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(VH) Nathan Ely. son of Nathan Ely (6), was born in West Springfield, June 19, 1808, and died at Wrentham, Massachusetts, March 12, 1885. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and at Wilbraham Academy, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He settled in Wrentham, Massachusetts, where he was occupied in mercantile pursuits, and later in agricultural aft'airs. He was a justice of the peace, and for many years held the office of selectman in Wrentham, and was member of the school committee of that town. He married, October 10, 1837, Amelia Maria Partridge, born in Wrentham, December 2T,, 181 5, died May 6, 1894, daughter of David and Jerusha (Blake) Partridge. Children, born at WVentham : i. Frederick David, born September 24, 1838; mentioned below. 2. James Price, born April 8, 1847; and died at \\>entham, August 28, following.

(VHI) Hon. Frederick David Ely, son of Nathan Ely (7), was born in W^rentham, Massachusetts, September 24, 1838. He attended the public schools of his native town, completing his preparation for college at Day's Academy, in the same town. He graduated from Brown L^niversity in the class of 1859. He read law in the offices of Hon. Waldo Colburn, of Dedham, and was admitted to the bar on October 8, 1862, before the superior court at Dedham. He first opened a law ofifice in Dedham, and in 1870 at Boston where he practiced until 1888. He was appointed trial justice at Dedham in 1867, and served in that office until 1884. Since 1888 he has been associate justice of the muPxicipal court of Boston. Judge Ely is an active and influential Republican. 'He was a representative to the general court from his district in 1873, and state senator 1878 and 1879. He was elected a representative in 1884 in the Ninth Congressional District and served during the Forty-ninth Congress. He held important committee places in his legislative career in the legislature and congress, and gave proof of exceptional ability and faithfulness as a legislator. He was on the judiciary committee in 1873 and 1879 ^^"^^^ on charitable institutions in 1878; on the committee on elections and that of private land claims in Congress. He continued to reside in Dedham and has been a prominent citizen in that town for many years, giving repeated evidence of his public spirit and zeal for the welfare of the community. He has been chairman of the Dedham school committee ; trustee of the Dedham Listitution for Savings ; director of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; member of the Dedham Historical Society ; and author of various addresses of historical value. In religion Judge Ely is an Episcopalian, and he is a vestryman of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Dedham. Judge Ely is a prominent Mason, past master of Constellation Lodge of Dedham, grand marshal and deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Alassachusetts. Judge Ely has frequently said that whatever success

Judge Ely married first, in Boston, December 6, 1866, Eliza Baldwin Whittier, born in Monroe, Maine, April 4, 1844, died at Dedham, February 12, 1881, daughter of Seth and Harriet Elizabeth (Rice) Whittier. He married second, in Dedham, August 10, 1885, Anna Emerson, daughter of Lyman Emerson, of Rochester, A^ermont. (See Emerson family). Children of the first wife: i. Frederick Augustus, born April 12, 1868, at Dedham; attended public schools of Dedham, pjoston Latin school, Boston University Law school, and died during his second year, February 13, 1890. 2. Ada Baldwin, born April 15, 1870; died November 5, 1870. 3. Amelia Maria, born February 12, 1874; married, February 26, 1906, Dr. \\'alter Clark Howe, of Boston.

(V) Jerusha Blake, daughter of Jacob Blake (4), was born August 17, 1788, and died June 7. 1867. She married David Partridge. Their daughter Amelia ^larfa Partridge married. October 10, 1837. Nathan Ely, of Wrentham (7). (See Ely family).

(\'I) James Emerson, son of EMERSON Rev. Joseph Emerson (5). was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1655, and died at Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1718. He married, at Mendon.

DANA cestor, came from England in 1640, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married Anna Bullard, of Cambridge. He died April 2, 1690. He married Anne . Children : Anne, Jacob,

(in Benjamin Dana, son of Richard Dana ( i), was born February 20, and was baptized April 8, 1660; married. May 24, 1688, Mary Buckminster. He died August 13, 1738.

( I\^) Francis Dana, son of Captain Benjamin Dana (3), was born February 6, 1737; married Eleanor Foster, January 14, 1768. He settled in Waitsfield, Vermont, in 1788-9, the first of the family to locate in that town. He died there February, 181 3. His daughter Eunice Dana married Enoch Emerson (9). (see Emerson sketch).

Benjamin Parker, the immi- PARKER grant ancestor, settled in Kittery, Maine, where he bought land of Diamond Sergent, 1718. He died in 1 75 1-2, as shown by his will. His wife died May 5, 1721. Children recorded in Newcastle: T. Thomas, born September 25, 1703; married .\nna Jenness, December 12, 1734. 2. Elizabeth, born September 24, 1709; married October 17, 1737, Joseph Pierce, of Portsmouth. 3. Benjamin, born July 29, 1713; mentioned below. 4. Hannah, born August 13, 1718; not named in will.

(II) Benjamin Parker, son of Benjamin Parker (i), was born in Newcastle, July 29, 17 13. He married first (intention published November 10, 1739), Mary Googin, widow; second, December 12, 1772, Sarah Newmarch. Children, all by first wife: i. Noah, born February 12, 1739-40; married August 17, 1763, Eunice Deering. 2. Benjamin, born November 29, 1743; married February 18, 1773. Eunice Haley. 3. Samuel, born December 2, 1745 ; mentioned below. 4. Mary, born November 23, 1747; died January 8, 1835. 5. Elizabeth, born February 29, 1749-50; married September 10, 1772, Robert Haley. 6. Sarah, born April 9, 1752; married February 22,

(IH) Samuel Parker, son of Benjamin Parker (2), was born December 2, 1745, at Kittery, ]\Iaine. He settled in the adjacent town of Berwick. Among his children was William, mentioned below.

(IV) William Parker, son of Samuel Parker, son of Samuel Parker (3), born in IJerwick. Maine, July 11, 1789, died in Ouincy, Massachusetts, July 11, 1872. He married Bathsheba Robie, born at Northampton, New Hampshire, June 28, 1790, died in Quincy, January 28, 1875. Children: i. Sarah Ann, born July 26, 1809, at North Berwick, Maine; died February 26, 1877, at Stratham. New Hampshire ; married first, John Moore, of Stratham, who died 1837; children: \'ienna, Thomas and John Moore : she marvied second, Reuben Smith, of Stratham : children: Plenry, Ariana. Samuel, Hannah and Frank Smith. 2. John, born b'ebruary 29, 1810, at North Berwick; died March 24, 1867, at Quincy; married May 21, 1833, Nancy Harris, of \\'orcestcr ; children : i. William, born August 6, 1835; ii. Eliza R., November 28, 1837; iii. John, May 22, 1840; iv. Josephine, September 2, 1844: v. .Maria, September 14, 1848; vi. Charles. October 13. 1849; '^'ii- Benjamin Franklin, June 5, 1854; viii. Elizabeth Moulton, November 24, 1858: i.\-. James ]Munroe, A])ril 10. 1852; x. Samuel A.. October 13, 1849. 3- Alvin, born February I, 1812, at Parsonsfield, Elaine; married Eliza Hall, of East Boston, April 13. 1840; children: i. Lorenzo, born December 17, 1842; ii. .\.lvin F., February i8, 1844: iii. ]\lary Adelaide, June 7, 1850; iv. Harriet .\. ; v. Mary Adelaide, June 11, 1849. (The foregoing are not in order of birth). 4. Mary E., born May 12, 1815, at Parsonsfield, died at Ouincy. May 2, 1893; married December 28, 1843, Ebenezer Harmon, of Ouincy. 5. William Parker, born September 13, t8i6; mentioned below. 6. George Washington, born September 10, 1820, at Parsonsfield; died June 10, 1866, at Northampton, New Hampshire : married Elizabeth Robie, of Northampton ; had infant son who died June 6, 1853. 7. Elniira B., born June 26, 1824, at Parsonsheld : died September 8, 1869, at Ouincy; married June 5, 1845, Martin INTerritt; children: i. Annette Merritt, born May 4, 1847; ii- ^^illiam P. Merritt, born October 11, 1848, died March 21, 1853; iii- Lenora G. Merritt, born October 14, 1851, died October 25, 1853. 8. Ethelinda, born March 5, 1826, at Parsonsfield ; died May 29, 1893, at Lowell, Massachusetts; married first, June 16, 1845, Henry Augustus, son of John M. and Lucy (Pope) Newcomb; children: Charles H. Newcomb, born November 6, 1848, died October 20, 1868; Lucy Frances Newcomb, born April 8, 1846, died September 18, 1882; George Eugene Newcomb, born September 5, 1852, died 1000; married second, January 2, 1878, Philip Carver. 9. Nancy, died April 14, 1846, at Ouincy. 10. Samuel, died 1839, at Parsonsfield. II. W'illard. 12. Clarissa, born June 25, 1828; died July 20, 1866, at Quincy; married first, May 6, 1848, Samuel Baxter, of Quincy; children: i. Ellen Baxter, born January, 1850, died June 17, 1853; ii- Arthur Edgar Baxter, born September 3, 1851 ; married second, Florace Johnson, of Quincy ; one child, Clarissa Johnson, born December 7, 1859.

( \') William Parker, son of William Parker (4), born September 13, 1816, at Parsonsfield, Maine, died at Quincy, May 9, 1890. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He learned the trade of carpenter, and in 1836 came to Quincy, ^Massachusetts, and engaged in the business of builder and contractor, continuing with nuich success the rest of his life. He had the contracts for many of the finest buildings of Quincy, and he erected the first brick business block, then known as the Robertson Blocks in that city, ni)w called the Greenleaf Block. Mr. Parker was a member of Rural Lodge of Free Masons, of Quincy. He was assistant engineer of the Quincy fire department, with which he was connected for many years, and was also for a luunber of years the chief of police. He was a well-known, highly resjiected and useful citizen. He married, Alay 28, 1840, Emeline \\'ilson, born .August 5, 1823. daughter of William and Louisa (Adams) \Vilson. Children : I. Warren Samuel, born December 16, 1 861 : mentioned below. 2. Alice Howard, born September 26. 1868; died April 6, 1869.

(\T) Warren Samuel Parker, son of William Parker (5), was born in Quincy, December 16, 1861, and was educated in the public and high schools of that city. He learned his father's trade and became associated with him in the contracting business, succeeding to it in 1888, and continuing it to the present time. Mr. Parker is one of the leading builders of that section. In 1894 he was appointed exi6o aminer of plumbers in Quincy, and in 1907 inspector of buildings, being the first to hold this office. He is a member of Mt. WoUaston Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Universalist church, of which he has been parish clerk and member of the parish committee. He married, January 4, 1883, Carrie Eda Newcomb, born October zj, 1862, daughter of Bryant and Ellen (Bates) Newcomb. Children, born at Quincy: i. William Bryant, born December 5, 1883. 2. Warren Russell, September 23, 1887. 3. Alice, June 23, 1894. Carrie Eda (Newcomb) Parker is a descendant of the pioneer, Francis Newcomb. Francis Newcomb was born in England, in 1605, and came to Boston in the ship "Planter." in 1635, settling at Braintree in 1638; died there May 27, 1692; married Rachel . John, son of Francis Newcomb. was born in England, in 1634, and came with his ])arents to this country; married Ruth was born April 24, 1700; married first, Thankful Bingley, April 4, 1722; second, November 17, 1724, Mary Nash. Captain Thomas, son of Isaac Newcomb (4), was born in Braintree, June 15, 1730; married. May 28, if 51, Bertha Copeland. Bryant, son of Captain Thomas Newcomb, was born in Braintree, October 25, 1761 ; married, August 2, 1783, Jane Glover, born October 16, 1762. Bryant, son of Bryant Newcomb, was born January 22, 1796; married Louisa Hardwick. Bryant, son of Bryant Newcomb, was born July 7, 1S30; married Ellen Bates. Carrie Eda Newcomb, daughter of Bryant Newcomb, married Warren S. Parker, mentioned above.

family. Our first record of him in this country is October 27, 1665, when he bought of John Brown, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, the land south of Fowle's Mill, belonging later to Thomas Russell. The bridge over the brook on Woburn road, near Fowle's mills, was known as Wilson's Bridge as late as 1850. He was doubtless a near relative of Sergeant Edward W^ilson, who also settled in Cambridge. Robert died about 1685. He married Deborah, daughter of Andrew Stevenson. Children, born at Cambridge: i. Deborah, born September 25, 1666; married June 7, 1689, Elisha Buell. 2. Sarah, born October

(HI) John \\'ilson, son of Andrew Wilson (2), born in Cambridge, January 28^ 1702-3, died there February 11, 1773. His wife Martha died there November 26, 1797, aged, eighty-six years. He resided at Menotomy (West Cambridge), but his children were baptized in the Cambridge church. Children :

(IV) Edward Wilson, son of John Wilson (3), was born at Menotomy, Massachusetts (now Arlington) about 1735; married November 2},, 1758, Lucy Francis, of Medford. He owned the covenant at the Precinct church at West Cambridge October 21, 1759. In 1770 and again 1778 the town records mention land of the heirs of Andrew Wilson, deceased, then the southern boundary of land where Samuel A. Fowle's mills stand, formerly the ])roperty of the Cutter family. Edward was a taxpayer in Charlestown 1761-70. He resided in \\'cst Cambridge. Children, born in West Cambridge: i. Joseph, baptized October 28, 1759; married Elizabeth Caldwell, March 6, 1785. 2. Lucy, baptized January 25, 1761.

son (4), was born in West Cambridge, September 13, 1766. He was probably the same Samuel that owned the covenant and was baptized at the precinct church July 22, 1810. Among his children were: i. Samuel, married April 4, 18 1 3. ^Nlary Ann Frost, at West Cambridge. 2. William, mentioned below.

( \T ) William W'ilson, son of Samuel Wilson ( 5 ) . was born in West Cambridge, about 1789. He married, June i, 1817, Louisa, daughter of Alicajah and Alice (Haywood) .Adams. Louisa ( Adams ) Wilson was .descended from Henry Adams (i). of Braintree. (See Adams family). Her lineage: Louisa (7) married \\'illiam W'ilson; Micaiah Aflams (6) married Alice Haywood; ]\Iicajah (5) married Elizabeth Newhall ; Ebenezer (4) married Anna Boyleston ; Joseph (3) married Mary Chapin ; Joseph (2) married .Abigail Bexter ; Henry .Adams d).

Children of William and Louisa (.Adams) W'ilson: i. Louisa Ann, born December 18. 1818; died November 3, 1846; married .Albert Thayer. 2. George I'Vederick, born January zy, 182 1 ; married .Maria Stetson. 3. Emeliue, born .August 5, 1823: married William I'arker (see sketch). 4. hVancis. married Jane lirown. 5. William, married Sarah IVatt. 6. .Adaline, married Edward Al. Nutter. 7. Charles, married first, Mary Ifarris ; second,

The name Prescott is of PRESCOTT .Sa.xon origin, and is composed by the contraction of two Saxon words, priest and cottage, and therefore signifies priest cottage, or priest's house. The name Prescott has long been known in England. It was given to a street and lane or place in the ancient city of London. Prescott is also the name of a market town in Lancashire, England. Orders of knighthood were conferred upon some branches of the family, and they were among the nobility of England. The arms of the Prescotts of Digby, county of Lincoln, England, from whom the Ouincy ( Alassachusetts) Prescotts are descended, is described in the language of heraldry by Air. Burke as follows: "Ermine, a chevron sable on a chief of the second, two leopards heads or. Crest, out of a ducal coronet or. a bear's head and neck or, bristled of the first.*' The owls signify a prudent caution with patient endurance and a vigilant watchfulness espcciallv by night. The owl is Alinerva's bird, and was borne by the ancient Athenians at their armorial feasts. It is not possible to trace the direct lineage of the Prescotts who came to America farther back than the time of Queen Elizabeth, yet it is well known that Prescott was known as an ancient family in the town of Prescott aforesaid, from whom descended James Prescott, of Standish in Lancashire, one of the gentlemen who were recognized by an order of Queen Elizabeth dated 1564 to keep in readiness horsemen and armor. James Prescott married a daughter of Roger Standish, Esq., of Standish, and sister of Ralph Standish. Their oldest child of six was James who married .Alice Molineaux, and who for his bravery and military prowess and achievements was created lord of the manor of Digby in Lincolnshire, and had new arms granted to him already described. He became known as Sir James Prescott. He died March i, 1683, leaving a son John and a daughter .Annie ; the second son of this John was James, and it was his son James, baptized 1642-43, who emigiated to .New I'jigland and settled at Hampton, -New I lanij^shire. .All the Prescotts in this countr}- who can trace their ancestors of that name back to the revolution are believed to be descendants of James Prescott, of Standish. Colonel William Prescott, a native of Croton, Massachusetts, and the hero of I'unker Hill, was six generations removed.

( I ) James Prescott, from whom the Quincy ( -Massachusetts) Prescotts are descended, came from Digby. Lincolnshire, England, in 1665, and settled in Hampton. New Hampshire, which then and for some time after was com])rise(l within the "Old County of Norfolk, Massachusetts." He was admitted into the church, and in 1678 became a freeman. He was .a farmer, and a man of integrity and influence, possessing good sense, a sound and discriminating mind, and his judgment was much sought - a man in whose o|)inion the ])eo])le placed the most comjilete reliance. In 1694 he became an extensive landholder by grant of Lieutenant-Governor Weber, to which large additions were made later. He married, 1668, Alary, daughter of Nathaniel and Grace Boulter, born in E.xeter. New Hampshire, May 15, 1648. Their children were: i. Joshua, born Alarch i. 1669. 2. James. Jr.. see forward. 3. Rebecca, born .April 15. 1673, died November 9. 1723. 4. Jonathan, born .August 6, 1675, died January ^'- ^755- 5- ^lary. born June 11. 1677. died 1780. fh .Abigail. (7) Patience, (twins), born

(II) James Prescott, Jr., son of James and Mary (Boulter) Prescott, was born September I, 1671. He was a farmer, and known as Sergeant Prescott, probably from a service at Port Royal in 1701. He was a constable, and church deacon. He married first, March I, 1695, Maria Marston ; second, 1746, Abigail Gore Sanborn. Children, all by first wife:

(III) Samuel Prescott. son of James and Maria (Marston) Prescott, born iNIarch 14, 1697, died June 12, 1759. He served several years as selectman and town clerk, and held other offices at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, and was one of the scouting party "above the frontier." He married, December 17, 1 71 7, Mary Sanborn. They were admitted to the church. Children: i. Jeremiah, born September 29, 1718, died about 1781. 2. Samuel, born January 9, 1721. 3. John, see forward. 4. Major Joseph, born November 17, 1725, died April 8, 181 5. 5. Major William, born June 21, 1728, died September 28, 181 1. Four of these sons grew to manhood and participated in the revolutionary war.

(IV) John Prescott, son of Samuel and Mary (Sanborn) Prescott, born December 12. 1723, died May 2, 1785. He settled in Epping. New Hampshire, 1745: composed one of the company raised and commanded by Captain Jonathan Prescott for the purpose of capturing Louisburg from the French, which was accomplished in that year. He signed the Association Test in 1776, which read as follows: "By reason of the above resolutions of the Honorable Continental Congress and to show our determination in joining our American Brethren in defending the lives, liberties and prosperity of the inhabitants of the United Colonies, We the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and promise, that we will to the utmost of our power at the risk of our lives and fortunes with arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United American Colonies." He

(VI) Abram Prescott, son of Samuel and Molly (Drake) Prescott, born March 7, 1798, in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, died in Quincy. September 9, 1880. He was a farmer, a militia captain, and one of the organizers of the First Universalist Church of Quincy, on IMarch 10, 1 831, serving on the first board of the parish committee, and afterward a deacon. He married. May i. 1825, Abigail Hayden Marsh, born in Quincy, 1804, daughter of ]\Ioses Reed and Sarah (Nightingale) Marsh, who for many years lived on Hancock street, on the site of the house of Dr. John A. Gordon (1908). He built one of the first houses on Spear street, the estate including the present residence of his son, George W. Prescott. Mr. and IMrs. Prescott observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1875, and also passed their fifty-fifth anniversary. Mr. Prescott lived to be over eighty years of age. Mrs. Prescott died November 17, 1882, aged sev- cnty-eight years. Children: i. William Gardner, born February 23. 1826, in Ouincy ; married, July 14, 1855, Lydia Marsh Spear, born 1830, daughter of Lemuel and Valeria Spear. He was one of the California pioneers, returning in 1855. 2. John Marsh, born September 10, 1828, in Ouincy, died July 18, 1837. 3. Lyman Reed, born October 10, 1832, in Dracut, died in California, unmarried, in 1903. 4. George Washington, see forward.

(VH) George Washington Prescott, son of Abram and Abigail H. (Alarsh) Prescott, was born in Dracut, December 13, 1834. He has long been a prominent figure in Massachusetts journalism, and is one of the oldest newsjoaper publishers in the state. He came to Ouincy when two years of age with his ])arents, and lias been a resident ever since. He was educated in the public schools of Quincy, and May 2, 1853, entered the newspaper business as apprentice boy in the office of the Ouincy Patriot, then published and edited by the late John A. Green, one of the influential newspaper men of his time. Mr. Green died in 1861, and the news])ai)er was continued by liis wife, ]\Irs. i\L Elizabeth Green, who appointed Mr. Prescott business manager, which position he held until 1869. when he purchased a one-half interest in the paper, and a copartnership was formed with Mrs. Green, under llie firm name of ( Irccn & Prescott, which lasted more than a quarter of a centur}'. The year following Mr. Oeen's death was a trying one for many country newsj:)apers as well as large city journals. Owing to the civil war it is estimated that nearly a fourth of the news- ])apers of ^Massachusetts were obliged to suspend. Close attention to work, cou])le<l with energy and perseverance, enabled him to pull the ]:iaper tlirough, and from that time the |)aper began to prosper. As business increased the office was added to until today it is as complete a newspaper office as can be found in any of the Alassachusetts cities. In 1878 the firm started the Braintree Obsen'er, now under the management of his son, Eben Prescott, and printed at the Patriot office in Quincy, and when Ouincy became a city the Oui)ic\' Daily Ledger was started by the same firm. Tn 1894 Mr. Prescott purchased Mrs. Green's interest in the paper, and since that time the ])aper has been carried on by himself with the able assistance of his son, Frank Fisher Prescott. The Patriot was enlarged three times during the copartnership, and each time with good results, and in the meantime its circulation was increased three-fold. As the business expanded from year to year, so the demand became greater for presses and type. Cylinder presses were purchased and later an engine and boiler to run them. In 1906 steam was replaced by electric power. The financial success of the Patriot has been largely due to the energy, push and close personal attention given to the business by Mr. Prescott.

During the more than fifty years he has been connected with the establishment he has scarcely lost a day by sickness. ]\Ir. Prescott is one of the oldest members of the Suburban Press Association, and has served as one of its vice-presidents for a number of years. He was one of the men who started the movement which resulted in the forming of the Massachusetts Press .Association, and has been one of its vice-presidents for many years. He has served as a delegate to the National Press conventions as a Massachusetts and Suburban representative of the association. On May 18, 1903, Mr. Prescott celebrated the semi-centennial of his connection with the Quincy Patriot, on which occasion he was presented with a handsome gold mounted cane by the members of the Suburban Press Association as a token of the high esteem and appreciation of his long and valuable service in newspaper work. Fifty editors of this notable body visited him at the office of the Patriot and Daily Ledger and extended to him their hearty congratulations. Mr. Prescott is an active member of the Cniversalist church of Quincy, having held numerous offices, such as trustee, chairman of parish committee, clerk, etc. He i> a member of the Granite City Club, having been a trustee for a number of years. He is a director of the Co-operative P>ank of Quincy. and is interested in other enterprises. Mr. Prescott married. May 8, 1859, Susannah .Abigail Fisher, born in Dedham. Massachusetts, October 29, 1836, daughter of Joshua and Eliza Wiggin ( Furnald ) Fisher. (See Fisher family). Children: i. Frank Fisher, see forward. 2. Etta Marsh. 3. .\nnie Lincoln. 4. Eben, see forward. 5. Alice Keith.

( ATII) Frank Fisher Prescott, son of George Washington and .Susannah Abigail (Fisher) Prescott, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, September 4, i860. His first teacher at the public schools was Miss Julia E. L'nderwood, of the Coddington school. He could set type before he was graduated from the Coddington in 1874; was graduated from the Quincy high school in June, 1877. when Harrison A. Keith was principal, and the school was lo- cated on High School avenue, the exercises being held in the town hall. He worked at the printers" trade in the offices of the Dorchester Beacon, Oiiincy Patriot, Marblclicad Messenger and Marblehead Statesman ; was later a reporter on the Ouincy Patriot, and when the Ouincy Daily Ledger was established in 1889 he became the city editor, and in 1908 was general manager. He was brought up in the Universalist faith, attending the First Universalist church, founded by his grandfather, Abram Prescott, but after his marriage attended Hethany Congregational church. He was admitted to Rural Lodge of Masons, at Ouincy, in 1881, and joined the Odd Fellows at Marblehead, in 1882 ; became a charter member of Mount Wollaston Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Ouincy, in 1884, and was the first recording secretary ; in 1908 was the oldest past grand of the lodge. He is also a member of the Ouincy Historical Society, Ouincy Board of Trade, Citizen's Association, Massachusetts Press Association, Wollaston Yacht Club, and other organizations, and has served on the board of trustees of the Thomas Crane Public Library, the Republican state committee for three years, also the senatorial and city committees. He was married, at Hooksett, New Hampshire, October 2y, 1886, to Fannie Augusta, daughter of John Woodman and Eliza (Hurlbutt) Prescott, of Hooksett, New Hampshire. (See forward for ancestors of Fannie Augusta Prescott). She attended normal school at Salem, Massachusetts, and later taught school at Hooksett, Bow, Pembroke and F'ittsfield, New Hampshire. Since marriage she has resided in Ouincy, Massachusetts, and is interested in the Ouincy Women's Club, Daughters of the Revolution, Bethany Congregational church, and the King's Daughters. Their children : I. Carl Fisher, born August 25, 1887. 2. Albert Winslow, February 15, 1889. 3. Henry Clark, March 10, 1892.

(\Tir) Eben Prescott, second son of ( George Washington and Susannah Abigail (Fisher) Prescott, of Ouincy, Massachusetts, was born in Ouincy, Massachusetts, August 6, 1867. After a public school education he entered the employ of a wholesale hardware house in Boston. About 1898 he became local editor and general manager of the Braintrcc Obseri'cr, published at Braintree. Massachusetts, by George W. Prescott & Sons. By close attention to business and interest in public affairs he put the newspaper on a good financial basis and largely increased the circulation.

making it a welcome visitor in nearly every home of the town. He is an active member of All Soul's Church, the Cochato Club, Puritan Lodge of Odd Fellows, Penniman School Association, and one of the trustees of the Braintree Savings Bank. He married, at Braintree, September 19, 1893, Helen Arnold, daughter of George Henry and Mary Perkins (Allen) Arnold. Children: i. George Arnold, born February i, 1896. 2. Helen Louise, October 18, 1898. 3. Eleanor, December i, 1902.

Fannie Augusta Prescott, of Ouincy, Massachusetts, born at Hooksett, New Hampshire, was a descendant of the same branch of the Prescott family as her husband, Frank Fisher Prescott (8) (see preceding pages ) but from a different son of James Prescott, the immigrant, who came from England, viz. :

( I ) James lYescott, of Hampton, New Hampshire, who married in 1668, Mary, (daughter of Nathaniel and (jrace Boulter, born in I^xeter, New Hampshire, May 15. 1648. Nine ciiildren. He died November 25, 1728, and his widow October 4, 1735.

(HI ) Edward Prescott, son of Joshua Prescott, born about 1717, married, July 7, 1741, his cousin once removed, Elizabeth Prescott, daughter of Jeremiah Prescott. He died in 1804.

(I\') John Prescott, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Prescott) Prescott, born May 16, 1764. died 1795; married, March 25, 1788,. Molly ]\Ierrill, born April 20, 1764, of Chester, New Hampshire, daughter of Stephen Merrill.

( \' ) John Prescott, son of John and Molly (Merrill) Prescott, born March 14, 1791, died October 25, 1861 ; married, October 19, 1817, Margaret Abbott, of Hooksett, New Hampshire, born in Dunbarton. New Hampshire, September 7, 1795.

( \l) John Woodman Prescott, son of John and Margaret (Abbott) Prescott, born July 16, 1825, died April 17, 1902; married, September 28, 1850, Eliza Ann Hurlbutt, daughter of Amasa and Priscilla (Smith) Hurlbutt, of Lebanon, New Hampshire. Children: i. Ada Priscilla. born November 6, 1852, died 1853. 2. Barnard Hurlbutt, born November 9, 1854, died November 9, 1905. 3. Ella Maria, born January 5, 1857, ^^^^^^ 1863. 4. Fannie Augusta, see forward. 5. Alice Parker, born February 16, 1863, died 1864. 6. Nellie Ann, born April 5, 1866, died 1866.

of John W. and Eliza A. (Hurlbutt) Prescott, born September 8, i860, married Frank Fisher Prescott. son of George W. Prescott. ( See prececHng pages Prescott \'II and \'II1 ) . Children : I. Carl Fisher, born August 25, 1887. 2. Albert W'inslow, February 15. 1889. 3. Henrv Clark. March 10, 1892. (See Fisher).

about 169 1, married in England. Aljigriil, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Susanna Marriott, of Cambridge, November 16, 1641. He came to America. July 28. 1637, and died August 8, 1683. Captain Fisher settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, on what is now called Louder street, and became a freeman in 1640. He was an ardent opj)onent of the Stuarts, and a stanch sup- ])()rtor of Cromwell. General (iotlc. the regicide, was at one time in hiding in Dedham. and Captain Fisher concealed him in an outhouse on his grounds, and later assisted him to escape, in disguise, to Hadley. where he was taken care of by friends of Captain I-'isher. Captain Fisher was prominent as a public man. His children were: 1. Abigail, born August 2, 1646, marriefl Lieutenant John l^.aker. of Dedham. 2. Daniel, see forward. 3. Lvdia. born Jul}' 14, 1652, married Nathaniel Chickering. 4. Amos, born November 8. 1854. died 1736; married first, March 12. 1680, .Mary Ellis; married second. December 22. 1691. Ruth Adams. 5. John, born July 20. 1656. died January 25, 1688: married, June 15. 1681. Rebecca Ellis. 6. Jeremiah, born December 12. 1658, died September 19, 1676. 7. Esther, born August 5. i66t, died April 3. 1747; married, April 25, 1688. Thomas Fuller.

(II) Daniel Fisher, son of Captain Daniel and Abigail (Marriott) Fisher, was born in Dedham, February 26, 1650. He was a volunteer in King Philip's war. and served from January 24 to December 27, 1676. He was a constable in 1685-86-98. He is first mentioned in the Dedham records as sergeant, August 5, 1696, and as captain, ]\Iarch 4, 1700. He was first elected selectman, January 6, 1689-90, and served also in 1693-95-96-97- 1700-01, and two years more. He was representative from 1700 to 1704 and 171 2- 13. He died in Dedham. November 17, 171 3. He married, January 19, 1675, Mary Fuller, born March 26. 1655. daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Flower) Fuller, of Dedham. (|^ildren : i. Mary, born September 27. 1676, died

A])ril. 1752: married -John Ilunting. of Xeedham. 2. Jeremiah, born June 10, 1679. married. December 16, 1702. Deborah Richards. 3. Daniel, see forward. 4. Hannah, born October 10. 1684, married Jeremiah Richards. 5. Nathaniel, born April 5, 1687. 6. Margaret, born February 28, 1690, died February 13, 1773: married Nathaniel Gay, of Dedham. 7. Abigail, born September 2". 1694, died November ^. 1767; married Captain Samuel Morse, of Medfield.

(HI) Daniel Fisher, son of Daniel and Mary (Fuller) Fisher, was born in Dedham. January 7, 1682, died there March or April, 1758. He married. November 25, 1703. Esther Fisher, born in Dedham. February 27. 1682. daughter of Captain Joshua and Esther ( W'iswall ) Fisher. Children: i. Esther, born December 7, 1704. married. 1750. IJenjamin i'^airbanks, of Norton. 2. Ruth, born June 10. 1706, married, March 4, 1739, Robert .\llen. 3. Abigail, born ]\Iarch 10, 1707-08, luarried. Deceiuber 6, 1753. John Metcalf. 4. Daniel, hern .Vovember 18. 1710. died before 1756; married. December 17, 1741. Esther ilunting. 5. Mary, born October 24. 1714, died December 3, 1714. 6. Joshua, born May I. 1 7 16. died young. 7. Nathaniel, see forward. 8. Ebenezer, born January 19. 1723, died young. 9. F^annah. born September 24, 1724, died young.

( \T ) Joshua Fislier, son of John and Chloe (Smith) Fisher, was born May 28, 1807, died August 2"], 1890. He married, October 9, 1834, EHza W. Furnald, born at Northwood, New Hampshire, December 6, 18 10, died at Quincy, ^Massachusetts, March 8, 1896, daughter of Lemuel and Mary (Evans) Furnald, of Quincy, Massachusetts. Children: i. Charles, born July 23, 1835, died December

3. Alvin, born May 10, 1838, died October 3. 1838. 4. Freeman, born August 20, 1841, died January, 1843. 5- Freeman, born January 3, 1843, died Alarch 4, 1876; married, March 31, 1869, Elizabeth Doggett Clapp, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Clapp) Clapp. 6. Ebenezer, born June 24, 1844, died May 30, 1886; married, June 18. 1878, Eleanor Augusta Blunt, daughter of Alfred and Ploomy (Colby) Blunt, of Boston. 7. Joshua Stillman, born May 10, 1849, niarried, at Fort Scott, Kansas, October 4, 1884, Mary Melissa Miller, daughter of Samuel J. and Martha A. (Brenner) Miller, of Indiana.

(VH) Susannah Abigail Fisher, daughter of Joshua and Eliza Wiggin (Furnald) Fisher, born in Quincy, Massachusetts, October 29, 1836, married. May 8, 1859, George Washington Prescott (see Prescott family), born in Dracut, Massachusetts, December 13, 1834, later publisher of the Quincy Patriot and Quincy Daily Ledger. Children: i. Frank Fisher, see forward. 2. Etta Marsh. 3. Annie Lincoln. 4. Eben, born August 6, 1868. 5. Alice Keith. All at Quincy, ^Massachusetts.

(VHL) Frank Fisher, son of (George Washington and Susannah Abigail Prescott, born September 4. i860, at Quincy, married at Hooksett, New Hampshire, October 27, 1886, Fannie Augusta, daughter of John Woodman and Eliza (Hurlbutt) Prescott, of Hooksett, New Hampshire. Children: i. Carl Fisher, born August 25, 1887. 2. Albert Winslow, February 15, 1889. 3. Henry Clark, ]\Iarch 10, 1892. All at Quincy, Massachusetts.

the first of this name of whom there is any definite knowledge. The name was spelled in many wa3^s - Goold, Golde, Goolde, Gowle, (jold and Gould being some of the forms, the last being the present spelling. He lived at Bovingdon, Hertfordshire. England, still a chapelry in the parish of

Hempstead, about twenty- four miles northwest of London. His will was proved September 28, 1520, at the archdeacon's court of Huntington, now Peterborough. He married will, and perhaps his second wife, as five children were minors in 1520. Children: i. Thomas, born about 1477; executor 1520; overseer 1537 : witness 1545. 2. Richard, born about 1479: mentioned below. 3. John, born about 1500. 4. Alice, born about 1502. 5. \\'illiam, born about 1 504 ; married Margaret

(H ) Richard Gowle, son of Thomas Goold, lived at Bovingdon and Stoke ]Mandeville. His will was dated April 25, and proved October II, 1531. There is a tablet at Bovingdon church to the memory of him and his wife, Joan, whose will was made January 12, 1736-7, proved February 7 of the same year. Children: i. Thomas, born about 1500; mentioned below. 2. John, born about 1504; married Alice ; died without issue.

(HI) Thomas (loolde, son of Richard Gowle, born about 1500, was named in his father's will. He lived at Bovingdon. His will was dated June 28, 1546, and proved November 23, 1547. He married Alice .

( R ) Richard Gold, son of Ihomas Goolde, was born about 1530. He lived at Bovingdon and Stoke Mandeville. His will, dated December 4, 1558, at Stoke Mandeville, signified his desire to be buried at Bovingdon. He married Jane Weeden, widow. Children: i. Henry, of Chalfont, St. Peter ; died 1605 ;

(VI) Zaccheus Gould, son of Richard Gould, was born in 1589, according to his own deposition. He resided in Hemel Hempsted and ]\lllsenden prior to his emigration to New Eng- land about 1638. He settled first in Lynn, then Ipswich. His brother Jeremy settled in Weymouth, and removed to Rhode Island. Zaccheus removed finally to Topsfield, ]\Iassachusetts, being one of the original settlers, and acquired a large landed estate. He died in 1670. He married Phoebe Deacon, who died November 20. 1663. Children: i. Phebe, married Thomas Perkins. 2. Mary, married John Reddington. 3. ^lartha. married John Mewmarch. 4. Priscilla. 5. John, mentioned below.

(\'II ) Captain John Gould, son of Zaccheus Gould, was born in England, June 10-21, 1635. He was prominent in public afifairs, and was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to Governor Andros. He married October 12, 1660. Sarah I'aker. born ]\Iarch 9. 1641. daughter of John P.aker. He died January 20, 1708-9. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarah. 3. Tliomas. 4. Samuel. 5. Zaccheus. 6. Priscilla. 7. Joseph. 8. Mary.

(\'IH) Ensign Job.n (iould, son of Captain John (H)uld. born in Topsfield. December i. 1662. died November 5, 1724: married first. November 10, 1684, Phebe. daughter of John and Phebe French, granddaughter of Ensign Thomas French, who died in 1696. Children, Ijorn at Tojjsfield : i. John. 2. Mar_\-. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Sarah. 5. [iannah. 6. Daniel. mentioned below. 7. David. 8. Solomon. 9. Lydia.

( IN ) Daniel Gould, son of John Gould, 1)orn November 8. 1699, died December ii, 17^)6. 1 fc resided in Topsfield. and was selectman in 1739 and 1742. He married first, July 28, 1 73 1. Lydia Averill, born December II. 171 2. died December 22, 1739. daughter of Ebenezer and Mehitable (I""oster) Averill; second. January 3. 1753, Lucy ( Tarbox) Perkins, born October 25. 1722. died August 29, 1806. daughter of Captain Thomas Tarbox. <ii W'enham. and widow of Elisha Perkins. She married third, Asa Gould. Children by first wife: i. Ruth, born June 28. 1732; died November 3. 1747. 2. Daniel, born March 3I' 1735- di^d November 22, 1747- 3- Lydia, born June 3, 1737: died November 8. 1747. Children of second wife: 4. Daniel, born December 8. 1753; married first. 1782. Mary Booth: second. 1788. Eunice Perley. widow: third. Ann M. Rawson, widow; died 1842. 5. Elisha. born February 20, 1755; married, 1779, Elizabeth Peabody. 6. Lucy, born July 2^, 1757: married 1778, Nathaniel Goldsmith; died 1800. 7. Samuel, born ]\Iarch 6, 1759; mentioned below. 8. Lydia, born December

(N) Samuel Gould, son of Daniel Gould, born March 6. 1759, died April 12. 1837. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Nathaniel A\'ade's company. Colonel Closes Little's regiment. (T2th), in 1776. He enlisted in the continental army. Justin Ely, commissioner, and was assigned August 23, 1779. to Captain James Tisdale's company at Springfield : also in Captain Herrick's company, Colonel Cogswell's regiment, described as of Topsfield, aged twenty, height five feet six inches, complexion light ; enlisted for nine months December 8. 1779. under John Gushing, commissioner; June 5. 1778. was enlisted by Justin Ely. commissioner, and assigned to Colonel Timothy Pigelow's regiment, October 11, 1780, under Lieutenant Lynde, his age given as twenty-one: was discharged December 12. 1780. He married first, February 12. 1784, .\l)igail. (laughter of John Lamson : second, l-\bruary 13, 1792. Ruth Towne. born P"ebruary. 1763. died January 19. 185 1, daughter of Joshua Towne. Children of first wife: i. Samuel, born April 5. 1785: mentioned below. 2. Lucy, born March 2. 1787; died unmarried, November 2/, 1875. 3- Josiah, born January 8, 1789; married, 1816, Betsey Gould; died 1831. 4. Child, died young. Children of second wife: 5. Asa. bajitized June, 1793; died unmarried. September i, 1838. 6. Abigail, born March 26. 1795: died unmarried. February I. 1873. y: Ruth, born July 4. 1797; married. 1820. (ieorge Thomas; died 1883. 8. Sally, born October 19. 1799: married, 1830, .Amos TMetcher : died 1881. 9. Polly, born January 21, 1803; married. 183 1, Samuel W. Weston ; died 1879.

(XII) Charles Gould, son of Samuel Lamson Gould, was born April 15, 1814. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He lived all his active life at Topsfield, where he was engaged in shoemaking

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In politics ne was a Republican, and in relig- dings and Sarah ( Rand ) Giddings. Sarah ion a Congregationalist. He was a member of was daughter of Francis Rand. Margery

Goodhue was daughter of Captain William and Hannah ( Dane ) Goodhue, and granddaughter of Deacon William and Margery (Watson) Goodhue. Hannah Dane was daughter of Rev. Francis Dane, granddaughter of John and Elizabeth ( Ingalls ) Dane, and great granddaughter of Edmund Ingalls. George Giddings. the immigrant, was father of Lieutenant John Giddings. Sarah ( Burnham ) Giddings was daughter of David and Elizabeth (Perkins) Burnham, granddaughter of John Burnham and great granddaughter of Lieutenant Thomas Burnham and Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Thomas Welles. Elizabeth Perkins was daughter of Jacob and Sarah ( Wainwright ) Perkins, granddaughter of John Perkins and great granddaughter of John Perkins. Sarah ( Wainwright ) Perkins was daughter of Francis AVainwright. Children of John and IJethia Gould: i. David, died young. 2. Rebecca. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. David, died young. 5. Elsey. 6. David. 7. Martha.

(XI) John Gould, son of John Gould, was born August29, 1785. He married, Xovember 30, 1800. Mary, daughter of Elijah Averill, descendant of Lieutenant Isaac Averill, who served in the revolution. Elijah Averill married a daughter of Major Joseph Gould, also a revolutionary soldier, son of Captain Joseph and Priscilla (Perkins) Gould, grandson of the redoubtable Captain John Goidd (7), mentioned above. Captain Tobijah Perkins, father of Priscilla (Perkins) Gould, married Sarah, daughter of John Dennison, of Ipswich and Topsfield. Lieutenant Isaac Averill married Priscilla, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bradstreet) Peabody, descendant of the immigrant, Francis Peabody, through Isaac and Sarah (Estes) Peabod}'. Sarah was doubtless daughter of Matthew Estes, immigrant, born May 28, 1645, died July 9, 1723, son of Robert and Dorothy Estes, of Dover, England ; married June 14, 1767, Philadelphia (Jenkins) Hayes, wndow of Edward Hayes, and daughter of Reginald and Ann Jenkins, of Kittery, Elaine ; ]^Iatthew Estes was a Quaker and captain of the sloop "L'^nity," of Boston. Elizabeth (Bradstreet) Peabody was a descendant of Governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet. the poet, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. Through various lines of descent, John Gould is also descended from many other prominent families, including the Appleton, Glover, Capen, Bass, a military company, the Topsfield Warren lilues. He married, December 7, 1837, Elizabeth Averill Gould, born December 6, 1816, (laughter of John and Mary ( Averill ) Gould. Children: i. Mary Elizabeth, born at Topsfield, July 23, 1839; educated in Topsfield ])ublic schools and Topsfield Academy ; teacher for a number of years in Center primary school : an active and loyal member of Congregational church. 2. Sarah Jane, born February 27. 1841 ; married, June 17, 1866, John Bailey, of Topsfield ; one son - Merrill P. 3. Charles \\'allace. born P'ebruary 14. 1848; married Xovember 27, 1873, Jean Holley ; no children : lives at 6 Ash street, Salem, IVIassachusetts. 4. George Ansel, born x\pril 10, 1849, unmarried; resides at Topsfield. 5. A\'illiam Pitman, born January 9. 1855; married. 1882. Mattie E. X'ichols ; one son, Arthur Linwood Gould, born Xovember. 1882.

(IX) Ensign Solomon (iould, son of Ensign John Gould (8), born in Topsfield, March 19, 1704, died December 15, 1762; married first, December 19, 1734, Elizabeth Robinson, died April 24, 1749. daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Cummings ) Robinson, granddaughter of John Cummings and John and Dorothy (Clark) Robinson. Dorothy was daughter of Daniel Clark, the immigrant. John Cummings, father of Elizabeth, married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Brackett) Kingsley; was son of John and Sarah (Howlett) Cummings. and grandson of Isaac Cummings. Samuel Kingsley was son oF Elder Stephen Kingsley, the immigrant. Hannah Brackett was daughter of Captain Richard Brackett, and Sarah Howlett was daughter of Ensign Thomas Howlett. Children of Ensign Solomon Gould by first wife: i. Elizabeth. 2. Solomon. 3. Xathaniel. 4. Lydia. 5. John, mentioned below.

( X ) John Gould, son of Ensign Solomon Gould, was born in Topsfield, February 20, 1746. He was a soldier in the revolution. He married first, February 9, 1769, Elizabeth Bradstreet. died October 18, 1775, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fisk) Bradstreet; second, June 3, 1777. Bethiah. widow of Josiah Fitts and Daniel Boardman. daughter of John and Bethia (Giddings) Ijurnham. granddaughter of Deacon Solomon and Sarah (Burnham) Giddings. Deacon Solomon was son of Lieutenant Solomon and Margery (Goodhue) Giddings. and grandson of Lieutenant lohn Gid-

Jackson, Hovey, Foster, etc. Major John Appleton. son of Samuel Appleton, the immigrant, married Priscilla Glover, daughter of Rev. Joses Glover who left London in charge of the first printing press brought to America, and died on the passage. His widow married Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. Children of John and Mary (Averill) Gould: I. Mary Averill. 2. Lucy Peabody. 3. Sarah Friend. 4. Elizabeth Averill, married Charles Gould, mentioned above. 5. John Averill, born March 6, 18 19. 6. Adeline \\'allace.

For many generations the SAXDERSOX Sanderson family has held high rank in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, exemplifying that type of citizenshi]) which leads in national growth and ]:)rogress, energetic, intellectual, guided by high ideals.

(1) Edward Sanderson, pioneer ancestor, born in England, 1615, emigrated to .America, settling in W'atertown, Massachusetts, in 1636, and died Sei)tember t. 1674. He married, October 15. i'")45. Mary, daughter of Ragot (or IJrigget ) Eggleston. of Oorchester. ( )ne child, Jonathan.

(H) Deacon Jonathan Sanderson, son of Edward and Mary (Eggleston) Sanderson, was born in W'atertown, September 15, 1646, died September 3, 1735. He married, October 24, 1669, Abia Ilartlett, daughter of Ensign Thomas and Hannah IJartlett ; she died September 13, T723. Deacon Sanderson and his wife moved from W'atertown to Cambridge, where all their children were born. Later they removed to Waltham. where he built the ancient house at Piety Corner, which was torn down about 1897. He served as constable in 1695, and as selectman from 1703 to 17 19. He and his wife are buried at Waltham. and l)y their side are buried their son Jonathan and grandson Jonathan, both deacons.

(HI) Samuel Sanderson, son of Deacon Jonathan and Abia ( I'artlett) Sanderson, was born in Cambridge, May 28, 1681, died July 8, 1722, from a lightning stroke. He married, April 13, 1708, Mercy Gale, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Fisk) Gale, who died May 8, 1776, aged ninety-two years.

( IV) Abraham Sanderson, son of Samuel and Mercy (Gale) Sanderson, was born in W'atertown, March 28, 171 1, died December 3, 1776. He settled in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and married, December 6, 1733, Patience Smith, born February 28, 17 16, daughter of

(V) Jacob Sanderson, son of Abraham and Patience (Smith) Sanderson, was born August 3, 1 741. died February 9, 1829. He was a revolutionary soldier. He enlisted as a private in Captain George Kimball's company, and marched on the Lexington alarm. Later he was a private in Captain Joseph Fuller's company. Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment. He enlisted x\ugust 20, 1777, and marched to Xew York, where he was engaged in the battles of Stillwater. September 15. and Saratoga, October 7, 1777, and was at the capture of General Burgoyne. He married. December 18, 1760, Elizabeth Child, born February 14, 1743, died September 4, 1794, daughter of John and Tabitha (Seger) Child, of Newton. ( \'I ) Jonathan Sanderson, son of Jacob and I-dizabeth (Child) Sanderson, was born May 4, 1766, in Worcester, died April 19, 1841. I le married. October 30, 1794, Mehitable Spofford. born Sei^tember 4, 1771, died September 18, 1847, daughter of Abijah and "\Iary (Town) Spofiford, of Townsend, Massachusetts.

(\'ni) Alonzo Sanderson, son of Jesse and Marilla (Turner) Sanderson, was born X'ovember 29, 1837. He married, October 5, 1864, in Athol, Massachusetts, Helen Frances Kendall, born July 10, 1841, daughter of Ozi and l*"annie A. (Ainsworth) Kendall. They had one child. Howard Kendall Sanderson.

July lo, 1865. Descended through both parents from men who planted the colony of Massachusetts Bay. numbering among his ancestry the scholar and preacher, as well as the sturdy yeoman and fearless soldier, spending his own early life in the quiet of the parsonage, where in truth, plain living and high thinking were the rule, he w^as peculiarly fitted by nature for the double service which it seemed to be his to render to mankind through the short life that was given him on earth. When he w-as eight years of age, his parents moved to Lynn, wdiere the long pastorate of his father at the Trinity Methodist Church began, and in the Lynn public schools he received his formal education. Of a peculiarly nervous organization, constant care and watchfulness were needed during the period of his youth and its attended rapid physical growth, in order to keep him in health, and thus it was that the liberal education of the schools was denied him. Nevertheless, in him were combined the indomitable courage and industry and energy of the most hardy of his yeoman and soldier sires, together with a gentleness and sympathy and upward vision which could have belonged only to those of them who had the highest and purest aspirations. Consequently, from his very earliest manhood, his was an ever widening horizon. Ambitious from the beginning - ambitious to make for himself a place in the affairs of men - he was yet more ambitious that that place should be one which he could better serve his fellows than himself.

The story of his life, written out from the standpoint of simple data, can be told in a few lines. At the age of sixteen, although his standing at school had been high and his work well and thoroughly done, it was deemed wise, on account of the state of his health, not to continue his connection there beyond the high school ; yet his restless, eager spirit would not allow him to be idle, and he was soon engaged in the printing business in a small way in his own home. When still but a boy he had opened an office in the city and w^as conducting a successful business. This, however, he gave up after two years to take a position as salesman in the wholesale printing house of Gelding & Company, of Boston. While employed there he was married, on August i, 1887, to Carrie M. Flanders, a teacher in the public schools of Lynn. In 1889 he began his connection with the Lynn postoffice, when seeking out-of-door employment, he applied for and obtained a position as substitute letter carrier. He was soon made a regular carrier, then promoted

From boyhood he had been a collector. Beginning as a lad to collect miscellaneous curios which he spent many hours in labeling and arranging, he gradually became interested in coins, in postage stamps, and in autographs of famous men. His collection of coins never became extensive. His collection of autographs, begun at the age of seventeen, became one of the most interesting if not one of the most valuable in the country, numbering within it a set of the governors of Massachusetts, the presidents of the United States, generals of the revolution, kings and queens of England, and a full set, lacking one, of the signers of the Declaration of Lidependence. Many of the specimens in his collection were full autograph letters signed, and many of those of the men of the revolution bore dates of that period. The collection of postage stamps, begun at the age of eight, was a hobby and delight through his boyhood, and the knowledge gained in the pursuit made him later an expert not only in the discovery of rarities, but also in the detection of counterfeit issues. For several years after his marriage he had been carrying on, as an aside, the business of stamps - buying and selling large collections as they came upon the market. This business increased to such an extent that in 1893 he gave up his connection with the postofiice., and went abroad in order to come in touch with the great foreign dealers and to increase his stock in trade. For seven years he continued in the business as a professional philatelist, and his name became known to the trade the world over. His stock in stamps during much of this time was kept at $25,000, and at one time he handled a single collection valued at $75,000. During these years, however, he was not alone engaged in the pursuit of private interests. He had begun very early to be deeply impressed with political questions, and he felt very strongly that every citizen had definite obligations and duties. These, as he saw them, he discharged with characteristic energy and fidelity, and his ability and integrity won him recognition in the field of political activity. He was twice elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives, and twice to the state senate. Upon his second election to each branch, he received the highest majority ever given to any man in Lynn up to that time. On May 12, 1900, upon the death of Postmaster Fogg, he was appointed postmaster of Lynn,

He was prominently connected with the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Golden Fleece Lodge ; a member of Sutton Royal Arch Chapter ; past master of Zebulun Council, Royal and Select Masters ; a member of Olivet Commandery, Knights Templar; of the Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree ; Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, sixteenth degree, of which body his election as master occurred five days before his death; ]Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix, eighteenth degree ; Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree: and Aleppo Temple N. AL S. He was a member of the West Lynn Lodge of Odd Fellows ; of the Lynn Historical Society ; the Old Essex Chapter, S. A. R. ; the Oxford Club; and president of the New England Postmasters' Association.

In his public life, he was open, loyal and fearless. Friends and foe knew exactly where to find him. In his ])rivate life he was clean, upright, and true - a man to trust and to confide in, one who made friends and kept them - not only among those high in the councils of the state, but also in the ranks of the lowly where many a one will remcn.iber through life liis kindl}' syni])athy and his brotherly help.

Uesides this diversity of interests and duties which occupied him. he had been for years a student of history, particularly the history of his own country, and latterly had spent much time in historical research, the result of which had been the preparation of material which he contemplated publishing in the near future, with the purpose of giving to his own city and county a history of the revolutionary period. uni(|ue in its scope and of timely interest and value. Upon this work he was engaged at the time of his death, and in the course of its preparation he had located the graves of 196 revolutionary soldiers who had gone out from old Lynn to the War for Independence. A large proportion of these graves had been for many years unknown as well as unmarked. He applied for and obtained from the L^nited States government marble headstones to mark these sacred spots. With his ©wn hands he helped to set these stones, an3 at his suggestion the Old Essex Chapter, S. A. R.. and the Lynn Historical Society, placed at each the bronze marker of the S. A. R. The formal dedication of both stones and markers, on June 17th.

1904, will be an occasion which the people of Lynn will be glad to remember, and the 196 flags \\'hich wave from them on each Memorial Day, will be a reminder of those men of Lynn who helped to make the nation possible, and of the man who rescued their names from oblivion. Almost the last public service in which Mr. Sanderson participated was the dedication, on November loth. 1904. of the boulder erected on the grounds of the Lynn Public Library by the Daughters of the Revolution tto the memory of the Lynn revolutionary soldiers.

The last year of his life was given literally in the service of others. Overestimating his strength, he had not learned to spare himself, and at length, worn and weary, he became the prey of a fatal illness. His death from typhoid fever occurred on the 14th of December, 1904, at the age of thirty-nine years and five months. His wife and one son, Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson, and father and mother were left.

Many words might be used in estimating rightly the achievements and character of this young man whose career seemed but just begun when the hand of death was laid upon him. Ardent and high spirited, he brought to every task the full strength of his youthful enthusiasm. .Standing six feet tall, with the frame of an athlete, and the dignified bearing that was his by nature, possessed of a keen wit, and ideas which carried weight wherever he appeared, it was not strange that he was sought after as a public si)eaker, or that he rose to more than local prominence in that field. Sensitive to praise and blame, yet fearless in expressing in word and deed his convictions, spotless in life, warm-hearted, generous, and sympathetic, he made few enemies in life, and when he died, jjeople remembered most how much they had loved and admired him.

Sanderson family ) is a representative, came from the town of Kendall on the river Kent. Westmoreland county, England. The emigrants to this country were Francis and Deacon Thomas Kendall, who sailed from England under the alias of Myles, again taking the name of Kendall upon reaching this country. Their father. John Kendall, lived in Cambridge, England, in 1646, where he died in 1660. Francis is the common an-

( I ) Francis Kendall was in Charlestown, Massachusetts, prior to 1640, and also resided in Woburn. He was a landholder, and was by occupation a miller. He married, at \Vo- ])urn, December 24, 1644, Alary Tidd, daughter of the Rev. John and Abigail Tidd. of Woburn. He died in 1708, and his wife in

(H) Thomas Kendall, son of Francis and Mary (Tidd) Kendall, born January 10, 1648, in Woburn. died May 25, 1730. Fie married, [673. Ruth Blodgett, born December 28, 1656, December 18, 1695. daughter of Samuel Blodgett, Sr.

(HF) Thomas Kendall, son of Thomas and Ruth (Blodgett) Kendall, was born May 19, 1677, in Woburn. He moved to Fexington, and later to Framingham, Massachusetts. He married. November 7, 1701, Sarah Cheever, died 1 761. daughter of Rev. Thomas Cheever. and granddaughter of Ezekiel Cheever. who came to Boston in 1637 and was the famous master of the Boston Latin school.

(IV) Thomas Kendall, son of Thomas and Sarah (Cheever) Kendall, born July 30. 1704. in Framingham, removed to Hopkinton, was a carpenter, served in the French and Indian war, and died from a wound from his own broadaxe. date unknown. He married Mary Curtis, born December 29, 1710, died 1747. in Hopkinton. daughter of Ephraim Curtis, a noted Indian fighter. Children, born in Hopkinton, were: i. Abner, Jonathan and Thomas. These children were reared by their grandmother. Sarah (Cheever) Kendall, of Framingham, both their parents dying during the early childhood of the children. Abner is supposed to have gone to Vermont. Thomas entered Dartmouth College from Framingham. 1769-70, graduated as Master of Arts, and became a minister.

(V) Jonathan Kendall, son of Thomas and Mary (Curtis) Kendall, born January 29. 1743. f^i^f^ J^'^h' 8, 1817. He came to Athol, about 1762. and cleared up the land on Chestnut Hill and there built a log house. He was probably a private in Captain Joseph Allen's company of minute-men, Colonel Doolittle's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19. 1775, service seven days. He also enlisted April 26. 1775. in Captain Abel Wilder's company. Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's regiment, for eight months. Muster roll on file, also receipt for pay signed by him June 26, 1775.

Also appears in a ]jay roll of Captain John Mellin's company which marched from Fitzwilliam and towns adjoining to reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga on an alarm. He enlisted July 3, 1777. discharged July 11. 1777. He married, January 23, 1765, Annie Oliver, born March 17, 1742. died November 3, 1824. Her parents went from Scotland to Ireland, and thence to America in 1735. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kendall were buried on Chestnut Hill. Athol.

( A I ) Captain John Kendall, son of Jonathan and Annie (Oliver) Kendall, born July 9, 1772, on the old homestead on Chestnut Hill. Athol. died March T2, 1840. He was captain of a battalion of cavalry. Second Brigage, Seventh Division of militia, 180 1. He married. 1796. Susanna Smith, born February 2. 1773. died June i, 1827. daughter of William and Katherine Smith. Children : Jonathan. Stephen. Wyman. Annie. Joab, Lydia. Ozi. John, and Susanna.

(A'll) Ozi Kendall, son of Captain John and Susanna ( Smith ) Kendall, was born in the old Kendall homestead on Chestnut Hill, September 13. 1810, died November 16, 1884. He was apprenticed as a bootmaker in early life. He founded the firm of O. Kendall & Company in Athol. 1837, and followed the business of bootmaking throughout the active years of his life. He married. May 8, 1834, Fannie A. Ainsworth, born November 3, 1813, died September 6, 1886, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hammond) Ainsworth. Children : George Nelson and Helen Frances Kendall.

(\'III) Helen Frances Kendall, daughter of Ozi and Fannie A. (Ainsworth) Kendall, born July 10. 1841. married. October 5. 1864. Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, as stated above.

The old tradition that the New DUMMER England Dummers are descended from Norman ancestors who went into England with W^illiam the Conqueror, A. D. T066. seems well founded, and antiquarians have traced the descendants from that time to the more modern period of westward emigration with reasonable certainty: and with complete accuracy the family is easily traced through all generations subsequent to the beginning of the twelfth century, although during the interval of five centuries which preceded the immigration to New England the family name was subjected to various modifications in respect to orthography, and appears as Dumer, Dumere. Dum- mer, Dumar, Domer, Dommer, etc. The name, too, seems to have found lodgement in some ]jarts of Germany, and appears there after the acce])ted modern EngHsh spelhng. Dummer, while in PVance it is written Dummar, and given the accent peculiar to the i)eople of that repuhlic.

( I ) Richard Dummer. immigrant ancestor of the Ijranch of the Dummer family here treated, was born at Bishopstoke, England, in 1599. and came to New England in the ship which arrived at Boston on May 26, 1632. In 1633 he was settled in the plantation of Roxbury. built a mill there, and soon took tlie prominent position in the affairs of the town and colony to which he was entitled by reason of his means, his influence and his evident high character. In 1635 he was chosen assistant, an office of especial dignity, carrying magisterial authority as well as a voice in the governmental aff'airs of the colony. He sat in the general court at Newbury during the hrst year of his incumbency of office, and in the same year it was ordered that a considerable tract of land be set oft' for him near the falls in the ])lantati()n at Newbury. In 1^)3^) he was again made assistant, and the same year removed to .Newbury and soon afterward was chosen treasurer of the colon}'. About this time he and llenry Woodman became involved in the controversy with Rev. Mr. Parker, and also having allied himself to Sir Henry \'ane. who was overthrown by \\"\nthrop, he fell under the displeasure of the court on account of what was called his heretical beliefs, and therefore was shorn of his military office as captain in the service against the Pecjuots, deposed as assistant and magistrate, and was disarmed of his gun and sword. Unconscious of wrongful act or intent, .Mr. Dummer was nevertheless humiliated by the summary action of the general court and soon afterward departed for England. However, in 1638. he returned to .New England in the in companv with .Stephen Dummer. his brother, and Thomas Dummer, his nephew, the former of whom remained only a few vears, leaving a daughter Jane who afterward became the wife of Henry Sewall and was the progenitor of two families noted in later \ears, the Sewalls and the Longfellows. Richard Dummer acquired large tracts of land and doubtless was one of tlie richest men in the colony.

possessed the confidence and esteem of all men by whom he was known. The baptismal name of his first wife was Mary, who bore him two children. In 1640 he married for his second wife the widow Frances Burr, and by iier had three children. His eldest son, Shubael Dummer, born 1636, entered the gospel ministry, but when in the prime of his useful life was killed by Indians, in 1692. He married Lydia Alcott. William Dummer, second child of Richard the immigrant, born 1636, died young. Jeremiah Dummer, third child of Richard, and eldest by his second marriage, was born in 1643, and married Ann .Atwater, of Boston. Samuel, their eldest child, was born 1673, '^"'^ died 1737. Ann, their only daughter, was l)orn i'»74. and died 17^)4. William, their third cliild. was born 1677, and was lieutenantgovernor of the province of Massachusetts 1722 to 1728, 1729 and 1730 inclusive. He married Katherine, daughter of Governor Joseph Dudley. Jeremiah, their youngest child, was Ijorn 1681, and was agent in England for the .American colonies. Hannah Dummer, only daughter of Richard Dummer. was born in 1647, and became the wife of the Rev. lames .Mien, minister (if the h'irst Church, 111 )ston.

(11) Captain Richard Dummer. Esc|., N'oungest son and child of Richard Dummer the immigrant, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, January i, 1650, was made freeman there in 1677, and died July 4, 1689. He married. November 2, 1673, Elizabeth Appleton, daughter of John .\])pleton of I])swich ; children: 1. Hannah, l)orn 1674. 2. John, 1676. ^. Richard, 1680. -i. Elizabeth. 1682. 5. Nathaniel. 1684. 6. Shubael, 1686.

ill!) Ca]:)tain Nathaniel Dummer, son of Cai)tain Richard and Elizabeth (.Appleton) Dummer, born in Newbury, Massachusetts, November <), 1684, died there February 27, 1767. Like his father and grandfather he was a man of much prominence. He married, 1 7 19. .Sarah Moody, daughter of Thomas and Judith ( Hale ) Moody. Mr. Moody was one of the incorporators and a member of the board of trustees of Dummer academy. Nathaniel and Sarah (Moody) Dummer had children : I. Mehitable, born 1720. 2. Richard, 1721. 3. Nathaniel. 1724. 4. Shubael. 172C). 5. Sarah, 1728. 6. Elizabeth. 1731. 7. William, 1734. 8. Samuel. 1736.

(I\') Samuel Dummer, son of Nathaniel and Sarah ( Moody ) Dummer, born in Newburv, July 25, 1736. died there June 13. 1824. He was a soldier of the French and Indian;

(\') Samuel Dummer, son of Samuel and Eunice (Noyes) Dummer, born in Newbury, January 27, 1782, died in Rowley, Massachusetts. July 8. 1867. He was a cabinet maker by trade, an excellent workman in his time, and many articles of household furniture which were the result of his handicraft are still to be seen in various old houses in Newbury. During the war of 1812-15 he served as a private in Captain Merrill's company. He owned and operated a grist and carding mill at Byfield, and still later bought out the old Pearson grist and snuff mill at Rowley, and moved there with his family. His wife was Johanna, daughter of Deacon Samuel Tenney, of West Newbury, and of whom it is said that he drove a powder wagon at the battle of Bunker Hill. Samuel and Johanna (Tenney) Dummer had children: i. Sarah, born 1816. 2. Sophia, 1819. 3. Abbie, 1823. 4. Samuel, 1825. 5. John, 1827. 6. Nathaniel, 1829.

(VI) Nathaniel Noyes Dummer, youngest child of Samuel and Johanna ( Tenney) Dummer, was born March 25. 1829. He attended Dummer Academy under jMasters Adams and Durant. He was naturally of a mechanical turn of mind, and invented many of the things used at the mill where he spent much of his time with his father. At the time there were two mills where the present Glen mills stand, one on either side of the river. On the north side stood a typical old time grist mill with long sloping roof coming almost to the ground. The stones of granite, six feet in diameter were driven by a thirty-foot undershot water wheel. On the south side the mill was used for grinding snuff and there also was machinery for carding rolls for the people round about who wove their own cloth. At the age of eighteen years Mr. Dummer made a jig saw and used it on his own account for sawing felloes for carriage wheels. About this time his cousin, John Dummer, rebuilt the grist mill in order to experiment with a new mill and water wheel. Although he had been successful at Waltham as superintendent of the water wheel and pattern department of the Boston and Waltham Manufacturing Company, and afterwards in developing the water power at Lowell, yet this particular wheel was a failure. In 185 1 Mr. Dummer went to Newport, New Hampshire, and in company with his sister's husband. Albert S. Adams, bought a saw and grist mill of Reuben Call. They at once rebuilt the mill, established new machinery, and built up an extensive business in lumber and grain. He ground the first carload of grain brought to Newport, and while there he originated the cereal package idea and put a wheat mill graham flour on the market in fivepound packages. This was the beginning of that which afterward became his life work of placing before the people the best cereals in an attractive and convenient form. The small packages for cereals have been adopted by nearly every mill in the country.

In 1853 ^^^- Dummer visited Madison, Wisconsin, in search of work in a flour mill, but not meeting with the success he had hoped for, he returned to Newport and in 1854 sawed out the timber and patterns for buckets for a new water-wheel and hauled them to Rowley on a sled. This wheel was set up and found to be an improvement on all other wheels then knowm, grinding three times as fast as the old one. In connection with this it is related that the elder Dummer would not express an opinion regarding the wheel in the course of its construction, seeming to care nothing whatever about it ; and although apparently he showed no interest, yet when all others were away he would examine the work carefully and when the wheel was ready for the water to be turned on he was at hand. Nathaniel asked his father to tend the hopper and look after the mill and he would try his water-wheel. The water was let on and it furnished so much power that the elderly miller had all he could do tending the mill. He soon asked that the wheel be stopped, and he went to the house and remarked to his wife that "he guessed the boy had done it." That is all he was known to say about it then or afterward.

In 1858, the old homestead not presenting the fresh and tasty appearance wdiich the young man wished in view of his approaching marriage, he built over the house, remodelling it completely, and as soon as that was accomplished to his taste he brought to it his bride, Julia A. Ames, only daughter of Dr. Joseph N. Ames, of Ipswich. About this time he erected the flour mill and began making family flour. All the grain used had to be brought from Newburyport, where it had come by vessel, and yet with all this disadvantage his business increased and the demand for meal and Hour was so great that he leased a storehouse in Newburyport. Within a year he could not grind fast enough to satisfy the demands of the trade at his Rowley mill, so he rented a brick building on Water street, below the old custom house (the mill destroyed by fire some years ago ) , put in steam power and mills, and laid a track down the wharf to bring grain direct to the mill. The mill started well, but the water for the boilers failed, and although many ways were tried it could not be procured. Several other misfortunes coming at the same time, he left Newburyport and devoted his whole attention to the Glen mills. In 1869 he refitted the flour mill with new and improved machinery and made a quality of flour which found a ready sale. In 1874 he entirely refitted the corn mill, re])lacing all the stones with mills of a better pattern, and much of the cleaning and other machinery is of Mr. Dummer's own invention, for he was a millwright as well as miller. The first bushel of "( rolden Corn Meal" (one of his specialties) was put upon the market in that year. Soon afterward he became satisfied of the imjxirtance of entire wheat flour as a food and again remodelled his flour mill; and after much exl)erinienting produced an entire wheat flour which contained all the essential elements of the wheat reduced to a uniform fineness. In 1880. the water power in the summer months not proving adequate for the increasing business, steam was added as auxiliary to the water power. Since that time the manufacture of other cereal foods has been added so that tlie mills now produce a long list of staple and fancy breadstuff's. This lousiness is now incorporated under the laws of the state of Massachusetts as the (]len Mills Cereal Coni- ])any. and besides the mills to which allusion has been made. Mr. Dummer for many years owned and operated a saw and planing mill two miles above the other mill on the same stream. To make a market for some of his lumber he bought a tract of land in Georgetown and erected a number of houses, which he afterward sold. Mr. Dummer was also successful in his efforts to reclaim old pasture and swamp land, making several spears of grass to grow where none grew before. When well past seventy-six years of age he bought an eighty-six acre tract of swamp and ])asture land, and in eighteen months had twentv-one acres producing two and one-half tons of hay to the acre.

raising of a large hay barn which was to be erected after his own plans. He always was a man of intense energy and perseverance, and was never more at ease than when directing the work of a large number of employees. He was liberal and public spirited and ever ready to take part in any movement which had fat its end the welfare of the town and its people. He was a member of the Congregational church and was a Mason. He married first, in 1858, Julia A. Ames, who died in 1870. having borne her husband two children, Joseph Newell and Carrie S. Dummer. In 1878 he married Elizabeth M. Xewhall. daughter of Joshua L. Newhall, of Newburyport. (Jne child, W'illian.i Dummer, was born of this marriage.

(\'I1) Joseph Newell Dummer. son of Nathaniel Noyes and Julia A. (Ames) Dummer. was born Eebruary 19, 1861. and for a full (luarter century has been actively identified with the best interests and history of his native town and county. He acquired his education at Old Dummer Academy, and now is a member and secretary of the board of trustees of that famous institution. He early became interested in the work of the Massachusetts Sunday-school Association, and from 1892 to 1897 was its field secretary; and as its first field secretary he originated the district plan of work which has been found so successful, and which in its origin, operation and results is superior to that of perhaps any other state. From 1899 to 1904 he was field secretary of the New Hampshire Sunda}-school Association, but in the year last mentioned gave U]) his work in that state on account of his father's failing health, returned to his home in Rowley and has since devoted his attention to the business enter])rises established by his father. He is now president of the Glen Mills Cereal Company, which operates the extensive cereal mill in Rowle}- and the entire wheat flour mill in Newburyport.

FJesides his connection with the corporation of Dummer Academy and the field secretaryship of the Massachusetts Sunday School Association. Mr. Dummer is clerk of the Byfield Congregational Church, clerk and treasurer of the Byfield Cemetery Association, secretary of the Essex County Young Men's Christian Association, and for several years has been a member of the school committee in Rowley. He is a member of Charles C. Dane Lodge. F. and .\. M. : King Cyrus Chapter. R. A. M. ; Newburyport Commandery. K T. ; and of Masciinomet

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Lodge, I. O. O. F., and is also a member of OiiascacniK|uen (Grange, P. of H. He is an occasional contributor to the press, and has an excellent reputation as a speaker on the lecture platform. His "History of Byfield Parish," which is published, shows something oi Air. Dummer's literary capacity and his accuracy as a historian. He married, August 13, 1883, Sarah Wheelwright, daughter of Isaac W. \\'heelwright, of Xewbury, and a descendant of Rev. John Wheelwright, who was exiled from Pioston with his sister-in-law, Ann Hutchinson, both of whom were charged with promulgating heretical doctrines. Mr. and Mrs. Dummer have one adopted daughter, Gladys Burrage Dummer, born July 10, 1897.

Moses Parsons, the parish minister of Byfield, at the formal opening of the academy, February 28, 1763; and for "liberal things" Dummer Academy has continued to stand for one hundred and forty-five years.

After a century and two score years of useful existence the academy was referred to by President Eliot of Harvard, in these words : "Here is an academy founded by an enlightened man in the eighteenth century, which has a large estate in a beautiful and healthy region, an excellent course of study, an admirable princij)al with devoted assistants, and moderate fees. It provides three or four communities with a good classical day-school ; and it is also a trustworthy boarding school for boys from a distance."

About the time Lieutenant Governor Dummer devised his entire estate in Xewbury to trustees with directions "that the whole of ye rents, issues and profits thereof, shall in the first place be appropriated laid out & expended in the erecting building & finishing a Grammar School house", the town was one of the most prosperous in the province, being second only to Boston in size and progressiveness. It was noted for culture and refinement, and its considerable display of wealth. This popularity, due in part to large shipping interests at the mouth of the Merrimac river, must have given the inhabitants the assurance that Xewbury would continue to be one of the wealthiest and most cultured towns in the province ; and this may have been one of the reasons that impelled William Dummer to choose his farm as a site for an educational institution rather than the estate he owned in School street in Boston. The governor's Xewbury farm comprised about 330 acres and was a part of a tract of land granted by the general court in 1635 to his grandfather, Richard Dummer, under the order that "a convenient quantity of land be set out within the bounds of X^ewbury for the keej^ing of the cattle that came over in the Dutch ships this year, and to belong to the owners of said cattle." That part of the estate now known as the academy farm was given to William Dummer in 1713 by his father Jeremiah, and may have been intended as a wedding gift, for he soon afterward married Katherine, daughter of Governor Dudley. A few years later William Dummer became lieutenant-governor, held that office from 1716 to 1730, and that of acting governor from 1723 to 1728 and from 1729 to 1730.

The mansion house is supposed to have been built about the time of his marriage, and one writer speaks of the visit of Governor Shute and President Leverett of Harvard to the newly appointed lieutenant-governor while journeying from Ijoston to Portsmouth, and of their being "finely entertained that night." Mrs. Dummer was a woman of rare accomplishments and charming manners, and these cjualities combined with her known benevolence and ])iety undoubtedly had an influence in molding the character of her husband. He was highly respected, even by the colonists, nearl}- all of whom were opposed to officials appointed by the crown. Cotton Mather, who was antagonistic to a royal governor, wrote "we are Inexpressibly Happy in our L'Governor's wise and Good Administration." Such then was the quality of the man who gave his entire property in Xewbury for the maintenance of a grammar school in that town. The original building was a one-story frame structure about twenty feet square, and it still stands near the academy grounds, and without doubt is the oldest academy building in this country, and one around which cluster thousands of fond memories and interesting historical associations. And this too was the first school of its kind founded in Massachusetts, for previous to 1763 grammar was taught only in the Latin and Greek classics. In his will the founder stated "it is my will that no Scholar be admitted into said school but such as can read English well," thus giving it the character of a school of secondary rather of elementary education.

uiiikr the title of "The Trustees of Dtimmer -Academy in the County of Essex." The first master was Samuel Aloody, of York. Maine, a graduate of Harvard, 1746, a man of marked eccentricities, yet withal an excellent disciplinarian and capable pedagogue. He stood faithfully at the master's desk from 1763 to 1790, and during his principalship 526 boys sat under his instruction. Many of them afterward attained high positions in the civil and military history of our commonwealth, and others sat in the halls of our national congress. There was Samuel Osgood, a captain at Lexington, and Major AlcClary, who fell at Bunker Hill : Captain John Glover and Ebenezer Cleaveland, of Colonel John Glover's famous regiment of Marblehead men ; Samuel Tenne}', congressman; Rufus King, one of the framers of the declaration of independence and a military officer of rank; Samuel Hinckley, who was wounded at White Plains ; Tobias Eear, Washington's private secretary; Captain Longfellow, of the forces organized for the sup])ression of Daniel Shays' rebellious hosts. In the same general category may be recalled the names of Theophilus Parsons and Samuel Sewall, both of whom filled the high office of chief justice of our supreiue judicial court, and fifteen at least of Master Moody's boys sat in either the continental or the federal congress. Among educators of distinguished prominence there may be mentioned President Samuel Webber of Harvard, Professor William Ingalls of Brown, Professor John Smith of Dartmouth, Professor David Tappan of Har- \^ard. and Samuel Phillips, founder of the famous academies at Andover and Exeter, and who aLo was a member of the prt^vincial congress and at one time lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.

On its original foundation the standard of reiiuirement at Dummer Academy was placed on a high educational plane. From that standard there has been no retrograde movement ; the aim of its curriculum has been to bring the students up to the re(|uirements of Harvard scholarship leading to a degree in the arts or the sciences. But during the almost century and a half of its existence many changes have ]:)een witnessed in the physical life of the school, and during the same period too the trustees have been made the recipients of substantial benefactions. In 1797 the general court made a grant of a half township of land in ^Maine for its benefit, and at various times other donations and endowments have enabled the C()r])oration to erect additional buildings.

some of which are named in allusion to benefactors. But the one great element which perhaps more than all others which has kept alive the memories and associations of this old historic institution, given it substantial aid in times of need and through its wide infiuence has been instrumental in promoting its usefulness in every direction, is the organized body of alumni known as the Society of the Sons of Dummer Academy, the existence of which dates from the year 1822. The interest created and kept alive through the workings of the society has been the direct or indirect agency by which the trustees have been enabled to enlarge the master's residence (1883). construct a new dormitory building (1885), build a modern gymnasium (1887); and the same loyal b(5dy has continued its beneficent work through all subsequent years in the creation of funds for advantages to the school that grounded its members for the higher education and their ultimate success in the activities of professional and business life.

This surname is of English .'>ri'yrS( )N origin, though diversely spelled Studson. Steedson. Stit- M)n. etc.. in the early records. A coat-of-arms l)reser\e(l in the family in New England bears bend sinister azure between two lions rampant, etc., with motto: X'irtus nobilitat auima. The coat-of-arms is not given by Burke under any of the American spellings, however. Two of the family were early pioneers in New l^ngland and we know that one of them, William Stetson, of lUiston, came from Bristol. ['England. He was in l>oston before 1637, a ])roj)rietor, and in Charlestown before 1640: deacon ; married first, Elizabeth Harris, widow ; widow; second, Mary Hill, widow of Zechariah Hill; his will was dated April 12, 1668. ( I I Robert Stetson, immigrant, the other jMoneer of the family, was also born in England, in 1613, and died February i, 1702-3. According to tradition he came from county Kent. He was a carpenter by trade. As early as 1634 he had a grant of land on North river, Scituate, Massachusetts, and was on the list of men able to bear arms in the Plymouth colony 1643. He was admitted a freeman and elected de]:)uty to the general court June 7, 1653 ; was constable March 7, 1642-3 at Duxbury. He was cornet of the troop of horse 1658-9, and ever afterward was known as "Cornet Stetson" in the records, and doubtless orallv as well. F-fe built a house on the sloping plain near the ri\-er by a s|)ring. and he had a saw mill on Third Herring Brook in Scituate, burned in King Philip's war, 1676. He represented Scituate in the general court seventeen years between 1654 and 1678; in 1660 was chosen commissioner in matters relating to trade en the Kennebec river ; served in council of war 1661 to 1681, and was active in King Philip's war. In 1667 he was appointed on a delicate mission to the Sachems, and in 1668 was delegated to buy the Indian titles of the land comprising the towns of Hanover and Abington for his townsmen. His will, made September 4, 1702, "being aged," proved March 5. 170.2-3, bequeathed to wife Mary; sons Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel. Robert; daughter Eunice Rogers ; and to Abigail Stetson, widow of his son John. Children, baptized at Second Church of Scituate: i. Joseph, born June, 1639; mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, born August, 1641, baptized October 6, 1645. 3- Thomas, born December 11. 1643. 4. Samuel, born June 1646, baptized July 12, 1646. 5. John, born April, 1648, baptized May 7, 1648. 6. Eunice, born April 28,

( H ) Josei)h Stetson, son of Robert Stetson ( I ), was born June, 1639, at Scituate, and baptized at Second Church of Scituate October 6, 1645. He died 1724, the inventory of his estate being dated March 8, 1724. He resided at Scituate. He married Prudence

(HL) Robert Stetson, son of Joseph Stetson (2), was born December 9, 1670, at Scituate. fie resided there, and was constable in 1722. He married Alary Collamore, of Scituate. Children, born at Scituate: i. Anthony, born September 12, 1693. 2. Jemima, born March 13, 1694; married July 22, 1721, Daniel Damon. 3. Isaac, born March 15, 1696; drowned in Scituate river, 17 19. 4. William, born June 26, 1700. 5. Amos, born June 18. 1703. mentioned below. 6. Martha, born September 3. 1706; married December 21, 1731.

(IV) Amos Stetson, son of Robert Stetson (3), was born in Scituate, June 18, 1703, and baptized November 5, 1704. He was a cordwainer by trade. He removed to Braintree, and married A'lay 9, 1727, Margaret, daughter of Benjamin T. Thayer. Children: i. Margaret, born December 13, 1728; married first, Adam Howard ; second, John Gibbens. 2. Amos, born May 19, 1730; mentioned below. 3. John, born October 27, 1731. 4. Mary, born March 14, 1733; married Hezekiah Thayer. 5. Rufus, born December 8, 1735? 6. Sarah, married Samuel Mellish, of Dorchester. 7. Rachel, married Benjamin Lyon. 8. Benjamin, born July 3, 1741. 9. Gideon. 10. Thankful, born February 8, 1746?; married Major W^illiam Seaver, of Taunton. 11. Hannah, born October 24. 1744; married John Niles.

(V) Amos Stetson, son of Amos Stetson (4), born May 19, 1730, died in 1779, in the revolution, after the surrender of Burgoyne. He was a cordwainer by trade, and resided in Stoughton. He married first. Experience

(VI) Amos Stetson, son of Amos Stetson (5), was born February 25, 1777. He was a merchant in Braintree, and acquired a large competence. He was a member of the Congregational church. He married January 8, 1800, Hannah Hunt. Children: i. Caleb, born January 6, 1801. 2. Amos Warren, born April 27, 1802 ; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born March 27. 1804; married Joseph Porter, of Wrentham. 4. James A., born December 28, 1806. 5. Rhoda, born December 12, 1808; died October 15, 181 1. 6. Rhoda W\, born October 21, 1812, died about 1905.

(VII) A. Warren Stetson, son of Amos Stetson (6), was born April 27, 1802, at Braintree. where he resided and was a shoe manufacturer. He married, in 1828, Susannah Curtis. Children: i. Annie Warren, born June, 1829: married Luther Wilson Anderson (see Anderson family). 2. N. Curtis, born 1832. 3. A. Henry, born 1834. 4. Charles E., born 1838. 5. Warren, born 1840. 6.

( 1 ) James Anderson, immi- ANDERSON grant, was of Scotch ancestry, born in the province of Ulster. Ireland, about 1690. He was one of tiie first sixteen settlers at Nutfield (later Londonderry), New Hampshire, in 1719, which was settled by a party from the vicinity of Londonderry, Ireland, of the parish of Rev. Mr. McGregor, who came with them. They established a Presbyterian church, and to the town of Londonderry and vicinity came many hundred of Scotch-Irish in the next fifty years. Allen Anderson, a brother of James, settled in Londonderry, but left no children. John Anderson, perhaps a relative also, came a few years later and has many descendants in the vicinity of Derry. James Anderson settled in what is now Derry, New Hampshire, then Londonderry, east of the turnpike in the Double Range. Children: i. Samuel, born about 1730; married Martha Craig. 2. Robert, married Agnes Craig ; had nine children. 3. James, married first, .Xancy Woodburn ; second, Elizabeth Uurnett. 4. Thomas, married .Mary Craig. 5. David, mentioned l)elow. 6. jane, married Elder James Taggart. 7. Xancy.

(I\') Robert Anderson, son of Robert .\n- <lerson (3), was born in Londonderry, .Xew I lam]:)shire, where he resided and owned a saw mill. He married Jane Wilson. A Robert Anderson was in the revolution, in Captain Daniel Reynold's company. Colonel Pcabody's regiment, 1778-9. He died in 1835. Children: I. (ieorge, settled in Beloit, \\'isconsin. 2. James, settled in Mil ford. New Hanii)shire. 3. Jane. 4. Luther Wilson, mentioned below.