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Robinson Ctncaqc.
A PEDIGRKE of the Robinson family, in the British Museum (Flarleian
MSS. No. 1550), goes back to the year 1208 and names as its founder John
Robinson, of Donington (a market town iti Lincolnshire, 7 miles s. w. of
Boston), wlio married a daughter of Thomas Paule. Two pedigrees are
recorded in the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1562-4, by Robert Cooke.
Chester Herald at Arms, and may be found on pp. 104-5, of the edition of
1881.
1. Nicholas' Robixson, born at Boston in Lincolnshire, 1480; he was
the first mayor, appointed in 1545 by King Henry VHI. His son
2. Nicholas' Robinson, born 1530, was father to
3. Rev. John^ Robinson, born 1575. That so little has been ascertained
of the private history of this eminent man is disappointing. Two
of the colleges at Cambridge, England, have entries; one of which
should apply to him.
Emmanuel College register reads:
"John Robinson, entered as sizar 2 March 1592; took his A.M.
1600; and B.D. 1607."
Corpus Christi College register reads :
"John Robinson, F. Lincolnshire, admitted 1592; Fellow. 1598."
The opinion prevails that this second entry refers to the Pilgrim
Father.
After graduation, Mr. Robinson took orders in the Church of
England; but for omission or modification of some ceremony, or dis-
use of some prescribed vestments, he was suspended by the Bishop
of Norwich. Upon this, he resigned his fellowship in 1604, and
nevermore officiated at the altars of the Established Chutcli. He
soon became assistant to Rev. Mr. Clyfton, pastor of a Separatist
Church, which met at the dwelling of William Brewster, a gentle-
man of fortune and education, near Scrooby in Nottinghamshire,
who was, subsequently. Ruling Elder of the Church of Plymouth,
Mass. Mr. Clyfton and several of the Church removing, in 1606,
to Holland, Mr. Robinson became pastor of the remnant. The
civil power continuing persecution, they also went over in 1608.
The English exiles in Holland being far from harmonious ai.d much
disturbed by internal commotion, Mr. Robinson, who was a man of
peace, withdrew the members of his church to Leyden in 1609,
where they remained till the emigration to America. At Leyden,
Mr. Robinson became a member of the University, as the register
still shows, viz :
1615
Sept 5 Joannes Robintsonus Anglus.
Coss. permissu. Ann. xxxix.
Stud. Theol. alit Familiam.
In 1620, the younger and physically stronger portion of the Ley-
den church departed to America and successfully founded the Pilgrim
Colony at Plymouth, Mass. Mr. Robinson remained at Leyden,
with the older and feebler members, in the hope of eventually fol-
lowing the larger emigration. In this he was disappointed; for he
died at Leyden, 1 March, 1625, in the fiftieth year of his age. On
tlie 4th, he was buried in the churchyard of the Cathedral of St.
Peter's, in the presence of the University magistrates, scholars and
gentry of the city. The record may still be read in the "book of
Interments " :
1625
4 Maart. — Jan Roelends, Predicant van de Engelsche Gemeente,
by het Klockhujs — begraven in de Pieter's Kerk.
In 1891, a handsome bronze tablet was placed upon the wall
of St. Peter's Cathedral, by American citizens, to the memory of
IMr. Robinson. It reads :
For additional, see Ency. Brit., vol. xx., p. 608.
Mr. Robinson married Bridget White, who survived him. After-
ward, she conformed to the Reformed Church of Holland, and died
in that communion. Children :
i. James,* b. 160G.
ii. Bridget, b. 1()08 ; m. May, 1629, Jan Gryn-\vick.
4. iii. Isaac, b. 1610.
Iv. Mercy, b. 1612.
V. Fear, b. 1614
vi. Jacob, b. 1616.
4. Isaac* Robixsox, born 1610; came to Plymouth in 1630; married
1st, 163G, Margaret Hanford, sister of Rev. Tiioinas Hanford and a
niece of Timothy Ilatherly, who came to Plymouth, 1623, in the
Ann, and was a magistrate at Falmouth. Isaac Robinson dwelt at
Plymouth. Duxbnry and Barnstable. His wife dying, he man-ied a
second wife in 1649-50. In 1659, he was disfranchised for con-
demning the anti-Quaker laws as unjust. In 1665, he kept an
ordinary at Falmouth (Succonnesset) ; in 1673, he was town clerk
at Tisbury; in 1701, he returned to Barnstable, wliere he remained
with his daughter, Fear, wife of Samuel Baker, till his death in
1704, when nearly ninety-four years old. Cliildi-en :
i. Susanna,* bap. 21 January, 1638.
ii. John, bap. 5 April, 1640; m. 1 May, 1667, E. Weeks; went to
Connecticut.
iii. Isaac, bap. 7 August, 1642; droAvnecl 6 October, 1668.
iv. Fear, bap. 26 January, 1644; m. Rev. S. Baker of Barnstable.
V. Mi:rcy, bap. 4 July, 1647.
vi. Israel, bap. September, 1651; d. 1728.]
vii. Jacob, bap. March, 1653. |
5. viii. Peter, bap. 1665. |- By second wife,
ix. Thomas, bap. 6 March, 1666 ; Avent to |
Guilford, Conn. j
5. Peter' Robinson, born about 1665, of his father's second wife;
married Experience, daughter of John Manton of Tisbury, Martha's
Vineyard. In 1686, his father conveys real estate to him, and calls
him, in the deed, " son." He dwelt some time at Tisbury. In 1706,
he was at Chilmark, in 1710 at Norwich, Ct., in 1722-3 at Preston,
when he settled at Windham, in the east parish, now Scotland,'
where he died in the early spring of 1740. His wife had died 30
April, 1725, net. 55. Children:
i. Sarah, « b. 1688; m. 1725, Hezekiah Mason ; d. 1754.
ii. Abiaii, ra. Andrus; d. 1772.
iii. Israel, b. 1696; m. 1st, Sarah Sabin ; m. 2d, Deborali Chapman.
Children: (1) EUsha, (2) Daniel, (3) jEHcut, (4) Abii/<(il, (5)
Samuel.
6. iv. Peter, b. 1697; m. Ruth Fuller.
V. Thomas, b. 1699; m. 1st, Anna ; d. 16 October, 1769; m.
2(1, Abi.nail Diraick. He. d. 28 March, 1783; his widow d. 8 Feb-
ruary, 1770. From them Gov. Lucius Robinsou of New York
derived ancestry.
vi. Abigail, b. 1701; m. 1725, Elihu Palmer; d. 1764. Children: (1)
AiiKim, (2) mUiu, (3) Abigail, (4) Jonah, (5) Abigail, (6) Ehoda,
(7) Amasa.
vii. Simeon, m. Jerusha Kingsley; d. 1792. Children: (1) Ebenczer,
(2) Mary, (3) Anna, (4) Jerusha, (5) Eliphalet, (6) Simeon, (7)
Eliphaz, (8) Anna, (9) Abiah.
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viii. Bkxja>[in, m. Jerusha Binghara, dau. of Samuel Bingham of Scot-
land Society, Conn. They resided at Windham and Lebanon.
Children: (l) Eunice, (2) Irene, (3) Elijah, (4) Eliphalet, (5)
L)jdia, (6) Jerusha, (7) Benjamin.
ix. Joseph, b. 1706; m. 1735, Mehitable Read, daughter of Thomas
Head. They resided at Scotland Society, Conn., where he d. 1789.
Children: (land 2) Deborah and Susanna, twins; (3) Behecca,
(4) ^fchitahlr, (5) Lnaj, (6) Joseph, (7) 3Ioses, (8) Luctj, (9 and
10) WilUinn and Sarah, twins; (llj Prudence, (12) Josiah.
X. Isaac. 1). ITos; m. Deborah Hibbard, daughter of Nathaniel Hib-
bard of Windham, Conn., where they dwelt and died, he in 1796,
she in 1798. Children: (1) Sarah, (2) John, (3) Achsah, (4)
Deborah, (5) Anne, (6) Isaac, (7) Nathaniel.
xi. Anna, b. 1708; m. 1755, Rodolphus Fuller. Children: (1) Samuel,
(2) Anna.
xii. Maky, m. 1747, John Johnson.
xiii. Rhoda, b. 1711; m. 1758, Noah Carpenter.
xiv. Maktha, b. 1713; m. Barnabas Allen; d. 1753.
XV. Elizabeth, b. 1714; m. 1746, Josiah Smith; d. 1798. Children:
(1) Josiah, (2) Ephraim, (3) Elias, (4) Cotteril, (5) Elizabeth, (6)
Sarah, (J) Martha, (8) Jairus.
Petkii® Rohixson, born 1697; married, 20 June, 1725, Ruth Fuller,
daugliter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Thacher) Fuller of MansHeld,
Conn. They dwelt in Windham, Scotland Society, Conn., where
he died 22 March, 1785, aged 88. His widow died 9 January,
1795, aged 88. Children: V
i. Samuel,^ b. G July, 1726. d J^^^ // /7f^ "^J^ ^ v'// /^
ii. ExPEKiENCE, b. 22 April, 172i / ^'^-f /C^^'-^^
iii. Peter, b. 19 May, 1730; d. 18 July, 1778. r^ ai^c^-U, ra^c^<c^^
iv. Elizabeth, b. 6 November, 1732; m. John French.
V. Jacob, b. 14 August, 1734. ^ /S ^ ^ O p c
vi. Nathan, b. 19 July, 1736. ,^ . ir^a-^z^^ ' .^t,''-^-^^^^
vii. Abner, b. 22 February, 1738; m. Mehitable Palmer, b. 15 March,
1743 at Upton, Mass., daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Warfield)
Palmer, who removed about 1762 to Killingly, Conn. He was
lieutenant, 1776, in Capt. Elderkin's company,
viii. Ruth, b. 14 December, 1740 ; m. William Cushman. She was his
second wife. They dwelt at Brooklyn, Conn. They had seven
children, of whom James,'' the eldest, was Grand Master of the
Free Masons of New Jersey,
ix. Eliab, b. 22 August, 1742; ra. Lucy Williams. His grandson and
namesake, Eliab, son of Ralph, resided at Lisbon, Conn.
X. Rachel, b. 30 March, 1744; m. Cornelius Coburn.
xi. Bathsheba, b. 31 July, 1746.
xii. Joshua, b. 24 September, 1748 ; m. 1771,^ Sybil Webb.
Jacob' Robinson, born 14 August, 1734; married, 4 November,
1756, Anna Tracy, born 1 April, 1733. Children:
i. Muriel,^ b. 16 August, 1757; d. 9 November, 1757.
ii, Eber, b. 7 October, 1759 ; m. Lucy Pierce. Was a soldier in the
Revolution; sergeant in Dana's company, Waterbury's brigade,
1781 ; promoted to brigade quartermaster, and was called captain.
Children: (1) John P.,* (2) Charles, (3) George, (4) Luoj. By a
second wife, Lncinda Converse, of Somers, Conn., he had three
children, whose names we have not. He d. 28 October, 1838.
iii. Anna, b. 4 November, 1761; d. 6 October, 1840.
iv. Irena, b. 15 January, 1764.
V. Vine, b. 25 July, 1767; d. 18 January, 1843.
vi. Huldeth, b. 22 October, 1769; d. 30 October, 1842.
vii. Jacob, b. 7 March, 1772; d. 7 November, 1809.
viii. Amy, b. 17 October, 1774.
ix. Tracy, b. 1 March, 1778; d. 15 January, 1856.
8. ViNE^ Robinson, born 25 July, 1767; ^married Dorcas Chapman,
daughter of Elijah and Bmii (Steele) Chapman of Tolland, Conn
Children : 6m^^
i. Harriet,' m. Adams "White,
ii. GuRDON, b. 17 October, 1792; d. 22 March, 1872.
iii. Edwin, b. 22 July, 1797; d. 8 February, 1881.
iv. Daniel C, b. 11 June, 1803; d. 6 August, 1878.
9. V. Francis, b. 14 August, 1814.
9. Francis' Robinson, born 19 August, 1814; married, 8 May, 1839,
Anne la Tourette DeGroot, born 5 October, 1818. He died 23
September, 1885. His widow died 6 January, 1890. Children: ^
i. Henry DeGroot,^" b. January, \^w/m. Florence Bush.^^^*^-*^,^'^*-'^^'^
'^^i*/^yiy5'/i^KANK Tracy, b. 11 August, 1847; m. 20 February, 1873, Ida Mav
/ • Frost, q. v. Children : (1) Charles Leonard Frost, b. 9 July, 1874'; ^
(2) Blanchard, b. 24 August, 1875, d. 24 September, 1875; (3)
Harry La Tourette, b. 12 March, 1879. i^ y'A^ /j // ^ J
iii. Charles Forbes, b. July, 1849; m. Hannah Haycock. Children:
(1) Frank, (2) Harry.
<i^ .Sa.//-/ / ^fy^' Egbert McCarter, b. August, 1852; m. Helen Runkle. Children :
^ / (I) Helen, (2) John, (3") Dorothy.
(1) Helen, (2) John, (3) Dorothy.
Thomas Hastings, b. 10 June, 1856 ; m. Fanny DeGroot. Child :
Frances Isabel, b. December, 1885.
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ifrost Cincagc,
Nicholas is an old name in Frost genealogy. We find, in the exche-
quer accounts of King Henry IV., the entry of 3l£. 8s. paid to Nicholas
Frost, bowman, for the manufacture of five hundred bows. The earliest
of this family in Maine was George Frost at Winter Harbor, at the mouth
of the Saco river, now known as Biddeford Fool. Whether he came
with Vines in 1616, with Norton in 1623, with Lewis and Bonighton in
1629, or with which other of the various attempts at settlement at that
spot, we find no record. His name, George, would indicate that he was
from Binsted in the parish of Alton, Hampshire, England, where was
anciently a church dedicated to St. Nicholas, and where there was, in 1876,
a George Frost, grocer, and John Frost, shopkeeper. All this, however,
is but conjecture. We only know that George Frost was an appraiser, in
1635, on the estate of a servant of Gov. Cradock, of the Bay colony, and
that he served on the grand jury in 1640. It has been thouglit that he
had four children :
i. Eebecca,^ m. 1663, Simon Booth, b. 1641, son of Robert Booth of
Saco. Removed to Enfield, Conn., and d. Dec. 1688. Children:
(1) William, b. 1664, d. 1753; (2) Zach., b. 1666, d. 1741; (3)
Elizabeth, b. 1668, m. 1693, Jona. Pease; (4) 3Iary, b. 1670, m.
1700, Israel Markham.
ii. Philip, ni. 1677, Martlia (Merry), widow of Andrew Rayiikins.
iii. William, m. Mary ; liad a grant at Croolied lane, Kittery,
1659 ; was at Salem 1677 and 1679, at Cape Porpoise 1678, at Wells
1682-5; was a shoemaker; called "Goodman Frost"; slain by
Indians, 1690. Children: (1) William ; {2) 3Iary,h. sX^&lem, 2,1
July, 1677; (3) Nathaniel; (4) Abigail, m. Samuel Upton, and
perhaps others.
iv. John, m. Rose ; d. 1675-80. Children : (1) John; (2) Philip;
(3) Anne, m. Alexander Maxwell.
1. Nicholas' Frost, from Tiverton, a town in Devonshire, England,
near the city of Exeter, settled in 1636 on Sturgeon creek, Kittery,
now Eliot, where he had large influence till his death in 1663. He
was father to Maj. Charles Frost. This family sided with Massa-
chusetts in the contest with the agents of Gorges and Champer-
nowne. An inadequate and somewhat inaccurate genealogy was
published some years ago by Dr. Usher Parsons. Children :
i. Charles,^ b. in England, 30 July, 1631 ; m. Mary, dau. of Joseph
BoUes. Slain by Indians, 4 July, 1697. His widow d. November,
1704. Children: (1) Charles,'' b. 1678, d. 1724; (2) John, b. 1681,
d. 1733; (3) Nicholas, d. sine prole ; (4) Sarah, m. Joseph Ship-
way; (5) Abigail, m. 1st, William Tyler, 2d, William Moody; (6)
Lydia; (7) Mary, m. John Hill; (8) Elizabeth; (9) Mehitable.
ii. Catherixe, b. in En2;land, August, 1633; m. 1st, John Leighton,
2d, Joseph Hammond ; d. 15 August, 1715. Children: (1) Manj,
b. 1657, m. John Hnukins; {'■2)^William, d. young; (3) John, b.
May, 1661, m. OnerLangdon, d. 21 November, 1737; (4) Elizabeth,
b. 1664, d. young.
iii. John, b. in Engiand; ra. Sarah ; d. 1718, Children: (1)
John; (2) daughter, m. William Fox.
iv. Nicholas, d. at Limericlj, Ireland, 1 August, 1673, sine prole.
V. Elizabeth, m. William Gowen, alias Smith.
1. In 1662, another Nicholas' Frost came from the city of Bristol,
England, indentured to Thomas Archer, and settled at Wells, with
Francis Littlefield, the elder. He is thought to be the '"ISikholass
frost" who took the oath of fidelity to Massachusetts in 1669; had
wife Mary, and died in 1707. He was illiterate, but varies his
mark, in his attempts to sign his name, sufficiently to identify him.
If the surmise be correct, that his estate was administered in 1707,
and 1712, he left a widow and children:
i. Bartholojie,^ m. Elizabeth ; d. 1723, sine prole.
ii. Elizabeth, m. John Richardson,
iii. Eleanor, m. David Sayer.
1. From 1650 to 1685, a Nicholas' Frost passed a busy life at Ne-
uichawannock, on the eastern side of the river, as he was the last
year a constal)le at Berwick. He was quite a constant factor in
the court entries for an opprobrious, unruly tongue, for unseemly
and violent behavior, for intemperance and rioting. His wife,
Mary, who seems a well fitted mate, was a daughter of father
Conley. The present Merritield family of York County, are de-
scended from one of his six daugliters. He is called " beaver
trader," which was a lucrative business on the Salmon Falls river
at that day. In 1674, he and his wife Mary sold to Geoi-ge Brough-
ton, land "lying on both sides the Salmon Falls Newiciiawanoke
great river." The following, from the Dover (N. H.) [)etition of
1654, is found in the N. 11. Frov. Papers, vol. i., p. 2Io:
Where as we whose names are here under written are made choice of
by the Towne of Dover and Kittery to lay outt tlie Devidinge Bounds
betweeiie the said Townes, we have Mutually concluded and agreed that
the great River At newichawanacke shall be and remaine the l)('vi(U4nge
bound betweeue tlie aToroaid I'liwues, the one half of the said River to
App'taine and belong uiiin th ■ 'I'nwnc of Dover on the South, and tlie
other halfe to the Townc oi' Kittery on the North. In contirmation
hereof Ave have Intercliang sett to our hands this 4th of ye 2 mo
(16)54.
Nicolas Shapleigh,
RiciiAi;i) \Vai.i>i:x,
Edwakd Si AKurcK,
The mark of Nicolas [IJ Kiio.-r,
The mark of Riciiakd [Sj Nasox,
William F. Euuber.
1. "We see no reason for selection, or preference, in either of these
stocks of Frost for our early ancestor, Nicholas' Frost, of Crooked
lane, Kittery. As William Frost, shoemaker, was at one time in-
terested in land on Crooked lane, some affiliation might be inferred;
but it needs supporting evidence to produce conviction. Nicholas
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married, about the close of the seventeenth century, Dorothy, daugh-
ter of Jonathan Menduni, of Kittery, and sister to Nathaniel, Jonathan
and Robert, all grandchildren of Robert Mendum of Duxbury,
born 1604, who removed to Kittery about 1640, and settled on
Spruce creek, next to Gowen Willson, vphere he was constable in
1652, selectman 1673, and died 1682. Nicholas Frost was a sailor,
and 20 November, 1707, he purchased a homestead on Crooked
lane, Kittery, of Robert Screven, shipwright, son of Rev. William
Screven, the first Baptist minister in Maine, who was driven out of
the province, then under Massachusetts law, for recusancy in reli-
gious matters. As a mariner, Nicholas found Portsmouth a more
convenient residence and, 10 December, 1707, he purchased a house
there, of George Vaughan; the next month he sold his Screven
homestead at Kittery to Diamond Sargent, taylor, from Ipswich. In
January, 1708-9, he increased his holdings in Portsmouth by purchase
of Tiiomas and Eleanor Phips. He and his wife Dorothy were bap-
tized at Portsmouth, 19 September, 1708. After two children had
been born, the wife Dorothy died, not earlier than June, 1713, and,
3 December, 1714, Nicholas Frost married 2d, Sarah Huntress.
In 1718 Nicholas Frost died, as an item in the account of Josh.
Peirce vs estate of Nicholas Frost, in the Rockingham (N. H.)
Probate Registry, reads: "13 June 1718, Pd John Nutter for
making his Coffin." His widow married Thomas Darling, or Dal-
ling, a member of a well regarded sea-faring family at Portsmouth.
They soon removed to Durham, in that part called " the Hook,''
from a long bend and return in the Lamprey river. In 1766, this
was incorporated as Lee. Children:
2. i. Nathaniel,^ bapt. 15 April, 1711. ^ /^ rr
ii. John, ■^j^^ a^<^, // / ^ :-' ":^- a^i^c/t J^^rT^i^
2. Nathaniel'' Frost, born at Kittery or Portsmouth, in the early
years of the eighteenth century, spent his life as a carpenter and
farmer, chiefly at Durham and Lee, N. H. In 1733 and '34 he
was at Dover; by 1737 he had returned to Durham. Soon he
married, for in November, 1739, he and his wife, Elizabeth, con-
veyed to his brother John, shipwright, of Portsmouth, his interest
in the house and land at Portsmouth, " bo't of their father, Thomas
Darling, 10 Nov. 1737." In 1765, his name appears on the petition
for the division of the town of Durham, and the creation of the new
parish, Lee, in the western section. Children :
i. Nicholas, =* sold laud to John Adams, 1750. The deed calls him son
of Nathaniel Frost in ye Hook,
ii. Nathaniel, enlisted 12 May, 1777, in Capt. Bell's company.
3. iii. WiKTiiKOP, b. 1753.
3. WiNTHROp' Frost was born in Lee, N. H., 1753. Served as a
soldier in the Revolutionary war in the commands of Capt. Smith
E^merson and Capt. Clark of Epping. He married Sarah Tuttle,
born 23 December, 1755, daughter of George and Catherine (Stev-
ens) Tuttle, of Lee. He settled at Lee as a farmer, after the war
was over, though he maintained his military ardor and served in the
New Hampshire militia as lieutenant and captain of the company
at Lee. He died at Lee, July, 1810. His widow died at Madison,
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N. H., 31 December, 1855, aged 100 years and 8 days. So says
the inscription on her tombstone, to which is added :
To see a Pilgrim as she dies
With glory in her view
To Heaven she lifts her longing eyes,
And bids the world adieu.
ChiUlren :
i. i. Samuel Tuttle,^ b. 1776.
li. Geokge, b. 1778 ; lost at sea.
5. iii. Nathaniel, b. 1780; d. 20 March, 1819.
6. iv. Makv, b. 178G.
7. V. Shepherd I., b. 1788.
Samuel Tuttlk^ Frost was born at Lee, N. H., 1776. He reverted
to the early following of his ancestry and was a sailor for many
years, lie commanded, as first mate and captain, one vessel for
thirty years. He circumnavigated the globe three times. He
married Sarah Raymond, born at Boston, 1786, and died at Madison,
N. H., 4 December, 1854. His widow died at Madison, 14 Decem-
ber, 1858. Children:
1. Thomas Raymond,* b. at Lee, 1808; d. at Madison, N. H., in 1828,
while a student in theology.
ii. Emily Akerman, b. at Lee", 3 August, 1810; m. 27 November, 1827,
George Kennett, b. at Eaton, N. H., 26 September, 1806. He d.
13 April, 1887; she d. 1 July, 1887. Children: (1) Caroline. R.^
Kennett, b. 28 January, 1829, m. 20 September, 1849, Marli Nici^er-
son, five children: 1, Emily N.^ Niciierson, b. 20 August, 1850;
2, George A. Niciierson, b. 31 October, 1853; 3, Lucy Ida Niciier-
son, b. 2 March, 1856, d. 7 September, 1858 ; 4, Edson T. Niciierson,
b. 24 March, 1866 ; 5, Mabel Niciierson, b. 4 July, 1871. (2) Sewell
F. Kennett, b. 6 August, 1832; m. Olive Smith. (3) Almira I.
Kennett, b. 28 July, 1846; m. Charles Harmon, b. at Lynn, Mass.,
3 September, 1847; four children: 1, Jennie Harmon, b. 18 De-
cember, 1874: 2, Martha Harmon, b. 20 October, 1876; 3, George
W. Harmon, b. 8 June, 1880; 4, Agnes Augusta Harmon, b. 29
July, 1882. (4) Sarah A. Kennett, b. 31 December, 1848, m. John
Meloon of Eflingham, N. H.
iii. WiNTHROP, b. at Effingham, N. H., 1812; d. an infant.
iv. John Leavitt, b. 1813; m. 1839, Susan B. Chaloner of Machias,
Me.; d. 1863. Children: (1) Emily Akerman, b. 1840, d. 1860;
(2) John Chaloner, b. 1842, ra. Elizabeth Burke of Madison, N. H.,
•was a soldier in the war, d. 1871, child : Sarah Lillian ; (3) George
S., b. 1845', d. 1864 at Fortress Monroe; (4) Charles P., b. 1849,
d. 1873; (5) Sarah Tuttle, b. 1859, d. 1864.
V. Almira Osborne, b. 1815; d. 1821.
vi. Nathaniel,/, ,£,„(. Id. an infant.
vii. Samuel, \ °- ^®'^"' Jm. Rebecca Lary of Madison, N. H. Cliil-
ren : (1) Thomas Raymond, b. 1856, m. 1881, Josephine S. Wood-
man; (2) Edwin W., b. 1857, d. 1859; (3) Edioin If'., b. 1862, m.
1889, Pauline Kintzraan, child: Harry E. ; (4) Isaac W., b. 1869,
m. 1889, Nora B. AUord, child: Raymond E.
viii. George Tuttle, b. 16 September, 1823; m. 15 May, 1846, Mary T.
Ford, b. 1825, at New Sharon, Me. Children: (1) Caroline, b. 4
June, 1847, d. 4 July, 1867; (2) Mary Ellen, b. 24 June, 1850, d.
26 December, 1881; (3) Elizabeth M., b. 25 June, 1854; (4) Har-
riet E., b. 7 October, 1856; (5) Ida B., b. 2 June, 1859; (6) George
E„ b. 28 March, 1863, d. 22 February, 1885.
ix. Almira B., b. at Effingham, N. H., 28 February, 1825 ; m. 11 January,
1848, William N. Tuttle, b. 11 February, 1822, at Antrim, N. H. ;
he d. 1889. Child: Emily Frost, b. 31 December, 1851, ra. Wil-
liam E. Downs, of Francestowu, N. H.,b. 11 March, 1853; three
children: 1, Nellie E. Downs, b. 20 July, 1876; 2, William D.
Downs, b. 13 December, 1884; 3, Wilbur Tuttle Downs, b. 3
January, 1889. Mrs. Emily Frost (Tuttle) Doions d. 17 July, 1893.
X. Isaac Higgins, b. 1828; m. Olive Billings of N. Berwick, Me.
Child : William C, b. 1859, d. 1885, iu Texas.
5. Nathaniel* Frost, born at Lee, N. H., about 1780; married Joanna
Trefry. Resided at Boston, INIass., where he died 20 March, 1819.
She died 7 October, 1857. Children:
WixTiiKOP,* d. at Sumatra.
William, cl. at New Orleans, La., leaving one son, Elbridge.
Sarah A., b. 1810; d. 17 May, 1819.
Joanna, m. George Tuttle, b. 1801, and dwelt at Effingham, N. H.,
where he d. 18 April, 1870. She d. 26 December, 1871. Chil-
dren: (1) John iS. Tuttle, b. 182-1, m. Elvira Tobie, from Maine;
three children, 1, Anson B. Tuttle, m. Sarah Clark, child : Anson;
2, John M. Tuttle; 3, William Tuttle. (2) William Frost Tuttle,
b. November, 1826, m. Emma Fexton of Augusta, Ga. ; children :
1, Frances; 2, Lula; 3, William. (3) Winthrop Frost Tuttle, b.
1828, m. Nancy Folsom of Ossipee, N. H. ; children : 1, Winthrop ;
2, Caroline, (-t) Lijdia A. Tuttle, b. May 1830, m. Luke Nickerson
of Eaton, N. H., b. 11 June, 1824, first sergeant Company A., 13th
regiment N. H. vols., enlisted 24 September, 1862, cl. 1 January,
1863; children: 1, George E. Nickerson, b. August, 1852, m. A.
Drew of Eaton, N. H., three children : Edith, Luke B. and Anne
B. ; 2, Joanna F. Nickerson, b. November, 1853, m. Stephen
Thurston, two children: Leslie W. and Walter H.; 3, Herbert P.
Nickerson, b. November, 1857, m. Emma Thomas; 4, Elmer E.
Nickerson, b. January, 1862, m. Kebecca Scott, two children:
Elsworth C. and Alice L. Mrs. Lydia A. (Tuttle) Nickerson m.
2d, January, 1865, William Harmon; child,: Lula Harmon, b.
July, 1868, m. Afton FarroAv of Bristol, N. H., child: William H.
Farrow, b. November, 1891. (5) Frances B. Tuttle, b. March,
1833, m. Frank Durell of New Market. N. H.; children: 1, New-
man; 2, Frederic; 3, Clara, m. Charles Manning-; 4. George G. ;
5, Henry Cliflbrd. (6) Geor<te G. Tutth. h. An-ust, 18,39; m.
Lydia Berry of Effingham, N. H. (7) i-VcZ/i Tuiib-, b. 1842. (8)
Ahnir,t C. Tiilth', h. March. 1846, m. Henry F. Abbott of Ossipee,
N. II. : rhild: Ilia Alire Ahholt.
V. Samci'i., h. Tl .luiic. IM):;. at Portland, Me.; m. Catherine Scott.
He d. at Bo^ton, 20 .lauiiary, ls44. Children: (1) Edioard H., b.
9 August, 1833, m. Maria Tenney, d. 6 May, 1888, three children:
1, Samuel; 2, Walter; 3, Frank, d. infants. (2) Samuel Tuttle,
b. 15 April, 1835, at Boston, m. 15 August, 1863, Anne Buzzell of
Ellsworth, N. H. ; children: 1, Martha V., b. 2 October, 1864, at
Andover, N. H., d. 22 November, 1886, at Boston ; 2, Charles B.,
b. 28 May, 1868, in Vermont, m. 15 February, 1890, Lucy P. Kau-
sier of Nebraska; 3, Anne Linden, b. at North Attleboro', Mass.,
19 December, 1874. (3) Martha A. B., b. 22 August, 1838, at Bos-
ton, m. 30 July, 1863, Joseph W. Merritt from Maine. (4) Lucy,
b. 19 July, 1842, at Boston, m. November, 1864, Daniel W. Merritt
of Boston ; child : Edith L. b. 23 April, 1868.
Mary* Frost was born at Lee, N. IL, 1786; married Josepli Good-
hue, born 1784, at Nottingliara, N. IL, son of Natluiniel and Abigail
(Nealiey) Goodhue. He died 1821. Slie died 1872. Children:
i. Sakaii* Goodhue, b. 22 March, 1803; m. 1823, James B. Gile.
Children: (1) Mary A. Gile, b. 23 December, 1825, m. Clark D.
Chamberlain; (2) Jctne Gile, b. 19 July, 1827, m. 26 November,
1852, John Bell of Andover, Mass.; (3) Ellen A. Gile, b. 27
March, 1829, m. E. G. N. Bartlett; (4) Lydia A. Gile, b. 10 March,
1831, m. Daniel Amsden ; (5) ISarah E. Gile, b. 3 January, 1833,
m. Franklin Ames; (6) Josepli A. Gile, b. 8 January, 1835; (7)
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James H. Gile, b. 18 February, 1837, m. Ellen A. Bemis; (8) Ada
M. Gile, b. 7 March, 1839, m."Oscar G. Bemis ; (9) John M. Gile,
b. 4 June, 1841, m. Olive Kimball; (10) Maria S. Gile, b. 13
April, 1843, m. William Ames; (11) Clara A. Gile, b. 3 Septem-
ber, 1848, m. John Ham; (12) Charles W. Gile, b. 11 April, 1851,
m. Elizabeth Bixon.
ii. Joseph Goodhue, b. 12 October, 1812; m. 16 July, 1837, Hannah
Stevenson of Wolfborouoh, N. H. He d. at Brooktield, N. H.,
13 July, 1874. She d. 3 September, 1879. Child: Charles S.
Goodhue, b. 24 April, 1838, m. 22 May, 1878, Elizabeth Burrell.
They reside at New Zealand.
iii. Nathaniel Goodhue, b. 10 January, 1814; m. 18 October, 1837,
Emma J. Johnson. Children: (1) Harrij 8. Goodhue, b. 2 July,
1839; (2) Georqe I. Goodhue; (3) Sarah 31. Goodhue, h. 25 Yeh-
ruary, 1847, m. 1st, 18 May, 1865, M. Fitzgerald, 2d, E. B. Purdy.
iv. Nancy Goodhue, b. 2 March, 1816; m. 6 May, 1838, John Armi-
tage. Children : (1) Charlotte Armitage, b. 4 November, 1846,
m. 1880, Charles Blethen ; (2) Mary J. Armitage, b. 11 July, 1848,
m. 24 December, 1869, George Parsons; (3) Alice Maria Armitage,
b. 15 June, 1852, m. June, 1872, Matthew Rawson ; (4) Caroline
Belle Armitage, b. 5 October, 1855 ; (5) Laura Frost Armitage, b.
21 October, 1857.
V. Charles S- Goodhue, b. 14 February, 1819; m. May, 1845, Harriet
Clark of Hartford, Conn. Children: (1) Charles E. Goodhue, h.
February, 1846, d. February, 1871 ; (2) Frank A. Goodhue, b. Sep-
tember, 1849, d. February, 1879; (3) Clarence M. Goodhue, b.
September, 1852 ; (4) Harrij L. Goodhue, b. April, 1854.
7. Shepherd I.* Frost, born at Lee, N. H. about 1788. He married,
27 December, 1812, Emily Akerman, born 27 December, 1792,
daugliter of Joseph and Esther (Jackson) Akerman of Portsmouth,
N. II. He died at Miramichi, N. B., 3 July, 1853. She died at
Portsmouth, 4 August, 1864. Children:
1. Caroline Eaiily,* b. 11 June, 1814; d. 7 May, 1831.
8. ii. Charles Leonard, b. 3 April, 1815.
8. Charles Leonard* Frost was born at Portsmouth, N. H., 3 A|>ril,
1815; married, 19 October, 1846, Caroline Augusta Bailey, born
14 April, 1827. daughter of Thomas Darling and Martha (Nutter)
Bailey of Portsmout^h. He died 26 October, 1880. She died 21
May, 1886. Children:
i. Charles Augustus,* b. 29 July, 1848; d. 25 February, 1856.
«S ii. Ida May, b. 21 May, 1850; in. 20 February, 1873, Frank Tracy
' Ilobinson of New York, q. v.
iii. Caroline Emily, b. 2 August, 1852; m. 1st, 24 May, 1881, Edgar
Bradford Clark; m. 2d, 1889, Joseph J. Asch.
iv. Augusta, b. 1853: d. 1853.
V. Mabel Augusta, b. 28 June, 1855 ; m. 5 January, 1887, Robert
Jerome Umstaetter.
vi. Flora, d. an infant,
vii. Martha, d. an infant,
viii. Jennie, d. an infant.
^kcrman Cincagc.
AcHERMAN, Akertnan, Acreman, Oldacre, Oddiker and Whitaker are
names brought to P2ngland from Germany. Some of them five centuries
ago. In England, Akerman is synonymous with Tihnan, Plowman, Mower,
Dykeman and Hedger, or Hedgeman, representatives of agriculture. In
the Hundred Rolls of the eastern counties, it appears as " Le Akerman,"
and a poem of that date says :
The foules are up. and song on bough,
And acreman yede to the Plough.
The Anglo Saxon ^cerman, the German Akerman. the Dutchman Akker-
man and the English Farmer are cognate with the Latin Agricola. They
were a peculiar class of feudal tenants, whose holdings were small ; but they
were independant farmers, not serfs. With the smaller freeholders, they
make up the class called English yeomen.
From this burgher class, long settled in England, came the Akermans of
Portsmouth. Town bred and town loving to the core. Love in cottages
or farm houses might have charms for others, but could only be endurable
to them, provided the cottage were on Christian shore or Sagamore creek,
or the farm house on the fertile lands of the Great bay. Their staunch
protestantism had been converted into the sterner and uncompromising
theology of the Old North Church, where the family pew has been occupied
for the last two centuries, while much of the best Portsmouth life has been
developed in the more liberal atmosphere of the South Church, or in the
restful confidence, spiritual growth and Christian graces of St. John's.
Like the later emigration of the same stock to Bergen County, New
Jersey, the Akermans have led honest, faithful, useful lives, not without
recognition on the part of their fellow citizens. Intellectually, the race
culminated within the last sixty years, in the brilliant boy, who led the
Golden Branch at Exeter and the Psi Upsilon at Dartmouth. In his senior
year at college he encountered, unflinchingly, the best legal talent of
Grafton county, and emerged victorious in an argument as impregnable as
it was surprising in an undergraduate. On graduation he went to Georgia,
where he took high rank at the bar, and was pronounced by Chief Justice
Warner " the best practising lawyer within the State's limits." Surviving
the confederate struggle against subjugation, in which he held for a short
time a subaltern's commission in the Home Guard, he entered readily and
heartily into the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the recusant and too
sullen section of his residence, and was called by President Grant to his
cabinet, where he held the portfolio of Justice with ability and credit. His
value as the law officer of the Government did not atone for his lack as a
politician, and, rejected at the South for his want of devotion to rights there
held sacred, and distrusted at the North because he was without a follow-
ing, he left the administration, in whose cabinet he exerted no influence,
and, not long after, died in retirement.
About 1716, we find Benjamin Akerman a trusty minor official of the
Provincial Council and General Assetnbly, and similar position was capably
held by his descendants for one or two generations. Since the Revolution,
they have filled mercantile and industrial careers at Portsmouth, where,
without being capitalists, they have been among the well-to-do. from whose
ranks selectmen and bank directors have been chosen. In 1773, Benjamin
Akerman was a selectman, and, in 1782, a warden of the North Parish.
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In 1789, Joseph Akerman was one of the committee to receive Gen. Wash-
ington on his presidential tour, whicli extended as far east as Portsmouth.
In 1813, Joseph Akerman Jr. was collector of taxes.
1. Benjamin' Akerman, married 1st, 1713, Mary Hodge, and 2d,
Mary . Children : y>^ ^^-^^^^Z ^-^ 3/ /7J-7
2. i. Benjamin, 2 bapt. 1714. ^'
ii. Barnet, d. at sea.
iii. Mauk, lost at sea.
iv. Mary, in. John Broughton Edwards.
V. Phebe, m. Watson.
vi. Sarah, m. Jenkins.
vii. Lydia.
viii. Hannah, m. Elias Tarlton. Children : Stillman,^ Mary, Euth. Elias,
William, Hannah, Joseph.
ix. Noah, d. at sea. ~1
^J, hJT^^-'^- ^^"lUM, b. 21 Jan. 1736 ; m. Ann Odiorne. ( -^ ^g^ond wife
7^Z.^O-^jj_ JosiAH, b. 1 May, 1739; m. 1st, 1««, Mary j- ^Y ^'econu wue.
Sherburne; 2d, 1786, Elizabeth March. J
2. Benjamin^ Akerman, baptized 1714, married 29 December, 1737,
Elizabeth Mead. Children :
i. Walter, 3 b. 11 April, 1739; never m.
3. ii. Joseph, b. 20 June, 1741.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 28 March, 1744; m. Richard Jenkins. Children:
(1) Elizabeth,'^ b. 1763, m. Daniel Walker; (2) Phebe, b. 1779,
m. Elisha Hill.
iv. Phebe, b. 2 February, 1747; d. 14 October, 1774.
V. Barnet, b. 20 January, 1750; in. Sarah March. Children: Mark,
Barnet, Walter, Sarah, Hannah, Catherine.
vi. Benjamin, b. 23 August, 1752; m. 15 April, 1778, Elizabeth Den-
net; d. a prisoner of war at Halifax, N. S.
vii. Mark, b. 24 April, 1757; ni. Salome Lakeman; was a mariner and
d. at sea, leaving one child. j ^ r /
^liu< 2// ^53 .^^ 2.-2. cV- //^7
3. Joseph' Akerman, born 20 June, 1741, married Elizabeth Jackson, ^
daughter of Samuel and Amy (Dennett) Jackson, of Newcastle,
N. H. " A man of unbending uprightness, of inflexible integrity,
and a strict observer of the Sabbath." — Portsmouth Journal.
Children :
i, Elizabeth,* b. 10 June, 1765 ; m. Aaron Lakeman. Children :
(1) Caroline,^ m. Mark Richards, children: Caroline,^ in. Dr.
Glentworth; their daughter Caroline^ ni. H. Glentworth. (2)
Aaron, (3) Elizabeth unmarried.
4. ii. Joseph, b. 10 December, 1768.
iii. Samuel, b. 3 April, 1771; m. 1st, Sarah Ham; 2d, Amy Jackson.
Children, by first wife : Elizabeth'' and Henrif. By second wife :
(1) Henry, b. 3 June, 1800, m. Olive H. Buzzell; (2) Sarah, b.
27 July, 1810; (3) Clarissa, b. 2 May, 1812, m. F. A. Foster, chil-
dren : Amy,« Elizabeth, Samuel; (4) Olive, b. 7 May, 1814, m.
G. R. Wentworth, children: Henry, Samuel, Walter;" (5) Eliza-
beth, b. June, 1816, m. Charles F. Foster, ciiildrcn : Sarah,
Charles, Ada, Henry, Anne; (6) 3Iary Eleanor, b. 4 August, 1824,
m. Isaac Tower, and d. 24 July, 1860, children : Caroline, in. H.
Hovey, one dau. Clara; and Susan L. m. C. Pierce, one son Her-
bert.
iv. Amy, b. 17 October, 1774; d. 7 September, 1776.
V. Benjamin, b. 5 February, 1776; m. 1st, Lucinda Holman, and 2d,
Olive Meloon, b. 3 February, 1787, daughter of Enoch and Mary
' Meloon. She d. 12 February, 1824, and he d. 20 February, 1867.
Children: (1) Lucinda Holman, b. 7 August, 1809, m. 20 October,
1835, Phineas Nichols, children: Leslie Phineas, Frank Wayland,
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llalph Keniston; (2) Celia, b. 22 September, 1812, m. 20 October,
1835, H. I. Rns:^, child: Arthur Henry; (3) Harriet Neicell, b.
; (4) 3Iargaret Meloon, b. 12 October, 1816, m. 1844, John
r. Gonld, children ; Isabella, Frederic Nichols, Helen Margaret,
John F., Edith; (5) Walter Edwin, b. 6 October, 1818, m. Ellen C.
Bartlett, he d. at New Orleans, La., 30 August, 1847; (6) Harriet
Newell, b. ; (7) Amos Tappan, b. 23 Februarjs 1821, A.B.
Dart. Coll. 1842, m. in Georgia and d. there, was Attorney General
of the United States; (8) 3Iartha Hill, b. 11 May, 1824; (9)
Benjamin Jackson, b. 6 August, 1826.
yi. Amy, b. 1 August, 1778; m." Joseph Clark. Children: (1) Daniel,
d. at sea; (2) Emma, m. Oliyer March; (3) Benjamin; (4)
Lavinia; (5) Joseph; (6) Elizabeth; (7) Lucille.
Joseph^ Akerman, born at Portsmouth, 10 December, 1768; married
23 September, 1792, by Rev. Joseph Smith Biickminster, Esther
Jackson, born 4 August, 1774, daughter of Richard and Esther Jack-
son, of Christian Shore. They dwelt at Portsmouth, where he died
in November, 1835, and his widow 8 September, 1864. Children:
Emily,* b. 27 December, 1792; m. Shepherd I. Frost, q.v.
Supply Jackson, b. 31 July, 1794; d. 30 March, 1797.
Leonard, b. 17 March, 1796 ; d. 5 April, 1797.
, b. and d. 17 June, 1797.
V. Leonard, b. 30 March, 1798; m. 1st, February, 1819, Emeline
Adams, b. 23 September, 1707, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail
(Pickering) Adams of Newinston, q.v. His wife died, and he m.
2d, Sarah Hall. He d. 20 November, 1876. Children, by first
wife: (1) Emily N.,^ b. 19 December, 1820, d. 6 April, 1884; (2)
Giistavus L., b. 16 August, 1822, m. Martha Hanscom, d. 20
December, 1849, one child : Labree,'' b. 16 October, 1848, m. 1st,
, 2d, Irene Elder, children : W.M.,8 b. 12 August, 1883, Labree,
b. 1892, d. 6 March, 1894; (3) Henrietta P., b. 23 March, 1824, m.
7 June, 1849, George Kelt, children: Walter E., b. 8 June, 1850,
d. 5 June, 1851, Agnes, b. 27 December, 1852, m. 23 September,
1879, Charles E. Neat, d. 9 "November, 1884, William, b. 30 Jan-
uary, 1854, m. 22 October, 1879, Flora L. Miner; (4) John F., b.
26 January, 1826, d. 9 January, 1845; (5) Esther A., b. 11 May,
1828, m. 23 November, 1855, George W. Carlisle, childi'en : Florence,
b. 1 March, 1858, Ida L., b. 27 January, 1863, m. 6 October,
1887, Farkman Lennox, one child; (6) William W., b. 8 August,
1830, d. January, 1854; (7) Thomas C, b. 18 June, 1832, d. 19
July, 1838; (8) Caroline E., b. 2 October, 1834, d. 19 December,
1837; (9) Charles C, b. 17 January, 1838, d. 28 December, 1877;
(10) Ellen E., b. 3 July, 1840, d. 17 May, 1864.
vi. Lydia Jackson, b. 2 December, 1799 ; m. Samuel Jackson. She d.
21 May, 1888.
vii. Almiua," b. 25 July, 1801 ; m. Simon Pindar. She d. 15 September,
1846.
viii. Supply, b. 23 February, 1803; d. 28 January, 1826.
ix. INlAiJY, b. 12 December, 1804; d. 5 July, 1846.
X. Joseph, b. 14 October, 1806 ; d. 23 May, 1807.
xi. Elizabeth, b. 22 March, 1808 ; m. A. H. Jones. She d. 6 August,
1872.
xii. Joseph, b. 10 January, 1810; d. 25 August, 1852.
xiii. Charles, b. 27 February, 1812; m. Lucy E. Metcalf. He d. 14
April, 1879.
xiv. Aaron, b. 17 March, 1817; m. 5 May, 1842, Susan H. Hart. He d.
22 November, 1881. Children: (1) Howard TF.,* b. 31 March,
1844 ; (2) Alice Frost, b. 23 April, 1850 ; (3) Louise Grace, b. 3
December, 1856, m. 17 March, 1885, George W. Chesley, children:
Maud Alice,^ d. 12 August, 1887, Marion b. 5 May, 1888, (4) Clara
B.. b. 17 January, 1861, d. 21 March, 1861; (5) Charles Manning,
b. 3 April, 1862.
iJackson £incagc.
From very early days there have been two distinct families of Jackson
settled at Portsmouth, the one at Clirislian Shore, and tlie other at tlie
south end of the town, at times within tlie limits of New Castle.
JoHN^ Jackson, who had wife Joanna, and died in 1654, is the earliest
of whom mention is made. His son :
Richard' Jackson, born in England, took the oath of fidelity in 1656,
and was a signer of the Petition of 1665. To him was granted twenty-six
acres at Christian Shore in 1664, where he erected the building long known
as "the old Jackson house" and credited with being the most ancient house
in Portsmouth, N. H. It is a rare specimen of the architecture of the early
days. On the north side the roof slants to the ground. The frame is of
oak, the sills of which project into the rooms on the lower floor, affording a
continuous and stationary seat for the children, which has been so appro-
priated for six or seven generations. It is still owned in the family. His
sou :
John^ Jackson, b. 1657, d. 20 January, 1690, leaving widow Margaret
and son
John* Jackeon, whose grandson
Richard^ Jackson had wife Esther and a daughter,
Esther'' Jackson, b. 1774, d. 18/4, m. Joseph* Akerman. q. v.
Thomas' Jackson married Hminah Johnson, a daughter of James
Johnson, one of the Mason colonists of 1631. In 1678, Thomas Jackson
dwelt on the soutli road. In 1684 he served on a jury, and in 1689 he
signed the submission to Massachusetts. His daughter Mary married John
Sherburne, and another daughter married Capt. Thomas Westbrook, the
noted Indian fighter. His son Nathaniel was a " souldier att fourt W'"
and Mary" in 1708. His sou Thomas dwelt at New Castle in 1738.
Another son,
Joseph' Jackson was a taxpayer, agreeable to the lists of 1717, 1726,
1740. He died in 1743. His wife was Mary Sargent, born 1673,
daughter of Benjamin Sargent of Portsmoutli. At the old Point of Graves
cemetery may still be seen the inscription: "Mrs. Mary Jackson, widow of
Joseph Jackson, died loth June 1763, aged 90." Children:
i. Joseph,^ lost at sea.
ii. Mehitable, ra. 7 June, 1722, Mark Langdon.
iii. Thomas, m. Mary Odiorne.
iv. Ruth, m. Dr. Nathaniel Sargent.
v. Ebenezer.
vi. Mercy, m. William Grant, children : Bntli and Elizabeth.
, vii. Sajiuel, m. 28 December, 173G, Amy Dennett. ChWavan : Elizabeth,
£Z^ CPcA /y^'f^ m. i]L)^oii t i;nih>j i i, 1705 , Joseph^' Akerman, q. v.
viii. Benjamin, ni. Trnelove Luce. Cliil<lren : (l; Joseph; (2) Mary, m.
Simon Ring; (3) Daniel; (i)Elizabeth, m. Richard Worth, two
children, William and Elizabeth; (5) Samuel, m. L. Davidson,
(6) Amy, m. Samuel Akerman; (7) Henry, m. Eliza Durgiu.
©uttlc Cincage.
[The early portion from the Tuttle Family of New Hampshire, by Charles Wesley
TuTTi.E, A.M., Ph.D., member of the N. E. Historic Genealogical Society.]
Tuttle, or Tuthill, is a surname borne by families in New En£;land for
more tlian two centuries. The English surnames, whence the surname
Tuttle is derived, are Tothill or Tuthill, ancient family names in England.
These surnames are said to be taken from names of old localities in Eng-
land and Wales.
Tuttle, the American surname, came to be generally adopted by the
second and thii'd generations of descendants of the emigrant settlers,
although some branches continue to this day to adhere to the ICnglisli form
of the surname. The second syllable of the P^nglish surname passed
through every possible change of spelling before it finally settled into its
present form, " tie."
John Tuttle, the ancestor of the New Hampshire family of Tuttles,
settled in Dover sometime between 1633 and 1640. Tradition says he had
a brother who settled in Connecticut, otherwise it is not known that he was
connected with those who came in the "Planter" to Boston. There is a
tradition current among his descendants that he came to Dover from
Wales; another tradition says he came from the western part of England.
A coat of arms, in possession of one branch of the family, corresponds with
the arms of the Tothill families of Devonshire, England. Arms: "■ Az, on
a bend or, cortised or, a lion passant sable. Crest: on a mount vert, a
cornish chough proper, in its beak a branch of olive, fructed or." These
arms were borne by the Tothill family of Peamore, Co. Devon. Other
families in Plymouth and P^xeter, Co. Devon, and in London, bore arms
differing but slightly from those of the Peamore family. John Tuttle's
descent from the Devonshire family is inferred from the possession of these
arms by his descendants, and his probable origin in that part of Elngland.
Besides, it is a well known historical fact that the planters who settled
in Dover, between 1633 and 1640, consisted of "families in the west of
England, some of whom were of good estates, and of some account for
religion." As John Tuttle is here aptly described, so far as estate and
religion are concerned, it may be safely concluded, from all the facts,
as to the place whence he came. No attempt has yet been made to trace
out his connection in England, there being still hope that the private papers
of his son, Judge Tuttle, may be discovered, and throw more light on this
subject of enquiry. All that is here related of him and his children is
derived from public records in New Hampshire.
The history of John Tuttle began with the appearance of his name, in
1640, among the names of the principal citizens of Dover, on a protest
against the project of Underbill to place the little republic of Dover under
the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. It has been inferred that the signers of
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this protest were the royalists and Church of Enghind men of the settle-
ment, who favored the political and religious views of Mason and Gorges,
rather than those of the Massachusetts Puritans.
John Tuttle selected for his residence a charming site on the east side of
Dover neck, " bounded with the river on the east, the lott of Thomas
Bearde on the south, and the greate High Streete " on the west. This site
is about forty rods s.s.e. of the first church — the fortifications about which
are still plainly visible — in what is now Henderson's field. As it was de-
signed to build a "compact town " on this neck, the land was laid out into
house lots and streets, "one quarter of an acre" being called a "house
lot."
The planters built their houses and dwelt here, " it being a fine, dry and
and healthy situation, so high as to command all the neighboiing shores,
and affoid a very extensive and delightful prospect," while their plantations
were farther off in less protected places, where there was more room,
John Tuttle owned eiglit acres of this prospective city, on which he lived
and died in 1663, with a belief, probably, that his posterity would be en-
riched "beyond the dreams of avarice" by this investment. His planta-
tion was on the " west side of Back river, adjacent to the three creeks."
It is now owned and possessed by Samuel Tuttle, Esq., a descendant of the
sixth generation, having always been owned and possessed by the Tuttles.
This plantation embraced "lot No. 7" of the "twenty acre lots," which
was laid out to John Tuttle in 1642. It is the only one of these well
known twenty-four "twenty acre lots," laid out to as many persons in
1642, that is now and always has been owned by the descendants of the
first grantee. Besides this, he owned thirty acres of the "400 upland on
the Great Bay," and had granted hitn by the town a parcel of land which
was laid out to his son, Judge Tuttle, in 1706. He is styled in the public
records "John Tuttle, Planter," the last half of the surname l)eing written
in all manner of ways. He seemed to have communicated to his posterity
a bias for his own calling, for, with but a few exceptions, his descendants
to this day have been " husbandmen," tenaciously holding on to landed
property, as illustrated by the fact of the uninterrupted ownership of the
farm, which he owned and cultivated more than two hundred years ago, by
his descendants.
John Tuttle died intestate in May or June, 1663, leaving a widow
Dorothy and three children. He was probably not far from forty-five years
of age at his death. She was appointed administratrix of her husband's
estate, and made return to the court June 30, 1663. Although cut off by
death in the prime of life, soon after he settled in this wilderness, his per-
sonal property inventoried shows him to have been a well-to-do planter.
The court decreed a distribution of the estate, reciting in its decree "yt the
eldest daughter of the deceased is married and hath her portion already;
that the youngest daughter is to have 15 pounds when she comes to the age
of 18 years, or be dispossess of on marrying." The bulk of the property,
consisting of real estate, was given to the only son then living, John,'
"when he comes to 21 years of age." The widow Dorothy was taxed for
several years after, but nothing further is known of her, nor is it known
whether she married her husband in England or here. Children :
i. Elizabeth, ^2 m. before 1663 Capt. Philip Crommett.
ii. Thomas, killed by a falling tree in youth.
2. iii. John, b. 1046; d. June, 1720.
iv. Dorothy, m. Capt. Samuel Tibbetts.
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2. John' Tuttlr was a man of distinction in civil and military life. He
filled successively every public office witliin tlie gift of the citizens of Dover,
and was, by appointment in 1695, Judge of Their Majesties' Court of
Common Pleas, under the administration of Lt. Gov. Usher. He was
Selectman of Dover in 1686-87-88; Town Clerk from 1694 to 1717;
Town Treasurer in 1705 and other years following; member of the Pro-
vincial Assembly in 1698-99, 1705-6-7. He was one of the six com-
missioneis sent from Dover to the convention of 1689 to "meet with the
commissioners of ye other towns of ye province, to confer about and resolve
upon a method of government within this province." — (Dover Records.)
The convention met at Portsmouth, and resolved to put the province, as it
had been before, under Massachusetts, and it was done accordingly. In
1705, Col. Richard Waldron and Judge Tuttle were the "two principal
men " of Dover, chosen " to joyn with the repi'esentatives of said province,
and them invested with full power to hear, del)ate, and determine matters
relating to Mr. Allen's claim." — (Dover Records.) Besides acting in the
public capacities named, he appeais to have been, during all this time,
chairman of the board of public surveyors of land. He was one of the
leading members of the church at Dover, While a member of the General
Assembly in 1698, he and other members subscribed a declaration, declaring
" that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstan-
tiation of the Elements of Consecration thereof by any person, whatsoever,
and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any otlier saint,
and the sacrifice of the mass, as they ai-e now used in tl>e church of Rome,
are superstitious and idolatrous." The town records show a large number
of special public trusts confided to him by his fellow citizens. In a military
capacity, Judge Tuttle appears to have "done the state some service."
Dover had one military company. Its officers were appointed by the
Governor and Council, and were selected for their fitness, especially at this
period when a bloody war was raging between the whites and the Indians.
In 1689, he was lieutenant John Tuttle of this company; he had prol)ably
been ensign some time before. In 1692, he was captain of this company,
and remained so for about ten years. He was ever afterwards called
" Capt. John Tuttle" in the public records. While captain, he had charge
of all the military defences of Dover, and was often engaged with his com-
pany, or with soldiers sent him, in scouting and hunting after the Indian
enemy. The Council and Assembly records of these years show, to some
extent, what his arduous military duties were while chief military officer
of Dover.
Judge Tuttle died in June, 1720, leaving a large estate, which he dis-
posed of by will among his children and grandchildren. His wife Mary
survived him, and was executrix of his will. Her family name is not
known. Lieutenant Tristram Heard and captain Francis Mathews were
named in the will as trustees of iiis grandchildren. Children :
i. Mary.^ m. 6 December, 1687, John Wallingford. They dwelt at
Bradford, Mass.
ii. Thomas, b. 4 April, 1674; d. 26 April, 1699.
3. iii. John, d. 7 May, 1712.
iv. Sarah, m. Edward Cloutman.
V. Elizabeth, m. Samuel Edgerlv-
vi. James, b. 7 April, 1683; d.' 15 May, 1709.
vii. Ebenezer.
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3. Ensign John^ Tuttle, second son of Jurlge John and Mary Tuttle,
married Judith, daughter of Ricliard and Rose (Stoughtoii) Otis, Hose
and her brother, Sir Nicholas Stoughtoii. Bart., were the oiil}^ cliildreii of
Anthony Stoughton, Esq., of Stoughton in Surrey, England. — (N. E. Hist.
Gen. Reg., vol. v., pp. 179, 3o4.) Judith gave her third son the christian
name of her uncle, Sir Nicholas. Stoughton has been a favoiite christian
name among her descendants in the Tuttle line, a commemoration of the
connection of the two families. Ensign John Tuttle held ^everal civil
offices; he was ensign of the Dover military company. He is always re-
ferred to as "John Tuttle, Jr., or Ensign Tuttle" in the records. He
lived on the west side of Back river, about one mile from his father's, on
the farm which his grandfather, John' Tuttle, owned in his lifetime, and
which had descended to Judge* Tuttle, who probably designed to give it to
his son, ensign^ Tuttle, had he lived to receive it, but gave it to that one's
two eldest sons.
He and his wife are buried in the old burial ground near the river. He
owned a large tract of land iii the parish of Somersworth, and another at
Tole End. Ensign Tuttle was cut off in the prime of life by the hand of
the ''Indian enemy." On the 7th of May. while attending to some busi-
ness at his mill on the upper falls of the Cochecho, accompanied by his
eldest son, he was suddenly set upon by a party of marauding Indians, over-
powered and slain. Thomas, his son, escaped. The Boston News Letter
of May 12, 1712, has the following allusion to this attack of the Indians:
"On Tuesday they (Indians) mortally wounded and scalped John Crommet
of Dover; on Wednesday at Tole End Mill, about a mile from Col.
Waldron's, Ensign Tuttle was killed." This melancholy tragedy recalls, in
this connection, the fact that his wife Judith, at the time of the great
massacre in Dover in 1689, when her fiither, brother and sister were slain,
and her father's garrison burned by the Indians, was taken captive with her
two sisters, all young girls, and carried away ; but the Indians being over-
taken by a party of soldiers at Conway, on their way to Canada, Judith
and her two young sisters were rescued from their captors and brought
back to Dover. The untimely death of her husband left Judith a widow
with six children, the eldest fourteen, and the youngest two years old.
Their success in life indicates that she was a woman of ability and
intelligence. Children :
i. Mary,* b. 7 January, 1G97; m. James Cannev.
ii. Thomas, b. 15 March, 1699-1700; d. February, 1777.
iii. Judith, b. 10 May, 1702.
iv. John, b. 8 May, 1704; d. February, 1774.
v. Dorothy, b. 21 March, 1706; d. young.
4. vi. Nicholas, b. 29 July, 1708.
vii. Ja-mes, b. 9 February, 1710-1 ; d. 9 July, 1790.
4. Nicholas,'' third son of ensign John and Judith (Otis) Tuttle, marrieil
first, Deborah Hunt; second. Bertha Davis. He settled in that part of
Dover which is now called Lee. He subsequently removed to Nottingham,
where he died in 1793, and where his descendants have been numerous.
His grandfather, Judge Tuttle, gave him lands on the east side of Dover
neck " lying and being between Leftenant Beard's land and Nutter's and
the High Street on the west and the river on the east." This tract of land
included the homestead of John Tuttle, the first settler. Nicholas sold this
land to Judge Millett in 1735. Children :
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George,* b. 1737.
Stoughton, b. September, 1739
nail Sanborn; d. August, 1812.
Nicholas, ni. Sarah Smart.
Judith, ra. Joseph Burleigh.
Elizabeth, ra. Peter Stilling.
Deborah, m. Moses Perkins.
Esther, m. Joseph Sanborn.
Keziah, m. 1st, Jeremiah Elkins ;
Benjamin, b. 1764.
m. 1st, Lydia Stevens ; 2d, Han-
A soldier in the French war.
2d, Robert Evans ; and two others.
Mary, m. James Stokes.
By second wife.
5. George,* son of Nicliolas and Deborah (Hunt) Tuttle, married
Catherine Stevens, and lived in Lee. He was a captain in the army of the
Revohition and was with General Gates at Saratoga in 1777. Captain
George Tuttle was for many years a member of the Legislature and Justice
of the Peace. He died 12 April, 1816. Children:
i. Sarah,* b. 23 December, 1755; m. Wintlirop Erost, q. v.
ii. George Tuttle, b. 1707; d. 24 June, 1816.
®ti0 f incagc.
From an article in the N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., vol. v.. p. 177, by the late Houatio Nelsox
Otis, of Yonkers, N. Y.
Few families in New Hampshire or elsewhere suffered more from the
constant and cruel assaults of the Indians than the family of Richard Otis.
He, himself, with one son and one daughter, was killed in 1689, his wife
and child captured and sold to the French. At the same time a numher of
his grandchildren were carried captives, and a few years after some of his
children and grandchildren were killed, and others made prisoners b}' the
Indians. In a word, every one of his children (alive in 1689) and many
of his grandchildren, what few escaped with their lives, suffered in their
persons and property from the warfare of the savage foe. They live<l
in constant peril and alarm; their houses were fortified for defense
against the red men, and in their acts of devotion they carried their
arms in their hands. Richard Otis, it is generally supposed, was the
son of Stephen Otis, whose will, dated 1 637, and recorded in the con-
sistorial Episcopal court of Wells, county of Somerset, Englaiul, men-
tions one son, Richard, three daughters and a wife. His grandfather,
Richard Otis (see N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., vol. iv., p. 163), was of Glaston-
bury, county of Somerset, England, and his will, dated November, 1611,
mentions Stephen, John and Thomas, and two daughters, leaving a wife.
Richard Otis was first mentioned in New Enghmd in 1655, when he
was admitted an inhabitant of Bo^.ton. The same year he was at Dover
among the list of those qualified to vote. It is probable he went to
Dover in 1655, as it was the usage at that time to convey lands to
actual settlers at the time of settlement. He built his garrison house
on the north side of the river, about half way up to the great hill, now
called " Garrison hill." It was surrounded with heavy timber walls, and
the doors were secured with bars and bolts. To it the neighbors re-
paired for safety at night, or on alarms. He was taxed at Cochecho in
1656, and so onward.
He was one of those who, about 1660-65, were much dissatisfied with
the church at Dover. The opinions of the Quakers were spreading
there, and the cruel severity of their opposers drove many away from
the church who merely sympathized with the Friends. Tlie grand jury
presented, 30 June, 1663, "Richard Oatis and his wife and his servant
maide for not coming to meeting for seueral m° together. Tlie court
finds 13 days that Richard Oatis omitted coming to meeting and sentence
him to pay 5* per day is 3£ 5^" The wife received the same sentence
" and fees off court." The case of the " maide " was referred to the
Associates. Richard Otis was not a Quaker, but his son Richard becaiue
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one. Richard Otis was one of the selectmen of Dover in 1660. His
first wife was Rose, dangliter of Anthony Stouji'hton, and sister of Sir
Nicholas Stoughton, Bart., whom he married as early as 1661. His second
wife was Sliuali, widow of James Heard, and his third was Grizet Warren.
By his first wife he had seven children; by his third, two daughters.
On the nigiit of Thursday, tiie 27th of .June, 1689, the Indians surprised
two of the garrison houses at the upper settlement of Dover at Cochecho
falls. Maj. Waldron was brutally murdered, and Richard Otis was shot
as he was rising up in bed. His daughter Hannah, two years old, was
killed by dashing her head against the cliamber stairs. Stephen Otis, who
dwelt on a farpi next above his father's, was also killed. The wife and
infant child of Richard Otis, with the children of his son Stephen and
others, twenty-nine in all, wei-e carried captive to Canada and sold to
the French. They were the first English prisoners ever carried to that
country. Three daughters of Richard Otis by his first wife, then young,
were also taken, but were recaptured in Conway by soldiers who pur-
sued them. It was the custom of the Indians to divide their prisoners
in different paities and to take them to Canada by different routes.
Rose Stoughton, the first wife of Richard Otis, was the daughter of
Anthony Stoughton. an ensign in the Parliamentary army. Sir Nicholas
Stoughton says of his father, '"he was a Puritan and very strict liver."
In 1643, about to die, he entrusted his daugliter (then fourteen years old)
to his kinsman, Captain Israel Stoughton of Dorcliester, Mass., to bring
to New England out of the perils of the civil war then raging.
Our descent from the above is:
Richard* Otis married 1st, Rose Stoughton; 2d, Shuah, widow of James
Heard; 3d, Griselda Warren, daughter of James and Margaret Warren
of Kittery. Children :
i. Richard,* had wife Susanna, and d. 1701.
ii. Stephen, b. 1662; m. Mary Pitman; d. 27 June, 1689.
iii. Solomon, b. 1663; d. 166i.
iv. Nicholas, killed by Indians 26 July, 1696.
V. Experience, b. 1666; m. Samuel Heard, who d. 1696. Experience
was scalped by Indians the same mouth, recovered; m. 2cl,
Jenkins, and d. 8 Februar}', 1699.
vi. Judith, m. John Tuttle, q.v.
vii. Rose, m. John Pinkhani.
viii. Hannah, b. 1687; d. 27 June, 1689.
ix. CHRifcTiNE, b. 1689; m. 1st, Le Beau.
2d, Capt. Thomas Baker.
IMore recent research has found in the records of the Consistorial Court,
Somersetshire, England, wills which we abstract, viz:
Richard Otis, of Glastonbury, made his will 17 November, 1611. He
bequeaths to sons, Stephen and John, two daughters and his wife.
Steplien Ottis, of Glastonbury, made his will in 1637, and mentions son
Richard, daughters Frances, Judith, Hannah, and wife Elizabeth.
Here, perhaps, in uncle and nephew, we may trace John of Hingham,
Mass.. and Richard of Dover, N. H.
Glastonbury is an ancient English market town, the location of an early
introduction of Christianity, where the miraculous thorn blossomed on
Christmas Day and where King Aithur was buried.
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From 1638 onward, many Baileys are on record as anivinij at Salem,
Lynn, Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury, Watertown and Weymontii in Massa-
chusetts; at Scarborough in Maine; at Hartford, New London and New
Haven in Connecticut; Newport in Rhode Island, and at Southampton on
Long Island. A very earnest and active research is at present progressing
among descendants of these various emigrants, but we regret to say that we
have not definitely ascertained from which branch came the Baileys of Green-
land and Newington, N. FL, from which we derive descent.
Thomas Bailey and wife Eunice were at or near Greenland. N. H., in
1734. George Bailey was a soldier in Kinslagh's company, and Nathaniel
Bailey in Perkins's company, Louisburg expedition, 1745. Jonathan and
Sarah (wife) Bailey sell land in Greeidand, 1767. These are, doul)tless, the
parents of Jonathan Bailey jr. The father was one of the petitioners in 1783
for separate representation in the Legislature, and father and son, in 1789,
signed a petition for the New Castle (Great Island) bridge.
1. Jonathan' Bailey was a farmer at Greenland, N. H., where he died
1808 or 1809, as, in March of the latter year, his estate of forty
acres of land, two pews in the church, &c., passed to his widow,
Sarah, by order of tlie Probate Court. Children :
1. John, 2 m. Mary Knight; d. 1840. He was deacon in the church.
2. ii. JOxNATHAN. /i-4^^/^, /^^^.*^ J^^rt^
2. Jonathan" Bailey, called jr., dwelt at Greenland. By wife Sai^ /
Pickering, he had children :
i. DANiKL,4b. 30 December, 1781.^ ^^'"^7, ;^ ^^//^ ^ ^
3. ii. Thomas Dakling, b. 7 February, 1785. ^. 7ua-L .^^ ,/ s/
iii. Mary, b. 27 February, 1795.
iv. Nathaniel, b. 8 June, 1798.
V. Sarah, b. 24 July, 1801.
vi. Irene Elizabeth, b. 6 July, 1807.
vii. Jonathan, b. 7 July, 1810. ^ J.M^i3a/^/c^
_- 3. Thomas* Darling 15ailey was born at Greenland, N. H., 7 Febru- /,«_ /
^ciH/r/9^f ary, 1785, ra. Martha, daughter of Capt. George Nutter of Ports- ^^^*^ /'^^'-^^ .
/ mouth, b. 1789. They resided at Portsmouth, wher^ie died. His
'^'W^ died 25 March, 1861. Children:
i. Thomas* Adams, b. 1809, d. 1 January, li^.
C^ly'u<. -;^/l^^ Sara Abba, b. 15 April, 1814, m. 18 February, 1833, Elias Taft . yo /a -,
c ''" -^ / ' Aldrich. Son: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (the poet and autlior),^;^^'^'^V //'* .
b. 11 November, 1836, m. 1865, Mary Elizabeth Woodman, has ^
twin sons : Cliarles Frost and Talbot Bailey, b. 17 September, 1868.
iii. Martha, b. 1816, d. 11 Febuary, 1850.
iv. Francis Amanda, b. June, 1823, m. William Henry Thomas, of New
York City, d. 20 July, 1876. Children : (1) William Hennj,^ b- 29
August, 1854, m. January, 1879, CliarlotteTownseiul.^ (2) Fannie
Louise, b. 7 September, 1856, m. 21 December, 1880, Harmon W.
Vanderhoef, Children: Francis Bailey,^ b. 4 November, 1881,
Fannie Louise, b. 12 June, 1883, Natalie Wyckoff, b. 20 July, 1885.
(3) Thomas Hampton, b. 23 September, 1858, m. December, 1892,
Margaret Wilkins.
V. Caroline Augusta, b. 14 April, 1827, m. 19 October, 1846, Charles
Leonard Frost, q. v.
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7'i//-,^ Ai«4^/j .,'«<, j^^jU^.^ //'■ < •^*'
Nutter Cincage.
The Nutters are a family settled, from the earliest days of tlie white
man's occupation, at Dover, N. H. and the places planted by that expanding
settlement. They have been husbandmen, sailors, fishermen; with notable
examples in the trades and employments of south-eastern New Hampshire.
Of good judgment in woodcraft, as well as lands, and of lasting enduring
qualities as seamen, they have been thrifty. Contented in their abundance,
unpretentious for affluence or station, they have constituted a numerous class
of the sturdy citizens whose firmness, constancy and reliability have given
character to New Hampshire men. One looks in vain for their names on
college catalogues or state prison rolls; and they are seldom found in pro-
fessional or official life. Their active pursuits have been in the open air,
and their grey hairs have found rest in quiet graves.
We avail ourselves of a valuable historical article, contributed forty
years ago to the Dover ( N. FI. ) Enquirer, by Rev. Dr. Quint, the most
competent living authority on early New Hampshire events, as a foundation
for the following sketch, enlarged and extended by wide research in public
records and family papers.
Hatevil^ Nutter was born in England about 1603, as appears from
his deposition regarding some disputed land titles. He was, probably, one
of the company of persons "of good estates and of some account for reli-
gion" who were induced to leave England with Capt. Wiggins in 1635,
with the design to found on Dover neck, a " compact town," which was
never built. He testified in the aforesaid deposition that he was here in 1637.
His homestead in 1637 was rebounded in 1640, thus: "Butting on ye
fore River East (this was the river Newichiwannock), and on ye west upon
ye High Streete, on ye north upon ye lott of Samewell Haynes, and on ye
south upon the lott of William Story." He owned also a lot on the west
side of Back river, and at various times received grants of land in localities
then certain, but now undefinable. His house stood about fifteen rods
n. u. 6. from the nearest corner of the lower school house on Dover neck.
On the spot of the old cellar two pear trees are no.v standing. He was a
Ruling Elder in the first Dover church, and, occasionally, a preacher.
In 1643, the Elder had a grant of Land between Lamprill and Oyster
rivers, which was laid out in 1662 to Antony, his son. He had a "grant
of 200 ackers next Wm. Sheppulds, for a farm," 2 February, 1658. In
April, 1669, he gave the " Welchman's cove" property to his son Antony,
and after his death to Antony's son John. He gave to .John Winget, hus-
band of "Daughter Mary," land, etc., on Dover neck, 13 February, 1670.
The Elder was a very respectable man, indeed. He filled various offices
in church and state, and possessed a reasonable share of this world's goods.
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These considerations procured for him that respect which the moral worth
of a rich man always excites. When business was shick, the Elder some-
times amused himself with the old fashioned pastimes which age has abol-
ished. That the Elder did really indulge in the manly recreations of the
year of grace, 1662, is inferred from a statement of the Quaker historian,
Sewell. After recounting the history of some Puritanic amusements, he
says, "and all this {i.e. the whipping) in the presence pf one Hatevil
Nutter, a Ruling Elder, who stirred up the constables to this wicked action,
and so proved tliat he bore a wrong name." The Elder died in a good old
age. His will was dated 28 December, 1674 (he being "about 71 years
of age"), and proved 29 June. 1675. To his "present wife, Annie," he
gave" the use of his dwelling house, orchard, marsh in Great bay. etc., all
of it to go to his son Antony after her decease. To his son Antony he
gave the mill grant at Lamprey river; one third of the "movables," etc.;
and one fourth of his 200 acres of land in " Cochecho woods"; marsh east
of Back river; and the other third of the personal property. Children :
2. i. Antoxy,' b. in 16.30.
ii. Mary, who m. John Winget as early as 1667.
iii. Elizabeth, who m. Thomas Leighton, and d. in 1674.
iv. Abigml, who m. S'g't Thomas Roberts.
And probably others. //cf<^ d^^ ^^ ^f^ ^^O^f'
2. Anthony' Nutter was born in England in 1630. His wife, '^^^-^'^ Z^'^' ''''•^-
Sarah, was a daughter of Henry Langstaflf.y* They dwelt for a
time at Dover neck, but soon removed to Welchman's cove, across
the river, and settled at what became Newington. He exercised a
wider influence in public affairs than ever his father did, and filled
higher stations. In 1662, lie was admitted Freeman; in 1667, was
"corporall"; and, in 1683, " leftenant," by which latter title he is
commonly known, historically. He was selectman, a member of
the General Coui t of Massachusetts, and of the General Assembly
of New Hampshire, and in 1681-2, was a member of the provincial
Council. While a member of the New Hampshire legislature, he
was a witness to the brawl between Robert Mason, proprietor of the
province, and Walter Barefoot, the deputy Governor, on one side,
and Thomas Wiggins, a son of Capt. Thomas Wiggins of Dover.
The scuffle took place 30 December, 1685, at Barefoot's house on
Great island in Portsmouth harbor. Nutter did not participate in
the difficulty, as Wiggins was individually sufficient to throw first
Mason, and then Barefoot, literally upon the fire. A servant maid
gave testimony, at the trial of Wiggins for the affair, that " a tall,
big man, named Antony Nutter, wlis walking about the room in a
laughing manner, but did not give any assistance nor endeavor to
part them."
Anthony Nutter died of small pox, 19 February, 1686. His wife
survived him. Children :
3. i. JOHN.^
4. ii. Hatkvil.
iii. Henry, who d. at Newington, January, 1740. He left wife Mary,
and four cliildren, viz : (1) Valentine; {2) Joseph ; {S) Elizabeth,
m. Crockett; (4) Mary.
3. JoHN^ Nutter dwelt at Newington. His children were:
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i. John,* m. 8 February, 1718, Abigail Whiddeu, and d. in 1747, with-
out issue.
5. ii. Matthias.
lii. Jamf.s, m. 1 Januarj^ 1724, Abigail Furber.
iv. Hatevil.
. Hatevii.^ Nutter, in 1713, with other inhabitants of Bloody Point,
petitioned Gov. Dudley and the General Court that they '• by main-
taining the minister, school and poor among ourselves, may be ex-
empted from all other charges save only the province tax." This
petition resulted in the establishment of Newington, so named by
the governor 12 May, 1714. Mr. Nutter was twice married. By
his first wife he had four children, and by his second wife, Leah
Furber, whom he married 16 May, 1716, and who was his widow,
he had five others. He died in 1745. Children:
i. Hatevil,* dwelt in Newington, where lie was cordwainer.
ii. Anthoxy.
iii. Eleanor.
iv. Sakah.
6. V. John, b. 21 February, 1721.
vi. Elizabeth, b. 19 September, 1723; m. 21 November, 1742, EdAvard
. Rawlins ; dwelt at Rochester, N. H. Twelve children,
vii. Joshua.
viii. Abigail.
ix. Olive, m. 26 January, 1748, Ichabod Rawlins, who was a drummer
at Winter Hill, 1775-6, during the siege of Boston. Ten children.
'. Matthias* Nutter was born at Newington, and always dwelt there.
His wife was named Hannah. Children:
i. Thomas.*
7. ii. Matthias, b. 1736. j^y^ [^ .
!. John* Nutter was born 21 February, 1721; married 17 November,
1747, Anne, daughter of John Simes, born in Err g i aiid , 20 October,
1727, died 11 August, 1793. Her only brother, Joseph Simes, was
the ancestor of the prosperous and highly esteemed family, identified
with Portsmouth business interests to the present day. Cliildreu :
1. Hatevil,* b. 1 December, 1748.
ii. Mary, b. 25 October, 1750; m. 1774 James Peavey.
iii. Hannah, b. 12 January, 1752; d. 12 June, 1764.
iv. Dorothy, b. 5 August, 1754; m. Furber.
8. V. John, b. 1 March, 1757; m. Elizabeth Dame,
vi. Anna, b. 6 March, 1760; m. ■ Johnson.
vii. Joseph Simes, b. 2 February, 1762: d. 2 February, 1846.
viii. Anthony, b. 17 February, i764.
ix. Hannah, b. 4 July, 1767; m. Jotham Johnson.
X. Abigail, b. 21 April, 1769; d. 28 August, 1850; m. Cyrus Frink.
. Matthias* Nutter, was born, 1736, at Newington, where he was a
farmer, was thrice married, had twenty children, and died 3 March,
1818. He left a long and specific will, in which he left his widow,
Mary, a legacy in addition to her dower in his estate, then legacies
to each of his eight children by his first wife, Martha Perkins. The
balance of his estate he left to his oldest son, James, to be held in
trust seven years for the support of his twelve younger children, by
his second and third wives. After seven years James was to inherit
the estate, subject to generous legacies to his then surviving chil-
dren. His children were :
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James,* of Portsmouth, who was executor aucl heir apparent.
Matthias.
George, b. 17G7.
Martha, m. Coleman.
V.
Hannah, m. —
Pickerin^
vi.
John.
vii.
Phebe, m.
— Shackford
viii.
is..
X.
xi.
xii.
Mary, m,
Joshua.
Joseph.
Anna.
Abigail.
— Burnham.
xiii.
Mark.
xiv.
XV.
xvi.
xvii.
xviii
xix.
Harriet.
Elizabeth.
William.
Lavinia.
. Sarah Jane.
Alfred.
XX.
Olive.
17G7
marri
T 1
inoiitli
N. 11.,
wliei-e
le
ied in
tlie 8umc
town,
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JOHN^ Nutter was born 1 iMarch, 1757; manied Elizalteth Dame.
He was a soldier in Capt. Parson's company, Col. Senter's I'egiment,
on service in Rhode Island, 1777; and major in tlie militia. Chil-
dren :
i. John,* b. 2 November, 1779.
ii. Nathan, b. 6 February, 1782.
iii. Eliphalet, b. 18 December, 1784.
3. iv. Joseph Simes, b. 25 August, 1787.
V. William, b. 1 Februarjs 1790.
vi. Nancy Simes, b. 30 January, 1793.
vii. James, b. 7 November, 1795.
George^ Nutter was born at Newingt<
Abigail Adams, q.v. He dwelt at Por
died 19--St>ptemher, 1814. His widow
August, 1823. Children:
i. Abigail,^ ra. Francis de Luce. /; c; ^
Martha, b. 1789; m. Tliomas Darling Bailey, g.y^^< />/'/ ^ W.
George, d. at sea. ' [/
Franklin, b. 1797; d. 27 Fcbrunry, 1823.
V. Mary Adams, b. September. 1 7;is ; m. im4 Joseph Bailey of Portland,
Me., b. 1776, d. 1824. She d. 7 Mareli, 1853. Children: {\) Eliza
Jane,^ b. 1816, d. 1817. (2j Marij Ellen, b. 1 Auiiust. ]sl8, m. 19
December, 1843, Frederick Foster Barrel!, 1). at Sritn.Uv. Mass., 3
May, 1821, d. 22 September, 1887, children : 1, Kll.n' Ml.ina, b. at
Charlestown, Mass., 19 September, 1 «,">(». tl. ;;i Diccinhcr. 1850;
2, Fredetta Cora, b. 24 July, 1856, m. 4 Sciitcinl. ■]• iss:;. ciiftun
Aurelius Pendleton, b. in Maine, 28 Scptcinlici-. l>:.n, chiltliiii :
Rosetta Mabel, *" b. 21 July, 1884, Alma Loium, Ii. :, April, !~^^7.
Clifton Aurelius, b. 24 August, 1890. (:'. ) i,r,,r,ir F.;u,kli,i. h. .-.
May. 1821, d. October, 1838. (4) John lh„vii'.\K VI .\,.vcuiln>r,
1823, d. 23 October. 1879, m. at Tewkshurv, .Ma^s.. Sarah Ahi-ail
Huntress, b. 8 October, 1824, d. at Portsnionth. X. 11., iT, Sci)-
tember, 1892, children: 1, Frances* Augusta, b. 24 November,
1848 ; 2, Henry Huntress, b. 1 January, 1851, d. 8 September, 1863.
10. Joseph^ Simes Nutter was born at Newington. N. II., 25 August,
1787; married Phebe Pickering Hoyt, horn 20 August, I7)Si),
daughter of William and Charlotte (Pickering) Iloyt <>f Newington.
Her mother was a daughter of Winthrop and Pliebe (Nutter) Pick-
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ering, of Newington. They dwelt at Portsmouth, where all the
children were born. Children :
i. Lucy Anx,^ b. May, 1815.
ii. Joseph Simes, b. November, 1816.
iii. Joshua Morrill, b. August, 1818.
iv. Charlotte Elizabeth, b. April, 1820.
V. Mary, b. 11 March, 1824; m. 9 April, 1845, Augustus Walbach Odi-
orue, b. 27 July, 1821, sou of George Beck and Ruth Odiorne, of
Portsmouth. Children: (1) Katharine Norrie,^ b. 6 March, 1849,
m. November, 1868, George Frederic Evans, children: 1, Mary
Ilsley, m. Francis RoUin Spalding, b. 25 September, 1861, sou
of John Varnura and Josephine (Soule) Spalding of Boston,
children : Evans Spalding and Francis RoUin Spalding, 2, Lucie
Macomb ; (2J Joseph Simes, b. 12 January, 1853.
Pickering £incagc.
Among the names of the passengers by the " William anrl John,"
Capt. Rowland Langram, appears that of John Pickering, aged 25 years.
Whether this be the carpenter who is the known ancestor of the Ipswich
and Salem family, or John of Portsmouth, is difficult, perhaps impos-
sible to determine. John, of Strawberry Bank, from whom we derive
issue, was there as early as 1633, as appears by his receipt given in
settlement of accounts to Ambrose Gibbons. Possibly, he was at Cam-
bridge in 1 G38 and '42. His farm rested on the shore of the l^iscataqua
river, northward from the South Mill creek, and for a long time was
known as Pickering's neck. In 1640, he, with others, gave fifty acres
as a glebe for the Queen's Chapel; the point of Graves was also a
portion of his property. In 1658, he built the south mill, being con-
ditioned by the town for a foot way over his dam for the passage of
the people in going to meeting. In 1G55, he was granted "the land
lying between Swaden's Creek and Pincomb's Creek, in the Great bay,"
which lay within the present bounds of Newington. He was a member
of the " combination," the original government at Strawberry Bank.
In 1643, appears the following entry in the Court record:
"John Pickering is injoyned to deliver the old combination at Straw-
berry Bank the next Court."
His son, Capt. John Pickering, a carpenter, was a leading man in
church and state at Portsmouth, was the south miller, commander of the
port company, member of the Assembly and speaker, moderator and
attorney before the courts.
John Pickering, senior, died 18 January, 1669. He had wife Mary.
Children :
i. Mauy, b. at Cambridge, 5 November, 1G38.
ii. John, b. at Portsmouth, 1640; m. Mary, daughter of Anthony
Stanyan of Hampton; d. 1721.
iii. Abigail, b. 22 April, 1642.
iv. Rebecca.
2. V. Thomas.
vi. Sarah.
2. Thomas' Pickering inherited the Newington property of his
father; married Mary (tradition says her name was Gee) ,^ re-
moved to the Swadden's creek farm, and commenced building
his house. For two centuries, this home and property remained
in the possession of his lineal descendants. He was a man of
unusual physical strength, which became so developed, while he
was assisting his father at the mill, that he could carry, with a
firm step, eleven and a half bushels of corn, piled upon his back,
up the steep grade to the mill floor. Brewster, in his " Rambles
7Fr.
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about Portsmouth," relates the following incident: "While he
was clearing his land on the bay, an English man-of-war came
into the harbor of Piscataqua. A press gang was sent on shore
to obtain recruits. Two of them met Thomas Pickering felling
trees. They conversed with him and, complimenting his muscular
appearance, commanded him to leave his work and follow them.
Thomas declined on the plea that he had a young family and
was needed at home. ' No excuse, sir, march ! ' were words
which the lord of the forest could not brook, — so, seizing one by
the hack of his neck with his left liand, he placed his face on
the ground, with his right hand he raised his axe as if to chop
off the fellow's head. The other, terrified, seized Thomas's arm
and begged for mercy. Thomas permitted the arrogant fellow to
rise, and they hastened to escape from such a lion's power.
In 1686, John and Sarah Fabyan deeded to Thomas Pickering
"30 acres of upland and 6 acies of salt marsh, formerly called
Swadden's marsh and Herod point, upon the eastward side of
Great bay, adjoining said Pickering's neck of land." On the
Swadden creek, on both sides of which his land now lay, Thomas
Pickering erected at the head of the tide a mill, the remains of
which are yet to be shown. This gave the name of Mill creek
to the little brook. In 1716, Thomas gave to his son, James,
land "bounded by Swadden's creek," and in 1719 he gave his
son Thomas the farm on which stood his dwellings and buildings.
Thomas Pickeiing made his will in August, 1719. It was
proven in April, 1720. His wife Mary survived him. Children:
3. i. .Tames, a b. about 1680.
4. ii. Joshua.
iii. Thomas, b. 28 November, 1703; m. 1st, Mary Downing, and 2d,
Mary Janvi'in. He d. 9 December, 1786. Was ancestor of
William Pickering, State treasurer of New Hampshire, and U. S.
collector of the port of Portsmouth.
3. James" Pickkring, born near 1680, was a lieutenant in the French
war, and, like his father, a farmer at Newington, filling local town
offices, such as selectman, etc. He was married as early as IH^,-
and died in 1768. Children: ^^ //^ 72L^)lct^/^^
WlXTIIROP.
AxTnoxY.
Thomas.
V. AniGAiL, m. Benjamin Adams, q.v.
Joshua^ Pickkrixg dwelt at Newington, and died there 1768.
Children :
i. Joseph.*
li. Joshua, m. Mary Brackett.
iii. Samuel, m. Elizabeth Brackett, b. 17-10. He d. 15 February, 1797.
She d. 5 December, 1832.
iv. Daniel, whose daughter Sarah m. Jonathan Bailey, q.v.
V. John, b. 1738; ra. Abigail Sheafe; grad. Harvard, 1761; delegate
to State Convention, 1783; Councillor, 1787; State Senator,
1788-90: Chief Justice N. H. Supreme Court, 1790-95; Judge
U. S. District Court, 1795-1804. He was a member of the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a LL.D., 1792, of Dart-
mouth College. He d. 11 April, 1805, and his widow 10 December
same year.
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vi. Dkborah, m. Hubbard Stevens.
vii. Elizabeth, m. Samuel Doe.
viii. Sarah.
ix. Ephraim, b. 1733; m. Lydia Colman; was Major 1st regiment
N. H. troops in the Revolution ; member N. H. Legislature,
1780-81. He d. 1802. His widow d. 16 February, 1832, aged 9-1.
The property on Swadden's creek was long occupied as the
Pickering property, and was the scene of activity and enterprise.
Miss Tliompson says it " is now utterly silent and desolate.
There is only a cluster of tall chestnuts and pines on the shore,
which overshadow a few hillocks, where the early Pickerings are
buried, on the very edge of the water, looking off over Great
bay towards the southern shore of Durham, N. H. — a spot beau-
tiful and solitary, abandoned to Nature, where it seems good to
rest and await vitam venturi scecuU."
3bam6 ;Xincaqc»
Henry-' Adams, the senior of this line in America, was among the
early settlers. In 1641, he was granted hy the town of Boston forty acres
in what afterwards became Braintree. As the custom prevailed to grant
four acres per head to a family, it is judged that Henry Adams had a wife
and eight children. He was buried at Braintree, now Quincy, Massa-
chusetts, 8 October 1646. His will was probated in June, 1647, and names
five sons and one daughter, vix. : Peter, John, Joseph, Edward, Samuel
and Ursula. The will is printed in the New-England Historical and
Genealogical Register, 7 January, 1853, vol. vii., p. 35. Three other
sons, well known, were not mentioned in the will. Children :
i. Henry-, b. 1604 in Eng-laud, settled at Medfield, d. 1676.
ii. Thomas, b. 1612 in England, settled at Chelmsford, d. 1688.
iii. SAMri:i>, b. 1617 in England, settled at Chelmsford, d. 1666.
iv. Jonathan, b. 1619 iu England, settled at Medfield, d. 1690.
V. rETEit, b. 1622 iu England, settled at Medfield, d. 1690.
vi. John, b. 1624 iu England, settled at Cambridge, d. 1706.
2. vii. Joseph, b. 1626 in England, remained at Braintree, d. 1694.
viii. Edward, b. 1630; settled at Medfield, d. 1716.
ix. Ursula ; unknown beyond her father's will.
Of the history of Henry Adams in England nothing is, to-day, certainly
known. A Henry Adams, aged 33, of St. Michael's parish, Cornhill,
London, was married 12 Dec. 161)1* to Elizabeth Newman, aged 17,
daughter of Thomas Newman, deceased, with consent of her mother.
John Adams, ex-President of the United States, in 1817 erected a granite
column in the burial ground at Quincy, with the following inscription:
"In memory of the HENRY A^AMS who took his flight from the
Dragon persecution in Devonshire, P^ngland, and alighted with eight sons,
near Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England and, after
taking time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield and the
neighboring towns; two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here
at liis left hand, remained here, who was an original proprietor in the
township of Braintree, incorporated in 1639.
" This stone and several others have been placed in this yard by a great-
great-grandson, from a veneration of the pietjs humility, simplicity, pru-
dence, patience, temperance, frugality, industry and perseverance of his
ancestoi-.s, in ho^jes of recommending an imitation of their virtues to their
posterity."
John Quincy Adams, also an ex-President of the United States, did not
concur in his father's belief that Henry Adams was from Devonshire; but
thought it more likely that he came, about 1634, from Braintree, Essex
county, England, with Mr. Hooker's company, first settled at Roxbury; see
Wiiithrop's Journal, I.: 37. Historical students generally accept this latter
view, but open to determination by further research and discovery of
authentic record in England.
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Joseph^ Adams, b. 1626; m. 2 Notemfeer 1650, Abigail Baxter, b.
at Roxbury September 1634, daugbter of Gregory and Margaret
(Paddy) Baxter. Her fatber, doubtless from a family long estab-
lisbed in tbe county of Norfolk, was among tbe earliest comers to
the Bay colony, arriving in 1630 and settling at Roxbury. In
1640, he removed to tbe point in the present city of Quincy, where
he continued as a landholder till his death, 21 June, 1659. Her
mother was a sister to William Paddy, Treasurer of Plymouth
colony 1640-53. She d. 13 February, 1662. Joseph Adams was
a maltster, in which business his posterity continued to the end of
the provincial era. In his will be bequeathed to Peter, his youtigest
son, his dwelling house, malt house and the most of his property;
to Joseph, only a single acre of salt marsh; to John, a Boston
merchant, forty pounds and ten bushels of apples every year that
he should send for them. The furniture was divided among his
daughters. Mr. Adams often filled town offices, such as highway
surveyor and selectman. His wife d. 27 August, 1692, and he d. 6
December, 1694. Children:
i. Hannah,^ b. 13 Nov., 1652; m. Samuel Savil.
!. ii. Joseph, b. 24 Dec, 1654. a a c\ M, C\y^C\
iii. John, b. 12 Jan., 1656; d. 27 Jan., 1656. \ l C7^C/ f C7
iv. Abigail, b. 27 Feb., 1659; m. Jolm Bass; d. 16967
V. John, b. 3 Dec, 1661; m. Hannah Webb;") ., ,
vi. BethLv, b. 3 Dec. , 1661 ; m. John Webb \ \ "^^^ '''^^^ grandparents
of Gov. Sam. Adams, the Massachusetts patriot.
vii. Mary, b. 3 Oct., 1663; d. an infant.
viii. Samuel, b. 16 Sept., 1665; d. an infant.
ix. Maky, b. 12 Feb., 1668; m. Samuel Webb.
X. Peter, b. 7 Feb., 1670; m. Mary Webb.
xi. Jonathan, b. 16 Jan., 1671.
xii. Mehitable, b. 23 Nov., 1693; m. Thomas White.
Joseph'' Adams, born 24 December, 1654, married (1) 20 February,
1682, Mary, born ;?7 August, 1662, probably daughter of Josiah and
Mary Chapin. Mr. Chapin was first at Weymouth, then at Braintree,
freeman 1678, and finally at Mendon, where be was ensign and the
first representative after Philip's war. They had two daughters, i.
Mary, and ii. Abigail, when 14 June, 1687, Mrs. Adams died.
Mr. Adams married 1688 (2) Hannah, born 22 June, 1667, daugh-
ter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass of Braintree. She died 24
October, 1705. Like his father, Joseph was maltster and selectman
at Braintree, where he died 12 February, 1737. His widow died
February 1739. She was a third wife, named Elizabeth, and the
mother of one son. Children :
t. iii. Joseph,'* b. 1 January, 1689.
iv. John, b. 8 February, 1691, father of Pres. John Adams.
V. Samuel, b. 28 January, 1694.
vi. JosiAH, b. 8 February, 1696.
vii. Hannah, b. 21 February, 1698.
viii. Ruth, b. 21 March, 1700.
ix. Bethiah, b. 13 June, 1702.
X. Ebenezek, b. 30 June, 1704.
xi. Caleb, b. May, 1710; d. June, 1710.
By his will he left the bulk of his estate to his sons John and
Ebenezer, remembering the other boys with small legacies, and
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mentioning tliat he had before apportioned them, especially Joseph,
to whom he had given "a Liberal Education."
Joseph* Adams, born 1 January, 1689, was graduated A. B. at
Harvard College 1710, in a class of fourteen, among whom were
Prof. Wigglesworth and librarian Denisoii. Nine of the class
were ordained. Mr. Adams outlived all his classmates. After
leaving college he became the town schoolmaster at Braintree, and
we read in the town records:
"28 November, 1710. Then Voted that Mr. Adams the present
School master be impowered to demand a Load of wood of each
boy that comes to school this winter."
He soon prepared himself, by the study of theology, for the service
of the church, and was ordained 6 November, 1715, and installed
in the ministry at Newingtoii, N. H., where he remained till Janu-
ary 1783, when he was in his ninety-fourth year, having been a
minister for sixty-eight years. The Newington records show
that 20 June, 1713, sixteen acres on the north side of Stoney hill were
given by the parish to Rev. Joseph Adams, minister of the parish,
in consideration of the great love, affection and respect they had
and did bear to him, &c., upon condition of his continuance with
them as long as life is continued, or he is able to officiate with them
as a minister. In 1721 Sarah, widow and relict of James Levitt,
conveyed to Joseph Adams, preacher of the Gospel, 40 acres some-
what westerly on y'' river that runs into Great bay, at or near a
place called Dumpling cove. This was adjoining Mr. Adams'
farm. Rev. Joseph Adams died at Newington 26 May, 1783.
Before his time, no other pastorate had continued so long in that
state. In 1757 a sermon of his on the death of John Fabian, a
leading citizen and representative of Newington, was published, and
in 1760 another on the necessity of rulers exciting themselves
against the growth of impiety.
Mr. Adams married (1) 13 October, 1720, Elizabeth, widow of
Janvrin, born 8 July, 1689, daughter of John and Bridget (Sloper)
Knight of Newington, who was the mother of his children. She
died 10 February, 1757. and Mr. Adams married (2) 3 January, 1760,
Elizabeth Brackett. of Greenland, a descendant of Capt. Anthony
Brackett, who was of the Mason company, 1631. Children:
i. Elizabeth,* b. 13 October, 1721; d. 13 February, 1722.
ii. Joseph, b. 17 January, 1723; m. Johanna, daughter of Maj. Ezekiel
Gilman of Exeter. Rev. John Adams, a celebrated Methodist
minister, was a grandson.
iii. Ebenezrr, b. 4 September, 1726; m. Louisa Downing; d. Novem-
ber, 1767.
. iv. Benjamin, b. 18 January, 1728.
Benjamin* Adams was born 18 January, 1728; married 6 June,
1751, Abigail Pickering, born 6 June, 1733, daughter of Lieut.
James Pickering of Newington, a grandson of John Pickrin the
emigrant of 1633 at Strawberry Bank, as Portsmouth, N. H., was
then called. He served his country in Captain Abijah Smith's com-
pany, enlisted out of Col. Enoch Hale's regiment.
The following forcible and earnest letter from him regarding local
irritations at Newington duiing the early days of the revolution,
is published in the N. H. Town Papers, vol. xii., 723, 727 :
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To the Honourable Joshua AVentworth Esqr
Sh-:
I understand you have not thoujiht me worthy of your Notic in nppniniinfc me a
Justice of the Peace in the County, notwithstanding tlie Iniportunitise of my friends: and
If my memory Serveth me Right you gave me Great Encouragement your Self but all I find
is Subsided: I understand you had the advice and Councel of Hushai: who Counccied
against Ahitophe! which has turned against me liy my Enemies I know them and 1 Shnll
Set a mark upon them as was Set upon Cain when he Slew his Brother Abel because his
ways were Righteous and his wicked : I understand One Great 01)jection is that I was not
friendly in the beginning of the Revolution. I confess I Did not Step forward at first for
many (3ood Reasons which I Could oifer If time and paper would allow being acquainted
with History both Civil and Sacred, I was afraid to act as forwardly as Some have Done Least
I Should offend against God and the Dictates of my Own Conscience my Estate has Done
Its part or more Sir you may Remember twelve Dollars in hard money being in your hands
in a Lottery way you advanced to help the troops wlien In distress in Canaday and I was
Paid in Paper with a Considerable Loss: I understand it is Olijected that there is two Justices
in Newington It being a Small town two was Sitflcient I may Justly Say that there is
not one Properly specking, for Richard Downing Esqr has not Taken the Oath nor will
he If he must Pay a Dollar for his Commission as he told me him Self and the Other is as
the Learned Observeth : Vox et preterea Nihil; I am afraid that yon Gentlemen in au-
thority are Runing into the Old Error In promoteing of men without Knowledge or Good-
ness and Neglecting men of Learning and Religion which is a great Error When the
Righteous are in authority the People Rejoice : but when the wicked bire Rule the People
mourn, another Objection is the people of Newington are against ino I kmnv it what is
the reason It is not against my morral Carracter nor Capacity in a Civil "r UiiiMious way
for I have Served them as a Church Officer more than thirty years mimI Xrai- twenty in a
Civil List Sir I will give you a short Detail on the matter In the year 177>i tlic Select Men
Cam to pay my father his Salary for one year which was one hiindreil Silver Dollers
which they had Paid: for a Number of years and no more l)eing (niel y dt.e third of his
Sailer)' yearly and the}' Brought him a hundred paper Dollers in the Lue there of which he
Refused to Give them a Dischugc in full and the town Passed a Vote Not to Pay him any
more Salary till he Did Give them a Discharge in full and they Paid him no mure to the
time of his Death and I was In duty bound to Support him to the time of his Deiith ; and
then to burrey him without any assistance from the town and Some years Since his Deith
the town has Compounded with me and has Given their Security for though an Inferiour
Sum which is the Cause of their Malice against me as to niv being an Enemy to my
Countery I Deny the Charge I always was and Ever have Been Redy and willing to Defend
it in person and Estate and am Now Redy and willing to Supi)ort Govennnent i)rovided I
am properly treeted and promoted by those in authoi-ity or Otherwise I shall be Dis-
couraged and Probeblly may let matters take their Course without ni' Inteimeddling in
those matters I apprehend it is a poor time to mak Enemies against (iovernment the
Countrey is full of them already to my Certain Knowladge and I fear the CmiMciuence If
Som thing Is not Done speedily; for the President and Councel to hear the nonsensical
Rabble against Men of Influence is Strange and Snrpriseing I Ever have Given my Vote
for Corr Wentworth for a Senator and Ever Expected to Use" my Influence for him in that
Office but If matters turn agains me in this way I have Done. I stepped forward the
Other Day to Support Government and was the Second man to coll Brewster who stoped
the In Surgents at the Bridg till we were properly Re in fcn-sed by General Silley and Others
to the hasard of my Life and hors against their Naked bayonets, but the Poor mans
Councel and assistance is Dispised as the Good old mans Councel was, that Saved the City
which we have an account of in Scripture Sir by your keepitig Me out of power may pre-
vent My Doing a Great Deel of Good to Government and my fellow men which I Should
Rejoice to Serve Provided there is or may be proper Encouragement: two Justices in New-
ington is too many: there is four in Greenland and two iu one house and No objection
against it but two in Newington is too many 1 remember four Coroners appointed in New-
ington Successively and not one of them Could Draw up an Inquisition without my help
and Some in the Civil List are as Insufficient to Dis Charge their office without my assist-
ance I think these things are an Error in those in Comand ; Sir I would not have you
think I am Set up for a Dictator to those in Government I onely wist to show Matters in
a Clear light Strictly Speaking I Do not want [tornj to any Set of men Onely I wish to be
prouerly Respected by those in authority I am a free Citizen and am Dependent [torn] I
shogid think that the recommendation of John Pickering Esqr and Other Gentlemen in the
Nei hbouring towns of my acquaintance migt have more Influence in the Councel than
the Rabble party in Newington I fear Government may be Called on again to Disperse
the Insurgents and If that should l)e the caise I believe I Shal Endeavour to Sleep in a wiiole
Skin and not medle where I have no authority but I hope nuitters will be to my satisfac-
tion. I Sul)scribe My Self a true friend to Government and would Recommend to my
Self and all imder my Influence to Rememl)er the words of the apostle Paul in 13th
Chapter of Romans Let Every Soul be Subject to the higher Powers for the Powers that
be are ordained of God and So onwards
Bi:njamin AnAMS
P. S. Sir If you Please you may Communicate these Lines to the President and Counce
when you See them if you think best or otherwise.
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This mood of angry petulance seems to have subsided; for, in cooler lan-
guage, he sent, not long after, the following, which is printed in the same
collection :
Newington, Dec- 28 : 1786
Sir I Hnve been Informed that Some Expressions in the Letter I Wrote to j'ou some
time past wlien Laid liefore the President and Counsel has Given some Umbrace to some
tiemen in Comieel which I am Exceedingly Sorry for If any such Expressions were
Looked on as affrontive I am sorry for It: I l3id not mean any such thing I must Confess
I felt something warm against Some of my Enemies in my' own town when I wrote s*
Letter and Did not thinlc so prudently as probably I might have Done All such Expres-
sions as are Imprudent and affrontive I am Sorry for and do ask His Excellencies and the
Councels Pardon praying that they may forgive Every thing that has been offered as affron-
tive and Call it an error in Judgment or a Peccadillo and not a crime unpardonable lam
Redy and willing to Sui)port Government and Defend it at this Critical time against all
Invaders of our Sacred Rights: and should Rejoice to be Incouraged by authority so far
that I might Do it with the Greatest charefullness: I beg you Honours would take my
matter Into your Serious Consideration again and grant me my request; lad no more I
Subscribe myself your true friend and Humble Servant at all tinies
Benjamin Adams
To Honi- Joshua Wentworth Esqr
P. S. Sir — Be Pleased to Lay the above before the President and Counsel
George Gains, of Portsmouth, gave the following certificate regarding
Mr. Adams, viz.:
"These may Certifie all Whom it doeth or may Concern that Benjamia
Adams Esq"^ of Newington Was some time in the 3'ear 1778 brought before
the Committee of Safety for said State being charged with Inimical Con-
duct towards his fellow citizens in the Dispute with Brittain and after a
full hearing (before said Committee) of his accusers he the said Adams
Was honorably acquitted the Subscriber at that time had the honor of
being one said Committee."
Benjamin Adams was a selectman of Newington in 1782. His wife
died 30 September, 1781, and he married (2) Susannah Brown, of Roch-
ester, N. H. He died at Newington 29 March, 1803, and his widow died
19 January 1824. Children:
i. James, b. 22 January, 1752, was captain; m. June 1778, Mary Cole,
b. 22 August, 1756, daughter of Capt. Amos and Elizabeth (Wal-
lingfordj' Cole of Berwick. Their son Benjamin m. Elizabeth
Home, daughter of Isaac Home of Dover, N. H., and their sons
Isaac and Seth were the inventors and patentees of the Adams
power printing press. Capt. James Adams died 10 June, 1779.
ii. Elizabeth, b. 15 October, 1754; m. 8 December, 1779, Joseph
Adams, a cousin.
iii. Nathan Webb, b. 16 May, 1756 ; m. 12 February, 1783, Elizabeth
Cole. He d. 23 April, 1831, and his widow d. 29 October, 1848.
iv. Ruth Webb, b. 23 May, 1758; m. 20 April, 1777, John Sliackford.
She died 21 December, 1725.
V. Mary, b. 12 April, 1760; m. Hon. James Smith.
vi. Abigail, b. 24 October, 1790; m. Capt. George Nutter, q. v.
6. vii. Bex.tamin, b. 1 November, 1773; m. Elizabeth Talpey.
vlii. Thomas, b. 4 June, 1779.
6. Bex.tamin^ Adams, born 1 November, 1773; married Elizabeth
Talpey, of Portsmouth. He died 16 September, 1817. Children:
i. Emeline, b. 23 September, 1797; m. Leonard Alierman, g. v.
ii. Sakah Catherine, b. 26 August, 1799.
iii. Henrietta, b. 23 July, 1801.
iv. Elizabeth, b. 19 October, 1803.
V. Abigail I'ickering, b. 15 December, 1806 ; m. Isaac Camp, of Bal-
timore, Md. Children : (1) William. (2) Augusta, m. John Hau-
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cock, of Philadelphia, Penn. ; Children : Laura ; Elizabeth ; Amanda ;
Benjamin Franklin; Almira Russell, b. 10 September, 1857, m. 24
April, 1889, Eugene Griffin, U. S. A., two children, Hancock and
Priscilla Alden ; Augusta Vira,inia; Winfleld Scott; Edward Town-
send; Anna Taylor; Irone; Elizabeth Sterling; Abigail Adams. (3)
Camilla. (4) Essex Pickering.
Martha Odiorne, b. 13 April, 1808.
Mary Parker, b. 15 April, 1810.
Benjamin Henry, b. 14 April, 1812.
John Quincy, b. 15 April, 1814.
Anne Maria, b. 15 December, 1817.
i3a00 Cincaqc.
The Ilasse family of England are of London. About 1630, with wife
Ann and their eldest children, Samuel Bass canie to New England, settled
at Roxbury, where he was one of the founders of the First Church,* was
freeman 1634, and removed to Braintree in 1640, where he was the first
deacon, an office which he held for more than fifty years. He was select-
man and representative to the General Court for twelve years. The history
of Quincy says : " Dea. Bass was a man of strong and vigorous mind, and
one of the leading men of Braintree for many years. His wife, Ann, died
5 September, 1693, aged 93. He died 30 December, 1694." The town
record says : " Dea. Bass was the father and grandfather and great grand-
father of a hundred and sixty and two children, before he died." Children :
i. Samuel, 2 m. Mary HoAvard, and d. soon,
ii. Hannah, m. Stephen Paine,
iii. Mary, m. Capt. John Capen.
2. iv. John, m. Ruth Alden.
V. Thomas, m. Sarah Wood.
vi. Joseph, m. 1st, Mary ; 2d, Deborah .
vii. Sarah, m. 1st, John Stone; 2d, Joseph Peuuimau.
2. John* Bass, born in Roxbury about 1632; married at Duxbury, 3
February, 1657, Ruth Alden, daughter of John and Priscilla
(MuUius) Alden, of Duxbury. She was the mother of his children,
and died 12 October, 1674. He married, 2d, 21 September, 1675,
Hannah Sturtevant. He resided at Braintree, and died there 12
September,. 17 16. Children:
i. John,=' b. 23 November, 1658 f m. 1st, Abigail Adams ; 2d, Rebecca
Savil.
ii. Samuel, b. 25 March, 1660; m. Mary Adams.
iii. Ruth, b. 28 January, 1662; m. Samuel Wallier?
iv. Joseph, b. 5 December, 1665; m. 1st, Mary Belcher*; 2d, Lois
Rogers.
v. Hannah, b. 22 June, 1667; m. Joseph'' Adams, q.v.
vi. Mary, b. 11 December, 1669; m. 1st, Christopher Webb; 2d, Wil-
liam Copeland.
vii. Sarah, b. 29 March, 1672; m. Ephraim Thayer.
* Rev. John Eliot, first minister to Koxl)ury (the apostle to the Indians), made " A
rccorde of sncli as ndjoyned themselves vnto the fellowship of this Church of Christ at
Roxboi'ough." Upon this list appears the names of
Samnell Basse.
Ann Basse the wife of Samuell Basse.
* Their <Trandson, Edward Bass, born at Dorchester 23 November, 1726, was graduated
A.B. 1744; ordained at London bj- Bp. Sherlock, 24 May. 1752; rector of St. Paul's
Clmrch, Newburyport, same year; D.D. Univ. Penn. 1789; was consecrated first Bishop
of Massachusetts, 7 May, 1797; and died 10 September, 1803.
QVlbm Cincagc.
While the "Mayflower" was at Southampton, in August, 1620, re-
ceiving stores and outfit for her voyage across the Atlantic, the Pilgrims
engaged a young cooper, John Alden, to enter their service, to accom-
pany tlie party and to remain a year with them, in the practice of his
trade. He seems to have been alone in the world, for no research has
revealed his kinfolks, his birthplace, or aught of his previous life. Be-
fore the voyage had terminated, Alden cast in his lot with the emigrants
and signed the agreement, or compact, which Bancroft, the historian,
regarded as the origin of popular constitutional liberty. John Alden
was then twenty-one years of age and he lived to be the survivor of
all his fellow signers and, indeed, of all the Pilgrim band, except one^ ,
In 1621, he married Priscilla Mullins, orphan of Wjijliam Mullins, from
Dorking in the County of Surrey, who with wife, son and servant, his
whole family except Priscilla, had perished the first'' winter at Plymouth.
Secretary Morton says Mr. Mullins was "a man pious and well de-
serving, endowed also with a considerable outward estate." Up to mar-
riage, Alden had been a member of the family of Capt. Myles Standish.
Between these two, among the most important men of the colony, a
firm friendship was established which lasted to the death of Standish, in
1656. John Alden built his first residence on what is now Leyden
Street, then called simply "the streete." In 1631, Alden and Standish
were pioneers in the settlement of Duxbury, and there both dwelt to
the end of their earthly lives. Alden's place was at^ Eagle-tree pond,
north of Captain's hill. He diedo3,2 September, 1686/ His farm has
ever been held by descendants to the present day. His bible is at Pil-
grim Hall, Plymouth, and his snuff-box is in the possession of a lineal
descendant. His house, a two storied square building, erected by his
son Jonathan, in Duxbury, with some of the furniture he and Priscilla
used, still stands.
Though not of the band of Separatists at home, nor with them in
Holland, John Alden became one of the chief men of Plymouth. After
Gov. Carver, he was an assistant to every Governor of that Colony;
was thirteen years its Treasurer, and eight years a Representative from
Duxbury. A sound, solid Englishman, whose adze and hammer and
plough, united in work with his spiritual energy and his unswerving
loyalty, made his life a blessing to liis generation, and transmitted to his
and their posterity, civil and religious liberty. Children :
i. Jonx, b. 1623; m. Elizabeth, widow of Abiel Averill, and daughter
of William Phillips. They were ancestors of Admiral James
Alden, U. S. N. John d. U March, 1702.
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ii. Elizabeth, b. 1624; m. William Pabodie : d. 31 May, 1717.
iii. Jo.sEPii, m. Mar}', daughter of Moses Simmous; d. 8 February,
i(;;)7.
iy. JoxATiiAX, m. Abigail, daughter of Andrew Hallett, and d. Feb-
ruary, 1697. Their grandson, Briggs Alden, m. Mercy Wads-
worth, a cousin to Peleg Wadsworth, great grandfather to Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet.
V. Sarah, m. Alexander Standish, oldest child of the Captain.
vi. Ruth, m. John Bass, q.v.
vii. Mary, m. Thomas Delano; d. before 1699.
viii. David, m. Mary, daughter of Constant Southworth; d. 1719.
Gov. Bradford says, in 1650, "Mr. Moliiies and wife, his sone and his
servant, dyed the first winter. Only his daughter Priscihi survied, and
maried John Alden, who are both living and have 11 children. And
their eldest daugl)ter is maried, & hath five children."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of "The Courtship of Miles
Standish," a beautiful poem, but inaccurate as to historical incidents,
was descended from John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. Their eldest
daughter, Elizabeth, born 162-4, married William Pabodie, born 1619-20.
Their daughters:
vii. Priscilla, b. 15 Jaiuiary, 1653; is. Ruth, b. 27 June, 1558: m.
m. Rev. Ichabod Wiswall. Benjamin Bartlett.
Their daughters:
i. Mary, b. 1680; ra. John Wads- iv. Priscilla, b. 1697; m. John
Avorth, b. 1671. Sampson.
Their son Their daughter
V. Peleg, b. 29 August. 1715 ; m. i. Susanna, b. 30 August, 1720.
Their son :
V. Peleg, b. 25 April, 1748 ; m. iii. Elizabeth Bartlett, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Lothrop) Bartlett, b. 17i
Their daughter :
Zilpha, b. ; m Stephen Longfellow. They Avere the parents of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet.
Sl)crbuntc Cincage.
Anothkr emigrant in the Mason company of 1631 was Henry Sher-
burne. He was the second son of Joseph Sherburne of Odihara, Hants,
who died in 1621, a descendant by a younger branch of the Sherburnes
of Laiicasliire, on whose property, at the present day, is located the
great Jesuit college in England, where the Romish priests receive their
instruction. Henry Sherburne was the first senior warden of Queen's
chapel, Portsmouth, now St. John's church. He married, 13 November,
1637, Rebecca, the only daughter of Ambrose Gibbpns. Children:
ii. Elizabeth, } ^* * -^"S'"**' 1*^38 ; ^^^_ ^^ j^^^^^^ ^g.^^ Tobias Langdon ;
ancestors of Hon. John Langdon, U. S. Senator and President of
tlie Senate ; Governor of New Hampshire.
2. iii. Maky, b. 20 November, 1640; m. 21 October, 1658, Richard Sloper.
iv. Henuy, b. 21 January, 1G42 ; d. at sea 1658.
V. John, b. 3 April, 1647.
vi. Ambrose, b. 3 August, 1649.
vii. Sarah, b. 10 January, 1651.
viii. Rebecca, b. 26 April, 1654.
Ix. Rachel, b. 4 April, 1656; d. 28 December, 1656.
X. Martha, b. 4 December, 1657; d. 11 November, 1658.
xi. Ruth, b. 3 June, 1660.
2. Mary Sherburne,' born 1640; married 21 October, 1658, Richard
Sloper, born November, 1630. He died 16 October, 1716. Mary
Sloper died 22 September, 1718.. Children :
i. Bridget,^ b. 30 August, 1659 ; m. 29 March, 1684, John Knight, q.v.
ii. John, b. 13 January, 1661.
Hi. Mary, b. 11 February, 1663.
iv. Sarah, b. 26 July, 1667.
v. Susanna, b. 21 March, 1669.
vi. Elizabeth, b. 26 June, 1671.
vii. Rebecca, b. 23 October, 1673.
viii. Martha, b. 26 December, 1679.
'I- sr' }''•'"""'• '««^-
xi. Ambros, b. 20 January, 1684.
Mrs. Sherburne died 3 June, 1667, and Henry died in 1680
or '4. Pie was a prominent citizen of early Portsmouth for
fifty years; and the prominence of the family has continued
through many generations. Judges, councillors, attorneys at the
bar and in congress have borne the name to stations of honor
and dignity.
Of Mrs. Sherburne's father, Miss Thompson, in " Landmarks of
Dover," says :
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Among the earliest settlers at Strawberry Bank we find Ambrose
Gibbons. He was one of the agents sent over by Ca|)t. John
Mason in the spring of 1630. He sailed in the bark "Warwick,"
and arrived before 21st July of that year. He first settled at
Newichwannock (now Somersvvorth), where he established a trading
post, built a saw mill, and attempted the cultivation of the grape.
He had wife Pjlizabeth, and daughter Rebecca, who afterwards
married Henry Sherburne, also one of Mason's colonists. Her
grandson, the Hon. Henry Sherburne, married Dorothy, the sister
of Lieut. Gov. John Wentworth. Her granddaughter, Bridget,
daughter of Richard and Mary (Sherburne) Sloper^ married 29
March, 1684, John Chevalier, otherwise Knight, q.v., who acquired
Knight's ferry at Bloody point.
Ambrose Gibbons belonged to tlie Dover combination, and
27 September, 1648, was one of the five men chai-ged with the
prudential affairs of the town. He was a selectman and a magistrate.
5 October, 1652, he had a grant of the mill privilege at the head
of Thomas Johnson creek. He was then living on the south side of
Oyster river on land now owned by Col. Burnham, and adjacent
to the tract of 200 acres granted him by the town at the above
date. He btqueathed all his property to his grandson, Samuel
Sherburne, son of his only child Rebecca.
Ambrose Gibbons is said to have been buried at Sander's point,
just across the bridge from the Wentworth at New Castle.
Ambrose Gibbons died 1 July, 1656, and his wife^-died 14 May,
1655, 'J^i^cu^/-.
Iinigl}! Cincagc.
There was an emigrant, named Knight, among the forty-eight sent
over by Mason in 1631, A John Knight, who had a wife Leah, built
a garrison house in Madbury, on the west side of Back river, whose
plantation, purchased of Major Waldron in 1682, is mentioned as improved
as early as 1694. He died early, and his widow married Benedictus
Torr, who gave his name to the garrison house. Our lineage, however,
springs from a John Knight who was, tradition says, a Huguenot refugee,
Chevalier, who Anglicised his name on settlement in New Hampshire;
and the i-ecord substantiates the tradition ; for, on the Portsmouth rate
(or tax) list of 1681, occurs "John Chevalier and man." In 1702, John
Knight of Portsmouth, alias Chevalier, bought the Carter farm at Pine
point, now Newington. The same year, Benjamin and Sarah Bickford
convey to John Knight, alias Chevalier, of Portsmouth, the meadow be-
tween Pine point and Bloody point, next to land said Knight had bought
of Richard Carter, with one fourth of the saw-mill. In 1705, Zachariah
Trickey conveyed to John Chevalier, alias Knight, part of the land for-
merly granted Thomas Tiickey, " where y"^ ferry is kept." Three months
later the equipments for the ferry, " gondoloes," are also released to
John Knight. The next month, Capt. John Knight petitioned the General
Assembly for a license to carry on the " Bloody point ferry," setting
forth that the ferries thence to Hiltons point, on Dover neck, and also
to Kittery neck, were always holden by the inhabitants of the Trickey
farm, which was now his property. The petition was granted, " he not
demanding more than twelve pence for every horse and three pence for
every single person without Horse, he always taking care that there be
Boats always ready, that there be no complaint." In 1696, he served
on a scout at Dover. In 1704, he was captain of the company raised
on the south side of Piscataqua river for scouting. Bills in his favor
for ferriage appear throughout the provincial accounts, 1699-1714. In
February, 1717-18, John Knight and Bridget, his wife, conveyed to their .
son, John, the Trickey property, with their dwelling house and all in-
terest in the ferry at "Bloody Poynt." In 1721, he was selectman at
Newington, which, incorporated as a parish, assumed all the functions of
a town, and after a while was so recognized. He died in that year and
was buried on his Pine point property, now known as Birch point.
Miss Thompson, a descendant of John Knight, and the local historian,
says : — In a wild, lonely spot is the grave of John Knight, the exile,
shaded by sassafras trees and tall wliite birches, whose boles gleam afar
off like shafts of polished marble. It is marked by a low, broad, three-
lobed headstone of slate, on which is this inscription :
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" Here lyes buried the body of John Knight Esq"" born August y® 30th
1659 and died May the 11th 1721."
On a list of the inliabitants of Martinique, W. I., 1671, appear the
names of Jean and Thomas Chevallier, who came to America' on account
of their religion.
John Knight married at Portsmouth, 29 March, 1684, Bridget Sloper,
q.v. Children:
i. Elizabeth, b. 8 July, 1089. Rev. John Pike, minister at Dover,
records: "Mr. John Jambrin of Jersey (belonging to England)
Avas Legally married to Elizabeth Knight, alias Sheavallier, of the
town of Dover in New England upon the 12 of September 1706, as
attest John Pike." After Janvrin's death she m. 2cl, 12 October,
1720, Rev. Joseph Adams, of Newiugton, q.v. She was the
mother of his children.
ii. John, b. 29 January, 163^./^He succeeded his father in business and
station at Newiugton ; was captain of the company there ; repre-
sentative 1727-8 : and selectman 1748.
<lll)apman Chuagc.
1. Edward^ Chapman was a settler in Massaco, that part of Windsor,
Connecticut, set ofiE as Simsbury. He was Freeman in 16G7, and died 19
December, 1675, from wounds received in fighting Indians at the Narragan-
sett swamp fight. His wife, wliom he married in Elnghmd, was Elizabeth
Fox, a neice of Dea. Heniy Clai k, a first settler at Windsor who removed
to Hadley. After Mr. Chapman's death, his widow married, 1077, Samuel
Crow. Children :
i. Henry,2 b. 4 July, 1663 : m. Hannah Grant ; d. 22 December, 1713.
ii. Mary, b. 23 Auo-ust, 1661: : d. 30 June, 1665.
iii. Mary, b. 27 October, 1665.
iv. Elizabeth, b. 15 January, 1667; m. 11 December,' 1684, Joseph
Strickland.
2. V. Sniox, b. 30 April, 1669.
vi. Hannah, b. 3 May, 1671.
vii. Margaret, b. 7 March, 1672.
viii. Sarah, b. 24 May, 1675.
2. Simon' Chapman was born at Simsbury, 30 April, 16G9, had wife
Sarali, who died 21 INIav, 1735, aged 60. He dwelt at Windsor, and died
12 October, 1749. Children:
3. i. Samuel, 3 b. 2 March, 1695-6.
ii. Simon, b. 14 November, 1700; m. 1st, Marv AUyn; 2d, Silence Wiu-
chel; 3d, Mrs. Elizabeth Lothrop. He cl. 22 April, 1737.
3. Samuel^ Chapman was born at Windsor, 2 IMarch, 1095-6; mar-
ried, 8 August, 1717, Hannah, b. 8 May, 1692, daughter of Lieut. Return
and Margaret (Newberry) Strong. Until 1726, he was a farmer at Wind-
sor, but in that year he removed his family to Tolland, where he owned
much land and was justice of the peace. In 1735, he was chosen captain
of the first company in Tolland. At the siege of Louisbuii;]!. 1745, he
was in command of the 9th Conn, company. He died in .lanuary, 1746,
while in military service. The house which he erected at Tolland, near
Shonipset pond, stood for an hundred and fifty yeais. He was the oidy
justice of the peace at Tolland for nine years, and served as selectmen
eleven years.
i. Reuhen,* b. 9 December, 1718; d. 3 January, 1719.
ii. Sahaii, b. 23 May, 1720; m. Nathaniel Kingsbury; and d. 14 Julv.
1794.
iii. Samuel, b. 5 October, 1723; d. in vouth.
4. iv. Elijah, b. 1726.
V. Samuel, b. 1729; m. Sarah Wliite, of Bolton; was a captain in the
Erench war and a leader iu tlie war of the Revolution ; colonel of
the 22d Conn, regt., and served in the campaign, under General
Wolcott, around New York; was present at the evacuation; was
elected representative to the General Assembly forty-live times;
was justice of the peace for more than a quarter of a century;
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was a slave-holder ; the wealthiest and chief business man at Tol-
land. He was a man of remarkable hardihood, never used mittens
or gloves, and walked barefoot in the snow after he was eighty
years of age.
vi. Ruth, b. is'october, 1733.
vii. Simon, b. 18 December, 1736.
viii. Margaret, 5 May, 1739.
4. Elijah* Chapman was born at Windsor, in 1726, and carried to
Tolland, as an infant; married, 28 May, 1^47, Sarah, b. a^t Hadley, 1730,
daughter of Rev. Stephen and Ruth (Porter) Steele; wa's deacon in the
Congregational church, and four times representative to the General
Assembly. His wife died 17 February, 1808; and he died 22 February,
1812. Children:
i. Joanna,* b. 16 May, 1748; m. 11 December, 1766, Joshua Griggs,
ii. Reuben, b. 7 December, 1749 ; m. 6 April, 1774, Mary, daughter of
Doctor Samuel Cobb ; was a soldier in the Revolution, and d. 25
October, 1776.
iii. Sarah, b. 23 July, 1752; d. in February, 1753.
iv. Elijah, b. 17 July, 1753; m. Sarah Keeler; was a captain in the
Revolution, and sherifl" of Tolland county.
V. AsHBEL, b. ; m. Miss Lord, of Marlborough.
vi. Sarah, b. 1 April, 1757.
vii. Ruth, b. 20 April, 1759; m. 1776, John Palmer.
viii. Esther, b. 8 April, 1761 ; m. 1782, Ammi Paulk.
ix. Roxana, b. 14 November, 1763; m. 1788, Jabez West.
X. Aaron, b. 17 September, 1765 ; m. Buel of Marlborough ; and
d. December, 1842.
xi. Dorcas, b. 25 September, 1767; m. Vine Robinson, q. v.
xii. Daniel, b. 23 September, 1769.
Sracij fiincagc.
The Tracys of P^iigland claim descent from a family at the castle and
barony of that name, near Vire, in Normandy. William de Traci came to
England in 1066, with the Conqueror, and his name is among those present
at the battle of Hastings. A famous branch of the family was established
at Barnstaple, in Devonshire, the male line of which became extinct early;
then the name and honors were assumed and maintained by a son of Grace,
daughter of Henry de Tracy, lord of Barnstaple, who had married John
Sudley, lord of Sudley and Toddington, a great-grandson of Egbert, the
first Anglo-Saxon king of all England. This son, William de Traci, was
one of four nobles concerned in slaying Tliomas-a-Becket, the arrogant but
austere prelate of Henry II. Thomas Fuller, in his Worthies of England,
descril)es Traci as a " man of high birth and stomach, a favorite of the King
and his daily attendant." In his daring and bravery originated the coup-
let: —
All the Tracys
Have the wind in their faces.
1. Stephen Tracy married, 1621, in Holland, Triphosa Le
(the entry is blurred and undecipherable), where his first child was
born. In 1623, the little family, father, mother and daughter, came
in the Ann, Capt. Wm. Peirce, to Plymouth. At first he settled
on the south side at Plymouth, and shared in the cattle division of
1627. His name is on the list of "Freemen of the Incorporacon of
Plymoth in New England, An: 1633." Soon he removed to Dux-
bury, where, in 1634, he was appointed one of five "for Duxbery
side," to lay out highways; was constable in 1639; and served as
one of five "apointed from Duxburrough's side" to select a site for
a meeting house; he served as a grand juror in 1637, 1640 and
1642; and as an arbitrator, by order of the Governor and Assistants.
Before 1 654, he had returned to England ; for a power of attorney
is in print, authorizing John Winslow to dispose of Tracy's property
in New England. This instrument is dated at London, 20 March,
1 054-5. In it he calls himself of Great Yarmouth, a seaport, bor-
ough and market town in county Norfolk, and mentions that he
lias five children in New England. We find no farther record of
him, and consider that he never returned to New England. Chil-
dren :
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i. Sarah, 2 b. in Holland; m. George Partridge, q.v.
ii. Rkbecca, b. at Plymouth.
iii. John, b. at Plymouth, where he held many civil and military posi-
tions.
iV. EUTH.
V. Some authorities mention Thomas, and seek to identify him with
Lieut. Thomas Tracy of Norwich, who was too old a man to have
been a son of Stephen.
Richard Tracy, of Stan way, second son of Sir William and Margaret
(Tlirockmorton) Tracy, of Toddington, county of Gloucester, was sheriff of
that county in 1559. By marriage with Barbara, a daughter of Sir Tlioraas
Lucy, Cliarlecote, Warwickshire, he liad three sons and three daughters,
of whom the second son, Nathaniel, settled at Tewksbury, ou lands be-
stowed by his fatlier.
1. Thomas^ Tracy was born at Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, in 1610,
a son of Nathaniel Tracy. In his early maidiood he crossed the sea
to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He stayed at Salem until
23 February, 1637. Pie came over in the interests of Lords Say
and Brook, from whom the town of Saybrook took its name.
By 1644, Thomas Tracy had gone to Wethersfield, in Connecticut,
as he served in that year on a jury at Hartford ; and is on record,
the same year, as a sufferer by the thefts of Robert Bede. In 1649,
the General Court appointed Thomas Traisy of Seabrook, on a
committee. In 1652, and 1653, he was at Saybrook. In 1660,
Uncas, the Mohegan sachem, rewarded Lieut. Thomas Letfmgwell,
for an act of merciful kindness, with four hundred acres of land, and
in this gift Thomas Tracy shared. The land was located at the
junction of the Yantic and Shetucket rivers, now within the bounds
of Preston, Conn. Thereupon Thomas Tracy removed his family,
his vvife being deceased, with the congregation of Rev. James
Fitch, from Saybrook to Norwich, and was one of the thirty-five
first settlers at that point. His house lot was of nine acres, and
situated near the Green, on the south side of the street. In 1661,
he was on a committee appointed by the General Court, " to try the
bounds of New London"; in 1662, he was chosen by the people,
one of the court of Commission; in 1666, he was appointed "en-
sign at Norridge"; in 1667, '70, '71, '72, '73, '75, '76 and '78, he
was the deputy from Norwich to the legislature, and in 1682, '83
and '85, from Preston. He sat as a member of the colonial assem-
bly at more than twenty sessions. In 1673, he was appointed
lieutenant of the forces raised in New London county to prosecute
war against the Dutch and the Indians ; in 1674, was commissary,
or quartermaster to the dragoons; and, in 1678, was appointed a
justice. ^
Thomas Tracy was well educated for the time in which he lived.
This placed him to advantage among the leading men of the colony
directly upon his arrival. Throughout a long life, the legislature
frequently appointed him upon important committees, and he held
his full share of public offices, legislative, military and magisterial.
He was a gentleman of consequence in the community, a thorough
business man, and of the very best personal character. He left an
estate of 5000 acres of land. A very numerous posterity have pro-
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ceerled from him, distinguislied as merchants, ministers, members of
Congress, jufliies, &c., of vvliom tlie Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy of
Brooklyn, N. Y., Secretary of the Navy under the administration of
President Harrison, is a recent example.
Tiiomas Tracy married, 1st, at Wetliersfield, 1641, Mary, widow
of P>lward Mason. Slie was the mother of liis seven chihlren, and
died at Saybrook. He married, 2d, at Norwich, before I G79. Martha,
widow of Gov. Bradford's son, John, a daughter of Thomas Bourne,
of Marshfield, Mass. He married, 3d, at Norwich, 1683, Mary,
born 16-23, in England, widow (1) of John Stod<lard, died 1664.
and (2) of John Goodrich, died 1680, a daughter of Nathaniel and
Elizabeth (Deming) Foote. of Wetliersfield. Lieut. Thomas Tracy
died at Norwich, 7 November, 1685. Children:
i. JoHX, b. at Saybrook, 1G42; m. 1670, Mary Winslow, dauijhter of
Josiah and Margaret (Bourne) Wuislow, of Marshfleld, Mass.
He (]. 16 August, 1702, and his widow 30 July, 1721. Was con-
stable at Norwich, 1684. Justice of the Peace, and representative
in the legislature. Five successive generations from hira, all
Johns and flrst-born sons, have dwelt at Norwich. IT. S. Senator
Uriah Tracy, of Connecticut, and John Tracy, lieutenant-governor
of New York, were among his descendants.
ii. Thomas, b. at Saybrook, 164:4. Settled at Preston, which he repre-
sented in tlie legislature. Had a family of five sons and three
(iaugliters.
I. iii. Jonathan, b. at Saybrook, 1646.
iv. MuiiAM, b. at Saybrook, 1648 ; m. Ens. Thomas Waterman, of Nor-
wich.
V. Solomon, b. at Saybrook, 1651; ra. 1st, 1678, Sarah Huntington,
daughter of Dea. Thomas Huntington, of Norwich, and d. 1683;
m. 2d, 1686, Sarah, widow of Thomas Sluman, and daughter of
Thomas Bliss. He resided at Norwich ; Avas physician, the second
in tlie town; constable, 1681; and representative in the legisla-
ture.
vi. Daniel, b. at Saybrook, 1652; m. 1st, 1682, Abigail Adgate, daugh-
ter of Dea. Thomas and Mary (Mason) Adgate, of Norwich; and
2d, Hannah, widow of Dea. Thomas Bingham, and daughter of
William Backus of Norwich. He inherited the home place in
Norwich. He was killed 29 June, 1728, by the falling of a bridge.
vii. Samuel, b. at Saybrook, 1654; d. 11 January, 1693, sine prole.
Jonathan^ Tracy was born at Saybrook, Conn., 1646, and became
an original settler at Preston, where he was the first town recorder,
the first lieutenant of the train band, 1690; selectman, 1698; deputy
for Preston in the legislatures of 1699, 1700 and 1710; was the
first justice of the peace, which position he held till death. He mar-
ried, 11 July, 1672, Mary Griswold, born 26 August, 1656, daugh-
ter of Lieut. Francis Griswold, of Norwich. "|!he died at Norwich,
24 April, 1711. Children: ^
3. i. Jonathan,' b. 21 February, 1675.
ii. Hannah, b. 8 July, 1677.
iii. Christophek, b. 1 March, 1680; d. 1724, leaving widow, Lydia.
iv. Mary, b. 7 September, 1682.
V. Miriam, b, 23 April, 1685.
vi. David, b. 4 September, 1687.
vii. Francis, b, 1 April, 1690; settled at Groton, Conn,
viii. Sarah, b. 2 August, 1692; d. September, 1693.
ix. Samuel, b. 5 June, 1697.
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3. Jonathan^ Tract was born at Preston, Conn., 21 February, 1673;
married, 11 February, 1700, Anna Palnaer, and died 25 February,
1704. Children:
4. i. Jonathan,* b. 30 November, 1702.
ii. Anna, b. 29 October,. 1703.
4. Jonathan^ Tracy was born at Preston, Conn., 30 November, 1702;
married at 8tonington, 19 February, 1723-4, Amt^ Palmer, born
1706, daughter of Moses and Abigail (Allen) Palmer. She died 13
October, 1744, and he married, 2d, 1747, Lucy Aver\% of Norwich.
Children:
i. Rebeckah,* b. 13 September, 1726.
ii. Moses, b. 3 April, 1728.
iii. Samuel, b. 28 February, 1731 ; a soldier in the Revolution.
iv. Anna, b. 1 April, 1733; m. Jacob Robinson, q.v.
V. Amy, b. 13 November, 1735.
vi. Lois, b. 2 November, 1737; d. 23 May, 1739.
vii. Dorothy, b. 28 March, 1740 ; d. 6 April, 1740.
viii. Jonathan, b. 11 April, 1741.
ix. Perez, b. 18 June, 1744; a soldier in the Revolution.
Staubmj ^mcagc.
The Stanberye vel Stanburye family bave been established in connty
Cornwall, since the time of King Henry V., when coat armor was granted
to Walter Stanbery, of Morwinstow. The seat of the family has been at
Tamerton, a parish in the same connty, on the river Tamar. The family
furnished a bishop to the see of Bangor in the middle of the fifteenth
century. Modernly, they are found in Oxfordshire, under the spelling
Stanbra, and in Devonshire at Barnstaple, where they have long flourished.
Though the bulk of the Lynn (Mass.) settlers were Lincolnshire or York-
shire men, they were not all, and Josiah Stanbery is thought likely to have
come from Barnstaple.
1. Josiah* Stanbury was an inhabitant at Lynn, Mass., 1638, and
shared in the first allotment of lands; the entry reads: " Josias Stanbury
100 acres." In 1640, Josiah Stanbury was one of the forty who, with
Kev. Abraham Pierson, withdrew from Lynn and undertook the settlement
of a new town at Southampton, L. I. The original undertakers were eight
in number, who purchased a sloop for £80, of which Josiah Stanborough
contributed £5. The early landing was at North Sea but, in February,
1654, forty-one lots were taken up at Sagabonack, of which Mr. Stan-
borough's was No. 33. Mrs. Stanborough, in right of Thomas Post, shared
in lot No. 8. In 1647, Josiah Stambro was chosen Freeman. In 1651,
at the laying out of the " Little Plain," Mr. J. Stanborough had No. 20.
In 1644, the plantation was divided into four wards, " eleven persons in
each ward." In this division, Mr. Stanborough is listed in the second
ward. In 1653, squadrons of fifty men each were formed "for cutting
up whales that might drift up upon the shores," and Mr. Stanborough's
name is in the second squadron. In 1667, Peregrine Stanbrough's name
replaces his father's in the second squadron.
Josiah^ Stanbrough, Stansbrough or Stanbury, was twice married. By
his first wife, he had two sons; and by the second, Alice, widow of Thomas
Wheeler, who survived him, he had four children. He died in 1061.
Children:
2. i. Peregrine, ^2 b. 1640.
ii. Mary.
iii. Sarah.
3. iv. Josiah.
v. James, had -wife Sarah.
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2. Peregrine^ Stanbrougti, born 1640; married 15 December, 1664,
Sarah James, daughter of Rev. Thomas James, of East Hampton. He was
deacon in the church, and died 15 January, 1702. Children:
i. JoHN,^ b. 11 December, 1G65.
ii. liuTii, b. 4 June, 1668.
iii. Olive, b. 18 July, 1670.
iv. Mary, b. 14 October, 1672; m. Jonathan Strickland.
V. Hannah, b. 28 January, 1674; m. John Lupton.
vi. Sarah, b. 26 May, 1677; m. James Herrick.
vii. James, b. 28 October, 1679 ; m. Sarah Edwards.
viii. Eunice, b. 8 November, 1682.
ix. Elizabeth, 24 January, 1686.
X. Ann.
xi. Martha.
3. Josiah'' Stanbrough, married, 24 July, 1670, Admah Chatfield,
daughter of Thomas Chatfield of Easthampton; removed to New Jersey,
was admitted an Associate at I-Clizabeth in 1695, but soon died. The family
located at Rahway, Children :
4. i. Recompence,!' b. 22 Au.ijust, 1672.
ii. Frances, b. 4 April, 1675.
iii. Josiah, b. 22 June, 1677.
iv. Hannah, b. 1 July, 1679.
v. Phebe, b. 17 September, 1681; d. 22 September, 1736, at Elizabeth,
N.J.
vi. Zerviah, b. 1 October, 1683.
vii. Adonijah, b. 18 March, 1687, settled in Delaware; had a son, Adoni-
jah, a resident at Wyoming, N. S., who was suspected by both
sides for his conduct in the Revolution.
4. Reco.aipence'' Stanborough was born at Southampton, L. I., 22
August, 1672. With his father he removed to New Jersey, where his son :
5. Recojipence* Stansp.ury, was born 9 October, 1710; was twice
married, and died at Scotch Plains, in 1780. In 1774, lie and his son-in-
law, Jedidiah Swan, were chosen members of the committee for Essex
county, authorized by the committee of correspondence for the more
vigorous prosecution of measures recommended by congress. Children :
By first wife:
i. Joseph,* b. 31 May, 1738. A loyalist at Philadelphia; but for his
literary tastes, strict integrity in business, and many private
virtues, was universally respected. A volume of his songs " Loyal
Verses" was published in 1860. He died in New York, in 1809.
Secretary of an insurance company,
ii. Isaac, b. 30 December, 1739. A loyalist.
iii. Jacob, b. 7 October, 1741.
By second wife, Margaret , b. 20 July, 1729; d. 18 June, 1812:
iv. Phebe, b. 23 February, 1749, s. j).
6. V. RiiODA, b. 5 April, 1752.
vi. Samuel, b. 26 June, 1754. A soldier in the Revolution.
vii. Sarah, b. 23 August, 1756; m. Trembly.
viii. Recompence, b. 23 September, 1758, enlisted in the service of the
state of New Jersey, in troop of dragoons raised for the Revolu-
tionary Avar in Essex county, in which he was sergeant. He
was wounded at the battle of Long Island. After peace, he
wa-* colonel in the New Jersey militia. He married, Anne Curry,
b. 27 August, 1781; d. 1 May, 1868. One son: William'' Curry
Stanhery, b. 17 June, 1822 ; ni. 10 February, 1846, Anne Runyon,
b. 10 July, 1824. One son : William^ liunyon Stanbery, b. 29
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December, 1857; m. 10 February, 1891, Margaret Clendennen
Field, b. 30 June, 1863. One son : William^ Field Stanberij, b. 12
June, 1892.
ix. Jonas, b. 25 January, 1761. A physician in New York city and at
Zanesville, Ohio; father of Hon. Henry Stanbery, first Attorney
General of Ohio, and Attorney General U. S. during adminis-
tration of President Johnson.
X. Margaret, b. 4 April, 1763; m. Joseph Bradford.
xi. Anna, b. 23 December, 1767; m. m. Darby.
xii. Jacob, b. 8 June, 1772.
6. Rhoda® Stanbery was horn 5 April, 1752; married, 1st, Col.
Jedidiah Swan- and 2d, Thomas Nesbitt, b. 27 January, 1760; d. 3 Feb-
ruary, 1816. Children:
i. Phkbe^ Swan.
ii. Hannah Swan.
iii. Fanny Nesbitt, m. David Meeker.
iv. Mary Nesbtft, b. 12 November, 1790; m. Henry DeGroot, q. v.
V. Eliza Nesbitt, m. Robert McCarter.
vi. Hugh Nesbitt, b. 1796; m. Mary A. Ralston; d. 7 October, 1827.
vii. Thomas Nesbitt, d. in youth.
S)c<J$raot Cincage.
This ancient Norman family were long settled at Goudere, in Normandy,
now Ter Gouth, oi- Gouda, on the river Yssel in South Holland. In their
dispersion, the name became LaGrand in France, Grote in England, and
DeGroot in Holland. The most celebrated of the race was Hugo DeGroot,
a native of Delft, better known under the Latin name of Grotius; his learn-
ing was extensive and deep in politics, theology, literature and philosophy.
His gieat work, de Jure Belli et Pact's, is the most profound treatise in the
philosophy of jurisprudence and has long been an accepted classic.
Of this race emigrants are recorded as arriving among the early Dutch
settlers of New Amsterdam; William Pietersen deGroot, with a wife and five
children, in the ship Hope, April, 1662, and Staes deGroot, in the ship
Spotted Cow, in April, 1663, who settled on Staten Island.
The DeGroots of New Jersey claim descent from Jacob' DeGroot, a
French emigrant, who, with his wife, was dwelling at Hackensack in 1696.
The church record says these "• brought letters from the French Church."
As early as 1700, Jacob^ DeGroot and George Cussart purchased at
Bound Brook, Somerset county, a tract of 1170 acres of land, which they
divided equally between them, and upon the property built their houses.
Rev. Titus Elwood Davis, A.M., in his valuable paper on F'irst Houses in
Hound Brook, N. J., says :
"Jacob DeGroot owned over 1,000 acres of land, all in one tract, though
pui'chased of different parties, and at different times. His first purchase,
of 585 acres, remained in the possession of the DeGroot family for 14.3 years,
no portion of it being sold until after the death of Judge Jacob DeGroot,
grandson of the original owner. The house was a frame building, a well
built substantial structure, as were all the buildings of that period. It faced
to the south, and had a large kitchen on the west end which was occupied
by the slaves, of whom the DeGroot family always had a large number.
One of these, known as Mammy Bets, lived to the extreme age of 115
years. Jacob, John and Jacob DeGroot, father, son and grandson, had lived
in this house one hundred and forty-three years."
1. Jacob* DkGroot and Seitje, his wife, had their children baptized in
the Old Dutch church, and are recorded : ^ C ■
i. IVI&WTnwA,^ 17 September, 1721. -^ C^^A:t^A J/^^^*-^
2. ii. Johannes, 9 February, 1724. r\ /-,/••»/? ^
iii. Margarieta, 5 March, 1727. ;^v ^'^^^ j"'///^ ^ l^^«-^
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2 John' DeGuoot, baptized 9 February, 1724, married Aeltje Olden,
daughter of William and Abigail ^Olden ; baptized 17 December,
I72I. Children: ^^i^iA^^
i Jacob," b. 1749 ; m. 1774, Rachel Castner. She d. 13 July, ami he
d 22 Julv, 1843. They lived together sixty-eight years. Children:
(i) Alet'ta* (Allshv). m. Hon. Samuel Swan, M.D. of Bound
Brook, N. J., member of U. S. House of Representatives, 1821-31.
He d. 24 August, 1844. (2) Sarah, m. 1st, 30 October, 1-98,
George McDonald, son of Maj. Richard McDonald; m. 2d, To-
bias Boudinot. Their son, Richard McDonald, b. 20 December,
1803, m. 10 November, 1825, Mary White Eastburn, b. 7 May,
1709 ; their son Thomas Eastburn McDonald, b. 3 March, 18iJ,
m 10 April, 1853, Jane F. R. Field, b. 23 September, 1832;
their daughter Mary White McDonald, m. James Moses.
3. ii. WiixiAM, b. 26 July, 1751.
iii. Fametje. „ . , .
iv. Elizabeth, b. ; m. Abraham Hutchings.
V. Margketha, b. ; m. 17 May, 1789, Field.
/^/"^i LiAM^ DeGroot, bapt. 26 July, 1751, married 30 December, 1780,
Anne LaTourette, bapt. 28 January, 1751, a daughter of Henry and
Sarah LaTourette of Fresh Kills, Staten Island, granddaughter ot
Jean and Marie (Mersereau) LaTourette, and great grand-daughter
of Jean and Marie (Mersereau) LaTourette, Huguenot refugees.
William DeGroot died 28 August, 1840, and his widow died 2o
May, 1843. Children:
i Alice* Olden, b. 15 October, 1781, d. 20 March, 1803.
Henry,
1 ^ . I b. 8 February, 1784; d. 28 April, 1<87.
iii Susan Parlee, f Twins. ^^ ^ ^^g;^! jol„^ Voorhees, b. 23 May, 1783,
d. 17 June, 1856. Children : (1) William Henry,' b. 30 July, 1812
d 31 July, 1830. (2) James Reheard, b. 1 January, 1814, d. 14
October, 1815. (3) Sarah Ann Swan, twin with (2),_m. Rev.
Abuer Morse, d. 22 September, 1833; one cliild, Lucretia,« d. in
infancy. (4) Ellen, b. 26 January, 1816, d. 22 March, 1819- (5)
John DeGroot, b. 8 February, 1818, resides at Bound Brooli, N. J.
(6) Elisabeth, h. 29 March, 1821; m. 4 March, 1846, Henry B.
Van Deveuter, b. 15 March, 1809, d. 3 December, 1879. Children:
1. Charles Henrv, m. Christine xMiller, two children, LloydJ and
Robert Craig; 2. Elizabeth, m. J. Seaver Page, cluld : Helen
Clifford. (7) Caleb Morton, b. 1 June, 1823, d. at Alton, lU., lo
August, 1851, unm. (8) Joamia, twin with (7), m. 9 January.
1850, John S. Brokaw, b. 22 October, 1825, d. 15 April, 1863.
Children: 1. Edward Voorhees, b. 21 June, 1851, m. Elizabeth
Al"-er Fisk; 2. Isaac, b. 16 August, 1856, d. 21 Junel88o; 3.
Morton Voorhees, b. 12 June, 1861, m. Sophia Bacon; 4. William
Henry, b. 14 September, 1862, m. Lillie Fisher, child: Mil-
dred. (9) 3Iari, Nesbitt, b. 1 December, 1826 ; d. 2 March, 1878 ; m.
17 August, 1853, James Black, d. July, 1885. Children : 1. Kate,
m. Richard Laimbeer ; 2. John Voorhees ; 3. Henry Van Deventer,
m. Jennie Prince; child: Dorothy. o; -i^^^^
iv Sarah, b. 1785; d. 27 June, 1830; m. Edmond Dunham. Children.
(1) Mary Ann, d. young. (2) Theresa, m. Willing Davis, 14
children. (3) 3Iary Ann. (4) Susan, m. Jacob Nevins ; chddren :
Adriane, Margretta Field, Edmond Dunham. (5) Sarah. W
Henry DeGroot, m. 1865, Caroline Arnold; children: William De
Groot, Mary Ann, Edmond. (7) Willia7n Olden, d. 1862.
V. William, b. 1787 ; d. a young man, at sea.
4. vi. Henry LaTourette, b. 25 May, 1789. ^ ,, ,r c,T,^„«t
vii. Ann, b. 7 August, 1791; d. 7 March, 1883; m. John M. Schenck,
b. 1775, d. 12 March, 1852, sineprole.
Melt, e^*'-'^ J.^..^L ^ /y^^-^i^^^^cy ^^ '
^aA^c >U^*^Jc^c^^^ .-^^X 7^/ '^ /^ ' "'^^-^ -
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Viii. Elizabeth, b. 12 March, 1793; d. 12 August, 1849: ra. John Steele,
b. 30 December, 1792, d. 30 May, 1865. Children : (1) Anna De
Groot, b. 10 September, 1815, d. 29 July, 1888, m. William Ben-
jamin, b. 1804, d. 12 July, 1880, sine prole. (2) Mary Eoff, 26
August, 1817; d. 28 January, 1870. (8) Theresa Elizabeth, b. 1
January, 1819 ; d. 14 December, 1890 : m. 25 March, 1854, James
B. Brokaw ; children ; John Steele, Elizabeth DeGroot.
ix. Joiix, b. 7 March, 1797; m. Rachel ; d. 18 March, 1842, sine
prole.
4. Henry* LaTourette DeGroot, born 25 May. 1789, married 27
October, 1817, Mary, born 12 November, 1790^ daughter of Thomas
and Rhoda (Stanbery) Nesbitt, and granddaughter of John and
Mary Nesbitt of Ireland. Mr. DeGroot died at London, Eng., 21
February, 1835. His widow died 22 May, 18G7. Children:
,if^t^. ^- '■'^n/^ANXE* LaTourette, b. 5 October, 1818; m. Francis Robinson, q. v.
%'.;^d^, /lK/"2r William, b. 1825; m. 1st, Isabel Britton. Children: Mary.^
^ Fanny, Grace. Married 2d, Elizabeth Hawley. Children : Bessie,
Adelaide.
iii. Fanny, b. 1828; m. Rev. Thomas S. Hastings, D.D. Children:
Frank S., Mary DeGroot, Isabel, Thomas, Henry DeGroot.
Note.— Jean LaTourette, natif d'Osse en Beam, France, joined the French colony
in New York, before l(i93. He married 16 July, 169?, Marie Mersereau, from Moise
en Saintonae, and liad three children baptized in the French Protestant church, Marie,
Jean and David, who married Catherine, daughter of Jacques Poillon, a justice of the
peace on Staten Island in 1689. David and Pierre LaTourette were members of the French
(Huguenot) church on Staten Island, in 1735.
Jean Mersereau was a young Protestant Frenchman, noted for his personal strength. He
was captain of a military company and was allowed to go armed. One evening he met
three men, habited as friars, whom he .saluted with " Good evening, gentlemen." This they
resented, as it proved him a Huguenot; for a good Catholic would have said "fathers."
They drew sabres, which were concealed under their garb, and attacked him. He defended
himself with success, killing one, wounding another and putting the third to flight. On his
early decease, his widow and five children emigrated to America, designing to .settle in
Philadelphia; but, owing to stress of weather, they were landed at New York. They set-
tled on Staten Island, where the mother died and was buried in the French churchyard at
Westfield. The family claim descent from Josue Mersereau, getierale de la Garde Royale,
and Josue Mersereau, capilaine, Rochefort.
Steele ^ineage.
1. Georgk' Steele was an early inhabitant (1632) of Cambridge,
Mass., residing at the corrier of Harvard and Dunster streets; was Free-
man, 1634. He and his younger brother, John Steele, were of the party which
removed with Mr. Hooker, to Hartford, on the Connecticut, where he was
an original proprietor. His home-lot, on the west side of the present
Washington street, extended from Capitol avenue to Park street. He was
a soldier in the Pequot war, 1637, and a participant in tlie capture and
destruction of the Indian fort. He was surveyor of highways at Hartford,
1641, 1651; and on the board of selectmen in 1644. In September, 1642,
George Steele was one of two appointed by the General Court to see that
no calves were killed at Hartford, without their approbation. He died in
1 664, " very aged." Children :
1. Elizabeth, ^^ b. ; m. 1 May, 1045, Capt. Thomas Watts ; d. s. p.
25 February, 1684-5.
2. ii. James, b. 1623.
iii. RiCHAUD, d. 1639, unmarried.
Iv. Martha, m. John Harison.
2. James' Steele, born in England, 1623; married, in 1657, Anna
Bishop, daughter of John and Ann Bishop, of Guilford, Conn. In 1657-8,
he served in the troop in the Pequot war, the first cavalry organized in
Connecticut. In 1662, the General Court appointed him on a committee to
lay out land at Hommanasett on the sound; in 1672, on a similar commit-
tee to lay out a grant for meritorious service to corporal John Gilbert;
the same year, he was appointed with others to run the line between Lyme
and New London. A grant of 150 acres was made to him, in that year.
In 1675, he was commissioned commissary of the Connecticut forces in
King Philip's war, his salary being fifty pounds per annum. He built his
house south of the little river at ITartford, which was one of the two houses
fortified by the town, in 1689. His wife died in 1675,; and he married,
after 1683, (2) Betliiah, widow of George Stocking, a daughter of John
Hopkins. Children :
i. Sarah, ^ b. 1656; m. 1682, Samuel Borman.
3. ii. James, b. 1658.
iii. John, b. 1660 : ra. Melatiah Bradford.
iv. Mary, ; m. Hall.
V. Elizabeth, d. unmarried, 1723.
vi. Rachel, m. 1st, Edward AUeyn; 2d, Deming.
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3. James^ Steele born at Hartford, about 1658; married Sarah, b.
3 December, 1 648, daughter of Bartholomew and Sarah (Birchard) Bar-
nard, and dwelt upon the south side of tlie river at Hartford. In 1705, he
was lieutenant of the Hartford county dragoons, and in 1710 was commis-
sioned captain; which position he held till his death in 1712. His widow
died in 1730. Their son:
4. Stephen* Steele was born at Hartford, 1696, graduated at Yale
college, 1718; married,/ 1720, Ruth Porter, born at Hadley, Mass., 10
November, 1701, daughter of Hon. Samuel and Joanna (Cook) Porter.
He was the first minister at Tolland, Conn., commenced preaching in 1719,
was ordained in 1723, and remained with that people till tlie connection
was amicably dissolved, owing to his impaired health, in 1758. He died 4
December, 1759; his widow died 14 May, 1792. Rev. Stephen Steele
was a preacher of more than ordinary ability, as evidenced by his selection
as preacher of the Annual Election sermon before the Governor and
legislature. None of his writings were published. He commenced with
his church in a wilderness and saw the town grow to a community of a
thousand souls. Yet, during the whole forty years, there was never heard
any dissentient voice to the wise, prudent and pious man, who had been
ordained in their midst and remained there till death. Now, there are no
descendants of the name at Tolland. They are found elsewhere, and par-
ticularly in Vermont, as magistrates, legislators and judges. Children*.
i. Ruth,* b. 30 August, 1722; d. 6 February, 1741.
ii. Stephen, b. 29 September, 1724 ; m. Hannah Chapman ; was captain
and selectman at Tolland, and d. 23 October, 1802.
iii. Eleazer, b. 2 August, 1726; m. 1st, Ruth Chapman; 2d, Lois Fen-
ton ; was town clerk at Tolland, and representative to the General
Assembly, and d. 26 February, 1799.
iv. Elisha, b. 7 October, 1728, grad. Yale, 1750, Avas the first and only law-
veratToUand, whilehelived; was justice of the peace, and six times
representative to the legislature. He m. Sarah Wolcott, daughter
of Judge Roger and Mary (Newberry) Wolcott, of Windsor; he
d. 17 August, 1773.
v. Sarah, b. 1730; m. Elijah Chapman, q. v.
vi. Mehitabel, b. 6 June, 1733.
vii. James, b. 6 February, 1737; m. 1st, Abigail, daughter of John
Huntington; 2d, Dorothy Converse; 3cl, Abigail Makepeace;
removed to Ellington, and thence to Randolph, Vt. He was
lieutenant in the French war and served with three sons in the
Revolution; at Randolph was selectman, magistrate and repre-
sentative. He d. 5 April, 1812; and his widow d. 23 April, 1823.
viii. John, b. 25 November, 1738 ; m. Sarah Cobb.
Ix. Aaron, b. 1 November, 1744.
(S:i)acl)cr Ciucagc.
The father of Thomas'' Thacher was the Rev. Peter^ Thacher, a native
of Somersetshire, who matriculated at Queen's college, Oxford, 6 May,
1603, at the age of 15; took his A.B. at Corpus Christi college, 1608;
A.M. 1611 ; was vicar of Milton Clevedon, Somersetshire, 1616, of which
Rev. Thomas Lambert was the incumbent, and rector of St Edmund's
church, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1622, where he continued the parson till his
death, 11 February, 1640.
1. Thomas' Thacher was born 1 May, 1620, at Milton Clevedon, Som-
ersetshire, England, son of Rev. Peter and Anne Thacher. The
patronage of the living, whereat his father was vicar, rested in
Richard Rogers of Brainston, in Dorsetshire, whose attorney was
Peter Thacher of Queen's Camel, a parish in Somersetshire, near
Ilchester. The vicar of Queen's Camel for fifty years, from 1574
to 1624, was a Rev. Peter Thacher, undoubtedly of the same family.
Thomas Thacher came to Boston in his boyhood, arriving 4 June,
1635. He was a nephew of Antony Thacher, whose name is per-
petuated in an island in Salem, Mass. harbor, the scene of a sad
calamity by which Antony lost his children in August of the same
summer. Thomas completed his education under Rev. Charles
Chauncy, minister at Scituate and the second president of Harvard
college. He married, 11 May, 1643, Elizabeth, the younger daughter
of Rev. Ralph Partridge {q-v.), minister at Duxbury. In January,
1645, he was ordained at Weymouth, and was admitted Freeman
the same year. He remained at Weymouth as the town minister
till 1664, when he removed to Boston. His wife died at Weymouth,
2 June, 1664, and he married 2d, 1665, Margaret, widow of Jacob
Sheaffe, and daughter of Henry Webb.
Mr. Thacher devoted himself to the practice of physic in Boston
until 16 February, 1670, when he was installed the first minister of
the Third church (Old South), in Boston. In this position he con-
tinued till death, which occurred 15 October, 1678. The inventory
of his estate exhibits a list of 160 large books, and many small ones ;
a negro man and a negro maid; and the household effects of a
prosperous gentleman of that day. Mr. Thacher was a superior
scholar, and of the highest reputation in New England. As a phy-
sician, he was the earliest in that profession at Weymouth, and was
the author of the first medical tract printed in Massachusetts, under
the title of A brief Guide to the Common People in the Small Pox
and Measles. Children :
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i. Thomas,' m. Mary Savage; was a merchant in Boston, and d. 1686.
2. ii. Ralph.
iii. Petek, b. 18 July, 1651 ; gvad. Harv. 1671, ordained 1681 at Milton;
m. (1) Theodora Oxenbridge; (2) Susannah, widow of Rev. Jolin
Bailey. Was minister at Milton nearly fifty years, and d. 1727.
iv. Patience, m. William Kemp.
V. Elizabeth, m. (1) Capt. Nathaniel Davenport ; (2) Samuel Davis.
Ralph' Thacher, who was in the habit of wrking his i'j|me, Rodol-
phus, was born at Weymouth; married, -4- January, roTft; Ruth,
dauijliter of George Partridge {q. v.) of Duxbury. He was a citizen
of Duxbury for several years; was constable 1673, and town clerk
1685-94. The family predilection manifested itself when he was
full forty years of age, and he became settled as a minister at Chil-
mark, Martha's Vineyard, where he preached many years. Chil-
dren :
i. Thomas,^ b. 9 October, 1670.
ii. Eliza, b. 1 March, 1672; m. Samuel Fuller, q. v.
iii. Ann, b. 26 November, 1673; d. in youth.
iv. Ruth, b. 1 November, 1675.
V. RoDOLPHUs, b. 9 January, 1678.
vi. Lydia, b. 24 January, 1680; m. Jonathan Peterson; dwelt at Chil-
mark, and d. 26 Mav, 1756.
vii. Mary, b. 8 March, 1682.
viii. Ann, b. 30 March, 1684.
ix. Peter, b. 17 August, 1686.
Ipartriboie Cmcage.
This name is tliought to be identical with Partrich in ancient, Normandy,
sometimes written there Pertricli. and in England Partheridge. During
the wars between King Stephen of England and the P^mpress Mand, the
head of the family migrated from Normandy, and, casting in his fortunes
with the King, received from Henry II. a grant of the borough of Maiden
in Co. Essex. In this grant he is described as Partridge, the Norman.
The family early spread to Westmoreland and Gloucestershire, where Sir
Robert Atkyns mentions them, in 1608, as long settled. As a rule they
were loyal to church and state; and a descendant of Master Partridge, the
goldsmith, of Queen Mary, was slain at Worcester, fighting for the King.
1. Rev. Ralph Partridge was in his early life a clergyman of the church
of England, and later one of the most distinguished ministers of New Eng-
land. Of him. Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims says: "Ralph Par-
tridge, a gracious man of great abilities, arrived at Boston, 1636. He was
a member of the Cambridge (Mass.) synod of 1647, and was associated
with Cotton and Mather in drawing up the platform of church government
and discipline."
He arrived 17 November, 1636; was first tninister at Duxbury; and
continued in the ministry till his death at an advanced age in 1658.
Cotton Mather wrote an epitaph for him, ending Avolavit.
Morton, in his Memorial, gives this acrostic:
R un is hi? race,
A nd his work done,
L eft earthly place,
P artridge is gone;
H e's with the Father and the Soil<
P ure joys and constant do attend
A 11 that so live, such is their end.
11 eturn he shall with Christ again,
T o judge both just and sinful men,
R aised in this line of paradise;
I oy lieaven entered brealcs the ice-
D eath underfoot he trodden hath ;
G race is to glory straightest path,
E ver enjoys love free from wrath.
He left a wife and two daughters :
i. Mary, m. John Marshall, in England.
ii. Elizabp:th, m. Rev. Thomas Thacher, q.n.
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The inventory of liis estate shows extensive possessions ; a farm of about
150 acres, a two-storied gambrel-roofed dwelling, manifestly superior to the
common Puritan emigrant's house. The parlor on the ground floor was
carpeted; there was a round table in the centre of the room, and a less
pretentious table at the wall. Andirons and dogs graced the fireplace, and
a looking glass was suspended against the wall. His staff and a cane stood
in the corner; where in a cupboard was kept the silver plate and the silver
beer cup which his daughter, Mary Marshall, retained as a heir-loom. In
the room were three high chairs and one wooden one with two cushions.
In his study was a small table, a desk and a cushioned stool. Two book
cases against the wall held about 400 volumes. A small sleeping room and
a kitchen to the rear completed the ground iloor. In the celhir were nine
beer casks. In the chamber over tiie parlor the bed was provided with a
valance, and the chest of diawers had a napkin on it. The kitchen chamber
had a bed, and the lean-to chambers had each a bed and a truckle bed.
There was still a garret over all. His stock of cattle consisted of four
oxen, one bull, seven cows, two yearlings, two calves, two ewes and two
swine, six hens and live chickens. His farm tools included a cart and a
plough.
1. George' Faktridge or Partrich, considered one of the most re-
spectable yeoman of the colony, was from the county of Kent, and thought
to have been no kinsman to the parson. In 1636, he was granted land at
Powder point, Duxbury ; other grants followed in succeeding years. He
was Freeman, 1646. He married, November, 1633, Sarah Tracy {q- v.),
born in Holland, daughter of Stephen and Triphosa Tracy, of Leyden.
The father, mother and daughter came, in 1623, in the Annr George
Partridge died in 1695. Children:
i. John, b. 29 November, 1637; m. (1) Hannah Seabui-y; (2) Hannah
Brewster,
ii. Sarah, b. 1639; ra. Samuel Allen.
iii. Lydia, m. 1672, Dea. William Brewster; d. 3 February, 1743.
iv. Ruth, ni. I.Tinunry, ino^, Ralph Thaclier, q.v. Jiu^ ^'/c-^ f
V. TiUPHOSA, m. 1668, Samuel West. ,^~— > / ^
vi. Mercy.
vii. James.
iTullcv Cincagc.
Among the passengers on the Mayflower, 1620, were Edward' and Ann
Fuller, who, Gov. Bradford says, " died soon after they came on shore."
1. P^DWARD* Fui-LKR was a brother to Samuel Fuller, the deacon and
beloved physician of Plymouth. Edward's son Samuel,* thus left
an orphan, went to live with his uncle and namesake. Dr. Samuel
Fuller. In 1633, he was an executor of his uncle's will; in 1634,
was Freeman; in 1635, he removed to Scituate, and married Jane,
daughter of Rev. John Lothrop; in 1641, he was a constable at
Scituate; and in 1644, was admitted an inhabitant of Barnstable,
where he continued to dwell till his death, 31 October, 1683,
when his wife was already deceased. Children :
i. Hannah,^ m. 1 January, 1658-9, Nicholas Bonham.
ii. Sajsiuel, bapt. 11 February, 1637-8 ; m. Anne, dau. of Capt. Mattliew
Fuller, V. 2. v. No record of their family has been found; but,
in 1691, the heirs agreed to a settlement of the parental estate,
TN'here their signatures are: (1) Matthew,'* (2) Barnabas, (3)
Joseph, (4) Benjamin, (5) Desire, (6) Sarah.
Hon. Melville Weston Fuller, LL.D., Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, is descended from this family.
iii. ELiZAm<:TH, b. ; m. Taylor.
iv. Sakaii, bapt. 1 August, 1641 ; d. in childhood.
v. Mauy, bapt. 16 June, KU-i; m. ]s X.iv.iiili. r, 1674, Joseph Williams
of Haverhill. Children : S<ir<'/>. M<irn. ■i"hu and Hannah.
vi. Thomas, b. 18 :Slny, 16:.0; d. in (^^(nu'.od.
vii. Sarah, b. 14 Decenil^er, 1654; m. Crow.
viii. Jonx, b. , 1656; m. INIehitable Rowley, dau. of Moses Rowley
of Colchester. After ten years residence at Barnstable he re-
moved his family to East Iladdam, Conn. Children: (1) Saimtel,
(2) I'hnwus. i,:-.) Shnhurl, (4) Thankful, (5) John, (6) Josei^h,
(7) Bevjniiiiii, (S) Mr/n/.ii,,-!, and, perhaps, Deborah and others.
2. Mattheav- Fuller, born in England or Holland aliout 1610, did not
accompany his father, Edward. As his brother Samuel received
lands from the Plymouth authorities as the eldest son of his dead
parents, who had no child first born in the colony, it is evident
Matthew was the younger. About 1640, a mairied man with wife
and children, Matthew Fuller appears. In 1642 land was assigned
him. He was a juryman the san)e year, and propounded as Free
man. In 1643, the little colony had established a military company,
liiised in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury and Marshfield; and of
this force Myles Standish was chosen captain, and Matthew Fuller
a sergeant. About 1650, he established himself as a physician at
Barnstable, and was the first in that profession at that point. In
1652, lie was elected lieutenant of the militia at Barnstable. In
1653, he was representative of the town in the General Couit. lu
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1G54, he was appointed lieutenant, under Capt. Standish, of the fifty
men raised as the Plymouth quota to expel the Dutch from Man-
hattoes. As peace between England and Holland was declared be-
fore this force departed, Matthew Fuller saw no service on that ex-
pedition. In 1658, he was elected one of the council of war, and,
in 1671, was its chairman and lieutenant of the force raised to quell
the Saconet Indians. In 1673, he was appointed surgeon general
of the colony troops. In 1676, he was a captain in King Philip's
war. In the Quaker controversy, Capt. Fuller stood firmly for
toleration. In 1658, the grand jury presented Dr. Fuller for de-
nouncing the law for ministers' maintenance, and, on his confession,
he was fined 50s. His career shows him to have been an earnest,
honorable man, of liberal politics and tolerant religion, independent
in character and speech, whose public services gave him a promi-
nence among his contemporaries, and a reputation which has ex-
tended to the present. Capt. Fuller made his will 20 July, 1678,
which was probated on the 30th of the following October. His
wife, Frances, was named executrix. The inventoi-y of his estate
sums up £667.04.06.* Children:
i. Marv,^ m. 17 April, 1655, Ralph Jones,
ii. Eliz.vbetii, m. 22 April, 1652, Moses Rowley.
3. iii. Samuel.
iv. John, succeeded his father as physician, and d. in 1601. Was twice
married: 1st, Bethia ; 2d, Hannah . Children: (1)
Lydia,^ ra. Joseph Dimmoclc; (2) Bethia, m. Barnabas Lothrop ;
(3) John, who Avas lieutenant, m. Thankful Gorham ; (4) Bdiance,
ra. John Prince.
V. Anne, m. Samuel Fuller, v. 1. ii.
3. Lieut. Samuel" P"'uller was a captain in King Philip's War, and
fell at Rehoboth, 25 March, 1676. He had held minor town offices
at Barnstable, and, in 1670, served on a committee to assess damages
to cattle and plantations by Indians. He left wife, Mary, as we
learn from his will. Children :
i. Thomas,* was captain at Barnstable; m. Elizabeth Lothrop. Chil-
dren : (1) Hannah^; (2) Joseph, m. Joanna Crocker; (3) 3Iarij,
m. William Green; (4) Benjamin, was lieutenant, m. 1st, llebecca
Bodtish, 2d, Mary Fuller; (5) Elizabeth, m. Isaac Crocker; (6)
Samuel, m. Malatiah Bodflsh; (7) Abigail, m. Jacob Chipman;
(8) John.
ii. Jabez, dwelt at Barnstable; m. Mercy Wood. Children: (1)
Samuel, (2) Jonathan, m. 1st, Eleanor Bennet and 2d, Hannah
HarloAv, (3) Mercy, (4) Lois, m. Thomas Foster, (5) Ebenezer,
m. Martha Jones, (6) Mary, m. James Bearse.
* Mr. Amos Otis, in the valuable series of Genealogical Notes of Barnstable
Families, published some years ago in the Patriot of that town, says : " Among the
items in Capt. Fuller's inventory is the following: ' Pearls, precious Stones and Diamonds,
at a guess £200.' In connection therewith a marvellous story is told. Soon after Capt.
Fuller's death, this box of jewels was missing. A Scotch servant was accused of its theft.
There was no proof, only suspicion. The charge so affected him that he abstained from
food, and soon died of grief and starvation. He was buried in a grove on the north-
eastern slope of Scorton Hill. When he died it was winter, and a deep snow lay upon the
ground. His body was buried at this spot, because the deep snow prevented his neighbors
from carrying it fiu-ther. For nearly two centuries the plow has spared the turf which
covers his grave. To this day it is pointed out, and timorous people dare not pass it after
dark. Many fearful stories are told of the apparation of the Scotchman ; and wayward
children have been frightened into obedience by threats of appeal to the Scotchman's ghost
in aid of their elder's commands. Recently stones have been placed, one at the head and
another at the foot of the lonely sepulcher."
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iii. Timothy, removed to East Haddam, Conn.; had wife Sarah, and
children: (1) Timothy, m. Mary Champion, (2) Mercy, (3) 3Iat-
thias, m. 1st, Mary Cone and 2d, Jemima Richardson, (4) Sarah,
(5) Abigail, (6) Ann, (7) Samuel, m. Mercy Price.
iv. Matthew, d. 1097, while his mother was yet living, as he bequeathed
half of his estate for her maintenance.
V. Anne, b. 1670; m. 29 April, 1G89, Joseph Smith.
vi. Abigail.
4. vii. Samuel, b. 1676 (posthumous) ; m. Elizabeth Thacher.
4. Samuel^ Fuller was born at Barnstable, 1G76; married 3 October,
1700, Elizabeth Thacher, daughter of Rodolphus and Ruth (Par-
tridge) Thacher, q. v. They dwelt at Preston and Mansfield, Conu.
Children:
Rebecca, = b. 22 July, 1701 ; m. 29 April, 1729, Joseph Allen.
Rodolphus, b. 22 August, 1703; m. 1 November, 1727, Ann Hall.
Ruth, b. 12 April, 1706; m. 20 June, 1725, Peter Robinson, q. v.
Elkanah, b. 24 April, 1709; m. 19 May, 1731, Mary Andrews.
Waitstill, b. 8 April, 1711.
Mary, b. 5 April, 1713.
JUDAH, b. 25 August, 1715; m. 11 February, 1746, Abigail Went-
worth, dau. of Aaron Weutworth, and dwelt at Norwich, Conn.
EXTENSIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
Page 13. 8. v. For Umstaetter read Umbstaetter.
Page 15. 3. Add Joseph^ Ackerman married 22 October, 1759. He died
21 January, 1833.
Page 16. 4. Bead
vi. Lydia Jackson, b. 2 December, 1799 ; ra. December, 1822, Samuel
Jackson, b. 1797, major flfer in war, 1812-15. They resided at
Belfast, Me. He d. 9 October, 1838. She d. 21 May, 1888. Chil-
dren : (1) Almira Pindar, b. 25 September, 1823; d. 7 October,
1823. (2) Mary Eleanor, b. 20 July, 1825 ; d. 15 February, 1843.
(3) Daniel Henry, b. 23 August, 1827, was an accountant at
Clinton and Worcester, Mass., Providence, R. I., and Brooklyn,
N. Y. ; m. 27 January, 1850, Aurelia Malvina Carleton Whitney,
b. 26 March, 1827, at St. Johnsbury, Vt., dau. of Calvin and
Rosalinda (Parker) Whitney. He d. 20 August, 1864. The widow
m. Noah Worcester, who d. 12 October, 1876 ; she resides at South
Lancaster, Mass. Children: 1. Frank Orville, b. 1 May, 1851,
m. 24 January, 1884, Isadora May Bragdon, res. Boston; 2. Emma
Eleanor, b. 30 July, 1853, res. EIwyn,'Pa. (4) Samuel Haraden, b.
24 August, 1830; m. 3 February, 1850. Elizabeth M. Elwell, b. 25
August, 1831, dau. of William T. and Elizabeth H. (Townsend)
Elwell. He d. 7 June, 1884. Cliildren : 1. George William, b. 29
July, 1851; 2. Mary Elinor, b. 25 December, 1854; 3. Edwin B.,
b. 2 February, 1860; 4. Roland C, b. 22 November, 1862. The
Avidow is living, and the children are all single.
vii. Mrs. Almira Pindar, d. 13 September, 1845. Her only son, George,
is living.
xi. A.H.Jones, d. 15 February, 1888. Children: (1) James Loring ;
(2) Charles Cohurn; (3) Sarah Elizabeth, m. T. J. Sheldon.
xii. Was a steamboat captain on the Mississippi river, and died out
West, sine prole.
xiii. Ciiaklks, b. 27 February, 1812; m. 22 May, 1836, Lucy Evelyn,
b. 21 February, 1816, dau. of Thomas and Lucy (Child) Metcalf,
of Wrentham and Cambridge, Mass. He d. 14 April, 1879. She
d. 21 February, 1874. Children: (1) Caroline Emihi. b. 13 Feb-
ruary, 1837; m. 6 September, 1856, Charles Edward Jackson, b.
12 October, 1833, son of William and Levia (Leach) Jackson of
Portsmouth. They reside at Boston, Mass. Children: I.Charles
Akerman Jackson, b. 13 August, 1857, m. 20 June, 1883, Harriet
Adelaide Burr, b. 19 June, 1856, dau. of Robert and Harriet
I (Howard) Burr of Boston; child : Howard, b. 6 August, 1890; 2.
Walter Edward, b. 12 February, 1859, m. Mav Musse>' of Rutland,
Vt., child Walter, b. 6 August, 1888; 3. Herbert Irving, b. 25
January, 1870; 4. Lucy Evelyn, b. 1 June, 1873. (2) Louise
Mason, b. 25 September, 1839; m. 10 June, 1863, George Taylor
Paine, b. 25 September, 1839, son of Walter and Sophia Field
(Taylor) Paine of Providence, R. I. She d. 17 September, 1883.
Child : William Howard, b. 10 July, 1869.
Page*17, line 20. For 1854 read 1864.
" " line 41. vii. Date of marriage should read 22 October, 1759.
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Page 18. Since the publication of tlie foregoing article of Charles W. Tuttle,
A.M., it has been learned that John* Tattle came to New England in the Angel
Gabriel, Capt. Andrews. This ship had been built for Sir Walter Raleigh and
is thought to liave been the vessel in wliich Raleigh made, in 1617-18, his last
voyage. On his attainder, the ship was forfeited and sold. In 1635, the ship
was engaged to convey to New England Mr. Jolm Coggswell, his wife, three
sons an'cl Ave daughters, and othef p'assengers, among whom was John Tuttle.
The master, Capt. Andrews, had with him two nephews, John and Thomas Burn-
ham. These emigrants were the ancestors of the Cogswells and Burnhams in
the United States. John Cogswell had been a manufacturer in England of
woollen cloth, and a London merchant. At his emigration, he toolc with him
his family, several servants and a large and valuable assortment of furniture,
farm implements, and a considerable sum of money. Rev. E. 0. Jameson, in
his history of the Coggswell family, quotes largely from a journal kept by Rev.
Richard Mather, of borchester, Mass., who was a passenger on the James, a
vessel Avhich for two weeks kept company with the A^igel Gabriel. The journal
says :
" The ship James was commanded by Capt. Taylor and fell in with the Angel
Gabriel, before leaving Bristol (Eng.) harbor. June 4, 1635, we set sayle, Ave
Shippes, three for New Eoundland, the Diligence, 150 tunne, the Manj, 80 tunne,
and the Bess, and two bound for New England the Angel Gabriel, 240 tunne,
and the James, 220 tunne. Erora June 5 to 9, we were detained and made for
Milford Haven, Pembroke Co., Wales, where we heard two comfortable ser-
mons, and sailed Monday 22 June. On the evening of Tuesday, we lost sight of
the shippes bound for Newfoundland, but thought it best to stay for the Angel
Gabriel, a strong ship & well furnished with fourteene or sixteene pieces of ord-
nance and therefore our seamen rather desired her company ; but yet she is slow
in sailing and therefore Ave went sometimes with tliree sayles less than wee
might have done, yt so we might not overgoe her. July 4, we lost sight of the
Angel sayling slowly behind us, and we never saw her again any more. August
14 at about breake of day, y<= Lord sent forth a most terrible storm of rain and
easterly wind, whereby we lost three great ancres and cables. The Angel Gabriel
yn at ancer at Pemaquid was burst in pieces and cast away in y^ storme & most
of the cattell & other goodes ; with one seaman & 3 or 4 passengers did also
perish."
Another account said: "The storm was dreadful at Pemaquid, the wind
blowing from the northeast, the tide rising to a very unusual height, in some
places more than twenty feet right up and down : this was succeeded by another
and unaccountable tidal wave still higher."
No trace has been found of John Tuttle from the disaster in which he was
shipwrecked till he appears at Dover point in 1640. Traditions concerning his
history for those four or rive years are vague, illusory and unworthy serious
attention. They will probably all harmonize with the facts, if the latter are
ever ascertained.
Page 27. 2. Add child :
iv. Sarah, m. Capt. Nathaniel Hill.
Page 32.
2. Add children
iv.
Mary.
V.
Sarah.
vi.
Rebekah.
vii.
Abigail. /
viii.
Hazele/,-^^^'^^
ix.
Hannah.
X.
Elizabeth.
xi.
Martha.
xii.
Mehitabel.
Page 33.
Add :
The Newington Church possesses a bell cast by Paul Revere. It has rung
for devotions and jubilee, and tolled for funerals, for almost a century. The
receipt for the purchase of the bell is still preserved in the archives of the
town, and reads thus : —
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" Thos. Pickering, bought of Paul Revere and Son, one church bell, weighing
505 lbs., at $210.40. Received the above.
" Paul Revere and Son.
"Boston, Nov. 23, 1S04."
" We engage should the bell uot be agreeable to the Selectmen of Newington,
in New Hampshire, to receive it again in like order as when delivered, provided
it is returned in four weeks, when we promise to deliver the money, retaining
ten dollars.
" Paul Revere and Son."
Page 38. 5. viii. Add m. Mary Pickering.
Page 50. We derive the statement of Lieut. Thomas Tracy's parentage from
the '-"Pedigree of the Tracy Family, 1843," and the " Hyde Genealogy, 1SG4."
Our attention has been called by Lieut. Charles Stedman Ripley, U. S. N., to
the Harleian Society's publication, 1885, of the 1G23 Visitation of the County
of Gloucester by the deputies of William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms,
wherein is printed a pedigree of Tracy of Stanwaye, as follows :
UICHAUD TRACYE=Barbari
of Stanwaye in com. Glosicr, I of Cliail
ob. 15(jy.
Hester Natlia
1
miell
s 1
Judith
Sr Paul Tracye
Samuel
1. f:(iw:iid Barker.
ux. Francis
of Stanwaye, Knt.
of Clifford in
Rowland
Sir Hi-nry BiUmgs-
Tlirogmorton
and Baronet, ob.
Com. Herefford
Smiirte.
Wy, Kilt.
1626; m. Anne, d.
and helre of Ruffe
Shakerley of Ayno
on the Hill in Com.
North'ton. Sheob.
1615. m. (2) Anne
d «ndh. of Sr Am-
brose Nichols Knt.
J>ord Maior of
London.
1
m. Catherine
d. of Thom.
Smyth of Cump-
deu.
1. Sr Richard Elizabeth Allice 3. Sliakerley 6. Nathaniel. 10. Vicesimus. Annie
2. Natlianiel ux. Gyles — ob. s. p. — — ux.
ob. inf. Carter. Margaret. — 7. Thomas. Lucy, ux. I.Edward
— — 4. Saunders. — Bray Halle.
— 8. Aylewortli. 2. William
Francis Kerle.
ob. s
The extensions of later date than the visitation are according to official rec-
ord in the Herald's College.
It is apparent by this'that Nathaniel Tracy, oldest son of Richard, was de-
ceased without issue before the return of this pedigree, or was incompetent, if
living, as the succession to the honor and estates had passed to a younger bro-
ther, Paul, on the death of the father Richard in 15G9. If the statement that
Lieut. Thomas Tracy was born about 1610 at Tewksbury in Gloucestershire be
correct, he can be none other than the seventh son of Sir Paul Tracy, if he were
of gentle blood. The eminent capacity and fitness for public service displayed
by Lieut. Thomas Tracy and his posterity was an inheritance from an ancestry,
long dignified with the sherift'alty of the county, and occasional service in
parliament as knights of the shire.
Burke's " Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, &c.," 1838, says that
Sir William Tracy was twice in parliament from Gloucester (1313, 1321) and
was high sheriff (1324-29) in the time of Edward II. In the next reign. Sir
John Tracy was a member of parliament for Gloucestershire (1357) and sheriff
(1368-9). His grandson, John Tracy of Todlington, was sheriff in 1378. His
son, William, filled the office in 1395, and in the next generation William Tracy
was high Sheriff of Gloucester in 1418, and a member of the Privy Council of
Henry VI. He was succeeded as sheriff by his son and his grandson, both William.
The grandson of the last was Sir William of Todlington, who was sheriff in 1512-
13. He was a gentleman of excellent parts and sound learning. He embraced
the reformed religion, and was one of the most prominent supporters of the
72
policy and measures of Henry VIII. He voiced and sustained liis convictions
in his will, which has been printed as 'a curious example of the sincerity of those
times. His eldest son was ancestor of the Viscounts Tracy of Rathcoole, Ire-
laud; another was a judge; a third, Eichard, was granted by the crown a por-
tion of the lands of the abbey of Tewksbury, on the suppression of that institu-
tution. In the second year of Queen Elizabeth, Richard was sheriff, and mai--
ried to Barbara, a daughter of Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, immortalized by
Shakespeare. The pedigree, above given, proceeds from this Sir Richard Tracy.
The eldest brother of Lieut. Thomas Tracy inherited and enjoyed the honors
of the family ; Avas knighted and sheriff of the shire, as was his eldest son,
Humphrey, who was loyal to King Charles and saved his estates from seques-
tration by a large composition to the treasury of the Commonwealth. Soon the
male line, which inherited the honors of Stanwaye, became extinct, and the pro-
perty passed to the Earl of Wemyss.
The honors of knighthood, enjoyed by this branch of the Tracy family,
according to Kimber, have been :
William Tracy knighted 1289, 17 Edw-i I.
Sir William Tracy knighted 1518, 5 Hen. VIII.
Sir John Tracy kniahted 1574, Queen Eliz'^.
Sir John Tracy knighted 1C09, James I.
Robert Tracy "knighted -— , Charles I., and created Viscount Tracy 12 Jan.
1642, 18 Charles I.
Page 51— VI. The Avife of Deacon Adgate was born Mary Marvin, not
Mason.
Daniel Tracy did not inherit the home place of his father, as Miss Caulkins
says in her history of Norwich. The land records of Norwich show that the
home lot Avas divided into tliree portions, of Avhich Daniel received the eastern
portion, Solomon the western, Avhile the middle Avith the homestead was sold
by John to Israel Lothrop in 1G87. In 1739, Daniel's son Daniel purchased the
laud {minns house) of this middle portion.
FAMILIES.
Adams 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 Nutter
Akerman 14, 15, 16 Otis . .
Alden 41 1 4- Partridge
Bailey 25 Pickering
Bass 40 Roiuxsox .
Chapman 47, 48 Sherburne
DeGroot 56, 57, 58 Staxbuuy .
Frost 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Steele
Fuller 64, 65 Thacher .
Jackson 17 Tracy . .
Knight 45. 46 Tuttle . .
49'
iS, 19,
28, 29, 30
• • 23
• 63, 64
3i.32>33
,. 4. 5. 6, 7
• 43. 44
S3' 54. 55
• 59' 60
. 61, 62
50, 5 1' 5-
20, 21, 22
NAMES.
Abbott, Ina Alice 12
Henry F 12
Adams, Abigail ... 29, 35. 38, 40
Abigail Pickering . . 16, 36, 38
Anne Maria 39
Benjamin . . 16, 32, 36, 37, 38
Benjamin Henry .... 39
Bethia 35
Caleb 35
Ebenezer 35' 36
Edward 34
Elizabeth 35, 36, 38
Elizabeth Brackett . ". . 36
Elizabeth Knight . . .36, 46
Elizabeth Talpey .... 38
Emeline ^6, 38
Hannah 35
Henrietta 38
Henry 34
Isaac 38
James 38
John .... 10, 34, 35, 36
John Quincy .... 34, 39
Jonathan 34, 315
Joseph . . 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 46
Josiah 31^
Martha Odiorne .... 39
Mary 35, 38, 40
Mary Parker 39
Mehitable 31;
Nathan Webb 38
P'-'ter 34-35
Ruth 3r
Ruth Webb 38
Samuel 34,35
Sarah Catherine .... 38
Seth 38
Susannah Brown .... 38
Thomas 34- 38
Ursula 34
Adgate, Abigail 15 1
Mary Marvin . . . . 51, 72
Thomas 51. 7-
Akerman, Aaron 16
Alice Frost 16
Almira 16, 69
Amos Tappan .... 16
Amy 15. 16
Aurelia M. C 69
Barnet 15
Benjamin Ht i5
Akerman, Benjamin Jackson ... 16
Caroline E 16, 69
Catherine i ^
Celia 16
Charles 16, 69
Charles C 16
Charles Planning. ... 16
Clara B 16
Clarissa 15
Daniel H 69
Edwin B 69
Elizabeth 15. 16
Elizabeth M 69
Ellen E 16
Emily I3i 16
Emily N 16
Emma E 69
Esther A 16
Esther Jackson . . 13, 16, 17
Frank 69
George W 69
Gustavus L 16
Hannah 15
Harriet Newell .... 16
Henrietta Perkins ... 16
Henry 15
Howard W. ..... 16
Isadora M 69
John F 16
Joseph . . 13, 15, 16, 17,69
Josiah 15
Labree 16
Leonard 16, 38
Louise Grace 16
Louise ^lason .... 69
Lucinda Holman ... 15
Lucy E 69
Lydia 15
Lvdia Jackson . . . 16, 69
Mark 15
Margaret Meloon ... 16
Martha Hill 16
Mary i5i 16
Mary Eleanor . . . 15,69
Nahum 15
Noah 15
Olive 15
Phcbe 15
Roland C 69
Samuel i 5, 17, 69
Samuel II 69
76
Akerman, Sarah 15
Supply 16
Supply Jackson . . . . 16
Thomas C 16
Walter 15
Walter Edwin .... 16
W. M 16
William W. ..... 16
Alden, Abigail Hallett 42
Briggs 42
David 42
Elizabeth 42
Elizabeth Phillips .... 42
James 41
John 40, 41,42
Jonathan 4I' 4-
Joseph 42
Mary 42
Mary Simmons 42
Mary Southworth .... 42
Priscilla ...... 40, 42
Ruth 35, 40, 42
Sarah 42
Aldrich, Charles Frost 2=;
Elias Taft 25
Mary Elizabeth .... 25
Sarah Abba ...... 2c;
Talbot Bailey 25
Thomas Bailey 25
Allen, Abigail 52
Barnabas 6
Joseph 67
Mary 47
Samuel 20, 64
AUeyn, Edward S9
Allord, NoraB ii
Ames, Franklin 12
AVilliam 13
Amsden, Daniel 12
Andrews, Mary 67
William 70
Andrus, Isaac 5
Archer, Thomas 9
Armitage, Alice Maria 13
Caroline Belle .... 13
Charlotte 13
John 13
Laura Frost 13
Mary J 13
Arnold, Caroline 57
Asch, Joseph J 13
Cproline Emily 13
Atkyns, Robert 63
Averill, Abiel 41
Elizabeth 42
AA^ery, Lucy 52
Aylcworth, Bray 71
Lucy 71
Backus, Hannah 51
AVilliam 51
Bacon, Sophia 57
Bailey, Caroline Augusta . . . 13, 25
Uaniel 25
Bailey, Eliza Jane 29
Eunice 25
Frances Amanda .... 25
Frances Augusta .... 29
George 25
George Franklin .... 29
Henry Huntress , ... 29
Irene Elizabeth 25
John 25, 62
John Henry 29
Jonathan 25, 32
.Joseph 29
Martha 25, 29
Martha Nutter 13
Mary 25
Mary Adams 29
Mary Ellen 29
Nathaniel 25
Sarah 25, 32
Sara Abba 25
Sarah Abigail 29
Susanna 62
Thomas 25
Thomas Adams .... 25
Thomas Darling . .13, 25, 29
Baker, Fear ........ 5
Samuel 5
Thomas 24
Bancroft, George 41
Barefoot, Walter 27
Barker, Edward . 71
Barnard, Bartholomew 60
Sarah 60
Barrell, Ellen Albina 29
Frederick Foster .... 29
Fredetta Cora 29
Mary Ellen 29
Bartlett, Benjamin 42
Elizabeth 42
Ellen C 16
E.G.N 12
Priscilla 42
Samuel 42
Bass, Ann 40
Deborah 40
Edward 40
Hannah 35, 40
John 35, 40, 42
Joseph 40
Mary 40
Ruth 35, 40, 42
Samuel 40
Sarah 40
Thomas 40
Baxter, Abigail 35
Gregory ....... 35
Margaret ....... 35
Beard, Joseph • . 21
Thomas ....... 19
Beau, Le 24
Becket. Thomas- a- 49
Bede, Robert 50
Belcher, Mary 40
Bell, F. M 10
Bell, John 12
Bemis, EUen A 13
Oscar 13
Bearse, James 66
Benjamin, William t;8
Bennett, Eleanor 66
Berry, Lydia 12
Bickford, Benjamin ^r
Sarah 41-
Billings, Olive 12
Billingsley, Henry yi
Bingham, Hannah rj
Jerusha 6
Samuel 6
Thomas 151
Birchard, Sarah 60
Bishop, Anna :;g
John "^g
Bixon, Elizabeth it
Black, Dorothy .... ry
Henry V. D • • 57
James r-
Jennie P ry
John V i^y
Kate ry
Blethen, Charles [13
Bliss, Sarah ri
Thomas j^i
Bodfish, Melatiah ....!! 66
Rebecca 66
BoUes, Mary g
Joseph g
Bonham, Nicholas 6^
Bonighton, Richard 8
Booth, Elizabeth g
Mary g
Rebecca ••-.... 8
Robert g
Simon g
William g
Zach g
Borman, Samuel i SQ
Boudinot, Tobias ry
Bourne, Margaret ci
ISIartha rj
Thomas ri
Brackett, Anthony ......* 36
Elizabeth 32, 36
Mary 32
Bradford, John ri
Joseph r-
Melatiah [ ^g
William . . . . 42, 51,65
Bragdon, Isadora May . . , . . 60
Brewster, Charles ^y. . . '. . . 31
Hannah 64
Lydia ! ! 64
Wilham .... 3, 37, 64
Britton, Isabel f . 58
Brokaw, Edward V. . . cy
Elizabeth DeG. '.'..'. 58
^^"''^'^ -„ 57
James B ^^g
J"!"^'^^ • 57. 5S
BrokaAV, Morton V i^y
Theresa E "i^s
William Henry . . . . "i^y
Broughton, George . " ^n
Brown, Susannah 38
Buckminster, Josejih S 16
Buel, 48
Burke, Elizabeth 1 1
John Bernard y r
Burleigh, Joseph 22
Judith 22
Burnham, 29
Colonel . • 44
John yo
Thomas yo
Burr, Harriet A 69
Harriet H 69
Robert 69
Burrell, Elizabeth 13
Bush, Florence y
Buzzell, Anne .... i ^
Olive H • • 15
Camden, William yi
Camp, Abigail P 38
Augusta 38
Camilla 30
Essex Pickering 39
Isaac 38
William -18
Canney, James . 21
Capen, John 40
Mary 40
Carlisle, Florence 16
George W .16
Ida L 16
Carpenter, Noah 6
Carter, Elizabeth . 71
Gyles ....'.;;; yi
Richard 4:;
Carver, John 41
Castner, Rachel :;y
Caulkins, Frances M y2
Chaloner, Susan B li
Chamberlain, Clark D 12
Champernowne, Francis .... 8
Champion, JNIary 6y
Chapin, Josiah ... ^r
Mary 3J
Chapman, Aaron 48
Ashbcl jS
Daniel 48
Deborah 5
Dorcas y, 48
Edward 47
Elijah . . . . 7, 47, 48, 60
Elizabeth 47
Esther 48
Hannah 47, 60
Henry 4y
Joanna 48
Margaret 47, 4S
Mary ! 4y
Reuben 47. 4S
Chapman, Roxana 48
Kuth 7, 48, 60
Samuel 47
Sarah 47' 48
Simon 47, 48
Chatfield, Admah 54
Thomas 54
Chauncey, Charles 61
Chesley, George W 16
Maud Alice 16
Marion 16
Chevalier, Elizabeth 46
Jean 46
Joli'^ 44M5
Thomas 46
Child, Lucy 69
Chipmaii, Jacob 66
Cilley, Joseph 37
Clark, Benjamin 16
Caroline Emily 13
Danul 16
Edsar Bradford 13
Elizabeth 16
Emma 16
Harriet 13
Henry 47
Joseph 16
Lavinia 16
Lucille 16
Sarah 12
Stephen 10
Cloutman, Edward 20
Clyfton, Rev. Mr 3
Cobb, Mary 48
Samuel 48
Sarah 60
Coburn, Cornelius 6
Rachel 6
Coggswell, John 70
Cole, Amos 38
Elizabeth 38
Mary 38
Coleman, 29
Lydia 33
Cone, Mary 67
Conley, Mary 9
Converse, Dorothy 60
Lucinda 6
Cook, Joanna 60
Cooke, Robert 3
Copeland, William 40
INLiry 40
Cotton, John 63
Craddock, Matthew 8
Crocker, Isaac 66
Joanna 66
Crockett, 27
Elizabeth 27
Crommet, John • . 21
Philip 19
Crow, Samuel • . 47
Curry, Anne 54
Cushman, James 6
Ruth 6
\Villiam 6
Cussart, George 56
Dame, Elizabeth . .
Dana, James
Darby, . .
Darling, Thomas . .
Davenport, Nathaniel
Davidson, L. . . .
Davis, Bertha .
Samuel
Titus E. . .
Willing . .
DeGroot, Adelaide .
Aletta . .
Alice Olden
Ann
Anne LaTourette . 7, 57,
Bessie
Elizabeth 57,
Fametje
Fanny 7,
Grace
Henry 55,
Henry LaT 57,
Hugo
Isabel
Jacob 56,
J«hn 56, 57,
Margarieta
Margretha
ilary . .
Sarah
Seitje
Staes
Susan P
William 57,
William Pietersen .
Delano, Thomas
DeLuce, Francis
Deming. Elizabeth
Rachel
Denison, John
Dennett, Amy 15,
Elizabeth
Dimick, Abigail
Dimraock, Joseph
Doe, Samuel
Downing, Louisa
Marv
Richard
Downs, Emily Frost . . . .11,
Nellie E
Wilbur Tuttle
William D
William E
Drew, A
Dudley, Joseph
Dunham, Edmond
Henry DeG
Mary A
Sarah
Susan
Theresa
William O
William DeG
, 29
62
56
57
58
57
57
57
58
58
58
57
58
58
57
58
56
58
57
58
56
57
58
57
56
56
57
58
56
79
Durell, Clara 12
Frances 15 iz
Frank 12
Frederic 12
George G 12
Henry Clifford 12
Newman 12
Durgin, Eliza 17
Eastburn, Mary W 57
Edgerly, Samuel 20
Edwards, John Broughton ... 15
Sarah 54
Elder, Irene 16
Elderkin, Vine 6
Eliot, John 40
Elkius, Jeremiah 22
Elwell, Elizabeth H 69
Elizabeth M 69
William T 69
Emerson, Smith 10
Evans, George Frederic .... 30
Katharine N 30
Lucie Macomb 30
Maryllslev 30
Kobert 22
Fabian, John 36
Fabyan, John 32
Sarah 32
Farrow, Aftou 12
Lulu 11 12
Wdliam II 12
Fenton, Lois 60
Field, Jane F. R 57
Margaret C 55
Margretha 57
Fisher, Lillie S7
Fisk, Elizabeth A 57
Fitch, James ........ 50
Fitzgerald, M 13
Folsom. Nancy 12
Foote, Elizabe'th 51
Mary 51
Nathaniel 51
Ford, Mary T 11
Foster, Ada 15
Amy 15
Anne 15
Charles 15
Charles F 15
( larissa 12
Elizabeth 15
F. A 15
Henry 15
Samuel 15
Sarah i ^
Thomas 66
Fox, Elizabeth 47
William 9
French, John 6
Frink, Cyrus 28
Frost, Abigail 8
Almira B n
Frost, Almira Osborne ....
Anne
Anne Linden
Augusta
Bartholome
Caroline 1
Caroline Augusta . . . 13, :
Caroline Emily
Catherine
Charles
Charles Augustus ....
CI arles B :
Charles Leonard . . . . 13, :
Charles P
Dorothy
Edward H
Edwin \V
Elbridge
Eleanor
Elizabeth 8, 9,
Emily Akerman . . . 11, 13,
Elizabeth M
Flora
Frank
George 8, i
George E
George S
George Tuttle
Harriet E
HarrvE
Ida B
Ida May 7,
Isaac Higgins
Isaac W
Jennie
Joanna
John 8, 9, I
John Chaloner
John Leavitt
Lucy
Lvdia
jSIabel Augusta :
Martha 8,
Martha A. B
Martha V
Mary 8, 9, 11,
Mary Ellen
Mehitable
Nathaniel . . . . 8, 10, 11,
Nicholas 8, 9,
Philip
Raymond E
Rebecca
Rose
Samuel 11,
Samuel Tuttle . . . .11,
Sarah 8, 10, .
Sarah A
Sarah Lillian
Sarah Tuttle
Shepherd I n. 13-
Thomas Raymond ....
Walter . .'
William 8,9,
80
Frost, William C 12
Winthrop . . . lo, ii, 12, 22
Fuller, Abigail 66, 67
Anne 6, 65, 66, 67
Barnabas 65
Eenjamin . . . . . . 65, 66
Bethia 66
Deborah 6^
Desire 65
Ebenezer 66
Edward ....... 65
Eleanor 66
Eliza 62, 67
Elizabeth .... 6, 65, 66, 67
Elkanah 67
Frances 66
Hannah 65. 66
Jabez 66
Jane ........ 65
John 65, 66
Jonathan 66
Joseph 65, 66
Judah 67
Lois 66
Lydia 66
Martha 66
Mary 65, 66, 67
Matthew 65, 66, 67
Matthias ....... 67
Mehitabel 6^
Melville W 65
^lercy 66, 67
Rebecca 67
lleliance 66
Rodol^jhus 6, 67
Ruth -^,6,67
Samuel . . . 6,62,65^6,67
Sarah 65, 77
Shubael ^65
Thankful 65
Thomas 49, 65, 66
Timothy 67
Waitstill 67
Furber, Abigail 28
Dorothy 2S
Leah .' 28
William F 9
Gains, George 38
Gates. Horatio 22
Gee, Mary 31
Gibbons, Ambrose . . . -31, 43- 44
Elizabeth 44
l^ebecca 43,44
(jilbert, John S9
Gilc, Ada M 13
Charles W 13
Clara A 13
Ellen A 12
James B 12
James H 13
Jane : . 12
JohnM 13
Joseph A 12
Gile, Lydia A 12
Maria S 13
Mary A 12
Sarah E 12
Gilman, Ezekiel 36
Johanna 36
Glentworth, Caroline 15
Doctor ic
H 15
Goodhue, Abigail 12
Charles E 13
Charles S 13
Clarence ^I 13
Emma J 13
Frank A 13
George 1 13
Hannah 13
Harry L 13
Harry S 13
Joseph 12, 13
Nancy 13
Nathaniel 12, 13
Sarah 12
Sarah M 13
Goodrich. John 51
Gorges, Ferdinando 8, 19
Gorham, Thankful 66
Gould, Edith 16
Frederic Nichols .... 16
Helen Margaret 16
Isabella 16
JohnF. 16
Margaret M 16
Green, William 66
Gowen. William 9
Grant, Elizabeth 17
Hannah 47
Mercy 17
Ruth 17
Ulysses S 14
William 17
Griffin, Eugene 39
Hancock 39
Priscilla Alden 39
Griggs, Joshua 48
Griswold, Francis 51
Mary 51
Grynwick, Jan 5
Hale, Enoch . . , 36
Hall, Ann 67
Mary 1^9
Sarah '16
Halle, Annie 71
Edward 71
Hallett, Abigail 42
Andrew 42
Ham, John 13
Sarah 15
Hammond, Joseph 9
Hancock, Abigail Adams .... 39
Almira Russell .... 39
Amanda 39
Anna Taylor 39
81
Hancock, Augusta 38
Augusta Virginia ... 39
Benjamin Franklin . . 39
Edward Townsend ... 39
Elizabeth 39
Elizabeth Sterling ... 39
Irone 39
John 38
Laura 39
Winfield Scott .... 39
Hanford, Margaret 5
Thomas 5
Hanscom, Martha 16
HarisoQ, Benjamin 51
John 59
Martha 59
Harlow, Hannah 66
Harmon, Agnes Augusta .... 11
Almiral 11
Charles 11
George W n
Jennie 11
Lula 12
Lydia A., 12
Martha 11
William 12
Hart, Susan H 16
Hastings, Fanny 58
Frank S 58
Henry D 58
Isabel 58
Mary D 58
Thomas 58
Thomas S 58
Hatherly, Timothy 5
Hawley, Elizabeth 58
Haycock, Hannah 7
Haj'nes. Samuel 26
Heard, Experience 24
James 24
Samuel 24
Shuah 24
Tristram 20
Herrick, James 54
Sarah ^4
Hibbard, Deborah 6
Nathaniel 6
Hill, Elisha 15
John 8
Mary 8
Nathaniel 70
Phebe 15
Sarah 70
Hodge, Mary i ^
Holman, Lucinda 15
Hooker, Thomas 34, 59
Hopkins, Bethiah 59
John 59
Hovey, Caroline 15
Clara i ^
H 15
Home, Elizabeth 38
Isaac 38
Howard, Harriet 69
Howard, Mary 40
Hoyt, Charlotte Pickering .... 29
Phebe Pickering 29
William 29
Hunkins, John 9
Hunt, Deborah 21, 22
Huntington, Abigail 60
John 60
Sarah 51
Thomas 51
Huntress, Sarah 10
Sarah Abigail .... 29
Hutchings, Abraham 57
Ingram, William 71
Jackson, Amy I5i 17
Benjamin 17
Caroline Emily .... 69
Charles Akerman ... 69
Charles Edward .... 69
Daniel 17
Ebenezer 17
Elizabeth 15
Esther 13, 16, 17
Hannah 17
Harriet A 69
Henry 17
Herbert 1 69
Howard 69
Joanna 17
John 17
Joseph 17
Levia 69
Lucy E 69
Margaret 17
Mary 17
Mehitable 17
Mercy 17
Nathaniel 17
Richard 16, 1 7
Ruth 17
Samuel 15, 16, 17
Thomas 17
Truelove 17
Walter 69
Walter Edward .... 69
William 69
James, Sarah 54
Thomas 54
Jameson, Ephraim 70
Janvrin, Elizabeth 36, 46
Mary 32
John 36, 46
Jenkins, Elizabeth 15
Experience 24
Phebe 15
Richard 15
Sarah 15
Johnson, Andrew 55
Anna 28
Emma J ^
Hannah 17
James 17
82
Johnson, John 6
Jothara 28
Mary 6
Jones, A. H 16, 69
Elizabeth 16
Charles C 69
James L 69
Mary 66
Ralph 66
Sarah Elizabeth 69
Kansier, Lucy P. . .
Keeler, Sarah . . .
Kelt, Agnes ....
George . . .
Henrietta P. . .
Walter E. . . .
William . . .
Kemp, Patience . . .
William . . .
Keniston, Ralph . .
Kennett, Almira I.
Caroline R. .
Emily A. .
George . .
Sarah A. . .
Sewell F. .
Kerle, Francis . . .
Hester
Kimball, Olive . . .
Kingsbury, Nathaniel
Sarah
Kingsley, Jerusha . .
Kinslagh, John . . .
Kintzman, Pauline
Knight, Bridget . . .
John . . .
Elizabeth . .
Mary . . .
36, 43. 45'
36, 43. 45.
... 36,
Laimbeer, Kate . .
Richard .
Lakeman, Aaron
Caroline
Elizabeth
Salome .
Lambert, Thomas .
Langdon, Elizabeth
John . .
Mark . .
Mehitable
Oner . .
Tobias
Langram, Rowland
Langs tafF, Henry .
Sarah
Lary, Rebecca , .
LaTourette, Anne .
Catherine
David .
Henry
Jean
Marie .
Pierre .
LaTourette, Sarah 57
Leach, Levia 69
Leffingwell, Thom.as 50
Leighton, Catherine 9
Elizabeth 9, 27
John 9
Mary 9
Thomas 27
William 9
Lennox, Parkman 16
Levitt, James 36
Sarah 36
Lewis, Thomas 8
Littlefield, Francis 9
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth . . 42
Stephen 42
Zilpha 42
Lord, Miss 48
Lothrop, Barnabas 66
Bethia 66
Elizabeth 42, 66
Israel 72
Jane 65
John 65
Luce, Truelove 17
Lucy, Barbara 50,71,72
Thomas 50,71,72
Lupton, John 54
Hannah 54
Makepeace, Abigail 60
Manning, Charles 12
Manton, Experience 5
John 5
March, Elizabeth 15
Oliver 16
Sarah 15
Markham, Israel 8
Marshall, John 63
Mary 63. 64
Marvin, Mary 51. 7^
Mason, Edward 51
Joh'\-. , 19. 43. 44
Hezekiah 5
Robert 27
Sarah 5
Mather, Cotton 63
Richard 63, 70
Mathews, Francis 20
Maxwell, Alexander 8
McCarter, Eliza N 55
Robert "55
McDonald, George 57
Mary W 57
Richard 57
Sarah 57
Thomas E 57
Mead, Elizabeth 15
Meeker, Fanny N 55
Meloon, Enoch 15
John II
Mary 15
Olive 15
Mendum, Dorothy 10
Jonathan 10
83
Mendum, Nathaniel
Robert .
Merrifield, ■ •
Merritt, Daniel W.
Edith L. .
Joseph W.
Lucy . .
Martha
Merry, Martha . .
Mesereau, Jean . .
Josue
Marie
Metcalf, Lucv . .
Lucy E. .
Thomas
Miller, Christine
Millett. Thomas
Miner, Flora L. . .
Molines, William .
Priscilla .
Moody, William
Morse, Abner . .
Lucretia
Sarah Ann .
Morton, Nathaniel
Moses, James . .
MuUins, Priscilla .
William .
Nason, Richard .
Nealley. Abigail i-
Neat, Charles E i6
Nesbitt, Eliza 55
Fanny .
Hugh .
John
Mary .
Rhoda .
55
55
58
.... 55.58
.... 55-58
Thomas 55- 58
Newberry, Margaret 47
Mary 60
Newman, Elizabeth 34
Thomas 34
Nevins, Adriane
Edmond D
Jacob
Margretta F
Susan
Nichols, Frank Wayland . . .
Leslie P
Lucinda H
Phineas
Nickerson, Alice L
Anne B
Caroline R
Edith
EdsonT
Elmer E
Elsworth C
Emily N
George A
George E
Herbert P
Joanna F
Nickerson, Lucy Ida . . .
Luke ....
LukeB. . . .
I^ydia A. . . .
Mabel ....
Mark ....
Norton, Francis ....
Nutter, Abigail ... 2
Alfred
Anna
Annie
Antony ....
Charlotte Elizabeth
Dorothy ....
Eleanor ....
Eliphalet ....
Elizabeth ....
Franklin ....
25, 29, 38
. . 29
. 28, 29
• • 27
26, 27, 28
30
28
28
. 27, 28, 29
Hannah 28,
Harriet
. . .26,27,
28,
10, 26, 27, :
13, 25. 2b
27, 2S, 25
Hatevil . .
Henry . .
James . .
John . .
Joseph . .
Joseph Simes
Joshua ....
Joshua Morrill .
Lavinia ....
Lucy Ann . .
Mark ....
Martha . . .
Mary ... 26,
Mary Adams . .
Matthias 28,
Nancy Simes . . , . ■
Nathan
Olive 28,
Phebe
Sarah 27.
Sarah Jane
Thomas
Valentine
William
Odiorne, Ann 1 5
Augustus Walbach ... 30
George Beck 30
Joseph Simes 3°
Katharine Norrie .... 30
Marv 17' 30
Ruth 30
Olden, Abigail 57
Aeltje 57
William 57
Otis, Amos . .
Christine .
Elizabeth .
Experience
Frances
Griselda .
Hannah
Horatio N.
66
24
24
24
24
24
84
Otis, John 23, 24
Judith 21, 24
Mary 24
Nicholas 24
Richard 21, 23, 24
Rose 21, 24
Shuah 24
Solomon 24
•"Stephen 23, 24
Susanna 24
Thomas 23
Oxenbridge, Theodora 63
Pabodie, Elizabeth 42
Priscilla 42
Ruth 42
William 42
Paddy, Margaret 35
AVilliam 35
Page, Helen C 57
J. Seaver 57
Paine, George Taylor 69
Louise Mason 69
Sophia Field 69
Stephen 40
WiUter 69
Wm. Howard 69
Palmer, Abigail 1;, t;2
Amasa ^
Amee . • t;2
Anna 152
Elihu '5
John 48
Jonah ^
Mehitable 6
Moses :;2
Rachel W "6
Rhoda 5
Samuel 6
Parker, Rosalinda 69
Parsons, George 13
Joseph 29
ITsher 8
Partridge, Elizabeth 61, 63
George .... 50,62,64
Hannah " . .64
James 64
John 64
Lydia 64
Mary 63
Mercy 64
Ralph 61, 63
Ruth 62, 64, 67
Sarah 50, 64
Triphosa -64
Paule, Thomas 3
Paulk, Ammi 48
Pease, Jonathan 8
Peavey, James 28
Mary 28
Peirce, Joshua 10
Lucy 6
William 49
Pendleton, Alma L 29
Pendleton, Clifton A 29
Fredetta C 29
Rosetta M 29
Penniman, Joseph 40
Sarah 40
Perkins, Martha 28
Moses 22
Thomas 25
Peterson, Jonathan 62
Lydia 62
Pexton, Emma 12
Phillips. William 41
Phips, Eleanor 10
Thomas 10
Pickering, Abigail ... 31, 32, 36, 70
Anthony 32
Charlotte 29
Daniel 32
Deborah 33
Ephraim 33
Elizabeth .... 32,33,70
Hannah 70
Hazael 70
James 32, 36
John .... 31,32,36,37
Joseph 32
Joshua 32
Lydia 33
Martha 70
Mary . . . .31,32,70,71
Mehitable 70
Phebe . 29
Rebecca 3i> 7°
Samuel 32
Sarah . . 25, 31, 32. 33, 70
Thomas 31, 32, 71
William 32
Winthrop -9' 3^
Pierce, C J . 15
Herbert 15
Susan L 15
Pierson, Abraham ...... 53
Pike, John 46
Pindar, Almira 16, 69
George 69
Simon 16
Pinkham, John 24
Rose 24
Pitman, Mary 24
Poillon, Catherine 58
Jacques 58
Porter, Joanna 60
Ruth 48, 60
Samuel 60
Post, Thomas 53
Price, Mercy 67
Prince, Jennie 57
John 66
Reliance 66
Purdy, E. B 13
Quint, Alonzo II 26
Raleigh, Walter 70
85
Ralston, Mary A 55
Rawlins, Edward 28
Elizi.beth 28
Ichabod 28
Olive 28
Rawson, Matthew 13
Raymond, Sarah 11
Raynkins, Andrew 8
Read, Mehi table 6
Thomas 6
Revere, Paul 70, 71
Richards, Aaron 15
Caroline 15
Jllizabeth i";
Mark 15
Richardson, Jemima 67
John 9
Ring, Mary 17
Simon 17
Ripley, Charles S 71
Roberts, Abigail 27
Thomas 27
Robinson, Abiah 5
Abigail 5
Abner 6
Achsah 6
Amy 6
Anna . . . . 5, 6, 52, 58
Bathsheba 6
Benjamin 6
Blanchard 7
Bridget 5
Charles 6
Charles F 7
Charles L.F 7
Daniel <;
Daniel C 7
Deborah 6
Dorcas 7> 48
Dorothy 7
Ebenezer 5
Eber 6
Edwin 7
Eliab 6
Eliezer 1;
Elijah 6
Eliphalet 5, 6
Eliphaz 5
Elisha 5
Elizabeth 6
Eunice 6
Experience 5, 6
Fanny 7
Fear ....... 5
Frances Isabel .... 7
Francis 7, SS
Frank 7
Frank Tracy .... 7. 13
George 6
Gurdon 7
Hannah 7
Harriet 7
Harry 7
Harry LaT 7
Robinson, Helen 7
Henry De G 7
Huldeth 6
Ida May 7, 13
Irena 6
Isaac 5, 6
Israel 5
Jacob 5, 6, 52
James 5
Jerusha 5, 6
John . . . . 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
JohnP 6
Joseph 6
Josiah 6
Joshua 6
Lucinda 6
Lucius 5
Lucy 6
Lydia 6
Margaret 5
Martha 6
Mary 5, 6
Mehitable 6
Mercy , . 5
Moses 6
Muriel 6
Nathan 6
Nathaniel 6
Nicholas 3
Peter 5, 6, 67
Prudence 6
Rachel 6
Ralph 6
Rebecca 6
Rhoda 6
Robert M 7
Ruth 6. 67
Samuel 5, 6
Sarah 5, 6
Sarah S 5
Simeon ....... 5
Susanna 5, 6
Sybil 6
Thomas 5
Thomas H 7
Tracy 6
Vine 6, 7, 48
William 6
Rogers, Lois 40
Richard 61
Rowley, Elizabeth 66
Mehitable 65
Moses 65, 66
Rugg, Arthur II .16
H.I 16
Runkle, Helen 7
Runyon, Anne 54
Sampson, John 42
Priscilla 42
Susanna 42
Sanborn, Esther 22
Hannah 22
Joseph . . . . .22
86
Sargent, Benjamin
Diamond ,
Mary
Nathaniel
Savage, Mary
Savil, Hannah
Rebecca
Samuel
Sayer, David
Schenck, Ann
JohnM. ,
Scott, Catherine
Rebecca . ,
Screven, Robert
William
Seabury, Hannah
Senter, Joseph .
Sewel, William .
Shadkford, John
Ruth W.
Shapleigh, Nicholas
Sheafe, Abigail .
Jacob
Margaret
Sheppulds, William
Sherburne, Ambrose
Dorothy
Elizabeth .
Henry
John
Joseph .
Martha .
Mary
Rachel .
Rebecca
Ruth
Samuel .
Sarah
Sherlock, William .
Shipway, Joseph
Simes, Anne . .
John . .
Joseph .
Simmons, Mary
Moses
Sloper, Ambros .
Bridget .
Elizabeth
Henry .
John .
Martha .
Mary
Rebecca
Richard
Sarah
Susanna
Sluman, Sarah .
Thomas
Smart, Rowland
Sarah
Smith, Abijah .
Anne .
Catherine
Cotteril .
64
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27
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38
9
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61
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Smith, Elias 6
Elizabeth 6
Ephraim 6
Jairus 6
James 38
Joseph 67
Josiah 6
Martha 6
Olive II
Sarah 6
Thomas 71
Soule, Josephine 30
Southworth, Constant 43
Mary 42
Spalding, Evans 30
Francis R 30
John V 30
Josephine 30
Mary 1 30
Stanbery, ] Adonijah .... 54
Stanborough ! Alice 53
or j Ann 54
Stanbury, J Anna 55
Elizabeth 54
Eunice 54
Frances 54
Hannah 54
Henry 55
Isaac 54
Jacob 54, 55
James 53, 54
John 54
Jonas 55
Joseph 54
Josiah 53, 54
Margaret .... 54, 55
Martha 54
*Iary 53,54
Olive 54
Peregrine ... 53- 54
Phebe 54
Recompence ... 54
Rhoda . . . .54, 55, 58
Ruth 54
Samuel 54
Sarah 53.54
Walter 53
William C 54
William F 55
William R 54
Zerviah 54
Standish, Alexander 42
Myles ... 41, 42, 65, 66
Stanyon, Antony 31
Mary 31
Starbuck, Edward 9
Steele, Aaron 60
Abigail 60
Anna . 59
Anna DeG 58
Dorothy 60
Eleazer 60
Elisha 60
Elizabeth . 59
87
Steele, George 59
Hannah 60
James 59. 60
John 58, 59, 60
Lois 60
Martha 59
Marv 1^9
Mary Eoff 58
Mehitabel 60
Rachel 59
Richard 59
Ruth 60
Sarah 59, 60
Stephen 60
Theresa E 58
Stevens, Catherine 10, 22
Deborah 33
Hubbard ^^
Lydia 22
Stevenson, Hannah 13
Stilling, Peter 22
Stocking, Bethiah 59
George 59
Stoddard, John 51
Stokes, James 22
Stone, John 40
Sarah 40
Story, "William 26
Stoughton, Anthony 21, 24
Israel 24
Nicholas 21, 24
Rose 21, 24
Strickland, Jonathan 54
Joseph -47
Strong, Margaret 47
Return 47
Sturtevant, Hannah 40
Sudley, John 49
Swan, Hannah • 55
Jedidiah 54> 55
Phebe 55
Samuel 57
Talpey, Elizabeth 38
Tarlton, Elias 15
Hannah 15
Joseph 15
Mary 15
Ruth ........ 15
Stillman 15
William 15
Taylor, Sophia F 69
Tenney, Maria 12
Thacher, Ann 62
Anne 61
Anthony 61
Eliza 62
Elizabeth . . 6, 61, 62, 63. 67
Lydia 62
Margaret 61
Mary 62
Patience 62
Peter 61,62
Ralph 62, 64
, 62,64,
Thacher, Rodolphus .
Ruth . . .
Susanna
Theodora
Thomas 61, 62,
Thayer, Ephraim
Thomas, Emma
Fannie L
Thomas H
William H
Thompson, Mary L 33, 43,
Throgmorton, Francis
Judith
Margaret
Thurston, Leslie W
Stephen
Walter H
Tibbetts, Samuel
Tobie, Elvira
Torr, Benedictus
Tower, Caroline
Isaac . . •
Mary E
Susan L
Townsend, Charlotte
Tracy, Abigail
Alice
Amy
Anna 6, 52,
Benjamin F
Catherine
Christopher
Daniel 51,
David
Dorothy
Elizabeth
Francis
Grace
Hannah
Henry
Hester
John 50, 51, 71,
Jonathan 51,
Judith \
Lois
Lucy
Lydia
Margaret 50,
Martha
Mary . •
Miriam
Moses
Nathaniel sjo,
Paul \
Perez
Rebecca 50,
Richard 50,
Robert
Ruth
Samuel 51. 52,
Sarah 50, 51,
Saunders
Shakerley
Solomon 51,
Tracy, Stephen 49, 50, 64
Susan 71
Thomas . . . . 50, 51, 71, 72
Triphosa 49> 64
Uriah 51
Vicesimus 71
William . . . .49, 50, 71, 72
Trefry, Joanna
Trembly, Sarah
Trickey, Thomas
Zachariah
Tuttle, Almira C
Anson
Anson B
Benjamin
Caroline
Catherine
Charles W
Deborah
Dorothy 19,
Ebenezer
Edwin
Elizabeth . . . .19, 20,
Elvira
Emily F
Esther
Frances
Frances B
George 10, 12,
George G
Hannah
James 20,
Joanna
John .
John M
John S
Judith 21, 22
Keziah
I-ula
Lydia 12
ILydia A
Mary 20, 21
Nancy
Nicholas .21
Samuel
Sarah 10, 20
Stoughton
Thomas 19, 20
William
William F
William N
Winthrop
Winthrop F
Tyler, William 8
Umbstaetter, Robert J i3i 69
Underhill, John 18
Upton, Samuel 8
Usher, Hezekiah 20
Vanderhoef, Fannie L 25
Francis B 25
Harmon W 2^
Natalie W 25
Van Deventer, Charles H 57
Elizabeth .... 57
iS, 19, 20,
Van Deventer, Henry B 57
Lloyd 57
Robert C 57
Vaughan, George 10
Vines, Richard 8
Voorhees, Caleb M 57
Elizabeth 57
Ellen • • 57
James E 57
Joanna 57
John 57
John De G 57
Mary N 57
Sarah A. S 57
Susan P 57
AVilliam H 57
Wadsworth, Elizabeth 42
John 42
Mary 42
Peleg 42
Susanna 42
Walden, or Waldron, Richard, 9, 20, 21, 45
Walker, Daniel 15
Wallingford, Elizabeth 38
John 20
Mary 20
Warfield, Rachel 6
Warren, Griselda 24
James 24
Margaret 24
Washington, George 15
Waterbury, 6
Waterman, Miriam 51
Thomas 51
Watson, Phebe 15
Watts, Elizabeth 59
Thomas 59
Webb, Bethia 35
Christopher 40
Hannah 35
Henry 61
John 35
Margaret 61
Mary 35, 40
Samuel 35
Sybil 6
Weeks, E. 5
Wentworth, Aaron 67
Abigail 67
G.R 15
Henry 15
John 44
Joshua 37
Olive 15
Samuel 15
Walter 15
West, Jabez 48
Roxana 48
Samuel 64
Triphosa 64
Westbrook, Thomas 17
Wheeler, Alice 53
Thomas 53
Whidden, Abigail 28
White, Adams 7
Bridget 5
Harriet 7
Mehitable 35
Sarah 47
Thomas 35
"Whitney, Aurelia M 69
Calvin 69
Rosalinda 69
Wiggins, Thomas -6, 27
Wigglesworth, Edward .... 36
Wilkins, Margaret 25
Williams, Hannah 65
John 65
Joseph 65
Lucy 6
Mary 65
Sarah 65
Willson, Gowen 10
Wiiichel, Silence
Winget, John .
Mary .
Winslow, John
Josiah
Margaret
Mary
Winthrop. John
Wolcott, Mary
Roger
Sarali
Wood, Mercy .
Sarah .
Woodman, Mary E.
Worcester, Aurelia M.
Noah
Worth, Elizabeth
Richard
William
• 47
26, 27
69
69
PLACES.
Alton, England 8
Alton, 111 57
Andover, Mass 12
Andover, N. H 12
Antrim, N. H 11
Attleboro, Mass 12
Augusta, Ga 12
Baltimore, Md 38
Bangor, Eng 53
Barnstable, Mass 5, 65, 66, 67
Barnstaple, Eng 49. "53
Belfast, Me. . . • 69
Bergen Co., N. J 14
Berwick, Me 9, 12, 38
Biddeford, Me 8
Binsted, Eng 8
Bolton, Conn 47
Boston, England 3
Boston, Mass., 11, 12, 23. 28, 30, 34, 35,
61, 62, 69, 71
Bound Brook, N. J 56, 57
Bradford, Mass 20
Brain ston, Eng 61
Braintree, Eng 34
Braintree, Mass. . . . 34, 35, 36, 40
British (Eng.) Museum 3
Bristol, Eng 9, 70
Bristol, N. H 12
Brooktield, N. H 13
Brooklyn, Conn 6
Brooklyn, N.Y 51.69
Cambridge, Eng 3
Cambridge, Mass. . , 31, 34, 59, 63, 69
Campden, Eng 71
Canada 21, 24
Charlecote, Eng 50,71,72
Charlestown, Mass 29
Chelmsford, Mass 34
Chilmark, Mass 5, 62
Clinton, Mass 69
Cochecho (N. H.) river) . . . 21, 24
Colchester, Conn 65
Conway, N. H 21,24
Cornwall (Eng.) Co. ...... ^^3
Corpus Christi (Eng.) college . 3, 61
Dartmouth (N. H.) College . . 14,32
Delaware 54
Delft, Holland 56
Devonshire, Eng. . . . 8, iS, 34, 49, 53
Donington, Eng 3
Dorchester, Mass 24, 40, 70
Dorking, Eng 41
Dorsetshire, Eng 61
Dover, N. H. 9, 10, 18, 20, 21, 2^, 24, 26,
^7. 3S, 43. 44. 45. 46. 70
Durham, N. H 10. 33
Duxbury, Mass. 5, 10, 40, 41, 49, 61,62,
63, 64, 65
Eaton. N. H 11, 12
E. Haddam, Conn 65, 67
E. Hampton, li. 1 54
Effingham, N. H 11, 12
Elizabeth, N. J 54
Ellington, Conn 60
Ellsworth, N. II 12
Elwyn, Penn 69
Emmanuel (Eng.) college .... 3
Enfield, Conn 8
Epping. N. H 10
Essex (Eng.) county 34, 63
Essex (N. J.) county 54
Exeter, Eng S, 18
Exeter (N. H.) academy .... 14
Falmouth, Mass 5
Fortress ^lonroe, Va 11
Fort William and Mary, N. II. . . 17
Francestown, N. II 11
Fresh Kills, S. 1 57
Georgia 14, 16
Glastonbury, Eng -3. 24
Gloucestershire, Eng 50, 63, 71
Goudere, France 56
Great Bay, N. H. . . 14, 19. 27, 31, 32
Great Yarmouth, Eng 49
Greenland, N. II 25, 36
Groton, Conn 51
Guilford, Conn 59
Hadlev, Mass 47, 48, 60
Ilalifa'x, N. S 15
Hampton, N. II 31
Hampshire, Eng 8, 43
Hartford, Conn. . . 13, 25, 50, 59, 60
Harvard (Mass.) college . . . 32, 36, 61
Haverhill, Mass 65
Hereford (Eng.) county 71
92
Hingham, Mass 24
Holland . . . 3, 5, 41, 49, 50, 56, 64, 65
Ipswich, Mass 10, 31
Ireland 9' 58
Jersey, Eng 46
Kent (Eng.) county 64
Killingly, Conn 6
Kittery.'Mc 8,9,10,24,45
Lamprey (N. H.) river . . . . 10, 26
Lancasliire, Eng 43
Lancaster, Mass 69
Lebanon, Conn 6
Lee, N. H. . . 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 22
Leyden, Holland 3- 4- 64
Leyden (Holll university . . . • 3, 4
Limerick, Ireland 9
Lincolnshire, Eng 3, 53
Lisbon, Conn 6
London, Eng. . iS. 34, 40, 49, 58, 70, 71
Louisburgh, C. B 25, 47
Lyme, Conn 59
Lynn, Mass 11,25,53
Maehias, Me 11
Madbury, N. H 45
Madison, N. H 10, 1 1
Maine 10, 12, 29
Maiden, Eng 63
Mansfield, Conn 6, 67
Marlborough, Mass 48
Marshtield, Mass 5i>65
Martha's Vineyard, Mass. . . 51 62
Martinique, W. 1 46
Massachusetts 8, 9, 17, 18, 27, 40, 50, 61
Medfield, Mass 34
Mendon, Mass 35
Milford Haven, Eng 70
Milton Clevedon, Eng 61
Milton, Mass 62
Miramichi, N. B 13
Mississippi river 69
Moise en Saintonge, Fr 58
Morwislon, Eng 53
Nebraska 12
New Amsterdam, N.Y 56
Newbury, Mass 25
Newburyport, Mass 40
Newcastle, N. H. . . . 15, 17, 25, 44
Newfoundland 70
New Hampshire . iS, 23, 26, 27, 32, 33, 43
New Haven, Conn 25
Newichawannock, Me. . . .9, 26, 44
Newington, N. H. 16, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30,
32. 36. 37. 38. 45.
46,70. 71.
New Jersey 6, 54, 56
New London, Conn. . . .25, 50, 59
New Market, N. H '. 12
New Orleans, La 16
Newport, R. 1 25
New Sharon, Me ii
New York 5, 51
New York, N. Y. . .25, 47, 54, 55, 58
New Zealand 13
Norfolk (Eng.) county . . . 35, 49
Normandy, France .... 49, 56, 63
Northamptonshire, Eng 71
Norwich, Conn. . . 5, 50, 51, 52, 67, 72
Norwich, Eng . . 3
Nottingham, N. H 12, 21
Nottinghamshire, Eng 3
Odiham, Eng 43
Ohio 55
Osse en Beam, Fr 58
Ossipee, N. H 12
Oxford, Eng. .• 61
Oxfordshire, Eng 53
Peamore. Eng 18
Pemaquid, Me 70
Pembroke (Wales) county ... 70
Philadelphia, Penn. . . . ' . 39, 54, 58
Piscataqua (N. H.) river . . . 31, 32
Plymouth, Eng. . 18
Plymouth, Mass. . 3, 4, 5, 41, 49, 50, 65
Plymouth (Mass.) county . . 35, 65, 66
Portland, Me 12, 29
Portsmouth, N. H. 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
20, 25, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31, 32, 36, 38,
43, 45, 46, 69
Preston, Conn. . . .5, 50, 51, 52, 67
Providence, Ii. 1 69
Queen's Camel, Eng 61
Queen's (Eng.) college 61
Quincy, Mass 34) 35
Rahway, N. J 54
Randolph, Vt 60
Rathcoole, Ire 72
Rehoboth, Mass 66
Rochefort, Fr 58
Rochester, N. H 28, 38
Rockingham (N. H.) county . . . 10
Rowley, Mass 25
Roxbury, Mass 34, 35, 40
Rutland, Vt 69
Saco (Me.) river ....... 8
Sagabonack, L. 1 53
Sagamore (N. H.) creek .... 14
Salem, Mass 8, 25, 31, 50, 61
Salisbury, Eng 61
Salisbury,. Mass 25
Salmon Falls (N. H.) river ... 9
Saratoga (N. Y.) battle .... 22
Say brook, Conn 5o> 5^
Scarboro', Me 25
Scituate, Mass 29, 61, 65
Scotland, Conn 5, 6
Scrooby, Eng 3
93
Shetucket (Conn.) river .... 50
Simsbury, Conn 47
Somers, Conn 6
Somerset (Eng.) county . . 23. 24. 61
Somerset (N. J.) county .... 56
Somersworth, N. H 21, 44
Southampton, Eng 41
Southampton, L. 1 25, 53, 54
Spruce (Me.) creek 10
Stanwaye, Eng 7i> 7^
Staten (N. Y.) Island . . .56, 57, 58
Surrey (Eng.) county . . . . 21, 41
Tamar (Eng.) river 53
Tamarton, Eng 53
Tewksbury, Eng 50,71,72
Tewksbury, Mass 29
Texas 12
Tisbury, Mass 5
Tiverton, Eng 8
Toddington, Eng 49, 50, 71
Tolland, Conn \>j, 47, 48, 60
University Penn 40
Upton, Mass 6
Vire, Fr 49
Warwickshire, Eng 50, 71
Watertovvn, Mass 25
Wells, Eng 23
Wells, Me 8, 9
Westmoreland, Eng 63
Westfield, S. 1 58
Wethersfield, Conn 50, 51
Weymouth, Mass. . . . 25, 35, 61, 62
Wiltshire, Eng 61
Windham, Conn 6
Windsor, Conn 47, 48, 60
Winter Harbor, Me 8
Winter Hill. Mass 28
Wolfboro, N. H 13
Worcester, Eng 63
Worcester, Mass 69
Wrentham, Mass 69
Wyoming, N. S 54
Yale (Conn.) college 60
Yantic (Conn.) river 50
Yonkers, N. Y 23
York (Me.) county 9
Yorkshire, Eng 53
Zanesville, O 55
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