Laura J.
(McQuestion) Furber, of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire. They had one son, George Oliver, now a
resident of Salem, Massachusetts. Captain Garvin
married (second) Sarah C. Field, of Saco, Maine.
Mrs. Garvin's mother now resides with her, and is
healthy and active, although aged ninety years.
(II) Clarence Norman, fifth child and fourth
son of Benjamin F. and Nancy (Spinney) Garvin,
was born in Londonderry, January 7, 1854. He re-
ceived his education in the public schools, and at
the age of fifteen years began to learn shoemaking,
and for nearly thirty years has worked at that busi-
ness continuously for the Pillsbury Shoe Company,
except a period of four or five j-ears when he was a
clerk in iNIanchester. He resided in Londonderry until
1898, when he removed to West Derry, where he
now lives. In 1903 he was appointed postmaster at
West Derry, and after serving four years was re-
appointed January i, 1907.
He married, in Manchester, February 9, 1873,
Abbie D. Wilson, who was born in Londonderry,
December 28, 1855, daughter of John P. and Adaline
(Auris) Wilson, of Londonderry (see Wilson IV).
They have three children : Fred E., Lilla B. and
Chester A. Fred E. married, July, 1894, at Derry,
Emma Provencher, who was born in Canada. They
have two children: Florence, born May 11, 1S95,
and Beatrice, August 7, 1900.
That the Peavey family was not
PEAVEY among the first three generations of
settlers in New England seems to
appear from the absence of any mention of it in
Savage's work; from the limited number of persons
of that name now living; and from the few soldiers
of that name in the Revolutionary war, of whom
only one went from Massachusetts and eleven from
New Hampshire. Thomas Peavey, of Andover,
Massachusetts, was a private in Captain Joshua
Holt's (Fourth Andover) Company, which marched
on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge. Major
Peter Peavey, of Andover, Massachusetts, settled
in Wilton, New Hampshire, where he had a son
Peter, born in 17S8. Edward Peavey died in the ser-
vice of the Revolutionary war, and his children were
early pioneers of Tuftonborough. Charles Peavey
was born in Newington, December, 1790. The early
seat of the family in New Hampshire seems to
have been in or about Hampton Falls, since we find
in the records of that town the record of the birth
of Anthony Peavey, born November, 1856, son of
Anthony and Mary (French) Peavey, residents of
Hampton Falls. Anthony Peavey was a private
in Captain Richard Sinclair's company. Colonel
Thomas Bartlett's regiment, raised about Exeter
and Portsmouth. He engaged July 8, 1780, and
was discharged October 28, 1780, after serving
three months and twenty-one days, the company
went to West Point. He also appears by another
volume to have been in the service January i.
(I) Anthony Peavev was a resident of Farm-
ington, where he died. (An Anthony Peavey was
married November 8, 1812, by Rev. Joseph Boody,
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of New Durham, to Sally Knight, both of Farm-
ington.)
(II) Anthony (2), son of Anthony (i) and
Sally (Knight) Peavey, was born in Farminston,
February 28, 1822, and died there March 31, 1871.
He was a shoemaker. He married, Deceniber 2,
1849, Lizzie Edgerly, who was born September 8,
1828, daughter of John and Tamson Dowe; she
died Deceniber 17, 1868. Nine children were born
of this union : Warren E., deceased. Florence E.
(Mrs. Charles R. Bragdon), of Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, one daughter, Minnie. Isidore E., of Farm-
ington, unmarried. Ernest E., of Farmington, a
shoecutter, married (first) Minnie Banfield, one
daughter, Elsie; married (second) Pansy Wallace,
one son, Carroll. Selvin D., deceased. Elwin E.,
shoeworker at Chelsea, Massachusetts. Infant, not
named. Will Lincoln, see forward. Fannie M.,
deceased.
(III) Will Lincoln, eighth child and sixth son
of Anthony (2) and Lizzie (Edgerly) Peavey, was
born in Farmington, March 31, 1865, and was left
without a father at the age of six years. From that
time until he was sixteen years of age he lived in
the family of George Plummer, a farmer of West
Milton, attending school a part of each year. In
1882 he took a commercial course at New Hampton,
and in 1884 became a clerk in the store of Emerson
& Garland, druggists, at Farmington. In 1889 he
bought a half interest in the business and the tirm
became Roberts & Peavey and continued until 1897,
when Mr. Peavey sold his interest and became an
equal partner in the dry goods business with S. A.
Leavitt, the firm taking the style of S. A. Leavitt
& Co. Three years later he bought out his partner
and has since conducted the business alone. He is
a Republican, but prefers the profits of commerce to
the laurels of politics, and has filled no public of-
fices. He is a member of the Free Baptist Church
at Farmington and one of its wardens. He is also
a member of Woodbine Lodge, No. 41, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and Cocheco Lodge, No. 14,
Ancient Order United Workmen. He married,
December 20, 18S6, Alice Leavitt, who was born in
Farmington, daughter of Almon and Ellen Jones
Leavitt, of Farmington. They had one child, Mer-
tonL., born July 21, 1891, and now a student in
the Farmington high school.
Graf is a German word and means count.
GRAF Its use as a surname is probably derived
from the title of a character in one of the
religious plays of some centuries ago, rather than
from the aristocratic birth of the first bearer. The
later generations of Grafs are proving that practical
business ability is better than a title.
(I) Johann Michael, second son of Carl Graf,
Lutheran minister, was born in Banzenweiler, Ba-
varia, February 17, 1808, and received a good edvi-
cation at Anspach, Bavaria. After learning the trade
weaver he went to Asch, Bohemia, Austria, where
he resided until deadi, 1S90. He was a successful
manufacturer of textile goods, and a leading citi-
zen of Asch. He took an active interest in the
afifairs of the laboring people, and was one of the
promoters of the first savings bank in Asch. In
religious faith he was a Lutheran, and a liberal sup-
porter of the church. Fle married, in 1835, Anna
Maria Gocpel, born at Asch, January 24,
181 1, only daughter of Carl Gocpel, born
in Saxe-Weimar, and his wife Maria Gries-
hammer, who was born in Schcenwald, Ba-
varia. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Graf was celebrated in a notable manner in 1885.
Eleven children were born of this union.
(II) Johann Adam, sixth son and ninth child of
Johann M. and Anna M. (Goepel) Graf, was born
in Asch, September . 29, 1848. He obtained a very
practical education in the public schools of Asch,
supplemented by private lessons after school hours,
at noon and in the afternoon of each day. At
thirteen years of age he began to learn hand and
power loom weaving and manufacturing at Hof,
Bavaria. He continued to follow that occupation
until 1866, when he came to America, and on May
19th of that year settled in Manchester. There he
went to work as a weaver under the supervision of
Captain Mason, an overseer of the Amoskeag Man-
ufacturing Company. In 1868, under direction of
Mr. Canis, he started the first two hundred gingham
looms ever operated by the Amoskeag Company.
Faithful attention to business and good work
brought him promotion to second hand in 1874, a^d
in 1883 he was appointed overseer, and now has
charge of one of the weave rooms of No. 11 Mill,
where two hundred and sixty hands are employed.
He has been as careful with his earnings as he has
with his work, and has invested in real estate. Mr.
Graf is a Republican in politics, and has been re-
peatedly honored by election to office by the men of
his party. He was councilman from his ward in
1893-94, and alderman in 1895-96, and as chair-
man of the committee on land and buildings he
built the High, Straw, Wilson and the Parker
school buildings. He has been trustee of Pine
Grove cemetery since 1895, and moderator of
ward 7 since 1898. In 1897-98 he served as repre-
sentative, and was elected state senator and served
the seventeenth district in 1895-96. He was ap-
pointed by Governor Chester B. Jordon commis-
sioner to represent the textile industries of the state
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis,
in 1904, and was sent by the commission to St.
Louis to accept a lot for New Hainpshire in 1892.
Mr. Graf is a man of many good qualities of mind
and heart, and is highly respected by a large circle
of friends. He is an active member of the Frank-
lin Street Church (Congregational), and has been
an Odd Fellow for thirty-seven years, and is a
member of Hillsborough Lodge, No. 2.
He married, January II, i86g, at Manchester,
Emma M. Cooley, eldest daughter of Charles and
Mary Minerva (Crandal) Cooley, of Landsafif. They
have two sons : Harry Charles and Edwin Adam.
Harry C. Graf, born in Lakeport, New Hamp-
shire, March 3, 1873, was educated in the public
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schools of Manchester and at the Philadelphia Tex-
tile School. Since 1900 he has been a postal clerk.
He married June 28, 1895, Flora B. Folsom of
Somersworth, New Hampshire, and resides in Man-
chester. One child, Kenneth Folsom, born April
22, 1906.
Edwin A. Graf, born September 15, 1882, was
educated in the public and high schools of Manches-
ter. He is a second hand in the Amoskeag ]\Iills.
He married, September 12, 1906, Lena Bower, of
Manchester.
The original seat of this family
CONVERSE was in Navarre, France, from
which place removed to England
Roger de Coigniers, near the close of the reign of
William the Conqueror. He was appointed con-
stable of Durham by the bishop of Durham. Among
his descendants Conyers of Horden, Durham, was
created a baronet, July I, 1548. Sir Humphrey of
the eighth generation wrote the name Coigners, and
Sir Christopher of the twentieth generation adopted
the form Cornyers. Those bearing the name in
Navarre were Huguenors or French Protestants
and in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's day in
1572, many of this family fell victims. At this time
Pierre Coigniers, who was attached to the court of
Henry IV of France, made his escape with his wife
and two infants and settled in the county of Essex,
England. In England the spelling of the name was
quite naturally changed to correspond with its pro-
nunciation of Conyers. Some of the descendants
now spell it Convers and it took this form for some
general:ions after coming to America.
(I) The immigrant ancestor was Deacon Ed-
ward Convers, who came to New England in the
fleet of Governor Winthrop in 1630, and settled in
Charlestown, Massachusetts. In 1631 a grant was
made to him of the first ferry between Charlestown
and Boston, and of this he retained control for sev-
eral years under the favor of the general court. In
the same year he was admitted a freeman, and was
selectman from 1635 to 1640. His name is first on
the list of seven commissioners appointed by the
church in Charlestown to arrange for a settlement
at Woburn. With others he removed to the new
town and ably assisted -in its settlement and organ-
ization, and after its incorporation he became one
of its most useful and honored citizens. He was
selectman of the town from 1644 until hi's death,
and was one of the commissioners for the trial of
minor causes. He was also one of the founders of
the Woburn Church and a deacon for many years.
His residence was in what is now a part of Win-
chester, and there he died August 10, 1663, aged
seventy-three years. He was accompanied on his
journey to America by his wife Sarah and several
children. She died January 14, 1662, and he was
married (second) September 19, following, to
Joanna, widow of Ralph Sprague. He had three
sons and a daughter : Josiah, James, Samuel and
Mary.
(II) James, second ?on of Deacon Edward and
Sarah Convers, was a native of England, born 1619-
20, and came to America with his father when a
child. He resided in Woburn and according to the
history of that town "through long life he was a
very valuable and highly esteemed citizen and was
repeatedly honored by the town with the principle
offices." He died May 10, 1717, aged ninety-five
years. He was married October 24, 1643. to Anna
Long, daughter of Robert Long, of Charlestown,
and they were the parents of ten children.
(III) Major James (2) Convers, eldest son of
Ensign James (i) Convers, was born October 16,
1645, in W'oburn, and died there July 8, 1706, in the
sixty-first year of his age. He was a man of con-
siderable prominence in civil affairs, and also won
distinction in the war with the French and Indians.
His daring and successful defence of Storer's Gar-
rison at Wells in the year 1691, and during the war
usually styled "King William's War." earned him
promotion to the rank of major. He was ten years
a member of the general court, and was three times
elected speaker of the house. He was married Jan-
uary I, 1669, to Hannah Carter, who was born Jan-
uary 19, 1651, a daughter of Captain John and
Elizabeth Carter, of Woburn. They had nine chil-
dren, only five of whom survived the period of
youth.
(IV) John, son of Major James (2) and
Hannah (Carter) Converse, was born August 22,
1673, in Woburn. and resided in that town until
after 170S. when he was absent about twenty years.
It is probable that during this time he lived in
Dunstable, as he was a resident of that town sub-
sequently. He was married May 22, 1699, to Abi-
gail Sawyer, who was born March 17, 1679. daugh-
ter of Joshua Sawyer, of Woburn. The births of
two of their children are recorded in Woburn
previous to 1708, and his next appearance in the
records of that town is at the birth of his son John,
July 31, 1728. The older children were Joshua and
Patience, and there were probably others between,
the record of whose births has not been discovered.
(V) Joshua, eldest son of John and Abigail
(Sawyer) Converse, was born June 3, 1704, in
Woburn, but was early a resident of Dunstable. In
the year 1729 he removed to lot number four, within
the .present town of Merrimack, New Hampshire,
then constituting a part of the tract lying on both
sides of the river known by the name of Naticook,
or Litchfield. He was frequently elected to office,
serving as moderator, assessor and selectman, and
upon several important committees. He was
drowned in the Merrimack river in 1744. In the
return of his estate found in the probate records it
is shown to have been valued at one thousand, two
hundred and five pounds, fourteen shillings and
four pence. His property included an interest in a
saw mill and in other lands besides his homestead.
His personal property was valued at nearly one
hundred and forty-five pounds, outside of bonds,
notes and book debts, which nearly trebled that
amount. He was married July 31, 1729. to Rachael
Blanchard, who was born March 23, 1712, in Dun-
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stable, seventh daughter and eighth child of Joseph
and Abiah (Hassel) Blanchard. (See Blanchard
III). This marriage is recorded in Woburn and
both parties are described as at Dunstable. The
births of two of their children, Joseph and Jesse, is
found upon the records of the ancient town of
Litchfield, and the third, Zebulon, is recorded in
Merrimack, which was in 1744. There were no
doubt other older children which do not appear of
record. Joseph's birth is recorded as occurring in
November, 1739.
(VI) Robert, who was undoubtedly a son of
Joshua and Rachae! (Blanchard) Converse, was
born in 1735. The History of Amherst says he
was born in Woburn and this might easily has been
true during a visit of his parents to that town. It
is more probable.- however, that he was born in
Litchfield. In 1783 he settled in the town of Am-
herst, adjoining the town where he was reared, and
there died Marcih 30, 1826. He was married in
1778 to Mary Lamb, who died December 15, 1827,
aged eighty-seven years. For a time they resided
in Stoneham, Massachusetts, where their eldest son
was born. Their children were : Josiah, Ebenezer
and Rebecca.
(VII) Ebenezer, second son and child of
Robert and Mary (Lamb) Converse, was born Feb-
ruary 25, 1779, in Stoneham. Massachusetts, and
died in South Merrimack, New Hampshire, August
25, i86t. It is probable that the family home was
on the border of Amherst and Merrimack and prob-
ably included land in both towns. He was married
in November, 1805, to Rhoda Bowtell, who was
born in Amherst, July 14. 1875, aged ninety-four
years. Their children were: Ebenezer, Joseph
Earner. George, Mary, Luther, Abigail, Charles,
Rufus, Rhoda and Robert.
(VIII) Rufus, sixth son and eighth child of
Ebenezer and Rhoda (Bowtell) Converse, was born
May 23, 1819, in Amherst, and died in Milford, New
Hampshire, March II, 1906. He was a successful
lumber dealer for the long period of forty years,
conducting his operations in Amherst and Milford,
New Hampshire, and in addition to this he also
conducted agricultural pursuits. He married. Sep-
tember 6, 1849, Eliza Ritterhush. daughter of Chris-
topher Columbus Ritterbush, who was of German
descent. Four children were the issue of this mar-
riage, two of whom are living, namely : Carrie and
Mary Lizzie. George died aged four years, Ellison
A. died aged about six years. The younger daugh-
ter is a member of the Woman's Club and both are
eligible to hold membership in the Daughters of
tlie .\merican Revolution.
New England ancestrj- has produced
TOLLES some of our best soldiers, and the New
England family of Tolles would ap-
pear to have descended from a warlike race. Some
of the members of the family fought for the cause
of the colonies in the war of the Revolution, and
Jason Elbridge Tolles, of this review, reached the
rank of major-general of New Hampshire state
militia, February 28, 1899. and was reeommissioned
February 28, 1904.
(I) The New England branch of the Tolles
family traces its ancestry to Henry Tolles, who set-
tled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1668, later re-
moing to Saybrook, Connecticut. He was twice
married. By his first -wife he had a son Henry.
(II) Henry (2). son of Henry Tolles "(i),
settled in New Haven, Connecticut, April 13, 1693.
He married Dorothy Thomas, daughter of Daniel
and Rebecca Thomas, of New Haven, Connecticut.
They had seven children: Henry, born 1694; Rachel,
1696; Samuel, 1698; Daniel, 1700; Ebenezer, 1703;
Dorothy, 1705; Experience, 1708.
(III) Henry (3), son of Henry Tolles (2), was
born in 1694, in New Haven, Connecticut, from
whence he removed to Weathersfield. Windsor
county, Vermont. He was an active participant in
the Revolutionary war. He married Deborah Clark,
February 15, 1727. They had ten children : El-
nathan, born December 15, 1729, died in infancy;
Dorothy, September 17, 1731 : Francis. December
30. 17,3,3; Henry, August 8, 1736; Mabel, August 21,
1738: EInathan, January 9, 1741 ; Dorothy, Septem-
ber 3, 1743; Rachael, December i, 1745: Del)orah,
July 27, 1751 ; Philamon, May 8. 1753. He died at
New Haven, Connecticut, 1772; his wife died same
place. 178S.
(IV) Henry (4). son of Henry Tolles (3),
married Hannah Clark, of Milford, Connecticut,
November 25, 1757, daughter of John and Rebecca
Clark. Her ancestry is notable as lineal descendants
of William Gibbard, secretary of the New Haven
Colony; Henry Tolles (IV) and Hannah (Clark)
Tolles had children : Clark, born August 25,
1758: David, August S, 1760; Amarillis. January 14.
1764; Jane. July 7, 1766; Henry, August 29,
1768; Benjamin, baptized May 10, 1778;
Philemon, baptized May 10, 1778. He re-
moved with his family to New Haven, Con-
necticut, to Weathersfield, Vermont, about 1779 or
80. He was a member of Captain Upham's militia
company during the Revolutionary war. He died
in Weathersfield, 1810; his wife in 1801.
(V) Clark, son of Henry Tolles (4), liorn in
New Haven, Connecticut, August 25, 1758, also took
part in the Revolutionary war. He married Sally
Proctor, and had these children : Henry, born April
10, 1782; Sarah, July 21, 1785; Clark, September 22,
17S7; Levi, September 23, 1792; Betsey, June 2,
1795; Lucy, September 10, 1796; Hannah, July 12.
1799: Gershom Hiram, June 7, 1S02.
(VI) Henry (5), son of Clark Tolles, was
born in Weathersfield, Windsor county, Vermont,
and died November 21, 1849. He married Azubie
Nichols. They had seven children : David N., born
January 3. 1S09; Horace Clark. May 31, 1811; Ira
Franklin, September 24, 1813 : Henry Proctor, De-
cember 22, 1815; Hiram Harkness, November 14,
181S ; John Warren, August 5, 1823 ; Lucy Ann,
June 25, 1829.
(VII) Horace Clark, son of Henry Tolles, born
in Weathersfield. Windsor county, Vermont, May
1078
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
31, iSll, removed to Nashua, New Hampshire, when
eighteen years of age. and there followed the occu-
pation of farming. He held many public offices,
namely, alderman, councilman, assessor and street
commissioner, which latter he filled for a number
of years, and during his incumbency of office dis-
charged his duties with credit to himself and to the
satisfaction of all concerned. He married Sophia
Ann Wright, December 10, 1835. of Westford,
Massachusetts, born August 31, 181 1, who bore him
nine children : i. Horace W., of Nashua, born
August 26, 1838, died March 7, 1907. 2. Franklin
N., born July 25, 1830. died November 20. 1902 ; he
followed farming in Dunstable, Massachusetts. 3.
Henry Joel, born August 24, 1841, of Dunstable,
Massachusetts 4. Willard Clark, born May 8, 1843,
of Nashua, New Hampshire. 5. Hannah Sophia,
born February 6. 1845, died March 10, 1866. 6.
James H., mentioned at length below. 7. Sarah A.,
born November 30, 1848, died November 10, i86g.
8. Jason Elbridge, January 5, 1852, see forward, g.
Zcnophon D., born March 23, 1858, of Nashua, New
Hampshire. Horace Clark Tolles attended the Con-
gregational Church. He died February 21, 1878,
and his wife died April 13. 1888.
(VHI) General Jason Elbridge Tolles, son of
Horace Clark and Sophia Ann (Wright) Tolles,
was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, January 5,
1S52. He was educated in the public schools, and
resided on the farm until nineteen years of age.
He then came into the city proper and accepted a
position as salesman in a clothing store, remaining
for a period of five years. The eleven succeeding
years he was engaged in business for himself, after
which he associated with Howard & Company in
the furniture business, which relation was continued
for fifteen years. He then became the first treas-
urer for the Citizens' Institution for Savings, in
which capacity he is serving at the present time
(1907). He is the secretary of the board of trade,
and served as trustee in a number of estates, this
fact testifying to his integrity and the esteem in
which he is held by his fellow citizens. He was
m.ayor of Nashua for four years, 1897-98-99-1900;
was senator from the twentieth district in 1903-04;
represented ward eight in 1905 ; and was a member
of the board of education for thirteen years. He
was elected city treasurer of Nashua. January I,
1907. He is a Democrat in politics. He affiliates
with the First Congregational Church ; is a member
of Rising Sun Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
of Pennichuck Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows ; the Guards Club ; and is treasurer of the
Odd Fellows' Building Association.
General Tolles has been an efficient member of
the New Hampshire National Guard for the long
period of twenty-seven years. He enlisted as
private in Company F. Second Regiment, New
Hampshire Guards, October 16, 1877; was promoted
to corporal. May 10, 1878; and to sergeant, August
I, 1879. He was commissioned captain. May 3,
1881, and resigned May 16, 1883. He again joined
his old regiment, the Second, and was appointed ^
adjutant, \vith the rank of first-lieutenant, July i,
18S4. He was promoted to major. May 15, 1885;
lieutenant-colonel, August I, 1889; and colonel,
August 31, 1894. He was coinmissioned brigadier-
general, New Hampshire National Guard, Febru-
ary 28, 1899, and was recommissioned February 28.
1904. July 13, 1900, was breveted major-general.
During the Spanish-American war General Tolles
was extremely anxious to lead his regiment into
active service, but as the quota for New Hampshire
was only one regiment of infantry, and as he at that
time was the junior colonel of the two New Hamp-
shire infantry regiments, the senior colonel claimed
the prerogative, and went to the front. General
(then Colonel) Tolles, loyal and faithful soldier as
he was, acquiesced. During his long period of
service with the military establishment of the state.
Colonel Tolles has made for himself a splendid
record, reflecting credit and honor on his name, and
enjoys the confidence and esteem of both superiors
and subordinates.
General Tolles married. August 11, 1874. Sadie
S. Chase, daughter of Daniel S. Chase, of Nashua,
New Hampshire, and now of Kansas City, Kansas,
and their children are: Louie Ethel, born Decem-
ber 29, 1S75, married E. Ray Shaw, June 9. 1904;
and Alice May, born October 4, 1878. married John
Prescott Kimball, September 11, rooG.
(VIII) James Harkness, sixth child and fifth
son of Horace C. and Sophia A. (Wright) Tolles,
was born in Nashua, October 17, 1846, and was edu-
cated in the common schools. He was employed in
a country grocery store in Dunstable. Massachu-
setts three 3'ears, and subsequently was a clerk in a
dry goods store in Nashua three years. In 1872 he
became a partner with John Cross in the firm of
Cross & Tolles, and they were successfully engaged
in the lumber and manufacturing business twenty-
seven years. In May. 1S99, Mr. Cross withdrew
and since that time Mr. Tolles has carried on the
business alone under the firm name of J. H. Tolles
Company. Fie conducts a large planing mill and
box factory, and is also connected with various
financial institutions and organizations of public
utility. He is a director of the Indian Head Na-
tional Bank, the Nashua Light, Heat and Power
Company, the Pennichuck Water Works Company,
the Nashua Building and Loan Association, and
trustee of the Citizens' Institution for Savings. He
is also connected with other enterprises and organ-
izations similar to those above mentioned, and has
for years filled many important offices of trust. In
political faith he is a Democrat, and as such was
elected to the mayoralty in 1886-87-88. He has the
peculiar distinction of being the only person ever
elected to this office a third term in Nashua. He
is a member of the board of education, and has
filled that office efficiently for years. He is a past
grand of Pennichuck Lodge, No. 44, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Nashua, and is now
(1907) grand treasurer of the Grand Commandery
of the United Order of the Golden Cross of New
Hampshire ; and has been for more than twenty-five
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
10,79
years, and liis nieniljership is with Merrimack River
Commandery, No. 33. He is also a director of the
First Congregational Church Society. He was mar-
ried in Nashua, July 8, 1872, to Mary E. Cross, who
was born in Hudson, !March 8, 1848, daughter of
John and Sarah Ann (Sargent) Cross, of Hudson.
They have one child, Marion E., born August i,
1875. She married James L. Bickford, and resides
in Nashua.
The Giffin family was established in
GIFFIN New Hampshire nearly one hundred
and' fifty years ago, and its founder.
like the majority of Granite State settlers of that
period, left the old country solely for the purpose of
reaping the benefits of civil and religious liberty.
(I) Robert Giffin emigrated from the north of
Ireland in 1768, and settled in Londonderry, New
Hampshire. The maiden name of his wife was
Agnes Taggett.
(H) Patrick, son of Robert and Agnes (Tag-
gett) Giffin, was born in Bedford, New Hampshire,
September 3, 1768.
(HI) David, son of Patrick Giffin, was born
in Marlow, this state, May 30, 1798.
(IV) Henry, son of David Giffin, was born in
Sutton, Vermont, October 29, 1832. When a young
man he engaged in teaming, and for five or six
years was employed by Samuel Archer, of Chester.
Vermont, in hauling ship keels. He then went to
Foxboro, Massachusetts, where he was an operative
in a straw-hat manufactory for about two years, at
the expiration of which time he purchased a farm
in Marlow, New Hampshire, and for the ensuing
six years was engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Farm life, however, seems to have been uncongenial
to him. as he eventually resumed his former occupa-
tion, that of teaming, and he continued to follow
it for a number of years, or until 1872. when he es-
tablished himself in the retail coal trade in Keene.
FroiTi that time forward until his death, which oc-
curred April 27, 1904. he transacted a profitable
business, and enjoyed the respect and esteem of a
wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He mar-
ried Harriet Tinker, daughter of Elijah and Esther
(Lewis) Tinker, formerly of Lempster and latterly
of Nashua, New Hampshire, where they died. Mrs.
Harriet (Tinker) Giffin resides in Keene.
(V) George Henry, only child of Henry and
Harriet (Tinker) Giffin. was born in Marlow,
August 28, 1862. died suddenly of neuralgia of the
heart, December 18, 1906. His studies in the public
schools were supplemented by a commercial course
at the Packard Business College, New York City,
and after its completion he became associated with
his father in the coal business'. He continued in
partnership with the elder Giffin until the latter's
decease, when he became sole proprietor of the
business and at the time of his death was in the full
tide of success, having a large and constantly in-
creasing trade. Mr. Giffin had an ideal wood plant,
said to be one of the best in New England, and was
the largest dealer in wood and coal in southwestern
New Hampshire, his operations including the neigh-
boring territory in his own state and the states of
Vermont and Massachusetts. He was interested in
local civic affairs, served upon Keene council, and
in politics supported the Republican party. In ad-
dition to holding membership in the First Congre-
gational Church he was earnestly interested in out-
side religious work, and was the building committee
treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association,
which beneficiary institution he was largely instru-
inental in founding.
April 19, 1894, Mr. Giffin married Ella M. Shel-
don, daughter of Albert and Frances (Pond) Shel-
don. Their children are: Paul S., born May 24,
1S98; and John H., born January 31, 1902.
This is among the conspicuous
BR.MNARD names in the history of Connecti-
cut, and it has furnished several
pioneers in the settlement of northern New Hamp-
shire. The family patronymic receives various
spellings in the New England records (including
Brainerd, Braynard, Braynerd, etc.), and is still
widely used in the first of these three, as well as
that at the head of this article.
(I) Deacon Daniel Brainard was brought from
England by the Wyllys family when he was eight
years old and brought up in Hartford, Connecticut,
remaining with the people who brought him until of
legal age. He was among the proprietors and ori-
ginal settlers of Haddam, in that colony, about
1662, and became one of the prosperous and most
influential members of that settlernent. He was a
deacon of the church, also served as justice of the
peace and became a large landholder. In a letter
received from his mother in England, soon
after his settlement at Haddam, the name is spelleQ
Brainwood, but it had been universally called
Brainard by people on this side of the water, and he
made no effort to change it. Deacon Brainard was
tvv'ice married. His first wife was Hannah, daugh-
ter of Gerrard Spencer, of Lynn. Massachusetts,
later of Haddam. Tradition says his second wife's
maiden name was identical with that of his first.
When he married her she was a widow, bearing the
name of Hannah Saxton. The first wife was the
mother of his children, namely: Daniel, Hannah,
James, Joshua, William, Caleb, Elijah and Hczekiah.
(II) Elijah, seventh child and sixth son of
Deacon Daniel and Hannah (Spencer) Brainard,
was born 1677 in Haddam and made his abiding
place there through life. He was married Septem-
ber 28, 1699, to Mary Bushnell. of Norwich, Con-
necticut, who died September 11, 1735. and he was
married (second), September 6, 17,38, to Margaret
(surname not preserved). His children, born of
the first wife, were: Ma-ry, Abigail, Joseph. Elijah.
Thankful, Rachel, Jabcz, Esther and Phineas.
(III) Jabez. third son and seventh child of
Elijah and Mary (Bushnell) Brainard. was born
February 19. 1715, in Haddam, and lived in that
part of the town now known as East Haddam. He
was married there October 15, 1739. to Hannah
io8o
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Clark, probably of Chatliam. She survived him
and died October 5, 1806, aged ninety-three years.
Their children were : Abigail, Jabez. Hannah, Anne,
John (died young), Daniel, John and Caleb.
(IV) Daniel, sixth child and third son of Jabez
and Hannah (Clark) Brainard, was born January
9. 1752. in East Haddam, and was among the
pioneer settlers of Rumney, New Hampshire, com-
ing thither when a young man. He first appears in
the records on the occasion of his marriage, Jan-
uary 22, 1777, to Rebecca Blodgett, both of Rumney.
The vital records also give the births of a part of
his children, namely: Rebecca, Dorothy, Sarah,
Lydia, Hannah and "Kata."
(V) Barzilla, undoubtedly a son of Daniel and
Rebecca (Blodgett) Brainard. was a native of Rum-
ney, but the only record of this fact appears in the
record of his marriage, with no date. He was
probably born about 1790, and was married (first),
January 22, 1811, to Sally Dunning, of Canaan, New
Hampshire, who died leaving a daughter, Almira,
born October 27, 1812. No record appears of Bar-
zilla's second marriage, but the wife's name appear?
as Mehetable, and they had children born from 1814
to 1826, namely : Asahel, John M., Persis, Sally,
Nelson and Phebe. He was married (third), De-
cember 27, 1824, to Lucy Beecher, both of Stewarts-
town, the latter a native of Southington, Connecti-
cut. From this it appears that Mr. Brainard settled
in Stewartstown before 1824. The children of the
last marriage were: Madeline. Ira Y., Jeremiah F,
and Dolly A.
(VI) Ira Y., ninth child and fourth son of
Barzilla and Lucy (Beecher) Brainard, was born
July 5, 1828, in Stewartstown, New Hampshire. He
grew up on a farm, and at twenty-one years of age
went to Canaan, Vermont, w-here he continued to
follow agriculture. In 1862 he removed to Pitts-
burg. New Hampshire, where he remained until
1899. He then removed to North Weare, w'here he
now resides. He married, July 4, 1851, at Stewarts-
town, Mary Hilliard, who \y,as born in 18,32. daugh-
ter of James and Susan (Bailey) Hilliard. of
Stewartstown. Eight children were born to them :
Charles, deceased; Minnetta, deceased; Etta, de-
ceased ; Charles I., w-ho is mentioned below ; Carrie,
who resides in Lancaster : Jennie ; Frank, deceased ;
and an infant.
(VII) Charles Ira. fourth child of Ira Y. and
Mary (Hilli.ird) Brainard, was born in Canaan,
Vermont, November 2, 1859, and was taken by his
parents to Pittsburg, New Hampshire, in 1862. He
was a farmer boy and when he grew up he had a
farm of his own which he cultivated with success
until 1899, when he removed to Stewartstown and
with J. W. Baldwin formed the firm of Brainard &
Baldwin, dealers in general merchandise, in which
business he is at the present time. In politics he is
a Democrat, and whertver he has resided has been
a party leader and a popular man. He was a mem-
ber of the school board, road agent, collector and
selectman of Pittsburg, and is town clerk of
Stewartstown, which office he has now ( 1907) held
four years. He married, April 5. 1888, Emma Gene
Blodgett, who was born in Canaan, Vermont, June
8, 1S66, daughter of Edward C. and Lucy (Fellows)
Blodgett, of Canaan. Vermont, and Pittsburg, New
Hampshire. They have three children : Stella,
born December 31, 188S; Alpha, July 23, 1890;
Grace, July 15, 1892.
The name of Hayden is said to be
HAYDEN derived from the town of Heydon,
in Norfolk, England. The original
meaning was "high down, or plain on the hill."
The town lies about fourteen miles north of Nor-
wich, the shire town of Norfolk county. Heydon
Hall, in 1829, was the seat of William Earle Lytton
Bulwer. the elder brother of the novelist. The
English family of Heydon is ancient but not numer-
ous. The family first comes into notice during the
reign of Henry III. Thomas de Heydon, resident
of Heydon. was "a justice itinerant in Norfolk in
1221," and from him the different lines can be
traced. There are various coats of arms belonging
to branches of the family, but the earliest and most
constant emblem appears to be the engraved cross,
which would indicate that some of Thomas de
Heydon"s ancestors had been in the crusades.
(I) John Hayden. emigrant ancestor of a
numerous family, was early in America. He was
found living in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as early
as 1634, in which year he was admitted a freeman.
The second entry in the record of births was that
of his son Jonathan. He died previous to July 26,
1684, the day on which his will was proved, and
was survived many years by his wife, Susanna, who
was living in 1695. Their children were : John,
Joseph, Samuel, Jonathan, Hannah, Ebenezer and
Nehemiah.
(II) John (2). eldest child of John (i) and
Susan or Susanna Hayden, was born in 1635. in Dor-
chester, and settled in Braintree. At the time of
the settlement as pastor of Rev. Samuel Niles,
John (2) Hayden was a member of the Middle
Precinct Church. He was married April 6. 1660, by
Governor Endicott, to Hannah Ames, who was born
May 13. 1641, a daughter of William Ames, of
Braintree. She died of smallpox, July 3, 1689, and
was survived nearly twenty-nine years by her hus-
band, who died May 20, 1718. His will is on file in
Suffolk county. Their children were: Hannah,
Sarah. Elizabeth, Joseph, Josiah. Lydia, John and
Abigail.
(III) Josiah, second son and fifth child of
John (2) and Hannah (Ames) Hayden, was born
January 19. 1669, in Braintree, and settled in Sud-
bury, where he was undoubtedly engaged in agricul-
ture. He was married March 6, 1691, to Elizabeth
Goodnow, o'f Sudbury. She was born November 6,
1672. a daughter of John and Mary (AxdcU) Good- .
now. of Sudbury. In the record of his marriage he
is called "of Braintree," so that his settlement in
Sudbury must have succeeded that event. His
youngest son was appointed executor of his will in
connection with the widow. The children were :
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Josiah, Uriah, John. Elizabeth, Abigail, Edmund,
Phineas, Nathanial and Ruth.
(IV) Josiah (2), eldest son of Josiah (i) and
Elizabeth (Goodnow.) Haydcn, was born before
1700, in Braintree, and was an infant when his par-
ents moved to Sudbury. He passed his life in the
last named town, where he was an honored citizen.
No record of his marriage has been discovered, but
the christian name of his wife is known to have
been Sarah, Their children, born from 1722 to
1739. were: Sarah. Thomas, Elizabeth. Josiah, Sam-
uel, Daniel and Bezeleel. The fourth son settled
in Hollis, New Hampshire, and the fifth in Marl-
boro, Massachusetts
(V) Thomas, eldest son and second child of
Josiah (2) and Sarah Hayden, was born March i,
1725. in Sudbury, and resided there through life.
He was married November 27, 1755, to Mary Ball,
daughter of Daniel and Sybel Ball, of Southboro
and Framingham. In 1770, Mary (Bell) Hayden
was a legatee in the will of her mother, Sybel Ball.
Thomas Hayden's children, born from 1756 to 1765
in Sudbury, were : Mary, Sally, David, Josiah and
Bezeleel.
(VI) Josiah (3), second son and fifth child
of Thomas and Mary (Ball) Hayden, was born
January 13, 1763. in Sudbury. At the age of about
five years he was committed to the care of his uncle,
Samuel Hayden,' of Hollis, New Hampshire, and
there he subsequently lived. In 1760 Samuel Hay-
den purchased of John Taylor land in Hollis, which
became his home and on which Josiah (3) was
reared. The latter was a farmer and passed his life
in Hollis, where he died. He was married April 19,
1797, to Mary Patch. (See Patch). They were
the parents of nine children: Mary. Samuel, Josiah,
Sarah. Daniel, Lydia, Thomas W., Willard and
Susan.
(VII) Samuel, first son of Josiah and Alary
(Patch) Hayden, was born March 13, 1800, in
Hollis, New Hampshire, where he was an active and
useful citizen. He was a farmer by occupation and
captain in the state militia, and an active member
of the church. Henry Oilman Little in his "Hollis,
Seventy Years Ago," says of him : "At the age of
thirty-five he was one of the best specimens of man-
hood, both morally and physically, that Hollis ever
produced. He was one of the last tithing-men,
this office being abolished in 1850." He used to be
prominent at the old country fairs. Captain Hay-
den lived in the old-fashioned house once occupied
by his father, and now descended to his son. As
illustrating the qualities of the two families, it may
be mentioned that the Baileys were neighbors of the
Haydens of Marlborough. Massachusetts, and when
the latter family moved to Hollis, the Baileys fol-
lowed and took an adjoining farm. Five genera-
tions have lived side by side, and there has been no
quarrel between the two families. Captain Samuel
Hayden married Harriet Needham, daughter of
Stearns and Hannah (Bailey) Needham, of And-
over, Massachusetts. They had six children : Sam-
uel F., who lives in Hollis. Emily, who married
Eben J. Rideout, and lived in Brookline, New Hamp-
shire. Daniel W., mentioned below. John W.
David N. Lizzie H., who married John L. Woods,
of Hollis. The third son, John W., enlisted in
Company H, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers,
and died in the service February 8, 1862. Captain
Sanntel Hayden died March 23, 1880. at Hollis. His
widow died in Hollis, January 9, 1869.
(VIII) Daniel Webster, son of Captain Samuel
and Harriet (Needham) Hayden, was born at
Hollis, New Hampshire. June i. 1840. He was edu-
cated in the public schools. He studied civil en-
gineering, and did surveying till the Civil war broke
out, when he enlisted in Company H, Seventh New
Hampshire Volunteers, October 21, 1861. He
served under Captain Ames, and was in the Florida
expedition, and at the Siege of Charleston, South
Carolina. He was wounded in the mouth at the
assault on Fort Wagner. South Carolina, July 18,
1863. He was wounded in the head at the battle of
Olustee, February 20, 1864. At this time he was
reported dead ; but he was helped off the field by a
negro and a wounded Union soldier, and recovered.
He was discharged April 28, 1864, on account of
wounds. He was made corporal, October 21, i86r,
and was promoted to sergeant, February 3. 1864.
After the war Mr. Hayden was unable to continue
his surveying on account of his wounds, and he en-
gaged in farming for a while. Then, in company
with his brother, David N., he built a saw mill,
which they have managed successfully ever since.
When the brothers removed the mill-dam on Bailey
brook, which they replaced by , the present stone
dam, they found the hemlock timbers as perfect as
when first placed there, seventy-five years before.
The two brothers have a home farm of one hundred
and ten acres, and other land which in all amounts
to seven hundred acres. In politics Mr. Hayden is a
Republican. He has served as selectman three
years, has been chief of police, and represented the
town in the legislature of 1901. He is a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and has held all
the local offices.
Daniel W. Hayden married, April ig, 1S66, Ann
E. Talbot, who was born in Brookline, December
22. 1844, daughter of Samuel and Eliza G. (Hodg-
man) Talbot, of Brookline. They had two children:
Willard B., born September g. 1871. died April 17.
1887 ; Bertha M.. born February 4. 1879, who lives
at home. Miss Hayden is a member of the school
board, and is active in the Woman's Club, and has
written various books, one of which is "Hollis To-
day." Mrs. Hayden was president of the Woman's
Relief Corps one year.
This is one of the early English
HOLCOMBE families planted in Massachusetts
and is numerously represented to-
day throughout the United States. It has contributed
its share in the settlement and development of New
England and of New Hampshire. Many are physi-
cians, and some of them became famous. William
F. Holcombe studied abroad, and was the first eye
specialist in the United States.
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(I) Thomas Holcombe. the founder of the
family in America, came with the Dorchester party
in 1630, and was made a freeman at Dorchester in
May, 1634. The next year he sold his house and
lands to Richard Jones and removed with the Rev.
John Warren to Windsor, Connecticut. In 1639 he
settled in the northern part of that town in the dis-
trict now known as Poquonock. In the same year
he represented Windsor and Hartford in the con-
stitutional convention. He died September 7, 1657.
He was a possessor of considerable property. He
was a member of the Dorchester church and of
Windsor church, and was much respected. The
christian name of his wife was Elizabeth, and they
had four sons and six daughters, three of whom
died young. All the others married into good fami-
lies and themselves had large families of children.
After his death the widow married (second), in
1658, James . Two of his children were born
in Dorchester, and the others in Windsor, namely :
Elizabeth, Mary, Abigail, Joshua, Samuel, Benager,
Deborah (died young), Nathaniel, Deborah and
Jonathan.
(II) Nathaniel, third son and seventh child of
Thomas and Elizabeth Holcombe, was born Novem-
ber 4, 1648, in Windsor, and resided in Simsbury,
and for a time in Springfield, Massachusetts. After
the burning of Simsbury in 1667, and the return of
the settlers in 1670, he removed thither and repre-
sented that town in 1703-04-05-06, in 1720 and 1722.
By occupation he was a farmer. He was granted
land at Soundbrook, now Granby Center, and was
prominent in all the movements of the town, besides
being for many years a deacon of the church. He
was married February 27, 1670, to Mary Bliss, of
Springfield, daughter of Nathaniel and Katherine
(Chapen) Bliss, of that town. Their children were:
Nathaniel, Mary, Jonathan, John, Esther, Katherine,
Sarah and Benjamin.
(III) Nathaniel (2), eldest child of Nathaniel
(i) and Mary (Bliss) Holcoijibe, was bom June 11,
1673. in Springfield, JNIassachusetts, and resided in
what is now Simsbury, which town he represented
at the general court in 1748-49-50-51-52 and 53. He
was trusted with various prominent appointments,
and like his father was deacon in the church. It is
said that his character was beyond reproach. His
death occurred September 29, 1766, at the close of
a well rounded career. He married Martha Buel,
daughter of Peter and Martha (Coggins) Buel.
Their children were: Nathaniel, Benjamin, Eliza-
beth, Martha, Judah, Daniel, INIary, Sarah and Peter.
(Mention of Judah and descendants appears in this
article).
(IV) Captain Nathaniel (3), eldest . child of
Nathaniel (2) and Martha (Buel) Holcombe, was
born October 25, 1696, in Simsbury, and was bap-
tized on the fifth of December of the following year.
He settled in North Granby, where he acquired con-
siderable property, and both he and his wife were
active members of the church. He was married
October g, 1717, to Thankful Hayes, daughter of
George and Abigail (Dibble) Hayes, of Granby.
Their children were: Hannah, Nathaniel, Ephraim,
Thankful, Ruth, Joseph, Amos, Elijah, Elizabeth,
Sarah, Mercy and Rodger.
(V) Elijah, fifth son and eighth child of Captain
Nathaniel and Thankful (Hayes) Holcombe, was
born j\Iay 26, 1734, in Granby, and died June 2,
1789. He was a cooper by trade, and worked at
that to some extent in comiection with farming.
He settled in that part of Granby which is now
Southwick, Massachusetts, at what was and still is
known as Gillett's Four Corners. He was mar-
ried November 15, 1756, to Violet Comiske, daugh-
ter of Captain James and Amy (Butler) Comiske.
Their children were: Elijah, Violet, Ladoce, Amasa,
Jabez, Clymena and Abijah.
(VI) Elijah (2), eldest child of Elijah (i) and
Violet (Comiske) Holcombe, was born 1757, in
Granby, and died October 5, 1841. He was three
times married and reared a large family. His first
wife, Lucy, was a daughter of Lieutenant Silas
Holcombe (see Silas, V), and bore him eight chil-
dren. His second wife, Betsey (Post) Holcombe,
was the mother of two children, and the third wife,
Betsey (Ives) Holcombe, bore him five children.
(VII) Amasa, son of Elijah ('2) Holcombe, was
born June 18, 1787, in Southwick, Massachusetts,
and died February 27, 1875. He was a prominent
man of his day in Southwick, where his life was
passed. He was married (first), November 10,
1808, to Gillette Kendall, who was the mother of
his eight children. He was maVried (second), Jan-
uary 23, 1862, to Maria Holcombe, daughter of
Lieutenant Daniel and Hepsibah (Griswold) Hol-
combe. She was born November 13, 1804, at what
is now Tariffville, Connecticut, and died April 29,
1874. His children were: Sophia, Milton, Candace
(died young), Alfred C, Candace, Henry C, Amasa
and Franklin.
(VIII) Franklin, youngest child of Amasa and
Gillette (Kendall) Holcombe, w^as born September
22, 1827, in Southwick, Massachusetts, and resided
throughout life in that town. He was educated in
the public schools of his native town, and engaged
there in farming. He enlisted in 1861 in a regiment
recruited in Springfield, and went to the front. He
soon after died in a hospital at Annapolis, Mary-
land, of disease brought on while in the service.
He married (first) Mary Givens, who was the
mother of one son Frank, who was born December
25, 1852. He married (second) Eliza Givens, a
sister of his first wife, and died without issue. He
was married (third) to Sarah Jane Robinson, and
they were the parants of two children: Charles
Henry and Newton F. The latter died June 29,
1900.
(IX) Charles Henry Holcombe, M. D., elder
of the two sons of Franklin and Sarah Jane (Rob-
inson) Holcombe, was born November 12. 1859,
and was educated in the local schools of Milford,
New Hampshire, and at McCoUom Institute at
Mont Vernon. He also spent four years at West-
field, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard
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University in 1886, taking tlie medical course. He
immediately located in Brookline, New Hampshire,
where he has since been actively engaged with his
profession, with satisfaction to his patients and him-
self. His regular standing is attested by his mem-
bership in the New Hampshire Medical Association
and in other professional societies. He is chair-
man of the Brookline board of health, and a deacon
in the Congregational Church of that town. He
is also identified with the local Grange of the Vet-
erans of Husbandry, and is a trustee of the Public
Library. He is a genial and cultivated man, and
takes a warm interest in all that pertains to the
development and welfare of his home community.
He was married June 23, 1S88, to Clintina A. Bur-
ton, daughter of J. E. and Olive A. (Robinson)
Burton, of Temple, New Hampshire. They have
one child, Marion C. Holcombe.
(IV) Judah, third son and fifth child of Na-
thaniel (2) and Martha (Bucl) Holcombe, was
born June 12, 1705, in Simsbury, and died January
5, 1802, in his ninety-seventh year. On his tomb-
stone at Salmon Brook is inscribed: "Death is a
debt to Nature due; this I have paid, and so must
you." He married Hannah Buttolf, and at his
death he left nine children, fifty-seven grandchildren,
one hundred and twenty-nine great-grandchildren
and one great-great-grandchild.
(V) Lieutenant Silas, son of Judah and Hannah
(Buttolf) Holcombe, was born November 27, 1734.
in Granby, Connecticut, and died October 6, 1806.
He married Mary Post, and they were the parents
of four children.
(VI) Lucy, daughter of Lieutenant Silas and
Mary (Post) Holcombe, was born in 1764, in North
Granby, and became the wife of Elijah Holcombe,
as hereinbefore noted. She died August 30, 1800.
This name is spelled in the Revo-
SPENCER lutionary records, Spancer, Spansor,
Spencor, Spencur, Spenr, Spensor,
Spincer, and Sponcer. Sixty-eight of the name
served in the Revolutionary war. A large number
of Spencers were among the pioneer settlers of
Massachusetts, One of the earliest was Jared Spen-
cer, of Cambridge, 1634, who removed to Lynn,
and became a freeman March 9, 1637. He removed
to Haddam before 1660, and was propounded for
freeman of Connecticut in 1672, and was ensign of
militia, anid representative 1674-75. By his wife
Hannah they had John, Thomas, Samuel, William,
Nathaniel, Timothy, Hannah, jMehitable, Alice, Re-
becca and Ruth. Not all of their descendants can
be traced.
(I) Joseph G. Spencer was born about 1793, in
Norwich, Vermont, and died September i, 1829.
(II) Joseph Gates, son of Joseph G. Spencer,
was born in Norwich, Vermont, July 8, 1829, and
died in Enfield, New Hampshire, March 28, 1892.
He was brought up on a farm from which he re-
moved to Enfield, where he was employed in a grist
mill a few years. From that he went to the P. C.
Cambridge bedstead factory, where he was employed
the remainder of his life, filling the position of over-
seer in later years. He was interested in all public
enterprises, took a leading part in town affairs, and
was chairman of the board of selectmen. He was
a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife were
members of the Universalist Church, in whose choir
he sang for many years. He married Angeline Boyn-
ton Clough, born in Enfield, New Hampshire, May
17, 1830, and died May 16, 1905. She was the
daughter of Theophilus Clough, born in Enfield,
New Hampshire, June I, 1803, died April 23, 1849,
in Panama, and Hannah G. (Boynton) Clough, born
in Tamworth, New Hampshire, October 2, 1808,
died in Enfield, August 30, 1839. Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer were the parents of two children: Mabel,
who was born in 1S60, and died in infancy; and
Fred A., whose sketch follows.
■ (HI) Fred Ashton, only son of Joseph G. and
Angeline Boynton (Clough) Spencer, was born in
Enfield, May 25, 1862. He attended school until
eighteen years of age, and then took a position in
the store of his uncle, W. C. Clough, in Enfield, and
later in a dry goods store in Lebanon, filling the
latter place about four years. In April, 1885, he
went to Bristol, where he is now assistant treasurer
and salesman of the Dodge-Davis Manufacturing
Company, and a director of the First National
Bank of Bristol. In political faith he is a Demo-
crat. He is a past master of Union Lodge, No.
79, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a mem-
ber of St. Omar Royal Arch Chapter, and Mt.
Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also
a member of Bektash Temple, .A.ncient Arabic Or-
der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He married, Feb-
ruary 9, 1887, Grace Leone Stanley, who was born
in Enfield, January 27, 1862, daughter of Horace
Burns and Emeline Almeda (Gates) Stanley, of
Enfield. The parents of Mr. Stanley were Joseph
Stanley, born 1799, and Hepzibah (Burnham) Stan-
ley, born March 20, 1800. Their children were:
Joseph B., E. G., Horace B., Marcia A., Ellen F.
and Imogene A. Emeline A. Gates was the daugh-
ter of Americus and Esther (Hume) Gates. Their
children were: Emeline A. and Mary. Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer have one child, Stanley Ashton, born in
Bristol, May 11, 1891.
The Fiskes in America are descended
FISK from an- ancient family of that name
which for centuries and until a recent
period had its seat and manorial lands in Laxfield,
in the county of Suffolk, England. Members of the
family in America for centuries have been promi-
nent in private and public Hfe as clergymen, lawyers,
physicians, financiers, soldiers, merchants, teachers
and professors in colleges, farmers, philanthropists
and patriots. Rev. Perrin B. Fiske, of Lyndon,
Vermont, has written of them :
" Ftische. Fisc. Fiske. Fisk (spell it either way)
Meant true knighthood, freedom, faith, eood qualities that
stay.
Brethren, let the ancient name mean just the same for aye.
'Forward, every youth ! to seek the highest good to-day :' "
(I) Lord Symond Fiske, grandson of Daniel,
was Lord of the Manor of Standhaugh, parish of
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Laxfield, coiintj' of Suffolk, England. lived in the
reign of Henry IV and VI (1399-1422). He mar-
ried Susannah Smyth, and after her death he mar-
ried Katherine — . Simon Fiske, of Laxfield,
will dated December 22, 1463, proved at Norwich,
February 26, 1463-64, died in February, 1464. He
was survived by five children : William, Jaffrey,
John, Edmund and Margaret.
(II) William (i), eldest son of Siraond Fiske,
born at Staiidhaugh, county of Suffolk, England,
married Joann, of Norfolk. He was of Standhaugh,
and lived during the reign, of Henry VI, Edward
IV, Richard III and Henry VII. He died about
1504, was survived by his wife, who died in 1505,
and left seven children : William, Augustine, Simon,
Robert, John, Margery and Margaret.
(HI) Simon (i), fourth son of William and
Joann (Lyme) Fiske, was in Laxfield, date un-
known. He married Elizabeth , who died in
Halesworth, June, 1558. In his will made July
10, 1536, he desired to be buried at the chancel end
of the Church of All Saints, in Laxfield. He died
in that town in June, 1538, leaving (living or dead)
ten children : Simon, William, Robert, Joan, Jeffrey,
Gelyne, Agnes, Thomas, Elizabeth and John.
(IV) Simon (2), child of Simon (i) and Eliza-
beth Fiske, was born in Laxfield. The name of his
wife and date of his marriage are not known. He
died in 1505. His children were : Robert, John,
George, Nicholas, Jeffrey, Jeremy, William, Rich-
ard, Joan, Gelyne and Agnes.
(V) Robert Fiske, the eldest of the eleven chil-
dren of Simon (2) Fiske, was born in Standhaugh
about 1525. He married Mrs. Sybil (Gould) Bar-
ber. For some time he was of. the parish of St.
James, South Elmham, England. Sybil, his wife,
was in great danger in the time of the religious per-
secution, 1553-58, as was her sister Isabelle, origin-
ally Gould, who was confined in the Castle of Nor-
wich, and escaped death only by the power of her
brothers, who were men of great influence in the
county. Robert Fi.ske fled from religious perse-
cution in the days of Queen Mary to Geneva, but
returned later and died in St. James in 1600. His
sons were : William, Jeffrey, Thomas and Eleazer.
The latter had no issue, but the progeny of the
other three sons, in whole or in part, settled in
New England. Besides these sons there was a
daughter Elizabeth who married Robert Bernard ;
their daughter married a Mr. Locke, and was the
mother of the celebrated John Locke, the English
philosopher.
(VI) William (2), eldest child of Robert and
Sybil (Gould) Fiske, was born at Laxfield, in 1566.
He married Anna Austye, daughter of Walter, of
Fibbenham, Long Row, in Norfolk. After her death
he married Alice . He is described as of
St. James in South Elmham, and it is said of him
that he fled with his father from religious perse-
cution. He died in 1623. Of the first wife Anna
there were children: John, Nathaniel, Eleazer, Eu-
nice, Hannah and Esther (sometimes called Hes-
ter). The Youngest child, Mary, seems to have
been of the second wife, Alice.
(VII) John, eldest child of William (2) and
Anna (.A.ustye) Fiske, was born at St. James. He
married Anna, daughter of Robert Lautersee. She
died on board ship in 1637, which was bound for
New England. John Fiske died in 1633. Their
children were: John, William, Anna, Martha,
Martha and Eleazer.
(VIII) Hon. William (3), second son and child
of John and Anne (Lautersee) Fiske, was born in
England about 1613. He married at Salem, Massa-
chusetts, in 1643, Bridgett jMuskett, of Pelham, Eng-
land. After his death she married (second) No-
vember, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem, surgeon. He
came to Salem with his brother, the Rev. John
Fiske, in 1637. He had a grant of land the same
year, was made freeman May 18, 1642, and mem-
ber of Salem Church July 2, 1641. He soon after
removed to Wenham, where he was the first town
clerk or clerk of the writs from 1643 to 1660 (?).
He was elected representative to the general court
of the commonwealth in 1647, and continued in
that office until the year 1652, being annually re-
elected. He enjoyed to a large extent the esteem
and confidence of his fellow citizens. He died quite
suddenly in 1654, having served his townsmen in all
the offices of the town. For several years subse-
quent to 1643 he kept an ordinary (public house).
He left five children : William, Samuel, Joseph,
Benjamin and Martha.
(IX) Deacon William (4), eldest child of Hon.
William (3) and Bridgett (Muskett) Fiske, was
born at Wenham, Massachusetts, June (January)
4, 1642-43. He married there, January 15, 1662,
Sarah Kilham, born 1649, died January 26, 1737,
aged ninety-eight years. William Fiske was a
weaver by trade. He held a number of town of-
fices; was representative in 1701-04-11-13-14; mod-
erator in 1702-03, 1712-13-14. He w'as also called
lieutenant. He was elected deacon of the Congre-
gational Church in 1769. He died universally es-
teemed and lamented. He and his wife were the
parents of fourteen children, ten of whom attained
years of maturity and had families, and of these
seven were sons. The names of the children are
as follows: William, born 1663; Samuel, 1670;
Joseph, 1672; Benjamin, 1674; Theophilus, 1676;
Ebenezer, 1679; Jonathan, 168 1 ; Sarah, 1664; Ruth,
1666; Samuel, 1667; Martha, 1668; Joseph, 1669;
Ebenezer, 1677, and Elizabeth, 1684.
(X) William (5), eldest child of Deacon Wil-
liam and Sarah (Kilham) Fiske, was born at Wen-
ham, Massachusetts, January 31, 1663. He was a
grandson of William Fiske, the emigrant, who ar-
rived in New England in 1637, and settled in Wen-
ham. In 1710 he removed from Wenham to An-
dover, Massachusetts, where he died December 10,
1710. The Christian name of his wife was Alarah
or Mary, and his children were : William, Joseph,
Ebenezer, Jonathan, Sarah, Ruth (died young),
Lydia, Mary and Ruth.
(XI) Ebenezer, third son and child of Wil-
liam (5) and Mary Fiske, was born in Wenham,
August IS, 1703. He married in January, 1730, to
Susanna Bock, of Woburn. It is quite probable
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that he died in 1737, as his son Ebenezer was ap-
pointed guardian of the minor children March 20
of that year. His wife died in Tewksbury, Massa-
chusetts, lilarch 28, 1754. She was the mother of
Ebenezer, Ephraim, Benjamin, Jonathan, and two
others who died in infancy.
(XII) Ephraim, second son and child of Eben-
ezer and Susanna (Bock) Fiske, was born about
1732. He resided in Tewksbury for a time, and in
1772-3 went to Concord, New Hampshire, where
he died about the year 1825. He married i\Iehi-
table Frost, a miss of twelve years of age, born
about 1744, and in connection with this early mar-
riage the following unique anecdotes were related.
Her first child having been born when she was but
thirteen and a half years old, she was in the habit
of asking her mother to tend her baby while she
went out to play with the children. A person once
asked her how old she was when her first child
was born. She replied "thirteen and a half years
old, and what is that to you?" She 'became the
mother of twelve children: Ephraim, Solomon (died
young), Mehitable, Ebenezer, Sarah, Lydia, Daniel,
Solomon, Jonathan, Betsey, Rebecca and Joseph.
Ephraim Fiske, Sr., and his son Ephraim were both
soldiers in the Revolutionary war and participated
in the battle of Bennington.
(XIII) Joseph, youngest son and child of
Ephraim and Mehitable (Frost) Fiske, was born in
Concord about 1779- At the age of nine years he
went to Hopkinton, and subsequently learned the
blacksmith's trade. He died October 18, 1869. He
married Lucy A. Burnham, who was born October
22, 1790, and died April 17, 1871. The children of
this union were: William B., Rachel, Lucy M.,
Daniel and Ella.
(XIV) Daniel, second son and fourth child of
Joseph and Lucy A. (Burnham) Fiske, was born
in Contoocook, February 3, 1828, and resided there.
March 22, 1856, he married Lydia A. Conner,
daughter of James and Lydia (Kimball) Conner,
of Hopkinton, the former of whom was born in
Henniker, and was a farmer. The children of this
union are: Jennie, born January 9, 185S (married
first David Bohannon, and second George Chase of
Hopkinton) ; Daniel F., (who will be again referred
to); Ida M., born December 5, 1861 (died July 11,
1879).
(XV) Daniel Frank, only son of Daniel and
Lydia A. (Conner) Fisk, was born in Contoocook,
October 22, 1859. He was left fatherless at the age
of three years and was thus dependent wholly upon
the care of his mother. After concluding his at-
tendance at the district school he engaged in farm-
ing, but later turned his attention to lumbering and
has ever since followed that business with success.
He is one of the most protninent business men in
that section of the state. In politics he is a Republi-
can and in 1902 was a member of the lower branch
of the state legislature. April 30, 1883, IMr. Fisk
married Delia E., daughter of Horatio J. and Susan
Vilona (Currier) Chandler. Her father followed
agriculture in Hopkinton. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk have
two children : Mabel, born December 9, 1885 and
Lida, October 23, 1888. Mabel, is the wife of Henry
Russell Davis, son of Henry C. Davis, of Davisville,
and now a lumber dealer. Both children reside
with their parents.
In the early part of the eighteenth
McXEIL century there was a great immigra-
tion of the Protestant Scotch-Irish to
this country. It was estimated that in the year 1730
at least a thousand people from the north of Ire-
land had settled in the province of New Hampshire.
Many of them located at Londonderry, this state,
which they named after the town in Ireland that
sustained the terrible siege of 1689. After a time
the Irish settlers began to push up the Merrimack,
and as early as 1724 they had built a fort at Pena-
cook, now Concord. But when that town was
granted the next year to the proprietors from Mass-
achusetts, they chose to have their own people from
Haverhill and Andover, and the Irish were form-
ally excluded. This restricted the latter to a loca-
tion farther down the Merrimack. Among those
who settled in the neighborhood of what is now
Manchester were John McNeil and Archibald Stark.
Both were men of strong force of character, whose
descendants were destined to win renown in all the
future .American wars, and wdiose families were to
be joined in marriage one himdred and fifty years
later.
(I) John McNeil came from Ireland in 171S,
probably from the neighborhood of Hillsborough.
He was a lineal descendant of Daniel McNeil, one
of the council of the city of Londonderry, who
with twenty-one others placarded the resolution on
the market-house, which led to the successful de-
fence of the city. John McNeil inherited much of
the moral and physical courage of this ancestor.
He settled first in Londonderry, but about 1733
moved to what is now Manchester. He doubtless
chose this location on account of the excellent fish-
ing at Amoskeag Falls. At that time the river
abounded in salmon, shad, alewives and eels; this
fishing was of the greatest importance to the early
settlers. It is said that the Rev. Mr. McGregor,
the Presbyterian minister at Londonderry, was the
first person to visit the Falls, and discover their
value as a food supply; and from this fact arose
the custom of each person presenting the minister
with the first results of the fishing season. John
McNeil moved upon the gore known as Harrytown,
and is said to have been the first white settler in
what is now the thickly populated part of Man-
chester. His house stood near McNeil ^trect, about
midway between Elm and Canal. John McNeil was
a man of great courage and physical strength. He
was six feet and six inches in height, and famed for
his skill in wrestling. It is said that no man on
the border, either red or white, dared risk a hand-
to-hand encounter with him. This anecdote illus-
trates his bodily vigor. One spring, when attempt-
ing to cross the Merrimack, after the ice had be-
come thin and weak, he fell in near a rock west of
where now stands Amoskeag Mill, No. i. This
rock is about four rods from the east bank of the
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river. With great presence of mind ^McNeil waded
toward the shore until he could touch both the
bottom and the ice, then bracing his broad shoulders
he raised the ice by almost superhuman strength,
and succeeded in getting out on the firm ice. For
many years the rock near which he fell in was
known as "old McNeil," and it was a noted guide
for the rivcrmen. When "old McNeil" was out of
sight, six or eight "shots" of lumber could be run
over Merrill's Falls. When he^ showed his head
three, inches, four "shots" could be run, and when
his read was out of the water six inches, but one
"shot" could be run. John McNeil's wife. Christian,
seems to have been the equal of her husband in phy-
sical vigor and in the qualities fitted to endure
pioneer life. In later days John McNeil moved a
little farther up the river to Suncook. because his
name is found attached to a petition there in 1747.
It is probable that he lived there with John Knox,
who had married his daughter, and that he died and
was buried in Suncooic.
(II) Lieutenant Daniel, son of John and
Christian McNeil, was born in Derryfield, now Man-
chester, New Hampshire. He moved to Hills-
borough, New Hampshire, in 1771. The town was
incorporated in 1772, and named for Colonel John
Hill, of Boston, the original proprietor, who died
in 1776. Daniel McNeil was elected one of the
selectmen of Hillsboro at the time of its incorpora-
tion. The first bridge over the Contoocook at
Hillsboro was built of wood in 1779. Some years
later Daniel MtNeil was employed by the town to
rebuild this bridge. Daniel McNeil's wife was called
Jeanie, but her maiden name is unknown. He died
by accidental drowning in i/go.
(III) Lieutenant John, son of Lieutenant
Daniel and Jeanie McNeil, was born in Derryfield,
now Manchester. New Hampshire, in March, 1757,
five years after the incorporation of the town. He
moved to Hillsboro with his father. Lieutenant John
McNeil served several years in the Revolution, and
was a private at Bunker Hill in Captain Isaac
Baldwin's company under Major Andrew McClary,
of Epsom. McNeil helped to carry Captain Bald-
win from the field when that officer was mortally
wounded, and he also served at the battle of Ben-
nington. He married Lxicy, eldest daughter of
Deacon Isaac and Lucy (Perkins) Andrews, of
Hillsboro. Her father was a leading man of his
day. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and for
tnany years held the office of justice of the, peace
whence he gained his title of 'Squire. He was the
first town clerk of Hillsboro, and served on the
first board of selectmen. John and Lucy (An-
drews) McNeil liad four children : Mary, born July
6. 1779, married James Wilson; General Solomon,
whose sketch follows ; General John, born March
25. 1784; and Lucy, born in April. 1786, who died in
inf.ancy. Lieutenant John McNeil died in Hills-
boro. September 29, 1836, aged seventy-nine years.
General John McNeil, his second son, served with
distinction in the War of 1812. He was appointed
captain of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment,
March 12, 1812. He was soon promoted to major,
and he received two brevets in twenty days. July 5
and July 25, 1814, for intrepid behavior at Chip-
pewa, and distinguished valor at Lundy's Lane. He
was afterwards brevetted brigadier-general. Gen-
eral John McNeil remained in the service till 1830,
when he retired on being appointed supervisor for
the port of Boston. His right leg was badly shat-
tered at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He was a man
of striking appearance and commanding height, be-
ing six feet, six inches tall, like his grandfather, the
original immigrant. General John McNeil married
his cousin, Elizabeth A. Pierce, only daughter of
Governor Benjamin and his first wife, Elizabeth
(Andrews) Pierce. They had four children, two
sons and two daughters. Their elder son. Lieuten-
ant John Winfield Scott McNeil, was mortally
wounded wdiile leading an attack upon an Indian
ramp in Florida, and died September 11, 1837. agei'
twenty years and six months. General John Mc-
Neil died in Washington, February 23, 1850.
(IV) General Solomon, elder son of Lieuten-
ant John and Lucy (Andrews) McNeil, was born
January 15, 1782. His home was in Hillsboro, New
Hampshire. He married Nancy M. Pierce, eldest
daughter and second child of Governor Benjamin
and his second wife, Anna (Kendrick) Pierce. She
was the eldest sister of President Franklin Pierce,
and a half sister of the wife of Solomon McNeil's
brother, General John. She died April 27, 1837.
aged forty-four years and five months.
(V) Colonel John, son of General Solomon
and Nancy M. (Pierce) McNeil, was born in Hills-
boro, New Hampshire. November 6, 1822. During
his life in Hillsboro he lived in the homestead
which had been owned by the McNeils for several
generations, and which adjoined that where his
uncle. President Franklin Pierce, was born and
reared. Colonel McNeil was an inspector in the
Boston Cu?tom House, and was the only relative of
President Pierce, who held office during the admin-
istration of the latter. He remained in this position
until 1861. In 1864-65 Colonel McNeil was repre-
sentative from the town of Hillsboro, which office
he filled with ability and uprightness. In 1S68 he
removed to Concord. New Hampshire, and was the
adviser and close friend of the former president
till the close of Pierce's life. Later he removed to
Chelmsford, and then to Winchester, Massachusetts.
At one time he was connected with the Boston &
Lowell Railroad, and for several years was the
agent of Dartmouth College in the care of a large
property which had been given to the college by
Colonel McNeil's brother-in-law, Hon. Tappan
Wentworth. of Lowell. At one time he read law
with Mr. Wentworth. Colonel McNeil was a gen-
tleman of social and genial disposition, which en-
deared him to his family and a large circle of
friends and acquaintances. Colonel John McNeil
married Cynthia Morse, daughter of Amos and
Sarah (Sawyer) Morse, who was born at Methuen,
Massachusetts. November 17. 1820. They had two
children : .'\nnie. inentioned below ; and Frances,
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who married General John M. Corse, for many
years po-stmaster of Boston. Colonel John JMcNeil
died April 7, 1SS5, at Winchester, Massachusetts.
(VI) Annie, elder daughter of Colonel John
and Cynthia (Morse) McNeil, was born in Lowell,
Massachusetts. She was educated at a convent in
Montreal. Canada. On February 26, 1878, she mar-
ried Charles F. M. Stark, of Dunbarton. New
Hampshire. (See Stark, VI).
This family was early found in New
L.'VKE England, and has become very widely
scattered throughout the United States.
It has representatives in every state and most of
them have proven worthy citizens.
(I) Henry Lake was born about 1660, and mar-
ried. May 9, 1681, Priscilla Wildes. He lived in
Topsfield, Massachusetts, where three of his chil-
dren were born.
(II) Eleazer, only son of Henry and Priscilla
(Wildes) Lake, was born July 9, 16S6, in Topsfield,
and lived in that town where he probably died April
9, 1771. He married, December 7, 1708, Lydia Ford,
who died May 29, 1743; he married (second), Jan-
uary 12. 1744, Mary Bixby, who died in 1775. His
children, all born of the first wife, were : Lydia,
Priscilla, Abigail. Eleazer and Daniel.
(HI) Daniel, youngest child of Eleazer and
Lydia (Ford) Lake, was born June 22, 1726, in
Topsfield, and lived in that town until 1767, when
he removed to Rindge, New Hampshire. He was
an honored and prominent man in the affairs of that
town, and served as town clerk and justice of the
peace. In the Revolution he was an active and
earnest patriot. He served through two enlist-
ments', and four of his sons were also in the service.
Late in life, about 1805, he removed to Rockingham,
Vermont, where some of his children were residing,
and there died September 26. 1810. He married,
November 30, 1749. Sarah Bixby, who- was born
1726, daughter of Deacon George and Mary (Por-
ter) Bixby. She died February ig, 1815. Their
children were : George, Daniel. Enos, Henry, Jon-
athan, Nathan, Sarah and Mary.
(IV) Henry (2), fourth son and child of
Daniel and Mary (Bixby) Lake, was born Septem-
ber 19, 1759, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, and was
but a child when his parents removed to Rindge,
New Hampshire. He remained in that town until
1792, when he removed to Rockingham, Vermont,
and was a farmer there. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, participating in the battle of Benning-
ton, and the capture of General Burgoyne's army.
He was the representative of Rockingham in the
Vermont legislature in i8r2 and 1814, His wife's
name was Prudence Lovejoy. They had five chil-
dren born in Rindge, New Hampshire, and six in
Rockingham, Vermont, namely : Silvanus. Sarah,
Henry, Leonard. Luther. Calvin, Esther, Nathan,
Riel, Daniel Bixby and Maria.
(V) Henry (3), second son and third child of
Henry (2) and Prudence (Lovejoy) Lake, was
born April 27. 1786. in Rindge, New Hampshire,
and died at Saxtons River, in the town of Rocking-
ham, Vermont. He was representative from that
town in 1820-21. He married Abigail Stevens,
(Vn Clark Sylvanus, son of Henry and Abi-
,gail (Stevens) Lake, was born in Saxtons River,
November 19, 1826, His active years were devoted
to farming in his native town, and he is still resid-
ing there, having retired from active business pur-
suits some fifteen years ago. He married Mary
Campbell and reared a family of four children,
namely: Henry E., Edwin R,, Colin C. and Clara A.
(VII) Henry Edward, eldest son and child of
Clark S, and Mary (Campbell) Lake, was born in
Saxtons River, December 11, 1852, From the pub-
lic schools of his native town he went to the Kim-
ball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire,
and he later attended the Black River Academy in
Ludlow, Vermont, After devoting some two or
three years to teaching in the public schools of
Rockingham and Londonderry, Vermont, he de-
termined to cultivate his talent for music, and re-
linquishing educational pursuits he went to Boston,
where he spent considerable time in voice culture,
initially at the New England Conservatory of
Music, and subsequently under private instruction.
His permanent settlement in Keene resulted from
his having been secured by the Second Congrega-
tional Church as its tenor singer and chorister in
1882, and for nearly a quarter of a century he has
retained that position, laboring assiduously to pre-
serve a high standard of excellence in the musical
portion of the service, and occupying a prominent
place in the musical circles of the city. In 1883 he
established himself as a dealer in pianos, organs
and other musical instruments, and has built up a
large and profitable business in that line of trade.
.•\s a thoroughly conscientious artist, an excellent
teacher and an expert in the selection of an instru-
ment, he is widely and favorably known through-
out his field of operation, which embraces a broad
section of New Hampshire and Vermont, and he is
a recognized authority in all matters relative to his
profession. Mr, Lake's high standing in the com-
munity is not alone the result of his professional
ability, but is in no small measure the outcome of
his sterling integrity as a business man.
He served as a selectman for three years, and
for the years 1892, '93 and '94 was a member of the
city council. For nine years he was vice-president
of the New Hampshire State Music Teachers' As-
.sociation ; was first president and one of the
musical directors of the Keene Choral Union, and
chairman of the executive commitee of the Cheshire
County Musical .Association, Mr. Lake was actively
identified with the founding of the Keene Chorus
Club, a musical organization that has won for the
city a reputation second to none in the state for the
high order of talent and general excellence of the
concerts given under the auspices of the Society.
Mr, Lake is president of this club, Mr, Lake was
for thirteen years identified with the board of di-
rectors of the Keene Young Men's Christian As-
sociation, and was serving in that capacity during
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the period in which their present handsome building
was erected. His society affiHations also include
the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Red Men, the
Order of the Golden Cross, and Patrons of Hus-
bandry.
On September 14, 1876. ;\Ir. Lake married Vir-
ginia I. Wilkins, daughter of Mathew and Lucy
(Johnson) Wilkins, of Londonderry, Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. Lake have three children : Henry C,
born February 20, 1883 ; Clarence R., born July 20,
1886: and Christine M., bom January 15, 1895.
Messrs. Henry C. and Clarence R. Lake are asso-
ciated with their father in business.
The family of Tewksbury,
TEWKSBURY Tewxberry, Tuksbery or Tux-
bury, as the name has been
spelled, might trace their ancestry, if the records
were coniiplete, back to the borough of Tewk or
Tuck in England. Henry Tuxbury or Tewksbury,
weaver, of Newbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts,
removed to Boston, where he married, November
10. 1659, Martha Cobb, widow of William Harvey.
He took the oath of fidelity at Newbury in 1669.
In the same year he sold his place there and re-
moved to Amesbury. where he took the oath of
allegiance in 1677. He was one of the petitioners
of 1680. a freeman in 1690, tithingman in 1693, and
was living in 1697. His children were : Elizabeth.
Hannah. Henry, Naomi. Ruth, Mary, Martha and
John.
(I) Lieutenant Henry Tewksbury removed
(probably from Hampstead) to Weare about 1772.
He was a soldier in the Revolution. He enlisted
July 8. 1775, in Captain John Parker's company,
where he served as a private until his discharge De-
cember 16, a term of five months and seven days.
He was described as a husbandman and credited to
Weare. September 28, he was reported with his
company at St. Johns, Canada, which was besieged
about that time. Corporal Henry Tucxbury's name
appears on the roll of soldiers in Captain Timothy
Clement's company. Colonel David Oilman's regi-
ment, into which he was mustered April 15, 1776;
also in the same company in Colonel Pierce Long's
regiment at New Castle, where he was mustered out
August 7, as ensign after sixty-three days' service.
He was in the same company and regiment in the
Continental service from December 17, 17/6, to
January 7. 1777, at New Castle, and is named sec-
ond lieutenant. He married Sarah Calfe, of Hamp-
stead. He died November 28, 1806; and his wife
died January 11, 1832. Their ten children were:
Mary, Judith, Sarah, Hannah, David, Naomi, John,
Dolly, Henry and Nancy.
(II) David, son of Lieutenant Henry and
Hannah (Calfe) Tewksbury, of Weare, was born
in Weare, September 12, 1776, and died in New
Boston, March 22, 1855. aged seventy-nine years.
In 1800 he settled in New Boston, where he was a
lifelong farmer. He married (first), April 29, 1798,
Betsey, daughter of Moses Lull, of Weare. She
died May 30, 1809, and he married (second), Octo-
ber 27, 181 1, Sarah F. Hogg, who was born July 26,
1785, and died December 17, 1842, daughter of Ab-
ner and Rosamond (Person) Hogg, of New Bos-
ton (see Hogg II). He married (third), Novem-
ber 5, 1844, widow Abigail George, daughter of
James and Mary McMillen. His children by his
first wife were: Amos Wood, Nancy, James, Bet-
se}', David, who died young: and Dorothy. By the
second wife he had : Eliza, Rozeanna, Mary An-
drews, Hannah Bennett, Jane Andrews. Harriet
Newell, and David A. Dorothy, born January 28,
1808, married, March 11, 1830, Daniel Jones, of
Merrimack (see Jones VII), and died 1836.
This does not appear to be a very an-
SLOANE cient family in New England. In the
early records the name is spelled
without the final letter now used by this family.
There are meager traces of the family at various
points in Massachusetts, and it is impossible to de-
termine whether records of the same name pertain
to the same person in all cases.
(I) It appears that there was a David Sloan re-
siding in Shirley, Massachusetts, previous to the
Revolution. He was among the patriots who re-
sponded to the Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775,
and was subsequently in the Revolutionary service
with his son and namesake among the eight
months' recruits. It also appears that David Sloan
(probably the son) enlisted December 2, 1777, for
three years' service in Captain Sylvester Smith's
company, of Shirley.
(II) The records of Shirley show that the mar-
riage intention of David (2) Sloan was pubjished
October 17. 1774, the prospective bride being
Rachael Gould, of Shirley. The vital records of
Pelham, Massachusetts, show marriage of David
Sloan to Elizabeth Scott, on June 2, 1774, and the
following children of this couple appear on the town
records: James, Garner, Jonathan, Andrew and
David.
(III) David (3) Sloane, youngest child of David
(2) and Elizabeth (Scott) Sloan, was born January
9, 1790, in Pelham, Massachusetts. He w^orked his
way through college and graduated from Dartmouth
in 1806. Among his classmates were Governor and
Judge Matthew Harvey, of New Hampshire, and
Governor and Judge Albion K. Parris, of Maine.
Mr. Sloane studied law with Judge W. H. Wood-
ward, of Hanover and George Woodward, of
Haverhill, New Hampshire, and began practicing in
the latter place where he continued till his death.
He is said to have been an astute lawyer and a
shrewd and successful business man. David Sloane
married Anna Johnson, daughter of Captain
Thomas Johnson of Newbury. Vermont, and they
had six children: Thomas C, Edward, David Scott,
William H., Henry and Elizabeth A. David Scott
Sloane graduated from Dartmouth in 1836, became
a teacher, and died at the age of forty-one. Wil-
liam H. Sloane graduated from Dartmouth in 1841,
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became a lawyer, and died at the age of thirty-five.
David Sloane died at Haverhill, New Hampshire,
June 7, i860.
(.IV) Ihomas Carlton, eldest child of David and
Anna (Johnson) Sloane, was born at Haverhill,
New Hampshire, and was educated in Haverhill
and at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden. He
•was in the furniture business in New York City
for many years. He was a Democrat in politics.
He married Mary Williams.
(V) Scott, son of Thomas Carlton and Mary
(Williams) Sloane, was born in Montreal, Quebec,
June 16, 1853, where his parents were residing tem-
porarily, and received his early education at Haver-
hill, New Hampshire. Leaving home at the age
of thirteen, he went to school in Montpelier, Ver-
mont, attended the high school in Newport, Rhode
Island, and for four years was a pupil at a private
school in Newport. He worked his way through
school, and began studying law in Boston in 1879.
While studying law he worked as an assistant book-
keeper in a wholesale house in Boston. In 1880
he went to Haverhill, New Hampshire, and studied
law with George F. Putnam for two years, finishing
his studies in the office of E. W. Smith, with whom
he formed a co-partnership, having offices at Wells
River, Vermont, and Woodsville, New Hampshire.
This partnership continued till 1899, after which
Mr. Sloan remained alone in the practice of law at
Woodville, until October, 1905, when he came to
Lebanon, New Hampshire, and opened offices, where
he is still in practice. Mr. Sloane attends the Con-
gregational Church. He is a Republican in politics,
and was a delegate to the constitutional convention
in 1902. He belongs to the Order of Elks. Scott
Sloane was married June 16, 1885, to Annabel M.
Nelson, daughter of W. H. and Margaret M. Nel-
son, of Haverhill, New Hampshire. There are no
children.
This name has undergone so many
GURNSEY changes in its orthography that it
is now quite impossible to deter-
mine its original spelling. In the early records of
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, the names of the progen-
itors of the Gurnseys now in hand are spelled Garn-
sey.
(I) John Garnsey, of Rehoboth, married Judith
Ormsbv, October 14, 1714.
(II) John, son of John and Judith Garnsey,
was born in Rehoboth, January 4, 1720. On May
13, 1742, he was married by the Rev. John Green-
wood to "Lidia" Healey.
(III) Deacon Amos, eldest child of John and
Lidia (Healey) Garnsey, was born in Rehoboth,
March 31, 1743. About the year 1766 he migrated
to Richmond, New Hampshire, where he acquired
possession of lot No. 13, range 11, and the farm
which he cleared and improved was afterwards oc-
cupied by John Scott and others. His death oc-
curred in Richmond, February 12, 1813. He was
married in Rehoboth or vicinity to Merriam Pike,
who died December 12, 1S14. Their children were :
iii — 18
Cyril, Amos, Cyrus, Lucy, who married Nchemiah
Bennett ; Darius and Moses.
(IV) Cyril, eldest child of Deacon Amos and
Merriam (Pike) Garnsey, was born in Rehoboth,
April 30, 1764. He grew to manhood in Richmond,
where he resided for the major part of his life, but
about 1823 he moved to Whitefield, this state, and
in company with his son Darius acquired four hun-
dred acres of government land, which he cleared
for agricultural purposes. He died at Whitefield,
in 1836 or S7. He married, November 14, 1784,
Salome Garfield, of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire,
born in Richmond, May 31, 1769, died about 1840,
and he was the father of John, who died young;
Merriam, who married Solomon Gage ; John, Aaron,
who also died young; Darius, who will be again
referred to; Mary, who married John Scott; Rachel,
who married Lemuel Scott ; Anna, who became the
wife of Jedediah B. Howe ; Naomi, who married
Thomas Eastman ; Phebe, who became Mrs. Baker ;
Ruth, who died young; and another Aaron, who
did not live to Jiiaturity.
(V) Dr. Darius, third son and fifth child of
Cyril and Salome (Garfield) Garnsey, was born in
Richmond, August 28, 1795. He studied medicine
under the direction of John Parkhurst, M. D., and
in 1823 located for the practice of his profession
in Whitefield. He possessed the knowledge, intui-
tion and enthusiasm necessary for the making of an
able physician, but was prevented by his untimely
death, which occurred in 1830, from realizing his
cherished ambition in his chosen field of usefulness.
His marriage took place February 8, 1818, to Abi-
gail, daughter of Lemuel Scott. She survived her
husband nearly fifty years, her death having oc-
curred in 1877. The children of this union were:
Norris, born in 1819, died in 1822; Sanford, born
June 23, 1820; and Norris G., the date of whose
birth is recorded in the next paragraph.
(VI) Norris Greenleaf, youngest son of Dr.
Darius and Abigail (Scott) Gurnscy, was born in
Whitefield, March 18, 1826. He attended school
in Richmond and on account of his father's death
was thrown upon his own resources at an early
age. Prior to his majority he went to Charlemont,
Massachusetts, and worked at the cooper's trade
some three years. He then turned his attention to
farming in Richmond, first alone and then with his
brother Sanford. From Richmond he went to Win-
chester, where for a time he acted as general over-
seer of the farm and other interests of S. W. Buf-
fum, and he next purchased a gristmill, which he
operated successfully for about five years. Disposing
of that property he became proprietor of the
stage line from Brattleboro, Vermont, to Winchester
and Richmond, and upon relinquishing that business
some two years later he took charge, for one year,
of the highways and bridges for the town of Win-
chester. In 1859 he purchased the restaurant privi-
lege in the railway station in Kecnc, and has ever
since resided there. During the succeeding fifteen
years he carried on the restaurant business with
profitable results, operating no less than three places
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of refreshment at one time during the war period.
In 1874 he succeeded Peter B. Hayward in the
cracker manufacturing business. He was for some
years engaged in a large way as a reliable dealer
in horses ; was at one time engaged in the coal
trade ; for a time Mr. Gurnsey w'as associated with
his sons in the cracker manufactory, and subse-
quently a grandson, but the younger men are now
deceased and the business is still being conducted
by the elder gentleman, who also conducts a hotel,
restaurant and wholesale and retail tobacco establish-
ment at Main and Railroad streets. Mr. Gurnsey has
contributed in a material way to the development
of Keene by the erection of two of the most substan-
tial business blocks of the city and of a number of
dwelling houses; Mr. Gurnsey was one of the orig-
inal stockholders and directors of the Citizens' Na-
tional Bank, of Keene, and is one of the board of
trustees of the Cheshire County Savings Bank. He
was one of the public spirited citizens who early
came to the front in securing the establishment
of the local trolley Hues. In numerous ways Mr.
Gurnsey has manifested his interest in the develop-
ment of the business interests of his home city-,
contributing to the establishment of a number of
the manufacturing plants.
In politics Mr. Gurnsey was in early life a Whig,
but with the majority of that element he joined the
Republican party at its formation. He has served
.with ability in the common council one year, the
board of aldermen two years, and also as water
commissioner twenty-six years. At the present time
he is chairman of the building committee connected
with the local lodge of Odd Fellows, wliich he
joined thirty-five years ago, and for twenty years
he has been a member of the local tribe. Improved
Order of Red Men. His religious affiliations are
with the Unitarians.
In 1847 he married iliranda A. Pickett, daughter
of Hosea Pickett, of Winchester. She became the
mother of six children, namely : Everett, Grace,
Edward J., Charles P., Frank N., and a child who
died in infancy. Of these tlie only survivor is Grace,
who married L. J. Ellis, of Waverley, Massachu-
setts. After a period of fifty-eight years of con-
jugal happiness JNIrs. Gurnsey passed away July I,
1905, and was laid to rest beside her children.
The ancestor of this line of the Beat-
BE.ATTIE tie family was of Scotch origin, and
came to America and became the
progenitor of a race of useful and influential citi-
zens.
(I) John Beattie was horn in Edinburgh, Scot-
land, and died in Ncwburg, New York, where he
'resided many years. He was the father of four chil-
dren : James, Joseph. Israel and Susan.
(II) Rev. James Milligan, son of John Beattie,
was born in Colenham, New York, September 2,
jSii. and died in Ryegate, Vermont, March 12, 1884.
He graduated from Union College, and studied for
the ministry in Scotland, taking his degree from
Edinburuh Universitv. Returning to New York he
was a private tutor several .years : again went to
Edinburgh, where he took a post-graduate course,
and returning to .Vmerica, was ordained pastor of
the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Old School of
Ryegate. Vermont, in 1844. He sustained a suc-
cessful ministry there forty years, was an efBcicnt
promoter of schools, and was president of the trus-
tees of Peacham Academy. He married, in 1S56,
Margaret Sophia Nelson, daughter of John and
Mary ("Finlay) Nelson, of Ryegate. She was born
April 15, 1830, and died August 18, 1907, aged
seventy-seven years. The children of this marriage
were : Elizabeth, John, William Johnston, Joseph,
James and Mary.
(HI) William Johnston Beattie, M. D., third
child of Rev. James M. and Margaret S. (Nelson)
Beattie, was born in Ryegate, Vermont, September
6, 1865. He took his early education in the schools
of Ryegate, and at Peacham and St. Johnsbury
academies, and then took a four years' medical
course at Belleviie Hospital Medical College, New
York, from which he graduated in 1888. The fol-
lowing year he spent at Bellevue Hospital as sur-
geon, and in 1889 settled in Littleton, New Hamp-
shire, where he has since gained a handsome prac-
tice. He is medical referee of Grafton county, sur-
geon to the Boston & Maine Railroad, and founder
of the Littleton Hospital, and is president of its
board of trustees. He is a member of the New
Hampshire State Medical Society, the Grafton
County Medical Society, and the New Y'ork and
New England As.sociation of Railway Surgeons.
In political faith he is a staunch Republican, and is
now (rgo7) chairman of the Littleton Republican
committee. In 1900 he represented the town in the
legislature. He was surgeon-general on the staff
of Governor Chester B. Jordan. He is a member
of Burns Lodge, No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons,
and of Cheswick Lodge, Knights of Pythias'. He
married. May 29, 1890, Elizabeth Arnold Tuttle. who
was born in Littleton, July 27, 1866, daughter of
Charles M. and Luthera Moulton Tuttle, of Little-
ton. She graduated from the Littleton high school
in 1884, and the following year attended St. Johns-
bury ."Xcademy. She is a member of the Unitarian
Church. They have four children : Margaret, born
January 18, 1891 ; Barbara, December 28, 1897;
Elizabeth, February 5, 1901 ; and Catherine Gray,
.August 7, 1905.
The name of Starrctt is not
STARRETT numerous in this country, but it
stands for the strong qualities of
Scotch-Irish, who have contributed so many val-
able citizens to America.
(I) William Starrett was born in the High-
lands of Scotland. .April 15, 1694. When he was
two years of age his parents fled from the country
and took refuge in the north of Ireland to escape
persecution on account of their religious belief.
PIc. with his parents, is said to have been concealed
in a cave for tliree months previous to their escape
to Ireland. He married Mary Gamble, who was
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born in the county of Derry, Ireland, in 1699. The
Gambles were among the earliest of the Scotch fam-
iHes to take refuge in Ireland. William Starrett
and his wife came to this country in 1728, and set-
tled first at Pemaquid. Maine: and in 1735, at Up-
per St. George's, now Warren, Maine. On the
breaking out of King George's war, they removed
to Woburn. Massachusetts, and finally to Dedham,
where he died March 8, 1769. His widow returned
to St. George's, Maine, where she died April 12,
1786. They had five children : Margaret, married
(first) Hugh Scott, (second) Dr. D. Locks, (third)
Stephen Peabody. lived and died at Warren^ Maine.
Hugh, born in Ireland, lost at sea. David, married
MeClintock, lived and died at Francestown, New
Hampshire. Colonel Thomas, born in Warren,
Maine, in 17,38, married Rebecca Lewis, and died
January 31. 1822. William, whose sketch follows.
(II) William, fourth son and youngest of the
five children of William and Mary ^Gamble) Star-
rett, was born in Warren, Maine, May 4, 1743. He
lived for a time in Dedham, Massachusetts, where
he married. He and his wife left Dedham for New
Boston, New Hampshire, where they arrived May
12, 1770, after a journey of three days. They rented
the Carson place for three years, and on February
21, 1773, they removed to Francestown, New Hamp-
shire, which became their permanent home. They
lived in the south part of the town on the farm
afterwards owned by their grandson, James Howard
Starrett. William Starrett served in the Revolu-
tionary war. He was one of the founders of the
Congregational Church in Francestown. and for
forty-eight years served as deacon. He held many
town offices. He died in Francestown, August 3.
1829, from an attack by a savage bull. He married,
December 10. 1767, Abigail, daughter of David and
Deborah Fisher, of Dedham, Massachusetts. She
was born in Dedham, June 15. 1749. and died in
Francestown. September 21, 1S21. They had thir-
teen children, all I)orn in Francestown except the
eldest, who was born in ' Dedham. The children
were: Mary, born May 12, 1769, died November 30
of that year. William, born November 4, 1770,
married Lucy Baldwin, in September, 1797, lived in
Antrim, New Hampshire, and in Washington,
Maine, where he died .August 25, 1S17. Hugh, born
August 12, 1772, died June 14, 1773. David, whose
sketch follows, .'\bner, born September 28, 1776,
married Elizabeth Dane, of New Boston, New
Hampshire, and died in Harlem, Maine, August 14.
1819. Nabby, born October 22. 1778, married Gerry
Whiting, September 9. 1798, died in New Boston,
April I, 1831. Hannah, born January 2, 1781, died
in Francestown, October 24, 1830. Deborah, born
December 26, 1782, married Samuel Burge. of
Francestown, February 5, 1822, and died in Frances-
town, October 24, 1830. Polly, born January 29,
1785, died in Francestown. September 29, 1862.
Luther, born January 8. 1787. died in Francestown,
May 24, 1815. Sevella, born June 12, 1789, married
Cynthia Gay, of Francestown, February 13, 1816,
succeeded to his father's farm, v.ns n -Tlcrinirn, rind
for twenty-four years a deacon of the church, and
died in Francestown, April 14, 1875. Lee. born
June 12, 17S9, married Isaac Heaton, of Putnam,
Maine, January 23, 1815, died there May 24, 1822.
Calvin, born July 28, 1791, married Betsey Clark,
October 7. 1S17, removed to Putnam, now Wash-
ington, Maine, where he died March 17, 1876.
(III) David, third son and fourth child of
William and Abigail (Fisher) Starrett, was born
m Francestown, New Hampshire, April 21, 1774.
He married Nabby E. Appleton. of North Brook-
field, Massachusetts, in September, 1803, and died
in Arkansas, June. 1819.
(IV) Joseph .'\ppleton, son of David and Nabby
E. (Appleton) Starrett, was born at Hillsborough,
August 3, 1804. At the age of nine years he moved
to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, where he was a
tanner and currier. He was a deacon in the Con-
gregational Church, and he represented his town in
the legislature. He married Maria Jane, daughter
of John and Dolly (Durent) Bruce, of Mont Ver-
non. There were five children: Henrietta M., born
September 29, 1834; William S. A., whose sketch
follows; Mary J., June 17. 1840; Emily J., Decem-
ber 14, 1846; John B., November 25, 1858. Deacon
Joseph A. Starrett died May 22. 1894, at the ad-
vanced age of ninety years aVid nine months.
(V) William Sullivan Appleton, son of Joseph
Appleton and Maria J. (Bruce) Starrett, was born
at Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, June 4, 1838.
Be was educated in the common schools, and later
settled on a farm containing seventy acres. He
married Frances Ellen McCullom.. daughter of
Milton and Sophronia (Trow) McCulIom, of Mont
Vernon. There were two. children : Emilie Cutter
Appleton and Henrietta Maria. The latter married
Frederick Aureansen, of New York. He is a civil
engineer and assistant bridge engineer of the Long
Island Railroad. They have one child, Elizabeth,
born June 11, 1905.
Among the early settlers of the coast
ALGER of Maine were Andrew and Arthur
Alger, brothers. Though one authority
says they came from Dunston, Somersetshire, En.g-
land. it is more probable they were from' Dunston,
Norfolk county, as it is certainly known that a
family of that name was for a long time settled
there. Andrew was living in Saco, Maine, in 1640.
He was styled a "surveyor," and 1644-45 liad a
company of men on Stratton's Island engaged in
fishing. In 1651 he and his brother Arthur bought
a tract of land containing nearly a thousand acres
of the Indians in what is now Scarborough, Maine,
They gave the place the name of Dunston in
memory of their old home in England, which is
still borne by a flourishing village there. They set-
tled there in 1654, and Andrew was constable and
selectman of the town in 1668. In October, 1675,
the Indians attacked their garrison house, but failing
to captiire it, after destroying the empty houses of
.Andrew's sons-in-law, they retired to the woods.
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Andrew, however, in ,tlie attack was shot dead and
Arthur mortally wounded, dying at the house of
William Sheldon in Marblehead, October 14, 1675.
Andrew's family fled to Boston, and his widow mar-
ried Samuel Walker. Arthur was a constable in
Scarborough in 1658, grand juror in 1661, and repre-
sented the town in the general court in Boston in
1671 and 1672. Andrew married Agnes , by whom
he had John, Andrew, Matthew, Elizabeth, who
married John Pahiier, Joanna, who married (first)
Elias Oakman, and (second) John Mills, of Boston,
and a daughter who ma,rried John Ashton, or
Austin. .Arthur married Ann , by whom he had
children, but their names have not been learned.
From one or the other of these brothers the present
line of Algers has doubtless descended.
(1) Alexander Alger was born in Maine. His
occupation was that of a mason. He married and
had a son Alexander.
(H) Alexander (2), son of Alexander Alger,
was probably born in Maine. Like his father his
occupation was that of a mason. He came to Man-
chester, New Hampshire, in 1844, and took up his
residence there. Politically he is an Independent.
In i860 he married J. Rose, daughter of Jlartin
Conner, of Ireland, who was educated in the paro-
chial schools and for a- time was teacher. His wife
is a inember of the Catholic Church. Twelve
children have been born to them, ten of whom died
in infancy. Among them were William Francis,
and Frederick, born September, 1862.
(Ill) William Francis, eldest son of Alexander
and J. Rose (Conner) Alger, was born in Man-
chester, July 21, 1861. He was educated in the
parochial and public schools. He has been con-
nected with the weaving department of the Amos-
keag Mills for thirty-six years, and as second hand
for five years. He bought the place in Goffstown
where he now resides, and has erected thereon new
buildings. Politically he afiiliates with the Repub-
licans. Mr. and Mrs. Alger are both members of
the Catholic Church. He married, ]March 10, 1885,
Kate E., daughter of John and Catherine (Mc-
Derby) Gavin, of Montreal, Canada. His wife was
educated in the public schools. Their children are:
Arthur, born October 16, 1886; William, November
6, 1887 ; Leonard, February 18, 1S89, died the same
day; Silvia, October 3, 1890; Annie, December 30,
1891 ; Rosa, March 11, 1894; Walter, February 9,
1897; Leonard, 2d, born and died February 2, 1898;
Jenevieve, July 18, 1899, who died young; Robert,
January 5, 1903; and Katie, August 20, 1905.
This old French name, which was
BL'SHEY originally spelled in quite a different
form, was brought into New Hamp-
shire from the province of Quebec by Isaac Wilkes
Bushey, now a successful and respected citizen of
Concord. His parents were Louis and Rebecca
Bushey, of Richmond, province of Quebec, natives
respectively of Montreal and of Yorkshire, England.
The name of Louis Bushey's parents are not now
obtainable, but it is known that his mother lived to
a great age. He learned the trade of carpenter in
^Montreal, and settled at Richmond, province of
Quebec, where he was extensively engaged in build-
ing operations, and died at the age of more than
seventy years. He was a very active and rapid
worker, and accomplished more in a day than most
carpenters of the present day in this section would
attempt to perform in two days. Both he and his
wife were members of the Methodist Church. The
latter was a daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann
Boast, who came from England and settled in Rich-
mond, where they lived and died, the father being
a blacksmith. Mr. and Mrs. Bushey lived as man
and wife for more than fifty years, and the latter
survived her husband some years. They were the
parents of ten sons and two daughters. Elizabeth,
the eldest, died unmarried, at the age of about
twenty-four years ; Joseph and William are
farmers, residing in Iowa ; Isaac W., is the fourth ;
Louis died in Boston in May, 1905 ; Alfred died,
a young man, at Richmond; Robert died in Butler
county, Iowa ; Edward Henry died in Lancaster,
New Hampshire, November 11, 1904; the ninth
and tenth died in infancy ; Thomas George is a
resident of Toronto, Canada ; and Emmeline, the
youngest, who is married, resides at Melbourne in
that province.
Isaac W. Bushey was born November 8, 1842,
in Richmond, province of Quebec, and left home
at the age of twelve years to live with his grand-
father, Joseph Boast, who conducted a blacksmith
shop in Richmond, and from whom the grandson
acquired the trade. They made a specialty of the
manufacture of agricultural implements, and did a
general blacksmithing business. Having decided to
try his fortune in the United States, he arrived in
Concord the first day of August, 1865, and here he
completed his trade with Harvey, Morgan & Co.,
where he perfected himself in carriage ironing.
This occupied his time in Concord until the inhala-
tion of coal gas at his .forge caused the breaking
of his health and he was compelled to abandon the
work. In the meantime the business had changed
hands, and he had long been in the service of the
Abbott-Downing Company, which he left in 1873.
He then located on Pleasant street, and for eleven
years conducted a successful livery business, which
he sold out in 1884. Having developed much skill
in the handling of horses and a great love for these
noble animals, he has since been steadily employed
in breaking colts and the care of horses for others.
In 1893 he bought a farm on South street in Con-
cord, and in the following j'ear built thereon a very
handsome home and commodious and convenient
barns for the care and handling of horses. In this
connection he tills nearly forty acres of land. Mr.
Bushey accepts the faith of the Methodist Church.
Though not a member of any organization, he was
a regular attendant during the life of his wife of
the Baptist Church in Concord. He is a member
of Capital Grange, of which he has served as
steward, and in which he received the largest vote
ever given for the office of overseer, but declined
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to accept the office. In political affiliations he is a
Democrat. He married, November, 1S69, Elizabeth
Maria Morrill, of Danville, province of Quebec, who
died in May following. He married, December 25,
1878, Henrietta M. Carr, born November 26, 1839,
in Unity, New Hampshire, daughter of Harris and
Leah Thurber, and widow of Hial Carr. Mrs.
Bushey had a daughter, Ida Jane Carr, who died
at the home of Mr. Bushey at the age of twenty-six
years, and one daughter is the fruit of the second
union, namely, Elizabeth Etta Bushey, now aged
twenty-five years. The mother died September 16,
1905, and was buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery,
Concord.
The Babbs of New Hampshire are prob-
BABB ably descended from Philip Babb, who
was of Kittery, Maine, in 1652, and the
next year was associated under the commissioners
from Massachusetts, with Major Bryan Pendleton,
Nicholas Shapleigh, and others in the government of
the Isle of Shoals, and a few years later lived there.
(I) William Babb was born in Barrington, New
Hampshire, in 1765, and died in Strafford in 1846.
He settled on a farm in Strafford which is still in
the family name. He worked at his trade of mason
and built the first chimney in Strafford above the
Blue Hills. He married Sarah Leighton, and they
had James, Sampson, Dennis, \\'illiam and Isaac.
(II) Sampson, son of William and Sarah
(Leighton) Babb, was born in Strafford in 1790,
and lived on his father's homestead. He was a
farmer and mason. He married Hannah Mills,
and they had tive children : Daniel L., Sarah J.,
Mary Ann, and two children who died young. Sarah
J. married Nathaniel Brewster, and iMary Ann
married Ebenezer H. Holmes.
(III) Daniel L., son of Sampson and Hannah
(Mills) Babb, was born in Strafford, October i,
1810, and died April 14, 1888. He lived on a farm
in the Strafford Blue Hills, and was a brick and
stone mason. He was a man of good business
ability and common sense and was for some time a
member of the board of selectmen. In religion he
was a Free Will Baptist. He married Mehitabel B.
Lyford, who was born August 27, 1816. Five chil-
dren were born of this marriage: John (died
young), Nancy L., Hannah A., John L. and Eliza
M. Nancy L. married (first) Asa Clark, and
(second) William Clough. Hannah A. married
Jaincs Whitmarsh. John L. is mentioned below.
Eliza M. married Henry Lord.
(IV) John Lyford, son of Daniel L. and Mehit-
abel B. (Lyford) Babb, was born in Strafford. April
17, 1842. He followed the industrial lines of his
ancestors, resided on the old homestead and in addi-
tion to carrying on farming worked at the mason's
trade. He married (first) Mary A. Nutter, by
whom he had two children : an infant, died young ;
and Arthur C, born March 31, 1869, who is a mason
in Strafford. He married (second) Abbie Ham,
who was born in Rochester, daughter of Downing
and Mary Ham, of Rochester. By her he had three
children: Frank H., mentioned below; Mary A.,
who died young; Hattie E., who married William
J. Moore. He married (third) Jennie L. Jones,
daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah Jones, of Barn-
stead.
(V) Frank Ham, son of John L. and Abbie
(Ham) Babb, was born in Strafford, May 7, 1872,
and educated in the public schools of that town. He
is the fifth in line of descent in this family to fol-
low the mason's trade, which he learned of his
father. At the age of twenty-one he settled in
Rochester, where he has since become a prosperous
mason contractor, and has erected some of the
largest and finest buildings in the county, among
which are the Dodge Block, Hotel Hayes, Sal-
niger's front, and the Gonic shoe factories. He also
built the library of the State Agricultural College
at Durham, the pulp mill at West Derby, Vermont,
and is now (1907) erecting the brick work of the
city hall at Rochester. He is a Republican in poli-
tics, and was a member of the city council in 1906.
He is a member of Montolina Lodge, No. 18, In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Rochester. He
married, June 28, 1893, Lillian M. Wentworth, who
was born in Strafford, New Hampshire, December
31, 1863, daughter of Alonzo P. and Lydia A.
(Sanders) Wentworth (See Wentworth VII).
They have three children: Tilford F., Raymond S.
and Everett W. Two others died young.
This name is one of those which
McELWAINE do not occur in the early history
of New England. The immi-
grant ancestor of this McElvvaine family was one of
those who came to America almost a century ago
and helped to lay the foundations of the present
prosperity of this nation.
(I) Joseph McElwaine was born in the county
of Derry, Ireland, about 1780. He emigrated to
America about 1830, and settled near Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. After residing there about five years
he returned to Ireland and spent the remainder of
his life there. He died in May, 1866. He married
Charlotte Lenox, who came to America after the
death of her husband with her daughter, and died
in Philadelphia in 1888, aged eighty-four years.
The children of Joseph and Charlotte (Lenox) Mc-
Elwaine were : Sarah. Ellen, who married William
Anderson, of Philadelphia. Robert, who died soon
after coming to America. Mary Ann, who married
Michael Hanney, of Philadelphia. Elizabeth, who
married a Mr. Sweeney. Margaret, wife of Wil-
liam Balbirnie. George B., mentioned below. Ma-
tilda, who married William Sheppard, of Phila-
delphia. John of Lawrence, ^Massachusetts. Char-
lotte, deceased. Helena, deceased.
(II) George Balbirnie, second son and seventh
child of Joseph and Charlotte (Lenox) McEl-
waine, was born in county Derry, Ireland, Septem-
ber 5, 1838, and in July, 1862, came to America and
settled in Buxton, Maine, where he was employed
for a time as a laborer. Later he took a place in
the woolen mills of that place, learned the dyer's
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trade, and remained tlicrc live years. He then re-
moved to Great Falls where he worked as foreman
of the dyeworks until i88g. In the latter year he
removed to Gonic, New Hampshire, and became
overseer in the dyeing department of the Gonic Man-
ufacturing Company's mill, and has since held that
position. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and
has been a member of that Order since 1873. He
is a member of Libanus Lodge, No. 49, of Somers-
worth; Edwards Royal Arch Chapter, No. 21, of
Somersworth; Orient Council, Royal and Select
Masters ; Palestine Commandery Knights Tem-
plar; and Edward A. Raymond Consistory, of
Nashua. He married (first), in iS6r, Nancy Hammill,
who was born in county Tyrone, Ireland. Three chil-
dren were born of this marriage : Thomas, now in
California. David, born in 1864, died in 1906. Etta,
born in 1867, married S. Grant, and lives in Van-
couver, British Columbia. He married (second)
Maria S. Lee, who was born in England, July 14,
1843. Of this marriage there is one child : Wiilia'.n
L., born in 1S69, who is foreman of the dye works
in North Berwick.
Owing to the fact that the
SPRINGFIELD name of Springfield was se-
lected and legally adopted by
the grandfather of the representative of tha family
in the present generation, in preference to his legiti-
mate cognomen, information relative to their genea-
logy and early history cannot be ascertained. For
considerably more than half a century they have
been actively identified with the woolen manufac-
turing industry of New Hampshire and J.Iaine, and
they have also been prominently associated with
agricultural, political and other important interests
of the Granite State.
(I) Hon. Isaac Woodbury Springfield was born
in Rochester, New Hampshire 1824. After conclud-
ing what may be termed a good practical education
■ he learned the weaver's trade, serving his appren-
ticeship in the mills of the ,old Mechanic's Corpor-
ation at Rochester, and in 1S47 established himself
in the woolen manufacturing business at East
Rochester. Commencing operations with one set
of looms he gave his attention to the production of
blankets and flannels, and continued on that modest
scale for a period of ten years, or until his factory
was destroyed by fire. Removing to Wolfboro he
established the Wolfboro Mills, installing four sets
and employing an average force of seventy oper-
atives. Here he continued to manufacture blankets
and flannels of a superior quality for over forty
years, and realized excellent financial results. He in-
vested quite extensi\-ely in real estate, including val-
uable wild lands from which he cut and hauled large
quantities of timber annually and manufactured it
at his own saw-mills. He was also interested in
agriculture, owning a well equipped farm, to the cul-
tivation of which he devoted considerable time and
energy, and he made a specialty of raising tliorough-
bred horses. He was one of the organizers of the
Rochester Agricultural and Mechanical Association,
was chosen its first president and continued in office
through successive re-elections for more than twenty
■years. Politically he supported the Republican
party and rendered his share of public service by
representing his district in the state legislature with
marked ability. In his younger days he affiliated
with the ^Methodists, but during his latter years
his conception of religious matters became more
liberal, and he favored the Unitarian belief, con-
tributing generously toward the support of that
church. He was a prominent Mason, Odd Fellow
and Granger. He was one of the charter members
of Temple Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and was
one of the first four initiated into Montolina Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the first
master of the Rochester Grange; was one of the in-
corporators of the Rochester Savings Bank, and a
director of the Lake National Bank of Wolfboro,
and for four years was president. He married Clara
Nutter, daughter of Isaac Nutter, a well-to-do
farmer of Rochester and a representative of one of
the pioneer families of that town. She became the
mother of five children, three of whom are living,
namely : Charles W., Jennie E. and Hattie L. The
latter is now the wife of Thomas L. Thurston, of
Wolfboro, and has two daughters, Clara Louise and
Violet. Mr. Springfield died January 7, 1900, sur-
viving his wife, whose death occurred January 13,
18S8, at the age of sixty-four.
(II) Charles Woodbury, son of Hon. Isaac W.
and Clara (Nutter) Springfield, was born in Ro-
chester, April 18, 1844. His preliminary studies
were pursued in the public schools of his native
town, and he completed his education at the academy
in West Lebanon, Maine. Entering the office of the
Rochester Review as an apprentice he remained
there until l86l, when he relinquished the printer's
trade in order to engage in mercantile pursuits, and
after spending a year as a clerk in a Rochester dry-
goods store established a general country store in
Wolfboro. A year later he disposed of his mer-
cantile business and entered his father's factory as
an operative, mastering in turn every detail of the
woolen manufacturing industry from the loom to
the counting room, and being thus equipped he
engaged in business on his own account in Crafts-
bury, Vermont, in 1S64, having a mill with three
sets and producing besides flannels other woolen
cloths for custom trade. After remaining in Ver-
mont some two and one half years he sold his plant,
and returning to Wolfboro became superintendent
of his father's mill, in which capacity he continued
for a number of years. Going to Alfred, Maine, in
1879, he leased a woolen mill which was equipped
with improved machinery of the most modern type,
and lor over twenty years he gave his attention
exclusively to the manufacture of the finest grade
of woolen blankets, employing an average force of
forty operatives and attaining profitable results. The
death of his father necessitated his removal from
Alfred and for the past seven years he has given
his entire attention to the Wolfboro plant. In 1889
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as a side speculation, entering the firm of J. H.
Littlelield & Company.
In politics Mr. Springfield 'is a Republican. He
is a member of Kennedy Lodge, No. 57, Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows; Rising Sun Lodge,
No. 7, Knights of Pythias ; Runnawitt Tribe, No. 9,
Improved Order of Red Men; and the Daughters
of Pocohontas Association, all of Rochester; and
of Carroll Lodge. No. 7, Ancient Order of United
Workmen of Wolfboro. On September 6, 1863, he
married Mary E. Cate, daughter of Hon. E. R. Cate,
of East Alton, New Hampshire. INIr. and Mrs.
Springfield are broad-minded and their religious
ideas are optimistic. The greater part of their mar-
ried life has been spent in Rochester, where they
still reside.
Ridel, Riddell, Riddle, the latter spell-
RIDDLE ing having been adopted by the Bed-
ford branch about 1790, is an old name
derived from Ryedale, that is, the dale or valley of
the river Rye, whence the family first took the name,
that being the place of residence of the stock at the
time the name was assumed. The family was
Scotch and a branch of it settled in the north of
Ireland.
(I) John and Janet Gordon RiddcU lived in
Ballymeath, county Londonderrj', Ireland, and were
the parents of Gawn, Hugh, Robert, John and
Margery.
(II) Gawn, oldest child of John and Janet Gor-
don Riddell, was born May 16, i683 (Ballymeath
record) and died irf Bedford, December 22, 1779,
aged ninety-one. With his three brothers and one
sister above named, he came to Londonderry, New
Hampshire, and from there all except Robert re-
moved to Bedford about 1738. Gawn settled on
and improved a piece of land, and his name appears
upon the town records as tytliingman, constable,
selectman, clerk of market, committee to build
meetinghouse, and so forth. He married Mary
Bell, who was born in 1724, and died January 7,
1813, aged eighty-nine. She was the daughter of
John and Katherine Bell, who immigrated from
Ireland to Bedford about 1736. Gawn and Mary
had six children : John, David, Susannah, Hugh,
Isaac and William.
(III) David, second son and child of Gawn and
Mary (Bell) Riddle, was born in Bedford, March
16, 1757, and died in the same town December 18,
1839, aged eighty-two. He was a soldier of the
Revolution, and a pensioner. The name of David
Riddle is on the return dated Boxford, Massachu-
setts, of men mustered by John Gushing, Muster
Master for Essex county to join the Continental
army for the term of nine months, agreeable to the
resolve of June 9, 1779; also on the descriptive list
of men raised to serve in the Continental army for
the term of nine months, returned as received of
Justin Ely, Commissioner, by Captain James Tis-
dale, at Springfield, Massachusetts, August 23, 1779,
Colonel Hutchinson's Regiment. He is described
as twenty-two years of age, five feet, ten inches
high, of light complexion, and as engaged for the
town of Salem, but whether of Massachusetts or
New Hampshire, is not certain. His name is also
on Company receipt for equipments, given to Cap-
tain James Tisdale, dated Springfield, August 22,
1779; also Captain Webb's Company, Colonel Shep-
ard's (Fourth) Regiment, entering the service Au-
gust 17, 1779. He was discharged May 17, 1780,
after a term of nine months. He and his brotlier
Hugh bought land together, and he afterwards built
and resided nearby. He held offices of trust in tlie
town, poundkeeper, selectman, and so forth. He was
noted for his originality, and differed in his views
on political matters from his brothers. He married
in 1798, Mary Dunlap, daughter of Major Dunlap,
of Bedford. Their children were; Jolni Dunlap,
Hugh, Martha, and Gilman and Mary, twins.
(IV) Martha, third child and oldest daughter
of David and Mary (Dunlap) Riddle, was born
December 16, 1806, and died April 4, 1878, in Bed-
ford. She married, January 29, 1829, Daniel Barn-
ard (See Barnard VI).
(HI) Captain Isaac, fiftli child and fourth son
of Gawn and Mary (Bell) Riddle, was born in
Bedford, June 10, 1762, and died in Quincy, Mas-
sachusetts, January 26, 1830, aged sixty-eight. He
was buried with Masonic honors in the family
tomb at Bedford Center. He was a soldier in the
Revolutionary army, being a private in Captain
Jonas Kidder's Company of Colonel JMoses Nich-
ol's Regiment of Militia, which was raised to join
the Continental army at West Point, serving from
July s to October 23, 17S0, and receiving for ser-
vices, mileage, etc., the astonishing sum of five
hundred and seventy-seven pounds five shillings in
the depreciated currency of the time. He also was
one of those who enlisted to fill up the Continental
army in 1781, and served from July 20 till Decem-
ber 21. In each case he is credited to Bedford. The
following account of him is given by his descendant,
John A. Riddle, in his genealogy of the family:
"About 17S2 he bought the land, built and lived at
No. 27, until about 1820,' when he removed to
Quincy, Massachusetts. After the Revolutionary
war, having saved a small amount of money, mostly
earned in the military service, he went to Newbury-
port, Massachusetts, and purchased a stock of
goods, which was brought to Bedford by team, and
placed in the front room of his mother's house, No.
6s, which was used as a store. Business increased,
and he commenced the manufacture of potash from'
the heavy growth upon the land he had bought.
The ashery was located in the field immediately
across the road from his house, and is still known
as the "potash field," No. 19. The potash was 'taken
to Boston by ox teams, and bartered as an article
of export for imported goods. He was extensively
engaged in the lumber business, and was one of the
first proprietors of navigation on the Merrimack
river. He superintended the building of the locks
and canals of the Union Lock and Canal Company,
the funds for whicli were procured by lottery au-
thorized by the State of New Hampshire. In com-
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paiiy with Colonel Caleb Stark, he built and owned
the first canal boat that ever floated on the waters
of the Alerriniack. It w'as named the Experiment,
was built at Bedford Center, and drawn three miles
on wheels by forty yoke of oxen to "Basswood
Landing," so called, where it was launched, in the
presence of the townspeople," who had gathered to
witness the novelty of the day. It was loaded and
sailed for Boston, and the following notice is taken
from the Boston Centinel of 1813 ; 'Arrived from
Bedford, New Hampshire, canal-boat E.vferiincnt,
Isaac Riddle, Captain, via Merrimack River and
Middlesex Canal.' Upon her arrivel at Boston she
was received amid cheers and the firing of cannon.
From this commenced a large and extensive inland
navigation on the Merrimack, which rendered Man-
chester and other manufacturing places possible.
Mr. Riddle was the instigator and large owner in
the Souhegan Nail, Cotton, and Woolen Manufac-
turing corporation, which carried on operations at
Riddle's Village, on the Souhegan river, until the
destruction by fire of its works in 1829. Its prod-
ucts were sold to the country traders, the balance
being shipped to Boston, by boats via river and
canal. Mr. Riddle also instituted stores, with his
sons, William P., James, Isaac, and Davis, at Pis-
cataquog village, Bedford, Souhegan, and Boston.
He filled many places, having been civil magistrate,
representative to the legislature, etc. In 1814, dur-
ing the war with Great Britain, a public call by the
governor of the state was made for volunteers,
from citizens exempt from military duty, to form
themselves into companies for home defence, in
case of sudden invasion ; about sixty responded,
under the command of Captain Isaac Riddle. About
1817 i\Ir. Riddle was returning from Pembroke
muster when a ferry boat crowded with people was
about to plunge over Hooksett Falls. Mr. Riddle
sprang from his chaise, plunged into the stream,
caught the rope attached to the boat, and thus
saved about thirty lives."
He married (first),, June 5, 1778, Ann Aiken,
who was bom November 12, 1764, daughter of
Captain James and Margaret (Waugh) Aiken. She
died April 6, 1804. At her own door she fell from
her horse and dislocated her neck, when about to
visit her brother-in-law, William Riddle, who had
broken his leg in a saw mill. He married (second),
March 6, 1806, Margaret McGaw, who was born
May 25, 1776, and died December 19, 1816, daughter
of Jacob McGaw, of ^Merrimack. Hemarried (third).
May 1819, Mrs. Mary Vinal, of Quincy, Massa-
chusetts, who was born January 27, 1760, and died
April 5, 1837, sister of Captain Amos Lincoln of
the tea party in Boston harbor, in 1773. She kept
among her relic treasure the axe with which her
brother opened the memorable chest of tea. The
children of Isaac Riddle were : William Pickels,
James, Isaac, Gilnian, David, Jacob jNIcGaw, Mar-
garet .Ann and Rebecca; the last three by the second
wife.
(IV) James, second son and child of Criptain
Isaac and Ann (Aiken) Riddle, was born in Bed-
ford, June 26, 1791, died November 24, 1840. in
Merrimack, and was buried in the family toinb at
Bedford Center. He was one of the firm of Isaac
Riddle & Sons, and after its dissolution he remained
at Riddle's Village, Merrimack, leading a very busy
life being largely interested in staging before the
days of railroads ; also carrying on a tavern, store,
luinber, and grist mill, fulling mill, blacksmith shop,
etc. He married (first), 1816, Charlotte Farmer,
sister of John Farmer, the distinguished his-
torian and antiquarian. She was born July 20,
1792, and died in 1828. He married (second), 1829,
Laura, daughter of Solomon Barker, of Pelham ;
she was born January 11, 1802. and died March 4,
1831. He married (third) Eliza Hunt, born May 6,
1807, died July 24, 1884. He had two children by
the first wife, and one by the third : Charlotte Mar-
garet, Mary Ann, Lincoln and Eliza Frances.
(V) Charlotte Margaret, daughter of James
and Charlotte (Farmer) Riddle, was born in Mer-
rimack, February 20, 1817, and died October 22,
1S59. She married, 1837, Nathan Parker, banker
of Manchester (see Parker VI).
(I) Eli Dort was born in Surry. New
DORT Hampshire. He was an industrious
farmer, and resided for many years on
West Hill in Keene. His last days were spent in
his native town and he died there in 1869.
(II) Eliphalet, son of Eli Dort, was born in
1790. In early life he was a wheelwright and wood-
worker in Surry, but he later settled upon a farm
located about a mile north of* the village, and his
death occurred in that town in 1869. 'He married
Lois Bemis, of Poultney, Vermont, and had a family
of seven children: George D., David B., Eli, Cyrus,
William, Obed G. and Mary E.
(III) Obed Gilman, sixth child and youngest
.son of Eliphalet and Lois (Bemis) Dort. was born
in Surry, January 25, 1828. After concluding his
attendance at the Keene Academy he learned the
carriage-painter's trade, and at the age of about
twenty years became associated with his brother,
George D., in the paint and wall paper business at
Keene. under the firm name of George D. Dort &
Company. Purchasing his brother's interest some
three years later he added a line of drugs to his
stock and continued in business alone for twelve
years, at the expiration of which time he admitted
Clark Chandler to partnership. At the breaking
out of the Civil war he raised a company of nearly
one hundred men, which was attached to the Sixth
Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, as
Company E, and he went to the front as its captain.
After leaving the national capital the Sixth rendered
meritorious service at Fortress Monroe, Hatteras,
Roanoke Island. Culpepper Court House and other
points in Virginia, and participated in the san-
guinary battle of Antietam. Just previous to that
memorable struggle he received a visit from his
wife and son, but this happy meeting with his loved
ones was almost immediately followed by the sad
news that both had been lost in a collision cf the
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"West Point" with another steamer on the Potomac
while on their return north. This shock so disabled
him as to necessitate his retirement from the army.
He had previously been promoted to the rank of
major, and he resigned as such in 1863, after the
battle of Antictam. Upon his return to Keene he
resumed business and continued in company with
Mr. Chandler until 1880. In 1875 he organized the
Citizens' National Bank and was its first cashier,
serving in that capacity until 1880, when he was
chosen its president, and has ever since retained
that position. His interest in the mercantile and
financial affairs of Keene have proved exceedingly
beneficial to the community, and he is highly es-
teemed both in business and social circles. He is a
member of the Masonic order and the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1851 Major Dort married Julia Wakefield, of
Marlboro, New Hampshire, whose accidental death
has already been referred to. He subsequently mar-
ried Sarah Jane Hale, daughter of ex-Governor
William Hale. Of his first union there were three
children: Arthur W., who was lost in the accident
above mentioned ; Frank G. : Mary E., who died in
infancy. Mr. Frank G. Dort is the Boston repre-
sentative of Henry K. Wampole & Company, of
Philadelphia. He married Kate Cobb, and has
three children : Robert G., Frank and Norman
Perry Dort.
"The Odiorne name, originally
ODIORNE written Hodierne," says James
I Creighton, the genealogist of the
Odiorne family, "is supposed to be derived from the
Latin hodicrnus. from hodie, of this day. Hence,
also, the English word hodiernal, and the' Italian,
odierna, of this' day. This name is extremely rare,
but occurs occasionally in French and English an-
nals, and has been traced back to the eleventh cen-
tury. On the northwest part of France, which the
Romans called Armorica. lie the bay and town of
Hodierne, or Audoerne. Hodierne, as a personal
name, was first baptismal, and given to daughters.
This is shown by early and very frequent instances
on record. Afterwards this appellation was given
to sons, and eventually became a surname. It was
to be found, with some variations, in Bretagne and
other northern ports of France, also in Jersey and
the isles of the northern coast. In English annals
the name appears later than in French. This makes
it more probable that it was introduced into Eng-
land from France, and that the family bearing it is
of French origin. Records show its use in England
as a surname in the fourteenth century. In English
records, as in the French, the family name appears
in its etymology under several variations, as Hod-
yern, Hodierne, Odierne, Odierna, and Odiarne.
The form Odiorne, as used in the United States,
has not been discovered in any foreign country.
The records show the name has been known in
England about six hundred years. Previous to 1657
the ancestor of the Odiorne family joined the
colonists at Rye, New Hampshire, and it is possible
ihcy came from Rye, England, for which place Rye,
New Hampshire, seems to have been named by set-
tlers from the English Rye.
(I) John Odiorne was born about 1627, and
died at Newcastle, New Hampshire, in 1707. John
and Philip Odiorne, who tradition says were broth-
ers, came to Postsmouth and settled there about the
year 1650. All the Odiornes of America trace their
lineage to this John. January 13, 1660, public lands
were allotted at Portsmouth to those who were in-
habitants there in 1657. A grant of forty-two acres
on Great Island, lying at the entrance of the har-
bor, was made to John Odiorne. A few years later
he received a second grant, which probably included
that section of land at the mouth of the Piscataqua
river which has since been known as Odiorne's
Point. From 1658 to 1671 his name appears on the
town records on subscriptions for the support of
religious worship. In 1686 he was a member of the
grand jury. He resided at Sandy Beach, now Rye,
then a part of Portsmouth. In 1706, the year be-
fore his death, he gave a deed of his homestead to
his son John. Administration on his estate was
granted to his widow, February 4, 1707. His wife
was Mar>', daughter of James and Mary Johnson,
whom he probably married when about middle age,
as his children whose names are here recorded,
were not born until he was past forty-five years of
age. Their names as far as discovered are Jona-
than and John.
(II) John (2), son of John (i) and Mary
(Johnson) Odiorne, was born about 1675. His
home was on Odiorne's Point, on the estate he de-
rived from his father, which estate has remained in
the family to this date. There are records of con-
veyances of real estate made by him and his wife as
late as 1725. In these he styles himself "farmer."
He had the title of deacon, but of what church can-
not be known as the records of the church at New
Castle, the nearest to his residence, and to which he
probably belonged, are lost, and with them the
names of its early officers. His wife's name was
Catherine. Their children, as far as know'n, were:
Ebenezer, Samuel, Nathaniel, and John.
(HI) John (3), son of John (2) and Catherine
Odiorne, died in 1780. He was a farmer by occupa-
tion, and lived at New Castle. Nothing is known
of his character or condition in life. All that has
come down to the present respecting him is but a
record of his family afflictions. Two of his sons,
captured in the Revolutionary war, died in British
prison-ships. He lost a beautiful daughter just
blooming into womanhood, by drowning: and of
his other children several died before him. His
wife's name is not known. Their children were:
Lydia, Catherine, John, Benjamin, Abigail, Jo«eph,
Deborah, and Samuel, whose sketch follows.
(IV) Samuel, youngest child of John (3)
Odiorne, was born about 174S, and died about 1779.
He was a warrior and was captured by the British
in the Revolutionary war, and taken to a foreign
prison. In those days little compassion was shown
to prisoners of war, and he died there imdcr the
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severity of his trentment. He left a wife and one
child, Samuel, who is the subject of the next para-
graph.
(V) Samuel (2), only son of Samuel (i)
Odiorne, was born in 1776, and died June 2, 1840,
aged sixty-four years. He was a farmer and lived
near the creek which .separates Rye from New Cas-
tle. He married, in June, 1801, Olive Thomas, of
Durham, who survived him and lived with a son
at IJttle Harbor, until her death, in July. 1870.
Their children were : Samuel. Joseph, Charles,
Blunt, Sarah Holbrook, Hannah Smith and Ellen
Thomas.
(VI) Charles Blunt, third son and child of
Samuel (2) and Olive (Thomas) Odiorne, was
born about 1804, and died when he was seventy^-
five years. He was a farmer and lived on a beauti-
ful spot at the mouth of Sagamore Creek in Ports-
mouth Harbor, opposite the ancient mansion of Ben-
ning Wentworth, once governor of the state. He
married, September 27, 1840. Mary Sheaf Yeaton,
of New Castle, daughter of Philip Yeaton. She
died February 13, 1905, aged eighty-one years. Their
children were: Olive Ann, Marietta, Sarah Willard,
Charles Woodbury, Frank Pierce, Maria Adelaide
and Samuel.
(VH) Sarah Willard, third daughter and child
of Charles Blunt and Mary Sheaf (Yeaton) Odi-
orne, was born in Rye, Jidy 14, 1844- She married,
September 28, 1871, John Sheldon Treat. (See
Treat VHI).
A branch of the family of this name
SAVAGE removed from- England to the district
of Maine before the Revolutionary
w-ar. and from tho:e pioneers comes the present
family.
(I) Jacob Savage, a resident of North Anson,
Maine, was for many years a sea captain, but spent
the last years of his life in Anson, where he had
seven sons born to ^lim : Jacob, Esau, Isaac, Abram,
John, and Perez.
(II) Isaac, third son of'j^icob Savage, was born
in North Anson. Maine, in Januarj', 1795, and died
in Kingfield, Maine, July 13, 1S67, aged seventy-two.
For some years after attaining his majority he lived
in Anson, and then removed to New Portland,
where he lived a few years. Removing to King-
field Village he bought and operated the saw and
grist mills at that place for about fifteen years, and
then -moved out and settled on a farm which he had
purchased, and there spent the last fifteen years or
more of his life. He was a man wdio could adapt
himself to his environment, and did equally well as
a miller or a farmer. In politics he was a Dem-
ocrat, and in religious belief a Methodist. He mar-
ried Selina Moore, born in Madison. Maine, in 1797,
died aged eighty-two years. She was a daughter of
Goff Moore, a Revolutionary soldier (see Moore.
III). Mrs. Savage was a woman of many domestic
accomplishments, kind and sympathetic, and loved
by her children, and a welcome visitor among her
neighbors, especially among the sick- and the needy.
The children of this union were : Martha, Alvah,
Marcia, Susan, Gyrene, Asenath, Elery, Elizabeth,
Goff, Abram. and Isaac M., next mentioned.
(Ill) Isaac Milton, son of Isaac and Selina
(Moore) Savage, born in Kingfield, February 5,
1841, was educated in the common schools of King-
field, which he attended until he was twenty-one
years old. He taught one term of school, and the
following summer became a soldier for the Union.
He enlisted at Kingfield in September, 1862, and
was made a corporal of Company D, Twenty-eighth
Maine Infantry. The connnand to which he be-
longed was transported by sea from New York to
New Orleans, Louisiana, wdiere he arrived in Jan-
uary, 1863. He as subsequently stationed at Pensa-
cola (Fort Barancas), detached at Plaquemine,
Louisiana, to guard the village, and taken prisoner
there by a division of Texas Rangers, June 18, 1863.
The following day he and about fifty others who
had been captured with him were paroled, and made
their w-ay to Baton Rouge, whence they were trans-
ported to New Orleans, Algiers, Louisiana, and
finally to Ship Island, where they stayed in the camp
of paroled prisoners until discharged in August,
1863. The same year he w-ent to Concord, New
Hampshire, and entered the employ of Lewis Barter
& Company, dealers in flour and grain, with whom
he remained five and a half years, and then filled
for two years a similar position with Forbes &
Lane, at Hillsborough Bridge. He then opened a
grocery store at the corner of Main and Bridge
streets. Concord, where he sold goods ten years.
Afterward he was located on South Main street
eleven years, and in the Odd Fellows block on
Pleasant street till he sold out and retired from
active life, in March, 1903. Since i8gS Mr. Savage
has been treasurer of the Concord Building and
Loan Association. He is one of the substantial and
respected men of Concord, whose business reputa-
tion is unsullied, and whose character and standing
are of the best. He has a large circle of friends
won by his good character and genial manner. He
is a member of E. E. Sturtevant Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, of Concord, and attends the Uni-
versalist Church. He is a Democrat and has been
nominated for local offices, but men of his political
faith cannot be elected in w\ards so strongly Repub-
lican as his.
He was married December 29. 1866, at Concord,
to Jennie E. Davis, born in Warren, New Hamp-
shire. October, 1838, daughter of James and Ma-
linda (Bixby) Davis. They have one child, Goff
Savage, born at Hillsborough Bridge, 1868, who
married Florence Towle, and now resides in Hart-
ford, Connecticut.
Ancestors of the New England
PROCTOR Proctors were early arrivals in Bos-
ton and participated in the original
settlement of several important outlying districts.
Descendants of the original immigrants penetrated
into remote regions, becoming original settlers in
territories which afterward acquired dignity of state-
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hood, and not a few of them went beyond the limits
of New England into the great west, where their
posterity are still to be foimd. The Proctors were
patriotic during the Revolutionary war and that of
1812-15 ; loyal to the Union in the memorable civil
strife of 1861-65; and in addition to their honorable
military services they have acquired distinction in
civil life. The family is of English origin, and the
name is first met with in the records of Norfolk,
where as early as the fourteenth century they were
closely allied by intermarriage with the celebrated
Beauchamps, which was the family name of the
earls of Pembroke. Among the land-holders men-
tioned in these records are Sir William Bcaitchamp
Proctor and his son George, who inherited in turn
an estate which had been granted originally by John,
earl of Pembroke, to his cousin, William de
Beauchainp, who died in the year 1378. In search-
ing for Proctors in other parts of England we find
it recorded in "A History of Northumberland,"
published at Newcastle-on-Tyne by Andrew Reid
& Company, that a family of that name was estab-
lished at Shawdon in Yorkshire at the beginning of
the sixteenth century, through the marriage of Wil-
liam Proctor, of Nether Bordlc)', to Isabel, daugh-
ter of John Lilburn, of Shawdon. Early in the emi-
gration period which began about the year 1629,
four of this name are known to have come to New
England. They were John, Richard, George and
Robert. Whether they were near relatives or not is
now impossible to determine, but there is some evi-
dence to show that they were descendants of the
abovementioned William, of Nether Bordley, and it
is quite reasonable to infer that the latter was de-
scended from old Sir William Beauchainp Proctor
of Norfolk. These immigrants landed in Boston
between the years 1635 and 1643. John Proctor,
aged forty years, sailed from London in 1635 on the
"Sarah and Ellen," with his wife and two children,
settling first in Ipswich and sivbsequently in Salem.
His son John and the lattcr's wife were both con-
victed of witchcraft in 1692, and the husband was
executed, but the wife escaped the death penalty.
Some of their descendants are now residing in Bos-
ton. Richard Proctor settled in Yarmouth, Massa-
chusetts, and there disappears wholly from the
records. George Proctor located in Dorchester,
and there reared a family. The branch of the fam-
ily coming directly within the province of this
sketch, is a line of descent from Robert, through
the latter's son James.
(I) Robert Proctor, the earliest American an-
cestor of the families mentioned in this sketch, first
appears in this country at Concord, Massachusetts,
where he was made a freeman in 1643. In 1653
Robert Proctor, in connection with Richard Hildreth
anid twenty-seven other.s, petitioned the general
court for a grant of land six miles square "to begin
at Merrimack river at a neck of land next to Con-
cord river, and so run by Concord river south, and
west into the country to make up that circumfer-
ence or quantity of land as is above expressed." The
petition was granted. In 1654, Mr. Proctor removed
to the new plantation which was organized Novem-
ber 22, of that year, as a town under the name of
Chelmsford. The first four or five of his children
were born in Concord, the others in Chelmsford.
He died in Chelmsford, April 28, 1697, leaving lands
to some of his children, and having already granted
other lands to si.x sons. His widow administered
on his estate. He married. December 31, 1645, Jane,
the oldest daughter of Richard Hildreth, of Concord
and Chelmsford, the ancestor of the Hildreths in
America, who died at Chelmsford, in 1688. The
children of Robert and Jane were twelve in num-
ber: Sarah, Gcrshom, Mary, Peter, Dorothy, Eliza-
beth. James, Lydia, John, Samuel, Israel and
Thomas.
(II) James, third son and seventh child of
Robert and Jane (Hildreth) Proctor, born in Con-
cord, January 8, 1658, removed to Woburn about
1696, and died there January 11, 1709. He married
(first), December 3, 1691, Esther Parker, who died
December 6, 1693; and (second) Plannah .
His children, all by the second wife, were as fol-
lows: James. Jonathan, Thomas, John, Hannah,
and Esther.
(III) James (2), eldest child of James (l)
and Hannah Proctor, was born in Woburn, April
2, 1696, resided in Woburn, and owned a large
amount of real estate. He married, April 17, 1717,
Judith Nichols, of Reading, and they had six chil-
dren. Elizabeth, Judith, James, Jonathan. Hannah
and Mary.
(IV) James (3), eldest son and third child of
James (2) and Judith (Nichols) Proctor, was born
in Woburn, June 18, 1722, and removed to Kings-
ton, New Hampshire, about 1750. From "New
Hampshire State Papers," it appears that he was at
Crown Point, September 30, 1762, a soldier in the
company of Captain Jeremiah Marston. of Hamp-
ton, in Colonel John Goflfe's regiment. He served
also in the Revolutionary war, having been mus-
tered in August 10, 1776. He died on his way
home from Ticonderoga, November 11, 1776. He
married, 1743, Abigail Whitmore, born June 7, 1722,
died May 3, i8r2. They were the parents of twelve
children, as follows: James. John, Thomas, Jona-
than, Elizabeth, Ebenezer, died young; Ebenezer,
Judith. Esther, Mehitable, John and William.
(V) Thomas, third son and child of James (3)
and Abigail (Whitmore) Proctor, born in Woburn,
July 28, 1748. was a blacksmith, and lived in
Loudon. New Hampshire, where he died March 28,
1836. He married. May 2r. 1776, Fanny Kimball,-
born February 2, 1756, died June i, 1830. They
had eleven children : Lydia. Fanny. Sally, Thomas,
Rebecca, Peter, Joseph, William, James, Benjamin
and Priscilla.
(VI) Thomas, fourth child and eldest son of
Thomas and Fanny, was born in Loudon, June 12,
1783. When a" young man he located in Barnstead,
New Hampshire, and resided there for the re-
mainder of his life, which terminated June 25, 1856.
His first wife, whom he married in 1807, was
Martha Drew, who was born July 25, 1774. and died
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October 2, 1825. In 1831 he married for his second
wife Comfort Ayers, who was born February 19,
1781, and died April 2, 1847. He was again married
in 1848 to Mrs. Betsey Clark, nee Priest, whose
birth took place January 11, 1794. She died Feb-
ruary 15, 1S75. His children, all of his first union,
were: John, born June 22, 1808; Thomas K., born
April 15, 1810; Fanny W., mentioned below; Joseph
D., born May 12, 1814; Jane D., born June 27, 1817
(married Moses L. Mace,, of Barnstead for her first
husband, and Jacob D. Osgood, of Loudon, for her
second husband) ; Mary, born February i, 1819,
married first, John R. Kaime, and second, Brad-
bury Clark, of Barnstead; Samuel, born Januai'y I,
1822 ; and William, born May 30, 1824.
(Vli) Fanny Wilson, eldest daughter and third
child of Thomas (2) and Martha (Drew) Proctor,
born in Barnstead, April 16, 1S12 ; married, May 13,
1830, George L. Nutter, of Barnstead, who settled
in Concord, and died September 8, 1897. (See
Nutter VII).
(Second Family.)
(I) John Proctor, who was born
PROCTOR in England about the year 1595, was
registered with his wife Martha and
two children April 12, 1635, to embark at London
for New England in the "Susan and Ellen," Ed-
ward Payne, master. He first settled in Ipswich,
Massachusetts, but prior to 1665 removed to Salem,
and November 29 of the following year he peti-
tioned the selectmen for liberty to "sett up A house
of Entertainment to sell Beare, sider Liquors and
ctr. for ye Accommodation of Travel lours." He
died in Salem in 1672, and his will, which bears the
date of August 28, was probated November 28 of
that year His children were : John, Mary, Martha,
Abigail, Joseph, Sarah, Benjamin and Hannah.
(II) Joseph, second son and fifth child of John
and Martha Proctor, was born in Ipswich and re-
sided in that part of the town which was then called
Chebacco, and is now Essex. He served in King
Philip's war, and was one of the very few survivors
of Captain Lothrop's company, known as the
"Flower of Essex," nearly all of whom were slain
in the famous Bloody Brook massacre, September
18, 1675. His will was made October 4, 1705, and
proved November 12 of that year, showing that his
death must have occurred some time during that in-
terval. He married for his first wife Martha Wain-
wright, daughter of Francis Wainwright of Ipswich;
she died in 1683. His second wife was Sarah,
widow of Richard Ingersoll, of Salem, the latter a
son nf John and Judith (Felton) Ingersoll, and of
her first marriage there was one son, Richard In-
gersoll, Jr. Joseph Proctor was the father of
twelve children. Those of his first union were:
Daniel, Joseph, Jacob, Martha, Mary, Abigail,
Francis, Elizabeth, Simon and Jonathan. Those of
his second marriage were: Thomas and Sarah.
(III) Jacob, third child of Joseph and Martha
(Wainwright) Proctor, was born in Chebacco. Jan-
uary 25, 1679, and was still residing there in 1756.
The Qiristian name of his wife was Mary. She
was born in 16S9, and died at Chebacco, January 17,
1777. Their children were: Joseph, Isaac and
Mary.
(IV) Joseph, eldest child of Jacob and Mary
Proctor, was a lifelong resident of Chebacco, and
his death occurred sometime between July 23 and
October 27, 1766, the dates of the making and pro-
bating of his will. He was married April 9, 1741,
to Sarah Leatherland, who was 'born in 1727 and
died September i, 1797. She was the mother of
Sarah, Abigail, Mary, Jacob, Joseph, Francis and
William.
(V) Joseph (2), second son and fifth child of
Josepli (i) and Sarah (Leatherland) Proctor, was
born in Chebacco prior to October 6, 1751, the date
of his baptism. In company with his brother Jacob
he settled in that part of Londonderry which is now
Derry, and resided there for the rest of his life.
His first wife was Hannah Brown, of Ipswich, and
for his second wife he married her sister, Eunice.
Hannah was the mother of the following children:
Sarah. Joseph and John, Eunice, Lois, Benjamin,
Charlotte and Olive. (Benjamin and descendants
are mentioned in this article).
(VI) Joseph (3), second child and eldest son
of Joseph (2) and Hannah (Brown) Proctor, was
born April 3, 1777, probably in Ipswich, and was
taken to Londonderry. New Hampshire, in child-
hood by his parents. He first settled in Derry, New
Hampshire, but afterward bought the "woods" on
John Hopkins' farm, in Windham, about 1815, and
there lived till his death, February I. 1826. He mar-
ried, in 1802, Mary Hughes, daughter of John and
Mchitable (Buzwell) Flughes, of Windham. Her
father, a British soldier, deserted in Boston, went to
Windham, and afterward did faithful and efficient
service in the Patriot <■ army in the Revolution.
She died April 23, 1847. The children of this union
were : Anna C, James H., Abner B., Hannah B..
Moses B., Ebenezer G., Samuel W., Joseph B., and
Thomas T.
(VII) Joseph Burnham. eighth child and sixth
son of Joseph and Mary (Hughes) Proctor, was
born in Windham, February 12, 1817, and died in
Nashua, May 2, 1896. He received a common
schocl education, and lived on the home farm until
1855, when he sold that and bought the original
Nesmith farm where he lived the nine years
following. His chief business was that of
manufacturing ship lumber. He sold that in
1865, and removed to Nashua, where he en-
gaged in the lumber business, which he conducted
successfully for a number of years. He was a
member of the First Congregational Church, and
in politics a Republican He married, November 27.
185 1, Sarah J. Ga.ge, who was born February 26,
1829. daughter of Frye and Kezia (Cutter) Gage,
t>f Pelham, New Hampshire They had one child,
Mary C born August 29. 1853. and married, June
7, 1S81, Ira F. Harris, of Nashua. (See Harris).
(VI) Benjamin, sixth child and third son of
Joseph and Hannah (Brown) Proctor, was born
March 10, 1786. The major part of his life was
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spent in Dcrry and liis death occnrrod there Feb-
ruary 10, 1848. His first wife was Rachel Camp-
bell, of Bedford, New Hampshire, and his second
wife was Eleanor Wilson, of Derry. He was the
father of seven children, natnely : William, John
Reed, Louis, Nancy, Olive and Alexis, by his first
wife. By his second wife he had one daughter,
Margaret, who was educated at Kingston Academy,
and married Edward F. Noyes. afterwards governor
of Ohio and- Minister to France during tlie adminis-
tration of President Hayes.
(VII) Alexis, youngest child of Benjamin and
Rachel Proctor, was born in Derry, March 4, 1826.
After concluding his studies at the old Pinkerton
Academy he turned his attention to educational pur-
suits and taught school continuously for over
twenty years. During these years, like his father
before him, he was often employed as a land sur-
veyor and auctioneer in Derry and adjoining towns.
In 1864 he removed to Franklin, where for the suc-
ceeding ten years he occupied the position of clerk
and paymaster at the woolen mill (successively) of
Messrs. Griffin & Taylor, Taylor & Co'., M. T.
Stevens & Co., and he has henceforward devoted
his energies exclusively to the banking interests of
Franklin. In 1869 he with others organized the
Franklin Savings Bank, of which he has been treas-
urer from 1874 to the present time (1906), and he
was also one of the incorporators of the Franklin
National Bank. In politics he is a Republican.
For the years 1857-58-63-64 he represented Derry
in the lower house of the state legislature, and he
served as an assessor in Franklin for twelve years,
during which time the town profited by his ex-
cellent judgment in the valuation of property. His
fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic Order.
In his religious belief he is a Unitarian. He was
married May 30, 1850, to Miss Emma G. Gage,
daughter of Joseph and Adaline (Hamblet) Gage,
of Pelhani, New Hampshire. The children of this
union are : Frank, who will be again referred to.
Mary Adaline, born 1859, graduated from Smith
College in iSSr ; since 1893 she has been secretary
of the board of education in Franklin, where she
resides with her father and elder brother. John
P. Proctor, who is treasurer and superintendent of
the Franklin Light and Power Company, There
were also three children who died in infancy,
(VIII) Frank Proctor, eldest child of Alexis
and Emma (Gage) Proctor, was born in Derry,
September 18, 1856. His collegiate preparations
were concluded at the Kimball Union Academy,
Meriden, and he was graduated from Dartmouth
College with the class of 1878. He was subse-
quently for one year a law student in the office of
Messrs. Barnard and Barnard, Franklin, and in 1879
was appointed the first cashier of the Franklin Na-
tional Bank, in which capacity he has ever since
served with ability and faithfulness. In addition
to his regular duties at the national bank he is
serving as a trustee and member of the investment
committee of the Franklin Savings Bank ; as treas-
urer of the Franklin Falls Company, a corporation
which lias been largely instrumental in developing
the natural resources of that locality; and since the
incorporation of Franklin as a city he has held the
office of city treasurer, administering the financial
affairs of the municipality in a most careful and
judicious manner. In politics he is a Republican.
Aside from the business, financial, industrial and
political interests of Franklin, he devotes his
cp.ergies when opportunity permits to other fields of
usefulness, particularly that of local histor3-, and is
a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Mr. Proctor is a member of the Unitarian Church.
The Worcesters are of English
WORCESTER descent and were early settlers
in New Hampshire. They were
civilizers and patriots, and their name appears in the
muster rolls of both the French and Indian and the
Revolutionary wars. The various town records
show conclusively that citizenship and duty have
always been synonymous terms with this family;
that they have borne their part "each in their gen-
eration" in the public affairs of the community in
which they have lived. The long list of clergymen,
the graduates of Harvard College and other institu-
tions of learning, are evidences of their scholarly at-
tainments; and the muster rolls of the anny and
navy from the earliest settlement of our country to
the present time, prove their patriotism to have been
of the order that counted not the cost when their
country's flag was assailed,
(I) Rev. William Worcester, with his wife
Sarah and four children, namely : Samuel, William,
Sarah and Susannah, came from England and was
settled pastor of the church first gathered in Salis-
bury, Massachusetts. No production of his pen has
been transmitted to posterity to indicate his in-
tellectual attainments, but Cotton Mather in the
Magnalia enrolls his name in the list of the "Rever-
end, learned and holy divines, arriving such from
Europe to America, by whose evangelical ministry
the church in America have been illuminated."
Sarah, wife of Rev. William Worcester, died at
Salisbury, April 23, 1650. He married (second)
Mrs. Rebecca Hall, by whom he had six children,
namely: Sarah, (died young), Timothy, Moses,
Sarah,' Elizabeth (died young), and Elizabeth,
(Moses and descendants receive extended mention
in this article).
(II) Samuel, eldest child of Rev. William
Worcester, accompanied his father from England
and settled in Salisbury, where he was operating a
saw-mill as early as 1658. At the first recorded
meeting of the Merrimack people he was chosen
overseer, and he Avas the first representative from
Bradford to the general court, taking his seat Jan-
uary 16, 1679-S0. He was re-elected the ensuing
year, but died while on his way to Boston to re-
sume his seat.
(HI) Francis, son of Samuel Worcester, was
born in Rowley. Massachusetts, and became an inn-
keeper in Bradford, where his death occurred De-
cember 17, 1717. He possessed an amialile disposi-
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tion and was a general favorite in the coinnuinity.
He married Mary Gheney. (Mention of their son,
Francis, and descendants forms part of this article).
(IV) Benjamin, son of Francis Worcester, was
born in Bradford, August 25, 1709. He went to re-
side in Windsor, Vermont, and engaged in farming.
(V) Asa, son of Benjamin Worcester, was
born in Haverhill. Massachusetts, January 27, 1738.
At the age of sixteen years he enlisted for service in
the French and Indian war, and during the struggle
for national independence he served as a scout with
the rank of sergeant. He followed the cooper's
trade. He resided at the homestead in Windsor.
(VI) Asa, son of Sergeant Asa Worcester, was
born in Groton, Massachusetts, April 26, 1771. He
acquired possession of the homestead farm, and the
active period of his life was devoted to its cultiva-
tion. His wife was before marriage Mary Delano.
(VII) Chauncey, son of ."^sa and Mary (De-
lano) Worcester, was born at the family homestead
in Windsor, May 18. 1S12, and died there August 13,
18S4. He inherited and carried on the homestead
property, wliich was located in West Windsor, six
miles west of the village of Windsor. He married
Adeline Waldron, who bore him five children,
namely: Frank D., Inez Maria, Mary, George W.
and Susan D.
(VIII) Frank Delano, eldest child of Chauncey
and Adeline (Waldrcn) Worcester, was born in
West Wind.sor, February 4, 1852. His early educa-
tion was acquired in the public schools of West
Windsor and continued and completed at the Green
Mountain (Perkins) Institute, South Woodstock,
Vermont. For a period of ten years immediately
thereafter he taught school successfully in Windsor
county, and he was subsequently for four years em-
ployed as a clerk in Boston. Deciding to prepare
for the medical profession he chose the Homeopathic
School, and entering Hahnemann Medical College,
Chicago, he pursued a four years' course, graduating
with the class of 1885. He also acquired much val-
uable experience and observation in the Chicago
hospitals, and upon hi.^ return to Vermont entered
upon the practice of his profession in Springfield.
In i8g6 he removed to Keene, New Hampshire,
where he has built up a large and lucrative practice,
and is now a member of the board of health. Dr.
Worcester is a member of the American Institute of
Homeopathy, the Homeopathic Medical societies of
Vermont and New" Hampshire, the Masonic fratern-
ity and the Improved Order of Red Men. On
August 15. J 876, he married Belle Hubbcll, daugh-
ter of George and Phcobe (Ccffin) Ilubbell, of
Lake George. Dr. and Mrs. Worcester have a
daughter. May Worcester.
(II) Moses, second .son and third child of the
second wife of Rev. William Worcester, was born
in Salisbury, November 10. 1643. He removed to
Kittery in 1661, and was living in T731. He v.-as a
noted Indian fighter in his day and familiarly known
as "Old Contrary." He owned extensive tracts of
land in that part of Kittery now known as Berwick.
He was twice married and by his first wife had
three children: Thomas, William and Elizabeth.
(III) Thomas, son of Moses Worcester, was
l>orn in Salisbury, Massachusetts, or Kittery, Maine,
and received a grant of land in that part of Kittery
in which his father's property was located, and died
in Berwick (Kittery) in 1718. By his first wife
(name unknown) he had three children: Thomas,
William and Elizabeth. He married (second).
April 4, 1695, Mrs. Sarah Soper.
(IV) John, son of Thomas Worcester, was
born in Kitterj', and resided in Berwick and Leb-
anon, Maine. He married Lydia Remick, July 15,
1731, W whom he had .five children, Polly, John,
Lydia (who married General John Sullivan, Dur-
ham, New Hampshire). George and Lemuel.
(V) George, second son of John and Lydia
(Remick) Worcester, was born in Berwick, Maine,
lived in Berwick and Somersworth, New Hamp-
shire ; married Margaret Clements, by whom he had
nine children : Betsey, Ezekiel, Mark, Thomas,
Lemuel, Alexander, John, George and John.
(VI) Major Alexander Worcester, son of
George and Margaret (Clements) Worcester, was
born in Berw'ick, moved to Lebanon, Maine, and
January 25. i/q6, married Molly Libbey, by whom
he had six children : Ebenezer, Sally, Lemuel,
Hiram, "killed at the battle of Lake Erie," Mary
and George. He was major in the militia and a
man of standing and influence in the community.
In the War of 1812 he wras first lieutenant in Cap-
tain Bartholomew Thompson's company. First Regi-
ment, "Nowells" Massachusetts militia.
(VII) Lemuel, son of Alexander and Molly
(Libbey) Worcester, was born in Lebanon, Maine,
When a boy he served with his father in Captain
Thompson's company, and received disabilities for
which he received a pension from the United States
government. He married Margaret Pray, daughter
of Chadbourne Pray and Bracket, direct descendant
of John Bracket, of whom mention is made in his-
tory of Boston, Massachusetts, as giving material
aid to the city at time it was besieged by the British.
They had four children : Mary A., born March I,
1844, married Mark F. Wallingford. of Lebanon,
j\lair,e ; Horace L. and two who died in their in-
!':-.r.cy.
(\"1II) Colonel Horace L. Worcester, son of
Lemuel and Margaret (Pray) Worcester, was born
in Lebanon, Maine. March 28, 1846-. When six
years of age his parents moved to the town of
North Berwick, Maine, where he received his edu-
cation in the district schools, leaving home at the
age of sixteen to learn the trade of shoemaker. At
the breaking out of the war in 1S61, he was a boy
of fifteen years attending school. From its earliest
inception he was constantly soliciting his father's
permission to enlist. Not being successful after re-
peated attempts, in 1864 he went to Portland and
enlisted aboard the frigate "Sabine" in the navy,
giving his age as twenty-one. and "thus evading the
necessity of parents consent." From the "Sabine"
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he was sent to receiving ship "Ohio" at Charlestown
navy yard, Massachusetts. From the "Ohio" he
was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squad-
ron under Farragut. He was placed ahoard the re-
ceiving ship "Potomac" at Pensacda navy yard, and
from there assigned to the United States steamship
"Lackawanna," aboard of which he served until the
close of the war. It was stationed on the blockade
off Mobile and Galveston, interspersed with cruis-
ing. In the spring of 1865 he took part in the cap-
ture, or rather destruction, of .the rebel ram "Will-
iam H. Webb." which attempted to escape from
Red River past New Orleans, where the "Lacka-
wanna" with other men of war was laying at an-
chor. He was aboard the "Lackawanna" when she
was ordered to cruise in search of the formidable
ram" "Stonewall"; said cruise was not successful, as
the "Stonewall" surrendered to the Spanish author-
ities at Havana and was turned over to our gov-
ernment by them.
At the close of the war he returned home and
engaged in shoemaking and farming. In 1867 he
came to Rochester and worked in the shoe shop of
Messrs. E. G. & E. Wallace. June 27. 1872, he
married Millie A., daughter of Charles Greenfield,
one of Rochester's wealthiest and most respected
citizens. (See Torr-Grcenficld V). Later he
worked in Farmington, Dover. New Hampshire, and
in Natick, Massachusetts, cutting upper leather.
About 1877 ill health compelled him to seek out-of-
. doors employment and he served as baggage mas-
ter at the Great Falls & Conway Railroad depot in
Rochester three years. In 18S0, with his brother-
in-law, Frank Greenfield, he purchased the busi-
ness of A. T. Cotton, and for twelve years they
carried on the business of stationery, blank books,
variety store, papers and magazines. At the end of
twelve years, upon the desire of Mr. Greenfield to
.go west, Mr. Worcester purchased his interest and
continued the business until iSgg, when he sold out
to Edward Miles and retired from business.
With the exception of four years, 1S80 to 1884.
during which time he was town clerk, Mr. Worces-
ter absolutely refused to have his name used for any
political office although often importuned to do so.
Upon his retirement from business he was elected
mayor, serving two terms, and one term in the
legislature, resigning his seat in that body to accept
.the office of United States consul at Saltillo, Mex-
ico, to which office he had been appointed by the
president. After ei.ght months of pleasant duty
in Mexico, upon the death of Mr. C. W. Brown,
city clerk of Rochester, he was elected city clerk,
and clerk and collector of Rochester Water Works,
in 1903. whereupon he returned to Rochester and
resigned the office of United States consul. In
190S he was appointed by Judge McGill. clerk of the
police court, to fill vacancy caused by the death of
Henry F. Walker, the former clerk.
In 1867, when twenty-one years of age, he joined
Unity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Union,
New Hampshire, later joining Humane Lodge at
Rochester by demit. He is a member of Temple
Chapter of Masons at Rochester, and St. Paul Com-
mandcry, Knights Templar, at Dover, New Hamp-
shire, a member of Samp,son Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, serving as quartermaster and com-
mander of his post, also as chief mustering ofilcer
of the department twice, council of administration,
aide de camp on staff of department commander,
junior and senior vice and commander of depart-
ment of New Hampshire, and aide de camp on
staff of commander-in-chief. He is a member of
Kearsage Association Naval Veterans at Ports-
m.outh, New Hampshire. A member of the Far-
ragut Association, a body composed of those only
who served under Farragut in the Gulf, and a mem-
ber of the Order of Sons of American Revolution,
a member of the National Veteran Association, and
vice-president of the New Hampshire Veteran As-
sociation at The Weirs ; trustee of the Norway
Plains Savings Bank (oldest in years of service on
the board), and some years since, upon death of
President Charles Greenfield, was elected its presi-
dent, which office he held for several years, until
business interests demanding his attention in the
west for an indefinite time, he resigned the presi-
dency. He is one of the trustees of the Rochester
Public Library, and takes great interest in its wel-
fare and progress.
(IV) Rev. Francis (2), second son and fourth
child of Francis (i) and Mary (Cheney) Worces-
ter, was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, June 7,
169S. Fie lived in Bradford until 1722, and then in
Concord and Littleton, Massachusetts. In both of
the latter places he worked as a blacksmith. In
172S he was one of the selectmen of Bradford. He
then went to Boxford, Massachusetts, where he
was licensed to preach, and on June 18, 1735, he
was ordained over a Congregational church in Sand-
wich, Massachusetts, where he remained ten years
as pastor. One year after his dismission he re-
moved to New Hampshire, going first to Exeter and
then to Plaistow, and in 1750 to HoUis, where his de-
scendants have lived ever since. For the remain-
ing thirty-three years of his life he was employed
as an evangelist in preaching the gospel in the desti-
tute sections of New Hampshire and other parts of
New England. In the sixtieth year of his age he
wrote a series of "Meditations all in verse," which
was published in Boston in 1769. He was evidently
a devout man and a faithful student of the Bible,
though he lacked the education which was vouch-
safed to his great-grandson, notably the editor of the
Dictionary, in such plentiful degree. Rev. Fran-
cis Worcester married, April 18, 1720, .Abigail
Carlton, of Rowley, Massachusetts. There w-ere
five children : Francis^ born in Bradford, Massa-
chusetts, March 30, 1721, married, October 28, 1741,
Hannah Boynton, of Newbury, Massachusetts, and
died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, October 19,
1800. a representative and senator to the general
court of New Hampshire. Jesse, born in Bradford.
Massachusetts. September S, 1722, m.arried Patience
■ — ; w-ent to the siege of Oswego, and died
W'hile a prisoner in Montreal in 1757. Hannah,
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born in Brndford. Massachusetts. October 7, 1724,
married Churchill, and died March 2.
1S08. Samuel, born in Boxford, Massachusetts, May
7, 1731, drowned in Squaw Harbor in 1750. Noah,
whose sketch follows. After a wedded life of fift}--
four years Mrs. Abigail (Carlton) Worcester died
July 25, 1774. aged seventy-eight years. Her hus-
band subsequently married a Mrs. Martin. He died
October 18, 1783, at Hollis. New Hampshire, where
a tombstone records his life.
(V) Noah, fourth son and fifth and youngest
child of Francis and Abigail (Carlton) Worcester,
was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, October 4,
1735, moved with his father to Hollis, New Hamp-
shire, and succeeded to the possession of the home-
stead where he lived until his death at the age of
eighty-two. In the winter of 1775-76 he was cap-
tain of a company which marched to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, to re-inforce Washington's troops.
For forty years he was a justice of the peace, and
for sixty years an active member of the church.
He was a member of the convention which framed
the constitution of New Hampshire. "His strong
mind, sound judgment and strict integrity, gave a
value to his counsels, which was proverbial among
his fellow citizens. He was twice married. His
first wife was Lydia, daughter of Abraham Taylor,
of Hollis, New Hampshire, who was born
October 11, 1733, married, February 22, 1757, and
died July 6, 1772, leaving seven children. In less
than three months Captain Worcester married, Sep-
tember 29. 1772, Hepzibah Sherwin, who was born
in Boxford, Massachusetts, April 30, 1746. She was
the mother of nine children. Of Captain Worces-
ter's seven sons who lived to maturity, four be-
came clergyman : the eldest daughter of his second
wife married a clergyman, and another married a
deacon.
The eldest of the seven children of Noah and
Lydia (Taylor) Worcester was Noah, who was
born in Hollis, New Hampshire, November 25, 1758.
Upon the outbreak of the Revolution he enlisted as
fifer in the anny, being only, sixteen years old at the
time. He served more than a year in all. and was
present both at Bunker Hill and Bennington. He
was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church
at Thornton, New Hampshire, October 18, 1787,
where he remained twenty-two years. In May, 1813,
he moved to Brighton, Massachusetts, to assume
charge of a new periodical. The Christian Disciple.
He was the author of several religious essays. He
received the honorar3' degree of Master of Arts
from Dartmouth in 1791, and that of Doctor of
Divinit}' from Har\'ard in 1818. Dr. Worcester was
twice married. His first wife was Hannah, daugh-
ter of Moses Brown, -of New'buryport, Massachu-
setts. She was born May 6, 1760. married Novem-
ber 25. 1772, and died November 16, 1797, just after
the birth of her tenth child. Six months later he
married Hannah, datighter of Jeremiah Hunting-
ton, ot Norwich, Connecticut. Dr. Worcester died
at Brighton, Massachusetts, October 31, 1838. The
other children of Noah and Lydia (Taylor) Wor-
cester were : Jesse, whose sketch follows. Lydia,
born November 8. 1762, died January- 16, 1789.
Sarah, born March 24, 1765, married, May 27, 1782,
John Fox, of Dracut, Massachusetts, and Hardwick,
Vermont, had ten children, and died September
23, 1859. Leonard, born in Hollis. January i, 1767,
became editor and publisher of The Massachusetts
Sfy at Worcester, Massachusetts, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Peacham. Vermont, Octo-
ber 30, 1700, preached there thirty-eight years ;
married (first) Elizabeth Hopkins, of Hadley, Mas-
sachusetts, (second) Eunice Woodbury, of Salem,
Massachusetts, died at St. Johnsbury. Vermont,
May 28, 1846. Thomas, born in Hollis, November
22, 1768, ordained over the Congregational Church
at Salisbury, New Hampshire, November 9, 1791,
dismissed April 24. 1823: married, March 11, 1792,
Deborah Lee. of Manchester, Massachusetts, and
died at Salisbury, December 24, 1S31. Samuel, the
youngest of the seven children of Noah and Lydia
( Taylor) Worcester, was born in Hollis, New
Hampshire, November i, 1770, graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1795, ordained pastor of the
Congregational Church at Fitchburg, Massachu-
setts, September 27. 1797, and dismissed, September
8. 1802. He was installed pastor of the Tabernacle
Church in Salem, Massachusetts, April 20. 1803. At
the first meeting of the A. B. C. F. M. he was
chosen corresponding secretary. He performed the
duties of these two offices, receiving the help of an
assistant pastor in 1819, until his death, June 7, 1821,
at Brainard, East Tennessee. He was honored by
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton
College in 1811. He married, October 20, 1797,
Zervia. daughter of Dr. Jonathan Fox, of Dracut,
Massachusetts, and they had eleven children.
The nine children of Captain Noah Worcester
and his second wife, Hepzibah (Sherwin) Wor-
cester were : Hepsibah, born June 12, 1773, married,
January i, 1795, Rev. David Smith, of Hollis and
^.leridith, New Hampshire, died January 14, 1827.
William, born December 11, 1774, died January 10,
1775- William, born November 29, 1775, died Jan-
uary 13, 1776. Abigail, born June 29, 1777, died
November 30, 1778. David, born April 30, 1779,
died March 22, 1782. Ebenezer, born April 30,
1781, was a master carpenter; married (first) Mary,
daughter of William Punchard, of Salem, (second)
Mrs. Elizabeth Gerrish, of Salem, died in Stoneham,
Massachusetts, September 18, 1844. Hannah, born
March 17, 1783, married (first) Deacon Stephen
Thurston, of Bedford, New Hampshire, and
(second) Jonathan Ireland, of Dunbarton, New
Hampshire. David, born March 25, 1785, died
March 13, 1808. James, born February 23, 17S8,
lived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and various
other places, a teacher and painter; married (first)
Mary, daughter of Daniel Lawrence, of Hollis,
New Hampshire, and (second) Prudence, daughter
of Joseph Blood, of Har^'ard, Massachusetts, died
May 3, 1833. Captain Noah Worcester died in
Hollis, New Hampshire, August 13, 181 7. His
widow died July 2, 1831.
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(VI) Jesse, second son and child of Noah and
Lydia (Taylor) Worcester, was born in Hollis,
New Hampshire, April 30, 1761. In 1776. at t'le
age of fifteen, he accompanied the expedition to
Ticonderoga, and was afterwards repeatedly en-
rolled in the Continental army. He moved to Bed-
ford, New Hampshire, in 1782, where he spent the
first twelve years of his married life. In 1794 he
came back to HoIIis and succeeded to the homestead,
where he Uved until his death at the age of seventy-
three. In 180J he and his wife united with the
church at Hollis. On the same day they presented
their twelve children, six sons and six daughters,
for baptism; three sons were subsequently born
to them. Jesse Worcester was an occasional con-
tributor to the public prints, and an author of an
unpublished work, "The Chronicles of Nissitissit."
He married in 1782, Sarah, daughter of Josiah
Parker, of Hollis. She was born April 24, 1762,
and died April i, 1847, aged eighty-five years. Jesse
Hollis died January 20, 1834. Of the fifteen children
born to this couple, all but the eldest, who died
at the age of twenty-seven, married and lived to
mature years. The children were : Jesse, born No-
vember 30, 1782, died September 25. 1809. Joseph
Emerson, born August 24, 1784. Sarah, born March
12, 1786, married Daniel French, and lived in Hard-
wick, Vermont. Lydia, born February 22, 1789,
married, January 18, 1809, Deacon Samuel Taylor,
and lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. Abigail,
born December 15, 1790, married Lemuel Snow,
and lived in Utica, New York. Hannah, born June
22, 1792, married Francis Fuller, October 11, 1825,
lived in Hardwick, Vermont, and died June 6,
1853. Leonard, born March 22, 1794. Deborah,
born May 22, 1796, married Rev. Jacob N. Loomis,
September 6, 1822, and lived in Craftsbury, Ver-
mont. Martha, born October 24, 1797, married
Francis Fuller, February 30, 1S19, and died Sep-
tember 9, 1824. Taylor Oilman, born April 6, 1799.
John Newton, whose sketch follows. Henry Aiken,
born September 25, 1802. Samuel Thomas, born
August 30, 1804. Frederick Augustus, born Jan-
uary 28, 1807. David, born April 13, 1808.
The nine sons of this family present a remark-
able record for erudition, which it is believed can-
not be equalled by any other family in the state.
The eldest died just as he was about to enter Dart-
mouth. Of the other eight, six were college men,
two belonging to Yale and four to Harvard. The
second son, Joseph Emerson, was the author of the
world famous Worcester's Dictionary. He was
born in Bedford, New Hampshire, was graduated
from Yale College in 181 1, taught several years at
Salem, INIassachusetts, and after 1820 lived at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, where he produced the geo-
graphies, histories and dictionaries that have made
his name a household word. When in his fifty-
seventh year, in June, 1841, he married Amy Eliza-
beth, daughter of Dr. Joseph McKean, professor of
Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard College. Dr.
Worcester died October i"/, 1S65. Leonard Wor-
cester was a machinist and yeoman. He lived in
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Rochester, New York, Worcester and Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts. He married, June I, 1823. Sarah
Sternes, of Worcester. Taylor Oilman, of the young-
er Worcesters, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire.
He was graduated from Harvard College in 1823
and from the Andover Theological Seminary in
1827, was engaged for a few years in teaching and
in translating "Swedenborg's True Christian Re-
ligion," and in 1833 retired to the farm in Hollis
which had been occupied by three earlier genera-
tions of the family. He married, February 13, 1837,
Lucy S., daughter of James Bell, of Walden, Ver-
mont. They had six children : Mary Jane, born
December 20, 1837. Lucy E., February 22, 1839,
and who now lives on the old Worcester homestead.
William', November 7, 1840, father of William W.
Worcester, member of the junior class at Dart-
mouth (1907). Henry, April 8, 1844. Hariett E.,
July 14, 184s. Francis J., November I, 1848.
Henry Aiken Worcester, the sixth son of Jesse,
was graduated from Yale College in 1828, became
a Swedenborgian minister and preached at Abing-
ton, ]\Iassachusetts, and at Bath, Gardiner and Port-
land. !Maine. He married, August 26, 1838, Olive,
daughter of Rufus Gay, of Gardiner, Maine, and
died at Portland, Maine, May 24, 1841. SamueJ
Thomas Worcester, the seventh son of Jesse, was
graduated from Harvard College in 1830, was a
lawyer at Norwalk, Ohio, from 1835 to 1867, wheii
he removed to Nashua, New Hampshire. He was
a member of the Ohio senate in 1849-50, was elected
district judge in the tenth Ohio district in 1859,
and while holding that office was electe'd to the
LTnited States congress in 1861. He was the author
of many text-books and other publications, includ-
ing the History of Hollis, New Hampshire, I\Iay
12, 1825. He married Mary C. F. Wales
daughter of Samuel Wales, of Stoughton, ^ilassa-
chusetts. Frederick Augustus, eighth son of Jesse
Worcester, was graduated from Harvard College
in 1831. He practiced law at Townsend, Massachu-
setts, and was a member of the Massachusetts legis-
lature in 1856. He married, January 21, 1854,
Jane Vl., daughter of Charles Kellogg, of Amherst,
Massachusetts. David, ninth son, and youngest of
the fifteen children of Jesse and Sarah Worcester,
entered Harvard College in 1828, left during the
junior year, and taught school in China, Farmington
and Bangor. Maine. He was principal of the Ban-
gor high school for about ten years. He married.
June 6, 1832, Ellen, daughter of Joseph Scwall. of
Farmington.
(.VII) John Newton, fifth son and eleventh child
of Jesse and Sarah (Parker) Worcester, was bom
in Hollis, New Hampshire, February 7, 1801. He
was a farmer and lumberryan. He served as select-
man of his native town, and was a member of Gov-
ernor Berry's council in 1861-62. In politics he was
an independent. He married, December 26, 1826,
Sarah E., daughter of Phineas Holdcn, of Charles-
town. Massachusetts. She was born July 19, 1801,
and died January 4. 1874. They had nine childre;!
of whom four only are living in 1907. The cliildreii
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were Sarah Caroline, born October lo, 1827, married,
September 13, 1855. Jabez Augustus Sawj'er, and lived
in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Frances Ellen, born
July 4, 1830, married August 18, 1852, Charles S.
Farrar, of Pepperell, Massachusetts, and lived in
Elmira. New York. Martha, born May 12, 1833,
married Samuel W. Fletcher, December 6, 1868.
Abby Elizabeth, born April i, 1835. Charles Henry,
born January iS, 1837, a soldier in the war of 1861-
65. John Howard, born January iS, 1839, enlisted
in Company H, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers,
was wounded in the assault on Fort Wagner where
he was captured, but was soon exchanged and died on
the boat coming from Charleston, South Caro-
lina, to the North. Samuel Augustus, whose sketch
foUous. Frederick, born August 2, 1842. Franklin,
who-e sketch follows. John Newton Worcester
died March 5, 1884.
(VHI) Samuel Augustus, third son and seventli
child of John Newton and Sarah E. (Holden) Wor-
cester, was born June 29, 1840, in Hollis, New
Hampshire. He attended the public schools and the
academy at New Ipswich. New Hampshire. He is
a luiTiberman and farmer. He is also interested,
with his brothers, Franklin and Frederick, in the
furniture business in Cambridge, ^Massachusetts.
He has charge of the large farm which the brothers
own in Hollis. In politics he is a Republican. He
married Elizabeth B. Day, daughter of Rev. Pliny
Butts Day, D. D., a noted divine of Hollis. They
have two children : Charles Fred, born September
6, 1872. lives at home; and Carrie, born October 18,
1876. died January 21, 1892.
(VIII) Franklin, youngest of the nine children
of John Newton and Sarah E. (Holden) Worcester,
was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, October 27,
1845. He attended the schools in Hollis and fitted
for college at the Academy of New Ipswich, New
Hampshire. He was graduated from Dartmouth
in 1870. He then studied a year in Harvard Law
School, taking the two years' course in one. Upon
leaving school he was admitted to the bar of Jilid-
dlese.x county, Massachusetts. He then went to
Minneapolis and was about to enter into partner-
ship with Judge Atwater and the brother of Gen-
eral Joseph Hooker, but he returned home for his
books and was persuaded to stay by his parents.
He represented his town in the state legislature of
1875. and was state senator in 1887. While in the
legislature he was chairman of the railload com-
mittee when the Hazen-Atherton bill was intro-
duced. Mr. Worcester has always been a hard
worker for the interests of his section, in the
legislature and out. During the sessions of 1895
and 1897 he labored earnestly for a charter for a
railroad front Manchester to IMilford, New Hamp-
shire, but the Boston & !Maine corporation defeated
the movement. Later they were compelled to build
the road through the force of public sentiment.
His opposition to the railroad interests in behalf
of the people defeated Mr. Worcester for the nomi-
nation by the Republicans for governor in the year
1898. He was practically sure of the nomination
until within a week of the convention. Mr. Wor-
cester is a busy man, looking after his own varied
enterprises. In partnership with his brothers
Frederick and Samuel Augustus, under the firm
name of Worcester Brothers, he operates a furni-
ture store with an upholstery department employing
about forty hands at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The brothers do a large luinbering business in New
Hampshire, operating one saw mill of their own,
and renting a nuinber of others. They also carry
on a large farm at the home place in Hollis.
This is a name found early in the New
BIGELOW England records with a great vari-
ety of spellings. In some places it
is written, Biglo. Another wide variation is Begu-
lej', and various forms are given by various writers
of the Colonial days. The name has been well repre-
sented, both as to numbers and in the character of
citizenship throughout the country. It is from the
Anglo-Saxon biggan (big) and hlaew, hl.-tw (a hill,
or barrow) ; the place of residence of the person
who finally took it as a surname.
(I) John Bigelow was baptized in England, Feb-
ruary 16, 1617, and came to Watertown, Massachu-
setts, very early. He died July 14, 1703. at the age
of eightj'-six years. He married, in Watertown,
October 30, 1642, Mary Warren, who was also a
native of England. She died October 19, 1691. He
married (second), in 1694, Sarah Benis. He had
six sons and six daughters, and was the ancestor
of numerous families of the name throughout New
England. His sons were: John, Jonathan, Daniel,
Samuel, Joshua and James.
(II) Samuel, fourth son of John and ^lary
(Warren) Bigelow, was born October 28, 1653, in
\Vatertown, and was an innkeeper there from 1702
to 1716. He was admitted to full communion March
4. 1688, and was made a freeman April 16, 1690,
and represented the town at the general court in
1708-09-10. He married, June 3, 1674, Mary Flagg
who was born June 14, 1657. and died September 7,
1720, a daughter of Thomas and iNIary Flagg. They
had ten children, nine of whom are given as fol-
lows : John, Mary, Samuel, Sarah, Thomas, Martha,
Hannah, Isaac and Deliverance. (Mention of
Thomas and descendants forms part of this article).
(III) John (2), eldest child of Samuel and Mary
(Flagg) Bigelow, was born May 9, 1675. in Water-
town, and settled in ^Marlboro, Massachusetts. In
1705 he was at the garrison house of Mr. Thomas
Sawyer, and with Sawyer and his sons was taken
captive by the Indians and conveyed to Canada.
Bigelow and Sawyer were both ingenious mechanics
and they proposed to the governor of Montreal to
erect a saw mill, and thereby ransom themselves
from captivity. This was accepted, and after they
had fulfilled their part with some delays, they were
permitted to return with their friends. In token
of his gratitude for deliverance from captivity, Mr.
Bigelow nained the daughters born after his return
Comfort and Freedom. He died September 28,
1769. more than ninety-four years old. He married,
June 12, 1696, Jerusha Garfield, who died January
16, 175S. Their children were: Jcruslia. Thankful,
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Joseph, John, Comfort. Freedom, Anna and Gersh-
om (twins), Jotham. Benjamin and Sarah.
(IV) Gershom, third son and eighth cliild of
John (2) and Jerusha (Garfield) Bigelow, was born
November 13, 1714, in Marlboro, and died in that
town, January 3, 1812, in his ninety-eighth year.
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Howe. She
died June 9, 1802, aged eighty-four years. Their
children were : Timothy, Ivory, Mary and .Anna.
(V) Ivory, second son of Gershom and Mary
(Howe) Bigelow, was born October 7, 1741, in
Marlboro. Massachusetts. He was a lieutenant of
the militia of that town, where he died February
14, 1804. He married, .lugust 13, 1763, Sophia
Banister, daughter of John and .'\bigail Ban-
ister. She survived her husband more than
twenty-si.x years, and died August 13, 1830, at the
age of eighty-three. Their children were ; Wil-
liam, Christopher, Solomon. Gershom, Martha, .Abi-
gail, John, Sophia, Phoebe, Mary, .Anna, Ivory and
Benjamin.
(VI) William, eldest child of Ivory and Sophia
(Banister) Bigelow, was born, 1764, in Marlboro,
and died there December 30, 1807, in his thirty-
fourth year. He married, May 14, 1786, Catherine,
daughter of .Antipas Brigham. She survived him
more than twenty-three years, and died February
2.?. 1831, at the age of si.xty-four. Their children
were: John. Edward, .Asa, .Abigail, Jotham, .Arti-
mus, Levi, .Adeline, Luther and William.
(VII) John, eldest child of William and Cather-
ine (Brigham) Bigelow, was born October 25, 1786,
in Marlboro, and died in 1824. He married, Sep-
tember 3, 1809, Hepzabeth Barnes, daughter of Col-
onel Lovewell Barnes, of Marlboro.
(VIII) Isabella, daughter of John and Hep-
zabeth (Barnes) Bigelow, was born December 28,
1809, in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and married,
April to, 1828, David (2) Trull. (See Trull V).
(III) Lieutenant Thomas, fifth child and third
son of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow, was
born in Watertown. October 24, 1683. He married
and settled in Marlboro. He afterwards moved to
Waltham, where he was selectman 1738-40-41. and
representative 1738 and 1741. He died in Waltham,
October 6, 1756. His will was proved November
15, same year. He married, July 12, 1705, Mary
Livcrmore, born .April 11, 16S4, daughter of Lieu-
tenant John and Hannah Livcrmore, of Watertown.
She died .August 14, 1753. Their children were:
Thomas. Mary, Grace, Uriah, Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Sarah and Josiah, whose sketch follows.
(IV) Lieutenant Josiah, sixth son and ninth
and youngest child of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary
(Livcrmore) Bigelow, w-as born in Waltham. July
3, 1730, and died in Waltham July IS, 1810, aged
eighty years. He lived for a time in Waltham, and
afterwards in Weston. He was prominent in town
affairs and was a military man, being lieutenant of
Captain Israel Whittemore's artillery company. He
marched with this company on the alarm of .April
I9> ■775. at which time the company was in service
four days. He married, July 27, 1749, Mary Har-
rington, born March 8, T730, daughter of Jonas and
.Abigail (Stearns) Harrington of Watertown. Their
children were : William, Anna, Uriah (died
young). Converse, Eunice, .\lphcus. Mary, Uriah,
Tliomas and Sarah.
(V) Deacon Thomas (2), ninth child and sixtli
son of Josiah and Mary (Harrington) Bigelow,
was born in Waltham, .August 11, 1768, (probably)
and died in Weston, January 23, 1856. He lived
for several years in Waltham ; about 1802 he moved
to Weston, where he was deacon of the church for
many years. He married, November 3, 1791, Mir-
iam Hager, who died in Weston, August 21, 1818.
He married (second), 1819, Mrs. .Abigail Hastings,
who died Novenrber 5, 1862. The children, all by
the first wife, were :. Thomas, Maria, Orilla, Wash-
ington, Isaac, Charles and Marshall.
(VI) Isaac, fifth child and third son of Deacon
Thomas (2) and Miriam (Hager) Bigelow, was
born in Weston. Massachusetts. ]\Iarch 19, 1802,
and died in Charlestown, May 8, 1849. He mar-
ried, October 2, 1823, Harriet Warren of Lincoln,
who died February 18, 1852. The children were:
Isaac Alqnzo, Harriet Maria, Mary Caroline. Susan
E. and Thomas Henry. Isaac .A., born March 21,
1825, married Nell C. Munroe. Harriet M., Sep-
tember 29, 1827; married, January 4, 1848, Henry
P. Hall of Chelsea. Mary C.. August 10, 183 1 ;
married, December 13, 1853, Hiram Rollins. Susan
E., -April 26, 1837, married, November i5, 1861,
Hon. Joshua G. Hall of Dover, New Hampshire.
(See Hall \T). Thomas H., October, 1839; en-
listed May 2^, 1861, in the First Regiment, Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served as ser-
geant of Company H, was wounded at the battle
of Chancellorsville, Virginia, and died from his
injuries, June 2, 1863.
Tliis name is first found at Lynn,
DIMONU Massachusetts, and is soon trans-
ported to New Hampshire, where it
has had worthy representatives in various localities
down to the present daj-. It has always been nu-
merously represented in southern Maine and along
tlie New Hampshire coast.
(I) Israel Dimond w-as a resident of Amcsbury,
Massachusetts, where he married, January 5, 1691,
.Abiell Prowse, daughter of John and Hannah
(Barnes) Prowse. He is recorded as of Boston in
1690, and died November 13, 1716, in .Amcsbury.
His will was dated nine days previously, and was
proven in May following. His widow married, No-
vember II, 1718, Richard (3) Bartlett, of .Ames-
bury. Israel Dimond's children were : Hannah,
Reuben and Elizabeth.
(II) Reuben, only son of Israel and .Abiell
(Prowse) Dimond, was born February 8, 1695, in
-Amesbury, and married, December 20, 1721, Dorothy
Worthen, daughter of Thomas, and granddaughter
of Ezekiel Worthen, of .Amesbury, Her mother was
Hannah (.Annis) Worthen. She was born October
5, 1700 (.Amesbury records say 1699). When the
province line between Massachusetts and New
Hampshire was located in 1741. many residents of
.Amesbury found themselves in the latter colony. On
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the organization nf the town of South Hampton in
1742, Reuben Dimond was elected town clerk, and
the records bear frequent repetition of his name. It
is not probable that he was a member of the church,
as no records appear in the archives of that body
pertaining to him or his children. At that date
people were growing liberal, and one might be a
voter and hold office who was not a church member.
In April and May, 1746, he was a soldier in a
company of scouts under command of Captain John
Gofife, and he served as selectman, as well as clerk,
of South Hampton. He died about 1770. His will,
on record at Concord, was dated April i. 1764. and
the bond of the executor is dated December 26, 1770.
This instrument shows him to fiave been in posses-
sion of large tracts of land. To his son Israel, of
Kingston, he gives land in that town ; to son Eze-
kiel, land in Concord ; and son Isaac, of Exeter,
received land in that town. There were four daugh-
ters living in 1764, namely: Hannah, Dorothy, Ju-
dith (wife of Joseph French) and Miriam (Mrs.
Benjamin Tewksbnry).
(Ill) Ezekiel. second son of Reuben and Dorothy
(Worthen) Dimond, was born in South Hampton
(then Amesbury, Massachusetts), about 1725, and
continued to reside there until about 1750. His wife,
Miriam (Fowler) Dimond, was born about 1727,
and was baptized in the South Hampton Church,
January 15, 1749. In the following year Mr. Dimond
settled at Concord. He was the first settler on the
farm now owned by Isaac N. Abbott, on what has
ever since been called Dimond Hill, and became an
extensive land owner. He built a log house on the
brow of the hill. During the period of Indian
alarms he and his family often lived in the
garrison around the house of Rev. Mr. Walker in
the village of Rumford (Concord). As these
alarms were frequent they often moved back and
forth between the farm and the fort. Once when
alarmed by Indians Mrs. Dimond had a well in
her loom, and she took out the yarn beam and
wound the reed and harness about it and carried it
to the fort and wove it there. Ezekiel Dimond was
surveyor of highways, 1768 to 1777, inclusive: tyth-
ingman, 1772 to 1775: constable, 1778; petit juror,
twice in 1779: and selectman in 1779. Mr. Dimond
and his wife were well educated for the times, and
taught their children so successfully that they could
read, write and cipher well. Some of the older
children never went to school over six weeks. They
learned to write lying on the cabin floor, using pitch
pine knots for candles and birch bark instead of pa-
per. Ezekiel Dimond and his wife were members
of Parson Walker's Church. Mr. Dimond died Feb-
ruary 22, 1800, aged seventy-five: and his wife
April, 1809, aged eighty-two. The first person bur-
ied in the burying ground at Millville is said to
have been Mrs. Sally, first wife of John Dimond,
about 1797. Ezekiel Dimond was the second.
Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond were the parents
of ten children— seven sons and three daughters;
two of whom died in infancy. Four of the sons were
in the Revolutionary war: one of them was out
three years, and the others out a few montlis at
a time. All the sons except one lived to be over
seventy years of age, and two were between eighty
and ninety. Their second child, a daughter, lived
to be over seventy-five. The names of eight of
the children are given as follows: Ezekiel, Isaac,
John, Reuben. Abner, Miriam. Israel and Jacob.
(Mention of Reuben and descendants appears in
this article).
(IV) John, third son of Ezekiel and Marj-
( Fowler) Dimond, was born 1764, in Concord,
where he died .-Kpril 14, 1S30. He married (first)
Sarah Emerson, who died April 4, 1798, and her
body was the first deposited in the cemetery at
Millville. Concord. He married (second) Mary
Quig Stevens. His children, all born of the first
wife, were: David, Dolly, Miriam, Sarah, Isaac,
John, Samuel, Elizabeth. Oiildren by second wife
were Ruth, .\bigail, Mary and Benjamin.
(V) Samuel, fourth son and seventh child of
John and Sarah (Emerson) Dimond, was born
July 29. 1794, in Concord, and was reared on his
father's farm in that town. He learned the cooper's
trade wdiich he followed for some years, and sub-
sequently engaged in merchandising, having a store
at West Concord. After a successful year he sold
out and removed to a farm which was long occu-
pied by his descendants. He married, August 17.
1822, Susan Blanchard, born March i, I795. widow
of Samuel Blanchard, and daughter of Reuben and
Mary (Currier) Dimond. (See Reuben IV). He
died" in 1866. and was survived by his widow for
eleven years. She passed away December 23, 1877.
Their children were: George, Esther (died young),
Oral John S.. A. LuciUa, Esther F., Reuben O.,
Clara A.. William R., Mary S., Susan and Ellen H.
(VI) George, son of Samuel and Susan (Di-
mond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born at West Con-
cord 182^. married, January. 1851, Mary Chandler,
of Saco Elaine. Their children are: i.
Thomas C, born January, 1852, died unmar-
ried in Brooklyn, New York, 1884. 2. Susan J
born June, 18^3. married, April 29. 1885, Howard
I ^iken of Portsmouth, New Hampshire: no
fimilv ^ Samuel G.. born October. 1855. unniar-
ried ■ 4 Oral H., born 1857. died December, ibpi^
S Mary Elizabeth, born April 10, i860, married
George S. Lovcioy, of Boston, have tvvo sons,
George H.. born September, 1885; Wilham M., born
November, 1886.
(VI) Oral has not been heard of since 1844,
was then in California.
(VI) John S., son of Samuel and Susan (Di-
mond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born February 25,
1828. married, 1853. Eliza Williams, of Georgetown,
Maine Thev have one son, William T., born
December, i860, married, in 1888. Jennie Hunkins :
they have one daughter, Ina Esther.
'(VI) A. Lucilla, daughter of Samuel and Susan
(Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond born Janu.yy 25.
,830, married, January 21, .859. W. \\ . Hunt, who
died 1893. They had one child. Mary S., born
Februai-y 10. i860. , , c
(VI) Esther F.. daughter of Samuel and :?usan
(Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, was born Aprd
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24. 1S32, in Concord, and married, November 21,
1866, Albert P. Morrison, of Boston, Massachusetts,
•whom she survives, and now resides in Salisbury.
(See Morrison).
(VI) Reuben O., son of Samuel and Susan
(Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born in Concord.
Jlay i6, 1834, married (first) Mary Boothby, of
Maine. Married (second) Margaret , and
reside.^ in Elmira. New York.
(VI) William R., son of Samuel and Susan
(Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born December
22, 1837, married. November 10, 1869. Emma A.
Donger. He served in the Sixteenth New Hamp-
shire Volunteers in the Civil war. Died at New-
ton, Lower Falls, Massachusetts, September, 1896.
No family.
(VI) Mary S., daughter of Samuel and Susan
(Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born November
10, 1840. married, March 22. 1865, Charles G. Green-
leaf. Their children: Anna L., born March 19,
1868. Carl D.. born July 27, 1876.
(VI) Ellen H., daughter of Samuel and Susan
(Dimond) (Blanchard) Dimond, born June 29,
1845. married Fred. A. Horr. No family.
(IV) Reuben, son of Ezekiel and Miriam (Fow-
ler) Dimond, was born on Dimond Hill, about
1755, and died November 17, 1825. He was a mem-
ber of Rev. Mr. McFarland's First Congregational
Church, but not at first a supporter of the pastor.
He was a quiet citizen, devoting most of his time
and attention to his own business ; was a farmer
and passed the greater part of his life in Concord,
on a farm west of Long Pond He married, 1780,
Mary Currier, born about 1757, died March, 1846,
at Concord, New Hampshire. Their children were :
Sarah. Esther. William, Daniel, Hannah, Jacob,
Molly, Judith, Susan, Zilpha and Oral. The young-
est of these died at the age of fifty, while the
■others lived to be from seventy to ninety years of
:age. Susan became the wife of Samuel Dimond
(see Samuel).
(V) Jacob, sixth child and third son of Reuben
and Mary (Currier) Dimond, was born in Con-
cord. September s, 1789, and died April 15, 1879,
aged almost ninety years. He lived on a farm on
West Parish road, which contained about seventy
acres, .\fter attending the common schools, Jacob
Dimond went to Boscawen and learned the trade
of wheelwright. For years he had a small
shop on his farm where he made wheels for spin-
ning flax, until their manufacture by machinery
ruined his business, when he turned his attention
to the making of carriage wheels. He was indus-
trious and thrifty and gradually added to his landed
property, till at the time of his death he was the
proprietor of a goodly number of acres. In politics
he was a Whig, and served one or two terms in the
legislature. He was a member of the North Church
and a charter member of the West Concord Church.
He married Rose Abbot, daughter of Ezra Abbot,
of Concord, and they had one child, Elbridge.
{\V) Elbridge, only son of Jacob and Rose
(.■\bbot) Dimond, was bom .August 4, 1818. and
-died on his farm. December 24. 1902. He acquired
a common school education and lived on the farm
with his father, w-hich he assisted in cultivating,
and also learned the wheelwright's trade from his
father. In 1863 he came into possession of the
paternal homestead, to which he added by various
purchases. There the remainder of his life was
spent. He was a life-long member of the Congre-
gational Church. He was a Republican after the
rise of that party, and was selectman one term ;
alderman in 1857 and 1858, and represented ward
three of Concord in the legislature in 1859-60. He
married. April 11, 1843, Jeannette Hoit, daughter
of Enoch and Mary (French) Hoit, born January
24, 1823, died September 23, 1895. Mr. Hoit was
the owner of a large fami a short distance from the
Dimond farm on "Horse Hill." The children bom
of this marriage were : Gilman Hoit, born May 31,
1844. and Frank E.
(VII) Frank Elbridge, son of Elbridge and
Jeanette (Hoit) Dimond, was born September 21,
i860, and was educated in the common schools and
academy at Penacook. He then returned to the
paternal homestead where he has since resided.
This farm contains two hundred acres, has good
buildings, is well improved and well stocked. The
house was built in 1858 and the barn in 1894. Mr.
Dimond is an energetic, prosperous farmer, and
takes an active part in public matters. He was select-
man for his ward for two years, served two years
each in the common council and the board of alder-
men, for ward three. He is a Republican, and is a
member of the Congregational Church. He was one
of the constituent members of Penacook Park Grange,
No. 84. Patrons of Husbandry, at West Concord, in
which he still retains his membership. He was its
second master, and many years secretary. He married,
June 14, 1883, Mattie E. Carter, daughter of Au-
gustine and Sarah E. (Restieaux) Carter. She was
born in Hopkinton, March 3, 1861. (See Carter,
VII). They have one son: Oliver Carter, bom
October l, 1888. graduated in 1906, at Durham, in
the two years course.
The frequent appearance of tliis name
^^TGGIN in the records of Rockingham county
indicates that it was borne by im-
portant and useful citizens, but the meagreness of
those records renders it very difficult to follow any
line of descent with certainty or satisfaction. The
following, however, can be relied upon as accurate,
a record of the careers of worthy people.
(I) Captain Thomas Wiggin, came from
Shrewsbury, England, and settled in New Hamp-
shire in 16,30. He had a large grant of land which
lay outside of any organized territory, and was
known as Squamscott, an Indian name. From 1656
to 1692, he paid taxes in Hampton, and was regarded
as attached to that town. The territory is now a
part of Stratham, and the records of this town
show that a large portion of the inhabitants bore the
r.ame down to a very recent date.
In 1631 he was appointed agent and superintend-
ent of the Dover plantation. Whether or not he came
over W'ith Winthrop has not been definitely determined,
mo
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but he was very intimate vvitli the ^lassachusetts
Bay governor, who wrote in the highest terms of
his ability and worth. That Wiggin was considered
a man of more than ordinary account is evidenced
by the fact that he was placed in charge of the Up-
per Plantation (so called), which embraced Diver,
Durham and Stratham, with a portion of Newing-
ton and Greenland. In the records he is referred
to as governor and evidently exercised the full
power of a colonial chief magistrate. In 1632 he
was sent to England in the interests of the colony
and "did much to avert the evils that threatened it
from the enmity of Gorges and Mason." Upon his
return he was accompanied by several families, in-
cluding people of some account, and, as another
record adds, others "of no account." He retained
his office until 1636, when he was succeeded by
George Burdette, but for a number of years after-
wards he was closely identified with the public
affairs of the colony, and upon its union with Mas-
sachusetts he was appointed a magistrate. In 1645
he was deputy to the general court from Dover,
and from 1650 to 1664 was one of the assistants
to the governor of Massachusetts, being the only
one frorn New Hampshire. His death occurred
about the year 1667. The Christian name of his
wife was Catherine, and it was supposed that he
married her in England during his visit there in
1632 and 33. They had children baptized September
26, 1641, under the names of Andrew, Mary and
Thomas. Descendants of Governor Wiggin are
quite numerous in New Hampshire as well as in
the other New England states, and not a few of
them possess to a more or less degree the strong
characteristics of their sturdy Puritan ancestors.
(II) Andrew, the elder son of Governor Thomas
and Catherine Wiggin. was born about the year
l63S' At the time of his marriage his parents gave
him a deed of "all our land called or known by the
name of Quamscott, being three miles square or
thereabouts," in the neighborhood of Exeter, this
state. Andrew does not appear to have been much
in public life ; in fact the most interesting thing
about his career was his marriage, which took place
about the year 1659 to Hannah Bradstreet, daughter
of Governor Simon Bradstreet, of' Andover, Massa-
chusetts. Hannah Bradstreet's mother was Ann
Dudley, a daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley,
who was celebrated for her accomplishments and
practical gifts. A small volume of her verse was
published, probably one of the first offerings to the
mass, issued in this country. The deed of the tract
of land called "Quamscott," was given to the newly
married couple by Governor Wiggin and his wife,
June 4, 1663. Andrew and Hannah (Bradstreet)
Wiggin had nine children : Thomas, Simon, men-
tioned below; Andrew, Jonathan Bradstreet, Abigail,
Mary, Dorothy, Sarah, and another daughter whose
christian name is unknown, but who became the
wife of Samuel Wentworth. (Mention of Brad-
street and descendants appears in this work), An-
drew Wiggin died in 1710 at the age of seventy-five,
and his wife died about three years earlier.
(HI) Simon, second son of Andrew and Han-
nah (Bradstreet) Wiggin, was born April 17, 1664.
The name of his first wife, the mother of his three
children, is unknown. His second wife, the widow
of Robert Tufton, was his first cousin, originally
Catherine Wiggin, daughter of Thomas and grand-
daughter of Governor Thomas Wiggin. Prior to
the second marriage Captain Simon Wiggin made a
marriage contract with his cousin Catherine. In
this document, dated October 29, 1703, he agrees to
take her "out of pure love and without anything be-
side her person." This would seem to indicate that
her first husband might have left her considerable
propeny, as Catherine Wiggin formally relin-
quishes any claim upon it. Mrs. Catherine Wiggin
in her will speaks of her daughter Elizabeth, wife of
Walter Philbrick, and also of three grandsons, two
of whom bore the name of Tufton, indicating that
she had a married son. The children of Captain
Simon Wiggin were: Hannah, Deborah, mentioned
below, and Lieutenant Simon. Captain Simon died
about the year 1720, and his widow, Mrs. Catherine
Wiggin, survived him about eighteen years.
(IV) Deborah, second daughter and child of
Captain Simon and his first wife, was born about
1700. and married Nathan Goss, of Slratham, New
Hampshire. (See Goss I).
(III) Bradstreet, fifth son of Andrew (2) and
Hannah (Bradstreet) Wiggin, was born in 1676, in
Squamscott and resided in that district. He was
married in Hampton, August 25, 1697, to Ann Chase,
who was born January g, 1678, in Hampton, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Rachel (Partridge) Chase, and
granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Philbrick)
Chase, of Hampton (see Chase, V). Their eldest
child was born at Exeter, and all are recorded at
Hampton, namely: Chase, Thomas, Elizabeth and
Joseph.
(IV) Joseph, youngest child of Bradstreet and
Ann (Chase) Wiggin, was born March 30, 1707, in
Stratham, and resided in that town. The baptismal
name of his first wife was Susanna, and their chil-
dren are recorded in Stratham as follows : Joseph,
David, Benjamin, Chase and Martha. His second
wife was named Patience, and their children were :
Paul, Noah, Susanna, Anna, Jonathan, William,
Elizabeth, Thomas and Patience. No record of
either marriage appears. The first wife died before
1754, (probably before 1753), as the first child of
the second wife was born in February, 1754.
(V) Benjamin, third son of Joseph and Sus-
anna Wiggin. was born February 14, 1743. ■"
Stratham and made his home in his native town.
No record of his marriage can be found but it is
shown that his wife was Hannah Parsons. N&
children are found in public records, but it is a
matter of family knowledge that they had a son
Mark.
(VI) Mark Wiggin, son of Benjamin and Han-
nah (Parsons) Wiggin, was born in Stratham. He
married, August 5, 1807, Huldah Swett, at Moulton-
borough. Both are registered as Tuftonborough.
Tlieir children were: Hannah, Zorada, Mary,
Charles, Ann, William, John, Julia and Emily.
Zoroda married Benjamin Abbott (see Abbott, II) ;
Mary .married Charles Edgerly ; Charles M. mar-
ried a Miss Piper ; John T. married Mehitabler
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Wiggin : Julia l)ecame the wife of Jonathan L. Mor-
rison ; and Emily, wife of Augustus Mclntyre.
(VII) William, sixth child of Mark and
Huldah (Svvett) Wiggin, was born in Tuftonborough
and was a farmer. William Wiggin and Dolly
Snell, of Tuftonborough. were married December i,
1814, by Rev. Isaac Townsend, of Wolfboro. Their
children were : Woodbury, Abigail, Elizabeth. Wil-
liam, Polly. John L., Vesta, Isaiah S., George Dana
and (twins), and Joseph A.
(VIII) William (2). fourth child of William
(i) and Dolly (Snell) Wiggin, was born in Tufton-
borough. and was a lifelong farmer. Like his an-
cestors he was a diligent laborer, a good citizen and
the father of a goodly family. He inarried Ann
Wiggin, a daughter of Mark and Huldah (Swett)
Wiggin. and thej- had : Edward, deceased ; Louise,
now j\Irs. Benjamin Lucas; Laura, unmarried, a
resident of Wolfborough ; Rev. Frederick A., pastor
of Unity Church. Boston ; and Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Charles Johnson.
(I) Daniel Wiggin was a native of Stratham
where he >pcnt his life in farming. He was mar-
ried to Deborah Wiggin by Rev. James Miltimore,
of Stratham, .August 7, 1794. Their children were:
John A.. Daniel, Thomas Jefl'erson, James Madison.
Nancy, Maria and Eliza, all of whotu are buried in
Lakeview cemetery. Wolfborough.
(II) James JNIadison. fourth son and child of
Daniel and Deborah (Wiggin) Wiggin, was born
and died in Wolfborough, where he was a successful
farmer and a respected citizen. James M. Wiggin.
of Wolfborough, and Carolina B. Wiggin. daughter
of James and Ruth (Varney) Wiggin, of Tufton-
borough. were married by Thomas Rust, justice of
the peace, of Wolfborough, December 15. 18,^1.
They were the parents of George Wiggin. of Tufton-
borough, and Eliza C. Wiggin, who married Benja-
min K. Webster (see Webster, III).
(I) Henry Wiggin was married. March ,ii. 1765,
to Lydia Shute, daughter of ^lichael Shutc. whose
wife's maiden name w'as Welthon. Lydia (Shute)
Wiggin died July 22, 1784. Her children were :
Michael, born 1765; Henry, 1767; Lydia (died
young), Welthon, Susanna, Elizabeth and Lydia.
(II) Henry (2), second son of Henry (i) and Lydia
(Shute) Wiggin, was born January 5, 1767. He
was married June 29, 1797, in Wakefield, New
Hampshire, to Betsey Clark, who was born Decem-
ber 31, 1770, and died November 25, 1836.
(III) Levi Barker, son of Henry and Betsey
(Clark) Wiggin, was born March 10, 181 1, in
Wakefield, and went from that town to Jackson,
where he was an industrious farmer. He was a
descendant of Governor Thomas Wiggin through
the latter's son Andrew, and therefore belonged
to the Stratham branch of the family. The maiden
name of his wife is not at hand, neither is a list
of his children, of whom there were nine.
(II) Henry, son of Barker Levi Wiggin, was
born in Jackson in 1845. He was a stone-mason by
trade, and followed that occupation in connection
with farming for a greater part of his active life.
A kind-hearted, generous man, he was a universal
favorite in Jackson, and his death, which occurred
there in 1901, was the cause of sincere regret among
his large circle of friends and acquaintance.-. He
married, October 25, 1863, Mary B. Trickey, daugh-
ter of Captain Joshua H. Trickey, and reared a
family of three children, namely: Martha F-., .-Mice
T. (who is now the wife ■ of Brackett Hurling,
manager of the General Wentworth estate), and
Henry M., M. D., of Whitefield.
(Ill) Henry Mayhew, M. D., youngest child anil
only son of Henry and Mary B. (Trickey) Wi.ggin,
was born in Jackson, December 14, 1868. From
the public schools of his native town he went to
the Bridgton (Maine) Academy, and although
forced to earn the sum necessary for his tuition
and expenses, thereby being obliged to absent him-
self one term each year, he pursued the re.i^ular
course in three years. He subsequently pursued a
scientific and a commercial course, and decided to
enter the medical profession as a homoeopath he
became a student in the medical department of the
Boston University, graduating in 1895. ■'^ f^w days
after graduating he went to Whitefield. where for
the ensuing six years he was attached to Dr. Mor-
rison's Hospital and in connection with the position
on the regular stai^ of that institution he has prac-
ticed his profession in that town, doing a genera!
practice. Since leaving the university his profes-
sional progress has been both rapid and substantial
and in addition to being a skillful operator he has
attained a high reputation as an expert in the diag-
nosis of diseases. Dr. Wiggin is a member of the
New Hampshire State Homeopathic and the Coos
County medical societies, and the American Insti-
tute of Homoeopathy. For a period of five years he
has served as state medical examiner. He affiliates
with the jNIasonic order, the Knights of Pythias
and the Benevolent Order of Elks. He married,
November 6, 1895, Georgiana I. Russell, daughter
of George A. Russell, of Dorchester, ilassachusetts,
and his two sons, Chester Henry and Rus>ell Mor-
rison.
This Wiggin family, which is of Eng-
WIGGIN lish origin, went to Bedford from East
Boston some forty years ago. and has
ever since been identified with the dairying industry
of that town.
(I) John Thomas Wiggin resided in North
Chelsea (now Revere), Massachusetts. He was a
farmer. The maiden name of his wife was Mary
Ann Hatch. Their children were : Sarah, (ieorge
H. and John T.
(II) George Hatch, second child and cUle-: -on
of John Thomas and Mary Ann (Hatch) \\'i,ggin,
was born in North Chelsea, May 22. 1S30. When a
young man he became a section hand on the Grand
Junction railway, over which is transported all of
the freight from the various lines entering Boston
to the East Boston terminal, and he rose to the
position of road-master. He was also employed for
some time in the warehouse connected with the
foreign steamship lines. In 1866 he moved his fam-
ily from East Boston to Bedford, where he pur-
chased jointly with his brother-in-law, Henry Tay-
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lor, the old Bedford Poor Farm, and was thence
forward engaged in the milk business for some
years. He lived on the farm until his death, which
occurred October 28, 1891, He was quite active in
political affairs, serving as a delegate to the Republi-
can state convention in 1S88. but was best known
as an amateur musician, playing the flute with un-
usual ability, and sang in the church choir for
many years. He was past master of Hammet
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of
several other Masonic bodies, and a charter member
of Narragansett Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
September 28, 1855, he married Mary Ann Taylor,
who was born in England, June 30, 1828, daughter
of William and Emily (Harper) Taylor, the former
of whom served in the British army for a period of
twenty years and participated in the famous battle
of Waterloo. She became the mother of seven chil-
dren, five of whom were born in East Boston,
namely: Sarah Elizabeth, born August 12, 1S56;
George Henry, the di.te of whose birth will be given
presently: Charles Hatch, born August 12, i860;
William Lawrence, born August 14, 1862 (died
September 20, 1863) ; and Walter Cleveland, born
June 2, 1865 (died August 21, 1874). The others
were Charlotte Taylor, born in Bedford April 6,
1868 (died August 15, 1869) ; and Albert, born in
Bedford July 4, 1872 (died January 23, 1873).
(HI) George Henry, second child and eldest
son of Geogre H. and Mary A. (Taylor) Wiggin,
was born in East Boston, June 23, 1858. He was
educated in the public schools of Boston and Bed-
ford. He acquired a knowledge of dairy farming
while assisting his father, and still carries on the
homestead farm. Some twenty years ago he became
associated with his brother, Charles H., in the milk
business, which they are now conducting on an ex-
tensive scale, owning eight hundred acres of land
and handling the product of eighty cows. His po-
litical affiliations are with the Republican party.
He is a member of Narragansett Grange, in which
latter he has held some of tlK important offices. He
attends the Presbyterian Church. April 30, 1887,
he was united in marriage with Mary Florence
Minot, who was born in Manchester, September I,
1867. daughter of William Henry and Mary Ella
(Walker) Minot. The children of this union are:
Alice Elizabeth, born December 14, 1888 ; Ralph
Minot, born July 16, 1890; Charlotte Mary, born
November 26, 1892; George Taylor, born July 26,
1895 ; Charles Arthur, born October 16, 1897 ; Ruth
Louise, born October 27, 1899; and James Walker,
born August 23, 1901.
Charles A. Wiggin, who is in company with his
brother George H., was married April 7. 1802, to
Annie Mabel Farley, born in Bedford, August 12,
1871, daughter of Charles Parker and Elizabeth
Ann (Shepard) Farley. She died April 2, igor.
They had one daughter, Ruth Taylor, who was born
January 26, 1894, and died February 22, 1895.
The original of Preston was Priest-
PRESTON ton. that is, priests' town, from a
religious establishment around
W'hich the town grew' up. There are seven Prestons
in England. Some emigrant took the name of his
native place as a surname, and it has thus been
handed down to succeeding generations. A number
of Prestons, among whom were several Johns, not
known to be related, settled in Massachusetts before
1700. Who was the immigrant ancestor of the Pres-
tons of this article is not known. Several men of
this name were in Andover, Massachusetts, before
1692.
(I) Samuel Preston, whose name survives in
the local name Preston's Plain, near Ballardvale,
in Andover, was a pioneer settler of that town. His
name appears on the list of those who took the
oath of allegiance, February 11, 1678.
(H) John Preston, probably a son of the above,
resided in Andover, where he took the oath of alle-
giance February 11, 1678. John Preston is one of
those named in the "rate made for the minister
in the year 1692. for the North End of the town
of Andover." John Preston, of Andover, was one
of the twelve men taken from Andover in No-
vember, 1675, for an expedition into the country of
the Narragansetts, who had joined King Philip,
and was present at the famous swamp fight where
the Indians were completely destroyed.
(HI) Captain Samuel (2), a descendant, prob-
ably, a son of John Preston, was a commander in
the French and Indian war. He and his wife
Hannah settled in Littleton, Massachusetts, about
1728. He was an active and influential man in the
town before the revolution, and besides serving in
his military capacity, was town treasurer, and in
other offices. His children were : James, Hannah,
John, Mary and Peter.
(IV) Dr. John (2), third child and second son
of Captain Samuel (2) and Hannah Preston, was
born in Littleton, Massachusetts, September 22,
1738, and died in New Ispwich, New Hampshire,
February 17, 1803, in his sixty-fifth year. At the
age of eighteen years he served one campaign at
least as a soldier in the company of his father in
the French war of 1756. His early education was
probably what the common schools of the time
afforded. In 1760. when twenty-two years old, he
settled in New Ispwich, New Hampshire, and began
practice of medicine. The science of medicines in
these days was a simple matter as compared with
the complex system and elaborate theories of to-
day, but then, as now, the most successful physician
got the practice. Dr. Preston became skillful and
popular in his profession, and for more than forty
years retained exclusive possession of the ground,
except that in the latter part of his life he took his
son into partnership, and at his decease left the
whole practice in his hands. As a citizen he was
zealous, active and influential in all matters of gen-
eral and political interest in the town. During the
Revolution he was one of the most ardent Whigs,
and did much to encourage the people to make the
great exertions which they did in the aid of the
common cause. After the incorporation of the town
in 1762 he was elected one of the first board of
selectmen, and in 1771 served as town clerk, and in
177S and 1786 as representative in the general court.
In 1782, on the resignation of his brother-in-law,
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Judge Timothy Farrar, he was chosen a member
for framing the state constitution. Anecdotes of
his wit and humor as a legislator have come down
to our time, and the records of the town still pre-
serve memories of that trait in his character. He
■was one of 'the founders of the new Ipswich Acad-
emy, and for many years its secretary, his son-in-
law, John Hubbard, being its first preceptor. He
married, in New Ipswich, November 29, 1764, Re-
becca Farrar, who was. born in New Ipswich, Au-
gust 13, 1743, fifth child of Deacon Samuel and
Lydia (Barrett) Farrar, of Concord (now Lincoln),
JNIassachusetts, and a descendant of Jacob, the im-
migrant, who was one of the original proprietors of
Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1653. She survived
her husband more than twenty-six years, and died
April I, 1S29, in her eighty-sixth year. Their
eleven children vv'ere : Rebecca, John, Lucy, Lydia,
Hannah, Mary, Samuel, Stephen Farrar, Timothy
Farrar, Peter and Nancy.
(V) Dr. John (3), second child and eldest son
of Dr. John (2) Preston, was born in New Ipswich,
February 15, 1770, and died in 1828, aged fifty-eight.
He graduated from Dartmouth College with the
c!a-3 of 1791, and became a physician. He read
medicine with his father and later with Dr. Holyoke,
of Salem. He opened an apothecary shop and be-
gan practice as the associate of his father in Decem-
ber. 1794, and after his father's death in 1803 he
succeeded to the general practice of the town. His
standing as a physician and a citizen was good.
After the turnpike was built he erected on that street
the first dwelling house, into which he moved his
stock of drugs, and resided there vmtil his death.
Like his father, he took a lively interest in town
affairs, and filled public offices, and was secretary of
the academy. In 1802 he was elected town clerk,
and filled that office for seventeen consecutive years,
and was selectman for several years. He wrote a
good round recording hand, and the records bear
ample evidence of his capacity as a clerk, and oc-
casionally of his personal feelings and predilections
as a townsman. He married, January 21, 1798,
Elizabeth Chanipney, who was born in New Ipswich,
February 6. 1779. daughter of Judge Ebenezer and
Abigail (Parker) Champney, a descendant in the
fifth generation from Richard Champney, of Lin-
colnshire, England, the ancestors of the family of
that name who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
in 1635. She died 1867, aged eighty-eight years.
Their ten children were : Ebenezer C, Rebecca
(died young), John, Eliza. Lucy. Abigail, Maria,
AVilliam Henrj-, Thomas, Bancroft and Rebecca.
(VI) Hon. John (4), third child and second son
of Dr. John (3) and Elizabeth (Champney) Pres-
ton, was born in New Ipswich, April 12, 1802. and
died March 5, 1S67, aged sixty-five years. When
he was about ten years of age the store of John
Batchelder, which stood a few rods from his father's
house, caught fire one cold winter night, and John
left his bed, and without waiting for shoes or
stockings ran through the snow to awaken the
neighbors. This exposure was followed by a severe
illness which caused permanent disease and lameness,
from which he suffered acutely for more than fifty
years. He fitted for college at the New Ipswich
Academy, and in 1819 entered Harvard College,
from which he graduated in 1823. In order to make
his way through he had to practice the closest
economy, and one year he earned by writing and
teaching school, all but eighteen dollars of the
money necessary to pay the year's expenses. The
eighteen dollars he received from his father. He
was a member of the Institute of 1770, of the Hasty
Pudding, a noted society which was founded the
year before he entered, and in which he was a
leading member by his ready wit, and of the Medi-
cal Faculty. After completing his college
course he studied law with George F. Farley, Esq.,
then at Ipswich, and later with Judge Samuel Hub-
bard, in Boston, having as a fellow-student John
Appleton, afterwards distinguished as the chief jus-
tice of the supreme court of the state of Maine.
In 1828 he was admitted to the bar and began prac-
tice in Townsend, Massachusetts, but removed in
1831 to New Ipswich, and bought the house in the
Center Village once owned by his grandfather. Judge
Champney, where he ever afterwards resided. Mr.
Preston was a lover of nature, with which he was
always in close touch, and the streams and woods
and fields always had an attraction for him. Partly
to have an opportunity to gratify his love for these
things, perhaps, he purchased his grandfather's
farm, lying along the river, where some of the hap-
piest days of his life were spent. He was fond of
agriculture, and being an intelligent man he adopted
those methods of sound practical agriculture which
made him a successful farmer, and by setting an
example to his neighbors taught them lessons that
made his influence felt by others. He had not been
back in New Ipswich long before the questions of
temperance and anti-slavery began to be agitated,
and in a few years took precedence of all other
public questions. To a man of Mr. Preston's moral
sentiment, both slaver}- and intemperance were ab-
horrent, and he early became a member of the
party of progress, and championed the reforms it
contemplated. Early in 1835 he introduced and
secured the adoption of resolutions in town meet-
ing to suppress the sale of liquor. He was presi-
dent of the first total abstinence society in the town,
and his zeal for the cause ended only with his life.
In politics he was a staunch Whig, and to ally
himself with the new party meant social ostracism
and insult, but he did not falter in what he be-
lieved to be the line of his duty and in performance
of what he thought to be right. Turning away
from his former associates he joined in 1844 the
Free Soil party, at the head of which was John
Hale, one of New Hampshire's greatest sons, and
worked unceasingly for the measures of that party
which he lived to see completely successful at the
close of the war of the rebellion. He was elected
to the legislature in 1S33 and 183S and 1843, and
by successive elections served four more consecu-
tive terms. He was senator from district No. 9,
when he was the only senator not a Democrat, and
was the Free Soil candidate for congress in 1848,
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
and was supported by the Free Soil party in the
legislature for United States senator in 1852. For
eleven years he was a member of the board of
trustees of the New Hampshire Insane Asyluin, and
like his father and grandfather, was for many years
secretary of the New Ipswich Academy. One who
knew him well said of him : "You ask me to de-
scribe Mr. Preston. A pen picture at first seems
easy, — there is his figure, rather below the middle
height, but broad-shouldered and muscular; quick
and alert in his movements, with a smile almost
always playing around his features, with a warm
and impulsive nature, unable to harbor resentment
against his bitterest foe if he saw him sick and in
want. Not an orator like Gough, yet one of the
readiest and most effective speakers in the legis-
lature. Not so deep a law-yer as Bell, Parker, or
Perley, but mentioned by a judge of the supreme
court as being a dangerous opponent. Not such a
classical scholar as Everett, but helping his son with
an ode of Anacreon that he hasn't seen for thirty
years, or reading French or Spanish to his wife.
Not a professional philanthropist but at the time
of the famine in Ireland, leaving the table, unable
to eat till he had packed a bo.x with articles for the
starving Irish ; and seen one bitter day in winter
toiling through the drifts to find if a poor family
were warm. Very fond of a cigar, but giving up the
habit for nearly forty years that his example might
be good for others. So fearless that there may be
a doubt if it should be called bravery or insensi-
bility to peril. College-bred, as were his ancestors,
but thoroughly democratic in his sympathy with
the poor and ignorant, of whatever race or country,
and with food and shelter for the slave on his way
to Canada. Taking great pride in his town and its
history, and especially beloved" and revered in the
domestic circle. In saying all this, while few salient
points are presented, it seems to me that Mr. Pres-
ton exhibited a well-rounded and wonderful sym-
metry in all those points W'hich go to make up a
man in the highest and nobjest sense, — such a type
as, I fear, may be growing rarer every day. in view
of the present craze for specialists."
Mr. Preston's sufferings finally became so in-
tense that as a last resort he had an amputation
performed, which for more than a year left him in
the enjoyment of vigorous health and without pain,
a condition he had not enjoyed for more than fifty
years; but his disease returned and terminated in
a fatal illness in 1S67.
He married, October 27. 1828, Elizabeth Smith
French, who was born in Boston, March i, 1808,
and died December 20, 1882. She was the daughter
of Abram and Elizabeth (Kidder) French. The
children of this union were seven ; John Lorenzo,
born November 10. 1829, died June 19. 1836; Eliz-
abeth A., born September 8, 1831, died February 28,
1837; William A., born January 31, 1834. died De-
cember 5, IQ03 ; Maria A. F., Iiorn February 10,
1836, died March 15, T83T ; Frank W.. whose sketch
follows; Sarah E., born July 30, 1840, died Mar''
6. 1842; Mary Anabelle, born May 11, 1844, died
February 15, 1869.
(VII) Frank W,. third son and child of Hon.
John (4) and Elizabeth S. (French) Preston, was
born in New Ipswich, February 17, 1838, and died
.A-Ugust 29, 1905. He was educated at the Academy
of New Ipswich, and took a course .in the Law-
rence Scientific School, from which he graduated
as a civil engineer in the class of 1S58. He was a
teacher of mathematics in Appleton .■\cademy. and
for a number of years was treasurer of the New
Ipswich Savings Bank. He was a progressive pub-
lic spirited citizen, and always alert for measures
of advantage to the town. For twenty-five years
he was town treasurer, and for many years clerk of
the school district, and was representative in 1873,
and again in 1874. He was a member of the Bethel
Lodge No. 24, Free and Accepted Masons, of New
Ipswich, and of Peterboro Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons. He married first, in Ithaca, New York,
February 19, 1862, Harriett F. Coy. who was born
October 3. 1840. daughter of John H. and Cather-
ine (Granger) Coy. Of this marriage there was
one daughter, Katherine, born December 15, 1862.
He married second. May 13, 1867, at New Ipswich,
Mary Frances Murphy, who was born at New
Ipswich, August 17, 1845. She was a daughter of
Daniel G. and Randilla (Fanner) Murphy, of New
Ipswich. Three children were born of this mar-
riage: I. William A., born August 2, 1873. 2.
Frank H.. born October 17. 1874. He married
February 5, 1900. Mabel L. Thayer; they have one
child. Frank Whipple, born June 6. 1904. 3. Her-
bert F., born .August 11, 1882. graduated from New
Ipswich Appleton Academy with class of 1904.
(Vim William Arthur, oldest child of Frank
W. and Mary F. (Murphy) Preston, was born in
New Ipswich, August 2, 1S73. He attended the
local schools, prepared for college in the Nev\' Ips-
wich Academy, and entered Harvard University
in 1891. He took a position with the Electrical
Construction Company of Providence, Rhode Is-
land. He returned to New Ipswich in 1898, and
has since resided on the ancestral homestead. In
politics he is a Republican. He married, in Boston,
Massachusetts. December 27, 1905, Bertha P. Ames,
daughter of Henry and Sarah (Preston) Ames.
This name is supposed to be derived
VIRGIN from the cult of Saint Mary, perhaps
the most generally known in this
countrj-. From Ebenezer Virgin, first ancestor in
America, is supposed to have sprung all of this
name in the United States. Among the most fa-
miliar names of Virgin in this country is first and
foremost that of Hon. William Wirt Virgin, asso-
ciate justice of the spreme judicial court of Maine.
Other prominent members of the name are ; Judge
Daniel W. Virgin, of Douglas; county. Nevada;
Hon. John W. Virgin, of Illinois, commissioner of
the state of Illinois to be the World's Columbian
exposition, Chicago, importer and breeder of hor-
ses ; Hon. George Virgin, president of the National
Bank of Virginia. Illinois; Rev. Samuel H. Virgin,
D. D.. LL. D., thirty years pastor of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church. New York City.
I
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
I II :
(I) Ebonczer Virgin, founder of families of
this name in the United States, came from Salis-
bury, England, probably to Salisbury, Massachu-
setts, in 1722. From there he went to that part of
Dunstable, Massachusetts, now called Tyngsboro,
and thence went in 1726 with seven men sent by the
Massachusetts Bay Colony to lay out a township
on the Merrimack river, then called Penny Cook,
later Rumford, and now Concord. He was an
original proprietor, a cabinet maker by trade, a man
of enterprise and a highly useful citizen. He built
and occupied the house (still standing. 1907) occu-
pied by Deacon G. H. Curtis, in 1731, now the old-
est house standing in the city. He served from
April 24, to October 21, 1755, in the expedition to
Crown Point, in Captain Joseph Eastman's com-
pany, Colonel Joseph Blanchard's regiment. Eben-
€zer Virgin was the person who first came into
possession of the gun of the Indian chief Peora-
warrah, who eloped with the squaw of another
Indian who shot and killed them both at one tirpe
as they were paddling up the Merrimack in a canoe
early in the morning, after spending the night at
Sewall's Island. Both bodies and Peorawarrah's
fine gun fell into the river. The gun was
recovered by Mr. Virgin, and is now in the
possession of Colonel Jonathan Eastman Pecker,
of Concord. Ebenezer Virgin died at Concord,
in I/Wj, and was at that time serving as
selectman. He married, according to Dr. N.
Bouton. Hannah : according to Peter Chand-
ler Virgin (his grandson, and father of Judge
Wirt Virgin, and more probably correct) Mary
Oiandler, of Andover, Massachusetts, and so con-
nected with the Chandler family from which sprang
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire. The chil-
dren of this marria,ge were: Phineas, Ebenezer,
William, Jonathan, Miriam, Elijah and John.
(II) Ebenezer (2), second child and son of
Ebenezer (i) Virgin, was born May 25. I7,;5. at
Penacook (now East Concord), and married Dor-
cas Lovejoy, daughter of Henry Lovejoy, who
built the first grist mill in Concord. Their children
were: Jonathan, Molly, Elijah, Hannah, Daniel,
Phebe, Henry, Simon and Peter Chandler.
(III) Jonathan, eldest child of Ebenezer (2)
and Dorcas (Lovejoy) Virgin, was born Novem-
ber 23, 1758, in Penacook, and died May 9, 1813.
He lived on what is known as the Virgin road, in
the northern part of the town, and his last resi-
dence, built considerably more than a centurj- since,
is still standing and in use as a dwelling. He built,
in 1812, for his youngest son the house adjoining
his on the east, and which is now the home of his
great-grandson, Pales P. Virgin. He married
Sarah Austin, and they had the following children :
Patty. Hazen, Aaron and Isaac.
(IV) Isaac, youngest child of Jonathan and
Sarah (Austin) Virgin, was born July 14, 1789. on
Virgin road (then called Penacook) and died Jan-
uary 12, 1870, on the farm where he began house-
keeping in 1812, a part of the patenial homestead.
WHien his father proposed to build him such a
house as he might desire, he said he did net want
anything better than his father lived in, so the
house was made only one story in height. To his
wife this afterwards proved a great trial and in-
convenience, but they lived happily, reaching a good
age. He was married November 13, 1812, to Susan
Batchelder (see Batchelder, VII), who was born
March 8. 1790. and died November 20, 1876. Their
children did not remove from their native town.
Susan C, the eldest, was married to Rev. Caleb
Fales, and died about a year after her marriage.
Eliza Jane, born September i, 1816, married Wil-
liam K. Holt, and died April 7, 1841, in East Con-
cord. Rufus is the subject of the succeeding para-
graph. William Harrison died before attaining his
majority.
(V) Rufus. elder son and third child of Isaac
and Susan (Batchelder) Virgin, was born on the
homestead of his father, where his son now re-
sides (on the Virgin road), January 7. 1818. He
continued to reside there most of his life, though
the years from 1856 to i86g were spent on a farm
one-half mile east, which he purchased, which is
still a part of his estate, and where his youngest
child was born. He was a prosperous farmer and
a prominent citizen of the town, taking active part
in public affairs. He was a Methodist in religious
belief, and a Democrat in politics. He represented
his ward in the city council, the board of aldermen
and the state legislature, and lived past his eightieth
birthday anniversary, dying January 26, 1899. He
was married January 4, 1840. to Mary Ann Stevens,
who is five. days his junior, and is still hale and
clear-minded, at the age of eighty-nine years. She
was born January 12, 1818, in Canterbury, daughter
of Jesse and Abigail (Sherburne) Stevens of
that town (see Stevens, VII). Jesse was a son of
Simon and Elizabeth (Boynton) Stevens, who were
pioneer settlers of Canterbury. Their children were
Otha. Edmond, David. Betsey, John, Jesse. Polly,
Abyah. ]Moses, Abigail, Thomas, David and Simon.
The children of Rufus and Mary Ann (Stevens)
Virgin, are not removed very far from their native
home. Ellen A. has her home with her aged mother
en the paternal homestead. Emma became the wife
of Nathan Pingree, and resides in Rochester, this
state. Esther is the widow of Frank P. Batchelder,
residing in Laconia. Frank P. died in the place of
his birth, at an early age. Fred P. and Fales P.
receive extended mention below.
(VI) Fr^d Peaslee Virgin, second son and fifth
child of Rufus and Mary Ann (Stevens) Virgin,
may truly be numbered among the self-made men
of New Hampshire, and a credit to the old and
honored name he bears. He was born January 25,
1853, on the paternal homestead on Virgin road,
where most of his father's life was passed, and ob-
tained his education in the public schools and Pen-
acook and Pinkerton academies. He was always
active and useful about the home farm, and early
set out to make his own way. At the age of six-
teen years he went to Boston, and there entered
the employ of Martin L. Hall & Companj-, whole-
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• sale grocers. His first Avork was clerical, and his
pay was small. Later he was promoted to the posi-
tion of traveling salesman, and by strict attention
to 1jn?iness and careful use of his earnings, he was
enabled in 1883 to become a member of the firm.
This establishment was founded in 1831 and is now
the largest wholesale grocery house in New Eng-
land. Mr. Virgin has shown himself a capable
business man, and has risen to the position of head
of the firm and its general manager. He is also
interested in various kindred lines of business,
which receive successful impetus from his able
management. He is vice-president of the Gary
Maple Sugar Company, of St. Johnsbury, Ver-
mont, with large plants in Vermont and Canada, and
which does a business amounting to half a million
dollars annually, and ships sugar and syrup to all
parts of the world. He is a director and vice-
president of the Wholesale Grocery Association of
Boston, member of the executive conmiittee of the
New England Wholesale Grocers' Association, and
director of the Faneuil Hall National Bank of
Boston. Mr. Virgin attends the South Congre-
gational Church of Concord, of which his wife is
a member, and is ever ready to further any inter-
ests of his native town. He follows the footsteps
of his father in politics, but gives no time to prac-
tical politics of office-seeking. He is a member of
the Wonolancet and Passaconoway clubs of Con-
cord ; the Boston Athletic and New Hampshire
clubs of Boston ; and the Florida club. He is very
fond of travel, and accompanied by his family has
visited many of the most interesting parts of the
world. Their winters are usually spent in Florida
■or California. Mr. Virgin started in mercantile
life in 1S70, with a fair education and a stock of
liope and energy, and by fidelity and constant atten-
tion to business has attained a handsome" compe-
tence. While so doing, he has found time for the
pleasures of travel and observation in other lands.
He was married June 13, 1876, to Ada L. Batch-
elder, daughter of Samuel and Eliza J. (True)
Batchelder (see Batchelder, VI). Mrs. Virgin was
horn September 20, 1852, in Loudon, and is the
mother of two children. Arthur Russell, born May
2. 1S77, graduated from Dartmouth College with
the class of 1900, and is now in the banking busi-
ness in Concord. Leila Stevens, born September
24, 1879, resides with her parents.
(VI) Fales Perley Virgin, youngest child of
Rufus and Mary Ann (Stevens) Virgin, is among
the most progressive and successful farmers of the
state. He was born October 31, 1856, on the second
farm of his father, about one-half mile east of his
present residence, which is on the ancient seat of
the Virgin family in East Concord. He was early
accustomed to be his father's aid, and the culti-
vation of the home farm and support of his par-
ents fell to him naturally. Until about nineteen
years of age he gave considerable attention to
study, being a student of Loudon Academy, after
leaving the district school adjacent to his home.
He was thirteen years of age when the family re-
turned to his present location, on Virgin road, and
here he has since resided. For the last twenty-
five years he has given much attention to the breed-
ing of fine Holstein stock for breeding purposes,
and has supplied many farmers with the foundation
for herds of this strain. He keeps from ten to
fifteen cows, mostly thoroughbreds, and produces
some fine veal for the market. Mr. Virgin's farm
is model of neatness, and his fine farm barn is one
of the most complete and convenient to be found
anywhere. With complete tool houses, and other
necessary or desirable farm appurtenances, he is
able to dispose of his work advantageously and
with much satisfaction to all concerned therein.
The paternal acres are well tilled, and have not
been allowed to deteriorate in productivity, and
their owner may be congratulated. His home is
hospitable, his family bright and interesting, and
the head of the house is among the influential citi-
zens of his town. He attends the Congregational
church of East Concord, and supports Democratic
policies in public affairs. He has served as ward
supervisor and member of the city council, and was
a member of the constitutional convention of 1903.
ISIr. Virgin was married December 24, 1879, to
Rose Ella Johnson, who was born September 12,
1858, in Concord, a daughter of Matthew Harvey
and Hannah (Sargent) Johnson, of Concord.
Matthew H. Johnson was a son of John Johnson,
whose name was changed by legal enactment from
Hoag to Johnson. Hannah Sargent was a daughter
of Wells Sargent (see Sargent, VII). Mr .and
Mrs. Virgin are the parents of three daughters.
Bessie Ella, the eldest, was born February 21, 1881,
and is the wife of Roy Walker INIaynard, a large
farmer and milk dealer of Loudon. Belle Fiorina,
born December 26, 1883. Bernice Johnson, August
16, 1S89, remains at home.
The ancient English family of Norrey
NORRIS or Norreys is mentioned in records
as early as the year 1311, when Sir
Henry Norreys married Joan, daughter of Sir
Henry Molyneu.x, and acquired the manor of Speke,
in Lancashire. For many centuries the family
flourished in Sutton and Lancashire. Famous fami-
lies of the name of Norris are now found in Speke,
Lancaster, and Ryecote, in Berkshire. From
Thomas Norreys, of Speke, descended in a direct
unbroken line five generations of Norreys whose
forename was Nicholas, the same as that of the
immigrant ancestor of the family of this sketch.
Early some of the English Norrises settled in Ire-
land and among them were members of note.
(I) Nicholas Norris, the settler, was born
probably about 1640. The tradition in regard to
him is that he was of English extraction, being a
descendant of one of the English who had settled
in Ireland where he was born. He was "a stow-
away" in an emigrant ship, and reached America
at the age of fourteen. He first appears of record
in the town of Hampton, "limo. 21st day, 1663," O.
S., or January 21, 1664, new style, when he mar-
ried Sarah Cox. In 1666 he sold to John Godfrey,
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his brother-in-law, "JNIy Iiouse Lott, three acres
more or less, with my dwelling house being &
standing upon .ye same." That same year he ap-
peared in Exeter. In 1677 he took the oath of
allegiance, desired the jurisdiction of Massachusetts,
in 1690, and was a soldier in garrison from August
3 to August 31, 1696, in the commanding of Kinsley
Hall. His home was near Meeting-house hill in Exe-
ter village. One hundred acres was granted him by
the town of Exeter, January 31, 1681 ; three acres,
February 3, 1698; twenty acres the lirst Monday of
April, 1705; and thirty acres in 1725. It is also
stated that on March 8, 1721, ten acres of land
were laid out to him by the town of Exeter, on the
"North side of a Masteway leading from Col. Hil-
ton's to Pawtuckawage Mills." He deeded away
land June 10, 1721. He was a resident of Exeter
about fifty-seven years, but the date of his death
is not known. From the record it may be inferred
that he was an active and prosperous citizen. A
large progeny has sprung from him. His children,
all but the first born in Exeter, were : Sarah,
died young; Sarah, John, Moses, Jonathan, Abigail,
Sarah, James and Elizabeth.
(II) Moses, fourth child and second son of
Nicholas and Sarah (Coxe) Norris, was born in
Exeter, August 14, 1670, and always lived in Exeter.
He received from his father sixteen acres on the
"road to Hampton Farms," April 9, 1698, and on
the same date he received land from his father-in-
law. He was a soldier from August 31, 1696, to
September 28, 1696. February 2, 1721, he deeded
land to his children to the possession of which they
were to come after the death of himself and wife.
He lived a number of years after making this deed,
but how long is not known. He married, March 4,
1692, Ruth, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Robey)
Folsom, and granddaughter of John Folsom, the
immigrant to Exeter. Their children were : Samuel,
John, Moses, Nicholas, Joseph, Jonathan, James
and Ruth.
(III) Samuel, eldest son of Moses and Ruth
(Folsom) Norris, was born in Exeter, probably
about 1693, and always lived in Exeter. By the
terms of the deed his father made, February 2,
1721, he was to receive one-half of the homestead,
the land "to be on that side and adjoining Joseph
Robinson's land throughout both upland and
swamp," and also one-half of the land lying "on
the east side of the road leading from Hampton
Town to Exeter." His brother Joseph had the
other half of the homestead and his father's house.
The land owned by them remained undivided, and
after the deatli of Samuel was sold by his widow
Ruth, son Samuel, and Joseph Norris, October
30. I7S4- Samuel Norris inherited from his father
one-eighth of a saw mill at Petuckaway. He dealt
somewhat in real estate. His last recorded sale
was made May 18, 1753. ' He died before October
30, 1754. He .married Ruth, whose surname is un-
known. They were the parents of one child, Samuel,
who is further mentioned below.
(IV) Samuel (2), only child of Samuel (i)
and Ruth Norris, was born in Exeter. New Hamp-
shire, probably about 1714, and died before Febru-
ary 27, 1765. He deeded away his patrimony as
stated in the preceding paragraph. He lived in
Epping and dealt more or less in real estate. Octo-
ber 26, 1758, he bought seventy acres of land of
Enoch Clark, a part of which he left to his son,
Samuel Norris, by will. His will was executed
November 21, 1764, and probated March 26, 1766,
but for some unexplained reason his estate had
been administered upon by his wife Mary, who was
appointed administratrix, February 27. 1765. She
is said to have been a half blooded Indian, and her
surname is not known. Their children were: Benja-
min, Samuel, Zebulon, JMercy, Mary, Ruth and
Deborah.
(V) Samuel (3), second son and child of
Samuel (2) and Mary Norris, was born in Epping,
New Hampshire, June 17, 1734. Like several of his
ancestors he dealt much in land. He lived in
Epping until October 21, 1769, when he sold the
place upon which he then lived and immediately
moved to Deerfield, where he resided for a few-
years. He lived for a time in Sandwich, New
Hampshire, and finally went to Corinth, Vermont,
in 1779, 3"d there spent the remainder of his life.
He married (first) Huldah (Bartlett probably),
who was born April 24, 1734, and died in Corinth,
Vermont. November 2, 1780; (second)
Burleigh, perhaps of Sandwich, New Hampshire.
He died in Corinth, Vermont, May 16, 1816, and
w-as buried there. His children, all by his first wife,
were: David, Huldah, Samuel and Zebulon
(twins), Jonathan, Moses and David (twins),
John, Taylor, Polly and Josiah.
(VI) John, eighth child and seventh son of
Samuel (3) and Huldah Norris, was born in Deer-
field, July 29, 1770, and died in Washington, Ver-
mont, September 16, 1865, aged ninety-five years.
He was a farmer by occupation, and a Free Baptist
in religious faith. He resided in Deerfield, New
Hampshire, and Corinth, Vermont. He married
Sally Currier, who was born April 4, 1770, and
died February, 23, i860, aged ninety. They had
four children : John, David, March and Sabrina.
(VII) March, third son and child of John and
Sally (Currier) Norris, was born in Corinth, \'er-
mont, August 15, 1800, and died in Colebrook, New
Hanipsliirc. .August 20, 1879. He resided for some
years in Corinth, Orange county, Vermont. He
was a Free Will Baptist in religion, and a Demo-
crat in politics. He married Polly (Marshall)
Sleeman, who was born in Corinth, Vermont, Janu-
ary I, i8oo, and died in Colebrook, Vermont, July
18, 1889, daughter of Moses and Dolly (Maloon)
Marshall. Six children were born to them: Lu-
cinda Screpta, Clark Currier, Heman Russell,
George Sleeper, Mary Lovilla and Sabrina Lodina.
(VIII) Mary Lovilla, fifth child of March and
Polly (Marshall) (Sleeman) Norris, was born
August 27, 1839, and died January 18, iSSi, aged
forty-two years. She married (first) Dr. Stephen
Hurd; married (second) James Sawyer, of Cole-
brook, New Hampshire. By the first husband there
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was one child, Iva H., -who is next mentioned.
(IX) Iva Hortcnse Hurd, only child of Dr.
Stephen and Mary Lovilla (Norris) Hurd, was
born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1861, and mar-
ried jNIarch 15, 1883, at Colebrook, Walter Drew,
(See Drew).
Although Thomas Seward, the pro-
SEWARD genitor of this branch of the Seward
family in America, reached these
shores more than a century after the first settle-
ment by the English in Massachusetts, neverthe-
less he became the ancestor of those who suffered
the privations and hardships, and performed the
labors necessarily incident to the founding of the
town and the development of civilization in a new
country, and left descendants whose services in the
memorable conliict for free government reflect honor
on their names and upon their descendants who
have founded societies to perpetuate the memory
of a noble line of ancestors. Thirt\--four Massa-
chusetts men bearing the name Seward fought in
the Revolution. Inter-marriage with members of
Revolutionary families have been frequent, and
some Sewards of the present generation trace back
to four or five forbears, who took part in the great
struggle for liberty.
(I) Thomas Seward came to America from
England, in the middle of the eighteenth century,
and settled in Pepperell, Massachusetts, where he
died, August 19, 1757, at the early age of twenty-
eight, having been born in 17J9, in England. His
wife was Hannah, her maiden name having prob-
ably been Martin. She was also born about 1729,
and died at the house of her son, Josiah, in what
is now Sullivan, New Hampshire, March 23, 17S7.
When Thomas Seward died, he left his young
widow with three little boys, neither of whorh could
walk, the eldest being a cripple, the second too
young to walk, and the third a new born babe.
With a courage and perseverance, characteristic of
the woman of that time, she supported her children
and brought them to maturity with such assistance
as they were able to render. Their names were
Thomas, Josiah and Samuel. The eldest, crippled
from birth, lived and died at Pepperell, the other
two bought farms in that part of Stoddard, New
Hampshire, which later became a part of the newer
town of Sullivan.
(II) Deacon Josiah Seward, second son of
Thomas and Hannah Seward, was born at Pepperell,
Massachusetts, February 22, 1756, died at Sullivan,
New Hampshire, July 10, 1828. He married, February
22, 1781, Sarah Osgood, then of Raby (now Brook-
line), New Hampshire. She was born in Billerica,
Massachusetts, January 31 (Old Style), 1749-50,
died at Keene, New Hampshire, July 2, 1S35 ;
daughter of Joseph and S.irah (Pierce) Osgood.
She was a first cousin of Benjamin Pierce (father
of ex-President Franklin Pierce). Josiah Seward
was at work in his mother's field, at Pepperell. when
he was summoned, as a minute man, to march with
others, among them his younger brother, Samuel,
under the lead of their famous townsman. Colonel
Prescott, to Cambridge. He worked all the night of
June 16, in helping to throw up the famous earth-
works on the hill where, upon the 17th of June,
1775, was fought the battle of Bunker Hill. The
coat which he wore was long preserved in the
family, pierced with several bullet holes, although
he was not injured during the engagement. On
June 17, 1825, he was one of the surviving vete-
rans who participated in* the exercises attending the
laying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment, on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle. The
veterans were hospitably entertained in Boston, in-
troduced to Lafayette, and honored with seats upon
the platform. INIr. Webster's graceful allusion to
them, in his memorable oration was an eloquent
exhibition of oratory. On October 17, 1792, he was
one of the covenanters of the First Congregational
Church in Sullivan. He became a deacon of that
church in 1798, and held the office for thirty years,
until his death. He was a successful farmer, acquir-
ing a competence for the time in which he lived.
He purchased the farm in 1781, and portions of it
still belong to Rev. J. L. Seward, D. D., of the
fourth generation from him. Deacon Seward had
eight children : Hannah, Josiah, Jr., Sarah, Abigail,
Thomas, Betsey, Fanny and Rebecca.
(III) Josiah (2), elder son of Deacon Josiah
Seward (i), was born on the old Sullivan home-
stead (while it was still a part of Stoddard), Octo-
ber 30, 1783, died in Sullivan, September 14, 1831,
of typhus fever, a malady rarely known in later
years. Six members of his own and his father's
families were ill of that serious fever at the same
time. His oldest son, also named Josiah, just fitted
for college, died a few days before him of the same
disease. Josiah, Jr., purchased and lived upon his
father's farm, surviving the latter only three years.
He married February 22, 1807, Polly Wilson, born
at Keene, March 23, 1784, died there September 19,
1864, daughter of Daniel and Abigail (Morse) Wil-
son. She was a woman of marked intellectual
power, a first cousin of Hon. James Wilson, Sr., of
Keene. Her grandfather was one of the well-
known Scotch-Irish immigrants. He settled at
Townsend, Massachusetts, while the most of them
settled in or near Londonderry, New Hampshire.
The three children of Josiah and Polly were Josiah
(3), Daniel, and David. Mrs. Seward's grandfather,
Thomas Morse, was the first English settler of
Dublin, New Hampshire.
(IV) David, youngest of the three children of
Josiah Seward (2), was born in Sullivan, Septem-
ber 14, 1816, died at Keene, November 3, 1886. He
married, October i, 1840, Arvilla Matthews, born
in Hancock, New Hampshire, December 26, 1818,
died at Keene, January i, i88r, daughter of James
and Abigail (Keith) ]\Iatthews. David's father
died on the former's fifteenth birthday. From that
time he managed the old homestead farm in Sulli-
van, for his mother, and later purchased it with
other land. He was a successful farmer. He was
a justice of the peace and settled many estates,
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wrote deeds, mortgngcs. and wills, and "sqnircd
together" man}" couples in marriage. He later be-
came interested in the meat business and, still
later, in the wood and lumber business. His last
days were spent in Keene. He had only three chil-
dren who lived to maturity : Josiah L., Emily Nor-
manda, w'ho was educated at Miss Hall's school in
Keene, and died unmarried ; and James Byron
Seward, a merchant in New York City.
(V) Josiah Lafayette, son of David Seward,
was born in Sullivan, New Hampshire, April 17,
1845. After leaving the district school, he was a
student at the Westmoreland Valley Seminary, then
under the instruction of Rev. (now Rev. Dr.) S.
H. McCollester, 1859-60; graduated at the Phillips
Exeter (New Hampshire) Academy, in 1864;
graduated at Harvard University, with degree of
Bachelor of Arts, in 186S; taught school at Frank-
ford. West Virginia. 1869; taught a private school
in Boston, Massachusetts. 1869-70; was the first
principal of the Conant Free School (now Conant
High School) of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1870-71;
took the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard in
1871 ; graduated from the Harvard Divinity School,
with the degree of B. D., in 1874; ordained over the
South Congregational (Unitarian) Church, at
Lowell, Massachusetts, December 31, 1874; remained
the pastor of that church fourteen years, until July
31, 1888; pastor of the Unitarian Church at Waler-
ville, Maine, August I, 1SS8, to November 25. 1893;
pastor of the Allston Unitarian Church, Boston,
Massachusetts, November 26, 1S93, to October 8,
1899; pastor of the First Congregational (L^ni-
tarian) Church, of Dublin, New Hampshire, from
May II, 1902. to the present, with residence at
Keene, New Hampshire. He has been much inter-
ested in Freemasonry, having received all the de-
grees of the York and Scottish Rites, including the
Thirty-third and Last Degree. He has been master
of a council of Royal and Select Masters at Keene,
master of a chapter of Rose Croix Masons at Lo-
well, and is now (1907) master of Social Friends
Lodge at Keene. He has held for twenty years
the office of grand prior in the Supreme Council
for the Thirty-third and Last Degree, for the North-
ern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States. The
Massachusetts Council of Deliberation has, for
many years, published the discourses which he has
annually delivered before that body. He has written
a "History of Sullivan. New Hampshire, to the
Twentieth Century." and is re-editing, and bring-
ing to date, the "History of Dublin, New Hamp-
shire." In 1898, Colby University (now Colby
College) gave him the honorary degree of Doctor
of Divinity (D. D.). He is a member of the New
Hampshire Society Sons of the American Revolu-
tion as being a descendant of five Revolutionary
soldiers, also the local Chapter Keene, No. i. Dr.
Seward has for many years taken much . interest in
genealogical and historical research and has for
many years been a valued and valuable correspond-
ing member of the New Hampshire Historical
Society, and has contributed extensively to journal-
istic and magazine literature. He is unmarried.
Tradition and probability identify
COGSWELL the name Cogswell with the old
English town of Coggeshall, the
ancient Canonium of the Romans, which is located
forty-four miles from London, in the county of
Esse.x. It is the family tradition of the Cogswells
now holding the ancient Cogswell possessions in
Westbury, county of Wilts, England, that their
ancestors came from the county of Essex, and were
known as Coggeshall, with the various spellings
appearing in the forms Cogshall, Coggeshall, Cogge-
shale, Cogesholl, Cogeshole, Coggashael, Cogshol,
Coxhall, Cockshall, and Coggshale. Beside the
family tradition the experts in such matters say that
Cogswell and Coggeshall in England have the same
origin. But while Coggeshall and Cogswell have
the same origin in England, they are distinct names
in America, the Coggeshalls of this country descend-
ing chiefly from John Coggeshall, the first governor
of Rhode Island, while the Cogswells are descended
as stated below.
(I) Robert Cogswell, as appears from his w'ill,
was a manufacturer of woolen cloths, and lived in
Westbury, Leigh, county, of Wilts, England. The
register of the parish gives the date of his burial
June 7, 1581. His wife, Alicia, survived him, and
was buried August I, 1603. Their children were :
Robert, Richard, Stephen, Joane, Margaret, Mar-
gery, Edith, and Edward, next mentioned.
(II) Edward, eighth child and fourth son of
Robert and Alicia Cogswell, was born in West-
bury, Leigh, county of Wilts, England, and there
resided. He was a clothier, and carried on the
business with his father and forbears for genera-
tions before him. He died in 1616. His estates
were designated Ludborne, Horningsham, and
Ripond Mylls. His widow Alice survived him but
a few weeks. Their children were : Margaret,
Elizabeth (died young), Elizabeth, John (died
young), Robert (died young), Andrew and Robert
(twins), John, Margery, Anthon (died young),
Anthony, Geoffrey, Lienor and Walter.
(III) John, eighth child and lifth son of Ed-
ward and Alice Cogswell, was born in Waterbury
Leigh, in 1592, and died in Essex, Massachusetts,
November 29, 1669. He married, September 10,
1615, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Rev. Wil-
liam and Phillis Thompson. The parents with
eight children embarked May 23, 1635, at Bristol,
England, on the "Angel Gabriel" for New England.
Mr. Cogswell took with him his three sons, Wil-
liam, John and Edward, and five of his six daugh-
ters. One daughter was left in England, who after-
ward married and resided in London. Mr. Cogs-
well took with him several farm and household
servants, an amount of valuable furniture, farming
implements, housekeeping utensils, and a consider-
able sum of money. On account of calm weather
they did not sail until June 4. Arrived on the
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coast of America, the "Angel Gabriel" lay off Pema-
quid, Maine, when the great storm of August 15 of
that year struck them. The storm was frightful,
the vessel became a total wreck, passengers, cattle,
goods and all were cast upon the angry waves.
Some were drowned. Among those who reached
the shore was the Cogswell family. Mr. Cogs-
well's loss by this wreck was five thousand pounds
sterling. Mr. Cogswell had brought from England
a large tent which was got ashore, and in this with
such things of theirs as the family could gather
they began life in America. As soon as possible
Mr. Cogswell went to Boston and chartered a
small barque which transported his family and
goods to Ipswich, Massachusetts, where a settle-
ment was made. In 1636 John Cogswell was
granted three hundred acres of land at the further
Chebokoe; also a parcel of eight acres, upon which
he had built a house. Some time in 1636 Mr. Cogs-
well put up a log-house and removed to "further
Chebokoe," now Essex, where he spent his last
days. His descendants for eight generations,
through a period of two hundred and fifty years
have continued to cultivate those ancestral acres. In
the house of this place are now treasured many
relics and articles of household use which were
brought over in 1635, and survived the wreck of
the "Angel Gabriel."
John Cogswell was the third original settler in
that part of Ipswich, now Essex, Massachusetts.
His comparative wealth, intelligence and piety gave
him an acknowledged prominence in the town and
church. On the records of Ipswich his name often
appears. It is uniformly distinguished by the hon-
orary prefix !Mr., which in those days was a title
given to but few, who were gentlemen of some dis-
tinction. There were only about thirty of the three
hundred and thirty-five original settlers of Ipswich
who received this honor. iNIarch 3, 1636, by act of
the court, John Cogswell was admitted freeman.
He distributed much of his property among his
children while living. The inventory of his estate
made December 27, 1669, was one hundred and
fifteen pounds, nineteen shillings. He died Novem-
ber 29, 1669, aged seventy-seven years. His wife
died June 2, 1676.
(IV) William, eldest son of John and Eliza-
beth (Thompson) Cogswell, was born in West-
bury, Leigh, county of Wilts, England, in 1619. He
was sixteen years old when he came with his
parents to America. He settled on the home place
in Ipswich, and spent his life there. He had many
of his father's traits, and was one of the most in-
fluential men of that part of Ipswich. It was
largely through his efforts that the gospel ministry
was established at Chebacco. He gave the land
on which the first meeting house in Chebacco was
built. He was a subscriber to "Denison's Compen-
sation" in 1648; a surveyor of the public ways in
1663; a commoner in 1664; a tithingman in 1667; a
voter in town affairs in 1679, and was often chosen
selectman and moderator of the parish meetings.
He made his will August $■ 1696. and died Decem-
ber 15. 1700. The inventory of his estate amounted
to three hundred and forty-one pounds, ten shil-
lings. He married, in 1649, Susanna Hawkes, born
in 1633, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and died
prior to 1696. Her parents were Adam and Mrs.
Anne (Hutchinson) Hawkes. The children born
of this union were : Elizabeth, Hester, Susanna,
Ann, William, Jonathan, Edmund, John, Adam and
Sarah.
CV) Lieutenant John (2) Cogswell, eighth
child and fourth son of William and Susannah or
Susanna (Hawkes) Cogswell, was born in Che-
bacco, Ipswich, May 12, 1665, and died there in
1710. He was a member of the church, and filled
various public offices in the town. He died, intes-
tate at the age of forty-five years, leaving a prop-
erty appraised • at eight hundred and eighty-nine
pounds, two shillings. He married Hannah Good-
hue, daughter of Deacon William, Jr., and Han-
nah (Dane) Goodhue. She was born July 4, 1673,
in Chebacco, where they resided. She married
(second), in 1713, Lieutenant Thomas Perley, and
died December 25, 1742. The children of John and
Hannah Cogswell were : Hannah, William, Su-
sanna, John, Francis, Elizabeth, Margaret, Xa-
thaniel, Bethiah and Joseph. (Mention of Na-
thaniel and descendants forms a part of this article).
(VI) John (3), second son and fourth child of
Lieutenant John (2) and Hannah (Goodhue)
Cogswell, was born December 2, 1699, in Che-
bacco, parish of Ipswich, and resided in Marble-
head and Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was a sad-
dler by trade and was a storekeeper and farmer.
In deeds and other documents he was "gentleman."
He died December 18. 1780. He w^as married Octc-
ber 28, 1720, to Susanna Low, who was born Janu-
ary 12, 1698, and survived him over three year?,
dying January 14. 1784. Their children were :
Susanna, Sarah and John.
(VII) Susanna, eldest child of John (3) and
Susanna (Low) Cogswell, was born in 1722, in
Marblehead, and was married December 13, 1744.
to Dr. James Pecker, of Haverhill. She died March
13, 1761. (See James (3) Pecker, IV).
(VI) Nathaniel, eighth child and fourth son
of Lieutenant John (2) and Hannah (Goodhue.)
Cogswell, was born in Chebacco, January 19, 1707,
and died in Atkinson, New Hampshire, March 23,
1783. He was three years old when his father dted.
While yet a boy he entered a store in Haverhill,
and eventually became a prominent citizen and
leading merchant in the town. He was a man
of integrity and business capacity. He was a de-
voted and efficient member of the church from the
time he united with it. June i, 1746, till his death.
After a successful business life he retired in 1761..
and settled upon a farm in Atkinson, New Hamp-
shire, and at once became active in establishing
religious and educational institutions in the town.
He gave the land and contributed freely toward
the first meetinghouse, which was erected by pri-
vate subscription in 1768-69. Prior to the comple-
tion of the church public worship was conducted in
Mr. Cogswell's house.
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was declared by large loan^ lo provide equip-
ments and provisions for the soldiers. These loans
o£ money, by reason of the depreciated currency,
proved almost a total loss. Besides providing
money Mr. Cogswell gave eight sons to the army,
who served with distinction, and filled an aggregate
term of service of more than thirty-eight years,
said to be the longest rendered by any family in the
country. It is said that those eight sons were of
such height that in the aggregate they measured
about fifty feet, making a large amount of soldier
lineally, as well as in other respects. They all
survived the war, and became prominent in profes-
sional and civil life."
Nathaniel Cogswell married, January 31, 1740,
Judith Badger (See Badger), who was born ni
Haverhill, Massachusetts, February 3, 1724, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Hannah (Peaslee) Badger. She
married at the age of sixteen years, united with
the church at the age of twenty, March 18, 1744,
and died May 7, iSlo. She was a person of com-
manding figure and cultured manners. The nine-
teen children of this marriage were : Nathaniel
(died young), Jeremiah, Joseph (died young),
Thomas, Joseph (died young), Hannah, Judith
(died young), Amos, Judith (died young), Na-
thaniel Peaslee, Joseph (died young), Moses, a
daughter (died young), William, John. Ebenezcr,
Joseph, Francis, a daughter (died young).
(VH) Dr. Josepli Cogswell, twelfth son and
seventeenth child of Nathaniel and Judith (Badger)
Cogswell, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts,
April 16, 1764. and died in Tamworth, :\Iarch 17.
1851. When a mere lad he served in the army of
the Revolution. He studied medicine with his
brother, Dr. William Cogswell, and was assistant
surgeon at West Point. In 1787 he established
himself in the practice of medicine in Warner, New-
Hampshire, where he united with the Congrega-
tional Church in 17S9. The next year he removed
to Durham, where he remained until 1797, when
he removed to Tamworth, where he resided and
practiced medicine upwards of fifty years. He died
at the age of eighty-seven years, and in the sixty-
second year of his married life. He married, De-
cember 27, 1788, Judith Colby, daughter of Thomas
Elliott and Judith (Sargent) Colby, of Warner,
New Hampshire. She was born September 25.
1771, in Amesbury. Massachusetts, and died No-
vember 5, 1857. The children of this union were :
Judith, Joseph Badger (died young), Hannah
(died young), Ebenezcr, Ruth Badger (died
young), Thomas, Ruth, Hannah, jMary Sargent,
Joseph, Emily, and Elliott Colby, whose sketch
follows.
(VIII) Rev. Elliott Colby Cogswell, twelfth
and youngest child of Dr. Joseph and Judith (Col-
by) Cogswell, was born in Tamworth. June II.
1814, and died in Rye. New Hampshire, August 3!,
1887. He graduated from Dartmouth College in
1838. and from the Gilmanton Theological Seminary
in 1842. His first pastorate was at Northwood.
where he was settled over the Congregational
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Church November 3, 1842. In 1848 he removed to
Newmarket, where he was pastor of the church
eight years. From that place he removed to New
Boston and remained until October 31, 1865, as
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. He then
returned to Northwood as pastor of the church,
and founded Coe's Northwood Academy, of which
he was principal for ten years, until June, 1876.
He published in 1864 a History of New Boston, in
1878 a History of Nottingham, Deerfield and North-
wood, and was the author of several miscellaneous
works, including the life of the Rev. Samuel Hid-
den. He married, August 12, 1842, Sophia Ann
.Adams, wlio was born in Gilmanton, January 24,
1819, and died March 12, 1901, daughter of Deacon
Thomas and Sophia G. (Kimball) Adams. Of this
marriage there were born nine children : Edward
Elliott (died young), Mary Upham (died in 1902),
Ellen Sophia (died young), Martha Ellen, Eliza-
beth G., William Badger, Thomas Herbert (died
young), Ephraim Bradford (died voung) and Henry
Burr.
(IX) }\Iary Upham Cogswell, second child and
eldest daughter of Rev. Elliott C. and Sophia Ann
I Adams) Cogswell, was born in Northwood, Sep-
tember 6, 1S45, and was married. November 19,
1865, to George W. Bingham (See Bingham, VIII).
She was an intellectual woman of rare culture. She
died March 4. 1902.
(IX) Elizabeth Greenleaf Cogswell, fifth child
and fourth daughter of Rev. Elliott C. and Sophia
Ann (Adams) Cogswell, was born in Newmarket,
March 5, 1S52. She graduated from Coe"s Academy,
Northwood, in 1871. For years she was a successful
teacher of music, first in the west, and afterward
at Pinkerton Academy, at Derry, New Hampshire.
She married (first), February 28, 1877, Charles H.
Prescott, who was born in Deerfield, July i, 1853,
son of Winthrop T. and Martha Prescott. One
child was born of this union, Edward Cogswell,
who died in infancy. She was married (second),
August 3, 1905, in Stratford, Connecticut, to George
W. Bingham, principal of Pinkerton Academy. (See
Bingham, VIII).
One who has carefully studied the
DUNSTER history of the Dunster family says
this name was originally written
Dunstonc, that it was occasionally so written in the
time of Henry VIII and in the time of President
Dunster. The name is an ancient one in England,
especially in Lancashire. As early as Henry VIII
there are records in the parish of Middleston of the
burials of Hugh, Katherine, Johannes and Georgius
Dunster, all written the year 1543. The name Dun-
ster is of Saxon origin, and may signify a dweller
upon a dun, down, or little hill. There is a market
town in Somersetshire, England, and a castle there
by that name. It seems most probable that the ori-
ginal Dunster took his name from the town. There
are several families of Dunster in this country.
(I) Henry Dunster, the father of President
Henry Dunster, of Harvard College, resided (prob-
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ably) at Balehoult (sometimes called Billyholt)
which is supposed to have been a private gentle-
man's residence in Bury, Lancashire, England. He
had four sons, Henry, Richard, Thomas and Robert,
and two or three daughters, only one of whom is
mentioned by name. Richard came to this country
in 1640. but nothing further is definitely known of
}iini.
(II) Rev. Henry (2) Dunster, the first of the
name in this country, and the first president of
Harvard College, was born in England, and came
to Massachusetts in the year 1640. The only known
reference to the place of his birth is found in a
letter of his own, dated February, 1648, in which he
says: "Ego enino Lancastreusis sum" (for I am
from Lancastire). He was educated at Magdalen
College, Cambridge, England, from which he was
graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1630, and Master of
Arts in 1634. Among his contemporaries at Cam-
bridge were Jeremy Taylor, John Milton, Ralph
Cudworth, John Pearson, John Harvard and others
■who subsequently became more or less distinguished.
He was trained for the ministry, but there is im
evidence that he ever took orders in the church, and
after a few years spent in teaching he came to
America. He was a man of retiring disposition,
and probably left England to avoid taking part in
the acrimonious strife then beginning in England
which culminated in the execution of King Charles.
He arrived in Boston toward the latter end of
the summer of 1640. and resided for a short time
"on his own estate at the North East Corner of
Court Street and Washington Street." His reputa-
tion as a ripe scholar had evidently preceded him,
for "immediately upon his arrival he was waited
on by the Governor, magistrates, elders and Minis-
ters" and asked by a sort of acclamation and gen-
eral consent "to remove to Cambridge and assume
the presidency of the college" — a work which proved
ie be his life occupation. According to his contem-
poraries he was finely equipped both by nature and
education for the position thus offered him. John-
son in his "Wonder-Working Providence of Zion's
Saviour in New England," says he "was fitted from
the Lord for the work, and by those that have skill
in that way, reported to be an able proficient in
Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages." Prince says
he was "one of the greatest masters of the Oriental
languages that hath been known in these ends of the
earth," and much more testimony to the same effect
is given by others, his associates or biographers.
The college which he undertook to conduct had
been established, but it was little more than an ad-
vanced school, and the task which he assumed was
one requiring great skill and ability to bring it to a
successful issue. In a short time after removing to
Cambridge he united with the church there on con-
fession of faitli. He frequently supplied the pulpit
in Cambridge and vicinity during his presidency,
took a prominent part in founding the church at
Woburn, and manifested great interest in the edu-
cation and conversion of the Indians, and joined
heartily with John Eliot and the Mayhews in the
work. The second charter of the college, obtained
in 1650 on his express petition, declares its object is
to include "the education of the English and Indian
youth of this country in knowledge and godliness."
President Dunster's office seems to have been no
sinecure, for besides the instruction and discipline
which largely devolved on him, he was charged
with the administration of the college matters, even
down to such particulars as the direction of the
commons, the keeping of the student's account, the
construction of the college edifice and the presi-
dent's house, the collection of his salary, etc. The
requisites for admission into college, the details of
the course of study, and the rules and precepts for
the government of the students, were prepared by
him ; and Quincy says that the principles of educa-
tion estalilished by him were not materially changed
during the whole of the seventeenth century. In
college discipline it seems he took advantage of the
common belief in the active agency of evil spirits,
and there is a tradition in the family of his having
formally exorcised the devil, whom the students had
raised, but had not the power to allay; President
Dunster's administration of affairs was prosperous,
tlie expectations of his patrons were realized, and
his school "soon acquired so high a reputation that
in several instances youth of opulent families were
sent over to receive their education in New Eng-
land." The first .printing press in North America
was set up in Cambridge in 1639, "as an appendage
of Harvard College"; and for more than a hun-
dred years it was kept under the supervision of the
general court. In 1641 it was put under the man-
agement of President Dunster, and transferred to
his house, where it was keot until 1655. Among
the earlier issues from this press were two editions
of the Book of Psalms — 1640 and 1647.
President Dunster administered the affairs of
the college for twelve or thirteen years with great
success, and probably had more influence in perpe-
tuating its existence and shaping its policy than any
other person. But just then a public avowal by him
of sentiments of opposition to infant baptism created
great excitement in the colony and raised a violent
spirit of opposition toward him. The authorities
exerted their influence to have him recant, or at
least keep silent \Yith regard to his belief, but this
he refused to do, and sent in his resignation of the
presidency of the college to the general court. This
was not at first accepted, but when he sent in a
second resignation, October 24, 1654, that was ac-
cepted. The further treatment of President Dun-
ster by the government of the colony was harsh and
undeserved, growing out of the intolerant disposi-
tion of the Puritans of that day
In July, 1654. President Dunster made another
public declaration of his sentiments, on the Sabbath
day. in the church at Cambridge. For this ofl^ense
he was some time later indicted by the grand jury,
the presentment being "for disturbance of the
ordinances of Christ upon the Lords daye." He
was tried, convicted and sentenced according to the
ecclesiastical law, "to be publiquely admonished and
give bond for his good behavior." Subsequently, a
child was born to him and he was again indicted by
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the grand jury and tried by the county court, the
presentment being "for not bringing his child to tlie
Holy Ordinance of Baptisme." He was again con-
victed, solemly admonished of his dangerous error,
and ordered to give bond for his appearance at the
next court of assistants of Boston. The bond was
executed but there is no record of any further pro-
ceedings in the case. The public officials at first
refused to allow Mr. Dunster to remain in the pres-
ident's house, but when they realized that it was not
only for the convenience of Mr. Dunster and his
family, but greatly to the interest of the college in
order that he might properly assist his successor to
a proper understanding of his position and the per-
formance of his duties, they retracted their heart-
less decision, and he was permitted to remain some
three months.
Soon afterward he removed to Scituate. in
Plymouth colony, where the inhabitants were much
tnore tolerant in religious matters than were the
people of Massachusetts Bay. The indignities and
persecutions from which he had suffered had al-
ready attracted the attention of the Baptists of the
Mother country, and on July 10. 1656. he received
an invitation to make Dublin, Ireland, his home and
informing him that fifty pounds had been granted
by Lord Deputy Henry Cromwell, son of the Pro-
tector, for the transportation thither of himself and
family. But this invitation he declined. Notices
of his ministry in Scituate continue until about the
time of his death, February 27. 1660. The place of
his burial is in the old cemetery opposite the college
ground, a few rods northwest of the church now
standing therein. He was president of Harvard
College from August 27, 1640, to October 24, 1654.
He married (first). June 21, 1641. Elizabeth,
widow of the Rev. Jose, Josse or Joseph Glover.
She died without issue. August 23, 1643. He mar-
ried (second) Elizabeth, who was a woman of su-
perior mind and good education. She died Sep-
tember 12, i6go. The children, all by the second
wife, were : David, Dorothy, Henry, Jonathan and
Elizabeth.
(HI) Jonathan Dunster, fourth child and third
son of Rev. Henry (2) and Elizabeth Dunster, was
born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 28 or
October 27. 1653 ; both dates appear on the town
records. He died in Cambridge in 1725, aged about
seventy-two years. He was a farmer, and inherited
lands lying on both sides of the division line be-
tween that part of Cambridge called IMenotomy
(now Arlington) and Charlestown (now Somer-
ville). In the Charlestown Records, December 30.
1706. is the entry : "Ordered, Also to Warn
A Negro Man and A Negro woman at Mr. Jona.
Dunster's, to remove forthwith out of this Town
and also to Warn sed Dunster that he Entertain
them No Longer at the peril of the law." He was
tithingman for the year beginning jMarch 5. 1716.
His estate was a long time unsettled. He marrie<l
(first). December 5, 1678, Abigail Elliot. She died
and he married (second), April 5. 1692. Deborah
Wade, daughter of Major Jonathan Wade, of !Med-
ford. and granddaughter of Governor Thomas
Dudley. She died, and he married (third)
(contract dated November 23, 1719) Ruth, widow
of Joshua Eaton, of Reading. She survived him
and married, November 22, 1732, Lieutenant Amos
Marrett, of Cambridge, and was published Septem-
ber 30, 1742. to Peter Huges, of Stoneham. His
children by the first wife were : Henry, and Eliza-
beth, died young. By the second wife, Deborah
(Wade) Dunster: Jonathan, Elizabeth, Thomas
and Dorothy. "
(IV) Henry (3) Dunster, eldest son of Jon-
athan and Abigail (Elliot) Dunster, was born in
Cambridge, July 17, 16S0, and died January 28, 1753,
aged seventy-three. He owned the covenant and
was baptized February i, 1708. He married, Feb-
ruary 25, 1708. Martha Russell, daughter of Jason
and Mary (Hubbard) Russell, of Cambridge, and
l)orn May 2, 1691. She died in Menotomy, June
-7, 1771. aged eighty-one years. She had owned the
covenant and was baptized February 13. about two
weeks before their marriage. They were both ad-
mitted to full communion in the First Church, Cam-
liridge, March 11 or 16, 1711. They w-ere both con-
stituent members of the Second Church in Arling-
ton. To the first pastor of their church, Rev. Sam-
uel Cooke, he gave wood gratis for seven years.
He resided on what was then known as Menotomy
Field, later Charlestown. nov/ Arlington. After the
death of her husband Henry, Martha (Russell)
Dunster became the second wife of Francis Locke,
March 15, 1759. The children of Henry and Martha
were eleven in number : Martha, Mary, Abigail,
Elizabeth. Isaiah. Henry, Elizabeth, Jason, Eunice,
Jonathan and Ruth.
(V) Jason Dunster, the eighth child and third
son of Henry (3) and Martha (Russell) Dunster.
was born in Cambridge, "July ye 14, O. S., July 24.
1725-6, N. S.." and baptized July 18, 1725. He lived
on the old Dunster homestead, bounded northerly
Py the "Gilboa road" and easterly by the Concord
road. After living there eighteen years he removed
to Mason. New Hampshire, where he was taxed for
the first time January 28, 1768. His homestead of
one hundred and eighty-five acres and another piece
of five acres cost him one hundred and twenty-one
pounds, six shillings and eight pence. He was a
consistent member of the church established in
Mason, October 13, 1772. In 1773 he was highway
surveyor, and in 1774 w-as constable, that is collector
of taxes, and in that year his private tax was two
farthings, equal to one-third of a cent. In 1780,
during the Revolutionary war, "his beef rate." that
is ta.x to raise money for the Continental army, was
riue hundred and thirty-one pounds, fourteen shill-
ings, ten pence and three quarters, in the depreciated
currency of the time. In 1798 Mr. Dunster sold his
farm to his son Samuel, and with his wife spent the
remainder of his life with his son, Jason Dunster,
in the west part of the town, afterward called
Mason Village.
He married. October 26. 1749. Rebecca, daughter
of Samuel and .\nne (Harrington) Cutter. She
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was born in Cliarlestown, March 3, 1732, and died
in Mason, New Hampshire, February 16, 1806, in
the seventy-second year of her age. They had eight
children: Ruth, Rebecca (died young), Henry, Re-
becca, Martha, Isaiah, Jason and Samuel, all bap-
tized in Cambridge. (Jason and descendants re-
ceive mention in this article).
(VI) Martha Dunster, the fifth child and
fourth daughter of Jason and Rebecca (Cutter)
Dunster, was born in Cambridge (Precinct),
August 28, 1758. She removed with her father's
family, in 1769, to Mason, New Hampshire. She
married, September 7, 1783, Oliver Wright, who
was born September 14. 1758, and died September
3, 1847, aged eighty-nine years. He had land in
Monadnock. No. 6, then called Packer's field, now
Nelson, where they settled and lived and died. She
died September 2, 1838, in the eighty-first year of
her age. They had ten children : Oliver, Kendall,
Abiel, Jason, Patty, Henry, Anna. Lucy, Ira and
Myra.
(VII) Patty Wright, fifth child and eldest
daughter of Oliver and Martha (Dunster) Wright,
was born in Nelson, March 28, 1794, and died
August 19. 1854. She married Oliver Heald, of
Milford, New Hampshire. (See Heald VII).
(VI) Jason (2) Dunster, the seventh child of
Jason (i) and Rebecca (Cutter) Dunster, was
born at Cambridge (now Arlington), March 27,
and baptized April 3, 1763, by Rev. Samuel Cooke.
It is very probable that his father took him to Ma-
son, New Hampshire, in 1769, but no evidence is
found of his being there until after the Revolution-
ary war. There is a tradition that he was bound out
or given to a man in Lexington, Littleton or Groton,
with whom he remained until he enlisted in the
Continental army. This occurred in April, 1780,
when he enlisted for six months service, and was
mustered in at Concord, Massachusetts. He did
duty in Boston until his enlistment in the three
years' service. When he left the six months' service
for that purpose, he received no pay nor any cloth-
ing. When the Massachusetts regiments were re-
duced he was placed in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Brooks, Captain Lincoln and ISIajor William
Hull. When the regiments were again reduced, he
was transferred to the Fourth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, from which he was discharged as above
stated. When Lord Cornwallis surrendered in 1781,
he was in the Northern Department of the army
under General Heath. While in the winter en-
campment at Valley Forge, he had the smallpox.
He was fond of telling his experiences in army life.
and told on winter nights and summer days many a
tale of marches through the "Jarseys," and daring
exploits with the marauders about the Hudson, who
were designated "Cow Boys." They were a horde
of "Tories," commanded by Colonel Delancy, who
made their stronghold at Morrisania, and scoured
the fertile valleys of the Hudson, sweeping off
forage and cattle for the British army in New York.
He was discharged from the army at "Pickskill
Hiths" (Peekskill Heights). New York. When he
was discharged he was paid in "Continental money."
Of this he kept a thirty-dollar bill as a souvenir,
often remarking in later life that when he came
back from the army he could not get a breakfast
with it, else he would have spent it.
After his discharge from the army he returned
to Lexington, Massachusetts, and at twenty-three
years of age was taxed in Mason, New Hampshire.
In that year he bought a lot of land in Hancock,
New Hampshire, and in 1800 he purchased lot No.
10, in the eighteenth range in Mason. He lived on
this lot from the time of his marriage till his death.
He owned several other tracts of land in the vi-
cinity, most of which was woodland, which he
cleared for the lumber and cordwood. In 1816 he
and his son Jason bought an undivided one-third
interest in the saw and grist mills at the Upper
Falls on the Souhegan river, a quarter of a mile
from his residence. This mill privilege was the
first in Mason. Jason Dunster was selectman for
three successive years, and performed the town
business promptly and efficiently, though his pen-
manship was worse than Horace Greeley's, and
what it lacked in legibility had to be made up from
the writer's memory, which was unfailing.
In 1821 Mason Village was erected with a sepa-
rate school district, and it was suggested that the
schoolhouse should be paid for by subscriptions.
Deacon Dakin, between whom and Mr. Dunster
an opportunity for banter was never missed, took
this plan of Mr. Dunster rather jocularly, and turn-
ing to him said : '"Well, Dunster, I will give as
much as you will." Dunster instantly replied, "I
will give one-half of the whole cost; now Deacon,
don't back out." The Deacon was as good as his
word, and Jason Dunster and Deacon Dakin built
what was for that day a splendid brick schoolhouse.
a credit to them and a means to aid in the education
of the youth of the village for years afterward.
After one or two ineffectual attempts, Mr. Dunster
succeeded in getting a pension for his Revolutionary
services of eight dollars per month, commencing
May I, 1818. This was paid until his death, and
afterward his widow was pensioned. He died
Riarch 21, 1828, aged sixty-five, w'as buried at Ma-
son Center, in the Dunster group, and a suitable
stone placed over his grave by his widow.
He married, at Mason, April 18. 1793, Mary
(Polly in the records) Meriam, who was born at
Concord, Massachusetts, October 28, 1768, daughter
of Joseph and Mary (Brooks) Meriam. She was
an early member of the Mason Congregational
Church, and was a woman of truly christian char-
acter, a candid disposition, and it is said and be-
lieved that no one saw her out of temper. She
died May 5, 1858, in the nintieth year of her age,
and was buried beside her husband in Mason Cen-
ter cemetery. The seven children of this marriage,
all born in Mason, were : Jason, Mary, Isaiah, Bet-
sey, Samuel. Rebecca and Julianna.
(VII) Mary Dunster, the second child of Jason
and Mary (Meriam) Dunster, was born in Mason,
February 16, 1796. She had all the advantages of
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the common school, and was considered well edu-
cated. She was an industrious girl, and of great
service to her parents as a spinster and weaver in
those days when all clothing was made from the
raw material at home. At the time of the great
gale, September, 1815, she was engaged in prepar-
ing her marriage outfit, when the roof of the new
house the family then occupied was lifted so as 'to
show at the top a wide opening, but fell back and
remained firm, and she received no injury. She
married. December 28, 1815, Benoni Cutter Kimball
(see Kimball VIII).
This family, which is a branch of the
C.-VRBEE Carbee family of Massachusetts, is
descended from Revolutionary stock,
and most of its members reside in Vermont.
(I) Joel Carbee was a soldier in the Revolu-
tion. His record on the rolls of the state of Massa-
•chusetts is as follows : Joel Carbee of Dedham,
private. Captain Abial Richard's company. Colonel
Mclntish's regiment. March 23 to April 6, 1778, at
Roxbury and Boston. Joel Carby of Dedliam served
five months, twenty-five days, 1780. Also enlisted
for three years March 29, 1781, and served till the
end of the war. These are believed to be one and
the same person with Joel Carbee of Dedham and
Newbury. He removed to Newbury, Vermont,
about 1789, and settled on Wallace Hill, and owned
and tilled a farm. He died there February 19, 1834,
in the seventy-first year of his age. He married
Lois Downer, by whom he had several children.
(II) Joel, son of Joel . and Lois (Downer)
Carbee. was born in Newbury, Vermont, .\pril 24,
179s, and died in Ryegate, Vermont, April 18, 1865.
He was a farmer. In religious belief he was a
Universalist, and in politics an ardent Republican.
He married, August 24, 1823, Dorcas Johnson, who
died in Ryegate, January 23, 1874. Their children
were: Lois, Sarah, Joel, Mary. Jennie, John, Henry
C, Francena, Marcia.
(III) Henry C, son of Joel and Dorcas (John-
son) Carbee, was born in Ryegate, October 12, 1842,
and was broug'ht up on his father's farm. His edu-
cation was obtained in the public schools of his
native town. In 1875 he removed to Hooksett, New
Hampshire, and bought a farm in this region justly
celebrated for its fertility. This property is in the
northern part of the town. Later he purchased sixty
acres of land upon which he now resides, called the
Pinnacle. On this property is the widely known
Pinnacle Rock, on the summit of which is a tower
sixty feet high, the rock and the tower rising three
hundred and ninety feet above the surface of the
lake in the park and commanding a very extended
prospect over the surrounding country. The lake
is a handsome body of water, the park is well
stocked with wild animals and is arranged as a
place of general entertainment with suitable accom-
modations for outdoor sports. Mr. Carbee is a Re-
publican and has more than a passing interest in
politics. His party has honored him with the office
of selectman, which he held ten year?; of deputy
sheriff, which he held ten years; and of chairman of
the board of selectmen seven years. He is inclined
to fraternal and social organizations, and is a mem-
ber of Jewell Lodge, No. 94, Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons of Suncook; Friendship Lodge, No.
19, Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Hook-
sett ; and of Granite Lodge, No. 3, Knights of
Pythias, of Manchester, New Hampshire. His re-
ligious affiliations are with the Universalists. He
enlisted January 5, 1864, in the Second Vermont
Battery. Light Artillery, in Newbury, Vermont, and
served till the end of the war; mustered out August
3r, 1864: he was stationed at Port Hudson.
Mr. Carbee married (first) Lucy (Jordan) Rand,
daughter of Oscar P. Jordan, of New York state.
One child, Lily, born August i, 1870. He married
(second). December 6, 1877, Martha A. (Rowell)
Fuller, of Hooksett, born November 7, 1S58, daugh-
ter of Peter B. Rowell, farmer and stonemason of
Hooksett. Children: Edgar S.. born October 21,
1878; Lina A., September 13. 1880: Jennie May,
September 8, 1885, died July 16, 1887; Benjamin
Levi, July 22. 1887, died May 28, 18S8; Earl
Thomas, October 2, 1894; Pearl Rowell. October 2,
1894.
This old Colonial family, though
CRESSEV not a large one, is scattered over most
of the states of the Union, and has
furnished many men of energy, activity and
courage.
(I) Mighill Cressey landed in Salem with his
brother William, probably in the year 1649. He
w^as thirty years old in 1658. He lived for a time
in the family of Lieutenant Thomas Lathrop, after-
wards Captain Lathrop, who with sixty of his sol-
diers fell in the battle of Bloody Brook, in Deer-
field. September 18, 1675. From June. 1652, to
May. 1663, he lived in the family of Joshua Ray at
"Royal Side," Salem, now Beverly. He married,
1658, Mary Bachelder, born in Salem in 1640, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth Bachelder, of "Royal Side."
She was baptized at Salem, April 19, 1640, and died
in childbed, August, 1659. He then moved to Ips-
wich, and married, April 6, 1660. Mary Quilter, born in
Ipswich, May 2, 1641, daughter of Mark Quilter.
He died in Ipswich, April, 1670. He had by his
first wife one child, John; and by the second three
children: Mighill. William and Mary. Mary, his
widow, with her three children moved to Rowley,
Massachusetts, April, 1671, and died in that town.
May 7, 1707. This christian name is sometimes
spelled "Michael" on old records, but Mighill Cres-
sey, the immigrant, spelled his own name "Mighel
Cresse." On various records the surname (Cres-
sey) is spelled twenty-three different ways.
(II) John Cressey, only child of Mighill and
Mary (Bachelder) Cressey, was born at "Royal
Side," in Salem, August, 1659, and after the death
of his father lived with his grandfather Bachelder.
In 1675 he chose in court his uncle, Joseph Bach-
elder. to be his guardian. He was a tailor and re-
sided in Salem on land at "Royal Side" formerly
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belonging to his grandfather Bachelder. He was a
deacon of the Second Church of Beverley. His
grave is marked by a slatestone, inscribed as fol-
lows : "Here lyeth the Body of Deacon John Cresy
who died July ye 22(1 1735 In ye 76th year of his
age." His will was dated June 12, 1734, and ap-
proved August 18, 1735. He married Sarah Gaines,
born in Ipswich, November 23, 1665, daughter of
John and Mary (Tredwell) Gaines, of Ipswich.
She died at "Royal Side," April 4, 1751. They had
eleven children: Mary, John, died young; Sarah,
John. Joseph, Daniel, Job, Benjamin, Hannah, Abi-
gail, Noah.
(III) Daniel Cressey, sixth child and tliird son
of John and Sarah (Gaines) Cressey, was born in
Salem, July ir. 1698, and was a yeoman. He mar-
ried, October 20, 1720, Sarah Ingleson (probably
daughter of John and Mary Ingleson). of Salem.
About 1740 he moved to Connecticut, and nothing
further is as yet known of him. Their eleven chil-
dren were : John, Ruth, died young ; Mary, Ruth.
Sarah, Daniel, Joseph, Elizabeth, Richard, Ebenezcr
and Anna.
(IV) Daniel (2) Cressey, second son and sixth
child of Daniel (i) and Sarah (Ingleson) Cressey,
was baptized in Beverly, October 11, 1730. He
lived for some time in Salem. New Hampshire,
whence in 1779 he went to Bradford. New Hamp-
shire, where he was the third settler, and died
there in 1817, aged eighty-three. He was a Revolu-
tionary soldier and served in Captain I.=aac Bald-
win's company. Colonel John Stark's regiment, en-
listed April 23, 1775, and serving three months and
sixteen days in the campaign about Boston. He
married Abigail Allen, of Beverly, and they were
the parents of .■\ndrevv. Bartholomew, Mary, and
probably John and Edward, and perhaps others.
(V) Edward Cressey, son of Daniel" (2) and
Abigail (Allen) Cressey. was born about 1766, in
Salem, New Hampshire, and died about 1820, in
Bradford, this state, aged fifty-four years. He was
a farmer, and kept a hotel one and one-half miles
west of Bradford Village. He married (second)
Sarah Sawyer, of Bradford, who bore him seven
children, namely : Margaret, Oliver, Lucinda, Ed-
ward, William Plumer, Louise and Mary.
(VI) William Plumer Cressy. second son and
fifth child of Edward and Sarah (Sawyer) Cressey,
was born January 31, 1812, in Bradford, and died
December 23, iSgo. He grew up on the old home-
stead, and received a common-school education.
He was always engaged in farming, and in addition
to that industry engaged in breeding fine horses.
He was a lover of the noble animal, and had a
widely-extended reputation as a trainer of horses,
of which he broke hundreds and perhaps thousands,
and trained for the Boston market and for Boston
owners. He dealt in lumber and converted many
great trees into mast and spar timber, which was
taken to the sea via the Merrimack canal. In politics
he was a Democrat, and in his later life a member
of the Free Soil party of New Hampshire's great
leader, John P. Hale. He was school committee-
man, and for many years selectman, and lieutenant
of the troopers. He was one of the busiest and
most energetic citizens of Bradford, influential and
respected. He married Mary (jould, born 181 1,
daughter of Colonel Enoch and Sarah (Rowell)
Gould, of Hopkinton (see Gould). She died in
November, 1897. They had three sons : Warren G.,
Frank and Willis E. The first and last went to
Independence, Oregon, after the Civil war, and died
there.
(VII) Frank Cressy, second son and child of
William P. and Mary (Gould) Cressy, was born in
Bradford, October 21, 1840, and being a healthy,
strong and nimble boy, took an active part in the
interests his father carried on, farming and lum-
bering, each coming in for a share of his attention.
He attended the common school until 1859, when
be began a course at the New London Academy.
He worked on the farm summers and taught school
winters, taking a term at the academy each spring
and fall. After teaching in the common schools for
three years he was employed in village schools,
finally teaching in the high school at Bradford. In
1865. si.x years from the time he began teaching, he
took a position as mail clerk on trains between
Bradford and Manchester. From this he went to
Wasiiington, District of Columbia, where he was
employed as a clerk in the office of the sixth auditor
of the treasury. Here he served from November,
1865. to August, 1873, during which time he was
twice promoted. Returning to New Hampshire he
became local agent in the railway mail service at
Concord. Two years later he was transferred to
the train service, where as a first-class clerk he
made the runs of two hundred and sixty-five miles
between Boston. Massachusetts, and St. Albans,
Vermont, for the ensuing five years. The mono-
tony of long hours of strenuous work was varied
by several train wreck.s^ some of them badly damag-
ing the car he occupied, from all which Mr. Cressy
escaped without injury. On the election of Grover
Cleveland in 1884. Mr. Cressy resigned his place in
the government service and became a traveling
salesman for the firm of Blanchard & Company,
flour and grain dealers, Concord. Two years later
he exchanged into a similar position for the firm of
Moseley & Company, of Concord, and traveled for
them over the states of New Hampshire and Ver-
mont fourteen years. At the end of that time
{ 1898) he bought out the business and has since
carried it on with marked success, doing a business
of four hundred thousand dollars annually. Mr.
Cressy is industrious, energetic, alert and successful.
His native good judgment, executive ability and
lively genial temperament have made work easy and
prosperity a certainty. He is a respected citizen of
Concord and a man of influence. He is a staunch
Republican, has been president of the Republican
Club of the sixth ward for ten years, and alderman
of the sixth ward for two years and member of the
house of representatives two years. He is a prompt
and liberal supporter of the Unitarian Church, on
the prudential conmiittee of which he has served
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for years. He is a member of the Wonolancet Club,
and of the White Mountain Travelers' Association,
the largest social organization of traveling men in
New England. He has served as president of this
association two years, and as treasurer for the past
ten years.
Mr. Cressy married. March 30, 1862, at Bradford,
Annette M. Ring, born at New London, May 5.
1841, daughter of Edmund J. and Miriam (Nelson)
Ring. They have three children : Will Martin, a
well-known actor and playwright ; Harry Ring,
traveling salesman, having an interest in the flour
and grain business of his father, and May Florence.
The surname Ingalls is believed to
INGALLS be of Scandinavian- origin and de-
rived from Ingialld. The etymology
of the name is "By the power of Thor." "Dooms-
day Book" records a Baron Ingald. a tenant of King
William at Rersbi and Elvestone, Leicestershire, A.
D. 1080, who came from Nomiandy. "During the
ninth century the Scandinavian pirates often de-
scended on the east coast of Great Britain, and in
after years many of this nationality made settle-
ments there, especially in Lincolnshire. These peo-
ple were a hardy, seafaring race owing to the na-
ture of their country, but under changed conditions
of environment, settled down to tilling the soil.
The earliest record found is that of Henry Ingalls,
grandfather of Edmund (the ancestor), and made
iu 1555, lie probably iiaving been born about 14S0.
The next record is that of Robert the father (of
Edmund) and made in 1617. The name is still
common in England."
(I) Edmund Ingalls was born at Skirbcck,
Lincolnshire, England, about 1598, and came to
Salem. Massachusetts, with Governor Endicott's
company in 1628. With his brother Francis and
four others he began the settlement of Lynn in
1629. He was a man of good report, although the
town records of Lynn show that on one occasion
he was fined for bringing home sticks in both his
arms on the Sabbath day from Mr. Holyoke's rails.
In March, 1648, while traveling on horseback to
Boston, he was drowned in the Saugus river, owing
to a defective bridge, and his heirs recovered dam-
ages from the town. The christian name of his
wife was Ann, but her family name and the date of
their marriage is unknown. They had nine chil-
dren: Robert, born about 1621, married Sarah
Harkcr. Elizabeth, born 1622, died June 9, 1676,
married Rev. Francis Dane, of Andover. Massachu-
setts. Faith, born 1623. married Andrew Allen, and
moved to Andover. John, born 1625. married Eliza-
beth Barrett. Sarah, born 1626. married William
Bitnar. Henry, born 1627, married (first) Mary
Osgood, (second) Sarah Farnum. Samuel, born
1634, married Ruth Eaton. Mary, married John
Eaton. Joseph, died young.
(II) Henry Ingalls. son of Edmund and .\nn
Ingalls, was born in Skirbeck. in 1627, and died in
Andover, Massachusetts, February 8, 1718-19. He
owned land in Ipswich, which he sold in 1652. and
was one of the first settlers in Andover, where he
bought land from the Indians, paying for it in
clothing and trinkets. He was made a freeman by
the general court in 1673, and took a prominent
part in town affairs, holding many offices of trust.
He married (first), July 6. 1653, Mary, daughter of
John and Ann Osgood, of Andover. She died
May 6, 1686. He married (second), August i, 1687,
Sarah Farnum, widow of George Abbott. She
died May 12, 1728. His children, all by his first
marriage, were : Samuel, born October 3, 1654, mar-
ried Sarah Hcndrick. Henry, December 8. 1656,
married Abigail Emery. Mary, January 28, 1659,
married John Stevens. John, May 21, 1661, mar-
ried Sarah Russell. Stephen, May 21, 1661, mar-
ried Dinah Elson. Francis, September 3, 1663, died
December 9, 1690. Moses. June 6, 1666, died Sep-
tember 28, 1667. James, September 24, 1669. mar-
ried Hannah Abbott. Sarah, September 7. 1672,
probably died young. Joseph, March 24. 1675. died
young. Josiah, February 28, 1676, married (first)
Mary Holt, (second) Esther Frye. Sarah, January
22, 1679, married Joshua Swan. (Mention of Henry
.iiul descendants appears in this article).
(III) Samuel, eldest child of Henry and Mary
(Osgood) Ingalls, was born October 3, 1654. in
Andover, and lived his life in that town, dying
.\ugust II, 1733. On the records he is given the
title of sergeant. He was married June 4, 1682. to
Sarah, daughter of Daniel Hendrick. She was born
August S, 1661. Their children were: Samuel,
Sarah. Moses, Daniel (died young). Deborah (died
young). Eldad, Deborah, Daniel, Ruth, Nathaniel
and Mary.
(IV) Captain Samuel (2), eldest child of Sam-
uel (i) and Sarah (Hendrick) Ingalls. was born
May 7, 1683, in Andover, and moved from that town
to Haverhill in 1717. He was one of the original
proprietors of Chester, New Hampshire, where he
was prominent in civic affairs, and built the first
frame house in that town in 1732. Captain Ingalls
was a blacksmith by trade, and in 1721 he was
granted a mill privilege in Chester, on his agree-
ment to build a saw mill in one year. In the same
year he was a member of the committee appointed to
erect a church. He was captain of the militia and
served as clerk and as selectman. His death oc-
curred about 1760, at about the age of seventy-seven
years. He married Mary Watts, who -was born
June 27, 1687, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Ayer) Watts. Their children were born in And-
over and Haverhill, namely : Elizabeth, Sarah. Sam-
uel, Mary, Ruth, Timothy, Mehctable. Abigail and
Nathaniel.
(V) Samuel (3), eldest son and second child
of Samuel (2) and Mary (Watts) Ingalls. was born
September 15. 1712, in Andover, Massachusetts, and
died October 6, 1747, in Hill. New Hampshire. He
lived in early life in Sandown, New Hampshire,
and passed his last days in New Chester (now
Hill), where two of his sons, Ebenezcr and Jona-
than, resided. He married Susanna Jose.
(VI) Ebenezer, son of Samuel (3) and Susanni
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(Jose) Ingalls. was in Bristol as early as 1771, but
removed to New Hampton about 1777. He served
in the -war of the Revolution one term, and was a
member of the board of selectmen of Bristol in
1776. The name of his wife does not appear, nor
the date of his death.
(Vn) Gilman, son of Ebenezer Ingalls. was
born in Bristol, February 4, 1775, and died May 23,
1855, on the farm first settled by his father in that
town. He married Abigail, daughter of Timothy
Emerson, of Alexandria. She was born there April
iS, 1778, and died in Bristol, October 9, i860. Their
eleven children were : Gilman, Abigail, Josiah
Emerson, Lydia, Phebe, Mary Jane, Harvey Nichols,
Timothy, Luther. George Washington and Nancv B.
(Vlil) Gilman (2), eldest child of Gilman'(i)
and Abigail (Emerson) Ingalls, was born in New
Hampton, January 29, 1798. He removed to
Bristol, where he died July 6, 1862. He married
(first) Nancy Bowen, who lived but a short time;
(second). October 9, 1823, Sarah, daughter of Dr.
Thomas Roberts, of Alexandria. Dr. Roberts was
a skillful practitioner of his time, and it is stated
on good authority that he had a specific of his own
with which he treated successfully cancerous pa-
tients. Unfortunately he died without divulging the
formula. Gilman Ingalls lost his first home in Bris-
tol by fire. He then moved to the farm which had been
in the family since 1771. Sarah (Roberts) Ingalls
died January 24, 1862. Their children were: Gus-
tavus Washington, Amanda Jane, Lucinda Hibbard,
Mahala Plumer, George Harvey, Mary Philbrick,
Ann Maria, Horace Langdon, John Henry, Frances
Amelia and Alfretta Augusta.
This large family of children is worthy of more
than casual mention. With hardly an exception they
were endowed with more than ordinary musical talent,
and naturally were prominent in the social circles
of their town and its vicinity. All of the sons, four
in number, were in the Civil war, two as musicians.
Gustavus Ingalls, the oldest child of Gilman (2)
and Sarah (Roberts) Ingalls, was born May 21,
1824, in Bristol. He was 'a fine musician, and be-
came one of the early band leaders in that part of
the state. August i, 1861, he enlisted from Con-
cord as musician in the Third Regiment with which
he remained until August 31, 1862. In January.
1863, he recruited a band that did service mainly at
Hilton Head, South Carolina. It was known as
the Second Brigade Band of the T«nth Army Corps,
otherwise as the Hilton Head Post Band, and which
under his superior leadership attained a wide repu-
tation. Mr. Ingalls later, settled in Worcester,
Massachusetts, where he engaged in the manufac-
ture of organ reed boards. He died in that city
November 6, 1903. George Harvey, second son of
Gilman (2) and Sarah (Roberts) Ingalls, was born
in Bristol, February 5, 1832. He very early dis-
played marked musical ability, and it is claimed that
he was a leader of one of the choirs in his town at
twelve years of age. He was a member of the Hil-
ton Head Post Band, after its organization by his
brother Gustavus. until the close of the Civil war.
He flicd in Warner, February 8, 1899. Horace
Langdon. third son of Gilman (2) and Sarah
(Roberts) Ingalls, was born August 31, 1838, in
Bristol. He was one of the first to enlist in the
war from that town, on April 23, 1861. He served
in the First Regiment until it was mustered out
August 9 following. December 2, 1861, he enlisted
for three years in the Eighth Regiment, and served
in the Department of the Gulf until May 2, 1863,
when he was discharged. December 16. 1864, he en-
listed in Company G, Eighteenth Regiment, for one
year, and was mustered the same day as sergeant,
and appointed commissary agent. He was mustered
out July 29. 1865. Mr. Ingalls resides in Concord,
and has served several terms as doorkeeper of the
house of representatives. John H., youngest son of
Gilman (2) and Sarah (Roberts) Ingalls, was born
April 16. 1841. He enlisted in the Twelfth New
Hampshire Regiment, August 19, 1862, and was
mustered as sergeant. April 16, 1863, he was dis-
charged by reason of illness, and died at his home
in Bristol, December S following.
(IX) Mary Philbrick. sixth child and fourth
daughter of Gilman (2) and Sarah (Roberts) In-
galls. was born January 3, 1834. She married, Jan-
uary 25. 1861, Lewis F. Pattee (see Pattee, VII).
(III) Henry (2) Ingalls. second child and
second son of Henry (l) and Mary (Osgood) In-
galls. was born in Andover. Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 8, 1656, and died there February 8. 1698-99. He
married, June, 1688, Abigail, daughter of John, Jr.,
and Mary (Webster) Emer\-, of Newbury. She was
born January 16. 1669, and died July 12, 1756. Their
five children : Henry, born April 2, 1689. married
Hannah Martin. Mar\-, February 25, 1691, not men-
tioned in her father's will. Abigail, January 15,
1693, died unmarried. August 11, 1742. Francis,
December 20, 1694, married (first) Lydia Ingalls.
Joseph. April 17. 1697. married Phebe Farnum.
(IV) Joseph Ingalls, youngest child and son of
Henry and Abigail (Emery) Ingalls, was born in
Andover, Massachusetts, and died there December
29. 1757. He married, December 29, 1720, Phebe,
daughter of John Farnum. She survived her hus-
band a little more than two years, and died Febru-
ary iS. 1760. Their ten children: Joseph, born 1721,
died February 20. 1721-22. Joshua. February 22,
I7_'2, died February 15, 172S-29. Joseph, August
22. 1723, married Sarah Abbott. Phebe, July 7,
1725, married Joshua Abbott, lived at Amherst, New
Hampshire. Tabitha, March 23, 1727, died March
13. 1728-29. Jobihua. August 13. 1752, -married
Elizabeth Steel. Tabitha. March 14, 173S, married
Solomon Kittredge. Stephen, April 23, 1737. Eliza-
beth. August 21, 1739, died May 13, 1752. Peter,
October 28, 1741, died December 10, 1741.
(V) Joseph Ingalls, third child and son of
Joseph and Phebe (Farnum) Ingalls, was born in
.Andover. Massachusetts, August 22, 1723, and died
at his home in Pomfret, Connecticut, October 18,
1790. He married. May 24, 17—, Sarah, daughter
of Paul and Elizabeth (Gray) Abbott. She was
born October 15. 1730, and died January 30. 1810.
Their children : Phebe, born August 22, 175°. died
September 20. 175.;. Peter. February 19. 1732, mar-
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ried Sarah Ashley. Darius, June 27, 1754, married
Loderma Lee. Dorcas (twin with Darius), born
June 27, 1754. Asa. February 29, 1756, died Decem-
ber 25, 1775. Luther, August 24, 1758, married Lucy
Utley. Calvin, November 22, 1760, married (first)
Catherine Terrington, (second) Mary Horton.
Chester, August 9, 1762, married Sylvia Stevens.
Joseph, August 24, 1764. died September 6, 1786.
Sarah, December 18. 1766, died April 24, 1833, mar-
ried Abraham Ford. Hannah, July 7, 1769, mar-
ried Josiah Ingersoll. Har\-ey, July 7, 1775, died
December 30, 1833.
(VI) Luther Ingalls. sixth child and fourth
son of Joseph and Sarah (Abbott) Ingalls, was born
in Pomfret, Connecticut, August 24, 1758, and died
in Hanover, New Hampshire, July 4, 1855. He was
a soldier of the Revolution from Pomfret. He mar-
ried, June 25, 1781, Lucy, daughter of Joseph Utley.
She was born May 18, 1760, and died January 7.
1831. They had eight children: Royal, born March
26, 1783, died October 11, 1793. Sylvester, April 25,
1785. married Mary Turner. Lucy, May 30, 1787,
died January 3. 1S05. Sarah, August 27. 1789, mar-
ried Timothy Owen. Elizabeth, October 26, 1794.
Polly, April 8, 1797. died March 9, 1880, married
Silas T. Vaughan. Luther, May 5, 1799. married
Mary A. Levering. George, May 20, 1805. died Jan-
iiary 2, 1843. ■
(Vil) Polly Ingalls. daugliter of Lutlier and
Lucy (Utley) Ingalls. was born April 8, 1797, and
died March 9, 1880. She married Silas T. Vaughan,
whose father, Captain Jabez Vaughan, is believed
to have been born in Middlebury, Massachusetts, in
October, 1763, and served with credit during the
Revolutionary war. He died June 16, 1813. His
son, Silas T. Vaughan, was born August 28, 1797,
and died April 20, 1862. The children of Silas T.
and Mary (Ingalls) Vaughan were: Orsino A. J.,
Alvin. Silas Orcasto, Sophronia, Elizabeth, Phineas,
Mary. Ellen. Orville, Royal, Myra and William
Vaughan.
Elizabeth Vaughan was born in Hanover, New
Hampshire, September 27, 1825, and died May 4,
1872. She married, April 17, 1845, Edwin Perry
Knight (see Knight III), who was born in Han-
over. August IS, 1816, and died October 22, 1857.
Their children are : Edwin F., William Franklin,
Charles E., Emma E., and Myra V. Knight.
America for centuries has been
LINEHAN the land sought by the poor and
oppressed of all nations, and that
their coming here results in the betterment of
their condition is seen in almost every instance,
and in many cases such is the influence of our
free institutions that the poor immigrant of a few
years ago is the man of rank and standing of to-
day. The following account is illustrative of what
is brought about by energetic industry directed by
quick intelligence in a free land.
(I) John Linehan was born in Macroom,
county of Cork, Ireland, December 16, 1816. His
immediate ancestors were Cornelius and Hanora
(Vaughan) Linehan and John and Mary (Riordan)
Linehan. His mother died soon after his birth.
His grandfather, for whom he was named, took
him when this event occurred and he made his
home with him until he reached manhood. He re-
ceived a good education in a noted private school
kept by a man named Burden. Several generations
of the family has been engaged in the grain and
milling business. On the death of his grandfather
he inherited his property and business. At the
age of twenty-one, in 1837, he married Margaret
Foley, the daughter of a well known farmer in the
adjoining parish of Kilmichael.
The terrible experience of the famine period
taught him, as it taught thousands of others, that
there was no earthly hope of success for either him-
self or family in Ireland ; so like so many of his
race he turned his face towards the west, and came
to the United States in the fall of 1847. He landed
in New York City. A little later he came to New
Hampshire, where he entered the employ of Super-
intendent Lombard of the Northern Railroad. His
family, consisting of his wife and five children,
followed him in the fall of 1849. From their arrival
until May, 1852, they made their home in Dan-
bury. In May of the latter year he removed to
Penacook, where practically a home was made per-
manently. For some years he was foreman of the
Penacook section, and later was in the employ of
Barron, Didge & Company, at the tlour mill. Still
later he was in the cabinet shop of H. H. Amsden
& Sons. He died July 7, 1897, in his eighty-first
year, and his body was laid beside that of his
wife, whose death had preceded his, as she had
departed this life October 14, 1891, aged seventy-
six. Both rest in Calvary cemetery, Penacook. He
was well versed in the history of his native land, and
sympathized with every movement for the advance-
ment of its people. He was a good citizen and a
public-spirited man. He was fully naturalized five
years after his arrival here, and never failed to
cast his ballot for the candidate of his choice.
Politically he was a Democrat, but independent;
his first presidential ballot was cast for James
Buchanan, his last for William McKinley.
In religion he was a Catholic — a loyal adherent
to the faith of his fathers. He was one of the
pioneers of his creed in Penacook, and while in
life one of its most liberal supporters. He was
a faithful husband, an affectionate, indulgent father,
and a kind neighbor. He was blessed in his wife.
She was one of the most devout as well as one of
the most modest of her sex — a perfect type of the
race of women whose piety and love of virtue have
given their native land a world wide reputation.
Eight children, five sons and three daughters,
blessed their union. Their names are : Mary, John
Cornelius, Annie, Joanna. Timothy Patrick, An-
drew, George Henry, and Michael Joseph, the last
three being born in America.
(II) Hon. John Cornelius Linehan. second
child and eldest son of John and Margaret (Foley)
Linelian, was born in Macroom, county of Cork,
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Ireland, February 9, 1S40, and died in Penacook,
September 19, 1905. He came to this couiUry with
his mother, his brother Timothy and two sisters,
in October, 1S49. Another sister followed a year
later. His father had emigrated two years before,
settling temporarily in Danbury, New Hampshire,
where his family joined him. In 1852 he removed
with his people to Fisherville, now Penacook,
making his home there permanently. His opportu-
nities for securing an education were limited ; he
attended school in Ireland two years, and in
America one. He studied hard at home under the
direction of his father who, more fortunate, had
been able to acquire a good education in his native
land. At the age of twelve he went to work in the
Penacook cotton factory, which was then owned
and operated by H. H. and J. S. Brown. He labored
there from 1852 to 1857, five years, beginning as a
doffer in the spinning room and ending as a loom
fixer in the weaving room. At the latter date he
entered the employ of Rolfe Brothers, sash, blind,
and box manufacturers, and remained there nearly
five years, being foreman of the box department
for the greater part of that period. He be came a
member of the Fisherville cornet band in i860.
On August 15, 1861, with six of his associates, he
enlisted in the band of the Third New Hampshire
Volunteers for service in the Civil war. He did
his duty as a musician, and at the battles of James
Island and Sccessionville he and the other mem-
bers of the band laid aside their instruments, and
devoted their energies to bringing off the wounded.
Many of these soon afterward expired. To
those about to die he offered the comforts
of religion. Among the many pathetic inci-
dents of the war there were few more
touching than that of the youthful Linehan
repeating the litany at the request of a soldier who
had received his death wound and was dying far
away from his own regiment and from any con-
fessor of his faith. On his discharge August 31,
1862, he again re-entered the employ of Rolfe
Brothers, but closed his connection with them in
December. During the year 1863 he had charge of
the packing department of the flour mill. In Janu-
ary, 1864, he was engaged by Caldwell & .\msdcn,
then owners of the cabinet shop. He worked for
this iirni until April 10, 1866, being for the greater
part of the time one of the shipping clerks. On
the last date mentioned he entered into co-partner-
ship with Moses H. Bean, who was engaged in the
mercantile business. A month later Henry V.
Brown, one of his tent mates in the army and a
lifelong friend, bought out the interest of Mr.
Bean, and under the firm name of Brown & Line-
han the business was continued until May, 1869,
when he purchased Mr. Brown's interest in the
firm, operating alone until he finally sold out in
January, 1891. He was located for nearly twenty
years in the Exchange block on Washington square.
During his business career he acquired a repu-
tation for honesty and integrity not confined to
Penacook. In religion he was a Catholic, and
through life loyal to his faith. Like his father he
was a liberal contributor towards the support of
the church, and for forty years one of the most
active member in Penacook. For twenty-five years
he was superintendent of the Sunday school con-
nected with the Penacook parish. The best proof
of the efficiency of his labors is the fact that while
under his supervision not a Catholic child in Pena-
cook was an absentee except in case of sickness
from the Sunday school. In 1867, at the earnest
solicitation of Rev. J. E. Barry, whose pastorate
included Penacook, he negotiated for the purchase
of the building occupied for many years as a place
of worship by the Methodists. To secure a note
given for payment, he and John Thornton, another
member of the congregation, mortgaged their
houses to John L. Tallant, from whom the money
was borrowed, as additional security, as he was
unwilling to accept the mortgage on the church
alone. When additional land was secured for
Woodlawn cemetery, of which he was one of the
trustees, he made an appeal to his associates to
set aside a part of it for a cemetery for the Catholics
of Penacook. His request was granted, and the
land deeded to the bishop of the diocese in trust for
the Catholic congregation in the village.
When Brown's band was organized in 1865 he
was one of its first members, and during its exist-
ence, until igo2, was its secretary and treasurer.
He was president of the Fisherville Lyceum Associ-
ation during the greater part of its existence. This
was founded shortly after the war, and was the
means of providing some of the best speaking talent
in the United States for the people of the village.
He afliliated with the Republican party from early
manhood, and was honored by being elected or
appointed to various positions of honor and trust
within its gift. He filled nearly every office in
ward one. He was a member of the common coun-
cil in 1872-73, and a member of the board of alder-
men from 1877 to 1878. He was chosen a member of
the executive council of the state of New Hampshire
to serve during the term of Governor Charles H. Saw-
yer in 1887-88 and during his term of office was chair-
man of the committee on state prison. He was ap-
pointed trustee of the Industrial School by Governor
Samuel W. Hale in 1884, and except for a brief inter-
val of a few months served continually until the
time of his death. He was secretary of the board
for several years, and from 1897 until his death
he was its president. He was also one of the com-
mittee chosen to build the Penacook public school,
and was one of the connnittee to select the location
for the Concord soldier's monument, as well as to
select its design and inscription.
He was appointed insurance commissioner of
New Hampshire for three years by Governor David
H. Goodell, on September 28, 1890. He was re-
appointed in 1893 by Governor John B. Smith, in
1896 by Governor Charles A. Busiel, in 1899 by
Ckjvernor Frank W. Rollins, in 1902 by Governor
Batchelder, and 1905 by Governor McLane. The
last appointment was made less than ten days before
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the death of Mr. Linehan, at a special meeting of
governor and council at Portsmouth. His record
as insurance commissioner is well known. He was
fearless and conscientious in the performance of
his duties, and received the commendation of his
superiors, the governors and councils, as well as
the people of the state. Circumstances when he was
first appointed obliged him to face a situation re-
quiring courage as well as discretion. How well
it was done the records of the insurance depart-
ment, as well as the press of the state, bear witness.
A leading journal of the state commenting on his
course in office speaks of him as follows: "When
he was called to the important oflSce of commis-
sioner he has a right to feel, as others did, that he
had won it by his merits. This good opinion he
justified during all the years he had the supervision
and to a large extent the control of the vast in-
surance interests of the state. No suspicion of cor-
ruption or unfaithfulness of any kind ever touched
his administration. No favoritism ever shaped his
policy or dictated his oflicial acts. For whatever
he believed was for the good of the honest com-
panies and tlie policy holders of the state, for what
his judgment and his conscience approved, he stood
fearlessly and unflinchingly; and with the univer-
sal grief over the loss of the man and the friend
goes the feeling tliat his place as a public servant
can hardly be filled."
He was one of the charter members of William
I. Brown Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and
its first commander, filling the position for over
two years. He always took an active interest in
the welfare of his own post, and before its forma-
tion had been partly instrumental in the formation
of the Fisherville Memorial Association, wliich was
composed mainly of Brown's band and several pub-
lic-spirited citizens, for the object of observing
Memorial Day. With a few exceptions he was the
president of the day on Memorial Days every year
after the institution of the post. He was chosen
to represent the department of New Hampshire,
Grand Army of the Republic, at the National En-
campment at Albany in 1878, and a member of the
national council of administration in i88o-8r. He
was elected department commander of New Hamp-
shire in 1883-84, and appointed a member of the
national pension committee, serving until 1887, when
he was unanimously chosen junior vice-commander-
in-chief. Grand Army of the Republic. He was
president of the New Hampshire Veterans Asso-
ciation in 1885-86, and from its institution, with
the exception of a few years, its musical director.
He was a trustee of the Loan and Trust Savings
Bank of Concord, a member of the New Hamp-
shire Historical Society, Knights of Columbus,
Charitable Irish Society of Boston, and the Amer-
ican-Irish Historical Society. He was the treas-
urer and one of the founders of the latter.
Although a busy man through life he found time
to study, became a fine scholar, especially strong in
history, and wrote much for publication. In con-
junction with his lifelong friend and comrade, D.
.\rthur Brown, he wrote a memorial history of Pen-
acook in the Civil war. The book contains a sketch
of every person, so far as known who served in that
great contest from Penacook, and also of the com-
rades of William I. Brown Post who came to re-
side in Penacook or vicinity since the close of the
war. When completed the book was placed for
preservation in the New Hampshire state library.
The type-written sheets Mr. Brown had bound in
book form, for the use of the post room.
He was a steady contributor to weeklies and
periodicals. He contributed a chapter "The Irish
in New Hampshire," to McClintock's History of
New Hampshire, also a chapter to the History of
the First New Hampshire, on "The Irish of New
Hampshire in the Civil War," and a chapter to the
History of the Seventeenth New Hampshire, on
"Alusic and Songs of the War." He also wrote
many sketches on the early Irish settlers in tlie
thirteen colonies, which have been published in
papers and magazines. For his services in this line
he received a degree from Dartinouth College, in
1887. He was a witty, eloquent, and convivial
speaker, and an interesting lecturer, and spoke more
or less during every political campaign from 1884
till 1904. He was a great reader and had a wonder-
ful memory, and any story he came across was
stored away for future use, but he very rarely told
a story, even an old one, unless it was to illustrate
a point. He had a keen sense of humor and a genial
disposition, and with these he liked to make the
world happier, and everybody went away from his
presence with a smile. He was much sought after
as an after dinner orator and did not require the
sparkling glass to beget brilliant wit, for all his life
he was a total abstainer.
When the movement to mark the regimental
positions on the Gettysburg battlefield was first
mentioned in 1880 at the national encampment,
Grand Army of the Republic, in Dayton, Ohio, he
warmly advocated it. In 1885 he was appointed
one of the directors of the Battlefield Association,
holding that position until 1895 — ten years. The
government then assumed charge of the field, and
psesented each of the retiring directors a beautifully
engraved testimonial for the services rendered.
While serving on this board of directors he was
largely instrumental in securing appropriations from
the New Hampshire state legislature for the placing
of monuments marking the positions held by the
New Hampshire organizations on that great battle-
field. In response to the invitation of the surviving
veterans of the Second and Fifth New Hampshire
Regiments, and the New Hampshire batallion of
sharpshooters, he accompanied them to Gettysburg in
the summer of 1887, and received from them, on behalf
of the directors, the monuments of the three organiz-
ations. By special request he also received the
monument of Meagher's Irish Brigade, which was
dedicated at the same time. As a recognition of
his labors his name is cut with that of the other
directors on (he high water mark monument lo-
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cated near the historic copse of trees which was the
objective point of Pickett's men in their celebrated
charge on July 3, 1862.
Colonel Lineham was perhaps the most promi-
nent Ainerican citizen of Irish birth in New Hamp-
shire. He was an ardent advocate of all measures
for the betterment of his native land, and had a part
in the varioiis Jrish movements, his interest for
the well-being of those whom by birth he peculiarly
represented making him the selfsacrificing friend of
Ireland, to whose voice and pen her cause is much
indebted. He was a devout Catholic, and his name
deserves to be remembered by future generations
of Catholics in New England as one who did not
conceal his faith, minimize its meaning or require-
ments, or fail to practice it. Few laymen did more
according to their opportunities for the spread of
the faith than he, and yet there was no man in New
Hampshire more openly honored or more sincerely
respected by men of all creeds and parties. The old
soldiers who had carried guns in hard fought cam-
paigns, loved him for what he was, and bestowed
upon him the highest honor they had in their power
to bestow as commander of their state department.
In politics, unlike most men of his faith and
race, he cast his lot with the Republican party. It
was his conviction of right, and he was a sincere
and disinterested advocate of his party's principles.
He was influential in his political party and held
some of the most important state offices in its gift,
because he was a strong man and willing to help
in all honorable ways, and filled well all places he
occupied. In private life he sustained an unblem-
ished character, and his oldest acquaintances were
his best friends. His marriage and his home life
were ideal.
He was wedded on January 2, 1864, to Mary E.
Pendergast by the Rev. John O'Donnell at the par-
ochial residence in Nashua. She was born in
Dracut, Massachusetts. Of the children born to
them four survive— Margaret Ann, born October
2, 1864; John Joseph, October 9, 1866; Timothy
Patrick, December 7, 1869; Henry Francis, June
2-/, 1877. The eldest is known as Sister M. Joseph
of the Sisters of Mercy of Portland Maine. The
second is engaged in mercantile business in Wor-
cester, Massachusetts. The third resides in New
'^'')rk. The fourth resides in Penacook.
The Winkleys (also properly
\VL\KLEY spelled Winckley) of New England,
never a numerous family, but emi-
nently respectable and highly connected, are de-
scendants of the ancient English family of that
name, with arms : an eagle displayed countercharged,
argent and gules, moth spes. The family in Amer-
ica dates from about the year 1680.
(I) Samuel Winkley came from Lancashire,
England, about 1680, and landed at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. He settled first at Kittery, Maine,
where in 1684 he married Sarah, daughter of
Francis Trickey, and lived at Crooked Lane estate,
which was granted to Trickey by the town af Kit-
tery in 1656 "in honor of gallant deeds." They after-
wards moved to Portsmouth, where Samuel was en-
gaged in trade and commerce, and where he died
m 1736, aged about seventy years. His children
(.according to "Old Kittery and Her Families")
were Samuel, Michael, William, Francis, Nicholas,
Sarah, Elizabeth and Samuel, the latter the second
child so named.
(.11) Francis (i), fourth child of Samuel and
Sarah (Trickey) Winkley, was born at Crooked
Lane, Kittery, Maine, in 1689, and died April 2},,
1776, aged eighty-seven years. He was a boat
builder. He married, November 12, 1724, Mary,
daughter of Rev. John Emerson, of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. She died March 17, 1745, aged
forty-one years. Their children were John, Eliza-
Ijeth, Samuel, Francis, Mary, Emerson and Sarah
Winkley.
(III) Francis (2), son of Francis (i) and Mary
(Emerson) Winkley, was born at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, October 25, 1733, and died October 9,
1818. He married Martha, daughter of Mark Hunk-
ing, of Barrington, New Hampshire. She was born
1734, and died January 16, 1807. They lived in Bar-
rington, and had children : Mark H., Mary, John,
Martha, Francis and Sarah Winkley.
(IV) Mark Hunking, eldest son and child of
Francis and Martha (Hunking) Winkley, was born
October 28, 1763. He married Tamson, daughter
of Paul Hayes, Esq., of Alton, New Hampshire,
and their children were Mary, Francis, Martha,
Paul and Dennis Winkley.
(V) Francis (3), son of Mark H. and Tamson
(Hayes) Winkley, married Sarah Lougee of Straf-
ford, New Hampshire, and liad a daughter, Tamson
Hayes Winkley.
(VI) Tamson Hayes, daughter of Francis and
Sarah (Lougee) Winkley, married John P. Clough,
of Gihnanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. (See
Clough VII).
This name, which was originally
KELLEY spelled Kelleigh, can be traced back
to a period prior to the Norman con-
quest, and its bearers are undoubtedly descended
from the ancient Britons. It has been claimed that
the name is of French origin, but there seem to be
little or no conclusive evidence to substantiate this
belief. The principal manoral seat of the family
in England has been for many centuries located in
the small parish of Kelly in Devonshire, but whether
the community derived its name from the family,
or vice-versa, cannot be determined. Burke and
Shirley both agree as to its great antiquity, and the
latter asserts that the Kellys have been lords of
tlie manor at Kelly from the reign of Henry II.,
(1154-11S9). In Ireland. Kelly has for centuries
been one of the most common surnames, and in the
Irish language is called Ceallach, signifying strife,
or war. K family of the name of Kelly has pos-
sessed a free hold in the Isle of Man from time
immemorial. The English Kellys furnished their
share of early colonists in New England.
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(I) Ricliard Kelly resided in Exeter, Devon.
(II) John, son of Richard Kelly, the immi-
grant ancestor of the New Hampshire Kellys now
under consideration, arrived at Boston in the ship
"Hector" in 1633, and is said to have come from
Newbury, England. He settled in Newbury, Massa-
chusetts, in 1635, and was one of the early grantees
there, receiving a four acre house lot, and was
later (1639) assigned four acres of planting land on
the marsh. The house lot he evidently did not use
for the purpose intended, and when ready to erect
a dwelling-house he secured a location on Oldtown
Hill, some distance from the original settlement on
the shores of Parker river. Coffin's "History of
Newbury," contains a story based upon tradition
that this immigrant's father went from Ireland to
Newbury, England, but this cannot be corroborated.
Another tradition which is probably a more truthful
one is, that John the immigrant was a native of
Exeter, in the county of Devon, and was connected
with a family that took its name from the parish
of Kelly, already referred to. In reference to
this ancestor the Hon. John Kelly, a reliable anti-
quarian, of Exeter, New Hampshire, states that he
must have possessed some wealth as he brought
with him goods in two chests, which fell to his
grandson Richard. His death occurred at New-
bury in 1644. The maiden name of his wife does
not appear in the records. His children were:
Sarah and John.
(III) John, only son of John the immigrant, was
born in Newbury, July 2, 1642. He took the free-
man's oath in 1669. In addition to the land owned
by his father he was granted by the town five acres
more of the great marsh, and prior to 1690 he built
a house at the foot of Graves Hill, on the west side
of the road. About the year 1694 he moved from
Oldtown Hill to the upper woods (now West New-
bury), and he was authorized to maintain a ferry
at Holt's Rocks. He died March 21, 1718. On May
25, 1663, he married Sarah Knight, who was born
March 23, 1648, daughter of Deacon Richard
Knight, and a full list of members of the Second
Church made June 20, 1714, at which time the Rev.
Mr. Tufts was ordained pastor, contains the names
of John Kelly and Sarah his wife. The latter died
shortly after that date, and on March 15, 1716, he
married for his second wife Lydia Ames, of Brad-
ford, Massachusetts. His children were : Richard,
John, Sarah, Abiel, Rebecca, Mary, Jonathan,
Joseph, Hannah and Abigail.
(IV) Jonathan, fourth son and seventh child
of John and Sarah (Knight) Kelly, was born in
Newbury March 20, 1681. In 1702 his father con-
veyed to him twenty-five acres of the homestead
upon which he resided until 1726, when he pur-
chased for two hundred and twenty pounds of
Jeremiah Dow, of Amesbury, forty acres of land
in what is now Merrimack, and in the following
year he sold his West Newbury property to Abel
Merrill, Jr., receiving, according to the deed, which
was signed jointly by himself and his wife Hester,
the sum of five hundred pounds. About this time
Jonathan and his wife were demitted from the
church in West Newbury to that of the Rev. Mr.
Wingate, at West Amesbury (Merrimack), whither
they removed and resided for the rest of their lives.
March 5, 1754, he settled accounts with his son
Timothy Harvey, who had carried on his farm for
seven years. He lived to become a nonogenarian,
and is described at that period as being "low in
statue, thick set and of a ruddy countenance." His
marriage took place July 6, 1702, to Hester, daugh-
ter of Deacon Benjamin Morse. She bore him these
children, namely: Ruth, Esther, Jonathan, Benjamin,
-Anna, Sarah, Samuel, Martha and Thnothy Harvey.
(V) Jonathan, third child and eldest son of
Jonathan and Hester (Morse) Kelly, was born in
West Newbury, October 10, 1709. He married
Hannah Blaisdell, and for many years resided in the
immediate vicinity of the homestead in West Ames-
bury. Indications point to the fact that he was a
weaver as well as a farmer. April 23, 1778, he sold
to one John Kelly his homestead, together with
a piece of woodland in Kingston, New Hampshire,
and removed to Hampstead, that state, where his
death occurred in January, 1780. His children were:
Hannah, Esther, Jonathan, John, Mary, Ebenezer,
Moses and Richard,
(VI) Jonathan Kelley, third child and eldest
son of Jonathan and Hannah (Blaisdell) Kelley,
was born in West Amesbury, December 24, 1736.
With the second military company of Amesbury he
responded to the alarm caused by the capture of
Fort William and Henry, and he was drafted into
the colonial service August 15, 1757. November 22,
1760, he filed in Amesbury his intention to marry
Mrs. Sarah Whicher (nee Foot), who died early
in or prior to 1778, and on September 12 of that year
his intention was published in Amesbury to marry
Judith Eastman, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
For short periods he resided in Rochester, Vermont,
and Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and he finally
settled in New Chester, New Hampshire, which is
now Hill. He was the father of Timothy, Enoch,
.•Abigail and Ebenezer.
(VII) Dr. Timothy, eldest child of Jonathan
and Sarah (Foot) (Whicher) Kelley, was born De-
cember 12, 1761. He was led by a spirit of patrio-
tisiTi into the continental service during the Revo-
lutionary war, and he subsequently became a phy-
sician, practicing first in Candia, New Hampshire,
whence he removed to Bristol in 1790, and he after-
wards located in Hill,, where he died February 19,
1845. He was a man of superior intelligence and
nuich natural ability, and these gifts became well
developed in spite of his imperfect and irregular
educational opportunities. December 28, 1783, he
was married in Newbury, Massachusetts, to Joanna
Newcomb, who was born on Cape -A.nn (probably
in Gloucester) in June, 1762, and her death occurred
in Hill the same year as that of her husband. She
was the mother of eight children, namely : Charlotte,
Horatio, Clarissa, Drusilla, Launcelot, .Alfred, Mary
Ann and Joanna.
(VIII) Deacon .Alfred, third son and sixth
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child of Dr. Timothy and Joanna (Newcomb)
Kelley. was born in Bristol, November 13, 1795.
When a young man he engaged in mercantile busi-
ness, keeping a general country store for some time,
and after relinquishing trade he purchased a small
farm of about forty acres situated some two miles
north of Hill village on the Pemigewasset. There
he resided for the remainder of his life, which ter-
minated September 28, 1845. He took a profound
interest in the moral and religious welfare of the
community, and was a deacon of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Politically he acted with the
Whig party. On June 30, 1829, he married Mary
Currier, who was born in Plymouth, New Hamp-
shire, Augu?t 27, 1805. daughter of Daniel Currier.
The children of this luiion are : Harriet A., born
April 19, 1839, married William Foster ; Mary E.,
born August 16, 1832, married Samuel W. Cutter
of Carlton ; William C, who will be again referred
to; and Martha J., born May 22, 1840, died Novem-
ber 12, 1858. ■
(IX) William Currier, second cliild and only
son of Deacon Alfred and Mary (Currier) Kelley,
was born in Hill, June 6, 1834. At the age of
eleven years he was left by his father's death wholly
to the care of his mother, and his- educational oppor-
tunities were bonlined to the primitive public school
system then in vogue. When of sufficient age he
took the management of the homestead farm, but
relinquished it temporarily in 1862 and enlisted as
a private in Company D, Twelfth Regiment New
Hampshire Volunteers, for service in the Civil war.
He participated in the battles of Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, etc., was transferred from
the Army of the Potomac to the Department of
the Gulf under General Benjamin F. Butler, and at
the termination of hostilities was honorably dis-
charged and mustered out with his regiment. Re-
suming the management of the homestead farm in
Hill, he resided there for the succeeding forty years,
cultivating it with gratifying success and adding
to his property as opportunity permitted until own-
ing two hundred and fifty acres. He gives con-
siderable attention to the dairy industry, keeping
an average of fifteen cows, and is also quite largely
interested in the cultivation of apples, raising from
seventy-five to one hundred barrels annually. In
1905 he partially relinquished the activities of life,
and is now residing with his son, Alfred M. Kelley,
in the village, but he still retains a general over-
sight of his property. In politics Mr. Kelley is a
Republican, and was formerly a leading spirit in
local civic aftairs, having served as a selectman for
a period of seventeen years, twelve years of which
he was chairman of the board; was la.\ collector
five years, represented his district in the lower
branch of the state legislature in 1877 and has
served as inspector of ballots ever since the inau-
guration of the Australian system of voting. On
May 28, 1867, he married Ruth Anna Merrill, born
July 9, 1844, and daughter of Clark and Elizabeth
(Crowell) Merrill, of Hill. She died February 22,
1905. leaving four children, namely: Alfred M., born
January 29, 1869, married Mabelle Call, and has one
Dana; Mina J., born January 4, 1873, who is the
wife of Harry F. Prescott, and resides in Lebanon,
having three children— Francis, Harry and Roscoe;
Elizabeth, born April 20, 1881, is now the wife of
George Bucklin, of Bristol, and has one son, Vernal ;
and Arthur W., who was killed in a railroad acci-
dent January ig, 1901.
The descendants of Walter
WOODWORTH Woodworth, the settler of
"Scituate, in New England," in
1635, have had among them many persons of prom-
inent worth. In the time of the Colonial wars they
were well represented among the fighters. In later
years there have appeared among them several who
have been made famous by their poetry, notably,
Samuel Woodworth, who wrote the exquisite poem
•'The Old Oaken Bucket;" Francis Chandler Wood-
worth, who wrote the bird song "Chick-a-dee-dee ;"
and Nancy Adelia Woodworth, who composed the
feeling poem entitled "The Old Homestead."
Among those of recent generations who are well
known in commercial circles are William Wood-
worth, inventor of the Woodworth cylinder planing
machine; Chauncey C. Woodworth, of Rochester,
New York; Artemus B. Woodworth, of Lowell,
Massachusetts; Edward B. and Albert B. Wood-
worth, of Concord. New Hampshire.
(I) Walter Woodworth came from Kent county,
England, to Scituate. Massachusetts, in 1635. He
was assigned the third lot on Kent street, which
runs along the ocean front, at the corner of Meet-
ing House Lane, and there he built a house. In
that year he secured other land, a tract on the first
Herring Brook, not far below Stockbridge Mill,
where afterward stood the residence of the poet
Samuel Woodworth, and another tract on Walnut
Tree Hill, just west of the present Greenbush or
South Scituate railroad station, which was in early
times called Walter Woodworth's Hill, and in 1666
he became a purchaser of sixty acres at Weymouth.
In 1640 Walter was assessed nine shillings for pub-
lic use, and March 2, 1641, became a freeman.
June 4, 1645. he was appointed surveyor of high-
ways in Scituate, and again in 1646 and 1656. His
name appears frequently in the town records of
Scituate as juror, etc. In 1654 he was a member of
the First Church, which ordained Charles Chauncey
as its minister. From a record of his will in the
Plymouth county probate office, dated 1685, it ap-
pears that he was a man of considerable substance,
for in it he disposes of his dwelling house and barn,
marshland, upland and commons in Scituate and
Seconet, and other property. He died in 1685. His
wife, whose name is unknown, seems to have died
before him, as she is not mentioned in his will.
He had ten children, six of whom were daughters,
and all were alive when his will was made. Their
names are: Thomas, born 1636: Sarah, 1637; Ben-
jamin, 1638; Elizabeth, 1640; Joseph, 1648; Mary,
March 10, 1650, married Aaron Symonds, Decem-
ber 24, 1667 ; Martha, 1656, married Lieutenant
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Zacliary Damon, June. 1679: Isaac, 1650: Mcliitable,
August 15. 1662; Abigail, 1664.
(II) Benjamin, second son and tliird child of
Walter Woodvvorth, born in Scituate, 1638, died
April 22, 1728. In 170.^ he bought for two hundred
and fifty pounds from Philip Smith a large tract
of land in Lebanon, Connecticut, where many Scit-
uate people settled. He moved soon after to Leba-
non with his family, and was admitted inhabitant
December 22, 1704. In deeds of lands at Lebanon
he is described as Benjamin Woodwortb, of Little
Compton. Rhode Island. Benjamin's farm was in
the northeast part of the town. In 1714 he was one
of twenty-four signers, five of whom were Wood-
worths, for a new church. Benjamin's will was
executed January 21, 1727, and proved June 20.
1728. Badge's "King Philip's War" describes Ben-
jamin of Scituate, Massachusetts, and Benjamin, his
son, of Lebanon, Connecticut, as serving in the Co-
lonial Wars. Lands were assigned to him in 1676.
as he applied to be paid in lands. Benjamin Wood-
worth married (first) Deborah . by whom he
had three children : Elizabeth. Deborah, and Mary.
He married (second) Hannah , by whom he
had eleven children: Benjamin. Jr.. Ichabod, Eben-
ezer, Amos. Ezekiel. Caleb. Hannah, Ruth, Judith,
Margaret and Priscilla. In all he had fourteen chil-
dren.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Benjamin and Hannah
Woodworth, was born in Scituate, March 12. 1691.
Further particulars of his life are not known.
(IV) Ebenezer (2). son of Ebenezer (i) Wood-
worth, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, Septem-
ber 26, 1 7 18.
(V) Sylvanus, son of Ebenezer Woodworth, Jr..
was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, January 2, 1748,
and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He
fought under General Putnam at Bunker Hill.
(VI) George Woodworth. son of Sylvanus Wood-
worth, was born in Dorchester, New Hampshire,
October 5, 179.^. and died at Hebron, New Hamp-
shire, in 1864. He was educated in the public schools
of the town, and his occupations were farming and
shoemaking. He served the towMi of Hebron as
selectman for some years, and was a justice of the
peace and quorum. In politics he was a Whig, and
later a Republican from the formation of that party.
He was a great reader of the best literature, especi-
ally the Bible, Shakespeare and Gibbon's Rome, and
was a man of much inflnence in the town and greatly
respected. In religion he was a Congregationalist,
and a deacon in the Congregational Church for many
years. He married Louisa Hovey, daughter of Ab-
ner and Lois (Tucker) Hovey, and granddaughter
of the Rev. Samuel Hovey, born at Lyme, New
Hampshire, May 24. 1806. She w-as possessed of a
fine mind, and was a school teacher for two years
before her marriage. The children born to this
couple were twelve in number: Leigh Richmond,
born August 7. 1826: William Henry, January 14,
1828; Esther Jamcsin, December 14, 1829; John
Ball, January 25, 7832: George Thornton, August 2.
1834; Sarah Frances, June 2, 1836; Elizabeth Kim-
ball, .\pril 2, 1839: Artemas Brooks, .^pril 15. 1841 ;
.•\lbert Bingham, April 7. 1843 ; Grace Lowella, June
14, 1845; Edward Baker, March 27, 1847; Louise
Maria, May 17, 1850. '
(VII) Albert Bingham, son of George and Lou-
isa (Hovey) Woodworth, was born at Dorchester,
New Hampshire, April 7. 1S43, and obtained his
education in the public schools of Hebron and at
Boscawen Academy. When a young man he was
employed in a country store at Orford, for four
years. Going from that place to Warren he had
charge of a store for Asa Thurston, of Lyme for a
time, and afterwards engaged in business for him-
self. He went to Bristol in 1867, but stayed there
only a year, and then removed to Lisbon where he
remained five years, carrying on a store of general
merchandise including a tailoring department. In
1873 he removed to Concord, and with his brother
Edward B., engaged in the retail grocery business,
wliich they conducted for two years, when they pur-
chased the wholesale business of Hutchins & Co. and
from that to the present time. Mr. Woodworth has
been engaged in the wholesale business in Concord,
dealing in flour, groceries, feed, lime and cement,
and covering the territory between Concord and
Canada. The business w'as incorporated in 1901 as
Woodworth & Company, and Mr. Woodworth was
made its treasurer. He has been conspicuously suc-
cessful in the mercantile line, and has become inter-
ested in other enterprises. In 1883 he was one of
the incorporators of the Parker & Young Company,
(■I Lisbon, New Hampshire, manufacturers of piano
sounding boards, of which he has been a director
from the first, and president since 1895. This com-
pany has now grown to be the largest manufacturer
of sounding boards in the United States. Mr. Wood-
worth has been connected with the corporation of
the Moosilauke Mountain Hotel Company, summit
of Mt. Moosilauke. from its beginning in 1880.
He is a Republican and has been active and
conspicuous in local politics. He served as alder-
man of the Fifth ward in Concord from 1885 to 1889;
representative in the New Hampshire legislature,
1893-94, and mayor of Concord, 1897-99. He is a
member of St. Paul's Church (Episcopal), and has
been one of its vestrymen for twelve years. He was
president of the board of trustees of the Margaret
Pillsbury General Hospital from 1899 to 1904; and
has been a trustee of the Holderncss School for
Boys for several years, and is also trustee of the
Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. In 1872 he
was made a Mason, and since that time has been a
member of Kane Lodge, No. 65, Free and .Accepted
Masons, of Lisbon, New Hampshire. He is also a
member of the Concord Board of Trade, the Wono-
lancet Club, the New Hampshire Club of Boston,
the .\ppalachian Mountain Club of Boston, and the
Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Woodworth
is a man of action. His custom of i>ever putting
off till tomorrow what he can do today has made his
life successful and placed him among the leading
citizens of Concord. His fair dealing and active
participation in public business and the management
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of public institutions have given him an enviable
place among the benevolent and public-spirited citi-
zens of the state.
He married, in Lisbon, New Hampshire, Septem-
ber 30, 1873, Mary Angeline Parker, daughter of
Charles and Amelia E. (Bennett) Parker, born May
3, 1849 (see Parker VII). Mary A. Parker was grad-
uated from Vassar College in 1870. She was a mem-
ber of the Concord school board for nine years and
is an active member of the Woman's Club, having
served as its president from 1897 to 1899, and she
has twice filled the presidency of the Boston Branch
of Vassar alumnse. She is a prominent member
of St. Paul's Church. The children of Albert B. and
Iilary A. (Parker) Woodworth are: Edward Knowl-
ton, born August 25, 1875 ; Grace, born October 5.
1S79 ; Charles, born July 8, 18S5. All were born in
Concord. Edward K. was graduated from Concord
High School in 1893 ; from Dartmouth College in
1897, and from Harvard Law School in 1900. and is
now connected with the law firm of Streeter & Hol-
lis. He married, June 25, 1903, at Claremont, Xew
Hampshire, Clara Farwell, daughter of Hernion and
Clara Elizabeth (Farwell) Holt of that town. They
reside in Concord. Grace was educated in the Con-
cord common and high schools, and the Gilman
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles P. was
graduated from Concord High School in 1903, and
is now a student in Dartmouth College.
The Bcckwiths of America trace
BECKWITH their ancestry to the valiant old
Norman Knight, Sir Hugh de
Malebisse (i) who held lands under William the
Conqueror, and who in 1066 stood upon the shores
of England with his warrior companions and vowed
to carve with his good sword an earldom as a
narrow resting place which even England could not
refuse her valiant invaders.
(II) Sir Hugo de Malebisse. son of Sir Hugh
lived in the reign oi King Stephen, 11 38; he had
four sons and one daughter.
(III) Sir Simon de Malebisse, son of Sir Hugo,
was Lord of Cowten. in Craven.
(IV) Sir Hercules de Malebisse, son of Sir Si-
mon, married, in 1226, Lady Dame Beckwith Bruce,
daughter of Sir William Bruce, Lord of Uglebarley,
which lordship he had inherited from his ancestor.
' Sir Robert Bruce, of Skelton Castle, the progenitor
of the royal Bruces of Scotland. It is from this
marriage the name of Beckwith is first derived. Lady
Beckwith Bruce possessed by inheritance an estate
called Beckwith (in old Anglo-Saxon, Beckworth).
With a view evidently of the perpetuation of the
name, she required her husband to assume the name
of Beckwith by a marriage contract dated 1226.
(V) Sir Hercules de Beckwith de Clint married
the daughter of Sir John Ferrars, of Tamworth
Castle, who by marriage into the house of Marmion
inherited by terms of the Castle of Tamworth the
high office of Champion of England.
(VI) Nicholas Beckwith de Clint.
(VII) Hamon Beckwith, son of Nicholas.
(MIT) William Beckwith, oldest son of Sir
Hamon.
(IX) Thomas Beckwith, of Clint.
(X) Adam Beckwith, of Clint, married Eliza-
beth de Malebisse, and thus reunited the two
branches of the family after a separation of over
three hundred years.
(XI) Sir William, oldest son of Adam Beck-
with, of Clint.
(XII) Thomas Beckwith, of Clint, died in tenth
year of reign of Henry VII.
(XIII) John Beckwith, third son of Thomas of
Clint, married the daughter of Thomas Radcliif, of
Mulgrave ; they had one son Robert.
(XIV") Robert Beckwith succeeded to his father's
estate in the eighth year of the reign of Edward IV.
(XV) John (2) Beckwith inherited the manor
of Clint and Thorp and lived in the eighth year of
King Edward IV. He left an only son Robert.
(XVI) Robert (2) Beckwith, of Clint and Thorp,
had two children : Robert, died young, and Mar-
maduke.
(XVII) Marmaduke, of Dacre and Clint, married
twice. By his first wife he had eleven children.
Thomas, the eldest, had three sons, one of whom,
William, emigrated to America in 1607 with Captain
John Smith, and landed at Jamestown. He married,
in 1616, and had one son, Henry, who settled in
Dorchester county, Maryland, and there founded a
familj% many of whose members have been prom-
inent in the political, civil and military history of
that country, and where descendants are still living
in the old homestead.
(XVIII) Mathew, eleventh son of Marmaduke
of Dacre and Clint, was born in Ponterferact, York-
shire, England, about 1610. He emigrated to New
England in 1635, residing a brief time at Saybrook
Point, Connecticut. He was one of the first settlers
of Hartford, but was in Lyme in 1651. He was of
that class known as planters, many of whom were
men of means, placing their vessels in charge of
competent mariners, who also attended to the mer-
cantile transactions. He died by accident, Decem-
ber 13. 16S1, leaving an estate vaued at £393. Mat-
thew Beckwith and his wife Elizabeth had seven
children, one of who was Nathaniel.
(XIX) Nathaniel Beckwith was born in New
London. Connecticut, in June, 1642.
(XX~) Nathaniel (2) Beckwith was born at
Lyme. Connecticut, May 28, 1671. He married
Sarah . born in East Haddani, Connecticut.
(XXI) Nathaniel (3) Beckwith was born at
Lyme, Connecticut, January 6, 1707, He had two
sons, Niles and Jabez. Niles was born in Lyme, in
1753. He removed to Lempster, Nqw Hampshire.
He was a soldier in the Continental army, and died
at Unity, New Hampshire, in 1821.
(XXII) Jabez, second son of Nathaniel (3)
Beckwith, was born at East Haddam, Connecticut,
1768. He married Elizabeth Hurd, of East Haddam.
He removed to Gilman, Connecticut, and then to
Lempster. The family came on horseback through
the wilderness by the old time pathway of blazed
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trees, bringing their bedding and other tilings for
the log cabin, and with them their two year old
daughter Sally. They drove their cow along, w^hich
furnished an important part of the family suste-
nance. Jabez Beckwith was a surveyor, county clcrk_
state representative from Sullivan county twelve
years, and was appointed colonel of militia. He died
November to. 1871 ; his wife died November 6, 1849.
(XXIII) Nathaniel (4), eldest son of above, was
born in Lcmpster, New Hampshire. He married
Eunice Parkhurst. They died within one week of
each other, at Unity, New Hampshire, in 1830.
(XXIV) Ransom Parkhurst, son of Nathaniel
and Eunice (Parkhurst) Beckwith, was born in
Unity, New Hampshire, about 1817, where he resided.
He married Emily L. Parker, ]May 13, 1849. She
was born in Lempster, New Hampshire, daughter of
Benjamin and Olive (Nichols) Parker (see Parker,
second family, VII). He was a farmer, a man of
good education, served in various town offices and
as a member of the state legislature. Both Ransom
Beckwith and his w^ife had been school teachers.
(XXV) Walter P., eldest son of Ransom P. and
EiTiily (Parker) Beckwith, was born in Lempster,
New Hampshire. August 27, 1850. He attended the
town schools for two terms each year, and in addi-
tion to this was a student at a private school for a
year or two until he had attained the age of sixteen
years, when he taught his first term in an adjoining
town, with a marked degree of success. At the age
of eighteen years he attended the high school at
Claremount for a short period. He entered Kim-
ball Union Academy at Meriden in 1869, and was
graduated from this institution at the head of his
class in 1871. He was admitted to Tuft's College in
the same year, and was graduated from this with the
highest honors of his class in 1876. During his
attendance at this college he was obliged to devote
one year to teaching in order to earn enough to
enable him to complete his college course. Upon the
completion of his college studies Mr. Beckwith
accepted the principalship of the Chickopee (Massa-
chusetts) high school, and held this for two years,
and was then superintendent of the public schools
of Adams, Massachusetts, for a period of more
than eighteen years. He was elected principal of
the State Normal School in Salem, Massachusetts,
June 13, 1896. a position w'hich he held until his
death, which occurred October 13, 1905. Mr. Beck-
with was a voluminous writer and a forceful lec-
turer, mainly upon subjects connected with educa-
tional matters. The degree of Master of Arts was
conferred upon him by Tuft's College in 1883, and
this was followed a few years later by the degree
of Doctor of Pliilosophy. He was a man of great
vigor of both mind and body, and was of the stern-
est integrity. While principal of the State Normal
School he gave his best time and energy to the
broadening and upbuilding of the school course and
his influence in these directions cannot be overes-
timated. No higher tribute can be given to the
efficiency of his work, than the fact that the many
successful graduates of the school turned to their
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alma mater, and to him personally for inspiration
and information as to improved methods and ad-
vanced ideas. In the death of Dr. Beckwith, Mass-
achusetts has lost one of her strongest men and
ablest educators. In religion he was a Universalist.
and in politics a Democrat, "both by inheritance and
disposition." When a boy of fifteen years he printed
with his pen a weekly paper, Democratic and liter-
ary, whose editorials showed a wonderful grasp of
the subjects of the day, and about two years later,
he delivered a political address before the citizens
of his native town in reply to Mason W. Tappen,
at that time one of the leading Republican lawyers
of the state. In later years he followed a more lib-
eral line in politics, and although always a Demo-
crat, he placed loyalty to truth and integrity in prin-
ciple before oarty adherence in both state and nation.
Mr. Beckwiih married, December 2^. 1S79, Mary L-
Sayles, who was a successful teacher in Adams,
Massachusetts. They have had one child : Frances
S., graduated from Vassar College, class of 1904.
(XXV) Hira Ransom, son of Ransom P.
and Emily (Parker) Beckwith, was born Sep-
tcnilier 28, 1852, in Lempster, New Hamp-
shire. After receiving the usual district school
advantages of his town he attended the
Stevens high school in Claremont one term,
and Marlow Academy two terms. He early mani-
fested marked talent for draughting, and studied one
year with O. F. Smith, architect, of Devonshire
street, Boston. He later opened an office in Clare-
mont Mr. Beckwith as architect and builder has a
very extensive business, having erected a large num-
ber of public and private buildings in New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Massachusetts. He is clerk
and director in Union Block Company, and one of
the three owners of Union Block. He was also
active in raising money to build Hotel Claremont,.
and was a charter member of the Claremont rail-
way and light company. In addition to this he was-
one of the executive committee tO' raise money tO'
build the street railroad, and has been the president
and a director of the company since its organization.
Mr. Beckwith is an attendant of the Universalist
Church, and is a Democrat in politics. He is con-
nected with various Masonic bodies — Hiram Lodge,.
Webb Chapter, Sullivan County Commandery, Clare-
mont, and is a member of Bektash Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Concord.
Hira Ransom Beckw'ith married, January 29.
187S, Libbie A. Martin, daughter of David A. and
Nancy E. (Brown) Martin, of Springfield. Ver-
mont. She was a graduate of the Springfield high
school, and later attended Goddard Seminary at
Barre. Vermont. She died in Claremont, Februarj-
13, igo2.
The name of Gile, Guile and Guild are
GILE doubtless of one common origin, and the
variation in their orthography is not a
modern innovation. Three immigrants of this
name, Samuel and John, brothers, and their sister
.Ann, arrived from England in 1636. Samuel s[)clkcl
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his name Guile, while John wrote it Guild, and it is
quite probable that the latter, meaning a society or
corporation, was the ancient or original form of
spelling. The above mentioned immigrants settled
in Massachusetts, and the branch of the family now
under consideration is descended from Samuel
Guile. In the early town records the name appears
to have been spelled according to the judgment or
fancy of the town clerks or recorders, and the
changes which it was subjected to at their hands
are given here precisely as found in those records.
From the two Guild brothers, men noted for their
modest and retiring dispositions, a numerous pro-
geny have descended, some of whom have held
prominent positions in public life, and many have
made enviable reputations in humbler but' no less
honorable places.
(I) Samuel Guile, his brother John and sister
Ann, all supposed to have been born in England,
not later than 1620, came to America in the year
1636, and settled in Dedham, jNIassachusetts. Sam-
uel 'was for a brief period at Dedham, and seems
soon to have been one of the first settlers of New-
bury, but did not remain long, for in 1640 he was
one of the twelve who settled Pentucket, now
Haverhill. He became a freeman by permission of
the general court in 1642, but careful examination
of the records fails to show that he took any part
in town or church affairs. In 1650, Samuel Gild
made choice of land at Little river ; in 1652 received
ten acres of the second division ; in 1658 Samuel
Guile enters into a contract for the support of a
blacksmith, and receives land in the third divi-
sion. Samuel Gilde, senior, built a cottage about
1660, and in 1663 received land in the fourth divi-
sion. He died February 21, 16S3. Part of his
homestead remains in the possession of his descend-
ants. By the terms of his last will and testament,
dated February 16, 1683, he disposes of his property,
in the inventory of which are mentioned : eight neat
cattle, ten sheep, twenty-two acres of oxe common
land, twenty-five acres of pond plain, eighteen acres
of pond meadow, a dwelling house, barn and or-
chard, three acres by the orchard, six commonages
or common rights, one hundred acres of third divi-
sion, upland and meadow, the fourth division to be
laid out one hundred and eighty acres, loom, etc.,
one bible, appraised value £336, 6s. He married,
September i, 1647, Judith Davis, daughter of James
Davis, one of the original settlers, and an emigrant
from Marlborough, England. Their children, all
born at Haverhill, were: Samuel, Judith, John,
Hannah, Sarah, James and Ephraim.
(II) Ephraim Gile, eighth and youngest child
of Samuel and Judith (Davis) Guile, was born in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 21, 1662. He re-
sided at Haverhill, and in 1711 was "one of the
soldiers supplied with snow shoes for emergency
in case of attack by Indians." He was probably
the Ephriam Gile who cut the first way to Cheshire,
and was admitted an inhabitant of Chester in
1720. He married, January 5, 1686. Martha Bradley,
by whom he had nine children : Marj-, Hannah, Me-
hitable, Sarah, Daniel, Judith. Samuel, Ephraim
and Ebenezer. (The last named and descendants
receive mention in this article.)
(III) Samuel Guile, second son and seventh
child of Ephraim and Martha (Bradley) "Gile,"
was born in Haverhill February 13, 1702-3. He was
of Chester in 1723, of Haverhill in 1731, and died
in the last named town December i, 1775. He mar-
ried Sarah Emerson, probably a daughter of Ben-
jamin and Sarah (Philbrick) Emerson, and she
died in 1S04. She was the mother of eleven chil-
dren, all of whom were born in Haverhill, namely:
Hannah, Ephraim, Benjamin, Asa, Samuel, John,
Reuben, Abigail, Anne, Amos and James.
(IV) James Gile, seventh son and youngest child
of Samuel and Sarah (Emerson) Guile, was born
in Haverhill, June 10, 1749. He married Ruth
Foster, daughter of Moses Foster, of Pembroke,
New Hampshire, and having sold his homestead in
Haverhill he settled upon a farm in Pembroke. His
children were : Timothy, Rhoda and Moses F.,
who were born in Haverhill ; Ruth, Daniel and
Mary, who were born in Pembroke.
(V) Deacon Timothy, eldest child of James and
Ruth (Foster) Gile, was born in Haverhill, Septem-
ber 27, 1788. He became a prosperous farmer in
Pembroke, owning in all some two hundred and fifty
acres of land, seventy-five acres of which constituted
his homestead farm, and he also carried on lumber-
ing operations to some extent. His death occurred
in Pembroke, January i, 1867. He married Lydia
Gushing, who was born in Halifax, Massachusetts,
March 21, 1790, and had a family of five children —
Mar}-, Foster, Brainerd, Elizabeth Boardman, Jer-
ome Gushing and Abraham Burnham. The father
of .these children was a leading member and a deacon
of the Congregational Church.
(VI) Deacon Brainerd, second child and eldest
son of Timothy and Lydia (Gushing) Gile, was
born in Pembroke, September 6, 1820. He was
graduated from the Pembroke Academy, and taught
school for a time prior to engaging in agricultural
pursuits at the homestead, which he inherited. His
intellectual attainments and natural ability in other
directions made him eligible to public office, and
in addition to serving as town treasurer and as a
member of the school board he rendered valuable
services in other ways, being always called upon
to agitate and secure the enactment of any ordi-
nance or improvement desired by his fellow-towns-
men. Like his father he participate actively in the
affairs of the Congregational Church, and was for
many years a deacon. On November 21, 1861, he
was married at Brighton, Massachusetts, to Mary
Newell Kimball, who was born in Pembroke, Jan-
uary 10, 1825, daughter of John Carlton and Pa-
melia (Hutchinson) Kimball. Deacon Gile died in
1900, and is survived by a widow and five children:
Charles Abraham, born April 2, 1863, and now
occupies the homestead; John Martin Gile, M. D.,
who will be again referred to; Lottie May, born
December 3, 186S, is now the wife of Harry Head,
of Pembroke; JNIillie Kimball, born February 23,
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1873, became the wife of Augustus Clough, of Lis-
bon, New Hampshire, and Henry Brainerd, born
December 5, 1874, now residing in Concord.
(VH) John iNIartin Gile, M. D., second son and
child of Deacon Brainerd and Mary N. (Kimball)
Gile, was born in Pembroke, iVIarch 8, 1864. He was
graduated from the Pembroke Academy in 18S3,
from the academic department of Dartmouth Col-
lege in 18S7, and from the Dartmouth JMedical
School in 1891. After spending six months as as-
sistant physician at the State Hospital in Tewks-
bury, Massachusetts, he went to Idaho Springs,
Colorado, where he practiced medicine for a year,
and returning to the State Hospital at Tcwksbury
as assistant superintendent he retained that posi-
tion for the succeeding five years. In 1896 he was
chosen instructor in medicine at Dartmouth, was
two years later appointed professor of the theory
and practice of medicine, also taking the chair of
■clinical surgery, and has ever since retained these
posts. His private practice is devoted exclusively
to surgery, and he makes a specialty of gynaecology.
From 1896 to the present time he has served as
surgeon to the JMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital,
Hanover. Professor Gile is an ex-president of the
White River Valley Medical Society and the New
Hampshire State Surgical Club, and is now vice-
president of the New Hampshire Medical Society,
and is a member of the Massachusetts State Medical
Society, and the American Medical Association. He
has been a delegate from the County to the State
Medical Society, and is at the present time serving
in a similar capacity from the latter to the American
Medical Association. As an undergraduate at Dart-
mouth he affiliated with the K. K. K. fraternity.
Politically he is a Republican, and has served as a
delegate to district and state conventions. On June
8, 1892, Professor Gile married Vesta Grace Fow-
ler, who was born at Epsom, this state, in Feb-
ruary, 1S65, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah M.
(Brown) Fowler. Professor and ]\Irs. Gile are both
members of the Congregational Church in Pem-
broke. They have four children, namely: John
Fowler, Archie Benjamin, Madelaine and Dorothy.
(Ill) Ebenezer Gile, youngest child and fourth
son of Ephraim and Martha (Bradley) Guile, was
born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, September 11,
170S, and died in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, about
1775- He moved from Haverhill to Hampstead,
New Hampshire, in 1740; thence to Henniker in
1765; thence to Hopkinton where he died. In 1743
he signed a petition to be set off from Kingston to
Hampstead. He was a speculator in lands, and in
deeds is called a "trader." He married, June 6,
1731, Lydia Johnson, whose father and mother were
both killed by the French and Indians at the attack
on Haverhill, August 29, 1708. When the mother
was slain she held in her arms her only child, Lydia,
a year and six days old, born in the second year of
her marriage. The child, concealed perhaps within
the folds of her mother's dress, escaped the toma-
hawk, grew to womanhood, and in her twenty-fifth
year married Ebenezer Gile. She died at Enfield
in 1781, aged seventy-four. Their children were :
Timothy, Ruth, Thomas, Anna, Abigail, Joshua,
Noah, Lydia and Johnson.
(IV) Noah, seventh child and fourth son of
Ebenezer and Lydia (Johnson) Gile, was born at
Hampstead, New Flampshire, about 1743. He w'as
a soldier of the Revolution, a member of Captain
Adam's company from Henniker, in 1776. From
Henniker he removed to Enfield and several other
places in New Hampshire. He married Elizabeth
Howe. Their children were: John, Nathaniel,
Susan, Timothy, Peter, Jesse, Aaron, Elizabeth,
Polly and Lydia.
(V) Timothy, third son and fourth child of
Noah and Elizabeth (Howe) Gile, was born in En-
field, December 30, 1785- He was a farmer in
Bethlehem, Wentworth, and Littleton, and died
December 27, 1862. He removed from Wentworth
on horseback with his wife on a pillion behind him,
and located in Bethlehem, where he spent eight
years in clearing land. He then returned to Went-
worth, where he was a farmer and lumberer for
ten years. In 1833 he removed to Littleton where
he farmed until the end of his life. He married,
January 10, 181 1, Dolly Stevens, who was born in
Wentworth, May 18, 1790. After the death of her
husband she lived with her son Nelson in Kansas,
but desiring to spend her last days in New Hamp-
shire, she returned and died in Littleton, December
25. 18S6, aged ninety-six years. Their children were:
Nelson, George, Timothy and Dolly.
(VI) Captain George, second son and child of
Timothy and Dolly (Stevens) Gile, was born in
Wentworth, September 27, 1824. He was a farmer
in Littleton, where he, served as selectman 1873,
chairman of the' school committee, surveyor of
highways 1870-1-3, and captain in the Fifth Com-
pany, Thirty-second Regiment, New Hampshire
Militia, commissioned May 1849; commission va-
cated, May I, 1852. He removed to Glover, Ver-
mont, where he resided several years, and then
returned to Littleton, where he has since lived. In
political faith he is a Republican, in religious belief
a Methodist, and is a trustee of the Methodist
Church. He married, in Lyndon, Vermont, De-
cember 21, 1850, Rozilla Janett Randall, who was
born March 8, 1831, daughter of Daniel and Ruth
(Burleigh) Randall of Lyndon. They have one
child, Ray T., next mentioned.
(VII) Ray Timothy, only child of George and
Rozilla J. (Randall) Gile, was born in Littleton,
May 27, 1852. He received his primary education
in the public schools of Littleton; prepared for col-
lege at Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Massa-
chusetts, graduated from the Chandler Scientific de-
partment of Dartmouth College in 1877, and from
the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 1879.
After completing his school life he was in the em-
ploy of the Bell Telephone Company in Rockingham
and Stafford counties for a year. In i88i he re-
turned to Littleton where he has since been engaged
much of the time in surveying and engineering
work. From 1891 to 1896 he was employed as the
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surveyor for the state of New Hampshire to ascer-
tain and establish the true jurisdictional boundary
line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
He is a Republican and a Methodist, a member of
the Thayer Society of Engineers and of the Beta
Theta Pi Society. He married. October 23, 1S79,
Hattie E. Titus, who was born in Bath, October 8,
1848, daughter of Jereny and Cynthia (Ward)
Titus, of Bath. They have an adopted child, Annie
Peterson, who was born in Lyndeborough, New
Hampshire, July 21, 1878.
The Spragues of New Hampshire
SPRAGUE are of English origin, and their an-
cestors were among the founders of
New England.
(I) Edward Sprague, of Upway, England, was a
fuller by trade, and died in 1614. His children were :
Ralph, Alice, Edward, Richard. Christopher and
William.
(H) William, youngest child of Edward
Sprague, was born in Upway, and with his two
brothers, Ralph and Richard, emigrated to New
England, settled in Salem in 1632. He was residing
in Charlestown in 1636, and subsequently removed
to Hingham. He married Millicent Eames, and had
a large family.
(HI) Anthony, eldest son of William and Milli-
cent (Eames) Sprague, was baptized in Charles-
town, 1636, and resided in Hingham. He was a se-
lectman in 168S-92-1700. His house was burned by
the Indians, April 19. 1676. He died September 3,
1719. He married, December 26, 1661, Elizabeth
Bartlett, daughter of Robert and Mary (Warren)
Bartlctt, of Plymouth. She died in Hingham. Feb-
ruary 17, 1712-13. His children w-ere : Anthony,
Benjamin, John, Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah, James,
Josiah, Jeremiah. Richard and Matthew, all of whom
were born in Hingham.
(IV) Richard, eighth son and tenth child of
Anthony and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Sprague, was born
in Hingham. April 10, 1685. He settled in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, and was an ancestor of the
Spragues of that state.
(VI) Obadiah, probably a grandson of Richard
Sprague, was born in Providence, August 22, 1770.
He married Betsey Mann on April 10, 1794. She
was born in 1764, daughter of Gideon Mann. He
settled in Richmond, New Hampshire, and resided
upon the farm now owned by his grandson, Hiram
C. Sprague. His first wife died April 17, 1815, and
he married for his second wife. Widow Anna God-
dard, a sister of Thomas Mallard, of Warwick. She
died March 2, 1848. Obadiah died in 1858. at the
advanced age of eighty-eight years. The children
of his first union were : Enoch, Hannah, Samuel,
Sarah. Mercey, died young ; and another Mercey.
Those of his second marriage were : Nathaniel and
Obadiah.
(VII) Sanniel. second son and third child of
Obadiah and Betsey (Mann) Sprague, was born in
Richmond, November 22, 1797. In December, 1822-
he married Melinda, born in May, iSoi. daughter of
Benjamin Kingman, and resided on the farm until
recently owned by Lysander Ballon. He removed to
Winchester, about 1850. and died September 28, 1881.
He was the father of five children : Leander, born
June 4, 1S24. Obadiah, who will be again referred
to. S. Angela, born January 25, 1830, married Dar-
ling S. Swan. M. Juliette, born October II, 1832,
married (first) George B. Kelton, and (second)
J. W. Herrick. S. Henry, born March 2, 1841, died
August 18, 1863, during the Civil war. He was on
General Nagle's staff in charge of the commissary
department. He died of malaria at Vicksburg Land-
ing.
(VIII) Obadiah, second child and son of Samuel
and Melinda (Kingman) Sprague, was born in
Richmond, May 21, 1826. He attended the public
schools, and clerked thereafter for a year with
Uberto Bowen, Richmond. He then entered and was
graduated from Winchester high school. Subse-
quently he accepted a position as clerk with Messrs.
Humphrey and Kingman, of Winchester. He was
ne.xt engaged for a period as a traveling salesman,
representing palm-Ieaf hat manufacturers, and was
still later in Bridgman's grocery store, Keene. For
five years he held the responsible position of cashier
of a bank in Winchester. Seeing a good opportunity
to engage in the manufacturing business, he pur-
chased the Stratton Woollen Mills at West Swan-
ze\'. which he enlarged and refitted, and operated
the plant successfully for twenty-seven years, at
the e.Kpiration of which time he retired from active
business pursuits. Mr. Sprague has had quite ex-
tensive operations in lumbering. He also established
at what is known as Spragueville a woolen mill
and a box manufacturing plant. In politics Mr.
Sprague is a Democrat, and was formerl}- a leading
spirit in local public affairs, having represented
Swanzey in the state legislature in 1870-71. His
fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic Order.
He attends the Baptist Church, and takes an earnest
interest in the moral and religious welfare of the
community.
On January 3, 1877, ^Ir. Sprague married Martha
Elizabeth Mason, born in Alarlboro, New Hamp-
shire, March 18, 1841, daughter of Clark and Elmira
(Towne) Mason. The children of this union are:
Bernice A., deceased. Bertha E., married, Septem-
lier I. 1903, Harold Foster. They have a son Paul
Sprague Foster, born July 3, 1904. Florence JiL,
deceased. Marv M.
The first mention of Upham as a sur-
UPH.-\M name is met with in a deed of lands to
the church of Saint JNIaria de Braden-
stock. which was a small monastery in Wills, England,
founded by Walter, son of Edmund, of Salisbury. The
document bears the name of Hugo de Upham, date
1208. Upham as the name of a place occurs in records
previous to the introduction of surnames. That
Hugo, the fir^t of this name, is designated Hugo de
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XJphani (of Upham) naturally indicates that he de-
rived liis name from his estate, but the lands belong-
ing to him are expressly referred to in the same doc-
ument as bearing the name of Upham. The "de" was
early dropped, and the name passed through various
forms of spelling. Although many documents have
been found in which the name appears, three cen-
turies pass from the time of Hugo before the advent
of Richard Upham, from whom an unbroken line is
traced to the present day. The Upham family held
a copyhold estate at Gettington, in the parish of
Bicton, in the eastern division of the county of
Devon, and were associated with this parish for up-
ward of three hundred years.
(I) Richard (i) Upham (spelled Uppam), the
first of the name found mentioned at Bicton, was
living there in 1523. No date of his birth is given,
but according to the records he died in 1546. As he
left no will there is little information concerning his
immediate family, but from other sources it is con-
clusive that he left three children, one of whom was
John.
(II) John, son of Richard Upham (no date of
birth) died in Bicton, in 1584. Only the first name
of his wife is given, Joan (or Johan). The names
of three children appear : Richard, his successor at
Bicton, Katherine and Thomas.
(III) Richard (2), yeoman, son of John and
Joan Uppam, date of birth not given, died in Bicton,
in December, 1635. His wife, Maria, died in July,
1634. Children : Thomas, his successor at Bicton ;
Joan, married Robert Martin, and both immigrated to
Xew England with her brother John ; John, the im-
migrant ; Sara,, who also accompanied her brother to
New England, and may have become the wife of
Richard Webb ; Judith, Frances and Jane. The will
of Richard Uppam is a lengthy an^ interesting docu-
ment in which there is mention of certain conditional
bequests to his daughter Sara and son John.
(IV) John Upham (again spelled Upham), son
of Richard (2) and Jilaria Upham, was the first to
bear the name in America, and so far as is known
was the ancestor of all who have since borne the
name in this country. He was born in Bicton, county
of Devon, England, probably in 1600. He married,
at Bicton, November i, 1626, Elizabeth Slade. The
names of six children are given in the following or-
der: John, Nathaniel. Elizabeth, born in England;
Phynchas, Mary and Priscilla, born in New England.
John Upham, accompanied by his wife, three chil-
dren and two sisters above mentioned, emigrated to
New England with the Hull colony, which set sail on
the 20th of March, 163S. from Weymouth, in old
Dorset, for the lands of the Massachusetts Bay
colony. The ship cast anchor before Governor
Winthrop's infant city of Boston, May 6, but it was
not until July 2 that the colonists, with the per-
mission of the general -court, finally settled in Wessa-
guscees as their future home. On September 2, 1635,
John Upham was admitted freeman, and on this date
the name of the place was changed to Weymouth.
It was made a plantation, wuth the privilege of a
deputy to the general court, and this company be-
came an important element in the community. In
1642 John Upham was one of six who treated with
the Indians for the lands of Weymouth, and ob-
tained a title from them thereto. After being
closely identified with the town for thirteen years
he removed to Maiden, becoming one of the early
settlers, and continued through life a leading citizen
of that place. He was repeatedly elected to its var-
ious offices, and the general assembly appointed him
six times commissioner to settle the lesser legal mat-
ters of Weymouth and Maiden. He w'as also ac-
tively interested in the settlement of Worcester (Lin-
coln's "History of W"orcester"). John Upham held
the office of deacon in the church for at least twenty-
four years. Through his long life he retained his
vigor of mind and body. He sustained himself well
as an efficient collaborator among those who in time
of great peril laid the foundation of a free state. He
died in Maiden, February 25, 168 1. His grave-stone
may still be seen in the old burying ground at
Maiden. There is no record of the death of his wife
Elizabeth, but it is suggested that she must have lived
to be sixty-four years of age. In 1671 John Upham
married (second) Katherine Holland.
(V) Phineas (l) was the only son of John Up-
ham that left posterity, consequently he, as well as
his father, was the ancestor of all the American Up-
hams. He was born in Weymouth, probably in 1635.
He married, April 14, 1658, Ruth Wood. Nothing is
known of her ancestry. According to an inscription
on her gravestone, which has been identified in the
old burying ground above referred to, she died Jan-
uary 18, 1696-7. There were conveyances of land to
Phineas Upham in 1663, 1664 and in 1672. In 1673
he was appointed with three others to survey a road
from Cambridge to Maiden, and as early as 1672 he
was interested in the settlement of Worcester. It ap-
pears that he possessed in a high degree the energy
and activity that characterized his father. In the
military serivice of his country it is manifest that he
was esteemed an efficient officier. He held the rank
of lieutenant, and rendered important service in the
war with King Philip. He was at the storming of
Fort Canonicees, December 19, 1675. and was wound-
ed in the battle, from the effects of which he never
recovered. The government was not unmindful of
his great sacrifice, and bore testimony upon the
records to his long and good service for his -country.
His death is recorded as having occurred October 8,
1676. Children : Phineas, Nathaniel, Ruth, John,
Elizabeth, Thomas and Richard.
(VI) Phineas (2), eldest son of Lieutenant
Phineas (r) and Ruth (Wood) Upham, was born in
Maiden, May 22. 1659. He married Mary Mellins.
or Melien, probably in 1682. He appears to have
been a prominent man in his community. He held
the office of selectman for many years, was town
treasurer from 1697 to 1701 inclusive, and during the
time settled many estates, was five times chosen rep-
resentative to the general court. He died in Maiden,
in October, 1720. His wife survived him, and there
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is no record of her death. They had eight children.
(VII) Phineas (3), eldest son of Phineas (2)
and Mary (Mellins) Upham, was born in Maiden,
June 10, 1682. He married, November 23. 1703,
Tamzen Thomasen Hill, daughter of Isaac and Sarah
(Bicknell) Hill. She was born December 10, 1685,
died April 24, 1768. He is early mentioned as yeo-
man, and soon after his marriage he removed from
what was known as Maiden Center to North Maiden,
of which place he was one of the first inhabitants.
In the year 1707-8 he is mentioned as Ensign Phineas
Upham. He was repeatedly chosen to fill town
offices. It is probable that he died in 1766. The old
Upham homestead, still standing in Melrose, form-
erly North Maiden, has been occupied by descendants
of Phineas (3) to this day. There were thirteen
children. (Mention of Jacob and descendants ap-
pears in this article).
(VIII) Jabez, fifth son of Phineas (3) and
Tamzen Thomasen (Hill) Upham, was born Jan-
uary 3, 1717. in Maiden. He married Kathcrine
Nichols, also of Upham blood, a great-granddaughter
of Lieutenant Phineas Upham. He settled in Brook-
field, studied medicine, and became distinguished in
the practice of his profession. He was captain of the
company from Brookfield which marched for the re-
lief of Fort William Henry during the French and
Indian war. He represented Brookfield in the gen-
eral court from 1756 to 1760 inclusive. He died No-
vember 4, 1760. His wife died March 12. 1774. Dr.
Jabez Upham and wife Katherine had eleven chil-
dren, all born in Brookfield. Joshua, the second son,
graduated at Harvard College in 1763. He was a
loyalist and an officer in the British army during the
revolution. After the war he went to New Bruns-
wick, where .he became a judge of the supreme court.
His brother Jabez served in the Continental army,
and later removed to New Brunswick.
(IX) Phineas (4), oldest son of Dr. Jabez and
Katherine Nicholas Upham, was born in Brookfield,
October 4. 1739, married (first) Susanna Buckmin-
ster. May 20, 1762. She. died March 23, 1802. He
married (second) in November, 1802, Elizabeth Sher-
burne. In the Brookfield records the following, evi-
dently militia, titles are applied to him by the dates
given — second lieutenant. 1761 ; captain. 1774; colo-
nel, 1775. Although it does not appear in the rec-
ords, a note in the "History of Worcester" indicates
that he also bore the title of major. He was captain
of a company of cavalry in the battle of Saratoga.
He was representative to the general court from
Brookfield for the years 1781-1782-1785 and 1797. He
died June 24, 1810. There were ten children.
(X) George Baxter, of Claremont, third son of
Phineas (4) and Susanna Buckminster Upham, was
born December 27, 1768, in Brookfield. Massachu-
setts. He married, December 31, 1805. Mary Dun-
can, of Concord. She died September ir, 1S66, aged
eigthy-one years. George Baxter Upham was grad-
uated from Harvard in 1789. and studied law with
his brother Jabez, in Claremont. Succeeding to the
business soon after being admitted to the bar, he ac-
quired a lucrative practice and was considered a safe
and able counselor. He was a member of congress
in 1801, and from 1817 to 1821 ; speaker of the house
in New Hampshire legislature, 1809, and state sena-
tor 1814-15. He was president during its existence
of the first Claremont Bank, was for many years a
member of the Episcopal Church. He died Febru-
ary 19, 1848. Children of George Baxter and Mary
(Duncan) Upham: i. George Baxter, married Fran-
ces Ewing, lived in Newark, Ohio. 2. Robert Har-
ris, supposed to have died in Texas. 3. Frances,
married General Dwight Jarvis, of Canton, Ohio. 4.
Mary Ann. 5. Jabez Baxter, graduated at Dartmouth
and Harvard Medical College, was a surgeon in the
army, 1862-3 '■ married Catherine Choate Bell. 6.
Harriet Harris, married John S. Walker, of Clare-
mont. 7. James Henry, died in infancy. 8. James
Phineas. 9. Edward Buckminster, married Mary
Hursthall. lived in Massillon, Ohio.
(XI) James Phineas, the fifth son of George
Baxter and Mary (Duncan) Upham, was born in
Claremont, October 27, 1827. He married, Novem-
ber 5, 1851, at South Berwick, Maine, Elizabeth
Walker, daughter of Captain Samuel Rice (formerly
of Portsmouth) and Ruth Foster Brewster. She
was born December 24, 1831, and died in Claremont,
April II, 1876. It is observed that she was gifted
with singular beauty and rare graces of mind and
manner, and that her domestic virtues and christian
lite and example were none the less conspicuous and
endearing. James Phineas Upham was graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1850. Soon after his
graduation he acquired an interest in the iron foun-
dry and machine shop, later the Sullivan Machine
Company, which he organized in 1869, and of which
he was president for twenty-five years. He was a
representative in the New Hampshire legislature in
1865-6, and was warden of Union Church (Episco-
pal), West Claremont. He died April 8, 1895. Chil-
dren, all born in Claremont: i. James Duncan, born
November 7, 1853, married Katherine Deane, of
Claremont. He graduated at Cornell University, in
1874; is treasurer of the Sullivan Machine Company.
Two children — Katherine and Elizabeth. 2. George
Baxter, born April 9. 1855, married Cornelia Alice
Preston, daughter of E. C. Preston, of Dover, New
Hampshire. He was graduated from Cornell Uni-
versity in 1S74, and Harvard Law School in 1876;
admitted to the Suffolk county bar in Boston, Feb-
ruary, 1877. In 1890 he engaged in the practice of
law, firm of Upham & Proctor, Equitable Building,
Boston. Two children, Margaret Ruth and Preston.
3. Ruth Brewster, bom February 24. 185S, married
Robert Upham, and resides in New York. 4. Sam-
uel Rice. 5. Elizabeth, born September i, 1868, mar-
ried (first) Henry C. Radford: (second) Richard
Dana, lives in New York.
(XII) Samuel Rice, third son of James Phineas
and Elizabeth Walker (Rice) Upham. was born Oc-
tober 9, 1861. He was educated in the public schools
of Claremont, in Stevens high school, two years, and
at Granville Military Academy, North Granville,,
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New York. Studied medicine in the University of
Vermont Medical College, at Burlington, and the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city,
and was for over two years in the Rhode Island Hos-
pital, at ProvideiTcc. He opened an office in Clare-
mont in 1892, where he has since practiced. He
makes a specialty of surgery and has achieved dis-
tinction in his profession. Dr. Upham is vice-presi-
dent of the New Hampshire board of trustees for the
establishment of a sanitorium for tuberculosis. He
is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society, an
Episcopalian, and in politics a Republican. Novem-
ber 7, 1905, Dr. Upham married Marguerite Bailey,
daughter of Herbert and Alice (Sulloway) Bailey.
She was born in Claremont, February 23, 1878, was
educated in the schools of Claremont, Bellows Falls,
and at Mrs. McDuffec's School, in Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts.
(VIII) Jacob, seventh son and thirteenth child
of Phineas (3) and Tamzen (Thomasin) Upham,
was born in Maiden, April 30, 1723. His name is in
the list of voters in Reading in 1771 ; also among the
names of pewholders in the First Baptist meeting
house, where he had Nos. 38 and 39. He died Sep-
tember 30, 1775, and his will was proved in 1779. He
married in Reading, January 19, 1748, Rebecca Bur-
nap, who was born January 18, 1727, and died March
14, 1779. Their children were: Rebecca, died young;
Rebecca, Sarah, died young: Sarah, Mary, Tamzen,
Ruth, and Jacob, whose sketch follows.
(IX) Jacob (2), youngest child of Jacob (l)
and Rebecca (Burnap) Upham, was born in Reading,
Massachusetts, May 16. 1766, and died April i, 1S49.
He moved from Reading to Amherst, New Hamp-
shire, in 1792, the year following his marriage, and
there purchased from John Damon the farm two
miles southeast of the village, upon which his grand-
son, Jacob Upham. afterwards lived, and for which
he paid seventy pounds and eighteen shillings, the
deed being dated November 13, 1792. He was a
farmer and continued to live on this place until his
death. He married (first), November 17, 1791,
Sarah Pratt, of Reading, who was born April 20,
1759, and died November 17, 1826. He married (sec-
ond), April 15, 1827, Sarah Whittemore, of Charles-
town, who was born July 25. 1775, and died April
28. 1849. The children, all by the first wife, were:
Sally. Jacob, and another who died young.
(X) Jacob (3), only son of Jacob (2) and
Sarah (Pratt) Upham, was born in Amherst, Octo-
ber 29, 1798. and died there of consumption, Octo-
ber 14, 1859. aged sixty-one. One of his sons said
of him ; "He w-as born, lived, and died on the same
farm in Amherst, which had been his father's. He
was an honest, industrious, cheerful, hopeful and con-
tented Christian man, unambitious for rank or
wealth. In appearance, slender, and rather tall;
somewhat delicate in health during the greater part
of his life. In religious faith he was a Congrega-
tionalist, and in political preference a Whig, later a
Republican ; but he never held or aspired to any con-
spicuous office. He brought up a large family, nine
of whom reached mature years, and renienibered
their father with sincere love and gratitude." He
married, November 20, 1822, Sarah Hayward, who
was born in North Reading. Massachusetts, August
31, 1804. and they had ten children: Jacob Burnap,
Same Tamzan. Mary, Emily Dorcas. Susan, John
Henry, Ruth Elizabeth, Jesse Hayward, George Wil-
liams, and Warren.
(XI) John Henry, si.xth child and second son
of Jacob (3) and Sarah (Hayward) Upham, was
born in Amherst. November 21, 1835. He was
brought up on a farm and attended the district school
until seventeen years of age, and then spent two
years farming, and the next three years in peddling
through the country. Buying a farm in Amherst, he
occupied it over four years, Spending a portion of the
time in buying furs, which he sold in Boston. He
sold this place and resided a year or two in Merri-
mack, and then removed to Amherst and bought a
farm on which he lived twenty-three years. In l8go
he sold that property and removed to Merrimack and
settled on the farm of his father-in-law. Mr. 'up-
ham's life was one of continuous industry until his
retirement from active employment a few years ago.
He has always taken a hearty interest in agriculture,
has been an exemplary citizen, and has tried to do
his part toward the promotion of morality and good
government in his neighborhood. For thirty-five
years he has been a member of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and for many years a member of the Con-
gregational Church of .-Amherst, of which he has
been deacon for ten years past. He is a progressive
Republican, and has been road surveyor and lumber '
surveyor. He married, April 22, 1862, at Reed's
Ferry. Catherine E. Colburn, born at Merrimack, No-
vember 28, 1840, daughter of John H. and Elizabeth
(Fields) Colburn, of Merrimack, and granddaughter
of John Fields, who served seven years in the Revo-
lutionary war. She was educated in the common
schools at Mont Vernon, and at Magaw Institute,
and taught school before her marriage. She is a
member of the Congregational Church of Merrimack,
and has been a member of the Grange for many
years. Their children are: Charles Henry, George
F., and Osgood F. Charles H. is a farmer in Merri-
mack. He was born March 27, 1863, and married,
June 27, 1890, Isabel Woodward. George F., born
September 9, 1865, married. September 25. 1891. Ella
S. Hodgman, and lives in Merrimack. Osgood F. is
the subject of the next sketch.
(XII) Osgood Fifield, youngest of the three sons
of John H. and CatheriiTe E. Colburn, was born in
Amherst, August 29, 1869. He was educated in the
common schools, and at Magaw Institute, and Bryant
& Stratton's Business College in Boston. .'Kt fifteen
years of age he began his life's labors driving a
lumber team for his father. For ten years he was a
farmer. In 1902 he bought the grocery store of A.
B. Colby, of Merrimack, which he has since success-
fully conducted. He is a man of energy and good
judgment, and has served one term in the office of
selectman, to which he was elected by the Republican
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party, of which he is a member. He is a member of
the Congregational Church, and of the Patrons of
Husbandry. He lias belonged to the latter order
twenty years, and has filled the chairs in Thornton
Grange, No. 31. He is a member of Pennichuck
Lodge, No. 45. Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Nashua. He married, June 18, 1902, Cora Gid-
dings, of Thornton's Ferry, born in Bow, 1870,
daughter of Edward P. and Mary J. (Morgan) Gid-
dings. She was educated in the Concord schools and
Magaw Institute, and taught school after leaving the
latter institution. She is a member of the Congrega-
tional Church, and for eighteen years has been a
member of Thornton Grange. No. 31, of which she
is now (1907) assistant steward.
The free institutions, equality of all
SIKORSKY men before the law, and great op-
portunities for advancement are
among the chief attractions that brought Dr. Sikor-
sky to this country.
Vladimir Nicholas Sikorsky, :M. D., was born in
the city of Kieff, Russia, June 14, 1867. His father
was a member of a noble family and an officer in the
Russian army. He married Vasilisa Alexandroff,
and they had five children, Vladimir N. being the
only one in this country. Vladimir N. attended the
gymnasium (high school) of Kieff, and graduated
from it June g, 1889. receiving the highest honors.
In January following he entered the Imperial Uni-
versity of Moscow, from which he received in 1895
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Subsequently he
took post graduate courses in medicine in France and
Germany, thoroughly fitting himself for the practice
of his profession. In 1897 'i'^ came to America, and
located at Manchester. New Hampshire, where he
practiced until 1901, when he removed to Salem Cen-
tre, where he has a large patronage. While in Eu-
rope he made a special study of nervous diseases,
and has been highly successful in the treatment of
them since coming to this country. In 1906 he took
a special course in general surgery in the Harvard
Medical School under Drs. Monroe and Bottomly.
He is medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of New York, the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of Connecticut, and others. He has
been financially fortunate, and has valuable property
in Salem and in Haverhill.
He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical
Society, the Gynecological Society of Boston, and
the American Medical Association. He was made a
Mason in LTnion Lodge, No. 79, Free and Accepted
Masons. September 29, 1899 ; is a member of Bell
Royal .\rch Chapter, No. 25, of Derry; Nashua
Council. Royal and Select Masters, of Nashua ; St.
George Commandery, Knights Templar; Edward A.
Raymond Consistory, thirty-second degree. Sublime
Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua ; and Bektash
Temple, .\ncient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is also a member of
the Pilgrim Fathers. New England Order of Pro-
tection. No. 26, and the Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, of Salem.
He was married in IManchester. November 20,
1897. hy the Rev. Mr. Colby, pastor of the First Bap-
tist Cliurch, to Maria Kushch Ignatieff, who was
born June 10, 1S77, daughter of John and Olga
(Kushch) Ignatieff, of Russia. They hav<; two chil-
dren : Lucy Nina, born January 13, 1899, and Jean-
nette Vera, February 9, 1901.
Tradition has said that all of this name
ROLFE in the United States were descendants
of two brothers who came from Eng-
land and settled in Newbury. Massachusetts, in 1635,
but records show several others at other points in
Massachusetts and in Connecticut in the early Puri-
tan days. New Hampshire has been the home of
several branches of the family, who have lost none
of the vigor of the colonial forebears. Those located
in Boscawen and Concord are the posterity of one
of the Newbury brothers. John and Henry. These
brothers came from "Melchitt Parke," Wiltshire,
England, and sailed from Southhampton in the
ship "Confidence," in 1638. Melchet Park is about
nine miles southeast of Salisbury, England, in the
Hundred of Alderbury.
(I) Henr\', the younger brother, supposed to
have been born in 1590, was in Newbury before 1642,
with his wife. Honour. He died March i, 1643,
and his widow died at the house of Thomas Blanch-
ard in Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 19,
1630. Their children were: Anna (wife of Thomas
Blancliard), Hannah, John and Benjamin.
(II) Benjamin, youngest child of Henry and
Honour Rolfe, was born about 16,^8, probably in
England, and was a weaver of Newbury, where he
was a freeman in 1670. He was married November
3, 1659, to Apphia Hale, only daughter of Thomas
Hale, a pioneer of Newbury and ancestor of a nu-
merous progeny scattered over the United States.
Benjamin Rolfe and wife were admitted to the
church at Newbury in 1674. She died December 24,
170S. and he passed away August 10, 1710. Their
children were: John. Benjamin, Hannah. Apphia,
Mary (died young). Samuel. Mary, Henry, Eliza-
l)cth, Nathaniel, Abigail and a daughter that died
in infancy. (Henry and descendants receive men-
tion in this article).
(III) John, first child of Benjamin and Appliia
(Hale) Rolfe. was born October 12. 1660. in New-
bury, and subscribed to the oath of fidelity there in
1678. He was married in 16S9-90 to Dorothy Nelson,
and both were admitted to the church in 1698. They
had cliildren : John, Apphia and Jonathan.
(IV) John (2), eldest son of John (i) and Dor-
othy (Nelson) Rolfe, was born March 24, 1691, in
Newbury, and was married October 7, 1713, to Ju-
dith Dole. Their children were: Richard, John,
Hannah, Enoch and Benjamin. Hannah, born De-
cemlier 2,=;. 1720. became the wife of Nathaniel
Rolfe, mentioned elsewhere in this article (see IV of
other line).
(V) Benjamin (2) Rolfe, son of John Rolfe,
born December 25, 1731, came from Newbury, Mas-
sachusetts, and settled in Concord on High street.
He died in 1823. He married Lydia Pearsons, De-
cember 25, 1760. They had six children : I. John,
l.iorn July 27, 1762. 2. Elizabeth, February 20. 1765.
3. Silas, January 28. 1767. 4. Judith. December
31. 1769. 5. Amos, died in infancy. 6. Benjamin,
born January 20. 1773.
(VI) Benjamin, si.xth child and youngest son
of Benjamin and Lydia (Pearsons) Rolfe, was born
January 20, 1773. and died January 19, 1857. He
succeeded to the homestead of his father. He had
a fondness for mechanical work, and in addition to
the care of the farm, employed himself making
wood aqueducts and pumps. Nearly all that kind of
work in the east part of the town was done under
his direction. Many of the pumps made from the
GEORGE H. ROLFE.
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old white pine are now in use, and are preferred
by some perions to the modern inventions. He
married ]Mar8arct, daughter of Rev. Jonathan
Searle, of Salisburj-, and they had six children, of
which three died young. Those who grew up were :
Enoch S., born May 12, 1819: Henry P.. February
13, 1821 ; Charles B. born April l, 1823, died 1851.
(VII) Henry Pearsons, son of Benjamin and
Margaret (Searle) Rolfe, was born in Boscaw'en,
February 13. 1821, and died in Concord, May 30,
iSoS. He was educated in the public schools, at
New Hampton Institute, and at Dartmouth College,
graduating from Dartmouth in 1848. After pursu-
ing a course of legal study in the office of Hon.
Asa Fowler, of Concord, he was admitted to the bar
in iS5t. He immediately opened an office in Con-
cord, and maintained himself with credit, advanc-
ing in professional reputation and influence, and
winning in 1S69 an appointment as United States
■district attorney under President Grant, holding this
office five years. During the years 1852-53 he was a
■member of the board of edircation, serving as chair-
man one year. He was a representative in the New
Hamp.shirc Legislature as a Democrat in 1853, re-
turning as a Republican, during the years 1863-64,
when the war of the rebellion was raging its hottest ;
he was appointed by President Johnson as postmas-
ter of Concord, but was not confirmed by the senate.
He also served on the lake coinmission in 1878-79,
by appointment of Governor Prescott. He was
Democratic candidate for state senator for the term
1859-60, and candidate for the electoral college on
the Douglas ticket of i860. He was always a strong
Prohibitionist, and never used either tobacco or
liquor. In the midst of a very busy professional
career he found time tq devote to literature, and in
his spare time he wrote the history of Salisbury,
New Hampshire. Mr. Rolfe was in his later years
one of the oldest practitioners at the New Hampshire
bar. His practice extended over a period when in-
tellectual giants stood before the tribunals of the
state, and among those men he easily maintained
himself with credit. In all branches of his profes-
sional life he won great success, and stood in the
front rank of the eminent practitioners of the bar of
the "Granite State." As a counsellor his sagacity
was unerring, as an advocate his career was marked
with triumph.
He was married, November 22, 185S, to Mary
Rebecca, daughter of Robert H. Sherburne, of
Concord, and they were the parents of five children.
IMarsliall D.. the eldest, died at the age of eight
years. Margaret T., the second, died in infancy. Hen-
rietta M., died in her second year. Robert Henry
is mentioned at length in the succeeding paragraph.
George Hamilton also receives extended notice in
this article.
(VIII) Robert Henry, second son and fourth
child of Henry Pearsons and Mary R. (Sherburne)
Rolfe, was born October 16, 1863. in Concord. His
early education was secured in the public schools,
and he graduated from the Concord high school,
and entered Dartmouth College, from which he
graduated witli the class of 1884. After studying
law for a tiine he entered the railroad service. In
1889 he removed to Zylonite, Massachusetts, where
he engaged in business, but soon returned to Concord
and became connected with the Monitor and States-
man, first in the circulation department and later as
cashier. In 1883 he joined Company C, Third Regi-
ment, New Hampshire National Guard, as a private.
Twice he was an enlisted man. returning to the
ranks after having a captain's commission, wdiich
his removal from the state compelled him to relin-
quish. For two years he was sergeant-major of the
Second Regiment, and his first commission was as
first lieutenant in Company C. Subsequently he be-
came senior major of the Second Regiment, in com-
mand of the First Battalion, Major Rolfe was ap-
pointed in 1893 a member of the committee to re-
vise the military law of the state of New Hamp-
shire, When the Spanish-.\merican war broke out
he was appointed colonel of the Twenty-second
Regiment, and went to Chickamauga and remained
with his command until the close of the war. when
it returned to Concord and was mustered out. Fol-
lowing this he went to Cuba as inspector-general,
and served under General Brooks and later under
General Wood, He also acted as deputy-quarter-
master. In 1901 he came to Washington, and thence
went to San Diego, California, where as quarter-
tnaster he built Fort Rosecrans, From there he
was ordered to Nagasaki, Japan, where he is now
(1908) quartennaster, with the rank of captain,
United States .Army, He married, Grace
Stearns, daughter of Governor Onslow Stearns, of
New Hampshire, (See Stearns VII). They are the
parents of three children, namely : Onslow Sher-
burne, Mary Rebecca, and Grace Stearns,
(VIII) George Hamilton, fifth and youngest
child of Henry P, and Mary R, (Sherburne) Rolfe,
was born December 24, 1866, in Concord, in the public
schools of which he received his primary education.
Subsequently he attended Holderness School for
Boys at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and fitted for
Dartmouth College, but did not pursue the collegiate
course. He entered upon his business career as a
clerk in one of the offices of the old Concord rail-
road, in 1886, and continued in this employ until
March, 1903, wdien he resigned the position of freight
cashier for the Boston & Maine railroad at Con-
cord. He then became a partner with B. H. Orr in
the heating, plumbing and electrical business in Con-
cord, and has helped to build up the leading estab-
lishment of its kind in the city. The number of
men in their employ has increased with the develop-
ment of their business from eight to thirty, and the
firm's contracts extend over all the New England
states. Mr. Rolfe is a Thirty-second degree Mason
and a charter tnember of Bektasli Temple of the
Mystic Shrine, in Concord. He is a member of the
Wonalancet and Passaconaway clubs, and of the
Capital Grange, and is ex-governor of the local
colony of Pilgrim Fathers. He is a communicant
of Saint Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church. Po-
litically Mr. Rolfe is a staunch Republican. He has
served as councilman in the city government from
i')03 to 1905 and as alderman from 1905 to 1907. -At
present (19&?) he is a member of the general court
from Ward 5, serving as chairman of the Merri-
mac county delegation, also as meml)er of the New
Hampshire state hospital committee.
He was married September 11, 1893. to Bertha
Olive Cawley, of Hill. New Hainpshire. a daugh-
ter of William B. Cawley, a lumber manufacturer of
that town. She is a talented musician and her fine
contralto voice has made her for many years past a
very welcoine addition to the church choirs of Con-
cord and Manchester. They have one son, Hamil-
ton Cawley Rolfe, born, December 6, 1894, in Con-
cord.
Mr. Rolfe is a man of genial nature and cordial
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and affable manners, and has the faculty of mak-
ing and retaining friends. His interest in the af-
fairs of humanity has led him to an affiliation with
the church and various fraternal bodies, and he is a
citizen in whom his fellows repose confidence and
esteem.
(III) Henry, fourth son and eighth child of
Benjamin and Apphia (Hale) Rolfe, was born Oc-
tober 12, 1677, in Newbury, where the early years of
his life were passed. He was among the original
proprietors of Penny Cook (Concord), where he
died. He mirried Hannah Tappan, and their chil-
dren were: Ecnjamin, Nathaniel, Henry, Betsey,
and Mary.
(IV) Nathaniel, second son and child of Henry
and Hannah (Tappan) Rolfe, was born January 6,
1713, in Newbury, Massachusetts, and died in (Ton-
cord, New Hampshire, in 1808, in his ninety-sixth
year. " He lived on what was subsequently the poor
farm, in West Concord, and reared a large and re-
spectable family. He married Hannah, daughter of
John and Judith (Dole) Rolfe. his cousin (see John
(2), IV of other line), and they had the following
children : Hannah, Nathaniel, William. Judith, Ben-
jamin, Polly, Jane, Henry and Elizabeth.
(V) Nathaniel (2), eldest son and second child
of Nathaniel (i) and Hannah (Rolfe) Rolfe, was
born August 29, 1744, in Haverhill, Massachusetts,
and died November 15, 1829, in Concord. He set-
tled on the land now occupied by his descendants,
in the present village of Penacook, and was a large
farmer. His land extended from the Boscawen line
one and one-half miles southward, and from the
Merrimack river to the present Main street. Pena-
cook, including more than a square mile. The rail-
road station at Penacook is on this land, and the
several handsome residences in the neighborhood
shelter his great-grandsons and their offspring. One
of these was built by him about 1775-80. He mar-
ried Judith, youngest daughter of Rev. Timothy
Walker (See Walker, V) and widow of Captain
Abiel Chandler (see Chandler, VI). His eldest
child, Abiel, born April 6, 1781, was long a deacon
of the church and died, unmarried, in 1840. Jane,
the second was the wife of Nathan Chandler of
Boscavv'en.
(VI) Henry, second s,on and youngest child of
Nathaniel (2) and Judith (Walker) Rolfe, was born
August 31, 1785, in Concord, on the paternal home-
stead, passed all his life there, and died, May 29,
1857, in the house built by his brother in 1834. He
was an extensive farmer and lumberman, and in
1825 built a saw mill, the first on the estate, on
the south side of an island in the Contoocook river,
where his grandsons now operate a wood-working
shop. He was an active member and one of the
stays of the Congregational Church of Penacook, in
which his elder brother was a deacon, and was a
leading citizen of his district. He was married in
1808 to Deborah Carter, daughter of Ezra awd Phebe
Carter (see Carter, VI). She was born April 18,
1786, and died January 11, 1S49. Their children
are accounted for as follows : Judith Walker, mar-
ried Jacob Whidden and died in Concord. Jane,
died unmarried. Rhoda became the wife of David
Farnum, son of Stephen Farnum (see Farnum IV),
and lived in West Concord. Nathaniel is mentioned
further below. Phebe Whittemore married Hora-
tio Harvey and died in 1S62 at Ottawa, Canada.
Timothy Carter, receives further mention in this
article. Henry died in Winchester. Massachusetts.
Deborah was the wife of John A. Holmes, and died
in Beloit, Wisconsin. Abiel died in 1902, at Pena-
cook. Lydia died at the age of twenty-three years.
Martha Farnum died at Manchester, Iowa, while the
wife of Rev. .Anson A. Baker, a Congregational
clergyman.
(VII) Nathaniel (3), eldest son and fourth child
of Henry and Deborah (Carter) Rolfe, was born
January I. 1814. on the homestead at Penacook, and
died in his eighty-seventh year, April 26, 1900. He
received a fair education for his time, attending
the local school and Franklin Academy. At the age
of twenty-one years he went to live with his bach-
elor uncle, Abiel, with whom he was associated in
manufacturing articles made of wood, especially fit-
tings for dwellings, thus founding the industry now
conducted by his sons, who have greatly extended
it. He resided over fifty years in the house built by
his uncle, the first south of Penacook railroad sta-
tion, and was active in church affairs. He was a
strong Democrat, and was honored with numerous
offices in the gift of his townsmen. He was
married January i, 1839. to Mary Jane Moody,
daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Foster) IMoody.
She was born January 21, 1817, in Canterbury and
died August 8, 1876, at her home in Penacook. The
eldest child of Captain Nathaniel and Mary J.
(Moody) Rolfe, Charles Moody, receives further
mention hereinafter. Joseph Henry resides in Pena-
cook. Abiel Walker is the subject of a succeeding
paragraph. John Holmes is a resident of Pena-
cook. Mary Lancaster died when ten years old.
Arthur Foster resides in Boscawen. The maternal
grandfather of these, Joseph Moody, was a son of
William and Sarah (Kimball) l\Ioody. Joseph
Moody was born May 20, 17S8, in Newbury, Massa-
chusetts, and was in his sixth year when his par-
ents came to Canterbury, this state. He was en-
gaged in farming in Canterbury and Concord until
1862, and represented Canterbury in the legislature
in 1828. He was married November 22, 1815. to
Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Foster of Canter-
bury: she was born April 26, 1784, and died Decem-
ber 3. 1873. He died at Penacook, March 2. 1S79.
(VIII) Charles M. Rolfe, eldest child of Cap-
tain Nathaniel (3) and Mary J. (Moody) Rolfe,
was born August 18, 1841, at Penacook, and was
educated in tlu- local schools and Kimball Union
Academy at Meriden. At the age of twenty-one
he left sehool and thereafter devoted his encgies
to the mill business of his father, to which h", suc-
ceeded in part ownership March 8. 1866. His me-
chanical genius and business ability have contributed
to a great enlargement of the business, which now
covers all sorts of interior fittings for buildings, as
well as sash, blinds and doors and kindred wares.
Mr. Rolfe has not given much attention to public
affairs, though he entertains settled convictions and
adheres to Democratic policies, which are not m
majority in his tow'n. He has served on the board
of education, but prefers business environtnent to
public life. He is a member of the Pennconk
Congregational Church and of Contoocook Lodge,
No. 26, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He
was married February 3, 1869, to Maria Louisa,
daughter of Leonard and Sally (Cole) Morrison, of
Boscawen, and has three hving children. The
eldest. Mary Louise, is the widow of Samuel H,
Farnum, and is a successful medical practitioner at
Penacook. Harlow Foster and Henry Chandler are
residents of the village of Penacook, the former in
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Concord and tlic latter in Boscawen. Ben Morrison,
the youngest, died at the age of twenty-five years.
Harlow F. has a son, Franklin Prescott. At the
time of his marriage, C. M. Rolfe took up his resi-
dence on the north side of Contoocook river, on
Water street, and is thus a citizen of Boscawen. In
1884 he purchased his present homestead, with
house built over sixtv vears ago, bv Calvin Gage.
(VIII) Abiel W., third son and child of Na-
thaniel and Mary J. (Moody) Rolfe, was born
January 21. 18,(4. on the farm, where he still re-
sides, and has lived since about seven years old in
the same house, near the railroad station at Pena-
cook, built in 1834. He attended the local school
and Ehnw-ood Academy in Boscawen, and bade
adieu to the schoolroom at the age of twenty years.
His entire business life has been associated with
the sash and door mills now owned and operated
by C. M. & A. W. Rolfe, who purchased them of
their father and uncle March 8, 1866. Long before
he was through with school, young Rolfe was
accustomed to make himself useful in the mill, and
he was familiar with many details of its operation
before his majority. He is still to be found actively
engaged in the same occupation every business day,
and his habits of industry have contributed in no
small way to the success of the brothers in operating
and extending the business founded by their fore-
bears. They employ over fifty people on an average,
and contribute largely to the prosperity of their
home village. His public services have been numer-
ous, and he takes an active interest in every move-
ment for progress. As a member of the board of
e6ducation, he has shown a desire to foster schools,
and he is now assistant engineer of the fire de-
partment. In 1891-92 he represented ward I in the
legislature. He is a member of the Congregational
Church ; of the Veteran Firemen's Association ; of
Horace Chase Lodge, No. 72, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons ; of Contoocook Lodge, No. 26,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows : and Hannah
Dustin Lodge. No. 49, Daughters of Rebekah. Like
his fathers, he adheres to the Democratic party in
politics. He was married February 17. 1S70, to
Georgiana Judith Gage, who was born January 16,
1848, in Boscawen. daughter of Isaac Kimball Gage
of that town (see Gage, XVI). Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe
are the parents of three sons. Harry Gage, the
eldest, born July S, 1872, resides at Penacook. He
was married June 15, i8g8, to Mary Florence
Symonds, who died April 7, 1904, aged twenty-
eight years, and left a son, Richard Symonds, born
October 16, 1899. Herbert Wilson, the second,
married Lucy E. Huflf, and has two daughters,
Helen Louise and Mary Florence. Frederick Isaac
resides with his parents.
The immigrant ance.=tors of this
COFFIN family came early to the colony of
Massachusetts Bay, and many of their
descendants have been leading men. Their revolu-
tionary war record is an honorable one.
(I) Peter Coffin, of Brixton, near Portledge,
died in 1628. His widow, Joanna Thember Coffin,
with her children — Tristram, Mary, and Eunice —
emigrated to Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1642. and
settled in Newbury, whence they finally removed
to Nantucket. She died in May. i66r. aged seventy-
seven. She was a woman of remarkable strength
of character.
(II) Tristram, eldest child of Peter and Joanna
(Thember) Coffin, was born in Bri.xham or Briston
parish. Plymouth, Devon, England, about 1605 or
i6og, and died in Nantucket, October 2, 1681. He
removed to Salisbury, thence to Haverhill the same
year, thence to Newbury about 1648, thence in 1654
or 1655 to Salisbury again, where he signed his
name "Commissioner of Salisbury." He was ta.xed
in Salisbury in 1652 and 1659. In 1659 a company
was formed which purchased nineteen-twentieths
of Nantucket Island, whither he removed in 1660
with his wife, mother, and four children. He mar-
ried Dionis Stevens, of Brixton. Their nine chil-
dren were: Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James, John
(died young), Deborah, Mary, John and Stephen.
(III) Tristram (2), second son and child of
Tristram (r) and Joanna (Thember) Coffin, was
born in England in 1632, and came to America with
his parents at ten years of age. He died February
4, 1704, aged about seventy-two. He was the
ancestor of all the Coffins originating from New-
bury. He married, March 2, 1653. in Newbury,
Judith Grcenleaf, daughter of Edmund Greenlcaf.
the emigrant, and widow of Henry Somerby, of
Newbury. She died December 15, 1705. They had
ten children.
(IV) Nathaniel, tenth and youngest child of
Tristram (2) and Judith (Grecnleaf) Coffin, was
born in Newbury, ^larch 22, 1669. He resided in
the house erected by his father, which wis still
standing a few Vi-.irs ago. He married Sarah,
widow of Henry Dole, whose name before marriag(;
vias Sarah Brocklebank, of Rowley. They had
eight children : John, Enoch. Apphia, Samuel
Brockelbank, Joseph, Jane, Edmund and Moses.
(V) John, eldest child of Nathaniel and Snrah
(Brocklebank) Coffin, was born in Newbury, June
I, 1694, and died September 30, 1762, in the si.xty-
ninth year of his age. He married Judith Green-
leaf, of Newbury, and they were the parents of ten
children: Richard, Nathaniel, .\bigail, Mary, Peter,
Apphia. William, Samuel, Judith and Sarah.
(VI) Captain Peter, third son and fifth child of
John and Judith (Greenleaf) Coffin, was born in
Newbury, Massachusetts. May 11, 1722, and died
in Boscawen. New Hampshire. December 15, 1789
He moved to Concord in 1766. and to Boscawen
in 1768-69. He settled on Water street, erecting the
house occupied through life by his son Thomas.
The following account of Captain Coffin and his
wife is taken from Charles Carlton Coffin's "nist9ry
of Boscawen."
"At that time (1769) there were but two or at
most three houses in what is now the town of
Webster. His house became the convenient stopping
place for all new settlers. Captain Coffin soon had
corn to sell : and no matter how scare the grain,
or how high the current price, he never made a
man's necessity his own opportunity. He was known
as the poor man's friend. He had no desire for
public office, and when chosen constable, when the
town would not accept his declination, hired Bcn'a-
min Eastman to perform his duties. He was an
ardent patriot during the revolution, and although
there is no record of his election to the provincial
congress held at Exeter. April 21. 177.S. yet his
name appears on the list as a member of that all-
important body. He served in the campaign of
1777. upon the approach of Burgoyne. He was
ever ready to support the religious institutions of
the day, was a liberal, large-hearted man. respected
and beloved. He died suddenly, December 15, 1789.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
He married, in the fall of 1768, Rebecca Haseltine,
wlio was born in Chester.
"During the summer (of 1768) Captain Coffin
had erected the frame of a house now occupied
(187S) by Mr. Colby, on Water street. The masons
had constructed the chimney, the boards and
shingles were on the sides and roof, and the
southwest corner room had been partitioned ofif,
when the young bride, seated on a pillion behind
her hufhand, reached her future home. Their
house was on the frontier of civilization. Possibly
two individuals had gone beyond them, to Corser
hill and Blackwater, but the only road was a cart
path over the rocks and hillocks, corduroyed upon
the marshy places. The newly married couple
were beginning life. They had few household arti-
cles — a bed, kettle, frying-pan, wooden or pewter
plates, a knife and fork each, and a few other house-
hold articles — all of which were packed upon a
led horse ; but they had strong hands, and were
undaunted by the hardships and trials before them.
"While the husband was making the woods bow
before his sturdy strokes, the wife kept the wheel
humming or the loom in action from morn till
night. She was a thrifty woman, looking ever after
the savings as well as the earnings. She was at
the same time liberal and kind, relieving the wants
of those who were having a hard time in life.
Deacon Enoch Little, who often when a boy ate a
TdowI of bread and milk at her house, was
accustomed to say that if it had not been for the
kindness of Captain and Mrs. Coffin his father's
family would have found it hard to get through the
first year in Boscawen.
"Mrs. Coff.n was intensely patriotic, and when
the stamp act imposed a duty on tea she resolutely
put away the few ounces in her caddy, and would
not have any of it used until the act was repealed.
In 1777. when the order came for Captain Peter
Kimball's company to march to Bennington, there
were two soldiers who had no shirts to wear. Mrs.
Coffin had a web partially woven in the loom.
Seizing the shears, she cut out what she had woven,
sat up through the night, and made two shirts ; and
in the morning the soldiers, thus provided for, took
their places in the ranks. That was the morning
of July 4th. On the isth'of the .same month she
gave birth to her second son Thomas. A month
passed. On the i6th of August the victory of
Bennington was won. Messengers brought the glad
news, and Captain Coffin, who had been out in
the previous campaign, started once more, leaving
his energetic wife with five children — the oldest a
"boy of seven years, the youngest an infant of five
weeks. The wheat was dead ripe ; the birds were
devouring it; the winds were scattering the grains.
It must be gathered ; but who could gather it, Avhen
nearly every able-bodied citizen was hastening to
drive back the enemy? She remembered that Enoch
Little, who had moved to the Little hill a few
months before, had several sons, for she ha.-I sup-
plied them with bread and milk the prev'OUs sum-
mer, while Mr. Little was rearing his cabin. Possi-
bly she might obtain one of the boys. She leaves
the four oldest children at home, in care of the
eldest, Enoch (Peter?), the boy of seven years,
mounts the mare, takes her infant of five weeks
in her arms, rides througli tlie forest, along the
blazed path fording Beaver dam brook, climbing
Corser hill, fording the Blackwater, making her
way to the log cabin ot Mr. Little, to linri that the
three eldest sons are in the army — that the only
boy who can aid her is Enoch, fourteen years old.
'Enoch can go, but he has no clothes,' is the answ'er
of Mrs. Little to Mrs. Coffin's request. 'The boy
has no coat, vest, hat, stockings, or shoes. His
only garments are a ragged pair of tow-and-linsey
pants, and a ragged shirt.' T can provide him with
a coat,' is the reply. The boy leaps upon the pillion,
and the mother, with the infant in her arms, rides
back through the forest to her home. Enoch Little
is no ordinary boy. He hears the birds in the woods,
but he has work to do. and plies the sickle, while
Mrs. Coffin in the house is making him a coat. She
has no cloth, but she has a meal-bag: and cutting a
hole for his head, two holes for his arms, and
sewing on the legs of a pair of her own stockings
for sleeves, the garment is complete ! Then going
to the field, she lays her infant beneath the shade
of a tree and binds the sheaves ! So she serves
her country ; she does what she can for human free-
dom. She survived her husband many years. She
was a woman of great energy of character ; and
trained her sons to prize character above every-
thing else. All honor to her memory."
The children of Captain Peter and Rebecca
(Haseltine) Coffin were: Peter. Rebecca, Joanna,
Abigail, Thomas, Moses and Apphia.
(VII) Captain Moses, sixth child and third
son of Captain Peter and Rebecca (Haseltine)
Coffin, was born in Boscawen, July 22, 1779, and
died in Boscawen, September 5, 1S54, aged seventy-
five. He w'as a farmer, and lived in a house which
he erected east of Water street, on the road lead-
ing to Boscawen plain. He was an energetic citi-
zen, respected, and a consistent member of the
Congregational Church. He married Susannah
Farnum. of Concord, who died May 4, 1843. Their
children were: Rebecca. Lucy, Peter. Judith, Far-
num, Nehemiah Cogswell, Susannah and Esther.
(VIII) Farnum, fifth child and second son of
Moses and Susannah (Farnum) Coffin, was born
in Boscawen, March 13, 1813, and died September
21, 1S55, aged forty-three. He resided on the home-
stead, and was a prosperous farmer and a re-
spected citizen. He married Judith Gerrish, who
was born in Canterbury, May 21, 1824, daughter of
Captain Joseph and Sarah (Church) Gerrish, the
latter a daughter of Deacon John Church of Dun-
barton. (See Gerrish VI). At the age of thirty-
two Mrs. Coffin was left a widow with four chil-
dren, the eldest only ten years old, but with that
capacity for management that marked some of her
ancestors, she assumed full charge of her late
husband's property until her son Henry was old
enough to take charge of it, and now, though eighty-
three years of age, she has a personal knowledge
of the work done and the results obtained. The
names of the children of this marriage are : John,
Clara A. and Joseph and Henry (twins). John,
born June 9, 1846. married. March 21, 1872, Nellie
Sleeper, of Bristol, who died May 24. 1890. John
Coffin died at Fort Pierre. South Dakota. Novem-
ber iS. 1905. leaving three children : Lura ; George
H.. who married Anna E. Sadler, of Rockwell,
Iowa : and Frank J. Clara A.. January 18. 1850.
died April 16 1881 ; Joseph, February 4, i8=;3, died
June 6. 1858.
(IX) Henry, fourth child and third son of
Farnum and Judith (Gerrish) Coffin, was born
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February 4, 1853. on the farm on Water street,
where he always resided. He was a hard-working,
honest man, and had made many improvements on
the estate, one being a large apple orchard which
has proved the wisdom of his foresight by supplying
a profitable source of income for some years past.
He also had other fruits in abundance, besides
keeping a good stock of cattle. Mr. Coffin was
always ready to help those who were in need, and
many times assisted the sick to an extent almost
beyond his strength. He was 'a popular man with
his farm help, all of whom had a good word for him.
He was a kind-hearted father and a worthy citizen.
He was a Republican in politics, and never sought
office, but his vote was always intended to be on
the side of right and to advance what was best
for his fellow men. At the time of his death
he had been for forty-two years a member of the
Congregational Church, and for eight years had
held the office of deacon. He married, December g,
1S8S, Loie Grace Crosby, daughter of James J.
and Emiline E. (Buell) Crosby, of Hebron, New
Hampshire, and their children were : Cora Grace,
born November 16, i8Sg; Alice V., born June 14,
1893 : and Charles Carlton, born January 13, 1S95.
Mr. Coffin died very suddenly, of heart failure,
August 29. 1907. The funeral was held at the house
and was largely attended by relatives and friends.
The Rev. J. H. Bliss conducted the services in the
absence of the pastor of the church at Boscawen,
assisted by the Rev. Arthur Little, D. D. Singing
was by a local quartette, and the bearers were
Frank L. Gerrish, George H. Folsom, Frank B.
Folsom. and George P. Chadwick. Interment was
in the Beaver Dam cemetery. Mr. Little spoke very
feelingly of the one who was gone, referring to his
long acquaintance with the families represented,
and to the many years that their names had been
household words in the two towns of Boscawen
and Webster. The character of Mr. Coffin can,
perhaps, be best described by the following extract
from a tribute to his memory, written by one of
his intimate friends and published in a local paper:
"His native town lost one of its most sub-
stantial, enterprising and useful citizens ; his neigh-
borhood lost an accommodating, social and sympa-
thetic neighbor ; the local Congregational Church
lost a liberal supporter ; his immediate family lost a
self-sacrificing head who knew no limit in efforts
to add to their bountifully supplied necessities all
privileges, comforts and luxuries possible, and his
death removed a model son, husband and father,
while a large circle of associates lost a consistent
friend and agreeable companion."
This name can be traced to Sir Guy
BRYANT De Briant. who lived in the time of
Edward HL and whose descendants
had their seats in the castle of Hereford, in Wales,
Xo connection has been established between this
family and the first of the name who came to
America, but there is little doubt that there is
such connection which might be revealed by de-
termined effort. About the year 1640 the Plymouth
Colony contained four families of the name, all
of whom spelled it Briant. There is no documen-
tary evidence that these families were related to
each other, except as shown by a deed which indi-
cates that Lieutenant John Briant, of Plimpton,
was a son-in-law of Stephen Briant, of Plymouth.
Tradition declares that Stephen, of Plymouth, and
Jolm Ci) of Scituate were brothers.
(I) John Briant was a resident of Scituate,
and was a prominent person in the early history
of the Plymouth colony. Throughout his life he
was active in public affairs, was a land owner, and
was actively engaged in the survey of public lands.
He was a member of the general court at Plymouth
in 16C7, and again in 1677-7S. The date of his
arrival in America has not been discovered, but
tradition says that he came from Kent, England,
in the ship 'Ann." It is known that he lived in
Barnstable previous to removing to Scituate. The
first appearance of his name in the records of the
colony appears in the list of one himdred and five
men of Scituate who were able to bear arms. He
was married three times. His first wife Mary was
a daughter of George and Mary (Jenkins) Lewis,
of Barnstable, to whom he was married November
4, 1643, and by whom he had seven children. She
died July 2, 1665, and he was married (second)
to Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Witherill,
of Scituate. He was married (third) .^pril i, 1664,
to Mary, daughter of Thomas Highland, of the same
town. He died November 20, 1684, sixteen days
after making his will. His children, born in Scitu-
ate, were: John, Hannah, Joseph (died young),
Sarah, Mary (died young), Martha, Samuel. Eliza-
beth, Daniel, Mary, Benjamin, Joseph, Jabez, Ruth,
Thomas, Deborah, Agatha, -Ann and Elisha.
(H) Thomas, eighth son and fifteenth child
of John Bryant, was born July 15, 1675, in Scituate,
and died in that town in 1748. His will was proved
December 23 of that year. From this will it is
estimated that his estate must have been worth
more than ten thousand pounds. He was a dis-
tinguished man of his time, served as selectman,
justice of the peace, and was representative to
the legislature in 1725. 1730 and 1733-34. He was
married August 28, 1707, by Joseph Otis, justice
of the peace, to Mary, daughter of Gershom Ewell,
of Scituate, and granddaughter of Henry Ewell, a
soldier in the Pequod war. Their children were:
Benjamin, Mary. Seth, Thomas, Peleg, Hannah,
Lemuel and Nathaniel, all born in Scituate.
(HI) Seth. second son and third child of
Thomas and Mary (Ewell) Bryant, was born
February 12, 1714, in Scituate, and moved to Marsh-
field about 7736. He died there in 1772. his will being
proved August 7 of that year. In this document he
is called "gentleman," and the inventory of his
estate placed its value at one thousand fifty-nine
pounds. He was married August 17, 1736, to Eliza-
beth, daughter of Ebenezer and Deborah (Randall)
Barker, of Scituate. She was a great-granddaugh-
ter of Robert Barker, of Pembroke, and great-great-
granddaughter of William Randall, of Scituate. She
died February 7, 17&8. Their children, born in
Marshfield, were : Ruth, Nathaniel, Seth, Joseph,
Charles and Vashti.
(IV) Charles, fourth son and fifth child of
Seth and Elizabeth (Barker) Bryant, was born
July 20, 1751, in Marshfield. He probably settled
in INIaine, or southeastern New Hampshire. His
wife, who belonged in Newcastle. Maine, was named
Jerusha. There is a large settlement of people of
this name in southwestern Maine, but the records
in that state as well as in New Hampshire are very
defective on this name and fail to establish the
lineage of the family herein traced. It is probable,
however, that the Bryants of Strafford county are
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descended either from this family, or from those
of the Saco Valley, in Maine.
(V) Micajah Bryant is said by family tradition
to have been born in New Durham, New Hamp-
shire. The vital records of the state show that he
was born May 14. 1798, and recorded in the ad-
joining town of Middleton; the same record taken
from the town of Middleton shows that his wife,
Tryphena Perkins, was born September 19, 1799.
Mr. Bryant was a farmer in New Durham, and
died there about 1866. No record of his marriage
to Tryphena Perkins appears, but that is a matter
of family knowledge and can be taken as reliable.
They had three children : Charles Dudley, Sarah
and John.
(\T) Charles Dudley, eldest child of Micajah
and Tryphena ( Perkins) Bryant, was born at New
Durham, December, 1S23. After leaving the com-
mon schools he learned the shoemaker's trade in
the neighboring city of Dover, New Hampshire, and
worked there about eight years. He then came to
the Winnepesaukee region, carried on the shoe
business for ten years at Belmont, and for thirty
years in Laconia. After that he bought a farm and
retired to Northfield, where he died in 1892. He
was a Democrat in politics, and belonged to the
Odd Fellows. He married IMeribah T. Cotton,
daughter of Simon Cotton. She was born at Gil-
ford, September, 1S22, and died at Tilton, -May 24,
1906. They had seven children : Charles Albert,
born November, 1S43 ; Emma Frances, born Sep-
tember, 1846 ; John Fred, mentioned below ; George,
born November, 1S52; William Curtice, born Oc-
tober, 185s; Edward Heard, mentioned below; and
Marietta, born 1859, died aged four years.
(VH) John Fred, third child and second son
of Charles Dudley and Meribah (Cotton) Bryant,
was born at Laconia, February 5, 1850. He was
educated in the common schools of Belmont. He
bought the Dexter House at Tilton, New Hamp-
shire, and managed it for twelve years. He then
remodeled the house, and conducted it for several
years as the Lovering Hotel. He took a position
as traveling salesman for C. I. Hood &: Company
until 1904, when he went into the meat and grocery
business with his brother Edward in Tilton. In
politics he is a Democrat. _ He belongs to the
Grange, and is a member' of Doric Lodge, No.
78, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Tilton, and
Mt. Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar, of Con-
cord. He attends the Episcopal Church. He mar-
ried, January i, 1907, Mary A. Parker, born in
Leeds, Province of Quebec, July 28, 1856.
(Vn) Edward Heard, fifth son and sixth
child of Charles Dudley and Meribah (Cotton)
Bryant, was born June 30, 1857, at Belmont, New
Hampshire. He was educated in the common
schools of Belmont. In 1904 he went into business
with his brother John, at Tilton. He married Ella
Flora Dow, daughter of True Perkins Dow. of
Moultonboro. They have two children : Hellen
Richmond, born February, 1887, and Morris Per-
kins, born February, i8go.
(I) Hubbard Winslow Bryant, son of Wil-
liam Bryant, was born in Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, and now resides in Portland, Maine.
(II) Edwin Scanton Bryant, son of Hubbard
W. Bryant, was born in Portland, July 24, 1876.
He attended the public schools of Portland, pre-
pared for college in the high school, entered the
University of Maine in 1S94, and was graduated in
189S. Having a thorough knowledge of civil en-
gineering, he at once went to Berlin, New Hamp-
shire, and for two years was assistant city engineer
of that city. The following year he was in the em-
ploy of the Berlin Mills Company. In 1901 he was
elected city engineer and inspector of buildings of
Berlin, and has since filled that position by annual
re-election. In addition to the city's business he
does a large amount of engineering and surveying
for patrons in and about Berlin. He is a member of
the Episcopal Church.
This name is of ancient Scotch origin,
AIKEN and during the religious agitation which
so violently disturbed the peace and
tranquility of Scotland in the seventeenth century,
its bearers were identified with the Covenanters.
With others they went to Ireland in order to escape
the controversial strife, which interfered with their
religious rights to such an extent as to seriously
jeopardise their personal liberty, and many of these
sturdy zealots afterwards came to New England.
Among the latter were the founders of the Aiken
family of New Hampshire. The family as a whole
are noted for their industry, thrift and progressive
tendencies, and, as will be seen later on. some of
them have won national distinction as mechanical
geniuses and inventors.
(I) Edward Aiken emigrated from the north of
Ireland early in the eighteenth century, and settled
in Londonderry in 1722. He was accompanied to
this country by his two brothers, James and Wil-
liam. His wife's name was Barbara. It is reason-
ably certain that Edward and Barbara Aiken had
three children, although one account says that they
had only one son.
(II) Nathaniel Aiken married Margaret Coch-
ran and lived with his father at Aiken's range in
Londonderry. Whatever conflict of authority there
may be regarding other facts of Nathaniel's life
and family connections, all writers agree that he was
born May 14. 1696, and married, December i, 1726,
^Margaret Cochran ; and that he had twelve children,
among whom were his sons James and John. James
Aiken, brother of Nathaniel and second son of
Edward and Barbara, married Jean Cochran, and
among his children were sons James and John.
(III) Thomas, son of Nathaniel Aiken, was
born in Londonderry, and in early manhood settled
in Deering, New Hampshire.
(IV) Matthew, son of Thomas Aiken, was
born in Deering, March 21, 1766. He resided for a
time in Peterboro, New Hampshire, and probably
went from there to Pelham, this state, where he
followed the saddler's and harness-maker's trade, and
was considered a workman of the first rank. He
died in Pelham, September 8, 1812. July 8, 1794,
he married Sally Hackett, who was born in Ports-
mouth February 3, 1771, daughter of Colonel
Hackett. who constructed the first frigate for the
federal government during the revolutionary war.
She survived her husband many years, her death
having occurred March 18, 1848. The children of
this union were : James Oilman, Herrick, Sally,
Emma and Alfred.
(V) Herrick, second son and child of Matthew
and Sally (Herrick) Aiken, was born in Peterboro,
June 8, 1797. He was a mechanic of unusual ability
— ingenious, resourceful and creative — and was
awarded several medals for his inventions, which
included a spiral brush, a leather-splitting machine,
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and other valuable appliances. He first established
himself in business as a manufacturer of machinery
at Dracut, Massachusetts, but removed to Franklin,
New Hampshire, in 1838, and in addition to carry-
ing on quite an extensive enterprise he found
ample opportunity for experiments in developing his
ideas. He was the first to conceive the practicability
of the cog-rail for use on mountain railways, made
the ascent of Jilount Washington on horseback for
the purpose of familiarizing himself with the exact
grade and the other difficulties to be overcome, and
constructed a working model of his plan, but was
unable to convince railroad men and capitalists of
its feasibility. His plan was afterwards adopted,
however, but not in his lifetime. He alsj con-
structed a screw propeller some years before that
appliance came into general use. He died November
7, 1S66. On February 5, 1830, he married Ann
Matilda Bradley, who was born in Saco, Maine,
August 28, 1810, daughter of Isaac Bradley, of
Dracut, and a descendant in the fifth generation
of the renowned Hannah Duston, whose thrilling
adventures as a captive among the Indians forms
an interesting episode in the early history of Haver-
hill, Massachusetts. Ann Matilda become the
mother of five children, namely : Walter, Jonas.
James, Francis Herrick and Charles Lowe.
(VI) Walter, eldest son of Herrick and Ann
M. (Bradley) Aiken, was born in Dracut, October
5, 1831. His early education was pursued in the
public schools, and these preliminary studies were
supplemented with courses at educational institu-
tions in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, and Tilton.
At an early age he became an apprentice in his
father's machine shop, where his genius for me-
chanical invention was fully developed, and when
twenty-two years old he secluded himself in a pri-
vate laboratory occupying a portion of the upper
part of the establishment for the purpose of en-
gaging exclusively in creative work. Here he turned
his attention to the application of machinery to
knitting, and as a pioneer in that field he continued
to develop his ideas, which at length culminated in
the production of an automatic knitter capable of
producing a completed seamless stocking in less
than five minutes. These wonderful machines he
put to a practical demonstration in a hosiery fac-
tory operated by himself, and with them was able,
together with a small force of operatives, to turn
out two hundred and twelve thousand dollars' worth
of goods annually. Having placed his manufactur-
ing enterprise in good running order, his attention
was diverted to other important undertakings in
the line of improvements, and in due time had
the gratification of putting into operation his father's
scheme for a cog-railway to the summit of JNIount
Washington. In collaboration with Sylvester Marsh
he developed the original plans, designed the loco-
motive, placed the line in successful operation, and
gave his personal attention to its management for
the remainder of his life. He also erected the
Summit House and the United States Signal Ser-
vice Station on jMount Washington, and for a
number of years owned and managed the Hotel
Hamilton, at Hamilton, Bermuda. In politics Mr.
Aiken was a Democrat. During the civil war he
went to the front in a New Hampshire regiment,
and subsequently represented Franklin in the lower
branch of the state legislature several terms. He
was made a Mason in Meridian Lodge, Franklin,
in 1863, and passed upward through the various
subordinate bodies to Mount Horeb Commandery,
Knights Templar, Concord, which he joined in 1867.
His residence in Franklin was one of the hand-
somest and most conspicuous family seats on the
Sanbornton side of Winnipiseogee river, and is
now occupied by his son James.
In 1853 Mr. Aiken married for his first wife
Susan Colby, daughter of John Colby, of Warner.
His second wife, whom he married January I,
1867, was Mary Dodge of Hampton Falls. His busy
and useful life terminated December 12, 1893,
and he was survived by a widow and two sons —
James, who will be again referred to; and Fred-
erick, born November 4, 1855.
(VII) James, eldest son of Walter and Susan
(Colby) Aiken, was born in Franklin, February 15,
1854. His preliminary studies were concluded in
New London, New Hampshire, and he completed
his education at Dartmouth College. He shortly
afterward went upon one of the large western cattle
ranches, where he remained some two or three
years, and after his return to New England he
served an apprenticeship at tne machinist's trade in
Connecticut. Subsequently to his father's death he
and his brother succeeded to the manufacturing
business in Franklin, under the firm name of Walter
Aiken's Sons, and conducted it successfully until
1904, when they sold the enterprise to Messrs. M.
T. Stevens & Sons. Although practically retired
from active business pursuits, he is interested in
various industries and financial enterprises, being
a director of the Mayo Knitting Machine and Needle
Company, the Franklin Light and Power Company,
and the Franklin National Bank. Politically Mr.
Aiken acts with the Republican party, and was
chosen a member of the first city council in Frank-
lin. He is a Master Mason, affiliating with Meri-
dian Lodge, also the Independent Order o'f Odd
Fellows, and Walter Aiken Council, American
Mechanics, named in honor of his father.
On May 20, 18S0, he w^as united in marriage with
Myra Cole, daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Sanborn)
Cole, of Hill. The children of this union are :
Bertha, born October 24, 1884; Annie B., born July
5, 1890; and Frank, born December 16, 1892.
James Aiken and his brother John, the latter of
whom died in 1756. went from Londonderry, New
Hampshire, with Hugh Riddle, who had married
their mother, Ann Aiken, and settled in Bedford,
New Hampshire, on lands deeded to him in 1756
and in which he was described as "James Aiken,
Tanner, Watertown, Massachusetts Bay." In Bed-
ford he carried on his trade and farming and filled
many important town oflices. There is reasonable
ground for the belief that this James Aiken was
the son of Nathaniel Aiken and grandson of Ed-
ward and Barbara (Edwards) Aiken, although the
relationship cannot be traced with certainty. Ed-
ward Aiken emigrated from Ulster in the north
of Ireland, his ancestry being previously from Scot-
land, and settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
He was born in 1660 and married Barbara Edwards
about 1719.
The James Aiken who went with Hugh Riddle
from Londonderry to Bedford married and had
eleven children, the second of whom was named
Margaret Cochran, which was the name of the
wife of Nathaniel Aiken and also the family name
of the wife of James .-Mken, Nathaniel's lirother.
Again, it appears that Hugh Riddle married the
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widowed mother of James and John Aiken, and she
was the Ann Aiken, of Concord, New Hampshire,
whereas Margaret Cochran was the name of the
mother of James and John Aiken who were Na-
thaniel Aiken's sons. Wherefore, in view of the
difficuUies which have been encountered in con-
necting these early branches of the Aiken family,
this narrative must begin with James Aiken, of
Londonderry and Bedford, and who is referred to
by the family genealogist and historian as "Aiken
No. 2."
(I) James, presumably a son of Edward and
Barbara Aiken, was born probably in 1732 in Lon-
donderry, New Hampshire, and died in Bedford,
New Hampshire, May 13, 1787. He became one of
the prominent men of Bedford, filling many import-
ant public oflkes and served as captain in the Ameri-
can army during the Revolutionary war. He en-
listed as a private in Captain Joshua Abbott's com-
pany of Colonel Stark's regiment, on June 13, 1775,
and served ni the same company as late as No-
vember S, 1776. He vi-as with his company in the
battle of Bunker Hill. Li that battle Stark's regi-
ment was opposed to the British Twenty-Third
Regiment, well known as the "Royal Welsh Fusi-
liers." Prince Albert in 1848 presented to this
regiment a new stand of colors, and said : "In the
American war the Fusiliers were engaged in the
first unhappy collision which took place at Lex-
ington. It also fought at Bunker Hill and Brandy-
wuie. At Bunker Hill its loss was so great that it
was said only one officer remained to tell the story."
When Captain Aiken enlisted in June his crops
were in the ground and he left the farm to the
care of his wife and children, the oldest of whom
was eleven years and the youngest eight months old,
and they did all the work, including the harvesting
of the crops in the fall. In August, 1778, Captain
Aiken went to Rhode Island as captain of a com-
pany in Colonel Moses Kelley's regiment, under
General Sullivan. In June. 1780. he went to West Point,
New York, in command of a company in Colonel
Thomas Bartlett's regiment, and was there when
the fort was betrayed by Arnold. He enlisted June
29 and was discharged October 24, 1780. ( From
Harry W. Gilchrist's sketch of the revolutionary
services of Captain James .Aiken.) Captain James
Aiken married, November 17, 1763, Margaret
Waugh, born September 23, 1741, died in Bedford,
New Hampshire, September I, 1838. She was a
daughter of Robert Waugh who sailed from Port
Rush, Ireland, July 22, 1737, and landed at Boston,
Massachusetts, November i of the same year.
Their children were: Ann, Margaret Cochran,
Robert, Sarah, Andrew, Ruhamah, James, Mar-
garet, Hannah, Jane and Achsah.
(II) Andrew, fifth child and second son of
Captain James and Margaret (Waugh) Aiken, was
born in Bedford, New Hampshire, December 26,
1770, and died in Newport, New Hampshire, July
28, 1856. The early part of his business life was
spent in Bedford, and after his marriage he lived
on a farm near that of his father. He was one of
the committee on ministry in Bedford parish. In
1813 he went with his family to Newport, where he
secured a "fine old mansion" with two hundred
acres of land overlooking the village. The land
is still owned in the family. He married in Bed-
ford, December 29, 1797, iMartha McAllaster. born
December 25, 1774, a twin, daughter of William
and Jerusha (Spofiford) McAllaster (see McAUas-
ter), and in the year in which he went with bis-
family to Newport, William, Benjamin and Apphia
S. McAllaster also removed to that town. Andrew
and Martha (McAllaster) Aiken had nine chil-
dren, viz. : Frederick, born in Bedford, December
28, 1798, see forward. William jNIcAllaster, born
December 10, 1800, died January 19, 1866 ; married
(first), in 1826, Elizabeth Locke; married (sec-
ond) Margaret Nichols. Sarah, born June 24, 1803,
died August 15, 1842; married, August 21, 1827,
Jeremiah Newell, who died in Newport, February
IS, 1838. Ann Riddle, born September 5, 1805,
died January 21, 1871 ; married, November 3, 1824,
Naylor Starbird. Martha Mary, born Bedford, No-
vember 29, 1807, died in Washington, D. C, Janu-
ary 6, 1866; married, July 19, 183 1, Saw^yer- Bel-
knap, parents of Admiral George Eugene Belknap,.
U. S. N., now retired. David, born December 12,
1810, died January 3, 1820. JNIargaret Ann, bora
September 20, 1S13, died January 25, 1893; married
(first), May 22, 1838, Jonathan W. Clement; mar-
ried (second), October 7, 1851, Leonard M. Kim-
ball; married (third), February 19, 1865, Frederick
N. Bissell. Caroline, born January 13, 1816, died
September 24, 1816. James Breck, born June 23,
1819. died, Boston. May 6, 1879; married, November
27, 184s, Mary Jane Perkins.
(III) Frederick, eldest son and child of An-
drew and Martha (McAllaster) Aiken, was born in
the town of Bedford, New Hampshire, December
28, 1798, and died in the town of Newport, New
Hampshire, December I, 1S75. For many years
he was prominently identified with the best inter-
ests and history of New-port, for several years en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits in the store of James
Breck. He eventually acquired the old Aiken
homestead farm on Pine street and lived there in
comfort until the time of his death. He w'as a man
of excellent character, superior business capacity
and was greatly respected in the town and county.
He married, January 31, 1856, Elniira Carr, born
October 18, 1820, daughter of David and Sarah
(Severns) Carr, and granddaughter of Thomas
Carr, first of Boscawen and afterwards of New-
port. Frederick and Elmira (Carr) Aiken had
two children : Addie Jane, born November 15, 1S57,
died November 30, 1875. Frederick W.. born
February 17, 1862, now living in Newport. New
Hampshire.
(IV) Frederick \\'illiam, second and only sur-
viving child of Frederick and Elmira (Carr) Aiken,
was born on the old homestead farm in Newport,
and received his education in the Newport high
.school. In business life his principal occupation
has been farming, and besides his considerable
interests in that direction has been and still is some-
W'hat of a public man in the town and otherwise
closely identified with various enterprises of the
locality. He served three terms as selectman and
was chairman of the board of selectmen in igoO'
and 1901. In 1902 and 1003 he represented New-
port in the general assembly of New Hampshire.
He is a stockholder and director of the Newport
Savings Bank. On February 24, 1S91. Frederick'
W. Aiken married Katie E. Herrick. born in New-
port, May 14, 1869, daughter of Timothy and Maria
(Hoban) Herrick. both of whom were born in
county Mayo, Ireland (see Herrick, II). Mrs.
Aiken is a woman of education and refinement, of
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decided literary tastes and a thorough student of
history and the Hves of all great American states-
men, scholars and philanthropists from the time of
Franklin and Washington. Her studies in the di-
rection indicated are for the mutual welfare of her-
self and her children, especially the latter, to whom
she is entirely devoted. Her collection of books
and pictures of Newport alone is fextensive and
interesting. She was born in the brick house now
occupied by her mother and lives in the house which
was the first parsonage in Newport. Frederick
William and Katie E. (Herrick) Aiken have three
children: Charles Francis, born February 13, 1892;
William Frederick. August 22, 1893; Arene INlay,
November 25, 1902.
The various religious wanderers or
PALMER solitary recluses, though belonging to
a system long faded from the modern
Engli>h life, find a perpetual epitaph in the direc-
tories of to-day. The name Palmer relates dis-
tinctly the manner in which the first of its owners
derived his title to it, for forlorn and weary he
had battled against all difficulties, and trod the path
that led to the Holy Sepulcher— "The faded palm
branch in his hand showed Pilgrim from the Holy
Land."
(I) Walter Palmer, tradition says, was born ui
some town or village in Nottinghamshire, England,
and died in Stonington, Connecticut, November 19,
lOOi. The first authentic record nt him is found
in Charlestown, INIassachusetts, ISIay 14, 1634. Abra-
ham and Walter Palmer, both citizens of Charles-
town, were made freemen by the great and general
court of Massachusetts Bay. In the "Book of
Possessions," compiled in 1638, "The Possessions of
Walter Palmer within Charlestown are given as two
acres of land in the East Field putting south on
the Back street," with a dwelling house and "other
appurtinances, five acres of arable land, milch cow
commons six and a quarter, four acres, more or less,
in the line field, eight acres of meadow lying in the
Mystic Marshes, four acres of meadow lying in the
Mystic jMeadows, five acres of woodland in Mystic
field, five acres of meadow on the west of Mount
Prospect, three acres of meadow on the northeast
of Mount Prospect, thirty acres of woodland, eighty-
six acres of land scituate in the waterfield." In
the first division of lands on the Mystic side, Walter
Palmer and his son John received their proportion
about 1643. On the 24th day of the eighth month
the men who had agreed to found a new town met
in Weymouth to prepare for the settlement of a
place which was to be at Seacunke. Walter Palmer
and William Cheseborough, who were thereafter
closely associated, were of these. In 1645 this
settlement was assigned to jurisdiction of Plymouth
Colony, and Walter Palmer was its representative
in the general court. The name Seacunke was
changed to Rehoboth. At this time Walter gave
the value of his estate as four hundred and nine-
teen pounds. In 1653 Cheseborough and Palmer
removed to the newly selected place of Wequeto-
quoc. afterward called Southerton and now Ston-
ington, Connecticut. Here Palmer became the
owner of about twelve hundred acres of land, part
of which lay on the eastern slope of Togwonk..
crossing Auguilla brook. Walter Palmer made his
will Mav 19, 1658 (o. s.), which was approved by
the genernl court May II. 1662. He married (first ), in
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England. .-Xiin
wlio is said to have been called
Elizabeth, to distinguish her from her mother. He
married (second), probably in Roxbury, Massachu-
setts, Rebecca Short. She had been admitted a
member of Rev. John Eliot's First Church. She
and her husband and his daughter, Grace Palmer,
together joined the First Church of Charlestown, in
1632. The children by the first wife were : Grace,
John, William, Jonas and Elizabeth. By the sec-
ond: Hannah, Elihu, Nchemiah, Moses, Benjamin,
Gershom and Rebecca.
(II) Jonas, fourth child and third son of Wal-
ter and Elizabeth (or Ann) Palmer, whose date
of birth is unknown, died in Rehoboth, June 22,
1709. By the terms of his father's will he in-
herited one-hall of the farm in Rehoboth. then in
Plymouth county, now in Bristol county. Massachu-
setts. He married (first), in Rehoboth, May 3,
1655. Elizab^ih, daughter of Francis Grissell (Gri>-
wold), of Charlestown, formerly of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. She was buried in Rehoboth.
February II, 1692, and he married (second), No-
vember 9. 1692, Abigail (Carpenter) Titus, widow
of John Titus. She died in Rehoboth, March 5,
1709. The children by the first wife were: Hannah,
Samuel, Jonas, Mary, Elizabeth, !\Iartha and
Grace.
(III) Samuel (i). eldest son and st'Cond child
of Jonas and Elizabeth (Grizzell) Palmer, was born
in Rehoboth. November 20, 1659. and died in Wind-
ham, November 18, 1743, aged eighty-four year>.
He served under J\Iajor William Bradford in the
Narragansett Swamp fight, in 1676. In 1701, with
John Ormsby. Daniel and Nathaniel Fuller, all of
Rehoboth, he bought land in that part of Windham,
Connecticut, called "Scotland." ^larch 17. 1702, he
sold his house, barn and orchards, home lot, all of
forty-three acres, together with six and one-half
acres of his west pasture, sixteen acres at Watcha-
moeket Neck, two and a half acres of salt marsli.
and one acre of swamp land. His will, dated July
II. 1728 (0. s). is on record in Willihiantic. He
married in Rehoboth, December 29. 1680, Elizabeth
Kinsley, who was born in Rehoboth. January 29.
1662, daughter of Eldad and Mehitable (French)
Kinsley; she died in Windham, May 16, 1717: lie;
married (second), December 6, 1727, Ann Durgy.
w-ho died February 17, 1761, aged eighty years.
Samuel and Elizabeth had twelve children named
as follows: John (died j'oung). Samuel, John
(died young). jNIehitable. Nehemiah. Benoni, Mary.
Seth. Elizabeth. Ebenezer. JNIercy and Eleazer.
(IV) Samuel (2). second son and child of
Samuel (i) and Elizabeth (Kinsley) Palmer, was
born in Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts.
January 4, 1683. December 7, 1741. Samuel Palmer.
Jr.. with his son. Samuel Palmer (3rd), sold eighty
acres of land in Windham. December 17, 1745,
Samuel Palmer sold for one hundred and tw-eiuy
pounds one-half of his lot of land in Windham, to-
gether with his dwelling house, to his son, Aaron
Palmer. January g, 1743, Samuel Palmer. Jr.,
sold to his father for two hundred pounds the
south half of the land he bought of Daniel Stougli-
ton. April 7, 174S, he sold for one thousand five
hundred and fifty pounds one hundred and fen
acres of land in Windham and Canterbury. Samuel
Palmer married, in Windham, April 8, 1707, Hepse-
heth Abbe, who was born in Salem village, now
Danvers, Massachusetts, February 14, 1689, daughter
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of Samuel and Hannah (Silsby) Abbe. They had
eleven children : Sarah, Iklartha, Samuel, Ebeiiezer,
Ichabod, Zebulon, John, Aaron, JNIoses, Elizabeth
and Ann.
(V) Samuel (3), third child and oldest son
of Samuel (2) 'and Hcpsebeth (Abbe) Palmer, was
born in Windham township, September 18, 1711.
On December 7, 1741, he, with his father, sold
eighty acres of land in tlie township to Philemon
Wood, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Together with
his father, his uncle Seth Palmer, and their many
relations who had lived in that part of the town-
ship which had been incorporated as the South or
Third Parish of Windham, he embarked m what-
ever projects were advanced for social, political and
financial prosperity. When the great colonization
scheme was started in the state he seems to have
been among the foremost in embracing it. Novem-
ber 23, 1837, the general assembly of New Haven
ordered the sale of the townships bordering on the
Housatonic river, in the western part of Connecti-
cut. In that portion of this territory lying along
the banks of the "great river in Kent," where the
country was fertile and beautiful, Ebenezer Palmer,
on November 9, 1750, bought for one hundred and
twenty-two pounds ten shillings, lot thirty-nme, in
tlie first Division of the Remarque Reserve, which
was the beginning of the family migration. !March
27, 1754, Samuel Palmer, of ilansfield (another
strip set off from old Windham township), bought
from his brother, Ebenezer, one hundred acres of
land in Kent. February 4, 1754, Ichabod Palmer,
of Kent, sold to Samuel, of Windham. By 1756
he was settled in Kent, and on January 21, 1761,
Samuel Palmer, of Kent, bought land of various
persons and sold all to Francis Tracy, of Preston.
A great deal of his land lay along mountain slopes,
and was rich in soil, bearing much timber, and
containing various quarries, later opened. Here he
spent his last years. Samuel Palmer married, in
Windham, January 13, 1739, Lydia Silsby, who was
born in Windham, April 11, 1716. and died in iNIans-
tield, in 1753, aged thirty-seven. She was the
daughter of Jonathan and Lydia Allen Silsby. He
married second, probably in Warren, Tabitha .
The children, all by the first wife, were : Elijah,
Nathaniel, Ezekiel, Lydia, Elnathan and Stephen.
(VI) Elnathan, fifth. child and fourth son of
Samuel (3) and Lydia (Silsby) Palmer, was born
in .Mansfield, Windham county, Connecticut, August
20, 1750, and died August i, 1823. aged seventy-
three. In 1772 he bought a tract of land in Plain-
field, Connecticut. January 13, 17S9, he bought for
three hundred pounds the tract of land where his
father, Samuel Palmer, then lived in Warren. El-
nathan then lived in Orford, Grafton county, New
Hampshire. On the same date Elnathan, for twenty
poimds paid by his father, gave a deed of the house
where the latter then lived, tigether witli one-half
the orchard and of a sixty-acre lot in Warren, and
bound himself to leave his father in quiet pos-
session thereof during his natural life, and that of
his then wife Tabitha, if she survive him, and as
long as she remained a widow. April 2, 1793, El-
nathan Palmer, of Warren. Connecticut, sold lots
4, 24 and 25 of land, reserving two acres for his
daughter Lucy. He was one of the proprietors of
the town of Richmond, New Hamp.shire. when the
general court gave them as an equivalent the town
of Turner, JNIaine, but lie does not seem ever to
have been a resident of either place. April 7, 1803,
Elnathan Palmer, of Warren, gave a deed of one-
half of his farm to his sons, Jesse and Samuel,
"for their settlement in life." He is said to have
removed to Ohio. He married, while in New Hamp-
shire, Jemima Strong, of Lyme, New Hampshire,
who died June 28, 1815. Their children were:
Jesse, Samuel, jNIadison and Lucy.
(VII) Samuel (4), second son and child of El-
nathan and Jemima (.Strong) Palmer, was born in
Deering, February 13, 1799, and died in Grafton,
jMassachusetts. He earned on farming and stock
raising in Deering nearly all his life. A few years
before his death he removed to Grafton, Massachu-
setts. He married, in Deering, New Hampshire,
Rhoda Chase, who was born in Loudon, April 13,
1805. died in Worcester, Massachusetts, March,
1900, aged ninety-live years. Their children were :
Isaac D., Alfred, Alvida, Levi, William, Elizabeth,
Callista, Louisa M., Amentha C., and iNIinerva C.
(VIII) Levi, fourth child and third son af
Samuel (4) and Rhoda (Chase) Palmqr, was born
in Deering. March 5, 1830. He obtained his edu-
cation in the common schools, and remained on the
farm until he went to Grafton, 2^Iassachusetts, where
he entered the mills. After three ye^rs he began
shoemaking, which he followed about fifteen years.
He then removed to Manchester, and engaged in the
plumbing business in 186S, in which he continued
until 1897, when he sold out and retired to a farm
at Dunbarton. where he still resides. In politics
he is a Democrat. He married (first), at Grafton,
b ranees Hildreth, who died in JManchester, in 1884.
He married (second) Mary Hoyt. By his first
wife he had nine children : Edward, deceased ;
George, deceased; Frederick, deceased; Jennie;
Charles Edward, deceased; Florence; Walter L. ;
Frank; and Eva, deceased. These living all reside
in Manchester.
(IX) Walter L., seventh child and fifth son
of Levi and Frances (Hildreth) Palmer, was born
in Manchester, July 19, 186S. He was educated
in the common schools of that city, and at the
age of twenty-two took the position of clerk in the
Windsor Hotel, which he filled for two years. The
following year he was clerk in Clarke's Hotel in
Boston, which he left to take a similar position in
the Manchester House, Manchester, four years. In
1S87 he went to Concord, and for six years was
clerk at the Eagle Hotel, from which he returned
to iNlanchester, and look his old place at the JMan-
chester House. He is a Republican in politics. He
is a member of the Eureka Lodge, No. 70, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Concord, and also of
Agavvam Tribe, No. 8, Improved Order of Red
I\Ien, of Manchester. He married, in Manchester,
111 1895. Katherme Alice Gafiigan, born in Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts, December 26, 1872, and they
have one child, Francis, born February 8, 1896, in
Manchester,
This name is in all probability of Eng-
APPLIN lish origin, and it has been asserted
that it was formerly identical with
that of Appleton, but this belief seems to have been
erroneous. The family has been identified with
Swanzey for nearly one hundred and fifty years,
and is therefore one of the oldest in that town. Its
representatives have been chiefl}' farmers and me-
chanics, and at least one of them sacrificed his life
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in tiic defense of the nnion (hiring the civil war.
( I ) The first ancestor in America of whom there
is any authentic record was John Apphn, but
whether he was an immigrant or not has never
been ascertained. He was residing in Watertown,
JNIassachusetts, in 1671, in which year he married
Bethusa Bartlett, born April 17, 1647, daughter of
Ensign Thomas and Hannah Bartlett, the former
of whom was an original proprietor. He was a
schoolmaster, and therefore a man of prominence.
An entry in the records of Groton, Massachusetts,
made in April, 1703, states that John Applin was
requested by the town to "keep a school" there,
but there is no further mention of him in these
records. It is known, however, that he \yent to
reside in Littleton, jNlassachusetts, and an item in
the Watertown records states that John Applin, an
-aged man, arrived there from Littleton in 1725,
showing that he was living in that year. His wife
died October 8, 1692. Their children were: John,
died at the age of eighteen years ; Bethusa, Mary,
Hannah. Thomas and Edward (twins), Abial,
Martha, Mehitabel, and another John.
(H) John (2). youngest child of John (i) and
Bethus 
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