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8, 1826, Sarah Wood, born at Strafi^ord, New Hampshire, daughter of Jesse and Judith (Tewksbury) Wood, of Weare, New Hampshire. Children: i. Jesse P., born March 31. 1827, mentioned below. 2. Alvah, born November 15. 1828: married Ettanette ]\Iiller, of Nova Scotia ; no children. 3. Henry James, born May 12, 1830; died February g, 1877; see sketch hereinafter. 4. Harvey PL, born September 28. 1832; died February 22, 1900; married May 2^, 1852, Elizabeth C. Rich, of Oxford, Maine: died June 23, 1886; children: i. George Henry, born May 9, 1853, married November 30, 1876, Charlotte E. Nelson; ii. -Vlbert, born March 5, 1856; married Charlotte \\'alters, of Englancl: iii. Anna, born June 2;^. 1859, married Somers Howard of Brockton, Massachusetts; iv. Minerva Eveline, born. January 26, 1862; married Frank Fowder. of Boston ; v. Major J., born November 5, [864, married Mora ]Moulton, of Arlington ; vi. Lettie Anna, born July 7, i86q, died in infancy; vii. Sarah Lizzie, born August 1 1, 1872, married Leonard Riggs, of (jloucester, Massachusetts. 5. Judith, born April 8, 1834; married .Albert Cotton, of Dorchester, ^lassachusetts ; children : i. 1 lerbert Walter Cotton ; ii. James Cotton ; iii. Albert Eugene Cotton, born July 9, 1859. 6. Abner, born April i, 1837, died May 3, 1847. 7- Otis, born October 14, 1839, died February 28, 1846. 8. Mary j\Iorse, born April 14. 1842; married September 7, 1869, Josei)h F. S. LelJaron.pf W^oburn, Massachusetts : children: i. Reuben W. LeBaron, born August 20, 1870; ii. ]\Iary Esther Le- Baron, born October 2, 1874: iii. Josie Emily LeBaron, born August 14, 1876, died June 27, 1902: iv. Francis Henry LeBaron, born April 12, 1879. 9. Major, born May Ti, 1844; married December 25, 1866, Abbie R. Wood, of Strafiford, A'ermont ; children: i. Cora Belle, born August 21, 1867 : ii. Reuben P., born February 26, 1869. died August 23, 1869; iii. Harris P., born April 13, 1871, died October 17, 1871 ; iv. Henry C, born March 15, 1877, clied ^larch 21, 1878; v. Beatrice Eleanor, born August 30, 1878: vi. Carrie Amelia, born July 24, 1882.

(\ HI) Jesse Palmer Bacon, son of Reuben Bacon (7). was born at Ikdlows Falls, X'ermont, March 31, 1827. He received his early education in the public schools. He learned the trade of mason under his father, and for a number of years was associated with him. He removed to South Boston and was employed by his father. Then he engaged in business as a mason and contractor at W'oburn for a time. He located finally at Arlington and fcrmed a co-partnershij) with his brother, Henry J. I'acon, under the firm name of J. & H. Bacon. For about ten years they carried on a jirospcrous business as masons and contractors in Arlington. After the tirni was dissolved each brother continued in business for himself under his own name. Jesse remained in business to the time of his death, January 22, 1889. Some years after coming to Arlington he built the residence in which he lived during his last years, located on Mystic street. In religion Mr. Bacon was a Unitarian : in ])olitics a Democrat. He wa-s selectman of the town of Arlington, and superintendent of buildings there. Me was also representative to the general court from his district, and served on several im])ortant committees, lie was upright, honest and callable; of excellent judgment, high ])urpose>. highly res])ected by all classes of ])eople. lie was generous to those in netd and gave liberally to \arious charities. lie formed man_\- close friendshiixs, both in social and business life, lie married, bebruary i<), 1852. Altena r>ell. born at Harperslield. New York, April 14, i(S33, died at Arlington. December 30. 1866. daughter of Josei)h and Candace ( (iaylord ) I '.ell. Children: i. Melissa Horton, born July 7. 1853. ^li^^^ March 12. i88r ; married August 26, 1872, Cieorge I'. Winn, of Arlington: children: i. (ieorge Albert Winn, born I'ebruary 22. 1S73, married Mabel I lartwell. of Arlington : ii. I'".(lith Lillian Winn: iii. Arthur Morton Winn, bo'Mi .\ovember (). 1875, died May 7. 1893: iv. Xina Louise Winn, born Ai)ril 8. 1877. 2. Clara bjnily, born ( )ctober 27,, 1855. (lied March 3, ^i^^>y 3. Jessie Caroline, born I'ebruary 2. 1857. died March 14. 1903; married December 6. 1882. Warren A. Lierce. of Arlington: children: i. W'arren Ap])leton I'ierce. born ( )cto1)er 22. 1887 : ii. 1 lorace W'in- I'ierce. born September 22, i88(;: iii. Arthur liacon Lierce, born Xovember 2, 189 1. 4. Ldith lola, born April 21. i8()0: died December I, i8()0. 5. Louisa L.elle. born (\^tober 4, i8()i : died'March 11, i8f)2. h. :\lary Alice, born ( )ctober 4, 1861 : married April 5. 1882. Frank Peabody, of Arlington: child: Charles Arthur F^eabody, born March 30, 1886. 7. Elizabeth \\'aite, born August 15, 1863: married tirst. Xovember 29. 1882. Frank W. Lotter ; children: i. Frank A. Potter, born October 9, 1883 ; ii. Alice Louise Potter, born October 28. 1884, married August 2=^. 1906 llerbert W. White, of Allston. Massachusetts ( L)Oston ) and have Moward Samuel White, l)orn April 21. 1907; Elizabeth Waite married second, .\ugust 22, 1877. Richard \V. Hittenger, of IJelmont, Massachusetts; child: iii. Richard Waldorf Hittenger. bom April 22. i8(>(). 8. Arthur Linden, born ^klarch 30. 1865; mentioned below. 9. Altena P.elle, born September 27,. 1866; married. August 1895, Charles A. Hardy, of Arlington : children : i. Anna Hawdey Llardy. born January 14, 1896; ii. Helen Willard Hardy, born March 2, 1897; iii. I^lizabeth Ilardw born Se])tember 29, 1898.

(IX I Arthur Linden Paeon, son of Jesse Palmer liacon (8). was born at Arlington, March 30. 1865. He attended the public and high schools of Arlington, and then learned the mason's trade under his father. Put after working a year he went to work in the Llinck- Ic)- Locomotive Works, Albany street, Poston. and learned the machinisl's trade, working for a war for one of the company's contractors on bo.xes and shafting. He returned to Arlington, and was associated with his father in business as mason and contractor until his father's death in 1889. lie conducted the business afterward for the estate until 1891, when he l)ecame the owner and he has continued in the business with much success ever since. He has a large business in .\rlington and vicinitv. where much building has been done in recent years. Among other buildings for which he has had contracts are : the Cutter school, the b^inance building, the Pank building, the town pumping station : the l-ive Cents Savings P.ank building; all of .\rlington ; residences of W. 1'.. Wood. Henrv I lornblower. ' William I".. Wood. Kimball Russell. E. T. llu>s\. Roland Sherman and H. T. Piper, of Arlington: also S. J. Elder: the new Sanborn residence: I. 1\. .Murdock, of Winchester, besides man\- others. Mr. P.acon built bis own residence. 24 Mystic street.

In religi<in ]\Ir. IJacon is a L'nitarian. but attends the Ortbodo.x Congregational church of .\rlington. He-is a Republican in politic.*^. He was made a member of Hiram I^odge. F. and A. M.. of .\rlingt(Mi. December 10, 1891 ; of Menotcnny Chapter. R. A. M., June 20, 1893; of Cambridge Commandery, K. T.. June 3. 1904. He is a member of Alei)po Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, Poston. He is past noble grand of Bethel Lodge. No. 12, 1.0. ( ). F.. and was formerly a member of the ( Vder of Red ]\ren. He belongs to the Arlington P oat Club, the Master ^Masons Association and the Master Plasterers Association. He was a private in Com])any P. Fifth Regiment ^Massachusetts \'olunteer Militia, in 1886. 1887 and 1888. He married, Xovember 30, 1892, Margaret Isadore Xickerson, born July 25, 1 87 1, daughter of Captain James Samuel and Cornelia I. (Hunt) Xickerson. ?Ter father

(\'I1I) Henry James Bacon, son of Reuben Bacon {"]), born at I'.ellows Falls, Vermont. May 12, 1830, died at Arlington, Massachusetts, February 9, 1877. During his early life his parents removed to Keene, New Hampshire, and later to South Boston, Massachusetts. After acquiring a practical education, Henr}' J. learned the trade of mason with his father, which line of work he followed for the remainder of his days, and like his three l^rothers was well skilled. The family removed again, to ^^'oburn, Massachusetts, where Henry J. resided about two years, and at about the age of twenty he removed to Arlington, Massachusetts, where the brothers - Jesse P., Alvin and Henry J. - were associated in business, this connection continuing but a short time. Later Henry J. and Jesse P. entered into partnership under the firm name of J. P. & H. J. Bacon, mason contractors, and much of the mason work of the different buildings in Arington and vicinity was done by this firm, and the present National Bank building was erected In' them. After ten years the brothers dissolved partnership and each set up for himself. Jesse P. built his house and Henry J. occupied one-half of it, but later Henry J. built his own house on Avon Place, where he lived up to the time of his decease, February 9, 1877.

Henry J. Bacon was a man of acts rather than words. He made few professions, but, to use his own words, "he could act if he couldn't talk." He was honest and upright in his business relations, kind and considerate toward all with whom he had dealings, and as a man of business those who worked with him will bear their testimony that he was one whose dealings were just, who kept his word and was kindly considerate for those who labored under him. As a brother Mason he was true to his obligations, consistent in his duties, noted for his kindness to those that were suffering, ready with his means to relieve those that were in need. Many instances there were where his bounties were large, his impulses generous, and his acts were brotherly and consistent. In his family he was a faithful husband, considerate and loving father and brother. He bequeathed to his children that which was better than riches, the legacy of a good name, that coming to manhood and womanhood the thought of their father's faithful, honest, pure, whole-souled life is more to them than earthlv honors or earthly riches.

Me was brought up a Methodist, but later was a Unitarian in religion. He joined Hiram Podge, F. and A. AT, at Arlington ; Alenotomy Cha])ter, R. A. AL, at Arlington; Boston Commandery, K. T. ; Alenotomy Club of Arlington. He was an active member of Ancient and Honorable Artillery at Boston in 1873, under Captain Ben Perley Poore, at the time when this body was active in its social functions. He was a Democrat in politics. He married first. November 28, 1858. Sarah Ann Ford, born at Hallowell, Maine, July 16, 1832, died of consumption, May 16, 1866, daughter of John and Sarah Ann (McGrath) Ford, of Hallowell. One child, Cora Lelia, born March 25, 1864, died April 8, 1864. He married second, April 30, 1867, Esther Ellen Russell, born at Lexington, Massachusetts, November 29, 1836, died at Arlington, Massachusetts, April 17, 1875, daughter of Jeremiah and Lucinda (Stearns) Russell, the former of whom was a poultry merchant. Children : William Henry, born February 14, 1869. Ceorgetta, born June II, 1873. Mary Esther, born April 13, 1875, died May 21, 1875. He married third, November 28, 1875, Isabella Graham Harrington, born Ctica, New York, November 7, 1833, daughter of Sumner Increase and Eliza (Maynard) Harrington. Sumner I. Harrington was a prosperous fruit merchant in New York City.

taken originally from the trade of some remote ancestor, such as Mason, Car- ])enter. Tailor, Sadler, Cooper. In fact almost every trade-name became a surname and every family having a name of this kind springs from numerous unrelated progenitors, as a rule. Many of the name in England in the past thousand years have been distinguished and many of the name in New England in the ]3ast three centuries have been men of prominence. \'arious English families of the name bear arms. The Cutlers of Stainborough Hall, county York, are descended from John Cutler, standard bearer in the War of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster, in the time of Henry VI. His arms, borne by descendants : Azure three dragons or wiverns, heads erased with a bordure or. Crest : A unicorn's head erased or ducally collared azure. Another ancient coat-of-arms : Azure three griffins' heads erased gules. The family at Leechlade. (iloucestershire. bears the arms just given. We find several similar de- victs iiulicatiny; relationship. The Cutlers of county Suffolk bear : Azure three dragon.s's heads erased or, langued gules. Crest: A dragon's head erased or ducally gorged gules. The Cutlers of \\'estminster have borne a similar armorial since March, 1693. The American settlers came, according to Rev. Abner Morse, from Sprawston, a suburb of Xorwich, England, near county Suffolk, where the Cutlers have resided from the first.

( I ) James Cutler, immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Cutlers in America, was born in England in 1 606, and settled as early as 1634 in W'atertown, ]Massachuselts. He was one of the original grantees in the northerly ]iart of the town, on the road to IJelmont. The house l(')t assigned to him contained eight acres, bounded on the east by land of Thomas Boylston, west and north by the highway and south by land of Ellis Baron ; July 25, 1636, he was granted twenty-eight acres, and in 1642 eightytwo acres in the fourth division, and four other lots, (^ctol)er 2. 1^)45, he was one of the petitioners "in relation to Xashaway ])lantation, now Weston." .\bout 1651 he removed to Cambridge b^arms, now Lexington, on what is now A\'oo(l street, not far from the Bedford line. .\ ])art of the farm was in the hands of descendants of the family until recently, when it was sold by the heirs of Leonard Cutler. The house was located some thirty rods from the present highway, on an elevation commanding an extensive view. Lie married

7. 1654, and he married third, Lhebe Page, daughter of John Page, about 1662. His will was dated Xoveniber 24, 1684, and proved August 20. 1694. 1 le died May 17. 1694, aged eighty-eight years. Children, the first five recorded at W'atertown: i. James, born Xoveniber 6, 1635, mentioned below. 2. Llannah, born Jidy 26, 1638: married John W^inter, Jr. 3. Elizabeth, born January 2^. 1640; died October 30, 1644. 4. Mary, born [NFay 29, 1644; married John Collar. 5. Elizabeth, born July

(H) James Cutler, son of James Cutler (i), born Xovember 6, 1635. in W'atertown, Massachusetts, died July 31, 1685. He was a farmer and resided at Cambridge I-'arms on the homestead of his father. He was a soldier in King Philip's war. His will was dated July 28, 1685, and proved October 8, of the same year. Ins wife Lydia and her brother Benjamin being executors. He married. June 15, 1665, Lydia, widow of Samuel Wright and daughter of John Moore, of Sudbury. She died in Sudbury, X'ovember 23, 1723. Children, born at Cambridge Earms : i. James, born May 12, 1666; died December i, 1690. 2. Ann, born April 20, 1669 ; married September 26, 1688, Richard P.elois, Jr. 3. Samuel, born May 2, 1672. 4. Joseph, born ]\Iay 2, iC)72 (twin); married Hannah . s.

(HI) Thomas Cutler, son of James Cutler (2), was born at Cambridge Earms, December '5' ^^^77- I^c settled on the homestead, and spent the most of his life there. .About 1750 he bought of Xoah Ashley a farm in W^estern, now Warren, and removed there. He was constable in Cambridge Farms 17 uj; selectman T 729-3 1 -33-34. Pie married first, Sarah Stone, daughttr of Samuel and Dorcas (Jones) Stone. She joined the church in Lexington. July 4. 1708, and (lied January 10, 1750. aged sixty-nine. 1 fe married second, A])ril 10, 1750. Lydi;i Simonds, and was with her dismissed to the church in Warren, May 17, 1752, having owned the covenant in Lexington, June 6, 1703. lie died December 23, 1759. Lie bequeathed to each of his daughters and granddaughters, a cow ; besides sums of money ; to son David his silver-headed cane, half the services of his negro man, besides money and half his books and api)arel; to his son Thomas half the service of his negro man, and his lands and buildings, and half his books and apj^arel, besides other things. Children, born at Lexington: i. Abigail, born June 2, 1703; married X^ovember 18. 1722. Joseph Bridge. 2. David, born August 28, 1705 ; mentioned below. 3. Amity, born December 19, 1707; married John Page. 4. Sarah, born January 19, 1710; married Israel Mead. 5. Mary, born Xovember 8, 1714; married Seth Johnson. 6. Hannah, born May 13, 1 71 7. died March 2. 1724. 7. Thomas, born

(IV) David Cutler, son of Tbomas Cutler (3 ) , born at Lexington, August 28. baptized September 9, 1705. Fie resided on tbe homestead at Lexington, and joined tbe church there April 14. 1728. He was surveyor of townships during the reign of King George III. constable in Lexington 1746; selectman 1749- 50-51. His will was dated September 13. 1758. at which time he was occupying the farm at Warren. He married Alary, daughter of Joseph and ]\Iary Tidd, who survived him thirty-seven years, and died May 25. 1797, aged ninety-three. He died December 5, 1760. of small pox. Children, born in Lexington : 1. Abigail, born May 31. 1728; married May 7, 1755, Samuel Hodgman. 2. David, born July 15, T730. 3. Joseph, born May 31, 1733; died February 7, i8t6. 4. Isaac, born June. 1736 ; died January. 1737. 5. Mary, born April 12. 1738; married September 15. 1757, John T'age; died Ma}' 3, 1812. 6. Solomon, born May 15. 1740. 7. Thomas, born May 9. T742; mentioned below. 8. Elizabeth, born August 4. 1744; married May 3. 1768. Renjamin ]\Ioore. 9. .Amity, born July 15, 1748: married November 17, 1766. Nathan Leonard.

iV) Thomas Cutler, son of David Cutler (4-), born at Lexington, May 9, 1742, died July 3, t8i2. He resided on the homestead at Lexington. He married first, Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel Reed, of Weston. She died September 26, 1784, aged thirty-eight, and he married second. Elizabeth, widow of Ebenezcr White, daughter of Moses and Martha Harrington, and sister of Caleb Harrington, who was killed in the battle of Lexington. Thomas Cutler was a member of Captain Parker's com- ])any in the battle of Lexington. He made his will December 18, 1805, and it was provetl .\ugust 12, t8i2, his son John being executor. His widow died September 21, 1834. aged eighty-six. Children, born at Lexington, of first wife : i. Isaac, born August 9, 1765 ; died J\Iay 27, 1827. 2. Thomas, born March 18, 1769; died February 8, 1835. 3. Abigail, born May 2, 1771 ; married June 5, 1794. Joshua Simonds ; died August 8, 1837. 4. Nathaniel, born June 18, 1773: mentioned below. 5. Mary, born July 18, 1775; died May 16, 1819; unmarried. 6. John, born May 10, 1777: died "March 12, 1828. 7. Alice, born June i. 1779; married Nathaniel Searle. 8. Jonas, born IMarch 3. 1782; died January 29, 1830. Children of second wife: 9. Amos, born November 9, 1787; died January 8, 1824. lO. Betsey, born October 27, 1789; married December 13, 1815, John Bacon; died September 21, 1834. II. Leonard, born April 21. 1791 ; died 1853.

(VI) Nathaniel Cutler, son of Thomas Cutler (5), born in Lexington, June 18, 1773, died there September 3, 1849. He resided on what was known as the widow White Farm, on Concord avenue, in the south part of town, and later bought the L'nderwood farm, near b\'. Oil the other side of the road, where Clarence LI. Cutler now resides. He was a prosperous farmer. He sold large ((uantities of herbs, which he raised, and also dealt extensively in lumber. He was a man of. sound judgment, highly respected by his townsmen. He was selectman in 1818. He married, April 24, 1799. Anna Childs, born November 8. 1775. died March 22, 1863. daughter of Abijah Childs. of \\'altham. Children, born in Lexington: I. Isaac, born March 3, 1800; died 1877. 2. Thomas, born November 15, 1801 : mentioned below. 3. Rev. Curtis, born January I,' 1806: (bed October 13, 1874. 4. Eliza Ann. born October 14. 1813; married first, Mav 2^. 1839, Thomas P. W'ood ; second. December 25, 1844. Francis Richardson.

(ML) Thomas Cutler, son of Nathaniel Cutler (6), born on the homestead in Lexington. November 15, 1801, died there February I. 1890. He resided on the homestead, to which he added from time to time. He was a prosperous farmer, and also realized considerable from the lumber on the place. He dealt some in real estate, and was counted a shrewd business man. He was a thrifty, hard working man, and spent all his time at home. He set out an orchard, which was the finest in the neighborhood. He was a Unitarian, and brought up his family according to the strict ideas of the Puritans. He was generous to those in need and always adhered to what he thought the right, no matter what the cost. He married, December 3, 1828, Sarah Smith, born November 30, 1806, died September 26, 1864. daughter of Amos Smith, of Waltham. Children: i. Thomas Everett, born April I, 1830: mentioned below. 2. Albert Curtis, born March 28, 1831 ; died November, 1883; married April 9, 1853, Eliza M. Tyler, of Waltham and had Benjamin, Frank and Albert. 3. Franklin S.. born February 11, 1833: died January 25, 1834. 4. Sarah Ann. born January II. 1835: died Augu.st 29. 1859. 5. Franklin, born October 11, 1837; died January 15. i860: 6. Eliza Wood, born August 10. 1840, died March 21. 1871 ; married April 30. 1865.

Frtderick I'. \\ t-llington, of Lincoln: children: i. Helen Wellington, died aged eight; ii. Infant, died young. 7. Charles, born June 10, 1842. died August 29, 1862. at Jersey City Hospital ; member of the Sixteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 8. Clara, born July 4, 184C): died January 7. 1883; married October 19. 1869. Henry W. I'eabody, of W'altham ; had Henry and Frederick I'eabody.

(\'HI) Thomas Everett Cutler, son of Thomas Cutler (7). born in Lexington, April 1, 1830, died February 18. 1875. He attended the old I'^ranklin school, which was then one of the large schools, having about forty pupils. He alv.'ays lived on the farm, and when he became of age owned the stock, his father still retaining the title of the land and residing near by. I le carried on the farm with much success, and while not strictly a market gardener he found a ready market for all the ])roduce he could grow. Hi^ api)le orchard was very productive, and was one of the best crops the farm ])roduced. He kept a herd of about twenty-five cattle, and sold the milk. His ambition was to have the best conducted farm in the county, and to this end he worked carl\' and late. 1 le was a faithful member of the Cnitarian clnu-ch. and his family was brought up as was his father's, in the strictest manner. I le was much beloved by his family, and had hosts of friends. In ])olitics he was a Republican, but never cared to hold office. He was a member of the b^armers' Club of W'altham. He luarried, at Lexington. August 20, 1861, Melinda Warren lloughton, born .\ugust 31. 1840, daughter of .Samuel .\ndre\v and Martha Warren ( llavwood) lloughton of Leominster. I ler father was a grocer in P)Oslou. also a farmer, and at one time was overseer of the l)oor. Children: i. C'harles Franklin, born Xo\'ember 3. 1862; married .\pril 27, i8(>8, Murilla L". Teel, of Lexington. 2. Ida Warren, born October 12, 1865: unmarried. 3. E(lwar(l l^vcrett, born Ma}- 12, 1866: married ( )ctol)er 2-j. 1898, .Anna P.eVtha Magill, of Lexington : had Everett Spencer, born .Vugust 3, 1899. 4- Clarence Houghton, born January 26, i86(); mentioned below. 5. Martha Reecl, born bT'bruary 21. 1873; died March 23, 1873. 6. Curtis AKin, born February T, 1875: unmarried.

(IX) Clarence Ffoughton Cutler, son of Thomas Everett Cutler (8). was born in Lexington, January 26, 1869. He attended the district schools of his native town, and completed a three-year c^nirse in the Lexington hi<rh school. He worked on the homestead.

hel])ing his grandfather and brother from earlv boyhood until he was nineteen, when he became clerk in the market of C. E. Morrison., wholesale dealer in produce, South Market street, I'oston. After nine months he left to take a clerkshi]) in the retail stall of Davis Chapin &. Co., in the Faneuil Hall Market. Then he became book keeper for the firm of Morse & White, manufacturers of wire cloth. 75 Cornhill, Boston. Three years later he left this ])osition to enter partnershi]) with his brother, Charles F. Cutler, in the milk business, tuider the firm name of Cutler Brothers. Their i oute was in Xewton. Watertown and .Mount \ul)urn. I'harles !-'. Cutler owned and conducted the dairy, and Clarence H. had charge of the route. The i)artnership continued five years, when Clarence W. Cutler became the sole owner of the business, buying out his ]iartner, and he has continued very successfully in the milk business to the jjresent lime, lie divided his route on account of the iucrea'^e of business and sold that i)art in Xewton and .Mount .Auburn to his brother lulward I*.. Cutler, retaining for himself the Watertown customers. .Afterwards he established a new route in the adjoining city of Cambridge. He occujjies the old Cutler homestead on the Concord road, near W'altham street, having one hundred and fort}- acres of land in the best section of the town, comf)rising the (^Id widow White farm, the Underwood farm and all the lands added to the farm by his grandfather, Thonias C\itler, and kee]Mng a herd of about forty cows. He raises .\yrshire stock ])rincipally. His barns and milk-houses are models of neatness and the sanitary conditions are ab>olutel\ the best attainable, lie imderstaufls his business throughly, is enterprising and industrious. I le has a high ]X)sition in the business world and ccMiimands the esteem and confidence of all his townsmen.

He is a member of the Lexington Cnitarian Church. He is a Republican in politics and has often been chosen delegate to re])resent his ])arty in nominating conventions, and in 1907- 08 was on the finance committee of the town. He holds tlie office of fence viewer in Lexington, and has always done his full duty as a citizen. He is a charter member of Lexington (irange, X'o. 233. Patrons of Husbandry, and served that organization as its first master and is at present chairman of the executive committee: is director of the North Pomona Co-operative Association, of LowelL o\-erseer of Pomona Grange, and one of its directors. He was a member of the A'oung

Men's Christian Cnion of Boston. He married, October 20, 1897, at Lexington, Sarah .\nn Evans, born in Liverpool, England, August 7, 1872, daughter of Joseph and Sarah ( Marsden) Evans. Her father was born on the Isle of Man, and was employed by the Liverpool Gas Company ; her mothef was born in Shropshire, England. Mrs. Cutler is a member of the W'altham Woman's Club and of Lexington Grange, No. 233, Patrons- of Husbandry, in which she is active, serving on various committees. Mr. and Mrs. Cutler have no children.

In his work on the "Origin and sig- PEW nification of Suffolk Surnames," Bowditch mentions Pew among the English patronymics which are derived from edifices, and with Pew he also gives the names Steeple and Spire. The name is also mentioned by various investigators of the derivation of English surnames as an abbreviation or nKxlification of the ancient Welsh names Ap Hugh. This 'ap' is the Welsh equivalent of our English 'son', and in many instances when it comes before a name beginning with a vowel has been incorporated with it : thus, Ap Hugh has given us Pugh.

The Pew family of the line treated in these annals is believed to have been of the ancient ^^^elsh Pugh family, and to have descended from Thomas Pugh, one of three brothers - - I^'rancis, Daniel and Thomas Pugh - younger sons of a Welsh squire, and who arrived in Virginia in 1666. A search among the old court records and land transfers shows that they settled in upper Nansemond county, near the town of Suffolk, about twenty miles from Norfolk. Francis, the elder brother, built his house with brick imported from England. The house bore the name of Jericho. Many years afterward Dr. Edward Pugh, of W^indsor, North Carolina, made a careful search of the locality of the mansion house of his ancestor and secured several of the bricks that had been used in its construction.

A search of the published lists of passengers who came from England to America during the seventeenth century shows that in ]\Iay. 1635, Elizabeth Pew, aged twenty years, came from London in the "Speedwell," Jo : Chappell, master, bound for Virginia ; that in June. 1635, Richard Pew, aged twenty-three years, came from London in the "Thomas and John," bound for his majesty's colony in Virginia; and that in July, 1635, Jo: Pew came over in the "Primrose" and landed in the colonv in

X'irginia. This mention is made to show that there were persons of the family name Pew in the colonies of Virginia during the next thirty years after the founding of the settlement at Jamestown in 1607, although the name never had many representatives in any of the southern plantations. In Middlesex county, X'irginia, as early as August 31, 168 1, W^illiam Carter married Penelope Pew. Pugh, Pew and Pue are uncommon names in Virginia, and Pue is the name of a family which has been seated chiefly in Maryland for many generations. Daniel Pugh was a member of the Virginia assembly from Nansemond county in 1736-38-40. Daniel Pugh was in Lancaster county in 1735. In Meade's "Churches and h^amilies of Virginia" it is mentioned that Williaiu F'ugh was a vestryman of the Nansemond church, 1773-4. Joseph Pugh was a soldier of the revohmtionary war from Shenandoah county, Virginia, 1777, and Samuel Peugh was in military service in Loudoun county, \'irginia, 1774. Edward Pugh was alderman of Norfolk, Nansemond county, 1748, and married Lucy Calvert there, June

The Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, author of "Virginia (jenealogies," says that the Pughs of Norfolk county, the Pughs of Pugh's Landing in North Carolina, the Pughs of Pugh's Run in Shenandoah county, \ irginia, and the Pughs of Lewis county, Kentucky, must all be of one family, and also the township of Pughtown, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, is named in allusion to a Welsh family which settled there about the year 1730.

Francis Pugh, son of Francis the immigrant, married Pheribee Savage, a native of Cornwall, England, and relative of Peyton Randolph, of Virginia. Their children were Thomas Pugh. Sen.. John Pugh. Pheribee Pugh. Phebe Pugh and Penelope Pugh. The daughter Pheribee married John Williams, and was mother of Benjamin Williams, twice governor of North Carolina. The Haywoods of Raleigh, the Camerons of Hillsboro. and the Guions of Newbern. are descendants of John Williams and Pheribee Pugh. The Savage pedigree is published in the "\'irginia Historical Magazine." The Savages came over in 1607 and are still in \'irginia. as well as in several other states. Francis Pugh (2d) removed to North Carolina and settled in what then was known as the Chowan precinct, which bordered on the Virginia line and Albermarle Sound, and which afterward was divided into several counties, rue of them being Bertie county. The will of Francis Pugh, dated July 5, 1733. proved at the May term of court in 1736, mentions his son Thomas, son John, and child in case ; this posthumous child was Francis Pugh f3d) who married Mary Whitwell. After the death of her husband Pheribee Savage married Colonel Thomas Barker, and had one child, Betsey Barker, who afterward was the ward of her relative, Peyton Randolph of X'lrginia, and was sought in marriage by Thomas Jefferson, then a member of the Virginia house of burgesses.

(IF) Colonel Thomas Pugh, son of Francis and F^lieribee (Savage) Pugh, was born in 1719. died in 1813, and was buried at his house, Imrocky. in Bertie county. He was l)rominent in his day, and both he and his l)rother John Pugh were patriots identified with the struggle for local self-government and independence. Thomas T'ugh was a man of great intellect and shrewdness and accumulated more wealth than perhaps any other man of his day, with the possible exceptions of General Willie (or W'ylie) Jones, Colonel Williams and the elder Pollocks. He was one of the purchasers of the Tu.scarora Indian reservation lands, which he bought at the time (1712) when that peo]")le went north and joined the h'ive Xatic^ns. lie was elected delegate for Bertie county to the constitutiiMial convention of North Carolina, which met at I lalifax, November 12, 1776. The family record of births, marriages and deaths in the Pugh family is lost, the bible containing this record having been taken from the house of Edward Pugh, on Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, while he was absent from home during the late civil war. Edward Pugh was the eldest son of Thomas Pugh. who was grandson of Thomas Pugh, senior.

These brief data merely give light on the subject of Pugh family life in the region where the earlier generations of representatives of the surnames were seated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At one time they were a numerous family in the south, l)ut in more recent generations they became scattered through fre(|uent immigrations and settled in the states north of A'irginia. There was one among them who soon after the middle of the eighteenth century came north to New England and took up his abode in the town of Gloucester, on Cape Ann. He was there called William Pew, although there is more than tradition to support the belief that he came of the old Pugh family which sat down in the Old Dominion more than one lumdred years before. Every effort has been made to establish the connection between the \'irginia and North Carolina Pughs with William Pugh, but the loss and destruction of necessary family records, and of county and state archives as well, have made this impossible of accomplishment. It is not at all probable, hardly possible, that William Pew of Cape Ann was in any manner related to or a descendant of either Richard Pew or Joseph Pew, who are mentioned in the ship's lists of immigrants that sailed from London to Yirginia in 1635, but it is underst(X)d that he was a descendant of one of the three Pugh brothers who settled in \'irginia several \ears later than the Pews.

( I ) \\ illiam Pew first a])pears in ( iloucester history about 1760, and there is a tradition that he went there on a vessel engaged in the coastwise trade between (Gloucester and southern ports. He was born in Westmoreland count}-. \ irginia. in 1732. the year in which Washington was born, and one historical account says that they were neighl)ors. During the h'rench and English war, William Pew was in service, and is said to have belonged to the company of A'irginia. men under Washington, which formid a i)art of P>raddock's ami}' in the ill-advised exjjedition against I'ort Du(|uesne in 1755, and which resulted in such disastrous defeat to the P.ritish arms on account of the inca])acity of the commanding general. .Subsef|uently he ai^ain served under Washington, and is said to have been his ])ers()nal attendant. It is evident that Mr. Pew's ])lace of residence in West!iioreland county was near by to navigable water, that he was accustomed to sailor lite and that he was persuaded t<i go to Glouee-^ter through the rej^resentations of men of that ti wn who f(-)lIowed the sea in trading shi])s along the southern seaboard, llis home in (Gloucester \\a> at I-'resh Water C"o\e, where he built a house, and his chief occu])ation was fishing, in which he was noted for industry and success. He died January 6, 1840, having attained, according to contemporary accounts, the very unusual age of one hundred .seven years. Mr. Babson, author of the "TTistory of Gloucester." who knew Mr. Pew very well. i^ of the opinion that at the time of his death Mr. Pew "had not ])robably cjuite reached that e> traordinary age." but without doubt had attained the age of one hundred years, if not more. In s]:)eaking of him Mr. Babson says: "His great age attests the strength of his constitution, which was one of great power of endi'mnee and was n(^t much shattered imtil luar the end of his Hfe." Mr. Pew married. April 19, 1767. Abigail ( irover, born May 14. 1732. daughter of Xehemiah Grover, born August 9, 1703, died January 13, 1761, and Abigail Harris. Nehemiah Grover was a son of Elder Edmund Grover. baptized May 4, 1679, died February 5, 1761, and Mary Lowe, who died May 16, 1757, aged seventy-eight years. Edmund Grover was chosen ruling elder of the Fifth church in Gloucester, in January. 1 756. and served until his death. Elder Grover, first of Beverly, where he was made freeman in 1678. was a son of Xehemiah Grover, born about 1644. died February 12, 1694. He married December 2, 1674. Ruth Haskell. Xehemiah Grover was a son of Edmund Oover. born about 1600, died June 11, 1682, aged eighty-two, and who lived first in Salem and afterward in Beverly. Tradition says that he went to New England with Endicott. He was made freeman in 1633 and became proprietor of lands in 1636. His estate was administered the "2d of 6th month 1682." His wife's name was Margaret. Children of William and Abigail (Grover) Pew. all born in Gloucester; 1. Richard Grover, born ^lay 16. 1768: married October 15, 1791, Esther Lane. 2. DoUiver.born August 16, 1769, died September i. 1855; married May 3. 181 4, Betsey Hilbert. 3. Lydia. married August 3. 1803. Benjamin Rust. 4. Nabby (.Abigail), married June t8. 1791. William Marshall. 5. Sally, married Xovember 14, 1801, Joseph Adams. Jr. 6. William, see forward.

(H ) William Pew, Jr.. youngest son and child of William and .\bigail (Grover) Pew, born in Gloucester, Afassachusetts. June 3, 1775. died there Xovember 6, 1848. He was an energetic and successful business man. having his. home at Fresh Water C(we, owning his own vessel, which he employed chiefly in fishing. He possessed excellent judgment, and it was a common saying among his neighbors at the Cove that "Captain Pew always came home with a full fare." It is not understood that he engaged in coast trading, although he may have voyaged in southern waters as a fisherman or for the purpose of marketing his cured fish. However this may have been, he was on one occasion compelled to abandon his vessel \vhile on the southern coast, as will be seen by the following account: "April 25. 1814. arrived (at Gloucester) boat Ograbme. thirt)'-four days from Elizabeth City, N. C, and with Captain Pew, Captain Sargent and others, who left their vessel on account of the embargo and came home in an o])en b(iat. a distance of one thousand miles, hauling llieir wa\' fifty .si.x miles across capes and headlands." This was one of the events of the war of 1812-15. Captain Pew died under circumstances very similar to those which marked the death of his son John. He was engaged in clearing up his land and accidentally injured a finger among the brambles. It became very painful and so much swoll:'n that amputation was necessary, but not in time to save his life.

He married three times, and had in all seventeen children - six by his first wife, eleven by his second wife. He married first, June 30, 1798. .\lice Parsons, born September 10. 1774, died January 22, 1814, daughter of Jonathan Parsons, who married, July 28, 1763, Sarah ^^'innerv. Jonathan Parsons was a sailor on board an American privateer which sailed out of Gloucester during the revolution, and he died of a wound received in action. His brother Jeffrv was a soldier of the revolution and was at the memorable battle of Bunker Hill.

Jonathan Parsons \\as a S(:>n of John Parsons. V, ho married. Xovember 15. 1739, Anna Clark, and had three sons - Jonathan, Ebenezer and Jefifry. John Parsons, born May 8. 1716. was a son of Jonathan Parsons, who was born February 8. 1687, and married February (k 171 r. Lydia Stanwood. and Jonathan Par- .--ons was the eldest child of Jefifry Parsons 2d. wliO was born Januar}- 31, 1660. and married in May 1686, Abigail Younglove, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. She died in 1734. Jefifry Parsons, last mentioned, was the second son and child of Jcffry Par.sons, who married November II. 1657, Sarah Vinson. She died Januar\- 12. 1708. Jeft'ry I'arsons was born in .\ll)ington (Babson's "Gloucester" says Al])hington. while another authority mentions Aspinwall. and still another .\shprington) near Exeter. Devonshire. England, in 1631. and when (|uite young went with his uncle to the Barbadoes. remained there several years and then came to X^ew England. In 1655 he bought an acre and a half of land in Fisherman's Field, and soon afterward added to his ])Ossessions another piece of land on which was a house, and there made his home. Sarah, wife of Jefi'rv Parsons, was a daughter of ^\'illiam \'inson, who was of Salem as early as 1635, and removed thence to Gloucester on the first permanent settlement of that town. He was admitted freeman in 1643, was selectman in 1646 and several times afterward, and was the original grantee of Five Pound Island, i lis first wife Sarah died 1660. and he married

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(Ill) John I'ew. third son and fourth child of Captain William and .Mice ( Pars<jns ) I'ew. born 'u ( iloucester. .\ugust [9, 1807, died in that city .March 7, i8(>o. He early developed tlu' traits which in later years enabled him to found :i business which grew until it became the largest df its kind on C"a])e Ann. His career was remarkably successful, and was marked with honesty, thrift, energy and courage, i le was a very honorable man. always fair in his dealings, generous in his im])ulses and at all times ready Ui help others less fortunate than himself. When (|uite a yoiuig man he went on foreign voyages, hrst as a sailor, but he rose rapidly until he became mate of the brig "Cadet." under Caj^ttain (iro- \ er. ( )n his marriage he gave u]) foreign voyages and engaged in fishing until December. 1849, when he founded the firm of John Pew <S: Son. His eldest son, William .A. Pew. now cashier of the Cit}' National IJank of (iloucester, was associated with him until 18^)1, and afterward another son succeeiled to a jjartueri - It shi[) interest; and the old tirm name ha!> ^ince been retained, although the ])artnershi]) itself has merged with other fishery interests in a cor|)orate company. Mr. Pew was one of the early members of the First Baptist church of Gloucester, a regular attendant at services, and a deacon of the church for several years. December 26, 1829, he married Sarah Knut>- ford Tarr, born in Cloucester, May 8. 1810, died December 3, 1890. daughter of William Tarr, l)orn January 11, 1782, died June 24, 1864. and married, November 25, 1804, Sarali I'.. Knutsford, born May 19, 1783.' died 1867. W illiam Tarr was a son of Job Tarr, wdio was born December 17, 1733, and died Mav 18, 1833, and whose wile was Rachel ['arsons, lob Tarr was a son of Llenjamin d'arr, born Deceml)er 23, 1726. died in 1814, and married December 22. 1748. Polly 1 barber, rjenjamin Tarr was a sou of lienjamin Tarr, born \\n'\\ 9. 1700, died 1733. and who married, February 24, 1724, Rebecca Card Wallis. lienjamin I arr la>t mentioned. wa> a son of Richard larr, who wa> born in I'.ngiand or Wales, \(>()0. and died in < iloucester, 1732. and wdiose wife was hdizabelh Churchill of .Marblehead. .Massachusetts, from whence they removed to Cape Ann. John and .^arali Knutsford (Tarr) I'ew had six children, all born in (Iloucester: I. John James, born ( )clober 4. 1830, died 1838. 2. William Andrews, born Angnst 13, i83_>: see forward. 3. ("harles lliram, born ( Jctober 2y. 1833: see forward. 4. Sarah Melissa, born .Vovember 13. i83r). 3. Laura, born December 10, l83<;. ^. [ohn James, born ."-September 3, 1842.

(IN) William .Vudrews | 'cw . eldest sur\ iving sun and child of Jnhn and .'^arah Knutsford ( Tan) I'ew. was born in ( doucester. Massachnsftis. Angusl 13. 183J, and for nearly si.xty \ears has been in sonie prominent wa\- identified with the bnsiness ]]\c ni that town and .subse((uent city. He receixed his early education in the (Iloucester ])ublic .schools, and for a short time was a student in Worcester .Academy. In 1849, when only seventeen years old, he became associated with his father in the fishing l)usiness, afterward became his business partner, and continued a member of the firm of John I'ew &- Son until 1861. In i8(>i .Mr. I'ew withdrew from the firm, and for the ne.xt three years carried on an independent fishing l)usiness. In 1864 he was one of the selectmen of (doucester. and in the same year he organized the Fir.st National P,ank and was its i)resident and active managing ofificer until 1873. when he resigned the ])residenc\-.

withdrew from the institution, and organized t4ie City National Bank, of which he has been cashier since its doors were oj^ened for business, more than thirty years ago. He is today the oldest banking officer in Cdoucester and one of the oldest in Massachusetts ; and it is frequently said by men having knowledge of banking interests and history in the east that Mr. f'ew is regarded as one of the best financiers in this state. M'r. Pew is a man of quiet and perfectly temperate habits, strictly attentive to every detail of the business of the bank, generally the first to enter its door in the morning and last to leave after the hour of closing. And besides the bank, of which he is one of the largest stockholders, he has considerable interests in other institutions and enterprises of (Gloucester. He has been chairman of the sinking fund commission of (Gloucester for luore than thirty years, and for about the same ])eriod has been a member of the school committee of the city, and is now and has for many years been its vice-chairman. I^Vm- many years he was president of the (^Gloucester Inre and ?^Iarine Insurance Companv. In 1864 he was elected selectman of the town of Gloucester ; and he was collector of customs for the district of ("doucester from T865 to 1869. and from 1890 to 1895. ^'i 1870-71 he represented Gloucester in the lower house of the state legislature. He was brought up under the influences of the Baptist church, but for many years he has attended the services of the L'nitarian church. In politics he is a Republican, and inclines to be conservative rather than radical in the expression of his opinions on nublic and political questions.

January 26. 1854, William Andrews Pew married Harriet W. Preston, a descendant of one of the prominent old families of Cape Ann (see Presson family). She was born in Gloucester. 1832. and died there February 24. 1891. Of the five children born of this marriage the youngest two died in infancy. Those who grew to maturity are as follows: i. William Andrews. Jr.. born Gloucester, November 30, 1858; see forward. 2. Caroline Blanche, born Gloucester, December 2. 1867: keeps house for her father; unmarried. 3. Grace Winche.ster. born (Gloucester, June 9, 1871 : married, October it, 1898. David Smith Brandon, of Thomasville, Georgia ; children : William Pew Brandon and Harriet Brandon.

( \') William Andrews Pew, Jr.. is a native of ("iloucester, Massachusetts, born November 30, i8=;8. He acquired his education in Gloucester, at Chauncy Hall School. Boston, the

Newton high school, and is a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1880, and Harvard Law School, class of 1884, holding the degrees of A. B., A. M., and LL. B. from Harvard University. After graduating at Cambridge he was a student at the Polytechnic School, Brunswick, Germany, and at the University at Leipzig. He also traveled extensively in Europe. In 1884 he began the general practice of law^ in Gloucester. His practice is almost entirely in the civil courts. In politics he is Republican, and in religion, a communicant of the E])iscopal Church.

Since 1898 he has been actively identified with the militia of Massachusetts, and has filled all positions from that of private to brigade commander. During the Spanish war he w^as colonel of the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry, LT. S. v., and spent twelve months in the service of the I'nited States. Part of the time he commanded the Second Brigade, in the Third Division. First Army Corps. He was stationed at Chickamauga. Georgia, Lexington, Kentucky, Americus. Georgia, and at Matanzas, Cuba. On February 29, 1908, he became brigadier-general in the state service, and was assigned to the command of the Second Brigade of Infantry, M. \\ M. In 1903 he served as a member of the visiting board at the United States Military Academy at West Point. New York. In 1903 he was elected president of the City National Bankof Gloucester, of which his father was the organizer, and has been cashier and active managing officer since the institution began business in 1875. O" J^^"^^ 2, 1887. (General Pew married Alice Huntington of Cambridge, Massachusetts, daughter of Major James F. and Ellen Sophronia (Whipple) Huntington. Since his iiiarriage he has resided in Salem, Massachusetts. He has four children : Mary Huntington, born February 10, 1889; Alethea Huntington, born April ii, 1892; Catherine Whipple, born April 19, 1893; and Harriet Winchester, born October 29, 1894.

( IV ) Charles Hiram Pew. third son and child of John and Sarah Knutsford (Tarr) Pew. born in Gloucester, October 27, 1835, died at his home in that city, IMarch 24, 1906. Soon after reaching his majority he was taken into business with his father, Captain John Pew. and was connected with the fisheries of Gloucester from that time until his death. He was a man of quiet tastes, not much given to the pleasures of society, but was deeply interested in his large business afi^airs. and was a man who had a thorough love for home and its surround- ings. I le led a c|uiet life and enjoyed excellent health, hardly knowing what it was to have a day's illness nntil about seven years before his fleath, when a complication of diseases impelled him to take a trip west in the hope that a change might be beneficial. Beneath a reserved and taciturn exterior, there was a quiet humor in Mr. Pew's nature, which frequently cropped out and made him a very companionable man. No matter what the occasion, he never failed in courtesy to those with whom he met, and while not so free of speech as some men, when his opinion was sought on any subject he gave it without reserve. He was a man of strong convictions and gained the confidence and resjject of all with whom he came into contact in a business or social way. .\t the time of his death he was president of the Addison ( lilbert Hospital, vice-president of the ( iloucester Mutual h^ishing Insurance Company, a director of the (Iloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Comjjany, and formerly was one of the trustees of the I'^ishermen's Endowed Ice Company, lie was deeply interested in the affairs of the .\ddison Gilbert Hospital and from the time he accepted a place on its board of trustees and his subse(|uent election as ]iresident, he labored long and earnestly ior the institution and was always actively concerned in any undertaking which had iov its objt'ct assistance to the hos])ital in any way. Mr. I'ew was one of the vice-presidents and a meml)er of the finance committee of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Gloucester in 1892. He was an excellent autlK)rity on all (|uestions pertaining to the ( iloucester fisheries, and frec|uently was called upon to s])eak at legislative committee meetings and other gatherings on that subject.

Mr. Pew married first. January i, 1856, Hannah P. Swift, born August 27, 1837, died May 17, 1890. She was the mother of all of his children. He married scco'kI, January 26. 1892, Clara Maria Poring, who survives him. .^he was born in (iloucester, November 3, 1840. ''aughter of Erancis Maguire Poring and wife Eliza Beal Bruce, granddaughter of Matthew Poring, the cordwainer, and his third wife. .Mercy Bates, and a descendant of a prominent old colonial family of Massachusetts (see Poring family). Charles Hiram and Hannah P. ( Swift) Pew had children : i. Charles Hiram, jr., born Gloucester, December 8, 1856, died lune 24, 1880. 2. Alice P., born Gloucester, ('ctober 27. 1859, died Augu.st 16,. 1861. 3. lulith AP, born Gloucester, May 6, 1862; married December 3, 1884. FTarry P. Garland, of

Biddeford, Maine; children: Charles Pew (Jarland, born Saco, Maine. March 15, 1886; James Prentice Garland, born March 14, 1889; Pawrence Swift (iarland, born July 30. 1890; Marjorie (iarland, born July 8, 1892. 4. Fanny E., born Gloucester, November 23, i8()6, died May 30. 1867. 5. Sarah Knutsford, born Gloucester, June 23, 1868, married November 8, 1892, \\'ilbur Sargent Pocke ; children : Hannah Sargent Pocke, born (Gloucester. September 26, 1893; Martha Knutsford Pocke, born (jloucester, March 5, 1897; F'-ancis Pocke, born Winchester, Massachusetts, December 31. 1898; Flora W'ightman Pocke, born Winchester, July 7, i(;oi ; Wilbur Sargent Pocke, Jr., born \\'inchester. May 19, 1905. 6. Paura Emerson, born (iloucester, July 21. 1872 : married October 20, 1891. David .Mien Somes ; children : h^sther Saville Somes, born (iloucester. .August 7. 1892; Clara Pew Somes, born Winchester, January 21, 1898. 7. Harry (ierarde, born (ihnicester, .November 13, 1877: married November 11, 1903. Alice (iertrude Sartwell, of Somerville, Massachusetts; children: Charles Hiram Pew (2d), born (iloucester, Sei)teml)er [7, 1904; Martha \dams Few. born (iloucester, Jime 28, i()o6.

In the work entitled "Our Eng- P()I\l.\(i lish Surnames: Their Sources and .Significations," Mr. Bardsle\ . the author, says that the province of Porraine in F^rance (now .\lsace-Porraine, Germany) has "given us our Poraynes, Porraines and Porings ;" and mentions the fact that the names I'eter de Poring and John de Poring are instances of the application of surnames from localities. In France the Porings were evidently ])ersons of distinction, nobles who fcnight in the early wars and were rewarded for their fealty with e.states in land and titles to declare their station to their descendants and hand down from one generation to another according to the law of primogeniture.

The Poraines went into England with William the Con(|ueror, and the honor of knighthood was conferred on Robert de Poraine, who history informs us was one of the "companions in arms" of the Conqueror. F.urke's "Peerage and Baronetage" describes at least two coats-of-arms which are said to have been bestowed on Sir Robert, not jiarticularly as a mark of royal favor, but as an honor won on battlefields under the standard of his sovereign. These arms appear in different forms in .some minor details, but generally employ the .same symbols - .\rg: five lozenge? combined in pale.

There are arms, too, among the Erench Lorings who came of the old houses of Lorayne and Lorraine, and one of the most recent contributors to the genealogy of the Loring family in New England speaks of three brothers of that name as having come from the i^rovince of Lorraine and settled hrst in Salem, IMassachusetts, and afterward went to Xew Hampshire, in 1797 ; and states further that the three were vounger brothers of one Mar(|uis de Loring. "Tferaldic Journal" mentit)ns Caleb Loring of Hull, Massachusetts, as one of one hinidred four "gentlemen bearing the title of Es(|uire. intending to designate that they were in the habit of using coats of arms." This Caleb Loring was a descendant of Thomas Loring, the immigrant ancestor of probably all bearing that surname in Xew l^igland.

( I ) The Loring family of the line proposed to be treated in this place is of the hlnglish branch, seated in Axminster. Devonshire, from whence Thomas Loring. with his wife Jane and sons Thomas and John, came to America, and first appears in Xew luigland colonial history in the plantation at Dorchester. Massachusetts, December 21^. 1634, where he remained only a short time, going thence to Hingham. and on September 18, 1635. drew a house lot on the north side of what now is called Ship street. He was admitted freeman March 3, 1636. and was thereui)on received into full communion in the church, of which he early became one of the deacons, a title by which he was afterwards known. In \(^(> his house was burned, and he afterward moved to Hull and died there, intestate. A])ril _i. 1661. His estate was appraised in i()(')2. and inventoried three hundred thirty-one ])()unds fifteen shillings, showing that he was a man of substance as well as of infiuence in church and town affairs. He married, in England, Jane Xewton, who die<l August 25, 1672, leaving a will dated July 10, 1672. Deacon Hiomas Loring and jane Xewton had six children: 1. Thomas, iDorn England, 1629, died in Hull. Massachusetts. 1679; married. December 16. 1657, Hannah, (laughter of Xicholas and Mary Jacob. She was born in Hingham Eebruary 23. 1639. and died October 20. 1720. She married second. Captain Stej^hen French ; children : Benjamin, born 1662; Hannah, born August 9. 1664. married fir.st. Rev. Jeremiah Cushing. second. John I'.arker: Thomas, born March \(\ 1668. (twin): Del)orah (twin). l)orn March

(11) P>enjamin Loring, youngest child of Thomas and Jane (X'ewton) Loring, born in Hingham. Massachusetts, Xovember 24. 1644. died in Hull. Massachusetts. March 10. 1715- 16. aged nearly seventy-two years. He was made freeman 1673, and for many years was a deacon of the church in Hull. He married, in Hingham, December 6. 1670, Mary Hawkes. who was baptized in Hingham. August 2. 1646,. and died there July 17. 1714. daughter of Matthew and Margaret Hawkes. Deacon ISenjamin Loring had children: i. Deacon P.enjamin. born 1672. died .\])ril 8. 1702. married first. October 8. 1702. Anna \'ickery, died .August 15. 1723: married second. September 13. 1726, Deborah Cushing. born Hingham. Mav 8. 1677. died X'oveml)er 30. 1755.

widow of Matthew dishing, and daugliter of John Jacob and Mary Russell. 2. [ohn, born 1(^^74; married February 10, 1708-9. Elizabeth Collier. 3. Mary, Imm-u l(^/(^\ married February 8, 1 704- 5. John (ioold. 4. Rachel, born 1678; married September 23. 1700, Caleb Hobart. 5. Samuel, born 1680 I see post). 6. ^^latthew. born 1684. died May <;, 1722: married December 23. 1714, Kx])erience, (laughter of Lieutenant Thomas Collier.

(Ill) Samuel Loring, fifth child and third son of Deacon IVnjamin and Mary (llawkes) Loring. born in [lull, Massachusetts. 1680: married, .\j)ril 19. 171C), Jane, daughter of John and Marcey (^lercy) Collier. 'Hiey had children, among them Samuel (4), born hA-bruary 3, 1720-21. married Xovember 16. 1749. Jane (joold, had sons Jonathan and Matthew.

.Vfter the death of his tirst wife Jonathan I'.ruce married, at Loston, April 24. 1833. Marv, widow of Paul Maxwell Reed, and whose family name was Si)eare. She was born in Dorchester. May 17. 1798. died January 31, 1851, and was buried on Rainsford island, r.oston harbor, at her own rec|uest. She bore Jonathan Lruce one child. Mary Josei)hine Bruce, born in Boston May 14, 1839, died at Gloucester, ^Massachusetts, September 2(\

Jonathan and Lydia ((ioold) Bruce had children: i. Fliza Beal Lruce,. born in Mull April IT, 1813. died in Gloucester May 5, 1883; married in Boston, June 29, 1834, Francis M. Loring (see post). 2. Winslow Lewis Lruce. born 1 lingham, Jime 30, 1814, died in Charlestown, February 3, 1836, buried in Copp's Hill cemetery. 3. Lydia Goold Bruce, born in Hull. 20. 1816, died in Revere, .\])ril 26. 1876; buried in W'oodlawn cemetery: married, June 29, 1834, Calvin Putnam, of Charlestown, Xew Hampshire. Children : Harriet Augusta Putnam, born Methuen. Massachusetts, August 6, 1835, died .April 18. 1836; Menrietta Adelaide Putnam, born in Methuen, March 4, 1838: Catherine Louisa PtUnam, born in .Methuen. June 3, 1839, died in Chelsea. March 18." 1887; ."^arah .\nn Reed Putnam, born Gloucester. May 10, 1843, died Chelsea, October 30. 1848. 4. lonathan P.ruce, junior, born at Boston Light House Island, Boston harbor, December 26, 1817. died in Pioston, Xovember 5, 189 1 : married, Xovember 25. 1845, ^^ary S. Coker, of Xewbury])ort. Massachusetts, who died in l^a^t I'oston, hA'bruary 16, 18^)4. Children: I'dorence Jordan P.ruce. born b\*bruary 10, 1848, Winslow Lewis i.ruce, born October 22, 1849* Anson ( dm-er i'.ruce, born December 7, 1853, died August 9. 1854. 5. .\nson (ilover P.ruce, born at Boston Light 1 louse Island, July 30, 1819, died in Sacramento City, California, DecemlKM" 20, i84(j; married, lA'bruarw 1844, Mar\- lane Minot, of Boston, died .\ugust 18, i87(). Children: .Marion .\linda Bruce, born at Boston March 31, 1845: Winslow Lewis Bruce, born Boston July. 1847, died i^'ebruary 15, 1S4S. (). h'dwin Bruce, born at l>oston Light iiou.se island, A])ril 4, 1821. died Xantasket, July 19, J889; married May 26. 1864, Sarali Nferiam i'.abcock. Children: George l''dwin i'.ruce, born at I'.oston, .\])ril 8. 1866. died January, 1907; Meriam Bruce, born at i'.oston, Aiarcii i<j, 1867; Charles Levi Bruce. born Boston. .May 13. 1873. died June 12. 1873; Walter Benjamin Bruce, born Boston. September 21, 1874, died July 16, 1886: IMiili]) i'.abcock Bruce, born P)Oston, .Xugust 2/, 1878. 7. Catherine Bruce, born in Hull. March 3. 1823. died December 14. 1887; married Octo- I)er 8. 1846. Cyrus Story. Jr., of (iloucester. Children: Fdwin Bruce Story, l)orn May 15, 1849; Kate Barker Story, born Xovember 9, 1853; Fanny Lincoln Story, born October 18, i8?)0. 8. Clarissa I'.ruce. born in Hull, August 29. 1824, died at (iloucester. September 20, 1880: married. Februar}-, 1850, Theodore F. Rollins, of Fa.st I'.oston. Children: Mary Josephine Rollins, born in Fast Boston, December 27,. i85(X died .September 16, 1852; I'Vancis Theodore, born in Fast Boston, July f\ 1853. died September 7. 1856; Charles Walter Rollins, born Ea.st Boston, September 13, 1858: Flora Belle Rollins, born Fast i'oston. June 4, 1861, died August 24, 1883. <). .\nn Pieliardson i '.nice, liorn in Hingliam, i)e- ccniber 9, 1825. dietl in Washington, D. C, June 16, 1899; married, in Gloucester, October 6, 1846, Joseph Warren Story, killed in l^attle at \Vhitehall, North Carolina, December 16, 1862. Children: Anna \Varren Story, l)()rn in South Boston, Eebruary 10, 1848; Clarence Bruce Story, born in Gloucester, November 28, 1858. 10. Caroline Amelia Bruce, born in Hingham. November 10, 1829, died in (Gloucester, Alay 3, 1894; married October 8. 1846, George P. Rust, of Gloucester. Children: Harriet Proctor Rust, born in East (Gloucester, December 13. 1847, flit"*! ^lay 11, 1902 ; Car(~)line Augusta Rust, born in Gloucester, June 21, 1858; George Everett Rust, born Gloucester, September 29, t86o, died October 18, 1861 ; Marion Bruce Rust, born in Gloucester, Alarch 5, 1864; Mabel Rust, born in Gloucester, March 29. 1867; Erancis Loring Rust, born in Salem, May 8, 1870, died December 19, 1870.

(V) Matthew Loring, son of Samuel and Jane ((ioold) Loring, born in Hull, Massachusetts, January 17, 175 1, died in Boston, November 7, 1829. He was Matthew Loring the cordwainer, and was a member of that 'guild" in the town and city where the scene of his life was laid; and it was he who at the public demonstration in honor of the visit of (General Washington in Jioston in 1789 carried the famous cordwainer banner in the jirocession of trades which graced the occasion. The banner, artistically ])ainted in oil and supporting the cordwainer arms, was last disi)layed in Boston during old home week in 1907, having been loaned for the event l)y Mrs. Clara Loring Pew, of (Gloucester, one of the descendants of Matthew Loring. Matthew Loring. the cordwainer, was a soldier of the revolution, and entered the service as a drummer in Captain Freedom Chamberlain's comj^any of militia which marched from Pembroke, Massachusetts, March 5, I77r), to take possession of Dorchester Heights. He served five days, which was the time of service of the company. He served as a bombardier in the American artillery comi:)any commanded by Captain Winthrop (Gray, Colonel Craft's battalion, in the service of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He also served on board the brigantine "Hazzard," Simon Samson commander, which was fitted out by the Massachusetts colony. He was in the service as a drummer from September 30, 1777. to May 30. 1778. and also was a member of the famous "Boston Tea Party."

first wife, whom he married Januar}- 1, 1786, Nancy Agnes Floiad ( Floyd), born in Boston, May 18, 1767, died there March 28, 1798, having borne her husband five children. He married second. June 17. 1799. Sarah Blake, born April 4. 1763. died October 30. 1800, having borne him one child. For his third wife he married. June 6. 1801. Mercy Bates, born in Bath. Maine, June 16. 1765. died February 3, 1834, leaving three children. Matthew Loring had nine children: i. Sarah, born in Boston, October 20, 1787, died there August 24, 1812; married August, 1810, Thomas Newcomb. 2. Ebenezer. born in Boston. January 23. 1790. died July 22, 1791. 3. Nancy, born in lioston. September 11, 1792, died February i, 1817. 4. William I Vice, born in Boston, January 28, 1795, died P>bruary i, 1878; married in Haverhill, May 2"], 1825, Eliza Plarding, born in Haverhill, May 2"/ , 1798, died August 12, 1865, Her father, Jesse Harding, was born in Charlestown, November 17, 1774. and died in Haverhill. July 2, 1855. He married Hannah Webster, born September 23. 1769. died September 15. 1851. Children: Mary Harding, born August 7. 1796; Eliza Harding, born May 27, 1798. died .\ugust 12, 1865. married William Price Loring; Newell Harding, born (October 20, 1799; Ellen Flarding, born March 10, 1801, died May 28, 1845; Abigail Harding, born Eebruary 2'j, 1803; Sarah Harding, born F'ebruary 15, 1805. died 1866; Harriet Harding, born October 19. 1806. died February 3. 1845; William Harding, born February 20. 1807. died December 24, 1813; Alinnen Harding, born .\pril 2. 1811. died January 18. 1825. Children of William Price Loring and Eliza Harding: i. Sarah Ayres Loring, born February 8. 1826. died January 14, 1905 ; married July II. 1850. by Rev. Lemuel Ca])en. (George W. Sprague (and had Emma Josephine Sprague. born September 15. 18^2. married |une 7. 1876. James Alfred Mitchell, and had" Alfred York Mitchell, born June 4, 1878, and Myra Agnes Mitchell, born April 5, 1884; (George W'. Sprague. jimior. born June 6, 1856, died June 8. 1856; Carrie ^latilda Sprague, born March 21, 1858. married October 22, 1884, Dr. Charles K. Cutter, and had Loring Edmunds Cutter, born June 19. 1886, died August 28. 1887. and Enid Josephine Cutter, born September 5. 1888; Agnes Francelia Sprague. born June 15. i860, married May 25, 1892, Henr}- G. Robbins and had Howard Sprague Robbins. born April 16. 1898. died April 19, 1898): ii. Abigail Lcring, born 1827. lived twelve hours; iii. Charles Harding I.orhig, born February 26. 1828. died February 5, 1907, married May 19, 1852, Ruth Dingley Malben (and ha 1 Mary Malben Loring, born Xovember. 13. 186 1, died March 6, 1887). iv. William Francis Loring, born Sej^tember 2", 1830, died October 18, 1847. V. Emily Webster Loring, born May 1, 1833, married, February 29, 1864. George H. Hastings, junior, (and had Frank Loring Flastings and George H. Hastings, junior, twins, born July 22. 1868. both died 1868; Elizabeth (joodrich Hastings, born August 21. 1870. married Se])tember u, 1901, Arthur Clifford Moore; Charles Loring Hastings, born October 10. 1871. married October 26. 1898. Alice Hayward liacon. who died October 31, 1903). vi. Josephine Loring, born F'ebruary 7, 1836, died October 6. 1838. 5. Jane P>., born in Boston May 15. 1797. died November 7. 1813. 6. Hannah Blake, born in l)Oston. October 22, 1800, died Xovember 28. 1868; married December 12, 1824. Theodore Abbott. 7. Joseph !'>.. born in Boston. May 15. 1802. died February 9, 1842; married first, February 17, 1834, \'icy M. Jones; second, - . 8. Caroline M., born in Boston,

December 8, 1806, died July 4. 1862. (^ Francis Maguire, born in ISoston, August 27. i8ri, died in Gloucester, .August 19, 1888; married June 29, 1834, FLliza Beal B.ruce (see ante), born Null, ^lassachusetts. A])ril 11. 1813, died (doucester, .May 5. 1883. (/hildren : I'rancis W. Loring, born Maiden. 1 )eeember 2"^. 1835. died same day; Harriet Augusta Loring, born Worcester. December 23, 1S36. died Methuen. June 28, 1838; Winslow V. Loring. born Methuen. Xovember 16, 1838, died same day; Clara Maria Loring. born ( Gloucester, Xovember 3. 1840. married January 26. 1802. Charles Hiram Pew (see Pew family); Josephine -Adelaide Loring. born ( iloucester. Ma}' Ti. 1844. died Sepember 20. 1844.

idiomas Ho1)son ( 1 ). I'Jiglish IIOB.SOX'^ progenitor of this famil\. wa> of Yorkshire. England. He removed from the West Riding of that county. and lived at W istow, near Alby, for a time, selling his lands there finally and settling at Csflet, a town adjoining Whitgift. England. Children; 1. Henry, mentioned below. 2. Peter. 3. Robert. 4. Nicholas.

(H) Henry Hobson, son of Thomas Hobson (I), was born in A^orkshire, England; married first, Joan Carr ; second, Mary Wawdman. He resided at Usflet. Children of Henrv and L^an Hobson: t. 'Elizabeth. 2.

.Ann. 3. Alary. 4. Henry. Children of second wife: 5. Thomas. 6. John. 7, Sarah. 8. Susan. <;. William, the American emigrant, mentioned below. 10. Mary. 11. Jane.

( HI ) William Hobson, son of Llenry Hobson ( 2 ) . was the immigrant ancestor. He married. Xovember 12, 1652, Ann Reyner, (laughter of Elder Humphrey Reyner. She died December 2. ir)93. He settled in Rowlew -Massachusetts, in 1652. He had been in the civil war, and suft'ered from a broken knee received in battle near Wilknighby. lie bought the foin--acre house-lot laid out to Captain l')righam. I le was buried July 17, 1659. Children: I. Ilumphrey. born June 2. i<^i55; married. July 25, i()83. Elizabeth, daughter of l'>A'kiel Xorthend ; he died August 8, 1684. and his widow married, October 10, 1686, FZzekiel -Mighill. 2. John, born .Vpril 16. 1657; mentioned below. 3. William, born May 24. i(')5,9; niarried Sarah Jewett.

(1\') [ohn Iiobson, .son of William llobson 13), was born in Rowley. Massachusetts. April \i\ i^>37; married. December 4, 1679. Sarah \ aruum. daughicr of Samuel N'arnum. of Clielmsford lie was buried .August 25. 1683. llis widow married second. Philip Xelson. |r. Their onlv child known: i. John, mentioned below.

\\ ) Toll!! Iiobson. M>n of John llobson 14). was born in Rowley. Massachusetts, Xo- \eml)er 10. U)8o; married. .September 7, \(i^(^), Dorcas Pearson, daughter of John Pearson. She died -Xovember 2}^. 1756. He married second. .\])ril 21;. 1737. bdizabeth (Story) Midden, widow of hd)eneztr Hidden. She died Se])teml)er 28. 1766, aged about eightyfive years, lie was a justice of the peace; <le])uty to the general court many years; in 1741 sjjeaker of the hou.se of representatives. Me died March 20. 1770. aged ninety years. Children, born in Uowley : l. Hejizibah, born lune 13. 1 700 ; married. .Xovember 10. 1724. leremiah Dow. of Ipswich- 2. I fumphrey. i)orn October i. 1702; died June. 1704-3. 3. Moses, born December 2(;. 1704: mentioned below. 4. John, born January 19. 170(^1-7; died Jidy 22. 1719.

I \'l ) Moses llobson. son of lion. John llobson (3). was l)orn in Rowley. December 2(;. 1704: married Decetuber 1. 1723, Lydia Lancaster, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Platts) Lancaster. Children, born in Rowlev and bajjtized in the church there: i. Susanna, baptized January 22, 1726-7; died July 24. 1728. 2. John, baptized December i, 1728; mentioned below. 3. Sanuiel. baptized Jul}'

(A'lH) Moses trol)son. only child of John Hobson (7), was born in Rowley, 1754. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Thomas Mighill's (Rowley) com- ]ianv of minute-men who marched on the Lexington alarm; also private in Captain Thomas Mighill's com])any. Colonel Loammi ])aldwin's regiment (late Colonel Samuel (ierrish's ) ( Idiirtv-eighth ) in the summer of 1775. His name appears on a list of casualties in Sei)tember, 1775. He married Sarah Jewett, and settled in Rowley. Children, born at Rowlev : Nathan, mentioned below; b^li- ])halet, Moses. Aaron, twin of Moses, and Jewett.

( TN ) Nathan Hobson. son of ^foses Hobson (8), was born in Rowley, where he spent his entire life, lie was the proprietor of a general store, manufactured shoes, and owned and operated a farm, deriving a ])rofitable income from these various occu]mtions. He affiliated with the Congregational church. He married Mary Pierce ; children, all born at Rowley: r. \\'illiam P., born 1812, mentioned below. 2. Eluathan. born 1817. 3. b'benezer, born 1825. 4. Mary .Ann. married William Hutchinson. 5. Sallie, married Aaron P>lackington. 6. Ruth, married Mark Perley. 7. Julia, married Moses T. Whittier. 8. Priscilla J., unmarried, living in 1908, at age of eighty-eight years. 9. Elizabeth Ann, married Solomon Nelson. to. Eiuily. died unmarried. These children are ]:)rol)ably not named in order (^f birth.

(N) William Pierce Hobs(Mi, son of Nathan Hobson (9), was born in Rowley, 1812, reared and educated in his native town. He was a shoe manufacturer throughout the active vears of his life, first in Rowlev, later in Georgetown, and subsequently in I faverhill. removing thence in 1850, and there he o])erated until his retirement from business several years prior to his decease, which occurred March 16, 1901. He was a Republican in politics, and he and his family attended the Congregational church. He married Harriet Lambert, born i8i2. died April i, 1897, daughter of John and Sarah (Rradstreet) Lambert, of Rowle}'. Children: 1. Mary Frances, born Jul}- 2T^, 1839, widow of Henry Harrison Johnson, a resident of Haverhill; children: William Henry and Caroline Lambert Jt^hnson. 2. John L., mentioned below.

(NI ) John Lambert Hobson, only son of William P. and Harriet (Lambert) Hobson, was born in Rowley, October 5, 1841. He attended the schools of Georgetown until ten years of age. after which he was a pupil in the schools of I [averhill, preparing for college in the Plaverhill high school. When his studies were comjileted, at the age of nineteen, he entered the ^NFerrimack Rank as a clerk, remaining for a ])eriod of four years. When the internal revenue biu'cau of the sixth congressional district was established, with central office located in Haverhill. Mr. PTobson was appointed dei)uty of the first sub-district, which ]X)siti()u he held about two and a half A'ears. in June, 1868. he was elected cashier of the Merriiuack National Bank, serving in that capacity until August, 1881. In June of that year E. J. M. Hale died, and Mr. Hobson was appointed trustee of his estate and continued as such until July, 1907, when he resigned, since which time he has practically led a retired life. He was instrumental in the formation of the Haverhill Paper Company, served as director and later became president of the company. In 1855 the parties who controlled the Haverhill Paper Company organized the Glue Manufacturing Company of Berlin. New Hampshire, and Mr. Hobson was chosen president of that company. They continued to operate the two mills until January, 1898, when the two plants were sold and transferred to the International Paper Coml)anv. Mr. Hobson has been a director of the Merrimack National Bank ever since he was cashier, and is now i 1908 ) vice-])resident of the institution, having served in that capacity for several years. PTe is also trustee of the Haverhill Savings IJank, was a member of the Haverhill school board at the time that the Currier school and high school were built, is a member of the Haverhill Board of Trade. is a stockholder in the Haverhill Building As- sociatioii, and a nicinbeT of the I'cnUicket ( lul). rie is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote for John A. Andrew for governor. Mr. ffobson married, November i, iS/T. Ida l'\, daughter of Ira and Maria A. ( Mc- Intire) No}'es. Children: i. Arthur E., born October i8, 1872, a resident of Brookline, Massachusetts, treasurer of the St. Croix Pa])er Com])any: married Alice C. Gale, daughter of ( ieneral S. H. Cale, of Exeter. .\e\v I fami)shire : tlie_\' are the i)areiits of four children: John L.. Alice ( ).. Arthur L. and Catherine B. Mobsou. 2. .Mary Agnes, born bAbruary 29. 1884; luarried. October 30. hjo". (/(^lonel Harvey Clinton Taylor, son of .Martin Ta\lor. of Haverhill; the}- reside at i'ort--- mouth. .\'e\\ Hampshire, lie is a uuiuber oi the stafi of C.overnor C. M. bdovd.

The suruauu- is an anci^'Ul l'()Kr. I\S .Scotch famil\- name, originall\- a ])lacc'-name. accordhig to thr best authorities. b'or many centuries the familv has been numerou> and proniineut in Scotland. The surname I'obes aj)pears to be a variation in s])elling of the surname b\irl)es. The earlv generations of the fatuily at Uridgewater, Massachusetts, all held to the spelling b^obes, occasionally \'obes. as bales was occasionally s])elled \^ales. As the later generati<ins have taken to the ancient form of b\)r1)es. again, we have followed that s])elling through the sketch. Xo connection is found to exist between the b^obes and b^irbes or b^)rbush families of W'estborough, descendants of Daniel b^irbes. an earl\- settler of Cambridge, and it is (|uite likely that the I'.ridgewater famil\- was from an English branch of the family. .\ search of English records, however, does not reveal the surname X'obes or b\ibes. 1"hat spelling seems to be an .\merican form. The immigrant came earlier than any .Scotch ]iioneers and settled in a comnuuiity that was almost if not entirely of bjiglish stock. The name of Forbes is found in the Scotch counties of .\berdcen and Arg\-le before the }'ear 1200. Tt is one of the most honorable and distinguished names of Scotlaud. Of the noble famil\- of this name Burke -a\'s : "The surnaiue of Forbes was assumed from the lauds of Forbes, Aberdeen county, granted b\' .\lexander TI (1249) about the luiddle of the thirteenth century, to the ])rogenitors of this noble family."

(Ill) .\lexander De Forbes, eldest .son of Fergus (2), was his successor. He lost his life in defence of the castle of Urquhart, in Murra\-, against Edward 1. The fortress was taken by storm after a gallant resistance and the whoK' garrison ])ut to the sword, none esca])ing but the wife of the governor, who fled to Ireland and there gave birth soon afterward to a son.

( l\ ) .\lexander T'orbes. ])osthumous son of Alexander (3), returne<l to Scotland and attaching himself to the fortunes of Robert r.ruce. obtained grants of land e(|uivalent to those of which his father had been desjioiled. I le fell at the battle of Dublin, 13^:^2.

( \ I .Sir lohu Forbes, Knight, son of .Me.xander l-'orbes 14). married bllizabeth, daughter of Kenned\" of Dmiure. an ancestor of the noble house of Cassilis. b\ whom he had four sons - Sir .\le\auder: Duncan, the celebrated lord-president of tlu- court t,\ session: John; I )nncan-(ieorge.

(\'l) Sir .Alexander h'orbes, sou ol Sir lobn l-'orbes (5). went to bVance to o])pose the I'.nglish under Hem'\- \ , with one hundred horses and fortv lances, lie was elevated to tlu' ])eerage of Scotland by James II. prior to I4_^(). b\- the title of I'.aron I'orbes. lie married Lad\ Flizabeth Douglas, daughter of ( Itorge, I'.arl of Angus, and granddaughter of Kobert II. King of Scotland. 1 le died in 1448.

(Nil) James Forbes, the second baron, son of Sir AKxander (6), married Lady Egidia Keith and had one daughter and three sons. I lis sou Duncan was ancestor of the lM)rbes of I'itsligo. Mis son Patrick was the ancestor of the I'orbes who were earls of ( irauard in Ireland. IJurke gives sixteen barons in this line, some of them very distinguished men. John, sixth baron, was executed for high treason, Julv 17, T 337. .Mexauder, tenth baron. ado])ted the ])rofession (d' anus and served with considerable renown under ( i\istavus Adolphus of .Sweden, attaining the rank of lieutenant-general, lie was sent to Ireland in 1643 by his own government for the i)urpose of suj^pressing the rebellion there. William, twelfth baron, was in the ])rivy council of King William. The barony of b\)rbes is the first on the Cnion roll, and as such takes rank before all the lords of ])arliament. The anus are: Azure, three bears' heads, cou])ed argent, muzzle, gules. Crest: A stag's head, attired jiroper. Motto: "( irace lue guide." Seat, Castle Forbes, .\berdeenshire.

Roston And Eastern Massachusetts

( I ) John Forbes, ( Fobes or Vobes, as the name was variously spelled ) . was the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the family in America. He was a proprietor in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and is mentioned in the court records as early as August 5, 1636. He was a tailor by trade. He was "able to bear arms" in 1643. Me removed to Bridgewater and owned land at Powder Point in 1636. He died about 1661, leaving a jjroved nuncupative will, July 31, i6(')2, witnessed by William Brett and Arthur Harris. He bequeaths to wife and two eldest sons ; to daughter ]\Iary ; his brother Experience Mitchell to help the wife and children. Children: i. John, died at Sandwich, 1661. 2. Edward, mentioned below. 3. Mary, 4. Caleb, settled in Norwich. 5. William, married Elizabeth, daughter of Constant Southworth, about 1667, and settled at Little Cam]:); was in King Philip's War under Captain Church. 6. Joshua, fell with Cajitain Michael Pierce, near Attleborough, 1676. 7. Elizabeth.

(H) Edward Forbes, son of John Forbes ( I ). died 1732; married Elizabeth, daughter itf John Howland. Children, born at I'ridgewater : i. Elizabeth, born 1677; married Jose])h Keith. 2. John, born 1679. 3. Mary, born 1681. 4. Bethia, born 1683; married, 1703, Samuel Keith. 5. Hannah, born 1686; married, 17 10, Timothy Keith. 6. Ephraim, born 1688. 7. Joshua, mentioned below. 8. Ijcnjamin. 9. \\'illiam.

(HI) Joshua I'orbes, son of Edward Forbes (2), born in P)ridgewater, 1689, died 1762; married first, 171 1, Abigail, daughter of Peter Dunbar; married second, 1/54. Mercy Churchill, of Plympton. Children, born at l')ridgewattr, all by first wife: 1. Bethia, born 1712. 2. Hannah, born 17 13. 3. Joshua, born 1715; mentioned below. 4. Mary, born 1717: married Robert \\'ashburn. 5. Leah, born 1720; married Israel \\'ashburn. 6. Betty, born 1724. 7. Abigail, born 1728; married, 1753, Daniel Snow.

(IV ) Joshua Forbes, son of Joshua Forbes (3), born 171 5; married, 1740, Esther, daughter of Nicholas Porter, of Abington. Children, born at Bridgewater: t. Azariah, born 1741. 2. Daniel, born 1742. 3. Ruth, born 1744; married, 1763, Ebenezer Alden, of Middleborough. 4. Abigail, born 1747; married, 1772, Joseph Cowen. 5. Joshua, born 1744. 6. Caleb, born 1750; married Susaima, daughter of Ebenezer Keith, of Lyme, Connecticut. 7. Robert, born 1753. 8. Solomon, mentioned below.

(4), was born in 1756, and was a soldier in the revolution, the name being spelled Fobes. lie was in Cai)tain Joseph Keith's company. Colonel Cotton's regiment. September 25 to October 3, 1777, and marched to Tiverton on a secret expedition. Children: i. Laban, mentioned below. 2. Martin.

(X'll) Laban Porter Forbes, son of Laban b'orbes (6), was born April 18, 1826, and died January 11, 1895. He married January 22, 1852, Hannah (Snow) Perkins, daughter of John Perkins, AL D., and Sarah (Snow) Perkins, of Middleborough, ^Massachusetts. Children : 1. Rev. John P., born March 25, 1855, mentioned below. 2. George Walter Snow, born November 14, 1861 ; died February 17, 1896.

(\'IH) Rev. John Perkins Forbes, son of Laban Porter Forbes (7), was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, March 25, 1855. He received his early schooling in Middleborough and \\^orcester, Massachusetts, and later studied with private tutors. He studied law at Worcester, but finally chose the ministry for his profession, entering the Harvard Divinity School in 1877, where he pursued a special course of study. He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church, September 11, 1878, in W^estborough, Massachusetts, continuing until 1882, when he accepted a pastorate at Arlington, Massachusetts. In 1887 he resigned as minister at Arlington and became minister of the Unitarian Church at Taunton, Massachusetts. I^^rom 1887 to 1898 he preached at Taunton. His next charge was in Brooklyn, New York, where he is minister of the Church of the Saviour, his present pastorate. For a number of years he has been a director of the American Unitarian Association, and has recently been appointed one of the I killings lecturers for the association in the middle west and south. He married, June 22. 1876. Maria Almy Sawyer, born March 17, 1855. daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca ( Lund ) Sawder, of Sterling. Massachusetts. Their c)nly child is Roger Sawyer, mentioned below.

W'estborough, October 24, 1878. He attended liristol Academy at Taunton, Massachusetts, and Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, where he was grachiated in 1896. He grachiated at Harvard College in ujoo, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1903. He was ordained and installed as minister of the Unitarian Church at Dedham, ^Massachusetts, December 2, 1903. In February, 1908, he accepted a call to the ministry of the First Parish Church of Dorchester, his present charge.

Mr. Forbes married. Xovember 13, 1907. Mary Angeline Low, born March i"], 1873. daughter of Chauncey E. and Mar\- T. ( Frothingham ) Fow. of P)rooklyn, New S'ork.

1597, in South Petherton, Somerset, near Burlescomb, I{!ngland. He was the s(Mi of Nicholas and Jane Patch. He and his brother. Edmund Patch, settled in Salem, Massachusetts. They had also a brother John, l^dmund's daughter b^liza1)eth is given the honor by genealogists of being the first female child born of English ])arents in Salem and of the Massachusetts colony. Nicholas Patch was a j)ro])rietor in Salem in -1^)37. coming to .Salem the \ear before. lie w a^ admitted a freeman in 1639. He joined the Peverly church .Vpril 14, 1650. I le was a farmer, and ])rominent. in the church and town, lie was one of the founders of lieverly, Massachusetts, where he died Xovember. i'')73. He married I'llizabeth Prackenburg, daughter of kichard llrackenburg. She was born 1629. died Januar}- 14, I7ir). It seems that some authorities believe that Elizabeth Patch, the first female child born in Salem, was Elizabeth (llrackenburg) Patch, instead of the l^lizabeth stated above. I'hildren of Nicholas and l^lizabeth Thatch: i. James, born in England. 2. John, ancestor of the Peverly families. 3. Thomas. l)orn in Salem in 1640. mentioned below.

I IF) Thomas Patch, son of Xicholas Patch ( 1 ), was l;orn in Salem in 1640. He was admitted a freeman in 1670 and was representative to the general court in 1689. He married (first) ^lary A. Lovett. He married (second ) Mary Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Ipswich. Children: i. Sarah, Ix^rn December 8, 1666. 2. Marah, February 3, 1669. 3. Thomas, July 19, 1674. 4. James, 1677, luarried Rebecca Byles. 5. Stephen, April 12, iC)8o. 6. Isaac, born about 1682. 7. Ephraim. 8. Timothy, mentioned below. 9. Simon.

( III ) Timothy Patch, son of Thomas Patch (2), born about 1678, died June 24, 1748. He resided in Wenham. Massachusetts. His will was dated December 6, 1745, and bequeaths to sons Timothy and Samuel his land in Wenham ; to daughters Marie Clark and Deborah Patch, and to grandson John Kellum, child of his daughter Sarah, deceased. He owned land also in Ipswich. He married, Xoveniber 18, 1705, Elizabeth Pousland, of I])swich. The marriage was recorded at Peverly. Children, b(jrn at \\' enham : i. Elizabeth, born Xovember 2}^, 1706. 2. Timothy. September 13, 1708, mentioned below. 3. Anna. March 5, 17TI-12. 4. Sarah, December 15, 1714, married. January 8, 1740, John Kellum. 5. Margaret, May 6, 1718, married, October 3, 1745, Ebenezer Clark. 6. Deborah, October 6, 1721. married, December 5, 1751, Nathaniel Bragg. 7. Samuel, July 14, 1726, married, I'"ebruary 14. 1744-45, Abigail \Villiams.

( 1\' ) Timothy Patch, son of Timothy Patch (3), was born September 13, 1708. He married (first) at Ipswich, Xovember 18, 1731, Rachel \\do(ll)ury, who died Sei)tember 10. 1758. He married (second), intentions dated June lO, 1739, Thomasin Davis, of ( iloucester. Children of first wife, born in Wenham: i. Andrew, born I^'ebruary 16, X"] 2^2-},}^. 2. Elizabeth, Se])teml)er 25, 1734. 3. Isaac, March

( \ ) Timothy Patch, son of Timothy Patch (4). was born August 17, i74("), at Wenham. Massachusetts. He was in the revolution, serving cis a jirivate in Captain Peter Coburn's compau}-. Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's INventyseventh regiment : muster rolls dated August 1, 1773; enlisted July 13, 1775: service eighteen (lays ; also company return, September ^-^^ ^17})'^ sl'^o company receipts for wages for Se])tember and October, 1775. dated at Cambridge : also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Cambridge Camp, Noxember 20. 1775. During the ti^ue of his service he was a resident of Tewksbury. He was a man of marked individuality and much force of character, tie married, and among his children had a son Timothy, mentioned below. There were a number of other children but

(Yl) Timothy Patch, son of Timothy Patch (5). according to the records found by the writer, was born about 1790. fTe settled at Sunburst, New Hampshire, where he died October i, 1868, having lost his life by accidental choking. He was twice married. His second wife was Mary (Proctor) Patch, who died at Amherst, New Hampshire, Januar\- 22. 1872. Children by first wife: i. Elizabeth, born 1825. died in September, 1845. George, born 1827, resides at Hollis, New Hampshire. Children of second wife: 3. Cyrus, born July 25. 1832. mentioned below. 4. Mary, born 1835, married, December 2. 1879, Frank Abbott. 5. Susan, born 1838, married (jcorge D. Reed, of Winchester, Massachusetts, September 6, 1866: she died June IT. 1876; one son, Frederick Reed.

(\II) Cyrus Patch, son of Timothy Patch (6), born at Amherst, New PTampshire, July 25, 1832, died at Cambridge, Massachusetts. December 20, 1889. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and as was the custom of those days worked at intervals on his father's farm at Amherst. Pie was an apt scholar, and put to good use the limited time lie had f(^r study. He taught school for some time. IJeing ambitious to succeed in life, he sought a broader field for develo])ment. and finally engaged in the meat business at Pillerica, Massachusetts. He next removed to Winchester, Massachusetts, where he continued in the meat and provision trade on his (nvn account. His next undertaking was at Stoneham, where he engaged in the coal and wood trade and dealt in warehouse sup])lies. Tn 1874 he engaged in the coal and wood business at Ouincy, and continued successfully in this line of enterprise the remainder of his active years. Throughout the entire period of his business career, Mr. Patch zealously maintained a high standard of business ethics, and was regarded as a valued and useful citizen. Politically he was an Independent, voting according to his convictions. His religious affiliations were with the Congregational church. Pie married Sarah Maria Smith, born at Sanbornton, New Hampshire. March 22. 1836, died January 18, 1883. She was a daughter of Pangdon and Sarah A. (Crosby) Smith. Her father was born in 1810, at Sanbornton, New PTampshire, and died February 21, 1894. Her mother was born at Amherst. New Hampshire. They had one son, Gardner Ilo\t Smith, who married a Aliss Nichols, of

AX'inchester, Massachusetts. Children of Cyrus and Sarah Maria (Smith) Patch: i. Frank Smith, born January- 26. i860, mentioned below. 2. W'inslow Proctor. ( )ctober 22, t866. 3. Clara Alice. April 6. 1869, married W. H. Way. 4. Marion Crosby, October 18. T874.

(\'1II) b^rank Smith Patch, son of Cj'rus I'atcli (7). was born iii .\mlierst. New I lani])- shire. January 26, i860. His elementary education was ac(|uired in the i)ublic schools of Amherst. Winchester and Stoneham. Massachusetts. I [e also attended the McCollum Institute at Ml. \ ernon for sotne time, which was sup])leineiUed by a C(nirse in brench's Ihisiness College- in r>(^ston. I'i)on taking u]) the practical duties of business he entered his father's office at Ouincy, and under his tuition learned the details of the coal and wood trade, which he soon mastered successfully, and in 1885 succeeded his father in the coal and wood business at Ouincy. Not unlike his worthy ancestor. Mr. Patch is a progressive and enterprising citizen, and has l)ecome identified with the material and S(xMal interests of Ouincy. He is the j)roprietor of the Meadow Prook Ice Company of Ouincy. and is a member of the bt)ard of directors of the National Mount \\ allaston Hank of Ouincy. Pie is a member of Rural Podge, Free and Acce])ted Masons, of Quir.cy, and the Granite City Club. Politically 1k' follows the precepts of his father, and is independent.

He married (first), April 12. 1883, Mary J. King, born at Poston, September, 25, 1857, died January .;, 1886, a daughter of Benjamin and Martha King. Mr. Patch married (second), September 5. 1890, Mercy P. Phillips, born Februar}- 22. 1868, daughter of Horace and Mary ( Pincoln ) Phillips. Child of first wife, born at Otiincy : b^rank King, born December 28, 1885. Child of second wife: Eric C. born November 18. 1892.

The Swan family of England is S\\\\.N widely distributed in various counties, and included many noble families. Most of the coats-of arms have the swan as an emblem. The vSwan family of Kent has : Az. a swan ppr. The family at Southfieet and Denton Court, Kent, has: Az. a chev. ermine between three swans ar. Crest: A demi-talbot saliant gu. collared or. The name is varied in spelling, as Swann, Swanns, Swans, Swain, Swayne, Swaine, but Swan seems to be the original siu-name, suggested by the fowl, as many kindred names : Crane, Bird, .^wallow. S])arrow, etc.