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Defcendants of Shadmcb
1656-1898
A V\(gw Edition *with Supplement by
WARREN vHAPGOOD {Member
England Hiftoric-Genealogical
Society
BOSTON
Publifhed by the Compiler
T.&HAPOOOOJR 1898
ITEMS.
COPIES of this Genealogy are for sale by George E. Littlefield, 67
Cornhill, Boston, and Damrell & Upham, " The Old Corner Book Store,"
283 Washington, corner of School Street, Boston. Price Five Dollars.
ANY person discovering errors or omissions will kindly report them
to Melvin H. Hapgood, Hartford, Conn., who, we trust, will live to issue
a new and improved edition.
TITLE page contributed by Theodore B. Hapgood, Jr., illustrator and
designer, Boston.
HABGOOD ARMS
Or, on an anchor between three fishes naiant, az.
CREST a sword and quill in saltire proper.
PRINTED by the American Printing and Engraving Company, 50 Arch
Street, Boston.
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flQTE.
THE plan of the First Edition, in dividing the work into
two chapters, has been followed in this, as being more con-
venient than giving to each generation a chapter, especially
where they are so small. .
The black-faced Arabic numerals on the extreme left
hand of the page, directly opposite the name to be carried
forward, refer to a like number in the centre of the page,
where a fuller and more complete record of the person will
be found. This central number also refers back to its
fellow in the margin.
Under each reference number in the middle of the page,
the head of the family in Roman Capitals will be observed,
while those in italics, immediately following in parenthesis,
denote the lineal descent from Shadrach 1 , his children 2 , and
so on down to the generation in hand. The small superior
figures after the Christian name, in all cases, indicate the
generation to which such person is removed from the first
immigrant.
At the left hand of the family of Hapgood children, in
the order of their birth, is placed a column of Roman
numerals, signifying the number of children in such family.
The female line of descent is not traced beyond grand-
children, except in a few instances copied from the first
edition, and these grandchildren are numbered in the
margin by Arabic numerals.
Abbreviations have been very little used, and when
introduced are of such familiar character as to require no
explanation : gr. for great, grd. for grand, bap. baptized, b.
born, d. died, dau. daughter, m. married, r. resided at, rs.
resides at, s. p. (Sine frole), without issue, unm. unmarried,
and possibly a few others, readily understood, may be
encountered.
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PREFACE.
QUITE early in life our curiosity was aroused by the tales
and discussions about the origin of the Hapgood race in
America, but no definite conclusion was ever reached as to
where they came from, or in what numbers. There was a
sort of unreliable tradition that three brothers came over
from England, one settling near Providence, one in Boston,
and one in Middlesex County. The story had no foundation
in fact, and died when the first edition of the Genealogy
was born. They were here, and it should be known from
whence they came, at what time they arrived, their condition
and standing. Facilities for research were not then as ample
as at present. We puzzled over the problem considerably
during the earlier portion of our business career, without
arriving at any satisfactory result. About the year 1859,
we became acquainted with the Rev. Abner Morse, then a
noted genealogist, antiquarian, and man of letters. Being
then in active business, we could not afford the time required
for such research, nor had we the talents necessary for its
successful prosecution. We had, however, been moderately
successful in business, and felt that we could afford to have
the records searched, and our life-long curiosity gratified.
The matter was laid before Mr. Morse, who readily saw the
importance of such a compilation, and cheerfully entered
upon its manifold duties and trials. 'About two years were
consumed in collecting and arranging necessary statistics.
State archives, town and church records and histories were
searched, mortuary monuments inspected, traditions and
oral testimony sifted, and, in 1862, the little volume was
launched upon the community. The Hapgood family had
not expanded as rapidly as some of the other immigrants,
the interest in the work was languid, and we presumed the
worthy author was somewhat disappointed by the limited
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demand for the book. There were, as there must of neces-
sity always be, in first editions of this kind, many errors and
omissions, and we then pledged ourselves, if life and health
were vouchsafed us for a quarter century, we would then
essay a new edition, with such additions and .amendments,
as would be required to bring dates and records down to the
time of issue.
From time to time, items of value as they appeared were
garnered up, so as to form a nucleus for the more extended
work, but it did not amount to so very much when the
twenty-five years had expired. How very brief, looking
backward, is a quarter century ! We hesitated, pondered,
reflected, did not really feel equal to the task ; and yet, felt
it in our heart, that some one ought to do it. We remem-
bered the very wise advice of Polonius to his son Laertes,
" to thine own self be true," and as the pledge was made,
it must be redeemed or we to ourselves prove false. Still
we vacillated for several years, and finally, in 1894, set
seriously to work ; issued circulars and blanks, wrote num-
erous letters, searched town records and state archives,
vexed the souls of innumerable relatives and friends, and
performed such other menial service as, from time immemo-
rial, genealogists have been obliged to endure. We had
flattered ourselves that as the family was small, by the aid
of the first edition as a guide, six months or a year would
give ample time for its completion. Had all the members
responded promptly, much time and patience would have
been saved ; but in no event could the work be done in a
year. With the apathy, indifference, and lack of interest
one encounters, six years would be all too short a time.
Possibly it is well for us that we do not always foresee
the obstacles that hedge us about, for if we did, no attempt
would be made to do anything. We had from many quar-
ters, the most gratifying assurance of sympathy, generous
aid, co-operation and encouragement ; while from others we
were consoled by cool neglect. Obstacles "too numerous
PREFACE. 7
to mention " were cast before us, but we struggled on with a
devotion worthy of any cause, and are now ready at the end
of nearly four years of constant labor and anxiety, to lay the
volume before our readers, with all its imperfections and
shortcomings upon its head, in the hope that they will ex-
ercise the same degree of patience and forbearance that the
Compiler has. Many of our relatives and friends have laid
us under a deep debt of obligation by kindly examining
records, searching church registers and graveyards, writing
letters, and giving their time freely to the cause, and, in
various ways, contributing to the final completion of the
work.
The prefatory remarks upon the origin and location of the
family in England, as well as the settlement in this country,
together with the introduction to Chapters I. and II., and
the early history of Nathaniel and Thomas and their
descendants, are mostly transcribed from the first edition.
Other parts of the first edition have been so modified and
mingled with the material of the new edition, as to render
analysis and due acknowledgment almost impossible, and
they have been presented as original.
The records of the Maine and Northern New York fami-
lies are almost entirely new, and much new matter has been
added to all the other branches, and still there is much left
to the future gleaner. In our final "round up," we find
there are many stragglers afield, which, we trust, some
brave soul will, in the future, undertake to discover, and
bring into the fold. The sources of information are so
varied and obscure, as to tax to the utmost one's skill and
patience in research ; town records have not always been
properly kept; some have been destroyed by fire; church
records, at best, are limited ; traditions are unreliable and
memories treacherous. To say an event was "probably" so
and so, is not very clear, definite, or satisfactory, leaving to
the compiler the duty of analyzing and adopting. All this
requires patience, perseverance, endurance, energy. The
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most discouraging feature one encounters is the withholding
of family records by individuals, that should be promptly
and cheerfully rendered ; appeal to them again and again,
and no response is heard ; attempt a flank movement, and
the result is the same ; they must, of necessity, be left out,
and have no one to blame but themselves. They seem to
have no reverence, no respect, for the sacred memories of
noble and patriotic ancestors. " Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye even so to them," seems never to
have entered their code of ethics. There was during the last
and early part of the present century, a most reliable source of
information, which, we are sorry to believe, is falling into
desuetude. We refer to the family Bible, in which all
births, marriages, and deaths were carefully registered.
Few families were so poor as not to possess one or more of
these reliable records ; but to-day we fear the Bible does not
hold that sacred place in the family which it did two or three
generations ago. To say there is less respect for the Old
and more for the New would not probably be wide of the
mark. We erect statues, monuments, and buildings in
memory of our brave, self-sacrificing, worthy citizens, but
the best monument to commemorate their noble deeds is
the written page.
Efforts have been made to discover the origin and history
of the Hapgood race in England, without success. Certain
incidents have been elicited that may ultimately lead to a
disclosure of the facts that will unite the younger branches
in America and the elder in England into one harmonious
whole. The gutteral sound of the name Habgood would
seem to indicate its Saxon origin or derivation ; but whether
it was introduced into England during the Saxon rule in the
fifth or sixth century, or had a lodgement there at a later
period, is to us unknown. It would seem most probable
that they were in the realm at an early period. Thomas
Hapgood who married, October I, 1587, Helena Earle, daugh-
ter of Richard Earle, of Collingbourne, Kingston, England,
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was knighted in Elizabeth's time. About 1859, Mr. Morse
entered into a correspondence with Mr. Somerby, the well-
known antiquarian, then residing in London, to see what
could be learned about the Hapgood race in England. He
visited Andover and places adjacent thereunto, probably
including Penton, only two and three-quarters miles distant,
where resided Peter Noyes, an uncle of Shadrach. Much of
the skeleton of a record of Shadrach's parentage and early
career was obtained from this source, and while it did not
disclose any tangible, lineal descent, it did proclaim the
time and place of embarkation of the first Hapgood emigrant
for America. It would be exceedingly gratifying to the
descendants of the Hapgood and other New England fami-
lies, to become better acquainted with the home life of their
progenitors, their condition, character, and standing.
The Hapgood family is not numerous, nor has it produced
many very distinguished men in art, science, or literature,
or as statemen, jurists, or generals ; and yet, they have been
true, loyal, and patriotic ; serving in the Indian and Colonial
Wars and War of Revolution, and numerously in the War
of Rebellion. They were among the earlier settlers of New
England, from the farming districts of the south of England,
and were by nature, instinct, and heredity farmers ; selecting
and cultivating their lands with exceeding good taste and
judgment, and so long as they stuck to husbandry were pros-
perous, and the peers of any other class. Those who have
abandoned agriculture as a vocation, have hardly sustained
the well-earned reputation bequeathed to them. The early
generations purchased extensive tracts of land, built large
houses, barns, and other buildings, and apparently aspired to
manorial possessions, but never seemed to have any ambi-
tion for public life. The gilded dome or tented field had no
attraction for them: High office means great responsibility ;
immense wealth is a symbol of anxiety and unrest. To sum
it all up, is not the condition of the "well-to-do" farmer, in
his quiet home, rather to be chosen, than the uncertain
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rewards of office, the anxieties of commercial enterprises, or
the watchful, chafing care of great wealth ? The earlier gen-
erations had mostly large families of children, with males
in numerical predominance, while latterly the families of
children are small, with females in excess to such extent as
to jeopardize the perpetuity of the race.
In 1888, when in London, we had several interviews with
Henry F. Waters, Esq., one of the best archaeologists
America has had there, and after much persuasion, he con-
sented to visit Andover and its neighborhood, and see what
he could make out. He did not, however, succeed in finding
statistics of much value. He found records of Hapgoods,
but did not have the good fortune to connect the names with
any in this country, and they were not available for the work
in hand. These papers will be found in the appendix, with
others of no positive value, other than to satisfy the reader
that no pains have been spared to secure the records of the
family in England, as well as this country.
Through the kindness of Rev. E. E. Hale, D. D., we
received a letter from H. J. Hapgood, Esq., private secretary
to the younger Gladstone, which throws some light upon
the orthography and other matters. There are families of
Hapgoods in the United States, which we have not been
able to trace back to a connection with Shadrach or his
kindred. We cannot help believing that Professor George
Thomas Hapgood, of Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas,
is not so very remotely connected with our family. The
Christian names of his family are almost identical with those
of Shadrach and his descendants, who were doubtless named
after ancestors or relatives in the mother country. There
is a very respectable family in Ohio, whose origin is obscure,
and yet we are confident they are of the same race as Shad-
rach. These items, with others, are thrown together as a
sort of appendix to the volume for what they are worth, in the
hope that some future gleaner may derive some benefit from
them, or that they may present a clue to something of value.
PREFACE. 11
Some articles of our own, that have from time to time
appeared in print, mostly of a sporting character, have been
collected and published herewith as a " Supplement," not so
much for their intrinsic value as to swell the little volume to
a respectable size. In fact, from the very first setting out
upon this prolonged task, we have been impressed with the
idea that there would not be data sufficient in so small a
family to form a volume, and that, in order to produce a
book, we must press into service all the material that was
germain. The first edition of Hapgood genealogy was
bound with other families in order to make a book. Of
itself, in double-leaded small pica, it would have made a
pamphlet of about seventy pages. After all the material had
been assembled, we found, much to our surprise, that by ad-
mitting small portions of somewhat extraneous matter, and
by using heavy paper and leading out the lines, while it
might be pleasant to the eyes of the reader, the book would
be in bulk much beyond previous estimates. This was not,
however, discovered till the manuscript was in the hands of
the printer, and it was too late to eliminate without marring
the beauty and symmetry of the work, and we reluctantly
acceded to its being sent forth in its present turgid condi-
tion.
While it might appear invidious for us to mention some of
the most ardent co-workers, we desire in the most hearty
and sincere manner to tender to all, who have in any way
rendered the least assistance, our warmest thanks. Without
their aid -the work in hand would never have been finished.
It was our aim and purpose from the beginning, to present a
copy to each person who in any way cheerfully contributed
anything toward the rearing of the structure. This plan we
shall endeavor to carry out ; nor did we intend to offer any
for sale. More mature deliberation has induced us to modify
this conclusion. Since the book would be for free delivery,
the demand would likely be large, and to terminate an
endless correspondence, and save ourselves from the liability
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to constant annoyance, we shall place the books on sale.
(See page 3.)
And here our constructive labor ends, with a regret that
we have not been able to make it more perfect and complete ;
but we have done our level best " Angels can no more."
WARREN HAPGOOD, Compiler,
469 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, BOSTON.
May, 1898.
TABLE Op CO^TE^TS.
Frontispiece
Title Page 1
Miscellaneous Items . 3
Explanatory Notes 4
Preface 5
Table of Contents 13
List of Illustrations 15
Hapgood Family, First Generation 17
Chapter I, Second Generation 27
Third Generation 32
Fourth Generation 42
Fifth Generation 55
Sixth Generation 80
Seventh Generation 127
Eighth Generation 156
Hapgood Family, Chapter II, Second Generation . . 160
Third Generation 173
Fourth Generation 181
Fifth Generation 191
Sixth Generation 237
Seventh Generation 306
Appendix
Other Hapgood Families 335
The Ohio Family 335
Descendants of John Hapgood, England .... 342
A Family from Prince Edward Island .... 345
A Family residing in St. Louis 346
Notes and Comments by Henry F. Waters . . 347
Letter from H. J. Hapgood, London, England . 352
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Hapgood Revolutionary War Records .... 354
Hapgoods in the Civil War 358
Supplement
Introductory 361
Brant Geese, Habits, etc 363
Game Birds of New England 370
Range and Rotary Movements of Limicolae . . . 379
Address at Dedication of Harvard Library . . . 399
Letter from Italy 409
A Trans-Continental Trip . 411
Sporting in the Far West 445
Letter from California 452
Recollections of a Half Century 455
Brant Shooting at Cape Cod, 1881 467
" " 1882 485
" " " 1887 489
" " " " " 1888 ....... 491
" " " 1890 495
" " " 1891 499
" " " " 1892 ...... 502
" " " 1894 505
" " " " " 1895 ........ 511
" " " 1896 516
Resignation Address and Note 522
Partridge, (Quail) Shooting, North Carolina . . 528
Two Letters from County line 529
Dublin Lake Trout 534
Trout Fishing in Yosemite Valley 535
Sporting in South Lancaster 536
Sporting in Littleton . 538
Index of Persons 539
Index of Towns ... 584
bIST Op ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece (Mansion house, Harvard).
Commission to Shadrach Hapgood 38
Mercy (Goldsmith) Maynard . . 48
George Hapgood 70
Charlotte (Mead) Hapgood 76
Hannah (Hapgood) Gamage 78
Dea. Jonathan Fairbank 78b
Andrew S. Hapgood 98
Jonathan Fairbank Hapgood Ill
Theodore Goldsmith Hapgood 116
Warren Hapgood 119
Julia Adelaide (Gamage) Hapgood 126
Lemuel Bicknell Hapgood 151
John Guy Hapgood and Family 158
Gen. Charles H. Taylor . . . . 215
Isabel Florence Hapgood 257
Rev. George Grout Hapgood, D.D 265
Charles H. Hapgood 269
Thomas Emerson Hapgood 297
Julien Weeks Hapgood, wife and daughter .... 319
Col. Charles Edward Hapgood 320
Francis Calvin Hapgood 323
Melvin Hathaway Hapgood 332
George Negus Hapgood 335
William Hapgood 339
Live Brant Decoys 363
Shore Birds (Limicolse) 379
Harvard Library and Soldiers' Monument 399
Warren Hapgood, and pointer, Mark 455
Brant Box and Decoys in Position 467
Resident Members Monomoy Branting Club .... 507
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Monomoy, Providence, and Manchester Club Houses . 516
Starting out for a Day's Hunt 528
At Lunch, County Line, N. C 530
Dublin Lake Trout 534
Yosemite Valley Trout 535
Rufus Eager and his Day's Work 537
Peter S. Whitcomb 538
HAPGOOD.
FIRST GENERATION.
ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND FIRST
IMMIGRANT.
HAPGOOD, originally Habgood, is an ancient name, as the
simplicity of the arms of Habgood denotes, and no doubt
originated when the Normans were mixing their corrupt
Latin with the Saxon, and laying the foundation of the
English language. It would, on this hypothesis, date as far
back as the adoption of surnames, in the twelfth and thir-
teenth centuries. In England the name of Hapgood is rare,
if not now unknown, but Habgood is not uncommon; and
that the latter was the true orthography of the name, is evi-
dent from its occurrence in signatures to the wills and deeds
of the grandparents of Hapgoods now living. The name of
their emigrant ancestor in the settlement of his estate in
1675 was uniformly spelled Habgood, as it had been in the
record of his marriage in 1664. One, certainly, and proba-
bly both of his sons, preserved the same orthography, as did
some of his grandsons ; and there is not a Hapgood in this
country who may not by inheritance claim the more eupho-
nious and ennobled English name of Habgood. But if this
was the true spelling, how came it to be altered ? It hap-
pened, as I conceive, on this wise. The pronunciation of the
name, as often occurs, first became corrupted, and this led
reporters and clerks, both in Old and New England, into
wrong spelling. When once entered wrong upon a muster
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roll it would so remain, and be so used in issuing summonses,
levying taxes, and assigning lands. The public records, and
not the usage of the family, would be the standard, and the
name would continue to be erroneously written, until the
race, from fashion or convenience, or to hold their lands,
adopted the change. Many New England names by such
entries became altered, and only one, to my knowledge, ever
succeeded in conquering the record, and this they did at the
end of 140 years. The corruption of this name was not
improbably aided by the published account of the Indian
massacre at Brookfield, in which Captain Wheeler spells the
name Hapgood. It had previously been spelled by another,
Hopgood. Each of the three modes of spelling occur in
Southampton, England, viz., at Andover, Tangley, Mottis-
font, and North Stoneham. At Weyhill the name cannot
be found.
SHADRACH HAPGOOD was the common ancestor of all
the New England Hapgoods.* He was nearly related to
two of the early planters of Sudbury, viz., Peter Noyes, and
Peter Noyes (or Haynes), Senior, both of whom were from
Southampton, England, and were men of wealth and stand-
ing in the Colony, f He was brought over in his youth,
and no doubt completed his minority with his distinguished
uncle, Peter Noyes. Of his antecedents no information
has been obtained beyond the record of his embarkation.
Through the liberality of Warren Hapgood, Esq., of Boston,
I have been enabled to procure an extensive examination
of records in London and Southampton without finding
his name. From returns, however, it appears that the
name first occurred in that county about 1600, when six
of the name in the central and west part of the county
made their wills, 1603-1638, viz. y John Hopgood of
* Also, with few exceptions, of all the Hapgoods in this country.
f Peter Noyes was from Penton, Mewsey, only two and three-quarters miles from
Andover, where, as I believe, the father of Shadrach Habgood was born, and only a quar-
ter of a mile from Weyhill, from whence, according to family tradition, Mr. Noyes came.
(See letter of H. F. Waters in the Appendix.)
FIRST GENERATION. 19
Andover, 1608 ; John Habgood the elder, yeoman, of Andover,
1615 ; Widow Joan Hapgood of Tangley, February 21, 1603,
which was proved April 4, 1603 ; William Hopgood, tanner,
son of William of North Stoneham, 1611 ; Thomas Hopgood,
husbandman, of Mottisfont, 1617; and John Hopgood of
Tangley (probably the son of Widow Joan Hapgood of Tang-
ley), in 1638. These, judging from the names of their lega-
tees, must have been all of one family. Widow Joan at the
date of her will had a son Thomas, then the father of Joan
and Christian. John Hopgood of Andover, whose will was
proved 1608 but is not to be found, is supposed to have been
the father of John Habgood of the same place, who in 1615
had a wife Alice and eight children, five of whom, viz., John,
Katharine, Mary (wife of Henry Reade), Anne, and Alice,
were of age ; and Robert, Clare, and Thomas, then minors.
This Thomas was probably the father of Shadrach, who
named his first son Nathaniel, after his maternal grandfather,
his second, Thomas, doubtless after his paternal grandfather,
as was the uniform practice of his day, whenever the eldest
son was not named for the latter. This conclusion has al-
most the force of a record, so uniformly was the second son,
if not the first, called after his paternal grandfather. Nearly
the only exceptions were when the latter had a non-scriptural
name, or embarrassment would arise from making the identi-
cal name too common among grandchildren of equal ages in
the same town or neighborhood. All relating to Shadrach
Habgood that can be gleaned from our records is here given
in the variable and defective .orthography in which it
occurs :
" Shadrach Hopgood aged fourteen years embarked at
Gravesend May 30, 1656, in the Speadwell, Robert Lock,
Master, bound for New England," and in July arrived in
Boston. Several other minors embarked at the same time,
whose names soon after reappeared at Marlboro' and Sud-
bury, where he had a cousin, Thomas Haynes, who had not
improbably "been sent to bring him."
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October 21, 1664, he was married at Sudbury to Elizabeth
Treadway, born April 3, 1646, daughter of Nathaniel Tread-
way, then of Sudbury and afterwards of Watertown, where
he served seven years as selectman. Her mother, Suffer-
ance (Howe) Treadway, was the daughter of Elder Edward
Howe of Watertown, whose wife was Margaret, and whose
descendants in this country have retained the arms and
claimed a descent from Lord Howe, an English peer. Her
grandmother, Margaret Howe, married for a second husband
George Bunker, constable of Charlestown, 1630, and owner
of the summit of that immortal hill of glory bearing his
name, and by will gave half her estate to Nathaniel Tread-
way, and bequests to John Stone (eldest son of Deacon
Gregory Stone of Cambridge), husband of her sister Ann,
and to her sister, Mary Rogers of Boxtead, Essex County,
England. The next notice of Shadrach Hopgood occurs in
the following deposition in the records of the Court of
Assistants.
"June 26, 1666 "Sidrache Habgood" aged about twenty-
two yrs. witnesseth & saith that for this seven years past or
more time while I lived with my cousin Peter Noyes & in
the time when my uncle [Peter] Noyes lived, I then knew
the bounds of my cousin's land at Cedar Craught & the tree
owned the last week by Lt. Goodenow, and also the stake
in the meadow by the River side or towards the River
side 5 or 6 rods to the Southward of the brooke to be where
it ever was since I knew it & was in my sight renewed by
neighbor Edward Rice & my cousin Peter Noyes together
& further saith not."
[Sworn] "Before mee Tho: Danforth, Assist." Jan. 25,
1676, he served with Peter Noyes and Edmund Goodnow as
an appraiser of the estate of Joseph Davis of Sudbury.
Shadrach Habgood was a young man of enterprise, and
early laid the foundation of the spacious and fertile landed
estates which so many of his descendants have enjoyed quite
down to the present time.
FIRST GENERATION. 21
In 1669, after Concord, Sudbury, Marlboro', Lancaster,
Groton, and "Nashaby" had been granted, there was left a
large and irregular tract between them, running in a north-
westerly direction from Sudbury to Lunenburg, was then
called "Pomposetticut" ; and he, in 1678 or 1679, with eleven
other men from Concord, Sudbury, and Chelmsford, then
petitioned the General Court for a grant of the same. The
records of the General Court are silent about it, yet from
records of the proprietors of Stow, it appears that the Court
entertained such petition, sent a committee to view the tract,
and actually granted them the land for a new town, in 1670,
requiring them to begin to improve it by May, 1673, and no
doubt annexing other customary conditions, such as taking
up 50 acres each, building a meeting-house, and settling an
orthodox minister, &c., within a specified time, and pro-
curing a certain number of additional settlers to become
equal partners with themselves, after which they might
proceed . to make further allotments of land. With all
such conditions they did not probably comply. Yet they
proceeded and "took up lots of 50 acres each" on both
sides of Assabet River, from one to two miles above the
site of Assabet Village, and located their meeting-house
near the old burying yard in Stow. How far they progressed
is not ascertainable. Philip's war came on soon, some lost
their lives, and the settlement is supposed for a time to have
been broken up. Still the grantees, if they did not fully
comply with all the conditions of the grant, went so far as
to obtain an extension, and certainly to secure to themselves
and heirs large interests in the town, which, by a further Act
of the General Court, May 16, 1683, was fully incorporated
by the name of Stow. That portion of the narrow belt,
known as " Stow Leg," lying within their boundaries, fell to
each of the towns, Harvard, Shirley, and Boxborough, as
they were incorporated.
Shadrach Habgood took up his lot of 50 acres on the
south side of the river, -where Mr. Nathaniel Hapgood
22 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
resides, about one and one half miles south or southwest of
the site of the first meeting-house. Here he began improve-
ments, and operated two or three years, it is supposed,
preparatory to removing his family from Sudbury, if he did
not actually do so ; but the Indian war came on, and he was
summoned to the field.
The Nipmuck Indians, whose original country embraced
the upper basins of Concord, Charles, and Blackstone rivers,
and extended west to the Connecticut, had engaged secretly
with King Philip to make war upon the English, but the
war having been brought on before they were fully prepared
to take part, they dissembled, and assured the settlers of
their friendship. Still they were suspected by the govern-
ment. Captains Hutchinson and Wheeler were therefore
ordered, with twenty mounted men, and three Indian inter-
preters, to proceed into their country to treat with them, to
insure their loyalty. In this company was Shadrach Hab-
good. They proceeded to Brookfield. Here the Indians
being made acquainted with the object of their visit, engaged
to meet them, August 2, 1675, at a certain spot at Quaboag,
about three miles from the village and garrison of Brookfield.
They proceeded to the place, but finding no Indians, and
imagining they had mistaken the locality, directed their
course to Wikabaug Pond, in single file, between a swamp
on the left and an abrupt high hill on the right. The place
is supposed to be on the south side of the railroad, between
the depot in Brookfield and West Brookfield. Here they
fell into an ambush, and were suddenly surrounded with 200
or 300 warriors, who killed eight of their number and mor-
tally wounded three others. Among the murdered was
Shadrach Habgood. Captain Wheeler, whose letter describ-
ing this tragedy has been often before the public, spells his
name Hapgood. Mrs. Habgood, with her five children, was
probably at Sudbury, to receive the sorrowful tidings. But
their griefs and losses were not yet ended. She was
appointed to administer on her husband's estate, which, with
FIRST GENERATION. 23
his right and interest in the "New Plantation at Pomset-
ticutt," now Stow, was appraised by Peter Noyes and Edmund
Goodenow, September 2, 1675, at ^145. 2s. October 5 (8),
1675, she presented a new inventory of the estate, valued at
106. us., praying for an abatement of the difference, in
consequence of the burning of a house by the enemy. This,
no doubt, refers to a house which her husband had built up-
on his lot at Pomposetticut, for Sudbury was not burnt until
April 6, 1676, although his descendant, who occupies the
spot, has no tradition of the event. \From first edition^
About the close of her administratorship, probably in
1677, the record says : "There are five children left of Syd-
rack," (or Shadrach) and Elizabeth Treadway (or Tredaway)
Habgood, viz. :
CHILDREN.
2 I. Nathaniel 2 , born October 21, 1665 ; married Elizabeth
Ward of Marlboro. [See Chapter /.]
II. Mary 2 , born November 2, 1667; married at Watertown,
April 10, 1688, John Whitney, son of Jonathan, and
grandson of John and Elinor, born June 27, 1662, at
Watertown. He settled in Framingham, built a house
near Washakum pond, was selectman in 1714 for
three years, constable 1719, tythingman 1719 and 1724,
admitted to the church July 26, 1719. Was a fuller by
trade; died , 1735. His inventory bears date
May 22, 1735, and his estate was valued at ^619.
145. 7d. Resided at Framingham, Sherborn and
Wrentham, Mass.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary 3 Whitney, born March 27, 1689; married, Feb-
ruary i, 1709, Daniel Moore of Sudbury, born
April 1 8, 1686.
2. Elizabeth 3 , born January 21, 1690; married Jonathan
Willard, born at Roxbury, June 27, 1693; she
died July 4, 1720.
3. James 3 , born December 28, 1692; married Martha
Rice, February 2, 1715, and second, , 1732,
24 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Holbrook)Twitchell; Hon. Daniel
Whitney of Sherborn was their son. He died
April 10, 1770.
2 III. Thomas 2 , born October i, 1669, in Sudbury; married, 1690-
91, Judith Barker, born April 9, 1671 ; died August 15,
1759. [See Chapter 77]
IV. Sarah 2 , born 1672; married 1691, Jonathan
Whitney, born October 20, 1658, brother of John,
above, and grandson of John and Elinor Whitney of
Watertown, who embarked at London, 1635, in the
" Elizabeth and Ann," Roger Cooper, Master. He
had a lot and built a house near Chestnut Brook, in
Sherborn, about 1691. He afterwards went to Con-
cord, where he died March 17, 1735. Will dated
March 14, proved March 18, 1735. He served in
King Philip's war in 1676; resided in Sherborn,
Watertown, and Concord.
CHILDREN.
1. Sarah 3 Whitney, born March 2, 1692 ; married, Novem-
ber, 1712, Jonathan Warren, and died April
10, 1752.
2. Jonathan 3 , born September 27, 1694; died young.
3. Tabitha 3 , born August 22, 1696; married, February
28, 1715, Jacob Fulham, who was a sergeant in
Captain Lovewell's company, and was killed in
" Love well's fight" with the Indians at Pig-
wacket, May 8, 1725. She married second, April
19, 1726, George Parkhurst ; and third, August 10,
1736, Samuel Hunt.
4. Shadrach 3 , born October 12, 1698; married, January 5,
1732, Mrs. Prudence Lawrence, and was a promi-
nent man in the town of Groton, Mass.; died
July, 1764.
5. Jonathan 3 , born November 25, 1700; resided in Lunen-
burg, 1744.
6. Anne 3 , born May 22, 1702; married, March 3, 1723,
in Concord, Captain Ebenezer Cutler; she died
August 24, 1793.
7. Amos 3 , born May i, 1705 ; probably died in Townsend,
unmarried.
8. Zaccheus 3 , born November 16, 1707; married, May 23,
1734, Mary Wheeler. In 1725, when but eighteen
FIRST GENERATION. 25
years of age, with his brother Isaac, he enlisted
and served in the Colonial Militia, and took part
in many of the skirmishes and battles with the
Indians. He was left in 1 725 in the fort at Ossipee
by Captain John Lovewell. He was probably killed
by the Indians in 1739.
9. Isaac, 3 born 1708; a glazier in Concord, was a soldier
in the early Indian wars, and with his brother
Zaccheus, was left by Captain John Lovewell in
the fort at Ossipee in 1725.
10. Timothy 3 , born February 20, 1709; married, May 24,
1738, Submit Parker, and died 1740.
11. Daniel 3 , born 1710; married, March, 1739, Thankful
Allen.
V. Elizabeth 2 , born 1674; died unmarried, July 20,
1689.
Elizabeth (Treadway) Hapgood married second, Joseph Hayward of
Concord, where her son Thomas is said to have been brought up. The
records show that Hayward married Elizabeth Treadway, possibly he
had her maiden name restored on the record to show her respectable
origin, or the clerk committed an error in not knowing her previous
marriage, or how to express both of her previous names. Joseph Hay-
ward was born one year after her first husband, and having buried his
first wife, December 15,^675, four months after Shadrach Hapgood
was slain, married, March 23, 1677, Elizabeth Treadway Hapgood.
She buried her mother at Watertown, 1682, and her father, Nathaniel
Treadway of Watertown, in 1687, who left legacies for the children of
his " daughter Elizabeth Hayward by her first husband Habgood."
CHILDREN
Of Joseph and Elizabeth ( Tread way-Hapgood) Hayward.
1. Ebenezer Hayward, born May 22, 1679, at Con-
cord.
2. James Hayward, born March r, 1681, at Concord.
3. Simon Hayward, born , 1683, at Concord.
4. Abiell Hayward, born September 12, 1691, at
Concord.
Prudence, probably daughter of Joseph Hayward by first wife,
Abigail, (Middlesex deeds XXII. 233), born ; married Sergeant
John White of Brookfield, Mass., November 26, 1707. He and his
wife's half-brother, Ebenezer Hayward, and others, were slain by Indians
26 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
at Brookfield, July 24, 1710, and Elizabeth Treadway's first husband,
her son, and her step-daughter's husband were victims of the savages.
August 31, 1714, Prudence, widow of John White, conveys to John
Keyes all her right, title and interest, in certain lands which had been
"laid out to my honored grandfather, Nathaniel Treadway of Water-
town, on the twenty-second of the third month 1660."
CHAPTER I.
SECOND GENERATION.
2.
DEACON NATHANIEL 2 (Shadracfr), was, for his time, a man
of eminence, distinguished for enterprise and success in busi-
ness, official trusts, and usefulness. Being the eldest son, he
received a double portion of his father's estate, and succeeded
to the inheritance of his home-lot and proprietary in the then
extensive town of Stow ; and, as if not satisfied or accommo-
dated by this, he, May 17, 1697, for ,$2. ios., bought
of Simon Willard 80 acres adjoining his home-lot, on the
southwest, and Assabet River on the north. March 19,
1702-3, he purchased for ^70, of Mr. Willard, then of
Salem, "all his farm in Stow bounded southwest by near
Alcocks farm (/. e., 'the farm' in Marlboro') and south by
Assabet River, which parted it from Habgood's land for-
merly bought of Willard. His home farm, well adapted to
tillage, must now have been very extensive, including, as is
presumed, the 500 acres granted 1657, by the General Court,
to Major Symon Willard of Concord, for his services to this
colony," added to the 50 acres inherited from his father, and
23 more adjacent on the east, assigned in the second division
of common lands in 1719, and another lot adjoining the
"Willard Farm," granted in 1723; and when we consider
the great allowance then made for swag of chain in laying
out grants, Deacon Habgood's home farm could have been
little, if any, short of 700 acres.
Subsequently, as the common lands of Stow were from
time to time divided among the proprietors, he, " in the right
of his father Shadrach," drew many lots, especially in the
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28 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
north and northwest parts of the town. June 22, 1721,
there was assigned to Isaac Gates 9 acres 55 rods of
meadow, meadow bottom and upland, in two pieces, supposed
to have been subsequently bought by Deacon Habgood.
One, containing 5 acres 122 rods, extending up and down on
the west side of Pinhill Brook, near Lancaster [original]
line, and bounded east and northeast by that brook, west
and south by common land. The other lot of 3 acres 93
rods, situated also on Pinhill Brook, next to Groton line,
bounded north by that line, east by the brook, west by com-
mon land, and south by Ephraim Willowby's meadow.
May 22, 1722, there was laid out for him, for a fourth
division, 95 acres in Stow, 50 in the right of his father
Shadrach, and 45 in the right of Joseph Daby, on the west
side of Pinhill Brook, bounded northeasterly [for a short
distance] by the brook, and a way, 2 rods wide, left for the
conveniency of the meadows, "Northerly near to Groton
line, westerly near to George Robin's land and southerly by
undivided land." The northeast line began near Isaac
Gates' meadow, above described, 2 rods from Groton line,
and ran near west northwest parallel to said line, then paral-
lel to Robins' land, with a highway 2 rods wide between,
then by John Daby's lot of 15 acres, then east by 28 south
100 rods, and then east 148 rods to the brook. This lot
constituted the nucleus of the second Hapgood farm in the
old town of Stow, and was situated on the hip of Stow Leg,
between Lancaster and Groton, and now in Harvard, about
i% miles from the Town House.
In 1726, to Nathaniel Hapgood, 3^ acres of meadow in
Pinhill meadows, bounding southerly upon Lancaster line
and Pinhill Brook, east by Isaac Gates' meadow, the first
above described, and northerly upon common land.
May 1 6, 1727, there was laid out in Stow, for Deacon
Nathaniel Hapgood, 24 acres 140 rods of the fifth and sixth
division, 6 acres and 28 rods of which were to the right of
his father Shadrach, and 10 acres to the right of John Daby.
SECOND GENERATION. 29
"It lyeth," says the record, "westerly of John Daby's land,
where he now dwells." It had a way, running northerly or
rather northeast and southwest for 7 rods of its eastern
boundary, and the land of Samuel Hall for the northeast
boundary, and its extreme south angle was "at or near the
town line," probably Lancaster north line. And at the same
date another lot, of the fifth division, containing 18 acres
and 132 rods; 9 acres and 25 rods to his own inherited
right, and 8 acres 132 rods to the right of Joseph Daby.
This was bounded north 86 rods by his own land, east by
Thomas Wheeler's, 73 rods, southeast by Pinhill Meadow,
south by said meadow, and southwest by John Daby's land.
Its south and southwest lines met near a small run of water
in the bank of the meadow.
He early became the proprietor of William Kerley's right
in the public lands of Lancaster, and of a lot upon Bare Hill.
For, March 16, 1722-3, 23 acres, in two lots, were "laid out
for him for a third and fourth division to the estate of
William Kerley, Jr." One lot was bounded northwest by his
own land on Bare Hill, and the other northeast by the same.
These were no doubt included in the 65 acres afterward
owned by his son Shadrach. These lots, perhaps, by some
exchanges, were gathered into a large farm, and by a division
of Stow, in 1732, thrown into Harvard. Thus it appears
that, years after the death of Shadrach Habgood the first,
lots continued to be assigned to Deacon Nathaniel in the
right of his father, which went to his descendants and gave
them ample farms, and what was still better, farms on the
mica slate formation.
Deacon Nathaniel was much interested in Lancaster, and
probably in Worcester and Grafton. At Lancaster, Septem-
ber 10, 1713, he sold, for ^55, to Thomas Carter, a house
lot of 20 acres. October 19, 1730, he bought of John
Remain, for ^138, a meadow at Long Hill, in Lancaster;
and sold for 60, December i, 1730, to Ephraim Wilder, 28
acres ; and for ;io, February 6, 1732, to Samuel Wilson, 40
30 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
acres in Lancaster. May 20, 1730, he gave his son Nathan-
iel, then of Lancaster, 12 acres in Stow, at Hogpen Hill,
and all his town rights and lands in Lancaster.
He seems to have purchased of Isaac Miller a right in
the undivided lands of Worcester, where, in the part now
Holden, 120 acres were drawn in his right, by his son
Daniel, and June 20, 1750, sold for ;ioo, to "Zacceus"
Gates. November 5, 1728, he sold for 60, to John Coller,
48 acres in Hassanamisco, now Grafton.
March 28, 1725, he conveyed to his son Shadrach "all his
lands in Harvard with the rights and privileges thereto
belonging which lands, it is added, are set forth in Stow &
Lancaster proprietors' records." This shows that they were
originally in two towns, and drawn partly in the right of
Deacon Nathaniel, and partly in the right of his father
Shadrach.
Deacon Nathaniel, it is safe to presume, was an excellent
man, early and long a pillar in the church of Stow, although
her records are too defective to inform us of any of his
religious history. In the management of the municipal
interests of the town his name is most conspicuous.
Between 1697 and 1727, he served as selectman 14 years;
and in 1711 and 1712 as grand juryman, and in 1716-18 as
town treasurer, and sometimes as moderator of town meet-
ings. He was early styled " Ensign." He seems to have set-
tled his estate mainly in his lifetime, and probably died
intestate. Yet there was no resort to any court for any
further settlement. No record exists of his death, but his
ashes, no doubt, repose in the graveyard by the old common
in Stow. His name does not occur after 1732, when he
appeared to be setting his house in order. His wife was a
widow in 1741. [From first edition.']
He married, September 6, 1695, Elizabeth, daughter of
Samuel and Sarah (Howe) Ward. Samuel was a son of
William Ward, born in Marlboro' September 24, 1641 ;
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married, June 6, 1667, Sarah, daughter of John Howe, of
Marlboro'. She died August n, 1707, and he, 1729. Eliza-
beth was born 1672; made her will February 25, 1741-42,
and died November 5, 1748. Her will was approved Novem-
ber 1 8, 1748, giving to Nathaniel, her eldest son, 20 ;
to Hezekiah, her second son, 10 ; to Shadrach, her third
son, 30; to Daniel, her fourth son, io\ to Sarah Gates,
her second daughter, and wife of Phineas Gates, half of the
remainder of her estate; and to her two grandchildren,
Elizabeth and Lucy Gates, in equal shares, the other half.
Her estate was inventoried at ^626. 75.
CHILDREN.
3 I. Nathaniel 3 , born about 1696; he married second, pub-
lished December 3, 1727, Mary Heald, Haild, or Hale,
of Stow, born June 22, 1704; date of her death not
recorded. He died about 1746. The records of
Nathaniel's birth, marriage and death, have not been
found, and probably do not exist.
4 II. Hezekiah 3 , born 1699; married 1723, Sarah Whitney,
born 1703, in Stow.
5 III. Shadrach 3 , born November 6, 1704, in Stow; married
Elizabeth Wetherbee, born 1714, and died Novem-
ber 30, 1808.
6 IV. Daniel 3 , born about 1706; married Hepsibeth ,
born July 14, 1715; died October 23, 1738.
V. Elizabeth 3 , born 1708; married Phineas Gates. (No
other record found.)
CHILDREN.
1. Elizabeth 4 Gates, born about 1 732, legatee to the estate
of her grandmother, Elizabeth, 1748.
2. Lucy* Gates, born about 1734, legatee to the estate of
her grandmother, Elizabeth, 1748.
VI. Sarah 3 , born about 1710; married the widower, Phineas
Gates, husband to her deceased sister, Elizabeth. No
children.
32 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
THIRD GENERATION.
3.
NATHANIEL 3 (Nathaniel*, Shadrach?), born about 1696, set-
tled in Lancaster prior to 1727, in the part which became
Bolton (1738), doubtless on land previously received of his
father, to which other lots and a town right were added in
1730. May 1 8, 1741, he sold to his brother Shadrach of Har-
vard, for ;io, 30 acres and 25 rods, 27 of which were to be
assigned to Shadrach in the right of William Kerley, whose
right Nathaniel 3 possessed, December 9, 1745, for **, to
Jeremiah Priest of Harvard, 18 acres in Lancaster, laid
out in the right of William Kerley. On the same day
Nathaniel of Bolton sold a lot in Bolton for ^50, to Paul
Gates, and December 25, 1744, for ;io, 3 acres to John
Whitcomb, and March 6, 1756, for >\2.. ios., 25 acres to
Jonathan Moor of Bolton, to be laid out in any of the
undivided lands of Lancaster, in the right of William
Kerley; and February 9, 1749-50, for ;i2, to Joseph
Sawyer of Harvard, 23 acres, to be laid out in old
Lancaster; and February 1 6, 1749-50, for 4, to Nathan-
iel Oaks, a lot to be laid out within the bounds, formerly
Lancaster.
He was published December 3, 1727, and married Mary
Heald, of Stow.
January 6, 1745-6, he made his will, giving his wife Mary,
the improvement of all his real estate until his grand-
daughter, Sarah Gates, should become twenty-one years of
age, or married, and afterwards the improvement of one-half
of the same during life. After her decease the whole should
become the property of Sarah Gates, but if she did not live
THIRD GENERATION. 33
to the age of twenty-one, or to marry, the whole should go
to the relatives of the testator.
CHILD.
I. Sarah*, born December 21, 1728; married Gates,
and had a daughter, Sarah 5 , born , and became
heir to her grandfather's estate.
4.
CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH S (Nathaniel-, Shadrach 1 }, was born
in 1699; married, 1723, Sarah Whitney, born at Stow, 1703.
He settled upon the west half of his father's extensive farm
in the southwest part of Stow, and became a prominent
citizen. He was a captain in the French and Indian wars,
and in 1735 drew lot number one in the distribution of lands
in Narragansett Township, number six, now Templeton.
In 1726, 5 acres were laid out to him in the right of Thomas
Ward, and in 1728, 3 acres in the right of Richard Whitney,
and April 3, 1732, 13 acres adjoining his own land.
In 1726-27 he was chosen tythingman, and selectman
1741, 1742 and 1753. December 20, 1764, "Hezekiah Hap-
good, gentleman, being much advanced in years, sick and
weak," made his will, giving to his wife Sarah all his per-
sonal property; to Ephraim of Acton, his oldest son, I2S.,
and to his other son Jonathan, his homestead buildings, and
all his lands in Stow, requiring him to provide room for his
mother Sarah, and suitable provisions and attention in health
and sickness, furnish her a horse to ride whenever she
pleases, and pay all debts and funeral charges ; .and made
Jonathan sole executor. He died May 13, 1768; will proved
July 19, 1768.
34 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
His wife was a daughter of Richard Whitney, Jr., of Stow,
and great granddaughter of John and Elinor Whitney.
CHILDREN.
7 I. Ephraim 4 , born April 21, 1725 ; married Rebecca Gibson.
II. Jonathan* (Col. and Esq.), born 1733, was a gentleman of
great respectability and commanding influence in
Stow. He resided about two miles southwest of the
centre of the town, on the west part of what had been
the Willard Farm. He held the commission of Lieu-
tenant, Captain and Colonel in the Militia, and was
appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts a magis-
trate. He served fourteen years as selectman, between
1768 and 1791, and as town clerk eleven years. In
1774 he was chosen a delegate to the County Conven-
tion at Concord, and afterwards, in the same year, a
delegate to the Provincial Congress, and in 1776, a
member of the convention for framing a Constitution
for the State. He was the proprietor of one or more
slaves who took their master's name, and carried it
with them into freedom, and may have transmitted it.
The tombstone at Stow records his death, March 20,
1801, but no settlement of his estate is recorded. The
late John Miles occupied his place. He married Ruth
Wolcott, to whom he was published January 10, 1775.
She was born 1736; died January 17, 1784. He mar-
ried second, October 5, 1785, Mrs. Sarah Whitney of
Stow. He is not recorded as having had any children.
He appears (Massachusetts Archives} among a list of
field officers of the Massachusetts Militia as First
Major of the First Middlesex County regiment, com-
missioned August 30, 1775, and he appears as First
Major in the Fourth Middlesex County regiment,
commissioned May 10, 1776; chosen by Legislature,
February 15, 1776, First Major, Colonel Henry Gard-
ner's regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel, Fourth Mid-
dlesex regiment, February 25, 1779, concurred in
council, February 26, 1779.
5.
LIEUTENANT SHABRACK" (Nathaniel? Skadrach 1 ), born
November 6, 1704; received from his father, lands drawn
THIRD GENERATION. 35
partly in the right of his grandfather Shadrach, situated in
the northwest part of Stow, known as "Stow Leg," and
119 acres, originally in Lancaster, afterwards (1732) Har-
vard, drawn partly in the right of Major Simon Willard. To
these the proprietors of Lancaster, February 19, 1763, added
9 acres 27 rods, drawn in the right of Major Willard, and 4
acres and 20 rods as an allowance for a road or byway
through said Hapgood's land, making this one lot contain
133 acres. April i, 1741, he was the proprietor of a lot of
65 acres on Bare Hill, which had been assigned to William
Kerley, at a third division of Lancaster lands. This being
then surveyed for him, was found to contain 95 acres 25
rods, and the proprietors, instead of dividing it, made it
good to him to that amount, by a grant of 30 acres 25 rods,
"upon other after divisions," and his brother Nathaniel, as
the proprietor of Kerley's right, executed him a deed in
May following. This lot was oblong, bounded easterly by
John Whitney, 74 rods ; northwesterly by a byway,* 267
rods; southwesterly by Captain Houghton, 52 rods, and
southeasterly, 240 rods, mostly by his own land.
These lots, and those previously assigned to his father,
were all in one vicinity, and mostly conterminous. Without
including either of the Gates meadows, they embrace 350
acres upon which Lieutenant Shadrach Hapgood began life ;
about the same quantity, which an equal division of the
original homestead, must have been secured to his brothers,
Hezekiah and Daniel.
He owned land in Lancaster in 1730, and then received
damages in the form of 2^ acres from Lancaster for a road
*The general course of this way, so often referred to, seems to have been south south-
west and north northeast. In 1743, a road 2 rods wide and 110 rods long was laid out by
Harvard through his land.
36 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
laid out through his farm. These 2j acres he sold for i/s.
to Abraham Rugg, June 24, 1740.
He sold, April 19, 1754, for 14. I2s., 5 acres of meadow
in Harvard to Samuel Fellows; and May 29, 1762, for 405.,
I acre 40 rods in Harvard to Benjamin Lawrence ; and April
30, 1759, for 7$. ios., 43 acres in Harvard to Eliphalet
Wood; and December 7, 1769, for 26, to John Daby, a
tract in Harvard, with buildings. January 5, 1764, he
bought of Joseph Kneeland, of Harvard, for ^86, a certain
messuage (probably the same sold to Daby in 1769), and a
tract of 20 acres, bounded by a line beginning on the south
side of a road by John Atherton's, then running northerly
across said road by Richard Harris' land to Elias Haskell's,
and next to Thomas Willard's land, then southwesterly by a
private way near Joseph Willard's land, until it crosses the
road above named, which it follows to said Harris' land,
then easterly by his land and southerly by it, and then
northerly by John Atherton's land to the place of beginning ;
and also 7 acres of meadow, south of said Harris' meadow,
and east of a brook immediately below where it flows out of
a pond.
At the incorporation of Harvard, June 29, 1732, out of
portions of Lancaster, Groton and Stow, he was thrown into
Harvard. In 1761 he was appointed guardian of Anna
Stone, aged seven years, and of Sarah Stone, aged above
fourteen years, daughters of Oliver Stone, late of Harvard.
He was constable, 1738, 1739, 1741, and in 1764, collector
of church money in the Old Mill quarter. In 1742 he
received a lieutenant's commission from the royal governor,
William Shirley (now in possession of the compiler), a copy
of which is here reproduced. He served six years as
THIRD GENERATION. 37
selectman, and had the first seat in the first of eight classes of
seats in the new meeting-house in Harvard, assigned 1774,
by a committee of the town.
He appears on the rolls as private in Captain Thomas
Gates' company, and marched on alarm of April 19, 1775 ;
belonged to Lancaster Troop, term of service, nine days.
He seems to have been a quiet, industrious and thrifty
farmer and highly respected citizen.
He made his will April 17, 1780, giving his wife Elizabeth
all his household furniture and indoor movables, one cow
and two sheep, for her use and disposal, requiring his
executor to furnish her a horse to ride at any time, while
she remained his widow. He also gave her the improvement
of one half of his estate for her dower, the use of one half of
the upright part of the house, i. <?., the west lower room
and chamber over it, one half of the chimney, including
the back-room fireplace, half of the cellar, one third of
the barn, and equal privilege at the well and in the gar-
den ; and these so long as she remained his widow. His
three eldest daughters, and doubtless the rest, with their
husbands, April 28, 1770, acknowledged the receipt of ;ioo
each, from their father as their full portion of his estate, and
signed a quit claim to the remainder. He therefore be-
queathed only ,1, to his daughter, Mary Clark, which, with
what she had already received, was to be her full portion.
To Elizabeth Willard i, which was to be her full portion.
To Lois Whitney i, and a pillion, which was to be her full
portion. To Lydia Munroe ,15. 6s. (silver money) and a
pillion. To his only son, Shadrach, Jr., he bequeathed his
apparel, tools, live-stock, and all his real estate, binding him
to support his parents and pay their funeral expenses, and
made him executor.
38 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
The following excerpt from Harvard History gives so clear
and concise a record of this branch of the family, we tran-
scribe it in full.
" In Stow Leg, A. D. 1732, the largest land-owner was Shad-
rach Hapgood. He was a grandson of that Shadrach Hap-
good, who, on May 30, 1656, at the age of fourteen years,
embarked for New England from Gravesend in the ship
Speedwell. The first Shadrach lived with his uncle, Peter
Noyes of Sudbury, during his minority ; married Elizabeth
Treadway, October 21, 1664, and was slain by the Indians in
the Surprise of Captains Hutchinson and Wheeler at Brook-
field, August 2, 1675. The eldest of the five children, fruit
of the marriage, was Nathaniel, born in 1665. He married
Elizabeth Ward of Marlboro', August 14, 1695. Became a
deacon and a wealthy land-holder in Stow, and was long
prominent in town councils. Nathaniel was the father of
the Harvard Shadrach, and transferred to him, in 1725, all
his lands upon Pin Hill Brook and Bare Hill, amounting
to 350 acres. Shadrach was born in Stow, November 6,
1704, and married Elizabeth Wetherbee. He was commis-
sioned Lieutenant by Governor William Shirley, in 1742,
but what military service he rendered is not known. He
had but one son, Shadrach, and five daughters, all of whom
had families. The Hapgood house is an excellent example
of the homes of the thriftier farmers of New England at the
period when Harvard was incorporated. In it Shadrach
and, Elizabeth (Wetherbee) Hapgood passed their married
life of more than half a century, and their son Shadrach
succeeded to its possession, living here with his wife, Eliza-
beth Keep, nearly fifty years. He was succeeded by his
youngest son, Joel, whose wife was Sally, daughter of Jona-
than Fairbank. The large addition to the old mansion at its
western end was built by Joel in 1812, and the capacious
farm barn by his son, Jonathan Fairbank Hapgood, in 1854.
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Warren, youngest son of Joel, now living, a retired merchant
of Boston.
" The old house was probably new, and perhaps reputed
the finest in Harvard, when the town, in July, 1734, com-
plimented it and the builder, by instructing a committee to
engage board for the ministers, who should come to supply
the pulpit, at Shadrach Hapgood's, although over a mile
from the meeting-house. The original lattices, with their
bottle-green diamond lights, were preserved in the gable
windows for several years after the opening of the present
century."
He married, about 1732, Elizabeth Wetherbee, born 1714,
and died November 30, 1803, in the ninetieth year of her
age. He died October 8, 1782. Will proved December, 1782.
[Worcester Probate I. 18, page 316.]
CHILDREN, all born in Harvard.
I. Mercy 4 , born January 26, 1733; married, October 12, 1757,
Jonathan Clark of Harvard, born May 26, 1733.
CHILDREN.
1. Jonathan 5 Clark, born January 28, 1759.
2. Hannah 5 , born September 19, 1762.
II. Elizabeth 4 , born September 26, 1734; married, February 14,
1753. Joseph Willard, Jr., of Harvard.
CHILDREN.
1. Shadrach 5 Willard, born December 13, 1753.
2. Mercy 5 , born February 16, 1755.
3. Elizabeth 5 , born June 18, 1758; died April 9, 1759.
4. Joseph 5 , born September 4, 1760.
5. Elizabeth 5 , born November 20, 1764.
6. Oliver 5 , born May i, 1769.
7. Levi 5 , born August 15, 1775.
III. Phinehas 4 , born August 11, 1737; died, a few days old.
IV. Asa 4 , born June 13, 1740; died August 16, 1743.
V. Israel 4 , born March i, 1743; died March 2, 1743.
40 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
VI. Sarah 4 , born June 16, 1744; married, January 17, 1765, John
Daby, Jr., of Harvard.
CHILDREN.
1. Simon 5 Daby, born May 20, 1765.
2. Asa s , born February 6, 1767.
3. Mercy 5 , born May u, 1769.
4. Sarah 5 , born February 7, 1772.
5. Betsey 5 , born May 7, 1774.
6. John 5 , born January 9, 1779.
8 VII. Shadrach 4 , born October 4, 1747 ; married Elizabeth Keep,
July 23, 1770, and died June 20, 1818.
VIII. Oliver 4 , born October 7, 1751, and died same day.
IX. Lois 4 , born April 13, 1754; married, May 25, 1772, Jacob
Whitney, born March 24, 1748. He enlisted in Cap-
tain Jonathan Davis' company, Colonel Asa Whit-
comb's regiment, in Revolutionary Army, October 6,
1775. His will was dated November 8, 1815, pro-
bated October 18, 1825. He resided in Harvard, and
later removed to Winchendon, where he died July n,
1825.
CHILDREN.
1. Hannah 5 Whitney, born December 14, 1772.
2. Mercy 5 , born December 10, 1774.
3. Jacob 5 , born October 16, 1776.
4. Lois 5 , born August I, 1779.
5. Eli 5 , born May 17, 1783.
6. Nancy 5 , born August 8, 1785.
7. Emory 5 , born October i, 1791.
X. Lydia 4 , born July 4, 1757; married, April 4, 1775, Abraham
Munroe of Harvard, a soldier in the Continental Army,
who died March 11, 1778.
CHILDREN.
1. Lydia 5 Munroe, born December 22, 1776. Married,
April 5, 1797, Ivory Longley of Shirley, Massa-
chusetts, son of Israel and Lucy (Conant)
Longley of Harvard, where he was born, 1775;
a blacksmith by trade. In attempting to cross
the Catacunemaug, upon a dam, he slipped
from his icy footing and perished in the stream
below, January 14, 1808. His widow died April
4, 1859. They had four children.
THIRD GENERATION. 41
Lydia* married second, February 25, 1784, David Dickin-
son, born October 7, 1741. He was a soldier in the
Revolutionary Army, and served at the Siege of Ticon-
deroga and Crown Point. Removed to Keene, New
Hampshire about 1811, where she died.
CHILDREN.
2. William 5 Dickinson, born .
3. Abraham 5 , born .
6.
DEACON DANIEL 3 (Nathaniel*, Shadrach l },\)orn. about 1706,
inherited the homestead of his father, Deacon Nathaniel, and
grandfather Shadrach, two and one-half miles south southeast
of Stow townhouse, and the east half of the original planta-
tion of 700 acres. Succeeded his father in the deaconship,
and about 1760, built the great house yet standing and occu-
pied by his grandson, Nathaniel 5 Hapgood. June 20, 1750,
he sold to Zaccheus Gates of Stow, 120 acres in Holden,
inherited from his father. August 13, 1785, " being very aged,
infirm and weak," he made his will, having previously settled
his real estate in Stow upon his sons, giving to his wife
Mary, two cows ; and to sons Daniel and Samuel, and daugh-
ter Hepsebeth Wheeler, all his indoor movables in equal
shares ; to his adopted grandson, Jacob Gibson of Stow, his
live-stock and a tract of 300 or 400 acres in Waterford, Maine.
In 1735-6 he was chosen reeve, and in 1743, selectman.
He married first, Hepsebeth, born July 14, 1715 ; died Octo-
ber 23, 1738; and second, July 6, 1745, Mary Gibson, who
died, his widow, January 15, 1793. He died April 30, 1791.
CHILDREN, all by second wife, born at Stow.
9 I. Daniel 4 , born November 16, 1747; married Esther Gardner
of Concord.
42 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
II. Hepsebeth 4 , born June 24, 1749 ; married Ephraim Wheeler
of Stow.
10 III. Samuel*, born October 17, 1751 ; died April, 1821 ; married
Elizabeth Maxwell.
FOURTH GENERATION.
7.
ENSIGN EPHRAIM* (Hezekia& % Nathaniel, Shadrack 1 ), born
April 21, 1725, is presumed to have first settled on a part of
his father's spacious farm in Stow, where his intention of
marriage with Rebecca Gibson was published January 17,
1746-7. After 1753, he removed to Acton and settled
where his grandson, Benjamin F. Hapgood, now resides. In
the summers of 1779 anc ^ 1780 he went with his sons, Eph-
raim and Nathaniel, to open up farms in Norridgewock,
Maine, for some of his family. Jt is not, however, probable
that any permanent settlement was effected there, as the
records of the town are silent upon the subject. At the
close of the second season, he, with Nathaniel, in returning
by water, perished from shipwreck, while Ephraim returned
safe by land. He died intestate, October 31, 1780, leaving
an estate inventoried at ^1,597. His widow died Septem-
ber 15, 1803, aged seventy-six. Abraham was appointed
administrator.
CHILDREN.
I. Nathaniel 5 , born at Stow, February 26, 1748; died October
8, 1756, at Acton.
II. Oliver 5 , born at Stow, November 7, 1749; died October 7,
1756, at Acton.
11 III. Abraham 5 , born at Stow, October 9, 1752; appointed De-
cember 13, 1780, administrator on his father's estate;
married Lucy Davis.
FOURTH GENERATION. 43
12 IV. Ephraim 5 , born at Acton, May 3, 1755; married Molly
Tuttle.
13 V. Hezekiah 5 , born December 23, 1757; married Dorcas
Whitcomb.
VI. Nathaniel 5 , born April 2, 1760; enlisted as private in
John Buttrick's company, Colonel Read's regiment,
September 28, 1777, discharged November 7, 1777;
term of service, one month, eleven days. Discharged
from Colonel Brooks' regiment to reinforce General
Gates at the northward. He was also a private in
Captain Francis Brown's company, Colonel Mclntosh's
regiment, for service in Rhode Island, enlisted August
4, 1778, discharged September i, 1778. Served eleven
days in Lovell's brigade. He then enlisted in Captain
Joshua Walker's company, Colonel Samuel Denny's
regiment, October 13, 1779, discharged November 23,
1779; served one month, eleven days (Massachusetts
Archives']. He was drowned, with his father, October
31, 1780, by shipwreck, returning from Maine.
14 VII. Oliver 5 , born August 12, 1762; married Lucy Tuttle.
VIII. Sarah 5 , born April 7, 1765; married, August 24, 1779,
Timothy Wood of Harvard. He died July 18, 1800,
and she married, second, May 2, 1809, Jonas, son of
Joseph and Rebeckah Wright, born in Concord, June
18, 1762, husband of her deceased sister Mary, who
died January 3, 1799.
15 IX. Jonathan 5 , born July 30, 1767; married Abigail Austin.
X. Mary 5 , born October 17, 1769; had her uncle Jonathan for
guardian, December 13, 1780 ; married, March 30, 1794,
Jonas Wright of Concord, and died January 3, 1799,
leaving three children.
CHILDREN.
1. Anthony 6 Wright, born January 14, 1795; married
Mary E. Smith, February 14, 1819.
2. Henry 6 , born October 22, 1796; married Sarah
Flint of Lincoln, April 22, 1819.
3. Hapgood 6 , born December 22, 1798.
Jonas married second, the widow Sarah (Hapgood) Wood,
sister to his first wife. He died June 15, 1818, and she,
February 12, 1813.
44 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
XI. Joseph 5 , born April 2, 1772; had his uncle Jonathan for
guardian; married, February u, 1798, Sarah Hunt.
CHILDREN.
I. Henry 6 , born ; died in parts unknown.
II. A son 6 , born December, 1801 ; died September 3,
1802, at Acton.
8.
SnADRACH 4 (ShadracW, Nathaniel" 1 , Skadrach 1 }, born Octo-
ber/)., 1747; married, July 23, 1770, Elizabeth Keep, daughter
of Jabez, who died in Harvard, 1797. She was born April 20,
1750, and died August 30, 1826; he died January 20, 1818.
Jabez Keep was the son of Ensign Samuel Keep, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts, who was the presumed progenitor of all
the Keeps in this country. A brother of Elizabeth, Jonathan,
married Hannah Hildreth. Experience Lawrence Keep, who
married Wright, was also sister to Elizabeth, and Mary,
another sister, married Leonard Proctor. Mary Washington
Wright, daughter of Experience (Keep) Wright, was born
June 30, 1827, at Westford ; married George Lowe; removed
to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she has resided forty-eight
years. Mrs. Lowe is deeply interested in the Lawrence
Townley estate in England. Mrs. Lowe's grandmother,
Rhoda Hildreth, was a daughter of Experience Keep.
Experience Lawrence was daughter or granddaughter of John
Lawrence, who married Mary Townley.
He appears with rank of private on muster and pay rolls
of Captain Samuel Hill's company, Colonel Josiah Whit-
ney's regiment, enlisted August 19, 1777, discharged August
25, 1777 ; term of service, six days ; marched on Bennington
Alarm from Harvard. He re-enlisted as private in the same
FOURTH GENERATION. 45
company and regiment, October 2, 1777, discharged October
26, 1777 ; term of service, twenty-four days, under Lieutenant
Colonel Ephraim Sawyer (Massachusetts Archives). He
was a member of Committee of Correspondence and Safety,
1781, and selectman, 1791, 1792.
CHILDREN.
16 I. John 5 , born June 20, 1771; married, December 6, 1797,
Mary Haskell of Harvard.
II. Betsey 5 , born February 16, 1773; married, May 26, 1795,
Thomas, son of Thomas Hammond, who removed from
Connecticut with his wife and children, and joined
the Shirley Shakers, turning all his property over to
the Community. His children were not compelled to
accept the situation and most of them wisely departed.
The son, Thomas, settled in Harvard and became hop-
merchant, inn-holder and farmer. She died June 22,
1797, and he removed to Shirley, where he died, 1816.
CHILD.
1. David 6 Hammond, born October 17, 1796. He
was barely eight months old when his mother
was taken from him, but his grandparents
kindly took him, brought him up, educated him,
and treated him as their own child. He was
small of stature, but cheerful, well disposed,
and large hearted. His grandfather Hapgood
died, 1818, but David remained with his grand-
mother, in charge of the farm up to April 10,
1825, when he married Elmira Hosmer, born
February 16, 1805, at Acton. He bought a
farm in the northeasterly part of Harvard, ad-
joining the old Hapgood estate, better known
to-day as the Hall place. Here their four chil-
dren were born, and by industry and economy
were fairly prosperous. The farm being larger
than he cared for, he sold out and bought a small
farm on the brook off of the road, near the pres-
ent town "poor farm" in Harvard. He was
a quiet, modest, industrious man, and much
respected in the community. The town built
46 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
him a road and bridge to cross the brook, and
here he passed in peace the remainder of his
days, his eldest daughter remaining with her
, parents, faithfully caring for their wants till
both had passed beyond the line of time. His
wife died August 24, 1883, and he, June I, 1889.
CHILDREN.
I. Elmira 7 , born February 12, 1826; died June
23, 1890.
II. Lucy 7 , born February 18, 1828; married,
November 4, 1846, George Albert Har-
rington.
III. Thomas Whittemore 7 , born March 31, 1830;
died in Acton, December 18, 1897; mar-
ried, April 28, 1863, Mary Alice Blood,
born in Boston, October 5, 1837.
IV. Simon Hosmer 7 , born March 31, 1830, twin
with Thomas Whittemore ; married, May
3, 1860, Hannah L. Steele, and died
November 6, 1885.
III. Lucy s , born December 9, 1775 ; married, December 15, 1828,
James Wilson, a wool carder, fuller, and cloth dresser.
She died October 29, 1851 ; resided in Shirley, Massa-
chusetts. No children.
IV. Mercy 5 , born February 5, 1779; married, September n,
1798, Theodore, son of Richard and Sarah Goldsmith,
born in Harvard, August 7, 1775. A man of great
physical and mental energy ; learned the trade of a
cooper ; settled on the farm now recently occupied by
his son-in-law, George Atherton, adjoining the large
farm where his father had settled, on Oak Hill. His
parents being advanced in years and requiring assist-
ance, Theodore left his own farm and assumed the
management of that of his father. In early life he had
cultivated a taste for reading, which he gratified by a
diligent use of every leisure hour, even down to that
period when labor ordinarily ceases; he read fresh
books with as much avidity as a young student, thereby
keeping old age green, and making himself a most
agreeable companion. Not ambitious for office, but
served his town as selectman, 1821-22. The extensive
FOURTH GENERATION. 47
farm was well managed. He prospered and was a
leading citizen. She died October 31, 1850, and he,
March 22, 1859.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary 6 Goldsmith, born August 24, 1804; married,
May 6, 1824, George Atherton, born in Still
River, Harvard, January 21, 1797; purchased a
farm on Oak Hill, adjoining that of Theodore
Goldsmith, his father-in-law. He became a
prosperous farmer, with the aid and co-operation
of his most industrious and frugal wife, whose
good sense and sound judgment carried them
triumphantly through every trial. He died
February 17, 1875; the place was sold, and his
widow removed to the middle of the town,
where she died March 8, 1886.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Maria 7 Atherton, born June 12, 1825;
married, April 15, 1858, Horatio B. Her-
sey, born in Boston, January 18, 1823.
Commenced business as a clerk in the
office of a ship owner on Central wharf,
January, 1838 ; was book-keeper, salesman,
and finally a member of the well-known
leather firm of Spaulding & Hersey, 1843
to 1870. He settled in Chelsea in 1849;
was in the Common Council six years,
1862-68, the last two years as president,
and was in Board of Aldermen, 1868-69;
in the House of Representatives, 1871-72 ;
City Treasurer, 1876 to 1883, and is now
the treasurer of the City of Chelsea
Sinking Fund, and auditor of the Chelsea
Savings Bank.
CHILD.
1. Mary Louise 8 Hersey, born at Chel-
sea, April 24, 1865 ; graduated from
the public schools in Chelsea, and
from the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston, in the decorative depart-
ment.
48 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
2. Louisa Farwell 7 , born November 4, 1827;
married, November 27, 1847, Absalom B.
Gale, born at Jamaica, Vermont, Decem-
ber i, 1814; was a popular stage driver
for many years. After marriage bought a
farm in Harvard, settled there and be-
came a wealthy farmer, a prominent mem-
ber of the Unitarian church, and a leading
citizen. She died June 22, 1860.
CHILDREN.
1. Henry Howard 8 Gale, born in Har-
vard, August 6, 1854. He is a
member of the firm of Gale &
Dixon, principal merchants of the
town.
2. George Theodore 8 , born June 16,
1857; he manages the farm for his
aged father, and also assists his
brother in the store ; both excel-
lent young men.
2. Lucy Hapgood 6 , born February 28, 1807 ; married,
April 30, 1834, Ethan Daby, born February 27,
1799, son of Asa Daby and grandson of Sarah 4
(Hapgood) and John Daby, Jr. He was retiring
and quiet by nature, but was a good neighbor
and kind-hearted man. For many years in
business with his brother Asa, under firm name
of A. & E. Daby, extensive blacksmiths, in
Harvard Centre, enjoying an enviable reputa-
tion for uprightness and honorable dealing.
By close attention to business he accumulated a
handsome property, built a large double house,
with his brother, on the common, where they
lived very happily together. The structure was
swept away by the great fire that destroyed the
hotel, August 25, 1880. She died April 7, 1869,
of paralysis; he died February 2, 1876. No
children.
3. Mercy 6 , born February 24, 1818 ; married, October
17, 1839, Charles Maynard, born May 5, 1814,
at Heath, Massachusetts. After marriage he
removed to Fitchburg, where he worked in a
paper mill. Mercy was the youngest of the
(Ootfcsmttb)
FOURTH GENERATION. 49
children of Theodore and Mercy (Hapgood)
Goldsmith, a bright, intelligent girl, and very
much attached to the home of her youth. The
new home in Fitchburg was never to her taste
and in nowise took the place of the one she left.
The advancing age of her father rendered
assistance necessary in the management of the
large farm, and this necessity proved a door
through which she could return to the dear old
paternal mansion. The house was large ; there
was ample room for the two families, and the
union proved profitable and satisfactory to all
concerned. Mr. Maynard was an upright,
honorable, industrious man, of unquestioned
integrity and sound judgment, winning not only
the respect of father Goldsmith, but also of his
fellow-citizens. In the church both he and his
wife were prominent, especially in the choir,
where they rendered valued service.
The two families lived very harmoniously
under the one roof for nearly twenty years, and
on the death of her father, Charles became pro-
prietor of the extensive farm. One son, Charles
Theodore, was born to them in Fitchburg,
August 16, 1840, a lad of great promise, the
hope and idol of his parents. In vain were all
their aspirations for the future. That most
obstinate disease, diabetes, fell upon him, baf-
fling the most skilful medical treatment, and
on the loth of November, 1860, when just step-
ping upon the threshold of manhood, he passed
away. The brilliant hopes that clustered around
this noble young man were now forever blasted.
Nor did the griefs end here ; symptoms of con-
sumption began to develop in the dear husband.
Change of location was suggested. Isle of
Shoals and other resorts tried, but all of no
avail. He died at Harvard, March 8, 1862. The
lonely heart of the widow was all that now re-
mained of three generations. She had seen
much of society, had entertained liberally, and
her humor and cheerful manners made her a
favorite with young and old. Now the scene
50 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
was changed. In place of the pleasant round
of society and a cheerful home, the burden and
care of the great farm was upon her. This
proved too much for her; the place passed into
other hands, and she removed to a pleasant
tenement in the middle of the town, near to the
church so dear to her heart, and among friends
she loved. Still, bereaved of family and home,
she could not be happy or reconciled. She
lived on for many years, but the strain was too
great; visions of those happy days with her
family and friends flitted before her, but at last
a morbid gloom overshadowed her, reason was
dethroned, and on the i8th of November, 1889,
the once cheerful soul took its flight. Let us
bravely endeavor to forget the end, and remem-
ber her "at her best."
17 V. Jabezs, bora September 30, 1781; married Susannah Has-
kell, sister to his brother John's wife.
VI. Shadrach s , born December 1 6, 1783 ; married, November
14, 1806, Nancy, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail
Puffer, born May 16, 1786. She died October 16, 1849,
aged 63 years, 5 months. He married second, June 18,
1851, Relief, daughter of Daniel and Relief (Sawyer)
Crouch, born July 27, 1807. He was a large and pros-
perous farmer in the northerly part of Harvard, Old
Mill district, and, like the other members of his family,
had a village of buildings, barns, sheds, cider mill, etc.,
and was very neat and orderly in his surroundings.
He served as selectman, 1821-25; obtained the title of
Major, by his excellent handling of the fife. He died,
January 21, 1853; his widow died March 8, 1894, aged
86 years, 5 months, n days. No children.
18 VII. Joel 5 , born March 26, 1788; married, November 12, 1812,
Sally Fairbank of Harvard. He died September 28,
1855.
9.
DANIEL* (Daniel*, NathanieP, Skadrach 1 ), born November
16, 1/47; married, December 20, 1774, Esther Gardner of
FOURTH GENERATION. 51
Concord, born ; died , and he married second,
April 30, 1795, Rebecca Sargent, born ; died May 16,
1833. He settled on the ancient homestead in Stow, where
all his children were born.
Daniel Hapgood appears with rank of corporal on Lexing-
ton Alarm Rolls of Captain William Whitcomb's company,
Colonel James Prescott's regiment ; marched on the Alarm
of April 19, 1775, from Stow; time of service, eight days.
Enlisted October i, 1777, in Captain Silas Taylor's company,
Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, discharged November 8,
1777 ; term of service, one month, eight days. Belonged to
Stow company of Volunteers ; marched by resolve, Septem-
ber 22, 1777, to join army under General Gates' service,
Northern department. He belonged to the Alarm list of
Captain Benjamin Munroe, Sixth company, Fourth regi-
ment, December I, 1776. [Massachusetts Archives.]
CHILDREN by first wife.
I. Betsey 5 , born January 13, 1776; died September i, 1778.
II. Susanna 5 , born November 13, 1777; died May 15, 1847;
married, November 12, 1794, Isaiah Gates of Stow, son
of Oliver and Lucy Gates, born 1773; died March
31, 1822.
CHILD.
1. Joel 6 Gates, born May 2, 1795, at Stow; married
August 12, 1812, Eunice Piper of Ashby. He
died December 16, 1869.
CHILDREN.
1. Franklin 7 Gates, born May 17, 1827; died
December i, 1886; married Hannah 6
Walcott, a daughter of Hannah 5 Walcott
(Hapgood), and granddaughter of Sam-
uel 4 Hapgood (10) of Stow.
2. Francis Everett 7 , born April 11, 1798; mar-
ried, January 30, 1822, Chloe Constan-
tine from East Wallingford, Vermont,
52 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
born June 20, 1822; resided at Ashby,
where he died April 20, 1860. She died
March 12, 1887.
III. Rufus 5 , born February 12, 1780; died at Stow; unmarried.
IV. Nathaniel 5 , born October 22, 1781 ; died at Stow, young.
V. John 5 , born October 30, 1786; married, December 19, 1804,
Alice Maynard of Sudbury. He died without issue.
VI. Betsey 5 , born March 26, 1790; married, October 17, 1805,
Joseph Maynard, born February 22, 1780, in Sudbury;
resided in Concord, New Hampshire, where his first
three children were born; removed to Stow, 1813,
where Joseph was born; in 1814 he removed to Lancas-
ter, Massachusetts, and established himself on a farm,
where the remainder of his children were born. She
died February 29, 1867, and he, October 18, 1870.
CHILDREN.
1. Elvira 6 Maynard, born October 4, 1807; died May
19, 1836.
2. Mary Esther 6 , born January 7, 1810; died March
i, 1813.
3. John Hapgood 6 , born March i, 1812; died June
28, 1878.
4. Joseph 6 , born in Stow, November i, 1814; died in
Boston, July 12, 1883.
5. Mary Esther 6 , born August 14, 1816; died January
27, 1841.
6. Abigail 6 , born December 2, 1819; married, Janu-
ary 19, 1851, Gilbert Maynard; resides at
Waltham.
7. Rufus 6 , born March 20, 1822; died February 6,
1892.
8. Susan 6 , born June 8, 1824; died August I, 1858;
married William Russell, who died in 1851.
9. Martha 6 , born February 12, 1826; died August 4,
1896; married Isaac Crouch.
10. Eliza 6 , born August 9, 1829; married Otis Whit-
ney; died August 3, 1857.
11. Catharine 6 , born August 9, 1830; married, August
31, 1853, Alvin P. Nickerson; resides on the
homestead of her father in Lancaster.
FOURTH GENERATION. 53
19 VII. Daniel 5 , born March 9, 1796 (by second wife), in Stow;
married Rebecca W. (Brooks) Davis, May 16, 1831, at
Templeton.
VIII. Felicia 5 , born February 28, 1798, in Stow; intentions of
marriage published October 31, 1818, to Timothy East-
man of Concord.
CHILDREN.
1. Hapgood 6 Eastman, born .
2. Joel 6 , born .
3. Amos 6 , born -
4. George 6 , born
5. Ann 6 , born
6. Abby 6 , born -
IX. Abigail 5 , born May 2, 1802; married, June 4, 1829, Ira
Bartlett of Stow ; both died in Sullivan, New Hamp-
shire.
CHILDREN.
1. George 6 Bartlett, born .
2. Willis 6 , born .
3. Rebecca 6 , born
X. Nathaniel 5 , born June 30, 1804; resided, unmarried, the
proprietor of the old homestead, together with a part
of his grandfather's extensive farm in Stow. He died
December 2, 1881, and the dear old place around
which so many sacred memories cluster, passed out
of the family.
10.
SAMUEL* (Daniel*, Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 ), born October
17, 1751; married, December 14, 1786, Elizabeth Maxwell
of Stow. He settled first on the homestead in Stow, and
afterwards one mile north, on the north side of Assabet
River. Served as private in Captain William Whitcomb's
company, Colonel James Prescott's regiment, from Stow, on
the Alarm of April 19, 1775. He died April, 1821. His
widow died March, 1830, at the home of her daughter,
54 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Hannah Walcott, in Stow, with whom she resided after the
death of her husband.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary 5 , born ; baptized May 27, 1787; died 1868.
Resided in Boston ; unmarried.
II. Hannah 5 , born at Stow, 1787 ; baptized November 30, 1788 ;
married, April n, 1817, in Boston, by Reverend
Charles Lowell, Robert Walcott from Baltimore, Mary-
land, son of Ephraim and Betsey Walcott, born at
Stow, 1792; resided in Boston till 1825, when he
returned to his native town. Mrs. Walcott died at
Stow, 1867, and Robert at Somerville, Massachusetts,
April 9, 1885. He was a blacksmith by trade. Chil-
dren : Four born in Baltimore, two in Stow.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary 6 Walcott, born May 6, 1818; married, May
2, 1848, George Tisdale. She died June 20, 1894.
2. Martha 6 , born September 14, 1819; married,
November 6, 1842, Joel Carr; died March, 1888.
3. Charles 6 , born January 18, 1821 ; married, April n,
1843, Elizabeth Gates; resides at Stow.
4. George 6 , born January 10, 1823 ; married, August
13, 1848, Lorena Hough ton of Harvard, Massa-
chusetts; died August 22, 1886.
5. Joshua Huntington 6 , born May 19, 1825, at Stow.
Went to Rochester, New York, at the age of
eighteen. Conductor on Rochester & Albany
Railroad several years ; removed to Central
America, became superintendent of railroad;
removed to Tucson, Arizona, where he died
August, 1893.
6. Hannah 6 , born November 16, 1827; married,
May 30, 1848, Franklin Gates of Stow, born
; resided in Stow. Enlisted, January 5,
1864, in Fifteenth Massachusetts Battery,
served during the war, and mustered out
August 4, 1865. Died December i, 1886. He
was son of Isaiah Gates, who married Susanna 5 ,
daughter of Daniel 4 and Esther (Gardner) Hap-
good of Stow (9).
FOURTH GENERATION. 65
III. Ephraim*, born ; baptized June 27, 1790; died
in Boston; unmarried.
IV. Samuel 5 , born ; baptized October 28, 1792. Mar-
ried, November 13, 1822, Mary Haskell. He died in
Boston, December 6, 1849. No children.
FIFTH GENERATION.
11.
LIEUTENANT ABRAHAM* (Ephraim*, HezekialP, NathanieP,
Shadrach 1 ), born October 9, 1752, at Stow. His father
removed to Acton, 1753, where Abraham was educated. He
married (published October 25, 1775) Lucy Davis, who died
April 27, 1777, and he was married second, March 13, 1783,
by Reverend Mr. Ripley of Concord, to Mary Merriam, widow
of Joseph Wright of Concord, by whom she had a daughter,
Mary Wright, born December 31, 1777; married, October
23, 1800, Winthrop Faulkner, and was the mother of
Winthrop Emerson Faulkner of South Acton. She died
January 24, 1808, and he married third, Mary Foster of
Littleton, November 21, 1815.
He appears a private on Lexington Alarm rolls of Captain
John Hayward's company, Colonel Abijah Pierce's regiment;
marched on Alarm of April 19, 1775, from Acton ; length of
service, ten days ; he appears with rank of corporal, in Israel
Heald's company, Colonel Eleazer Brooks' regiment; marched
to Roxbury, March 4, 1 776 ; belonged to Acton. Drafted
by Captain Simon Hunt, under Resolve of August 8, 1777,
to reinforce Continental army; date, August 14, 1777.
He appears a private on muster and pay rolls of Captain
George Minot's company, Colonel Samuel Ballard's regiment ;
56 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
time of enlistment, August 16, 1777; discharged November
30, 1777; time of service, three months, twenty-five days;
town to which he belonged not given, but as he was a
citizen of Acton, presumably he was from that town ; service
performed in Northern department.
His name appears among a list of the Massachusetts
Militia as second lieutenant of the Fifth company, of the
Third Middlesex County regiment, commissioned June 7,
1780, Captain Davis' company, commanded by Colonel
Faulkner. [Massachusetts Archives. ~\
Appointed Administrator of his father's estate, December
13, 1780, died April 6, 1819. An industrious, thrifty, and
highly-esteemed farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Samuel Davis 6 , born April 6, 1777 (by first wife); died
September 4, 1778.
II. Lucy 6 , born December 5, 1783 (by second wife); married,
January 3, 1805, Abel Jones of Acton, born August 26,
1783 ; died January 18, 1872. She died 1844.
CHILDREN, all born in Acton.
1. Lucinda White 7 Jones, born August 24, 1805;
married, November 23, 1826, at Acton, Luther
Robbins. She died July 6, 1864.
2. Lucy 7 , born September 17, 1807; married, March
15, 1827, Horace Tuttle of Acton. She died
August 5, 1845.
3. Abigail Merriam 7 , born April 24, 1809; married,
September 10, 1827, Lewis Wood.
4. Charlotte Hapgood 7 , born November 24, 1810;
married first, July 19, 1827, George Washington
Tuttle. He died 1831, and she married second,
December 31, 1840, Theodore Ames, who died
1885.
5. Abel White 7 , born January 20, 1812; married,
August 30, 1843, Ann Maria Johnson. He died
February 5, 1882.
FIFTH GENERATION. 57
6. Clarissa 7 , born September 16, 1814; died January
i, 1815.
7. Luke 7 , born November 16, 1815; married first,
Lucy K. Brigham, and second, Hannah Leer.
8. Clarissa 7 , born October 6, 1817; married, July 19,
1836, Daniel 7 , son of Edward and Susanna 6
(Hapgood) Wetherbee.
9. Abraham Hapgood 7 , born August 22, 1819; mar-
ried, January 17, 1844, Harriet Estabrook Hos-
mer ; resides in Acton.
10. Winthrop Emerson 7 , born November 25, 1821.
Unmarried.
11. James Francis 7 , born January 26, 1830; married,
November 23, 1851, Elizabeth Whitney.
III. Joseph 6 , born July 2, 1787; died January i, 1804.
IV. Thomas 6 , baptized September 20, 1789, at Stow; died
young.
V. Charlotte 6 , born September 22, 1791 ; married, October 17,
1811, John White, Jr., of North Acton.
CHILDREN.
1. Abraham 7 White, born August 22, 1812; married,
September 5, 1833, Susanna 7 , daughter of
Edward and Susanna 6 (Hapgood) Wetherbee,
born March 28, 1812, and became proprietor of
the Nagog House in Acton. Later on he
removed to West Rindge, and became a large
manufacturer of tubs and woodenware. His
wife died November 30, 1893, at Lewiston,
Maine, and he, at West Rindge, April 30, 1882.
2. Charlotte 7 , born May i, 1814; married Elbridge
Robbins, of Acton. She died September 8,
1844, and he married second, June 6, 1849, Mary
Elizabeth 7 , daughter of James 6 Hapgood (20).
3. Winthrop Faulkner 7 , born September 10, 1817;
married, October 28, 1839, Harriet 7 , daughter of
Edward and Susanna 6 (Hapgood) Wetherbee,
born February 14, 1819. Both .still living on a
farm in Concord, Massachusetts.
4. Luther 7 , born July 26, 1822 ; married, June 26, 1845,
Hannah Tufts of West Cambridge, Massachu-
setts; resided at Holliston, Massachusetts,
where he died a prosperous farmer, October 4,
1884; his wife died November i, 1888.
58 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
5. Mary Sophia 7 , born July 2, 1825; resided with her
parents at Acton; and died November 30, 1846,
unmarried.
6. John 7 , born October i, 1831 ; married, May 6,
1863, Sarah Ann Rouillard of Acton, born Feb-
ruary 16, 1839; she died November i, 1889.
VI. Nabby 6 , born March 14, 1794; married, September 27,
1815, Daniel White, second, of Acton, born 1791 ;
brother to her sister's husband. He died 1857, and
she, 1865, both at Lowell.
CHILDREN.
1. Daniel 7 White, born, 1817, at Acton; married, 1846,
Elizabeth Kimball of Maine.
2. Mary 7 , born, 1820 ; married, 1846, at Lowell, Jacob
Kelly of New Sharon, Maine. She died, 1892,
at Newfane, New York.
3. James Addison 7 , born, 1825; married, 1844, Lucy
Abbie Lee of Dracut, Massachusetts. He was
killed by railroad train while crossing the track
at Woburn, 1847.
4. Charlotte 7 , born June, 1830, at Lowell; married,
1852, George D. B. Kelly of New Sharon,
Maine.
5. Edwin 7 , born October 17, 1832, at Acton; mar-
ried, November 3, 1864, at Concord, New
Hampshire, Henrietta A. Cole.
20 VII. James 6 , born July 14, 1796; married, September i, 1819,
Mary Creasy Estabrook.
12.
EPHRAIM 8 (Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*, Shadract?),
born May 3, 1755 ; married, April 13, 1780, Polly, or Molly,
Tuttle, born September 21, 1759; died March 5, 1796, and
he married second, January 23, 1800, Molly, or Polly, Hunt,
born November 22, 1765 ; resided one mile from the village
FIFTH GENERATION. 59
of West Acton, on the road to Littleton. He died March
28, 1828, and his widow, February 7, 1850.
CHILDREN by first wife.
I. Rebecca 6 , born September 8, 1780; married, April 24, 1810,
Jonathan Billings of Acton, clockmaker, who died Feb-
ruary 13, 1841. She died August 17, 1865.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Hapgood 7 Billings, born March 3, 1811;
married, October 13, 1835, Horace Ward of
Woburn.
2. Sophia 7 , born September 12, 1813 ; married Charles
Robinson of Bedford, September 3, 1840, and
died July 9, 1882.
3. Jonathan 7 , born March 6, 1815; died March i, 1816.
4. Jonathan 7 , born October 20, 1816; died March I,
1817.
5. Rebecca 7 , born January 22, 1818; died July 27,
1852.
6. William 7 , born April 26, 1819; died August 14,
1849; married, September 2, 1841, Hannah W.
Sargent; resided in Acton.
7. Lois Gibson 7 , born July 17, 1820; died December
10, 1838.
8. Luther 7 , born November 10, 1821 ; married, De-
cember 2, 1851, Martha A. Wormwood; resided
in Acton.
9. James E. 7 , born January 2, 1823; married, October
7, 1855, Tamson Miller; resided in Acton.
21 II. Ephraim 6 , born June 9, 1782, at Acton; married, May 23,
1805, Hannah Ball.
22 III. Nathaniel 6 , born at Acton, March 21, 1784; married, Feb-
ruary 22, 1810, Rebecca Stowe. f
IV. Susanna 6 , born March 12, 1786; married, December 24,
1807, Edward Wetherbee of Acton, tavern-keeper, born
April 19, 1782; died May 6, 1861. She died Novem-
ber 10, 1855.
CHILDREN, all born in Acton.
1. Mary 7 Wetherbee, born October 9, 1808 ; married,
May 26, 1831, Stephen Hosmer; resided in
Lowell, where she died, July 5, 1882.
60 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
2. Edward 7 , born June 21, 1810; died at Acton, May
12, 1867; a farmer ; unmarried.
3. Susanna 7 , born March 28, 1812; married, Sep-
tember 5, 1833, Abram White of Acton, born
August 22, 1812; resided at Acton, Ashby,
Townsend, and West Rindge, where he died
April 30, 1882. She died November 30, 1893,
at Lewiston, Maine.
4. Daniel 7 , born August 18, 1814; married, July 19,
1836, Clarissa, daughter of Abel and Lucy 6
(Hapgood) Jones, born October 6, 1817; resided
at Acton ; a merchant, miller, and farmer; died
July, 1883.
5. Sophia 7 , born March 11, 1817; married, December
29, 1842, Winthrop F. Conant, born June II,
1814. She died November 3, 1877, he, Septem-
ber 18, 1870.
6. Harriet 7 , born February 14, 1819; married, October
28, 1839, Winthrop Faulkner White, son of
Charlotte 6 Hapgood and John White, Jr., of
North Acton, born September 10, 1817. They
both still live, and carry on the farm in Concord.
23 V. Simon 6 , born January 2, 1788; married Mary Frazier.
VI. Polly 6 , born February 11, 1790; died January n, 1811.
VII. Sophia 6 , born February 13, 1792; married, April n, 1820,
Silas Taylor of Boxboro, born June 27, 1793; died
January 28, 1874; resided in Acton, a large and
wealthy farmer and leading citizen. She died March
10, 1869.
CHILDREN.
1. Sophia 7 Taylor, born March 8, 1821 ; died August
5, 1839.
2. Moses 7 , born April 16, 1822; married, June 18,
1846, Mary Elizabeth Stearns of Acton; died
December 16, 1895; resided on the homestead
of his father in Acton.
3. Silas 7 , born April 2, 1825 ; died March 18, 1844.
4. Martha 7 , born March 8, 1829; married, April 25,
1850, Hon. John Fletcher, Jr., born August 8,
1827. She died August 14, 1882.
VIII. Betsey 6 , born March 13, 1794; died September 24, 1819;
FIFTH GENERATION. 61
married, February 17, 1814, Simon Tuttle of Acton,
born February 7, 1793; he died September 17, 1864.
CHILDREN.
1. Simon 7 Tuttle, Jr., born ; married Mary A.
Sargent of Stow, May 2, 1839.
2. Susan 7 , born ; married, Archibald, of
Leominster.
IX. Molly Tuttle 6 , born March 5, 1796; married, February 23,
1823, Deacon Silas Hosmer of Acton. She died
August 21, 1831, of consumption; no children. He
married second, Mary Puffer.
24 X. John 6 , born February 10, 1802 (by second wife); married,
April 20, 1826, Mary Ann Hosmer.
26 XL Benjamin Franklin 6 , born November 3, 1805; married
Perciveranda Joy (or Jay) of Brattleboro, Vermont.
13.
CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH* (Ephraim*, Hezekiatf, Nathaniel*,
Shadrach 1 ), born December 23,1757, at Acton; married,
November 25, 1777, Dorcas Whitcomb of Stow, born 1761.
Settled first in Stow, with his uncle Jonathan, after whom he
named his first son. He enlisted at Sudbury in Captain
Wheeler's company, 1776; served in the Canadian expedi-
tion ; appears as private in Captain Edmund Longley's com-
pany, Colonel Cogswell's regiment, enlisted October I, 1778,
discharged December 31, 1778. Term of service, three months,
one day. Detached for purpose of guarding and fortifying
posts in and near Boston. Engaged to serve until January
i, 1779, to credit of Stow. Was chosen fire-ward at Stow,
1781, reeve, 1785 and 1788, captain, 1795, and selectman,
1795-96. Removed to South Waterford, Maine, 1797, with his
family, and to Fryeburg, 1810, where he purchased a large
tract of land, intending to settle all his sons there, but only
62 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
succeeded in keeping William, the seventh child, with whom
he resided till his death, October, 1818. His widow, Dorcas,
resided with her daughter Catharine, in Fryeburg, where
she died February 25, 1846.
CHILDREN.
I. Sarah 6 , born June 28, 1778, baptized same day; married,
1797, Jeduthan, born 1775, probably a son of Jeduthan
Alexander, who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.
CHILD.
1. Jonathan Hapgood 7 Alexander, born July 8, 1798 ;
died June i, 1873; married, March 26, 1822,
at Denmark, Maine, Mary Howe, born at Den-
mark, December 8, 1802 ; died January 18, 1884.
II. Jonathan 6 , born Novembers, 1779; probably died young.
III. Mercy 6 , born October 17, 1782; married, November 27,
1800, Moses Nourse. She died May 29, 1801.
IV. Betsey 6 , born 1783; married, April 18, 1804, Jesse Dunham
of Otisfield, Maine.
CHILD.
t
1. Permelia Robbins 7 Dunham, born October 29,
1807; married, May 13, 1824, James Wight,
born April 19, 1800, at Otisfield, where he died
June 13, 1871 ; a farmer.
26 V. Ephraim 6 , born January 3, 1785, at Stow, Massachusetts;
married, January 7, 1812, Fanny Willard of Harvard,
Massachusetts.
VI. Elizabeth 6 , baptized September 2, 1787. She probably
died young, as no further record of her is found.
27 VII. William 6 , baptized April 5, 1790, at Stow ; married, 1813, at
Fryeburg, Mary Harnden.
28 VIII. Sprout 6 , born April 27, 1793, at Stow; married, March 3,
1822, at Waterford, Betsey Sawin.
IX. Polly 6 , born May 25, 1795, at Stow, Massachusetts; bap-
tized May 31, 1795; married, December 8, 1818, at
Fryeburg, Maine, Elbridge Harnden, born at Wilming-
ton, Massachusetts, July 31, 1796; brother to William's
wife, Mary. Polly died at East Fryeburg, October 10,
1863, and Eldridge, November 18, 1874, at Denmark,
Maine.
FIFTH GENERATION. 63
CHILDREN, all bom in Fryeburg.
1. Calvin 7 Harnden, born December 16, 1819; mar.
ried, November 25, 1852, at Bridgton, Maine,
Rosanna Dennett, born September 4, 1826. He
died August 16, 1880, and she, September 20,
1884; resided in Fryeburg ; a farmer.
2. William 7 , born January 13, 1822; married, Novem-
ber 9, 1849, at Bridgton, Betsey Douglass, born
December, 1827, at Denmark. He died Febru-
ary 4, 1864, at Fryeburg.
3. Rebekah N. 7 , born March 6, 1824; married, March,
1842, at Bridgton, Jeduthan Trumbull, born
April 3, 1817, at Denmark. She died October 16,
1851.
4. Sarah 7 , born August 23, 1825 ; died March 28, 1832.
5. Elbridge, Jr. 7 , born August 7, 1827 ; died March 29,
1832.
6. Wyman 7 , born July 18, 1830; died March 27, 1832.
7. Elbridge 7 , born August 13, 1833; married, Decem-
ber 2, 1855, at Fryeburg, Phebe Ann Smith,
born in Bridgton, July 12, 1835. He died May
29, 1878.
8. Wyman 7 , born January 24, 1835; married, July 13,
1856, at Denmark, Eliza Fuller Warren, born
March 11,1834; resides at Fryeburg; a farmer.
X. Hezekiah, Jr. 6 , born at Waterford, 1799; died there March
29, 1816.
29 XI. Thomas 6 , born July 12, 1802, at Waterford; married, De.
cember 2, 1830, Jane Me Wain of Putney, Vermont.
XII. Catharine 6 , born April 7, 1807, at Waterford; married
January 10, 1826, Silas Warren, born February 20, 1802
at Denmark, where he resided. He died June 27, 1886,
in West Bridgton. She died January 21, 1872, in
Fryeburg.
CHILDREN.
1. Harriet 7 , born February 18, 1827; married, Decem-
ber 26, 1843, Asa O. Pike, born at Fryeburg^
November 25, 1822; died April 19, 1888.
2. Jane 7 , born January 4, 1832; died March 4, 1857.
64 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
14.
OLIVER 5 (Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born
August 12, 1762; married, February 10, 1785, Lucy Tuttle,
born June 9, 1762, at Littleton, Massachusetts; she died at
Waterford, December 5, 1819. Removed to Waterford,
Maine, September 9, 1785, settled in the southerly part of
that town, erected a carding mill, 1810. A large real estate
owner, and one of her most prominent and enterprising
citizens. He died November n, 1819.
CHILDREN.
30 I. Ephraim 6 , born November 26, 1786; married, March 24,
1816, Joanna Salmon.
II. -Lucy 6 , born March 18, 1788; married, April 17, 1817, at
Waterford, Isaac Towne of Bethel, a farmer. She
died November 3, 1839.
31 III. Artemas 6 , born June 14, 1789; married Mary Haskell.
IV. Nathaniel Tuttle 6 , born March 20, 1791; died Novem-
ber 6, 1820; unmarried.
32 V. Oliver, Jr. 6 , born December 30, 1794, at Otisfield, Maine ;
married, February 8, 1826, Abigail Welch of Ray-
mond, Maine.
15.
JONATHAN 5 (Ephraim*, Hezekiah 3 , Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 ),
born July 30, 1767, at Acton, Massachusetts. Had his uncle
Jonathan for guardian, December 30, 1780 ; married Abigail
Austin. Removed to Milton, Vermont, about 1788, and in the
spring of 1798, apparently feeling that the romance of frontier
life was losing its flavor in a place so densely populated, he
concluded to make a prospecting tour further west, where he
might establish a new home on the solemn border of a vast
wilderness. His judgment was good as to farming land, and
FIFTH GENERATION. 65
his taste dictated a settlement at Malone, Franklin County,
Northern New York. He took up 300 acres of timber land,
and through many hardships and privations, worked that
summer and the next, making a clearing and building a log
house for his family, which he brought the following year
(1800) from Milton. The new soil of Malone yielded abun-
dant crops that amply rewarded labor, and by skilful manipu-
lation, coupled with great industry and economy, he pros-
pered and became a wealthy farmer and prominent citizen.
The original purchase of 300 acres was situated three miles
due north from the present village of Malone, on the border
line of Constable. He was the first settler in Malone, then
"a howling wilderness" ; planted the first fruit orchard, and
showed to the world what pluck, energy, intelligence and
industry can produce and unfold. In 1820 he built a framed
house on the opposite side of the road from the old log house,
which he abandoned, and occupied the new structure up to
the time of his death. He had two sons, Cornelius and
Amos, born to him before he removed to his new home in
the wilderness, and four daughters afterward. He died
January I, 1843, and his widow died May 12 of the same
year.
CHILDREN.
33 I. Cornelius 6 , born October 13, 1789, at Milton, Vermont;
married, March I, 1819, Betsey Hutchins.
34 II. Amos 6 , born 1799, at Vergennes, Vermont; married, Feb-
ruary 25, 1821, Harriet Holmes.
III. Eliza 6 , born 1804, at Malone; married, 1824, Philamon
Crandall of Moira, Franklin County, New York, born
July 26, 1802, at Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont.
CHILDREN.
1. Jonathan William 7 Crandall, born October 16,
1825.
66 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
2. Cornelius 7 , born
3. Hezekiah 7 , born
4. Cordelia 7 , born -
5. Buel M 7 , born
6. Amelia A. 7 , born
7. Eda P. 7 , born
8. John R. 7 , born August 24, 1838.
9. Philancy E. 7 , born .
10. Sallie 7 , born .
11. Samuel B. 7 , born .
12. Alva B. 7 , born .
IV. Sarah 6 , born, 1809; married at Malone, Warren Wentworth,
born i8oi,in Vermont. He died October 10, 1870, and
she, December 5, 1844; resided in Constable, New
York ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. Woodbury 7 Wentworth, born ; died at
Malone, 1895.
2. Arabella 7 , born February 13, 1837, at Constable;
married, September 19, 1861, George W. Child
of Constable, born April 3, 1835; died March
25, 1881 ; resided in Chicago, Illinois.
3. Abbie, born ; married L. W. Conrad ;
resides in Chicago.
V. Abigail 6 , born 1812; died April u, 1829.
VI. Mary 6 , born about 1816; married Amos Bassett, at Malone ;
died about 1868.
CHILDREN.
1. Daughter 7 , born ; married ; died
, leaving two children.
2. Amos 7 Bassett, Jr., born ; resides in Malone.
16.
DEACON JOHN S (Shadraclf, Shadrach\ Nathaniel*, Shad-
rack 1 }, born June 20, 1771 ; was a true type of the south of
England yeomen, that came to New England among the
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early settlers, tall, slim, wiry, muscular, capable of enduring
great hardship. He was a worker in its broadest sense,
never happier than with a bush scythe in hand, assaulting
and destroying those prolific bushy intruders upon his soil ;
tilling his grounds with the care and taste of the skilled hus-
bandman. The massive stone walls still standing, so deftly
laid, exhibit mechanical taste and ingenuity that attest to his
skill and industry; and his fields, barren of these stone in-
cumbrances, are worthy the gratitude of his successors. It
was fortunate that so sturdy a race was thrown upon our
rugged soil. A feebler race in the midst of " a howling
wilderness," beset by barbed arrows in the hands of a savage
foe, and scarcely less savage beasts, awaiting an opportunity
to prey upon his defenceless flocks or family of children
would have quailed at the onset and abandoned the enter-
prise. But the stout hearts and stalwart frames of these
hardy farmers, bravely assisted by those noble women, their
wives and daughters, faced every foe and conquered every
obstacle, leaving to their descendants a heritage of which
they are justly proud.
He married, December 6, 1797, Mary, daughter of James
and Lydia Haskell, born in Harvard, November 25, 1776.
He bought lands from and adjoining the old Hapgood home-
stead, subsequently receiving additions therefrom, built there
extensive buildings, like most of the race, and by great in-
dustry and frugality, became a wealthy farmer. He was
selectman, 1803-4, parish treasurer, 1819, and for many years
deacon in the Orthodox church of the strictest order. He
died April 24, 1859, an< ^ hi wife, March 4, 1866.
CHILDREN.
I. John 6 , born October 6, 1798; died October 5, 1802.
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II. Mary 6 , born January 28, 1801 ; died September 26, 1803.
III. George 6 , born August 15, 1804; died September 16, 1808.
35 IV. John, Jr. 6 , born March 18, 1807; married Mary Ann Munroe.
V. Andrew 6 , born March 27, 1809. He received an academic
education, and at the age of eighteen, entered a dry-
goods store in Boston, where he remained about three
years. He then, in 1830, went into mercantile business
in Greensboro, Vermont, prosecuting it with great
energy. In the autumn of 1831, his knee became so
afflicted as to require on the I2th of April, 1832, am-
putation of his leg, but the disease had extended
through his system so that he died, unmarried, Septem-
ber 28, 1832, at his father's house in Harvard. A gen-
ial, brilliant, intelligent young man of great promise,
cut down in his 24th year.
VI. Mary 6 , born May 5, 1813; taught school for several years;
married, March 24, 1835, at Harvard, Peter Dudley
Conant, born at Boxboro, Massachusetts, April n,
1803; Mary being the only daughter, it was a great
trial for them to part with her, and as there was plenty
of land to cultivate and a small village of buildings,
the young couple were induced to remain with her
parents. The deacon was a strict temperance man,
and his son-in-law was like unto himself. They were
also in unison in matters of faith, and the union proved
a happy one. He died of consumption, March 20, 1862.
His widow still survives him. They had one daughter,
an only child, Mary Louisa Conant, born May 23, 1836;
married, December 20, 1860, Albert Atherton, son of
David and Susan (Randall) Pollard, born at Harvard,
December 6, 1831. He, too, settled on the old home-
stead founded by her grandfather, Deacon John Hap-
good, and her mother is enjoying her riper years amid
the blessings of a comfortable home from which she
has never been separated, and is surrounded by her
grandchildren, who are ever ready to contribute to her
happiness.
17.
JABEZ S (Shadmck*, Shadrack 3 , Nathaniel 1 *, Skadrach 1 },
born September 30, 1781 ; settled in the northern part of
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Harvard, and, like most of the other descendants of Shad-
rach 4 , was an industrious, frugal, and wealthy farmer ; married,
July 26, 1805, Susannah, daughter of James and Lydia
Haskell of Oak Hill, Harvard, sister to his brother John's
wife, both most excellent women and housewives, born July
26, 1781 ; died February 19, 1851. He died August 12, 1860.
CHILDREN.
I. Susan 6 , born October 20, 1806; married, April 9, 1829,
Josiah Hartwell, born in Shirley, January 23, 1799;
died September 19, 1851, in Groton. She died March
18, 1881, at Harvard, of typhoid pneumonia.
CHILDREN.
1. George 7 Hartwell, born November 24, 1830, at Har-
vard; married, September 13, 1856, in Boston,
Margaret Anna Stokell, born November 4, 1831,
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she
died February 21, 1897. He was a man of
energy, fond of horses, as was his father before
him; in various kinds of mercantile business,
with fluctuating fortune, and at the time of his
death, March 26, 1885, was a member of the
firm of D. C. Hall & Co., New York ; s. p.
2. Sarah 7 , born November 20, 1834; married, Febru-
ary 12, 1857, in Boston, William Henry Getchell,
born March 10, 1829, at Hallowell, Maine ;
removed to Peoria, Illinois ; returned to Bos-
ton and became a distinguished photographer.
Resides in Dorchester.
CHILD.
1. Frederick* Getchell, born January 19, 1858,
in Boston.
3. Ellen Cleora 7 , born December 15, 1848, at Harvard ;
she was adopted, 1876, by Amasa Davis and
Hannah 6 (Hapgood) Gamage of Boston, taking
her adopted father's name. Six years after his
decease, in 1881, she returned to her old home
in Harvard, which was unfortunately destroyed
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by fire, May 10, 1892 ; a more modern structure
was erected on the old site, near the common,
the following summer, where she now resides,
a cheerful, genial soul, much respected and
beloved; unmarried.
36 II. Henry 6 , born January 2, 1808; married, May 8, 1839, Ann
Matilda Estabrook.
III. George 6 , born December 12, 1809; married, November 12,
1843, at Hartford, Connecticut, Cleora Morgan, born
October 19, 1810, at Northfield, and died in Leominster,
Massachusetts, May 13, 1850; no children. George
was a good scholar and one of the most intelligent
and energetic young men in " Old Mill " district.
He worked on the home farm till he was of age, then
went to Leominster and found employment in a comb
factory, that industry being somewhat extensive in that
and the adjoining town of Lancaster, at that time.
Fashions changed, the business languished, and to-day
many of the factories are in ruins. He was a hard-
working, economical man, saved his earnings and
invested his money with prudence and good judgment,
and at the end of twenty-one years, 1860, returned to
the farm with a handsome fortune. He assisted his
aged father on the farm, and at his death became the
proprietor. His wife having died in 1850, his two
maiden sisters, Lizzie and Lydia, both very capable,
united their interests with his, and the trio together
carried on the farm in a neat, profitable, and husband-
like manner. He was a brave, uncomplaining man, and
died suddenly of Bright's disease and ossification of
the valves of the heart, November 21, 1878.
IV. Elizabeth 6 , born November 15, 1811 ; had a good common-
school education ; resided the greater part of her life
with her parents on the farm in " Old Mill " ; was an
excellent housewife, neat, industrious, economical and
painstaking; inherited from her father a vein of humor,
and, with him, very constant at church on Sundays.
By nature, reserved, unostentatious and modest, caring
little for the giddy whirl of society, but attending
faithfully to every duty of domestic life, and never
happier than when setting her house in order. She
was strictly a domestic woman, making home cheerful
Oeorcie
FIFTH GENERATION. 71
and others happy. When George assumed the respon-
sibility of running the large farm, no one ever had
better helpmates than he, or more united and pros-
perous. By the marriage of Lydia, 1877, to Mr. Hart-
well, the charmed circle was broken, and by the death
of George, in 1878, destroyed. In 1879 she removed
to Shirley and was again united with Lydia, whose
husband died the previous year, leaving his widow in
possession of his estate. They remained here for two
years, then returned to Harvard and occupied the
Holman house, near the common. April 10, 1883,
Lydia was married to Luke Whitney of Bare Hill,
West Harvard, for second husband. He died July n,
1884, and she returned to abide with her sister till
separated by the hand of death. In 1891 they pur-
chased a lot and erected the beautiful and commodious
house on the Littleton road, occupied by them to the
time of Elizabeth's death, by pneumonia, January 2,
1897.
V. Nancy 6 , born July 26, 1814; married, April 17, 1838, at
Harvard, Phineas Holden, son of Ellis and Miriam
(Holden) Harlow, born December 14, 1814, in Old
Mill district, Harvard, and educated in the public
school. He bought the Robbins' farm at the northerly
end of Pin Hill, settled down with his most excellent
and frugal wife, where they spent the remainder of
their days; prospered, and reared a large family of
honored and respected children, none in town more
sensibly indulged or kindly treated. The mother died
January 25, 1883, and the father followed August 23,
1890.
CHILDREN.
1. Ann Eliza 7 Harlow, born March 23, 1839; resides
atAyer; unmarried.
2. Charles Ellis 7 (Corporal), born at Harvard, Mas-
sachusetts, November 6, 1840, where he
received his early education. For several years
he remained on the farm with his parents,
then went to Boston and was employed in a
provision store a few years. August 25, 1862,
he enlisted as private for nine months in the
Eleventh Massachusetts battery, Captain Ed-
ward J. Jones, and reported at Camp Meigs,
72 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Readville, which place they left in October for
a camp of instruction at Washington. In
November the company, being equipped as a
six-gun battery, crossed the Potomac at Chain
Bridge, into Virginia, occupying a position on
Hall's Hill. As no enemy appeared they were
ordered to Centreville, where the winter was
spent doing guard duty, attached to Twenty-
second army corps. About the 2oth of May
reported at Washington, turned over the
guns to the arsenal, and returned to Boston,
where, a few days later, they were mustered out
of service, having nowhere met the enemy in the
field.
In December, 1863, he re-enlisted in same
battery, under same commander, as corporal,
for three years, finding about fifty of the old
boys with him, who were mustered in, January
2, 1864. On February 5, they proceeded to
Washington and were attached to Ninth army
corps, under Burnside, at Camp Barry, District
of Columbia. Here he was taken down with fever,
dysentery, and pneumonia, and died March 2,
1864. The remains were forwarded to his native
town for interment.
3. Edward Omar 7 , born December 25, 1842; married,
February 15, 1872, at Gloucester, Massachusetts,
Mary Lowe Poole, born April 13, 1837; resides
at Ayer, Massachusetts; a provision dealer.
4. Clara Miriam 7 , born January 31, 1845; married, at
Harvard, November 3, 1880, Eugene Manley
Niles, born September 7, 1847, at North Jay,
Maine; resides at North Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts.
5. Susan Matilda 7 , born April 23, 1847 ; died Decem-
ber 27, 1871, at Harvard; unmarried.
6. Adaline Sawyer 7 , born July 21, 1849; resides at
Ayer; unmarried.
7. George Hapgood 7 , born December 10, 1851 ; mar-
ried, June 14, 1879, at Jay Bridge, Maine, Ada
Frances Ludden, born November n, 1852, at
Livermore, Maine ; resides at Somerville, Mas-
sachusetts ; he is a salesman in Boston ; s. p.
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8. John Bowker, born June 28, 1854; married, Febru-
ary 8, 1893, at Harvard, Carrie Etta Cobleigh,
born in Boxboro, April 10, 1866; settled on the
homestead of his father; a quiet, industrious
and prosperous farmer, a good citizen, and from
year to year making improvements on his farm.
9. Mary Wetherbee, born December 23, 1857; died
April 27, 1865.
VI. Lydia Haskell 6 , born July 14, 1819; a bright, cheerful, ami-
able girl, never leaving home for any great length of
time till her marriage, November 27, 1877, to Jeremiah
Chaplin Hartwell, brother to her sister Susan's hus-
band, born August 31, 1807, in Shirley, where he died
suddenly of heart failure in a field near his house,
October 14, 1878. In 1879 her sister came to live
with her till 1881, when they removed to Harvard Cen-
tre. She married second, April 10, 1883, Luke Whit-
ney of Bare Hill, West Harvard, an honorable, upright,
well-to-do farmer. On the second day of July, 1884, he
climbed an old cherry tree, quite near the house, for
some cherries, and in his eagerness for the fruit, ven-
tured too far out on a limb, which broke and precip-
itated him to the ground, causing a compound fracture
of the spine. Death did not immediately ensue, but
sensation was, below the upper break, suspended,
while the brain remained normal to the time of death,
July 11, 1884. This calamity caused her sister
Elizabeth to open her arms and welcome her back to
her home. They remained in the Holman house till
1891, when, having ample means, they bought a house
lot on the Littleton road, near the common, and built
the pretty house occupied by them to the time of the
death of her sister, January 2, 1897. She still resides
there ; no children.
VII. Lucy 6 , born June 6, 1823; resided with her parents, and
died unmarried, September 27, 1859.
18.
JoEL 5 (Shadrack*, Shadrach*, Nathaniel 2 , Shadrack 1 } was
born in Harvard, March 26, 1788, and educated in the Old
74 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Mill school. He bought, of his father, for $620, a part of the
old homestead farm and dwelling, founded by his grand-
father Shadrach 3 , about 1727, and settled there; deed signed
by Shadrach and Elizabeth, April 12, 1809, recorded May
29, 1809. [ Worcester Register of Deeds, Book 175, Page
292.]
The house was one of the first of large frame houses
built in what was then Stow, but became Harvard on the
incorporation of that town in 1732, and was located about
one and one-fourth miles north of the first meeting-house,
on what was known as "Stow Leg." The building was of
the Colonial style, two stories in front and running down
back to one story, with long kitchen, large chimney, fire-
place, oven and ash pit ; it also served as dining, sitting and
reception room on ordinary occasions. It had a portico
in front with large hall opening into spacious rooms on either
side. It was glazed with lozenge-shaped glass, set in lead, a
portion of which remained down to the early part of the
present century, as we well remember ; the other part was
presumably stripped of its lead and bestowed to the cause
of liberty, in the shape of bullets. Here the large families
of the two Shadrachs, Joel and Jonathan, were reared, and
educated in the little Old Mill district red-brick school-
house, a mile away, while the meeting-house and the middle
of the town were a mile and a quarter in the opposite
direction. Previous to his marriage, in 1812, Joel built the
annex, or house, at the west end of the original mansion, con-
nected with and opening into it, so that he could at all times
pass in and out, as his duty in caring for the comfort of his
parents might require, by day or night. He bought the
"Deacon Stone" farm, off the main road, about midway
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between his own farm and the middle of the town, and car-
ried it on for many years, but finally disposed of it. He
also owned other outlands, and was a prosperous and wealthy
farmer.
His son Jonathan succeeded to the occupancy of the origi-
nal house, carrying on the farm for half its products, during
the natural life of his father and stepmother. She outlived
him, and his son Charles assumed the conditions of the
covenant.
Joel married first, November 12, 1812, Sally 7 Fairbank,
born September 23, 1792, died January 19, 1820, daughter of
Jonathan 6 Fairbank (born September 4, 1758, died September
8, 1840), by his wife, Hannah Hale of Stow, born April 27,
1763, died September 19, 1849, an< ^ granddaughter of Cap-
tain Joseph 5 (born November 4, 1722; married October 4,
1749; died May 28, 1802), by his wife, Abigail Tarbell of
Groton, born June 6, 1721; married October 4, 1749; died
April 12, 1798, and great granddaughter of Deacon Joseph 4 ,
born, 1693, died December 6, 1772; married, April 21, 1718,
Mary Brown, who died November 14, 1791, and great great
granddaughter of Captain Jabez 3 (born in Lancaster 8 : 1 1 :
1670, died March 2, 1758), and his wife, Mary Wilder, born
in 1675, died February 21, 1718, and great great great grand-
daughter of Jonas 2 Fairbank, one of the original proprietors
of Lancaster, who married, May 28, 1658, Lydia, daughter of
John Prescott, who came from Sowerby, England, born in
Watertown, Massachusetts, August 15, 1641. Jonas, with
his son Joshua, was slain by the Indians at the burning of
Lancaster, February 10, 1676. Jonas moved from Dedham
to Lancaster in 1657, was the son of Jonathan and Grace
(Lee) Fairebanke, who came from Yorkshire to Boston,
76 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
1633, and Dedham, 1636, bringing Jonas in infancy. He
was a man of consideration and moral worth and allied in
England to men of standing. He was, without doubt, the
common ancestor of all New England families who spell
their names Fairbank or Fairbanks. Joel Hapgood married
second, January 30, 1822, Charlotte, daughter of Jason and
Silence Mead, born December 22, 1791.
He was the youngest of the four robust sons of Shadrach 4 ,
all frugal, industrious and prosperous farmers. They all had
peculiar and similar traits, and yet each had considerable
individuality. Their lands were cultivated and kept exceed-
ingly neat and in good taste, fenced mostly with massive
stone walls, ever in good repair, crops gathered promptly,
and a village of buildings, nicely painted, seemed to be their
delight. Order was the rule of the household and farm.
Everything must be in place, and there must be a place for
everything. They were all fairly good mechanics, but none
great scholars, nor have any of the four, except in a single
instance, a great grandchild living bearing the Hapgood
name. It is painful to see so many of these old American
families becoming extinct. He was favored by fortune in
the choice of his second wife. She was an intelligent, agree-
able woman, with a vein of humor in her composition, and
could neatly parry the ready wit of a rival. Having no
children of her own, she readily adopted and devoted herself
to the three children by the first wife, none of which ever
regarded her as any other than their own dear mother. We
copy from the Clinton Courant of December 31, 1881, the
following notice :
HARVARD.
The quiet little town of Harvard was very pleasantly agitated on
Thursday, the 22d inst., in a 'reception ' given by Mrs. Charlotte Hap-
Cbarlotte (/Ifceafc) Tbapgoofc.
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good, at her residence, from 12 M. to 3 p. M., in commemoration of her
ninetieth birthday. The weather was quite unpropitious, but about
ninety of her neighbors and friends assembled to pay their respects to
the dear memories of the past and the bright hopes for the future. Few
people of her age are in a better state of preservation. Her step is not
as elastic as it was forty years ago, but she moves about with great
facility, and can walk her mile with as much ease as some younger per-
sons ; nor is her sight or hearing very much impaired. She has always
enjoyed good health, and we attribute this very largely to her cheerful
disposition. It was her loveliness and magnetism of character that drew
together so many loving hearts upon the present occasion. This vener-
able lady still retains her interest in the church, in public affairs, and
even reads the newspapers with as much zest as ever ; and although she
is not able to minister to the sick and needy as generously as in earlier
days, she sympathizes fully with those who are sick or in trouble.
The 3oth of January, 1822, was a fortunate day for the late Joel Hap-
good, when Charlotte Mead consented to become his companion for life,
and a mother to his three small children. We have known her intimately
from infancy, have shared her kindness, partaken of her generous hos-
pitality, and may say, without any attempt at flattery, that no family ever
had a more conscientious, self-sacrificing, devoted mother than did this
one ; in fact, we have never seen her in anger ; we have often seen her
rise in her lofty, womanly dignity, in scorn above some uncivil remark,
some discourteous treatment, but we have never witnessed that unrea-
soning ebulition, that sort of volcanic explosion that sometimes emanates
from certain quarters. She was more likely to parry such assaults by
some humorous or witty retort, in such gentle, smiling manner as to
place the offender hors de combat and compel his respect. Another
peculiarity of this woman's life was that she always had plenty to do.
What a blessing ! She never ate the bread of idleness, nor did Satan
find in her nimble fingers any mischievous desires to appropriate. And
now I say to the young reader, her example is before you. Do you
covet longevity ? Be cheerful, be industrious, be self-sacrificing, and
your days will be many and full of honor. H.
He died September 28, 1855, and his widow, July 17, 1884.
CHILDREN, all by first marriage.
37 I. Jonathan Fairbank 6 , born January 15, 1814; married first,
Susan Wetherbee.
II. Hannah 6 , born May 14, 1815; married first, April 14, 1836,
Hiram, son of Thomas and Polly (Whitney) Houghton,
born in Harvard, April 1 6, 1814. At the time of his
marriage, he purchased a farm about three-quarters of
a mile southeast 'of the middle of the town of Harvard,
adjoining that of his father on the opposite side of
the road, and resided there about four years. He
was the only child of his parents, whose advancing
years and declining health rendered it proper and
fitting that he should dispose of his farm and return
78 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
to the old homestead, in charge of the farm and his
venerable parents. He died January 2, 1853 ; had one
child, born April 26, 1837; died at birth. She married
second, March 4, 1856, Amasa Davis Gamage of Boston,
a brother of Julia Adelaide Gamage, the wife of her
brother, Warren Hapgood, born January 19, 1815.
Left an orphan at the age of eight years, he was
placed on a farm at Westminster, Massachusetts,
where he remained six years, and then returned to his
native city. After a period spent at Mr. Thayer's
celebrated Chauncey Hall School, he entered a whole-
sale dry-goods store in Central street, where he
remained several years ; later on, he was employed by
Ladd & Hall, who were doing an extensive Nova
Scotia trade. For many years cashier and confidential
clerk with that firm in Chatham street, and on the
death of Mr. Ladd, the senior member, became a
partner, under firm name of John G. Hall & Co., which
continued up to the time of his death. He resided
with his widowed mother till her death, 1867, and
then removed to Charlestown where he died, March
12, 1881.
He became an active member of Tiger Engine
Company No. 7, 1835 ; member of Boston Light
Infantry, 1838 ; Attentive Fire Society, 1867, and was a
member of the Boston Veteran Firemen's Association.
He was constant in business, a firm friend, of strict
integrity, and upright and honorable in all his dealings.
His widow resides at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts,
and well sustains her character as an industrious,
prudent, economical housewife, rather retiring from
society, except to a few familiar friends.
38 III. Warren 6 , born October 14, 1816; married, January 14,
1852, Julia Adelaide Gamage.
19.
DANIEL 5 (Daniel*, DanieP, Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born
March 9, 1796 ; married at Stow, May 16, 1831, Rebecca W.
(Brooks) Davis of Templeton, Massachusetts. She died May
fcannab
Gamacie.
FIFTH GENERATION. 78a
JONATHAN 6 FAIRBANK was born in Harvard, 1758, settled
on the homestead of his father, Joseph ; married Hannah
Hale of Stow.
CHILDREN.
1. Artemas 7 , born November 3, 1787; married, January 25,
1816, Rachel Houghton; settled with his father on the
homestead in East Bare Hill, Harvard, where he died
July 22, 1874.
2. Jonathan 7 , born December 29, 1788; was twice married;
lived with his parents during the brief period of his
first marriage, but after the second (1821), he bought
the Gates farm, adjoining, and built the mansion
house, where he spent the remainder of his days.
The following obituary appeared in the Clinton,
Courant, October 22, 1881.
Died, on the 3d inst., after a brief illness of three days, at the advanced age
of ninety-two years, Deacon Jonathan Fairbank.
In this death the town has sustained the loss of one of its oldest and most
esteemed citizens. He was born in the old Fairbank mansion, in the south
part of Harvard, called " Bare Hill," December 29, 1788, and descended from
Jonathan and Grace (Lee) Fairbank, who came to this country from York-
shire, England, about 1636, and who are presumed to be the common ancestors
of all of that name in this country. Here he was raised to habits of industry
and economy, receiving a good common-school education, where he was
regarded an excellent scholar.
Quite early in life he manifested superior mechanical and artistic skill and
taste, and many traces of his originality may still be seen in the houses of his
kindred, in designs for furniture ornamentation, both in carving and painting,
and in fancy and ornamental inscriptions of various kinds. His minority was,
however, spent with his parents on the farm, but on arriving at his majority,
he at once commenced mechanical business, first as a carpenter, and later,
cabinet maker. It must be borne in mind that at that early period there were
no ready-made furniture stores as at present, and to furnish a house orders
must be given to a " cabinet maker " for the furniture, who was as well a
lumber dealer, in the absence of lumber yards, which greet our eyes in almost
every large town to-day. Nor was it possible to buy a set of tools such as are
in the hands of the merest tyro of to-day ; and our young aspirant had to
make his own simple set of tools. His success was the more remarkable
since he never served an apprenticeship to any trade, but took it up by mere
force of will and natural ingenuity ; and many a bridal outfit was the result of
the taste, skill, and handiwork of young Fairbank, as may be seen to-day in
some of the old houses in his native town.
February 25, 1817, he married Hannah Howard of Bolton, still making a
pleasant home under the paternal roof, working most of the time in his little
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shop where he had been so successful, but occasionally assisting his father,
during hurried seasons, in farming. His wife died in 1819, aged twenty-four
years. September 19, 1820, he married Sally Hartwell of Littleton.
In the spring of 1821 he purchased the large and well-known " Gates farm,"
adjoining his father's, which he then occupied. The old Gates house was
not, however, to his taste, and during the following summer he built the
large mansion house on the main road. This was his happy home for nearly
sixty years, and here the last rites of sepulture were performed.
By the second marriage were born two sons Jonathan Howard, in 1825,
and Daniel Hartwell, in 1830. J. Howard deceased in 1840, D. Hartwell
alone surviving both parents. Howard, as he was familiarly called, was a
bright, intelligent, promising boy, and his early death cast a deep gloom over
his parents for years, and even down to the very end of his life the deacon
could not speak of his darling boy without a pang.
In his business of farming he was admirably sustained in all his movements
by a most estimable wife, whose energy and good judgment were ever equal
to any emergency. The milk of twenty cows was to be converted into butter
and cheese ; wool must be carded, spun, and woven into cloth for family use
nay, more, must be cut and made into garments; company must be enter-
tained, and no woman in Harvard could do it with more royal grace, nor were
many houses better furnished or more homelike.
He was educated under the most rigid form of the Orthodox faith, his
parents remaining in that fold to the end of their honorable lives. It was
prior to the pastorate of the Rev. Mr. Blanchard that an unhappy schism
separated the first church, the Orthodox or Puritanic branch seceding and
building a new house of worship, while the Unitarian or Monotheistic branch
remained in the old church. The subject of these remarks remained with the
latter. He was tendered the best pew in the house, was elected deacon,
which office he held for fifty-eight years, and Was a most constant worshipper
as long as he could hear. He was of even temper and at peace with all men.
No one ever spoke ill of him, or had occasion to. Not a teetotaler, but
strictly a temperate man during the whole of his long life, and this, together
with his cheerful disposition and regular habits, as well as constant industry,
working down to within three or four days of his final departure, may account
for his great length of days. But he has gone "where the just made perfect"
go, and left the record of a noble life and character to others. H.
" Deacon Fairbank was a captain of militia during 1812-14. He was
chosen deacon of the first church (Unitarian) of Harvard in 1823, holding
that office for fifty-eight years. He was the fifth and last of five deacons
Fairbank, in unbroken succession in Harvard's first church from its
foundation in 1733, a period of nearly 150 years."
3. Sally 7 , born September 23, 1792; married, November 12,
1812, Joel Hapgood, and died January 19, 1820, leaving
three children : Jonathan, Hannah, and Warren.
The record of Deacon Fairbank was accidentally omitted, and is here in-
serted with his portrait.
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n, 1835, and he married second, March 20, 1836, Clarissa
Dearth, born October i, 1811, at Stewartstown, New Hamp-
shire; she died August 20, 1886, at Ashburnham, Massa-
chusetts; resided in Templeton, where he died, 1874, a
prominent and prosperous farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Daniel 6 , born May 13, 1832, at Templeton (by first wife),
the only great grandson and heir by the name of
Hapgood, from Deacon Daniel, the inheritor of the
homestead of Shadrach the first; died February 4,
1861, at Townsend ; unmarried.
II. John Dearth 6 , born July 12, 1837 (by second wife); died
September 9, 1866, at Townsend; unmarried. .
III. Euthera 6 , born October 28, 1838; died October 23, 1861.
IV. Jerusha 6 , born July 25, 1840; died January 21, 1864, at
Ashburnham.
V. Mary Esther 6 , born October 8, 1841 ; married, June 18,
1859, David William Day, born March 30, 1837, at
South Orange, Massachusetts ; resides at Leominster,
Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
1. Frank E. 7 Day, born May 16, 1860, at Leominster.
2. A son 7 , born May 14, 1862, at Clinton, Massa-
chusetts.
3. Minnie B. 7 , born December 13, 1864, at Leomin-
ster ; married, August 5,1887, Charles Marsh
of Swanzey, New Hampshire.
4. Julia A. 7 , born January 16, 1866, at Ashburnham ;
married, October 30, 1890, at Leominster, Orion
Burgess of Ayer, Massachusetts.
5. William Fisher 7 , born January 14, 1868, at Leom-
inster; married, March 21, 1893, Gertrude Fife
of Pembroke, New Hampshire.
6. Walter Edward 7 , born September 5, 1870, at
Leominster ^ married, March 22, 1893, Minnie
E. Marsh of Swanzey.
7. Hannah Colton 7 , born January 22, 1873, at Fitch-
burg; married, July 4, 1894, at Leominster,
Fred O. Bishop of Swanzey.
80 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
8. Mabel Kendall 7 , born February 19, 1875, at Fitch-
burg; married at Leominster, August 7,1893,
Fred Foster of England.
9. Arthur John 7 , born September 27, 1878, at Leom-
inster.
10. Blanch Elizabeth 7 , born December i, 1880.
11. Charles 7 , born September 20, 1882.
12. Warren Hollis 7 , born January 12, 1886.
SIXTH GENERATION.
20.
CAPTAIN JAMES" (Abraham*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathan-
iel*, Skadrach 1 }, born July 14, 1796; married, September i,
1819, at Lexington, Massachusetts, Mary Creasy, daughter
of Samuel and Abigail (Warren) Estabrook, born April 6,
1802, at Brookline, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of
Reverend Joseph Estabrook of Concord, one of the first
settlers and minister there, for nearly fifty years. She was a
woman of rare ability and a real helpmeet in the rearing of
their numerous family.
After his father's death he removed from West Acton to
East Acton, on the " Great Road " from Boston to Keene,
New Hampshire, then the great thoroughfare of travel
through Acton.
He filled various offices of trust in his native town, was
commissioned, in 1827, Captain of Militia company, Third
regiment, First brigade, Third division of Infantry, and was
for many years identified with the history of the town.
Besides carrying on his large farm, he was usually engaged
in other business enterprises. He invested in real estate in
the city of Lowell, when that place was becoming a
SIXTH GENERATION. 81
manufacturing centre, and after his time for active business
had passed, he moved there to spend his declining years, two
of his children having settled there before him. He left a
visible monument to his memory in the rows of beautiful
elms he planted, bordering the road through his farm in East
Acton. His estimable wife died at Lowell, July 21, 1871,
and he, November 5, 1872. Both are interred in Lowell
Cemetery.
CHILDREN.
I. Abram 7 , born June 8, 1820; married, July 26, 1846, at
Lowell, Roxana, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Wilson,
born 1825, at New Boston, New Hampshire. He died
at New Orleans, April 21, 1867; a merchant.
CHILDREN.
I. Henrietta 8 , born 1847 ; died 1864, at New Orleans,
Louisiana.
II. Sarah Wilson 8 , born 1848; died at Lowell, 1852.
III. George Woodman 8 , born 1850; killed at Boston
by railroad accident, 1880.
IV. Fred Eugene 8 , born July 29, 1854; went to sea and
not since heard from.
V. Wilson 8 , born 1858, at Mount Sterling, Illinois;
died there February, 1859.
II. Mary Elizabeth 7 , born January 14, 1822; married, June 6,
1849, at Nashua, New Hampshire, Elbridge, son of
John and Sallie (Jones) Robbins, born in Acton, March
23, 1811 ; a large farmer and dealer in live-stock; died
October 19, 1890. His widow still survives him.
CHILDREN.
1. Chauncy Bowman 8 Robbins, born April 15, 1850;
succeeded to his father's large farm and busi-
ness in Acton; unmarried.
2. Howard Jackson 8 , born March 14, 1852; married,
September 27, 1883, at Independence, Kansas,
Urena, daughter of Doctor J. D. Hollis of Knox-
ville, Iowa.
3. Sarah Frances 8 , born August 30, 1854; married,
July 21, 1879, at Acton, Silas Taylor, son of John
82 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
and Martha (Taylor) Fletcher, born February
18, 1854; resides in Maiden, Massachusetts; a
merchant in Boston.
4. Charles Joseph 8 , born February 23, 1856; married,
September 21, 1892, at Acton, Blanche Mady
Bassett, born May 29, 1871 ; resides in Shelton,
Nebraska, dealer in live-stock and grain.
5. Webster Gushing 8 , born January 28, 1860; mar-
ried, May 25, 1885, Amelia Harriet Nichols,
born September 20, 1865, at Danbury, Connecti-
cut; resides in Acton, a live-stock dealer.
6. George Harvey 8 , born October 29, 1862; resides
in Acton ; a druggist, unmarried.
39 III. William Estabrook Stearns 7 , born November 19, 1823 ;
married, February 17, 1847, Maria Haven of Lowell.
IV. Frances Emily 7 , born October 2, 1825; married first, at
Nashua, New Hampshire, May, 1850, Wesley Hind-
man; died in Massachusetts, 1865, and she married
second, at Galveston, Texas, July 17, 1871, Abram
Hoxie of Easton, New York ; resides in Galveston ; a
civil engineer. No children.
V. Julia Ann 7 , born September 8, 1827; married, November
25, 1852, at Acton, Ira Franklin Lawry, born at Vinal
Haven, Maine ; resides in Taunton, Massachusetts ;
manufacturer.
CHILD.
1. Charles Allison 8 Lawry, born January I, 1855, at
Newburyport, Massachusetts ; married, Novem-
ber 1 8, 1878, Mary Louise ; resides in
Taunton ; a book-keeper.
VI. Charlotte Maria 7 , born August 21, 1829; married, January
T 7) l &55i at Boston, Lewis Lawry of Vinal Haven;
resides in Taunton ; a manufacturer.
CHILD.
1. Lillian Gertrude 8 Lawry, born November 30, 1868,
at Newburyport ; unmarried.
VII. Annette 7 , born August 8, 1831; resides in Taunton;
unmarried.
VIII. Sarah Robbins 7 , born May 6, 1834; married, June 25, 1867,
at Galveston, Texas, Henry Jackson Beebe, born
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Louisville, Kentucky, about 1834, reared in New
Orleans, where he became a wholesale merchant;
removed to Galveston in 1873, and died there April 25,
1878.
CHILDREN.
1. Inez Florence* Beebe, born September 30, 1868, at
New Orleans ; resides in Galveston ; a teacher.
2. Dee 8 , born January 8, 1870, at New Orleans;
resides in Galveston ; an artist.
3. Pantine 8 , born October 21, 1873, at Galveston ; died
July 4, 1890.
IX. James 7 , born May 29, 1836; died May i, 1851, at Acton.
X. Ellen Augusta 7 , born June 20, 1838; married, November
13, 1866, at Galveston, James Taylor Huffmaster,
born at Newport, Kentucky ; resides in Galveston ;
bank accountant.
CHILDREN.
1. Helen 8 Huffmaster, born March 6, 1868.
2. Blanche 8 , born July 9, 1874.
3. Beatrice 8 , born September 19, 1875.
4. Edna 8 , born November 20, 1877.
5. Hu Taylor 8 , born February 3, 1880.
XI. John Estabrook 7 , born October 19, 1840; married, August
20, 1874, at Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth
Lowey Payne, born September 3, 1857, at Coal Valley,
Pennsylvania, daughter of James Payne, Jr. ; resides
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; machinist.
CHILDREN.
I. Lowey Payne 8 , born March 21, 1876, at Pittsburgh,
where he resides ; a doctor.
II. James Estabrook 8 , born January 22, 1885.
III. Frances Sarah 8 , born October 14, 1894. )
IV. Chauncy Lewis 8 , born October 14, 1894. y
XII. Abbie Victoria 7 , born January 20, 1843; married, Decem-
ber 20, 1866, at Lowell, Hiram Edwin Wheeler, born
in Concord, Massachusetts ; resided at Lowell ; a
merchant; died November 2, 1875, an d sne married
second, April 14, 1894, at Lowell, James Menzies of
Montrose, Scotland; resides in City of Mexico; mana-
ger of Mexican Telephone Company.
84 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILD.
1. Ethel Gertrude 8 Wheeler, born July 13, 1868, at
Lowell ; married, October 9, 1895, Frank Page
Cheney of that place.
21.
EPHRAIM 6 (Ephraim*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*,
Shadrach 1 ), born June 9, 1782; married, May 23, 1805, to
Hannah Ball of Bolton ; resided in Acton, a farmer and
cooper, on the farm now occupied by his son Andrew. He
died February 3, 1849.
CHILDREN.
I. Harriet 7 , born February 23, 1806, at Acton; married, Octo-
ber 7, 1830, Joseph Bartlett Barry, born at Rocking-
ham, Vermont, September 2, 1806; died January 7,
1861, at Ovid, New York. His widow died at same
place, September 8, 1884.
CHILDREN.
1. Calista Ann 8 Barry, born July 10, 1832, at Shirley,
Massachusetts; married, August 29, 1849, Rev-
erend Bowles Colgate Townsend, at Ovid, Seneca
County, New York.
2. James 8 , born November 12, 1833, at Lowell;
married, February 10, 1858, at Elmira, Chemung
County, New York, Mary Elizabeth Sly.
3. Joseph Bartlett 8 , Jr., born September 2, 1835, at
Ovid; married, September 2, 1857, at Terre
Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, Mattie Keyes, a
graduate from Elmira College, New York, 1861.
He was graduated from Madison Theological
Seminary, 1867, ordained a Baptist minister, and
died May 30, 1889.
4. Hannah Hapgood 8 , born October n, 1837, at
Ovid ; married, September 7, 1864, Edwin Clark
Parker of Ovid.
II. Hannah 7 , born July 5, 1807; married, May 12, 1829,
George Baldwin of Concord. She married second,
SIXTH GENERATION. 85
Nathan Raymond of Boxboro', born 1787. She died
November 23, 1855.
CHILDREN.
1. Harriet 8 Raymond, born March, 1836; died 1873,
or 1874.
2. Ephraim Hapgood 8 , born March, 1838; married
Eunice Blanchard; resides in Somerville; a
milk dealer.
3. Marcus Morton 8 , born February i, 1841 ; married
and resides in Somerville ; a milk dealer.
III. Maria 7 , born May 14, 1809; married, January i, 1829, Ira
Stockwell of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, born 1805.
CHILDREN.
1. George Baldwin 8 Stockwell, born July 21, 1830;
died December 3, 1886.
2. Cyrus Hapgood 8 , born July 16, 1832 ; resided in
Peoria, Illinois; enlisted in Company G, Sev-
enty-seventh regiment, Illinois Volunteers, made
sergeant ; died May 13, 1864, at New Orleans,
of wounds received in battle.
3. Eben Smith 8 , born April 17, 1838; resided at
Healdsburg, California, where he died March
28, 1867.
4. Ann Maria 8 , born March 28, 1840; married, Octo-
ber ii, 1861, David Woods. He died, and she
married, second, George W. Greene.
40 IV. Ephraim 7 , born September 16, 1812; married, February
19, 1837, Harriet Amanda Whitten of Cavendish, Ver-
mont.
V. Ann 7 , born February 25, 1817; drowned in a small brook,
quite near the house, September 10, 1819.
VI. Thomas Tuttle 7 , born October 26, 1820; died October 27,
1822.
41 VII. Andrew 7 , born August 28, 1823 ; married Eliza Ann Adams
of Hollis, New Hampshire.
VIII. Edwin 7 , born July 21, 1830; died August 8, 1831.
22.
NATHANIEL 6 (Ephraim^, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*,
Shadrach*), born March 21, 1784; married by Reverend E.
86 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Ripley, February 22, 1810, Rebecca, daughter of Nathan and
Abigail Stowe of Concord, born May 22, 1783 ; died February
28, 1873. He died February 10, 1874, at Acton; a farmer
and leading citizen.
CHILDREN.
I. Nathan Stowe 7 , born December 13, 1810; died December
14, 1831.
II. Rebecca 7 , born March 7, 1812; died June 28, 1836.
III. Mary 7 , born April 19, 1814; died March 24, 1816.
IV. Nathaniel 7 , born March 5, 1816 ; taught school in early man-
hood ; went to California, 1849 ; returned to the farm at
Acton and was for many years one of the "selectmen,"
a prominent and much esteemed citizen. Driving with
his uncle, Benjamin Franklin, was struck by a train on
the Fitchburg Railroad at Hapgood's Crossing in West
Acton, and both were instantly killed, March 17, 1864.
He was unmarried.
42 V. Cyrus 7 , born July 16, 1818, at Acton; married, January i8
1842, Eleanor Wheeler.
43 VI. Joseph 7 , born May 26, 1821; married, August 11, 1847,
Almira Jane Holmes.
VII. Mary 7 , born May 26, 1821, twin with Joseph, with whom she
resides in California ; unmarried.
23.
SiMON 6 (Ephraim*, Epkraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel 2 , Shad-
rach 1 ), born January 2, 1788; married, February 26, 1817,
Mary Frazier of Athol, born December 25, 1791 ; died April
26, 1873. He died December 21, 1874, at Acton. An
excellent farmer, and respected citizen.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary 7 , born April 9, 1818; died March 15, 1822.
II. Simon 7 , Jr., born January 19, 1823; married, February 27,
1853, Mrs. Abby (Howard) Willis of Warwick, Massa-
chusetts, born January 25, 1821. Had adopted son,
Oscar Duane, son of Wellington Fisk, born May 17,
SIXTH GENERATION. 87
1859, at New Salem, Massachusetts; adopted March
2, 1861, and resides at Orange, Massachusetts; a
machinist; unmarried.
III. Nathan Frazier 7 , born May 4, 1825; married, July 4, 1862,
Mrs. Mary (Temple) McCollom of Acton, born March
14, 1828.
CHILDREN.
I. Flora Lamira 8 , born March 30, 1863, at Ashby;
unmarried.
II. Lula Viola 8 , born March 11, 1866, at Ashby;
unmarried.
IV. Lucy 7 , born July 22, 1827, at Acton; unmarried.
V. Benjamin 7 , born November 27, 1833, at Acton, where he
resides ; unmarried ; a farmer.
24.
JOHN 6 (EpJiraim*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*, Shad-
rack 1 }, born February 10, 1802 ; married, April 20, 1826,
Mary Ann, daughter of Nathan Davis and Rebecca (Ball)
Hosmer of Acton, born June i, 1808; died April 13, 1890.
He resided in Fitchburg, where most of his children were
born; removed to Acton, where he died January 15, 1867.
An industrious, frugal, well-to-do farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. John 7 , born January 26, 1827, at Acton ; died September 16,
1842, at Fitchburg.
II. Mary Ann 7 , born October 12, 1829, at Acton; died Novem-
ber 27, 1829.
III. David Wood 7 , born August 24, 1833; married, October n,
1861, Ann Maria Stockwell, born March 28, 1840,
daughter of Ira and Maria 7 (Hapgood) Stockwell of
Acton, granddaughter of Abel Stockwell of Chester-
field, New Hampshire, and great granddaughter of
Silas Stockwell from Barre to Chesterfield. He
was educated in the public and private schools of
Acton, and at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New
Hampshire; prevented by illness from teaching, 1852;
88 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
went to California, 1853, worked in the mines; with
partially restored health, returned 1859; became inter-
ested in Snow's Pathfinder and Railway Guide, pub-
lished in Boston, which he edited nearly up to the
time of his death, which occurred at Bricksburg, New
Jersey, May u, 1869, whither he had gone for his
health. He had fine musical talents, and his pleasant
residence in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a resort
for musical people. A man of strict integrity and
unswerving honor. No children.
IV. Maryette 7 , born April 27, 1836; died May 25, 1837.
V. Clarissa 7 , better known as Clara, born January 15, 1839,
at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Her parents, John and
Mary Ann (Hosmer) Hapgood removed to Acton in
1846, where Clara attended the public schools. Sub-
sequently she was transferred to Pierce Academy at
Middleboro', then to Appleton Academy, New Ipswich,
New Hampshire, graduating from the advanced class
in the State Normal School, at Framingham. She was
a successful teacher, and after graduating taught in the
High schools of the State, at Marlboro' and Danvers.
January i, 1869, she married, at West Acton, Fred-
erick Gushing Nash, born at Columbia, Maine, January
31, 1839. Soon after her marriage, Clara commenced
the study of law, and in October, 1872, was admitted to
the bar of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, being
the first woman admitted to the bar in New England.
Mr. Nash was graduated from Tufts College, 1863 ;
admitted to the bar of Maine, 1866, where he practised
till 1881, when he removed to Massachusetts, and was
admitted to the bar, with office at Boston and residence
at West Acton; much interested in education and the
cause of temperance, an eminent lawyer, a good citi-
zen, and highly esteemed.
CHILD.
1. Frederick Hapgood 8 Nash, born January 3, 1874,
in Portland, Maine, was graduated from Harvard,
June 26, 1895, elected to the Phi-Beta-Kappa,
the first eight in the class, April, 1894, entered
the Boston University Law School, 1896, and
the next year appointed instructor in contracts,
and is a young man of great promise.
SIXTH GENERATION. 89
VI. Henry 7 , born February 5, 1842; resided with his parents
up to the time of the "little unpleasantness with the
South," when he took up arms in defence of his
Country's flag, by enlisting August 31, 1862, in Com-
pany E, Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers ;
was in engagements at Ludlow Lawrence's Plantation,
November 18, 1862, Joiners Ford on the Blackwater,
December 12, 1862, Deserted house, January 30, 1863,
Siege of Suffolk, April n, 1863. Served out his term
of nine months, came home with his company, sick, and
died November 25, 1863. Though cut down so young,
he left to the world the legacy of a noble, upright and
honorable character.
VII. Luke 7 , born January 13, 1846, at Bolton, Massachusetts;
married, June 30, 1886, at South Hanson, Georgiette
Leavitt, born December 19, 1850, at Columbia, Maine,
daughter of George and Mary Ann Leavitt. He
remained on the farm with his parents till 1874, when
he went to Boston and occupied a stall in Washington
Market up to 1882. In 1886 he removed to Brockton
and went into the grocery and provision business,
which he is still prosecuting energetically. No children.
VIII. Ephriam 7 , born October 22, (848, at Acton; married, April
15, 1875, at Waltham, Catherine Heleanor, daughter
of Uriah and Mary Ann (Coolidge) Hadley, born Feb-
ruary 13, 1852. He was graduated from Brown Uni-
versity, Providence, Rhode Island, Class of 1874,
studied Theology at Newton Theological Seminary,
ordained a Baptist minister, October 21, 1875, at South
Windham, Vermont; removed to Nebraska 1878, hav-
ing been previously called to the pastorate of the Bap-
tist church in Seward City. His next pastorate was
in David City, Nebraska. He returned East and was
settled over the church at South Hanson, Massachu-
setts. He is now (1896) in the service of the Massa-
chusetts Total Abstinence Society.
CHILDREN.
I. Marion Hadley 8 , born March 17, 1876, a graduate
of the State Normal School, 1895, now a teacher.
II. Ernest Granger 8 , born February 12, 1878, at South
Windham; now fitting for college at Colby
Academy, New London, New Hampshire.
90 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
25.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN** (Ephraim*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel", Skadrach 1 }, born November 3, 1805 ; married,
September 1, 1833, Perciveranda Joy of Brattleboro', Vermont,
born March 23, 1812 ; resided in West Acton, on the home-
stead. The following appeared in the journals of the day :
"Fatal accident on the Fitchburg Railroad: a wagon,
containing two gentlemen, named Benjamin F. and Nathaniel
Hapgood (his nephew), while crossing the track of the
Fitchburg Railroad, at Hapgood's Crossing, in West Acton,
this morning (March 17, 1864), was struck by the first
inward passenger train from Fitchburg, and both of the men
were instantly killed and the team demolished."
His widow died in Hudson, Michigan, May 5, 1895, and
was interred in her son's tomb, at West Acton.
CHILDREN.
I. Sarah Joy 7 , born July 21, 1834; died June 9, 1855, at Acton.
II. Alonzo Franklin 7 , born December 8, 1835; died July 6,
1872, at Brattleboro.
III. Hiram Joy 7 , born September 8, 1837; married, Novem-
ber 22, 1871, Augusta Ann Parker, born at Westford,
Massachusetts, August 18, 1847; educated in the
public schools ; entered the store of his brother-in-law,
Charles Robinson, in West Acton, and later went as
clerk in the extensive miscellaneous goods store of
James Tuttle & Company, South Acton. The firm
name was changed to Tuttle, Jones & Wetherbee, but
his valued services were retained and he was made
purchasing agent for the house, which position he now
holds. Held office of selectman five years, overseer of
the poor, road surveyor, trustee of the library, and
held other offices of honor and responsibility; a
prompt, energetic, and reliable business man, worthy
the generous confidence reposed in him.
CHILDREN.
I. Ida Augusta 8 , born June 16, 1875; was graduated
from the Concord High and Training schools ;
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became a successful teacher in the graded
schools, and now promoted to teacher in the
Grammar School.
II. Frank Elbridge 8 , born July 25, 1878; graduated
from the Concord High School, now (1896) in
Burdett's Business College, Boston.
IV. Perciveranda 7 , born August 19, 1839; married, March 7,
1858, Charles Robinson, born at Newfane, Vermont,
August 13, 1822. He died December 22, 1891, at
West Somerville, and his widow, December 27, 1891.
CHILDREN, all born in West Acton.
1. Lizzie Maria 8 Robinson, born August ir, 1859.
2. Charles Ellis 8 , born February 18, 1861 ; died
October 31, 1862.
3. George 8 , born September 18, 1864.
4. Mabel Louise 8 , born October 14, 1871.
5. Edward Hollis 8 , born June 13, 1874.
V. Marshall 7 , born August 8, 1841 ; married, February i, 1864,
Emily M. Palmer, born June 30, 1845, a * Stamford,
Connecticut, where he was killed by a railroad acci-
dent, April ir, 1890.
CHILDREN.
I. Emily Jeannette 8 , born May 28, 1866; died July 28,
1876.
II. Harriette Isabelle 8 , born May 9, 1869; married,
September 26, 1889, Albert Owen, born in
England.
CHILDREN.
1. Hattie Marion 9 Owen, born August 12, 1890.
2. Annie Beatrice 9 , born September 26, 1893.
VI. George 7 , born October 30, 1843; died June 21, 1890, at
Hudson, Michigan ; unmarried.
VII. Elvira 7 , born January 28, 1847 ; married, December 9, 1870,
William C. Ames, born in Marlboro', Vermont, Sep-
tember 17, 1849; resides in Hudson, Michigan; a
farmer. No children.
VIII. Emily 7 , born September 16, 1849; married, May 18, 1871,
Albert E. Thurber, born February 16, 1843, at Guil-
ford, Vermont; resides at Brattleboro', Vermont; a
baker.
92 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
1. Minnie E. 8 Thurber, born December 14, 1875.
2. Rubie Evelyn 8 , born June 29, 1887.
IX. Eugene 7 , born September 23, 1851, at Acton; went to
Brattleboro' and worked for his uncle ; removed with
his mother to Pella, Iowa, where she purchased a
small farm which he and his brother George cultivated.
They removed to Hudson, Michigan, where she bought
land which her sons cultivated successfully. They
bought more land and raised garden vegetables and
small fruits for the town market, up to the death and
their mother. George died, 1890, and Eugene inherited
the property and continued the business; unmarried.
20.
EPHRAIM 6 (Hezekiak 5 , Epkraim*, Hezekiak*, Nathaniel 2 ,
Skadrack 1 }, born January 3, 1785 ; removed with his father,
1797, from Stow, Massachusetts, to Waterford, Maine, where
he resided and died, August 29, 1836; an extensive farmer;
married, January 7, 1812, Fanny Willard, a native of Harvard,
Massachusetts, born February 21, 1788, and died April 30,
1881.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliza Ann 7 , born July 23, 1813; married, October 26, 1835,
at Waterford, Charles Asia Ford, born December 20,
1810, at Sumner, Maine, son of Charles and Rebecca
(Fletcher) Ford.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles Horace 8 Ford, born June 8, 1836, at Water-
ford; resides at Portland, Maine, a painter;
married, November 28, 1865, Henrietta Coleman
Loring, born in Portland, January 5, 1845.
2. Acelia Emma 8 , born November 25, 1837; resides
with her brother Charles, in Portland ; unmar-
ried.
3. Oscar Rodolphus 8 , born June 22, 1840, at Water-
ford; married, 1863, Minnie Cobb of Norway,
SIXTH GENERATION. 93
Maine; was engineer in United States Navy,
1862. After the war he was in railroad service,
and now in New York in mercantile business.
No children.
4. Ella Frances 8 , born May 30, 1843, at Waterford;
resided in Boston, Assistant Matron at Institu-
tion for the Blind, and later held a position at
Parker House ; unmarried.
5. Ada Augusta 8 , born September 29, 1846; married,
September 28, 1875, at Melrose, Massachusetts,
John M. Houdlett of Dresden, Maine ; resides
in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
44 II. Sherman Willard 7 , born January 12, 1815, at Waterford;
married, May 4, 1839, Abigail Fletcher of North Anson,
Maine.
III. Frances Willard 7 , born January 30, 1817, at Waterford;
resides with her brother Sherman at North Anson ;
unmarried.
IV. Conant Brown 7 , born July 3, 1818; died December, 1838;
a saddler at North Anson ; unmarried.
45 V. Charles C. 7 , born July 31, 1821 ; married, October 19, 1843,
Salome Savage of Kingfield, Maine.
VI. Nancy Longley 7 , born August 2, 1825 ; married March 10,
1844, at North Anson, Gustavus, son of Daniel and
Olive Stewart, a lawyer at North Anson, born June 8,
1817; died August 28, 1853. She resided several
years in Boston, and married second, November,
1867, William Weymouth, born September, 1825;
died October i, 1885. She died January 7, 1892, and
was interred at North Anson with her first husband.
No children.
27.
WiLLiAM 6 (HtzekiaJP) Epkraim*, Hesekia/i*, Nathaniel*,
Shadrach 1 ), baptized April 5, 1790; married, 1813, at Frye-
burg, Maine, Mary Harnden of Wilmington, Massachusetts.
He removed, with his father, from Waterford to East Frye-
burg, 1810, where he died November 24, 1871 ; a large and
94 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
prosperous farmer and prominent citizen. His widow died
September 2, 1872.
CHILDREN.
46 I. William 7 , Jr., born May 28, 1814; married, December 31,
1840, Maria McKay of Saccarappa, Maine.
II. Maria 7 , born April 30, 1816, at Saco, Maine; married,
1842, Stephen L. Ladd. She died October 24, 1865,
at East Fryeburg.
CHILDREN.
1. Augustus Ladd, born
2. Charles T. Ladd, born
III. Melinda 7 , born October 25, 1817, at East Fryeburg;
married, 1837, Joshua H. Warren of East Fryeburg;
farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. Alonzo 8 B. Warren, born April 14, 1839, at Darien,
Georgia; married, September 13, 1862, at Den-
mark, Maine, Sarah Ann Harnden, born Febru-
ary 26, 1841 ; she died July 9, 1873. Resides
in Denmark ; a farmer.
2. Eldora 8 , born February 23, 1843, at Fryeburg;
married, July 25, 1869, at Conway, New Hamp-
shire, David P. Lord, born at Stowe, Maine,
1843.
3. Edwin Baker 8 , born February 14, 1847; married,
October u, 1869, at Fryeburg, Ellen Rebecca
Harnden, born in Fryeburg, April 18, 1852;
resides in Fryeburg; a farmer.
4. Charlton Hynes 8 , born September 21, 1850; mar-
ried, September 18, 1878, Sarah Jane Harnden,
born November 22, 1859, a * Fryeburg.
5. William Byron 8 , born March 4, 1853, at Denmark;
married, November 25, 1880, Cora Etta Harnden,
born October n, 1860, at Fryeburg.
6. Adela Maria 8 , born December i, 1857; died Sep-
tember 26, 1865.
IV. Hezekiah 7 , born March 25, 1822; married , who
soon died ; resided at Lowell, Massachusetts ; a barber
and musician; died October 14, 1875. No children.
V. Mahalah 7 , born April 18, 1824; married, 1845, Alfred Per-
kins of Nashua, New Hampshire; a mechanic. She
died July 4, 1855.
SIXTH GENERATION. 95
CHILDREN.
1. Child, died young.
2. Child, died young.
3. Abby Jane 8 Perkins, born ; married Frank
Piper; resided in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
VI. Mary 7 , born October 20, 1825; married, September, 1875,
Samuel Sawyer; a farmer of West Bridgton, where
she resides, his widow.
VII. Malvina 7 , born April n, 1829; married, May, 1853, Richard
Douglass; resided at West Bridgton. He died June
10, 1878; she died at Denmark, January 24, 1890.
CHILDREN.
1. Herbert 8 Douglass, born August, 1854.
2. Carrie 8 , born April, 1856.
3. Fred 8 , born February, 1859.
4. Jessie 8 , born May, 1872.
VIII. Martha 7 , born February 8, 1831 ; resides in Biddeford,
Maine; unmarried.
IX. Marilla 7 , born February 3, 1834; married, July 8, 1860,
Leonard Abbott, son of Leonard K. and Dorcas L.
(Abbott) Ingalls, born January 5, 1837 ; resides in Den-
mark, Maine ; a merchant.
CHILDREN.
1. Katie F. 8 Ingalls, born February i, 1862.
2. Lilly G. 8 , born January 19, 1864; married, Decem-
ber 26, 1880, George A. Smith of Denmark.
28.
SPROUT 6 (HezekiaJf, Ephraim*, Hesekiah*, Nathaniel, Shad-
rach 1 }, born April 27, 1793 ; married, March 3, 1822, Betsey
Sawin of Sudbury, Massachusetts, born April 9, 1797; died
September 7, 1874. He was adjutant of the militia, 1832,
on a commission for distributing surplus revenue ;
postmaster ; nine years moderator ; served the town
as her representative in the Legislature ; resided at Water-
ford, keeping a store at the Flats, west side of Temple Hill ;
96 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
was a large farmer and one of her most energetic and useful
citizens. He died September 23, 1849, at Augusta, Maine.
CHILDREN.
I. Lyman Sawin 7 , born December 10, 1822, at Waterford,
Maine; married, February II, 1850, Elizabeth Porter,
daughter of Joseph Porter and Abigail (Baker) Smith,
born at Boston, February 9, 1823, where she died
March 18, 1868; no children. He died at Boston,
March 27, 1896, of pneumonia. Among the press
notices was the following :
" He was a quiet man and highly esteemed by those
who knew him well; was a representative in the
Massachusetts General Court ; paymaster in the
army; a number of years president of the Mercantile
Savings Institution, and a prominent member of the
Theodore Parker Society. He also held various
offices in other institutions."
II. Margarette Matilda 7 , born May 31, 1825; married, January
21, 1847, Enoch Clark Moody of Saco, Maine, born
June 13, 1820; died May i, 1878, at Camden, Maine.
She died September 24, 1884.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles Henry 8 Moody, born November 22, 1847;
died October 26 1862.
2. Lyman Hapgood 8 , born April 22, 1851 ; died Feb-
ruary 18, 1852.
3. Frank H. 8 , born February 3, 1853 ; died September
27, 1854.
4. Mary Elizabeth 8 , born July 22, 1858; died June 6,
1867.
5. Frederick Clark 8 , born May 18, 1868, at Camden,
Maine; removed to Boston, 1878, was a student
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a
mechanical draughtsman ; and now resides in
Philadelphia.
III. Lydia Jane 7 , born May 16, 1827; married, April 19, 1846,
Levi Howard, M. D., from Harvard, Massachusetts,
born at Bolton, May 26, 1820; removed 1849 to
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where he had an exten-
sive practice, and died January 23, 1885. His widow
deceased April n, 1893.
SIXTH GENERATION. 97
CHILDREN.
1. Sarah Elizabeth 8 Howard, born February 28, 1848,
at Harvard; died September 17, 1849, at
Chelmsford.
2. Jenny Lind 8 , born July 8, 1850; married, June 30,
1874, James H. Willoughby.
3. George Levi 8 , born December 18, 1852; died Jan-
uary 29, 1875.
4. Mary 8 , born February 3, 1855 ; married, January
20, 1894, Elwyn H. Fowler.
5. Amasa 8 (M. D.), born April 20, 1857; married,
May 21, 1878, Louisa C. Warner, born Octo-
ber 16, 1858, at Chelmsford.
6. Edwin 8 , born May 18, 1861 ; was graduated from
Harvard College.
7. John Galen 8 , born May 8, 1864; graduated from
Boston Latin School ; student at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology ; spent several years in
Paris, France; married, August i, 1893, Mary
Robertson Bradbury of New York, where he is
a practising architect.
IV. Frances Elizabeth 7 , born June 15, 1829; died December
13, 1887; unmarried.
V. Ann Maria 7 , born September 14, 1831 ; died April 4, 1832,
at Waterford, Oxford County, Maine.
47 VI. Andrew Sidney 7 , born (twin with Ann Maria) September
14, 1831 ; married, January 18, 1870, Annie Winter of
Gloucester.
VII. Antoinette Maria 7 , born December 8, 1834; resided at
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where she died July 4,
1897 ; unmarried.
VIII. Helen Louise 7 , born February 24, 1837; died February 29,
1884; unmarried.
29.
CAPTAIN THOMAS 6 (Hezekiah b , Ephraim*, Hezekiatf,
Nathaniel*, Skadrach 1 ), born July 12, 1802 ; married, Decem-
ber 2, 1830, Jane McWain, born at Putney, Vermont, March,
98 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
1810 ; removed with his father, Hezekiah, to Fryeburg, 1810;
went to Gorham, New Hampshire, 1846 ; returned to Water-
ford, 1850; removed to Brasher Falls, 1856, and to Bangor,
New York, 1857; back again to Waterford, 1859, where he
died December 26, 1864, a farmer, miller and lumberman.
His wife died at West Bangor, New York, February 17, 1859.
CHILDREN.
I. David Thomas 7 , born November 17, 1832; married, Octo-
ber 23, 1856, Helen, daughter of Daniel and Alma
(Gliddon) Stanard of Brasher Falls, Essex County,
New York, born November 16, 1837; resided at Gree-
ley, Colorado, where he died May 16, 1882.
CHILDREN.
T. Lillian Adaline 8 , born November 18, 1860; died
February 17, 1864.
II. Harry S. 8 , born December 4, 1866; died Septem-
ber 9, 1867.
II. Laura Jane 7 , born August 18, 1835; died December 31,
1845-
III. Lura Adaline 7 , born July 21, 1838; married, March 9, 1859,
at Malone, New York, Sylvanus Wait, son of Samuel
and Mehitable Cobb of Norway, Maine ; removed to
Durango, Colorado, where he died June 3, 1897.
CHILDREN.
1. Elizabeth Jane 8 Cobb, born January 17, 1860, at
Norway; married, at Conway, New Hampshire,
Charles A. Pike of Portland, Maine; removed
to Durango, Colorado.
2. Grace Wait 8 , born January 19, 1863, at Norway;
resides in Durango, unmarried.
3. Charles Henry 8 , born at Waterford, Maine ; died
in infancy.
IV. Andrew Sprout 7 , born November n, 1841 ; educated in the
public schools of Waterford ; worked for his father in
the saw mill till 1861 ; enlisted in Company G, First
regiment, Maine Volunteers (three months' men);
reported at Washington for service ; performed guard
duty till term expired; removed to California, 1862,
HnDrew Sprout feapgood.
SIXTH GENERATION. 99
and worked in a saw-mill two years ; went to Idaho
and worked a placer gold mine for a year or more, then
crossed the Plains, 1,600 miles, to Omaha on horse-
back, 1865; returned to his native town, resumed his
saw-mill and lumber business ; taught school one win-
ter in Bangor, New York, and two in Waterford ; a
man of strict integrity and temperate habits; chairman
of the board of selectmen two years, and represented
the town in the Legislature, 1895 ; married, July 7,
1870, at Lovell, Maine, Irene, daughter of Eben and
Hannah (Barker) Willard, born December 14, 1844
died February 12, 1895; no children; he married
second, August 9, 1896, at North Bridgton, Leiona
Green, daughter of Horace W. and Ellen F. (Widbur)
Willard of Waterford, born March 20, 1870.
V. Charles Henry 7 , born Februarys, 1846; died January 12,
1867.
3O.
EpHRAiM 6 (Olivet*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah 3 , Nathaniel 2 ,
Shadrach 1 }, born November 26, 1786; married, March 24,
1816, at Boston, Joanna Salmon, born in that place, January
26, 1798; died July 26, 1876, at Bethel, Maine, The
proprietors of the town of Waterford, in order to encourage
immigration, gave to a few of the first settlers, their lands.
They also offered a premium of fifty acres of land to the first
boy that should be born in the town and live to become of
age. Ephraim Hapgood was the recipient of that bounty.
He removed, February, 1830, to Bethel ; was an enterprising
and prosperous farmer, prominent in town affairs. Died
September 29, 1864.
CHILDREN.
I. Lucy Elizabeth 7 , born May 7, 1817, at Boston; married,
January 11, 1838, at Bethel, John Bryant of Waterford,
born May 2, 1808; removed to Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, about 1840; performed police duty for several
100 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
years, served as night watch at Boston & Albany Rail-
road Station, six years, and died at Cambridge, Sep-
tember 10, 1874; Mrs. Bryant removed with members
of her family to Waltham, Massachusetts, July, 1883,
where she now resides, his widow.
CHILDREN.
1. Richard 8 Bryant, born September 5, 1839; died
young.
2. Leon 8 , born August 6, 1843 ; died young.
3. Malinda 8 , born June 21, 1845.
4. Frank 8 , born December 23, 1851.
5. Elliott 8 , born November 8, 1853.
6. Martha 8 , born August 26, 1859; died October 9,
1860.
48 II. William Salmon 7 , born at Boston, June 17, 1819; married,
March 23, 1843, Rebecca W. Mason of Gilead, Maine.
49 III. Oliver 7 , born February 13, 1822; married, September 20,
1848, Mary Jael Sanderson, born in Sweden, Maine,
December 29, 1828.
50 IV. John Francis 7 , born September 9, 1824; married, April 25,
1851, Mary L. Young of Sherburn, New Hampshire.
V. Martha Jane 7 , born September 4, 1829; died March 20,
1851.
VI. Abigail Swan 7 , born February 16, 1832 ; died November 10,
1837-
51 VII. Richard 7 , born February 24, 1841, at Waterford; married
Nellie G. Pike.
31.
ARTEMAS 6 (Oliver 1 , Epkraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*, Shad-
rack 1 }, born June 14, 1789; married, January 16, 1814, at
Waterford, Polly Haskill, born 1790, at Sweden, Maine,
where he died December 7, 1865 ; a farmer. She died
August 10, 1873.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary Ann 7 , born November 23, 1814; married, December
21, 1845, at Waterford, Eleazer, son of Eleazer and
SIXTH GENERATION. 101
Jollie Hamlin, born September 4, 1811 ; died June 25,
1886. She died March 29, 1893. Had one child, died
in infancy.
52 II. Artemas 7 , born September 2, 1816; married, September 17,
1848, at Sweden, Sarah Ann Parker.
III. Calvin 7 , born September 3, 1818; married, December 23,
1874, widow Marr, who died at Sweden ; s. p.
IV. Mary Jane 7 , born March 12, 1821 ; married, December 23,
1874, at Harrison, Joseph Adams, born at Stoneham,
Maine, August 6, 1819; resides at North Bridgton,
Maine.
CHILDREN.
1. Ella Maria 8 Adams, born December 12, 1844, in
Stoneham; married, June n, 1865, at Sewell,
Harris Birney Kneeland, born at Sewell, July 9,
1840 ; resides at South Waterford.
2. Mary Ann 8 , born October 20, 1846, at Stoneham;
died August, 1855.
3. Calvin Hapgood 8 , born April 13, 1848; married,
January 22, 1875, Abbie Ellen 8 Hapgood, his
second cousin, daughter of Joel 7 and Columbia
(Wheeler) Hapgood, born at Portland, July 7,
1858; resides at South Waterford ; a farmer.
4. Frances Elizabeth 8 , born June 24, 1851, at Sweden ;
married, June 2, 1866, at Portland, Elden Brown,
born at Sweden, April 23, 1834; resides in
Norway, Maine.
5. Daniel Townes 8 , born November 1 1, 1854, at Stone-
ham; married, October 26, 1884, at Waterford,
Ella F. Abbott, born March, 1861, at Fryeburg,
Maine ; resides at Sweden ; a farmer.
6. Lemuel Goodwin 8 , born August 29, 1858, at Stone-
ham ; resides at North Bridgton ; unmarried.
7. Joseph Nelson 8 , born January 9, 1860; married,
November 8, 1887, Hattie Gertrude Flint, born
May 21, 1868, at Bridgton; resides at North
Bridgton, Maine.
V. Eliza 7 , born February 12, 1824; died at Waterford, March
28, 1841.
VI. Betsey 7 , born July 26, 1827 ; married, October 29, 1846, at
Sweden, William Parker, born February 28, 1829, at
Biddeford, Maine, and died at Waterford, May 10,
1892. She died at Waterford, January, 1894.
102 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
1. William Gardner 8 Parker, born August 7, 1850.
2. Emily J. 8 , born December 18, 1851 ; died July 5,
1882.
3. Charles 8 , born December u, 1853; died October
13, 1865.
4. Mary A. 8 , born January 17, 1856, at Bethel ; mar-
ried, at Waterford, July 24, 1874, Frank T.
Green, born in Portland, November 15, 1848;
resides in Norway, Maine.
5. Flora E. 8 , born April 10, 1858; married, September
7, 1884, Elma A. Bacon of Norway. She died
May 24, 1885.
6. John 8 , born January 28, 1860; died September i,
1862.
7. George 8 , born January 24, 1862, died May 6, 1863.
8. Malinda 8 , born September 12, 1863; died Septem-
ber 26, 1865.
9. Adelbert E. 8 , born April 18, 1865 ; married, July 4,
1887.
10. Kate N. 8 , born March 4, 1868 ; married, February
21, 1885.
11. Ida M. 8 , born April 30, 1870; married, February
18, 1888, Charles E. Packard.
VII. Lydia 7 , born March 29, 1831 ; died April 7, 1833.
VIII. Maria 7 , born October 10, 1834.
32.
OLIVER 6 (Oliver*, Ephraim*, Hezekiak*, Nathaniel 2 , Shad-
rack 1 ), born December 30, 1794; married, January 30, 1826,
at Sebago, Maine, Abigail Welch of Raymond, Maine, born
November, 1803. He resided at Waterford, where all his
children were born. During the war of 1812, he was
employed by the Government in the Commissary department.
At the age of twenty-five he had a severe attack of rheumatic
fever, which greatly impaired the use of one leg, rendering
SIXTH GENERATION. 103
him a cripple and unfitting him for active business during
the remainder of his life. He died at Waterford, August 22,
1851, and his widow died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Lewis, at Portland, July 14, 1890.
CHILDREN.
53 I. Joel 7 , born August 23, 1827; married Columbia Wheeler.
II. Lucy 7 , born September 27, 1829; died March I, 1833.
III. Abigail 7 , born July 19, 1831; married, December i, 1851,
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Albion G. Lewis,
born at Hiram, Maine, September 7, 1826; died at
Portland, February 20, 1881. No children.
IV. Rebecca Nourse 7 , born June 29, 1833 ; married, June 8, 1863,
at South Dedham, Massachusetts, Cloyes W. Gleason,
M. D., born May 13, 1821; removed, 1865, to Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, where he has since resided,
enjoying a large practice. He is the author of a valu-
able book, entitled ** Everybody's own Physician ; or,
How to Acquire and Preserve Health." No children.
V. Lucy 7 , born August 23, 1835; died February 14, 1836.
VI. Joanna 7 , born January 29, 1837; married, May 8, 1857, at
Bridgton, Lendoll S. Brackett, born in Naples, Maine,
August 20, 1831, where he resides; a farmer and.
lumberman.
CHILDREN.
1. Melville S. 8 Brackett, born November 30, 1858;
married, December 27, 1891, Minerva Moins of
Otisfield; resides in Naples.
2. Dana L. 8 , born October 14, 1862; married, Novem-
ber 30, 1891, at Portland, Mary Davis of Boston;
resides in Portland.
3. Lillie G. 8 , born January 20, 1866; married, January
l, 1887, Herbert A. Edwards of Bethel; resides
in Portland.
4. Cora M. 8 , born January 12, 1870; resides in Naples.
VII. Oliver 7 , Jr., born September 11, 1839; died September II,
1845-
VIII. Sarah 7 , born April 28, 1842; died April 26, 1885, at Port-
land, Maine.
104 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
33.
CoRNELius 6 (Jonathan 6 , Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Thomas*,
Shadrach 1 }, born October 13, 1789; married, March i, 1819,
at Moira, New York, Betsey, daughter of Cyril Hutchins,
born March 6, 1794; died December 16, 1858, and he mar-
ried second, March 23, 1859, at Malone, New York, the
widow, Maria (Chapin) King, daughter of John King, born
in New Hampshire, April 8, 1800; died September 21, 1870,
at Westville, New York; he died September u, 1874, at
Malone ; a thrifty farmer.
CHILDREN, all by first wife.
I. Sarah 7 , born June i, 1820, at Constable, New York; mar-
ried Jefferson Smith.
CHILDREN.
1. Byron 8 Smith, born .
2. Elizabeth 8 , born ; resided in Boston, where
she died January 19, 1891.
3. Clara 8 , born ; married George Adams, and
resided in West Groton, Massachusetts.
4. Millard 8 , born .
. II. Jonathan 7 , born November i, 1821, at Moira; married,
October u, 1849, at Malone, Lucy M. Hogel, born
in Canada, October 17, 1824; resides in Cherubusco,
New York; a farmer; no children.
III. Mary 7 , born March 19, 1824, at Constable; died young.
54 IV. Cyril William 7 , born March 9, 1825; married, May 9,
1851, Adaline Leigh.
V. Dimis 7 , born January 16, 1827; married, June i, 1848, Joel
C. Taylor of Malone, born July 16, 1824.
CHILDREN.
1. Jeanette 8 Taylor, born June 10, 1849, at Boston,
Massachusetts; married, July I, 1875, Henry
DeWitt.
2. Herbert 8 , born June 8, 1850, at Constable ; married,
March 26, 1871, Christina Bean.
3. Guy 8 , born January 22, 1858.
SIXTH GENERATION. 105
4. Alice 8 , born February 16, 1862; married, Decem-
ber 25, 1889, Leslie Spencer; resides in Malone ;
a farmer.
VI. Marilla 7 , born December 29, 1828; married William Miller.
CHILD.
1. Kilburn* Miller, born ; resides in Hague,
Warren County, New York.
VII. Guy 7 , born December 20, 1829, at Constable; died Decem-
ber 21, 1871, at Malone; a farmer; unmarried.
VIII. Betsey 7 , born July 15, 1831; died November 15, 1845.
55 IX. Wesley 7 , born July 3, 1835; married, July 3, 1859, Delia
Earle.
X. Allen 7 , born January 5, 1839; married, April 15, 1861,
Charlotte Hutchins, and died December 3, 1890, at
Malone ; a farmer.
34.
AMOS S (Jonathan*, Ephraim*, Nathaniel*, Nathaniel*, Shad-
rach 1 ), born 1799; married, February 25, 1821, Harriet S.,
daughter of Lemuel Holmes of Malone, born 1801. She
died January 29, 1866, and he married second, Mrs.
Aldrich Bunker, born 1825 ; died August, 1892. He died
at Malone, May 2, 1875, in his seventy-sixth year.
CHILDREN, all born in Malone.
I. Edwin Cornelius 7 , born January i, 1822; died May 5, 1828.
II. Caroline Celia 7 , born August 24, 1823; married, October
12, 1841, Oren James Ward, born in Vermont, July 21,
1820; settled in New York; removed to Rockford,
Illinois, October, 1852; sold out in 1854; purchased
160 acres and later added 80 more in Iowa, and
occupied the same September 5, 1854. His wife being
feeble, he took her for a tour through Southern Iowa,
Missouri and Kansas, spending July 4, 1871, at Arkan-
sas City, Kansas. In March, 1872, he purchased what
is now the town site of Genda Springs, Kansas, where
he permanently located. His wife died there May 4,
106 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
1874, and he calls that his home, though much of his
time is spent with his children.
CHILDREN.
1. Helen E. Asenath 8 Ward, born February 27, 1844,
at Malone ; married, March 22, 1865, at Bethel,
Iowa, John J. Broadbent, born in England,
October 5, 1839; removed to Genda Springs,
1871, and in 1893 to Rock Falls, Oklahoma,
their present residence.
2. Royal Leroy 8 , born March 16, 1847, at Lawrence,
New York; married, April 18, 1878, Eva High-
land, born April 15, 1853, at Puma; resides in
Kansas ; the owner of several large farms, one
especially devoted to fruit growing, which has
proved successful.
3. Silas Lemuel 8 , born February 16, 1849, at Law-
rence; married, October 7, 1879, at Princeton,
Missouri, Angie Carter, born March 14, 1850;
resides in Kansas ; a hotel proprietor.
4. Henry Oren 8 , born August 13, 1851 ; married,
October 21, 1879, at Ness Centre, Kansas, Claro
Gully; resides at Wichita, Kansas; a retail
merchant. In 1886 he was locating agent at
Syracuse, Hamilton County, Kansas. One fine,
clear morning he took a couple of friends out to
view the surrounding country. At about 10
o'clock a heavy, black cloud suddenly gathered,
and in twenty minutes a thick mist with fine
rain and snow burst upon them with such fury
as to blind the horses and men so as to prevent
a movement in any direction. The cold became
intense, and the storm continued forty-eight
hours. During the next two days, January 7th
and 8th, eleven dead bodies were brought into
that little town, victims of the blizzard. Henry
escaped with his life, but lost both feet, while
both his companions were frozen to death He
died at Fort Smith, Texas, March 18, 1895.
5. Chester Orson 8 , born December 9, 1852, at Rock-
ford, Illinois ; married, July 26, 1887, at McPher-
son, Kansas, Mary Skinner of Illinois, born
September 7, 1865; resides in Oklahoma Terri-
tory; a blacksmith.
SIXTH GENERATION. 107
6. Amos Pierce 8 , born March 3, 1855, at Bethel, Iowa;
married, February 10, 1882, at McPherson,
Kansas, Huldah Munyon, born February 10,
1863; resides in Cares Grandes, Mexico.
7. Harriet Celia 8 , born June 14, 1858, at Bethel, Iowa;
married, February 7, 1886, at Genda, Kansas,
James E. Lobdell of New York, born March
30, 1856; resides in Portland, Sumner County,
Kansas ; a blacksmith.
8. Herbert Howard 8 , born April 7, 1860, at Bethel;
married, March 30, 1884, Lizzie Echternach,
born in Reading, Pennsylvania, 1862; resides in
Oklahoma Territory.
9. Linda Sophia 8 , born March 9, 1862; died August
29, 1863.
10. Llewellyn Orcutt 8 , born August 23, 1865; resides
in Mexico.
III. Harriet Asenath 7 , born January 23, 1826; married, Febru-
ary i, 1848, Henry W. Hobbs; resided in Ellenburgh
Centre, Clinton County, New York. No children.
She resides in Star, Clinton County, New York.
IV. A daughter 7 , born April 18, 1828; died May I, 1828.
V. Abigail 7 , born March 17, 1829; died December 7, 1829.
VI. Austin A. 7 , born September 25, 1830; died February 20,
1855.
VII. Ruth Amelia 7 , born May 18, 1833; died May 22, 1851.
56 VIII. Lemuel Bicknell 7 , born March 5, 1836; married, Septem-
ber 13, 1863, Sarah Goodwin Clark.
IX. Howard 7 , born September 30, 1839; married, September
n, 1862, Caroline, daughter of Jason Hutchins of Con-
stable, New York ; enlisted with his brother, Lemuel,
in Company D, I42d regiment, New York Volunteers,
in War of Rebellion, and was killed at battle of Drurys
Bluff, May 10, 1864. No children.
X. Mary Caroline 7 , born May 22, 1841, at Malone; married,
March 14, 1866, at Bangor, New York, Ezra J. Car-
penter, born November 19, 1841, at Hinesburg, Ver-
mont ; settled in Constable ; a large real estate owner.
Enlisted August 23, 1864, in Company C, Third regi-
ment Cavalry, New York Volunteers, and was mustered
out June 7, 1865. He engaged in mercantile business
at Whippleville, and in 1893 removed his family thither
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and continued the general merchandise business in
company with his son, Frank Lemuel, under firm name
of E. J. Carpenter & Son, and they recently opened
another store at Owls Head, New York.
CHILDREN.
1. Henry Amos 8 Carpenter, born January 26, 1867,
at Constable; married, November 29, 1893, at
Tacoma, Washington, Lelia May Carpenter ;
resides in New York City ; a railroad contractor.
2. Fred Wesley 8 , born November 9, 1868, at North
Yakima, Washington ; married there, July 3,
1890, his third cousin, Emma Carpenter; resides
at Yakima ; a farmer.
3. Frank Lemuel 8 , born October 16, 1870; married,
July 29, 1896, Fannie Benedict of Ottawa,
Canada; resides in Whippleville ; in general
merchandise business with his father.
4. Ada Blanche 8 , born December 17, 1872; resides
with her parents.
5. Albert Ezra 8 , born December 7, 1874, at Con-
stable ; a farmer.
6. Oren Howard 8 , born March 13, 1877, at Constable.
7. Caroline Elizabeth 8 , born August 20, 1878; resides
with her parents at Whippleville.
8. Wilber Austin 8 , born April 10, 1885, at Constable ;
resides in Whippleville, attending school.
XI. Mindwell 7 , born January 3, 1844; died August 28, 1870.
XII. Samuel Marsh 7 , born February 10, 1847; married, January
i, 1874, at Fort Covington, Lucinda Manson; resides
in Belmont ; a farmer.
CHILDREN, all born at Malone.
I. Anna Adaline 8 , born October 21, 1874; married,
September i, 1894, Fred McGowan.
II. Amos Austin 8 , born August 27, 1876.
III. James Manson 8 , born June 19, 1878.
35.
JOHN 6 (John*, Shadrach*, Skadrach*, Nathaniel 2 , Skadrach 1 },
born March 18, 1807 ; settled on the Patterson farm and lands
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taken from the original homestead of the Hapgoods adjoin-
ing, and was quite a prominent citizen, having filled various
important offices. He inherited and accumulated a handsome
property, which was judiciously invested for the benefit of his
family. He married in Harvard, September 27, 1829, Mary
Ann, daughter of Joseph and Polly (Blanchard) Munroe, born
February 26, 1810. She was an excellent housewife, but about
1838, was attacked by a disease, probably rheumatism, which
caused her joints to swell and ossify to such extent as to
deprive her of locomotion, but by the assistance of others,
she was moved from one part of the house to another, direct-
ing with singular precision the affairs of her household, mani-
festing great patience and cheerfulness under severe trials.
The malady baffled all medical skill, increasing from year to
year for nearly thirty years, when the heart of that loving
soul and sweet disposition ceased to beat, on the eleventh
day of March, 1868. By the aid of his daughters and son-in-
law, the business of the farm moved steadily forward ; a
large house and barn were erected, the families were united
and harmonious, and the last years of John's life were
crowned with deserved joy and happiness. During all those
thirty long years of anxiety for his suffering companion he
was gentle, kind, patient, and attentive to every want, and
on the 1 6th of February, 1886, went to his reward.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary Ann 7 , born May 7, 1838; married, January 10, 1861,
Charles Corey Maynard, born at Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, December 2, 1836. The condition of her
mother's health was such as to require the presence of
the young couple, and they settled with her father on
the homestead which he had created. He is a quiet,
intelligent, kind-hearted man, with a disposition that
would make friends anywhere ; generous, faithful and
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attentive to the affairs of town, church, or neighbor-
hood, and withal an industrious and prosperous farmer,
worthy of the homestead of which he is now proprietor.
CHILD.
1. John Edward 8 Maynard, born March 17, 1865;
educated at the public schools and Bromfield
Academy ; studied civil engineering, which voca-
tion he desired to fit himself for and follow, but,
being an only child, the loving hearts of his
parents clung to him with such tenacity as to dis-
suade him from his purpose. He taught school
successfully for several years ; established a
greenhouse, and became a florist; is a land sur-
veyor; served on the School Board nine years,
and is the able assistant to his father on the
large farm. In 1897 he built a house on the
opposite side of the road from his father, and on
the 5th of January, 1898, married Elizabeth May,
daughter of Henry Hartshorn of Harvard, born
May i, 1868, and they are now happy in the new
home.
II. Clara Charlotte 7 , born August 13, 1851 ; has always resided
with her parents and sister on the homestead ; promi-
nent in all charitable duties ; active in the Unitarian
Sunday School and other church and charitable work,
and is a fine assistant in the household affairs, in which
she excels ; unmarried.
36.
Henry 6 (Jabes?, Shadrach*, Shadrach*, Nathaniel 2 , Shad-
rack 1 }, born January 2, 1808. Was educated at the public
school in " Old Mill" ; remained with his parents on the
farm during his minority; married, May 8, 1839, Ann Matilda
Estabrook, born in Shirley, December 23, 1821 ; purchased
the farm adjoining his father's, including the "Old Mill"
built by John Prescott, 1669, then a part of Groton, and after
3-onatban ffairbanfe 1bapc?oo>.
SIXTH GENERATION. Ill
being incorporated in the town of Harvard, 1732, the north-
erly part of that town was known as "Old Mill." He was
a quiet, industrious, patient man, bearing all the misfor-
tunes of life bravely, but as his wife became a confirmed
invalid, he could not carry on the business of the farm and
the mill, and after many years of struggle, he concluded to
dispose of his property there and remove to Ayer (then South
Groton), to take charge of a large grist mill. He continued
this business, under somewhat discouraging circumstances,
up to the time of his death, April i, 1879. His wife never
recovered her health, and died at Ayer, July 1 1, 1888.
CHILDREN.
I. Charles Henry 7 , born October 7, 1840, at Old Mill, Har-
vard. Educated in the public schools there ; learned
the baker's trade, at Groton; worked at Clinton some
years before the war; enlisted for three years in Com-
pany C, Fifteenth regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers,
Infantry ; severely wounded in the right shoulder,
placed on invalid corps, remained to end of term ;
mustered out, returned to Clinton, and worked at his
trade. Resides in Worcester, unmarried.
II. Augusta Angelina Porter 7 , born September 22, 1843. Her
mother being too ill to give proper training and in-
struction to the child, she was placed in the hands of
her maternal grandparents in Shirley, where she was
educated. In 1864, her mother being still feeble, she
was summoned home, where she remained, faithfully
performing her duty as companion, housekeeper, and
nurse, to the end. She resides in Ayer, unmarried.
37.
JONATHAN FAIRBANKS (Joel*, Shadrach*, Shadrach*, Nathan-
ier~, Shadrach 1 }, born January 15, 1814; spent his minority
on the farm with his father ; received such education as the
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district schools of that day afforded, and established for him-
self a high character for industry, energy, and fidelity. After
attaining his majority, he worked in several towns, among
them Ashburnham, in a tannery. While engaged here, he
married and took his young bride to his home, in 1839.
February 28, 1842, he was left a widower with an infant
child, who was kindly cared for by his maternal grandmother
in Harvard, where he was born. April 9, 1843, he married
his second wife ; returned to Harvard in 1844, purchased the
Robbins farm in the northwesterly part of the town, and
turned his attention to farming. This, however, did not
prove as lucrative as he had anticipated, and the California
gold fever, that led away so many of our best young men
in 1 849, carried him also. Placing the farm, with his wife
and three small children, in the care of his brother Warren,
he, with others, took passage, December 7, 1849, on board
the ship " Marcia Cleves " for San Francisco, via Cape Horn,
to seek a fortune in that auriferous region. When the
tedious six months' voyage was ended, a " sea of troubles "
still environed the fortune hunters. No framed houses had at
that time been erected in San Francisco, which to-day is the
finest built city on the Pacific coast ; thousands of miners
from all parts of the world were rushing in the wildest con-
fusion for the mines ; Jonathan and his companions were
among them. He remained, working in the mines about two
years with moderate success, returning in November, 1851,
for his family. From this project he was, however, diverted ;
his father, then about sixty-four, felt the necessity of secur-
ing some one to take charge of the farm, and himself, then
growing feeble, he offered it to him on condition that he
should during his lifetime, and that of his wife, receive one
SIXTH GENERATION. 113
half the products of the farm. This was accepted and faith-
fully performed to the end. Jonathan had inherited from his
ancestry dating back in this country on the paternal side
to 1656, and on the maternal side to 1633 not a large, but
well knit, muscular, wiry frame that seemed never to become
weary.
Probably no man of his age and weight (about 157 pounds)
in that town had ever performed more hard labor than he.
In 1854 he built the large barn, and from time to time
greatly improved the farm. He was blessed with twelve
children, and the half income of the farm being inadequate to
their support, the deficit was supplied by his indomitable
energy, lumbering in winter, and doing outside work with his
team at other seasons. Nor was he deficient in mental vigor ;
a genial, social companion of considerable vivacity, quick at
repartee, a good neighbor, true as steel and as trenchant, and
thoroughly imbued with that stern integrity so characteristic
of the Pilgrim Fathers. His principal amusements were with
rod and gun, and he was justly counted one of the best shots
in Worcester County. He was also an expert pickerel fish-
erman.
He was fond of music, and many a social party was indebted
to his violin and sonorous prompting for their evening's
amusement. Still vigorous and active at sixty-two, he was
planning new enterprises and improvements on the farm.
Late in the autumn of 1875, he began to feel some derange-
ment of the stomach and digestive organs ; along into winter
he experienced some difficulty of breathing, grew weaker,
food was rejected, as in dyspepsia ; said he had a " lump " in
his stomach ; as spring approached he was unable to work,
and the farm was carried on by other hands. He could retain
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no food upon his stomach, and what nourishment he obtained
at last was by absorption. He died August 29, 1876. An
autopsy disclosed an indurated cancer in the pyloris, which
entirely closed that canal, so that no food could pass from
the stomach to the intestines, and death ensued from abso-
lute starvation. Not so painful at first, but seriously dis-
tressing at last ; and yet he was beautifully calm, brave and
uncomplaining, retaining his mental faculties up to within a
few moments of the end.
He married, first, December 25, 1839, Susan, daughter of
Charles and Susan (Randall) Wetherbee of Harvard, born
November 26, 1822. She died February 28, 1842. He
married, second, in Ashburnham, April 9, 1843, Dolly
Mosman, born in Westminster, September 29, 1822; died
at the house of her daughter, Susan (Hapgood) Leonard, in
Marlboro', Massachusetts, January 4, 1894. Interment at
Harvard.
CHILDREN.
57 I. Alfred Warren 7 (by first marriage), born November 17,
1841 ; married, at Harvard, March 3, 1861, Eliza
Rebecca Davis.
II. Susan Wetherbee 7 (by second marriage), born December
31, 1845, at Harvard; married, July 10, 1872, John
Hiram, son of Hiram and Hannah (Drake) Leonard,
born April 23, 1831, at Stoughton, Massachusetts;
educated there in the public schools ; graduated from
Bridgewater academy, 1847; learned the painter's
trade in Stoughton ; carried on the business in several
towns up to the breaking out of the War of Rebellion ;
enlisted, September 14, 1861, in Company I, First
regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers, for three
years; served out his term, and was mustered out in
front of Petersburg, Virginia; returned home and
worked three years in the Navy Yard at Charlestown ;
followed painting in Hudson, Ayer, Leominster and
Marlboro', where he now resides, receiving a small
pension from the government; no children.
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III. Hiram Fairbank 7 , born January 31, 1848 ; drowned, together
with Albert and John Oscar Rand, while skating on
"Old Mill "pond, Harvard, November 21, 1861.
IV. Theodore Goldsmith 7 , born February 25, 1850; died
April 17, 1851.
V. Sarah Mosman 7 , born October 10, 1852; died July 9, 1870,
of consumption.
VI. Mary Elizabeth 7 , born December 26, 1853; died June 10,
1869, of typhoid fever.
58 VII. Jonathan Gardner 7 , born in Harvard, February 10, 1855;
married, December 23, 1877, Mary Adaline Barnard.
VIII. Hannah Gamage 7 , born November 4, 1856; married, Sep-
tember 25, 1879, Frederick Alonzo, son of Francis L.
and Susan A. Joslin, born in Leominster, August 14,
1855; educated in the common schools; learned the
trade of shoemaking of Isaac Smith, with whom he
lived for eleven years after the death of his father, in
1860; became an expert shoe and shirt cutter; now
employed by the G. A. Gane Shirt Company in
Leominster; an upright, industrious, reliable man;
built a house on Oak avenue, Leominster, 1895, where
he resides, much respected.
CHILD.
1. Theodore Goldsmith 8 Joslin, born February 20,
1890.
IX. Ella Maria 7 , born February 1 1, 1858 ; lived with her parents
till September 4, 1876, when she resided with her
uncle Warren, in Boston ; attended school for three
years; learned dressmaking, and in October, 1882,
removed to Leominster with the intention of pursuing
that business, but her health requiring more exercise,
she felt obliged to abandon that occupation, and on the
1 2th of December, 1883, entered the employ of F. A.
Whitney & Company, as trimmer in their large baby-
carriage factory in Leominster. She became interested
in the Orthodox Congregational church, to which she
was united November 6, 1887, becoming an active, use-
ful co-worker in that organization. Having a taste for
music, she learned to play the guitar, and often joined
a troupe to entertain an audience. She remained in
the trimming department of the factory up to the time
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of her marriage to Fred Austin Spring, April 26, 1893 ;
resides in Leominster; a mason by trade.
CHILD.
1. Warren Hapgood 8 Spring, born June 19, 1895.
59 X. Charles Butler 7 , born August 21, 1859; married, August
25, 1880, Frances Augusta Foster of Harvard.
XI. Theodore Goldsmith 7 , born October 18, 1860; died March
10, 1883, at Duane, Adirondacks, New York. The
following obituary appeared in the Clinton Courant
of April 14, 1883, which we reproduce in full, as giving
a better account of his life than we could give to-day.
IN MEMORIAM.
" The subject of this notice, Theodore Goldsmith Hapgood, was born
in the old Hapgood mansion, at Harvard, Massachusetts, on the i8th of
October, 1860. Up to the age of ten he had lived with his parents on
the farm, attending the district school and making such progress as boys
of his age usually make. His uncle, Warren Hapgood of Boston,
believed young Theodore better adapted to some other field of activity
than farming, and proposed to his father, the late Jonathan F. Hapgood,
to take the boy and educate him either for mercantile or professional
life.
After much misgiving the proposition was accepted, and on September
7, 1871, he bade adieu to his native hills and took up his abode with his
uncle. The training in a village school is somewhat different from a
city, and in some respects he was hardly up in his studies to enter a
grammar school, but through the kindness of Master Page and a pledge
from his uncle that he should keep abreast with his class, he was,
September u, admitted to the Dwight grammar school. He was now
nearly eleven years of age, a gentle, timid, delicate boy, as innocent and
unsophisticated as could be imagined, but full of kindness of heart,
sweetness of disposition, and a determination to do his whole duty,
unflinchingly and without complaint. He was what would be called a
thoroughly good boy. Seven years were most agreeably spent in the
Dwight school where, by his great industry, patiently toiling through
his home lessons and obtaining a double promotion, he graduated,
receiving his diploma July 2, 1877.
In point of scholarship he was not the highest, nor was he ever numer-
ically below the middle of his class, and sometimes he was "head boy."
During the whole time he was in school he lost not a day by sickness
nor was he absent but a single day, and that to attend the funeral of his
honored father, September i, 1876; and what is more remarkable and
greatly to his credit, we do not recall a single instance of a "tardy."
It is a great thing to train a boy to regular habits, because it is of incal-
culable service to him in after life. The report of his teacher was
usually " conduct excellent." As several of his fellow graduates from
the grammar school had decided to enter the Roxbury high school he
concluded to join them, and entered September, 1877. For two years
SbeoDore (Sol&smitb t>apciooD.
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the same habits of industry and punctuality that had carried him suc-
cessfully through the grammar school won for him the love of his
teachers and the respect of his classmates in the Roxbury high school.
Military drill is one of the excellent auxiliaries to the Boston system of
high-school education. Theodore was fond of this kind of exercise,
becoming quite efficient in tactics, even competing for the individual
prize. Company A, Roxbury high school, to which he belonged, won
the first prize both years, at the prize drill at Boston Theatre.
He regarded the last year in the high school as more ornamental than
useful, and as he was in the nineteenth year of his age, and as he had
decided to adopt a mercantile rather than a professional field of duty,
and, moreover, feeling that the time spent in a store, at his age, would be
of more value to him than in a schoolhouse, he abandoned the last year
of his course, and on September 23, 1879, entered a store, selecting the
leather business as most congenial to his taste. During the winter of
1881-82 he attended an evening class in Comer's Commercial college.
Late in February he took, in these rooms, a slight cold, and as the season
advanced, instead of removing it he seemed to add more to it. It did
not, however, cause serious alarm till early in April, when a physician
was summoned, his lungs examined and found to be inflamed, but not
necessarily dangerously so. He was always so patient, brave and
uncomplaining that it was difficult to determine how seriously he was
affected. As the cough became more aggravated, a trip to a more con-
genial clime was suggested, and on May 3 he took passage on board
steamer for Norfolk, visiting Baltimore, Washington and Richmond,
without receiving the slightest benefit. His physician next recom-
mended some hill country, and he was sent to his native town of Harvard.
This was as signal a failure as the southern trip, and only seemed to
provoke the cough, under the baleful influence of which, he was losing
nearly half a pound in weight daily. Another examination of the lungs
revealed the melancholy fact that his lungs were much inflamed, and
that he was in a very critical condition.
As a last resort his physician now advised his being sent to the
Adirondack woods, hoping that the fir-impregnated atmosphere of that
elevated region would heal the lungs and restore him to health. Fortu-
nately a consumptive man who owned a camp and had lived on Lake
Meacham one of the most beautiful lakes in the world was found,
and he kindly undertook to carry the patient thither and to take care of
him and administer to his wants. On July 11 they set out upon their
tedious journey, and two days later the weary pilgrims arrived in camp.
The " Lake Meacham Hotel," admirably kept by A. R. Fuller, was hard
by the camp, and here they were to get their meals. The atmosphere
here, at an elevation of 1,600 feet above sea level, is very pure, and our
patient improved slightly, giving promise of ultimate victory. But this
insiduous disease, phthisis, feels not the throbbing heart of relative or
friend, and is ever ready to deceive. The patient gained two pounds in
weight in a short time, and the night sweats nearly ceased. All this,
however, was before winter set in.
As the Lake Meacham House was to be closed for the winter, the
patient was removed to the well-kept hotel of William J. Ayres, at Duane,
ten miles from Meacham and fifteen from Malone. Relays of fruit and
game were sent to him and every care taken of his physical comfort. The
most hopeful symptom in the case was, that he ate and slept well. He
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struggled on bravely and cheerfully through the winter, never losing
heart, and probably never for a moment doubting that he should win and
come out a healthy man. But, despite all efforts to the contrary, he
gradually failed as the spring approached. His last letter, dated March
4, represented him as walking with some difficulty, but still it was cheer-
ful in tone. A telegram on the afternoon of March 10, announced the
sad intelligence of his death at 10.20 A. M. of that day. The body was
expressed to Ayer,and the funeral obsequies held on Thursday, March 15,
from Unitarian church in Harvard, and the remains were deposited in
the family lot, where also repose the ashes of his father, brothers and
sisters.
Of his character, it hardly becomes us, who have for twelve years been
constantly with him and watched over his education and development, to
speak, and yet we can not refrain from expressing our appreciation
of his uniform courtesy, kindness and gentleness of temper, his affec-
tionate and unselfish disposition and readiness to do a favor for others.
The advice of Wolsey to Cromwell, " Be just and fear not," seemed to
find a home in his heart. He was one of those rare specimens of a boy
who did not think the world all made for him. Nothing seemed to give
him greater pleasure than to show attention and respect to elderly peo-
ple, often going out of his way and sacrificing a delightful hour with
young people, to do them a kindness. He was in no sense a fast young
man, was strictly temperate in all his habits, never, to our knowledge,
using tobacco or spirituous liquors except as a medicine in his last
sickness in any form. In his youth he was feeble and small of his
age, but as he advanced in years he became more robust and hardy, and
at the age of twenty was but little below medium size. Quite as much
care had been bestowed upon his physical as his mental development,
particularly during his grammar school period.
He became early attached to the Reverend Doctor Edward Everett
Hale's Sunday school and society, was baptized by him on Easter Sunday,
April 5th, 1874, was deeply interested in the Sunday school, especially
while in Mr. Hale's own class, where he was much beloved by his teacher.
At the risk of wearying the reader, we make the following extract from a
letter received from a very intelligent gentleman, who was for several
years his teacher in a more advanced class in the Sunday school:
" In running back over my memory of our being together in the Sunday
school, I have only one thought of him, a manly, true-hearted young
man ; his bearing in the class was as nearly perfect as it was possible to
be, setting a high tone and example to the others, always loyal, earnest
and faithful in all he did, and helpful to me in everything. There were
few in that large class of some thirty young people, who won my respect
and affection more than he did. I had some earnest talks with him, and
I knew that his aims were high, and that the standard he set for himself
was one only to be reached by a truly religious consecration. But your
devotion and faithful affection has had its reward in seeing so earnest,
pure-minded and faithful a spirit taking on new graces day by day, as
the years from childhood to youth passed on into his young manhood,
giving such promise of usefulness, which now must have its fruition in
another world."
Faithful to every duty at home, in school, in the church, and particu-
larly in his business, where he was as prompt and faithful as he had
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been in the other walks of life, his genial temperament and gentlemanly
conduct brought around him warm friends and admirers. Does any one
doubt that with these traits and tendencies, had he lived, he would have
made for himself an honorable mark in the world would have left a
reputation and a name any one might be justly proud of as a Boston
merchant? We do not, but an All-wise Providence has seen fit to
remove him just as he was upon the threshold of usefulness, and we are
left to mourn his loss."
BOSTON, March 3ist, 1883. H.
XII. Martha Ann 7 , born May 23, 1862; died October 22, of the
same year.
38.
WARREN 6 (Joel*, Shadrach*, Shadrach 3 , Nathaniel 2 ,
Shadrach 1 }, born October 14, 1816.
" Advantageously known as a merchant and a gentleman of
liberal attainments and enviable social position, is properly
the father of this genealogy. For he it was, who, impressed
with the various uses it might subserve, and affectionately
regardful of the benefit of the race, first conceived the enter-
prise of snatching it from oblivion ; and it has been through
his liberality alone that the labors of compilation have been
sustained. This acknowledgment may satisfy him, but not
his many obliged and ardent friends, nor the Hapgood race.
All will be curious to know the minute history of a cousin
who has placed them under such obligations.
He was born in Harvard, upon the original Hapgood farm
in that town. In childhood he was sprightly but not robust ;
entered with zest into the sports of his playmates, but had
no instinctive willingness for labor upon the farm. He was
early sent to the district school, where he was marked for
attention to his books, and rare proficiency in every branch
of study which he pursued. In his youth he conceived a
desire for a liberal education ; but instead of being sent to
college he was placed in a store at Fitchburg, spring of
1834, where his employer soon failed, and he returned to the
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farm, for which the father fondly designed him. A youth,
however, who had begun to yearn for college, would not be
a farmer."
His stepmother, a most excellent woman, with a kind and
generous heart, and sound judgment, took in the situation,
and used her best endeavor to have him released from the
farm, so distasteful to him, and to place him in a more con-
genial position, and one better suited to his capacity. Early
in September, 1834, the way was opened for him to enter
the large general merchandise store of Archibald Babcock,
on Charlestown Neck. Goods purchased in Boston by mer-
chants of New Hampshire and Vermont were transported
thither by heavy six or eight-horse teams. Babcock kept a
large stable and lodging rooms, and it became a rendezvous
for these teams and the farmers who marketed their own
produce. The teamsters often had orders to buy heavy
articles, such as molasses, salt, etc., and much of that trade
fell to this store. The introduction of the railroad system,
soon after this period, ruined this business. Warren's salary
for the first year was $2$ and board in the family of Mr.
Babcock. He drew no money from his father, and at the
end of the year had a balance in the treasury, which was
increased by a present of five dollars from his employer.
The second year his salary was doubled, but the sale of the
business to Simonds & Ford, and the retirement of Bab-
cock before the end of the year, threw him out, and he had
to seek employment elsewhere. He had, by force of cir-
cumstances, been obliged to practise the most rigid economy,
and it was a good lesson for him. It is a blessing in disguise
for any young man to be brought in touch with poverty. If
by energy and force of character he works his way out, he
knows how difficult and dangerous the road is, and he will
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be more likely in after life to sympathize with and assist
those who are struggling in that direction. Every step for-
ward will bring its reward, and having reached the goal of
his ambition, he is equipped to enjoy every blessing that
wealth may bring, and more likely to share it with others
than if reared in affluence.
It is so easy for a young man, from day to day, to fritter
away his small earnings, and then when he is old, have
nothing to fall back upon, or rely on to carry him into
business, and he must forever play a subordinate part in the
drama of life. He, however, found employment in a count-
ing-room in Boston, where nearly eight years were spent, at
first as assistant and next as principal book-keeper and
manager of the business.
" During this period a fine opportunity occurred for indulg-
ing his early desire for reading. The large libraries of Boston
were now accessible to him, and he left no moment to be
wasted in idleness. He appropriated much of his first earn-
ings to the purchase of books, and took lessons in book-
keeping, chemistry, rhetoric, the French language, etc. He
also belonged to several literary societies, sharing in their
honors and offices. But the labors of the counting-house
and his reading at home the latter frequently extending
through the entire night made such inroads upon his
health it was deemed necessary for him for a time to give
up book-keeping, which he did, and spent the winter of
1843-4 at the home of his youth in Harvard. He had
never fully abandoned the hope of a liberal education,
and at this period, having accumulated sufficient funds, he
seriously contemplated entering college ; but a difficulty of
the eyes, together with his advanced years, induced him,
with much reluctance, forever to abandon it. His active
mind and temperament required employment, and in the
spring of 1844 he returned to Boston and resumed his former
122 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
employment. Still feeble in health, which was augmented
by the confinement of a counting-room, he at the end of the
year determined to try a more active life. He now engaged
with a wool and domestic goods commission house, as travel-
ling agent through the Western States ; an employment for
which his address eminently fitted him. So successful was
he, that he was solicited to visit the Southern States for the
same firm, which he did, spending part of the winter of
1845-6 in New Orleans. Another year was spent in the
same capacity, travelling through New England and New
York, and in attending to the correspondence of the house.
He adopted the wise plan of keeping a full journal of all his
travels. He also made many pleasant acquaintances, and
obtained much valuable information. Greatly improved in
health, he now determined never again to enter a counting-
house, and in August, 1847, embarked in the cloth and
clothing business."
A copartnership was formed with Samuel B. Appleton,
under the firm name of Hapgood & Appleton, for the pur-
pose of doing a ready-made clothing and tailoring business,
at 1 8 Dock square, Boston. At the end of the first year the
firm was dissolved and Hapgood assumed the responsibilities
of he concern. The business increased, and in 1855 he
removed to the large store, 50 Washington street, where he
conducted the three branches, ready-made clothing, tailoring,
and gentlemen's furnishing goods.
The store was demolished in 1872, and he moved to
number 48, next door. The block in which 48 was situated
was sold to A. J. Wilkinson, hardware merchant, and in
1874 he removed to chambers, 383 Washington street,
where he remained about four years, and in February, 1878,
removed to 17 Court street. In 1886, he decided that in
the following year he would retire, having been fifty-three
years in active business, forty of which had been on his own
SIXTH GENERATION. 123
account ; never borrowed money or asked for a discount,
though said to be the oldest depositor in the Exchange
Bank, and always paid one hundred cents on the dollar. On
the first of February, 1887, he turned the business over to
the Messrs. Richardson & Swett, two of his experienced
employees. The building, 17 Court street, was, in 1889,
taken down to make room for a more modern structure, and
the young firm moved to 21 Court street, taking the old
proprietor with them, where he may still be found, a hale
and hearty octogenarian. It took several years to settle up
the affairs of the old concern, but in 1888, he, with his wife,
spent about four months travelling in Europe. Other
journeys were made, in later years, to the Pacific Coast,
Yellowstone Park, Canada, the Saguenay River, and other
points of interest in America.
His mother died of consumption when he was barely three
years old, and as he advanced in age, the fatal disease
appeared to have made a lodgement in him. Later on, that
most distressing malady, asthma, assailed him, and for many
years tormented him fearfully ; then quietly disappeared,
almost entirely. During these critical periods, his physidfen,
the late Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a practising
physician in Boston, advised more out-of-door exercise. The
change from the active duties of a New England farmer boy
to the close confinement and mental work of a counting-
room, together with change of diet consequent, was too
much for a constitution, not naturally robust. The physi-
cian's recommendation was adopted, and as sporting was his
choice, whenever a few hours could be snatched from busi-
ness, they were appropriated in that way. The beaches and
marshes of East Boston, at that period, offered a fair field
124 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
for marsh-bird shooting, and thither he occasionally repaired,
with gratifying results in health, if not in hunting. This,
however, could not be indulged in to any great extent while
he was employed as a clerk, but when he went into business
for himself, it was different, and he could gratify his taste
and spend more time afield than before. That order of
Doctor Holmes was undoubtedly the initiative to his future
sporting career.
Partridge, woodcock and snipe were much more abundant
fifty years ago than at present, and their pursuit afforded
him ample exercise and amusement. After his brother
Jonathan came in possession of the homestead farm, that
was the most favorite resort. Jonathan was also fond of
gunning, and was a most cheerful companion, an excellent
shot, and an indomitable worker. The dogs and guns received
the best of treatment under his supervision, and he and his
team were ever in readiness for a tramp. For more than a
quarter-century were the coverts of not only their native
town, but other towns contiguous, beaten over with satisfac-
tory results. Jonathan was, furthermore, an expert fisher-
mam, especially for pickerel, and the two brothers did not
neglect the trout streams in that vicinity. After the death
of his brother, Warren found other resorts, but for several
years has devoted some time to shore-bird shooting. "The
grasshopper is a burden " at eighty, and the limbs, as well
as the mental faculties, at that age, are less elastic and
nimble than at forty, and long tramps afield become tedious
and irksome. His love of nature, and keen observation of
the ways and habits of birds and animals, led him to the
study of ornithology, and to the collecting of specimens ; his
collection now embraces nearly all of the Limicolae (shore
SIXTH GENERATION. 125
birds), as well as the game birds of New England, with many
others. He often remarked that he did not regret any day
or dollar spent in sporting, and he firmly believed that if
business men would, before it was too late, take an occasional
day off, in some kind of congenial out-of-door exercise and
amusement, there would not be as many total wrecks of
body and mind, as at present reported. It is the "ounce of
preventive" that is better than the "pound of cure." Nor
did he confine himself alone to the woods and waters of his
native State. He fished and hunted the Adirondack and
Rangeley regions ; caught trout in the Merced, Yellowstone
\
and Washington Territory (now State) streams ; spent a part
of six or eight winters in North Carolina, quail (partridge)
shooting; organized the Monomoy Branting Club in 1862,
and was its president and manager for thirty-four years ; has
been a member of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protec-
tive Association twenty years ; also a member of the Boston
Art Club, and the Museum of Fine Arts, the Bostonian
Society, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society;
belongs to Doctor Edward Everett Hale's church, and the
Hale Club ; has served on the Boston School Board ; always
a Whig or Republican ; subscribes liberally to periodical and
other literature ; donated a handsome sum to complete the
Public Library of his native town, and made an address at its
dedication ; presented her citizens a clock to be placed upon
the Unitarian church; published, in 1894, a History of Har-
vard for free distribution, no copy ever being sold ; and wrote
numerous articles for the press, mostly on sporting matters.
Unfortunately for him, he had no children to* share with and
enjoy the results of his life-work, but he contributed in
various ways to aid in such worthy objects as came to his
126 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
notice. He took his brother's son, Theodore Goldsmith
Hapgood, when he was about nine years old, and kept him
in school about as much longer, and would have cheerfully
fitted and sent him to college, but the young man preferred
mercantile business, and the purpose was abandoned. He
also aided several of his brother's other children in the way
of education.
It was through his instrumentality that Hell Pond, in
i
Harvard, was stocked with black bass. The fish were taken
from Half- Way Pond, in Plymouth, by Thomas Pierce and
transported to Boston by rail, carted across the city to Fitch-
burg railroad, and thence to Ayer, where they were met by
Jonathan F. Hapgood with an ox team, in a pouring rain, and
the tanks conveyed to the pond, where the seventeen large
bass were liberated, the effort proving in every way successful.
He was also most conspicuous in introducing European quail
(Coturnix Communis) into this country. Of the thousands
that were afterwards imported, from some cause unknown,
none are believed to have survived.
"The active duties of business absorbing much of his time,
he has found less leisure than formerly for literary pursuits ;
yet these have not been wholly neglected, nor the happy
effects of previous culture obscured. In social intercourse
he is frank without being abrupt, genial and' sympathetic ;
and many bear witness to his kindness and generosity.
"As a merchant he is high minded, honorable and ener-
getic. Abhorring those little tricks that tradesmen some-
times resort to, and believing that mere pecuniary gain at
the cost of honor is not success, he has won for himself a
reputation worthy of emulation.
"Mr. Hapgood married, January 14, 1852, Julia Adelaide
Gamage, a lady of congenial tastes, who had enjoyed the
advantages of public and private schools in Boston, receiving
Julia
(Gamaiici
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medals from each as the award of scholarship. From her
youth to the present time she has been engaged as pupil,
teacher, and patron of Sunday schools, and takes an active
part in the support and management of various other charit-
able institutions. She was born July 28, 1821, in Boston,
the daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Cowdin) Gamage, and
the granddaughter of William Gamage, M. D., of Cambridge,
by his second wife, Lucy Watson, and great granddaughter
of William and Abigail Gamage of Cambridge, and great
great granddaughter of Joshua and Deborah (Wyeth) Gamage
of Cambridge, the common ancestor of all of the name in
this country. He was not improbably a merchant from
London, where only was the name reported two hundred and
fifty years ago, and then in connection with knighthood.
On the maternal side, Mrs. Hapgood was the granddaughter
of Daniel Cowdin, by his wife, Zabiah Davis, who was the
daughter of the honored and revered General Amasa Davis
of Boston, born August 17, 1744; died January 30, 1825,
who married Sarah Whitney, daughter of William and Mary
(Pierce) Whitney of Weston, and great great granddaughter
of John and Elinor Whitney of Watertown.
Nathaniel Gamage was a merchant of Boston, born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 18, 1793; died Janu-
ary 3, 1823 ; married, May 24, 1812, Sarah Cowdin, born
July 27, 1794, in Boston, where she died March 2, 1867."
No children.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
39.
WILLIAM ESTABROOK STEARNS 7 (James 6 , Abraham*,
Ephraim*, flezekiah?, Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born Novem-
ber 19, 1823, at Acton; married, February 17, 1847, at
Lowell, Massachusetts, Maria Haven, born October 19, 1819,
128 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
at Laconia, New Hampshire. He died at Lowell, Febru-
ary 1 6, 1872 ; by trade a painter. His widow survives him.
CHILDREN.
I. Frank Wesley 8 , born April 23, 1848; married, January 25,
1878, Jennie Ingalls Hildreth, born in Lowell, May 22,
1849, where he resides, a machinist.
II. Mary Louisa 8 , born April 23, 1848, twin with Frank Wesley ;
died August 25, 1849, at Lowell.
III. James 8 , born December 25, 1850; married, May 14, 1879,
Etta May Huckins, born June 9, 1859, at Deerfield,
New Hampshire; resides in Lowell, a machinist; s. p.
IV. Charles Haven 8 , born October 18, 1853; married, Decem-
ber 26, 1875, Luella Googin of Lowell, where he
resides, a jeweler.
CHILD.
I. Sarah Mariah 9 , born June 9, 1877.
40.
EpHRAiM 7 (Ephrainf 1 , Ephrainf, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born September 16, 1812; went to
Lowell, 1832 ; learned the carpenter's trade ; worked at mill-
wright business ; became associated with Milton Aldrich for
about seven years in the manufacture of shuttles and wood
screws, then went into tinware and stove business with Wil-
liam T. and Charles P. Whitten, and next into junk, rag,
cotton waste and paper stock, which he pursued till 1870,
when he started a mattress factory, which resulted in the
present extensive establishment of E. Hapgood & Son, High
street, Lowell. He married, February 19, 1837, Harriet
Amanda, daughter of Joseph and Eleanor (Taylor) Whitten
of Cavendish, Vermont. He died November 30, 1873. His
widow still survives him.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 129
CHILDREN.
I. Edwin D. 8 , born October 26, 1838, at Lowell; married, Jan-
uary 12, 1862, Mary Agnes, daughter of Mathew and
Lucinda (Elkins) Currier of North Troy, Vermont, born
May 12, 1838. She died January 6, 1892.
CHILDREN.
I. Frank Elkins', born October 20, 1862, at Lawrence ;
married, October 15, 1890, Nettie Anderson of
North Cape, Racine County, Wisconsin, born
November 12, 1864; resides in Chicago, Illinois;
in mattress business. No children.
II. George Currier 9 , born May 14, 1865 ; died Janu-
ary 29, 1869.
II. Edgar 8 , born April i, 1845; resides in Lowell in company
with his brother Edwin, as successors to their father's
extensive business ; unmarried.
41.
ANDREW 7 (Ephraim*, Ephraim*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel?, Shadrach 1 }, born at the home of his father, near
the Fitchburg railroad crossing, West Acton, August 28,
1823 ; educated at the district and private schools ; remained
on the farm during his minority ; went to Lowell and worked
at various kinds of mechanical business. His father being
feeble, he returned, 1847, to Acton, and assisted in carrying
on the farm till his death, February 3, 1849; he then pur-
chased of the heirs their interest in the estate, where he has
since lived, and, by industry and frugality, prospered. This
farm which Ephraim 6 bought was known as the " Brooks
estate." Andrew held the office of Justice of Peace for thirty
years, and served the town in several minor offices ; married,
August 12, 1846, at Lowell, Eliza Ann, daughter of William
and Martha Lawrence Adams of Hollis, New Hampshire.
130 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. Esther Ann 8 , born at Acton, July 12, 1847 ; married, Decem-
ber 16, 1874, James Trescott Dinsmore of Lubeck,
Maine, born April 21, 1847; resides in Dorchester;
in the employ of the American Rubber Company,
Boston.
CHILD.
1. Walter Andrew' Dinsmore, born November 25,
1879-
II. Lucius 8 , born February 14, 1851; educated for business;
was in the employ of Messrs. Peters & Derby, at
Hudson; much esteemed for integrity and business
capacity; died September 30, 1870.
III. Josephine 8 , born July 31, 1854; married, May 19, 1875, i n
Acton, Samuel Spencer Perkins, who has for many
years been a leading grocer in Lynn, Massachusetts.
She died December 30, 1892.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles Shipley 9 Perkins, born April 17, 1876.
2. Samuel Ernest 9 , born April 22, 1878.
3. Clarence Andrew 9 , born October 15, 1884.
4. Albert Harrison^, born October 12, 1888.
5. Edith Eliza 9 , born December 2, 1890.
6. Nelson Wolcott 9 , born May 13, 1892.
IV. Irving 8 , born July 7, 1858, at West Acton; removed to
Lynn, in 1879; married, September 30, 1885, Annie M.
Kennedy of Whitefield, Maine ; is with his brother-in-
law, S. S. Perkins, in the grocery and provision
business.
CHILD.
I. Roy Glendon 9 , born November 4, 1888.
V. Ellsworth 8 , born February 26, 1861 ; married, September
30, 1890, Eliza Ellen Tabour, born July 20, 1857, at
Salem. He resides in Lynn ; proprietor of the well
known and popular Lynn express.
CHILDREN.
I. Edna Frances 9 , born November 4, 1892.
II. Mabel Eliza 9 , born June 14, 1895.
III. Marion Esther 9 , born June 30, 1896.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 131
VI. Herbert*, born November 15, 1865; resides in Cambridge-
port; traveling agent for Plymouth Rock Gelatine
Company; unmarried.
42.
CYRUS 7 (Nathaniel*, Ephrainf, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel' 1 , Shadrach 1 ), born July 16, 1818, at Acton ; mar-
ried, January 18, 1842, Eleanor Wheeler, born February 23,
1817; died March 31, 1860, in Cambridge, and he married
second, March 7, 1861, Mrs. Abby H. Lewis, daughter of
Josiah Davis, Esquire, of Concord, born September 6, 1817;
died February 8, 1895, at Everett. At the age of fourteen,
he went to work for his uncle Stowe in his soap and candle
factory in Concord, and at nineteen, succeeded him in that
business. Two years later, 1839, the factory was burned and
he lost everything, except "pluck." He next went into the
butchering business with Jabez Reynolds, in Concord. After-
wards he removed to Bedford, where for eight years he was
in the meat business. He then moved to Cambridge, where
for fifteen years he conducted a wholesale slaughter-house
for Boston market, and then retired from active business, and
has resided in Newtonville, Acton, and now in Everett, Mas-
sachusetts.
CHILDREN.
60 I. Cyrus Stowe 8 , born November 23, 1842, at Concord; mar-
ried Clara Augusta Conner.
II. Henry Augustus 8 , born March 16, 1845, at Concord; died
March 4, 1849, at Bedford.
III. Ellen Frances 8 , born August 24, 1849; resides with her
venerable father in Everett.
132 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
43.
JOSEPH 7 (Nathaniel' 1 ', Ephraim*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,.
Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born May 26, 1821 ; married, August
n, 1847, Almira Jane, daughter of Nathaniel Holmes of
Londonderry, New Hampshire, born August, 1827. She
died September 28, 1868, at Gibsonville, Sierra County,
California. He went to California in 1851, but came back
September, 1861, for his wife, two boys, and twin sister, and
took passage on board steamer from New York, November
i, 1861, for his residence at Rocky Point, Sierra County.
His present residence is Mohawk, Plumas County, California,
farmer and miner, still expecting, at seventy-five, to realize a
fortune from his mining interests.
CHILDREN.
I. Nathan Henry 8 , born September 15, 1848, at Dorchester,
New Hampshire; married, September 20, 1880, Alice,
daughter of Henry M. and Eliza T. Kingsbury of
Berlin, Wisconsin, born May 19, 1854; resides in
Beckwith, Plumas County, California.
CHILDREN.
1. Maude Estelle 9 , born July 31, 1881, at Quincy,
Plumas County, California.
II. Iva Alice 9 , born November 27, 1890, at Reno,
Nevada.
III. Hattie May 9 , born April 18, 1894, at Reno.
II. Joseph Frank 8 , born June 7, 1850, at Dorchester, New
Hampshire ; went west, engaged in stock raising on
the south fork of Pitt River, Modoc County ; on June
2, 1880, while attempting to ford the river with two
horses, near Centerville, California, he was drowned,
but no one ever knew how it happened. He was a
man of excellent habits, fearless and determined, and
had he lived would have made his mark in the world ;
was not married.
III. Mary Lizzie 8 , born July n, 1852, at Londonderry, New
Hampshire; died August u, 1853.
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IV. Nathaniel 8 , born September 27, 1862, at Gibsonville, Sierra
County, California ; worked on the farm, with his
father, at Mohawk Valley; resides at Wash, Plumas
County, California; unmarried.
V. Matthew Holmes 8 , born August 19, 1865, at Gibsonville;
resides in Truckee, Plumas County, California; lum-
berman; unmarried.
44.
SHERMAN WILLARD T (Ephraim*, HezekiaJv 1 , Ephrainfi,
Hezekiah*, Nathaniel "*, Shadrach 1 }, born January 12, 1815;
reared on the farm of his father Ephraim, in Waterford ;
received a fair district school education, such as was
.accorded to the New England boy of that period ; removed,
May, 1832, to North Anson ; learned the harness maker's
trade, but subsequently went into hotel business with his
brother-in-law, William Brown, keeping the Somerset House
at North Anson. They also became interested in a line of
stage coaches from Waterville to North Anson, via Nor-
ridgewock, where they opened a hotel. After this, he fol-
lowed farming at Anson for about two years. The next
enterprise was a tannery, the product of which was converted
into harnesses and boots. The sale of boots in that section
was limited and he was obliged to ship his goods west for a
market. In 1879, becoming weary of business and feeling
old age slowly creeping upon him, he concluded to retire
and enjoy the closing years of his life at North Anson, in the
midst of his family and friends, where he was much beloved
and esteemed. He married, May 4, 1839, Abigail, daughter
of Joel and Abigail Fletcher of North Anson, born Octo-
ber 12, 1820. He died September 23, 1896, in North Anson,
Maine.
134 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. George Edmund 8 , born January 21, 1838; married, 1873,
Ella, daughter of Luke and Abigail Mantor of North
Anson, born May 20, 1845. George was a trader
at North Anson; removed to California, September
12, 1859, and after varying fortunes, in 1868 he
returned to the place of his birth, where he still
resides ; a merchant.
CHILDREN.
I. Florence Talbott 9 , born March. 10, 1874; married,
October 15, 1894, Charles Tarbell of George-
town, Maine, born April 20, 1872.
II. Nellie', born January 9, 1877.
III. Sherman 9 , born September 11, 1884.
II. William Henry 8 , born September 12, 1839, at North Anson ;
married, April 15, 1860, Betsey Manley of Skowhegan,
Maine, born July 7, 1839. He was in the harness busi-
ness, but abandoned it to join his brother Solon, in a
hotel at Milford, Massachusetts. Went west, 1876,
and has not since been heard from.
CHILDREN.
I. Caroline Manley 9 , born November 11, 1860; mar-
ried, December 10, 1890, T. Starr Hittinger of
Boston ; resides in Townsend, Massachusetts ;
no children.
II. Blanche Sherman 9 , born January 14, 1863 ; married,
December, 1885, Charles W. Baxter; resides
in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
CHILDREN.
1. Alice 10 Baxter, born March 29, 1885.
2. Charles Sherman 10 , born December 19, 1887.
III. Solon Eugene 8 , born July 9, 1842; married, December 24,
1868, Frances Libbey of Milford, born July 9, 1845.
He was educated, with the other members of the fam-
ily, in the district schools of North Anson; was a
clerk in the Somerset House ; 1860, formed a co-part-
nership under firm name of Hapgood & Thompson,
as proprietors of the Curritunk House at Solon, Maine.
Returning to North Anson, 1864, he opened a store for
the sale of furniture, under firm name of Hapgood &
Mantor. This proving unsatisfactory, he sold out and
SEVENTH GENERATION. 135
removed to Milford, 1871, where for a quarter century
he has been the successful proprietor of the Mansion
House in that flourishing town.
CHILD.
I. Helen Maud', born October 18, 1869, at North
Anson ; married, January 10, 1890, Wallace
Stimpson of Milford.
IV. Abbie Frances 8 , born July 12, 1846; married, February 22,
1863, George Frank, son of Dennis Moore, Judge of
Probate for the county of Somerset, Maine, born 1835 ;
resides in North Anson.
CHILDREN.
1. Lewis Sherman 9 Moore, born December 24, 1865 ;
died September 14, 1887.
2. Fred Dennis 9 , born October 12, 1870; resides in
North Anson ; a farmer.
3. Annie 9 , born April 10, 1874.
4. Eda 9 , born October 10, 1876.
V. Eda Augusta 8 , born July 12, 1846, twin with Abbie Frances ;
married, June 8, 1868, Thomas Boyd, son of Manley
and Almeda Townsend of Calais, Maine, born Febru-
ary 28, 1844; removed, September i, 1890, to Kansas
City, Missouri ; in real estate business ; Mrs. Townsend
has a divided interest between her husband and her
venerable father, and is part of the time with each ; s. p.
VI. Fannie Estelle 8 , born June 18, 1843, at Norridgewock,
Maine; married, October 10, 1871, William Caswell
of North Anson ; a farmer.
CHILD.
1. Gertrude 9 Caswell, born April 15, 1884.
45.
CHARLES C. 7 (Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel" 1 , Shadrach 1 }, born July 31, 1821; married, Octo-
ber 19, 1843, at North Anson, Salome Savage, born in King-
field, March 9, 1824; he learned the trade of saddler and
136 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
harness maker; spent two years in North Anson, two in
Waterford, then returned to North Anson, where he died,
May 9, 1851, and his widow removed, 1852, to Boston, where
she has since resided.
CHILD.
I. Albion Danville 8 , born March i, 1845, at Waterford; mar-
ried, June 20, 1866, at East Boston, Delia Smith of
Maine, born April 17, 1846; resided in Boston, a clerk;
enlisted, January 4, 1863, in Third Massachusetts Cav-
alry; was with General Banks in his Red River cam-
paign, came home sick, was in Readville hospital six
months ; returned to the front and served to the end
of the war, when he was mustered out ; he removed
to Omaha, Nebraska, 1869, and to West Glendale,
Southern California, 1887; a small fruit grower, with
a pension, and impaired health.
CHILDREN, all but Hattie born in Omaha.
I. Hattie 9 , born April 17, 1867, at East Boston; mar-
ried, 1889, Frank Vance of Ohio; resides in
Los Angeles ; a carriage painter.
CHILDREN.
1. Alice 10 Vance, born January 8, 1894.
2. Ethel 10 , born July 28, 1895.
II. Charles 9 , born August 6, 1870; married, January
15, 1896, at Ontario, Colorado, Alice Brown from
Minneapolis; resides in Los Angeles; a clerk.
III. Susan 9 , born January 15, 1874; married, August
1 8, 1892, Albert Miller of San Fernando, Cali-
fornia.
CHILDREN.
1. Stella 10 Miller, born August 24, 1893.
2. Annie 10 , born June 23, 1896.
IV. Stella 9 , born July n, 1876; died October 25, 1879.
V. May 9 , born March 10, 1881.
VI. Alma 9 , born September 18, 1885.
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46.
WiLLiAM 7 (William*, Hesekiah 5 , Ephraim*, HezekiaW,
Nathaniel*, Shadrach x ), born May 28, 1814, at East Fryeburg,
Maine; married, December 31, 1840, Marcia McKay, born
at Westbrook, Maine, August 28, 1816, and resides with her
daughter, Mrs. Berry, in East Fryeburg, where William died
January 4, 1892; he had spent several summers in business
at North Conway, New Hampshire.
CHILDREN, all born in East Fryeburg.
I. Charlotte 8 , born June i, 1842; died September 8, 1848.
II. Marcia 8 , born June 13, 1843; married, July 20, 1862, Joshua
Ames, son of Simeon and Sally Harnden of Denmark,
Maine; she died May 23, 1865, and he, March 28, 1888.
CHILD.
1. Byron Elwood 9 Harnden, born June 25, 1863, at
Denmark; resides in Bridgton, Maine.
III. Henrietta 8 , born August 4, 1845 ; died July 12, 1851.
IV. Franklin 8 , born July i, 1848; died July 17, 1851.
V. Lottie 8 , born April 13, 1851 ; married, August 2, 1872, at
Denmark, Harmon Velrufas, son of Joseph and Abigail
Berry, born April 18, 1849, at Denmark; resides in
East Fryeburg; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. Lulu Marcia' Berry, born October 31, 1877.
2. William Hapgood 9 , born January 27, 1885.
VI. William 8 , born May 20, 1853; died May 24, 1854.
VII. Willis 8 , born February u, 1855; died November u, 1855.
VIII. George Leonard 8 , born June 8, 1857; died March 25, 1864.
IX. Sherman 8 , born March 2, 1860; married, November 24,
1881, Lena May, daughter of Wyman and Eliza Harn-
den of Fryeburg, born April 25, 1862 ; resides in Port-
land, Maine ; a merchant ; no children.
47.
ANDREW SIDNEY? (Sprout*, HezekiaJc 1 , Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born September 14, 1831 ; married,
138 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
January 18, 1870, Annie Winter of Gloucester, Massachusetts,,
born March 14, 1838; he received his early education in the
public schools of Waterford, Maine, but later the family
removed to Augusta, where his father died, and here he
learned the tanner's trade and established himself in that busi-
ness ; he afterwards moved to Boston, where he was employed
in the lobster canning business on the coast of Maine, and in
the oyster business on the Maryland coast. In 1864 he
went to California and formed a copartnership with William
Hume, and established the first salmon canning factory on
the Pacific coast, at Sacramento, under the firm name of
Hapgood & Co. Here they carried on the salmon canning
business for two years. About this time they heard much
of the great quantities of salmon that were found in the
Columbia River, and of the superior quality of the fish. In
1866 they erected the first salmon cannery on that river, at
Eagle Cliff. This was the pioneer factory. Here they con-
tinued the business until 1873, when the firm was dissolved
and Mr. Hapgood built a new factory and works three miles
below Eagle Cliff, calling it Waterford, after his native town,
where he carried on the business of canning for two years.
Failing health compelled him to give up business, and in
August, 1875, ne s ld out. The following nine months he
spent in California, and in May, 1876, he came East, where
he died November 26, 1876, of consumption ; his widow sur-
vives him, residing in Gloucester.
CHILDREN.
I. Son 8 , born January 13, 1873 ; died at birth.
II. Lyman Sawin 8 , born July 22, 1874, at Gloucester; was a
student at Harvard University, class 1897.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 139
48.
WILLIAM SALMON* (Ephrainf, Oliver 1 , Ephraim*, Heze-
kiah*, Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born June 17, 1819; removed
from Waterford to Bethel, 1830, with his parents, and in
1863 to East Stratford, New Hampshire; carried on a large
farm ; manufactured and sold lumber extensively ; was an
energetic and enterprising man; married, March 23, 1843,
Rebecca Woods um Mason, born in Gilead, Maine, May
19, 1824; died July 18, 1891, of heart disease; he died of
pneumonia, February 20, 1896, at the residence of his son
Calvin, in Stratford.
CHILDREN.
I. Abbie Scribner 8 , born May 29, 1844, at Bethel; married,
March 1 1, 1865, William Pingree of Denmark, born Jan-
uary 10, 1843; resided in Fryeburg, Maine; removed
to North Conway, New Hampshire, September 12,
1895.
CHILDREN.
1. Georgiana' Pingree, born March 9, 1866, at Den-
mark ; married, September 9, 1883, at North
Conway, New Hampshire.
2. Fred William', born September 6, 1871, at Bethel,
twin with Wilhelmina; married, March 22, 1894,
Arvilla Gordon of Fryeburg ; telegrapher.
3. Wilhelmina 9 , born September 6, 1871 ; kinder-
gartner; unmarried.
4. Charles Henry 9 , born January u, 1882, at Lovell.
61 II. Charles Arthur 8 , born March 29, 1846; married, at Strat-
ford, January 2, 1868, Jennie Vilonia Paguin.
III. Catharine Matilda 8 , born April 18, 1848, at Bethel ; married,
October 21, 1866, at Norway, Simon, son of John and
Judith Grover, born January, 1845, at Berlin, New
Hampshire ; resides in Stoneham, Maine.
CHILDREN.
1. Ada Louisa 9 Grover, born April 17, 1868, at Bethel,
Maine ; married, October 27, 1888, James Edwin
Day of Brownfield, Maine ; resides in Norway.
140 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
1. Willie Loren 10 Day.
2. Mather Ada 10 .
3. Bertie Roland 10 .
2. Mary Ellen 9 , born March 13, 1870, at Stratford,
New Hampshire ; married, October 6, 1887,
William John Culbert of Province of Quebec,
Canada ; resides in North Stratford.
CHILDREN.
1. Mather Mary 10 Culbert.
2. Perciville 10 .
3. Maggie 10 .
4. Abbie Susan 10 .
3. William Salmon 9 , born March i, 1872, at Strat-
ford ; resides in Albany, Maine.
4. John Carter 9 , born April 18, 1874, at Stratford;
resides in Stoneham.
5. Charles Barnett 9 , born May 29, 1876, at Stratford;
married, November 28, 1894, at Otisfield, Flor-
ence Gould ; resides in Otisfield ; farmer.
6. Artemas Benjamin 9 , born March 15, 1878, at
South Columbia, New Hampshire ; resides in
Stoneham, Me.
7. Frank Henry 9 , born March 14, 1880, in South
Columbia; resides in Stoneham.
8. Abby Almon 9 , born November 4, 1882, at North
Stratford.
9. Clarence Henry 9 , born November 22, 1885, at
Stratford.
10. Alton Everett 9 , born June 18, 1890, at Stratford.
IV. Calvin Lewis 8 , born April 30, 1850, at Bethel; married,
March 24, 1876, Lizzie Fostina Barnett, born February
2 7 I 857, at Columbia, New Hampshire; resides in
Stratford.
CHILDREN.
I. Burton Lee 9 , born February 21, 1877.
11. Elwin Edwin 9 , born September 14, 1878.
III. Melvin Barnett 9 , born July 31, 1880.
IV. Benjamin William 9 , born April 28, 1882.
V. Rebecca Mason 9 , born June 13, 1883.
VI. Guy Forist 9 , born August 8, 1885.
VII. Gertie Louise 9 , born December 3, 1887.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 141
V. Oliver Massina 8 , born February 1 1, 1852, at Bethel, Maine j
married, August I, 1873, Nettie Walker, born Octo-
ber 22, 1855; settled in Columbus, Ohio; removed to
California, where he engaged in the business of nur-
seryman. About 1895 or 1896 he returned to Massa-
chusetts.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliott Elwood 9 , born May 9, 1874, a * Marion, Ohio ;
married, February 22, 1895, Rosilla Baker, born
October 24, 1878, at Marion.
II. Ola Frank', born May 6, 1876, at Stratford, New
Hampshire ; married, March 3, 1894, Rosa Lucy
Schumacher, born October 28, 1872, at Colum-
bus, Ohio.
III. Britta Mart', born April 7, 1878, at Marion, Ohio;
married, May 20, 1896, at Natick, Massachu-
setts, James Wood, born in Fall River, Massa-
chusetts, October 13, 1864; resides in Natick;
by trade, a painter.
IV. Marion 9 , born August 17, 1880, at Foristell, Mis-
souri ; died at Marion, Ohio, January 2, 1881.
V. Harley Horace 9 , born June 13, 1882, at Stratford,
New Hampshire.
VI. Percy Ray 9 , born February 18, 1885, at Wells
River, Vermont; died August 13, 1885, at
Plymouth, New Hampshire.
VII. George Epler 9 , born September 10, 1887, at Holder-
ness, New Hampshire.
VIII. Myrtle Jeanette 9 , born April 9, 1890, at Springville,
Kentucky; died January 8, 1896, at Boston,
Massachusetts.
IX. Bertha 9 , born October 17, 1892, at Columbus, Ohio.
VI. William Salmon 8 , Jr., born December 14, 1853, at Albany,
Maine; married, October 9, 1873, at Stratford, New
Hampshire, Harriet Barnett, sister to his brother Cal-
vin's wife, born June 10, 1854, at South Columbia,
New Hampshire, where he resides, a large farmer and
lumber dealer.
CHILDREN.
I. Florence May 9 , born November 2, 1874; married,
October 12, 1892, at Columbia, William Jesse,
son of Joseph and Mary Jane Ormsby, born
142 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
January 4, 1845, at Guildhall, Vermont; resided
in Columbia, New Hampshire, where she died
September 29, 1893.
CHILD.
1. Florence May 10 Ormsby, born September 8,
1893; died September 10, 1896.
II. Minnie Eliza 9 , born July i, 1877, at Columbia ; died
April 3, 1878.
III. Durwood Malcom 9 , born Decembers, 1878.
IV. Georgie Eva 9 , born November 30, 1880.
V. Flora Bell 9 , born January 18, 1885.
VI. Delia Bertha 9 , born May 10, 1888.
VII. Ruth 9 , born May 24, 1893.
VIII. Harold Bryan 9 , born August 4, 1896.
VII. Richard Frank 8 , born December 9, 1855, at Albany; married,
June 6, 1880, Mary Elvila Buzzell, born October 31,
1861, at Granby, Vermont; resides at Stratford.
CHILDREN.
I. Effie Rebecca 9 , born July 9, 1881.
II. William Solon 9 , born March 30, 1883.
III. Lucy Elnora 9 , born November 15, 1885.
IV. Blanche Florence 9 , born November 18, 1895.
VIII. Lucy Elnora 8 , born February 27, 1857, at Bethel; married,
November 9, 1874,31 North Stratford, David Gillanders
of Broughton, Province of Quebec, Canada, born Octo-
ber 9, 1851 ; died May n, 1889, at Sherbrook, Province
of Quebec; she married second, April 22, 1896, at
Groveton, New Hampshire, Alexander McDonald of
Nova Scotia, whose father was Donald McDonald of
Scotland.
CHILDREN, by first husband.
1. Carrie Maud 9 Gillanders, born August i, 1878, at
North Stratford.
2. Jessie Beulah Brown, born May 25, 1880.
IX. Josie Eva 8 , born November 22, 1858, at Bethel, Maine;
married, August 7, 1875, at Lemington, Vermont,
Charles Augustus Morse, born in Columbia, New
Hampshire, May 30, 1848; resides in Lancaster, New
Hampshire ; a blacksmith.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 143
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Ella 9 Morse, born February 22, 1880, at
Bloomfield, Vermont.
2. Prescott Howard*, born January 21, 1883, at River-
ton, New Hampshire.
X. Martha Jane 8 , born August 21, 1862; married, November
20, 1876, Melvin Young, born at Stratford, March 16,
1857.
CHILDREN.
1. Clara Eva 9 Young, born March 19, 1878.
2. Edward John 9 , born April 25, 1880.
3. Josie Maud 9 , born April 27, 1882.
4. Nellie Maria 9 , born July I, 1884.
5. Fred Ray 9 , born April 17, 1889.
6. Colin Herman 9 , born May 25, 1891.
7. Cristy Pearl 9 , born May i, 1893.
XI. Cora Isabel 8 , born August 20, 1864, at Stratford; married,
May 3, 1882, Lincoln H. Holmes of Jefferson, New
Hampshire ; resides in Albany, Maine, and Lancaster,
New Hampshire ; no children.
XII. Jennie Rose 8 , born June 10, 1867; married, July 5, 1887,
Nathaniel White Bennett of Albany, Maine, where he
resides.
CHILDREN.
1. Rebecca Cora 9 Bennett, born February 22, 1892.
2. William Hapgood Sylvanus 9 , born July 3, 1893.
49.
OLIVER 7 (Ephraim*, Oliver*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathan-
iel-, Shadrach 1 }, born February 13, 1822 ; educated in the
public schools of Waterford ; removed to Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts ; was employed in the gas-fitting business ; married,
September 20, 1848, Mary Jael Sanderson, in Sweden, Maine ;
resided at Cambridge till the breaking out of the war, when
he enlisted in Company I, Nineteenth regiment, Massachu-
setts Volunteers ; was killed June 30, 1862, at the Battle of
144 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Frazier's Farm, Virginia, while performing his duty as
Orderly Sergeant. His widow died April 4, 1869.
CHILDREN.
I. Oliver Massina 8 , born July 31, 1849, at Cambridgeport,
Massachusetts ; received common school education ;
married, September n, 1895, at Cambridge, Fanny Fay
Cartwright of Cambridge, born December 31, 1867;
resides in Cambridgeport ; foreman of electric street
railway.
II. Henry Clifton 8 , born July 20, 1851, at Cambridgeport;
resides in Haverhill, Massachusetts ; a motorman,
unmarried.
III. Mary Jael 8 , born September 6, 1861 ; married, October 21,
1885, Milton Augustus Parker, born September 2,
1855, at Hopkinton, Massachusetts; resides in Welles-
ley, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
1. Chester Curtis 9 Parker, born August 6, 1886, at
Arlington; died December 11, 1886.
2. Roy Milton', born October 3, 1887, at Cambridge.
3. Harold Bryant', born December 22, 1891.
5O.
JOHN FRANCIS 7 (Ephraim 6 , Oliver 5 , Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel*, Skadrack 1 } was born September 9, 1824; enter-
prising, energetic and courageous. In 1848, at the age of
twenty-two, he purchased of Barker Burbank, in Bethel,
about 300 acres of land, only five of which were cleared.
There was also a very small house upon the lot. Thrift
followed sharp upon the footprints of industry, but some-
thing was wanted a companion to share his toils and
fortunes, and cheer the lonely hours of a forest home. Such
an one was vouchsafed, and on the 25th of April, 1851, he
was united in marriage, at Sherburne, New Hampshire, with
SEVENTH GENERATION. 145
Mary Lemine Young, born at Gray, Maine, April 14, 1833.
The union proved a happy one ; they have worked and pros-
pered together. In 1869 he built the large mansion house,
now occupied by the family, though all of the seven children,
except Fred, were born in the old house. Family traits are
singularly uniform and expressive. The earlier settlers of
New England were from agricultural districts in England ;
the Hapgoods were among them, and as farmers, were very
industrious, frugal and prosperous. One trait was a desire
for many buildings, and a great lot of cattle ; in the present
instance, John had the traditional characteristic. In addition
to the new house, rose into view two barns, a stable, and
sheds innumerable. One half of the 300 acres original pur-
chase are now under cultivation, and 400 acres of wood and
pasture land have been added by the father and son John,
who has always lived at home, and is now, in the waning
years of the father, the mainstay. Nor is he suffering for
want of exercise, with the care of the extensive farm, and
seventy-one head of cattle to look after, summer and winter ;
in fact, he is one of the most successful and richest farmers in
that section of the State.
CHILDREN, all born at Bethel.
I. John 8 , born January 24, 1853 ; married, November 26, 1879,
Inez Anna, daughter of Otis and Vianna Hayford, born
. January 3, 1857, at Albany, Maine, died July 2, 1886;
no children. He is a quiet, intelligent, industrious
man, deeply interested in farming, and has pretty
much the entire care of the large estate since his
father has felt old age creeping upon him.
II. Albert 8 , born October 21, 1855; died December 17, 1873.
III. George 8 , born February 14, 1858; died March 9, 1861.
IV. George Joseph 8 , born July 29, 1861; married, May 2, 1886,
Mae Lizzie, daughter of Emery and Lucy Emerson,
146 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
born at Fryeburg, August 2, 1868; resides in Bethel;
a merchant.
CHILD.
I. Ula Alice?, born July 27, 1888.
V. Frank 8 , born May 15, 1864; resides at Bethel; a farmer;
unmarried.
VI. Ella Mary 8 , born November 23, 1868; married, August 23,
1888, Charles Edgar Whittier, born January 17, 1850,
at Lisbon, Maine. He died March 23, 1895, at Lewis-
ton, Maine.
CHILD.
1. Mildred Hapgood 9 Whittier, born June 30, 1889,
at Bethel, where both mother and child reside,
with her father, at the old homestead.
VII. Fred 8 , born July 9, 1872; resides in Bethel; unmarried.
51.
RiCHARD 7 (Ephraim 6 , Oliver*, Ephraim*, HezekialP, Nathan-
iel*, Shadrach 1 ), born February 24, 1841 ; married, December
22, 1868, Nellie Grace, daughter of Carlos Lapere and Eliza-
beth C. Pike, born November 24, 1848, at Hebron, New
Hampshire ; resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts ; General
Roadmaster of the West End Street Railway Company.
CHILDREN.
I. Charles Carlos 8 , born December 9, 1870; married, October
26, 1892, Mary Alexander Gardner of Cambridge, born
November 8, 1871 ; resides in Cambridge; educated in
the public schools; went west, January 7, 1885; two
years on a stock farm in Nebraska, returned, and
entered the employ of Hosmer, Robinson & Co., hay
and grain merchants, which position he has faithfully
filled for eleven years ; no children.
II. Emma Lizzie 8 , born October 26, 1874; married, April 26,
1893, at Cambridge, Arthur Spencer Cummings; in
piano business.
III. Nellie Arline 8 , born April 24, 1876; died June 11, 1878.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 147
52.
ARTEMAS T (Artemas*, Oliver 6 , Ephraim*, Hezekiah*, Nathan-
iel, Shadrach 1 ), born September 2, 1816 ; married, September
17, 1848, at Sweden, Maine, Sarah Ann, daughter of Reuben
and Sally Nevers Parker, born August 25, 1819, at Portland.
He died January 8, 1890; she survives him at Waterford.
CHILDREN.
I. Lyman*, born October 21, 1849; married, February 22,
1883, at Steep Falls, Maine, Hattie B. Merrill of
Limington, Maine. He was killed in a pulp mill at
Gorham, Maine, September 11, 1890.
CHILDREN.
I. Sarah Isabel', born June 16, 1885.
II. Harold', born March 4, 1887, at Windham, Maine.
II. Arzelia Worcester 8 , born January 22, 1854; died August
n, 1862, at Sweden.
63.
JoEL 7 (Oliver' 1 ', Oliver 6 , Ephraim*, Hezekiah 3 , Nathaniel 2 ,
Shadrach 1 }, born August 23, 1827; married, October 10,
1852, at Gorham, New Hampshire, Columbia Wheeler, born
August 4, 1828, at Albany, Maine; died at South Waterford,
Maine, June 10, 1854; no children; and he married second,
April 25, 1855, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Ellen
Mariah, daughter of John and Almira (Smith) Coburn, born
at Portland, May 24, 1836. He died February 13, 1887, at
South Waterford.
CHILDREN.
I. George Albert 8 , born January 25, 1856 (by second wife),
at Portland; married, February 16, 1878, at Lawrence,
Massachusetts, Jennie Durden, born August 9, 1852,
at Chessetts Wood, England ; resides in Portland, a
machinist.
148 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. Harry Llewellyn 9 , born March 14, 1879, Lawrence.
II. Ernest Albert', born August 22, 1880, at South
Waterford.
III. Blanch Maria*, born November 5, 1885; died
December 27, 1885.
IV. Bertha May 9 , born November 24, 1886, South
Waterford.
V. Ralph Durden 9 , born October 24, 1888, at Portland.
II. Abbie Ellen 8 , born July 7, 1858, at Portland; married, Jan-
uary 22, 1875, at Sweden, Maine, Calvin Hapgood 8
Adams, son of Joseph and Mary Jane 7 (Hapgood)
Adams, born Aprils, 1848; resides in South Water-
ford.
CHILDREN.
1. Gertie May 9 Adams, born November 15, 1875, at
Sweden; married, January 20, 1895, South
Waterford, Eugene K. Kilgore of Waterford,
where they reside.
2. Lizzie Maud 9 , born May 6, 1877, in Waterford ; mar-
ried, March 7, 1894, Daniel Wood; resides in
North Bridgton, Maine.
3. Ethel Carrie 9 , born August 9, 1878, at Waterford.
4. Bessie Mabel 9 , born November 9, 1879.
5. Fred Harold 9 , born July 9, 1881.
6. Walter H. 9 , born November 13, 1882.
7. Stella 9 , born November 18, 1883.
8. Ellroy 9 , born September 9, 1884.
9. Marjory Ellen?, born July 27, 1891.
10. Frank Clifford 9 , born September 13, 1892.
11. Mildred H. 9 , born September 24, 1893.
III. Charles Henry 8 , born February 2, 1860, at South Water-
ford; married, July 2, 1881, Jennie Mary Cox, born
December 4, 1861, at St. Johns, New Brunswick;
resides in South Waterford.
CHILDREN.
I. Hallie Louise', born February 28, 1884; died
August 20, 1884.
II. Walter William', born March 20, 1886, at Deering,
Maine.
III. Freda Frances 9 , born June i, 1892, at Waterford.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 149
IV. Ella Maria 8 , born April i, 1862, at Waterford; married,
June 6, 1880, at Lynn, Massachusetts, Leamon, son of
Alanson Dawes ; resides in Harrison, Maine.
CHILD.
1. Josephine 9 Dawes, born March 27, 1882.
V. Llewellyn Nelson 8 , born February 14, 1864, at South Water-
ford ; resides in Portland ; insurance agent, unmarried.
54.
CYRIL WILLIAM T (Cornelius' 1 ', Jonathan*, Ephraim*, Heze-
kiah z , Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born March 9, 1825 ; married,
May 9, 1849, Adaline, daughter of Elijah and Sarah Leigh,
born April 13, 1829, at Malone, where he resided, and died
February 29, 1882; an extensive and prosperous farmer, of
ability and standing.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliza Jane 8 , born June 2, 1850; died at Constable, New
York, October 10, 1867.
II. Cornelius 8 , born September 18, 1852; married, January i,
1873, at Malone, Jennie, daughter of Wesley and Sarah
Brown of Georgia, Vermont ; resided at West Bangor,
New York, where she died January I, 1895. He is a
large farmer and leading citizen.
CHILDREN.
I. Adelbert 9 , born June 21, 1874, at Malone ; married,
March 16, 1892, Susie, daugher of Miner and
Clara Hutchins, born June 4, 1874, at Brandon,
New York ; resides in Bangor ; a farmer.
CHILD.
1. Eugene Cardell 10 , born August 6, 1894, at
Brandon.
II. Nina Lee 9 , born October 26, 1889, at Brandon,
New York.
III. George 8 , born October 5, 1855; resides in Springfield,
Massachusetts; an employee in freight department,
Boston & Albany Railroad.
150 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
IV. Ada 8 , born March 15, 1858; married, September n, 1873,
at Malone, Charles Montgomery, born March 23, 1851,
at Detroit, Michigan ; resides in Kansas City, Missouri.
V. William 8 , born August 15, 1860; married, September 14,
1887, at Holyoke, Massachusetts, Kate McTigue of
Ireland, born April 24, 1862; resides in Bangor, New
York ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Sarah Ann', born May 14, 1887, at Holyoke.
II. William Dana', born October 8, 1889, at Chicopee,
Massachusetts.
III. Anna May 9 , born March n, 1891, at Chicopee.
VI. Emma 8 , born September 26, 1862; died January 27, 1864.
VII. Minnie Amie 8 , born September 22, 1865; married, Septem-
ber 30, 1884, Eugene Frederick Cardell, born at Read-
ing, Massachusetts, September 4, 1863; resides in
Lowell ; in employ of Association of Fire Under-
writers ; no children.
VIII. Dana Boardman 8 , born April 27, 1870, at Constable, New
York ; resides in Fay, New York, a farmer ; unmarried.
55.
WESLEY 7 (Cornelius*, Jonathan*, Ephraim*, Hezekiah*,
Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born July 3, 1835; married, at
Malone, July 3, 1859, Delia, daughter of William and Orpha
Earl, born May 2, 1836. On the death of his grandfather,
Jonathan, the original farm of 300 acres was divided among
his five children; Abigail having died previously, Amos
took for his share, the framed house and 75 acres of land ;
Cornelius took the log house, where all his sisters were born,
and lived there till 1840, rearing a family of ten children.
In that year he erected a framed house about 100 rods west
of the log house, which he vacated and finally demolished.
He subsequently bought two of the girls' shares, making his
Xcmuel ^Sicftnell t>apcioo>.
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farm 150 acres. Here he resided till 1866, when he sold the
place to his son Wesley for six thousand dollars. On the
death of Cornelius, the son received his full share of the
estate in cash. After the death of his uncle Amos, Wesley
bought his 75 acres, which enlarged his farm to the unwieldy
size of 225 acres. In 1889 Wesley died, leaving the farm in
possession of his widow, to be divided at her decease, between
Ida, who lived on the homestead with her mother, and John
Guy, who occupied the farm of 75 acres, formerly owned by
his uncle Amos. Wesley died April 29, 1889; his widow
still survives.
CHILDREN.
I. Eunice 8 , born January 29, 1860, in Belmont, New York;
married in Malone, March 16, 1880, Benjamin, son of
Benjamin and Sarah Lester, born April 16, 1856, at
Duane, New York ; resides in Constable ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. Wesley 9 Lester, born December n, 1880.
2. Bessie 9 , born March 27, 1882.
3. Myrtle 9 , born September 23, 1887.
4. Burnie 9 , born November 10, 1889.
5. Lawrence 9 , born August 24, 1891.
6. Ray R. 9 , born May 27, 1893.
7. Asa Morton 9 , born March 30, 1895.
62 II. John Guy 8 , born October 5, 1862, at Constable, New
York; married, December 27, 1883, at Malone, Laura
Wells.
III. Ida 8 , born August 13, 1865, at Constable; married, Decem-
ber 24, 1889, at Malone, Lawrence Westcott, born
February 24, 1866, at Chasm Falls, New York; resides
on the original I5o-acre farm of her father, the old
homestead, with her mother ; no children.
56.
LEMUEL BICKNELL T (Amos 6 , Jonathan*, Ephraim*, Heze-
kiah*, Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born March 5, 1836; married,
152 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
September 13, 1863, at Fort Covington, New York, Sarah
Goodwin, youngest daughter of Asa Clark of North Hero,
Vermont. The following notice appeared in a local paper :
" Mr. Clark, the oldest member of Centenary Methodist
Episcopal church of Malone, died September 8, 1896. Born
August 19, 1804, he had passed his ninety-second birthday.
He had also reached an unusually advanced age in Christian
life and service. The last eighteen years of his life has
been spent with his daughter Sarah (Clark) Hapgood, at
Malone," whose patience and loving care of her venerable
father was most admirable and praiseworthy. Lemuel,
with his brother Howard, enlisted in Company D, I42d regi-
ment, New York Volunteers, served three years in defence
of his country's flag, and honorably discharged, 1865, now
receiving a small pension. He is a much esteemed citizen
and well-to-do farmer in Malone. His most excellent wife
manages her family with good judgment, and has a special
pride in the education and training of her children.
CHILDREN.
I. Carroll Lemuel 8 , born April 30, 1866; married, January 12,
1888, Hattie, daughter of Thomas Thompson of
Malone. He also is a respectable tiller of the soil at
Malone.
CHILDREN.
I. Harold Morton?, born November 23, 1888.
II. Gertrude Mae 9 , born January 26, 1893; died eight
months after.
II. Carrie Lucretia 8 , born April 19, 1867 ; drowned in a brook
running between the house and barn at Malone, when
only three years old.
III. Harriet Adeline 8 , born May 28, 1869; graduated from
Franklin Academy, June, 1887, and from Pottsdam
Normal School, June, 1892; taught school in Orange,
New Jersey, and in her native town up to March 23,
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1897, when she married John Alexander, son of Dun-
can and Eliza Grant of Bells Corners, Ontario, born
October 14, 1862. His early education was at the
public schools of that place. He then entered St.
Catherine Collegiate Institute, and after one year he
changed for a year in Ottawa Collegiate Institute, then
attended the Normal School at Ottawa. After leaving
the Normal School he taught a year in Hull Model
School, and two years in Alymer Academy. In 1883
he began the study of medicine in the University of
the City of New York, from which he was graduated
in March, 1887. In July of the same year he com-
menced the practice of medicine in Malone, where
he has since resided.
IV. Sarah Mae 8 , born August i, 1871 ; was graduated from
Franklin Academy, Malone, 1889, and the Pottsdam
Conservatory of Music with honor, 1892; entered
Plattsburg Normal School as teacher, 1892, which
position she held up to the time of her marriage, at
Malone, March 23, 1897, to Robert Henderson, eldest
son of Alfred and Sarah (Wever) Guibord, born in
Plattsburg, New York, April 6, 1869. He was gradu-
ated from the High School in Plattsburg, 1887. The
next year he spent in Wilbraham (Massachusetts)
Academy, after which he entered Wesleyan University
at Middletown, Connecticut, graduating in 1892. He
then opened an insurance office in Plattsburg, which
he has conducted successfully up to the present time.
He is also a member of the Greydenburgh Pulp Com-
pany.
V. Howard Clark 8 , born November 17, 1877; was graduated
from Franklin Academy, June, 1896, and entered the
insurance office of R. H. Guibord, his brother-in-law,
in Plattsburg, New York, as a clerk.
57.
ALFRED WARREN 7 (Jonathan* \ Joel' 1 ', Shadractf, Shadrach*,
Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born November 17, 1841, at the house
of his maternal grandparents in Harvard, where his mother
154 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
died February 28, 1842, when he was barely three months
old. He received the tender and generous care of his grand-
mother Pollard until his father married second, April 9, 1843,
when he was removed to Ashburnham. He spent much
time under the care and supervision of his step-grandmother
Hapgood in Harvard, who became much interested in him,
and he enjoyed her loving kindness during the remainder of
her life. He attended the " Old Mill " district school, and
under the patronage of his Uncle Warren, in 1849, ne was
sent to the academy in Groton ; but academic honors had no
charm for him, and his term was brief and fruitless. Being
fond of horses he took to teaming for a livelihood, which he
pursued with varying fortune in Harvard, Ayer and Leomin-
ster, residing for many years in the latter place. He married,
March 3, 1861, in Harvard, Eliza Rebecca, daughter of Henry
and Hannah (Giles) Davis, born December 29, 1841, in
Lexington, Massachusetts.
CHILD.
I. Russell Warren 8 , born September 9, 1864, in Harvard;
many of the happy days of his childhood were spent
with his step great grandmother Hapgood; he had the
advantage of a fine district school education ; worked
in a shirt factory in Leominster; was captivated by
the rage, then prevalent, for cattle-raising, and in 1883
became a herder on a ranch in Wyoming ; some two
years' experience as a ranchero satisfied him with life
in the " Wild West " ; he retured to Leominster and
the factory; married, September 16, 1889, Agnes Gove
O'Neil of Brechin, Scotland, born October 12, 1868.
CHILD.
I. Edna May 9 , born at Leominster, April 30, 1896.
SEVENTH GENERATION. 155
58.
JONATHAN GARDNER 7 (Jonathan*, Joel 6 , Shadrach*, Shad-
rack 3 , Nathaniel*, Shadrach 1 }, born February 10, 1855 ; mar-
ried, December 23, 1877, Mary Adaline, daughter of Josiah
and Martha Ann Barnard of Harvard, born July 2, 1857, at
Watertown, Massachusetts. Resides in Harvard ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Wesley Gardner 8 , born August 14, 1878, at Harvard; edu-
cated in the public schools and Bromfield Academy ;
lived with his parents up to 1896, when he entered the
Industrial Institute at Springfield, Massachusetts, with
a desire to become a practical machinist.
II. Edith Elizabeth 8 , born April 15, 1884, at Shirley, Massa-
chusetts ; resides with her parents, and attends the
public school.
59.
CHARLES BUTLER* (Jonathan*, Joel*, Shadrach*, Shadrach 3 ,
Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born August 21, 1859; married,
August 25, 1880, Fannie Augusta, daughter of Henry and
Katharine Foster of Harvard, born October 27, 1860, at
Ayer, Massachusetts. Charles was educated, like unto most
other farmer boys, in the district school, and worked on the
farm with his father until his death, 1876. To settle the
estate, the farm had to be sold, subject to a claim of the
widow of Joel to one half the product or income of the place.
In order to protect the interests of the widow of Joel, Warren
Hapgood bought the farm, and at the age of seventeen,
Charles was placed in charge. For several years he had
exhibited considerable skill and judgment in the manage-
ment of the farm, which further experience hardly sustained.
156 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
His step-grandmother, Charlotte Hapgood, died in 1884, and
in 1885 he retired from the management, and the place was
let to Asa Burgess for two years, but as there was no prob-
ability that any member of the family would succeed to the
ownership, the grand old mansion, the venerated home of
five generations of the race, with all its hallowed memories
and associations, its joys and its sorrows, passed into other
hands; at first, November 10, 1888, I. W. Sprague became
the owner, and later on the place was sold to Stephen N.
Lougee, the present owner, who has made many improve-
ments on the estate. Charles took up his abode in Lancaster,
where he has resided most of the time since.
CHILDREN, born at Harvard.
I. Warren Foster 8 , born November 15, 1881.
II. Charlotte Augusta 8 , born October 9, 1883.
III. Charles Henry 8 , born July 20, 1885.
IV. Bertha 8 , born July 3, 1890, and lived only a day.
EIGHTH GENERATION.
6O.
CYRUS STOWE S (Cyrus 1 , Nathaniel*, Ephraim', Ephraim*,
Hesekiah*, Nathaniel 2 , Shadrach 1 }. He was born Novem-
ber 23, 1842 ; educated in the public schools of Cambridge,
and Chauncey Hall, Boston ; entered the wholesale provision
store of Potter & Dinsmore on City wharf, as assistant
book-keeper. At the end of the first year he took the posi-
tion of book-keeper for S. S. Learnard, 52 Faneuil Hall
Market. He did not long remain book-keeper, but was
admitted a general partner, which position he has held up to
the present time. The firm prospered and became one of the
EIGHTH GENERATION. 157
largest of the many large beef dealers in the city. He is a
very active business man and one of the leading citizens of
Everett, Massachusetts, where he resides. He married,
November 25, 1863, at Cambridge, Clara Augusta Conner
of Orland, Maine, born October 18, 1842.
CHILDREN.
I. Clara Learnard 9 , born November 25, 1864; married, April
27, 1887, Charles Hapgood Mead, from New Hampton,
New Hampshire; contractor and builder.
CHILD.
1. Stanley 10 Mead, born August 31, 1889, at Everett.
II. George Henry 9 , born November 19, 1868, in Chelsea;
died August 29, 1871.
III. Alice 9 , born August 2, 1872, in Chelsea, where she was
educated, and graduated from the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston ; travelled extensively in Japan and
other countries ; engaged to be united in marriage,
April 27, 1898, with Charles Henry Miller, born in
Waterford, Connecticut, June 14, 1869.
IV. Charles Warren 9 , born April 18, 1875 j graduated from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1896; super-
intendent of the Learnard & Bird Oil Company at
Brighton, Massachusetts.
V. Cyrus Howard 9 , born in Everett, August 27, 1880 ; a student
in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
61.
CHARLES ARTHUR 8 (William Salmon 1 , Ephraim*, Oliver 6 ,
Ephraim*, Hezekiatf, Nathaniel*, Skadrach 1 ), born March
29, 1846 ; married, January 2, 1868, at Stratford, New Hamp-
shire, Jennie Vilonia Paguin, born December 9, 1850, at
North Danville, Vermont ; resides in Stratford ; an extensive
farmer.
158 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. Louisa Jennie 9 , born September 28, 1869; died April 21,
1871.
II. Emma Rose 9 , born December 13, 1870; married, June 5,
1889, David Henry Stone, born January 6, 1859, at
Stratford, where he resides ; a lumber manufacturer.
CHILDREN.
1. Florence 10 Stone, born May i, 1890.
2. Harold David 10 , born October 20, 1893; died
November 17, 1893.
III. Ella Maud 9 , born November 30, 1872; married, September
24, 1889, at Bloomfield, James Moore, son of Nicholas
and Eliza Hagar Stone, born April 16, 1870, at Strat-
ford, brother to her sister Emma's husband ; resides
in Stratford.
CHILDREN.
1. Everett Nicholas 10 Stone, born March 8, 1891.
2. Flora Eliza 10 , born February 27, 1892.
3. Earl James 10 , born July 4, 1895; died July 20, 1895.
IV. Arthur Lee 9 , born December 22, 1875; watchman.
V. Fred Charles 9 , born December 31, 1878; resides in Stratford.
VI. Dora Bell 9 , born September 17, 1881.
VII. Edward Leroy 9 , born March 25, 1883.
62.
JOHN Guv 8 (Wesley 1 , Cornelius 6 , Jonathan 5 , Ephrainf,
Hezekiah*, Nathaniel*, Shadmch 1 ), born October 5, 1862, at
Constable; married, December 27, 1883, at Malone, Laura,
daughter of William and Sophia (Fletcher) Wells of Brandon,
Vermont, born February 23, 1863 ; he was educated in the
common school, much after the fashion of his predecessors ;
resided with his parents and faithfully performed duty on the
large farm till 1889, when his father died, and he took the
house and land acquired upon the decease of his Uncle Amos.
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In 1893 he dismantled the old house and built a new one
near by, which he occupies with his capable and accomplished
companion and five bright, healthy boys, no other such
family of boys in the entire race of Hapgood, up and down
the land, " May his tribe increase," tilling the same soil
and reaping the harvests as his great grandfather did, nearly
a century before, and may his descendants prosper and
flourish as did their worthy ancestors.
CHILDREN, all born in Malone.
I. Guy Grover 9 , born February i, 1885.
II. Willie Wesley 9 born November 5, 1886.
III. John Jay 9 , born February 28, 1888.
IV. Fay Gilbert 9 , born July 13, 1893.
V. Warren Earl 9 , born January 9, 1896.
CHAPTER II.
SECOND GENERATION.
2.
"THOMAS 2 (Shadrach 1 ), born October i, 1669, as well as his
brother Nathaniel, began life with considerable means, and,
like him, aspired to manorial possessions. According to a
reliable tradition, he had been brought up in Concord, and,
following the course of the Assabet River, he penetrated the
Indian Reservation of Agogonquemeset, consisting of 6,000
acres, which had been purchased of them in 1686 by the
planters of Marlboro', and which now forms the north north-
eastern part of that town ; here he decided to settle. He,
accordingly, purchased of Edmund Rice, February 28, 1694,
for 8, a 3O-acre right in the entire tract ; and of John Fay
and Nathan Brigham, October 30, 1699, for 17, another
3O-acre right; and of William Ward, December 31, 1706,
"for a reasonable sum," another 3O-acre right ; and of Thomas
Howe, December 31, 1713, "for a reasonable sum," a 3o-acre
right ; and of Jonathan Forbush, April 6, 171 1, "for a reason-
able sum," a 3O-acre right, including the first division already
made. These five rights enabled him to draw, at subsequent
divisions, a great amount of land, and he actually owned and
, occupied, in one body, between 500 and 700 acres of the
mica-slate formation, several farms of which have remained
in the hands of his descendants to this day. The spot where
he encamped the first night on arriving upon his land, and
the location of his house, was about four miles from his
brother's in Stow, two miles south of Feltonville, 40 rods
southwest of Round Hill, and four or six rods east of a
spring ; it is still pointed out. But these were not his only
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SECOND GENERATION. 161
purchases, creating foundations for homes and independence
to generations of his race.
February 21, of the first year of the reign of George I,
1714, he purchased for ^14, of John and Lydia Hanchett of
Suffield, Connecticut, their right to 80 acres in an undivided
tract of 3,200 acres on the north side of Quinsigamond Pond,
which had been granted by the General Court, 1650, to Isaac
Johnson, "for ^400, adventured in the common stock" and
laid out, 1657, to his executors, Thomas Dudley and Increase
Newell, as 4,200 acres, requiring Newell to pay ;io, due to
the treasury of the colony.* On these 80 acres he, no
doubt, settled his son Thomas, and, April 18, 1738, gave him
all the land laid out and to be laid out unto the whole of the
fifteenth house lot in Shrewsbury, showing that he had
become a proprietor of Shrewsbury. June 21, 1725, he, with
five others, quit claimed to Deacon Samuel Wheeler their
rights to certain pieces of land in the Haynes farm." {From
first edition.'}
He seems to have been a quiet and respected citizen, who
devoted his energies to business, leaving to others the
management of public affairs. He was once chosen select-
man. One of the garrison houses in Marlboro' was named
for him in 1704, and in 1744 he was chosen on a committee of
arbitration between opposing parties, for the location of a
church in Southboro'.
Tradition reports him and his wife to have been worthy
members of the church in Marlboro'.
He married, about 1693, at Marlboro', Judith, eldest daugh-
ter of John and Judith (Symonds) Barker (married December
9, 1668) of Concord, born September 9, 1671. She died
* Mr. Newell died, and the General Court, 1657, ordered the land laid out to his exec-
utor, Nathaniel Treadway of Watertown, the grandfather of Thomas Hapgood, who
sold it to John and Josiah Haynes of Sudbury, who are presumed to have sold 3,040 of the
same to John Goulding of Worcester and Sudbury (see Morse's genealogy of the Gould,
ings). The grant was probably reduced 1,000 acres to pay the j10 due to the colony.
162 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
August 15, 1/59. The Symonds family first appears on
Woburn Records, 1644.
Through the courtesy of an accomplished authority on
historic-genealogical matters, we received the following note,
in reference to the family name of Judith, which had escaped
the vigilance of the careful compiler of the first edition.
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 22, 1896.
W. HAPGOOD, Esq.,
Dear Sir : Judith Barker was the wife of Thomas Hapgood. Middle-
sex Probate Record Docket, No. 571 : Will of John Barker of Concord,
Massachusetts, dated March 14, 1710-11, probate April 21, 1718, names
" My eldest daughter Judith Hapgood," and Thomas Hapgood and wife
Judith, sign a receipt to the Executor in October, 1718, for their share of
the estate. Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) HENRY P. UPHAM.
December 31, 1711, she (Judith) joined with her husband,
Thomas Hapgood, in a deed to John Forbush ; acknowledged
December 17, 1719; recorded January i, 1720. \Book 21,
page 30.]
March 18, 1735 (book 36, page 641), Thomas Hapgood of
Marlboro', deeds 105 acres in Marlboro' to (his son) John
Hapgood of Marlboro', " in consideration of good will and
affection."
Thomas Hapgood, November 12, 1703, petitioned the
General Court for an allowance, alleging that " he having, in
1690, been detached into the service against the Indian
enemy, was engaged in the bloody fight near Oyster River,
New Hampshire, wherein Captain Noah Wiswell and divers
others were slain and wounded ; that he then had his left
arm broken and his right hand much shot, so that he endured
great pain and narrowly escaped with his life ; that he was
thereby much disabled for labor and getting his livelihood ;
forced to sell what stock he had acquired before being
wounded to maintain himself since, and that in the fight he
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was necessitated to leave and lose his arms with which he
was well furnished at his own charge." The court granted
him .5. ,
He died October 4, 1764. An English publication had
this notice of his death :
Died, at Marlboro', New England, in the ninety-fifth year of his age,
Mr. Thomas Hapgood. His posterity were very numerous, -viz., nine
children, ninety-two grandchildren, two hundred and eight great grand-
children, and four great great grandchildren ; in all, three hundred and
thirteen. His grandchildren saw their grandchildren and their grand-
father at the same time.
A double headstone marks their graves in the ancient
cemetery in Marlboro'.
COPY OF THE WILL OF THOMAS HAPGOOD.
In the Name of God amen the Tenth Day of June one Thousand
seven Hundred and sixty and in the thirty third year of His Majestys
Reign I Thomas Hapgood of Marlborough in the County of Middlesex
and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman.
Being advanced in age and Infirm in Body But of Perfect mind and
memory Thanks be Given to God therefor Calling unto mind the mortal-
ity of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye
Do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to say
Principly and first of all I give and Reacomend my Soul into the Hands
of God that gave it and my Body I Reacomend to the Earth to be Buried
in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor Nothing
Doubting But at the genaral Resurection I shall Receive the Same again
by the mighty Power of God and as Touching such Worldly Estate
wherewith it hath Pleased God to Bless me in this Life I Give and Dis-
pose of the same in the following manner and form
Inprimis I Give and Bequeath to the Heirs of my son Thomas Hap-
good Deceased the Sum of Sixteen Pounds to be paid by My Exec-
utors hereafter named within three years after my Deceas to be Equaly
Divided Between them
Itim I give to my son John Hapgood over and above what I have
already Given him the Sum of thirty three Pounds Six Shillings and
Eight Pence to be paid out of my estate within three years after my
decease also one half of my husbandry tools also the one half of my
rights in the Indian land propriety
Itim I give to my son Joseph Hapgood over and above what I have
already given him the sum of thirty three pounds six shillings and eight
pence to be paid out of my estate within three years after my decease
also I give to my said son Joseph Hapgood his heirs and assigns forever
all my part of my dwelling and about two acres of land bounded as
164 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
follows Southerly and westerly and northerly by his own land and east-
erly by the high way also one half of my Husbandry tools also one half
of my rights in the Indian land propriety
Itim I give to my daughter Mary the wife of John Wheeler the sum
of Sixty Six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to her
or her heirs by my Executors hereafter named within two years after
my decease also one sixth part of my indore moovables after my decease
Itim I give to my daughter Sarah Hoar the wife of Benjamin Hoar
the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid
to her or her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease
also I give to her one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my
decease
Itim I give to the children of my daughter Judith Taylor deceased
the sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid
to them or their heirs within two years after my decease also I give them
one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decease
Itim I give to my daughter Elisabeth the wife of William Taylor the
sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to
her or her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease
also one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decase
Itim I give to my daughter Hepzibah the wife of Edward Godard the
sum of sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid her
or her heirs by my Executors within two years after my decease also
one sixth part of my indoore moovables after my decase
Itim I give to my daughter Huldah Witherbe the sum of sixty six
pounds thirteen shillings and four pence to be paid to her or to her heirs
by my Executors within two years after my decease also one sixth part
of my indoore moovables
Itim my will is that the Rest of my Estate if any there be after the
Leagesees afore said and my funeral charges are paid and my just debts
if any there be the Rest of my Estate to be equaly divided between all
my sons and daughters or their heirs as afore said
Itim I like wise constitute make and ordain my two sons John Hap-
good and Joseph Hapgood my sole Executors of this my last will and
testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and
every other or former Testaments wills Leagices and bequests and
Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed
Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testa-
ment in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day
and year afore written
his
THOMAS X HAPGOOD (Seal)
mark
Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Thomas
Hapgood as his last will and testament in the presence of us the sub-
scribers
his
JOSEPH X TAYNTOR. JOHN WARREN EZRA How
mark
October ye 8th 1763
We the Subscribers Being Leagetees in the afore said will are
SECOND GENERATION. 165
satisfied with the Leagecies given us therein and Desire the said will
may be proved and approved as witness our Hands
MARY WHEELER
BENJA HOAR SARAH HOAR
DAVID TAYLOR
STEPHEN FLAGG JUDITH FLAGG
ZILLAH TAYLOR
!Heir to
Elisabeth Taylor
one of the heirs to
RHODA GODDARD
Hephzibah Godard
HULDAH WlTHERBE
Middlesex SS. Octobr. 31. 1763
Mr Ezra How (who wrote the foregoing instrument) made solemn oath
that what the aforenamed Testator gave in this his Will to the Children
of his Daughter Judith Taylor He intended that it should be equally
divided among them, as he declared to the said Ezra; but that it was a
casual omission in him (in writing said Will) that it was not so
expressed
Sworn before me S. DANFORTH J. PROB
Justice of the Peace
A true copy.
Attest, S. H. FOLSOM Register.
His will was proved October 31, 1763, and John having
died in the meantime, Joseph, who was his co-executor, acted
alone. His estate, exclusive of indoor movables, was inven-
toried at ^533. 2s. 3d. He had, in his lifetime, given each
of his sons farms.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary 3 , born October 6, 1694; married, October 17, 1717,
John, son of John and Elizabeth (Wells) Wheeler,
born August 15, 1695, in Marlboro', who was a son of
Thomas and Hannah Wheeler of Concord, in 1661,
soon after of Marlboro', who was son of Captain
Wheeler of Concord, who went (his son Thomas with
him) with Captain Hutchinson and about twenty men
(of whom Shadrach Hapgood was one) to treat with
the Nipmuck Indians, at Brookfield, in 1675. John
Wheeler, first mentioned, in 1718 shared in the first
division of land in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and
166 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
was one of the first settlers. There is no record in
that town of the death of John Wheeler or his wife.
After the birth of their second child they removed from
Marlboro' to Shrewsbury, where Mary was admitted to
the church in 1730. In 1729 he was chosen one of a
committee to assist the town surveyor in laying out
undivided lands. He was one of the assessors from
1731 to 1735, and for a part of that time was constable
with Lieutenant Eleazer Taylor. In 1743 he held
several offices of trust, being precinct (parish) clerk,
assessor, one of the precinct committee, and one of a
committee of nine to "seat the meeting-house." This
first office he held for three years. In 1746 he was
moderator of town meeting. He seems to have retired
from public life soon after this. He was made ensign
in 1735-6.
CHILDREN.
1. Cyrus 4 Wheeler, born November 7, 1718, in
Marlboro'; married Lois, daughter of Deacon
Samuel Wheelock, May I, 1746; they were
admitted to the church, 1765. He died in
Shrewsbury, February 19, 1782, aged sixty-five.
The death of his wife not recorded there.
2. Darius 4 , born December 27, 1719, in Marlboro'.
3. Jonathan 4 , born June 22, 1720, in Shrewsbury.
4. Thomas 4 , born January 5, 1721.
5. Lydia 4 , born March 25, 1722; married William
Norcross, November 6, 1741.
6. Josiah 4 , born October 7, 1723; married, February
28, 1744, Elizabeth Bailey.
7. Hezediah 4 , born February 16, 1725; married David
Taylor 4 , her cousin, 1746.
8. Martha 4 , born October 2, 1726.
9. Philemon 4 , born April II, 1728; died April 19, 1729.
10. Persis 4 , born October 6, 1729; admitted to the
church, 1748; married John Baker, Jr., June 11,
1754-
11. Azubah 4 , born September 3, 1731 ; married Peter
Larkin of Lancaster, April 4, 1751.
12. Demaris 4 , born August 17, 1733; married, October
2 5> 1751. John Barr of New Braintree.
13. John 4 , Jr. (Lieutenant), born September 9, 1735, in
Shrewsbury; married, April 3, 1760, Jedideh
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Bigelow, and with his wife was admitted to the
church there in 1765. They "were dismissed
in 1 774 to the covenanting brethren in Newfane,
Vermont, in order to be formed into a church
state there." He was at Fort William Henry at
the time of "the memorable and unparalleled
massacre of the English and Provincial troops
by the Indians in 1757, after its surrender to
Montcalm, the French commander."
14. Mary 4 , born October 7, 1737.
15. Hepzibah 4 , born July 16, 1739.
II. Sarah 3 , born February 10, 1696; married first, Jonathan
Howe, son of Captain Daniel and Elizabeth (Kerley)
Howe, born April 23, 1695, and died July 25, 1738, in
Marlboro'. (Captain Daniel Howe was born 1658;
married Elizabeth Kerley, 1688, and died April 3,
1718. He was a large landholder in Marlboro', Lan-
caster and Westboro' ; his property was inventoried
at ,1,264. His widow administered upon his estate,
and died in 1735.) [Hudson's History of Marlboro 1 .~\
Sarah administered on the estate and gave the following
bond (a few words left out as they could not be
deciphered).
" Know all men by these presents, that we Sarah Howe
of Marlborough In ye County of Midlesex widow and
[Administratrix] of Jonathan Howe late of Marlboro'
aforesaid Deceased and Edward Goddard of Shrews-
bury in ye County of Worcester [ ] are held and
firmly bound and obliged unto Joseph Wilder Esquire
Judge of the Probate of Wills and granting Adminis-
tration in Said County In the full sum of one hundred
pounds to be paid to ye said Judge or to his Successor
in said office or Assigns to ye which payment well and
truly to be made we bind ourselves our several &
[ ] heirs [ ] and [ ] Jointly and Severally
firmly to these presents to hold with [ ] Dated
the first day of February A. D. 1742-3. The condition
of the above obligation is first that whereas the Said
Sarah on her petition to the General Court in Decem-
ber 1742 as She was guardian to her children* Sarah,
Damaris, Sylvanus, Mellisent, Ichabod, Abigail &
Isaac, Children of ye Said deceased was Impowered to
make Sale of Said minors interest of land in a certain
mortguage or tenement of land lying in town of
Shrewsbury whereof Daniel How of Said Shrewsbury
died served for the most [***** *].
Signed, " SARAH How
EDWARD GODDARD."
*The two eldest of the ten children were married, and Abigail had died.
168 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Sarah married second, at Marlboro', Benjamin Hoar
of Littleton, Massachusetts, March 4, 1745-6. He
was probably a grandson of John Hoar of Concord,
sixth son of Daniel, who had eleven children; came
early to Littleton and died, 1775. 'Sarah died, and was
buried in the old cemetery in Littleton. Her epitaph
reads : " Here lies buried the body of Mrs. Sarah
Hoar, wife of Deacon Benjamin Hoar, who departed
this life, January 16, 1770, in ye 74th year of her age."
CHILDREN, all born in Marlboro', by first husband.
1. Solomon 4 Howe, born December 17, 1718; married
Mary Howe of Marlboro', about 1738.
2. Elizabeth 4 , born February 2, 1720; married Paul
Howe of Paxton, Massachusetts, about 1739.
3. Sarah 4 , born October 25, 1721 ; married, April 10,
1747, Adonijah Church, born October 17, 1710.
She died September 8, 1758, and he at Holden,
Massachusetts, March 24, 1787.
4. Abigail 4 , born September 20, 1723; died, 1729, in
Marlboro'.
5. Damaris 4 , born July 31, 1725; married, January 25,
1743, Stephen, son of Simon and Sarah (Woods)
Gates, born August 8, 1718, at Marlboro';
resided in Rutland, Massachusetts, 1749. He
died October 5, 1773, an d she, December 3, 1809.
6. Silvanus 4 , born April 6, 1727; married Mary,
daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Earle) Rice,
born in Worcester, 1737. He died in Peters-
ham, 1802.
7. Millicent 4 , born April 20, 1 729 ; married, September
8, 1746, at Marlboro', Alpheus Woods, born
February 28, 1727. She died April 16, 1761,
and he, December 12, 1794.
8. Ichabod 4 , born January 9, 1731.
9. Abigail 4 , born March 25, 1733.
10. Isaac 4 , born January 27, 1735.
III. Judith 3 , born February 24, 1698; married, July 5, 1721,
Lieutenant Eleazer, son of Eleazer and Lydia( Barrett)
Taylor, born in Marlboro', December 3, 1699, brother
to her sister Elizabeth's husband ; they were admitted
to the church in Shrewsbury in 1728, and in 1729 were
living on house lot No. 43, in that town. He shared
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in the first division of land in Shrewsbury in 1718, and
he was probably in town as early as 1722, for his eldest
child, born that year, is on the Shrewsbury record. His
land was in the North Precinct, and in 1843, he, with
twelve others, requested that they might be permitted
to form a new church in that part of the town. The
request was granted, and the next year the wives of
these men, and some others, were dismissed from the
first church to the second church. In 1743 they pur-
chased the burying ground of Eleazer Taylor, and
built a meeting-house. In 1720 he was chosen town
collector, the first collector chosen in the town. In
1727-28 he was town surveyor. In 1734, one of the
three constables chosen. In 1742-43 he was treasurer
for the North Precinct, which soon built its church,
and in 1746 chose Eleazer Taylor one of the parish
committee. His wife died November 8, 1742, and he
married second, Hannah, widow of Gershom Flagg,
March 26, 1744, and died September 20, 1753.
CHILDREN.
1. Nathan 4 Taylor, born February 24, 1722, in Shrews-
bury; married, April 10, 1744, Sarah Hale of
Harvard, Massachusetts, and died March 30,
1746.
2. David 4 , born September 17, 1723; married, April
8, 1746, Hezediah, daughter of John and Mary 3
(Hapgood) Wheeler. She died December 15,
1754, and he married, second, October 28, 1756,
Esther Jones of Marlboro'. He removed to
Berlin, Massachusetts, where he died.
3. Micah 4 , born June 15, 1726; died August 9, 1735.
4. Eleazer 4 , born August 26, 1728.
5. Judith 4 , born February 13, 1729; married, 1750,
Stephen Flagg.
6. Hannah 4 , born November 17, 1731 ; died February
6, 1756.
7. Huldah 4 , born September 8, 1733; married, 1755,
Thomas Drury.
8. Submit 4 , born November 26, 1735.
9. Zillah 4 , born March 15, 1738; married Captain
Nathan Howe (his second wife) in 1771, and in
170 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
1789 she married Lieutenant Jonas Temple of
Boylston (his third wife).
10. Rufus 4 , born August 15, 1740.
11. Elizabeth 4 , born October 27, 1742.
IV. Elizabeth 3 , born October 4, 1699; married, November 28,
1717, Sergeant William, son of William and Mary
(Johnson) Taylor, born February 15, 1692, in Marl-
boro'; probably removed to Shrewsbury, prior to 1720.
He lived, as supposed, where Captain Amasa Howe
now resides, and was one of the founders of the church
in Shrewsbury, to which his wife, Elizabeth, was
admitted in 1724. In the first division of land in
Shrewsbury, in 1718, William Taylor seems to have
had some interest, for 70 acres were granted " to James
Gleazon in room of William Taylor." In 1721 he was
granted 5 acres "for Satisfaction for 15 acres of land
which the said Taylor has alienated to the proprietors
of Shrewsbury for to build a meeting-house upon."
On the organization of the Shrewsbury militia, he was
one of the four first appointed sergeants, a title of
more regard at that time than that of colonel has since
become. He was chosen in 1 722-23, one of a committee
to procure a minister; in 1727-28, he was the first con-
stable, and was one of the selectmen, 1731, 1734, 1735
and 1740. He died August 14, 1775, and his wife,
March 17, 1763.
CHILDREN.
1. Jonah* Taylor, born in Marlboro', 1718; died at
Cape Breton, September 8, 1745.
2. Abigail 4 , born in Shrewsbury, March 5, 1720;
married first, Moses Hastings, April 25, 1739,
and second, Samuel Bigelow, May 7, 1770.
3. Mary 4 , born in Shrewsbury, August 15, 1722;
married, January 9, 1740, Hezekiah Rice, who
died September 13, 1759. She was admitted to
the church, 1744, and died April 25, 1796.
4. Elizabeth 4 , born June 3, 1725; married, November
19, 1741, Solomon Stowe, and resided in Grafton.
He died, and she married second, Captain
Benjamin Fay, October 28, 1765, and resided in
Westborough, Massachusetts.
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5. Dinah 4 , born March 12, 1727; married, April 10,
1751, Ross, son of Ensign Seth and Sarah (Ross)
Wyman (his second wife), and died November
15, 1759; he was a farmer, kept a tavern, and
his descendants still live in the same old house.
6. Eunice 4 , born March 28, 1729; married, June 10,
1748, Daniel Howe, who died July 5, 1750, and
she married second, Lieutenant Marshall New-
ton, August 13, 1751, and died July i, 1759.
7. Lois 4 , born March 10, 1731 ; died October 15, 1745.
8. Hepzibah 4 , born March 6, 1733; married, Novem-
ber 10, 1748, Captain Nathan Howe, born June
J 7 I 73- He was an officer in the service at
Lake George, in the French war, and aided in
building Fort William Henry; in 1776 he com-
manded a company in throwing up works on
Dorchester heights during the night; from an
illness taken there he never recovered. His
wife died in June, 1770, and he married second,
1771, Zillah, daughter of Lieutenant Eleazer and
Judith 3 (Hapgood) Taylor, cousin of his first
wife. He was chosen first lieutenant of the
.' First company of militia raised in Shrewsbury,
1774, and died March 21, 1781.
9. Beulah 4 , born October 20, 1736; died October 28,
1745-
10. Mercy 4 , born November 22, 1741 ; baptized same
day, and died in infancy.
V. Thomas 3 , born April 18, 1702; mamed, August 12, 1724,
Damaris Hutchins, and died October 5, 1745.
VI. Hepsibeth 3 , born June 27, 1704, in Marlboro'; married,
1822, Edward, son of Edward and Susanna (Stone)
Goddard, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, 1697;
was among the first settlers of Shrewsbury, and one of
the founders of the church; she was admitted in 1728,
and died July 19, 1763. He lived on the place of the
late Charles H. Fitch, in Shrewsbury, where he died
October 13, 1777.
CHILDREN, all born in Shrewsbury.
1. Hepzibah 4 Goddard, born February u, 1723; died
unmarried, October 7, 1781.
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2. Nathan 4 , born January 18, 1725; married Dorothy
Stevens; died February 12, 1806; she died
March 30, 1808.
3. Elizabeth 4 , born September 4, 1726; married
Daniel Fiske, November 2, 1743.
4. Robert 4 , born August 13, 1728; married, January
8, 1752, Hannah Stone; died June, 1807.
5. David 4 , born September 26, 1730 ; married, October
9, 1753, Margaret Stone of Watertown, born
October 14, 1728.
6. Hezekiah 4 , born August 13, 1732; died 1734.
7. Daniel 4 , born February 7, 1734; married, Novem-
ber 17, 1756, Mary Willard, born in Grafton,
April 3, 1730; died January 13, 1796.
8. Ebenezer 4 , born November 25, 1735; died in
infancy.
9. Ebenezer 4 , born December 28, 1736; died Septem-
ber 29, 1838; she died December 7, 1820.
10. Rhoda 4 , born February 25, 1740; married, August
24, 1765, Reverend William Goddard, born in
Leicester, April 27, 1740; died June 16, 1788.
11. Miriam 4 , born April 30, 1742; died November 8,
1755-
12. Edward 4 , born March 12, 1745; married, Novem-
ber i, 1769, Lois How. He died October 13,
1811.
4 VII. John 3 , born February 9, 1706-7; married at Marlboro',
Abigail Morse.
VIII. Huldah 3 , born February 10, 1709; married (according to
the records of Southborough), November 8, 1737,
Caleb Witherby. The record reads: "Born unto
Joseph Witherby & Elizabeth, his wife on ye fifth
of January, 1700-1701, a Son named Caleb Witherby."
His children's births are entered Witherbe. As the
children married they gave the name, Witherbee.
Huldah was Caleb's second wife, the first being,
according to Hudson's History of Marlboro 1 , "Caleb
Witherbee, born January 5, 1701 ; married, January 26,
1726, Joanna Wheeler." His will mentions other
children than those recorded as by his second wife.
(The loss of a portion of the page that should give the
years of birth of the last six children of Huldah, is
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most unfortunate.) In Caleb Witherbe's will, dated
November 28, 1757, he makes bequests to all his sons
then living. The estate was not settled until 1774.
An inventory, being dated April 18, 1774, was
signed :
" HULDAH WlTHERBEE
JOHN WlTHERBEE
ZACHEUS WITHERBEE."
CHILDREN.
1. Thomas* Witherby, born November 7, 1739; mar -
ried, April 14, 1757, Anna Berry, who died at
Southborough, December 26, 1760, and he died
two days later.
2. David 4 , born April 30, 1741; died December 15,
1760.
3. Shadrach 4 , born December 31, 1744; went to
Canada, 1 760, and not further reported.
4. Nathan 4 , born June 3, ; married, May 30, 1769,
at Marlboro', Patience, daughter of Robert and
Lydia Baker, born February 23, 1743.
5. John 4 , born October 20, ; married, May 5,
1767, Mary Newton.
6. Ephraim 4 , born June 8, .
7. Zacheus 4 , born December 27, I752(?); married,
July 15, 1773, Sarah Snow.
8. Huldah 4 , born May 7, ; died September 13,
1760.
9. Joseph 4 , born January r, ; died December u,
1765. All of Huldah's children born in South-
borough.
IX. Joseph 3 , born October 2, 1714; married, April 26, 1739,
Mary Brooks of Concord.
THIRD GENERATION.
3.
CAPTAIN THOMAS* (Thomas 2 , Shadrack 1 ), born April 18,
1702; married, August 12, 1724, Damaris Hutchins of Marl-
boro', born March 12, 1705, and had a numerous family, who
174 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
settled in Shrewsbury, Petersham, and other towns in Wor-
cester County, some of whom became quite distinguished.
He settled in Shrewsbury, where he received from his father,
June 30, 1725, a lot of 105 acres of Haynes' farm, 6 acres of
meadow in Saybrook, i acre 45 rods in Great Brummit, and
probably an interest in Poquaog, now Athol. February 2,
7125-6, he exchanged 4 acres of the Haynes' farm with
Ebenezer Bragg, and sold for 17. IDS., to Nathan Wait of
Poquaog, March 29, 1743, a lot in Poquaog.
He died intestate, October 5, 1745, and his widow was
appointed administratrix, and guardian to Damaris, John,
David and Eunice, his youngest children. His estate was
inventoried November 25, 1745, at .4,998. 8s., consisting of
his home place, live-stock, 16 acres of meadow in Saybrook,
outlands in Shrewsbury, lands in and adjoining Poquaog,
and a lot of rights in Housatonic. To Asa, the homestead
was assigned ; to Seth, 220 acres on the north line of
Poquaog; to Joab, a right to draw 300 acres; to John, the
rights at Housatonic ; to the daughters, 5 lots of the outlands
were assigned ; Asa being required to pay considerable sums
to each of his brothers and sisters. The estate was com-
pletely settled and assigned, May 15, 1751.
Captain Thomas removed, early in life, to Shrewsbury,
where he became a leading citizen. He was constable in
1729; selectman, 1731 to 1740, most of the time; surveyor
of highways, 1732; treasurer from 1735 to the time of his
death, October 5, 1745. At a town meeting, November,
1745, his successor was chosen, and "a committee to look
into the accounts of the deceased " was appointed. In
March, 1746, the committee reported: "Settled accounts
with the administratrix of the late Thomas Hapgood, late
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Precinct Treasurer ; we find that there is due to the heirs of
the said treasurer, the sum of ^3. 8s. 5d. Old Tenor." He
was chosen parish treasurer after the "setting off" of the
north parish in 1743. This parish became Boylston in 1786.
It is evident from the records that he was a man of sound
judgment, and one who was highly esteemed by his fellow-
townsmen, being often chosen to conduct matters demanding
careful and wise consideration. His widow, Damaris, died
June 7, 1793, aged eighty-eight ; a very superior woman.
CHILDREN.
I. Ephraim 4 , born April 28, 1725; died September i, 1739, ' n
Shrewsbury.
II. Solomon 4 , born September 20, 1726; died July 20, 1740.
6 III. Asa 4 , born December 6, 1728; died December 23, 1791, at
Barre ; married Anna Bowker, or Bouker.
IV. Elijah 4 , born January 16, 1731 ; died October 5, 1745.
7 V. Seth 4 , born October 20, 1732; died April 23, 1804; mar-
ried, May 31, 1757, Lydia Bowker.
8 VI. Joab 4 , born January 21, 1735; married Abigail Stone.
VII. Damaris 4 , born March 12, 1737; married, February 12,
1756, Gideon, son of Captain Daniel and Esther
(Cloyes) Howe, born March 15, 1732, and lived on the
place now improved for the support of the town's poor.
He died February 8, 1815 ; the death of his wife is not
on record.
CHILDREN.
1. Lucretia 5 Howe, born June 10, 1756; married,
March 25, 1778, Artemas, son of Cyrus and
Lois Wheelock, born December 5, 1748.
2. Solomon 5 , born October 21, 1758 ; married Rebecca
Jennison, 1784.
3. Esther 5 , born September i, 1760; married, April
12, 1784, Reuben, son of Ephraim and Thankful
(Howe) Holland, born in Shrewsbury, November
29. 1755-
4. Charlotte 5 , born May 6, 1762; married, January 4,
1781, Reuben, son of Thomas and Eunice Baker
(second wife), born in Shrewsbury, baptized
176 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
March 14, 1756. He died before 1812, and she,
before 1789.
5. John Hapgood 5 , born October 8, 1764; married,
September 3, 1787, Sarah, daughter of Aaron
and Dinah (Wheeler) Smith, born in Shrewsbury,
March 21, 1765. He died Januarys, 1839, and
she, March 12, 1814.
6. Damaris 5 , born November i, 1765; married, June
24, 1792, Joseph Brooks, son of Samuel and
Mary (Hey wood) Jennison, born January 5, 1756;
removed from Shrewsbury, before 1830, to Wor-
cester, where he became a prominent business
man.
7. Daniel 5 , born March 13, 1769; married, about
1789, in Newfane, Vermont, Hannah Hall, born
about 1767. He died at Shrewsbury, January
10, 1806, and she at Worcester, March 15, 1840.
8. Alvan 5 , born May 12, 1772.
9. Eunice 5 , born November 15, 1774; married, Sep-
tember 24, 1797, at Shrewsbury, Joseph Cloyes,
housewright, born in Framingham, Massachu-
setts, and died 1799.
10. Lyman 5 , born June i, 1777; married, March 25,
1802, Sylvia, daughter of George and Tabitha
Slocomb, born at Medfield, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 13, 1778. He died at Shrewsbury,
November 19, 1853, and she at same place,
November 2, 1856.
11. Relief 5 , born April 14, 1784; married, May 13,
1802, Doctor Seth Knowlton, son of Deacon
William and Hannah (Hastings) Knowlton of
Shrewsbury, born May 11, 1781. He died April
12, 1832, and his widow died May 5, 1862.
VIII. John*, born September 12, 1739; died February 17, 1761,
unmarried, leaving ^180. 95. His mother adminis-
tered.
IX. David 4 , born February 2, 1742; died October 26, 1745.
X. Eunice 4 , born August 17, 1744; married, April 20, 1767,
Ebenezer Hartshorn of Athol, Massachusetts.
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JOHN 3 (Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born February 9, 1706-7;
settled on the northwesterly part of the homestead in Marl-
boro', March 18, 1735. He received from his father (Book 36,
Page 641) 105 acres in Marlboro', "in consideration of good
will and affection." May 22, 1751, he bought for ;8o, of
Eliphalet Howe, 30 acres, partly in Holden and partly in
Rutland, and, December 3, 1756, resold the same to him for
;io6. He bought, with Asa Hapgood, for ^131, of John
Morss, 80 acres in Shrewsbury, September 17, 1754, and
sold, August 28, 1760, for 26, to William Brewer, Jr., 22
acres in Shrewsbury. April 3, 1762, he made his will,
bequeathing to his wife, Abigail, the improvement of all his
homestead lands until his son John should be of age, after
which he should have the improvement of one half of the
same during life, and all his personal estate forever, she
paying all his debts and funeral charges. To his son John
he gave two thirds of his homestead, lands, and buildings,
and the possession of one third at the age of twenty-one
years, and of the other one third after the death of his
mother ; but, if he died in his minority, his brother Jonathan
should succeed to his bequest. To his son Jonathan he
gave one third of his homestead, to be sold at the discretion
of his wife, to give him a liberal education at college ; but, if
he died in his minority, this bequest should go to John ; and
if she died during the minority of these sons, his eldest then
living should succeed to the trust committed to her. To his
daughter Mary Brooks, to whom he had already given ^39,
he bequeathed 2os. ; to his daughters, Judith, Hazediah,
Hepzibah, and Abigail, each ^40, to be raised by the sale of
a part of his outlands, and the remainder of said lands to be
178 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
equally divided between his five daughters. He made his
wife, Abigail, executrix. Will proved June 14, 1762.
He married, February 17, 1731, Abigail, daughter of Jona-
than and Mary (Stow) Morse of Marlboro'. He was one of
the Alarm list attached to Captain Weeks' company in 1757,
when threatened by the French and Indians ; selectman,
1745, 1749, 1753, 1755, 1757, and a man of influence. He
died May 26, 1762. His wife Abigail was born May 12,
1712; died March 31, 1798.
CHILDREN.
I. Jonathan 4 , born February 12, 1732; died December 14,
1736.
II. David 4 , born July 4, 1734; died January 5, 1737.
III. Abigail 4 , born January 16, 1737; died August 9, 1739.
IV. Mary 4 , born June 4, 1740; married, November 24, 1757,
Charles Brooks ; resided in Princeton.
CHILDREN.
1. Lydia 5 Brooks, born September it, 1759.
2. Persis 5 , born January 4, 1762.
3. Mary 5 , born November 13, 1764.
V. Judith 4 , born November 8, 1742; married, May 2, 1764,
Solomon Barnes, born June 20, 1740; resided in Marl-
boro'. She died April 19, 1820. He died 1830, aged
ninety years.
CHILDREN.
1. Katherine 5 Barnes, born July 27, 1765; married,
November 26, 1783, Ithamar Brigham.
2. William 5 , born September 3, 1766; married, 1788,
Elizabeth Brigham.
3. Samuel 5 , born 1772; died September 10, 1776.
4. Daniel 5 , born August 22, 1775; married, 1795,
Louisa Howe.
VI. Hazadiah 4 , born July 7, 1745 ; married, May 20, 1766, John
Nourse ; resided at Bolton, Massachusetts.
VII. Persis 4 , born July 19, 1748; died November 10, 1748.
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VIII. Hepzibah 4 , born June 5, 1749; married, May 30, 1769, Jonas
Howe, born June 10, 1739, a * Marlboro'; resided at
Rutland.
9 IX. John 4 , born October 8, 1752; married, January 5, 1775,
Lois Stevens.
X. Abigail 4 , born August 13, 1755; married, September 15,
1772, Thomas Rice of Marlboro', born 1789; died
October 28, 1840. She died April, 1828.
CHILDREN.
1. Lydia 5 Rice, born May 26, 1778; married John
Carruth ; resided at Northboro'.
2. Nancy 5 , born September 11, 1780; married, 1804,
Abel Maynard; died, gored by an ox.
3. Catharine 5 , born July 9, 1783; married, 1806,
Jotham Bartlett.
4. Jonathan 5 , born November 30, 1786; married,
March 23, 1809, Betty Brigham.
5. Levi 5 , born June 23, 1789; married, September 15,
1811, Lucinda Bigelow.
6. Lucy 5 , born June 13, 1792 ; died July II, 1796.
7. Willard 5 , born September 7, 1794; married, 1815,
Anna Barnes.
8. Solomon 5 , born September 3, 1799; married first,
1836, Mary H. Perkins, who died 1840, and he
married second, Nancy Cunningham.
10 XI. Jonathan 4 , born May 16, 1759; married, May 6, 1783,
Jerusha Gibbs.
5.
JOSEPH' (Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born October 2, 1714;
inherited the homestead of his father, with the east half of
his spacious farm in Marlboro' ; selectman, 1758, 1763, 1764,
1766, 1767 ; assessor, 1766, and was a prominent and leading
180 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
citizen ; died intestate, June 5, 1767, while administering on
the estate of his brother Thomas, late of Marlboro' ; and his
wife Mary, July 28, 1767, was appointed administratrix, who
concluded the settlement of both estates, November i, 1768.
Her husband's estate was inventoried at .387. 8s. xod. He
married, April 26, 1739, Mary, daughter of Hugh and Abigail
(Barker) Brooks, born in Concord, July n, 1714; died, his
widow, September 15, 1807, at the advanced age of ninety-
three, beloved, honored and respected.
CHILDREN.
I. Abigail 4 , born October 12, 1741; died December 10, 1746.
II. Thomas 4 , born August 29, 1743; died December 16, 1745.
III. Jonathan 4 , born November 3, 1 745 ; died December 17, 1746.
11 IV. Thomas 4 , born November 13, 1747; married, December 16,
1773, Lucy Woods.
12 V. Joseph 4 , born January 23, 1754; married Ruth Jackson.
He died May 18, 1818.
VI. Mary 4 born August 6, 1756; married, June 21, 1773, Francis
Howe, born June 26, 1750; died February 28, 1833.
CHILDREN.
1. Joseph 5 Howe, born November 7, 1773; died
August 12, 1775.
2. Francis 5 , born January 7, 1776.
3. Lewis 5 , born February 3, 1778.
4. Ezekiel 5 , born July 30, 1780.
5. Thomas 5 , born December 2, 1883.
6. Polly 5 , born June 10, 1786; married, October 25,
1811, Aaron Cutter.
7. Lucy 5 , born October 21, 1788; married James
Woods 5 Hapgood (31).
8. Lydia 5 , born February 23, 1791 ; married, 1823,
Nathaniel A. Bruce.
9. Lambert 5 , born August 12, 1795 ; married Charlotte
Barnes.
10. Abigail B. 5 , born February 28, 1810.
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FOURTH GENERATION.
6.
LIEUTENANT ASA* (Thomas 3 , Thomas 1 , Shadrach*), born in
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, December 6, 1728 ; married,
December 6, 1750, Anna, daughter of Asa Bowker (or Bouker)
of Swedish origin, born September 4, 1728 ; died June 4, 1795.
He settled upon the homestead left him by his father, but
was required to pay to each of his brothers and sisters con-
siderable sums. He seems to have disposed of the home lot
to his brother Joab, about 1754, and to have removed to
Rutland District, now Barre, which was incorporated 1753.
April 1 6, 1765, he, with his wife, signed a quitclaim, in favor
of Charles Bowker, to her interest in the estate of Asa
Bowker, late of Shrewsbury, and other quitclaims to Charles
Bowker, August 26, 1765, in favor of Ebenezer and Eleazer
Rice. The meadow in Shrewsbury, which he bought for
47, March 5, 1753, may have been included in these quit-
claims. About 1763, he began to be identified as one of the
leading men of the Rutland District. On the 23d of Febru-
ary, 1773, a town meeting was called, "to consider of a Cir-
cular Letter from the town of Boston, concerning the State
and Rights of the Province." The letter was referred to a
committee, of which Asa Hapgood was one. The grave
questions then agitating the colony, made it important to
the district to be represented in the General Court. The
warrant for a town meeting, issued March 15, 1773, had this
article : " To see if the District will petition the Great and
General Court to be set off as a town, or to act anything
relative thereto." Asa Hapgood was placed upon the com-
mittee to present the petition. Passed, to be enacted, at
Salem, June 14, and signed by the Governor, June 17, 1774.
182 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
He was chosen chairman of the "Committee of Safety," 1775,
and as chairman of the "Committee of Correspondence,"
and Board of Selectmen of the Rutland District. He had
great influence in reorganizing the militia. In April, 1779,
it was voted by the Legislature to call a convention of
delegates of the towns to meet at Cambridge on the first of
September following, for the express purpose of framing a
form of government. In this important convention, Barre
was represented by those clear-sighted and trusty men,
always foremost when any grave public service was to be
rendered, John Mason, Esquire, Lieutenant Andrew Parker,
and Lieutenant Asa Hapgood. [See Centennial address of
Reverend J. W. Thompson, D. D., at Barre, June 17, 1874, for
the above.]
He appears, with rank of private, on muster and pay rolls
of Captain William Henry's company, Colonel Whitney's
regiment, for service at Rhode Island on the Alarm of ;
time of enlistment, May 3, 1777; discharged July 5, 1777;
belonged to Barre. He enlisted, September 2, 1777, in Cap-
tain Benjamin Nye's company, Colonel James Wilder's regi-
ment ; discharged September 1 8, 1 777. He died December 23,
1791, at Barre.
CHILDREN.
I. Levinah 5 , born February 16, 1752 ; died, unmarried, at Barre.
II. Thomas 5 , born March 22, 1753 ; appears with rank of ser-
geant on muster and pay roll of Captain James Mirick's
company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment (under
Lieutenant-Colonel Ephraim Sawyer, Jr.); time of
enlistment, October 2, 1777; time of discharge, October
28, 1777; time of service, twenty-five days; town to
which he belonged, Bolton or Princeton; marched to
reinforce General Gates at Saratoga. [Massachusetts
Archives.'} Removed to Reading, Vermont; was
chosen her first representative in 1780; town clerk,
FOURTH GENERATION. 183
1781, 1782, 1783, 1784; selectman and town treasurer,
1784; returned to Massachusetts, 1788-90, and spent
the remainder of his life in Hubbardston; was one
of the selectmen, 1795 to 1797, and was on a list of
two hundred and six persons who died in that town
over eighty years old. He married Hannah Sawyer, of
Reading, where his widow, in 1838, sued for a pension.
No children.
III. Betsey 5 , born May 6, 1754; married, October 19, 1769, John
Jones.
IV. Sophia*, born April 6, 1756; married Lyman, son of John
and Prudence (Wilder) Wilder, born July 12, 1744, at
Petersham. She died September 24, 1799.
CHILDREN.
1. John 6 Wilder, born 1780, at Petersham; married
Betsey Bent.
Asa 6 , born .
Nahum 6 , born 1791 ; married, November 21, 1818,
at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Laura Powers,
born January 30, 1799. He was a soldier in the
War of 1812, and died at Rock Hill, Connecticut,
August 22, 1839, a farmer. She died December
18, 1879; had six children.
4. Prudence 6 , born ; married John Grout of
Petersham ; had four children.
13 V. David 5 , born May 10, 1/57, died July 3, 1829; married
Sally Myrick.
14 VI. Asa 5 , born November 25, 1759; married Jennie Bowker.
VII. John 5 , born May 10, 1761 ; died July 23, 1778.
VIII. Anna 5 , born October 27, 1764; died April 17, 1766.
IX. Windsor 5 , born December 10, 1767: married; resided at
Hubbardston, where he was instantly killed, Decem-
ber 24, 1829; no children.
15 X. Artemas 5 , born March 15, 1769; married Polly Rice; died
October 3, 1846.
7.
DEACON SETii 4 (T/wmas 3 , Thomas' 2 , SJiadracJi 1 }, born Octo-
ber 20, 1732; purchased land and removed to Petersham in
184 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
1756, where, October 10, 1760, for ^33. 45., he sold to Nathan
Goddard, a farm adjoining Poquaog (Athol), lying by the
southwest corner of Royall Shire (Royalston), and April 16
and August 26, 1765, he, with his wife, signed quitclaims to
her interest in the estate of Asa Bowker, late of Shrewsbury.
He married, May 31, 1757, Lydia, daughter of Asa and
Martha (Eager) Bowker, born December 6, 1733, in Shrews-
bury ; died October 9, 1813. He died April 23, 1804.
CHILDREN.
I. Damaris 5 , born May 15, 1758; married, March 15* 1782, at
Petersham, Judge William Bigelow of Guilford, Ver-
mont. He was the son of Jotham and Mary (Richard-
son) Bigelow of Holden, Massachusetts, where he was
born February 20, 1751 ; when a small boy he moved
with his parents to Guilford; he was a prominent
man ; early chosen town clerk ; was a selectman several
years ; represented his town in the State Legislature ;
for a period of twenty years was Judge of Windham
County Court. He died October 14, 1814; she died
May 9, 1846, at Bainbridge, New York.
CHILDREN.
1. William 6 Bigelow, born January 26, 1783; married
Lucretia Ashcroft. They resided in Guilford,
where he was a well-known citizen, and honored
with the title of Captain. He died October 15,
1848; had six children.
2. Levi 6 (Honorable), born February 25, 1785; mar-
ried, February 23, 1814, Hannah G. Goodrich;
settled in Bainbridge, where he became promi-
nent. He was Judge of Chenango Common
Pleas and County Court for a period of twenty-
two years, and served his county in the State
Assembly ; had seven children.
3. Rebecca 6 , born July 24, 1787; married, April i, 1810,
Salmon Sheldon of Leyden, Massachusetts;
died August 7, 1858. He died February 18,
1862; had nine children.
FOURTH GENERATION. 185
4. Asa 6 , born January 21, 1790; married Eliza Brown-
ing of North Adams, Massachusetts ; had four
children.
5. Damaris 6 , born May 9, 1792; married, October 31,
1816, Daniel Garrett of Bainbridge.
6. Betsey 6 , born August i, 1795; married,
Daniels; resided in New York.
7. Joseph 6 , born October 22, 1798; died at Catskill,
New York, about 1828; unmarried.
II. Catharine 5 , borri October 22, 1759; died October 21, 1843,
at Petersham.
III. Lydia 5 , born May 14, 1761 ; died March 29, 1829; married,
February 8, 1789, Jonas Bond of Maine.
CHILDREN.
1. Newell 6 Bond, born .
2. Thomas 6 , born ; resided in Cleveland, Ohio.
16 IV. Hutchins 5 , born April 14, 1763; married Betsey Grout.
V. Lucinda 5 , born January 16, 1765; married, June 16, 1791,
at Petersham, Captain John Fitch of Guilford, Ver-
mont. She died July 18, 1820.
17 VI. Solomon 5 , born December 30, 1766; married Azuba Burt.
VII. Lucretia 5 , born September 19, 1768; died May u, 1789;
unmarried.
18 VIII. Eber s , born August 5, 1770; died July 6, 1851; married
Dolly Grout.
19 IX. Oliver 5 , born September 26, 1772; married, November 10,
1799, Lucy Smith, and second, 1810, Anna Chapman.
X. Eunice 5 , born July 22, 1774; married, February 17, 1797,
Deacon Guy Bridgman of Hinsdale, Vermont; resided
in Kendall, New York.
XI. Levi 5 , born June 8, 1775; died October 12, 1776.
20 XII. Levi 5 , born December 6, 1778; married, September, 1823,
Anna (Chapman) Hapgood.
8.
JoAB 4 (Thomas 3 , Thomas 1 , Shadrach*}, born January 21,
1735. He was at Petersham, October 14, 1765, where he
bought of Joseph Hudson, April 29, 1765, for ,170,41 acres,
186 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
with house and barn, and 26 acres; October 5, 1765, sold
for ,200, to Ephraim Whitney, 41 acres in the northern
part and 26 acres in the northeastern part of Petersham.
He, before and subsequently, lived in Shrewsbury, on the
homestead, about one mile southwest of the meeting-house,
which was possessed after him by his son Ephraim. He
married, June 20, 1765, Abigail, daughter of Lieutenant
Isaac and Elizabeth (Brown) Stone, born at Shrewsbury,
December 9, 1735. Lieutenant Isaac Stone was a member
of the first board of selectmen in Shrewsbury, and a leading
man in town, church and parish affairs. Joab died March 21,
1803, and his widow, November 28, 1804.
CHILDREN.
I. Lucy 5 , born June 25, 1766; died August 23, 1851, in
Spencer; unmarried.
21 II. Ephraim 5 , born March i, 1768; died December 15, 1843;
married Elizabeth Cunningham Allen.
III. David 5 , born November 25, 1769; died unmarried, Septem-
ber 1 8, 1829.
IV. Nahum 5 , born October 7, 1771 ; died October 9, 1789.
22 V. Elijah 5 , born November 10, 1773; died July 22, 1853;
married Eunice Baker.
VI. Stephen 5 , born December 14, 1775; died August 19, 1778.
VII. Martha 5 , born March i, 1778; died September i, 1778.
9.
JOHN* (John*, Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 ), born October 8, 1752.
Settled in Marlboro' in sight of his cousin, Joseph Hapgood,
who married Ruth Jackson. He married, January 5, 1775,
Lois Stevens, who died April 10, 1776, aged twenty-one,
leaving an infant, two months old, and he married second,
February 7, 1782, Lucy Munroe of Lincoln, Massachusetts.
FOURTH GENERATION. 187
He died February 10, 1835, and Lucy died July 25, 1835,
aged seventy-eight.
CHILDREN.
23 I. John 5 , born February 9, 1776 (by first wife); married,
October 29, 1799, Betsey Temple.
24 II. Benjamin 5 , born March 9, 1783 (by second wife); married,
August 30, 1805, Ann Whitman of Stow.
III. Lois 5 , born October 20, 1785, at Marlboro'; married Fred-
erick Turner.
IV. Henry 5 , born November 24, 1787; married, July 6, 1809,
Catharine Conant of Dedham, Massachusetts, who
died April 5, 1859, aged seventy-three; Henry died
October 29, 1861, aged seventy-four; resided in
Hingham.
CHILDREN.
I. Jane M. 6 , born 1810; died August 27, 1890.
II. Adaline R. 6 , born 1812; died December 9, 1846.
III. Henry M. 6 , born 1814; died November, 1844.
IV. Catharine A. 6 , born 1817; died October 27, 1834.
V. Lucy Ann 6 , born 1819; died December 5, 1845.
V. Hannah 5 , born December 27, 1789; married Ebenezer
Kenfield of Boston, born March 18, 1795 ; died Novem-
ber 13, 1880; she died June 24, 1849.
CHILDREN.
1. William Frederick 6 Kenfield, born August 13, 1822.
2. Sarah J. 6 , born April 17, 1830.
VI. Mary 5 , born March 5, 1792; died ; unmarried.
VII. Elizabeth 5 , born June 23, 1794; died June 6, 1880, at
Hudson ; unmarried.
VIII. Sarah 5 , born September 26, 1796; died June 7, 1874, at
Hudson; unmarried.
10.
DEACON JONATHAN* (John 3 , Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born
May 1 6, 1759 ; married, May 6, 1783, Jerusha Gibbs, born in
Marlboro', 1762; died March 2, 1842. He was elected
188 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
deacon of the first church, 1821, and died April 12, 1849;
a farmer.
CHILDREN.
25 I. David 5 , born June i, 1783; married, September 24, 1805,
Abigail Russell.
II. Persis 5 , born May I, 1785; married, July 21, 1803, Benja-
min Rice, born July 8, 1774, at Marlboro'; was gradu-
ated from Harvard College, 1796 ; Deacon of the West
church and a magistrate ; died September 24, 1833.
His wife died January 4, 1821.
CHILDREN.
1. Persis 6 Rice, born January 5, 1804; married (as
second wife) Reverend Seth Alden.
2. Susanna W. 6 , born August 16, 1805; married,
1827, Lewis Bigelow.
3. Benjamin P. 6 , born July 7, 1808; married Deborah
Carrico.
4. Elizabeth 6 , born December 28, 1810.
5. George 6 , born June 4, 1813 ; died at Worcester,
June 30, 1847.
6. John 6 , born November 10, 1815.
7. Mary C. 6 , born August 21, 1818.
26 III. Nathaniel 5 , born September 14, 1787; married, May 22,
1808, Elizabeth Barber.
IV. Abigail 5 , born February 4, 1790; married Josiah Oilman of
Tamworth, New Hampshire ; removed from that place
some years ago; had four sons, but not further
reported.
27 V. Francis 5 , born August 2, 1792; married, 1814, Dorcas
Willis.
VI. Jerusha 5 , born December 13, 1794; married Reverend
Elisha Perry of Paxton, Massachusetts. Had three
children, two boys and one girl, names not given.
VII. Hepsibeth 5 , born June 20, 1798; married, December 3,
1818, Moses Barnes of Marlboro', born June 28, 1789;
died February 17, 1875. She died May 4, 1865.
CHILDREN.
1. Martha 6 Barnes, born December 20, 1818 ; married,
April 17, 1861, Henry Williams of Marlboro';
died April, 1876.
FOURTH GENERATION. 189
2. Jerusha 6 , born September 24, 1820; married,
Decembers, 1848, Artemas Walcott of Stow;
died August, 1892.
3. Eda 6 , born February 9, 1823; married, Novem-
ber 2, 1849, Annie C. Tarbell of St. Albans,
Vermont. She died February 4, 1892; he,
January 4, 1895 ; a farmer.
4. Lucy Eager 6 , born December 10, 1824; married,
May 4, 1852, Henry Williams of Marlboro'.
She died January 20, 1860; he, April, 1876.
5. Rebecca 6 , born April 21, 1830; died January 31,
1835-
6. Rebecca Hapgood 6 , born September I, 1836; mar-
ried, January 3, 1864, Charles H. Dalrymple,
born September 9, 1828, at Hubbardston, Mas-
sachusetts. He died December 28, 1892.
She resides in Marlboro'.
7. Joseph Weeks 6 , born September 19, 1838 ; married,
December 25, 1866, Emma J. Warren, born at
Weathersfield, Vermont, August 5, 1842; grad-
uated from Springfield, (Vermont) Seminary ;
died June 28, 1897; resided in Marlboro', a car-
penter.
VIII. Moses*, born April n, 1801 ; died April 15, 1805.
IX. Ann Gibbs 5 , born March i, 1803; married, December 30,
1830, Collins S. Cole of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, born
1803. In early life he went to sea, as most of the
young men of Cape Cod did in those days, and rose to
the position of Shipmaster. As our commercial
marine began to feel symptoms of decay, he aban-
doned the sea-going life, and went into mercantile
business, 1841, which he pursued up to the time of his
death, May 30, 1868. He represented his town in the
Legislature, and held various other offices of trust and
responsibility in the town. His wife, before marriage,
was a school teacher; died May n, 1882, leaving one
daughter, Julia A. Cole, who married Samuel Atwood
of Wellfleet, and is still living.
X. Hannah s , born August 10, 1805; died 1807.
190 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
11.
COLONEL THOMAS* (Joseph*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 }, born
November 13, 1747; married, December 16, 1773, Lucy,
daughter of James and Hepsibeth Woods, born September
14, 1747. He appears on the muster rolls as private in
William Morse's company, Colonel Jonathan Reade's regi-
ment; enlisted October 2, 1777, discharged November 8,
17775 term of service, one month, seven days. This com-
pany of volunteers marched to assist General Gates, under
resolve of September 22, 1777, belonged to Marlboro'. He
rose to rank of colonel in the militia at Marlboro', where he
resided, and died September 13, 1822; his widow died July
25, 1825.
CHILDREN.
28 I. Aaron 5 , born September 18, 1774; married Sarah Carr of
Sudbury. He died about 1844, at Stow.
29 II. Thomas 5 , Jr., born August 24, 1776; married, June 27,
1803, Mary Witt.
III. Abigail 5 , born April 10, 1779; married, June 23, 1798,
Thomas Whitney of Marlboro', born June 15, 1777.
CHILDREN.
1. Lucy 6 Whitney, born September 8, 1798.
2. William Hapgood 6 , born July 5, 1800.
IV. William 5 , born November 20, 1780 ; died young.
V. James 5 , born January 15, 1784; died June 19, 1784.
30 VI. Asa 5 , born April 13, 1785; married, 1812, Phebe, daughter
of Jonah Rice, born February 3, 1789.
31 VII. James Woods 5 , born April 21, 1787; married, October 26,
1814, Lucy 5 Howe, born October 21, 1788.
12.
JOSEPH* (Joseph, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born January 23,
1754; married, 1777, Ruth Jackson, born July 31, 1759;
FOURTH GENERATION. 191
died February 8, 1839; resided in Marlboro'; he died
May 18, 1818.
CHILDREN.
32 I. Josiah 5 , born March 7, 1779,31 Marlboro'; married, May
29, 1806, Elizabeth Maynard, born February 7, 1783.
II. Mary 5 , born November 20, 1780; married, October 19, 1803,
Ethan Darling of Marlboro', born March 13, 1780.
She died July 2, 1868.
III. Sarah 5 , born March 25, 1783; married, March 23, 1806,
William Wesson. She died July 6, 1869.
33 IV. Joseph 5 , born November 17, 1784; married, November 26,
1807, at Bolton, Massachusetts, Mrs. Susanna May-
nard, born May i, 1785 ; died April i, 1860.
34 V. Jonathan 5 , born December 26, 1786; married, 1813, Betsey
Priest.
VI. Ruth 5 , born November 2, 1788; married, May 7, 1807, John
Osborn.
35 VII. Isaac 5 , born March 8, 1791; married, September 2, 1817,
Abigail Green of Ashby.
VIII. Lucy 5 , born May 12, 1793; married, October 4, 1809, Asa
Bigelow of Marlboro', born January 19, 1791. She died
May 13, 1828.
IX. Lydia 5 , born July 9, 1795; married Ezekiel Davis, and died
July 25, 1826.
X. Caty 5 , born November 15, 1797; married (published March
6, 1818), Abraham Ray. She died April 18, 1833.
XI. Joel 5 , born September 20, 1801 ; died at Niagara, January
19, 1846; unmarried.
XII. Judith 5 , born October 14, 1803; died August 23, 1820.
FIFTH GENERATION.
13.
DAVID*, Esquire (Asa 4 , Thomas?, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born
May 10, 1757; was distinguished for enterprise, courage,
energy, and reverence. At the age of twenty-two he left
home, purchased a large tract, twelve miles west of Windsor,
Vermont, near the centre of the present town of Reading,
192 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
and immediately commenced improvements. Then there
were only two families in the region, each miles in opposite
directions from his location. Here he labored alone during
the first season. But ere he had completely secured his
little harvest, news reached him that the settlement at
Royalton, twenty-five miles north of Reading, had been laid
in ashes by Indians from Canada, and many out of the three
hundred inhabitants massacred and others taken captive.
Trusting in solitude for defence he did not flee ; until return-
ing to his cabin from a temporary absence, he found the
savages had plundered it of meat left over the fire, and such
other articles as they most coveted. He now hastily struck
his tent, returned to Massachusetts, spent the winter of
1778-79 in enlisting his brother Thomas and other young
men of Worcester County to accompany him back in the
spring. Here, through privations and hardships no longer
experienced by planters of new countries, they prepared the
way for a large and prosperous settlement, which was
organized in 1780, and he elected selectman and constable;
the future history of Reading cannot fail to recognize
him as her most efficient founder. He and his brother
Thomas purchased, June 5, 1780, one whole right of land in
the township of Reading, Vermont, consideration, >i$o,
lawful money ; David bought of Thomas a tract of land, con-
sideration, ^1,185, lawful money. June 27, 1781, David
erected the first framed building and opened the first tavern
in the place, and the first town meetings were held in his
house. He was early chosen representative, and for a series
of years served as magistrate.
As his children attained their majority he proceeded to
divide to them his estate, giving to each of the elder sons
FIFTH GENERATION. 193
100 acres of the south part of his farm, and to the third
son his homestead, etc., and he lived to see all his family
comfortably settled in life. He married, 1781, Sally Myrick
of Princeton, Massachusetts, born April 6, 1762; died August
7, 1826; he died July 3, 1829.
CHILDREN.
36 I. John 6 , born December n, 1782, at Princeton; married,
March 2, 1808, at Reading, Sally Amsden.
37 II. David 6 , born February 20, 1786, at Reading; married Sally
Kimball.
III. Sally Myrick 6 , born June 8, 1788; married, December 25,
1815, Edmund Durrin, Esquire, of Weathersfield, Ver-
mont ; a manufacturer, afterwards an eminent landlord
at Springfield, Vermont, who died at New Orleans,
February 22, 1837, when in quest of health, having
appointed Bridgman Hapgood, Esquire, executor of
his will. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Fidelia Forbush, in Reading, July 3, 1855; s. p.
IV. Lucinda 6 , born June 28, 1790: died October 21, 1835; mar-
ried Jared Bigelow of Reading, February 2, 1812, born
April 26, 1786; died August 2, 1856.
CHILDREN.
1. Addison Clinton 7 Bigelow, born September 28,
1812; died May 21, 1813.
2. Fidelia Hapgood 7 , born May i, 1814; married,
September, 1859, William Kingsbury of Charles-
town, Massachusetts.
3. Mary Ann 7 , born January 25, 1816; married, 1836,
George W. Fuller of Reading.
4. Norman C. 7 , born January 16, 1819; married,
April 20, 1845, Betsey Smith ; resided in Caven-
dish, Vermont.
5. Jared Addison 7 , born August 24, 1821 ; died
March 15, 1822.
6. Adeline L. 7 , born ; married, 1841, Sylvanus
Daniels of Charlestown, Massachusetts. She
died May 31, 1855.
7. Laura Bigelow Durrin (adopted), born October 25,
1824; married, 1842, Benjamin B. Snow of
Springfield, Vermont; resides in Charlestown,
Massachusetts.
194 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
8. Sarah 7 , born April 15, 1826; died August 16, 1827.
V. Betsey 6 , born January 21, 1793 ; died August 28, 1795.
38 VI. Artemas 6 , born July 16, 1795 ; married Rebecca Fay.
VII. Fidelia 6 , born August 20, 1797; married, March 14, 1822,
Captain Rufus Forbush, son of Rufus of Westboro,
Massachusetts, who was proprietor of the farm origi-
nally improved by Thomas 5 Hapgood of Reading. Has
served the town for years as selectman, representative
and magistrate, and as often as the Constitution of
Vermont has become rickety, he has been chosen to
conventions to strengthen it.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles A. 7 , Forbush, born January 8, 1823; mar-
ried, May 25, 1859, Lizzie Davis; resides in
Springfield, Vermont ; cashier of the Springfield
National Bank.
2. Rufus Orestes 7 , born October 7, 1824; married,
June 9, 1863, Eliza A. Spencer, who died Sep-
tember 19, 1897; resides at Springfield, and was
in company with his brother Charles, who,
together, ranked high as honorable and thrifty
merchants.
3. Harriet Fidelia 7 , born May 29, 1832; died June 15,
1839, at Reading.
4. Agnes Victoria 7 , born August 30, 1835; died June
26, 1839.
5. Mary Jane 7 , born May 8, 1838; married, October
3, 1866, Dr. Orlando W. Sherwin, born in Wood-
stock, Vermont, October 30, 1837; where he
resides ; was graduated from Dartmouth Medi-
cal College, 1865. She died December i, 1885.
89 VIII. Bridgman 6 , born August 13, 1799; married first, Elizabeth
Morrison, second, Laura M. Weston.
IX. Lucy 6 , born June 28, 1802; died August u, 1806.
X. Dexter 6 , born April 14, 1807; died August 30, 1847,
unmarried, at Dubuque, Iowa.
14.
AsA 8 (Asa 4 , Thomas*, Thomas*, ShadracJP), born in Shrews-
bury, November 25, 1759; married, about 1785, Jane or
FIFTH GENERATION. 195
Jennie, daughter of Charles, and granddaughter of Asa
Bowker of Shrewsbury, born May 26, 1761 ; settled in Read-
ing, Vermont, soon after his marriage. August 28, 1780,
Thomas Hapgood of Reading sold to Asa Hapgood, Jr., a
tract of land for 18, lawful money. He moved to Fairfax,
Vermont, about 1796, and Jericho, 1804, and next to Rush-
ford, New York, where his wife died February 16, 1822 ; he
died at Jericho, Vermont, October 15, 1823.
CHILDREN.
40 I. Elmore 6 , born October 29, 1787, at Reading; married, at
Jericho, March 14, 1813, Rheuanna Smith.
II. Sylvia 6 , born July 2, 1788; married John Booth of West-
ford, Vermont. She died November 10, 1826, at
Milton, Vermont.
41 III. Charles 5 , born November 18, 1790; married Lucy Kendall.
42 IV. Tillison 6 , born April 13, 1792; married, February 13, 1823,
Cynthia Bliss.
V. Lucy 6 , born June 2, 1794; married Eben Woodworth;
resided in Essex, Vermont. She died March 20, 1865,
at Underbill, Vermont.
VI. Asa 6 , born December 18, 1795, at Reading; drowned in
Lake Correnango, New York, near Maysville, April 2,
1829.
VII. Elmira 6 , born June 26, 1797, at Fairfax; died at Jericho,
December 28, 1805.
VIII. Jane 6 , born March 21, 1799, at Fairfax; married, Decem-
ber 10, 1826, at Ripley, New York, James Wells, born
in Cambridge, Washington County, New York;
resided and died in Harmony, Chautauqua County,
March 28, 1854.- She died January 25, 1883, at the
house of her son, Lewis B., in Ashville, New York.
CHILDREN.
1. Emeline Adelia 7 , Wells, born April 17, 1828; mar-
ried, September 8, 1850, William W. Ball of
Harmony ; resides in Stowe, New York.
2. Eveline Cornelia 7 , born September 30, 1830; died
September 4, 1840, in Illinois.
3. Morrice Berry 7 , born January n, 1832; enlisted
196 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
first, in War of Rebellion, in Company C, Penn-
sylvania Volunteers ; served about one and a
half years ; sent to hospital for six months ;
returned, re-enlisted, and served to end of the
war; died November, 1895, at the Soldiers'
Home, Erie, Pennsylvania.
4. Lewis Berry 7 , born January 7, 1835; married, June
23, 1859, Sophia, daughter of James and Mary
Green, born May 9, 1841, at Hickory, Pennsyl-
vania ; resides in Ashville, New York ; a farmer.
43 IX. Bates Turner 6 , born November 6, 1800; married, Janu-
ary 25, 1826, Alzina Taylor.
44 X. Joel Wilson 6 , born April 21, 1802; married, September i,
1830, Susan Harrington of Whitehall, New York.
XI. Martin 6 , born November 16, 1805, at Jericho, Vermont;
died January 24, 1826.
15.
ARTEMAS* (Asa*, Thomas 3 , Thomas*, Shadrach 1 }, born
March 15, 1769; married, June 16, 1799, Polly, daughter of
Martin (a fifer in the Revolution), and Ruth Rice, of Peters-
ham, born September 21, 1799; died October 7, 1861 ;
resided at Barre, Massachusetts, where he died October 3,
1846.
CHILDREN.
45 I. Horace 6 , born May 25, 1800; married, March 22, 1823,
Lucy Parsons.
II. Sylvia 6 , born July 4, 1801, at Barre ; married, November 19,
1820, Williams Hamilton of Bridport, Vermont, born
February 5, 1797; died September 12, 1845, at Attica,
New York, on his way home from the West. She died
January 6, 1867, at Kenwood, Oneida Community, New
York.
CHILDREN.
1. Erastus Hapgood 7 Hamilton, born November 6,
1821, at Barre; married, June 26, 1844, Susan C.
Williams of Devonshire, England ; died Octo-
ber 15, 1864. He died September 2, 1894, at
Kenwood.
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2. Augusta Williams 7 , born November 10, 1822; died
at Barre, February 17, 1827.
3. Chauncey 7 , born August 18, 1825; married, Febru-
ary i, 1849, Almira Van Wagener; died Febru-
ary n, 1893, at Syracuse, New York.
4. George Williams 7 , born April 25, 1827; married,
June, 1849, Philena Baker, who died Decem-
ber 13, 1893. He died April 13, 1893, at San
Diego, California.
5. Charles Lyman 7 , born April 12, 1833, at Cortland,
New York ; married, and has five children.
46 III. Chauncey 6 , born October 17, 1803; married, May 2, 1833,
Lucy F. Rice of Barre.
IV. Direxa 6 , born June 15, 1805 ; married, July 22, 1828, Joseph
K. Sperry, born September 12, 1804; died August 2,
1879. She died February 4, 1890, at Cornwall, Ver-
mont, where they resided.
CHILDREN.
1. Albert Hapgood 7 Sperry, born June II, 1829; mar-
ried, November 15, 1854, Ann E. Eells.
2. Charles Artemas 7 , born April 3, 1834; resides in
Quechee, Vermont ; is a doctor of medicine.
3. Harriet Augusta 7 , born September 21, 1836; mar-
ried Judge George W. Foote ; resides at Crown
Point, New York; secretary and treasurer of
Crown Point Knitting Company.
V. Mary Ann 6 , born February 28, 1807; married Amos Hamil-
ton; resided in Bridport, Vermont. She died Janu-
ary 29, 1864.
CHILDREN.
1. Eugene 7 Hamilton, born
2. Henry 7 , born .
3. Walter 7 , born .
4. Delia 7 , born .
5. Mary 7 , born .
6. Anson 7 , born .
7. Carlton 7 , born .
8. George 7 , born .
VI. Betsey 6 , born July 17, 1808, at Barre, Massachusetts; mar-
ried, June 3, 1830, Freeman Rice, born June 6, 1806,
198 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
who died at Barre, June 14, 1832, and she married
second, December 8, 1842, Samuel Austin Kinsman,
born January 24, 1808, in Hubbardston, Massachusetts ;
died at the house of his stepdaughter, Mrs. Stitt, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1888; she died
in Barre, January 19, 1882.
CHILD, by first husband.
1. Eliza Freeman 7 Rice, born (posthumous) July 26,
1832; married, July 22, 1854, Seth Bunker Stitt,
born at Athens, New York, January 20, 1822;
resided in Philadelphia (and Newport, Rhode
Island), since 1836; no children.
VII. Harriet 6 , born February 27, 1810; married, November 28,
1831, Abiathar Lawrence, born in Hardwick, August
14, 1804; died in Barre, May 6, 1877; she died
November 23, 1878.
CHILDREN.
1. Caroline Louisa 7 Lawrence, born June 30, 1836;
married, October 6, 1859, Lyman L. Harding of
Barre, born December 25, 1835; a very active,
intelligent business man ; went to Boston, and
later was admitted a partner in the large whole-
sale clothing house of Freeland, Harding &
Loomis ; attacked by cerebro spinal meningitis,
which unfitted him for business, he retired and
removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he died
March 29, 1893.
2. Anson Hapgood 7 , born September 9, 1842; mar-
ried, October i, 1873, Amelia Kendall of Chicago.
3. Frederick Abiathar 7 , born April 9, 1845; married,
June 13, 1872, Mary Davis Palmer.
47 VIII. Lyman Wilder 6 , born November 27, 1811; married, April
1 8, 1839, Eliza Jane, daughter of Levi Phinney.
48 IX. Asa 6 , born July i, 1813; married Lydia Crossley of Ken-
tucky.
X. Anson 6 , born February 21, 1815; died April 30, 1839.
XI. Fidelia 6 , born May 27, 1818; married, November 17, 1842,
John Field Woods, son of Captain James Woods of
Barre, the fifth James Woods in direct descent, born
November 5, 1820; died March 26, 1887; she died
April 9, 1894.
FIFTH GENERATION. 199
CHILD.
1. Ella Eliza 7 Woods, born August 14, 1852; mar-
ried, February 24, 1876, John Thomas Bottomly,
born June 20, 1847, in England ; resides in Cam-
den, New Jersey ; a manufacturer.
16.
HONORABLE HUTCHINS S (Seth*, Thomas?, Thomas*, Shad-
rach*), born April 14, 1763; married, October 20, 1789, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Honorable Jonathan Grout, colonel in the
Revolutionary War, and Member of Congress ; resided in
Petersham, an eminent and leading citizen ; eldest son of
Deacon Seth ; represented the town eight years in the Gen-
eral Court ; postmaster for many years ; chosen a member to
the convention for revising the constitution, 1820; a success-
ful merchant ; died September 4, 1837.
CHILDREN.
49 I. Thomas 6 , born June 20, 1790; married, Februarys, 1818,
Betsey Hopkins of Petersham.
II. Hutchins 6 , born September 2, 1792; graduated from Dart-
mouth College, (A. M.) class 1813; read law with
Major John Taylor, at Northampton, Massachusetts,
from November 6, 1814, to July, 1815, finishing the
course at Cavendish, Vermont; did not practise, but
turned his attention to mercantile business in New
York City, and died in Petersham, Massachusetts,
June 2, 1828.
III. Eliza 6 , born October 9, 1796; died September 24, 1835;
married, June 27, 1826, Aaron Arms, Esquire, of
Deerfield, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
1. Hutchins Hapgood 7 Arms, born October i, 1827;
died June 24, 1845, at Petersham.
2. Elizabeth Grout 7 , born June r, 1830, at Deerfield;
married Reverend Doctor Heman L. Wayland,
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president of Franklin College, Indiana, son of
the late President Wayland of Brown Univer-
sity, Providence, Rhode Island.
CHILDREN.
1. Lincoln 8 Wayland, born September i, 1861.
2. Fanny Hapgood 8 , born April 12, 1864.
3. Sophia Holland 7 , born March 15, 1835; married,
October. 7, 1863, Amory Bigelow of Petersham ;
resides in Chicago ; a merchant.
IV. Maria H. 6 , born July 15, 1798 ; died January 28, 1842; mar-
ried, April 28, 1823, Ephraim Hinds, Esquire, of West
Boylston, born in Shrewsbury, 1780; graduated from
Harvard College, 1805; studied law, and established
an office in Harvard, Massachusetts, 1820, having pre-
viously practised in Athol and Barre ; removed to
Marlboro', 1834, and died at West Boylston, June 18,
1858.
CHILDREN.
1. Alfred Hutchins 7 Hinds, born ; resided in
West Boylston.
2. Ephraim 7 , born ; resided in Marlboro'.
3. Albert 7 , born ; resided in West Boylston.
4. Maria 7 , born ; resided in West Boylston.
5. Flora Isabella 7 , born ; married,
Walker ; resided in Columbus, Ohio.
6. Ellen 7 , born .
V. Lydia 6 , born September 5, 1802; died June 6, 1807.
60 VI. Seth 6 , born June 10, 1805; married Lydia Seaver Wilson.
VII. Charles 6 , born April 2, 1811; died September 17, 1828.
17.
SOLOMON* (Seth*, Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born
December 30, 1766, at Petersham, Massachusetts; died
March 5, 1856, at Bellows Falls, Vermont; married, 1791,
Azubah, daughter of Benjamin (who was born May 10,
1740) and Mary (Root) Burt (born 1741) of Westminster,
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Vermont, where she was born 1771, and died at Bellows
Falls, February 10, 1858, in her eighty-seventh year. Her
father, Judge Burt, was appointed by " William Tryon, Cap-
tain General and Governor of the Province of New York and
dependencies, captain of a company of Foot in the Township
of Westminster, Vermont"; he died June 9, 1835, aged
ninety-five, and his wife Mary, December 15, 1831, aged
ninety-one. Solomon was by trade a blacksmith, and for
many years carried on that business extensively, but having
acquired large landed estates, demanding his attention, his
time was divided between the shop and farm, and later on,
during the closing years of his life, the latter proved more
attractive and congenial, and absorbed most of his time. He
was an industrious, upright and prosperous man. At that
period it was honorable to labor, in fact, no one was respected
who did not. Eight children were born by this union to
honor their father and noble mother.
CHILDREN.
I. Lucretia 6 , born June 12, 1792; died March 19, 1871, at
Brooklyn, New York; married, 1808, at Bellows Falls,
Daniel Tuttle, born June 5, 1788, at New Haven,
Connecticut; died June 6, 1861.
CHILDREN.
1. Quartus Morgan 7 Tuttle, born August 28, 1809;
died, unmarried, March 19, 1877, at Althuna,
Canada.
2. Frances Adeline 7 , born March 15, 181 1, at Grafton,
Vermont; married first, November 27, 1834, at
Bellows Falls, Holland Wheeler, who died 1842,
at Saxton's River; she married second, 1846,
Edward Hall of Westminster, Vermont.
3. Adaline 7 , born October, 1813 ; died October 3, 1818.
4. Daniel Atwater 7 , born July 3, 1815 ; married, July
27, 1842, Harriet Lombard of Springfield,
Massachusetts, who died July 17, 1882.
202 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
5. Caroline Matilda 7 , born August 18, 1817; married,
September 21, 1841, Solon Foster Goodridge of
Bellows Falls, a China tea merchant of New
York City, who died July 15, 1892.
6. Lyman Hapgood 7 , born October 28, 1819; took a
voyage to recover his health and was lost at sea,
Octobers, 1841.
II. Fanny 6 , born October 5, 1793; died September 14, 1794.
III. Solomon 6 , born April 6, 1795 ; died March 3, 1839; unmar-
ried.
51 IV. Lyman 6 , born October 29, 1799; married, November 10,
1822, Emma Church, of Westminster.
52 V. Seth 6 , born October 21, 1803; married, February 18, 1829,
Clarinda Harvey of Chesterfield, New Hampshire..
53 VI. Charles 6 , born September 17, 1805; married, October 6,
1834, Harriet Silsby.
VII. Levi 6 , born March 12, 1809; married Lucretia Leonard,
and died June 8, 1839; no children.
VIII. Frances Mary 6 , born July 31, 1811 ; married, June 12, 1838,
James Henry Williams, born January 16, 1813, at
Bellows Falls, where he resided ; cashier of the old
Bellows Falls Bank; died August 13, 1881.
CHILDREN.
1. Caroline Frances 7 Williams, born February 24,
1839; married, October 31, 1867, William Pitt
Wentworth, born April 23, 1839, at Bellows
Falls ; resided in Newton, Massachusetts ; was
an eminent architect of Boston; died March,
1896; no children.
2. William 7 , born March, 1841 ; died November 12,
1842.
3. James Henry 7 , born July 19, 1843 > married first,
Lucy Amelia Willson, and second, Fannie War-
ren Schouler, daughter of General Schouler of
Boston.
4. Harriet Henry 7 , born May 5, 1845 ; married, August
30, 1866, Lucius Adelbert Morse of Rutland,
Vermont ; resides in Bellows Falls.
5. Sarah Hubbard 7 , born January 16, 1848; died
May 28, 1878.
6. John Harris 7 , born November 18, 1849; married,
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October 17, 1883, Merab Ann Bradley Kellogg
of Westminster, Vermont.
7. Kate Amelia 7 , born December 30, 1851 ; resides
at Bellows Falls ; unmarried.
8. Mary Grace 7 , born May 24, 1855 ; died June 14,
1874.
18.
EBER* (Seth*, Thomas*, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born
August 5, 1770; married, July 13, 1803, Dolly, daughter of
Honorable Jonathan Grout, a colonel in the Revolutionary
War and Member of Congress, sister to the wife of his
brother Hutchins, a very superior woman, born May i, 1772,
in Petersham, and died July 16, 1822. He died July 6, 1851.
CHILDREN.
54 I. George Grout 6 , born February 17, 1804; married Marcia
McGraw.
II. Dolly 6 , born October 14, 1805 ; married, September 8, 1840,
Joel Bordwell of Cazenovia, New York, born Febru-
ary 4, 1808, son of Reverend Joel Bordwell, A. M.,
fifty years pastor of Congregational church at Kent,
Connecticut, and nephew of Reverend Samuel Mills of
Torrington, Connecticut. She died July 27, 1871, and
he married second, her younger sister, Mary Frances
Hapgood, April 3, 1872.
CHILDREN.
1. Lavinia 7 Bordwell, born August 23, 1841 ; died
September 6, 1841.
2. Lavinia 7 , born July 28, 1843; a stenographer,
unmarried.
3. Ellen Eliza 7 , born September 22, 1844 > died June 3,
1867.
4. Levi Hapgood 7 , born December 29, 1845.
5. Marilla 7 , born June 7, 1847; died September 12,
1847-
6. George Hapgood 7 , born February 10, 1849; died
August 12, 1849.
204 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
7. James 7 , born July 9, 1850; died September, fol-
lowing.
8. Mary 7 , born July 7, 1851 ; died August 8, 1851.
55 III. Charles 6 , born October ri, 1807, at Petersham, Massachu-
setts; married Rebecca Hibbard of Waterford,
Vermont.
IV. Lyman Wilder 6 , born February 7, 1810; married, March
5, 1840, Nancy A., daughter of James and Eliza
(McKenzie, from Canada) Pinkerton, born July 6, 1813.
After an absence of fifteen years, one of which was
spent in Maine, five in Lowell, and seven in Ohio, he
returned to the homestead of his father and grand-
father in Petersham. He died at Grafton, April 19,
1871. She died at Petersham May 3, 1864.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliza Pinkerton 7 , born January 8, 1841, at Bedford,
Ohio ; died September 14, 1845, at Munson, Ohio.
II. Mary Frances 7 , born September 14, 1842, entered
University of Ann Arbor, graduated and taught
for several years, dying of consumption at Kal-
amazoo, Michigan; unmarried.
V. Mary Frances 6 , born May 19, 1812; married, March 31,
1840, Elijah Kimball, resided in Grafton; he died
December 17, 1867; she married second, April 3,
1872, Joel Bordwell of Cazenovia, New York, her
deceased sister's husband, who died March 12, 1882;
she died August i, 1874; no children.
VI. Levi 6 , born April 2, 1814; died unmarried at Bedford, Ohio,
December 31, 1839.
VII. Susan Elizabeth 6 , born June 17, 1818; married, May 17,
1842, Joseph Warren Upton, born April 26, 1818;
resided in Petersham; died October 25, 1889; she
died April 8, 1855.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Elizabeth 7 , Upton, born December 25, 1844;
married, May 21, 1868, Silas Theodore Wheeler.
2. Ann Eliza 7 , born May 25, 1846; died February 12,
1850.
3. Lena Hapgood 7 , born September 29, 1854; resides
in Orange, Massachusetts ; unmarried.
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19.
OLIVER*, (Seth*, Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born Sep-
tember 26, 1772; married, November 10, 1799, Lucy Smith
of Petersham, who died, and he married, second, in 1810,
Anna Chapman ; removed, about 1799, to New Ipswich,
New Hampshire, and about 1801 to Sheldon, Vermont,
where he died January 7, 1813.
CHILDREN.
I. Almira 6 , born 1800; died January 15, 1859; found dead in
her bed, having apparently expired without a struggle.
She married first, William Johnson, and second,
Eliphalet Johnson ; resided in Swanton, Vermont, and
was the mother of Mrs. Lucy 7 Foster of Swanton;
Oliver H 7 . Johnson, Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec ;
Mrs. Caroline A 7 . Landon, William A 7 . Johnson,
Burlington, Vermont; Mrs. Ellen A 7 . Dunton, Swan-
ton; and Myra E. 7 , Edwin 7 , and Sidney 7 Johnson,
unmarried.
56 II. John Weeks 6 , born June 3, 1811 (by second wife); married
Rebecca Hemingway.
20.
LEVI S , (Seth*, Thomas?, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born December
6, 1778. Settled in Sheldon, Vermont, February, 1804, where
he resided up to the time of his death, June 15, 1864,
serving the town in all the offices in her gift, and the State
in 1830-32 as a member of her Legislature. He married
September, 1823, Anna (Chapman) Hapgood (widow of his
brother Oliver) ; she died March 15, 1846.
CHILDREN.
I. Levi Hutchins 6 , born July 15, 1825; married, August 30,
1847, Harriet Ellen Horton, born April 18, 1826,
daughter of Daniel Gideon Horton, by wife Mary
Drury and granddaughter of Gideon Horton, Junior, of
Hortonville, Hubbardton, Vermont, by wife Thyrza
206 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Farrington, and great granddaughter of Gideon Hor-
ton, senior, by wife Sarah Douglass, from Springfield,
Massachusetts, and great great granddaughter of
Benjamin Horton from Scotland to Brandon, Ver-
mont, at its earliest settlement. Mrs. Hapgood's
mother, Mary Drury, born June 25, 1795, married,
January i, 1813, and died October 30, 1848, was the
daughter of Luther and Rhoda (Hopkins) Drury of
Plattsburg, New York, and granddaughter of Deacon
Ebenezer Drury from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts,
to Pittsford, Vermont, who was baptized February
17, 1733; married, October 21, 1761, Hannah Keyes,
born April 17, 1742, and great granddaughter of
Daniel Drury of Framingham (died June 5, 1786),
by wife Sarah Flagg (born at Sudbury about 1705;
married, July 14, 1729; died November 29, 1775), and
great great granddaughter of John or Thomas Drury,
and great great great granddaughter of Hugh Drury
of Boston 1640; freeman 1654; constable 1655-56; a
member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany 1659; died, and is interred in King's Chapel
Cemetery. His wife Lydia was received a member
of First Church, March 12, 1648, and died 1675. Levi
Hutchins Hapgood was a leading merchant and prom-
inent citizen of Sheldon, Vermont, up to 1876, when
reverses in business induced him to remove to Alton,
Illinois, and accept employment from his cousin
nephew, Charles Hutchins Hapgood, who had estab-
lished the immense works of the Hapgood Plow Com-
pany, in that place, where he continued to labor till the
time of his death, December 14, 1885.
CHILD.
I. Anna Keith 7 , born October 9, 1848, at Sheldon;
died August 6, 1889.
II. Seth Chapman 6 , born November 3, 1828, at Sheldon, Ver-
mont; married, November 4, 1850, Louisa Mann from
Jamaica, Western New York, died June 10, 1867, and
he married second, February 10, 1885, Anna Elizabeth
Davy ; resided in Malta, De Kalb County, Illinois, but
is now a large merchant and extensive landholder in
Shorey, Shawnee County, Kansas.
CHILD.
I. Ella May 7 , born October 9, 1858; died March
26, 1865.
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21.
EPHRAIM* (Joab*, Thomas 9 , Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born
March I, 1768; married, February 28, 1796, Elizabeth Cun-
ningham, daughter of Silas and Priscilla (Plympton) Allen,
of Medfield, Massachusetts. Settled on the homestead of
his father in Shrewsbury; died December 15, 1843. His
wife was born in Medfield, February, 1773, and died in
Shrewsbury, September 24, 1863.
CHILDREN.
I. Martha 6 , born in Shrewsbury, May 15, 1798; married,
April 13, 1845, Benjamin Flagg, born in Boylston,
1815. They lived on a portion of the farm on which
her great grandfather Thomas Hapgood first settled.
He died June 10, 1858, and she January 14, 1876;
no children.
II. Simon Allen 6 , born August 5, 1802; died October 5, 1803.
III. Lucy 6 , born April 27, 1805; married, January 27, 1834,
* Washington, son of Joshua and Miriam Briggs, born
July 2, 1796, in Spencer, where he resided a merchant
and farmer, and died April 29, 1867; she died at
Worcester, April 18, 1895.
' CHILDREN.
1. Martha Hapgood 7 Briggs, born February 26, 1837,
in Spencer ; married, June 23, 1867, John A., son
of John and Susan (Howland) Wilson, resided in
Worcester; teacher and provision dealer. He
died November 2, 1891.
2. Lucy Elizabeth 7 , born April 19, 1841 ; died June 12,
1842.
3. Ephraim Hapgood 7 , born July 4, 1842, resided in
Boston, Massachusetts, a provision dealer ; he
died there November 29, 1876; unmarried.
22.
ELIJAH 5 (Joab*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 }, born
November 10, 1773. In 1802, purchased the Wheeler farm
208 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
in Shrewsbury for $3,000, paying the first instalment of
$ 1,000 in silver out of old stockings. This farm was about
half a mile south southwest of the original Thomas Hapgood
farm in Shrewsbury, and one and a half miles southwest of
the old congregational meeting house. To this he made
many additions and improvements, and left it one of the
most valuable farms in Shrewsbury.
He married, September 26, 1802, Eunice, daughter of
Reuben and Charlotte (Howe) Baker, born June 27, 1781.
She died November 14, 1841, aged sixty, and he died at
Shrewsbury, July 22, 1853.
CHILDREN.
I. Abigail 6 , born October 7, 1803; married, December 14,
1824, John Roper, Jr., of Princeton, where she died,
October, 1 825. Date of his birth and death not reported.
CHILD.
1. Abigail 7 Roper, who died, aged about twenty-one
years; unmarried.
57 II. Joab 6 , born September 6, 1804; married Elizabeth Eager.
58 III. Lemuel Bemis 6 , born October 12, 1805; married Amazonia
Flagg.
IV. Charlotte 6 , born August 30, 1807; married October 4, 1830,
at Shrewsbury, Horace, son of Alpheus and Lydia(Fay)
Abbott, born July 29, 1806, in Sudbury, Massachusetts,
and went to Westboro' when a boy and there learned
the trade of a blacksmith, and carried on that business
in a country shop. In 1836 he removed to Baltimore,
Maryland, where he resided till his death, August 8,
1887. He took charge of a large forge, and manufac-
tured heavy forgings, steamboat shafts, cranks, loco-
motives and car axles. At the breaking out of the
Civil War, 1861, having the largest plate mill in the
United States, and the only one capable of doing the
work, Mr. Abbott made the armor and plates for Cap-
tain Ericsson's first monitor, and all the armor plates
for the monitors that were built immediately succeed-
ing. He also furnished the armor plates which
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strengthened the fleet before Charleston ; and for his
promptness of delivery, received a letter of commen-
dation from the then Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Wells.
So important were Mr. Abbott's works to the govern-
ment, particularly the naval department, that the men
in his employ were protected by the government
against draft into the army and navy ; thus, in effect,
making an arsenel of the establishment. We add the
following extract (from J. S. C. Abbott's History of
the Civil War, Volume /, Page 339), to show his patri-
otic zeal and sound judgment, when it was predicted
he could never fulfil the contract for the Monitor.
" In 101 days from the time the contract reached him,
the Monitor was launched. The upper hull is 174
feet long, forty-one feet four inches wide, and five
feet in depth. The sides constitute the armor of
the vessel. In the first place is an inner guard
of iron half an inch thick. To this is fastened a
wall of white oak placed end-wise and thirty inches
thick. To this is bolted six plates of iron, each an
inch thick, one over the other. The pilot house is
made of plates of iron, the whole about ten inches
thick. The turret is a round cylinder, twenty feet
in interior diameter, and nine feet high. It is built
entirely of iron plates, one inch in thickness, and
securely bolted together. Eight of these plates, one
over the other, with a lining of one inch iron, com-
pletes the structure."
He was one of the first to move in establishing National
Banks in the city of Baltimore; was one of the organ-
izers of the First National Bank, of which he was a
director and vice-president until his death, as also a
director in the Second National Bank of Baltimore.
His widow died May 2, 1888.
CHILDREN.
1. Lucy Fay 7 Abbott, born November 14, 1831, in
Westboro', Massachusetts ; resided with her
parents in Baltimore, where she died, January
8, 1850.
2. Ella Antoinette 7 , born in Baltimore, January 26,
1834; married, October 4, 1854, at Baltimore,
John Stratton Gilman, born at Hallowell, Maine,
March 19, 1830; she died in Baltimore,November
26, 1855, and he, November 16, 1889.
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3. Charlotte Eunice 7 , born August 10, 1836; died
September i, 1838.
4. Horace Fay 7 , born September 18, 1838; died
November 29, 1843.
5. Charlotte 7 , born April 7, 1842; married, June 9,
1863, at Baltimore, Isaac Martin, son of Isaac
and Nancy Smart (Hobbs) Gate, born at Effing-
ham, New Hampshire, February 6, 1838;
resides in Baltimore.
6. Mary Lydia 7 , born May 18, 1844; died at Balti-
more April 11, 1849.
7. Horace Fay 7 , born July 21, 1846; died at Balti-
more, July 23, 1848.
59 V. Nahum Roland 6 , born March 6, 1809; married the widow
Emily (Chase) Garfield, of Worcester.
VI. David Thomas 5 , born July 19, 1813; learned the gun-
maker's trade of his brother Joab; married, August
13, 1840, Mary Bruce, daughter of Ephron and
Zipporah (Maynard) Eager, born in Northboro', March
25, 1813, sister to his brother Joab's wife; removed
to Baltimore, Maryland, established the business of
manufacturing and dealing in guns and sporting mate-
rials, somewhat extensively, and for several years pros-
pered ; but his health failed, and he was obliged to close
up his business and return to Shrewsbury, where he
died August 9, 1843 5 no children. His widow married,
second, October 4, 1854, Henry Marcus Fairbanks,
born April 9, 1812, in Shirley, Massachusetts, a widower
with two sons, and lived most of the remainder of her
life in Worcester, where she died June 12, 1893. Mr.
Fairbanks died June 25, 1861.
60 VII. Lorenzo Elijah 6 , born November 9, 1815; married, Sarah
Hodges.
61 VIII. Reuben Leander 6 , born July 10, 1817; married, Lucy
Forbush.
62 IX. Ephraim Augustin 6 , born November 3, 1823 ; married, Nancy
Holmes, of Grafton.
23.
JOHN* (John^, JohrP, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born Febru-
ary 9, 1776; married, October 29, 1799, Betsey Temple, of
FIFTH GENERATION. 211
Marlboro', who died December 31, 1841 ; removed, 1801,
to Winchendon, Massachusetts, where he died April 5,
1848 ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliza 6 , born December 12, 1802, at Marlboro; married,
at Winchendon, Phinehas Parks, of Winchendon.
He died March 2, 1885, and his widow, May 9, 1887.
CHILDREN.
1. George H. 7 Parks, born .
2. A daughter ; she married William S. Brooks,
of Winchendon.
63 II. George Dana 6 , born December 3, 1811 ; married, Septem-
ber 9, 1841, Catharine Wight Mixer, of Dedham.
III. Jane 6 , born June 4, 1821, at Winchendon; married Bethuel
Ellis, of Ashburnham ; resided in Winchendon, where
she died December 5, 1867, and he April 9, 1881.
IV. Otis Whitney 6 , born at Winchendon; married Sarah Ann
Church, of Alstead, New Hampshire. He died May
2, 1863, and she, 1860.
Other children were born to John and Betsey, all of whom died in
infancy, but their records are not at hand.
24.
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN* (John*, John*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ),
born March 9, 1783; married, August 30, 1805, at Stow,
Ann, daughter of Charles and Catharine (Davies) Whit-
man, M. D. Ann was born December 12, 1787, and died
at East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, November 27, 1868.
Benjamin was a captain in the militia, and died at Stow,
May ii, 1836; resided in Marlboro'; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
64 I. Charles Whitman 6 , born December 30, 1806, at Marlboro';
married first, Mary Hunter, and second, Elizabeth
Haley.
212 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
II. Catharine Davies 6 , born October 3, 1807; married, Febru-
ary 20, 1828, at Stow, Mark Whitcomb, who died
November 29, 1886; she died August 20, 1888.
CHILDREN.
1. William 7 Whitcomb, born November 4, 1828.
2. Anna Maria 7 , born September 24, 1830; married,
December 7, 1852, Abraham H. Stowe, of Hud-
son, where she died October 20, 1881, leaving
three children.
3. John Marshall 7 , born November 8, 1832; married,
January 6, 1860, Eliza Clapp, of Stow; had
five children.
4. Albert 7 , born June i, 1845 ; resides at Stow.
III. Dorcas Whitman 6 , born March 15, 1809; married, Septem-
ber 15, 1846, at Stow, Rufus Scott, born February 9,
1800, at Amherst, Massachusetts; resided at North
Hadley and Amherst. He died August 16, 1855; she
still survives.
CHILDREN.
1. Israel Storrs 7 Scott, born November 19, 1848;
died August 24, 1849, at North Hadley.
2. Mary Helen 7 , born July 5, 1850; resides in
Amherst; unmarried.
3. Israel Frederick 7 , born July 2, 1852; died Sep-
tember n, 1871, at North Hadley.
IV. Anna Whitman 6 , born December 19, 1810; married, first,
November i, 1834, Charles English, born in Brighton,
May 19, 1807; resided in Boston, Brighton, and East
Bridgewater. He died July 2, 1859, at Brighton, and
she married, second, at Elmwood, Massachusetts,
August 25, 1864, Samuel Shaw, born August 7, 1802,
at South Weymouth, a shoe manufacturer of wealth
and influence, at Elmwood. He died at East Bridge-
water, Massachusetts, September 15, 1874; she is still
living.
CHILDREN.
1. Anna Elizabeth 7 English, born March 17, 1841;
died September 5, 1885.
2. Amelia Victoria 7 , born January 3, 1844; died July
30, 1845.
FIFTH GENERATION. 213
3. Charles Benjamin 7 , born August 31, 1846; married,
May 23, 1877, Mrs. Hannah Sisson ; resides
in Chicago, Illinois.
V. Nathan Davies 6 , born February 20, 1813, at Marlboro;
was captain's mate aboard ship "Canton Packet,"
died on the voyage home from Manilla, and was
buried at sea; unmarried.
VI. Martha 6 , born January 26, 1815, at Marlboro; married at
Stow, May 15, 1834, Timothy Atwood, who died at
Boston, December 13, 1872, and she married, second,
February 4, 1875, Thaddeus Smith, of North Hadley,
where he died, October 31, 1878. She died at Well-
fleet, August 4, 1882 ; no children.
VII. Felicia Davies 6 , born July 30, 1817 ; died October 21, 1820.
VIII. Elizabeth 6 , born July 30, 1819, at Marlboro; married, April
6, 1843, at East Bridgewater, Henry Winchester Rob-
inson, born at Stow, Massachusetts, October 9, 1819,
resided at North Bridgewater (now Brockton) and
Boston. His wife died July 2, 1872, and he is now
enjoying the well-earned reputation of an honorable
merchant, in his pleasant home in Auburndale.
CHILDREN.
1. Maria Louise 7 Robinson, born February 7, 1844,
at Stow ; married, September 29, 1867, Nathaniel
Blake Blackstone.
2. Joseph Winchester 7 , born September 17, 1846;
married, April 14, 1869, Julia Ann Sprague,
of North Bridgewater.
IX. Margaret 6 , born February 23, 1822, at Stow; married,
December i, 1846, at East Bridgewater, Galen
Kingman Richards, born January 9, 1823 ; she died
February 16, 1870, at West Bridgewater, and he
January 23, 1884.
CHILDREN.
1. Hannah Kingman 7 Richards, born August II,
1847; died December 31, 1873.
2. Henry 7 , born January II, 1851 ; died April I, 1856.
3. Henry Galen 7 , born August 24, 1856 ; died January
3i, 1877.
4. Ann Whitman 7 , born July 28, 1858; died June 12,
1859-
214 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
5. Charles Benjamin 7 , born September 23, 1866; died
July 21, 1885.
X. Lucy Cotton 6 , born September 3, 1825, at Stow; married,
August 19, 1856, at North Bridgewater, Baalis San-
ford, born October 4, 1833; resides in Brockton; a
leading merchant and prominent citizen.
CHILDREN.
1. Irene Gertrude 7 Sanford, born April 18, 1859.
2. Anna Cora 7 , born August 19, 1860 ; died September
22, 1860.
3. Mabel Louisa 7 , born July 3, 1867; died August
22, 1869.
25.
DAVID S (Jonathan*, John*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 }, born
June i, 1783 ; married, September 24, 1805, Abigail Russell,
who died February 22, 1806 ; and he married, second, Decem-
ber, 1806, Lydia Stearns, of Leominster, born March 26,
1786 ; resided in Marlboro' where all his children were born.
He died October 13, 1830, and she December 22, 1850.
CHILDREN.
65 I. Moses 6 , born December 12, 1807; married, in Harvard,
April 9, 1831, Sally Wetherbee.
II. Joseph 6 , born May 15, 1810; died in infancy.
III. William 6 , born July 20, 1811 ; died May 16, 1832.
66 IV. Rufus 6 , born May 31, 1813; married Maria Barnes.
67 V. Reuben 6 , born May 31, 1813, twin with Rufus; married
Ruth C. Moore.
VI. Mary 6 , born May n, 1815 ; married, Daniel Florence, born
in Northboro'; died May 5, 1863, at Berlin; she
died 1844.
CHILDREN.
1. William 7 Florence, born October, 1840, in North-
boro'; resided in Berlin; a shoemaker. En-
listed July 25, 1862, in Company I, Thirty-
sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers,
FIFTH GENERATION. 215
discharged March 5, 1863, for ill-health, at New-
port News, returned to Berlin and died there of
consumption, on the 5th of May following.
2. Mary Aravilla 7 , born October 15, 1844; married,
September 13, 1863, Jonathan Mann; resides in
Marlboro',
VII. Nathaniel 6 , born August 27, 1817, at Bolton, Massachu-
setts; married, at Natick, Malinda Muzzy; resided
in Bolton, where he died August, 1853.
CHILDREN.
I. Llewellyn 7 , born ; died young, in Marlboro'.
II. Charles 7 , born September, 1851, in Marlboro';
resides in Hudson; a farmer; twice married;
no children.
VIII. Abigail Russell 6 , born April 28, 1819; married, May 21,
1842, John Ingalls, son of John and Olive Taylor, born
at Salem, Massachusetts, May 21, 1816; resided in
Charlestown, where all his children were born. She
died March 9, 1888, at Roslindale, Massachusetts, and
he at Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 31, 1890.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Elizabeth 7 Taylor, born January 15, 1843;
married, August 16, 1867, R. L. Spear, of
Boston, who died June 12, 1892.
2. Charles Henry 7 , born July 14, 1846; married,
February 7, 1866, Georgianna Olivia Davis,
born in Charlestown, April 12, 1847, daughter
/ V of George W. and Lo\illa Davis. He was edu-
/ cated in the public grammar and high schools
of that city. At fifteen years of age he found
his first employment in a Boston general print-
ing office. In this office the Massachusetts
Ploughman and the Christian Register 'were set
up, so that he learned the trade of a compositor
on those papers. The year 1861 found him in
the Boston Traveler Office, where he worked at
different times in the mail room, the press room,
and the composing room. He was but sixteen
years of age when he left the Traveler office
and shouldered a musket in the war as a private
216 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
soldier in the Thirty-eighth Regiment of Massa-
chusetts Volunteers, one of the youngest re-
cruits to enlist in defence of the Union. He
served in the field about a year and a half with
General N. P. Banks' command. In the mem-
orable assault upon Port Hudson, June 14, 1863,
Private Taylor was badly wounded, and in con-
sequence was honorably discharged from the
service and sent home. He still carries the
bullet with which he was wounded. Returning
to civil life, he re-entered the Traveler office,
and after working for some time in the com-
posing room of that paper became one of its
reporters, and soon made his mark as an intelli-
gent and ready writer, with a sharp nose for
news. He grappled with the mysteries of
shorthand writing, and, having mastered that
difficult art, did a great deal of notable work
as a stenographer. While connected with the
Traveler^ also earned considerable reputation
as a correspondent for papers in other cities,
his letters to the New York Tribune and Cin-
cinnati Times attracting much attention at the
time. On January i, 1869, a new phase of his
career opened. On that date he became private
secretary to Governor William Claflin, and for
several years thereafter his face was a familiar
one around the State House. Governor Claflin
made him a member of his military staff, with
the rank of colonel. It was twenty-five years
afterward, when Governor Russell anxious to
bring within his official family this sagacious
adviser, loyal friend, and rare companion, made
him a brigadier-general on his staff. While
acting as Governor Claflin's private secretary,
Colonel Taylor continued a large part of his
former work as a newspaper correspondent,
and never once disassociated himself from his
chosen profession as a journalist. He remained
at his secretarial post in the governor's office for
three years. In 1872 he was elected a member
of the House of Representatives from Somer-
ville, and was re-elected the following year,
FIFTH GENERATION. 217
receiving the unusual honor on both occasions
of being the unanimous choice of his fellow-
citizens, regardless of party lines. In the year
1873 he was nominated by the many friends
whom he had made in the Legislature for the
clerkship of the House, a position that had
been long held at that time by the well-remem-
bered newspaper correspondent, William S.
.Robinson, whose letters over the signature of
" Warrington," were then among the most
salient features of the Springfield Republican.
Mr. Robinson's friends made a stout fight for
his re-election, but Colonel Taylor defeated him
overwhelmingly. He filled the office of clerk of
the House until the month of August, 1873,
when another chapter in his remarkable career
was to open. It was in that month and year
that Colonel Taylor took charge of The Boston
Globe, then a new paper, which had been started
a little over a year before, and which was strug-
gling hard to obtain a foothold among the old
Boston dailies. For nearly five years Colonel
Taylor, as manager of The Globe, seemed to be
fighting a losing battle ; but on March 7, 1878, he
took a bold, new departure, and, reorganizing it
as a democratic two-cent daily paper, conducted
on popular lines and appealing to the many
instead of the few, he gave it a new birth. This
somewhat audacious step proved to be the turn-
ing-point in the history of The Globe. Colonel
Taylor had found for his paper and himself that
tide, "which taken at its flood leads on to fort-
une." The history of The Boston Globe, from
that date on to the present time, is one of the
romances of modern journalism, and records a
newspaper success of such splendid proportions
as to place Charles H. Taylor's name among
those of the great captains of the newspaper
host the Bennetts, the Greeleys, the Danas,
and the Pultizers.
3. George William 7 , born February 24, 1850; died
March 10, 1868.
218 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
4. Nathaniel Hapgood 7 , born March 4, 1854; married,
April 12, 1881, Anna Brooks, of Augusta, Maine.
5. Addie Frances 7 , born September 4, 1855; married,
May i, 1878, J. B. Wright, of Charlestown.
6. Abbie Maria 7 , born September 4, 1855, twin with
Addie Frances; died December 4, 1855.
7. John Ingalls 7 , born September 3, 1859; died
December 18, 1867.
68 IX. George 6 , " born May 7, 1821; married, March 26, 1844,
Harriet Angeline Warren.
X. Luther 6 , born June 25, 1824; married, September 28, 1848,
Harriet, daughter of James and Esther Deane, born
March 4, 1825, in Oakham, Massachusetts. Enlisted
July 13, 1862, in Company F, Thirty-eighth Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers ; served three years. Parti-
cipated in battles, Port Hudson, June 14, 1864; Fisher's
Hill, September 19, 1864; Cedar Creek, October 19,
1864; and later served with wagon train; discharged
July 13, 1865; returned home; appointed on police
force at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1870 to 1873;
resides in Belmont, Massachusetts. No children.
XI. Eliza 6 , born August 5, 1826, in Marlboro' ; married April i,
1847, Asa Appleton Deane, a farmer in Oakham, where
she died August 13, 1877, a most excellent house-
keeper, nurse, and mother. He died December 8,
1892.
CHILDREN, all born in Oakham.
1. Harriet Maria 7 Deane, born September 17, 1849;
married, December 24, 1874, George Washing-
ton Sibley, of Spencer, Massachusetts, where
he died April 26, 1888.
2. Abbie Jane 7 , born September 15, 1851; married,
May 15, 1873, William Wallace Smith, of North
Brookfield ; she died July 26, 1878.
3. Amanda Amelia 7 , born December 4, 1853 ; mar-
ried, December 13, 1876, Freeland Converse
Sibley, of Spencer.
4. Addie Elizabeth 7 , born May 4, 1861 ; married,
March 24, 1883, Charles Horace Baldwin, of
Spencer.
FIFTH GENERATION. 219
26.
NATHANIEL* (Jonathan*, John*, Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 }, born
September 14, 1787; married, May 22, 1808, Elizabeth,
daughter of Ephraim Barber, of Marlboro', born February
19, 1789. He removed to Boston, where he resided a
merchant, and where he was instantly killed by the acci-
dental discharge of a gun, in the hand of a friend, November
22, 1816.
CHILDREN.
I. Henry Nathaniel 6 , born, in Boxboro', 1809; died in New
York City, December 19, 1837; unmarried. He was
at one time on the editorial staff of the Worcester Spy.
II. Louise H. 6 , born January n, 1811, in Boxboro'; married,
October, 1834, Jedadiah Sabin, of Putney, Vermont,
born September 21, 1802; died January II, 1881 ;
she died August 17, 1842.
CHILDREN.
1. Henry Nathaniel 7 Sabin, born June 28, 1834, in
Putney; died February 10, 1857; unmarried.
2. Ellen Elizabeth 7 , born April n, 1839, in Putney;
married S. Wilson Wilder, son of John and
Polly (Wilson) Wilder, of Brattleboro', Ver-
mont, who was born March I, 1806. He was
born March 6, 1838. No children.
III. Elizabeth Crosby 6 , born April 15, 1813; married, Captain
Edward Denison, of Leyden, Massachusetts, son of
Edward and Rucy (Babcock) Denison; he died Feb-
ruary n, 1879, age 79 years. She resides with her
daughter, Mrs. Sawyer, in Leyden.
.0
CHILDREN, all bora in Leyden.
1. Frances Elizabeth 7 Denison ; born September 8,
1839; married January n, 1860, John Hamilton
Newcomb, of Leyden.
2. Maria Rucy 7 , born August 15, 1841; married,
November 25, 1877, Henry Clayton Howe, of
Gill, Massachusetts, son of Asa and Almira
Howe.
220 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILD.
1. Mary Denison 8 Howe, born January i, 1877 ;
resides in Monona, Iowa.
3. Edward Hapgood 7 , born June 9, 1843 > married,
February 16, 1871, Lestina Dorrell, born
October 20, 1851, daughter of Harris and
Caroline (Darling) Dorrell. He is a farmer
in Leyden ; four children.
4. Ellen Louise 7 , born August 3, 1844; married,
February 19, 1876, Charles Frederick Sawyer,
of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; resides in Leyden ;
is a painter.
5. Marion Harriet 7 , born June 17, 1848; married,
October 21, 1885, David Ashcroft, a farmer
of Whateley, Massachusetts. No children.
6. Eva Juline 7 , born October 12, 1851 ; married,
Clinton Addison Ware, December 3, 1873 ;
resides in Northfield, Massachusetts ; a farmer,
with two children.
7. George Henry 7 , born August 4, 1854; married,
April 17, 1890, Jacobina Koch; a farmer ; resides
on the old homestead. No children.
8. Carrie Jeanette 7 , born April 26, 1857; married,
December it, 1878, Albert Brown Warren,
a farmer of Bernardston, Massachusetts ; two
children.
IV. Mary 6 , born in Boxboro' ; died in Boston, September 16,
1826, in the eleventh year of her age.
27.
FRANCIS* (Jonathan*, John?, Thomas? Skadrach 1 ), born
August 2, 1792, at Marlboro'; died at Holden, December
31, 1872 ; married, December, 1814, Dorcas Willis, born
February 12, 1793, at Sudbury, daughter of Jesse and Sarah
Willis; died May n, 1839, at Medway ; he married, second,
March 30, 1841, Jemima, daughter of Ephraim Whitney,
of Upton, born January 6, 1795 ; died August 14, 1848, at
FIFTH GENERATION. 221
Holden. No children. He married, third, January 11, 1859,
Laura (Howard) Chamberlain, born January 3, 1804; died
October 17, 1866, and he married, fourth, December 24, 1867,
Lavinia Ann Davis, born May 7, 1812 ; died about 1894, at
New Ipswich, New Hampshire.
CHILDREN, all by first wife.
69 I. Gilbert 6 , born April 21, 1816, at Marlboro'; married
Hannah Scripture, of Dubuque, Iowa.
II. Salome 6 , born March 30, 1818; married July 19, 1840,
Daniel White, at Thompson, Connecticut, son of John
White, of Leicester, Massachusetts.
CHILD.
1. Son 7 born 1842; died in infancy, at West Medway.
III. Hannah 6 , born at Marlboro', March 14, 1820; married at
Mendon, February i, 1842, George Capron, born
1819, at Cumberland Hill, Rhode Island; resided in
Holden. He died at Worcester, April, 1879, ar >d sne
married, second, James Elder, of Worcester, who
died aged 74, and she married, third, Horace L. Fisk,
of Athol, who died at Paxton, aged 79, and she
married, fourth, October 4, 1893, Martin F. Peeler,
born at Holden, August 21, 1820.
CHILDREN, both by first husband.
1. Alfretta 7 Capron, born May 16, 1843, at Uxbridge,
where she died September, 1844.
2. Almira 7 , born December 26, 1852, at Mendon
married, March 25, 1875, at Charlotte, North
Carolina, Artemas Ward Johnson, born January
6, 1814, at Holliston, Massachusetts; died
November 6, 1886, at Gainesville, Florida; no
children; she married, second, July 23, 1895,
at Worcester, George Henry Boyd, born May
25, 1847, at Worcester, where they reside.
70 IV. Jonathan 6 , born January 7, 1823, at Holden ; married,
September 12, 1843, Mary Ann Condy Warren,
born July 30, 1825, at Paxton.
V. Sarah 6 , born May I, 1825; married, November 20, 1844, at
Mendon, Deacon Isaac Thomas Johnson, born July
n, 1819, son of Rufus and Hannah Johnson, of
Upton, Massachusetts, where he resides.
222 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
1. Hannah Newton 7 Johnson, born September 17,
1850, at Upton; unmarried.
2. Harrison Willis 7 , born May 8, 1854; married,
November 18, 1880, Ida Emogene Searles;
resides in Worcester. No children.
3. Olive Mason 7 , born December 26, 1857 ; unmarried.
71 VI. Samuel 6 , born December 21, 1827; married Maria Eliza-
beth Woodward.
VII. Martha 6 , born February i, 1831 ; died July 5, 1836.
VIII. Robert 6 , born June 19, 1833, at Medway; married, April
18, 1857, Sarah S., daughter of James and Catharine
C. (Keen) Cutting, of Templeton, Massachusetts;
resides in Chelsea, Massachusetts; a watch repairer
in Boston. No children.
IX. Oliver Mason 6 , born April 3, 1836, at Medway; died April
9, 1853, at Holden.
X. Francis 6 , born December 14, 1838, at Medway; married,
Lucia Hooker, of Rutland ; resided in West Boylston,
Massachusetts. He married, second, 1892, Helen
Bowen, and removed to Maine. No children recorded
by second marriage.
CHILDREN.
I. Robert 7 , born in Worcester, and died young.
II. Charles 7 , born in Worcester, and died young.
28.
AARON* (Thomas*, Joseph*, Thomas*, Shadrach*}, born Sep-
tember 1 8, 1 774, at Marlboro' ; died about 1 844, at Stowe ;
married, Sarah Carr, of Sudbury, born 1788; died 1872, at
Sudbury.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliza 6 , born June 27, 1806 (?); married, May 13, 1828, at
Concord, Andrew C. Dole, of Framingham; died
at Newton.
II. Sarah Carr 6 , born March 8, 1808; died September 18, 1820.
III. Ann 6 , born December i, 1809; died, South Sudbury.
FIFTH GENERATION. 223
IV. Aaron Hamilton 6 , born May 16, 1812; removed to New
York City; married, and had twelve children. En-
listed in the army with his oldest son (?), Henry Otis,
1861, and not further reported.
V. Abigail 6 , born April 9, 1813, at Waltham ; married (pub-
lished April 16, 1836), Jonas C. Munroe, of Concord.
VI. William Harrison 6 , born July 22, 1815, at Marlboro';
married at Framingham. No other record obtained.
VII. Henry Otis 6 , born April I, 1818; married, 1844, Margaret
Kenney, of Ireland; she died March 23, 1890.
CHILDREN.
I. John H. 7 , born 1851 ; died August 24, 1873.
II. George William 7 , born June 10, 1854, at Marlboro';
married, May 12, 1874, Nellie M. Rice, and
second, January, 1884, Annie Branning, who
died September, 1891, and he married third,
June 10, 1892, Mrs. Victoria Perry Morry.
CHILDREN.
I. Estella Mabel 8 , born April 22, 1885 (by
second wife), at Worcester; died May a,
1885.
II. Eva Viola 8 , born March 12, 1891; died
March 19, 1895.
III. Mabel 8 , born October 26, 1892 (by third
wife); died January i, 1893; resides in
Marlboro' ; a farmer.
III. Edward Francis 7 , born July I, 1858; married,
June 10, 1892, Victory Morry, daughter of his
brother's third wife by her first husband ; resides
at Marlboro' ; a shoemaker.
VIII. Asa 6 , born 1821, at Marlboro'; died at Hartford, Vermont.
IX. Sarah 6 , born 1825, at.Northboro'; died 1837.
29.
THOMAS*, (Thomas*, Joseph 3 , Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born
August 24, 1776; married, June 27, 1803, at Marlboro',
Mary Witt, born July 17, 1781. He died December 6,
1846 ; his widow died January 17, 1874.
224 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. Elvira 6 , born November 9, 1803; died September 2, 1805.
72 II. Ira 6 , born January 17, 1805 ; married Persis Bigelow.
III. Elvira 6 , born September 15, 1806; married May 13, 1827,
Aaron Bigelow, of Marlboro', born April 29, 1 796 ;
died February II, 1861 ; she died February 9, 1892.
CHILDREN.
1. George Hapgood 7 Bigelow, born September 28,
1838; died August 31, 1860.
2. Francis D. 7 , born October 22, 1842; died August
3i, 1853.
73 IV. Gilman 6 , born February i, 1809; married, Susan Wright
Ross.
V. William 6 , born March 11, 1811; died May 13, 1813.
VI. Mary Ann 6 , born July 20, 1813; married at Marlboro', May
i, 1832, George Brigham, born at Hudson, October 12,
1808; resided in New Hampshire. She died November
23, 1878, and he April 6, 1888, at Hudson.
CHILDREN.
1. Frances Augusta 7 Brigham, born March 27, 1833 ;
married, July i, 1849, John A. Goddard, of
Berlin ; a farmer.
2. Mary Eliza 7 , born December 9, 1835; married,
1853, Thomas L. Barnard, of Marlboro'.
3. Caleb Benjamin 7 , born September 14, 1837; mar-
ried, September, 1879, Augusta Frye, of Bolton.
4. Willard Ebenezer 7 , born April 9, 1839; married,
April 25, 1861, Abby Randall, born February
3, 1842; resides in Marlboro'; Railroad
Messenger.
5. George W. 7 , born April 9, 1841 ; died June 23,
1843.
6. Ella Sophia 7 , born November 24, 1843; resides in
Marlboro' ; unmarried.
7. Harriet Newell 7 , born August 17, 1844; married,
June 2, 1864, Hiram W. Chase, of Boylston;
resides in Hudson ; a provision dealer.
VII. Harriet 6 , born January 4, 1817, at Marlboro'; married,
Edward Ball, of Northboro', born June 12, 1807;
removed to Poplar Grove, Illinois, where he died
June 27, 1889.
FIFTH GENERATION. 225
CHILDREN.
1. George Dana 7 Ball, born May 29, 1835, at North-
boro'; died February 20, 1845.
2. Harriet 7 , born December 20, 1836; married, at
Chemung, Illinois, November 25, 1857, G. T.
Wheeler, born August 14, 1828, at East Ham-
burg, New York.
3. John Baker 7 , born October 14, 1838; died October
2, 1894.
4. Edward Baker 7 , born March 17, 1840; married,
June 12, 1868, Mary E. Cowan, of Fall River.
5. Helen Maria 7 , born January 3, 1842; married,
February 7, 1872, John C. Shackell, of New
York City. She died at Poplar Grove, Novem-
ber 22, 1873.
6. Oliver Puffer 7 , born April 12, 1844; married,
December i, 1885, Hattie B. Wheeler, of
Brighton, New York.
7. Willie 7 , born February 20, 1846; died March 21,
1846.
8. Mary Sophia 7 , born March 7, 1847; married,
December 13, 1866, George Ray, of Fall River,
Massachusetts.
9. Abbie Emerson 7 , born March 27, 1853 ; married,
November 21, 1877, Joseph H. Emmons, of
Chicago; he died November 30, 1893.
10. Annie Caroline 7 , born August 14, 1856; twin with
Alice; married, September 17, 1879, George G.
Moore, of Poplar Grove.
11. Alice Augusta 7 , born August 14, 1856; married,
September 4, 1878, Thomas G. Merritt, born
April 8, 1855, at Hinsdale, Pennsylvania.
12. Charlotte 7 , born July 20, 1859; married, April 3,
1879, at Poplar Grove, Edward H. Burnside,
born June 27, 1853.
13. Nahum 7 , born February 6, 1862; died March 3,
1862.
74 VIII. William George 6 , born December 2, 1819; married, May
16, 1842, Caroline Brunswick Howe.
IX. Caroline Augusta 6 , born October i, 1821 ; married, Sep-
tember i, 1840, Ai Roe, born December 30, 1815, at
Bolton; died February 3, 1892; she died August 30,
1847-
226 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
1. Frances Emma 7 Roe, born August 10, 1841 ; mar-
ried, August 21, 1862, Edwin D. Wood, born
at Marlboro' ; resides in Hudson.
2. Abbe Jane 7 , born at Bolton, August 24, 1843 5
married, April 6, 1862, George Morse, of Berlin;
resides in Sudbury ; a farmer.
3. Charles E. 7 , born April 28, 1846, at Bolton; mar-
ried, November 21, 1870, at Lancaster, Massa-
chusetts, Jennie C. Brown, of Sudbury.
76 X. Thomas Emerson 6 , born May u, 1824; married, June 25,
1850, Nancy Sophia, daughter of Hastings and Nancy
(Spear) Brigham, born in Boston April 12, 1825; taken
to Vermont in childhood to be educated ; removed to
Marlboro' to teach school, where she met and married
Thomas Emerson.
30.
AsA 5 (Thomas*, JosepJP, Thomas 1 , Shadrack 1 ), born April
13, 1785 ; married, first, 1812, Phebe, daughter of Jonah
Rice, born February 3, 1789, at Marlboro; died June 18,
1826, and he married, second, October 21, 1830, at Boston,
Mary, daughter of William and Sophia (Brown) Manning,
Esquire, formerly editor of the Worcester Spy ; born May 22,
1799; died January 6, 1876. He died December 29, 1864.
CHILDREN.
I. Rebecca 6 , born 1812; died March 9, 1823.
II. Laura Ann 6 , born March 4, 1814, at Marlboro'; married,
Thanksgiving Day, 1837, Rufus Coolidge, of Bolton,
who died August 26, 1889; she died August 18, 1895;
resided at Marlboro ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. William 7 , Coolidge, born .
2. Charles 7 , born .
3. Silas 7 , born .
4. Laura 7 , born .
FIFTH GENERATION. 227
5. Rufus 7 , born
6. Lucy 7 , born
7. Joseph 7 , born
8. Tileston 7 , born
And three others who died in infancy.
III. Lucy Woods 6 , born January 8, 1820; died January 12, 1857;
married September 2, 1840, John Howe Peters, mer-
chant; born February 28, 1820; died May 10, 1887.
CHILDREN.
1. Lucy Woods 7 Peters, born June 28, 1841 ; married,
January 25, 1866, Charles W. Gleason, of the
woolen manufacturing firm C. W. and A. D.
Gleason, at Rock Bottom, Massachusetts.
2. John Melville 7 , born September 22, 1843 ; died
January 13, 1847.
3. John Melville 7 , born February 10, 1849; married,
December 25, 1879, Mary P. Campbell, from
Machias, Maine.
IV. Abbie E. Manning 6 , born November 3, 1836 (by second
wife); married, December 10, 1856, John Gibson
Busfield, born September 8, 1829, at Leeds, England;
a machinist.
CHILDREN.
1. Theodore Elmer 7 , Busfield, born September 27,
1858, at Maynard; married, March 23, 1886, at
New Haven, Connecticut, Hattie Amelia Smith,
born May, 1862.
2. Mary Gertrude 7 , born October 6, 1862, at Hudson,
where she resides ; unmarried.
V. Theodore Brown 6 , born August 25, 1838; married, Octo-
ber 9, 1867, at Boston, Sarah Frances, daughter of
Perez and Nancy Ayer Mason, born July 19, 1843, at
Tunbridge, Vermont ; resides in Allston, Massachu-
setts ; cashier Bradstreet's mercantile agency, Boston.
CHILDREN.
I. Theodore 7 Brown, Jr., born August 28, 1871, at
Boston, was graduated from Latin School, 1891,
studied two years at Museum of Fine Arts, now
established in Boston as decorative artist and
designer.
228 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
II. Marietta Stewart 7 , born June 26, 1873; died May
10, 1875.
III. Allan Mason 7 , born May 12, 1877; died January,
1878, in Boston.
31.
JAMES WOODS* (Thomas? Joseph*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 },
born April 21, 1787, at Marlboro' ; married October 26,
1814, Lucy 5 , daughter of Francis and Mary 4 (Hapgood)
Howe, born October 21, 1788, at Marlboro'; died April 18,
1845, at Northboro'. He died May 8, 1854, at Boylston ;
a wheelwright.
CHILDREN.
I. Eliphalet 6 , born February 26, 1815, at Marlboro', where he
died July 20, 1821.
II. Lucy Howe 6 , born March 14, 1817; married, 1838,
at Bolton, Massachusetts, Calvin Perry; she died at
Shrewsbury, January 29, 1848.
III. Harriet S. 6 , born September 12, 1819; married, 1843, at
Northboro', Nahum Brigham; she died August 10,
1848, at Boylston, he at Worcester, 1850.
IV. Sarah 6 , born November 10, 1821; died October 11, 1824,
at Marlboro'.
V. Augusta Rebecca 6 , born August 15, 1824 ; married, October
7, 1845, at Northboro', Fred Burdett, of Clinton.
VI. Phebe Ann 6 , born December 7, 1827 : married, October 20,
1847, at Boylston, John Hervey Moore, who died March
7, 1889.
CHILDREN.
1. Edward Hervey 7 Moore, born October 21, 1850.
2. Fred A. 7 , born July 11, 1853.
3. Emma Ann 7 , born November 30, 1857.
VII. Sarah Louisa 6 , born Aprils, ^30 ; married April 17, 1847,
at Boylston, Henry White, of Boylston Centre.
VIII. Eliphalet G. 6 , born November 2, 1832; died Novembers,
1832.
IX. Frederick A. 6 , born November 5, 1833, at Northboro';
died October 25, 1841 (all the others born in Marlboro').
FIFTH GENERATION. 229
32.
JosiAH 5 (Joseph*, Joseph*, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born March
7, 1779 ; married May 29, 1806, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph
and Lovina (Barnes) Maynard, of Marlboro', born February
7, 1783. He removed to Peru, Vermont, in 1800, grappled
with the forest single handed in summer, returning to Marl-
boro' to spend the winter. In 1805 he built a barn which is
now standing. In 1806 he took his young bride into the
wilderness and lived in the barn till he could build a house.
He was a plain man, but everything he had was good ; always
satisfied with his lot, and therefore always happy. He died
at Peru, February 17, 1857, and his wife October I, 1853.
CHILDREN.
76 I. Joseph Jackson 6 , born January 29, 1805, at Marlboro';
married, November 28, 1832, Hepsibah Barnard.
II. Elizabeth 6 , born December 6, 1806, at Peru, Vermont;
married, February 27, 1834, Jesse, son of Jesse and
Lydia (Brooks) Brown, born December 6, 1805; died
February 16, 1889, at Peru, a farmer; she died Sep-
tember 23, 1837. No children.
III. Lovina 6 , born May 8, 1809; married, January 12, 1836,
Alvah Brooks, of Halifax, Vermont; removed to
Illinois, where he died, a farmer; she died at Elgin,
Illinois, September 2, 1869.
IV. Persis 6 , born July 24, 1811; married, January 12, 1836,
W. W. Whitney, born March n, 1810, at Peru, son
of Nathan and Fina (Wheeler) Whitney, who died
September 6, 1887. She died February 16, 1887.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles William 7 Whitney, born June 15, 1837;
married, November 6, 1865, Matilda M. Baker,
of Danby, Vermont ; farmer.
2. Louise Lavina 7 , born March 20, 1839; died at
Peru, December 21, 1893; a telegraph opera-
tor; unmarried.
3. Josiah Hapgood 7 born January 20, 1 843 ; married,
November 22, 1866, Mary J. Walker; a farmer.
230 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
V. Mary 6 , born September 28, 1813 ; married, April 25, 1844,
John Q. Adams, of Croydon, New Hampshire, son of
Moses and Sally Adams, born April 6, 1818; resides
in Peru ; a farmer. She died, 1880.
CHILDREN.
1. Alma 7 Adams, born .
2. Carrie', born .
3. Almond 7 , born .
VI. Josiah 6 , born October 15, 1815 ; died in childhood.
VII. Almira 6 , born November 23, 1817; married February 10,
1848, Barton, son of Allen and Mary (Butterfield)
Aldrich, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire, born Jan-
uary 15, 1821 ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. George Slade 7 Aldrich, born February 14, 1850,
at Westmoreland, married, Georgiana Emogene
Lawrence, of Grafton, Vermont.
2. Mary Elizabeth 7 , born September 25, 1851 ; mar-
ried, November 28, 1871, George Bacon ; resides
in Bellows Falls ; a carpenter.
3. Lord Loenza 7 , born August 20, 1853, at West-
moreland; died August 3, 1874.
4. Sarah Louisa 7 , born June 6, 1855; died December
23, 1857.
5. Nellie Lovina 7 , born March 31, 1860; died October
25, 1876.
VIII. Jonathan 6 , born February 29, 1820; married, September 6,
1849, Aurelia E. (Davis) Marsh, born at Reading, Ver-
mont, February 8, 1821. Settled with his father on
his extensive farm in Peru, tenderly cared for the wants
of his venerable parents, built a new house, made great
improvements on the farm, held important official posi-
tions, represented the town two years in the Legisla-
ture; died in Manchester, Vermont, March 15, 1883;
his wife died December 22, 1881. No children.
IX. Ruth 6 , born December 10, 1823; married, November i, 1843,
Lucius Carlos Davis, born in Reading, Vermont, March
24, 1819, where he resided, and died December n,
1891 ; a farmer.
FIFTH GENERATION. 231
CHILDREN.
1. Myron A. 7 Davis, born August 17, 1848; married
Belle Byron; resided in Felchville (Reading),
a machine manufacturer, and died October
1 6, 1893.
2. Cornelia E. 7 , born , and died at the age of
eighteen months.
3. Frank H. 7 , born November 29, 1854; married
Rosie Chamberlain, of Plymouth, Vermont;
resides on the old homestead farm in Reading,
taking the best of care of his venerable mother.
4. Nellie C. 7 , born March 8, 1856; married, Frank
S. Griffin; resides in Masonville, Iowa,
o. Fred Carlos 7 , born May 29, 1862; married, Nellie
Mitchell, of Weathersfield, Vermont.
X. Joseph', born August u, 1827, in Peru, Vermont; mar-
ried, January 15, 1852, Mary Esther Gates, of Stow,
born August 13, 1831 ; died May 23, 1885. He was
born and educated in Peru ; carried on a farm there
for several years, adjoining his father's, but became
impatient of farming, and in 1874 h fi removed to
Maynard, Massachusetts, where he died July 13,
1887; a shoemaker.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary Ella 7 , born June 8, 1855, at Peru; died June
2, 1869, in Marlboro'. -
II. Eunice Elizabeth 7 , born January 2, 1858, at West-
moreland; died October 19, 1879, at Maynard.
III. Joseph Rufus 7 , born November 7, 1859, at Stow,
Massachusetts; resided in Maynard; a carpen-
ter ; died February 22, 1897.
IV. James Henry Augustus 7 , born December 29, 1862,
at Bolton ; a carpenter; resides in Nashua,
New Hampshire.
V. Myron Edward 7 , born October 25, 1864, at Bolton;
resided in Maynard; a travelling agent: died
February i, 1896, in Portland, Maine; interred
in Marlboro, Massachusetts ; unmarried.
VI. Ella May 7 , born May 2, 1873, at Marlboro'.
232 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
33.
JOSEPH 5 (Joseph*, Joseph, Thomas*, Skadrach 1 }, born
November 17, 1784; married, November 26, 1807, Susanna
Maynard, widow of Luther Maynard, and daughter of John
Maynard, of Sudbury, where she was born, May I, 1785.
Joseph was a wheelwright by trade, and first settled in
Marlboro', where most of his children were born. Subse-
quently he lived in Stow, Sterling, West Boylston, Sutton
and Grafton. These changes were advisable in order to
procure employment for his large and growing family.
There were cotton factories at these places, and it was
customary for young people to work in them nine months of
the year, the remaining three being spent in school.
The closing years of Joseph's life were passed in West
Boylston, where he died November 19, 1861. His wife died
April i, 1860.
CHILDREN.
I. Susan 6 , born September 2, 1809, in Marlboro'; married,
November 5, 1829, Thomas Lewis, of Sterling, born
June 26, 1804; died January 4, 1890, of pneumonia;
she died September i, 1883, at Clinton, Massachusetts,
of typhoid dysentery.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles Henry T Lewis, born December 9, 1830 ;
married, first, August u, 1855, Sarah Lucinda
Carlton, and second, he married, June 15, 1867,
Caroline Augusta Trowbridge, born May 12,
1827, at South Framingham, Massachusetts;
she died August 15, 1892.
2. George Thomas 7 , born April 14, 1832; married,
August 30, 1860, Caroline C. Divoll, of North-
boro'.
3. Serena Maria 7 , born October 28, 1833; married,
November 25, 1863, Charles E. Crowl; died
July 31, 1872.
FIFTH GENERATION. 233
4. John Burdett 7 , born March 15, 1835 ; married, Feb-
ruary 24, 1864, Mary E. Welsh; died April 22,
I873-
5. Susan Sophia 7 , born June 30, 1837; married, June
I, 1856, Robert P. Lanchester, of Bliss, Idaho;
she died September i, 1883.
6. Abbie Burdett 7 , born July 15, 1839; married, April
i, 1858, Albert W. Lowe, of Clinton.
7. Ellen Charlotte 7 , born March 28, 1841 ; married,
April i, 1864, Obed Ware; she died December
18, 1873.
8. Eliza Ann 7 , born April n, 1843; died April 29,
1843.
9 Marshall James 7 , born June 27, 1844; enlisted
August 22, 1864, in Company C, Fourth Massa-
chusetts Heavy Artillery, discharged June 17,
1865 ; married, May 28, 1876, Helen M. Simons,
at Detroit Lake, Minnesota.
10. Albert Jerome 7 , born March i, 1846; married,
August, 1864, Addie Harriman; enlisted with
his brother Marshall, in same company, and
discharged at same time ; died June 29, 1883.
11. Sarah Lucinda 7 , born January 18, 1848; married,
November 27, 1867, Phylander H. Ware, of
Hudson.
12. Waldo Joseph 7 , born December 11, 1849; mar -
ried, June 18, 1874, Nellie Neil, of Mango,
Florida.
13. Walter Smith 7 , born December 8, 1851; married,
January i, 1873, Mary C. Parks, of Stow,
Massachusetts.
II. Persis 6 , born March 22, 1811; married, May 29, 1833,
Jonathan Whitcomb, born January 17, 1806, at Little-
ton, Massachusetts; he died September 3, 1887; s. p.
77 III. Luther Maynard 6 , born June 6, 1813, at Marlboro'; mar-
ried Olive W. Houghton.
IV. Harriet 6 , born ; married, first, May 3, 1834, at West
Boylston, James E. Gould, and, second, May 10, 1853,
Daniel Warner, at Woodville, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN, by first husband.
1. Unnamed 7 , son, born April 19, 1836, at Clinton;
died April 21, same year.
234 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
2. Edward E. 7 Gould, born March n, 1838; died
February 5, 1839.
3. Marshall E 7 ., born November i, 1839; died August
24, 1845.
4. Francis A 7 , born July 28, 1841. Killed July i,
1863, at Battle of Gettysburg.
5. Hattie E. 7 , born September 6, 1843; married,
April 25, 1866, Leander Morse ; resides in
Marlboro'.
6. Adelaide L. 7 , born November 18, 1846; married,
May u, 1867, Edward H. Thurston, of Grafton,
Massachusetts; resides in Montreal, Canada.
CHILDREN, by second husband.
.7. Ella 7 Warner, born April n, 1854, at Southboro';
married Marcus D. Jackson ; resides in Natick,
Massachusetts.
8. Amelia P. 7 , born November 24, 1857; died De-
cember 23, 1865.
V. Abigail Green 6 , born (named after her aunt in
Ashby by whom she was brought up); married, first,
in Northboro', 1836, Leonard Chase; resided in Hoi-
den; and, second, she married, August 19, 1845, Luther
Whitaker, a farmer of West Boylston. She died
June 22, 1890, at Hudson.
CHILDREN, by first husband.
1. William Henry 7 Chase, born July 6, 1837; died
November 22, 1842.
2. Hiram Wesley 7 , born July 21, 1840, at Hudson.
CHILDREN, by second husband.
3. Jason David 7 Whitaker, born August 13, 1846, at
West Boylston; married, April 17, 1872, Addie
L. Rowe, born June 2, 1846, at Salem, New
Hampshire. He enlisted July 12, 1864, in Com-
pany E, Forty-second Regiment, Massachusetts'
Volunteer Infantry ; discharged for disability, at
Camp Burrill, Alexandria, September 20, 1864.
4. George Emerson 7 , born November 27, 1850; mar-
ried, November 18, 1875, Mary Ellen Randall,
born February 28, 1856, at Marlboro'.
5. Nelson L. 7 , born July 5, 1854, at West Boylston ;
died May 4, 1859.
6. Herbert Pliny 7 , born March 25, 1857.
FIFTH GENERATION. 235
VI. Joseph Henry 6 , born November n, 1817; died October
7, 1832.
VII. Charlotte 6 , born October 9, 1818; died January 4, 1819.
VIII. Charles 6 , born (twin with Charlotte) October 9, 1818; mar-
ried, 1845, in New York, Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett
Bigelow, of England ; resided in Harvard, Massachu-
setts; a farmer. She died March 24, 1897, and he
March 31, 1898.
CHILDREN.
I. Charles Wesley 7 , born November 11, 1845; mar-
ried Annie Marston, of Cambridge.
CHILD.
I. Ella Adelaide 8 , born February 7, 1871, at
Arlington ; resided with her grandfather
in Harvard.
II. Sarah Elizabeth 7 , born March 9, 1849; married,
January i, 1878, Edwin A. Gleason ; resides in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
III. Ardella 7 , born December n, 1852.
IV. Mary Josephine 7 , born December 4, 1856; died
September 19, 1872.
V. Susan Whitney 7 , born March 26, 1860.
IX. Charlotte 5 , born July 6, 1820; married, October 2, 1844,
John S. Cutting, of West Boylston; he died Decem-
ber 24, 1871.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles M. 7 Cutting, born July 22, 1845; died
April 23, 1878.
2. Lewis 7 , born November 4, 1849.
3. Frank 7 , born September 29, 1852.
78 X. John Oilman 6 , born July 6, 1822, at Stow ; married, Cynthia
Hathaway.
XI. Ruth Elizabeth 6 , born July 11, 1824; married, January 26,
1845, at West Boylston, Russell Lawrence. After the
death of her husband Mrs. Lawrence married January
i 1873, John S. Cutting (formerly husband of her
deceased sister Charlotte); resided in Oakdale. No
children. He died, and she resides with her son
George B., in Hudson.
236 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
1. George B. 7 Lawrence, born December 12, 1846, at
Milbury.
2. Ella E. 7 , born July 17, 1848, at Winchendon; mar-
ried, Frank S. Pingry; resides in Littleton,
Massachusetts.
XII. Ann 6 , born December 15, 1825, at Sterling; married, Sep-
tember 5, 1853, Isaac Mosher, of West Boylston; died
March 8, 1857.
CHILD.
1. Mary 7 Mosher, born January 19, 1857, at New
Haven, Connecticut; died March 8, 1857.
34.
JONATHAN 5 (Joseph*, JoseptP, Thomas*, Shadrack 1 ), born
December 26, 1786; married, 1813, Betsey Elizabeth,
daughter of Benjamin (born February 18, 1764, married,
June 15, 1786), and Phebe (Bruce) Priest, of Marlboro', born
May 26, 1789; died at Maynard, August 13, 1879. He set-
tled in Princeton, Massachusetts, near Wachusett Mountain,
where all his children were born, and where he died February
13, 1830, a farmer. After his death, his widow and children
(1830), moved back to Marlboro, and lived in her father's old
house till her children were old enough to take care of
themselves.
CHILDREN.
79 I. Lewis 6 , born May n, 1815; married Almira Elizabeth
Stow, of Southboro', Massachusetts.
II. Elmira 6 , born, 1817 ; married Nathan Bruce, from Vermont,
born 1812; died December 17, 1893, at Brockton,
Massachusetts. She died February 24, 1851, at
Hudson.
CHILD.
1. George Walter 7 Bruce, born February 28, 1841, at
Marlboro'; died March 20, 1842.
FIFTH GENERATION. 237
80 III. Silas 6 , born March 2, 1819; married, November 25, 1841,
Susan Lawrence, of Boxboro'.
IV. Phoebe 6 , born 1823 ; died September 28, 1853, at Marlboro'.
35.
ISAAC* (Joseph*, Joseph*, Thomas 2 , ShadracJP), born March
8, 1791 ; married, September 2, 1817, at Ashby, Massachu-
setts, Abigail, daughter of Captain William Green. He set-
tled in Ashby ; a farmer. Willed March 26, 1852, to his son
William Green, all his estate except $50.00 given to his
grandson, Isaac Henry Hodgman, son of Cyrus Hodgman,
and the improvement of one-third of his real estate and the
use of all his household furniture by his wife Abigail. \See
Middlesex Probate^ He died November 24, 1852.
CHILDREN.
81 I. William Green 6 , born January 18, 1818; married, April 2,
1837, Harriet Newell Manning.
II. Abigail Buckley 6 , born December 4, 1825; married,
November 15, 1848, Cyrus H. Hodgman, of Ashby.
She died March 19, 1866.
CHILD.
1. Isaac Henry 7 Hodgman, born July 19, 1850; re-
moved to Temple, New Hampshire, where he
resides ; a farmer ; unmarried.
SIXTH GENERATION.
36.
JOHN* (David 6 , Asa*, Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born
December n, 1782, at Princeton, Massachusetts. Settled
on the south part of his father's original purchase, at Read-
ing, Vermont, which he sold in 1847, and removed to Como,
238 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Illinois, but returned and resided with his son Addison, and
later on made his home with his elder son Elbridge, at Como,
where he died January 23, 1854. He married, March 2,
1808, Sally Amsden, of Reading, born April 19, 1782; died
at Denison, Iowa, April 16, 1881.
CHILDREN.
I. Constantine 7 , born December 26, 1808; died September 19,
1832, at New York.
.82 II. Elbridge 7 , born June 8, 1812; married, August 24, 1842,
Sarah Elizabeth Gilbert.
83 III. Addison 7 , born June 23, 1816; married, April 4, 1838,
Lorette Louisa Dunlap.
-84 IV. Lorenzo 7 , born December 7, 1819; married, November 19,
1850, Eliza Frances Breed, of Como.
37.
DAVID 6 (David 5 , Asa*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shadrac/i 1 }, born
February 20, 1786. Settled on the south part of his
father's original purchase at Reading, Vermont, was a prac-
tical scientific farmer, and highly respected citizen, declined
many civil offices to which he was invited, except that of
town treasurer to which he was first chosen in 1819, and
held it for twelve years. He married, January i, 1818,
Sally Kimball, born August 23, 1793, at Reading; died
February 15, 1875. He died November 30, 1859, of heart
disease.
CHILDREN.
I. David Engalls 7 , born June 3, 1819; married, January 12,
1847, Cordelia Alexander, of Hartland, Vermont. He
was a merchant in Nashua, New Hampshire, and died
October 4, 1852.
CHILD.
I. Walter David 8 , born December 18, 1847, resided
with his mother at Windsor, Vermont, removed
SIXTH GENERATION. 239
to Stowe, Vermont ; a merchant of the firm of
Moore & Hapgood, 1877; died about 1885.
II. Sarah Allena 7 , born September 10, 1824; died June 9, 1825.
III. Mary Louisa 7 , born July 30, 1827; married, November 10,
1851, Samuel A. Hammond, an extensive farmer at
Forreston, Illinois. She died April 28, 1857.
CHILD.
1. David Hapgood 8 Hammond, born March 21, 1855.
85 IV. Salmon Kimball 7 , born October 19, 1833; married, Novem-
ber ii, 1858, Minerva Jane Robinson.
V. Cleora Isadore 7 , born November 28, 1836; married, Febru-
ary 3, 1863, Marcus A. Spaulding, a man of energy
and fidelity; resided with his father upon his extensive
homestead at Reading, Vermont.
CHILD.
1. Child 8 , died young; not named.
38.
CAPTAIN ARTEMAS G (David 6 , Asa*, Thomas*, Thomas*,
Shadrac/t 1 }, born July 16, 1795 ; married, February 27, 1823,
Rebecca Fay. Settled on the homestead in Reading ; a
practical and industrious farmer ; died June 21, 1837. His
widow married, second, June 5, 1839, Solomon S. Yuran ;
resided in Tunbridge, Vermont.
CHILDREN.
I. Lyman 7 , born January 2, 1825; died March 2, 1826.
II. Salome Fay 7 , born December 9, 1826, was graduated from
the Female Seminary at Troy, New York; distin-
guished for genius and scholarship ; became an eminent
teacher in the South, from whence, with steadfast
loyalty, she retired at the beginning of the rebellion;
married Samuel A. Hammond, of Forreston, Illinois,
the husband of her deceased cousin, Mary Louisa 7 .
She died December 27, 1876.
240 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
III. Sarah Myrick 7 , born June 26, 1828, graduated from Troy
Female Seminary; married, October 4, 1859, Dennis
C. Hawthorne ; resides in Leavenworth, Kansas.
CHILDREN.
1. Artemas Hapgood 8 Hawthorne, born February 3,
1861 ; died December 8, 1881.
2. Rosamond Fay 8 , born January 4, 1865 ; resides in
Dakin, Kansas.
IV. Jane 7 , born September 18, 1831, on the ancestral farm, at
Reading, Vermont; graduated from Troy Female
Seminary, 1850; taught in South Carolina four years ;
in Illinois four years ; Vice-Principal of Cleveland
Female Seminary two years ; was in charge of St.
Agnes Hall, Bellows Falls, Vermont, and in 1869
took a lease of it for twenty years, surrendering the
work at the expiration of the lease, as the founding of
a Diocesan School for Girls rendered it obsolete.
By nature altruistic, she has devoted her life to works
ot benevolence.
V. Lucinda Bigelow 7 , born November 27, 1834; died June 12,
1838.
39.
BRiDGMAN, 6 ESQ. (David b , Asa*, T/iomas 3 , Thomas*, Shad-
rack 1 ), born August 13, 1799. Was early apprenticed to his
brother-in-law, Edmund Durrin, Esq., a woolen manufacturer
at Weathersfield, Vermont. From 1820 to 1824 he was an
invalid. On regaining his health, he embarked in mercantile
business at Reading, and pursued it with energy and success.
In 1832 established in the conterminous town of Bridge-
water a branch store, erected a mill in Plymouth, near by,
for the manufacture of potato starch, and, having in the
meantime purchased of the heirs of his brother Artemas
the ancient homestead of his father, he also became exten-
sively engaged in farming. In 1830 he was appointed post-
master, and in 1836 a justice of the peace, which office he held
SIXTH GENERATION. 241
seventeen years, solemnizing marriages enough to indicate
a dearth of clergymen. In 1837 and 1838 he was elected
representative, served ten years as town clerk, nine in suc-
cession as chairman of the board of selectmen, five years
as trustee of a surplus revenue, and often as a county
road commissioner. He was also a director of the County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and repeatedly appointed
executor of wills and administrator of estates. In his
pursuits, with all his irons in the fire, he was successful
until the great crisis in money affairs in 1841-42, and the
consequent derangement of business and the passage of the
General Bankrupt Law, when he sustained heavy losses.
In 1844 he disposed of his mercantile and farming interests
at a sacrifice, and in 1853 removed to Claremont, New
Hampshire, where in 1855 he established a general store of
hardware, including agricultural implements, mechanical
tools, etc. He married, April 19, 1829, Elizabeth Morrison,
of Reading, Vermont, born June 24, 1807 ; died February 9,
1830, and he married, second, June 29, 1835, Laura M.
Weston, born April 17, 1808; died October 24, 1860. He
died January 8, 1877, and was buried by the Masonic
Fraternity, of which he was a member, with marked
expressions of sorrow and respect.
CHILDREN, all born in Reading.
I. Harriet Elizabeth 7 , born January 22, 1830 (by first wife);
died August 25, same year.
II. Sarah 7 , born May 25, 1836 (by second wife); died Sep-
tember i, 1836.
III. Mary Ella 7 , born February 5, 1838; married, October 14,
1863, at Claremont, New Hampshire, Henry A., son
of Aurelius and Frances M. Dickinson, born May 12,
1831. His father was a prominent and wealthy citizen,
and large real estate owner in Hartford, Connecticut,
242 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
where Henry was born. About 1838, the father re-
moved with his family, to Claremont, purchased the
Tremont House in that town, and for many years
carried on the hotel, taking his son Henry in with
him later. They subsequently leased the hotel, and
went into the shoe business for a few years ; but, in
1879, the hotel and store were destroyed by fire, and
as his father died the next year, that business was
not resumed. He then turned his attention to real
estate, and in 1885 was elected a member of the
Legislature, and as a member of the House, was
especially active in procuring the passage of a most
stringent insurance policy law. For several years he
had been in failing health, but his condition did not
create alarm until within four or five days of his
death, which occurred on the 4th of November, 1888.
CHILDREN.
1. Henry Grant 8 Dickinson, born June 19, 1868, at
Claremont ; graduated from the high school,
and was intended for college ; but the early
death of his father rendered it advisable for
him to abandon this course, and take up and
carry forward the large real estate and insurance
business he had established. Faithful to every
duty, and especially devoted to the welfare and
happiness of his mother, he has met that suc-
cess in business his merits deserve.
Three other children were born to this union, all
of whom died in infancy.
IV. Edgar Lyman 7 , born April 22, 1841 ; died January 28, 1875,
at Claremont; unmarried.
The following obituary appeared in a local paper :
"The death of Postmaster Edgar L. Hapgood has caused
a pang of sorrow in the breast of many of our citizens.
He was born in Reading, Vermont, 1841. When
fourteen years of his life were spent, his father, Bridg-
man Hapgood, removed to Claremont, New Hamp-
shire. In 1863, Edgar became a clerk in the store of
George H. Stowell, where, by faithfulness and atten-
tion to the interests of his employer, he won the
respect and esteem of all who knew him. In the early
part of 1870 he was admitted a partner in the livery
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business with Mr. Stowell, which relation was severed
only by his death. His fellow-citizens, appreciating
his worth, secured for him the appointment of post-
master. So ably and satisfactorily was the position
filled, that a unanimous petition of citizens procured for
him a reappointment by President Grant, in 1874. In
his death the town has lost a most worthy citizen, the
post-office department a reliable official, and the family
a loving friend and brother."
V. Laura Elizabeth 7 , born January 25, 1843; d' e d July 8, 1861.
40.
ELMORE 6 (Asa 5 , Asa*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shadrach*), born
October 29, 1787; married, at Jericho, Vermont, March 14,
1813, Rheuanna, daughter of William and Ruth (Wood)
Smith, born at Jericho, October 7, 1790. She died at Essex,
Vermont, September 13, 1833, and he at Bolton, Vermont,
October 16, 1854; resided at Jericho; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Hannah 7 , born February 14, 1815; died at Jericho, May
27, 1821.
II. Martin E. 7 , born October 3, 1816; married, Mary Hani-
ford; resided in Underbill, Vermont, a carpenter,
where he died October 14, 1890. No children.
III. Chloe 7 , born July 20, 1818, at Jericho, Vermont; married,
Hoyet Cooper; resided in Twin Bluffs, Wisconsin.
He died December 11, 1893.
IV. Emily 7 , born February 2, 1820; died August 17, 1828, at
Jericho.
V. John S. 7 , born May 9, 1822; married, November 29, 1854,
at Huntington, Vermont, Deborah Blair, born August
8, 1822, at Ascott, Canada, daughter of James and
Betsey (Cox) Blair; resides in Bolton, Vermont, an
intelligent and prosperous farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. George F. 8 , born August 26, 1856, at Richmond,
Vermont; married, April 26, 1883, at Jericho,
244 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Effie, daughter of Azro and Martha (Pinneo)
Davis, born September i, 1864; resides in
Jericho ; a farmer. No children.
II. Ettie 8 , born May 16, 1858; died March 9, 1866, at
Richmond.
III. Melissa 8 , born August 31, 1863; resides in Bolton.
IV. John E. 8 , born February 15, 1869, at Bolton; a
farmer; unmarried.
VI. Emily 7 , born July 19, 1824; married, Chellis Wellman, of
Dakota.
VII. Hannah 7 , born July 10, 1826; married, Edwin Pratt,
resides in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
VIII. Adaline 7 , born October 25, 1828; married, Clark Ford;
resides in Waitsfield, Vermont; a farmer.
IX. Frank 7 , born May n, 1830; married, and resides in Twin
Bluffs, Wisconsin; a farmer.
X. Edwin 7 , born September 15, 1832, at Essex, Vermont;
resides in Wilmot, Wisconsin.
XI. Edgar 7 , born September 15, 1832, at Essex, Vermont, twin
with Edwin; died March 20, 1849, m Jericho, Vermont.
41.
CHARLES 6 (Asa 5 , Asa*, T/wmas 3 , T/wmas 2 , Shadrach 1 ), born
November 18, 1790, at Reading, Vermont; married at Rush-
ford, New York,' November 5, 1820, Lucy, daughter of
James Kendall, of Windsor, Vermont ; resided in Rushford,
a large farmer; died November 4, 1847.
CHILDREN, all bom in Rushford, Alleghany County, New York.
I. Harriet 7 , born February n, 1822; married, in Rushford,
March 28, 1847, Perry Corse, of Norway, Herkimer
County, New York, a brother to the wife of Dexter
M. 7 Hapgood, born January 7, 1822. She died in
Rushford, March 19, 1855.
CHILDREN.
1. Ellen 8 Corse, born April 7, 1848, at Rushford;
married, January 10, 1879, Richard Van Name,
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born April 17, 1845, i n Centerville, New York.
* No children.
2. Elbert 8 , born February 12, 1850; unmarried.
3. Emma 8 , born July 4, 1852; unmarried.
86 II. Harrison 7 , born November 5, 1823 ; married, October,
1849, Helen Adaline, daughter of Nathan C. Kimball,
born August 21, 1830.
III. Emily 7 , born March 26, 1825; died at Cedar Falls, Sep-
tember 7, 1897 ; married, September 13, 1847, at
Rushford, William Allen Emerson (son of Allen
Emerson, born April 19, 1783, in Dunstable, Massa-
chusetts; died May 5, 1852, at Amity, Pennsylvania),
born June 7, 1818, at Manlius, New York; resides in
Cedar Falls, Iowa.
CHILDREN.
1. Eugene Hapgood 8 Emerson, born July 3, 1848, at
Amity, Pennsylvania; married, March 20, 1875,
at Sioux City, Iowa, Harriet E. Raymond,
born at Newcastle, Wisconsin, July 12, 1849;
resides in Siloam Springs ; a lumber merchant.
Guy L. V. Emerson, Assistant Attorney for the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company,
residing in Muskogee, Indian Territory, is a
son of the above.
2. Augusta Emily 8 , born November 17, 1850, at
Amity, Pennsylvania; married, November 17,
1875, at South Creek, Nebraska, Luther T.
Reed, born in Tiffin, Ohio, 1846; resides in
Lamar, Missouri ; a land agent.
3. Clara Gustina 8 , born August 19, 1853, at Amity,
Pennsylvania; married, January II, 1888, at
Cedar Falls, Iowa, Charles Johnson, born in
Sullivan County, New York, July 8, 1843 re *
sides in Lakeside, Washington; a fruit grower.
4. Evangeline Alzina 8 , born April 30, 1855, at Amity,
Pennsylvania ; married, September 13, 1876,
Moses F. Batcheller, born January 3, 1853, at
Burrillville, R. I.; resides in Cedar Falls, Iowa;
a farmer.
5. William Almon 8 , born March 9, 1857, at Clymer,
New York; killed by lightning May 17, 1877.
6. Emma 8 , born February 21, 1859; died young.
246 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
7. Ella 8 , born February 21, 1859; twin with Emma;
died young.
8. Charles Edward 8 , born February 27, 1861 ; married,
October 28, 1885, at Cedar Falls, Elsie Smith,
born in Rockford, Illinois, August 19, 1862;
resides in Lamar, Missouri; a farmer.
IV. Nelson 7 , born November 10, 1826; died at Rushford, July
13, 1837.
87 V. Dexter Milton 7 , born July 16, 1828; married, July 15, 1848,
Julia Corse, of Norway, New York.
VI. Charles G. 7 , born March 18, 1831; resided in Rochester,
New York; a lawyer and dealer in real estate; died
August 6, 1896, of diabetes; unmarried.
VII. Lucy 7 , born February 2, 1834; died at Rushford, Septem-
ber 19, 1838.
VIII. Jane 7 , born June 12, 1836; married, December 24, 1855,
George Lemuel Williams, born at Franklin, New York,
about 1832, died, February i, 1860; she married,
second, November 2, 1863, Peter Diamond, born in
Vermont ; removed to Battle Creek, Jackson County,
Michigan. In November, 1882, he fell from a brick
building and was instantly killed.
CHILDREN, by first husband.
1. Ida 8 Williams, born March 13, 1856, in Cattaraugus
County, New York; married, July 4, 1872, at
Napoleon, Jackson County, Michigan, William
Henry Hudson, born May 8, 1851, at Michigan
Centre, Michigan.
2. William F. 8 , born March 4, 1860, at Eaton Rapids,
Michigan; married, November 3, 1880, at
Battle Creek, Leah Reshon, born in Bigo,
Lower Canada, July 28, 1857.
CHILDREN, by second husband.
3. Lottie 8 Diamond, born July 18, 1864, in Augusta,
Michigan; married, September 3, 1889, Nelson
Brown, born in Battle Creek, July n, 1864.
4. Nellie 8 , born May 9, 1866, at Eaton Rapids;
died October 18, 1867.
5. Nora 8 , born June 9, 1869, at Hickory Corners,
Michigan; married, July 19, 1884, Albert
SIXTH GENERATION. 247
Brown, in Battle Creek, born September 3,
1860, in Ontario Province, Canada.
6. De Witt Clinton 8 , born July 13, 1874, at Battle
Creek; married, September 25, 1896, Minnie
Cretson, born April 19, 1871, at Galion, Ohio.
IX. George Washington 7 , born January 13, 1840, at Rushford,
New York. Served in the War of the Rebellion,
enlisted September 13, 1861, in Company D, Sixty-
fourth Regiment New York Volunteers, wounded at
the Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, and discharged
from the service on the 3oth of September, 1862, at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as corporal ; re-enlisted
as sergeant in Company B, Second Regiment Mounted
Rifles New York Volunteers, December 23, 1863, for
three years or during the war, and was discharged at
Petersburg, Virginia, August 10, 1865; wounded in
front of Petersburg, July 30, 1864. He married,
November 5, 1866, at Rushford, New York, Mary Ann
Bishop, born May 12, 1844, at Almond, Alleghany
County, New York; resides in Raymond, Clark
County, South Dakota; a farmer.
CHILD.
I. Frank Ashabel 8 , born June 5, 1870, at Yates,
Orleans County, New York.
48.
TiLLisoN 6 (Asa 5 , Asa 4 , T/zomas 3 , Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born
April 13, 1792, at Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont;
married, February 13, 1823, Cynthia Bliss, born in Jericho,
1795 ; died January 22, 1878. He died September, 1850;
a tanner.
CHILDREN.
I. Julian 7 , born April 8, 1824; married, March 16, 1851,
Harriet DavSes, born November 25, 1831, at Jericho;
died January 22, 1886. He died May 4, 1866; resided
in Jericho ; a farmer.
248 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. George Burt 8 , born December 22, 1856; married,
April 17, 1889, at Milford, Lassin County, Cali-
fornia, Annie Genevieve True, born October 2,
1865, at Gold Hill, Story County, Nevada.
Resides in Cedarville, Modoc County, Cali-
fornia ; a dealer in horses.
CHILDREN.
I. Elma Genevieve 9 , born March 8, 1890.
II. Jesse Almerine 9 , born July 25, 1891.
II. Ida Bell 8 , born March i, 1860; died December
15, 1865.
III. Clark Bliss 8 , born September 18, 1865, at Jericho ;
married, May 13, 1885, at Cambridge, Vermont,
Florence Beulah Wilcox, born August 31, 1865,
at Cambridge.
CHILDREN.
I. Ella Harriet 9 , born June 18, 1887.
II. Harold Clark 9 , born May 6, 1891.
III. Beulah Francis 9 , born June 8, 1894.
II. Henry Martin 7 , born February 6, 1830; married, June 12,
1858, at Fairfax, Vermont, Olive Abbott, born May
8, 1845. He died April 9, 1872; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Zeph 8 , born February 8, 1860, at Westford, Ver-
mont; married, September 12, 1885, Minnie A.
Hughes, born September 10, 1867, in Dublin,
Ireland; resides in Essex Junction, Vermont;
a hotel keeper.
CHILDREN.
I. Henry Julius 9 , born July 10, 1886.
II. Olive Beatrice 9 , born September 10, 1888.
III. John Hughes 9 , born April 22, 1894.
II. Cynthia 8 , born September 17, 1867; died April
ii, 1885.
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43.
BATES TURNER" (Asa 6 , Asa*, Thomas?, Thomas 2 , Shad-
rach 1 } born November 6, 1800, in Fairfax, Vermont, re-
moved to Jericho, Vermont, with his parents, in 1806.
On his marriage in 1826, he went to Lake Chautauqua,
where he remained two years. In 1828 he made purchases
of land and engaged in mercantile business, in Rushford,
New York, from which he retired, 1855, twelve years pre-
vious to his death. Few men have left a stronger impress
upon those with whom they have been connected, either in
business or other pursuits, than he. Of large stature and
commanding presence, he was equally forcible in character
and influence. He was one of the founders of the Rushford
Academy, being the first president of the board of trustees.
He also held the offices of assessor, justice of the peace, and
supervisor. He served thirty-six years as trustee of the
Baptist Church, and was deacon twenty-two years. He was
a life member of the New York State Baptist Education
Society, the American Baptist Publication, the American
Baptist Missionary Union, and the Bible Union Society.
He contributed articles to the Examiner and Chronicle, and
other religious papers, and was a man of large reading,
cultivated tastes and acquirements. He married, January
25, 1826, Alzina, daughter of Silas Taylor, formerly of
Granby, Massachusetts, and died July 6, 1867.
CHILDREN.
I. Lucia Cornelia 7 , born March 27, 1831, at Rushford; edu-
cated at Phipp's Union Seminary, Albion, New York,
and graduated 1849; had many opportunities for
travel, and was a woman of unusual culture and
attainments. She married, September 25, 1851, Orrin
Thrall, son of Timothy and Elmira (Thrall) Higgins,
born August 14, 1826, in Centerville, New York. His
father was born at East Haddam, Connecticut,
250 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
November 24, 1801 ; studied medicine and became an
eminent M. D. His mother, Elmira, was born August
18, 1807. Orrin removed to Rushford, went into
mercantile business, which he prosecuted with energy,
and became a distinguished and highly esteemed
citizen. His wife died at Rushford, September 15,
1868, and he at Olean, March 3, 1890.
CHILDREN.
1. Clara Alzina Hapgood 8 Higgins, born September
6, 1854, at Rushford ; educated at Mrs. Bryan's
celebrated school, at Batavia, New York,
together with a three years' course at Berlin,
Germany; married, October 17, 1877, Frank
Sullivan, son of William M. Smith, M. D., of
Patterson, New Jersey, born October 14, 1851,
at Angelica, N. Y., residing there and in New
York City. The Higgins' and the Hopkins',
from whom she descended, were among the first
settlers in the Plymouth Colony. Constanta
Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, came
with her father in the " Mayflower," and married
Nicholas Snow, who came over in 1623, in the
" Ann." Mary Snow married Thomas Paine,
1650. Mary Paine married, first, James Rogers,
and, second, Israel Cole, 1669; Hannah Cole
married Samuel Higgins, 1703 ; Daniel Higgins
married Ruth Snow Browne, 1727; Israel Hig-
gins, Jr., married Elizabeth Wood Aiken, 1753 ;
Timothy Higgins married Lucy Whitmore,
1787; Timothy Higgins, Jr., married Elmira
Thrall, 1825; Orrin Thrall Higgins married
Lucia Cornelia 7 Hapgood, the mother of Clara
Alzina. Richard Higgins married Lydia Chan-
dler, and was one of the seven who had permis-
sion to establish a colony at Eastham. His son
Benjamin, married Lydia Bangs, whose father,
Edward, came over in the "Ann."
2. Frank Wayland 8 , born August 18, 1856; married,
June 5, 1878, at Sparta, Wisconsin, Catharine C.
Noble, born July 16, 1856, at Rushford; resides
in Olean, an extensive dealer in pine land, and
is also a member of the New York State Senate.
3. Edwin Hapgood 8 , born September 18, 1858; died
January 13, 1859.
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44.
JOEL WiLSON 6 (Asa 6 , Asa*, Thomas*, Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 ),
born April 21, 1802, at Fairfield, Vermont; married, Sep-
tember i, 1830, at Carrol, New York, Susan Harrington,
born in Whitehall, New York, August 18, 1808. Settled
in Ellery, Chautauqua County, New York, and became an
extensive and wealthy farmer and fruit grower. He died
October 21, 1883, and his widow at Buffalo, New York,
October 8, 1889.
CHILDREN.
88 I. Daniel Smiley 7 , born December 15, 1832 ; married, January
i, 1856, Clarissa Laura Johnson.
II. Mary Ann 7 , born November 19, 1834; married, December
19, 1851, at Ellery, Ephraim Cowden, born November
1 8, 1824, at Kitone. They resided in Ellery where he
died January 30, 1888.
CHILDREN.
1. Emogene 8 Cowden, born January 22, 1853 ; mar-
ried, October 10, 1868, at Ellery, Romatur
Brown ; a farmer.
2. Louise Mary 8 , born June 12, 1855; married,
December 25, 1870, at Ellery, Eugene Scofield ;
a farmer.
3. Ernest Joel 8 , born August 13, 1858; married,
October 29, 1890, at North Warren, Pennsyl-
vania, Mary Lott ; resides in North Warren ;
a doctor.
4. Morris Wells 8 , born June 28, 1861 ; married, March
8, 1895, Blanche Olmstead; resides in Gerry,
Chautauqua County, New York ; a doctor.
5. Grant 8 , born November 14, 1864; resides in
Ellery ; a cheese maker.
6. Charles George 8 , born March 15, 1867; married,
March 10, 1895, Effie Newville; resides in
Ellery ; a teamster.
7. De Forest 8 , born October 29, 1870; resides in
Ellery ; a cheese maker.
8. Mark Finley 8 , born November 10, 1874; resides
in Jamestown; a book-keeper.
252 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
89 III. Charles Elmore, 7 born February 15, 1840 ; married, October
20, 1867, Mrs. Loranda Simmons Klock.
90 IV. Albert 7 , born April 23, 1847; married, June 21, 1869,
Ella H. Baldwin. "
45.
HORACE 6 (Artemas 5 , Asa 4 , Thomas*, Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 },
born May 25, 1800; married, March 22, 1823, Lucy Parsons,
at Elizabethtown, New York, born February 9, 1798 ; resided
in Athol, Massachusetts; a carpenter; died June 6, 1877;
his widow died July 28, 1881.
CHILDREN.
I. Charles N. 7 , born January 25, 1825 ; died May 3, 1825.
II. Henry 7 , born February 26, 1826; was twice married; actor
and agent for a dramatic troupe ; now presumably an
inmate of the Actors' Home', Long Island.
III. Edgar 7 , born April 27, 1828; died December 4, 1852, at
Boston.
IV. Abigail 7 , born August 22, 1830; died January 10, 1831.
V. Abby 7 , born January 31, 1836; married, January 21, 1858,
Otis B. Boutwell, of Montague, Massachusetts, born
December 2, 1828; was in mechanical business in
Athol up to December, 1882, when he went into the
grocery business at Orange Park, Florida.
CHILDREN.
1. William Otis 8 Boutwell, born October 7, 1865.
2. Lucy Bernice 8 , born November 10, 1868.
VI. Sarah Ella 7 , born March 5, 1839; married, 1857, Charles
Holt, of Reading, Massachusetts ; he died and she
married, second, August 16, 1864, Aaron Stone, of
Brooklyn, New York.
CHILDREN.
1. Charles Edgar 8 Holt (by first husband), born April
10, 1858, at Reading.
2. Nellie Sophia 8 Stone (by second husband), born
June 4, 1867, at Brooklyn, New York.
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3. Lucy Hapgood 8 , born October 20, 1869.
4. Charles Everest 8 , born January 10, 1871.
5. William Horace 8 , born October 27, 1877.
6. Kate May 8 , born July 17, 1881.
46.
CnAUNCEY 6 (Artemas 6 , Asa*, Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 ),
born October 17, 1803 ; learned the trade of wheelwright and
carriage maker of Earl Rice, of Barre, Massachusetts ; mar-
ried there May 2, 1833, Lucy F. Rice; returned to Peters-
ham, Massachusetts, May 3, 1837, continued the business of
carriage making, finding a market in northern Vermont for
his carriages, where he exchanged them for cattle, which
were driven back and sold. The early settlers of Vermont
had little money, and most business was carried on by
barter. His wife, Lucy, was born June 15, 1808, and died
March 15, 1897, at Petersham; he died April 3, 1887.
CHILDREN.
I. Mary 7 , born November 6, 1835; married June 23, 1858, at
Lowell, Massachusetts, Frederick Bryant, born Jan-
uary 30, 1831, of Petersham, where he resides; chair-
man of board of assessors, 1884; a farmer.
CHILDREN, all born in Petersham.
1. Walter Artemas 8 , Bryant, born June 29, 1858;
married, November 23, 1881, at Shutesbury,
Massachusetts, Carrie A. Felton.
2. Nellie Willson 8 , born September 11, 1860: married,
January 21, 1885, Herbert W. Gale, of Gardner.
3. Winifred 8 , born February 9, 1863; married, Jan-
uary 3, 1883, Frank L. Gates, of Gardner.
4. Charles Hapgood 8 , born February 10, 1867; mar-
ried, September 17, 1890, Ada E. Bailey, of
Boston ; a merchant.
5. John Mudge 8 , born January i, 1870; resides in
Boston ; a merchant.
254 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
II. Charles F. 7 , born February 20, 1838; enlisted in Company
F, Twenty- third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,
nine months' men ; returning home with his regiment
from New Orleans, when three days out, August 8,
1863, he died on board ship and was buried at sea.
III. George A. 7 , born December 29, 1839; learned the trade of
carriage trimmer of Parsons & Shumway, of Belcher-
town, Massachusetts; taken sick of consumption and
died March 13, 1860.
IV. Harriet 7 , born May 17, 1842; died July 5, 1873.
V. Lyman Wilder 7 , born June 26, 1845. In common with
many of the Hapgoods, he was endowed with good
mechanical faculties. At first he tried his hand at
carpentry, in Worcester, then removed to Boston,
where he has for many years worked for Geo. S.
Hutchings, the eminent church organ builder; un-
married.
VI. Stella 7 , born July 2, 1847 ; resides in Petersham ; unmarried.
VII. Ellen Eliza 7 , born May 25, 1850; married November 26,
1872, at Petersham, Edward E. Kelton, of Athol, born
July 23, 1845.
CHILD.
1. Arthur 8 Kelton, born January 4, 1880.
VIII. Henry Edgar 7 , born December 7, 1855; married January
18, 1890, Carrie E. Ames, of Barre, born November 27,
1859; resides in Barre ; a carpenter. No children.
47.
HON. LYMAN WILDER" (Artemas 6 , Asa,* Thomas*, Thomas 2 ,
Shadrach 1 ), born November 27, 1811, at Barre, Massachu-
setts ; educated in the public schools ; learned the trade of
a wheelwright; removed to Athol, 1838, carried on that
business in company with his brother, Asa, in the building
now occupied by Fay & Fay, as a grocery store, in the
Centre Village. Match woods had hitherto been made by a
hand plane that could turn out only a few thousand per day.
He started a little factory, in what is now known as Morse's
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shop, to do this business, but soon invented a machine that
would produce 5, 000,000 daily, and the business was removed
to the factory now occupied by Hapgood & Smith, his son
and son-in-law, he remaining with the new firm till the time
of his death, October 18, 1874. In 1853 he was chosen dele-
gate to the State Convention for Revising the Constitution
of Massachusetts ; elected chief engineer of the fire depart-
ment ; served on the board of school committee ; was promi-
nent in establishing both local banks, and serving as director,
besides holding several other positions of trust and responsi-
bility. He married, April 18, 1839, Eliza Jane, daughter of
Levi Phinney, of Shrewsbury, Vermont, born August II,
1812 ; died April 20, 1892.
CHILDREN.
I. Josephine Eliza 7 , born October 17, 1841 ; died February
8, 1847.
II. Sarah Louisa 7 , born October 23, 1845; married, December
29, 1870, Almond Smith, born October 23, 1845, at
Petersham ; resides in Athol Centre ; a member of the
firm of Hapgood & Smith, extensive match wood
manufacturers.
CHILD.
1. Arline Hapgood 8 Smith, born April 20, 1872 ; was
graduated from Wellesley College, B. A., June
25, 1895.
91 III. Herbert Lyman 7 , born February 5, 1850 ; married, February
2 5> J 875, Mary Josephine Proctor.
48.
AsA 6 (Artemas?, Asa*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ), born
at Barre, Massachusetts, on July I, 1813. Was a man of
marked ability and inventive genius. On leaving Barre as
256 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
a young man, he was clerk at the Quincy House, Boston,
then the leading hotel ; he next became shipping clerk at
the Boston Custom House ; later on he had a large manufac-
tory of mattresses and pillows on Fulton street, opposite
Saint Paul's churchyard, New York. He invented a venti-
lator for railway cars which was very extensively used all
over the United States. He next invented some sleeping-
cars for a railway in Canada, and personally superintended
their introduction on the road. He afterwards invented a
different model of sleeping-car which he put on the through
line between Boston and New York (Boston & Albany and
New York & New Haven Railroads). He built, owned, and
ran that entire system of sleeping-cars until his death, after
which they were sold to the railways above mentioned.
The Wagner and Pullman sleeping-cars were copied directly
from these cars, and the original model was taken by the
Wagner Company and is in their possession in New York.
He married, in New York, March 14, 1850, Lydia, daugh-
ter of Thomas Crossley, born in Mason County, Kentucky,
May i, 1832. Her father was an Englishman, born in
London, and owned a large plantation in Mason County.
Her mother, Phebe Crossley, was the daughter of James
George St. Clair, who came from Scotland, and settled on a
great estate on the James River, in Virginia. He released
his slaves long before abolition was publicly discussed, sent
them north to the free States, and himself founded St. Clairs-
ville, Ohio, near which town he passed the remainder of
his life.
They resided in Boston, Jersey City, and finally removed
to Worcester, Massachusetts, where Asa Hapgood died,
June 10, 1868. After his death, his widow remained at the
SIXTH GENERATION. 257
homestead in Worcester until 1881, after which she spent
her time in Boston and abroad ; she now lives in New York.
CHILDREN.
I. Isabel Florence 7 , born in Boston, November 21, 1851.
She early showed a strong liking for study. At Miss
Porter's famous school in Farmington, Connecticut,
she studied French, Latin, mathematics, and the usual
English branches. After leaving school, she discov-
ered in herself an unusual aptitude for acquiring
languages. After taking lessons in German, she
explored alone the Germanic tongues, and after lessons
in Italian, the Latin tongues. Eventually she con-
quered all the languages of Continental Europe, and
Russian with its dialects, Old Church Slavonic, and
the various branches of Slavonic of Eastern Europe.
Thus equipped, she made numerous translations of
foreign books, all of which have been pronounced to
be standards by the critics. Among them are works
by Tolstoi, Gogol, and other Russian authors. With
much labor and painstaking research she collated
different versions of the ancient popular songs of
Russia, of the heroic type, edited them, and published
" The Epic Songs of Russia." The book is regarded
as a standard work and an authority in England and
America, and is also duly appreciated in Russia;
Professor Francis James Child, of Harvard University,
whom she helped on his famous Book of Ballads,
furnished the Preface to this volume. Among her
translations are the standard version of Victor Hugo's
" Les Mise'rables," " Notre Dame de Paris," " L'Homme
qui Rit," and "Les Travailleurs de la Mer;" "The
Meditations of a Parish Priest" (Pense'es), by Canon
Joseph Roux; " Cuore," from the Italian of Edmonde
de Amicis; novels from the Spanish of Armando
Palacio-Valde's ; " Sonya Kovalevsky," from the Rus-
sian, and others. In the year 1887, Miss Hapgood
gratified a long-cherished desire to visit Russia. She
was most cordially received there, and spent two years
in studying that country and its people. In 1895, she
published a volume of reminiscences of her visit
entitled " Russian Rambles." She resides in New
York, and is still engaged in literary pursuits, as a
258 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
reviewer on the Post (Nation], translator from divers
languages, contributor of original articles to the lead-
ing magazines and journals, and the like; unmarried.
II. Asa Gustavus 7 , born in Boston, November 21, 1851 ; twin
with Isabel ; was graduated from Harvard University,
class of 1872. He afterwards took a course in chem-
istry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
in Boston, to complete his practical preparation for the
paper manufacturing business, which he had chosen.
He is still engaged in the paper trade. Residence,
New York ; unmarried.
III. William Frank 7 , born in Jersey City, New Jersey, February
n, 1854; earlier years spent in Worcester, Massachu-
setts. Entered Phillips Exeter Academy in fall of
1870, and graduated in 1873. Entered Harvard Col-
lege same year, graduating in 1877, with degree of
A.B.; he then entered the Harvard Law School,
and graduated in 1880 with degree of LL.B. Went
to New York, and entered law office of Geo. Gifford ;
also attended Columbia College Law School, from
which he received degree of LL.B., in 1881, and was
admitted to the bar as attorney and counsellor.
Since 1881 has been engaged in the practice of law,
making a specialty of patent matters ; and, latterly,
engaged in the newspaper business; unmarried.
49.
THOMAS 6 (Hutchins? t Seth*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ),
born June 20, 1/90; married, February 3, 1818, Betsey,
daughter of Samuel Hopkins, of Petersham, born July 22,
1790, who was the fifth generation in line from Stephen
Hopkins, who came over in the "Mayflower," in 1620, and
settled in Barnstable County, Cape Cod. Samuel's wife was
Elizabeth Hastings, who was fourth in the line of descent
from John Hastings, who came to Boston in 1640. Thomas
SIXTH GENERATION. 259
died October 10, 1820, and she married, second, February
19, 1829, William Gates, of Lunenburg, Vermont.
CHILD.
I. Ann Hutchins 7 , born January 18, 1819, in Petersham;
married, in Boston, by Rev. Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol,
March 9, 1848, to General Roswell M. Richardson,
born April 7, 1814, at Wells River, Vermont; went to
Portland, Maine, 1856, where he resided, a successful
wholesale grocer and lumber manufacturer; son of
Samuel and Mehitable (Shurtleff) Richardson, of
Compton, Canada East, and grandson of David Rich-
ardson, who married Polly Dearborn, of Plymouth,
New Hampshire, who was the sixth descendant,
through Benjamin, from Godfrey Dearborn, who came
from county of Devon, England, 1630, settling in
Exeter, New Hampshire, 1639, with R CV - ]ohn Wheel-
wright and others.
CHILDREN.
1. James Page 8 Richardson, born November 23, 1851,
at Wells River, Vermont ; graduated from Har-
vard, June, 1872.
2. George Minard 8 , born May 19, 1855, at Wells
River, Vermont ; died at Portland, Maine,
October 25, 1856.
3. William Minard 8 , born December TO, 1858, at
Portland.
5O.
SETH 6 (Hutching, Seth*, Thomas 3 , Thomas*^ Skadrach 1 ),
born June 10, 1805 ; died March 26, 1864, very suddenly, of
heart disease, at Petersham; married, July 24, 1831, Lydia
Seaver Wilson, of Petersham, born March 20, 1806. He
was town clerk, 1843, and for five years a representative to
the General Court ; in 1853 a member of the Convention for
amending the State Constitution ; for many years president
260 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
of the Millers River Bank, of Athol, and a man of wealth
and influence in the community.
CHILDREN.
I. Sarah E. 7 , born April 13, 1832 ; died March 5, 1833.
92 II. Charles Hutchins 7 , born March 6, 1836; married Fannie
L. C. Powers.
III. Emma Frances 7 , born August 5, 1840; resides with her
mother ; unmarried.
51.
LvMAN 6 (Solomon*, Settf, Thomas*, Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 },
born October 29, 1799; married, November 10, 1822, Emma,
daughter of Charles Church, of Westminster, Vermont,
born June 4, 1801 ; resided at Bellows Falls, Vermont, a
large, prosperous, and much respected farmer. He died
March 4, 1881.
CHILD.
I. Charles Church 7 , born July n, 1824; married, November
i, 1848, Jane, daughter of Charles Burt, of Rutland,
Vermont, born July II, 1822; she died October 3,
1850, and he married, second, December 16, 1857,
Jerusha L., daughter of Ira Wiley, of Saxton's River,
Vermont, born May 3, 1828. He died November 16,
1867, at Bellows Falls, an extensive and well-to-do
farmer. His widow and daughter find a pleasant
home with the step-daughter, Emma K. Hapgood, in
Bellows Falls, Vermont.
CHILDREN.
I. Jane Burt 8 , born August 29, 1850 (by first wife);
married, September 5, 1871, Charles Burt
Hilliard, of Rutland.
CHILDREN.
1. Minor Hapgood 9 Hilliard, born February 26,
1882.
2. Emma Jane', born June 4, 1885.
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II. Emma King 8 (twin with Jane Burt), born August
29, 1850.
III. Fanny May 8 , born May 9, 1867 (by second wife).
52.
SETH 6 (Solomon*, Seth*, Thomas?, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 }, born
October 21, 1803; married, February 18, 1829, Clarinda
Harvey, of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, born January 15,
1802; died August 27, 1878. He died July 26, 1881, at
Bellows Falls, a prosperous farmer.
CHILDREN.
\z ^
I. Mary Priscilla 7 , born December 7, 1831, at Bellows Falls;
died March 29, 1875; married, November 8, 1855,
Solomon Guild, son of Solomon and Charlotte (Guild)
Phipps, Jr., born July 22, 1813; died May 2, 1881, at
Charlestown, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
1. Charlotte Guild 8 Phipps, born May 9, 1858, at
Charlestown; married, October 26, 1882, at
Boston, Alexander Davidson, of Albany, New
York, born March 11, 1854.
2. Mary Ella 8 , born December 12, 1859 > married, June
6, 1888, at Bellows Falls, Charles W. Shaw, of
Bath, Me. ; resides in Newton, Massachusetts.
II. Lucretia Ann 7 , born September 21, 1835; resides in Bel-
lows Falls ; unmarried.
53.
CAPTAIN CHARLES" (Solomon*, Settf, Thomas*, Thomas 2 ,
Shadracf?}, born September 17, 1805 ; married, October 6,
1834, Harriet, daughter of Isaac and Anna Langley Silsby, o^
262 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Mendon, Massachusetts, where she was born December 8,
1814; died February 25, 1880; her parents removed to
Charlestown, New Hampshire, when she was an infant, and
where she was married. He was educated in the public
schools of Bellows Falls, and was a remarkably strong,
healthy man, so much so as to draw from him the remark
that "two dollars would cover the entire amount of doctors'
bills for his life time ; " apprenticed to a paper maker at
Bennington, Vermont, but his taste led him to abandon it for
farming. His father, Solomon, came into possession of a
large tract of land through his wife, Azubah Burt, which was
at his death divided among his heirs. Charles cultivated and
improved his share with great skill and good judgment. He
was commissioned by Governor Ezra Butler, August 16, 1828,
Lieutenant of Company Six, First Regiment,Vermont Militia,
and on June 17, 1831, raised, by Governor Crafts, to a cap-
taincy of the same company. In consideration of faithful
service and good conduct, on the loth of September, 1833, he
was honorably discharged. Advancing age induced him to
dispose of his real estate, and after the death of his wife, he
divided his time among his four daughters, dying at the
residence of Mrs. E. M. Hawkins, Fall River, Massachusetts,
August 23, 1895, his son Charles being with him to minister
to his last wants, and his worn-out body reposes beside that
of his beloved wife, at Bellows Falls, Vt.
CHILDREN.
I. Anna Maria 7 , born November 13, 1835, at Charlestown,
New Hampshire ; married, May 20, 1857, Benjamin H.
Burt, of Rutland, Vermont, born December 29, 1830.
He is a brother of Jane Burt, who married Charles
Church Hapgood. Mr. Burt is a very active, intelli-
r gent, and successful dry-goods' merchant, in Rutland.
SIXTH GENERATION. 263
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Gray 8 Burt, born November 23, 1858; mar-
ried, October 23, 1884, Edmund Royce Morse,
of Rutland. Had one son, George'.
2. Louis 8 , born November 6, 1861 ; resides in Rut-
land ; unmarried ; a graduate from military
school, Rocky Point, Vermont.
3. Anna Langley 8 , born January 25, 1863 ; died
January 12, 1866.
4. John Henry Hopkins 8 , born June 6, 1868; gradu-
ate from Rutland High School; southern agent
for Goodyear Rubber Company ; unmarried.
5. Benjamin Hapgood 8 , born June 27, 1875 ; gradu-
ated from Rutland High School, highly gifted
in musical talent; book-keeper in Merchants
National Bank, Rutland.
II. Charles Burt 7 , born July 2, 1837, at Charlestown, New
Hampshire ; married, May 9, 1889, at Durango, Colo-
rado, Martha Bolton, daughter of William and Mary
Ashton, of Portsmouth, Ohio, born November 6, 1866.
Though feeble in health, a most estimable and lovely
woman; died December 24, 1894, at Cleveland, Ohio.
No children. Charles was educated in the schools of
Bellows Falls, and his father wished him to remain on
the homestead farm; but for this he had no ambition,
preferring mercantile business. At the age of eighteen,
he entered a grocery store in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
and later removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was
employed in a large wholesale store. In 1862 he
joined the regiment of " Queen City Defenders," a
corps organized to check Kirby Smith's raid in
Kentucky ; he afterwards entered the naval service, as
mate, in the Mississippi squadron, where he continued
to the close of the war, and received an honorable
discharge. After the war, he was for a time employed
in New York City, and then went west, receiving the
appointment of deputy treasurer of the rich county of
La Plata, in southwestern Colorado. He then removed
to Cleveland. After the death of his wife, Cleveland
no longer seemed his home, and he again went West.
After various fortunes he returned and found employ-
ment with his brother-in-law, Oren Westcott, in the
Blackstone Canal Bank, in Providence, Rhode Island.
264 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
III. Margaret 7 , born January 3, 1844, at Bellows Falls; married,
October 6, 1864, Edwin Montgomery Hawkins, of
Fall River, Massachusetts, born December 23, 1840;
for many years in company with his father, large and
prosperous coal merchants. Retiring with a compe-
tancy, but disliking idleness, he opened an insurance
office, to which he gives his attention.
CHILDREN.
1. Harriet Thurber 8 Hawkins, born October n, 1865 ;
school teacher, Fall River; unmarried.
2. Margaret Hapgood 8 , born July 28, 1867; married,
February 3, 1891, Frederick Archer Gee, of
Fall River, a gentleman of refined tastes and
education ; a large real estate owner.
CHILD.
1. John Archer' Gee, born October 25, 1894.
3. Richard Mott 8 , born February 18, 1870, at Fall
River; a cotton broker, with a fine baritone
voice, much admired in church and public
halls, as well as social circles.
IV. Elizabeth Silsby', born August 12, 1846, at Bellows Falls;
married, April 22, 1869, Henry Clay Hawkins, a
brother to Edwin M. Hawkins; he is doing an exten-
sive grocery business in Fall River.
CHILDREN.
1. Cornelius Silsby 8 Hawkins, born May 21, 1870; a
graduate from Lehigh University, Pennsyl-
vania; at present a book-keeper in Fall River
Savings Bank; a young man of great promise
and high moral worth. Both himself and sister
Elizabeth have fine musical tastes, and with
violoncello and piano, give great pleasure.
2. Elizabeth Hapgood 8 , born October 15, 1871 ; was
graduated from Vassar College, class 1894.
3. Caroline 8 , born May 5, 1874.
4. Henry Clay 8 , Jr., born April 16, 1878, with twin
sister who died at birth. He is a student in
the Fall River High School.
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V. Caroline Porter 7 , born July 17, 1851; married, December
9, 1880, Oren Westcott, cashier Blackstone Canal
National Bank, Providence, Rhode Island, born
November 22, 1836, at Scituate, Rhode Island.
CHILDREN.
1. Adah Dexter 8 Westcott, born October 4, 1883.
2. Charles Hapgood 8 , born August 4, 1885.
3. Margaret 8 , born October 17, 1887.
4. Nathaniel 8 , born March 21, 1889.
5. Dexter Silsby 8 , born May 31, 1892; died April 8,
1895.
VI. Harry 7 , born October 28, 1854, at Bellows Falls; married^
December 4, 1883, Anne Frances Leonard, born July
4, 1859, at Fall River. He graduated from the
Bellows Falls high school; went into the wholesale
grocery store of his brother-in-law, H. C. Hawkins,
at Fall River; for several years traveling agent for
the firm of Henry Callender & Company, wholesale
grocers, Boston, then went into the same business
at Bellows Falls, Vermont, under firm name of Hap-
good & Aldrich, from which he retired and accepted
a position as commercial agent for a house in Fall
River. A sterling man, of genial disposition, and a
good salesman.
CHILDREN.
I. Harry 8 , born January 22, 1887, and the next day
slept in the Lord.
II. Leonard Silsby 8 , born March 26, 1888; died
November 13, 1894.
III. Constance 8 , born December 13, 1890.
54.
REVEREND GEORGE GROUT 6 (Eber*, Seth* t T/iomas 3 ,
Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 ), born at Petersham, Massachusetts,
February 17, 1804.
"At the age of eighteen he was supposed to be in con-
sumption ; at twenty-one he resolved to obtain a classical
education, and became a member of Hadley and Amherst
266 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
academies, teaching winters as he had done since he was
eighteen years old. At the age of twenty-three he removed
to the State of New York, that he might teach more
months in a year, in order to meet his educational expenses.
He taught in Cazenovia, where he united with the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and in the autumn entered the Oneida
Conference Seminary. In the winter of 1827-28, he taught
at McGrawville, afterwards entered Union College, at
Schenectady, then under the presidency of the distin-
guished and venerable Doctor Nott. In the autumn of
that year he engaged as a classical teacher in the Rensselaer
High School, established at Cortland Village as a branch
of the Rensselaer Institute, at Troy, New York. He con-
tinued in the Rensselaer High School until the next spring,
when he re-entered Union College, where he was graduated
from, July, 1830; having met all his academic and collegiate
expenses, save, perhaps, $50.00 for college tuition which he
would not accept as a gift, but afterwards paid.
"After graduation he studied law at Cortland Village in the
office of judges Stevens and Wood, until he was called to
take charge of a high school at Truxton, where he continued
three years ; meanwhile studying both law and medicine.
In 1833 he entered the ministry of 'the Methodist Episcopal
Church as a junior preacher on Bainbridge Circuit. After
this he led a very active life as principal of Mexico Academy,
and that of the Oneida Conference Seminary ; agent for the
Wesleyan University ; preacher in charge of Rose Circuit,
Jordan, Oswego, and Belleville. He was presiding elder
of Syracuse District four years, during which, in 1852, he
received from his Alma Mater the degree of D. D. In
1855-56 he was presiding elder of Oswego District, when
long-continued sickness in his family, resulting in the deaths
of his eldest son and child and that of his wife, induced him
to take a station at Fairfield, where the next year he was
superannuated. After this he was stationed at Marcy, Delta,
and Booneville."
SIXTH GENERATION. 267
Many newspaper articles, sermons, lectures, and books,
upon various subjects resulted from his able, learned, and
accomplished pen, which the limited scope of this brief
sketch forbids us to mention. From Booneville Doctor
Hapgood removed to Martinsburg. The next year he was
stationed at Madrid, and the next at Waddington, St.
Lawrence County. From there he went to Jordan, where
he installed his daughter as principal of the academy. He
then accepted a call to Albert University, in Belleville, Canada,
as Professor of Ancient Literature, which position he filled
until 1874, when he joined his family in Syracuse, New York,
and became Professor of Hebrew, in Syracuse University.
January i, 1876, after finishing a critical reading of the Old
Testament, in six different languages, he was taken ill, and,
although tenderly cared for by his three daughters and one
son, his life-work was finished.
During his last illness, reclining in an easy-chair, and,
with his attendant physician's hand upon his pulse, assisted
by another minister, married the first one of his children,
that had ever been given in marriage, April 27, 1876.
May 4, at his earnest request, he was taken to the home
of his son in Apulia, New York, where he died. He was
taken to Mexico, New York, for interment, and, with his old
board of academy trustees as bearers, he was laid to rest by
the side of his much-loved wife.
In 1868, while Professor of Ancient Literature in Albert
University, he published a work on the "Origin of Lan-
guage." He was an Honorary member of the Boston
Historic-Genealogical Society, and ranked as one of New
York State's best scholars. He married, October 28, 1830,
Marcia, daughter of Samuel McGraw, Esq., of McGrawville,
268 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
New York, born January 3, 1811, every way a superior
woman; died April 2, 1855, at Oswego, Madison County,
New York. Rev. Dr. Hapgood died at Apulia, New York,
May 17, 1876.
CHILDREN.
I. George Washington 7 , born May 15, 1832, at Truxton ;
died of consumption November 29, 1852, at the house
of the Honorable P. H. McGraw, in McGrawville,
from which place he was removed to the home of his
parents, in Oswego, for interment.
II. Charles 7 , born June 17, 1834, at McGrawville ; died August
6, 1834, at Guilford, New York, where he was interred.
III. Marcia Elizabeth 7 , born June 16, 1835, at Mexico, New
York; died March i, 1857, at Fairfield, New York,
and .buried there.
IV. Mary Frances 7 , born April 24, 1837, at Mexico; graduated
from Oneida Conference Seminary the last of June,
1861 ; died April 4, 1862, at Booneville.
V. Charles 7 , born October 18, 1838, at Mexico; died October
!7> "839, at Cazenovia.
VI. Harriet Ellen, 7 born July 14, 1840, at Cazenovia; gradu-
ated at the seminary there. Studied with her father;
taught either as preceptress or principal in high
schools or academies up to 1876. She married at
Syracuse, New York, April 27, 1876, Madison Paul,
son of James and Jane (Todd) Sawyer, born August
6, 1846, at South Newbury, New Hampshire; resides
in Brooklyn, New York; holding office under the
United States government in customs department.
CHILDREN.
1. George Hapgood 8 Sawyer, born November 20,
1879, at Nashua, New Hampshire.
2. James Madison 8 , born February 13, 1883, at
Nashua.
3. Kittie Clark 8 , born September 2, 1884, at Grafton,
New Hampshire; died August 31, 1885.
VII. Catherine Emma 7 , born June 10, 1843, at Apulia, New
York ; taught eight years in Syracuse, and at the
time of her marriage was an earnest, faithful teacher
in Brooklyn, New York; married, August 29, 1895, at
SIXTH GENERATION. 269
Brooklyn, Howell Negus Webster, a widower, with
six children, born January 7, 1839; resides, a farmer,
at Fabins, New York. No children.
VIII. Emeline Angela 7 , born September 2, 1845, at Mexico; died
September 26, same year, at Syracuse.
IX. Charles Henry 7 born February 8, 1847, at Butler, New
York, and received his education in the different
places in which his father resided, where he was
always found at or near the head of his class. He
also studied Greek with his father. At the age of
seventeen, thinking his father financially unable to
send him to college, he entered the dry-goods' store
of Mr. Chapman, in Norwich,, New York, receiving a
promotion each year. In 1873, much to the regret of
his employers, he resigned his position in Norwich,
and opened a dry-goods' store in Syracuse, devoting
his spare time to the study of law. In 1876, he pur-
chased a store and removed to Apulia, where he car-
ried on a successful business. His health failing,
he sold out, but resumed the business in about a year.
He died of apoplexy, January 8, 1895, lamented by all
who knew him ; a man of sterling worth and unques-
tioned integrity ; a noble specimen of an upright,
high-minded merchant ; unmarried.
X. Rosalette 7 , born September 25, 1850, at Belleville, New
York; married, July 28, 1878, at Apulia, Frank
Wheelock, engineer, born February 17, 1851, at
Fabins. She died at Apulia, December i, 1878; a
good scholar, teacher, and musician, with a sweet
disposition and lovely character.
55.
CHARLES 6 (Eber*, Seth*, Thomas 3 , Thomas*, Shadrach 1 },
born October n, 1807. A merchant in Calais, Maine. Mar-
ried, May 9, 1839, at Waterford, Vermont, Rebecca, daughter
of Lyman and Rebecca (Charlton) Hibbard, born September
22, 1816, at Littleton, New Hampshire; died November 4,
1859, at Boston. His business increased and he became a
270 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
large ship owner and lumber dealer ; later on he removed to
Bath, Maine, New York City, Morrisania, New York, and
about 1857, to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remained for
several years, then went to Hot Springs and Sterling, and
finally to Red Bluff, where he died August 25, 1886. He
took none of his family with him (except George), when he
went to Kansas, and after the death of his wife, he married,
second, September 19, 1863, at Leavenworth, Mrs. Streeter,
from Massachusetts, who survives him without issue.
CHILDREN, by first wife.
I. George Grout 7 , born May 20, 1840, at Calais, Maine ; went
to Boston and worked for Ballou & Hibbard, prod-
uce dealers ; was taken down with small-pox which
had broken out in the city, and his mother and others
died of the disease. George recovered and in 1861 he
removed to Oil City, Pennsylvania. Later on he went
to Colorado and was for a while with his father at Red
Bluff. His roving disposition took him to Butte City,
Montana, 1861, and we have been unable to trace him
further.
II. William Charlton 7 , born December 14, 1841 ; died August
29, 1844, at Calais.
III. Charles Francis 7 , born November 27, 1845 ; died April 21,
1852, at Morrisania.
IV. Mary Elizabeth 7 , born November 3, 1848, at Calais.
After the death of her mother, she resided mostly
with her maternal relatives in Boston and elsewhere ;
went to Nova Scotia; married, December 29, 1874,
Charles Wentworth Upham Hewson, M. D., born
February 28, 1844, at Jolicum, Westmoreland County,
New Brunswick, who was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, with degree of M. D., 1872,
settled at River Hebert, Nova Scotia, had a successful
practice for eleven years, then entered the University
of Edinborough, Scotland, obtained the degree of
L. R. C. P., went to London, visited hospitals, attended
a course of lectures, and returned in 1884, settled in
Amherst, Nova Scotia, where he now resides, emi-
nent in his profession.
SIXTH GENERATION. 271
CHILDREN.
1. Bertha Eliza 8 Hewson, born November 5, 1875, at
River Hebert; died April 29, 1876.
2. Florence Rebecca 8 , born February 21, 1879.
3. Elizabeth Chandler 8 , born October 7, 1880; died
Octobers, 1881.
4. Charles Ellery 8 , born April 3, 1887, at Amherst;
died April 12, 1888. And this terminates the
male line of descent from Eber 5 .
56.
JOHN WEEKS S (Oliver*, Seth*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ),
born June 3, 1811, at Sheldon, Vermont; married, at Shore-
ham, Vermont, February 1 1, 1832, Rebecca Hemingway, born
February 25, 1811; died at Burlington, Illinois, June 18,
1848. He married, second, at Chicago, Illinois, May 14,
1849, Almira S. Baird, born in Sheldon, Vermont; died
at Burlington, December 3, 1853, and he married, third,
at Chicago, November 21, 1854, Mary Ann Wells, of Shel-
don, Vermont, who died at Burlington, April 12, 1862,
and he married, fourth, at Humansville, Missouri, June I,
1869, Mary E. Zeigler, born at Indianapolis, Indiana, May I,
1845. She died at Humansville, February 22, 1882, and he
October 31, 1893; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Sarah Sophia 7 , born May 23, 1833 (by first wife), at
Sheldon ; married, February 16, 1860, at Hicks Mills,
Illinois, Jesse Ewing, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; re-
sided at Burlington, Illinois; a farmer. He died at
Hicks Mills, January 6, 1860, and she August 9, 1861.
CHILDREN.
1. Clara Ann 8 Ewing, born November 12, 1860, at
Burlington; married, July 3, 1879, at Humans-
ville, Webster Graham, born at Madison,
272 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Indiana, January 8, 1859; resides in Vista, St.
Clair County, Missouri ; a farmer.
2. Mortimer Levi 8 , born February 18, 1862, in Bur-
lington; resides in Big Sandy, Oregon; a
farmer; unmarried.
3. Flora Eugenie 8 , born October 6, 1865; resides in
Denver, Colorado; a milliner; unmarried.
4. Jessie Alice 8 , born April 9, 1867; married, at
Denver, February 22, 1890, Charles Watkins,
from North Carolina ; a book-keeper.
II. Levi Mortimer 7 , born October 31, 1835, at Sheldon; resides
in Burlington, Illinois; a farmer; unmarried.
93 III. Eugene Delarimore 7 , born December 5, 1838; married,
September 4, 1869, Elizabeth Broad.
IV. Josephine Alwilda 7 , born January 4, 1842 ; married, Decem-
ber 20, 1868, at Humansville, William Allen George,
born at Moxville, Tennessee ; resides in Humans-
ville ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
1. Hannah Viola 8 George, born May 15, 1870; mar-
ried, December 6, 1888, at Sprague, Washing-
ton, William Stacy, born January n, 1866.
2. Eugene Charles 8 , born March 20, 1872; resides in
Vista, Missouri ; a farmer; unmarried.
3. Alona Weeks 8 , born February 21, 1874; married,
February 12, 1889, at Wheatland, Missouri,
Luke Fitzhue, from Tennessee ; a farmer.
4. Mary Idella 8 , born June 7, 1878; married, June 10,
1892, at Wheatland, James Larose, from Ten-
nessee ; resides in Arcola, Kansas ; a farmer.
5. Nellie Adelaide 8 , born March 25, 1882; resides in
Humansville.
94 V. Julien Weeks 7 , born at Burlington, December 26, 1844;
married, December 20, 1868, Mary Catharine Kirk-
patrick.
VI. Samuel Clifton 7 , born June 6, 1848, at Burlington; married,
May 20, 1872, at Springfield, Missouri, Ellen Jane
Zeigler, of Indianapolis, Indiana; resided in Spring-
field; a farmer; died August 3, 1879.
SIXTH GENERATION. 273
CHILD.
I. Orville Weeks 8 , born July 18, 1874, at Vinita,
Indian Territory ; resides in Springfield, Mis-
soui ; a blacksmith.
VII. Ella Vilmina 7 , born February 22, 1871 (by fourth wife),
at Humansville; married, March 25, 1887, Calvin W.
Jennings, of Illinois ; resides in Springfield, Missouri ;
upholsterer.
CHILDREN, all born in Springfield.
1. Archie Eugene 8 Jennings, born March 5, 1889.
2. Orville Elmore 8 , born November 26, 1892.
3. Elijah Warren 8 , born September 12, 1894.
4. George Alvis 8 , born March 17, 1896.
57.
CAPTAIN JOAB* (Elijah*, Joab*, Thomas*, Thomas*, Shad-
rach 1 ), born September 6, 1804; was early apprenticed to
Captain Silas Allen, of Shrewsbury, gunsmith. In 1834 he
commenced business for himself, erected his shop and
house one-fourth of a mile southwest from the meeting-
house, on the street leading out of Shrewsbury to Worcester,
and there carried on extensively the manufacture of fire-arms,
of a superior quality. In 1847 he commenced business in
Boston as an importer, manufacturer, and general dealer in
guns, ammunition, and sporting apparatus, in which business
at numbers 1 5 and 30 Washington street, he continued, till
1864, when he retired from a busy life to his quiet home in
Shrewsbury. While engaged in active business, he found
time to devote to arboriculture, and to the improvement and
beautifying of his acres in Shrewsbury, and to his taste will
the village and traveling public be long indebted for the
274 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
extended row of rock maples reaching past his neat home-
stead. He long held a prominent position among his
fellow-citizens ; captain of a rifle company, whose discipline
he advanced to a high state ; was early a true and marked
friend to temperance, and when the political excitement
raged against the fifteen-gallon liquor law, and its supporters,
he was twice elected town clerk as a temperance man, and
subsequently served as assessor and chairman of the board
of selectmen. He married, June i, 1828, Elizabeth,
daughter of Ephron and Zepach (Maynard) Eager, born
March 20, 1802, in Northboro', and died January 10, 1875.
He died June 14, 1890.
CHILDREN.
I. Abigail Marion 7 , born August 27, 1829 ; married, May 26,
1853, Samuel Denny, son of Thomas Walter and
Harriet Plimpton (Grosvenor) Ward, of revolutionary
fame, born in Pomfret, Connecticut, April 3, 1826;
resides in Shrewsbury.
CHILDREN.
1. Ella Hapgood 8 Ward, born March 9, 1854.
2. Florence Grosvenor 8 , born March 6, 1856.
3. Clara Denny 8 , born December 3, 1857, in Shrews-
bury, where she was for some years librarian in
the public library ; now holding a good position
in the Public Library, in New York City.
95 II. Charles Edward 7 , born in Shrewsbury, December 1 1, 1830 ;
married, October 18, 1854, Mary Elizabeth Miles.
III. Susan Maria 7 , born October 24, 1833; died April 30, 1836.
IV. Lucy Elizabeth 7 , born July 22, 1835 ; resides on the home-
stead in Shrewsbury ; unmarried.
V. Walter Joab 7 , born June 25, 1839, received his education in
the public schools of Shrewsbury, entered the Central
Bank of Worcester 1854, as a boy, served through all
the grades up to assistant cashier; died February 9,
1884, beloved and respected for strict integrity, cour-
tesy and constant attention to business. He married,
December 4, 1867, at Brookline, Massachusetts, Sarah,
SIXTH GENERATION. 275
daughter of Joseph Tilden, and Mary (Baker) Turner,
born in Worcester, May 7, 1844.
CHILDREN.
I. Walter Eager 8 , born February 18, 1874; resides in
Worcester; journalist.
II. Roswell Turner 8 , born September 28, 1877.
VI. Mary Susan 7 , born July 15, 1841; married, May 16, 1865,
Charles Otis, born May 18, 1841, son of Charles Otis
and Caroline (Knowlton) Green, of Shrewsbury.
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Elizabeth 8 Green, born July 8, 1870; married,
November 10, 1896, Henry Carlton, son of Fred-
eric E. and H. A. (Munroe) Abbott; resides in
Somerville, Massachusetts.
2. Charles Otis 8 , born May 22, 1873; died August 15,
1874-
3. George 8 , born May 22, 1876; died August i r, 1876.
4. Nettie Lucie 8 , born June 5, 1880.
58.
CAPTAIN LEMUEL BEMIS (Elijah* Joab*, Thomas*,
Thomas*, Shadrach 1 }, born October 12, 1805 ; settled upon
the homestead farm about two miles nearly southwest from
the old meeting-house, in Shrewsbury, where he resided up
to the time of his death, February 22, 1882, an extensive,
enterprising, and prosperous farmer, and prominent member
of the Worcester County Agricultural Society. He repeat-
edly received stock and dairy premiums from the county and
state agricultural societies, served many years as chairman
of the board of selectmen and overseers of the poor, and
was a highly-esteemed citizen. He married, April 29, 1835,
Amazonia, daughter of George and Lucy (Blake) Flagg, of
276 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Holden, Massachusetts, born August 22, 1810; died January
23, 1897.
CHILDREN.
I. Martha Amanda 7 , born May 22, 1836, in Shrewsbury;
married, January 30, 1861, Joseph Edmund, son of
Jonathan and Betsey (Temple) Reed, born at Shrews-
bury, August n, 1832; where he died, December 8,
1874, and she November 20, 1887. He went to Cali-
fornia in 1850, returned, 1853, and became a partner
in the dry-goods' house of J. H. Clark & Co., in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
1. George 8 Reed, 'born January 24, 1862, in Shrews-
bury ; resides a clerk in Worcester ; unmarried.
2. William 8 , born in Worcester, October 7, 1863;
married, June 18, 1890, Susan Maria, daughter
of Austin and Elizabeth (Norcross) Maynard,
born in Shrewsbury, September 3, 1866; resides
in Worcester ; commercial agent.
3. Joseph Edmund 8 , born September 5, 1868 ; resides
in Worcester; in express business; unmarried.
4. Hapgood 8 , born May 5, 1874; resides in Worces-
ter ; a salesman ; unmarried.
II. George Elijah 7 , born January 27, 1838 ; resides in Shrews-
bury, on the homestead of his father; is a shrewd,
intelligent man ; speculates in land and stocks ;
unmarried.
III. Lemuel Bemis 7 , born October 3, 1845 ! married, November
6, 1888, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Elsie Anna,
daughter of Levi Prentice and Jane (Taylor) Martin,
born October 25, 1852 ; resides in Shrewsbury ; carries
on the homestead farm, and is a quiet, industrious,
practical farmer. No children.
59.
NAHUM ROLAND (Elijah, Joatf, Thomas*, Thomas 1 , Shad-
rach 1 }, born March 6, 1809; apprenticed to Artemas D.
Blake, a contractor, carpenter, and builder in Shrewsbury ;
SIXTH GENERATION. 277
married, in Sutton, Massachusetts, April 30, 1833, Emily,
daughter of Caleb Chase and widow of Nathan Garfield, of
Sutton, in which town he commenced business ; then re-
moved to Norwich, Connecticut, and afterwards to Worces-
ter, where he carried on an extensive business, and many
of the first-class houses there attest to his eminent skill as
architect and builder. His wife died in Worcester, October
I, 1871, and he April 12, 1895.
CHILDREN.
I. Charlotte Jeanette 7 , born February 5, 1834, at Sutton;
married, at Lodi, Wisconsin, September 25, 1865,
Samuel Virgil Stone, born May 27, 1818, at Eden,
Vermont, son of Samuel and Hannah (Davenport)
Stone ; n6 settled residence or occupation. He died
in Worcester, February 25, 1875.
CHILD.
1. Walter Samuel 8 Stone, born October i, 1866, in
Worcester, and died there December I, 1866.
96 II. Henry Roland 7 , born August 23, 1836, at Sutton ; married,
April 2, 1857, Martha Maria Collester.
III. Ellen Augusta 7 , born January 17, 1838; died September
10, 1839.
IV. Frances Marion 7 , born September 18, 1839; married, in
Worcester, December 22, 1859, John Edwin, son of
Buzalda and Catharine (Dow) Butler, born at Sutton,
October 26, 1837. She died July 26, 1869, in
Worcester.
CHILDREN.
1. Frederick Edwin 8 Butler, born at Dracut, Massa-
chusetts, June 13, 1862; married, at Lynn,
October 22, 1881, Mary Ann Dolan, born in
Acton, Ontario, Canada, March 8, 1862; a
machinist, in Worcester.
2. Harry Everett 8 , born March 6, 1864, at Waltham ;
resides in Boston; a shipper.
3. Harriet Angeline 8 , born December 26, 1865, at
Worcester ; resides in . Watertown ; a dress-
maker; unmarried.
278 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
4. Albert Henry 8 , born September 28, 1867; died at
Worcester, August 3, 1868.
5. Alice Marion 8 , born September 28, 1867; twin
with Albert Henry; died August 10, 1868.
V. Ellen Malinda 7 , born November 19, 1840, at Sutton; mar-
ried, June 2, 1870, at Worcester, Thomas Merrill, son
of Leonard and Jane (McNeal) Flagg, born in Shrews-
bury, May 19, 1843. He died at Worcester, Novem-
ber 19, 1875, and she May i, 1891. No children.
VI. Vashtic Eunice 7 , born June 29, 1844, at Norwich, Connec-
ticut ; highly educated ; taught school in Worcester,
Newton, and Somerville. Was employed in the Super-
intendent of Schools office in the latter city up to the
time of her marriage to John F. Ayer, October 14,
1897 ; resides in Somerville.
VII. Emma Lavina 7 , born January i, 1849, at Worcester; mar-
ried there, March 31, 1873, Horace William, son of
Theodore and Eliza (Knowlton) Barton, born October
22, 1844, in Millbury, Mass; resides in Somerville.
CHILD.
1. Florence Eliza 8 Barton, born June 17, 1874; re-
sides in Somerville ; a clerk.
VIII. Alice Louise 7 , born May 20, 1855, in Worcester; died
there August 18, 1855.
60.
LORENZO ELIJAH (Elijah*, Joab*, Thomas*, Thomas*,
Shadrach 1 }, born November 9, 1815 ; apprenticed to his
brother Nahum, to learn a carpenter's trade ; settled in
Williston, Vermont, where he married Sarah Hodges. He was
a dealer in horses ; removed about 1850 to Columbus, Ohio,
and next to Cincinnati ; purchased extensive stables and car-
ried on a large traffic in equines. He went to New Orleans to
superintend the sale of a cargo of horses, where he was taken
SIXTH GENERATION. 279
sick and died, March 13, 1867. His widow died February
10, 1885.
CHILDREN.
I. Charlotte Abbott 7 , born May 22, 1841, at Williston;
removed to Champaign, Illinois.
II. George Hodges 7 , born May 26, 1845, at Williston; married,
November 13, 1873, Eliza Mary Campbell, of Cham-
paign ; resides in Topeka, Kansas ; a veterinary
surgeon.
CHILDREN.
I. Helen Meda 8 , born August 8, 1874.
II. Minnie Elsie 8 , born February 4, 1876.
61.
REUBEN LEANDER (Elijah?, Joab*, Thomas?, Thomas 2 ,
Shadrach 1 ), born July 10, 1817; learned the tanning and
currying business ; married, September 19, 1841, Lucy,
daughter of Lot and Eliza (Baker) Forbush, born at West-
boro' March n, 1817. Settled in Worcester, and later left
his trade and joined Lucius Knowles in the manufacture of
spool cotton and cotton fabrics, in Worcester, and Ballston,
New York. Later on he went into contracting and building
with his brother Nahum R., in Worcester. When the War
of Rebellion broke out and endangered the perpetuity of
our government, this interest rose above all others in his
mind, and he laid down his carpenter's tools and took up
those of war; enlisted September 25, 1862, in Company A,
Fifty-first Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,
nine-months' men, served his term, mustered out July 27,
1863 ; returned to Worcester, took up his tools, and resumed
the business of contractor and builder. About 1883 he went
to Florida and established a factory for making orange and
280 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
other fruit boxes. He died in Florida, November n, 1894,
and his wife died in Shrewsbury, July 20, 1879. He was
admitted a charter member of the Worcester Lodge, No. 56,
I. O. O. F., September 28, 1870, and passed the chair of
Noble Grand and became Past Grand, January i, 1879.
CHILD.
I. Frank Leander 7 , born in Worcester, August 4, 1846;
enlisted with his father, September 25, 1862, in same
company and regiment, nine-months' call, and died in
Baltimore, on his way home, July 13, 1863.
62.
EPHRAIM AuousxiN 6 (Elijah*, Joab*, Thomas*, Thomas 1 ,
Shadrack 1 }, born November 3, 1823, at Shrewsbury, Massa-
chusetts ; married, November 5, 1845, Nancy Durgen,
daughter of George and Mary (Garland) Holmes, of Shrews-
bury, born May 20, 1822. Purchased the Nelson place in
the southeast part of Shrewsbury, where he resided a quiet,
intelligent farmer up to about 1869, when he sold his farm
and removed to Worcester, where he died March 16, 1874.
His widow died in Charlton, Massachusetts, November
25, 1885.
, CHILDREN.
97 I. Horace Abbott 7 , born August 9, 1846, at Shrewsbury;
married, January i, 1868, Alice Amelia Williams.
II. Ephraim Augustin 7 , Jr., born April 30, 1838; married,
January 24, 1873, Viola, daughter of Alexander Hamil-
ton and Lydia (Wheelock) Steele, born January 7,
1849, m North Brookfield, Massachusetts ; resides in
Worcester; a salesman in the store of Learnard &
Newton.
CHILD.
I. Ernest Augustin Tillison 8 , born February 21, 1885.
SIXTH GENERATION. 281
III. Alvin Almon 7 , born October 4, 1850, in Spencer, Massa-
chusetts; married, March 7, 1872, Mary Ann, daughter
of Joseph and Emeline Buxton, born in Worcester,
March 11, 1846; resides in Spencer; a superintendent
in a boot and shoe factory.
CHILD.
I. Arthur William 8 , born in Worcester, March 26,
1875; resides in Spencer; a machine operator
in a shoe factory.
IV. Charles Albert 7 , born February 10, 1852, in Shrewsbury;
married, first, May, 1875, Harriet Twist, of Worces-
ter, who died September, 1879, and he married,
second, in Worcester, July 10, 1881, Josephine,
daughter of Moses and Sally (Hanson) Woodsum,
born September 6, 1843, in Saco, Maine. He went to
Worcester in 1867; learned the boot and shoe trade
with the Bay State Shoe & Leather Company; 1879,
became superintendent of one of the largest boot and
shoe factories in Worcester ; at present employed as a
leather chemist of high repute. He is a prominent
member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias,
Ladies of Honor, and other kindred orders. Lives in
his own fine house corner Hudson and Blossom
streets, Worcester. No children.
V. William Lorenzo 7 , born August 29, 1854; resides in
Worcester ; a teamster.
VI. Caroline 7 , born March 12, 1858; married, April 22, 1874, at
Worcester, Henry Lorenzo Wheelock, born in Brook-
field, July 14, 1850, son of Lorenzo and Mary (King)
Wheelock ; resides in East Brookfield. No children.
63.
GEORGE DANA S (John 6 , John*, John*, Thomas 2 , Shadrach*),
born December 3, 1811, at Winchendon. Learned the tan-
ner's trade; removed, 1840, to Rindge, New Hampshire.
Married, September 9, 1841, Catharine Wight, daughter of
282 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
Charles and Mehitable Mixer, of Dedham, Massachusetts,
born September n, 1819. Carried on the tanning business
extensively till 1857, when he was burned out; was a lead-
ing man in Rindge, and held office of selectman 1850-51-52
and 1857, and other positions of honor and trust. April,
1859, he removed to Chester, Massachusetts, and continued
the tanning business up to the time of his death April 13,
1890.
CHILDREN.
I. George Henry 7 , born April 20, 1842, at Rindge; married,
November 2, 1864, Marietta, daughter of Elbridge
and Lucy Wilcox, of Chester, born September 12,
1843; resides in Chester; a tanner and insurance
agent.
CHILDREN.
I. Edwin Otis 8 , born at Chester, June 16, 1867 ; gradu-
ated from Springfield High School, Class of
1886, and from Albany, New York College of
Pharmacy, Class of 1890 ; married, at Springfield,
Massachusetts, June 10, 1896, Cornelia Frances,
daughter of Dallas M. and Elizabeth Pease,
born at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 9, 1873 ; resides in Springfield ; a pharmacist.
II. Ernest Wilcox 8 , born October i, 1877; died
February u, 1878.
II. Anna Elizabeth 7 , born June 24, 1844; married, November
7, 1866, at Chester, William P., son of Daniel and
Eleata Alderman, born January 3, 1836, at Middlefield ;
resides in West Springfield.
III. Emma Jane 7 , born February 21, 1846, at Rindge; died
February 17, 1890, at Chester.
IV. Charles Mixer 7 , born September i, 1849; died October 23,
1849, at Rindge.
V. Charles Dana 7 , born March 23, 1852; died February 28,
1853-
VI. Charles Nelson 7 , born January 22, 1860; died February 26,
1860.
SIXTH GENERATION. 283
64.
CHARLES WHITMAN (Benjamin*, John*, John*, Thomas 1 ,
Shadrach 1 ), born December 30, 1806; married, first, 1837,
Mrs. Mary Hunter, born August 12, 1803, at Stow,
daughter of Judah and Catharine (Whitman) Wetherbee ;
and second, he married, November 6, 1855, at Boston,
Elizabeth Haley, born 1817, in Ireland. After his first
marriage he removed to Brattleboro', Vermont, where he
became a large farmer ; returning to Boston, he was for
some years engaged in the stable business, but subse-
quently removed to Hingham, Massachusetts, and worked
for E. T. Bouve. After this he was employed by N. Ripley,
of the Rockland House, Nantasket, and placed in charge of
the barges and boat passengers, and was a quiet, obliging,
reliable man, much respected ; died at Nantasket, February
13, 1879-
CHILD.
I. John 7 , born February 6, 1840 (by first wife), in Boston;
married, 1864, Mary E. Howe, of Westboro', and
died in New York, 1893. No children.
65.
MosES 6 (David*, Jonathan*, John*, Thomas*, Shadrack 1 },
born December 12, 1807 ; married, April 9, 1831, at Harvard,
Massachusetts, Sally Wetherbee, born in Fitchburg, June 2,
1 807. Moses was a farmer, of considerable force of character,
in Marlboro', where he settled, and where all his children
were born ; and by the aid of his most excellent and prudent
wife, who died August 18, 1896, at the advanced age of
eighty-nine, he was quite successful and prominent in his
vocation. He died May 26, 1877.
284 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
CHILDREN.
I. William 7 , born December 3, 1832; married, October 30,
1855, Mary Ann, daughter of William Barclay, born
1831, at Danbury, New Hampshire; resides in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Everett Emerson 8 , born September 16, 1856; mar-
ried, September 16, 1895, Fannie Clark Mowry,
of Holliston, Massachusetts, a teacher. He is
a bright, intelligent man, with consumptive
tendencies, and this condition of health has
compelled him to seek employment in various
places, North and South. He is an architect,
contractor, and builder. He was graduated
from the Boston Institute of Technology ; spent
three years in New Orleans, Louisiana, as
teacher in a school of architecture ; resides in
Allston, Massachusetts.
II. Henry Nelson 8 , born August 19, 1858 ; died August,
1865.
III. Henrietta Melissa 8 , born April 28, 1860; died Jan-
uary 3, 1862.
II. David 7 , born Decemjber 19, 1834; died January 22, 1835.
III. Wilbur 7 , born October 29, 1838; married, April 21, 1869,
at Rock Bottom, Maria Elizabeth, relict of his brother
Cephas, who was lost in the War of the Rebellion ;
resides in Milton Mills, New Hampshire ; a farmer.
CHILDREN.
I. Elmer Irving 8 , born June 24, 1871, at Hudson;
married, August 15, 1891, at South Royalton,
Vermont, Mary Louisa, daughter of John and
Adaline Woodward.
II. Carrie May*, born October 10, 1881, at Milton
Mills, New Hampshire.
IV. Cephas Jonathan 7 , born February 10, 1840; married,
March 26, 1862, at Rock Bottom (Stow), Maria Eliza-
beth, daughter of George Parker and E. W. (Stickney)
Mills, born September 27, 1840. He enlisted in the
navy, in 1863, for one year, and again, in 1864, in the
Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and presumably gave his
SIXTH GENERATION. 285
life to his country, as no tidings further of him were
ever received.
CHILD.
I. Wilbur Gould 8 , born March 28, 1864, at Hudson ;
married, February 9, 1889, at Sebec, Maine,
Annie May Brown, of Dedham, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
I. Eugene Percival 9 , born April 6, 1890; died
June 5, 1890.
II. Eva Lillian?, born September 7, 1893; died
October n, 1893.
V. Abigail Jemima 7 , born May 14, 1842; married, May 10,
1883, James Henry Foss, of Haverhill, born March 5,
1831, died November 12, 1885, in Hudson; and she
married, second, February 5, 1887, Philip Eastman
Millay, born October 12, 1825, in Whitefield, Maine;
resides in Hudson, Massachusetts.
VI. Susan Wetherbee 7 , born September 23, 1844; married,
June 17, 1863, Levi L. Felton, born at Marlboro',
March i, 1841 ; was a soldier in the Civil War, mem-
ber of unattached company Heavy Artillery, Massa-
chusetts Volunteers; died January 30, 1875 5 she died
October 21, 1875.
CHILDREN.
1. Leon Leslie 8 Felton, . born June 19, 1866, at
Harvard ; died November 9, 1885, at Milton, of
consumption.
2. Freddie Elmer 8 , born November 2, 1868, at
Hudson; died July 13, 1877.
3. Bertie 8 , born January u, 1871 ; died August, 1871.
VII. Caroline Minerva 7 , born October 2, 1848; died December
7, 1878, at Hudson.
66.
Rupus 6 (David*, Jonathan*, John*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ),
born May 31, 1813; married, 1842, in England, Maria
Barnes, born July 9, 1828, at Liverpool; died February
286 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
1 6, 1868, at Somerville, Massachusetts, of consumption.
Rufus was a sailor, and followed the sea for many years ;
returned to Hudson ; died October n, 1885, at Middlefield,
Massachusetts, from injuries received by a railroad accident.
CHILDREN.
I. Reuben Henry 7 , born November 30, 1845; enlisted,
February 27, 1864, in the Massachusetts Fourth
Battery; died November n, 1864, of chronic diarrhoea,
at New Orleans, Louisiana.
II. Rufus 7 , born , 1847; died in infancy.
III. Mary 7 , born , 1849; died in infancy.
IV. William Wesley 7 , born April 24, 1852; resides in Kansas
City, Missouri; a carpenter; married, February 10,
1878, at St. Louis, Missouri, Dora Meyer, born July
13, 1848, at Hanover, Massachusetts.
CHILD.
I. Winnifred 8 , born November 15, 1878, at Kansas
City.
V. Lydia Elizabeth 7 , born October 8, 1854; died April 26,
1890, at New York City; a teacher.
VI. Alfred Fletcher 7 and a twin daughter, both died in infancy.
67.
REUBEN 6 (David 5 , Jonathan*, John*, Thomas 2 , Shadrach 1 },
born May 31, 1813; married, September 10, 1835, Ruth
Carter Moore, born October 26, 1818, in Bolton ; died May
16, 1873. He was for many years a shoe manufacturer, but
later in life he turned his attention to farming. His gener-
ous disposition brought him in touch with the poor, and
he served several years on the board of overseers of the
poor; died August 7, 1890.
SIXTH GENERATION. 287
CHILDREN.
I. Mary Jane 7 , born June 17, 1836, at Bolton; married, May
26, 1867, Jonas Taylor, son of Moses and Anna
(Taylor) Houghton, born October 3, 1833, at Stow;
now of Houghton & Company, Hudson and Boston
Express. After graduating from the Westfield Normal
School, taught for several years in the public schools,
and as assistant in the high school at Marlboro 1 ; has
served fifteen years on school committee, from 1880 to
1896. They have a fine summer residence at Brant
Rock, Massachusetts. No children.
II. Rufus Henry 7 , born August 17, 1838, at Marlboro'. In
early life he worked in a cutting room in one of the
large shoe shops in Hudson; appointed superintendent
of cutting rooms of Bradley & Sayward's extensive
factory; now engaged in farming. Public spirited, he
served the town as assessor, and filled other offices of
trust and responsibility; married, October 4, 1860, at
Rock Bottom, Armine Augusta, daughter of Eleazer O.
and Abigail A. Howe, born March 7, 1842, at Acton,
Massachusetts.
CHILDREN.
I. Eva Stella 8 , born May 30, 1862 (librarian of
Hudson Public Library) ; married, January 5,
1888, Sumner B. Robinson, of Hudson ; book-
keeper in Boston. He built a house in Bel-
mont, in 1896, where he resides.
CHILD.
1. Guy Hapgood 9 Robinson, born February 2,
1891.
II. Leon Reuben 8 , born September 29, 1867 ; resides in
Westboro'; a jeweler; married, April 14, 1897,
at Foxboro', Massachusetts, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of John and Mary Ann (Caton) Tarment,
of Luton Beds, England, born June 3, 1876.
III. Edmund Augustus 7 , born October 17, 1854; died April 7,
1855.
IV. Elvira Alice 7 , born July 2, 1856; book-keeper and librarian
at Hudson Public Library; died May 10, 1883. The
Rev. Mr. Gibbs delivered a fitting eulogy upon the
288 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
occasion, an extract from which, is copied from a local
paper : " Her life was one of unselfish thought for
others, of purity and goodness. Her gentle, lovable
nature had no higher ambition than that of doing good.
In the duties she was engaged in, she drew all classes
towards her by a sweet disposition, invariable patience,
and deep sympathy for all. In her duties she was
indefatigable. Embodied in her character were the
qualities of simplicity, integrity, patience, persever-
ance, and a noble womanliness. Her influence for
good was felt wherever she moved. Her brain, her
pen, and her word have been felt in the -industries
of the town."
68.
GEORGE 6 (David 5 , Jonathan*, John*, Thomas 1 , Shadrach 1 ),
born May 7, 1821 ; married, March 26, 1844, Harriet Ange-
line, daughter of Nahum and Mary Warren, of Marlboro',
born July 13, 1818, at Hudson; died February 17, 1888.
He married, second, September 19, 1888, Mary Warfield, of
Westboro', Massachusetts ; resided in Hudson, a shoe-
maker, but died at Westboro', a farmer, February n, 1890.
CHILDREN.
I. M#ry A. 7 , born August 13, 1845, at Westboro'; died
August 14, 1845.
II. Ella Autencia 7 , born May 4, 1847, at Westboro'; married,
at Bolton, Arthur Wood.
CHILD.
1. Clifford Leander 8 Wood, born January 23, 1866.
III. Lucy Emma 7 , born May 10, 1849, at Bolton; died at
Hudson, September 26, 1887; unmarried.
IV. Myron Leander 7 , born April 26, 1851 ; died August 30,
1851.
V. Mary Ednah 7 , born May 25, 1852, at Bolton; married,
September 17, 1892, at Hudson, Charles Pope; she
died, leaving no children.
SIXTH GENERATION. 289
VI. Hattie Frances 7 , born December 22, 1854, at Hudson;
married, November 2, 1891, Elhanan Winchester
Whitney, born at Lancaster, October 21, 1819, son of
Simeon Howard and Nancy Whitney. No children.
She was a teacher, and died April 3, 1896, at Harvard.
VII. George M. 7 , born May 2, 1857, at Bolton; married, June
22, 1878, Lizzie Greenleaf, of Hudson.
CHILDREN.
I. Ernest Herbert 8 , born February 4, 1880, at
Hudson; died in 1881.
II. George Irving 8 , born September 18, 1881.
VIII. Alfred Edmund 7 , born October 11, 1860; married, first,
January 21, 1882, Cora Mabel, daughter of John
Marshall and Annie Whitcomb, of Stow, born De-
cember 10, 1860. She died May 9, 1884, and he mar-
ried, second, December 31, 1890, Mabel Hattie,
daughter of Leonard and Hattie (Ward) Brewer, of
Berlin, Massachusetts, born December 18, 1869;
resides in Hudson ; a shoemaker.
CHILD.
I. Arthur Edmund 8 , born October 26, 1883.
69.
GILBERT 6 (Francif 1 , Jonathan*, John*, Thomas 1 ,
born April 21, 1816; married, December 12, 1850, Hannah,
daughter of Calvin and Roxana (Baily) Scripture, born
Decembers, 1828, in Lewis County, New York; resided in
Tivoli, Dubuque County, Iowa, where he died May 29, 1858 ;
a farmer. She died January 10, 1895, at Farley, Iowa.
CHILD.
98 I. Francis Calvin 7 , born January 17, 1852, at Lamotte, Iowa;
married, June 6, 1878, Annie Isabel Squiers.
290 HAPGOOD FAMILY.
7O.
JONATHAN 6 , (Francis?, Jonathan*, John*, Thomas*, Shadrach 1 ),
born January 7, 1823 ; married, first, September 12, 1843,
Mary Ann Condy Warren, of Paxton, Massachusetts, born
July 30, 1825 ; died May 3, 1863, and he married, second,
May 4, 1865, Clarissa Merriam, born at Oxford, Massachu-
setts, November 4, 1827; she died June 18, 1897, in Worces-
ter, and he married, third, in Worcester, January 6, 1898,
Mrs. Julia M. Rice, born in Manhasset, Long Island,
August n, 1860; her first husband died in Seattle about a
year after their marriage. He is the proprietor of a hack-
stand in Worcester.
CHILDREN, by first marriage.
99 I. Gilbert Warren 7 , born August 17, 1845, at Paxton, Massa-
chusetts; married, March 7, 1871, Emily Tamzin
Cutting.
II. Oilman Perry 7 , born September 5, 1847, at Paxton; mar-
ried, January 10, 1871, Viola Naomi Putnam, of
Worcester; resides in Kansas City, Missouri; s. p.
III. Sewell Mirick 7 , born September 20, 1849; died November
10, 1849.
IV. Harriet Maria 7 , born October 3, 1850, at Paxton; married,
February 2, 1871, at Worcester, Albert Lemuel
Houghton, of the same city; removed November, 1885,
to Kansas City, where he now is engaged in an
