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I I ) John Snail, iinniigraiit ancestor, was born in Jinglaiul, i()20, ilied June 5, 1708. in liis eighty- fourth year. lie came to Watertown, ^Jassachusetts, and was brought up in the family of Thomas liittlestone, who provided 1)\- his will dated .\o\ember :^. 1640, that his widow I'dizabeth should be served tive years by the ])oy. John Swan, and she should then pa}' him hve pounds. Me was a pro- ])rittor of W'atertown in 1042, but removed to Cambridge in the section called Menotomy, where his ])osterity have lived ever since, now Arlington, Massachusetls. lie wa^ a farmer, lie bel(»nged to the churclv, but for some nnkiiowii reason was exconiiiiunicaled in 1084. It \v(ju!d seem that he was not easil\- moved from his ])urpose, good or ba<l. for in that daw when excommunication was regarded as an etfectnal bar against salvation, he withstood the ])owei" of the church more than twenty years, but hnall\ in extreme old age he made his peace with his brethren in the church and was restored to commiiuioii I )ecember 22. IJO^. Me died \w\c 3. 1708, aged eighty seven, as written on his graxestone. Mis wife Mar\' died I'ebruary 11, 1702, aged sixty-iiine. Me married, jannaix 1. i<i3()-3i, Uib.cca Taltre}. who died July 12. i'>54: inarrieil (second). March 2. K)53-5(), .Mary I'ratl. Me had twn sons in King Vhihp's war. I If was taxed 111 ( Tarlestown in i(>88. (,'hildren: 1. Uuth. horn -March 10. 1(^)52. 2. (iei"sh<ini. nieiilioned below. \. Samuel, born .\la\ 1. i'>57. died .March 1. i()52. 4. .Mary, born .May 2. l()59. 5. Elizal)eth, born July 14, i()(ii, married I'.zekiel RichardscMi, of Woburn. jul\ 27, 1^)87. (>. L\(lia. born Jul}' 2'f^. |C)<\V 7- J"'hn, born .Ma\ 1, K)^)5. resided in Wdbuni. 1712. 8. Ilaimah. born hebruai \- 2^ . \(i(i~. o. h.benezer. born Xovember 14, 1O72. Mad ten chil- (h"(.'n in |C)70.

I II) ( lershom Swan, si in of John .^wan Ml. \\as born in Cambridge. .Massachusetts, June ^o. i'>5 1-. Me married. 1 )ecember 20. ir)77. Sarah Moldni. Me si,ttled in Menotomy. where he died Jul\ .'. 1708. his wife Sarah surviving him. lie was taxed in Charleslown in 1688. thildreii. born in .Menotomy: 1. Sarah, born about i''>7<). died unmarried A])ril 2^. 1699. 2. Rebecca, born .Migusi _>4. 1681. died young. 3. John, nieiilioned bell w . 4. Ruth, born December 2},. i()85, married Theophilus Richardson, of Woburn. Jul\' 1. 1714. 5. .\bigail. born {-"ebruar)' 12. i68ri-87. married |ohn Richardson, of Woburn. (1. Lydia. born Xovember to. ir)89. marrieil William .Man>ur. of Medford. h^ebruary 2. 1714-15. 7. Rebecca, born i()98. married. h\d)ruary 2. 1714-15. George .Abbot. Perhaps other children.

(Ill) John Swan, son of ( iershom Swan (2), was born at Alenotomy. Massachusetts, October 3, i^hS^. He inherited the homestead at -Menotomy. being the only son. He died

I l\ ) John .*>wan. sdn of John .^wan, was Ix.rn in Cambridge, 1728. l)a])tized -\ugust 4. 1728. died at Cambridge, ( )ctober 26, 1804. I le was admitted to the precinct church at -Menotomy. July 3, 1737, and was precinct collector ill 17O1. He was taxed from 17^)5 to 1773 in (. harleslown. He married ( ])nblished January 15. 1774) -Mary Richardson, of Stoneham, who died September 18. i82(). aged eighty-two years. His will is dated 1800, ])rove(l Decenib<.r 22. 1804, devising to his first three sons. Mis farm was part of the original homestead. Children: 1. John, mentioned belc^w. 2. Reuben, born -March 2J . 1778. ba])tized .\pril 5. 1778, called the father of Charlestow 11 : married. December 2. 1804. Ruth Teel : seven of their sons were school teachers. 3. William, born -M.-irch 21. 1781. 4. Moll), born .Xovember 10. 1783. iHed unmarried. 5. .Stephen, born ( V'tober 20. 1785. marketman. married lietseN Tucker. The foregoing were all baptized ill the West Canil)ridge church.

(\ ) |ohn Swan, son of John Swan (4). was born in West Cambridge or .Menoto:ii\'. .Massachusetts. January JO. 1775. and baptized in the precinct church January 14. 1778. He married ( i)ublished October 12). 1816. .Sarah Mall .Mason. He died at West Cambridge. Sei)tember 6. 1864, aged eighty years : his w ife died October 17. 1866, aged seventy years. Ikwas educated in the pul)lic schools at West ( ambridge and at Phillips .\cadeni\'. Andover.

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Massachusetts. At the age of fourteen, while riding horseback, he was thrown, his foot being caught fast in the stirrup, and dragged for a long distance, injuring one leg so badly that it had to be am]:)Utated, and he had to use a crutch the remainder of his life. When a young man he taught school at West Cambridge. He also learned the trade of shoemaking, and finally in company with his brothers took charge of his father's farm. In t8i8 he Ixnight a farm at Woburn, on Gardner's Row, formerly the Edward Ciardner estate, and carried on farming there the remainder of his life. Notwithstanding his crippled condition he was a man of great industry, and contrived to do all his farm work except plowing and mowing. He raised large corps of peaches for which he found a market in Lynn and Salem. He was well-to-do and lent money to a considerable extent. He was originally of the I'nitarian belief, but later in life joined the P)aptist church. He was very pious and lived an exemplary christian life. He was a Wliig in politics and held sundry town offices. Children : I. John, born August 25, 1817, married, January i, 1843, Sarah Jane Fiske, died December 10, 1890. 2. Sarah, born May 18, 1 819, died February 5, 1905; married. September 18, 1845, Cyrus Butters, of Burlington, born February 5, 1823, died September i, 1891. 3. Charles, mentioned below. 4. George, Ijorn March 16, 1823. married. October 25, 1852, Sarah Elizabeth Marshall, of Middleborough. Massachusetts. 5. Benjamin Mason, born March 20, 1825, died February 17, 1907 ; married. November 26, 1850, Sarah Abbie Cloutman, of Charlestown. Massachusetts. 6. Elmira. born January 18, 1828. married, March 13, 1855, Samuel Hubbard Davis, of Woburn. 7. Claraman, died young. 8. Lucy Belknap, died young. 9. Stephen, born June 20. 1838, married. May 17, 1864, Susan Parker, of Reading, Massachusetts.

(VD Charles Swan, son of John Swan (5). was born at W'est Cambridge, Massachusetts, now Winchester. March 8, 1821. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual common school education of a farmer's son of that period, the district school then being in West Cambridge a short distance from the family home. He early started to work for his father, driving the milk wagon to Charlestown and Boston for a few years, subsequently entering the employ of Joseph I'uf^erfield at West Cambridge, shortly after his marriage, where he remained about twelve years at market gardening and farming. In

1859 he removed to West Med ford, Massachusetts, where he became superintendent of the Edward Brooks farm, now the Elm farm, near the Mystic river, one of the largest market farms in that section. In 1870 he purchased the Oliver Parker farm at the West End, AVoburn, Cambridge street, of some twenty odd acres in the best farming section. He began market gardening for himself and became a successful farmer, raising general ])roduce for the Boston market, his son Charles Parker, taking charge of the marketing of the products in the Boston market. After a numl)er of years he sold the farm to Heald and purchased a smaller one at Billerica, Massachusetts, where he remained a few years, engaging in milk raising and general produce. He subsecjuently sold this place and moved to Lexington, Massachusetts. He was employed by the Boston & Maine railroad at East Cambridge. Massachusetts, in their machine shops in the supply department, having charge of all supplies, such as oils, tools, etc., used in the repairing department. He was U]:)right and honorable, of retired habits, though very jovial, and of temperance principles, and was well liked by all. He was a Universalist in religion, and in j)olitics formerly a Jacksonian Democrat, but in his latter years a Republican, because of his dislike of the rank and file of the Democratic party.

Charles Swan married (first), April 21, 1846, Mary Richardson Parker, born in W^oburn, Massachusetts, Se])tember 7, 1823, died in Woburn. October 21. 1869, of consumption, daughter of David J. and Rebecca (Carter) Parker, of Woburn. the former of whom was a farmer. Children: i. Mary Ellen, born October 5, 1846, died April 29, 1872; married James Henry Russell, of Arlington, Massachusetts ; children : i. George Henry, born May 2"], 1866, married, April 29, 1895, Ellen Shean, of Arlington: children: Mary Ellen, born September 13. 1899, and George Henry, Jr., born March 21, 1902. ii. James Lewis, born May 29, 1869, married. May 24, 1893. Margaret Jane Roden. of Arlington ; children : Helen Margaret, born January 29. 1894; Grace Louise. February 21. 1895; Ruth Mil- (^red. February 14, 1898. 2. Lucy Rebecca, born May 7, 1848, died at W'est Med ford. December II, 1863. 3. Charles Parker, mentioned below. 4. Hannah Eliza, born March 20. 1859. unmarried. Wr. Swan married (second) Sarah Llines.

Massachusetts, now Arlington, February 25, 1853. Very little schooling was gained in his native town, as he removed with his parents to West Medford, Massachusetts, 1859, where he entered the public schools, graduating from the high school. He then removed with his parents to Woburn, Massachusetts, where he attended the Warren Academy, assisting hi'^ father on the farm. 1 (e subsequently entered the employ of E. T. Co\\'drey & Company, manufacturers of pickles ami preserves, on Broad street, Boston, as clerk, and there remained two years. He then entered the employ of Jeremiah Russell on Medford street, Arlington, dealer in live and dressed poultry, where he remained five years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the business from the gathering of the poultry to dressing and marketing it in the Boston market. His experience under Mr. Russell fitted him to soon enter the business for himself, on Mystic street, Arlington, and he found a ready market at Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, at wholesale, among the marketmen. After a time he removed to West Everett and entered the employ of Amos I'. Harris, a prosperous milk merchant of that city, where he remained one year. Seeing a future in this line of business, he juirchased the business of Mr. Harris and established a large and lucrative trade among the first families of Everett and Maiden. Mr. Swan does not raise his milk, but contracts with D. Whiting & Son, Boston, milk contractors, for his ))roduct. At present Mr. Swan runs two wagons, supplying a large number of patrons. His plant is at his home. 12 B)radford street. Everett, which he built in 1895. Mr. Swan, like most of the Swan family, by his thrift and energy has made a success of life and is highly respected by his fellow-citizens. He and his family attend the First I'niversalist Church at Maiden, and he is a member of the Men's L'niversalist Club. He is a Republican in politics, but has never held public office.

Charles P. Swan married. October 30. 1895. Mary Louise Gray, born at Southbridge, Massachusetts, November i. 1862. daughter of Henry C. Gray, editor of the Maldoi Mirror, and ATary (Wilson) Gray, of ]\Talden. Children: I. Charles Parker. Jr., born August 24. 1897. 2. Emma Louise. July 17, 1899. 3. Harold Gray, June 15. 1901.

Stopford ; and in 1545. Stopforthe. The quotation (from the Stock f>orf rUh-crtlscr) refers to the grant of arms to Peter Dodge in 1306. It says "a family named Dodge held a small property in OfTerton in the reign of Elizabeth, and were of Holliday Hill, in the same township, in the middle of the last century. Dodge Ivild is the name of a small hamlet in OfTerton. having acquired its name from some yeoman of the family. Perhaps the most tangible evidence that the Dodges of Essex county. Massachusetts, are descended from Peter Dodge of Sto])worth, Cheshire, is found in a letter from the j)oet Tupper to Robert Dodge, of New York, in 1847. while the latter believed he was descended from William or Richard Dodge. A few extracts from this letter will be interesting in this place and also will be found pertinent to the subject of our ]^resent narrative :

'"Long before \ irginia was christened, aye. long before Columl)us found out your western world, your goodly ancestry were of honorable station in the dear 'Old Land' and gladdened Norfolk and Kent and Cheshire with all the hospitality of good old English gentlemen, all of the olden time." '"' * "Now let me tell you that this is a point of respectability which many an ennobled man cannot boast, and 1 think it is one too. which gives secret satisfaction, even to a republican nature.

"In the Herald College a manuscri])t volume of the time of Charles H has the following entry: DOD(jE (Cheshire). Barry of 6 or and sa : on a pale gule : a woman's dug distilling milk proper. In the College IJooks we find the second coat granted to Peter Dodge. Stopworth. Cheshire temj) : I^dward L the crest being a demi sea lion. These arms are repeated in three diflFerent MS. volumes in the College Library ; once in pen and ink and twice in colors ; with one is a notice of three generations of Dodges, with another, where the arms of Houghton and Dodge are in juxtaposition, is a record of the marriage of John Houghton, alderman, and sheritf of London, to one of the Dodges."

In this place we have only to deal with the descendants of Richard Dodge, who was the second son of John Dodge and his wife Margery, of Somersetshire. England, but neither of whom ever emigrated to America. The children of John anrl Margery Dodge were William, Richard, Michael and Mary, the last two of whom remained in England and died ther". There f (ire the American ancestors of the Essex county Dodges were the sons William and Richard. \\'iniam Dod^e came

( 1 ) Richard Dodge ap])eared at Salem in 1638. and "desired accommodation." As immigrants were admitted to the colony only by applying to the town and obtaining leave, it is reasonably certain that Richard came over in 1638, and as the king at that time was op])osing emigration from England, it is probable that Richard Dodge left without royal permissi(.)n. It was learned from the parish register of East Coker, Somersetshire, England, that in 1628, Richard Dodge, son of Richard, was ba])tize(l. ( )n September 7, 1^)30. Margery, daughter of Richard, was buried. December 29, 1631, John, son of Richard, was ba]:)tized. April 19, i'^>35, Alarie Dodge, daughter of Richard and Edith, was ba])tized.

After living for a time at Salem on land of his brother William, Richard Dodge settled on "Dodge row," in Xorth lleverly, in a neighborhood which for more than a century afterward was a principal seat of residence of various members of the familw chiefly descendants ()f Richard. The immigrant himself evidently gave more attention to farming than to town and jniblic alTairs, although he was a meml)er of the church and a liberal contributor to its Mi|)port. I'.oth he and his wife lulith were members of the church before 1648, as is shown by the records during the pastorate of Rev. John b^iske. It is also evident that he had a high a])i)reciation of the value of an education, for in i^\S3. in a list of twenty-one subscribers to Harvard College, his name ranks first, while the next largest sum given was only one-fourth as much as his sul)Scri]itiou. He made a public donation of a jjiece of his land for a burial ground. Richard Dodge died June 15, 1671, leaving an estate valued at the large sum of l~(^ pounds 2 shillings, which was divided among his heirs, his wife and children, according to the ])rovisions of his \\\\\. ITis wdfe Edith survived her husband seven years and died June 27. 1678. at the age of sexentyfive years. She made a will, and the inventory of her pro]:)erty disclosed a very ccMisiderable estate in lands and other property. Children of Rich.ard and Edith Dodge: i. John, ba]v tized in l^ngland, December 29, [();^i : died October 11. 1711: lived at North Reverly. 2. jNlary, born in Fjigiand in 1632: died August 18, 1710: married Zachary Herrick. 3. Sarah, baptized 1^)44; died 1726: married Peter Woodbury, born 1640. and died in 1704. 4. Richard, born i<^)43: died April 13. 1705; lived at Wenham. s. Samuel, born if)45; died December 4. 1705; li\'ed at Ipswich. 6. Edward, date of birth unknown; died February 13. 1727; lived at North Ueverly. 7. Joseph, born 1651: died August 10, 1716: lived at North I Jeverly.

(11) b^dward, son of Richard and Edith Dodge, died February 13, 1727. Like his own father and other of his relatives, Edw^ard Dodge was often chosen to town offices, such as constable and collector of taxes, grand juror, trial juror, surveyor of highways, selectman, and member of various committees charged with some special duty. That he was of a kindly disposition was shown by his living many years with only a verbal agreement with his brother Jcjseph about the division of real estate held by them in common, and that only six years after reducing the agreement to writing he deeded his house and buildings and about two thirds of his land to his own sons, Edward and Mark, to be held, jointly by them until the}' saw fit to divide it. The will of lulward Dodge, dated F^ebruary 17, 1714- 15, mentions wife Mary; sons Edward, Mark and Jonathan; daughters Mary Woodbury. I'^dith Wood, Ruth Raich, Eleanor and Hannah. Edward and Mark were named as his executc^rs. E<lward Dodge married, A])ril 30. 1673, Mary Haskell, daughter of W^illiam Haskell, wb.o was born about 1620, and w^as connected with the family of Roger Haskell, of Salem. He appears first in Gloucester in 1643. and in 1^)45 mention is made of him at Planter's .\'eck. In 1(^)5'^) he had returned to Ciloucestu" and settled on the west side of .\nnis- (|uam river, where he owned land. The ])ublic offices to which he was elected show that he was a prominent and useful citizen. He was selectman several years, and represented Gloucester at the general court six times in the coiu'se of twenty years. In 1681 he was appointed by the general court, lieutenant of the trainband, and later became its captain. He also was one of the early deacons of the First church. lie married, November ih, 1643, Mary, daughter of \\'alter Tybbot ; she died August iC), 1693, and \\ illiam died August 20 of the same year. Children of Edward and -Mary (Haskell) Dodge: i. Mary, born April 21, i^>75 ; married Peter Woodbury. 2. Elinor, married Thomas P>ray. of lieverly, January 29. 1717. 3. Jonathan, born July 3, 1679; married (])ul)lished January 20. 1701-2) Esther iM-iend. 4. Edith, born January 3, 1681 ; died November 3. 1743; married March 9, i7oe;. Israel Wood. 5. Ruth, born August 16. 1685: died January 9, 1727; married Israel Balch. 6. Hannah, born 1692; married June 15, 1720, Samuel Curtis. 7. Mark, born 1694; married (first) Sarah Dodge of Wenham ; married (second) Elizabeth Woodbury.

(HI) ]\Iark, youngest of the children of Edward and Mary (Haskell) Dodge, was born at North Beverly in 1694, and died before the final settlement of his father's estate. His own will was dated October 9, 1765, and proved April 2, 1787. He married (first) November 29, 1717, Sarah, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Fiske) Dodge. She died December 14, 1718, and he married (second) January 25, 1 72 1 -2. Elizabeth Woodbury, daughter of Isaac Woodbury, of Ipswich. By his first wife Mark Dodge had one child, and by his second marriage ten children: i. Eleanor, born December i, 1718; married November 10, 1742, Elisha Dodge. 2. Mark, born November 8, 1722; married December 21, 1742. Lucy Edwards. 3. Benjamin, born September 21, 1724: married, 1754, Lydia Dodge. 4. Elizabeth, baptized December 11, 1726; probably died young. 5. Ezra, born May 5, 1728: married Hannah Whitting, of Haverhill. 6. Samuel, baptized November 8, 1730; probably (lied young. 7. Sarah, born March 11, 1732: married September. 1752, Peter Dodge. 8. Anna, born December 24, 1734; probably died young. 9. Elizabeth, born October 21, 1735; married (first) James Rea ; (second) Peter Woodbury. 10. Emma, born January 15, 1738-9; married May 12, 1761. Joseph Perkins. II. Asa, born December 29, 1741 ; married December, 1765, Sarah Trask.

(I\') Benjamin, third child and second son of Mark and Elizabeth (Woodbury) Dodge, was born September 21, 1724, and died October 10. 1797. He was of Beverly, and while living there was a seafaring man, in the course of his voyage having visited nearly every important seaport in the world. In the later years of his life he abandoned the sea and took up his abode in New Boston, New Hampshire, where he owned land in June, 1778. He married, June 19, 1754, Mrs. Lydia Dodge, bom 1734, died in New Boston, May 8, 1830, aged ninety-six years. Their children, all born in Beverly: i. Antipas, ba])tized November 30, 1755 ; died same day. 2. Benjamin, born April 13, 1758; married Eunice Boutwell. 3. Gideon, l)orn August I, 1760; married Polly Jones, of Amherst. New Hampshire. 4. Antipas, born February 4, 1769; married Jerusha, daughter of .Ammi Dodge.

(V) Antipas, youngest child of Benjamin and Lydia Dodge, was born in February, 1769, and died April 10, 1832. He married at New Boston, New Hampshire, Jerusha Dodge, born March 29, 1777, died May 20, 1847, daughter of Ammi Dodge, who was a son of Thomas Dodge, who was a son of Andrew Dodge, who was a son of John Dodge, who was a son of Richard Dodge, the immigrant ancestor. Antipas and Jerusha Dodge lived in New Boston, New Hampshire, and had children: i. Mark, born December 8, 1792; died November 15, 1849; married Eliza Wilson, of New Boston. 2. Lydia. born September 21, 1795; died February 5, 1832; married \\'illiam Dodge, of New 15oston. 3. Levina, born March i, 1797; died March, 1891 ; married Elzaphan Dodge.

(V^I) Mark, eldest ciiiid of Antipas and Jerusha Dodge, was born probably in New I'oston, New Hampshire, December 8, 1792, and died at Sunapee, New Hampshire, ( fori.^erly \\'endell), November 15, 1849. He was a farmer by principal occupation, and enjoyed much celebrity as a wood chopper. Under the old military organization of the state he held a commission as captain of militia ; but at the age of forty-seven years he had the misfortune -to freeze both his hands and his feet. In 1823 he married Elizabeth Wilson, born in New Boston, June i, 1796, died at Sunapee, October 12, 1839. They had nine children: I. John S., born July 4, 1824; died August ii, 1847, "1 ^lexico, of consumption. 2. Elizabeth, born August 28, 1825; died in 1832. 3. Jane, born in December, 1826; died in 1827.

8. Albert, born February 29, 1836 ; lives in Gloucester. 9. Levi P., born May 25, 1839; married Henrietta C. Shackleford; died 1893. (VH) Albert, eighth child and fifth son of Mark and Elizabeth (Wilson) Dodge, was born in the town of Wendell (now Sunapee) New Hampshire, February 29, 1836, and for something like half a cefftury has been closely identified with the best business interests and history of Beverly and Gloucester, although at times his various enterprises have carried him into fields beyond the borders of Essex county. When he was less than four years old his father's family was broken up by death and other misfortunes, and he then went to live with the family of Samuel Gardner of Sunapee, and made that his home until about the time he attained his majority. After working a little less than a year at farming he engaged with Aaron Dodge to work in his grist mill at Beverly, and after two and a half years began business on his own account and ran the same mill four years. He then removed to Gloucester and took a five year lease on the tide grist mills at Annisquam, building up an extensive business on Cape Ann in the face of sharp competition. At the expiration of the lease he secured a lease of the Riverdale mills at Gloucester, later bought the property and has since conducted an extensive business in that city. From about 1868 to 1872 Mr. Dodge was half owner of the Union wharf at Salem, and the mill there, and also the historic Frye's mills. About 1872 he established a wholesale commission business in flour and grain in Boston, but this he has since discontinued, although three days of each week are spent in the city in connection with his grain interests there. In 1876 he increased his general flouring and grain business by the acquisition of mills at Amesbury, and this property he still owns, operating it as an electric mill. Besides these he has an elevator at Beverly, a com-, bined elevator and mill in Hyde Park (not now in operation) and warehouses in Essex and Manchester. His former store in Salem has been disposed of. For more than thirtyfive years Mr. Dodge has been a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and for the same time a director of the Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Since 1864 he has been a member of the Congregational church in Gloucester, and for many years he took an active interest in church and Sunday-school work. In his home city and throughout Cape Ann, where he is widely known, he is regarded as a man of untiring industry and unquestioned integrity of character, public spirited, and generous in his gifts for charitable purposes. He is an active member of Acacia Lodge, F. and A. M., Gloucester. In politics he is a firm Republican, but never has held and never has sought public office, his interest being that of a citizen rather than a politician.

December 7, 1865, Albert Dodge married Abba Gott, who was born in Rockport, Massachusetts, September 2, 1841, and died in Gloucester, February 19, 1907, daughter of the late Addison and Abigail (Tufts) Gott and a descendant of one of the prominent old families of New England (see Gott family). Mrs. Dodge was a true christian woman and mother, loyal in her interest in church and all other good works and devoted in her love of family and home and friends. In early young womanhood she became a member of the Congregational church at Lanesville and in 1873 united by letter with Trinity Congregational church in Gloucester. All of her sensibilities were delicate and refined, her impulses generous and her sympathies tender and reassuring. She loved music and for several years before her marriage was organist of the Rockport Congregational church. She never lost her interest in music, and kept it up until her death. She also was a member of Lucy Knox Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Three children were born of the marriage of Albert Dodge and Abba Gott: I. George Albert, born April 26, 1868, died January 2, 1872. 2. Chester Parker, born July 31, 187 1 ; educated at Amherst College; now is engaged in the insurance business ir Winchester, Massachusetts. He married, October 12, 1898, Maud Cummings, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, and has four children : Marion Cummings, Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Louise and Richard. 3. Albert, born January 19, 1879; mining engineer; graduate of Harvard University, department of engineering, and now junior partner of the firm of Shore & Dodge, engineers and contractors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The surname Aborn is variously AP)ORN spelled in the early records as Aberne, Aberon, Abon, Aborn, Aborne, Abourn. Abourne. Abron. Aburn, Aburne, Eaborn, Eaborne. Eaburn, Eaburne, Ebborn, Ebborne, Eborn, Eborne, Ebourn and Ebourne.

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chusctts. He was born in 1611, undoubtedly in England ; was admitted a freeman in 1665 and died in the winter of 1699- 1700. His will was dated July 20, 1699, and not allowed, administration being granted on his estate February 5, 1699-1700. He married Catherine Smith, of Alarblehead, who survived him and was living in 1701. Children, born at Salem \'illage : i. Samuel, born about 1639, married Susanna Trask. 2. Joseph, born about 1642, husbandman of Salem in 1704-08. 3. Moses, born in 1645-46, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born 16.4.8, baptized August 6. 1648. in First Church Salem ; married Dr. ( Jeorge Jackson and lived in Marblehead. 5. Rebecca, baptized March 23, 1651-52, married, December 10, if)8o, Thomas Bell and lived in Salem. 6. Hannah, married Joseph Houlton. 7. Sarah, baj^tized June 15, 1656, married Benjamin Orne.

(H) Moses Aborn, son of Samuel Aborn ( 1 ), born in Salem X'illage or vicinity in 1645- 46, was baptized in the First Church of Salem .\ugust 6, 1648. He was a husbandman and lived in Marblehead in 1666-67, and then in Salem until about 1678 when he removed to I,\nn, where he lived the remainder of his life. He married (first) Sarah Haines, September 9, \()/\. She died in Salem, Xovember I. 107^), and he married (second) Abigail (iilbert, of Ipswich, who was living in 1723. Mis will was dated .May 8, 1723, "being >tricken in years" and was ])r()ved lH'l)ruary 17, 1735-36. Children: i. Moses, born h^'bruary 14, 1672-73, in Salem. 2. Josejih, born April 24, 1674, in Salem. 3. Sarah, born October 26, 1676, in Salem, married, April 11, 1718, George Flint. 4. Abigail, born Ma\- 7, 1680, in Lynn, married Raham Bancroft, of Lynn, in 1717. 5. Thomas, born January 26, 1682, in L\iin. 6. Hannah, born August 26, 1684, in Lynn, married Edward Twiss, of Salem, Februar)- 3, 1708-09, and lived in B)illerica. 7. Mary, born April 19, 1686, in Lynn, married, December 22, 1714, Daniel Twiss, of Salem. 8. James, born April 21, 1688, in Lynn ; cooper ; lived in Lynn, Salem and Marblehead. 9. John, born April 17, 1690, in Lynn. 10. Samuel, born March i, 1692, married Martha B)ancroft and Sarah Needham. ir. Ebenezer, mentioned below.

(HI) Ebenezer Aborn, son of Moses Aborn (2), was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, January 31, 1694. He was a yeoman and lived in Lynn. His will dated September 4, 1778, was proved October 5, 1778. IMarried (first) ; (second) Margaret ^Moulton, of

Lynn, Jul}' 7, 1734. She was living as late as 1778. Children, born in Lynn: i. James, born 1722. 2. Benjamin. 3. Ebenezer, baptized Alarch 22, 1724, in Lynnfield. 4. Joseph, bai)tized September 26, 1725, in Lynnfield. 5. John, mentioned below.

( 1\ ) Dr. John Aborn, son of Ebenezer Aborn (3), was born in Lynn in 1727 and baptized in the Lynnfield Church, April 9, 1727. He was a physician and lived in Lynn, where he died November 8, 1768. He married, November 22, 1758, Rebecca Bancroft, wdio married (second) Thomas Dodge in or before 1773. She died June 20, 1798, aged sixty-four years. Children, born in Lynn : i. John, born 1759, died June 26, 1759, aged three weeks. 2. John, born .\ugust 5, 1761, died in Lynn, ]\Iarch 2. 176 - . 3. Samuel, born January 27, 1764, mentioned below. 4. Rebecca, born November 4, 1766, married, January 26, 1786, James Gould, of Reading. 5. Elizabeth, born December 9, 1768, died July 2. 1770.

( \ ) Samuel .Xborn, son of Dr. John .\born (4), was born in Lynnfield. ^lassachusetts, Januar\ 2/, 1764, diecl in Lynn, May 19, 1844. He married, .\i)ril 17, 1788, Mary Flint, of Danvers, daughter of Captain Samuel Flint, of South Danvers, a commissioned ofificer in the revolutionary war, and of his wife Ede ( Cpton ) I'^lint. Mary (Flint) Aborn died in L\nn, November 28, 185 1, aged eighty-one years. Samuel was a yeoman, living in Lynnfield. He died in Lynn, May 19, 1844. Children, born at Lynnfield: i. John, resided in Wakefield. 2. Clara, married a ]Mr. P)ancroft, of Lynn. 3. May. married a Mr. Nichols. 4. Samuel, had a son Samuel, who was a well known hatter in B.oston. 5. Frederick, mentioned below.

(\'l) Frederick Aborn. son of Samuel Ab( rn (5). was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, April 6, 1805. He was educated in the ])ublic schools of his native town. In i82f) he removed to Augusta, Maine, and engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes; also having a retail boot and shoe store there. In 1 841 he transferred his business and residence to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he continued until 1849. returning again to Augusta, and was soon afterward appointed to teach the trade of shoemaking in the Maine State Reform School. He filled this position creditably the remainder of his life. He died at Augusta, Maine, ]\Iay 9, 1861. He married, February 12, 1828, Joanna Davis Thwing, daugiitcr of Nathaniel and vfarv (Eastman)

Thwing. and gTanddaughler of Nathaniel and Abigail ( Greenough ) 'Idiwing. liis wife died in Augusta, June 15, 1840. Children: i. Mary T., married (first) George P. Pierce: (second) James Stone, of Gardiner, Maine: lives in Wakefield, Massachusetts. 2. Frederick Warren, born June 24, 1830, married Eliza Holbrook. 3. Charles Henry, born Fel)- ruary 28, 1832. 4. Samuel Clap]) Thwing. born February 7, 1834, married Martha Williams; he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry for three years in the civil war. 5. James l^^ranklin, born January 6, 1836. died July 18. 1893: married Mary Elizabeth Curtis.' 6. Helen Augusta, born January 15, 1841. married Edwin Lincoln Stanwood,^ of Portland, Maine. 7. Abbie Maria, born March 28, 1843, married Henry Haskell, of Wakefield. 8. (^leorge Edward, died young. 9. Emma N(^urse. died in childhood.

(\'ll) Charles Henry Aborn, son of Frederick Aborn (6). was born in Augusta. Maine, February 28, 1832, died in Lynn. February 8, 1904. He received his education in the public schools of Lynn, Massachusetts, whither he went with his parents from Augusta when he was nine years old. He gained a thorough knowledge of the manufacture of boots and shoes in his father's factory, and in 1854 began on his own account to manufacture under the firm name of C. H. Aborn & Company. His partner was John F)rooks Nichols. This firm was dissolved in 1864. when Mr. Nichols was succeeded in the business by James F. Aborn. brother of the senior partner. In November, 1889, there was another change in the firm, when Frank Parker Aborn. son oi the senior partner, took the place of James l*". Aborn, who withdrew. The firm has made a specialty of ladies' shoes and has enjoyed a flourishing business for many years. Mr. Aborn had the distinction of haying been in the business of manufacturing shoes for a longer time than any of the other Lynn manufacturers, and had he lived about ten months longer, would have been fifty consecutive years in business. Few men in the business were better known or more highly esteemed. A man of excellent business ability and sterling common sense, he exerted a large and wholesome influence in the city of Lynn for a long time. He was a trustee of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank. In 1864-65 he was a member of Lynn common council and had always taken a lively interest in municipal

Mr. Aborn married, December 6, 1857, in Lynn, Sarah Jane Wood, born in Boston. September zy, 1836. daughter of Lyman and Rebecca ( F"ogg ) Wood, of Meredith, New Hampshire. Children: i. Annie Lincoln, born July 20. i860; married Frank Herbert Gage; lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts. 2. Frank P., born September 7, 1865, was educated in the Lynn ]mblic and high schools, and is now junior member of the firm of C. H. Aborn & Company; he married, October 11, 1893, (irace Berry, of Winchester, Massachusetts, daughter of William F. and Belinda (Tarbox) iierry: child, ^larjorie, born May 9. 1896.

about 1640. Tradition differs as to tile origin of the family, some saying it was Scotch, and others French Huguenot. One branch of the family has supposed that the Dwinells came from France, where a Count Dwinell was settled near La Rochelle. The s])elling of the surname has always varied. F,ycn at the ])resent day we find his descendants called Dwinell, Dwinnell and Dwinel. The sui-name as written in the town records of Topsfield. where the pioneer settled, has the following variations ; Dewnell, Duenell, Doenell, Donell. Dunell. Dwinnill. But the best early authority is that of Rev. Joseph Capen. of 'fojisfield. who spelled the name Dwinell on his records from 1684 to 1725. The name Michael was also spelled in divers ways. Dwinell was a man of property, owning large tracts of land from Wenhani to Middleton, Massachusetts. He died in 1717 and his will was proved in March of that year. He married Mary . Children: i. ]\Iary. born

1668, married John Hovey and resided in Topsfield. 2. Michael, born 1670, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, born November, 1672, married, May 23. 1701. Dinah Brimsdell. of Lynn. 4. John, born 1674, married Mary Read, of Salem. 5. Elizabeth, born April, 1677, died unmarried October 29, 1759. 6. Magdalen, born 1679, married, March, 1703. James Holgate. 7. Joseph, born January. 1682. married Prudence Curtis; drowned in attempting to swim the river in 1747. 8. Susannah, born 1685, married. October 16. 1706. Nathaniel Hood, of Lynn.

on tlie knoll back of the cider mill, which was taken down in 1875. He had a barn, and a fine well of water, which still supplies his descendants. He died December 24. 1761, aged ninety-one years. His will was dated July 17, 1753, and proved in 1762. He mentions his wife Alary, sons Alichael, Stephen, Jacob; daughters Sarah Foster, Mary, Hannah, Abigail: granddaughters Esther Raich, and infant David, son of P>enjamin Dwinell. He was married five times. ( Some writers say seven but the records show only five). He married

10, 1724, Elizabeth Fisk, of \\>nham, who died March 26, 1730; (third) Elizabeth Cave, of Danvers, who died February, 1737: ( fourth), July 6, 1737, in Salem. Charity Cotton, wdio died November 8, 1752; (fifth). Mary P)alch, widow, February i, 1753. She survived him. Children: 1. Thomas, born October 3, 1693, married Mary Abigail Perkins. 2. Sarah, born 1694, married Abrani Foster, of Ipswich. 3. Mary, born 1702. 4. Michael, born 1707, married Luc\- Towne. 5. Stephen, born 1708, married Abigail Harris, of Ipswich. (). Hannah, born 1710, married John Power. 7. Jacob, born January 31, 1715-16, mentioned below. 8. .Xbigail, born 1 7 19. Children of Michael and Elizabeth Fisk: 9. Benjamin, born November, T72'>, married Mary Estey. 10. Thomas, born .\ugust, 1729. Children of Alichael aufl I'.lizabeth Cave: 11. Samuel, born 1731. 12. h'lizabeth, born October, 1733.

(Ill) Jacob Dwinell, son of Dr. Michael Dwinell, born January 31, 171 5-16. died Se])- tember 16, 1784. He resided in Topsficld in his father's house, and was called husbandman. His will was dated September 2, 1784, and his son John was executor. He married, December, 1739, Kezia Gould, born May 10. 1718, died December 29, 1798, daughter of John and Phebe (Towne) Gould, of Topsfield. Children: i. Israel, born March 2, 1740, died November 16, 1760, in the French and Indian war. 2. Ruth, born 1743. died September 13, 1743. 3. Jacob, born August 6, 1745, married, December 12, 1769, Joanna Clark, wddow ; was in the revolution. 4. John, born June 15, 1747, mentioned below. 5. Mehitable, born April 30, 1748, married (first), April 4, 1771, Cornelius P.alch ; (second), November 7, 1799, Amos Nelson. 6. Child, died September 2, 1749. 7. Ruth, born February 8, 1751, married, December 13, 1781, David Holt. 8. Child, died Alarch 13, 1753. 9. Phebe, born June 17. T755. married William Estey. 10.

( 1\ ) John Dwinell. son of Jacob Dwinell, born in Topsfield, June 15, 1747. died in 18 18 of a carbuncle on the shoulder, aged seventyone years. He married, February 5, 1771, Esther Richards, daughter of Joseph and Mary Richards, of Southborough. Her father died when she was an infant, and at the age of ten she was brought by her mother (in accordance with her father's wi.sh) to live wath his sister, Esther Estey, wife of Aaron Estey, of To])sfield. Her father was son of Crispus and Sarah ( C(^llins ) Richards, of Lynn, and grandson of John Richards, a soldier in King Fhili])'s war. h'sther attended the school w liirji wa- held in the house in w'hich her aunt lived on \\ itch hill, and the school-master's ferule and tobacco box is still in the possession of the family. She was twenty-three years old when she was married to John Dwinell by Rev. John i'"merson, who is said to have pronounced them the handsomest couple he ever married. I'.sther Estey's granddaughter Lydia held the !ight for her to put on her wedding cap. John Dwinell took his bride to the house built by hi> father Jacob of the oak trees from the hill in the rear. .\t that time the elm in front of the house was full grown. Esther Dwinell dieil CX"tober 31, 1857. aged one hundred and r.uc years, eight months and ten days. Her Aunt E.sther, with whom she lived, attained the age of over a hundred years, and her brother John was ninety-seven and her sister Hannah ninety-seven years old when the\' died. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Dwinell died with small])ox. Children: I. Infant sc~)n. born December 24. 1771. died \'oung. 2. Esther, baptized A])ril 25, 1773. died August 11. 1777. of (l\sentery. 3. John, born 1776. died of small ])ox. October 16, 1777. 4. Mehitable, born May 4, 1777. died (October 18, 1777, of small pox. 5. Esther, born April. 1779. married. 1802, Moses Wildes. Jr., of To])sfiel(l. 6. Infant, born 1780, died young. 7. John, born 1782, mentioned below. 8. Jacob, born 1786, baptized September, 1787: died of dysentery 1788. John Dwinell was in the revolution in Captain Joseph (lould's company. Colonel John P>aker's regiment, and answered the Lexington alarm. April 19. 1775.

( \' ) John Dwinell, son of John Dwinell, was born in 1782 and baptized August T. 1784. He resided on the farm where the family first settled in Topsfield, and where the cellar of the first house may still be seen. The present house was erected in 1762 and the contract is still ])reserved at Topsfiekl. He married (first), April 26, 1810. Sarah Perkins, daughter of David and Abigail (Conant) Perkins, of Topsfiekl; she died in 1813. He married (second), Alarch 11, 1818, Louisa Richards, daughter of John and Hepsibah (Amsden) Richards, of Southborough. They were married at Dan- \ers by Rev. Air. \\'adsworth. He died in 1864, and his wife in 1879, aged eighty-one. Children, all by second wife: i. John, born September 9, 1819, died 1859. -- David Holt, born December 5, 1820, died 1896. 3. Sarah Perkins, born November 17, 1822, died July 18, 1905. 4. Louisa Richards, born September 2"^ . 1824, died September 27, 1896. 5. Hepsibah Sophia, born August 24, 1826, married, 1875, James A. Henderson; died March, 1897. 6. Esther Mehitable, born September 6, 1828, died September 26, 1906. 7. Willard Adolphus, born Alay 31, 1831, mentioned below. 8. George Winslow, born November 18, 1834, died 1890.

iW) Willard Adolphus Dwinell, son of Jchn Dwinell, was born at Topsfiekl, May 31, 1831. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and has followed farming for his calling. He has prospered in his business affairs and, notwithstanding his age, is in excellent health. He is a useful citizen, held in the highest respect by his townsmen. After his marriage he lived in the old house on the homestead until 1881, when he built a new home on the opposite side of the street. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Congregationalist and contributed generouslv to fund for organ and supporting the church. 1 le married, in 1864. at her home in Salem, Ruth Ann Stickney, born December 30, 1845, daughter of Charles and Lydia Ann (Kehew) Stickney. Airs. Dwinell was member of church choir for over twenty years. Children, born in Topsfiekl: i. Annie Cole, born January 2, i8f)8, attended the Salem Normal School, taught school at Topsfield and New Rraintree, Massachusetts; married, September i, 1892. Fred W. Barnes, has no children. 2. John Willard. born Alarch 10, 1877, mentioned below.

(\'II) John Willard Dwinell. son of Willard .Adolphus Dwinell, was born in Topsfield, Alarch 10. 1877. He was brought up on the farm <>f his father in his native town. He was educated in the public and high schools, fie was a clerk, engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery trade in Lynn. He resides in Topsfield at the i)resent time, is one of the most enterprising and prosperous farmers of that section, and is an auctioneer of prominence ; also dealer in antique furniture. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Congregationalist. He is a member of Topsfield (irange. Patrons of Husbandry. No. 184. He married, at Wintlirop. Alassachusetts. at St. John's Episco])al ('hurch (Rev. Joseph Carden), October 18, 1905, wSusie Alarion Kelley. born December 13, 1881, daughter of William h". and Annie E. ( Cole ) Kelley, of Hyde Park, Alassachusetts. They have no cbaldren. She graduated from Hyde Park grammar and high school class 1900, then attended Salem Normal School, class (graduated ) 1902 ; then taught in Wenham three years until she resigned, to marry. Both are very active in Grange work.

in England, and Edward married there. They were in Cambridge, Alassachusetts, in 1642. Edward, the elder brother, was c')nsi)icuously identified with the early history of the colony. He was made freeman in 1642, was representative from Cambridge to the general court for fifteen years between 1659 and 1682, and in 1684 represented Concord, where he died October 13. 1689. His had children : Uriah, born in England, who was president of Harvard College in 1649; Edward, born in England ; Alary ; Thomas, born June 18, 1644, graduated at Harvard college in 1662, and during King Philip's war was lieutenant of Captain Prentice's company, selectman twenty-six years, and representative to the general court fifteen years.

( I ) Thomas Oakes of Cambridge, Alassachusetts. younger brother of Edward Oakes, with whom he came from England to America, was made freeman in Cambridge. Alay 18, 1642, but he does not appear to have taken such a prominent part in town and colonial affairs as his brother. He married after landing in New England, the first name of his wife being Elizabeth. She survived him many years and married twice afterward, first Seth Sweetzer, and afterward Samuel Hayward. of -Maiden, to which place she took the young d'liklren of her first marriage. Bv his wife Elizabeth, Thomas Oakes had : Elizabeth, born November 3. 1646, died young; Thomas, born November 5, 1648. died at the age of two uionths; Elizabeth, born Alay 26, 1650; Hannah, born Alay 4, 1657; Alary (])robably a daugrhter of Thomas and Elizabeth ) who died in August. 1659; Thomas, baptized Alarcli 20. 1659. Thomas Oakes made his widow executrix of liis will, he having left a fair property for his time.

(IT) Thomas Oakes. son of Thomas Oakes and his wife Elizabeth, was born after his father had died, and in the will he was given a double portion of the paternal estate. He was known as Thomas Oakes. of 3*Ialden. in which town the scene of his life was laid. He married May 22, 1689, Sarah Tufts, daughter (if Peter Tufts, who was the ancestor of one of the most important branches of the Tufts family in America. In 1663 he became projirietor of two hundred acres of land on the Mystic side in Maiden, and also the owner of the Xowell grant. The children of Thomas Oakes and Sarah Tufts were: Thomas, born April 2. 1690; Sarah. ^lay 23. 1694; Eydia. Xovember 27. 1697: I'riah. June 22. 1700; Mary. May 24, 1702; Hannah. Eebruary 28. 1705; bdizabeth, May 27. 1707; Jonathan. October (1. 1709; Abigail. December 24, 17 14.

(Jctober 4, 175 1, and died August 6. 18 18. Hefore he was twenty }'ears old he was master of a vessel in the merchant service, and his skill as a navigator and sailor and his courage in time of danger made him a very valuable officer in the naval service during the revolution. Late in 1776 he was captain of the private armed brigantine '"Hawke." mounting ten guns, and having a crew of eighty men. Her owners were Criah Oakes, cousin of Captain Oakes. and \\'illiam Shattuck, of Boston. Her officers were Captain Jonathan Oakes. Eirst Lieutenant John Smith, Second Lieutenant John Dexter, Smith Kent, master. In Alay, 1777. the "Hawke" was received into the service of Massachusetts and formed a part of the fleet which sailed under Commodore Manley and met with such disastrous results ; but Captain Oakes's ship (-scaped the capture which befell the more powerful vessels of the fleet, and soon afterward made several valuable ])rizes. Between the time she sailed out on the cruise of the }'ear, in May, and the early ])art of August following, the little "Hawke" took and sent into port the "Eanny," ''Charming -Sail},"" and the "Devonshire." During the following winter the "Hawke" was overhauled and her armament increased to twelve carriage and eight swivel guns. Captain ( )akes again took command of her, and during the year 1778 he made prizes of the shi]) "|enn\" and the brigantine "Thomas," and in the same \ear. sailing with the brig "( leneral Gates" as consort, took in the brigantine "Xancy" and ])ossibly others of the llr'ti.'^h naval vessels and privateers. In b\'bruarw 1779. he bcjught an interest in the "Elizabetli. ' which then was lying in Salem harbor. changed her name to the "Thomas." manned bier w ith six guns and a crew of eighteen men. In 1780 he was placed in command of the "i'avorite, ' an armed ship of ten guns, intended for both the merchant service and naval warfare, and made a cruise with her to the West Indict. In ll^' same year he was commander of the brig "Patty," six guns, owning a share in her. his i^artners being John and William Sha'tuck. of Boston. The "Patty" was the last jjrivatecr ship of which Ca])tain ( )akes was in command, and during a voyage in her in .Xj^ril. 1781, from Martinique bound homeward, he made a ]>rize of the British armed brig "I'etsey." After the close of the war he continued in the merchant marine service, and in 1796 was the Paris agent for the wealthv lloston house of John and Richard Codman. Having returned home he soon abandoned the sea and retired from active pursuits, although he took considerable interest in pohtics, and was twelve times elected representative from Maiden in the general court of Massachusetts. On July 22, 1774, Captain Jonathan Oakes married Sarah Nichols, who was born October 24, 1754, daughter of John Nichols of Maiden, and by whom he had children : Sarah, born October 23, 1777; Jonathan, May 19, 1779; Betsey, August 12, 1780; Hannah, February 2"], 1782; James, November 12, 1783: Nathan, February 12, 1786; Polly, November 9, 1787; Rachel, November 7, 1789.

(V) Captain Uriah Oakes, son of Nehemiah and Esther (Buckman) Oakes, born in Maiden, February 22, 1771, died in Everett. Massachusetts, February 22, 1748. He was a man of character and substance and the largest land owner in South Maiden. He married Charlotte Stowell. of Revere, Massachusetts, and had children: Uriah, born December i, 1797; Hannah. February 3, 1803; Charlotte, ( )ctober 20, 1805.

(\'l) Dtacon Uriah Oakes, eldest son of Ca])tain iTiah and Charlotte (Stowell) Oakes, l)orn in Revere. December i. 1797, died August I. 1885. aged almost eighty-eight years, having sjient his entire lifetime in useful employments, and until almost the day on which he died took his market produce to Boston. When only a young man he started a small shoe factory in South Maiden, shipping his goods to the southern states; and soon afterward opened the first grocery and produce store in that locality. At one time he carried on quite a business in making and selling combs. From his father's estate he received a considerable amount of land and gave careful attention to its improvement and also to farming pursuits and market gardening". Mr. Oakes was in all respects an industrious, thrifty and progressive citizen, a straightforward business man, and an earnest christian, a member of the Congregational church from early manhood, its deacon for many years, and superintendent of the Sunday school. The largest property owner in South Maiden, he naturally took considerable part in public affairs, not, however, in the sense of being a political character or seeker after ofifice. but by his influence and counsel moulded the affairs of the town in the public interest. Deacon Oakes married Betsey Richardson, who was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts, January 26, 1802, and died in Everett, August 7, 1890. She was a daughter of Deacon Josiah Richardson and Betsey \''inton his wife, and a descendant of an olfl colonial family of Massachusetts; (see Richardson family). Children of Deacon Uriah Oakes and Betsey Richardson, all born in South Maiden ; i . Uriah, born December

Lewis, born in Gardiner, Maine, April 15, 1 83 1, died February 14, 1897, daughter of Rev. Stephen Lewis, a clergyman of the Free Will 1 baptist church, and whose father, William Lewis, lived and died in Wales. Uriah (3d), was a shoemaker by trade, during his younger life, but afterward for many years had charge of Sawyer's Station, on the Boston & Maine railroad. Children : George Uriah Oakes, of Everett, married Susan Currier; Olive Frances Oakes, born South Alalden, April 13, 1861. 2. Josiah, born September 28, 1829; unmarried; lives with his sister in the old homestead in Everett. 3. Elizabeth, born April 28, 183 1 ; unmarried, and lives with her brother Josiah in Everett. Miss Oakes was educated in the Charlestown Female Seminary, and is an untiring and successful church worker. She holds a prominent social position and takes a deep interest in the Young Woman's Christian Association, of Chelsea, and it was largely through her efforts that the attractive edifice of the First Church in Chelsea was erected on the count}' roarl. 4. Charlotte, born June TO. 183 - : died young. 5. Angelina, born 1835. died July 12. 1835. 6. Charlotte Augusta, born June 3. 1840; married October 21. 1868, Charles Long, of Belmont, Massachusetts; has three children: Charles Long, Frederick Long and Ella Long. 7. Hannah, born June 26, 1843; niarried William Warden ( now dead ) and lives now in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Children : William, Frank and Grace Warden, the last mentioned of whom is dead.

(M-d,. extending back almost to the beginning of the use of surnames in that country. The name means a kind of weapon and the progenitor doubtless took his surname from his occupation in war - a bill-man. A bill was a sort of battle ax. The family is from Denmark originally, according to the best authority. The family has been prominent in Shropshire for some five centuries and is numerous also in Wiltshire. Kent, Hertfordshire. Yorkshire and Staft'ordshire. Dr. Thomas Bill, born about 1490, was a prominent physician, an attendant of Princess Elizabeth in 1540. John Bill, born 1576. was a well known

London publisher. Pie a])pears in I^ondon in 1613 as "Publisher to King James I. Most Excellent Majestie." One of the earliest works published by John Bill was by the King himself. He brought out many editions of the i'.ible. lie or his partner, Christopher Barker, ])ublished the first news sheet, called the English Mercuric, issued to contradict false reports conecrning the descent of the Spanish Armada upon the coast of England. After he received the royal license his place of business became known as Printing House Square, its present name. John Bill married ( first ) Anne AFountford. daughter of Thomas Mountford. I). 1). She was the author of a book entitled "Mirror of Modestie," ])ublished in London in \('>2\. A second and very rare edition was published in 1719. She died May ,^, 1621, aged thirty-three. He married (second) Joan h^rar.klin, of Throwley. Kent. He made his will in iCi^o. and was buried at St. Anne's P)lackfriars. London. [le left a bei|uest to the ])arish of .Much \\ enlock, wlierc lie was born. Child of first wife: i. John, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 2. .\nne. 3. Charles, succeeded his father a> publisher of liibles and books. 4. Henry. 5. Mary. The Pill coat-of-arms : I'j-mine two wood-bills ( l)altle axes) sable with long handles ])ro])er in saltire on a chief azure a jjale or, charged with a rose gules, between two ])elicans heads erased at the neck argent.

(T) John Pill or Bills, as the name is sometimes written, the American immigrant, was l)orn in England. The best authority indicates that he was the John mentioned above, son of the book publisher. John Bill. Little is known of him. He and his wife Dorothy came to this country before 1635. Their children, John, aged thirteen, and Marie, aged eleven, came to Boston in 1635, John in the ship "Hopewell,"" Marie in the ship "Planter."" The father died in December, 1638, and a month later Richard Tuttle became responsible to the town of Boston for Dorothy Bill, widow, "A sojourner at his house"' and "for anything about her."" It is probable that Dorothy was a sister c){ Tuttle. The genealogy by Ledyard Bill gives this list of the children of John and Dorothy and states that all of the name with a few exceptions are descended from them : 1. James, born in England in 1615. 2. Thomas, born about 1618, mentioned below. 3. Philip, born in Englan.d in 16 18. He came to Alassachusetts Bay with his father and settled at Pulling Point, Boston. He had various occupations. In 1666 he was called a lighterman. Later he was an innholder, mariner and planter. He removed to Black Horse lane, part of Prince street. He had a grant of Spectacle Island in Boston harbor (so-called because of the peculiar shape), from James Bill or Pills, December, 1666. He also bought land on this island, of Nathaniel Reynolds. He owned and occupied half the island January 25, 1 68 1, when he deeded it to his son. This island is a mile northwest of Thompson l>l;uid. Pills was a member of the Boston Artillery Compan\- in 1674; was admitted a freeman May 31. 1^)71. (lis will was dated ( )ctober 2, 1696, and proved January 27, 1696- 97. He married (first), January 14. 1652, I^lizal)eth ( Sargent ) Xicholls, widow of David Xicholls, and daughter of William and Sarah Sargent. I lis wife died .March 5. P'57-58, and he married (second) . Abigail Willis, born i()33. died November 7, xhcjC), aged sixt\-three, daughter of Michael and Mildred Willi>. Her gravestone i> in Copps Hill cemeter\-, Boston, ("hildren of first wife: i. Samuel, born 1654, mentioned below. 2. Sargent, Eebruary 26, 1657. Children of second wife: 3. Sarah, September 28, 1659. 4. Mary. August 15, 1 66 1. 5. James, December 24, 1662. 6. Thomas, December 24, 1664. 7. Susanna, Alarch 18, 1665-66, married Mungo Crawford. 8. Afichael, December 2y, 1667. 9. Jacob, October 21. 1669. married Theoclosia . 10.

I HI) Samuel Pills, son of Thomas Pills, born in 1654, died August 18, 1705. He was a butcher by trade, and resided in Black Horse lane in a house that was his father's. He inherited part of Spectacle Island from his father, and in 168 1 ac(|uired the remainder of the island, which was covered with heavy timber. In 1693 it was called Samuel Bills' Island. The title was confirmed in 1684-85, from an Indian. His will was dated August 13, 1705, and proved September 20. 1707. He married Elizabeth (Welstead), who married (second) Eleazer Phillips, of Charlestown. Children : i. Samuel, born September 22, 1683, mentioned below. 2. Richard, born March 25, 1685, married (first) Sarah Davis; (second) Mehitable Mincjt. Perhaps others.

( I\") Samuel Bills, son of Samuel Bills, born September 22. 1683, died before Eebruary 13, 1738-39. He was a provision dealer of Poston. and resided on the north corner nf State and Washington streets. He was an active and industrious citizen, and built up a prosperous business. On October 2, 171 1, his house, together with those of one hundred and ten other famihes, was destroyed by fire. In 1714 he mortgaged his property and paid it March 4, 1720. On July 30, 17 17, he sold land to provde a quarantine for the hospital, and March 18, 1729-30, he sold land to his brother, Richard Bills. In 1735 he removed to Rainsford. He married, \March 19, 1701-02, Sarah Shapley, daughter of John and Sarah Shapley. Children : i. Samuel, born \[ay 21. 1702, died young. 2. Joseph, born June 26, 1704, died July 22, 1705. 3. Joseph, born February 8, 1705-06. 4. Richard, born December 2, 1708. 5. Benjamin, born November I. 1709. 6. Sarah, born February 12, 1710-11, married James Farrar. 7. Ruth, born ]\Iarch 18, 171 1- 12, married Thomas Price. 8. Elizabeth, born June 2, 1713-14. 9. ]\Iary, born June 7, 17 15, married John Lester, lo. Samuel, born 1720. mentioned below.

(V) Samuel Bills, son of Samuel liills. was born in Boston in July. 1720. He lived at Dedham and was a soldier in the Revolution on the Lexington alarm under Captain George Gould. He married (first) ]\Iary Davis (intention dated June 8, 1740: (second), July 12, 1769, Grace (Xorcross) (Hyde) Crawley. She was born March 27, 1724, daughter of Philip and Sarah (Jackson) Norcross, of Xewton. ^Massachusetts ; married (first), in 1744, Gershom Hyde, of Xewton, who died prior to April 5, 1756. She had five children in' her first husband. She married (second), 1756-57. Abraham Crawley, of Watertown, who died in 1768. and by this marriage she had five more. Children of Samuel and Mary (Davis) liills: i. Richard, a soldier in the Revolution. 2. Xathaniel. mentioned below. Possibly others.

(VI) Xathaniel Bills, son of Samuel Bills, was born in Dedham. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain Aaron Fuller's company. April 19. 1775, on the Lexington alarm. This company belonged to the first parish of Dedham. He was also in Colonel Crane's regiment, enlisting in 1775 for three years or during the war in Captain Bussey's company. He was also a matross in Captain Benjamin Frothingham's company, Colonel John Crane's regiment (Third Artillery) ; and also in the Continental army in 1780 at Morristown. Xew Jersey, and elsewhere. He married Jane Damon. Both he and his wife died in 1837. They had three children, among

(\"II) Jonathan Damon Bills, son of Nathaniel Bills, was born in Dedham, June 22, 1790. He married Eliza Colburn, September 12, 1822. of Dedham. He settled in Dover, Massachusetts, where he was a farmer. He died at Waltham. June 7, 1864. and was buried at Dedham by the side of his wife, who died Xovember 21. 1851. In politics he was a Democrat. Children, born in Dover and Dedham: I. Lewis Augustus, born July 3, 1824. married Fannie Louise Hutchins. 2. Mary Anne, born September 2, 1826, at Dedham. 3. (George Damon, born September 30. 1829, died October it. 1840. 4. Charles (Colburn, born April 28. 1833, mentioned below. 5. Sarah Eliza, born Xovember 16, 1836. at Dover. 6. Susan Bradford, born October 20, 1841, at Dedham.

(VIII) Charles Colburn Bills, son of Jonathan Damon Bills, born at Dover, April 28. 1833, died in W'altham, Massachusetts, January 16, 1889. He was educated in the public schools of Dedham where he lived in early youth. He worked on his father's farm during his boyhood. ^Vhen a young man he went to the adjacent town of Xatick to work. In 1879 he went to Boston from Xatick, and engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in the building which stood on the present site of the Parmenter block, Waltham. Afterward he was interested in a shoe factory or shop, as the early home of the shoe business was called, on Bacon street, of L. S. Jones, in Boston, and in a short time entered partnership with his employer under the firm name of L. S. Jones & Company. Later he organized the firm of Stowe, Bills & Hawley, dealers in boots and shoes, on High street, Boston, and his sound judgment and great sagacity in business gave him the highest standing among his associates. He was industrious and enterprising; shrewd in guaging the public taste, careful in fulfilling the wants of his customers; he had business foresight and prudence ; was fair-minded and honorable, withal, and his integrity was respected most among those with whom he had dealings often. He was prominent in the financial world for many years. He was a director of the Shawmut Xational Bank of Boston and of the Bureau of Credits also of that city. His judgment was valued highly by banking men and merchants interested in the matter of credits in various lines of trade. He was a director of the old X^ational Bank of Boston.

liaptist church oi Boston and joined the Baptist Society soon after coming to Boston, and his loyalty to church and society from that time to his death was firm and unfaltering. He was of exemplary character, generous in support of the cliurch and its henevolences. He became superintendent ni the Baptist Sundayschool. May 18, 1874, at W'altham. and filled that honorable but arduous position as long as he lived. The children who grew up under his moral guidance held him in the highest esteem, even reverence, and were his loyal and lifelong friends. Few laymen have accomplished as much as he in the spiritual education of the young, in fine and efl:"ective religious activity. He was fitted by natural ability and temperament for this duty and he performed it with the zeal and enthusiasm of youth after a score of years. He was a prominent and useful member of the Masonic fraternity, joining Monitor Lodge in 1867. He was a member of W'altham Chapter. Royal Arch .Masons. He served for many years on the charity committee of the lodge. Xot only in and through the church and other regular channels did he give in charity, but he was generous with his wealth in sup])orting measure> and objects of public usefulness, and in hel])ing those in need. The. extent of his giving will never be known, for he was reserved and modest in making known the deeds of benevolence that he ])racticed constantly. His honie in W'altham was at ^;^ E}'man street, and here he fre(|uently bestowed upon his friends unstinted and lil)- cral hospitality.

He married. July 2/. 1854. \'esta Ryerson. born May 21, 1830, daughter of Charles and Lydia (Ryerson) Ryerson, of Paris, ]\Iaine. (See sketch of R}'erson family herewith). Children, born at Boston: T. l£lla Cicrtrude, l)orn November ly, 1856. married .\lanson David P)rown : children: i. Stella (i. Ilrown. married Warren Finley McElro\- : ii. Jennie M. lirown. married \\'illiam Collins: iii. Alanson (i. P)rown, married ^Nlay Stigall ; iv. Helene C. Brown, married John Richie : v. \'esta Ryerson Brown : vi. Ruth Brown. 2. Ida Estella. born April 16, 1861. married William A. .Moody; children: i. William .\. ?^loody. Jr.; ii. Charles C. X. AIood\' : iii. Louis M. Aloody; iv. Ira ^Moodv.

The surname Rverson is RYERSON identical with the Dutch Rcycrtcooii, a ])ersonal name, the change in s])elling being due to its anglicization. As early as 1390 this name was common in

Amsterdam. Hcjlland. In that year W'ilHam Reyertzoon was burgomaster of the cit}- : another of this name held this office in 14 14 and 1418. Many of the name were prominent in Dutch aft'airs and in the expulsion of the Spanish from Holland. Two of the family were banished, and one beheaded by the Spanish King, April 12, 1537. The coat-of-arms of the Reyertzoon family, registered at Amsterdam, is : Eradicated arz. one and four sable a tree withered and eradicted arz two and three arz three halberts bend ways and in bend sinister the middle one longer than the others sable the blades vertical, surtout azure a martley or. Crest : a swan roussant. ]Motto : Voor God en Faderland." The registered coat-of-arms is proof of the nobility of one branch of the famil}-. at least.

(I) Martin Reyerson or Ryerson, immigrant ancestor, came to .\merica with his brother .\driaen from Amsterdam in 1646 and settled in lirooklyn. New York. There !Martin married. May 17. 1663. Ann Rapeljea. and resided until 1685. He joined the Dutch church there in ^(^JJ. and was magistrate in 1679 and constable in 1982. In |985 he removed to h'latbush. Long Poland, of which he was one oi the patentees. Children: Marritze. Joris (George), mentioned below: l\}er (the personal name from which RyerscMi is derived); Catalyntie. Sarah. Cornelis. Jacobus, (iaertie. Helena, Franz.

(H) Joris ((Jeorge) Ryerson. son of Martin R}erson, was baptized in P>rooklyn, September 19, 1666. He married, August ii, 1691, .\nn Shouten, daughter of Theunis Dircksen Dey, of New ^'ork. In 1695 Ryerson in company with Anthony I'rtjckholst, .\rent Schuyler, Colonel Nicholas Payard and John Meet, all of New York, Samuel Berry, Ilenr\- .McDonna and David Mandeville, of New Jersey, purchased from the governor and council of East New Jersey, four thousand acres of land then in Pergen county, ntnv Passaic, extending northward from the junction of the Pompton river with the T^assaic river. Of this tract Ryerson eventually became the owner of the greater part and there he settled. Children, baptized in New York: i. Martin, baptized 1698. 2. Helena, baptized 1701. 3. (jeorge. baptized 1703. 4. Lucas, mentioned below. 5. lilandina. IVrhajis others born in New Jersey.

(HI) Lucas (Luke) Ryerson. son of Joris (George ) Ryerson, was baptized in New York in 1706. He removed with his parents to P)ergen county. New Jersey. The history of IVt- gen county says : "The Ryersons are the most numerous to-day of any family in the western ])art of Bergen County." All are descendants of George (2).

(IV) Luke Ryerson, son or nephew of Luke Ryerson. was born in Bergen county. New Jersey, about 1735-40. He settled in York county, Maine, when a young man, and his first child was probably born there. He removed to West Buckfield, Maine, and located on what is now known as the Rounds Place. The history of Paris, Maine, relates that at the time of its publication General George Cushnian, then living, could remember attending the funeral of Luke Ryerson in 1812, when he (Cushman) was eleven years old. After Ryerson's death the family followed the elder sons who had- settled in Paris, Maine. He married (first), February i, 1767, Abigail Ellery, daughter of Dependence Ellery; (second ) Sarah Coombs, born at York, December

Cox. He was the father of twenty-three children. Children of first wife : i. Abigail, died young. 2. William, born August 4, 1769, mentioned below. 3. Luke, born 1772, married Keziah Cushman. 4. Elizabeth. 5. George, married Elizabeth Jenks. 6. Polly. 7. John. 8. Joseph, died young. 9. Samuel. 10. Benjamin. Ti. Susanna, married John Pearce. 12.

second wife: 13. Sarah, born June 16, 1793, married John Cole and lived in Poland, Maine. 14. Joseph, born October 7, 1794, resided at St. Albans. Vermont. 15. Howell, born March

Nancy, born March 9, 1798, married Jonathan Pulsifer. 17. Nehemiah, born July 9, 1799, kept a hotel in Portland, Maine. 18. Esther, born March 6, 1801, married John Moore. 19. Redley, born August 20, 1802, married Anna Whittemore. 20. Nathaniel Osgood, married Nancy Hersey. 21. Christiana, born November 20, 1804. 22. Simeon, born August 20, 1807, married Miranda Walker; resided at North Paris, Maine. 23. Ebenezer, born August 20, 1807.

(V) Colonel William Ryerson, son of Luke Ryerson, was born in Buckfield, Maine, August 4, 1769, died at Paris, Maine, May 18, 1838. He was colonel of his regiment in active service at Portland in the War of 181 2. He married Sally Parsons, born January 29, 1778, died July 24, 1826. Children, born at Paris: i. Sarah, born November 6, 1797. married Josiah T- Knight, formerly of Paris, later Runiford, Maine. 2. William, born February 18, 1800. 3. Charles, born January 20, 1802, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born September 29. 1804, married Herman Proctor. 5. Charlotte, born August 14, 1806, died 1820.

(\ I) Charles Ryerson, son of Colonel William Ryerson, was born in Paris, Maine, January 20. 1802, in the old homestead, and died there August 27, 1841. Lie married September I, 1828. his cousin, Lydia Ryerson, born June

7, 1807. daughter of Luke Ryerson, Jr. Children: I. Charlotte Isabel,, born Alarch 18, 1829. married (first), October 21, 1849. Abel Bosworth ; ( second) James Billings. 2. Vesta, born May 21, 1830, married Charles Colburn Bills, July 27, 1854. (See sketch of the Bills family herewith). 3. Caroline C, born September 18. 1838, died February 4, 1905, unmarried.

Joseph Beal, ancestor of George BFAL Raynolds Beal, was born in Nelson, New Hampshire, October 8, 1791, died March 17, 1871. His father, who married a daughter of Rev. Jacob Foster, was an adopted son of John Beal, an uncle by marriage. Joseph Beal married Lois Wardwell, born in Andover, Massachusetts, April I. i8or, died July 20, 1880, daughter of Ezra and Lois (Whitney) Wardwell. Children of Joseph Beal: i. Justus Foster, born September 27. 183 1, at Nelson, New Hampshire, died February 24, 1890, at Boston, Massachusetts;

(second) Emma I. Gale; children; Joseph and \'iola Louise. 2. Joseph Raynolds. born August 18, 1834, at Nelson, New Hampshire, died January 6, 1895, at Keene, New Hampshire ; married Eleanor J. Cummings ; child, Jessie Gertrude. 3. Ezra Wardwell, see forward. 4. Sarah Frances, born May 16, 1837, at Nelson, New Hampshire, died April 10, 1896, at Keene, New Hampshire. 5. William Henry Harrison, born April 26, 1841, at Nelson, New Hampshire, married (first) Frances E. Norton; married (second) Laura H. Burnap; child by first wife, Frances E.. who died March 30, 1897.

(II) Ezra Wardwell Beal, son of Joseph and Lois (Wardwell) Beal, was born at Nelson. New Hampshire. March 8, 1836. and is now (1908) living in Waltham, Massachu- setts, lie is engaged in the produce commission business, and is one of the oldest in the l)usiness. having begun in 1854-55. He is a deacon and was for a number of years treasurer of the First Parish Church of Waltham. He married (first) Frances R. Goodrich, who l)ore him children: T. Frank W'ardwell, died in infancy. 2. William ( ioodrich. l)orn May 30. 1864. died July 19, 1898; married Nettie ],. Nichols: children: Lois Nichols and W'ilham ("i. He married (second). October 2, 18^)7. Lucretia Kendall Brown, born June 20. 1 84 1, daughter of George and Susannah (\\'ellington) Brown ( Brown ancestry appears in this sketch). Children by second wife: 3. Susan W'., born July 10. t868. 4. George Raynolds. see forward. 5. Justus Hunting, born luly 18. 1874, married Gertrude K. Howell: child. Howard Lawrence, born November 13, i()o6. 6. Henry Foster, born .\ugusi 12. i87<j. married Marion Alice Cushman.

(Ill) George Raynolds IJeal, son of [-".zra W'ardwell and Lucretia K. ( I'.rown ) Ileal, was born in Waltham. Massachusetts, .March 2(). 1870. He was reared there and secured his early education in the ])ublic and high school>. lie later attended Harvard College and was a member of class of 1891, but did not comiiletc his course. lie then studied law and \\:i> admitted to the Massachusetts bar in \<)()^. 1 le engaged in the banking business, and now holds the office of treasurer of the Waltham ."savings Bank, lie is a Republican in politics, and is now president of the board of aldermen of Waltham, having served in this body three terms, lie is a Mason, and member of .Monitor Lodge in Waltham. He is unmarried.

.Mrs. Lucretia K. ( I'row n ) Beal. wife of Ezra Wardwell Tieal. and mother of ( ieorge Raynolds Ileal, is descended from Abraham r.rowut'. of Watertown.

Among the early settler> of Walerlow n there were three llrownes - Richard, .Vbraham and John. The two last named were ])robal)l\' nephews of Richard lirowne. .\braham r>rowne was a very early settler. i)erhai)s one of the first of Watertown, and was admitted a freeman March 6. 1631-32. He was a land surveyor, and held many important offices and trusts. b>om 1636 to 1643. inclusive, he was a selectman ; in 1634 he was appointed with Robert Seeley "to survey all the lands that are granted," and they were also appointed "conservators of timber trees," in 1635 he was one of seven freemen appointed to divide every man "his propriet}" of meadow and upland that is ])loughable, and the rest to lie in common ; in the same year he was api)ointed with |ohn Warren to lay out all highways and to see that they are repaired, also to survey the lots granted by the selectmen. In 1638 it was ordered that all lots, both of freemen and foreigners, shall be measured and bounded by Abraham lirowne. who shall give a note of each survey to be enrolled in the town books. In 1640. .\l)raham Browne, "Surveyor of the Town," was directed to survey the subdivisions of the Hither and Further Plains, and the next year he was directed to do the same. .Also, it was ordered that he have 4d. the acre for surveying the two plains and the remote meadows. Also, he was empowered in 1643 to warn trespassers on public timber, and to lia\e one- fourth of the fines. October 7, 1641, the general court appointed him one of the committee for laying out the one thousand acres of land granted to the .\rtillery Companv at its first organization. The first civil records of Middlesex county show that October r, 1650. his will and inventory were "acce])ted at court." An order of court, made ( )ctober 6, 1691. respecting the final settlement of his estate, recites of him as "deceased in the \ear 1650." His widow, Lydia llrowne, married (second), .November 2/. 1659, .\ndrew Modg(,->. of Ipswich. She died Sei)tember 27. i(iN(). (hildren of .\braham and Lydia llrowne: I. .^arah. born in bjigland. married. December 16. 1^)43. (ieorge I'arkhurst. 2. .Mar\, born ])robablv in England, married. .\])ril 10. 1650. John Lewis, of Charlestown : children: i. .Abraham, born December 10. i()5o: ii. Jonathan. January 4, i'')5[. died i()5i- ^2: iii. -Mary, born January, 1652-53, married Samuel Tenfield : i\'. Hannah, married John MeKin: v. Isaac, married, March 25, 1680, .Mar\ 1 )avis ; vi. Trial, born January, 1657-58. 3. Lvdia, born .March 22, 1632-33. in W^atertown. married Lieutenant William Lakin, Jr., of ( Iroton : children: i. Jonathan, born June 28, \i^i)\ : ii. .Xbraham, January 10, 1663-64: iii. William, Mav 1666; iv. Abraham, September II. 1667: v. l^liab, October 10. i66<), died \oung. 4. Jonathan, see forward. 5. Hannah. i)urie(l March 15, 1638-39. aged fourteen days. (). .\l)raham. born March 6, 1639-40. died 1667; married. I'ebruary 5. 1662-63. Mary Dix : children: i. Lydia. bom November 11. 1663. married (ieorge Woodward. Jr.: ii. . Xbraham. born 1665. died May, 1678. The widow of Abraham married (second). 1668. Samuel Rice, of .Sudbury.

(HI) William Brown (he having dropped the final e), son of Jonathan and Mary (Shattuck) Browne, was born September 3, 1684, died October 28, 1756. He was prominent in church and municipal affairs of Watertown and Waltham, serving for many years as deacon, and was a member of the first board of selectmen of Waltham after its incorporation. He married (first), January 10, 1704-05, Hannah Pease, of Cambridge; she died March 10, 1717-18. He married (second), December 11, 1 718, Sarah Bond, only daughter of Colonel Jonas and Grace ( Coolidge ) Bond; she died June 10, 1777. Children: i. Ebenezer, see forward. 2. Hannah, born January 22, 1706- 07, died November 2, 1762; married, November 10, 1726, Samuel Livermore, Esq., of W^altham : nine children. 3. Sarah, born July 6, 1708, died young. 4. W'illiam, born September 27, 1 710, married Mary Fessenden. 5. Isaac, born December 5, 171 1, died October 6, 1759. 6. Susanna, born May 16, 17 14, died 1774; married. January 12, 1737-38, Henry Prentice, of Cambridge. 7. Samuel, born 1716, died 1786; married, probably, Jerusha Loomis. 8. Grace, born 1719, died 1769; married. May 13, 1742, George Lawrence. 9. Jonas, born December 9, 1721! died in childhood. 10. Josiah, born August 2, 1724, died Alarch 16, 1776. II. Sarah, born Alarch 14, 1727-28, died 1802-03; married, October 5, 1749, Colonel Benjamin Hammond, of Newton : children : Nathaniel and Ebenezer (twins), born Alay 2, 1750; Nathaniel, died 1753; Sarah, born November, 1751 ; Ann, born December, 1754; Jonathan, born December 19.

( IV ) Ebenezer Brown, son of \Mlliam and Hannah (Pease) Brown, was born in Watertown, October 2},, 1705, died December 17, 1785, in Waltham. He served as 'assessor and selectman of Waltham. He married, May 20, 1727, Abigail Adams, of Lexington; she died December 26, 1784. Children: i. Abigail, born March 5, 1728, died 1807; married. October 26, 1749, Jonathan Myrick. 2. Jonas, see forward. 3. Ebenezer, born December 29, 1730, died 1758. 4. David, born February 21, 1731-32, married, November 25, 1755, Alindwell Cummins. 5. Nathaniel, born September 30. 1733, died in the army, 1755. 6. Hannah, born February 5. 1734-35, married, January 12, 1758, Josiah Smith. 7. Martha, born April 6, 1736, died December 25, 1768; married, April I, 1756, Benjamin Green. 8. Amos, born September 18, 1738, died February 3, 1812. 9. Susanna, born February 9,1741, died in childhood. 10. Susanna, born February 9, 174 - , married, April 10. 1760, John Wellington. II. Elijah, born May 31, 1744, ched October 24, 1816; married (first), December 13, 1770, Susanna Bigelow, of Waltham; she died May I, 1807; married (second) Abigail, widow of Gershom Flagg, a sister of his first wife; children: Elijah and Henry.

(V) Jonas Brown, son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Adams) Brown, was born July 26, 1729, died October 27. 1810. He was a resident of Waltham. He married, January 31, 1758, Elizabeth Meriam, daughter of Thomas and Tabitha Meriam, of Lexington. Children : I. Mary, born June 8, 1759. 2. Abigail, born February 26. 1761, died 1842, unmarried. 3. Miriam, born January 23, 1763. 4. Elizabeth, born March 21, 1765, died October 15, 1800. 5. Jonas, see forward. 6. Alartha, born March 5, 1769, married, April 5, 1803, Robert Baldwin, of \\'altham.

(\^II) George Brown, son of Jonas. Jr. and Relief (Pierce) Brown, was born January 5, 1801. He married Susanna W^ellington. and their daughter Lucretia. born in W'altham, June 20, 1841. became the wife of Ezra Wardwell Beal. as before stated.

England, in 1649, and settled in I laverhill, Massachusetts, in 1659. He married, April 4, 1691, Hannah Heath, of Haverhill. The fifth garrison was in his house and under his command. During an Indian raid in 1695 his son Isaac, aged fifteen, and Joseph W'hittaker, aged eleven, were taken captive while in the open field near Josej)h r)radley's house on Parsonage road near the north brook. Whittaker's house was on the Derry road, west of Bradley's. Joseph was large, overgrown and exceedingly clumsy. On their arrival at the Indian camp at the Lake, the boys were placed in an Indian family consisting of a man. s(|uaw and three or more children, the Indians intending to take them to Canada in the spring. Isaac contracted a fever from which he nearly died, the kindness and care of the S(|uaw alone saving his life. lUit upon his recover}- he planned his escape, managed to get away with his companion and ran all night to the southward. The Indians, of course, pursued the boys, and ne.xt day their dogs found the wretched youngsters, who gave the meat they had taken for food to give the dogs, and as the dogs knew the boys, they gave no evidence of discovering the hiding-])lace when their Indian masters ap|)eared, the boys being hid in a hollow log. Some days later the boys came upon an Indian camp and were greatly disheartened at running into this new danger. They continued, almost without food and clothing, for eight days. On the morning of the eighth day Joseph sank down exhausted and his companion went forward alone. Soon afterward he discovered a settler's home and returned to save his companion. Joseph was sick for a long time at Saco, but Isaac was able to return to his home in 1 laverhill in a short time.

In 1697 Joseph, ^lartha and Sarah Bradley were captured by the Indians. A])ril 17, 1701, Daniel Bradley was reported missing. The wife of Joseph Bradey was captured twice. The garrison at his house was surprised February 8, 1704, and his wife taken for the second time and carried away. An infant child, born to her soon afterward, died of exposure and want, or was killed as related below. Mrs. i Iradley received no kindness from her captorssubsisting on bits of skin, ground nuts, bark of trees, wild onions and lily roots on the terrible journey to Canada, after the baby was born. The child was sickly and annoyed the Indians with its crying. They thrust embers from the fire into its mouth, gashed its forehead with their knives, and finally, during her temporary absence from the child, they ended its life by impaling it on a pike. She managed to live through the journey and was sold to the French for eighty livres. She was kindly treated by her owners. Her husband started for Canada on foot in }ilarch, 1705, with a dog and small sled, having a bag of snuff to present to the governor of Canada from the governor of the province of ^Massachusetts. He redeemed his wife and set sail for Boston. We are told that during one attack on the llradley house she poured hot soft soap on an Indian and killed him, and that the torture of her child was in retaliation. Joseph Bradley died October 3, 1729; his widow Hannah died November 2, 1761. They had ten children, some of whom arc: i. Abraham, resided until 1754 in Concord. New Hampshire. 2. Jose]:)h, mentioned below. 3. Martha. 4. Sarah, killed March 11, 1^197. by Indians. 5. Isaac, born 1680, taken prisoner in 1695. ^- Daniel, drowned ; Chase says he was killed June 13, 1689. Several others.

ill) Josejih Bradley, son of Joseph lira 1 ley ( I ), was born in Haverhill about 1675. He was ca))tured in 1697, but probably soon released i)y the Indians.

(III) Deacon Joseph Bradley, son of Jose])h r.radley (2), was born in Haverhill. hA^bruary 13. 1706; married, February 3, 1735, Hannah Marsh, of Haverhill. He signed a i)etition, 1748, relating to a town meeting over which there was .some controversy. He lived in the west parish of Haverhill and was the deacon of the church. His wife died in 1747. He married, second. Mrs. Sarah (Marble) French, of Newbury, Massachusetts. He died October I, 1749. He had four children by his fir.st wnfe. The only child by his second wife was Enoch, mentioned below.

(IV) Enoch Bradley, son of Deacon Joseph Bradley (3), was born in Haverhill, ^lassachusetts, June 22, 1742; married Mary Low, who was born in Essex, [Massachusetts, May 18, 1747, daughter of General Low. of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He and his wife Mary had nine chiklrt-n, five daughters antl four sons. He (Hed May 29, 1831. His wife died August 3, 1822. He owned an extensive farm in Haverhill, extending five miles along the banks of the iMerrimac river, and in 1814 utilized the mill privilege on his property. He was a soldier in the revolution, a sergeant in Captain Timothy Eaton's company. Colonel Johnson's regiment, April 19, 1775. He amassed considerable wealth and did a considerable banking business. He owned a pew in each of the Congregational churches and in the I'niversalist church. At the cross-roads, where the ways to these churches parted, he used to give the decision to his horse and attended the church to which the road selected by the horse led him. Children: i. Mary, born April 10, 1 77 1, married Ezekiel Barhard. 2. Abigail, born June i. 1772, married George Corliss. 3. Sarah, born February i, 1774, married Peter Ayer. 4. Enoch, Jr., mentioned below. 5. Caleb E.. born February 22, 1780,, married Abigail Ayers. 6. Patty, born December 25, 1782, married a Mr. Page. 7. Joseph, born June 4, 1786. married Margaret Bowers. 8. Bickett, born June 10, 1789, married, first, Hannah ]\lerrill ; second, Lucretia Page.

(V) Enoch Bradley, Jr., son of Enoch Bradley (4), was born in Haverhill, April 22, 1778. He married Abigail Hildreth, of Methuen, Massachusetts, daughter of Dr. Samuel Hildreth. They had ten children. He died April 6, 1855, aged seventy-seven years; his wife Abigail died May 12, 1856, aged seventyseven. From 1810 to 1815 he was adjutant of the state militia of Massachusetts. He had a large and ])rc)ductive farm and conducted a mill. He held many offices of public trust. He was the founder of the Haverhill Academy and became one of its first trustees. Children : ]\lary L., died young; Enoch L., Eliza A., Margaret B., Samuel Prescott, mentioned below ; Eouisa, Mary L., Abigail A., Joseph H.

(M) Samuel Prescott Bradley, son of Enoch Bradley, Jr. (5), was born March 17, 1812, in Haverhill. He was educated in the public schools of Haverhill, and became a ])rominent merchant and manufacturer of his native place. He was in early life a successful dr\- goods merchant and later a manufacturer of l)()ois and shoes. After he retired from the shoe business he devoted his time to the cultivation of his farm, bequeathed to him by his father who was the fourth in direct line to own and live on the Bradley homestead. ]\lr. Bradley was commissioned (|uartermaster with the rank and title of lieutenant in Colonel

Chauncey Hastings" regiment ( the eighth ) by ( Governor Edward Everett. He was an active Whig during the Harrison campaign in 1840. In 1843 '""s ^^'^^ ^" ^^^^^ to the governor. He was an active member of the Popular Fire Society and in various other Haverhill societies and organizations. He was a pioneer in adopting gas to illuminate his house, being the first to try the new method of lighting. He was a liberal contributor to the Washington monument. He was an active, useful and honored citizen of Haverhill. He died November 24, 1 89 1.

He married F^mmeline P)artlett, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Atkins) (Gilbert) Bartlett. October 27, 1836. Children born in Haverhill: i. Henry P.. born July 23. 1838. married, first, Elvira Richards, of New York ; second, Eliza W^andel, of Staten Island ; three children : i. Samuel S ; ii. [kM'tha B. ; iii. Eizzie De Hart, now deceased, who married Charles Theodore Wolf; children: Charles P. Wolf, born April 22, 1895, and Gilbert B. Wolf, born September 22, 1900. both of whom live in New ^'ork citv. 2. Maria Gilbert, unmarried.

and among the most conspicuous of the planters who came over from the mother country within the next three years following the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth was one bearing that name, and one who by his enter])rise, intelligence and upright character ])roved an important factor in planting settlements, ordering their afifairs and shaping the government of the region which in later years l)ecame the commonwealth of Massachusetts. In early colonial records the name .Mien is variously written Alen. Alin. Allin. Ailing. Allyn, Allyne and Allyng, as well as, and perhaps more frequently than, in its now almost unvei'sally used form of Allen.

( I ) The founder of the particular branch of the family intended to be treated in these annals was \\'illiam Allen, an Englishman by birth and ancestry, who was born in Manchester, in 1602, and set foot on the soil of America in 1623, being then twenty-one years old. He was one of the Dorchester company of planters that went to Cape Ann, now Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1623, and thence he went to Salem in 1626. About 1640 he removed to Jeflries creek, in that part of Salem which afterward was set off to form the town of Manchester. He was admitted freeman Ma\- 18, 1631, and both he and his wife Eliz- abcth were nKinbcrs of the l-'irst church in Salem. Me had a grant oi tifty acres of land in Salem in 1636, and John XX'oodbur}- was given a warrant to lay it out. In 1638 he had an additional grant of an acre of salt marsh land, and in 1642, he and Robert Allen were granted ten acres each at the great pond, now W'enham lake.

Robert .Vllen, who was living in Salem in 1636, when he received a grant of land there. is said to have been a brother of William Allen. Robert received a grant oi land at Jeffries creek, now Manchester, in 1638, and removed there before 1648, having been chosen constable in the year last mentioned. He went with the (Gloucester company to New F.ondon, Connecticut, in March. 1051. renio\ed to Norwich before 1662 and in the latter year was dismissed from the Salem church to the Norwich church. Soon afterward he returned to .New f.ondon. llis children were John. Sarah. .Mar\-. Ilannah and l)el)orah Allen.

In AJay, 1640, William ,-\llen and sixteen others presented a petition to the general court for ])ermission to remove to Jeffries creek and ])lant a settlement there, and during the years following sold his lands in the vicinity ot .Salem. I le was one of the selectmen of Alantluster (in the incorporation t)f that town in U)45. and probably held that office many years. Me was a carpenter, and built the first house on the ])lain : and tradition says he als(^ built the first saw mill, on the stream which then took and has since retained the name of Sawmill brook. He was progenitor of most of the numerous families of Aliens who have lived in .Manchester and its vicinity in Essex county during all subse(|uent generations from his lime. In the ."^alem records he is mentioned as an "inlluential and enterprising citizen." Me

8. K131-2; and married second, b^lizabeth l!radle\. who probably survived him. Mis will, dated June 7, 1678, was proved .\])ril 2(1. K179. Children, all born in Salem: 1. Tersis. born February 1630, died less than a week old.

first wife, born in Salem, January 8, 1631-2, died in Manchester, after November 21, 1702. Me was a housesmith, a man of property and infiuence, and one of the selectmen of AFanchester in 1676-7-8, and again in 1693. His