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( \' ) Luther Wilson .\nderson. son of Robert Anderson (4), was born in Londonderry in 1821, and died in 1887. At the age of fourteen he was obliged to assist in the care of the family, his father having died, but he worked hard and fitted himself for Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1846. During the time he was in college he si)ent his spare time in teaching, and in the study of medicine. Eventually he gave up the idea of becoming a doctor, and became a well known teacher. His first school was in East Braintree, where he taught two years, and then w^as the principal of the Charlestown high school. In 1852 he became master of the English high school in Boston, a position which he held until his death in 1887. He was a capable and progressive teacher, and inspired confidence in his pupils, who loved and respected him. He did considerable literary work for Harper Brothers, and was associated with Benjamin F. Twxed, for some years supervisor of the T.oston schools, in the ])ublication of a series of illustrated primers. In 1881 he was chosen treasurer of the Reece P.utton-hole ^Machine Comi:)any, an office which he held as long as he lived. He was also manager of the .Adams .Vcademy in Quincy from its establishment in 187 1 until his death, and for many years was trustee of the Thomas Crane Public Library in Ouinc}-. 1 Ic was a member of Orphan's Hope Lodge, 1". and A. M., in East Weymouth. He marred .\iuiie Warren Stetson, born in Braintree in 1829, died 1902, daughter of A. W. and Susannah (Curtis) Stetson. (See Stetson family). Children: i. Luther Stetson, born April 9. 1858, in Braintree; mentioned below. 2. Jennie Wilson, born I'cbruary 7, 1862: married lulwin S. liennett, and had Chester .\. and Luther .\. Bennett. 3. .\. Warren Stetson, born May 18, 1868, in Ihaintree. married Josie F. Deering.

(\ I) Luther Stetson Anderson, son oi Luther Wilson .Anderson (5), was born in P.raintree. .April 9, 1858. He received his early education in ])rivate schools. In 1869 he entered the r.oston Latin school, but in the year following changed to the English high school, from which he graduated in the class of 1873. In 1875 ^1^' entered .\dams .Academy at Ouincy. and graduated in 1878. entering Harvard College and graduating in the class of 1882. He then entered the employ of the Old Colony Railroad Com])any. now part of the system of the New York. Xew Haven & Hartford railroad, and held various positions in the freight de])artment. He resigned to become assistant to the president of the Union Pacific Railway Company. September 30, 1885, and was made assistant treasurer of that comiiany in April, 1888. and assistant secretary in June. 1889. For a short time he was also the purchasing agent of the company. From February, 1891. until the following autumn he was business manager of the New England Conservatorv. In 1893 1''^ supervised the construction of the Ouincy Quarry railwa\-, of which he was subi8o se(|iiently made superintendent, which position he still holds, and he has also been manager of the Granite Railway Company since April. 1899, and since January, 1907. has also been its treasurer.

Mr. Anderson is a prominent member of the First Congregational Church (L'nitarian) of Ouincy, its treasurer, and a member of the parish committee. In politics he is a Republican ; he was a member of the common council of Ouincy in 1893-94-96-97, and was chairman of the finance committee.

WIEEY were originally used interchangeably in England, though the American families of Wiley mentioned below seem not related to the Willey families at all. Willy or Willey is derived like a host of other surnames from the personal name William. W^e might cite others - W^illiams, Williamson, Fitz- Williams, Wilkins. Wilcox, Wilmot, Billson, Tilson (\\'illiam was once nicknamed Till as well as Bill) and Cuillian. (Tillett, etc., from the French (juillaume (William).

But the surname Wiley was derived from the name of a parish in W'iltshire. The Wiley coat-of-arms is : Argent three griffins passant sable. The Willey family in various parts of the country uses a modified form of this armorial and this seems to prove that originally the Wiley and Willey families were of the same stock. Wiley or Willey : Argent three griffins segreant in fess sable. Also argent three griffins segreant in fess sable between five trefoils slipped vert. The only crest found is : A rose bush vert bearing roses argent. The Scotch Wylie or Wiley family is especially numerous in the north of Ireland, Antrim county.

A number of the Willey family immigrated to New England before 1650. Allen Willey was admitted to the church in Boston, November 9, 1634; Isaac Willey and wife Joanna were in Boston before 1640; she married, second. June 8, 1660, in Boston, Edward Burcham, of Lynn. Thomas Willey settled in Dover. New Hampshire, and a large family descended from a settler of this surname at New London, Connecticut.

( I ) John Wiley, immigrant ancestor, was born in England about 161 5. He settled in Reading, Massachusetts, where his descendants have been prominent to the present time. He gave bonds in the general court. July 30, 1640. He was a proprietor in 1648. His wife Elizabeth was a member of the Reading

Church in 1648, and she died August 3, 1662. He lived in "Little World" now called Woodville, Reading, and was one of the earliest settlers in that town. He died probably in 1672. Children: i. John Jr. 2. Benjamin, married, 1707, Mary Nichols. 3. Elizabeth, born March 4, 1649. 4- Timothy, born April 24, 1653; mentioned below. 5. Susanna, born July 16, 1655; married, 1678, John Damon. 0. vSarah, born February 4, 1658.

(H) Timothy Wiley, son of John Wiley ( 1 ), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, April 24, 1653. He succeeded his father on the homestead and became a leading citizen, holding the offices of selectman and of deputy to the general court. He died in 1728. He married, first, in 1678. Elizabeth Davis, who died in 1695, daughter of (jeorge Davis. He married, second, 1697, Susanna . Children of first wife: i. John, born 1679. 2. Elizabeth, 1681 ; died young. 3. Timothy, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, born 1690. Child of second wife: 5. Thomas, born 1697.

( III ) Timothy Wiley, son of Timothy Wiley (2), was born 1688-92, at Reading; married, in 1714, Mary Poole, of Lynnfield. They livetl at Woodville. Reading. Children, born at Reading: i. Sarah, 1715. 2. Susanna, 1717, married, 1741, Isaac Smith. 3. Mary, 1721, married, 1745, Moses Bancroft. 4. Lydia, 1724, married, 1747, Adam Hawkes, of Lynnfield, ancestor of George L. Hawkes, Es(:|., of Lynnfield. 5. Timothy, 1725, married. 1748, Elizabeth Wiley. 6. John, 1727. 7. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 8. Phineas,

Wiley (3). was born at Reading in 1729, died at Reading in 1822, aged ninety-three. He resided in Reading; married Mary Eaton, of Andover. Children, born at South Reading: T. Timothy, 1749, married. 1781, Susanna Hay, of .Stoneham. 2. Mary, 1756. 3. Nathaniel, 1759; mentioned below. 4. Phineas, 1761, married, 1782, Susanna Green. 5. Benjamin, 1763, married Sherman, of

Lynnfield. 6. Edmund, 1766, married, 1791. Nancy Edes. 7. Ephraim, 1768, was father of Rev. Ephraim, a i\Iethodist minister. 8. Samuel, 1772, married, 1794, Eliza Vinton. 9. Eli, 1774, married first. Love Mansfield, and. second. Lucy (Tapley) Wiley.

(\^) Nathaniel Wiley, son of Nathaniel (4), was born in Reading, 1759. Some of the revolutionary service of Nathaniel Wiley, of Reading, was his probably and the remainder his father's. His father turned out on the

Eexington alarm, April 19. 1775, in Colonel David Green's regiment. He married, 1782, Sally Poole, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Eaton) Poole. He died in 181 1, aged sixtytwo years. He succeeded his father-in-law, Jonathan Poole, on the farm on Water street. South Reading, lately occupied by heirs of Leonard Wiley. Before Jonathan, his uncle, Benjamin Poole, owned this estate. Children born at Reading: i. Sally, 1783, died in middle age unmarried. 2. Betsey, 1787, married John Upton, Esq., of Lynnfield. 3. Leonard, 179T, married, 181 3, Sally, daughter of Edmund and Judith (Bancroft) Eaton; had the homestead. 4. Lot, 1794, died 1813 of typhoid fever. 5. Nathaniel. 1797, mentioned below. 6. Laura, 1799. died 1813. 7. Poole, 1802. 8. Aaron. 1805. went to sea and was lost probably, never returning or heard from.

(y\) Nathaniel Wiley, .son of Nathaniel Wiley (5). was born in Reading in 1797, died at Stoneham or Woburn, ^Massachusetts. He lived at South Reading, now the town of Wakefield, ^Nfassachusetts. lie married, 1820.

at \\'oburn. Children: i. Henry P., born 1821. married Elvira Green. 2. John .\dams. born Eebruary i, 1825, mentioned below. 3. Lydia M., born 1828, died unmarried. 4. Augusta Ann, born 1830, died unmarried.

(VH) John Adams Wiley, son of Nathaniel Wiley (6). was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, February i. 1825. He was educated in the district .schools and the academy at W^oburn. He learned the trade of wheelwright and followed it for several years in Wakefield. Andover and North -\ndover. He entered the em])loy of the Davis & Furber ]\Iachine Company at North Andover and worked "his way to a position of responsibility. He liad charge of setting up the machinery .sold "by this concern, and in 1858 was admitted to partnership and continued this connection for a period of nearly fifty years. He took a prominent position in the luanufacturing world and acquired wealth and distinction. He was a typical self-made man. His thorough knowledge of the business, his foresight and business sagacity, his strong and pleasing personality, his industry and progressiveness were the factors of his great success in life. No man in North Andover has won in his generation a greater degree of resjject and confidence from his townsmen. He was liberal in his support of charity and has given evidence of breadth as well as strength of character. He died Septeml)er i, 1905, after a long, useful and successful career in business and i)ublic life. In politics he was an Independent. He was at one time representative to the general court and later state senator from his district, filling these important offices with credit to himself and the community. He attended the Congregational church. In 1865 wdien the church was built at the factory village he contributed five thousand dollars to the building fund. He was a director of the Pacific Bank.

He married, February 24. 1848. at Andover. Eliza R. Downing, born February 10. 1828, daughter of Samuel Dowming. (See sketch of the Downing familv). Thev had no children.

as early as 1368, in the reign of Edward III, when Hugho de ]Mors undertook a journey to l-"rance during a truce with that country and the captivity of her king. The name is found still earlier in Germany.

(I) Anthony ^forsc, the immigrant, with his brother William, were early settlers in Newbury. .Massachusetts. They came from Marlborough. Wiltshire, 1-jigland, 1636. Anthony was a Puritan who tried to continue in the I^Ntablished Cluu-ch until his emigration to New England. Rev. Abner Morse says of him: "Thai h>,' was a man of moral coin"age. energ}" and persexcrance and ca])al)le in business, and laid the foundation of the competence and wealth of his family; that he was called to public trusts of civil and sacred character : that he reared pious and distinguished children ; led a long life of strict integrity and humble piety, fearing God and loving his peo- ])le, no one can doubt who attends to the records of the community in which he lived and died." He settled about half a mile south of the most ancient cemetery in Newbury, on a slight eminence in a field owned lately by Michael Little, and still called Morse Field, where the trace of his house, a few rods from the road was visible in 1850 and later. His will, dated .\i)ril 28. 1680, is on file, but was never proved. He bequeathed to sons Joshua, Robert L., I'enjamin ; daughters Stickney, Newman and others, lie died ]March 9, 1679- at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, about 1667. 2. Peter, settled at Elizabethtown. 3. Joseph, died January 15, 1678-9. 4. Anthony, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, born March 28, 1640: married August 26, 1669, Ruth Sawyer. 6. Sarah, born at Newbury, Mav t. 1641 : died

(H) Anthony Morse, son of Anthony Morse (T), was born probably in Englancl, possibly at Marlborough; married, May 8, 1680, Elizabeth Knight, - died July 29, 1657; married second, November 10, 1669, Alary Barnard, who survived him. He was lieutenant of his military company. His will is dated February 23, 1677-8, and he died before his father. He signed his will "Anthony Mors, Jun." He mentions wife and children in will. Children, born at Newbury : T.Ruth, born May 20, 1661 ; died July 24, 1666. 2. Anthony, born January i. 1662-3; mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born July 29, 1665, died January 15, 1689-90; married Lydia Plummer. 4. Elizabeth, born July 29, 1667; died February 25, 1677-8. 5. John, born September 13, 1670; died October 30, 1721, of small ])ox, at Woodstock, Connecticut, where he settled ; married Hannah Williams. 6. Mary, born August 31, 1672; married, 1692, Jabez Corbin. 7. Peter, born November 14. 1674; died November 2, 1721. of small pox; married Priscilla Carpenter. 8. Sarah, born November 1671 ; ched July 7, 1677.

(HI) Anthony ]\Iorse, son of Anthony Morse (2), was born at Newbury, January i, 1662-3, and lived there all his life. He was ensign of tlie military company. He married, February 4, 1685-6, Sarah Pike. Children: I. Sarah, born 1686; died young. 2. Sarah, born 1687-8; died young. 3. Anthony, born 1690; married, 1717, Elizabeth Little; second Sarah lllsley. 4. Sarah, born April 4, 1692; married Daniel Parker, of Bradford, November 26, 171 3. 5. Joseph, born April 3, 1694; married, 1721, Rebecca Adams; second, Mary Jackson. 6. Stephen, born 1695; mentioned below. 7. Elizabeth, born November 3, 1697. 8. Timothy, born September 14, 1698; married, 1721, Dorothy Pike. 9. Thomas, born 1702. 10. Mary, born 1704; married 1730.

(IV) Deacon Stephen Morse, son of Anthony Morse (7,), born at Newbury, 1695; married Elizabeth Worth. He was a prominent citizen, and deacon for many years of the second church at Newbury, now known as the First Church of West Newbury. Children : I. Thomas, born June 30, 1726; mentioned below. 2. Stephen, born 1727-8; died June i, 1753, married May 26, 1749, Judith Carr. 3. Elizabeth, born 1730. 4. Judith, born 1732. 5. Sarah, born 1734. 6. Anthony, born 1736. (V) Thomas Morse, son of Deacon Stephen Morse (4), born June 30, 1726. He resided at Bradford, Massachusetts. He was a weaver. He married May 20, 1747, Elizabeth Bartlett. Children: i. Elizabeth, born 1748; married Moses SpoiTord. 2. Deacon Thomas, born August 3, 1749; mentioned below. 3. Judith, born July 27, 1751, married June, 1821, Ephraim Wesson, of Groton, Vermont. 4. Moody, born January 12, 1753; resided at Peacham, \'ermont. 5. Benjamin, born February 5, 1754; died December 23, 1828; married Olive Creenough. 6. Stephen, born January 28, 1757; died 1839; married Sally Kay, of Haverhill, New Hampshire. 7. Mobly, baptized February 15, 1761 ; married Andrew Peabody, of Bradford. 8. Joseph, baptized October 24, at Groton, Vermont. 10. John, settled at Barnet, \'ermont ; married Jennie Kay. ii. Susanna, married February, 1784, Samuel Carlton, of Box ford.

( VI ) Deacon Thomas Morse, son of Thomas Morse (5). born August 3, 1749, died November 13, 1826. He resided at Bradford, and was deacon of the church of the East Parish. He married, August 13, 1771, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Susanna Cole, of Boxford. Children: 1. Samuel, born Januar}' 9, 1772; mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, born January 2, 1773. 3. Benjamin, born February 12, 1774; died August 25, 1775. 4. Benjamin, born September 28, 1777; resided at Haverhill, New Hampshire ; removed to \'ermont, and kept a tavern ; had children. 5. Richard, born July 17. 1779; married Polly Burbank ; settled at \\' iscasset, Maine ; died leaving child, Adaline, married Hopkinson, of Bradford. 6. Rebecca, born May 18, 1781 ; married Moses Kimball, of Bradford ; had Sarah, Jacob, William James and Moses Kimball, of New York. 7. Moses, born July 18. 1783; married Betsey Carlton, November, 1807; resided on homestead at Bradford. 8. Sally, born July 17, 1785; married Paul Hopkinson, of Bradford; fifteen children. 9. James, born March 11, 1787; shoe-

(VII) Samuel son of Thomas ]\Iorse (6), was born January 9. 1772. He resided at Oxford, Industry and Wiscasset. Maine, at Haverhill, New Hampshire, and finally at Georgetown, Massachusetts. He was a farmer all his life. He was a Congregationalist. He married, 1798, Esther IJettys, of Rowley, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Samuel, born September, 1799: married Mary Parker; resided at Boxford. 2. Moses D., born August 7, 1804; married Betsey Pierce; resided at Georgetown. 3. Caleb, married Naomi W'etherbee : died at Industry, Maine. 4. Thomas, born December 8, 1810; married Mary .\ichols; resided at Georgetown. 5. James, born January 18, 1814; married Mary Page, resided at Atkinson, New Hampshire.

6. John, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, married Daniel Withee ; resided at Industry, Maine. John and ])robably Sarah were born of a first marriage of their father.

(X'lII) John ]\Iorse, son of Samuel Morse (7). was born in 1795. in Oxford, Maine. He was educated in the ])ublic school of the several towns in which the family lived, and at Bradford Academy (Massachusetts), under Benjamin Greenleaf. 1 le took up the trade of morocco dressing and tanning in Roxbury. ]\Iassachu setts, and followed it for several years in the employ of Guy Carleton and later for Thomas Hayes & Harding in Haverhill. He died in the prime of life in 1840, aged fortyfive years. He was a Congregationalist in religion. He married, 1818, Sarah Townsend, of Boston, Massachusetts, born in 1799. died Sej^itember 18, 1857, aged fifty-eight years. Children: i. John IJrooks, married Mary Foot, of Searsport. Maine: children: i. Sarah Francis, married William I-"Jwell. of lioston ; ii. Ella, married the Rev. Mr. (irimes, of Boston : iii. Frederick, married and lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. 2. James K., died aged twenty-seven years ; w as unmarried. 3. Frederick, married, July 4, 1844, Martha Foot, of Searsport, Maine; children: i. George Melvin, born May 4, 1845; ii- Enima, born March

7, 1846. died at Haverhill, Massachusetts; Frederick Morse was a baker by trade and followed that occupation in Boston many years ; had three bakeries and several stores, and died in Boston ; he was a Free Mason. 4. Milton ]\r.. married ; no children ; died at the age of thirtv-seven. after a voyage around the world. 5. Albert, born in Haverhill, ^Nlarch 17, 1826. died December 26,- 1897 ; for many years he conducted several stores and bakeries in Boston ; was a Free Mason; was highly esteemed by all who knew him ; married Henrietta Philbrick, of Boston : children : Edward E., Etta D. and hjiima F'. 6. George A., mentioned below. 7. Charles F., mentioned below. Two other children died young.

( IN ) (ieorge A. ]\Iorse., son of John Morse (8), was born in Haverhill. 1832, and was educated in the public schools of that city. In his early life he was engaged in the shoe business in Haverhill and in New York city. When the California gold fever broke out in 1849 he, with others, went around Cape Horn in the cli])per ship "Winged Racer" of Boston. He was absent from home about six years, returning by way of Manilla, London and Liverpool, arriving in New ^'ork in the winter of 1856. He was engaged in the dry goods business until the breaking out of the Civil war. when he (.-nlisted in the Second Battalion of Infantr}-, which was ordererl to Fort Warren by Governor .Andrew to do garrison duty. He remained at the fort during the summer of 1861, when the battalion was ordered back to I'.oston and relieved from dut\-. fie subsequently joined the Thirty-third Massachusetts X'olunteer Infantry as private, which left Boston for the front in .August, 1862. The following December he was commissioned second lieutenant, and in Mav following was advanced to first lieutenant and commanded Company E in the three days" fight at the battle of Gettysburg. Soon after he was appointed adjutant of the regiment. The following August he was detached from the regiment to do staff duty, which position he held until the close of the war, particijjating in all the engagements, from Lookout Mountain, under ( ieneral I looker, including Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea. serving with five difi^erent brigade commanders, the last one, (ieneral William Cogswell. Mr. Morse was a member of several fraternal organizations. lie joined the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks soon after it was instituted in 1878, and was tyler for ten }ears previous to his death. He never missed a meeting of the lodge until he was confined to his bed. He died August, 1897. His funeral services were conducted by Exalted Ruler J. Fred Roesch and his stafi^ of officers. The services were at the grave, in compliance with a desire expressed by Mr. Morse, and

(IX) Charles F. Morse, son of John Morse (8), was born in Haverhill, January 6, 1834, and was educated there in the public schools. He worked in the shoe factories during his youth until he was seventeen years of age, when he accepted a position in Philadelphia in a wholesale jobbing house, deahng in boots and shoes. He took a similar position with Tenney & Company, a Boston firm of jobbers, and iinally engaged in this line of business on his own account, continuing for a period of two years. From 1865 to 1882 he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in Haverhill and built up a large business. He then turned his attention and his capital to real estate and building. He built some thirty resideiTces and blocks, and opened Arlington street, Haverhill, as a residential section, also built Arlington street from Highland avenue three hundred and sixty-six feet east. Since 1897 he has retired from the building business, devoting himself to the care and maintenance of his real estate investments, and traveling to California several times on business. He has been a very active, enterprising and farsighted man of business, investing his savings wisely and at the same time aiding in the development and growth of his native city. He is held in the highest esteem by his townsmen. He is a member of Merrimack Lodge of Free Masons In politics he is a Republican. During the Civil war Mr. Morse was taken prisoner and was confined for two months in Libby prison in Richmond, although not an enlisted soldier, being on a visit to his brother, Lieutenant George A. Morse, being in the rear of General Burnside's headquarters when captured. During part of the war Mr. Morse was in the boot and shoe business on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington.

Mr. Morse married, first, in 1866, Lucinda F. Twitchell, born in Bethel, Maine, educated at Gould's Academy in Bethel, Maine, and Bradford Academy, Bradford, Massachusetts; she was a teacher in Bradford Academy; she died in 1874. They were the parents of one child, William Adams, died in infancy. "Sir. Morse married, second, 1875, Minnie A. Read, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1846, daughter of Thomas J. and Sarah A. (Burton ) Read, and sister of Walter A. Read, now state treasurer of Rhode Island. Children: i. Walter Holmes, died aged two years. 2. Alice F., born October 30, 1878, a musician of much talent.

at Kittery, Maine, and a signer of the submission to the jurisdiction of the ^Massachusetts Bay in 1652. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was living in 1690 at Kittery. Children: i. Dennis. 2. John, had sons Benjamin and John, born about 1659; married, second, Susanna Miller, daughter of John Miller; the son John married Elizabeth Harrison and had children : Harrison, John and Benjamin. This family became very numerous in Newington, New Hampshire, and Kennebunk, Maine, and to it doubtless belongs the line mentioned below. 3. Joshua, born 1644, married, about 1675, P'atience Hatch, daughter of Philip and Patience Hatch ; second, Rebecca Trickey, widow of Joseph Trickey and daughter of William and Rebecca (Alackworth) Rogers; Joshua married, second, April 28, 1709, Sarah Hatch, daughter of Captain John and Sarah Hatch, of Portsmouth ; he was killed by the Indians at Wells, December 18, 1712, and his widow married, Sej^tember 14, 1713, James Chadbourne.

(T) David Downing was born in 1738 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, or came there when very young. He lived in Newburyport and Andover. He was in the British service as a soldier in the French war and was wounded. He afterwards served in the revolution. He settled in Antrim,, New Hampshire, in 1 78 1, (Ml what is known as the William A\'ilkins place at the foot of the Sand hill and lived there thirteen years, moving with his son in 1794 to Marlow, New Flampshire. where he died in 1798. His widow survived him and reached the age of nearly one hundred and one years. Children: i. Daniel., settled in Antrim and died in 1798; was a soldier in thl revolution. 2. Samuel, born November 30, 1761, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, settled at Antrim ; removed to New York state and located at Edinburgh, Saratoga county ; died there February 19, 1867, aged one hundred auvd five years, two months and twenty-one days, the last surviving soldier of the revolutionary war. 3. Palfrey, mentioned below.

(11) Palfrey Downing, son of David Downing (T ), was born at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1761-62. In 1780 he gave his age as eighteen when enlisting. If that age was correctly given he entered the service at fifteen in Captain x^Vbhot's company. Colonel Tupper's regiment, in 1777. In 1777 he was also in Captain Benjamin Farnum's company. Colonel

El)enezci' Francis's regiment. ITe was in the second Andover company, enlisting February 16, 1778, under Captain John Abbot, Jr., and in 1779 was in Captain Stephen Abbot's cornpan}'. Colonel Benjamin Tupper's regiment, and was corporal in the same company in 1780- 81. He stated his age as eighteen, his height five feet, seven inches, complexion light, hair dark, occupation husbandman, and place of birth Andover. He was sergeant of his company in 1781-82. His commission from Lieutenant Colonel \'ose of the First Massachusetts Regiment as sergeant dated .\pril 24, 1783, is preserved b}- his descendants. He seems to have removed to New Hampshire and continued his military service, for another commission as second lieutenant of the eleventh company, Eleventh Regiment, given by John Langdon, Esq., governor of New Hampshire, is dated at Portsmouth, June 23, 1788. FTc married, first, a .Miss Lovejoy, and second, a Miss liarnard. Children, all born at .Andover: i. remperance. 2. Palfrey (or Paultre}). 3. Samuel, mentioned below. 4. John. 5. L_\dia.

(Ill) Samuel Downing. >on of l'alfre\' Downing (2), born at .\ndover, December 15, 1798, died at Eawrence, Massachusetts, in 1855. He married Ruby Frye. born at .\ndover, Se])tember 9, 1800, died in 1887. Children, I)orn in Andover: i. .Samuel, born November 3, 1821, married Rebecca II. I'ailey, of Andover: children: Eliza, b.ben 15.. ( leorge, Horace, Albert, Laura, (jertrude. 2. Frederick F., born November 14, 1823, married .\melia Myers, and has three children: Otilla, Fred, .Augusta. 3. Oliver, born August 30, 1825. married Harriet Wakefield, one child, Frank, died 1882. 4. Eliza R., born February 10, 1828, married John A. Wiley, of North .Andover. ( Sec Wiley sketch). 5. Augusta, born June 24, 1830, married Icliabod S. Nichols. 6. Emily, born December 27, 1832. married M. N. Howe, of .\ndo\'er; child. Fred M. Howe. 7. George ()., born Alay 22, 1835, married Melissa J. Higbee; children: Emily M., Walter W., Alinnie AL 8. John N., born November 13, 1837, served in a New Jersey regiment in the civil war : married Ellen Clark, one child, Leverett C. : John died in Kingston. New Hampshire. 9. Annie L.. born Februarv 14, 1840, married Elijah Wright; children: Winnie, died young; George L., living in North . Andover. 10. Leverett ITenry, born April 6, 1843, mentioned below. 11. b^'ank .A., born Ma}- 10, 184^), died young.

(1\') Leverett Henry Downing, son of Sanuiel Downing (3), was born in Frye village, Andover, April 6, 1843. He removed to Lawrence with his father's family when he was seven years old. and was educated in the public schools of Lawrence. W'hen he was fourteen years old he went to Greenport, New A^ork, where he spent one year, returning then to North Andover, wdiere he attended school for a time. He began his apprenticeship to learn the trade of machinist in the spring of 1859 and served three years. He enlisted twice during the civil war, but on account of his height and ])hysical condition was not accepted .as a soldier. He went to work at his trade in 1863 for the AIcKay Sewing Alachine Comjjau}-. .Mr. Downing became a skillful mechanic with nnich inventive ability. He patented a machine for "sewing up" fire hose, and in 1873 went to England to complete the sale (^f this device to the purchaser, George P. Dodge. He opened the first rubber goods store in Lawrence in 1876 and conducted it until 1888 when he sold out, and since that time has been engaged in the real estate business in Lawrence. He resides at North .\ndover, where he built his present home on Elm streel. He is Indej)endent in politics, a Congregationalist in religion.

He luarried, ( )ctober 24, i8r)3. Lucy A. Morss. born December 10. 1845, <^t North Andover, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (P)radley ) Alorss. (See Alorss sketch). Children of Leverett H. and Lucy .A. Downing: i. Annie L.. born May 6, 1864, died November 15, 1894; married .Allien II. Kent, of Suffield, Connecticut, and lived in Hartford in that state; children: i. Alason W"., born May 18. 1890. adopted by his grandfather, Leverett II. Downing in 1906, both parents being dead; ii. Luc} , died young. 2. P>eddie L., born Januar}- 27,. 1867, died July 6, 1870. 3. Frank AL, born July 27, 1869, died March 19, 1890; was teller in the Pacific National Bank. 4. John L., born February 3, 1873. died March 21, T899; graduate of the New England Conser- \atory of Alusic, Boston, and of much musical talent ; married Clara Alorrison. November, 1894; left one child Frank L., born Alay 23, 1897. 5. Alary E., born Alay 29, 1875, died February (\, 1894.

there March 28, 1691-92. He settled in Newl)ury and was a blacksmith and farmer. He owned land at Piscataqua. He married, first, Hannah or Joannah Kimball, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball, about 1680. She died April 10, 1691. He married,

(HI) Anthony Morse, son of Joshua Morse (2), was born in Newbury, April 11, 1686, twin of Joshua. He was a farmer at Newbury where he died intestate in 1728. His administrator was appointed March 3, 1728-29, the inventory dated February 22, 1728-29. He married (intention dated April, 1710) Judith Moody, born February 12, 1682-83, daughter of Dr. Caleb and Sarah IMoody. Children 1)orn at Newbury: i. Caleb, born March 16, ]7io-ii, dismissed from the church at Hamj)- ton. New Hampshire, to the second church at Newbury in 1734. 2. Joshua, baptized February I, 1 713-14, married P'rudence Ordway. 3. Moses, -born February 28, 1715-16, mentioned below. 4. Moody, captain, born April i, 1719. died 1804; married. May 7, 1741, Hannah Carleton, at Andover. 5. Anthony, born April 9. 1721, dismissed from the Third Church at Newbury, 1741-42, to Salisbury; married Martha Merrill; second, February 2, 1763, Martha Eastman. 6. Judith, born May 19. 1724, married, January 19, 1743-44. Enoch Stickney. 7. Joanna, born August 22, 1726, married Jonathan Chase, son of Charles and Hepsibah Chase.

(IV) Moses Morse, son of Anthony ]\Iorse (3), was born in Newbury, February 28, 171 5. He resided in West Newbury. He married there, first. December 16. 1742, Anna Sawyer, and, second, September i, 1759, Sarah (Hale) Rrickett, (widow of Barnard Brickett)- born December 10. 1720. Children born at New- Imry: i. David, born March 20, 1744, died July 18, 1745. 2. Dr. Francis, born July 18, 1745, married, 1781, Lovice Bartlett, at Marll)orough. 3. David, born November 11. 1746- 47, mentioned below. 4. Molly, born January 25. 1748-49, married, first, Ezekiel Goodwin, the revolutionary service. 7. Moody, born October 23. 1756. died December 25, 1776, in the revolutionarv service. 8. Ezekiel, born October 24, 1760. 9. Ruth, born September 2, 1762. 10. Judith, born March i, 1766, married Lieutenant xA.mos Abbott, son of Amos and Rebecca Abbott.

( \ ) David Morse, son of Moses Morse (4). was born at Newbury, November 11, 1746-47. He married, first, September 3, 1770, Abigail Bay ley, born January 25, 1748- 49. daughter of Edmund and Abigail (Bartlett) Bayley. He died May 22. 1802. Children born at Newbury: i. Abigail, born March 13, 1771, died young. 2. Moses, born September 18, 1773, married Rebecca Bartlett, of Newbury. 3. Joseph, born August 6. 1775, married Susan Pearson, of Newbury and Ha\'erhill. 4. iNloody, born August 13, 1777, died August 28. 1848; married Sally Follansbee and lived in Paxton, Danvers and Andover. Massachusetts. 5. David, born October 12, 1779, died at sea aged twenty. 6. xAnna, married Cornelius Felton ; children : i. Professor Cornelius C. professor of Greek at Harvard College; ii. Samuel M. (A. M.), civil engineer ; iii. Lydia B., principal of the Female vSeminary at South Boston ; iv. Maria, married Cieorge Bent, of Boston. 7. Samuel, born January 12. 1784. mentioned below. 8. Edmund, born December 31, 1788, married, January 2, 1818, Rebecca Leach; second, March ro. 1846, Chloe Farnum. 9. Abigail, born August II. 1790. married Joshua Bailey. 10. John (twin), born August 11, 1790. married. December 13, 1818, Sophronia Balch ; lived at Bradford.

{VI) Samuel Morss, son of David Morse (5). born January 12, 1784, died May 19, 1863. This family preferred the spelling Morss, which was in use to some extent interchangeably with Mors and Morse from the earliest record. He married, in 1811, Betsey Davis, born at Newbury in 1794, died December 5, 1853, daughter of Stephen and Betsey (Sawyer) Davis. They lived at West Newbury. Children born at Newbury: i. Rebecca Pike, born August 30. 1812. married, first, Fitts, and had George ; married, second, John jMorse, son of Moses. 2. Samuel Bailey, born June 10. 1814, died October, 1830. 3. Elisha W., born October 19, 1817, married, 1840. Phebe Hale; he died 1906. 4. Eliza Ann. born November 3, 1820, died April 6, 1904; married Stephen Brown, Jr. 5. Jacob W.. born IMay 13. 1823. mentioned below. 6. Hannah D., born September 24, 1825, married James Brown ; children : Mary Jane, Ella, Charles, died young. 7. Thomas D.. born June 12, 1827, died June 12, 1829.

( \TI ) Jacob W. Morss, son of Samuel Morss (6), was born in Xewbury, ]\Iay 13, 1823, lived in Andover. He married, in 1842, Elizabeth Bradley, daughter of George Bradley, born in England in 1823, died 1890. He married, second, January 11, 1896, Charlotte J. Bradle}-. who died May, 1903. He is living in Xorth Andover. He served in the Eourth ^Massachusetts Cavalry in the civil war. Children of first wife: i. Walter S.. born September 18, 1842. 2. James, died in infancy. 3. Lucy A., born December 10. 1845, married Leverett H. Downing, of Xorth Andover. (See Downing sketch). 4. Frank M., born February 25, 1848, died 1861. 5. George C, born October 9. 185 1. (">. Charles H., born December 4, 1857.

The family name Snow has been SXOW known in Xew England's history since the earliest times of the Plymouth colony, and one of the founders of the family in America was Xicholas Snow, who came in tlie ship ".Ann" in |C)23. settled first in Plymouth, and in 1642 removed to Eastham, where he was one of the first seven settlers of that town. The territory of Eastham then included the afterward known \\'ellfieet district and the town of Orleans, the latter having l)een set off from the mother town in 1797.

Xicholas .Snow was the first town clerk of Eastham, and held office from 1646 to 1662, when he was succeeded by his .son Mark, who was clerk from 1663 to 1675 and again from 1693 to 1695. l*"rom the time when Xicholas Snow went from Plymouth to Eastham (now Orleans) to tlie ])resent day. some in each succeeding generation of his descendants have been identified in some prominent manner with the history of that region. The history of Eastham. \\'ellfieet and Orleans (Rev. Enoch Pratt, 1884) mentions Xicholas Snow as a man of considerable distinction and as having been employed "in the ])ublic transactions of the colony and of this town. He was a deputy, selectman seven years and town clerk sixteen years." He died in 1671, and his wife died in 1676. lie had one share in the division of lands made in 1^)23. The wife of Xicholas .Snow was Constance Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hojskins, and by wdiom he had a large family of children. His son Mark married, in 1660, Jane, daughter of Governor Prince, and had eight children. He held the office of town clerk tw'elve years and was deputy to the general court three terms.

Thomas Snow, grandfather of Abbott Lawrence Snow, lived in Orleans, iMassachusetts, and so far as family recollections indicate, he was born and died there, married there and raised a family, but there appears to be no record of his children, except that among them were his sons Willis and Clement Snow-, both of whom spent their lives in Orleans.

Willis Snow, son of Thomas, was a sea captain and sailed from Wellfleet (Provincetown) many years. 11 is vessel was in the merchant service, and he owned her in company with Calvin Snow until the latter sold out his interest in her to his i)artner and went to Chicago, where he amassed a fortune. S(wn after the beginning of the late civil war Willis Snow (|uit the sea and began boating on the Erie canal, between Bufifalo and Xew York City, but he soon found that the life of an inland sailor was as monotonous as deep sea sailing was hazardous during the period of the war, and at the end of a single year he returned to Orleans and was auctioneer there many years. He died there March 4, 1890, his death being accidental. He married Rebecca ( iould. and by her had eight children, all born in Orleans: I. Willis L. 2. Zeviah, married Solomon Taylor : lives in ( )rleans. 3. Thomas Weston. 4. Loui--a. married .\>a .S. Rogers, of Harwich, Massachusetts. 5. Mercy, married M. M. I'ierce. 6. James Monroe. 7. .Vbbott Lawrence. 8. Estella, died aged four years.

Abbott Lawrence Snow, youngest son of Willis and Rebecca (Gould) Snow, was born in Orleans, Massachusetts, September 11, 1853. While hardl\- more than a boy he left school and went out from W'ellfleet in a fishing vessel to the banks of Xewfoundland, and followed the occupation two years. In the spring of 1873 he gave up fishing and went to Cambridge and learned the trade of box making. In 1883 he established himself in business on his own account in Ea.st Boston, where his factory is still located, with twenty-one men. Tn April. 1905. he took over a planing business in connection wnth box making.

church, is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Eellows, and in pohtics is a Repnbhcan. He married, in Maiden, Massachusetts, November 15, 1878, Mary Betsey Hammond, born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, December 5, 1857, youngest daughter of David Ingalls Hammond and Betsey Hanson ( see Hammond). Mr. and Mrs. Snow have one child, Ralph Waldo Snow, born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 15, 1881, now manager of his father's business in East Boston. He attended the public schools, graduated from the high school in 1899, and then went into business with his father. He is a member of Hammatt Lodge, F. A. M., of East Boston, and Lodge No. 36, L O. O. F., of Everett.

was founded in this country l)y AA'illiam Hammond (i), born in Lavenham, Suffolk county. England, baptized there October 30, 1575, only surviving son of Thomas and Rose (Trippe) Flammond ; Thomas Hammond died in 1589. Little is known of the early life of William Hammond. He married, June 9, 1605, in his native town, Elizabeth Paine, also of Lavenham, and there their children were born. In the absence of records it is impossible to state the year in which he came to America. In a Boston record of the year 1632 is found mentioned one William Hammond, but this may have been the William Hammond who settled in Lynn in 1636 and who was probably the eldest son of William TTammond of Watertown, and who was born in Lavenham in 1607.

About 1636 he settled at Watertown. Massachusetts, probably at the same time with his brothers-in-law William Paine and Dr. Simon Eire, from Scituate, where record is found of him previous to 1636, the name being written Hamans. His older children are supposed to have come to America with him, and his wife and younger children two or more years later, the latter party having come on the "Francis" from Ipswich, England, in April, 1634. Of his children, Elizabeth married Samuel House, of Scituate, who died 1661. There is a possibility that the Anne who married, as his second wife. Rev. John Lothrop, was a daughter of William Hammond, but the connection is very slight. Menti(Mi of John, the youngest son, is found on Scituate records for 1643 as able to bear arms there. William Hammond was admitted freeman in Watertown, May 25, 1636, and before 1644 possessed seven lots by grant and three by purchase. A plot of forty acres situated on the west of C"ommon street, he held as a homestead,, this later jjassing to his grandson Thomas. In a land division on March 10, 1642, he received a grant of a lot. No. 76, containing one hundred sixty-five acres, and thus became one of the largest landholders of the town. His inde- ])endence in religious matters in those days of i)Ui"itanical restriction of individual opinion brought Mr. Hammond somewhat into disfavor with the bigoted majority of his fellow townsmen, records showing that he was not often in public office, and his house was once ordered searched. May 27, i66t, for hidden Quakers, it being known that he had considerable sympathy with that sect. His neighbor and particular friend. John Warren, who came from the same ])lace in Fngland where the two families had maintained most friendly relations through previous generations, was even more suspiciousl}' regarded and his house was also searched at the same time. The high standard of refinement and respectability maintained by the individuals in each generation of the ! Tammond family may well be a source of pride to the living representatives. The accusation of narrow-mindedness can not be raised against them for they were wont to rely upon their own sturdy and well-balanced judgment even in the days when one man's creed must be his neighbor's, under penalty. Unitarian and Universalist congregations have claimed Hammonds among them, also Baptist, and in later generations many have held aloof from denominational alliance.

William Hammond married Elizabeth, daughter of William Paine ; she was born in Newton parish, near Bury Street, Edmunds, Suffolk, England, 1578. When forty-seven years of age she sailed with her children to join her husband in America, embarking at Ipswich, England, in April, 1634, with children Elizabeth, aged fifteen, Sarah, ten, John, seven, in the ship "Francis," John Cutting master. Of her father's family five children came to America, all, for a time at least, becoming residents of Watertown, Massachusetts, namely: Phebe, Elizabeth, Dorothy, William and Robert. A\'illiam Hammond died in Watertown, October 8, 1662, and Elizabeth, his widow, died September 14, 1670. Their children: 1. William, baptized September 20, 1607. died about 1637. 2. Anne, baptized November 19, 1609. died June 7, 161 5. 3. John, baptized December 5, 161 1. died August 16.

(11) Thomas Hammond, tifth child and third son of William and Elizabeth (Paine) llammtnd. born in Lavenham, England, baptized there Sejjtember 17, 1618. He died in W'atertown, Massachusetts, December 10, 1655. Although dying comparatively young he had become known as an active enterprising man among the planters in the colony. He married, about 1654, Hannah Cross, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts. April, 1636, baptized in Hampton, October y, 1^)38. daughter of John and H^annah Cross. John Cross and wife Hannah sailed from Ipswich, hjigland, to New England in April, 1634. They settled in Ipswich. Massachusetts, ]^robably after a period of two or three years in llampton, where their onl\- child Hannah was ba]:)tized, and )ohn Cross soon look an active part in (own affairs. He was admitted freeman in 1639, and in 1640 was chosen as representative. Hannah Cross died March 24, 1657. sur- \iving her husband. Thomas llammond. but a little over one }ear. Their only child was Thomas.

dTI) Lieutenant Thomas Hammond, only child of Thomas and llainiah (Cross) Hammond, was born July 1 i. i''»56, in W'atertown. His father died a few months previous to his birth, and his mother shortly after his birth. I lis grandfather. William Hammond, and his grandmother C"ross died during his early years, and it is thought that he was raised and educated by his uncle. Lieutenant John 1 lammond. of W'atertown. He was uncommonly well educated for that dav. wrote an excellent hand, had received some military training, and fought in the Indian wars in 1675 and 1676. His title of lieutenant is found in Ipswich records, and it is probable that he saw active military service later in his life. hTom old accounts it is found that he was a driving business man. openlv displaying his ])reference for the turning of an honest dollar to subjection to the hard, sometimes hypocritical, orthodoxy of his day. and accinired a large landed property. He was selectman in 1694 and in 1696. He died February 26, 1724-5. in Ipswich, and he was buried at Rowley. He married first. Elizabeth Noyes, who died without issue .\]iril 4. 1679: married second. December

6, 1679, Sarah Pickard, born January 31, 1656-7, daughter of John and Jane Pickard,. of Rowley; married third, October 17, 1713, widow Hannah (Piatt) Lancaster, baptized February 2t^, 1678-9, daughter of Ensign Abel and Lydia F^latt (or Plattsj of Rowley, and widow of Samuel Lancaster, who was drowned in Rowdey river, September 19, 17 10. Children of Lieutenant Thomas Hammond: i. Hannah, born November 15, 1680; died January 13, 1691-92. 2. Sarah, born January 20, 1682-83, died July 11, 1759; married, December 19. 1699, Lieutenant Thomas Lambert. 3. Thomas, born November 17, 1685. 4. Elizal)eth, bi>rn May 12. 1688, died September, 1752 ; married, June 11, 1709, Ephraim Jewett. 5. David, baptized November 23, 1690. 6. Nathaniel, born May 29, 1691. 7. J(^nathan, baptized July 25, 1(397. 8. Hannah, baptized Jnly 19, 1716. died 1792; married, August 15, 1739, Lieutenant Nathaniel i'radstreet. 9. Mary, baptized ()ctol)er 11. 1719. died August 5, 1748; married, .November ^, 17^9, Jonathan Pickard.

( 1\ ) David llammond, second son and fifth child of Lieutenant Thomas and Sarah (Pickard) Hammond, born in W'atertown, November 23. irxjo. died in* Rowley, September 22, I7()5. I le was a farmer, and lived on a site so near the boundary line between Rowley and Ipswich that there was much controversy as to which town might claim the farm, that went on some years after the owner's death and the place was occupied by his son David. The matter was not finally settled imtil May 5, 1784. when the farm was "sett off" to Rowley. Hence there is confusion in the birth reccjrds of the children of the family, some being recorded in one |)lace and some in the other- David Hammond married first. July i[, 1719, Mary IMatts, born in Rowle}-, June 29, 1684, daughter of Samuel and l'hili])pa (Felt) IMatts. of Rowley. She died March. 1747. He married second, August 6, 1748. Elizabeth IMatts, born hA^bruary 8, 1699, daughter of Moses and Hannah Platts. and by whom he had no children. His children by his first wife: 1. David, born August 17, 1720: see forward. 2. Jonathan, born about 1723, died Inly 26. 1763. 3. Mary, born about 1726, baptized May 5, 1728. 4. Sarah, born February 15, 1728; married January 10, 1746. Joseph Treadwell ; married second, about 1769.

(V) bavid Hammond. Jr., eldest child of David and Alary ( Platts ) Hammond, born in Rowley, August 17, 1720, died there January 3. 1797. He took a prominent part in the affairs of the town, and saw military service in the h^rench war and also for a time in the revolutionary war. serving as a private in Captain Robert Dodge's company, Colonel Ebenezer Francis's regiment. In the French war he was enlisted in Captain John Northend's company and in Captain William Angler's com])any. April 6. 1759. to September 5, 1760. He married first, September 17, 1743, Susanna Harris, died December 31, 1780; married second, December i, 1782. Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, as her third husband. She died in Rowley, October 21, 18 1 5, aged ninety-two years. David Hammond had eight children: i. Phineas, born August 2. 1744. 2. Mary, born February 26, 1746. 3. Thomas, born June 11, 1747, died June 8. 1827; married. 1773, Esther, daughter of Nathan and Phebe Dole. 4. Susanna, born June 8. 1749; married, September 25, 1784, Nathan Brocklebank, Jr., of Rowley. 5. John, born February 8, 1751, said to have been killed at battle of Bunker Hill. 6. Sarah, born December 2, 1752; married June 14, 1774, Samuel Lord (4th). 7. -Joanna, born May 15, 1755; married Enos Hunt. 8. David, born November 13, 1757.

(YT) David Hammond (3d.), youngest child of David and Susanna (Harris) Flammond, born in Rowley, November 13, 1757, died in Bow, New Hampshire, December, 1840. He left Rowley about 1777. From the mutilated remains of old records of Salem, New Hampshire, has been gathered the following: "November 22, 1777. A warrant delivered to Henry Sanders, constable, to warn out of this town David Hammond, who came from the town of Ipswich, in the county of Ilssex, in the state of Massachusetts Bay. sometime in the last of April or the first of Alav." This act of w-arning was an established practice, and was delivered against every newcomer to a town as a precautionary measure so that if any person so warned ever Ijecome indigent the expense of their maintainance must have bee^i incurred by the county and not by the town. David Hammond was a soldier of the revolution, enlisted July 21, 1779, as private in Fourth company. Third New Hampshire regiment, and served until the end of the war. He was granted a pension for his service, and the same was paid him until his death in 1840. In 1791 he purchased a farm in Bow and lived there during the remainder of his life. He married first, March 21, 1777. Patience Harris, of New Salem, his first cousin, who died about 1790, leaving two daughters. He married second, 1791, Hannah Eastman, born October 13, 1769, and died July 19, 1844, daughter of Stephen and Anna (Colby) Eastman, of Bow and Sutton, New Hampshire, and a descendant on her mother's side of Anthony Colby, one of the early settlers of Salisbury. Massachusetts. David Hammond had children: i. Phineas, born about 1782, died 1826. 2. Mary, born about 1784, died in Ossipee, New Hampshire; married, about 1808, John Cpton. 3. David, born February 13. 1793. died June 24, 1863; married Esther Ouimby. 4. Stephen, born 1796; married Hannah Hunt. 5. Anna, born October 30, 1797. died 1884; married April 17, 1 81 7, Hezekiah Woodbury. 6. Hannah, born 1800: married. 1818. John Clement. 7. Naomi P.. born September 8. 1802; married Wells Sargent. 8. Eli E.. born April 21, 1805, died November 2, 1889; married March 25, 1830, Anna Sulloway. 9. Thomas W., born August 14. 1809; married. 1832. Lucy Quimby. 10. Jonathan C, born February 19, 181 1, died May 14, 1897; married, 1836, Clarissa Elliott.

( VII) Phineas Hammond, eldest child of David and Patience (Harris) Hammond, born in New Salem, New Hampshire, about 1782, died 1826, in Ossipee, New Hampshire, where he had been one of the early settlers. He served in the war of 1812-14, enlisting in Captain John Willey's company, October 5, 1814. He married, about 1802, Mary Ingalls, born about 1784. Children: i. William, born about 1803; married Mary Roberts. 2. Hannah, born about 1805. 3. John B., born about 1807: married Mary xA.. Wood, of Ossipee. 4. David Ingalls, born about 1809. 5. Roxie, born about 181 1. 6. Thomas, born about 1813: married Harriet Wallace, of Moultonboro, New Hampshire : two daughters. 7. Alary A., born about 181 5. 8. I'pton, born about 1817; married; lived in Ossipee in 1 88 1. 9. Phineas, born July 28, 1819, died May II, 1879. 10. Betsey, born about 1821.

(\HII) David Ingalls Hammond, fourth child and third son of Phineas and Mary (Ingalls ) Hammond, born in Ossipee. New Hanij^shire. about 1809, died in Tamworth, New Hampshire. He married Betsey, daughter of Ephraim and Mercy (Wentworth) Hanson, of Ossipee. Children : Melissa ; Susan ; Parker ; Richard ; Edgar ; Nancy ; David P. ; Susan ; Caroline : Herman A. ; Mary B.

child of David Ingalls and Betsey (Hanson) Hammond, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, December 5, 1857, and married, in Maiden, Massachusetts, November 15, 1878, Abbott Lawrence Snow^ born September II, 1853. They have one child, Ralph \\'aldo Snow, born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 15, 1881, (see Snow).

In the early history of [Maine ROBINSON as a province of New England there was a period which liad its beginning in the first quarter of the eighteenth century and was known as that of the Scotch-Irish immigration : and a most fortunate event it was for the English colonists of that isolated region that the Scotchmen came to settle among them, for they were the best fighting stock in the region and during the next half century even to the close of the revolutionary war, there were man}- occasions when the fighting (|ualities of the Scotchmen saved the frontier settlements from com- ])]ete devastation and their inhabitants from inhuman death at the hands of bloodthirsty and merciless Indians.

One of the first five settlers in ThomasttMi. Maine, was a Robinson, and they all, like those who went with them and settled in what now is Warren, were immigrants from the northern and Piotestant part of Ireland. There they were called Scotch because they or their ancestors had come thither from ."Scotland: but in the New England provinces they were called Scotch-Irish, though there was little affinity and less kinship between them and the native Irish, who were Roman Catholics and >poke an entirely different tongue.

(I) Dr. Moses Robinson was one of the first settlers in what became the town of Warren, Maine, and his son Archibald, born January 31, 1737, was the first white child born on the river, near the boundary of the tt^wns of Cushing and W^arren. ]^Ir. Eaton in his excellent history says: "Moses Robinson, father of the above named Archibald, having some knowledge of roots, herbs and the use of the lancet, and hence called doctor, resided then on the lot afterwards inherited by the said Archibald and his posterity ; although he also early took uj:) a lot farther up the river in \\arren, whither he removed and which still (1865) remains with his descendants there. Ca])tain Andrew Robinson, probably a brother of the doctor, was also here, employed ab(^ut the government works."

During the Indian troubles in 1747 Dr. Robinson was the physician and surgeon stationed at the fort in Warren and his account for medical attendance upon the sick settlers who had found refuge there was presented in April the following year. He lived in Warren to the end of his years and was buried in the graveyard of the old Presbyterian meetinghouse. His brother Andrew died in 1742 and was buried at the old fort. The name of Dr. Robin.son's wife does not appear but he had a family of nine children: i. Joseph. 2. Moses.

4. Major Hanse. 5. Archibald, born January 31, 1737, the first white child born in Warren; married Margaret Watson. He lived in Cushing and died there Eebruary 25, 1820. 6. William, born about 1738, married Widow Rebecca Minot, whose family name was Rea. He lived in Warren and died April 23, 1813. 7. ]\[argaret. married Joseph Rivers, of Cushing. 8. ]\Iary, married Matthew Kelloch and lived and died in St. George. 9. Jane, married Bennett ; lived in Rockland and perished in a snow storm in 1770.

(II) Joseph Robin.son. eldest son of Dr. Moses Robinson, marrierl Mary ^[cFetheridge ( incorrectly mentioned in the '"Annals of Warren" as Mary ^IcKoun), and removed to Lushing, where he died, aged about seventyeight years. His children were: t. Hannah, married Samuel Gilchrist, lived in St. George and died there. 2. Sarah, died unmarried. 3. Alary, died young. 4. Moses, born 1756, died 1777. said to have been the first person buried in the old graveyard in Cushing. 5. John, lost at sea. 6. Josei^h, died in the West Indies. 7. I-'Jizabeth. married Elijah Hall, and lived in St. George. 8. .\rchibald, married Sarah Hutchins, and died in Cushing. 9. Jane, died unmarried, aged about eighty years.

lived and died in the town of Cushing. Their nine children were as follows: T. Moses, married Jane Burton ; lived first in Cushing and afterward in Api)leton, where he died. 2. John, married Nancy (or Harriet) Payson ; lived in St. George. 3. Mary, married Captain Samuel Watts, and lived in St. George. 4. Jo.seph. 5. Matthew, married Hannah Sterling, of Bristol, ]vlaine: lived first at McCobb's Narrows, atferward at Ealmouth and died in Cushing. 6. lietsey, married William Burton: lived in Cushing. 7. Nancy, married (first) Captain Simon ]\[cLellan. (second) James McCarter ; lived in Cushing. 8. Isaac, married Sarah

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Rivers, lived in Gushing. After his death his widow married Samuel Payson. 9. Andrew, married Margaret Lewis ; lived in Gushing and removed thence to Union, where he died;

(AIcFarlane) Robinson, born in Februar}', 1755, died in St. George, March 4, 1843. He married Jane Lewis and had nine children : I. Mary, died young. 2. Andrew. 3. Jane, married Archibald McKellar, and lived in St. ( ieorge. 4. Gaptain (jeorge, born April 14, 1784; was shipmaster and tanner; married Susan Norwood, who was born the same year, month, day and time as himself; lived in Thomaston. 5. JNJargaret, married Deacon John Miller, and lived and died in Thomaston. (). Elizabeth, married Hon. Joel ^Miller, and lived in Thomaston. 7. Rosanna, married .Stewart Harrington, and lived in Thomaston. 8. Joseph, married Abigail Ames, and lived in St. (ieorge. 9. Edward, married Hannah Fuller, and lived in St. George.

( l\ ) Andrew Robinson, eldest son and child of Joseph and Jane (Lewis) Robinson, married (tirst) Nancy Burton, and (second) Polly Fuller, fde died in March, i860. He had in all nine children: 1. Jane, married I 'hinley Kelloch, and removed to Oregon. 2. William B., born about 1807; was a carpenter and lived in Rockland ; married Eleanor Glark. 3. Nancy, married Samuel Tobey, and lived in Machias. 4. Eliza, died young. 5. Sarah. 6. Hannah. 7. James F., married Gatherine Glark. 8. Mary, married James Wylie, and lived in St. George. 9. Almira, married Lincoln Giichrist, and lived in St. George.

(V) Gaptain James F. Robinson, son of Andrew and Polly (Fuller) Robinson, was born in St. George, Maine, and was a mariner, captain of a vessel engaged in the American coast trade. His wife, Gatharine (Glark) Robinson, was born in St. George. They had five children : i. Sylvanus. 2. Frank, married (first) Faustina Watts, (second) Ella Kinney. 3. (ieorge B., married Gora E. Fuller and liad three children, Lewis, Frederick and Haviland. 4. E., married Peter Aagesen and had two children, Katie and Frank. 5. James T., married Addie Hathorne, and had sevei, children.

(VI) Gaptain Sylvanus Robinson, eldest son and child of Gaptain James F. and Gatherine (Glark) Robinson, born in St. George, Maine, December 31, 1843, died there October 6, 1907. He was a sea captain and engaged in the coast trade for many vears. He married

(first ) Julia A. Robinson, who was born in St. (ieorge. May 13, 1848, died May 29, 1875, daughter of Erastus and Sally (Gilchrist) Robinson. He married (second) Lillias Robinson, daughter of Mason and Sarah (Hyler) Robinson. Gaptain Robinson had three children by his fir.st wife, Julia A. Robinson, and four children by Lillias Robinson, his second wife: I. Albert, born March 5, 1869. 2. Ghester G., married Mary Robinson, sister of Lillias Robinson, his father's second wife. 3. Winslow L. 4. Jennie A., married Rev. Garl D. Hazelton and had one child, Philip Hazelton. 5. Eugene P., married and had one child, Helen. 6. Helen M. 7. Joseph W. G.

(VII) Albert Robinson, eldest child of Gaptain .Sylvanus and Julia A. (Robinson) Robinson, was born in St. George, Maine, March 5, 1869, and acquired his earlier education in the public schools of his native tow'u. His higher education was acquired at Golby Gollege, where he graduated A. B. in 1893. After leaving school Mr. Robinson entered the profession of pedagogy, and in one capacity or another has since been engaged in educational work in Maine and Massachusetts. During the years 1893-94 he was principal of the high school in South Thomaston. Alaine, and in 1894-95 was principal of Hampden Academy, Hampden, ]\Iaine. From the principalship in [lam])den Professor Robinson went to the otifice of superintendent of schools in Skowhegan, Maine, wdiich he filled during the academic years 1895-96, then came to Massachusetts and from the beginning" of the school \ear in 1896 to the close of the session of 1902 was superintendent of schools in Warren and Wales, Massachusetts. In 1902-03 he held the same position in Whitman, Massachusetts, and in 1903 became superintendent of schools in Peabody, where he still remains, and where he enjoys the respect of the people of the town and also occupies a position of enviable ]Drominence in educational circles in Essex county. He is a member of various professional associations, the Essex Institute, Salem, the Peabody Historical Society, Sons of the Revolution, anrl is a Mason, member of Ouabog Lodge, W'arren, F. and A. M., l^almer Ghapter, R. A. M., and Palmer Gouncil. R. and S. M., member of the South Gongregational Ghurch, Peabody, and clerk of the Gongregational Glub. Mr. Robinson married, September 25, 1902. Helen K. Demond, daughter of ^^^alter L. and Gharlotte (Keyes) Demond, the latter a dausrhter of Dan forth and Ghar-

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(II) Major Hanse Robinson, fourth child of Dr. Moses Robinson, married Bridget (or Priscilla)Hyler. They settled in Cushing and died there. "It was on his lot near Cobb's Narrows, we believe, that when first taken ])osession of there was found what has always jjecn called the 'old cellar,' but which from recent examination, made by Mr. 1. S. Burton, appears to have claims to much greater interest than is usually attached to that class of ruins. The first huts of the settlers here were UNually without cellars, or at mo.st with only a slight iniwalled excavation entered by a trap door in the mitldle of the ro(jni. i>ut this was a deep and capacious structure forty feet in length and at this day (1865) not less than nine feet in depth ; well walled when first discovered, with hewn timber, since crumbled to dust; and situ'vted on a point projecting into the river, with a cove on one side, to which a subterranean passage, with similar walls and depth, led from the main structure. What was its design and by whom it was built, whether by early French traders, or as a retreat for ])irates frequenting the coast, remains uncertain." ( Eaton's "Thomaston" ). Major Hanse and Bridget (or I'riscilla ) (Hylcr) Robinson had ten children: 1. IViscilla, married ( lardner, and lived in Cushing. 2. Margaret, born 176,^. married John Roakes ; lived in Warren and died A])ril ig, 1806. 3. .Simeon, married Hannah liyler, and lived in Cushing. 4. Agnes, married (first) Caleb Howard, (second) Robert Portersfield, and removed to ( )hio. 5. Betsey, married Cornelius ilyler, and lived and died in Cushing. 6. Hanse. married Lucy Hyler, and lived in Cushing. 7. Captain Moses. 8. John, married I'olly Dillaway. 9. Thomas. 10. Jacob, married (first) Nancy (Anomeriah, says town record) Robinson who died October 28, 1795: married (second) Sarah Kelloch ; lived in South Thomaston and died April 6, 181 3.

(HI) Ca])tain Moses Robinson, son of ^lajor Hanse and Bridget (or Priscilla) (Hyler) Robinson, born 1773, lived in Cushing and was lost overboard in June, 1833, from the sloop "Orient" on passage from East Thomaston to Bangor. Married Priscilla Hyler and had nine children: i. Ann, married

( I\') Mason Robinson, son of Captain Moses and Priscilla (Hyler) Robinson, lived and died in Cushing. Married (first) Rachel Hyler, and (second) her sister. Their daughter, Lillias Robinson, married Captain Sylvanus Robinson (second wife), who was born in St. George, Elaine, December 31, 1844, ^li^'<l there October 6, 1907. The first wife of Captain Sylvanus Robinson was Julia .V. Robinson, daughter of Erastus Robinson, who married Sally Gilchrist.

The (lilchrists of this line are descended from the ancient Scottish clan Killcreast, of Ayr (Ayrshire), whose members dwelt in the shire next north of Glasgow jjrevious to the con(|uest of Scotland by William the Con- (|ueror. 1071. At the time of the reformation they became IVesbyterians under John Knox, and in 1602 many of this famil\ with other Scots were induced by James I of England to settle in the north of Ireland, where they lived for more than one hundred years.

During the so-called .Scotch-Irish immigration 111 .\merica at least five of the surname Gilchrist came to the country, one branch settling in .Mabama, another in southern Pennsylvania, and the other three in New I-^ngland. The latter were William, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and Robert and William, l)otli of whom settled in Chester, .New Ham])shire. Hiey were brothers and an account of their families is given in the history of (."hester and other New Hampshire towns.

Samuel (iilchrist was a soldier of the revolution and was wounded in the skirmish at Harlem during Washington's retreat from .New ^'()rk. I le was hit in the side by a bullet, and that piece of Uritish lead was carried in his body until the day of his death. He married Hannah Kobin.son, eldest daughter of [oseph Robinson, and granddaughter of Dr. Moses Robinst)n. of whom men.tion is made in a preceding ])aragraph. Samuel Gilchri.st and Ilannah Robinson had eleven children: i. Captain John, married, January 30, 1800, Margaret l*'ogerty ; lived in St. George. 2. William, born .\ugust, 1780; married Betsey Norwood, lived in Montville and died in i860. 3. Caj)- tain Jose])h. born in Cushing. May 20, 1782. died Se])tember 7. 1864; was a mariner and retired from the sea with an ample fortune ; married, January 6, 1803. Sarah Carney, and removed to Thomaston about 1823-24. 4. Hugh, married (first) Betsey Hall, (second) Hannah .Sinimons ; removed to Knox. Maine.

and there married a third wife. 5. Samuel. 0. Archibald, died young. 7. James, married Deborah Robinson, and lived in Gushing. 8. Alexander, married (first) Margaret Hyler,

St. George. 9. Robert, married Betsey Hall, and lived in St. George. 10. Sarah, married James Linnekin, and lived in St. George, it. George, married Martha Linnekin. and lived in St. George.

Samuel Gilchrist, son of Samuel and Hannah (Robinson) Gilchrist, married Lydia Smalley, and removed to St. George. Their son, Erastus Gilchrist, married Sallie Robinson and had a daughter. Julia A., born in St. George in 1848, died in 1875. who married Sylvanus Robinson.

FRYE and is used as a surname from the earliest times in England, as Free and Freeman, derived in the same way and meaning the same thing. Le Frye and Le Freie were surnames in the Hundred Rolls of the twclth century. Some writers are inclined to think that the progenitor or progenitors of this family tO(jk their name from the Norse mythological name Freyr and Freyjr. son and daughter of Niord and wife Frigga. The name Frey. Frie. or Fies. variously spelled, is found in Germany.

In England various branches s])ell the name Frv and Frye to the present time. The Frye coat-of-arms borne by the family in Yartje, Devonshire, since the reign of Edward I\'. also at Deer Parkwood and Dulcis. in the same county: Gules three horses courant or. Crest: A dexter arm embowed in armor grasping in the hand proper a sword of the last, hilt and jianel or. The Fry family has seats in Exeter, Devonshire, and Tarrant Gunfold, Dorsetshire, having four different coatsof-arms.

The American families of this name are descended from John, mentioned below ; George Frye who came to Weymouth from Combe St. Nicholas. England, in 1640. who left no sons according to his will : and William Frye v.ho came to Weymouth with the first company in 1636. left daughters but no sons.

(I) John Frye, the immigrant, was born in England and came from a town, borough or parish called Basingstoke, near Andover, Hampshire. He came in the ship "Bevis." sailing May. 1638. accompanied by wife and three children, and settled first at Newbury,

?ylassachu setts, where he was a proprietor in 1^)38, and finally removed to Andover, ]\Iassachusetts, where he died November 9, 1693, aged ninety-two years, seven months. The family owes much of its knowledge of the early generations to Captain Nathaniel Frye, a descendant mentioned below. (See Collections Maine Flis. Soc. p. 435, vol. iv). John was admitted a freeman in 1645. Fie was a wheelwright b}' trade. His wife Anne died October 22. 1680. His will made March 16, 1685-86. signed John "Erie." and proved December 3. 1693. bequeathed to eldest son John ; sons Benjamin, Samuel and James; daughter Elizabeth Stiles. Children: i. Deacon John, born in England, died September 17, 1696; left no children. 2. Benjamin, of Andover, married. May 2 7,, 1678. Mary Parker, who died March 17, 1724-25. 3. Samuel, born about 1650, mentioned below. 4. James, of Andover, born January 5, 1652-53, died September 28, 1734; married LA^dia Osgood, daughter of John, January 20, 1679-80. 5. Sarah or Susan, died March 5, 1661-62. 6. Elizabeth, married Robert Stiles.

(IF) Samuel Frye, son of John Frye (i^). was born about 1650. He lived in Andover and became one of tlve leading citizens ; was often ri town officer; was deputy to the general court in 1701-09-11. He was lieutenant in the Andover military company and doubtless served against the Indians as all soldiers of his day had of necessity to do. He died May 9. 1725. in his seventy-sixth year. He married. November 20, 1671, Mary Aslett or Aslebee, who died in 1749, aged ninety-three years. Their children, born at Andover, all lived to marry and have children: I. John, of Andover, born September 16, 1672, died April /- ^737' i" sixty-fifth year; married Tabitha Farnum, daughter of Thomas, November i, 1694: their son. Major General Joseph Frye, born April, 171 T, settled in Fryeburg, Maine, named for him; died 1794; valiant soldier in war in 1755. 2. Samuel, born 1675. died August. 1689. 3. Mary, born February 22, 1677- 78. married. December 22. 1696, Joseph Stevens. 4. Phebe. born May 28, 1680. married. December 15. 1698, Samuel Peters. 5. Hannah, born April 12, 1683, married, June 4, 1 701. John Chandler, of Amesbury. 6. Ebenezer. born February 16. 1685-86. died May 16. 1725; married. December 23, 1708, Elizabeth Farnum. 7. Nathan, born lune 15. 1688. died Alarch 19, 1758; married Sarah Bridges. 8. Deborah, born February 26. 1691-92. 9. Samuel, born April 26. 1694. mentioned be-

(Ill) Samuel Frye. son of Samuel Frye (2), born in Andover, April 26, 1694, died there October 17, 1761 ; married, Alarch 26, 1719-20, Sarah Osgood, daughter of Timothy Osgood. She died April 6, 1760, in her si.xtyfourth year. Children born in Atidover : i. Samuel, born January 9, 1720, died May. 1725. 2. Colonel Peter, born January 3, 1723. died at London, England, February i, 1820, aged ninety-seven ; graduate of Harvard College 1744; judge of the court of common pleas, register of probate and a colonel of militia of the count}- of Essex ; married Love Pickman. daughttr (jf lienjamin and Love (Rawlins) Pickman ; the first husband of his daughter Love was Dr. Peter Oliver, a Massachusetts loyalist, and her second Admiral Sir John Knight of the British navy. 3. William, married, December i. 1748, Mary Carlton, who died September 28, 1763; second, November 24, 1769, Deborah Colburn. 4. Susannah, born May 4, 1728. 5. Samuel, born December 22, 1729, mentioned below. 6. James, born September 13, 1731, married, December 13. 1753, .^arah Chickering. 7. Timothy, born May 8. 1735, married, November 21. 1758, Flannah Collins. 8. Daniel, born April 14. 1738. died August 30, 1738. (). John, born January 2T,.

(1\ ) Samuel h"r\e, son of Samuel Frye (3 ), born in Andover, December 22, 1729, died in 1812, aged eighty-three. He was a soldier in the revolution, a ])rivate in the company of Captain Joshua Hall i iMiurlh Andover) on the Lexington alarm. A])ril 19. 1775. lie married, June 14, 1753, Elizabeth Frye, daughter of Colonel James I">ye. Children born at .\ndover: i. Theo]:)hilus, mentioned below. 2. Samuel.

( \ ) Theophilus l""r}e, >on ot .Samuel I'Vye (4), was born in .\ndover about 1750. He was a st)ldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Benjamin .\mes's company on the Lexington alarm, .April 19, 1775; also in the same company in Colonel James Frye's regiment in 1775: also sergeant in Captain Samuel King's company. Colonel Josiah Whitcombs regiment in 1776. He married Lucy Lovejoy. Children born in Andover : i . Enoch, mentioned below. 2. Lsaac. soldier in the War of 1 81 2. 3. Theophilus, also a soldier in War of 181 2. Possibly Samuel and Reuben.

(VII) Herman Frye. son of Enoch Frye (6), born April 4, 1803. in Andover. died at Lawrence in 1856. He married. March, 1840. Eliza Richardson, of Andover, born 1807. died September. 1849. He married, second, Harriet .Armstrong, July, 1853, who was born at Pawlet, X'ermont, Augu.st 4. 1817, now living in Lynn. Alassachusetts. Children of first wife, born at Alcthuen, Mas.sachusetts : I. Horace, born October 31, 1842, died December, 1859. 2. Newton P., born October 26, 1846. mentioned below. 3. Emma Eliza, born October 4, 1848, died M^ay, 1858. Child of second wife: 4. Kate C'harlotte, born in Lawrence, Alassachusetts, July 12, 1854, married Charles Nichols, of Woburn, Alassachusetts.

(\'III) Newton i'arker Frye, son of Herman Frye (7), was born October 26, 1846, at Methuen, Alassachusetts. He was educated in the district schools of Lawrence and in Phillips Academy, Andover. His father died when he was but ten years old. and his education was obtained largely through his own efforts. He learned the trade of machinist and draughtsman in the Davis & Furber machine shops in .North Andover, Alassachusetts, studying during all his spare hours the profession he meant to follow. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar in Essex county; in 1877 he was admitted to practice in the L'nited States courts, Boston, and in 1889 to the United States su])reme court at Washington. He has h.ad a large and increasing practice in Andover, Lawrence and throughout Essex county. He has his office in Lawrence. He has been honored with many offices of trust and responsibility. In 1879 he was representative to the general court, and in 1886 was state senator from his district. He has been town counsel, moderator, school committeeman, assessor and selectman. In 1892 he was appointed by the governor of the commonwealth trial justice for Essex county, and has held office to the present time. His duties correspond to those of the district courts in cities and large centers of pojjiilation. Jle is a well known and inHuential Republican in politics, and has often served his party on im])ortant committees and in nominating conventions. He is a public speaker of ability and has more than a local reputation as a convincing and eloquent stump speaker and lecturer. He was a delegate from his congressional district to the Republican National convention of 1904. He is a prominent member and deacon of the Congregational church of North Andover, where he resides, and is active in church and benevolent work. He is a member and secretary of the Congregational Club of North Essex. He is a member of Cochichewich Lodge of Free Masons of North Andover ; Mount Sinai Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Ma.sters: Bethany Commandery, No. 17. Knights Templar, of which he is past commander. His home is at 61 Elm street. North Andover.

He married, hrst, April 10, 1(869, Hannah J. I'ingree, born June 16, 1845, died June 28, 1878, at North Andover. He married, second, January 9, 1884, Katherine Charlotte Field, born April i, 1857, daughter of Jeremiah Smith and Sarah (Moore) Field". (See sketch of Field family herewith). Judge Frye has no children.

(HI) James Frye, son of James Frye (2), was born in Andover, December 23, 1682, settled in Bradford, Massachusetts, where he died about 17 17. He married, -first. May 25. 1708. Joanna Sprague. and. second. December 20, 1 71 5. Rachel Atwood. daughter of Philip. She married, second, January 25, 1722. Abraham Haseltine. of Bradford. Children: i. Colonel James, mentioned below. 2. John. 3. Sarah, married, November 4, 1731, Joshua

(IN) Colonel James Frye, son of James I-'rye (3), born about 1710, died January 8, 1776, aged sixty-six years. He was buried in the old cemetery in North Andover, Massachusetts, and each memorial day the G. A. R. decorate the grave of Colonel James Frye. Fie married, first. November 23, 1734, Elizabeth Osgood, daughter of John Osgood. His wife died December 8, 1756, and he married, second, May 27, 1757,, Sarah Roby, widow of Captain \\ illiam Roby, of Salem. Colonel ]7,-y^> commanded a regiment in the battle of Bunker Hill, and animated the courage of his soldiers by the glorious recollection : "This (lav thirty years since, I was at the taking of Louisburg, when it was surrendered to us. It is a fortunate day for America. We shall certainly beat the enemy." (Swett). Children: 1. Elizabeth, baptized December 28, 1735, married. June 14. 1753. Samuel Frye (4), mentioned above. 2. Joanna, born Februar^- H). 1737, married Farrington. 3.

be traced far back of the conc|uest. Probablx' n(^t a dozen families in England can prove so high an anti(|uity. It was anciently written De la Field or De la Felde, but about the middle of the fourteenth century the spelling was changed to Field, or in some cases, Feild. There is a statement in Symonds" diary that he saw the arms of the Field family on monuments of knights in Madely Church, which were of the thirteenth century. These were. ''Sable, three garbs argent." These arms, dififerenced by a chevron, were confirmed to John Field, of East Ardsley. in the manor of Wakefield, in 1558. They are now on an old house at Crofton where several of the same

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(T) Roger del h'ield was l)()rn at Sowerhy. England, ahout 1240. He was descended from Sir Fluhertus De la I'eld and the head of the family which settled in Lancaster and Kent counties, England. Children: i. Richard, horn about 1276. 2. Thomas, mentioned below.

( II ) Thomas De la h\ld. son of Roger Del I^ield ( I ), was born at Sowerby, about 1278. I le was a juror of Sowerby in 1307. He was named in the Wakefield rolls in 1314 and 1322. when he was at "Halifax Court." Children: I. [ohn, born 1300. mentioned below. 2. Adam.

(HI) John Del I'eld, son of Thomas De la Eeld, was born at Sowerby in i^^oo. He was named in the Wakefield rolls in 1326-34-36. when he had land at Sowerby. He had one child, Thomas, born 1330, mentioned below.

(IN) Thomas Del P\'ld, son of John Del b\'ld (3), was born at Sowerln- in 1330. lie married .\nnabelle . He was a prominent man. his name occurring fre(|uently in the rolls in positions of trust. He had one child, Thomas, mentioned below.

"Thomas Del Felde de Bolton" made his will, leaving to his wife Isabel all his lands and tenants "in villa and tertcjry de IJyngley" for life, the remainder to his heirs. He died in 1429. Children: I.Robert. 2. William, mentioned below.

of administration were granted his widtnv. .April 21, 1480. Lie died in April, 1480. He resided in the parish of llradford, England. Children: 1. William, mentioned below. 2. John.

(\'HT) Rev. John b'ield, son of \\'illiam l*\'ld (7), was born near Bradford, Englaml, about 1519. He was rector of Cripplegate, and the author of ".\ ( iodly Exhortation 1)\- C)ccasion of the Late Judgment of God Showed at Paris Garden 13 Jan. 1583." a violent attack ujxn theatrical entertainments. Lie died

(IXj John Field, Jr.. son of Rev. John Field (8). was born in Parish St. Giles, London, England, about 1579, died in England. He married, in Boston, England, .\ugust 13, 1609. Ellen Hutchinson, and resided there. Children: i. Darby, born in Boston, England, about 1610. (Field Gen.K 2. Henry, l)orn about i()ii. 3. Robert, mentioned below. 4. Richard.

(X) Robert ImcUI. son of John hield (9), was born in 1613 in l-"ngland in Pealing or Vealing, county Berks, lie was a tailor by trade and came from Southampton on the ship '"James" June 3, 1635. In 1638 he was living in Providence, Rhode Island, but removed to I'.osto!!, Massachusetts, about 1650. In 1653 he was a resident of Saco, Maine, 1)ut returned to Boston, where he died. The inventory of his estate was returned May 3, 1675, his widow being administrator, lie married, in Boston, Mary Stanley, born 1610. daughter of Christo])her and Susanna Stanlc}'. Children: 1. John, born .May 22, 1644, died yoiuig. 2. Roi)crt, born Xovember 30, 1647, died young.

(XI) William I-'icld. son of Robert I-'ield (lO). born at Dorchester. Massachusetts, March 17. 1650, died ^Nlareh 2^. 1717-18. Fie resided at Braintree, Massachusetts. He married Rebecca . Children: i. William, born 1691, mentioned below. 2. I'Tienezer, born about 1700, married Abigail Xeal. 3. Rebecca, born June 15. \ji2, married. Januarv 5. 1740, Thomas Cummins.

(XT!) William Field, son of William Field (11). born at Dorchester about 1691, died aboiU 1773, when his four sons were said to be living at P>raintree. He married Sarah

(XIH) John Field, son of W'illiam Field ( 12), was born at Braintree, August i. 1718. He married, February 2, 1748, Susanna Newcomb, and resided at Braintree. Children: i. John, born April 16, 1752, mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, born January 20, 1754, married, April 5, 1776, Stephen Fox, of Hartford. 3. Jemima, born December 11, 1755. 4. Timothy, born September 16, 1757, married, first,

7. Samuel. 8. Lemuel, born September, 1769, married, first. Susanna Thayer ; second, Ruth Hunt. 9. Patience, married, October 29, 1788, James Pratt, of Dorchester. 10. Susan, ir. Silence.

8, 1826. He married, January i, 1776 (another record gives November 11. 1775), Ruth Thayer, born July 2. 1752. died August 7. 1846. daughter of Christopher and Mary (Morse) Thayer, of Braintree. Her father was son of Ephraim and Sarah ( Bass ) Thayer. Sarah l>ass was daughter of John P)ass, of Braintree, and Ruth ( Alden ) Bass. Ruth Alden was daughter of John Alden and Priscilla (MuUins) Alden, who came over in the "Mayflower." John Field removed to Petersborough, New Hampshire, with his father-inlaw, and settled just north of the farm of W'illiam Smith. He was a tanner by trade, and some vats had been made on this place where tanning had been carried on. These vats made in 1760. are still or were lately to be seen, in a good state of preservation. John Field's wife was blind for thirty years before she died. John Field was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain John Hall Jr.'s company of minute-men of North parish in Braintree, Colonel Benjamin Long's regiment, which answered the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. and also April 29. 1775; also in Captain Edmund Billings' company. Colonel Jonathan Bass' regiment, in 1776, assembled to drive the British shii)s from Boston harbor. Children: i. John, born October 27. 1777, married, first, Beulah Reed; second, Tabitha Colburn. 2. William, born November 18, 1782, mentioned below. 3. Elisha, born August 2, 1784, married Sophrona C. . 4.

(XV) William Field, son of John Field (14). born in Braintree, November 18, 1782, died April 23, 1863. He was a farmer and resided in the east part of the town of Petersborough, New Hampshire, adjoining the old lUair place. He married, April 17, 1808. Mary McAllister, born 1786, died May 21, 1853. Children: i. W'illiam F., born January 4, 1809. died August 4. 1828. 2. Alexander Hamilton, born December 22. 1809. married Jane E. Brackett. 3. Mary A., born March 26, 181 1. died July 27. 1846; married George Brackett. 4. John G.. born April 14. 1812. married Rachel Marcy. 5. Katherine Miller, born A]iril 20. 1813, married, September 21, 1836, Florace Huse. 6. Charles, born September 18, 1814, married Electa Brockway. 7. Harriet, born May 7, 1816, married Al)iel Niles. 8. Jeremiah Smith, born July 10, 18 17, mentioned below. 9. Franklin, born May i, 1 8 19, married Luvia Miner. 10. Ruth Thayer, born October 9, 1820, unmarried. 1 1. Charlotte, born March 11, 1822, died January 2, 1844. 12. Henry, born October 30. 1823, married Lucy Farmer. 13. Albert H., born July 14. 1825, married, first, Mehitable Perkins;

(XVT) Jeremiah Smith Field, son of ^Villiam Field (15), born in Peter sborough. New Hampshire. July 10. 1817. died May 2. 1889. He was brought up on his father's farm on Pack Monadnock. or East Mountain, attending the district school. W^hen quite young he went to Keene and learned the baker's trade. From there he went to Nashua, still working at his trade, and after a time to Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1847 ^^^ went to the new city of Lawrence and opened a bakery for himself, this being his first business venture. He conducted his business for several years, and then sold it and boupht a dru(r store which he con- ducted a sliort time, when he sold it and conducted a dry goods store for a short time. Later he and his brother-in-law. William 11. Moore, opened a tailor and clothing shop, and established the well known house of Moore & Field. He remained in the firm until 1872, when by reason of ill-health, he retired from active business. In 1874 he removed to Xorth Andover. where lie lived the remainder of his life. Me was a member of the Lawrence Street Congregational Church, and in ])o]itics was Re])ublican. 1 le was a citizen highly esteemed for his fine and honorable character. He married, first, June 7, 1842, Mary Harvey, born in Larnet, \'ermont. died at Lawrence, December 8, 1849. He married, second, May 12. 1852, Sarah AI. !\Ioore, born Xovember 6, 1826, died December 15. 1882. Children of first wife: i. Frances .\ugusta, born August 17, 1843. married. .Vovember 16, 18^4. Edwin Duren Searles, of .Mil ford. New Hami)shire. 2. h'rederick Cushman. born August 17. 1849, died l'ebruar\- 7. 1850. Children of second wife: 3. Herbert Webster, born February 8, 1853, married Julia .McDuffie. 4. Katherine Charlotte, born A])ril 1. 1857. married, January 9, 1884. lion. .Xewton Parker I'rxe. (.See sketch of I'rve fami]\- herewith).

( ieorge i'.acon, immigrant anr>.\COX cestor. born in I'jigland. in 1592, came on the ship "Increase" in Ai)ril, 1635. and settled at Hingham. Massachusetts, where lie was one of tlie town ])ro- ])rietors in .S(.i)tember, i'')35. lli> name on the shi]) roll was originally written .Mason, crossed out and rewritten as lUicon. I'erhaps the error was mere carelessness on the ])art of a clerk; l)ut often the Puritans found it necessary to take assumed names or adoi)t similar tricks to obtain ])ermission to emigrate. ( )ne child was baptized in llingham. and several were probabl)' born there. Samuel, Susan and John were recorded as with their father on the "Increase." He died in Ma}-, 1642, and was buried May 3. The administration of his estate was not granted until March 2S. 1684-5, when Captain John Smith and Cajjtain John Jacobs were apjjointed on ])etition of Peter Bacon, son of (Ieorge, who had maintained his aged mother until her death and had purchased the rights of his brothers and sisters in the estate. Children : I. Samuel, born 1623. 2. Susan, born 1625. 3. John, born 1627. 4. Peter, ancestor of Hingham family. 5. James, settled in Roxbury. 6. Thomas, mentioned below. (H) Thomas Bacon, believed to be son of

George Bacon ( i), was born probably in Hingham, ?^lassachusetts, about 1640: died at Roxbury October 25. 1701. He settled in Roxbury as earl)- as 1665. Children: i. Thomas. Jr., mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born January I. 1666. 3. (jeorge, born Sejjtember 12, 1671. died aged two years (probably named for his grandfather).

(Ill) Thomas IJacon, son of Tln)mas Bacon (2). was born in Ro.xbury. Massachtisetts, about 1665. He was one of the thirteen ])ioneers who left Roxbury April i. 1686, to make the survey and preliminary settlement of Xew Roxbury (now Woodstock, Connecticut). He and his brother Josei)h had a grant of thirtv acres in the north end of the town, on the west side of Plaine Hill, abutting on the east and north on highways, in 1686. A schoolhouse was built in 1710 near Joseph Bacon's house. Jacob Bacon, of \'oluntown, in 1721. John r.acon. of Canterbury before 1740, and i->.ekiel Bacon, of P( nil fret, were probably related, these towns being settled largely by Woodstock families. Children of Thomas and Rebecca, born at Woodstock : i. Rebecca, l)orn August 7, 1689. 2. Experience, h'ebruary 2<). i(k)1-2. Probabh- others.

(1\ ) |ose])h IJacon, son of Josej)h Bacon (3) or Thomas P.acoii (3), born in Woodstock, about 1700. died there in I74('>. Of his children, these were minors at the time of his death: 1. Jose])li. 2. Ivebecca. 3. Simeon; mentioned below.

( \ ) Simeon Bacon, .son of Joseph Bacon (4). was born at Woodstock, about 1730-40. He seems to have been the Simeon [jacon who served in the revolution from ^^'are, Massachusetts, and vicinity. He or his .son Simeon was a ])rivate in Ca])tain .\aron (Iraves's company. Colonel David Leonard's regiment, from .May 8 to July 8. 1777. He settled finally w-ith his faiiiil\- at X'ershire. \'erniont. Children of ."simeon and hXther 1 she died at Ware. March 4. 1818): 1. l-'siher. liorn December 9, 1753. 2. Simeon, born August 26, \'/^(>: mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born October 7. 1761. 4. Thomas. l)orn June 25. 17^14. 5. I benjamin, born Januar\- 24. 1767. <^). i'enuel. born I.)ecember 12. 1772.

(Vl) Captain .Simeon I'acon. son of Simeon P)acon (5). was born probabl\- in Woodstock. Connecticut, lie was an early settler in \'ershire, \ermont. with his father. He cleared his farm in what was then a wilderness, lie became a leading citizen, was well read, and for his day and surroundings, well educated. He was the local magistrate maiiv vears ; con-

\eyancei and transacted the necessary law Imsiness of his neighbors, setthng their estates as well as making their deeds and wills, contracts and leases. His farm of five hundred acres was near the center of the town, and he was well-to-do. He built a two story brick house, an ambitious undertaking at that time. He was very fond of hunting and similar sports. He served his town several years in the state legislature. He was active in the militia, and was at the battle of Plattsburg in the war of 1812. He married three times.

1851, aged sixty-two years. Flis children: i. Lemira ; married Ezra T. West. 2. Susan: married Ira Adams. 3. Reuben, mentioned below. 4. Emeline ; married Albro Perkins, of Pomfret, Vermont. 5. Hiram. 6. Horace.

(\TI) Reuben liacon, son of Captain Simeon Paeon (6), born at Ver.shire, 1803, died at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 7, 1866. He had a common school education, and worked on his father's farm wdien a boy. Then he learned the trade of mason, which as journeyman and contractor he followed at jjellows Ealls, Vermont : at Walpole and Keene, New Hampshire ; and at Fjoston. He and his brother Hiram were associated in business as contractors. They built the buildings at South Boston of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. He had the contract for the mason work in the United States Hotel in Boston, lie made his home at Arlington, ]\Iassachusetts, in 1851. After following his trade a time he engaged in the fishing industry on the Mystic river, having a grant of the right. At that time the alewives were very numerous, - and he used to ship his catch to Boston by the hogshead, and business flourished. During his last years he and his wife lived near their son Jesse, on Mystic street, Arlington. He died June 7, 1866. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Before the formation of the Republican party he was a Democrat, l)ut he voted for Lincoln for president. He li\e(I during the anti-Masonic movement, and was always o])posed to Masonry and other secret organizations. He married, February