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(H) Dr. Zerubbabel Endecott, younger son of Governor John and Elizabeth (Gibson) Endecott, born in Salem, 1635, died there March 2^, 1684. He was admitted freeman in 1665, and was by profession a physician. His elder brother John having died without children, all of the Endicotts who claim descent from Governor John Endecott are also descendants of Dr. Zerubbabel Endecott. By his will, dated November 23, 1683, (i" which his christian name is written Zerobabel and also Zerubabel) Dr. Endecott devised to his two eldest surviving sons, John and Samuel, the old homestead of his father in that part of Salem which is now Danvers, and which was called the "Orchard." To his sons Zerubbabel, Benjamin and Joseph he left a tract of five hundred fifty-five acres of land which had been granted by the general court to his father, on the Ipswich river, in Topsfield (now Box ford) to be divided equally between them, with the provision that if either died without issue his part should revert to the survivors. The governor (Endecott) had a summer place there at Middleton, between Topsfield and Danvers. This historic house is located on what was known as the "new road," which runs from Howe's Station in Middleton to the town of Topsfield. His five daughters inherited an island of about two acres near Marblehead (called Cotta island) with other bequests. He married, in 1654, Mary Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, and sister of Sarah Smith, who married William Browne, of the well known Salem family of that name. She died in 1677, having borne her husband ten children. He married second, Mrs. Elizabeth Newman, widow of Rev. Antipas Newman, of Wenham, and daughter of Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut. Children of Dr. Zerubbabel and Mary (Smith) Endecott: I. John, born 1657, died 1694. He was a physician, and a man of splendid educational attainments. He spent some time in London, England, and was educated there. Felt in his "Annals of Salem" says of Dr. John Endecott that he was "active, useful and respected." As part of his inheritance under his father's will he received from the testator "al my Instruments and bookes both of phisicke and Chirurgery." He married, in London, the baptismal name of his wife being Anna. She died leaving two children - a son, Robert Edwards, died without issue ; he owned a part of the Orchard farm and lived there ; he married, November 24, 1720, Elizabeth Phillips, and died soon after his marriage ; his widow afterward married his cousin, Zerubabbel Endecott. Anna, the daughter of John and Anna Endecott, born in 1693, niarried December 20, 171 1, Samuel Endecott, her cousin. After the death of his wife Dr. Endecott came with his children to New England and lived in Salem. 2. Samuel, born 1659; (see post). 3. Zerubbabel, born February 14, 1664, died in Topsfield, 1706. He lived in Topsfield, on land inherited from his father. The christian name of his wife was Grace, and by her he had six children : i. Zerubbabel, married May I, 1723, the widow of his cousin Robert; ii. Grace, married Samuel Killum (Kellum) of Wilmington ; iii. Mehitable, married John Hart, of Lynn ; iv. Elizabeth, married John Perkins, of Ipswich ; v. Phebe, married Ebenezer Jones ; vi. Hannah, who died single. 4. Benjamin, born 1665, died 1735. In 1715 he lived in Topsfield, on lands devised him by his father. The first name of his wife was Elizabeth ; no children. 5. Mary, born 1667 ; married August 2, 1685, Isaac Williams, of Salem. 6. Joseph, born 1672 (baptized July 17), died May, 1747. He went from Salem to New Jersey, and in his will mentions himself as "of North Hampton, county of Burlington, in West Jersey, in the government of New York, yeoman." His wife's baptismal name was Hannah, and by her he had two sons - John and Joseph, and two daughters - Ann (Gillam) and Elizabeth (Deloraine). 7. Sarah, born 1673 - married William Browne, of Salem. 8. Elizabeth, born 1675 ; married Nathaniel Gilbert of Boston. 9. Hannah, born 1676 ; married Edward Gaskill. 10. Mehitable, born 1677, died single, 1698; left her property to sister Elizabeth.

(Ill) Samuel Endecott, second son and child of Dr. Zerubbabel and Mary (Smith) Endecott. born in Salem, 1659, died 1694. He lived on the Orchard farm. In 1684 ^le married Hannah Felton, who was baptized June 20, 1663. She was a daughter of Nathaniel Felton, senior, of Salem, who was born in England about 161 5, came to Salem 1633, and died July 30, 1705. His wife was IVIary Skelton, daughter of Rev. Samuel Skelton, the first minister of Salem. She died Mav 8,

1 70 1. After the death of Samuel Enclecott his widow Hannah married, second, Thorndike Procter, youngest child of John Procter by his first wife. John Procter was executed for witchcraft in Salem, August 19, 1692. Samuel and Hannah (Felton) Endecott had children: i. John, born October 18, 1685, died before his father. 2. Samuel, born August 30, 1687. (See post). 3. Ruth, born 1689: married July 17, 1710, Martin Herrick.sonof Joseph and Alary Herrick, and grandson of Henry Herrick, the immigrant. 4. Hannah, born 1691 ; married April 3, 1712, Benjamin Porter, son of Israel Porter, and grandson of John Porter, who bought "Skelton's neck" from the children of Rev. Samuel Skelton, first minister of Salem.

( I\" ) Captain Samuel Endicott, second son and child of Samuel and Hannah (Felton) Endecott, born in Salem, August 30, 1687, died in Danvers, in May, 1766. aged seventynine years. In 1694, after the death of his father, the name Endicott in Salem and its vicinity was borne by a single person, a boy then seven years old. In 1736 Captain Samuel Endicott was one of a committee of four (the others being Thorndike Procter, John Felton and Daniel Marble) chosen to erect a school "in ye quarter of ye parish." His name appears frec|uently in the town records, and it is evident that he was a man of considerable influence in the town. He married, in Salem, December 20, 171 i, Anne Endecott. his cousin, born 1693, daughter of Dr. John Endecott. She died in ]\Iay, 1723, and he married second, February, 1724. Mrs. Margaret Foster, a widow whose family name was Pratt. By his first wife Captain Endicott had five children, and seven by his second wife: I. John, born April 29, 1713; (see post). 2. Sarah, born September 19, 171 5. died before 1719. 3. Samuel Jr.. born IMarch 12, 1717, died 1773; married. 1752. Mary Putnam ; six children. 4. Sarah, born January 13. 1720; married Dr. Benjamin Jones, born 1716. 5. Robert, born 1721 ; drowned when a boy. 6. Margaret (twin), born Dct cember. 1724; married June 30. 1743, Hobart Clark. 7. Hannah (twin), born December, 1724; married September. 1769, Francis Nourse. 8. Ann. born November, 1727 ; married December, 1761, Thomas Andrews. 9. Elias. born December. 1729; married Eunice Andrews ; six children. 10. Joseph, born February, 1731 ; married first. Putnam;

(\') John Endicott, eldest child of Captain Samuel and Anna (Endicott) Endicott, born April 29, 1713, died in 1783, aged seventy years. He owned and lived on the old Orchard farm, "the farm with the Endicott pear tree." He married, May 18, 1738, Elizabeth Jacobs, who died in August, 1809. She was a woman of great determination of character, and it is related of her that on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill, Colonel Timothy Pickering halted his regiment for a few minutes in front of the old South meeting-house in Danvers, and such was her impatience at the delay that she walked straight up to the commander and said, "Why on earth don't you march ? Don't you hear the guns at Charlestown ?"

Elizabeth Jacobs, who was baptized September 17. 1729, was a daughter of John Jacobs, born September 18, 1679, died in 1764, and lived in the old Jacobs homestead in Salem village. He was a member of the First church in Salem and later with his brother (}eorge was one of the petitioners for the South Danvers church in 1710-11. then called the middle precinct. He was a substantial landholder.

George Jacobs, who also lived on the old family homestead, and died there before 1718. He married, September 12. 1674, Rebecca r^rost. and both he and his wife and their daughter Margaret sufifered persecution under the accusation of witchcraft. Upon being accused he fled, and his wife and daughter remained and were imprisoned, but were subsequently released. George Jacobs was the eldest son of George Jacobs, of Salem, who also was charged with the heresy of witchcraft. He was tried, condemned, and executed in 1692, when he was more than eighty years old and so decrepit that he walked only with the support of two canes. His trial was conducted without the slightest regard for legal propriety or the rules of evidence ; and his principal accuser was his own granddaughter Margaret, who was so terrified by imprisonment and the threats of those in authority that in order to escape punishment herself she testified against her grandfather, although she afterward declared that she had no knowledge of the solemnity of an oath or what might be the consequences of her evidence.

children; i. John Jr., born 1739, died March, 1816; married Martha, daughter of Samuel Putnam, of Salem ; seven sons and five daughters. 2. Elizabeth, born 1741, died young. 3. William, born 1742; married, November, 1767, Damaris Osborn ; one son, William Endicott Jr., born 1769. 4. Robert, born October 29, 1756; (see post).

(VI) Robert Endicott, youngest child of John and Elizabeth (Jacobs) Endicott, born in Danvers, October 29, 1756, died in Beverly, March 6, 1819, having spent the greater part of his life in the latter town, where he was a tailor. He married, November i, 1781, Mary Holt, born in Danvers, October 3, 1761, died in Beverly, January, 1850, daughter of Rev. Nathan Holt and Sarah Abbot his wife. He graduated from Harvard College in 1757; was invited in 1758 to settle in Danvers, and was ordained pastor of the Second church there January 3, 1759, succeeding Rev. Mr. Prescott. His ministry covered a period of thirty-five years, and terminated only with his death in 1792. Rev. Nathan Holt was a son of Nicholas and Mary (Manning) Holt, grandson of Nicholas and Mary (Russel) Holt, and great-grandson of Nicholas Holt, of Andover, Massachusetts, by his first wife,

"James" from London in 1635, and was one of the first settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts. Robert and Mary (Holt) Endicott had children: i. Mary, born July 9, 1782, died 1813; married John Ellingwood. 2. Robert, born May 5, 1785, died August, 1813; unmarried. 3. Nathan, born July 31, 1788, died July, 1816; unmarried. 4. Samuel, born July 18. 1793. 5. William, born March 11, 1799; ( see post).

(VH) William Endicott, youngest child of Robert and Mary (Holt) Endicott, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, &nd spent his entire life in that town and subsequent city. He lived to attain to within two months of a full hundred years, survived all of his associates in business and social life, and enjoyed the pleasant distinction of being the oldest man in the annals of the town. When about fifty years old his health became much impaired and it was remarked among his friends that he probably would not live much longer.

As a boy he was sent to the town school, but when about fifteen years old he was given employment as clerk in the general store kept by Robert Rantoul, whose daughter Mr. Endicott afterward married. In the course of a few years he accjuired a partnership interest in the business of his former employer, and for the next forty years was proprietor of what has been mentioned as one of the largest mercantile houses in the state outside of the large cities and one of the first general merchandize stores in New England. His stock included the goods and wares now kept in modern department stores and he also had a drug store in connection with the business. For many years his establishment was the center of trade for all of the towns around Beverly, and as he was a man of excellent judgment, a comfortable fortune was the reward of his endeavor in business life. Aside from his large business interests, which made constant demands upon his time, Mr. Endicott was for many years identified with all of the events which contributed to the prosperity of his native village and subsequent city ; he was in some important respects a public man, and a democrat of the old school. He held various minor local offices and was elected representative from Beverly to the general court. At the time of its organization in 1867 he was elected president of the Beverly Savings Bank and held that office until 1888. He was a director and treasurer of the Eisher Charitable Society for thirty-two years, giving liberally from his own purse for the benevolent work carried on by the society, but outside of its organized work he made frequent charitable donations of both public and private character, the latter always being given quietly and without attracting attention to the (lonor. He attended church services regularly and was decidedly Unitarian in his religious views. In his advanced years, when somewhat relieved of the cares of active business, Mr. Endicott found pleasure in relating the interesting events of Beverly life during his boyhood days ; and he always recalled with especial interest the naval engagement between the "Chesapeake" and the "Shannon," which took place off the Beverly coast, June i. 1813, and which he witnessed with a glass from the roof of his father's house on Bartlett street.

September 26, 1824, William Endicott married Joanna Lovett Rantoul, born in Beverly, January 13, 1803. died while on a visit to her son in St. Louis, Missouri, June 26, 1863. Her father, Robert Rantoul, was born in Beverly November 23, 1778, and died there October 24, 1858. He established himself as an apothecary in Beverly, in June, 1796, after an apprenticeship in Salem with Dr. William Stearns and Dr. Jacob Osgood. He gradually extended his business operations as the growth of his town made practicable and as his own means would permit, and in the course of years he became the leading and one of the most substantial merchants of the town. His sonin-law, William Endicott, after a clerkship of several years succeeded to the proprietorship of the business. On June 4, 1801, Mr. Rantoul married Joanna Lovett, of Beverly, daughter and eldest child of John Lovett and Elizabeth Herrick. Robert Rantoul (1778- 1858) was the eldest of three children of Robert Rantoul, the immigrant, who was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, January, 1753, arrived in Boston 1769, and went at once to Salem. He was a mariner, and in 1776-77 is mentioned as Captain Rintoul. He was in succession master of the schooners "Caty" and "Hope," the brigs "Hopewell," "Phoenix" and "Defence," and in 1782 was ca]:)tain of the ship "Iris." In her he sailed from Salem for York River in Virginia, and thence, March 4, 1783, for Mantz, France, but the "Iris" never was heard of after leaving York River. On November 3, 1773, Captain Rantoul married Mary, daughter of Andrew Preston (or Presson) and Mary Lambert, and by her had three children: Robert, born November 23. 1778, died October 24, 1858; Samuel, born July 10. 1781, died at liilboa, Spain, April 22, 1802; IV)lly, born July 22. 1783, died November 15, 1836; married in May, 1808, Andrew Peabody of Beverly, and they were the parents of Dr. A. P. Peabody, professor at Harvard and president of the college, pro tem.

William and Joanna Lovett (Rantoul) Endicott had children: i. William, born January 4, 1826 (see post). 2. Mary Elizabeth, born July 21, 1828, lives in Beverly. 3. Robert Rantoul, born October 21, 1830, died February iQ, 1833. 4. Robert Rantoul, born March 28, 1833 (see post). 5. Charles, born October 10. 1835, died in Detroit, Michigan. January 18, i8g6. He went west many years ago and established the firm of Newcomb, Endicott & Company, of Detroit, proprietors of the largest department store in Michigan. Mr. Endicott married Caroline Leach. 6. Augusta Rantoul, born November 13, 1837, died February 5. 1855. 7. Henry, born February 15, 1840 (see post).

(VIII) William Endicott, Jr., eldest child of William and Joanna Lovett (Rantoul) Endicott, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, January 4, 1826. He received his early education in the old Beverly Academy, and when fourteen years old was given a place as clerk in his father's store in Beverlv. He worked there from 1840 to September, 1846, when he secured a position as clerk with C. F. Hovey & Co., merchants of Boston, and continued in that capacity until 1850, when he became a junior member of the firm; and he is still a member of the firm - senior member, but not its active head, his personal attention in the meantime having been directed into other channels. Although he always declined to be nominated as a candidate for public office, he has taken a lively interest in political afifairs, at first as a member of the Free Soil party. As an alternate delegate from the Essex South district, he attended the convention at Philadelphia, which nominated Fremont in 1856, the first national convention of the Republican party, which four years later by the election of Lincoln assumed control of the federal government. Of this party Mr. Endicott was an active supporter for the first twenty-five years of its existence, since which time he has not always been in agreement with its policies and should properly be classed as an independent Reiniblican. In the discussion of financial (|uestions, currency, public debt and tarifif he has frequently contributed communications to the newspapers, but he was never willing to appear as a platform speaker. In combating the proposal in 1867 to pay the five-twenty bonds in depreciated paper currency, his communications to the Boston Daily Advertiser, which were largely copied by papers throughout the country, were thought to have greatly influenced the formation of the soimd public opinion Avhich was expressed by the first statute of President Grant's first administration, which declared that principal and interest should be paid in gold.

He was instrumental in the establishment of the Boston ^luseum of Fine Arts, was one of the incorporators, trustee from its incorporation in 1870 until his resignation in 1907, and for five years its president. For more than forty years he has been a member of the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has added largely to its funds by his active interest in obtaining public subscriptions, as well as by liberal contributions of his own. For nearly forty years he was a member of the investment committee of the Suft'olk Savings Bank, and for seventeen years its president ; of the New England Trust Company, president for twenty-seven years ; a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital for twenty-two years ; either treasurer or trustee of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind for twentv vears : treasurer of the permanent fund of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union for twentyfive years. He has been president of several western railroads, of which the most important was the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, which was consolidated in 1880 with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, at which date Mr. Endicott became a director in the latter road, serving for twentytwo years until its acquirement in 1902 by two northwestern roads.

Many other engagements of similar nature might be named but these will suffice to indicate that Mr. Endicott has been willing to devote a considerable portion of his long life to what may be denominated as quasi public duties. He was appointed by Governor Ames as one of the commissioners., with Governor Long and the late Benjamin D. Whitcomb, for building the Massachusetts state house extension, and by the justices of the supreme judicial court as one of the "Managers" of the fund left by Benjamin Franklin to the city of Boston, and which is to be expended in the erection of the Franklin Union building. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Historic-Genealogical Society, and various other similar organizations. In 1868 he received from Williams College the honorary degree of A. M., and in 1888 from Harvard University.

On March 3, 1857, William Endicott married Annie Thorndike Nourse, widow of John F. Nourse of Boston. Mrs. Endicott died February 29, 1876. Of this marriage three children were born: i. Annie Thorndike, born August 10, i860, died April 17, 1862. 2. Clara Thorndike, born January 21, 1862, lives with her father. 3. William, Jr., born April 18, 1865, married June 7, 1889, Helen Southworth Shaw, daughter of Dr. Benjamin S. and Amelia Shaw ; no issue. He is a partner in the firm of Kidder, Peabody & Company ; resides in Boston.

(Vni) Robert Rantoul Endicott, third son and fourth child of William and Joanna Lovett (Rantoul) Endicott, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, March 28, 1833, and in one capacity and another has been closely identified with the life of his native town and city for a period of full three score years. His education was gained in the Beverly schools and academy, and after leaving the academy he began working in his father's store. On January i, 1859, he entered upon the active career which brought him in such close asso-.

ciation with the business history of Beverly, having succeeded to the business for many years previously conducted by his father, and continued it with the same substantial results which rewarded the efTorts of his father and grandfather until 1886, when he gave up active business. In November, 1862, Mr. Endicott was elected from Beverly to the lower house of the general court, and donated his salary to the Beverly public library. June 20, 1867, he was commissioned justice of the peace and held that office for the following thirty years. In 1867 he became a member of the board of trustees of the Public Library ; in 1868 was member of the Beverly Board of Health; March 9, 1869, was elected parish treasurer of the Unitarian church., serving in that capacity twelve years, then resigned ; May I, 1888, succeeded his father as president of the Beverly Savings Bank, which office he still holds. For many years Mr. Endicott has been a member of the Unitarian church, was treasurer of its Sunday school fund for twenty-one years and superintendent of the school for seven years. For five years he served as selectman of Beverly previous to its incorporation as a city. He has been a trustee of the Fisher Charitable Society (organized in 18 10) for a full quarter century and is its present secretary. In many other respects he has taken a commendable interest in the institutions of his city, and every measure proposed for the welfare of the municipality and its people has found in him an earnest supporter and generous donor. He enjoys the pleasures of travel, both domestic and foreign, and during the year 1900 he visited several European countries. His greatest pleasure is found in the congenial associations of home life, where his acquaintance is large and friends are numerous, and where he is held in high esteem. His home is a seat of comfort and generous hospitality.

Robert Rantoul Endicott married, January I, 1866, Anna Woodberry Sheldon, born in North Beverly, July 15, 1845, daughter of Levi Dodge and Nancy (Woodberry) Sheldon, and granddaughter of Jesse and Mary (Dodge") Sheldon. Nancy VVoodbury, born August 3, 1817, was a daughter of Isaac Woodberry and wife Nancy Baker, and a direct descendant of William Woodberry (or Woodbury), who came to New England in 1626. Children of Robert Rantoul and Anna Woodberry (Sheldon) Endicott: i. John, born in Beverly, July 12, 1867; educated at Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard College. A. B., 1889; now member of firm of Newcomb, Endicott & Company, Detroit. Michigan, and also owner of one of the largest stock farms in that state. He married first, Elizabeth ]\I. Watson, of Detroit, who died childless in 1900; second, Mary Elizabeth Booth, of Detroit ; has two children: Robert Rantoul (2d), born Detroit, February 14, 1905, and Elizabeth Thorndike. born Detroit. July 21, 1907. 2. Robert Rantoul. born in Beverly, December 9, 1868, died September 7, 1892. He was educated in the Heverly public and high schools, Exeter Academy, and graduated from Harvard, A. V>.. 1890. At the time of his death he was teller in the Beverly Savings Bank. 3. Agnes Woodberry, born in Beverly, March 25, 1871, lives in Beverly. 4. Arthur Lovett, born in Beverly, Januai-y 13. 1873 ; married September 16, 1903, Bessie Baldwin, of New^ York city. Mr. Endicott lives in Brookline. Massachusetts, and is connected with the retail department of the mercantile house of C. F. Hovey & Company. l5oston. 5. Helen, born in Beverly, June 9, 1875, died July 26, 1883. 6. Margaret, born in Beverly, October 3,1878: lives in Beverly. 7. Joanna Rantoul, born in Beverly, August 19, 1881 : died April 18, 1904.

(VHI) Henry Endicott, youngest child of W'illiam and Joanna Eovett (Rantoul) Endicott, was born in P>everly, ?ylassachusetts. February 15. 1840. At the age of about seventeen years he entered upon an active business career which continued about twenty-five years and until failing health compelled him to abandon mercantile pursuits. His early education was acquirecl in the lieverly public schools and the high school in Salem, and after leaving school he entered the em]iloy of C. F. Hovey & Company, Boston merchants, subsequently admitted partner and continued until 1892, wdien poor health necessitated his retirement from the firm, and he afterward directed his energies in other business channels. Since that time he has been trustee of various estates and other properties, has made considerable investments on his own account and for others, and otherwise has been identified with various institutions of Boston and Beverly. For five years he was treasurer of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, and for many years was treasurer for the Society for Ministerial Relief. He is an attendant at the services of the First Church, Boston, and in politics is an independent and conservative Republican.

Beverly, March 31, 1844, daughter of Octavius Flowe, born in Beverly, January 22, 181 5, died October 30, 1895, and Sarah Hubbard Lamson, his wife, born in Beverly, September 29, 1813, died July 9, 1898. The grandfather of Mrs. Mary Hubbard (Howe) Endicott was Dr. Abner Howe, a former practitioner of medicine in Beverly, whose wife was Sarah Thorndike. Children of Flenry and Mary Hubbard (Howe) Endicott: i. Augusta Rantoul, born in Beverly, June 25, 1873. 2. Flenry, Jr., born in Beverly, April 6, 1875; Harvard A. B., 1897; LL. B., 1900; married October 15, 1897, Catherine Sears, of Boston. 3. Thorndike How^e. born in Beverly, March 20, 1877; Harvard A. B., 1899. 4. Lawrence, born in lioston. June 23, 1879. 5. Marion Dudley, born in Beverly, July 13, 1881.

sailing from London, England, July, 1635, bound for his majesty's colony of Virginia, bearing the certificate of the minister of Gravesend, "of their conformitie to the Church of England," there appears the name of Anthony Day, who is described as being then twenty-two years old.

(L) This appears to be the first mention of the name of Anthony Day in American colonial history, but while there is no tradition in the Day family in New England - descendants of Anthony - that their ancestor ever set foot on the soil of the English plantation in Virginia, there is every reason to believe that he arrived in this country several years previous to 1640 and that he was related to immigrants of the same surname who are mentioned by several writers as having come to America between the years 1630 and 1636 and settled in Salem and Ipswich and other of the plantations in the vicinity of Boston. In his "History of (Gloucester" Mr. Babson says that Anthony Day was born in 1616; the ship's list previously referred to says that the Anthony Day therein mentioned was twenty-two years old in July, 1635, a difference so immaterial in fact that Anthony Day who came over in the "Paule" might easily be taken for him of the same name who first appears in New England history at the time of his visit to Cape Ann in 1645. However, it is not assumed that Anthony Day, the passenger in the "Paule" 1635, is identical with Anthony Day, of Gloucester, 1645, although such may have been the fact, and in the absence of any mention whatever of his name in Ipswich and Salem, where he is supposed to have been before going to Gloucester, the theory that he may have been the passenger in the ship bound for Virginia is entitled to consideration ; and this theory is further strengthened by the fact that no other Anthony Day is mentioned in the immigration lists between the years 1630 and 1700.

One of the most recent contributors to Day family genealogy says : "Anthony Day came from England to this country sometime during the year 1645 with his wife, Susanna, and settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts ;" but Mr. Babson, whose narrative may be regarded as far more accurate, says that he "came to Gloucester about 1645, probably from Ipswich, where several of the name are found at an earlier date ;" and further, "it does not appear when and where he married Susan Machet, servant of William Vinson, who, I suppose, was the wife Susanna mentioned in the records as the mother of his children." It may be said that Susanna Machet was born 1623, and died December 10, 1717, aged ninety-four years. Anthony Day died in Gloucester, April 23, 1707, aged ninety-one years. He did not settle permanently in Gloucester until 1657, when he bought a house and lands in the town, formerly in the possession of Charles Glover, "having the rocks called the Poles on one side.'' By his wife Susanna, Anthony Day had children: Thomas, born 165 1 ; Timothy, born 1653 ; John, born April 28, 1657 ; Ezekiel, born March 12, 1660, died July 12, 1660; Ezekiel. born May 19. 1662 ; Nathaniel, born September 9, 1665 ; Elizabeth, born February 2. 1667; Samuel, born February 25, 1669; Joseph, born April 4, 1672.

(II) Timothy Day, second son of Anthony and Susanna (Machet) Day, married July 24, 1679, Phebe Wilder, died April 8, 1683. 'The date of his death is not known, but it appears that he was still living in 1 72 1. His house was on the west side of Annisquam river, where some of his descendants continued to live for many years after his time. Timothy Day and Phebe Wilder had ten children : Timothy, Jr., born 1678 or 1679; John, born 1680; Anthony, born 1681 ; John, born 1683; Jonathan, born 1685; Susanna, born 1688; Pricellar, (Priscilla), born 1689; Elizabeth, born 1690; Benjamin, born 1695; Ebenezer, born 1697.

(III) Timothy Day, Jr., eldest son and child of Timothy and Phebe (Wilder) Day, was born about 1678 or '79, and, as shown by his will, died about 1757, aged about seventyeight years. The church records show that he was baptized in the First Church in Gloucester, before 1703. By his wife Jean he had seven children: Feebe (Phebe), born October II, 1706; Zebulum (Zebulon) born April 14, 1709; Eliphalet, born December 17, 1711 ; Judith, born April 2, 1714; Abner, born August 12, 1716; Tabitha, born January 29, 1719; Bethula, born April 2, 1722.

(IV) Abner Day, fifth child and third son of Timothy Day and Jean his wife, was born in Gloucester, August 12, 1716. His intention of marriage with Susanna Adarshall, of Ipswich, was published October 27, 1739, according to the town records of Gloucester. Children: Bethula, born April 3, 1741 ; a son, born July 30, 1743; child, born August 10, 174 - ; Abner, born March 14, 1748; Susanna, born July 4, 175 1 ; Eliphalet, born February II, 1754; Timothy, baptized October 17, 1756; Ezra, born April 12, 1761. The church records show that Tabitha, daughter of Abner Day, was baptized December 11, 1763.

(\*) Ezra Day, youngest son of Abner and Susanna (Marshall) Day, was born in Gloucester, April 12, 1 76 1. He was a blacksmith by trade, and spent his entire life in that town. The records show the marriage of Ezra Day and Airs. Susanna Warner in the second parish church, November 12, 1783. Their children were : Susan, married Mr. Griffin ; Mary (Polly) married George Stevens; Betsey, married a Pulcifer; and Elias Warner Day.

(VI) Elias Warner Day, youngest son and child of Ezra and Susanna (Warner) Day, born in Gloucester, July 11, 1802, died there December 19, 1881. Much of his younger life was spent on the sea, and he sailed as captain in the foreign trade until about thirty years old. He then gave up trans-Atlantic trading voyages and followed the fisheries until about 1850, when he bought Millet's island, about forty acres in area, in Annisquam river, which he used for farming purposes. He always was a man of exemplary habits and character in the town where his life was spent. He was one of the founders of the Riverdale Methodist Episcopal church, one of its trustees as long as he lived, and for many years its steward. July 14, 1828, he married Judith L. Curtis, of Gloucester, born July 31, 1806, died January 4, 1872, second daughter of Samuel Curtis and Dorcas Low, his wife. Elias Warner and Judith L. (Curtis) Day had seven children, all born in Gloucester : i. Elias Warner, born April 24, 1829. He went to California in 1849, ^^d has since lived in that state ; he never married. 2. Samuel Curtis, deceased, born May 3, 1831 ; married Georgiana Brown ; and lives in Gloucester ; ten children. 3. Charles Henry, oorn March 5, 1835, lost at sea about 1873 - m^i'ried Abbie L. Grover; six children. 4. William Curtis, born June 8. 1837 ; lost at sea with his elder brother ; married Betsey Morse; five children. 5. John Warner, born November 11. 1844; (see post). 6. Ezra, born November 11, 1846, died November 26, 1846. 7. George Franklin, born April 3, 1848, died in childhood.

(Vn) John Warner Day, youngest surviving son of Elias Warner and Judith L. (Curtis) Day, was born in Gloucester, November II, 1844, and for the last forty years and more has been identified with the business life and history of Gloucester and Cape Ann. His young life was spent at home on his father's island farm in 'Squam' river, where he was brought up to work and was sent to the public school at Riverdale. When he was thirteen years old his father sold the island property and took up his home on the mainland, not far from the elegant residence of his son. When old enough he went fishing one summer, on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, but followed that calling only a single year, and then learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. From a journeyman carpenter at the bench Mr. Day soon became a contracting builder, and for full two score years he has been constantly engaged in building construction work, and it may be said, without exaggeration, in any respect, that there is not to-day on Cape Ann a single contractor who has done more or better work than he, whether in fine residences or mercantile buildings, and he has built nearly all of the large summer hotels on the north shore, including the famous Colonial Arms, the largest of them all, and the PTawthorne Inn and its cottages, both on Eastern Point ; the Moorland and its cottages at Bass Rocks, the Oceanside and Hesperus House at Magnolia, and the Blymau Hotel at Manchester. His building operations to-day all conducted under the firm name of John W. Day & Sons, indicate the association of his sons in the business established by their father.

For many years Mr. Day has been known as a progressive and public spirited citizen, as well as a substantial and conscientious business man. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1879 was a member of the city council of Gloucester; but he is not in any sense a politician or seeker after public office. For more than forty years he has been a member of the Riverdale Methodist Episcopal church, one of

1863, Alice Chamberlain Pinckney, born November 8, 1846, only child of John Pinckney and wife Philena Oakes, of Boston, and granddaughter on the paternal side of John Pinckney, of Exeter, granddaughter on the maternal side of John Oakes of Exeter and wife Catherine McKinney. Children of John Warner and Alice Chamberlain (Pinckney) Day; i. William Curtis, born January 16,

1864, died January 16, 1894; married Savilla Horton, now dead. 2. Edward Everett, born March i, 1865, died July 30, 1865. 3. Howard Franklin, born August 4, 1866, died October. 1866. 4. Mary Ann Mellow, born November 30, 1867; married, November, 1901, Isaac Horace Tucker, of Gloucester; two children - Roy Pinckney and Dorothy Tucker. 5. Alice Philena, born April 19, 1869. died Octoljer 9, 1869. 6. Edward Albert, born January 27, 1871, died April 15, 1871. 7. Louis, born October 31, 1872, died December 31. 1872. 8. Alice, born May 31, 1874; married September 17, 1902. Alexander Heath, of ]\Ialden, Massachusetts ; one child, Florence May Heath, born December 28, 1903. 9. Hattie Austin, born November 31, 1875; married December, 1904, Daniel Anstess. of Gloucester : two children - Helen Day Anstess. and Robert Heath Anstess. 10. Lena, born December 2, 1877; married. November, 1901, Fred R. Boynton, two children: Alice L Boynton and Ruth Evelyn Boynton. 11. Warner, born May 18. 1879; married, October. 1900. Anna Munroe Griffin ; two children: Carlton Monroe and Esther Florence Day. 12. Walter Percy, born May 4, 1882; married, November, 1904, Elizabeth Burnham ; one child. John ^^'arner Dav.

speaking of the arrival of the American ancestor of the branch of the family here treated, mentions Daniel Poore, of Andover, Massachusetts, and says he is that youth, aged fourteen years, whose name is on the list of passengers in the ship "Bevis," from Southhampton, England, in 1638, and his name is there written Dayell Poore, that he came with his sister Alee, or Alice, aged twenty years, and his brothers, Samuel, aged eighteen years, and John, all under the designation of servants of Richard Dummer.

shire, England, 1624, came to this countr}^ with his older sister and brother in 1638 and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. In 1644 he became one of the original settlers of Andover and spent the greater part of his life in that town, where he acquired a large estate in lands and other property, which at his death in 171 3 was appraised at eight hundred pounds. He also became prominent in town afifairs, held several important offices and served as selectman eight years. His farm and home in Andover were on the east side of Shawshin river, near where now stands the station at the junction of the Boston & Maine and Essex railroads. Daniel Poore married Mary Farnum, who bore him eleven children.

(H) Daniel Poore, son of Daniel and Mary (Farnum) Poor, born in Andover, Massachusetts. 1656, lived on the old homestead in that town. He married Mehitable Osgood, and by her had nineteen children.

(HI) Thomas Poor, son of Daniel and Mehitable (Osgood) Poore, was born in Andover, 1703, on the homestead founded by his grandfather nearly three-score years before Thomas was born. He married Mary Adams of Newbury, Massachusetts, and by her had twelve children.

(IV) Joseph Poor, son of Thomas Poor and Mary (Adams) Poor, was born in 1748, and when grown settled (about 1770) in what then was the south part of Danvers, now within the limits of Peabodv, Massachusetts. In the new locality he came to be one of the leading men of the town, and was deacon in the church from 1796 until his death, March 26, 181 5. His wife was Mary Abbott, of Andover, a descendant of one of the most prominent old families of that town. She died August 17, 1820. Children of Joseph Poor and Mary (Abbott) Poor: i. Joseph, born March 28, 1771. 2. Hannah, born April 26, 1773; married Richard Osborn ; seven children. 3. Mary, born April 30, 1775 ; married Sylvester Proctor. 4. Enoch, born January 20, 1777; married Sarah Shillaber ; settled in Salem ; two children. 5. Sarah, born July 21, 1779; married Benjamin Jacobs ; ten children. 6. George Abbott, born October 26, 1781 ; was a seaman.

8. Nathan, born September 15, 1786; see forward. 9. Daniel, born June 27, 1789; married Susan Bullfinch ; settled on island of Ceylon ; five children. 10. Betsy, born December 21, 1791 ; married Rufus Wyman ; one child. 11. Alartha, born June 20, 1795 ; married David Daniels ; five children.

(V) Joseph Poor, son of Joseph Poor and Mary (Abbott) Poo<, born in Danvers (Peabody), March 28, 1771, died in Peabody, 1850. He was a tanner and currier by trade, and from a very small beginning succeeded in establishing a large tannery business which yielded him a competency and served as a foundation for still greater operations on the part of his sons and other descendants in later years. He was a man of enterprise as well as business capacity, and by his works and influence did much toward the building up of his town and advancing the interests of its institutions and people in every direction. He married first, December 9, 1795, Tamison Sprague, born April 13, 1773, died October 2, 1803, having borne him three children. He married second, Sarah Reed. Of his fourteen children seven grew to maturity, married, and had families: i. Eben, born 1796; married Clarissa Abbott. 2. Henry, born 1799; married Mary Osborn. 3. George, born 1801 ; married Eliza Reed. 4. Joseph, born July 7, 1805 ; see forward. 5. Tamison, born 1807; married Obadiah Kimball. 6. Nancy, born 1813; married Isaac Hardy. 7. Enoch, born 1825 ; married Fanny E. Lowd ; lived on the homestead.

(V) Nathan Poor, son of Joseph Poor and Mary (Abbott) Poor, born in Danvers, September 15, 1786, died in Peabody, May 25, 1842. He married first, February 4, 1810, Margaret Silver, born in Salem, October 14, 1787, died November 18, 1824; second, February 27, 1829, Hannah C. Merrill; (nee Cook). Children by first wife, all born in Peabody: i. Susan Silver, born August 13, 1810, died October 7, 1824. 2. Margaret Silver, born February 20, 1812; married October 16, 1833, Henry Brown Ward. 3. Nathan H., died in infancy. 4. Nathan H., (second child so named) died in infancy. 5. Nathan Holt, born November 14, 18 17, died January 2^, 1898. 6. Harriet C, born July 26, 1820. 7. George Abbott, born September 5, 1822.

(VI) Joseph Poor, son of Joseph and Sarah (Reed) Poor, born July 7, 1805, in Danvers, died there August 24, 1884. He attended school in his native place, and from the time he was old enough to-be of any use worked in and around his father's tannery, learning the business almost as a matter of course. At the age of eighteen he was given his time by his father and thereafter made his own way unaided. After his father died he carried on the tanning business alone, and his business career was one of continuous success. His ability was thoroughly appreciated by his fel- low townsmen, who frequently called him into the public service. He was for many years chairman of the board of selectmen of South Danvers and Peabody, a director of the Warren Five Cents Savings Bank, and one of the original trustees of the Peabody Institute. As he advanced in years he became a strong advocate of moral reform in all its branches, an earnest abolitionist, a warm-hearted, sincere temperance man, always carrying out his opinions at the ballot box, even if he stood alone. As a business man he did not exhibit that headlong activity and bustle which are so often mistaken for business capacity, but moved slowly on, seeing his way clearly as he went and keeping himself safe in all business transactions. He was a thoroughly religious man, always contributing liberally to purposes of l)enevolence and charity, and when the feebleness of advancing age compelled him to relinquish business he felt even a deeper interest than before in those higher pursuits which chasten and ennoble life. He married h^liza Munroe of Danvers. Children: i. Sally, born 1830. 2. Warren Augustus, born 1832; married Harriet Waterman. 3. ]\Iary E., born 1834. 4. Ellen, born 1835 ; married James W. Kelley. 5. Leverett, born 1838; married Jennie Emerson. 6. Lizzie, born 1840. 7. Lucinda, born 1842. 8. George H., born 1844; married Susan R. Bond. 9. Albert F., born 1846; married Sarah F. \Veed. 10. Joseph H., born 1848; married >\Iaggie Linehan. 11. Martha H., born 1850.

(VI) Nathan Holt Poor, son and fifth child of Nathan and Margaret (Silver) Poor, born in Peabody, November 14, 1 81 7, died there January 27. 1898, having lived a life of industry and usefulness and having completed more than fourscore years. He was a tanner and currier by trade, a good practical man at his chosen occupation, which he followed for many years and then laid aside for other duties. In the early part of his life he had become interested in public afifairs, held many town offices of responsibility and performed other important duties of a public character; and everything wdiich he undertook w'as done well and to the satisfaction of those whose votes had placed him in office. It is safe to say that Mr. Poor gave longer service in public afifairs in Peabody than almost any other man either before or since his time, and that no man in public office in any town in this state ever gave more faithful and efficient service or commanded the universal respect of his townsmen in a greater degree than did Mr.

Poor. The statutes of the commonwealth of course required that he, in common with all other public servants, make an annual report and submit his books and accounts to the examination of the town board and auditors, but when Mr. Poor's accounts were submitted the members of the board always knew that in his case their duties were merely perfunctory; for he was as scrupulously honest as he was faithful in every duty entrusted to him. In this connection let us look briefly at Mr. Poor's record and length of service in official capacity - town clerk, 1853-95, forty three years; town treasurer. 1871-96, twenty-six years; assessor 1871-96, twenty-six years; selectman 1854-62, and 1871-96, a total of thirty-three years. Besides this he was collector of internal revenue at Peabody from 1862 to 1871. in all nine years. The latter was a federal rather than local office. For several years also he was ckrk of the board of water commissioners of I'eabody. Mr. Poor married first. May 17, 1843, Abigail ^lorrill, born in Westfield, Massachu.setts, August 14, 1821, died in Peabody, September, 1862. He married second, December 24, 1863, Flannah Ellen Gove, born in Deering, New Hampshire, December 8, 1839. Children of Nathan Holt Poor by first wife: i. Eliza Frothingham, born August, 1844, died same month. 2. l<"rank Walker, born December 18, 1845 J niarried, first, Georgia M. Friend, of Danvers; one child, Florence Cook Poor, born December 9, 1872; married .second, Frances Mihan, had one child, Abigail Morrill Poor, born May 16, 1873. 3. Mary Florence, died aged three months. 4. Harriet Ann, born July 16, 1852, died December 19, 1901 ; married Moses E. Johnson. 5. Eliza Harris, born October 2y. 1854; married first, Robert H. Wilkinson, had Edward Poor Wilkinson, born August 5, 1884, died October 10, 1884; married second, Moses B. Paige, has one son, James Edward Paige (see Paige family). 6. Charles Morrill, born March 16, 1857; married Alice P. Osborn ; no children. 7. Edward Floyd, born August 6, 1858, died aged twenty years. 8. Mary Abbie, born June 15, 1862, died April 29, 1878. Children of Nathan Holt Poor by second wife: i. Margaret Silver, born October 6, 1864; married Abbott B. Galloupe. 2. Elmer Merton, born January 11, 1866; married Margaret Searle Lord; has Francis Lord, born May 16, 1893. 3. Nathan, born March 11, 1869; married Helen B. Bergmann ; children : Caroline Gove Poor, born

(VI) George Abbott Poor, youngest son and child of Nathan and Margaret (Silver) Poor, born in Peabody, September 5, 1822, died there January 4, 1853, aged less than thirty-one years. He married Lavina Welch, born in Shapleigh, Maine, August 12, 1820, and who, after his death, married, second, December 20, 1855, Handley C. Flint. George Abbott Poor and Lavina Welch had children, all born in Peabody : i. Nathan H., born April 14, 1842. 2. Horace A., born January 10. 1845; soldier of war of 1861-5, serving in companies F and K, nth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and mustered out as sergeant; married first, Mrs. Mary Lizzie Bennett, and second, Allace Coon, in Kansas. 3. George, born September 21, 1849, cli^d January 30, 1852. 4. Lavina S., born August 5, 1851 ; married Herbert E. Grey, of Dedham, Massachusetts.

(VII) Nathan Holt Poor, eldest son and child of George Abbott and Lavina (Welch) Poor, was born in Peabody April 14, 1842. He received his education at the old Wallis school in South Danvers ; but it was only during the winter terms that he attended school, his help being needed at the work of the farm during other seasons of the year, a duty which in his boyhood days was the lot of the eldest son in the family. Even as a boy he never was afraid of work, and went ahead with whatever was necessary to be done, and that without being told. Such boys nearly always become successful men, and Mr. Poor's record in business life shows that he is not an exception to the rule.

He began work off the farm when he was fourteen years old, pegging shoes for his stepfather, Mr. Flint. Two years later, about 1858, he began an apprenticeship to the trade of morocco dressing in the leather factory of Roberts & Moore, served out his full term of three years, and then was given full charge of his employer's works, being then nineteen years old. From this it is clear that Roberts & Moore saw something in the young foreman, the work he himself was capable of doing as a practical morocco dresser, and his industrious and steady habits, that commended him to a position in which he had supervision of the work of other men, many of whom were older than himself. About 1863 Mr. Poor accepted charge of the finishing in the factory owned by Frank Pemberton & Son, of Peabody, remained, with that firm until 1870, and then took full charge of the Peabody factory of Charles H. Tigh, then considered the most modern and best appointed morocco leather factory in the county, and it may be said here that the concern did not lose any of its former prestige during the five years of his superintendence, but at the end of that time he had accumulated sufficient money, the savings of former years, with which to start in business on his own account. In 1875 ^^^- Poor became junior partner of the firm of Hutchinson & Poor, and engaged in the business of manufacturing sheepskins, continued until 1883, and then became senior member of the firm of Poor & Littlefield, his partner being Stephen S. Littlefield, of Peabody. This concern carried on a more extensive business in manufacturing sheepskins than its predecessor, and it was continued with excellent results and without change in personnel until 1899, when Mr. Littlefield withdrew and the partnership was succeeded by the N. H. Poor Leather Company, incorporated November 29, 1899, with a capital of $30,000. This company manufactures morocco leathers, Goodyear insoling leather, with turn and moulded grainless counters - a special product. Since its incorporation Mr. Poor has been president and treasurer and active managing officer of the company and its large business. In 1903 a new factory building was erected and equipped with fans and steam for drying purposes. This equipment in the light leather manufacture, was an innovation, a new departure from former methods of the drying process, but it proved a progressive step and has since been followed bv all similar factories in the country.

From what is written in preceding paragraphs it will be seen that Mr. Poor is something more than a successful business man, and it will not be considered in any sense a violation of propriety to say of him that he is "a man who does things," and he has honestly earned all that is the result of a full half century of well-directed efl:"ort since he started out as a boy and began driving shoepegs in his stepfather's shop. It was noticed then that he was an industrious boy and the same quality was observed several years later when at the end of his apprenticeship he was placed in charge of his employer's factory. Then was laid the foundation of his business success, the principal elements of which are industry, capability and good business management. Outside of business life he has for many years been looked upon as one of the substantial men of Peabody, although he never was ambitious of any other position than that of a good citizen and self-respecting man. For twenty-five years he was an active member of the Peabody fire department and during the last of his service in the department served on the board of engineers. In 1906 he represented the towns of Peabody and Danvers in the general court, and in the house was a member of the committee on towns - this being the last year that Peabody and Danvers voted together for representative. He holds membership in the Ancient Order of United Workmen. May 13. 1863, in Peabody, Air. Poor married ]^lary S. Lufkin, born in Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of Josiah and Mehitable Lufkin. Children: i. George Horace, born March 23, 1864, died young. 2. George Horace, born January 24. 1866. 3. Charles Flint, born May 19, 1868. 4. Mabel Coleman, born January 9. 1876. 5. Arthur K.. bi^rn in Danvers, May 20, 1884.

(VII) Albert F. Poor, son of Joseph and Eliza (Munroe) Poor, was born in Peabody, September 6, 1846, and since early manhood has been actively identified with the industrial history of that town. He was educated in the Peabody schools, and learned the trade of tanning imder his brother Warren, who then was associated in business with his father. In 1870 he purchased his father's interest in the tannery and its business, and for several years was partner with his brother Warren. He also became ])artner with his younger brother Joseph in a leather tannery in Salem, and continued in business under tlie firm style of Poor Pirothers for about ten years, when the partnership became an incorporated company- Seven years later this company merged in the American Hide & Leather Company, with which Mr. Poor was connected in the capacity of superintendent for some four years previous to his retirement from active pursuits.

Aside from the business interests which engaged ]\Ir. Poor's attention for so manv years, he always has taken an active part in all measures proposed for the welfare of his native town and its institutions. He is a director of the \\'arren National P.ank of Peabodv : member of the Exchange News Room; for more than thirty years a member of Peabody Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and member, and for six years trustee of Peabody Institute. He married, in Peabody, May 11, 187 1, Sarah F. Weed, born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, January 22, 1 85 1, died in Peabody, July 29, 1905, daughter of Henry and Clarissa (Smith) Weed. Albert F. and Sarah F. (Weed) Poor had children: i. Clara Eliza, born December 29, 1871 ; lives with her parents. 2. Katie Weed, born April 5, 1874, died January 29, 1877. 3. Benjamin Albert, born December 7, 1877 ; married Angelina Newhall, of South Peabody ; child: Uenjamin Albert Poor, Jr. 4. Ella Alunroc, born March 24, 1882. 5. Fred Weed, born February 10. 1884. 6. Daniel W^arren, born November 15, 1877. 7. Henry Joseph, born August 7, 1889.

(\'II) Elmer Merton Poor, second child of Nathan Holt and Hannah Ellen (Gove) Poor, was born in Peabody, January 11, 1866, and since the death of his father in 1898 has filled the offices of clerk and treasurer of the town of Peabody. He married, in Peabody, October 22, 1891, Margaret Searle Lord, born in Salem, daughter of Daniel B. Lord (see Lord family). Mr. and Mrs. Poor have one son, Francis Lord Poor, born in Peabody. A lay 16, 1893.

The genealogical descent here LORD* triiced begins with Robert Lord, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1635. and runs through successive generations to that of Daniel B. Lord, of Salem, Massachuchusetts, whose daughter. Margaret Scarl Lord, married Elmer Merton Poor, of Peabody, Massachusetts.

(I) Robert Lord is believed to have been the son of the widow Katherine Lord, who came with him to Ipswich about or perhaps earlier than 1635. He was born in England about 1602 or 1603. and married there, about 1630, Mary Waite. His life was given largely to public service and by reason of this long connection with official duties he always has been regarded as one of the prominent early public characters in colonial history. Pie was made freeman 1635-6; deputy to general court, 1637-8: member of committee to fix county, town and farm lines, 1637-8; clerk of court at Ipswich, 1648; recorder, 1649; sealer of weights and measures, Ipswich, 1649; clerk of court in Salem, 1658; impowered to issue executions, 1652; searcher of coin, 1654: marshal or sheriff of Ipswich court,

(H) Nathaniel Lord, son of Robert and Mary (Waite) Lord, born in Ipswich, 1653, died January 18, 1733. He married, December 31, 1685, Mary Call, a widow, born 1658, died October 4, 1737, daughter of Philip Call, born in England, died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, June 14, 1662, and whose wife was I\Iary .

(III) Lieutenant I'hilip Lord, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Call) Lord, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 25, 1690, died January 30, 1753. He married, February 12, 1720, Tryphena Staniford, baptized March 21, 1698, died 1727, daughter of Deacon John Staniford, born October 21, 1648, died May 27, 1730. The wife of John Staniford (married before 1680), was Margaret Harris, born August 6, 1657, died February 25. 1752, daughter of Thomas Harris, born in England, 1615, died August 2, 1687, married November 15, 1647, Martha Lake, who died April 5,

1700. Abigail Harris, born March 8. 1664, daughter of Thomas Harris and his second wife, Hepzibah Crosswell. married Roger Conant. Hepzibah Crosswell, born May 20. 1668, died February 25, 1705-^6, was daughter of Thomas Crosswell, born 1633. died August 30, 1708, who married Priscilla Upham, born 1642, died December 8, 171 7. Thomas Harris was son of John Harris and Amy Hills.

(IV) Samuel Lord, son of Lieutenant Philip and Tryphena (Staniford) Lord, born January 23, 1725, died 1813, "very aged." He married January 23, 175 1-2, Abigail Conant, baptized April 19, 1732, died April 6, 1781, daughter of Roger Conant, born December 6,

1701, died November 22, 1731 (o. s.), married April 18, 1727, Abigail Harris, born September 16, 1705, died October 7, 1761. Roger Conant was son of Roger Conant. born INIarch 10, 1668-9, died 1745, married Mary Raymond, died in 1735, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary Raymond. Roger Conant last mentioned, was a son of Lot Conant, born on Cape Ann, about 1624, settled in Beverly, Massachusetts, about 1666. He married Elizabeth Walton, baptized in England, October 27, 1629.

fV) Daniel Bolles Lord, son of Samuel and Abigail (Conant) Lord, born 1761, died February 10, 1837. He married May 9, 1791. Hannah Edwarcls, born October 11, 1767, died October, 11, 1816, daughter of Joseph Edwards and Tryphena Smith. Joseph Edwards was baptized February 11, 1732, and married

(\T) Daniel Bolles Lord, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, son of Daniel Bolles and Hannah ( Edwards) Lord, born April 16, 1803, died ]\Iarch, 1840; married, December 25, 1832, Nancy Davis, born January 5, 1808, died April 17, 1889, daughter of John Davis, who married February 18, 1807, Ann Foote, born 1775, died April 9, 1850. Children: i. Daniel Bolles, born June 25, 1833. 2. Samuel Augustus, born June 14, 1835, died August 20, 1891, in China. He married first, July 11, 1857, Martha Clarke Phippin, of Salem, born June 12, 1838, died in Shanghai, China, June 12, 1874, having had child, Samuel Davis Lord, born September 14, 1866, married April 18, 1894, Eva R. Goulding, born September 21, 1865, daughter of Charles H. and Catherine ( Boyden ) Goulding, of Peabody. Daniel Bolles Lord married second, Omace Yoshtake, a Japanese woman of station ; children : Satsu Annie, born October 28, 1881 ; Edward, born April 13. 1883; Minnie, born July 19, 1884; Mary, bcTrn September 4, 1899. 3. Anna Maria, born April 28, 1837, died August 17. 1888; married March 18, i860, William \\'illett Hill, of Salem, born August 16, 183 1 ; child, Anna Lord Hill, born January 9, 1861 ; married August 12, 1888, Edward F. Dalton, born June 3, 1859.

(VII) Daniel Bolles Lord, of Salem, son of Daniel Bolles and Nancy (Davis) Lord, bom June 25, 1833 ; married, first, Martha Ann, daughter of Thomas Symonds, of Salem. Daniel Bolles Lord by his first wife had one child, Martha Ann Lord, born May 3, 1859: married May 25, 1879, Jesse F. Bassett, and had four children: i. Gertrude Lord Bassett, born November 17, 1879; married November 2, 1904, Henry A. Hanson and has one child, Kendall Hanson. 2. Alice Ferry Bassett, born October 15, 1881. 3. Charles Edward Bassett, born March 28, 1885. 4. ]\Iary Simonds Bassett, born July 20, 1893. Daniel Bolles Lord married second, December 25, 1862, Elizabeth Davis Crane, born in Peabody, August 17, 1838, daughter of Lemuel Crane and Margaret Searl- Wilson. Children: i. Daniel Frank Lord, born July 27, 1863, died October 7, 1864. 2. Samuel Crane Lord, born December 5, 1864; married September 7, 1893, ^lary Helen Walker, of St. John, New Brunswick ; child : ]\Iary Rebecca Lord, born January 30, 1905. 3. Mary Lizzie Lord, born September 7, 1866; married October 14, 1896, Richards Bryant Alackintosh, born November 7, 1865 :

Footc. - Anna Foote, wife of John Davis, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Crowninshield) Foote, was born January 19, 1753, died August 8, 1830, and married March i. 1774. Samuel "Foote was son of Samuel Foote Jr., born May 13, 1700, married October 6. 1745, Elizabeth Messery, born December 14, 1726. daughter of Aaron Messery, baptized June 27, 1697, ^"tl married May 18, 1698. Elizabeth Krite. She w^as born May 18, 1668, daughter of Charles Krite, who married ]\Iay 19, 1667, Sara Lemon. Aaron ^lessery was son of Aaron and Susanna Messery. Samuel Foote Jr., who married Elizabeth Messery, was son of Samuel Foote, who was born April 29, 1673. and married November 12, 1696, Mary Palmer, born September 8, 1673, daughter of Richard and ^Jary Gilbert, who married October 24, 1672.

Crozviiiiisliicld. - Anna Crowninshield. wife of Samuel Foote, was daughter of John Crowninshield, born 1728, died June i. 1777, married July 12, 1750, Mary Ives, born 1728, died June 4, 1794. She was daughter of Benjamin Ives, born 1692, died 1752, married June 12, 1717-8, Anne Derby, born December 10, 1695. She was daughter of Roger Derby, born in Topsham, England, in 1643, died September 26, 1698, married Elizabeth Haskitt, widow of William Dyner. She was born in England, and died in March, 1740. John Crowninshield, father of Anna Crowninshield. was son of Captain Clifford Crowninshield, who was born December 10, 1699, died April 4, 1776, and married May 15, 1721, Martha Hillard. She was born April 4, 1704, and died August 30, I73<^, daughter of Joseph Hillard, born January 4, 1672, and married Rachel Allen. Captain Clifford Crowninshield was son of Dr. John Kasper Ritcher von Kronenshelt, who was born in Germany, died December 19, 171 1. He married December 5, 1694, Elzabeth Allen, baptized ]vlarch 6, 1677.

Crane. - Elizabeth Davis Crane, who married Daniel Bolles Lord (7), his second wife, was daughter of Lemuel Crane, who was born Alarch 11, 1799, died January 17, 1875, and married June lO, 1830, Margaret Searl Wilson, who was born February 17, 1805, and died June 3, 1859. Lemuel Crane was son of Lemuel Crane, who was born March 18, 1757, died November 10, 181 7, and married October 2, 1793. Elizabeth Davis, born September 29. 1768, died November 4, 1839. Lemuel Crane, who married Elizabeth Davis, was son of Elijah Crane, who was born January 29, 1728, died February 12, 1780, and married in July or August, 1756, Sarah Houghton, born 1722, died March 20, 1819. Elijah Crane was son of Henry Crane, who was born February 29, 1708, died February 2, 1760, and married Mehitable \"ose. She was born June 21, 1710, and died February 24, 1778, daughter of Captain Nathaniel \'ose, who was born November 17, 1672, died October 10, 1753, and married Mary Belcher, born 1699, died June 22, 1758, daughter of Samuel Belcher, born August 24.

1637. and Mary liillings, baptized December 2T,, 1645. died December 15, 1663. Captain Natiianiel \'ose was son of Edward \"ose, who was born in 1636. died January 29, 1716, and married Abigail Wyat (or Waite), who died May 18, 171 2. Henry Crane was son of Ebenezcr Crane, who was born August 10, 1665, died July 30. 1725, and married December 13, 1689, Mary Tolman, born November 26, 1671. She was a daughter of Thomas Tolman, wdio was born in 1633, died September 12. 1718. and married November 4, 1654, Elizabeth Johnson, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in

1638, and died December 15, 1726. Ebenezer Crane was son of Henry Crane, who was born in England in 1624, died in ]\Iilton. Massachusetts, March 21, 1709, and married Tabitha (or Elizabeth) Kingsley, who died in Milton, October 2^. 1632.

Wilson. - ]\Iargaret Searl Wilson, wife of Lemuel Crane, and mother of Elizabeth Davis Crane, who married Daniel Bolles Lord, was daughter of Clark Wilson, born September 25, 1771, died August 21, 1818, and married December 20, 1795. Deliverance Searl. born June 14, 1767, died September 19, 1849. Clark Wilson was son of Benjamin Wilson, who was born in Salem \*illage in 1734. died in Danvers, JMassachusetts, January 6. 18 18, and married November 28, 1759. Lydia Ban- croft, born May i, 1738, and died in Danvers, June 5, 181 1. Benjamin Wilson was son of Robert Wilson, who died in 1761, married March 6. 1717-8, Mary Procter, born October 12, 1695. She was a daughter of Benjamin Procter, born June 10, 1659, died 1716, married December 8, 1694, Mary Whittredge. Benjamin Procter was a son of John Procter Jr., who was born in 1632, in England, and

Davis. - Elizabeth Davis, who married Lemuel Crane, was daughter of Deacon Noah Davis of Roxbury, Massachusetts, born November 20, 1 741, died January 30, 1809, married September 19, 1765, Elizabeth Weed, of Roxbury, born January 5, 1744, died January 4, 1812. Deacon Noah Davis was son of Colonel Aaron Davis, of Roxbury, born April 26, 1709, died July 29, 1777, married January 25, 1732-3, Mary Perrin, of Roxbury, iDorn March 6, 1715, died July i, 1785. She was daughter of Noah Perrin, of Roxbury, born December 24, 1697, died 1788, who married June 14, 1705, Patience Walker, who died November 28, 1730. Noah Perrin was son of John Perrin, who died May 6, 1694, and whose wife son of Ebenezer Davis, born April 9, 1675, died May 14, 1712, married April 18, 1700. Hannah White, who died January 13, 1763. She was a daughter of Joseph White, who died September 10, 1725. and his wife Hannah

Davis was son of William Davis, who was born in England in 1 61 7, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1642, married October 21, 1648, Alice Thorpe, and died December 20, 1683.

Houghton. - Sarah Houghton, who married Elijah Crane, was daughter of Ebenezer Houghton, born August 25, 1695, in England, and died January 24, 1783, in Milton, Massachusetts. He married September 17, 1722, Sarah Evans, who died September 3, 1775, daughter of Robert and Ann Evans. ' Robert Evans, born September 30, 1665, died 1753, was son of Robert and Elizabeth Evans. The last Robert Evans settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1665. and died there February 27, 1697. His wife Elizabeth was killed by Indians, June 28, 1688. Ebenezer Houghton was son of Joseph Houghton, who was boi:n in England, July 6, 1657, and died in Milton, Massachusetts, March 22, 1737. He married

October 31, 1693, Jane Vose, of Milton, who died October 2, 1 707, and was a daughter of Edward Vose, who was born in 1636, married Abigail Wyatt (or Waite) and died January 29, 1716. Joseph Houghton was son of Ralph Houghton, who was born in Lancaster, England, came to America 1635, and founded the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1647. He died April 15, 1705. He married,

Weld. - Elizabeth Weld, who married Deacon Noah Davis, was a daughter of Ebenezer Weld, born October 19, 1702, and married November 18, 1725, Mary Craft, born April

I, 1706, daughter of Samuel Craft, of Roxbury, who was born June 16. 1667, died December 9, 1709, and married Elizabeth Sharpe, of Brookline. She was baptized August 20, 1 67 1, died April 18, 1743, daughter of John and Martha (Vose) Sharpe. John Sharpe was born March 12, 1642-3, and died April 21, 1676. Samuel Craft was son of Samuel Craft, of Roxbury, born December 12, 1637, married October 16, 166 1, Elizabeth Seaver, born November 19, 1643, died December 9, 1731. Ebenezer Weld was son of Joseph Weld, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who was born September 13, 1650, died February 14, 1711-12, and married November 27, 1679, Sarah Faxon, of Braintree, Massachusetts, born August 21, 1659, died October i.], 1745, daughter of Thomas Faxon, who died May 25, 1662. He married April 11, 1653, Deborah Thayer, who was baptized in February, 1629-30, and died May 31, 1662. Joseph Weld was son of John W^eld, who was born October 28, 1623, died September 20, 1691, and married December 24, 1649, iVIargaret Bowen, who was born in Wales and died September 15, 1692.

Scarl. - Deliverance Searl, wife of Clark Wilson, of whom mention has been made, was daughter of Joseph Searl of Marblehead, ^Massachusetts, who was born March 21, 1745, died at sea about 18 16, and married December

II, 1766, Margaret Dunlop. She was born April 14, 1740, and died at Danvers, Massachusetts, March 3, 1838, daughter of James and Katherine Dunlop. Joseph Searl was son of Joseph Searl, who married February 11, 1729, Deliverance Curtis, daughter of John Curtis, who married December 25, 1707, Margaret Dolliver. Joseph Searl, last mentioned, was a son of Joseph Searl.

- lied April 20, 1/77, ^^'"-^ married Ruth Newhall, of Lynn, Massachusetts, who died February 25, 1745. She was daughter of Captain Elisha Newhall. born November 20, 1686, in Lynn, and died March 19, 1773, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He married February 27, 1710-11, Jane Breed, of Lynn, born 1686, died ]\Iarch 22, 1773, daughter of Ensign Joseph and Sarah (Farrington) Breed, born 1621. Captain Elisha Newhall was son of Ensign Joseph Newhall, who was born September 22, 1658, died January 29, 1705-6, and married in 1678 Susanna Farrar, who was born March 26, 1657, and died after 1753. John Bancroft Jr. was son of Deacon John Bancroft, who was born January 25, 1682, died December 25, 1768. and married April 19, 1704, ]\Iary Clarke, born 1684, died October i, 1723, daughter of Thomas Clarke, of Lynn, Massachusetts, who died in 1693. He married August 31, 1658, JMary, widow of Jeremiah Swain, and whose family name was Smith. She was born before 1663 and died in 1688. Deacon John Bancroft was son of Deacon John I'ancroft, bcM-n in Reading, Massachusetts, h'ebruary 3, 165 1, died in Lynnheld, January 25, 1735. He married September 24, 1678, Elizabeth Eaton, born 1662, died 1704. Mackintosh. - Richards Bryant ]\rackintosh, born November 17. 1865. married October 14. 1896, Mary Lizzie Lord, born September 7, t866, daughter of Daniel Bolles Lord (see Lord family) and Elizabeth Davis Crane (see Crane). Richards Bryant Mackintosh is a son of Charles Gideon Mackintosh, who was born in Canton, Massachusetts, July 25, 1823, and married October 2"/, 1852. Flarriet Ann Richards, of Dedham, Massachusetts. She was born in Dedham. September it. 1826, and died in Peabody, Massachusetts. August i. 1897 C'^ee Richards). Charles Gideon Mackintosh is a son of Gideon Mackintosh, who was born in Needham, Massachusetts. Afav 13. 1789, and died in Canton. September 19. 1859, and married November 5. 181 2. Nancy Sherman, who was born November 28, 1794. and died in Canton, September 19, 1836. Gideon ^Mackintosh was a son of Gideon ^lackintosh. who was born in 1759, died in Milton. jMassachusetts. July 31, 1825, and married October 23, 1783, Mehitable Dewing, who was born in Needham, Massachusetts, May 10. 1759, and died February 25. 1847. She was a daughter of Henry Dewing, who was born April i, 1724, died April 3, 1805, and married November 9, 1752, Elizabeth Tolman, of Milton, who was born October 7,

1728, and died March 29, 1812. Gideon Mackintosh, last mentioned, was a son of Colonel \Villiam Mackintosh, of Needham, Massachusetts, born June 5, 1722, died June 3, 181 3, and married August 26, 1745, Abigail Whiting of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Richards. - Harriet Ann Richards, who married Charles Gideon Mackintosh, was a daughter of Martin Richards, who was born in Dedham. ^Massachusetts, July 14, 1797, died October 6, 1837, and married September 11, 1822, Harriet Angier, who was born April 9, 1803, and died October 21, 1885. Martin Richards was son of Luther Richards, born September 24, 177 1. died December 25, 1832, married May 24. 1794, Polly Battle, born August 8. 1777, died February 27, 1861. Luther Richards was son of Abiather Richards, born 1730. died September 30, 1803, married May 31. 1753. Elizabeth Richards, born November 9, 1730, died i\ugust 3, 181 3. Abiather Richards was son of John Richards, born July 12, 1698. married June 5, 1722. Abigail Avery, born May 8, 1699. John Richards was son of John Richards, born May 20, 1673, died January 26. 1718, married Judith Fairbanks. John Richards, last mentioned, was a son of John Richards, born July i, 1641, died December 21, 1688. married October i, 1672, Mary Colburn. born January 21, 1650, died December 17, 1685. John Richards was son of Edward Richards, born in England, 1610, died August 25, 1684, married September 10, 1638. at Dedham, Massachusetts, Susan 1 lunting.

Sherman. - Nancy Sherman, who married Gideon Mackintosh, was born November 28, 1794. died September 19, 1836, and was daughter of John Sherman, born 1750. died August 8, 1802. and married first, Rebecca .Austin, second, September 4. 1794, Anne Tucker, of Milton, Massachusetts, born September 2^, 1762. died December 7. 1858. She was daughter of Joseph Tucker, who was born July 8, 1725, died May 22, 1789. and married June 4, 1754, Mary Dana, of Pomfret, Connecticut, who was born in 1733 and died October 7. 1792. John Sherman was son of Roger Sherman, born April 19, 1721, died July 23. 1793, and married first, November 12, 1749. Elizabeth Hartwell, of Canton, born 1726, died October 19, 1760, second, May 12, 1763, Rebecca Trescott, of Danvers. Massachusetts.

1775. and married Anna Mixer, who was baptized March 30, 1774. Luther Angier was a son of John Angier, who was born October I, 1723, died August 3, 1793, and married February 20, 1752, Bethia Liscom. John Angier was a son of Joseph Angier, who was born June 20, 1702, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and married December 16, 17 19, Ehzabeth Bruce, who was born November 8, 1695, in Framingham, Massachusetts. Joseph Angier was a son of Joseph Angier, who died November 30, 1 7 18, and whose wife was Ehzabeth , died January 24, 1732.

This surname has long been held GOVE by an old and eminently respectable English family, and the branch here to be considered traces easily to the years of the fifteenth century; but our present narrative has chiefly to deal with the descendants of John Gove, born in England in 1604, came from London to New England in 1646, with his family, and settled in the plantation at Charlestown, Massachusetts.

(L) John Gove, said to have been the common ancestor of nearly all who bear that surname in this country, brought with him to New England in 1646 his wife Sarah, born in England in 1601, and their children, two sons and one daughter. He was a mechanic, a dealer and worker in brass, but he lived only about one year after settling in Charlestown. His elder son John, born in England, in 1627. lived in Charlestown, where he was a turner by trade, a deacon of the church many years, constable and tythingman, and otherwise prominent in town life. He married first, October 6, 1658, Mary Aspinwall, who died November 14, 1676, leaving six children. He married second, March 15, 1677, Mary Woodward, who died September 11, 1700, leaving three children. He married third, December 2, 1700, ^^'idow Elizabeth Waldron, and he himself died November 24, 1704. His descendants-settled chiefly in Watertown, Lincoln and other towns in Massachusetts, and one of them went to New Hampshire and founded a branch of the family there. Edward, second son of John and Sarah, will be made the subject of more extended mention in the succeeding paragraph. ]\Tary Gove, only daughter of John and Sarah, is supposed to have been given in adoption to Ralph Mansall by her father under his will. She is mentioned in Mansall's will, but little else appears to be known of her.

and Sarah Gove, born in 1630, in England, came to America with his parents in 1646. About 1665 he went to New Hampshire and settled in Hampton, where he became a man of influence and considerable means. In 1683 he was a member of the assembly which was summarily dissolved on the order of Governor Cranfield, an action that aroused great public indignation and caused the people of New Hampshire to show their resentment of the gubernatorial assumption of authority by a formidable movement of which Edward Gove himself was the guiding spirit and which had for its purpose the overthrow of the government as then established. For this offense, which was charged as treason against the crown, Edward Gove and ten other leading men, one of whom was his son John, who were conspicuously identified with the opposition to Cranfield's arbitrary and unwarranted action, were brought to court, tried and convicted. Gove himself received the sentence of death and his estate was confiscated, but the other alleged offenders were pardoned. He was sent to England in irons, there imprisoned for three years in London tower, then was pardoned and his estates restored to him.

In speaking of the events noted above, Mr. Dow, in his most excellent "History of Hampton," has characterized Governor Cranfield as "a man as unprincipled and as greedy of gain as the king himself," and that "for a valuable consideration" he consented to become the tool of Mason for the purpose of carrying out his purposes in appropriating as much as possible of the lands of New Hampshire, and that regardless of the rights of others. The events to the movement in opposition to Cranfield's tyrannical acts Mr. Dow has narrated under the caption of "Edward Gove's Insurrection," and the responsibility for the unwarranted charges against Gove and his associates he lays at the door of one Randolph, of whom he writes that "to one unacquainted with Randolph's character and his malignity toward the people of New England it would be difficult to account for such a statement : but taking into consideration his character and prejudice, it is even more surprising that he could keep so near the truth." "Gove and his associates having been arrested, the governor sent a strong party of horse to guard them (then prisoners in irons) from Hampton to Portsmouth." At the trial Gove was examined first. He did not deny what he had done and admitted that "he did sound or cause to be sounded, the. trumpet being his own; and did draw his sword because his own," and added: "The Governor is no judge of this court, but a pretended one, and a traitor to the king and his authority." Then addressing Governor Cranfield directly, he said : "Your honour is in more danger of your hfe than I." Being asked what he meant, he answ'ered : "God in heaven will do me justice." Having been adjudged guilty of treason, the sentence pronounced upon Edward Gove is recorded in these words : "That he should be carried back to the place from whence he came, and from thence be drawn to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck and cut down alive, and that his entrails be taken out and burnt before his face, and his head cut off, and his body divided into four quarters, and his head and quarters disposed of at the king's l)leasure." This revolting sentence, however, was not executed, and after three years imprisonment in the tower of London he was granted full pardon, restored to his former rights in citizenshi]) and property. Thus it was that the progenitor of one of the most prominent New I^ngland families barely escaped a martyr's death, for he in truth had committed no ofifence and only stood up strongly and without fear in defense of the common rights and liberties of the people against those wdio opj^ressed them and sought to rob them of their privileges as freemen as well as of their possessions.

Edw^ard Gove died May 20, i6()i. In 1660 he married Hannah Titcomb ; children: i. John, born September 19, 1661. 2. William, l)orn October 21, 1662, died March i, ify(^T). 3. Hannah, born March 5, 1664; married Abraham Clements. 4. Mary, born April 4, 1666; married Joseph Sanborn. 5. Abigail, born July 23. 1667, died at Haverhill, August

(HP) John Gove, eldest son and child of Edward and Hannah (Titcomb) Gove, born September 19, 1661, died about 1737. He was one of those who were tried for treason with his father, but was acquitted. In 1669 he (called Ensign John Gove) was one of a committee for laying out the west division of town lands in Hampton, was lot layer 1708. and in 1704 was one of a committee appointed ''to build a barn on the parsonage for the use of the minister." In 1706 Ensign John Gove w-as appointed to prosecute for the town any person who should fence in the commoners'

(1\') Jonathan (iove, second son and fourth child of John and Sarah Gove, born in Hampton, New Hampshire, May 2, 1695, died August 6, 1761. He married first, July 21, 1720, Mary Lancaster, born in Hampton, June

1, 1701, only child of Thoma? Lancaster and wife Mercy Green, daughter of Abraham Green. Thomas Lancaster lived near Nathaniel Weare's mill. He married March 3, 1696, and was killed by Indians. August 17, T703, during Queen Anne's war. Jonathan Gove married second, March 23. 1730, Hannah Worthen. daughter of Sanuiel Worthen, who survived him and married second, Abner Philbrick. December 4, 1777. Jonathan Gove had children: i. Lydia, born August 28, 1720.

( \' ) John Gove, second child and eldest son of Jonathan and Mary (Lancaster) Gove, was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, January 28, 1722. He was a Quaker, and is thus mentioned in the records of the town of Weare : "John (lOve, a Quaker from Kensington, settled on lot 36. range 5. east of the North Ouaker meeting-house." During the early years of the revolution the pubHc men of W'eare felt considerable anxiety in regard to what position the so-called Quakers might take in defense of the common liberties, hence had recourse to the test oath to determine whether they were still "scrupulous of bearing arms."" Twenty-nine Quakers refused to subscribe to the oath, "on principle," among them John Gove and his son John and four others of the same surname. But this refusal to sign was not an indication of disloyalty, or of tory proclivities, and only showed that the Friends (commonly and incorrectly called Quakers), true to their creed were "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms." John Gove married Lydia Purington, of Kensington; children: I. Alary, born February i8, 1748; married Caleb Peaslee. 2. Elisha, born August 8, ?75o; married Betsey Purington, and removed to Vermont. 3. Adelia, born May 25, 1753; married Aaron Dow. 4. Robert, born December 3, 1755, died November 24, 1822. 5. Mark, born November 28, 1758; married Hannah Brown; removed to Lincoln, Vermont. 6. Phebe, born 1761 ; married Elijah Purington. 7. Lydia, born November 26, 1763; married Stephen Gove. 8. Swett, born October 7, 1765; died 1842, unmarried.

(VI) Robert Gove, son and fourth child of John and Lydia (Purington) Gove, born in Weare, New Hampshire, December 3, 1755, died in Deering, New Hampshire, November 24, 1822. He married October 22, 1783, at \\^eare, Huldah Brown, born December 13, 1761, died October 20, 1819, daughter of Elijah and Judith (Huntington) Brown. Hannah Brown, sister of Huldah Brown, married Mark, brother of Robert Gove.

(ATL) Robert Gove, son of Robert and Huldah (Brown) Gove, born in Deering, New Hampshire, Alay 30, 1784, died September 22, 1835 ; married, October 4, 1804, Sarah Huntington, who was born September 17, 1785, died December i, 1870, third child of Benjamin Huntington, who was born April 24, 1760, married Elizabeth Buxton, and settled in Weare, New Hampshire, about one mile west of Clinton Grove. Benjamin Huntington was a son of John Huntington, who was the elder of two children of John Huntington, whose wife was Abigail Jones. John Huntington, last mentioned, was a son of William Huntington, who married first, Mary Goodwin; second, in 1725, Widow Mary Colby : and William Huntington was a son of John Huntington, born in 1643 ^^^ married in 1665, Elizabeth Hunt. John Huntington, last mentioned, was a son of William Huntington^ who married Joannah Bayley, and who was a son of Simon Huntington, who married Margaret Barrett, of Warwick, England, and sailed for America in 1633,. with his wife and their four sons - William, Christopher, Simon, and one other who soon returned to the mother country. Simon, the father, died of smallpox on the voyage over, and his widow settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1640 William and Simon Huntington settled in that part of the old town of Salisbury that now is Amesbury, Massachusetts.

(VHI) Captain John R. Gove, son of Robert and Sarah (Huntington) Gove, born in Deering, New Hampshire, December 21, 1807, died November 9, 1878. For forty terms he was a school teacher in New Hampshire, and afterward became master of a vessel engaged in the foreign trade. Having followed the sea for many years he afterward became a farmer, and followed that occupation so long as he lived. He died in Peabody, Massachusetts, in 1878, and is buried in that town. Captain Gove married three times. His first wife was Sarah Dunsack, whom he divorced ; a son, born January i, 1830, and died young ; buried in Salem. He married second, in Havana, Cuba, Mary Amando De Soto. One son was born of this marriage, and he too, like his father and his mother's father became a sailorman, master of a foreign trading vessel when he was only nineteen years old. On the last voyage out the ship sailed for Antwerp, a letter from him was received from Antwerp but never afterwards was heard of. Captain Gove married third, Lephe Putnam Lovejoy, born in Deering, New Hampshire, August 5, 1799, died in Castile, New York, February 3, 1874, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Willoughby) Lovejoy, both natives of Hollis, New Hampshire, and her mother was a daughter of John Willoughby, whose father John Willoughby came to this country from Glasgow, Scotland. Captain John R. Gove and Lephe P. Lovejoy, his third wife, had two children: i. Hannah Ellen, became wife of Nathan Holt Poor (see Poor family). 2. ]\Iary Bowers, born December 15, 1841, died December 19, 1902; married Nyrum Rathbun ; had son, John Henry Rathbun, born at Castile, New York, June 4, 1868.

and had a son and daughter before leaving his native land. He came to America it is thought in 1834, in the bark "Elizabeth," from Ipswich, England. His name is not on the passenger list, but that of his friend Robert Day appears, and as they settled on adjoining lots in Newtown, Massachusetts Bay, now in the city of Cambridge, May 6, 1635, it is reasonable to believe that they came together. In June, 1636, Rev. Thomas Hooker and about a hundred others, men, women and children, l)robably including Nathaniel Ely, made their way through the wilderness to a fertile spot on the Connecticut river and made the first settlement at Hartford. It appears from the early records and a map made in 1640 that Ely owned a homestead there. In 1639 he was one of the constables, and in 1643 and 1649 one of the selectmen. The name of Nathaniel Ely is on the monument to the memory of the first settlers of Hartford. He afterwards removed to what is now Nor walk, Connecticut, of which he was one of the founders and first settlers. There he remained until 1659, when he sold his property and removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he passed the remainder of his life. Here, as at Hartford, he was called to serve the public soon after his arrival, and was selectman in Springfield in 1 66 1 -63-66-68-7 1 and 73. His place of residence in that town from 1660 to 1665 is not definitely known, though it is most likely that he lived in what is now Chicopee. In 1665 he became the keeper of the ordinary, or tavern, a business which he continued to follow to the time of his death, December 25, 1675. Martha, his wife, died in Springfield, October 23, 1688. Children: i. Samuel, mentioned lielow. 2. Ruth, died October 12. 1662.

(H) Samuel Ely, son of Nathaniel VJy (I), was born probably in Hartford, Connecticut, or Cambridge, ^Massachusetts ; died March 19, 1692. He removed to Springfield with his parents, and married in that town, October 28. 1659, ]\Iary Day, daughter and youngest child of Robert Day and his second wife Editha fStebbins) Day. Mary was born in Hartford in 1641. Samuel Ely was quite successful in acquiring property, and at his death left a considerable estate. He died in Springfield. Ten of their sixteen children died in infancy or in early youth. Children: i. Child, born and died in 1660, at Springfield. 2. Samuel, born March i, 1662, died March 22, 1662. 3. Joseph, born August 20, 1663,

(III) Samuel Ely, son of Samuel Ely (2), w^as born in Springfield, May 9, 1668, and died in ^^'est Springfield, August 23, 1732. He was prominent in town afi"airs; selectman 1702, 1716 and 1719; and clerk of second parish (West Springfield) 1702 to 1721, excepting years 17 14 and 171 5. Samuel El}^ married first, November 10, 1697, Martha Bliss, born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, June i, 1674, died in West Springfield, July 6, 1702, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Leonard) Bliss. He married second. Sarah Bodurtha, born October 18, 168 r, died in West Springfield, May 8, 1766, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Bodurtha. Children of first wife: i. ^lartha, born December 21, 1698, in Springfield. 2. Mary, born February 14, 1700; died May 2"/, 1714, in West Si)ringfield. 3. Samuel, born September 21, 1701 ; mentioned below. Children of second wife: 4. Sarah, born August 30, 1705. at West Springfield; married, 1743, David Burt, of Longmeadow, born January 20, 1698, died June 29, 1786. 5. Nathaniel, born September 22. 1706, in West Springfield. 6. Jo.seph, born October 4, 1709; died April 4. 1741. 7. Tryphena, born April 7, 1712; died December 30, 1755. 8. Levi, born February 12, 1714. 9. Alary, born April 5, 1717; died January 30, 1761, at Hartford.

(IV) Samuel Ely, son of Samuel Ely (3), was born in Springfield, September 21, 1701 ; died at West Springfield, December 8, 1758; married, May 3, 1722. Abigail Warriner, born December 8, 1703, died September 27, 1762 in West Springfield, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Day) Warriner. Children, born at West Springfield: i. Samuel, born September

(V) Nathan Ely, son of Samuel Ely (4). was born in W^est Springfield, ^Massachusetts, January 9, 1739; died October 31, 1798, at AVest Springfield. He married, January 14, 1761, Silence Morgan, born October 14. 1740, died June i, 1807, daughter of Pelatiah and Rachel (Bagg) Morgan. Children, born in West Springfield: i. Silence, born June i, 1 761 ; died October 30, 1852, in West Springfield. 2. Lovisa, born November 2, 1763; died November 5, 1785. 3. Beulah, born January 20, 1766; died July 5, 1817, at Marshall, New York. 4. Mary, born June, 1768; died February 15, 1769, at West Springfield. 5. Mary, born December 22, 1770, died February 27, 1839, in Westfield, Massachusetts. 6. Martha, born April 22, 1772; died April 17, 1855, at Easthampton, Massachusetts. 7. Lucy, born August II, 1774; died March 9, 1834, at Westfield. 8. Rheumah, born March 27, 1777; died April 15, 1850, in Martinsburg, New York. 9. Nathan, born December i, 1779; mentioned below. 10. Lydia, born November, 1782; died May 9, 1783, in West Springfield.

(VI) Nadian Ely, son of Nathan Ely (5), was born in West Springfield, December i, 1779, and died there November 29, 1863. He married, January 21, 1802, Annie Price, born at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, November 19, 1779, died at West Springfield, ]\Iarch 6. 1862, daughter of James and Betsey (Boardman) Price. Children, born at West Springfield : I. James Price, born December 11, 1802. 2. Lydia, born August 27, 1804, died September 6, 1879. 3. Pelatiah, born April 18, 1806. 4. Nathan, born June 19, 1808 ; mentioned below. 5. Julia, born March 1, 1810.