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HISTORIC HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS

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GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS

WORCESTER COUNTY

MASSACHUSETTS

WITH A HISTORY OF

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY

PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

ELLERY BICKNELL CRANE

Librarian of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and Editor of its Proceedings

Author of "The Rawson Family Memorial," 'Crane

Family," two vols., Etc.

" Ki!<iw/fif£t' of kindrfd aiul the genealogies of the ancient J ainilies deserveth the highest
praise. Herein eonsisteth a part of the Itnowledge of a man's, own self. It is a great spur to
virtue to look haek on the work o_t our lines." — Lord Bacon.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at the hottom the lite of a man." — Sir
Walter .Scott. ' ' : " ' ' ' , . ' ' '

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WORCESTER COUNTY

DANIEL SIMONDS. Samuel Simonds (i), the
pioneer ancestor of Daniel Simonds. of Fitchburg.
Massachusetts, was one of the Puritan leaders of
the early days in the Massachusetts Bay colony.
He settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was
a proprietor. He was called Gentleman in the
earliest records, indicating that he belonged to the
gentry. He was a proprietor of the town, was
admitted a freeman March, 1637-8. was deputy and
assistant to the governor June 6, 1638, and was deputy
governor of Massachusetts. He was a man of large
ability and excellent record as a citizen and public
official. He mentioned his cousins Gallop, Waite
and Harris in a letter to John Winthrop, Jr., in

1652, and in another letter in 1662 he mentions his
only' brother, "who dwells at Much Yeldham, Es-
sex County, England."

His will was dated February 16, 1673, and Jan-
uary S, 1677, and was proved November 6, 1678;
he bequeathed to his wife Rebecca all that belonged
to her in England before marriage with him, made
ample provisions for her also at his farm in Ips-
wich called Argilla, or elsewhere, if she prefer;
bequeathed to sons Harlakenden and William ; to
son and daughter Epps, she to have the "damaske
sute which was the landy Cheynies if she desire ;"
bequeathed also to daughter Martha and her hus-
band John Denison. to daughters Baker and Dun-
kin ; to son Chute ; to granddaughter Sarah Sym-
onds; to wife's granddaughter Rebecca Stace ; to
the son of John Hale or son John Hale, one of the
overseers. The will refers to Hon. Samuel
Simonds' brother, Mr. Richard Fitz Simonds. from
whom a legacy is expected for son Harlakenden.
The widow Rebecca died July 21, 1695 ; her in-
ventory showed articles marked W. R. and others
marked R. H. ; her son and daughter Hall are
mentioned. Mrs. Martyn is one of the children
among whom Mr. Simonds' estate was divided Oc-
tober IS, 1679.

Samuel Simonds married (first) Dorothy Har-
lakenden; married (second) Martha Reade Epps.
daughter of Edmund Reade and widow of Daniel
Epps, Sr. : married (third) Rebecca Hall, widow
of John Hall, of Salisbury. His children were :
Samuel, died in 1654 (will on file) ; John, of whom
later ; Harlakenden, William, Martha, Ruth,' Pris-
cilla, Dorothy, married Thomas Harrison, of the
parish of Dunstans in the East, London. England,
and they sent a power of attorney February 10,

1653. to her brothers. Samuel and William Simonds,
for the collection of anything due them.

(II) John Simonds, son of Hon. Samuel
Simonds (i). was born in England about 1615; he
was a proprietor of Salem as early as 1636 and was
iv — I

admitted freeman March, 1637-8. His wife Mary-
was a member of the Salem Church in 163S. He

married (second) Elizabeth -. His presence

in England in 1653 indicates that the lack of de-
tails about him on this side may be due to his-
living much of the time in the old country. He died'
before his father. His will was proved September
19, 1671 ; it bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth; to
sons James and Samuel; refers to deceased daugh-
ter Ruth Swinnerton, and servant John Pease. His
children were: Samuel, baptized November 4, 1638;

James; Ruth, married Swinnerton. Savage

thinks that Samuel just mentioned who settled in
Boxford was the grandson of the Hon. Samuel
Simonds and the details from Pope's Pioneers given'
above seem to indicate that he is correct. Kath-
rine Simonds, who married Jacob Towne, June
26, 1657, in Bnxford, was perhaps a sister of Sam^
uel of Boxford.

(III) Samuel Simonds, son of John Simonds
(2), was born January. 1638, and baptized Novem-
ber 4, 1638, at Salem. Massachusetts. He settled
in Boxford, a neighboring town, and married Eliza-
beth Andrews, daughter of Robert and Grace An-
drews, early settlers in Boxford, Massachusetts,-
Simonds was there in 1663 and was admitted a'
freeman March 22, 1689-90; served as selectman ;
and in other offices of trust and honor. His house
lot was that just west of the house now or lately
of George W. Twitchell, in Boxford. He died'
August 14, 1722, aged eighty-four years, sevens
months; his wife died March 17, 1725, aged eighty-
two years.

Their children were: Elizabeth, born July 12,
1663; Hannah. December 27. 1665; Grace, October
14, 1667, married Zerubable Endicott, of Boxford;
Mary, February 26, 1669, married Joseph Peabody;
Samuel, April 6. 1672, settled in Middleton, was
deacon of the church, had twelve children, diedi
July 7, 1755; John, of whom later; Ruth, Decem-
ber 24. 1676, married Andrew Eliot; Rebecca. ]\Iay
31. 1679. married Jacob Smith; Phebe. October 2,
1682 : Joseph. May 24. 1685, settled in Boxford,
married Mary Peabody ; Nathaniel, January 26. 1687.

(IV) John Simonds, sixth child of Samuel
Simonds (3), was born in Boxford. Massachu-
setts. March 29. 1674. He married, February 13,
1705-8. at Boxford. Hannah Hazen, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Howlett) Hazen. Both Hazen
and Howlett families were pioneers in Boxford.
John Simonds appears to have been a modest farmer
of Boxford all his life. The children of John and
Hannah (Hazen) Simonds were: Jacob, born June
.30. 1712; AlHs, April 13. 1714. died young; Allis,
September I, 1715; Sarah, August 26, 1717; Lidia,

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October 12, 1720; Phebe, February 28, 1722-3; John,
of whom later.

(V) John Simonds, youngest child of John
Sinionds (4). was born in Boxford. Massachusetts,
March 11, 1725. He settled in Boxford, but the
records indicate that he lived also in the adjoining
town? of Topsfield and probably elsewhere. He
bought land at what is now Petersham in 1637
from Jacob Perley, of Boxford, and sold it the

same year, June 17. He married Ruth when

very j-oung. He was in Lunenburg, May 10, 1763,
when warned as a newcomer usually was to leave
town. The same John Simonds was in Holden in
1762 apparently. The children of John Simonds, as
recorded at Topsfield, were : John, baptized at
Topsfield, February 26, 1743-4; ^lary. born July 21,
1745: Mary. September 7, 1746: Joanna, baptized
April 3, 1748: Joseph, baptized October 29, 1749.

(VI) Joseph Simonds, son of John Simonds
(5). was born 1745-1749, baptized October 29. 1749,
at Topsfield, Massachusetts. He removed with his
father to Lunenburg about 1750. He was living
there in 1770 and probably lived there during his
active years. He signed a deed in 1770 with the
other heirs of his wife's father, Job and Elizabeth
Colman, of Ashburnham, Johan and Hannah Gip-
son, of Ashby, Joseph and Mary Simonds, of Lun-
■enburg, and one unmarried daughter, Martha Mar-
tin, of Lunenburg. Joshua Martin, brother of Mrs.
Simonds, was the purchaser, April 13, 1770. Joseph
Simonds served for eight months in the revolution.
He was in Captain Burt's company. Colonel Asa
Whitcomb's regiment. He died October 10, 1820,
aged about seventy-five years.

Joseph Simonds; son of Joseph Simonds, of
Boxford, was also interested in land in Lunenburg
through the rights of his wife. Sally Gould. With
Samuel L. Smith, Joseph Gould. Daniel Bixby. of
Topsfield. Joseph Simonds. Jr. and Mary Gould, of
Topsfield. he bought February 2, 1753. the rights
of lot No. 28 owned by Joseph Gould and sold
out October 8, 1781. to Amos Dresser. This Joseph
Simonds, Jr. was then living at Boxford and per-
Tiaps never lived at Lunenburg.

Joseph Simonds, then of Fitchhurg. married. Oc-
tober 17. 1767. Mary Martin, of Lunenburg. Their
only child known to the writer was Joseph, born
1768 or 1769, of whom later.

(VH) Joseph Simonds, son of Joseph Simonds
(6), was born in 1768 or 1769; he came to Fitch-
burg from Lunenburg when he was quite young and
spent the remainder of his days in Fitchburg. uni-
versally respected, being for many years connected
with town affairs as selectman and treasurer. Few
men have been more often and continually honored
with positions of trust and honor in the town or
city of Fitchburg.

He married Sally Downs (published INLiy i,
1794). She died September 24. 1S18. aged forty-
nine years. He married (second) Mrs. Polly Bou-
tell. June 15, 1820: she died October iS, 1846. aged
seventv-five years, nine months. He died at Fitch-
burg. November o. 18,^9. See gravestone for records.
The children of Joseph and Sally (Downs) Simonds
were: Artemas. born November 15, 1794. settled
in Fitchburg: Sally. March 6, 1797, died Septem-
ber 7 or 9, 1800. aged three years, six months, three
days; Polly, February 6. 1800 : Levi, April 23, 1802.
was a town officer; Abel, of whom later; Alvan
December 10. r807: Eliza. February 22. 1814.

(Vni) .-Xbel Simonds. son of Joseph Simonds

(7), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 10, 1804, on the old homestead in the south part
of the town. The house is now known as the Elijah
C. Farwell place. In later childhood he lived in
the house under the shade of the great elm oppo-
site the new cemetery. From the age of ten until
he was thirteen he lived with an uncle in New Hamp-
shire, after which he returned to Fitchburg to learn
the trade of scythe making. He served an ap-
prenticeship of seven long years, earning his board
and clothes with a bonus of $50 when he ended his
seven years. His school days were brief." After
he was ten he attended the district school for six
weeks each winter until he was too old to continue.
He worked at his trade at Fitchburg and Chelms-
ford until he was thirty years old, when he pur-
chased the mill privilege later occupied by the
Buckeye Mowing Machine Co. in West Fitchburg
and built there his first scythe shop. Deacon John
T. Farwell and L. C. Sanborn, who later removed to
Iowa, where afterwards associated with Mr.
Simonds, and for many years they carried on the
business, not only in the original shop, but also on
the location where the Hanna Mill owned by
Crocker, Burbank & Co. now stands, and on still
another mill on the site later occupied by Whitman
& Miles. In 1851 the firm dissolved partnership
and Mr. Simonds continued until 1864 alone and
in partnership with his son, Joseph F. Simonds.
When he retired from business in the year last
named he leased the shop to Simonds Bros., his
successors in business. He was the founder of the
present Simonds Manufacturing Co., or rather of
"the concern from which the company grew. He died
April 22, 1875, in Fitchburg.

The Sentinel said of him : "He was one of the
oldest and most generally known and esteemed
members of the community. There are compara-
tively few men of whom we can say that their his-
tory is so completely identified with that of the city
as was his. We can most sincerely say that his
death is the removal of a very familiar and promi-
nent social landmark. Mr. Simonds was a man
of auiet. sober, industrious habits." When a young
liy he learned some lasting lessons in temperance
while doing his duty as an apprentice serving the
regulation grog to the workmen daily. He was an
earnest temperance leader. His apprenticeship
taught him the lesson of industry also. He believed
in work. From his youth to the end of his life he
wished to he active. Idleness was a weariness to
his flesh. He was a man of integrity. His ability
was recognized by his fellow citizens w'ho elected
liim often to fill important town offices. He was a
trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank from the
date of its organization. He was for more than
thirty years a member of the Calvinistic Congre-
gational Church. In an unobtrusive, thoughtful
way he tried to exemplify the christian rules of
conduct, to deal justlv. love mercy and to walk
humbly before God. Like so many New England
fathers he w'as quiet, earnest, firm and faithful.
He strove to be just in all his dealings. He was
naturally cheerful, kindly, v.ishing his neighbor
well and his face showed forth the pleasant feeling
which ruled within. He was a good citizen, good
nei.ehbor and good friend.

He married (first), November 29. 7827, Eliza-
beth T. Farwell. who w-as born November 17, 1807,
and died September 28. 1829. She was the daughter
of Deacon Jchn Farwell. He married (second),

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September 2, 1830, Jane Todd, daughter of Captain
Moses and Jane (Whitman) Todd, of Rindge, New
Hampshire. Her father died August 10, 1840, aged
seventy-six years; her mother December 2. 1858,
aged eighty-seven. She died June 24, 1886, at
Fitcliburg. There was one child by the first marriage,
Joseph Farwell, born October 5, 1828, died October
26, 1896; married, November 19, 1851, A. Annette
Howe. Children by second marriage were: Charles
H., born January 19, 1831, died June 24, 1832, aged
one year, five months ; Mary Caroline, born October
2"}, 1832. married, April 28. 1852, A. W. Bullard; mar-
ried (second) Robert Mc^lasters ; Thomas Todd,
born May 17, 1834 ; William Henry, born June 17,
1836, died August 14, 1863, in New York ; married.
November 22, 1859, Lizzie Howard, of Anihert. New
Hampshire; John, born November 27,1838. married.
December 6, 1865, Hattie E. Beaman, of Winchendon,
Massachusetts; Alvan Augustus, born January 28,
1841, married, February 14, 1865, Marcella E. Wil-
lard, of Leominster; (jtorge Frederick, born Janu-
ary 12, 1843, died at Scranton, Kansas, November 5,
1894: married, November 15, 1866, Mary D. A.
Hatch, of Marshfield. Massachusetts; Elizabeth
Jane, born October 3, 1844, married John F. Hatch,
of Marshtield, June 12, 1866; Daniel, born Sep-
tember 18, 1847, of whom later; Edwin Franklin,
torn October 22, 1849, married. January 12, 1882, at
Culumbiana, Ohio, Myra C. Flaugher.

(IX) Daniel Simonds, is a son of Abel (8) and
Jane Todd Simonds. He attended the public
and high schools of his native town and Comer's
Commercial College of Boston. He went to work
for his- father, who was at that time manufacturing
scythes and edge tools in West Fitchburg, a busi-
ness he had carried on since 1832. About the time
that Daniel Simonds entered the business his father
tegan to manufacture mowing machine knives.
Abel Simonds had taken as a partner his eldest son,
Joseph F. Simonds, and the firm name was A.
Simonds & Son for several years. In 1864 the busi-
ness was sold to two other sons of Abel Simonds,
Alvan Augustus Simonds and George F. Simonds,-
■who with Benjamin Snow, Jr. organized the firm
of Simonds Bros. & Co. Daniel Simonds worked
for the new firm. Machine knives, mowing ma-
chines and reaper sections were manufactured and
the business prospered and grew rapidly.

In 1868 the Simonds Manufacturing Company
was incorporated to take over the business. The
capital stock was $50,000 and the works were
removed from West Fitchburg to their present loca-
tion on Main and North streets. The same line of
work was continued until 1878. when on account of
the consolidation of the mowing machine and reaper
interests by western manufacturers, the Simonds
company sold that department of its business and
began to make saws by a new method of manufac-
ture and tempering. The Fitchburg concern found
the field well occupied by older firms, but the new
method gave them a start, and against all competi-
tion the Simonds saws made rapid headway in the
markets. The company has for many years had
liranch works and office in Chicago and San
Francisco. John Simonds, who was treasurer of the
Simonds Manufacturing Company from the time
Alvan A. Simonds withdrew in 1876 until 1886, is
now at the head of the Simonds Saw Company of
San Francisco, a company that handles the prod-
ucts of the Fitchburg concern in the west. John
Simonds was one of the sons of Abel Simonds. The

company has just acquired control (1906) of four
plants in Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada,
and has consolidated them under the corporate name
of the Simonds Canada Saw Company, with the
main office in Montreal. Daniel Simonds is presi-
dent of the new company. Daniel Simonds held
various oflices in the company from time to time as
the business grew and the active members of the
company changed. In the eighties he was the su-
perintendent of the manufacturing and vice-president
of the company. In 18S8 he succeeded George F.
Simonds as president of the company, and in 1893
the latter retired from business.

From a modest beginning the business of the
company has grown until eight hundred hands are
employed and an annual product of $2,000,000
turned out. The capital stock is at present $500,000.
The present officers are: President, Daniel Simonds ;
treasurer, Giflford Kingsbury Simonds ; vice-presi-
dents, Edwin Franklin Simonds, Charles F. Braf-
fett, Alvan Tracy Simonds : directors, the president,
vice-presidents, and Henry F. Coggshall. B. N. Bul-
lock. C. A. Hubbell. During the years 1904 and
1905 a magnificent new plant was constructed on
the site of the old one in Fitchburg at a cost of a
quarter of a million dollars. The new shops are
three in number. On North street the first of the
new structures has been extended sixty by one
hundred and seventy-five feet, making the main
building three hundred and forty feet in length,
basement and three stories of substantial brick con-
struction. At right angles is another shop sixty
by one hundred and twenty-eight feet, basement and
three stories. The new power plant is behind these
buildings. Between the old shop and the first of
the new buildings is the smithy, eighty by one hun-
dred and thirty-three feet. The equipment is of
the best, as durable, permanent and efficient as seems
possible to make it. The firm have better and larger
facilities than ever before. The new plant means
a great deal to Fitchburg, for this company is one
of its most flourishing industries. The new shops
alone have a floor area of 100.000 square feet. Be-
sides this plant and the allied Canadian company's
plants in Montreal, the Simonds Manufacturing Co.
has a large manufacturing plant in Chicago. The
old shops in Fitchburg are to be torn down, and
in every particular the new plant will be new, neat
and modern in its appointments. The office force
and headquarters of the company will occupy the
basement and three stories at the extreme north
of the main shop, a section forty by sixty feet, with
large safety storage vaults and safes on each floor.
In January. 1906, when a large part of the new
plant was occupied, the event was celebrated by a
rather unusual demonstration. The officers and em-
ployees of the company gathered in the evening of
January 17. 1906. on the second floor of the main
shop which had been appropriately decorated with
laurel. Florida moss, paper flowers, etc. The em-
. ployees and their friends were received by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Daniel Simonds, Miss Marietta
Simonds, Mrs. T. F. Howarth and Mrs. H. B. Mc-
Donald. The affair was managed by committees of
employees and their families. The building was
dedicated with feasting, music and dancing. When
the first building was completed a year before, a
similar celebration was held, and the employees
showed their appreciation of the good will toward
the company by presenting to Mr. Simonds a hand-
some solid silver loving cup.

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Mr Simonds is especially proud of the new
power' plant. In addition to the old steam plant
of four hundred and twenty-five horse power capac-
ity the new boilers have a joint capacity of seven
hundred horse power, and the three new ^tea.n en-
gines have a combined capacity of six hundred
horse power. The power plant is a model of neat-
ness and efficiency. But a unique ^^^'ure o the
plant is its electrical equipment, too technical to be
described in detail here. It is sufficient to say that
The electrical power is, developed two miles away
from a water privilege having. a O"'^ 'j^-'f-^^^ji f
thirty-five foot fall and transmitted at high teiisum
to the factory to be used for power or lighting.
The prediction is freely made by electrical engineers
that mills and factories may be located w'hou re-
gard to the water fall u=ed for power as the motor
fystem is being generally adopted by New England
mills even where they are already built at the
source of their water power. The Simonds Manu-
facturing Company has recently published a book-
let ent tied "Simonds' Guide for Carpenters,' con-
taining much useful information for the men who
use the products of this company. , , „. ,^

Mr Simonds is also president of the S.moi^s
File Company, a new and prosperous concern. He
is president of the Wanoosoc P°^^^,V Company of
Fitchburg. another new concern, allied with the
Smonds companies. He is a director of the Fi ch-
birg National Bank and of the Fitchburg Mutual
Fire Insurance Company. t u . AT-,„^r

Mr Simonds has a villa at Larchniont Manor,
New York, on Long Island Sound, and is a mem-
ber of Larchmont Yatch Club. He is a member of
the Union League Club of Chicago, Park Club and
the Manufacturers' Club of F/'^hburg and was he
founder and first president of the latter. He ib a
member of Aurora Lodge of Free Masons and of
Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar^ In poh-
ics he is a staunch Republican, and ^ough too busy
to accept political office has been an efficient leader
and an earnest worker at critical times. He and
his family attend the Calvinistic Congregational

^'' 'Mrs' Daniel Simonds was Ellen Maria Gifford
daughter of Eli and Abbie (Tracy) Gifford, of
Rchburg. Their children are: Alvan Tracy
born December 23, 1877, married Susan Gansevoo
Lansing, April 16, 1901. and they have two children
Robert AlcClellan Simonds, born April n,
rm. and Daniel, second, born February, 1906.
X'n T is manager of the Chicago office and yice-
m-esident of the Simonds Manufacturing Co. , he
Fs a graduate of the Fitchburg high school, Exeter
Acadlmv and Harvard. 1899, and had a year o
fnedalstudy in the analysis of iron and steel at
Sheffield England. Gifford Kingsbury born m

Hopkinson School, Boston ; is with T. A. Mcintire,
broker. Congress street, Boston.

DR CHARLES H. RICE. Edmund Rice (i),
one of the founders and leading citizens o Sud-
^yllllsLhusetts^m gc= early^ays was^ the emi-

^^ ^^a-^U^ttf- S^ ^ice was the an-

cestor of the founder and first settler of Worcester,
and his descendants have been very prominent in
the New England towns, especially in Worcester
county. He was a proprietor and selectman in
1639: was admitted a freeman May 13, 164-'; and
was a deputy to the general court, 1643- He was
born about 1594, in England, according to a deposi-
tion made April 3, 1656. He was a member of the
committee to convey lands at Whip Sufferage in
i6;7 He removed to Marlboro, being one ot the
pedt'ioners for the grant. He was a deacon of the
Sudburv church. His wife Tamazine died m Sud-
burv June 13, i6S4. He married (second), March
I, 1655. Mercy (Heard) Brigham, widow of .rhomas
Brigham, the emigrant. Edmund Rice died in Marl-
boro, May 3. 1663. and was bnried in Sudbury.
His widow married (third)), 1664 Williain Hunt
and died December 28, 1693. Children of Edmund
and Tamazine Rice; Henry, married Elizabeth
Moore; Edward, born 1618, married Anna — —
Thomas, of whom later; Mathew, married Martha
Lamson; Samuel, married Elizabeth King; Joseph
born 1637, married Mercy King; Lydia, married
Hugh Drurv; Edmund; Benjamin, born May 31,
1640; Ruth,' married September 29, 1659, S. \\ ells ;
Ann. married N. Gerry ; Daniel, born about 1632 ,

^?II) Thomas Rice, son of Edmund Rice (i),
was born in England. He married Mary King
dau^^hter of Thomas and Ann King. They removed
to Marlboro in 1664. They had thirteen children,
and the family was remarkable for the ongevity
of the children. He died in Marlboro November
,6, 1681. She died March 22, 1715. {See Boston
Gazette, December 26, 1768.) Children of Thomas
and Marv (King) Rice: Grace, died 1653-S4,
Thomas, born Tune 30, 1654; Mary, born September
4, 1656. married Josiah White ; Peter born October
04 1658. married Rebecca How; Nathaniel born

Januarv 3. 1660, married Sarah -; Sarah, born

Tai ary IS. 1662. married Adams died at

{^e of eightv: Ephraim. born April 15, 1665, mar-
•rfed Hannah Livcrmore ; Gershom, born May 9.
,667. married Elizal)eth Haynes ; James, born March
6 669. married Sarah Stone; Frances, born teb-
ruarv \ 167071 : Jonas, born March 6, 1671, mar-
ried' Marv Stone ; Grace, born January 15, 1675.
married Nathaniel Moore; Elisha, born December

"' (IH) Elisha Rice, son of Thomas Rice (2),
born in Marlboro. Massachusetts, D^^^'^^ber ",
,679; married. February 20 1707-8. /.hzabeth
Wheeler, of Concord. He resided for a few years
in Sudbury, and in 1719 was one of the proprietors
of Worcester and was residing there. Soon atter
ward he returned to Sudbury, and died there in
1761. His youngest of seven children was Zebulon

'TlV) Zebulon Rice, son of Elisha. Rice (3).
horn in Sudbury. January 5. ;7|S: married^ Decem^
ber 7, 1749. Susanna Allen, of Sudbury. He settled
n Lancaster and at the incorporation of the own
"f Bovlston,' or ^o^e other . change m tlie town
lines, his farm was included in Boyl. ton. He d ed
Bovlston. December 26, 1799^ "'^71?°^,^'!,'*
in Ashburnham, December 17. 1823. Of the seven-

een children of Zebulon and Susannah CMlen)
mce six lived in Ashburnham-Jonas, Reuben,
llakiiS anna, wife of Jonathan Samson; Mary
wife of Stephen Randall, Jr., and Dolly, wife of
John Babcock.

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(V) Jonas Rice, son of Zebulon Rice (4), was
born in Boylston, Massachusetts, then Lancaster,
February 16, 1754. He resided in Salem in 1775
and in 1776-77 was in Sterling. He married, May
10, 1779. Zilpah Townsend, daughter of Joshua and
May Townsend, and in the same year settled in
Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He was a farmer and
an industrious, respectable citizen. He settled in
the southwest part of the town; but later removed to
the Sawin farm. He died April 26, 1836. His
widow died July 22. 1846.

Jonas Rice enlisted April 19, 1775. in a company
of volunteers at Salem, commanded by Captain
Derby and marched to Cambridge. After a week
of service he enlisted at Cambridge for eight
months in the company of Captain John Bachelor
of Colonel Bridge's regiment. (This company was
engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill.) He was
stationed during all of this service on Cambridge
conunons at the house of one Hastings. He was
employed under General Putnam in an attempt to
construct a fort on Lechman Point, from which they
were driven by British ships. He again enlisted in
the summer of 1776 for five months in a militia
company of Captain Samuel Sawyer. Marched from
Sterling through Worcester, Hartford, New Haven
to New York city, remained there a few days and
then moved up the Hudson about two miles ; was
on duty at Fort Prescott when the city of New
York was given up to the British. He then moved
up to Harlem Heights, where he remained through
the rest of this service. He again enlisted July r.
1777. for six months in militia company of Captain
Francis Wilson, of Holden, Colonel Keyes' regi-
ment. He marched to Leicester, thence to Provi-
dence. During this time of service he went to Point
Juliette to assist in collecting boats to be used on
an attack on New York. In sailing around the
point many of the boats were destroyed, eight men
being drowned and so the contemplated attack was
abandoned.

The children of Jonas and Zilpath (Townsend)
Rice were: Persis, born July i, 1782, blind, died
unmarried July 4. 1857; she was an apt scholar and
became quite Droficient in reading by raised letters;
she had the Psalms and other books; she enjoyed
reading; Zilpah. born February 25. 1784, married
Abel Wright, of Ashby ; Levi, born August 19, 1785 ;•
Mary, born June g, 1788, married, January 28, 1813,
Luther Willoughby, of Hollis, New Hampshire;
they resided in Gofifstown, New Hampshire, where
she died April i. 1843; Lucy, born July 24. 1790,
married, 1809. Ebenezer Jaquith ; lived at Wash-
ington. New Hampshire, and subsequently at Mil-
ford. New Hampshire ; Jonas, born April i, 1792.
blind, died unmarried, November 26, 1854. Al-
thou.gh born blind he so perfected himself in music
that he was in great demand throu.ghout the county
to assist in private as well as public musical en-
tertainments ; he could play equally well on the
■violin, melodeon or flute; Ruth, born December 31,
1793. married Samuel Brooks, son of Thadde'us
Brooks : Susan, born January 20, 1796. died un-
married. June 13. 1863; Silas, born April 13, 1798;
Salmon, born September ,30. 1800.

(VI) Silas Rice, son of Jonas Rice (5), was
born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, April 13, 1798.
He settled in Ashburnham and conducted a farm
there. He removed to Ashby in 1844 ^nd died
there September .^o. 1862. He married. September
12, 1825, Almira Corey, daughter of Stephen and

Joanna (Adams) Corey, of Ashburnham. She died
February 25. 1843. He married (second). May 8,
1S44, Adaline (Kendall) Sawin, widow of Stephen
Sawin, of Ashburnham. She died in Fitchburg,
August 24, 1885. Silas Rice was very active in the
town affairs of Ashby ; he was chosen as one of
the selectmen for ten years out of the eighteen that
he resided in the town.

Children of Silas and Almira (Corey) Rice
were: I. Elizabeth C. born March 21, 1827, died
in Fitchburg, May 3, 1874 ; she married Jonas
Whitney, of Fitchburg, April 4, 1850, who was
associated with his father, Prescott Whitney, in
manufacturing of organs and nielodeons. Only one
child was born to them, Frank O. Whitney, who
graduated with the first class that was graduated
from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; he has
been in the civil engineering department of Boston
ever since his graduation. He married Annie Snow,
of Boston, and they have one son, Franklin Snow,
who is now a senior in Harvard College. 2. Ed-
win, born December 21, 1834. died in Paxton, Illi-
nois, April 24, 1884. He married Almarine Moore,
in Lisbon, Illinois, 1859. He was a successful grain
and real estate dealer in both Chicago and Paxton.
3. Walter, born December 25, 1836, a Congrega-
tional minister, graduated from Beloit College,
Wisconsin, in 1862. and from Newton, Massachu-
setts, Theological Seminary. Subsequently he took
a special course at Andover Theological Seminary.
He has preached as a settled pastor in West Acton,
South Royalston, Lunenburg and Brandon, Ver-
mont ; at present and for over fourteen years pas-
tor of Agawam Congregational Church. He
married Nellie F. King, August 24, 1865; to them
one son. Dexter W., was born, September 6. 1870,
and died May 8, 1890; the wife died November 11,
1901. 4. Dexter S., born August 3, 1840, died Oc-
tober 9. 1896 ; married Mary Bangs, November 29,
1866. He went to Portland, Maine, in i860, and
entered the employ of Walter Corey Furniture Co.
Enlisted in the Thirteenth Maine Regiment, Decem-
ber 10, 1861. Served through the civil war and
was mustered out of the service January 6, l86Si
On returning from the service he became manager
and later principal owner of the Walter Corey
Furniture Co. The business was greatly enlarged
under his administration. One son Irving was born
June 14. 1870, now engaged in the coal business in
Portland ; married Maud Packard, of Portland, in
1896. 5. Charles H., born February 19, 1843. 6.
Almira M.. born January 28, 1845, died February
17. 1856. She was of the second marriage to Ada-
line (Kendall) Sawin.

(VII) Dr. Charles H. Rice, son of Silas Rice
(6), was born in Ashburnham, February 19, 1843.
When he was a young child the family removed to
Ashby. He attended the public schools of that
town and subsequently graduated at Appleton Acad-
emy at New Ipswich. New Hampshire, in 1863. Dr.
Rice studied medicine with Dr. Emerson, of Ashby,
and was graduated from Dartmouth Medical Col-
lege in 1865 and from Harvard Medical School in
1866. He located immediately in Fitchburg and has
since practiced his profession successfully in that
city. Dr. Rice has built up a large general practice
in Fitchburg. He has been not only a physician
of prominence, but a leading citizen. He is a mem-
ber of the Worcester North District Medical Society
and of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He was
for twelve years surgeon of the Sixth Regiment,

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Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, from December,
1884, to April, 1897. He was the first city physi-
cian in Fitchburg and also chairman of the first
city board of health. He served for sixteen years
consecutively on the school committee. He is a
trustee of the Burbank Hospital and a consulting
physician and surgeon for that institution. He is
one of the trustees of the Wallace Public Library.
He is a Mason of high standing. He belongs to
Qiarles W. Moore Lodge, Thomas Royal Arch
Chapter and Jerusalem Commandery, Knights
Templar of Fitchburg. He is a member of the
Royal Arcanum, the local council.

He married, June i, 1870, Delia L. Estabrook,
.daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (.Hayward) Esta-
brook, of Ashby. Their children are : Dr. Robert
Astley, born August 13. 1875, graduated at the
Fitchburg high school in 1894, at Amherst Uni-
versity m 1898 and at the Harvard Medical School
in 1902 ; he has since practiced his profession in
Fitchburg : Helen Haywood, born November 13,
1878, graduate of the Fitchburg high school in 1897
and of Smith College in 1901, is living with her
parents ; Margaret Corey, born February 13, 1886,
graduate of the Fitchburg high school, class of
1902, of Dana Hall, Welle^ley, Massachusetts, 1903,
member of class of 1908, Smith College.

ROCKWELL-GIBSON. John Gibson (i). the
emigrant ancestor of Henry Franklin Gibson, and
progenitor of many Fitchburg and Worcester county
families, was in New Towne, as Cambridge was first
called, in 1634. He was born in England in 1601,
and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1694, aged
ninety-three years. He was admitted a freeman
May 17, 1637, although his name appears on the
records first August 4, 1634. He had a grant of si.x
acres of land in a list of lots granted to settlers in
the West End, in that part of the city lying between
the present Sparks street, Wyeth and Garden streets,
Harvard and Brattle squares, and the Charles river,
now a very valuable section in the heart of the city.
His house was built at the end of Sparks street, not
far from Brattle street, then called the Path to Wa-
tertown. He bought a large amount of real estate
during his life in Cambridge. In 1639 he bought of
Edward Elmer three acres adjoining his land on the
southeast, which extended his house lot or home-
stall to Garden street. He doubtless belonged to
the church of Mr. Hooker on his arrival in 1633.
He became a member of the succeeding society Feb-
ruary I, 1636, under Rev. Thomas Shepard, and is
on the list of members in 1637. He remained a
member until his death. The original church until
1650 stood at the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn
streets. He held several minor town oflices, and in
1676 was a fence viewer. His connection with the
witchcraft delusion is probably of more interest to
his descendants than it was to him. He and his
wife were sued by Winifred Holman for damages
for accusing her daughter, Mary Holman, of being
a witch. The Gibsons were found guilty, and
doubtless they really believed that Mary was a witch.
They were fined the costs of the court and fifteen
shillings, ten pence. At the same time one of their
sons was obliged to apologize in court for calling
Mary a witch when being a witch was dangerous
business.

John Gibson married first, Rebecca , who

was buried December i, 1661, in Roxbury. He
married (second), July 24, 1662, Joan, widow of

Henry Prentice, of Cambridge, and together with
his wife administered the estate of her late husband.
Children of John and Rebecca Gibson; I. Rebecca^
born Cambridge, 1635, baptized in the First Church ;
married (second), June 22, 1654, Charles Stearns,,
of Watertown. (The fact that she partially lost
her mind believing herself bewitched by !Mary Hol-
man explains the law suit brought by ^Irs. Holman
against the Gibsons).' 2. Mary, born May 29, 1639,.
married, November 3, 1657, Jacob Newell, of Rox-
bury; he was born on board ship, 1634, and buried in
Roxbury, December 30. 1678; was son of Abraham and
Frances Newell, from Ipswich, Suffolk county, Eng-
land, Roxbury pioneers of 1634. 4. John, Jr., born
about 1641, married Rebecca Errington. 5. Samuel,
born in Cambridge, October 28, 1644. died in Cam-
bridge. March 20, 1709-10; married, October 30,
1668, Sarah Pemberton, who died October 10. 1676 ;
married (second), June 14, 1679. j\lrs. Elizabeth
(Remington) Stedman, of Cambridge; married

(third) Abigail .

(II) John Gibson, Jr., son of John Gibson (i),
born Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1641, was baptized
in First Church there ; died in Cambridge. October
15. 1679. He settled in Cambridge on the old home-
stead at the west end, deeded to him by his father,
November 30, 1668. He also was involved in the
suit of the Holmans. He had accused Mary Holman
of being a witch, believing, when he said it, that his
sister was a victim of her arts. The court gave him
his choice of openly acknowledging his error in court
or of paying a fine of five pounds. He saved the five
pounds. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, in
Captain Thomas Prentice's company, August 27,.
1676. The expedition started for Rhode Island,
June 24, 1676. He was in the fight at Swansea.
June 28, and in the skirmish in July on Mt. Hope
Neck, near Bristol, Rhode Island. He was also in
the company of Lieutenant Edward Oakes, which
started on a scouting expedition, March 24, 1675-76,
near Marlboro. He was a private in Captain Daniel
Henchman's company, impressed April 27, starting
May 27, reaching Hadley. June 14, 1676. He was
possibly the John Gibson in the list of Captain
Joshua Scotow's men at Malock Point, near Saco,
Maine. September, 1677, the garrison bemg captured
the following month by Mogg Megone. a celebrated
Indian chief. He was admitted a freeman October
II, 1670, and held various small offices in Watertown.
He was only thirty-eight years old when he died of
smallpox. His widow was administratrix. He mar-
ried, December 9. 1668, Rebecca Errington (Harring-
ton later), born in Cambridge, baptized in the First
Church, and died December 4, 1713, daughter of
Abraham and Rebecca (Cutler) Errington. Her
father was a blacksmith, the son of Widow Ann Er-
rington. who was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Eng-
land. Abraham Errington died at Cambridge. May
9, 1677, aged fifty-five years. He married Rebecca
Cutler, born in England, a member of the Cam-
bridge Church in full communion prior to January
1659; died at Cambridge, 1697. Children of John,,
Jr., and Rebecca Gibson: i. Rebecca, born in Cam-
bridge, October 4, 1669, died in Woburn, June 10,
1698, unmarried. 2. Martha, born in Cambridge,
died in Woburn after 1733; married (first), 1696,
Reuben Lilly, of Concord: married (second). April
4. 1699. Joseph Knight, of Woburn. born at Woburn,
December 12. 1673. died January 23. 1732-33, son of
Joseph and Hannah Knight, of Woburn, and prob-
ably grandson of John Knight, of Watertown, Mass-

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achusetts. (See Knight Family). 3. Mary, born
at Cambridge, married at Concord, Octolicr 17, 1700.
Nathaniel Gates, of Stow (born probably at Cam-
bridge, died 173 1, aged fifty-six, son of Stephen
Gates. (See Gates Family). 4. Timothy, of Sud-
bury and Stow.

(Ill) Timothy Gibson, son of John Gibson, Jr.,
(2), was born in Cambridge, 1679, died at Stow,
July 14, 1757. His gravestone in the graveyard in
the lower village in the eastern part of Stow indi-
cates that he was seventy-nine years old when he
died. He married (first), in Concord. November
17, 1780, Rebecca Gates, of Stow, daughter of
Stephen, Jr., and Sarah (Woodward) Gates. (See
Gates Family). She was born in Marlboro, July 23,
1682, and died in Stow, January 21, 1751, and was
buried at the right side of her husband. He married
(second), (published November 30,) 1755, Mrs. Sub-
mit Taylor, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. She died
in Stow, January 29, 1759, and was buried at the
left of her husband. Deacon Gibson was brought
up by Selectman .Abraham Holman, of Cambridge,
son of William and Winifred Holman. After 1689
he removed with him to Stow. He lived with the
Holman family until 1703, when he removed to the
northwest part of Sudbury, and settled there near
the Assabet river, on a sixty-acre farm, bounded
west by the Stow line, east by the road to Concord
from Jewell's mill, southwest by land of Joseph
Jewell, north by land of John and Jonas Burk. It
was deeded to him June 21, 1703, by his foster
father Holman. Again, November 29, 1708. Holman
gave him twenty acres of land on the north side of
the Assabet river, in Sudbury, and again ten acres
southeast of the river, April 23, 171 1. Timothy
Gibson's will, dated September, 171 1, mentions his
wife Sarah, nephews Abraham and Jeremiah Hol-
man, son Timothy.

Timothy Gibson was one of the thirty-one signers
of the petition for a church at the west precinct, now
the centre of Sudbury, dated January 15, 1706-07.
The church at Rocky Point, as Sudbury Centre was
then called, was not built until 1723. The original
church, where all in the vicinity worshiped from
1639 to 1723, was in East Sudbury, now Wayland,
Massachusetts. The first bridge over the Assabet
river was built between land of Gibson on one side
and Burk on the other, by vote of the town, Decem-
ber 14, 1715. Timothy Gibson also owned land in
Cambridge and Lunenburg. The records show that
Ephraim Sawtelle sold land to Timothy Gibson
about June 25, 1723. Five or six other lots were
granted to him. Of his sons, John, Harrington,
Isaac and Reuben settled in Lunenburg. They were
men of great personal prowess, and they and their
descendants were prominent in the town. Timothy
Gibson removed to Stow between December 6, 1728,
and February 24, 1731-32. He was selectman of
Stow, 1734, 1735, 1736 and 1739. He was one of
those who dissented from the vote to give Rev. John
Gardner sixty pounds May 17, 1736. He was a dea-
con of the church while Gardner was the pastor.
His homestead in Stow lay on the south slope of
Pomciticut Hill. He deeded his homestead to his
son Stephen ten years before he died, and the place
descended in the family in this way until 1823. when
it was sold. In 1826 it was bought by the Maynard
family, who called it Summer Hill Farm. The
northwest part of Sudbury, including Assabet village
and the northeast part of Stow, including the hill
and the Gibson homestead, were incorporated April
19, 1871, as the town of Maynard.

The children of Deacon Timothy and Rebecca
(Gates) Gibson were: Abraham, born in Stow. 1701,
died there November 8, 1740; married Mary Wheel-
er, born November 5. 1707, died in Stow, Janflary
15- 1793. daughter of Deliverance and Mary (Davis)
Wheeler ; resided in Stow and Sudbury. 2. Captain
Timothy, born in Stow, January 20, 1702-03. 3. Re-
becca, born in Sudbury, March 19, 1703-04: married.
May 4, 1727. Joseph F'arnsworth, of Groton, born in
Groton, February 26, 1698, died 173 1, son of John
and grandson of Matthias Farnsworth, pioneer.
4. John, captain, born in Sudbury, .April 28, 1708,
settled in Lunenburg, died there June lo, 1761 ; mar-
ried at Lancaster', November 9. 1737. Elizabeth Hart-
well, born 1715; married (second). May 9, 1764,
Jacob Gates, of Harvard, died February i, 1792,
daughter of Judge Edward and Sarah (Wilder)
Hartwell, granddaughter of Edward Hartwell, bora
in England, settled in Concord, Massachusetts. 5.
Sarah, born in Sudbury, October 27, 1710, married
(first) Thomas Willard, of Harvard, son of Heze-
kiah and Anna (Wilder) Willard, of Lancaster. 6.
Samuel, born in Sudbury, August 27, 1713, died
April II, 1746. 7. Stephen, born in Sudbury, March
1715, died young. 8. Harrington, born in Sudbury,
March 22, 1717, died in Lunenburg, February 24,
1756; he died July 15, 1795, aged seventy-eight.
9. Stephen, deacon, bona in Sudbury, June 6, 1719,
died in Stow, October 23, 1806: married, 1744, Sarah
Goss, daughter of John and Mary Goss ; she was
born in Lancaster, April 13, 1719, and died in Stow,
October 26, 1802. aged eighty-four. 10. Isaac, born
in Sudbury. .April 27, 1721, lived in Stow, Fitchburg,
Grafton, Vermont (originally Thomlinson), died in
Grafton, 'Vermont, June i, 1797, in his seventy-
' seventh year ; married at Lunenburg, February 4,
1744-5, Keziah, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Re-
becca Johnson (Rebecca was descendant of Capt.
Edward Johnson, author of "Wonder Working
Providences of Zion's Saviour in New England") ;
married (second), at Leominster, November 27,
1766, Mrs. -Abigail (Darby or Stearns) Bennett, who
died at Grafton, Vermont. November 26, 1808, aged
eighty-one years. 11. Mary, born in Sudbury. June
14, 1723. 12. Captain Reuben, born in Sudbury, Feb-
ruary 14, 1725.

(IV) CAPTAIN REUBEN GIBSON, son of
Timothy Gibson (3). born in Sudburj\ February 14,
1725, died in Fitchburg, July 27, 1800, buried in the
South Street burying ground ; married, at Sudbury,
November 13. 1746. Lois Smith, born in Sudbury,
November I, 1726, died in Fitchburg. November 22,
1816, (aged ninety-four as per stone, correct age was
ninety as per church records), daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth Smith, and granddaughter of John
and Sarah Smith, of Sudbury.

Captain Gibson was one of the famous Gibson
brothers of Lunenburg. Four of them settled there
on Pearl Hill. Reuben had a farm of one hundred
acres there before he was of age, deeded to him by
his father, October 25, 1744. This homestead re-
mained in his family until 1863, when it was sold.
The old bouse was torn down in 1892. The Gibson
boys were famous for their size, great strength and
physical courage. They were remarkable also for
their enterprise and force of character. They were
leaders in Lunenburg and Fitchburg after the new
town was formed. Captain Reuben Gibson was on
the first board of selectmen of Fitchburg, 1764.
The first election was on March 5, 1764. He served
the town as highway surveyor 1767; was one of the
thirteen largest taxpayers in 1771 and afterward a

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member of tlie committee of correspondence, elected
December I, 1773 ; constable, 1775 ; chairman com-
mittee of safety and correspondence, 1776; tax col-
lector, 1781. He was captain of the militia com-
pany, as the records of the town show, after 1772 ;
was one of the five Gibsons among the forty-four
Fitchburg minutemen in 1775 ; was a soldier in the
Revolution, sergeant in Capt. Ebenezer Woods'
company. Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment of militia,
April 19, 177s, in the Lexington call. His will,
dated May 10, 1797, was allowed September 2, 1800.
The children of Captain Reuben and Lois
(Smith) Gibson were: l. Lois, born August 15, 1747,
at Lunenburg, died in Ashburnham, May 27, 1820;
married in Fitchburg, June 12, 1772, Joshua Billings,
■of Cambridge Farms, part of Ashburnham, died
there May 18, 1799. 2. Reuben, born in Lunenburg,
September 21, 1748. 3. Abraham, born in Lunen-
burg, August 15, 1752, died in Leicester, April 10,
1829; married Mary Brown (born in Lexington,
May 5, 1758, died in Goshen, Vermont, March 3,
1835), daughter of Daniel and Anna (Bright)
Brown, of Lexington ; a Revolutionary soldier.
4. Thomas, born November 19, 1753, died in Ash-
burnham, June II, 1841 ; married, April i, 1783, Re-
lief Hartwell, of Fitchburg; she died October 19,
1849, aged eighty-five; daughter of Phineas and Mary
(Pierce) Hartwell; a soldier in the Revolution. 5.
Harrington (or Arrington), born in Lunenburg,
August 14, 1756, died in Fitchburg, October 12, 1847,
settled on Pearl Hill; was in the Fitchburg train
band in 1775. 6. Bezaleel, baptized August 29, 1761,
died in Ashburnham, November 17, 1840, married at
Acton, November 23, 1784, Lois Billings, of Acton
(baptized July 21, 1832), died in Ashburnham, Octo-
ber 21, 1854; was a soldier in the Revolution. 7. Is-
rael, born at Fitchburg, December 8, 1765, died April

14, 1818, buried at Laurel Hill cemetery; married
(published March 10, 1797), Lucinda Whiting (born
in Hanover, Massachusetts, died in Fitchburg, July

15. 1870, aged ninety-three years). 8. Ephraim,
born in Fitchburg, November 10, 1768, died there
September 7, 1844 ; married, November 18, 1795, Ly-
dia Kinsman (born in Ipswich, July 15, 1770, died
in Fitchburg, September 4, 1863, aged ninety-one
years), daughter of Jeremiah and I\Iary Kinsman,
of Ipswich and Fitchburg, iMassachusetts.

(V) Reuben Gibson, son of Captain Reuben
Cibson (4), was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts,
September 21, 1748, died in Fitchburg, April 20,
,1836. He married, February 8, 1774. his second
■cousin, Betty Gibson, born in Stow, June 6, 1750,
•died Septeiuber 12, 1824 (her name is given Betsey
on her gravestone), daughter of Jonathan and Mary
(Forristall) Gibson. He was a soldier in the Revo-
lution, a private in Captain Ebenezer Woods' coni-
pany, Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment, and was with
the company when it marched to Lexington, April
I9> 1775- He was a man of great strength and cour-
age. It is said of him that he and his cousin "Jake"
set at defiance the soldiers sent to arrest them as
suspects at the time of Shay's Rebellion. He held
many offices of honor and trust ; was surveyor and
collector of highway taxes, 1778; on school com-
mittee 1783, 1786 and 1788. He acquired consider-
able real estate in Fitchburg, besides the forty-nine
acres he bought of his father, March 22, 1777. He
had half a pew in the meeting house in Ashburnham.
His will was dated November 4, 1831, and proved
June 2, 1836. He left a small legacy to each of his
children, and the residue to his eight surviving
■daughters and the three children of his deceased

daughter, Sally Whitcomb. The children of Reuben

and Betty (Gibson) Gibson: I. , born in

Fitchburg, October 5, 1774, died young. 2 Jonathan,
born in Fitchburg, September 5, 1775, died in Salis-
bury, Vermont, November 22, 1851 ; married (first)
March 11, 1800, Deborah Allen, of Leicester, Ver-
mont, who died July 13, 1822; married (second),
January 29, 1826, Esiner Spencer, of Salisbury, Ver-
mont; she died January i, 1875. 3 IMary, born at
Fitchburg, May 26, 1777, died at Fitchburg, Novem-
ber 9, 1848; married, 1800, Daniel Chesmore. 4.
Lois, born at Fitchburg, May 22, 1778, died in Salis-
bury, Vermont, January 29, 1852 ; married, October
10, 1798, Mark Mossman, of Thetford, Vermont,
and Schroon, New York, (born in Sudbury, Septem-
ber 3, 177s, died Salisbury, Vermont, May 29, 1858),
son of Matthew Mossman, of Ashburnham. 5. Bet-
sey, born in Fitchburg, May 22, 1780, died about
1853; married, February 11, 1802, Lyman Cook, of
Thetford, Vermont. 6. Reuben, born December 8,
1781, died at Salisbury, Vermont, October 22, 1813;
married, May 14, 1S07, Hannah Burnap, of Fitch-
burg. 7. Sally, born December 8, 1782, died at Pat-
ten, Broome -county, P. Q., Canada, May 27, 1826,
buried in North Troy, the adjoining town in Ver-
mont; married Elijah Whitcomb, born Henniker,
New Hampshire, 1778, died Patton, 1863, son of
Benjamin and grandson of Benjamin, of Stow. 8.
Jeremiah, born August 25, 1784 ; married, first, Octo-
ber 28, 1806, Asa Berry, of Rindge, New Hampshire,
who died September 21, 1822; married (second),
October 23, 1823, Captain Francis Dean, of Fitch-
burg, who died December 10, 1851. 9. Susanna,
born December i, 1785, died October 15, 1786. 10.

Susanna, born February 20, 1787, married

Morse, of Thetford. 11. Gibson, baptized April 27,
1788, died November 5, 1788. 12. Simeon, born No-
vember 18, 1789, died February 19, 1852; married,
Salisbury, Vermont, Lovica Graves, who died Feb-
ruary 9, 1828, aged thirty-two; married (second),
August 27, 1829, Sarah, daughter of Israel Wilkins.

13. Abigail, born August 12, 1791, died at Salisbury,
April 9, 1884; married at Salisbury, April 1810,
James Gipson (originally Japson) of Salisbury, born
in Leominster, Massachusetts, May 15, 1790, died in
Salisbury, September 11, 1883, son of John Japson.

14. Olive, born March 11, 1793, died at Hyde Park,
Vermont, April 23, 1879; married, December 19,
1813. Enos Sherwin, of Rindge, New Hampshire,
and Stow, iMassachusetts, born in Rindge, September
23, 1790, died in Stow, July i, 1863. 15. Lovica,
born October 6, 1795, married, October 22, 1818,
Samuel Stratton, of Rindge, who died there August
21, 1840.

(VI) Mary (or Polly) Gibson, daughter of
Reuben Gibson (5), born in Fitchburg, March 26,
1777; baptized in First Church, May 4, 1777; died
in Fitchburg, November 9, 1848. She married (first)
about 1800, Daniel Chesmore, of Henniker, New
Hampshire, and Troy, Vermont. He died after
1816. She married (second), April 6, 1823, Jona-
than Battles, of Fitchburg.

Mr. Chesmore took a lively interest in church
aflfairs, and at Henniker, he and bis wife's uncle,
Thaddeus Gibson, voted , against the settlement of
Rev. Moses Sawyer. Later he removed to Troy,
Vermont, about 1815. She returned about that time
to Fitchburg with her children. Children of Daniel
and Polly Gibson Chesmore: I. Mary, born in Hen-
niker, New Hampshire, December 20, 1801, died in
Ashburnham. Massachusetts, March 26, 1872; mar-
ried, November 9, 1829, Moses Stowell, of Ashburn-

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ham. 2. Daniel, born in Henniker, September lo,
1803, died lu Leominster, June 15, 1886; married
Mehitable Gerry, April 3, 1829; married (second),
December 25, 1844, Almira Bartlett, who died De-
cember 25, 1887, aged eighty-two years. 3. Eliza-
beth, born in Troy, Maine, October 31, 1804, died
June 23, 1864; married, April 25,. 1825, Jonathan
Whittemore. 4. Caroline, born January I, 1806, died
young. 5. Reuben, born in Troy, Vermont, Novem-
ber 13, 1808, died at St. Joseph, Missouri, March 3,
1895; married, December 10, 1835, Elizabeth Upton,
born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 9, 1805, died
in Westminster, December 14, 1880. 6. William
Riley, born in Thetford, Vermont, March 26, 1810,
died in Worcester, Massachusetts, INIarch 26, 1870;
married, November 30, 1834, Lucinda Lovering, of
Hopliinton, Massachusetts. 7. Ransom S., born in
Troy, Vermont, September 29, 181 1, died in Au-
burn, Massachusetts, June 9, 1895; married (first),
1847, Eliza Plummer; married (second) Mrs. Caro-
line (True) Wilson. 8. Royal Chesmore, changed
his name to Henry Otis Rockwell ; see below.

(VII) Henry Otis Rockwell, son of Daniel
Chesmore (6), and Mary Gibson Chesmore, was
born in Troy, Vermont, June 18, 1815 (date 1S13
also given), died in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, No-
vember 30, 1877. He married, April 20, 1842, Sarah
Laws, born in Westford, Massachusetts, January 6,
1822, daughter of William and Lucinda Laws. He
settled in Fitchburg and became a prominent and
highly respected business man there. He was a man
of decided views and took a great interest in public
questions. Children of Henry Otis and Sarah C.
(Laws) Rockwell: I. William. Henry, born in Fitch-
burg, April 27, 1845, died September 7, 1847. 2.
William B., born in Fitchburg, September 28, 1847 ;
resides in San Francisco, California. 3. Henry
Franklin Rockwell, born September 9, 1849.

(VIII) Henry Franklin Rockwell, son of Henry
Otis Rockwell C7), was born in Fitchburg, Mass-
achusetts, September 9, 1849. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native town and entered the high
school in 1862. He left school to enter the employ
of Samuel H. Wood, 51 Tremont street, Boston,
druggist, where he learned the business and became
a pharmacist. This drug store was on the site now
occupied by the department store of Houghton &
Dutton. After three years there he went west for
a year. He returned and accepted a position as
clerk in the drug store of George S. Goodell, in
Brooklyn, New York, formerly a Worcester man,
and remained in this position for nine years. In
1877 he returned to his native town and bought the
drug store of Z. Fortier, at 401 Main street, and has
since then conducted the business with much suc-
cess. He was one of the original directors of the
Fidelity Cooperative Bank of Fitchburg. He is a
member of Alpine Lodge, No. 35, K. P., Uniform
Rank ; Apollo Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; Board of Trade ;
Merchants' Association ; Columbian Club ; Mayors'
Club of Massachusetts.

Mr. Rockwell is best known as one of the most
popular mayors who ever served the city. He has
had a very creditable public career. While he is a
Republican in politics, he is decidedly independent
in municipal affairs, and has been a prime mover in
various citizens' movements in city elections. He
was a member of the common council in 1886, 1887
and 1888, during the last two years being president
of the board. He was an alderman in 1889, 1890
and 1891. He was a representative in the general

court in 1892 and 1893, and served on the committee
on railroads. He was mayor of Fitchburg in 1896,
1897, and 1898. He was elected not as a Republican,
but at the head of an independent citizens' ticket.

He married, in Brooklyn, New York, April 28,
1881, Jessie F. Lamberson, born in New York City,
■August 8, 1857, daughter of Thomas and Emeline
(Nostrand) Lamberson. She is descended from the
early Dutch settlers in New York. Their children :
I. William Milton, born in Fitchburg, August 4,
1882 ; graduate of Fitchburg high school and Har-
vard College (A. M. 1903) ; now with Scribner's,
New York. 2. Jessie Kimball, born in Fitchburg,
November 30, 1886; graduate of Fitchburg high
school ; student at Vassar, class of 1908.

GENERAL JOHN W. KIMBALL. (I) Richard
Kimball, the emigrant ancestor of General John W.
Kimball, of Fitchburg, JNIassachusetts. was from the
parish of Rattlesden, Suffolk county, England, where
his son Henry was baptized August 12, 1615. He
married, in England, Ursula, daughter of Henry
Scott, of Rattlesden. The will of Henry Scott,
dated September 24, 1625, was proved in the court of
the archdeaconry of Sudbury, January 10, 1624-5.
He was buried in Rattlesden, December 24, 1624.
The will mentions Abigail, Henry, Elizabeth and
Richard Kimball, his grandchildren, the children of
Richard and Ursula (.Scott) Kimball ; his wife,
Martha, and sons Roger and Thomas Scott, the lat-
ter of whom came to America in the same ship with
Richard Kimball and Martha Scott, the widow, aged
sixty years. The family came to America in the
ship "Elizabeth," of Ipswich, sailing April 30, 1634.
The ages of the family as then given were : Richard,
thirty-nine, with wife Ursula and children; Henry,
fifteen ; Elizabeth, thirteen ; Richard, eleven ; Mary,
nine ; Martha, five ; John, three ; Thomas, one. They
settled in Watertown, where Henry Kimball, aged
forty-two, and family, also settled. This Henry
Kimball is thought to have been a brother. He
came in the same ship.

The home lot of Richard Kimball was six acres
on the Cambridge line, now in the city of Cambridge,
near the corner of Huron avenue and Appleton
streets. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635,
and was a proprietor in 1636-7. Soon after this he
removed to Ipswich, where the settlers required the
services of a wheelwright. He settled there and
followed his trade and carried on his farm. The
town granted him a house lot February 23, 1637,
next adjoining Goodwin Simons, at the west end of
the town. He was granted at the same time forty
acres beyond the North river, near the land of Rob-
ert Scott. In 1641 he was mentioned as one of the
commoners of Ipswich, and was appointed one of
the selectmen, ("Seven Men") March i, 1645. He
had various other grants of land and served on var-
ious town committees. He was one of the execu-
tors of the estate of his brother-in-law, Thomas
Scott, who died February, 1653-4. He was one of
the proprietors of Plumb Island. He married (sec-
ond), October 23, 1661, Margaret, widow of Henry
Dow, of Hampton, New Hampshire. She died
INIarch i, 1675-6. His will was dated March 5, 1674.
and proved September 28, 1675. He bequeathed
to his wife fulfillment of marriage contract, and
named children and other relatives. He died June
22, 1675. aged eighty years. Children of Richard and
LIrsuIa Kimball: i. Abigail, born in Rattlesden,
county of Suffolk, England, died in Salisbury, Mass-

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achusetts, June 17, 1658; married in England, John
Severans ; twelve children. 2. Henry, born in Rat-
tlesden, 1615. 3. Elizabeth, born in Rattlesden, 1621.
4. Richard, born in Rattlesden, 1623, died May 26,
1676, in Wenham, Massachusetts. 5. Mary, born in
Rattlesden, 1625, married Robert Dutch, of Glouces-
ter and Ipswich, Massachusetts ; they had six chil-
dren. 6. Martha, born in Rattlesden, 1629, married
Joseph Fowler, son of Philip and Martha Fowler;
he was born in England in 1622, and was killed by
the Indians, May 19, 1676, near Deerlicld, Massachu-
setts, in Kmg Philip's war; had four children. 7.
John, born in Rattlesden, 1631, died May 6, 1698.
8. Thomas, born 1633, died May 3, 1676. 9. Sarah,
born in Watertown, Massachusetts, 1635, died June
12, 1690; married, November 24, 1658, Edward Allen,
of Ipswich; eleven children. 10. Benjamm Kimball,
born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1637, died June 11,
1695. II. Caleb, born in Ipswich, 1639. died 1682.

(II) Thomas Kimball, son of Richard Kimball
(i), born in Rattlesden, Suffolk county, England,
1633, was one year old when he came to New Eng-
land with his parents. He later went to Ipswich,
Massachusetts, and to Hampton, New Hampshire,
where he was living October 20, 1653, the owner of
a mill property on Oyster river there. He had his
home there as late as 1660, and afterward removed
to that portion of Rowley later included in the pres-
ent town of Bradford, Massachusetts. This part of
Rowley was originally known as Merrimac. Thom-
as Kimball was elected constable in Rowley in 1669.
His home was on the road to Boxford. He lived
there ten years. He was a mechanic as well as farm-
er, and owned over four hundred acres of land at
the time of his death. He was a victim of Indian
raiders in King Philip's war. On the night of May
2, 1676, three well known "Praying Indians" who
had turned against the whites, Peter, Andrew and
Simon, so they had been christened, started for
Rowley on an errand of murder, but failing to reach
their destination early enough for their purposes
they sought the home of Thomas Kimball in ^lerri-
mac when the night was far advanced, and killed the
father. The mother and live children were taken
into captivity and carried forty miles into the for-
est. The lives of Mrs. Kimball and her baby were
frequently threatened, and twice the fire was light-
ed to burn them at the stake. Through the friendly
offices of VVanalancet, of the Pennacook Indians,
they were freed after forty-one terrible days in cap-
tivity, and reached their desolated home June 13,
1676. The prayers of the congregation at Ipswich
were asked May 3, 1676, for the safety of the cap-
tives. Subsequently the widow petitioned the gen-
eral court for protection from Simon, the Indian
who murdered her husband and threathened to kill
her and her children if they returned to their home.
Accordingly the three Indians were seized and put
in jail, but they escaped and continued their murder-
ous course most mercilessly thereafter, we are told.
They were well known, for they had lived a great
deal in the settlements and worked for the colonists.
Thomas Kimball served the town of Merrimac as
selectman and in other offices. He married Mary,
daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith, of Ipswich.
Joanna died about 1681. The children of Thomas
and Mary (Smith) Kimball: i. Elizabeth, born
Hampton, Massachusetts, December 5, 1658. died
December 27, 1658. 2. Richard, born Hampton.
1660, died Bradford, Massachusetts, January 21,
1732-3? 3. Joseph, born 1662, died 1699; was im-

pressed into His ^lajesty's service in 1689 and ag:aia
in 1690. 4. Mary, born about 1663 ; married,-
March 22, 1682-3, Thomas Reddington, of Boxford,.
Massachusetts; six children. 5. Hannah, born Jan-
uary 27, 1661, died before 1699. 6. Thomas, bora
1665, died June 30, 1732, in Bradford. 7. Ebenezer,
born April 20, 1668. 8. John, born October 14, 1675 ;,
removed to Piscataquis, Ekst Jersey. 9. Joanna,,
died April 10, 1690; married Joshua ^Nlorse, of New-
bury, Massachusetts, who died March 20, 1691.

(III) Thomas Kimball, son of Thomas Kimball.
(2), born in Rowley, Masachusetts, 1665, died in
Bradford, Massachusetts, January 11, 1732; married,
in Maiden, Massachusetts, December 22, 1686, Deb-
orah, born 1668 and died December 22, 1726, daugh-
ter of John Pemberton, of jNlalden. He died 1692,
and administration was granted to his wife Deborah.
Thomas Kimball married (second) Grace, widow
of John Currier, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, daugh-
ter of Christopher and Sarah Hall. Pie resided
September 4, 1729, in that part of the town of Brad-
ford now Groveland. His old homestead was stand-
ing until 1893, when it was torn down by the owner,.
Mrs. William Gray. Children of Thomas and Deb-
orah (Pemberton) Kimball: i. Thomas, born in
Bradford where all the children were born, October
14, 1687, died September 11, 1748. 2. Jonathan,
born February 21, 1689, died unmarried. 3. Dorothy,
born September 13, 1690; married June 19, 1711,
Daniel Poor ; ten children. The children of Thomas
and Grace (Currier) Kimball were: 4. John, born
November 16, 1692, died November 11, 1748, at
Bradford. S- Mary, born February 25, 1694, mar-
ried, August 13, 1713, Samuel Webster; ten chil-
dren, among them Rev. Samuel Webster, of Salis-
bury, Massachusetts (H. C. 1737). 6. Deborah, born
April 13, 1695, died probably before December 29,.
1758; married Samuel Poor, of Andover ; five chil-
dren. 7. Ebenezer, born July 8, 1697. 8. Ephraim,
born April 29, 1699, died December 28, 1743. 9.
Abigail, born April 12, 1702, married, November
14, 1722, Samuel Kimball, son of David Kimball. 10.
Priscilla, born June 14, 1703 ; married, November
17, 1728, Ebenezer Gage. 11. Sarah, born January
22, 1705-6. 12. Hannah, born September 17, 1707.
died April 13, 1727-

(IV) Ephraim Kimball, son of Thomas Kim-
ball (3), born in Bradfor^. Massachusetts, April
29, 1699, died December 22, 1743- He married, Jan-
uary 12, 1721, Anna Tenney, born 1700, died August
6, 1726. He married (second), October I, 1726,
Mary Wittier, born 1703, died April 3, 1740. He
married (third), February 5, 1740-41. Sarah Mul-
liken, who survived him. He resided in Bradford,
Massachusetts, and owned land in Rowley and Lun-
enburg, Massachusetts, and Chester, New Hamp-
shire. His will was proved January 23, 1743-4- He
ordered his executors to sell his negro girl slave to
pay his debts. Children of Ephraim and Anna (Ten-
ney) Kimball: i. Ephraim, born August 16, 1722,
resided in Lunenburg, jNlassachusetts. 2. Dorothy,
born June 30, 1724, died April 30, 1797; married,
January 25, 1742. Edmund Kimball, of Bradford.
Children of Ephraim and Mary (Witter) Kimball:
3. Marv, boirn December 30. 1730, married, P>b-
ruary i, 1749, Peter Hunt, of Tewksbury;. thirteen,
children. 4. Ann, born December 25, 1732, died
September 14. 1736. 5. William, born May 31,
1734, died September 21, 1736. 6. Eliphalet, born
October 11. 1736, died 1760. 7- William, born
March 29, 1740, resided at Charlestown, New Hamp-

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shire. Children of Ephraim and Sarah (MulhUen)
Kimball: 8. Hannah, baptized October 25, 1741.
died November 2, 1754. 9- Nathaniel, born l-t-b-
ruary 3, 1743-4, resided at Bradford.

(.V) Ephraim Kimball, son of Ephraim Kimball
(4), born Bradford, Massachusetts, August 16. 1722,
died February 14, 1782; married, July 18, 1746, Mary,
daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth Wetherbee, of
Lunenburg, Massachusetts, who was born January
6, 1730, died 1816. He resided in Bradford and
Lunenburg, Massachusetts (.now Fitchburg). He
had the rank of ensign ni the militia. Children of
Ephraim and Mary (.Wetherbee) Kimball: i. Mary,
born January 14, 1747-48; married, September 30,

1766, John Dunsmore; ten children; she married
(.second) Lovell, of Charlestown, New Hamp-
shire. 2. Anne, born December 24, 1749; married,
Octoljer 20, 1767, Jonathan Dix, of New Ipswich,
New Hampshire. 3. Ephraim, born February 15,
1752, resided at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 4.
Rachel, born September 5, 1754; married, December
3, 1772, Benjamin Frost. 5. Levi, born October 23,
1756; married, October 23, 1776; was in Cap-
tain Ebenezer Wood's company of Fitchburg,
April ig, 1775, at Lexington Alarm. 6. Han-
nah, born December, 1758; died March 6,
1786; married, 1781, Joseph Farre ; resided in Pep-
perell, Massachusetts. 7. Elizabeth, born March 31,
1761, died young. 8. Abigail, born April 23, 1763;
married, October 28, 1782, John Polly. 9. Eliphalet,
born July 22, 1765. 10. Elizabeth, born July 17,

1767. II. Sarah, born August 6, 1770.

(VI) Ephraim Kimball, son of Ephraim Kim-
ball (5), born Fitchburg, JMassachusetts, February
15, 1752, died May, 1825; married, April 14, 1774,
Betty White, born April 14, 1754, died July 26,
1844, aged ninety. He resided in Fitchburg, where
he was prominent in public affairs. He held the
principal offices of the town ; was deacon of the
Congregational Church. He was in Captain William
Thurlo's company under Major Ebenezer Bridge, in
the revolution, serving at the Bennington call, 1777.
Betty White w^as the daughter of John and Mary
(Whitney) White of Lunenburg. Their children:
I. John, born February 17, 1775, married Beulah,
born July 4, 1779, daughter of Joseph and Mary
Sawyer; settled in Bloomfield, Maine. 2. Ephraim,
born January 12, 1777, died November 27, 1853. 3.
Polly, born April 9, 1778, died August 22, 1846;
married, December 6, 1804, Joseph Farwell, of Fitch-
burg. 4. Betsey, born October 5, 1779; married

Smith, of Bloomfield, Maine. 5. William, born

June 26, 1781 ; married, February 20, 1807, Catherine
Adams ; resided at Petersburg, Ohio. 6. Samuel,
born March 31, 1783. 7. Porter, born January 8,
1785. 8. Hannah Farrar, born August 2, 1786, died
January 182 1 ; married, March 11, 1807, Samuel
Putnam, died July 31, i860; resided at Fitchburg.
9. James, born November 21, 1789, died January 24,
1821 ; unmarried. 10. Joseph, born January 17, 1791,
died young. 11. Alpheus, born June 26, 1792, died
February 13, 1859. 12. Abel, born May 12, 1794,
died young. 13. Nancy, born July 16, 1796, died
at Fitchburg, January 6, 1847; married, December 3,
1818, Jonas Holden, of Shirley, Massachusetts. 14.
Elvira, born November 7, 1798, died in Fitchburg,
January 18, 1856; married, January 2, 1840,
Ephraim Crocker.

(VH) Alpheus Kimball, son of Ephraim Kim-
ball (6), born Fitchburg, June 26, 1792, died there
February 13, 1859; married, September 29, 1816,

Harriet Stone, of Framingham, Massachusetts, born
July 29, 1790, died January 6, 1888. Alpheus Kim-
ball was educated in the public schools of Fitch-
burg. He started in business in Fitchburg as a
merchant, but is best known as a manufacturer of
scythes. He was the founder of the firm of Alpheus
Kimball & Sons, scythe manufacturers, of Fitchburg.
Mr. Kimball was actively interested in politics. He
left the Whig party when the Free Soil party was
formed, and voted for Fremont for president. He
was a member of the Congregational Church and
leader of the anti-slavery faction when the church
was divided over the ethics of the slavery question,
about 1840. He was a charter member of the Fitch-
burg Fusiliers, organized February 3. 1817, with
John Upton, captain, Alpheus Kimball, lieutenant,
and Walter Johnson, ensign. The three officers of
the company were of equal height, all over six
feet. Mrs. Kimball was daughter of Luther and
Mary (Trowbridge) Stone of Framingham, Massa-
chusetts. Their children were all born in F'itchburg :
I. Harriet Ann, 1817, married, October 2, 1851,
Jeremiah B. Lovett. 2. Alpheus P., born 1819. 3.
Eliza F., born 1821 ; married Richard Hobart Tor-
rey. 4. William, born 1823. 5. James, born 1825.
6. John W., born February 27, 1828.

(VHI) General John W. Kimball, son of
Alpheus Kimball (7), was born in Fitchburg, IMas-
sachusetts, February 27. 1828. He was educated in
the public schools of his native city, and also at-
tended Fitchburg Academy. He began his busi-
ness career in the scythe factory of Alpheus Kim-
ball & Sons, and was associated with his father
and brothers later in the partnership. After the
death of the senior partner in 1859 the business was
conducted by William Kimball and John W. Kim-
ball until 1864.

When the civil war broke out General Kimball
was the captain of the local militia company, the
Fitchburg Fusiliers, of which his father was a
charter member and first lieutenant after organiza-
tion. General Kimball himself joined the company
at the age of eighteen and had risen from the ranks
through the various oflSces of the company, and was
a faithful and conscientious officer from the very
first. His company maintained a high standard of
efficiency. He tendered his company to Governor
Andrew to serve in the war, January, 1861, and
his company with Companies A, and C, of the old
Ninth Regiment, became the nucleus of the famous
Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers under Colonel
Charles Devens. The Fitchburg Fusiliers had also
been a part of the Ninth Regiment, M. V. M. as
Company B. He had been adjutant of the regi-
ment from May I, 1858, to January 7, i860. Be-
fore leaving the state he was commissioned, August
I, 1861, major of the regiment, and became lieuten-
ant-colonel April 29, 1862. As lieutenant-colonel
of the Fifteenth he commanded the regiment in all
the battles of the Peninsular campaign, siege of
Richmond, Second Bull Run, South Mountain,
Antietam, and down to Fredericksburg. In the
battle of Antietam alone the regiment lost in less
than twenty minutes 330 killed and wounded and
fourteen missing — 344 out of 606 officers and men,
including First Massachusetts Sharpshooters at-
tached to the regiment. His horse w-as shot under
him. The Fifteenth was attached to the First Brig-
ade, Second Division, Second Corps, Army of the
Potomac. In November, 1862, Colonel Kimball was
called from the front to take command of the

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Fifty-third Regiment. He commanded that regi-
ment in 1863 in the Department of the Gulf, and was
at the siege of Port Hudson. In the assault of June
14, 1863, he was dangerously wounded in the thigh,
but did not leave the field until after the fighting
was over. His regiment was in the Third Brigade,
Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, Depart-
ment of the Gulf. An attack of malarial fever pros-
trated him, and he returned to Worcester county to
serve as superintendent of recruiting there. In the
winter of 1864 he organized the Fifty-seventh Regi-
ment in JNIassachusetts. He was brevetted briga-
dier-general March 13, 1865, "for gallant and dis-
tinguished services in the field during the war."
He was in the service nearly three years.

He re-organized the Fitchburg Fusiliers in 1866,
and again took command as captain. He was ap-
pointed August 17, 1870, engineer on the staff of
Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, commanding Mas-
sachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served until April
28, 1876, when he resigned to take command of the
Tenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.
He served as colonel until 1878, when he resigned.
He has to his credit almost thirty-two years of con-
tinuous service in the military branch of the gov-
ernment. He was one of the most distinguished
soldiers and officers of the civil war from Massa-
chusetts, rising from the ranks to the command of
his regiment, he was wounded, and passed through
the most bloody and decisive battles of the war.
He won the confidence of men and superior officers
by his steadiness and coolness, his courage and
confidence. He was a loyal friend and admirer of
Gen. Devens, and no living man is more interested
probably in the completion and dedication after
forty years of a suitable memorial to Gen. Devens.
During the past twenty-five years, though not
actively connected with the militia. Gen. Kimball
has never failed to show his interest in the depart-
ment he served so long and so well whenever there
was an opportunity. He became a member of Ed-
win V. Sumner Po^. No. 19, G. A. R., in 1867, and
was elected commander in 1871, 1872 and 1874. In
the latter year he was also department commander.

During the years since the civil war. Gen. Kim-
ball has been almost continuously in the public
service. He was tax collector of Fitchburg from
1865 to 1872, and at the same time was constable,
member of the state police, and police commissioner.
From 1873 to 1877 he was United States' pension
agent. One of the most honorable and responsi-
ble positions that Gen. Kimball has held was as
custodian of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
■of the national treasury department at Washington.
He had the custody of the rolls, dies, plates and
engravings used in printing bonds, treasury notes,
rational currency and government securities. He
was recommended for the position without his
■knowledge, by Gen. Devens, the colonel of Gen.
Kimball's old regiment, who was then attorney
general of the United States. Gen. Devens said of
Gen. Kimball, that he "not only urged his appoint-
ment but would become personally responsible for
bis honesty and integrity." He resigned his po-
sition of custodian at Washington to accept the ap-
pointment as postmaster of Fitchburg in i879,_from
President Hayes, and served the people in this ca-
pacity faithfully and capably until 1887. In 1888
be was elected to the general court. He had previ-
ously served during the civil war while he was
recruiting in 1864 and 1865, and again in 1872, be-

ing on the military committee in 1864 and 1865, and
its chairman in 1872; he served on the finance
committee in 1888, and on the railroad committee
from 1889 to 1891, being chairman in 1890-91 ; and
remained in the legislature, an unusually efficient
representative, until he was elected state auditor in
1891. As state auditor. Gen. Kimball will be well
and favorably known throughout the state as long
as the memory of faithful and conscientious public
service lasts. He held this important and honorable
position until 1901, serving nine years and being re-
elected annually. No man in that otiice ever had the
public confidence more fully than Gen. Kimball.
Many of his friends objected to his retirement in
1901 from the position, believing he should continue
to hold it for the best interests of the state.

Gen. Kimball has been trustee and auditor of the
Fitchburg Savings Bank for a number of years. He
is a member of Aurora Lodge of Free Masons;
Thomas Royal Arch Chapter, m which he held sev-
eral of the minor chairs ; Jerusalem Commandery,
Knights Templar, of which he was for two years
the eminent commander, and in which he held all
the offices in succession from senior warden up.
He is a member of the Fitchburg Grange, Patrons
of Husbandry ; of the Home Market Club, and the
Middlesex Club of Boston. He belongs to the
Loyal Legion of JNIassachusetts. He is at pres-
ent living at his home, 47 High street, Fitchburg.
He married Almira Melissa Lesure, who was born
July IS, 1831. Their children are: i. Emma
Frances, married, April 17, 1878, Frederick William
Eager. 2. Mary Elizabeth. 3. Edward Franklin.
4. Josephine White, born April 28, 1876, died Sep-
tember 2, 1881.

CHARLES E. WARE. Robert Ware (i), the
immigrant ancestor of Charles E. Ware, of Fitch-
burg. was indeed the ancestor of all of that name
known in this part of the country. Robert Ware
was born in England and came to this country be-
fore the autumn of 1642. He became a proprietor
of the town November 25, 1642. He bought the
house and three acres of land of Thomas Eames, of
Dedhain. His lot was on Great or Dedham Island.
Grants of land were made to him February 6, 1642-3,
and from time to time afterward in Dedham. He
joined the church at the time of the baptism of his
eldest child October 2 or 11, 1646. He was admitted
a freeman May 26, 1647. He became a member of
the artillery company in 1644. He lived and died
in Dedham. though three of his sons, John, Na-
thaniel and Robert, settled in what was later and
is now called Wrentham, Massachusetts, adjoining
Dedham. Robert Ware paid the second largest tax
in Dedham.

He married (first) in Dedham, Margaret Hunt-
ing, March 24, 1644-5. She was the daughter of
John Hunting, first ruling elder of the Dedham
Church and his wife Esther Seaborn. Margaret,
the mother of all his children, died in Dedham, Au-
gust 26. 1670. He married (second). May 3, 1676,
Hannah Jones, born March 28, 1636, died April 20,
1721, daughter of Thomas Jones, of Dorchester.
Her grave is marked by a stone in the Dorchester
burying ground. She died April 20, 1721, aged
eighty-four years. Richard Ware died in Dedham,
April 19. 1699. His will was made February 25,
1698. and proved May 11, 1699. The children of
Robert and Margaret (Hunting) Ware were: John,
born October 6, 1646, of whom later; Nathaniel,

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October 7, 1648, died July 10, 1724. at Wrentham ;
Margaret, February 14, 1650-1, died July 22, 1664;
Robert, August i, 1653, died September i5, 1724,
at Wrentham; Esther, September 28, 1655, died
September 3. 1734, at Wrentham; married, May 13,
1673, in Dedham. Rev. Samuel Man, lirst minister
of Wrentham, only son of William Man, of Cam-
bridge; had eleven children; Samuel, September 30,
1657, died March, 1730-1 ; Ephraiin, November S,
1659, died March 26, 1753, aged ninety-three years,
at Needham ; Elizabeth, November 19, 1661 ; Joseph,
September 8, 1663 ; Ebenezer, October 28, 1667, died
1765, aged ninety-seven years, at Needham.

(II) John Ware, son of Robert Ware (i), was
born in Dedham, Massachusetts, October 6, 1646,
died in Wrentham, Massachusetts, April 7, 1718.
He settled in Wrenthan in 1671, two years before
it was incorporated as a town. In March, 1676. the
town was deserted by the settlers on account of the
Indians, and they did not return until 1680, after
King Philip's war was over. John Ware built his
house, it is thought, as early as 1668 on the south
slope of Knockings Hill. The farm is now or was
lately occupied by Richard Dimond. His brothers,
Robert and Nathaniel, also settled in Wrentham.
John was one of the first board of selectmen of the
town. He was lieutenant and captain of the first
military company. His commission as lieutenant
of the First Company of Militia in the town of
Wrentham, signed by Governor Stoiighton, is still
extant. He seems to have served as lieutenant from
1689 to 1704 and as captain till 1715. He was en-
gaged in King Philip's \var and led his men in
attack against the Indians at Indian Rock, in the
eastern part of what is now Franklin, Massachu-
setts.

He married (first") in Dedham, December 10,
1668, Mary Metcalf, daughter of Michael Metcalf,
Jr., and his wife Mary Fairbanks. (See Fairbanks
F'amily.) She was born August 15. 1646. and died
in Dedham, March 22. 1676-7. He married (sec-
ond). March 24, 1678-9. Joanna Gay Whiting,
daughter of John and Joanna Gay. of Dedham, and
widow of Nathaniel Whiting, Jr. She was born
March 23, 1644-5. and died at Wrentham, October
26, 1708. He married (third), December 21, 1709,
Dorothy Wood, widow of Eleazer Wood, of Sher-
born. She died in Sherborn, December 10, 1728.

The children of John and Mary (Metcalf) Ware
were : John, born June 17, 1670. in Dedham, died
March 29, 1751, in Wrentham; Elizabeth, born July
13. 1672, in Dedham, died February 20, 1672-3, in
Dedham ; a son, born and died in Wrentham, Feb-
ruary 10, 1673-4, first burial in new ground ; Eleazer,
died in Wrentham, September, 1675; Eleazer, born
October 2, 1676, in Dedham, or September 28. 1676
(Wrentham records), died July 23, 1750, in Wren-
tham. The children of John and Joanna (Gay)
Ware were : Abigail, born in Dedham, January,
1680, married in Wrentham, November 18, 1702,
Thomas Throop ; he died November 18, 1708 ; Jo-
seph, born June 2, 1681, in Wrentham, died Janu-
ary 20, 1754, in Sherborn; Zachariah, born Novem-
ber 16. 1683, died January 13, 1684; Mary, born
November 15, 1684, died December 27, 1747, in her
sixty-fourth year, married. March 31. 1730, Deacon
Francis Nicholson ; Hannah, born September 24,
1686, died June 8, 17,10; married, December 20,
1709, Joshua, son of John and Hannah Fairbanks ;
Benjamin, born Jnlv 8, 1688. died July 16, 1744.
(Ill) Joseph Ware, son of John Ware (2),

was born in Wrentham, June 2. 1691-2, and died
in Sherborn. January 26, 1754. He married, Janu-
ary S, 1708-9, Hannah Wood, daughter of Eleazer
and Dorothy Wood, of Sherborn. Eleazer was the
son of Nicholas Wood. Hannah was born Feb-
ruary II, 1688-9, died March 4, 1754. They settled
on the Wood farm in Sherborn. In 1710 with Jo-
seph Morse he built the first grist mill on Sawin's
Brook and the privilege is still in the Morse fam-
ily. He purchased half the Hull estate from Judith
Cooper, daughter of Judge Sewall, and built upon
it a house which is now or was recently standmg.
It was occupied in 1856 by Major Goulding, a de-
scendant. In 1885 it was owned and occupied by
Thomas Colford. Henry Ware, Sr., was born in
this house. Hannah Wood inherited half this farm.
His slave Duty planted the great elm tree near the
house, three-fourths of a mile south of Sherborn
common.

The children of Joseph and Hannah (Wood)
Ware were: Hannah, born August lo, 1710, mar-
ried in Sherborn, December 27, 1753, Nathaniel
Haven; Zipporah. November 22. 1712, married Cur-
tis Goulding; Abigail, April 27, 1715, died May 6,
1715; John, May 20, 1717, died September 18, 1779;
Eleazer, November 3, 1719, died August 18, 1722;
Abigail, January 7, 1722-3, died March i, 1788;
married. September 2, 1742. Nathaniel Prentice,
son of Deacon Henry Prentice, of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts ; settled on the south quarter of the Hull
farm in Sherborn; he died January 23, 1791, aged
eighty-one; Joseph, August 3, 1725, died March 31,
1743, immarried; Benjamin, April 18, 1730, died
February 25, 1754; was captain, served as cornet
of horse in expedition against the Indians; about
1710 he and Captain Joseph Morse built the first
grist mill on Sewall's brook ; was selectman eleven
years.

(IV) John Ware, son of Joseph Ware (3),
was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts. May 20, 1717,
and died there September 18, 1779. He inherited
the north half of the homestead in Sherborn. He
was selectman in 1758. He married, June 19, 1743,
Martha Prentice, daughter of Deacon Henry Pren-
tice, of Cambridge, who was a son of Solomon and
grandson of Henry Prentice, the emigrant, of Cam-
bridge. Massachusetts. Martha was born June 27,
1724, died April 20, 1805. The children of John
and Martha (Prentice) Ware were: Martha, born
May 7, 1744. died April 30. 1751 ; Elizabeth, Au-
gust 22, 1746, died 1814 ; married, April 24, 1765,
Peter Bullard, born September 23, 1734, had fourteen
children ; Mary, December 5, 1748. married, Decem-
ber 6, 1770, Jonathan Holbrook, 2d., both at Sher-
born; Joseph, April 30, 1751. "Esquire;" John,
July 4, 1753, fought at the siege of Boston and at
Bunker Hill, died September 14, 1833, at Deer-
field; Martha, June 6, 1756, inarried, October 11,
1781, Joel Coolidge, born July 19, 1759; Benjamin,
January 8, 1759. died February 2, 1814; Persis. Au-
gust 12, 1761, married, June I, 1780, William
Adames ; Henry, Sherborn, April i, 1764, of whom
later; Azariah, January 12, 1769.

(V) Henry Ware, son of John Ware (4),
was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, April i, 1764.
and died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 12, 1845,
aged eighty-one years. He married (first), March 31,
1789, Mary Clark, daughter of Rev. Jonas and Lucy
(Bowes) Clark, of Lexington. Rev. Jonas Clark
was the son of Thomas, grandson of John, great-
grandson of John and great-great-grandson of Hugji

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Clark. Mary Clark was granddaughter of Rev.
John Hancock, who was grandfather of Governor
John Hancock, of revolutionary times. She was
born May 4, 1762. and died at Cambridge, July S.
1805. He married (second), February 9, 1807,
Mary (Otis) Lincoln, daughter of James (Dtis and
widow of Benjamin Lincoln, Jr. She died at Cam-
bridge, February 17, 1807, aged forty-three. He
married (third), September 18. 1807, Elizabeth
Bowes, daughter of Nicholas Bowes, of Boston.
She was born May 27, 1776, and died August 30,
1850.

Henry Ware was a feeble child, but by the
help of his mother's tender care in childhood he
acquired a strong constitution in manhood. In his
youth he attended school in winter for six or eight
weeks and the remainder of the year did the lighter
kinds of work on the farm. By the generous aid
of his brothers he was fitted for college by the min-
ister of the parish. Rev. Elijah Brown. He entered
Harvard in 1781. His college course was full of
honors and he delivered the Latin valedictory ora-
tion at graduation. He studied for the ministry,
teaching the Cambridge school in the meantime.
He began to preach in 1787 and was ordained Octo-
ber 24, 1787, minister of the First Church of Hing-
ham, Massachusetts. He preached in the Hingham
Church for eighteen years and won a place in the
first rank of ministers at a time when the best
minds and abilities of the people were in the min-
istry. In 1805. when he was forty years old, he
was elected Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard.
His election marked a new era in the history of
the Congregational churches in New England. It
was vehemently opposed by a faction of the clergy
and laymen, on the ground that Mr. Ware's theology
was of so liberal a character that it was not right
to place him in a professorship intended to inculcate
and maintain Calvinistic doctrines. As a matter
of fact Thomas Hollis. of London, who founded the
professorship in 1719, was not a Calvinist but a very
liberal Baptist, who had required in his deed of gift
only that his professor should "believe in the
Scriptures as the only perfect rule of faith and
manners and should promise to explain the
Scriptures with integrity and uprightness, according
to the best li.ght that God should give him." Mr.
Wai-e took no part in the long and bitter controversy
following his election until 1820. when, by the
advice of his friends, he published a reply to "Let-
ters to Unitarians" by Dr. Woods and followed tlie
discussion several years. He took his share in the
Sunday pulpit service in the college chapel as well
as his regular lectures and teaching. Twice he be-
came the acting president. He also devised in 181 1
a course of regular exercises with the students of
divinity who remained in Cambridge after taking
■their college degree and this course developed into
the Harvard Divinity School, established in l8ig.
His son. Henry Ware. Jr., became one of the pro-
fessors in the Divinity School in 1830. Dr. VVare
devoted himself to these varied duties with ability
and diligence for more than thirty-five years. In
1840 he underwent an unsuccessful operation for a
cataract on the eye and for the last five years of
his life was confined to the house most of the time.

Dr. J. G. Palfrey wrote of him: "Henry Ware's
W'as a character of mark. I have known few minds
so sagacious, none more firm, more calmly balanced.
more candid or more just. Its influence has operated
extensively. Nearly all the ministers of one of the

principal Christian denominations in the coiuitry
have been his pupils."

The children of Henry and Mary (Clark) Ware
were: Fanny and Julia (twins), born May 17,
died May 22, 1790; Lucy Clark, June 6, 1791, died
February 10, 1866, at Xorthboro ; married. Febru-
ary 3. 1818, Joseph Allen, son of Phineas and Ruth
(Smitli) Allen; Mary Cotton, December 3, 1792,
died March 29, 1862 ; married, December 3, 1818.
Jairus Lincoln, son of Hawkes and Mary Howe
Lincoln, of Hingham (H. C. 1814) ; Henry, Jr., April
21, 1794, died at Framingham. September 22, 1843;
John, December ig, 1795. died in Boston, April 29,
1864; William, August 3, 1797, died at Cambridge,
February 19, 1852; Martha, June 2. 1799, died Octo-
ber 21. 1802; Harriet. December 25, 1801, died June
24. 1838 ; married. October 30, 1826, Rev. Edward
Brooks Hall, of Northampton, Massachusetts, son
of Nathaniel and Joanna Cotton (Brooks) Hall;
Martha Ann, April 5. 1804. died April 16. 1805.
The children of Henry and Elizabeth (Bowes)
Ware were : Elizabeth Anne. June 9, 1808, died in
Roxbury, March 29. 1866: married, August 24. 1831,
George Putnam, son of Andrew and Jerusha
(Clapp) Putnam; Edward Augustus, December 29,
died December 30, 1S09: Caroline Rebecca, Decem-
ber II, 1811. died December, 1869. at Newton Lower
Falls ; married, October 27. 1835, Edward Warren.
M. D., son of John and Abby (Collins) Warren;
tlie mother was a daughter of Governor Collins,
of Rhode Island; Charles Eliot, born May 7, 1814,
died September 3, 18S7, at Winchendon. Massachu-
setts : Edward Proctor, January 12, 1816. drowned
in Charles river, July 13, 1825; Charlotte Louisa,
April 12. 1818. died at Cambridge, December 8,
1903, unmarried ; George Frederick, February 14,
1820. died September 29, 1849, at San Francisco.
California (H. C. 1838); Thornton Kirkland. born
February 23. 1S23; Anne Storrow. March 10. 1S26,
died at Cambridge. October 3. 1896, unmarried.

(VI) Thornton Kirkland Ware, son of Dr. Henry
Ware (5), was born in Cambridge. Massachusetts.
Februarv 23. 1823, died at Fitchburg. April 26. 1892.
He was graduated at Harvard College in 1842. He
took the degree of LL. B. in 1844. He came to
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1846. and established
a practice there. He had for law partners at various
time, Hon. C. H. B. Snow, George A. Torrey. and
his son, Charles E. Ware. He served the town as
representative in 1830 and 1854. He was post-
master during the civil war from 1861 to 1866. He
was justice of the Fitchburg police court from the
time it was established until his death. He was
a trustee of the Wallace Public Library from the
time it was established until his death, except one
year, and was chairman from 1875 foi" about twenty-
five years. He was president of the Fitchburg
Savings Bank and a director of the Fitchburg Na-
tional Bank. Judge Ware was one of the best
known and most highly respected men in public
life in Fitchburg.

He married in Fitchburg, January 22. 1R52. Lucy
Ann Adams Marsliall. daughter of Chedorlaomer
and Martha Fox (Upton) Marshall. She was born
in Fitchburg. March t6. 1828. Their children were:
Charles Eliot. 2d., born July 17. 1853 ; Thornton
Marshall. April 27, 1866.

(VII) Charles Eliot Ware. 2d., son of Thorn-
ton K. Ware (6), w-as born in Fitchburg. Massa-
chusetts. July 17. lSi;3. He was educated in the
Fitchburg schools, Roxbury Latin school and at

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rvard College, where he was graduated in 1876.
attended the law school and received his de-
e in 1878. He began immediately to practice his
ifcssion in Fitchburg. In July. 1879, he was ad-
;ted to partnership with his father and George A.
rrey, in the firm of Ware, Torrey & Ware, aftcr-
irds T. K. & C. E. Ware, which was among the
eminent firms of the coiuity until the death of his
;her in 1892. Since then Mr. Ware has continued

e business alone. He is president of the Fitch-
irg Savings Bank and holds other positions of
ust and honor.
He married in Roxbury, June 30, 1881, Harriet

rieice Long, born in 1855. daughter of George

Washington and Mary Elizabeth (Nash) Long.

Their children were : Mary Elizabeth, born August

6, died August 8, 1882; George Long. February 14.

1884; Charles Eliot, August 20, 1885; Thornton

Kirkland, December 24, 1887.

HUBBARD HAMAIOND BRIGHAM, M. D,
Thomas Brigham (i). the pioneer ancestor of the
Brigham family and of Dr. Hubbard Hammond
Brigham, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was un-
doubtedly an Englishman by birth. The name Brig-
ham is from the Saxon brigg (bridge) and ham
(house). There is a Manor of the name in county
Cumberland, adjoining Scotland, and in ancient days
part of Scotland. The Barony from which the fam-
ily name is derived is now generally called by
another name, Cockermouth. The old castle was one
of the strongest in its day. It was built largely
of material taken from an old Roman castle in the
vicinity. As late as 1648 it was garrisoned and
stood siege for a month. After it was captured it
was nearly destroyed, but at last accounts a small
part was still habitable. From this Manor the
English and American Brighams get their names,
and all probably are descended from the early Brig-
hanis of this place.

Thomas Brigham embarked at London for New
England, April 18. 1635. in the ship "Susan and
Ellen," Edward Pyne, master. No other of the
same name is known to have embarked for the
American colonies. He settled in Watertown. In
1637 lie had a fourteen acre lot there, bought of
Jolin Doggett. It was situated in a part later an-
nexed to Cambridge. He built his house in Cam-
bridge on a lot containing three acres and a half.
His neighbors were Joseph, Isaac and Simon Cros-
by. His home was about two-thirds of a mile from
Harvard College, and at one point abutted on
Charles river. He resided there until 1648. He was
admitted a freeman April 18. 1637. He was one of
the leading citizens, was selectman in 1640. 1642,
and 1647. and was a constable in 1639 and 1642.
He made a specialty on his farm of raising hogs,
and in 1647 owned a third of all the swine in the
town. He was fined for letting his hogs get away
and run at large. He owned a wind mill in which
corn was ground.

He died December 8. 1653. His will was dated
December 7, 1653-4. and was proved October 3,
1654. He married (first) Mercy Hurd, who is said
to have come with her sister alone from England
owing to religious differences from which they suf-
fered annoyance and persecution at home. After
the death of Mr. Brigham she married (second).
March i. 1655, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury, and
Marlboro, ancestor of a notable Worcester family.
l>y whom she had two daughters. (See Rice sketch).

He died 1663, and she married (third) William
Hunt, of Marlboro, 1664. He died 1667, and she
died December 23, 1693, after being in her third
widowhood a period of twenty-six years. The chil-
dren of Thomas and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham were:
Mary, born probably at Watertown ; Thomas, see
forward ; John, March 9, 1644, died September 16,
1728, aged eighty-four years; Hannah, March 9,
1649. married Samuel Wells; Samuel, born Janu-
ary 12, 1652-3, died July 24, 1713.

(H) Thomas Brigham, second child of Thomas
Brigham (i), was born 1640-1. died November 25,
171 7, aged seventy-six years. On the death of his
father and the marriage of his mother to Edmund
Rice he seems to have lived with his mother in the
Rice family. He bought of his father-in-law or
step-father, as we now call it, Edmund Rice, a town
right when he was of age. He paid thirty pounds
for this valuable right to shares of the common
land in Marlboro. The deed was given by Edmund
Rice's executors, August 28, 1665. Through this
purchase he became the owner of e.xtensive tracts
located in four of the richest farming towns of
Massachusetts.

In 1686 he was one of a company to buy 6,000
acres of land near Marlboro and afterwards an-
nexed to it. He drew many lots in the south-
west part of Marlboro, and the adjoining towns of
Northboro and Westboro as now bounded. He set-
tled in the southwest part of Marlboro, known in
later years as Warren Brigham's farm, on the south
road to Northboro. His house built not long after
King Philip's war is now or was lately standing.
It was strongly built and used as a garrison house
in time of Indian wars. Thomas Brigham was a
leading citizen in his day. His will was made April
17. 1716. and proved January 2, 1717. He gave his
sons, David and Gershom Brigham. all his lands
on the west side of the Assabet river and other
lands near them. He bequeathed to Nathan and
Jonathan in equal shares all that part of the Eaton
family's on the east side of the Assabet river. El-
nathan settled on part of the homestead. Nathan,
Jonathan and Gershom were executors.

He married Mary Rice, who was born September
ig, 1646. daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Moore)
Rice, granddaughter of Edmund Rice, of Sudbury.
He married (second), August 30, 1695, Susanna
(Shattuck) Morse, widow. The children of Thomas
and Mary (Rice) Brigham were: Thomas, born
February 24, 1666: Nathan, see forward: David,
August ir, 1673. died young: Jonathan, February
22, 1674, married Mary Fay; David. April 12. 1678;
Gershom. Dr.. February 23, 1680; Elnathan, March
7, 1683: Mary, October 26, 1687.

(Ill) Nathan Brigham, second child of Thomas
Brigham (2), was born in Marlboro, June 17. 1671,
died February 16. 1746-7, aged seventy-five years,
eight months. He settled on part of the old Marl-
boro homestead, inherited the town rights of his
father and drew shares when the land was divided.
He held many town oflices. was seven years select-
man, his last year being 1738. His will was dated
April 5, 1733. and his estate was divided amongst
the heirs. March 26, 1746-7.

He married Elizabeth Howe, who died March
20. 1733, aged sixty-nine years, lacking four days.
She was found kneeling dead by her chair. He mar-
ried (second) Mehitable Pake (Parker). The
children of Nathan and Elizabeth (Howe) Brigham
were : Nathan, see forward ; Thomas, February

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22, 169s; Tabitha, August 20, 1698; Elizabeth, Jan-
uary 4, 1699-1700; Sarah, December 14, 1701 ; Zip-
porah, September 14, 1704; Hannah, March 9, 1706;
Lieutenant Ephraim, born January 20, 1707-8.

(IV) Lieutenant Nathan Brigham, eldest child
of Nathan Brigham (3). was born in Marlboro,
Massachusetts, November 28, 1693, died September

15, 1784. Prior to the second division of the town-
ship of Marlboro in 1727 he served in several minor
offices in Marlboro. After the division he was in-
cluded in the new town of Southboro, and became
one of the leading citizens. He was on the first
board of selectmen, and at the age of seventy-seven
was chosen for the twenty-ninth time, and after
he remonstrated with the voters he was excused
with public thanks. He was town treasurer and
often on the school committee. His homestead
was in the north part of the town of Southboro, near
where Samuel and Dana Brigham lived within the
memory of the present generation. He is supposed
to have inherited land southeast of Crane meadow,
drawn in the right of his grandfather. He inherited
Bible, books, cane and sword of his father, Nathan.
He remained vigorous to the last and when ninety
used to mount his horse without help.

He married, December 24, 17x7, Dinah Rice.
He married (second), about 1729, Elizabeth (Ward)
Snow, widow. Rev. Abner Morse relates a romance
of the susceptible daughter of Mrs. Snow. The
maiden set her cap for Moses, son of Nathan Brig-
ham. and so jealous did she become of her rival
that she hamstrung the horse that Moses used to
go courting. Moses married the other girl and the
historian fails to say whether the enamored daugh-
ter recovered from her disappointment or not. The
children of Lieutenant Nathan and Dinah (Rice)
Brigham were: Dinah, born September 5, 1719; Eu-
nice, October 4, 1721 ; Moses, January 2, 1722, died
December 3, 1769, married Mehitable Grout ; Persis,
April 3, 1724, died July 12, 1740; Elizabeth, December
18, 1725; Nathan (captain), March 13, 1730-1 ; Uep-
sibah, June i, 1732; Edmund, see forward; William,
April 8, 1735; Phineas, October 11, i737, died July

16, 1740; Tabitha, August 27. 1739, died July 5, 1740;
Ebenezcr, June 24. 1741 ; Elizabeth, September 5,
1743.

(V) Deacon Edmund Brigham, eighth child of
Lt. Nathan Brigham (4), was born August, 1733,
in Westboro, Massachusetts. He settled near Brig-
ham's pond in the northeast part of Westboro,
where Silas Walker used to live fifty years ago.
He became a distinguished citizen. He was warden
in 1774, served on the committee of safety and
correspondence in 1777 and 1778, was a selectman
in 1779. He had command of a company of volun-
teers at the surrender of Burgoyne, and on his way
back to Boston from the north the company camped
on his farm in Westboro, and he entertained the
officers. A curious coincidence followed this camp.
A Hessian prisoner was so struck with the beauty
of the farm that he made a map of it for the pur-
pose of claiming it in case the British arms were
successful as he expected of course they would be.
This map was recognized by an American traveling
in Germany in 1800. It was hanging on the wall of
a tavern, and the owner of the map was still waiting
for the farm. He was deacon of the Westboro
Church.

He married. November 2, 1757, Sarah Liscomb,
who died May 27, 1769. He married (second)

Elizabeth Beuel, ' from Marlboro, w'ho was born
1740, died at Westboro, May 11, 1825. He died
June 29, 1809, aged seventy-three. The children of
Deacon Edmund and Sarah (Liscomb) Brigham
were: Edmund, born October 19, 1758, married
Polly Martin; Hepsibah, July 29, I7tx), married
Antipas Brigham ; Roger, February 28, 1762, married
Betsey Rich, removed to Schoharie county. New
York; Samuel, December 6, 1763. died June 11,
1826, married Lydia Ball; Sarah, March 15, 1765,
died unmarried October 20, 1785; Liscomb, see for-
ward. The children of Edmund and Elizabeth
(Beuel) Brigham were: Pierpont, September 16,
1780, died October 6, 1836, married .^nna Warren;
Betsej', May 7, 1782, married Asa Godrey, married
(second) Hezekiah Murdock, and resided' at Whit-
tingsham, Vermont; Elizabeth, July 31, 1784, mar-
ried Polly Fay, daughter of Peter Fay, settled in
Sterling; Dexter, May 25, 1786, married Catherine
Warren.

(VI) Deacon Liscomb Brigham, seventh child
of Edmund Brigham (5), was born in Westboro,
]\Iassachusetts, May 19, 1769. He married there
(first), November 29, 1792, Martha Fay, daughter
of Benjamin, Jr. and Beulah Fay, of Westboro.
where she was born April 5, 1775. He removed
from Westboro to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, about
1794. Thence he removed to Pelham about two
years later. About 1810 he removed to Shutesbury,
Massachusetts. The births of his first five chil-
dren, born in Hopkinton, Pelham and Westboro, are
all recorded in Pelham, Massachusetts. In Shutes-
bury Mr. Brigham became a prominent citizen and
for many years was deacon, of the Baptist Church
there. He married (second) Betsey Hammond.
The children of Deacon Liscomb and Martha (Fay)
Brigham were: Curtus, born May 21. 1793, in
Westboro; Martha, May 7, 1795, in Hopkinton;
Ebenezer Liscomb, November 13, 1797; Benjamin
F., August 25. 1800, in Pelham, was a merchant in
Springfield; Stillman, January 19, 1808. The child
of Deacon Liscomb and Betsey (Hammond) Brig-
ham was Dr. Hubbard Hammond, see forward.

(VII) Dr. Hubbard Hammond Brigham, young-
est child of Liscomb Brigham (6), was born in
Shutesbury, Massachusetts, October 31, 1819.
Through his mother, Betsey Hammond, of Dana,
he is descended from one of the most prominent
families of early New England. One of her broth-
ers went south when a young man and became gov-
ernor of South Carolina, and another brother be-
came a celebrated physician of Mississippi.

Dr. Brigham attended the district schools of
Shutesbury and Phillips Academy at Andover,
Massachusetts. He began his medical studies with
Dr. Horace Jacobs and Dr. Sumner Jacobs, of
Chicopee. He was graduated from the Worcester
Eclectic Medical College and joined the Eclectic
Medical Society of Hartford, Connecticut. He
started to practice his profession in Ware, Massa-
chusetts, in 1842. After three years he removed to
Fitchburg, where the field was larger, and he has
lived there since, practicing actively until recently.
He started in the spring of 1845 and after the first
years, in which he encountered the usual difficulties
of the young physician, enjoyed an abundance of
business. In December. 1885, he suffered a severe
accident, being struck by a locomotive and thrown
sixty-five feet against a telegraph pole, breaking
several ribs and injuring his hip and back. He

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was. confined to his bed and house for four montlis,
but made a good recovery and enjoyed good health
afterward.

Dr. Brigham is a member of the local State and
National Eclectic Medical Associations. In religious
faith he was brought up a Baptist, but subsequently
embraced Spiritualism and Naturalism. In politics
he began as an Abolitionist and cast his vote for the
first Abolition candidate for president. He then
became a Free Soiler and later a Republican. He
has been active in various temperance movements
and belonged to the Good Templars. He has many
friends in Fitchburg and the vit:inity, and is es-
pecially popular among the children, who in later
years have named him from his long white beard
and kindly disposition, "Santa Claus."

He married (first) in 1S40. Deborah Thomas, of
Shutcsbury, Massachusetts. He married (second),
Marcli 21, 1851, Sarah C. Reed, of Brattleboro. Ver-
mont. The children of Dr. Hubbard H. and Deborah
(Thomas) Brigham are: George, born October 9,
1841 ; Leonella, August 22, 1844; Howard, March
10, 1846.

LUTHER J. BROWN. There is a tradition in
the family of Luther J. Brown, of Fitchburg, that
the immigrant ancester was Peter Brown, who came
over in the "Mayflower." There was some con-
nection with the family of John Brown, the martyr,
who was descended from Peter Brown through his
son Peter, who settled in Connecticut. If the New
Hampshire Browns from whom Luther J. Brown
descended came from Connecticut where many of
the settlers did, the relationship may be established.

(I) John Brown, the great-grandfather of
Luther J. Brown, settled in Packersfield, New
Hampshire, before the revolution. He was a select-
man of that town in 1778 and 1780. Packersfield
was granted first by the Masonian proprietors as
Monadnock, No. 6, and was named for Thomas
Packer, a prominent man of Portsmouth. The name
was changed to Nelson, October i, 1814. _ This
may be the John Brown, of Nottingham, or his son.
Many of the settlers seem to have come from Not-
tingham. The records indicate that the following
w4io were in Packersfield also were the sons of
John Brown (i) : Abijah. born about 1753, signed
the association test in Packersfield ; John, Jr., born
according to his own family records September
16, 1770; Isaac, who was one of the first three set-
tlers of Eden. Vermont, where John Brown, Jr.
settled. (The first meeting of the proprietors of the
town was held in Wolcott, Vermont, August l,
1799. the proprietors being the survivors and heirs
of Captain Seth Warner's company of revolutionary
soldiers. It is likely that the Browns were heirs
of some soldier in the company. The first child
born in the town was Eden Brown, son of Isaac
and Lydia Brown.)

(II) John Brown, Jr., son of John Brown (i).
was born in Packersfield, New Hampshire, Septem-
ber 16. 1770. He was married, November 17. 1796,
to Nancy Johnson, of New Ipswich. New Hamp-
shire, by Rev. Gad Newhall. They settled in Rox-
bury. New Hampshire, where thev lived for several
years. They removed in 1804 to Eden. Vermont,
where they lived the reriiainder of their lives. Their
children: Betsey, died January, 1800; Joanna
Heaton. died January. 1800 ; Luther Heaton, of
whom later : Joanna Kidder, claimed relationship
with Captain John Brown, the anti-slavery martyr,

and had a letter written by him to another relative ;
she died aged ninety-five years in Vermont; Mary,
Sally, John, died 1814; Charles Pearson, Rachel
Johnson, Lucretia, Noah, Jane, Betsey, Lucy Salome,
John Holmes, an infant, died unnamed.

(III) Luther H. Brown, son of John Brown. Jr.
(2), father of Luther J. Brown, of Fitchburg,
Alassachusetts, was born in Roxbury, New Hamp-
shire, September 30, 1800. He was one of a family
of sixteen children. At an early age he removed
with his parents to Eden, Vermont (1804), where
he procured the best education afforded by the
public schools, and when a young man became a
school teacher. He worked on his father's farm
in summer and taught various schools in the vicin-
ity during the winter terms. He established a
general store at Eden at an early age and became
one of the leading citizens of the town. He was
a representative in the state legislature, postmaster
and for a long period the town clerk. In June, 1845,
be removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, where
he continued in the mercantile business until he
retired on account of age. He spent the last years
of his life in Fitchburg, 1873, living with his only
son, Luther J. Brown. He died there December
17. 1886. He was buried at Manchester. He was
a member of the Hillsboro Lodge of Odd Fellows
and of the Odd Fellows Veteran Association of
Manchester. He was also a member of Washing-
ton Lodge of Free Masons of Manchester.

He married (first) Bersheba Shattuck, who died
May 22, 1842, leaving two children. He married
(second) Mrs. Laura A. Henry, widow. The chil-
dren of Luther H. and Bersheba Brown were :
Luther J., of whom later; Annie Lucretia, married
James E. Dodge, of Plymouth, New Hampshire,
resides at 87 Cottage street. New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts,

(IV) Luther J. Brown, son of Luther Heaton
Brown (3), was born in Heaton, Vermont, Decem-
ber 31, 1827. His early education was acquired in
the district schools of his native towm, at the acad-
emy in Johnson, Vermont, and at Appleton Acad-
emy. New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He was a
promising student, fond of books, and was fitted
for college, but financial reverses compelled him to
relinquish the idea of a college education. liis
father kept a general store at Eden and he gained
his first business experience there. About 1843
he went to work for Noyes Brothers of Hyde Park,
Massachusetts, in their country store. He worked
for a time in Manchester in one of the cotton mills,
and also for a short time in a hardware store.

In 1850, when twenty-three years old. Mr. Brown
went to Boston and became a clerk in the large
wholesale and retail dry goods house of Brett, Ellis
& Company on Federal street. He remained in this
concern for several years and acquired a thorough
and valuable knowledge of the business. In 1853
he went to Natick, Massachusetts', and took charge
of a branch store of his employers, remaining there
about a year. In August, 1855. Mr. Brown went
to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and soon afterward
entered partnership with Andrew B. Sherman. (See
sketch of Mr. Sherman.) Their store was located
in the building adjoinin.g the present Rollstone Bank
building. They carried dry goods chiefly and en-
joyed a flourishing and successful business.

In i860 Mr. Brown entered into a partnership
with Charles Kimball, of Haverhill, the firm of
Sherman & Brown having been dissolved some time

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hefore, and under the firm name of Kimball &
Brown started in the dry goods business in the store
on the site now occupied by the L. J. Brown block.
Main street. In 1862 Mr. Brown bought out his
partner and with his wife and one clerk to assist
him began on his own account. He made rapid
progress and his business grew constantly. Much
of his success at this important period was due to
the assistance, co-operation and ability of his wife.
He purchased the building in which his store was
located and on five occasions built extensions and
•■additions to accommodate his growing trade. While
Tie carried only dry goods and cloaks at first, he
soon added dress-making. The carpet department
was added in 1882 and the millinery department in
the year following. He had more than fifty clerks
employed at the time of his death and owned one
of the largest and most prosperous stores in the
city. In 1882 he built the present building which
bears his name. At the time it was built it was
the finest business building in Fitchburg.

In addition to his large establishment in Worces-
ter Mr. Brown had for three years a branch store
in Shelburne Falls. Massachusetts, and was active
in whatever he thought would benefit the city of
Fitchburg. He held many positions of trust and
Tionor. He was a director in the Wachusett Na-
tional Bank from the date of its organization in
1875. vice-president of the Worcester North Savings
Institution and trustee since its organization, presi-
dent of the Wachusett Electric Light Company from
its organization, and first president of the Old
Ladies Home. He served the city of Fitchburg
in the common council and board of aldermen and
represented it in the general court in 1878 and
1879. He was an earnest and active Republican in
politics. Mr. Brown was a prominent Odd Fellow
and Free Mason. He was a inember of Mt. Roll-
stone Lodge of Odd Fellows, and King David En-
cainpment, Aurora Lodge of Free Masons, and Jer-
usalem Commandery. Knights Templar. He was
an active member and vestryman of Christ Episcopal
Church.

Mr. Brown had an attractive and magnetic per-
sonality. He made many friends in every relation
of life! He was generous and charitable. _ Among
other ways that he gave of his means was in open-
ing the hall in his block for many purposes, for
religious, political and temperance meetings and
for several years he gave the hall lighted and heated
to the local Railroad Men's Christian Association.
He died at Fitchburg. September 29, 1884. At the
time of his death the Sentinel said: "The death
of no citizen could have produced a more profound
sensation ; his had been a busy and useful life
and his loss is deeply felt in this city where the
best part of his life was spent." The funeral was
in many respects the most impressive ever held in
the city. All the business houses were closed and
many "thousands attended the exercises in Christ
Church, many entering after the ceremonies to pay
their last respects.

He married. January 13, 1856, Sarah P. Hard-
ing, of East Mcdway. Massachusetts, who did so
much to help him in the early days of his business
career. She is the daughter of Theodore Harding
and a descendant of the pioneer, Abraham Harding,
who was born in England in 1620, came to Braintree.
Massachusetts, about 1640. and settled in Medfield
about 1650. He was an Indian fighter, a typical
pioneer. He married Elizabeth Adams, daughter

of Henry Adams, the progenitor of President
Adams. Mrs. Brown survives him and is active
in church and social life in Fitchburg. They had
no children.

THE SHATTUCK FAMILY. (I) William
Shattuck was the immigrant ancestor of Luther J.
Brown, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, through his
mother's family. He was the progenitor of all the
families of the surname in America. He was born
in England in 1622 and died in Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, where he was an early settler, August 14,
1672. at the age of fifty years. He was a proprietor
of Watertown in 1642 and his homestall was ad-
joining those of John Clough and William Perry.
He was a w-eaver as well as a planter and gave
evidence of being a man of property and good social
position. His grave in the Watertown cemetery
was marked in 1853 by the genealogist, Lemuel
Shattuck, also the grave of his son John, of whom
later. William Shattuck's will was dated August

3, 1672-

He married, 1642, Susanna , who married

(second) Richard Norcross. She died December
II, 1686. The children of William and Susanna
Shattuck were ; Susanna, born 1643, married J.
Morse and J. Fay ; Mary, born August 25. 1645,
married Jonathan Brown: John, born February 11,
1646-7. married Ruth Whitney : Philip, born 1648,
married D. Brastow Chamberlain ; Joanna, born
about 1650, died April 4, 1673. unmarried ; William,
born 1653, married Susanna Randall; Rebecca, born
1655, married Samuel Church: Abigail, born 1657,
married J. Morse and J. Parker; Benjamin, born
February 28, 1666, married Abigail .

(II) John Shattuck, son of William Shattuck
(i), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. Feb-
ruary II, 1647. He owned land at Groton, but it
is not known that he ever lived there. He was a
carpenter by trade and lived in the middle district
of Watertown, now the center village of Water-
town. In 1669 he ran the mill on Charles river
located near where the road frotn Watertown to
Newton Centre now crosses the river.

He gave his life for his country in King Philip's
war. He was a sergeant in Captain Richard Beers'
company of Watertown. They marched to the relief
of Hadley in w'estern Massachusetts, but were
diverted by a report that the Indians had attacked
Northfield. On their way thither they were attacked
by a large force of Indians and narrowly escaped
annihilation. Out of thirty-six only sixteen escaped
with their lives. Captain Beers was among the
slain. Shattuck was chosen to make the lonesome
and perilous journey to Boston to inform the gov-
ernor of the state of affairs and of the result of the
skirmish. In ten days he arrived safely at Qiarles-
town. but. while crossin.g the ferry, the boat, over-
loaded with horses and other freight, was upset
by the waves and foundered. Shattuck was the only
man drowned in the accident.

He married, June 20, 1664. in his eighteenth year,
Ruth Whitney, daughter of John and Elinor Whit-
ney (See sketch). She was born in Watertown,
April 5, 164.^. She married (second), March 6,
1677. Enoch Law-rence, son of John Lawrence, and
in 167S with the Shattuck children they removed
to Groton and occupied John Shattuck's land there.
Lawrence died in Groton. September 28. 1744, aged
ninety-five years, six months, twenty-three days.
The children of Sergeant John and Ruth Shattuck

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were: John, born June 4, 1666, married Mary
Blood; Ruth, born June 24, 1668, married Jonathan
Farnsworth; William, born September 11, 1670,
•married Hannah Underwood; Samuel, of whom
later. The children of Ruth (Whitney) (Shattuck)
Lawrence were: Nathaniel, Daniel, Zachery and
Jane Lawrence.

(III) Samuel Shattuck, son of Sergeant John
Shattuck (2), was born in Watertown, Massachu-
setts, in 1673. and died in Groton, July 22, 1758,
aged eighty-five years. His eldest son, Samuel,
was administrator. He married Elizabeth Blood,
who was born April 27, 1675, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Longley) Blood. She died October 20,
1759, aged eighty-four years, five months, and twen-
ty-five days. She joined the church in 1705. he in
1709. Their children: Samuel, born April 7, 1696;
James, born February 9, 1700; Jeremiah, of whom
later; Elizabeth, born July 2. 1705; Joseph, born
1707; Ruth, born February 6, 1709; John, born Jan-
uary 21, 1711; David, born August 4, 1713; Sarah,
born December 11, 1717; Rachel, born June 9, 1719.

(IV) Jeremiah Shattuck, son of Samuel Shat-
tuck (3), was born in Groton, Massachusetts. June
II, 1703. He was a blacksmith by trade and lived
in that section of the town now Pepperell. He
was very prominent in the town, selectman many
years, captain of the militia company and holding
other positions of honor and trust. He died Au-
gust 2, 179S. aged ninety-five years, one month and
twenty-one days.

He married, July 2, 1723, Sarah Parker, who
was born April 12, 1705, the daughter of Nathaniel
and Lydia Parker, granddaughter of Joseph and
great-granddaughter of Joseph Parker. She died
June 8, 1789. The inscription on her gravestone
commends- her "industry, prudence and sobriety."
He married (second), February 8, 1792, Ruth Bixby,
when he was aged ninety years and she was seventy-
five. The children of Captain Jeremiah and Sarah
Shattuck were: Nathaniel, born August 12, 1724;
Jeremiah, of whom later; Elizabeth, born May 17,
1728; Oliver, born August 15, 1730; Sarah, born
December 8, 1732; David, born February 19. 1735;
Solomon, born June 9, 1737 ; Nehemiah, born Feb-
ruary 21, 1740; Sybil, born 1743: Parker.

(V) Jeremiah Shattuck, son of Captain Jeremiah
Shattuck (4). was born in Groton. Massachusetts,
April II, 1726. He was a farmer in Oak Hill.
Pepperell, where he died March 26, 1815, aged
tighty-eight years, eleven months, fifteen days.

He married, August 10, 1749, his cousin. Lydia
Lakin, daughter of John and Lydia (Parker) Lakin,
granddaughter of Nathaniel and Lydia Parker. She
was born January 8, 1734, and died February 19,
1767. He married (second). November 25, 1767,
Tiis third cousin, Keziah Shattuck, who was born
February 4, 1745, daughter of Jonathan Shattuck.
She married (second), 1821, Moses Blood, whose
first wife was Abigail Shattuck, daughter of James.
She died suddenly September 8, 1832. The children
of Jeremiah and Lydia Shattuck were : Lydia, born
March 19. 17.S0: Phebe, born June 20, 1752: Jere-
miah, born June 24, 1754, killed at the battle of
Bunker Hill; Ebenezer,- born September 8. 1756;
Abraham, born October 12, 1739; Eunice, born Octo-
bier 18, 1761 ; Sarah, born July 18, 1764; a child,
born February 17, 1767. The children of Jeremiah
and Keziah were: Levi, born August 8, 1768;
Keziah, born August 31, 1770; Moody, of whom
later; Amaziah, born May 17, 1774; Jeremiah, born

August, 1776; Daniel, born October 26, 1778, died
August 14, 1800; Keziah, born March i, 1781 ;
Rhoda, born March 17, 1784; Leah, born June 10,
1786.

(VI) Moody Shattuck, son of Jeremiah Shat-
tuck (5), was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts,
April 28. 1772. He was a farmer. He went to
Athens. Windham county, Vermont, to live in 1796.
In 1804 he removed to Belvidere, Lamoille county,
Vermont, where he died April 7, 1851, aged seventy-
eight years.

He married. 1795, Eunice Tarbell, who was born
June 6, 1767, the daughter of David and Bathsheba
Tarbell, who died in Belvidere, April 16, 1850, aged
eighty-two years. The children of Moody and
Eunice Shattuck were : Moody, Eunice, Bathsheba,
of whom later; Keziah, Daniel T., Jeremiah, Ran-
dall, born April 4, 1811.

(VII) Bathsheba Shattuck, daughter of Moody
Shattuck (6). was born in 1802; married Luther
Heaton Brown, mentioned above, the father of
Luther J. Brown.

AIERRIA^I FAMILY. William Merriam of
Hadlow. county Kent, England, was the progenitor
of Lyman Wheeler Merriam, of Fifchburg, Massa-
chusetts. He never came to America, but at least
three of his sons were pioneers in New England;
he was buried in Hadlow, September 23. 1635. His
sons were : Robert, settled in Concord, was town
clerk, deputy to the general court, died 1681 ; George,
settled in Concord, was admitted a freeman June
2, 1641 ; died December 29, 1675 ; Joseph, see
forward.

(II) Joseph INIerriam, son of William Merriam
(i), was born in Hadlow, county Kent, England,
and all of the name Merriam in America trace their
lineages to him. He w'as an "undertaker" or stock-
holder in the ship "Castle," which arrived at Charles-
town in July, 1638. He also settled in Concord,
Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman March
14, 1638-30. He died January i, 1640-41. His will
was proved October 26, 1642. His wife was left the
whole estate for the bringing -up of all the children
until they were of age. Children of, Joseph and
Sarah JNIerriam : William; Joseph, see forward; a
daughter who married John Buss ; Elizabeth, mar-
ried Thomas Henchman, of Charlestown ; Sarah,
married William Hall; John, born July 9, 1641.

(III) Joseph Merriam, son of Joseph Merriam
(2), was born in Hadlow, England, about 1630,
and came with his parents to America in 1638. He
was admitted a freeman May 22, 1650. He mar-
ried, July 12, 1653, Sarah Stone, daughter of Gregory
Stone, of Cambridge. He died April 20. 1677. aged
forty-seven years, and his gravestone is the oldest
in the Concord cemetery. His widow removed to
Cambridge Farms, where she died April S. 1704,
aged seventy-one years. Their children, born at
Cambridge Farms or Lexington were: Sarah, born
.'August 2, 1654, married Samuel Fletcher; Lydia.
born August 3, 1656, died December 29, 1690, un-
married ; Joseph, born May 25, 1658, died May 31,
1727; Elizabeth, born May 20, 1660, married Isaac
Wood; John, born May 30. 1662, died 1736; Mary,
born June 4. 1664, married Isaac Stearns ; Robert,
born December 17, 1667, died February 11, 1717, in
Lexington ; Ruth, married Nathaniel Stone ; David,
died 1744, at Townsend : Thomas, born 1672; Jonas.

(IV) Thomas Merriam, son of Joseph Merriam
(3), was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1672.

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He was one of the original members of tj^e^hurch
at Cambridge Farms, and was one of those who
obtaiTd permission to build pews for the women in
the back part of the church He was a constable
n 1716 and selectman in 1718-22-25. He died Au-
gust 16, 1738, aged sixty-six years. His w-ife died
September 9, 1756, aged eighty-one years^ He mar-
ried I^Iary Howard, December 23, 1696, f Con-
cord. Their children: Mary married Ebenezer
Locke; Thomas, see forward; Lyd.a, baptized Au-
gust I 1703, married Nathamel Eaton ; Nathaniel,
bap ized December 9, I705, married Esther R uzzy,
daughter of Benjamin Muzzy; Sunon, baptized No-
vember 28, 1708, died February 8 1747, ^^-d- l^-^P;
tized September 2, 1711, died December 17, 1/43.
Uaac baptized July n, 171+ d'^d September, i/4i-
^'"'(V) Thomas Merr.am, son of Thomas Merriam
(A-) was born in Lexington, Massachusetts and
^ftiz^d Apra"2l, 17-. He died at Westminster,
Massachusetts, June 4, 1752- He settled "i \)«t-
minster He was admitted to the Lexington Church
AuRis['2, 1721. His wife died June 22, 1760, and
he d ed June 4, 175^- Their children; Samuel, born
December 2 ^723 see forward; Nathan, born Apnl
7 T7.q married, May 26, 1755. W"y Hosmer,

llary, born June '25. 1727. ""-'i. ^^^A^^;;"? V
Hannah, born August 7. 1729, died February 14.
17,0 Thomas, born August 24, I73i, married Sarah
WMer Tabtha. born May 10, I73i married
Na han'Whkney.'of Waltham ; Lydia born October
28 1734, married, March 27, 1755. Jos.ah Cutting,
ofWeinnmster; Heps.bah, born 1-ebruary 24, /37,
dcd Au-ust 10, 1740; Elizabeth, born July 27, i/3i>,
n rritd,°NovenAer 5,.I755. Moses Sawte l_e Hai.
nah, died young; Eunice, born J un 30 i/ 40, d. d
April 27, 1741 ; David^ married 1 alty Conant,
cestor of Rev. G. W Phillips. rhm,^^^ Mer-

(VI) Samuel Mernam, son of Thomas lUtr
riam (5) was born in Lexington, Massachusetts,
nam (3), w settled m Westminster,

December 21, 1723-, xic s'-^l i„,,„ , tvc:.

Massachusetts, in 1769. He married June 4, 1/5-,
Anna Whitney, daughter of David and Kebecca
Whitney of Waltham. They were. dismissed from
A;» 7 ItMnrton Church to the Westminster Church m
,772 He bought Deacon Joseph Miller's house
March K, 1772 on lot No. 61. on the east side of
Grav s hi'll where he, his son and his .g«ndson
al of the same name, lived in succession. The

dier in the revoution in Captain Manasseh Sawyers
^^;^f Rutl. baptized February^ :7^^marr,ed

?:^^li^^^^l4' ^-d I>cenrber f tg.
married Thomas Johnson ; died July ^2, i»30

• ^ rfA wn^ born at Lexington, Massachusetts,
nam (6), ^as corn ai » j Westminster

ruary 13 1798, Betsey Harris, born September 25,
1772, died May 30, 1865. He died January 13,
1S2S Their children, born in Gardner, Massachu-
setts were: Jacob Harris, born January 22, 1799,
see forward; Nathan, born August 7. 1800, died
September 19, 1805, m Gardner; Betsey M., born
August 7, 1802, died September 16, 1805, at Gardner;
Salty Harris, born October 18, 1S04, died August
17 1838, in Fitchburg; Samuel Harris, born May it),
1808, died December 2, 1824, m Gardner; Chiton,
born June 20, 1810, died January 19, 1825, at Gard-
ner ; Betsey, born November 17, 1813, married, June
10, '1841, John Milton Harris.

(VHI) Jacob Harris Merriam, son of Jonathan
]\Ierriam (7), was born in Gardner, Massachusetts,
January 22, 1799, and died April 3, 1888, m Fitch-
burg. He was a Congregational minister of pro-
nounced "orthodox- views. He preached about three
vears. but his health gave way and he left the pulpit
for the farm. He bought in 1833 the house and
farm where his son Lyman now lives and sold halt
to his brother-in-law. The old colonial mansion
was built by E. J. Garfield in 1781 and was for
many vears the finest dwelling house in the town.
He married Abigail Lowe Wheeler, \vho died Octo-
ber g 1890. Their children: Mary Elizabeth, born
January 4. 1S38, died November 18, 1891 ; Sarah
Abbie, born September 24, 1839, died November 26,
i8s5. unmarried; Ellen Augusta, born September 21,
1840, died December 12, 1871, m Pittsheld, New
Hampshire; married Charles Prescott, of Pittsheld;
left one son, George Prescott, who learned his trade
i„ the Fitchburg Machine Works at Fitchburg and
has an important position there; Lyman Wheeler,

see forward. . i t 1,

(IX) Lvman Wheeler Merriam, son of Jacob
Harris .Alerriam (8), was born in Fitchburg m the
homestead where he now lives, March 31, i«44. tie
was educated in the old day street public school and
the Fitchburg high school. He \vas naturally in-
clined to mechanical problems. His inventive abi -
itv was demonstrated early m life, and he has fol-
lowed the career of a professional inventor all his
Hfe with credit to himself, having procured valua-
ble patents besides devising many useful machmes
for making patented and other articles for which
he applied for no patents. „ , • • . ^^t.

Air Merriam does not confine all his interests
to his lathe and tools. He is well known as a worker
and thinker in the temperance movement He him-
self is a total abstainer, not only from all alcoholic
drinks, but from tobacco, tea, cotfee and meats He
has been a strict vegetarian for many years and cer-
tainly has demonstrated in his own case that a man
needs no fish, oysters or meat of any sort to enjoy
robust health and great mental energy.

He married, July 16, 1868, Ellen Maria Lowe,
daughter of John Lowe. She was born Apri 30,
1847 (See sketch of the Lowe family ot F'tchburg
of her lineage). Their children: i. Sa>-ah A*'^'
born August 9. 1869, married Septenbei n. 890,
James Lewis Harrington, of Lunenburg, farmer.
Their children : Lewis Lowe, born January 14. 1892 ,
Ruth Louise born May 23, 1893; Carl Rogers,
bo March 2, 1896; Harold Leon, born

Tune l^ isk 2 Frederick Lowe, born August 2,
,871 died aged nine months, Apnl 23. 1872. 3-
Lor sa Adeline, born at Holden, August 21, 1872.
ted of tvphoid fever. September 22, 1890, in F tch-
lurg 4 Alice Edna, born November 2> 1874,
g duate of Fitchburg high school, 189S, married,

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April 20, 1904, Charles Allen Nutting; resides in
Ashby; he is a farmer. Their children — John Ly-
man, born June I, 1905; Charles Edward Nutting,
born August 16, 1906. 5. John Lowe, born July
9, 1876, at Jaffrey, New Hampshire, died
April 13, 1898; graduated from Fitchburg high
school in 1895. 6. Edith Augusta, born March 5,
1878, at Jaffrey, New Hampshire, graduate of the
Fitchburg high school, 1S96. 7. Lizzie Waria, born
September 27, 1880, in Winchendon, graduate of the
Fitchburg high school, 1898; married, July 7, 1905,
Rosser Adams Malone, Jr., of Albany. Georgia,
clerk in the transportation department of the United
States Canal Work at Panama ; son born at Albany.
October 6, 1906. 8. Clifton Harris, born December
30, :883, at Winchendon, graduate of the Fitchburg
high school, 1902; employed in the office of the
Fitchburg Machine Works. 9. Henry Mead, born
September 11, 1885, at Fitchburg, died August s.
1887.

WILLIAM' E. PUTNEY. The Putney family
seems to have settled first in this country in New
Hampshire. They are of English origin. One of
the earliest, if not the first settler of this name
was Joseph Putney, who came to Londonderry, New
Hampshire, when that was the leading settlement in
the vicinity. He and James Rogers settled in the
territory of what is now Dunbarton, New Hamp-
shire, and many of the American families are de-
scended from him. He was born about 1700, and
was in Dunbarton about 1746, The Indian wars
compelled him to leave his home in the wilderness,
but in 1749 he returned and rebuilt his house. He
had a son Henry and perhaps Jonathan, of whom
later.

(II) Jonathan Putney, perhaps son of Joseph
Putney (i), of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, was
born about 1740. Lie became one of the earliest
settlers in Cheshire county, and was in the town
of Walpole and vicinity before the revolution. He
fought in the revolution under Captain Stilson, of
Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Joseph and Thomas
Putney were in the same company. Children of
Jonathan Putney were : Amos, see forward ; Ezra,
Samuel, Asa, Abigail and Sally. There were in the
revolution an Amos and Asa Putney, probably re-
lated to this family.

(III) Amos Putney, son of Jonathan Putney
(2), was born in Cheshire county. New Hampshire,
about 1780. He was a soldier m the war of 1812.
He married Nancy Daggett, who bore him the fol-
lowing children : Eliza, Francis, Maria, Permelia,
Adaline, Jonathan, married Betsey M. Tole and had
William H. and Minnie E. "Putney; they resided
at Walpole, New Hampshire; Willard Dean, see
forward ; Loren D., Mary Adeline, see forward ;
Harriet E.. Lucy Jane, Bradley A. and Louisa M.

(IV) Willard Dean Putney, son of Amos Put-
ney (3), was born in Winchester, New Hampshire,
June 25, 1825. The family removed to Westmore-
land, where he received a common school education.
He removed to Athol and was engaged during his
active years in the railroad business. He is now
living in Royalston. Massachusetts, retired. He
married Ruby B. Wilbur, of New Hampshire, born
December 6, 1829, and she also is living at the pres-
ent time (1907). Among their children was Will-
iam Emerson, see forward.

(IV) Mary Adeline (Putney) Arnold, daughter
of Amos Putney (3), was born at Westmoreland,

New Hampshire, but has resided in Fitchburg since
1842, and is therefore among the longest time resi-
dents of that city, her home being at No. 9 Park
street, with her daughter, Mrs. Luella F. Wyman,
widow of Charles H. Wyman, who is the last of
her three children, two having died in early life.
She became the wife of Charles Arnold, who died
in 1893. Mrs. Arnold has been a communicant of
the Methodist Church sixty-seven years, having first
united with a church of that denomination at Chico-
pee Falls, in 1840. When she came to Fitchburg
she brought a letter to the First Methodist Church,
and is the oldest member of that church, both in
years and time of membership. She is still very
constant in her attendance at church, and has a class
in the Sunday school, where she has been a teacher
most of the time since she has been connected with
the church. She has been a great worker in the
Ladies' Parsonage Society, and labored zealously for
the erection of the present church edifice and the
parsonage. Mrs. Arnold is remarkably well pre-
served in body and mind for her age, eighty-five
years, enjoys reading and keeps informed in rela-
tion to current events. She is held in high esteem
by all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance.

(V) William Emerson Putney, son of William
Dean Putney (4), was born in Athol, Massachusetts,
September 4, 1856. He was educated there in the pub-
lic schools, and began his business life in the employ
of the Fitchburg railroad. He made himself use-
ful as telegraph operator and in other positions of
responsibility for a number of years. Subsequently
he engaged in the coal and wood business in Fitch-
burg. conducting the same for a number of years. In
1888 he entered the fire insurance business in Fitch-
burg with Charles E. Kirby under the firm name of
Kirby & Putney. Their offices were at No. 162
Main street, with a branch office at West Fitchburg.
Since the retirement of his partner, in 1890, Mr.
Putney has conducted the business alone, under his
own name, and has built up one of the largest
agencies in the city. He represents over fifty in-
surance companies, among them the best in the
world. He is a director of the Fitchburg Safe De-
posit & Trust Company, Fidelity Co-operative Bank,
Fitchburg Real Estate Association, Bennett Shoe
Company, Lancaster Manufacturing Company and
C. H. Brown Engine Company, and is counted
among the leading business men of the city.

I\Ir. Putney is a Republican in politics, but has
never sought public preferment. He is prominent
in the Masonic fraternity, having taken the thirty-
second degree. He is a member of Aurora Lodge,
Boston; Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Ancient Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite; Giles F. Yates Council. Princes
of Jerusalem, Boston; Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose
Croix, Boston; Massachusetts Consistory, Sublime
Princes of the Royal Secret, thirty-second degree.
He is equally prominent as an Odd Fellow, and is
a member of the Knights of Pythias. He attends
Christ Episcopal Church.

Mr. Putney married, November 13. 1879, Abbie
A. Stearns, of Fitchburg, an adopted daughter of
George Waite, of Fitchburg, and had taken his name.
Their children were : Lillian, born February 16,
1884. Ruby, born October 27, 1888, died young.
Laura, born May 20, 1893. resides at home with
parents. Alrah, born June 20, 1900, died young.

LYMAN PATCH. Nicholas Patch fi). the
immigrant ancestor of Lyman Patch, of Fitchburg,

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Massachusetts, was the son of Nicliolas and Jane
Patch, of Parish South Petherton, Somerset, near
Burlefcomb, England, where he was baptized June
26, 1597. He antl his brother Edmund Patch set-
tled in Salem, Massachusetts. They had also a
brother, John Patch. Edmund's daughter Eliza-
beth is given the honor by genealogists of bein.g the
first female child born of English parents in Salem
and of the Massachusetts colony.

Nicholas Patch was a proprietor in Salem in
1637 and came to Salem the year before, 1636. He
was admitted a freeman in 1639. He joined the
Beverly Church April 14, 1650. He was a farmer
and prominent in the church and town. He was one
of the founders of Beverly, Massachusetts, where
he died November, 1673. He married Elizabeth
Brackenburg, daughter of Richard Brackenburg; she
was born 1629 and died January 14, 1716. It seems
that some authorities believe that Elizabeth Patch,
the first female child born in Salem, was Elizabeth
(Brackenburg) Patch, instead of Elizabeth as stated
above.

The children of Nicholas Patch were : James,
born in England ; John, ancestor of the Beverly
families ; Thomas, born in Salem 1640, of whom
later.

(II) Thomas Patch, youngest child known of
Nicholas Patch (i), was born in Salem. Massachu-
setts, about 1640. He married Mary A. Lovett. He
was admitted a freeman in 1670 and was a repre-
sentative to the general court in 1689. He married
(second) Mary Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott,
of Ipswich, JNIassachusetts. His children were:
Thomas, born July 19, 1674; Stephen. April 12, 1680;
Isaac, of whom later; Ephraim. Simon, James, born
ill Wenhani, 1677, married Rebecca Byles, ancestor
of the Francestown Patch family; Sarah, December,
1666; Marah, February 3, 1669.

(III) Isaac Patch, son of Thomas Patch (2),
was born in Salem, probably in 1682. He settled in
Groton when a young man. He lived also in Con-
cord and perhaps in Lancaster. Little is known
about him. The children of Isaac and Edith Patch:
Isaac, Jr., resided in Groton. Massachusetts ; Jona-
than, of whom later; Edith, February 24, 1717;
Ebenezer, born at Concord, September 7, 1719, set-
tled in Groton; Lois, February 24. 1720; Lois, Au-
gust 13, 1721 ; Ephraim, May 5, 1723. lived in Concord
and Groton; Mary, April 7, 1725. Probably all the
children after about 1715 were born in Concord, al-
though not all are on the records. There may be
others not given here.

(IV) Jonathan Patch, son of Isaac Patch (3),
was born in Concord, Massachusetts, about 1708.
He resided in Concord, Massachusetts. The chil-
dren of Jonathan and Lydia Patch were : Samuel,
of whom later; Elizabeth. September 12, 1731;
Ebenezer, May 29, 1733; Lydia, June 24, 1735; Han-
nah, December 31, 1737; Jonathan, October 17, 1739;
Sarah, November 3, 1741 ; Benjamin, !March 7, 1743;
John, December 15, 1747.

(V) Samuel Patch, son of Jonathan Patch (4),
was born in Concord, Massachusetts, January 6,
1729-30. Early in life he settled in that part of Con-
cord, set ofif as Stow. He was a soldier in the
revolution. He was captain of a Stow company in
Colonel William Prescott's regiment. May 25. 1775
He fought in the battle of Bunker Hill, of which
there is a curious documentary proof on record in
the shape of a certificate signed by Captain Patch
and Lieutenant Joshua Brown, botli of Colonel Pres-

cott's regiment. They petitioned to be reimbursed
for clothing lost in the battle of Bunker Hill. June
I/.. 1775, and their statement is endorsed by Colonel
William Prescott with the statement that they were
in the engagement as they claimed. The general
court allowed the claims. After the revolution
Captain Samuel Patch removed to Fitzwilliani, New
Hampshire, where July 10, 1788, he presented his
letter from the Stow Church to the Fitzwilliani
Church. He lived a few years in what is called the
Spinney House at the North village, but finally
settled on lot 15, division 10 R, where he lived the
remainder of his days. He died February 15, 1817,
aged eighty-seven years. His wife Lydia died De-
cember 22, 1820, aged seventy-four years. The
youngest son was the only child born in Fitzwilliani
according to the records.

The children of Captain Samuel and Lydia Patch
were : Oliver, Abraham, John, Samuel, married,
January 30, 1805, Betsey, who was born September
7, 1778, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Mellen ;
they settled in Fitzwilliam ; Lydia, married, Febru-
ary 26, 1805, Joseph Church, of Templeton, Massa-
chusetts; Susannah, married, September 17, 181 1,
John Anderson, of Templeton; Jacob, of whom
later.

(VI) Jacob Patch, .youngest child of Captain
Samuel Patch (5), and father of Lyman Patch, of
Fitchbnrg (7), was born in Fitzwilliam, New Hamp-
shire, February 25, 1789. He married, March 13,
1817, Elizabeth Harkness, born April 26, 1797,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Sweet) Harkness,
of Richmond, New Hampshire. They settled in
Richmond, New Hampshire. His farm was on what
is called locally the William Hills place, lately owned
by Eddie Putney, lot 14, of division R i. He after-
wards carried on the farms of Stephen Buffum,
Obadiah Harkness and George Buffum in Rich-
mond. In 1837 he removed to Templeton, Massa-
chusetts,. In 1840 he returned to Richmond and
took charge of Daniel Bassett's farm. He removed
to Swanzey in 1841. He and his wife both died
in Fitchbnrg, where some of their children were
living.

The children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Hark-
ness) Patch were: Edwin, born October 4, 1817,
settled in South Royalston, Massachusetts; Ange-
lina, January 29, 1819, died February 16. 1821 ;
Jacob, March 25, 1821, removed to California; Ly-
man, of whom later ; Lydia M., July 10, 1825, died
March 17. 1845 ; Eliza E., October 17, 1827, married
Harvey Evans; she died September 18, 1S58; Isaac,
May 31, 1831, lived in Fitchburg: John H., Septem-
ber 14, 1835, lived in Springfield, Massachusetts ;
he was road master for the Connecticut River Rail-
road; Mary Jane, April 20, 1840, married George
Green, died August 30, 1865.

(VII) Lyman Patch, fourth child of Jacob
Patch (6), was born in Richmond, New Hampshire,
December 24, 1822, and died in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, September 14, 1901. He received a common
school education in the towns where the family
lived during his boyhood. He worked with his
father at farming until he was twenty-eight years
old, when he came to Fitchburg, and opened a store.
He was a dealer in stoves and tin ware. The busi-
ness prospered and Mr. Patch became one of the
most substantial men of the town. He was in busi-
ness for fifty years and while he acquired a large
competence he clung to the simple habits and life of
his early days. His store at 390 !Main street is con-

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ducted by his two sons, Arthur and Henry C.
Patch, who in later years had been associated with
their father in business. In politics JNIr. Patch was
a strong Republican, He served the city of Fitch-
burg as councilman. He was director of Safety
Fund National Bank. He attended the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Fitchburg.

He married, August 12, 1852, Catherine A. Davis,
daughter of Stillman and Lucy (Bush) Davis, of
Templeton, Massachusetts, Their children are :
Maria A,, born November 28, 1S53, married Charles
F, Smith, died August 21, 1905; Walter, June 17,
1856; Arthur, June 22, 1858, married, November
28, 1883, Jennie M. Connor, and have two children;
Richard H., and James A. ; he was with the Sole
Leather Tip Co., now part owner of his father's
business j'Burtis L,, September 28, 1862; Henry C,
May 19, 1867,

FOSDICK F.\MILY. Stephen Fosdick (l),
immigrant ancestor of ex-Mayor Frederick Fosdick
and Charles Fosdick, of Fitchburg, is the progenitor
of all the old families of this surname. He was
an inhabitant of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in
1635. He was admitted a freeman September 7,
1638, According to his deposition made June 22,
1653, he was then seventy years old. He was there-
fore born in England in 1583. He is thought to
have come from Lincolnshire. He was admitted
to the Charlestown Church in 1638. He died May
21, 1664, His will was dated February 23, 1664,
and proved June 21, 1664.

His wife Sarah was then "aged about seventy-
five years, lame and infirm, who was married to him
a maid about 1624 and took care of his six children
by a former wife," as stated in a deposition of his
brother-in-law, John Wetherell, her brother. His
will bequeathed to his wife ; to daughter Hannah,
wife of James Barrett; and Martha, wife of Richard
Holden and to their children; to daughter Marah,
wife of Thomas Webb ; to son John Fosdick, and
to the two sons of his son Thomas, deceased. The
children of Stephen Fosdick were ; Samuel, died on
a voyage to the Barbadoes. no children ; Thomas,
died June 21, 1650, leaving issue; John, had sons
Samuel and others; Hannah, married James Barrett;
Martha, married Richard Holden ; Mary or Marah,
married Thomas Webb ; she was admitted to the
church in 1652.

(H) John Fosdick, son of Stephen Fosdick (l),
was born in England about 1626, died in Charles-
town, Massachusetts, September 17, 1716. He mar-
ried (first). 1648, Ann Shapley, daughter of Nicholas
Shapley ; she died October 15, 1679, aged fifty-two
years. He married (second) Elizabeth Belts, widow
of John Betts ; she died September 27, 1716, aged
sixty years. He died September 17, 1716, aged
ninety years. The children of John Fosdick were :
James, born November 13, 1649: Mary, July 17,
1651 ; Ann, September 26, 1653 ; Samuel, December
T5- 1655 ; John, February 20, 1658 ; Stephen and
three younger children baptized with two older
than he April 15, 1677; Thomas, Jonathan. Ann.

(in) Samuel Fosdick, son of John Fosdick (2),
born December 1.=;, 1655. died August 27, 1702. He
removed about 1680 from Charlestown, Massachu-
setts, where he was born, to New London, Con-
necticut. He served in King Philip's war in 1676.
He married. November i, 1682, Mercy Pickett,
daughter of John Pickett, who married Ruth
Brewster, daughter of Elder John Brewster, who

came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower." All the
descendants of Samuel Fosdick therefore are also-
descended from the famous old Elder William
Brewster, father of Jonathan Brewster, and grand-
father of Ruth Brewster, who married John Pickett,
of New London, Connecticut. After the death of
Samuel Fosdick his widow married (second) John
Arnold. The children of Samuel and Mercy
(Pickett) Fosdick were; Samuel, born Septem-
ber 18, 1684, at New London ; Mercy, November
30, 1686, married Thomas Jiggles, 1708 (second)

Thomas Morris; Ruth, June 27, 16S9, married

Oglesby, of New York ; Anna, December 8, 1691,
married Thomas Lathaine ; John, February i, 1693-4,
at Guilford, Connecticut ; Thomas, .\ugust 20, 1696 ;
Mary. July 7. 1699 (on Charlestown records) mar-
ried Richard Sutton. 1719-20.

Captain Samuel Fosdick was one of the owners
of Plum Island and had a farm well cleared and
productive there. He resided in town on what is
often called Fosdick's Neck. later known as Shaw's
Neck. He had through his wife that part of the
Pickett lot subsequently bought by Captain Nathaniel
Shaw. Another lot that he owned is the block
in the city of New London now between Golden
and Tilley streets on the bank. It was later the
home of his son Thomas and his descendants.

(IV) Samuel Fosdick, son of Samuel Fosdick
(3). was born September 18. 1684. at New London,
Connecticut. He removed to (Dyster Bay. Long
Island, in 1750, and later removed to Charlestown,
Massachusetts, where his ancestors had lived. He
was a blacksmith by trade. He was heir to his
father's rights to land as a soldier in the Narra-
gansett war. He married Susanna Turner, July
13, 1706, at New London, Connecticut; she was ad-
mitted to the church July 26, 1741, and died Feb-
ruary 22, 1753. in her sixty-eighth year. His will
was dated April 23, 1767, as he was about to start
on a voyage. It was proved November 4. 1784.
He bequeathed land received from his great-grand-
father. Stephen Fosdick. by will. He was one hun-
dred years old when he died. His second wife,
Elizabeth LaCross. was of Oyster Bay. Long Island.

The children of Samuel and Susanna (Turner)
Fosdick were : Mercy, born 1707. married Samuel
Wolcott; Mary, March 28, 1708; Samuel, ^larch
II, 1710-11, taxed in Charlestown; William, Feb-
ruary 4, 1712-3; Ruth, January 25, 1713-4; James,
NovemlDer 20. 1716. baptized at New London, July

2, 17:7; Ezekiel. February 17, 1719-20, moved to
Wethersfield, Connecticut; Jesse, November 7. 1722;
Susanna, October 11, T724, married Samuel Froth-
ingham. (All the children were recorded at Charles-
town, as born in New London.)

(V) James Fosdick, son of Samuel Fosdick (4),
was horn in New London, Connecticut, lived at
Charlestown, Massachusetts. W'here he died October
16, 17S4. He was a card maker by trade. He mar-
ried, December 6, 1735, Elizabeth Darling, at Bos-
ton. .She died October 6. 1799. aged eighty years.
His will was dated October 8. 1784. Their children
were ; Abigail, baptized April 18, 1736, married
Solomon Phipps. 17,14; married (second) James
Braisier, 1767; Elizabeth, baptized July 31, 1737,
married Edward Tennev, 1761 ; James, baptized June

3. 1739. served in the French war in I7=;7 and in the
revolution; married Mercy Callis; William, baptized
T741, married, and was in service in 1761 ; Ruth,
baptized January 22, 1743-4, died December g, 1747;
Mary, baptized July 27, 1746, died December 27,

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1747; Ruth, baptized July 24, 1748; Mary, baptized
May 20, 1750, married William Trumbull, 1770;
Thomas, baptized October 15. 1752; Jesse, baptized
January 5, 1755, was in revolution; David, born
April 27, 1757; Sarah, baptized December, 1759.

(VI) David Fosdick, son of James Fosdick (5),
was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 27,
1757, and died there January 16, 1812. He married,
August 26, 1779. Mary Frothingham, a descendant
of William Frothingham. an early settler in Charles-
town. He joined the Baptist Church. His wife
Mary died May 29. 1848, aged eighty-four years.
Their children were: Mary, born July 15, 1780, mar-
ried William Fuller: Sarah, March 28, 1782, mar-
ried William Porter: Abigail T., March 12. 1784,
died December 4, 1800 : David, June 18, 1786 ; James,
January 8, 1789; Elizabeth, May 10, 1791, married
Nathaniel Ayer, 181 1; she died August, 1857: Han-
nah. May 19. 179.^, married William Ayer, August
18. 1857; Hepsibah, May 19, 1793, married Leonard
Tufts: John, March 27. 1798, married Deborah
Frothingham; Leonard, December 31. 1800. cord-
wainer, married Julia Halbrook, died March 26,
1852 : Stephen. April q. 1803, married Abigail
Thayer, died April ig, 1869; Abigail, May 9. 1806,
married Francis Raymond, died November 28, 1863.

(VH) David Fosdick, son of David Fosdick
(6), was born in Charlestown. Massachusetts. June
18, T786. and died May 29. 1872. He was a dry
goods merchant in Charlestown and a farmer later
in Groton, Massachusetts. He was a representative
to the general court in 1835-6. He married (first),
June 19, 1810, Joan Skilton. of Billerica, descendant
of Rev. Samuel Skilton. of Salem. She died Octo-
ber 31, 1825. aged thirty-six years. He married'
(second) Lucy Wyman. March 21, 1826; she died
February I, 1834. He married (third) Mary
(Harkness) Smiley, of Grafton, Vermont. He re-
moved to Groton, Massachusetts, where he died.
The children of David and Joan Fosdick were:
David, born April 29, 1811. died 1812 ; David (Rev.),
November 9. 1813. settled in Lancaster, Massachu-
setts; Mary. May 27. 1815. died June 9. 1824; Sarah,
Mav 27. 1815, married John Tarbell, of Groton,
died June 19, 1882 ; Joan. October 18, 1818; Henry
Martin, December 22. 1822. married Lucy A. Hollis,
November 27. 1847 ; Samuel Putnam. December 30,
1826; Lucy Wyman, July 2. 1828; Mary. March 13.
i8^o. married Alonzo W. Hildreth. INIay 20. 1S51. died
Mav 2T, 18.38;, Pamelia S.. December 15. 1832. died
1833; Pamelia Tarbell. December 19, 1835, married
Moses Miller: James Smiley. December 9, 1837,
died September 12, 18.38; Elizabeth Harkness. May
29, 1840. died November 16, 1887. married John H.
Huntington: Adelaide. January 29, 1844, married
Rev. C. J. Baldwin ; James Smiley, January 2, 1847,
died April •;. 1871.

(VHI) Rev. David Fosdick, son of David Fos-
dick (7), was horn in Qiarlestown, Massachusetts,
November 9, 1813, died in Groton. Massachusetts.
January 28. 1892. He was educated in the public
schools, graduating at Amherst College in 1831.
He attended the .^^dover Theological Seminary and
became a Unitarian clergyman. He was a scholar
and acquired a reading knowledge of thirteen
languages. He was settled at Charlestown, Boston,
Sterling and Groton. He married. March 10, 1841.
Sarah Lawrence Woodbury, daughter of Rev. Sam-
uel and Mary (Lawrence) Woodbury, a descendant
of John Lawrence, of Watertown, Massachusetts

(1636). Of their children two have been prominent
men in Fitchburg. They are ; Samuel Woodbury,
born October 10, 1841, died April 3, 1865; married
Christine Dakin Keargl, February 8, 1865 ; Mary,
February 17, 1844: George, January 14, 1846, died
October 4. 1848; Charles. March 9, 1848; Frederick,
Groton. Massachusetts, April 24. 1850; David, De-
cember 14. 1852, died December 21, 1854; Rose,
July 24, 1855. died July 15. 1870 ; Lucy. November
21, T858, married Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, June
I, 1889: Sarah Woodbury, November 4, i860.

(IX) Charles Fosdick, son of Rev. David Fos-
dick (8), was born in Groton. Massachusetts. March _
9. 1848. He and his brother Frederick purchased the *
Haskins Steam Engine Co. in July, 1876, and have
been the principal owners of the same ever since.
Mr. Fosdick is a skillful mechanic and lor many
years has been superintendent of the factory. He
was president of the common council in 1886.

He married, October I, 1874, Mary Louise Snow,
daughter of William and Adeline (Willis) Snow,
and their children were : Margaret Willis : Charles
Mussey; Elsie Woodbury: JNIarian Lawrence.

(IX) Frederick Fosdick, son of Rev. David Fos-
dick (8), was born in Groton. Massachusetts, .April
24. 1850. He received his education under a private
tutor, practically a college course of study. In 1870,
at the a.ge of twenty, he came to Fitchburg to work
for the Burleigh Rock Drill Company. He was with
this concern for thirteen months. He worked for
a time for a Pennsylvania coal company, setting up
pumps and other machinery in the mines. He re-
turned to Fitchburg to work as draughtsman for
the Haskins Machine Company.

In 1877 Hale W. Page, Frederick Fosdick and
Charles Fosdick purchased the Haskins Steam En-
gine Company, together with its good-will and
changed its name to the Fitchburg Steam Engine
Company. Mr. Page was president of the company
until his' death. Mav i?. 1887. when Frederick Fos-
dick was chosen. Mr, Fosdick has since occupied
this position. The other officers of the company
during most of its historv have been : Charles Fos-
dick. superintendent ; William J. Clifford, clerk.
The company employs over a hundred hands, most
of whom are skilled machinists, and manufactures
horizontal and vertical automatic cut-off steam en-
gines. The Fitchburg engine, manufactured by this
company, has been a favorite among the manufac-
turers of Worcester county. It is well known all
over the country. The company has developed _a
large foreign business in addition to that in this
country. The Fitchburg Steam Engine Company has
been one of the most prosperous and stable in-
dustries of the city. The Fosdick brothers have
won a high place in the esteem of their business
associates. The business has been repeatedly en-
larged.

Mr. Fosdick has been active in public affairs. He
has served seven years on the school committee and
was for two years member and president of the
common council and ex-officio member of the school
committee. He was the mavor of Fitchburg in
7886 and i<88o. He has been a trustee of the Worces-
ter North Savings Institution. He is chairman of
the hoard of trustees of the Foxboro State Hospital.
He married. April 24, 1873. Lucy M. Hill, daugh-
ter of Henrv Hill, of Groton. Massachusetts. Their
children are: Frederick W., Nellie, Richard C,
Merriam E.

^.^

WORCESTER COUNTY

UPTON FAMILY. The history of the Upton
family dates back in England to the days of the
Norman Conquest. The lineage of the family is
traced for twelve centuries in direct line in Corn-
wall to the ancestor. De Uppeton. of Upton. While
the family has spread widely over England, Scot-
land and Wales, the original seat of the family
was Upton in Cornwall.

(I) John Upton, who came to New England
about 1652, was the pioneer ancestor in this coun-
try. He is the progenitor of the late John Upton,
Colonel Edwin Upton and Joseph Upton, of Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts. He settled in Salem village,
in what is now Danvers. Massachusetts. There is a
tradition that he came from Scotland. He may have
been one of the Scotch prisoners taken by Crom-
well at Dunbarton, September 3, 1650, or at Worces-
ter, 1651. The last named battle was fought near
the town of Upton, England, the seat of the ancient
family. Cromwell took seventeen thousand English-
men and Scotchmen prisoners in these two battles
and many of them were sent to the American
colonies. There is a tradition that the name of
his wife was Eleanor Stuart and that she too was
Scotch. He seems to have refused to join the
Puritan Church and that may indicate that he was
Scotch and a Presbyterian. He did not take the
freeman oath until it had been modified. He was
admitted April 18, 1691. a freeman. The first record
is of date December 26, 1658, when he bought land
of Henry Bullock, some time of Hammersmith (the
Lynn Iron Works at Saugus). He paid four pounds
for forty acres in Salem. He bought land of Daniel
Rumboll, of Salem. April 6, 1662, adjoining his farm.
Hi? homestead was near the line of the present town
of Danvers. half a mile from the present line of
Lynnfield, one mile south of the Ipswich river and

- two miles west of the Newburyport turnpike. It
is two miles and a half from the site of his later
residence in North Reading. His neighbors were the
Popes. Gardners. Flints, Walcotts and Smiths. He
bought and sojd considerable land in the vicinity.
Active, energetic and successful, he began with no
capital and accumulated a handsome estate. He died
July II, 1699, aged about seventy-seven. The will
was dated November 16. 1697, and proved July 31,
i6qo. He used a fleur de lis for a seal and in his
will tried to entail his estate, but the laws of the
<;olony effectually prevented him.

The children of John and Eleanor Upton were:
John, born 1654: Eleanor. 1656: William, 1658;
James, September, 1660; Mary, 1661, died 1663;
Samuel, October, 1664: Ann; Isabel, January 3,
1666-7. died i68q; Ezekiel, September, 7668; Joseph,
April 9, 1670: Francis, July I, 1671 ; Mary,

(II) William Upton, sixth child of John Upton
fi), was born in Danvers, June 10, 1663. He mar-
ried Mary Maber, May 27. 1701, He and his brother,
Samuel Upton, received by will from their father
the farm in the southwest corner of Danvers, near
Lynnfield, and they held it in common until 1708.
•when they divided their possessions but always lived
near each other and perhans in the same house.
They also inherited a negro Thomas, whom they set
free after he had worke.d for them eighteen years,
TJecember 21, 1717. William Upton deeded his
land to his eldest son William before his death.
His will is dated April 13, 1739. and was proved
March ID, 1739-40. His son Paul was executor and
residuary legatee. The children of William and

Mary (Maber) Upton, all born in Danvers and all
living in 1740, were: William, of whom later; Mary,
September 28, 1705; James, January 5, 1707-8; Paul,
February 20, 1709; Frances, May 13, 1712; Edward,
April 16, 1714; Richard, May 20, 1716; Dorcas
(twin), September 4, 1718; Tnnothy (twin), Sep-
tember 4, 1718; Caleb,

(III) William Upton, eldest child of William
Upton (2), was born in Danvers, Massachusetts,
July 17, 1703. He married (first) Lydia Burnap,
of Reading, January 4, 1726-7. He married (sec-
ond) Hannah Felton, of Danvers, December 9,
I7S5. He lived in Reading, Massachusetts. The
children of William and Lydia (Burnap) Upton
were : William, of whom later : Daniel, August 19.
1731 ; James, March 26, 1733; Lydia, February 22,
173s : Mary, September 30. 1737 ; Jacob, December
^o. 1739; Jacob (twin), February 5, 1741 ; Mary
(twin). February 5, 1741 ; Tabitha, March 30, 1745,
resided in Templeton, Massachusetts, and married
Aaron Felt, May 21, 1766.

(IV) William Upton, eldest child of William
Upton (3), was born in North Reading. Massa-
chusetts, August 5,- 1729. , He married (first). May
ID, 17.W, Sarah Herrick, widow of Benjamin Her-
rick, of Lynn; he married (second) at Wilmington,
Massachusetts. Hannah Stanley, of Wilmington. De-
cember I, 1757. She died 1778. He married (third)

Mehitable . He lived at North Reading until

1770 and then removed to Temple. New Hamp-
shire, where he was living when his second wife
died in 1778. He also died there 1790. aged sixty-
one years. He served the town of North Reading
as constable in his younger days. The only child
of William and Sarah (Herrick) LTpton was: Sarah,
born November 20. 1755. married Samuel Gardner.
The children of William and Hannah (Stanley)
Upton were: John, of whom later; William, 1759;
Eli, 1760; Thomas, November 28, 1761 ; Mehitable,
November 6. 1763, married Captain Thomas Thurs-
ton ; Hannah, October 6, 1765; Nathan, August II,
1767; Lydia, April 6, 1769; a child, born in Temple,
May, 1773; Eunice. 1775. The children of William
and Mehitable were: Dorcas, Rhoda, EH, 1785, mar-
ried five times.

(V) John LTpton, second child of William Lip-
ton (4), was born in North Reading. Massachusetts,
1758. He married Abigail Low. July. 1783. He re-
moved from North Reading to Temple. New Hamp-
shire, with his father in 1770. Later he removed to
Fichburg. Massachusetts, and onened a store there.
William Upton for two hundred pounds sold land
in Temple and New Ipswich. New Hampshire, to
him. His father died in 1790 and he was adminis-
trator. He was active and energetic and became a
man of property. He was captain of the Fitchburg
Fusiliers. He died at the house of his son. Joseph
Upton. October 18. iSii. a.ged fifty-three. His widow
Aljigail died at the same house September 7, 1829.
Their children, all born in Fitchburg, were: Jo-
seph, of whom later ; John. August 7. 1787. married

Cunningham, of Tennessee, where they went

to live, thence to Illinois: he died at Keeseville, Illi-
nois. September i. 1834; Abigail. October 22. 1789,
died 181 1, at Fitchburg: Timothv F'elton. Novem-
ber 12. 1792, married Eunice Vinton ; Mehitable,
June 22. 1794. married Thomas Swcetser. of Fitch-
burg. January 12. 1814. removed to Lowell. Massa-
chusetts, where she died February. 18,^8; Lucv. ^lay
31. 1798. married Joseph Wiggin, removed to Boston

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where she died September, 1830; William, August
23. 1803, died at Alaumee City, Ohio, September,
1827.

(VI_) Joseph Upton, eldest child of Captain
John Upton (5), was born in Fitchburg, Massachu-
setts, July 3, 1784. He married Susan Thurston, of
Fitchburg, February 12, 1807. She was born in 1788.
He was a carpenter by trade and became a well-
to-do citizen, notwithstanding the fact that his health
was not robust. He lived and died in Fitchburg.
The date of his death was July 17, 1855. Although
a man of quiet disposition and of domestic habits
Mr. Upton was deemed one of the most substantial
and reliable citizens of the town, and was highly
esteemed by his neighbors. The children of Joseph
and Susan (Thurston) Upton were: Joseph, Octo-
ber 15, 1807, married Betsey Messenger, married
(second) Amelia F. Lowe; Mary Thurston, Novem-
ber 10, 1809, married Jonathan Barrage; Thomas,
August 22, 1813, married Abigail Downe, resided
at Westminster, Massachusetts; Edwin, Deceinber
9, 1815, married Louisa Maria Farwell, of whom
later ; John, of whom later ; Susan Abigail, July 20,
1819, married James P. Putnam; Charles, Novem-
ber 4. 1821, married Sarah A. Hagar, resided in
W'estminster; Martha Ann, February 21, 1826, mar-
ried George Curtis ; their son, Edwin Upton Curtis,
has been city clerk and mayor of Boston, a very
prominent Republican, prominent lawyer; another
son. Nelson Curtis,, is a paper manufacturer and
business man of Boston.

(VH) Colonel Edwin Upton, fourth child of
Joseph Upton (6), was born in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, 1815. He died there May 10, 1890. The
house in which he and his brothers and sisters were
born is on Blossom street and now or lately occu-
pied by Mrs. A. F. Adams. When nine years old
he had to begin to help support the family. His
wages the first year was three dollars a month in
summer. " He went to school in the winter term.
He worked out until he was sixteen when he was
apprenticed to his older brother, Joseph Upton, to
learn the mason's trade. For the first year he re-
ceived thirty-five dollars for eight months and a
half of hard work, and received forty dollars in his
his fourth year. When his apprenticeship was com-
plete he went to work for his brother at thirty dol-
lars per month and followed his trade until public
services demanded all his time.

Colonel Upton was identified with the civil his-
tory of the city of Fitchburg for a long time, and he
discharged with great fidelity every trust committed
to him. He was selectman of the old town in 1848,
and every year except 1855 until i860, in 1870 and
in 1873 when Fitchburg became a city, and was
chairman during these sixteen years for a consid-
erable part of the time. He was assessor in 1853-
54-56-59-60. He was on the committee which
erected the present city hall. In 1859 and i860 he
was representative to the general court. In 1861
Colonel Upton was appointed to a position in the
Boston custom house, which he held until he entered
upon military service in the civil war. After his
return from the service he was six years in the
storekeeper's department of the custom house. Early
in 1869 he was appointed keeper of the house of
correction in Fitchburg and served faithfully until
disabled by a terrible accident, September 16, 1874.
He was superintending some blasting near the jail
and was tamping a charge with an iron rod when

the blast exploded. He was severely burned and
lost his eyesight. He bore the deprivation with
much patience and his own misfortune enlarged his
sympathy for the unfortunate, as many whom he
helped have testified.

Colonel Upton was one of the most distinguished
military figures of Worcester county in the civil
war. When very young he showed an aptitude per-
haps inherited from ancestors, who were distin-
guished in the military service. He joined the
militia in 1836 and served in it about twenty-five
years, rising from private through the various ranks
to the command of a regiment. He was colonel
of the old Ninth Regiment for eight years, and
under his command it was under excellent disci-
pline and ranked among the best in the state. Nearly
every officer from Fitchburg and vicinity who served
with distinction in the late w'ar received their mili-
tary training from Colonel Upton, and his services
in this direction proved of great value in the early
part of the war when trained officers were in de-
mand. Many warm friends who were associated
with him in church work and anti-slavery affairs,
believing that the time was at hand when men should
war no more, objected to any military establishment
and ridiculed as fuss and feathers any military dis-
play. But when Sumter was fired on many of his
former critics were most active in promoting en-
listments and admitted the good judgment and pa-
triotism of the men who had preserved the volun-
teer militia, the best defence of that state and na-
tion. After he resigned as colonel he accepted the
command of the Washington Guards of Fitchburg,
in order to help raise the efficiency of that company.
Soon after the battle of Bull Run, when a new regi-
ment was raised in Worcester county, he was ap-
pointed colonel by Governor Andrew and A. B. R.
Sprague, of Worcester, lieutenant-colonel. Captain
Denny said in his history : "Col. Upton was an of-
ficer of sterling worth. He brought to the service
not only a high character for integrity and honor,
but a genuine patriotism and zeal for the loyal
cause which made him a fit leader of intelligent
JMassachusetts soldiers. During all the time he was
with the regiment he was earnest for the welfare and
comfort of the men. In return to an extent not
often experienced by commanding officers, he had
the fullest confidence and love of the regiment."

Before going to the front Colonel Upton was pre-
sented by friends and neighbors with a horse and
complete equipment, valued at $300. His associ-
ates at the custom house presented him a sword.
The regiment was brigaded with the Twenty-third,
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-seventh Massachusetts
Regiments and Tenth Connecticut in Burnside's
Coast Division, and the excellent discipline of the
regiment won for it the right of line in the brigade
and division. His regiment took part in the Ro-
anoke expedition and in the engagement that took
place at the assault the regiment did gallant service.
At the battle of Newbern, March 14, following, the
regiment again displayed great bravery, having the
honor of planting the first state flag on the works.
Colonel Upton received the sword of the Confed-
erate colonel in command and the regiment took
about one hundred and fifty prisoners. Continued
ill health incapacitated Colonel Upton for active
service in the field and he resigned October 27,
1862. A testimonial from the men under his com-
mand amounting to nearly $1,200 with sword and

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sash was presented to Colonel Upton after he left
the service and returned home. This sword is pre-
served in the Wallace Library and Art Building.

Colonel Upton was a member of the Calvuiistic
Congregational Church for tifty-five years. On his
return from Boston in 1869 he joined the Rollstone
Church and society and was chairman of the build-
ing committee during the latter part of the con-
struction.

He married (first) Louisa 1\L Farwell, of
Hoosick, New York, November 10, 1842. She died
August 6, 1882. Their adopted daughter, Emily J.,
married George F. Fay. She died in 1866. Colonel
Upton married (second), May 29, 1883, Lucy B.
Putnam, widow of James P. Putnam, whose first
wife was Colonel Upton's younger sister.

(VII) John Upton, fifth child of Joseph Upton
(6), was born in the old homestead on Blossom
street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where Abel F.
Adams lived for many years, December 29, 1817,
and died in Fitchburg, June 24, 1895, at his home at
140 Pritchard street. He was raised on his father's
farm. He preferred a mercantile life and began as
clerk in dry goods stores in Worcester and Lowell.
He began business on his own account in company
with the late Jacob Haskell in the store in Fitch-
burg under the Calvinistic Congregational Church
soon after the building was completed in 1844. The
partnership continued for several years, when Mr.
Upton bought out his partner's interest and con-
tinued alone until 1862.

Soon after the internal revenue department was
established during the civil war in 1862, he was ap-
pointed deputy collector and inspector of internal
revenue for the ninth district, a position that he held
until the department was practically abolished. It
was his duty as inspector to investigate the returns
of manufacturers made for the purposts of taxation,
and he brought to the discharge of his duties ability
and integrity of the highest order. His integrity
was sometimes tested by men whose returns had
not conformed to the law, but they found him un-
compromising in the discharge of his duty. He was
assessor under the town government in 1862 and
under the city in 187,3. He was deputy collector of
taxes from 1874 until 1890. He entered the insur-
ance business in 1870 with Henry A. Willis, his
brother-in-law, and continued until his death. He
was a trustee of the Worcester North Savings In-
stitute and a member of the examining committee
from 1868 till his death.

Early in life he joined the Calvinistic Congrega-
tional Church. In 1863 he became a constituent
member of Christ Church and was vestryman from
March 29, 1869, until March 26, 1895, when he de-
clined re-election. He was much interested in music
and was for many years the leading singer in Calvin-
istic Congregational Church. He was chorister at
Christ Church for twenty-five years. He was a good
citizen in every way, exemplified the finer elements
of character and was highly esteemed.

He married Louisa C. Willis, daughter of Samuel
and Cynthia Willis, sister of Henry A. Wills,
(see Willis Family sketch) of Fitchburg, April
S, 1848. She was born in 1828 at the home-
stead on Main street, Fitchburg. Their chil-
dren were : Frederick Willis, born in Fitch-
burg. April 8, 1S52, educated in the public schools
of Fitchburg and at Highland I\Iilitary Academy,
where he graduated in 1870; clerk in the Rollstone

National Bank until his death, October 7, 1870, from
typhoid fever ; Amy Louisa, born in Fitchburg, June
II, 1858, married Herbert 1. Wallace, son of the
late Rodney Wallace. (See Wallace sketch).

(VII) Joseph Upton, son of Joseph Upton (6)^
was born in Fitchburg. Massachusetts, October 15,
1807. He attended the district schools of his native
town, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed
to learn the mason's trade. He worked at his trade
until he was thirty, when he bought a farm in Fitch-
burg and conducted it for the remainder of his
life. In addition to his farm he carried on a lum-
ber business. In business and private life alike
Mr. Upton was a man of unquestioned integrity and
universally liked and respected. He was a member
of the Calvinistic Congregational Church ; he loved
music, and for over twenty years led the choir. He
was active in town and military affairs, being cap-
tain of the Fitchburg military company. He was
an unusually healthy and vigorous man, never sick
in his life but once. His death was due to a fall
from the upper scaffolding in his barn. He lived
forty-eight hours after the fall, but was unable to
talk or recognize his familv. He died March 14,
1870.

He married (first), January 20, 1831, Betsey
Jilessenger,daughter of Calvin and Betsey Messenger.
She died December 25, 1864, aged fifty-eight years,
eleven months. He married (second), March 28,
t866, Amelia F. (Vose) Lowe, born in South
Royalston, Massachusetts, August 17, 1834, the
daughter of William Vose, of Leominster. She
survived him and is living in Fitchburg. She is
highly esteemed by her neighbors for her kindly
ways and practical charity.

The children of Joseph and Betsey (Messen-
ger) Upton were: i. Susan Elizabeth, born Octo-
ber 9, 1831, married Marraton Upton. 2. Calvin,
May 21, 1833, killed by the accidental discharge of
a gun in his own hands October 3, 1847. 3. Jane
Augusta. January 19, 1835, married, September 7,
1859, Edward N. Leavens, at Chicago ; she died at
Faribault. Minnesota, December 24, 1863. leaving
one child. Frank N. Leavens, born in Faribault,
May 25, i860. 4. Emily M., December 31. 1836,
married, December 20, 1859, at Fitchburg, John M.
Farnsworth. 5. Louisa Adeline, February i, 1839,
married Edward J. Davis, at Pittsfield, June 25,
1862 ; their children are : Gertrude L. Davis, born
at North Adams. January 23, 1865 ; Walter E. Davis,
horn at Fitchburg, November 2, 1866, died Septem-
ber 4, 1868: Grace Upton Davis, born in Lunen-
burg. August 23, 1868. 6. Harrison, December 2,
1840, married Sarah M. Greenwood, at Marlboro,
New Hampshire, December 14, 1870. 7. Mary T.,
April II, 1843. married, at Fitchburg, October 19,
i8(58, George M. Bowker; she died at Fitchburg.
June 16, 1S70. 8. Daniel C, June 21. 1844. died
August 29, 1844. 9. Lydia H., August 27, 1846. died
August 12. 1847. 10. Abby Caroline, November 2,
1849. married, at Worcester, August 6, 1867, Simeon
Fuller, and had one child : Alice C. Fuller, born in
Fitchburg, November 20, 1870. .The children of
Jo=cph and Amelia F. (Vose) LIpton were: 11. Su-
san A., born April 8, 1867. died February 6, 1903 ;
married H. G. Townend, and had two children :
Robert Vose and Maurice Garthwaite. 12. George
Vose, July 6, 1868, married, September 28, 1891,
Helen Abbott Mason, of Warren, Alassachusetts, born
November 19, 1867. They have five children, born

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in Fitchburg, viz. : Frances Elizabeth ; Helen Beat-
rice; Dorothy Christine; George Vose, Jr., and
Joseph Mason, twins.

CHARLES SIDNEY HAYDEN. John Hayden
(l), the emigrant ancestor of the late Charles Sid-
ney Hayden, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born
in England and was one of the early settlers at Dor-
chester. He was one of the proprietors in 1632.
He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634. He re-
moved to Braintree, where he died. His will was
dated October 31, 1678, and was proved July 26,
1682. He bequeathed to his wife Susanna, sons
Ebenezer, Joseph. Nehemiah and John, daughter
Hannah and the children of a deceased son, Samuel.
He provided for his son Joseph's maintenance.

The children of John and Susanna Hayden were:
John, born 1636, married, April 6, 1660. Hannah
Ames, daughter of William ; Joseph ; Samuel, died
tefore 1682 ; Jonathan, of whom later ; Hannah, born
April 7, 1642 ; Ebenezer, born September 12, 1645.
died February 13, 1718; Nehemiah, born February
14, 1647-8, married Hannah Neal.

(H) Jonathan Hayden, son of John Hayden
(i), of Braintree, was born May 19, 1640, in Dor-
chester. He married. April 20, 1669, Elizabeth
Ladd. They settled in Braintree. His will was
dated May 13, 1718, and proved June 5, 1718. Their
-children were: Margaret, born !NIay 11, 1670: Amy,
September 16. 1672; Jonathan. February 17, 1775;
Samuel, of whom later; Sarah; Elizabeth.

(HI) Samuel Hayden, fourth child of Jonathan
Hayden (2), was born in Braintree, Massachusetts,
June 19, 1677. He married Mary , and set-
tled in Braintree, Massachusetts. Their children
were : Samuel, born January 17, 1703 ; Jerusha, Feb-
ruary 6, 1704; Mary, April I, 1705; Jonathan. May
18, 1706; Clement, October 4, 1707. married (first)
Hannah Hogin, October 31, 1734, and (second),
November 17, 1762, Hannah Blancher ; his son Rich-
ard removed to Concord. Massachusetts and Rich-
ard and his brother Clement were both in the
Tevolution; Richard, of whom later; Elizabeth, born
March 10, 1715.

(IV) Richard Hayden. son of Samuel Hayden
(3). was born in Braintree, August I, 1710. He

settled in Braintree; he married Mary .

Their children were: Aminadab, born August 26,
1746. soldier in the revolution ; Cozbi. daughter, No-
vember 26. 1749; Asenath. daughter. November i,
1751 ; Ziba, January 22, 1754. revolutionary soldier;
Cyrus, June 13, 17.^6. revolutionary soldier; Sage,
daughter. August 28. 1759 twin of following; Molly.
August 28, 1759, twin of preceding; Lewis, of whom
later, also a revolutionary soldier, all four sons be-
ing in the army.

(V) Lewis Hayden, son of Richard Hayden
(4), was born in Braintree. Massachusetts. Febru-
ary 6. 1763. He was one of the men raised Decem-
ber 2. 1780. for the town of Brainlree, and March
23. 1781. enlisted for three years. He was in Cap-
tain William Treadwell's company, Colonel John
Crane's regiment (Third Artillery). He seems to
have lived in Boston for^a time and then settled in
Concord, where he had cousins and other relatives.
The family historian of one branch says that there
was some relationship' apparent between the three
emigrant Haydens, John (l). mentioned above. Will-
iam Hayden, of Concord, who seems to have left no
descendants of the name of Hayden, and James, of
Charlestown, Massachusetts, all of whom came be-

fore 1635. (See the Hayden Genealogy). The same
authority has an account of the Haydens in Eng-
land. The name is most common in Devonshire.

Lewis Hayden settled finally in Harvard, where
he seems to have had relatives. He bought, in 1814,
of Captain Israel Taylor a tract on the road between
Lancaster and Groton, where the road to Shirley
branches off. Here' his son and descendants have
lived and the family farm is still owned by a direct
descendant (1906). He was an ofiiceholder in Con-
cord. He married, at Concord. JNIay 6, 1792, Mary
Beirsto. of Concord; he was then living in Boston.
From the time of his marriage to 1798 he lived in
Concord, and the three eldest children were born
there. He was in Winchendon in 1800, when his
son Nelson was born. He seems to have been in
Harvard in 1802 and lived there after that date.
The children of Lewis and Mary Hayden were :
Levi, of whom later ; William, born February 6,
1795; Hannah, May 6, 1797; Nelson, January 22,
1800. at Winchendon ; Washington. JNIarch 31, 1802,
at Harvard; Mary, February 16. 1805; Warren, May
12. 1807, lieutenant of Harvard Light Infantry, 1833,
died 1858; Jeflferson. April 29. 1809; Lydia, October
12, 1812; Emery. May 13. 1815.

(VI) Levi Hayden, eldest child of Lewis Hay-
den (5), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, March
23, 1793. He was a stone mason and gravestone
cutter and had a quarry in Harvard on Pin hill.
This quarry was worked from 1765 until about 1855.
He married Sally Richardson, of Boylston. Mass-
achusetts. Among their children were : Edmund
R., born December 23, 1819, removed to Lawrence
in 1853. was a stone cutter by trade, went to Cali-
fornia in 1851 and to Lawrence on his return in
1853 ; married Charlotte Fairbanks. April 4, 1844,
and they have one son, George. Edmund R. Hay-
den was a policeman in Lawrence from 1854 to 1863,
and was city marshal at the time of the Pemberton
mill disaster in i860; started in the wood business
in 1863. bought W. B. John's business, took into
partnership F. L. Runals, and dealt in wood and coal
under the firm name of Runals & Hayden ; bought
out Mr. Runals in 1874; he was mayor in 1876 of
the city of Lawrence. James G.. of whom later.
Lewis T., died January 9, 1853. N. Gilbert, resided
in Leominster.

(VII) James G. Hayden. son of Levi Hayden
(6), was born in Harvard, ^Massachusetts, March 13,
1822, and died at his residence, 45 Oliver street,
Fitchburg. November 21, 1890. aged sixty-eight
years, eight months, seven days. He went to school
in Harvard and learned the blacksmith's trade there.
He left his native town in 1848 and in 1851 went to
California. In 1852 or 1853 he returned to Harvard
and followed his trade as blacksmith until i860, when
he removed to the neighboring town of Ayer, but
after seven months went to Fitchburg, where he
lived the remainder of his life. He was for eight
years foreman for the Whitman & Miles Manufac-
turing Company in their blacksmith shop at West
Fitchburg. He started in business for himself as a
blacksmith in 1875 in a shop at 27 Oliver street,
and remained in business until 1890, when, shortly
before his death, he retired on account of failing
health.

He resided in various sections of the city during
his thirty years of residence in Fitchburg and was
widely and favorably known. He was very indus-
trious and his activity made him appear in the prime
of life even when he was nearly seventy. He was

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an upright and respectable citizen, a good represen-
tative of the industrious and intelligent mechanics
who give character and prosperity to New England
cities.

He married Lucretia B. Proctor, from a well-
known family of Portland, Maine, who died Febru-
ary 2, 1895, at Fitchburg. Their only child was:
Charles Sidney, born November 10, 1S48, of whom
later.

(VIII) Charles Sidney Hayden, only chdd of
James G. Hayden (7), was born m Harvard on the
old homestead, November 10, 1848; he died suddenly
at Fitchburg in the prime of life, April 30, 1903.
He received his early education in Harvard, Ayer
and Fitchburg. He attended the Lawrence Academy
at Groton and the Fitchburg high school, where he
graduated in 1869, and fitted for Harvard Col-
lege. He decided to study law and entered the law
office of Hon. George A. Torrey and the Harvard
Law School, where he was graduated in 1871. He
was admitted to the bar in August of the same year
and began at once to practice in Fitchburg.

In June, 1879, he was appointed special justice of
the Fitchburg police court and took his seat for the
first time at its civil session August 9 of that year.
In October, 1888, he became the senior justice of
the court, at the death of Judge David H. Merriam,
and since June 7, 1891, was chief justice of the
court. He filled these positions with ability and
dignity and administered justice wisely. It has been
well said of him: "Judge Hayden has rare and pe-
culiar qualifications for judicial office. His decisions
show careful researches and that he possesses in a
marked degree a broad and judicial mind, together
with those qualifications which are essential for the
wise, pure and impartial administration of justice
while the honors already conferred upon him and
the extensive practice he enjoys are the best evi-
dence of his professional standing and popularity."

He was a member of the school committee in
1886-87-S8. He was mayor of Fitchburg in 1890.
There were spirited contests in 1S89 and 1890, both
when he was elected and when he was defeated in
the race for mayor. He was always a student and
especially learned in French literature. Perhaps his
two favored places of rest and recreation were his
stable and his laboratory. Judge Hayden was a
good judge of horse flesh and he indulged in fast
horses. He was at his best when driving his favor-
ite pair of horses. He loved scientific research and
had fitted up at his house a well equipped chemical
laboratory. He loved music also and played the
cornet skillfully. When a young man he was a
member of the First Regiment Band. He had an
excellent tenor voice.

He married (first), in 1871, Mary E. Lawrence,
of Fitchburg. Their children were : Florence L.,
died young. Frederick L., born March 10, 1882.
He graduated from the Fitchburg high school in
1893 and was for three years a student at the Mass-
achusetts Institute of Technology, leaving to become
a manufacturing chemist under the name of F. L.
Hayden & Co., at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, in
1895. Judge Hayden married (second), August 27,
1898, Addie F. Gillette, daughter of Joseph Ham-
mond and Harriet Susan (Stearns) Gillette. She
was born February 27, 1875. Mrs. Hayden read law
in her husband's office and was admitted to the bar
in 1904. She succeeded to the practice of Judge
Hayden and also has a Boston office. She was ad-
mitted to practice in the United States courts De-

cember 13, 1905, and is the only woman practicing
jaw in Worcester county.

HENRY TITCOMB PAGE. Robert Page (1),
the immigrant ancestor of Henry Titcomb Page, of
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was the son of Robert
and Margaret Page, of Ormsby, county Norfolk,
England. The record shows that on April 11, 1637,
Robert Page, aged thirty-three, with wife Lucy, aged
thirty, and children — F'ranccs, Margaret and Sus-
anna, and servants, William Moulton, aged twenty,
and Annie Wad, aged fifteen, of Ormsby, passed
the required examination to go to New England.
They settled in Salem, where Lucy was admitted to
the church in 1639. He was admitted a freeman
May 18, 1642. He removed about 1639 to Hampton,
New Hampshire, where he had a grant of land be-
tween the homesteads of William JMarston and
Robert Marston, on meeting house green. The
original grant is still held in the family, or was
recently. He was selectman of Hampton si.x years;
deputy to general court of Massachusetts two years ;
marshal of the old county of Norfolk ; and served
on many important committees of the town. He
was elected deacon in 1660, and from 1671 to 1679
was the only deacon of the church. He had a
brother Edward Colcord, whose wife's name was
Ann (probably brother-in-law) for whom he se-
cured claims in 1654 and 1679. He died September
22, 1679. His will, dated September g, proved Sep-
tember 29, 1679, bequeathed to sons Francis and
Thomas ; daughters. Mary Fogg, Margaret Sanborne,
and Hannah, wife of Henry Dow ; grandchildren
Seth, James and Hannah Fogg; Joseph, Benjanun,-
Robert, Hannah, Sarah and Ruth Moulton ; Jon-
athan Sanborne ; Rebecca, Hannah, Samuel, Lucy
and Maria Marston ; Joseph, Samuel, Symon, and
Jabez Dow ; Robert, Samuel, John, Mary and Lucy
Page (some of these grandchildren were called by
their marriage names in the will). His age at
death was given as seventy-five years. Lucy, his
wife, died November 12, 1665, aged fifty-eight years.
Their children : i. Margaret, born in England. 1629,
married Jonathan Sanborn. 2. Francis, born in Eng-
land, 1633. 3. Susanna, born in England. 4. Thom-
as, mentioned below. 5. Flannah, born about 1641,
married Henry Dow. 6. Mary, born about 1644.

7. Rebecca, baptized at Salem, September 16, 1639.

8. Samuel, baptized September 16, 1639.

(II) "Thomas Page, son of Robert Page (i),
born in Salem, JMassachusetts, 1639 ; married, Feb-
ruary 2, 1664, at Hampton, Mary, daughter of
Christopher Hussey, and settled in Hampton. Their
children: I. Marj', born JNIay 21, 1665. 2. Robert,
born July 17, 1667. 3. Christopher, mentioned below.
4. John, born November 15, 1672, settled in Nan-
tucket. 5. Theodate, born July 8, 1675. 6. Stephen,
born August 4, 1677. 7. Bethia, born May 23, 1679.

(III) Christopher Page, third child of Thomas
Page (3), born in Hampton, New Hampshire, Sep-
tember 20, 1670; married, November 14, 1689, Abi-
gail, daughter of Daniel Tilton. He inherited the
homestead and lived at Hampton. His children:
I. Robert, born September 8, 1690. 2. Abigail, Feb-
ruary I, 1693. 3. Lydia, August 3, 1698. 5. Jona-
than, December 25, 1700. 6. David, mentioned be-
low. 7. Shubael, born March 28, 1708. 8. Tabitha,
August 21, 171 1.

(IV) David Page, sixth child of Christopher
Page (3), born in Hampton, November I, 1703;
married, June 27, 1728, Ruth, daughter of Deacon.

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John and Ruth (Smith) Dearborn. Her father was
a resident of Hampton. David Page settled in.
Hampton, near his brother Jonathan Page, on the
Thomas Moore place. He was among the first set-
tlers of Epping, New Hampshire, his name and that
of his eldest son being among those on the first
petition for the town in 1747. A number of his
children lived in Epping. Children of David and
Ruth Page: i. John, born July 17, 1729. 2. Robert,
born April i, 1731 ; married, November 12, 1755,
Sarah Dearborn, and settled in Raymond, New
Hampshire; his children were baptized in Epping.
3. Deborah, born January 11, 1733. 4. David, born
March 26, 1735. 5. Benjamin, mentioned below.
6. Abigail, born June 20, 1740, died young. 7. Abi-
gail, February 25, 1743. 8. Christopher, October 23,
1744. 9. Ruth, November 5, 1745. 10. Josiah, Jan-
uary 13, 1749; married Sarah Marston.

(V) Benjamin Page, fifth child of David Page
(4), was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, Au-

gti'St 7, 1738; married, about 1762. Hannah .

His wife joined the church at Epping, September
II, 1763, and their children were baptized there. His
will was dated July 6, 1796. He took the associa-
tion test before the revolution. His children :

I. Ruth, born September 11, 1763, inarried

Shaw. 2. Elizabeth, baptized December 9, 1764;

married Merrill. 3, Deborah, born August

^4, 1766; married • Merrill. 4. David, "eld-
est son." 5. Nathan, mentioned below. 6. Sarah,
married French. 7. Abigail. 8. Molly.

(VI) Nathan Page, son of Benjamin Page (5),
born in Epping, New Hampshire, July 10, 1770, bap-
tized July 15, 1770. He was a farmer at Epping.
He married first, Sarah Perkins, of Hampton Falls,
lilarch, 1796 ; she died August 23, 1812, and he mar-
ried (second), 1813, ]\Iary Weeks, of Parsonfield,
Maine, born June 7, 1767, died at Epping, March
25, 1847. Their children : I. Nathaniel Perkins, born
June 7, 1797; died September 16, 1844, at Pembroke,
Maine ; married Mary Ann Robinson, of Exeter,
New Hampshire. 2. Nancy, born February 15, 1799;
died May 9, 1S26, at Nottingham, New Hampshire;
married Francis Harvey. 3. Samuel Plumer, born
June 30, 1801 ; died April 13, 1838; married Eliza-
beth Drew, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 4. Sally,
born May 12, 1803; married John Fellows, of Fay-
ette, Maine. 5. Benjamin, born August 20. 1805;
married three times. 6. Hannah, born November
27, 1807 ; died November 3, 1833, at Nottingham,
New Hampshire ; second wife of Francis Harvey,
who married first her sister Nancy. 7. David Per-
kins, mentioned below.

(VI) David Perkins Page, A. M., son of Nathan
Page (6), was born in Epping. New Hampshire.
July 4, 1810. His father was a farmer in comfort-
able but not affluent circumstances, and was naturally
anxious to keep his son on the farm. The son de-
veloped early an ambition to become a teacher; his
father was opposed to the idea, though not opposed
to education. There was a fair library in the old
farm house, and the boy studied at every opportun-
ity, and acquired an excellent common school edu-
cation. At the age of fifteen or sixteen he had a
serious illness, and at the crisis of the disease, when
his father feared the worst, the boy exacted a prom-
ise from him that if he got well he should go to the
academy and become a teacher. That illness gave
to the world one of the leaders in the educational
progress of America in the nineteenth century. At
the age of eighteen he began his studies at Hamp-

ton Academy; he had his father's permission, but
he made every effort not to draw on his father for
expenses. In later years he confessed some of the
difficulties of his academy life, with homespun
clothes somewhat outgrown and very much out of
fashion. In a few months he was engaged as a
teacher, and his success in the school room justified
his confidence that he had found his natural voca-
tion. He returned to the academy and studied for
a time, and then taught school at Epping, New
Hampshire, Newbury and Byfield, Massachusetts.
After about two years of teaching in the district
schools he decided to open a private school in New-
buryport, then a city of 16,000 inhabitants. He be-
gan with five pupils, but before the end of the term
had his school full to its capacity. One of his bio-
graphers indicates that success was not as easy as it
might seem. "He had been accused, opposed, sus-
pected, and surmounted all attempts to put him
down. But he was always calm, cool, collected.
He lived down all his enemies, and there were few
men over whose solemn grave such a flood of tears
would so sincerely fall. He taught himself while
teaching others. Punctual to a proverb, the very
genius of order, and cheerful as the day, firm but
not severe, dignified but not haughty, social but not
trifling, there was a charm about him as irresistible
as it was benign and salutary."

Mr. Page was a natural musician and had a well
trained and powerful voice and a good ear, two im-
portant gifts for a teacher. It has been said of his
early work as a teacher : "The task was by no means
light. Faculty is the most essential element of suc-
cess in Yankee-land. Faculty the young teacher
was found to possess in liberal measure. The
school house was dingy and ill appointed, as were
nearly all of its kind. He filled it with the sun-
shine of a happy temperament and with the quick
conceits of an inventive mind, bent on making labor
light and wholesome. He boarded around among
his patrons, and was subjected to many petty incon-
veniences, but this enabled him to become acquainted
with the home influences in his surroundings and he
was keen in his perception of the elements with
which he had to deal. He became master of the
situation."

Within five years from the time he went to the
Flampton Academy he was elected associate princi-
pal and the head of the English department of the
public grammer school of the city of Newburyport,
Massachusetts. He was here for twelve years, and
his reputation as a progressive and successful teach-
er and writer became widely extended. He wrote
extetisively on educational topics, and lectured when
the platform was an important means of public edu-
cation. His address on "Co-operation of the Parent
and Teacher" was declared by Horace Mann to be
the ablest and most important educational paper that
had yet appeared in America. It was widely cir-
culated and made a strong impression in Massachu-
setts. His success as lecturer on educational sub-
jects cannot be easily over-estimated. He spoke
often, and he was a gifted speaker. He had a mes-
sage and knew how to deliver it. The very year
before his death he spoke in eleven counties, de-
livering as many as forty-seven lectures or ad-
dresses in thirty days before a thousand or more
teachers.

The State Normal School of New York, the first
in that state, was established chiefly through the
efforts of Governor DeWitt Clinton, and to Mr.

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Page was given the task of making the school, for
which no model existed. As principal he had to
demonstrate that the school was useful and neces-
sary. He accepted the position knowing its diflicul-
ties. On his way to Albany he visited Horace Mann
at Boston. The advice of the great educator linger-
ed ever in the mind of the principal : "Succeed or
Die." The school was opened December 11. 1844,
before the building, was finished, with thirteen men
and sixteen women students. He felt his way at
first, beginning with review classes in rudimentary
subjects, adding algebra and physiolog}'. There
were ninety-eight students enrolled before the end
of the first term, and in May, 184S, the school had
17s students. He organized the model school in
charge of an expert teacher who guided the efforts
of the students who learned to teach under the eye of
a competent critic. The normal school was attacked,
but its growth soon demonstrated its usefulness and
success. But in his third year as principal of the
school his health failed, and he died at the very be-
ginning of his career, January i, 1848, at Albany.
The funeral discourse by Rev. E. A. Huntington, D.
D., pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Al-
bany, January 9, 1848, was published. "He toiled up
through a long and difiicult way to an eminence
which, in your sober and rational judgment, but
here and there another overshadows. Alas, that he
was only permitted, like Moses, to catch a glimpse
of the land he was so eminently qualified to subdue
and cultivate and enjoy. But we may not give way
to tears, since like Moses, too, his eye rested upon a
brighter scene upon which he was ready and waiting
to enter. * * * He was just what a teacher
should be, a model for youth. He had a true thirst
for knowledge, and the ability to a very uncommon
degree to • excite it for his pupil.x In addition to
this, the even balance of his various powers gave
him a taste for the details of business. His insight
into human nature has already been noticed. This
was perhaps his highest endowment. We do not
claim for him a finished classical or scientific educa-
tion. But his attainments were various and accurate
and important beyond those of many a philosopher.

* * * At all events, in self-knowledge ana self-
discipline, the ultimate end of study, he was not sur-
passed, and hence the certainty of his success in any
enterprise which he would venture to undertake.

* * * So completely did he fill his place at the
head of the school that he was felt by the executive
committee, the faculty, students and people through-
out the state, to be almost essential to its prosperity,
if not to its existence. All the friends of the insti-
tution and all the recipients of its benefits were
bound up in him. It was characteristic of the man
that he so identified himself with his station, what-
ever it might be, that he seemed the life and soul
of it."

His only book, "The Theory and Practice of
Teaching," is the patriarch, as it was the pioneer, of
pedagogical literature in the United States. Sin-
gular as the fact may seem, we are told by his bio-
grapher in the 1886 edition of the book, that none of
the later books on the same and kindred topics has
displaced it in any perceptible degree. It was never
so widely read as at present. The first edition was
in 1847. The second in 1886 was edited by William
H. Payne, professor of the Science and Art of
Teaching in Michigan University. Another work of
l\[r. Page, and one which showed the analytical char-
acter of his mind, was his "Normal Chart," which

presented graphically the powers of the English let-
ters and was formerly in general use in teaching the
principles of orthography. A third edition of the
works of Mr. Page was edited by J. M. Greenwood,
superintendent of the Kansas City Schools, in 1896,
containing a new li'fe with portrait. In addition to
the "Theory and Practice of Teaching," this edition
contains the address on "The Mutual Duties of Par-
ents and Teachers, and The Schoolmaster — a Dia-
logue." He married, December 16, 1835, Susan M.
Lunt, of Newburyport, (see Lunt family), born
June 5, 181 r, died February 5, 1878. Their children:
I. David Perkins, Jr., see forward. 2. Susan M.,
born July 15, 1838, married John James Currier,
shipbuilder and author, of Newburyport. 3. Mary
Lunt, born September 22, 1842, died January 13,
1879. 4. Henry Titcomb, mentioned below.

(.VIII) David Perkins Page, Jr., son of David
Perkins Page (7), born August 13, 1836; married
Emily Caroline, daughter of Rufus Wills, of New-
buryport, December 5, 1867. Their children: i.
David Perkins, Jr., born August 12, 1870. 2. Rufus
Wills, July, 1872.

(VIII) Henry Titcomb Page, son of David Per-
kins Page (7), born in Albany, New York, January
30, 1846, when two years old moved with his mother
to the old home at Newburyport. He attended the
Newburyport public schools, and the Putnam school,
now the high school of Newburyport. For a time
he was a student at the Old Thetford (Vermont)
Academy. He came of a seafaring people. His
ancestors built ships, and it was natural enough that
he and his brothers should follow the sea for a time.
He shipped before the mast for two years. In the
meantime the civil war broke out, and in returning
from a voyage to the East Indies his vessel had to
run the gauntlet of Confederate warships and priva-
teers. He resolved to "do some chasing instead of
being chased," and enlisted in the navy. He was ap-
pointed acting master's mate November 23, 1863;
promoted to acting ensign September 4, 1864; served
in the "Florida," "Peterhoff," and "Mohican," of
the North Atlantic squadron ; was in an engagement
at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the sloop of war
"Mohican," December 25, 1864, and January 13-15,
1865 ; was discharged June 3, 1865, as acting ensign,
at the end of the war.

After the war he removed to Fitchburg to work
for George W. Wheelwright, the founder of the
present corporation which bears his name. Mr.
Wheelwright shares with the Burbanks, Crockers;
and Wallaces, the distinction of developing the pa-
per making interests of Leominster and Fitchburg.
The paper mill in Leominster had been in existence
about sixty years when, just before the civil war, he
bought the mill at North Leominster. He greatly
enlarged and improved it, and the business has
grown constantly, and the plant has been from time
to time enlarged to produce more paper. Mr.
Wheelwright built the Fitchburg mill on Fourth
street, on the river, in 1864. In the following year
Mr. Page became connected with the business. For
some years the Fitchburg plant was known as the
Rollstone Mill, and operated by Mr. Wheelwright
and his son George W. Wheelwright, Jr., who is
now the head of the concern. The firm name at
that time was George W. Wheelwright & Son. The
present company was incorporated in 1880, at the
time of the death of the founder. Mr. Page was
vice-president and superintendent, a position he
still occupies. The business of the company has in-

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creased many fold in the past twenty-five years, and
the facilities correspondingly developed. In later
years Mr. Wheelwright's sons have become active
in the company. The present officers of the corpora-
tion are: President, George \V. Wheelwright; treas-
urer, George W. Wheelwright, Jr. ; vice-president,
Henry T. Page; assistant treasurer, Harry Wheel-
wright. The capital stock is $300,000; it is a Mass-
achusetts corporation. One of the mills produces
book paper ; the other lithograph paper and bristol
board of all weights and colors. No pulp paper is
manufactured by this company, and little, if any, in
Fitchburg or Leominster. The company employs
three hundred hands, and has an annual product of
paper valued at a million dollars. In twenty-five
years the capacity of the plants has been increased
from four tons to fifty tons a day. Mr. Page has
charge of the manufacturing end of the business, and
resides on Summer street, Fitchburg, in an attractive
colonial house copied from some of the old Essex
county mansions of two centuries ago.

Mr. Page is a Republican in politics, a member
of the Loyal Legion, a director of the Rollstone Na-
tional Bank, trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank,
director of the Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light
Company. He is a member and has for some years
been a vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church of
Fitchburg. He married, June 23, 1869, Margaret A.
Brewster, daughter of William H. Brewster, of
Newburyport. They have one child, William Brew-
ster, born in Fitchburg, June 8, 1870, graduate of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1S93;
now superintendent of the North Leominster mill of
the George W. Wheelwright Paper Company. He
married Mary H. Huse, of Newburyport. Another
son of Henry T. and Margaret A. Page, James Cur-
rier Page, born June 9, 1872, died March 17, 1876.

GEORGE H. CUTLER. John Cutler (i), the
emigrant ancestor of George H. Cutler, of Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, was according to Rev. Abner
Morse, originally of Sprowston, now Sprauston,
two miles north of Norwich, and eight miles south
of Hingham, in England. It is in Norfolk county.
Mrs. Morse's authority was Daniel Cushman's manu-
script records of settlers in Norfolk county. John
Cutler was related to the other pioneers of the name
apparently, but the English line has not been traced
to the knowledge of the writer. John Cutler em-
barked on the ship "Rose of Yarmouth," William
Andrews, Jr., master, which sailed April 18, 1637,
and he immediately settled with his neighbors from
England in Hingham, Massachusetts. Land was as-
signed to him, June 10, 1637. He then had with him
his wife Mary and seven children, and one servant.
His home lot of five acres was south of the town
street. He had also two planting lots of six or
seven acres, bounded on one side by the World's
End, and twentj' acres on the plain for "a great Lot."
He had other grants as well. But he died in 1637-
38, leaving his widow and seven small children m
straits. It is presumed that the children were
taken by Robert Cutler, of Charlestown, Massachu-
setts, who must have been a relative. The widow
married (second), Thomas Hewett, of Hingman,
whose first wife died May 22, 1640. Hewett died
May 24. 1670. Children of John and Mary Cutler
were: Henry, died before 1670; John, born 1625. in
England; Samuel, see forward; Nathaniel, born
1630, died 1724, aged ninety-four years; Thomas,
born 1633-35, died December 7, 1683 ; ?Iamiah, mar-

ried, November 6, 1654, Onesiferous Marsh, who was
born in England, 1630, and resided m Hingham and
Haverhill, Massachusetts, where their house is still
habitable; she died March 17, 1686.

(H) Samuel Cutler, third child of John Cutler
(i), was born in England, in 1629. He was in
Marblehead in 1654, and in Salem in 1655. He lived
in Topsfield and Hingham in 1671, and was in
Gloucester in 1693. He married, while a resident of
Salem, his second wife, July 7, 1698, Sarah Church.
As heir and attorneys for her brothers and sisters,
he united with her mother, Mary Hewett, in the
sale of his father's estate at Hingham, in 1671. He
was often called upon as appraiser and administra-
tor of estates. His children, all born in Salem, were :
Hannah, born December 6, 1655, married John Put-
nam ; Abigail, November 7, 1656, died August 25,
1660; Sarah, October 23, 1O58; Samuel, born 1661,
died at Salem, 1733; Ebenezer, born 1664, died about
1729.

(HI) Ebenezer Cutler, youngest child of Sam-
uel Cutler (2), was born in Salem, Massachusetts,
1664. He married, March 11, 1689, ]\Iary Marsh,
daughter of Zachary and jMary Marsh, sister of Zach-
ary Marsh, Jr., who settled Killingly, Coimecticut
(.born December 8, 1666). Ebenezer Cutler died
1729 at Salem, intestate. His widow Mary died
there 1734, and the family left town that year. The
children of Ebenezer and Mary (Marsh) Cutler

were : Mary, born March 19, 1691, married

Sibley, of Sutton, ^Massachusetts, who died 1734;
Elizabeth, June 26, 1693, married Samuel Chamber-
lain, of Killingly, Connecticut; Ebenezer, see for-
ward; Zach^riah, February 5, 1698, died July 18,
1784, a fisherman; Ezekiel, November 4, 1700, died
about 1756; Amos, October 4, 1703, resided at Salem.

(IV) Ebenezer Cutler, third child of Ebenezer
Cutler (3), was born in Salem, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber I, 1695. He married (by Rev. David Hall) Mary
Stockwell, daughter of William Stockwell, (Dctober

16, 1732. Fie inherited the farm at Sutton, Mass-
achusetts, purchased by his father from his father-in-
law, William Stockwell, on which he settled before
1728. It is said that three of his sons resided at
one time in separate houses built on the old home-
stead. His will, proved April 3, 1779, mentions
only his wife Mary. He probably deeded away his
farm to his sons. The children of Ebenezer and
Mary (Stockwell) Cutler were: Mary, baptized at
Sutton, April 7, 1734, married Jeremiah Stockwell;
Jonathan, see forward ; Amos, born 1738, died ;\Iarch
6, 1823, aged eighty-five years; Sarah, baptized April

17. I743i married Jonathan Jacobs, May 2, 1759;
Stephen, baptized June 23, 1751, died at Montpelier,
Vermont ; Ebenezer ; Zaccheus.

(V) Jonathan (Sutler, second child of Ebenezer
Cutler (4), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, and
baptized there October 3. 1737. He married Eliza-
beth Holman, daughter of Stephen Holman, of Sut-
ton, October 20, 1767, and settled in Royalston, Mass-
achusetts, two miles north of the village centre. He
died there August, 1826. Elizabeth died January,
1817. He and his eldest son, Ebenezer Cutler, were
both soldiers in the revolutionary war. The children
of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Holman) Cutler were:
Mary, born December 28, 1758, in Sutton, married
Nathan Thompson, and settled in western New
York ; Ebenezer, September 9. 1760, in Sutton, revol-
utionary soldier, died in Huntington, Vermont, 1843 ;
Elizabeth, October 26, 1762, in Sutton, married Isaac
Gale, of Royalston, and had seven children; she

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died in Royalston ; Jonathan, October 6, 1764, at
Sutton, died July 9, 1842; Sarah, April 25, 1768, in
Royalston, married Judah Stockwell, of Royalston,
and had nine children; Hannah (.twin of the preced-
ing), April 25, 1768, died May 12, following; Tar-
rant, see forward; Hannah, February 11, 1774, died
August 6, 1778; Mehitable, July 1, 1776, in Royals-
ton, married Moses Nichols, of Royalston, and had
six children.

(VI) Tarrant Cutler, seventh child of Jonathan
Cutler (s), was born in Royalston, September 10,
1771. He settled there and was a farmer. He mar-
ried Lvdia, daughter of Levi Whitney, of Harvard,
Massachusetts, in 1796. He died 1842, at Royalston,
aged seventy-one years. The children of Tarrant
and Lydia (Whitney) Cutler were: I. Sarah, April
19, 1798, married Benjamin Heyw'ood ; she died Au-
gust 14, i860. Their children were: Benjamin, died
young; Lucy M., died young; John C, removed to
Eden, Maine; Silas N., removed to Minneapolis;
Joseph L., killed by bank burglars at Northfield,
^Minnesota; Sarah, married John Brooks, resided in
Minneapolis; Charles T., died in civil war. 2. Me-
linda, born March 16, 1800, married Abijah Richard-
son, who died June 26. 1869; she married (second)
Benoni Peck; their children were: Abijah J. Rich-
ardson, died unmarried; George O. Richardson, re-
sided at Jaff'rey, New Hampshire; Leander Richard-
son, resided at Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. 3.
John, born October 13, 1802, died February 9, 1861.
4. Lysander (general), born February 16, 1807, died
July 30, 1866. 5. Lydia, born March 27, 1809, died
September 6, 1842, unmarried. 6. Levi, August 7,
181 1, died August 13, 1881. 7- Tarrant, see forward.
8. George, July 20, 1815, resided at Bangor. Maine;
died Jlay 19, 1906. 9. Otis, October 17, 1817, died
Mav 27, 1868.

(VII) Tarrant Cutler, seventh child of Tarrant
Cutler (6), was born September 8, 1813, at Royals-
ton, Massachusetts, died June 11, 1898. He was
educated and brought up in his native town. During
most of his life he was a farmer. He held many
town offices and represented the town in the state
legislature in 1855. In 1869 he removed to Fitch-
burg and entered the grocery business with his son
und'er firm name of G. H. & T. Cutler. Their store
was at 235 ilain street, and Mr. Cutler lived at 57
Laurel street. He married (first) Harriet Fair-
banks, daughter of Jonathan and Asenath Fair-
banks, of Athol, Massachusetts, March 25, 1839.
He married (second) Mary P. Gale, daughter of
Jonathan and Martha P. Gale, of Royalston, June
25, 1849. Children of Tarrant and Harriet (Fair-
banks) Cutler were: Jane L., born September 26,
1840, died August 22, 1869; she was a teacher in the
public schools. George, see forward. Children of
Tarrant and Mary P. (Gale) Cutler were: Charles
E., born April 26, 1850, died August 23, 1852 ; Mary
E., born July 20, 1861.

(VIII) George H. Cutler, second child of Tar-
rant Cutler (7), was born in Royalston, IMassachu-
setts, April 2, 1845, on the old homestead. He at-
tended the district schools of his native town.
When a young man he went to Fitchburg and started
in the fish business. After a few years ^Ir. Cutler's
father al?o came to Fitchburg and they became part-
ners in the grocery business under the name of G. H.
& T. Cutler at 235 Main street. The firm has been
at the present location since 1869. Since the death
of his father, Mr. Cutler has carried on the business
alone. He never married. He is a Republican in

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politics. He is a trustee of the Fitchburg Savings
Bank. He is a director in the Orswell Alills,
Xockege ;\lills, Ponikin Mills, and the Brown Bay
Machine Company, He attends the Congregational
Church. He is a member of the Order of Knights
of Pythias.

HENRY A. GOODRICH. William Goodridge
or Goodrich (l), was the immigrant ancestor of
Henry A. Goodrich, the clothing merchant of Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts. The spelling Goodridge was
more common in this family than Goodrich until
later generations. The present spelling will be used
here for convenience, how'ever.

William Goodrich w'as probably born in Bury St.
Edmunds, Suffolk county, England. He and his
wife Margaret went to New England, and as early as
1636 he was one of the proprietors of Watertown,
Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman in
1642. His homestead of five acres was in or near
the northern boundary of Mt. Auburn cemetery,
which is about half way between Watertown Centre
and Harvard Square, Cambridge. He died in 1647.
The inventory of his estate was dated April 3, 1647.
He was a young man comparatively, probably under
forty. His widow married John Hull, of Newbury,
Massachusetts, where she went with her Goodrich
children. Mr. Hull died October i, 1670; she died
February 3, 1683.

The children of William and ^largaret Good-
rich were : Alary, born perhaps in England, married,
December 20, 1653, Edward Woodman, born 1628,
and died 1694 ; they had children : Edward and
Joanna;; Jeremiah, born March 6, 1638, married
Mary Adams ; Joseph, born September 29, 1639,
married Martha Moores ; he was apprenticed by his
mother to Samuel Thatcher: Benjamin, born April
II, 1642, married Mary Jordan; married (second)
Peborah Jordan; married (third) sarah Croad
(sic).

Jeremiah Goodrich, son of William Goodrich (i),
was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, March b,
1636. He married there, November 15, 1660. Mary
.A.dams, daughter of Robert and Eleanor Adams.
They settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, where he
was raised. Their children were ; Mary, born in
Newbury, Massachusetts, November 21, 1663, mar-
ried, .April 21, 1684, .Arthur Thresher; William, Au-
gust 2, 1665 ; Jeremiah, Newbury, married Mary

; Philip, November 23, 1669. of whom later;

Elizabeth, February 27, 1679, married, October 10,-
1710, John Cooper; Hannah, November 15,' 1681,
married, 1703, Nathaniel Pettingill, born January 21,.
1676, the son of Mathew and Sarah (Noyes) Pet-
tingill; perhaps it was she who married (second)
Jonathan Sibley ; John, i\Iay 26, 1685, married Han-
nah Brown.

(Ill) Philip Goodrich, son of Jeremiah Good-
rich (2), was born November 23, 1669, in Newbury,
Massachusetts, died in Lunenburg, Massachusetts,
January 16, 1729. He was one of the early settlers
of Lunenburg (now Fitchburg) and built, in 1724,
the third house that was put up there. He was the
first deacon of the Lunenburg Church. He was the
first person buried in the principal graveyard of the
town. He married, .April 16, 1700, Mehitable Wood-
man, born September 20, 1677, died February 24,
1755, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Stevens)
Woodman. Their children were: Benjamin, born
February 3, 1701, married Sarah Phelps; John, .Au-
gust 6, 1702, married (first), June 21, 1733, Annie

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Scripture, born June 10, 1707, daughter of Samuel,
Jr., and Alary Scripture; married (second), Novem-
ber 28, 1755, Sarah Brown; JNIehitable, August 2,
1704, died May 21, 1790; married, January 17, 1733,
Stephen Stickney, born April 4, 1705, died March
23, 1782, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (.White)
Stickney ; Hannah, April 25, 1706, married, JIarch
31, 173J, William Turner; Joshua, February 7, 1708.
married Lydia Stearns ; Sarah, June 17, 1709, mar-
ried, April 10, 173s, William Grant; Dorothy, March
4, 1711; Philip, July 6, 1714; David, November 24,
1716; Joseph, September i, 1719, married, January
30, 1746, Sarah Foster; resided in South Lunenburg
(Fitchburg) ; Daniel, February 7, 1721, married, No-
vember, 1754, Sarah ; Rebecca, April 17, 1723.

married Ezekiel Goodrich, her cousin.

(IV) David Goodrich, son of Philip Goodrich
(3), was born Lunenburg, November 24, 1716, and
died in South Fitchburg, July 13, 1786. He resided
in what is now South Fitchburg and was one of the
early settlers. The character of this sturdy pioneer
is shown by an encounter that he had with the In-
dians. He was out in the woods hunting for some
lost cows when he was surprised and surrounded by
a band of Indians, who demanded his surrender.
He spurred his horse and charged through the line,
escaped and gave the alarm. The Indians retired.
Goodrich lost his hat in his haste to- get away from
the savages. Ten years afterward an Indian was
taken on the Connecticut wearing the identical hat
that Deacon Goodrich lost. Fitchburg was set off
from Lunenburg, February 3, 1764. David Good-
rich was one of the first board of selectmen of the
new town. He was a delegate to the provincial
congress at Concord and Cambridge in 1774, when
John Hancock w^as the president, and again at Cam-
bridge in 1775. .

David Goodrich lived in Ipswich for a time, in
1741 Elizabeth (Martin) Goodrich, his wife, was dis-
missed from the Chebacco Church to Lunenburg.
His wife was descended from John Martin, of Char-
lestown (admitted freeman 1640). Her parents,
John and Elizabeth (Durgin) Martin, went to Ips-
wich m 1733.

The children of David and Elizabeth (Martin)
Goodrich were: David, born March 14, 1741, died
October 4, 1744; Elizabeth, November 6, 1743, mar-
ried, September 22, 1773, Joshua Stanton ; Mehitable,
August 6, 1745; David E., April 23, 1747; Ebenezer,
May 12, 1749, married Beulah Childs ; Asaph, June
28, 1751, married Hannah Walker; Hannah, April
7, 1753, married Daniel Alellin. of Fitzwilliara, New
Hampshire; John, born jNlarch 17, 1755; Eunice,
May 6, 1757, married, August 2-;, 1777, Joseph Far-
well, of Fitzwilliam, and went west.

(V) John Goodrich, son of David Goodrich
(4), was born in Lunenburg (now Fitchburg),
March 17, 1755 (genealogy gives it; June 17, 1754.
in American Ancestry). He married, October 14.
1778, (town record gives date 1768 in one place, in-
tentions dated 1778), Desire Nichols. She died Feb-
ruary, 1788. He married (second) Prudence (Polly
in one record) Butler, July 9, 1789. He died April
13, 1S34. He was one of the minutemen of Lunen-
burg or Fitchburg when the revolution broke out.
He was in Captain Ebenezer Bridge's company.
Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment, April 19, 1775.
and marched to Lexington. He was in the battle of
Bunker Hill. He was also in Captain Fuller's com-
pany. Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment, later in
1775. He was corporal in Captain John Joslin's

company. Colonel Job Cushing's regiment, and
marched with it from Leominster to Bennington the
last of July, 1777, to join the forces under Colonel
Seth Warner. He was an overseer of the poor,
selectman and in fact for many years was in constant
public service in various public offices and commis-
sions for the town of Fitchburg.

The children of Major John and Desire (Nich-
ols) Goodrich were: John, born June 17, 1780;
Mehitable, August 29, 1782; Betsey, Fitchburg,
March 28, 1786, married, November 6, 1805, Samuel
Cowdin.

(VI) John Goodrich, Jr., son of Major John
Goodrich (5), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
June 17, 1780, and died there December 10, 1845.
He married, December 22, 1806, Lucy Pierce (pub-
lished November 15, town record gives marriage
December 15, 1805). He lived in Fitchburg and
was an honored citizen of that town.

Their children were ; Alonzo Pierce, born Au-
gust 17, 1807, lived and died in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts; John 3d, born in Fitchburg, November 17,
1808; Joshua Nichols, March i, 1811 ; Mary Ann,
May 2, 1814; Albert, June 17, 1816.

(VII) John Goodrich, son of John Goodrich,
Jr., (6), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, No-
vember 17, 1808. He died April 19, 1888. He was
an honored citizen in town and church. He served
in the Fitchburg militia company in i8-'0-4i-43.
He married, October 3, 1829, Mary Ann Blake, of
Concord, jNIassachusetts. Their children were :
Henry A., born November 22. 1830; William W.,
John B,, George E., Ira B., Charles E., Julia E.,
(twin), Mariette (twin), Emma.

(VIII) Henry A. (joodrich, son of John Good-
rich 3d, (7), was born in Fitchburg, November 22,
1830. His early education was obtained in the dis-
trict schools of his native town and later he attended
the Fitchburg Academy and the Fitchburg high
school. He was one of eight boys who attended
the high school during the first term after it was
opened. He was the only one of the eight to locate
permanently in Fitchburg. He began his business
career in 1849 as overseer in a woolen mill, and dur-
ing the four years after that saved enough to start
in business for himself in a small way. In January,
1855. he began his long and successful career as a
merchant by buying a hat and men's furnishing
goods store located under the Fitchburg Hotel. He
remained in this store until 1869, when he removed
to his branch store established some years previously
in Belding & Dickinson's block on Main street. He
had also started a branch store in Brattleboro, Ver-
mont. In 1885 he moved into his present handsome
and commodious quarters in E. M. Dickenson's
block, then newly built. He gradually added to his
stock until he has one of the largest and best cloth-
ing stores in the county.

In addition to his mercantile interests Mr. Good-
rich has invested largely in Fitchburg real estate.
He was at one time half owner of the L. J. Brown
block. He sold his half to Mr. Brown. In 1868 he
bought the American House property. Later he
erccled two large blocks on Day street, one of which
is known as the Goodrich block. He sold the Amer-
ican House in 1874, and became a stockholder and
director of the Haskins Machine Company, which
proved to be a failure. He was active in organizing
the Fitchburg board of trade and was one of its first
vice-presidents. He was president of the Mer-
chants' .Asociation in 1887. He is one of the trus-

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tees of the Worcester North Savings Institution, di-
rector of the Safety Fund National Bank. He was
a director of the Fitchburg Park Association. He
was president of the American Pruning Company.
During the civil war he was treasurer of the Fitch-
burg Bounty Fund and collected and disbursed over
$jo,ooo to the families of soldiers. The town after-
ward refunded the greater part of this money. After
the battles of the Wilderness in 1864, he was sent by
the town with Dr. Alfred Hitchcock and E. B. Hay-
ward to care for the sick and wounded Fitchburg
soldiers in the hospitals at Fredericksburg and
Washington. He performed his share of this trying
task thoroughly and faithfully.

Mr. Goodrich takes an interest in public afifairs
and questions. He has been in the past a frequent
contributor to the press. The Boston Herald in
criticising some of his articles in the Fitchburg Sen-
tinel, said: "The Sentinel opposes the sentiments of
these communications editorially, but it is beginning
to be evident that the unknown writer is more than
a match for the newspaper men, at least in vigorous
style, mastery of the arts of logic and power of
special pleading."

In politics Mr. Goodrich has never been an ex-
treme partisan. In early life he was a strong anti-
slavery man. He served on the first Free Soil town
committee with Moses Wood, Charles ^lason and
Henry A. Willis, and he cast his first vote for John
P. Hale for president. He has been a Republican
since the party was organized, but has not always
been in full agreement with his party. As a rule he
has voted the Republican ticket. In 1870-71 he rep-
resented Fitchburg in the general court. He served
two years on the Hoosac tunnel committee during
the most important period in the history of its con-
struction. At the organization of the government
under a city charter he served on the board of as-
sessors. He has been for several years one of the
trustees of the VV^allace Public Library. In 1885 he
was the candidate of the Citizens' party for mayor,
but his ticket was defeated on account of a radical
prohibition sentiment prevailing at the time. In
1892 he was Republican presidential elector from
his district. Mr. Goodrich is one of the leading
merchants of the town. He is a man of public
spirit, to whom the citizens of Fitchburg owe much
for his part in developing the city and encouraging
its enterprises. He stands high socially as well as
in a business way.

He married, December 17, 1856, Harriet Stebbins,
daughter of John and Harriet H. Stebbins, of Ver-
non, Vermont. Their children were : Emma L., mar-
ried W. L. Humes; John S., died in infancy; Will-
iam Henry, died March 24, 1894; a young man of
marked ability and great promise, a senior in Tuft's
College. Harriet (Stebbins) Goodrich was the
eighth in descent from Rowland Stebbins, who came
from England in 1634; settled in Springfield and
Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a friend of
John Pynchon.

WALTER A. FAIRBANKS. Jonathan Fair-
banks (l), from whom all the Fairbanks families of
Ainerica are descended, was the pioneer ancestor,
of course, of Walter A. Fairbanks, of Fitchburg.
Jonathan Fairbanks or Fayerbank (his name is spell-
ed variously) was born in England previous to the
year 1600 at Sowerby in Halifax, parish of West
Riding, county of York., He came to New England
with his wife and six children in 1633 and became

one of the original settlers of Dedham, Massachu-
setts. His wife, whose maiden name was Grace Lee,
died about 1673. He died December 5, 1668. His
brother, Richard Fairbanks, who came about the
same time, and was at one time postmaster in Bos-
ton, is not known to have had any descendants.
The Fairbanks' mansion near the centre of Dedham,
built by Jonathan in 1636, still remains in good state
of preservation and lias never gone out of the fam-
ily. Recently it has been bought by the Fairbanks
Association, a family organization, and it will be
preserved as long as possible, one of the most inter-
esting and oldest of the homes of the pioneers. His
will was proved January 26, 1669, and maintions his
six children and some of his grandchildren.

The children of Jonathan and Grace (Lee) Fair-
banks were all born in England, viz: John; George,
settled ill the south part of Sherborn, is ancestor of
the St. Johnsbury, Vermont, family, (see sketch of
ancestors of Mrs. Birney A. Robinson, of Worces-
ter) ; Jonas, of whom later; Jonathan; ^lary, mar-
ried INIichael Metcalf and Christopher Smith; Susan,
married, October 12, 1647, Ralph Day.

(II) Jonas Fairbanks, the third son and fifth
child of Jonathan F'airbanks (i), was born in Sow-
erby, England. He was a farmer and carpenter.
He settled in Lancaster in 1657 and signed the
covenant there March 5, 1659. He is the ancestor of
numerous families of the name in Lancaster and the
neighboring towns of Harvard, Sterling, West
Boylston, Ashburnham, and among his famous de-
scendants was the vice-president of the United
States, Charles W. Fairbanks. It is recorded that
in 1652 he was fined for wearing great boots, an act
prohibited in the colony for those having less than
two hundred pounds of property. He and two of
his sons were killed by the Indians, February 10,
1676, during King Philip's war. The farm which he
cleared from the wilderness is now owned by one
of his descendants.

He married. May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott, who
was born in Watertown, jMassachusetts, August 15,
1641, the daughter of John Prescott, native of
Sowerby, mentioned above. Prescott was also a
pioneer at Lancaster. (See Prescott family sketch).
The marriage of Jonas was the first recorded in tlie
town of Lancaster. The w'idow married Elias Bar-
ron, of Watertown. Lieutenant Jabez Fairbanks is
believed to be the only son of Jonas and Lydia, who
left sons and posterity of the name of Fairbanks.

(III) Lieutenant Jabez Fairbanks, son of Jonas
Fairbanks (2), was born November 8, 1670, at Lan-
caster, Massachusetts. He was a lifelong resident
of his native town, a farmer and man of distinction.
He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23,
and was a soldier in the Indian wars. He died
March 2, 1758. He married (first) Mary Wilder,
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder.
She died February 21, 1718, in the forty-fifth year
of her age. ihe was the mother of ten children, of
whom Joseph was the first born, of whom later.
Captain Jabez Fairbanks married (second) Eliza-
beth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged eighty
years.

(IV) Joseph Fairbanks, son of Captain Jabez
Fairbanks (3), was born in Lancaster, Massachu-
setts, in 1694. He is generally known as Deacon
Joseph from his position in the church. He inherit-
ed the Lancaster homestead. Fie was a prominent
citizen. When the town of Harvard was incorpor-
ated he was a resident of that section of Lancaster,

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^nd he was on the lirst board of selectmen. He
served from 1733 to 1735 and again from 1743 to
1745. He was town treasurer from 1736 to 1740
and served the town on many important special com-
mittees. He was active in the church and a liberal
contributor to its support. He died December 6,
1772.

He married, April 21, 1718, Mary Brown, who
died November 14, 1791, aged ninety-one years,
eleven months, six days. Their children were:
Phinehas, born April 8, 1719; Mary, October 17,
1721 ; Joseph, of whom later; IMercy, February 6,
1724; Cyrus, May 23, 1726; Mary, January 19, 1729;
Lydia, August 16, 1731 ; Elizabeth, May i, 1734;
Amos, April 21, 1737, settled at Harvard, ances-
tor of Gardner branch also; Relief, December i,

1739-

(V) Captain Joseph Fairbanks, great-grand-
father of Walter A. Fairbanks, son of the preceding
Deacon Joseph Fairbanks (4), was born in Harvard,
Massachusetts, then Lancaster, November 4, 1722 or
1723. He was a leading spirit in civil and military
affairs of his day, serving as captain of a company
in a provincial regiment under Colonel Asa Whit-
comb, and marching to Lexington on the alarm of
April 19, 1775. He died in 1S02.

He married (first), November 11, 1742, Mary
Willard, daughter of Hezekiah and Anna (Wilder)
Willard. She was baptized in Lancaster, December
22, 1722, and died there August 26, 1748, in the
twenty-sixth year of her age, having had three chil-
dren. Deacon Joseph married (second) Abigail
Tarbell, of Groton, Massachusetts, October 4, 1749.
She died April 12, 1798, aged seventy-six years, ten
months, six days. She had eight children by this
union. The children of Captain Joseph and Mary
(Willard) Fairbanks were: Joseph, born December
. 5, 1743; Jabez, March 8, 1744-51 Anna, March 25,
1745-6. The children of Captain Joseph and Abigail
(Tarbell) Fairbanks were: Thomas, November 12,
1750; Cryus, of whom later; Ephraim, October 18,
1753; Levi, May 29, 1755; Abigail, November 24,
1756; Jonathan, September 4, 1758; Mary, July 12
or 13, 1762; Thomas, May 7, 1764.

(VI) Cyrus Fairbanks, fifth child of Captain
Joseph Fairbanks (5), was born in Harvard, jNLis-
sachusetts, INlay 17, 1752. He was a soldier in the
revolution and was the last revolutionary pensioner
in Ashburnham, whither he removed. He removed
from Harvard to Troy, New Hampshire, where he
was living between 1815 and 1820. He died in Ash-
burnham, Massachusetts, June 18, 1852, aged one
hundred years, one of the oldest citizens who ever
lived there. He was a farmer, a useful and honored
citizen in his active life.

He married, August 2$, 1779, :Mercy Hale, of.
Stow, who was born February 7, 1756, and removed
to Ashburnham in 17S8, where she died in 1840. aged
eighty-four. The children of Cyrus and JNIercy
(Hale) Fairbanks were; Sally, born August 8. 1780,
married (first) Joseph Gibbs; married (second),
November ig, 1835, Lewis Hill, of Chester, Ver-
mont; she died April 14, 1857; Jacob, born I^Lirch
17, 1782, married, Mav 25, 1808, Lydia Phillips,
daughter of Seth and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Phillip-,
of Fitchburg, a cousin of Vice-president Hannibal
Hamlin, of I\Taine; they have numerous descendants
living in Ashburnham and Fitchburg; Mercy, Octo-
ber 7, 1784, married Walter Russell Adams; Cyrus,
of whom later ; Abigail, l^ebruary 24, 1789. married,
August 28. 1806. Leonard Patch; married (second)

Walter Russell Adams, who married also her sister
Mercy; Artemas, May 26, 1791, died unmarried in
Troy, New Hampshire, August 27, 1863; Betsey,
April 10, 1796, married Amos Rice, who was born
February 5. 1797, son of Samuel Rice, of Ashby ;
they removed to New York state.

(VII) Cyrus Fairbanks, sixth child of Cyrus
Fairbanks (6), and father of Walter A. Fairbanks
(8), was born in Harvard, Massachusetts, November
17, 1786. He removed to Troy, New Hampshire,
1816, when a young man. He married, July 3. 1817,
Betsey Jackson, of Westminster, Massachusetts.
He was a manufacturer of boots and shoes on a
large scale for the time and methods of his day.
He died at Tro\', New Hampshire, November 23,
1861, and his wife, April 29, 1868. Their children
were : l. Eliza, born March 22, 1818, married Ran-
som Ingalls; she died August 15, 1857, leaving four
children. Silas H., born l3ecember 17, 1S19, married
Catherine (Woods) Aldrich, daughter of Asa
Woods, removed to Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1856,
where he died October 24, 1858; their son. Arthur
Walter, born August 24, 1857, is a druggist in Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts. 3. Mary Ann, born December
3, 1822, married, July 9, 1844, Edward P. Kimball,
who was born in Hillsboro. New Hampshire, Feb-
ruary 23, 1819, and resided in Troy, New Hamp-
shire, where he was a merchant from 1842 to his
death, January 23, 1900; he was postmaster and high
sheriff; they had three children, one of whom, the
only one now living, Warren W., succeeded his
father as a merchant at Troy, New Hampshire. 4.
George, born October 22, 1825, married Abbie Wright,
who died August 27, 1848, married (second) Nancy
Watkins. who died July 27, 1858; married (third)
Mariett S. French, resided at Jaffrey, New Hamp-
shire, died at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, March 5,
1906; he had four children, one of the number being
DeLos Eugene Fairbanks, ladies' tailor of Fitchburg,
Massachusetts. 5. Charles, born March 15, 1827,
died June 18, 1843. 6. Walter A., of whom later.
7. Sarah W., born May 8, 1832. married, June 28,
1865, Daniel H. Sawyer, of Keene. New Hampshire ;
their only son, Walter Fairbanks Sawyer, is a physi-
cian in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 8. Caroline A.,
born January 6, 1836, married, November 24, 1863,
Dr. Daniel Farrar ; he was an esteemed physician in
Leominster, Massachusetts; he died June 3. 1875.
They had two children, the son, Edward Bird Far-
rar, is a teller in Wachusett National Bank, Fitch-
burg. ^Massachusetts.

(VIII) Walter A. Fairbanks, son of Cyrus
Fairbanks (7). was born in Troy, New Hampshire,
January 5, 1830. He was educated in the schools
at Troy and in Ashburnham. After leaving school
he entered a general store at Troy as clerk. He be-
came manager of a union store at Fitzwilliam, New
Hainpshire. In 1863 he removed to Fitchburg and
has made his home there since. He went to work in
the dry goods store of Luther J. Brown, of Fitch-
burg. Here he filled a position of responsibility for
twelve years. He was successful in business and
acquired a competence. He has lived a retired life
for many years, caring for his property and invest-
ments. He is vice-president of the Wachusett Na-
tional Bank, a position he has held for many years.
He is trustee of the Worcester North Savings In-
stitution. He is a stockholder and director of the
Orswell Nockagc jNlills. He is a Republican but
never cared to hold public ^office. He attends the
LTnitarian Church. He is of a quiet and retiring

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dispositon, interested especially in the affairs of
Fitcliburg, but loving best the comforts of home life.
He resides in an attractive residence on Pleasant
street.

He married (first) August 4, 1S64. Mary J.
Nourse, daughter of Brown Nourse ; she died in
1896. He married (second). 1899, Leila B. (Water-
house) Farrar, daughter of Jerry Waterhouse, of
Troy, New Hampshire, and widow of Henry W.
Farrar, of Troy, New Hampshire. He has no
children.

FREDERICK L. DRURY. Hugh Drury (i),
the progenitor of all the old American families of
this name, was the immigrant ancestor of Frederick
L. Drury, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He was
born in England and is said to have come to New
England under the name of Georg:e Drury, who was
a passenger in the ship "Abigail" in July, 1635. aged
nineteen years. No other mention of a George
Drury is to be found. This ship brought a company
of the younger Winthrop's settlers who were bound
for the mouth of the Connecticut. But Drury is
found in Sudbury as early as 1641, a proprietor. In
1646 he removed to Boston, selling his Sudbury place
to Edmund Rice, and entering business in Boston.
He was a carpenter by trade. In 1654 he was made
z member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company in Boston and attained the rank of lieuten-
ant in it later. He was admitted to the Boston
Church, April 16, 1654, and made freeman May 3,
1654. He was a town otlicer of Boston.

His will was dated November I, 1687, and proved
July 30, 1689. He bequeathed to Mary, widow of
his son John, of whose estate he was executor, for
herself and children ; to his sister, Lydia Hawkins ;
to son Thomas ; refers to deceased wife Lydia and
to daughter Mary ; appoints his friend, Henry Allen,
and brother, Henry Rice, executors with his brother-
in-law, Edward Rice, alternate in case of the death
of either. He is buried in the Chapel burj'ing
ground in Boston and the grave has a stone.

He married (first) Lydia Rice, who was born
1627 and died April 5, 1675. She was the daughter
of the pioneers, Edmund and Tamazin Rice, of Sud-
bury. He married (second), October, 1676, Mary
Fletcher, widow of Rev. Edward Fletcher. His
■wife, Lydia, was admitted to the church March 12,
1648. The children of Hugh and Lydia were; John,
of whom later ; Thomas, probably died young, not
mentioned in father's will ; Mary, made noncupative
will 1680, bequeathing all to her cousin, Samuel
Shrimpton. One child by the second wife, Mary,
was Hugh, Jr., born July 19, 1677, probably died
young.

(II) John Drury, only son of Hugh Drury (i)
living to grow up, was born May 2, 1646, baptized
March 19. 1649. at Boston ; died before his father.
1678, leaving an estate valued at over five hundred
and sixty-two pounds. He was a lieutenant in King
Philip's war. He also was a house carpenter.

He married Mary Shrimpton, daughter of Ed-
^vard Shrimpton, merchant, of Bednall, county Mid-
dlese.x, England. Their children : Thomas, of whom
later ; Lydia ; i\Iary, married William Alden, who
was born September 10, 1669, son of John, Jr., and
widow Elizabeth (Moore) Alden; Elizabeth; Mercy;
Daniel ; John. Jr.. born December 26. 1678, died of
■smallpox in Boston. November I, 1702.

Captain Thomas Drury, son of John Drury (2),

was born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 10, 1668,
and died at Framiugham in 1723. He was an early
settler of Framiugham and took a leading part in
the organization and government of the town. He
was the first town clerk, a position he filled for
eleven years. He was the first deputy to the general
court in 1701. He -was one of the first board of
selectmen of the town and served altogether for
thirteen years. He was the school master in 1713;
lieutenant of the military company in 1713, captain
in 1719. He was placed in charge of the public am-
munition with Ensign Bridges, June 15, 1719, and
they were directed to store the powder, etc., in a
vault in the loft of the meeting house. Framingham
certainly believed in "trusting God and keeping her
powder dry." He was also a conveyancer and local
"Squire."' In his will, dated November II, 1723, he
mentions besides his own family, his cousin, Mary
Ball.

He married, December 15. 1687, Rachel Rice,
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Moore) Rice.
Their children, all born in Framingham, were:
Caleb, born October 5, 1688, of whom later; Captain
Thomas, Jr., born August 29, 1690, died December 2,
1783; married (first) Sarah Clarke, and (second)
Mary Ward; John, died 1754; married, May 21, 1719,
Susannah Goddard ; Mary, married, January i, 1713,
David Bent; Rachel married. December, 1718,
George Fairbanks ; Lydia, married, December 5,
1722, Joseph Pike ; Elizabeth, born June 22, 1701,
married Isaac Morse; Micah, born May 2, 1704,
married, September 10, 1724, Abigail Eames; Uriah,
born January 17, 1707, died 1754; married, Decem-
ber I, 1736. Martha Eames.

(I'V) Caleb Drury son of Captain Thomas
Drury (3), was born in Framingham, Massachu-
setts, October 5, 1688, and died 1723. He married,
October 10, 1706, Elizabeth Eames, daughter of John
and Elizabeth (Eames) Eames. They lived and
died in Framingham. She was born April 11, 1685.
Their children were: Josiah, born September 17,
1707; married, October 9, 1733, Hannah Barron.
Daniel, born April 25, 1709. died June 7. 1786; mar-
ried, July 14, 1729, Sarah Flagg; intention of mar-
riage with Elizabeth Chamberlain dated May, 1776;
intention with Mary Stacy dated September 5, 1776.
John, born June 18, 1711. married, November 22,
1733. Anna Gleason ; Caleb, born May 22, 1713,
married May 27. 1735, Mehitable Maynard ; Asenath,
born January 9, 1714; Seville, born January 11, 1715,
died June 2. 1715; Captain Zedekiah, born April 30,
1716, married (first). July 20, 1738, Hannah Ax-
tell; (second), April 2. 1741, Hannah Wooley ;
Ebenezer, born October 5, 17 18; Joseph, born De-
cember 19, 1720, married, 1744. Lydia Willard;
Elizabeth, born July 30. 1721, married, December 20,
1743, Thomas Winch, Jr.

CV) Josiah Drury, son of Caleb Drury (4),
was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 17, 1707. He was killed by an ox-cart accident
in Wayland. He married, October 9. 1733, Hannah
Barron, who was born August 6. 1709, the daughter
of Timothy and Rachel CJennison) Barron, of Sher-
born. Massachusetts. Their children, all born in
Framingham. were: Sarah, born December 8. 1734,
married, January 16, 1755, Richard Rice, died in
Maine; Elizabeth, born November 30, 1737; Josiah,
born June 29. 1740; Moses, born August 4, of whom
later; Hannah, born May or March 24, 1744, died
1S25; married Micajah Gkason; (second) Jolin

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Nixon ; Nathan, liorn Scptcni1)cr 27, 1746 ; Asa, cap-
tain, born June 24, 1748, died June 26. 1816: mar-
ried Dolly Glcason : Elisha, born April 21, 1749,
died young; Elisha, born August 5, 1753.

(VI) Moses Drury, fourth child of Josiah
Drury (5), was born in Framinghani, Massachusetts,
August 4, 1742, and died September 6, 1S36. He
removed to Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, in 1770
or 1771. The tirst three children were baptized in
Framinghani. the remainder of them in Fitzwill-
iam. His name first appears in Fitzwilliam records
in 1771.

He married Cata Adams, who was baptized April

13, 1740, and died March 11, 1816, the daughter of
Joseph and Prudence (Pratt) Adams. Their chil-
dren were : Cata, born May 2g, 1762, married
Artemas Wilson ; Sally, born March 7, 1764, mar-
ried, March 7, 1787, Isaiah Stoddard ; Josiah, horn
April 5, 1766, married INIargaret Alyers, and lived
at Rockingham, Vermont ; Lovina, baptized April
5, 1772, died January 19, 1793, unmarried; Hannah
Barnes, baptized February 19, 1775, married, Feb-
ruary 4, 1799, John Newton, and removed to Dum-
merston, Vermont. Children recorded at Fitzwill-
iam as born at Dummerston : Joseph, born Novem-
ber 10, 1777, married, January 30, 1799. Martha
Cameron; Betsey, born April 22, 1780; Annis, born
August II, 1782, married Alexander Gleason ;
Elisha, of whom later; Moses, born July 7, 1788;
Nathan, born September 3, 1791, married, June 5,
181 1, Ruth Colles, daughter of Ezekiel and Anna
Colles, and had four children.

(VII)^ Elisha Drury, son of Moses Drury (6),
■was born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, July 28.
1783, and died February 25, 1S41, at Winchendon,
Massachusetts. He was buried at Fitzwilliam.
He married, April 20, 1819, Levina Saunders,
who was born August 23, 1789, the daugh-
ter of David and Molly (Livingston) Saunders,
and widow of Jesse Livingston. Their children
were : Elisha, Jr., of whom later ; Lovina E., born
Troy, New Hampshire, November 2, 1828, died at
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, August 6, 1882.

(VIII) Elisha Drury, son of Elisha Drury (7),
was born at Troy, New Ha'mpshire, December 10,
1821. He was a farmer and wood worker. He re-
sided in Winchendon, Massachusetts ; Fitzw-illiam,
New Hampshire; and Readsboro, Vermont. He
returned to Fitzwilliam and died there January 20,
i860. He married, February 15, 1S43, Lucinda
Stoddard, of Winchendon, Massachusetts. The
children of Elisha, Jr., and Lucinda Drury were:
Edwin E., born April 18, 1845, married (first) Ida
E. Root, 1871 ; (second) Emma L. Dyer, 1898; they
have one son living at South Royalston, Massachu-
setts, a farmer; Leander M., born October 12, 1850,
proprietor of the Langdon Hotel, Front street,
Worcester ; he married Nellie Day, of South Royals-
ton, Massachusetts, 1879, and they have a daughter,
Iilyrtice ; Frederick L., of whom later.

(IX) Frederick L. Drury, son of Elisha Drury,
Jr., (S), was born in Readsboro, Vermont, .^pril

14, 1856. His mother removed to South Royalston,
Massachusetts, when he was very young, and he
was educated in the public schools there. He be-
gan his business career in Boston as clerk in a fancy
goods store in 1876. He removed to Fitchburg.
Massachusetts, in 1878, and entered the employ of
Walter P. Guy, now a^ prominent Worcester and
Springfield merchant, in the store that he himself

bought in 1890 and has since conducted. For a
number of years Mr. Drun.- was the proprietor of
the Drury House, a hotel at 144 Main street,
Fitchburg.

In his experience of nearly thirty years in mer-
cantile business in Fitchburg, Mr. Drury has main-
tained a reputation for square dealing and for good
judgment in business. He is ex-president of the
Fitchburg ilerchants' Association, which comprises
the local board of trade. In politics he is a Repub-
lican and active in the organization of his party.
He is ex-president of the Retail Grocers' Associa-
tion of Fitchburg and vice-p'resident of the Massa-
chusetts Retail Grocers' Association in 1905-06. He
is a member of Aurora Lodge of Free Masons and
Lady Emma Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star;
of Alt. Rollstone Lodge of Odd Fellows and of
King David Encampment and the Daughters of
Rebekah. He is a member of the Rollstone Con-
gregational Church, and has been a member of the
finance committee for the past fifteen years.

He married, September 25, 1878, Flora E. Sher-
win, daughter of Addison and Amanda (Partridge)
Sherwin, of South Royalston. Their children are:
Leon Arthur, born at Fitchburg, October 23, 1880,
graduate of Fitchburg high school, 1898, and Brown
L'niversit}-, 1902, is associated with his father in
the grocery store; married, October 12, 1904, Daza
P. Mowry, of Providence, Rhode Island; Ralph
Sherwin, born January 10, 1890, student in the Fitch-
burg high school, class of 1907.

FRANKLIN AUGUSTUS BAGLEY. Orlando
Bagley (i). the immigrant ancestor of Franklin Au-
gustus Bagley, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was
born probably in England about 1630. The only
other early settler of this or similar surname was
John Bagley or Eiglow, of Watertown, most of
whose descendants spell the name Bigelovv. (See
Bigelow family.) Orlando Bagley's name was

spelled Baggley, Baglee and Bagly often. He set-
tled first in Boston, where he was living from 1658
to 1663, when he removed to that part of Salisbury
now Amesbury, Massachusetts.

He married Sarah Colby, March 6, 1653-4, 'f
Salisbury, and she died in Boston, May 8, 1663. He
probably died soon afterward. Their children were:
Orlando, born February 18, 1658, of whom later;
John, born August 31, 1659; Sarah, born January
14, 1660 died September 30, 1661 ; Mary, born Jan-
uary 5, 1661 ; Sarah, born March 2, 1663, married
John Mack, April 5, 1681, settled in Salisbury.

(II) Orlando Bagley, eldest child of Orlando
Bagley (i), was born in Boston, February 18, 1658.
He was a yeoman and settled in Amesbury, Massa-
chusetts. He married (first) Sarah Sargent, of
Amesbury, December 22. 1681. She died at Ames-
bury, October 3, 1701. He married (second) Sarah
Annis, of Newbury (published May 25), 1703-4.
He was admitted a freeman 1690, was constable
1692. died 1728. His wife died 1729.

The children of Orlado and Sarah Bagley were :
Orlando, born in Amesbury. December 14, 1682,
(lieutenant) : Sarah, born February 27, 1683, mar-
ried (fir.st) Henry Lancaster, July 15, 1703; married
(second), April II, 1713, Elisha Weed; John, born
January 21, 1685; Jacob, of whom later; Judith, born
November 13, 1691, married John Carter, of Kings-
ton, New Hampshire. April 25. 171 1 ; Joseph, born
January 26, 1704-5; Benjamin, born November 10,

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1707: Anne, born August 14, 1708, married Abel
Merrill; Hannah, born March 29, 1712, married
Thomas Morrill.

(III) Jacob Bagley, son of Orlando Bagley (2),
was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts. December
13, 1687. He was a prosperous farmer and black-
smith at Amesbury. He married (first) Hannah
Stanwood, January 21, 1712-3; (second) Kezia
(Colby), widow of David Currier, June 2, 1748.
She died November 3, 1754, aged fifty-nine years.
He married (third) Hannah Currier, widow of
Timothy Currier, March 13, 1755. His will was
dated December 21, 1767. and proved February 23,
1773. The children of Jacob and Hannah Bagley
were: William, of whom later; Elizabeth, born
January 18, 1715-6, married Samuel Adams, June
27, 1734; resided at Salisbury in 1767; Jerusha. born
January I, 1717-8, died April 13, 1718; Jerusha, born
November 29, 1719, died before 1767; Jacob, Jr.,
born November, 1721, died February 4, 1724; Han-
nah, born June 6, 1723, married Richard Currier,
February ig, 1750; Jacob, Jr., born June 30, 1724;
Samuel, born December 21, 1728, died February 4,
1729.

(IV) William Bagley, eldest child of Jacob
Bagley (3), was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts,
October 9, 1713. He was a mariner; he had his
home in Amesbury, and died a young man, at
Amesbury, November 19, 1746. He married, Au-
gust 18, 1740, Susan Webster, of Salisbury. She
married after his death David Currier, March 13.
1749. The children of William and Hannah Bagley
were: Eunice, born April 27. 1740; William, of
whom later; Jerusha, born September 9, 1743, living
in 1758; Anne, bom December 2, 1745, died Janu-
ary 23, 1748.

(V) William Bagley, Jr., son of William Bagley
(4), was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 26, 1741. He became a yeoman at Amesbury.

He married (first) Mary , before 1766. She

died February 19, 1782, aged thirty-six years. He

married (second) Hannah , before 1785. The

children of William and Mary Bagley were : Jacob,
born 1/(56; David, of whom later; JNIolly, born
January 9, 1771 ; Anne, born April 16, 1773 ; Betty,
born 1776, died October 17, 1776, aged si.x months.
The children of William and Hannah Bagley were :
William, Jr., born 1783, died November- 24, 1791,
aged eight years; Amos, born 1795, died August 14,
1796.

(VI) David Bagley, son of William Bagley (5),
W'as born in Amesbury, October 23. 1768. He was
a ship cooper by trade and resided at Amesbury.
Among his children was John, of whom later.

(VII) John Bagley, son of David Bagley (6),
was born in 1786 at Peabody, Massachusetts, where
his father settled. Like his ancestors he was a
member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in re-
ligion. He died at Peabody in i860. He was a
farmer in Corinth, Vermont. He married Elizabeth
Bickford, and they had fourteen children. Those
who grew to maturity were : John, Francis, Alnion
F., of whom later; Sarah, married Samuel Swett;
Harriet B., born January 26, 1828, married J.
Warren Stiles, who was .born in Wilton, New
Hampshire, and died 1903; she resides (1906) at
13 Gardner street, Peabody : Elizabeth, died unmar-
ried ; Dolly, died unmarried ; Lydia. Mary.

(VIII) Almon F. Bagley. son of John Bagley
(7), was born at Corinth. Vermont, and died at
Wenham, Massachusetts, in 1871. He settled at

Danville, New Hampshire, and at Hamilton, Massa-
chusetts. He married Louisa Nason. Their chil-
dren were: Franklin Augustus, of whom later;
George A., resides at North Beverly, and has four
children: Almon F., Amelia Ross, Laura Ethel,
Grace Viola; Charles W., resides at Wenham, Mas-
sachusetts, and has children; Emcline, married Will-
iam Flint, and they have one child, Edith, married
Fred Ellis, whose children are : James Rolland,
Dorothy and Corinne.

(IX) Franklin Augustus Bagley, son of Almon
F. Bagley (8), was born in Danvers, Massachusetts,
July 3, 1844. He attended school there and at Pea-
body, whither his parents removed when he was
twelve years old. His father was a market gardener
and he helped him in his business. He lived at
Hamilton one year and at Wenham eight years. He
worked at various places in Lynn and Salem. He
began business as a milk dealer in Wenham. He
also dealt in provisions. He finally removed to
Lynn and started in the grocery business on Main
street. Water hill. Federal square. He bought and
sold stores several times and was in business at
Franklin street, Pearl street, and twice on Union
street. In 1894 he sold out and removed to Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, and entered the real estate bus-
iness. Lately he has added tire insurance to his
business. He has been very successful.

In politics he is a Democrat. He is a justice of
the peace. He belongs to West Lynn Lodge of
Odd Fellows and has been treasurer of Fraternity
Encampment. He is a member of A. C. Moody
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of Sagamore and
Nanepashemet Tribes of Red Men of Lynn, and has
held the various chairs. He attends the iNIethodist
Church.

He married, January, 1865, ^lacia H. Kent, a
daughter of Joseph G. and Nancy (Kimball) Kent,
of Newbury, Massachusetts. She was born June
10, 1847. Their children are : Florine, born April
13, 1866, married William Taylor; Henrietta, born
July 29, 1868.

STEPHEN V. WARE. Robert Ware (i). the
immigrant ancestor of Stephen V. Ware, of Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts, came from his English home
to the colony in Massachusetts Bay some time be-
fore the autunm of 1642, the earliest date on the
records being November 25, 1642, at Dedham, when
he bought land there of Thomas Fames. This lot
was his homestead and it was on the Great or
Dedham Is'and. His house was probably at or near
the causeway. Various other grants of land to him
were made February 6. 1642. and later. He joined
the church at the time of the baptism of his eldest
child, October 2 or 11, 1646. He was admitted a
freeman May 26, 1647 : was a member of the
artillery company as early as 1644. He lived and
died in Dedham. although three of his sons — John,
Nathaniel and Robert — removed to WoUomonopoag,
set of? in 1661 and incorporated in 1673 as Wrent-
ham. Massachusetts.

He married (first) in Dedham. March 24, 1644-S.
Margaret Hunting, daughter of John Hunting, first
ruling elder of the Dedham Church, and his wife,
Esther Seaborn. She died in Dedham, August 26,
1670. He married (second). May 3, 1676, Hannah
Jones, hern March 28, 1636, died April 20, 1721,
daughter of Thomas Jones, of Dorchester. Her
gravc.-tnne is to be seen in the old Dorchester bury-
ing ground. Her will dated January 21. 1720-I,

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mentions a large number of relatives and friends.
Robert Ware died at Dedham, April ig, 1699. His
will, dated February 25. 1698, proved May 11, 1699,
contains much information of family and local his-
torical interest.

The children of Robert and Margaret Ware
were : John, bnrn October 6, 1646, died April 7,
1718, at Wrcntliam ; Nathaniel, born October 7,
1648, died July 10, 1724, at Wrentham ; Margaret,
born February 14, 1650-1, died July 22, 1664; Robert,
Jr.. of whom later ; Esther, born September 28,
1655. died September 3, 17.U; married, May 13,
1673, Rev. Samuel Mann, first minister of Ded-
ham, Massachusetts, and they had eleven children ;
Samuel, born September 30, 1657, died March,
1730-1 ; Ephraim, born November 5, 1659, died
March 26, 1753, at Needham ; Elizabeth, born No-
vember 19, 1661 ; Joseph, born September 8, 1663,
died September 22, same year; Ebenezer, born Octo-
ber 28, 1667, died 1765, aged ninety-seven, at Need-
ham.

(II) Robert Ware, son of Robert Ware (i),
was born August i or 6, 1653, at Dedham, Massa-
chusetts, and settled in the adjoining town of
Wrentham, where he died September 16, 1724, in
his seventy-second year. He served in the Ded-
ham company in King Philip's war, 1675, and also
in the Wrentham company, 1689. He was a deputy
to the general court in 1703, on the committee on
Meeting House 1669, agreed to settle in Wrentham
in T671, was one of the executors of his brother-
in-law. Rev. Samuel Mann. His will was dated
August 8, 1724,

He married (first) in Dedham. June 4. 1677,
Sarah Metcalf, daughter of Michael Metcalf, Jr.
and Mary Fairbanks, his wife, and bnrn in Dedham.
December 7, 1648. She died in Wrentham, April
13. 17T8. Robert Ware married (second), Febru-
ary 26. 1719-20, Elizabeth Holbrook, of Mendon,
who died in Wrentham, July 28, 1723. All his chil-
dren except the eldest were born in Wrentham.
The children of Robert and Sarah Ware were:
Ebenezer, born March 15. 1677-8, in Dedham, died
April 26, 1750, in Wrentham ; Robert, Jr., born
December 6, 16S0, died January 9. 1731-2, at
Wrentham: Michael, born June 11. 1683, died Sep-
tember 21, 1725, at Wrentham; Margaret, born June
6, 16S5. married. December 4, 1704, in Roxbury,
Major John Foster, of Attleboro ; Jonathan, born
February 28, 1686-7, died April 20, 1740, at
Wrentham ; Sarah, born March 4, 1689-90. died Au-
gust 5. 1729; married, June 6. 1722, Francis Nichol-
son : Esther, born May 7, 1693, died September 14,
1745: married, December 17, 1718, Hezekiah Hawes ;
Elizabeth, born September 30, 1697, died before Au-
gust 28, 1724.

(III) Michael Ware, son of Robert Ware (2),
was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, June 11.
1683, and died September 21, 1725. He married,
December 4, 1707. Jane Wight, daughter of Jona-
than and Elizabeth (Hawes) Wight, granddaughter
of Henry and Jane (Goodnow) Wi.ght and great-
granddaughter of Thomas Wight, the immigrant.
She was born September 6, 1688. and she married
Csecond). December 2, 1734, Daiiiel Hawes, and
died -April 26. 1754. in her sixty-sixth year. The
children of Michael and Jane Ware were: Jean,
born December 16. 1710, married.. July 30, 1729.
John Fairbanks; Margaret, born October 21. 1712,
married. January 29, 1734, Eleazer Metcalf: Hepzi-
bah. born November 22. 1714, married, December

29, i/jo, Leonard Fisher; Esther, born December 3,
1716, married, February 8, 1737-8, Ezra Blake;
Michael, of whom later; Phebe. born February 25,
1720-1, married Elisha Pond: Jabez, born February
28, 1722, died June 28, 1805; Mehitable, born March
8, 1722-3.

(IV) Michael Ware, Jr., son of Michael Ware
(3), was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, De-
cember 5, 1725, died in Buckland. Massachusetts,
about 1814. He was a soldier in the French war
in Captain Blake's company in 1756. He and his
son Abiel were also in the revolution under Cap-
tain Samuel Fisher in 1781 in the Fourth Suffolk
Regiment.

He married (first), February 5, 1754, Ariel Met-
calf, daughter of Michael and Ariel (Colburn) Met-
calf, in Wrentham. She died December 25, 1757.
He married (second) Lucy Grant. The children
of JMichael and Ariel Ware were: Jane, born No-
vember 7. 1754; Abiel, born Deceniber 25, 1757.
The children of Michael and Lucy Ware were:
Molly, born October 15, 1759, in Wrentham; Abiel,
perhaps the same as -the second child, born before
1765. served in revolution in 1781 ; Michael, born
at Wrentham, 1765, died aged eighty-four years in
1849 : Reuben, died in San Francisco ; George, died
at Buckland; James, died in 1816; Abijah, Lucy,
Phebe.

(V) Abiel Ware, son of Michael Ware (4),
was born in Wrentham before 1765 and was prob-
ably the son born by the first marriage. December
25. 1757. He died in the summer of 1832 at Buck-
land, Massachusetts, but lived most of his life at
Dighton, Massachusetts. He married (first) at Cum-
berland, Rhode Island, Esther Haskell. He mar-
ried (second) Submit Phillips, daughter of Richard
and Ruth Pitts Phillips; she was born in Dighton
and died there July. 1835.

The child by the first marriage was Abner,
but was changed May 26. 1796, to Lewis Ware
"by the request and order of now Esther Hawkins."
The Ware Genealogy gives Abiel a brother Ariel,
born about 1775, the husband of Submit Phillips.
If the genealo.gy is correct Lewis was the only son
of Abiel and Esther and she married (second) W.
Hawkins, It seems fully as likely that Abiel and
his first wife parted. Abiel was in the revolution
in 1781.

The children of Abiel (or Ariel) and Submit
Ware were: Richard, born at Buckland, May 31,
1797, died .'\ugust 22, 1840; married Roxanna Mon-
son and Huldah Watson; Leander, born about 1800,
died about 1884, lived most of his life at Buckland;
Esther, born October 15, 1802, died May 25, 189.=;;
married (first) Homer Johnson and (second)
Josiah Booth ; Amanda, bom November 4. 1804,
married. February 2. 1826, Zopher Woodward ; Hul-
dah, born at Buckland, November 14, 1807, died
July r8, 18S8; married Job Woodward: Sophronia,
born January i, 1809, married George Viber; Anne,
born November 25, 1811, died 1891 ; married (first)
Willard Ware and (second) Jesse Edson ; Frank-
lin, born February 10, 1813. died June 8, 1899;
married twice.

(VI) Lewis Ware, son of Abiel Ware (s). was
bnrn January 25. 1779, and died in Newfane Hill.
\'crmont. in 1832. He was a physician and resided
at Cumberland. Rhode Island. Westminster and
Winchendon, Massachusetts, and Richmond. New
Hampshire. He is buried at Newfane Hill, Ver-
mont.

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He married, October g, l8oj, at Newton. Massa-
chusetts, Matilda Morse, who was born in Stur-
bridge, Massacluisetts, December 14, 1783, and died
at Gardner, Massachusetts, October 10, 1853. The
children of Dr. Lewis and Matilda Ware were :
Abner Haskell, born April 14, 1805, at Cumberland,
Rhode Island, died young; Rufus. born January 30,
1808, died young; Lucy P., born 1810, died at West-
minster, Massachusetts; married (first) William
Jones, of Wardsboro, Vermont, divorced ; she mar-
ried (second) Dennis Gates, of Westminster;
(third) Leonard Mossman, of Ashburnham ; Stephen
v., born August 28, 1812, at Winchendon, died
December 22, 1893; Lewis, born at Cumberland,
Rhode Island. November 22, 1816, died at Fitch-
burg, March 22, 1873 ; Samuel Morse, born at Win-
chendon, May 13, 1818, died at Eureka, Kansas,
March 20, 1895.

(VII) Stephen V. Ware, son of Dr. Lew-is Ware
(6), was born at Winchendon, Massachusetts, Au-
gust 28, 1812. He died after an illness of two
weeks at his home, 23 East street, Fitchburg, De-
cember 22, 1893. He received a common school
education. During his early years of business he
was a traveling salesman and he covered the New
England and Middle States for a number of years.

At the time of the gold fever in 1851 he went
to California and resided there and in Nevada for
fifteen years, occupied in mining and the grocery
business. He also made considerable money in cat-
tle dealing. He came back to Massachusetts in 1866
and resided in Ashburnham and Gardner until 1884,
when he removed to Fitchburg. He had acquired
a competence and did not care for active business.
He had a grocery store near his residence in Fitch-
burg, however, and carried it on up to the time of
hiis death.

He was remarkably vigorous for a man of
Iiis years and at the age of eighty made the trip
to the home of his only surviving brother, in Kan-
sas, Samuel Ware, formerly also of Fitchburg.
He was a Methodist in religion, a Republican in
politics, and belonged to the order of Odd Fellows.
He was an upright and respectable citizen, greatly
"beloved by his friends and family. He was a quiet,
unassuming, domestic man, successful in his busi-
ness and gifted with exceptional ability in many
■ways.

He married Charlotte A. Marshall, daughter of
Abel and Roselma (Naramore) Marshall, and sister
of Alfred .'\. Marshall, of Fitchburg. She was born
in 1840 in Fitchburg. She survives her husband and
resides in the homestead in Fitchburg. The chil-
dren of Stephen V. and Charlotte A. Ware were:
jMabel Marshall, born at Ashburnham. May 9. 1868,
married, March g, 1892, Frank C. Blood, 'who was
born at West Groton in 1867 ; Henry Augustus,
■born at Fitchburg, February 14, 1870-1 ; George
Franklin, born at Gardner, February 21, 1874: Annie
F.loise, born January 10, 1877; Oscar Elliott, born
October 5, 1879, married Sophia Dohia, and they
have one child, Robert.

HENRY FAYETTE . COGGSHALL. John
Coggshall or Coggeshall (i) was the immigrant an-
cestor of Henry Fayette Coggshall, of Fitchburg.
Massachusetts. The name Coggshall appeared in
England soon after the Norman Conquest and has
included many distinguished men. John Coggshall
came from Esse.x county, England, and arrived in
Boston, in New England, September 16. 1632. He

is believed to have come from the Coggeshall
family of Coggeshall. • He was admitted a freeman
in November, 1632. He settled first in Roxbury,
and he and his wife Mary joined the church there.
He soon removed to Boston and was dismissed from
the Roxbury Church to the First Church of Bos-
ton together with his wife Mary and servant Anne
Shelley, April 20, 1635-6. He became prominent
in the town and church, and was a prosperous mer-
chant. He served the town of Boston in the general
court for nine years. He was a deacon of the First
Church. He sympathized with Mr. Wheelright and
Anne Hutchinson when the schism came, and with
twenty-three others w^as exiled. He went to Rhode
Island, where Roger Williams welcomed them
hospitably, and became one of the proprietors and
original settlers at Portsmouth in Rhode Island, but
with others went to Aquidnet, now Newport, and was
one of the founders of that town. At the union
of the four towns of Newport. Portsmouth, Provi-
dence and Warwick, he was elected the first presi-
dent of the Provincial Plantation.

John Coggshall was born about 1591 and died at
Newport, Rhode Island, November 27, 1647, aged
fifty-six. He was buried on his own land in New-
port, where his descendants have erected a monu-
ment and enclosed the family burying ground with
a neat and substantial stone wall. His business was
a silk merchant. His farm was situated on Cogge-
shall avenue, near Victoria avenue, Newport. The
children of John and ]\Iary Coggeshall were: John,
born in England, i6rS, died in Newport, Rhode
Island. October i, 1708; Joshua, see forward; Ann,
born in England about 1625, died in Newport. March
6. 1687; Hannanell (daughter), born in Boston, bap-
tized May 3. 1635 : Wayte. baptized at Boston, Sep-
tember II, 1636; Bedaiah, baptized in Boston, July
20, 1636 or 1637,

(II) Joshua Coggeshall, second child of John
Coggeshall (i), was born in England in 1623 and
died in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, May I, 1688.
He came from England with his parents and went
with them to Rhode Island. After his father's death
he removed to Portsmouth. Rhode Island, and
bought a farm on the west side of the island, where
he resided until his death. A large part of his
original farm is still held by his descendants, never
having passed out of the family. He married (first)
Joan West, of Newport. December 22, 1652. She
died April 24, 1676, aged forty-one years. He mar-
ried (second), June 21, 1677, Rebecca Russell, a
Quaker, born in London. His children were all
born at Portsmouth. The children of Joshua and
Joan (West) Coggeshall were: Mary, born Febru-
ary, 1655; Joshua, see forward; John, born 1659.
died May i. 1727; Josias, November. 1662: Daniel,
April. 1665; Humility, January, 1670; Caleb, De-
cember, 1772; Isaac.

(HI) Joshua Coggeshall, second child of Joshua
Coggeshall (2), was born in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, May, 1656, and died at Newport, Rhode

Island, 1723. He married, Mav 13, 1671, Sarah .

.She died March 20, 1697. He married (second)

Sarah , August 26. 1697. He had a farm at

Newport, now Middletown, Rhode Island, near
Portsmouth. He had seventeen children, eight by
the first and nine bv the second wife, all born in
Newport. The children of Joshua and his first
wife were: Joshua, born May 13. t68i. died Au-
gust 2, 1727; Thomas, May 29, 1686. died young;
Elizabeth, March 29, 1686 (twin of the preceding),

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married Spencer, of East Greenwich, July,

1708; John. December 14, 1683; Thomas, see for-
ward; Josiah, December 12, 1690; Mary, May 15,

1695, married Beard; Richard, February 11,

1692, married Wait Gould, daughter of John and
Wait Gould. The children of the second marriage
were: Caleb, July 25, 169S, died July 31, 174S; mar-
ried Barbara Easton, daughter of Nicholas Easton,
May 19, 1720; Sarah, March 22. 1700: James, March
17, 1701 ; a daughter, January 15, 1703; Benjamin,
January 31, 1705, died December 17, 1710; Ann,
November 18, 1709; Waite, January 11, 1709; Com-
fort. April 22, 171 1.

(IV) Thomas Cogge.=;hall, Son of Joshua Cogge-
shall (3), was born in Newport, Rhode Island, June
24, 1688, died there January 26, 1771. He married,
March 11, 1708, Mercy Freeborn, daughter of
Gideon Freeborn, of Newport. She was born i6gi
and died May 26, 1776. They resided at Middle-
ton, Rhode Island, on the old place. He was a
farmer. Both are interred in the family burying
ground on the Coggeshall place at Middletown.
Their children were : Elizabeth, born August 30,
1710. died September 29, 1797; married, July, 1731,
Peleg Peckham ; Comfort, September 17. 1712, died
December, 1778; married Daniel Peckham, son of
Joshua Peckham, November 29, 1734; Mercy, born
June 30, 1714, died young; Sarah. August 20. 1715.
married, November i, 1759, Thomas Weaver ; Wait,
January 4. 1717, married (first) James Easton;
Mary, May 27, 1720, married Samuel Allen, of Mid-
dletown, January 16, 1745; Joshua, see forward:
Mercy, February 23, 1724, married (first) Joseph
Dennis ; (second) Samuel Allen, widower of her
sister Mary; Gideon. April 20, 1726, died October
27. 1801 ; married. October 5, 1749, Hannah Law-
ton, daughter of Jeremiah: she died July 17, 1780,
aged fifty-four; Thomas, August 26. died January
17, 1S03: married, July 4. 1750, Hannah Cornell;
Hannah. I\Iay 20, 1731. died March 22. 181 1: mar-
ried Joseph Dennis, son of Robert Dennis.

(V) Joshua Coggeshall, seventh child of Thomas
Coggeshall (4), was born in Middletown, Rhode
Island. March 11, 1722, died there September 24,
1786, and is buried on the Coggeshall farm. He mar-
ried (first), January 12, 1743, Sarah Bailey. She
died November 4. 1750. He married (second) Ann
Dennis, daughter of Joseph Dennis, January 2. 1752.
The children of Joshua and Sarah (t3ailey) ) Cogge-
shall were : Thomas, born at Middletown, August
30, 1744, died 1829 : married Esther Kenyon, of
Newport. November 27, 1766: Ruth, June 26, 1747.
died November 14, 1747; Gideon. December 13, 7748,
died November. 1750. The children of Joshua and
Ann (Dennis) Coggeshall were: Sarah, Septem-
ber 25. 1752, died March i, 1788; married John
Cornell, son of Thomas and Hannah Cornell ; Jo-
seph, August 16. 1754. died October 7. 1830; mar-
ried Elizabeth Horswell. September 29. 1774, and
she died October i, 1840; Elizabeth. October 14,
1756. died September 3. 1828; married. November
9. 1786. Gideon .^uthons: George. March, 1750. died
November 16. 1762 : Mary. July 14. 1761, died Feb-
ruary 15. 1837; Mercy. September ta. 1762. died
March. 1844; married, April 2, 1786. Thomas Man-
chester: Ann, June i. 1764. died December 21,
1842 : George. June 8, 1767, died .August T4, 1S43 ;
married Cynthia, daughter of Richard .Sherman.

(VI) Thomas Coggeshall. eldest child of Joshua
Coegcshall (5), was born in Middletown. Rhode
Island, August 30, 1744, died there 1829. He was

a farmer at Middletown. He married Esther Ken-
yon. November 27, 1766. Their children, all born
in Middletown. were: Samuel, born 1770, died in
Middletown. August 31, 1852; William, December,
1771, died September 22, 1775; John Bailey, see for-
ward ; Asa, March 4, 1783, married, Fel3ruary 21,
1802, Sarah Barker, daughter of Mathew Barker;
Elsie or Alice, born 1787, died February 17, 1872;
married James Taggart ; William, married Ruth
Chase ; Sarah, married, February 18, 1790, Rescom
Sanford; George; Ruth, married David or Nathaniel
Wyatt.

(VII) John Bailey Coggeshall, third child of
Thomas Coggeshall (6), was born in Middletown,
Rhode Island, January 29, 1774. He married (first)
Mary Sanford. daughter of Peleg Sanford, of Tiver-
ton, Rhode Island, October 16, 1794. He married

(second) Betsey Parsons, widow of • Jennings,

in 1829. He was a farmer. In middle life he left
Middletown or Newport and settled in Mansfield,
Connecticut. He was member of the Baptist Church
in its early days. The children of John Bailey and
Mary (Sanford) Coggeshall were: Peleg Sanford,
see forward; Thomas, born January 22, 1798, mar-
ried Elizabeth Hovey ; Esther. 1799, married C. S.
Hovey ; Rescom, iSoi, married Susan Branch;
Sarah, December 9, 1S03, married Job Eddy; Nancy,
December 29. 1805, married Lemuel Barrows ; she
died June. 1896 ; John A., born February 28, 1830,
married Mary S. Cardwell.

(VIII) Peleg Sanford Coggeshall, eldest child
of John Bailey Coggeshall (7), was born in New-
port, Rhode Island, August 31, 1795. He received
the usual common school education in his native
town. He went with his parents to Mansfield. Con-
necticut. He was first a farmer, but for many years
was engaged in the manufacture of combs in Mans-
field, where for many years many comb factories and
silk mdls have been operated. In his later years
he manufactured shoes. He was an active member
and deacon of the Baptist Church.

He married (first) Nancy Read, who died April,
1817. leaving no children. He married (second),
in 1S17. Evelina (Dimmock) Jenney. widow, daugh-
ter of Jonathan Dinnnock. He died in t868, aged
seventy-three years. The children of Peleg San-
ford and Evelina (Dimmock) Coggeshall. all born
in Mansfield, were: I. Philecta Sanford, born Feb-
ruary 23. 1820, died May 26, 1851. 2. William San-
ford, February 24. 1820, married Matilda A. Carey;
he died September, 1896; his children were: Dr.
William Coggeshall, born December 26, 1850. died
September 7, 1885, at Richmond, Virginia, leaving
a son Louis I., born October 19, 1875 : Florence N.,
born May 16, 1858, at Berckman, married Thomas
McDonough Brook.';, June 21, 1899. and resides at
Wilmette. Illinois. 3. Henry Fayette, of whom later.
4. Nevi-ell Jndson, December 28, 1830, married

Alsina . August 6, 1854; he died November 14,

1893. Their daughter. Emma A., born August 22,
1857, married Walter J. Smith, Januarv i, 1879, and
they have Nellela A. Smith, born April 6. 1S81.

"(IX) Henry Fayette Coggshall, third child of
Peleg Sanford Coggeshall (8). was born in Mans-
field. Connecticut. December 26, 1823. He and his
immediate family have not used the "E" in the
surname. He attended the common schools of his
native town when a boy. At the age of fifteen he
went to work as a clerk in the general store in
Mansfield and remained there three years. Through
the kindness of one of the mill proprietors near his

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home he was instructed in the art of keeping books.
His first position as bookkeeper was for the Stone-
ville Manufacturing Company at Auburn, Massa-
chusetts, five miles from Worcester, for the
munificent salary of $loo for the first year, in
addition to his board and lodging. That was the
usual salary for a new clerk or bookkeeper at that
time. Mr." Coggshall gained the confidence of his
employer at ' the start by his capable handling of
their accounts. At the outset he worked day and
night until he had taken a trial balance and put the
books in good order. He managed to save half his
salary the first year. In three years, before he
was of age, he had paid a mortgage of $350 on his
father's home.

In July, 1845, Mr. Ackley of the Stoneville Com-
pany leased the cotton mill at Fitchburg known as
the Stone mill and placed Mr. Coggshall in charge
until his brother came to Fitchburg to run the mill,
w'hen Mr. Coggshall returned to Auburn. He was
attracted by the growing tow-n and had invested
his saving "in a lot of land on Main street. This
lot was the site of the house and store of Lawren
Pratt with whom Mr. Coggshall boarded during
the three months in which he lived in Fitchburg.
Nichols & Frost's store now stands on this lot.
Mr. Coggshall paid down all his savings, $300, and
paid the balance in instalments.. He had confidence
in Fitchburg. Later he bought three acres of land
on the other side of the river and built a double
house. Then he laid out the land in building lots
and sold it. Fitchburg had already felt the effects
of the railroad connection with Boston and manu-
facturing w^as growing. The little towm_ was pros-
perous and attracted Mr. Coggshall as it attracted
other ambitious young men.

He was with the Stoneville Company as book-
keeper and cashier for seven years. In 1850 he
bought an interest in the store of Lawren Pratt
and moved to Fitchburg, but he was not satisfied
with his experience as a merchant and in six months
sold out his interests. He kept books for a year,
during 1850 and 1851, for the Putnam Machine
Company. In 1851 he commenced his long and
honorable career as a railroad official, first with the
Fitchburg & Worcester Railroad Company and also
after 1864 with the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg
Railroad Company. He was general ticket agent,
freight and passenger agent, respectively. He was
treasurer of these companies from 1863 until he
resigned in 1871. He was one of the best known
railroad men of Massachusetts during the two dec-
ades from 1851 to 1871.

Mr. Coggshall has been equally prominent as
manager and treasurer of the Fitchburg Gas Com-
pany. He has been connected with the gas business
in Fitchburg from the time the contract was let for
the plant. In 1853 Mr. Coggshall was engaged by
Levi Benedict, who had the contract for the con-
struction of the Fitchburg gas works, to take charge
of the work, as he had at the same time the con-
tract for the gas works at Jamaica Plain, Massa-
chusetts. In December of that year, when the gas
works were ready for . use, Mr. Coggshall was
elected manager and he has been closely connected
with the affairs of the gas company ever since. He
has been the treasurer since 1866. The capital stock
is $60,000. In 1888 the Fitchburg Gas Company
bought a majority of the stock of the Wachusett
Electric Light Company, and the united capital be-
came $385,000. Herbert I. Wallace succeeded his

father, Hon. Rodney Wallace, as president. The
company has paid handsome dividends.

In a paper which Mr. Coggshall read at the
twenty-seventh annual meeting of the New England
Association of Gas Light Engineers at Boston in
1897, he told of the trials and ditSculties of the
early days of the gas business. The progress then
made during his connection with the business is
indicated by an extract from this paper : "Now,
what do we find has been the progress in these
forty-three years of gas manufacturing ? In 1853
three iron retorts to a bench, burning off 450 pounds
of coal in about five hours with one man on a shift,
producing 1,100 feet to a charge. In 1897 six re-
torts to a bench, charged with 1.800 pounds of
coal and producing 9,000 feet in four hours with
two men to a shift."

And in the past few years the Fitchburg Com-
pany has been extending its field and improving
its plant like all up-to-date companies. The ad-
vances in gas lighting through new methods of
production; the improvement and cheapening of gas
light with the discovery of the incandescent mantle
and the coming into general use of gas for cooking
and power, have kept Mr. Coggshall's company
growing and expanding rapidly. Mr. Coggshall is
perhaps the best known man in the gas business in
the state. He has a record of fifty-three years as
manager and treasurer of the company. It is be-
lieved that his record is the longest of any of-
ficial in the business. Yet it should be said here
that many men twenty years younger than Mr. Cogg-
shall are older physically and mentally than he is.
In recent 3-ears he seems to have been at his best.

He has been trustee of the Fitchburg Savings
Bank since 1866 and a director of the Fitchburg
National Bank since 1870. He is a director of the
Simonds Manufacturing Company, a large and pros-
perous concern in Fitchburg, and was for many
years the treasurer also. He was formerly director
and treasurer of the RoIIstone Machine Company.
He is a trustee of the Old Ladies' Home in Fitch-
burg. In politics he was first a Whig, and since
the Republican party has existed he has affiliated
with it. He served the city as representative to the
general court in 1876. For the past ten years he
has been chairman of the park commission. He
is a member of the Park Club of Fitchburg. For
nearly forty years he has been an active member
of the Calvinistic Congregational Church. He has
been prominent for many years in the Masonic
Fraternity. He was a charter member and junior
warden of the Charles W. Moore Lodge, A. F. and
A. M. He belongs to Thomas Royal Arch Chapter
of Fitchburg. and to Hiram Council of Worcester.
He was a charter member and captain general of
Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar, of Fitch-
burg.

Mr. Coggshall has given generously of his large
fortune to many charities and public objects. He
has been particularly interested in the park system
of the city and in anticipating the future needs of
Fitchburg in this respect. In 1894 he gave to the
city Coggshall Park, which is in line with the
memorial gifts, such as the Wallace Library and the
Burbank Hospital, given to Fitchburg by men who
made their fortunes in the city and at the same
time helped to build up the city. Coggshall Park
includes his handsome summer home at Mt. Elam,
the use of which he retains during his life. The
original size of the estate was eighty-six acres. He

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bought seventy-four acres adjoining to form the
original park, and in 1896 he bought and gave to
the city fifty-two acres more, making in all two
hundred and twelve acres in this beautiful subur-
ban park. It is an ideal location for a park, fhe
grounds are picturesque and attractive, and it is a
favorite resort, especially on Sunday, for those who
can appreciate a park. Hundreds of people may be
seen in the park every good day during the season.
The park is about two miles from the centre of the
city and is between South street and Mt. Elam.

Mr. Cog.gshall married (first), December 10,
1846, Sylvania L. Carpenter, daughter of Stephen
Carpenter, of Brattleboro, Vermont. She died May
3, 1904. He married (second). December 6, 1904,
Carolina T. Wilbur. He has no children.

STEPHEN CH.\PIN KENDALL. Francis
Kendall (i), the immigrant ancestor of Stephen
Chapin Kendall, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was
born in England. The records give him an alias
Miles, and some of his descendants believe that
the name was assumed when he left England to
avoid the religious examination imposed on emi-
grants at that time. His original name was cer-
tainly Kendall and he bore his own name from the
first after reaching this country. He settled in Wo-
"burn. He was a miller by trade. He was one of
the most prominent and influential men of his day.
He was in Woburn before 1640 and was admitted a
freeman there May 26, 1647. His brother, Thomas
Kendall, settled at Reading, not far away, and the
children of Thomas Kendall are mentioned in the
will of Francis. They were all daughters, so that
the various Kendall families trace their ancestry
to Francis in every case. Francis was selectman
for eighteen years between 1659 and 1688. He was
on the committee to lay out land to the proprietors
in 1667. He was not always in accord with the
Puritan Church, for he was presented by the grand
jury in 1671 for refusing to take communion with
the Woburn Church. He is also on record as be-
ing fined for tardiness at a selectman's meeting in
1674. He served as tithingman in 1676. He was
horn in England between 1615 and 1620. He died
in 1708. His will dated May 9, 1706, mentions wife
and children given below.

He married, December 24. 1644, Mary Tidd,
daughter of John Tidd, of Woburn. She died 1705.
Their children were : John, born May 2, 1646. died
1732, soldier in King Philip's war, 1675 ; had eleven
children, of whom John settled in Dunstable about
l7,'?o; married Deborah Richardson, March 25, 1718,
and Francis's son John settled in Leominster.
Thomas, born January 10, 1648-9, died May 26,
1730. aged eighty-one years. Mary, born January
20. 1650-1, married Israel Reed. Elizabeth, born
January 15. 1652-3, died October 16, 1715: married
James Peirce. Hannah, born January 26. 1654-5,
married William Green. Rebecca, born March 21,
1657-8, married Joshua Eaton. Samuel, born March
8. 1659-60, died 1749. Jacob, born January 25,
1660-T, of whom later. Abieail. born April 6, 1666,
married. May 24, 1686. William Reed.

(II) Jacob Kendall, eighth child of Francis Ken-
dall (i), was born in Woburn, Ma'ssachusetts. Jan-
uary 26. T660-1. He settled in Woburn where all
■his children except the youngest were born. He
removed in 1716 to Billerica. where he lived for a
short time. He married twice (first). January 2,

1683-4, Persis Haywood, who died October ig, 1694;
(second) Alice Temple, January 10, 1694-5.

The children of Jacob and Persis Kendall were:
Persis. born August 24, 16S5 ; Jacob (twin), born
January 12, 1687, died January 20, 1686-7; Jacob
(twin), born January 13, 16S6-7, named in the will
of his grandfather, Francis Kendall, in 1706, died
before April 22, 1714; Joseph, born December 17,
1688, died October 3, 1743; Jonathan, born Novem-
ber 2, 1690, died November 11, 1690: Daniel, born
October 23, 1691, of whom later. The children of
Jacob and Alice Kendall were : Ebenezer, born No-
vember 9. 1695 ; John, born January 9, 1696-7, died
October 17, 1697: Sarah, born July iS, 1698, mar-
ried Benjamin Whittemore, of Boston: Esther, born
November 20, 1699 ; Hezekiah, born May 26, 1701 ;
Nathan, born December 12, 1702, of whom later;
Susanna, born October 27, 1704; Phebe, born De-
cember 19, 1706: David, born September 28, 1708;
Ebenezer, born April 5, 1710; Alice, born January
31. 1711-12; Abraham, born April 26, 1712; Jacob,
born April 22, 1714, died June i, 1714; Persis. born
August 23, 1715; Jacob, born at Billerica, July I,
1717.

(III) Nathan Kendall, twelfth child of Jacob
Kendall (2), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts,
December 12, 1702. He was one of the pioneers at
Litchfield, New Hampshire, and was for many years
a leading citizen. He represented the town in 1744
in a petition to the legislature for a change in
boundary lines and other matters. (See page 473,
Vol. IX. N.^ H. Documents.)

.-\mong his children were : Nathan, Jr., born
1726, died November 10, 1791 ; removed to Amherst,
New Hampshire, between 1747 and 1754; married
Rebecca Cobnrn, 1753, who died in Antrim 1818,
aged eighty-eight years; they had eight children.
Amos, signed petitions in Litchfield in 1746. Daniel,
born about 1725, of whom later.

(IV) Daniel Kendall, son of Nathan Kendall
(3), was born in Litchfield, New Hampshire, about
1725. or was brought there soon afterward, prob-
ably from Woburn. Massachusetts. He was in Cap-
tain Goffe's company in the Indian war in 1745. He
was on the committee to adjust the claims of revo-
lutionary soldiers against the town for unpaid wages
or stipend in 1781. Among his children was Jacob,
of whom later.

(V) Deacon Jacob Kendall, son of Daniel Ken-
dall (4), was born in Litchfield, New Hampshire,
in 1758. He was a revolutionary soldier, enlisting
at Litchfield in 1777 in Ensign David McQuig's
company, and again he served in Colonel Went-
worth's regiment at Portsmouth in 1779. He was at
the battle of Ticonderoga probably. In 1784 he
signed a petition for a ferry on the Merrimac river.
He settled in Amherst, an adjacent town to his na-
tive place, directly after the revolution in 1783. He
became a leading citizen of the town and was select-
man in 1794-95-96-97-98-99-1800-03. The town of
Mount Vernon including the Kendall farm within
its bounds was incorporated in 1804. He died in
Mount Vernon. June 3, 1823.

He married, June 25, 1782. Sarah Jamson, of
Amherst. She was born March 20, 1761. and died
August TO. 1847. Their children were : Amos, born
1782, died at New Boston, January 12. 1859. Sarah,
born January 17. 1784. died September 14, 1861 ;
married (first") Simeon Flint, August 20, 1804; (sec-
ond) Aaron Wilkins, September 16, 1724. Jacob,

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born April 15, 1785. Elizabeth, born August 11.
1788. Jonathan, born August n, I79i. married
Phebe Flint, 1815, died October 24, 1859. Josiah,
of whom later.

(VI) Josiah Kendall, youngest child of Deacon
Jacob Kendall (5), was born at Mount Vernon,
then Amherst, New Hampshire, January 21, 1797.
He was a farmer at Mount Vernon during all his
active life. He lived for a few years at Antrim,
New Hampshire, in the Simon Story house which
was built for him. Several of his children lived
there also. The children of Josiah and Mary
(Lovett) Kendall were: i. John L., married Chris-
tiana Lovejoy in 1851 and resided in the Cummings
house at Antrim, New Hampshire ; he was lost over-
board on the Potomac while in the service in the
civil war ; ' their children died young. 2. Stephen
C. of whom later. 3. Adoniram J., settled in An-
trim, removed to Nashua in 1851 ; lost an arm while
using a circular saw in a mill; married Amanda
Abbott, and they had three children: Frank E., born
in Antrim, 1851, died young, left a daughter, Maud ;
George Henry, unmarried ; William, unmarried. 4.
Elizabeth, died 1852.

(.VU) Stephen Chapin Kendall, son of Josiah
Kendall (6), was born in Mount Vernon,
New Hampshire, August 27, 1825. He re-
ceived a common school education in his na-
tive town and learned the trade of carpenter at
Nashua, New Hampshire, where he worked for sev-
eral years. He removed to Antrim, New Hamp-
shire, in 1849, and followed his trade there. He
was engaged in the manufacture of doors, sash and
blinds in the shop now occupied by A. F. True in
company with his brother, John L. Kendall, and
afterward with Charles E. Jackson. He built part
of the shop now standing there. He built for Ij'S
residence there the house now or lately owned by
Lewis Bass.

In 1859 he left Antrim to go to Southbridge,
Massachusetts, where he assisted in the erection of
R cotton mill, and he remained there in the cotton
manufacturing business four years. He followed
his trade as carpenter and builder at Tamworth,
New Hampshire for six years. He went to Fitch-
burg, November 18, 1870, and from 1872 to 1S98, a
period of nearly seventeen years, he was master
mechanic for the Parkhill Manufacturing Company,
a position of great responsibility requiring extensive
knowledge of mechanics and much skill and ability.

He was a constant attendant of the Rollstone
Congregational Church, and an active member of
the Young Men's Christian Association. He was a
worthy and highly esteemed citizen, faithful in all
life's various duties and relations. In politics he
was a Republican and held the position of road com-
missioner several years. He died at the age of
seventy-three, ten months and twenty-one days,
July 17, 1899.

Stephen Chapin Kendal married. June 7, 1848,
Alfreda C. Jackson, daughter of Charles A. Jack-
son, of Tamworth. New Hampshire. They had no
children, but they lived happily and celebrated their
golden wedding, June 7, 1S98. They adopted a son,
Charles H. Kendall, who married Mary Elizabeth
Merriam, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Mer-
riam. and they have a son and two daughters :
Charles M., not married : Mrs. C. D. Wilder, whose
children are : Jones Warren, Marie, Margaret, Stan-
ley Kendall, and Lois Wilder; Mrs. B. F. Wilder,

of New York city, whose children are: Robert,
Dorothy and Nellie Wilder.

Noah Jackson, Sr., son of Joseph Jackson, Jr.,
brother of Charles A. Jackson, was born October 9,
1795, died December 15, 1868, aged seventy-three
years. He married. September 5, 1822, Alfreda
Cobb, born September iS, 1799, died November 27,
1877, aged seventy-eight. Children: Elizabeth M.
R., born October 11, 1823, died March 28, 1832.
Alfreda N., born January 23, 1826, died March 25,
18S7, aged sixty-one years. Sophia W., born May
13, 1828, died August 29, 1890, aged sixty-two years;
she married W. A. Chamberlain, who died in May,
1890, aged seventy; they were the parents of eleven
children, all deceased but the two youngest, a son
and daughter. Harriet A., born February 17, 1830,
died September 22, 1894, aged sixty-four years. She
married Archy A. MacDonald, who died in 1876.
They had four children, two of whom are living, a
son, a lawyer, and a daughter. Elizabeth, born
April 9, 1832, living at the present time (1906),
aged seventy-four years ; she married John O'Brien,
by whom she had nine children, all of whom are
living with the exception of the eldest son ; two
sons are ministers and three sons are farmers.
Joseph C, born August 9, 1833, now living (1906),
aged seventy-three years ; married Mary O'Brien,
who bore him seven children, three sons of whom
are deceased and the other two are farmers in Can-
ada. Charles A., born March 5, 1836, died April,
1841. Noah W., born June 30, 1838, now living
(1906), married Pauline Adams, to whom were
born seven sons and one daughter ; of the seven
sons four were doctors, the eldest being now de-
ceased, one a civil engineer, one in government em-
ploy and one died young. Pauline (Adams) Jack-
son died April 22, 1876, and Noah W. Jackson mar-
ried (second) Alice Worrell, to whom were born
seven children. Charles H., born April 26. 1841,
now living (igo6), married Ellen Hoskins, who died
in 1869; he married (second) Elizabeth M. Quigley.

GEORC^E S. PIERCE. John Pierce or Pers
(l), who is the immigrant ancestor of many of the
families of Pierce and Peirce in Worcester county,
was the progenitor of George S. Pierce, of Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts.

He was born in Norwich, Norfolk county, Eng-
land, and was a weaver by trade. He was one of
the earliest settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts,
and was admitted a freeman there March, 1637-8.
His will was dated March 4, 1667-8, and he died
August 19, 1661. His widow Elizabeth died March
12. 1666-7. Her will dated March 5. and proved
April 2. 1667. mentions her son Anthony, son Robert,
son John, granddaughters Mary and Esther Ball,
children of her daughter Elizabeth ; daughters Esther
Morse and Mary Coldham ; John, son of Anthony;
and Judah. daughter of Robert.

The children of John and Elizabeth Pierce were:
Anthony, of whom later ; John, born in England ;
Robert, born 1620, in England : Barbara, born in
England ; Judith, born in England, married, at Wo-
burn. January .30. 1644-5, Francis Wyman ; Mary,
married Ball : Esther, married Morse.

(II) Anthony Pierce, son of John Pierce (i),
was born in England in 1609 and came to America
before his father. He was admitted a freeman
at Watertown, Massachusetts. September 3, 16,34,
and is the progenitor of most of the early families

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■of this surname in and about Watertown, Waltliam,
Weston, Lincoln and Lexington. His homestead
was on the north side of the road from Cambridge
to Watertown. west of the house of John Stowers,
which was afterwards the parsonage. His sons,
Joseph and Benjamin Pierce, lived there after him.

He married (lirst) Sarah . He married

(second) about 1638, Anne - — — . He died May
9, 167S. His will was dated September 6, 1671.
His widow died January 20, 1682-3. The children
of Anthony and Sarah Pierce were : John, eldest,
married Ruth (Bishop) Fuller, daughter of Na-
thaniel Bishop, and widow of William Fuller; Mary,
born October 20, 1633; Mary, born 1636, married
Ralph Read, son of William and Mabel Read, of
Watertown; Jacob, born September 15, 1637; Daniel,
of whom later; Martha, born April 24, 1641 ; Jo-
seph, admitted a freeman April 18, 1690; Benjamin,
admitted freeman April 18, 1690; Judith, born July
18, 1650, married, February 1666-7, John Sawin.

(HI) Daniel Pierce, fifth child of Anthony
Pierce (2), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,

January i, 1639-40. He married Elizabeth ,

and they settled in Groton, Massachusetts, where
five of their children were born. They had to
leave on account of the Indian troubles in King
Philip's war, and they were in Watertown again in
1681. They joined the church there January 16,
1686. He was a weaver by trade as well as a farmer.
His will was proved in 1723, the year of his death.

The children of Daniel and Elizabeth Pierce
were: Elizabeth, born May 16, 1665, married, Octo-
ber 17, 1684, Isaac Mixer, Jr.; Daniel, born No-
vember 28, 1666. married Abigail ; John, born

August 18, 1668, baptized at Watertown, January 16,
1686; Ephraim, of whom later; Josiah. born May
2, 1675, probably died young : Joseph, born Decem-
lier 30, 1678, married ^lary Warren; Abigail, born
January 3, 1681, died unmarried 1723 ; Hannah, born
1685, baptized January 16, 1686; Benjamin, bap-
tized January 16, 1686; Mary, married

Scripture.

(IV) Ephraim Pierce. f(5urth child of Daniel
Pierce (3), was born at Groton. Massachusetts,
October 15, 1673. He married Mary Whitney, who
was born July i, 1675, and died December 29, 1749.
They settled in Groton, where he died February 27,
1740-1. He was one of the first settlers of the town
of Lunenburg. He owned lot No. 68 and he was
the first selectman elected in the town in 1728.

The children of Ephraim and Mary Pierce were :
Mary, born August 9. 1696, married, March 17,
1719-20, Josiah Farnsworth ; Elizabeth, born July
24, 1698, married. December 24, 1723, Thomas Far-
well ; Ephraim ; Sarah, born March 8. 1702, married,
October 27, 1720, Jonathan Parker ; both died Sep-
tember 21, 1723; David, born May 23. 1704. married,
June IS, 1725, Elizabeth Bowers; Jonathan, bom
April 15, 1706. died September 13, 1723; Simon, born
October 15, 1707. married. May 26. 1737, Susanna
.Parker ; resided in Groton ; Abigail, born Novem-
ber 20, 1710. married. 1735, Ezra Farnsworth; Lydia,
born November 20. 1713, died September 24, 1723.

(V) Ephraim Pierce, third child of Ephraim
Pierce (4), was born in Groton. Massachusetts,
November 12, 1700, married, October 30. 1721, Esther
Shedd, who died June 28, 1768. He married (sec-
ond), January 12, 1773, Mrs. Huldah (Martyn)
Weatherbee. They resided in Lunenburg. He was
deacon of the Congregational Church there. He
died in 1781.

The children of Ephraim and Esther Pierce
were: Esther, born May 29, 1722, married, Octo-
ber 17, 1740, Benjamin Gould; Jonathan, born No-
vember 29, 1724, married, February 4, 1745, Sarah
Dodge; Ephraim, born ^larch 13, 1726, married
(first) Sarah Norcross and (second) Olive Good-
ridge, of Lincoln; Amos, born July 8, 1729, died
January II, 1741 ; Sarah, born November 27, 1731,
married, January 25, 1749, John Lovejoy; Mary,
born March 5, 1733, married, November 28, 1754,
Phineas Hartwell, of Lunenburg; Benjamin, born
June 3, 1736, died December 23. 1757; Prudence,
born February 6, 1738, married, September 6, 1762,
Reuben Smith; Oliver, born July 17, 1741, married,
May 19, 1768, Mary Smith ; Keziah, born December
4, l74^^ died September 18, 1746; Elizabeth, born
November 25. 1746, married, November- 19, 1766,
Jacob Steward.

(VI) Oliver Pierce, ninth child of Ephraim
Pierce (5), w-as born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts,
July 17, 1741. married, May 19, 1768. Mary Smith,
who was born in 175 1 and died in 1827. He died
March 6, 1815. They resided at Lunenburg. He
was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Benjamin
Flagg's company April 19, 1775 ; in Captain Joseph
Warren's company and Lieutenant Colonel
Wheelock's regiment in 1777 with the northern army.

The children of Oliver and Mary Pierce were:
Oliver, born March 8, 1769, married, October 27,
1791, Hannah Davis; Polly, born May S, 1771, mar-
ried, February 11, 1790, Nathan Adams, Jr.; Na-
thaniel, born June i, 1773, died young; Benjamin,
born May 19, I77S, married Abigail Devoll, died in
Leominster, June 3, 1846 ; Nathaniel, born October
8, 1778. married (first) Judith Kendall; (second)
Zebia Smallpeace ; (third) Visa (Clark) Knight;
John, of whom later ; Betsey, born November 9,
17S9, married Billings, of Lunenburg.

(VII) John Pierce, sixth child of Oliver Pierce
(6), was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 18, 1787, married, November 28. 1816, Esther
Smith, who was born in 1782 and died March 10,
18,30; married (second), July 13, 1831, Sarah
(Tyler) Smith, who was born 1794 and died May
27, i860. He died November 12, 1867. They re-
sided at Lunenburg.

The children of John and Esther Pierce were :
Betsey, born February 2, 1818, died unmarried at
Lunenburg : Mary, born March 2, 1819, married.
April 21. 1853, David S. Jewett; she died in Fitch-
burg. i860, leaving two children; Benjamin, born
July 27, 1S20 : Joseph, born May 17, 1822, married
Almira Burrell : Nathaniel, born March 20, 1824,
married. September 23, 1874. Melinda Willard; he
died March 22. 1S28 ; resided at Ashburnham ; no
issue ; Otis, born November 16, 1826, married Mary
King, died December 25, 1903. The children of John
and Sarah Pierce wsre : Martha A., born 1832,
died unmarried July 3, 1863; George S., of whom
later.

(VIII) George S. Pierce, youngest child of John
Pierce (7), was born at Lunenburg, July 9, 1833.
He was born and brought up on the old Pierce
homestead and lived on it until 1871, when he re-
moved to Fitchburg. He attended the public schools
and the academy in Lunenburg. Lie was a pros-
perous farmer. After his removal to Fitchburg he
devoted his time to the care of his real estate. _ He
built a number of houses for investment in Fitch-
burg. His residence on Beacon street, which he
erected soon after coming to Fitchburg, was burned

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Alarch i6, 1897, and re-built sliortly before his death.
Mr. Pierce acquired a competence by prudence and
wise investments. He was a Republican in politics
and a Unitarian in religion. He died at Fitchburg,
October 23, 1898.

He married. March 20. 1872, Mary B. Houghton,
daughter of Stephen and Mary (Bruce) Houghton,
of Lunenburg. Their children: Jonas S., resides in
Fitchburg and is engaged in the real estate and in-
surance business; Halbert E., graduate of Brown
University, 1902, and engaged in business in Bos-
ton ; Manila Alberta, died young.

COOK FAMILY. Gregory Cook (i), immi-
grant ancestor of George Albert Cook, of Lunen-
burg, Massachusetts, was doubtless born in Eng-
land, about 1625. He was a cordwainer or shoe-
maker by trade. He caine to this country about
1660, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He
bought land there in 1665 of Abraham Williams, in-
cluding a mansion house on the highway from Wa-
tertown to Roxbury, alongside land of Edward
Jackson, Sr., and the Dnmmer farm, near what
is now Newton Centre, near the Watertown
line. In 1672 he bought the Dummer farm,
or one hundred and twelve acres of it, adjoining
his own farm, part in Cambridge, part in Water-
town. Cook's mansion house was torn down in
1823; it was located on a lot of sixteen acres of land,
bought in 1668 of Samuel Hyde, and located on the
East Dcdham highway west of Edward Jackson,
Sr.'s place. The homestead was handed down to
his son, Stephen Cook, who probably lived in it.
The last owner in the Cook family was Captain
Phineas Cook. Later it was owned by Captain
Nutting and Nathaniel Brackett.

He was a prominent man in public life. He was
constable in Cambridge Village in 1667, selectman
of Mendon 1669 to 1670, and proprietor of forty
acres of land there, but though his posterity appears
to have been numerous in Mendon and vicinity, he
did not stay long. He was selectman of Watertown
in 1673-78-79-S1-84. He was on a coroner's jury
in Watertown June 15, 1674. He died January i,
1691. His son Stephen administered the estate. The
inventory gave the value of the estate as one hun-
dred and ninety-one pounds.

He married (first) Mary . who died August

17. 1681. He married (second) Susan Goodwin,
widow, November i, 1681, and after his death she
married (third), September 15, 1691, Henry Spring.
The names of only two children are known, viz. :
I. Susanna (see Newton records for note of birth),
died at Watertown, November 13, 1674. 2. Stephen,
see forward.

(II) Stephen Cook, son of Gregory Cook (i),
was born presumably in England, 1647, and was
brought to Cambridge, where his parents settled
when he was an infant. He lived on the line be-
tween Watertown and Newton, then Cambridge, and
it is difficult to know whether he was a resident of
Watertown or Cambridge and where his children
were born. He married, 1679, Rebecca Flagg,
daughter of Tlionias Flagg. 'They were admitted
to the church of Rev. Mr. Bailey in full communion,
IMarch 4. 1687-8. She died June 20. 1721, and he
died at Newton, 1738, aged ninety-one years. The
children of Stephen and Rebecca Cook were: i.
Mary, born December 2, 1681, baptized at Water-
town, April 15, 1688. 2. Stephen, see forward. 3.
Isaac, born April 28, 1685. 4. John, born March

15, 1686-87, settled in Preston, Connecticut. 5.
James, born January 23, 1688-89. 6. Samuel, born
December 3, 1690, settled Windham, Connecticut.
7. Peter, born August 10, 1692. 8. Daniel, married,
1722, Mary Jackson, daughter of Abraham Jackson.

(III) Stephen Cook, Jr.. son of Stephen Cook
(2), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, Jan-
uary 9, 1683. He settled in Watertown and was a
miller by trade. His will, dated 1757 and proved
1761, confirms to his son John house, land and grist
mill previously described in a deed of gift; be-
queaths a farm at Framingham to his son James.
The executors W"ere his son John and son-in-law,
John Dix. His wife's will also names the children.
He married Hannah Fuller, daughter of Joshua
Fuller, Sr., and their children, all born at Water-
town, were i. Mary, born January 9, 1706, married,

September 8, 1726, . 2. Hannah, born October 3,

1709, married, November 20, 1729, Samuel Dix. 3.
James, see forward. 4. Peter, born April 26, 1716.
5. Susannah, born October 23, 1717, married, Sep-
tember 25. 1741, . 6. Abigail, born August 7, 1721,

married William Gamage, Jr. 7. John, born March

31, 1724-

(IV) James Cook, son of Stephen Cook, Jr.
(3), was born at Watertown, Massachusetts,
March 3, 1714, died at Newton. His father left
him a farm at Framingham and he lived there after
his marriage until 1747. when he returned to Newton.
His first six children were born in Framingham and
the other si.x at Newton. He married, in Newton,
November 24, 1737, Lydia Fiske, who died I\Iarch
9, 1759. He married (second), September 21, 1759,
Mary Foster. Children of James and Lydia Cook
were : I. Jonathan, born December 3, 1738, married
Lydia Bacon. 2. Lydia, born January 22, 1740. 3.
Stephen, born June 24, 1741. 4. Enoch, see forward.
5. Zebediah Fiske, born February 26, 1746. 6. Eliza-
beth, born July 6, 1748, married William Badlam,
of Sherborn. 7. Mary, born June 16, 1750, died
November 8, 1750. 8. Rebecca, born June 18. 1753,
married William Flagg. 9. Esther, born May 4,
I75S- 10- James, born January 8, 1758. The chil-
dren of James and Mary Cook were: 11. Hannah,
born June 8, 1760. 12. Peter, born December 10,
1764.

(V) Enoch Cook, son of James Cook (4), was
born at Newton, JNIassachusetts, January 4, 1744.
He lived in Newton until 1770, when he went to
Groton and settled. He was a soldier in the rev-
olution, with the rank of sergeant in the company
of Captain John Sawtelle and regiment of Colonel
James Prescott on the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775. This company was raised in Groton and
Pepperell, jNIassachusetts. He was also in Captain
Edmund Longley's company, Colonel Cogswell's
regiment, in 1778, detached to guard and fortify
posts at and about Boston. He married Mary
Foster, 1765. Their children, born at Newton, were :
I. Lydia, born January 29, 1765-66. 2. Samuel, see
forward. 3. i\Iary. born March 26. 1769. The pre-
ceding were born at Newton, the following at
Groton: 4. Enoch, Jr.. born November 15, 1771. 5.
John, born April 16. 1774.

(VI) Samuel Cook, son of Enoch Cook (5),
was born at Newton, Massachusetts, March 12,
1767. He was an infant when the family removed
to Groton. He lived in Groton until 1808, when he
settled in Lunenburg, where he bought the Abel
Page place. JNIarch 21, 1808, of Joshua Longley. of
Shirley, agent for the heirs of Page. The farm

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consisted of one hundred and eighty acres o£ land
in the northeast part of the town, with house, barn
and other buildings. Samuel also owned land in
Shirley. He made his will December 6, 1848, and
died in 1859. He bequeathed to his wife Dolly, and
son Abel, who was to care for his invalid brother
Edward all his life. Abel had the homestead on
Hunting Hill, Lunenburg. He married, April 23,
1797, at Pepperell, Sarah Green, of the Groton fam-
ily of Green to which Dr. Samuel A. Green, of Bos-
ton, the author, historian of Groton, librarian, be-
longs. Their children were: I. Daughter, died of
influenza at Lancaster, October 13, 1807. 2. Abel,
see forward. 3. Edward, invalid, died unmarried.
(VH) Abel Cook, son of Samuel Cook (,6),
was born at Groton, Massachusetts, May 24, 1807.
He was a farmer and succeeded to the homestead
and estate of his father. He lived and died in Lun-
enburg. He married Betsey Robinson, 1S34, daugh-
ter of Ebenezer and Betsey (Harrington) Robin-
son, of Lunenburg. Children of Abel and Betsey
Cook were: i. George Albert, see forward. 2.
Harriet Elizabeth, born July 19, 1839, married .W-
bert Sanderson, son of Jesse and Marilla Sanderson,
April 19, 1859. 3. Alonzo, born February 20, 1843,
died April 8, 1847. 4. Ada Augusta, born June iS,
1845, died March 25, 1847. 5. Adelaide Augusta,
born August 19, 1847, married Edwin Lewis Fair-
banks, in Fitchburg, August 7, 1872. Abel Cook
married (second) Lucy Kilburn, daughter of David
and Lucy (Pingree) Kilburn, 1849. Their children:
6. Alonzo Baxter, born April 25, 1850. 7. Ella
Pingree, born November 5, 1853.

(Vni) George Albert Cook, son of Abel Cook
(7), was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, Au-
gust I, 1835. He was educated in the public and
high schools of his native town, and during his
youth assisted his father on the homestead. He
learned the trade of cooper and worked first for
Augustus Jewett, of Pepperell, then for Powers &
Adams, of Townsend, where he lived until the lat-
ter part of 1858, when he returned to Lunenburg.
jNIuch of the time since then he has been in the em-
ploy of Augustus Taylor, who owns an extensive
cooperage works at Lunenburg, near Hunting Hill,
where Mr. Cook resides. He has an attractive home
on the old homestead where his grandfather settled
a hundred years ago. He is a Republican in poli-
tics and attends the Congregational Church.

Mr. Cook married (first), August 10, 1856, Ann
Maria Spaulding, daughter of Henry and Betsey
(Farrar) Spaulding, of Townsend. She was born
Mav 23, 1835, died August 5, 185S. Her father was
a miller by trade and a successful dealer in feed and
grain at Townsend. He married (second), Novem-
ber 29, i860. Lydia Spaulding Adams, daughter of
Edward Gary and Martha (Spaulding) Adams. She
was born November 30, 1827. The children of
George Albert and Ann Cook were: l. Henry Al-
bert, born in Townsend, May 26, 1857, married
Emma J. Daniels, of Brookline, New Hampshire,
and their children were — Lena Edward, Albert
Spaulding, George Henry. 2. Abel Franklin, died
in infancy.

DR. ERNEST PARKER MILLER. The immi-
grant ancestor of Dr. Ernest Parker Miller, of
Fitchburg, settled in Rehoboth. Massachusetts. The
family records begin with John Miller, born in
Rehoboth, August 3. 1725- The name of his father
is not known but it seems probable that his grand-

father was Robert Miller, son of John Miller, Sr.,
of Rehoboth.

(I) John Miller, Sr., was in Rehoboth as early
as 1643. He was a town officer in 1648. His chil-
dren were : Robert, born probably about 1643, and
probably other older children ; Hannah, December

23, 1653; Sarah, October 15, 1655; Samuel, Octo-
ber 5, 1658; Joseph, August, 1660; Benjamin, Sep-
tember 22. 1662. John Miller, Sr. was cousin and
heir of Thomas milliard, of Boston, in l66g. The
name Millard is to be found on the Rehoboth
records side by side with Miller, spelled Millerd
usually.

(II) Robert Miller, believed to be son of John
Miller (i), born in England probably about 1640,
married Elizabeth Saben, of Rehoboth, December

24, 1662. He was a soldier in King Philip's war
in 1675. Their children, all born in Rehoboth, were:
Elizabeth, born February S, 1663-4; Robert, June 12,
1666; Nehemiah, June 8. 1668; Josiah, July 26, 1670;
Nathaniel, March 31. 1672, married Ruth Chase,
of Newbury, Massachusetts, May 20, 1716; Solomon,
May 6, 1674; Mary. June 14. 1680: Sarah, Septem-
ber 26, 1684: Experience, May 20, 1687.

(III) Robert Miller, son of Robert Miller (2),
was born June 12, 1666. It remains to be proved
that he is the father of the John Miller who was
born August 3, 1725, in Rehoboth. One of his
brothers may be the father.

.(IV) John Miller, grandson of Robert Miller
(2), of Rehoboth, and ancestor of Dr. Ernest P.
Miller, of Fitchburg, was born in Rehoboth, Massa-
chusetts, .•\ugu5t 3. 1725, and died there September

7, 1797. He married Martha , born August 5,

1723, died May 23, 1804. They had a son Robert,
of whom later.

(V) Robert Miller, son of John Miller (4),
was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. November
2. 1753. died June 28. 1830, in Vermont. He mar-
ried Mary Perry, born September 6, 1762, died June
19. 1853. He was a soldier in the revolution. He
removed to Westminster, Vermont, and his farm
there was on the west road (near the residence of
Freeman Gorham). He was the father of twelve
children, all born at Westminster. Vermont, as fol-
lows: Toby (?), born August 27, 1782, died March
I, 1873. at Londonderry, Vermont : Polly, March 22,
1784, died October I, 1865: John (twin), March 22,
1786, died December 19, 1867; Jabez (twin). March
22, 17S6; Sally, April 9, 1788, died October 23, 1806;
Cynthia. July 14, 1790, died August 8, 1865; Jesse,
September 10. 1792. died 1875: Robert R., Novem-
ber 30, 1794. died in 1890: Sophia, October 15. 1796,
died 1890: Fylindia, .August 12. 1799. died Decem-
ber I. 1877; bphia. November II, 1801 ; Belal, July
31, 1805. died February 9, 1881.

(Vf) John Miller, son of Robert Miller (5),
was born in Westminster, Vermont. March 20, 1786,
died there December 19, 1867. He settled on a
farm on the west road where Coren Goodell now
or lately lived. He married Betsey Robinson, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Robinson. She was descended
from George Abbott, of Yorkshire, England, one
of the first settlers of Andover, Massachusetts,
Their children were: .Mfred, born March 15. 1815,
died November 15. 1877: Lucy, married Lyman
Rannev: John: Betsey, married Ebenezer Hall; Pat-
terson; Wealthy, never married; Reuben, married
Martha Goodhue.

(VII) Dr. Alfred Miller, son of John Miller
(6). and grandson of Robert Miller, was born 'in

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Westminster. Vermont, March 15. i8i5- He pur-
sued his preparatory studies in the public schools
of Westminster and Bernardston, Vermont, and wqs
graduated from Middlebury College in 1840. While
reading for his profession he taught school for a
number of years. He studied with Dr. Alfred Hitch-
cock and at the medical school in Woodstock. Ver-
mont, where he was graduated in 1844. In the fol-
lowing years he entered upon the practice of his
profession in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, w^here
he remained until 1862, when he settled in Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts. He was a skillful physician
and highly respected by all who knew him. He
was a leading citizen as well as a popular and suc-
cessful doctor. He was repeatedly elected a mem-
ber of the school committee and to other offices
of trust and honor. He represented the town in
the general court in 1866 and 1876. He was emi-
nently successful in his practice in Fitchburg. He
died there November 15, 1877, aged sixty-two years.

He married, December 28, 1847, Elsie L. Kibling,
born March 23, 1826, daughter of Francis Kibling.
Their children were: Alfred M., born October 13.
1849, died October 20, 1849 ; Ernest Barker, Janu-
ary 4, 1851 ; Alice, April 20, 1855, graduate of Fitch-
burg high school, 1873, Vassar College, 1876 ; mar-
ried Clarence W. Spring, physician, resides in Fox
street, Fitchburg; Emma Louise. November 26,
1857, married, October, 1878, George H. Crocker,
has son. Samuel E. M. Crocker; Margaret Fiske,
March 8. 1868; Alfred Kibling, March 31. 1870,
married Dorothy McTaggart, of Fitchburg ; she is
one of the leading contralto soloists of Worcester;
he is in the automobile business in Worcester,
Massachusetts.

Francis Kibling, son of John Kibling married,
February 23, 1825, Waity Lawrence, daughter of
Moses Lawrence. John Kibling was son of Deacon
Jacob Kibling. The latter was very promment in
Ashburnham. He was selectman, deacon of the
Baptist Church, revolutionary soldier: he removed
to Stafford, Vermont, where he died 1S39. He mar-
ried. February 21, 1777, Sarah Coolidge, daughter
of Elisha Coolidge, of Ashburnham. Jacob Kibling,
father of Deacon Jacob, was one of the German
emigrants, and an early settler of the town. He
was born in Germany in 1722 and removed to Ash-
burnham in I7.=;S. being one of the seven original
proprietors of the Lexington grant. Fie settled on
land since known as the Constantine farm, and
exchanged farms with Jacob Constantine and
removed to the farm now or lately owned by Alden
B. Marble. He was a man of recognized character
and ability: was selectman nine years. He married
Catharine Wolfe. He died April 4, 1777; she died
at the home of one of her children in Vermont,
March 28, 1821, aged ninety-one years ; they had
nine children.

(VIII) Dr. Ernest Parker Miller, son of Dr.
Alfred Miller (7), was born in Ashburnham. Massa-
chusetts, January 4, 1851. He attended the public
schools of his native town and Fitchburg, and grad-
uated from the high school of the latter town in
1868. He was graduated from Harvard College in
1872 and spent the two following years as assistant
teacher of the Fitchburg high school. He then
entered the Harvard IMedical School, from which
he was graduated in 1877. He was house officer in
the Massachusetts General Hospital for a year, after
which he came to Fitchburg and took up his father's
practice. For twenty-eight years he has been en-
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gaged in practice at Fitchburg and he is one of the
leaders of his profession. He was medical examiner
for the county from 1877 to 1891, when the election
of a Democratic governor caused a change in the
office. Dr. Miller is a Republican. He was city
physician in 1878 and in 1883. Since 1S84 he has
been a member of the examining board for the
L'nited States pension bureau. He is surgeon at the
Burbank Hospital. He is a member of the Worces-
ter North District and Massachusetts Medical So-
ciety. He belongs to the Park Club.

He married, October 22. 1878, Myra B. Richard-
son. Their children are : Richard Henry, born in
Fitchburg, October 11, 1884. graduate of Harvard
University, 1905: master in the Groton school; Elsie
Lawrence, April 10. 1886. graduate of Fitchburg
high school, 1904, Vassar College, class of 190S;
Ernest Parker, Jr., January 28, 1890, is in Fitch-
burg high school ; Wyman Richardson. July 23, 1892.

LUNT FAMILY. Henry Lunt (i), the immi-
grant ancestor of Henry T. Page, of Fitchburg,
through his mother, Susan Maria (Lunt) Page,
sailed from England in the "Mary and John" of
London, March 26, 1633 ; settled in Newbury, Mass-
achusetts, 1635, and was admitted a freeman there
May 2, 1638. He was one of the proprietors. He
died July 10, 1662; his will was proved September
30, 1662. His widow Anna married (second) Joseph
Hills, previously of Maiden, Massachusetts. (See
Hills Family). Henry Lunt is believed to be the
son of Henry Lunt, in England. He is buried in
the graveyard of the First Parish Church at New-
buryport. Children of Henry and Anna Lunt:

1. Sarah, born November 8, 1639. 2. Daniel, men-
tioned below. 3. John, born November 30, 1643.
4. Priscilla, February 16, 1646. 5. Mary, July 13.
1648. 6. Elizabeth, December 29, 1650. 7. Ensign
Henry, February 20, 1653.

(II) Daniel Lunt, second child of Henry Lunt
(l), born in Newbury, Massachusetts, May 17, 1641,
married. May 16, 1664, Hannah Coker, daughter of
Robert Coker. She was born January 15, 1645, and
died January 29, 1679, aged thirty-four years. He
married (second) Mary Moody, granddaughter of
Captain John Cutting, a very prominent pioneer of
Watertown and Ne\vbur>-port. Daniel Lunt died
January 26, 1702. Children of Daniel and Hannah
Lunt: I. Hannah, born May 17, 1665. 2. Daniel,
May I, 1667. 3. Henry, mentioned below. 4. John,
January 10, 1672. $. Sarah, June 18, 1674. 6. Mary,
July 24. 1677. Children of Daniel and Mary Lunt:
7. Joseph. March 4, 1681. 8. Anna, January 28,
1683. 9. Benjamin, March 15, 1686.

(HI) Henry Lunt, Jr., son of Daniel Lunt (2),
was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, June 23,
1669. His children: I. Daniel, born June 15, 1695.

2. Benjamin, June 21, 1700. 3. Henry. 4. Johnson.
August 12, 1704. 5. Abner. 6. Sarah.

(IV) Abner Lunt, son of Henry Lunt, Jr., (3),
born in Newburyport, 1706; married, May 6, 1726.
Hannah Stickney. Their children. i. Hannah,
February 17, 1727. 2. Sarah, September 14, 1730.

3. Abner.

(V) Abner Lunt, son of Abner Lunt (4), born
in Newburyport. July 25, 1732; married, April 19,
1751, Miriam, daughter of Benjamin Coffin; she was
born August 22, 1732, descendant of Tristam Cof-
fin, the pioneer ancestor of the Coffin family of that
section. (T^Iiriam 5; Benjamin, 4; Stephen, 3;
Tristam, Jr., 2; Tristam,:). Abner Lunt died at

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sea, aged fifty-five. She died March 7, 1787. Their
children: i. Abner, born October 29, 1751; 2. Miriam,
February 9, 1754: 3. Jacob; 4. Micajah.

(VI) Micajah Lunt, youngest child of Abner
Lunt (s), born at Newburyport, November 9, 1764;
married Sarah Giddings, June 11, 1792. She was
the daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Lord) Giddings,
and granddaughter of Lieutenant Daniel Giddings,
who served in the capture of Louisburg in 1744.
The father of Lieutenant Giddings was William (bid-
dings, judge of probate in Essex county. Micajah
Lunt died August 30, 1840, aged seventy-five years.
Sarah, his wife, born August 13, 1765, died January
5, 1827. Their children: i. William, born
1794. 2. Micah, April 22, 1796. 3. William.
January I, 1798. 4. Sarah Lord, October 6, 1800.
S. Mary Coffin, November 9, 1802. 6. George, March
7, 1805. 7. Hannah Giddings, March 25, 1S07. 8. Su-
san Maria, mentioned below. 9. Jacob William, Jan-
uary 20, 1829. Micajah Lunt married (second)
Sarah B., daughter of Edmund Sweet; she was born
June 13, 1793, died September 2, 1876.

(VH) Susan }ilaria Lunt, daughter of JNIicajah
Lunt, (.6), born in Newburyport, June S, iSii. died
February 5, 18S7; married, December 16, 1832, David
P. Page, mentioned above.

WHITIN FAMILY. Nathaniel Whitin (i), the
immigrant ancestor of the Whitin family of Whit-
insville, Massachusetts, was born in 1609, in Eng-
land. He is mentioned in the will of his grand-
father, John Smitli, who bequeathed to his mother,
Sarah (Smith) Whiting, lands in Hoxden, ;\liddle-
sex county, England. He had a brother, Samuel
Whiting, also mentioned in this will. Nathaniel
Whiting came first to Lynn as early as 1638. when
he was a proprietor of that town. In the first
records his name is spelled Whiting, Whyting and
Whitinge, most of the descendants having used the
form Whiting. He removed to Dedham a few
years after he came to New England and was a
proprietor there in 1640. He was admitted to the
church, July 30, 1641, and was made a freeman,
May 18, 1642. pe died at Dedham, January 15,
1682-83. His will was dated May 15, 1677, and
proved April 19, 1683. He gave his whole estate
to his wife Hannah to distribute at her discretion.
The w-idow died November 4, 1714, aged eighty-
nine years.

He married, November 4. 1643. Hannah Dwight,
daughter of John and Hannah Dwight, of Dedham,
progenitors of a famous old family. She came to
Dedham from England with her parents and brotli-
ers John and Timothy. Her father was at Water-
town in 1635, removed to Dedham, was admitted
a freeman March 13, 1638-39, owned half the water-
mill. Nathaniel Whiting was also a miller. His
descer.dants at Whitinsville -seem to have inherited
tlicir predilection for mills and machinery from both
immigrant ancestors named.

Children of Nathaniel and Hannah Whiting
were: i. Nathaniel, born September 26, 1644, mar-
ried Joanna Gay, daughter of John Gay, of Ded-
ham; settled in the adjoining tow'n of Medficld,
where he resided on North street, not far from the
present Pine street : was burned out by the Indians
in King Philip's war; had five children — Joanna,
Nathaniel, John, Samuel, and Hezekiah. 2. John,
born September 28, 1646, died November 26, 1646.
3. John, born November 3, 1647, died September
25, 1656. 4. Samuel, born December 20, 1649. mar-

ried, November 23, 1676, Sarah Metcalf. 5. Han-
nah, born February 17, 1651, married John Fair-
banks. 6. Timothy, born January 5, 1653, married

Sarah , died December 26, 1728. 7. Mary

(twin), born July 8, 1656, died October 29, 1656.

8. John (twin), born July 8, 1656, died same year.

9. ]\Iary, born October 12, 1658. 10. Sarah, born
December 3, 1660, married Nathaniel Farrington.
II. Abigail, born June 7, 1663, died October 25,
1721 ; married James Draper. 12. John, born July
19, 1665, settled Wrentham (see Goodwin's Gen-
ealogical Notes). 13. Jonathan, see forward. 14.
Judith, born March 30, 1670, married Barachiah
Lewis. 15. Anna, born January 25, 1672.

(II) Jonathan Whiting, son of Nathaniel Whit-
ing (i), vvas born in Dedham, jNIassachuseits, Oc-
tober 9, 1667, died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 4, 1728 (gravestone in First Parish ceme-
tery at Dedham). He married at Dedham, Decem-
ber 3, 1689, Rachel Thorp, daughter of James and
Elannah (Newcomb) Thorp. She was born at
Dedham, August 17, 1671, died after 1728. Admin-
istration was granted on his estate October 21,
1728, to widow Rachel, and the heirs entered into
an agreement, dated November 22, 1728, for the
settlement of the estate and providing for the sup-
port of the widow. He was a member of Captam
Whittington's company in the expedition against
Canada in 1690.

Their children were: i. Rachel, born at Ded-
ham, September 27, 1690, married at Roxbury,
April 20, 1715, Ebenezer Healey, of Stoughton. 2.
Ehphalet, died at Roxbury, November 30, 1693.
3, Alary, born at Dedham, April 13 1694. 4- Jona-
than, born at Dedham, November 8, 1696. 5. Eben-
ezer, born at Roxbury, July 11, 1699. 6. Eliphalet,
born at Roxbury, March I, 1701-02. 7. Nathaniel,
see forward. S. Moses, born at Roxbury, August
7, 1706, sold some of his father's lands to his brother
Aaron, December 13, 1733. 9. Aaron, born at Rox-
bury, July 18, 1709. 10. Hannah, born at Roxbury,
July 20, 171 1, died there about 1765; married Oc-
tober 26, 1732, Seth Tucker, son of Ebenezer and
Jemima (Daniell) Tucker.

(III) Nathaniel Whiting, son of Jonathan
Whiting (2), was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
March 20, 1703-04, died at Roxbury, January 19,
1790. He married (first), at Roxbury, May I, 1729,
Hannah Lyon, daughter of Joseph and JIary (Ald-
lidge) Lyon. She was born at Roxbury, December
25, 1712. He married (second), at Dedham, April
6, 1774, Hannah Richards, widow of Josiah Rich-
ards, daughter of Nathaniel Whiting. He was a
blacksmith by trade. David Weld was the adminis-
trator of his estate, appointed February 8, 1790, as
also of the estate of his first wife, the division of
which names the children — heirs of Isaiah, de-
ceased; heirs of Benajah, deceased; Paul Whiting,
the only son of Nathaniel, deceased ; widow Mary
Richards: heirs of Hannah Williams, deceased;
Rachel Whitney; Keziah 'Vose; widow Sarah Dra-
per and heirs of Lucy Everett, deceased. Their
children, all recorded as born at Roxbury: I. Mary,
born July 7, 1730. married, at Roxbury, January 19,
1748-49, Nathaniel Richards. 2. Isaiah, born June
24, 1732. 3. Hannah, born December 25, 1734, mar-
ried (first), at Roxbury, April 26, 1753. Thomas
Dudley; (second) Joseph Williams. 4. Rachel born
April 19, 1737. married, at Roxbury, November 15,
1759, Jacob Whitney. 5. Benajah, born June 18,
173S. 6. Keziah born January 29, 1740-41, died at

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Robiiry, August 27, 1816; married there, September
24, 1767, William Draper; (second) at Roxbury,
February 5, 1778, Oliver Vose. 7. Rebecca, born
December 15, 1742, died at Roxbury, JNlay 6, 1743.
S. Nathaniel, born May 28, 1744, died at Roxbury,
December 26, 1744. 9. Sarah, born October 6, 1745,
married Paul Draper. 10. Nathaniel, sec forward.
II. Lucy, born April 26, 1751, died at Roxbury, Sep-
tember 20, 1788; married Peter Everett.

(TV) Nathaniel Whiting, son of Nathaniel
Whiting (3), was born in Roxbury, Massachusettts,
April 28, 1748, died at Roxbury, June 21, 1709
(gravestone) ; married at Trinity Church, Boston,
September 23, 1767, Sarah Draper, daughter of
Aloses and jSlary (Aldis-Allen) Draper. She was
born at Roxbury, June 5, 174S, died at Northbridge,
December 8, 1831. IMoses Draper, of Roxbury, was
appointed guardian of Paul Whiting, only son of
Nathamel. She married (second), December 21,
1770, lieutenant James Prentice, of Sutton, "son of
Samuel and Phebe Prentice. He died at Spencer,
i\Iay 20, 1837, aged ninety-one years. Prentice was
lieutenant m Captain Mark Chase's company of
Sutton and served in the revolution at Roxbury,
Alassachusetts, and Providence and Newport, Rhode
Island. The only child of Nathaniel, Jr., and Sarah
Whitin was Paul, see forward.

(V) Paul Whitin, son of Nathaniel Whitin
(4), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts. De-
cember 3, 1767, and was baptized after his
father's death in the Dedham church, November 5,
1769. When a young lad of fourteen Paul was
apprenticed to learn the blacksmith's trade to Jesse
White, of Northbridge. His advantages for educa-
tion were exceedingly limited; his whole attendance
at school probably did not amount to six months.
Few men have ever entered upon business life with
less encouraging prospects. When he closed his ap-
prenticeship his health was poor and continued .^o
for some years. He had no capital of his own and
no relatives to whom he could look for aid. But he
improved every opportunity to supplement his edu-
cation and fit himself for a business career. By
perseverance and diligent improvement of those in-
tervals of labor that many young men spend in idle-
ness, he acquired a good knowledge of those
branches of study necessary for the successful prose-
cution of business. He was essentially self-educated ;
he was naturally studious. When he was twenty-
eight years old he was elected town clerk of North-
bridge, and filled this position thirteen successive
years. Fie was often elected to other town oflfices.
He was active in the state militia and rose through
the various grades to the rank of colonel. He was
for, several years justice of the peace. Fie was re-
peatedly urged to run for the office of representa-
tive to the general court, but he refused because
of the demands of business on his time. Indeed,
it was his custom to make up by extra labor all the
time taken from his business by military duties and
the town business.

While Colonel Whitin was not the pioneer in
iron manufacturing in Northbridge, he was pre-
eminently the founder of the great industries that
have made the village of Whitinsville, named in his
honor, a great centre of manufacturing and brought
wealth to many of his descendants. The very early
development of the manufactures of iron in North-
bridge, of which Whitinsville is a part, was doubt-
less due to the existence of iron ore within its
limits. Ore was taken out of Mendon as early as

1700, in the section now Uxbridge. and the iron
works were built at the falls on Alumford's river,
on account of the water power and abundance of
fuel, by Samuel Terry, in 1727 or 1728. The iron
works passed through the hands of various owners
until September 16, 1771, when Colonel Ezra Wood
bought the property of the estate of the late owner,
John Merritt, for four hundred and fifty pounds.
James Fletcher, who married Colonel Wood's
daughter, Margaret, December 24, 1771, now occu-
pied the property and carried on the works whicli
were situated about twenty rods below the bridge on
the south side of Mumford river in what is now
Whitinsville. The water for power was conveyed
in a ditch from the dam, which was about a hundred
feet west of the present dam next to the bridge.
About this time the works were removed to a build-
ing on the south side of the river, close to the
present dam, which w^as built at that time. The
new works took the name of "The Forge," or
"Fletcher's Forge" and began to acquire a reputa-
tion for good workmanship. In 1794 Colonel Wood
sold two-thirds of the property to his son-in-law,
James Fletcher, and one-third to Paul Whitin, who
had married Mr. Fletcher's daughter Betsey the
year previous.

Fletcher & Whitin continued to make bar iron
from scrap iron until 1812 or 1813. Mr. Whitin
did not work in the forge. He was a blacksmith and
had a shop on the north side of the river at tlic
end of the dam opposite from "The Forge," and at
first he did only the ordinary work of a blacksmith.
The manufacturing business was suggested by the
demand for agricultural tools during the war of
I.M2 when the embargo on trade getween this coun-
try and Great Britain had shut off the supply from
the old country. He fitted up his shop for tlie
manufacture of hoes and scythes. He hired an ex-
pert in tempering and the other unfamiliar parts
of the W'Ork, and soon acquired skill of his own.
Among the articles for which he found a ready sale
was the large hoe used by the negro slaves on
the southern plantations. Business grew rapidly.
He soon had three forges, a trip-hammer and a
grindstone operated by power. He continued this
business with great success to the time of his death
in 1831, when his sons succeeded him.

He had other large interests also. In 1826
Colonel Whitin formed a partnership with his two
elder sons, Paul, Jr., and John C. Whitin, to manu-
facture cotton goods. They built a brick mill hav-
ing a capacity of fifteen hundred spindles on the
site of the old forge on the south bank of the
river. His son, John C. Whitin, was superintendent,
of the mill and machinery. Colonel Whitin erected
the first cotton mill, however, in 1809, at the upper
dam, which was about three hundred feet east of the
present dam of the Whitin jNIachine Works. Colonel
James Fletcher, his father-in-law and partner, con-
tributed the w-ater privilege as his share in the en-
terprise. After the mill was erected INIr. Whitin
organized a company of which he was the principal
stockholder for the manufacture of cotton goods,
under the name of Northbridge Cotton Manufactur-
ing Company, which was later incorporated. June 9,
1814. This was the third cotton mill erected in the
Blackstone Valley above Pawtucket, the mill of
.A.liny Brown and the Slaters of Slatersville and the
original mill of the present Blackstone Company at
Blackstone (then South Mendon) preceding it by
two years. The manufacturing consisted in breaking.

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carding and spinning. The raw material, having some
seeds and much dirt mixed with it, was put out to
families to be cleaned; some families took a bale at
a time. From four to six cents a pound was paid
for the work. The yarn was also put out to be
woven in the homes of the farmers by the over-
worked wives and children, the weaver receiving
eight cents a yard for weaving No. l6 yarn, the
grade then in use. After about eight years power
looms superseded the hand work. The mill was of
wood and had a capacity of fifteen hundred spindles.
It was rented for two years to Gladding & Cady ;
sold in 1S24 to William & Thomas Buflum ; to
Samuel Shove in 1829.

In 1815 Colonel Whitin, not content with what
the Northbridge Cotton l^Ianufacturing Company
was doing, entered into partnership with Colonel
Fletcher and his two sons under the firm name of
Whitin & Fletcher and they fitted up the old forge
building on the south side of the river as a cotton
mill of three hundred spindles for the making of
yarn. This mill was operated until 1826, when
Colonel Whitin, who had owned a half interest,
bought out his partners and formed a new firm with
his own sons, Paul, Jr., and John C. Whitin, under
the firm name of P. Whitin & Sons for the manu-
facture of cotton goods, and this firm, as already
stated, built the brick mill, Colonel Whitin fur-
nishing the capital, and on this foundation a great
business was developed by the sons. He was a
Whig and Republican, and served as state senator.

Colonel Whitin died at the age of sixty-three
years, February 8, 1831. Though never a church
member Colonel Whitin was a generous supporter
of religious institutions and his was an exemplary
life and character. Colonel Whitin belongs in the
class with Alvah Crocker, of Fitchburg. the Dra-
pers of Hopedale, George Crompton, Ichabod Wash-
burn, the Knowdes Brothers, and Philip L. INIoen,
of Worcester, the Bigelows of Clinton and other
founders of great industries in Worcester county.

He married, December 3, 1793, Betsey Fletcher,
daughter of Colonel James and Margaret (Wood)
Fletcher, of Northbridge, Eleazer (4), Samuel (3).
Samuel (2), Robert (i). Margaret Wood is a
descendant of Ezra (4), Jonathan (3), Ebenezer
(2), Thomas (i), of Upton. She was during
Colonel Whitin's life a most efficient helper in
the work he did for the community and the
world. She survived him thirty-seven years and
was, until near the time of her death, a member of
the firm of P. Whitin & Sons and contributed her
full share to its success. She died July 2, 186S.

They had ten children, of whom eight lived to
years of maturity, namely : Paul, see forward ;
"i\Iary, born January 4, 1802, married in 1818, Amin-y
A. Walker; no living descendants; Nathaniel Dra-
per, born September l, 1804. married Sarah .\.
Nichols, September 3, 1832, died at Northbridge.
August 19, 1869; John Crane, see forward: Charles
Pinckney, see forward ; Sarah Ann, born February
22, 1812, died 1838, unmarried ; James Fletcher,
see forward; Margaret, born September 4, 1817.
married Rev. J. J. Abbott, September 16, 1845; she
now lives in Whitinsville. They had six children,
the sons, James W.. Jacob J., William W., and Paul
W., lived to maturity and married.

(VI) Paul Whitin, Jr., son of Colonel Paul
Whitin (s), was born at Northbridge. now Whitins-
ville, February 5, 1800. The years of his childhood
and youth were spent mostly in his native town. He

attended the district school during the few months
of the year it was in session. When he was ten
years of age he commenced work in his father's
cotton mill on the day of its starting, tending a
breaking machine, and he became a skillful oper-
ative in all departments of the mill. When about
twelve years of age he spent some time with an
uncle in Amsterdam, New York, and attended school
there. He also had two terms at Leicester Acad-
emy. But from his tenth year, when not in school,
he worked in the mill or on the farm, until he was
eighteen, when he went to Boston in the dry goods
business of James Brew'er as clerk. At the age of
twenty-one he formed a partnership with a fellow-
clerk and opened a dry goods store on Maiden Lane,
New York city, under the firm name of Lee &
Whitin.

In 1S26 he returned to his native place and with
his father and younger brother, John C. Whitin,
formed the firm of P. Whitin & Sons. He took
charge of the mercantile department, having charge
of the store, buying the material for the cotton
mill and selling the product. He was well fitted,
by nature and training for his duties. When the
firm was re-organized after his father's death he re-
tained the same department and continued during
the great growth and development of the business
for a period of thirty-eight years. His ability and
thoroughness contributed materially to the success
of the business. When the firm was dissolved in
1864, he continued in the manufacture of cotton
goods as president of the Paul Whitin ]\Ianufactur-
ing Company with mills at Rockdale and Riverdale,
Massachusetts, until his death. In 1864 the cotton
mills of P. Whitin & Sons had increased from a
capacity of fifteen hundred spindles mentioned above,
to thirty thqusand spindles, with the mill at Rockdale
and the privilege at Riverdale. Paul Whitin was
president, and his son, Charles E. Whitin, treas-
urer and agent. They erected the mill at Riverdale
soon afterward, putting a brick addition on the stone
building which had been occupied by Harvey Waters
for the manufacture of scythes and bayonets, filling
it with cotton machinery and making it a mill of
seven thousand spindles. (Riverdale was sold
•after 1884.) In 1884, when Paul Whitin died,
Charles E. Whitin became president and his eldest
son, Harry T. Whitin. became agent.

Though never robust of body, his regular habits
and attention to his health enabled Mr. Whitin to
accomplish a large amount of business and to live
to a good old age in the full possession of his fac-
ulties. He always took a deep interest in town
and public affairs. He was elected representative to
tlie general court in 1837 and to the state senate in
1849. His perfect integrity and sound judgment
won the confidence of all men and he was called
upon to fill many positions of trust and responsi-
bility. He was elected director of the Blackstone
Bank at Uxbridge, October 6, 1828, remained a
director until 1S65, and wns president after October
6. 1845. He resigned to become president of the
National Bank at Whitin<ville, a position he re-
tained the remainder of his life. He was director
of the Worcester ISIutual Fire Insurance Company
from 1838 and attended a meeting only the day be-
fore his death. He was also a director of the
Worcester IManufacturers' Mutual Insurance Com-
pany from t86o. He was a director of the Provi-
dence it Worcester Railroad Company from its
fonhation until two years before he died, when he

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resigned. He was for many years an active member
and trustee of tlie Worcester County Agricultural
and Horticultural Societies and always took a lively
interest in farming, especially in horticulture.

He was a man of decided religious convictions,
a member of the Congregational Church at North-
bridge Centre, which he joined in 1820 and to which
he was faithful in attendance and in the support of
its ordinances. He was very active in the forming
of the new church at the village of Whitinsville.
By his life and deeds he was ever a power for good
in the community. He was generous in giving to
church and charity. He died i^'ebruary 7, 1884.

Paul Whitin married, at Uxbridge, August 22,
1822, Sarah Richardson, daughter of IJeacou Phinea.,
(6), (.Gershom 5, Joseph 4, Seth 3, Josiah 2, Sanmcl
I, of Springfield) Chapin and Eunice (5), (Bezaieel
4, Josiah 3, Daniel 2, Robert i, of Alendon) Taft.
She was born in Uxbridge, April 30, 1800, and died
in Whitinsville, April 16, 1884. Thus husband and
wife were born in the same year and died in the
same year, after a period of life of sixty-two years.
Paul and Sarah R. (Chapin) Whitin had children:
I. Charles E., see forw-ard. 2. Henry, born Octo-
ber 26, 1826, died in JMorristown, New Jersey, No-
vember 9, 18S5, leaving a widow and two sons,
Frederick H. and Ernest Stagg, now residents of
New York city. 3. Sarah JNL, married, November
15, 1852, Franklin H. Orvis, and now resides at
Manchester, Vermont. Their children — Paul W.,
Edward C, William F., George A., Louis C. 4.
Annie L., now occupying her father's home in
Whitinsville.

(VI) John Crane Whitin, son of Colonel Paul
Whitin (5), was born at Northbridge, now Whitins-
ville, Massachusetts, March 1, 1807. Until he was
fifteen years of age he attended the school of his
district during the usual summer and winter terms.
After he was nine years old, when not at school,
he was employed in the cotton mill of his father,
working first in the picker room. When twelve he
was placed in the repair room and worked there
three years, the only apprenticeship to his life work,
the best possible schooling for his future career.
Early in 1822 he went to work in the dry goods
store of his brother, Paul Whitin, Jr., and remained
there until the latter part of 1825, when he returned
home to form with his father and brother the firm
of P. Whitin & Sons for the manufacture of cotton
goods. He took charge of the manufacturing and
mechanical departments of the business. He had
early been impressed with the imperfection of the
machinery used, especially of that used in picking
cotton, and in 1830 he directed his efforts to its
improvement. With two lathes, not worth more
than fifteen dollars each, and with an occasional
job done in a neighbor's shop, he, with two assist-
ants, completed the first picker in about a year.
Having the machine completed, he patented it in
1832. The picker immediately attracted the atten-
tion of other manufacturers, and the firm of P.
Whitin & Co. decided to manufacture the machines,
using as the shop the picker house of the mill just
purchased, a building thirty-two by forty feet. Ma-
chinery and tools were set up in it and put in
operation. The machines were crude compared
with those used at present, but so much superior to
those previously used that all manufacturers had
to have them. The demand steadily increased and
for many years the pickers in use throughout the
country were made at these works. Mr. Whitin

was encouraged to build other machines in the
fame line. To accommodate the increasing business
of the concern the Picker House was enlarged and
new buildings erected. In 1847 "The New Shop."
as it was called, was erected, three hundred and six
by one hundred and two feet, two stories and base-
ment, on the north side of the river. Among the
machines built in the works were : cards, card
grinders, doublers, railway heads, drawing frames,
ring-frames, spoolers, warpers, dressers, looms, and
in fact all the machinery used in the cotton mill,
except roving machinery, mules and slashers. Need-
less to say the firm kept in the front rank with new
styles and improved patterns.

In i860 John C. Whitin purchased the Holyoke
Alachine Works on his ow'n account and retained
them four years, giving much of his time to them.
In 1864 the firm of P. Whitin & Sons was dis-
solved and the business divided among the part-
ners. In this division John C. Whitin took the
manufacture of machinery, which in thirty years had
grown from one picker a month in the old Picker
House to many hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of a large variety of machinery in the large
shop of 1847 and its additions. On coming into
separate proprietorship Mr. Whitin erected a new
shop parallel with the shop of 1847, north of it, four
hundred and seventy-five feet long, seventy in
width, three stories and basement. Then a large
foundry was added to the plant and repeatedly en-
larged. A blacksmith shop was built and in 1883
a large shop on the south side of the river, three
hundred and eighty-six feet long, eighty-six feet
in width, three stories high. From time to time
further additions have been built until at present
(1906) the concern has acres of floor space all
connected and devoted to the various parts of the
business, and gives employment to two thousand
hands.

Mr. Whitin secured patents on the picker or
lapper in 1833 ; on the union card in 1862. These
proved useful to the manufacturers and brought
considerable profit to the inventor. These inven-
tions, however, were less important and valuable,
than the various improvements in tools and imple-
ments for the working of metals and the simplify-
ing of existing methods. As long as he continued
in active management of the shops he took the
deepest interest in all improvement of tools and
methods of manufacture. The last to which he
gave special attention was the machine for drilling
spinning frame rails, which proved successful. He
did not seek patents on these improvements of tools
used in the shops. He felt that the gain in his
own work was all the profit he should ask. In
1870 the business, which had been during the six
years preceding owned by John C. Whitin, was in-
corporated in a joint-stock company under the
familiar name of "The Whitin Machine Woi;ks."
The officers were: President, John C. Whitin;
treasurer, Josiah Lasell ; superintendent, Gustavus
E. Taft. Mr. Lasell was Mr. Whitin's son-in-law
and had been in his employ since i860. (See sketch
of Lasell family). In 1881 Mr. Taft became agent
and Harvey Ellis superintendent. Mr. Whitin died
April 22, 18S2, and Mr. Lasell became president
and treasurer. Januarv i, 1886, his son-in-law, G.
;\Iarston Whitin, became treasurer. On the death
of Mr. Lasell, March 15, 1886, his eldest son,
Chester W. Lasell, became president, and on the
death of Mr. Taft, June 24, 18SS, his eldest son.

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Cyrus A: Taft, succeeded him as agent. He was
succeeded by Lawrence M. Keeler in 1906.

Mr. Whitin was a man of great energy and ca-
pacity for hard work. He had to a remarkable de-
gree an insight in mechanics that saved him much
time in working out his ideas. He could plan a
machine entirely in his mind before constructing
it and he never made a pattern which was not used
enough to pay for making — a fact true of very few
inventors of machinery.

Mr. Whitin was interested in public affairs. He
was a Republican in politics and was representa-
tive to the general court. In 1876 he was elected
a presidential elector from the state of Massachu-
setts. He was a director of the Whitinsville Bank
and president of the Whitinsville Savings Bank.
He was a director of the Providence & Worcester
Railroad Company. He joined the Congregational
Church at Northbridge Centre. December 4, 1831,
and he was one of the original members of the
Congregational Church at Whitinsville, in which he
was a deacon from 1834, at the beginning, until hi.5
death in 1882, though during his last years relieved
from active service. He was superintendent of the
Sunday school for twenty-five years. He was a
constant attendant of the Sunday services and a
liberal supporter of the churcli and its charities.

He married (first). May 30, 1831, Catharine H.
Leland, of Sutton, Massachusetts. She as well as
Mr. Whitin was a lineal descendant of John Dwight,
the pioneer, of Dedham, her grandmother being
Silence Dwight. Their only son reaching maturity
was John Maltbie, born June 10. 1838, died Octo-
ber 22, 1872; married Achsah F. Crane, and adopted
Grace Maria Whitin, who was born October 15,
1863. He was employed in his father's business;
his widow died December 15. 1895. ;\Ir. Whitin's
only daughter, Jeanie W., born January 27, 1834,
married. June 5. 1855, Josiah Lasell. a sketch of
whose family is given elsewhere in this work. Mrs.
Catharine H. Whitin died January 31, 1S73, and he
married (second), January 20, 1875. Sarah Eliza-
beth Pratt, of Hopkinton, Massachusetts.. Their
only child, John C, died in infancy.

(VI) Charles Pinckney Whitin, son of Colonel
Paul Whitin (5), was born August 6, 1809. His
education was obtained in the public schools of his
native town, Northbridge, Jlassachusetts, and at the
Leicester Academy. At the age of sixteen he
taught school acceptably in the stone school house
near Plunmier's Corner. He began at an early age
to work in his father's cotton mill and learn the
business. He continued with his father and brothers
until his twcnty-lirst year, when he went to Willi-
mantic, Connecticut, to fit up and take charge of a
cotton mill. He was called home during his
father's last illness, and after the remained at
Whitinsville and became identified with the growth
and prosperity of the village. He was admitted to
partnership in the firm of P. Whitin & Sons, whicli
had been former in 1826 and in which he had
an interest from the first. He took charge of the
cotton manufacturing of the firm and became an e:x-
pert, recognized throughout the trade as an author-
ity. He superintended the erection of the Stone
Mill in Whitinsville in 1845, the enlargement of
the North Uxbridge Mill in 1847 and 184S and the
erection of the mill at Rockdale in 1856 and 1857.
He took great interest in the improvement of the
Mumford river, devising and building the reservoirs
and dams, which have increased the steadiness and

reliability of the water power so much. Whenever
his brother, John C, who had charge of the ma-
chine shop, was absent his cares and responsibilities
devolved upon him and he was virtually in charge
from April, i860, to January, 1864, while his brother
was engaged in Holyoke.

The firm of P. Whitin & Sons was dissolved
January I, 1864, and Charles P. Whitin took the
cotton mills at Whitinsville and East Douglas,
Massachusetts. The stone mill with a capacity of
seven thousand five hundred spindles was built in
1845 3't Whitinsville. He enlarged the stone mill
in 1865, to thirteen thousand six hundred spindles.
Next year, 1866, his two sons, Edward and William
H.- Whitin, were associated with him in the business
under the name of the Whitinsville Cotton Mill,
and with his brother, James F. Whitin, he built
the Linwood Mill of fifteen thousand spindles
capacity under the firm name of Whitin Brothers.
Ill 1881 he purchased the mill at Saunders-
ville. Since his death the business has been car-
ried on by his three sons, Edward, William H.
and Arthur F. Whitin, who joined the firm in 1S81.
He was eminently practical, quick to discover the
requirements of his business, of great executive
ability and, though not of strong constitution and
though his health was poor especially in his youth,
he was a man of great industry and capacity for
work. He was a man of common sense and good
judgment. In his special department of cotton man-
ufacture it may be doubted if he had a superior.
He was careful but progressive, enterprising and
far-seeing, uniformly prosperous.

He joined the Congregational Church at North-
bridge Centre on his eleventh birthday, August 6,
1820, and for sixty-five years was an active member
of the Congregationali^t denomination. He was
identified with the Congregational Church in
Whitinsville from the first in 1834 and did much
for its prosperity by personal efforts and liberal
contributions. He was generous in charit)'. He was
especially fond of the children and was generally
beloved by the young people who knew him. He
was a Republican in politics and was selectman of
Northbridge in 1852 and representative to the gen-
eral court from his district in 1859. At the time
of his death he was a director of the Douglas Axe
Company and president of the Whitinsville Na-
tional and Savings Banks. He died August 29,
1887.

He married, October 20, 1S34, Sarah Jane Halli-
day. who died December 31, 1891. Their children
were: i. Helen L., born May 29, 1836, died at
Whitinsville, May 9. 1885; married, November 30,
1863, George L. Gibbs. 2. Edward, see forward.
3. William Halliday, see forward. 4. Lewis Fred-
eric, born Januarj- 20, 1844, died September 29,
1904: graduate of Yale, 1S64; assistant paymaster
United States navy. 1864-65 ; dry goods commission
merchant. New York city ; left widow and two
children: Louise and Gladys jMorgan, (Mrs. Thomas
E.) Peters. 5. Arthur Fletcher, see forward.

(VI) James Fletcher Whitin, son of Colonel
Paul Whitm (5), was born in Northbridge, Massa-
chusetts, December 21, 1814. His education was re-
ceived in the public schools there and at the acad-
emies at Uxbridge, Leicester, Monson and Am-
herst, Massachusetts. On the completion of his
schooling he went into the counting room of P.
Whitin & Sons and in a short time was placed in
charge of that department, and remaitied until the

FREDERICK B.WHITIN

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firm was dissolved January i, 1864, having been a
member of the firm after 1847. In the partition of
the bu^^iness among the brothers he liad the mill at
North Uxbridge, known as the Uxbridge Cotton
Mill, which the firm bought in 1849. In 1866 he
and his brother, Charles P. Whitin, built the cotton
mill at Linwood. He manufactured cotton with
great success the remainder of his life. He was a
stanch Republican in politics, and a man of high
character and large influence. He died March 2,
1902.

He married, July 23, 1842, Patience Howard
Saunders, of Grafton, ^lassachusetts. Their chil-
dren: I. George Milnor, born June i, 1849, died at
Whitinsville, January 24. 1883, superintendent cot-
ton mills at North Uxbridge several years. Ide
married, March, 1871, Julia F. Wesson and had
Frederick Eirney, born 1873; selectman -of Ux-
bridge, 1902, Mary Alice, married Charles H. Lar-
kin, of Buffalo, December 19. 1899. Betsey, married,
February 20, 1900, Matthew Percival Whittall, of
Worcester. James Earle, see forward. 2. Albert
H., see forward.

(VH) William Halliday Whitin, son of Charles
P. Whitin (6), was born in Whitinsville, September
5, 1841. His education was received in the schools
of his native town, at Easthampton Academy, where
he prepared for college, and at Yale College, which
he entered in 1859. When he graduated in 1863
he chose his native town for his home and place
of life work. He chose the business of his father,
a cotton manufacturer. He studied the business
carefully and thoroughly, especially the many de-
tails essential to proper economy in production
which is requisite to success in a business in wh.ch
there is such sharp competition. He secured the
esteem and confidence of his fellow manufacturers,
as was manifest in their choice of him and his
service as one of the board of of directors of the
New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association.
He was for twenty-five years superintendent of the
Whitinsville Cotton Mills. At the time of his
death he was agent of these mills, president of the
Saunders Cotton ]\Iills and interested in the cotton
mill at Linwood. He was also a director of the
VVhitinsville National Bank and one of the trustees
of the Whitinsville Savings Bank.

He was elected on the school committee of the
town of Northbridge, of which Whitinsville forms
a part, in 1864, and he remained on the committee
until his death. He was always deeply interested
in and zealous for the improvement and efficiency
of the public schools and he spared no effort or ex-
penditure to promote their welfare. He served the
town also for several years as selectman and for
four years was chairman of the board. As a friend
to all in need and as a helper in every good work
in the community, men learned to trust him and he
never failed them.

His crowning excellence was in his earnest, con-
sistent Christian life and work. While at East-
hampton, he began his confessed Christian life and
united with the church in Whitinsville, May 2,
185S, when but sixteen years old. and he retained his
connection with this church, except during the four
years of his college life, until the day of his death.
From his childhood a member of the Sabbath school,
he became a constant teacher in it as soon as he
rnade his home in Whitinsville again, and he con-
tinued a successful teacher until he was called in
1872 to the superintendeiicy, which he retained to

the end of life. He had no desire for such leader-
ship, but when it came to him by the unanimous-
call of the church he accepted it as a sacred charge
from the Master as well as from the church, and to it
he gave his best energies, his warmest affection, his
untiring eft'orts, his earnest prayers and his con-
sistent example. His great desire was to see its.
members coming into the Christian life and enrolling
themselves among the confessed followers of the
Master whom he loved and served. During all
these years from 1872 he also served the church as
deacon, having special interest in those coming
into the church that they might do it intelligently.
And yet he was tender and considerate of the feeble
ones. He died June 4, 1893.

One who knew him well wrote in the Coitgrc-
gationalist of July 6, 1893: "His most distinguish-
ing trait was his fidelity. In every trust secular or
religious, a promise, whether specific or implied,
was sacred, and if within his power it was kept.
His religious promises were as binding as business
contracts. He accepted all his being with its pow-
ers and opportunities as a steward from the Lord,
and sought to use them for His honor and for the
good of his fellow men. The property that came
under his control he held also and used as a stew-
ard, giving from it discriminatingly, largely and
gladly for the Lord's work in securing the good
of men. He loved to give to worthy objects and he
knew how to refuse and rebuke the unworthy.

"When failing strength compelled him to lay
aside some of his care and labor, it was not the re-
ligious but the secular that he first laid down. In-
deed, he so held on to his religious work until
physically unable to perform it, that friends, not of
the immediate family, had no idea what serious
inroads disease had been making on his stren.gth.
When it became manifest in February of this year
that what had been gradually undermining his
constitution was Bright's disease, resort was had
to a milder climate. But only a temporary relief
was obtained and he came home May 19, evidently
not improved as had been hoped. After a brief
struggle, he breathed out the mortal life peacefully
June 4, on a Sabbath evening. We are assured it
was promotion to which the Master called him,
saying, 'Thou hast been faithful over a few things,
I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter
thou into the joy of thy Lord.'

"Mr. Whitin's character was the normal devel-
opment a godly ancestry, of a training in a home,
where the law and the habit were a reverent fear
of God and a loving interest in men and of a loyal
acceptance on his own part of all the implications
of such ancestry and training. From such ante-
cedents we rightly expect a beautiful childhood, a
filial sonship, a loving and useful manhood, as
friend, citizen and Christian. Jilcn of such character
are a blessing while they are with us and a blessing
in their continued inllucnce and efficiency when
they are transferred to higher service. They are
the aim and the glory of our humanity. J. R. T."

(VII) Charles E. Whitin, son of Paul Whitin,
Jr. (6), was born in Whitinsville, Massachusetts,
September 13, 1828, died there February 8, 1890.
He attended the public schools of his native town,
also the academies at U.xbridge and Leicester. He
began his business career as a hand in his father's
red brick cotton mill. He learned the . methods
and details of cotton manufacturing thoroughly. He
was advanced to a position of responsibility in the

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concern. When the firm of P. Whitin & Sons was
dissolved Charles E. Whitin remained in the cotton
manufacturing business. He became treasurer and
agent of the Paul Whitin Manufacturing Company,
of which his father, Paul Whitin, was president
to the time of his death in 1884. Then Charles E.
Whitin became president and he continued the
progressive policy of his father, increasing both the
business and the mill capacity. He lived at North
U.xbridge from 1849 to 1864. when the change was
made in the Whitin plants. He then took charge of
the mill at Rockdale. After 1864 he resided in
"vVhitinsville, first on Railroad avenue, later m his
father's mansion south of the river, where his sister,
I\liss Annie Whitin, now resides.

Mr. Whitin devoted his whole life to cotton
manufacturing with marked success. He was a man
of exceptional capacity, gifted with the executive
ability and common sense requisite to modern
manufacturing. He built up the business until the
mills under his management and control had a ca-
pacity of twenty-five thousand spindles and required
a floor area of a number of acres. In politics he
was a very active and thoroughly consistent Re-
publican. He held various local ottices and served
his district in the state senate in 1883 with con-
spicuous ability. He was for many years selectman
of the town of Northbridge and a leader in town
affairs. He was a delegate to the Republican Na-
tional Convention in 1872 from his congressional
district.

He was a member of the local lodge of Free
Masons. He was an active member and generous
supporter of the Village Congregational Church.
During the civil war he devoted himself and his
means freely to the support of the Union, helping
the enlistment of troops and leading and influencing
his fellow citizens to do their duty to the end.
Such financial and moral support as men like Mr.
Whitin gave to the government in the civil war
was the primary source of the strength and endur-
ance of the American Republic in its hour of trial
and distress. Men like Mr. Whitin strengthened
the soldiers in the field as well as the president
and others in authority at Washington.

He married Adeline C. Swift, who died Decem-
ber 8. 1902, daughter of Oliver C. and Eliza
(Jenkins) Swift. Their children: George Marston,
see forward; Henry T., see forward; Eliza, Paul,
died at the age of eleven years.

(VHI) Lewis Frederick Whitin, son of Charles
Pinckney Whitin (6), was born in Whitinsville.
January 20, 1844. He passed his boyhood and
young manhood in the place of his birth, but the
greater part of his life was lived in or near New
York city. He attended the Whitinsville schools,
and hten entered upon a college preparatory course
of study at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, from
which he graduated in 1S60 as valedictorian of his
class. He entered Yale College soon after, and
graduated with high honors in the class of 1864,
at the early age of twenty. On his twenty-first
birthday, January 20, 1865, he was appointed acting
assistant paymaster in the United States Navy.
When his appointment to this position was under
contemplation, the Yale professor to whom refer-
ence was made, said Mr. Whitin was capable of
filling any position to which he might be appointed.
After about eleven months' service in tin sposition,
he resigned his commission on November 19, 1865,
and in August, 1865. he entered the firm of Collins,

Atwater & Whitin, dry goods commission merchants
of New York city. The firm name was afterwards
changed to Collins & Whitin, and when Mr. Whitin
became the senior member of the firm in 1878, it
was changed to Whitin & Collins, and remained
so until failing health obliged Mr. Whitin to give
up the cares of business in 1902. Untiring in in-
dustry, progressive, and with great executive ability,
his success was assured from the start, and under
his leadership, Whitin & Collins enjoyed the highest
credit and a large and constantly increasing
patronage.

Mr. Whitin married Miss Lucy Morgan, April
16. 1872. He lived many years at West New Brigh-
ton, Staten Island, but afterwards removed to New
York city. He was a member of the University
Club, also of the Merchants' Club, and at one time
its president. He became a member of the Village
Congregational Church in Whitinsville. September
4. 1859, and in February, 1867, he removed his re-
lationship to the Madison Square Presbyterian
Church, New York city. Mr. Whitin died Thurs-
day evening, September 29, 1904, from Bright's
disease, at the age of sixty years, eight months and
nine days.

(VIII) George Marston Whitin, son of Charles
E. Whitin (7), was born in Whitinsville, Massa-
chusetts, September 11, 1856. He attended the pub-
lic schools of his native town and graduated from
the Whitinsville high school in 1872. He studied
at Williston Academy at East Hampton, i\Iassa-
chusetts. He then worked for three years in the
cottcfn mills at Rockdale, New Bedford and other
places with the purpose of getting a thorough
knowledge of cotton manufacturing in every de-
partment, from top to bottom. He obtained some
skill in the various trades employed in the cotton
mill and became a practical operative himself. He
was then placed in charge of the Riverdale Cotton
mill which he conducted for about three years. He
came from the Riverdale mill to the Whitin IMa-
chine Works at Whitinsville and was made assistant
superintendent, and later, in 1885, he became assis-
tant treasurer. When the president of the company,
Josiah Lasell, his father-in-law. died in 1886, he
was elected treasurer to succeed him, and during
most of the time since then he has been the active
manager of the works as well as director and treas-
urer of the corporation. What the company has
achieved in recent years and how it has developed
the village in connection with the other Whitin
enterprises is told in another place.

Mr. Whitin has had time for few interests out-
side of the corporation of which he is treasurer.
He is a Free Mason, a member of the Whitins-
ville Lodge and of Worcester County Commandery,
Knights Templar. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a member of various manufacturers' clubs
and associations, of the L^nion and Algonquin Clubs
of Boston, of the Grafton Country Club. He is a
member of the Village Congregational Church at
Whitinsville.

He married. October I. T879. Catharine Whitin
Lasell. born at Whitinsville, March 10, 1856. daugh-
ter of Josiah and Jennie (Whitin) Lasell (See
sketch of Lasell family). She was educated in the
public schools of Whitinsville, graduating from
the high school in 1S72 in the same class with Mr.
Whitin. She took a two-year course at Bradford
Academy and one ve.ir in a private school in Brook-
lyn. New York. " Their children: i. Elizabeth

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Klock, born November 27, 1880, educated in the
Spence School of New York city and at Smith
College, where she was graduated in 1902; married
Jtme I, 1905, Lawrence Murray Keeler, son of
Julius and Julia Keeler, of San Francisco, Cali-
fornia; graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts; has been salesman for the Whitin
Machine Works, appointed agent in 1906 to succeed
Mr. Taft, who retired; they have one child. Mars-
ton Whitin Keeler, born April 28, 1906. 2. Elsa,
born August 7, 1884, educated in the Spence School.
3. Katharine Leiand, born October 13, 1887, student
in Smith College. 4. Lois Haven, born March 31,
1896, student at Spence School.

(VIII) Henry T. Whitin, son of Charles E.
Whitin (7), was born at North Uxbridge, Massa-
chusetts. He was educated in the public schools
and at the Highland Military Academy at Worces-
ter. He began as an apprentice in Whitin Machine
Works and learned the various branches of the busi-
ness. He then went into his father's mill at Rock-
dale and learned the business of making cotton
goods with the machinery he studied in the works.
He became the superintendent of the mill and fin-
ally treasurer of the Paul Whitin Manufacturing
Company. He has been very active and successful
in business. He is a member of the local lodge of
Free Masons and of the Worcester County Com-
mandery. Knights Templar. He is a member of the
Tatnuck and Grafton Country Clubs. He is best
known outside the textile business in the vicinity
of Whitinsville and Rockdale for his connection
with the Republican party. He is chairman of the
Republican town committee of Northbridge and
an active and earnest supporter of Republican poli-
cies and candidates. He has served the town for
many years as selectman and in other positions of
trust and responsibility.

He married Cora Berry, daughter of Scotto
Berry, whose ancestor settled in Framingham,
Massachusetts, among the early settlers. Their
children: i. Paul, born September 22, 1876, assist-
ant treasurer of Paul Whitin Manufacturing Co.

2. Florence, born 187S, married Theophilus Par-
sons, of Hempstead, Long Island; have two chil-
dren: Theophilus, Jr. and Paul Whitin Parsons.

3. Marion Lovett, resides at home. 4. Marjorie
Swift, resides at home. 5. Richard Courtney.

Cyil) Albert H. Whitin, son of James F'letcher
Whitin (6), was educated in the public schools of
his native town. Mr. Whitin preferred the study
of art and literature to business and has devoted
much of his time to this purpose. He spends a
l^rge part of his time abroad. He is an Episco-
palian in religion. He has never married.

(VII) James Earle Whitin, son of George
Whitin (7), and grandson of James Fletcher Whitin
(6), was born in North Uxbridge, Massachusetts,
August 14, 1879. He attended the public schools
of his native town and St. Mark's School at South-
borough, Massachusetts. He graduated at Phil-
lips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and finished
his education with a course at the Philadelphia
Textile School. In 1900 he entered his grand-
father's mill at North Uxbridge (Rogerson Village)
and started to learn the fundamental principles of
cotton manufacturing. He passed from one depart-
ment to another, mastering one by one the prob-
lems of the work and the details of the business,
and has recently been elected president and treas-

urer of the corporation. He belongs to the Winter
Club and Auto Club of Worcester.

He married, June 6, 1905, in Worcester, Edge-
worth P. Whittall, daughter of Matthew J. Whit-
tall, the carpet manufacturer.

THE VILLAGE OF WHITINSVILLE. In
that part of the town of Northbridge, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, which lies not far from
Uxbridge and Douglas, is the village of Whitins-
ville, constituting in wealth and population the most
important part of the town. It was about 1828 that
the name was given by the postofifice department to
the thriving settlement located at the falls of the
Manchaug or Mumford river; being given in honor
of the family which was then, as it has continued
to be, the essential part of the economic, political
and social life of the community. The founder of
the family and of the industry which called the
village into being was Colonel Paul Whitin, who
was born in Roxbury, but came to Worcester county
with his mother at an early age. His mother was
a niece of David Draper, of Uxbridge, at whose
home she presumably met her second husband. The
story of the establishment of the Whitin indus-
tries will be given under the sketches of Colonel
Whitin, his sons and grandsons. The following
sketch of the business and the village is from the
October number of the "Engineering Magazine" for
1896.

"The history of the Whitin concern as here
sketched, gives strong indications of the <Whitin
characteristics of fair dealing and consideration of
the rights of others, which alone could make the
long continued and amicable association of Colonel
Paul Whitin and his sons, and their sons and their
sons' sons, so that now the fourth generation of the
family is in control of the great business which has
grown up from small beginnings in the little iron
works at the falls of Mumford river at the place
commonly called Masconsapong. Except in its fierce
and uncompromising disapproval of Medford rum
and all allied beverages which make it impossible
to alleviate a nineteenth-century normal thirst in
Whitinsville of to-day by open purchase, the Whitin
character is marked by a spirit of broad toleration
in all directions — a full and generous interpreta-
tion of the rights of others, no matter how inde-
pendent their position, or how feeble their powers
for the maintenance of those rights.

"The one other marked trait of the Whitin
character is a love of beautiful surroundings, which
found expression in the castellated architecture of
the 1847 shops, the half-oetagon eastern end of the
"New Shop" of 1864. fine terracing and landscape
effects produced on the south end of the hill, just
across the road north of the shops and in full view
of the shop windows on that side, and in the streets
and public buildings of the town. The natural
beauties of Whitinsville were very great, and they
have been preserved and added to by irregular
streets, ornamental stone retainin.g walls and bridges,
and the preservation of trees, which our simian an-
cestry makes us ever regard as symbols of home
and rest, so that Whitinsville is everywhere pleas-
ing to the eye of the beholder. * * *

"Thi; Whitin concern owns a very large amount
of land, and has about six hundred tenements, us-
uallv in the form of double dwellings rented to
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for a five-room tenement to $14 per month for an
eight or ten room detached cottage. Their tenement
district extends along the bank of the pond and
rises on the foot of the hill. The location is beau-
tiful, and in many cases the occupants maintain
flower beds ; in most cases, however, exterior adorn-
ment is neglected. (An inspection of the mill
houses in 1906 gives a contrary impression. Almost
every house has its rambler rose and shrubs ; some
have been made very attractive, and the back yards
with their vegetable plots and flower gardens are
seen everywhere.) The pond and surrounding hills
give a beautiful outlook. The air is pure and cool ;
the water supply is a gravity system from two large
springs of great purity, and belongs to the com-
pany. It is the rule for workmen to marry, and
children are abundant, healthy and happy.

"The nearest approach to a strike in the Whitin
shops occurred when the ten-hour law was passed
in Massachusetts. The workmen asked for the ten-
hour day from the members of the Whitin family
at that time in charge, and it was given them, with
the information that the works would be fenced
in, and provided with locked gates. The working
hours had been nominally eleven ; if a workman
•was five or ten minutes late it was not noticed,
and, if a man wanted a piece of pie in the forenoon,
he simply walked out of the shop to his house after
it. The mail came to the little postoffice across the
road from the works at five in the afternoon, add,
of course, nothing was more reasonable than that
a workman should go over to the office tO' see if
he had any important letters. There were fish in
the pond and fur' and feathers on the hill about
Whitinsville, and in the old days many of the
hands took their guns to the shop with them, and
a flock of ducks in the pond, or even a musk rat
swimming across, was the signal for a sporting
expedition. The ten hour day with the locked
gates made such a change in affairs that some of
the old hands were broken-hearted and resigned
their places, and the management obtained much
better results from a day's labor than ever before.

"The ten-hour day incident was the only one in
the whole time of four generations of Whitin man-
agement that caused any hands to leave the shop,
and in this case there was not the remotest approach
to a strike. The old hands who quit simply could
not brook the idea of a locked gate. There has
never been any formal recognition of the 'rights'
of the workmen, and, in point of fact, the Whitin
management is simply a despotism, with power to
banish any objectionable person. Whitinsville has
five or six thousand inhabitants — perhaps more.
Statistics were unobtainable. The industries are :
The Whitin Machine Works, Whitinsville Cotton
Mill, controlled (at present 1906) by Edward and
Arthur F. Whitin, Whitinsville Spinning Ring Com-
pany ; Paul Whitin Manufacturing Company and
Linwood Cotton Mill. All of these concerns are
controlled by the Whitin family and its branches,
and no workman not approved by the Whitin in-
terests could remain in the place. There is no
drink sold openly, or to the knowledge of the
Whitins. Schools are excellent, $80,000 having been
expended on school buildings recently (^and a very
beautiful and artistic high school building has just
been completed, half the cost being paid by two
members of the family) : there is a free night school
for adults, which has from eighty to one hundred
pupils during the winter months. There -ire numer-

ous Protestant churches, and a large Roman Cath-
olic church.

"The Whitin Memorial Building, a gift from
representatives of the family to the town, contains
fine assembly rooms, a well-selected circulating
library, a music room, and the needful rooms for
the transaction of town business.

"The Whitinsville Savings Bank has a total of
$633,000 deposits, ntJiinly to the credit of the work-
men employed in the various manufactories con-
ducted by tiie Whitin family and its branches. The
exact amount of deposits to the credit of the iron
works hands could not be obtained, but it is a large
sum. From 1835 to 1865 the iron works borrowed
the savings of its workmen at six per cent com-
pound interest, renewing its notes in April of each
year with interest added. This arrangement was
closed before the establishment of the savings bank,
which pays four per cent on deposits.

"There is no theatre in the place, nor is there
an objectionable resort. A few only of the machine
works employees own their houses — perhaps one
hundred and fifty all told. Churches, secret so-
cieties, Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias,
the Order of Red Men, the Musical Society of
Whitinsville and cycle clubs furnish the social dis-
tractions. The labor at the machine works includes
a considerable number of Armenians and some
Turks ; the Armenians recently demanded the dis-
charge of the Turks, and when this was refused
about forty of the Armenians left. This was purely
a race matter.

"The harmony existing between master and man
at the Whitin Machine Works is due to the beauti-
ful and healthful and comfort-giving environment,
to the heredity of obedience and confidence trans-
mitted from generation to generation of workers
under one management, and the Whitin sense of
justice and the employer's duty to protect the de-
fenceless. The workmen are happily situated, their
children are robust and their wives are contented.
Wages are low. but rents are low, and there is no
car fare to pay or drinking places to rob the work-
man's family of his earnings : and the work is such
that a man must be wholly decrepit before he can-
not produce a fair daily output. There are over
a hundred workmen who have been more than
twenty-five years in the shop. * * * It is quite
the rule for sons to follow the fathers into the
shops ^nd some names appear on the pay rolls
continuously from the first until now.

"The original fifty or sixty horse power of the
falls of the "Mumford river has been increased by
an extended reservoir system to four hundred horse
power. This is supplemented by seven hundred
horse power of steam. The floor acreage is almost
continually being extended and the reputation of
the Whitin cotton machinery is of the highest;
all of the work produced is as good as the shop
knows how to make ; improvements in design are
constantly produced, and there is a disposition to
increase their weight, and to substitute iron for
wood in framing: and to replace the light old tools
with heavier modern patterns. The shop is a credit
to the countrv, because of its mechanical ability,
and to humanity beca'.tse of unremitting application
of the wisdom of its managers to the betterment of
the living conditions of its workmen."

TAIMES FREEMAN DANA GARFIELF), son
of Elisha and Bathsheba (Egerton) Garfield, was

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bom at Langdon, Sullivan county, New Hampshire,
August 14, 1828, betng the youngest of thirteen
children who lived to the age of maturity.

His early boyhood was passed upon his father's
farm, attending the district school a mile and a half
distant, during terms of ten to twelve weeks each,
winter and summer. For the sake of better school
advantages, at the age of eleven years, he was per-
mitted to leave his early home to reside with an
elder brother, then a prosperous merchant at Keese-
ville, Essex county, New York. Here, from the age
of twelve to fifteen, he attended the Keeseville
Academy, working out of school hours and during
vacations in the village store. At school he was
awarded the highest prize for excellence in English
exercises. He returned to New Hampshire when
fifteen years old and worked for a year at Alstead,
learning the printer's trade in the office of the Amer-
ican Citizen. Leaving Alstead in April, 1846, he
went to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where for the
next three years he worked at his trade in the office
of the Fitchburg Sentinel, attending school at inter-
vals at the Fitchburg Academy. Lawrence Academy,
Groton, and at Leicester Academy. From 1849 to
1852 he worked at prmting in the office of Henry J.
Howland, of Worcester, as foreman of the book
printing department, at the same time having charge
of the bookkeeping of the establishment.

In 1852 Mr. Garfield returned to Fitchburg, and
bought the half interest of John Garfield in the
Fitcliburg (weekly) Sentinel, of which John Garfield
was himself the founder in 1838. The other half
of the business was owned by Elisha Garfield, an
older brother. The paper was published for eight
years under this management, James F. D. Garfield
being the editor, and also manager of the print-
ing department. It should be said that the Sentinel
has been the leading weekly and daily newspaper in
Fitchburg, practically all the time since it was
founded in 1838, It was owned and managed by the'
Garfield family from its first issue, except during
the forties, until 1871. It is now a prosperous daily
and weekly, with an extensive job printing depart-
ment, the daily issue dating from 1873.

When Mr. Garfield retired from the newspaper
in i860 he sold his interest to the senior partner,
Elisha Garfield, and after a residence of three or
four years in Boston, Massachusetts, and Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, working at his trade, he returned to
Fitchburg and entered into partnership in April,
1864, with John P. Sabin in the retail coal business.
At the end of the yearr Mr. Sabin left the firm and
was succeeded by William O. Brown. In April,
1866, George N. Proctor bought jNIr. Brown's inter-
est, and the firm name became Garfield & Proctor.
Their office was at 23 Water street, near the pres-
ent location of the New Park block. From the first
this firm took the lead in their line of traffic, and the
coal business gradually grew to be an important
factor in the commercial interests of the growing
city of Fitchburg.

The completion of the Hoosac tunnel in 1875
opened a large area for the sale of coal at whole-
sale, by all-rail shipment, and Garfield & Proctor
were quick to avail themselves of its advantages.
They received the first coal shipped through the
tunnel, direct from the mines, by all-rail transpor-
tation to eastern ]\Iassachusetts, and soon succeeded
in building up a large wholesale trade on the tunnel
line. In 1876 the firm secured extensive wharf ac-
commodations at New Bedford, with facilities for

discharging and storing coal, whereby they were
enabled to extend their business as shippers and
wholesale dealers throughout southeastern ^lassa-
chusetts.

The firm of Garfield & Proctor continued as a
copartnership until 1888, when the business was in-
corporated under the name of the Garfield & Proctor
Coal Company, and the wholesale department of the
business was soon afterw"ard transferred from Fitch-
burg to Boston, where it is still carried on; while
the retail business was continued in Fitchburg un-
til 1896, when it was sold to the Union Coal Com-
pany, of which John Thompson became manager
and George N. Proctor president. For thirty years
the name of Garfield & Proctor had been a familiar
one on the streets of Fitchburg, and the firm had
held an honorable position among the business in-
terests of the city. When the Garfield & Proctor
Coal Company was incorporated in 1S88 Mr. Gar-
field became a director and served as its president
till 1893, when declining further service as presi-
dent, he was succeeded by George N. Proctor, who
served in that capacity until igo6, W'hen he disposed
of his interest in the company, and Mr. Garfield
again accepted the position of president. William
E. Macurda has been treasurer of the company from
its incorporation, and other directors have been W.
M. W. Spring, who sold his interest in 1905, and
Wendell F. Pray, who has also been with the com-
pany from its incorporation.

iMr. Garfield has various other business interests.
He has been a director in the Orswell (cotton) Mill
Company of Fitchburg from its incorporation in
1887, is also a director in the Nockage (cotton)
Mill Company of Fitchburg, and was for several
years president of the Sawyer Tool Manufacturing
Company of that city. He is a director and treas-
urer of the Brown Bag Filling Machine Company,
a corporation for the manufacture of an ingenious
machine for the packcting of seeds. These machines
are leased to the various seed companies throughout
the country for use in packeting their seeds for mar-
ket. By the use of this device the Brown Company
have been able to secure important contracts with the
United States department of agriculture for putting
up seeds for the annual congressional seed distri-
bution. Mr. Garfield is a director in the Safety
Fund National Bank of Fitchburg, a position which
he has held since 1881. Fie was elected trustee of
the Worcester North Savings Institution in 1S88,
and has served on the board of investment from that
time. He was elected vice-president of the same
institution in 1892, on the death of Hon. Harris
C. Flartwell, and president in 1899, to succeed Hon.
Amasa Norcross, since which time he has been at
the head of the institution.

At the municipal election in 1S81 ISIr. Garfield
was elected a member of the school board of Fitch-
burg; was re-elected in 1884, and again in 1895, i"
each case for the term of three years, and has always
taken a keen interest in educational affairs. He
was alderman for ward four in 1886 and 1887, dur-
ing the latter year being president of the board. He
represented Fitchburg in the general court in 1887,
his colleague being Joseph S. Wilson. He has been
a Republican in politics from the formation of that
party, having been previously allied with the old
Whig party.

He is interested in history and genealogy and was
one of the founders, and for ten years secretary of
the Fitchburg Historical Societv, and later vice-

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president and librarian. He is the author of "Walker
and Egerton Genealogy," first published in Chand-
ler's History of Shirley (1883) "Journalism in
Fitchburg." first published in Emerson's "Fitch-
burg Past and Present" (1887), and of the
following papers read before the Fitchburg Histor-
ical Society and published in the "Proceedings"
of that society, 1895 : "Fitchburg's Response
to the Lexington Alarm," "Lunenburg and
Leominster in the Revolution," "Ebenezer Bridge.
Leader of the Fitchburg Minute Men," "Pioneer
Printers of Fitchburg," and "Early Fire Service of
Fitchburg." He also edited the first three volumes
of the Fitchburg Historical Society's "Proceedings."
Mr. Garfield is a life member of the New Eng-
laad Historic Genealogical Society, a corresponding
member of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, a
life member of the American Unitarian Association,
and a member of the National Geographic Society.
His religious connections have been with the First
Parish (Unitarian) Church of Fitchburg, in which
society he has been active and helpful.

During his residence in Worcester, Mr. Garfield
was a member of the military organization known
as the Worcester City Guard, and after his return
to Fitchburg in 1852, was for five years a member
of the Fitchburg Fusiliers, serving as clerk of the
company. He is well known in the Masonic organ-
izations of Fitchburg, being an honorary member of
both Charles W. Moore Lodge and Thomas Royal
Arch Chapter, and an active member of Jerusalem
Commandery. Knights Templar.

Mr. Garfield married, December i, 1853, Emily
Charlotte Newton, daughter of Captain Martin and
Susan (Chamberlain) Newton, of Fitchburg. Cap-
tain Newton was a pioneer in cotton manufacturing
in Fitchburg, he having commenced spinning cotton
yarn in 1810, and for two years later erected cotton
factories in what is now Newton Place, where he
made the first cotton cloth woven by machinery in
the town. The buildings are still standing, though
used for other purposes. Captain Newton was a son
of Nathan and Polly (Nichols) Newton, of South-
boro, Massachusetts, grandson of Nathan and Lydia
(Hager) Newton, great-grandson of Jonathan and
Bethia (Rice) Newton. Jonathan was son of
Moses and Joanna (Larkin) Newton, and grandson
of Richard Newton, the emigrant, who settled in
that part of Marlboro, which many years later
(1726) became the town of Southboro.

Mrs. Garfield died January 27, 1903, at the age of
seventy-one years, ' her married life lacking less
than a year of reaching the golden anniversary. A
woman of refinement and rare gentleness of char-
acter, she was a devoted wife and mother. After
a life crowned with usefulness the memory of her
virtues and many good qualities is treasured as a
rich inheritance by surviving friends. The children
of James F. D. and Emily C. Garfield were: Char-
lotte Gertrude, born July 7, 1856, died October 11,
1859. Emma Susie, born June 2. 1861, married.
October 9, 1882, William Ashley Blodgett, son of
'Warren Kendall and Minerva (Paddock) Blodgett,
of Boston. They reside in Lincoln. Massachusetts,
and have had three children : Emily Louise, born
July 6. 1883; Margaret Paddock, born November 21,
1885 : Helen Newton, born August 19, 1887, died
Alarch 28, 18R9. Mary Louise, born October i. 1863.
Fdnnuid Dana, born October 12. 1866. Theresa
Newton, born February 18, 1879. The Garfield fam-
ily are of undoubted Puritan ancestry.

(I) Edward Garfield, the emigrant ancestor of
James Freeman Dana Garfield, of F'itchburg, was
born in England about 1675. It has been difficult for
genealogists to believe that the long career of this
emigrant belongs to one and the same man, and in
some cases he is given a hypothetical son by the
same name. Edward Garfield was a proprietor of
Watertown, ^Massachusetts, and was admitted a free-
man May 6, 1635. His wife Rebecca, the mother of
all his children, died April 16, 1661, aged about
fifty-five years. He married (second) Joanna,
widow of Thomas Buckminster. Edward Garfield
died June 14, 1672, aged about ninety-seven years.
His will was dated December 30, 1668, and proved
August II, 1672. He bequeathed to his sons Samuel,
Joseph, and Benjamin Garfield; daughters Rebecca
Mixer and Abigail Garfield, grandchildren Sarah
Parkhurst and Sarah and Ephraim Garfield, and
to his wife. The children of Edward and Rebecca

Garfield were: Samuel, married Susanna , who

died May 2, 1652: he married (second), September
28, 1652, Mary Benfield. He settled in Lancaster,
and had descendants who settled in Shrewsbury and
vicinity. Edward, born in England, a proprietor of
Watertown, died before his father. Joseph, born in
Watertown. September 11, 1637, admitted a freeman
April 18, 1690, died August 14, 1691 ; married Sarah
Gale. Rebecca, born March 10, 1641, died March
16, 1683 ; married, January 10, 1662, Isaac !Mixer,
Jr. She died March 16, 16S3. Benjamin, born 1643,
admitted a freeman April 18, 1690; died November
28, 1717, aged seventy-four years. Abigail, born
June 2g, 1646, married about 1670, John Parkhurst,
and died October 18, 1726. Edward Garfield was
selectman in 1638. His son, Edward Garfield, proba-
bly was selectman in 1655 and 1662. The son Ed-
ward may, however, have died early, as there is no
trace of his descendants or children.

(II) Benjamin Garfield, son of Edward Gar-
field (l), was born in Watertown,. Massachusetts,
1643, and died there November 28, 1717. He repre-
sented Watertown nine years in the general court
between 1689 and 1717. He received numerous
municipal appointments. He was a selectman in
1689 and 1692, and was prominent in the church as
well as the town government, and was captain of
the militia company of Watertown.

He married (first) Mehitable Hawkins, daugh-
ter of Timothy Hawkins. She died December g,
1675. He married (second), January 17, 1678, Eliza-
beth Bridge, daughter of Matthew and Anna (Dan-
forth) Bridge, and granddaughter of Deacon John
Bridge, of Cambridge, who came from England with
Hooker's company in 1633. John Bridge was one
of the few that remained at Cambridge when Hooker
removed to Hartford. A bronze statue to his mem-
ory has been erected on Cambridge coinmon. Cap-
tain Benjamin Garfield died November 28, 1717.
His widow, Elizabeth, married (second), October
25. 1720. Daniel Harrington, of Lexington. She was
born .\ugust 17. 1659. The children of Benjamin
and Mehitable (Hawkins) Garfield were: Benja-
min, born May 8, 1674. Benoni, born December 4,
1675, died July 25, 1725 ; married Abigail Stearns ;
she died July i3,'i7lo. The children of Benjamin
and Elizabeth (Bridge) Garfield were: Elizabeth,
born June 30. 1679, died September 25, 1700. Thomas,
bom December 12, 1680, of Weston. Anna, born
June 2, 1683, married, 1703, Deacon Benjamin
Brown, of Weston ; had eleven children. She died
September 13. 1737. Abigail, born July 13. 1685.

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Mehitable, born December 7, 1687, married, Decem-
ber 8, 1714, John Jones, of Weston. They had nine
children. Samuel, born September 3, 1690. .Mary,
born October 2, 1695.

UII) Lieutenant Thomas Garfield, son of Cap-
tain Benjamin Garfield (.2), was born in Watertown,
December 12, 1680, and died in Weston, February
4, 1752. He was an ancestor of President James A.
Garfield, through Thomas Garfield, his eldest
son. He married, January 2, 1707, Mercy
Bigelow, who was born 1686, and died Feb-
ruary 28, 1745. He died February 4, 1752. He
was a farmer in that part of Weston, which wab
set off in 1654 and incorporated as the town oi
Lmcoln. His wife Mercy was a daughter of Sam-
uel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow. Samuel Bigelow,
born October 28, 1653, died February I, 1732, was
son of John Bigelow, the emigrant ancestor of the
Bigelows in America, and Mary (Warren) his wife.
The latter was the daughter of John Warren (1585-
1667), who came from England in 1630 and settled
in Watertown. The marriage of John Bigelow and
Mary Warren is the first on record in Watertown.
Mary (Flagg) Bigelow, wife of Samuel Bigelow,
was a daughter of Thomas Flagg, who died in
Watertown, February 6, 1698. She, Mary (Flagg)
Bigelow, died September 7, 1720. The children of
Thomas and Mercy (Bigelow) Garfield were: Eliza-
beth, born August 10, 1708, died January 31, 1782;
married, September i, 1738, Samuel Brooks, of Con-
cord, JNIassachusetts. Eunice, born August 23, 1710,
died October 4, 1777; married Ebenezer Hobbs, of
Weston, and had eleven children. He died Octo-
ber 19. 1762. Thomas, baptized April 5. 1713, aged
five weeks, died in Lincoln, January 3, 1774; mar-
ried, 1742, Rebecca Johnson, daughter of Sanniel
Johnson, of Lunenburg. They had five children, of
whom the eldest, Solomon, was ancestor of Presi-
dent Garfield. Thankful, born February 15, 1715,
married, November 28, 1751, John W'alker, of Wes-
ton (his second wife) ; two children. Isaac, born
F'ebruary 19, 1717. He removed to western Massa-
chusetts in 1739 and commenced the settlement of
Tyringham, Berkshire county, in which section there
are numerous descendants. John, born December 3,
1718, died i\Iay, 1767; married, 1745, Thankful
Stowell, born 1722, two children. Samuel, born
April II, 1720, settled in Spencer, Massachusetts, in
1748. Mercy, born June 17, 1722, married, I7S6,
Ebenezer Hammond, of Weston, second wife. Anna
born June i, 1724, married, 1749, Josiah Livermore,
of Leicester.^ Lucy, born October 5, 1725. Elisha,
born November 11, 1728, married, November 15,
1753, Susanna Beniis, had eleven children; resided
in Lincoln. Enoch, born January 23, 1730, died
June 19, 1758.

(IV) Samuel Garfield, son of Lieutenant Thomas
Garfield (3), was born in Weston (that part now
Lincoln, Massachusetts), April II, 1720, and died
in Spencer, June 12, 1792. He was an officer in
the Indian war of 1744, .and fought under General
Abercronibie in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758.
He had three sons in the revolutionary war, and
aided the patriot cause by contributions of money to
encourage enlistments. He settled in the northerly
part of what is now Spencer (formerly Leicester,
Massachusetts), in 1748, on the farm where some
years ago his grandson, Joseph Garfield, lived, and
where his descendants of the third and fourth gen-
eration still reside. Draper's History of Spencer
refers to him as "a large athletic man. formerly

well recollected for his sallies of wit, feats o£
strength and cheerful disposition." The following
anecdote may serve as a specimen of his great
strength. Mr. Garfield being at the store of Colonel
Chandler in Worcester, was inquiring the price
of a grindstone that he wished to purchase. Mr.
Garfield thought the price too high for so small
a stone, and banteringly said he could carry it home
on his back. "Well,' says Colonel Chandler, "the
stone weighs two hundred pounds ; if you will carry
It to Spencer without taking it from your shoulder
you shall have it free." The challenge was ac-
cepted, the stone placed upon his shoulder and he
literally complied with the bargain, carrying the
stone to Spencer without removing it from his
shoulders. He was one of the selectmen in 1745,
when Leicester and Spencer were one town.

Samuel Garfield was twice married; (first),
April 17, 1751, to Hannah Garfield, of Waltham, by
whom he had o"ne daughter, Hannah, born July 18,
1755, and (second), May 27, 1756, to Abigail Peirce,
of Holden, by whom he had eleven children. His
second wife, Abigail Peirce, born September 22,
^7iit was a descendant in the fifth generation from
Thomas Peirce, an early settler of Woburn, who
married Elizabeth Cole ; through Samuel Peirce,
who married Lydia Bacon; Samuel Peirce, Jr., who
married Abigail Johnson ; and Samuel Peirce, third,
who married Abigail . Lydia Bacon, who mar-
ried Samuel Peirce, was daughter of Daniel and
Mary (Reed) Bacon, of Newton. Abigail Johnson,
who married Samuel Peirce, Jr., was a daughter of
Major William Johnson, of Woburn, and grand-
daughter of Captain Edward Johnson, author of
the curious history entitled "Wonder Working
Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England,"
published in London in 1654. Major William John-
son married Esther Wiswall, born 1635, died 1707,
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wiswall, of
Newton, Massachusetts.

Samuel Garfield had twelve children, all born in
Spencer. Hannah, by first wife, born July 18, 1755,
married, 1794, Daniel Spear, had two children. His
children by second wife Abigail Peirce were : Sam-
uel, born March 5, 1757, married, 1783, Sally Harris,
died in Langdon, New Hampshire, November 10,
1842 ; they had twelve children. Joseph, born Sep-
tember 19, 1758, married, 1790, Elizabeth Myrick,
of Princeton; died in Spencer, June 10, 1836. He
had six children. Daniel, born September 29, 1760,
married, 1788, Dorothy Myrick, of Princeton; died
in FitzwiUiam, New Hampshire, August 18, 1790.
They had one child. These three sons, Samuel, Jo-
seph and Daniel, were revolutionary soldiers. Sam-
uel as one of the Spencer minute men, marched on
the alarm from Lexington, April 19, 1775, and en-
listed into the service. Joseph and Daniel were
at ihe capture of Burgoyne's army 1777, and Jo-
seph was at West Point at time of Arnold's treason.
Josiah, born October 12, 1762. married Polly Ball,
had five children ; died in Charlestown, New Hamp-
shire, j\lay 15, 185 1. He w-as a tanner. Abi-
gail, born August 28, 1764, married, 1789,
Phillips Bailey, and died October 13, 1798, at
Readsboro, Vermont, had one child . Enoch,
born September 28, 1766, married, 1796, Martha
Powers, resided in Rockingham, Vermont; had
eight children; died April 30, 1844. Elisha, born
April 25, 1769. was twice married, had fourteen chil-
dren, and died in Langdon, New Hampshire, Janu-
ary 6, 1856. John, born July 26, 1771, married, 1800,

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Susan Rogers, had eight children ; died in Charles-
town, New Hampshire, July 5, 1842. Elizabeth, born
September 15, 1773, married, 1799, Isaac Osgood,
had six children ; died in Littleton, New Hampshire.
Silas, born January ig, 1776, was thrice married;
had three children, and died April 22, 1829, in
Spencer. William, born February 18, 1778, died April
23, same year.

(V) Elisha Garfield, son of Samuel Garfield
(4), was born in Spencer, April 25, 1769, died in
Langdon, New Hampshire, January 6, 1856. He
was a selectman of Langdon in 1818 and 1819, and
held other minor offices. He married (first) Polly,
daughter of John and Jane D. Vance, by whom he
had ten children, only four of whom lived to j-ears
of maturity. He married (second), December 26,
1820, Bathsheba (Egerton) Stearns, widow of Cap-
tain Benjamin Stearns, of Langdon, and daughter
of James and Bathsheba (Walker) Egerton. James
Egerton was a son of John and Abigail (Snow)
Egerton, and grandson of Dennis and Experience
(Bearce) Egerton, of East Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts. Experience Bearce was a daughter of James
and Experience (Hamlin) Bearce, and grand-
daughter of Austin Bearce. Bathsheba (Walker)
Egerton was a descendant in the sixth generation
from Captain Richard Walker, of Lynn (who came
from England in 1630), through Samuel of Reading,
Joseph of Billerica (who married Sarah Wyman),
Seth of Groion (who married Eleanor Chandler),
and Samuel of Shirley (who 'married jNIary Strat-
ton). Sarah Wyman was a daughter of John and
Sarah (Nutt) Wyman, of Woburn. Eleanor Chand-
ler, who married Seth Walker, was a daughter of
William and Eleanor (Phelps) Chandler, and grand-
daughter of Thomas Chandler, a .first settler, inn-
keeper and proprietor of iron works in Andover,
jMassachusetts. Abigail Snow, who married John
Egerton, was a daughter of James and Ruth (Shaw)
Snow, granddaughter of Joseph and Hopestill
( ) Snow, of East Bridgewater, and great-grand-
daughter of William and Rebecca (Barker) Snow,
of West Bridgewater, emigrants. Rebecca Barker
was a daughter of Robert Barker, a settler of Dux-
bury, I^Iassachusetts. Ruth Shaw, who married
James Snow, was daughter of Joseph and Judith
(Whitmash) Shaw, of Weymouth, granddaughter
of John and Alice ( ) Shaw, and great-grand-
daughter of Abraham Shaw, of Dedham, who in
1637 had a .grant by the general court of "one-half
of the coal and iron to be found in the common
lands;" — which grant (says Savage), would "more
stimulate his curiosity than increase his wealth, had
he not died the next year." Mary Stratton, who
married Samuel Walker, was a daughter of Eben-
ezer and Lydia (Fuller) Stratton, of Watertown,
granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Traine)
Stratton, and great-granddaughter of Samuel Strat-
ton, who died in Watertown in 1672. Elizabeth
Traine was daughter of John and Margaret (Dix)
Traine, w-ho came from England in 1635 and set-
tled in that part of Watertown now Weston, where
he died in 1681, aged seventy years. Lydia Fuller,
who married Ebenezer Stratton. was daughter of
Joseph and Lydia (Jackson) Fuller, of Newton,
granddaughter of John Fuller, one of the first set-
tlers of Cambridge village (Newton). Lydia Jack-
son was a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (New-
gate) Jackson. Edward Jackson and John Fuller
were early settlers and large land owners of Cam-
bridge village, Fuller owning upwards of a thousand

acres, including what is now Newtonville, and Jack-
son, at time of his death in 1681, upwards of six-
teen hundred acres. Elizabeth Newgate, wife of
Edward Jackson, was daughter of John Newgate
and widow of Rev. John Oliver, first minister of
Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea.

The children of Elisha Garfield by first wife,
Polly Vance (who lived to adult age), were: Elisha,
born January i, 1802, married, June 8, 1826, Harriet
Walker, of Langdon. He died October 25, 1873;
she died August 14, 1896; six children. Mary, born
April 14, 1804, married, November 30, 1830, Ezra
Walker Reed, of Langdon ; died in Fitchburg, Oc-
tober 14, 1832; he died in Fitchburg, January 9, 1841.
No children. Betsey, born September 5, 1810, mar-
ried, November 30, 1830, Thomas Rcdington
Prentiss, of Langdon; died in Alstead, New Hamp-
shire, April 27, 1839. He died September 27, 1879;
four children. John, born April 10, 1815, married,
}ilay 9, 1S50, Mary Jane King, of Acworth, New
Hampshire. He died in I'itchburg, August 19, 1885 ;
she died April 16, 1S90; two children. The children
of Benjamin and Bathsheba (Egerton) Stearns
were : John Walker, born September 12, 1806, died
in Chicago, March 19, 1890, married, July 12, 1837,
Betsey JNIaria Eaton, of Peru. New York. They
had six children. Willard Egerton, born May 29,
1808, died unmarried in Fitchburg, May 10, 1901.
Abigail, born !March 16, 1810, married, April 5, 1832,
Luke Putnam, of Acworth, New Hampshire. He
died in Danvers, 2klassachusetts, February 5, 1890.
She died there February 7, 1890. Two children.
Nancy Maria, born April 18, 1815, married, Decem-
ber 26, 1839, William Miller Morrison, of
Langdon. She died in Danvers, May 20, 1891 ;
he died there May 24, 1891 ; no children.
Sarah Alexander, born December 6, 1817, mar-
ried. June 29, 1842, Samuel Willard Prouty. of
Langdon. He died at Alstead, New Hampshire,
September ig, 1876; she died there September 12,
1889; one child. The children of Elisha and Bath-
sheba (Egerton) Stearns Garfield w'ere — Esther Jane,
born March 8, 1822, married, October 18, 1849, Jo-
seph Garfield, of Spencer, Massachusetts. He died
June s, 1876; she died January 20, 1902. They had
three children. Benjamin Stearns, born June 19,
1823, married, December 11, 1850, Catherine Palmer
Davis, of Langdon. He died December 17, 1853;
tw'O children. Edmund Holden, born February 6,
1825. married, October 19, 1859, Eliza Strong Smith,
of Vergeunes, Vermont. He died in Keeseville,
New York, September 24, 1875. She died Angust
20, 1902. Four children. James Freeman Dana,
born August 14, 1S28, married, December i, 1853,
Emily Charlotte Newton, of Fitchburg. She died
in Fitchburg, January 27, 1903. They had five chil-
dren, all born in Fitchburg.

PITTS FAMILY. Peter Pitts (i), of Taunton,
Massachusetts, who came from England and set-
tled there before 1643, was the pioneer ancestor of
the well known family of* this surname, of whom
three generations have been distinguished as manu-
facturers in Fitchburg, Leominster and Lancaster.
Peter Pitts married Mary Hodges, widow of Will-
iam Hodges, and daughter of Henry Andrews, about
1651. He died in i6g2. His will was made at
Bristol, Rhode Island, where he died, and it was
proved January 12, 1692-3. His children, named
in his will, were: Samuel, of whom later; Peter,
Ebenezer, Alice, Mary, Sarah.

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(II) Samuel Pitts, son of Peter Pitts (i), was
born about 1660, married. March 25, 1680, Sarah
Bobbett, daughter of Edward Bobbett. The^ chil-
dren of Samuel and Sarah Pitts were : Sarah,
born March 10, 1681 ; Mary, bora March 10, 1685 ;
Henry, born July 13, 1687; Abigail, born February
3, 16S9; Peter, born August 8, 1692; Ebenezer, born
November 27, 1694, of whom later.

(III) Ebenezer Pitts, son of Samuel Pitts (2),
was born November 27, 1694. He was a well-known
manufacturer of clocks in his day. His home was
in Taunton, Massachusetts. Among his children was
Abner Pitts, of whom later.

(IV) Abner Pitts, son of Ebenezer Pitts (3),
was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, about 1730.
He settled in Taunton and lived there all his life.
He owned and conducted a grist mill.

(V) James Pitts, son of Abner Pitts (4), was
born in Taunton, Massachusetts, about 1780. He
removed to East Bridgewater about 1812 and manu-
factured machinery for the Russell cotton mills.
In 1815 he removed with his family to that part
of Lancaster, now comprising the town of Clinton.
He purchased the mill privilege now ow-ncd by the
Lancaster mills, then a wild and uncultivated terri-
tory, mostly woodland. He built there a grist and
saw mill and a small cotton factory, conducting
various business enterprises until his death in 1S35.

He married, at Norton, Massachusetts, a daugh-
ter of Major Zebulon White, Prudence White. Her
father owned a foundry there and had helped the
American cause immeasurably during the revolu-
tion by casting cannon. The children of James and
Prudence Pitts were : James, Jr., William, Hiram
W., of whom later ; Seth G.

(VI) Hiram W. Pitts, son of James Pitts (5),
was born in East 'Bridgewater, Massachusetts, De-
cember 2. 1814. When he was about a year old
the family moved to Lancaster, where his father
built the first mills on the present site of the great
Lancaster mills at Clinton. He began at the age
of eight years to learn the business of cotton manu-
facturing. He worked also in his father's grist
mill. During this period from eight until he was
eiglitecn he attended all the schools available — ten
weeks in summer and eight in winter. He had
inherited a liking for mechanics from his clock-mak-
ing ancestor, and during his youth developed a con-
siderable business in repairing clocks and putting
in knife-blades. He spent his savings largely for
books and clothing. His father died in 1835 and the
sons continued the business. Hiram was associated
with his brothers until 1S42, manufacturing satinet
warp in the cotton mill at Clinton. The brothers
sold the entire property, including buildings, mill
privilege and about one hundred acres of land "for
$10,000 to E. B. Bigelow, the founder of the carpet
mills, the present Lancaster Mills Corporation being
formed and taking, over the property of the Pitts
mills at once.

After si.x months spent in Worcester running a
woolen mill, which was not successful, Mr. Pitts
removed to West Fitchburg under contract with
Colonel Ivcrs Phillips to take charge of a mill there
as superintendent, a position he held for two years.
He then spent one year in the mill that he owned
at the time of his death and with which his name
is associated. He entered into partnership with
Edwin F. Wheeler and they conducted a mill at
Saunuoit. New York. The owners of this mill had
another at Cooperstown. New York, about thirty

miles distant, and wished Pitts & Wheeler to take
that mill also on the same terms. The offer was
accepted, Mr. Pitts taking charge of the Coopers-
town concern, removed to that town and remained
there most of the time until he began business with
Benjamin Marshall, of Troy, New York. He was
for a short time in 1848 in Greenwich, New York,
where he conducted a mill for Thomas Truesdell,
of New York city.

Benjamin Marshall, with whom Mr. Pitts was
connected in business for many years after 1849,
was an Englishman by birth. He came to New York
in 1803 and entered largely and very succe.-sfully
into mercantile operations in New York. He was
at the head of the firm of B. & J. Marshall, founders
of the celebrated line of Black Ball packet ships
between New York and Liverpool. In 1825 Mr.
Marshall withdrew from commerce and engaged in
manufacturing. In that year he built the mills at
Utica, New York, and in 1826 the Hudson Print
Works and the Ida Cotton Mills at Troy. New York.
Later he came into possession of a cotton mill at
Middlebury, Vermont, in connection with which he
entered a partnership with Mr. Pitts, whereby Mr.
Marshall furnished the mill and the capital and
INIr. Pitts managed the business, buying the stock,
manufacturing the goods and selling them. Two
years later, when Mr. Marshall desired to be re-
lieved from care in business. Mr. Pitts assumed the
entire business, Mr. Marshall owning only the real
estate. He continued to manufacture sheetings and
cotton warps. For one year he had a partner, Fred-
erick W. Harris, who established the St. Lawrence
cotton mills at Montreal, Canada.

In 1854 Mr. Pitts bought the adjoining mill
privilege, a fourth interest of which he sold to
Harmon A. Sheldon. They entered into partner-
ship in the ownership and operation of a grist mill
adjoining the cotton mill and conducted the busi-
ness successfully until 1866. In 1858 J\Ir. Marshall
died, but ^Ir. Pitts continued to operate the mill
at Middlebury, the ownership of which passed by
will to Charles Carville, of New York city. In
1864 he purchased the mill of Levi Sherwin at Fitch-
burg, but he did not begin to manufacture there
until 1867. He removed with his family in 1866
from Middlebury, Vermont, to Leominster, Massa-
chusetts, the town adjoining Fitchburg, and re-
mained a citizen of Leominster the remainder of
his life, although his chief business interests were
at Fitchburg. For a time afterward he also oper-
ated the grist mill at jNIiddlebury. In 186.S he
had sold for Mrs. Carville the cotton mill at Mid-
dlebury to Charles Francis, of Boston, and George
H. Francis, of New York, The new ownership
was not successful. Mr. Pitts ran it again in 1867,
after Mr. Francis gave it up, manufacturing carpet
warps there successfully.

Immediately after the lease of the Fitchburg
mill expired and Mr. Pitts took possession he trebled
its former capacity, increasing the number of spindles
from a thousand to three thousand five hlindred,
enlarging the buildings accordingly to accommodate
the new machinery. At first he manufactured cotton
sheetings only, but after a year or so he devoted
the entire mill to the manufacture of carpet w-arps.
In 1876 Mr. Pitts built a new mill in Fitchburg,
the main building of which was forty-eight by one
hundred and one feet, three stories high, with a
boiler house twenty-five by sixty-six feet having a
one hundred horse-power engine.

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Mr. Pitts was a careful and successful mati of
business, a good citizen, honored and respected in
the communities where he lived. He devoted most
of his time and energy to his business affairs, the
nature of which demanded all that any man could
give, yet he found time to serve the town of Mid-
dlebury in various public offices from 1862 to 1866.
He was a director of the Safety Fund National Bank
of Fitchburg from its organization until his death,
December 22, 1881.

Mr. Pitts married (first) Betsey Burdett, of
Leominster, in 1842. She died a year later. He
married (second), 1846. Mary A. Merriam, of Fitch-
burg, sister of the late David H. Merriam. (See
sketch of Merriam family.) The children of Hiram
W. and Mary A. Pitts were: B. Marshall, of whom
later ; Abbie E., resides at the homestead, Leom-
inster; Etta L., resides at the homestead, 78 Grove
avenue, Leominster.

(VH) B. Marshall Pitts, only son of Hiram W.
Pitts (6), was born in Middlebury. Vermont, Sep-
tember 10, 1851. He attended the public schools
there and at Leominster, whither the family went
in 1867. He attended Comer's Commercial College
in Boston also. From his earliest youth he was
familiar with the operation of his father's mills
and he learned the business thoroughly. He entered
the mill at Fitchburg, where his father manufac-
tured cotton warp, and in 1872 he became the super-
intendent. After the death of his father he became
the sole proprietor, and in 1884 removed to Fitch-
burg to live. He was very successful in business,
following the example of his father, who was one
of the industrial pioneers of New England.

The Sentinel said of Mr. Pitts: "Mr. Pitts thor-
oughly understood his business and had a high repu-
tation as a kind and considerate employer of labor.
He frequently received the most gratifying evidences
of thctr high regard for him, especially during his
last illness. He won high esteem and sincere friend-
ship among all classes by his reliability, high sense
of honor and uniform courtesy. There are few
men whose deatli would be so generally regretted
in Fitchburg and Leominster as Mr. Pitts'." He
died August 17. 1905.

Mr. Pitts was a man of unusual public spirit
and strong influence among his fellowmen. In poli-
tics he was a Republican. He represented ward
three in the common council of Fitchburg in 1892
and 1893, and was in the board of aldermen in
1896 and 1S97. He was a member of the committee
on highway and fire department and was chair-
man of the latter. He took a lively interest in the
fire department and was him?elf a fireman when liv-
ing in Leominster. In 1882 he succeeded bis father
as director of the Safety Fund National Bank, a
position he held until he sold his stock in 1888. He
was a member of Wilder Lodge of Free Masons ;
of Thomas Royal Arch Chapter ; of Jerusalem Com-
mandery, Knights Templar, of Fitchburg; of Hiram
Council of Worcester; of Aleppo Temple, Mystic
Shrine, of Boston; of Apollo Lodge of Odd Fel-
lows : of King David Encampment : of the Grand
Canton of Hebron. Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows : of the Park Club ; the Home Market Club
of Boston.

He married, July 3, 1877. Mary Etta Phelps,
daughter of B. S. Phelps, of Leominster. Their
children were: Hiram W., and Earl P., of whom
later.

(VIII) Earl P. Pitts, son of B. Marshall Pitts

(7), was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber II, 1879, and was educated in the public schools
at Fitchburg and at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology of Boston, from which he was grad-
uated in 1902. He began in business as a con-
tractor, but on the death of his father in 1905 he
returned to Fitchburg and took charge of the mill.
Mr. Pitts is a Republican in politics.

He married, June 22, 1904, Mabelle T. Slipp, of
Dorchester, Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph B.
and Sarah (Thompson) Slipp. They have one child,
Earl P. Pitts, Jr., born January 24, 1906.

HENRY AUGUSTUS WILLIS. George Willis
(l) was the emigrant ancestor of Henry Augustus
Willis, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He was born
in England in 1602 and came to New England in
1626, when he settled in Cambridge. He w-as a
mason by trade and engaged in Cambridge in the
manufacture of brick. He was a proprietor of Cam-
bridge in 1636 and was admitted a freeman there
May 2, 1638. He petitioned to be excused from
training in 1662, when he was sixty-one years old.
He was probably a brother of Michael Willis, cut-
ler, of Dorchester. There were at least seventeen
emigrants in Massachusetts and Plymouth, heads
of families, before 1650, bearing the surname Willis
and it is of course impossible to trace the connec-
tion between them, if any existed. George Willis
acquired considerable land in Cambridge, Brookline,
Billerica and vicinity. He resided on the west side
of the common in Cambridge. He was representa-
tive in the general court in 1638.

He married Jane Palfrey, widow, who had chil-
dren, John and Elizabeth Palfrey. The son. John
Palfrey, who came to America and joined the church
December 10, 1658, is the ancestor of the Palfrey
families of America. On joining the church in 1640
Mrs. Willis spoke of being formerly in Newcastle
and Heddon, England. He married (second)

Sarah , who survived him. He died September,

1690. The children of George and Jane Willis were:.
John, born in 1630 in Boston, married in Boston,
February 11, 1655, Hannah Elsie, daughter of Roger
Elsie; Nathaniel, George, Thomas, born December
28, 1638. at Cambridge, died August 14. 1724, at
Medford; Roger, of whom later; Stephen, born
October 14, 1644.

(II) Roger Willis, son of George Willis (i),
was born in 1640. in Cambridge. He married, July
19. 1664. Ruth Hill, daughter of John Hill and wife
Frances. John Hill was an emigrant, settled in
Boston, was a blacksmith and planter, was admitted
to the church with his wife August, 1641, and he was
admitted a freeman May 18, 1642. He was one of
the' founders of Lancaster, accepted by the general
court in 1645. He belonged to the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. He died
May 31. 1654. (See Gen. Reg. 1904 and Hill
Genealogy by J. G. Bartlett.)

Roger Willis was one of the pioneers at Sud-
bury. He settled in the northwest part of the town
and west of Willis pond and Willis hill. His de-
scendants have been very numerous in that locality.
The children of Roger and RiUh (Hill) Willis
were: Mary, born January 7. 1660; Samuel, of whom
later ; Sarah, March 20, 1684 ; Josiah, December 8,
16S6; Thankful. September 14. 1690; and probablv
three others, according to the Hill Genealogy, while
in Dorchester. Those named above were born in
Sudbury.

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(III) Samuel Willis, second child of Roger
Willis (2), was born April I, 1675, at Sudbury,
Massachusetts. He died November 26, 1758. He
married Susanna Gleason, daughter of Joseph and
Martha Gleason, and granddaughter of Richard
Gleson. Susanna was born March 24, 1676. Samuel
Willis signed a petition in Sudbury in 1706-7. He
was a farmer and settled in Sudbury, Massachu-
setts. His wife died May 12, 1756. Their children
were: Joseph, of whom later; Elijah, March 6,
1720: Samuel.

(IV) Joseph Willis, son of Samuel Willis (3),
was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, November 10,

1712. He married Thankful , and settled in

Sudbury. He served in the French war in the Sec-
ond Regiment of Foot. The children of Joseph and
Thankful Willis were: John, born March 16, 1736
(gravestone at Sudbury) ; Reuben, June 9, 1738,
married Sarah Brigham; Eunice, January 15, 1740,
died August 8, 1791 ; Anne, May 21, 1744; Hopestill.
of whom later ; Abel, October, 1750.

(V) Lieutenant Hopestill Willis, son of Joseph
and Thankful Willis (4), was born in Sudbury,
January 9, 1747. He married, May i, 1766, at Sud-
bury, Olive Smith. He was a soldier in the revolu-
tion in various companies from Sudbury, and took
part in the battles at Concord and Lexington. Soon
after the war he became lieutenant of the Sudbury
company as appears from the records. He is re-
ferred to as lieutenant after 17S5. He died March
14, 1823. Olive Smith was born in Sudbury. Sep-
tember 8, 1747. the daughter of Zephaniah and
Abigail (Wheeler) Smith Zephaniah, born October
29. 1705. at Sudbury, was the son of Thomas and
Elizabeth Smith. Thomas, born- December 3. 1679,
at Sudbury, was the son of Thomas and Abigail
Smith. Thomas Smith was the son of John and
Sarah (Hunt) Smith. John Smith was born in
England, son of John and Isabel Smith, of Water-
town. The latter were the emigrant ancestors. John
Smith, Sr., was a proprietor in Watertown in 1636
and was admitted a freeman December 7, 1636.
His wife Isabel was born in England 1581 and died
in Watertown. 1639, buried November 12.

The children of Lieutenant Hopestill and Olive
Smith, all born in Sudbury, were : Jedathan, born
January 11, 1766-7, married Persis Puffer: Jonas,
February 5, 1768; Ruth, June 18, 1769, married John
Puffer, of Sudburv- ; Daniel, March 25, 1772 ; Josiah,
September 11, 1773: Hopestill, Jr.. August 9, 1776,
died October 25, 1778: Zenas, October 4, 1778;
Peter, September 17, 1781, died February 28, 1784:
Susanna, December 2. 1784: Anna, February 15.
1787: Samuel, of whom later.

(VI) Samuel Willis, youngest child of Lieu-
tenant Hopestill Willis (5), was born in Sudbury,
^lassachusetts, June 20, 1792. He died at Fitchburg,
^Massachusetts, September 30, 1843, aged fifty-one.
When a young man he left his native town.
He learned the business of woolen manufact-
ure, and lived at Northbridge, Massachusetts,
where there are several mills on the Black-
stone river, and two of his children were born in
that town. In 1822 Mr. Willis settled in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts. In that year he and Abial J. Town
purchased the brick cotton mill in the then centre
of the village of Fitchburg, and founded what
has since been known as the Fitchburg Woolen
Mill. They furnished it with two sets of cards
and the necessary looms, spinning jennies and finish-
ing machinery for the manufacture of cassimeres

exclusively from fine wool. Subsequently Paul
Farnum and Daniel Kimball, commission merchants
of Boston, became partners with Willis and Town,
each having an equal share in the company. In 1834
the mill and machinery having been injured to some
extent by fire an addition was made to the main
building, other necessary buildings erected, the
water power improved by a new dam and tha cap-
acity of the mill increased to three sets of narrow
cards. When Mr. Willis died in 1843 the interest
belonging to the estate was purchased by Porter
Piper and at the same time the interest of Paul
Farnum was bought by William B. Town. Later
it passed into the control of the Kimball family,
then into the Vose family, and finally was sold after
a long and successful history to the'Parkhill Manu-
facturing Company in 1887, and is run by that con-
cern at present.

Although cut off in his prime Mr. Willis was
a successful busness man and prominent in Fitch-
burg affairs. He was an earnest advocate of the
railroads and helped materially the efforts of Alvah
Crocker to get Fitchburg connected with Boston,
Worcester and elsewhere by steam railroads. His
name appears for several years in the jury lists. He
was fire ward of the town in 1839 and 1840, and
served the town in 1841, 1842 and 1843 on important
special committees. He was in the general court
from Fitchburg in 1838.

He married Cynthia Merriam, daughter of
John and Diana (Hendson) ^Merriam, at North-
bridge, Massachusetts, and their children were :
Amanda, born at Northbridge, June 22, 1819, mar-
ried, 1846, John Brown, Jr., of Concord; Adeline,
born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, December 10,
1821, married W. H. Snow, June 15, 1846; they
lived in Troy, New York; Francis, born December
24, 1823; Samuel Aaron, January 20, 1826; Louisa
Cynthia, June 17, 1828, married, 1848, John Upton
(see Upton Family sketch) ; Henry Augustus, No-
vember 26, 1830; William Merriam, March 8, 1833;
Charles Edmund, July 4, 1835 ; Emma Maria, De-
cember 7, 1837. All the preceding except the first
two were born in Fitchburg.

(VII) Henry Augustus Willis, sixth child of
Samuel Willis (6), was born in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, November 26, 1830. He was educated in
the public schools of his native town and at the
Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts. He be-
gan his business career as clerk in the RoUstone
Bank, which was organized in 1849, and which be-
came the Rollstone National Bank in 1865. It has
a capital of $250,000 and a large surplus. Its first
quarters were in a small granite building on the
same site now occupied by the handsome Rollstone
Bank Building, which was erected in 1869. Hon.
Moses Wood was the first president. Mr. Willis be-
came cashier in 1858. On the death of j\Ir. A\'ood
in 1869 Alvah Crocker became president. L'pon
his resignation in 1872 Mr. Willis became presi-
dent, and he held this position for thirty-two years.

When the Worcester Savings Institution was
established June 13, 1868, Mr. Willis was elected
treasurer. The savings institution has occupied the
same building with the Rollstone National Bank,
with which until a recent law changed the rela-
tions it has been intimately connected. Hon. Moses
Wood was the first president. Mr. Willis has been
treasurer from the organization of the bank to the
present time, and has seen it grow to large propor-
tions. Feb. 24, 1906, the Rollstone National Bank

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went into liquidation and was merged into the
Fitchburg Safe Deposit and Trust Co. Mr. Willis
is chairman of the board of directors.

Mr. Willis is also president of the Fitchburg
Street Railway Company, which was incorporated
April 10, 1886, with a capital of $60,000, and has
been its president since its incorporation. It began
•operations July i. 1886. The company now has a
well equipped electric system covering the city
and suburbs, and the enterprise has been very suc-
cessful as an investment. He is a director of the
Grant Yarn Company ; the Shirrefifs Worsted Com-
pany ; and a trustee of the Fitchburg Public Li-
brary, and chairman of the board for many years.

Mr. Willis served his country in the civil war.
He enlisted in the Fifty-third Regiment, which was
recruited largely from Fitchburg and the neigh-
boring towns in August and September, 1862.
Colonel John W. Kimball took command November
29, 1862, and the regiment proceeded to New
York; Mr. Willis was made adjutant of the regi-
ment. On the arrival in New York of the regi-
ment there was a delay of some weeks and much
suckness among the soldiers. Finally the regiment
set sail January \y. 1863, for New Orleans. They
camped six miles from the city with the Third
Bri.eade. Third Division, Nineteenth Army Corps.
In March they sailed up the river to Baton Rouge
and skirmished considerably in the surrounding
country. They then took part in various assaults
on Port Hudson and served in that campaign until
Port Hudson surrendered July p. 1863. They re-
turned by steamer in August to Cairo, Illinois, and
thence by rail to Fitchburg, where they were
mustered out at Camp Stevens. Groton Junction,
September 2, 1863. Of nine hundred and fifty men
■one hundred and thirty-two died of disease during
their nine months enlistment and thirty-three were
killed or died of their wounds. No regiment lost
more men in the same length of time by disease.
The effect of that deadly campaign was felt for
many years by the survivors and many probably
had their health undermined and lives shortened
by the exnosure and fevers.

Mr. Willis was on a relief committee of the
•town for the soldiers in 1861. He served on the
committee to erect the soldiers' monument ap-
pointed in 1866. He was president of the first com-
mon council of the city of Fitchburg and subse-
sequently treasurer of the city for several years.
He represented the town in the legislature in 1866.
He is a member of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, the Society of Colonial Wars; the Loyal
Legion, and the "Sons of the American Revo-
lution."

Mr. Willis never married. He has been a liberal
contributor to charities and public enterprises in
the citv of Fitchburg. He has been for many years
one of the financial leaders of this manufacturing
centre, and his efTorts and influence have always
been exerted to develop and improve his native
town, and to enlarge and diversify her industries.
He has taken his part as a citizen. He has been
interested in the excellent work of the Fitchburg
Historical Society, was its president for ten years.
Mr. Willis enjoys travel and has crossed the At-
lantic on six trios abroad for the purpose of study,
rest and recreation. He is an observing traveler
and has seen more of the world than most men.

MARTIN WEBBER. Thomas Webber (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Martin Webber, of Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, was the master of the "May-
tlovver" and part owner. He was one of the early
.settlers of- Roxbury, whence he removed to Boston
in 1643. He joined the church in Boston, March
31, 1644. He sold his share in the "Mayflower,"
seven thirty-seconds, in 1652, and the bill of sale
is recorded in the Suffolk registry. He made a
contract October 7, 1652, while in England (see
Suffolk Deeds III, 66). He removed to what is
now Kennebunk, Maine. He was back in Charles-
town in 1676, probably on account of King Philip's
war. His widow received a grant of land in Charles-
town, 1681.

He married (first) Sarah , and (second)

Mary Parker, sister of John Parker. His children
were: Thomas, Jr., born 1639, baptized February
2, 1650-1, removed to' Falmouth, Maine; Michael,
of whom later; Sarah, born 1643. baptized Decem-
ber 8, 1644, aged three days ; Bathsheba, baptized
September 24, 1648, aged three days ; Mehitable,
born June 10, 1652, died young; Samuel, of Fal-
mouth ; Richard, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire ;
Joseph, mentions father in records.

(II) Michael Webber, son of Thomas Webber
(i), first appears in Gloucester. He was born in
1639. and died in Gloucester in 1729, aged ninety
years. Many writers have confused him with his
son. Michael Webber. Very little is known of him
on account of the loss of early records. His chil-
dren were : Samuel, settled in York, Maine, and
had a large family; Michael, Jr., settled in Glouces-
ter and has many descendants in that section ;
James. This family is given in order to give what
little is known of the two early settlers of
Gloucester.

(II) Samuel Webber, son of Thomas Webber
(i), was born about 1655. He was doubtless a
mariner like his father and brother Michael. He
and Michael settled in Gloucester. He owned land
at Goose Cave in Gloucester, which he sold to
Thomas Riggs. In 1681 he was living in Falmouth,
now Portland, Maine. In 1692 he was a witness
in the trial of Rev. George Burroughs at Salem,
one of the notable witchcraft trials, testifying to
the defendant's great physical strength. He was
back in Gloucester in 1695. but removed to York,
Maine, before 1700. He died in 1716, leaving a
wife, Deborah, and six children. His children were :
Samuel, Jr., of whom later; Thomas, Benjamin,
Joseph. Mary, married Joseph Sayward, Dorcas,
Deborah, born at Gloucester, 1663 ; John, Waitstill
(son) (twin), born 1698; Patience (twin), born
1698.

(III) Samuel Webber, son of Samuel Webber
(2). was born about 1780 in Gloucester or vicinity.
He settled in York. Maine. His children, born in
York, were: Elizabeth, born 1705; Samuel, born
1708, married Elizabeth Young, daughter of Row-
land Young, of York: Mary, born \y'o: Gerslio-i
born 1712; Mercy, born 1716: Abigail, born 1718;
Sarah, born 1720; Nathaniel, of whom later;
Joseph.

(IV"l Nathaniel Webber, son of Samuel and
Elizabeth Webber (3). was born in York. Maine,
September 9. 1722. He resided in York. He mar-
ried Lucy Bradbury, daughter of John Bradbury,
December 25, 1745. Their children were : William,

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born October 26, 1746, settled at Castine, Maine,
and was deputy to the general court at Boston,
(Maine, was part of Massachusetts until 1820);
Philomela, born Iilay 21, 1749; Jotham, born Jan-
uary 28, 1751, married Elizabeth Russell, and re-
moved to Mason. New Hampshire; Lucy, born April
10, 1754; Jerusha, born July 4, 1756; Maria, born
August 25, 1759; Theodore, born May 20, 1762;
Jabez, born May 27, 1765; David, born January 17.
1769, married Jane Grout.

(V) Deacon Jotham Webber, son of Nathaniel
Webber (4), was born in York, Maine, January 28.
1751. He was a farmer and the original homestead
on which he settled in Mason, New Hampshire, is
still owned by his descendants. He removed from
York to Mason during the revolution. He died
there May 2, 1824, aged seventy-two years. He was
deacon of the Baptist church at Mason many years.
He served eight months in the revolutionary army
in Captain Darby's company. Colonel James Scam-
mon's regiment, as corporal from York, Maine, in
1777. He removed to IN'Iason according to the family
records in February, 1780. His widow Elizabeth
died March 5, 1838. He was one of the selectmen
of Mason in 1785 and 1786, and one of the leading
citizens.

He married, March 12, 1778. Elizabeth Russell,
daughter of Jason Russell, of Mason, formerly of
West Cambridge. Massachusetts, and a descendant
of William Russell, a sketch of whom appears else-
where in this work. The children of Deacon Jotham
and Elizabeth Webber were : Jotham. Jr., born in
West Cambridge, Massachusetts. December 24, 1778,
of whom later; Jason, (and the remainder) born
at Mason, September 24, 1780; William, born July
18, 1782, married Hannah Flagg. February 21, 1811;
John, born January 29, 1785; Elizabeth, born May
15. 1787; John, born December 18, 1789; Jonas, born
July 29, 1792; Ebenezer, born January 2, 1795;
Prudence, bnrn June 11. 1797.

(VI) Jotham Webber. Jr., son of Deacon Jotham
Webber (5), was born in West Cambridge, Massa-
setts, the home of his mother, December 24. 1778.
when his father was in the army. He settled on
the homestead at Mason, New Hampshire. He mar-
ried Dolly Stratton, of New Ipswich, New Hamp-
shire, December 21, 1S06. Their children, born in
Mason. New Hampshire, were : Joel, born January

12, 1808 : George, born August 17, 1809, of whom
later; Elizabeth, born July 16, 181 r; Asa. born June

15. 1813; Sarah, born December 29, 1815; Charles,
born July 11, 1818; Mary, born March 16, 1820;
Elizabeth, born January 12, 1823.

(VII) George Webber, son of Jotham Webber,
Jr. (6), was born in Mason, New Hampshire,
August 17, 1809. He was a blacksmith by trade.
He settled in Ashby. Massachusetts, an adjacent
town to his native place. He died there April 16.
1861, and is buried there. He married Diantha Jane
Barrett. Their children were: Myra J., born Jan-
uary 31. 1S35 ; Amos A., born August 26. 1836,
now living at New London, Wisconsin, where he
is a large lumber merchant and real estate dealer ;
George F.. born April 12, 1838; Martin, born De-
cember 26, 1840. of whom later : Sarah E., born
May 31. 1842: Lucy D.. born January 6, 1843;
Francis, born October 3. 1S44; Nancy, born March

13. 1S46; John S.. born December ir. 1849: Martha
D., born October 26, 1851 ; Marv E., born August

16. rS;.^.

(VIII) Martin Webber, son of George Webber

(7). was born in Townsend, Massachusetts, De-
cember 26, 1839. He was educated there in the com-
mon schools and then learned the carpenter's trade.
He began his career as a dealer in furniture in
Fitchburg in 1876 and built up a large and flourish-
ing business. In 1892 he sold his store and started
in the lumber business. He established the Webber
Lumber Company, but retired after a few years.
The cotnpany is continued under the same name
by the present owners. He has devoted his time
and capital to the building of houses for renting
and selling. Mr. Webber is a Prohibitionist in
politics and has been active in various temperance
movements. He is a director and chairman of the
finance committee of the Fitchburg Co-operative
Bank. He attends the Congregational Church.

He married, January i, 1862, Elizabeth G. Hay-
ward, who was born in 1840 in Ashby, the daugh-
ter of Ephraim and Sarah Hayward. They had
one child, Edward, who was born November, 1S66,
died young.

(VIII) John S. Webber, son of George Web-
ber (7), was born December ir, 1849, in Townsend,
Massachusetts. He passed his boyhood at .A.shby
and came to Fitchburg in 1867. He was clerk for
his brother Martin in the furniture business for
thirteen years. He established himself in the fur-
niture and upholstery business in iSgi with J. P.
Hayward under the firm name of Webber & Hay-
ward, and has so continued to this time. He is
unmarried.

PARKS FAMILY. Richard Parks (i) is the
pioneer ancestor of Gilbert M. Parks, of Fitch-
burg. The name was spelled more often Park and
Parke on the early records, and while the family
lived in Shrewsbury the spelling Peirks was adopted
by most of them for several generations, "rhat
spelling prevailed nowhere else and was not kept up.

Richard Parks was a proprietor of Cambridge
in 1636 and of Cambridge Farms in 1642. His house
was near the cow common in old Cambridge. He
h;id eleven acres in Cambridge village at the di-
vision of lands ; this lot bounded on Edw-ard Jack-
son's land and on the highway to Dedham which
was laid out through it in 1648. The very ancient
house on this lot was torn down about 1800; it was
.supposed to have been built bv him. It was within
a few feet of the site of the Eliot church. Previous
to 1652 he owned a large tract in the northwest
part of the town bounded west by the Fuller farm,
north by Charles river, east by the Dummer farm
and south and east by Edward Jackson's land.

His will, dated July 12. 1665. bequeathed to his
son Thomas all his houses and lands after the de-
cease of his wife Sarah. The appraisal of hjs estate
at nine hundred and seventy-two pounds shows him
to have been one of the wealthy men of the colony.
In 1657 he served with Edward Jackson, John Jack-
son and Samuel Hyde to lay out and settle high-
wavs in the village. In 1663 he was released from
training on account of his age.

Deacon William Parks, of Rnxbury, Samuel
Parks, of ^ledford. and Thomas Parks, of Stoning-
ton. Connecticut, were brothers as appears from the
will of Deacon William Parks. It is supposed that
Richard Parks was also a brother. Henry Parks,
who may have been a brother also, was the son of
Edward Parks, of London, a cousin of Governor
Winthrop, who wrote him from London. March 8,
1647. asking his aid and advice for his uncle. Henry

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Bright, and son, Henry Parks, about land ordered
to himself by the court. In 1648 Edward had
seventy-two acres of land on the Concord road and
in 1650 the son of Henry, merchant and heir of Ed-
ward Park, of London, deceased, conveyed the land
in Cambridge to John Stedman. Robert removed
to Connecticut and had sons William, Samuel and
Thomas. Thomas Parks had a son Robert, who
settled in Wethersfield, and Thomas, Jr., at New
London, Connecticut.

Richard Parks married Sarah Brewster, widow
of Love Brewster, the eldest surviving son of Elder
William Brewster. She was the daughter of Will-
iam and Jane Collier. After the death of her sec-
ond husband she went to live in Du.xbury again.
She sued Thomas Parks, December 4, 1671, on ac-
count of the estate ; she sold her interests to him
September 26, 1678. Richard Parks left a widow,
son Thomas and two daughters, one of whom was
thes wife of Francis Whittemore. He died 1665.

(H) Thomas Parks, son of Richard Parks (i),
was born in 1629 and died August 11, i6go. He
married Abigail Dix, of Watertown, in 1653. He
owned a six thousand acre tract and house near
the Bemis Mills on Charles river. He died August
II, 1690, aged si.xty-two; his wife died February
3, 1691, and the estate was divided among the heirs
in 1693-94. He had seven hundred and twenty-two
acres of land and part of the corn mill on Smelt
brook erected by Lieutenant John Spring.

The children of Thomas Parks were : Thomas,
born November 2, 1654, died .August 28. 1681, un-
married; John, of whom later; Abigail, March 3,
1658. married John Fiske : Edward, April 8. 1661,
father of Nathan Parks, of Uxbridge ; Richard. De-
cember 21, 1663. lived in Concord; Sarah. March
21, 1666, married John Knapp ; Rebecca, May 13,
1668, married John Sanger. 1686; Jonathan. .-August
27, 1670; Elizabeth, July 28, 1679. married John
Holland.

(HI) John Parks, son of Thomas Parks (2),
was born in Newton, then Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, September 6, 1656. He married Elizabeth
Miller for his second wife. He died 1718, aged
si.xty-three years. His estate was divided in 1720.
His children were : Elizabeth. February 24, 1695,
died young ; John, of whom later ; Solomon. Octo-
ber 16. 1699; Elizabeth, February 27, 1701 ; Abigail, -
April 20, 1702; Joseph, March 12, 1705 (H. C.
1724) ; Mary, March 17, 1808.

(IV) John Parks, son of John Parks (3),
was born in Newton, Massachusetts, December 20.
1696. There w-ere two John Parks living at the
same time and the difficulty in tracing them is
shown by the fact that the history of Newton and
the history of Watertown gives but one John Parks
with two wives. But John Parks married Abigail
Lawrence. December 3. 1718, at Weston, while the
son of John Parks and wife Esther, John, born in
Newton, May I, 1719, proves that there were two
families. I think John and Esther must have left
town. I find a John Parks in Killingly, Connecti-
cut, vi'ho had a daughter Sybil, baptized there June
23, 1729. Then we know that Deliverance Parks,
daughter of John Parks, went to Killingly from
Weston, where she and her sister Mary were bap-
tized when adults.

There is no question that the two Parks families
were closely related. I believe that one of the
John Parks, of Newton, may have been descended
from Joseph Parks, mentioned above. It is possible
that some of the Connecticut family returned to

Massachusetts and lived in Concord or vicinity.
Samuel Parks died in Waltham where the son of
John and Esther Parks married his wife. Samuel
died in Waltham, September 2, 1768, aged eighty-
eight ; he may have been the father of one of the
John Parks, of Newton. Some descendants of Jo-
seph Parks, of Concord, were living in Waltham at
the time of the marriage of John Parks (51 of
whom later.

The children of John and Esther Parks were:
John, born !May i. 1719. (the statement tliat he-
died young is based on the supposition that the son
of John and .Abigail was his brother. Nor is there-
Kny record to be found of the death of Esther Parks,
(his mother) ; Sybil, baptized at Killin.gly, Connecti-
cut. June 23. 1729. Probably others in Weston,-
Newton or Killingly. (John and Abigail Parks-
had six children in New'ton between 1725 and 1753.)

(V) John Parks, son of John Parks (4) and
Esther Parks, of Newton, was born there May i,
1719. and died at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, June-
8, 1804, aged according to the town records eighty-
four years, making Iiim the exact age of the John
Parks, of Newton, son of John and Esther as here
given. He spelled his name Peirks generally. He
married, at Waltham, Hannah Hammond, of that
town, November 28. 1748, and soon removed to-
Shrewsbury. He was admitted to the Shrewsbury
church in 1794. His wife died March 26, 1809.

The children of John and Hannah Parks were:
Abigail, born June I, 1749, died unmarried July 4,
1828: Hannah. November 22. 1750, married Nathan
Waite. died Aoril. 1847. aged ninety-six years, six
months: Jonathan, settled in Sutton and 0-xford,
Massachusetts, married Rhoda Allen and Sarah
Livermore. of Spencer: died in North Brookfield,
1847, aged ninetv-foiT years: David, born April 12,
1778, married Catherine Parker, resided in Shrews-
burv ; John, baptized July i. T7.=;o, married Mary
Joslin and lived in Shrewsbury: Samuel, of whom
later; Mary, baptized July 10, 1707. married Nathan
Muzzy. 1700.

(VI) Samuel Parks, son of Tohn Parks (5),
was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and bap-
tized there .August 2t. 1761. He married Annis
Muzzv. October id, 1793, and they settled in Stow.
He died before 1820. possibly soon after marriage.
The only son I have found on record is William,
born about 1805. (He was over fourteen and under
twentv-one May 15. 1821").

(VII) William Parks, son of Samu.el Parks
(6), was born in Stow about 1805. His father died
■ivhen he was a bov. He had as sruardians .-Vbiiah
Parks and after May !.■;. 1821. Eliiah Houghton, of
Sterlin.e. He lived in Stow and Shrewsbury prob-
ably with relatives. He was livin.e in Lancaster,
September 20. 18^6. -when he married Dollv S. Mc-
Intire, of Westminster. He removed to Fitchlmrg.
He was for a time a farmer in Westminster. The
children of William and Dollv S. Parks were:
Jennie A., married William K. .-\shton, Gilbert
M., of whom later.

Gilbert M. Parks (VIII). only surviving son of
William Parks (7). was born in Westminster,
Massachusetts. August 15. 1842. He received a
common school education and then learned the trade
of gas and steam fitter in Fitchburg. In 1872 Mr.
Parks started in business on his own account in
Fitchburs in compan-v with John H. Carpenter. The
nnrtnership continued successfully until 1887. when:
Mr. Parks bought out his partner and continued the-
business under his own name until 1901, when it

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was incorporated with his sons, Robert S., Fred-
erick W. and Howard M. Parks, as directors with
him. Mr. Parks has built up one of the largest and
most complete gas and steam fitting plants in this
section of the state. He ranks among the soundest
and most successful business men of the city. He
is a director of the Lancaster Cotton Mills at Lan-
caster. Massachusetts. He is an active member of
Mt. Roulstone Lodge of Odd Fellows. He attends
the Unitarian Church. In politics he is a Repub-
lican, but has never cared for public office. He has
given practically all his time to his business.

He married, October 27, 1870, Abbie F. Samp-
son, daughter of Captain Robert Sampson, of Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts. Their children are: Robert
S., of whom later ; Frederick W., of whom later ;
Jennie, born February 11, 1877, married H. C.
Townsend ; Howard M., December 26, 1878; Helen
A., August 5, 1884.

(IXl Robert S. Parks, son of Gilbert M. Parks
(8), was born in Fitchburg, March 7, 1872. He was
educated in the public schools and fitted at the
Fitchburg high school for the Worcester Poly-
technic Institute, from which he was graduated in
1893. He went into his father's business and has
been connected with the G. M. Parks Company
ever since. He is a director of the corporation, and
has already won a creditable position as a business
man. He is a member of the Masonic order. He
married Caroline H. Goodwin, and they have two
children : Dorothy and Hester.

(IX) Frederick W. Parks, son of Gilbert M.
Parks (8), was born in Fitchburg, December 21.
1874. He is a graduate of the Fitchburg high school
and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of
1896. He became connected with the G. M. Parks
Co. and is a director of the corporation. He is
prominent in the Masonic fraternity, having taken
the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite and
is a member of the Order of the Mystic Shrine. He
married, 1902, Ruth W. Chapin, of Southbridge,
and they have one child, Eleanor C. Parks.

JOHN HERBERT DANIELS. William Dan-
iels, the immigrant ancestor of John Herbert Dan-
iels, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born in Eng-
land. He settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, be-
fore 1646, when he was a proprietor of the town and
an inn-keeper there. He was admitttd a freeman
in 1648. He removed to Milton, a town adjoining
Dorchester, and lived on an estate deeded to him by
his father-in-law. The farm was on Milton Hili.
He married Catherine Greenaway, daughter of John
Greenaway. She began about 1650 to teach the In-
dians, and September 24, 1653, she was publicly
thanked by the commissioners of the United Colon-
ies for her good work, and voted twelve pounds for
reward of merit, and three more to encourage her
to teach during the coming year. She died Novem-
ber 14, 1680. William Daniels made his will July 2,
1678 : it was proved September 28, 1678. He be-
queathed to his wife Katherine ; sons John and
Samuel ; daughter Hannah Babcock ; son-in-law
John Kinsley; grandchildren Susanna Kinsley and
Silence Woods. He left his shop and blacksmith's
tools to his son Samuel. The children : John, see
forward; Mary, baptized July 7, 1650; Susanna, bap-
tized October 18, 1646, married John Kinsley; Mary,
baptized May 10, 1653 ; Hannah, baptized April 22.
165s, married Benjamin Babcock, February 11, 1673;
Samuel, baptized April 24, 1659; William.

(_II) John Daniels, son of William Daniels (l),
was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and bap-
tized there August 6, 1648. His name is spelled
variously on the records ; Dancll, Daniel, Danil and
Daniels. He settled at Milton, Massachusetts. He
died. October 6, 1718, aged seventy years. He mar-
ried, at Milton, March 29, 1672, Dorothy Babcock,
daughter of George Babcock (or Badcock). She
was admitted to the church June 18, 1682. He had

a second wife Abigail , who died November

9, 1717. The children: i. Elizabeth, born at Milton,
August 22, 1673; married, June 5, 1694, Samuel
Spear. 2. William, born January 2^, 1674-75, died
July 8, 1676. 3. Dorothy (twin), born (October 21,
1676. 4. Mary (twin), born October 21, 1676.
5. Mary (twin), born May 31, 1678, married. May
31, 1699, Benjamin Scott, of Braintree. 6. William
(twin), born May 31. 1678. 7. John, born March 5,
1680, died June 17, 1685. 8. Hannah, born Novem-
ber 25, 1681 ; married George Babcock. 9. John, see
forward. 10. Zebediah, born June 24, 1686.
II. Hannah, born May 17, 1695 (daughter of John
and Abigail — records do not state the name of the
mother of the other children.

(Ill) John Daniels, son of John Daniels (2),
was born in Milton, INIassachusetts, JNIarch 9, 1685.
He also settled at Milton. In 1742 he bought
Howe's !Mills, Pomfret, Connecticut, for twenty-four
hundred pounds with land adjoining, including
house, barn, mill, maltshop and the whole manufact-
uring stock of the Quinebaugh Valley Company
comprising "ye conveniences of 3 coppers, 2 presses,
two screws, two pair shears, 2 iron bars, blue pot,
paper for press and sear cloth for malting." He was
called captain on the records and was moderator
of the Pomfret town meeting in 1753. He was
on the committee locating the meeting house in Kill-
ingly. He returned to Milton before his death. He
married, August 5, 1707, Eleanor Verin. She was de-
scended from Joshua Verin, of Salem, a roper by
trade, who came with Philip Verin (Veren, Verein or
Vereing) in the ship "James," sailing from England,
April 5, 1635; Joshua and his wife. Jane Verin, were
admitted to the Salem Church, June 21, 1640; his son
Hilliard was admitted to the church November i,
1648; he was born in 1621, in England. Eleanor was
probably Hilliard's granddaughter. Philip Verin,
who came over with Joshua, settled also at Salem but
soon removed to Rhode Island and was disciplined
there because he would not let his wife attend the
meetings of Mr. Roger Williams as often as she
wished.

(IV) Nathaniel Daniels, son of Captain John
Daniels (3). of Pomfret and Killingly, Connecticut,
was born about 1730. In 1760 he sold the land be-
tween the Quinebaug river and Mill river with
the dwelling, malt houses, dye-house, etc.. to Ben-
jamin Cargill, of South Kingston, Rhode Island, a
descendant of Rev. Donald Cargill, of Scotland.
This Daniels mill had for several years done the
malting, dyeing and grinding of corn for the farm-
ers in Pomfret, Killingly and Thompson parish,
Connecticut. Nathaniel Daniels was highway sur-
veyor of Killingly.

(V) Verin Daniels, son of Nathaniel Daniels
(4), was born September 9, 1769, probably in Kill-
ingly, Connecticut. He seems to have been brought
up in the mill business. He settled in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, when a young man, and married
there, April 21, 1796, Polly Eaton, daughter of
Thomas Eaton, all of Fitchburg. To observe the

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custom of the time the fellow citizens of Air. Dan-
iels at the next town meeting celebrated his mar-
riage by electing him hogreeve. Most of the lead-
ing citizens of early days began their public life in
this humble but at that time quite important office.
Polly Eaton was born March 26. 1774. and died
February 23, 1853. Verin Daniels bought his pew
in the church (No, 30) in 1797, and was on a com-
mittee to clapboard the meeting house that year.
He was a house carpenter by trade, but familiar
evidently with saw mills, he bought a place of
Amos Taylor, of Fitchburg, in the west part of
Fitchburg, with buildings and t venty-five acres of
land, April i, 1795. With Seth Phillips he bought
half a saw mill, iiarch 25, 1806. The other half was
owned by Blaney Phillips and Daniels later bought
that half. He erected a number of sawmills. In
1823 he was in the manufacturing business under
the firm name of Tyler, Daniels & Company. Mr.
Daniels served the town often on important com-
mittees. He was tythingman in 1805 and on the
school committee in i8o8. One interesting item
relating to the customs of former days was his pur-
chase of Mary Ware at a sale of paupers. For
Mary W'are he paid the sum of three cents a week
at the public auction. Verin Daniels died June,

1839-

The children of Verin and Polly Daniels were :
Polly (Mary), born at Fitchburg, March 12, 1797,
died October 28, 1872; Verin, Jr., born November
7> 1798, removed to Jacksonville, Illinois; Thomas
Eaton, of whom later ; William, born February 10,
1803, died at Fitchburg, February 22, 1803 ; Reuben,
born January 23, 1804, died 1876 ; David, born May
31, 1S06, married, November 19, 1831, Lorinda C.
Carter; he died July 19, 1876; Samuel, born No-
vember 15, 1808, settled also in Jacksonville, Illinois;
Ann Eliza, born May 30, 1811 ; John, born March 4,
1814, died 1833.

(VI) Thomas E. Daniels son of Verin Daniels
(5), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 19, 1800. He was educated in the common
schools there and learned the trade of machinist in
Troy, New York. He was the inventor of the Dan-
iels planer, which for some years he manufactured in
Worcester. The principle of this machine was very
valuable and is still in use in the improved patterns
of wood planers. Mr. Daniels removed to Fitch-
burg, where he was a pioneer in manufacturing. He
died January 25, 1867.

He married, April 23, 1829, Lucy Sherwin, who
was born in Townsend, Massachusetts, February 24,
1806, the daughter of Zimri Sherwin, born in Town-
send, February 7, 1754, and Polly (Kimball) Sher-
win, born at Lunenburg, October 31, 1777, married,
June 3, 1791. The children of Thomas Eaton and
Lucy Daniels were : Lucy Ann, born at Woodstock,
Vermont, December 30, 1830, died December 23,
1833; the following were born in Worcester: George
Thomas, born August 5, 1834; Charles Samuel, born
August 2, 1836; Mary Linda, born November 8,
1838, married Oliver P. Conklin, January I, i860;
had son, Harry Raymond, born September 12, 1867;
Abby Lucy, born May 31, 1841, married (first)
Franklin Moses, and their children were : Chester D..
and Lucy L. ; (second) Edwin 5. Cleaves; John
Herbert, born January 27, 1845.

(VII) John Herbert Daniels, son of Thomas
Eaton Daniels (6), was born in Worcester. January
27, 1845. He attended the public schools and grad-
uated from the Fitchburg high school in 1863, after-
wards attending a business college. At the age of

seventeen he became clerk in the provost marshal's
office at Greenfield, ^vlassachusetts, where he remain-
ed until the end of the civil war. For the next
twenty years he was connected with the Fitchburg
railroad, first as clerk in the freight office, then as
freight cashier and later as general agent of the
Fitchburg railroad at Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

In 1884 he came into possession of a fine tract of
land, embracing one hundred acres, including what
had been known as the Daniels farm, lying by the
side of the Fitchburg railroad between Fitchburg and
West Fitchburg, and he proceeded to develop it
■for manufacturing purposes, giving much of his
time and attention to the enterprise. He attracted
manufacturers by the gift of suitable land for fac-
tory sites, opened streets and encouraged the opening
of stores, schools and residences. As a result of his
efforts and public spirit a thriving community was
established in a few years. In this district are sev-
eral mills and factories, many homes, a parochial
school, French Catholic Church, Methodist Episco-
pal Church, and no less than seventy stores. Mr.
Daniels is especially interested in the growth and
advancement of the city of Fitchburg. He has been
secretary of the board of trade since its re-organiza-
tion in 1891. He is a trustee of the Fitchburg Sav-
ings Bank, director of the Fidelity Co-operative
Bank. He has also been vice-president of the Young
Men's Christian Association, and has been treasurer
of the First Baptist Church of Fitchburg. Mr. Dan-
iels is a Republican in politics. He was a member
of the common council in 1884-85. He has been on
the Fitchburg school board since 1888.

He married, in 1872, Abby F. Lane, who died in
1879. He married (second), June 29, 1892, Flor-
ence R. Dwinnell, daughter of Major B. D. Dwin-
nell (see sketch of Dwinnell family).

The children of John H. and Abby F. Daniels
were: i. Ernest T., engaged in the hardware busi-
ness with the Fitchburg Hardware Company in
Fitchburg; he married Helen M. Hitchcock, of
Fitchburg; their children are: Marion F., and Char-
lotte H. 2. Herbert L., a graduate of Cornell Uni-
versity, now engaged in Colorado in engineering
work for the United States Government. The chil-
dren of John H. and Florence R. Daniels are; El-
len Shepherd) George Eaton, Florence Dwinnell.

CHARLES A. BABBITT. The Babbitt family
of Fitchburg is descended from Edward Babbitt, of
Taunton, Massachusetts, who is said to have been a
native of Wales. He was in Taunton as early as
1643. He married, September 7, 1654, Sarah Tarne,
daughter of JNIiles Tarne, of Boston. He was living
in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1675, and was killed
by the Indians in 1676. Children of Edward and
Sarah (Tarne) Babbitt were: Edward, born July 15,
1655 : Sarah, March 20. 1660, married Samuel Pitts,
March 25, 1680; Hannah, March 9, 1660; Damaris,
September 15, 1663; Elkanah (daughter), December
15. 1665; Dorcas, January 20, 1667, died aged seven;
Esther, April 15, 1669; Ruth, August 7, 1671 ; De-
liverance, December 15. 1673. For several genera-
tions the Babbitts were located in this vicinity. The
first settler in Worcester county came from Norton,
Alassachusetts. Benajah Babbitt came to Barre
among the first settlers and cleared a farm. His
two sons, Dean and Isaac, left numerous descendants
in Barre and vicinity.

Isaac Babbitt, grandfather of Charles A. Bab-
bitt, of Fitchburg, was born September i, 1781. He
settled in Barre. He removed to Jamestown. New

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York, where he died February 8, 1858. He
married Sarah Phinney, March 13, 1806.
She was born January i, 1781, daughter of
John and Sarah ('I'hompson) Phinney. Her mother
was tlie daughter of Nathan Thompson, granddaugh-
ter of Thomas, great-granddaugliter ot John, the
son of the immigrant, John Thompson. Sarah
Babbitt died September i, or jNIarch 17, 18-14.

The children of Isaac and Sarah (Sally) (Phin-
ney) Babbitt, all born in Barre, Massachusetts, were :
Isaac Thompson, born December 21, 1806, at Norton,
Massachusetts ; married. May, 1838, Ann Packard,
daughter of Ebenezer Packard, of Fitchbnrg ; Ade-
line (alsQ called Irene), born April 30, 1809, died
September 9, 1855, married Cyrus Lovell, June 22,
1S39; they resided at Jamestown, New York, JNIans-
field, Massachusetts, and Strawberry, Clayton coun-
ty, Iowa, where he died July, 1885; Harrison Willard.
born March 31, 1812, married Marilla T. Converse;
Pliny Henry, born June 15, 1818; Charles Albert,
born December 8, 1821, married, i\lay 15, 1845, Char-
lotte Eaton, married (second) Cornelia Crosby.

(II) Pliny Henry Babbitt, son of Isaac Babbitt
(i), was born in Barre, jNIassachusetts, June 15,
1818. In early life he became an auctioneer, a busi-
ness that he followed successfully for some sixty
years. He settled in his native town and has been
honored by his townsmen with various town offices.
He has been constable and deputy sheriff for over
fifty years. He married Lydia Perry, June 19, 1839,
(intentions dated May 23, 1839) ; she was the daugh-
ter of Asa Perry, of Jaffrey and Temple, New
Hampshire, and granddaughter of Asa Perry, Sr.,
who sold two hundred acres of land to the town of
Fitchburg for a poor farm in 1826. She died in
1864. Children of Pliny Henry and Lydia (Perry)
Babbitt were : Deborah Perry, born February 5,
1841, married Dr. Seth L. Chase, of Colchester, Ver-
mont; Caleb Henry, born August 11, 1842, died
1885; Franklin Phinney (twin), born January i,
1844; Francis Fairbanks (twin), January i, 1844;
Mary Ann or Marian, born April 28, 1847, married
Theodore Bemis, resided in Providence, Rhode Is-
land; George Franklin, born November 25, 1848,
member of the Boston board of health, married Mrs.
Humphrey Allen; Charles A., born March II, 1851;
Elizabeth or Lizzie, married Harding Jenkuis, of
Barre. Six of the foregoing children were born
in Athol, and two in Barre, Massachusetts.

(III) Charles A. Babbitt, son of Pliny Henry
Babbitt (2), was born in Barre, Massachusetts, March
II, 1851. He attended the district schools of Barre
and the Barre high school. He graduated at Westfield
Normal school and began life as a school teacher.
He was principal of the academy at Londonderry,
Vermont, for two years, was principal of the West
Dennis (Massachusetts) high school for two years,
and then taught in the Boston evening schools for
three years. He began the study of law while teach-
ing in Boston, and having saved money enough for
his purpose went to Dartmouth College, where he
was graduated in 1879. He entered Boston Univer-
sity Law School, and after two years of study was
admitted to the bar in Barnstable county in
1882.

He began the practice of law in Orange, Mass-
achusetts, where he remained for five years. He re-
moved to the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in
1888 and has built up there a large practice. In
1891 he admitted to partnership William G. Farrar.

In politics Mr. Babbitt is a Democrat, and in spite
of the fact that his is usually the minority party he
has been frequently honored in Fitchburg with posi-
tions of honor and tru.-;t. He was a member of the
common council in 1897 and 1898, was on the water
board in 1899 and 1900, and was mayor of the city
in 1901 and 1902. He gave the city an able adminis-
tration, was thoroughly non-partisan and he won the
esteem of his political opponents as well as of his
own supporters. He was made a Mason in Mt.
Zion Lodge of Barre in 1872 and was an officer of
the lodge. He is- a member of Thomas Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, of Fitchburg.

He married Addie Packer, daughter of Josiab
Packer of Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1883. Their
children are : Edith D. and Ina F.

STEPHEN SLADE. The two earliest settlers
of the Slade family in New England were Robert
Slade, who was a proprietor of Sudbury. Massachu-
setts, in 1639, and William Slade, of Rhode Island
who in l66l signed a contract with the Indians. He
was admitted a freeman in 1659. Whether he was
a relative of the following line has not been determ-
ined. He was of English descent undnubtedly,while
tradition has it that the family of William Slade
mentioned below was of Irish origin.

(I) William Slade, the immigrant ancestor of
Stephen Slade, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was
probably born in Ireland of Protestant stock, not
the Scotch-Irish stock, but possibly originally Eng-
lish. He settled in Connecticut, it is supposed, as
his family is found there, but little is to be learned
of him from the records. His son used the Junior
as late as 1747, so that there is ground far believing
that William, Sr., was living near Windsor, Con-
necticut, at that time. Among his children were :
William, Jr., settled in Windsor, Connecticut, and
had children there in 1747 and later; James, settled
also in Windsor and had children there from 1751
to 1765; John, of whom later.

(II) John Slade, son of William Slade (i). was
born about 1720, probably in Connecticut, though
possibly in Ireland. He married, at Windsor. Con-
necticut, September 12, 1751, Martha Gleason, widow.
After the birth of the two older children they re-
moved to Enfield, Connecticut, where the remainder
of them were born. In the autumn of 1773 they re-
moved to Alstead, New Hampshire, with their chil-
dren. While at Enfield he served in the French and
Indian war in 1759 under General Phineas Lyman
in the company of Captain Giles Wolcott.

The children of John and Martha Slade were;'
John, born at Windsor, Connecticut, June 10, 1752,
settled finally in Brookfield, Vermont ; Martha, born
in Windsor, probably died young. Lieutenant Will-
iam, born November 25,, 1756, of whom later;
Samuel, born January 12, 1760, died young;
Samuel, born February 2, 1762, married Hannah
Thompson, and had three sons and five daughters;
Thomas (twin), born August 22, 1764. settled in
Windsor, Connecticut, and had five 'sons and three
daughters; Daniel (twin), born August 22, 1764,
died October 3, 1765 ; Martha, born February 6,
1765. died September 14, 1765.

(III) Lieutenant William Slade. son of John Slade
(2), was born in Enfield, Connecticut, November 25,
1756, and died in Alstead, New Hampshire, October
25. 1857. aged over one hundred years. He married
Anna Root, who was born September 8, 1758, and

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died March 26, 1838, aged eighty-two years. He
was a soldier in the revokition. He lived at Alstead,
New Hampshire.

The children of Wilham and Anna Slade were :
Thomas, born May 21, 1780, died December 12,

1830; .Anna, born March 24, 1782, married

Wolf, resided at Springfield, Vermont, and Leomin-
ster, Massachusetts, has descendants in Northheld,
Vermont, died October 2, 1837; Achsah, born April

I, 17S5, died March 28, 1812, married

Graves, and descendants live in Walpole, New
Hampshire; Asenath, born April- 6, 1787, married

Burroughs ; William, Jr., born August 6,

1790, has descendants living in VV'alpole, New Hamp-
sliire. Springfield, Vermont, Albany, New York,
died May 17, 1831 ; John Slade, born May 14, 1792,
died February 8, 1868; his descendants live in North-
field, Massachusetts, and Westminster, Vermont ;
Allen, mentioned below ; Henry, born October

II, 1798, died July 17, 1863, resided in Charle^town.
New Hampshire, and had very few descendants ; a
grandson lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.

(IV) Allen Slade, seventh child of Lieutenant
William Slade (3), was born May 26, 1796, in Al-
stead, New Hampshire. He settled there and con-
ducted a farm all his active life.

He married, about 1818, Nancy Kingsbury, who
was born August 11, 1798, and died January i, 1878,
aged eighty years. He died February 12, 1884, aged
eighty-eight years. The children of Allen and
Nancy Slade were : Sophia L., born JMarch 30, 1819,
died June i, 1896; Lucy A., born September 5, 1820,

resides at VValpole, New Hampshire, married

Watts; Stillman, born March i, 1822, died July 26,
1880; Ephraim K.. born April 25, 1825, died Novem-
ber 2i, 1895 ; Emeline, born October 14, 1827, died
March 8, 1903; Louisa Slade, born June 5, 1831,
died March 27, 1833; Marietta L., born June i, 1833,
resides at Walpole, New Hampshire, married

Chandler ; Stephen, of whom later.

(V) Stephen Slade, youngest son and eighth
child of Allen Slade (4), was born at Alstead, New
Hampshire, October 11, 1835. He acquired a com-
mon .school education in his youth and supplemented
that by extensive reading, and his studies extended
throughout the greater part of his life. He assisted
his father on the farm during his boyhood and later
conducted the old farm on which he was born and
where he lived for nearly sixty years. In 1894 he
removed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and gave up
farming. His son, Norman A. Slade, had located
in F'itchburg and is at present captain of truck No. 2
of the fire department, and Frederick W. C, his
other son, was formerly a member of the common
council.

After making his home in Fitchburg he entered
the employ of the Postal Telegraph Company as
groundman under Superintendent Rand of the fire
alarm telegraph system. He made many friends in
Fitchburg. where members of his family are very
well known and highly esteemed. He died Septem-
ber 7, 1905, at his home, 92 Prichard street. Mr.
Slade was an active member of Ashuelot Grange,
No. 54, of Surry. New Hampshire. He attended
the Universalist Church. In politics he had been a
Democrat.

He married. 1859. Ellen M. Chandler, daughter
of Calvin Chandler, a prominent farmer. She was
born September 28, 18,39. and resides in the home-
stead on Prichard street, Fitchburg. Their children,
all born at Alstead, were: Elbridge A., born January
4, 1862, died May 5, 1869; Norman A., born Septem-

ber II. 1865, married Alice Atherton, and they have
two children, Mabel and Harold ; Norman A. is cap-
tain of truck No. 2 of the Fitchburg fire department;
Frederick W., born April 13, 1872, has been a mem-
ber of the Fitchburg common council; married
Minnie Booth and they have four children : Harry,
Helen, Fred, and Edith.

JOSEPH AUGUSTUS BATTLES. Thomas
Battle or Battles Cij, also spelled Battelle and var-
ious other ways, now as in the earlier days, is the
pioneer ancestor of Joseph Augustus Battles, of
iMthburg, Massachusetts. He came from England
probably in 1642 and settled in Dedham, Massachu-
setts. He was a townsman there in 1648, and was
admitted to the church January 22, 1653-4. He was
admitted a freeman jNIay 3, 1654. His wife Mary
joined the Dedham Church January 21, 1648. He
married, September 5, 1648, Mary Fisher, daughter
of Joshua Fisher. She died August 6, 1691. He
died February 8, 1705-6. His will was dated Feb-
ruary 6, 1701-2, and proved March 7, 1705-6. He
bequeathed to his sons John and Jonathan, and
daughter Mary. The children of Thomas and Mary
(Fisher) were: Jilary, born 1650, married John Bry-
ant; John, of whom later; Sarah, born August 8,
1654, married Silas Titus; Jonathan, born July 24,
1658, married, April 15, 1690; Martha, born August
19, 1660. Some of the foregoing dates do not agree
with Savage's, but the correct dates are here
given.

(II) John Battles, son of Thomas Battles, of
Dedham (i), was born July i, 1652, in Dedham,
Massachusetts. He married, November 18, 1678,
Hannah Holbrook. He died September 30, 1713.
The following list of children is probably incomplete
and there is no record found of the birth of Edward.
A search of all the available records confirms the
belief that he was not related to Robert Battle, of
Boston, who died December 23, 1658, and that he
could not have been the son of any other than John,
of Dedham, as here given.

The children of John and Hannah (Holbrook)
Battles were: Hannah, born July 26, 1680; Edward,
of whom later; Mary, born May 12, 1684; John,
born April 17, 1689, removed to Plymouth and had
descendants in Stoughton ; Ebenezer, born January
2, 1692.

(III) Edward Battles, son of John Battles (2),
as stated above, was born in or near Dedham, Mass-
achusetts, about 1682 or about 1685-6. (See His-
tory of Hingham). He settled early in Hingham,
Massachusetts. A duplicate record of his marriage,
the history states, gives his name as David. He
married, (published March 13) 1706-7, Experience
Pratt, and they resided in the second precinct of
Hingham, where their children were born. AH the
children were baptized together June 2, 1723, at
Hingham. '

The children of Edward and Experience (Pratt)
Battles were: Edward, born 1709, (see Worcester
county deeds, Vol. 88, page 195 ) ; ]Mary, born .\pril
25, 171 1, married (first). May 18, 1732, Joshua Lin-
coln, son of Peter Lincoln; married (second), Feb-
ruary 7, 1763, Solomon Briggs, of Norton, Massachu-
setts; Joseph, of whom later; Experience, born
1715, married, November 15, 1734, Thaddeus Murk-
son, of Rochester, Massachusetts ; Susanna, born
April 25. 1717, died young; Jeremiah, born March

16, 1719-20, married Hannah , had daughter,

Hannah, in Hingham. January 16, 174^-3. and re-
moved to Mendon, (see W. C. deeds) ; Sarah,

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born July 20. 1721, married, June 11, 1740,
Henry Washburn; Susanna, born June 2, 1723,
married, March 23, 1743-4, Benjamin Washburn, of
Bridgevvater. The Battles families of Plymouth
and Bridgewater were evidently connections of the
Hingham family.

(IV) Joseph Battles, third child of Edward
Battles (3), was born in Hingham, JMassachusetts,
May 18, 1713. He married, 1738, Susanna Studley,
of Scituate, and after living for a time in the second
precinct of Hingham (but Dean says he was the
tirst of the name to live in Scituate, where his wife
was born, and many of his descendants have lived
there), he bought eighty-seven acres of land in
Leominster, April i, 1760, of James Richardson, of
Dover and Leominster, for two hundred and two
pounds. He removed to Leominster and died there
in 1766. Guardians were appointed in Worcester
county for si.x children who were under age. The
first eight children are recorded at Hingham; the
ne.xt three baptized there, probably born in Scituate,
and the youngest, Content, was born probably in
Leominster. The estate was divided by a committee
December 13, 1773. Mabel deeded her share to
James Richardson, July 13, 1773, as soon as she
was of age ; similar deeds were taken by Mr. Rich-
ardson from other heirs. Without the deeds and
probate records it would have been impossible to
establish the line in this family. Either Joseph or
his son Joseph bought forty-one acres of land in
Leominster in 1764 of Stephen Symmes, of Bo.x-
ford, Massachusetts.

The children of Joseph and Susanna (Studley)
Battles were: Hannah, born August 16. 1739; Joseph,
of whom later; Susanna, December 20, 1742; Sarah,
baptized July 14, 1745; Lydia, January 22, 1746;
Ephraim, June 9, 1749, went to Hingham, deeded
his rights to father's estate, December 13, 1773;
Rachel, June 7, 1752 (twin); iMabel, June 7, 1752
(twin); Priscilla, baptized August 15. 1756; James,
baptized October 26, 1760, probably of Leominster ;
John, of whom later; Content, born 1762, (James
Richardson guardian 1769).

(V) John Battles, eleventh child of Joseph Battles
(4), is not the ancestor of the subject of this sketch
but of many of the family in Fitchburg and vicinity.
John Battles resided in Leominster and Fitchburg,
Massachusetts. He was a revolutionary soldier in
Captain David Wilder's company, Twenty-third Con-
tinental Regiment.

The children of John and Hannah Battles were :
John, born in Leominster, December 4, 1786, died
December, 1788; Dolly, December 4, 1788, at Leomin-
ster; the following at Fitchburg: John, March 21,
1790, married (tirst), 1823, Jilrs. Polly Chesemore.
and (second) Lois Carter, of Leominster, June 4.
1837; David, January 12, 1792; Hannah, ^L^y 12,
1793; Caleb, August 12, 1796, died February i, 1819;
Nathan, November 25, 1796, lived in Fitchburg and
had three sons settle in the adjoining town of West-
minster; Thomas W., Benjamin F., and .Alfred;
Asa, March 8, 1797; Martin, removed and settled
in Hingham, married, December 10, 1826, Cynthia
Lincoln, and had eight children ; Leonard, October
I, 1801 ; Lydia, August 20, 1802, died September,
1803 ; Samuel, August 24, 1804, died 1880, at Fitch-
burg, married Elizabeth Wilkins, at Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, September 5, 1838; married (second)
Fanny Evans, (October 3, 1845.

(V) Joseph Battles, son of Joseph Battles (4),
brother of the preceding, and ancestor of the sub-

ject of this sketch, was born October 5, 1740. He
married, 1759, Rebecca Burbank, of Scituate, and
lived there. His home was there in 1766 at the
time of his father's death, and it is not known that
he lived there. He sold ten acres of land in Leomin-
ster, December 9, 1766, after his father's death. The
deed included his interests in his father's real estate
in Leominster. His deed, like the similar convey-
ances from his brothers and sisters, was to James
Richardson. The children of Joseph Battles were
probably born in Scituate. They were: Joseph, Jr.,
born about 176S; David (no record to prove parent-
age), born about 1770, settled in Leominster and
had eight children, among whom were : David, El-
mira, Lucy, Rebecca, Sarah A., and Betsey. (The
eldest son lived in Fitchburg and had three children 1.

(VI) Joseph Battles, son of Joseph Battles (s),
was born about 1768, probably in Scituate. He set-
tled in Fitchburg, in the south part of the town. He
deeded half this farm to his son, Joseph, Jr., in con-
sideration of good will and love, December 15. 1829.
The son evidently prepared his home for house-
keeping, for he nfcrried a few months later. He
was living in 1836 on the farm when his son, Henry
Battles, deeded his interests in the estate on which
Joseph Battles, Sr., was living at that time to Joseph
Battles, Jr., who owned the other half. The children
of Joseph Battles were: Joseph, Jr., born about 1800;
Henry, see above deed.

(VII) Joseph Battles, father of Joseph A. Bat-
tles, and son of Joseph Battles (6), was born about
1800, in Leominster, JMassachusetts. He was edu-
cated in the common schools there and followed his
father's footsteps as a farmer on the old place. He
was a Whig in politics. He married Betsey Whit-
ing, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, June 3, 1830.
Their children, born in Fitchburg, were : Elbridge
Dana, born in South Fitchburg, June 13, 1832, died
1857 at Fitchburg; Joseph Augustus, of whom later.

(VIII) Joseph Augustus Battles, younger son of
Joseph Battles (7), was born on the old homestead
at South Fitchburg, Massachusetts, April 5, 1835.
He was brought up there on the farm near Mount
Monoosnoc and attended the district schools of
Fitchburg. He went to work first for P. Smith &
Company, bakers, and continued in this business
and farming for several years. In 1866 he started
in the livery stable business, in which he became
very successful in later years. At first he had only
three horses. He soon afterward established his
business in Oliver street. In 1869 he removed to
Day street. For a few months only he had a partner.
He was in the livery business altogether for twenty-
three years. He was the owner of the first hack in
Fitchburg. He made a specialty of hacks and stage
coaches for hire. When he retired from the busi-
ness and sold his stable he had invested in real es-
tate some $25,000. He was appointed superintendent
of streets and held the position to the satisfaction
of the citizens and with credit to himself for seven
years. , Of late years he has retired from active life
and is occupied only with the care of his real estate.
He is a strong Republican in politics. He is a mem-
ber and has been president of the Fitchburg (Worces-
ter North ) Agricultural Society.

He married, in 1873, Ellen L. Smith, who died
May II. 1896. She was a daughter of Joseph Smith,
of Fitchburg. They have no children.

In closing this sketch of Mr. Battles is is but fair
to describe in a few words the manner in which this
man is respected by the citizens of Fitchburg and

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his many friends outside. Truly Mr. Battles can
be called a home man. His home on Main street
is where he spends his idle hours, generally sur-
rounded by two or three friends who take great de-
light in hearing him recount experiences of the past,
for Mr. Battles is ranked as one of the best story
tellers in Fitchburg. He is outspoken and what he
has to say to a man he says to his face. As an old
resident remarked, "Gus Battles would never do a
•man an injustice if he knew it."

Adorning the w^alls of i\Ir. Battles' cozy home
are^ many works of art executed by his late wife, in
which Wr. Battles takes great pride in showing to
his many friends. He is a public-spirited man and
also philanthropic, and has done many deeds of
charity which no one knows anything about. For
his kind, genial maimer he has erected a monument
to himself which will be enduring to those left be-
hind.

THE HARDY FAMILY. Thomas Hardy (i),
the immigrant ancestor of William A. Hardy, of
Fitchburg, was one of the first ttvelve who planted
the settlement of old Ipsw'ich on the Esse.x shore of
New England. He was born in England, and was
brother of John Hardy, the only other early settler
of Massachusetts Bay colony. Rev. Mr. Perry in
his anniversary sermon at Bradford, Massachusetts,
said the two brothers John and Thomas Hardy came
to this country in the family of Governor John Win-
throp as laborers. Not finding business tor them,
Winthrop gave them land, at first at Ipswich, but as
they did not like the soil there he gave them leave to
come to Bradford and furnished them with their
patent. Their first house stood just back of David
Mardin's house (in 1820) where the cellar was then
visible. This account is rather vague, but interest-
ing. Thomas Hardy was at Ipswich, April i, 163J,
and was then a proprietor, not a servant. He lived
there for some twenty years, a citizen and planter,
and about 1653 removed to the neighboring town of
Rowley. Soon afterward he settled at Bradford,
where many descendants have lived and are stdl liv-
ing. He was one of Major Denison's subscribers
in 1648. His home in Ipswich was a lot near the
river adjoining Robert Adams' and Thomas Hew-
lett's farms. He was called of Haverhill when he
gave land to daughter Mary, wife of Samuel Cur-
rier, of Haverhill, July i, 1670, though his home
may have still been Bradford. He made a will at
Merrimack village, near Haverhill (Bradford)
March 4, 1671-2, with codicil dated December 12,
1677, when he was aged seventy-two years. He was
therefore born in 1605. The will was proved March
7, 1677-8, and becjueathed to wife, to son? John,
Joseph, Jacob, and William ; son-in-law William
Hutchins ; daughter Mary and her children. He
died January 4, 1678. His children: I. Thomas,
born Bradford ; married Mercy Tenney, mentioned
below. 2. John, made freeman 1676 ; married Mary

, and Marctha . 3. Joseph, born

1642, died January 11, 1726-7, aged eighty-four
years ; had son Joseph and others. 4. Jacob, born

Bradford; married Lydia ; died November

2, 1713. S- William, born May 3, 1678; married
Ruth Tenney. 6. Daughter, married William Hut-
chins, perhaps Ann, who was baptized at Rowley,
April 26, 1666. 7. Mary, married, 1670, Samuel Cur-
rier, of Flaverhill.

(II) Thomas Hardy, son of Thomas Hardy (i),
born in Ipswich or vicinity about 1650; married

(first) Ruth

who was given as the mother

of .Thomas when he was baptized June 17, 1683. He
married (second) Mercy Tenney, who joined the
church November 4, 1694, ^nd died 1716, at Brad-
ford. Their children: i. Thomas, Jr., born about
1680, baptized June 17, 1683. 2. Isaac. 3. Hannah.
4. Sarah. The three last named were baptized
August 26, 1695.

(III) Thomas Hardy, son of Thomas Hardy
(2), was 'born in Bradford, Massachusetts, about
1690. He joined the church there June 26, 1721.
He settled on a farm in Bradford and lived there
all his life. He married Martha Hardy, January 4,
1721-2. Their children, all born in Bradford, were:
I. Gideon, born May 7, 1722. 2. Reuben, September
24, 1724. 3. Phineas, July ir, 1726, mentioned be-
low. 4. Ebenezer, born November 7, 1728. 5. Isaac,
August 5, 1730. 6. Martha, December 29, 1731. 7.
Phebe, December 3, 1732, S. Anna, July 30, 1735.

(IV) Phineas Hardy, son of Thomas Hardy (3),
was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, about 1725.
He removed to HoUis, New Hampshire, and made
his home there. He had four sons in the Revolution.
In 1775 there were four of the family on the tax list
of Hollis — Phineas, Phineas, Jr., Nehemiah and
Aaron. The children of Phineas and Abigail Hardy:
I. Elizabeth, born Bradford, July 22, 1750. 2. Martha,
born June 24, 1752, at Hollis. 3. Phineas, Jr., born
June 25, 1754, at Hollis, was a soldier in the revo-
lution. 4. Thomas, born June II, 1756, at Hollis;
resided at Dublin and Marlboro, New Hampshire ;
married Lucy Coburn ; was a soldier in the Revol-
\itionary war. 5. Noah, born September 17, 1758,
mentioned below. 6. Jesse, born December 19, 1760,
settled in Hollis. 7. Isaac, born July g, 1763.
8. Moses, born 17, 1765 ; married Abigail Wheat ;
resided at Hollis. g. Solomon, born August i, 1767.

(V) Deacon Noah Hardy, son of Phineas
Hardy (4), born September 17, 1758, at Hollis, New
Hampshire, settled in Nelson, New Hampshire,
where he lived during most of his active years. In
his old age he went to Antrim, New Hampshire, to
live w-ith his daughter, Mrs. Buckminster, and died
there December 21, 1835. He was a soldier in the
Revolution, in Capt. Daniel Emerson's company in
1777 and 1778. The town of Nelson, where he set-
tled, was granted first by the Masonian proprietors
as Monadnock, No. 6, later it was granted as Pack-
ersfield, named for Thomas Packer, of Portsmouth.
He was, says the "History of Antrim," a good man,
little known in Antrim. He married Sarah Spof-
ford, who died May 9, 1850, aged eighty-five years.
Their children: i. Noah, mentioned below.' 2. Bet-
sey, married Ezra Prescott, long register of deeds at
Amherst, New Hampshire. 3. Sally, married David
Ames, Jr., of Hancock, New Hampshire; settled in
Charlotte, New York. 4. Deacon David, born about
1800; married Sally Farwell, of Hancock; was in
Westminster, Vermont, and Hancock : settled on the
North Branch, Antrim, in 1833, on John G. Flint
place ; in 1837 removed to Homer, New York. 5.
Hannah H.. born in Nelson; married Benjamin M.
Buckminster in 1819; died July 19, 1848; resided
in Antrim. 6. Silas, born in Nelson. November 20,
1799; married Abigail Farley, of Hollis, in 1826;
came to Antrim, New Hampshire, from Westmin-
ster, Vermont; in 1835 settled in New Ipswich, New
Hampshire. 7. Lois, married Henry Kelsey.

(VI) Captain Noah Hardy, son of Deacoii
Noah Hardy (5), was born in Nelson, New Hamp-
shire, September 16, 1789. He settled in Nelson.

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He was captain of tlic military company there and
served during the war of 1812 for a short time.
He married Jerusha Kimball, who was born August
13. 1790- Their children, born in Nelson, were:
I. Augustus Hardy, born September 4, 1S12. 2. Syl-
vander W. Hardy, mentioned below. 3. George B.,
born September 25, 1816. 4. Abby, September 5,
1818. 5. Noah W., November 9, 1820. 6. Charles,
October 18, 1822. 7. Caroline M., February 3, 1825.
8. Silas, April 3, 1827. 9. Franklin B., April 28,
1829. 10. E. Prescott, September 3. 1831.

(VH) Sylvander \V. Hardy, second child of
Captain Noah Hardy (6), was born in Nelson, New
Hampshire, February 25, 1814, and died in Charles-
town, Alassachusctts. April 10, 1850. He was a
skillful machinist and foreman of the machine shop
at the Charlestown navy yard from 1843 to 1850.
He married, 1835, Mary Batchelder, of Wilton, New
Hampshire. Their children were: i. William A.,
mentioned below. 2. Charles K., born May 10, 1847.
a well-known artist of Worcester, Massachusetts.

(Vni) William Augustus Hardy, son of Syl-
vander (7) and Mary (Batchelder) Hardy, was born
in Pepperell, Massachusetts, June 12, 1837. He at-
tended school at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and at
Guilford (New Hampshire) Academy. After the
death of his father he went to live on the farm of
his uncle, George Hardy, at Nelson, New Hamp-=
shire. He worked there four years and then went
as an apprentice to learn his trade at Lake Village,
New Hampshire. In 1855 he removed to Fitch-
burg and has made his home there ever since. He
began in business with Levi Stevens, who had a
small brass foundry established in 1850, located
near the site of the present Fitchburg hardware
store. The foundry was soon removed to the pres-
ent location off Water street. Jilr. Hardy also be-
came interested in the manufacture of screen plates
for the use of paper manufacturers, in partnership
with Charles Finder. The firm name was Hardy &
Finder, for the manufacture of screen plates onlj',
until 1893, when Mr. Finder retired, and died two
years later. Mr. Hardy bought the interests of his
partner and continued the business under his own
name until it was consolidated with the brass foun-
dry and the whole concern incorporated. The pres-
ent corporation was formed December 15, 1902, with
a capital of $50,000, as William A. Hardy & Sons'
Company. The officers are the same as those first
chosen : President, William A. Hardy ; vice-presi-
dent, Walter A. Hardy ; secretary, William C. Hardy ;
treasurer, Frank O. Hardy. The company manufac-
tures all kinds of brass castings, babbitt metal,
screen plates, etc. Mr. Hardy is one of the oldest
manufacturers in Fitchburg, having been in active
business over fifty years. He has won an enviable
position in the business world.

Mr. Hardy enlisted in the civil war in Company
D, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, of Charlestown,
Col. George H. Pierson commander, and was wound-
ed at Goldsborough, North Carolina. He was after-
ward active in the militia. He was a member of
the Washington Guards of Fitchburg in the Ninth
Massachusetts Regiment. Boston. 1855-60; of the
Boston Light Infantry Veteran Corps. He is now
a member of Post No. 19, G. A. R., at Fitchburg,
and of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany of Boston. Mr. Hardy is also a member of
the order of Odd Fellows and of the Red Men. In
politics he is a Republican. He was selectman of
Fitchburg before the city charter was granted, and

afterward a member of. the common council and the
school board of the city. He married (first) Har-
riet M. Adams, who was drowned at Ipswich in 1877.
She was a descendant of the same line of the Adams
family as President John Adams (see Adams fam-
ily). Her ancestors settled in Ashburnham, and her
grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution. Mr.
Hardy married (second) in 1878, Emma A. Sargent,
daughter of James B. and Susan (Daniels) Sargent,
of Boston. Children of William A. and Harriet A.
Hardy: i. Carrie F., born August 23, 1861, married
Frank H. Ormsby, of Boston. 2. Herbert, died
young. 3. Walter A., mentioned below. 4. Frank
O., mentioned below. The children of William A.
and Emma A. Hardy ; 5. Theodore R., born April 7,
1879, a graduate of Cowles' Art College, a designer
and artist of note, Boston. 6. William C, mention-
ed below. 7. George E., born September 24, 1883,
a graduate of Fitchburg liigh school, 1903 ; of Am-
herst College, 1907. 8. Chester S., born September
15, 1887, a graduate of Fitchburg high school, 1905;
student at Brown University, class of 1909.

(IX) Walter A. Hardy, son of William A.
Hardy (8), was born in Fitchburg. Massachusetts,
December 15, 1866. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town, leaving the high school
after two years in order to go into business with
his father. He learned the business thoroughly and
has been closely identified with its management ever
since. He is at present the vice-president, and in the
absence of his father the head of the company. In
politics he is a Republican, and in 1904 and 1905 was
an alderman of the city of Fitchburg. being espe-
cially active in police matters, as chairman of the po-
lice committee ; also member of the fire department
committee, the committees on city property and of
finance. He is a well known Free Alason, a member
of Aurora Lodge, and Thomas Royal Arch Chapter.
He is a member of Apollo Lodge of Odd Fellows;
of the Park Club ; of the Manufacturers' Club of
Fitchburg; of the Fitchburg Merchants' Association.
He is president of the Fitchburg Baseball Associa-
tion. For seven years he was in Company B, of
Fitchburg in the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol-
unteer Militia, serving on the noncommissioned
staff, and ranking as sergeant. He married, Decem-
ber 15, 1890. Hattie Jackman, daughter of Noah
Jackman, at Fitchburg. They have one child. Carrie
E., born February 3, 1892. They reside at 6 AUston
street, Fitchburg.

(IX) Frank O. Hardy, son of William Augus-
tus Hardy (8), was born in Fitchburg. Massachu-
setts, September 13, 1870. He attended the public
schools and graduated from the Fitchburg high
school. He entered into the business of his father
in the brass foundry, and since the incorporation he
has been treasurer of the W. A. Hardy & Sons Com-
pany. He is a Republcan in politics, and a Unitar-
ian in religion. He is a director of the Fitchburg
Safe Deposit and Trust Company. He married, in
1895, Bessie Lawrence, daughter of Sumner Law-
rence, of Fitchburg, a prominent mason and builder.
Their children are : Lawrence A. Hardy, and Helen
Hardy.

(IX) William C, Hardy, son of William A.
Hardy (8), was born in Fitchburg, IMassachusetts,
February 14, 1881. He was educated in the Fitch-
burg schools, graduating in 1898 from the high
school. He entered Brown University, from which
he was graduated in 1902, and immediately became
associated with his father and brothers in the brass

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foundry business in Fitchburg, During his first
year in the concern he was made the secretary of
the corporation, a position that he has held ever
since. He is a member of no fraternal orders or
clubs except his college fraternity, the Alpha Tau
Omega. In politics he is an active Republican.
He attends the First Unitarian Church. He married,
October 3, 1905, Almeda Frances Reed, daughter of
Edward Hartwell Reed, of Fitchburg. (See Reed
Family).

ARTHUR L. GOODNOW. Edmund Goodnow
(i), the immigrant ancestor of Arthur L. Good-
now, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born in Eng-
land in 161 1 and came from JDunhead in Wilt-
shire county, with his wife Anne, and sons John
and Thomas, who were under four years of age,
also with a servant, Richard Sanger, aged eighteen
years, in the ship '"Confidence," which sailed from
Southampton April II, 1638. His brother, John
Goodnow. from Semley in Wiltshire, and his
brother, Thomas Goodnow, from Shasbury, Eng-
land, were on the same boat with their families,
and all settled in Sudbury in New England. All
three became prominent and well-to-do citizens.

Edmund Goodnow or Goodenow, as the name
was also spelled, was a farmer. He was a pro-
prietor of the town of Sudbury in 1639 and was ad-,
mitted a freeman May 13. 1640. He was selectman
in 1641 and deputy to the general court in 1645
and 1650. He was appointed by the general court
a commissioner to end small causes in 1661. He
■was a leader in the militia and was lieutenant in
command of the Sudbury band during the absence
of Captain William Pelham in England. He was
prominent also in Marlboro, where he settled on a
lot on North street, the third place east of the
meeting house next to the homestead of John
Haynes.

He died April 5, 1688. His wife Ann ,

"born in 1608, died May 9, 1675, aged sixty-seven
years. They were buried in the Sudbury, now
Wayland. cemetery. Their children were : John,
"born in England, 1635, of whom later; Thomas;
Hannah, born November 28, 1639, married, April,
1656, James Pendleton; Mary, born August 25, 1640;
Sarah, born March 17, 1642-43, married John
Kettell ; Joseph, born July 19, 1645; Edmund, mar-
ried Dorothy Mann.

(H) John Goodnow. eldest son of Edmund
Goodnow (l), was born in Dunhead, Wiltshire,
England, in 1635, and came w'ith his parents to
America when an infant in arms. He was brought
up in Sudbury and was admitted a freeman there
in 1673. H<! was a farmer. He married Mary Ax-
tell, September 19, 1656. Slie died April 14, 1704,
and he died August 6, 1721. Their children were:
Hannah, born December 17, 1657, married. 1680,
James Smith : Mary, born October 19, 1659 ; Ed-
mund, born October 16, 1661 : Sarah, born Feb-
ruary 26. 1663, died young ; Sarah, born July 2,
1666: Elizabeth, born 1672, married. 1691, Joseph
Hayden ; Joseph, born December i. 1674: Ebenezer,
born June 6, 1677 ; Lydia, born October 18, 1678 ;
Mercy or Mary, born November 8, 1680, married.
September 22, 1701, Joseph Patterson.

(HI) Joseph Goodnow, seventh child of John
Goodnow (2), was born in Sudbury, December i,
1674. He married Patience . who died Feb-
ruary 23. 1731-2, and he died September 3, 1758.
Their children were: Martha, born May 22, 1701 ;

Daniel, born May 24, 1703; Elizabeth, born Sep-
tember I, 1704; Daniel, born June 16, 1707; Peter,
of whom later; Jotham, born April 6, 1714.

(IV) Peter Goodnow, fifth child of Joseph
Goodnow (3j, was born in Sudbury, February 10,
1709-10. When a young man he settled in Rut-
land. Massachusetts, but soon after the birth of his
first child returned to Sudbury to live. He mar-
ried Dorothy Moore, of Sudbury, October 13, 1736.
Their children were : Jotham. born in Rutland,
August 8, 1737, and the following were born in
Sudbury: Lucia, born May 12, 1739; Jedediah, born
September 8. 1740; Jonas, of whom later; Peter,
Jr., born July 18, 1745; Dorothy, born November
3, 1747, died young; Dorothy, born January 18,
1751 : Patience, born August 24, 1752.

(V) Jonas Goodnow, fourth child of Peter Good-
now (4), was born in Sudbury, April 19, 1742. He
removed from Sudbury to Boylston after the birth
of his children in 1785 or 1786. The three youngest
were born on the Boylston place. He was deacon
of the church. He made his will December 19,
1810.

He married, January 29, 1763, at Sudbury, Mary
Davenport, daughter of Nathaniel Davenport, and
she died January 3, 1826, aged seventy-seven years,
at Boylston. Their children were: Elijah, born in
1768, died in New Hampshire; Abel Moore, of
whom later: Nathaniel, born November 20. 1771,
settled in Boylston ; Mary, born October 9, 1773,
died in New Hampshire : Jonas, born January 6,
1776, died January 28, 1783, at Boylston; Dorothy,
born February 24, 1778, died before 1810; Jedediah,
born May 6, 1780, died in Pennsylvania; Lucy, born
January 3, 1783. died in Ohio; Jonas, born Feb-
ruary II, 1785. The preceding were born in Sud-
bury, the following in Boylston : Tamar, born April
18, 1787, settled in Ohio; Augustus, born February
2, 1789; Joseph, born April 7, 1795, was murdered
in Illinois.

(VI) AbelMoore Goodnow-, second child of Jonas
Goodnow (5), was born in Sudbury, May 28, 1769.
He was brought up in Boylston and settled there.
He died May 21. 1805, aged thirty-five years, nine
months, seven days, and guardians were appointed
for his minor children, in 1806. His children were:
Polly, born March 25, 1790, at Boylston; Sally, born
April 18, 1792: Amittai, born March 13, 1794, died
1807; Henry H. : Harrison D., of whom later; Abel
M., born March 2, 1805.

(VII) Harrison D. Goodnow, fifth child of Abel
Moore Goodnow (6), was born in Boylston about
1800. He married (published). December 4. 1825,
Annis E. Hudson, of West Boylston. They settled
in West Boylston, adjoining and formerly part of
Boylston. Their children were: Lyman Harrison,
of whom later: William Dexter, born May 8, 1830;
Edwin Francis, born March 9, 1833: Ann Maria,
born February 29, 1836. The following were born
in Worcester : Mary Jane, born February 10,
i8,TO: Henry Hudson, born June 14, 1841 ; Eleanor
Waite. born March 8. 1844.

(VIII) Lyman Harrison Goodnow, eldest child
of Harrison D. Goodnow (7), was born in Boyls-
ton, March 9. 1828. The family moved to Worces-
ter in 1836 and he obtained his early education
there. He learned the trade of molder and pattern
maker and became foreman for William A. Wheeler
in his iron fouqdry. Later he began on his own ac-
count the manufacture of wire drawing machinery
in Worcester. In 1875 he removed to Fitchburg

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and succeeded the late Artenias R. Smith as part-
ner of Hale W. Page in the RoUstone Iron Foun-
do'- The firm became Page & Goodnow. When
Mr. Page died Mr. Goodnow assumed the entire
business. Shortly before his death it was incorpo-
rated as the L. H. Goodnow Foundry Company. Mr.
Goodnow's success in business made him a prom-
inent figure in the manufacturing world of his
vicinity. He was a director of the Wachusett Na-
tional' Bank, director of the Fidelity Co-operative
Bank and member of its investment committee,
trustee of the Worcester North Savings Institute,
trustee of the Fitchburg Real Estate Association
and director of the Sawyer Tool Company. He was
a Republican in politics and was in the board of
aldermen in 1886. He was in the school board from
1882 to 1887, inclusive. He attended the Unitarian
Church. His home was on Summer Street, Fitch-
burg-

His long life was a career of prosperity, activity
and probity. At the time of his death one who
knew him well said : "Mr. Goodnow represented
with fidelity the New England virtue of making the
daily life noble in an unconscious way. This is a
faculty, or call it what you will, that is not often
found, but when found, glorifies the possessor into
a character that is at once fine, noble and helpful
to his fellowmen. All this Mr. Goodnow exemplified
in a very marked and emphatic way in his business
relations. This manifestation of his New England
character found its expression too in the home,
where the bereft circle finds much consolation in
the recollection of his happiness and kindly tem-
perament in the uncomplaining way in which he
bore all his ills and troubles." "In the develop-
ment of his sturdy New England character he found
many friends who valued him for his honesty,
strength and simplicity." The bearers at his funeral
were six workmen from the foundry.

He married, September 28, 185,3, Hannah L.
Simonds, who died September 19, i8g6. He mar-
ried (second), February 2, 1S99. Mattie A. Ingalls.
He died May 24, 1903. The children of Lyman
Harrison and Hannah L. Goodnow were : Frank,
died young: Flora E., married C. E. Foster, of
Brooklyn, New York ; Lilla F., married D. E. Fair-
banks : Arthur L., of whom later.

(IX) Arthur L. Goodnow, youngest child of
Lyman Harrison Goodnow (8), was born in
Worcester. June 28. 1870. He went to Fitchburg
with his parents when he was a young child and
was educated in the public schools of that city.
He" entered his father's foundry and learned the
business from the ground up. He became a skillful
pattern maker. When his father died he took charge
of the business and has carried it on since then.
In politics he is a Republican and has served three
years on the school board of Fitchburg. He is a
member of Charles W. Moore Lodge of Free Ma-
sons and the various JNIasonic bodies, including the
Order of the Mystic Shrine. He is a trustee of the
Worcester North Savings Institution. He attends
the Universalist Church.

He married. June .3, 1896. Alice Hancock, daugh-
ter of Daniel Hancock, of Fitchburg, and they have
one child, Donald.

ANDREW B. SHERMAN. W"illiam Sherman
(t), the first ancestor of Andrew B. Sherman, of
Fitchburg, to come to this country, settled in Plym-

outh colony about i6jo. No connection has been
established between him and the other emigrants
of the name. (See sketch of George H. Sherman
in this work.)

William Sherman lived first in Duxbury, where
he was recorded as a yeoman and planter. He was
a taxpayer there in 1652 and as early as 1637 was a
proprietor. He was on the Plymouth list of those
able to bear arms in 1643. He removed to Marsh-
field, where his descendants have lived down to the
present time. He was admitted an inhabitant in
Marshfield November 13, 1644. He held various
town ofiices. Sherman was a poor man when he
came to America, but he was thrifty and energetic
and left to his children a large inheritance. Be-
sides his lands in Marshfield he had property in
Rochester. He was a good, faithful citizen. Before
his death he deeded much of his property to his
sons: to Samuel. June 9, 1673, to John, February
5, 1673, and to William, August 15, 1676. He died
October 25, 1679. The inventory of his estate was
dated December 30, 1680. He was buried in the
family ground at Marshfield. Judging from the
date of his marriage and the fact that he was re-
ported an old man when he died he is believed to
have been born about 1610.

He married. 1638. Prudence , As far as

known their children were : John, born 1646, died
1722: William, of whom later: Samuel, died 1718.

(II) William Sherman, son of William Sher-
man (i), was -born about 1640, in Marshfield or
Duxbury, in New England. He was a soldier in
King Philip's war, and from witnessing the cruelities
there he became insane and the colony had to vote
twenty dollars for the relief of his family. Later
he seemed to have recovered his reason. He died
in 1724.. The children of William Sherman were:
Hannah, born February 21, 1668; Elizabeth, March
II, 1670, died 1695; William, of whom later; Pa-
tience, August 3, 1674; Experience, September 22,
1678; Ebenezer, April 21, 1680. died 17^9.

(III) William Sherman, third child'of William
Sherman (2), was born in Marshfield, Massachu-
setts, April 19, 1672. He was a farmer at Marsh-
field, Massachusetts. He married ^Mary White,
daughter of Peregrine White, the first white child
born in the Plymouth colony. Peregrine was born
in December, 1620, on board the "Mayflower," the
son of William and Ann (Fuller) White. The de-
scendants of William Sherman are not only descend-
ants of three Pilgrim ancestors through Peregrine
White and his parents, but also through Peregrine's
wife. He married Sarah Bassett, daughter of Will-
iam Bassett and Elizabeth, his wife. Bassett came
to Plymouth in 1621.

William Bassett, an Englishman, was married at
Leyden, Holland, where he lived with the Pilgrims,
August 13, 161 1, to Margaret Oldham. His first
wife was Cecil Light, as shown by the Dutch rec-
ords at Leyden. He was admitted a freeman at
Plymouth, 1633 ; resided at Duxbury, and w'as a
gunsmith. He represented the town in the general
court. In 1650 he resided at Sandwich, Massachu-
setts, and later at Bridgewater. Peregrine White
became a prominent citizen of the Plymouth colony.
He died 1667. His wife died January 20, 171 1.
They have a numerous posterity.

The children of William and Mary (White)
Sherman were: Thankful, born April 4, 1699, mar-
ried, 1726, Robert Atkins; Samuel, May 8, 1701,

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married Adam Hall; Mary (twin), June 6, i/li;
Abigail (twin), June 6, l/il; John, of whom later;
Anthony, December 2i, 1722.

(IV) John Sherman, fifth child of William
Sherman (3), was born in IMarshfield, Massachu-
setts, July 19, 1720. He was a farmer of Marsh-
field. He married Elizabeth Dingley, 1746, grand-
daughter of John Dingley, of Marshfield, emigrant,
prominent citizen and town officer. The children
of John and Elizabeth (Dingley) Sherman were:
Nathaniel, settled in Plympton, married Maria Clark,
daughter of James Clark; Ruth, born 1750, married
Josiah Biibee, of Pembroke; Rufus, born 1754, set-
tled in Plympton, married, 1775, Phebe Rider; Asa,
of whom later; Betsey, 1758, married William Fin-
ney, of Plymouth; John, 1762, settled in Plympton;
was in Captain Shaw's company in the revolution ;
married Lydia Doten, son of Ebenezer Doten, a de-
scendant of Edward Doten, of the "Mayflower."

(V) Asa Sherman, son of John Sherman (4),
was born in Marshfield, 1756. He settled in Plymp-
ton in the part that is now Carver. He married
Polly Stephens in 1780. She was the daughter of
Edward Stephens. He held a commission in both
army and navy in the revolution. The children of
Asa and Polly (Stephens) Sherman were: Joseph,
born 1785, married Nancy Bradford; Polly, 1786,
married Jonathan Parker; Lucy, 1788, married
Gushing; Asa, 1789, married Saby Brad-
ford; Zaccheus, of whom later; Nathaniel, 1797;
Charles, 1802; George, 1803, married Betsey Drew,
daughter of Nicholas Drew, of Plymouth.

(VI) Captain Zaccheus Sherman, fifth son of
Asa Sherman (5), was born in Plympton, Massachu-
setts, 1795, on the old homestead. He followed the
sea for fourteen years and was captain of a vessel
twelve years. He resided at Plympton, JMassachu-
setts. He was prominent in town atifairs and held
many of the town offices. Captain Sherman was
twice married. His first wife was Jane Bradford,
by whom he had two sons and two daughters :
Zaccheus, Jr., Jane Bradford, Charles Henry, and
Harriet Stephens. He married (second) Nancy
Bartlett, of Plymouth, by whom he had two sons :
Andrew B. and Algernon Sidney.

(VII) Andrew B. Sherman, son of Captain
Zaccheus Sherman (6), was born in Plympton,
Massachusetts, April 10, 1829. He was educated in
the district and private schools of his native town,
and after reaching the age of eight years worked
diligently during vacations — in summer on his
father's farm and in winter in the saw mills and
teaming lumber, in which his father dealt extensive-
ly. With the exception of one winter, during which
he worked in the store of his uncle, the late Zac-
cheus Parker, he passed his time thus until the age
of twenty, acquiring the habits of industry which
have so strongly characterized his whole business
career.

In 1849 he left home and entered the country
store of J. M. Harrub at North Plympton, Mass-
achusetts, as clerk, and for nearly three years work-
ed there from fourteen to sixteen hours a day, at-
tending to all parts of the business and getting a
thorough business and mercantile training. He
helped keep the books and also assisted in finishing
and shipping goods in the shoe manufactory which
Mr. Harrub also owned. Though his original en-
gagement with Mr. Harrub was for only a few
months, Mr. Sherman became so valauble to his
employer that he was induced to extend the time.

He had made up his mind to enter the dry goods
business and went to Boston to secure a position,
where he could learn the business thoroughly and
fit himself to enter upon it on his own account when
he had the opportunity. Upon his arrival in Bos-
ton he called on William F. Brett, who introduced
him to his late partner, Samuel Ellis, of Samuel
Ellis & Co., 131 and 133 Federal street, and Mr.
Sherman at once entered the employ of the firm.
Here he became acquainted with Luther J. Brown,
then a clerk for Samuel Ellis & Company, later his
partner in Fitchburg. .'\bout this time the firm be-
gan to dispose of the stocks of several out-of-town
stores owned by them and also of superfluous stock
on hand. Mr. Sherman was sent to Medford with
a stock of goods. He stayed there si.x months,
working early and late and sleeping in the store most
of the nights. From Medford he went to Du.xbury,
where he stayed about the same length of time, and
he was successful in both places, selling a large
amount of goods and making money, while one of
his employers with an assistant sold a less amount
and lost money at South Abington, INIassachusetts,
in a similar venture.

Mr. Sherman went to East Abington and managed
a store for the firm, handling dry goods, carpets,
clothing, millinery, furniture, crockery, etc. At the
end of two years the firm suffered a financial em-
barrassment and Mr. Sherman was sent to Dover,
New Hampshire, to realize on a large stock of goods.
He stayed there six months and sent the firm a third
more cash than they had calculated upon. While
in Dover Mr. Sherman made many friends in busi-
ness and social circles. As an e.xpression of regard
at the time he left Dover, he was given a reception
and presented with a handsome gold seal ring, upon
which was inscribed the names of some of the prom-
inent young men of the place, and since then this
pleasant friendship has been kept up.

Mr. Sherman returned to the East Abington
store for about a year. Then he came to Fitchburg
to dispose of a stock of dry goods. Here, although
located in the "Old City," half a mile from the
three other dry goods stores in town, he w-as fairly
successful. At the end of six months Mr. Sherman
concluded that his opportunity to start in business
was at hand. He liked Fitchburg and believed in
its future. So he bought the stock of his employers
with his savings and started on his own account.
One of his salesmen was Luther J. Brown, with
whom he soon formed a partnership which lasted
about three years.

Mr. Sherman started in business in 1855 and for
forty years was one of the leading merchants in this
section. His business was prosperous from the first.
He paid the closest attention to every detail, and
especially during the civil war when the condition of
the markets gave unusual opportunities for money
making, he was very successful. Goods could be
bought often at less than the cost of manufacture
and held for higher prices, sure to follow soon. He
made wise investments of his surplus. Several
times tlie store was enlarged to take care of the in-
creasing business. In 1870 he moved to the store
in the Rollstone Bank building, where he remained
until he retired from business in 1895. At that time
he added carpets to his dry goods stock and gave the
new department much study and attention. In No-
vember, 1867, he established a dry goods store in
Winchendon and carried it on profitably until No-
vember, 1885, when he sold it to W. A. Sanford &

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Co., of Brockton, Massachusetts. The store was
then located in the I. M. Murdock blcck.

Mr. Sherman has had at times substantial inter-
ests in shipping, in which he has been interested
from boyhood. He has been part owner in eight
schooners engaged in the coasting trade, and has
built live three masted schooners. One of them
was named after him. He has large real estate in-
vestments, and since his retirement from mercantile
life has been occupied with the care of his invest-
ments and property.

Mr. Sherman is a stanch Republican and has
served the city a year in the common council and
two terms in the board of alderman. He has been
prominent in financial circles for over forty years
and was one of the incorporators of the Worcester
North Savings Institution and a trustee since the
incorporation. He is a director of the Wachusett
National Bank of Fitchburg, serving since^ its
incorporation, May 20, 1875. In business Mr. Sher-
man believed in fair play and kept on good terms
with his competitors, and on several occasions has
extended aid to fellow merchants in days of trouble.
He owes his standing in tne community not only to
the success which demonstrated his business ability
and industry, but to the character on which his suc-
cess was founded and the integrity which his neigh-
bors appreciate. He is esteemed and loved in the
community for his attractive personal characteristics.
He married, June 26, 1878, Clara Belle Moody,
daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Chase) Moody, of
Clareinont, New Hampshire. Their children are :
Harry B., born March 26, 1879, married, July ig,
1905, Elsie Noyes, of Somerville; he is a graduate of
the Fitchburg high school, Phillips' Academy, Lester,
New Hampshire, and Harvard University (1903) ;
he is employed at Somerville by the Phoenix Light-
ing Company; Robert M., born January i, 1881,
married, September 9, 1903. Maud McLain Downes,
graduate of the Fitchburg high school 1900 ; paymas-
ter for the Fitchburg Steam Engine Co. ; Andrew
B., Jr., born September 3, 1883, student in Mass-
achusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1906.

FRANK DWIGHT PAGE. John Page (i), the
immigrant ancestor of Frank Dwight Page, of Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, came to New England in 1630
with his wife and two children from Dedham, Eng-
land. The records show that he settled at Water-
town, INIassachusetts, and during the hard times of
the first year received relief sent him by his minister,
Mr. John Rogers.

His descendants have been numerous in Groton,
Shirley, Lunenburg, and Rindge, New Hampshire,
as well as in other places. He was appointed the
first constable of the town of Watertown by the
general court, September, 1630. He was one of the
proprietors. His house was burned April 21, 1631.
He w-as admitted a freeman May 18, 1631. He died
December 18, 1676, aged ninety years. His widow
Phebe died September 2$, 1677, aged eighty-seven
years. The children of John and Phebe Page were :

William, married Anna — ; Phebe, born about

1662, married James Cutler ; Daniel, born 1630, of
whom later ; Samuel, born August 20, 1633.

(II) John Page, Jr., son of John Page (i),
born 1630, probably in Watertown. Massachusetts,
took the freeman's oath in 1652. He removed in
1662 to Groton and became proprietor of an exten-
sive tract of land there, and a section of the town
took its name from him as the most distinguished

man of the place. He married. May 12, 1664, Faith
Dunster, probably the niece of President Dunster,
of Harvard College. She died April 3, 1699. He
returned tO' Watertown in 1676 at the time of King
Philip's war and died there in 1711. He was select-
man of Watertown in 1695-96-97-98. Three of his
children were born in Groton, tlie youngest in
Watertown. He married (second) Emory Lamb's
widow, September 5, 1699. The children of John
and I'aith (Dunster) Page were: John, born De-
cember 10, 1669; Samuel, June 4, 1672; Mary, Jan-
uary 9, 1674-75 ; Jonathan, born June 24, 1677, of
whom later.

(III) Jonathan Page, son of John Page (2),
was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, June 24,
1677, and died October 10, 1751, aged seventy-four
years, at Groton, Massachusetts. The children of
Jonathan and Mary Page were : A daughter, born
December 28, 1706, died three days old ; Faith, No-
vember 6, 1707; Jonathan, June S, 1710; John, of
whom later; Joseph, October 22, 1714; Mary, Feb-
ruary 20, 1716-17; Benjamin, July 19, 1719; Simeon,
January 23, 1722; Sarah, December 10, 1724.

(IV) John Page, son of Jonathan- Page (3),
was born in Groton, JMassachusetts, January 30,1712,
married, September 12, 1733. Their children were:
Molley, born November 15, 1734: Submit, December
25, 1736; Sybil, August 28, 1740; John, June 9, 1743;
Phineas, May 24, 1745, of whom later; Lemuel, Sep-
tember 2, 1747; Lucy, June i, 1750; Emma, April 12,

1755-

(V) Phinehas Page, son of John Page (4), was
born in Groton, Massachusetts, May 24, 1745 ; mar-
ried Hannah Stone, of Groton, February 2, 1769.
He resided in the western part of Shirley on the
place previously occupied by Daniel Page and later
of Philemon Holden. The farm has always been
well kept and it gives evidence of several generations
of thrifty owners. He was a volunteer in the Lex-
ington alarm, April 19, 1775, and was private in Cap-
tain Henry Haskell's company. Colonel John Pres-
cott's regiment.

The children of Phinehas and Hannah (Stone)
Page were : Theophilus, born in Shirley, December
12, 1769, removed to Schenectady, New "^^ork; Phine-
has, November 5, 1771, died 1772; Phinehas, March

16, 1773, died in Amherst, 1805; Levi, August 18,
1775, left town to settle in New York, died October

17. 1853; Edmund, of whom later; Ede (Edith),
July 18, 1781, 'married John Rockwood, December
7, 1803, and they had four children; Eli, September
19, 1784, married Clarissa Hawkins ; Walter, Novem-
ber 14. 1786, died at Londonderry, Vermont, July i,
1810.

(VI) Edmund Page, son of Phinehas Page (s),
was born in Shirley, JMassachusetts, March 13, 1778;
married Betsey Dwight, of Shirley, February I, 1806,
and at the time of his marriage settled in Dunstable
(Nashua), where he lived the remainder of his life.
He was a trader and became one of the most in-
fluential and well known merchants of his day. He
was a town officer during most of his active life, and
he was widely known by that homely but honorable
title of Squire to all the country about his home.
He died in 1871.

The children of Edmund and Betsey (Dwight)
Page, all born in Dunstable, were : Mary Ann, July
6, 1806, married Isaac Kendall, of Dunstable, May
22. 1831, died July 5, 1870; they had three children:
Betsey, April 3, 1809, married James Kendall, of Dun-
stable, October 30, 1831, and they had five children;

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Edmund D., born October ii, 1811, married Rebecca
Bancroft, of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, June 9,
1836; they had one child; Albert Gallatin, of whom
later; John, June 22, 1816. married Sarah E. Read,
of Dunstable, April 21, 1844, resides in Fitchburg ;
his two children are : Sarah Angenette and George
Austin ; Norman K., December j, 1818. marriad Mary
H. Leavitt, of Lowell, September 3, 1856; tiiey have
two children ; Harriet, October 19, 1822, died Jan-
uary 4, 1845.

(VII) Albert Gallatin Page, fourth child of
Edmund Page (6), was born in Dunstable, Mass-
achusetts, March 13, 1814. He married Sarah C.
Swallow, of Dunstable, August 28, 1834; he died
March 27, 1871. He was one of the founders of
what is now the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing
Company, of Akron, Ohio, but which business was
originally started in I^'itchburg, "Massachusetts,
about 1850, under the name of Page, Whitman &
Co., mowing machine knives.

The children of Albert Gallatin and Sarah C.
(Swallow) Page were: Sarah Emily, born May 28,
183s, in Nashua, New Hampshire, married Austin
Farrar, of Springfield, Vermont; they had one child,
Albert Austin Farrar, who married Lizzie E. Shat-
tuck, of Townsend ; he was born June 19, 1856, and
died March 27, 1880; Eliza Jane, born November 3,
1837, Nashua, New Hampshire, married Edward D.
Atherton, of Conway, New Hampshire, resided in
Fitchburg, and they have one child, Willis Burton
Atherton, born June 15, 1870; Albert Willis, Septem-
ber 23, 1839, died March 4, 1851, at Fitchburg; Frank
Dwight, of whom later.

(VIII) Frank Dwight Page, youngest child of
Albert Gallatin Page (7), was born in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, February 9, 1855. He received his
early education in the public schools of his native
town. He left school at the age of fifteen and en-
tered a machine shop in F'itchburg to learn the trade.
But at this time a vacancy in the office of the Fitch-
burg Gas Company gave him an opportunity to enter
another line of work which he accepted and began
at the bottom of the ladder. He advanced from
office boy to clerk and in time became the assistant
superintendent. He was a popular and efficient
officer of the company. He had the misfortune to
have a cancer on one of his legs and was obliged to
give up his position in the gas company. In order
to save his life the leg was amputated. Upon his
recovery he purchased the business of the late Will-
iam N. Willis, known as the City Hotel of Fitchburg.
After two years and a quarter he was elected city
auditor, one of the most important heads of depart-
ments of the city, the balance w'heel of the city
finances. During the years that Mr. Page has held
this position the city bookkeeping has given abundant
evidence of his ability and thoroughness in perform-
ing his various duties. Whether the mayor was Re-
publican or Democrat, or of the many municipal
party organizations that have taken root in Fitch-
burg, Mr. Page has been kept at the helm, having
the confidence and respect of every administration
with which he has been connected. He has natur-
ally the genial manners and tactful ways of dealing
with officials as well as with the public that is es-
sential to the proper conduct of public affairs and
the success of a public officer. His excellent qual-
ities have attracted to him a large circle of personal
friends. Besides those offices mentioned, Mr. Page
was formerly clerk of his ward. He was a rnember
of the committee on organization of the Fidelity Co-

operative Bank of Fitchburg, and its first treasurer,
and previous to this was for several years one of the
auditors of the Fitchburg Co-operative Bank and
has always taken a deep interest in these institutions.
He is a Republican.

He is a past officer of Apollo Lodge, and King
David Encampment, I. O. O. F., and a member of
Grand Lodge of the State. He is a prominent Free
Mason, and recorder of Jerusalem Commandery,
Knight Templars for the last fourteen years. He
is an attendant of the First Universalist Church.

He married (first) Delia I. Plimpton, daughter
of Captain Chandler Plimpton, of a well known
Fitchburg family, September 17, 1878. He married
(second), 1893, Lydia Tocie Johnson, a native of
Quincy, Illinois, and they have one son, Dwight
Coggshall Page, born in Fitchburg, May 2, 1896.

SULLIVAN G. PROCTOR. Robert Proctor
(i), the immigrant ancestor of the late Sullivan G.
Proctor, of F"itchburg, Massachusetts, was born in
England and settled in i\ew England, first at Salem,
where he was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643, and
later at Concord, where he married, December 31,
^645, Jane Hildreth. He removed again to the ad-
jacent town of Chelmsford, where all but their first
three children were born. He died 1697. His will
was dated March 10, 1697, and proved July 13, 1697.
He mentions his children as given below, viz : Sarah,
born at Concord, October 12, 1646; Gershom, son,
born May 13, 1648; Mary, born April 8, 1650; Peter,
born in Chelmsford, married Mary Patterson, of
Billerica; Elizabeth, born January 21, 1657; James;
Lydia, born February 19, 1666, died aged six months ;
Thomas; John, of whom later; Samuel; Israel;
Dorothy, married Barrett.

(II) John Proctor, son of Robert Proctor (i),
was born in Chelmsford about 1670. He married

Miriam — , and they resided in Chelmsford

and Littleton, Massachusetts. They were members
of the first church at Westford. They had a son
John, born 1694, of whom later.

(HI) John Proctor, son of John Proctor (2),
was born in Littleton or Chelmsford adjoining about
1694. He belonged to the First Church at Westford,

where he settled. He married Mary • , and

their children were: Mary, born 1719, married Jon-
athan Robbins, 1743; James, born 1720; Phinehas,
born 1722; Elizabeth, born 1724, married Zechariah
Robbins, 1744; Sarah, born 1726, married Samuel
Hildreth, 1753; Oliver, born 1729; John, born 1733,
of whom later.

(IV) John Proctor, youngest child of John
Proctor (3), was born in Westford, Massachusetts,
1733. married, 1762, Mary Nutting. He resided at
Westford and perhaps Groton. He appears to have
been in Captain Asa Lawrence's company in the
revolution in 1775. The children of John and iNIary
Proctor were: Josiah, born 1762; Josiah, born 1764,
died young; John, born 1765, of whom later; Jesse,
born 1773, died 1777; Polly, born 1775, married,
1796. Henry Chandler; Hosea, bora 1777, died 1796;
Joseph, born 1779; Sally, born 1782, married 1809,
Seth Fletcher, Jr.; Hannah, born 1784, married,
1806. Thomas C. Parker.

(V) John Proctor, third child of John Proctor
(4), was born at Westford. Massachusetts, 1765.
He married Rachel Shcdd, of Pepperell, 1794. He
married (second) Betsey (Snow) Works, of Lunen-
burg, and settled about iSoo in Reading. Vermont.
John Proctor died in 1856, aged ninety-one years.

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His wife died at the age of eighty-four years. Of
their eight children Sullivan G. was the third. John
Proctor was a farmer and carpenter.

Among other members of the family who settled
in Vermont was Leonard Proctor, tlie grandfather
of Senator Redfield Proctor, of that slate. His line
of ancestry was: Leonard (.IV), Thomas (111),
Samuel (.11), Robert (I). Leonard Proctor settled
- in Cavendish, Vermont, and founded Proctorsville.
He died in 1827, aged ninety-three years. Another
Vermont settler was Silas Proctor, who went to Alt.
Hcillv. He was born in 1750. His ancestors were:
Silas (V), James (IV), John (HI), John (II),
lohn (I).

(VI) Sullivan G. Proctor, third child of John
Proctor (5), was boni in Reading, Vermont, July i,
1808. He served an apprenticeship at the black-
smith's trade with his half-brother, Daniel Works,
at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and later learned the
machinist's trade with JMartin Newton, also of Fitch-
burg. He began in business on his own account
when a young man, repairing and doing all kinds of
iron work for a number of years. Subsequently he
became associated with Luther Howard in the liv-
ery stable business on Oliver street under the hrm
name of Proctor & Howard. Three years later his
partner withdrew. Mr. Proctor continued alone for
three years and then sold out to his former partner.

He started in the iron business in company with
Nathan Tolman on the site now occupied by the
Nichols & F'rost store and continued there until the
railroad was built ; then the tirm of Proctor & Tol-
man erected the Rollstone block and removed their
business there, and some years later Mr. Proctor sold
out to his partner. After Mr. Tolman's death, how-
ever, he bought back a half interest in the real es-
tate. Once more in partnership with his former
business associate, Luther Howard, he took the con-
tract to supply wood for fuel for the locomotives on
the F'ltchburg railroad from Charlestown, Mass-
achusetts, to Fitchburg, and on the Vermont &
Massachusetts Railroad from Erattleboro to Fitch-
burg. He held this contract for about six years.
Then he purchased the Wallace hardware (see
sketcli of Charles E. Wallace) store, then on the
site of the present Dickinson building. His partner
in this deal was I. C. Wright. After two years
they sold out to Woodward & Fairbanks, and Mr.
Proctor engaged in the coal business with James
F. D. Gartield. (See sketch of Mr. Garfield.) The
hrm name was Ciarfield & Proctor. After a short
time his son, George N. Proctor, took his place in
the firm of Proctor & Garfield and he retired, and
during the remainder of his life was occupied in
the care of his property.

He was a Whig in politics originally, then a
Free Soiler and a Republican since the party was
organized. He was a member of the Unitarian
parish. He was one of the best known and most
highly respected business men of the city of F^itch-
burg. His large variety of business interests gave
him a wide experience and an extended knowledge
of men and affairs. His home was on Newton Place.
He built his residence there in 1835. He married
in 1833. Mary Newton, daughter of Alartin Newton,
of F'itchburg. She died January, 1881, leaving one
son, George Newton Proctor, mentioned above. He
married (second), October 30, 1882, Sybil Jaquith,
the daughter of John S. and Sarah B. Jaquith, of
Ashby. Mr. Proctor died March 19. igo2.

(VII) George N. Proctor, son of Sullivan G.
iv — 6

Proctor (6), w'as born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
July 31, 1842. He married Mary Newton, of
Rochester, New York. He is one of the leading
citizens and business men of iMtchburg, widely
known in the coal trade. The children of George N.
Proctor are: George N., Jr., born December 10,
1882 ; James Sullivan, born November 4, 1884.

JOHN SHIRREFFS. Archibald Shirreffs (i),
father of John Shirrefifs, of Fitchburg, is a promi-
nent woolen manufacturer. He was born in Wood-
side, Scotland, and educated there. He learned the
woolen business and became in time manager of one
of the largest woolen mills in Scotland. He re-
moved to Canada where he carried on woolen mills
at various places. He is now retired, living at
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He married Christine
Skene. Their children were : Maria, Jane, Alex-
ander, Archibald, Henrietta, Christina, John, of
whom later ; David, Andrew, William.

(II) John Shirreffs, seventh child of Archi-
bald Shirreffs (i), was born in Woodside, Scot-
land, August 19, 1862. He removed with his parents
when he was a young boy to Sherbrook, Canada,
and went to school there. He worked with his father
in a woolen mill at Almonte, Canada, for two years
and afterwards went to Utica, New York, where he
completed his education in the woolen manufactur-
ing business with the Globe Woolen Co., and was
identitied with that company for eleven years. He
accepted a position at Lawrence as manager of part
of the Washington mill and remained there until
1891, when he came to F'itchburg, where he has
since made his home and carried on business. He
has been in partnership with James Phillips, Jr., in
the manufacture of woolen goods, and at the time
of the organization of the American Woolen Com-
pany was the general agent for the mills in Fitch-
burg for five years. Afterwards he bought a worsted
mill at North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and
transferred the business to Fitchburg and continued
to manufacture worsteds under the name of the
Shirreffs Worsted Co., a corporation of which he
is the treasurer.

Mr. Shirreffs has taken an interest in city affairs
since he came to Fitchburg. He is president of the
common council and president of the Merchants'
Association of F'itchburg. He is a Republican. He is
a director of the Rollstone National Bank of F'itch-
burg. He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity,
being a Knight Templar. He attends the Calvin-
istic Congregational Church, of which he is on the
board of assessors.

He married in 1881, Haidee M. Hazelhurst,
daughter of William Hazelhurst, of Utica, New
York. Their children are : Grace M., soloist in the
Church of the Unity, Worcester ; Archibald C, died
young; Jennie C, Haidee, J. Stanley,, Howard.

GARDNER S. BURBANK. John Burbank (i),
of Rowley, was the emigrant ancestor of the late
Gardner S. Burbank, the wealthy paper manufac-
turer of Fitchburg, who left a large fortune for
the foundation of a city hospital there. John Bur-
bank was born in England about 1600. He settled
at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he was admitted
a freeman on May 13, 1640, and was recorded as
proprietor of the town of Rowley, same year. His

first wife was Ann -, by whom he had one

child. He married (second) Jemima , who

died March 24, 1692-3. He held various town of-

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fices in Rowley. By his will made April 5. 1681,
proved April 10, 1683, he bequeathed to his wife
Jemima ; sons Caleb and John ; grandson Timothy,
son of John and daughter Lydia. Children of
John Burbank: i. John (little John was credited
with work on fencing in 1648 at Rowley), removed
to Suffield, Massachusetts (now Connecticut), about
1680. He married, October 15, 1663, Susanna,
daughter of Nathaniel Merrill, as early as 1630. He
had a son Timothy and a son John. He lived some
time at Haverhill, Massachusetts. He had seven
children by his first marriage ; he married three
times. 2. Timothy, born at Rowley, May 18, 1641,
buried July 14, 1660. 3. Lydia, born April 7, 1644.
4. Caleb, born May 19, 1646. 5. Mary, born May
16, 1655, buried July 12, 1660.

(H) Caleb Burbank, son of John Burbank (i),
born in Rowley, May 19, 1646, lived at Rowley and
Newbury ; married Martha, daughter of Caleb
Smith, May 6, 1669. Children of Caleb and Martha
(Smith) Burbank: I. Caleb, born May i, 1671. 2.
John, May 20, 1672. 3. Mary, November 26, 1675.
4. Martha, February 22, 1679. $■ Eleazer, March
14, 1681 ; joined the church with wife Lydia April
I, 1709. 6. Samuel, born July 15, 1684, settled in
New Hampshire, and left many descendants. 7.
Ebenezer, born June 28, if)87, joined tlie church
at Rowley, June 26, 1719.

(HI) It has not been discovered whether John,
Eleazer or Ebenezer was the father of Caleb. Pos-
sibly research at Rowley or the county seat might
solve the problem.

(IV) Caleb Burbank, grandson of Caleb Bur-
bank (2), was not the son of Caleb Burbank (3),
and probably not the son of Samuel Burbank (3),
but was doubtless the son of Eleazer, Ebenezer or
John (3) Burbank. He settled in Newbury, and
married Peggy Wheeler. Some of their children,
probably not all, were: Gershom ; Abigail; Abijah,
born March 26, 1736, settled in Sutton, Massachu-
setts; Daniel (2), married Adams, and lived

in Sutton.

(V) Abijah Burbank, son of Caleb Burbank
(4), born in Newbury or Rowley, March 26, 1736,
<iied September 24, 18x3. He was the pioneer paper
manufacturer of Worcester county. He came to
Sutton about 1760, and in company with two others
started the lin.<eed oil factory there. In the early
<ieeds Abijah is called a clothier. This may mean
that he had run a fulling mill and account for his
manufacturing tendencies. The oil mill was built
in 1769, and was owned by Jonathan Holman, Jona-
than Waters. Andrew Elliot and Abijah Burbank.
It was on the outlet to what is now called Single-
tary Lake, and was the fourth mill privilege below
the' lake. The paper mill which was built about
seven year? later occupied the next privilege above,
while a fulling .mill occupied the one next below.
It does not appear whether Burbank was interested
in the fulling mill or not. (John Waters was the
owner apparently.) He owned the paper mill as
will be seen. The oil business seemed to prosper
for a time. The copartnership papers are on record
at the Worcester county registry of deeds.

The n«ed of paper mills in the colonies was al-
most as severe as the need of powder mills. Paper
was hard to get at any price. Printers had to worry
con.^Jtantly as to the source of supply to print their
papers and hooks. Sometimes the size of the news-
papers had to be cut down. This condition of af-
fairs was more serious after the revolution broke

out. The Massachusetts Spy had been removed with
the aid of General Joseph Warren and Colonel
Timothy Bigelow from Boston, where it could no
longer be published effectively, to Worcester. But
paper was necessary as well as presses and type.
John Hancock addressed a letter to Joseph Warren
and the committee of safety, April 26, 1775, a week
after the battle of Lexington, asking that fifty reams
of crown, forty of demy, twenty of foolscap and five
of writing paper be furnished Isaiah Thomas, the
editor of The Spy and the owner of the printing
office. The paper was sent from Milton, the first
paper mill in Massachusetts, and on this very paper
was printed the first edition of The Spy in VVorces-
ter. May 3, 1775. That, according to the written
statement of ]\lr. Thomas himself, was the first thing
ever printed in Worcester. One of the original
copies on which he wrote this statement is at the
American Antiquarian Society's library in Worces-
ter. But Mr. Thomas needed papers for the public
documents and for the printing of books and
pamphlets essential to the success of the cause of
the colonies. At a convention of delegates from
towns in Worcester county, held ^lay 31, the fol-
lowing vote was passed :

Resolved; That ttie erection of a paper mill in this county
would be of great public advantage, and if any person or persons
will undertake the erection of such a mill and the manufacture of
paper, that it be recommended to the people of the county to encour-
age the undertaking by generous contributions andsubscriptions-

The country needed the paper mill, and it owes
to the energy and patriotism of .\bijah Burbank the
establishment of the paper mill that materially
aided the colonies in their struggle for liberty by
supplying the means for disseminating information
for uniting the patriots in a common cause. No-
body seems to have fully estimated the great value
of Abijah Burbank's contribution to the revolution.
He had no knowledge apparently of the business.
He fought against all kinds of difficulties. But he
made paper a year later. In June, 1776, we are told
that he produced his first paper. It was coarse and
crude at first. Laborers had to learn the trade with-
out competent teachers. Rags were scarce, and he
had to appeal to the patriotism of the people to
save their rags and sell them to the paper mill. He
gave notice that if a larger supply of rags were
not obtainable the paper mill would have to stop
and the newspaper could not be published. But
Mr. Burbank persevered, and in May, 1778, he gave
notice in The Spy "that the manufacture of paper
at Sutton is now carried on to great perfection." In
June of the same year he advertised in The Spy
that he "had lately procured a workman who is a
complete master of the art of paper making." The
lack of rags was the most serious check to the in-
dustry. Hon. Ellery B. Crane, in his monograph on
"Early Paper Mills in Massachusetts," states that
the price paid for linen or cotton rags in November,
1777, was three pence per pound; one year later
eight pence per pound; March, 1779, twelve pence;
in July, eighteen pence ; in November, two shillings ;
February, 1780, three shillings; and July, 1781, ten
shillings per pound. Of course some of this change
in price was due to the loss of value of the Con-
tinental currency. But rags were so scarce that the
mill could not always produce enough for The
Spy, and sometimes the size of the paper had to be
reduced in consequence.

The site of this paper mill is now occupied by
the Lapham Mill in Millbury, as that section of the

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town of Sutton was set off to form the town of
Millbury. This was the seventh mill built in the
state as it was at that time. Four were at Milton,
and the other two at Falmouth, no win Maine. It
was a two-vat mill, after the style of the largest
and most approved plan then used. The machinery
was primitive, and the mill employing five men and
ten or twelve girls produced in a day of fifteen hours
about two hundred and fifty pounds of paper.

Almost all the children and grandchildren of
Abijali Burbank have become paper manufacturers.
Abijah Burbank sold the mill at Sutton to his eld-
est sons, Caleb and Elijah. Caleb was associated
with his father in the paper mill as early as 1783,
and Mr. Crane fixes that date as the time when he
succeeded to the business. February 20, 1798, Caleb
and Elijah purchased of their father for 600 pounds
all the lands he owned in Sutton, comprising four
parcels, reserving only the powder mill, which he
sold to the state, and the half of the oil mill above
mentioned. Abijah Burbank built a large house
on Burbank Hill, at what is known as Bramanville,
in Millbury, then Sutton. He married, September
4, 1760, Mary Spring, of Weston, and settled directly
afterward in Sutton. He died there September 24,
1813. His widow died in Millbury, February 5,
1823.

The military record of the Burbank family is
very creditable. Abijah Burbank was captain of
the Fifth Sutton company in the Fifth Worcester
county regiment, commissioned April 4, 1776. He
was captain also in Colonel Jonathan Holman's
(Fifth) regiment, and marched to Providence,
Rhode Island, December 10, 1776, on the alarm. He
was captain of the Eighth company in Col. Jonathan
Holman's (Fifth Worcester regiment, commis-
sioned September 25, 1778, also captain in Col.
Jacob Davis' regiment, July 30, on the Rhode
Island alarm. His son Caleb was in his company
July 30, 1780; and his son Elijah saw service at West
Point under Captain Benjamin Alton, Col. John
Rand's regiment. In 1780 he was on a town com-
mittee tO' procure thirty-one men for the Conti-
nental army. He served the town of Sutton as se-
lectman in 1781. Children of Capt. Abijah and !Mary
(Spring) Burbank: i. General Caleb, born July
18, 1761. 2. Elijah, born December 18, 1762, partner
with his brother. Gen. Caleb Burbank, in the man-
ufacture of paper; married Betty Gibbs, November
21, 1782, had son Leonard and six other children.
3. Henry, born July 30, 1764. 4. Abijah, born March
3, 1766. 5. J\Iary, born December 3, 1767, married
Samuel Goddard, April 17, 1783. 6. Silas, born
September 19, 1769. 7. John, born June II, 1771.
8-9. John and Anne (twins), born September 22,
1774. 10. Judith, born March 11, 1777; married

Fay, of Royalston. 11. Isaac, born April 17,

1784.

(VI) General Caleb Burbank, son of Abijah
Burbank (5) and uncle of Gardner S. Burbank,
born in Sutton July 18, 1761, became a famous paper
maker in his day. He was in partnership with his
brother Elijah after their father withdrew from the
business, as stated above. The brothers, Caleb and
Elijah Burbank, February 23, 1798, bought the paper
mill which Isaiah Thomas built in 1794 and operated
in Worcester on the present site of the wire mill in
Quinsigamond village. For some years they oper-
ated both mills. Elijah Burbank seems to have
run the Worcester plant and Caleb the Sutton mill.
February 8, 181 1, Elijah bought out all the inter-

est of Caleb in the Worcester mill. Elijah erected
a mill twenty-five rods below the paper mill for
a sickle factory for his son Gardner Burbank and
his partner, Belknap. The paper mill was greatly
enlarged. Elijah Burbank sold this mill in 1834 to
the Quinsigamond Paper Company, composed of
William and others. Elijah Burbank owned the
fourth paper mill in the county, at Fitchburg. The
third was at Leominster about 1796. The Fitch-
burg mill was owned by Elijah Burbank, was bought
of the founders, February 8, 1808, by Edward Sim-
mons and Solomon Dwinnel, Jr., and sold Septem-
ber II, same year, to his son Leonard Burbank. That
was the beginning of the paper making at Fitch-
burg with which the Burbank name has been prom-
inently connected for a hundred years. Caleb Bur-
bank increased his plant at Sutton (or jNIillbury as
it became known), when he was at the height of his
powers. He became the richest man in the town,
and was very popular.

He was one of the first board of directors of
the Millbury Bank. He was a soldier in the revolu-
tion, commissioned lieutenant, August 25, 1790; cap-
tain. May 26, 1794; major May 24, 1797; lieutenant-
colonel, April 13, 1801 ; brigadier-general, April 15,
1807; major-general, June 15, 1813. He was cash-
iered October 21, 1818, on charges of neglect of
duty, charges that he vehemently denied, ajid over
which there was much controversy. It must be said
of him that he was one of the leading men of
Massachusetts in military aft'airs, and made a gal-
lant record whenever in the service. He was in the
war of 1812 as general in command. The people of-
his own town never lost their respect and admiration
for him in spite of the reverses of fortune. He was
sent to the general court in 1819. He manufactured
paper for fifty j-ears. Owing to the financial panic
of tlie time and his generous way of doing business
and helping others, he failed, January 2, 1834, and
made an assignment. The business passed into the
hands of Shepard & Goddard, and the Burbank fam-
ily ceased to be connected with the ownership of
the Sutton mill. But Gardner S. Burbank was as-
sociated with his uncle at Sutton from April, 1829,
until June, 1835. He became an even greater force
in the paper making world than the old general. ^
General Burbank married Lucy, daughter of Asa
Waters, who was a grandson of Nathaniel Waters,
of Salem. She was born in Sutton in 1765, died
1823. He married (second) Hannah, daughter of
David Smith, of Rutland. He died December 9,
1849, leaving no descendants.

(VI) Silas Burbank, son of Captain Abijah
Burbank (5), born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 19, 1769; married Bathsheba Egery at Hard-
wick, Massachusetts, January, 1792. They settled
in Montpelier, Vermont, and had twelve children.
He died April 20, 1847. The children of Silas and
Bathsheba (Egery) Burbank were: I. Fanny, born
February 25, 1793, died January 13, 1847. 2. Susan,
born December 30, 1795, died November 26, 1880.
3. Elutheria, born December 7, 1797, died February
6. 1863. 4. Bathsheba, born November 25, 1799, died
June 6, 1825. 5-6. Eliza and Emily (twins), born
December 17, 1803; Eliza died May 19, 1882; Emily
died in infancy. 7. daughter unnamed, born Sep-
tember 2y, 1801. died young. 8. daughter unnamed,
born September 10, i'8o2, died young, g. son un-
named, born March i, 1806, died young. 10. Silas
Burbank, born July 22. 1809, died August 14, 1872.
II. Gardner S., born July 22, 1809; died February

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7, 1888. 12. Emily, born August 27. 181 1, died in
infancy.

VII) Gardner S. Burbank. son of Silas Burbank
(6), was born in Montpelier. Vermont, July 22, 1809.
He attended the public schools of his native town,
but at an early age went to work to learn the paper
making business in Montpelier. In 1827, at the age
of eighteen, he went to Millbury. Massachusetts ;
and for about seven years was associated with his
uncle Caleb Burbank in the manufacture of paper.
He then went to Worcester, and for eleven years
operated the paper mill formerly owned by Isaiah
Thomas, and later by his uncle, Elijah Burbank,
at Quinsiganiond. In 1846 he moved to Russell,
Massachusetts, and formed a partnership with Cyrus
W. Field and Marshall Pales. The firm erected a
large paper mill there and ran it for about five
years. Mr. Burbank being in poor health was
obliged to give up business and withdraw from the
firm. In 185 1 he went to Fitchburg and soon after-
ward formed a partnership wth the late Hon. Alvah
Crocker, at whose earnest solicitation he went there.
The firm name was Crocker & Burbank. In 1855
C. T. Crocker was admitted to the firm, and in 1863
G. F. Fay and S. E. Crocker also came into the
partnership. During the fifteen years Mr. Burbank
was connected with the firm of Crocker. Burbank
& Co., their business became the leading one among
paper manufacturers in the vicinity. Mr. Burbank
•sold his interests in the firm in 1866 and retired
from active business. His well known business
ability and sterling character were recognized in
many ways. He was charged with many private
trusts. He was a director of the Fitchburg National
Bank from 1871 until his death; was a director of
the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Com-any
from July, 1875, until his death, and a trustee of
the Fitchburg Savings Bank from June. 1875. He
was a member of the board of investment ten years.
He was a representative to general court from Rus-
sell in 1849 and 1850, but declined public office in
Fitchburg. He was always interested in the public
welfare of Fitchburg. He was a man of great
public spirit and in a quiet way was constantly
helping others. His habits and strong will un-
doubtedly prolonged his life many years. From early
childhood his health was not good, and after middle
life was seriously impaired. He died Februarv 7,
1888.

Through his generous bequest in his will, the
city of Fitchburg is indebted for the magnificent
Burbank Memorial Hospital. He had no children
to leave his property to. and it was at the suggestion
of his wife, as he stated in his will, that he pro-
vided for the hospital. She not only deserves credit
for the magnificent gift of her husband, but she is
daily blessed by the beneficiaries of the institution
for waiving her rights under the will so that the
hospital was constructed within a few years after
the death of Mr. Burbank, instead of having to wait
until after her death. She has lived herself to
see the fruits of her generous benevolence. The
Burbank Hospital buildings and grounds cost about
$200,000, and the institution has already taken a
high rank as an institution, affording the surgeons
of the city valuable opportunities for practice and
study, as well as giving aid to the suffering antl
wounded, curing disease and giving the surgeon a
chance to restore health and save life and limb.
The following provision of the bequest w'as char-

acteristic of the large heart and thoughtful ways
of the donor;

"First, 1 desire that alarge substantial and comraodius buildine:
shall be erected, and as I trust that my cliarit.v may survive and do
good to the poor and sick for many eenerations. and also believe
that the city of Fitchburg will in time be a large and prosperous
city. I would suggest that the sum of at least JIOU.OUO be devoted to
the purchase of the necessary land and the erection of the neces-
sary structure.

And I also direct and request that while those who are able to
pay for the services rendered them in the Hospital may be subjected
to such moderate and reasonable charge as is usual in such cases in
similar charitable institutions: those on the other, who are in pov-
erty and sickness, shall ever be received and cared for kindly and
tenderly, 'without money and without price' and without regard to
color or nationality.

"It is by request of my wife, whose judgment has so greatly
aided me in all the atfairs and purposes of my life, that I was led
to make the foregoing provision for ihc foundation of a hospital."

In igrx) Mrs. Burbank gave $30,000 from her
personal estate for the building of the Nurses'
Home in connection with the Burbank Hospital
as a memorial to her daughters Mary and Sarah.
Mr. Burbank married, at Auburn, Massachusetts,
May 23, 1837, Mary Sibley, who died at Worces-
ter, December 4, 1839. He married (second) May
2y, 1841, Sarah W. Grout. Their children are all
deceased. They were; i. Edwin H., born 1842,
died August 18, 1855. 2. Mary J., born 1845. died
.August 28, 1861. 3. Sarah F., born 1849, died Feb-
ruary 10, 1879, married Dr. F. B. Joy.

ADAMS FAMILY. Henry Adams (i), of
Bramtree, progenitor of the Adams family of Fitch-
burg, is believed to have arrived in Boston from
England in 1632 or 1633, accompanied by his wife,
eight sons and one daughter. He was allotted forty
acres of land at Mount Wollaston, as Braintree was
originally called, February 24, 1639-40. The name
of his wife is unknown and it is thought that she
with her son John and daughter Ursula returned to
England and died there. Henry Adams died at
Braintree, June 8, 1647. Something of the English
pedigree of Henry Adams will be found elsewhere
in this work. The best authority fi.xes the English
home of Henry Adams at Braintree, Essex county.
The children of Henry Adams were; Lieutenant
Henry, born 1604, married, in Braintree, Elizabeth
Paine, daughter of Moses Paine; he was deputy
to the general court, lieutenant of the military com-
pany ; killed by the Indians while standing in the
doorway of his house in Mcdfield and his wife was
accidentally killed the sanie day. Lieutenant Thomas,
born 1612, married in Braintree Mary Blackmore ;
he became town clerk, selectman, deputy to the
general court in Concord, where he settled. Captain
Samuel, born 1617. married (first) Rebecca Graves;
niarried (second) Esther Sparhawk; was prominent
in civic and military life. Deacon Jonathan, born
1619, married (first) Elizabeth Fussell ; married

(second) Mary • ; settled in Medfield, where his

house was burned by the Indians in 1676. Peter,

born 1622, married Rachel , and his house at

Medfield was also burned by the Indians in 1676.
John, born about 1624. Joseph, born 1626, was a
maltster, selectman 1673. married Abigail Ba.xter.
Ensign Edward, of whom later.

(II) Ensign Edward Adams, son of Henry
.Adams (i), was born about 1630 in Eng-
land. He settled in Medfield and was the
last of the original settlers to die, November
12, 1716. He is buried in the old Medfield grave-
yard. He was in Medfield as early as 1652, was an

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•ensign in the army. His house was burned bj- the
Indians in 1676 during King Philip's war. He was
a selectman, deputy to the general court from 1692
to 1702, commissioner to end small causes.

He married (first), 1652, Lydia Rockwood,
daughter of Richard and Agnes (Bicknell) Rock-
wood. She died March 3, 1675-6. He married
(second). 1678, Abigail Day, of Dedham, who died
in 1707. He married (third), January 6, 1710, Sarah
Taylor, of Medfield. The children of Ensign Ed-
ward and Lydia Adams were : Lydia, born 1655 ;
Jonathan, born 1656; John, born 1657; Elizabeth,
born 165S; Sarah, born 1660; James, born 1661, at
Harrington. Rhode Island; Henry, born 1663; Elisha,
born 1666; Edward, born 1668; Eliashib; Bethia,
born 1671. died young; Bethia, born 1672; Abigail,
born 1674 ; Miriam, born 1675.

(III) John Adams, son of Ensign Edward
Adams (2), was born in Medfield, 1657. He settled
in Medfield in the part afterwards called Medway.

He married Deborah , who died before 1695,

and he married (second) Susanna' Brick or Breck.
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hill) Brick. She
was born May 10, 1667. at Sherborn. He died
March i, 175 1, and she died March 28, 1744. Their
children were : Edward, born 1682, settled in Mil-
ton ; John, born 1684; Daniel, born 1686; Eleazer,
born 1687 ; Obadiah, born at Medfield ; Jonathan ;
Thomas, born 1695. settled in Amherst; Susanna,
born 1697; Jeremiah, settled in Brookfield ;
Abraham, born 1701, settled in Brookfield;
Bethia, born 1702, married, February 27, 1729,
Timothy Stearns, of PVamingham ; Phinehas, born
1707, married, January i, 1730, Timothy Ellis; (sec-
ond) William Richardson.

(IV) Daniel Adams, son of John Adams (3),
was born in Medfield, 1686. He settled in West

Medway. He married Sarah , who died July

21, 1739. Their children were: Benjamin; Sarah,
born November, 1714, died April I, 1716; Deborah,
born February 12, 1717; Sarah, born March. 1719;
Elizabeth, born May 12, 1721 ; Daniel, of whom
later; Thomas, born April 15, 1726; Ruth, born
March 6. 1729, married, May 17, 1750, Benjamin
Rockwood; Moses, born August 4, 1731 ; Abigail,
born July 23. 1736, married Abraham Harding;
Tabitha, born November 12, 1738, married, June 27,
1754- John Littlefield.

(V) Daniel .\dams. son of Daniel Adams (4),
was born in Medway. January 18, 1724. He died
in Barre (Rutland district), 1809. aged eighty-five
years. He removed to Rutland district about 1763.

He married (first) Elizabeth • •, and (second)

Martha . His children: Daniel, born 1750,

of whom later; John, born October 10, 1765; Mary,
born October 30. 1768: Timothy, born May 9, 1771 ;
Jesse, born October II, 1772.

(VI) Daniel Adams, son of Daniel Adams (5),
was born in 1750 and died at Rutland, November.
1815. He married, June 25, 1778. He settled in
Barre, where his father lived. His widov.' died
at Rutland. October 30. 1838, aged seventy-five years.
His children, all born at Barre, were : Wlliani, born
September 6, 1778; Mary, born May 10. 1780; Josiah,
born July i. 1783; Rebecca, born October 8. 1785:
Joseph, of whom later; Nancy, born June 16, 1793;
Daniel Perry, born October 9, 1796 ; Julia, born
March 2, 1805 ; Joel, settled in Shirley ; John, of
Shirley.

(VII) Joseph Adams, son of Daniel Adams (6).
-was born in Barre, March 26, 1788. He was a

farmer. He settled in Lunenburg and died there in
1835. He married Abigail Augusta Going, daugh-
ter of Ezekiel Going and his wife Lucy (Douglas)
Going. She was born June 27, 1799. She mar-
ried (second) Amos Robbins, of Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. Her grandfather was Eben-
ezer Going, who married .'\bigail Symonds and re-
sided in Shirley. The children of Joseph and Abi-
gail Augusta Adams were : Caroline Frances, mar-
ried Edward Woods; Benjamin Oscar, born 183S,
supposed to have been lost at sea ; Henry Otis, of
whom later.

(VIII) Henry Otis Adams, son of Joseph Adams
(7), was born in Lunenburg, March 5, 1837, and
died in Lunenburg. February 25, 1894. He was
educated in the common schools of Lunenburg and
then learned the trade of currier, at which he
worked until the civil war broke out. He enlisted
in 1861 in the Fifteenth ^Massachusetts Regiment,
Company C, and participated in many battles and
engagetnents. He was taken prisoner at the battle
of Ball's Bluff and confined in the infamous Libby
Prison. He was exchanged and returned to his
regiment. At the battle of Antietam he was
wounded in the eye by a rifle ball and also shot
through the face. He survived but never was able
to return to the regiment and never recovered his
health so that he could follow his trade. He lived
a retired life at Lunenburg until his death. He was
a Republican in politics. He was active in the
work of the Grand Army Post, to which be be-
longed. He attended the Congregational Church.

He married, 1863, Susan R. Shattuck. daughter
of Charles R. and Rebecca (Eagles) Shattuck, of
Lunenburg. His widow who survives him is an
invalid. Their children were: William, died j-oung;
Albert, died young.

CHARLES EDWARD BURNAP. Robert Bur-
nap (i), the immigrant ancestor of Charles E. Bur-
nap, of Fitchburg. was born, acording to an affi-
davit made in 1653. about 1595 in England. He set-
tled first in Roxbury in New England, where he was
a proprietor about 1640. He removed to Reading
and was a proprietor of that town in 1652. He
mortgaged his farm in 1655. There is an interesting
deed on record in Essex county from Robert Bur-
nap, Sr. and wife Mary, Robert Burnap. Jr. and wife
Sarah, and Thomas Burnap. all of Reading, and
Isaac Bullard (probably the husband of Ann), of
all their interest in half of a farm in Salem, form-
erly the property of Isaac Burnap. Isaac was the
eldest son of Robert, Sr. This deed seems to indi-
cate that the other children of Robert Burnap died
before the date 1668. He was selectman for four-
teen years.

Robert Burnap married (first) Margaret Davis;

(second) Mary — — ; (third) Ann , who died

1681. His children were: Isaac, married. 1658,
Hannah Antrum, of Salem, died before 1668: Robert,
of whom later; Thomas, born in England, 1624,
ancestor of the Sutton branch of the family ; Ann,
probably married Isaac Bullard: Richard, born 1627,
died young: Sarah, born November S- 1653; Mary,
horn June 17. 1661. Robert Burnap died September
27. 1689. His will was dated November 15, 1688,
and proved October i, 1689. He bequeathed to sons
Robert and Thomas ; daughters Ann Jones and
Sarah Browne ; cousin Thomas Burnap, grandchil-
dren Joseph and Thomas. Sarah and Isaac South-
cricke.

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(II) Robert Burnap, son of Robert Biirnap (i),
was born in England about 1626-8. He married

(first) about 1651, Ann , who died 1661. He

married (second), May 28. 1662, Sarali Browne,
who died in 1695. He was a very prominent man in
Reading and was for nineteen years one of the
selectmen. He died in 1695. The children of Robert
and Ann Burnap were : Sarah, born 1653 ! John,
born 1655; Robert, born 1657, died 1674; Mary, born
1661. The children of Robert and Sarah Burnap
were: Elizabeth, born 1664, married. 1683. Jona-
than Eaton ; Lydia, born 1667 ; Joseph, born about
1669, of whom later; Samuel, born 1675. died 1676;
Benjamin, born 1677, married, 1700. Elizabeth New-
hall; Dorcas, born 1679, married. 1700, William
Sawyer; Mary, born 1681.

(III) Captain Joseph Burnap, son of. Robert
Burnap (2), was born in Reading about 1669. He

married Tabitha . He lived on the Captain

Jonathan Weston place in the West Parish of Read-
ing. He died 1744. The children of Captain Joseph
and Tabitha Burnap were : Tabitha, born 1692,
married Ebenezer Flint; Elizabeth, died young;
Sarah, born 1694, married Jeremiah Swain ; Abigail,
born 1699, married James Smith ; Joseph, born 1701 ;
Samuel, of whom later; Lydia, born 1706, married
William Upton, of Salem; John, born 1708, married,
1732, Ruth Smith; Martha, born 1710. married John
Walton; Isaac, born 1713, married Susanna Emer-
son, father of the Rev. Jacob Emerson, of Merrimac,
New Hampshire ; Hepsibath, married, 1725. Na-
thaniel Emerson.

(IV) Samuel Burnap, son of Captain Joseph
Burnap (3), was born in Reading, Massachusetts,
1703. He settled in Andover, Massachusetts. Among
his children was Samuel, born July 17, 1744, of
whom later.

(V) Samuel Burnap. son of Samuel Burnap
(4), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, July 17,
1744, and died at Temple, New Hampshire, Janu-
ary 2, 1832. He married. 1770, Betsey Howard, of
Reading. Massachusetts, who was born in 1789 and
died April 10, 1838. The children of Samuel and
Betsey Burnap were : Betsey ; Samuel, of whom
later ; Ruth. Bethiah, Eunice.

(VI) Samuel Burnap, second child of Samuel
Burnap (5), was born November 23, 1773. at An-
dover. Massachusetts, died at Fitchburg. Massachu-
setts. January 18, 1842. He settled in Temple. New
Hampshire, when a young man. His children were:
Sewell I., born March 12. 1802. at Temple, New
Hampshire, died at Holliston, Massachusetts ; mar-
ried Betsey A. Brown, of Medway, Massachusetts ;
(second), January 17, 1844. Elizabeth Blanchard. of
Boston; had Charles B.. born May 22. 1835. died
October 26. 1851. Betsey, born June 20. 1804. at
Temple. New Hampshire, died at Fitchburg ; mar-
ried Reed Dutton, and they had a daughter. Lois,
died February 11, 1906. at Clinton, Massachusetts,
the wife of Abrani G. Lawrence, of Fitchbur.g,
Massachusetts. Israel Hutchinson, born May 28.
1806. at Temple, married, September 5. 1835. Esther
C. Lawrence, of Ashby. and they had four children,
viz.: Eliza A., born February 15. 1837, died Sep-
tember 3. 1856; Mary A., born August 22, tR?8, at
Temple, married. April 18. 1866. "J. Calvin Spauld-
ing. of Roxbury. Boston. Massachusetts. Their chil-
dren : Charles Lincoln Spaulding. born ^larch 27,
1867. at Fitchburg; Esther Mary Spaulding, born
September 22, 1868, at Fitchburg. L^rania E., born
December 23, 1844, at Leominster, Massachusetts;

married. October 7, 1863, E. Irving Wright, of
Ashby. Their children: Clara E. Wright, born June

9. 1870. at Newton, married Edward Arch, of Fitch-
burg. July 30, 1890, and have four children ; Edward
B. Wright, born July 10, 1874, at Newton, married
Flo Farwell, of Fitchburg. and have two children;
William Irving Wright, born July ig, 1874. at New-
ton, married Neil, of Fitchburg ; Herbert Good-
ridge, born July 4, 1847, at Leominster, married
Mary E. Jennison. and have three children. Samuel,
of whom later. Charles Cotesworth Pinkney, born
October 26, 1S12, at Temple. New Hampshire, and
died December 30, 1858, at Holliston, Massachu-
setts.

(VII) Samuel Burnap. son of Samuel Burnap
(6), was born October 13. 1809. at Temple. New
Hampshire, and died March 4, 1890, in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts. He married March 20, 1834,
Lucinda Farwell. of Ashby, who died September 29,
1852, at Fitchburg. He married (second), Febru-
ary 15, 1853, Harriet Trow, of Barre. Vermont.
He bought a farm at Fitchburg. October 30. 1861,
of Mr. Marshall at the corner of South and Paysan
streets. He left bequests in his will for the Amer-
ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
and to the American Home Missionary Society.
He was a prosperous farmer.

The children of Samuel and Lucinda Burnap
were: I. Charles Edward, born December 12. 1834,
at Temple, died September 27, 1868. at Fitchburg;
married. April 2, 1862. Emma L. Stearns, of Ash-
burnham. and they had two children : Lillian Eliza,
born October 10. 1863, at Ashby, married Walter
A. Hale, of Rindge, New Hampshire, October 17,
:886. has daughter Amy Hale ; Annie, born October

10. 1866. deceased. 2. Maria E., born January 15,
1838. at Temple, died January 15, 1853, at Fitch-
burg. 3. Edwin Samuel, of whom later. 4. Ellen
Lucinda, born June 10, 1841, at Fitchburg. died
August, 1905, at Holliston. Massachusetts; married,
June 10. 1863. Francis F. Fiske, and had three
children ; their son George was born February i,
1868. 5. George Franklin, born October 25. 1849,
at Fitchburg. married Hattie B. Howard, of Ran-
dolph. Vermont, June 5. 1873. and they have severt
children : Kate Elizabeth, born August i, 1875, at
Fitchburg. married Ernest Whitney, of Fitchburg,
and had two children. David and Elizabeth; Ellen
Lucinda, born February 5. 1879, at Fitchburg; Theo-
dore George, born December 15. 1881, at Fitchburg,
died there December T. 1882: Margaret Maria, borrt
March 18. 1883. at Fitchburg: Richard Samuel, born-
December 12. 1884. at Fitchburg: Clara Alice, born
June 27. 1887. died young ; George Howard.

(\TII) Edwin Samuel Burnap. third child of
Samuel Burnap (7). was born in Temple. New
Hampshire, .-\ugust 19. 1838. He came to Fitch-
burg with his parents when a young child and at-
tended the public schools there. He assisted his
father in carrying on the farm. This is the place
his father bought of Joseph Smith. October ,30. 1861.
His father was wealthy for his day. leaving an estate
valued at $2^.000. The son has been equally suc-
cessful and has developed one of the finest dairy
farms in that section. In politics Mr. Burnap is a
Republican, but never cared to hold public ofifice.
He is a member of the local grange and of the
Coneregational Church.

He married. April 0. 1862, Mary M. Bancroft,
of Rindge. New Hampshire. Their children are: I.
Irving Arthur (Reverend), born April 22, 1863,

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at Fitchburg, married, June 20, 1S93, Annie Binnie,
at Hartford. Connecticut, and they have four chil-
dren : Robert Samuel, born July 12, 1894, at
Monterey, Massachusetts ; Arthur Edwin, born Feb-
ruary 9, 1896, at Monterey; Raymond James, born
August 4, 1899, at South Natick, Massachusetts ;
Irving Alan, born July 2, 1904, at Broad Brook,
Connecticut. 2. Hattie RIaria, born Otober 16,
1864, at Fitchburg, married, October 10, 1889, George
S. Boynton, of Leominster, and they have one child,
Gladys Lillian, born February 28, 1894. 3. Charles
Edward, of whom later.

(IX) Charles Edward Burnap, youngest child
of Edwin Samuel Burnap (8), was born in Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, June 18, 1870. He attended
the public schools of his native town and the Fitch-
burg high school. He entered Harvard University,
from which he was graduated in 1892. For two
years he taught school in Keene, New Hampshire.
Since 1896 he has assisted his father in the care
and management of the farm. Mr. Burnap is a Re-
publican in politics and attends the Congregational
Church.

He married, December 17, 1900, Nellie May Cam-
eron, of West Rutland, Vermont, and they have one
child, Charles Cameron, born September 26, 1901,
at Fitchburg.

SOUTHWORTH LORING. The immigrant an-
cestor of Southworth Loring, of Fitchburg, was
Thomas Loring, of Hingham, born in England, and
one of the earliest settlers. His descendants have
been numerous in Plymouth county. He was a pro-
prietor of Hingham and was admitted freeman there
March 3, 1635-6. He was a deputy to the general
court and deacon of the church. His house was
burned March 15, 1645-6, and he then removed to
Hull, Massachusetts.

He died April 4, 1661, and the inventory of his
estate is dated June 27. 1662. His widow Jane died
August 25, 1672. Her will, dated July 10, 1672,
and proved October 23, 1672, bequeathed to eldest
son, Thomas Loring, and Hannah, his wife; to sons
John and Benjamin; to son Josiah's wife. His
children: Thomas; John, born December 22, 1630;
Isaac, baptized January 20, 1639-40, died February
following; Isaac, born 1641, baptized January 9,
1641-2, died March 2, 1644-5; Josiah, baptized Janu-
ary 9, 1641 ; Benjamin, baptized November 24, 1644.
The Loring family resided at Duxbury, Plymouth,
Middlcboro and Plimpton.

Southworth Loring, a descendant of Thomas
Loring, was born in Plimpton, Massachusetts, form-
erly Plymouth, July 20, 1819. He moved when
very young with the family to Middlcboro, a neigh-
boring town, and was brought up and educated
in the public schools there. He learned the trade
of an iron molder and later went into business in
Middlcboro as the proprietor of an iron foundry
there, and became a prominent business man. He
was very successful and enterprising. He enlisted
in the famous Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and
was chosen second lieutenant of the Middlcboro
company. He was given one of the medals issued
by the commonwealth of Massachusetts to "The
Minute Men of 1861," a handsome bronze souvenir
for the men who responded to Lincoln's first call
for troops. He was injured by long marches and
had to leave the service, never entirely recovering
his health. He was discharged from the service
December 19, 1863, at that time being lieutenant

of Company E, Fortieth Massachusetts Infantry,
to which he was transferred from the Sixth.

Mr. Loring was a stanch Republican in politics-
and held various town offices in Middlcboro. He
was a member of Mayflower Lodge of Free Masons-
and was active in the work of the lodge. He was
a member of the local post of the Grand Army
and well known among the veterans of Plymouth
county. He was a Spiritualist in religion and for
many years was a prominent layman in that sect.
After he retired from business he made his home
in Fitchburg, living there quietly until his death,
December 28, 1886. He was a man of model char-
acter, earnest, religious and charitable.

He married (first), June 12, 1879, Elvira Gage
Lewis, widow of Benjamin Lewis (who died in
1869), and daughter of Moses M. and Sophia
(Simonds) Gage, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts.
They had no children. She survives him, living
at the old home, 197 Blossom street. Besides his
wife Mr. Loring left a sister, Myra, who married
Eben Hathaway ; a niece, daughter of his brother
Thomas. Caroline Monroe, wife of Don Monroe,
of Bridgewater; also her sister Georgia Le Barron,
wife of Eugene P. Le Barron, of Middlcboro.

ALBERT BRAINARD LAWRENCE. Law-
rence is a famous old name in England as well
as .A-merica. The pedigree of the English families
has been carefully investigated, and the history of
the family well preserved. Robert Lawrence, of
Lancashire, England, born probably as early as A. D.
1 150, was the ancestor of the earliest Lawrence
families on record. He attended Richard II, "Coeur
de Lion." in the Crusades to the Holy Land, and
distinguished himself at the siege of Acre, for which
he was knighted as Sir Robert of Ashton Hall.
His arms, still used by his descendants all over the
world, were: a cross, raguely gules, A. D. 1191.

(I) Sir Robert Lawrence, mentioned above, is
the progenitor of Albert Brainard Lawrence of
Fitchburg among a numerous posterity of the Amer-
ican colonial ancestor.

(II) Sir Robert Lawrence, son of the preceding,
inherited Ashton Hall, and married a daughter of
James Trafford, Esq., of Lancashire.

(III) James Lawrence, son of the preceding,
married, in 1252, Matilda de Washington, heiress
and daughter of John de Washington. Note that
George Washington's ancestors were : Augustine,
Lawrence, John, Lawrence, Lawrence, Robert, and
Lawrence, who was mayor of Northampton in 1532.

(IV) John Lawrence, son of the preceding, in-
herited Ashton Hall, married Mary Chesford, daugh-
ter of Walter Chesford.

(V) John Lawrence, son of the preceding, mar-
ried Elizabeth Holt of Stably, Lancashire; he died
in 1360.

(VI) Robert Lawrence, of Ashton Hall, son of
the preceding, married Margaret Holden, of
Lancashire. Their children were: i. Robert. 2.
Thomas, father of Arthur Lawrence, Esq., of
Gloucestershire. 3. William, born 1425, fought under
the Lancastrian banner in the civil wars, and is
buried in the Abbey. 4. Edmund, married a daugh-
ter of Miles de Stapleton, descendant of a distin-
guished family of Norman origin.

(VII) Sir Robert Lawrence, son of Robert Law-
rence (6), married Amphilbis, daughter of Edward
Longford. Esq. Their children: i. James, heir to
Ashton Hall. 2. Robert, married Margaret, daugh-

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ter of John Lawrence. 3. Nicholas, mentioned below.
(\'illj Nicholas Lawrence, son of Sir Robert
Lawrence (7), was of Ayercroft. His children
were: i. Thomas. 2. Nicholas. 3. Robert. 4. John,
mentioned below. 5. William. 6. Henry. 7. Oliver,
ancestor of the Crich-Grange branch.

(IX) John Lawrence, son of Nicholas Lawrence
(8), lived at Ayercroft. and was ancestor of the
Lawrences of St. James Park, Suffolk, as stated
in the pedigree of the Lawrences of Ashton Hall.
He died 1461.

(X) Thomas Lawrence, son of John (9), lived
at Rumburgh and held land there and in other
places, Holton, Wisset and South Elmham ; his will
is dated July 17, 1471. His children were: John,
mentioned below : Richard, of St. Ives.

(XI) John Lawrence, son of Thomas Lawrence

(10), married Margery . His will is dated July

10, 1504, the year of his death. His wife died 1507,
and both are buried in the churchyard at Rumburgh.

(XII) Robert Lawrence, son of John Lawrence
(li), was named in his father's will, and his wife
was mentioned in that of her mother-in-law.

(XIII) John Lawrence, son of Robert Lawrence

(12). married Elizabeth • , and they had: I.

Henry. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Agnes. 4.
Margaret. 5. Katherine. 6. William, of St. James,
Soutli Elmham. 7. Richard, of Wisset and Rum-
burgh.

(XIV) John Lawrence, son of John Lawrence

(13), married Agnes • , who died January 22,

I.s8,^. His will is dated Apr'il 27. 1590, and he was
buried March 21, 1590. His children were: i.
John, mentioned below. 2. Richard, died 1596. 3.
Susan. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Margaret.

(XV) John Lawrence, son of John Lawrence
(14), was of Wisset, in Suffolk. He married

Johnann . His will is dated of Wisset, June

2. 1606, and he was buried there January 16. 1607.
His children were: i. Henry, mentioned below.
2. Robert, will dated 1641. 3. Margery. 4. Kath-
erine.

(XVI) Henry Lawrence, son of John Lawrence
(15), is the immigrant ancestor of the American

Lawrences of this branch. He married Mary ,

and (second) Christian . His name is on the

list of those coming to Charlestown 1635. He drew
ten acres on the Mystic side, and five acres more
February 20. 1638. His house lot was granted 1635.
bv George Blott. The records of Henry Lawrence
m Charlestown are meagre and confusing. Per-
haps he remained only a few years, and returned to
England. Christian, who is given as his wife by
some writers, had a son John, whose age does not
agree with that of Henry's son John of Water-
town and Groton. The will of Henry Lawrence's
father refers to Henry's son John as in Charlestown,
in New England.

(XVII) John Lawrence, son of Henry Lawrence
(16), of Wisset, England, and Charlestown. Massa-
chusetts, born in Wisset. baptized there October 8,
t6o<_). (See will of his grandfather, John Law-
rence.) He was in Charlestown, but settled in
Watcrfown. There is another John Lawrence,
probably ;• re'ative. with whom John Lawrence (17),
is generally confused : both had wives named Su-
sanna. John Lawrence came to New England prob-
ably with Governor Winthrop, 1630. five years before
his father. He settled in Watertown. where he was
a proprietor 1636, and freeman, April 17, 1637. He

was a carpenter. His farm was on the east side
of Fresh Pond, and he bought also thirty-five acres
of Isaac Cummins, and owned about one hundred
and fifty acres of land in 1642., His neighbors
were Timothy Hawkins and John Hammond, and
the homestead was in what is now Belmont, on the
west side of the common. He was on the grand
jury 1662. He sold his mansion house and farm
1662, and removed to Groton, where he located
southwest of Gibbet Hill. Joseph F. Hall owned
the farm some years ago. He was a proprietor of
Groton, twice selectman, highway surveyor. His
wife Elizabeth died at Groton. .August 29, 1663.
and he married November 2, 1664. at Charlestown,
Susanna Batchellcr, by whom he had two children.
He died at Groton. July 11, 1667: his widow
Susanna died July 8. 1668, at Charlestown. Her
will, dated July, 1668, and proved December 16,
1668, devised to father and mother, brother and
sister. His children were: I. John, mentioned be-
low. 2. Nathaniel, born October 15. 16.39. 3- Jo-
seph, born March, 1642. 4. Joseph, born Mav 30,
1643- 5. Jonathan, buried April 6, 1648. 6. Mary,
born July 16, 164.S. 7. Peleg, born January 10,
1646-7. 8. Enoch, born March .=;, 1648-g, settled in
Groton. 9. Samuel, married September 14, 1682,
Rebecca Luen. 10. Isaac, married, April ig, 1682,
Abigail Bellows, settled in Norwich, C-onnecticut.
II. Elizabeth, born May 9, 1655, at Boston. (Note
that a John Lawrence married in Boston, February
8. 1653-4, Elizabeth Atkinson, and this child may
be theirs ; this may be a second wife of the John
of Groton.) 12. Jonathan, born at Watertown. 13.
Zachariah, born March 9. 1658-9, at Watertown.
By second wife Susanna, John had: 14. Abigail,
born at Groton, January 9, "1666. 15. Susanna, July
3 1667. at Groton. died 1667.

(XVIII) John Lawrence, son of John Lawrence
(17). was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
March 14, 1635-6. He is confused with one or more
John Lawrences of the same period in Charlestown,
Boston and Watertown. If our research is correct,
however, this John, born 1636, was son of John
of Watertown and Groton. He settled in Charles-
town for a time and married into the well known
Buckmaster family. His wife was Sarah Buck-
master, married September ,30. 1657, at Boston, _ and
he was then residing at Muddy River (Brookline).
\^'here some of their children were doubtless born.
Thev went to Wrenthani, and Sarah had one daugh-
lor there. She died there .'\ugust ,30. 1690. John
died March 25, 1684. Thomas Buckmaster, her
father, was from Wales, admitted a freeman May
6 i6j6. resided also at Muddy River, and died
there September 20. 1656. He had a son named
Lawrence: the families may have been related. The
children of John and Sarah (Buckmaster) LSw-
rence: I. Ebenezer (?). lived at Wrentham, married

Marv . and had there : Sarah, born Mav ,30,

1700' and Mary, born May 25, 1711. 2. Daniel, re-
sided at Wrentham, and had son Thomas there
in t70t-6. 3. Mary, born at Wrentham, March
16. T6S2. .1." David, mentioned below.

(XIX) David Lawrence, son of John Lawrence
("181. was born probably in Wrenthani or Brook-
line. Massachusetts, about i6S^. He married Bethia

'-. Thev removed from Wrentham to Franklin.

nn adjoining town, and nerhaps lived elsewhere.
Only three "children are found on the record^ at
Franklin: i. David, Jr., born September 3, 1712,

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mentioned below. 2. Bethia, born August 31, 1713.
married Andrew Blake. 3. Phebe, born March 25,

1715-

(XX) David Lawrence, Jr., son of David Law-
rence, Sr. (19), was born in Franklin, Massachu-
setts, September 3, 1712. He also settled in Frank-
lin, and married Elizabeth • . Their children

were: I. Joseph, born August 22, 1745. 2. Isaiah,
September 3, 1747. 3. Eunice, perhaps married. May
S. 1793, Titus Aletcalf. 4. Amos, January 15, 1755.
5, Joseph, March 26, 1757, married Ann Hills. 6.
Elizabeth, ALirch 14, 1758. 7. Joshua, September 11,
1759. 8. Cephas, mentioned below. 9. David, bap-
tized at Franklin, 1766. married Lois Reed.

(XXI) Cephas Lawrence, son of David Law-
rence, Jr. (20), born in Franklin, February 12, 1762,
and baptized there ; married. November 26, 1789,
Esther Whiting, of Franklin ; he died at North
Brookfield, July 4, 1842 ; she died there August 28,
1836. Cephas was a soldier in the revolution in
Capt. John Metcalf's company, Maj. Seth Bullard's
Fourth Suffolk regiment, in 1780, and marched on
the Rhode Island alarm. Children of Cephas and
Esther: i. Hannah, born October 19. 1790, died
unmarried. 2. Nathan. April 9, 1792, married Bet-
sey Hill ; he died in Canterbury, Vermont, March
29, 1848. 3. Almon, October 7, 1794, married Susan
Banister : he died at Oxford, February 2, 1854. 4.
Esther, November 27, 1795. died unmarried, in Mil-
ford, August 5. 1849. 5. Parna, born 1797, married
William Marsh; she died in Craftsboro, Vermont,
March, 1843. 6. Cephas, October 12, 1798, married
Betsey Summer, of Milford, a prominent manufac-
turer in Franklin and Milford; he died March 4,
1872. 7. Asa Whiting, January 22, 1799, died in
Stafford, Connecticut, June 28, 1869; married, De-
cember. 1827, Naomi Jennison. 8.' David Brainard,
mentioned below, g. Vernon, born in North Brook-
field. March 13, 1804; married Mary Ann Allen,
December 21, 1831 ; he died June 14, 1871. 10. Mary,
liorn March 2, 1806, died in Warren, September 16,
1877 ; married. July 10, 1836, Henry Bennett of
Spencer, Massachusetts.

(XXII) David Brainard Lawrence, eighth child
of Cephas Lawrence (21), born December 12. 1800;
married, April 3, 1833, Lucinda W. Atwood, of
North Brookfield. and settled in that town. He re-
moved later and bought the Bugbee place in Brim-
field, where he lived and conducted his farm for
iorty years. His wife died 1894. and he died Feb-
ruary 20, 1864, both in Brimfield. Their children :
I. Edwin, born North Brookfield, July 23, 1834;
married. January 28, 1875, Georgianna E. Burns,
of Boston, died at Needham ; was a tailor in Bos-
ton ; has one son, Fred, a teacher and landscape
painter, resides in Illinois. 2. Ellen Addie, born
Oakham, Massachusetts, June 3, 1837 ; married,
October 14, 1862, Hon. Thomas Rice, of Shrews-
bury, leather manufacturer, who died in 1896; she
died in 1898; their children: Edwin L. Rice, of
Brookline, and Edith Rice, married Dr. Morgan.
t)f Needham, Massachusetts. 3. John Whiting, born
March 29, 1840: married, April 12, 1864, Mary
A. Newton, of Brimfield ; succeeded to the farm,
was a prominent citizen, selectman, etc. ; he died
January and she March. 1904, and they are buried
in the same grave. Their children : John, Fred,
Nellie. 4. Harriet Newell, born July 23, 1843 ; mar-
ried. April 12, 1864, Deacon Aaron Brigham Rice,
of Marlboro, Massachusetts: she died i8go; their
children : David Rice, of Rice & Pierce Oil Co.,

Worcester; Thomas Rice, of Fall River, newspaper
editor ; Bessie, and Helen, teachers in the public
schools of Porto Rico. 5. Oman Hoar, born Brim-
field, April 3, 1846, was cashier of L. W. Beck's
bank at Galva, Illinois, several years; came to Fitch-
burg and entered partnership with his brother, A. B.
Lawrence, 1874, dealers in hardware; he became
cashier of the Northboro National Bank for about
two years ; president of the Wachusett National
Bank of Fitchburg until his death in 1893; was
director of the Newburgh (New York) Gas Co.,
and of other coi'porations ; he inarried Josephine
Van Dyke of Schenectady, New York, August 10,
1870, and they had one child, Herbert O. Lawrence,
born 1871, now with the Spaulding Sporting Goods
Co. in Chicago ; he is married and has . one child.
6. Albert Brainard, mentioned below. 7. Mary Eliza-
beth, born May 11, 1851. 8. Lucy Angenette. born
March 23, 1854 ; married Byron S. Jordan, sales-
man for S. S. Pierce Company of Boston ; resides
in South Framinghan>, Massachusetts, and have one
son, Edward.

(XXIII) Albert Brainard Lawrence, sixth child
of David Brainard Lawrence (22), was born in
Brimfield, Massachusetts, November 23, 1847. He
went to school in his native town. He left the high
school to enter the boot and shoe business at Marl-
boro. He worked there for two years for Henry
O. Russell, manufacturer of boots and shoes, then
for about three years for Henry Twitchell of Brook-
field. He went to Warren as foreman for B. A,
Tripp & Co.. where he remained until 1871. when
he bought the hardware business of Jacob H. Fair-
banks, in Fitchburg. It was an old house estab-
lished about fifty years before, and from the outset
Mr. Lawrence had a good business. His place of
business was formerly opposite the American House,
where the Fitchburg Trust Company building now
stands. He was located there for twenty years.'
When that property was sold for its present use he
removed up street under the Whitney Opera House,
and was there five years. In 1895 he removed to his
present location on Main street in the Freeman
Block. Except for the growth, Mr. Lawrence has
much the same kind of store as at first. He deals
in all kinds of iron and steel, in agricultural im-
plements, paints, oils and varnish, * wholesale and
retail. He is alone at present in business, although
the name of the house since 1895 has been A. B.
Lawrence Sons & Co. At various times all his sons
have been members of the firm, though none are at
present. The business is the largest with one ex-
ception of any in this line in that section of the
state. In addition to this business Mr. Lawrence
has been a lumber dealer, buying wood lots in War-
ren, Brimfield, Townsend and other towns in the
vicinity, cutting the wood and selling it. He was
interested at one time in a large wheat farm at
Abilene. Kansas, with his brother Oman. He is
director of the Fidelity Co-operative Bank, and was
vice-president several years. He is a Republican,
and in 1888 and 1889 was in the board of aldermen
of Fitchburg. serving on the highway, fire depart-
ment and city property committees. He is well
known among the Free Masons of the city, a mem-
ber of Aurora Lodge, Thomas Chapter, Jerusalem
Commandery, and thirty-second degree. Scottish
Rite. He is also a noble of Aleppo Temple, Mystic
Shrine: a member of Mt. Roulstone Lodge, I. O. O.
F. : .nnd .Alpine Lodge, K. P. He is a member of
the Unitarian Church.

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He married, first. Abbie L. Phillips, daughter
of Colonel Ivers Phillips, May 23, 1870. She died
August, 1899, at Fitchburg. He married (second),
June I, 1904, Ada M. Grant, daughter of John Grant,
of Fitchburg. The children of Albert Brainard
and Abbie L. (Phillips) Lawrence were: l. Ivers
Phillips, born 1873, graduate of the Fitchburg high
school, wholesale lumber dealer in Fitchburg; mar-
ried Mattie Harris, of Fitchburg and had: Ivers
P., Jr. 2. Harry A., born 1875, salesman for Ivers
P. Lawrence : married Agnes Smith, of Fitchburg,
daughter of Sumner P. Smith ; fie is a graduate of
the Fitchburg high school and Eastman's Business
College. 3. Ralph Carter, born 1880; married Anna
Leach of Kenton, Ohio ; he is a graduate of the
Fitchburg. high school and of Eastman's Business
College at Poughkeepsie, New York ; in 1904 he
started in the hardware business for himself in
Fitchburg in a store adjoining his father's and has
recently sold the same to his father, A. B. Lawrence.

GARDNER K. HUDSON. The Hudson family
was represented among the pioneers in New Eng-
land by James Hudson, of Boston, John Hudson,
of Duxbury, Ralph Hudson, of Cambridge. William
Hudson, of Boston, and Daniel Hudson, of Lancas-
ter. They intermarried with some of the most in-
fluential families, as the historian of Marlboro states
the fact, adding that scarcely any other family has
furnished so many soldiers in the Indian. French
and Revolutionary wars. The relationship between
the various pioneer settlers is not known, nor their
English pedigrees definitely ascertained.

(I) Daniel Hudson, who was the pioneer an-
cestor of Gardner K. Hudson, of Fitchburg. Massa-
chusetts, came from England in 1639 and was in
, Watertown in 1640. He removed to Lancaster in
1665 and purchased of Major Simon Willard, one of
the proprietors, a proprietor's right for forty pounds.
His farm was situated near Gibson hill in Lancaster.

He married Johanna , and they had five or

six children before they went to Lancaster, where
their births were recorded. He, his wife, two daugh-
ters, and two children of his son Nathaniel, were
killed by the Indians in one of their incursions into
the ill-fated town of Lancaster in 1697. His family
was away from Lancaster during King Philip's war,
of course, but they had returned when the town
was re-settled. He was in Concord in 1673 accord-
ing to a deed to "Daniel Hudson, of Concord, some-
times of Lancaster, of twenty acres from John
Moore, of Sudbury." Later a deed indicates that
he lived at Newton. He was named as "Daniel Hud-
son, late of Lancaster, but now of Cambridge Vil-
lage (Newton)" and he deeded to his oldest son
Daniel, who is about to be married to Mary Maynard,
of Sudbury, daughter of John Maynard, some twenty
acres of land. In 1688 Daniel Hudson (i) and wife
deeded to son. William Hudson, land on Gibson's
hill, Lancaster. His will was dated 169,=; and proved
October 14, 1697, and mentions his wife and sons:
William. Nathaniel and Thomas. An agreement
for the settlement of the estate was signed b.v
Nathaniel for himself and brother Thomas: Samuel
Waters in tlie right of his wife Mary (Hudson) ;
by Jacob Waters in the right of his wife Sarah
(Hudson) : and by James Atherton in right of his
wife Abigail (Hudson). Most of the male members
of the family apparently left Lancaster soon after-
ward. The destruction of the Lancaster records
and migratory character of the family, Hudson

says, deprives us of most of the information neces-
sary to complete the genealogical record of the fam-
ily. The name was frequently spelled Hutson in
the early days.

The children of Daniel and Johanna Hudson
were: Daniel, born May 26, 1651, married Mary
Maytiard ; Mary, September 7, 1653, married Samuel
Waters: Sarah, June I, 1656, married Jacob Waters;
Elizabeth, June 11, 1658, killed by Indians; Johanna,
born June 6. 1660, killed by the Indians ; John, May
10, 1662, perhaps died young; Anne, January I, 1664,
probably died young ; Mary, June 12, 1665 ; Abigail,
September 7, 1667, married James Atherton; Na-
thaniel, of whom later ; Thomas, about 1673.

(II) Nathaniel Hudson, tenth child of Daniel
Hudson (i), was born in Lancaster. Massachusetts.
March 15, 1671. He settled first about 1718 on land
granted by virtue of the right of his father, Good-
man Hudson. But it seems that he was not a
permanent settler of Lancaster, for in 1709 "Na-
thaniel Hudson of Billerica, formerly of Lancaster."
conveyed land in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to Mr.
Buss. His children were baptized fii Lexington.
The Marlboro historian Hudson writing some years
ago said there was a lack of records to show the
names of his children. "The whole Hudson fam-
ily," he said, "appears to have been men of arms,
rather than letters and their record is traced quite
as easily on army rolls as on town books." There
is no record of the marriage or death of Nathaniel
(i). He had other children we know besides those
named below, for two of them were mentioned above
as victims of an Indian raid in 1697. The follow-
ing children of Nathaniel Hudson are named in
the Marlboro history: Seth, Nathaniel, Abigail;
the three preceding were baptized at Lexington,
April 22, 1705: John, born 1713, died at Berlin,
Massachusetts, August 17, 1799. The descendants
of Nathaniel for whom the town of Hudson, Massa-
chusetts, was named follow nearly the same line
as that which we are tracing for Mr. Hudson, of
Fitchburg.

(III) John Hudson, son of Nathaniel Hudson
(2), was born in Lancaster. Massachusetts, probably
in 1713, and died in Berlin, Massachusetts, in the
same vicinity, August 6, 1799. He married Eliza-
beth McAllister, of Northboro. Massachusetts ; she
died May 16. 1786, aged sixty-six years. He mar-
ried (second"), March 28. 1787, Bethia Wood, who
survived him. He settled first in Marlboro and after-
wards at Berlin, Massachusetts. He served under
Captain Samuel Howe in the expedition to Crown
Point in 1755. He was also one of the alarm men
attached to Colonel Abraham Williams' company
in March. 1757. He was likewise in the service
at the beginning of the revolution. He and two of
his sons were in active service in the French war;
he and eight of his sons fought in the revolution.
He was in Captain Samuel Woods' company.
Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment.

The children of John and Elizabeth (McAllister)
Hudson were: Elisha, of whom later; Elijah, mar-
ried Hannah Goodnow, of Northboro; Miriam, born
April, 1746. married Jonas Babcock. of Northboro;
Moses, born January 4. 1749, served from Bolton
five years in the revolution, unmarried; Aaron, Au-
gust 24, J7S0, was at the Lexington alarm, 1775;
Hannah. July 20, 1752, died at Berlin unmarried;
Ebenczer, May 16. 1755, died in revolutionary serv-
ice : John. May 9. 1757, removed to Oxford, was
three years in the Continental army; Charles, 1759,

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was three years in the Continental army ; Stephen,
June 12, 1761, was three years in the Continental
army; Elizabeth, November 18, 1779, married Levi
Fay, of Marlboro.

(,1V) Elisha Hudson, son of John Hudson (3),
was born about 1740, probably in Marlboro, Massa-
chusetts. He married, October 4, 1770, Susanna
Brigham. daughter of Samuel Brigham. Elisha Hud-
son served in the French war under Captain Will-
iams at No. 4 in 1756 and again in 1758 and 1760.
He was also in the revolution, a soldier from Marl-
boro where he was then living. In later years with
his son, William Hudson, and perhaps others of
the children he removed to Canada where he lived
until his death. Of his children two are recorded
in Marlboro and Hudson says there were others
born but not recorded in Marlboro. These two
were: William, of whom later; Samuel, December
25, 1771-

(V) William Hudson, son of Elisha Hudson
(4), was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, March
29, 1770. He married Anna Morse, of Northboro,
March lo. 1793. They settled at first in Northboro,
Massachusetts, but about 1796-7 removed with others
of the family to Newport, Canada. Of their chil-
dren we have record.s of two : Sukey, born in North-
boro, July 17, 1796; William, born at Newport,
Canada, of whom later.

(VI) William Hudson, son of William Hudson
(5), was born in Newport, Canada, April 6, 1807,
and died at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, August 6,
1884. aged seventy-seven years, four months, at
116 Myrtle avenue, and is buried in that city. He
resided in Canada, but settled early in life in
Lowell, Massachusetts. He was a mechanic. His
last years were spent in Fitchburg where his son
Gardner and grandson. Gardner K. Hudson, reside.

He married Campbell in Canada. Children:

William, deceased ; Thomas, deceased ; Josephine,
deceased; Gardner: John, died in infancy: Sarah
(Cochrane), living in Springfield; Jennie (Libby),
of Standish, Maine, living; Harriet (Wilson), of
Lowell, deceased; Eliza (Adams), of Springfield,
deceased: Didama (Whitney), of Fitchburg. de-
ceased.

(VII) Gardner Church Hudson, son of William
Hudson (6), was born in Hull, December 21, 1844.
He was educated in the public and high schools of
Lowell and in Kent Hill seminary, Maine. After
leaving school he was employed for some years
in a ship chandlery in Portland, IMaine. He came
to Fitchburg to work for the United States and
Canada Express Company and continued as agent
and express messenger for that company for seven-
teen years, residing in Fitchburg. In 1880 he went

. to Boston as chief clerk in the freight department
of the New York & New England Railroad ; later
he became an assistant in the freight auditor's of-
fice of the same road. He next accepted the posi-
tion of station agent at Milford. Massachusetts,
on the Milford & Woonsocket Railroad, now part
of the New Haven system, where he worked for
three years.

In 1887 he came to Fitchburg again in the capac-
ity of paymaster of the Star Worsted Company,
where he worked eight or nine years. He then be-
came paymaster of the Fitchburg Worsted Mills,
and after they were sold to the American Woolen
Company he remained until 1902 as cashier of both
Fitchburg and Beoli mills. About 1902 Mr. Hudson
made his present connection with the Garfield &

Proctor Coal Company, wholesale coal dealers of
Boston and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He has
charge of the books. He resides at present in
Watertown, Massachusetts. While in Fitchburg
he was a member of the First Baptist Church, but
is now of the Watertown Baptist Church. He was
one of the organizers of Mt. Roulstone Lodge of
Odd Fellows, in Fitchburg.

He married, February 4, 1874, Margaret ]Murk-
land, daughter of William Murkland, of Lowell.
They have two children : Alice May, born De-
cember 19, 1880, in Fitchburg, resides at home,
Watertown, unmarried; Gardner Kirk, of whom
later.

(VIII) Gardner Kirk Hudson, only son of Gard-
ner C. Hudson (7), was born in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts. January 22, 1875. He attended the Fitch-
burg public schools and graduated from the high
school in 1892. He was graduated with honors from
Brown University (A. B. 1896) and from Columbia
(A. M. 1897). In 1898 he entered upon the study
of his profession, and was graduated from the
Harvard Law School in 1901. In the same year
he was admitted to the bar and began the practice
of law in Worcester. In 1903 he formed his present
law partnership with Clifford S. Anderson, the firm
name being Hudson & Anderson. Their main office
has been in the State Mutual building, Worcester,
with an office at Fitchburg where Mr. Hudson is
to be found much of the time on account of his
official duties as city solicitor. He was first elected
in 1905 and re-elected for the year 1906. He was a
member of the common council of Fitchburg for
three years — 1902-03-04, and in this office became
thoroughly familiar with the affairs of the city.
He is a Republican. He is a director of the Mer-
chants' Association of Fitchburg and of the Young
Men's Christian Association. He was a member
of the Delta LTpsilon fraternity at Brown. He be-
longs to the Park Club. He is chairman of the
executive committee of the First Baptist Church.

He married, June 30, 1903, Alice S. Cummings,
daughter of Marcellus Cummings. of Fitchburg, and
they have one child, Gardner Cummings, born Janu-
ary 15, 1905.

JOHN PARKHILL, son of John Parkhill. was
born October 6, 1823, in Glasgow, Scotland, or rather
in a small town some eight miles from the city. He
had to go to work in the mills in Glasgow when very
young. In his boyhood long hours and childhood
labor were the rule. He obtained the rudiments
of his education in a night school conducted by the
mill owners. He learned the trade of weaver and
followed it in the old country for several years.
In 1848, when the United Kingdom began to send
vast numbers of her people to the United States,
he decided to make his home and fortune in Amer-
ica. He came in a sailing vessel, the voyage taking
five long weeks. He landed in Boston, but went
directly to Providence, Rhode Island, where he
found work at his trade in a cotton mill. In 1850
he went to Adams, Massachusetts, and became con-
nected with the noted Pollock Mills, late the Ren-
frew Alanufacturing Company. This concern made
a business of spinning and coloring yarns, and he
was promoted to a responsible position, remaining
with the concern twenty years.

In 1870 he w-ent to North Adams and bought
an interest in the Johnson Mill, where yarn was
spun and wove. The Johnson mill was established

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in 1831 by Stephen B. Brown and Duty S. Tyler
under the firm name of Brown & Tyler. They
manufactured print goods, utilizing the water power
on the present location of the Johnson Manufactur-
ing Coinpany. In 1839 Elisha Harris, of Providence,
Rhode Island, was admitted to the firm and also
Arthur F. Wilmard and the name became Brown,
Harris & Company. In 1850 Sylvander Johnson re-
turned from Copake, New York, and took the mill.
He began to manufacture cotton warps and laid
the foundation cA tlie present business. In 1S72.
after Mr. Parkliill had become interested in the mill,
it was destroyed by fire, but immediately rebuilt, and
in the following year the business was incorporated
with Mr. Johnson as president. This concern is
known as the Johnson Gingham Mill of North
Adams.

In 1879 Mr. Parkhill went to Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, and in association with Arthur H. Lowe
and Thomas R. B. Dole organized the Parkhill Man-
ufacturing Company. The firm bought of Alonzo
Davis, who gave them much encouragement at the
start, his chair factory in Circle street, and with
thirty new looms began to manufacture colored
cottons in February, 1880. j\lr. Parkhill was the
superintendent of the manufacturing; Mr. Lowe
was business manager and Mr. Dole, who had been
connected with the Fitchburg National Bank, was
the financial man. The business was successful
from the outset, although the enterprise was new
to Fitchburg and the mill did weaving only. In
1882 the firm became a corporation with a capital
of $100,000, and an addition to the mill, thirty-five by
one hundred and thirty-five feet, two stories high,
was built. The mill was enlarged the following
year by adding another story and adding more
looms. During the next two years another build-
ing fifty-five by one hundred and fifty feet, three
stories high, and a new power house were built.
In 1887 a new dye-house, fifty-five by one hundred
and forty feet, two stories high, with an immense
chimney was constructed. The factory of the Fitch-
turg Woolen Company was bought and added to
the plant. Early in 1888 the company built a cause-
way from their Circle street mills across the pond
to Rollstone street, with the intention of filling up
most of the pond and using the made land as the
interests of the company demanded. When this
enterprise was established in 1879 the city of Fitch-
burg was actually losing population. It gave an
impetus to all kinds of manufacturing; its success
encouraged others and led directly to the organiza-
tion of the Orswell and Cleghorn mills.

At the present time Mr. Parkhill is the presi-
dent of the Parkhill Manufacturing Company and
his son-in-law. Arthur H. Lowe, is the treasurer,
business manager and active head of the concern,
the capital stock of which is $.^00,000. (See sketch
of Mr. Lowe in this work.) The company operates
three large and separate mills called respectively
mills A. B, and C, all three of which have direct
connection by spur tracks with the railroad. Mill
A is the original mill, the chair factory with addi-
tions. IMill B is the old Fitchburg woolen mill
with additions. Mill C is the Cleghorn mill built
in 1885 for the manufacture of dress goods and
■bougln by the Parkhill Manufacturing Company in
1889. Nearly all the buildings are of lirick and
substantial. The plant is a model of its kind, tlinr-
oughly up-to-date. The company has in operation
over two thousand looms, employs over one thou-

sand hands, and produces about twenty million
yards of cloth a year. The business is the most
extensive manufacturing establishment in the city
of Fitchburg and gives employment to the largest
number of hands. All the mills are on the Nashua
river, which furnishes about one hundred horse
power while the steam power of the company from
five engines amounts to a thousand horse power
more. Among the varied products of this concern
the best known is the Toile du Nord goods, and the
Parkhill zephyr, famous for its durability, attract-
ive appearance and finish. The development of
this business has placed Fitchburg among the leading
cities in the production of gingham goods. The
product of the mills is sold to the trade through the
firm of Poor Bros. & Company of New York City.
The remarkable success and growth of this concern
in the past twenty-five years, the excellence of the
goods manufactured, the prominence of the company
in the manufacturing world, are due entirely to the
ability, energy, shrewdness and persistency of John
Parkhill and Arthur H. Lowe, who have been at the
head of the business from the first. Mr. Parkhill
has devoted himself all his life to his business. He
is a Republican in politics and has served the city
with credit as member of the common council and
board of aldermen, but has declined further honors.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of
the Congregational Church, of which he has been
for a number of years deacon.

He married, at Adams, Massachusetts, March
26, 1850, Margaret Cleghorn, daughter of Andrew
Cleghorn, who in 1885 founded the Cleghorn mills
in iMtchburg. She was born in Scotland. Their
children are: John, Jr., married Harriet Gould
and they have two sons; Harry, died young; Will-
iam, who married Mary French. John Parkhill, Jr.,
died March 18, 1904. Annie, married Arthur H.
Lowe. William L., died young.

DR. ERNEST PAGE, one of the leading den-
tists of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, is son of Dr.
John Q. and Edna M. (Phelps) Page. He was
born August 7, 1S74, in Three Rivers, in the prov-
ince of Quebec. Canada. His father was a noted
dentist there. When a young boy Ernest Page went
to Berkshire, Vermont, to live and there received
his early education in the public schools. He en-
tered Harvard Dental School, from which he was
graduated with honors in 1895. He started immedi-
ately to practice his profession, opening his oftice
in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in the Johnsonia build-
ing. In the past ten years he has built up an ex-
cellent practice and has been unusually successful.
In politics he is a Republican, but has never cared
for public office. He is a member of the Masonic,
order. He attends the Fitchburg Methodist Epis-
copal Church and is leader of the choir and mem-
ber of the music committee. Dr. Page is a tenor,
member of Apollo Club of Boston, and well known
in nuisical circles. His voice has been carefully
trained and his services as a professional are in
constant demand. He married, June 28, i8g8. Lulu
Leighton. daughter of Orion and Jane E. Leighton,
of Fitchburg.

JOSEPH STODDER WILSON. Henry Wil-
son (i) was the immigrant ancestor of the late Jo-
seph Stodder Wilson, of Fitchburg. Massachusetts.
He was born in England and came before 1640 to
New England. He was a proprietor of Dedhani,

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]\Iassachusetts, June 23, 1640, and was admitted a
freeman there June 2, 1641. He married, November
24, 1642, Mary Metcalf, daughter of Michael Metcalf.
(See Aletcalf Family in this work.) She was born
in 1615, if her deposition that she was tifty-four
years old November 11, 1669, is correct. He died
February 8, 1686. The children of Henry and !Mary
(Metcalf) Wilson were: Michael, born August 7,
1644; Sarah, June 24, 1650; Mary, November 7,
1652; Sarah, January 22, 1654; Ephraim, June 2,
1656. All the children were born in Dedhani.

(H) Ephraim Wilson, son of Henry Wilson
(i), was born in Dedham, Massacliusetts, June 2,
1656, married (first) Rebecca Sumner, daughter of
Samuel Sumner, of Dedhani, jNlay 10, 1681. He was
on the school committee in 1749-50. Their children
were: Ephraim, born February 27, 1683-4; Samuel,
April 5, 16S7; Rebecca, January 28, 1695; Nathaniel,
of whom later.

(HI) Nathaniel Wilson, son of Ephraim Wil-
son (2), was born January 18, 1698-9. He married

(first) Lydia , and (second) Hannah Haslop,

of Dedham, July 11, 1745. The only child of
Nathaniel and Hannah VVilson found on record
was Ephraim, born January 18, 1737-8, of whom
later. The Wilson homestead seems to have been
from the earliest days in that part of Dedham now
the town of Dover, Massachusetts.

(IV) Ephraim Wilson, son of Nathaniel Wil-
son (3), was born in Dedham, i\Iassacliusetts, Jan-
uary 18, 1737-8. He married Sibbel Allen, of Ded-
ham, July 13, 1774. He fought in the revolution.
He was in Captain Ebenezer Battles' company of
the Fourth Parish (Dover) of Dedhani. The fourth
parish became a district or Dedham known as Dover
in 1793 and was incorporated in 1836. The Wilson
family has been one of the most prominent in the
parish, district and town. Ephraim Wilson, of Dover,
the present head of the familv of Dover, is a town of-
ficer and prominent citizen. The children of
Ephraim and Sibbel (Allen) Wilson were Ephraim,
born January 9, 1776; Nathaniel, born August 25,
I779> of whom later.

(V) Nathaniel Wilson, son of Ephraim Wil-
son (4), was born in the Fourth Parish of Dedhani,
August 25, 1779. He was brought up on the old
homestead in Dover. He was a farmer. He died
m F'itchburg in 1863. He married .Mary Stodder,
of Boston, Massachusetts. Their children were :
Nathaniel Charles, born November 15, 1815, was a
mason and contractor in Fitchburg; Mary Stodder,
November 10, 1817, married Lewis Smith; Eliza
Anne, February 25, 1820; Lucy Ann, August 4, 1822;
Abby, married George Wheelock ; Joseph Stodder,
January 29, 1827, of whom later; William, resided
in Chelsea, Massachusetts ; Hannah.

(VI) Joseph Stodder Wilson, son of Nathaniel
Wilson (5), was born in Dover, JIassachusetts, on
the old homestead January 29, 1827. He received
a common school education in Dover and learned
his trade of iron moulder in a foundry at VValtham,
Massachusetts. He worked there in the Davis
foundry and at South Dedham until 1866, when he
went to Fitchburg and started in business on his
own account. In 1866 he bought an interest in the
Fitchburg Foundry, the oldest concern of the kind
in Fitchburg, established by Asher Green about
183s and for nearly thirty years located on Water
street, opposite the present location of the Union
Machine Company. Later Mr. Green had David
Wallace as a partner and for a time his son, J. S.

Green, was a member of the firm. In i860 Mr.
Green sold to Aide Wallace and the foundry was
operated under the name of Wallace, Ware & Co.
until 1864, when Mr. Wallace became the sole pro-
prietor. In 1866 he sold a half interest mentioned
above to Mr. Wilson and George Wheelock, and the
same year after the death of Mr. Wallace, his half
was purchased by Walter Heywood and Harring-
ton Sibley. For two years the firm name was Hey-
wood, Wheelock & Co. In 1868 the present foundry
buildings were erected and the business moved to
27 Main street. About the same time Mr. Wheelock
sold his interest to Hale W. Page and the name of
the firm became Heywood, Wilson & Co. Mr. Page
left the firm in 1875, leaving Mr. Wilson and Air.
Sibley as the remaining partners. The business
has been carried on under the same name to the
present time, Heywood, Wilson & Co. The Fitch-
burg Foundry has been uniformly prosperous. Mr.
Wilson became a large stockholder also in the
Fitchburg Machine Co.

Mr. Wilson w-as an active Republican in poli-
tics. He represented ward five in the common coun-
cil in 1883 and was an alderman in 1885. He was
in the general court w-ith R. A. Leonard in 1886 and
with J. F. D. Garfield in 1887. He was a water
commissioner of the city from 1890 until his death.
He was trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank for
many years. Mr. Wilson was very active in the
Universalist Church, of which he was a deacon,
member of the pastoral committee and conspicu-
ous in every movement to improve and benefit the
church and its various centers of activity. He had
been superintendent of the Sunday school. He was
a well known Free Mason, member of Aurora Lodge
and Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Fitchburg. He died August 27, 1895. His widow
lives in the homestead on Highland street, Fitch-
burg, and is highly esteemed by her neighbors
among whom she has lived so many years.

At the time of Mr. Wilson's death, his pastor,
Rev. J. F. Albion, said : "He was one of nature's
noblemen — not one heralded before the world but
one such as make the bone and sinew of our na-
tional life and keeps sweet and pure its social and
domestic atmosphere. He was one of the salt of
the earth such as keep faith strong, love pure, hopes
high. He- was a man of varied interests born of
broad sympathetic spirit. Some may have known
him only in business, but a man of mind and heart
to whom business was not a mere mercenary end.
There was a wholesome atmosphere about his busi-
ness life. It was not made sordid and unlovely
by a mad rush for dollars. It did not cry halt
to all the graces and amenities of our social life
when you came into its presence. It was because
his business was a trust, a means not an end ; he
owned it, it did not own him. Success came to him
and he richly deserved it; it came through industry,
fidelity and thrift. Not a dollar was gained through
greed ; not a dollar that caused a single heart to
ache or a fellow man to sufifer. He was honored
and loved by his employees, because they were not
his hired men, but his fellow workers. He made
little talk or profession of his religion, but most
consistently and beautifully lived it. He loved the
church, his sanguine interest in it was contagious
and stimulating to those who have its interests
most at heart. He was generously appreciative of
its work ; he loyally supported all its plans for
progress ; he was one of its most regular attendants."

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He married, 1850, Eliza Stowell, daughter of
Stephen and Mary VV. (Derby) Stowell, of an old
and honored Hingham (.Massachusetts) family.
Mary VV. Derby was the daughter of Jonathan
Derby, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. The children
of Joseph Stodder and Eliza (Stowell) Wilson
were: George Herbert, born April 10, 1856, died
September 10, 1856; Abby Wheelock, born August
20, 1858, died May 12, 1878.

GEORGE FREDERICK PARKER DAY
Ralph Day ( i ) was the immigrant ancestor of George
Frederick Parker Day, deputy collector of taxes of
Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He came from England
and settled in Dedham about 1640. He was admitted
a townsman February i, 1644-5, and a freeman in
JNIay, 1645. He was ensign of the military com-
pany and used to beat the drum for meetings before
the days of church bells. He was selectman in
1661 and 1662. He died October 28, 1677.. His
will dated September 12, 1677, and proved Febru-
ary I following mentions wife Abigail ; children
John, Ralph, Mary and Abigail ; he left his tools
and drum to Ralph ; citterne to Abigail ; one of his
swords to son-in-law, John Ruggles.

He married (tirst) Susan Fairbanks, daughter
of the immigrant, Jonathan Fairbanks, whose house
is still standing in Dedham. (See Fairbanks sketch.)
He married (second) Abigail Pond, daughter of
Daniel Pond, another pioneer settler. His children :
Elizabeth, baptized July 3, 1648, died young; Mary,
born November 9, 1649; Susan, born 1652; John,
born April 15, 1654; Ralph, of whom later; Abi-
gail, born April 22, 1661. They were all born in
Dedham.

(II) Ralph, fifth child of Ralph Day (i), was
born in Dedham, Massachusetts, and baptized Feb-
ruary II, 1657. He was admitted a freeman of
Dedham in 1690 and was a life-long resident of that
town. He died there October 21, 1694. He mar-
ried Sarah Fuller, daughter of Thomas and Han-
nah (Fowler) Fuller. Their children; Ralph, born
October 28, 1683, settled in Wrentham; fhomas,
born June 19, l586; Sarah, Mary, Jeremiah, of
whom later; Abiel.

(HI) Jeremiah Day, fifth child of Ralph Day
(2), was born in Dedham, September 28, 1O92 (or
September 23, 1693, see Dedham records). He set-
tled in Walpole, an adjacent town, and there re-
sided during his active life. He married, at Dor-
chester, Augrst 3, 1721, Mary Willitt, of Dedham,
a daughter c; Andrew Willitt, a Boston merchant.
Their children: Jeremiah, of whom later; Sarah,
born August 16, 1729; Joseph, born at Walpole, Au-
gust 25, 1731 ; John, born November 16, 1734. All
but the first were born at Walpole.

(IV) Jeremiah Day, eldest child of Jeremiah
Day (3). was born in Dedham, April 25, 1725, and
died in Walpole, April I, 1752. He was a wheel-
wright. He married, November 7, 1748, Mary Aid-
rich, who died February 17, 1774, at Walpole. Their
children: Mary, born June i, 1749, at Walpole; Jo-
seph, born December 8, 1750, at Walpole.

(V) Joseph Day, only son of Jeremiah Day
(4), was born in Walpole, December 8, 1750. He
resided iii Walpole and Foxboro, Massachusetts,
and in Eddington, Maine, and died in Massachusetts
in March, 1832 or 1833. He married, November 18,
1773. Elizabeth (Betty) Gay, daughter of Samuel
and Elizabeth Gay. Their children; Betty, born

May 18, 1775; Benjamin, born April 14, 1777, died
young; Benjamin, of whom later; Hannah, born
August 30, 1780; Molly, born JNlay 8, 1785.

(VI) Benjamin Day, son of Joseph Day (5),
was born in Foxboro, Massachusetts, September 12,
1779. The greater part of his life was spent at
Orange, Massachusetts ; he died in Fitchburg, No-
vember 20, 1861. He married at Dover, Massachu-
setts, Martha Bacon, who was born in Dedham, No-
vember 10, 1782, the daughter of Josiah and Abigail
(Smith) Bacon. She died January 3, 1869. The
great-grandfather of Benjamin Day and the great-
grandmother of Martha Bacon whom he married
were brother and sister, being respectively Jere-
miah and .\biell Day, children of Ralph Day (II),
of Dedham. Their child was Leonard, of whom
later.

(VII) Leonard Day, son of Benjamin Day (6),
was born in Orange, Massachusetts, November 8,
1807. He attended the common schools in his na-
tive town. In 1824 he went to Fitchburg and con-
ducted the stage line between Boston and Fitchburg
until the railroad was built in 1845, when he became
one of the first conductors, later succeeding Henry
F. Kenney as station agent, a position he held until
his death. He was a charter member of Mt. Roul-
stone Lodge of Odd Fellows. He was a worthy
citizen, much esteemed by his fellow citizens in
Fitchburg. He died there September 27, 1864.

He married (first), September 12, 1836, Abigail
Parker, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Paddel-
ford) Parker, of Fitchburg. She died in 1840. He
married (second) her sister, Susan B. Parker, No-
vember 21, 1841. She survives him. They had one
child, George Frederick Parker, of whom later.
Mrs. Day's immigrant ancestor was Thomas Parker,
of Lynn and Reading. (See Parker family sketch.)
Her grandfather Parker was captain in the revolu-
tion and his widow was a pensioner.

(VIII) George Frederick Parker Day, son of
Leonard Day (7), was born in Fitchburg, Febru-
ary 26, 1849. He was educated in the common and
high schools of Fitchburg and then studied civil
engineering. Soon after the completion of lii^
studies he went to California for his health, and
upon his recovery returned to his native town. In
1872 he entered the city engineer's office under
Thomas C. Lovell and remained for about three
years. In 1876 he became connected with the en-
gineering department of the Fitchburg Railroad as
first assistant engineer under E. K. Turner, chief
engineer. During the next ten years he took an act-
ive part in the reconstruction of the Vermont &
Massachusetts division between Fitchburg and
Greenfield. This work included the building of the
large double-arch stone bridge in West Fitchburg,
the horse shoe curve improvement at Ashburnham
Junction, supplanting the former switch-back which
required the turning of all locomotives and the
switching of trains; the survey and building of a
new line between Baldwinsville and Royalston,
eliminating four large bridges over ililler's river;
the change in location of the railroad and the cut-
ting of a new channel for the river between Royals-
ton and Athol ; and, finally, the improvements a
mile east of Miller's Falls enabling the road to
dispense with four more bridges over Miller's river;
the separation of grades of the Vermont & Massa-
chusetts and New London Northern Railroads west
of Miller's Falls ; and the building of the new Con-

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necticut river bridge between Montague and East
Deertield in connection witli the double tracking of
the fifty-six miles of road.

In 1886 Mr. Day resigned his position on account
of his son's health and went to California with him,
remaining there until 1889. In the spring of 1890
he was appointed by the collector of taxes of Fitch-
burg, George E. Clifford, deputy collector, a posi-
tion he has filled since then with perfect satisfaction
to the taxpayers and his fellow officials of the city.
He is a Republican in politics and a Unitarian in
religion. He joined Aurora Lodge of Free Masons
in July, 1871, and the American Society of Civil
Engineers in 1880.

He married, June, 1879, Marion F. Wilder,
daughter of Charles L. and Harriet E. (Harris)
Wilder, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. They have
two children : Leonard, born in Fitchburg. August
8, 1880, a graduate of the Washington Law School,
practicing law in New York city ; Alice Wilder,
born in Fitchburg, August 21, 1883. graduate of
Smith College, 1905, lives with her parents.

COLONY FAMILY. In the Protestant section
of Ireland, the province of Ulster, one of the most
common names is Connolly. This spelling has been
generally adopted in later years, although many of
the older forms of spelling will be found, especially
among branches of the family that have been away
from Ireland for a long time. Conley and Connelly
are common forms in America. Colony and Coloney
were ancient ways of spelling this name. In 1890
there were 381 births of Connollys in Ireland, of
whom 146 were in the counties of Antrim and
Monaghan in Ulster.

(I) John Colony, to whom the New Hampshire
Colony family traces descent, was a farmer in Kil-
kenny, Ireland. He belonged to a Protestant fam-
ily, and married a Scotch woman, born in Scotland.
His descendants in Ireland and America have there-
fore affiliated with and been classed properly among
the Scotch-Irish, although the origin of the name
is Irish.

(II) John Colony, son of John Colony (l),
born in Kilkenny, Ireland, I7W, came with the fam-
ily to Wrentham, Massachusetts, when the Scotch-
Irish emigration to America was at its height, about
1740. He enlisted in the last French and Indian
war, 1755-60, and joined Captain Rogers' famous
Rangers. He was in the battle near Fort Edward
when Major Israel Putnain was captured and tied
to a tree to be burned, but was finally released.
He served nearly through the whole war, and for
that service received a grant of land in Maine which
he exchanged later for a tract on Saxon's river, near
Grafton. Vermont. About the time of his marriage,
in 1761, he settled in Keene. New Hampshire. He
was one of the nioneers. together with his brother-
in-law Nathan Fisher. John Colony's farm was in
the west part of the town, and has remained in the
possession of his descendants to the present time,
at present- occupied by Martha Colony, wife of
William H. Woodward.

John Colony was a man of great energy and
courage, .^t one time during the Indian war he
wa.s in a fort to which the settlers had fled with
their families besieged by French and Indians. The
supply of milk failed, and the infants and children
were suffering for food. Cows were grazing just
bevond the outposts of the enemies. Young Colony
volunteered to get the milk, and, taking with him

his gun and dog, as well as a milk pail, stole through
the enemy's lines, reached the cows, filled his pail,
and started to return. When nearly halfway back
to the garrison his dog barked. Turning he con-
fronted an Indian. He put down his pail, shot the
Indian, picked up the pail, and made his way to the
waiting garrison in safety, though the Indians,
roused by the, dog's bark and the shot, were in hot
pursuit. He not only saved himself but he did not
spill the precious milk. At another time, after he
came to Keene to live at the close of the war, he
had an encounter with a big bear in his cornfield,
and took the bearskin as a trophy of his skill and
coolness. He married. 1761, Melatiah, daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Blake) Fisher, of the Ded-
ham family. He died in 1797. His children were :
I. Hannah, born 1762. 2. Timothy, born April 5,
1764, died August 29, 1836. 3. Melatiah, born 1766.
4. Josiah, born December 26, 1771, settled in St.
Albans, and left numerous descendants in Vermont
and elsewhere.

(III) Timothy Colony, son of John Colony (2),
born in Keene, New Hampshire, April 5, 1764; mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Estes)
Dwinnell. Her mother was a descendant of the par-
ents of Rebecca (Towne) Nourse. who was hanged
as a witch in 1692. The homestead was inherited
by Timothy Colony, and he spent his life as a
farmer on the old place, which is still occupied by
his descendants. He died in 1836, aged seventy-
two years. Children of Timothy and Sarah (Dwin-
nell) Colony: i. Benjamin Dwinnell, born March
4, 1788, died July 8, 1788. 2. Josiah, born April
8, 1791, died June 5, 1867, mentioned below., 3.
Mary, born September 30, 1793, died August 22,
1S19. 4. John, born June 27. 1795, died August 10,
1S76. 5. Lockhart, born May 3, 1800, died Decem-
ber 23. 1823. 6. Joshua Durant, born December 21,
1804, died March 21, 1891, mentioned below. 7.
George, born June 30, i8rr, died February 4, 1820.

(IV) Josiah Colony, second child of Timothy
Colony (3), was born in Keene, New Hampshire,
April 8, 1791. He w-as brought up on the old farm
there, and received a common school education in
the public schools. He was studious, and the better
part of his education was acquired in his extensive
reading and study. He cultivated an unusual in-
tellectual ability. He was robust and athletic in
physique, and showed an aptitude for mechanics
at an early age. He was employed when a young
man to run a saw and grist mill in Keene, where
the Faulkner & Colony Mills now stand. In 1814
he enlisted in Captain James M. Warner's company,
Lieutenant-Colonel John Steel's regiment, of Peter-
boro, in the detached militia sent to .Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, in September of that year to de-
fend the town and harbor from an expected attack
of the British. The company was in the service
sixty days.

In 1815 he went into partnership with Francis
Faulkner, clothier, and the firm bou.ght all the mills
and water privilege w-here he had been at work
except those of Azel Wilder, which were acquired
later. The business established thus ninety years
ago has grown from time to time to the present
large proportions. It is still in the hands of the
members of the families of the two original part-
ners, and the name has continued practically un-
changed. It has been a corporation since 1888 under
the name of the Faulkner & Colony Manufacturing
Company. This concern was a pioneer in the manu-

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facture of flannels in this country, and the chief
product of the mills has been flannels, for which
their name is famous. Francis Faulkner, partner
of Mr. Colony, was the son of Francis Faulkner,
of Acton, Massachusetts. He was born January
31, 1760. and died February 12, 1843; he was a
woolen manufacturer from an early age until his
death.

Josiah Colony is honored as one of the real
founders of Keene, a pioneer in manufacturing, keep
in observing business conditions, shrewd in his man-
agement of affairs, and persistant in striving for
success in whatever undertaking he had in hand.
He was a man of the strictest integrity, generous,
imbued with public spirit and patriotism. He pre-
ferred not to hold public ofiice. He married, Au-
gust 17, 1817, at Stoddard, Hannah, daughter of
Danforth Taylor, of Stoddard, New Hampshire.
She was born November 16, 1794, and died June
30, 1846, at the age of fifty-one years. This epitaph
is on her gravestone: "The memory of the departed
is endeared as a devoted wife, a kind and af-
fectionate parent, a regardful neighbor. A calm
and serene death followed a quiet and contented
life."

Mr. Colony married (second) at Rochester, New
Hampshire, November i, 1853, Jane (Briggs) Buel,
widow, who died in 1867. at the age of seventy-
seven years. Children of Josiah and Hannah (Tay-
lor) Colony: i. Timothy, born July 19, 1819, died
October 31, 1882. 2. George Danforth, born May 6,
1821, mentioned below. 3. Henry, born March 23,
1823, died July 18, 1884 ; was the first president
of the Manchester & Keene Railroad, founder of
the Keene Guaranty Savings Bank in 1883. and also
of the Citizens' National Bank of Keene, September
I, 1875. He was in the firm established by his father,
and for many years was a leading citizen of Keene
and of New Hampshire. 4. Mary Ann, born Sep-
tember 14, 1825. died April II. 1859. 5. Alfred Tay-
lor, born May 7, 1828, died December 15, 1876. 6.
John Edward, born April 17, 1831, died October 5,
1883. 7. Horatio, born November 14, 1835, was the
first mayor of the city of Keene, New Hampshire,
1874 and 1875 ; was master of Social Friends Lodge
in 1867, and for years one of the heads of the
Faulkner & Colony Manufacturing Co. The only
child of Josiah and Jane Colony was : 8. Josiah
Dean, born January 25, 1855.

(IV) Joshua D. Colony, son of Timothy Colony
(.■?)i was born in Keene, New Hampshire, 1804.
He was store keeper, then a manufacturer of glass
in Keene. He became cashier of the Cheshire County
Bank, and was postmaster. He became interested
in the cotton, mills at Munsonville. He purchased
the Cheshire Republican newspaper, which was con-
ducted for many years under the firm name of J.
D. Colony & Son, and is now owned by Oscar L.
Colony, son of Joshua D. Joshua D. Colony mar-
ried Frances Seaman S. Blake, and they had three
sons and three daughters: Ormond E., Oscar L.,
Lewis J.. Frances M., Sarah and Hannah. He died
at Keene in 1891.

(V) George Danforth Colony, M. D., second
child of Josiah Colony (4), was born at Keene,
New Hampshire. May 6. 1821. Early in life he de-
cided upon medicine as a calling. He fitted for col-
lege at Keene Academy in his native town, was
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843. and
entered the medical department of the LTniversity
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where in 1846 he

received his medical degree. A few weeks after
graduation, August, 1846, he opened his ofiice in
Athol, Massachusetts. Besides his college train-
ing Dr. Colony had studied with Dr. Amos
Twitchell, of Keene, and at the Woodstock Medical
School. For that period he was unusually well
fitted and trained for the practice of medicine. One
of his first professional calls was to the scene of
the terrible accident at the railroad bridge on the
Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, when the
bridge went down under a train, killing and injuring
a number of people. Among his contemporaries in
Athol were Dr. George Hoyt and Dr. William H.
Williams. For a number of years he was a popular
member of the Athol school committee.

Upon the retirement of Dr. Levi Pillsbury, of
Fitchbnrg, his practice was purchased by Dr. Colony,
and May i, i86r, he began to practice in Fitchbnrg.
His office and residence was formerly where Christ
church now stands. When he sold the land for the
church he removed to his late home at 50 Blossom
street, where his family still resides. He became
a leader in his profession. He was a member of
the Worcester North Medical Society and of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, and vice-president
of the same one year. He took an important part
in public affairs during the civil war, serving on im-
portant committees, and aiding the sick and wounded
soldiers at the front and at home. He was for
nearly forty years prominent in public affairs of the
town and city of Fitchbnrg. From 1865 to 1873
he was an active member of the school committee
under the town government; from 1875 "nt'l '"^
death was a trustee of the Fitchbnrg Public Library;
in 1876 and 1877 was a member of the common
council. In politics he was an earnest Republican.
In religious belief he was an Episcopalian, and was
one of the organizers of Christ Church, in 1863,
and vestryman from 1867 to 1880, when he was
elected warden, a position he held until his death.
At the time of his death, October 2, 1898, the Fitch-
burg Sentinel said of him: "He has been a valued
and very useful citizen, a man of balanced mind
and character, one who put patriotism before
partisanship, and whose honesty and sound judg-
ment commanded general respect. Dr. Colony has
taken high rank in his profession and besides a large
practice he was often called in consultation with
other physicians." He was buried at his old home
in Keene, New Hampshire. He always retained
some business interest in his father's firm at Keene,
and undoubtedly possessed the characteristic busi-
ness ability of the family. His father and brothers
established the mills at Harrisville, known as the
Cheshire Mills, which are still owned and operated
by members of the family, Horatio Colony being
president, and John J. Colony treasurer of the
company.

Dr. Colony married, at Athol. May 23, 1849, Har-
riet Newell Stevens, daughter of Isaac Stevens, of
^Middleboro, Massachusetts. Their children were :
I. Mary Anna, born September 24, 1850; married,
1875, Melvin Ohio Adams, son of Joseph and Dolly
(Whitney) Adams, of Ashburnham, where he was
born November 7, 1847 ; he is a graduate of Dart-
mouth 1871 ; he taught school in Fitchburg, and
studied law with the late Amasa Norcross : grad-
uated from Boston L^niversitv Law School 1875,
and began to practice law in Boston ; was assistant
district attorney for ten years until ■1886; was in
hw partnership with Augustus Russ until the lat-

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ter died in 1892 ; was one o£ counsel for defense
in the celebrated Borden murder trial in Fall River ;
was on Governor Brackett's staff with rank as
colonel, 1890; is president of the Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn Railroad, and of the Dartmouth
Club of Boston ; member of several leading clubs
and organizations ; they have one son : Karl Adams.
2. Joseph Backus, born November i, 1852. men-
tioned below. 3. Jane Frances, born April 20, 1856,
resides at home. 4. George Alfred, born February
22, 1858, died May 7. 1900. 5. Harriet Stevens,
born November 19, 1859; married Frank E. Perkins,
of Flatbush, New York; he is the New York repre-
sentative of the Boston Globe: they have one child:
Harriet Colony Perkins. 6. Charles, born December
21, 1865, died' Augu^t 5. 1866. 7. Walter Stevens,
born January 2, 1868. died September 25, 1868.

(VI) Joseph Backus Colony, second child of Dr.
George D. Colony (s), was born in Athol, Massa-
chusetts. November i. 1852. He was educated in
the public schools of Fitchburg, graduating from
the Fitchburg high school in the class of 1871. In
1877 he became connected with the firm of Faulk-
ner & Colony, at the mill in Keene. representing
his father's 'interests there. He began as clerk,
and was promoted to various positions in the office
until 1888; when the business was incorporated and
he became the treasuref. The firm of Faulkner &
Colony became the Faulkner & Colony Manufac-
turing Company, and the business was greatly in-
creased and the inills enlarged after the company
was formed. Joseph B. Colony remained treasurer
of the concern until he sold out his interests and
retired in 1896. He returned to Fitchburg, and
since his father's death has made that city his
home. He is unmarried.

MICH.A.EL J. HOG.A.N. James Hogan, the
father of Michael J. Hogan. of Fitchburg, was a
farmer in county Limerick, Ireland. He was born
there and spent' his life in his native place.

Michael J. Hogan. son of James Hogan, was
born in Limerick, May 8. 1849. He received a
common school education, and at the age of six-
teen, just at the close of the civil war. he left
his native parish and came to America. He settled
immediately in Winchendon. Massachusetts, and
engaged iii blacksmithing. He went to Fitchburg
in 1878 and started in business for himself as a
blacksmith, a trade that he had learned in the mean-
time. In the past twenty-five years Mr. Hogan has
established a large business and stands well among
the business men of the city. His shop is at 10
Laurel street. Besides horse-shoeing and general
blacksmithing Mr. Hogan builds carriages and
wagons and repairs them. He has established a
wide reputation for the skillful handling of horses
needing special attention from the farrier.

Mr. Hogan is a stanch Democrat in politics.
In 1905 he was elected street commissioner of the
citj-. a position to which he was especially well
fitted as a horseman and practical man of affairs.
He has given the utmost satisfaction to the tax-
payers and city officers. He is a member of St.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and a man of
generous impulses and disposition, making many
friends and helning often those in need. ^He is a
member of the Knights of Columbus.

He married. 1872. Sarah J. Kane, of Winchendon.
Massachusetts. They reside at 159 Summer street.
Fitchburg. Their children are: James, born in
iv— 7

Fitchburg : Mary .\., born in Fitchburg, married
Joseph F. Perault, and thcv have four chilaren :
Joseph, Margaret. Moses, James. Mr. Perault is
employed in the Fitchburg Foundry Co.

HERMAN E. REMINGTON. Thomas Reming-
ton (I), the pioneer ancestor in this country of Her-
man E. Remington, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
settled in Hingham. Massachusetts. He may have
been related to John Remington, the first immigrant
of the name, who settled in Newbury, in 1637 or
earlier, and was admitted a freeman May 22, 1638;
removed to Rowley and was appointed to train
the military company there; was lieutenant; re-
moved to Roxbury; was a carpenter by trade and
reconstructed the meeting house in Roxbury ; his
son Thomas removed to Connecticut and had a son
Thomas, who died there without issue. It may
bi' that Thomas Remington, of Hingham, was son
or grandson of this John Remington, but proof is
lacking.

Thomas Remington married, ^larch 16, 16S7-8,
Remember Stowell, daughter of Sanmel and Mary
(Farrow) Stowell. She was born in Hingham,
April 22. 1662. and died there November 5, 1694,
aged thirty-three years. The children of Thomas
and Remember Remington were : Jael, born at
Hingham, April 22, 1688, married, June 13, 1710,
Thomas Beal ; Joshua, of whom later; Mary, born
May 9, 1691 ; Abigail, born February 27, 1692-3.

(II) Joshua Remington, son of Thomas Reming-
ton (i), was born in Hingham, Massachusetts,

1689-90. He married Elizabeth . He was a

farmer. He died at Hingham. July i, 1733, aged
forty-three years. The children of Joshua and Eliza-
beth' Remington were: Joshua, born 1714, died
April 2, 1730, aged sixteen years ; Elizabeth, born
1716. married. November 8, 1742, Israel Leavitt.
Jr. ; John, born 1718. died September 18. 1718, killed
by the mother w-hile temporarily out of her mind ;
Elisha, born January 17, 1719-20; Mary, born June
13. 1722. married John Stowell, Jr.; Sarah, born
June 23, 1724, married Joshua or John Tilden,
Jr.: Thomas, born May 22, 1726; Olive, born Sep-
tember 28, 1728, died February 17, 1736-7; Joshua,
born February 14. i7,?o-i, of whom later.

(III) Joshua Remington, youngest child of
Joshua Remington (2), was born at Hingham, Mas-
sachusetts. February 14. 1730-1. He married Ruth
Clay at Hingham. Tlie children of Joshua and
Ruth Remington were born at Hingham, viz. : Ruth,
bnrn August 5. 1755: Uriah, born 1757, baptized
June 26. 1757: Joshua, Jr.. of whom later.

(IV) Joshua Remington, Jr., son of Joshua
Remington (3). was born in Hingham, Massachu-
setts, November. 1750. and baptized September 14.
1760. He died at Huntington, Vermont, October 4.
l8.;5. aged nearly ninety-six years. He was a
soldier in the revolution and was in the battle of
Bennington. He was in Captain Nathan Har-
wood's compan}'. Colonel John Dickinson's regiment,
in 1777 — a ilassachusetts regiment — the roll of which
was sworn to in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. He
was in Captain Joseph Clapp's company, and Colonel
Israel Chapin's regiment (Third Massachusetts) in
tlie fall of 1779 and marched to reinforce the
northern army.

He settled in Wallingford, Vermont, in 1780,
and saw further service there in a Vermont regi-
ment. His brother Uriah was with him. Uriah
enlisted in 1775 in a Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

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company and was also a veteran at the time they
went to Vermont. Joshua and Uriah Remington
•were both in Captain Stafford's company, Colonel
Ebenezer Allen's regiment of Vermont militia in
•October, 1780. and June, 1781, and again in 1781
in Captain Orange's company. Colonel Lee's regi-
died April 3, 1853. He resided for a time in Hines-
burg, Vermont, and bought real estate there Sep-
tember 19, 1818. He sold it to his son, Joshua
Remington, Jr., August 28, 1S19, and returned to
Wallingford or Huntington. Among the children
of Joshua Remington were : Joshua. Jr., married

Diadama , and settled in Hinesburg; Jeremiah,

of whom later.

(V) Jeremiah Remington, son of Joshua
Remington (4), was born at Wallingford, Vermont,
July 25, 1783, and died August 13. 1852. He mar-
ried Mary , who was born June 4, 1778. and

died April 3. 1853. He resided for a time in Hines-
burg, but most of his life was a farmer in Hunting-
ton, Vermont. The children of Jeremiah and Mary
Remington were: Marilda, born April 8, 1810;
Mahala, born February 16, 1812 : Philemon, of whom
later; Joel, born June 8, 1818, married. May 30,
1844, at Hinesburg, Patty Sayles; Lucinda, born
August 30. 1820: Lurenda, born October 23, 1835,
died November 8, 1847.

(VI) Philemon Remington, son of Jeremiah
Remington (5), was born at Huntington, Vermont,
January 31, 1814, and died there February 26, 1S80.
He married Adeline Fitch, who died October, 1886,
aged about seventy-five years. Their children were :
Mitchell F., of whom later; Annette, born April
26, 1841, married Wareham Brewster, and resides
in Huntington : Ansurilla, born November 8, 1843,
married S. J. Randall, of Huntington, and they re-
side there.

(VH) Mitchell F. Remington, son of Philemon
Remington (6), was born at Huntington, Vermont.
January 6. 1839. He settled in Hinesburg and is
a prosperous farmer there. He married Melinda
Bates, who was born May 21, 1840, the daughter
of Elihu and Nancy (Pierce) Bates. The children
of Mitchell F. and Melinda Remington are: Her-
man E.. of whom later; Edna, born January 31,
l86g, married Charles J. Russell, and they reside
in Burlington, Vermont.

(VIH) Herman E. Remington, only son of
Mitchell F. Remington (7"), was born in Huntington,
Vermont. September 7, 1861. He was educated in
Hinesburg and New Haven, Vermont, in the pub-
lic schools, and Eastman's Business College,
Poughkeepsie, New York. When a young man he
came to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and was em-
ployed as bookkeeper for Baker Brothers, whole-
sale paper dealers, stationers, blank hook manufac-
turers, wooden ware, etc. This firm succeeded
Shepley & Baker, and later Mr. Remington bought
the Baker interests of A. W. Baker, Jr.. and the
firm became Cummings &■ Remington. Mr. Baker,
Mr. Cummings and G. F. Shedd formed the firm
of Baker Brothers & Co., dealers in hardware,
cutlery, paints, oils, etc., at 350 J^Iain street, the
same block.

For several vcars the firm name has been H. E.
Remington & Co.. and Mr. Remington is the sole
owner of the business formerly done under the
name of Cummings & Remington. He deals in paper
by wholesale, Fitchburg being a paper manufactur-
ing centre, and conducts a book binderv. In the
retail department at 356 Main street the firm carries

a fine line of stationery, blank books of its own
manufacture and makes printing and engraving of
all kinds a specialty. The store also has in stock
wrapping paper, paper bags, cotton batting, wooden-
ware, brooms, brushes, envelopes, etc. JNIr. Reming-
ton has won a leading place for himself among the
younger merchants of the city. He is a Republican
in politics.

He married, June 23, 1890, Ida McMaster, who
was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, .•\ugust i,
1862, the daughter of Livy and Esther (Wheeler)
McMaster, of Fitchburg. They have no children.

FREDERICK E. FARWELL. Richard Farwell
(l), believed to be the ancestor of the American
emigrant, Henry Farwell, one of the pioneers at
Concord, Massachusetts, and therefore a progenitor
of Frederick E. Farwell, of Fitchburg, Massachu-
setts, was born in England. He married about 1280
the daughter and heiress of Elias de Rillestone, and
brought that estate and others into the family. These
continued in the family until about 1500, when they
passed through an heiress to the family of RadclifT.
although some portion of the estate remains to this
day in a Farwell branch bearing the same arms and
claiming descent from Richard Farwell. .\bout
the time the estates passed to the RadclifFes Simon
Farwell migrated from Yorkshire to Somersetshire
and built at Bishop Hall near Taunton the manor
house on which is carved the Farwell arms, quar-
tered with de Rillestone and others.

(I) Simon Farwell. mentioned above, of Hill-
Bishop, died 1545; married Julia Clark.

(II) Simon Farwell, son of Simon Farwell (i),
of Hill-Bishop, married Dorothy Dyer, heiress of
Sir James Dyer, speaker of the house of commons
and judge; she died 1580. Their children: Simon,
John, of Holbrook ; George of whom later ; Richard,
Christopher, founder of the Devonshire branch of
the family ; and four daughters.

(HI) George Farwell, son of Simon Farwell
(2), was born in 1533 and died in 1609; married
Philippa Parker, daughter of John Parker. She
died in 1620. They lived at Hill-Bishop. Their
children : Sir George, Knight of Hill-Bishop, of
whom later : Elizabeth, Sir John, Arthur.

(IV) Sir George Farwell, knight, of Hill-
Bishop, died in 1647. He married Lady Mary Sey-
mour, daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Duke of
Somerset, and brought into the family royal
Plantagenet blood. They had twenty children, some
of whom were: Thomas, John, of whom later;
George, Nathaniel. Edmund, James.

(V) John Farwell, son of George Farwell (4),
married Dorothy Routh, daughter of Sir Joh:i
Routh. Their children : Henry, of whom later ;
John.

(VI) Henry Farwell, believed to be the son of
John Farwell, of Hill-Bishop, England, was one uf
the first settlers of Concord, Massachusetts, and is
ancestor of most of this surname in .\merica. In
this connection it is interesting to note that Mr.
Thomas Farwell was in Taunton, Massachusetts,
in 1643. where he made a contract with his servant,
James Bishop. Note the name Bishop which may
have been derived from the place where the Far-
wells lived in England, Hill-Bishop. Henry was
admitted 'a freeman. May 14. 1638-9. He served on
important committees for the proprietors and the
town. He removed to Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
an adjoining town. His will was made July 12,

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1670, just before his death. The inventory of hi-:
estate was tiled August 5 following. He '.Tiarried

Olive . Their children were : John, born at

Concord about 1639, married (first) Sarah
Wheeler, (second) Sarah Fisk ; Mary, born Decem-
ber 26, 1640, married John Bates; Joseph, of whom
later; Olive married, October 30, 1668, at Chelms-
ford. Benjamin Spaulding; Elizabeth, married

Wilkins.

(VII) Joseph Farwell, son of Henry Farwell
(6), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, February
20, 1642. He removed with his father to Chelms-
ford. About 1699 he bought the Waldo farm in
Dunstable, Massachusetts, part of which he deeded
to his son, Henry Farwell, in 1702. He settled there
in 1699 and was selectman in 1701-02-05- 10. He was
highway surveyor in 1706. His will was dated
November 13, 171 1, and he died December 31, 1722.
He was deacon of the church.

He married, December 25, 1666, Hannah Learned,
who was born in Woburn, August 24, 1649, the
daughter of Isaac and jNIary (Stearns) Learned.
Her father was born in England, son of William
and Judith Learned, who came from England to
Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1632. Her mother
was the daughter of Isaac and Mary Stearns, who
settled in Watertown in 1630. The children of Jo-
seph and Hannah Farwell were : Hannah, born
January 20, 1667-8; Joseph, of whom later; Eliza-
beth, born June 9, 1672, married, January, 1693, John
Richardson ; Henry, born December 18, 1674, mar-
ried Susannah Richardson ; Isaac, born Chelmsford,
removed from Milford to Mansfield, Connecticut;
Sarah, born September 2, 1683; John, born June 15.
1686; William, born January 21, 1688, settled in
Groton, Massachusetts; Oliver, born 1689, killed by
the Indians; Olive, born November, 1692.

(VIII) Joseph Farwell, Jr., eldest son and sec-
ond child of Joseph Farwell (7), was born at
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 24, 1670. He re-
moved to Groton, where he died August 21, 1740,
aged seventy years. He married at Chelmsford,
Hannah Coburn. Their children were : Joseph, born
August 5, 1696, of whom later; Thomas, born at
Chelmsford, October 11, 1698, died December 16,
1731 ; married, December 24, 1723, Elizabeth Pierce.
The following children were born at Groton : Han-
nah, born ]\lay 6, 1701, died May 11, 1762; Eliza-
beth, born December 31, 1703; Edward, born July
12, 1706; Mary born February 5. 1709; John, born
June 23, 1711; Samuel,, born January 14, 1714; Dan-
iel, born JNIay 20, 1717; Sarah, born February 26,
1721.

(IX) Joseph Farwell, eldest child of Joseph
Farwell (8), was born in Chelmsford, Alassachu-
setts, August 5, 1696. He married Mary Gilson,
December 14, 1719. She was born February 8, 1703,
the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Gilson. He
settled in Groton and was elected deacon there June
29, 1750. He served on important committees for
the town in 1754 and 1784. He was a prominent
and influential citizen. The children of Joseph and
Mary Farwell, all born at Groton, were : Anna,
born February 20, 1721, married, November 11,
1741, Josiah Brown ; Isaac, born March 16,
16, 1722, died May 10, 1740; Joseph, born
September 20, 1725, died August 27, 1758;
Jonathan, of whom later ; Thomas, born July 30,
1733. died February 20, 1825, at Washington, New
Hampshire; Oliver, born June 24, 1735; Mary, born

September 4, 1738; Susanna, born August 8, 1742,
married John Cheney, of Groton.

(X) Jonathan Farwell, fourth child of Joseph
Farwell (9), was born at Groton, Massachusetts,

May 15, 1736. He married Eunice . He

died at Charlestown, New Hampshire, November 29,
1761, although he lived most of his life at Groton.
The two children of Jonathan and Eunice Farwell,
both born in Groton, were : Joseph, born August 26,
1759; Leonard, of whom later.

(XI) Leonard Farwell, younger son of Jonathan
Farwell (iq), was born in Groton, October 2, 1760.
He settled in Lancaster. Late in life he removed
to New York state. He deeded his property in Lan-
caster to his children August i, 1818. Those named
in the deeds were Joseph 2d, Benjamin, Levi and
Betsey. He was then at Hoosick, Renssalaer county,
He died at Milton, Saratoga county, October 19,
1822, aged sixty-two years. His wife Sarah died at
Lancaster, May 31, 1809, aged sixty-one years. He
was a soldier in the revolution from Groton in Cap-
tain Luke Wilder's company. Colonel Samuel Den-
ny's (Second) Regiment, and served at Claverack,
New York. He bought land at Lancaster of Dr.
Isaac Hurd, of Concord, and others in 1787-8.

He married, March 4, 1781, Sarah Jlerriam, who-
was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1749, ac-
cording to the records of Lancaster and in 1759
according to her gravestone, which says that she died
May 30, 1809, in her fifty-first year. The children
of Leonard and Sarah Farwell were : Sally, born
February 6, 1787; Joseph, born July 6, 1789; Benja-
min, born January 13, 1792; Levi, of whom later;
Betsey, born July 23, 1799.

(XII) Levi Farwell, son of Leonard Farwell
(11), was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, May 22,
1794. He resided in Lancaster and was a very prom-
inent citizen. In politics he was an old line Whig.
He was selectman, assessor and held other positions
of trust and honor. He died in 1862, at Lancaster,
Massachusetts, where he lived during the latter part
of his life.

He married, November 27, 1823. Lucy Batchel-
der Willard, daughter of Daniel Willard, of Har-
vard, Massachusetts. The children of Levi and Lucy

B. Farwell, all born iu Lancaster, were ; Frances
!Maria. born December 30, 1827, died August 30,
1830; Eliza Willard, born September 21. 1829, of
whom later ; Augusta M.. of whom later ; Daniel
Willard, of whom later; Francis Marion, born Sep-
tember 4, 1834; IMary A. R., of whom later; Levi
Dan, of whom later ; Lovey Melissa, born October
17, 1843; Frederick E., of whom later.

(XIII) Eliza Willard Farwell, daughter of Levi
Farwell (12), was born in Lancaster, September 21,
1829, married. May 8, 1855, Joseph H. Goodale,
who was born January 13. 1827. The children of
Joseph H. and Eliza W. Goodale were: i. Marion
A., born July 2, 1856. 2. Wilfred A., born April
20, 1861. married, October 23, 1889, Mabelle Parker,
and their children are : Raymond P., born May
14, 189 1 ; Louis F.. born March 8, 1893; Austin,
born April 8. 1894; Nina M., born October 17, 1899.
3. Arthur J., born November 17. 1865, married,
January I, i8go, and their five children are : Orville
A., born February 2. 1891 ; Grace, born November
10. 1892 : Florence I., born March 12, 1894 ; Helen

C. born January 21. 1901 ; Carlton D.. born Febru-
ary 20. 1906. 4. Mabel H., born March 19. 1870.

(XIII) Augusta M. Farwell. daughter of Levi

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Farwell (12), was born in Lancaster, July i, 1831,
married, November 2, 1854, Alpheus R. Willard,
who was born April 17, 1831. Their only child is
Roland Willard, born October 31, 1S68.

(XIII) Mary A. R. Farwell, daughter of Levi
Farwell (12), was born in Lancaster, January 10,
1838; married, May 31, 1859, George S. Thompson,
who was born December i, 1830. Their children
are: George F., born December 25, 1S62; Mary A.,
born December 4, 1865; Nettie G., born June 10,
1868.

(XIII) Levi Dan Farwell, son of Levi Farwell
(12), born at Lancaster, February 11, 1842; married,
December 25, 1867, Christiana Cunnmgham, who
was born August 8, 1842. Their children are; i. Al-
bert (twin), born November 5, 1868, married Annie
Nixon, December 24, 1900; Annie Nixon was born
November 28. 1868. 2. Herbert C. (twin), born No-
vember 5, 1868; married. May 29, 1901, Mabel H.
Goodale; their children are: Willard G., born Jan-
uary 4, 1903; Elizabeth, born May 30, 1904; Hugh
C, born October 7, 1905. 3. Bessie E., born Febru-
ary 12, 1871 ; married, April 10, 1890, William A.
Fuller, who was born September 24, 1867 ; their two
children are : John F., born January 29, 1891 ; Beat-
rice L., born February 2, 1893. 4. Ethel L., born
August 5, 1876.

(XIH) Frederick E. Farwell, youngest child of
Levi Farwell (12), was born at Lancaster, July 12,
1849. He attended the public schools of his native
town and could have gone to college, but he pre-
ferred business and at an early age went to work in
tht furniture factory of Merriam & Hall at Leomin-
ster. At the age* of eighteen he went to Fitchburg
to work for A. A. Beckwith & Company, lumber
dealers, and held a responsible position with this
concern for seventeen years. Mr. Farwell was gift-
ed with mechanical ability and acquired skill as a
machinist as well as at wood-working. He devoted
his spare hours to devising machinery, and in 1888
secured a valuable patent on a new saw table. He de-
cided to manufacture his machine himself and start-
ed in a small building on Newton Lane. In addition
to the construction of his saw tables, he began to
make and sell engines, boilers and wood-working
machinery and to rebuild second-hand machines
taken in trade. He soon developed a prosperous bus-
iness which outgrew the original quarters. He
bought the property Pl the rear of 5 Main street
and added from time to time to the buildings ac-
cording to the growth of his own business and that
of his tenants. At present he has three large build-
ings, one of which is forty by one hundred feet,
three story and basement; another "forty by seventy-
two feet, three story and basement ; and the third
thirty by sixty feet, three story and basement, with
ell twenty-five by fifty-two feet. He has also just
huilt a new factory there for his own use forty-five
by eighty feet, part of which is two stories high.
Among the concerns located there are the C. H.
Cowdrey Machine Company ; the Penniman Com-
pany, manufacturers of piano case trusses ; the Moss-
man Novelty Wood Turning Company ; Tenney &
Merriam, pattern makers; E. H. Whittemore. maker
of paper boxes; the American Comb Company; the
Fitchburg Plating Works ; the Star Laundry.

Since his beginning" with the saw table Mr. Far-
well has continued to invent useful machinery. He
makes a specialty of working out ideas and plans
for inventors, and of supplying the needs of manu-
facturers who are devising new machinery for then-

factories. He has taken out fourteen patents.
Among the more valuable of these is a machine to
cut the aperture in a window frame for the weights
to be put in, an edging saw for joining long boards,
and a quick-acting vice. Mr. Farwell has devoted
all his time practically to business. He is a Repub-
lican but never cared to hold office. He is a charter
member of Nashua Trifce of Red Men. He attends
the Episcopal Church and has sung in the choir
there.

He married, December 24, 1870, Elvira Taft, who
was born November 24, 1843, daughter of Harvey
and Susan Taft, of Tovvnsend, Vermont. Their
children are: i. Helen A., born November 16, 1871,
married George Warner, of Fitchburg, and they
have one child, Dorothy, born April 14, 1904; Ada
T., born November 30. 1875; married, October, 1897,
Ernest Giison. and they have one child, Willard
Farwell Giison, born in Fitchburg, March 5, 1899.

CHARLES B. SMITH. The father of Charles
B. Smith, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was Charles
W. Smith, a farmer in Paxton and later a mechanic
in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married (first)
Abigail Crocker, and (second) Marietta Whitney, of
Worcester, who survives him, and resides at 31 Clin-
ton street, the family home for many years. The
children of Charles W. and Abigail (Crocker) Smith
were: Sarah, died at tht age of eighteen years; Ade-
line, married Albert Lackey, of Worcester ; Mary,
married Herbert Rice, of Worcester; she is the pro-
prietor of the Bellmar Hotel and a very successful,
and competent business woman of Worcester; Mat-
tie, married Edward M. Rockwell, of Leominster,
and they have one daughter, Mrs. William Holman,
of Leominster, whose husband is of the F. A. \\'hit-
ney Carriage Company ; Charles B., of whom later.

Charles Bradley Smith, son of Charles W. Smith,
was born at Paxton, Massachusetts, Mar-ch 9, 1857.
When he was six years old he removed with his fath-
er to Worcester, where he received his education in
the public schools and at the Classical high school.
At the age of seventeen he passed the entrance ex-
aminations for Harvard, but he did not enter. In
October, 1874, he went to Fitchburg tO' work in the
textile plant of Rockwell & Phillips, where he re-
mained two years. He then went with Mr. Rock-
well to Leominster, where a similar business bad-
been established, Mr. Rockwell withdrawing from
the Fitchburg firm. }.lr. Smith remained with the
new concern two years. He went into business for
himself in partnership with Mr. Converse under the
firm name of Smith & Converse with a mill at North
Weare, New Hampshire, in 1879. and continued for
three years. The firm was dissolved and Mr. Smith
returned to F'itchburg and entered the employ of
James Phillips, Jr.. formerly of the firm of Rockwell
& Phillips, where he worked for eleven years as a
designer. The companv was called the Fitcliburg
Worsted Company. In January. 1894, he and Charles
T. Crocker formed the Star Worsted Company and
Mr. Smith became treasurer of the corporation, a
position he has occupied to the present time. He is
a director of the Safety Fund National Bank of
Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Mr. Smith resides in apartments in the John-
sonia Hotel, Fitchburg. He is a member of Christ's
Church (Episcopal) and since 1894 has been treas-
urer of the parish. He is a Republican in politics.
He has been on the Fitchburg school board since
1S9O; was an alderman of the city of Fitchburg in

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1902 and was a representative to the general court
in 1905. He is active in the field of state politics as
well as at home, and is a member of the Massa-
chusetts Republican Club of Boston and of the
Home Market Club. He belongs to Mt. Roulstone
Lodge of Odd Fellows, Xo. 98, of Fitchburg. and to
the Park Club, o f which he w'as president for two
years.

He married, December 26, 1882, Mary I. Tilton,
born September 4, 1857, daughter of Emery and Ruth
(.Ingrahani) Tilton, of Leominster. Her father was
a hotel keeper and superintendent of Leominster
water department. Their children are : Florence
May, born at Leominster, October 4, 18S3 ; Katha-
rine, born at Leominster, ]March i, 1892.

GEORGE PRESTON GRANT, JR. Christopher
Grant (i), the immigrant ancestor of George Pres-
ton Grant, Jr., of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was
born in England in 1608 and came to Watertown in
the Massachusetts Bay colony of New England
about 1634. He was a proprietor that year. He was
a glazier by trade and was employed in the con-
struction of the first building for Harvard College.
In 1644 he settled in the northeast corner of the town
near the eastern border. According to a deposition
that lie made April 6, 1658, stating his age as forty-
eight years, he was born in 1610, but there is reason
to believe that 1608 is correct. He died September
6, 1685, and his estate was administered by his sons,
Christopher, Caleb and Joseph. The daughters,
Sarah Seaverns and Mary Smith, deposed, after the
death of their mother, January 19, 1691-72.

The children of Christopher and Alary Grant
were : Abigail, born February 6, 1634-5, married
Roger Rose; Joshua, born June 11, 1637, had a son
Joshua who died June 19, 1677, and the father was
administrator; Caleb, born September 8, 1640; Ben-
jamin, of whom later. The children of Christopher
and Sarah Grant were: Sarah, born February I,
1643-4, married, February 23, 1666, Samuel Seaverns ;
Joseph, born September 27, 1646, settled in Water-
town ; Mary, married, February 27, 1668, Dan-
iel Smith; Mercy, married. May 10, 1671, Samuel
Daniels; Christopher, born 1649.

(H) Benjamin Grant, fourth child of Christo-
pher Grant (,1), was born in Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, September 6, 1644. He settled in Water-
town, but was in New London in 1664. His occupa-
tion there was mariner. He married Mary Beck-
with, daughter of Matthew Beckwith, and removed
to Lyme, Connecticut, where he died 1670. His
children were brought up by relatives in Watertown,
Massachusetts. Among them were; Benjamin, Jr.,
of whom later; Ambrose, settled in Marblehead.

(HI) Benjamin Grant, Jr., son of Benjamin
Grant (2), was born in Lyme, Connecticut, about
1670. He married, September 14, 1692, at Medfield,
Massachusetts, Priscilla Morse, daughter of Joseph
and Priscilla Morse. He sold the land he received
from his father's estate at Watertown in 1693 to
Roger Rose, of Piscataqua, seventeen acres, etc., and
then doubtless settled in Kennebunk, removing later
to Marblehead, where his brother lived. He was a
weaver by trade. The children of Benjamin and
Priscilla Grant were : Priscilla, born at Medfield.
November 16, 1693; Benjamin, born at Watertown,
October 16, 1695; Joshua, born at Watertown, De-
cember 16, 1697; Joseph, born January 6, 1700, of
Cumberland, Rhode Island, later; Priscilla, born De-
cember 20, 1701 ; Deborah, born November 9 or De-

cember 15, (baptism) 1703; John, born 1705, baptized
August 26, 1705; Alary, born February 16, 1706-7;
Thomas, born at Marbleliead, baptized .^pril 25, 1708;
Annette, born at Wrenthain, Alassachusetts, June
15, 1712; Ebenezer, born September 3, 1714. (.See
Dedham Register, i8g6, for further data).

(IV) Benjamin Grant, son of Benjamin Grant
(3), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber 16, 1695. He settled at Cumberland, Rhode Is-
land, where his father and most of the family also
resided. He died there in 1781. He married Dor-
othy . Their children were ; Betty, born

1725; Benjamin, born March 17, 1728; Christopher,
born 1730; Asa, born 1732; Lucy, born 1734; Dor-
othy, born 1737; Michael, born 1738; Aaron, born

1743-

(V) Benjamin Grant, son of Benjamin Grant
(4), was born March 17, 1728, at Cumberland, Rhode
Island. He lived there and at the neighboring town
of Wrentham, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in
the revolution in Captain Day's company. Colonel
John Daggett's regiment, in 1778; he was also in
Lieutenant Asa Bellews' company, Major Seth
Bullard's regiment, in 17S0 in the Rhode Island
campaigns. He married, October 6, 1766, Susanna
Lane. Their children were : David, of whom later ;
Olive, born March 16, 1769, died March 2, 1793;
Asa, married Elizabeth Park, daughter of Samuel
Park, February 14. 1809, and settled in Douglas,
Massachusetts; Louis, born May 30, 1774; Jesse,
born November 20, 1776.

(VI) David Grant, son of Benjamin Grant (5),
was born in Wrenthain, Massachusetts, October 6,
1768. He married, November 7, 1793, Rachel Han-
cock. Their children were: Preston, born May 21,
1796; Lyman, born April 24, 1799; Milton, born Oc-
tober 21, 1800; Charlotte.

(VII) Preston Grant, son of David Grant (6),
was born in Cumberland or Smithfield, Rhode Is-
land, May 21, 1796. He settled in that part of
Smithfield now the town of Lincoln. He married
Miranda Gage, daughter of Captain Anthony Gage,
January 4, 1823, in Providence, at the Chocolate mills
near Pawtucket Rhode Island. Their children were :
Minerva ; George Preston, of whom later ; Erastus
C, married, October 9, 1849, at North Providence,
Rhode Island. ]-ucy Stone.

(VIII) George Preston Grant, son of Preston
Grant (7), was born in that part of Smithfield call-
ed Central Falls, in 1844. He was educated in the
common schools and went to work, when a boy, in
the mills of Greene & Daniels at Central Falls. This
mill was known also as the Morse & Jenks mill.
The privilege was bought in 1839 by Charles Morse,
John Morse and George F. Jenks and they built a
mill, a part of which was occupied by them for the
manufacture of cotton cloth, a part by H. N. Ingra-
ham for the manufacture of spools and bobbins.
Mr. Grant left the mill to enlist in Company H.,
Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers, with the rank of
first corporal during the civil war. After his en-
listment expired he returned to work for Greene &
Daniels. After a few years he left Central Falls and
engaged in business in Worcester on his own ac-
count, but a year later, after the death of S. T. Mal-
lory, who for many years was the superintendent of
the Greene & Daniels mill, he was called upon to
take this responsible position, though he was hardly
twenty-five years old. In that year, 1869, the firm
liad just been established in a fine new plant at Paw-
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Daniels, died, and in the following year the business
was incorporated as the Greene & Daniels Manufac-
turing Company. When the founder of the lirni, B.
F. Greene, died in 1886, Mr. Grant was elected treas-
urer of the company. For many years he was the
active manager of the mills. His success in the dual
capacity of superintendent and treasurer was gener-
ally regarded as evidence of unusual ability in tex-
tile circles. It was Mr. Grant's policy always to
keep his plant fully abreast of the times, even when
that meant constant sacrifice of machinery during
the period of rapid development of textile machinery.
He succeeded ni this way in holding trade during
the bad seasons when mill owners generally suffered.
Within a period of fifteen years the machinery of
the concern was entirely changed, the output after
the change being thread, cotton yarn, twine, etc.
After a period of thirty-six years with this company,
Mr. Grant retired in May, 1895. His resignation
was received with sorrow, not only by the directors
and stockholders, but by the overseers, foremen and
hands. The overseers expressed their esteem for
him by giving him a handsome diamond stud. He
traveled in Europe with his wife in 1895 and spent
the winter following in Florida. He died August
8, 1896.

He was president of the Grant Yarn Company, of
Fitchburg, of which his son was the treasurer and
manager. That business was established by father
and son in 1892. Mr. Grant was president at one
time of the town council of Lincoln, Rhode Island,

• formerly part of Smithfield. He served four years
in the general assembly of the state. He was a di-
rector of the Pacific National Bank of Pawtucket
and of the Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Providence. He was a member of the Central
Falls Baptist Church.

He married Josephine Francena Carter, of Cen-
tral Falls, Rhode Island. Their children were :
George Preston, Jr., of whom later; William Her-
bert, born September 24, 1872, a physician in Boston ;
he attended the grammar school at Central Falls and
the high school at Providence, Rhode Island; re-
ceived the degree of M. D. from the Harvard Medi-
cal School 1896, and is a member of the Massachu-
setts Medical Society; Chester Milton, died young.

(IX) George Preston Grant, Jr., son of George
Preston Grant (8), was born in Lincoln, Rhode Is-
land, now the city of Central Falls, March 29, 1867.
He attended the public schools there and prepared
for college at Mowry & Goff's School at Providence.
He was graduated from Brown University with the
degree of A. B. in 1889. He then entered the
Greene & Daniels Manufacturing Company mills, of
which his father was the treasurer, and learned the
business. In 1892 he went to Fitchburg with his

• father and established the Grant Yarn Company.
His father was president and he was treasurer. The
capital stock was $125,000. The business proved
very successful. Recently large additions have been
made to the plant. The present officers (.1905) are:
President, George R. Wallace; treasurer, George P.
Grant, Jr.; directors, H. A. Willis, A. H. Lowe, B.
N. Bullock.

He married, October 14, 1889, Mabel Hubbard.
daughter of Gaius Hubbard, of Providence, Rhode
Island. Their children are: Constance, Louise,
Ruth, Margaret, Rosamond. Mrs. George P. Grant
was killed recently (1906) in an automobile acci
dent.

KENT F.'\MILY. Between 1633 and 1644 there
came from England to New England three families
bearing the surname Kent, who became the progeni-
tors of three distinct lines whose descendants have
contributed an honorable service toward the upbuild-
ing of the moral, educational and political history
of the country.

In 1633 the "good shipp Mary and John" of Lon-
don had as passengers Richard Kent, Senior, and
Richard Kent, Junior. They are supposed to have
been cousins. They settled at Newbury, Massachu-
setts, where they were joined in 1634 by James Kent,
a brother of Richard, Junior. In 1635 Stephen Kent,
a brother of Richard, senior, joined them. He evi-
dently returned to England, as his name appears
with that of his wife Margery on the list of passen-
gers of the ship "Confidence" in 1638. He remained
at Newbury until 1646, when he removed to Haver-
hill, and in 1665 settled in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
The descendants of these Kents are known as the
Newbury line.

Thomas Kent, born in England, emigrated with
his wife prior to 1643, and was one of the proprietors
of Gloucester, where he settled. His son Samuel
removed to Brookfield, and on the destruction of
that town by the Indians in 1676 went to Suffield,
Connecticut, where he died February 2, 1690- 1. The
Kent ]\Iemorial Library stands on the site of the log
cabin which he built upon his arrival at Suffield.
To this Gloucester line belongs James (6) Kent,
chancellor of New York, and author of "Kent's Com-
mentaries on American Law." He was born at
Fredericksburg, New York, July 31, 1763. His an-
cestry was: Moss (5), Elisha (4), John (3), Sam-
uel (2), Thomas (i).

Under date of May 2, 1643, the town records of
Dedham state that "Joshuah Kent is admitted
Townsman & hath libertie to purchase Edward Cul-
uers Lett." The records of the First Church of
Dedham say that "Joshua Kent went for England
wth our testimoniall but to returne againe iini, 1644,
md he returned 1645." "md ye said Joshuah Kent
having brought .ov'r 2 of his brothers & placed them
in ye country, yet wth his wife returned to England
lom 1647."

■'md ye said Joshuah Kent upon ye trobles aris-
ing againe in England & wares ther 1648 he returned
wth his wife againe about ye 8m yt yeare." His
brothers were named John and Joseph. These three
brothers were the founders of the Dedham Kent
line.

The Kent English ancestry has not been traced,
and it is not known what relationship existed, if
any, between the Kents of Newbury, Gloucester and
Dedham. It is the Dedham line, and especially the
descendants of John (i) Kent, the ancestor of Dan-
iel (7) Kent, of Worcester, which will be considered
in this sketch.

Joshua Kent was a prominent man, and active in
affairs of church and town. His will is dated April
22, 1664. He died at Dedham, leaving a widow and
three daughters. Joseph Kent is mentioned in the
tax rate of Dedham in 1659. He was at Block Is-
land, May 4, 1664, when he petitioned the legislature.
On December 15, 1673, he was admitted an inhabit-
ant of Swansea. He died at Swansea in 1704, leav-
ing four sons and one daughter.

In the genealogy of the Kent family by Edward
E. Kent, John (l) Kent is given as son of Richard
Kent, Sr., of Newbury. This is an error, as is am-

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ply proven by various church and town records.
The will of Elizabeth Harder, of Braintree, June 1.
1664. names John and Joseph, and Joshua Kent's
three daughters.

John Kent was admitted to the Dedham Church,
July 16, 1652, and was admitted a freeman May 3,
1654. He was on a tax list dated .August 29, 1653,
and he continued to be taxed at Dedham until No-
vember 22, 1664. He was one of the signers of a
petition to the general court. May ", 1662 ; he was
elected one of the fence viewers for the "West Field"
February 24, 1664-5. He removed to Charlestown,
Massachusetts, and was received in the Charlestown
Church by letter from the Dedham Church, with his
wife Hannah, .April 13, 1O73. His wife was admitted
to the church at Dedham, February 5, 1664. They
were in Charlestown in 1667, when their first child
was born. He was tythingman at Charlestown in
1679. John Kent married, at Dedham, May 21, 1662,
Hannah Griswold, who w'as born at Cambridge,
March 4, 1644-5, ^nd died at Charlestown, January
9, 1690-1, the daughter of Francis and Mary Gris-
wold (or Grissell), of Charlestown, who resided on
the north side of Kirtland street. On December 5,
1636, "There is granted unto Francis Greshold, the
Drummer, two acres of land lying at the end of.
Barnabe Lambson's pole toward Charlestowne, in
regard of his services amongst the soldiers upon all
occasions, as long as he stayeth." He died at Char-
lestown, October 2, 1652. No record of John Kent's
death has been found. He was living at Charles-
town as late as 1707, when he conveyed land. The
children of John and Hannah (Griswold) Kent
were: I. Hannah, born July 2, 1667; married Joseph
Cahoon. 2. Maria, born February 3, 1669. 3. John,
Jr., born 1670; married (first) Sarah Smith, De-
cember 22, 1692; (second) Elizabeth . In

1698 he moved to Scituate, and in 1709 to Mans-
field, where he died 1753. He was representative in
1724. 4. 'Joshua, born June 15, 1672; died June 20,
1672. 5. Joshua, born July 4, 1674; married Agnes
Okeman, November 4, 1697. He lived in Boston.

6. Joseph, born October 13, 1675 ; married, Novem-
ber 26, 1702, Rebecca Chittendon, of Scituate. He
lived in Charlestown, where he died May 30, 1753.

7. Samuel, born March 23, 1678; died March 16,
1702-3. 8. Ebenezer, born August 18, 1680, mention-
ed below. 9. Lydia, born July 16, 1683 ; married,
1714, Ebenezer Simmons, of Scituate. 10. Mary,
born May 12, 1686; married, 1710, Joseph Barber, of
Hingham. 11. Susannah, born August 13, 1689.

(11) Ebenezer Kent, son of John (i) Kent, was
born in Charlestown. Massachusetts, August 18,
1680, and died at Hingham, February 16, 1752, aged
according to the gravestone, seventy-one years, si.x
months. He settled in Hingham about 1703, and
resided in the second precinct, on what is now
Beechwood street, and built the first dwelling house
on the west side of the Conahasset river. On March
ig, 1706-7, the town of Scituate granted Ebenezer
Kent lot 180, containing ten acres. He lived at Scit-
uate as late as 1712, at least, but in 1717 he was again
residing at Hingham. He became a member of the
second church in Hingham (Cohasset) at its found-
ation, December 13, 1721. In 1727 and 1736 he was
elected constable. In 1737 he was one of the gran-
tees of the Beechwood Cemetery, Hingham. His
will was dated June x6, 1648. and appointed his
sons Isaac and Ebenezer executors. He married,
December 8, 1703, Hannah Gannett, who was born
at Scituate in 1684, and died at Hingham, March

27, 1767, the daughter of Joseph and granddaughter
of Matthew and Hannah Gannett. Matthew Gan-
nett was born in England, 1618, and died 169^ ; his
wife died at Scituate, July 10, 1700, aged seventy-
eight years. The children of Ebenezer and Hannah
(Gannett) Kent were: i. Abigail, born October 12,
1706; died March 12, 1709. 2. Hannah, born 1707;
married, January 16, 1727-8 Israel Whitcomb, Jr., o£
Hingham. 3. Mercy, born July 31, 1708; married^
November 27, 1725, Stephen Stodder, Jr., of Hing-
ham. 4. Elizabeth, born September 6, 1710; married
(first) May 7, 1735, Eldakim Mayo, of Boston; (sec-
ond) Pitcher. 5. Susannah, born about

171 1 ; died April 22, 1715. 6. Isaac, born September
27, 1712; married Rachel Bates. October 25, 1739;
removed in 1745 to Miltord, Massachusetts. 7. Mary,
born 1715; married, August 31, 1743, Joseph Blake.

8. Ebenezer, born April 18, 1717, mentioned below.

9. Seth, born April 13, 1721. 10. .Abigail, born March
29, 1723 ; married, October 22, 1744. Joseph Souther
of Hingham. 11. Lydia, born April 24, 1725; mar-
ried, December 22, 1748, Noah Ripley, of Hingham.
12. Deacon Abel, born .August 7, 1730; married Han-
nah Hobart, daughter of Rev. Nehemiah Hobart,
and lived at Cohasset.

(Ill) Ebenezer Kent, son of Ebenezer (2)
Kent, (John (i)) was born at Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, -April 18, 1717, and died at Leicester. Massa-
chusetts, February 3, 1786. He learned the trade
of cooper. He bought twenty-three acres of land at
Leicester, Massachusetts, December 7, 1743, of Ben-
jamin Tillson, of Dorchester, for fifty-seven pounds
ten shillings. He added to this plot twenty acres
bought of Joseph Torrey, November 6, 1746, and
thirty-two acres adjoining, September 3, 1748, alsc^
of Torrey. His farm was located in the northeast-
erly part of Leicester, and he and his family came
there from Hingham to live in or about 1744. His
name appears frequentlv on the town records of
Leicester. In 1747 he was elected sealer of weights
and measures, to which office he w'as annually elect-
ed with but few exceptions until 1774. He was con-
stable, surveyor of highways, and tythingman. When
Rev. Joseph Roberts was dismissed from his pastoral
charge in 1762, "Mr." Ebenezer Kent was a member
of a committee appointed by the town to supply the
pulpit for six months. He was chosen one of a com-
mittee to hire a school master in 1762. On March
16, 1765, Benjamin Tucker, of Leicester, sold to
"Thomas Steel and Daniel Henshaw, Esqr., John
Brown, Nathaniel Harwood, Nathan Seargant and
Thomas Denny, Gen. Nathaniel Goodspeed, Nathan-
iel Waite, Ebenezer Kent, Seth Washburn, Samuel
Watson, Ephraim Slower, Asa Stowers, William
Henshaw, Benja Richardson, Jonathan Sergeant, Jr.,
Samuel Denny, Darby Ryan, Nathel Richardson,
Nathaniel Sergeant and Robert Henry Yoemen and
Sarah Denny, all of Leicester," "a piece of land for
a burying place where some have been buried and
called the New Burying place." This is now known
as Rawson Cemetery.

He married (first) July II. 1739, Sarah Wheaton,
who was born at Hingham, May 17, 1718, and died
at Leicester, September 24, 1771. the daughter of
Christopher (3) and Sarah (Beal) Wheaton, grand-
daughter of Christopher (2) and Martha (Prince)
Wheaton, and great-granddaughter of Robert (l>
and Alice (Bowen) Wheaton. Christopher (2)
Wheaton was one of "the brave Capt. Johnson's
Company" in King Philip's war. Ebenezer Kent
married (second), September 19, 1772, Sarah Stone,

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widow of Joseph Stone, Sr., of Brookfield, Massa-
chusetts, and daughter of John Potter, of Marlbor-
ough and Shrewsbury ; her will is dated December
31. 1/94, and was tiled for probate May 2, 1797. His
will is dated January 12, 1785, and named his son
Ebenezer executor. The children of Ebenezer and
Sarah (.VVheaton) Kent were: i. Hannah, born De-
cember 15, 1740, at Hingham; married, February 11,
1765, Ezra French, of Hingham. 2. Lucy, born
March 4, 1743-4 at Hingham ; married, August g,
1764, Jabez Green, Jr., of Leicester. 3. Ebenezer,
born December 8, 1745, at Leicester ; mentioned be-
low. 4. Reuben, born October 16, 1747, at Leicester;
died there April i, 1763. 5. Jacob, born January 31,
1750, at Leicester; married (first), September ii,
1771, Desire Prouty ; (second), ^lay 23, 1773, Mary
Tucker; (third), 1776, Abigail Barnes. He died at
Brookfield, Massachusetts, August 5, 1825. 6. Eliza-
beth, born May 9, 1752, at Leicester; married, Au-
gust 15, 1776, Benjamin Flagg, of Holden. 7. Lydia,
born January 19, 1755, at Leicester; married, June
23, 1783, John Campbell, and lived at Plainfield,
Massachusetts.

(IV) Ebenezer Kent, son of Ebenezer (3),
Kent, (Ebenezer (2), John (i)), was born at Leices-
ter, Massachusetts, December 8, 1745, a"d died tliere
January 8, 1806. He was the executor of his father's
will and heir of his real estate. His father had
deeded him, September 23, 1772, the southern half of
the homestead and one-half of a tract of land on
F'lip Road containing thirty-six acres. He was a
soldier in the revolution, being corporal in Captain
Seth Washburn's company from Leicester ; Colonel
Ward's regiment which marched on the Lexington
alarjii April 19, 1775; also private in Captain Loring
Lincoln's company from Leicester ; Lieutenant-colo-
nel F'lagg's regiment on the Bennington alarm 1777.
He was a member of the Leicester committee of
safety and correspondence in 1782. In addition to
the lands he inherited and those he bought from
the other heirs of his father's estate, he accumulated
much other real estate by purchase. He died in-
testate, and his son Daniel was appointed adminis-
trator. He married, at Leicester, October 29, 1772,
Esther Stone, who was born at Ipswich, November
21, 1751, and died at Leicester, February 7, 1806, the
daughter of William and Abigail (Hodgkins) Stone;
granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Downs)
Stone, and great-granddaughter of William and Es-
ther Stone, of Ipswich. Elizabeth (Downs) Stone
was a granddaughter of General Samuel Appleton,
of Ipswich. He was born in 1624, at Little Wald-
ingfield, Suffolk county, .England. He was deputy to
the general court 1668-71-73 and 75. On October 4.
1675, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the
forces on the Connecticut river. He was in the In-
dian fight at Hatfield, October 19, 1675. He com-
manded the Massachusetts forces in the expedition
against the Narraganset Indians, and had command
in the Great Swamp fight, December 19, 1675. He
was chosen assistant in 1681, which office he contin-
ued to hold the appointment of Sir Edmund Andros
as governor in 1686. He was of the council named
in the charter of William and Mary in 1692. His
will was proved May 25, 1696. Mr. Ebenezer Kent
was active in town affairs. Like his father, he was
sealer of weights and measures, and was often elect-
ed constable and higliway surveyor. The children
of Ebenezer and Esther (Stone) Kent, all born at
Leicester, were: i. William, born September 14,
1773; married (first) November 30, 1797, Katy

Wheaton; (second), September 26,. 1827, widod
Lucinda (Barrows) Bourne. He removed to Wall-
ingford, Vermont, where he died October 28, 1845.

2. Sarah, born December 27, 1774; married (first),
;\Iay 30, 1799, Reuben Billings Swan, of Spencer;
(second), May 8, 1816, Asa Wheeler, of Holden.

3. Captain Daniel, born January 6, 1777, mentioned
below. 4. Elias, born May 3, 1780; married, January
20, 1803, Betsey Wheaton. He lived at Wallingford,
Vermont, where he died August 20, 1856. 5. Betsey,
born June 5, 1782; married, November 26, 1801, Jon-
athan Hubbard. They lived at Wallingford, Ver-
mont. 6. Ezra, born September i, 1785; married,
December 14, iSii, Euscbia Southwick. He lived at
Wallingford, Vermont, where he died February 3,
1818. 7. Polly, born November 20, 1787; married
James Bucklin, of East Wallingford, Vermont.

(V) Captain Daniel Kent, gentleman, son of
Ebenezer (4) Kent, (Ebenezer (3), Ebenezer (2),
John (i)),was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, Jan-
uary 6, 1777, and died there May 11, 1849. He, as
well as his father and grandfather, was buried in
the Rawson Cemetery at Leicester. He was one of
the more prominent men of the town, and was es-
pecially active in military affairs. He was appointed
sergeant June 17, 1803, of a company in the First
Regiment of Infantry, in the First Brigade, Seventh
Division, of the Militia; ensign July 31, 1806; cap-
tain December 13, 1808, and commissoned by Gov-
ernor Levi Lincoln, April 11, 1809; and was dis-
charged at his own request, January 30, 1812. He
was brought up on his father's farm, and at the age
of eighteen or twenty was apprenticed to Pliny Earle
to learn the card making business, which he follow-
ed for some years. On his father's death he bought
the interest of the other heirs in the farm, and lived
there thereafter until his death. He was an active
man of business. He bought and sold much real es-
tate, and was appointed to settle several estates. He
was a very genial man and popular among his asso-
ciates. Of musical ta.'^te, he devoted many of his
leisure hours to its cultivation and in the entertain-
ment of his friends. His name appears often in the
town records, being a man who held the confidence
and respect of his fellow townsmen.

He married, June 6, 1805, Ruth Watson, who was
born at Leicester, February 21, 1781, and died March
24, 1828, the daughter of Captain Samuel and Ruth
(Baldwin) Watson, of Leicester. Captain Samuel
Watson was one of the minute men of Leicester, a
sergeant in Captain Seth Washburn's company,
which marched April 19, 1775, and also sergeant in
Captain Loring Lincoln's company, which marched
in 1777 on the Bennington alarm under Lieutenant-
colonel Flagg. He was a tanner and currier by
trade. He was the son of John and Mary (Blair)
Watson, and grandson of Mathew and Mary (Orr)
Watson. The Watson family was Scotch-Irish.
(Sec sketch elsewhere in this work). Ruth (Bald-
win) Watson was a daughter of Major Asa and
Abigail (Draper) Baldwin. On the revolutionary
Rolls of Massachusetts the name of Major Asa
Baldwin appears many times among the field and
staflf ofticers of the ist Worcester County regiment
from 1776-1778. He was a member of the com-
mittee of safety and correspondence for Spencer.
His line of descent from Joseph Baldwin of Milford,
Connecticut, was: Daniel (4), Joseph (3), Joseph
(2), Joseph (i). His wife was a daughter of Cap-
tain James (3) Draper (ancestry James (2), James
(I)). (See Draper Family.)

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Captain Daniel Kent married (second) 1829, Mi-
randa Cunningliani, widow of Reuben Cunningham,
■daughter of Jabez and Eunice (Goodnow) Ayres.
She was born at New Braintree, May 8. 1795. and
died at Leicester, December 21, 1861. The children
of Captain Daniel and Ruth (Watson) Kent, all
born at Leicester, were: I. William Stone, born
February 6, 1800 ; married (lirst). January 11, 1831,
Mary, daughter of Amos and Damaris (Bennett;
Howard of Worcester; she died April 5. 1847; mar-
ried (second), October 3, 1847, Mrs. Louisa Beers,
daughter of Phinneas and Joanna (Barnes) Tyler;
she was born October 10, 1807, and died at Leicester,
January 6, 1892. He died at Leicester, Alarch 26,
1885. 2. Deacon Samuel Watson, born January 21,
1808; died at Worcester, December 12, 1883; mar-
ried, May 19, 1835, Clarissa, daughter of Samuel and
Sukey (Vickery) Watson of Leicester. He lived at
Worcester, and was a manufacturer of card clothing
machinery. He was a member of the Mozart Musi-
cal Society, afterwards the Choral Union. On June
26, 1826, he was appointed by Brigadier-General
Nathan Heard a member of the First Brigade Band
of the Si.xth Division of Massachusetts Militia. He
was a deacon of the Old South Church from 1861-
1870, and of the Plymouth Church 1874- 1879, 1880-
1883. His widow died at Worcester, February 5.
1902. 3. Daniel Waldo, born May 5, 1810, mentioned
below. 4. Caroline Calista, born March 19, 1812;
married, February 22, 1848, Levi C. Clapp, of
Worcester, born February 11, 1794, at Worthington,
Alassachusetts ; died at Worcester, December 7. 1854.
She died January 4. 1898, at Worcester. 5. Melinda
Watson, born November 29, 1813 ; married, April
14, 1835, Captain Dana Hyde Fitch, of Leicester,
T)orn August 24. 1803, at Guilford, Vermont, son of
Ezra and Sally (Green) Fitch; he died at Worces-
ter April 2, 1877. When a young man he was much
interested in military affairs, and was captain of the
Worcester Light Infantry in 1837-8. He was also
captain of the Worcester Home Guards for two
years. His widow is still living (igo6). 6. James
Draper, born September 20. 1815; married (first)
March 24, 1841, Anna Maria, born at Boston. Sep-
tember II, 1815, daughter of Abner and Abigail
(Williams) Bourne: she died October 11, 1856;
married (second). December 15, 1857, Jennie Whit-
ing, daughter of Whiting H. and Sarah A. (Buell)
HoUister; she was born at Hartford, Connecticut,
June 13, 1837. He died at Boston, January 9, 1871,
and was buried at New Bedford. Massachusetts, with
his first wife. His widow married (second), De-
cember 23, 1873, Charles F. Paine, of New York
City. 7. Esther Stone, born September i, 1817; died
January 12, 1859, at Leicester; married. May 10,
1842, Rufus Holnian, of Millbury, son of Aaron and
Polly (Stockwell) Holman. He was born April 6,
1816, and died July 22, 1895. at Leicester ; he married
(second), October 11, 1859, Emeline Draper Brvant,
born October 27. 1827, and died May 7, 1879. The
children of Captain Daniel and Mrs. Miranda Kent
were: 8. Ruth Watson, born March 31, 1830; died
April 19, 1833. 9- John Davis, born April 28, 1834;
died July 30, 1S38. 10. Edward Everett, born May
5, 1836 ; married, February 20, 1862, Sarah Rice,
born August 4, 1838, at Franklin, Michigan, daugh-
ter of Edward and Sophia Catherine (Patterson)
Proctor; she died August 23. 1870. He was a boot
manufacturer, and lived at Spencer, Massachusetts.
He compiled and published the Kent Genealogy al-
ready referred to. He died April 8, 1899.

(,\T) Daniel Waldo Kent, son of Captain Dan-
iel t5) Kent (Ebenezer (4), Ebenczer (3), Ebene-
zer (2), John (i)), was born May 5, 1810, at Leices-
ter, Massachusetts, and died at Worcester, October
II, igo6, in the ninety-seventh year of his age.
When he was about twenty-three years old he went
to Buffalo, New York, to work, but soon returned to
Leicester. He resided at the old homestead in Lei-
cester from 1841 until he removed to Worcester in
1901. In 1848, in connection with his father, he de-
veloped a water privilege on Kettle Brook, which
runs through the farm, and built a saw mill. He
afterwards added a box factory. In the sixties he
began the manufacture of shoddy, being the first to
introduce this industry in Leicester. He was always
active in town affairs, and many of the roads in
the northeast part of the town were built through his
influence. He always took a deep interest in the
political events which transpired during his long
life. In 1904 he had the rare privilege of casting his
nineteenth vote for president of the LInited States.
The Kent homestead, which was purchased by Eben-
ezer Kent, December 7, 1743, who came from Hing-
ham, remained in the family until July 15, 1901, when
it was sold to the Association of Sisters of Our Lady
of Mercy, who purchased it to be used in connection
with their orphanage in Worcester.

Mr. Kent was one of the first in Worcester coun-
ty to introduce the use of circular saws for making
lumber. In his younger days he was a member of
the Leicester Company of Light Infantry. Before
his marriage he taught school for some time in Lei-
cester and Paxton. Both Mr. Kent and his wife
were musical in their younger days, each singing in
church choirs in their respective towns. Mrs. Kent
taught school for a short time in Paxton before her
marriage. April 9, 1903, at the age of ninety-two
and eighty-four respectively, Mr. and Mrs. Kent cel-
ebrated in a quiet manner the sixty-fourth anniver-
sary of their marriage. Since 18818 Mr. Kent was
totally blind.

Daniel Waldo Kent married, April 9, 1839, Har-
riet Newell Grosvenor, who was born at Paxton,
May 5, 1818, and died at Worcester, January 20, 1904,
at her home, 25 Benefit street. The interment was
at Pine Grove Cemetery, at Leicester. She was the
daughter of Jonathan Prescott and Bethiah ( Avery >
Grosvenor. Her father was born at Grafton, No-
vember 30, 1779, and died at Paxton, September 11,
1854 ; her mother, Bethiah Avery, was born at Hol-
den. October 13, 1781 ; married, April 23, 1804, and
died at Paxton, January 3, 1833. (See sketch of J.
Prescott Grosvenor, of VVorcester, in this work, for
the ancestry of Jonathan Prescott Grosvenor. The
children of Daniel Waldo and Harriet N. Kent, all
born at Leicester, were: i. Lucy Watson, born May
24, 1841, mentioned below. 2. Ruth Amelia, born
December 8. 1843, mentioned below. 3. Prescott
Grosvenor, born September 29. 1847, mentioned be-
low. 4. Harriet Elizabeth, born May i, 1850: not
married. 5. Daniel, born January 2, 1853, mentioned
below. 6. Caroline Esther, born August 4. 1857 ;
not married ; graduate of Wellesley College, Massa-
chusetts.

(VII) Lucy Watson Kent, daughter of Daniel
Waldo (6) Kent, was born May 24, 1841. She grad-
uated in 1861. front the Westfield State Normal
School. She married, June 15, 1864, Joseph Sheldon
Noble, of Springfield. Massachusetts, who was born
June ;. 1829, in Westfield, Masachusetts, the son of
Jacob Moseley and Eliza (.■\lderman) Noble. His

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grandfather, Jacob Noble, served in the Revolution
and in the war of 1812, being colonel of a regiment
in the latter war. Mr. Noble attended Westfield
Academy. In 1845 he entered the machine shop of
Ira Temmons, where he spent three years learning
the business. When nineteen years old he was em-
ployed as engineer on the steam tug "American
Eagle" plying between Troy and Albany, on the Hud-
son river, and saved money for another term at the
academy. In 1849 he went to New York and secured
the position of night clerk in Taylor's Hotel. In
the spring of 1850 he went to California and, stayed
until 1858, where he had many thrilling experiences
in that then new and unsettled country. He returned
to Westfield, and was appointed turnkey of the
Hampden county jail by Sheriff Bush. He served
there three years, and later was jailer at Springfield
under Sheriff Bradley. During the latter years of
his life he was engaged in the grain business, having
a large warehouse on Lyman street, at Springfield.
He died March 12, 1898. Mr. Noble was a Republi-
can in politics. He was prominent in the Masonic
order, member of the Springfield Commandery,
Knights Templar. The children of Joseph Sheldon
and Lucy Watson (Kent) Noble were: I. Caroline
Edna, born February 15, 1866. at Springfield; grad-
uate of Wellesley College, and teacher in the public
schools. 2. Daniel Waldo, born February 8, 1870, at
Springfield ; died March i, 1870. 3. Burton Ells-
worth, born July 25, 1871, at Springfield; he mar-
ried, February 14, 1895, Lucy Florence, daughter of
Augustus and Frances (Andrews) Tripp, of Spring-
field. He succeeded to his father's business and
lives at Springfield. 4. Roscoe Kent, born July 13,
1880, at Springfiejd.

(VII) Ruth Amelia Kent, daughter of Daniel
Waldo (6) Kent, was born December 8, 1843; she
was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary in 1868,
and taught school several years; she married, Octo-
ber 24, 1876, Rev. Mellville M. Tracy, of Hartford,
Connecticut. He died at Longmont, Colorado, Sep-
tember 22, 1889. She died August 4, 1878, in De-
troit, Minnesota. Their only child was Abbie Ruth,
born July 26, 1877, '" Three Rivers, Palmer, Mass-
achusetts; a graduate of Wellesley College, 1900.

(VII) Deacon Prescott Grosvenor Kent,
son of Daniel Waldo (6) Kent, was born
September 29, 1847. He received his early
education in the public schools of Leicester
and Leicester Academy, and studied later at
Williston Academy. In July, 1867, he entered
upon a three-year engagement with Hon. William
Upham, of Spencer, woolen manufacturer, for the
purpose of learning the business. At the expiration
of the time, July i, 1870, he began manufacturing at
Monson, Massachusetts, but his plant was burned the
following April. For a few years he had a factory
at Oxford, Massachusetts. He formed a partnership
with Henry L. Watson, of Leicester, and under the
name of Watson & Kent, located in the city of Fitch-
burg, manufacturing principally waterproofings and
beavers for the New York market, where he con-
tinued until 1878. when he removed to Worcester.
In 1880 he began the manufacture of satinets in the
old mill on the homestead at Leicester, installing
new machinery for the purpose. Soon he was join-
ed by his brother Daniel, and the firm did an increas-
ing and successful business under the name of the
Lakeside Manufacturing Company. In 1885 he and
his brother purchased the Jamesville mills in Worces-
ter, and there carried on business under the name

of P. G. Kent & Company until December, 1892,
when they sold the property to the Jamesville Manu-
facturing Company. Later he bought the Jamesville
property, and has since carried on the manufacture
of woolen cloth alone. His residence is in Worces-
ter. Mr. Kent is an active member and deacon of
the Plymouth Congregational Church, and chair-
man of the board of assessors of the society.

He married, November 4, 1870, !Mary Abbie Wat-
son, of Spencer, Massachusetts ; she was born June
22, 1848, in Spencer, daughter of Roswell S. and
Hannah (Grout) Watson. Their children are: i.
Edward Everett, born in Spencer. September 11,
1872 ; graduated in 1893 with the degree of S. B.
in electrical engineering from the Worcester Poly-
technic Institute ; in the following year he was given-
the same degree in mechanical engineering: studied
law in Harvard Law School, graduating in 1886;
is now practicing law in Boston. He married, at
Newton, Massachusetts. November 9. 1905. Mary
Clement, daughter of Herbert Wilder. 2. Mabel
Watson, born December 2, 1883, in Worcester; a
graduate of Smith College, 1906.

(VII) Daniel Kent, son of Daniel Waldo (6)
Kent, (Daniel (5), Ebenezer (4). Ebenezer (3),
Ebenezer (2), John (i)). was born January 2. 1853.
Among his ancestors who were early settlers in this
country may be named Thomas Payne, Michaet
Metcalf. Jonathan Fairbanks. John Dwight. Na-
thaniel Whiting, and Dr. William Avery, of Ded-
ham ; John Prince and Edmund Hobart, of Hing-
ham; Henry Adams of Braintree: Josiah Winslow
and Thomas Bourne, of Marshfield ; John Pres-
cott of Lancaster ; Rev. Peter Bulkeley and John
Hoar, of Concord ; Cornelius Waldo, of Chelms-
ford; John Coggswell. John Treadwell, and William
Stone, of Ipswi'ch; John Grosvenor and James.
Draper, of Roxbury ; Griffith Bowcn of Rehoboth ;
Job Lane of Maiden, and Rev. John Miller of Gro-
ton.

Mr. Kent was educated in the public schools and
Leicester Academy and graduated at Amherst Col-
lege in 1875. While at Amherst he was active in-
college sports, rowing at Springfield in 1872 in the
New England Collegiate Regatta the year that Ani-
herst won the pennant against Harvard. Yale, Will-
iams and Bowdoin. He was one of the editors of
the Amherst Student, and a member of the Delta-
Kappa Epsilon fraternity. While in college he worr
several prizes for oratory. He has since shown his.
interest in the college by establishing the Kent,
Prize in English Literature, of one hundred dollars-
annually, for the best thesis on an assigned subject
produced by the senior class. After graduation he
studied law at the Boston Law School, and while-
there supplemented his studies with practical work
in the office of the law firm of Turner & Scaife.
His study of law had been for the acquisition of
legal knowledge rather than for its practice as a
profession, and after being admitted to the bar he
entered upon a business life, spending one year at
Indianapolis. Indiana, and another at Philadelphia.
In 1881 he returned to Leicester and associated
himself with his brother, Prescott G. Kent, in the
manufacture of woolen goods. They established
the Lakeside Manufacturing Company, of which he
became the president. In 1883 they removed the
old mill building which they had utilized, and built
a new mill which was fitted with the^ most approvect
machinery. They were the first to install an inde-
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laid out and built a flourishing factory village
which was known as Lakeside. Their goods met
with great success in the market, and to fill their
orders they were obliged to run their plant day
and night for over six years. In 1885 they pur-
chased the mills at Jamesville. in Worcester, which
were run in conjunction with the Lakeside factory.
When in 1892 they sold this property to the James-
ville Manufacturing Company, Daniel Kent became
president of the corporation.

During these years the old Kent farm was a
source of great interest to him. It was brought to a
high state of cultivation. It was stocked with
thoroughbred cattle and its fertile fields attracted
much attention. The old house which was built be-
fore the first Ebenezer Kent bought the farm in
1743, was remodeled and made modern in its fittings
but it still retains much of its colonial style, with
the corner posts and large beams running through
the center of the ceiling.

In 1895 the city of Worcester, in order to increase
its water supply, made a taking of the waters of
Kettle Brook at and above the Lakeside Mills. Th's
resulted in the destruction of a manufacturing plant
which had given employment to many hands and h.id
performed its part in contributing to the prosperity
and growth of the town. The dam and factory
buildings were removed, the busy hum of machinery
was silenced and the place became in very truth "a
deserted village."

In 1897 Mr. Kent sold his home on Leicester
Hill and removed to Worcester. While engaged in
business, Mr. Kent lived in the centre village of
Leicester. His house was the one east and next to
the Leicester Inn, facing the Park. It should be
noted as a coincidence that it was in this same house
that his father and mother began their married life
in 1839. During these years he was prominent in
town affairs. He was chairman of the board of se-
lectmen for a number of years; chairman of the
trustees of the public library; chairman of the park
committee, havin,g full charge of laying out the
beautiful park which adorns the centre village of
that historic town; secretary of the school commit-
tee, and repeatedly elected moderator of town meet-
ings. He was elected a member of the Republican
state committee for the Third Worcester Senatorial
District in 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1895. In 1893, dur-
ing the campaign of Hon. Frederick T. Greenhalge
for governor, Mr. Kent had sole charge of rallies
and speakers. He was elected secretary of the Re-
publican state conventions in 1894 and 1895, and in
the same years served as secretary of the Republi-
can state committee. He has been active in politi-
cal conventions, and presided at the congressional
convention in 1895, when Hon. Joseph H. Walker
was first nominated for Congress. In 1900 he was
elected register of deeds for the Worcester district
in Worcester county, which office he holds at the
present time, having been re-elected for a third term
in 1906. Under his administration many changes
have been introduced and the registry has been
raised to a high degree of excellence.- He has made
a special study of the subject of indexing, and is
the author of "Land Records, A System of Index-
ing," published in 1903. It is the first work ever
written on that intricate subject. In 1906 he in-
vented a case for classifying cards, also a card
holder, both of which he has had patented.

Mr. Kent was for three years president of the
Amherst Alumni of Central Massachusetts, and for

several years was president of the New England
Satinet Slanufacturers' Association. In 1890 he was
elected a trustee of Leicester Academy, and is at
present secretary of the board. He is a member of
Worcester Economic Club; the Worcester Club;,
the Tatnuck Country Club ; Worcester County Re-
publican Club ; the Sons of the Revolution ; Society
of Colonial Wars, and The Delta Kappa Epsiloii
Association of Central Massachusetts. He is an
honorary member of the Worcester Light Infantry^
and of the George H. Ward Post 10, G. A. R.

He married, at Westficld, Massachusetts, July
2, 1878, Georgia, daughter of Nelson Franklin and.
Henrietta (.Snowden) Tyler; she was born at La
Grange,' Georgia, July 20, 1853. Mrs. Kent is a
member of the Worcester Woman's Club, and of
the Club House Corporation ; the Colonel Timothy
Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, of which she was regent and is now honorarj^
regent ; the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Chap-
ter, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of Amer-
ica; the Red Cross Society; the Society for Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals ; president of the-
Worcester Revolutionary Memorial .\ssociation, and
an honorary member of the Leicester Shakespeare
Club and the Colonel Henshaw Chapter of that
town. Air. and Mrs. Kent have no children.

THE HALL FAMILY. (I) John Hall, immi-
grant ancestor of Daniel Kent, of Worcester, came
from Coventry, Warwickshire^ England, in 1630, tO'
Charlestown, Massachusetts, probably in the fleet
with Governop Winthrop. Coventry is about ninety-
five miles northeast of London. He was then prob-
ably about twenty-one years of age. His name is-
number nineteen on the list of church members of
the First Church of Charlestown at its organiza-
tion July 30, 1630. He married either after arriv-
ing here, or in England, Bethiah Earned. Her
church number was 32. John Hall had lot No. 48
in 1633. He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634.
There is but little doubt that he resided in Barnsta-
ble in 1640. He was recorded as able to bear arms
in 1643, and Mr. Paine, the historian of Harwich,
said that John Hall was inhabitant of Barn-
stable after 1647, and that he was a resident
dent in Yarmouth in 1653. There is a tradition that
one of his brothers came with him in the same ship,
and that this brother was a grandfather of Deacon
Percival Hall, of Sutton, who appears by the his-
tory of Sutton to have been the chief means of pro-
curing the settlement of one of John Hall's descend-
ants as the pastor of the Sutton Church, namely.
Rev. Dr. David Hall from Yarmouth.

It is believed that John Hall had twelve sons,
although we have the names of only ten. He made
his will July 15, 1694, mentioning eight. His will
was probated August 29, 1696. He died July 23,
1696, and was buried on his farm. It is supposed
that he had a second wife, and that the first three,
children were by his first wife, Bethia. His chil-
dren were: i. Samuel, married Elizabeth Pollard;
died January 20, 1694, without issue. 2. John, men-
tioned below. 3. Shebar, baptized at Charlestown,
February 9. 1639-40, died in infancy. 4. Benjamin,
baptized July 14, 1644; died July 23, 1644. 5. Joseph,
baptized at Yarmouth, July 3. 164^ ; died May 31,

1716; married Mary • , who died February 13,

1718. 7. Nathaniel, baptized at Yarmouth, Febru-
ary 8, 1646; married Anna Thornton, .daughter of
Rev. Thomas Thornton, of Yarmouth ; removed to
Lewiston, Pennsylvania. 8. Gershom, born at

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Yarmouth, March 5, 1648; married first, Bethia
Bangs, daughter of Edward; second, Martha Bram-
ball, of Hingham. 9. William, baptized at Yarmouth,
June 8, 165 1 ; died June 11, 1727; buried at !Mans-
held, Connecticut. 10. Benjamin, baptized May 29,
1653 ; married, February 7, 1678, Mehitable
Matthews, daughter of James Matthews, of Yar-
mouth. II. Elisha, born at Yarmouth, 1655; mar-
ried Lydia , who died February 23, 1724.

(II) Deacon John Hall, son of John Hall, was
l)orn at Cliarlestown 1637. He married Priscilla,
who was born March 10, 1643, daughter of Au-
gustin Bearse, of Barnstable, who came from South-
ampton, England, in the ship "Confidence," sailing
April 2, 1638. She died March 30, 1712. and he
died October 14. 1710. His gravestone and that of
his wife are in the old graveyard in Dennis ; he w-as
3. deacon of the church of Y'armouth. Their chil-
dren, all born at Y'armouth, were: I. John, born
1661, died young. 2. Joseph, born at Yarmouth,
September 29, 1663. mentioned below. 3. John, born
1666; married Margaret Miller, daughter of Rev.
John Miller, of Yarmouth. 4. Priscilla. born 1668,
died young. 5. Priscilla, born February, 1671. 6.
Esther, born April, 1672. 7. Mary, born March I,
1674. 8. i\Iartha, born May 24, 1676. 9. Nathaniel,
born September 15, 1678; married Jane Moore,
"widow ; removed to Lewiston, Pennsylvania.

(III) Deacon Joseph Hall, son of Deacon John

(2) Hall (John (i)), was born at Yarmouth, Sep-
tember 29, 1663 ; married first February 12, 1690,
Hannah Miller, born April 19, 1666, daughter of
John and Margaret (Winslow) Miller. His wife
Hannah died August 23, 1710, and he married (sec-
ond) Mary Faunce, widow of John Morton; she
died May 31. 1761, and he died January 29. 1737.
Joseph Hall settled on his father's farm in Dennis ;
was chosen deacon of the Yarmouth church ; was
on a committee in 1716 to see about getting another
meeting house ; was chosen deputy to the general
court in 1715 and 1716; selectman 1701, and filled
that office in all twenty-eight years. Their children
were: i. Hannah, born February 20, 1691. 2. Pris-
cilla. born March 28, 1693. 3. Margery, born Feb-
ruary 24, 1695. 4. Joseph, born August 6. 1697 ;
married Rebecca Sears. 5. Daniel, born July 18,
1699 ; deacon of Yarmouth Church, thrice married.
6. Josiah, born August 12, 1701. 7. David, born
August 6, 1704, mentioned below. 8. Mary, born
March 30, 1712. 9. Peter, born May 19, 1715. 10.
John, born January 30, 1717. II. Bathshebah, born
at Dennis, July 5, 1719; all the others being born
at Yarmouth.

(IV) Rev. David Hall, son of Deacon Joseph

(3) Hall (John (2), John (l)), was born at Yar-
mouth, Massachusetts, August 6, 1704. He married
at Concord. Massachusetts, June 24. 1731. Elizabeth,
■daughter of Major Jonathan and Rebecca (Bulkeley)
Prescott, of Concord ; she was born at Concord,
December 2. 1715. Her grandparents on her father's
side were Captain Jonathan and Elizabeth (Hoar)
Prescott; on her mother's. Hon. Peter and Rebecca
(Wheeler) Buckley. Rev. Dr. Hall graduated at
Harvard College in 1724. and received the honorary
degree of D. D. from Dartmouth College in 1777.
He was invited to preach at Sutton. Massacluisetts,
1728. He was duly ordained as minister there Oc-
tober 15, 1729. and continued in office until his
death, nearly . sixty years. He was venerated in life and
lamented in death. Rev. Dr. David Hall was a man
of noble bearing, intellectual vigor and fervent piety ;

he was several times called to settle over other
more prominent places, but he preferred to remain
in Sutton, where his people loved and honored him
and to whom he was strongly attached. He was
an intimate friend and admirer of Rev. Dr. Jona-
than Edwards, and they were united in opposing
those who rejected the revivals of that period, and
also in opposing those whose extravagances brought
revivals into disrepute. Dr. David Hall was one of
the candidates for the presidency of Princeton Col-
lege at the time Dr. Jonathan Edwards was elected.
His diary from 1740 to 1789 is in the possession of
the New England Historical Society at Boston. Mr.
Daniel Kent has a copy of it which he had made
He died at Sutton Iilay 8, 1789. His wife died Au-
gust 7, 1803, aged ninety years. Their children, all
born at Sutton, were: i. David, born May 5, 1732.
2. Elizabeth, born February 17, 1734. 3. Rebecca,
born September i, 1736. 4. ^lary. born December
14, 1738. 5. Hannah, bora August 30, 1740. 6.
Sarah, born December 15, 1742. 7. John, born
March 4. 1744. died young. 8. Benjamin, born Feb-
ruary 27, 1746. 9. Child, born and died March 18,
1747. 10. Lucy, born March 19. 1749. 11. Joseph,
born September 8, 1751. 12. Jonathan, born Janu-
ary 20, 1754. 13. Deborah, born March 5, 1756,
mentioned below.

(V) Deborah Hall, daughter of Rev. David
(4) Hall, Joseph (3), John (2), John (l), was born
at Sutton, Massachusetts. I\Iarch 5, 1756 ; married,
May 9, 1776, Rev. Daniel Grosvenor, son of Eben-
ezer and Lucy (Cheney) Grosvernor of Pomfret,
Connecticut, whose portraits can be seen at Nor-
wich in the possession of George D. Coit. Mr. Kent
had photographs taken of them a few years ago.
He was born in Pomfret, April 20. 1750. He left
his pulpit and marched with his musket in the com-
pany of minute men who went to Cambridge. April
19. 1775. He graduated at Yale College 1769; or-
dained at Grafton. October 19. 1774. and remained
there until 1787; was afterward minister at Pax-
ton. He removed to Petersham, where he died July
22, 1834. His widow, Deborah, died at Petersham,
September 11, 1841. (See Grosvenor family sketch
in this work.)

(VI) Jonathan Prescott Grosvenor, son of Rev.
Daniel (4) Grosvenor. Ebenezer (3). Ebenezer (2),
John (l). and his wife Deborah (5) Hall, was
born at Grafton, November 30, 1779; married first,
at Holden, April 23, 1804. Bethiah Avery, daughter
of Rev. Joseph Avery and his wife, Mary (Allen)
Avery; she died in Paxton, January 3, 1833. He
married second. November 20. 1838. Hannah Hoar,
of Lincoln, Massachusetts; she died at Paxton, April
17. 1848. He married third, Abigail Kennison. He
was fourteen years old when his father settled over
the church in Paxton. and there he lived until his
death. A short time before Rev. Daniel Grosvenor
moved to Petersham, he deeded his farm at Paxton
to his twin sons, Jonathan Prescott and David Hall.
The two brothers lived together in one family for
some time after their marriage. He took an active
part in public affairs ; was assessor and selectman ;
representative to the general court in 1822. and
delegate to the constitutional convention. When the
meeting house was moved from the common to its
present location he was chairman of the committee
in charge. For many years he was justice of the
peace, and was often asked to settle estates. He
was known far and near as 'Squire Grosvenor. The
house where he lived for so many years in Paxton

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is still standing. He died at Paxton, September 11,
1854. and he was buried in the graveyard behind the
church.

(,VII) Harriet Newell Grosvenor, daughter of
Jonathan (5) Prescott Grosvenor, Daniel (4),
Ebenezer (3), Ebenezer (2), John (l), was born at
Paxton, May 5, 1818; married Daniel Waldo Kent,
mentioned above.

AVERY FA.\HLY. Bethiah Avery, wife of
Jonathan Prescott Grosvenor, was the daughter of
Rev. Joseph and Mary (Allen) Avery. Rev. Joseph
Avery was born at Dedham, October 14, 1751, and
died at Holden, March 5, 1824. He graduated at
Harvard College in 1771, and was ordained minister
at Holden, December 12, 1774. Mary Allen, born in
Boston, February 8, 1755; died at Boylston, April
I, 1742, the daughter of James and Mary (Adams)
Allen; granddaughter of Joseph and Abigail (Savil)
Allen. Joseph Allen was the son of Deacon Jo-
seph and Rebecca (Leader) Allen, and grandson of
Samuel and Margaret Allen, the tirst settlers. Abi-
gail Savil was the daughter of Deacon Samuel and
Hannah (Adams) Savil, and granddaughter of Will-
iam and Hannah Savil. Hannah Adams was the
daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Baxter) Adams,
son of Henry Adams of Braintree. Mary (Adams)
Allen was a sister of Governor Samuel Adams, the
Patriot ; daughter of Captain Samuel and Mary
(Fifield) Adams; granddaughter of John and Han-
nah (Webb) Adams, and great-granddaughter of
Joseph Adams, mentioned above.

Rev. Joseph Avery was the son of Deacon Will-
iam and Bethiah (Metcalf) Avery; grandson of
Captain William and Esther (Hunting) Avery.
Bethiah Metcalf was descended from Deacon John
(3) jNIetcalf; Deacon Jonathan (2) Metcalf and
Michael (i) and :Mary (Fairbanks) iSIetcalf. Esther
Hunting was the daughter of John Hunting, and the
granddaughter of John Hunting and Esther (Sea-
born) Hunting; also granddaughter of Thomas and
Rebecca Paine, of Dedham.

Captain William Avery was the son of William
and Mary (Lane) ,\very ; grandson of William and
Margaret Avery, and also grandson of Job and
Sarah Lane (see sketch of Lane family). The immi-
grant, William Avery, came from England about
1650; was born at Walsingham, England, and died
in Boston, March iS. 1686-7.

BAKER FAMILY, OF FITCHBURG. Will-
iam Baker (i), the immigrant ancestor of William
Herbert Baker and Charles Francis Baker of Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts, was a pump maker by trade,
although usually called a carpenter in the Boston
and Plymouth records. He was at Plymouth colony
January 7, 1632-3, probably a very young man, and
the record shows that he made a bargain with
Richard Church about work on that date. He was
given liberty to reside in the colony November 5,
1638. He is probably the same William Baker, car-
penter, of Boston, who was admitted an inhabitant
July 28. 1651. He married. September 23, 1651,
Mary, daughter of Edmund Eddington ; she died
December 12. 1655. He married (second), April
22, 1656. Pilgrim, daughter of John Eddy, of Water-
town. }ilassachusetts. The "History of Concord"
says that he owned land there before 1665, and his
son William came there from Charlestown to live.
He died 1679. The inventory of his estate was
filed June 17, 1679. Savage says he removed to
Concord also. Children of William and Mary

(Eddington) Baker: Mary, born and died 1652;
John, born December 14, 1653; William, October 19,
l6i5 ; Nathaniel. Mav 13, 1661.

'(H) William Baker, son of William Baker (l),
born October 19, 1655, in Boston; married Eliza-
beth Dutton, May 5. 1681, at Concord. He died
July 8, 1702; she died April 7, 1698. They settled
at Concord, and their children as recorded there
were: i. Mary, born March 28, 1682. 2. Elizabeth,
September 15, 1684. 3. Susanna, August 2, 1686. 4.
Thomas. June 25, 1689. died December 9, 1690. 5.
John, born May 6, 1692. 6. Joseph, January 8,
1695-6.

(HP) John Baker, son of William Baker (2),
was born in Concord, May 6, 1692. The "History
of Marlboro" suggests that Joseph Baker, born Janu-
ary 8. 1695-6. son of William Baker (2), of Con-
cord, was the same as Joseph of Marlboro, but
Joseph of Marlboro had a son Joseph Baker, born
1708. and six other children on record born at the
usual intervals. He could not be the same one.
for he could not have been a father at the age of
twelve. The probable line seems to be John Baker
rather than Joseph. John, Jr. went to Shrewsbury,
where Thomas Baker settled also. Moreover, Jo-
seph Baker of Westboro and ilarlboro had no son
Thomas on record.

(IV) Thomas Baker, son of John Baker (3),
born about 1715, settled in Westboro with his brother
Edward (?), who seems to have been older. He

married Azubah . died March 25, 1742, at

Shrewsbury, and their children were: i. Mary, born
in Westboro, May 13. 1738, married George Earle,
of Leicester April 26. 1757. 2. Catherine, baptized in
Shrewsbury, May 2T. 1740. married Elisha Keyes,
July 19, 1757. Thomas Baker married (second)

Eunice . and they had: 3. Daniel, born 1751,

died December 12, 1S21, married Deborah Rand,
1774. 4. Asa. born Shrewsbury. IMarch 25, 1754. 5.
Reuben, baptized IMarch 14, 1756.

(V) Reuben Baker, son of Thomas Baker (4),
born Shrewsbury, March. 1756. baptized March 14,
1756. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain
Job Cushing's company. Col. Jonathan Ward's regi-
ment, and fought at the battle of Bunker Hill,
where he was wounded in the leg. He married
INIiriam Smith. Octolier 15. 1778: second, Charlotte,
daughter of Gideon Howe, January 4. 1781 : third,
Betsey Woodbury, June 16. 1789. in Harvard. He
bought the place in Lunenburg where W. H. Baker,
his great-grandson, now lives, in 1806. Children of
Reuben and Charlotte Baker: i. Emma, born June
27, 1781, married Elijah Hapgood. 1802. 2. Luke,
born June 27, 1784. 3. Charlotte How. born Decem-
ber 2. 1786. Children of Reuben and Betsey (Wood-
bury) Baker: 4. Miriam, born February 3, 179T.
5. Jesse, born January 2r, 1794. 6. Edith, born April
16, 1798.

(VI) Jesse Baker, son of Reuben Baker (5),
born in Shrewsbury. January 21, 1794. died in
Lunenburg, 18,38. He was a farmer, and owned a
saw mill and grist mill on Baker's Brook. He mar-
ried Sophia Wetherbee. Five generations of the
Wetherbee family have lived on the same farm in
Lunenburg. John Wetherbee, the immigrant, mar-
ried Lydia IVIoore. Their son Ephraini married
Elizabeth Hall. Captain Ephraim was prominent in
organizing the town, and bis son Paul Wetherbee
was one of the pioneers in 1745. Paul W'etherbee
married Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Eleanor
(Boynton) Pierce, granddaughter of John Pierce.

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great-granddaughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Pierce,
great-great-granddaughter of Anthony and Sarah
Pierce. Anthony was the son of the immigrant,
John Pierce. David, son of Paul and Hannah
(Pierce) Wetherbee, was a soldier in the revolution
at the siege of Boston. In 1770 the first flour mill
in the county was built by Ephraim Wetherbee, his
brother, and the business was conducted there for
a hundred years. David Wetherbee married Eunice,
daughter- of Josiah and Mary (Williams) King-
man; granddaughter of John and Desire (Harris)
Kingman ; great-granddaughter of John and Eliza-
beth Kingman ; great-great-granddaughter of Henry
and Joanna Kingman. Desire Harris was the daugh-
ter of Isaac and Mercy (Latham) Harris, and grand-
daughter of Arthur and Martha Harris. Mercy
Latham was daughter of Robert and Susanna
(Winslow) Latham. Susanna Winslow was daugh-
ter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. Mary
Chilton was the daughter of James Chilton, both of
whom came over in the "Mayflower." Mary Chilton
is buried in King's Chapel, Boston. John Winslow
was the father of Gov. Edward Winslow.

Mary Kingman Williams, who married Josiah
Kingman, was the daughter of John and Mary
(Howard) Williams, granddaughter of Benjamin
and Rebecca (Macy) Williams; great-granddaughter
of Richard and Frances (Dighton) Williams; great-
great-granddaughter of Sir Henry Williams, in
England, the son of Sir Richard Williams. Rebecca
Macy, who married Richard Williams, wa3 daughter
of George Macy. Martha Howard, who married
Josiah Williams, was daughter of Ephraim and
Mary (Keith) Howard, granddaughter of John and
Martha (Haywood) Howard, who was the daughter
of Thomas 'Haywood and wife Susanna. Mary
Keith, who married Ephraim Howard, was the
daughter of Rev. James Keith and wife, Susanna
Edson, daughter of Samuel and Susan Edson.

The children of Jesse and Sophia (Wetherbee)
Baker were: l. Charles, died before his father. 2.
William, born September 2, 1821, died September
18, 1896. at Lunenburg. 3. Martha A., married
Charles F. Rockwood, who was register of deeds
at Fitchburg. 4. Mary L.. died about 1865, married
F. A. Whitney, of Leominster.

(VII) William Baker, son of Jesse Baker (6),
born in Lunenburg. ALTSsachusetts, September 2,
1821, died there September 18, 1896. He took charge
of the farm and mill after his father's death in
1838. In 1862 he was appointed assistant assessor
of internal revenue under Assessor Amasa Nor-
cross, of Fitchburg. and had to devote most of his
time to that office until 1S72, when the system was
abolished. He was then made deputy collector of
internal revenue under B. F. Wallis. When this
office was abolished in 1878 he declined the offer
of a similar ofiice in Worcester, as he preferred not
to remove to that city. In 1879 he purchased the
fire insurance agency of Silas Holeman. and devoted
his attention to the insurance business. He was one
of the original trustees of the Worcester North Sav-
ings Institution, incorporated 1868, was a member
of the board until his death, and for many years
one of the investment committee. He was one of
the oldest directors of the Fitchburg Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, and after the death of Lewis
H. Bradford, in 1887, was the vice-president and
treasurer for a year, when he found the duties too
arduous and resigned. He was selectman and over-
seer of the poor for several years, and served in

other public capacities in Lunenburg, where he kept
his residence while doing business in the adjoining
city of Fitchburg. He represented his district in
the legislature in 1873. -'^t the time of his death,
September, 1896, Hon. Amasa Norcross said: "He
w-as a valuable man for Lunenburg and for this
community. He was faithful and trustworthy. My
relations have been of a very agreeable and con-
fidential character for more than forty years." He
married, November 11, 1847, Olive Rebecca Boutwell,
sister of Governor George S. Boutwell who recently
died, and daughter of Sewell Boutwell. The house
to which he took his bride, built in 1847, stands on
the old Wetherbee homestead near the old house
in which he was born. His wife was descended
from the immigrant James Boutwell and his wife
Alice. Their son John Boutwell married Hannah,
daughter of George and Barbara Davis. John, son
of the last named John Boutwell, married Sarah

, and had a son Jonathan. Jonathan Boutwell

married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Sarah
(Roberts) Foster. The latter was the daughter of
Abraham and Sarah Roberts. Jonathan, son of
Jonathan and Elizabeth (Foster) Boutwell, married
Abigail, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Roberts)
Fames, granddaughter of Samuel and Mary Fames ;
great-granddaughter of Robert and Elizabeth Eames.
Sewell Boutwell, father of Mrs. William Baker, was
a soldier in the war of 1812. He married Rebecca,
daughter of Jacob Marshall, a descendant of John
Marshall, who married Mary, daughter of John
and Mary Burrage ; granddaughter of Timothy and
Frances (Day) Burrage, great-granddaughter of
Richard, son of Robert and Rose Burrage. John
Marshall, son of John and Mary (Burrage) Mar-
shall, married Eunice, daughter of John and Mary
Rogers; granddaughter of John and Priscilla
(Dawes) Rogers; great-granddaughter of John and
Mary (Shed) Rogers. Mary Shed was daughter
of Daniel and Mary Shed. Isaac, son of John and
Eunice (Rogers) Marshall, married Rebecca, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Deborah Hill ; granddaughter of
Ralph and Martha (Toothaker) .Hill ; great-grand-
daughter of Ralph and Margaret Hill. Martha
Toothaker was daughter of Roger and Margaret
Toothaker. Jacob, son of Isaac ^larshall and his
wife Rebecca Hill, married Mary, daughter of Sam-
uel and Hannah (Walker) Richardson; granddaugh-
ter of Nathaniel and Mary (Peacock) Richardson;
great-granddaughter of Thomas and Mary (Stinip-
son) Richardson; great-great-granddaughter of
Thomas and Mary Richardson. Mary Stimpson
above mentioned was the daughter of Andrew and
Jane Stimpson. Hannah Walker, who married
Samuel Richardson, above mentioned, was daugh-
ter of Jacob and Hannah Walker ; granddaughter
of Joseph and Sarah (Wyman) Walker; great-
granddaughter of Samuel Walker ; great-great-
granddaughter of Richard Walker. Sarah Wyman
was daugliter of John and Sarah (Nutt) Wyman,
granddaughter of Miles and Sybil Nutt of Water-
town and Woburn, Massachusetts. Rebecca, daugh-
ter of Jacob Marshall last mentioned, married
Sewell Boutwell as stated above.

The children of William and Olive Rebecca
(Boutwell) Baker were: I. William H.. born
March 22. 1849. -■ Charles F., born December 4,
1850. 3. Edith Boutwell, born November 19, i860;
graduate of Fitchburg high school and Framingham
Normal School ; now senior teacher at Gushing
Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts.

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(VIII) William Herbert Baker, son of William
Baker (7), was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts,
March 22, 1849. He spent his youth in his native
town, w'here he attended the public schools, went
to Leicester Academy for two years, and was grad-
uated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy in 1S69. He practiced his profession of civil
engineering for twenty-tive years, chiefly on western
railroads. He was engaged in the location of the
Northern Pacific in Montana from 1870 to 1876,
and then for a time worked on government surveys.
He was assistant and division engineer of the .Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company for
about seven years, chief construction engineer of
the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City and Pan-
American Railroads of Texas ; and had charge of
work in Kansas, Mexico. New Mexico, Colorado,
as well as Texas and Montana. He returned to
Fitchburg in 1895 and entered the fire insurance busi-
ness with his father under the firm name of William
Baker & Son, and since his father's death he has
continued the business under the same firm name.
He is a Free Mason, a member of Hiram Lodge,
of New' Mexico, and a member of the Odd Fellows
order, but unaffiliated. He was formerly a member
of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He
is a Republican in politics. He resides on the old
homestead in Lunenburg. He is unmarried.

(VHI) Charles Francis Baker, son of William
Baker (7), was born at Lunenburg, December 4,
1850. He attended the district school in Lunenburg
where his father lived. In 1S64 he entered the
Fitchburg high school and was graduated 1868, and
was graduated from Harvard College 1872. He
taught for two years in the Fitchburg high school,
and then entered the law office of Amasa Norcross.
He was admitted to the bar in 1875. and has since
been engaged in the practice of his profession in
Fitchburg. He was admitted to partnership in
Mr. Norcross's firm, the partners being Amasa
Norcross. Harris C. Hartwel! and Mr. Baker, under
the name of Norcross. Hartwell & Baker. He
served as assistant district attorney for the Middle
District of Massachusetts, under Francis T. Black-
mer for several years. After the death of Mr. Hart-
well. Herbert Parker, subsequently attorney general
of the commonwealth, was for two years from Jan-
uary I, 1S92. a member of the firm, the name of the
firm being Norcross. Baker & Parker. From 1894
until the death of Mr. Norcross the firm name was
Norcross & Baker. Mr. Baker took into the firm
Walter Perley Hall, August i, 1898, and since then
the firm has consisted of Mr. Baker and Mr. Hall
under the firm name of Baker & Hall, This law-
firm has had a high standing under all conditions
and has had an honorable history. Mr. Baker has
engaged throughout in the general practice of law.
He was for several years one of the bar examiners
of Worcester county with Herbert Parker and Rock-
wood Hoar. As a lawyer and as citizen Mr. Baker
commands the respect and confidence of his fellow-
citizens to an exceptional degree. He was a director
of the the Rollstone National Bank of Fitchburg,
and is now ' a director of the Fitchburg Safe De-
posit and Trust Company : of the Fitchburg
& Leominster Street Railway Company; and of the
Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He
is a trustee of the Worcester North Savings Institu-
tion. He is a Republican in politics, but has avoided
public office. He was an alderman of Fitchburg
in 1893. He is a member of the Park Club ; a promi-

nent Mason, belonging to Aurora Lodge, Thomas
Chapter, and Jerusalem Commandery, and is a mem-
ber of the Unitarian Church. Mr. Baker has been
a resident of Fitchburg since 18^2. He married,
April 24, 1879, Henrietta Woods, of Winchester,
Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Jonas and
Nancy (Hill) Woods. The only child of Charles
Francis and Henrietta (Woods) Baker is Emerson
Woods, born in Fitchburg, February 28, 1882 ; grad-
uate at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
1900; Harvard University, 1904; and is in Harvard
Law School, class of 1907.

EDWIN AARON WELLS, one of the well
known and influential residents of Rochdale,
Worcester county. Massachusetts, and one of the
most successful farmers in that section of the state
of Massachusetts, is a representative in the eighth
generation of one of the earliest colonial families.

(I) Thomas Wells, the emigrant ancestor of the
Wells family in this country, was born in England
in 1605. He sailed for New England in 1635, on
the sailing vessel, the "Susan and Ellen," settled
in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where all his children
were born, and immediately became a proprietor.
He received other grants of land in 1651, and was
admitted a freeman May 17, 1637. Like all the other
settlers of that time and place he becaine a farmer,
and seems to have been very successful. He diea
October 26, 1666, and his will was proved Novem-
ber 15. of the same year. The greater number of
those bearing the name of Wells in this country
are descended from him. He married Abigail
Warner, died July 22, 1671. daughter of John
Warner, of Ipswich. Her will was proved Septem-
ber 26, 1671, and in it she mentions George Greeley,
who had lived with her son Nathaniel since his
birth, and Mary Greeley, a maid in the family of
her son Nathaniel. The children of Thomas and
Abigail (Warner) Wells were: I. Nathaniel, see
forward. 2. John, settled in Maine, married Sarah
Littlefield, and had numerous descendants. 3.
Thomas, born January i, 1646 or 1647, was a minister
and settled in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of Master of Arts from
Harvard College in 1703, the only honorary degree
granted in that year. He married Lydia Warner,
daughter of William Warner. 4. Sarah, married
John Massey, of Salem, Massachusetts. 5. Abigail,
married, June ig, 1661, Nathaniel Treadwell, and
died June 16, 1677. 6. Elizabeth, married. June 9,
1669, John Burnham. 7. Hannah. 8. Lydia, mar-
ried Rogers.

(II) Nathaniel Wells, eldest child of Thomas
(i) and Abigail (Warner) Wells, was born in
Ipswich. Massachusetts, about 1640. He was a
farmer all his life in the place of his birth, and died
December 15, 1675. He married, October 29, 1661.
Lydia Thurley (the name was variously spelled
Thorla, Thorlo, Thurlow, and Thurley), born April
I, 1640. daughter of Richard and Jane Thurley. and
granddaughter of Francis Thurley, of Newbury-
port. Massachusetts. Richard Thurley was a planter
at Rowley, Massachusetts, and later removed to
Newbury, where he built a bridge at his own cost
across the Newbury river. The general court fixed
a rate of toll for animals on May 3, 1654. He had
two sons — Thomas and Francis. The children of
Nathaniel and Lydia (Thurley) Wells were: I.
Abi.gail, born August 17, 1662. married Edmund
Potter. 2. Martha, born January 13, 1664, died

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February 12, of the same year. 3. Sarah, born March
10, 1665, married John Day, published January 27,
1691. 4. Nathaniel, see forward. 5. Thomas, born
June 19, 1673, married Elizabeth . 6. Eliza-
beth, married George Hart, published May 5, 1698.
7. Lydia, married Richard Kimball.

(ill) Nathaniel Wells, fourth child and eldest
son of Nathaniel (2) and Lydia (Thurley) Wells,
was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, about the year
1670. His entire life was spent in the town of his

birth, where he married, about 1690. Mary • ,

who died August 19. 1721. Their children were:
I. Abigail, born April 12, 1693, married, 1715, John
Yell. 2. Mary, born May 7, 1697, married, 1717,
Thomas Bennett. 3. Nathaniel, see forward. 4.
Moses, born March 16, 1701, married, November
20, 1724, Eunice Kinsman. 5. Sarah, born January
23, 1703 or 1704, married, 172X or 1722, Nathaniel
Kimball, of Wenham, Massachusetts. 6. Lydia, mar-
ried Jacob Smith. 7. Daniel, born May 4. 1709, mar-
ried Sarah .

(IV) Nathaniel Wells, third child and eldest
son of Nathaniel (3) and Mary Wells, was born in
Ipswich, Massachusetts, April 24, 1699. He served
as an ensign in the army during the Indians wars,
and died May 26, 1790. He married Sarah Kinsman,
published July 7, 1723, and had children: i. Sarah,
born September 27, 1724, married. 1745, Nathaniel
Lord, Jr. 2. Elizabeth, born May 10, 1726, married,
1748. Adam Smith. 3. Mary, born June 16, 1728,
married, July 28, 1753, Gideon Parker. 4. Susannah,
born May 3, 1730, married, January 3, 175S, Ephraim
Smith, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 5. and 6. Lydia
and Lucy (twins), born August 27, 1732. Lucy
died young. 7. Nathaniel, see forward. 8. .\bigail,
baptized April 2, 1736, married. 1759, John Kinsman.
9. Hepsibah. baptized June ir, 1740, married, 1763,
Nehemiah Patch. 10. Simeon, baptized August 22,
1742, married, September 15, 1769, Martha Burn-
ham. II. Hannah, baptized August 4, 1745. 12.
John, baptized May 2, 1748. was the first child
baptized in the first meeting house in the South
Parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts, on the first day
of worship within its walls.

(V) Captain Nathaniel Wells, seventh child and
eldest son of Nathaniel (4) and Sarah (Kinsman)
Wells, was baptized at Ipswich, Massachusetts, May
2, 1734. died in the same town, January 24. i8io.
He settled in Maine, where his descendants have
resided since that time. He married, and was pub-
lished February 25, 1769, Lucy Goodhue, born in
1741. died March 26, 1821. The names of all of
their children have not been preserved ; those that
have are as follows; i. Nathaniel, see forward. 2.
Sarah, married William Lakeman, Jr. 3. Susannah,
married, 1796, William Seward.

(VI) Nathaniel Wells, son of Captain Nathaniel
(5) and Lucy (Goodhue) Wells, was born in Ips-
wich. Massachusetts, about the year 1770. He settled
in Maine, and died in Cornville, Maine, where he
was residing with his son John, at the age of one
hundred years. He married (first), 1791. Betsey
Harris, daughter of John and Rebecca (Souther)
Harris, who were married April 9, 1769. John Har-
ris was born September 16. 1744. and had children :
I. Elizabeth (or Betsey), born j\Iarch 31, 1771, mar-
ried Nathaniel Wells. 2. Polly, born October 22,
1774. 3. Nathan, born March 12, 1777. 4. Sally,
born July 19. 1779- 5- John, born .\ugust I, 1781.
6. Edward, born December 6, 1784. 7. Rebecca,
born January 25. 1787. 8. Sally, Jjorn June 30, 1789.

9. Susannah, born February 8, 1792. 10. Prudence
born October 16, 1794. 11. Jemima, born April

2, 1799. 12. Nathaniel, died young. The children
of Nathaniel and Betsey (Harris) Wells were: i.
Elizabeth, born May 9, 1792. 2. Nathaniel, borii
June 17, 1794. Mr. Wells married (second), 1795,
Sarah Lakeman, and had children: i. Daniel, born
April 20, 1797. 2. John, born June 22, 1800. 3. Lucy,
born March 22. 1802. 4. Abigail, born November

3. 1803. 5. Moses, born August 21, 1808, lived to a
ripe, old age. 6. Aaron, twin of Moses, see for-
ward. 7. and 8. Susan and Job (twins), born May
20, 1806.

(VII) Aaron Wells, eighth child and fourth
son of Nathaniel (6) and Sarah (Lakeman) Wells,
was born in Maine. August 21, 1808, died in Mad-
rid, Maine, May 12. 1891. He resided in Madrid,
Maine, for many years, and was prominent and in-
fluential in the public afifairs of the town, holding
several public offices, among them being that of
treasurer of the town for seven years, and select-
man for a long period. He married Elmira Pel-
ton, born May 13, 1809, died i860, a sketch of whose
family is subjoined. Their children were: -i. Maria
J., born July 3, 1831, died unmarried at Madrid,
Maine, May 10, i8.s8. 2. Aaron, bom November 21,
1833, died November 24, of the same year. 3!
Lucy, born April 27, 1835, married B. T.' Barker,
resided at Phillips, Maine, died May 28, 1892. 4.
Hannah Eliza, born April 29, 1837. married Sumner
Robinson, a stone contractor, and resides at Nor-
ridgewock. Maine (1906). 5. Mary Robbins, born
July 16. 1S39, married Wilson Beal, a farmer of
Avon, Maine, died December 28, 1893. 6. Orrin
D.. born June 8, 1841, died, unmarried, June 8, 1858.
7. Rinda H.. born April 19. 1843, married Thomas
Rivals, resided in Boston, Massachusetts, died Octo-
ber 6, 1902. 8. Edwin A., see forward. 9. Elmira
H., born September 22, 1848. married George F.
Butler, an industrious man. and resides at 43 Austin
.street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 10. Chester E.,
born April 5. 1851. is an armorer by trade, employed
by the Harrington & Richardson Arms Company,
Worcester. Massachusetts, and resides at No, 43
Irving street in that city. He married Alice Davis,
of Leominster. Massachusetts. 11. Joel C. born
August 16, 1854, is a brick mason and resides in
Madrid. Maine. He married Sarah Berry.

(VIII) Edwin Aaron Wells, eighth child and
third son of Aaron (7) and Elmira (Pelton) Wells,
was born in Madrid. Maine, October 21, 1845. He
attended the schools of his native town until he
had attained the age of nineteen years, and then
engaged in farming on the homestead with his
father. He removed to Princeton. Massachusetts,
where he was employed as foreman on the Boyls-
ton place for twelve years. He next worked at "the
steam fitting trade, but finding that farming was a
more congenial occupation, he purchased a farm
at Avon, Maine, which he cultivated for two years.
He then sold this property and went to Fairbury,
Nebraska, where he purchased another farm, on
which he lived -for eight years. He bought the farm
at Rochdale, in the town of Oxford, in 1892, lived
upon it for fourteen years, then sold it, and removed
to Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a very suc-
cessful farmer, and a citizen of high standing in
the community. He married. October i, 1882, Emma
Vance, born December 4, iS.tI. daughter of George
C. and Susanna (Hanscom) Vance, the former born
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rank of quartermaster in the Union army during the
civil war. The children of Edwin Aaron and Emma
(Vance) Wells are: i. Winnie Vance, born De-
cember 26. 1883. She attended the common schools
of the town, from which she was graduated at the
age of fourteen years. She entered the English
high school of the city of Worcester tlie following
fall, and upon the completion of her course there
entered college and was graduated with honors,
June 28, 1901. She is now (1906) tilling very
capably a position as bookkeeper and stenographer.
2. Edwin Aaron, Jr., born October 23, 1885. Was
graduated from the grammar school at the age of
fifteen years, then entered the Boston Telegraph
Institute, from which he was graduated in June,
1904. The following fall he was offered and ac-
cepted a position as operator with the Boston &
Albany Railroad Company, Templeton, Massachu-
setts. 3. Lucy May, born October 27, 1888, was
graduated from the grammar school at the age of
thirteen years, entered college the following fall
and was graduated from the latter institution with
high honors. She is now filling very acceptably a
position as bookkeeper.

(I) John Pelton w'as the emigrant ancestor of
the mother of Edwin Aaron Wells, the subject of
this sketch. He was born in England, probably in
i6i6," and in al! probability is descended from the
Pelton family of Esse.x, England. He came to Bos-
ton. Massachusetts, between 1630 and 1633. The
first appearance of his name in the records of Boston
is in the "Book of Possessions," made by order of
the general court in 1634. He removed to Dorches-
ter, where in 1635 or the year following, he was
a proprietor. His death occurred in Dorchester,
January 23, 1681, and his will was proved January
31, of the same year. He married, about 1643, Su-
sannah , who died j\lay 7, 1706, and their chil-
dren were: i. John, born, about 1645. baptized
March 2, 1645, married about 1673, died prior to
1699. 2. Samuel, see forward. 3. Robert, born
about 1649 or 1650, in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
was a mariner by occupation, and was lost at sea
in July, 1683. It is presumed that he was unmar-
ried, as his brother Samuel was administrator of
the estate. 4. Mary, born about 1653 or 1654, bap-
tized February 18, 1654.

(H) Samuel Pelton, second son and child of
John (l) and Susannah Pelton, was born in Dorches-
ter, Massachusetts, about 1647. He resided in
Dorchester until 1687. when he removed to Mount
Hope, and cultivated a farm at Bristol. Rhode
Island. While living in Dorchester his wife joined
the Dorchester church, October 22, 1682. He died
in 1713 or 1714, i-n Rehoboth-or Seekonk, Massa-
chusetts. He married, July 16, 1673, at Stoughton,
Mary Smith, daughter of John and Katherine (Mor-
rill) Smith. John Smith was a parishioner of the
Rev. Richard Mather, at Toxteth (Prince) and
came with Rev. Mather from Bristol. England. He
and his wife and Mary Smith were mentioned by
Rev. Mather as having been on board. He settled
at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was ad-
mitted a freeman. May 25, 1636. He was a herds-
man and one of the proprietors of the town of
Dorchester. He made repairs on the meeting house
in 1653. and wa^ chosen quartermaster of the troop
of Suffolk Couiity Regiment, and this was con-
firmed by the general court, October 19, 1652. He
died .^pril 29, 1678. and his will was dated Decem-
ber 10, 1676. and was proved July 25, 1678. In it
iv— S

his daughter, Mary Pelton, is referred to as having
received her share. He married, in Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts, August I, 1647, Katherine Morrill, daugh-
ter of Isaac Alorrill, whose daughter Mary married
Governor Thomas Hinckley. The children of Sam-
uel and Mary (Smith) Pelton, five of whom were
born in Dorchester, and the remainder in Bristol,
were as follows: i. Samuel, born January 26, 1675,

married Sarah . 2. Mary, born May 29, 167S,

married, December 12, 1712, Nathaniel Colburn, of
Dedham, Massachusetts. 3. Deliverance, born July
31, 1680. 4. John, born January 9, 1682, married,

about 1705, Jemima , died July 15, 1735. 5.

Ithamar, born 1686, died prior to April 25, 1749. 0.
Henry, see forward. 7. Sarah, born March 23, 1693.
8. Benjamin, born September 3, 1698, married

Keziah , died at Hopewell, New Jersey. His

widow died in 1780.

(III) Henry Pelton, fourth son and sixth child
of Samuel (2) and Mary (Smith) Pelton, was born
on the Mount Hope farm, at Bristol, Rhode Island,
December 10, 1690. He subsequently removed to
Groton, Connecticut, where he resided until his
death in 1763. He was probably a merchant as well
as a farmer of considerable importance, and was an
active business man throughout his life, and was
highly respected in the community. That his judg-
ment w-as respected is proven by the fact recorded m
the "Connecticut Colonial Records." that in 1750
"Preserved Randall with Henry Pelton of Groton
are appointed by the Colonial Legislature to sell
lands of Jonathan Randall, deceased, of Groton,"
etc., and a number of other records equally gratify-
ing. That he was public-spirited and religious is
evinced by the fact of his conveying a piece of land
to "The Church" "for affection for the excellent
Church of England." He was the owner of large
parcels of real estate, and settled property by deed
before his death on his sons Paul, Reuben and
Thomas, about 1760 and 1761, with a contract that
Paul should support him and his wife. Such ar-
rangements were common in those days. He was a
devoted member of the Church of England. He
married, April 29, 1712, Mary Rose, and their chil-
dren were: l. Samuel, born December 16, 1714,
married, June 17, 1736, Sybil Yeomens ; died in
April, 1783. 2. Thomas, born July 22, 1717, mar-
ried, July g. 1740, Hannah Avery; died 1807 or
1809. 3. Paul, born May 14, 1720, married, August
20, 1743, Mary Avery ; date of death not known.
4. Preserved, born January 24, 1722. 5. Lemuel,
born February 22. 1724, married, April 8, 1747, Mary
Cornwall. 6. Reuben, born January 24, 1726. 7.
Robert, born June 9, 1729, married, August 19,

1751, Hannah ; died June 21, 1789. 8. Moses,

see forward. 9. Ephraim, born June 12, 1732, mar-
ried, about 1756, ^lary Spelman ; died August 31,
1811.

(IV) Moses Pelton, seventh son and eighth
child of Henry (3) and Mary (Rose) Pelton. was
born at Groton, Connecticut, about 1728 or 1730.
He resided in Somers, Connecticut, where the
house he built was standing in good condition in
1880, and is no doubt still there at the present time
(1906). He was one of the pioneers and first set-
tlers in the town of Somers. and was highly respect-
ed by all. His death occurred April 16, 1778, ac-
cording to the Town Records of Somers. Lorin P.
Waldo, in his "Early History of Tolland, Con-
necticut." says : "On new-s of the battle of Lexing-
ton, April 19. 1775, a company of men was raised.

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■commanded by Captain Solomon Wills, and served
in Colonel Spencer's regiment, at Roxbury, Mass-
achusetts, from i\Iay I, to December I, 1775. In
the roll of this company is the name of Moses Pel-
ton. He was from Somers, and was killed the next
.year by a cannon ball from the British shipping
while the American army was retreating from New
York." Moses Pelton married, about the year 1750,
Mary (Molly) Whipple, and had children: i.
Moses, born June 27, 1751, married Dorothy Benton;
died June 19, 1809. 2. Joel, see forward. 3. Han-
nah, born in Somers, Connecticut, died May 10, 1851.

.4. Mary, born February 26, 1754, inarried

Farwell, and went to Vermont or near Lake Cham-
jjlain to reside. Another account says she married

Luce, and lived and died in Somers. 5.

Hannah ( ?), born August 30, 1755, died at Somers,
unmarried, February 16, 1817. 6. Lemuel, born
■I757i is reported to have settled further east. 7.
Elizabeth, born November, 1763.

(V) Joel Pelton, second son and child of Moses
(4) and Mary (Whipple) Pelton, was born in Som-
ers, Connecticut, November 5, 1753. He was indus-
trious, and excelled in strength of mind as well as
body. He was a soldier in the war of the revolu-
tion, and was a fluent and interesting narrator of
anecdotes of that period, and especially in his latter
years, when there few of his contemporaries- living,
he was a character of unusual interest. He was a
pensioner of the war, and when over eighty years
of age was accustomed to walk to Augusta from
his home in order to draw his pension. After his
retirement from the army he went "down East" and
settled in Maine. His first residence was at Wool-
wich, and he subsequently lived in Washington, Jef-
ferson and ^ladrid. His first settlement in Madrid
was in 1810, when he remained there six years ; he
then resided in Washington for a period of twelve
years, at the end of that time returning to Madrid.
He was successful both as a farmer and a tanner.
His death occurred in Madrid, May 7, 1856, at the
advanced age of one hundred and three years. He
married (first), in 1779 or 1780, Sally Sloman,
•daughter of Simon Sloman; he married (second),
about 1791, Anna Cotter, daughter of Timothy Cot-
ter, of Whitfield, Maine; he married (third), 1833,
Ruhanah Beedy, a widow. He had children as
follows :

I. Sarah, born probably at Woolwich. Maine,
about 1781, married Ebenezer Runlett, of Wiscasset,
Maine. 2. Thomas, born August, 1783, married,
about 1804, Betsey Gray ; died November 5, 1857.
J. Joel, born March 10, 1785, married, July 4, 1810,
Jerusha Thomas; died September 29, 1865. 4. Brid-
get, who was always called Mary, born in Woolwich.
Maine. 1786, died January I. 1837. She married
Richard Parks, born 1787. died February 3, 1871,
son of Frederick Parks, of Winnegance, Maine. 5.
Simon, bom abut 1788, went to sea, and nothing was
ever heard from or of him. His brother Alexander
heard of him at New Orleans. Louisiana, but did not
■see him, as Simon was sailing outward bound on
the day that Alexander arrived in the city. 6. Ale.x-
.ander, born September 24. 1791, died May 4. 1879.
He married (first), July 31, 1820, Ann Mayberry ;
married (second), June 4, 1835, Louisa Leman ; mar-
ried (third). June 23. 1839, Sarah A. Young. 7.
Timothy, sec forward. 8. Polly, born in Jefferson,
Maine, 1793. resided in Madrid, Maine, where she
■died, October 11, 1852. She married, 1810, Aaron
Huntoon, at Phillips, Maine, son of Jonathan Hun-

toon, of Wiscasset, Maine, and had eleven children.
9. Moses, born January 9, 1794, married, January
17, 1827, Jane Stinson ; died October 10, 1876. 10.
Marion, born in Jefferson, Maine, April 20, 1799.
The greater part of her life was spent in Washing-
ton, Maine, where she died August 6, 1863. She
married, December 25, 1818, Franklin Perry, born
in Wayne, Maine, December 6, 1792, died in Wash-
ington Maine, July 10, 1878, and they had children:
Hannah, born January 29, 1821 ; Edmund, deceased,
born April 10, 1823 ; Elizabeth, born August 7, 1825 ;
Orrin R., deceased; Joel; Samuel, deceased; Mary
Ann, deceased; William F., deceased. 11. Eliza,
born in Washington, Maine, April 17, iSoo. She
lived at various times in Palermo, Madrid, Phillips,
and Temple, Maine, and her death occurred in the
last named place January 24, 1847. She married,
October 21, 1822, Isaac Benson, born jNIarch 10,
1793. son of Seth Benson, of New York, and had
seven children. One of her daughters, Mrs. E. A.
Reed lived in Portland, Maine, in 1876. 12. Abigail,
born in Jefferson, Maine, 1803, died in Washington,
in the same state, November 20, 1873. She married
(first) Hutchings ; (second) Le-
man; Cthird) P. Trask; and (fourth) Franklin
Perry, who had been the husband of her sister
Marion. 13. Hannah, born October 28, 1S04. was
living in Castalia, Iowa, in 1879. She married, in
Lincoln county, Maine, July, 1826, Job Perry, son of
David Perry, of Wayne, Maine. 14. Nancy, born in
1806. She lived at one time in Washington, JNIainc,
and in 1876 was residing in North Union, Knox
county. Maine. She married William Pinkham, and
had children : Amanda, married John Layr ; Eliza,
married George Layr ; Cyrus, married Sarah Rines ;
Alary A., married Edward Lucas ; Elsie, married
Qiarles Woffindale ; Thomas, married Hannah
Jones ; James, born December 28, 1S38, married Car-
oline Ripley ; Emma, born ]March 8, 1S43, married
Henry Fossett ; Charles, married Bella Campbell ;
Hattie, born July 16, 1848, married Samuel Whitten ;
Martha, married John Smith. 15. Almira, see for-
ward.

(VI) Almira Pelton, fifteenth child and ninth
daughter of Joel Pelton (s), married Aaron Wells,
as stated in the sketch of Edwin Aaron Wells.

FRANK EDWARD MURRAY. Henry :Murray
(l), grandfather of Frank Edward Murray, of
Worcester, was born in Enniscorthy, county Wex-
ford, Ireland. He learned the carpenter's trade and
worked at it in the old country for some years. He
married there Margaret Scott, who was also born in
Enniscorthy. They came to America in 1832 with
their family and settled in Worcester, Massachu-
setts. He followed his trade and was a carpenter
and builder of some note. He built in Worcester
county a number of churches. He was the first
superintendent of St. John's (Roman Catholic) Sun-
day school and first sexton of St. John's Church.
He sang in the first ohoir. Before the church was
built, services were held in his house on Temple
street. Mrs. Murray was a member of the first Al-
tar Society of St. John's Church. Their children
were : John Francis, Mary, George Benedict, Harry
J., T. Edward, who was a lawyer.

(II) John Francis lilurray, son of Henry Mur-
ray (i), was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland. 1831.
He was but a year and a half old when his parents
came to this country and settled in Worcester. He
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tiated from Worcester high school and Holy Cross
College. He was a member of the volunteer tire
department in the early days of the city. He be-
came captain of police when Charles B. Pratt was
•city marshal. He was a painter by trade. He was
interested in music, inheriting his vocal gifts from
his father. He was a member of the original Choral
Union, and was for many years the director of the
choir in St. John's Church. He was sexton of St.
John's Church and the superintendent of the ceme-
tery of that parish. He was interested in public
matters and served the city on the school board for
several years.

He married Julia JNI. O'Brien, who survives him.
He died October 2, 1892, aged sixty-one years. The
children of John Francis and Julia M. (,0'Brien)
Murray were: I. Henry, born 1854, died 1854. 2.
Frank Edward, born October 30, 1857. 3. Muinie
S., born in Worcester, married JNlichael T. O'Connor,
son of Dennis J\I. O'Connor, a retired .merchant, of
Worcester. Michael O'Connor died July 9, 1903,
and left five children ; Dennis M., Mary A., Mar-
garet E., John M., Francis H. 4. Margaret C, born
May 9, 1865, died December 14, 1901. 5. John, born
November 8, 1869, died September 10, 1870. 6.
Agnes, born May 28, 1871, died May 17, 1895 ; she
married Charles A. Sweeney, son of William
Sweeney, and left two children : John M., born Oc-
tober, 1893, and j\Iay C, born September, 1894.
7. Henry J., born in Worcester, resides in Worces-
ter in the house in which his grandfather lived, 56
Temple street, Worcester, and is unmarried.

(Ill) Frank Edward Murray, son of John Fran-
cis Murray (2), was born in Worcester, October 30,
1857. He was educated in the Worcester public
schools. He went to work for E. R. Fiske & Co.,
printers, in Worcester, and there learned his trade
-of pressman. Later he was employed by Charles
Hamilton & Co., printers, and was with the concern
for nineteen years. He left the printing business in
1895 to go into the undertaking business with his
"brother, Henry J. Alurray, under the firm name of
Murray Bros. Their place of business is at 47 Park
street'. The firm of Murray Brothers stands well in
business circles. The brothers have certainly de-
served the success they have won. They are thor-
oughly trained and well equipped for their business.
They are extremely painstaking and obliging. Per-
haps nobody better than a newspaper man can ap-
preciate the utmost attention to details given to- their
business by Murray Brothers. The writer knows
from long experience on Worcester papers what care
and tact Mr. Murray and his brother exercise in be-
half of their clients at what is bound to be a trying
time, both for the bereaved family when called upon
by the newspapers for obituary matter and also for
the reporters who have to interview the family,
Mr. ^Iurray takes pains to secure the facts and
helps the newspapers to secure correct and adequate
obituary notices.

Mr. Frank E. Murray is the sexton of St. John's
Church. He is secretary of the Particular Council
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, member of the
Irish-American Historical Society, Associated Char-
ities, Division .34, A. O. H.. Massachusetts Under-
takers' Association, member and past grand knight
of Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus, and an
honorary member of the Washington Social Club
and also of the Emmet Guards. He has served the
•city with credit on the board of overseers of the
.poor.

Mr. Murray married Catherine T. Houlihan, of
Millbury, Massachusetts. Their children are: John,
died in infancy; Mary F., born May 4, 1889; Mar-
garet A., born August 13, 1894.

WALTER A. DAVIS. Dolor Davis (i), the
immigrant ancestor of most of the Worcester coun-
ty branches of the Davis family, was the progenitor
of Walter A. Davis, city clerk of Fitchburg. Dolor
Davis came from England and was distinguished
pioneer in the early days of the colonies. He had
a grant of land at Cambridge, August 4, 1634. He
lived also at Barnstable and Concord later. He was
a carpenter and master builder. He came to New
England in 1634 and his wife and three children
came the following year, accompanied by her broth-
er, Simon Willard, who became one of the founders
of Concord, and was distinguished in the military
service. Dolor Davis was admitted a freeman at
Duxbury, in Plymouth colony, August 5, 1638-9, and
was granted land there in 1640. He was admitted a
freeman in the neighboring town of Barnstable, June
4, 1645, and he and his wife were dismissed from the
Duxbury Church to Barnstable, August 27, 1648.
He was highway surveyor and constable in Barn-
stable. In 1655 he returned to Massachusetts Bay
colony and bought a house and one hundred and
fifty acres of land in Concord, but in 1666 we find
him again in Barnstable and he died there in June,
1673-

tie married (first), in county Kent, England,
Iilarch 29, 1624, Jilargery Willard, who was baptized
at Horsemonden, county Kent, November 7, 1602.
She died prior to 1667. She was the daughter of
Richard Willard, of Horsemonden, yeoman. Their
children were : John, born in England, settled in
Barnstable, inherited the Concord homestead; Eliza-
beth, born in England; Lieutenant Simon, of whom
later; Mary, born about 1631 in England; Samuel,
of Concord and Bedford, ancestor of Governor John
Davis ; Ruth, born in Barnstable, March 24, 1645.

(H) Lieutenant Simon Davis, sou of Dolor
Davis (i), was born about 1635 in America. He
settled in Concord on a farm given him by his fath-
er near the homestead. He was one of Captain
Thomas Wheeler's troopers in the expedition of
1675 to the Nipmuck country and took command
when the captain was wounded. He received his
commission as lieutenant July 2, 1689. He was ad-
mitted a freeman March 21, 1699. He was a deputy
to the general court 1689-90-92-1705. He died June
14, 1713, aged seventy-seven years, according to his
gravestone at Concord. His will was made June
24, 1710, and proved July 3, 1713.

He married, December 12, 1660, Mary Blood, who
was born in Concord, July, 1640, the daughter of
James Blood. Their children were : Dr. Simon,
born October 12, 1661 ; Mary, born October 3, 1663;
Sarah, born March II or 15. 1665-6; James, born
January or June 19, 1668; Eleanor, born October
22, 1672; Ebenezer, born June i, 1676, of whom
later; Hannah, born April i, 1679.

(Ill) Ebenezer Davis, sixth child of Simon
Davis (2), was born in Concord, Massachusetts,
June I, 1676, where he settled and where all his
children were born. He was a farmer. He married

(first) Dinah . He married (second) Mrs.

Sarah French, widow of William French, of Biller-
ica. She died October 15. 1751, aged seventy-four
years. The children of Ebenezer and Dinah Davis
were: Ebenezer, born Alarch 29, 1701, also settled

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at Harvard, IMassachusetts; Eleazer, of whom later;
Josiah, born February 4, 1704-5; was a soldier in
Lovewell's fight described below and was killed
there; Simon, born February 23, 1707-8; Dinah, born
July 22, 1710; Phineas, born February 19, 1712-3,
settled in Milford, Massachusetts; Ellen, born May
I, 1715. The children of Ebenezcr and Sarah Davis
were: Sarah, born July 14, 1723; Lydia, born Sep-
tember 27, 1724; Josiah, born September 20. 1726.
(IV) Eleazer Davis, second child of Ebenezer
Davis (.3), was born in Concord. Massachusetts,
March 4, 1703. He settled on a farm in wliat was
later the town of Harvard, set off from Lancaster,
Groton and Stow, June 20, 1732. He was one of the
leaders in the movement resulting in the new town
His was the farm in later years owned by the Shaker
Community and known as the East Family until a
few years ago. Mr. Davis was prominent in both
civil and military life. He was an inn holder from
1759 to 1761 and probably longer. He was assessor
of the town in 1732-33-35-42-43-44-45-46-47, and se-
lectman 1744-45-46-54-58. -When the town was di-
vided into school districts in 1738 he was in the Oak
Hill quarter.

He was a soldier of noteworthy e.xperience. He
was one of Lovewell's party at Pequawket fight,
which has been called Thermopylx of New England,
May 8, 1725, when thirty-four Rangers met about
eighty Indians led by Sachem Paugus on the border
of a pond in what is now Fryeburg, Maine, and after
a desperate day's struggle defeated them. Their vic-
tory was won with the loss of their commander, two
lieutenants, an ensign, chaplain and ten others.
Twelve were buried on the field, three died of
wounds on the way home. Eleazer Davis' brother
Josiah was one of those killed. All but nine were
wounded more or less. Eleazer Davis was shot
through the body and also lost a thumb, but he man-
aged to reach Berwick alive, after wandermg eleven
days through the woods, most of the time alone. In
1838 he petitioned the general court, as follows : ".-^
petition of Eleazer Davis of Harvard m the County
of Worcester, praying consideration of the Court on
account of his Sufferings and Services, particularly
the Wounds, and Smarts received in the Fight
under the Command of the late Capt. Lovewell
against the Indian Enemy at Piqwacket (sic)." The
general court awarded him a pension of four pounds
per annum for five years.

Davis bought his land of John Edwards, eighty
acres on Oak Hill, January 17, 1728-9, and this
homestead was known as the Gold Mine Lot. His
will mentions land in Thomlinson, New Hampshire,
later known as Windham county, Vermont. This
was probably a grant for military service. His will
was dated March. 1762.

He married, November 29, 1732, Sarah Willard.

He married (second) Abigail , who died

March 26, 1762, aged fifty-nine years, ten months.
His children : Eleazer, born September 25, 1730, at
Groton ; Oliver, born October 4, 1734, died August
25, 1736; Abel, born March 17, 1736-7. administered
the estate at the request of the eldest son, Eleazer ;
Timothy, born September 9, 1737, died August 31,
1748; Ephraim, born January 2, 1739-40; Sarah, born
March 22, 1742; Oliver, born April 21, 1744.

(V) 'Eleazer Davis, eldest child of Eleazer
Davis (4), was born at Groton, in the part later set
off as Harvard, September 25. 1730. He married

Jihiah . He settled in Templeton on a tract

of land and became a planter. He died in 1784 at

Templeton, and his eldest son Daniel was adminis-
trator. He settled in Vermont on the land granted
to his grandfather in Thomlinson, as it was then
spelled. The children of Eleazer and Abiah Davis
living in 1784 were: Daniel, of Thomlinson, Wind-
ham county, Vermont; Silas, of whom later; Oliver,
resided in Harvard.

(VI) Silas Davis, son of Eleazer Davis (5),
was born November 17, 1763, in Templeton, IMassa-
chusetts. He bought his father's farm of the ad-
ministrator October 25, 1788. He was a farmer at
Templeton all his life. He married Rachel Gay,.
September 30. 1787. He died 1798 at Templeton.
Ebenezer French was appointed guardian of his
three children, then all under the age of fourteen, in
1798. The children were: Silas, born about 1788;
George Washington, of whom later; Betsey, born
about 1795.

(VII) George Washington Davis, son of Silas
Davis (6), was born in Templeton, January 2, 1791.
He worked a farm on halves in Gardner, and
though he had a large family he left an estate val-
ued at several thousand dollars. He was a promi-
nent citizen of Gardner for many years. He was for
twelve years a selectman and for six years chairman
of the board. He was assessor two years and on
the school committee two years. He died in Gard-
ner, Massachusetts, July 22, 1857, at the age of sixty-
si.x.

He married three times. He married (first)
Anna Perley, daughter of Allen Perley. She was
born August 19, 1795, and died December 10, 1821.
He married (second) Betsey Conant, daughter of
Josiah Conant, of Westmmster ; she was born April
8, 1791. and died at Gardner, October 21, 1837. He
married (third) Sylvia Rich, who died at Worces-
ter, January 8, 1870. The children of George W.
and Anna Davis were : Walter, born November 18,
1813; George, born November 17, 1815, lived in Law-
rence; Alonzo, born November 15, 1817, of whom
later; Betsey, born October 13, 1821, married Syl-
vester Coolidge. The children of George W. and
Betsey Davis were : Lyman, born November 23,
1824; Leander, born June 29, 1826, lived at St.
Augustine, Florida, and became wtalthy; Anna, born
September 25, 1827, married De.xter Struckey; Maria
A., born March 30, 1829; Lucy Ann, born June 5,
1830; Silas, born January i, 1832, died April 19,
1842; Charles, born July 13, 1834; was president of
Southgate Manufacturing Company of Worcester;
died 1897, and was succeeded by his son, George W.
Davis.

(VIII) Alonzo Davis, third child of George W.
Davis (7), was born in Gardner, IMassachusetts. No-
vember 15. 1817. He reseived the rudiments of his
education in the public schools there, but he was na-
turally a student and reader and was largely self-
educated. He learned the trade of chair making
and began to manufacture on his own account in
partnership with .-Mexander Rice. Later John D.
Pratt became his partner and in 1855 Henry T.
Pratt and Charles E. Pratt were also taken into the
firm. He was in business for a period of thirty-twO'
years, always remaining at the head of his firm. A
four-story brick factory, one hundred and fifty feet
long and forty feet wide, was erected in 1855. Nine-
years later Mr. Davis bought out his partners and
continued the business as sole owner until he re-
tired. He was one of the most enterprising and suc-
cessful manufacturers of Fitchburg, foremost in all'
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interested in public affairs. He had tlie respect and
contidence of men of both pohtical parties. He
served the city in the common council in 1878 and
1879, and in the board of aldermen in 1880-81-S2.
He was mayor of the city in 1883-84-85. As a chief
magistrate he had a very successful administration
and many radical improvements were made. The
Rollstone Street school house was built and other
public buildings planned and erected.

The one great recreation and enjoyment of
Mayor Davis was music. He had a good voice and
for many years sang in the choir at Gardner. He
was connected with the Fitchburg Cornet Band for
a period of eighteen years. In the forties and fifties
this was an important organization socially and many
prominent men belonged to it. Mr. Davis was at
one time an attendant of the Unitarian Church. He
died j\lay 23, 1888, aged seventy years.

He married (first) Betsey T. Jackson, of Gardner,
daughter of Isaac Jackson, of South Gardner. At
her death she left one child, Walter A. Davis, of
wdiom later. Alonzo Davis married (second) Mary
S. Buttrick, of Fitchburg.

(IX) Walter A. Davis, only son of Alonzo Davis
(8), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, July 13,
1846. He was but seven months old when his mother
died and he was taken to the home of his fathers
aunt, Betsey Warren, in Hubbardston. He lived with
her until he was thirteen years old and attended the
district schools in Hubbardston. He was graduated
from the F'itchburg high school in 1865 and from
Williams College in 1869. In his class at college
were a number of men who have since become dis-
tinguished, including Mayor Chapin, of Brooklyn ;
Mayor J. B. Thatcher, of Albany, Judge J. W. Camp-
bell, of Ohio, and Judge Powell, of Oswego, New
York.

Mr. Davis went into business with his father and
until 1877 was engaged in the manufacture of chairs.
When his father retired the business was wound up.
In July, 1880. he entered the employ of the Fitch-
burg Railroad Company. He was elected city clerk
of Fitchburg, January 3, 1887, and has been re-elect-
•ed annually since. His score of years in this posi-
tion have demonstarted not only pre-eminent fitness
for the duties of the office, but his talents
and ability have been at the disposal of the
various administrations in a multitude of ways
not strictly connected with his official duties.
He has been absolutely non-partisan and im-
partial in the conduct of his office and has
held the confidence of every city official and served
tlxe public satisfactorily. It may be said that he has
made his office an important factor in the successful
administration of the city government. In politics
Mr. Davis is a Republican. He is prominent in the
Masonic fraternity. He is past master of Aurora
Lodge, past commander of Jerusalem Commandery,
Knights Templar, and president of the jMasonic Re-
lief Association. He is ex-governor of the Society
of Pilgrim Fathers, a Son of the American Revolu-
tion, trustee of the Knights of Honor, auditor of the
Fidelity Co-operative Bank, and a member of the
Fitchburg Historical Society, Mt. Roulstone Lodge
of Odd Fellows and King David Encampment. He
is a member and has been treasurer of the First Lhi-
iversalist Church for five years.

He married, April 28, 1874, Fannie A. Bogart, a
teacher in the public schools, daughter of Cornelius
and Sarah G. (Lovell) Bogart, of Fitchburg. Her
father was for many years foreman for the paper

manufacturers, Crocker, Burbank & Company; he
was for three years a member of the common coun-
cil. The children of Walter A. and Fannie A. B.
Davis were: Edith L., born March 1, 1875, grad-
uate of the Fitchburg high school and of the Fitch-
burg State Normal school, now a public school
teacher in Athol ; Bessie J., born August 17, 1878,
graduate of the Fitchburg high school in 1898, for
several years has been an assistant and stenographer
in her father's ofiice.

SAWYER FA:\IILY OF FITCHBURG.
Thomas Sawyer (i), one of the pioneers of Lan-
caster, Massachusetts, was the emigrant ancestor
of Henry Oliver Sawyer and his son Henrj' Lewis
Sawyer, formerly of West Boylston, now of Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts. The Sawyers of Berlin and
other towns about and within the former limits of
old Lancaster are descended from this pioneer set-
tler. He was born in England in 1616, and came
first to Rowley,' Massachusetts, and settled in Lan-
caster in 1647 ; he was a blacksmith by trade. He
married Mary Prescott, daughter of John Prescott,
the leading settler of Lancaster, and became one
of the prominent men of this section of the country.
His homestead was where the grounds of the Sev-
enth Day Adventists are now, between South Lan-
caster and Clinton. He died September 12, 1706,
aged about ninety years, leaving ten children. (See
sketch Stephen Sawyer.)

(ID Thomas Sawyer, son of Thomas Sawyer
(i), also settled in Lancaster, was a carpenter by
trade and owned a saw mill. He is famous as the
hero of an adventure with the Indians. He was
working in his mill with his son Elias and John
Bigelow of Marlboro, October 16, 1705, when he
was surprised by Indians and all were taken pris-
oners, e-xcept a young son who escaped through the
window and told the story to the family and neigh-
bors. The Indians took the prisoners to Canada
and were determined to burn Sawyer at the stake.
Sawyer knew it and managed to gain the interest
and friendship of the French commander by offer-
ing to build the settlers a saw mill, if they would
release him. The French wanted the saw mill very
badly, and they tried to save him from the savages.
Even after the Indians had him tied to a stake
ready for the fire, a French friar appeared and
brandished in front of the Indians what he said
was the key to Purgatory, threatening to open the
door of hell to punish the Indians if they took
Sawyer's life. Superstitious fears prevailed, and
Sawyer was released. He built the saw mill, and
doubtless in his gratitude did his best. He was
well treated by the French. After his return home
he became a prominent citizen. Bigelow came back
with him. but Elias Sawyer remained in Canada a
year to run the saw mill and teach the workmen
how to operate it. Thomas Sawyer died in 1735-6,
and was buried in Lancaster. In his will he men-
tioned four sons, William, Joseph, Bazaliel and
Elias; and two daughters: Mary Rice, wife of
Joshua Rice of Marlboro, and Hannah Moore, wife
of Jonathan Moore, of Bolton. He bequeathed
twelve pounds to buy a communion vessel for the
Lancaster Church. A tradition in Bolton makes
him the father of the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Whit-
man, of Deerfield, Massachusetts. If true, she
must have been the daughter Sarah, born 1671, the
only child of his first wife.

(Ill) William Sawyer, son of Thomas Sawyer

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(2), married Hannah Hoiigliton, daughter of John
Houghton (2d). (See Houghton Family.) His home-
stead was south of the present village of Bolton, and
their garrison assignment was with John Moore,
near Fryville. He owned land in other places ; had
one hundred acres on the west slope of Gates Hill,
now known as Sawyer Hill, and one hundred and
twenty acres on the eastern slope. His son, Deacon
Josiah Sawyer, settled on these lands. Children of
William Sawyer: i. Benjamin. 2. Israel. 3. Jo-
seph. 4. William. 5. Josiah. 6. Uriah. 7. Aholiab.
8. Mary, married Phineas Willard. g. Hannah,
married John Snow. 10. Hepzibah, married In-
crease Powers; Thankful Fairbanks. 11. Martha,
married Charles Wilder.

(IV) Deacon Josiah Sawyer, son of William
Sawyer (.s), was born in Lancaster, 1714. He mar-
ried Sarah, died 1762, daughter of Jabcz Fairbanks,
who lived on Wheeler Hill. She was the grand-
daughter of the famous Lancaster Indian fighter.
(See Fairbanks.) He was the first deacon of the
Berlin Church, and served as such 1770-99. His
Bible and other rehcs have been preserved and were
recently owned by his descendant, Daniel H. Carter
of Berlin. Children of Deacon Josiah and Sarah
(Fairbanks) Sawyer: i. William, born March 5,

1740. 2. Hannah, born June 25, 1743, married

Curtis of Harvard. 3. Rebecca, born February 15,

1745 ; married Wilder, of Putney. Vermont.

4. Sarah, born February 6, 1747; married William
Wilder, of Putney, Vermont. 5. Aholiab, born
1749. 6. Josiah, born November 8, 1753. Children
of Deacon Josiah atid Mary (Tooker) Sawyer. 7.
Levi, born November 10, 1764, died young. 8. Silas,
born July 5, 1766. g. Thomas, born March 9, 1770,
died 1771. Josiah Sawyer died July 3, 1805, aged
ninety-one. His wife Mary died March 25, 1799,
aged seventy-one.

(V) William Sawyer, son of Deacon Josiah
Sawyer (4), was born in Lancaster, March 5, 1740.
He married Hannah, daughter of Lieutenant Oliver
and Hannah (Hunt) Barrett, of Bolton, January
10, 1764. The Barrett family has always been prom-
inent in Bolton. William Sawyer settled on a part
of his father's farm, now or lately the farm of M.
Reed Tyler, of Berlin, and formerly the estate of
Madame RudersdorfF, known as Lakeside. William
Sawyer died February 28, 1822, aged eighty years.
His wife died February 8, 1830, at the age of
ninety-eight years. Their children : i. Abigail, born
May 5, 1765, married Cotton Newton, of the New-
ton I'amily of Berlin. 2. William, born February
6, 1767. 3. Amos, born March 17, 1769. 4. Mary,
born February 8, 1771, married September 26, 1792,
Rufus Howe, of Berlin, son of Joseph Howe, of
Gates Pond, resided at Marlboro, Vermont. 5. Oliver,
born April 17, 1774. 6. Asa. born August 2, pys,
was in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1803-17. 7. Uriah,
born May 24. 1778, married, February 2, 1803, Sally
Spofford ; resided in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and
Ohio. 8. Polly, born 1780, married Rufus Howe,
who died in Marlboro, Vermont, and she returned
to Berlin, g. Hannah, born January 6. 1781 ; mar-
ried Robert Fosgate ; resided at Winchester New
Hampshire, where she died, 1871, aged ninety years.
ID. Levi, born 1784, died young.

(VI) Deacon Oliver Sawyer, son of William
Sawyer (5), was born in Berlin, Massachusetts,
April 17, 1774. He married Lucy Fairbanks, of
Northboro, Massachusetts, who died April 22, 1810,
aged twenty-three years. He married (second) Sophia

Rice, of Northboro, Massachusetts. He was a sol-
dier in the War of 1812. He succeeded his father
on the old homestead on Sawyer Hill, Berlin. He
built the house that was burned while owned by
Madame Rudersdorff. He was a highly respected
citizen of the town, and often entrusted with public
office. He was deacon of the Congregational Church
from 1830-48. He died April 15, 1851. His wife
Sophia died September I, 1841. Their children: i.
Lewis, born F'ebruary 2, 1812, died February 8, 1856,
on the old homestead. 2. Oliver Barrett, born June
5, 1816. 3. Lucy Fairbanks (twin), born Septem-
ber 9, 1819, married Stephen Sawyer, of Worces-
ter (see sketch), January 8, 1845; she died in
Worcester, December 29, 1847. 4. Sophia, twin
with Lucy ; died unmarried on the homestead, Oc-
tober 24, 1873.

(VII) Oliver Barrett Sawyer, son of Oliver
Sawyer (6), was born in Berlin, ^Massachusetts,
June 5, 1815. He married Angelina, daughter of
Henry Baldwin, of Shrewsbury, April 12, 1842. He
established himself in business at West Boylston,
Massachusetts, where for many years he carried or>
the general store, and was a successful merchant
there. He was representative to general court in 1853,
and was honored by the town in other positions of
trust and responsibility. His death, April 15. 1862,
was due to overwork. Children of Oliver Barrett
and Angeline (Baldwin) Sawyer: I. Henry Oliver,
born June 10, 1844. 2. Walter Barrett, born in
West Boylston, 1852; married Louisa Hubbard, and
has children: Sadie L., Ella L., Arthur H., Louis W.

(VIII) Henry Oliver Sawyer, son of Oliver
Barrett Sawyer (7), was born in Berlin, Massachu-
setts. June 10, 1844. He attended the district
school at West Boylston and Lancaster Academy.
When he was twenty-one he bought the store which
his fatlier had established, but which for a short
time after his death was owned by T. V. Phelps
& Co. In August of the same year Mr. Sawyer
took as partner in the store Melvin E. Walker.
In 1872 he sold his interest in the business there
to Melvin E. Walker and moved to Clinton. The
firm of Sawyer Walker became M. E. Walker &
Co. Henry O. Sawyer entered the furniture and
undertaking business on a large scale in Clinton,
an adjoining town. He was in business there six
years, when he disposed of interests and came back
to West Boylston and to his old business there,
adding undertaking and funeral directing to same.
He bought the interest of Mr. Walker, and the firm
name became Sawyer Brothers. The business con-
tinued under this name until January i, 1889, when
Walter B. Sawyer retired, and Henry L. Sawyer
(son of H. O. Sawyer), and J. F. Higgins were ad-
mitted as partners, when the name of H. O. Sawyer
& Co. was adopted. Mr. Sawyer gave up business
in West Boylston when the greater part of the town
was destroyed to make the Metropolitan water
reservoir. He entered into partnership with his son
in Fitchburg, where he has resided since 1899. The
present firm name is H. O. & H. L. Sawyer. They
are the leading undertakers in the city of Fitchburg.

Mr. Sawyer is a veteran of the civil war. He
was in Company E, Forty-second Regiment, M. V.
M.. and was mustered out as private although
scarcely of age. He was a charter member of
George' D. Wells Post, G. A. R., of West Boylston,
and has been commander. He is at present a mem-
ber of E. V. Sumner Post, G. A. R., of Fitchburg;
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past master of Trinity Lodge, of Clinton ; a member
of Clinton Chapter, Hiram Council of Worcester,
and Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Fitchburg. He is well known among the Odd Fel-
lows of the vicinity, where this order is especially
strong, and belongs to Apollo Lodge, of Fitchburg.
He was a trustee of the Security Savings Bank of
West Boylston until it was liquidated, when the
Metropolitan Basin was built. He is a past regent
of Beaman Council, Royal Arcanum, of West Boyls-
ton ; a member of the Merchants' Association of
Fitchburg; and belongs to Rollstone Congregational
Church of Fitchburg.

Mr. Sawyer is known best of all from his long and
honorable career in public office. He is an earnest
Republican, and a man of public spirited nature.
In West Boylston he was called upon to till practic-
ally all the town offices at various times. He was
town clerk, town treasurer, assessor, overseer of
the poor, on the school committee, and selectman
at various times ; represented the district in the
general court in 1881 ; and when in Clinton was
elected treasurer and collector of taxes. Mr. Sawyer
has won even greater honors since he removed to
Fitchburg. He was elected an alderman for the
years 1902 and 1903, and mayor in 1904 and 1905.
His administration as mayor of the city of Fitch-
burg has been marked by an unusually prosperous
season, and he has won the approval and support
of the people without regard to party. He has
been called one of the best mayors the city ever
had. During his term of office the high service
water mains have been put into operation, much to
the satisfaction of the consumers of water m the
city. Mr. Sawyer was elected to the legislature in
1906. He was a delegate to the Republican national
convention in 1888. Mr. Sawyer himself, and his
late fellow-citizens of West Boylston, look upon
his service to the town on the special committee in
relation to the Metropolitan Water Basin as his best
public service, and his friends properly consider
the work of that committee extremely creditable to
him, and of course to his colleagues. With Lewis
Cutting, now of Worcester, and Harrison E. Morton,
also now of Worcester, Mr. Sawyer served on this
committee to look after the interests of the' town
of West Boylston. The net result of their work
was to secure the payment to the town of an annuity
of $12,000 as compensation for the loss of taxable
property due to the building of the water basin
where the mills and factories and many of the
business places and residences were located. In
addition to this annual payment the water board
built roads and bridges where needed and paid for
those destroyed.

Mr. Sawyer married, January i, 1866, Flora A.
Wetherby, daughter of Solon W. Wethcrby. She
was born in Vermont, but removed when very young
to Clinton, where she was brought up. She died
September 20, 1888. He married (second), 1890,
Martha E. Warner, daughter of Waters W. Warner,
of West Boylston. The children of Henry Oliver
and Flora A. (Wetherby) Sawyer were: i. Henry
Lewis, see forward. 2. Angle F.. born July 12,
1871. 3. Cora A., born in West Boylston, December
S, 1882. 4. Carl VV., born in West Boylston, Sep-
tember 13, 1888.

( IX) Henry Lewis Sawyer, son of Henry Oliver
Sawyer (8), was born in West Boylston, Massa-
chusetts, October 15, 1868. He attended the public
schools of his native town and the West Boylston

high school and Worcester Academy, where he was-
graduated in 1888. He entered upon his business
career in his father's store in West Boylston. In
1889, on New Year's Day. he and J. F. Higgins be-
came partners with his father under the firm name
of H. O. Sawyer & (Zo., and his uncle Walter B.
Sawyer withdrew from the firm. The construction
of the Metropolitan Water Basin wiped the old
village of West Boylston off the map, and the busi-
ness men sought new fields for their activities. Mr-
Sawyer went to Fitchburg, where he bought the
undertaking business of the M. W. Cummings es-
tate. This had been the leading business of the
kind, established by Mr. Cummings in 1868. He
took hold of the new business October 14, 1898,
and later his father came to Fitchburg and entered
into partnership with him under the firm name of
H. O. & H. L. Sawyer. It is a well known fact
that the leadership in business has been maintained.
The tact, courtesy and discretion essential for suc-
cess in this line of business are qualities that dis-
tinguish both father and son.

Mr. Sawyer is a prominent Free Mason, past
master of Boylston Lodge, a member of Clinton
Royal Arch Chapter and of Jerusalem Commandery,
Knights Templar. He is a member of Centennial
Lodge of Odd Fellows, of West Boylston, and of
Nashua Tribe of Red Men. He was a member of
Clark S. Simonds Camp Sons of Veterans, of Fitch-
burg. He belongs to the Merchants' Association,
the Park Club of Fitchburg, and various other social
organizations. He is a Republican, but has never
been a candidate for office. He was at one time
acting town clerk of West Boylston during the ill-
ness of the clerk, and town auditor of West Boyls-
ton for several years.

He married, June 20, 1894, Nellie E. Baker,
daughter of John E. Baker, of Worcester. She was
born in Rutland, Massachusetts, July i, 1870. Their
children are: I. Ralph Henry, born in West Boyls-
ton, July 28. 1895. 2. Dorothy Ellen, born in Fitch-
burg. March 17, 1900.

ARTHUR HENRY KENDRICK, proprietor of.
the Hotel Pelham (formerly Parker's Hotel), on
Walnut street. Worcester, Massachusetts, is a repre-
sentative in the eighth generation in direct line of
descent from the founder of the family of Kendrick
in America, he having emigrated to this country
in 1634, or even a little earlier.

(I) George Kendrick, the pioneer ancestor of
Arthur Henry Kendrick, came from England to
America in the ship with Rev. Richard Mather,
sailing from Bristol, England. His first settlement
was made at Scituate. Massachusetts, where he was
admitted a freeman, January 5, 1635, he was called
a yeoman. The records show that he took an ap-
prentice named John Gardiner, February 22, 1635-6.
He w-as a volunteer soldier in the Pequod war in
1637. He and his wife were admitted to the church
April 9. 1637, although Dean gives his name among
those who were dismissed from the Plymouth
Church in 1634-5 (?), in case they join the church
in a body at Scituate. Possibly he came to Plym-
outh in 1634, or there may have been two George
Kendricks in the Plymouth Colony. He was pos--
sessed of large holdings of land. His home lot in
Scituate was located on Kent street, between the
home lots of Elder Tilden and Isaac Stedman, he
had another lot on the third cliff between the lots
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owned marsh land near the stony cove. At the time
he was living in Boston, in 1645, hs sold one hun-
dred and sixty acres of land on North river to
William Randall, near Till's or Dwelley's creek. He
also resided in Barnstable for a short time. There
was some relation between George Kendrick and
John Kendrick, who settled in Boston and Newton.
Massachusetts, about 1639. George Kendrick lived
in Boston in 1645, but, according to Dean, removed
to Rehoboth in that year, but one daughter was
born in 1646, and another baptized in 1650. It is
certain that he married his second wife in Rehoboth,
and that she died and was buried there in 1688.
George Kendrick was a town officer in 1640, and a
representative in the general court at Plymouth in
1642-3-4. An indication of the connection of the
Bo-ton and Rehoboth families is furnished by the
marriage of a granddaughter of John Kendrick,
October 8. 1696. to David Newman, of Rehoboth.
All the other Rehoboth Kendricks are descendants

of George Kendrick. He married, first. Jane ,

and their children were: i. Deborah, baptized at
Scituate, November 25. 1638; died February 21,
163Q. 2. Joseph, born in Boston in 1640. 3. De-
borah, born in Boston. August 16, 1646. 4. Priscilla,
proliably born before the preceding named, baptized
April 21, 1650, at Boston. He married, second, April
26. 1647, near his former home in Scituate. Ruth
Bowen. who died October 31. 1688. in Rehoboth,
and was buried in that town. Their children were :
I. Thomas, mentioned hereinafter. 2. Ruth, born
February 16, 1649; married John Wilmarth, Feb-
ruary 6, 1671. 3. Sarah, April 12, .1652. 4. Isaac.
February 12, 1654; buried January 13, 1675-6. 5.
Mary, June 16, 1659; married Samuel Bliss April 15,
lfk'<5. 6. Elizabeth, September 12. i66[ : married
Jonah Palmer, May 28, 1689. 7. Abraham, Febru-
ary 2. 1663; buried May 9, 16 — . 8. Abraham, May
19. 1665.

(in Thomas Kendrick, eldest child of George
(i") and Ruth (Bowen) Kendrick, was born in
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, January 23. 16 — . He
spent his entire life in the town of his birth, and was
buried there, January 13. 1709-10. He married, June
'17, 1681, Mercy (or Mary) Perry, and their chil-
dren were: i. Jaziel, of whom later. 2. Mary, born
February 7, 1683 ; married Daniel Belding. March
26. 1713. 3. Ruth. May i, 1685. 4. Elizabeth. Octo-
ber 24. 1686; died November 18, 1686. 5. Thomas,
January 16, 1687: died the same year. 6. Mehitable,
August 15, 1689; married Arthur Tooker, May 19,

(III) Jaziel Kendrick. eldest child of Thomas
{2) and Mercy (Perry) Kendrick. was born March
23. 1682. The name is misspelled Joseph in one
place in the printed records, and was also spelled
Jossell. He settled on the homestead at Rehoboth,
where he died September 9, 1720. He married,
April 5, 1716, Lydia Gye (or Gay. or Guye). She
seems to have been the second wife of John Hill,
whom she married February 23, 1729-30, at Reho-
both. The children of Jaziel and Lydia (Gye)
Kendrick were: r. Thomas, born in Rehoboth, De-
cember 7, T7[6: married Lydia Mason. Julv 31,
1744. (See Freeman's "Historv of Cane Cod," vol.
ii, paee 732). 2. Jaziel, mentioned below.

(IV) Jaziel Kendrick. second son and youngest
child of Jaziel (3) and Lydia (Gve) Kcudrick, was
born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Februarv 7. 1 717-8.
He settled in the part of Brookfield set off as North
Brookfield, November 8, 1754. built his house there.

and acquired much land in the second precinct, as
North Brookfield used to be called. He was a
farmer by occupation. Died in North Brookfield,

June IS, 1798. He married Abigail , born 1724,

died November 11, 1808. Their children, all born
in Brookfield and North Brookfield, were: I. Lydia,
born June 10. 1750; married, November 8. 1767,
William Dean; died August 14, 1817. 2. Thomas,
April 12, 1752, mentioned hereinafter. 3. Hannah,
November 26, 1755; married, July 9, 1778, Antipas
Bruce, of North Brookfield; died February. 1793.
4. Mary, August, 1757 ; married. February 6, 1783.
Elijah Starkweather, of Killingly. Connecticut. 5.
Jemima, married, October 14, 1772, Nathan Gilbert,
of Brookfield. 6. Abigail, married. February 4,
1783, Nathaniel Dodge, of Belchertown. Massachu-
setts. 7. Mehitable, married, July 6, 1784, Silas
Barnes, of Holland, Massachusetts. 8. Ruth. March
4. 1788-9. married Silas Phelps, of Worthington,
Massachusetts.

(V) Thomas Kendrick. second child and only
son of Jaziel (4) and Abigail Kendrick, was born
in Brookfield, ^lassachusetts, April 12, 1752. He
received his education in the common schools of the
town, and then commenced to work for his father.
The homestead was located in the north part of the
town of North Brookfield. and in 1808 he left the
old home and purchased one thousand four hundred
and forty-four acres for a farm of his own. Two
years later he tore down the old buildings on this
place, and with the help of his son Thomas, built
the present house. He sold the place to his son
Thomas in 1812. and removed to the south part of
the town, where he bought himself another farm on
which he resided until his death, which occurred
January 19, 1832. When a young man he trained
in the militia on the training grounds at New Brain-
tree. He was an earnest supporter of the American
side during the revolution. He was a man of con-
siderable distinction in his day. and served on the
school committee in 1795. He was an active mem-
ber of the First Congregational Church, and was a
cnnsi.stent Christian in his faith and daily practice.
He married, first. September 11. 1777, Susanna
Bruce, of Brookfield, born 1757; died December 29,
1,801. 'He married, second. May 29, 1803, Elizabeth
Ellis, of Brookfield. born November .30. 1737. The
children of Thomas and Susanna (Bruce) Ken-
drick were: i. Thomas, of wham later. 2. Betsey,
born July i. 1781 : married May 11. 1802. Moses
Howard, of Sturbridge, who died February 2, 1835 ;
she died February 14. 1831. 3. Jaziel. (Dctober 4,
1783. 4. Joseph, August 27, 1785: went to sea and
was never again heard from. 5. Susanna, June
,^o. 1787: married, November. 1804. Eliphus Webber,
of Holland. Massachusetts; died February 11, 183-.
6. Cyrus. July 5, 1789. 7. Ruth, March 21, 1791-
8 Eli, December 25, 1793. 9. Lucy, November 6,
1794: died March 24. 1796. 10. Perley. February
27, I7Q7. II. Lucy. March 21. 1799: died Aoril
24, 1817. 12. Lydia. married, first. May 27. 1817,
Francis Barnes, of North Brookfield; married, sec-
ond July 4. 1830, Noah Barnes, of North Brook-

•field.

(VI) Thomas Kendrick, eldest child of Thomas
(,t) and Susanna (Bruce) Kendrick, was born in
North Brookfield. Massachusetts, October 27. 1779.
He was educated in the common schools of his na-
tive town, and then commenced farming with his
father. He learned the trade of shoemaking. and
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at the same time cultivating his farm, as was the
custom of tlie times. He hought the interest of
his father in the farm which they had been tilling
conjointly, in 1812, and from that time managed
it alone. In politics he was originally a Whig, but
later affiliated with the Democratic party. He was
a member of the First Congregational Church at
North Brookfield. His death occurred March 13,
1852. He married, first, April 22, 1800, Hannah
Hill, of \orth Brookfield. He married, second,
July 4. 1824. Mary Thorndike. a widow of Salem,
who died February 23, 1829, aged forty years. He
married, third, June 3, 1830, Sarah Ann Deland, of
North Brookfield, who died May 22, 1883. The
children of Thomas and Hannah (Hill) Kendrick,
all born in North Brookfield, were: I. Horace,
born September, 1800. 2. Tamsen, June 7, 1803 ;
married September 3. 1821, John Bemis, of Spencer ;
died in Spencer. July 7. 1830. 3. Hannah, November
14, 1804; married, first, June 30, 1825, Lyman W.
Hunter, of North Brookfield ; married, second, Cur-
tis Mower, of Charlton. 4. Betsey, 1806 ; married,
January 30, 1825. Clancy D. Thompson ; of New
Braintree : died December 20. 1840. 5. Joseph, Au-
gust 29. 181 r. 6. Thomas. December, 1816; died
January 7, 1818. 7. Martlia, August 2, 1819; mar-
ried, January 24, 1838, William !M. Deland. 8. Mary
Ann, November 15, 1820; married, November tp,
1S46, John H. Wilcox, of New Braintree; died in
Ludlow, Massachusetts. 9. Charles Thomas, men-
tioned below'.

(VH) Charles Thomas Kendrick. fourth son and
ninth and youngest child of Thomas (6) and Han-
nah (Hill) Kendrick, was born in North Brook-
field. Massachusetts, May 7, 1831. He was edu-
cated in the public and high schools of his native
town, and left the latter in order to take up farm-
ing and teaming. He had the contract for drawing
much of the stone used in the buildings in North
Brookfield. He was also engaged in the wood and
lumber business, and not only earned a competence,
tut also the good will and esteem of his neighbors
and those with whom he had business dealings. He
resides on his farm in North Brookfield. In poli-
tics he has always been Democratic, and has served
the town as overseer of the poor, and as highway
surveyor. He is a regular attendant at the First
Congregational Church. He married, April 16, 1857,
Sarah Frances Deland. of North Brookfield. daugh-
ter of Henry and Temperance Bishop (Holmes)
Deland. Henry Deland was a shoemaker by trade,
and salesman in Boston for the Batcheller':, the
great boot and shoe manufacturers of North Brook-
field. Mrs. Kendrick is a direct descendant of
Governor Bradford, and a cousin of Oliver Wendell
Holmes. The children of Charles Thomas and Sarah
Frances (Deland) Kendrick were:

1. Edward, born June 30, 1858; died September
22, 1858.

2. Clarence Eugene, November 14, iS.SQ ; mar-
ried. February 28, 1882. Charlotte L, Moore, of
North Brookfield. and had children: i. Alice Louise,
Txirn June 21, 1883. 2. Inez Moore, Aoril 5, 1885 :
died April 4, 1902. 3. Leon Arthur. February lo,
1887. 4. Clarence Deland, February 15. 1889. 5.
IMargaret Holmes, October 15, 1894. 6. Donald
Leslie. April. 1903.

3. Alfred Holmes, May 7, 1862 ; died October 19,
1862.

4. Arthur Henry, the particular subject of this
sketch.

CVni) Arthur Henry Kendrick, fourth and
youngest son and child of Charles Thomas (7) and
Sarah Frances (,Deland) Kendrick, was born in
North Brookfield, Massachusetts, November 2, 1863.
He was educated in the public and high schools
of his native town, and left the latter institution
after a two years' course, in order to accept a posi-
tion in the factory of E. & A. H. Batcheller, lead-
ing shoe manufacturers. For a time he was em-
ployed in the sole-leather room, and then worked
for six years as an edge trimmer. He removed
to Worcester, in 188S, and bought what was then
Parkers' Hotel, but is now the Hotel Pelham, on
Walnut street. This hotel he conducted with un-
varied success for nine years, then sold it to A. F.
Bragg, who conducted it for a short time, and then
resold it to Mr. Kendrick, who has continued as
its owner and manager up to the present time
(1906). He is popular and progressive, and a man
of considerable influence in the circles in which he
moves. He is a regular attendant at the All Saints'
Episcopal Church in Worcester, and is a iriember
of the following named organizations : Montacute
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons: Eureka Chap-
ter. Royal Arch Masons: Hiraiu Council, Royal and
Select Masters; all the Scottish Rite Masonic bodies
of Worcester; and a charter member of Worces- t
ter Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He is first lieutenant of the Worcester Continentals,
a private company of militia. He married. January
28, 1893, Margaret Thomas. They have one child :
Beatrice Audrey, born March 22, 1897.

William ap Thomas, great-grandfather of Mrs.
Arthur Henry Kendrick. was a noted Baptist min-
ister of Carmarthen, Wales, and was one of sev-
eral brothers who entered the ministry, and claim
descent from Henry Fitzherbert, lord chamberlain
to King Henry I. William ap Thomas was vicar
of Penrhyn and chaplain to the Earl of Northum-
berland. Amon.g his children was a son, David.

(II) David Thomas, son of William ap Thomas
(i), was a Welsh scholar of much erudition. He
was a schoolmaster in Carmarthen, and later opened
a private school in Carmarthen, and still later in
Swansea, Wales. He was also noted as a writer,
and a composer of music. Among his children was
a son, William.

(III) William Thomas, son of David (2) and
Mary (Davies) Thomas, was born in Swansea,
Wales. May 10, 184.S. He was a manufacturer of
pottery in Swansea. Wales, and emigrated to Amer-
ica in 1877. He was also a modeler and designer.
He settled first in Philadelphia, later removed to
Norwich. Connecticut, and still later to New York.
He married Anne Augustus, daughter of James and
Margaret (Hughes) Augustus, of Swansea, Wales.
James Augustus was a shoe manufacturer, employed
a large number of workmen, and had a contract with
the government to furnish shoes for the soldiers
during the Crimean war. He became very wealthy.
Elizabeth Davies. mother of Margaret (Hughes)
Augustus. grandznother of Anne (Augustus)
Thomas. and great-grandmother of Margaret
CThomas") Kendrick. married John Hughes, an of-
ficer in the British army, who lost his life during
the war with Turkey in 1825. She was taken by a
family of Lees, and changed her name. Her chil-
dren were Margaret and John C. Hughes. Margaret
married James .Augustus, of Swansea. Wales, and
they had children, among them being .Anne, born in
1845, who married William Thomas, the father of

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Mrs. Kendricks. The children of WilHam and Anne
(Augustus) Thomas were: i. Elizabeth Ann, born
in Swansea, Wales, October 15, 1867; married a
Congregational minister, of London, England ; died
October 2. 1887. 2. Hubert Aubrey, December 25,
1869, in Swansea, Wales ; died in the same town,
January 25, 1871. 3. Margaret, of whom later. 4.
Mary Janet, September 28, 1873, in Swansea ; mar-
ried William Beckwith, of New London, Connecti-
cut. 5. Alice Lillian, May 24, 1878, in Norwich,
Connecticut. 6. Helen Gertrude, September 8, 1881 ;
died same day.

(IV) Margaret (Thomas) Kendrick, third child
and second daughter of William (3) and Anne
(Augustus) Thomas, was born in 0-xford, England,
June II, 1871. She had the advantages of an ex-
cellent education, attending a private school in
Swansea, Wales'; then the private school of Miss
Durant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and finally,
the public schools of Norwich, Connecticut. She is
a member of All Saints' Episcopal Church, of
Worcester, Massachusetts, and of the following re-
ligious and social organizations: Woman's Mission-
ary Society of All Saints' Church ; Church Musical
Club ; The Wednesday Club ; Young Women's Chris-
tian Association ; Worcester Woman's Club ; the Fri-
day Morning Club; Music Students' Club of
Worcester. She is very active in religious work,
and occupies a prominent and influential position
in all these various organizations. She married,
January 28, 1893, Arthur Henry Kendrick, as
previously stated.

THE HARTWELL FAMILY in England is
traced back to the days of William, the Conqueror,
who allotted land to one of his followers from
Normandy by the name of Hartwell, perhaps the
progenitor of all the English families of that name.
He must have been born as early as 1050, A. D.
Although the American progenitor's ancestry is not
definitely known, he is probably a descendant of
this ancient family and he is undoubtedly the an-
cestor of all the American families of the name.

(I) William Hartwell, the immigrant ancestor
of the family, was born in England about 1613. He
was among the first settlers of Concord, in New
England, in 1636, and was admitted a freeman May
18, 1642. He signed the petition for the grant of
Chelmsford in 1653. He was commissioned a
corporal in 1671 and quartermaster in 1673. He had
a homestead in Concord a mile east of the common
on the road to Lexington, lately occupied by E. W.
Bull. In 1666 he owned two hundred and forty-
seven acres of land and was among the largest tax-
payers of the town. He died March 12, 1690, aged
seventy-seven years. His wife Jazan deposed May
II, 1675. that she was sixty-seven years old, which
would fix her birthday in 1608. She died August
5. 1695. Their children were: Sarah, died July
8, 1674; married. April 18, i66r, Benjamin Parker,
of Billerica, April 18, 1661 : John, of w^hom later;
Mary, probablv born 1643, died February 13, 1695-6;
married Jonathan Hill ; Samuel, born March 26,
164s. died July 26, 1725; married Ruth Wheeler,
daughter of George and Catherine Wheeler : Mar-
tha, horn May 25, 1649, died before 1690.

(II) John Hartwell, eldest son and second child
of William Hartwell (l), was born in Concord,
Massachusetts, December 23, 1640, and died of small-
pox, January 12, 1702-3. He married, June i, 1664,
Priscilla Wright, daughter of Edward and Pris-

cilla Wright. She died March 3, 1680-81. He mar-
ried (second), August 23, 1682, his first wife's sister,
Elizabeth Wright, who died December 16, 1704.
He served with Captain Thomas Wheeler's com-
pany at Brookfield and elsewhere in King Philip's-
war. He was admitted a freeman, March 21,
1689-90.

His children were : Ebenezer, of whom later ;
John, born April 15, 1669, married Sarah Shepard ;.
Samuel, born October 9, 1673, died December 31,
1694 ; Sarah, born February 12. 1676-7, married
Ebenezer Lamson ; William, born Deceml>er 22.
1678, died July 10, 1762; married Abigail Hosmer;
Joseph, born January 24, 1680-1, married Ruhamah
Cutter, of Charlestown ; Elizabeth, born October 23,

1683, died young; Elizabeth, born December 23,

1684, probably the one who married Samuel Wil-
son; Edward, born August 23. 1689, died February
17. 1785; soldier in 1708-9 campaigns; married Sarah
Wilder; he was major, justice of the peace, judge
of the court of common pleas, representative to the
general court until past eighty years old, was on
committee of safety and correspondence, the most
conspicuous man of his day in Concord ; Jonathan,
born February 15. 1691-2, died October 18, 1713;
married (first) Elizabeth Brown and (second)
Sarah Wheeler.

(III) Ebenezer Hartwell, eldest child of John
Hartwell (2), was born in Concord, Massachusetts,
February 28, 1665, and died in Carlisle, an adjoin-
ing town, January I, 1723-4. He bought his home-
stead of his father-in-law and the southern half of
the house where John S. Keyes lately lived in Con-
cord village across the line in Carlisle.

He married, March 27, 1690, Sarah Smedlcy,
daughter of John and Sarah (Wheeler) Smedley.
She was born in 1670 and died November 13, 1715.
Their children were: John, born April I, _ 1691,
was district clerk of Carlisle before it was incor-
porated as a town; ensign in the militia; Priscilla,
born December 13, 1692, died young ; Sarah, borrr
July 28, 1694, married Jonathan Melvin ; Priscilla,
born January 27, 1696-7, died August 2, 1778; said
to have had a lover who went to Maine, turned
hunter and hermit, and never returned; Ebenezer,
born March 22, 1698-9. died 1739; went to Groton,
married. August 4, Rachel Francworth ; Samuel,
of whom later.

(IV) Samuel Hartwell. youngest child of Eben-
ezer Hartwell (3), was born in Concord, Massachu-
setts. April 30, 1702, and died in Groton May 26,

1782. He married, 1727, Sarah . who died in

1733. having had two children, who died young. He
married (second), June 7, 1737. Sarah Holden, of
Groton. who was born September 5, 1717. He set-
tled in the north part of Groton near the Nashua
river. Their children were all born at Groton prob-
ably, viz.: Sarah, born March 9. I7,^8._ died May
5, 1790; married Job Shattuck, a captain in the revo-
lution ; Rachel, born December 19. 1739, died Au-
gust 16, 1758; an infant, born May 21, 1742, died
young; Priscilla, horn February 25, 1745. died Feb-
ruary 17. 1828, married James Green; Samuel, born
July 21, 1748, died young: Hannah, born Septern-
ber 27, 1751. removed to Springfield, Vermont, ui
1805; Lois.' born December to. 1758, married Simeon
Lakin, of Groton, a revolutionary soldier; Samuel,
of whom later.

(V) Samuel Hartwell, youngest son of Samuel
Hartwell (4), was born in Groton. Massachusetts,
August 7, 1 771, and died there March 24, 1842. He

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married Caroline M. Wright, of Groton, who was
born August 21, 1772, and died March 5. 1853. He
was a farmer, noted for his fine physique and great
strength. He lived in Groton. Their children were :
1. Samuel, born November 7, 1804, died June n,
1825. 2. John H., born November 11, 1806. mar-
ried. May 12. 1831, Caroline M. Shattuck, of Groton,
born October 11, 1811 ; they removed to Germania,
Wisconsin, in i860, and have many descendants.
3. David, born August 2, 1808, died September 20,
1878; married Harriet N. Hayward, of Easton,
who was born March 8, 1815. died December 8. l86g;
removed 1837 to Beverly, Ohio, in 1849 to Carroll-
ton, Illinois; in 1854 to Macoupin county; in 1870
to Valley Centre, Kansas; was a contractor and
builder, left many descendants. 4. Caroline, born
December 3, 1812, died July 8. 1844. 5. Matilda
(twin), born December 3, 1812. died April 8. 1848;
married, September 24, 1840. Harrison J. Searles,
of Westford. carpenter. 6. Benjamin F., of whom
later. 7. James C, born May 12, 1817, died April
22, 1862 ; married, September 24, 1840, Mary G.
Corey, of Groton, Massachusetts, who was born
March 10, 1819; removed to southern Ohio, later
Carrollttin, Illinois, and Medora, Illinois; was farmer
and carpenter.

(VI) Benjamin F. Hartwell, sixth child of Sam-
uel Hartwell (5), was born in Groton. November
5 1814. He married, November 25, 1839, Emma
Whitman, of Stow, daughter of Dr. Charles Whit-
man. She was born March 27, 1812, and died April
22, 1880. In early life he was a teacher and was
for some time the principal of Franklin Academy at
Germantown, Pennsylvania. Later he was a con-
tractor and builder at Littleton. Massachusetts, He
also lived at Groton afterward and at Zanesville,
Ohio, where he died January 21, i8gi. The three gen-
erations ending with Benjamin F. Hartwell were
unusually long. His grandfather was born in 1702
and he died in iSgi, making for three generations a
span of one hundred and eighty-nine years.

The children of Benjamin F. and Emma Hart-
well were: i. Josephine, born December 22, 1840,
died young. 2. Emma, born May 20, 1843, married,
September 13. 1871, M. V. B. Kennedy, of George-
town, Ohio, who was born February 24, 1843, dealer
in books and stationery at Zanesville, Ohio ; she is
living there now (1906) ; had son Harris H.. born
September 29. 1873, now city auditor of Zanesville,
Ohio. 3. Benjamin Hall, born February 27, 1845,
at Acton : educated at Lawrence Academy, Groton,
and Jefferson Medical College (1868 M. D.), be.gan
practice of medicine in 1869 at Groton Junction,
now called Ayer. where his widow now resides. He
was medical examiner for the pension department,
state medical examiner, held many offices in Ayer.
Married, September 10, 1879. Helen Emily
(Silsby) Clark, daughter of Major Eusebius and
Mary Jane (Shattuck) (Clark) Silsby. of Groton;
she was born at Groton. June 12. 1848. 4. Harris
C. of whom later. 5. Charlotte E., born August 8,
1852, married, August 16, 1872, Philetus C. Lathrop,
of Norwalk, Ohio, who was born August 7, 1839.
He served in the civil war, was manufacturer of
gloves at Gloversville, now residing at Arlington,
Massachusetts; was treasurer of the Ice and Pressed
Brick Company of Hartford, Connecticut ; has no
children.

(Vin. Harris C. Hartwell. fourth child of Ben-
jamin F. Hartwell (6), was born in Groton, Massa-
chusetts, December 28, 1847, and died at Fitchburg,

Massachusetts, December 9, 1891. He attended the
public schools of his native town and fitted for col-
lege in Lawrence Academy, Groton, from which he
graduated in 1865. He was graduated at Harvard
College in 1869. He taught school for ^ time dur-
ing his college course. After graduating he came
to Fitchburg to study law in the office of Amasa
Norcross. At the same tmie his friend, S. L. Graves^
of Amherst, 1869, came to Fitchburg and entered
the law office of Torrey & Wood as a student. After
three years of study they were admitted to the bar
on the same day. He remained with Mr. Norcross
and in 1874 was admitted to partnership under the
firm name of Norcross & Hartwell. In 1886 Charles
F. Baker was admitted to the firm and he is at
present occupying the offices of the old firm.

Mr. Hartwell early established a reputation as
an honorable, industrious and successful lawyer, and
in his profession he had but few equals in Worces-
ter county. As a jury lawyer he was especially
strong; his cases were carefully prepared and he
won the respect of the opposing counsel and the
confidence of the court and jury by the fairness
with which they were presented. He was a great
favorite with the younger members of the bar, and
his advice and encouragement will long be cherished
by many of them. He was a pleasant companion.
He had at his command an endless stock of apt
anecdotes and stories that made his conversation
as well as addresses in court extremely agreeable.

He was an earnest Republican and for many
years was a leader in his district. Had he lived he
would undoubtedly have been the next representa-
tive in the congress of the United States. He was
a member of the school board in 1874-75-76-77-78.
He was city solicitor from 1877 to 1887, and in this
position his legal ability was greatly appreciated by
the whole city. He was a representative in the
general court in 1883-84-85, and took high rank
there in debate and committee work. He was in the
state senate in 1887-88-89 and in the latter year
was the president of the senate, a position he filled
with marked ability. To each of these positions of
public trust he brought the full measure of earnest,
honest effort, and his services were of signal value
to the city and the commonwealth. He served dur-
ing his first year in the legislature on the committee
on banks and banking ; in the second on the com-
mittee on judiciary and w-as house chairman on
woman suffrage. In his third year he was chair-
man of the committee on the judiciary. To Mr.
Hartwell must be given the credit for the estab-
lishment of the registry of deeds at Fitchburg. In
the senate he served on the committees on the
judiciary, rules, constitutional amendments, the
special Beverly investigation and was chairman of
each. He was also on the committee on manufac-
tures. In 1889 he was unanimously elected presi-
dent of the senate and he was the first citizen of
Fitchburg ever honored with this position.

He was trustee and vice-president of the Worces-
ter North Savings Institution ; was on the board of
managers and vice-president of the Massachusetts
Mutual Aid Society ; director of the Fitchburg Shoe
Tip Company; director and clerk of the Fitchburg
Street Railway Company and director of the Leom-
inster Street Railway Company. He managed and
settled many large estates.

The Sentinel at the time of his death, said : "Not
since the death of Goldsmith F. Bailey in 1867 has
the death of a citizen at the meridian of life oc-

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casioned such a public expression of the feeling of
loss to his adopted city. It is an irreparable loss
to the social life of our city." His flashes of wit
brightened many festive occasions and his voice
was also heard on more serious occasions when
matters of' great importance to the community were
under consideration. In politics tolerant, some of
his most steadfast friends were of the opposite polit-
ical faith. Professor Rufus B. Richardson, of Dart-
mouth College, and Dr. Joseph E. Putnam, for many
years city physician of Chelsea, were born in the
same neighborhood and were always close friends.
Mr. Hartwell married, October 23. 1877, Effie
M. F. Needham, daughter of Colonel Daniel Need-
ham, of Groton, and their home life was very happy.
Their children were : Norcross N., born at Fitch-
burg, December 15, 1880, educated at private school
in Concord, Massachusetts, two years; Phillips
Leeter, 1900, and at Peekskill, New York, Military
Academy. He is at present with Besse, Bryant
& Co., dealers in men's clothing and furnishings,
Worcester. ' Harold H., born May 6, 1890, a student
in the Fitchburg high school.

GOODNOW FAMILY. Thomas Goodnow (l)
•was the immigrant ancestor of Amos Walter Good-
now. of Lunenburg. Massachusetts. He was the
younger brother of John Goodnow. of Sudbury, and
the elder brother of Edmund Goodnow, the third
of the pioneers who located at Sudbury, and pro-
genitors of all the Goodnow families of early dates.
John Goodnow. husbandman, aged forty-two years,
came over in the ship "Confidence," April 11, 1638,
from Semley, in Wiltshire, England, and settled at
Sudbury, where he was a proprietor in 1639: he
died March 28, 1654. Edmund Goodnow, husband-
man, aged twenty-seven years, came in the same ship
at the same time, hailing from Dunhead, in Wilt-
shire, a town only a few miles from the former
home of his brother John. With him came his wife
Ann and sons John and Thomas, under four years
of age, and servant Richard Sanger, aged eighteen
years. Edmund Goodnow was a proprietor of Sud-
hury in 1639; freeman May 13, 1640: was a town
officer, deputy to the general court ; and lieutenant
(April I, i6.si). He died April 5, 1688.

Thomas Goodnow, the progenitor of the Lunen-
burg family, was in the same ship with his two
"brothers. He brought with him his wife Jane: his
son Thomas, then one year old : and sister Ursula.
all from Shaftesbury, England, in the borough of
Dorset, on the border of Wiltshire, three or four
miles from the former homes of his brothers. The
sister Ursula died at Sudbury. April 23. 1653. un-
married. Thomas also settled in Sudbury, and was
one of the proprietors in 1639. selectman in 16.39.
and later in Sudbury and again in Marlboro in 1661
1662. and 1664. He was one of the original peti-
tioners for Marlboro, and was there when the town
was incorporated. He was admitted a freeman of
Sudburv. Mav 10, 1643. He died at Marlboro in
1666. His will was dated September 29. 1666. and
was proved October 24 following. He bequeathed
to daughter Susanna and Jane ; "to Loveing yoak
fellow Joane :" to son Samuel and all his grand-
children; brothers John Rudduck. Edmund Good-
now and old brother Ward appointed overseers of
the will. His wife and the mother of his children
was Jane. It is possible that the yoke-fellow men-
tioned in his will was Jane, misspelled, rather than
a second wife Joanna, as some have read it. His

homestead in Marlboro was bounded north and west
by the highway, south by the house lot of Joseph
Rice, east by Indian Hill, or the line of the Indian
planting field. The children of Thomas and Jane
Goodnow were; i. Thomas, born in England 1637;
came over with parents and returned to England
in 1656 to get his brother Nathaniel ; died at Marl-
boro. October 5. 1663. 2. Nathaniel, born in Eng-
land about 1638, according to Savage, came over
with brother Thomas (who went to England to get
him) in ship "Speedwell," 1656. aged about sixteen
years. 3, Mary, born at Sudbury, August 25, 1640.
4. Abigail, born March 11, 1642; married Thomas
Barnes, of Marlboro. 5. Susannah, born at Sudbury,
February 20, 1643. died young. 6. Sarah, born Janu-
ary 26 or 28, 1643-4, died 1654. 7. Samuel, men-
tioned below. 8. Susanna, born December 2t, 1647.
9. Elizabeth, died December 28. 1658. 10. Jane, mar-
ried Christopher Bannister, of Marlboro.

(II) Samuel Goodnow. son of Thomas Good-
now (i). was born at Sudbury, February 26 or 28,
1646. He died at Marlboro. 1722, aged seventy-six
years. His house at Marlboro, where he lived the
life of a planter all his days, was on the old road
to Northboro. in what now constitutes part* of that
town, then of Marlboro. It was used for a garri-
son in 171 1, and must have been well built to be

selected for this use. He married Mary . and

their children were: i. Thomas, born 1671. 2. Mary,
born December 15, 1673; killed and scalped by the
Indians. 1707. 3. Samuel, mentioned below. 4.
David, born May 12. 1678 ; removed to Shrewsbury,
where he married second, and had children; mar-
ried first, November 8, 1722, Dinah Fay.

(III) Samuel Goodnow, Jr.. son of Samuel
Goodnow (2), was born in Marlboro, November
.30. 1675. and died about 1720. He and his family
fell in the division of the town within the limits
of Westboro. and the birth of Thomas Goodnow,
one of his children, is recorded in Westboro as well

as Marlboro. He married Sarah , and their

children were: i. David, born February 26, 1704;
married Martha Bennett ; lived at Westboro. 2.
Jonathan, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, born at
"Marlboro, or Westboro. May t8. 1709; married April
17. 1734. Persis Rice, lived at Westboro. 4. Mary,
born April 5. 1712.

(IV) Jonathan Goodnow. son of Samuel Good-
now (3). was born at Marlboro, July 16. 1706. His
home fell within the limits of the town of West-
boro. which was set off from Marlboro, November
t8, 1717. He married February 20, 1727, at Marl-
boro. Lydia Rice, who died December 4. 1747. He
removed to Marlboro in 1740. and died there Sep-
tember 25, 1803, according to Hudson's history,
nearly a hundred years old. Of his children the first
six are recorded as born at Westboro, the other
three are given in the Marlboro records. The chil-
dren were: i. Ithamar. born April 14. 1728. 2.
Lydia. December 21. 1729. 3. Mary. November 25,
1732. 4. Jonathan. January 5. 1734-5; died August
21! 1737. at Westboro. q. Levi, born .April 21, 1737.
mentioned below. 6. Ebenezer. April 24, 1739. 7.
Surviah. June 10. 1742. 8. Tabitha. June 27. 1744;
married Anril 10. 1761. Zebadiah Wallis. 9. Sub-
mit, born December 3. 1747: died March 6. 1748.

(V) Levi Goodnow, son of Jonathan Goodnow
(4). was born .^pril 21. 1737. in Westboro. His
parents belonged to the Marlboro Church, and he
was of Marlboro when he married. June 8. 1762,
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born June 16. 1741, at Shrewsbury, and they were
married there. The intentions ware dated April
9, 1762. They settled first in Shrewsbury. He is
said to have served in the French and Indian wars.
About 1770 he removed to Guilford, Vermont. He
was sergeant in the company of Captain Ichabod
Dexter, Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge, and was at
Cambridge in June and July, 1775, and was doubt-
less in the battle of Bunker Hill. His residence
during 1775 and 1776 was given as Guilford, and
his record is given in the Massachusetts rolls. In
1777 and 1778 he appears on the \'ermont rolls first
as Captain Levi Goodnow, in command of a com-
pany of rangers in the regiment of Colonel Samuel
Herrick. raised by the state of Vermont (so-called).
A payroll of his company dated September 3, 1778,
is preserved. His last service was in Captain John
Pratt's company. Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's
battalion, in the Vermont service. The council of
safety of the state of Vermont appointed a com-
mittee August 22, 1778, to settle Captain Levi Good-
enough's pay roll for service in Lieutenant-colonel
Samuel Herrick's regiment of rangers for the year
I777- The state records also show that the council
of safety directed Captain William Fitch, Septem-
ber 6, 1777, to deliver to Captain Levi Goodenough
two sides of leather out of Marshes Fatts. What
that entry means is puzzling, but it show^s that Levi
Goodnow was a captain in the service of the embryo
state of Vermont. Captain Goodnow settled later
in Derby, Vermont. The children of Levi and Mili-
cent Goodnow, born in Shrewsbury were : I. Elmer,
born January 27, 1765 (January 26 in private rec-
ords) mentioned below. 2. James Keyes. baptized
April 19, 1767. 3. Jonas, baptized October 25, 1768.
There were probably other children born in Ver-
mont.

(VI) Elmer Goodnow, son of Levi Goodnow
(5), or Levy as the name was usually spelled by
the family, was born in Shrewsbury, January 27,
1764, and died at New Salem, May 6. 1849. He
removed with his father to Guilford. Vermont, and
thence to Derby, Vermont. He came to Sterling,
Massachusetts, lived a while at Boylston, and finally
settled in New Salem, Massachusetts. He married
Mrs. Sarah (Sawyer) Wilder, daughter of Amos
and Mary (Rugg) Sawyer. His wife was born at
Lancaster, Massachusetts. June 7, 1769, and died
at New Salem, Massachusetts, December 23, 1834.
The children of Elmer and Sarah Goodnow were :
I. William Holland, mentioned below. 2. Isaac,
born at Sterling, July 18, 1794; his daughter, Ellen
Goodnow, resides at Willington, iNIassachusetts. 3.
Elmer, Jr., born at Boylston, Massachusetts, June
18, 1796; his son, Wilson Warren Goodnow, re-
sides at Guilford, Vermont. 4. Mahala, born at

Boylston, May 23, 1799; married Morse, and

has a son, JNIarshall jNIorse. 5. Emerson, born at
New Salem, Massacliusetts, July 14, 1802, mentioned
below. 6. Sarah, born at New Salem, November
23, 1805. 7. Mary Ann, born May 26, 1808.

(VII) Emerson Goodnow, son of Elmer Good-
now (6), was born at New Salem, Massachusetts,
July 14, 1802, and died there June 14. 1S81. He
married, January 5, 1831, at Athol, Massachusetts,
Harriet Haven, daughter of John and Rachel (Sar-
gent) Haven. She was horn at New Salem, March
26, 1811, and died at Orange, Massachusetts, April
3, 1886. The children of Emerson and Harriet
Goodnow were all born in New Salem, viz.: i.
Emily, born June 18, 1832 ; died at Orange, Janu-

ary II, 1892; married Sumner Cummings, October
31, 1850, at Athol; he was born at New Salem,
December 7, 1825, died January 29, 1881, there, son
of Brown Cummings. 2. Martha, born October 14,
1835, died at Athol, December 5, 1898; married,
March 30, 1852, at Athol, Lock Hart Wrisley, son
of Justus Smith Wrisley ; he was born at Gill, Mas-
sachusetts, August 2, 1825, and died at New Salem,
June 28, 1867; she married (second), June 22, 1881,
.Albert G. Moulton, who was born at Lyman, New
Hampshire, March 20, 1813, and died at Athol,
September 6, 1889. 3. Oselo, born April 3, 1838,
died at Northfield, Massachusetts, May 21, 1903 ;
married at Orange, January i, 1869, Dolly Avis
Williams, daughter of Hollis Williams; she was
born at Montague, Massachusetts, September 16,
1840; their children: Ozro Ventrice, born January
I, i860; Osro Oselo, born July 27, 1861. 4. Samuel,
born June 14, 1843, died at Northampton, Massa-
chusetts, August 20, 1883 ; married at Montague,
Alary Eleanor Maynard, born at Leverett, Massa-
chusetts, October 7, 1850, daughter of Joseph Bart-
let jMaynard; their child: Samuel Ethan Allen,
born at Montague, June 27, 1873. 5. Mary (trip-
let), born September 13, 1845; died at Greenfield,
Massachusetts, September 29, 1882 ; married at New
Salem, May 26, 1869, George Leonard Perrj-, born
at Scituate, Massachusetts, son of Leonard Perry ;
their child: Bertha Alena Perry, born at Deer-
field, Massachusetts, January 6, 1871. 6. Maria
(triplet), born September 13, 1845; died at New
* Salem, April 20, 1897 ; married at Vernon, Vermont,
September 11, 1870, Prentice Maynard Peirce, born
at New Salem, September iS, 1845, son of Frederick
and Ermina (Merriam) Peirce; their children:
Luna Maria Peirce, born at New Salem, December
28, 1874; Mary Ardella Peirce, born at New Salem,
October 12, 1881. 7. Mahala (triplet), born Sep-
tember 13, 1845; died at Orange, October 7, 1890;
married at Orange, March 26, 1872, Amos Leonarcl
Williams, bom at Montague, March 3, 1832, son of
John and Cordelia (Wilmoth) Williams; their only-
child : Rachel Kathleen, born at Orange, June 7,
1880, died there February 17, 1899. 8- John Emer-
son Goodnow, born March 23, 1850 ; married at
NeW' Salem, December 8, 1872, Emuia Louise Kent-
field, born at Montague, March 6, 1864, died there
August 6, 1873. daughter of Henry Kentfield ; mar-
ried (second), at Brattleboro, Vermont, January
6, 1875. Celia Frances Sulloway, born at Stoughton,
Massachusetts, July 7, 1848, daughter of Benjamin
Webster and Elvira Eliza (Trask) Sulloway, and
they have one child, Delilah Harriet, born at Mon-
tague, May 8, 1881 ; Mr. Goodnow is a dealer in
provisions at .^thol.

(VII) William Holland Goodnow, son of Elmer
Goodnow (6), was bom at Sterling. Massachu-
setts. February 13. 1792. He was educated in the
common schools and learned the trade of mason.
He moved to ]\Iontague, Massachusetts, where he
bought the Antipas Steward farm, and owned and
cultivated it for a period of twenty years, when he
removed to Leverett. Massachusetts, after selling his
Montague farm to good advantage to Samuel Bald-
win, of Shelburne Falls. He settled on a farm
which he purchased in Leverett, and lived there the
rest of his days. In 1812 he belonged to a com-
pany of militia enlisted in the service, but thej- saw
no active fighting. In religion he was an Orthodox
and in politics a Republican. He married Priscilla
Mann, daugther of Thomas Mann, of Petersham, Ma.^-

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sachusetts. Her father was a lumberman, and had a
saw mill in addition to running his farm. The children
of William Holland and Priscilla Goodnow were:

1. Julia, born at New Salem, married Daniel
Andrews, of New Salem, and had one child, Horace
Andrews, who married Lizzie Wheelock, of Gard-
ner; they have one child, Albert Andrews. 2. Alice
Mann, born at New Salem, married Daniel Andrews,
of New Salem, and they have two children : Sam-
uel Andrews; Horace Andrews. 3. Samuel Hol-
land, died at age of twenty-one years. 4. Augustus
Warren, lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts ; mar-
ried Susan White, of Coleraine, Massachusetts. 6.
Sarah Elizabeth, married Hollis Wilbur, of Athol,
and they have one son, Henry Wilbur. 7. Nancy
Alcesta, married Samuel Everett, of Leverett. S.
Amos Walter, born September 20, 1833, mentioned
below.

UN) Amos Walter Goodnow, son of William
Holland Goodnow (8), was born at New Salem,
September 20, 1833. His parents removed to Mon-
tague when he was an infant, and he received his
early education in the common schools of that
town, working at the same time on his father'j
farm. At the age of twenty years he left home and
went to work at Ashburnham, in the chair manu-
factory of Winchester Brothers. After working
there for three years he took a similar position in
the factory of Corey & Bancroft, at Windham
Great Falls, Maine, where he remained about a
year. Then he returned to his old home in Mon-
tague, and assisted his father on the homestead
for a time, and then returned to work for the
Winchester concern at Ashburnham. About this
time his father sold out at Montague and bought
another farm at Leverett, and Amos helped his
father for a year and a half, when his father died
and he succeeded to the farm. Soon afterward he
sold the place at Leverett to Peter Hobart. and
removed to Gardner to work at his trade. He en-
listed, August 14, 1862, in Company F, Fifty-second
Massachusetts Volunteers, from Leverett, and went
into camp at Greenfield. He went with his regi-
ment to New Orleans, and was at the siege of Port
Hudson, and took part in the battles of Indian Bend
and Donaldsville. He was mustered out August
14, 1863, and returned to Leverett, and went soon
afterward to Gardner and entered the employ of
Heywood Brothers, chair manufacturers. This is
one of the largest concerns in the business. Mr.
Goodnow was with this firm nearly twenty years.
In 1893 he decided to go back to farming again,
and bought his present farm at Lunenburg. It is
a productive and attractively situated place of about
twenty-two acres. His son, Luie W. Goodnow, as-
sists him in conducting the farm.

In religion Mr. Goodnow is a member of the
Orthodox Church (Congregational). In politics
lie is a Republican. He is a member of Farragut
Post, No. 116, G. A. R., of Gardner, Massachusetts.
He commands the respect and confidence of his
fellow-citizens wherever he has lived, and is counted
a man of influence among his neighbors though his
manner is quiet and his tastes domestic. He mar-
ried Sophia Avery, who was born in Brookline, New
Hampshire, and died in Lunenburg, daughter of
Amos and Lydia (Evans) Avery. Her father was
a farmer. The children of Amos Walter and Sophia
Goodnow were: I. Ida May, born at Ashburnham.

2. Etta Julia, born at Leverett, married Edward
Williams, of Gardner, and they have four children :

Albert, Everett, Irving, Mary. 3. Luie Walter, born
at Gardner; married Lizzie Hill, of Middletown,
Connecticut, and had two children, Grace and
Winifred.

WHITE FAMILY. The White family of Winch-
endon, Worcester county, Massachusetts, of which
William Walker White, of the city of Worcester,
is a prominent representative, trace their lineage
to Thomas White (l), who died in 1664. He ap-
peared as a citizen of Charlestown, Massachusetts,
clothed with the oflice of constable in the year 1659..
By his wife Susanna, who died March 6, 16S6-87,
aged eighty-nine years, had cliildren : Thomas,
John, Mary and Sarah.

(II) Thomas White, the eldest child, born
1636, married November ij, 1663, Mary Frothmg-
ham, daughter of William Frothingham, of York-
shire, England, born April i, 1638, died September
30, 1716. They had Thomas, born 1664; William,
1667; Samuel, 1669; and Elizabeth, 1671.

(III) Thomas White, born 1664, married Sarah
Rand, daughter of Sergeant Thomas Rand, of
Charlestown. She was born August 15, 1666, died
April 17, 1749. Their children were: Thomas,
born 1685; Samuel, 1690; Sarah, 1692; John, Au-
gust 22, 1695; Hannah, 1698; Mary, 1701 ; Rebecca,
December I, 1704; Abigail, 1708.

UV) John White, born August 22, 1695, mar-
ried, January 24, 1728, Sybilla Buckmiuster, daugh-
ter of Colonel Joseph Buckminster, from Scotland.
Mr. White was a carpenter by trade, and settled
first in Framingham, where his five eldest children
were born. About 1848 he purchased the lot num-
ber sixty-eight in the town of Spencer and removed
there, where he died August 20, 1778. His wife
died October 23, 1794, aged eighty-eight. Their
children were: John, born October 17, 172S;
Thomas, July 27, 1731; Rebecca, February 5, 1734;
Sarah, June 22, 1737; Sybilla, October 29, 1741 ;
Rand, (Dctober 15, 1751.

(V) Thomas White, born July 27, 1731, mar-
ried in Spencer, December 30, 1756, Abigail, daugh-
ter of Deacon John Muzzy. Mr. White was a
farmer and blacksmith, and died in Spencer, Febru-
ary 25, 1822, His wife died September 21, 181 1,
aged seventy-two. Their children were : Thomas,
born November 24, 1757; Thaddeus, July 16, 1759;
Benjamin, August 8, 1764; Joel, May 3, 1766; Sib-
billah, February 13, I7ti8; Nancy, May 25, 1769;
Jonah, April 20, 1771 ; Elizabeth, July i, 1774;
Amos, February 6, 1776; John Bradshaw, February
I, 1778.

(\T) Thomas White, born November 24, 1757,
married Hannah Estabrook, and settled in West
Boylston. He as well as his brother Thaddeus, were
soldiers in the revolutionary war and each was
granted a pension for their services, Thomas hav-
ing been placed on the pension roll May 29, l8i8.
Their children were: Polly, born May 23, 1786;
Nancy, October 15, 1789; Joseph, see forward; Han-
nah, February, 1794; Thomas, June 5, 1796; Eben-
ezer, June 13, 1798.

(VII) Joseph White, born January 24, 1792, in
Boylston, Massachusetts; married, in 1817. Alatilda,
daughter of Simon and Persis Davis, of Paxton,
Massachusetts. She was born in that town Septem-
ber 24, 1796. Mr. White was a man possessed of
unusual mechanical powers and business qualities.
At the age of eighteen he set up in West Boylston
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eighteen hands; two years later, in 1812, he in-
troduced the manufacture of cotton yarns, and a
little later cotton wares, being among the earliest
in the country to manufacture cotton goods, an in-
dustry which became his life-work, accumulating
thereby a competency which passed to his children,
and in addition he endowed them with some of his
personal qualities which enabled them to continue
the work so well established and prosecute it even
to a more successful issue. Their children, born in
West Boylston, were: Nelson Davis, born July 24,
1818; Persis Arminda, January 11, 1S20; Windsor
Newton, March 4. 1823 : Hannah jNIandana, June
2y, 1825 : Joseph Estabrook, June 29, 1832; Francis
Wayland, October 26, 1834.

(VIII) Windsor Newton White, second son of
Deacon Joseph White, and father of WiUiam Walker
White, was born March 4, 1823. He attended the
•common schools of West Boylston, his native town,
and then took a course of study at the Academy of
Suffield. Connecticut. He then entered the employ
of his father, later taking an interest in the manu-
facture of cotton fabrics at Oakdale. Massachusetts,
the firm being known as the West Boylston Manu-
facturing Company. Here he continued to labor
until 1861, at which time he owned a controlling
interest. He sold his interest there and removed
to Winchehdon, entering into copartnership with his
brothers. Nelson D. and Francis W. White, in the
cotton manufacture, and after continuing in the
business three years, owing to poor health, he re-
tired from active life, and died in 1871. He was a
generous supporter of the Baptist church, and held
the office of deacon, as well as many minor
positions in the Church. In politics he was
a Republican, and was a representative to the
Massachusetts legislature from West Boylston
and Winchendon, and served as selectman and
assessor for several years. He married Miriam,
daughter of Joel and Deidamia (Stone) Walker,
in August, 1844. Their children were : Joseph,
Mandana, William Walker, Thomas. Emma
Arminda, Joseph Estabrook and John Addison.

(IX) William Walker White, second son of
Windsor Newton White, and grandson of Joseph
White (7). was born in Winchendon, Massachu-
setts, April 7, 1849. Previous to the age of four-
teen, he received his primarv education in the
schools of his native town. He then entered the
New Hampton Institute at Fairfax, Vermont, com-
pleting a course there, and at the age of sixteen re-
turned to Winchendon. entering the employ of Bax-
ter D. Whitney, manufacturer of woodworking ma-
chinery, where he remained two years. He then
entered the emplov of the Whitin Machine Com-
pany in Whitinsville, where he completed the trade
of a machinist. From here he went to the machine
shop of the Slater Company in East Webster, where
at the age of nineteen he was given charge of that
department, having thirteen men under his direc-
tion. In 1878 he removed to East Jaffrey, New
Harnpshire, and for one vear had charge of the
White Brothers' mill. From there he went to
Fitchburg and took charge of one of the depart-
ments of the Union Machine Companv. In 1S81 he
accepted a position with the Rodney Hunt Machine
Company of Orange, Massachusetts, as general
■superintendent, and remained with that company
during the rebuilding of their olant. His next ob-
jective point was the city of Worcester, where he
•engaged with the Holyoke Machine Company, and

after being in their employ in the shop for six
months was promoted to sellmg agent, and on the re-
tirement of Mr. Charles Ranlet was made agent of
this Worcester shop, including his former duties as
salesman. On the retirement of Mr. Charles R. Hol-
man, in 1901, the financial part of the Worcester
branch of the company also devolved upon Mr.
White. January 17, 1906, he was chosen a director
and president of the company. Mr. White attends
-the Baptist Church, and is a Republican in politics.
He has never been identified with any other affairs
outside of business and his home.

He married, December 23, 1871, Jennie V. Moore,
daughter of Dexter M. and Mary E. (Dodge)
Moore, of Webster, Massachusetts. She was born
June 18, 1853. Her father was a veteran of the
civil war, serving in Company H, Fifty-third Massa-
chusetts Regiment ; he was also a, mechanic and
mill operator. William Walker and Jennie V.
(IMoore) White had one son, William Dexter White,
born August 24, 1876, who is associated with his
father in business. He married, September 16, 1902,
Edith G. Bliss, of Worcester, daughter of George
R. Bliss.

CHARLES E. WALLACE. Ralph Wallace (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Charles E. Wallace, post-
master of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was one of the
first settlers of this name in America. He came
from London in the ship "Abigail" in 1635 with his
son, George Wallace. He was probably a widower,
and he left very little trace on the records of his life
in .•\merica. He gave his age as forty, which would
make his year of birth 1595. His son's age was
given as fifteen. Wallace is a Scotch name and
most of the families of New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts are from Scotch-Irish settlers who came
between the years 1718 and 1750.

(II) George Wallace, only known son of Ralph
Wallace (i), was born in 1620 and came with his
father on the ship "Abigail" in 1635 from London.
In December, 1656, he was of Rumney jNIarsh, now
Chelsea, then part of Boston. He probably died
young or returned to England. He was called "gen-
tleman" on the records, indicating high social stand-
ing at that time. Savage presumes that he was
the fatlier of George Wallace, of Portsmouth.

(III) George Wallace, probably son of George
Wallace (2), settled in Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire. He was born about 1650, and married, No-
vember 18, 1686, Ann Shortridge, daughter of Rich-
ard Shortridge, at Portsmouth. He served on the
grand jury in Portsmouth in 1686. He was tith-
ing man in 1676 at Portsmouth. Possibly it was
his father who was tithingman. His home was
near Sagamore creek. He had a son William, born
about 1690, of whom later.

(IV) William Wallace, son of George Wallace
(3), was born in Portsmouth or vicinity about 1690.
He settled in Greenland, which was set off of Ports-
mouth in 1703. He was on the tax list in Green-
land in 1723. and he signed the petition to be an-
nexed to Massachusetts in 1739. He married

Martha , who was baptized when about thirty

years old, in 1726. Their children were born in
Greenland, New Hampshire, viz. : George, had son
born in 1750; Samuel, had son born 1741 ; Jeane,
baptized 1716; Nathaniel, baptized 1723: Nathaniel,
baptized 1724; jNIartha, baptized 1725; William of
whom later; .'Kbigail, baptized 1737.

(V) Captain William Wallace, son of William

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Wallace (4), was born in Greenland or Portsmouth
in 1728. He settled in Greenland, and may have
moved to Raby late in life. He was a captain of
a Greenland company in the revolution and fought
in the battle of Bennington. Among his children
were: John, baptized in 1751 ; Matthew, of whom
later.

(VI) Matthew Wallace, the grandfather of
Charles E. Wallace, of Fitchburg, was the son of
Captain William Wallace (5), if family history is
correct. He was a farmer in Brookline, New
Hampshire, all his active life. A grandson has a
sword said to have belonged to Captain William
Wallace. There is an absence of records to estab-
lish this absolutely, a common thing in New Hamp-
shire towns. Matthew Wallace married about 1800,
Betsey Mcintosh, of Scotch descent. Their chil-
dren: James, -Betsey, Clormda, Jane, David, of
whom later; William, Waldo.

(VII; David Wallace, son of :Matthew Wallace
(6), was born in Brookline, New Hampshire, Au-
gust IS, 1814, and died in Fitchburg, November
26, 1891. He learned the trade of carpenter, and
when a young man came to Lunenburg, Massachu-
setts. In 1846 he removed to Clintonville, now
Clinton, Massachusetts, where he lived many years.
He became a contractor and builder there and dur-
ing the period of greatest development was one of
the leadmg builders of Clinton. He had the con-
tract for the Baptist church, for the tower on the
Congregational church, for the old Methodist par-
sonage and for the Unitarian church. He built the
parsonage originally for his own residence and he
lived in it for a time before he sold it to the JNIeth-
odist society. He left Clinton before the civil war
and made his home in Fitchburg, where his brother,
Waldo Wallace, conducted a foundry. He had a
shop at the rear of 5 Main street, where a number
of manufacturing industries are now located, and
he made patterns and furniture. He was a skill-
ful pattern maker and cabinet maker. He was se-
lectman of Clinton in 1857 and 1858. He loved
music and after 1850 for many years was chorister
of the First Baptist Church of Clinton. He was one
of the fire engineers of Clinton and for many years
foreman of old Torrent Engine Company, No. I.

He married (first), in Nashua, New Hampshire,
1838, Sarah Ann Smith, daughter of John and Sarah
(McDonald) Smith, of Brookline, formerly Raby,
New Hampshire. Their first four cliildren were
born while they were living in Lunenburg, the re-
mainder in Clinton. She died in Clinton, June 16,
1862. He married (second), in 1867, the sister of
his first wife, Catherine Smith, who was born at
Brookline, New Hampshire, August 19, 1824, and
is living at present at 27 Cottage square, Fitchburg.
The children of David and Sarah Ann Wallace
were : Cleora A., born September, 1839, at Lunen-
burg, died September I, 1848, at Clintonville ;
Martha Ardelia, born August 3, 1841, married Henry
Bowman, resides at Idaho Springs, Colorado; David
Orlando, born May 27, 1843, died at Florence,
South Carolina, February 4, 1865, he was a cor-
poral in Company C, Fifteenth Regiment, and was
taken prisoner first at Ball's Bluff, was exchanged
and taken again at Petersburg, June 22, 1864; he
was the only Clinton man who fell a victim to
Confederate prison life; Kate Augusta, born April
17, 1845. married Frank C. Gill, resides at Rock-
ford, Illinois; CTharles E., of whom later; George
Washington, born July 4, 1849, at Clinton, living

in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Caro Josephine, born
January 19, 1853, at Clinton, died November 11,
1897, at Fitchburg; Henry Putnam, born September
18, 185s, at Clinton, died June 26, 1863, at Fitch-
burg; Inez Moore, born January 18, 1857, at Clin-
ton, died May 26, 1883, at Fitchburg; married
George A. Henry; Helen Eugenia, born July i&,
1858, at Clinton, married (first) Herbert A. Stod-
dard; married (second) Lewis F. Flint; resides at
Rockford, Illinois. (Dates from record of Mrs.
David Wallace of Fitchburg.)

(VIII) Charles E. Wallace, fifth child of David
Wallace (7), was born in Clinton, Massachusetts,
September 3, 1847. He was educated in the common
and high schools. He began his business career as
clerk in a Fitchburg store conducted by his uncle,
Waldo Wallace, and since developed into the Fitch-
burg Hardware Company, the largest concern of
its kind in the city. In the spring of 1861 he
began to work for his uncle and lived with him
in accordance with the old custom. He enlisted in
1864 in Company E, Fifth Massachusetts Volun-
teer Regiment, at a very early age. He had tried
to enlist before and had been refused on account
of his youth. This was a JNIarlboro company and
his term of enlistment was a hundred days. The
campany served most of the time about Baltimore.
It was mustered out in November, 1864. After
his return from the service he worked as clerk in
a number of Fitchburg stores. He began his
connection with the postoffice at the bottom of the
ladder in 1872. His faithfulness and ability won
him promotion after promotion until he became the
assistant postmaster. He held this position under
Democratic as well as Republican administrations.
He served under the postmasterships of George E.
Goodrich, General John W. Kimball, Fred ,A.
Currier, and at the close of Mr. Currier's term Mr.
Wallace was appointed his successor. He was suc-
ceeded as postmaster by Dr. T. H. Mann, who
served a term during the second administration of
President Cleveland. Mr. Wallace retired at that
time after a continuous connection with the post-
ofiice lasting twenty-three years. During the in-
terim he was elected overseer of the poor of the city
and was clerk of the board in 1897 and 1898. Upon
the return of the Republican party to power Mr.
Wallace was re-appointed postmaster by President
McKinley, and he has been re-appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Few cities are fortunate in having
so well a trained postmaster. It may be said that
he has made the postal service a life study during
his thirty years of service. The government has
erected recently in Fitchburg a very handsome and
artistic building for the postoffice. In many re-
spects j\Ir. Wallace has a model office. He is a
member of the E. V. Sumner Post, G. A. R. ; the
Nashua Tribe of Red Men; the Columbian Club.
He was a corporal in the Fitchburg Fusiliers for
six years after the war. He has been overseer of
the poor for six years.

He married Mattie R. Lowe, daughter of I-lmt
and Sarah F. Lowe, of Fitchburg. Their children:
Harold, born October 24, 1880, class of 1908 Tufts
Medical College: Ruth Inez, born October 10, 1885,
graduate of the Fitchburg high school.

ALFRED H. WHITNEY. John Whitney (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Alfred H. Whitney, was
born in England, 1589.' Fuller details of his life
will be found elsewhere in this work. He settled

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in Watertown in June. 1635 ; had married in Eng-
land, Elinor , born 1599, died May ii, 1659;

married (second) in Watertown, September 29,
1659, Jndith Clement, who died before he did. He
died June i, 1673. They had eleven children, men-
tioned in other sketches of the Whitney family.

(11) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (i),
was born in England, i6jo. He was a proprietor and
freeman of Watertown, a soldier in Kmg Philip's
war. A full sketch with his family is given else-
where in this work.

(HI) Nathaniel Whitney, son of John Whit-
ney (2), was born m Watertown, February I, 1646,
married, March 12, 1673, Sarah Hagar, born Sep-
tember 3, 1651, died May 7, 1746, in Weston. Further
details with their family of eight children will be
found in the sketch of Elisha M. Whitney, of
Winchendon.

(IV) William Whitney, son of Nathaniel
Whitney (3), was born May 6, 1683, mar-
ried, Alay, 17, 1706, Martha Pierce born Decem-
ber 24, 1681. He died January 24, 1720. He re-
sided at Weston, Massachusetts. He was also the
ancestor of the other Whitney families of Winch-
endon. (Children: i. William, grandfather of
Amasa Whitney, of Winchendon, father of Elisha
M. Whitney, born January 11, 1707, married Han-
nah Harrington, Mrs. Alary Pierce, Margaret
Spring and Airs. Sarah Davis. 2. Judith, born No-
vember 15, 1708. 3. Amity, born October 6, 1712.
4. Martha, born April 4, 1716, married in Sudbury,
February 26, 1734, Timothy Mossman ; settled in

. Ashburnham. 5. Samuel, see forward.

(V) Lieutenant Samuel Whitney, son of Will-
iam Whitney (4), was born in Weston, Massachu-
setts, May 2S, 1719. He married, October 20, 1741,
Abigail Fletcher. He was a leading man in the set-
tlement of the, town of Westminster, Alassachusetts,
and was frequently elected to office. He went there
from his native town of Weston probably soon after
his marriage, about 1742. The old Whitney home-
stead there was owned lately by the Hartwell fam-
ily, only the cellar hole remaining to mark the site
of the old house, on Lot 51 near the north common.
He was prominent, capable and much esteemed, one
of the e.Kecutive committee of the proprietors and
a selectman three years after incorporation. He
was a lieutenant in the revolution. He was a man
of wealth as well as influence in Winchendon, and
gave each of his sons a farm. He died January I,
1782. The children of Samuel and Abigail Whit-
nev; i. Abigail, born August 27, 1742, probably
died young. 2. Mary, born May 29, 1744, married
Elijah Gibson and Edward Scott, of Westminster.
3. Samuel, born February 11, 1746, married Thank-
ful Wilder. 4. Abner, see forward. 5. Achsah,
born September 30, 1750, died May 14, 1772. 6.
Silas, born October 20, 1752, married Sarah With-
ington. 7. Martha, born November 26, 1755, died
young. 8. Elisha, born July 2, 1757, married Eunice
Seaver. 9. Alplieus. born February 25, 1759, married
Esther Hartwell. 10. Phinelras, born January 16,
1761, married Elizabeth Rand. 11. Hananiah, born
December 18, 1762, married Azubah Keyes. 12.
Martha, born September 18, 1764, married (first)
Benjamin Seaver and (second) Isaac Seaver. 13.
Susanna, born February 9, 1767. died young.

(VI) Abner Whitney, son of Lieutenant Samuel
Whitney (5), was born in Westminster. Massachu-
setts, May 18, 1748. He married. May 14, 1770.
Elizabeth Glazier, of Shrewsbury, who died April

iv— 9

3. 177S. He married (second), April 22, 1779, Lavina
(Glazier) Ward, born May 9, 1752, died July 23,
1838. He died September, i8li, in Westminster.
He lived in Ashburnham and Westminster, Alassa-
chusetts. Children of Abner and Elizabeth Whit-
ney: I. Oliver, born December 8, 1770, died June
24, 1794. 2. John, born July 28, 1772, married
Susanna Smith. 3. Levi, born January i, 1777,
married Phebe Warren. Children of Abner and
Lavina: 4. Jonas W., born April 22. 1780, married
Phebe Rand. 5. Joseph G., see forward. 6. Eliza-
beth, born August 2, 1785, married Lorey Barnes.

7. Dolly, born October 26, 1791, married Vinal Dunn.

8. Abel, born May 14, 1793, died unmarried April
28, 1852.

(VII) Joseph Glazier Whitney, son of Abner
Whitney (6), was born in Westminster, Massa-
chusetts, June 22, 1783, married. September 14, 1805,
Levina Dunn, born in 1789. died June 24, 1875. He
was a farmer and lived in Ashburnham. He died
July 31, 1868. He lived in Ashburnham and West-
minster. The children : • i. John, see forward. 2.
Abner, born April i, 1808, married Levina G.
Whittemore. 3. Levina G., born July 29, 1809, mar-
ried, .-Xpril 13, 1834, Rev. Stephen Gushing, resided.
in Dorchester, Ashburnham and elsewhere ; Meth-
odist clergyman twenty-four years; known as a his-
torian. 4. Mary Puffer, born July 19, 1812, married,
November 28, 1833, Perley Howe, farmer of (jard-
ner and .•\shburnham ; assessor and selectman. 5.
Belinda, born May 20, 1815, married. May 30, 1838,
Benjamin Gushing. 6. Lucy, born July 21, 1826,
married, February 19. 1847, Edward Chase, resided
in Chelsea, civil engineer, later in life in insurance
business. 7. Stephen P., born January 10, 1821,
married Abigail Stone.

(VIII) John Whitney, son of Joseph Glazier
Whitney (7), was born in Peru, Vermont, Sep-
tember 12, 1806, married there. May g. 1832, Eliza
Gushing, born April 18. 1815. died September i,
1882. He resided at Westminster for some years
and in Ashburnham, where he was a pioneer in the
manufacture of chairs. He died May 4, 1873. Chil-
dren : I. Stephen C, born July 4, 1833, married,
April 14, 1861, Achsah I. May, born July 5, 1839,
enlisted in Fifty-third Massachusetts Regiment in'
civil war, died at New Orleans, February 20, 1863;
she resides in Templeton, Massachusetts. 2. Eliza
C. born July 23, 1835, died July 13, 1837. 3. Jo-
seph, born June 15, 1838, died November 26, 1838.

4, Wilbur Fisk. see forward. 5. John Edwin, born'
October 28, 1841. died November 21, 1856. 6. Tim-
othy Merritt, born December 2, 1844, died Novem-
ber 22, 1856. 7. George Edward, born April 20,
1847, died unmarried October 30, 1880. 8. Orange,
see forward. 9. Sarah .A.,, born October 4, 1850,
married. February 20. 1878, George H. Clapp ; re-
sides at Greenfield. Massachusetts. 10. Arthur M.,
born October 4. 1853. resides at Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan. II. .'Mfred H.. see forward.

(IX) Wilbur Fisk Whitney, son of John W'hit-
ney (8), was born in Westminster, Massachusetts,
December 9. 1839. He was educated there in the
public schools and learned the business of chair
making. For the past thirty years he has been one
of the leading chair manufacturers of the town. He
has been active in tow-n affairs and politics. In 1875
he represented his district in the general court. In
1878 he was nominated for congress by the Green-
back and Independent parties and polled about 7,000
votes. He was renominated in 1882-84. He was

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nominated for state treasurer in 1S76-77, and in
several instances his candidacy was endorsed by
the Prohibition party. He is a student of political
economy and sociology ; of firm opinions and pre-
fers to maintain his ideas of political righteousness
with a hopeless minority to sacrificing principles for
party success. He is a director of the Ashburnham
National Bank and of the Nashua Reservoir Com-
pany. He served on the school committee for many
years. His residence is in South Ashburnham. He
married, July 17, 1866, Emeline S. Jewell, born De-
cember 27. 1839. Their children : i. Oscar Jewell,
born January 22, 1871, died January 2, 1886. 2. Celena
Mower, born June 24, 1873. 3. Luella Gushing, born
May 4, 1881. 4. Ethel Eloise, born June 2, 1881.
S. Edith Lillian, born January I, 1883.

(IX) Orange Whitney, son of John Whitney
<8), was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, March
16. 1849. He was educated there in the public schools
and followed the chair making business, being suc-
cessor to his father, who was engaged in the manu-
facture of chairs. He was at one time located in
Ashburnham, in the Burgess Mill. He is at present
in partnership with his brother Alfred under the
■firm name of Alfred H. Whitney. He has held
many positions of trust and honor in Winchendon.
He married, January 5. 1875, Laura M. Collester,
who died January 28, 1885.

(IX) Alfred Herbert Whitney, son of John
W'hitney (8), was born in Westminster, Massachu-
setts. June 14, 1856. He was educated there in the
public schools and has always been associated with
his brother Orange in the business of chair manu-
facturing. He was for a number of years a member
of the firm of Orange Whitney & Company, chair
manufacturers. South Ashburnham. He resides at
Ashburnham. In politics he is a Republican. He
married, June 3, 1884, Susie W. Davis, daughter of
Phineas Parker Davis. (See sketch.) Their child:
Pauline, born May 7, 1885, married, June 14. 1906,
Robert W. .Adams, of Royalston, Massachusetts.

PHINEAS PARKER D.-WIS. Dolor Davis
(,l), immigrant ancestor of Phineas Parker Davis
.and of his daughter, Susie W. (Davis) Whitney,
wife of Alfred Herbert Whitney, of Ashburnham.
Massachusetts, was the progenitor of the larger
part of the Davis families of Worcester county.
He was born in England and came to America in
1634; his wife and three children came in 163S,
accompanied with his brother-in-law, Simon Willard.
founder of Lancaster. Mr. Davis had a grant of
land in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as early as Au-
gust 4, 1634 : resided also in Barnstable and in Con-
cord. ' Massachusetts. He was a carpenter and
builder. He removed to Duxbury and was admitted
a freeman in Plymouth colony, March 5. 1638-39,
and Jime 2, 1646. He and his wife were dismissed
from" the church at Duxbury and joined the church
at Barnstable, .August 27, 1648. Simon Willard,
his brother-in-law, was captain of a foot company
in 1646, major in 1654 and at his death in 1673
"the colony lost one of its most distinguished mem-
bers." Davis married (first) in county Kent. Eng-
land. March 29, 1624, Margery Willard, who was
baptized at Horsemonden, Kent, November 7, 1602,
.and died prior to 1667. She was the daughter of
Richard Willard, of Horsemonden, a yeoman.

Davis had a grant of land in Duxbury in 1640.
He was highway surveyor and constable at Barn-
stable. He returned to Massachusetts in 1655 and
bought a hundred and fifty acres in Concord, but

finally returned in 1666 to Barnstable and died there
m June, 1673. He made his will September 13,
1672 ; it was proved July 2, 1673. The will stated
that his sons Simon and Samuel already had their
portions; bequeathed to wife Joanna; eldest son
John: son-in-law Lewis and Mary, his wife; daugh-
ter Ruth Hall ; to the poor of the town where "he
may die." The will refers to his sons Simon and
Samuel as residing in Concord and to his having
gone thither- at the charges of Roger Chandler.

His children: i. John, of Barnstable, born in
England about 1626, had the homestead. 2. Mary,
born in England, 163 1. 3. Elizabeth, born in Eng-
land. 4. Lieutenant Simon, see forward. 5. Sam-
uel, of Concord and Bedford, ancestor of Governor
John Davis. 6. Ruth, born at Barnstable, March
24, 1645.

(II) Lieutenant Simon Davis, son of Dolor Davis
(i), was born in America, about 1638, and died in
Concord, June 14, 1713. He resided on a farm
given him by his father at Concord, near the home-
stead of his father. He w-as one of Captain Thomas
Wheeler's troopers in the expedition of 1675 to
the Nipmuck country and took command at Brook-
field when the captain was wounded. He was ap-
pointed commissioner *uly 2, 1689; was admitted
a freeman March 21, 1699; was deputy to the gen-
eral court. 1689, 1690, 1692 and 1705. and held other
town ofhces. His will was dated June 24, 1710, and
proved July 3, 1713. He married, December 12,
1660, Mary Blood, born at Concord, July 12, 1640,
daughter of James and Eleanor Blood. He divided
most of real estate during his life. His children:

1. Dr. Simon, born October 12, 1661, married, Feb-
ruary 14, 1689, Elizabeth Woodis, daughter of Henry
Woodis, of Concord: she died November 12. 1711 ;
married (second), October 19, 1714, Mary Wood.

2. Mary, born October 3, 1663, married. May 28,
1691, Deliverance Wheeler, of Stow. 3. Sarah, born
March 11 or 15, 1665-66, married, November 13,
1695, Thomas Wheeler. 4. James, born January
or June 9, 1668, married, 1701, Ann Smedley ; died
September t6, 1727. 5. Eleanor, born October 22,
1672, married at Concord, May 14, 1699, Samuel
Hunt. 6. Ebenezer. born June I, 1676, see forward.
7. Hannah, born April I, 1679. married at Concord
Samuel Blood.

(III) Ebenezer Davis, son of Lieutenant Simon
Davis (2), was born at Concord, Massachusetts,
June I, 1676. He settled at Concord, where his chil-
dren were born. He was perhaps a landholder in
Harvard, where several of his children settled. He

married (first) Dinah . and (second) Sarah

French, widow of William French, of Billerica, who
died October 15, 1751, aged seventy-four years.
Children of Ebenezer and Dinah Davis: i. Eben-
ezer. Jr.. born March 29. 1701, settled at Harvard.
2. Eleazer, born February 4, 1704-05, settled at Har-
vard. 3. Josiah, born February 4, 1704-05, died
young. 4. Simon, born February 23, 1707-08. 5.
Dinah, born July 22, 1710. 6. Phineas, born Febru-
ary 19, 1712-13. removed to Milford. Connecticut.
7. El]en. born May I. 1715. Children of Ebenezer
and Sarah Davis. 8. Sarah, born July 14, 1723.
0. Lydia. born September 7, 1724. 10. Josiah, born
September 20, 1726. see forward.

(IV) Josiah Davis, son of Ebenezer Davis (3),
was born in Concord, Massachusetts, September 20,
1726. He settled in Harvard, Massachusetts, with
several brothers. About 1760 he removed to Wash-
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ants have lived and are living at present. In 1749
he and other young men were given permission to
build themselves a pew over the men's gallery stairs
in the Harvard Church. He served in the French
and Indian war in 1755 in a squad of twenty Har-
vard men under Colonel Josiah Brown, of Sudbury,
and in the company of Captain Salmon Whitney, of
Stow, Colonel John Bagley, in 1758. He married
at Harvard, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Willard. Their
children: I. Josiah, Jr., born at Harvard, October

3, 1754, married Susanna . 2. Ebenezcr, born at

Harvard, February 8, 1757. 3. Hezekiah, born at
Harvard, August 21, 1759. Those born at Wash-
ington were: 4. Timothy, born September 14, 1761,
see forward. 5. Betty, born January 15, 1764. 6.
Phineas, born August 21, 17615. 7. Thomas, born
April 8, 1769. 8. Molly, born September 10, 1761.

(V) Timothy Davis, son of Josiah Davis (4),
was born in Washington, New Hampshire. Septem-
ber 14, 1761. He worked on his father's farm and
attended the public school during his youth. In
later years he owned a farm in the west part of
the town, in the mountain district, a few rods north
of the farm of his brother Ebenezer and half a mile
east of the farm of Captain Moses Dinsmore. He
had a saw mill and grist mill at one time. He was
much beloved and highly respected by his townsmen.
He was of extraordinary physical strength. He was
known for many years far and wide as "Uncle
Timothy." A Timothy Davis was in the revolution
in Captain Timothy Emerson's regiment. Colonel
Thomas Bartlett's regiment, in 1780. He died Sep-
tember 24, 1829, at Washington. His farm was
inherited by his son. Reuben Davis. Timothy was
a Whig in politics and a member of the Universalist
Church.

He married Sally Farnsworth. who was baptized
at Harvard, Massachusetts. July 24, 1774, daughter
of Simeon and Lucy (Atherton) Farnsworth, of
Harvard and Washington, granddaughter of Jona-
than and Ruth Farnsworth. and great-granddaugh-
ter of Matthias Farnsworth, one of the first set-
tlers of Groton about 1660. Their children : i.
Martha, born May 21, 1793. married, November 4,
1812, Francis Killum. of Washington and Hillsboro,
New Hampshire; she married (second), June 2,
1862, William Davis, and died April 8, 1873. 2.
Ann, born at Washington. February 17, 1795, mar-
ried Allen Paine, of Washington, June 14. 1816;
removed to Potsdam, New York (now Morley). 3.
Reuben, born November 10. 1798. married Mary
Petts, daughter of James Petts : resided in Washing-
ton and had — Mary Ann, born December 16. 1822;
Reuben P., born February 17. 1824; Francis K.,
Sarah. Frederick J.. Martha Maria. Asa Augustus.

4. Hezekiah, born August 6. 1800. see forward. 5.
Lucinda. married Joel Colburn : (second) John Will-
iams. 6. Josiah. married Sarah Petts. of Washing-
ton. 7. Phinehas. born April ig, 1807. married,
October 13, 1831, Eliza Hopkins, resided at Charles-
town, Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts ; chil-
dren — Timoth}' A., born December 28, 1832. died
Aoril 25. 1S32; Lucinda A., born November 2. 1835,
died October. 1836; Sarah, born November 11, 1838,
died April 10, 1842 ; Elizabeth R.. born January 19,
1841. died June 12. 1883; Charles E., born February
9, 1843. resides at Pueblo, Colorado, at last accounts ;
Harriet N., born at Charlestown. September 2, 1848,
died April 23, 1S79; Phineas J., born at Gharlestown.
February 19. 1856. Relief, married Peter Brown, of
New York state.

(VI) Hezekiah Davis, son of Timothy Davis (s),
was born at Washington, New Hampshire, August
6, iSoo. and died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, April
4, 1846. He rec(;ived his education in the common
schools of Washington and helped his father on the
farm until he came of age. He followed farming
as his chief occupation through life. In Washington
he leased a farm in the center of the village for a
number of years. He removed in 1831 to Water-
town. Massachusetts, where he leased a farm of
Abijah White. This farm was near the Waverly
line. He also worked for various persons in the
vicinity of Boston in the capacity of a farmer. He
died April 4, 1846. He was a Universalist in re-
ligion. He was a member of the Washington militia
company in youth.

He married, August 10, 1820, Diadema Fletcher,
born September 16, 1799. daughter of Joshua
Fletcher. After his death she resided at Lempster,
New Hampshire. Their children: i. Phineas
Parker, born May 13. 1821, see forward. 2. Susan
Fletcher, born January 15, 1823, married Thomas Mc-
Allister, of Nashua, New Hampshire ; had two chil-
dren who died young : she died at Lempster, New
Hampshire, May 21, 1877. 3. Juliette F., born June
17, 1825 ; married George Washington Holt, of
Lyndeboro and Nashua, New Hampshire, and
had one child ; she died at Nashua, August
8, 1848. 4. George Washington, born October
2, 1S2S, married, May 25, 1854, Maria H. Tenney,
of Baldwinsville. JNIassachusetts ; resided in Nashua
where he manufactured stationary engines; chil-
dren — Julia, Jennie, Josie. 5. John Langdon. born
November 15. 1831. killed in accident at Fitzwilliam.
near state line. February 5, 1881 ; was locomotive
engineer ; married. May 23. i860. Mary E. Averill,
of Northfield, Vermont, and had children — Charles,
George Frederick.

(VII) Phineas Parker Davis, son of Hezekiah
Davis (6), was born at Washington, New Hamp-
shire, May 13, 1821. He, received a rather limited
education in the public schools of his native town
and began early to earn his livelihood by "working
out," in the vicinity of his home. When a young
man he began railroading as fireman on the Con-
cord & Montreal Railroad. When he came of age
he was promoted to the position of locomotive en-
gineer on a passenger train and continued in that
position many years. He lived at Concord, New
Hampshire, seventeen years, and owned a home there.
He also owned a block at Manchester. New Hamp-
shire. He met his death while in the performance
of his duty at his post on the run from Concord
to Salem, Massachusetts. March 8. 1864. His engine
was derailed by a washout. He was a man of integ-
rity and of charming manner, much respected by all
who knew him. His death was deeply regretted
by his fellow railroad men and superior officers.
In religion he was a Universalist ; in politics a Re-
publican.

He married. May 4. 1847. Sarah Cummings Rice,
born September 3, 1828. died July 29. looo. daughter
of Salmon and Catherine (Cummings) Rice, of New
Boston. New Hampshire. Her father was a chair
manufacturer of Ashburnham. The children: 1.
Julia Cate. born September 3. 1849. died July 4,
1S53. 2. Emma Louise, born December 15. 7856.
died Mav 15. 1875. ^- Katie Cummings. born Octo-
ber 4, i85r, died April. 1864. 4. Susie Wallace, see
forward.

(VIII) Susie Wallace Davis, daughter of Phineas

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Parker Davis (7), was born February 12, 1863, mar-
ried, June 3, 1884, Alfred Herbert Whitney, of Ash-
burnham, Massachusetts. (See sketch.)

HEYWOOD FAMILY. This name is variously
spelled in the records — Heywood, Heyward. Hey-
word, Haward, Heyood, Haywood, Heaward. and in
some instances has been changed to "Howard," and
all found in the Concord family records, and applies
to the Worcester county families. This all goes
to show how prone one generation is to follow the
errors of the one preceding it.

(I) John Heywood married Rebecca Atkinson,
1656, and it is known that he was in Concord as
early as 1650. Rebecca died in 1665. when he mar-
ried Mary Simonds. By his first marriage John
Heywood had a son.

(H) John Heywood married Sarah Simonds and
had thirteen children as follows : i. Sarah, died
young. 2. Thomas, died October 28, 1715, aged six-
ty-three years. 3. "Deacon" Samuel, married Eliza-
beth Hubbard, 1710. 4. Edward. 5. Josiah. 6.
"Deacon" Daniel, born 1696, at Worcester ; he mar-
ried Hannah Ward. 7. Elison. 8. Nathan. 9.
Sarah. 10. John, settled in Lunenburg. 11. ^Lary.
12. Phineas. born July 18, 1707, settled at Shrews-
bury. 13. Benjamin, born 1709, went from Worces-
ter to Cape Breton and died there in 1745, leaving
ten children.

(HI) Phineas Heywood, son of John (2), born
at Concord. Massachusetts, July 18, 1707, came with
his family to Shrewsbury about 1739. He died March
20, 1776, aged sixty-nine years. His widow, Eliza-
beth, died June 12, 1797, aged eighty-six years. The
children born to them were: I. Mary, married
Samuel Jemison, 1775. 2. Seth. 3. Timothy. 4.
Keziah, born April 30, 1742, married Bazaleel Howe,
1774. 5. Phineas, born July 29, 1744. 6. Benjamin,
born October 25, 1746. 7. Nathaniel, baptized
March 13, 1748. 8. John, baptized May S, 1751,
died 1756. 9. Levi, born May 12, 1753, settled in
Gardner and had Levi, who became a lawyer in
Worcester, and who there married Nency Healey.
(HI) "Deacon" Daniel Heywood, son of John
(2), born 1696, settled at Worcester, and married
Hannah Ward, September 25. 1718, at Worcester.
Hannah was the daughter of Obediah Ward and sis-
ter of Daniel Ward. She died at Worcester, Feb-
ruary 24, 1760, aged sixty-four years. Daniel and
Hannah had seven children: i. Mary, born May,
1719, married Captain Jemison. and died September
19, 1782, aged sixty-nine years. 2. Rebecca, born
July 25. 1725. married Noah Jones, of Worcester,
and died January 11, 1771, aged forty-six years; he
died July 6, 1781, aged seventy years. 3. Daniel,
born 1727, married .^nna W^ait. at Worcester. De-
cember 13,' 1753, and died June 30. 1756, aged twenty-
nine years — left a son Daniel, to whom his fath.r
bequeathed most of his estate. 4. Sarah, born Feb-
ruary, T723, inarried Asa Moore, of Worcester, and
died there, December T3, 1760. Mr. Moore

then married Lucy , who died March

II. 1801. He died June 30, 1801, aged eighty
years. 5. Abel, born 1729. married Hannah
Goddard. from Brookline, and died at Worces-
ter, November 8, 1760, aged forty years. His
son Abel married Abigail Chamberlain, of Worces-
ter, .'\pril 27. 1780. 6. .^bigail. born 1785. married
Palmer Goulding. Jr.. of Worcester, where she died
■May 26. 1825, aged thirty-five years. Palmer Goidd-
ing was the son of Palmer and Abigail (Rice)

Goulding, both of Sudbury, and were married De-
cember 4, 1722. 7. Grace.

(IV) Hon. Benjamin Heywood, son of Phineas
Heywood (3), born October 25, 1746, settled in
Worcester, and from 1802 to 1811 was judge of the
court of common pleas. He died in Worcester, De-
cember 16, 1816, aged seventy years. His wife died
June 18, 1839.

Mr. Heywood was the "son of a respectable
farmer of Shrewsbury." At the common age he
was bound apprentice to a housewright and after
serving his time began carpenter business on his
own account, working at it two years. Love of let-
ters and a confidence of capacity for wider useful-
ness induced him to throw aside the hammer and
chisel and devote himself assiduously to preparations
for collegiate education, and he entered Harvard
College in 1771. He was proficient in mathematics.
The young men of the college formed a military
company styled the Marti-Mecurian Band. Mr. Hey-
wood was ensign of this corps on April 19, 1775,
and with some of his comrades participated in the
perils of that never-to-be-forgotten day. Among
the tumult of arms the pursuits of literature were
suspended, the students were dismissed, and the halls
occupied by troops. The senior class of which our
subject was a member did not return to the seminary'
although their degrees were conferred in course.
Heywood at once entered the service of his coun-
try, receiving the commission of a lieutenant May,
■775- In 1776 he was promoted to captain and he
retained that rank throughout the revolution. He
was made a paymaster. He was at the capture of
Burgoyne, and partook of the suffering and shared
in the glorious victories of the army. Another proof
of his ability was the fact of his being appointed on
a conmiittee to adjust the accounts of the officers
of Massachusetts. It was a long drawn-out negotia-
tion, and was finally justly settled, and was con-
cluded by a voluminous report by Captain Heywood.
Upon the disbanding of the army he was retained
some time in settling the complicated affairs of the
war. After peace had finally been restored he re-
turned home and married Mehitable Moore (adopted
daughter of Nathaniel Moore), who was the real
daughter of Elisha Goddard, of Sutton, ]\Iassachu-
setts. Being a man of good judgment he was often
sought after as arbitrator, executor, and guardian.
For many years he was active magistrate of Worces-
ter county, and a member of the board of trustees
of the Leicester Academy. He was twice chosen
an elector of president and vice-president of the
LTnited States. By the general court he was ap-
pointed trustee of the Hassanamisset Indians, and
was an officer of many charitable and religious asso-
ciations. His was a life of usefulness well spent,
and his character was untarnished. His children
were: i. Mehitable. died September 18, 1830. 2.
Nathaniel Moore, born 17S8, married Caroline Sum-
mer, of Boston. 1816, and died at Richmond. Vir-
.ginia. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Benjamin Franklin, of whom
later. 5. Joseph. 6. Lucy. 7. Nancy.

(V) Dr. Benjamin F. Heywood, son of Hon.
Benjamin Heywood (4). born April 24, 1792, mar-
ried (first) Nancy Green, and (second) her sister,
Elizabeth Green. Benjamin F. was born in the city
of Worcester, and graduated at Dartmouth College
in the class of 1812. He attended the medical
lectures at Dartmouth and Yale Colleges, taking the
degree of M. D. at Yale in 1815. He formed a part-
nersliip with Dr. John Green, in the practice of

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medicine, which existed twenty years. Dr. Heywood
was councillor and censor of the State Medical So-
■ciety. and became a memher of the Society of Cin-
cinnati in 1859, in the right of his father, who was
an original member. As a physician he was very
popular among his patients. He had the confidence
■of his fellow citizens, being sent repeatedly to both
branches of the city government. He was admitted
a member of the Fire Society in July, 181 7, and re-
mained an active member more than fifty-two years,
and until his death, December 7, l86g.

By his first marriage he had the following named
■children: i. Benjamin, born July i5, 1821. 2. Caro-
line, born August 7, 1823. 3. Frederick, born June
.30, 1825. 4, John Green, born May 24, 1828, died
1833. By his second wife (Elizabeth Green) Dr.
Benjamin F. Heywood had; 5. Nathaniel Moore,
born July 20, 1839, died August 7, same year. 6.
Nancy, born December 24, 1840: she married Dr.
Griswold, and their children were: i. Arthur Hey-
wood, born December 14, 1879, graduated from Har-
vard College, class of 1902, and now a medical
student in Johns Hopkins University. 2. Ralph
Mansell, born August 8, 1881, graduated from
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and
now with the South Atlantic Squadron in Cuban
waters. 7. John Green, born March I, 1843, attended
the public schools of Worcester and entered the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard at, the age
of eighteen years, and graduated with the class of
1864, the year of his attaining his majority. He was
one of the founders of the Quinsigamond Boat Club
in i860. In 1896 he was one of the organizers of
the Worcester Museum of Art, and has been a man-
aging director from that time. He was admitted to
the Society of the Cincinnati in 1871, and became a
member of the standing committee in 1890. In reli-
gion he was reared a Unitarian. In politics he
affiliates with the Republican party. He has no dis-
position for official preferment. 8. Mary Elizabeth,
born September 27, 1845, became the wife of Captain
H. L. Stone ; they were the parents of the following
named children: i. Elizabeth, deceased. 2. Mary
Chandler, born February 28, 1873. a graduate of
Smith College, class of 1895. 3. William Henry,
born March 4, 1875, unmarried. 4. Benjamin Hey-
wood Stone, born April 21, 1876, a graduate of Har-
vard, class of 1898.

CHARLES HENRY GIBSON. John Gibson
(i), the first American ancestor of Charles Henry
Gibson, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was the pro-
genitor of the Fitchburg family of this surname, a
family that ranks among the most distinguished as
well as the oldest in the city.

John Gibson came to Cambridge in New England
.as early as 1631. He was born in England in i6ot
and died in Cambridge in 1694, aged ninety-three
years. He was admitted a freeman in Cambridge,
May 17, 1637. His home lot was granted in the
west end of the town, August 4, 1634. It was lo-
cated between Harvard and Brattle squares, in what
is now an important business district, and extended
to the Charles river. His house stood at the end
of what is now Sparks street, not far from Brattle
street, on the road to Watertown and was built
before October 10, 1636.

He was doubtless a member of Rev. Mr. Hooker's
Church and belonged later to the succeeding so-
ciety of First Church, February i, 1636, under the
pastorate of Rev. Thomas Shepard. He held minor

town offices. His wife and daughter accused Wini-
fred Holman, widow, and her daughter of witch-
craft and the charge not being sustained they were
sued for damages by the Holmans. For particulars
of this interesting case, see sketch of the Holman
family. Curiously enough descendants of these
two parties are living neighbors in Fitchburg at the
present 'time. Gibson paid a small fine.

He married (first) Rebecca , who was buried

December i, i66r, at Roxbury. He married (sec-
ond), July 24, 1662, Joan Prentice, widow of Henry
Prentice, a pioneer at Cambridge. The children of
John and Rebecca Gibson were : Rebecca, born in
Cambridge, 1635, married Charles Stearns, of Wa-
tertown ; she thought she was bewitched by the
Holmans ; i\Iary, born May 29, 1637, died at Rox-
bury, December 6, 1674. married John Ruggles;
Martha, born April 29, 1639, married, November 3,
1657, Jacob Newell, of Roxbury; John, Jr., born
about 1641, married Rebecca Harrington; Samuel,
born October 28, 1644, died at Cambridge, March
20, 1709-10.

(II) John Gibson, son of John Gibson (i),
was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1641, and
died October 15, 1679. He married, December 9,
1668, Rebecca Harrington, who was born in Cam-
bridge, the daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Cut-
ler) Harrington, or Errington, as it was spelled and
perhaps pronounced. Her father was a blacksmith,
born at New Castle-on-Tyne, and died in Cambridge,
May 9, 1677. Her mother died in Cambridge, 1697.
John Gibson settled in Cambridge on the home-
stead deeded to him by his father, November 30,
1668. He also was involved in the trial of his fam-
ily for calling the Holmans witches and had to
acknowledge his error in court or pay a fine. He
took the cheaper course. He was a soldier in King
Philip's war under Captain Thomas Prentice. He
was in the Swanzey fight June 28, 1675, and was
in the Mt. Hope expedition later. He was also in
Lieutenant Edward Oake's troop scouting near Marl-
boro, March 24, 1675-6, and in Captain Daniel
Henchman's company, September 23, 1676, which
marched to Hadley in early summer time. He was
possibly the John Gibson in Captain Joshua Scot-
tow's company at Black Point, near Saco, Maine,
September, 1677, where the garrison was captured
the following month by the Indians. He was ad-
mitted a freeman October 11, 1670, and held a num-
ber of minor offices. He died of small pox when
only thirty-eight years old.

The children of John and Rebecca Gibson were:
Rebecca, born at Cambridge, October 4, 1669, died
at Woburn, June 10, 1698, unmarried ; Martha, mar-
ried twice ; Mary, married at Concord, October 17,
1700, Nathaniel Gates, of Stow ; Timothy, settled
in Sudbury and Stow.

(Ill) Timothy Gibson, son of John Gibson, Jr.
(2), was born in Cambridge, 1679, and died at Stow,
July 14, 1757. His grave is in lower village grave-
yard in the eastern part of Stow. He married
(first), in Concord, November 17, 1780, Rebecca
Gates, of Stow, who was born in Marlboro, July
2i. 1682, and died in Stow, January 21, 1751. She
was the daughter of Stephen, Jr., and Sarah (Wood-
ward) Gates. He married (second) (published No-
vember 30). 1755, Mrs. Submit Taylor, of Sud-
bury, who died at Stow, January 29, 1759, in her
seventy-fifth year. Both wives are buried by his
side.

Deacon Gibson was brought up by Selectman

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Abraham Holman, of Cambridge, son of William
and Winifred Holman, who were involved in the law
suit with his parents and grandparents. In 1689
the Holmans removed to Stow and he went with
them, living in the family until 1703, when they
removed to the northwest part of Sudbury and set-
tled on the Assabet river on a sixty acre farm
bounded on the west by the Stow line, on the east
by the road from Concord to JewelTs Mill. Hol-
man died in 171 1. Gibson w'as a prominent citizen
of Sudbury and owned land also at Lunenburg,
laid to him and his son Timothy. Neither ever
lived at Lunenburg, however, but John, Arrington,
Isaac and Reuben, his j'ounger sons, settled there,
and all were noted as men of great personal
prowess. He removed 'to Stow between December
6, 1728, and February 24. 1731-2, and was selectman
there in 1734-35-36-39. His homestead in Stow lay
on the south slope of Pomciticut hill and was
deeded ten years before his death to his son Stephen
and was passed down in the family until 1823. This
farm is now in the town of Maynard, which was
formed from Sudbury and Stow in 1871.

The children of Deacon Timothy Gibson were :
Abraham, born in Stow, 1701, died there November
8, 1740; Captain Timothy, born January 20, 1702-3;
Rebecca, born in Sudbury, March 19, 1703-4, mar-
ried, May 4, 1727, Joseph Fransworth, of Groton ;
John (captain), born in Sudburj-, April 28, 1708,
settled in Lunenburg; Sarah, born October 27, 17 10,
married (first) Thomas Willard, of Harvard; Sam-
uel, born August 27, 1713, died April II, 1746;
Stephen, born March 14, 1715, died young; Arring-
ton, born March 22, 1717, died at Lunenburg, July
IS. 1795' aged seventy-eight years ; Stephen, deacon,
born at Sudbury, June 16, 1719, died at Stow, Oc-
tober 23, 1806, married Sarah Goss ; Isaac, born at
Sudbury, April 27, 1721, lived at Stow and Fitch-
burg and Grafton, Vermont (originally Thomlin-
son, New Hampshire, and Vermont), where he died
June I, 1797; Mary, born June 14, 1723; Captain
Reuben, of whom later.

(IV) Captain Reuben Gibson, youngest child of
Timothy Gibson (3), w-as born in Sudbury, Feb-
ruary 14, 1725, and died at Fitchburg, July 27, iSoo.
He is buried in the South street burying ground.
He married at Sudbury, November 13. 1746, Lois
Smith, who was born in Sudbury, November i,
1726, and died at Fitchburg, November 20, 1816,
aged ninety years. She was the daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth Smith, and granddaughter of John
and Sarah (Hunt) Smith, of Sudbury.

Captain Gibson w-as one of the famous Gibson
brothers, four of whom settled in Lunenburg. He
left Stow and settled on Pearl hill, Lunenburg, be-
fore he was of age. His father deeded to him a
hundred acres of land, October 25, 17-44- H'S old
homestead was sold by his descendants in 1863 and
the old house was taken dowai in 1892. It was in
that part of Lunenburg which became Fitchburg.
He was a prominent man in the new town of
Fitchburg, was on the first board of selectmen in
1764, was highway surveyor in 1767, and was one
of the largest taxpayers in 1771. He was on the
committee of safety and correspondence in 1773
and chairman in 1776. He was constable in 1775
and collector of taxes in 1781. He was captain of
the military company as early as 1772. He was
one of the five Gibsons among the forty-four minute
men who marched at the Lexington call in 1775.
He was sergeant of Captain Ebenezer Woods' com-

pany. Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment of militia,
April 19, 1775. His will was dated May 10, 1797.
and allowed September 2, 1800.

The children of Captain Reuben and Lois Gibson
were: Lois, born August 15, 1747, at Lunenburg,
died in Ashburnham, May 2", 1820; married Joshua
Billings, of Cambridge Farms; Reuben, born at
Fitchburg, September 21, 1748; Abraham, born at
Fitchburg, August 15, 1752, died at Leicester, April
10, 1829; was a revolutionary soldier; Thomas, born
November 19, 1753, died at Ashburnham, June 11,
1841, married Relief Hartwell; Arrington, born Au-
gust 14, 1756, died at Fitchburg, October 12, 1847,
lived in the Pearl hill homestead; Bezaleel, bap-
tized August 29. 1 761, died at Ashby, November
17, 1840; married Lois Billings, of Acton; was sol-
dier in the revolution ; Israel, of whom later ;
Ephraim, born at Fitchburg, November 10, 1768,
died September 7. 1844, married Lydia Kinsman.

(V) Israel Gibson, seventh child of Captain
Reuben Gibson (4), was born in Fitchburg. Mass-
achusetts, December 8, 1765, and died there April 14,
1818. He is buried in the Laurel Hill cemetery.
He married (published March 10) 1797, Lucinda
Whiting, of Hanover, Massachusetts, who died at
Fitchburg, July 15, 1870, aged ninety-three years,
seven months, seven days.

The children of Israel and Lucinda Gibson were :
I. Israel, born in Lincoln, March 30, 1798, died April
14, 1798. 2. Polly, born at Ashby, March 16, 1800,
died RIarch 27, 1800. 3. Lucinda, born at Ashby,.
November 7, 1801, died at Fitchburg, January 17,
1880, unmarried. 4. Lemuel Whiting, of whom later.
5. Margaret, born at Ashby, July 20, 1806, died at-
Fitchburg, July 27, 1861, unmarried. 6. Bethana,
born at Ashby, November 3, 1808, died young. 7.
Israel, born April 24, 181 1. 8. Arrington, born at
Ashby, November 17, 1813, died at Fitchburg. De-
cember 30, 1863 ; married, April 14, 1S34, Sarah
Brown, who was born February 16, 1815, the daugh-
ter of Amos and Sally (Mclntire) Brown; they
lived on Pearl Hill ard sold the old house of Cap-
tain Gibson, built about 1746 : they had twelve chil-
dren : Sarah Elizabeth, born December 7, 1834, mar-
ried Oscar Davis ; Rosella Jewett. born December
13, 1836, married Sedney Sibley; Artemas Adams,
born November 28, 183S ; Marietta, born January 3,
1841, married George Lincoln Oiipman ; Harriet
Ann, born May 28, 1843, married Henry Lyman
Sheldon ; Caroline Belinda, born June 9, 1845. mar-
ried Joseph Augustine Tufts ; Alvin B., born Feb-
ruary 18. 1847, died September I. 1847; Helen, born
September 29, 1848, married Willard H. Rice; Char-
les Abbott, of Jersey City, New Jersey, born January
27, 1851, married Alary Jane Wood; Cherrie Mal-
vina, born February 22, 1855, married Walter R.
Taylor ; Everett Arrington, born September 6, 1857,
married Mary L. Estabrook; Adelaide Florence, born
May 5. 1862. married Herbert L. Chase. 9. Reuben,
of Fitchburg, New Salem and Troy, New Hampshire,
and Springfield, Vermont, born in Fitchburg, De-
cember 8, 1816. married (first). May 21, 1840, Louisa
Pierce; he married (second), July 16, 1843, Mary
Maynard, who died at Fitchburg, December 24, 1845,
aged twenty-two years; he married (third) Sarah A.
Harris; (fourth) Eunice Crane, who died at New
Salem; (fifth) Hitty , of New Salem, Mass-
achusetts, who died in Troy; he married (sixth)

.•Mcasta , who died in Felchville. Vermont ;

he married (seventh and last) Mars Giddings, a
widow ; he was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting

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October 17, 1862, as private in Company E, Fifty-
third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer IMilitia,
discharged September 2, 1863. (Note that his un-
cles served in the revolution).

(VI) Lemuel Whiting Gibson, fourth child of
Israel Gibson (5), was born in Ashby, Massachu-
setts, July I, 1804, died May 26, 1856. He was
brought up and educated hi Fitchburg. He married
(published February 3,) 1836. Jane G. Whittemore,
of Fitchburg, who was born December ir, i8og.

The children of Lemuel Whiting and Jane E.
Gibson, all born in Fitchburg, were: i. William Ad-
dison, born November 20, 1837, married, June 27,
1861. Sarah A. Ellenwood, and they have one child,
Florence jMaud, born January, 1876, married, ^lay 6,
1897, Charles Howard Watson, of p-itchburg.' 2.
Appleton Moss, of Norfolk, New York, born at
Fitchburg, January 5, 1841, married (first), July 4,
1868, Nellie Forbush, of Orange; married (second),
November 9, 1885, Lucy Garno, who was born ' De-
cember, 1859, and they have four children: Fred,
born December, 1886; Mary, born August, 1888;
Murtie, born September, 1892; Everett, born Febru-
ary, 1895. 3. Mary Jane, born June 28, 1842, mar-
ried, August II, i86k. Waldo Whitman, of Fitch-
burg, who was born December 8. 1842, and had one
child, Emmogene Whitman, born November 13, 1867.
4. Lemuel W., born June 5, 1844, married, November
20, 1875, Elizabeth Whittemore, who was born June,
1842, and they have a son, George Lemuel, born in
West Fitchburg, August 25, 1877. 5. Daniel O., born
June 25, 1846, married, March 3, 1869, Adeline J.
Robinson, and they have five children, all born in
Fitchburg. viz. : Fannie Jane, born October 18, 1869,
married, January 20, 1887, Joseph J. Sylcox, of
Worcester ; A.ddie Josephine, born July 23, 1872,
married, February 28, 1892, F'rank M. Petts ; George,
born August 17, 1S76 ; Carrie Ida, born December
II, 1S77, married, December 6, 1893, Arthur E. Dan-
iels; Harry Whiting. 6. Charles Henry, of whom
later. 7. Susan A., born March 2, 1850, married,
May 12, 1867, George Noah Jackman, of Fitchburg,
and they have three children: Hattie M. Jackman,
born 1867, married, December 15, 1891, Walter A.
Hardy, of Fitchburg; they have a daughter, Carrie
Hardy, born February 3, 1892; Mabel Jackman, born
April 8, 1871 ; Stella J. Jackman, born 1873, married,
1895, Frank Rice. 8. Ellen E., born May 22, 1852,
married, June 16, 1872, Aiired N. Wheeler, of Ashby,
Massachusetts, and Nashua, New Hampshire, and
they have : Helson A. Wheeler, born at Ashby, Octo-
ber 27, 1875 ; Effie Sleepers, of Athol.

(VII) Charles Henry Gibson, sixth child of
Lemuel Whiting Gibson (6), was born in Fitch-
burg, August 12, 1848. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of his native city. When a young man
he was engaged in the lumber business. He was en-
gineer in a chair factory m the town of Westminster
and later worked for the Heywoods in the Fitchburg
factory. For a number of years, however, he has
given his attention to real estate and has built a
large number of houses for renting in Fitchburg.
He is occupied in the care of this property. He is
one of the largest owners of small houses in the
city. Mr. Gibson is an Independent Republican in
politics and never cared for public office. He at-
tends the Second Advent Church.

He married, December 18. 1872. Adah A. Kelley,
daughter of George W. and Emeline (Jones) Kelley,
of Fitchburg. Their only child is Herbert C, born
in Fitchburg, October 22, 1879, married Martha

Rabsall, and they have one child, Charles F. Gibson^
born Hudson, October 28, 1903.

OLIVER B. WYiMAN. The origin of the sur-
name Wyman is German, although the Americar»
families are descended from English stock of ancient
pedigree. The Engli.sh family Wymond is evidently
of the same original stock, as the coat of arms is
the same. The German spelling was Weymann,
found in many of the early records in America as.
well as England.

(I) Francis Wyman, father of the immigrant
ancestor of Oliver B. Wyman, of Shrewsbury, Mass-
achusetts, and the progenitor of many of the Ameri-
can Wymans, was born in England and lived at West
Mill, near Buntington, Hertfordshire, all his life. He
paid tithes at West Mill. The Genealogist \\'aters
established the fact that he was the father of the
American emigrants. He married. May 2, 1617,
Elizabeth Richardson, doubtless of the Richardson
family, some of whom settled in Woburn, INIassa-
chusetts. She was buried at West Mill, June 22,
1630. His second wife also w-as buried there. July,
1656, and he was buried September 19, 1658. The
deaths can be reckoned within three days of the in-
terment. Children of Francis and Elizabeth Wy-
man were: i. Thomas, baptized at West Mill, April
5, 1618, married Ann Godfrey, settled in New Eng-
land. 2. Francis, baptized February 24, 1619, settled
in New England. 3. John, see forward. 4, Richard,
baptized March 14. 1623. 5. William, baptized Au-
gust 31, 1628, buried there July. 1630. (See page 46,
Vol I, N. E. Register.)

(II) John Wyman, son of Francis Wyman (I),,
and the immigrant ancestor of Oliver B. Wyman,
was baptized at West Mill, Hertfordshire, England,
February 3. 1621, and was doubtless born about a
month previously. He was one of the early settlers
at Charlestown in New England. His name appears
on the records as early as 1640, together with his
brother Francis, who is associated closely with him
through life. He was a subscriber at Charlestown,
December. 1640, to town orders for Woburn, which
was set off from Charlestown. He removed to Wo-
burn soon after and his name is on the county tax
list there under date of September 8, 1645. He was
a tanner by trade. He was admitted a freeman May
26, 1647. He deposed in court, December 18, 1660,
that his age was about thirty-nine years, which
would make his birth and baptism closely corres-
pond. He died May 9, 1684.

He married, November 5, 1644, Sarah Nutt,
daughter of Miles Nutt, an early settler at
Watertown, who removed to Woburn. She
married (second) Thomas Fuller, of Woburn,
.\ugust 25, 1684. Children of John and Sarah
Wyman were: i. Samuel, born September 20,
died 1646. 2. John, Jr., born March 26, 164S, died
1676. mentioning in his will housing and land given
him by his grandfather Nutt. 3. Sarah, born April
15. 1650: married, December 15. i66g. Joseph Wal-
ker, of Billerica : she died January 26, 1729. 4. Solo-
mon, born February 26, 1651-52, died September 22,
1725. 5. David, born April 7, 1654. 6. Elizabeth,
born January 18, 1655-56, died November 21, 1658.
7. Bathsheba, born October 6, 1658, married Nath-
aniel Fay, of Billerica, May 30, 1677; died July g,
1730. 8. Jonathan, born July 13, 1661. 9. Seth, see
forward. 10. Jacob.

(Ill) Lieutenant Seth Wyman, ninth child of
John Wyman (2), was born in Woburn, Massachu-

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setts, August 3, 1663. He settled there. He mar-
ried, December 17, 1685. Esther Johnson, daughter
of Major Wilhani Johnson. She died May 31, 1742,
and lie died October 26, 1715. Their children were;
I. Seth, see forward. 2. Esther, born October 25,
1688. 3. Sarah, born January 17, 1690-91, married
Caleb Bryant. 4. Jonathan, born November 5, 1693,
died January 19, 1693-94. S- Susanna, born June 30,
1695. 6. Abigail, born February 6, 1698-99, married,
January 19, 1725, Timothy Brooks: she died March
16, 1780. 7. Love, born February 14, 1701-02, mar-
ried Josiah Wyman.

(IV) Ensign Seth Wyman, eldest child of Lieu-
tenant Seth Wyman (3), was born in Woburn, Mass-
achusetts, September 13, 1686, probably on the old
Wyman place in what is now the west part of Burl-
ington, RIassachusetts, a farm bequeathed to his
father by the immigrant grandfather Wyman. He
was in the famous Lovewell fight with the Indians
in 1725 and had the conduct of the company after
the commander was shot. He was one of the nine
who escaped serious wounds out of the thirty-three
in the company. We quote from the history of Wo-
burn : "At Lovewell's Fight he greatly distuiguished
himself by his self-possession, fortitude and valor.
All his superior officers having been killed or mor-
tally wounded early in the engagement, he had the
command of our men almost the whole time of its
continuance and by his prudent management and
courageous example he was doubtless mainly instru-
mental under God for preserving so many of them
as there were from being utterly cut otf. Seeing
them in danger of becoming dispirited in the contest
in view of greatly superior numbers and other ad-
vantages of the enemy, he animated them to action
(it was afterwards reported by Eleazer Davis, who
W'as one of them) by assuring them 'that the day
would be their own if their spirits did not flag,' and
so encouraged by these exhortations and so briskly
did they fire in consequence that several discharged
their muskets between 20 and 30 times apiece."

Immediately after the return of the survivors
Wyman was honored by Lieutenant-Governor Duni-
iner. then commander-in-chief of Massachusetts, with
a captain's commission. He also received from his
fellow-citizens, in testimony of the public apprecia-
tion of his valor, a silver-hilted sword, but he did
not live long to enjoy the honors that came to him.
To encourage volunteers to enlist against the In-
dians the general court offered four shillings wages
per day in addition to the bounty of one hundred
pounds for every scalp. Many enlisted and marched
under command of Captain Wyman and others, but
the extreme heat and illness effectually stopped
their progress. Several died on their return, among
them Captain Wyman, September 5, 1725, in his
thirty-eighth year.

He married, January 26, 1715-16, Sarah Ross, of
Billcrica. She died November 5, 1727. Children of
Captain Seth and Sarah Wyman were: i. Seth,
born November 5, 1715. 2. Ross, see forward. 3.
Peleg, born August 20, 1719. 4. Hezekiah, born Au-
gust s, 1720. 6. Sarah, born September 20, 1722.

(V) Colonel Ross Wyman, second child of Cap-
tain Seth Wyman (.4), was born in Woburn, Au-
gust 16, 17 1 7. He was a farmer and gunsmith. In
1746 he removed with his wife and elder children to
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He made muskets for
General Artemas Ward, who commanded the Amer-
ican army at Cambridge until the appointment of
George Washington. Wyman was the captain of

the Shrewsbury Artillery Company of Minute-men.
He was intensely patriotic and even refused to work
for Tories. When he was in Boston he was attacked
once by a press gang and narrowly escaped having
to serve the hated British on a man-of-war. He was
a big, athletic man and made a stout resistance.
While the combat was still in doubt he came within
reach of a fish stand and seized a big cod fish, with
which he belabored his antagonists. The slapping of
the slimy tail of the cold fish was too much for the
gang ami they gave up their attempt to enlist Wy-
man in the King's navy. He was an influential cit-
izen of Shrewsbury.

He married (first) Jefts ; (second)

Dinah Taylor, daughter of William Taylor, April
10, 1751. She died November 15, 1759, aged thirty-
two years, eight months. He married (third) Sarah
Haggett. widow of Bradford Haggett, in 1761. She
died November 30, 1808, aged eighty-eight years.
Captain Wyman died September 11, 1808, aged nine-
ty-two years. Children of Captain Ross and his first
wife were: i. Levi, born in Woburn, settled in Hub-
bardston. 2. Elizabeth, married, November 23,
1769, John Fessenden, of Rutland, who served
in the general court in both houses ; their children
were: John, born 1770; Wyman, born 1772; Eliza-
beth, born 1775: Stephen, born 1777; Relief, born
1780; Thomas, born 1783. The children of (Tolonel
Ross and Dinah Wyman were : 3. Seth, born Decem-
ber II, 175 1, died June 6, 1752. 4. Sarah, born June
3, 1753, married Thaddeus Estabrook, of Rutland,
December 31, 1771. 5. Catherine, born December 9,
1755, married Jonathan Harrington. 6. Seth, see
forward. The children of Colonel Ross and Sarah
were: 7. Olive, born about 1762, married, 1782, John
L. Whitney. 8. Susanna, born 1764, baptized Sep-
tember 30, died young.

(V) Colonel Seth Wyman, sixth child of Colo-
nel Ross Wyman (5), was born in Shrewsbury,
RIassachusetts, JMarch 5, 1758. He removed from
Shrewsbury to Buckland, Massachusetts, but return-
ed after a few years to Shrewsbury, about 1788. He
had a farm and built the grist mill and saw mill.
He was colonel of the militia, and selectman of the
town. He was a large lumber dealer. He married,
1782, Mary Brown, of Ipswich, now New Ipswich,
New Hampshire, a sister of Mrs. Simon Maynard.
She died January 15, 1829, aged seventy-one years.
He died on the old homestead at Shrewsbury, De-
cember 29, 1827, aged si.xty-nine years, nine months.
Children of Colonel Seth and iNlary Wyman were:

1. Sarah, born at Buckland, June 9, 1784, married
Sylvanus Belling, Jr. 2. Ross, born in Buckland,
July 7, 1785, died unmarried in Shrewsbury, March

2, 1834. 3. Seth, Jr., see forward. 4. Oliver, born
in Shrewsbury, April g, 1789. 5. Mary, born Febru-
ary 28, 1791, married, 1815, Calvin How. 6. Clar-
issa, born April 7, 1793, married William Johnson,
of Shoreham, Vermont. 7. Levi, born November

25. I795-

(VII) Seth Wyman, Jr., third child of Colonel
Seth Wyman (6), was born in Buckland, Massa-
chusetts, July 2i, 1787. He was for several years
engaged in mercantile business, but after the death
of his father he bought the interests of the other
heirs in the old homestead and conducted the farm
the remainder of his life. In addition he carried on
an extensive business in cattle, buying from the
farmers in that section of the state and selling in
the Brighton market, near Boston, formerly the cen-
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He was vigorous, active and enterprising even up to
the time of his death at the age of seventy-seven
years, in 1893.

He married, November 28, 1816, at Shrewsbury,
Lucy Baker, born there August 3, 1794, daughter of
John and Lydia (Goulding) Baker, married, Decem-
ber 12, 1793. Her father was the son of Benjamin
and Elizabeth Baker and was born in Shrewsbury,
December 29, 1768. Children of Seth, Jr., and Lucy
Wyman were: I. John B., born July 12, 1817, re-
moved to Illinois, where he superintended the con-
struction of the Illinois Central Railroad ; served
several years as adjutant general of Illinois; was
colonel of the Thirteenth Illinois Regiment in the
civil war and while commanding a brigade at the
siege of Vicksburg was shot from his horse and
killed. 2. Charles Dexter, one of the pioneers in
constructing telegraph lines, born September 12, 1820,
died in ^Minnesota. 3. Jane Caroline, born September
6, 1822, married Henry Pratt, of Shrewsbury, where
she died. 4. Nancy Baker (Anna), born June 28,
1824, married Augustus Irving, of Hartford, Con-
necticut, for nearly three years the secretary of the
American Legation at' St. Petersburg during the
Pierce administration; about the close of the year
1855 he resigned, left Russia, meeting his wife in
Paris, and after travelling several weeks in France,
England and Scotland they sailed, January 23, 1856,
for New York on the ill-fated steamer "Pacific," and
were never heard from again. 5. Oliver Brown, see
forward. 6. Lucy Maria, born March 20, 1830; was
teaching in a private school in St. Louis at the time
•of her death in 1864. 7. Seth Henry (Henry S.),
born August 17, 1832, was a pioneer in the railroad
business ; died in Shrewsbury in 1866. 8. Mary Put-
nam, born August 29, 1834. 9. Sarah Elizabeth, born
May 8, 1837.

(VIII) Oliver Brown Wyman, fifth child of
Seth Wj'man (7), was born in Shrewsbury, Massa-
chusetts, September 16, 1826. He owns and occupies
the house built by his great-grandfather. Colonel
Ross Wyman, who came to Shrewsbury in 1746.
He was born on the old place and educated in the
Shrewsbury public schools. E.xcept for a period of
si-x years he has always lived on the old homestead.'
He was engaged when a young man with his brother,
Charles De.xter Wyman, in constructing telegraph
lines. Their headquarters were at Hartford, Con-
necticut. He constructed the first telegraph line
along the Fitchburg railroad, the lines from Burl-
ington and from Rutland, Vermont, the Boston line
from New London to Meriden, Connecticut, and
others. He returned to Shrewsbury to live in 1850.
In the following year he caught the gold fever and
went to California, where he engaged in mining for
a year and a half.

With the exception of fifteen months in the civil
■war in military service, Mr. Wyman has since been
engaged in farming and lumbering. He buys wood
lots in Shrewsbury and neighboring towns, cuts the
timber and manufactures lumber in his saw mill for
the local market. His farm is one of the best and
certainly from a historic point of view one of the
most interesting in the town. He has been very suc-
cessful with his dairy and market gardening,

Mr. Wyman enlisted in 1863 in the Fifty-first
Massachusetts Infantry and was mustered out in
1864 after serving under General Foster most of the
time in North Carolina. In politics Mr. Wyman is
a stalwart Republican, and has been the local leader
«f his party as chairman of the town committee.

He has been honored by his fellow-citizens with the
various town offices and for a number of years was
chairman of the board of selectmen. He has been
on the public library committee for a number of
years. In 1878 he was representative to the general
court from the district of which Shrewsbury was
a part. He served on the committee on parishes and
religious societies. He is a member of the Grand
Army, the Shrewsbury Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and of Montacute Lodge of Free Masons of
Worcester.

He married, January 31, 1852, Hannah L. Carter,
a descendant in the eighth generation of Rev.
Thomas Carter, the first settled minister at Woburn.
Their only surviving child is Agnes, born Septem-
ber 14, 1854, resides at home with her parents.

ISAAC C. WRIGHT. John Wright (i). an
early settler in Charlestown, in New England, was
tha immigrant ancestor of Isaac C. Wright, of
Fitchburg. He was settled there as early as 1640
and was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. He
undoubtedly came from England. He removed to
the adjoining town of Woburn, and became one
of the most distinguished citizen of his time.
He was deputy to the general court, select-
man 1645-46-47-49-50-51-32-53-54-55-56-57-58-60-61-
62-63-64-70. He was a commissioner of the rate in
1646 and 1671. He was deacon of the church from
November 10, 1664, to his death. His wife Priscilla
died at Woburn, April 10, 1687, and he died June
21, 1688, aged eighty-seven years. Their children:
John, born in England about 1630, died April 30,
1714, of whom later; Joseph, died March 31, 1724,
married Elizabeth Hassell ; Ruth, born April 23,
1646, married Jonathan Knight; she died April 13,
1714: Deborah, born January 21, 1648-9; Sarah, born
Februarv 16, 1652-3, married Joshua Sawyer.

(II)' John Wright, eldest child of John Wright
(l), was born in England about i6.?o and brought
to this country when a young child. He became one
of the first settlers of Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
near Concord, and his nine children were born there.
He had a dispute with the church and was pre-
sented by the grand jury in 1671 for refusing to
take communion with the church. He was select-
man of Chelmsford in 1690 and wa'^ tithingnian of
the Boggy Meadow End in 1692. His children as
given in the Westford, Massachusetts, history differ
some from the list in the Genealogical Register in
1883. Those given in both lists are included below.
He made his will May 24, 1701. and it was proved
November 11, 1714. It names his wife and children.
He died probably in Woburn, April 30, 1714, aged
eighty-four years. His widow died April 6, 1726,
a.ged eighty-four years. He married, 1661. Abigail
Warren, of Woburn. Their children: John, of
whom later : Joseph, born 1663, settled in Chelms-
ford ; Ebenezer, born 1665. settled in Chelmsford;
Jacob, born 1667; Abigail, born 1668: Priscilla,
born 1671, married Samuel Damon; Josiah, born
1674. died January 22. 1746-7; Samuel, born 1683,
removed to Groton : Lydia, born 1686, married Giles
Roberts ; Ruth ; Deborah, married Nathaniel Pat-
ten : Josiah. died January 22, 1746-7.

(Ill) John Wright, eldest son of John Wright
(2), was born in Chelmsford. 1662. and settled
there. He married (first) Mary Stevens. He
married (second) about 1702, Hannah Fletcher; he
died October 13, 1730. The children of John and
Mary Wright were: Jacob, born 1692, died young;

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Ebenezer, born 1693 ; Edward, born 1695 ; Jacob,
born 1698; Henry, born 1700, of whom later; John
(twin), born 1701, died young; Mary (twin), born
1701, died young. The children of John and Hannah
Wright were: Hannah, born 1704; Thomas, born
1707; Simeon, born 1710.

(V) Henry Wright, third child of Henry Wright
(3), was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 1700.
He resided in that part of his native town that
was set off as Westford. He was selectman and
town treasurer of Westford and deacon of the
church. He had eleven children. He died April
13. 1771. He married Esther Adams. Their chil-
dren: Phebe. born 1728, married Benjamin Knowl-
ton, 1750; Hannah, born 1730; Henry, Jr.. of whom
later; Sibyl, born 1734; Olive, born 1736; Rachel,
born 1738; Eunice, born 1740; Philip, born 1742;
Mary, born 1745; Sarah, born 1747; Huldah, born
1749. married Sampson Warren.

(V) Henry Wright, third child of Henry Wright
(4), was born in Chelmsford in 1732. In 1770 he

was of a committee of arrangements to build a
new meeting house at Westford, and his son Elijah
was the first child baptized in the new building.
He served the town as treasurer and was on the
committee of safety and correspondence during the
revolution. In 1780 he removed to Ashby, where
his descendants have been numerous. He married,
January 17, 1753. Sarah Spalding, who died March

8, 1784. He married (second) Mercy , who

died December 11, 1789. He married (third), 1790,
Hannah Bounton. He died October 12, 1806. The
children of Henry and Sarah Wright were: Mary,
born 1753; Thankful, born 1754; Stephen, born
1758, removed to Littleton; Bridget, born 1760;
Esther, born 1762; Rebecca, born 1763; Sarah, born
1765: Henry, born 1767; Hannah, born 1768; Abel,
of whom later; Elijah, born 1771, first child bap-
tized in the new church.

(VI) Abel Wright, tenth child of Henry Wright
(.s), was born in Westford, Massachusetts. 1770.
He settled in the new town of Ashby near his na-
tive place. He married (first) Hayward, of

Acton, and (second) Rice, of Ashburnham.

He was the father of nineteen children. Of these
we have not all the names. Laban, one of his sons
settled in Westminster. For Isaac, see forward.

(VII) Isaac Wright, one of the nineteen chil-
dren of Abel Wright (6), was born in Ashb.v. Feb-
ruary 12, 1799. He also settled in Ashby and was
a farmer. He was prominent in town affairs and
held several town offices. In politics he was an Old
Line Whig. He taught singing schools in the
vicinity.

He married Arvilla Kendall, daughter of Oliver
Kendall, of Ashby. They had six children. He
died at Ashby, May 25, 1864. Their children :
I. Isaac, of whom later. 2. Luke W., born Septem-
ber 27, 1821. married. April 7. 1846, .\bigail Esta-
brook. daughter of Attai and Polly (Peirce') Esta-
brook, of Lexington, where she was born December
16. 1819. The children of Luke W. an! Abig.Til
were: Sarah Arvilla, born October 5. 1848: Abbie
Elizabeth, born September 29. 1854. died January
22, 1859; Alice Arthmetta. born January 29. 1861.
3. Mrs. Lucy K. Damon. 4. Rebecca, married Dr. Ed-
ward Page, of Charlcstown. 5. Mrs. L. J. Kendall,
of Waltham. 6. Mrs. E. L. Manchester, of Canton.
Ohio.

(VIII) Isaac C. Wright, son of Isaac Wright
(7), was born in Ashby, Massachusetts, December

21. 1824. He attended the public schools of Ashby-
until he was nine years old, when he went to Lex-
ington to live with an uncle. He worked in Lexing-
ton after leaving school and later was in Ashby.
In 1851 he removed to Fitchburg and established,
a livery stable in the rear of the American House,
which he carried on successfully for a number of
years. In 1857 the firm of Wright, Kendall & Com-
pany was formed to deal in hardware. Mr. Wright
was the senior partner. Their store was near
Water street on the present site of the Park build-
ing until 1862. In 1863 he became interested in the
sale of country produce. He went into the hard-
ware business again, however, with George N.
Proctor for his partner. Their store was at the
corner of Main and Laurel streets. Fitchburg, where
the E. M, Dickinson block is now. In 1S66 the
firm became Wright, Woodward & Company. The
partners of Mr. Wright were : F. F. Woodward
and Charles L. Fairbanks and they and their suc-
cessors have conducted one of the leading hardware
stores of the vicinity since then. Mr. Woodward
sold out to his partners and became the cashier of
the Safety Fund National Bank, April 17, 1874,
at the time it was organized. Mr. Fairbanks re-
tired in 1876. Mr. Wright was then alone in busi-
ness until 1883, when his son-in-law, M. B. Damon,-
who had been with him several years, was ad-
mitted to partnership. The firm name continued to
be I. C. Wright & Co. until 1892, when it became
Damon & Gould. In 1896 the business was incor-
porated under the name of Damon & Gould Com-
pany. Mr. Wright retired from the business at
the time the name was changed. Few men in
Fitchburg were better known, and none were more
generally esteemed than Mr. Wright.

He was interested abo in public affairs. In
politics he was a Republican. He was an alder-
man in 1876 and a member of the city board of
health in i8g6 and 1S97. At the time of his death,
April 10, 1900, he was a representative to the gen-
eral court from Fitchburg. He was a director of
the Rollstone National Bank from 1883 to the time
of his death, and a trustee of the Worcester North
Savings Institute since 1873. He filled all these
positions of honor and trust with scrupulous fidel-
ity. He was a prominent Free Mason, a member
of Aurora Lodge, Thomas Royal Arch Chapter, and
of Jerusalem Commanderjr. Knights Templar. He
attended the Rollstone Congregational Church.

He married. May 13, 1847. Lydia C. Burr, daugh-
ter of Gushing Burr, of Ashby. The Burr family
was one of the most distinguished and best known
of that town. Mr. and Mrs. Wright celebrated
their golden wedding in 1897, an occasion that
proved very interesting and enjoyable to them-
selves, their relatives and friends. Their children
are: Marcellus. died young: Sarah F.. married C.
A. Gross: Ella S., married Myron B. Damon; Flora
M., married A. A. Wyman.

FRANK L. MASON. Robert Mason (i), the
immigrant ancestor of Frank L. Mason, late of
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, was born in England.
He settled in this country, first in Roxbury, where
his wife died April. 1637. He sold his place there
November 24, 1640, having already moved to Ded-
ham. Massachusetts. He died in Dedham, October
15, 1667. and his three sons administered the estate.
They were born in England, viz. : John, Robert,
settled at Medfield ; Thomas, see forward.

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(II) Thomas Mason, son of Robert Mason (l),
was born in England and came over with his father.
He settled in Medfield in 1652. He married Margery
Partridge, who died i/ii. His house was destroyed
by the Indians in King Philip's war, and he and
two sons were killed in the meadow opposite his
house. His wife and other children probably fled
to the garrison house. Their children : I. John,
born November 3, 1655, killed November 29, 1679,
when fighting Indians in Captain Swett's company.
2. Mary, born February 8, 1657-58, married, 1677,
Abraham Harding. 3. Thomas, born July 2, 1660,
killed bv Indians. 4. Zechariah, born December 29,
1662, killed by Indians. 5. Mehitable, born January
29, 1665-66, married Thomas Thurston. 6. Eben-
ezer, see forward.

(III) Ebenezer Maspn, son of Thomas Mason
(2), was born at Medfield. Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 12, 1669, died March 18, 1754. He was the only
male of the fainily surviving the Indian war. He
married, April 25, 1691, Hannah Clark, who died
November 4, 1757. Ebenezer was selectman seven
years, quartermaster in 1716 and deputy to the gen-
eral court in 1730. The children: I. Hannah, born
May 21, 1692. 2. Mehitable, born November 20,
1693- 3- Dorcas, born .August 12, 1695. 4. Tabitha,
born July 3, 1697. 5. Thomas, born April 22, 1699.
6. Ebenezer, born April 6, 1701. 7. Zechariah
(twin), see forward. 8. Mary (twin), born Janu-
ary /• 1702-03. 9. Margery, born January 5, 1704-05.
10. Eliphalet. born August 30, 1706. 11. Jemima
(twin), born September 29, 1707. 12. Kezia (twin),
born September 29, 1707. 13. Joseph, born June I,
1711.

(IV) Zechariah Mason, son of Ebenezer Tilason
(3), was born in Medfield, January 7, 1702-03. He
resided on the Mason homestead : married there,
January 25, 1732-33. Sarah Rich. Children: I.
Zechariah. Jr., born October 15. 1733. 2. Amos, born
April II, 1735. 3. John, see forward. 4. Margery,
born November 26, 1744. 5. James, born September
21, 1750.

(V) John Mason, son of Zechariah Mason (4),
was born in Medfield, June 22, 1738, died Septem-
ber 15, 1829, aged ninety-one years. He resided on
Bridge street, Medfield, on the Penniman home-
stead, lately owned by Pcrley Case. He was a
private in the revolution, in (japtain Sabin Mann's
company of Medfield in 1776. He was in the same
company later in the Rhode Island campaign. He
married Mercy Penniman, who died January 31,
1829. aged eighty-eight years. He sold out in Med-
field in 1794 and with wife and three adult chil-
dren removed to Shrewsbury. Children : I.
Gregory, see forward. 2. John, born August 17,
1775- 3- Sarah, born November 22, 1778, .married,
November 21. 1799. Nathaniel Brigham.

(VI) Gre.enry Mason, son of John Mason (5),
was born in Medfield. November 17, 1773, married.
November 16, 1797. Susanna Slocomb. daughter nf
George Slocomb. He resided on the homestead,
Shrewsbury, and died there May 21, 1846. Their
children: I. Charles, born March 7, 170.8, married
Nancy Harrington, daughter of Samuel Harrington,
of Grafton : went to Michigan. 2. Vesty, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1800, married Christopher Wright, of
Northampton. April 20, 1831. 7. Margaret, bnrn
Julv 15. t8o2. 4. Horace, born December 16, 1804.
,■;. James Penniman. born June 7, 1807, killed by th«
accidental discharge of his .gun, Mav 31, 1821. 6.
Henry Harding, see forward. 7. Albert Augustus,

born July 29, 1820 (name changed to James Penni-
man after decease of his brother of that name), died
November 16, 1825.

(VII) Henry Harding Mason, son of Gregory
Mason (6), was born in Shrewsbury. January ii,.
1815. He was educated in the schools of his na-
tive town and took up farming as his occupation.
He became the owner of a large and valuable farm.
He was a Republican in politics and a Congrega-
tionalist in religion. He married Harriet Maria
Howe, a native of Shrewsbury, daughter of Lyman
Howe. She died in 1897. Their children : Ellen
Maria, Jennie H., Walter H., Willis, Frank L., see
forward.

(VIII) Frank L. Mason, son of Henry Hard-
ing Mason (7), was born in Shrewsbury, December
29, 1849, died there November 4, 1904. He began
his education in the public schools of Shrewsbury,
and completed his studies at the Leicester (Massa-
chusetts) Academy. Reared upon a farm and
realizing at an early age the numerous advantages
accruing from the independent life of a New Eng-
land farmer, he readily adopted agriculture as a
permanent occupation, and made excellent use of
every opportunity which tended to insure his ad-
vancement. For years he was associated with his
father in the management of the latter's extensive
property, and his progressive tendencies were of a
nature well calculated to preserve the high standard
of cultivation which has always characterized the
Mason estate. His ability as an agriculturist was
recognized throughout this section of the county,
and his death was the cause of general regret.
Politically he was a Republican, but he had no-
ambition for holding office, believing, like his father,
that the public service should be in the hands of
those whose preference for it exceeded his own.
In his religious faith he was a Congregationalist.

In 1877 Mr. Mason was united in marriage with
Miss Ida A. Norwood, born in North Reading,
Massachusetts, June 20, 1857, died May 24, 1906,
daughter of James and Almira (Wiley) Norwood.
Of this union there are no children.

GEORGE W. DODGE. John Dodge (i) was
the father of the iinmigrant ancestor of George W.
Dodge, of Sutton, Massachusetts. He lived at East
Coker, Somersetshire. The children of John and
Margery Dodge : William, came to Salenj, Massa-
chusetts, in 1629; Richard, see forward; Michael,
lived and died in England : Mary, died in England.

(II) Richard Dodge, son of John Dodge (i),
was the immigrant. He was baptized 1628 at East
Coker, Somersetshire, and was in Salem, 1638. He
died June 15, 1671, leaving an estate valued at seven-
teen hundred and sixty-four pounds. He resided at
North Beverly. He was the largest subscriber to-
the Harvard College fund in the town. He left a
good farm to his sons. John, Richard and Samuel.
To Edward and Joseph he left the homestead. His
will was dated November 14, 1670. Children of
Richard and Edith Dodge: I. Jobn, baptized De-
cember 29, 1631, in England. 2. Mary, born 1632,
married, 1653. Zechary Herrick. 3. Sarah, baptized
1644, died 1726. 4. Richard, see forward. 5. Sam-
uel, born 1645. resided at Ipswich. 6. Edward, re-
sided at North Beverly, died February 13, 1727.
7. Joseph, born 1651, died August 10. 1716.

(III) Richard Dodge, son of Richard Dodge
(2), was born in Beverly. Massachusetts, 1643, and
died April 13, 1705, at Wenham in that province.

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He married, February 23, 1767, Mary Eaton, born
1641, died November 28, 1716. He was a farmer
living in the southern part of Wenham, but also
owned a farm in Ipswich. He owned a slave Mingo,
mentioned in his estate. Children : I. Richard,
born July 12, 1670. 2. Mary, born March 30, 1672,
married Charles Gott. 3. Martha. 4. Daniel, born
April 26. 1677. S. William, see forward.

(IV) Lieutenant William Dodge, son of Richard
Dodge (3), was born in Wenham, Massachusetts,
1678, and died October 20, 1765. He was a large
land holder. His son Isaac removed to Oxford,
then to Sutton, where he has many descendants.
He married, 1699, Prudence Fairfield, daughter of
Walter Fairfield, and she died August 5, 1737. He
married (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Giddings, of Ips-
wich Hamlet. Children: i. Prudence, born Janu-
ary 28, 1699-1700. 2. Prudence, born January 27,
1701-02. 3. Richard, born September 8, 1703. 4.
William, born March 6, 1705-06. 5. Isaac, born
June 7, 1708. 6. Tabitha, born June 6, 1710. 7.
Jacob, see forward. 8. Abraham, born March 7,
1718-19. 9. Skipper, born August 28, 1721. 10.
Sarah, born July 22, 1723.

(V) Jacob Dodge, son of William Dodge (4),
was born at Wenham. Massachusetts, February 19,
1715, died December 13. 1792. He married, April,
1736, Sarah Hubbard, who died December 19. 1740.
He married (second) Martha (Perkins) Dodge,
widow of Barnabas Dodge. He married (third)
(published June 22). 1752, , and she died Octo-
ber, 1806. His children: I. Richard Hubbard, see
forward. 2. Nathaniel Hubbard, born January 21.
1738-.39. 3. Barnabas, born January I, 1741-42. 4.
Tabitha. born 1743-44. 5- William, born May 10,
1753- 6. Sarah, born June 29. 17.^4, married Aaron
Lee. of Manchester. 7. William, born June 6. 1758.
5. Prudence, born July 18, 1760. 9. Jacob, born
November 14. 1762. 10. Abraham, born August I.
1764. II. Mary, born January 11, 1771.

("VI ) Richard Hubbard Dodge, son of Jacob
Dodge (5), was born at Wenham, Massachusetts.
January 14. 17.36-37. He married. March 15, 1758,
Joanna Herrick, of Wenham. Thev removed to
Sutton, Massachusetts, in 1762, and there spent the
remainder of their days. He was a farmer. His
will was dated April 6. i8to. and proved April 4.
1815. Their children : i. Sarah, born November 4.
1759, married Aaron Adams, of Nnrthbridge. 2.
Joanna, born October 19. 1761. married, January.
1787. 3. Mary, married Marsh Chase. 4. Josiah.
see forward. 5. Jacob, born 1771. died August 18.
17.5';. 6. Prudence, married. May i. 1800. Zephaniah
Lathe, of Charlton. 7. Elizabeth, married, June 5,
180T. Thomas Pecham and settled in Petersham.

(VII) Josiah Dodge, son of Richard H. Dodge
(6). was born in Wenham. 1769. died September 22.
1841;. aged seventy-nine. He married. May 24. 1796,
Huldah Carriel. dau.ghter of Nathaniel and Bridget
Prime. She was born Februarv 23, 1776, died May
4. i8.s8. He lived on the Carriel homestead. Chil-
dren: I. John, born August 13. 1797. married Lydia
Elliot. 2. Nancy, born September 5. 1799. married.
September 26, 1S20, Simeon Keith. 3. Nathaniel.
see forward. 4. Leonard, born August 4, 1804. mar-
ried Tulia Putnam. 183T. 5. Sylvia, born November
I. 1806. 6. Willard. born September 2. 1808, re-
sided at Sutton. 7. Eliza, horn June 20. iSio. mar-
ried. .April 6. 1832. Tames Gleason. 8. Israel Adams,
born Tanuarv 2A, 1813.

(VIII) Nathaniel Dodge, son of Josiah Dodge

(7). was born June 9, 1802, at Sutton, Massachu-
setts, died there July 14, 1862. He was educated
in the common schools of his native town. He
turned his attention to farming on the homestead
and continued there through his active life. He had
great success with his dairy, having one of the finest
herds of Devonshire cattle in the county. He mar-
ried, September 10, 1829. Adeline Dudley, born
May 4, 1805, daughter of Jonathan Dudley, of Sut-
ton. Her lineage: Jonathan (V), Jonathan (IV),
Jonathan (III), Samuel (II), Francis Dudley (I).
(See sketch.) She died October 2. 1873. Their
only child was George W., see forward.

(IX) George W. Dodge, son of Nathaniel Dodge
(8). was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, November
16, 1846. He was educated there in the public
schools and engaged in farming with his father. He
paid special attention to the dairy and has been
very successful with Devonshire stock, having taken
many prizes at fairs and exhibitions of cattle. He
succeeded to the farm when his father died, and for
some forty years has been one of the leading farm-
ers of that section. In politics he is a stanch old
line Democrat. He married. April 30. 1874. Sarah
Angeline Marsh, born in Sutton, September 26,
1S46. daughter of Stephen and Lucy (Rich) Marsh.
Her father was born in Sutton, November 4. 1800,
died in 1877. Her mother was born September 3,
1811, died April 27, 1894. Children: George Harri-
son, born January 24. 1875 ; Alice M., born April
24. 1881 ; Frank E., born February 5, 1885.

FAY FAMILY. John Fay (i), the immigrant
ancestor of George Flagg Fay. of Fitchhurg. was
perhaps not the first member of his family to come
to America. He was only eight years of age wlien
he came to New England. Thomas Fay was liv-
ing in Essex county in 1638. but it is not known
whether he was a relative. With young Fay were
two other boys. Thomas Barnes and Shadrach Hap-
good, aged sixteen, bound for Sudbury. Massachu-
setts, where they had friends and probably relatives
living. They sailed on the ship "Speedwell" May
30. 1656, from Gravesend, Robert Locke, master,
and arrived at Boston. June 27. In 1669, when Fay
was of age. he settled in Marlboro, a town settled
by Sudbury tnen. He served in King Philip's war
in 1675 and was in William Kerley's garrison. He
finally left Marlboro with the other settlers and
found a temporary home in Watertown. There he
lost his wife Mary and one son. He married (sec-
ond). July 5. 1678. Mrs. Susannah Morse, widow
of Joseph Morse, and daughter of William Shattuck.
the progenitor of all the .American Shattucks. She
was born in 1643. After the war Fay returned to
his Marlboro farm and died there December 5,
1600. aged fifty years. His widow married (third),
Julv ,^o. 1695. Thomas Brigham.

The children of John and Mary Fay were: John,
born November ,^o. 1669, married Elizabeth Welling-
ton : David, died August 16. 1676: Samuel, born
October il, 1673, married. May 16. 1699, Tabitha
Ward ; Mary, born February 10. 167s. married,
March 26. 1606. Jonathan Brigham. The children
of -John and Susannah Fay were: David, of whom
later: Gershom. born October 19, t6Si, married
Mary Brigham; Ruth, born July, 1684, married,
June 28. 1706. Increase Ward; Deliverance, born
October 7. 1686, married, February 20, 1706. Benja-
min Shattuck.

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was born in Marlboro. Massachusetts, April 23,
1679. He settled in Marlboro in that part set off
later as Southboro. He married, May I, 1699, Sarah
Larkin, and their children were: John, born Janu-
ary 30, 1700, died December 23. 1704; Joanna. De-
cember 7, 1701, died November 22, 1704; Sarah,
March 10, 1704. married, November 12, 1729. Eben-
ezer Pike; David, March 25, 1707, died October 4,
1720; Lois, March 11, 1709; John, December lb,
1710: Moses, of whom later; Robert. July 30, 1715,
married twice, had twenty children, lived in South-
boro; Edward, born May 16, 1717, married Sarah

, settled in Southboro; Aaron, April 18, 1719,
married twice, had twenty children; resided in
Southboro; Joanna, July 3, 1721 ; David, Aprd 6,

1723, married Jemima , settled in Leicester in

the part later Paxton.

(HI) Moses Fay, seventh child of David Fay
(2), was born in Southboro. ^Massachusetts, Octo-
ber, 1712. He settled in Southboro and carried on
a farm. He married Mary -^, and their children
were: Comfort, born December 26, 1737; Mary,
March 7, 1739, died young; Moses, of whom later;
Mary, November 14, 1741, d'ed young: Susannah,
June 15, 1743; Sarah, December 30, 1744: William,
Tuly 31. 1746; Micajah. November 21, 1747, settled
"in 'Marlboro and had a large fainily of children
there; Mary, September 9, 1749; Solomon, August

16, 1751- .r-

(IV) Moses Fay. Jr.. third child of Moses Fay
(2), was born in Southboro, Massachusetts, May
5, 1740. He removed from his native town to Rut-
land district, which was first incorporated 1774 as
Hutchinson, Massachusetts, and the name ^ later
changed in 1776 to Barre. He was a soldier in
the revolution, serving in Captain Joseph Richard-
son's company and Colonel Samuel Denny's regi-
ment. Enoch Fav and William Fay also settled
in Barre. Sarah' Fay. his sister, married there,
April 22, 1766, Sanniei Smith. Moses Fay married
Elizabeth Learned, of Oxford. Massachusetts at
Oxford. November 7. 1771. He died at Warwick,
Massachusetts, June 12, 1819.

Their children were: Samuel, of whom later;
William, born at Barre. November i, 1781, married

Lucy , who died December it, 1839; married

(second) Celia , who died January 4. 1845.

aged forty-eight years.

(V) Samuel Fay, srtn of Moses Fay. Jr. (4),
was born in Barre, Massachusetts (Rutland dis-
trict), February 4. 1772. He removed to Warwick,
Massachusetts,' and later to Cambridge. Massachu-
setts, where he died .\ugust 6. 1851. He married,
June 9, 1791. Lucy Mayo. Their children were; i.
Lucy, born Octolier 25, 1796. married Edward Sher-
man, June 2, 1816; Betsey, July 4, 1798. married
Samuel Blake, October I, 1820; Polly. March 23,
1800. married A. P. Sherman. May 10. 1822 ; .'Knna,
January 11, 1802, married William Proctor. March
T,o. 1823 ; Dennis. January 23. 1804, married Adaline
Flagg. November 14. 1826; Melinda, March 25, 1806,
married Andrew Russell. May 7, 1826; Amanda.
December 13. 1807, married Asa Mayo, July 28,
1829; Charlotte Mayo. October 16, t8to. married
Oliver P. Greene, April 4. 1831 ; Almira. December
13. i8r2. married Erasmus D. Leavitt, November 30,
1835 ; Harriet. December 28. 18:4. married Milo
Sawyer. September 5. 1838; Samuel. July $. 1817.
married Sarah S. Taylor. December 2. 1830; Emily
Richards. October i.> T819, married Moses C.
Greene. February 28, 1838. '

(VI) Dennis Fay, son of Samuel Fay (5), was
born in Warwick, Massachusetts, January 23, 1804.
He was a farmer. He removed to Lowell, Massa-
chusetts, in 1831, to Sharon, Massachusetts, in 1845,.
to Royalton, Vermont, in 1849. and later to Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, where he died February 2,
1889. He was warden of Christ Church there. He
married Adaline Augusta Flagg, of Holden, Massa-
chusetts, November 14, 1826, at Holden. She was
the daughter of George and Lucy (Blake) Flagg.
She was born in Holden, November 17, 1807. Her
father was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth
(Kent) Flagg, of Holden, and he was born there
December 10, 1785. Dennis Fay died at Fitchburg,
February 2. 1889; his wife Adaline, November 4,
1880. The children of Dennis and Adaline A. Fay
were: George Flagg, of whom later; Lucy Ann,
born August 9, 1827, married Alvah Crocker (see
Crocker family sketch), died January 29, 1872;
Samuel, born February 28, 1831, died June 6, 1834.

(VII) George Flagg Fay, eldest child of Dennis
Fay (6), was born in Warwick, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 26, 1828. When he was three years old his-
parents removed to Lowell and he was brought up
and educated in that city. In 1845 his father went
into the lumber business in Sharon, Massachusetts,
and he worked with him. In 1S49 Mr. Fay opened
a country store at Royalton, Vermont, in 'company
with his father. In 1852 the son came to Fitchburg
and was appointed ticket agent for the Fitchburg
Railroad. In six months he had won promotion
to the position of ticket agent in Boston. In 1853
he was seized with a severe attack of rheumatic
fever, which for three years prevented him from
doing business of any sort, and he lived most of
the time in Lowell with relatives. In 1856, having
somewhat regained his death, he went to work again
in his father's store in Royalton and remained with
him for two years. As his health improved he
became ambitious for better opportunities for ad-
vancement and he went to Fitchburg. Massachusetts,
where he became bookkeeper in the paper mills of
Crocker, Burbank & Company. Alvah Crocker,
the senior partner, was his brother-in-law, having
married his only sister, Lucy, April 9. 1851. Mr.
Fay soon demonstrated valuable business qualities
and was placed in a position of large responsibility.
In two years he was admitted to the firm, where his
usefulness became even greater. At the same time
that he became a partner Samuel E. Crocker, a
nephew of Alvah Crocker, was admitted, and both
became important factors in the larger growth of
the business that followed. At that time the firm
consisted of the two original partners, Alvah
Crocker and Gardner S. Burbank. and Alvah
Crocker's son, Charles T. Crocker, who was ad-
mitted in 1855. Mr. Fay devoted all his ability
and energy to the upbuilding of the business as
long as he lived. His financial judgment was largely
depended upon, and to him must be given a liberal
share of the credit for developing the interests of
Crocker. Burbank & Co. and maintaining its con-
stant growth and prosperity. He was also asso-
ciated with Mr. Crocker in the enterprises at
Turner's Falls, to which reference has been made
in the sketch of Mr. Crocker in this work. He was
a director of the Turner's Falls Water Power Com-
pany, and of the John Russell Cutlery Company at
Turner's Falls. He had large interests in the '\''er-
mont & Massachusetts Railroad Company and for
many years was either director or president of the

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corporation. He was director of the RoUstone Bank
from 1873 to 1883, and of the Fitchburg National
Bank from 1883 until his death. He was trustee of
the Fitchburg Savings Bank. He was one of the
trustees of his former partner's will, and was active
in planning and establishing the hospital given to
the city under this will of Gardner S. Burbank,
who died February 7, 1888.

Mr. Fay was an active, earnest Republican. lib-
eral in his contributions of time and money. He
was a delegate to the Republican national conven-
tion at Minneapolis in 1892 when President Harri-
son was re-nominated. He was a representative
to the general court in 1881, an alderman of the
city in 1880 and 1881. He never sought public of-
fice, but always accepted official responsibilities when
possible for him to do so. He had a strong sense
of civic duty and responsibility. He was an active
member of Christ Episcopal Church and was vestry-
man from October 7, 1883. until 1889, when he suc-
ceeded his father as warden. He was also treasurer
of the church from 1867 to 1892. He. contributed
generously of his time and money to various chris-
tian and philanthropic enterprises. He was con-
spicuous in daily life for his gentle and unassum-
ming manners and his kindness of heart. He made
friends readily and enjoyed the good will and con-
fidence of his fellow citizens. He died at his home
in Fitchburg. May 8, 1895.

He married. October 14, 1863, Emily J. Upton,
daughter of James Muchson Farwell and the
adopted daughter of Colonel Edwin Upton. (See
sketch.) She died October 12. 1866. Their chil-
dren were : Lucy, who resides in the family home-
stead at 311 Main street; Alice, died April 21, 1873.

FLINT FAMILY. Thomas Flint (i). the immi-
grant ancestor of John Flint, of Webster. Massa-
chusetts, was born in England about 1603. He
came to Boston in 1635 and settled in 1637 in Con-
cord. Massachusetts. While in England he lived
at Mattock, Derbyshire, where he sold his property
for four thousand pounds, nearly all of which he
expended in improving the town of Concord. He
was deputy to the general court from Concord from
1637 to 1640, and lieutenant-governor for many years
prior to his death, October 8, 1653. He was ad-
mitted a freeman, 1637-38. His brother. Rev. Henry
Flint, came to New Eneland in 1635, '^^'as admitted
to the Boston Church. November 15, 1635. freeman
Mav 25, 16^6 was ordained preacher in company
with Mr. William Thompson, pastor; died April
27. 1668; married Mareery Hoar, daughter of
Charles Hoar, Jr.. of Gloucester. England. Rev.
Josiah Flint was minister at Dorchester, and his
son Henry became a tutor in Harvard College.

Thomas .Flint died October 8, t6';8, aged fifty.
His will dated December 2T. 1651, left his children
to the care of his wife with counsel of Rev. Mr.
Bulkeley. teacher of the church at Concord : his
brother. Henry Flint, teacher of the church at Brain-
tree; Captain Simon Willard and his uncle. William
Wood, of Concord. His widow died December 18,
1689, aged eighty-two years. Children of Thomas
and -Abigail Flint: i. Colonel John, see forward. 2.
Captain Ephraim, born at Concord. Januarv 14, 1642,
died August 3. 1723, married Jane Bulkeley, no
issue.

(ID Colonel John Flint, son of Thomas Flint
(i), was born about 164=;, probably in Concord,
Massachusetts. He was lieutenant and later cap-

Mary, born December
4. Sarah, born May 3,
6. Hannah, born Sep-

7. Jane, born April 23,

tain of the Concord military company, and is called
colonel on the records ; w^as deputy to the general
court for ten years, from 1677 to 1687, and was
for many years one of the most prominent citizens
of that town. He married Mary Oakes. daughter
of Edward Oakes, and sister of President Oakes,
of Harvard College, November 12, 1667. She died
1690. He died 1687. Their children, born at Con-
cord : I. Mary, born October 26, 1668, died May
31, 1675. 2. Thomas, born December 12, 1670, died
May 29, 1675. 3. John, born March 31, 1673, di^d
June 6, 1675. 4. Abigail, born January 11. 1674,
died 1769. 5. John, see forward. 6. Mary, born
August II, 1680, died May 24, 1748. 7. Thomas,
born January 16, 1682-83, died April i, 1755. 8.
Edward, born July 6, 1685, died November 5, 1754.

(III) John Flint, son of Colonel John Flint (2),
was born July 18, 1677. at Concord, Massachusetts,
died there October 25, 1746. He settled in Concord
also and married. May 7, 1713, Abigail Buttrick,
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Blood) Buttrick.
She was born November 21, 1687, died October 7,
1746. She was granddaughter of William and Sarah
(Bateman) Buttrick, of Concord. Children, born
at Concord: i. Ephraim, born March 4, 1713-14,
died December 26, 1762. 2. Abigail, born February
24. 1715-16, died 1762. 3. " ' ~
17, 1717, died May 20, 1719.
1720. 5. John, see forward,
tember 23, 1724. died 1792.
1727. died 1786.

(IV) John Flint, son of John Flint (3), was
born in Concord, Massachusetts, ]\Iay 12. 1722. He
settled in Corcord. He married (first) Hepsibah
Brown, born 1725, died 1785, daughter of Eleazer
and Abigail (Chandler) Brown. He married (sec-
ond) Submit (Bateman) Hunt, daughter of John
and Anna (Wheeler) Bateman. Children, born at
Concord: i. Hepzibah, born November i, 1747. 2.
Edward, born August 14. 1749. 3. John, born Au-
gust II, 1751. 4. Abigail, born September 6, 1753.

5. Nathan, see forward. 6. Ephraim. born April 17,
1757. died August 22. 1769. 7. Thomas, born May

6. 1759. settled at Winchendon. 8. Eliezer, born
August 8, 1761. 9. John Cuming, born September
II, 1763. 10. Abishai, born October 20, 1766.

(V) Nathan Flint, son of John Flint (4), was
bom in Concord, Massachusetts, February 11, 1755,
died 1824. He settled in Winchendon. Massachu-
setts, and was there before December 15, 1786,
when he signed a petition there. He married Molly
Brown. Children: i. Mary, born June 24, 1782,
died May 16, 1834. 2. Abigail, born October 8, 17S3.
died 1/8(5. 3. Nathan, born October 17. 178^. died
1786. 4. Abigail, born August 31, 1786. 5. Nathan,
born May 11, 1788, died 1809. 6. Ephraim, born
November 10. 1780. died November 3. 1865. 7. Han-
nah, born November 9, 1791, died April 7, 1875.
8. Martha, born August 27, 1793, died 1826. g.
Hepzibah. born May 12, 1795. married William Har-
ris : died 1858. 10. David B., born September 23,
1797. died December 25, 1871. II. John, see for-
ward. 12. Charlotte, born January S. 1802, died

October 7, 1882; married • Nutting; (second)

Joseph Whitney. 13. Almira, born January 31, 1806,
died 1862.

(VI) John Flint, son of Nathan Flint (5), was
born at Winchendon. Massachusetts, November 8,
1799. He was educated there in the public schools
and learned the trade of carriage maker, and fol-
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Jie settled. He married Fanny Holman. Children :
I. John, see forward. 2. Abigail ^M.. born Septem-
hev 20, 1828. 3. Edward, born May 13, 1835. 4-
Almira Jane, born August 28, 1842, married George
Wright, resides in Leominster. Massachusetts. 3.
Child, died in infancy. He married (second) Mrs.
Maria Babbit. Children: 6. Emma, born June 5,
184S. 7. Fannie M., born December 4, 1853. 8.
William Tavlor, born October 2, 1855.

(VII) John Flint, son of John Flint (6), was
torn at Templeton, Massachusetts, September 22,
1831. He received his education in the public
schools of Templeton, and at the age of sixteen
years entered into his first regular employment in
the department stores and palm leaf hat business
of Colonel Artemas Lee at Baldwinsville, town of
Templeton, Massachusetts, where he remained for
a. period of fifteen years. He was then employed
in a chair factory for several years, and in 1862
moved to Webster, engaging in the bakery business
■on his own account. He built up a large and very
successful business and acquired a competence. In
1885 he sold his business to Fred Childs, his fore-
man, and devoted himself wholly to the real estate
interests in which he had invested to some extent.
He continued to build business blocks and acquire
other real estate. In the twenty years in which Mr.
Flint has been engaged in the real estate business
he has met with the most gratifying success. He
•owns much property in Webster. One of the lead-
ing and substantial business men of Webster. Mr.
Flint's success may be in some part attributed to
the exact and straightforward methods that have
characterized all his dealings.

He is a Republican in politics and takes an
active interest in local aiTairs, ever ready to lend
his assistance to any enterprise for the public bene-
fit. For the past thirty-six years he has served
the town in positions of trust and honor. Since
1870 he has been on the water committee and since
1893 one of the water commissioners. His col-
leagues at present are L. R. Eddy and E. N. Bige-
low. During their administration the new water
system has been installed and put in operation
luider the provisions of a special act of the legis-
lature. The water bonds issued for this purpose,
authorized by the town, may be redeemed at the
option of the town in 1913 or 1923. Mr. Flint was
selectman three years and one year chairman of the
hoard, assessor, overseer of the poor, member of
the board of health, engineer of the fire depart-
ment. He is a prominent stockholder of the Gas
and Electric Light Company. He belongs to Ben
Franklin Council, Royal Arcanum, of Webster.

He married, August 22. 1855. Marguerite Nugent,
daughter of John and Margaret Nugent, of Hub-
hardston, Massachusetts. She was born January
22. 1833. They have no children.

DR. THOMAS F. DA VIES. Thomas Davies,
grandfather of Thomas F. Davies, M, D., of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, was a native of New York city,
where he lived all his life. He was prominent in
the militia and major of the Tenth Hussars. He
married Mary Bowen. Their children were: Hop-
kins Bowen and Thomas J. (twins') : Charles Frank-
lyn. living in New York city; .'\nn died young.

(II) Hopkins Bowen Davies. son of Thomas
Davies (i). was born in New York city. 1847. He
has alwavs lived in that city. He married Juliette
Harvey Barnard, and their children were : How-

ard, born 1881, resides in New York city; Thomas
Franklyn, see forward.

(Ill) Dr. Thomas Franklyn Davies, son of
Hopkins Bowen Davies (2), was born in New York
city, November, 1876. He attended the public
schools of New York and entered the College of the
City of New York, from which he was graduated
in 1894. He decided to study medicine and entered
the New York Homeopathic College in New York
city, where he graduated with the degree of M. D.
in 1898. He became visiting surgeon of the Laura
Franklyn Hospital at One Hundred and Eleventh
street, near Fifth avenue, New York. Then for
two years he was on the staff of the New York
Medical College and Hospital for Women. He
opened an office and began the practice of his profes-
sion in New York city in 1900. He came to Worces-
ter, January I, 1903, and practiced in that city,

DUDLEY FAMILY, Francis Dudley (i), the
immigrant ancestor of JNIrs. Charles H, Norcross,
of Sutton, Massachusetts, was born in England
about 1640, He settled at Concord, Massachusetts,
about 1663, and married Sarah Wheeler, daughter
of George Wheeler, of Concord, October 26, 1665.
His wife died there December 12, 1713, His rela-
tionship to Governor Dudley has not been estab-
lished, but it is believed that they were related in
some way, Francis may have been the son of John
Dudley, who was in Charlestown, Massachusetts,
from 1655 to 1671, Francis was a soldier in the
King Philip war; he w^as on a pay roll of troops
February 29, 1675-76, for twelve pounds, ten shill-
ings. Their children: i, Mary, born February 9,
1666, married Joseph Fletcher. 2. Joseph, died No-
vember 3, 1702 ; married, 1691, Abigail Goble. 3.
Samuel, see forward. 4. Sarah. 5. John, born
March 10, 1675, married, May 16, 1707, Hannah
Poultney. 6. Benjamin, born March 6, 1681-2. 7.
Francis, married first Sarah • •; second Abigail

(II) Samuel Dudley, son of Francis Dudley
(i), was born at Concord, Massachusetts, June 27,
1682. He was a resident of Littleton, Massachu-
setts, from 1714 to 1728, when he settled in Sutton.
He removed to Douglass in 1745. He was town
clerk of Littleton in 1716-17. He was moderator of
the Sutton town meeting in 1728, was lieutenant as
early as 1730, was deputy to the general court in
1731, the first from the town of Sutton. He was a
leading citizen of the town and had the post of
honor in the seating of the church. He was one of
the first board of selectmen of the town of Doug-
lass. The farm at Sutton was on the county road
between Millbury and Wilkinsonville, then part of
Sutton. He built a house on the site of the pres-
ent residence of George Dudley. He was one of
the largest landowners in Sutton. He was a justice
of the peace, town clerk 1748, moderator 1750, se-
lectman from 1757 to 1770, constable 1759, on the
school committee from 1764 to 1768. He died in
Douglass May 27. 1777. He married (first) Abi-
gail King, who died August 9, 1720, Children :
Samuel, Jr., born July 28, 1705, married Abigail
Waters. Francis, born December ro, 1706, married
Sibyl Leland. David, born November 4. 1709 (trip-
let). Jonathan (triplet), born November 4, 1709,
married Hannah Putnam. Abigail (triplet), born
November 4, 1709, died young, Patty, born Sep-
tember 13, 1718. Rogers, see forward. He mar-
ried (second), 1720, Lydia Wetherbee, who died

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at Douglass, March 2y, 1747. Children of Samuel
by his second wife: Paul, born September 24, 17JI,
died young. Charles, born December 10, 1722. Will-
iam, born Alay 28, 1726, at Littleton, where the pre-
ceding six also were born. He married (third)
Sarah Shepard. The only child of the third mar-
riage was : Douglas or Douglasette, born Septem-
ber 9, 1748, at Douglass.

(.Ill) Rogers Dudley, son of Samuel Dudley
(2), was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, August
9, 1720. He settled on a farm on the old road
from Worcester to Sutton, near Dorothy pond. He
married Mary Sibley. Their children: i. I^Iercy,
born at Sutton, April 20, 1746. 2. David, see for-
ward. 3. i\lary, born December 14, 1751, married,
1764, Jonathan Eliot.

(IV) David Dudley, son of Rogers Dudley (j),
was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, January 14,
1750. He married, December 16, 1773, Lois Whit-
ney. He was called "Fat David" because of his
corpulence. He built the house next the present
John Paul place, near Dorothy pond. He was
one of the Sutton minute men who marched on ihe
Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. under Captain
Andrew Eliot and Colonel Learned. Their chil-
dren : 1. John, married Huldah Gould ; their
daughter Lois W. married Caleb Cutting; their
daughter Susan married Francis Strong. 2. David,
see forward. 3. Luther, born about 1785; his

daughter married Cutting. 4. Sally. 5. Betsey,

born February 9, 1787, married, August 18, 1811,
John March, of Connecticut. 6. Dr. Joseph, born
March 14, 1790. 7. Amasa, born October 17, 1792,
married Ann Fletcher and had Joseph Aniory,
William H. and Paul Whitin, mentioned elsewhere

in this work. 8. Polly, born I77S, married

Dwinnel, of Brooklyn.

(V) David Dudley, son of David Dudley (4),
was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, June 5, 1781.
He married, February 22, 1804, Phebe Dudley,
daughter of Peter Dudley, and a remote cousin.
Their children, all born at Sutton, were: i. Caleb,
born 1804, died October 22, 1S30. 2. Peter, born
1807, died July 31, 1840, at Sutton. 3. Elbridge
Gerry, born 1810, died at Sutton, April 12, 1834. 4.
Betsey E., born 1815, died at Sutton, April 19. 1834.
5. David T., see forward.

(VI) David Tyler Dudley, son of David Dudley
(S), was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, September
24, 1817. He was educated in the public schools
and learned the trade of machinist at which he be-
came very skillful. He was gifted also with in-
ventive genius. For many years he was prominent
as a manufacturer of shuttles. He bought his fac-
tory site of the Sutton Manufacturing Company,
February 14, 1851. He built the house occupied
later by his son, Henry T. Dudley, in 1871. The
large shuttle shop owned by D. T. Dudley & Son
was built by Warren Wilder in 1867. David T.
Dudley was a man of high character and unusual
ability. He was persistent, energetic and upright
in business. He died at his home in Sutton, Sep-
tember s, 1896.

He married (first) Lucy Larkin Wilder. Her
brother, Levi Wilder, was a noted teacher of music.
He taught in Baltimore and other cities. Through
his efforts music was introduced into the schools
of Brooklyn fifty years ago when leaching music
in the public schools was an innovation. !Mr. Dudley
married (second) Ann E. Leland, June i. iSdg. He
married (third) Fannie K. C , who survived

him. Children of David Tyler and Lucy Larkin
(Wilder) Dudley were: i. Henry T., born at Sut-
ton, April 27, 1841, married Lucina H. Chase; was
in partnership with his father and succeeded to the
business; their children— Beulah C, born December
9, 1867; Lucy Gertrude, born August 14, i86g. 2.

Augusta L., born August 21, 1847, married

Hale and resided at Binghamton, New York; had
one son Fred D. Hale. 3. Frederick C. born Au-
gust 24, 1857, married, October 22, 1872, Angle A.
Anderson. 4. Sumner A., born March 15, 1854,
resides at Taunton, Massachusetts. 5. Charles F.,
born April 3. 1856. 6. Nettie P., born February 13,
1859, married Charles H. Norcross, see forward.

Charles H. Norcross, only child of John Moses
and Mary (Sherman) Norcross, of Derry, New
Hampshire, was born at Derry, August 13, 1850.
He removed with the family to Sutton when he was
only eight years old and has had his home there
ever since. He was educated in the Sutton public
schools. He began to work when a young man in
the shuttle shop of D. T. Dudley & Son and has
remained there ever since in various capacities. He
is at present one of the owners of the business,
which has been in operation at the village of Wil-
kinsonviUe since 1825. The business of the firm
was incorporated ; the product of the factory is
shuttles and shuttle irons. Mr. Norcross is a mem-
ber of the Odd Fellows and the Free Masons.
He is a Republican in politics. He married Nettie
P. Dudley, daughter of David Tyler Dudley, men-
tioned above. Their children are : Annie, born
1884, died in infancy ; Edith D., born 1885, died
June 2, 1892.

LOUIS DEBLOIS BARTLETT. The Bartlett
family of England is ancient and of an honorable
record. The arms borne by them are virtually all
variations of falconer's gloves arranged triangularly,
two above, and one below, pendant with bands about
the wrists and golden tassels. The family seat
from centuries ago down to the present time is at
Stopham. John Bartlett was the head of the family
there in 1360.

(I) Roger Bartlett of Branscomb, Devonshire,
England, whose direct ancestry has not been traced,
was the first known progenitor of Louis Deblois
Bartlett, late of Fitchburg, a well known inventor
and machinist. Roger's wife was Mary.

(II) Roger Bartlett, son of Roger Bartlett (l),
born in Branscomb, England, February 6, 1723,
came to Boston on business when a young man,
with no intention of making his home in New Eng-
land. He fell in love with a pretty Charlestowii
maiden. Annie Hurd, and she promised to marry
him. He returned to England, and after obtaining
the reluctant consent of his parents he returned
to New England, and October 9 or 10 (the records
differ), 1749. he married his fiancee at Charles-
town. She was descended from John Hurd, a pio-
neer at Boston. John Hurd, a tailor by trade,
served his apprenticeship with William Hutchinson.
He was admitted as an inhabitant of Boston 1639,
and a freeman May 13, 1640. He died September
23, 1690. The children of John and ^Mary Hurd
were: I. John, born August 5, 1639. 2. Hannah,
baptized September 20. 1640. 3. John, born July
17, 1643. 4. Joseph, September 10, 1644. 5. Ben-
jamin, November 28, 1652. 6., Jacob, mentioned be-
low, ancestor of Annie (Hurd) Bartlett, mentioned
above. 7. Samuel, May 4. 1655. 8. Mehitable.

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(III) Samuel Bartlett, son of Roger Bartlett
(2) (four of whose seven children died young), born
November 17, 1752, married, September 19, 1776,
Mary, daughter of Isaiah and Elizabeth Barrett, of
Boston. He was a silversmith. While living in
Concord he was elected register of deeds of Mid-
dlesex county in 1795. and soon afterward removed
to Cambridge, where he lived the rest of his days.
His widow died August i. 1823, aged seventy-two
yeafs. He remained in office until his death Sep-
tember 29, 1821. The names of three of his twelve
children are on the Cambridge records — Lydia, Jo-
anna and Joseph. His children were: i. Daugh-
ter. 2-3. John and Joseph, twins, born November,
1782; John died July 31, 17S3, and Joseph, died Oc-
tober 2, same year, at Concord. 4. Samuel, born
rvlarch 22, 1784. 5. John, mentioned below. 6. Ben-
jamin Di.xon, born about 1789; graduated Ha-rvard
College 1810, Harvard Medical School 1813; prac-
ticed at Concord, 1813; removed to Bath, Maine,
1816; removed to Cambridge, and died there February
7, 1853, aged sixty-three years. 7. Mary, married
Willard Buttrick, of Dracut, April 18, 1799. 8.
Elizabeth, died unmarried, at Cambridge, August 6,
1873, aged eighty-five. g. Susan, died unmarried,
at Cambridge, October 6, 1875, aged about eighty-
five years. 10. Lydia, died September 25, 1796. n.
Joanna, died October 21, 1837, aged forty-four. 12.
Joseph, born July 17, 1799, at Cambridge ; died there
October 2, 1799.

(IV) Rev. John Bartlett, fourth (or fifth as
given above) child of Samuel Bartlett (3), was born
at Concord, May 22, 1784. He received a common
school education in that village and when a
young man opened a store at Castine, Maine,
with the intention of leading a mercantile life, but
suddenly changed his mind and entered Harvard
College with the intention of studying for the min-
istry. He was graduated in 1805. The influences
that were about the boy favored his religious de-
velopment. In early life, under the ministry of Rev.
Dr. Ripley, whom he always held in reverent and
grateful rememberance. he developed a strongly re-
ligious character. In childhood he was frank, cheer-
ful, generous, the same qualities that distinguished
him through life. The story is told of him that at
the age of seven he had a new pair of shoes of
which he was uncommonly proud, but he came home
from school the first day without them, having gen-
erously given them to a poor lad. He prepared
himself for college under Professor Frisbie, who
was living in his father's family at the time, and his
intimate association with that scholar had a strong
influence upon him. After he graduated from col-
lege he studied theology two years at Cambridge.
The chaplaincy of the Boston Almshouse was of-
fered him, and he entered zealously upon the dis-
charge of his duties. He may properly be called
the first minister at large in Boston. At this time
he studied medicine in order to know better how
to help the sick and suffering poor in his charge.
At his suggestion a meeting of the wealthy and
benevolent men of the city was called to consider
measures for the treatment of the insane, and the
result was the McLean Insane Hospital at Somer-
ville. Through his instrumentality also, a society
was formed for the relief of destitute families dur-
ing the trying period of the Embargo. He was the
chief agent of the society, and accomplished a
large amount of benevolent and highly efifective
labor. Mr. Bartlett was chaplain for three years,

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and during at least a part, of this time continued
his theological studies under Dr. Channing. He
was called as minister to the Second Congregational
Church at Marblehead, and ordained there May 22,
1811. He lived in ]\larblehead the rest of his life.
He did not confine himself to the duties of this
position. He assisted in the formation and manage-
rnent of the Humane Society of Marblehead, a so-
ciety composed of women of different denominations
to help the sick and needy. He was active in the
Masonic fraternity, and was charged with the in-
spection of the lodges in Essex county. He took
great interest in the youth of his congregation,
especially in the Sunday school. He overta.xed his
strength during a series of terrible marine disasters
that afflicted his people, and suffered a stroke of
paralysis in the pulpit. He went to the Mohawk
Valley, in New York, to rest and restore his health,
visited Staten Island and West Point, and returned
to his pastoral work, but was unable to go on with
it. In the thirty-eighth year of his pastorate at
Marblehead he died, February 3, 1849. His was un-
doubtedly the most eventful pastorate in the history
of the Church. He became a Unitarian with Dr.
Channing and a large proportion of the New Eng-
land ministers, and a inajority of his church sup-
ported his views when the division came. Those
who differed with his liberal views withdrew from
the Church and in 1S32 founded the Orthodox
Church, as it is generally called. ,

Among the published works of Mr. Bartlett to be
found in the American Antiquarian Library at
Worcester are : "God not the Author of Sin — a
Discourse delivered before the Second Congrega-
tional Church and Society in Marblehead, 1819;"
"Preaching Christ in Love," — a discourse delivered
before the same church, 1825 ; and another sermon
bearing on the difference between the Unitarians
and Calvinistic branches of the Congregational
Church, delivered in 1829. The following is an ex-
tract from a letter of Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody,
of Harvard College :

" In temperament and in the traits of his mental character
and culture he was the most complete representative of the
' eolded mean' — if it be golden — tliat I ever knew. He was
always serene and happy, never elated or buoyant. He was kind
and genial in his manner, but with no empressement even toward
his dearest friends. In conversation he was neither sprightly nor
dull ; he contributed more than is often in the power of the most
gifted to the entertainment and proht of a social gathering or a
clerical gathering, yet, when the hour was over, you could recall
nothing peculiarly strikint^ or brilliant to which he had given
utterance. In his manners he was modest and unobtrusive, yet
self-possessed, easy and dignitied.

"As to his acquirements, he made no pretensions to schol-
arship, seemed to have only a few obsolete books, and one would
have thought him too busy to read much; yet what it became him
to know he always knew, and in the discussions of our club on
questions of theology and exegesis be often supplemented the
deficient learning of those of us who had much to do with many
books- His sermons were always good, but never noteworthy —
impressive but not exciting. His style was singularly chaste,
pure and rythmical, with little ornament and with little versatility.
His treatment of a subject was methodical, with distinctly stated
divisions, and often with sub-divisions, and with just that develop-
ment of each which satisfied the demands of tire occasion and fell
short of the point of weariness. His voice might remind one of
' Pleyel's Hymn.' a rich melody compressed within the range of
three or four notes on the diatonic scale. His intonations were
more agreeable to the ear than those of any preacher whom*] now
recall to mind, but his delivery had so little compass of tone and
the cadences fell with such unvarying ictus upon the auditory
nerve that from gratified and interested attention the pass;-ge to
somnolence was by no means difficult. His acceptableness as a
preacher corresponded very closely to the absence from all ex-
tremes that I have remarked in his professional endowment
Wherever he was known to preach the worshippers were glad to
see him in the pulpit, and felt when the day closed that it had
been a good day. yet he was very little asked for or talked about
in the churches.

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I come now to speak of the gifts he possessed in no mod-
erate or ordinary measure. In his relation to his own flock and
to the people of Marblehead in general he manifested, with the
evident desire to be faithful to the last degree- certain peculiar
capacities and adaptations. He studied medicine to a consider-
able extent before he became a minister, and he practiced suc-
cessfully among the poorer people of the parish and the town.
He was skilled in all the arts that contribute to the comfort and re-
finement of home life, and by his example, influence and generous
aid he exerted a constantly elevating and refining agency tor the
less cultivated portion of the community around him. He was
active and sincere as a peacemaker, and suppressed a great deal
of incipient litigation He was an excellent business man, and
drew ordinary legal instruments with accuracy, and took the very
best care of property. His services in this line were often put in
requisition for the care of families of his seafaring parishioners,
the writing of wills, the administration of estates, and the guard-
ianship of minors. Wherever it was a charity to assume a charge
of this class, he was always ready to undertake it, however oner-
ous. He attended the probate court almost as regularly as the
judge and register. At the same time his almsgiving went to the
outside limits of his ability. During the early part of his ministry,
when M.irblehead drew all her wealth from the sea, the casual-
ties incident to the maritime profession multiplied greatly the
number of bereaved and destitute families, and constant demands
were made on Mr. Bartletfs moderate and well husbanded re-
sources. They were njver made in vain, and I have been told by
one who knew well that it was by no means an uncommon thing
for him to meet some urgent case of need by sending the dinner
from his own table. "

A brother minister who was intimate with him
for many years summed up some of Mr. Bartlett's
various functions in this wise : "If one of his par-
ishioners were very sick, he would first prescribe for
him. then pray for him. If the case was Hkely to
prove fatal, he wrote the sick man's will, watched
with him the last night of his life, comforted the
mourners, made the post-mortem examination, of-
ficiated at the funeral, then presented the will for
probate, gave bonds as executor and was appointed
guardian of the children."

He married Rebecca Deblois, She was a worthy
helpmeet. She organized the Dorcas Society in the
Church. She was the daughter of Deblois, a mer-
chant of Boston and Salem previous to the revolu-
tion. .\ sister Betsey married General Despard,
•who was killed at the battle of Waterloo. Mrs.
Bartlett died December 24, 185S. Children of Rev.
John and Rebecca (Deblois) Bartlett: i. John
Stephen, born May 14, 1812, 2. Sarah Lydia, July
27, 1814. 3. Samuel William, November 26. 1816,
4. George Edward, June i, 1S19. 5. Mary Susan,
January i, 1823; married W. B. Gerry, of Marble-
head. 6. Louis Deblois, mentioned below,

(V) Louis Deblois Bartlett, youngest child of
Rev. John Bartlett (4), was born in Marblehead,
Massachusetts, September 24, T825, and died there
October 19, 1898. He acquired most of his educa-
tion in the Marblehead Academy, wdiere he studied
among other things engineering under John Rug-
gles. At the age of seventeen he left home to
learn the machinist's trade in Boston, in the shop of
Otis Tufts. His apprenticeship expired September
24, 1846. but he continued to w'ork for Mr. Tufts,
who in 1851 ofifered him a partnership. This was ef-
fected in 1853, when a corporation was formed and
Mr. Bartlett became a stockholder and superintend-
ent of the shop. During the first years the company
was very prosperous, and in 1854 the works were
enlarged at a cost of $50,000 in order to build sugar
maclrinery, for which they had large orders from
Louisiana and Texas, A dry season next year de-
layed the delivery of the machines by steamer, the
purchasers declined payment, litigation and loss en-
sued, causing the works to close July 12. 1856.

Mr. Bartlett invented the first kind of ash sifter
to use on barrels, and realized a handsome profit
from it. He was employed as a mechanical engineer

and furnished the Essex Machine Company of
Lawrence with several plans for sugar mills and
sugar machinery. George A. Stone, of Boston, was
agent for the Pasha of Egypt in the construction of
a thirteen hundred ton steamship of 1,000 horse
power, and Mr. Bartlett was superintending engi-
neer for Mr. Stone. Notwithstanding many diffi-
culties, Mr. Bartlett finished the ship, which was
launched in the fall of 1858 and named "Le Voy-
ageur de la Mer." In March, 1S59, he left the em-
ploy of Mr. Stone to take the entire charge of the
manufacture of steam machinery for the Putnam
Machine Company of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In
i860 he purchased an equal share with the other
proprietors in the company, and for twenty-seven
years devoted himself to this concern. He was
director and clerk of the company during most of
this period, was treasurer for several years, and
president for a short time. During this time he
obtained three patents for improvements on station-
ary engines, giving the Putnam Company the right
to use them. He also did important and success-
ful service to his company in litigation over steam
engines. He won one case against George H. Cor-
liss, "of steam engine fame, much to the surprise
of that usually successful litigant. He was for
several years director of the Rollstone National
Bank of Fitchburg; a trustee and member of the
investment committee of the Worcester North Sav-
ings Institution, and he was entrusted with the
management of several large estates. He served
several years as trustee of the Fitchburg Public
Library, and was its treasurer at the time of his
death. He was a member of the water committee
of the city in 1866, and was a member one year
of the city council, attending every meeting held
during the year, and served on the highway com-
mittee. He was an active member of the JNIechan-
ical Apprentices Library Association of Boston,
serving as librarian and corresponding secretary;
was a member of the Massachusetts Charitable
Mechanics' Association; Fitchburg Historical So-
ciety; Atlantic Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Marblehead.
He was a justice of the peace many years. He at-
tended the First Parish (Unitarian) Church.

He married, October 12, 1853. Harriet Morton
Barstow. daughter of Captain William C. and Sarah
F. (Morton) Barstow. Mrs. Bartlett's grandfather.
Captain Silas J^Iorton. was a revolutionary soldier,
being lieutenant in Captain Duncan's company. First
Regiment, commissioned January i, 1777. He was
with the American army in New Jersey, where he
served as orderly and carried despatches for Wash-
ington ; spent the terrible winter of 1777-8 at Valley
Forge : and was at West Point at the time of
Arnold's treason, and was a witness of the execu-
tion of Major Andre. He was appointed lieutenant
December 15. 1781, in the Second Massachusetts
Regiment, with which he served at the siege of
Yorktown, He received from the hand of Lafayette
one of the dress swords taken from the British.
These swords were ordered, by act of congress, de-
livered to American and French ofificers for dis-
tinguished services during the siege. At the evacu-
ation of New York, in 1783. he was serving with
the Light Infantry with the rank of adjutant. He
was captain by brevet, and was later a member of
the Society of the Cincinnati.

Captain Morton married Betsey Foster, of King-
ston, Massachusetts. One of his children. Harriet
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Boston in November, 1905. Captain William C.
Barstow, father of Mrs. Bartlett, was a son of
Charles Barstow, a shipbuilder of Pembroke, Massa-
chusetts. He was a sea captain for thirty years,
and for twenty years was connected with the Black
Ball Line of steamers plying between New York
and Liverpool, and was very popular with the travel-
ing public. In his later years he was president and
treasurer of the East Boston Land Company, a
corporation that has done much to build up and im-
prove East Boston. He was executor and had
charge of the estate of the late General William H.
Sumner.

The children of Louis Deblois and Harriet ;\Ior-
ton (Barstow) Bartlett were: I.Anna Elizabeth,
born May 9, 1855; married James Phillips, Jr., of
Fitchburg, had three children, and died March 14,
1893. 2. Louis Deblois, Jr., born in Boston, Decem-
ber 19, 1856; died March 7, 1862. 3. Gerry Barstow,
born in Boston, November 9, 1858; married Emma
Murkland, and has three children; resides in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. 4. Francis William, born
June 8, 1861, resides in Fitchburg.

HOWE FAMILY. John Howe (l), the immi-
grant ancestor of Marcus and S. Augustus Howe,
of Gardner, Massachusetts, and the family to which
they belong, is believed to be the son of John How,
of Warwickshire, England, and grandson of John
How, of Hodinhall, said to be connected with Sir
Charles Howe, of Lancaster, living during the reign
of Charles I. He was certainly born in England and
was among the earliest settlers of Watertown, in New
England. He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640.
He was in Sudbury as early as 1639, and was a
selectman there in 1642. He must have been a man
of piety for he was appointed by the pastor and
selectmen "to see to the restraint of youth on Lord's
Day." That was in 1655 when the first American
ioys were growing up.

He removed to Marlboro, which was later
.granted to Sudbury men, and he is said to have been
the first settler in that ancient town, in 1657. He
built his 'log cabin a little easterly of the Indian
Plantation on the old farm where his descendants
for many generations lived after him. His farm
was some thousand rods from the Spring Hill Meet-
ing House, a little eastward of the present road
irova Spring Hill to Feltonville. One of the own-
ers a generation since was Edward Rice. The prox-
imity of his farm to the Indian Plantation brought
Howe into contact with the savages. He managed
effectually to win their confidence and goodwill.
His rights were respected and he became a sort of
arbiter or umpire in cases of dispute among them.

In 1662 the grant of land by Thomas Danforth
was laid out by Howe and Goodman Rice. Howe
owned the first public house in Marlboro, and one
of hi? descendants built the famous Wayside Inn
near the line in Sudbury. In 1662 he petitioned to
be excused from training because he was aged, thick
of hearing, and maintained three soldiers in his
family. His will dated May 24, and proved June
15, 1680. mentions his wife Mary and children as
given below ; also John Howe, son of John Howe,
Jr. He died ^lay 28, 1680, and his wife soon after-
ward. Their children were: I. John, born 1640.
married, January 22", 1662, Elizabeth Woolson, and
November 3, 1686, he was killed by the Indians. 2.
Samuel, see forward. 3. Sarah, born September 25,
1644. married, June, 1667, Samuel Ward. 4. Mary,
"born June 18, 1646, died young. 5. Isaac, born Au-

gust 8, 1648, married, June 17, 1671, Frances Wood
Josiah, married, March i8, 1671, .Mary Haynes
of Sudbury. 7. Mary, born June 18, 1654, married,
September 18, 1672, John Wetherly. 8. Thomas
born June 12, 1656, married Sarah Hosmer; (sec-
ond) Mary Barron. 9. Daniel, born June 3, i6sS,
died 1661. 10. Alexander, born December 29, i6bi
died January, 1662. n. Eleazer, born January 18

ik ^'"'""C'^''' '^^' Hannah Howe, daughter of
Abraham Howe.

T u^^Vr Colonel Samuel Howe, second child of

..m" n°T't ^'^' '"'^^ '^°''" '" Sudbury, Massachu-
setts, October 20 1642. He was a prominent man
in town and military afta.rs, holding many town
oftaces and colonel ol the regiment made up of com-
panies from the towns m the vicinity. He was ad-
mitted a freeman in Sudbury, 1671 He al-
ways resided m his native town. He married
there, June 5, 1663, JNIartha Bent, daughter of John
He married, September 18, 1O85, Sarah Clapp for
his second wite. Children of Colonel Samuel and
Martha Howe were: John, born July 24, 1664:
Mary, born March 2, 1605; Lydia, Samuel, see for-
ward; Martha, born October 9, 1669; Daniel, born
November 2, 1674; David, born November 2, 1674-
Hannah, born April 6, 1677. Children of Colonel
bamuel and Sarah: Daniel, born February 24, 1689
and perhaps others.

(Ill) Samuel Howe, son of Colonel Howe (2)
was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, May 14 1668'
He also settled in Sudbury. He married Mar-
'■J^ — T- Their children were: Moses, born about
1695; Ebenezer, see forward; Micajah, probably
Joseph born August 10, 1706, and probably others.
(IV ) Lbenezer Howe, son of Samuel Howe (?)
was born, according to the North Brookfield his-
p°''^''i??i" 'M; ^' Sudbury. He bought land at
Brookfield of Henry Dwight, June 18, 1719. for
one hundred and ninety-five pounds. This was the
home lot tormerlv of Edward Kellogg, bounded
by the farms of John Clary, Robert Emmons and

others. He married Lydia , who died 17SO He

married (second) Mary —. He died in ' 1753
and his will was proved July ^. 1753. His widow
was lett with a large family of children to bring
up. their children were: Lucy, born December

20, 1724, married Henshaw ; Lydia, born June

S. 172-7, died young; Charles, born May 22 17TO
died young; Samuel, born May 6, 1732; Sarah, born
July 26. 1734. died young; Lydia, born October 23
1736: Sarah, born December 14, 1738; Charles, born
April 2, 1741; Joseph, born May 26. 1743: Benja-
min; Nehemiah, born December 7, 1745- Ebenezer
Jr., see forward; Mary (by the second wife Mary)i
born .August 3, 1852.

(V) Ebenezer Howe, son of Ebenezer Howe
(\). was born in Brookfield Massachusetts No-
vember I, 1747. His father died when he was a
small boy. and he probably lived with relatives. He
had a guardian appointed in 1753. He was living
in Winchendon before the revolution and was a
soldier from that town. He was in Captain Moses
Hale's company. Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's regi-
ment, at the Lexington alarm. April 19. 1775. He
was later sergeant in Lieutenant Joseph Boynton's
company. Colonel Sparhawk's regiment, in 1777.
in the battle of Bennington in the Northern army.
His first four children were born in Winchendon.
Then about 177S he removed to Templeton. an
adjacent town. He removed from Templeton to
Gardner, about 1784. and located about a mile

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north of the centre of the town on the farm lately
owned by Charles Eaton.

He married (first) Elizabeth Deland and (sec-
ond) Mercy Hill. He died November 28, 1808.
His will was filed December 26, 1808. His age at
the time of his death is given as sixty-two years.
Children of Ebenezer Howe were : Tamcsin. born
at Winchendon, August 31, 1770. married Joel
Brooks : Perley, born in Winchendon. November
7, 1772; Ezekiel. born in Winchendon, March 20,
1775; Sarah, born December 11, 1777, married Silas
Wood; Betsey, born April 12, 1781, married John
Miller; Benjamin, see forward; Amos, born in
Gardner, the first born in the town after its in-
corporation, June 17, 1785, died 1805. aged twenty
years.

(VI) Benjamin Howe, son of Ebenezer Howe
(5), was born February 16, 1783, in' Templeton or
Gardner, Massachusetts. He was an industrious
and successful farmer and lived all his life in Gard-
ner. He married Keziah Hill. Their children were:
Benjamin, Jr., born July 9, 1804; Amos, born Sep-
tember I, 1805, died 1836; Sarah, born May 5. 1808,
married Luke Bowker ; Ebenezer D.. born March
14, 1811, died February 19, 1837; Simeon, see for-
ward; Mary Ann, born November 2, 1814, died
January 29, 1848; Lucy, born January 23, 1816, died
March 6, 1S37 ; Harrison, born October 5, 1818,
died March 4, 1891 ; he married (first) Fanny Ken-
dall, and they had three children, two living,
namely: i. Lucy, married (first) George Sweet;
(second) Charles Plantier. three children, two liv-
ing ; they reside on Peabody street ; 2. Sumner,

married Ray, and had one child, now deceased.

Harrison Howe married (second) ]\Iartha Shep-
stone, and two children were born to them: i.
May. married Norman McLean Foster, resides in
Fitchburg; 2. Gilbert. Mrs. Howe and her son
Gilbert reside on Rich street, near Temple street,
Gardner.

(VH) Simeon Howe, fifth child of Benjamin
(6) and Keziah (Hill) Howe, was born in Gardner,
Massachusetts, May 14, 1813. He was educated in
the common schools and learned the chainuaking
trade. He also conducted a farm for a time. Then
he began to manufacture tubs and pails in New
Hampshire on his own account. He returned to
Gardner after a few years and worked for various
chair manufacturers there. He died in Gardner in
1892. at the age of seventy-nine years.

He married, 1837, at Gardner. Abigail Fairbanks,
born December 31, 1812, died October, 1893, daugh-
ter of Jabez and Abigail Fairbanks, and a descend-
ant of Jonathan Fairbanks, of Dedham. of the dis-
tinguished Lancaster branch of the family. Her
father was born in Gardner, May 9, 1784; her mother
was liorn December 2, 1786, and died at the age
of thirty years. Children of Simeon and Abigail
(Fairbanks) Howe were: Simeon .Augustus, see
forward: Marcus H., see forward: Adeline F.. born
August 30, 1843, died May 3, 1861 ; Marshall M.,
born August 21, 1845; Charles H., born August
26, 1851 : Willie P., born March 24, 1856, in Man-
chester, New Hampshire.

(Vni) S. Augustus Howe, son of Simeon Howe
(7), was born in Gardner. Massachusetts, July 2,
1839. He was educated in the district schools of
Gardner and at the Bolton high school. At the
age of nineteen he went to Oswego. New York,
where he was employed for two years in a chair
factory. He enlisted. May 17, 1861, as a private in

Company C, Twenty-fourth Regiment, New York
Volunteers, for service in the civil war at the very
beginning of the conflict. He was made a corporal
December i, 1861, and first sergeant October, 1862.
Shortly afterward he was promocl ic the rank of
second lieutenant for gallant cond ut Oii the field
of Fredericksburg. He was honorably discharged at
the expiration of his term of enlistment, Mav i-s,,
1863.

After working in the Chickering piano factory
in Boston for a time, he was offered a responsible
position at the Onondaga (New York), Penitentiary,
but he re-enlisted in the Ninth New York Heavy
Artillery as first lieutenant, and later became the
captain. With this battery he assisted in the fortifi-
cations about Washington. He participated in the
second battle of Bull Run and the battles of South
Mountain, Antietam. Fredericksburg in both en-
gagements. Cold Harbor. Cedar Creek and Peters-
burg.

After the close of the war he resumed chair-
making in New York state, and later returned to
Gardner, where he worked in the chair factories.
In 1871 he and his brother Marcus H. bought the
grain and feed business of C. W. Bush. At the
end of fifteen years Marcus H. Howe retired from
the firm, the grist mill was discontinued and the
business continued with Willie F. Howe as his part-
ner. Later Marshall M. Howe, another brother
bought the interests of the junior partner. The
feed and grain store of Howe Brothers in Depot
Square has been for thirty years one of the best
known and most successful places of business in
Gardner.

Mr. Howe is a Republican and has been active
in public affairs. He has held various town offices,
inchiding that of constable and of assessor. He was
a representative in the general court in 1891-92,
special county commissioner since 1893. He is a
member 'of William Ellison Lodge of Odd Fellows;
of D. G. Farragut Post, Grand Army of the Re-
public.

He married. 1863, Jennie Carroll, born in Os-
wego, New York, daughter of John Carroll, a pros-
perous farmer. Children of S. Augustus and Jennie
Howe were: Fred M.. in Boston, Massachusetts;
Frank C. in Boston, clerk in office of Boston &
Maine Railroad.

■(VIII) Marcus H. Howe, second child of
Simeon Howe (7). born at Gardner, Massachu-
setts. December 6, 1S41, died there 1902. He was
educated in the public schools of his native town
and then learned the chairmaking business, which he
followed until 187 1, when he went into partner-
ship with his elder brother, S. Augustus Howe,
under the firm name of Howe Brothers, dealers in
grain and feed. They al.so carried on the grist
mill. They bought out the business of C. W. Bush.
At the end of fifteen years Mr. Flowe retired and
cold his interests in the firm to his younger brother,
Willie F. Howe. After his retirement he lived
quietly in Gardner. He was greatly respected and
beloved by a large circle of friends. He was a
Renublican in politics and a Congregationalist in
rclieion. He was a Free Mason and very well known
in Masonic circles.

He married. i86fi, Frances .\. Flint, daughter of
George and Mary E. (Warner) Flint, of East Had-
dam. Connecticut. She resides at the homestead in
Gardner. Their children were: i. ?\Iary Elizabeth,
born June 29. 1869. married Frank A. Leighton,

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live in Greenfield, Massachusetts. 2. Adeline F.,
born April, 1872, died February 9, i88l. 3. L.
Warner, born May 25, 18S0. educated in Gardne.'
schools, and graduated from high school then
through Williams College at Williamston, Massa-
chusetts, now in the wholesale butter business.

GEORGE F. SEARLES. Curtis Searles (i),
grandfather of George F. Searles, of Whitinsville,
Massachusetts, was born in England, about 1775.
He settled on a farm at Grassy Hill, Millbury,
Massachusetts, with his wife Tamer, about 1810.
Their children were: i. George, see forward. 2.
Curtis, Jr., died September 5, 1871, at Westboro,
Massachusetts, leaving five children. 3. Tamer
Blake, born at Millbury. September 29, 1812.

(11) George Searles, son of Curtis Searles (l),
was born in England, and was brought to this
country when a young child. He spent his youth
at Millbury, and was educated in the public schools
there. He learned the carpenter's trade, and be-
came interested in the manufacture of ploughs.
It was his custom to cut the timber for his ploughs
and season it in the summer, make a stock of
ploughs in winter, and sell them in the following
spring and summer. The mould board and land side
were made of seasoned oak, the point only being
of iron. Some of his handiwork received first
premiums at the Worcester County Fair. He was
also engaged in repairing ploughs, and later fol-
lowed carpentering and building. He removed to
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, in 1837, and lived there
ihe remainder of his life.

He married (first) Abigail Hyde; (second) Julia
Williams. The only child of George and Abigail
Searles was: i. Abbie, resides at Northbridge
Center. The children of George and Julia (Will-
iams) Searles were: 2. Warren, a painter of
Meriden. Connecticut. 3. Julia, widow of S. R.
Chipman, late of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. 4. An-
drew, tinsmith, living in Whitinsville. 5. George F.,
see forward.

(HI) George F. Searles, son of George Searles
(2). was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 27, 1832. He was educated in the public schools
of Uxbridge, and at Macomber's Academy in Ux-
bridge, then a noted secondary school, receiving
students from all sections of the country. At the
age of sixteen he began an apprenticeship in the
tinsmith's trade at Uxbridge. and worked there nine
years. Then he went to Whitinsville, after some
six months at Lowell, and worked on tin in the
machine shop of the Whitins for nine years. He
then went into business for himself at Meriden in
the manufacture of stoves, hardware and fancy tin-
ware. .A.fter a year, during which he had a very
flourishing business, employing thirteen assistants,
he lost his plant and stock by fire. In May. 1871,
he established the same line of business in North-
bridge. Massachusetts. At first he had only one
room, but subsequently occupied a building one hun-
dred feet in length and three stories high, his store
"being one of the largest in the country in his line.
Besides dealing in stoves, hardware, etc., he had
a plumbing and tin work department, and con-
ducted a large business in plumbing and installing
liot water and steam heating apparatus. He was
one of the most substantial and successful merchants
of Whitinsville.

Mr. Searles always took an interest in public
affairs, and was elected to several important offices.

For five years he served on the board of over-
seers of the poor, being chairman of the same for
three terms. He was a notary public and justice
of the peace for twenty years or more. In politics
he was always a Republican. His first vote in a
presidential campaign was cast for John C. Fremont
for president in 1856. In 1881 Mr. Searles was the
representative to the general court from the towns
of Grafton and Northbridge, and was a member of
the committees on parishes and religious societies.
He was a member of the Congregational Church
from 1861 until his death, which ocurred just be-
fore Christmas of 1906. He was well known in sev-
eral of the leading fraternal orders. He became an
Odd Fellow in 1855. and a Free Mason in 1864. He
was a member of Granite Lodge of Free Masons
of Whitinsville: a charter member of St. Elmo
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons ; member of Worces-
ter County Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Worcester. He belonged to Hamilton Council of
Meriden, Connecticut, for nearly forty years. He
is a charter member, and was the first worthy
patron of Dekamus Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, No. 20. He was formerly a member of the
Improved Order of Red Men. He was a member
of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Sons of
Temperance and Good Templars. He was a charter
member of two lodges of Odd Fellows and one of
Free Masons. He resided in a handsome house at
the corner of Church and Pleasant streets, Whitins-
ville.

He married, January 4, 1854, Eveline Fisher,
born October i, 1S34, daughter of Captain Josiah
Fisher, of Llxbridge. Captain Fisher commanded
a company of militia in the early twenties. He was
a merchant. His father was an officer in the Amer-
ican army, during the revolution, from the town of
Franklin. Children of George F., and Eveline
(Fisher) Searles are: i. Arthur L., a member of
the firm of George F. Searles & Sons, married Annie
Smith, and they have had one child George, who died
in infancy. 2. Frank J., a member of the firm of
George F. Searles & Sons, married Hattie M. Smith,
sister of the wife of his brother. Their five chil-
dren are Grace, George, Frank, Geraldine and
Gwendoline (twins). Arthur L. and Frank J. Searles
reside in a house at the corner of Cottage and Pros-
pect streets.

VVETHERBEE FAMILY. John Wetherbee (i),
the immigrant ancestor of George F. Wetherbee,
late of Gardner, Massachusetts, was born in England
about 1650, and settled in Marlboro and Stow,
^Massachusetts. He died in Stow in 171 1. He mar-
ried first, at Marlboro, September 18, 1672, Mary
How, who was born June 18, 1658. died June 5. 1684,
the daughter of John and Mary How. He married
(second) Lydia Mnore. who survived him. The chil-
dren of John and Mary Wetherbee: i. Joseph, born
September 18, 1672 : married Elizabeth Johnson. 2.
John, born March 26, 1675: died about 1720; lived
in Stow : descendants numerous in Rindge, New
Hampshire. 3. Thomas, born January 8, 1678; mar-
ried Hannah Wood: ancestor of the Shrewsbury
branch of the family. 4. Mary. Children of John
and Lydia Wetherbee : 5. Ephraim, settled in Lunen-
burg; descendants in Fitchburg and lower New
Hampshire. 6. Jonathan. 7. David, mentioned be-
low. 8. Anne. Q. Lydia.

(II) David Wetherbee. son of John Wetherbee
(l), was born in Stow, Massachusetts, about l6oo.

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He resided in Stow. Among his children w;:3
Phinehas, born October 6, 1716, mentioned bclcvv.

(III) Phinehas Wetherbee, son of David WetUcr-
bee (2), was born in Stow, October 6, 1716. He
settled in Stow. Among his children were: i.
Phineas, Jr., born about 1640: removed to Ashburn-
ham about 1765; married, June 7, 1767, Hannah
Whitney, of Stow, and had : Betty, Catherine, Dolly
and Hannah at Ashburnham. 2. Israel, born July
18, 1756, mentioned below.

(IV) Israel Wetherbee, son of Phinehas Wether-
bee (3), was born in Stow, July iS, 1756. He set-
tled at Ashby, not far from his birth-place. His
children: i. Israel, Jr., born November 19, 1781,
at Ashby; died December 28, 1848: married. May 4,
1809, at Fitchhurg, Hepsibah, who died July 25,
1829, leaving eight children, born in Fitchburg. 2.
Joseph, born August 1,3, 1783: died October 23,
1858. father of Deacon Joseph Wetherbee, of Ash-
burnham and Rindge. 3. Silas, born March 14, 1790;
died April, i860. 4. Zacheus, born June 18, 1795,
mentioned below.

(V) Zacheus H. Wetherbee, son of Israel
Wetherbee (4). was born in Ashby, June 18, 1795.
He bought a five acre lot in Lancaster on the road
to Lunenburg. April 3, 1817, from Daniel Hayden.
He was a housewright by trade. He married, June
3, 1817, Rachel F. Rand, at Harvard. Massachu-
setts. He married (second) Sarah D. Raymore,
born February 28, 1798. in Sterling. He died De-
cember 25, 1875. She died May 12, 1875. The chil-
dren of Zacheus and Rachel F. Wetherbee: i.
Julia Ann. 2. Rachel S., died at Framingham, Sep-
tember 18, 1838. 3. Jonathan Zacheus, mentioned
below. Children of Zacheus H. and Sarah D.
Wetherbee: 4. Sarah Ellen.

(VI) Jonathan Zacheus Wetherbee. son of
Zacheu.s H. Wetherbee (5), was born in Concord,
Massachusetts, about 1823. He married, at Leom-
inster, Massachusetts, November 7, 1844, Sarah
Johnson, of Leominster. He bought land of Caleb
Dana in Princeton, in 1846: of Nahum Wilder in
1862, and other land there later. He was living in
Princeton in 1846, on the road to Hubbardston. He
died July 2, 1886 ; his wife died January 12, 1904.
The children of Jonathan Z. and Sarah Wetherbee :
I. George Francis, mentioned below. 2. Albert B.,
born in Princeton. 3. Charles Edwin, born July 20,
1849; resides in Worcester.

(VII) George Francis Wetherbee, son of Jona-
than Zacheus Wetherbee (6), born at Princeton.
Massachusetts, April 27, 1847. died at Gardner,
Massachusetts, June 24, 1903. He received a com-
mon school education in the public schools of Prince-
ton, and worked on his father's farm during his
youth. His first business venture was in his native
town, in the grain and feed business. He was at
the same time station agent for the Boston & Maine
Railroad there. In 1886 he removed to Gardner,
where he carried on an extensive business in feed,
grain, flour, etc., until his death. He was an able
and successful man of affairs, popular among; his
fellow-townsmen, and respected by all who knew
him. He W'as a stanch Republican, and active in
party councils, but never cared for public office.
He was a member of the order of United Workmen,
and was a Methodist in religion. He married first,
Sylvia A. Roper, of the Princeton branch of the
Roper family. (See Roper family.) She died in
1887. leaving a daughter. Adeline Louise, now de-
ceased, who married, May 21, 1901, C. E. Atwood,

of Gardner. Mr. Wetherbee married (second) Octo-
ber 13, 1888, Sarah F. Smith, daughter of Charles
and Mary Smith of Princeton. Their children:
George F.. Jr., born October 6, 1889; Charles E.,
born August 3, 1891.

GUSHING FAMILY. Matthew Gushing (i)
was the immigrant ancestor of Milton L. Gushing,
of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He was born in Hing-
ham, England, in 1589, the son of Peter and Susau
(Hawes) Gushing. He came to New England from
Hingham, England, with his wife, four sons, one
daughter, his wife's sister, Frances Recroft, widow.
He settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, and became
a prominent man there. They came on the ship
"Diligent," John Martin, master, and arrived in
Boston. August 10, 1638. The one hundred and
thirty-three passengers on this ship all settled in
Hingham, so the town was literally transpU-irtd
from Hingham in the old country. Matthew Gush-
ing was deacon of the church of which the Rev.
Peter Hobart was pastor. He held various town
offices.

He married in England, August S, 1613, Nazereth
Pitcher, daughter of Henry Pitcher. Their children
were: Daniel, baptized April 20, 1619; Jeremiah,
baptized July 21, 1621 : Matthew, baptized April 5,
1623; Deborah, baptized February 17, 1624-5. mar-
ried Mathias Briggs ; John. Matthew Gushing. Sr.,
died September 30. 1666, aged seventy-one, years.
His widow died January 6, 1681-2, aged ninety-six
years. A brother of Matthew, named Theophilus,
came from Hingham in 163S and died March 24,
1678-9, aged nearly one hundred years. Matthew
is the common ancestor of the old New England
families of this surname.

(II) Daniel Gushing, son of Matthew Gushing
(i). was born in 1619, baptized in Hingham, Eng-
land. April 20, 1619. He married, June 19, 1645,
Lydia Oilman, daughter of Edward Gilman. She
died March 12. 1689. He married (second), March
23. 169T, Elizabeth (Jacob) Thaxter, widow of John
Thaxter. and daughter of Nicholas Jacob. She
died November 24, 1725. He died December 3, 1699.
He was admitted a freeman in 1671, was a ma,gistrate
and for many years the town clerk of Hingham. He
was deputy to the general court 1681-82-95. He
was one of the most prominent men of the town
in his day. He had six children