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JOHN REDINGTON
OF TOPSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS,
WITH NOTES ON THE
Males Jfamili?.
BY
CORNELIA M. REDINGTON CARTER.
EDITED BY
JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, LL.B.
BOSTON:
Press of David Clapp & Son.
1909.
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LIBRARY of COHGRESS
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Copyright, 1909, bt
Cornelia M. Redington Carter
Reprinted with additions from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register
for July, 1907
FOKEWOED.
I have prepared this brief record for my descendants, in the hope that a
knowledge of the simple lives of their ancestors may inspire them with
that elemental simplicity of soul which was the pole-star that guided the
builders of our great Republic.
Of some generations I have given detailed information, of other genera-
tions, little, and of a few, nothing. Some " have left a name behind them
that their praises might be reported. And some there be, who, having
no memorial, are perished as though they had never been born."
The memory of our forefathers has, however, been preserved : their
past history outlined, and the widening stream of their descendants indi-
cated, thereby affording a foundation upon which the future historian of
the family may build.
I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to all who have aided in this
compilation, but particularly to my aunt, Mrs. Laura A. Redington Fer-
guson (widow of the scholarly Dr. John Calhoun Ferguson), whose rever-
ence for, and knowledge of her progenitors, has been the mainspring of
my own enthusiasm, and whose example has taught me that pride of race
with love of country constitutes true patriotism.
Cornelia Redington Carter.
Philadelphia, April 21, 1908.
" 'Tis man's worst deed
To let the things that have been run to waste,
And in the unmeaning present sink the past i
In whose dim glass even now I faintly read
Old buried forms and faces long ago."
Charles Lamb.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIOXS.
Portrait of Joseph Alexander Redington Frontispiece
Page
Silhouettes of Captaix John and Mrs. Redikgtox - 3
Ipswich River at Topsfield, MASSAcnrsEXTS - - - 7
ToLLAXD Street, Tolland, Connecticut . - - . 9
Haynes House, West Parish, Haverhill. Massachusetts 13
Gravestone of Captain John Redington - - - 15
Portrait of Mrs. John Calhoun Ferguson - - - 17
Portrait of John Wales Redington - - - - 19
William T. Carter Junior Republic, Main Building - 2.5
Furniture which belonged to Captain Redington - - 29
"Long House," Lawtersville, New York - - - 33
St. Wilfred's, Calverly, Yorkshire 37
House of Reverend Elkanah Wales, Pudsey, Yorkshire 43
Portrait of Honorable Leonard Eugene Wales - - ol
Portrait of Honorable Edmund Levi Bull Wales - o7
Portrait of Mrs. Elisha Smith Wales - . . . 59*
Portrait of Mrs. John Redington ----- 61
REDINGTON LINEAGE.
Zaccheus Gould m. Phebe
Captain John^ Redington m. Mary Gould.
Lieut. Daniel'^ Redington m. Elizabeth Davison.
Jacob' Redington m. Elizabeth Hubbard.
Daniel* Redington m. Hannah Haynes.
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Captain .John^ Redington m. (2) Laura Wales.
Joseph^ Alexander Redington m. Chloe Le.wis.
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Cornelia^ Miranda Redington m. William Thornton Carter.
Helen Eliza Redington m. Henry Herschel Adams.
Walter Joseph Redington m. Clara B. Case.
Julia Mary Redington m. John Brackett Moore.
Stella Josephine Redington m. Henry Haller Mitchell.
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JOHN REDIXGTOX OF TOPSFIELD, MASS., AND SOME
OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
Nothing definite is known of the immediate forbears of John^ Reding-
TON and his brother Abraham Rediiigton, who were among the founders of
Topsfield, Massachusetts. But it is possible that they were of Hertford-
shire, England, and of the parish of Hunsden there, as the name is to be
found in this and adjoining parishes from the time of Richard III.*
The tradition in various branches of the family is that they were of
Hemel-Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, some twenty-four miles northward
from London. The origin of this is in the fact of the baptism in that parish
of Mary Gould the wife of .John Rediugton of Topsfield, but in the sacra-
mental registers of Hemel-Hempstead the name of Redington does not
appear.t
* Henry Redyngton appears as one of the Collectors of the Guild of St. John the
Baptist, St. Michael's Parish, Bishop's Stortford, Herts., 8 Richard III.
fFcw names are more infrequent in the English counties than that of Reding-
ton; indeed it is almost confined to those of Herts, Essex and Berks.
On the south side of the cloisters of St. George's, Windsor, is a tablet thus inscribed :
"Near this place are deposited the remains of William Redington, late of Newe
Windsor, gent, who died June 11th, 1755, aged 52 years.
A virtuous course from early youth began,
rroclaimed the Christian and adorned the man,
His manners blameless, temper shunning strife.
Diffused a lustre e'en in private life.
Such virtues in a humbler sphere were shown,
As pride and pomp might not distain to own.
With sighs of gratitude the poor deplore
Their generous benefactor — now no more.
Their tears of love neighbours and children blend,
AND all bewail their universal friend.
Him, who, while living, lived for human kind,
And, dying, left a spotless name behind."
In Ireland the name appears from the time of the Cromwellian invasion, when an
English officer acquired considerable estate in Kilcornan, co. Galway, and died in
1717, leaving a son, Thomas Redington, Esq., born in 1697, who married, in 1729, Mar-
garet, daughter of Capt. Lynch of Lydican, co. Galway, and dying at Creganna Castle,
CO. Galway, in 1780, left four sons and two daughters :
i. Nicholas Redington, of Mere Hill and Rye Hill, co. Galway, who married (1)
Mary Hamilton of Fairfield, co. Galway ; (2) Marcella, daughter of Christo-
pher Burke, Esq., of Kilcornan, who survived him. He died in 1806, and
was succeeded by his nephew, Thomas Redington, Esq., of Rye Hill.
ii. Gregory Redington, went to America.
It has been conjectured that the Redingtons accompanied Zaccheus
Gould from the Old World to Massachusetts, and they may have been
with him at Weymouth in 1639, and at Lynn from that date until 1644;
but in 1645, they were certainly among the settlers at New Meadows Vil-
lage, as the land near the Ipswich River had come to be called, and they
may have been earlier attracted to its fertile vales and rolling hills, and
may have actively sympathized with Zaccheus Gould's petition to the
iii. Michael Redington, married, in 1763, Margaret French of Cork, and had :
1. Thomas Eedington of Rye Hill, successor to his uncle, Nicholas.
2. Sarah Redington, married Tully.
3. Mary Redington, married Lawless.
4. Bridget Redington, married George Taaffe of Grange, co. Roscommon.
iv. Thomas Redington, b. 1742; died 27 Feb., 1827; married, in 1763, Sarah,
daughter and heiress of Christopher Burke, Esq., of Kilcornan, by whom
he had :
1. Thomas Redington, b. 1769; d. unmarried in 1803.
2. Nicholas Redin-jton, b. 1779; d. unmarried in 1798.
3. Margaret Redington, m. 1785, Thomas, 1st Baron Ffrench of Castle
Ffrench, co. Gahvay.
4. Honore Redington, m. 1791, Malachy Daly of Raford, co. Galway.
5. Christopher Redington, b. 1780; captain in the army; married, in 1812,
Frances, only daughter of Henry Dowell, Esq., of Cadiz, descended
from a younger branch of the Dowells of Mantua, co. Roscommon ; d.
26 May, 1825, leaving with a daughter Anne, who d. unmarried in 1829,
an only son and successor. Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, K.C.B., of
Kilcornan.
V. Elizabeth Redington, m. Archdeacon, Esq.
vi. Mary Redington, m. Rutledge, Esq., and died in 1763, leaving two
daughters, the elder m. Ormsby, Esq., and the younger m. William
Birmingham, Esq., of Ross Hill, and was mother of the Countess Leithrim
and Charlemond.
Thomas Redington, Esq., of Rye Hill, above named, born in 1767; married, in
1802, Eleanor, daughter of John Dolphin, Esq., of Turoe, and had issue six daughters.
He died, in 1828, and the male representation devolved upon his nephew.
Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, born at Kilcornan, 2 Oct., 1815 ; educated at Oscott
College, Birmingham, and at Christ's College, Cambridge, but did not graduate; M.P.
for Dundalk, 1837-1846; under-Secretary for Ireland in 1846; Secretary to the Board
of Control, Dec, 1852, which office he resigned in 1856 ; received the Order of the Bath
in 1849 ; died at London, 11 Oct., 1862 ; married 30 Aug., 1842, Anne Eliza Mary, eldest
daughter and co-heiress of John Hyacinth Talbot, Esq., M.P., of Talbot Hall, co.
Wexford, and had :
i. Rt.-Hon'ble Christopher Redington, b. 1847 ; educated at Oscott College, and
at Christ's College, Cambridge ; Resident Commissioner of Education for
Ireland in 1894 ; and Vice-Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland.
ii. Thomas Redington, b. 1857; d. 1859.
iii. Anne Eliza Redington.
iv. Mary Thresa Redington.
V. Frances Redington, m, 1865, John Wilson Lynch of Dures, co. Galway, and
Belvoir, co. Clare.
vi. Matilda Redington.
The family bore for arms: Per chevron in chief two demi lions rampant and a
mullet in base. Ci'est — A lion rampant. Motto : Pro rege saepe — pro patria semper.
General Court, that the new settlement should be named Hempstead, from
the parish in Hertfordshire in which the petitioner had his early home.
This application the Court overruled, in compliment to the Honorable
Samuel Symonds, then a member of the Court, and later Deputy-Governor
of the Colony, and the village of the " Newe Meadows " was named Tops-
field, 18 October, 1648, and from this time John Redington was one of its
leading citizens, as his brother, Abraham Redington,* was of Boxford.
Possessing ability, education and considerable worldly substance, John
Redington was in 1648 made the first town clerk of Topsfield, and so con-
tinued, with possibly some interruptions, until 1671 ; and it is a subject for
much regret that his history of the organization of the town government, and
of the fii'st ten years of its official existence, were irretrievably swept away
by the fire which consumed his house in the autumn of 1658, or in the en-
suing winter, as the earliest entry now to be found on the town records is
under date of 25 Mar., 1659. A slight testimony of his efficiency as town
officer is gathered from the deposition, before the Essex County Court,
held at Ipswich, 26 Mar., 1661, of Walter Roper, aged about fifty-two
years, in which this deponent " doth further witness That this sayd grant
is before [<or«} was in Cleere terms recorded into Towne book [^orn]
Topsfield well now they of Topsfield saye was b[i'o/7?] when John Reding-
ton's house was burnt, for [^tom'] .sayd booke was kept." f
No doubt much that was valuable to the householder was destroyed with
the town's book, and, though something may have been left, the struggle
with new conditions had to be rebegun, aud the town tax-list of the next
decade, 1 660, is the evidence that it was courageously met, and rewarded
with a considerable measure of success, for the name of John Redington
therein appears third in the valuation of estates.
Nor was he so absorbed in material gain that he failed in ready response
to any call tending to the well-being and advancement of the community
in which he lived.
He was clerk of the writs, 1658, 1660; selectman, 1661, 1676-77,
1679-80, 1682, 1684-5; and served on the Grand Jury, 1678, 1679, and
1683. Also, he was chosen to be captain of the militia of his vicinity, his
selection in this matter being thus recorded : " The inhabitants & soldiery
of Topsfield and the villages adjoining thereto according to an order from
Major Deunison met together the 21 of the 4mo 1666 and chose officers as
follows : John Redington of Topsfield head officer in commanding or lead-
* Abraham Redington, Esq., represented Boxford in the General Court of Massa-
chusetts of 1686, and died at Boxford, 12 September, 1697. By his wife Margaret, who
died 3 February, 1694, he had several daughters and one son, Thomas Redington,
through whom a distinguished posterity perpetuates this branch of the Redingtons.
Alfred P. Redington, of San Francisco, California, is preparing a genealogy of his
descendants.
t Essex County Court Papers, vi, 74.
ino- the company, Joseph Bigsbey sennior, sergeant, Abraham Redington,
senior of the village Clerk of the band, Edmond Town, John Comins,
Wm Smith, corporals. Request to Court for Confirmation signed by Dan.
Hovey aud Mr. Avril in the name of the rest. Request allowed." *
Mr. Redington was active not only in town affairs, but in those of the
Church as well, and, on 29 July, 1681, was one of a committee " to discuss
with " the Rev. Joseph Capen " to stay and preach here with us at Tops-
field awhile," and at the time of Mr. Capen's ordination, 11 June, 1684,
his name appears second on the membership list.
According to his will of 7 Nov., 1690, his years then were " seventy or
thereabouts," and his estate, inventoried at £1008. 1. 8, was to be divided
between his son Daniel (who was given the land in Topsfield along the
Ipswich River whereon the testator lived) ; the children of his daughter
Mary, deceased, " those she had by her last husband, Robert Cue, as well
as those by her former husband, John Herrick ; daughter Martha, '• now
the wife of John Gould living near Reading; " and daughter Phebe, " wife
of Samuel Fisk in Wenham." His wife is mentioned, but not by name.t
He died at Topsfield, 15 Nov., 1690.
John Redington married (1) about 1648, Mary, daughter of Zaccheus
and Phebe Gould of Topsfield, who was baptized at Hemel-Hempstead,
Hertfordshire, 19 Dec, 1621, and whose paternal ancestry has been traced
through many generations of English yeomanry ;J and married (2) Sarah
, who survived him.
Children, born at Topsfield :
i. JoHN,^ b. June 20, 1649 ; d. iu Mar. following.
ii. Mary, b. 4 May, 1651 ; m. (1) 25 May, 1674, John Herrick of Beverly ;
m. (2) 13 Mar., 1682, Richard Cue of Salem.
iii. Phkbe (twin), b. 7 Apr., 1655; m. 6 Nov., 1679, Samuel Fisk of
Wenham.
iv. Martha (twin), m. as his second wife, John Gould, Jr., b. 5 Aug.,
1648, d. 24 Jan., 1712, son of John and Johanna Gould of Charles-
town Upper Village. After the death of her husband, she moved
to Stoneham, Mass., where she made her will 17 Aug., 1731.
f^ 2. V. Daniel, b. 17 Mar., 1657; d. 27 or 28 Sept., 1732; m. Elizabeth
Davison.
vi. Sarah, b. 12 Mar., 1658-9; d. iu July, 1689; m. as his third wife,
21 Dec, 1687, Capt. Christopher Osgood; no issue.
^ 2. Dea. Daxiel- Redington {John^) was born at Topsfield, 17 Mar.,
1657, and died there, intestate, 27 or 28 Sept., 1732. He inherited
the paternal estate on the Ipswich River in Topsfield, to which he
added by grant and purchase until, in 1723, according to the Tops-
* Essex County Court Papers, xi, 131.
t Essex County Probate Files.
X See family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield.
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field " Bill of Estates," the valuation of his property in the town
was only exceeded by four others. Like his father, he was a man
of affairs, — civil, military and ecclesiastical, — holding from early
manhood, almost every town office; was constable 1682 ; selectman
1688, 1690, 1692, 1697, 1705-6; clerk of the writs, at a special
meeting, 1690; jury-man 1690, 1701 ; grand juror 1699, 1704, 1711,
1713-14, 1717, 1719, 1723; and representative to the General
Court 1704—5. He was sergeant of militia as early as 1684, and
later lieutenant. On 15 Apr., 1716, he was made deacon of the
Topsfield church, and so remained until 27 Sept., 1729, when, by
reason of age, he was succeeded by Jacob Peabody.
Just before his death, his family and that of Ephraim Wildes, son
of that Sarah Wildes who had been executed during the witchcraft
excitement, signed, 14 June, 1731, " an agreement to end strife and
let the boundaries [between their respective properties] remain as
their fore-fathers had established."*
He married at Topsfield, 23 Mar., 1681, Elizabeth Davison, who
died there, 8 Oct., 1732. She was, doubtless, a daughter of Daniel
Davison, Sen., of Ipswich.
Children, born at Topsfield :
i. Mary,' b. 12 Mar., 1682; d. young.
ii. John, b. 23 Mar., 1083.
iii. Margaret, b. 27 Oct., 1684 ; m. 19 July, 1716, Jonathan Lumraus of
Ipswich.
iv. Elizabeth, b. 14 Apr., 1686; d. young.
3. v. Daniel (twin), b. 27 Sept., 1687; d. 29 June, 1750; m. (1) Thila-
delpbia Peabody ; m. (2) Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens.
vi. Eliza (twin).
vii. Mary, bapt. 17 Mar., 1688-9; m. 14 Apr., 1715, Nathaniel Perkius.
viii. Sarah, b. 6 Feb., 1690.
4. ix. William, b. 13 Mar., 1691-2; d. 174G; m. Elizabeth .
X. Phebe, bapt. 13 Aug., 1693.
5. xi. Jacob, b. 5 Sept., 1695; d. in 1773; m. Elizabeth Hubbard.
6. xii. Phineas, b. 19 Oct., 1697 ; ra. Dorothy Davison.
7. xiii. Abraham, b. 4 Oct., 1699; ra. Mary Bayley.
xiv. Nathaniel, b. 10 May, 1701 ; wounded in the expedition against
Cape Breton ; petitioned the General Court for an allowance by
reason of his disabilities, which was allowed by the Committee of
War, 11 June, 1747. f
XV. Dorcas, b. 14 Nov., 1702.
xvi. Martha, b. 4 May, 1704; ra. 17 June, 1731, Daniel Clark.
3. Daniel' Redington {Dea. Daniel,- John^) was born in Topsfield,
27 Sept., 1687, and died there, 29 June, 1750. By deed of gift,
* Essex County Registry of Deeds, lix, 1.
t Acts and Resolves of the Province of Massachusetts, viii, 604.
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7 June, 1729, his father set over to him part of his " farm or home
lying within the Township of Topsfield on both sides of the highway
that goeth before my door, being part ujjland and part meadow, and
the south easterly part of my farm upon which my son Daniel's
house and barn now stands."*
He held various town offices, was jury-man 1729, 1742; select-
man 1737-1741, 1745-46; on school committee 1741; constable
1742; grand-juror 1744, 1748. His will of 29 June, 1750, proved
9 July, the same year, named wife Elizabeth, son Daniel, and daugh-
ter Anna.
He married (1), 27 Feb., 1721, Philadelphia, born at Topsfield,
28 Sept., 1698, died 23 Oct., 1743, daughter of Isaac Peabody, and
granddaughter of Lieut. Francis Peabody, who, like the Goulds and
Redingtons, was a native of Hertfordshire ; and married (2) at
Andover, 3 July, 1746, Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of that place, by
whom he had no issue.
Children, by first wife, born at Topsfield :
i. Daniel/ b. 7 Dec, 1722; d. young.
ii. Thomas, b. 25 Nov., 1724 ; d. 25 Oct., 1736.
iii. Sarah, b. 16 May, 1728; d. 5 Oct., 1736.
iv. Dorcas, b. 2 Mar., 1730; d. 28 Oct., 1736.
V. Margaret, bapt. 29 Sept., 1734; d. 25 Oct., 1736.
vi. Anna, b. 18 Oct., 1737.
vii. Daniel, b. 24 Mar., 1739; m. Esther .
4. William^ Redington {Dea. Daniel,"^ John^) was born at Topsfield,
13 Mar., 1691-2, and received from his father, 7 June, 1729, a
portion of his farmstead there, upon which he afterwards resided. He
was jury-man 1724, 1731, 1742; selectman 1727-28, 1733 ; school-
master 1729-1731 ; and grand-juror, 1743. He died, intestate, pos-
sibly from hardships endured in the memorable expedition to Cape
Breton in 1745, in which he had served as Lieutenant in Captain
Hill's Company of Artificers, being commissioned by General Sir
Peter Warren, 11 June, 1745. f In the account filed by the widow
in the settlement of his estate, is this item : " wages due to my hus-
band by the Committee of War."
The date of his marriage and the surname of his wife Elizabeth
have not been ascertained. She survived him, and administered on
his estate, 7 July, 1746.|
Children :
i. William.'' It was probably he who was sergeant in the 3d Com-
pany, 8th Regt., under Col. John Choat, in the expedition against
* Essex County Registry of Deeds, xiii, 126-7; Lsxvii, 174; xcvii, 125.
t New Exg. Hist. Gen. Register, xxiv, 378.
X Essex County Probate Files, No. 23445.
Louisburg in 1749 ; and also probably he whose Intention of mar-
riage to Elizabeth Burrill, 17 June, 17-12, was recorded at Boston,
as was also his marriage to Mary Wright, 19 Apr., 1744. Issue :
Manj, bapt. at Xew North Church, Boston, as dau. of William and
Mary, 3 Mar., 1744-5, who, as a minor daughter " under fourteen
years of William Redington late of Boston," had Elizabeth Reding-
ton, widow, of Topsfleld, appointed as her guardian, 1 May, 1749.
ii. Elizabeth, b. 3 Sept., 1723; m. 16 Sept., 1746, John Hood.
iii. Maky, m. 22 Nov., 1744, Samuel Howlett, Jr.; dismissed to the
church at Woodstock, Conn., 4 Nov., 1749.
9. iv. JoHX, b. 12 Aug., 1726; m. Sarah West.
V. Jonathan, b. 28 Jan., 1730; bapt. 14 Feb., 1731; "died in ye war
1755."
5, Jacob' Redixgton {Dea. Daniel,"^ John}) was born at Topsfield, 5
Sept., 1695, and died at Richmond, Mass., in 1773, before 21 May
of that year. He was constable 1735 ; and selectman and jury-man
1736.
Animated by " the Great desire ... to promote good learning
among the Children and Youth in the Neighborhood," he made
over to the town of Topsfield, 28 Sept., 1738, a tract of land on the
" South side of Ipswich River for the purpose of a School House,"*
which is the first school-house of record in Topsfield. On 11 Mar.,
1740, he sold his residence and lands in Topsfield, and removed with
his family to Connecticut, where he purchased, 3 Aug., 1741, one
hundred acres of land with mansion house thereon, in Ellington
Parish, Windsor, being then styled as *' late of Topsfield ; " f and
on 26 Apr., 1748, he acquired an equal acreage in Tolland, Conn.,
on the "road leading from the Keating House to Beaver Brook,":!:
and disposed of the same to his sons, all of whom, for a time at
least, were residents of Tolland. About 1760, the Berkshire hills
began to attract settlers from Connecticut, and between 1765 and
1770, he and his surviving sons removed to Richmond, where he
died, intestate, the inventory of his estate being filed 21 May, 1773.
He married, at Topsfield, 12 Nov., 1719, Elizabeth, born at Ber-
wick, Me., 13 Feb., 1697, daughter of Philip Hubbard of the Parish
of St. Saviour, Isle of Jersey, and of Berwick, Me., by his wife
Elizabeth (Goodwin), widow of Zachariah Emery. She was ad-
mitted to membership in the Church of Topsfield, 3 May, 1730, and
was dismissed to the Fourth Church of Windsor, 8 Apr., 1742. §
Children, all, except the youngest, bom at Topsfield :
1. Dorcas," bapt. 9 Aug., 1724; d. 1 Dec, 1729.
♦Essex County Registry of Deeds, Ixxix, 87.
t Windsor Land Records, vii, 191.
J Tolland Land Records, iv, 216.
§ Hubbard Genealogy.
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10. ii. Daniel, bapt. 26 Feb., 1726; d. at Albany, N. Y., 1760; m. Hannah
Haynes.
11. iii. Jacob, bapt. 25 May, 1729; d. 7 Mar., 1804.
12. iv. Nathaniel, b. abt. 1731; d. 1762; m. Sarah Haynes.
V. DOKCAS, bapt. 11 June, 1732 ; d. 16 May, 1751 ; m. at Tolland, 6 Sept.,
1750, John West, Jr.
vi. Phebe, bapt. 28 Dec, 1735; d. at Tolland, 24 Sept., 1770; m. there,
8 Dec., 1757, Jacob Fellows.
13. vii. Eliphalet, bapt. 11 June, 1738; d. 30 May, 1814; m. Anna Kings-
bury,
viii. Olive, b. at Windsor, 23 Dec, 1741 ; m. 3 Sept., 1761, Eleazer West,
b. at Tolland, 20 Nov., 1739, d. at Clarksburg, Va., 16 May, 1788.
Issue : 1. Charles. 2. Thankful. 3. Olive, b, at Glass Work
Grants, Conn., 11 July, 1775; d. at Paris, Ky., 10 June, 1831; m.
at Clarksburg, 9 May, 1795, Dr. George Selden.-^
6. Phineas^ Redington (Dea. Daniel,^ John^) was born at Topsfield,
19 Oct., 1697, and died at Lebanon, Conn., 19 Sept., 1763. He was
grand-juror 1730; constable 1736; on school committee 1738 ; and
selectman 1740. On 7 June, 1729, he had a conveyance, from his
father, of a dwelling house and lands in Topsfield, bounded by those
already given to his brothers Abraham, Daniel and William. These
he afterwards sold, and removed to Lebanon, where, on 30 Mar.,
1741, he purchased land, being then styled as "late of Topsfield in
Massachusetts."* His will of 16 Sept., 1763, dated at Lebanon.
was proved 6 Oct. following, and named wife Dorothy, daughters
Dorothy Munsell and Ann Wright, f
He married, at Ipswich, 8 Nov., 1726, Dorothy Davison, who
died in July, 1784.
Children, born at Topsfield :
i. Dorothy,'* b. 20 Aug., 1727; m. at Lebanon, 26 May, 1750, Elisha
Munsell.
ii. Anne, b. 11 Dec, 1730; m. at Lebanon, Benjamin Wright, Jr., ol
Lebanon,
iii. Phineas, b. 7 Jan., 1733; d. 2 May, 1735.
iv. Sarah, b. 10 Mar., 1735; d. 9 Sept. following.
V. Phineas, b. 22 Sept., 1738; d. 16 May, 1739.
7. Abraham^ Redington (Dea. Daniel,^ Johi^) was born at Topsfield,
4 Oct., 1699, and there remained until 1735, when his name appears
on the "Account Book" of Thomas Newcombel: of Lebanon, be-
ing set down as of Mansfield, Conn., where, while still of Topsfield,
he bought a farmstead, 19 Mar., 1733, and where he continued until
after 10 Sept., 1754. §
* Lebanon Land Records, vi, 207.
t Windham County, Conn., Probate Records, vi, 471.
J New Eng. Hist. Gen. Register, xxxi, 294.
J Mansfield Land Records, iii, 435 ; v, 605.
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He married, at Topsfield, 29 Aug., 1733, Mary Bayley. Their
first child was born at Topsfield, the others at Mansfield.
Children :
i. Abraham,* b. 9 Nov., 1734; d. at Mansfield, 30 Oct., 1735.
ii. Abraham, b. 11 Aug., 1736; served in the campaign against Canada,
in the 3d Company, 2d Regt. Connecticut militia, under Maj. Isaac
Foot, from 6 May to 30 Sept., 1758.
ill. Daniel, b. 13 Apr., 1738 ; " marched to the relief of Fort "William
Henry," in 5th Regt., Connecticut militia, under Capt. Jonathan
Rudd, in Aug., 1757.
iv. Mary, b. 11 Feb., 1740.
V. Phineas, b. 6 July, 1742; reported in the "hospital at Albany, 13
June to 31 Oct., 1760."
vi. Phebe, b. 6 Sept., 1744.
vii. William, b. 25 Jan., 1746; d. 21 Aug., 1748.
viii. Enoch, b. 7 Mar., 1749; bapt. at Mansfield, as an adult, 10 Dec,
1775 ; served as sergt. in Capt. Nathaniel "Wales' Company of Conn.
militia in the Revolution, being dismissed tlierefrom 17 Oct., 1776 ;
removed to Lebanon, N. H., where he d. 14 Jan., 1826. He mar-
ried Huldah , and had issue.
ix. Ann, b. 30 May, 1751.
X. Olive, b. 6 Dec, 1754.
8. Daniel* Redington {Daniel,^ Dea. Daniel,'^ Johri^) was born at
Topsfield, 24 Mar., 1739, and according to family traditions, died
as a soldier during the Revolution. He was called " late of Tops-
field, deceased," 29 May, 1779, when Bartholomew Dodge was ap-
pointed guardian to his eldest son.
He married Esther .
Children, born at Topsfield :
i. EsTHKK,* b. 3 Dec, 1761 ; m. Thompson of Antrim, N. H.
ii. Daniel, b. 28 Aug., 1763 ; was a Revolutionary soldier ; appears in a
descriptive list of men raised in Essex County for a term of nine
months, agreeable to Resolve of 20 Apr., 1778, as " aged 17 years,
stature 5 ft. 6 in., complexion brown, residence Wenhara." He
served in various later engagements, and it was doubtless he who
was captured on the ship Essex, 16 June, 1781, being described aa
of Weuham, and committed to Old Mill Prison, near Plymouth,
England. In 1811 he was in Canada, and in 1819 of Warren
County, Ohio.
iii. Jacob, b. 6 Aug., 1766; d. young.
iv. John, b. 11 Mar., 1769: had Isaac Averill appointed his guardian,
5 May, 1785; removed to Tioga Point, N. Y.
V. Adam, bapt. 17 Mar., 1771; m. (1) 15 May, 1793, Hannah, dau. of
Capt. Israel Dodge of Wenham, who d. 21 June, 1800; m. (2)
22 Nov., 1800, Sarah Knowlton; resided at Wenham during his
early married life, and later removed to Wendell, N. H. Issue :
1. John,^ d. 27 Jan., 1795, aged 10 mos. 2. John, b. 11 May, 1798 ;
m. Mary Patch of Beverly. 3. Hannah Dodge, bapt. 19 Dec,
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1802. 4. Anna Muclge, b. 23 Aug., 1803. 5. Jacob, b. 19 May,
1805. 6. 3Iary, bapt. 14 May, 1809. 7. Esther, bapt. 19 May, 1811.
vi. Olive, d. 13 Mar., 1857, aged 85 yrs. ; m. 10 Mar., 1796, Capt. Israel
Clark,
vii. Anna, b. 30 June, 1775; d. 12 Nov., 1840; m. 23 Sept., 1796, John
Mudge of Lynn.
9. JoHN^ Redington ( William,^ Dea. Daniel,"^ John}) was born at Tops-
field, 12 Aug., 1726. He removed to Tolland, Conn., shortly after
his father's death and before 1750, and continued a resident there
as late as 25 Jan., 1787, when he was a witness to a deed of Aaron
Woodward.*
He married, at Tolland, 30 Aug., 1750, Sarah, daughter of Samuel
West of Tolland, born 21 Mar., 1729, and named in her father's
will of Jan., 1778, as "daughter Sarah Redington."!
Children, born in Tolland :
i. Ann,^ b. 22 Feb., 1752.
ii. William, b. 4 Sept., and d. 19 Oct., 1754.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 29 July, 1756; m. at Coventry, Conn., 18 Mar., 1775,
Samuel Ladd, Jr., of Coventry, and later of Sharon, Vt.
iv. Sarah, b. 29 Jan., 1759.
V. Submit, b. 29 Jan., 1762.
vi. Mary, b. 12 Mar., 1765.
vii. John, b. 8 Aug., 1767.
viii. William, b. 8 Aug., 1767.
10. Daniel^ Redington (Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,'^ John^) was baptized at
Topsfield, 26 Feb., 1726, and removed to Tolland, before 14 Sept.,
1748, where he acquired from his father one hundred acres of land.l
He returned to Essex County, and lived for a time, after his mar-
riage, at Haverhill, and was enrolled in the 1st Company of Haver-
hill militia, raised in 1757 for the reduction of Canada,§ and died
in service at Albany, N. Y., about 1761. An interesting letter
from his widow, dated 6 Feb., 1762, and addressed to Hon. John
Choate, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Essex County,
sets forth that her " late husband, Daniel Redington, of Haverhill,
deceased intestate, more than a year ago at Albany . . . that he
having neither father, brother, or any other near relation living in
this Province, do desire that my father Joseph Haynes who is a
considerable creditor on his estate may be appointed administrator." ||
He married, at Haverhill, being then called of Tolland, 2 Jan.,
* Tolland Records, viii, 122.
t Stafford, Conn., Probate District, ii, 87-8.
J Tolland Land Records, iv, 216.
§ Chase's History of Haverhill, 347.
II Essex County Probate Files, No. 23435.
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1752, Hannah, daughter of Joseph Haynes,* by his wife Elizabeth
Clement of Haverhill, born at Haverhill, 27 Mar., 1735, died at
Tolland, 28 Mar., 1783. On 11 Feb., 1762, she married second, at
Tolland, as his second wife, Joshua Morgan of that town, by whom
she had ten children. f
Child, bom at Haverhill :
14. i. JoHN,^ b. 29 Sept., 1757 ; d. 30 Apr., 1830 ; m. (1) Miriam Watkins ;
m. (2) Laura Wales.
11. Jacob^ Redington {.Jacoh^ Dea. Daniel,"^ Johyi^) was baptized at
Topsfield, 25 May, 1729, and died at Richmond, Mass., 7 Mar.,
1804. He accompanied his father to "Windsor and Tolland, and at
the latter place, by deed of gift from his father, 4 Jan., 1762, se-
cured a farm adjoining that of his brother, Nathaniel,| and removed
♦Joseph Haynes, Esq., was born at Haverhill, 25 Jan., 1715, and died there, 26 Dec.,
1801. His residence, in the West Parish, is still standing, and is marked by a tablet
as one of the his^toric dwellings of the town. He was a man of force, much native
ability, and tlie author of several monographs on theological subjects, and one of the
first delegates from Haverhill to the Provincial Congress organized at Salem, Mass., in
Oct., 1774. He married (1) at Haverhill, 1 Aug., 1734, Elizabeth Clement, born at
Haverhill, 6 Mar., 1716; died there 27 Feb., 1756; daughter of Nathaniel Clement,
great-grandson of Robert Clement, Esq., one of the early settlers of Haverhill. By
this marriage he had three children. His second wife was Mehitable, daughter of Dea.
Jonathan Marsh, who survived him.
His father, Thomas Haynes", was born at Newbury, Mass., 14 May, 1680, and died at
Haverhill, 6 Dec, 1771. He was taken prisoner by the Indians, 22 Feb., 1698, carried
to Pcnnacook (Concord, N. H.), and remained in captivity for nearly a year. When
he was ransomed the Indian chief gave him an ornamented cane as a token of respect
for his behavior while a prisoner. The cane is still in the possession of his descendants.
He married, at Haverhill, 22 Dec, 1703, Hannah Harriman, born at Haverhill, 29 Nov.,
1677 ; died there, 13 Feb., 1761 ; daughter of Matthew Harriman of Haverhill, and
granddaughter of Robert Swan, Esq., of the same town.
Jonathan Haynes, the father of the preceding, and the first ancestor of this family
in America, was one of the early settlers of Newbury, but removed with his family to
Haverhill about 1686 and settled in the West Parish of Haverhill, on the River road. On
15 Aug., 1696, he, with four of his children, Mary, Thomas, Jonathan and Joseph, were
captured by the Indians and taken to Pennacook. He and the son Thomas escaped,
Mary was afterwards redeemed, Jonathan and Joseph were returned, but married in
Canada, and became wealthy farmers. Mr. Haynes was killed by the Indians at
Haverhill, 22 Feb., 1698. He married (1) at Newbury, 1 Jan., 1674, Mary Moulton,
who died soon; (2) at Hampton, Mass., 30 Dec, 1674, her sister, Sarah Moulton, born
at Hampton, 17 Dec, 1656, daughter of William Moulton by his wife Margaret Page of
Hampton, and granddaughter of Robert Page, Esq., of Ormsby, County Norfolk, Eng-
land, and Hampton, Mass. His eleven children were by the second marriage. For
further particulars of the family, see The New England Genealogical Register, "Vol.
IX, pp. 349-351.
t John ISlorgan and Hannah (Haynes) Redington had at Tolland : 1. Hannah, b. 21
Dec, 1762. 2. Joshua, b. 21 July, 1764. 3. Diantha, b. 4 Nov., 1766. 4. Joel, b. 24
Mar., 1769. 5. Achsha, b. 15 June, 1771 ; d. 2 Oct., 1775. 6. Elizabeth, b. 17 April,
1774; d. 16 Sept., 1775. 7. Mehitable, twin of Elizabeth. 8. Achsha, b. 27 May, 1777.
9. Daniel, b. 8 Nov., 1779. 10. Amos, b. 15 Jan., 1781.
t Tolland Land Records, v, 449.
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to Richmond shortly afterward. He served as a private iu the 8th .
Company, 1st Regiment, Conn, militia, in the French and Indian i
War campaign of 1759 ; and also in the Revolution, under various
enlistments, in the militia of Berkshire County, Mass., " called out
to re-inforce the Northern Army," at Saratoga and Ticouderoga in
1777. *
He married (1) ; and married (2) Bridget , who
d. 26 Feb., 1819, aged 71 years.
Children by first wife :
i. Dantel,^ d. 14 Apr., 1837, aged seventy-seven years and two months ;
buried at Lawyersville, Schoharie County, N. Y.
ii. Margaret, m. William West,
iii. Elizabeth, m. John Flower,
iv. John.
Children by second wife, recorded at Richmond :
V. West, b. 4 June, 1778; of Butternuts, N. Y., 1819.
vi. LuciNDA, b. 20 Mar., 1780.
vii. Phebe (twin), b. 23 Jan., 1782; m. 1 Dec, 1809, John Cook; was
of East Hacklam, Conn., Feb., 1819.
viii. Olive (twin), d. before Feb., 1819 ; m. 5 Dec, 1805, Erastus Rossiter
of Richmond.
ix. Polly, b. 6 Sept., 1784; d. 20 Feb., 1809.
X. Jacob, b. 16 Dec, 178G.
xi. Eli, b. 12 Sept., 1789; d. in New York City, before Feb., 1819; m.
LydiaBurr. Issue: 1. 3Iary Ann,^ h. 30 Oct., 1810. 2. George
Franklin, b. 23 Sept., 1813; d. 1875; m. (1) Martha Heddenbergh
Bush, b. at Sheffield, Mass., 19 Apr., 1820, by whom he had six
children,! all born at Troy, Penn., where he had settled shortly
before his marriage. He m. (2) 25 Oct., 1865, Emma Julia Pierce.
12. Nathaniel^ Redington (Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,' John^) was born at
Topsfield, about 1731, and died in the French and Indian War,
about Aug., 1762. After the removal of his family to Connecticut,
by deed of gift from his father he held land at Windsor and
at Tolland, but upon his marriage, he made his residence for
a time at Haverhill, where, in 1757, he was enrolled in the Ist
militia Company, and was one of the detachment under Ens. Joseph
* Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution.
fThe children of this marriage were : 1. Robert Francis EnsignP Redington, b. 1 Feb.,
1840 ; d. in Troy, Penn., 10 .Jan., 1900 ; m. (1) 21 Oct., 1863, Mary Jane Pierce, by whom
he had issue; m. (2) 1 Dec, 1877, Frances E. Spaulding. 2. Lucy Redington, b. 28
July, 1841 ; d. 25 Nov., 1889 ; m. 28 July, 1864, Stuart Morse, M.D., of Englewood, New
Jersey. 3. Edmund Bush Redington, b. 16 Apr., 1843; m. 7 Nov., 1864, Maria Louise
Strait, by whom he had issue ; resides in Troy. 4. Mary Redington, b. 6 Sept., 1845;
m. 16 Oct., 1867, Orlando Tyner Saltmarsh of Troy, and has issue. 5. Annie Reding-
ton, b. 25 Dec, 1847 ; d. 25 May, 1848. 6. Laura Morse Redington, b. 1 Jan., 1851 ; d.
8 Dec, 1872; m. 14 Dec, 1869, Edward F. Johnson, and had one child, who died in
infancy.
Gkavestone ok Captain Iohn RKiiiM.ros at La« ^ kks\ ii i.k. New V
15
Badger, Jr., that inarched, IG Aug., 1759, on the last alarm for the
relief of Fort William Henry.* He was also sergeant in the 8th
Company, Ist Conn, militia, under Capt. Edward Barnard of Wind-
sor, in the campaign of 1759, and his name is on the pay-roll of
Col, Israel Putnam's Company, same Regiment, in the campaign of
1762, enlisting 17 Mar., and reported "dead" 8 Sept., 1762.t
He married, at Haverhill, 6 May, 1751, Sarah, daughter of Joseph
Haynes, and sister of the wife of his brother Daniel, born at Haver-
hill, 31 Oct., 1736 ; died in 1772 ; married (2) Mr. Frink of Conn.
Children :
i. Elizabeth,* b. at Haverhill, i Sept., 1756.
ii. Sakah, b. at Haverhill, 7 Dec, 1757.
15. iii. Jacob, b. at Tolland, 4 July, 1759; d. 22 Aug., 1813; m. Eunice
King.
13. Elii'IIALET^ Redington (Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,"^ John^) was baptized
at TopsHeld, 11 June, 1738, and died at Richmond, 30 May, 1814.
He lived at Tolland and Richmond, and his will, dated at Richmond,
proved 7 June, 1814,| provided for wife Anna, and children Eliphalet,
Nathaniel, Anna Rathbone, Polly Smith, Love Ratliburu, and Phebe
Coggswell. During the earlier years of the Revolution, he was al-
most continHously in service, and marched to re-inforce the Northern
army, and was at Ticonderoga and Stillwater. §
He married, at Tolland, 22 Oct., 1761, Anna Kingsbury, born
at Coventry, Conn., 10 May, 1745, died at Richmond, 7 Feb., 1810.
Children :
16. i. Nathaniel,* b. 18 Oct., 1762; d. 4 Oct., 1839; m. (1) Polly Gris-
wold ; m. (2) Temperance Gates.
il. Anna, b. at Tolland, 14 Sept., 17G4; m. 10 Mar., 1789, Daniel Rath-
burn.
iii. Mauy Lucy, b. at Tolland, 23 Sept., 1766; m. 4 May, 1797, Dr. Gil-
bert Smith.
iv. LovK, m. Rathbiirn.
v. PiiEUE, b. 19 May, 1771 ; d. 11 Apr., 181G; m. 10 Nov., 1790, Elisha
Coggswell.
vi. Eliphalet, b. 5 Jan., 1774; ra. 9 Nov., 1796, Elizabeth , b.
8 Aug.. 1774. Issue: 1. J/(>«,« b. 27 Sept., 1797. 2. Eemsen,
b. 23 Mar., 1800. 3. TJieresa, b. 8 JIar., 1803. 4. Alexander
Hamilton, b. 27 May, 1807; d. 20 Nov., 1809. 5. Alexander Hyde,
b. 10 Sept., 1811.
14. Capt. John^ Redington {Daniel,* Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,- John^) was
• Chase's History of Haverhill, 347, 350.
t French and Indian War KoUs, of Connecticut.
+ Berkshire County Probate Files, No. 3218.
{ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution.
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born at Haverhill, Mass., 29 Sept., 1757, and baptized there, 2 Oct
following. After the death of his father in service in the Canad;
campaign of 1757-1761, his mother removed to Tolland, where sh
had some estate, and he there resided until the outbreak of the Revo
lution, in which, under enlistments from Ashford, Mansfield, an(
Tolland, he served until the close of the war.* He was at Princetoi
and Trenton, at the surrender of Burgoyne, and in 1781, whil
scouting, was captured and imprisoned in the Sugar House in Nev
York. After peace was declared, he settled in what is now Law
yersville, Schoharie County, N. Y., on " a tract of four thousanc
acres, which was called ' The Patent,' and which the people alwayi
called ' Redington's Patent,' until General Lawyer came there t(
reside and changed the name to Lawyersville." Here he was in com
mand of the second company of cavalry raised in the county. Hi
also represented his district in the thirty-fifth session of the Nev
York Assembly, in 1812.
"Upon the death of George Washington in 1799, Gen. Jame
Dana and Capt. John Redingtou held a funeral service at the hom(
of the latter, under the order of Free Masonry, which was perhap
as imposing a ceremony as was ever witnessed in the town of Law
yersville. The two heroes were the chief mourners, and the higl
appreciation in which they held the sainted General and Presiden
for his virtues and patriotism, dictated a sincere observance of tin
country's irreparable loss. The coffin was placed upon a bier usee
in those days to carry the dead, and a heavy pall thrown over tht
whole, upon which were strewn flowers and evergreens by th(
immense throng of country-folk who assembled to assist in the cere
monies. While Genex'al James Dana and Capt. John Redingtoi
undoubtedly were the only ones that were immediately under Wash
ington's command among those that assembled for the occasion
yet hundreds of the plain sturdy sons of the soil and workshops
of old Schoharie, whose daily lives had been vicissitudes of dange]
and privation in the cause of Freedom, felt the loss and united ir
mingling their tears, and made the occasion solemn and imposing.
" Capt. Redington was instrumental in the building of the Re-
formed Church at Lawyersville in 1800, and was an active and con-
sistent member. Whatever position he occupied, he j^roved him-
self a practical, energetic and thorough business man and useful
citizen."!
He died 30 April, 1830, and lies buried in the quiet church yard
at Lawyersville, within a few feet of his old friend and comrade iu
* Connecticut Men in the Revolution,
t History of Schoharie County, New York.
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Laura Aimira Rkhington
WIDOW OK DR. JOHN CALHOUN FERGUSON
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arms, Gen. James Dana. His epitaph reads : " A Revolutionary
veteran; an enterprising settler of the County, of distinguished
public spirit, an honest man."
He married (1), at Ashford, Conn., 5 Dec, 1782, Miriam, daugh-
ter of Edward "Watkins of Ashford, born 26 Feb., 1753, died 7 Aug.,
1811, and by this marriage had no issue. He married (2), 5 Dec,
1811, Laura, daughter of Elisha Smith and Mary (Watkuis) Wales,
born 28 June, 1787, died at Lawyersville, 22 July, 1868. Fifteen
years after Captain Redington's decease, his widow married (2),
20 March, 1845, Judge Jedediah Miller of Lawyersville, who died
10 June, 1861.
Children by second wife :
i. MiiJiAM Clarissa* b. 8 Oct., 1812 ; cl. at Lawyersville, 23 Feb., 186-t ;
m. 17 May, 1834, as first wife, James F. Blodgett of Law3'ersville,
Syracuse and Albany. Issue: 1. Charles Bitfus,^ b. 16 Feb.,
1835; d. 16 Feb., 1839. 2. Helen Frances, b. 19 Oct., 1838; d.
at Los Angeles, Cal., 11 Dec, 1906; m. Ward Wells of Glovers-
ville, N. Y. ; their daughter, Miriam^ Redington Wells, m. Wil-
liam F. Montgomery, and their son, Charles Blodgett* Wells, ra.
Kate, dau. of Ira More of San Francisco, and is a leading sugar
planter and manufacturer of Maui, Hawaii Islands,
ii. John, b. 17 Sept., 181i; d. 29 Mar., 1816.
17. iii. John Walks, b. 24 Nov., 1816; d. Dec, 1892; m. Eunice Coriuthia
Bellamy.
18. iv. Josp:rii Alexaxdkr, b. 4 June, 1818; d. 11 May, 1894; ni. Chloe
Lewis.
V. CoRXKLiA Eliza, b. 27 Oct., 1820; d. 15 June, 1886: m. Abraham
Shutts of Lawyersville; no issue.
vi. Elisha Smith, b. 18 Jan., 1823; d. 16 July, 1825.
vii. Thomas IIaynes, b. 29 Apr., 1825; d. unmarried, 24 Mar., 1855.
viii. Julia M., b. 11 Jan., 1827; d. 29 July, 1856; m. at Cleveland, Ohio,
17 Apr., 1855, Simeon O. Edison, uncle of the famous electrician;
no issue.
ix. Laura Almika, b. 7 Feb., 1830; m. 3 Oct., 1854, John Calhoun Fer-
guson, who d. 3 Aug., 1869; no issue.
15. Jacob^ Redington (Nathaniel,* Jacob,* Dea. Daniel,^ John^) was born
at Tolland, Conn., 4 July 1759, and resided, after his father's death,
at Richmond, Mass. During the Revolution, he served under a
number of enlistments, as follows : Private, Capt. Gideon King's
Company, 17th Regt., Albany County, N. Y., militia, 1779 ;* private,
7th Regt., JNIass. Line, July 13, 1780; private, 6th Regt., Mass.
Line; transferred to 10th Mass. Luie, transferred to 2d Mass. Line,
1781-1783.1 After the war, he settled in Vergennes, Vt., where
he held many town offices, and was a member of the first Common
* New York in the Revolution.
t Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution.
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Council of its first city government, instituted in 1794. He remove
to St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1800, and was one of the foundei
of the town of AVaddington, where he died, 22 Aug., 1843.
He married, 17 Nov., 1785, Eunice, daughter of Ashael Kin
of New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y., who died at Wadding
ton, 15 Oct., 1847, aged 79 years.
Children :
i. Sarah,* b. 4 Jan., 1787; d. at Waddington, in 1876.
ii. N.\NCY, b. 19 Jan., 1789; d. 27 Mar., 1811.
iii. Mary, b. 7 Mar., 1791; d. 5 July, 1819; m. Isaac Dearborn,
iv. George, d. young.
V. Jacob Smith, b. 15 June, 1795; d. at Potsdam, N. Y., 11 Feb., ISS'^
vi. Emkline, b. 17 June, 1797; m. Jacob Seeley; lived in Ogdensburgh
N. Y.
19. vii. George, b. 23 Nov., 1798; d. 15 Sept., 1850; m. (1) Amoretta Stone
m. (2) Lorai "Williams Sheldon.
20. viii. John Harris, b. 23 Sept., 1801; d. at Moscow, N. Y., in 1841; m
Emily Washburn.
Ix. Lyman King, b. 22 Nov., 1803; d. at Syracuse, N. Y.
X. JuLiETT, b. 14 Aug., 1805; d. 3 Sept., 1808.
xi. Nathaniel A., b. 24 Oct., 1807; d. in California.
21. xii. James, b. 27 June, 1810; d. 12 Oct., 1891; ra. Charlotte Y. Colfax,
xiii. Nancy Juliette, b. 8 Feb., 1813; d. 5 Feb., 1814.
16. Nathaniel^ Redington {EKphalet,^ Jacoh,^ Dea. Daniel^^ John})
born at Tolland, 18 Oct., 1762, resided most of his life at Richmond
where he died, 4 Oct., 1839. His will directed that his wife shoulc
have a life interest in his estate, with remainder to his children anc
their heirs.*
Remarried (1) at Richmond, 28 Dec, 1783, Polly Griswold ;
and married (2), in 1830, Temperance Gates.
Children all by first wife, and born at Richmond :
i. LucY,« b. 21 Aug., 1784; m. Swift.
ii. Harry, b. 3 Apr., 1786; removed to Ohio,
iii. Polly, b. 3 Nov., 1787 ; m. Elias Walker; removed to Ithaca, N. Y,
iv. Clarissa, b. 7 Mar., 1791 ; d. 16 Apr., 1869 ; m. 23 July, 1815, Addison
Dewey, b. 3 May, 1793, d. 19 May, 1835.t
V. Phebe, b. Mar., 1793 ; m. in 1821, Luther Salmon ; had issue.
vi. Kingsbury, b. 4 Feb., 1795.
vii. Nathaniel, b. 9 Jan., 1798 ; d. after 9 June, 1840 ; m. . Issue :
1. Alfred.'' 2. Mary. 3. Myra. 4. Folly. 5. Henry H. 6. Teresa,
m. Joshua Simmons,
viii. Lucius, b. 5 June, 1801; d. at Jamaica, L. I., 25 July, 1874; m. 2
Sept., 1830, Julia Ann Jacques, b. 20 April, 1812, d. 17 April,
1890. Issue: 1. Echoard Jaques,'' b. at Jamaica, 21 July, 1831;
* Berkshire County Probate Files, No. 6092.
t Dewey Genealogy, 650.
John Wales Redington
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d. 12 May, 1903; m. 12 Sept., 1855, Typhemia T. Meeks. He was
mauy years a resident of Bay Shore, Long Island ; a director in
the Sontli Side Bank ; a member of the Idle Honr and Carleton
clnbs, and a trustee of town lands. He identified himself with
the Republican party in the days of Fremont, and was tlie chair-
man of the first Republican convention ever held in the old County
of Queens, N. Y. His only cliildren, Edward Kingsbury ,^ and
Emma L., widow of Gardiner S. Locl^wood, survive him. 2.
Julia A., b. 22 Feb., 1833; d. 11 Dec, 1878; m. Henry W. Cliapin
of Pittsfield, Mass. 3. Mary E., b. 24 Nov., 1834; m. Hiram H.
Ryder of Flushing. 4. i^rances, b. 6 Dec, 1836; d. Nov., 1898;
m. as second wife, Henry W. Chapin. 5. Lucius, b. 26 Aug., 1838 ;
d. 10 Sept., 1839. 6. Sarah A., b. 7 July, 1841; m. Doremus M.
Remsen of Port Chester, N. Y. 7. Louisa A., b. 5 Nov., 1843; m.
William Wiswall of Port Chester, N. Y. 8. James M. J., b. 7
Dec, 1849; d. 4 Jan., 1854.
17. John Wales^ Redington ( Capt. John,^ Daniel,'^ Jacoh^ Dea. Daniel,^
John^) was born at Lawyersville, Schorarie County, N. Y., 24 Nov.,
1816, and died at Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Dec, 1892. He was
for many years an esteemed citizen of Lawyersville, and actively
identified with church and educational affairs. He removed from
Lawyersville to Cleveland, Ohio, and from there to Norwich,
Chenango County, N. Y.
He married, 4 Jan., 1842, Eunice Corinthia Bellamy, who died
at Norwich, 21 July, 1878.
Children :
i. Mary E.,^ b. 8 Jan., 1843; d. 5 Apr., 1857.
ii. Laura Augusta, b. 9 May, 1845 ; m. as second wife, Samuel I.
Foote of Norwich, N. Y. Issue : Arthur Bedington^ Foote, Vice-
President of the Charleston, West Virginia, Land and Coal Com-
pany; m. Emma, dau. of Dr. Burns of Scranton, Penn.
iii. Julia Corinthia, b. 29 Jan., 1847; m. Girard Mead of Norwich.
iv. John Jedidiah, b. 6 June, 1851 ; d. unmarried at San Francisco,
19 Aug., 1885.
18. Joseph Alexander" Redington ( Capt. John,^ Daniel* Jacoh^ Dea.
Daniel^ John}') was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, 4 June,
1818, died at Cleveland, Ohio, 11 May, 1894. In 1842 he estab-
lished himself in business at Cleveland, as a ship-chandler merchant.
He later became a ship owner, and among his interests in this line
was the part ownership in the propeller " Manhattan," the first boat
that plied the waters of both Lake Erie and Lake Superior. This
was in the days previous to the construction of the Soo Canal, and the
" Manhattan " was transported around the rapids in the St. Mary's
River, a distance of half a mile overland, and then launched into
Lake Superior. Mr. Redington was among the first to appreciate the
value of the rich mining products of the Upper Lakes, and it is
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said that it was partly through his efforts that Cleveland became
the great distributing point for iron ore. In 1872 he disposed of
his iron ore interest, and from that time devoted his time and
resources to the vessel business until about one year before his
death, when he sold his last boat, the schooner " Nellie Redington."
Mr. Redington was one of the most widely known citizens on the
west side of Cleveland. His home, at his death, was No. 210 Frank-
lin Avenue, where he had resided for twenty-eight years, having
lived on that Avenue for nearly half a century. He was a valued
and influential member of the First Congregational Church, and
took an active part in church and Sunday school work.
He married, at Cleveland, 28 July, 1841, Chloe, daughter of
Adam and Cynthia (Baker) Lewis, born at Hornellsville, Steuben
County, New York, 15 June, 1821, and died at Laconia, New
Hampshire, 12 Jan., 1905.
Children :
\. Levine Lodovick,^ b. 1 May, 1842; d. 26 July, 1843.
22. ii. Cornelia Miranda, b. 7 Aug., 1846; m. William Thornton Carter.
23. iii. Helen Eliza, b. 3 May, 1848; m. Col. Henry H. Adams.
Iv. Walter Joseph, b. at Cleveland, 23 Nov., 1857; m. 28 July, 1881,
Clara B. Case of Cleveland ; resides at Redington, Northampton
Co., Penn. ; has always been interested in and identified with the
iron business; was for some years connected with the Columbus
and Hocking Coal and Iron Company of Ohio, and is now Treas-
lu'er of the Redington Steel Company ; is a member of the Country
Club of Northampton County, Penn., the Pomfret Club of Easton,
Penn., and of the Northampton Club of South Bethlehem, Penn.
Issue: Laura Helen,^ b. 3 Apr., 1886; d. 13 Jan., 1898.
V. Julia Mary, b. at Cleveland, 6 July, 1860; m. 12 Jan., 1882, John
Brackett Moore, b. at Laconia, New Hampshire, 27 June, 1853, son
of Jonathan Lovejoy Moore and Lucy J. Sanborn, and resides at
Laconia. Mr. Moore was town clerk of Laconia in 1902, and
upon its incorporation as a city served as its first city clerk, and
as a member of city council. Issue: 1. Edith Bedington,^ b. at
Chicago, 4 Mar., 1884. 2. Lydia Sargent, b. 29 July, 1890. 3.
Bedington, b. 26 June, 1895.
vi. Stella Josephine, b. 23 Aug., 1862; m. 17 June, 1884, Henry
Haller Mitchell, b. at Mount Vernon, Ohio, 10 Aug., 1859, son of
William and Catherine (Haller) Mitchell. After some experience
in railroad service and construction work, Mr. Mitchell engaged
in the iron and crushed stone business, and is now Secretary and
Treasurer of the General Crushed Stone Company with oflices at
Bethlehem, a Director and Secretary of the Pluto Powder Com-
pany of Bufi'alo, and President of the Redington Steel Company.
He resides at Bethlehem, Penn., is a member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, of the Northampton Club of South
Bethlehem, and of the Country Club of Northampton County; the
President of the Bethlehem Boys' Club, and a Vestryman of
Trinity Church, Bethlehem.
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19. George^ Eedixgton {Jacob^ Nathaniel,^ Jacobs Dea. Daniel," John^)
was born at Vergennes, Vermont, 23 Nov., 1798, and died at Wad-
dington. New York, 15 Sept., 1850. He was elected from Wadding-
ton to the New York Assembly of 1841, and served three terms.
He was also Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for St. Lawrence County, New York, and upon his
retirement from the bench he devoted his energies to the lumber
and real estate business. He married (1), 28 Nov., 1827, Amoretta
Stone, who died 21 Feb., 1843; married (2), at New York city,
18 Sept., 1844, Loraine Williams Sheldon, who died 14 Mar., 1849,
daughter of Medad Sheldon by his wife Lucy Bass. Mrs. Reding-
ton descended from Capt. Amasa Sheldon and Lieut. Obadiah Bass
of the Revolution.
Children of first marriage, all born at Waddington : /
i. Sarah A./ b. 9 Nov., 1829; d. 4 Mar., 1898; m. (1) Silas Clark of
Madrid, N. Y. ; m. (2) Allan B. Phillips of Massena, N. Y.
ii. Hakriette C, b. 2 May, 1831; d. 18 Sept., 1898; ra. (1) "William
C. Pierce of Madrid; (2) Charles Sheldon of Rutland, Vt.
iii. Jane E., b. 27 May, 1833; d. 1 Mar., 1S98 ; m. Charles E. Miner of
Canton, N. Y.
iv. George S., b. 19 May, 1834; d. 25 Sept., 1835.
V. Anna M., b. 14 Dec, 1835; d. 2 Aug., 1904 : m. James F. Pierce of
Madrid,
vi. Mary E., b. 2 Feb., 1839; m. Thomas "Wilson of Waddington.
vii. Henry Vining, b. 24 Nov., 1840; m. Elizabeth Whaland; resides
in Sidney, Nebraska.
Children by second marriage, born at Waddington :
viii. John Jacob, b. 15 June, 1845; d. 21 Jan., 1847.
ix. Charles Medad, twin of above; d. 17 Mar., 184G.
24. X. Lyman "WiLLiAJis, b. 14 Mar., 1849; m. (1) Catherine R. Merrill;
(2) Frances W. Sutton.
20. Rev. John Harris' Redington (Jacob,^ Nathaniel* Jacob^ Dea.
Daniel,^ John,^) was born at Vergennes, Vermont, 23 September,
1801. He studied for the ministry at the Auburn Theological
Seminary, New York, and was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Moscow, New York, where he died in 1841. He married
Emily Washburn of Vermont, sister of the Rev. Asahel C. Wash-
burn of Suffield, Connecticut, who pre-deceased him.
Children born at Moscow :
i. CoL. John Calvin^ Owen, b. 8 Aug., 1837; d. at Syracuse, N. Y.,
25 Oct., 1905; was graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., in
18G0; served in the Civil War from 1861 to 18G3, entering as a pri-
vate and mustered out Lieut. Colonel ; was in the battles of Bull
Run, Antietam and Gettysburg, being in command of the whole
division at the skirmish on Culps' Hill ; also in the battle of Chan-
cellorsville. In later years he was a writer and publisher of pa-
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triotic literature. He married i Aug., 1868, Emma I. Swanger,
boru Ogdeusburg, N. Y., 15 July, 1849, daughter of George F. and
Bertha (Foster) Swaoger of Ogdeusburg. Issue: 1. George
Owen* Eedinyton, b. 30 Apr., 1871; educated at Syracuse Univer-
sity 1890-1892; Yale Law School 1894, L.L. B., 1895 L.L. M. ;
served in Spanish War in Troop A, New York Cavalry, U. S.
Volunteers, through Porto Rico campaign ; senior member of the
law firm of Rediugton and Berry, New York City. 2. Edward
John Bedington, b. 11 Sept., 1873; educated at Yale University,
Class of 1894, A. B. ; and at Columbia University Law School,
L.L. B. 1903 ; on the Faculty of Syracuse University 1894-1900 as
Instructor of Latin ; now practitioner of law in New York City,
and the editor of Re Brief. 3. Arthur Calvin Bedington, b. 1
Mar., 1879; d. Ashville, N. C, 17 Feb., 1907; was graduated at
Syracuse University, 1903. 4. Bertram Asahel Bedington, b. 21
Feb., 1882 ; matriculated at Yale but did not graduate ; now in the
Civil Engineering Department of New York.
ii. Emily, m. Rev. Giles Foster Montgomery; both were mission-
aries in Turkey and died there. Issue: 1. George^ Bedington
3Iontgomery, born at Marash, Turkey, 17 June, 1870; was gradu-
ated at Yale University, 1892; Law School 1894; studied divinity
at Berlin University and at Yale; Ph. D. Yale 1901; ordained to
the Congregational ministry in Sept., 1901; lecturer at Yale since |
1900 ; was special correspondent in Turkey for the Loudon Daily
Graphic, and war correspondent of the London Standard during
the Grceco-Turkish war ; m. at Wakefield, Mass., 23 June, 1902,
Emily E. Emerson. 2. 3Iary Williams Slontgomery, b. at Marash,
Turkey, 21 Nov., 1874; was graduated Wellesley College, 1896 ;
Ph.D. Berlin, 1901.
21. James'' Redington, Esq. (Jacob,^ Nathaniel,'^ Jacob,^ Dea. Daniel,"^
Johii^) was born at Waddington, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 27
June, 1810, and died there, 12 Oct., 1891. He studied law and
was admitted to practice in his profession in 1831. On 30 Nov.,
1840, he was appointed by Gov. William H. Seward, Surrogate of
St. Lawrence County, and was elected to the same office in 1856.
" Mr, Redington was first a Whig, and afterward a Republican
from the organization of that party. With the blood of the Revo-
lutionary fathers in his veins, and accustomed to hear from infancy
the story of the sufferings and heroism with which our liberties
were obtained ; the outbreak of the Rebellion found him a most
ardent defender of the Union. To his influence is largely due the
honorable war record of the town of Waddington. In 1861 he was
elected to the Assembly, and re-elected for four successive terms,
serving on important committees, and was one of the foremost in the
support of the Union. At the death of President Lincoln, he received
the honorable appointment of delivering the memorial address, which
was a masterpiece of oratory.
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" Returning from the Assembly he was appointed American Con-
sul at Morrisburg, Out., the year the Consulate was created, and
held the office until the latter part of Cleveland's administration.
" Relieved of the burdens of public office, he returned to his home
and friends. But his active mind could not consent to be idle. In
s^jite of the burden of years and the progress of insidious disease,
he turned his attention to literary work, and for the greater part of
a year scarcely a day failed to find him at his office desk. Several
valuable papers on current and historical subjects he read at the
village Literary Society, in which he took a deep interest. But the
most valuable paper there prepared was a history of the First
Presbyterian Church, of which he had been a most prominent and
influential member and officer for more than half a century. Mr.
Redington professed his faith in Christ in his early manhood and
united with what was then the First Congregational Church, 1832.
The Church had been but four years organized, and several of the
original thirteen had died or returned to their native Vermont.
But Mr. Redington's ever hopeful zealous spirit would not let the
organization die. He was ready for evei'y emergency. In the in-
tervals of the brief pastorates he preached the gospel on Sunday as
powerfully as he expounded the law on Monday ; pleading the
cause of God and the interest of souls as eloquently as for his client
at the bar. At various times he has filled every office and position
pertaining to a church ; having been its trustee and treasurer, choris-
ter and sexton, Sunday school superintendent and teacher, clerk,
elder, pastor, and Commissioner to the General Assembly. For
more than forty years the records of the Church were kept by his
hands.
" When the Church had grown to its present strength he was
naturally held in the profoundest veneration by all.
" Mr. Redington was intensely positive in his nature. None
could love the good more tenderly nor hate the evil more perfectly.
He always had the courage of his convictions. However much
people might be compelled to differ with him in his views, none
could question the sincerity of his conviction or purity of his motives.
He needs no monument. The moral and religious life of the com-
munity shall perpetuate the memory of his life and works."*
He married in 1835, Charlotte Y. Colfax of New London, Conn.
Children, all born in Waddington :
i. Mary Chipman.
ii. Fkances Ann.
ill. Sarah Elizabeth.
iv. James King.
V. George Nathaniel.
* Obituary notice.
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22. Cornelia Miranda'' Redington {Joseph Alexander,^ Capt. John^
Daniel,^ Jacoh,^ Dea. Daniel,'^ John^) was born at Arlington, Ver-
mont, 7 Aug., 1846, and married at Cleveland, Ohio, 11 Nov., 1868,
William Thornton Carter, born at Pengilly, Cornwall, England,
23 Aug., 1827, died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 Feb., 1893.
He was a son of William and Mary (Thomas) Carter of Breage,
Cornwall, where the Carter family has been resident for many
generations. In 1850, when a young man of twenty years, Mr.
Carter came to the United States, and joined his uncles, John and
Richard Carter, who were among the pioneer anthracite coal miners
at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. He soon became interested in the same
business, and in 1861 purchased the Colleraine Collieries near
Beaver Meadow, Pennsylvania. These he greatly enlarged and
developed, and for thirty years he was recognized as one of the
most extensive and successful individual coal operators in America.
In 1867 he purchased a large tract of land on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad below Bethlehem, known as the Lime Ridge, and there
established the town of Redington, erecting large blast furnaces and
machine and car shops, all of which were kept in operation for more
than twenty-five years, in spite of the discouragements incident to
depression in trade and the suspension of mining and manufacturing
operations in that region at various times. He later became in-
terested in developing and operating street railways, especially the
Ridge Avenue system of Philadelphia, and he was one of the original
subscribers to the United Gas and Improvement Company of that
city, in which he was a director. He owned a controlling interest
in the First National Bank of Tamaqua, at which point were ex-
tensive machine shops which he also controlled, and he was one of
the projectors and financial supporters of the construction of the
Poughkeepsie Bridge over the Hudson River and its connecting rail-
roads, and was closely identified with many financial institutions in
Philadelphia.
" Mr. Carter was a man of remarkable foresight and keen judg-
ment, and throughout his entire business career was governed by
the strictest integrity and persistency of purpose He was
a man of broad culture, possessed a charming personality, and was
an unusually interesting conversationalist."*
From 1855 until his death he resided in Philadelphia, where he
was a trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church, a member of the
Pennsylvania Historical and Genealogical societies, the Franklin
Institute, the Rittenhouse, Union League, and Art clubs, and of
other organizations. In politics he was a Republican, and an ardent
advocate of protective trade principles and policies,
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Mr. Carter was twice married ; first, in 1854, to Miss Jewell, who
was a native of England, and who died in 1864, leaving two children,
Mrs. T. Chester Walbridge of Germantown, Philadelphia, and
Charles John Jewell Carter of Redington, Pennsylvania. His
second wife, Mrs. Cornelia M. Redington Carter, resides at No.
2116 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. In the autumn of 1898 she
founded, as a memorial to her husband, the William T. Carter
Junior Republic, at Redington, in the beautiful valley of the Lehigh,
which is entirely supported by her. The site was selected by Mrs.
Carter, because it was for many years the field of her husband's
great enterprise. Here he built and operated a large iron industry,
and named the little hamlet after his wife. A tender sentiment
consequently prompted the placing of the memorial in this locality.
The Carter Junior Republic occupies a fruit and grain farm of
one hundred and fourteen acres, and was established primarily for
the transformation of incorrigible children. It aims, under super-
vision, to grant to the children under its care, limited privileges of
self government ; to govern children through themselves ; to de-
velope the whole being of the child ; to learn through doing; to
place responsibility on the child and help him meet it successfully ;
to train his hand, strengthen his mind and develope his spiritual
nature, and after his retirement from the Republic to keep in con-
stant and strengthening touch with him. The educational oppor-
tunities include both academic and manual training; the former
range from primary work through college preparation, and the latter
affords competent instruction in farming and carpentering.* As
an educational and social experiment in practical philanthropy it
has achieved a complete success.
Mrs. Carter is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Colo-
nial Dames of America, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, the Acorn and Sedgley clubs, and the
Pennsylvania Historical and Genealogical societies, and of other
social and philanthropic organizations.
Children :
25. i. Hr-LEN RicniNGTOX,® b. 9 Oct., 1870; m, Joseph Leidy, M.D.
26. ii. William Eunst, b. 19 June, 1875; m. Lucile Stewart Polk,
iii. Grace Alice, b. 27 June, 1876; d. 18 Aug., 1876.
27. iv. Alice, b. 15 July, 1878; m. William Carter Dickerman.
23. Helen Eliza'' Redington {Joseph Alexander,^ Capt. John^ Daniel*
Jacoh^ Dea. Daniel,^ John^) was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 3 May,
1848, and married at Cleveland, 26 Mar., 1867, Col Henry Herschel
Adams, born at Collamer, Ohio, 9 July, 1844, and died at Green-
wich, Connecticut, 6 May, 1906, son of Lowell L. Adams, a veteran
*Koport of the William T. Carter Junior Republic, 1899-1904.
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of the war of 1812, and grandson of Benoni Adams, a Revolu- I
tionary soldier. His earliest American ancestor on the paternal
side was Henry Adams, a founder of Braintree, Mass., and the for-
bear of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. Col. Adams
was educated at Shaw Academy, Cleveland, and left school to enter
the Union army in the Civil War, serving in the 125th Ohio Volun-
teers. In the battle of Franklin, 9 Mar,, 1863, he valiantly led the
charge across a river and dislodged the enemy's force, and at Chicka-
mauga. Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church and Kenesaw
Mountain, he again did valiant service. While in charge of courier
service between the lines he was captured by Gen. Forrest at Athens,
Alabama, on 20 Sept., 1864, and was three months in Cahaba
prison. After his exchange he again took active part in the contest,
and was recommended for a medal of honor by Gen. Oliver Otis
Howard, for gallantry on the field.
After the war, Colonel Adams engaged in the iron business at
Cleveland, and became one of the leading iron merchants and ship
owners of the middle West. In 1882 he removed to New York,
where he continued in the iron business until his death. In 1890
he became president of the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron
Company, and in June, 1891, he became head of the Henry H.
Adams Iron Company, and later president of the Colonial Iron
Company of Pennsylvania, which position he held at his death.
Col. Adams was active in military and patriotic societies, being a
member of Lafayette Post, G. A. R., of New York, and the delegate
of the Post to decorate Lafayette's tomb in Paris on Decoration
Day, 1893. He was one of the promoters of the plan to teach
patriotism by placing the flag over the public school buildings, and
gave away to scholars thousands of small silk flags. He was vice-
president of the Patriotic League of America, a member of the
Army and Navy clubs of New York and Hartford, the New York
societies of Sons of the Revolution and of Colonial Wars. He was
also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New York, of the
National Committee of One Hundred to build the University of the
United States at Washington, and a trustee of the Lincoln Memorial
University in Tennessee.
" A hero in war, a patriot in peace, he lived a life of benefit to
to many, and the influence of his benefactions must live for many
years after him."*
He was buried with military honors in Putnam Cemetery, Green-
wich, Connecticut, of which town he had been a resident for many
years.
* Obituai-y in Greenwich Graphic, 12 May, 1906.
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ISIrs. Adams is a trustee of the Greenwich Exchange for Women's
Work ; is associated with the Household Economics of New York
City, and the founder, in 1897, of the Putnam Hill Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution of Greenwich, of which she
has ever since been the Regent. Of the work and aims of this
latter organization. Col. Adams had been a zealous promoter, and
at a meeting of the Chapter officers, hastily summoned upon his
decease by the Vice-Regent, the following resolutions were adopted
and sent by messenger to the bereaved family :
Whereas, The long conflict being ended, the warfare accom-
plished, the great victory won, it has pleased our Great Commander
to promote into the upj^er ranks, his brave soldier, Col. Henry
Herschel Adams, our beloved friend, and co-laborer, therefore be it
Resolved, That we of the Putnam Hill Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, this eighth day of May, 1906, do ex-
press to his family, a unity in the bond of sorrow and a deep sense
that his "gain" has become our irretrievable loss, and be it also
Resolved, That we do as a Chapter, express to his wife, our be-
loved Regent, and to his family, our heartfelt sympathy, and the
hope that the glory from afar may shine into the hearts sore with
affliction, that the noble soul gone on may still be the inspiration
to endeavor and to accomplish, and be it also
Resolved, That our prayers for them shall be the courage of the
God of Battles and the abiding courage of the Prince of Peace, and
finally be it
Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be placed upon the
minutes of our Order, and that a copy be sent to Mrs. Adams and
her family.
By order of the officers of the Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R.
Kate L. Seymour,
Corresponding Secretary.
Children :
28. i. Nkllie REDrNGTON,* b. 29 Apr., 1869; m. John David Barrett.
29. ii. IIknhy Hkrsciiel, b. 20 June, 1873; m. Louise Lyman.
ill. Laura Grace, b. at Cleveland, 4 Sept., 1875; d. 10 Sept., 1876.
30. iv. Mabel Stella, b. 10 Nov., 1877; m. Albert B. Ashworth.
V. Lowell Leonard, b. at Greenwich, 10 Feb., 1892 ; d. the same day.
24. Lyman Williams Redington'^ Esq. {George^ Esq., Jacob^ Na-
thaniel,^ Jacoh^ Deacon Daniel,"^ John^) was born at Waddington,
14 March, 1849. He fitted for college at Williston Academy, en-
tered Yale College, and afterwards attended the law school of Co-
lumbia University. After his admission to the bar and some travel
in Europe he located, in 1875, in Rockland, Vermont, the home of
his maternal ancestors, when he was shortly elected Prosecutor of
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the Pleas, member of the Vermont Legislature ; Democratic nomi-
nee for Speaker in 1878, and a delegate-at-large for Vermont to the
Democratic National Convention in 1880 and in 1884; the Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in 1882, and the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in 1884. During the Legislature of 1878, he
was the author of the " Redington bill," so-called, for a local option
law to apply to the liquor traffic, which was one of the best drawn
and carefully considered measures ever presented to the Vermont
Legislature.
In 1889 he removed to New York City, where he has since been
actively engaged in the practice of the law, and in State and Muni-
cipal politics. In 1898 and 1899 he was a member of the New
York Legislature. Mr. Redington is a jiowerful speaker, an inde-
pendent and jirogressive worker, and a writer of ability.
He married (1), 6 October, 1875, Catherine Russell Merrill, and
(2) 6 October, 1900, Frances Sutton.
Children by fii'st wife :
i. Mary Patterson, b. 29 June, 1876; m. 12 June, 1900, Charles
Thurber Arriglii.
ii. Thomas Gregory, b. 21 Dec, 1880.
iii. Paul Merrill, b. 10 July, 1886.
25. Helen Redington^ Carter ( Cornelia M.^ Joseph Alexander,^ Capi.
Johi^ Daniel,^ Jacoh^ Dea. Daniel,' Jo/m^) was born at Phila-
delphia, 9 October, 1870, and married there, 4 Oct. 1893, Joseph
Leidy, M. D., born at Philadelphia, 11 April, 1866; son of Dr.
Philip Leidy, by his wife Penelope Fontaine-Maury Polk, and ne-
phew of the eminent scientist, Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL.D. Dr.
Leidy was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania A. B., in
1884, and M.D., in 1887, receiving the degree of A.M., in 1889.
Upon completing his medical studies there, he became resident phy-
sician at the hospital of that University, and later served in such
capacity in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, and at the
Pennsylvania General Hospital. He has also served as assistant-
surgeon in the Geuito-Urinary Department of the University of
Pennsylvania, as assistant demonstrator of Pathological Anatomy
and Morbid Histology, and assistant demonstrator of Anatomy at
the same institution, and in other medical positions in various insti-
tutions. In 1889 he was commissioned assistant-surgeon of the
Third Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was the
official delegate of the United States to the International Congress of
Hygieneand Demographie in 1900, and wasalso for some years a dele-
gate to the International Medical Congress. He officially represented
the United States Government as Jui'or on Hygiene to the Paris
FuRNITt'KE WHICH BELONGED TO CaPTAIN ReDINGTON (No
Now IN THE POSSESSION OF MRS. CARTER
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Exposition in 1900, and in recognition of his service thereat, re-
ceived from the Government of France the decoration of Officer
1' Instruction Publique.
Dr. Leidy is the author of various papers in scientific and literary
journals, and is a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and a member of
numerous other medical and scientific societies. lie is also a mem-
ber of the American Huguenotic Society, the Historical and Colonial
societies of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania societies of Colonial
"Wars, Sons of the Revolution, the "War of 1812, and Loyal Legion,
and of the Philadelphia and Union League clubs.
Mrs. Leidy is a member of the Acorn, Sedgeley and Country
clubs of Philadeli)liia.
Children of Dr. Joseph and Helen Redington (Carter) Leidy :
i. CoKNELiA Caktkr Leidy, b. at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island,
18 Aug., 1895.
ii. Philip Ludwei.l Lfidy, b. at Philadelphia, 29 Jan., 1897.
iil. Cahtku liANDOLni Lkidv, b. at Philadelphia. 7 Jan., 1902.
26. WiM.iAM Ernest' Cartku {Cornelia M.,' Joseph Alexander,^ Capt.
Juhn,^ Daniel* Jacoh^ Deacon Daniel^ John^) was born at Paris,
France, 19 June, 187o, and was educated at private schools and at
tl»e University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by foreign travel.
He is an ardent sportsman, is widely known in the social circles of
England and America, and is a member of the Pennsylvania Society
Sons of the Revolution, of the Radnor Hunt, Philadelphia Coun-
try and St. Anthony clubs.
He married at Baltimore, Maryland, 29 Januiuy, 1896, Lucile
Stewart Polk, born in Baltimore, 8 October, 1875, daughter of
AVilliam Stewart and Louise (Anderson) Polk of Tennessee.
Children of William Ernest and Lucile (Polk) Carter:
i. Llcile Polk Carteu, b. at Philadelphia, 20 October, 1897.
ii. William Tiiok.nton Carter 2d, b. at Narragansett Pier, U Sep-
tember, 1900.
27. Alice' Carter {Cornelia M.,'' Joseph Alexander,'^ Capt. John,^
Daniel,* Jacoh^ Deacon Daniel^- John^) was born at Germantown,
Philadelphia, 15 July, 1878, and was graduated A. B. from Bryn
Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1899. Almost immediately Miss
Carter became interested in the betterment of the Kindergarten
methods then in operation in Philadelphia, and in furtherance there-
of organized upon her own responsibility a Training School for
Kindergartners, with Miss Caroline M. C. Hart, a former director
of the training school of the Baltimore Kindergarten Association,
in charge, supplemented by an advisory committee of recognized
educational authorities — Dr. William T. Harris, ex-United States
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Commissioner of Education, Washington ; Miss Susan G. Blow,
New York ; Mr. Hamilton Wright Mabie, New York ; Dr. Ed-
ward Brooks, then superintendent of the public schools in Phila-
delphia ; Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford, and IMr. William AV. Justice,
also of Philadelphia, and the patronage of a large number of public
spirited men and women of Philadelphia. The success of the school
is assured, and its graduates and pupils are already scattered through-
out the land.
Miss Carter married at Rugby, Dunchurch, England, 19 June,
1905, her cousin, William Carter Dickerman, born at Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, 12 December, 1874, son of the Hon. Charles Heber
Dickerman, by his wife Joy Ivy Carter. Mr. Dickerman took a
preparatory course at the William Penn Charter School, Philadel-
phia, and was graduated M. E. from Lehigh University, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1896, and the following year became connected with the
Milton Car Works, Milton, Pennsylvania. Upon the formation of
the American Car and Foundry Company he was made assistant
district manager for Milton district, sales agent in 1900, Third Vice
President in 1905, and Vice President in 1907.
Mr. Dickerman is a Democrat in politics, a director of the First
National Bank of Milton, a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the Delta Phi Fraternity, the New York
Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Railroad, University, City,
Engineers, and Lawyers' clubs of New York, the Richmond
County Country Club of New York, and the University Club of
Philadelphia. He enlisted 19 May, 1897, in Company C, 12th
Regiment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and was ap-
pointed battalion adjutant in 1899 and first lieutenant in 1901.
Child of William Carter and Alice (Carter) Dickerman :
i. "William Carter Dickerman, Jr., b. at New York City, 2 Febru-
ary, 1907.
28. Nellie Redington® Adams (Helen Eliza,'' Joseph Alexander,^ Gapt.
John,^ Dcmiel,* Jacob^ Deacon Daniel^ Johi^) was born at Cleve-
land, Ohio, 29 April, 1869, and married at New York City 28
January, 1891, John David Barrett, born at West New Brighton,
Staten Island, 17 August, 1853, son of John Thorndike Barrett, by
his wife Alice Tinan.
Mr. Barrett's active business career began in very early life. He
became a member of the Insurance firm of Johnson and Higgins,
New York, and later president of a corporation of the same name ;
was also a member of the Underwriting firm of Higgins, Cox and
Barrett, and Underwriter at United States Lloyds, Standard Marine
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Insurance of Liverpool, the Indemnity Insurance Company of Lon-
don, and the Reliance Insurance Company of Liverpool. lie is a
director of the Columbia Trust Company, Johnson and Higgins
and the United States Lloyds, a trustee of the Sheltering Arms, a
member of the Chamber of Commerce, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Down Town Association, Century and Lawyers' clubs of New
York, and also of the New York, Atlantic, Seawankaha and In-
dian Harbor Yacht clubs.
Children of John David and Nellie Redington (Adams) Barrett :
i. Helen Adajis' Baukett, b. New York City, 15 April, 1897.
ii. John David Barrett, Jr., b. New York City, 8 Dec, 1903.
lii. Ki-:mNGToN Barrett, b. Greeuwich, Conn., 2S April, 1905.
29. Captain Henry Hekschel^ Adams, Jk. {Helen Eliza,'' Joseph
Alexander,^ Capt. Johii,^ Daniel,* Jacob,^ Deacon Daniel,- John^)
was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 20 June, 1873, and matriculated at
Yale University in the Class of 1895. On 2 May, 1898, he entered
the United States Volunteer service in the war with Spain, as First
Lieutenant, Company D, 14th New York Volunteer Infantry ; was
appointed Regimental Adjutant 21 July, 1898 ; promoted Captain,
Comi)aiiy K, on 7 September, and appointed Special Aid on the
Stall of Lieutenant-Geueral Nelson A. JMiles, Cominaudiug the
United States Army, 9 September, 1898.
Captaiu Adams is President of the Colonial Iron Company of
Pennsylvania, and of the Old Stirling Iron and Mining Company
of New York, and sole member of the firm of Henry H. Adams
and Company, engaged in the iron business in New York. He is
also a member of the New York Society of Colonial Wars, and of
the Lotus and various other New York clubs.
He married at Tarry town, New York, 27 November, 1900,
Louise Lyman, born 27 July, 1874, daughter of George C. Lyman
of Brockport, New York, by his wife Corilla C. Weed of Blooming-
ton, Illinois.
Children of Capt. Henry H. and Louise (Lyman) Adams:
i. Mary Helen Adams, b. 25 Sept., 1901.
ii. Louise Lyman Adams, b. 29 Sept., 190-t.
lii. Catherine C. Adams, b. 28 Feb., 1907.
30. Map.el Stella^ Adams {Helen Eliza,'' Joseph Alexander,^ Capt.
Juhii,^ Daniel,* Jacob,^ Deacon Daniel^^ John^) was born at Cleve-
land, Ohio, 10 November, 1877, and married in New York City, 17
April, 1900, Albert Blackhurst Ashforth, born in New York City,
7 December, 1873, son of George Ashforth, by his wife Louise J.
Blackhurst of New York.
At the age of twenty-one Mr. Ashforth became a partner in the
Real Estate firm of Ashforth and Duryee, which five years later he
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continued under his own name. He is a trustee of the North River
Savings Bank and a director in many Real Estate corporations. He
is a member of the Automobile Club of America, the Garden City
Golf Club of Long Island, the Apawamis Golf Club of Rye, the
Underwriters and Seventh Regiment Veteran clubs of New York.
Children of Albert Blackhurst and Mabel Stella (Adams) Ash-
forth :
i. Henry Adams Ashforth, b. 7 Dec, 1901.
ii. Albert Blackhurst Ashforth, Jr., b. 22 Feb., 1905.
iii. George Ashforth, b. 25 Nov., 1906.
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THE WALES FAMILY.
WALES LINEAGE.
John^ Wales m. (1) Margaret • William Blake=
NathanieP Wales m. (1) , William Blake m. Mrs. Agnes Bond.
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Timothy^ Wales m. . Edward Blake m. Patience Pope.
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Nathaniel^ Wales, Esq., m. (1) Susanna Blake.
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Ebenezer^ Wales, Esq., m. (1) Esther Smith.
Captain Elisha^ Wales m. Mary Abbe.
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Elisha' Smith Wales m. Mary Watkins.
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Captain John* Redington m. (2) Laura* Wales.
Joseph^ Alexander Redington m. Chloe Lewis.
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Cornelia^" Miranda Redington m. William Thornton Carter.
Helen Eliza Redington m. Henry Herschel Adams.
Walter Joseph Redington m. Clara B. Case.
Julia Mary Redington m. John Brackett Moore.
Stella Josephine Redington m. Henry Haller Mitchell.
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SOME NOTES OX THE WALES FAMILY.
In the "West Riding of Yorkshire, midway between London and Edin-
burgh, on the river Ayre, lies the quaint and interesting vilhvge of Idle in
the parish of Calverly. It is in the heart of one of the great industrial
centers of England; Bradford, the great seat of the worsted trade, is four
miles to the south, while Leeds, the principal market of woolen manufac-
ture, is some eight miles south-east. Of considerable antiquity and prob-
ably the site of a Roman camp, Idle is perched on a steep hillside com-
manding a view of Upper and Lower Airedale and of the great heather-
clad moorlands that stretch away in the distance to where the land drops sud-
denly to the banks of the Nidd. The village is celebrated in Yorkshire for
its stone quarries and the sturdy character of its inhabitants, and even now,
with a population approximating twenty thousand, still retains much of the
appearance of an old world hamlet, while the folk who move about its
streets and in and out of its four-square houses of stone, bear themselves
with the dignity of true dalesmen. There it was, in the midst of scenes
oM in story, that Nathaniel Wales, the founder of the American family
of his surname, was born. There he lived the years of his youth and
earlier manhood, and there, near by at the parish church of St. Wilfred,
Calverly, liis children were baptized from the font where he himself was
made a member of the church militant.
John Wales, father of the American colonist, had no inconsiderable land
holdings in the manor of Idle at the survey of lo84, his properties being
therein thus described : " .John Wales holdeth there at the will of the Lord
one messuage or tenement, one barn and other buildings, with one croft
adjoining containing 3 roods 6 perches. And one ox gang of land and
meadow to the same belongino: in the fields there contained in the several
parcels following, viz. : One close of meadow called the Pike, containing
2 acres 1 rood. One close of arable land called nether Leas, containing 1
acre 1 rood and a quarter. One close of aral)le laud, meadow land, called
Wynne Kowes, containing 1 acre 3 roods and a half. One close called
West Field Close, containing 1 acre 10 perches. One parcel of barren
ground called Sommerlaries, containing 1 acre 3 roods. One close of arable
and wood ground, called the High Field containing 3 acres 3 roods and a
half and a quarter. One close of arable and wood ground, called Milne
Close, containing 1 acre 1 rood and a half and a quarter. One close of
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pasture and wood called Foxe Stubbing, containing 2 acres and half a rood.
One other close, called also Stubbing, containing 5 acres. And one close
called Oldfield, containing 1 acre, 2 roods, with common of pasture to the
same belonging and renteth per annum at the Feasts aforesaid.*
The earliest mention of John "Wales is, perhaps, in the will of John
Hobson of Idle, under which he was a beneficiary, 13 January, 1577, and
it has been conjectured that his first wife, Margaret, was a daughter of the
testator. Sheltered in his dale he lived the uneventful farming life of the
Elizabethan period, strengthened and enriched by his solicitude for the
intellectual advancement of his children ; and something of the joys and
griefs of his span of years is written on the registers of the parish church
of Calverly, whose bells had called proud worshippers to the Roman mass
and whose walls were later to house the soldiers of the Commonwealth.
But he died, and perchance happily so, before the stirring events which
were to cloud the sunset years of his second son had begun to cast even
their shadow. Yet not before he had seen that son — Elkanah Wales —
terminate his clerical studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1609, and
become settled in the curacy of Pudsey in his native parish. And then
his thoughts turned toward that event for which all life is but the prepar-
ation, and he gave expression to his last will, 4 September, 1610, and shortly
afterward died, as the instrument was proved 26 November following. Ac-
cording to the statement of the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, first minister of
Rowley, Massachusetts, published in Turner's History of Idle, this docu-
ment was written by the son Elkanah, to whose care his four youngest
brothers were partially recommended, and Mr. Rogers further testified to
his execution of the trust reposed in him as being " no less than wonder-
ful," since, to his brothers were later added the five orphaned children of
his brother Samuel, three of whom he educated at the Universities. The
will of John Wales reads as follows : " In the name of God Amen Sep-
tember 4th Anno Dni 1610 I John Wailes of Idle in the pish of Calvley
in the Countie of Yorke being sicke of bodie but of good and pfect mem-
orie thankes be given to God in Jesus Christ do ordeyne and make this my
last Will and Testament in mann and forme following. Imprimis. I give
and bequeath my soul unto Almightie God my creator and to Jesus Christ
my redeemer and my bodie to be buried in the Church or church-yard of
Calvley in full assurance of resurreccon to eternall life. Item for my
temporall goods first my will is that they be divided into three severall pts
according as the law requireth and that my debts be paid out of the whole,
that is to say my wife to have her three pts and my children one other third
pte and myselfe one other third pte and for myne owne pte my will is that
I be honestlie brought forth and my funall expences discharged. The rest
I give to my children equallie, that is to say to Elkhanah, Samuel, Jona-
*Idle or Idel in Olden Time, by J. Horsfull Turner.
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than, John, Tyraothie and Benjamin. Item notwithstanding the pmisses
I give and bequeath unto John Gibson x s and unto Allice Gibson v s and
unto Anoe Gibson v s. Item for my houses land and leases I give and
bequeath them unto Nathaniel Wales myne eldest sonne Provided alwaise
that the said Nathaniel shall paie out of the said land the somes of 50 Is,
that is to sale to Elkanah Wales vi li. xiii s. iiii d ; to Samuel Wales vi li.
xiii 8. iiii d ; to Jonathan Wales viii li and to Beniamyn Wales ix li xiii s
iiii d in manner and forme following that is to say ix li xiii s iiii d to the
use and behoof to Benjamin Wales my youngest sonne within one whole
yeare next after my decease and to Timothie Wales in like manner Ix li
xiii 8 iiii within one whole yeare next ensuing and to Jonathan Wales and
John Wailes either of them viii li xiii s iiii d in the third yeare next fol-
lowing and to Elkanah Wales and Samuel Wales either of them v li xiii s
iiii d ill the fourth year next following. Item I do appoint the tuicon of
Jonathan, John Wales and Tymothie Wailes to my eldest sonnes Nathaniel
Wales and Elkannah Wales whom I do make and ordaine executors of this
my last Will and Testament These being Witnesses Samuel Waterhouse
Georire Nelson John Marshall.
Probate of this Will was granted by the Exchequer Court of York, on
twenty sixth day of November 1610, to Nathaniel Wales and Elkanah
Wales sons of the deceased the executors in the same Will named."*
Without doubt John Wales, the testator, was buried according to his re-
quest in the church yard of St. Wilfred's, Calverly, but the parish records
for that and a few succeeding years are unfortunately lost to us.
He married (1) Margaret , who was buried at Calverly, 17 May,
1600 ; and before 27 October, 1605, he married again, and made mention
of this second wife in his will.
Children by first marriage :
2. i. Natiianikl,* bpt. 26 Feby., 158G; d. 4 Dec, 1661; m. (1) ; m.
(2) ; m. (3) Susanna Grccnway.
3. ii. Rkv. Elkanah, bpt. 15 Dec. 1588 ; d. 11 ^^ay, 1C69; m. (1) Ann Par-
ker; ni. (2) Elizabeth Claverins.
Hi. Rkv. Samuel, b. circa 1590; il. at Morley, in Calverly, in 1626. He
■was minister at f)Ul Cliupd Morley, an earnest and zealous Puri-
tan; an intimate friend of Lord Wharton, and the pious and
learned author of a work published in 1627, entitled Totum Hom-
ines; or, The Whole Duty of a Christian; Consisting of Faith and
a Good Life, by the late lieverend aiid Worthy Mr. Samuel Wales,
Minister of the Gospel in Morley. A second edition was issued in
1681, by Lord Wharton and his brother, Sir Philip Wharton, for
the benefit of their children and grand-children. Mr. Wales left
five children, of whom, Samuel,^ b. 14 Oct., 1690; buried 15 Aug.,
1638; was graduated at University College, Cambridge, 23 April,
1638; John, matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, 6 July,
* District Probate Registry at York. Vol. 51, 1609-1611, p. 408.
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1638, a2;ed seventeen years ; Xehemiah, of Newcastle, -niio pre-
deceased his uncle, the Rev. Elkanah Wales, and whose children
were legatees under the will of the latter; and Elkanah^ bu. at
Calverly 10 Mar., 1635.
iv. Jonathan, bpt. 15 Nov. 1592.
V. John, bpt. 2 Feby., 1594.
vi. Timothy, bpt. 12 March, 1596.
vii. Benjamin, bpt. 27 May, 1599; bu. 12 March, 1600.
viii. , m. Humphrey Gunter. Issue, Edith Guuter, who m. Rob-
ert Hickson of Leeds.
ix. , (probably) m. Gibson. Issne, 1, John Gibson; 2,
Alice Gibson ; 3, Annie Gibson.
Issue by second mamage :
X. Benjamin, bpt. 27 Oct., 1605; called late of Bradford, deceased, in
will of iiis brother, Rev. Elkanah \yales. Issue: Rosamond
Wales, who married Jeremy Bower, and perhaps others.
2. Nathaniel^ Wales {John}) was born at Idle, baptized at the parish
church of St. Wilfred's, Calverly, Yorkshire, 26 February, 1586,
and died at Boston, Massachusetts, 4 December, 1661. He was a
weaver, and in this fact may possibly be found the guiding cause
for his removal to the New World, for he may have contemplated
the planting and expansion of that industry in the young country.
Whatever his design, he disposed of his inherited houses, lands and
leases in Idle, and was a passenger with the Rev. Richard Mather,
and one hundred othej's, in the James of Bristol, which cleared from
that port for New England, 23 May, 1635, Captain Taylor master.
A severe westerly storm compelled a return to aoclior and it was
ten days later, or 4 June, when the ship finally set sail on her lono-
journey, this time accompanied by four others, the Diligence of
Bristol, the Mary and the Bess, bound for Newfoundland, and the
Angel Gabriel for New England. After considerable peril in the
remarkable storm of two days preceding, the James arrived in
Boston on 17 August, 1635. The list of passengers is largely con-
jectural, but the names of Rev. Daniel Maude, Nathaniel Wales,
Barnabas Tower and Thomas Armitage, are mentionetl in ]\Ir.
Mather's Journal of the voyage, and it is thought that among the
company was the brother-in-law of Nathaniel Wales, afterwards
the celebrated Major General Humphrey Atherton, who, with Mr.
Wales, assisted Mr. Mather in nurturing the first church of Dor-
chester into thrifty life, despite the fact that much of it had been
transplanted to Windsor, Connecticut.
Mr. Wales became a freeman of Massachusetts Colony and a
member of the body politic, 2 November, 1637, at the same time as
John Harvard, foander of the College which perpetuates his name.
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During his early years in the Colony he resided at Dorchester, but
removed to Boston, probably about 1649, was received into the
church at Boston, 3 March, 1651, with his wife Susanna, and spent
the remainder of his life in that town, being described iu his will of
20 June, 1661, as Nathaniel Wales, senior, of Boston, weaver. This
instrument provides for the payment of his debts and funeral ex-
penses and directs that his wife shall have his " house and Land in
Boston " for life, she keeping the same " in tenentable repaire and
paying " ten shillings yearly rental to his sons Timothy, John and
Nathaniel. After the wife's decease the house and land are to be
divided between the sons, with a double portion to Timothy. His
land at Dorchester lying " upon the South east side of Neponset
River " is to be shared, in the proportion of two-thirds to the eldest,
by Timothy and Nathaniel, John having received " Land equivalent
already." The remainder of the movable estate is given " the one
halfe unto my Loving wife, she having beene a helpefull & Loveiug
wife to me in my old age & the other halfe I give to my 3 sonnes,
Timothy haveing a double portion." Provision to the extent of
fifty shillings each is made for two " Servant maids," Priscilla and
Sarah, " when their time is out," and the testator concludes, witli an
explanation of his *' minde concerning that pt of my house I have
ginen my sonne Timothy, y' my Grand Child, Timotliy Walls,
junior shall be ecjuall sharer with his father therein," and with mak-
ing "my wife executor & my Brother-iu-Law, Humphery Atherton,
overseer." From a deposition dated the day before the death of Mr.
Wales, it would appear tliat Major Humphrey Atherton, the only
witness to the will, had pre-deceased its maker, who, sensible of his
swiftly approaching demise, desired that his will should be read
to him, and this being done by D"^ William Snelling and Elder John
Wisewell, he " confirmed it in all points," adding only this, that he
gave his wife, over and aboue what is given her in the will, y' bedd
in the Little Chamber with y^ furniture thereto." The estate, a
substantial one for the period, was inventoried 3 January, 1661, o. s.,
and the widow, Susanna Wales, made a deposition in connection
therewith, 1 February following.
Mr. Wales would seem to have married three times ; at least this
is the logical solution of the expressed relationship between himself
and others, but the order of such marriages is not now determinable.
One of his wives was doubtless a sister of Edward Bullock of Dor-
chester who calls him " brother Wales " in papers specified in his
will of 25 July, 1649. Another was probably the sister of Major
Humphrey Atherton, whom as is before stated he designated iu his
will as " loving brother-in-law " ; and the last, who was married be*
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fore 5 February, 1650, was Susanna, daughter of John Green way
of Dorchester, who in a deed of that date speaks of his " daughter
Susanna Wales and her children if she have any." It is possible too
that Nathaniel Wales, Edward Bullock and Humphrey Atherton
married sisters. But the will of John Wales of Idle practically
negatives the repeated statement that Humphrey Atherton married
Mary Wales, his daughter, by naming no such daughters. And
the will of his son, the Rev. Elkanah Wales, contains no confir-
matory hint of such relationship.
Children all born at Idle and baptized at Calverly :
i. Sarah,3 bpt. 28 Dec, 1613.
6. ii. Timothy, bpt. 5 Nov., 1616; d. circa Mar., 1690; m.
m. Anna, bpt. 28 Nov., 1618.
6. iv. John, bpt. 18 Oct., 1620; bu. 17 Oct., 1707; ra. Elizabeth .
7. V. Nathaniel, bpt. 18 April, 1623 ; d. 20 May, 1662 ; m. Isabel Atherton .
Reverend Elkanah- Wales (Johti^) was born at Idle, baptized at
the parish church of St. Wilfred's, Calverly, 15 December, 1588,
and died at the house of Mr. Robert Hickson at Leeds, 11 May,
1669, being buried in the choir of St. John's Church in that town.
After a course at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was grad-
uated M.A. in 1613, he accepted the poor curacy of Pudsey in his
native parish, in 1614, and was made Vicar of Calverly 23 Decem-
ber, 1615. Here he labored most assiduously and became by 1648
one of the most prominent promoters of the spread of Congregation-
alism throughout the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is said by his
various biographers that he drew great multitudes to hear his evan-
gelical teaching ; that he was courted by the grandees of his restless
age, with whom he might easily have made his own terms ; that he
received numerous and pressing invitations to other and more im-
portant places, Carlisle, Rufford, New England, Newcastle and
Leeds, but that no offers of preferment could draw him from
his people until the Black Bartholmew Act silenced his voice
in his little chapel on Pudsey Hill. Even then he continued to re-
side among his beloved flock and to preach privately until, by that
piece of refined cruelty, the Five Mile Act of 1666, he was made
a wanderer in his old age and accepted the position of assistant
to the Rev. Mr. Todd of Leeds, and did not long survive the sever-
ing of his parochial ties.
Mr. Wales was not only a preacher of considerable jiersuasive
eloquence, but a theological writer of some ability as well ; his pub-
lished works being : " A Short Catechism, or y® errors of the Chris-
tian Religion in 34 questions and answers, by Elk. Wales, minister
of tlie Gospel at Pudsey in Yorkshire, London, 1652" ; an 8 vo.
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tract entitled " A "Writ of Error, or a Ffriendly examination of a
question deeply concerning Marryed persons or such as intend to
marry, by E. W. [Elk. Wales, York, 1654"], and "Mount Ebal
Levelled, or Redemption from the Curse, by Elkanah Wales, M.A.,
preacher of the Gospel, at Pudsey, in Yorkshire, London, 1659."
This last and greatest of his works was dedicated to the Right Hon-
orable Thomas Fairfax, who entertained for the author a singular
and sincere esteem.
His will, which was executed at Leeds, 27 April, 1669, throws
considerable light upon his kindred and friends and is given entire :
" 1 Elkanah Wales late of Pudsey in the countie of York Minister of
the Gospel being now aged and not farr from the sunset of my day
here below yet at psent in reasonable health and perfect memorie
(blessed be God) doe ordaine and make this my last Will and Testa-
ment in manor following. First I profess that Faith which was
given to the Saints and is held forth in the Holy Scriptures where-
in I have lived and I hope (by the grace of God) I shall die, even
the faith of Jesus Christ the Lord of Glorie who hath abolished
death and brought life and immortality to Light by the Gospell I
know that my Redeemer liveth and I am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have comitted unto to him against that day.
Into his hands I comitt my Spirit, resolveing by his strength to
hope to the end for the grace that shall be brought unto Beleavers
in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Next I commit my bodie to the
Earth whence it was taken to be buryed decently in the Chappell
of Pudsey near unto the bodie of Anne my former wife if it can
conveniently be. But forasmuch as by reason of my present un-
settledness whereunto I am necessitated I cannot probably forsee
where or in what place I shall die therefore I refer the whole busi-
ness to the discretion and care of my Executors hereafter to be
named and my other living friends either jointly or severally as
Providence shall order the time or place of my death. As to the
disposing of that worldly Estate which God hath given me I doe de-
clare my mind as followeth Imprimis Whereas I have by one
Deed of Feoffment bearing date the second day of May in the Thir-
teenth year of his Majesteis raigne that now is over England to be
granted and conveyed unto M'' James Sale* of Pudsey and James
*The Rev. James Sale or Sales was a native of Pudsey, where he died in 1679 and
was buried in the south aisle of Calverly Church. He had been educated at Cambridge
and had ministered at Lincoln and Thornton and at St. John's Leeds, where, as as-
sistant to the Rev. Mr. Todd, he was silenced in 1662. Mr. Elkanah Wales preached a
fast sermon at St. John's at the ordination of Mr. Sales, and Mr. Sales wrote a Memoir
of Mr. Wales which is preserved among the Thoresby MSS. in the Rritish Museum.
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Sagar of Allerton and their heyres one messuage and certaine lands
witli t!ie appurtenances in Idle within the Countie of York in the
tenure and occupation of James Berrie or his assignes of intent to
stand seized thereof to the use of me and mine assignes during the
tenure of my naturall life and after my decease then to uses as I
sliall declare by my last Will in writing as thereby may appear.
Now I do hereby ratify and conlirme the said deed and my will and
mind is that I doe hereby declare and appoint that they shall stand
seized after my decease to the use and behoofe of Samuel Wales
Sonne of Nehemiah Wales late of Newcastle deceased and of his
heyres and assignes forever paying and discharging these severall
legacies viz — that he his heyres or assigns shall pay or cause to be
paid out of the same unto his two sisters Constantia and Eliza-
beth the whole sura of Fiftie pounds that is to say to either of
them five and twenty pounds at their severall ages of one and
twentie years or on the days of their respective marriages and if
either of the said sisters shall die before then the survivinjr sister to
have the whole sum of Fiftie pounds to her selfe If both of them
die then he to be free from that charge. If both he and they die
without issue then my will is that Fiftie pounds shall goe to the
children of Thomas Sewell which he hath by Elizabeth his present
wife late the wife of Nehemiah Wales aforesaid and the rest of the
money to the children of my Executors. And if after my decease
it shall be judged more advantageous to the aforesaid that the said
house and lands shall be sold and alienated then my will is that they
sliall be sold and I intrust my Executors to joyne with M'' James
Sale the surviving feoflfe in the selling thereof and improving the
money es either by themselves or some other trustie persons unto
some honest profitt towards the uses aforesaid Item out of the
remainder of my estate in moneyes goods and chattels I give and
bequeath these severall legacies. Imprimis to Sarah the wife of
John Druroy of Idle I give Ten pounds. It. I give unto her two
sonnes Samuel and Benjamin Swaine to either of them Twenty
shillings and to her daughter Sarah the wife of John Clarkson of
Hosforth Twenty shillings. It. I give unto John Suttill of Cant-
ley Ten pounds. It. I give to the three, sonnes of my brother Na
thaniel late of Boston in New England to wit Timothie John and
Nathaniel the sum of Ten pounds that is to say to every one of
them five marks and if any of them be dead my will is that his or
their respective parts shall goe to their widowes and children sur-
Mr. Ealph Thoresbj', the eminent historian of Leeds, also compiled an account of the
life and labors of Mr. Wales which is included in the Birch MSS. in the British
Museum, No. 4460.
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viving. And I intreat my cosin Matthew Boyes* to take upon him
the care of sending it unto them in the fittest and safest way that
he can. It. I give unto the poor of Pudsey Three pounds to be
distributed by M'' Sale and .John Downes or Joshua Lumby. To the
poore of Idle Three pounds to be distributed by Jeremie Welfitt and
Samuel Stable and to the poore of Calverly fourtie shillings to be
distributed by M*^ Sandall and Joseph Hitchin. It. I give unto
Rosamond the wife of Jeremie Bovver and the daughter of Benja-
min Wales my brother late of Bradford foure pounds. It. I give
unto the three daughters of Nathaniel Bower late of Bradford sixe
pounds to every one of them fourtie shillings to be committed to the
hands of M'' Sale of Pudsey and employed for their use. It. I
give unto Grace the wife of John Vicars of Idle Ten shillings. It.
I give unto Anne Horsman of Leeds widow Ten shillings. It. I
give unto James Berrie of Idle to Ellis Berrie Samuel Wilkinson
and widow Brafitt of Bramley and to James Brafitt and Thomas
Brook of Parsley to those sixe Three pounds to every one Ten shil-
lings. It. I give unto our late late maid servant, Rnth Peale now
servant to M"" Ambrose Barnes Merchant of Newcastle upon Tyne
Twentie shillings. It. Whereas JNP Thomas Sewell of Carlisle
owes to me Twentie pounds which I lent him in March 1668-9 I do
wholly release and forgive that debt. It. to Samuel and Benja-
min Swaine over and above the Twentie shillings apeace aforesaid I
give eight pounds (vizt) each of them foure pounds. It. I give to
the widow of Captain Simon Askwith dwelling at Kelfield Fourtie
shillinirs and to his sonne Simon Askwith servant to M'' Thomas
Stillington fourtie shillings It. I give unto Thomas Sewell of
Carlisle teune pounds and to Samuel Wales tenne pounds & to
Constantia Wales tenne pounds & to Elizabeth Wales tertne pounds
It. I give unto Anthony Cloudsley tenne shillings unto Anne Fearn-
ley tenne shillings unto Elizabeth Abbott tenne shillings unto Mary
• Matthew Boyes had been at Roxbury iti Massachusetts in 1639, and at Rowley in
541, representing that town in the General Court or Assembly of the Colony several
ears between 1641 and 16.")0, but later returned to Leeds. Of liim, Mr. Thomas Prince,
le great ISew Enghuid antiquary, said : "Matthew Boyes [was] a man of known
ietv, integrity and usefulness in his station, tho' exercised w*h considerable worldly
>sses; was an elder of the church of Rowley in New England, and one of their Depu-
es at Boston (during his abode there for about 18 years) and had at his coming thence
n honourable testimonial of his being very serviceable, as well as exemplary in his
ehaviour." Besides Nathaniel Boyes, mentioned in the will of Elkanah Wales, Mr.
loyes had, Matthew Boyes, Jnr., who had spent some time in New England, and
oseph Boyes, born after the return of the family to Leeds, 14 Jan., 1659. The last
amed being, according to Dr. Increase Mather, a " worthy minister of the Presby-
irian Judgement in Dublin " and tiie learned author of a collection of Discourses,
'ertnons and Tracts, published in London for John Gray, at the Cross Keys in Hie Poul-
'y, M.DCC.XXVIIJ.
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Hudsmaiigh & Mary Akid each of them five shillings & unto Tim-
othy Memersley and Marke Moor each of them four sliillings & to
Samuel Dobsou tenne shillings. Touching my small Librarie be-
sides those bookes that I lost in the time of the Warres and those
which I have sold or given away since my will is that the resi-
due shall thus be disposed I give to M"" James Sale D'' Davenante
Commentaire on the Colossians as for my English Bible in qrto of
the last Translation because there be in it many profitable annota-
tions and references which may be usefull unto a minister or a
scholar therefore my desire is that it may be comitted to the custo-
die of M"" Sales, M"" Rogers* or M'' Watertown or any other young
man that is hopefull for learning and godliness and intends the min-
istry upon condition that the person that is betrusted with it shall
promise to keep it as farre from sullying as he can and when he
hath made what use of it he pleaseth shall deliver it to Nathaniel
Boyes the sonne of Matthew Boyes or any other of my kindred
that shall proove a SchoUer and be fitt to make use of it. As for
the English Bookes I give to John Downes of Pudsey to M"^* Sale
to Sarah Jenkinson to Elizabeth Boyes and to p]dith Hickson to
every of these one as they please to chuse for themselves. And
for the remainder let some of the best be sold to those that desire
them and the rest I give to Samuel Wales Elkanah Hickson and
others of my kindred to be devided amongst them and for the rest of
my estate whatsoever I give and bequeath unto my beloved cousin
Matthew Boyes of Leeds ye elder & Robt Hickson of ye same
whom I doe hereby ordain and constitute my Executors of this my
last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett
*Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, sou of Rev. Richard Rogers, and brother of the Rev. Daniel
Rogers, prominent non-conformists, was born at Wethersfield in Essex, England, in
1590, and entered the University of Cambridge at the age of thirteen, receiving the
degree of A.B. at Corpus Christi in 1604, and M. A. at Christ's College in 1608. After
a chaplaincy in the family of Sir Francis Barrington at Hatfield, Broad Oak in Essex,
he obtained the benefice of Rowley in Yorkshire where he exercised his ministry for
about twenty years, though finally silenced for non-conformity. In 163S, accompanied
by many of his Yorkshire friends, he emigrated to Massachusetts and commenced a
new plantation to which was given the name of Rowley, and where he was ordained
in December, 1639. He acquired a high reputation in the colony, and, in 1643, preached
the Election Sermon which the Rev. Cotton Mather says made him famous throughout
the whole country. He continued at Rowley, visited, however, by a melancholy suc-
cession of bereavements. There he buried his wife, Sarah, daughter of John Everard
of Loudon, and all his children. His second wife was a daugliter of the Rev. John Wil-
son of Boston, and she, too, with her child, was soon removed by death; and upon the
night of his third marriage, to Mary, the widow of Thomas Barker of Rowley, fire
levelled his house to the gi-ound, including all its furniture and a valuable library
brought by him from England. After a lingering illness he died at Rowley, 23 January,
16G0. His library, which had been gathered after the destruction of his house, he be-
queathed to Harvard College, and his house and lands to the town of Rowley for the
maintenance of the ministry there.
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my hand & seale this Twenty seventh day of April one thousand
six hundred sixty nine & in the year of the Raigne of King
Charles the Second &c. Witnesses — Timothy Smith, John Milner,
James Robinson, Elk. Wales."
Proved 20t»> July. 1G69.
M'' Wales married (1) at Leeds, 13 June, 1616, Ann Parker, who
was buried at Pudsey, 18 May, 1660; and (2) Elizabeth Cover-
ing of Caliley in Northumberland, widow of Thomas Butler,* a
merchant of Newcastle, who survived him. Oliver Hayward, the
non-conformist diai'ist, is responsible for the statement that, in addi-
tion to other ills, Mr. Wales bore in his later years, the evil which
marred the life of Socrates — a wife's uncomfortable tongue.
5. Timothy* Wales {Nathaniel,'^ John^) was baptized at St. Wilfred's,
Culverly, o November, 1616, and died at Milton, Massachusetts,
before 31 March, 1690. He accompanied his father to Massachu-
setts in the James of Bristol, and, inheriting his father's lands in
Dorchester, remained there, residing at what was then Unquety or
Uncataqissett, but which, on 7 May, 1662, was established as the
town of Milton. His home, on the south side of the Neponset
River, was at a considerable distance from the " free schoole " on
Rocky Hill which the Selectmen of Dorchester had provided, as
early as February, 1641, o. s., "for the instructinge and Teachinge
of Children and youth in good literature and Learning," and in
whicli they had by 1655 arranged that Mr. Ichabod Wisewell should
teach all children " Comitte<l unto his Care in Enniilish Latine
and Greeke as from time to time the Cheldren shall be Capable and
allso instruct them in Writinge as hee shall be able : which is to be
understood such Children who are so fare entred all redie to know
there Leters and to spell some what." The distance, frequent
cliange in teachers, or other contributory causes, engendered in
Timothy Wales and some of his neighbors a certain indifference as
to their children's attendance at school which the selectmen were
not slow to take cognizance of, and accordingly summoned Timothy
Wales, his wife and their " two lesser boys " with four other fami-
lies to appear before them, 8 January, 1671, " to be enquired after
* His daughter, Jane Butler, was the first wife of the Rev. John Oxenbridge of Bos-
on, Mass., who, born at Daventry, Northumiitoiishire, 30 Jan., 1G09; matricuhited at
Liincoln College, Oxford, 20 June, 1623, but was subsequently transferred to Cam-
iridgc, where he finished his education; preached a few years in Bermuda and then
eturned to England and was ejected in 1662 ; went to Surinam and Barbadoes and
inally to Boston, where he was installed over the First Church, 10 April, 1669, as col-
eague with the Rev. James Allen. The Rev. William Emerson, in his History of the
rirst Church, says of him : " He is reckoned by the historians of Boston, among the
nost elegant writers, as well as eloquent preachers of his time."
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concerning their education and imi^rovement of their time." Mr.
Wales resented the interference of the Selectmen, and his " words
and answers " proved " offensive and contemptuous " to that august
body, and he was requested again " to appear and to give* an acompt
how he answers the law title Children and youth." On his second
appearance he made a satisfactory acknowledgment of his previous
choleric words, and his sons being admonished were dismissed.
Family tradition is responsible for the repeated statements that
" he was eminently pious and that in the latter part of his life he
married a second wife, but that she was so clamorous and uncom-
fortable that he built a cave in the woods where he lived alone for a
number of years and died aged eighty. "f
The inventory of his estate was taken 31 March, 1690, and dis-
cribes him as " Timothy Wales Sen"^ of Milton, deceased." Included
therein is " the house and fifteen acres of land ; land at Squantom
Neck, sixteen acres, one fourth part of a house and lands at Boston,
besides salt and fresh meadows." " Timothy and Nathaniel Wales,
two of the sons of the above named Timothy deceased were ad-
mitted to administer by the Hon^^® Simon Bradstreet. "|
The name of the wife of Timothy Wales has not been ascertained
and there is nothing in the public records to indicate that he had
married more than once.
Children :
i. Timothy,* b. at Dorchester, in 1651 ; d. at Boston, after 20 August,
1720; m. (1) ; m. (2) Sarah , who d. at Boston, 3
May, 1726, in her fifty-seventh year, and was interred in Copp's Hill
Burial Ground. He served in Capt. Samuel Mosleys Co. in King
Philip's War, in Dec., 1675, and was probably he who took the oath
of allegiance before Major Pynchon at Hatfield, Mass., in 1678.
His will of 5 Dec, 1702, with Codicils of 7 Sept., 1713, and 20
Aug., 1720, describes him as "properly belonging to the town
of Boston, aged about fifty-one years," and devised to his now
married wife Sarah " all right, title, share and interest in and to
any tract of land appertaining to me or descended from my grand-
father, Nathaniel Wales, and lying within the township of Dor-
chester."|| This land, his widow bequeathed to Samuel Wright
of Concord, and to Martha, wife of Israel Hale of Stowe. Na-
thaniel Wales of Windham, in the County of Hartford, executed
a quit-claim deed to these heirs 1 Nov., 1726, calling himself a
brother of Timothy Wales deceased and grandson of Nathaniel
Wales. § No issue survived.
* Town Records of Dorchester.
t Genealogy of the Wales Family, by William Howe Whittemore, Brooklyn, 1874.
J Suffolk Probate Files, No. 1720.
II Suffolk Probate Records, Vol. 22. pp. 408-9.
§ Suffolk Registry of Deeds, Vol. 40, pp. 237-8.
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ii. Eleazer, b. at Dorchester, 25 Dec, 1657; was a soldier under the
command of Capt. John Withington in the Cnnada Expedition of
1690.
8. iii. Nathaniel, b. in 1662; d. 22 June, 1744; m. (1) Susanna Blake;
(2) Lydia Huntington.
6. JOHX^ Wales {Nathaniel^^ Johi^) was baptized at Calverly, York-
shire, 18 October, 1620, and was buried at Dorchester, 17 October,
1707. With his father he sailed form Bristol, England, for New
England, 23 May, 1635, and arrived at Boston, 17 August following.
On reaching manhood he settled at Dorchester in that part known as
Captain's Neck, near the Creek later called Wales Creek, where the
town, shortly after the death of John Wales, ordered that a wharf
should be built, and for that purpose laid out a way for the use and
benefit of the inhabitants thereof. This way is the present Creek
Street running east from Pleasant Street.
From 1653 Mr. Wales held many of the town offices, and, des-
cribed as " John Wales Sen'', a member of the Church of Christ in
Dorchester," he petitioned the General Court of the Colony in
June, 1677, to be made a freeman or member of the body politic,
which request was granted 10 October following.
He married Elizabeth , who died at Dorchester, 26 Nov-
ember, 1701.
Children probably all born at Dorchester :
i. John,* b. circa 1634 ; d. Dorchester, 18 June, 1G83.
ii. Hannah, d. Dorchester, 19 Oct. 1732; m. Ebenezer Billings of Dor-
chester; their eldest son. Rev. Richard Billings, was graduated at
Harvard in 1698, and became minister of the church at Little
Compton.
iii. Content, b. 14 May, 1659; m. at Dorchester, 15 Oct., 1679, John
Mason of Dorchester. He d. 18 Mar., 1683.
iv. Elizabeth, b. 1 July, 1662; d. Dorchester, 30 June, 1673.
V. Elkanah, b. 16 June, 1665; d. Dorchester, 15 Aug. 1689.
7. Nathaniel^ Wales {Nathaniel^^ John^) was born, as were his
brothers, at Idle, in Yorkshire, and baptized at the parish church at
Calverly, 18 April, 1623. He accompanied his father to Massa-
chusetts in 1635, and died at Boston, 20 May, 1662.
It appears from the records of the General Court of the Colony
that for a short time at least he was a resident of Falmouth, and that
his life in the new world had not caused him to entirely forswear the
faith and practice of the Church of England, for at the Session of
the Assembly held at Boston, 16 October, 1660, "it appears to this
Court, by seuerell testimonyes of good repute, that Mr. Robert
Jordan did in July last, after exercise was ended upon the Lord's
day, in the house of Mrs. Mack worth, in the towne of Falmouth,
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then and there baptize three children of Nathaniell Wales, of the
same towne, to the offence of the government of this Comonwealth,
this Court judgeth it necessary to bear witness agt such irregular
practices, doe therefore order that the Secretary, by letter, in the
name of this Court, require him to desist from any such practices
for the future, and also that he appeare before the next Generall
Court to ans"^ what shall be laid agt him for what he hath donne for
the time past."* The offense against the government consisted in
the fact that Mr. Jourdain having received priest's orders from the
Established Church continued his allegiance thereto, which was con-
trary to the practice of the other clergy of the Colony.
In his will of 18 May, 1662, Mr. Wales called himself of Boston,
" ship-carpenter," and directed that his estate should be divided
among his children, with a double portion to his eldest son, Nathaniel.
His wife was Isabel, daughter of Major-General Humphrey
Atherton of Dorchester, who was born in England and died at
Boston, 18 December, 1661.
Children :
i. Elder NATHA>fiEL* Wales, was of age in Oct., 1670 ; d. at Braiutree,
Mass., 23 Mar., 1718; m. (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Billings,
of Dorchester, b. 27 Oct., 1659 ; cl. 22 Oct., 1676 ; ra. (2) Joanna,
youngest daughter of Thomas Faxon of Braintree, who cl. 11 May,
1704. Mr. Wales was made Ruling Elder of the church in Brain-
tree, 27 Feby., 1701. Of his fifteen children, all but Elizabeth, b.
10 Feby., 1675, ra. 19 June, 1694, John Child of Roxbury, were by
the second mari'iage. His son Bev. John^ Wales, b. at Braintree,
25 May, 1699, was graduated at Harvard in 1728 and became the
first pastor of the church at Raynham, Mass., where he died, 23
Feby., 1765 ; by his wife, Hazadiah Leonard, he was the father of
Samuel^ Wales, D.D., b. at Raynham, 2 Mar., 1748 ; d. New Haven,
Conn., 18 Feby., 1794; was graduated at Yale, in 1767, and
later Professor of Divinity in that institution; his second son,
the Hon. John'' Wales, b. New Haven, 31 July, 1783; d. Wilming-
ton, Delaware, 3 Dec, 1863; was graduated at Yale in 1801;
studied law aud was admitted to the bar of his native state ; re-
moved to Delaware, where he was appointed Secretary of State
for Delaware in 1845, and in 1849 was elected to the United States
Senate to fill the unexpired term of John M. Clayton. A son of
Hon. John Wales, the Hon. Leonard Eugene^ Wales, b. Wilmington,
26 Nov., 1823; d. 8 Feb., 1897; was graduated at Yale in 1845;
studied law, became an able practitioner, and later Associate
Judge of Delaware for New Castle County, and on 20 Mar., 1884,
United States Judge for the district of Delaware ; and was also
for many years the President of the Delaware Historical Society.
The youngest son of Elder Nathaniel* Wales, the Hev. Atherton''
* Massachusetts Colonial Records, Vol. iv, Part I, 436.
Hon. Leonaki) Ekjknk Wales
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Wales, b. Mar., 1704; was graduated at Harvard in 1726 and
settled over the second Church of Marshfield, Mass., where he
died, 29 Nov., 1795.
ii. Maky, b. 9 Feby., 1658; in. June, 1684, Nicholas George.
iii. Samuel, d. at Dorchester, 20 Jan., 1712; m. (1) Mary , who
d. at Dorchester, April, 1700; m. (2) Hannah, daughter of Jona-
than Peake of Roxbury, who d. at Dorchester, 1 June, 1731, aged
sixty-eight years.
iv. Jonathan, soldier in King Philip's War, joined with his brothers
and sister under date of 13 Sept , 1685, in the sale of his father's
lands and buildings in Boston, near the New Meeting House.* On
21 Oct., 1728. his daushter, Elizabeth Catting of KlUingly, Conn.,
conveyed lands in Dorchester which had belonged to her grand-
father, Nathaniel Wales.
$. Deacon Nathaniel* Wales ( Timothy,^ Nathaniel,^ John^) was born
in 1662, in that part of Dorchester which later became Milton,
and died at Windham, Connecticut, 22 June, 174-4.
The first half of his life was spent at Milton, where he was ad-
mitted to "full communion " in its church in 1687, and sometime
thereafter he removed to the Windham County territory which lay
directly on the route from Massachusetts to the Connecticut River,
and was part of that wilderness, the Nip muck Country, crossed ob-
liquely by only a rude trail called the Connecticut Path. But over
this path hundreds had already toiled, carrying civilization to new
homes in the wilderness, making no halting place at Windham until
shortly before 12 June, 16'J2, when the first town meeting was held
there and the nucleus of a church gathered. It was 4 December,
1700, however, before the church was fully organized at Windham
Green, as the " Hither Place," or the southeast quarter, the most
populous and prosperous of the vill iges which then constituted the
town of Windham, had come to be called. And here, on that day,'
the Rev. Samuel Whiting was ordained, nearly eight years after
the assumption of his pastoral duties, and Thomas Bingham, Jo-
seph Carey, and Nathaniel Wales were chosen deacons, becoming
by virtue of their high office the spiritual fathers of the town.
How long before this Nathaniel Wales had been settled at the
" Hither Place," and near the Shetaucket River, is a matter of con-
jecture, but there he continued to reside until that event for which no
man can plan, retaining in a large degree the esteem of his fellows,
as the subjoined abstract from the Church Records bears witness :
" Mr. Nathaniel Wales, chosen one of the deacons of the church at
its organization in 1700, after he had served God in his generation
faithfully many years in his life did with the holy disciple lean upon
• Suflfolk County, Mass., Registry of Deeds, Liber xiii, ff 371-2.
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the breast of his beloved, and by the will of God meekly fell asleep
in the cradle of death on the 22 day of June, 1744 in the 85'^ year
of his age."
Hjs will, executed just three months preceding his death, and
proved on the 27th June following, described him as Esquire and
gave evidence that his length of days had brought him considerable
worldly prosperity, which enabled him to provide liberally for his
wife Lydia, sons Nathaniel, Ebenezer and Eleazer, grandchildren
Joshua West, Susanna, wife of Jonathan Delano, and Sarah West,
the children of deceased daughter Susanna.
He married (1) at Milton, 30 August, 1688, Susanna, daughter
of Edward and Patience (Pope) Blake,* born in Boston, 20 July,
1661, and died at Windham, 5 February, 1729. He married (2) at
Windham, 22 August, 1730, Lydia Huntington, who survived him
and by whom he had no issue.
Children :
i. Susanna,^ bapt. 6 Mar., 1691; d. 14 Oct., 1723; m. UJan., 1713,
Hon. Ebenezer "West, b. Duxbury, Mass., 23 Jnly, 1676; d. Leba-
non, Conn., 31 Oct., 1758. He represented the town of Lebanon
in the General Assembly of Conn, for forty-six sessions, and was
one of the Judges of the County Court. His epitaph states that
he was " eminent for the strong powers of his mind, the honesty
and integrity of his heart, and ye seriousness of liis virtue. He
long and faithfully served ye church of Christ in tlie office of a
deacon, and his country in the character of a justice and a judge,
and discliarged duties of every relation with uprightness." Issue :
1. Sarah West, b. 25 Jan., 1714. 2. Hon. Joshua West, b. 30 July,
1715; d. 9 Nov., 1783; ra. (1) Sarah Wattles; (2) Elizabeth Wil-
liams; was graduated at Yale in 1738; member of Connecticut
Assembly twenty-seven sessions; Judge of the County Court;
Captain of militia and in the French and Indian War, and one of
* William Blake, the first of his family to emigrate to Massachusetts, was baptized
at Pitminster, Somersetshire, England, 10 July, 1591, where his father, William Blake,
had purchased land in 1586. He married 23 September, 1617, Mrs. Agnes Bond, pos-
sibly the widow of Richard Bond, of Rutherford, and daughter of Hugh Thorne; she
was the mother of his children and died at Dorchester, Mass., 22 July, 1678. He was
of Dorchester as early as 2 January, 1637, and a member of the Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Company of Boston in 1646. The records of Dorchester of 1663 make
this note of his death : " This year Died Mr. William Blake who had been Clerk of
ye Writs for ye Co. of Suffolk and Recorder for ye Town near 8 years. He was also
Clerk of ye Training Band. He died ye 25t'i of ye 8"i Mo., 1663, in ye 69'ii year of his
age."
Edward Blake, probably the youngest son of William and Agnes Blake, after some
residence in Dorchester, settled in Milton, Mass., in 1672, when he and his brother
William were among the founders of its Church in 1678; and where he died 3 Sept.,
1692. His will of 31 Aug. preceding made a bequest to daughter, Susanna Wales,
above. He married Patience, daughter of John and .Jane Pope of Dorchester. — For
further details see Increase Blake of Boston. His Ancestors and Descendants.
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the nine members of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety of
the Colony. 3. Bathsheba TP^esi, b. 8 March, 1717 ; d. young. 4.
Susan7ia West, h. 17 J a.n., 1719; m. Jonathan Delano. 5. Ebenezer
West, b. 11 April, 1721; d. young. 6. Jonathan West, b. 2 Oct.,
1723; d. young. 7. David West, twin of preceding, also died
young.
9. ii. Deacon Nathaniel, Esq., b. 28 May, 1694; d. 5 Nov., 1782; m. (1)
Mercy West; m. (2) Prudence Denison.
10. iii. Deacon Ebenezer, Esq., b. 25 June, 1696; d. 12 April, 1776; m. (1)
Esther Smith; (2) Deborah Ward.
iv. Timothy, b. 17 June, 1698; d. unmarried at Windham, 15 Aug.,
1719.
V. Rev. Eleazar, b. 3 June, 1700 ; died without issue circa July, 1750 ;
m. Elizabeth , who was licensed to marry 23 Dec, 1752,
John Little of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was
graduated at Yale in 1727, and was licensed to preach by the
Windham Co. Association of Ministers, 10 Oct., 1727; in 1731 he
was settled by the Philadelphia Presbytery over a church then
gathered in the neighborhood of Crosswick's and Allentown, near
Trenton, New Jersey; in Sept., 1735, he was called to Millstone,
in Somerset Co., N. J., and remained in charge of this congrega-
tion and of the neighboring church of Kingston, within the bor-
ders of Middlesex Co., N. J., until his death. In the schism
which rent the Synod of Philadelphia in June, 1741, he went
with the New Side and joined the Presbytery of New Brunswick.
. Deacon Nathaniel^ Wales, Esq. (Deacon Nathaniel* Esq., Timo-
thy,^ Nathaniel,^ John^) was born at Milton, 28 May, 1694, and died
"^ at Windham, 5 November, 1782. In ecclesiastical matters he fol-
lowed the example of his father, and was also active in the civil and
military afifairs of the town, church or colony, from May 1730, when
he was commissioned ensign of the first military comj^any of Wind-
ham, until his death. In October, 1740, he was promoted to a
lieutenancy of the same company; from 1751 he was repeatedly
commissioned justice of the peace and of the Courts of Windham
County, and from 1753, most of the years to 1778, he was one of
the leading members of the Connecticut Assembly. On 20 May,
1772, he was chosen a member of the Committee of Correspondence,
composed of the principal men in the Assembly, among them being
Ebenezer Silliman, Samuel Holden Parsons, Silas Deane, Joseph
Trumbull and Erastus Wolcott. As a member of the Council or
Committee of Safety from 1775 until 1777, he performed valuable
service for the cause of Independence. In September, 1775, he was
sent by the Council to Philadelphia to procure funds from the Con-
tinental Congress with which to further the patriotic interests in
Connecticut, and, during the same year, he was appointed by the
Assembly a member of a Committee to wait upon the Provincial
Congresses of New York and New Jersey " in order to procure in-
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telligence of the measures that might be adopted by them respecting
the common cause of the British Colonies."
In the industrial world, too, Mr. Wales made his influence felt
and achieved a competency. And his sagacity and business force
were exemplified in the enterprise, begun with Colonel Elderkin in
December, 1755, of erecting a factory on the Willimantic River for
the manufacture of gunpowder, which seems to have been highly
successful, as in May following Mr. Wales reported to the Assembly
that 1000 pounds of the powder had been produced in the interim.
He married (1) 14 February, 1716, Mercy West, daughter of
Francis West of Stonington and Tolland, Connecticut, bo n at
Preston, Connecticut, 30 October, 1697 ; died at Windham, 20
January, 1725. He married (2) 27 December, 1726, Prudence
Denison, who died 15 May, 1792.
Children by first marriage, born in Windham :
i. Jerusha,* b. 27 Nov., 1717; m. (1)29 Jan., 1735, Ebenezer Gary,
Jun. ; ra. (2) Laselle.
ii. Zerviah, b. 11 Nov., 1719; m. 11 May, 1738, Ebenezer Fitch.
iii. Susanna, b. 5 Feby., 1722; d. y.
iv. Timothy, b. 6 Sept., 1725; d. y.
Children by second marriage, born in Windham :
V. Nathaniel, b. U Feby., 1727; d. July, 1728.
vi. Prudence, b. 12 Jan., 1729.
vil. Abner, b. 9 March, 1730; d. 10 June, 1733.
viii. Captain Nathaniel, b. 1 June, 1733; ra. 9 February, 1755, Grace
Brewster, by whom he had ten children. He was commissioned
ensign of the 9th Company, Third Regiment of Connecticut
Militia, in April, 1775, and second lieutenant in May, 1776. On
7 Aug., 1777, he was made Captain of the 1st Company of the
Alarm List, 5th Regiment Connecticut Militia, and so continued
throughout the war.
ix. Abner, b. 25 June, 1735; d. 7 January, 1736.
X. Susanna, b. 7 March, 1736; d. y.
xi. Lieutenant Jonathan, b. 11 April, 1738; m. 19 May, 1757, Ziba
Abbe. He was commissioned ensign of the 1st Company Fifth
Regiment Connecticut Militia in May, 1768, and advanced to a
lieutenancy in May, 1769. Under his father's will of 3 Dec.
1771, he shared with his brother Nathaniel his father's estate in
Windham, and his " rights in the Susquehanna Purchase."
xii. Shubal, b. 3 Nov., 1740; d. 25 Dec, 1748.
xiii. Prudence, b. 20 March, 1746; d. 30 Nov., 1748.
xiv. Abigail, b. 21 January, 1748; m. Thomas Gray.
XV. William, b. 20 June, 1750; d. 6 Nov., 1761.
10. Deacon Ebenezer^ Wales, Esq. {Deacon Nathaniel* Esqr., Timo-
thy,^ Nathaniel,'^ Jolm^) was born in Milton, 25 June, 1696, and died
at Union, Connecticut, 12 April, 1776. For more than half a cen-
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tury he resided at Windham, where he was deacon of the First
Church, and Judge of the County Courts from May, 1738, being
re-commissioned annually, until 1772; he also represented Wind-
ham in the General Court of Connecticut in 1739, 1744 and 1745.
About 1750 he removed to what, on the old records, was known as
the Union Lands — later the town of Union — then in Windham,
but, after the formation of Tolland County in 1786 from various of
the towns of Windham and Hartford counties, the most north-east-
ern township in Tolland County. Here, in 1759 and 1763, he was se-
IcctmaD, and he appears with his wife and son Elisha on " a roll
of members of the church in Union before the Rev. Ezra Horton
was ordained pastor, 14 June, 1759."
The qualities of mind which contributed to his continued and
conscientious public service were reflected in his private life, to
which no higher tribute can be paid than the re-publication of his
" Counsels and Directions to his Children," which he began in
1737, when just one half of his life had been spent. In these
pages glimpses are obtained of the solicitude of the parent, the
humility of the Christian, and the philanthropy of the man — the
real ejio stands out with strength and blessinjj. The " Counsels"
was first printed shortly after the death of Mr. Wales, and a copy
of this edition is still preserved in one branch of his descendants.
In 1813 it was again printed, at Boston, as a tract of twenty-four
pages, with an appendix, and "A Short Account of the Character of
the Author," not in the first. And this last was reprinted in 1875,
by the late Reverend William Howe AVhittemore, with some items
of Wales genealogy, as an 8vo pamphlet of fifty-eight pages. It is
from this third edition, that the copy which forms the appendix has,
through the courtesy of Mr. Whittemore's descendants, been taken,
and the Account of the Author therein contained, forms a valuable
supplement to this brief sketch.
Mr. Wales married at Windham, 20 October, 1719, Esther Smith,
born at Windham, 24 November, 1702; died there 18 October,
1737, daushterof Lieutenant Elisha Smith* of Medfield and Wind-
•Lieutenant Elisha Smith died at Windham, Conn., 1 May, 1714, having married at
Medfield, Mass., in 1701, Elizabeth Wheelock, who also died at Windham, 20 Jan., 1703.
She was a daughter of Captain Eleazer Wheelopk, of Medfield, by his wife Elizabeth
Fuller, and grand-daughter of the liev. Kalph Wheel.o,ck, who, bred at Clare Hall,
Cambridge, Eng., received there the degree of A.B. in 1626 and A.M. in 1631, came to
Massachusetts 1637, settled first at Dedham, but removed to Medfield, of which he is
considered the founder, and died there 11 Jan., 1683, having represented Dedham in
the General Court of the Colony 1639, 1640, and Medfield 1653, 1662-4, 1666 and 1667.
Seth Smith, son of Henry Smith one of the prominent Dedham and Medfield settlers,
and father of Lieutenant Elisha Smith, died at Medfield in September, 1682. He mar-
ried at Medfield, 27 Dec., 1660, Mary, daughter of John Thurston of Medfield, the lat-
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ham. He married (2) at Windham, 13 October, 1741, Deborah
Wood, born 15 June, 1714, died at Union, 13 March, 1779. He
was in his marriages particularly fortunate ; by his first wife he ac-
quired considerable realty as well as personal estate; while the
second wife is said to have been a woman of great patriotism and
resolution, and the blessing invoked upon Abou Ben Adhem —
« may his tribe increase " — fell bountifully upon Mr. Wales, as
twenty children were the fruit of his two marriages, though the
names of but eighteen are known.
Children by first marriage recorded at Windham :
i. Anna,« b. 17 Sept., 1720; d. 13 May, 1721.
ii. Nathaniel, Esq., b. 20 Mar., 1722; d. 20 Oct., 1783; m. 15 Mar.,
1741, Mary Wetmore ; was deacon of the church at Windham, and
Judge of the County Courts ; no issue that survived,
iii. Ebenezee, b. 10 Dec, 1724; d. 13 Apr., 1751.
11. iv. Elisha, b. 10 Mar., 1728 ; d. 6 Apr., 1788 ; m. Mary Abbe.
V. Capt. Solomon, b.' 19 Nov., 1729; d. 20 Mar., 1805; m. (1) 3 Oct.,
1754, Lucy Strong, who died 29 Dec, 1772 ; m. (2) 2 Sept., 1773,
Dorothy Perrin of Woodstock. In speaking of him, the History
of Uuioa says : " Probably no man has ever lived in Union who
has been endowed with greater acuteness and strength of mind ; "
he was selectman 1775 to 1777; representative to the General As-
sembly of Conn., 1781-1785, beside filling many other town and
county offices. It is of him the story is related that, when two
of his sons were responding to the Lexington Alarm, his step-
mother said : " I would not send my boys where I dare not go
myself; " and he, accepting the suggestion, entered the army, be-
came a captain and saw considerable service.*
vL Elizabeth, b. 20 Sept., 1730; d. April, 1763; m. 8 May, 1753, Jo-
seph Avers of Franklin,
vii. Dr. Eleazer, b. 30 April, 1732, and baptized by the Rev. Thomas
Clap, afterwards Rector of Yale College; d. Chester, Mass., 20
Aug., 1794 ; m. 4 Dec, 1757, Sarah Norton, who died Otisco, Onon-
daga Co., N. Y., 4 Feb., 1807. He was graduated at Yale in
1753; studied medicine and later theology, and was licensed to
preach by the County Association of Ministers of Windham Co.,
in May, 1765 ; received the degree of M.A. from Dartmouth, in
1779.
viii. Seth, b. 12 Apr., 1734; d. 20 May, 1785; m. 12 Man, 1754, Jemima
Newcomb; removed to Norwich, Conn., between 1759 and 1765,
and, during the Rev. Mr. Whitaker's absence, was at one time paid
£9 for preaching the gospel, t
ix. Anne, b. 27 July, 1735 ; m. Abijah Larned.
ter of whom was baptized at Wrentham, Co. Suffolk, England, 13 Jan., 1601, and was
with his wife, Margaret, a passenger for New England, in the ship Mary Anne of Yar-
mouth, 10 May, 1637.
» The descendants of Capt. Solomon Wales are treated of at some length in Law-
son's History of Union.
t Caulkins's History of Norwich, Conn., 465.
Hon. Edmund Levi Bull Wales
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X. Timothy, b. 9 Oct., 1737; d. Bolton, 4 Mar., 1808; m. 11 Nov., 1762,
Sarah Loomis ; lived in Union, Hebron and Bolton, Conn. Of his
five children. Dr. Boger^ Wales, b. 19 July, 1768, m. Harnett Bent-
ley of Maryland and removed to Cape May County, N. J., where
he was recognized as the leading physician of his time, and his
descendants were among its most prominent citizens ; his son, Eli
Bentley^ Wales, b. 10 July, 1798, was for many years one of the
judges of the county, and another son, Edmund LeviBull^ Wales,
b. 15 Mar., 1805, was also an eminent physician and surgeon and
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of New Jersey.*
Childreo by second marriage, only the four eldest recorded at Windham :
.. xi. Susanna, b. 9 July, 1742, m. (1) Nathan Babcock; (2) Abel.
xii. Oliver, b. 23 Feb., 1744; d. 23 Mar., 1816; ra. (1) Elizabeth, dau. ^
of Dr. James Lawrence of South Brimfleld, Mass. ; (2) Ruth
; removed to South Brimfleld in 1766. It was in honor of
his son, James Lawrence'' Wales, that the town of South Brim-
fleld changed its name to Wales. Another son, Capt. Oliver'^ Wales,
d. 26 Sept., 1855, was the father of the late Salem Howe^ Wales,
of New York, who, b. at Wales, 4 Oct., 1825, m. Frances E. John-
son, and had: 1. Clara^ Wales, m. Hon. Elihu Root. 2. Ed-
ward Howe^ Wales.
xiii. Esther, b. 8 Mar., 1746; d. 24 Oct., 1781; m. 25 Nov., 1774, John
Bliss of Brimfleld, Mass.
xiv. Deacon Elijah, b. 28 Jan., 1748; d. 2 Mar., 1826; m. 14 Apr., 1772,
Rachel Nelson of South Brimfleld, who died 18 Oct., 1828; he
removed to South Brimfleld, where he was deacon of the Baptist
Church.
XV. Ikene, b. 3 Aug., 1750; d. 3 Dec, 1793; ra. 16 Nov., 1775, as first
wife, Nathaniel Sessions of Union.
xvi. Lydia, b. 9 Mar., 1752; d. 21 Sept., 1773.
xvii. Shubal, b. 6 Oct., 1754; named in his father's will, 6 May, 1772.
xviii. Sarah, twin of above j pre-deceased her father.
11. Captain Elisha Wales® {Deacon Ebenezer, Esq.,^ Deacon Na-».
thaniel, Esq.,* Timothy,^ Nathaniel,^ John^) was bom at Windham,
10 March, 1728, and died at Union, 6 April, 1788. He probably
accompanied his father to Union, and there spent most of the years
until about 1760, when he appears to have removed to Ashford, an ad-
joining town in Windham, on the post-road to Boston. He was one
of the patentees of the township of Norwich, Vermont, the issuance
of whose charter was the subject of so much coutrovesy between
New York and New Hampsliire. The town was organized at a
meeting held at Mansfield, 21 August, 1761, most of the grantees
being from that and adjoining towns in Windham County, and Dr.
Eleazar Wales was chosen moderator of the meeting and proprietors'
clerk. Deacon Ebenezer Wales, the father, Solomon Wales and
Seth Wales, brothers, were also patentees, though it is doubtful if
any of the family became, even temporarily, actual settlers.
•This branch of the family has been amply treated of in Mr. Whittemore's Geneal-
ogy of the Descendants of Timothy Wales of Connecticut,
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In 1763 Elisha Wales was commissioned Captain of the Twelfth
Company 5th Regiment of Connecticut Colonial Forces, and there
is a tradition in the family that he saw service in the French and
Indian War in the campaign of 1745.
The strained relations between the Colonies and the mother-
country, precipitated by the Stamp Act, and the subsequent tax on
tea, culminated in the retaliat^y non-importation agreement, which,
promulgated by the ardent patriots in Virginia, was adopted by the
several colonies, and most heartly endorsed by the citizens of Wind-
ham County, Ashford being especially earnest and emphatic in her
support. On 14 December, 1769, a meeting was held at the latter
place, when " Captains Elisha Wales, Benjamin Clark, Benjamin
Russell, Elijah Whiton, Esq., and Benjamin Sumner, Esq., were
appointed a Committee to correspond with other Committees in the
County and elsewhere, to encourage and help forward manufacture
and a spirit of industry in this government " ; and at the same meet-
ing Captains Wales and Clark, together with Samuel Snow, were
chosen "■ To see that no merchants, shop-keepers nor pedlars import,
put off or trafick in Ashford any goods, wares or merchandize that
are imported contrary to the Non-Importation Agreement." The
sympathies of Captain Wales remained steadfastly with the cause of
the Colonies, and in 1776 he was elected to represent Ashford in
the General Assembly of Connecticut, and was present at all the
sessions of that strenuous year. Shortly after this he returned to
Union where he died.
He married at Windham, 23 April, 1747, Mary Abbe, born at
Windham, 10 September, 1726; daughter of John Abbe* of Wind-
ham, by his second wife, Mary Palmenf Under date of 12 April,
1770, Captain Wales and Mary his wife conveyed two certain tracts
of land described as part of the real estate which Mr, John Abbe
* John Abbe, b. Windham, 20 April, 1691 ; d. there, 16 Jan., 1770 ; m. there, as second
wife, 12 Mar., 1723, Mary Palmer. He was a son of John Abbe of Wenham, Essex Co.,
Mass., who removed to Windham, in 1696, where he and his wife Hannah were con-
stituted members of the Church, 4 Dec, 1700; he died 11 Dec, 1700, and his widow,
Hannah, married (2) Jonathan Jennings of Windham, and died 8 March, 1724. John
Abbe, father of the latter, was of Salem, Mass., in 1636, and later of the adjoining town
of Wenham, where he died in 1689 and where his first wife, Mary, died 9 Sept., 1672,
t Mary Palmer, wife of John Abbe, b. at Rehoboth, Mass., 17 Dec, 1691; died at
"Windham, 30 Nov., 1750. She was a daughter of Samuel Palmer, b. at Rehoboth, 12
Nov., 1659; d. at Windham, 16 Nov., 1743; m. 13 Jan., 1680, Elizabeth Kingsley, who
d, at Windham, 16 May, 1717; granddaughter of Jonah Palmer of Charlestovvn, Mass.,
and Rehoboth, who d. at the last-named town, 22 June, 1709, by his wife, Elizabeth
Grissell of Charlestown, m. 3 May, 1655, and great-granddaughter of Walter Palmer,
Esq., of Charlestown and Rehoboth, the latter of which he represented in the General
Court of Plymouth Colony, 1645-1647, being the first deputy from that town; he re-
moved to StoningtoD, Conn., where he died in 1662.
Mary Watkins
WIFE OF ELISHA SMITH WALES (no.
12)
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devised in his will to his four daughters : Eunice, wife of Jonathan
Ginning, Tabitha, wife of Charles Ripley of Windham, Elizabeth,
wife of Jesse Ward of Union, and Mary Wales.
Children :
i. Lieut. Ebenezer,^ m. at Ashford, 26 December, 1773, Anna Bab-
cock; was lieutenant in the 1st llegiment, Connecticut Line, from
1778 until the close of the war, having entered the service in July,
1775 ; was a member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati.
12. ii. Elisha Smith, m. 7 March, 1775, Mary Watkins.
iii. Capt. Nathan, ra. 22 Dec, 1771, Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Keyes
of Ashford ; was commissioned Captain in 1780, and served in
State regiment "along the western coast"; removed after the
war to Norwich, New York.
iv. Mary, m., as first wife, 28 Sept., 1767, John Keyes of Ashford,
afterward General John Keyes of the Revolution. She died at
Canajoharie, New York, 11 Sept., 1806, and he, 13 April, 1824.*
V. Hannah, bapt. 19 June, 1760.
12. Elisha Smith Wales'' {Captain Elisha,^ Deacon Ebenezer, Esq.,^
Deacon Nathaniel,^ Esq., Timothy,^ Nathaniel^ John^), was born at
Union, in 1752, and died at Sharon Center, Schoharie County, New
York, in 1805.
He married at Ashford, 7 March, 1775, Mary, daughter of Edward
Watkins,! of that town, who joined him in a deed of 22 July, 1 776,
conveying a one-third portion of " land in Ashford, adjoining the
meeting-house, and lying east on the Bigelow River, lately that of
their father, Edward Watkins deceased."
Children :
i. Sarah, 8 b. at Ashford, 16 Jan., 1776; m. Noble Hard, of Arlington,
Vermont. Issue: \. Martin^ Hard. 2. Truman Hard. 3. Levine
Hard. 4. Br. Hale Hard of Oswego, N. Y. 5. Mary Hard, d.
unmarried. 6. Harriet Jane Hard, m. Joseph Howland Coit, fa-
ther of the Rev. Dr. Coit of Concord, New Hampshire.
• For a complete record of the family see Keyes Genealogy. By Asa Keyes, 1880.
t Edward Watkins, b. at Ashford, 3 April, 1723; d. there in March, 1760; m. there
27 June, 1749, his cousin, Mary Watkins, by whom he had at least five children: 1
Thadeus Watkins. 2 Benjamin Watkins. 3 Miriam Watkins, b. 26 February, 1753; d.
7 August, 1811, married, as first wife, 5 Dec, 1782; Captain John Redington, who mar-
ried secondly, her neice, Laura Wales. 4 Mary Watkins, m. Elisha Smith Wales,
whose daughter, Laura Wales, married, as second wife, 5 Dec, 1811, Captain John
Redington. 5 Mehitable Watkins, m. Daniel Carpenter.
Edward Watkins was the son of Captain William Watkins, who was appointed en-
sign of the militia company or train-band of Ashford, in May, 1737; lieutenant in
October, 1741, and Captain of the Twelfth Company, Fifth Regiment of Connecticut
Militia, 13 October, 1748; he also represented Ashford in the General Assembly of
Connecticut during the years 1743-4-5-6-7-8-9, 1750-1-2; and died in 1773. His first
wife, and the mother of his son, Edward, was Mehitable, daughter of Arthur Humph-
rey of Woodstock, where he married 17 March, 1718.
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ii. Miriam, b. 28 March, 1778 ; m. (1) Patrick Hale, by whom there was
no issue ; m. (2) Joshua Munroe of Shaftsbury, Vermont. Issue :
Wales^ Monroe.
iii. Clarissa, m. Simeon Cole, of Arlington; no issue.
iv. Mary, bapt. 10 Sept., 1780; m. (1) Joseph Alexander; m. (2)
. Sharp; m. (3), as first wife, Hon. Jedidiah Miller of Law-
yersville. Issue. 1. Sarah^ Alexander, m. Demosthenes Lawyer,
son of General Lawyer of Lawyersville, Schoharie Co., N. Y.
2. Eliza Alexander, m. Dr. John Lowe of Gilderland, N. Y. 3.
Joseph^ Sharp of Sharon, N. Y.
V. Almiran, died young.
vi. Dr. Elisha Smith, removed to Norwich, N. Y., where he died aged
twenty-nine years. Issue: Frances^ Wales, m. Mr. Randall of
Norwich, N. Y.
vii. Elmira, died unmarried at Lawyersville.
viii. Laura, b. 28 June, 1787; d. Lawyersville, 22 July, 1818; m. (1)
5 Dec, 1811, Capt. John Redington; m. (2) 20 March, 1845, Hon.
Jedidiah Miller of Lawyersville.
ix. RowENA, ra. Dr. Henry Mitchell, of Norwich, Member of Congress
during President Jacl^son's administration, who died, 12 Jan.,
1858. Issue: 1. Maria^ 3iitchell. 2. Catharine Mitchell, d. y.
3. Harriet Mitchell. 4. Mary Mitchell, ra. Samuel Parlie of Nor-
wich. 5. Jane Mitchell. 6. Dr. Charles Mitchell. 7. John
Mitchell.
Lai KA Wales
WIFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN REDINGTON ( NO. I4)
APPENDIX.
THE
Counsels and Directions
OF
EBENEZER WALES Esq.
TO HIS
CHILDREN,
Published from the Author's Manuscript
found among his papers
after his death.
To which is prefixedy a short Account of the
Character of the Author.
BOSTON:
Printed and sold at Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.,
Corner of Theatre Alley, 1813.
A SHORT ACCOUNT
OF THE
CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR.
Ebenezer Wales, Esq. was born in the year 1696, at Milton, in the
Province of the Massachusetts Bay. His j^arents were eminent for piety
and godliness ; by which means he was favored with a religious education
in his youth, which he esteemed among the greatest blessings of his life.
He was for a great number of years a Justice of the Peace, which office
he discharged with fidelity and uprightness ; just and impartial in the
administration of justice. He shewed that the coercive force of the law
was for the lawless and disobedient. He bore not the sword of justice in
vain, but was a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to such as do well. But
what was most distinguishing in him, was his apparently sincere and un-
feigned piety. In the early stages of his life, it jjleased a sovereign God
to call him, in a remarkable manner, out of darkness into marvellous light,
and to cause him to feel the power and efficacy of divine grace upon his
heart. From which time, all that have had the happiness of being ac-
quainted with him must acknowledge he has been one of the brightest
ornaments of the religion of Jesus ; exemplifying religion in his life and
conversation. He not only professed that faith which was justifying and
saving, but evidenced his faith by his works. The holy scriptures were the
grounds of his faith and the rule of his conduct. He took the word of God
for his counseller at all times ; which word dwelt in him richly ; and he
had a peculiar faculty of enriching others with it with whom he conversed.
The sacred writings were his chief study, and esteemed by him as the
choicest treasure, a delightful field, full of the most delicious fruits. He
had a happy talent for expounding the scriptures, which he generally
practised in his family, from day to day. Religion in him was a divine
principle which flamed out in the life. It was his concern to walk in all the
commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. He steadly attended
on the public worship, so long as health and strength would permit. He
was a faithful hearer of the word, and able to repeat the substance of the
discourses, which he used generally to do for the benefit of his family. On
communion days, it was evident to those who had a relish for the religion
of the gospel, that he had been with Jesus. Strict and examplary on the
Sabbath, and appeared really to remember, and keep it holy. A careful
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observer of the various providences of God, and had a peculiar gift in
spiritualizing and drawing divine instruction from every occurrence. In
prayer, he drew near to God with all holy reverence and confidence, as a
child to a father, able and ready to help. He was a friend to the relig-
ious constitution of the colony, and to the ministers of the gospel ; those
who were acquainted with him highly esteemed him. He lived in the daily
exercise of a strong and lively faith in the promises of the gospel, which
raised him above the world, and the fears of death. He was laborious
in his calling, which was the labour of the hand ; yet he enriched his
mind with knowledge human and divine, especially did he excel in divine
knowledge ; was well able to give the reason of his believing and embracing
religion ; and was masterly in confuting an enthusiastic spirit. As head
of a family he was a kind husband, and affectionate father, and one that
ruled well in his own house. An obliging neighbor, a faithful friend, and
charitable to the industrious poor. In a word, he was sober, just and tem-
perate, a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men. He maintained his
hope steadfast to the end, and longed for the time that he should be deliv-
ered from this body of death. His bodily distress unfitted him in a great
measure for converse with his friends, in his last hours ; though he retained
the exercise of his reason to the last expiring moment. Being asked the
day before he died, whether death did not appear very near, " Oh no," he
replied, " a great way off, too far, I long to have the time come." His dis-
orders were of such kind as made company a great interruption, and it was
with difficulty he was able to speak. Being asked whether his children
who lived remote should be sent for, he replied, " It cannot be done with
conveuiency, and they must be content with what I have already said."
He died at Union, on the 12th of April, A.D., 1774, in the 78th year of his
ao"e ; leaving behind a sorrowful widow, and fifteen children, to lament his
death ; the next day his remains were carried to the place of public wor-
ship, where an honorable character was given him, as a man of worth and
piety, after which he was conveyed to the grave, followed by eleven of his
children (one being confined at home with sickness, and three others too
remote for seasonable notice), together with a great concourse of people.
He had twenty children, viz. eleven by his first wife, nine by his second,
now his widow, seventy-eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
[June 8th 1774].
COUNSELS, &c.
December 13, 1737.
The followincr couusels and directions are directed to my children ; and
your father intends and desires they may come to yon, with the authority
of a father, and with a great desire for your good, both for your bodies and
souls. And I charge every one of you to consider them well, as you will
answer for your neglect and refusal to hearken to and practice my advice,
80 far as it agrees with God's word, at the judgment seat of Chnst.
I know that faith and repentance are the two great ingredients of reli-
gion, and the foundation of it in the soul. To have a true sense of our sm
and impotency, and to receive Christ as our Prophet, Priest and King, con-
fvins in it almost all true religion. But this you are so often taught from
your bible, catechism, and the pulpit, that I shall not insist so much on these
things, as on some of the practical parts of religion. And for your help
herein, I shall direct you to such a way, as I have found very profitable
to me But this I would first lay down for your consideration, that you
are made and continued in being, to serve and glorify God. All your time
and talents are to be improved that way. There is no abating any thing
of this • and this rule, I shall much improve in the following directions.
Well then your time is God's, and I advise you to spend it diligently in his
service and for his glory, and spend as much of your time as you can spare
from your common business, in meditation ; and when you meditate, choose
some particular subject, and keep your minds close upon it. I have found
this way has afforded me new ideas, that I never thought of before and
turned my mind much more, to the duty meditated on, and against the sin
reasoned against. And here 1 would hint in a short way, on some heads
or subjects for you to fix on, hoping you will carry your thoughts much
further than I shall here write. _
1 Reason for diligence, both of your bodies and minds, viz. about some-
thing for the service and glory of God ; for this, viz. the service of God and
his glory, I shall take in, in all my following directions : but shall not
always mention them. Also reason against idleness. The good things of
this life are necessary for our comfort here, and humane knowledge necessary
to make us useful in our day, and the knowledge of God needful to prepare
us for the enjoyment of Him hereafter. And how will you obtain these
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5. Eeasons of hnmility ; and against pride. Humility is a great advan-
tage in this life ; it is the best way to obtain honour among men. If a
man be capable of public service, his humility will fit him for it, and ordi-
narily lead him to it. And if he gets it he will not be in danger of envy.
If he is poor and not honorable, he will not be despised. Almost all men
will delight to shew him respect. Every one will speak well of the humble
man ; their company will be acceptable to every body, and it will yield
them a great deal of peace. If any ill-treat them, they are not apt to re-
sent it ; if others are angry and f roward, they are calm and easy, and they
command the most respect, according to their dignity, of any men in the
world, and are most reconciled to their circumstances ; if honorable, not
lifted up ; if poor, not much cast down ; on the contrary, pride is the great-
est trouble and vexation to men. To give pride his due, he is the hardest
master and the greatest cheat and liar of any whatsoever. I think it may
truly be said of pride, he is worse to men than the devil himself. Pride
leads men a dreadful jaunt ; and promises large pay, but never performs
his promise ; gives them a dreadful fatigue, and cheats them of all their
expectation. From pride men are mightly stirred up after honor ; but
pride puts men on the direct way to miss of it. They want to be admired,
but are likely to miss of that too ; but will most certainly get enough of
the contrary. Pride sets men to get riches, and promises great profit and
pleasure therein, but fails in the performance. It cheated our first parents
and so it doth all their race. It is an hateful sin ; it takes men the furthest
from God, and from the favour of men. And it appears to me to be the
spring from whence almost all other sins flow.
6. And for your help in the well improvement of your thoughts, study
something of philosophy, or law, or history, or geography, and all of them
if your genius leads you to it. And if you rightly improve the knowledge
you may get by those studies, it will mightily help you in religion, or any
other study you may fiud most serviceable to those two great ends, to best
fit you to do service for God in this world, and to enjoy him in the world to
come. But I shall direct you to a more divine and spiritual way of living.
First, use your diligence in some lawful calling, which the providence of
God seems most to point out to you ; and having used your reason and dili-
gence in the best manner you can, commit the event of all your business to
God, to order and determine as he pleases ; not only because you cannot help
it, but because he governs best, and that you choose God should order your
affairs for you. And this do with great contentment and submission, and
when you find an evidence in your souls, that your business is to wait on God
all the day long, and every day, and also see that in his word he hath promised
all things shall work for the cjood of such as wait on him : and believe the wis-
dom and goodness of God's government, this will give you contentment under
all circumstances of life. And if you do not commit the ordering of the affairs
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of this life to God, I cannot believe you do commit the concerns of your
-Mills to him. You must go to God by faith in the promises, and in the
name of Christ, and on account of the purchase Christ hath made for sin-
ners by his sufferings; and vrith a sense of your own vileness : sending to
( 'od the sincere desires of your hearts for everything you want for time
and eternity. And receive every good thing spiritual and temporal, as com-
ing from God through the merits of Christ, and every affliction as ordered
to you for your good. And observe as you pray, so I believe you will live,
and God will do for you. If you pray only because it is customary or for
fear of hell, or for any sinister end, so I believe you will live, and accord-
ingly so God will deal with you. But if you pray with the sincere desires
of your souls, and depend on the free grace of God in and through the
merits of Christ ; I say if you so pray, so I believe you will generally live ;
and so as you pray and live, I believe God will deal out of his favors to
you, both spiritual and temporal. And now if you would know when you
thus pray, I would ask, do you thus wait on God ? for you see I have in
my thoughts made them inseparable. But then I would ask, do you love
God with all your heart, soul, might and strength ? and if you ask me how
you shall know when you have such a love to God, I answer, first I shall
describe such a love, and the springs from whence a true love to God flows.
And I shall call such a love to God, a divine love hereafter in describing
of it. Now love in general I suppose is a passion of the soul going out to
some object as good, and capable of affording some happiness, with desires
of, and endeavors after the enjoyment of it ; but as to the spring of a love
not divine, such as love to our food, drink, sleep, &c., I suppose it flows
from the bodily appetite : they being suited to make the body easy, and so
afford some happiness to us. We love, desire, and endeavor to get them
because of the ease and happiness they give us. All such love seems to
me to spring from the love we have of gratifying the appetites of the body :
seeing the objects have something in them fitted to satisfy our said appe-
tites ; but these appetites bear no part in a divine love. I shall now en-
deavor to show you the springs of a divine love ; I own good men love
God for the good things of this life, and so may wicked men too ; and if
they love God only because they recieve such things from him, it hath no
part of a divine love in it, such a love goeth out vehemently inflamed by
the appetites of the body, but so doth not a divine love, but springs from a
light let into the soul, of the excellency of God's perfections, of the excel-
lent, unchangeable and independent goodness in them, every way fitted to
fill the soul with everlasting happiness, and when the soul finds a steady
choice of conforming to God in holiness and purity, and that it cannot enjoy
quiet, unless it can regulate the appetites of the body, and dispositions of
the mind in a fitness to what it discovers in the perfections of God, I think
it is because God hath put into the soul such a divine principle that hath
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Buch a sameness with the holiness and immutable perfections of God, that
it cannot content itself, unless it enjoys more and more of God, and then
sin of course will grow more hateful ; now I think when this is the case the
Boul loves God with all the heart, &c., it doth not consist so much in sensi-
ble affections going out as a steady choice, as before described, for the
affections are often inflamed by the appetites of the body, and rise and
fall as said appetites rise or lower, and so are unsteady. The affections set
on work by the inclinations, may be at sometimes more vehement for en-
joyment than those that go aright after the enjoyment of God, but never
so steady. Therefore it ajapears to me, that such a steady choice as before
described, will determine where the heart is and where its treasure is, this
choice supposeth endeavours to live according to such a choice. There
are other stronger evidences of a true love to God, but I mention this as
such an evidence of true love to God as is one of the weakest, but yet true.
8. And here I would charge you all not to neglect secret prayer, and
not to put off repentance till hereafter, but make a present business of re-
ligion, and especially you that are young, remember your creator in the
time of your youth.
January 31, 1753.
On a journey from Hartford, as I passed by a burying place in the
woods in Stafford, I had the following meditations on the road. Here I
thought was a number buried whose faces I never saw, nor should see un-
til the judgment day. Upon which I recollected in my mind, my relations
whom I loved that were dead, how they would all appear at that great day
and there be judged according to their various ages and circumstances, and
that with righteous Judgment ; which much affected my mind. Then
came on the consideration of my own trial at that great day ; ;and here I
supposed myself then on my trial before my great Judge, whose eyes are
as a flame of fire, and the book of God opened for me to be judged out of
those things written therein : and that the evidences against me were called .
And first, were called my comi^anions I was most intimate with when I
was young ; and they evidenced that I was a wild and vain youth, much
addicted to vain jestings and profanations of the Lord's day, and other
very idle talk on other days. Then my brothers and sisters were called ;
and they said I many times quarrelled unjustly with them, and was a
means of making them quarrel, and that I often played on the Sabbath
day. Then my father and mother gave their evidence that I lived a vain
life, and would run often into wicked company, that they sat before me
the terrors of God's law and danger of hell, exhorted me to secret larayer
and other duties, but that I little regarded their counsels. My wives gave
their evidence that I was not kind enough to them in many respects, he
was too sour in his temper, and did not take pains enough to stir them up
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to their duty, by counsel and example. My children were called, and said
he was not tender enough of them, too hurrying about their labour, and
did not take pains enough to restrain them from sin and to put them in
mind of their duty.
My neighbors evidenced, that in many respects he failed in acts of kind-
ness, and sometimes was too rash in words and actions. Then my mother-
in-law was called, and she said he did not exercise love and tenderness
enough to her in old age. Then my conscience was required to speak
the truth, and that gave in a dreadful account of wicked thoughts, words
and actions all my life long, too many to name, but especially of pi'ide,
dullness in duty, and vain and worldly thoughts on the Sabbath day, and in
time of duty. Upon which Satan appeared and said, by the hiw he ought
to die ; for it is written, every soul that sins shall die. I will take him,
and bind him hand and foot, and carry him into outer darkness. Stay,
said the Judge, is there none that can say anything in favour of him ?
then came the Holy Spirit and said, true it is, all that has been said against
him is true. He lived a vain wicked life till he entered his one and twen-
tieth year, and all my strivings with him were to little purpose, though
they kept him to a course of secret prayers, and some resolutions of amend-
ment of life; but he all the while thought he had power to convert him-
self, and in the twentieth year of his age set a time to do it, and tried to
convert himself, but did not know whei-e to begin such a woi'k ; but he
was not willing to promise to forsake sin, and wished he might be sick,
which he thought would make him promise to leave sin and lead a new
life ; then I sent sickness on him, but he would not make any promise to
reform ; and when I recovered him to health, he said he should not be sick
again for a great while, and would now go on in sin with pleasure.
I then seized his mind with melancholy, and then he considered his dan-
ger, and cried night and day to God for mercy, and see that he had no
power to convert himself ; but I let him be in such terror for four or five
months, that wasted his flesh and spirits, and he would often get alone and
spent much time in strong cries at the throne of grace ; then I sent his
own mother to him with a dream, which made him believe he should die in
nine days ; and he knew he should go to hell if he died then ; then he re-
tired alone in the night following, and there spent much time in mourning
for sin, and crying for mercy ; then I revealed Christ to him as a fit Sa-
viour, and he by faith and love embraced the Saviour with all his heart
and soul, and I filled him with joy that made him long to depart and be
with Christ ; and since all his life in general, sin hath been his greatest
burden ; it hath been his delight to do the will of God, and he has tried
to do his duty to God, his neighbor and himself ; he hath been a true
mourner for sin, and hath delighted in the law of God. The ministering
angels then spake and said, that when sin was too hard for him he would
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often cry mightily to God for help, and plead the merits of Christ's blood
and intercession with God, that he would send him help against sin and
enable him to do the will of God, and his request would often be, that God
would take away all his pride and unbelief, and give him faith, and a hum-
ble make, and a patient, thankful frame of mind, and God heard him and
often sent us to help him, and comfort him, and he would rejoice at our as-
sistance and give God the praise. God many times heard him, and sealed
to him the pardon of his sin, and gave the evidences of his Sonship, and
of eternal life. Then 1 supposed my Judge to turn to me and say " Come
you blessed of my Father, you have been faithful in a few things, I will
make you ruler of many things, enter into the Joy of your Lord." Oh !
if this should be my case, what joy must then fill my soul ? I then felt
almost impatient to think of staying here any longer. My thoughts were
so much engaged for about four miles travel, that I hardly knew anything
about how I went alongf.
Now my children, if you are not thus prepared to meet your Judge,
how dreadful is your case ? you all know you must die, and if death meets
you in your sin, what will you do, when you are to take your final leave of
the world and of all your pleasure in the world, and in sin, and have an
eternity before you, and must enter thereinto, and have no interest in
Christ ! which way will you turn to find comfort ? will you turn to your
vain companions ? to see if they will not afford you comfort ? alas ! they,
if present when you are dying, may mourn over you, but they cannot af-
ford you any relief at death ; and at judgment they will curse you for lead-
ing them to hell ! will you turn to Satan who hath flattered you along in
sin? now alas I he will appear a most dreadful tormenter. Will you look
to your parents for help in this dreadful hour of distress ? will they not
tell you that you did not hearken to their couusels, but neglected them, and
now you must eat the fruit of your doings ? will you turn to Christ, who
will be your judge, to seek help of him, in that dreadful and dark day ?
and will not Christ say to you, when you could take your j^leasure in sin,
you regarded none of my calls or offers of mercy, and stifled the strivings
of my spirit? and now I, as a sin revenging Judge, will sentence you to
eternal misery. Oh my childran, if this should be your case, what horror
of soul must you then be in and if you are now in your sins, and have
never closed with Christ by faith and love, this may be your case. This is
certain, that you and I must appear at the day of judgment, to be judged
by Christ : and if you now in time refuse to hearken to God and Christ,
in the threatnings and promises of his word, and strivings of his spirit,
and ministrations of his word, and the counsels of your parents, what will
you answer in that day ? if you in time have hearkened more to the devil
than to Christ and his spirit ; more to your sins and sinful companions than
to your father. Oh dreadful to you will your meeting me then be, if this
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should be your case. If these lines therefore should fall under your eye,
when I am dead, consider them well ; they were designed to put you in
mind of them, when I can no more urge them upon you, by being present
with you. How can I think of your being separated from Christ, and
from me to all eternity ? I hope to dwell with Christ eternally ; will you
then take the road to hell to dwell with the devil ? 0 dreadful separation !
November 30, 1755.
The following question and answer is chiefly collected from the Spec-
tator, Vol. VIII.
Quest. "Which requires the most, or is ordinarily attended with the
greatest pain and trouble, a life of virtue or vice ?
A71SW. As for vice, the debasement of reason, the pangs of expectations,
the disappointments in possession, the stings of remorse, the vanities and
vexations attending even the most refined delights, that make up this busi-
ness of life, render it so silly and uncomfortable, that no man is thought
wise till he has got over it, or happy but in proportion as he has cleared
himself from it. The sum is, great labour is certain, in both vice and vir-
tue ; and the same if not more labour attends vice than virtue ; and here
is left us an easy choice, whether, with the strength we are master of, we
will purchase happiness or misery ?
Another taken from the same Spectator.
The happiness of this world, proceeds from the suppression of our de-
sires, but in the next world, from the gratifications of them.
March 27, 1757, in the 61st year of my Life.
When I consider the counsels I have given you, my children, and my
forwardness to discourse on religion, it makes me some afraid you will
think I have no fears of myself, nor much difficulty with my sins and temp-
tations, and least your meeting with fears and sins, and temptations, you
may suppose I did not meet with, might be some discouragement to you
in a religious life ; I here give you the following account of my warfare in
religion. And it is a continued war I am engaged in : sometimes pride,
sometimes unbelief, slothfulness in duty, and overlove to the world, un-
charitableness towards my fellow-men and fellow-christians, unthankf ulness,
many appetites of the body, sometimes one, and sometimes several of them
beset me every day I live ; and many times govern in me in a sad manner.
I know I make miserable work in religion. I know I do not take pains
enough with you ; and my example before you is not as it ought to be, but
be persuaded to shun all that you see wrong in my conduct. But then I
can tell you, that my sins are not chosen but my burden. I long to be more
sanctified and holy. And as to my fears about the state of my soul they are
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many, and they arise from such things as these : sometimes I find my affec-
tions flow easily, it may be on reading or hearing of some good man's actions
or sufferings, when I cannot see anything of love to God or religion in me
that moves them. "Well, when I contemplate the mercy of God, or the suffer-
ings of Christ, and my affections are much moved, I often fear that in the last
instance, they are moved only from natural sympathy, as they are in the for-
mer. And again, when my meditations on God and Christ and religion
are greatly pleasant to me, and seem to make me long after more knowledge
of God, and conformity to him in holiness ; ofteu when my thoughts have
been greatly stretched towards God, with new and pleasing ideas, it then
comes into my mind that I will tell such a friend of my discoveries, and he
will be pleased with them and me ; which makes me then fear, my pleasure
in God and religion is only from pride and my own applause.
Again, I find such a love to the world sometimes prevailing, that makes
me suspect it is inconsistent with a true love to God or my neighbor.
Again, I find many times such a dullness in duty, as I fear inconsistent
with a prevailing love to, and delight in God.
Again, I find such a want of trust in God, through the merits of Christ,
with such a satisfaction of soul and rest of mind, as makes me afraid I have
not saving faith. But to give you truly what I think of my condition, I
expect to be happy with God in the life to come. And I believe that with-
in five years past, when my fears most prevailed, that then my hopes were
stronger than my fears, whether true or no ; for, if I am not mistaken, the
mercies I receive, the afflictions I undergo, the fears I endure, nay, and
the sins I am guilty of, do make me more in earnest after holiness of heart
and life, and to have God my only portion.
July 1, 1759, in the 63rd year of my Life.
I shall add to the above account of my life, how I have of late lived.
It seems to me that I live towards God very much as a little child lives ; a
child depends on his jjarents for all his nourishment and rest, and when it
wants, it goes to his parents for it, expects it nowhere else ; and so it seems
to me, I in some measure live towards God. I think I go to God for his
blessing on my common affairs, not only in my secret and family prayers,
but more particularly when I take a book to read, I lift up my heart to
God to bless it, when I go to a neighbour's house for conversation, I ask
God to enable me either to do or receive good. If I meet a man I expect
some conversation with, my heart is lifted to God in such like desires ; if
I go a journey, or am called to judge or act in a case that appears to me
difficult, then if I have time, I devote some short space of time for prayer,
and I have so practiced the latter part of my life, that it seems natural to
run to God for everything, and receive everything from him, and in a way
of asking as a child doth of his parents. But then, as a child has many
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froward turns, so have I, and anxious fears ; but I only mean to point out
the general temper of my mind. Yon cannot but see by what I have wrote,
that my combat hath been more with pride than with any other, if not
with all other sins. But of late I have met with the most difficulty to re-
joice at my neighbour's being prospered, either in riches or honor, even
more than I am, which raises fears in my mind that I love the world more
than God. So that in God gives me help as to this, I expect to be attacked
with something else. So that my life is a continual war, attended with
hopes and fears. But then as to my prayers, God gives me more freedom
at the throne of grace than 1 used to have. My children, God enables me
to come to him as a suitor unworthy of any help, with such admiration of
the wonderful work of redemption by Christ, and the great promises in
God's word, that commonly my heart is lifted up with expectations of re-
ceiving ; and great hath been God's answer of prayers to me. And, my
having my mind in the duty of prayer, more engaged and intent than for-
merly, I think is certain, especially in secret, and also in social prayers too.
But I would not be understood that I have no wandering thoughts, either in
secret or social prayer, no by no means ; I have now such wanderings some-
times in secret prayers as makes me astonished ; and sometimes to break
off for a little time, as almost afraid to speak any more to God, not break
off so as wholly to neglect any one season of prayer, but only a small stop.
In what I have here written, if there be anything that may be an help to
any of you, I shall, in some measure, attain my end if you improve it aright.
And what I have wrote that is worth minding, I desire some one of you to
transcribe, leaving out what is not worth regarding ; for I have not tried
to be very correct, and let every one that has a mind for it have my ad\'ice,
as coming from their father so earnestly desiring to meet you all in heaven.
And here 1 would break off with adoration and praise to God for redeeming
love to poor sinners through Christ, that God should ransom our lives from
destruction, and crown us with loving kindness. Oh, who can enough
adore free grace !
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The following was found on a loose paper, but in the hand-writing of
the author, with his name inscribed. It was doubtless designed for the
perusal and instruction of his family, and therefore it is thought proper to
add it by way of Appendix. This religious exercise, it seems, happened
in the seventy-fifth year of his age, occasioned by the gratitude of a friend
of his, to whom he had lent a small sum of money.
APPENDIX.
June 6th, 1771.
Some time last May, I lent Mr. H two dollars ; he took them, said
but a few words, but spake in a very feeling manner, as it then appeared
to me. Being very busy, I took but little notice of it. The evening fol-
lowing, as I was sitting by my fire, it came to mind, in what a grateful
manner Mr. H. expressed himself when I let him have the dollars.
I then asked myself what hurt it did me, as I did not want them, nor likely
to before he would return them. How then could any gratitude be due to
me ? it mio-ht be some small kindness to him, but no damage to me. Yet
he had such a sense of my kindness for which, it seemed, I did not deserve
any thanks. And did he have such a sense of so small a kindness, when I
did myself no hurt ? and have I treated what Christ has done for me in
the same manner ? but have I received no more benefit by what Christ has
done for me, than Mr. H by what he received of me, for which he
was so thankful ? Oh yes indeed, I have received much more. Why,
what have I received by Christ's kindness to me ? why, I was going to
post-haste to hell, and no power to stop myself, did not see my danger, and
never asked for help, when he undertook for me. Why, what do I mean
by hell ? why, I must have been delivered to devils to be tormented soul
and body, in the most di'eadful manner, without any to pity or help me,
and that eternally. And did Christ undertake to prevent my suffering,
and was he able to do it ? why yes, and has answered all demands against
me ; that if I will accept of what he has done, the devil can have no power
to torment, but I shall be delivered from him forever. Well, what grati-
tude and thankfulness have I returned to Christ for what he has done for
me ? why, 1 have treated it in the most ungrateful manner, as if it was not
worth minding or receiving. Well, did Christ suffer any more to obtain
my deliverence from hell, than I did by lending the dollars ? why, yes, I
suffered none by lending the money, but Christ who made the world, con-
descended to take such a body with all its infirmities, sin only excepted, as
mine which was so condemned to hell, and went through all the sufferings,
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that devils and wicked men could lay on him ; and all for my delivearnce
from hell and damnation. And yet I not so thankful as Mr. H for
said money. Oh astonishing ! what shall I think of myself ? I would la-
ment my ingratitude to Christ for what he hath done for me. But is this
all that Christ has done for me, viz. delivering me from hell which I so
deserved ? no, he hath purchased everlasting happiness, and oilers it freely
for my acceptance. This is what he hath done for me also, and ordered
an abundance of means to engage me to escape hell, and obtain everlast-
ing happiness. And I have treated all as if not worth receiving ! Oh, I
am almost overcome when I consider what Christ has done for me, and
how ungrateful I have been ! with whom shall I compare myself ? the
devil ? no, he is not bad enough to picture my conduct by, he never had
such mercy offered him, and so could not be guilty of such ingratitude as I
have been guilty of. My thoughts were never carried on this subject in
such a striking manner before, and that, which led them to it as the instru-
ment, was not my own actions, but the gratitude of Mr. H .*
*The reasons of his lending the money, together with the name of the person to
whom he lent it, were inserted by the Author in his introduction to the above account ;
but not being material, it was thought advisable, for some reasons, to omit them in the
publication, inserting the first letter only of the person's surname.
ON DEATH.
Death I who are you ? that iu such ghastly form doth now appear ;
And strikes my mind with so much pain and dreadful fear.
Begone, you tyrant, full of dreadful rage and power,
And don't go on to murdei' with such rage no more.
Have you slain all from Adam, to this day,
And turn'd them out of life, to dust and clay ?
And won't this satisfy, and quiet all your rage ?
But now to kill me dead, you are so much engag'd !
"Well, take this body then, and carry it to the grave,
I here defy your power, my soul you shall not have ;
My body hath subjected me to sin and death thro' all my life,
And had the lead to all my trouble, and to all my strife ;
Yes, take this body which I heartily resign ;
My soul thereby to realms of glory most sublime.
Shall take its flight, by guardian angels, to my Saviour dear,
There to have unknown joys, and know no dread or fear ;
Where I have long time chose to take my last and safe remove,
To be above the skies, with all the hosts of heavenly love.
And you bold death, this body shall not always keep ;
For my Redeemer, with his voice of power and love most sweet,
Shall raise it a new body, fit for joys unknown before,
To be forever blessed, and be remov'd no more.
Farewell my wife, my friends, and children all adieu,
And take the road, I have in life mark'd out to you,
Forsake the world, and all its flatteriug streams and toys ;
That we together may be possest of all eternal joys.
INDEX OF NAMES.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Abbe, Elizabeth, 59
Eunice, 59
Hannah, 58
John, 58
Mary, 36, 56, 58, 59
Tabitha, 59
Abbott, Elizabeth, 45
Adams, Benoni, 26
Catherine C-. 31
Helen Eliza Redington,
27
Henry, 26
Henry Herschel (Col.) , 25,
26, 27, 36
Henry Herschel, Jr.
(Capt.). 31
John Quincy, 26
Laura Grace, 27
Louise Lyman, 31
Lowell Leonard, 27
Lowell L., 25
JIabel Stella, 27, 31, 32
Mary Helen, 31
Nellie Kedington, 27, 30,
31
Akid, Mary, 46
Alexander, Eliza, 60
Joseph, 60
Sarah, 60
Allen, James (Uev.). 47
Armitage, Thomas, 40
Arrighi, Charles Thurber, 28
Ashforth, Albert Blackhurst,
31, 32
George, 31, 32
Henry Adams, 32
Askwith, Simon, 45
Atherton, Humphrey (Maj.
Gen.),40, 41,42, 60
Isabel, 42, 50
Averill, Isaac, U
Ayers, Joseph, 56
Babcock, Anna, 59
Nathan, 57
Badger, Joseph, Jr. (Ens.), 14,
15
Baker, Cynthia, 20
Barker, Jlary (Mrs.), 46
Thomas, 46
Barnard, Edward (Capt.), 15
Barrett, Helen Adams, 31
John David, 30, 31
John D.ivid, Jr., .31
John Thorndike, 30
Uedington, 31
Barrington, Francis (Sir), 46
Bass, Lucy, 21
Obadiah, 21
Bayley, Mary, 7, 11
Bellamy, Eunice Corinthia, 17,
19
Bentley. Harriet, 57
Berrie, Ellis, 45
James, 44, 45
Billings, Ebeuezer, 49
Elizabeth, 50
Richard, (Rev.), 49
Roger, 50
Blackhurst, Louise J., 31
Blake, Edward, 36
Susanna, 36, 49, 52
William, 36, 52
Bliss, John, 57
Blodgett, Charles Rufus, 17
Helen Frances, 17
James J., 17
Blow, Susan G., 30
Bigsbey, Joseph, 6
Bingham, Thomas, 51
Birmingham, William, 4
Bond, Agnes (Mrs.), 36, 52
Richard, 52
Bower, Jeremiah, 40
Jereniie, 45
Nathaniel, 45
Boyes, Elizabeth, 46
Joseph, 45
Matthew, 45, 46
Matthew, Jr., 45
Nathaniel, 45, 46
Bradstreet, Simon (Hon.), 48
Brafitt, James, 45
Brewster, Grace, 54
Brook, Thomas, 45
Brooks, Edward (Dr.), 30
Bullock. Edward, 41,42
Burke, Christopher, 3, 4
Marcella, 3
.Sarah, 4
Burn.a, (Dr.), 19
Emma, 19
Burr, Lydia, 14
Burrill, Elizabeth, 9
Bush, Martha Heddenbergh,
14
Butler, Jane 47
Thomas, 47
Capen, Joseph (Rev.), 6
Carey, .Joseph, 51
Carpenter. Daniel, 59
Carter, Alice, 25, 29, 30
Charles John Jewell, 25
Cornelia M. Redington,
25
Grace Alice, 25
Helen Redington, 25, 28
Joy Ivy, 30
Lucile I'olk, 29
William, 24
William Thornton, 24, 25,
36
William Thornton 2d, 29
William Ernest, 25, 29
Gary, Ebenpzer, 54
Case, Clara H., 20, 36
Chapin, llenrv W., 19
Child, John, 50
Choat, John (Col.), 8
Choate, John (Hon.), 12
Clap, Thomas (Rev.), 56
Clark, Benjamin, 58
Daniel, 7
Israel, (Capt.), 12
Silas. 21
Clarkson, John, 44
Sarah (Mrs.), 44
Clavering, Elizabeth, .39, 47
Clement, Elizabeth, 13
Nathaniel, 13
Robert (Esq.), 13
Cloudsley, Anthony, 45
Coggswell, Elisha, 15
Coit, (Rev. Dr.), 59
Joseph Howland, 59
Cole, Simeon, 60
Colfax, Charlotte Y., 18
Comins, John, 6
Cook, John, 14
Cue, Robert, 6
Cutting, Elizabeth, 51
Dana, James (Gen.), 16
Daly, Malachy, 4
Davison, Daniel, 7
Dorothy, 7, 10
Elizabeth, 6, 7
Deane, Silas, 53
Dearborn, Isaac, 18
Delano, Jonathan, 52, 53
Denison, Prudence, 53, 54
Dennison, Major, 5
Dewey, Addison, 18
Dickerman, Charles Heber
(Hon.), 30
William Carter, 25, 30
Dobson, Samuel, 46
Dodge, Hannah, 11
Israel, (Capt.), 11
Dolphin, Eleanor, 4
John (Esq.), 4
Dowcll, Henry, 4
Frances, 4
Downes, .lohn, 45, 46
Druroy, John, 44
Sarah, (Mrs.), 44
Edison, Simeon O., 17
Elderkin, (Col.), 54
Emerson, Emily E., 22
William, (Rev.), 47
Emery, Zacliariali, 9
Everard, John, 46
Sarah, 46
Ezekiel, Rogers (Rev.), 46
Faxon, Joanna, 50
Thomas, 50
Fearnley, Anne, 41
Fellows, Jacob, 10
Ferguson, Joliii Calhoun, 17
Fisk, Samuel, (i
Fitch, Elenczcr, 54
Flower, John, 14
Foote, Arthur Redington, 19
Samuel I., 19
Forrest, (Gen.), 26
Foster, Bertha, 22
French, JIaigaret, 4
Thomas, 4
Fuller, Elizabeth, 55
Garvin, Maria Jlitchell, 60
Gates, Temperance, 15, 18
George, Nicholas, 61
Gibson, Alice, 39, 40
Anne, 39, 40
John, 39, 40
Ginning, Jonathan, 59
Goodwin, Elizabeth, 9
Gould, .lolin, 6
Johanna, 6
Mary, 3, 6
Phebe, 6
Zaccheus, 4, Ci
Gray, John, 45
Thomas, 54
Greenway, John, 42
.Susanna, 39, 42
Grissell, Elizabeth, 58
Griswold, Polly, 15, 18
84
Gunter, Edith, 40
liumphrey, 40
Hale, Israel, 48
Martha, 48
Patrick, GO
Haller, Catherine, 20
Hamilton, Mary, 3
Hard, Hale (Dr.). 59
Jane Harriet, 59
Levine, 69
Martin, 59
Mary, 59
Noble, 59
Trueman, 69
Harrinian, Hannah, 13
Matthew, 13
Harris, William T. (Dr.), 29
Hart, Caroline M. C, 29
Harvard, John, 40
Haynes, Hannah, 10, 13
Jonathan, 13
Joseph, 12, 13, 15
Mary, 13
8arah, 10, 15
Thomas, 13
Hayward, Oliver, 47
Herrick, John, 6
Hickson, Edith, 46
Klkanah, 46
Robert, 40, 42, 46
Hitchin, Joseph, 45
Hobson, John, 38
Hood, John, 9
Horsnian, Anne, 45
Horton, Kzra (Rev.). 55
Hovey, Dan, 6
Howard, Oliver Otis (Gen.),
26
Hewlett, Jr., Samuel, 9
Hubbard, Elizabeth, 7, 9
Philip, 9
Hudsmaugh, Mary, 45, 46
Humplirey, Arthur, 59
Huntington, Lydia, 49, 52
Jacques, Julia Ann, 18
Jenkinson, Sarah, 46
Jennings, Jonathan, 58
Jewell, (Miss), 25
Johnson, Edward F., 14
Frances E., 57
Jordan, Kobert, 49
Justice, William W., 30
Keyes, Asa, 59
Ephraim, 59
John (Gen.), 59
Sarah, 59
King, Ashael, 18
Eunice, 15, 18
Gideon, (Capt.), 17
Kingsbury, Anna, 10, 15
Kuowlton, Sarah, 11
Ladd, Jr., Samuel, 12
Lamed, Abijah, 56
Laselle, Jerusha, 64
Lawrence, James, (Dr.) 57
Elizabeth, 57
Lawyer, Demosthenes, 60
(General), 16,60
Leidy, Carter Randolph, 29
Cornelia Carter, 29
Joseph (Dr.), 25, 28, 29
Helen Redington Carter,
29
Phillip (Dr.), 28
Phillip Ludwell, 29
Leonard, Hazadiah, 50
Lewis, Adam, 20
Chloe, 17, 20, 56
Little, John, 63
Lockwood, Gardner S., 19
Loomis, Sarah, 57
Lowe, John (Dr.), 60
Lyman, George C., 31
Louise, 31
Lynch, John Wilson, 4
Margaret, 3
Lumby, Joshua, 45
Lummus, Jonathan, 7
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 30
Mackworth, Mrs., 49
Marsh, Jonathan, 13
Mehitable, 13
Marshall, John, 39
Mason, John, 49
Mather, Cotton (Rev.), 46
Increase, (Dr.), 45
Richard (ltev.),40
Maude, Daniel (Rev.), 40
Meeks, Typhemia T., 19
Memersley, Timothy, 42
Merrill, Catherine Russell, 21,
28
Miller, Jedidiah (Judge), 17,60
Milner, John, 47
Miner, Charles E., 21
Mitchell, Catherine, 60
Cliarles (Dr.), 60
Harriet, 00
Henry (Dr.), 60
Henry Haller, 20, 36
Jolin, 60
Maria, 60
Mary, 60
William, 20
Montgomery, George Reding-
ton, 22
Giles Foster (Rev.), 22
Mary Williams, 22
William F., 17
Moor, Marke, 46
Moore, Edith Redington, 20
John Brackett, 20, 36
Jonathan Lovejoy, 20
Lydia Sargent, 20
Redington, 20
More, Ira, 17
Kate, 17
Morgan, Achsha, 13
Amos, 13
Daniel, 13
Diantha, 13
Elizabeth, 13
Hannah, 13
Joel, 13
John, 13
Joshua, 13
Mehitable, 13
Morse, Stuart (M.D.), 14
Mosley, Samuel (Capt.), 48
Moulton Mary, 13
Sarah, 13
William, 13
Mudge, John, 12
Mumford, Joseph P., 30
Munroe, Joshua, 60
Wales, 60
Munsell, Dorothy (Mrs.), 10
Elisha, 10
Nelson, George, 39
Rachel, 57
Newcomb, Jemima, 55
Newcoiiibe, Thomas, 10
Norton, Sarah, 56
Osgood, Christopher (Capt.), 6
Oxenbridge, John (Rev.), 47
Page, Margaret, 13
Robert (Esq.), 13
Palmer, Mary, 58
Samuel, 58
Walter, 58
Parke, Samuel, 60
Parker, Anne, 39, 47
Parsons, Samuel Holden, 53
Patch, Mary, 11
Peabody, Francis (Lieut.), 8
Isaac, 8
Philadelphia, 7
Peake, Hannah, 51
Jonathan, 51
Peale, Ruth, 45
Perkins, Nathaniel, 7
Perrin, Dorothy, 66
Phillips, Allan B., 21
Pierce, James F., 21
Mary Jane, 14
William C, 21
Polk, Lucille Stewart, 25, 29
Penelope Fontaine
Maury, 28
William Stewart, 29
Pope, Jane, 52
John, 52
Patience, .36, 52
Prince, Thomas, 45
Putnam, Israel (Col.), 15
Pynchon (Major), 48
Randall, Frances Wales, 60
Rathburn, Anna, 15
Daniel. 15
Love, 15
Redington, Abraham, 5, 6, 7,
10, U
Adam, 11
Alfred, 18
Alfred P., 5
Alexander Hamilton, 15
Alexander Hyde, 15
Ann, 11, 12
Anna, 8, 12, 15
Anna M., 21
Anna Mudge, 12
Anne, 4, 10
Anne Eliza, 4
Annie, 14
Arthur Calvin, 22
Bertram Asahel, 22
Bridget, 4
Bridget (Mrs.), 14
Charles Medad, 21
Christopher, 4
Clarissa, 18
Cornelia Eliza, 17
Cornelia Miranda, 20, 24,
36
Daniel, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12,
14, 15
Dorcas, 7, 8, 9, 10
Dorothy, 10
Edmund Bush, 14
Edward Jaques, 18
Edward John, 22
Edward Kingsbury, 19
Eli, 14
Kliphalet, 10, 15
Elisha Smith, 17
Eliza, 7
Elizabeth, 47, 7, 9, 12, 14,
15
EHzabeth (Mrs.), 7,8, 15
Emma L., 19
Emeline, 18
Emily, 22
Enoch, 11
Esther, 11, 12
Esther (Mrs.), 8
Frances, 4, 19
Frances Ann, 23
George, 18, 21
George Franklin, 14
George Nathaniel, 23
George Owen, 22
George S., 21
Gregory, 3
Hannah Dodge, 11
Hannah Haynes, 13
Harriette C, 21
Harry, 18
85
Eedinorton, cont'd.
Helen Eliza, 20, 25, 36
Henry, 3
Henry H., 18
Henry Vinlng, 21
Honore, 4
Jacob, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 17, 18
Jacob Smith, 18
James, IS, 2i
James King, 23
James JI. J., 19
Jane E., 21
John, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12,
13, 14, 17
John (Capt.), 15, 16, 36,
59, 60
John Calvin Owen (Col.)
21
Redington, cont'd.
Thomas Nicholas (Sir), 4
Walter Joseph, 20, 36
West, 14
William, 3, 7,8, 10, 11, 12
William Lyman, 21
Remsen, Doreraus M., 19
Ripley, Charles, 59
Robinson, James, 47
Rodgers, Ezekiel (Kev.), 38
Rogers, Daniel (Rev.), 46
Ricliarri (Kev.), 46
Root, Elihu (Hon.), 57
Roper, Walter, 5
Rossiter, Erastus, 14
Russell, Benjamin, 58
Ryder, Hiram H., 19
Sagar, James, 43, 44
John Harris (Rev.), 18, 21 Sale, James ( Rev.) , 43, 44, 45, 46
John Jacob, 21 Salmon, Luther, 18
John Jedidiah, 19 Saltmarsh, Orlando Tyner, 14
John Wales, 17, 19 Sanborn, l.ucy J., 20
Jonathan, 9 Seeley, Jacob, 18
Joseph Alexander, 17, 19, Selden. George (Dr.), 10
36
Julia A., 19
Julia Corinthia, 19
Julia JI., 17
Julia Mary, 20, .36
Juliette, 18
Kingsbury, 18
Laura Augusta, 19
Laura Alniira, 17
Laura Helen, 20
Laura Mor.-e, 14
Levine Lodovick, 20
Louise A., 19
Love, 15
J^ueinda, 14
Lucius, 18, 19
Lucy, 14, 18
Lyman King, 18
Lyman Williams, 27
Margaret, 4, 7, 8, 14
Margaret (Mrs.), 5
Mary, 4,6,7,9, 11, 12, 14,
18
Mary Anne, 14
Mary Chapman, 23
Mary E., 19, 21
Mary J>ucy, 15
Mary Patterson, 28
Mary Tlierese, 4
Martha, (1, 7
Jlicliael, 4
Mira, 15
Miriam Clarissa, 17
Myra, 18
Nancy, 18
Nancy Juliette, 18
Nathaniel, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15,
18
Nicholas, 3, 4
Olive, 10, 11, 12, 14
I'aul Merril, 28
Phebe, 0, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15,
18
rhineas, 7, 10, 11
Roily, 14, 18
Remsen, 15
Robert Francis (Ensign),
14
Sarah, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12,
15, 18
Sarah A., 19,21
Sarah Elizabeth, 23
Stella, 20
Stella Josephine, 36
Submit, 12
Teresa, 18
Therese, 15
Thomas, 3, 4, 5, 8
Thomas Gregory, 28
Thomas Uaynes, 17
Sessions, Nathaniel, 57
Seward, William H. (Hon.), 22
Sewell, Thomas, 44, 45
Seymour, Kate L., 27
Sharp, Joseph, 60
Sheldon, Amasa (Capt.), 21
Charles, 21
Loraine Williams, 18, 21
Medad, 21
Shutts, Abraham, 17
Silliman, Ebenezer, 53
Simmons, Joshua, 18
Smith, Klisha (Lieut), 55
Esther, 36, 53, 55
Gilbert (Dr.), 15
Henry, 55
Seth, 55
Timothy, 47
William, 6
Snelling, William (Dr.), 41
.Snow, Samuel, 58
Spaulding, Frances E., 14
Stable, Samuel, 45
Stevens, Elizabeth (Mrs.), 7, 8
Stillington, Thomas, 45
Stone, Anioretta, 18, 21
Strait, Maria Louise, 14
Strong, Ivucy, 56
Sumner, Renjamin, 58
Sutell, John, 44
Sutton, Frances, 28
Frances W., 21
Swaine, Benjamin, 44, 45
Samuel, 44, 45
Swan, Robert (Esq.), 13
Swanger, Emma I., 22
George K., 22
Swift, Lucy, 18
Symond, Samuel (Hon.), 5
Talbot, Anna Eliza Mary, 4
John Hyacinth, 4
Thomas, JIary, 24
Thompson, Esther, 11
Thoresby, Ralph, 44
Thome, Hugh, 52
Thurston, John, 55
Margaret (Mrs.), 56
Mary, 55
Tinan, Alice, 30
Todd, Rev. Mr., 42
Tower, Barnubas, 40
Town, Edmund, 6
Trumbull, Joseph, 53
Vicars, John, 45
Waite, Harriet Mitchell, 60
Walbridge, T. Chester (Mrs.),
25
Wales, Abner, 54
Abigail, 54
Almiran, 60
Anna, 42, 56
Anne, 56
Atherton (Rev.), 50, 51
Benjamin, 39, 40, 45
Clara, 57
Clarissa, 60
Constantia, 44, 45
Content, 49
Ebenezer, 36, 52, 56, 65
Ebenezer (Lieut), 59
Ebenezer (Deacon), 53,
54, 55, 57
Edmund Levi Bull, 67
Edward Howe, 57
Eleazer, 49, 52
Eleazer (Dr.), 56, 57
Eleazar (Rev ), 53
Eli Bentley, 57
Elijah, 57
Elisha, 56, 68
Elisha (Capt.), 36, 57
Elisha Smith, 17, .36, 59
Elisha Smith (Dr.), 60
EUzabeth, 44, 45, 49, 60,
56
Elizabeth (Mrs.), 42, 44
Elkanah (Rev.), 38, .39,
40, 42, 43, 45, 47, 49
Elmira, 60
Esther, 57
Prances, 60
Hannah, 49, 59
Irene, 57
James Lawrence, 57
Jerusha, 54
John, .36, 37, 38, 39, 40,41,
42. 44, 49
John (Hon.), 50
John (Rev.), 50
Jonathan, :<8, 39, 40, 51
Jonathan (Lieut.), 54
Laura, 13, 17, 36, 59, 60
Leonard Eugene, 50
Lydia, 57
Margaret (Mrs.), 36, 39
Mary, 42, 51, 59, 60
Miriam, 60
Nathan (Capt.), 59
Nathaniel, 36, 37, 39, 40,
41, 42, 44, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, .53, 54, 56
Nathaniel (Capt.), 54
Nathaniel (Elder), 50
Nehemiah, 40, 44
Oliver, 57
Oliver (Capt.), 67
Prudence, 54
Roger (Dr.), 57
Rosamond, 40, 45
Rowena, 60
Ruth (Mrs.), 57
Salem Howe, 57
Samuel, 38, 44, 46, 46, 60, 51
Samuel (Rev.), 39
Sarah, 42, 57, 59
Seth, 56, 57
Shubal, 54, 57
Solomon, 57
Solomon (Capt.), 56
Susanna, 41. 52, 54, 57
Timothy, 36, .39, 40, 41, 42,
47, 48, 53, 54, 57
William, 54
Zerviah, 54
Walker, Elias, 18
Ward, Deborah, 53
Jesse, 59
Washburn, Asahel (Rev.), 21
Emily, 18, 21
Waterhouse, Samuel, .39
Watkins, Benjamin, 59
Edward, 17, 59
86
Watkins, cont'd.
Mary, 17,36,59
Mehitable, 59
Miriam, 13, 17, 59
Thadeus, 59
William (Capt.), 59
Wattles, Sarah, 52
Weed, Gorilla C, 31
Welfltt, Jeremie, 45
Wells, Charles Blodgett, 17
Miriam Redington, 17
Ward, 17
West, Bathsheba, 53
Charles, 10
David, 53
Ebenezer, 53
Ebenezer (Hon.), 52
Eleazer, 10
Francis, 54
West, cont'd.
John, 10
Jonathan, 53
Joshua, 52
Mercy, 53, 54
Olive, 10
Samuel, 12
Sarah, 9, 12, 52
Susanna, 53
Thankful, 10
William, 14
Wetmore, Mary, 66
Whaland, Elizabeth, 21
Wharton, (Lord), 39
Philip (Sir), 39
Wheelock, Eleazer (Capt.), 55
Elizabeth, 55
Ralph (Rev.), 55
Whiten, Elijah, 58
Whittemore, William Howe
(Rev.), 55
Wildes, Ephraim, 7
Sarah, 7
Wilkinson, Samuel, 45
Wilson, John (Rev.), 46
Thomas, 21
Williams, Elizabeth, 52
Wisewell, Ichabod, 47
John, 41
Wiswall, William, 19
Withington, John, 49
Wolcott, Erastus, 53
Wood, Deborah, 56
Wright, Ann (Mrs.), 10
Benjamin, Jr., 10
Mary, 9
Samuel, 48
Vicars, John, 45
H 122 80
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