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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 



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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 
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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- 
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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 
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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. 

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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 
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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. 
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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. 
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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, 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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, 
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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- 
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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 
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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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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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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 





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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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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. 




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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. 
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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 
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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, 
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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 
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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- 
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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 
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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, 
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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 
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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 
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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- 
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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, 
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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 
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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. 

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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 
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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 
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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, 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



1075 



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, el