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Laban Arnold, son of Daniel, married Katie Beardsley, and by her had two sons, Henry and Ricliard ; and four daughters, Hannah, Sarah, Alaria and Clarissa. After the death of his first wife he married Delia Ann Gaines, by whom he had two daughters, Elma and Olive. He died in 1866.

Alvah Arnold, son of Daniel, was born in Ausable, New York, August 2, 1801, and was a good thrifty farmer. He married Betsey Miller, born February 26, 1804, daughter of Thomas and Keziah (Sherrill) Miller. Thomas Miller settled on a farm on the northwest slope of Hallock Hill in 1804, on lands formerly owned by Mr. Herkness, who in 1812 sold to Jeremiah Sherrill, and the latter in 1817, "in consideration of love, good will and esteem," conveyed the same to his daughter Keziah Miller. She died in 1838, and her husband died in 1852. He was a millwright by trade, an excellent workman and some of the buildings erected by him are still standing. Thomas and Keziah Miller had five daughters : Cornelia, married Samuel Boorne ; Phebe, married Emanuel Beardsley; Sally, married Eleazer Arnold ; Betsey, married Alvah Arnold ; ]\Iaria, became wife of Edward Southwick.

Frank T. Arnold, Sr., son of Alvah and Betsey (Miller) Arnold, born in Keeseville, or perhaps Ausable, New York, July 6, 1834, died in Peabody, Massachusetts, March 12, 1900. He lived in the town in which he was born until he was about twenty years old, then removed to Peabody and made his home with the family of his aunt. He had been brought up to farm work, but in Peabody was employed as clerk in a grocery store until about the beginning of the civil war. He enlisted September 10, 1862, in Company C, Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Captain Robert S. Daniels, and served nine months, until the expiration of the term of his enlistment, and was discharged and mustered out of service at W'enham, Massachusetts, July 2, 1863.

.\fter his return from the south, Mr. Arnold became senior partner of the firm of Arnold & Hutchinson, general grocers and provision dealers in Peabody, but in 1866 Mr. Arnold withdrew from the firm and became junior partner in the firm of Munroe & Arnold, general expressmen, with principal place of business in Peabody. This partnership was continued with good success until 1891, when Mr. Munroe died, and his son Frederick succeeded to his father's interest and the business was carried on under that arrangement until 1900, when Mr. Arnold died. From that time until 1905 the business was conducted by the younger Munroe and the legal representatives of the Arnold estate} and in September, 1905, the entire business passed to the ownership and management of the newly incorporated Munroe-Arnold-Merritt Express Company, of which William F. Munroe is president ; George R. F'elt, treasurer ; and Frank T. Arnold, Jr., manager.

enterprising, capable and successful business man, and he always seemed to feel an earnest interest in the growth and welfare of the town and by his own public spirit and liberality contributed much to that growth and prosperity. He was one of the most effective working members of the board of trade, and in many other ways was closely identified with the best interests and history of Peabody for many years.

At Keeseville, New York, July 12, 1865, Mr. Arnold married Jennie K. Ricketson, who was born there November 18, 1842, and died in Peabody December 17, 1906, daughter of James K. and Jemima (Hallock) Ricketson, who were married February 2, 1826. Both were members of the Society of Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold had two children, both born in Peabody: Jennie Miller, born March 18, 1873. married October 31, 1900, George Ropes Felt (see Felt family), and Frank T., Jr., born June 12, 1875.

Frank T. Arnold, Jr., only son of Frank T. and Jennie K. (Ricketson) Arnold, was born in Peabody, June 12, 1875, and since the death of his father, in 1900, has been actively engaged in the express business established by his parents more than forty years ago. Fie was one of the incorporators of the Munroe- Arnold-Merritt Express Company. On June 4, 1904, Mr. Arnold married Grace Louise Wheeler, born m Peabody, November 30, 1876, daughter of Walter E. Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have one child. Caroline.

(I) George Felt, born 1601, is said FELT by tradition to have come to America in 1628 with Endecott. and in 1633 appears in Charlestown, Massachusetts, wdiere he had a houselot granted him and other lands at various tiines. He evidently was a man of some consequence, and fulfilled important offices in the town and church until he removed to North Yarmouth, Maine, in 1643. He was the principal founder of that town and had large tracts of land there, but in the course of a few years he went to Wescustogo, and thence returned to Charlestown, where he settled on "the Mystic side," in Maiden. In 1664 he was again in Maine and in a deed made in that year describes himself as uf "Casco in New England, mason." He appears to have acquired large tracts of land in Maine, and in 1670 increased his already considerable possessions by the purchase of two thousand acres more at Broad Cove, for which he paid only sixty pounds. Much of this land was afterward sold, although he retained enough to provide well for his sons. But with all his vast areas of land George Felt died poor, and the records disclose that both he and his wife became charges on the town of Maiden, where they died, he in 1693, aged ninety-two years, and his wife in 1694, "^much advanced in years." His wife before her marriage was Elizabeth, daughter of widow Prudence Wilkinson of Charlestown. They had six children, perhaps seven, there being a doubt whether one Peter was of their family. Those known to be their children were Elizabeth, Mary, George, Moses (died young), Aaron and Moses.

(II) George Felt, son of George and Elizabeth, baptized 1639-40, lived first in Salem, Massachusetts, later at Casco Bay, Maine, was made freeman at Falmouth in 1660, served as juror at Casco in 1666, and in 1672 was one of three purchasers of a large tract of land from the Indians. In 1676, during King Philip's war, he was killed by Indians. He married, November 25, 1662, Philippa Andrews, born 1632, daughter of Samuel and Jane Andrews, who came from London in the "Increase" from London in 1635, with their two daughters. After the death of George Felt his widow removed to Salem and married there second, December 19, 1682, Samuel Piatt. After his death she married third, 1690, Thomas Nelson, being his third wife. She died September 29, 1709. George and Philippa (xAndrews) Felt had four children: George, Samuel, Jonathan and Mary.

(HI) Jonathan Felt, son of George and Philippa (Andrews) Felt, born probably in Falmouth, removed to Salem about 1690, and by tra^e was an "ankersmith," from which it is inferred that he engaged largely in making ship anchors. He died 1702, leaving an estate inventoried at more than 187 pounds. He married in Salem, January 3, 1695, Elizabeth Purchase, of Marblehead, and after her death he married, before 1701, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah (Ling) Blaney. He had two children by his first and one by his second marriage: Elizabeth, born 1695, married George Trask; Jonathan, 1699; Hannah, April 2, 1702, married Edward Bjitton, Jr.

(JY) Jonathan Felt, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Purchase) Felt, born in Salem, March 4, 1699, died before 1753. In the Salem records he is mentioned as "ffisherman" and also as blacksmith. He married July 26. 1721. Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah (Tompkins) Silsbee ; children: Jona-

(V) Captain John Felt, son of Jonathan and Hannah (Silsbee) Felt, born in Salem, died in Danvers, Massachusetts, August, 1785. His occupation was that of "shoreman,"' but he was chiefly engaged in the coasting trade, owning several vessels ; and besides this he is said to have been a skillful cordwainer, also a merchant and had a large warehouse where he stored his goods brought in his ships from the West Indies. Felt street in Salem is laid out through lands once owned by him, and that thoroughfare is named in allusion to him. He is described as a tall, muscular man. without physical fear, and just the man for the emergency which arose in February, 1775, when a strong detachment of British soldiers under command of Colonel Leslie invaded Salem and were met by Captain Felt with such firmness and determination that the I'ritish officer discreetly withdrew from the town and thus transferred the first battlefield of the revolution to another place. Had it been otherwise, the first conflict at arms would have taken place near the north bridge in Salem. His military title came from his connection with the Essex county militia and it is not understood that he was actually in service during the war.

In 1777 Captain I""elt purchased land in Danvers, also a "pew in the Rev. Air. Holt's meeting house/' removed to that town and passed the remainder of his life there, on a farm. He died 1785. leaving an estate which inventoried of the value of more than 4,700 i)ounds, real and personal property. He married first, January i. 1750-51, Deborah, daughter of Ephraim and Margaret (Silsbee) Skerry; second. May 19, 1757, widow Catherine Turner, daughter of John and Catherine (Manning) Berry. She was born June 21. 1730, and died 1803. Captain Felt had two children hy his first and eight by his second wife: Hannah, married Joseph Blaney; John, born September 16, 1754; George, April 23. 1758, died March 8, 1774; Catherine, January 27, 1760, married Edward Brown; Deborah, June 2. 1765. died young; Joseph, baptized March I. 1767; Ephraim. baptized December 4, 1768. died at sea; Benjamin. December 11, 1770; Deborah. June 13. 1773; George Washington, born April 30. 1776.

(V^l) Lieutenant John Felt, son of Captain John and Deborah (Skerry) Felt, born in Salem, September 16. 1754, died there September 12, 1796. He was a mariner, and followed the sea during the greater part of his life, and during the revolution served with great credit to the country, himself and to his own brave and patriotic father. In 1778 he was a soldier in the expedition to Rhode Island and served with the famous Salem company, full one hundred strong, under General John Sullivan. In 1779 he was lieutenant of a company in Colonel Shepard's Third Massachusetts regiment. He married, February 13, 1780, Mary Porter, born in Salem. January 25, 1762, died December 27, 1817. daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Herrick) Porter of Salem. Children: I. Polly, born November 26. 1780, died November 25. 1795. 2. John, born (October 17, 1782. 3. Jonathan. April 5, 1785. 4. Deborah, April 7. 1787, died November 8, 1808. 5. Sally, born December 4, 1790, married Benjamin Webb. 6. Ephraim. February 16. 1795.

( \'1I) Ephraim Felt, son of Lieutenant John and ]\Iary (Porter) Felt, born in Salem, February 16. 1795, died there December 7, 1872. He was a merchant in Salem until 1828, then went to Ctica, New York, about the time of the opening of the Erie canal, engaged in business in that locality until the fall of 1834, and then returned to Salem. From that time imtil 1858 he was in the service of the Eastern Railroad Company - as bookkeeper until 1839, later as chief clerk and still later as ticket agent at Salem. From 186 1 to 1869 he was an inspector of customs of the port of Salem. His career as a merchant in his home town and at L'tica was not rewarded with the success his honest eflforts deserved, for he was at all times an industrious, patient and persevering man. He married, (October 26. 1822, F!lizal)cth Ropes, born in Salem. April 19. 1708, died there November 28, 1873, daughter of George and Seeth (Millett) Ropes. Children: I. Samuel Ropes, born July 14, 1823, died December 28, 1823. 2. Ephraim Porter, born March 14. 1825, died December 11, 1842. 3. George Ropes, born February 27, 1827, died October 28. 1828. 4. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 2. 1829. died April 3. 1840. 5. George Ropes, born December 21. 1831. 6. Charles Wilson, born November 18. 1834. 7. Ann Baker Kennedy, born May 15, 1839, died December I, i860.

(\'III) George Ropes Felt, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Ropes) Felt, born in Utica, New York. December 21. 1831, died in Salem July 7. 1900. For many years he was bookkeeper in the Naumkeag National Bank. Salem. He married. May 5, 1854, Ann Elizabeth Kendrick, born in Ipswich, June 25, 1833, died May 5, 1903. daughter of Stephen S. and

( IX ) George Ropes Felt, son of George Ropes and Ann E. (Kendrick) Felt, was born in Salem, September 25, i860, and was educated in the public schools of that city. When about seventeen years old he found employment as messenger in the Naumkeag National Bank, remained there a short time, and then for the next four years was messenger in the Salem National Bank. At the end of that time he went to Lynn and became bookkeeper in the National Security Bank, later was appointed teller, and still later was elected cashier, holding the latter position until 1905, when he resigned to take up the duties of treasurer of the Munroe-Arnold-Merritt Express Company of Peabody and Boston. He married, October 31, 1900, Jennie Miller Arnold, born March 18, 1873, daughter of Frank T. and Jennie K. (Ricketson) Arnold. One child has been born of this marriage: George Ropes Felt, Jr., born February 15, 1905, died April 15, 1905.

(IV ) Joshua Kendall, son of Joseph Kendall (3), was born March 7, 1720. He married first, Esther Breck (Brick), 1745 ; second. May 2, 1753, Susannah Johnson, of Woburn. Children, born at Woburn: i. Joshua, born February 9, 1747; mentioned below. 2. Jonathan, born June 4, 1749; died August 3, 1751. 3. Jonathan, born September i, 1751. Children of second wife, born at Woburn: 4. Susanna, January 25, 1754. 5. Benjamin, March 16, 1756. 6. Oliver, November 14, 1759.

(V) Joshua Kendall, son of Joshua Kendall (4), was born in Woburn, February 9, 1747. He settled in East Sudbury, then adjoining Watertown, and was the only one of the name at that time in the vicinity. He lived on the road from Bigelow's Corner to Wayland Center. East Sudbury (incorporated 1780) became the town of Wayland, March II, 1835. Kendall lived there until about 1785. He married December 6, 1770, Mary Rutter, born April 8, 1744, daughter of Joseph and Mary Rutter. (See Rutter). Joshua was a soldier in the revolution, corporal in Captain Nathaniel Cudworth's company, Colonel Abijah Pierce's regiment, on the Lexington alarm.

(VT) Paul Kendall, son of Joshua Kendall (5), according to all obtainable evidence, was born, probably at Wayland, in 1775 or 1783. (Both records given by the family). He died' February 22, 1825. He settled in Watertown, a town adjacent to Wayland, and followed his trade as tailor there. One of the family traditions is that he was born while his father was at the battle of Lexington. On his return, when he was told of the birth of a son, some one said : "Who knows but he will be a Tory ?" "Rather than that," the father said, drawing his sword, "I would run this through his body." As a corporal the father would have worn a sword, and we know he was at Lexington April 19. Some of the family became Shakers and lived at Harvard, Massachusetts. Paul Kendall married, June 2^,, 1804, Susan Carter, born October 7, 1779, died April 23, 1858,. daughter of Ephraim and Ame (Reeves) Car- ter, of East Sudbury, now W'ayland. He was then of Watertown, she of East Sudbury, but the fact that he married an East Sudbury woman is another evidence that he belonged to the Kendall family of that town. Ephraim Carter, born September 1751. was son of Jonathan and Susanna Carter of Sudbury. Children, born at Watertown: i. Henry Lewis, born June 25, 1805 ; died at Providence, Rhode Island, July 10, 1883; married Mary Andrews, of Dighton. 2. Susan Carter, born February 20, 1807; died unmarried, May 9, 1882. 3. Hiram, born April 28, baptized July 2. 1809; died August 13, 1864; married Lydia Talbot, of Dighton. 4. Eliza Carter, born June 24, 181 1, died February 6, 1892; married at Providence, Alfred Hicks, son of Captain Radclifife and Elizabeth Hicks, of Providence, and had Mary Jane Hicks, who married \\'illiam Session. 5. George, born March 12. ba])- tized July 4. 1813; married Mary Dean, of Providence: diefl October 10, 1864: both he and his wife died of yellow fever. 6. William, born June 14. 1815. baptized July 16, 1815; died aged ten. 7. P)enjamin Franklin, born August 18, 1817; died November 4, i860; married Julia Ballon. 8. Jane White, died unmarried. 9. Francis, born January 12, 1822; mentioned below.

(VH) Francis Kendall, son of Paul Kendall (6), born in Watertown. January 12. 1822. di<"'' March 20. 1904. at his home at the corner of Church and Fayette streets. W'atertown. His birthplace was in the house that stood on the site of the prsent post office building. He had a common school education. He left home at an early age and went to work. In 1851 he returned to his native town, where he lived the rest of his life. He engaged in the woolen business in Boston, and for many years was a partner in the well-known firm of Richardson. Kendall & Company. He retired from business a few years before his death. He was an active and useful citizen of his native town, supporting every movement for the moral, spiritual or material welfare of the town, and taking part in every public affair and movement of importance for half a century. To the very end he evinced the most commendable public spirit. He was esDecially energetic in the trying times of the civil war in his support of the government and the soldiers in the field. He was at that time on the board of selectmen, and again in 1880 and 1881. During his last term of office the quarter-millenial celebration of the founding of the old town of Watertown was celebrated, and he took a prominent part in organizing and carrying out the details of that memorable occasion. He was called upon to serve the town in various other positions of trust and honor from time to time. He lived unostentatiously a life filled with deeds of kindness and charity. Nobody responded more freely or quickly to calls for public or benevolent purposes than he. He was a friend of the poor, a man much beloved by his neighbors and friends. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest members of the First Parish Church (Unitarian) of which he had been a member thirty-eight years, and for thirteen years president of its board of trustees. He was an active member of the Watertown Historical Society and of the Unitarian Club, vice-president of the Union National Bank of \\'atertown. and trustee of the Watertown Savings Bank. He married. August 17. 1847. Margaret Vantine Hathaway, born at Dighton, Massachusetts, March I, 18 1 7, died at Burlington. Iowa. December 30. 1892. daughter of John and Mrs. Hannah (Coen) (Sherman) Hathaway of Boston. Her father was a Boston merchant, and at one time an alderman in that city. ( See Hathaway). Children: i. John Hathaway, born at Boston. July 29, 1850 ; married, December 21, 1881. Mary L. Sherfey. of Burlington. Iowa; cbildren : i. Francis Hathaway, born July 31. 1885; ii. Margaret: iii. Arthur Sherfey. born May 31. 1892: iv. Paul, born October 17. 1894. 2. Francis F'aul. mentioned below.

(\TII) Francis Paul Kendall, .son of Francis Kendall (7). was born at W'atertown, March 18. 1854. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the Brooks School, corner of Tremont and Winter streets, Boston, where he was graduated after a three-year course. He then went west and worked for a year on John Bruin's stock farm. He returned for one year and then went to Kansas and took up a government claim in the township of Florence. Here he spent five years growing corn and wheat and raising hogs. He sold his farm and removed to Inclian Territory, where he engaged in cattle trading and herding on his own account. He spent about seven years in the cattle business at Dodge City, Kansas, and a year at Florence. After spending a year in California he returned to Massachusetts, and in 189s bought a hundred acre farm, known as the \'allev Field farm, formerly belonging to the Wellington family, in Lexington, a place of much historic interest. He has paid especial attention to his dairv. havinsr fortv cows or more of various breeds. He deals also in horses and is counted an expert judge of horses. He is a Unitarian in reHgion and a RepubHcan in poHtics. He married, November 15, 1888, Frances Ahne Webber McGinnis, born July 26, 1868, at Louisiana, Missouri, daughter of Thomas and Clara (Webber) McGinnis, of Louisiana, Missouri. Her father was a carpenter and contractor, a veteran of the civil war. They have no children.

England, came to America at the age of eighteen, in the ship "Blessing," sailing in July, 1635. He must therefore have been born in 1617. He was before the general court June 6, 1637. He settled in Barnstable, Plymouth colony, and was living in Taunton in 1649. He was a member of the Plymouth military company in 1643. Once he was arraigned before the court at Plymouth for "lending a gun to an Indian." He was residing at Barnstable in 1656^ and later removed to Yarmouth. He was admitted a freeman in 1670; bought a tract of land at Freetown, lot No. 18, in 1671 ; was constable 1676 and 1690, at Taunton ; often on the grand jury; selectman of Taunton 1680 and 1684; deputy to general court at Plymouth 1680 to 1684 and in 1691, and to general court of Massachusetts 1696-7. He had a brother Joseph Hathaway, living in Taunton, admitted a freeman 1657. The home of John Hathaw'ay finally was in what is now Berkeley, known as the Farms, just north of where the lands abuts on the Great River. The site of his house was marked by an iron tablet in 1889 by the Old Colony Historical Society. His will, dated August 3, 1689, proved February 15, 1696-7, bequeathed to wife Elizabeth ; sons Thomas, John, Gideon and Edward ; daughters by a former wife, etc. He married died September, 1705. Children: i. Abraham, born 1652. 2. Thomas. 3. John, Jr., born August 16, 1658; inherited his father's land at Freetown. 4. Hannah, born May, 1662. 5. Edward, February 10, 1663. 6. Gideon. The Old Colony Historical Society records, vol. vi, p. 80, in an article on the Hathaway family, gives sons Isaac, Ephraim (mentioned below), Abigail, married James Phillips, and Rebecca, who were not mentioned in the will.

(II) Ephraim Hathaway, son of John Hathaway (i), born in 1668, died before 1719; married, about 1690, Elizabeth Talbot. He lived at Dighton. Among his children was Ephraim, mentioned below.

(IV) Ephraim Hathaway, son of Ephraim Hathaway (3), born in 1719, died in 1816; married, first, . in 1752; second, Hannah (Shaw) Walker, and had son John, mentioned below.

(V) John Hathaway, son of Ephraim Hathaway (4), born in Dighton, in 1757, died in 1830; married 1781, Levinia Trafton, born 1763, died 1836. He had a son John, mentioned below.

(\"I) John Hathaway, son of John Hathaway (5), born in Dighton, in 1786, died in 1857. He removed to Boston. He married, in 1809, Hannah (Coen) Sherman. His second daughter, Margaret Vantine, born at Dighton, March i, 1817; married at Boston, August 17, 1847, Francis Kendall (see Kendall ) ; resided in Watertown, but died at Burlington, Iowa, December 30, 1892.

England since the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. Originally a place name, the first ancestor in England was presumably from the city of Dole across the channel. The particle de, meaning "of" or "from," was originally used in this and other names of its kind that became surnames a few hundred years later by merely dropping the preposition.

(I) Richard Dole, immigrant ancestor, born in England at Ringworthy (now Rangeworthy), near Bristol, England, baptized there December 31, 1622, was the son of William Dole, and grandson of Richard Dole. He was apprenticed by his father after the family had removed to the adjacent town of Thornbury to John Lowell or Lowle, a glover of Bristol. When John and Richard Lowell and their father, Percival Lowell, came to Massachusetts in 1639 they brought Richard Dole with them and they settled at Newbury with Dole as clerk. But when still a young man he engaged in business for himself as a merchant, displaying great industry and enterprise. He deposed in 1676 that he was aged about fiftytwo years. He became an extensive land- owner and left an estate valued at eighteen himdred forty pounds, a large sum for his day and locality. He built his house on the north bank of the river Parker just below the Oldtown bridge, as now located. He was of marked ability and upright character, influential and highly respected as a citizen and Christian. He married, first, May 3, 1647, Hannah Rolfe, daughter of Widow Rolfe. His wife died November 16, 1678. He married, second, March 4, 1679, Hannah Brocklebank, widow of Captain Samuel, and she died September 6, 1690. He married, third. Patience Walker. His inventory filed just after his death is dated July 26, 1705, and administration was granted July 30 of that year. Children, born at Newbury: i. John, August 10, 1648. 2. Richard, September 6, 1650. 3. Anna, March 26, 1653, died July 6, 1653. 4. Benjamin, June 14, 1654, died young. 5. Joseph, August 5, 1657, commanded one of his father's vessels. 6. William, April 11, 1660. 7. Henry, March 9, 1663. 8. Hannah, October 23, 1665. married May 18, 1692, John Moody. 9. Apphia, December 7. 1668, married Peter Cof^n. 10. Abner, mentioned below.

(H) Abner Dole, son of Richard Dole (i ), born in Newbury, March 8. 1672, married, November i, 1694, Mary Jewett, who died November 25, 1695, and, second, January 5, 1699, Sarah Belcher, of Boston. His second wife died July 21, 1730. His will was proved January 20, 1740. Children born at Newbury:

(IV) Moses Dole, son of Henry Dole (3), was born in Byfield parish, August 23, 1740. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Thomas Mighill's company. Colonel Timothy Jackman's regiment, assigned to guard Gloucester harbor and the brig "Mercy," bound to Boston, brought in by Captain Manly. Children baptized in Byfield parish of Newbury: i. Moses, Jr., December 17, 1769.

(\') Henry Dole, son of Aloses Dole (4), was baptized in Byfield parish, May 5, 1771 ; married Phebe Spofiford, born February 17, 1772, daughter of Moody and Huldah (Spofford) Spofiford. Children of Henry and Phebe (Spofiford) Dole, born in Byfield parish: i. Sally, married Samuel Cheney ; settled in Byfield. 2. Henry, born 1800, mentioned below.

Moody SpofTord, father of Phebe (Spofford ) Dole, was born June 24, 1744, son of Colonel Daniel Spofiford ; married, October 16, 1766. Huldah Spoft'ord, born November 10, 1744, daughter of Deacon Abner and Sarah (Coleman) Spoft'ord; he married second, June 3. 1716, Miriam (Flint) Putnam, who died in 1830; they resided in Georgetown, Massachusetts, and he was deacon of the First Church there. He was for many years justice of the peace, representative to the general court 1701 to 1704, 1708 and 1709, was architect of Windsor, X'ermont, Andover, Haverhill and Rock bridges, churches in Andover and Groveland and elsewhere, and lieutenant in the revolution. He died December 2^, 1828, aged eighty- four, and his wife died November 18, 1805 ; ten of their children lived to maturity, all dying before 1850.

Colonel Daniel Spofford, father of Moody Spofiford. and son of Captain John Spofford, born April, i"2i, died April 26, 1803; married, 1 741, Judith Follansbee, daughter of Francis and Judith (Moody) Follansbee, of Newbury ; settled in Rowley, now Georgetown; his wife died there February 28, 1779. aged fifty-nine; he married second, Betsey Emery, daughter of Captain James Smith, of West Newbury; she died May ii, 1784. aged forty-seven; he married third, Phebe (Thurston) Jewett, widow of Rev. David Jewett. Colonel SpoiTord built and occupied the house owned by the late Sewell Spofford. near the old homestead. He was colonel of the Seventh

Regiment of militia, Essex county, and served in the revolution on the Lexington alarm, April 19,1775, was representative to the general court in 1776, delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1780, was deacon of the church in 1 781, and was architect of several churches.

Captain John Spofiford, father of Colonel Daniel Spofiford, and son of John Spofiford, born in 1678, died October 11, 1735. at Georgetown; married first, February 15, 1700, Dorcas Hopkinson, born February 26, 1676, daughter of John Hopkinson, of Rowley ; second, Sarah Poor, of Indian Hill, widow of Ezekiel Hale, of Newbury, his fourth wife, her predecessors being Ruth Moody, of Pipestave Hill, Mary Sargent, of Amesbury, and Sarah Balch, of Bradford.

John Spofiford, father of Captain John Spofford, and son of John Spofiford, the immigrant, was one of the original settlers on Spofiford Hill, now Georgetown, Massachusetts. He married, March 9, 1675, Sarah Wheeler, who married second, Caleb Hopkinson. Sr., of Bradford, now Groveland, June 12, 1701, and died October 24, 1732, aged eighty.

John Spofiford. immigrant ancestor, was a proprietor of Rowley before 1643 ; was born in England in 1612; married Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Thomas. John Spofiford died 1678, leaving a large family from whom all of this surname are descended.

(VI) Henry Dole, son of Henry Dole (5), was born in 1800 in Byfield parish in the town of Rowley, Massachusetts. He married first, Lois Rogers, and, second, Lettice (Bickford) \'ance, a widow, who died in 1881. He died in Georgetown, Massachusetts, in 1877. He was a shoemaker by trade and followed that calling in his younger days. He learned the business of undertaker and was for many years engaged in that business. He w^as a prominent citizen of Georgetown and well known in that section. His only child, by first wife, was George Henry, mentioned below.

(VII) George Henry Dole, son of Henry Dole (6), was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts, August 28, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Dummer Academy, Newbury, Massachusetts. He worked at the trade of shoemaker in Haverhill for several years, and in 1872 was admitted to the firm of J. H. Winchell & Company, one of the best known and most enterprising firms in the city of Haverhill, and continued as a manufacturer in this firm for a period of twenty-one years. Mr. Dole retired from the firm in 1892, and at the present time ( 1908 ) is a member of the firm of Dole & Childs, undertakers. Although not engaged in active business since 1892, he has had various property interests to look after and has been for the past ten years a director of the Haverhill Trust Company. He is a member of the board of trade. Mr. Dole is an influential Republican; he was president of the common council for two years, having been appointed in 1883, and was city marshal in 1893-94. He was a member of the Electoral College, in 1904, at Boston. He and his family worship in the Centre Congregational Church of Haverhill. He is a member of Saggahew Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Haverhill Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Haverhill Commandery. Knights Templar ; of the various bodies of Scottish Rite to the thirty-second degree ; Mutual Relief Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 83 ; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Haverhill ; Pentucket Club ; Haverhill Historical Society. Mr. Dole married, 1859, Lucy Mary Howe, daughter of Moses Wood and Mary (Cheney) Howe. Children, all of whom are graduates of Haverhill high school: i. Charles E., born January 2, 1862, cashier of the First National Bank of Haverhill. Married, September 8, 1891, Eliza Noyes ; children : i. George Elmer, born July 24, 1893; ii. Howard Noyes, born July 5, 1896. 2. Elizabeth E., born October 16, 1865, graduate of Emerson College, Boston ; student of Cornell L^niversity ; teacher of elocution for several years at the Conservatory of Music at Ithaca, New York. 3. Albert Wood, born August 5, 1873, resides with his parents.

Saybrook, Connecticut. He was fined in 1649 with various other good citizens for violating the statute against selling guns to the Indians. In 1663 he surveyed for the colony the line between Saybrook and Killingworth. Children: i. Deacon Francis, born about 1660-70; lived in Stonington and Tolland, Connecticut ; children : Samuel, Joseph, Amasa, Zebulon, F^elatiah, Christopher. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer (?), of Lebanon.

(II) John West, son of John West, born 1660-70, died November 17, 1741. He resided in Lebanon, Connecticut. He married Deborah . Children, born at Lebanon :

(HI) John West, son of John West (2), born in Lebanon, Connecticut, March 12, 171 5 ; married there, November 8, 1738, Rebecca Abel. They lived at Lebanon, Connecticut. In June, 1768, he went to Strafford. A'ermont, to settle with other Connecticut families among the pioneers of that town ; among them were Ezekiel Parrish, Frederick and William Brisco, Peter, Thomas and James Pennock. James Pennock and wife Thankful came in June, 1768, with the sons from Gorham. Connecticut. He harl part of the John McGove farm, not far from the present copper mine and tiie old burying ground. Children, born at Lebanon : I. John, August 8, 1739, probably the John West of \^ershire, Vermont. 2. Daniel, mentioned below, December 31, 1741. 3. David, February 4, 1744. 4. Rufus, May 16. 1745; died young. 5. Abel, born May 11, 1747. ^'^- Hannah, September 2, 1749. 7- Dorothv, October i, 1751, at Tolland, Connecticut. 8. Rebecca, at Tolland, April 7, 1755.

(lY) Captain Daniel West, son of John West, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, December 31, 1741 ; married a daughter of James Pennock, mentioned above. In 1772 he purchased the Barnes farm at Strafford, \'ermont. whitlier he went with his father. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and also in the revolution. He was in Captain John Alger's company from Strafford. He had the rank of captain in the militia afterward, and was very prominent in the town. He died October 26, 1804: his wife died September 22, 1801. Children: i. Oilman, mentioned below.

2. Daughter, married Herman I)rown, of Straft"ord. 3. Betsey, married John Bacon ; lived on Levi Bacon farm in northeasterly part of the town. In 1790, according to the federal census, he and his son Oilman were the only heads of the family of this surname living in Straft'ord. Daniel West had three males over sixteen, four under sixteen, and three females in his family, while Oilman had two males over sixteen, four under sixteen, and four females in his family. According to the same census there were the following heads of families of Vershire, in which the family also settled : Ebenezer West, Ebenezer West, Jr., lohn West, John West, Jr., Jonathan West, Joseph West, Samuel West. John, Samuel, Thomas, Williston, William and Barnett West were soldiers in the revolution from \^ermont. Daniel West doubtless had other children besides those mentioned, not less than ten, as indicated by the census.

(V) Oilman West, son or nephew of Captain Daniel West, born at Strafford, Vermont, March 8, 1772, died February 8, 1852. He was brought up on his father's farm, and had but little schooling. He left home at the time of his marriage and settled near West Pond in Straft'ord. He lived for a time in Vershire, where some of his children were born. He was tall and erect in bearing, having a very dignified appearance. He and his wife attended the Free Will Baptist church. According to the census, Oilman West, who had a large family in 1790, must have been an uncle, and born as early as 1740. Oilman married twice. Children of first wife: i. Ciilman, drowned; married Almira Osborne, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire; children: i. Mary, married Ethan M. Ruggles, of Dalton, New Hampshire; ii. Lauretta; iii. Edwin, married Margie L. Ames, of Piermont, New Hampshire, (children: Frank E. and Mildred). 2. Asa, a merchant in New York City. 3. Lathan. 4. Daniel; children: i. Angeline. married iienjamin Hurst (children: Elizabeth Hurst, married Rev. O. N. Bryant, and Benjamin Hurst) ; of second wife, Ruth (Tucker), who was born at Henniker, New Hampshire, April 9, 1782, daughter of Ezra and Hepzibah (Pressey) Tucker. 5. Ezra Tucker, born February 12, 181 5, mentioned below. 6. John, married twice; had son Charles by second wife. 7. Mahala, born May 26, 1816; died November 22. 1868; married IMarch 17, 1846, James Marsh ; children : i. Mary Ann Marsh, born August 29, 1848, married January i, i8r)7, Morris Titus, of Vershire, and had Bertha Azalia Titus, born February 11, 1868 (married Charles West, of Tunbridge, and had Harold, Beatrice Ruth, and Arthur James West), Alice May Titus, born May 2, 1871, died October 20, 1896 (married November 6, 1889. William Bugbee, of Springfield, Vermont), Oertrude Belle Titus, born December 15. 1873 (married February 2y, 1900, Charles W. Ames, of Norwich, Vermont, and had Morris O. Ames, born February 14, 1901, and Warren C. Ames, born May 13, 1903), Raymond Titus, born June 28, 1877, and Gladys Florence Titus, born January 3, 1884 (married

December 22, 1906, Frederick Davis, of Concord, New Hampshire) ; ii. Alice Mahala Marsh, married Merritt Purrington, had no children ; iii. Henry Marsh, died aged eight years. 8. Lucy, born at Vershire, November 28, 1818, died at Guildhall, Vermont, June 28, 1893; married April 10, 1845, Ephraim Ward, of Vershire, died July 21, 1875, aged fifty-five years one month one day ; children : i. Frances Lucinda Ward, born October 19, 1846, married December 17, 1873, Richard Rowell Cole, born at Stark, New Hampshire, January 2T,, 1840, son of Jonathan and Lucinda (Holbrook) Cole, and had Wilbur Richard Cole, born October 18, 1877 (four sons, Richard Henry, George Gilbert, Jonathan Edmund and Wesley Sigismund Cole), Lila Maria Cole, born April 25, 1886; ii. Wilbur Ephraim Ward, born January 21, 1852, died December 11, 1877; iii. Austin Everett Ward, born March

West, born at Vershire, Vermont, February 12, 1815, died at Strafford, Vermont, February 9, 1892. He remained on his father's farm until he was married, and later was engaged in iron work at Tyson's furnace, Plymouth, Vermont. In 1847 ^^ removed to Woodstock, Vermont, and bought a farm situated halfway between Woodstock and Bridgewater. About a year later he sold this farm and bought another in the same town, near the river. Two years later he sold again, and removed to Guildhall in 1852, where he purchased a fifty acre farm and lived two years. After selling this to Ephraim Ward he went to Danville for two years, and from there to Vershire, to the farm of his father-in-law, Simeon Bacon. He took charge of the farm and finally leased it for two years, after which he removed to Strafford and bought the Ordway farm. He lived on several farms in this town, and at last bought the homestead, on which he died in 1892; it was situated on the main road from Strafford to Chelsea. He was a carpenter and cooper by trade. At one time he kept a tavern at Bridgewater, Vermont. In personal appearence he was large and powerful, six feet tall. His good nature made him very popular. He and his wife were regular attendants at the Orthodox Congregational church at Strafford. In politics he was a Republican, and served as road surveyor. He was a member of Temple Lodge, No. 54, F. A. M., of Strafford. He had the rank of orderly sergeant in the militia. He married first, January 17, 1837, Julia Stevens, born February 27, 1809, died June 13, 1841, daughter of Ezra Stevens; second, March 2, 1842, Lemira B. Bacon, born at Vershire, December 3, 182 1, died at Strafford, July 10, 1901, daughter of Captain Simeon and Judith (Fluse) Bacon, of Vershire. Her father was captain of militia, farmer, member of Vermont legislature, justice of the peace and trial justice. Children of first wife: i. Daughter, born and died November 18, 1837. 2. Daughter, born and died April 27, 1839. 3. Daughter born and died May 23, 1841. Children of second wife ; 4. William, born December 27, 1842; died September 26, 1846. 5. Charles Tucker, born November 2, 1844; mentioned below. 6. James, born February 21, 1846; died September 25, 1847. 7- Imogene, born January 25, 1849; died March 17, 1850. 8. Orin, born November 28, 1850; married first, June 10, 1873, Elizabeth Hutchinson, of Arlington, and had Leon N., born September, 1873, *^li^<^ November, 1895 ; married second, June 10, 1892, Adeline Hill, of Somersworth, New Hampshire. 9. Frank Henry, born September 5, 1852; married August 11, 1886, Julia Emeline Scribner, of Strafford, and had Lena Amy, born June 25, 1889. 10. Ella ]., born July 4, 1854; married November 26, 1874, Justin D. Colby, of North Tunbridge, Vermont ; children : i. Arthur John Colby, born March 21, 1876, married June 13, 1906, Gertrude Prescott, of Strafford ; ii. Frank Justin Colby, born October 6, 1874, married August 26. 1898, Stella Roberts, of Strafford; iii. Myrtle Lemira Colby, born August 5. 1878, married January i, 1899, William Collins, of Strafford, and had Carroll William Collins, born July 4, 1901, and Mary Ella Collins, born November 3, 1902. 11. William E., born July 24, 1856; married June 21, 1890, Lucy M. Brown, of Strafford, and had Bessie Lulu, born October 8, 1892. 12. Arthur P., died unmarried ; sergeant in army. 13. Elmer James, born September 4, 1862; married September 26, 1886, Iva E. Pray; children: i. Elmer Eugene, born February 23, 1888; ii. Arthur Pray, February 13, 1893; '"- Lemira Frances, June 6, 1894; iv. Percy Daniel, September 9, 1896; V. Doris Estella, July 3, 1900; vi. Richard Alfred, June 20, 1903; vii. Clinton Parkhurst, April 18, 1908. 14. Carrie Isabelle, born April 14, 1864; married November 15, 1893, John Kendall, of Strafford, and had Ernest Kendall, born August 29, 1894.

November 2, 1844. At the age of three he went with his parents to Woodstock, Vermont, where he Hved until he was eight years old, attending" the public scliools. He was two years in school at Guildhall and two years at Danville, where he was obliged to walk two miles over the hills to the schoolhouse. From here he went to VershirCj where he lived in the family of his grandfather Bacon for two years, going to school winters and working on the farm summers. From here he went to Strafford and settled on a farm, remaining until August 7, 1862, when he enlisted in Company B, Fourth Vermont Volunteer Infantry, lie went to Burlington, wdiere he was mustered into service, and shortly was ordered to the front. The company went to Washington and Alexandria, to Harper's Ferry, thence to Hagerstown, and there joined the regiment. I'he first battle in which he took part was Fredericksburg. He was in the battle of Gettysburg, in the Sixth Corj)s, First \'ermont Brigade. Then followed the battle of Mine Run, and he was subsequently detailed with his company as provost guard at corps head- (juarters at Brandy's Station. He remained in this service until the close of the war, and was mustered out in June, 1865. lie returned to Strafford and attended school at West Valley until he was twenty-one years old. In the spring of 1866 he went to Bradford, \"ermont, and entered the employ of W. B. & C. S. Stevens as clerk in their general store. A year later he took a similar position at Hanover in the store of C. S. Cobb, and the next year in the store of Clough & Stores, where he remained until the spring of 1869. He then went to Arlington, Massachusetts, and entered the employ of Winslow Pierce, hay and grain dealer. He was also station agent. On November I, 1 87 1, he removed to Lexington, where he was appointed station agent, also taking charge of Pierce's branch coal business in that place. He was station agent for three years. He had charge of Blinn's Express for a time. During his connection with Mr. Pierce's business he also conducted a general fire insurance business which he continued until September, 1907. He was treasurer of the Lexington Savings Bank one year. In 1885 he bought the undertaking business of Oliver W. Kendall's estate, and conducted it in connection with his insurance agency until he retired September I, 1907, selling out to his head undertaker, A. A. Marshall, who has since conducted both the insurance and undertaking business. Mr. W^est represented twelve of the best companies in fire insurance and had the patronage of the best families of the town. The home in which Mr. West lived on Forest street he bought in 1872 of John E. Hodgman. He and his wife were members of the Lexington Lhiitarian Society. He was superintendent of its Sunday school for six years, and member of the parish committee for several years. In politics Mr. West was a Republican. He served his party frequently as delegate to various nominating conventions and was selectman of the town for three years, town treasurer and tax collector, member of the cemetery board, and superintendent of the cemeteries of the town. He joined Hiram Lodge of F'ree Masons at Arlington. March 30, 1871, and afterward Simon W. Robinson Lodge of Lexington. He was a member of P.ethel Lodge, No. 12, Odd Fellows, of Arlington, at one time. He was a member and for a number of years treasurer of the Old Belfry Club of Lexington. He was a member of the New England Undertakers' Association ; of the Massachusetts Undertakers' Association; of George G. Meade Post, No. 119, G. A. R., of Lexington, of which he was commander for four years, and with which he took part in the exercises of Memorial Day for thirty-two cfjnsecutive years. Mr. West retired from business on account of ill health, and failed gradually. He midertook the journey to his old home in X'ermont, and arrived in an exhausted condition. He died July 27, 1908 at Strafford, \'ermont. The interment was at Lexington July 29, 1908. Mr. West was admirably fitted by nature for the occupation in which he was so successful. He attracted frienrls by his charming personality and was kindly, courteous and sympathetic in all his dealings. He was universally loved and esteemed by his townsmen and friends. He married first, February 15, 1872, Mary Wright Russell, who died March 20. 1874, aged twenty-five years four months and eighteen days, daughter of Josiah Harrington and Mary ( \\'illard ) Russell, of Arlington. Iler father was a coal merchant in Arlington, and was town treasurer for sixteen years. He married second. May 9, 1875, Abbie Frances Russell, sister of his first wife, born November 10, 1845. He had no children.

pivot upon which throughout the United States turns a multitude of genealogical researches. The present tense is here used advisedly, for although he is dead so far as the payment of poll taxes and other civic duties are concerned, he is yet very much alive in the genealogical researches alluded to, and frequently inquiries have been made of me by his widely separated descendants who dififer somewhat as to his antecedents. My own theory has been, writes Hon. F. P. Bennett, of Saugus, that he was a great-grandson of Samuel Bennett, of Saugus and Lynn, and while others differ with me in opinion, yet a variety of correspondence which comes to hand from time to time appears to confirm my theory. Samuel Bennett, whose active participation in the daughter of William Hargrave of Horsey- Down, England, was the cause of the oft- (^loted instrument of settlement by his father recorded in Soffolk Deeds, Boston (iv., 328), is the one who in my opinion subsequently removed to Groton, Alassachusetts. The second and third sons, Elisha and John, were both mariners. John Bennett and a wife Susanna in 1673, but before 1677 he married Aphra, widow of Jonathan Adams, who had a son John Adams, born in 1672, and a daughter, Sarah Bennett, born in 1677. John Bennett had trouble in court with Samuel Adams of Chelmsford. In 1678 he was "shortly to go on a voyage." Captain Elisha Bennett, the second son of the original Samuel, made his will April 9, 1726, and the same was proved the early affairs of Saugus and Lynn is very well known, came in the ship "James," in 1635, when twenty-four years old. The house which still stands on Howard street in Saugus, near where I live and which is one of the best preserved specimens of colonial architecture in New England, was built either by Samuel Bennett or one of his sons, and although it is frequently referred to as "The Boardman House," yet its early association with the history of Lynn, Saugus and Boston would be better emphasized if it were designated "The Bennett House."

May 30, 1726. In hi^s will he is described as of Rumney Marsh and in it are mentioned his wife Dorothy and children John, Ellis and Sarah, who had grown and settled in life. The son Ellis was a mariner and lived in Boston. The will also mentions a grandson John Bennett, at New York.

Samuel Bennett, Jr. migrated from Saugus in the latter half of the seventeenth century, but Captain Elisha Bennett, mariner, is believed still to have lived in the old house which then was in that part of Boston called Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, until at least the first half of the eighteenth century, as his will is recorded May 30, 1726, as already stated.

The families who remain for generations in tlie same community are either too prosperous to be attracted by a change or too unenterprising and thriftless to move. The Bennett families who appear early and often and in many different localities in the early history of the American colonies, came generally between these two extremes. This little warship "Massachusetts/' which was one of the earliest naval efforts of these colonies, was commanded at the siege of Louisburg by Captain Aloses Bennett, and his autograph appears among the archives at the state house in Boston appended to the pay-rolls of that expedition. The first news of the fall of the great and strong fortress of Louisburg, which for thirty years the French had been building at the front of Cape Breton island, was brought to Boston by Captain Bennett at daybreak on Tuesday. July 3, 1745. Never before was there such rejoicing, bell ringing, cannon thundering at Castle William at the north and south batteries, bonfires on the common, tents spread, casks of wine tapped, and at night candles in every widow and rockets streaming up the sky.

Samuel Bennett built the first iron works in the western hemisphere at Saugus - not as owner, but as master mechanic ; he did the teaming for the j^roprietors after the works were completed, and he put them into bankruptcy when they ceased to be successful. He also owned and operated one of the oldest mill privileges on Strawberry brook, and became as early as 1640 one of the most enterprising citizens of this section of the Massachusetts Bay colony. The story that he moved into Bo.ston becau.se he was fined for sleeping in church in Lynn is not necessary to the purposes of this narrative. His homestead was in that part of ancient Lynn, or Saugus, which about 1660 by the perfecting of the town bounds came into Boston, which then embraced ancient Chelsea, but which after the organization of the prscnt town of Saugus was set off to the latter town. The ancient house on or near the site of the first house still stands, as already explained.

Samuel Bennett was styled "carpenter." and in a deed in 1657 he conveyed "Rumney Hall" and eight acres of land to George Wallis, which estate is believed to have been nearer the present centre of Lynn than his home in what now is Oaklandvale, Saugus. In 1661 he was one of the perambulators of the town of Boston to inspect and determine the line betweeen Lynn and Boston. He fulfilled the same office in 1665 and as late as 167 1. He had five children - Samuel, Elisha, John, and a fourth one, whose name is not found, and a fifth, Lydia. The marriage settlement of his oldest son, Samuel, Jr., constitutes a well known historical document. Captain Elisha Bennett, mariner, of Rumney Marsh, made his will April 9, 1726. The descendants of the younger children of Samuel Bennett appear in Boston as late as 1787. and their descendants are possibly readily traced by those who are interested.

It has been said that there is some difference of opinion as to what became of Samuel Bennett, Jr., and a most plausible theory is that he removed to Groton, where there was an urgent demand for skilled mechanics in the latter part of the seventeenth century and also considerable demand for men of courage to participate in the defense against the Indians. The name of Samuel Bennett appears frequently in the early history of Groton in the latter part of the seventeenth century, sometimes in charge of parties engaged in the defense of the town. The difficulties in the way of exact genealogical knowledge in the latter part of the seventeenth and the earlier years of the eighteenth centuries are due not only to the defective character of town and parish records, but also to the general indift'erence of most of the inhabitants of the communities in which a Calvinistic element was dominant. The people cared not so much about a man's grandfather as whether he was one of God's "elect."

However, from the date when Moses Bennett bought land in Groton, June 14. 1718. and the next year married .Anna Blanchard. of Dunstable, the family record is clear and definite, and the descendants of Moses Bennett are so numerous and many of them so much interested in genealogical researches that they feel (|uite confident of establishing his antecedents.

The descendants of the Bennetts of Mance.ster. Massachusetts, who are very numerous, are also interested in the same researches. Another difficulty in tracing connections of the name of Bennett is that many of the families lack any common origin in recent years. On one occasion, while in England, Mr. Frank P. Bennett devoted some little time in the British Museum and elsewhere to inc[uiries upon this subject, and found that while the family name of the Earl of Tankerville is Bennett, and that he is one of the great noblemen of England descended in the maternal line from that Earl of .Arlington, who also was named

Bennett and was one of the famous ministers of Charles II, and that while there are several important county families named Bennett, yet there were also numerous dock laborers, a leading clockmaker of London, and in fact persons of this surname in every walk of life. In fact, the name of Bennett is in England little less numerous than Smith, because it was originally a given name derived from St. Benedict. There are ancient churches in England known as St. Benet's. The derivation of the name from Benedict is clearly established, and while at first a given name, it eventually became a surname.

However, very many of the Bennetts who were among the earlier settlers of Massachusetts and Virginia were connected, and their descendants have migrated numerously throughout the country. It may be added that there are thirty-one railroad stations named Bennett in various parts of the United States.

Moses Bennett, of Groton, who took up a farm in that town upon his own account in 1718, and married Anna Blanchard, August II, 1719. was born 1691, and most probably was the great-grandson of the first Samuel Bennett of Lynn. But this belief is tentative, and may be disproved by later researches of those who are now making inquiries on this subject. Moses Bennett had ten children, all enjoying good old biblical names, as follows: Abygail, or Abiah, Stephen, Moses, David. Eunice, Jonathan, James, Anna, Thomas and Aaron. The name of the ninth child, Thomas, appears on a muster roll dated Boston, February 5, 1759. of a company of foot in his majesty's service under Captain Asa Whitcomb, in Colonel Jonathan Bagley's regiment, raised by the province of Massachusetts Bay. Thomas also marched on the alarm from Lexington, April 19, and enlisted April 26, 1775, in the eight months regiments, taking part at Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston, but later was disabled, and when he died was reported as "lately deceased occasioned by ye hardships and difficulities he underwent in ye late expedition under Capt. Tyng, being taken sick and dicing at Charlestown." It used to be a family tradition that Thomas was hoeing in the field when the news came of the alarm at Lexington, and that he dropped his hoe where he was at work and responded to the alarm. The widow of Thomas subsequently married Gershom Hobart, a lineal descendant of the early minister of Groton, and removed to Washington, Vermont, where she lived to be one hundred years of age or more. She is known to have been living in 1830, and was a prolific source of information, especially concerning the migration of the Whitcombs, Bennetts and others from Groton to Vermont, about the close of the eighteenth century.

On July 27, 1694, Gershom Hobart, the minister of Groton, with part of his family, was remarkably preserved from falling into the hands of the Indians when they made themselves masters of his house, though they took two of the children, whereof the one was killed and the other sometimes after happily rescued out of his captivity. Gershom, Jr., son of the Rev. Mr. Hobart, whom Mather mentions as having been rescued from captivity, is said to have been carried to the east. The first information his friends received of him was in May following his captivity, at a fort a day's journey from Norridgewok, and his master's name was Massacunbewit, the chief captain of the place. Both his master and mistress were kind to him and afterwards granted his ransom.

The widow of Thomas Bennett, of revolutionary fame, removed with her second husband, Gershom Hobart, to Washington. Her second child. Naomi, married June 6, 1796, Gershom Hobart, Jr. Imlah Bennett, grandfather of F. P. Bennett, who was born at Shirley, Massachusetts, October 5, 1774, went with the Hobarts to Washington, and was there when that town was organized, March I, 1792, being then only about seventeen years old. Mr. Hobart's name does not appear in the town records until September 2, 1794, when it is recorded that Gershom Hobart, Jr., Joseph Trufant and others are enrolled "freemen."

There has been a theory that Moses Bennett, who with Benjamin Bennett appeared in Groton purchasing farms on the same day, June 14, 1718, were grandsons of the Moses Bennett of whom trace is lost in Manchester. Massachusetts, in 1686. The Bennett family of Manchester is descended from William Bennett, an original planter of the town who died in 1683. leaving two sons, Moses and Aaron, then men grown, Moses being the elder. In 1686, Jane, widow of William Bennett, conveyed certain rights and lands to her sons Moses and Aaron, and this is the last we hear of that particular Moses. The son Aaron had a family and from him the later generations of Bennetts in Manchester and vicinity are descended. The names Aaron and Moses predominate among their descendants.

troverted by the statement in Hazen's "History of Billerica" that the father of Moses was probably James of Groton, who was the grandson of the original Samuel of Lynn.

King William's war began in 1689 ^"^ the frontier towns of New England were again the scene of barbarities and destruction. In the arrangement of the garrisons in Groton, March 17, 1691, the names of Samuel Bennett and another Bennett, whose first name is not given, appears in the garrison of five men at Mr. Hezekiah Usher's farm. This probably was Samuel Bennett, Jr., formerly of Saugus and grandfather of Moses Bennett of Groton.

In the early annals of Lynn it is stated that about this time and earlier there was some immigration of mechanics to Groton. The history of Groton says the location of Mr. Usher's farm and that of the Bennetts of that period is not known, but as the brook rising in Harvard and running into Stectacle pond is called Bennett's brook, it is probable that the Bennetts who preceded Moses lived in the vicinity of that stream. Cotton Mather refers to the remarkable preservation of Gcrshom Hobart, who was one of the eight sons of Rev. Peter Hobart, first minister of Hingham, Massachusetts. From 1697 to 1702 peace prevailed at Groton. Then came the war with France, upon the accession of Queen Anne, and the frontier towns of Massachusetts were again exposed to tomahawks, scal])ing knives, fire and torture.

In 1675 there was a Moses Bennett in the company of Captain Samuel Brocklebank of Rowley in the garrison at Marlboro, but he unciuestionably came from Manchester, Massachusetts. In the colonial records of King Philip's war are found the names of Peter, Henry, John, Moses and \\'illiam Bennett.

There were at last accounts eight Bennett epitaphs in Copps Hill cemetery, Boston. The oldest was that of Sarah Bennit, wife of Samuel Bennit, formerly of Saugus. The inscription reads : "Here lyes ye body of Sarah Bennit, wife to Samuel Bennit, aged 75 years, deceased January 18, 1682." The most recent epitaph under this name reads : "In memory of Airs. Rachael Bennett, wife of Bezaleel Bennett, who died October i, 1814, age 60."

Original documents concerning Moses Bennett, Jr., of Groton, and also of Thomas and his military and naval service, are in the Massachusetts archives, Boston. .\n order dated Boston, July 21, 1747, signed by Governor Shirley, directing Captain Moses Bennett to land the guns belonging to the brig "Boston Pickett," under his command, to secure the stores, haul up the vessel, and discharge the crew excepting a boatswain and boy to take care of the vessel, and a muster roll dated Boston, September 13, 1748, shows the muster roll of the ship "Massachusetts," commanded by Captain Moses Bennett, and June 20, 1749, the pilotage of the frigate "Massachusetts'' in and out of New York was certified by the autograph of Captain Moses Bennett.

Lydia Adams, widow of Thomas Bennett, who subsequently married Gershom Hobart and lived to the great age already mentioned, was born in Groton, August 4, 1743, daughter of Methiboshbth Adams. It is interesting to note how these old scriptural names were inevitable throughout that period.

In Alunsell's "Genealogical Index" references to Bennetts are made in fifty-eight different books. There was a Henry Bennett in Ipswich, Massachusetts, as early as 1650, as a record of his marriage with Lydia Perkins of that town testifies. In 1654 he bought of Jonathan Wade a farm of two hundred acres, and besides his homestead he held considerable land on I'lum island and elsewhere. Among the settlers in Wyoming \"alley, Pennsylvania, the seat of subsequent bloody massacres by Indians, were I>ennctts, and when the now thriving city of Wilkcs-Barre held but five women three of them were of the name of I'ennett.

-Stephen B. Bennett, of Pittston, wrote a brief volume about the Pennsylvania Bennetts in 1899, and acknowledged that he formerly believed Samuel of Lynn to be an ancestor of the I'ennetts who were drawn to the Wyoming lands by the Susc[uehanna Company. It was afterward discovered, however, that the other Samuel was a son of Edward, who with his wife and four children sailed from Weymouth. England, and settled at Weymouth, ^Massachusetts, taking up, as he was entitled to. thirty-six acres of public land and being made freeman in 1636.

Richard Bennett, of \^irginia. was owner of immense tracts of land in Nansemond county, whence he came in 1621. His son Richard, of Greenburg Point, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, was a member of the Maryland assembly in 1663. His son, the third Richard, born 1663, died 1749, owned thirteen hundred slaves. The Gentlemen's Magazine, in a notice of his death, says he was the richest man in the colonies. His tomb is at Bennett Point, Queen Anne county, Maryland, with the Bennett arms and a long inscription.

James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald, a Scotchman born in Banffshire, once wrote : "The Bennetts were a little band of freebooters, A. D., 896, in Saxony. I have no doubt they robbed and plundered a great deal. They migrated to France and settled on the I^oire, where they lived several hundred years. The family was Roman Catholic and later of the Church of England." It is said that there are now more than one hundred Bennetts who are ministers of the Established Church of England.

In 1619, at Yoguhal, a south Irish seaport, Richard, Lord Boyle, caused repairs to be made to a certain chapel, time having caused it to fall into ruin. He carved recumbent stone effigies of a man and woman upon a tomb which bears the inscription: "Here lyeth the bodies of Richard Bennett and Ellen Barry, his wife, the first founders of this chapel. It is for a reviving of their memory I have had their figures cut in stone."

Perhaps the oldest family of Bennetts in England is at Pithouse in Wiltshire. They have a coat-of-arms with the motto: "Benedictus qui toluit coucere" - "Blessed is he who bears the cross." No doubt there have been Bennetts in Germany, France and Ireland as well as in England and Scotland ; "but," says Hon. F. P. Bennett, "I still insist that the derivation of their name from the given name of Benedict is so well established that there are many of them whose relationship is not nearer than by way of Adam."

Frank P. Bennett, of Saugus, journalist and business man, author of the foregoing narrative of the Bennetts of Saugus, Lynn and Groton. is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, born May 2, 1853, great-great-grandson of Moses Bennett, of Groton, and a descendant in the eighth generation of Samuel Bennett, of Saugus and Lynn, 1638, of both of whom extended mention is made in preceding paragraphs.

Mr. Bennett w-as educated in Maiden and Chelsea public schools, and in business life has devoted attention principally to editorial work, also dealing somewhat extensively in wool, and incidentally, perhaps, taking considerable interest in Massachusetts politics and always on the Republican side. His career in journalism is too well known to require more than casual mention in this place, his editorials and monograph articles on subjects relating to finance and trade are so generally accepted as to negative the suggestion of either comment or compliment, and his legislative service is written in history as a record creditable alike to himself and the commonwealth. He is editor and proprietor of the Wool and Cotton Reporter, owner of the United States Investor, the American Clothier, and the Shepherd's Bulletin; member and ex-president of the National Wool Growers' Association, the New England Wool Growers' Association and of the Middlesex Eastern Agricultural Society; member of William Sutton Lodge, F. and A. M. ; Beauseant Commandery, K. T., of Maiden, Cliftondale Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; Maiden Lodge of Elks ; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine ; and about thirty other fraternal and social bodies.

While living in Everett, Mr. Bennett served as town auditor and member of the board of selectmen. In November, 1890, he was elected to a seat in the lower house of the general court, serving continuously until the close of the legislative session in 1894, and was again representative in 1898. 1899 and 1900. In 1891 he was chairman of the house committee on taxation and member of the special committee on administrative boards and commissions: in 1892 was chairman of the house committee on rapid transit, member of the committee on rules and the joint special committee on public reservations; in 1893 was house chairman of the special committee on rapid transit, of public reservations and member of the committee on rules; in 1894 he declined all committee appointments except that on rules. In 1898 he was house chairman of the committee on agriculture and also that on election laws ; and in 1899 and 1900 was chairman of the committee on agriculture and member of the ways and means committee.

Nancy L. Bennett, wife of Frank P. Bennett, was born in Palermo. Maine, December 30, 1857, and comes also of revolutionary and Mayflower stock. One of her ancestors was Lieutenant Colonel Charles Smith, of Ipswich, and her own maiden name was Greeley. Her maternal grandfather was one of the Turners who came into that region by way of Damariscotta, after the revolutionary war. Mrs. Bennett has been president of the Friday Club of Everett, the Riverside Club, of Saugus, and is now serving her third term as president of the North Shore Club, of Lynn. They have three sons, the oldest of whom, Frank P. Ben- nett, Jr., has served three terms as a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and is now chairman of the school committee of Saugus. They also have several grandchildren, the son of Frank P. Bennett, Jr., being named Franklin P. Bennett, and still another grandson is named Frank P. Bennett 3rd.

Thomas Dickinson, immi- DICKINSON grant ancestor, was a proprietor of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1643, s"*^! owned a house lot on Bradford street, of an acre and a half. He was dated March 8, 1661-62, and proved April 17, 1662. He mentions his wife Jennet, son James and four daughters. His widow married (second) John Whipple, of Ipswich, and was buried in Rowley, February i. 1686. Children: I. James, born September 6, 1640. mentioned below. 2. Mary, born September 27, 1642, married, December 21, 1666, Abel Langley. 3. Sarah, born October 18, 1644. married. May I, 1 66 1, Jeremiah Jewett. 4. Mercy, born October, 1646, married, in Ipswich. June 30, 1668, Nathaniel Adams, of Ipswich. 5. Martha, born February 9. 1648, married. December 9, 1669, Wry Ouarles. of Ipswich. 6. Thomas, born October 26, 1655, buried March 30, 1659.

will was dated June 25, 1698, proved August I, 1698, and bequeaths to wife Rebecca, eldest son Thomas, sons James, Samuel and George, and daughters Sarah. Mercy and IVIary. His widow married (second), January 7, 1701-02, Lieutenant John Dresser. Children: i. Sarah, born August 25, 1664, married, .April 18, 1684, John .Andrews, of Bo.xford. 2. Thomas, born November 21, 1666, mentioned below. 3. Mercy, baptized June 20, 1669, married, June

(III) Thomas Dickinson, son of James Dickinson, born November 21, 1666, died September 8, 1737. His will was dated January 28, 1733-34. proved October 31, 1737. and mentions wife Damaris, sons John, Thomas, who

(I\^) John Dickinson, son of Thomas Dickinson, born March 13, and baptized March 16, 1691-92, died in January, 1786, aged ninety-five years. He married, January 7, 1718-19, Susanna Gage, who died July 11. 1750. He married (second), July 5, 1753, Sarah (Davis) Plats, widow of John Cressy and John Plats. She died in h^ebruary, 1789. He resided in Rowley. Children: i. Elizabeth, born December i, 1723. 2. Hannah, b(^rn September 19, 1725. 3. John, born February 18, 1727, mentioned below. 4. William, born February 7, 1731. died young. 5. William, baptized July 30, 1732.

(\ ) John Dickinson, son of John Dickinson, was born February 18, 1727. He owned the covenant in the Rowley Church, June 3, 1753. f^c removed to Ipswich. His son Joshua was a soldier in the revolution from the west parish of Ipswich in Captain Abraham How's company on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He seems to have died before I7()2, the date of his father's death. His son Joshua was appointed administrator of the grandfather's estate, September 4, 1792, with Joseph Dresser and Joseph Chaplin sureties. He married, November 6. 1750, at Rowley, Mehitable Pickard, who owned the covenant April 14, 1765. Children, born at Rowley: i. Susanna, baptized June 24, 1753. died young. 2. Mehitable, baptized September 22, 1754. 3. Joshua, baptized February 29, 1756. mentioned below. 4. Dolly, baptized Alarch 12, 1758. 5. Susanna, baptized May 31, 1761.

{\\) Joshua Dickinson, son of John Dickinson (5), was baptized at Rowley, February 29. 1756. He was a soldier in the revolution from the west parish of Ipswich in Captain Abraham Howe's company, April 19, 1775. Much of the genealogy of this family is revealed by. the will of Mary Dickinson, widow of Jonathan Dickinson, son of Thomas Dickinson (3), dated August 16, 1774, proved August 16, 1775. To nephews and nieces of herself and husband, called "cousins," she bequeathed her property. Those mentioned in this will were Joseph Pickard, Jr., Jeremiah Pickard, William Dickinson, Moses Dickinson who had son Jonathan, a minor, Joshua Dickinson, James Dickinson, Samuel Pickard, Jacob* Pickard, Elizabeth Felton, Anne Pingry, wife of Stephen, Mary Ellsworth, wife of Edward, Jane Brocklebank, wife of Samuel, Rebecca Kilbourne, Mehitable Dickinson, Elizabeth Pingry, Mary Ellsworth and James Brocklebank. Joshua Dickinson, of Rowley, cordwainer, deeded ten acres of land in Linebrook parish, Rowley; also one undivided half of the remaining undivided third of certain premises, excepting the dower of his mother Mehitable during life, dated May 21, 1801. From this deed and another in which Israel Cook, of Lyme, Grafton county, New Hampshire, and his wife, Susanna Cook, of Lyme, and Ruth Burpee, of Rowley, spinster, deeded land in Rowley in 1799 to Darius Dickinson, who sold it soon afterward to John Pickard, it is shown that Darius was his son, mentioned below.

(VH) Darius Dickinson, son of Joshua Dickinson, was born in Rowley or Ipswich, about 1775. He lived in what is now Georgetown, formerly Rowley, Massachusetts, also in Ipswich. He was a yeoman or farmer. He married Mary Keyser. He died intestate at Ipswich in 1849. His estate was divided September 7, 1852, among the following heirs: Horace Dickinson, Jacob Dickinson, Darius Dickinson, Samuel Haskell for his wife, Oliver Porter for his wife, John Dickinson, Mary, by her guardian John Dickinson, Lewis, by his guardian John, Cyrus Averill for his wife, Charles by his creditors and Asa by his creditors. Children: i. Lewis, born February 25, 181 6, mentioned below. 2. Darius, Jr. 3. Jacob. 4. John. 5. Charles. 6. Mary. 7. Elmira.

(VITI) Lewis Dickinson, son of Darius Dickinson, born Georgetown, February 25, 1816, married, July 23, 1854, Lucinda Hutchinson, of Danvers, born x\pril 21, 1824. (See Hutchinson sketch). He resided at Ipswich and was a farmer and shoemaker. He was educated in the public schools. He began to manufacture shoes and boots on a larger scale than formerly practiced and had a large factory in Ipswich, and in connection with his manufacturing he opened a general store, dealing also in East and West India goods. About the time of the civil war he retired from business and spent the remainder of his active life in conducting the homestead. He was a prominent member of the Congregational church of Ipswich, and for many years was chorister, also playing the bass viol before the days of the church organ. He was a staunch \Vhig in early life, later a Republican. He was a member of no lodges or secret societies. Child, John Lewis, born July 24, 1855, mentioned below.

( IX) John Lewis Dickinson, son of Lewis Dickinson, was born at Ipswich, July 24, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school, and was a student under Issachar Lefavour. He began early in life to work on his father's farm. He was fond of horses and, after leaving school, engaged in buying, selling and trading horses. He understood the horse thoroughly and loved the animals. He kept a livery and sale stable in Rockport for a time. After the death of his father he removed to Ipswich, but soon afterward sold the homestead and moved to Salem, in 1890, and again became the proprietor of a livery stable. He continued in the stable and horse dealing business there the remainder of his days. He died at Salem, August 11, 1905. He was one of the best known and most popular men in his line of business in Essex county. He met many people and made many friends. He was kindly in his disposition, enjoying the fun and humor of life and always a cheerful influence among his associates. In his youth he attended the Baptist church and Sunday school in Rowley, but in later years he and his wife attended the Second Unitarian Church of Salem. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married, February 11, 1880, in Rockport, Josie A. Saunders, born April 8, 1856, daughter of Captain Edward Howard and Mary J. (Wilkins ) Saunders, of Gloucester. Children: i. John Hallett, born December 22, 1882, married Bessie E. Stickney ; children : i. Edward Howard, born September 14, 1902 ; ii. Gardner, born October 20, 1904 ; iii. Luella, born June 20, 1906. 2. Roland Howard, born at Ipswich, October 17, 1887, unmarried.

Irish families are descended from Colonel Robert Saunders, who went to Ireland with Cromwell, and was made governor of Kinsale with a grant of 3,725 acres of land in \\'exford. The coat-of-arms of Colonel Robert and his ancestors : Out of a mural crown proper an elephant's head argent, charged with a torleau.

In 1568 the visitation of London gives the grandson of William Saunders of Welford, Northamptonshire, having this coat-of-arms : Per chevron sable and argent three elephants heads erased counterchanged tusked or. Crest: An elephant's head erased sable eared and tusked or. In most of the Saunders families entitled to bear arms, there is a similarity of design, the elephants' head being the chief device. Sanders of Essex has: Argent three fleurs-de-lis sable on a chief of the second as many fleurs-de-lis of the first. Sanders of Alaidstone, Kent : Sable a chevron between three elephants' heads erased argent a chief embattled argent. Saunders of Uxbridge, county Middlesex, like the one just described. Saunders of Sherifif, Northamptonshire, in the time of Queen Elizabeth : Per pale sable and argent three elephants, heads counterchanged. Saunders of Dinton, Buckinghamshire; of Buxworth, Cottesbrook, East Haddon, Harrington, Stresham, and Welford in county Northamjjton : Per chevron argent and sable three elephants heads erased counterchanged. Crest: An elephant's head erased sable, eared and armed argent.

The Saunders family of Sauntersted, Sanders Place and Charhvood, county Surrey, is a very ancient famil}- in that county and is the parent stock of the Sanders family of Luffington, Caldwell and Little Irelon, county Derby, and of Teaby, county Pembroke.

Watkin de Sandersted gave the advowson of Sandersted to Hyde .\bbey by Winchester in the titne of Edward the Confessor for the souls of his ancestors. Watkin was succeeded by his brother, Stephen Sanders, who held Sandersted according to Domesday Book before the Conquest.

\\^illiam Sanders, of Charhvood, in the time of Henry \ I. married Joan Carew, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Carew, of Beddington, county Surrey; his great-grandson. Sir Thomas Sanders, knight of Charhvood, had confirmation of the family arms and crest in 1653, viz : Sable a chevron ermine between three bulls heads cabossed argent. Crest : A demibull per pale gules and sable eared and horned argent and or, counterchanged about his neck a collar gemee argent supporting between his feet a stalk of alisaunder, leaved vert budded or. This armorial doubtless took the place of the more ancient elephants' heads described above.

There were a number of Saiyiders pioneers among the early settlers in Essex county, Massachusetts. The similarity of names, the location of their homes and many other facts indicate that they were related.

John Saunders, born in England in 161 3, yeoman, married, about 1638, Hester Ralfe (or Rolfe) ; came in the ship "Confidence;" one of the twelve original grantees of Salisbury, September, 1638, and drew land in the first division; removed to Newbury in 1642; after 1655 returned to Weeks, parish of Dainton (Downton) Wiltshire, England, and appointed his kinsman, Richard Dole, of Newbury, attorney to look after his Massachusetts property; children: Hester, born September 5- i^>39: John, born July i, 164 1, died September 3, 1641 ; Ruth, born December, 1642; John, born December 19. 1644; the preceding born at Salisbury, the following at Newbury : Sarah, born August 20, 1646; Mary, born June 12, 1649; Abigail, born April 12, 1651 ; Joseph, born August 28, 1653; Elizabeth, born January 26, 1654-55. The father of John Saunders was also John ; married. February 4, 1610, Alice Cole, at Downton, Wiltshire: children: John, baptized March. 1613; Elizabeth, baptized 1614: Sarah, baptized 1615; Joseph, baptized 1617; Moses, baptized 1622.

Still another John Saunders came to Ipswich, 1635, removed to Ham])ton, New Hampshire, and thence to Wells, Alaine. about 1644; was admitted freeman ; in 1643 he was fined for "indiscreet words" ( perhaps reflecting on the minister or some of the i)etty officials) ; he had then "six little children ;" was at Kennebunkport in 1663; died 1670: children: Thomas, John, Elizabeth and three or more others.

John Saunders, of Salem, still another John, came as early as 1637 ; married a daughter of Joseph Grafton ; died 1643. bequeathing to father-in-law, wife, son John; his widow married, 1654, John Gardner ; son John, born about 1640, was the famous Quaker who went to England and procured a royal order to prohibit the persecution of Friends in Massachusetts Bay; died 1694. There was another pioneer, James Saunders, at Haverhill early.

The name of her husband is not known. Her sons were grown, were shipwrights by trade and were doubtless attracted thither by the activity in shipbuilding at this port at that time. The sons appear first in Gloucester in 1702 ; the mother may have come then or later. It is said that one of the family came first, perhaps as sailor, and the others were induced to make their home here under inducements held out by him on his return from a voyage to America. Mary Saunders died in Gloucester, December 21, 171 7, aged sixty years. Children: i. John, lost at sea February, 1736, on voyage to Isle of Sable. 2. Nathaniel, had four sons, Nathaniel, John, Joseph and David, and five daughters. 3. Captain Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Edward, was a shipwright at Gloucester; died 1759; left four sons and three daughters. 5. Joseph, married, January i,

(II) Captain Thomas Saunders, son of Mary Saunders, born in England, 1682, died at Gloucester, July 17, 1742, aged sixty years. In March, 1704, he received from the commoners a grant of an acre of land between the head of the harbor and Cripple cove. Here he built boats and ships. In 1706 he was granted a piece of flats below where he "built vessels." He was a very successful and competent shipwright and did a large business, as shown by the frequent grants of ship timber on the part of the town. In 1725 he commanded the government sloop "?^Ierry-meeting." He left a clear estate of 3,160 pounds, one of the largest accumulated in Gloucester up to the time of his death. He married, January 7, 1703, Abigail Curney, who died February 16, 1767. Children: I. Thomas, born March 20, 1704, mentioned below. 2. Abigail, born June 29, 1705, married Peter Dolliver. 3. Joseph, born February 21. 1707. 4. Mary, born ^March 10, 1709. married Daniel Gibbs. 5. John, born June 14, 171 1. 6. Lydia, born March 24, 1714. married Daniel Witham.

(HI) Captain Thomas Saunders, son of Captain Thomas Saunders, born March 20, 1704, died at Gloucester, October 24, 1774- He was lieutenant on the sloop "Merry-meeting" in 1725, and during the greater part of his life commanded a government ves'^el. On one of his voyages to the eastward (Maine) he was taken prisoner by the French and Indians. He threw his captors ofif their guard by appearing happy and contented and they took but little precaution against his escape. When at Owl's Head he took occasion, while his captors were asleep, to escape, taking with him their money, about two hundred pounds,, which he hid, and made his way safely to Fort St. Georges. Many years afterward, when he was returning from the Louisburg Expedition on the same ship with General Amherst, he related this adventure and requested the general to go ashore with him and look for the treasure. Somewhat skeptical the general acquiesced and Saunders soon found his cache and corroborated his remarkable stcry. Captain Saunders addressed the governor in a memorial dated January, 1745, asking for an increased allowance for the support of his vessel, the sloop "Massachusetts" in the government service. The governor in communicating the memorial to the general court wrote: "I am satisfied with the reasonableness of Captain Saunder's request and extremely loth to lose so faithful and experienced an officer. I must desire you would give him such relief as may make him easy in the service." The wages and pay were: for the sloop, five shillings a ton per month ; for the captain five pounds a month ; for the mate a trifle less than the captain and for the sailors fifty shillings each. Captain Saunders took part in the expedition to Cape Breton in 1745. and during the siege had command of the transports in Chapeau Rouge Bay. "He was. a gentleman, well respected among those whO' had the honor of his acquaintance and died greatly lamented." He had eleven children., of whom: i. Hon. Thomas, mentioned below.

3. John, died January 17, 1742; his .only son John. 4. Judith, married Winthrop Sargent. 5. Abigail, married William Dolliver. 6. Rebecca, married Captain James Babson. 7. Lydia, married James Prentice. And four others.

(TV) Thomas Saunders, son of Captain Thomas Saunders, was born at Gloucester. August 14, 1729, married, 1752, Lucy Smith, daughter of Rev. Thomas Smith, of Falmouth, Maine. Mr. Saunders died in 1774. She married second. Rev. Eli Forbes and died June 5, 1780, aged forty-eight years. She is buried at the side of her first husband and the name of her second husband does not appear on the stone. Thomas Saunders fitted for college under Rev. Moses Parsons, of Byfield, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1748. Though most graduates at that time became ministers and teachers, he chose a commercial life and became a prosperous merchant. He represented Gloucester in the general court from 1761 to 1770 inclusive. Afterward he was a councilor until June, 1773, when he resigned. He built the large mansion house near the Unitarian meeting house and lived there a number of years. At the time of his death Rev. S. Chandler said "Exalted sentiments of generosity, humanity, piety, probity and public spirit animated his soul with many noble resolves and prompted him to vigorous exertions in public and private life. With an incorruptible and truly patriotic spirit he served the town for several years as representative and for several years had a seat in the council board in which political sphere a laudable ambition of l)eing extensively useful engaged the liberal movements of his soul in assiduous efforts to be a guardian of the civil constitution for which he had a tender solicitude. Loyalty, virtue and public spirit bloomed in his mind and merited approbation, till the springs began to fail, until infirmities brought on a relization of nature and a languor of spirit which caused him to resign his public posts and retire. In the uneven traces of life, he exemplified the grace of patience and preserved a calm and harmony within himself. Christian fortitude encircled his soul in variegated trials and he viewed the approach of death with Christian confidence and has doubtless gone to rest in an unchangeable state of everlasting bliss."

Of the twelve children of Hon. Thomas Saunders, eight were living in 1774. though but two of his five sons lived to marry. Children, born at Gloucester: i. Thomas, born March 26. 1759, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, naval officer; lieutenant of the United States frigate "Constitution;" died July 13. 1804; lived at Edgartown, Massachusetts ; married, November 18, 1801, Eliza Allen, who married second, October 10, 1806, Joseph Kenrick, of Rochester. 3. Lucy, married Paul Dudley Sargent. 4. Judith, married Thomas Sanders, the schoolmaster. 5. Harriet, married Peter Dolliver. 6. Sarah, married Thomas Augustus Vernon, a merchant of St. Petersburg. Russia. 7. Mary, married Erasmus Babbitt, a lawyer, Sturbridge, Massachusetts ; her daughter became the mother of Charlotte Cushman, the actress.

Thomas Saunders, was born in Gloucester, March 26, 1759. He was sent to Byfield Academy to be fitted for college, but on the death of his father in 1774 he entered the counting room of Mr. Derby, of Salem, a distinguished East India merchant. Saunders finally became a merchant himself at Gloucester and he accumulated a handsome fortune. He died at Gloucester, June 5, 1844. He married, 1782, EHzabeth Elkins, an author of note in her day. a woman of admirable qualities of heart and mind. She died February 19, 1851, in her eighty-ninth year. Children, born at Gloucester: i. Charles, born May 2, 1783. graduated at Harvard College ; died April 7, 1864, leaving no children; be(|ucathed in his will ten thousand dollars to the city of Cambridge and a like sum to Gloucester for the employment of a missionary in the cause of temperance in reforming old drunkards and preventing young drunkards and abolishing as far as possible the use of all intoxicating articles. 2. George T., mentioned below. 3. Catherine, married Dudley L. Pickman. 4. ]\Iary Elizabeth, married Hon. Leverett Saltonstall. 5. Caroline, married Nathaniel Saltonstall.

(Vl) George T. Saunders, son of Thomas Saunders, born in Gloucester, married Sally Rowe, descendant of Thomas Rowe, of Boston, of tea party fame, owner of Rowe's wharf in that city. Children: I. George, married Elizabeth Bartol. 2. Alfred, married first, Elizabeth Blaney ; second, Myra Gould : third, Thcre.sa Galley ; he lives in Rockport, Afassachusetts. 3. Edward Howard, mentioned below. 4. Charles, married Anne O'Brien ; lives at Rockport. 5. Rebecca, married Daniel Rowe; she resides in Boxford. 6. Sally, died when a young woman. 7. Adaline, married Charles W'idger, who was a soldier in the civil war. 8. Clara, married Archibald Blatchford ; they live in Lanesville, Gloucester.

(\'TI) Captain Edward Howard Saunders, son of George T. Saunders, was born in Gloucester. He was a master mariner. In politics he was a Democrat ; in religion a Unitarian. He married Mary J. W'ilkins, daughter of William and Ruth "(Cliarleton ) Wilkins. Their only child was Josie A., married at Rockport, 1880, John Lewis Dickinson, who was born at Ipswich. July 24. 1855. (See sketch).

(I) Barnard Hutchin- HUTCHINSON son. of Cowlam, county York, England, was living in 1282 and is the earliest progenitor of the family in England. He married a daugh- ter of John Boyville, Esquire, and had John, mentioned below, Robert and Mary. The arms used by the English family are : Per pale gules and azure, semee of cross-crosslets or, a lion rampant argent. Crest out of a ducal coronet or, a cockatrice with wings endorsed azure, beaked, combed and wattled gules.

(II) John Hutchinson, son of Barnard Hutchinson, married Edith, (laughter of William \A'ouldbie, and had James, mentioned below, Barbara, Julia and ]\Iargaret.

(III) James Hutchinson, son of John Hutchinson, married Ursula Gregory, and had W^illiam, mentioned below, John, Barbara, a daughter and Eleanor.

(V) Anthony Hutchinson, son of William Hutchinson, married (first) Judith Crosland ; (second) Isabel Harvie, and had William, Thomas, mentioned below, John Richard, Leonard, Edmond, Erancis and Andrew.

(VII) Lawrence Hutchinson, son of Thomas Hutchinson, was of Owlthorpe. His will was proved October 9, 1577. He married Isabel , and had Robert, Thomas, mentioned below, Agnes, Richard and W'illiam.

(VIII) Thomas Hutchinson, son of Lawrence Hutchinson, resided at Newark and died in 1598. He had William, Thomas, mentioned below, and Joan.

(IX) Thomas Hutchinson, son of Thomas Hutchinson, was buried at Arnold, August 17, 1618. He married Alice , and had children : I. John, buried September 2, 1627. 2. Isabel. 3. Humphrey. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Robert, baptized September 6, 1601. 6. Richard, mentioned below\ 7. Thomas, baptized June 16, 1605.

(X) Richard Hutchinson, son of Thomas Hutchinson, was born in 1602 in England and was the immigrant ancestor. He came to America in 1634 with his wife Alice and four children, and settled in Salem Village, now Danvers. Massachusetts, in the vicinity of Whipple and Hathorne's Hill. In 1636 he received a grant of sixty acres of land, and more in the following spring. In 1648 he bought of Elias Stileman a farm of one hundred and fifty acres. He and his wife were members of the Eirst Church of Salem as early as 1636. His will was dated January 19, 1679, and proved September 28, 1682. He married (first), December 7, 1627, Alice Bosworth, of Holgrave, England, daughter of Joseph Bosworth. He married (second), October, 1668, Susanna Archard, widow of Samuel Archard. He married (third) Sarah, widow of James Standish. She married for her third husband Thomas Roots, of Manchester, and was living as late as Alarch, 1683-84. Children, by first wife: i. Alice, baptized in England, September 2^], 1628, buried the same year. 2. Elizabeth, baptized^in England, August 30, 1629, died June 24, 1688; married Nathaniel Putnam. 3. Mary, baptized in England, December 28, 1630, married May 26, 1657, Thomas Hale. 4. Rebecca, born in England, 1632, married, May, 1658, James Hadlock. 5. Joseph, born 1633, mentioned below. 6. Abigail, baptized in Salem, December 25, 1636, married Anthony Ashby. 7. Hannah, baptized in Salem, January 20, 1639, married, April 12, 1662, Daniel Boardman. 8. John, born 1643, died August 2, 1676 ; married, July, 1672, Sarah Putnam.