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21. 1702. and was disallowed when off'ered for probate December 5, 1709. Children, all bori^ in Manchester: i. Samuel, born .\ugust 4. |C)()3. died before February 4. 1744. Me was a fisherman, and subse(juently engaged in trade. I le married. .March 17, 1687. Abigail Williams, who was living in 1720. Children: Sarah, born July 14. if)88, married ."^amuel Crow: -Vbigail. born June 10. 1690, married .\ehemiah Presson, of Beverly. 2. John, born b'ebruary 12, (666, died 1737. He was a fisherman, and si)ent his life in AFanchester. where he was selectman. 1702. lie married first, second, December 8. 1727. widow Afargaret llill. who died in 1763. His children: John, Ixirn .November 9, 1690; Sarah, born June 2^. [(nji, died young; Jacob, born AFarch 13, 1696-7: Elizabeth, born May 18, 169Q, married Robert F.eech ;IFannali, born AFarch 18, 1701, married Edward Fee: Josiah, born .\pril 28, 1703, married first, AFargaret Hilton; second, >Far}- Warren : Sarah. Fx)rn September 2X. 1706, married James Fxillock, of ( doucester : James, born Augu.st 26, 1705: .\nios. born May 26, 1711, lo.st at sea when bound homeward from \irginia in 1754; F'^zekiel, born 1716. married Sarah Harsham; Nehemiah, born 1734, died January 20, 1749-50. 3. Sarah, born March 12, 1668: married F^ecember 4, 1684, William Has.sam, of AFarblehead. 4. William, born AFarcli t8. [670, died in Windham, Connecticut, December 15. 1747. 5. Josej)h, born June 26, 1672, died August 17, 1722. He was a farmer and always liv«?d in Alancheser. He married first, October 28, 1696, Catherine Leech, of Manchester, who died in 171 1; married second, January 20, 1112-13, Sarah Knowlton. Children: Joseph, born August 12. 1697, died before 1727; Samuel January 23, 1698-9, married Rachel Day, and lived in Gloucester; Benjamin. July 15, 1702, married Mary Riggs, and lived in Gloucester; Robert, May 8, 1705; Priscilla, April

11, 1711; Catherine, December 27, 1713; Moses, October 7, 171 5: Sarah Knowlton, baptized December 8, 1717; Elizabeth, born February 24, 1718, married Stephen Cross, of Manchester. 6. Alice, born September 20, 1674; married before 1702, Daniel Williams, fisherman, of Manchester. 7. Rachel, born February 19, 1677: married June 14, 1715, Samuel Hutchinson, of \\'indham, Connecticut. 8. Elizabeth, born March 18, 1679, died 1720: married November 28, 1717, Thomas Lee. 9. Benjamin, born June 4, 1681, died February 22, 1747; married first, 1705, Abigail Hill, died March 30, 1720; married second. December 8. 1720, Mrs. Sarah (Reith) Tuck, of Beverly, died September 25, 1749. Children : Abigail, born May 30, 1705, died young; Benjamin, September 13, 1706, married Remember Stone ; Bartholomew\ July 26, 1708, married Abigail Creesy, of Salem; Abigail, November 19. 1710, married Edwards; Elisha. May 25, 171 1, married Hannah Leach; Lydia. February 2^. 1712-13, married died December 9, 1798, married Elizabeth Lee, of Manchester ; Nehemiah, February 15, 1717, married Elizabeth Pierce, of Manchester; Sarah, March 11, 1719-20, died April 9. 1720. 10. Jonathan, (see post).

(HI) Jonathan Allen, youngest child of Samuel and Sarah Allen, was born in Manchester, and spent his life on a farm in that town. In 1709 he married Mary Pierce, who died in 1762. He died in 1768. Children, all born in Manchester: i. Miriam, born August 27. 1710; married November 24, 1729, Andrew Hooper. 2. David, born May 25, 171 1 ; married January 11, 1732-3, Mary Hibbard ; one child, Elizabeth, born October 16, 1734. married first Samuel Sample, second, Eleazer Crafts. 3. Jonathan, born March 24, 171 3; married December 24. 1734. Priscilla Lunt, of Ipswich. Children: David, born October 25, 1736. died November 8, 1752; Rachel, January born in Manchester, June 13, 1721^ died there March 23, 1805, aged eighty-three years. He was a housewright by business occupation, an u]jright man, and much respected in the town where his Hfe was spent. He was a private in Captain Andrew Marster's company wdiich marched from Manchester to Medford on the occasion of the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and received pay for three day's service. It is reasonably certain that he again entered the army, and it is understood that he served at various periods during the struggle for independence, although there is no present means to determine the full period of his service on account of the fact that the revolutionary records contain the names of twenty-four men of tlie name Jacob Allen who entered the army as soldiers of Massachusetts. Jacob Allen married tirst, January 3, 1743-4, Sarah Lee. who died in July, i/f^^. He married second. Mary Tarring, of Manchester, (marriage intentions ])ublished October 13, 1765). She died August 18, 181 5, aged seventy-five years. Six children were born of his first and one of his second marriage, all in ^Manchester : i. Sarah, born November 14. 1746; married March 12, 1765. John Hill. 2. Captain Jacob, born April 23. 1749; lost at sea, 1780. He was a fisherman, master of a vessel, and always lived in Manchester. He married, May 3. 1772, Elizabeth Norton, of Manchester, who survived him and died in 1794. Children: l^lizabeth. born August 24, 1772, married May 22, 1787, Nathan Lee, of Manchester; Amiis. May 3. 1774, died September 24, 1775; Annis, January 12, 1776, married August 19, 1792. Daniel Low. Jr.. of IManchester ; Jacob, August 4. 1777, died August 21. 1777; Patty. April

7. 1 78 1, died August i, 18 12, married August 3, 1807, Polly Batchelder. 3. Lucy, born November 3. 1 75 1 ; married first, September 13. 1772. George Towgil (or Towzit or Tousit) ; married second, before 1804. Whitney. 4. IJethiah. born February 5. 1755; married first, December i. 1772. Samuel Driver, of Manchester; married second, before 1804, Aaron Lee. 5. Isaac, born February 6, 1758, died September 26. 1841. He was a mariner and sailed from his home port of Manchester. During the revolution he served seventeen months as private in the ISIassachusetts land forces, and eight months as seaman on board the transport schooner "Endeavor." He married first, March 30, 1779, Rebecca Tewksbury, of Manchester, died September 10, 1807; married second, January 12, 1808. Mary Foster, widow of Thomas Wells. Children of Isaac Allen and Rebecca Tewksbury, all born in Manchester : Rebecca, born February 24, 1780. married April 28, 1805, William Tuck; Sarah, October 16, 1781. died Lynn Alay 6, 1835, married September 14. 1802, John Woodbury of Lynn, who died in 1876; Elizabeth, October 14, 1783, died October 16, 1862. married September 10, 1810, Seth Dodge of Beverly, who died ]\Iay 4, 1873; Annis, December 25, 1785, died November 23. 1844, married October 4, 1807, Isaac (lalloupe, of Beverly; Isaac, February 28. 1788, died March 9, 1790; Jacob, August 20, 1789. died August 2, 1852, married January 29, 1809, Lucy Galloupe, of Wenham, who died April 9, 1871 (Isaac Allen was a clergyman, and lived in Beverly, Wenham and Lynn. Massachusetts. Cavendish, X'ermont, and Ticonderoga and Elizabethtown. New York ) ; Amos, August 18, 1792. died August 19, 1795; Lucy, April 28. 1795. died June I. 1797; Lucy, June 2/, 1797, married November 6. 1829, James Au.stin, of Salem. 6. Amos, born June 8, 1761. lost at sea, ^larch, 1770. 7. Nathan, (see ])ost).

( \' ) Deacon Nathan .Allen, youngest child of Jacob .Allen, and only child of his second marriage, was born in Manchester, in 1768, and spent the whole of his useful life in that town, living on his father's old home farm in that ]:)art of Manchester which was then called North A'armouth. He was a joiner and housewright by trade, and a farmer by princi])al occupation. He was an u])right man in his daily walk. ])erfectly honest, and was greatly respected throughout the town. For about thirty years he was deacon of the church. He married. July 5, 1792, Elizabeth Perry, of Manchester, died February 26. 1856, aged eighty-seven years. Children, all born in Manchester: I. Nathan, born January 13, 1794, (see post). 2. John i'erry, born April 12. 1795, (see post). 3. Deacon Enoch, born May 24, 1797, died July 8. 1842; married first, June 10. 1824. Susan Alarsten. bom Alarch 11. 1805. died November 4. 1826; married second. Elizabeth Peabody. of Bradford, died July 16. 1833; married third. June 17, 1834. Abigail W. Rogers, of Alaine. Deacon Allen was a farmer, and held his ofiice in the church from April. 1809. until his death. He had one child by his first and two children by his second wife: Susan M., born Salem Alarch 22. 1825, married October 27, 1846, Moses P. Greenleaf; an infant, born and died in 1830; Charlotte, born Ai)ril 13. 1831, died single. November T3. 1861. 4. Mehitable. born Ma\- 30. 1799;

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{\'l) .Xathan Allen, eldest child of Deacon Xathan and Elizabeth H*err\ ) .\llen. born in Manchester, January 13, 1794. died there Xovember 9, 1826. Although he died while in the prime of young maidiood, he had made a good start in life and had come to be recognized as one of the most enterprising and ca])- able men of the town. I lis father gave him a good education in the town schools, and after leaving school he served an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed for some time and later began work as a cabinet maker. Eater on. in company with his vounger brother John Terry Allen, he engaged in the manufacture of furniture, and was so employed at the time of his death in 1826.

Xathan .Mien was a coast guard in the war of 1812-15 ; an attendent of the Congregational church; and in ])olitics was allied to the old (original Republican party, which with the Democratic ])arty of that day was arraigned on the side of President Aladison in ri'sisting the Federal ])artv in its attem])ts to discourage the second war with Creat liritain. lie was a loyal American patriot, and took u|) arms in resisting Ih'itish oppression. Me married. February 8. 1817. Eucy Storey .Alien, born January 1. 1797, died A])ril 26, 1889: she married.

(\ I) John Perry .Allen, second son and child of Deacon .Xathan an<l h'lizabeth ( Perry) .Allen, born in Manchester. Massachusetts. April 12. 1795. died there January 30, 1875, after a long and deservedly successful business career. He tmdoubtedly was one of the most capable business men the town of Alanchester has ])roduced. and his rise in life was due wholly to his own personal efl"'ort, for his beginning was small and his ca])ital was limited, but he wrought well on foundations laid hx Inm.'clf. He was a man of great determination of character, and early in life gave ample l)roof of a capacit}' to originate, build u]) and successfully direct large enteq^rises.

He was the |)ioneer of cabinet making in Manchester, beginning at once in the manufacture of furniture to' be used in the I'oston public market in 1816, when he had just attained the age of twenty-one years. For many years he was the leading manufacturer of the town, and imtil his death his brother Xathan had an interest in the Inisiness. but |ohn was alwa}-s the active head of the concern as he had been its founder. Having been in 1)usiness several years Mr. .Allen found that the work of sawing veneers by hand was slow, expensive, and in a measure unsatisfactory, and this embarrassment to the best results he undertook to remefh'. in the \'ear 1826, b\ i)urchas- iiig the old Carter grist mill i>n Central scjuare in Manchester and titilizing its water power for operating saws to cut the veneer woods. The experiment cost considerable money and much valuable time, but the result attained fully warranted the outlay and worked complete revolution in the manufacture of furniture on a large scak. Mr. Allen was the first man to engage in the business, and afterward for many years he stood at its head, doing the greater part of the sawing of veneers for the entire country, in August, 1836, during his al:)sence from home, his residence and factory buildings were burned to the ground, causing liim heavy losses in a financial way: but before another year had passed new and larger buildings were erected and the business resumed on a larger scale than ever before, h'ourteen years later, about 1850, Mr. .Mien discontinued his connection with the furniture manufacturing concern and afterward engaged somewhat extensively in the manufacture of barrels w iili machiner}' ; but this enter])rise i)roved unsuccessful and was abandoned. Having closed out his interest in the barrel factory .Mr. Allen retired from active ])m'suits, but he ue\er lost sight of the fact that hi> uatixe town still held claims upon him for the ])romotiou of interests of a i)ublic character. In years gone he had been ])rominently identified with every measure pro])osed for the welfare of the town of Manchester, its institutions and its ])eople. and so long as he lived his interest in this respect never abated. His sympathies were large, his emotions generous and his heart charitable, and he, of his abundant means, gave liberally to main- worthy causes. The solid mahogany ])ulpit in the Congregational church in Manchester was donated b}- him. Mr. .\llen was in the truest sense a gentleman of the old school, and alwa_\s it was a pleasure to meet him in any ])resence. and those whosi' good fortune it was to meet him at his own fireside and receive his cordial welcome and generous Iv )S])itality will always cherish his memor}- and honor him for his many noble (|ualities and high moral character.

On November 28, 1816. John Perry Allen married Ruth Allen, born September 4, 1798, died June 13, 1875, eldest child and only daughter of John Allen, born January i. 1776, died August 2"], 1834. and was a famous shipmaster. His wife, whom he married December 26. 1797, was Ruth Leach, born April 17, 1778. died October, 1 3. 1843. John Allen was a son of .Vzariah Allen, baptized May 24, 1741, and wa^ lost at sea with Caj)tain Collon in \~']'J

(\ 11) (icorge l'\)rster .\llen, youngest son and child i)f .Nathan, Jr. and Lucy (Storey) Allen, and the only one of them who grew^ to matiu-ity. was Ijorn in Manchester, September 10. 182(1. I'of about sixty years he has been in soiiH' i)roniinent w:i\- identified with the life of thai town: and il was not until within the la>t Near tl.at he ])Ul aside the cares and responsibilities of bu>iness pursuits and retired to th.e (|uiet enjoyment of the fruits of his industrA'. Ilis entire life thus far has been s])ent in Manchester, ;ind it was there he received his early education in the public schools and the once famous Chapel Hill School, the kuler an academic institution of earlier years and one of die most celebrated schools of Essex count}-. When he was eighteen years old Mr. .Mien began an apprenticeship to the trade of shoemaking. and three years later. in i84(). was api)oiiUed i)ostmaster of Manchester. This was during the presidential adniinir-tralion of Zachary Taylor, and he held that office four \-ears and three months. In 1850 he oi)ened a small store and kept the i)ostof^ce in the .same building. His .stock was small, for he started like the men of his early davs, with small means; the town itself had not many inhabitants at that time, and Manchester-by-the-Sea had not then become one of the most inviting and exclusive summer resorts on the north shore. However, in 1852, Mr. .Mien, in comj^any with Thomas W. Slade. established a general merchandise store in Alanchester. carried on business with gratifyiri<> success for about six vears. when on account

In 1861 he was elected town clerk of Manchester and in 1862 was elected member of the board of selectmen. This office he held until 1868, through the years of the civil war, wdien the duties of the selectmen called for constant attention and frequent action, for upon them rested much responsibility in connection with the raising- of the town's quota of men for service, the payment of bounties, and the forwarding of recruits to the companies and regiments to which they w^ere to be attached. And after the close of the war it became the duty of the board of selectmen to propose and carry out the measures adopted for meeting the town's indebtedness and also to establish its business on a new foundation. Indeed, the office of selectman from 1862 to the time when the last dollar of the town debt w'as paid was no sinecure and during that period the responsibilities of the position were very arduous. During the greater part of this period Mr. Allen was chairman of the board,, and in addition to the duties of that office the selectmen also were town assessors and overseers of the poor.

In 1868 Mr. Allen ])urchased from his former ])artner, Air. Slade, the mercantile business they had established in 1852, and continued as sole ])ro])rietor until the latter part of 1907, when he retired. Jt was in all respects a successful business, the most extensive of its kind in the town, and yielded to its owner a comfortable fortune. Eor five years he served as member of the school committee and for two years as member of the board of water commissioners. For many years he has been a member of the Congregational church, its clerk for the last forty years, treasurer for thirty-three years, clerk of the parish for thirty-five years, and still continues this service (1908). Originally Mr. Allen was an old line Whig, and cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor. In 1856 he was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Manchester, and from that time he has taken an active part in the councils of his party in Manchester and Essex county, although he never has been in any sense a politician. On June T'^'. T855, (ieorge Forster Allen married Arabella McCollom, born in Alount A'ernon, New Hampshire, August 27, 1827, daughter of Rodney and Naomi (Wilson) McCollom, of New Boston, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs.

Arabella McCollom. wife of George Forster Allen, was born in Mount A'ernon, New Hampshire, August 27, 1827. Her father, Rodney McCollom, born in New^ Boston, New Hampshire, March 27, 1793, died there February 22, 1886. He was a farmer. He married, November 13, 1821, Naomi Wilson; children : i. David Alexander, born August 2, 1823, married April 5, 1859, Martha S. Cochran. 2. Arabella, married George Forster Allen. 3. Mary R., born October 23, 1835.

Alexander McCollom was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, March 22, 1731, and died in New Boston, New Hampshire (the first town clerk of this township). January 6, 1768. He was a farmer. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald 3iIcMurphy, of Londonderry; children: i. Janette, married Eliphalet Dustin. 2. Jean, married Thomas Millen, of Newbury, Vermont. 3. John, born 1 75 1, died November 21, 1783, unmarried. 4. Elizabeth, married Dustin. 5. Alexander, born April 22, 1766.

Alexander IMcCollom was a son of Alexander McCollom, who was born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1702, and died in Londonderry, New Hampshire, April 4, 1781. 'He came to America in 1730, and was among the early settkrs of the town last mentioned, and which was granted by Governor Shute to a colony of immigrants, nearly all of whom were of Scotch ancestry and had been settled in the north part of Ireland. They and their ancestors had fled from Scotland to escape religious persecution, but soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century they themselves began to feel the oppressive measures put upon their ancestors, and in order to escape persecution themselves petitioned Governor Shute and received from h^m a grant of a township of land in the province of New Hampshire. Alexander Mc- Collom settled in Londonderry about ten years after the grant had been made, hence was not one of the original colonists there. His wife,

(VH) John Perry Allen. Jr., son of J(jhn Perry and Ruth (Allen) Allen, was born in iNTanchester, Massachusetts, February 11, 1823, and died April 26, 1890. He received his education in public and ]:)rivate schools, and after leaving school began his business career in the furniture manufacturing enter])rise of which his fatlif :r was the founder and ])rincipal manager. After the destruction of the works l)y fire, heretofore mentioned, he engaged in various occupations, at one time being connected with the Gharlestown navy yard, later re])resented various furniture manufacturing companies, and still later was in the employ of the Ca])e Ann Anchor Works, of Gloucester. Massachusetts. Mr. .Mien was a "forty-niner" in the gold fields of California and was one of the ])ioneers in that once famous region : and twice afterward he visited the country bordering on the i'acific coast. ( )n one of these occasions he voyaged by way of Cape Horn, on another by way of the Lsthmus of Panama, and on the other he journeyed overland across the continent. The last two of these trips ]\Ir. Allen made in connection with mining oi)erations in which he engaged as the result of his first visit to the gold fields.

On September 16, 1856, Mr. Allen married Irene Parsons Johnson, born in Manchester. Massachusetts. March 16, 1837, died there September 7, 1904. Six children, all sons, were born of this marriage: i. Charles Perry, born Se])tember 28. 1857. \\'hen a young man he went to sea. and the ship was lost.

was never heard from again, bound for India in 1877. 2. Harry E... born November 13. 1858. He was a sailorman, and died June 12. 1903, in a hospital in Wellington, New Zealand. 3. Richard J., born October 12. i860. 4. John Perry (3d ), born March 5, 1862, died February 6, 1895, aged thirty-three years; married Hattie Hobbs, of Lynn, ^Massachusetts. He was by trade a carpenter. 5. Edward F.. born December 30. 1872. died April 16, 1873. 6. lienjamin Leach, see forward.

(A'llI I Ik-njamin Leach Allen, x-oungest son of John Perry. Jr., and Irene Parsons (Johnson) .Allen, was born in Manchester. Massachusetts, February 14, 1875, and received his early education in the public and high schools of that town. \\'hen only fourteen years old he began work in the drugstore of .A.. Lee & Sons, Alanchester, and by prompt attention to his duties as a boy and careful study in comiection with his work as clerk, in later years he was advanced to the position as head clerk. In the meantime he had ])repared himself for the position of licensed registered pharmacist and supi)lemented his study and ])ractical experience with a course at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy ; and thus prel)ared he presented himself for the examination of the State lioard of Pharmacy, and passed successfully, although at that time he was only twenty years old, the youngest candidate who had ever taken the examination and the only Manchester man to so present himself. These were strenuous years, however, in Air. Allen's business life, for from the time he left the public school he not only earned the means to maintain himself and defray the expenses of his course in pharmacy, but during all that lime he was the chief support of his widowed mother. In .August. 1901. having for several years filled the position of head clerk in Lee ^*<: Son's drug store. .Mr. Allen acriuired a half interest in the store and business and in Alaw 1907. he became sole owner and ]:)ro])rietor. lie always has been an earnest and industrious worker and subsecjuent events and ])resent conditions have shown that he has worked to good purpose. lie has been successful, and has fully deserved all the success which has rewarded his eff"()rts. I le is a member of the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical .Association, of Magnolia Lodge, No. 149. I. O. O. F., of Manchester, of the Manchester Club: and in politics is Republican.

Jonathan and l^lorence (Story) May. iicr father. Jonathan May, was born in Holbeton, Devonshire, England, and her mother. Elorence Story, was a native of Svvanipscott, Massachusetts, daughter of Lorenzo (?) Augustus Story, of Kettle Cove, now Magnolia, a small village and famous summer resort within the limits of the city of (iloucester, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have two children: Ethel ^lay Allen, born August i, i8y8. and Perry Lee Allen, born AFarch 4. 1901.

Nicholas Nichols was an early NICHOLS settler of Andover, Massachusetts. He took the prescribed oath of allegiance to the king February 11, 1678. His name is on the list of ministerial rates for the north end of Andover in 1692. He married Elizabeth and their daughter Elizabeth died September 18, 1689.

(II) Nicholas Nichols, probably grandson of Nicholas Nichols (i), was born about 1735. A family tradition states that he was a native of the Lsle of Guernsey, but this tradition may refer to an earlier ancestor. He settled in Exeter, New Hampshire, on what is now the site of the l'hilli])s Academy. He was a barber by trade. He was in the commissary department of the Revolutionary army. Captain Peter Cofifin sent by Nicholas Nichols, in 1775, four hundred pairs of shoes, fifty pairs of leather breeches, one hundred pairs of stockings. In 1778 he took three wagon loads of clothing, etc., to ]\Iorristown, New Jersey, and returned with flour and iron. He had wagons in the service later.

(IH) Captain Nicholas Nichols, son of Nicholas Nichols (2), born in Exeter, New Ham])sbire, June 4, 1762, died September 28, 1 83 1, aged sixty- four. He was of Newbury- })ort, Massachusetts, at the time of his marriage to Catherine Sanborn, born May 14. 1768, died June 13, 1816, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Sanborn. Her father was baptized at Kingston, New Hampshire. February 4, 1739, married September 19, 1758, Lydia Severance, who died April 4, 1827, and he died May 25, 1809. Paul Sanborn, father of Deacon Jonathan, was born February 21, 1715, at Kingston; married December 14. 1737. ]\Iary Fifield, and second, December 9, 1746, Betsey Currier ; removed to Cumberland, Maine. John Sanborn, father of Paul, born in 1683, resided at Hampton Falls, removing to Kingston, New Ham])shire, in 1725; was a ])roprietor of Chichester; married, January i, 1707, Mehitable Fitield, daughter of Benjamin, who was killed by the Indians in 1706. John died January 4, 1/^2, his widow administering his estate. John Sanborn, father of John, was born in 1649, admitted freeman April 25, 1678; married, November 19, 1674, Judith Coffin, daughter of Tristram, of Newbury. She was born December 4, 1653, died May 17, 1724; John died Se])tember 23, 1727. John Sanborn, the immigrant, was father of John last-named. Among the eleven children of Captain Nicholas and Catherine (Sanborn) Nichols was Trueworthy, mentioned below. Captain Nichols was a tanner and currier at Kingston, New 1 1 ampshire.

( I\' ) Trueworthy Nichols, son of Nicholas Nichols (3), was born March 13, 1790. He married Sarah Peaslee, and second, Mary Barstow. Fie was a tanner by trade, and also carried on a large farm. He was a Congregationalist in religion, and in his later years belonged to the Whig party. He had a general store at Deerfield, New Hamjishire for many years. Children: 1. Abuses. 2. Judith. 3. Catherine. 4. Algernon P., mentioned below.

( \' ) Algernon P. Nichols, son of Trueworthy Nichols (4). was born in Deertield, New Hampsl'iire, December 17, 1814. Pie had a common schoc)l education and learned the trade of tanner. When a young man he came to Haverhill, Alassachu setts, and conducted a tannery on Mill street. Later he became a manufacturer of reed organs, and finally devoted his attention to his real estate, building many houses for investment and sale. Fie erected the Taylor Block at no Merrimack street. At the time of his death he owned much valuable real estate in Haverhill. He died in 1901. Pie was a strong anti-slavery man and supported the abolition movement to the extent of his ])ower, and was active in the "L'nderground Railroad," and often assisting fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. He was a Congregationalist in religion, a member of the Center Congregational Church of Haverhill. He joined the Republican j^arty when it was organized, and continued in that ])olitical organization the rest of his life. He married Alary .\mes Boynton,born 1816, died 1898, aged eightv-one. Of their seven children, three grew to maturity: t. Algernon Sidney, born 1847, died in Hilo. Sandwich Islands, aged twenty-nine years ; graduate of Harvard Medical School, 1869, and was a physician and surgeon. 2. Sarah E., born Se])- tcmber 21. 1853; married John M. Poor;

(VI ) Myron A. Xicliols. son of Algernon 1'. Nichols (5), was born in llaverhill, in 1858. He was educated in the public and high schools of that city. He became associated with his father in the real estate business, and since his father's death has continued to l)uild houses and develop real estate in llaverhill. and has largely increased the holdings of his father. Mr. Nichols is accounted one of the best judges of real estate values in the city, and his advice and services are fre- (|uently sought in important real estate transactions. He is a large taxi)ayer. and a i)ublic s])irited citizen, lie i^ a member of the Center Congregational C hurch. In jjolitics he is a ke])ubiican. He is a member of the Haverhill lioard of Trade.

ancient town of Dutton. England, mentioned thrice in Domesday r)Ook. ( )ne part of this town was held by Odard. or Udard, also spelled I 1 odard and Hudard. .After Hodard received his grant from the Earl of Chester, his descendants added the name of the town to their Christian names, as John de Dutton. The family has borne a coat-of-arms. from the earliest days, and from 1060 I0 the jM-esent time has ranked among the leading noble families of (ireat Uritain.

(I) Hodard, the progenitor of the family in tuigland. came from Normand\- in iofS6 with William the Con{|ueror. In the distribution of the conquered lands he received a goo<l ])art of the town of Dutton. in Cheshire, and settled there. This grant came from Hugh r.upus. formerly Earl of Avranches. later Earl of Chester. The sister of Hugh Lu])us married William of Normandy. ( )ne authority makes Hodard a nephew of Hugh Lupus, and therefore a nephew by marriage to the King. Hodard had five brothers - Edard, Wolmere, Horswyne. \\'olfarth and Nigell. Hodard held Aston under \\'illiam Eitz-Nigell, Baron of Halton. Hodard was Lord of Dutton; according to the family record in 1665 his land was then in the custody of his lineal descendant. Lady Elinor A'icomptess Kilmorey, daughter of Thomas Dutton, and had been treasured then for some six centuries, in the possession of the direct heirs of Dutton.

(HI) Hugh de Dutton. .son ui Hugh (2), inherited the estate. Children: i. Hugh, mentioned below. 2. Adam, ancestor of the Warburtons. 3. Ceofifrey. ancestor of the Duttons of Cheshire. 4. Sir Roger.

(T\') Hugh Dutton, son of Hugh de Dutton ( 3 ), married a daughter of the Baron of Dunham-Glassy. He bought Little Moldeswt)rth of Robert de Moldesmith; son of ]\Iatthew, about 1250. He also bought Preston near Dutton, of I lenry de Xuers and Julia his wife. He bought the town of Little Leigh in feefarm from Simon, son of ( )sberne, and the annual rent of two marks of silver was paid man)- centuries by his heirs to the Earl of Derby as of his manor of Harden. Me purchased a moiety of Barnton from William, son of llenrw Children: 1. Hugh. 2. Thomas, mentioned l)elow. 3. John. 4. .Vdam.

( \' ) Sir Thomas Dutton. son of Hugh Dutton (4). was living in 1249 and I2r)8. He bought Clatterwigge, a hamlet in Little Leigh, near Bartcrton, from llude de C"latterwigge, about 1244. Me was sherifT of C'heshire in 1268. He built a chapel at the manor house of Dutton. Me married l'hillip])a. daughter of X'ivian de Sandon. or Standon. (,'liildren: I. Hugh, mentioned below. 2. Thitmas. had lands of his father in Stattordshire. 3. Sir Robert. 4. Mary; married William N'enables. 5. Katherine, married John, son of I'rian de Sancto Petro.

(AT) Sir Hugh Dutton. son of Sir Thomas Dutton (51. was born in Dutton about 1250, and died 1294. 1 fe built the county bridge at .Vcton h'ord. about 1286. He bought Barterton. He married Joan de Sancto Petro. daughter of Sir I'rian. Children: I. Hugh, mentioned below. 2. William, of Stockport in ^y^5- vV R"l't'rt, parson of Eccleston. 4. Margaret.

iXU) Sir Hugh, son of Sir Hugh Dutton (6). born December 8, 1276, married Joan Holland, daughter of Sir Robert, of Holland, in Lancashire. She married second. l\dmund Talbot, of Bashall. and third. Sir John Ratcliff, of Lanca.shire. She died December 24, 1326. Children: I. Thtjmas. mentioned below. 2. William I'ar.son of Thornton. 3. (ieoft'rey. 4. Robert.

(\Tri) Sir Thomas Dutton, son of .Sir ffugh Dutton (7), was born at Dutton in T315. and died in 1381. He purchased lands formerly belonging to Llalton-Fell. and also those in Dutt<^n formerlv of Bo\-dell. of Dodles- ton, and this made the entire township his own. He was made seneschal, governor, and receiver of the castle and honor of Holton in Cheshire, by William Clinton, Earl of Huntington, and also of all lands and manors in Cheshire and Lancashire. He married first, Ellen, daughter of Sir Peter Thornton, of Thornton. He married second, Phillippa Thornton, widow of Sir Peter Thornton. She died in 1389. He was sheriff of Cheshire, and a knight. Children: i. Sir Peter. 2. Thomas.

(IX) Edmund Dutton, son of Sir Thomas Button (8), of Dutton; married Joan, daughter and heir of Henry MinshuU de Church- IVIinshull, by whom he had the manor of Church-Manshull and Aston-Mondrau. His widow married William de Hooton. Children: I. Sir Peter, born 1367, heir of his uncle Sir Lawrence Dutton. 2. Hugh, born about 1370; mentioned below. 3. Lawrence.

(X) Hugli Dutton. son of Edmund Dulton (q), was born in Dutton, about 1370. He was sheriff of Cheshire in 1422. His second wife, Emma, was the widow of Hugh Vewables, of Golborne. and daughter of Nicholas Warren, of Pointon. Children: i. John, heir; mentioned below. 2. Randle, rector of Christieton, near Chester. 3. Hugh. 4. Elizabeth, married Richard Mauley, of Manley.

(XI) John Dutton, son of Hugh Dutton ( 10), was born about 1410. He was mayor of Chester. He married Margaret Atherton, daughter of \\'illiam Atherton, of Lancashire. Children: i. Peter, heir. 2. Richard, mentioned below. 3. Geoft'rey. 4. Cicely, married John Bird, of Braxton. 5. Ellen, married Gilibrand.

(XV) William Dutton. son of Richard Dutton (14), was born in Chester about 1530- 40; married Agnes, daughter of John Conway, of Flintshire. Children: i. John, bought the manor of Sherborn in Gloucestershire ; one of the knights of that county to sit in parliament in 1640; was loyal to the king, and had to pay a large sum in consequence ; left two daughters, no sons. 2. vSir Ralph, mentioned below.

(XVI) Sir Ralph Dutton, son of William Dutton (15), was born about 1570-80. He was gentleman extraordinary to King Charles I, and was high sheriff" of Gloucestershire in 1630. His estate was secjuestered during the civil war, and he fled from the country. Llis son W illiam succeeded to the large estates of John of Sherborn, his brother. Several of his sons left the country. It may be that one or more of them settled in New England.

(I) John Dutton, the American ancestor, came to America in 1630. He was before the general court of Massachusetts, October 29. 1640. The names of Dunton and Dutton have the same origin, and in the same families the two spellings were used even as late as the Revolution. It is presumed therefore that the Dutton and Dunton pioneers at Reading. Alassachusetts, may have been sons of John Dutton, viz: i. Thomas, born 1621 ; mentioned below. 2. Josiah, lived in Reading, near the Great Pond. 3. Robert, of Reading, came from Lynn ; was selectman of Reading, 1647- 49. 4. Samuel, of Reading, born about 1620; descendants spelled name Dunton ; had sons Thomas. John, Samuel, N'athaniel ; died November 7. 1683.

(II) Thomas Dutton. son of John (i),was born in England, in 1621. Most of the Dutton families of New England of colonial stock are traced to him as their ancestor. Lie figured in two rather remarkable cases in court. He was charged with beating" his wife in 166 1. and was fined, notwithstanding the denials of both his wife and himself. In 1668 he brought suit against Michael Bacon. Jr.. for slander in charging him with theft of a napkin and spoon. Bacon was found guilty and fined fifteen ]xnui(ls. showing that the court regarded the unfounded story as a malicious lie. At that time fifteen pounds was an enormous ])enalty in a case of this kind. The best men of Reading and Woburn testified to the excellent character of Dutton. and eff'ectually disposed of any suspicion aroused by the charge of wife beating. Dutton lived in Reading seven years, and in 1668 had lived ten years in Woburn. He removed to Billerica in 1669 and was accepted as an inhabitant November 22, 1669. He settled on the south side of Fox Brook, by the old and abandoned road of the Great Plain, northwest of the Davis place. He was living in Billerica in 1675, and died there January 22, 1687. His wife Susannah died August 2y, 1684. aged fifty-eight years. He married second. November 10, 1684. Ruth Hooper, probably widow of William Hooper, of Reading

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(HI) Thomas Dutton, son of Thomas Dutton (2), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, September 14, 1648. He married in Billerica, January 10, 1678-79, Rebecca Draper, widow, of Concord. .She died March 16, 1720-21. He married second, November, 1721, Sarah Converse. He bought or had land of his father in Billerica in 1670; also purchased land of John Stearns. He was in Sergeant Hill's garrison in 1675, and in the center st|uadron in 1707. In 1677 he served in the ill-starred expedition to the Eastward, as the Kennebec coimtry was called. His petition to the general court ( Mass. Archives, vol. xix. page 209) contains the best account of this expedition known. Two hundred Christian Indians from Natick and forty English soldiers took ])art under Cajitain Benjamin Sweat, of Hampton. Of these, fifty men were killed by the Indians and a .score more wounded. Dutton was shot through the side of his belt and through the left knee, "and fell down not able to help himself." His escape from death was marvelous. Children: r. Rebecca, born November [3, 1679: married Daniel Shed. 2. Thomas, born .\ugust 2, 1681 : mentioned be- Unv. 3. John, born February 24, 1683-84: died December 14, 1687. 4. Susannah, born \\n-\\ 30, 1687; died September 3. 1688. 5. Susan, born November 4, 1687. All born at r)illerica.

(IV) Thomas Dutton. son of Thomas Dutton (3), was born in Billerica, August 2, 168 1 ; married there, January 31. 1710-11, Hannah Burge, of Chelmsford. They removed to West ford after 1738, and he died there in 1759. He and his sons resided in the vicinity of the Jonathan T. Colburn place. Children, born in IJillerica: i. Joseph, born December, 1 712; settled in West ford ; married Rebecca Adams, of Chelmsford. 2. Thomas, born August 28, 1713; settled in Rockingham, Vermont; married Mary Hill. 3. John, born February 13. 1714-15 ; mentioned below. 4. Josiah. born

February 21, 1716-17; resided at Nottingham \\'est, now Hudson. New Hampshire ; ancestor of the I'rancestown family. 5. Hannah, born August 10. 1718; died October following. 6. Rebecca (twin of Hannah), born August 10, 1 7 18, died young. 7. Benjamin, born ]\Iay 2, 1720; married, 1751, Mary Runwell. 8. James, born ]May 5, 1721 ; married Rebecca Hildreth. 9. Hannah, born June 13, 1723; married Joshua Frost. 10. Rebecca, born May 18, [726. II. Ephraim. born January i, 1727-28. 12. David, born 1731 ; ancestor of the Hancock family ; son of Henry settled in Deering ; married, 1761, Esther Heald. 13. Susanna, born March 10, 1732-33.

(V) John Dutton, son of Thomas Dutton (4), was l)(jrn February 13, 1714-15, at Billerica. and died December i, 1760, of smallpox. His wife died December 19, and his daughter December 17, of the same disease. He married, Feljruary 18. 1740. Rebecca, born June 5, 1720. daughter of Benjamin Shedd (or Shed), born August 5, 1696. John Shed, father of B.enjamin, was born March 2, 1655; married Sarah Chamberlain. Daniel Shed, father of John, was the immigrant; settled in r.raintree and removed to P>illerica in 1659, bu\-ing the ( leorge Willis right of Joseph Parker. Cliildren, born at l)illcrica or Chelmsford: 1. Rebecca, born January 19, 1741, died December. 1760. 2. b)hn, born June 20, 1746, died August 19, 1749. 3. Hannah, l)orn October II, 1747; died September 2, 1749. 4. John. lK)rn January 16, 1750-51; soldier in Revolution; removed to Hillsboro in 1777; selectman there T806-08; town clerk, 1786. .'uid for seven years afterward; moderator two }ears. 5. Hannah, born October 12, 1752; married. March 30. 1773, William Parker. 6. P>enjamin, born May 13. 1754; mentioned below. 7. William, born January 30, 1759.

(\T) I'enjamin Dutton, son of John Dutton (5). was born at Chelmsford, May 13. 1 754. I le was a private in Captain Edward I'armer's company. Colonel Green's regiment. April 19. 1775; in Captain Jonathan Stickney's company. Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's regiment, in the same year ; and also Captain Solomon Pollard's company. All these were of Massachusetts. He removed with his brother John to Hillsboro. New Hampshire, in 1777. He was on the tax list for that year, and perhaps l)ought his farm the year before. He married, at Billerica, Patty, daughter of Nathaniel Cummings. of Billerica. February 2"/. 1777. Children, born at Hillsborough: i. Jeremiah, born A]-)ril 14. 1778: mentioned below. 2. Silas,

(N'll) Jeremiah Duttoii, son of Benjamin Dutton (6), was born April 14, 1778. He was a farmer in llillsboro. He married lietsey llaker. Children: i. Patty Cnmmings, born June 7, 1802: died October 10. 1839. 2. Rel)ecca. born September i, 1803; died January 7, 1864; married. April 5, 182T, Samuel Dascomb. 3. lienjamin, born September i, 1805; merchant in Boston : later returned to Hillsboro. 4. Epliraim, born August 25, 1807: mentioned below. 5. Betsey, born August 21, 1810; died ]\farch 18, 1856; married Samuel < iilman Barnes, November 16, 1827. 6. Silas, born October 5. 1812; died February 15, 1817. 7. Jeremiah, born May 31, t8i8; farmer at Hillsboro. 8. Catherine, born .\ugust 18. 1820; l\ IH) E])hraim Dutton. son of Jeremiah Dutton (7), was born in tlillsboro, August 25, 1807, ancl died there September 10, 1891. He was a farmer and proprietor of a general store in Hillsboro. He was a Democrat in politics, and cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, lie was a man of strong character and a leader in the community. He married September 3, 1829, l^hebe Beard Wilson, born March 8. 1812. Children, born in Hillsboro: 1. Benjamin bVanklin, born October 14, 1831 ; mentioned below. 2. Clarissa ^^^ilson, born September 2']. 1835; married, first, ( ieorge I!. Ward ; second, Edwin B. ]\Iorse.

{ IX) Benjamin Franklin Dutton, son of Ephraim Dutton (8), was born in Hillsboro, October 14, 1831. Fie was educated in the ])ublic schools and at Captain Partridge's Military Academy and Private School at Norwich. ^^ermont. where he was graduated in 185 1. He was for a short time in business in Washington, D. C. Having made a re])utation as a teacher of penmanshi]:» and bookkeeping, he o])ened a commercial college in Alexandria. \ irginia. and established a successful business. His father's health having failed, he was obliged to give up his business in the south and return to New Hampshire, wdiere for seven years he was associated with his father in conducting the general store at Flillsborough Bridge, New Hampshire. In 1859 he came to Boston and engaged in the small ware and millinery jobbing business under the firm name of B. I'. Dutton & Company, later Dutton & \\'}nian, Brown d^- Dutton, and finally r>. F. Dutton & Company. In the firm of B. F. Dutton & Company, Mr. Dutton's ])artner was John 1>. Smith, who was afterwards governor of the state of New Hampshire. In 1874 ]Mr. Dutton's connection with the jM'esent house of Houghton & Dutton began. He entered partnership with S. S. Houghton under the firm name which is so well known tbronghout New England. The department store of Houghton & Dutton is one of the largest and most popular in Boston. After the death of Mr. Floughton his interests were bought b\- Mr. Dutton, who has since been the head of the firm and in control of the enormous business of the concern.

Since 1877 Mr. Dutton has resided in Maiden, lie has been interested in the welfare and develo])ment of the town in which he lives, has contributed freely to public enterprises, and is recognized as one of the foremost citizens of Maiden. He purchased from the estate of (ieorge Lockman, known as Glyn Rock, comprising sixty acres, and his residence and grounds are regarded as among the finest residential properties in the state. Fie is owner of twenty houses in the town of Maiden, of which number seven, built by himself, on Clyn Rock Hill, are occupied by his children. In j^olitics he is a Democrat of the old school. He cast his first presidential vote for Franklin Pierce, who was born and lived in the same town in New Hampshire. He has had neither time nor inclination for a public career, and has declined to accept public office. In religion Mr. Dutton is a Congregationalist, a member of the Second Congregational (_"hurch of Flillsboro. He is a prominent Free Mason, and a member of De ]Molay Commander}', Knights Templar. He belongs to the New Hampshire Club, the Maiden Club, and other organizations.

Mr. Dutton has been pre-eminently a business man. To the upbuilding and enlargement of the great retail store of which he was the f(^under with ]\Ir. Houghton, he has given his whole time and energy. All other interests were subsidiary. His thorough knowledge of trade ; his discernment in matters of public taste and demand : his faculty in attracting all classes of people to his counters, have made him conspicuous in the business world of New England for nearly fifty years. ]Mr. Dutton's jiersonality has attracted friends in business as well as in social life.

Sophia (Kingsbury) 1 latch, of Hillsboro. He married second, i8()0, Harriet Miriam Conant. daughter of George W. and Louise A. (Merrill ) Conant. Children of lienjamin F. and Harriet L. (Hatch) Uutton : i. Ellen, l)orn in Hillsboro, 1852; married Professor J. 1). Clans, a noted (lerman scholar and professor of music, who died in Enro])e in njoft; she resides in .Maiden; no children. 2. Harry, born in Hillsboro, July 4, 1856; educated in the ])ublic schools and at Highland Military Acaclemy of Worcester; married Alice, daughter of S. S. Houghton, senior partner of Ifoughton & Dutton : children: i. Marion Dutton. married lr\ing \\ !Morse, a Harvard graduate; ii. Afary Dutton, graduate of Medford high school ; iii. Alice. Harry Dutton resides in Medford, and is a member of the firm of Houghton & Dutton. 3. Hattie, born in Hillsboro. May 29. 1858; educated in the Melrose schools; married Dr. I'). 1). I'easlee, of W'eare. .Xew Hami)shire, June 12, 1893; no children. Children of |-)enjamin T*'. and Harriet Miriam i Conant 1 Dutton: 4. Cora, born Jul}' 21. 1862. educated in the public schools of Maiden and at a finishing school in Toronto: married John Little, of Maiden; children: i. John Dutton Little, born at Maiden, April 12. 1895. Cora, married second, in 1904, .\lfred 1'. Lounsbery, of New York. 5. Frank, born at Medford, .April 13. i8(')-; a graduate of Chaunc}- Flail .School, I'xoton : married i'.lanche .Merrill, of lioston, and had one daughter, Dorothx. born .\ngust 13. 1892. at Colorado Springs; is now a student in Miss llrown's ]irivate school: I'rank died January 8, 1893, and his widow married I'dmer A. Lord, of Urookline, Massachusetts, (k ( ieorge Conant. born at Medford, ( )ctol)er 13, i8()(;, attended the .Maiden ])ul)lic schooF and Chainicy Mall .School, I'.oston : is a member of the firm of lloughton (.K: Dutton: married Ciertrude K.. ('aughter of Ma\dr ."-^texens. of Afalden ; children: i. (iertrnde .Ste\ens. b()rn at Maiden, May 30. 1902; ii. lienjamin branklin (2) born June 5. 1904, at Maiden; they reside in ]\ralden. 7. Cdaire Miriam, born at AFelrose, XV)vember 19, 1875; educated in the j)ul)lic schools of Maiden and at .Vndover ; married .\lexander Mc(iregor, of I'awtncket. Rhode Island, in 1895; a member of the firm of Houghton & Dutton ; they reside in Maiden ; children - i. Alexander McGregor (2). born March 31, 1897; ii. Claire Dutton Mc- Grcgoi, born July 13. i8()8; iii. Alirriam Mc- GregtH\ born Xo\'emb(.'r 29, i<)03. 8. Xina.

born .\'(nember 21,. 187O, in .Melrose: educated in the public schools and high school of Maiden and Andover ; married, October, 1900. John F. Everhart, of Xew A'ork Cit\' ; he died Alarch, 1904; she is living with her ])arents in Alalden ; children - i. Ffelen Dutton Everhart, born October 12, 1902: ii. .Mary bAerhart. born .\pril 21,. i<;04.

STR ATTC ).X grant ancestor of the Strat-- tons of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born in England, in 1592, and married h\> first wife there, and she iirobalilv died >oo!i after her bus])an<l. herself and their two sons arrive<l in America, .^anniel Stratton ai)]X'ared as a survex'or of town lots in W'atertown, Massachusetts Way Colon\-. in i()47. and took the freeman's oath .Ma\- 18. l(')33. Ik- married as his second wife, .\ugust 2^. U)^j. .Margaret, widow of W illiam Tarker. of I'.ostDU. lie resided in that part of the town <it \\ atertown .sul)se(|uentl\' set ott to the ti>\\n I'f ("ambridge. in the neigh])orhood of the ])reseiu Lnwell I'ark. and contiguous to land that became the e>lale of James Russell l.tiwell. Samuel and .Margaret I'arker .Strattiiu had thrct.' sons: .Samuel, |ohn and Richard. Richard, sou ol Richard last named, settled in h"asthami)ton, L<Mig Lland, .Xew \'ork. where both hi^ Cncle John and his father Richard lived for se\eral wars. .Samuel -Stratton. the immigrant, died December 18, \()/(}. aged eighty-one years.

chusetts, 1714, and was married November i, 1738, to Dinah Bemis, of Waltham. He served as a private in Colonel Lanison's company, and marched to Lexington on receiving the alarm, April 19, 1775, and served for three (lays, when he was discharged.

(\') Jonathan, son of Jonathan and Dinah ( Bemis j Stratton, was born in Weston, March 8. 1746, and was married September 20, 1768, to Sarah Childs. He served as a private, according to the muster and pay rolls of Captain Jonathan Fiske, of Weston, in Colonel Brooks" company, called out March 4, 1776, for five days service, and was stationed at Dorchester Heights, and also performed various other military service.

(VH) Ira, son of Shubael C. and Betsey ( C(K)k ) Stratton, was born in New Salem, Massachusetts, January 6, 1804. He attended the common school in his native town, leaving it when fourteen years old to go west. At the age of sixteen he returned home and worked in a brush factory in Boston until he had learned the trade. Flavel Coolidge (1775- 1848) operated a brush factory in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, and he made Ira Stratton his foreman as soon as he had completed his apprenticeship in the Boston establishment. i\lr. Stratton continued in that position up to the time of the death of his father-in-law., in i848, when he became sole owner of the factory. He subsequently opened a brush shop on Exchange street, Boston, in copartnership with Sheriff & Eastham, and the enterprise was very successful, enabling hiin to acquire a competence. His next business venture was in the manufacture of glass, in partnership with Amory Houghton, the factory being located in Somerville. The business proved to be uncongenial to Mr. Stratton, and he sold out to his partner, and gave the remainder of his life to the care of his estate. He was married November 6, 1835, to Martha Ann, daughter of Flavel and Anna (Wilds) Coolidge, and in this w^ay became owner of the brush fact(^ry of Mr. Coolidge. Flavel Coolidge, father of Mrs. Ira Stratton, was the son of Elisha Coolidge, of Ashburnham, Worcester county, Massachusetts, and the youngest of eleven children. He was born in 1775, and in 1786 his father, with his entire family, joined the Shaker community at the time of its establishment at Shirlev, Middlesex county.

This remarkable society, inaugurated in America by Ann Lee, who with eight of her followers embarked at Liverpool, England, May 19, 1774, and arrived in New York, August 6th following, purchased land in the woods of Watervliet, New York, in 1776, and while the colonists were engaged in the war of the Revolution, these frugal and industrious people were building up a society that took within its fold the spirits of religious unrest wherever a religious awakening arose. After the society at Watervliet had been successfully planted, there was a religious awakening at New Lebanon, Columbia county. New York, thirty miles distant, and many of the subjects of the revival there visited "Mother Ann," at Watervliet, and became converts to the new faith. Ann Lee and her elders and friends became missionaries, and after establishing what proved to be their most successful settlement, at New Lebanon, they held forth in Hancock, Tyringham, Howard and Shirley, in Massachusetts, and Enfield, in Connecticut, and societies were planted which gathered many followers, and each became models of industrial communism that attracted the attention of idealists not alone in America, but abroad also. After a little more than two years of missionary work, "Mother Ann" returned to Watervliet, where she received inciuiries, and after a ministry of fourteen years she died, September 8, 1784. It was three years after her death before regularly organized communities were established. The society at New Lebanon, New York, was organized in September, 1787, and furnished the model for the others. It grew to six hundred members, and the community owned six thousand acres of land. Watervliet grew to three hundred members ; Groveland, Livingston county. New York, to one hundred and fifty : Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, to two hundred ; Tyringham, Berkshire county, to one hundred ; Harvard, Worcester county, to two hundred ; Shirley, Middlesex county, to one hundred; Enfield, Hartford county, Connecticut, to two hundred ; Canterbury, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, to three hundred ; Enfield, Grafton county. New Hampshire, to three hundred; Alfred, York county, Maine, to one hundred and fifty; and New Gloucester, York county, Maine, to one hundred and fifty members. These societies were formed between 1787 and 1792, and it was not until 1805 that Ohio and Kentucky were invaded by the disciples of Ann Lee. Like the "Salem Witches." and the Roman

Catholics, the Shakers did not escape persecution from the Puritans of New England, and the society at Shirley, when "Mother Ann" was preaching there, was subjected to mob violence not only from the outside world but from dissenting members of the society, notably on March 3, 1802.

Flavel Coolidge left the community after he had learned the trade of brush making and attained his majority, in 1796. He journeyed to Cambridgeport, where he engaged as a carpenter with Josiah and Thomas Mason, and while thus engaged built a house of five rooms for himself, preparatory to his contemi)lated marriage, and in January. 180^), he married Anna, daughter of Elijah, Jr., and Eunice (Safford) Wilds, and granddaughter of Elijah (1718-1791) and Anna (Hovey) Wilds, all converts to the Sliakcr faith under the preaching of Ann Lee, and by so doing severed all family ties, and they with their children were merge. 1 in the Shaker community, and Elijah W ilds, Jr., was a])pointed an elder at the oi-ganization of the society in Shirley, and continued in the office u]) to the time of his death, March 14, 1829, at the age of eighty-three years. Anna Wilds was born February 15, 1779, and with her parents and grandparents became members of the Shaker community at Shirle}', and here met Flavel Coolidge, son of F.lisha Coolidge, who was born January 19, 1775, died February 1. 1848. lie was one of ihe toundersof the First Cniversalist Church of Cambridge and a deacon for many years. Elisha Coolidge was born July 29, 1720, died August 18, 1807. Flavel Coolidge was also a convert to the faith. When he left the community in 179^) Anna Wilds also deserted it and went to live with relatives in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and it was there that her lover found her and they were married. Flavel and Anna (Wilds) Coolidge had three children born at their home at Cambridge])ort, where the mother died June 28. 1874, aged niuetylive years and four months. Children: T. Merrick, born October 6, 1806, married Sarah Ann Tucker, November, 1831, died 1850. He had two children : Helen and Anna. 2. IVIartha Ann, born January 19, 1814, died January 2, 1890. She married Ira Stratton, and their children were : i. Flavel Coolidge, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 4, 1836, died February 15, 1840. ii. Flavel Coolidge (2), born in Cambridge, February 14, 1840. He prepared for college at the New Salem Academy, entered Harvard University, 1858, and was graduated therefrom with the decree of Bachelor of

Arts in 1861, the year in which he attained his majority. He studied law and then went abroad, visiting England, where he engaged in the banking business with Belding, Keith & Company. After returning to Cambridge he removed to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the dry goods business. Upon tht death of his father, August, 1873, he retired from business and resided with his mother in Cambridge, where he died suddenly of heart failure, July 23, 1906. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was unmarried. A friend speaking of Flavel C. .Stratton said "he was learned yet unpretentious, thoughtful yet not effusive in speech. Tender as a woman in his sympathies, yet lion hearted for the right." iii. Anna Maria, born in Cambridge, February 4, 1848, died September 23, 1850. iv. Martha Louise, born in Cambridge, Fel)ruary 4, 185 1, received her education in the ])ublic schools, completing the high school course. She married, November 20, 1889, Dwight W. Ensign, see forward. 3. Flavel, Jr., born August 8, 1816, died in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. February 28. 1891. He married Betsey Perkins, and (second) Almira Peirce.

Dwight W . I'Jisign, above mentioned, was born in Sheridan, Chautauc|ua county. New ^'ork, .August 2, 1839. He is the son of Seymour P. and Diantha (Holmes) Ensign, grandson of Otis Ensign, Jr., who enlisted in the Continental army when sixteen years old and served five years, being one of the guard at the hanging of Major Andre, and was with (leneral Washington at Valley Forge, when he received a scolding and apology from \\'ashington when circumstances were exl)lained ; great-grandson of Otis Ensign, Sr., who was killed in the massacre of Wyoming, and a descendant of James Ensign, who settled in Prattle street, Cambridge. Massachusetts, about 1632. moving to Hartford, Connecticut, 1635. Pie is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Union Club of Cambridgeport and the Boston Art Club. His wife, ]\Iartha Louise (Stratton) Ensign, has travelled extensively in Europe. She is a member of the Vermont Society of Colonial Dames ; Old South Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Revolution. The Daughters of Massachusetts, New England's \\'omen's Club, Cantabrigia Club of Cambridge. F'eabody Home for Crippled Children. The Home for Aged People, and other societies and organizations. Mrs. Ensign takes a deep interest in charitable and religious

(died in 1640) and Mary Anne ( Eiske ) Eisher, of Weymouth, in the parish of Syleham, Suffolk, England, and grandson of \Villiam and Anne Eiske, of St. James, Soutli Elmsliam, and brother of Joshua, Cornelius, Amos, Marie and Martha Eisher, was l)orn in Syleham, Suffolk, England, and baptized April 20, 1591. He came to Massachusetts F>ay Colony with his wife Mary, sailing from Yarmouth in the ship "Rose," landing at IJoston on June 26, 1637. and settled in Dedham, where he subscribed to the Covenant July 18, 1637. and was a member of the committee appointed to build a meeting house, and on July 28, 1638, he was assigned his house lot. Mis wife Mary joined the Dedham church. March z'j , 1642, and Anthony "on account of his proud and haughty spirit" was not admitted until March 14. 1645. He served as selectman 1645 and 1647: was chosen county commissioner September 3, iGCx); deputy to general court May 2, 1649 ; woodreeve '653-55. T657-58 and 1661-62. His wife Mary died and he married (secondly) November 14. 1663. Isabel), widow of Edward I')reck. selectman of Dorchester. 1664-66, of Dorchester. He died April 11, 167 1. His children (all by his first wife, Mary) were: Anthony, Cornelius. Nathaniel. David. Lydia and John h^isher.

( II ) Anthony Eisher, of Dorchester, son of Anthony and ]\lary Eisher, was born in England, came to America with his father and grandfather, and settled in Dedham in 1637. He w'as a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1644; joined Dedham church, July 20. 1645, and was made a freeman May 6, 1646. He was married September 7, 1647, to Joanna, only daughter of Thomas and Joan Faxon, of Brinton. Massachusetts ; was a surveyor of towni of Dedham, 1652-1654. removed to Dorchester and was selectman there 1664. He was a printer, and was ])ai(l by the town £4 10s. for printing the catechism prepared by Rev. Richard Mather, the pastor at Dorchester. He died Eebruary 13. 1670, and his wife Joanna died October 16. t6<;4. Their children were: ]\Ichitable. born 1648. died young; Experience. 1650, died young: Josiah, 1654; Abial, 1656, died 1688; Sarah, 1658. married John Wild: Deborah.

(HI) Eleazer Eisher. son of Anthony and Joanna ( h^axon ) Eisher, born in Dedham. September 18, 1669, married there October 13. 1698, Mary (1674-1744). daughter of William and Mary (Lane) Avery, and their children were: Eleazer, born 1^)99: William. 1701: Jemima. 1703, married Hezekiah Gay, of Dorchester ; David. 1705; Ezra, 1707; Nathaniel, 1708, died 1733-34, unmarried; Mary, 1710. married W^illiam Alexander, of Stoughton : Ezekiel. 1712; Timothy, 1714; Stephen. 1715. ])robably died young; and Benjamin. 1721. Itzekiel I'^isher died in Dedham. February 6. 1722, and his widows at Stoughton. ^ I arch 25. 1749.

{\\ ) David Fisher, third son of Eleazer and Mary (Avery) Eisher, born in Dedham, June 21, 1705, married, Eebruary 16, 1732. Deborah Boyden, of Walpole. With his wdfe he joined the South Parish church, November 7, 1736. He removed to .Stoughton, where his wife died July 18, 1770, aged fifty-nine years, and he married (second), November 7, 1770. F^lizabeth Talbot, of Stoughton, born I'ebruary 22, 1754. He died July 30, 1779. and his widow July 2. 1802. His children were: David, born 1733; Thomas, 1735: Jacob, 1737; Deborah, 1739, married John Lewis; Hannah, 1742, married Nathaniel Kingsbury; Nathan, 1745; Oliver. 1747; Abigail. 1749. married VX'illiam Starrett ; Mary, 1751, died 1768; Abner. 1755.

( \) Thomas Eisher, son of David and Deborah (Boyden) Eisher, born in Stoughton. March 10, 1735. married, October 12, 1758. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Ciney) Eettee, of Dedham. They l)Oth joined the South Parish Church. July 13. 1760. Thomas h^isher served in Captain Ebenezer Tisdale's comjiany from Stoughton for twenty-two days ;it the Lexington alarm, and in Theo])hilus Wildtr's company. Colonel Dike's regiment, from December 20, 1776. to March i. 1777. lie died January 16. 1781, and his widow .Mar}' married, April 26, 1787, Gilead Alorse. of Sharon, and died .\pril 27, 1825, aged eighty-two. years. The children of Thomas and Mary ( Pettee) Fisher as per record in Stoughton were: Seth, born 1759; Thomas, 1761 ; Mary, 1763, married Jonathan Billings, Jr.; Lucy, 1765, married Ca]:)tain John Morse; Ezra. 1769; Oliver, 1778, died 1830; Jabez, 1780.

Sharon. Alay 7, 1780, married, May 13, 1819, Sarah (1788-1854), second child of Jonathan and Mary (Robbins) Livermore, of Brighton, or Little Cambridge. Jonathan Livermore (1743-1822) was a son of Oliver and Ruth (Stearns) Livermore, of Watertown, and a descendant from Jonathan Livermore, the immigrant. Mary (Robbins) Livermore was a daughter of Solomon and Martha Robbins, of Newton. Jabez and Sarah (Livermore) Fisher settled in Cambridge where their children were born, and where he died November 30, 1845. Children: George, born February 15, 1820; Sarah, 1821, died 1823; Jabez, 1824; Sarah Livermore, 1826, died 1828; Oliver, 1829, died 1830; Benjamin Franklin, 1832, died 1832. Jabez Fisher was a coal dealer in Cambridge. He died November 30, 1845.

(V'H) George Fisher, eldest child of Jabez and Sarah (Livermore) Fisher, was born in Cambridge, February 15, 1820. He took the full course in the public and high schools of Cambridge, and a partial law course at Harvard University Law School, and was made a member of the Law School Association. He succeeded his father in the coal and wood business in 1845, S"<^1 after carrying it on for several years sold it out and became a partner in the firm of Simmons & Fisher, organ builders in Charles street, Boston. On March 30. 1859, he purchased the Cambridge Chronicle, and made the paper a profitable investment, and in 1859-66 it had no competition in Cambridge. In 1873 ^i^ sold the newspaper plant to Linn T^oyd Porter. In the Chronicle he advocated anti-slavery, temperance and Americanism as opposed to the "perilous encroachments" of the Roman Catholic church. He represented his district in the general court in 1885. He founded the Cambridge Conservatory of Music in 1873, and with the assistance of his daughter taught music to large classes for several years. He was a well known expert performer on the organ, and held positions at various times in the largest churches in Cambridge. He made a discriminating collection of music both printed and in manuscript, and was one of the earliest members of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, and a member of the governing board. The large Cambridge chorus that attracted so much notice at the World's Peace Jubilee was organized and trained by Mr. Fisher. He was a friend and benefactor to Elias Howe in his struggle to introduce the sewing machine, and gave his financial aid at a time when Mr. Howe appeared to him hopelessly in debt, and while the application for a patent was pending he accompanied Air. Howe to Washington, and they each wore a suit of clothes made upon the machine which was the patent office model. He was married Alarch 16, 1840, to Hannah Cordelia, third child of Samuel P. and Eunice S. Teele, who was born in Charlestown, October 9, 1818, died July 3, 1894. She was a member of the Austin Street Unitarian Church, Cambridge. George Fisher died in Cambridge, September 12, 1898. Their children were: Sarah Cordelia, born 1841, married, November 29, 1887, Colonel Austin C. \\'ellington. .Caroline Louise. 1843, married Colonel Austin C. Wellington, as his first wife, June 30, 1869, and she died November 23, 1879. George, 1845, died 1846. Anna Josephine, 1847, died 185 1. Harriet Ellen, 1849, died 1850. Lizzie Livermore, 1850, died 1853. Eliza Bennett, 1853, died 1875. George, 1856, died i860. George William, 1858, died 1876. George Fisher outlived all his children except Sarah Cordelia ; he had no grandchildren.

(VHI) Sarah Cordelia (Fisher) WY-llington, eldest child of George and Hannah Cordelia (Teele) l^^isher, and the last surviving member of a large family, was born in Cambridge. Massachusetts. October 10, 1841. She was graduated at the Cambridge high school, attended Professor Louis Agassiz's school and received musical instruction in London, England, from Senor Randegger and Madam Rudersdorf, and while in Europe in 1876 attended the first performance of Wagner's Niebelungtnleid at Bayreuth. She married her brolher-in-law, Colonel Austin Clarke Wellington. November 29, 1887, eight years after the death of his first wife, Caroline Louise ( Fisher) Wellington. Colonel Wellington had no children by either wife. He was a son of Jonas Clarke and Harriet Eliza (Bosworth) Wellington, and was born in Lexington, July 17. 1840. where he attended school up to 1856. when his parents removed to Cambridge, and he became a bookkeeper in the establishment of S. G. Bowdlear & Company, of Boston, and left the firm August. 1862, to enlist in Company F, Thirty-eighth Alassachusetts Regiment, and accompanied the regiment to P>altimore. New Orleans, and on the Red River expedition under General N. P. Banks. In July, 1864, he was transferred to Washington, D. C, and was in the army of General Sheridan during the closing period of the Civil war. He was acting adjutant of his regiment, with the rank of lieutenant, and later was appointed adjutant. His battles were:

Bisland, Siege of Port Hudson, Cane River Ford, Mansura, in Louisiana, and with Sheridan in Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, Virginia. He was mustered out of the volunteer service June 30, 1865. Upon returing to Massachusetts he engaged in the coal business, and formed the corporation of the Austin C. Wellington Coal Company, of which he was treasurer and manager, and this grew into one of the largest concerns in its time, in New England. He continued his interest in military affairs, and May 2, 1870, entered the Massachusetts State Militia as captain of the Boston Light Infantry, known as the "Tigers," Company A, Seventh Regiment. He was elected major of the Fourth Battalion in 1873, ^"d colonel of the First Regiment, February 24 1882. His patriotic spirit was kept alive by membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, his comradeship dating from 1867 in 'Post 15. In 1874 he was chosen commander of Post No. 30, which post he helped to organize and of which he was a charter member. He became commander of Post No. 113 in 1887, holding the position at the time of his death. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and a trustee of the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea. His business association was with the Boston Coal Exchange, of which he was chairman, and the Charles River Towing Company, of which he was president. He was president of the Boston Mercantile Library Association, and a member of the New England Club, Handel and Haydn Society, and Cecilia Society. His service to his state in a civic capacity was as a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1875 and 1876. Colonel Wellington died at his home, 871 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, September 23, 1888. His widow, Mrs. Sarah Cordelia (Fisher) Wellington, survived him.

She was president of the Ladies' Aid Association, auxiliary to the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea; a director of the Cambridge Conservatory of Music, founded by her father, and allied with other philanthropic, religious and musical associations. Her musical talent was an inheritance from both her parents. She early sang in the choir in Cambridge and Boston. Her voice was heard for repeated seasons at Trinity Church, New Old South, Immanuel, and for nine seasons at the Park Street Church. She was a member of the Handel and Haydn Oratorio Society and of the Cecelia Society, and represented both societies at various times as soloist at their concerts in Music Hall, Boston. She was president of the Austin Street Unitarian Alliance, the largest in the United States, and of the Middlesex Alliance which met in Channing Hall, Boston. She was made a director of the National Alliance board ; a member of the council of the Cantabrigia Club ; a member of the Woman Suffrage League; of the Cambridge Shakespeare Club and of the Browning Society of Boston. She served as secretary and treasurer of the Roundabout Club, as president of the Wednesday Club, and as a director of the Young Woman's Christian Association. She was made a life member of the New England Woman's Club, and of the American Unitarian Association, and an associate member of the Cambridge Conferences. Her interest in the Cambridge Conservatory of Music on Lee street began in 1873, when with her father she founded the enterprise. She was a member of the faculty of Wellesley College and of the Tourjee Conservatory of Music in Boston. She sang by request in one of the Montreal cathedrals, appeared as accompanist with Camilla Urso, the celebrated violinist, and was always a willing volunteer on occasions for charity, given in opera, concerts or at society functions. Her home in Cambridge became a mecca for musical enthusiasts visiting Boston who had heard her in public or learned of her work as teacher through her pupils scattered over the entire L^nited States, who had been fortunate in receiving instruction and advice.

The family from which is HORSFORD descended Eben Norton Horsford, scientist, author and humanitarian, is of English origin. In England the family name appears in the various forms of Horseford, Hosseford and Hosford ; in America the family is divided as to the spelling, some preferring Hosford, others Horsford, and this difference dates back to the days of the immigrant. Burke gives as a coatof-arms of the family: Azure, a chevron argent, three lion's heads erased. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet a demi-pegasus.

\\'illiam Horseford, of Dorchester, county Dorsetshire, England, made his will June 30. 1 62 1, and it was proved January 22, 1622. He provided for his burial in the church of St. Peter's ; gave to the poor of the Hospital of Dorchester five pounds ; bequeathed "the house and lands with the appurtenances in the parish of St. Peter's on the lane going toward Fryery, unto Joan my wife for the term of her life, then to Joan my daughter and the heirs of her body ; then to my own right heirs forever." He mentions daughter Sarah, who married John Hands ; his late brother, Hugh Horsford ; and daughter Grace, who married Thomas Frye. This William may be father or uncle of the American pioneer of the same name.

(I) William Horsford, the immigrant, was born in England, and settled in 1630 or 1633. in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1633, and a freeman April i, 1634. He removed to Windsor, Connecticut, with the early settlers. His wife (name unknown) died August 26, 1641, and he married (second) the widow of Henry Fowkes. He removed to Springfield, and preached there from October, 1652, until after 1654, and subsequently he and his wife returned to England, where he died, bequeathing his land at Windsor to his wife and his two children. In 1671 his wife was at Tiverton, Devonshire, England. She bequeathed land to her chil- (Ven at Windsor. Children of William Horsford: I. Sarah, married, November i, 1642, Stephen Taylor. 2. John, mentioned below.

(H) John Hosford, only son of William Horsford (i), born in England, about 1630, is the progenitor of all the family in America. When his father returned to England he remained in Windsor, Connecticut. He was made a freeman Alay 20. 1652, and in 1658 was a member of the first body of cavalry organized in Connecticut, by Major John Mason, numbering thirty-seven men. He died at Windsor, August 7, 1683, leaving a large estate for those days - £1203. In his will he left a legacy for the Connecticut fund for the relief of the poor of other colonies. He married, at W'indsor, November 5, 1657, Phillipa, only daughter of William Thrall (or Trail). She was born in Windsor and was living October 3, 1695. They had six sons and three daughters: i. William, born October 25, 1658. 2. John, born October 16, 1660. 3. Timothy, born October 20, 1662 ; see forward. 4. Esther, born May 27, 1664. 5. Sarah, born September 27, 1666. 6. Samuel, born June 2. 1669; married, April 4, 1690, Mary Palmer; second. Elizabeth Brown. 7. Nathaniel, born August 19, 1671, died January 3, 1750; married Mary Phelps. 8. Mary, April 12. 1674. 9. Obadiah, September 20, 1677 ; married, May 4. 1705;. Mindwell Phelps.

death. In 171 1 he supplied stores to the forces of the colony sent on an expedition against Canada. He married, December 5, 1689, Hannah Palmer, second child of Timothy Palmer. She was born in Windsor, October 30, 1666, and died there July 8, 1702. They Jhad two sons and one daughter. He married (second) at Windsor, January 24, 1706, Abigail Buckland. They had one daughter and one son.

(IV) Daniel Horsfo'rd, third child of Timothy Hosford (3), was born in Windsor, July 5, 1695, and died at South Canaan, Connecticut, May 23, 1777. He removed in 171 5 from Windsor to Hebron, where his uncle, Dr. Obadiah Horsford, had settled in 1706, and was a prominent man. He was admitted an inhabitant of Hebron, May 9, 1715. In 1 74 1 he was among the early settlers of South Canaan, Connecticut, buying for £600, on November 17, 1741, three lots (about 100 acres) with a dwelling house, and all the privileges of one share in the town. He seems to have become a miller, and obtained at an early date the right to use the Great Falls of the Housatonic at Canaan. He was also largely interested in the Iron Works started at Canaan. During his later years he transferred much land to his sons, especially to Daniel, who seems to have been his favorite. He was evidently a man of great thrift and enterprise, but not prominent in public afifairs. His will, on record at Sharon, Connecticut, mentions all his children ; inventory £900. He married, at Hebron, Connecticut, April 6. 1721, Elizabeth Stewart, who died at Williamstown, Massachusetts, in T783. They had five sons and one daughter.

(\') Captain Daniel Plorsford, eldest child of Daniel Horsford (4), was born in Hebron, November 8, 1723. He was a freeman of Canaan, 1758; was appointed captain of the train band, 1765. after having been lieutenant from 1755. Frequent property transfers are on record in his name. There is no record of his death or will. He evidently died before June II, 1788, when his son Daniel, of Cherry Lot. Vermont, conveys to Jeremiah Horsford, Jr. (not his cousin) for £6 "one-fifth part of the land that was given to the heirs of my honored father, late of Canaan, deceased." He married, about 1748, his cousin, Martha Dibble, daughter of Abraham Dibble, of Torrington. She was born probably at Windsor. December 25. 17 19. They had three sons and

(VI) Roger Horsford, third son of Daniel Horsford (5), was born at South Canaan, Connecticut, January 21, 1755, and died at Charlotte, Vermont, August 15, 1818. He was a freeman of Canaan in 1781, and removed in February, 1791, to Charlotte,. Vermont, to join his brother Daniel. He married at South Canaan, probably about 1778, Mary Brown, eldest child of Jeremiah Brown, of South Canaan. She was born at North Canaan, March 15, 1754, and died at Charlotte, Vermont, September 12, 1812. They had seven sons and two daughters. He married (second) at Charlotte, Abigail Dean, widow.

(VH) Jerediah Horsford, son of Roger and Mary (Brown) Horsford, was a man of importance in his day. He was born in Charlotte, Vermont, March 8, 1791, and died at Livonia Station, New York, January 14, 1875. He was in the state militia in 1812, during the war with Great Britain, and served with the American army of defence at Burlington, was in the battle of Niagara Falls, July 25, 1814, and became colonel. In 181 4 he removed to New York, and settled in the Genesee Valley, where he was a missionary among the Indians. He was also a farmer at Mount Morris, and removed in 181 8 to Moscow, Livingston county. He was a member of the New York state assembly several terms ; and representative- in congress, 1851-53, elected as a Whig. He married, at Goshen, Connecticut, September 15, 1816, Charity Maria Norton; she was born at Goshen, Connecticut, May 31, 1790, and died at Moscow, New York, October 30, 1859. She was a direct descendant of Thomas Norton, the immigrant, who settled in New Haven, in 1639, and removed to Guilford.

(VIII) Professor Eben Norton Horsford, son of Hon. Jerediah and Charity Maria (Norton) Horsford, was born in Moscow, New York, July 2^, 1818. He attended the district school and Livingston county high school, and while yet a boy was employed in the preliminary surveys of the New York and Erie and the Rochester and Auburn railroads. He took the engineering course in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, and graduated in 1838, at the age of twenty. In 1840 he was appointed professor of mathematics and natural sciences in the Albany Female Academy, and in the second year of his professorship won the gold medal offered by the Young Men's Association of Albany for essays, his subject being "Mechanical Powers."

He r(,tained his professorship until 1844, also delivering a course of lectures on chemistry at Newark (Delaware) College, when he resigned his chair in Albany and went to Germany, where he was a student from 1844 to 1846, investigating chemistry under Baron Liebig, at Giessen. On his return home in 1847 ^'^^ was elected Rumford professor of Application of Science to the L'seful Arts, in Harvard College, and filled that position with enthusiasm and credit for sixteen years. His investigations in chemistry led to inventions and discoveries of great usefulness and commercial value, and in 1863 he resigned his Harvard professorship to give his exclusive attention to manufactures based upon his inventions and covered by about thirty patents. He founded and was president of the Rumford Chemical Works in Providence, Rhode Island. His services along other lines were also highly beneficial. He selected the material for the service pipes of the Boston water works, for which the city presented him a service of plate. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed by Governor Andrew a member of the commission for the defense of Boston harbor, and he prepared the plans adopted for protection against Confederate cruisers. He devised a marching ration for soldiers in the field, largely reducing bulkage and cost of transportation, and of which General Grant made much use. He was a United States commissioner to the World's Fair in Vienna in 1873, and a juror at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. He was a member of the American Philosphical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, conferred by the King of Denmark ; a resident member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; twice an examiner of the United States Mint at Philadelphia; and one of the board of managers of the Sons of the Revolution. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Li^nion College in 1843, ^"*^1 from Harvard College in 1847, and the degree of M. D. from the Castleton (Vermont) Medical College. He made his home in Cambridge until his death, January i, 1893. Professor Horsford married, in 1847, Mary L'Hommodieu Gardiner, daughter of Honorable Samuel Gardiner, of the Gardiner family of Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, New York. They had four daughters. She died in 1855, and Professor Horsford married, in 1857, her sister, Phebe Dayton Gardiner. They had one daughter. After the death of Mr.

Gardiner, his large Shelter Island estate came to Professor Horsford, and he usually spent his summers at the manor house there. He became deeply interested in the antiquities of the island, and erected a monument to the memory of Nathaniel Sylvester, Lord of the Manor of Shelter Island, and to the Quakers who found shelter there with him. In the comparative leisure of his later years he gave close attention to tracing the routes of the Norsemen who early visited this continent ; and with unwearied patience and enthusiastic zeal studied the sagas, pored over ancient charts, explored the coast of New England, and at length became satisfied that he had found in Cambridge the location of the house built by Leif Ericson, and that at Watertown, on the Charles river, had discovered the long lost Norumbega, the settlement made by the Icelandic voyagers, and he here erected a substantial monument to mark the spot. The result of his researches were embodied in a series of monographs, richly illustrated with copies of ancient charts and maps. In testimony of their appreciation of his efforts to demonstrate the discovery and colonization of America by the Norsemen, the Scandinavian societies of North America, in 1891, at their annual assembly, presented to Professor Horsford an engrossed address framed in wood from Norway, elaborately carved by a Norwegian lady ; in 1892 the King of Denmark <lecorated Professor Horsford as previously related ; and in the same spirit, the Scandinavian societies of P>oston united in a special memorial service for Professor Horsford shortly after his death. Professor Horsford was author of:" "Hungarian Milling and \'ienna Bread," 1873; "Indian Names of Boston," 1886; "On the Landfall of John Cabot in 1497, and the Site of Norumbega," 1886; Discovery of America by Northmen," 1888; "Discovery of the Ancient City of Norumbega," 1889; "The Problem of the Northmen," 1889; "The Defences of Norumbega," 1891; "The Landfall of Leif Ericson," 1892; "Leif's House in Vinland," 1893. ^^ ^'so reproduced m print the manuscript of "German and Onondaga Lexicon," left by the Moravian missionary, David Zeisberger, comprising seven volumes ; and published various pamphlets on miscellaneous subjects.

Professor Horsford made generous use of the wealth that came to him as the reward of his inventive genius. Wellesley College was the object of his largest benefactions. He was president of the board of visitors; he established by a large endowment the sy.stem of

Sabbatical years, whereby one year in seven is given each professor, without loss of salary, for travel and study ; and he also endowed the library and gave a fund for the purchase of scientific apparatus. He was personally cheerful, cordial and genial, with a high sense of honor and a most generous spirit and unquestioned honesty of purpose. He was an ingenious and persistent investigator, an enthusiastic teacher, and a devout Christian. He sought always to make life brighter for his fellow men.

Professor Hors ford's eldest daughter, Lilian, married Dr. William G. Farlow, professor of cryptogamic botany in Harvard University. Katherine, the second daughter, is unmarried. His third daughter, Gertrude, married Andrew Fiske, son of Augustus 1 lenry Fiske, a prominent lawyer in Boston in his day. The fourth daughter, Mary Gardiner, married Judge P>enjamin R. Curtis, son of Judge Benjamin R. Curtis, of the United States supreme bench. Cornelia, fifth daughter of Professor Horsford, early acquired a taste for archaelogical studies, assisting her father in his investigations, and after his death continued them with unabated enthusiasm. In 1895 she sent out an expedition to Iceland to examine ancient ruins, a report of which was published in 1898 under the title, "Ruins of the Saga-Time." In 1895, 1896 and 1897 she sent out expeditions to the British Isles to examine the ruins of open air forts and amphitheatres, and to Norway in 1898 and 1899; and from 1894 to 1897 directed research among the works of the natives of North America, in connection with investigation of the Norse discovery of America. She is author of "Graves of the Northmen," 1893; "An Inscribed Stone." 1895 ; "Dwellings of the Saga-Time in Iceland, Greenland and Vinland," 1898; "\'inland and its Ruins," 1899; and various contributions to ])eriodicals. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; a member of the National Geographic Society and the Prince Historical Society ; honorary vice-president of the Viking Club of London ; and a member of the American Folk Lore Society, the Icelandic Anticjuarian Society; the Irish Text Society; and president of the Shelter Island Public Librarv.

fully in his battles with the Danes ; and according to the ancient tradition it was at that time that the country between Dingwall and the waters of Alness in the shire of Ross was granted to Donald Munroe. A part of these lands was afterward erected by the king into the barony of Fowles, and some of the Munroes were lords of this barony from the time of its creation (Buchanan). Out of these lords and barons of Fowles through a long succession of generations of their descendants there sprung the Munroes, whose house and clan were overthrown by the hosts of Cromwell, and many of them were sold into captivity and transported to New England, there to serve out their apprenticeships and by their services earn their redemption. It seems to be agreed unon that the ]\'Iunroes who settled in New England were made prisoners of war by Cromwell and sold, according to the customs of the time, to shippers who sent them here into service of from three to ten years, to pay the first purchase, the cost of passage and such profit as the dealer might be able to make. It is probable that the Munroes were among those taken at the battle of Worcester,, where Cromwell was victorious. In 165 1 a cargo of prisoners was consigned to Thomas Kemble, of Boston, and the ship's list contains the names of four Munrows (as the name is there spelled) - Robert, John, Hugh, and one other whose first name is obliterated, but which undoubtedly is that of William Munroe, the ancestor of the Lexington family of that name and of most of those of the surname throughout New England. Some of its members spell the name Monroe, and in the early history of the family in this country (and doubtless the practice is observed elsewhere) the first syllable "Alun" was omitted, and the name was variously spelled "Roe," "Row" and "Rowe." (I) William Munroe, born in Scotland, 1625, belonged to the famous clan of that name. He came to America in 1652, as a prisoner, was sold into service through Kemble, and obliged to work for a certain time for the master who had bought his services from the British government. He worked out his time and ac- (|uired property in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as early as 1657. He settled in Cambridge Inarms (now Lexington) near the Woburn line, in 1660, his farm being on Woburn street, on or near lands now or lately owned by Hugh Graham. His sons lived with him after they had attained manhood, and it is related by his descendants that he made so many additions to his house to accommodate the families of his sons that it resembled a ropewalk, it was so long. He was admitted freeman in 1690, and contributed to the building fund for the first meeting house. He married three times, and although forty years old at the time of his first marriage he raised a family of thirteen children. He died January 20, 171 7, and his will, dated November 14, 1716, mentions sons John, George, Daniel, Joseph and Benjamin, and daughters Eleanor Burgess, Martha Comee, Hannah Pierce, Elizabeth Rugg and Mary Fassett. William children. He married third, Elizabeth Wyer, widow of Edward Wyer, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. She died December 14, 1715, aged almost eighty years. His children: i. John, born May 10, 1666, died September 14,

2. Martha, born November 2, 1667; married January 21, 1688, John Comee, of Concord; lived in Lexington; died April 13, 1729. 3. William, born October 10, 1669; married Mary Cutler. 4. George (see post). 5. Daniel, born August 12, 1673 married Dorothy

1692, Joseph Pierce; eight children. 7. Elizabeth, married Thomas Rugg; eleven children. 8. Mary, born June 24, 1678 ; married about 1700. Joseph Fassett. 9. David, born October 6, 1680; not mentioned in father's will. 10. Eleanor, born February 24, 1683; married August 21, 1707, William Burgess, of Charlestown. II. Sarah, born March 18, 1685; married, about 1707, George Blanchard. 12. Joseph, born August 16, 1687 ; married Elizabeth . 13. Benjamin, born August his first wife, born in Lexington, Massachusetts, (date not known), and died there January 17, 1749. He was generally called Sergeant George Munroe, and is sometimes so mentioned in the records. He was tythingman 1719, and selectman 1728. He married Sarah , died December 4, 1752, aged seventyfive years. Children: i. William, born January 6, 1700; married May 6, 1735, Rebecca Locke, of Woburn. 2. Sarah, iDorn October married July 28, 1737, Anne Stone. 7. Samuel, born October 23, 1714; record says "he was the first baptized in the new meetinghouse." 8. Andrew, (see post). 9. Lucy, born August 20, 1720; married Watson, of Cambridge.

Lexington, Massachusetts, and baptized there June 4, 1718. He served as a soldier in the French and Indian war, 1758-59-60, and died, in Lexington, September 15, 1766, and his widow settled his estate. Lie married May 26, 1763, Lucy, widow of Daniel Simonds, and whose family name was Mixer. Children: i. Andrew (see post). 2. Ishmael, born October 9, T766, after the death of his father. He was the second posthumous child his mother had, one by her first husband. Lie married February 27, 1794,, Elizabeth Skilton, of W'oburn.

(IV) /Vndrevv Munroe, elder son of Andrew and Lucy (Mixer) Simonds ^^lunroe, born in Lexington, Massachusetts, March 30, 1764, died in Danvers, Massachusetts, August 7, 1836. He married, in Burlington, Massachusetts, (by Rev. John Merritt) March 22, 1785, Ruth Simonds, born in Woburn, April 13, 1763, died in Danvers, January 29, 1840. Both she and her husband are buried in the old King burying ground in I'eabody, formerly a part of South Danvers. Ruth Simonds Munroe was related to one of the famous characters in New England history, Count Rumford ; while on her father's side she was descended from one of the early j)lanters of Woburn.

( I ) William Simonds, Sr., is mentioned in Woburn records as early as 1644, but from whence he came, his birth and ancestry, are not known. He bought land about a mile and a half from the centre of the town, built his house there, and during the Indian wars his home was barricaded and used as a garrison house. He was one of the proprietors of the town, was called a ])lanter, and was an owner of considerable lands. In 1644 he married Judith Phippen Hay ward, widow of James Hayward. Judith Phippen and James Hayward were fellow passengers on board the "Planter" from London, England, in 1635. William Simonds died June 7, 1672, and his widow died January 3, 1689-90. They had twelve children.,

CII) James Simonds, sixth son of William and Judith, born November i, 1658, married December 29, 1685, Susanna, daughter of Samuel and Ruth Blodgett. Susanna died

(Ill) James Simonds, eldest son of James Simonds and Susanna Blodgett, born November I, 1686, married June 17, 1714, Mary, daughter of James and Mary Fowle. James Simonds died July 30, 1775, having survived his wife Mary thirteen years. She died March 9, 1762.