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(XI) Joseph Hutchinson, son of Richard Hutchinson, was born at North Muskham, England, 1633, and came to New England with his parents. He lived on the homestead in Salem and acquired the property by deed of gift from his father in 1666. Plis homestead joined the site of the first meeting house in Salem Village, which had been a part of his own land, which he gave to the church to build upon. In 1700 the church was taken down, and a new one built on another site, and the land reverted to him again. He lived during the celebrated witchcraft trials, and w^as one of the complainants against Tituba, the Indian servant of Rev. Mr. Parris, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborn. In 1658 he was constable and on the jury in 1659. He distributed his property among his children before he died, and left no will. He died aged about eighty-three years. He married (first) probably a daughter of John Gedney. He married (second), Eebruary 28, 1677-78, Lydia, baptized April 2."], 1669, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Buxton and widow of Joseph Small, who was her second husband. Children: i. Abigail, baptized September 26, 1666, died young. 2. Bethiah, baptized September 26, 1666, died November, 1690. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. John, baptized September 26, 1666, married (first), Alay 7, 1694, Mary Gould; (second), March 4, 1710,

(XH) Joseph Hutchinson, son of Joscj)!! Hutchinson, was born at Salem and baptized at the First Church, September 26, 1666. He was recorded as a member of the church at Salem Village, February 4, 1700, and was chosen October 31, 1732. a delegate to the church at Wenham to assist in the ordination of the Rev. John Warren. He settled on a part of the homestead, which he afterwards received by deed of gift. July i, 1703. The inventory of his estate was filed July 20, 1751. His will was proved June 3, 1751. He married (first) Elizabeth , born 1664, died

(XHI) Ebenezer Hutchinson, son of Joseph Hutchinson, was born at Salem X'illage. February 20. 1694. He inherited most of his father's homestead, and was a man of considerable property. He owned a valuable farm in Amherst, New Hampshire, which he bequeathed to his son Solomon, who had removed there. He was constable and assessor in 1725. He married (first). August 13. 1718. Hannah Gould, born February 20. 1698-99, daughter of Joseph and Bethiah (Raye) Crould. He married (second), April 5, 1727, Hannah (Southwick) Shaw, born 1698. widow of Ebenezer Shaw, and daughter of John and Hannah (Follet) Southwick. Children of first wife: I. Solomon, born 1721, married October 22. 1746. Flannah Putnam. 2. Ebenezer, baptized March 29, 1730. died young. 3. Hannah, baptized March 29, 1730, died September

(XI\') Robert Hutchinson, son of Ebenezer Hutchinson, baptized February 25, 1733, died December, 1785. He inherited his father's homestead and owned land in Andover and Middleton. He resided in Danvers, formerly called Salem \'illage. He married. June 16, 1767, Eunice lUixton, daughter of Amos Buxton. Children: i. Daniel, born May 22, 1768, died November 6, 1844; married, August 19. 1790, Ruth Whittri(lge. 2. Ada. born December 27. 1769, died November 19. 1 84 1, married. May, 1796, Asa Putnam.

( X\' ) .Abijah Hutchinson, son of Robert Hutchinson, born Danvers, November 28, 1774. died January 3, 1861. He was a farmer and resided in Danvers. lie married. March 18. 1800. Irene liadger. born Lyndeborough. New Hampshire. January 20, 1780. died March 30. 1864. daughter of Robert Badger. Chil'^ren: i. Eliza, born October 25. 1800-01, died November 6. 1845 - niarried Archelaus Hutchinson. 2. Rebecca, born March 19, 1803, died ]\Iay 6. 1846; married. December

(I) WilHam Moody, immigrant MOODY ancestor of this family, was born in England and came from Ipswich, England, to Ispwich, New England, in 1634. According to family tradition, he was of Welch ancestry, however. He was a saddler by trade. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635, and removed from Ipswich to Newbury the same year. He was among the first settlers of the town of Newbury, and his descendants have been among the most prominent men of that town and vicinity to the present time. He had a ninety-two acre grant from the town. According to tradition he was the first to shoe oxen for walking on the ice. He died October 25, 1673. His widow Sarah died January 13, 1672-73. Children: i. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Rev. Joshua, born 1633, graduate of Harvard College in 1653 ; settled at Portsmouth in 1658 as minister; married (first) Collins; (second) Ann .

3. Caleb, born 1637, married, 1659, Sarah Pierce; (second), 1665, Judith Bradbury; deputy to the general court, 1677-78, and was thrown into prison by Governor Andros for criticising his administration.

(II) Samuel Moody, son of William Moody, was born in England about 1630. He settlecl at Newbury, Massachusetts, where he died April 4, 1675. He was a member of the Newbury church in 1670; was admitted a freeman in 1666 and must have belonged to the church before that date. His will was dated March 22, 1674-75, and proved April 21, 1675. He married, November 30, 1657, Mary Cutting, who was a member of the Newbury church in 1674. She married (second), June 24, 1679, at Newbury, Daniel Lunt. Children, born at Newbury: i. Sarah, born November, 1658, married Silvanus Plummer. 2. William, born July 22, 1661, mentioned below. 3. John, born April i, 1663, married Hannah .

(III) William Moody, son of Samuel Moody, born Newbury, July 22, 1661, died there in 1729. He took oath of fidelity and allegiance to England in 1678; was admitted a freeman in 1682-83 and to the Newbury church in 1682. His will was dated August 8, 1729, and proved March 9, 1729-30. He married (first), November 15, 1684, Mehitable Sewall ; (second) Abigail Frost. Children, born at Newbury: i. Mary, born August 13, 1685, married Moses Hall. 2. Deacon Samuel, born March 21, 1689, mentioned below. 3. Mehitable, born February 15, 1690-

(IV) Deacon Samuel Moody, son of William Moody, born Newbury, March 21, 1689, died there Alay 25, 1767. He received land by deed from his father, September 27, 17 16, and from his brother, September 28, 1727, and September 26, 1733. He deeded to his grandson, Samuel Moody, blacksmith, half his homestead, July 28, 1755, and to Samuel, his son, March 20, 1764, and to son Paul in 1766. Children: i. Samuel, Jr., blacksmith. 2. Paul, mentioned below. Probably others.

(V) Paul Moody, son of Samuel Moody, was born about 1740. He received land by deed dated June 2, 1766, from his father. The deed states his residence as Newbury Falls. The heirs of Sarah Stanwood deeded land to Paul. He was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant in Captain Gerrish's company, Colonel Timothy Pickering, Jr.'s regiment; was ordered to Danbury, Connecticut, by way of Providence, December 24, 1776, and was, according to all accounts in the family, a soldier in the battle of White Plains. Children: i. Samuel. 2. Nathan, deeded an undivided sixth of the Byfield farm at Newbury to brother, Enoch Moody. 3. Enoch, mentioned below. 4.

Judith married Sewall Wood). 5. Paul, settled in Lowell, Massachusetts. 6. William (deeded land to brother Enoch September 29, 1818). 7. David. 8. Mehitable Dummer. 9, Joseph, beneficiary of a deed of trust made by the father of sons Samuel, Nathan, Enoch, Paul, David, and daughter Mehitable Dummer, September 29, 18 18.

(VI) Enoch Moody, son of Paul Moody, was born in Newbury or Byfield, Massachusetts, about 1790. He lived at West Newbury; married Eunice Balch, who survived him, and was appointed to administer his estate, March 13, 1838. He lived on the homestead, but sold it to his brother about 1835. Josiah Little was appointed guardian of Enoch's children in 1838. Children, born at West

(VH) Horace John Moody, son of Enoch Moody, was born in West Newbury, March 7, 1 83 1, on the present Moody homestead, known as Pipestave Hill. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. He was a clerk in Boston in marine insurance with Joseph Balch, an uncle, when a young man. He embarked in the marine insurance and average adjusting in New York City and built up an extensive business, continuing until shortly before his death, when he took the position of president of Pacific Mutual (Marine) Insurance Company. He was in partnership in the marine insurance business for a number of years with Jacob R. Telfair, of New York City. He spent some time in the gold fields of California in 1851-53, representing the New York board of marine underwriters. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. He married Elizabeth Williams Gantz, born in New York City, in 1830; died at Yonkers, New York, in 1888, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth (William) Gantz. Children: i. Phronia, born July 31, 1855, died at Yonkers, April 3, 1882; married John J. Lancaster, of New York City, born in X'irginia ; children : Agnes, Julia D. and Horace M. Lancaster. 2. Elizabeth, died in childhood. 3. Horace, born December 2"], 1858, mentioned below. 4. Agnes, born November 23, i860, married William B. l>ourn, of San Francisco; child, Maud Chase l^ourn. 5. Infant son, deceased. 6. Louise, born January 27, 1866, lives with brother Horace, at West Newbury.

(VHD Horace Moody, son of Horace John Moody, was born in New York City, December 27, 1858. He received his education in various private schools at home and abroad. He began his business career as clerk in his father's office in New York City, remaining from 1876 to 1878. He spent a year in Europe. LTpon his return he was associated with his father for about a year, and in 1880 embarked in the marine and fire insurance business on his own account. After a very successful and arduous business career of twenty years in this line, he retired and made his home in West Newbury. He came into possession of half the Moody homestead, where he now lives, in 1877, and the other half in 1890. He has made great improvements in the estate, remodeling the old mansion house and bringin<j the farm to a hisfh state of cultivation and most attractive appearance. The farm is located on the Merrimac river two hundred and fifty feet above the surface of the water, having a charming view of the surrounding country. One may see from the Moody house no less than fourteen villages, towns, hills and mountains in four dilYerent states, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, as well as the Old Bay State, and to the eastward the broad sweep of the Atlantic Ocean from the Isle of Shoals to Cape Ann. Mr. Moody was active in the New York state militia many years, rising through the various grades to the rank of captain of Company K, Twelfth New York National (juard. In politics he is a Republican, lie married (first) Zaidee F. Bourn, born in San l^Vancisco, died October 16, 1898, daughter of William B. Bourn. He married (second), September 4, 1901, Martha Paull Walker, born at Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 2^ , 1861, daughter of Zadock and Sarah (Boyd) Walker. Her father was an iron manufacturer all his life; served in the civil war throughout, captain of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment ; returned to his business after the war; was a Republican in politics. He was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and died at Wilmurding, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, son of William and Martha (Paull) Walker, of Fayette, whose children were: i. George Paul Walker, died in Kentucky ; ii. Zadock Walker, mentioned above ; iii. James Paull Walker, lives at Seattle, Washington ; iv. Mary Ellen, married Rev. W. G. Stewart ; v. Thomas, buried in the family lot at Cniontown. The father of \\'illiam and grandfather of Zadock Walker was also named Zadock Walker. Sarah ( I'.oyd) Walker was born near Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and died at New York City; is buried in (ireenwood cemetery in that city. She was the mother of two children : Martha Paull, wife of Horace Moody, and John P>oyd Walker, born April 8, 1863, died May 20, 1903. Child of Horace and Martha Paull (Walker) Moody: Horace Walker, born March 12, 1903.

their share in the development and progress of the communities in which they settled. The ancestors possessed in a marked degree the characteristics which make patriotic and public-spirited citizens, and these qualities have been perpetuated in their descendants, who are numbered among the rep-

( I ) William Eaton was born in England, about 1604. He was a husbandman in Staples, county of Kent. He married Martha Jenkins, and accompanied by his wife and children - William, Martha and John - sailed from Sandwich, June 9, 1637, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, of which he was a proprietor in 1642 and a freeman in 1653. He subsequently removed to Reading, and there died May 13, 1673. She died in 1680-81.

(H) John Eaton, son of William and Martha (Jenkins) Eaton, was born in England, December 20, 1635. He lived in Reading, where he died May 25, 1691. He married, in 1658, Elizabeth Kendall, born 1642, daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall, who bore him several children.

(HI) William Eaton, son of John and Elizbeth (Kendall) Eaton, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, December i, 1670. He married, April 29, 1695, Mary Swan. They lived in Lynnfield, where he died in 1734.

(IV) Rev. Benjamin Eaton, son of William and Mary (Swan) Eaton, was born March 2, 1705, died in Dunstable, New Hampshire, about 1772. He was a Baptist preacher, lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, Candia, New Hampshire, and probably in Hampstead. He married. May 21, 1730, Anna Rand, daughter of Zechariah and Ann (Ivory) Rand. Children: William, Benjamin, died young; James, David, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Jesse and Benjamin.

(V) Major Jesse Eaton, son of Rev. Benjamin and Anna (Rand) Eaton, was born in Candia, New Hampshire. He was an early settler and lived on No. 61, second part, second division, in Chester. He was a farmer by occupation. He was a minuteman at Bunker Hill, and afterwards was with General Stark at Bennington and with General Gates at Saratoga. His death occurred in Candia, December 23, 1808. He married Sarah Worthen, who died June 3. 1801. Children: Nancy, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Jesse. Susan, Eleanor, Ebenezer, Love and Asa.

(VI) Ebenezer Eaton, son of Major Jesse and Sarah (Worthen) Eaton, was born in Candia, New Hampshire, October 16, 1792, died September 11, 1847. He was reared in Candia, educated in its common school, and there spent the active years of his life. He was a skillful mechanic, one of the first men to temper steel ; he made tools and cooper draw-shaves, and by the superiority of his workmanship his tools became well known and famous. He possessed marked military instinct, and was captain of the Light Infantry military company, which had charge of the burial of General Stark. He drilled his men with precision, and the volley which was fired over the grave of General Stark was as one shot. He married, October 17, 181 5, Sarah Shirley, either of Londonderry or Goffstown, who was born September 4, 1795, died September, 1866, whose father participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, and who, after the retreat began, came across a man mortally wounded and offered to carry him off the field ; the man made answer "you can do me no good, save yourself." Children of Ebenezer and Sarah Shirley Eaton: i. Adaline, married J. Pike Hubbard; children: Rev. Charles L., John H., Sarah C; George E., and Alice. 2. George ; died young. 3. Alamanza, married, first, Henry S. Eaton ; second, Stevens Chandler ; no children. 4. Catherine, died at the age of seventeen. 5. Sarah, died young. 6. Elizabeth S., died young. 7. Martha Jane, married George W. Wilson ; children : John, Charles, Jason and Jane. 8. George Eben, married Lucinda French ; children : George True, died young; Nellie C. (Flanders). 9. James Henry; see forward. 10. Lucretia L., married D. Addison Bean ; children : Catharine L. and Emma. 11. Charles E., married Julia F. W'ilson ; children : Aletcalf and Charles. 12. William F., married Sarah J. Young; child, Alice M., married Albert I. Couch.

(VII) James Henry Eaton, son of Ebenezer and Sarah Shirley Eaton, was born in Candia, New Hampshire. February 3, 1833, and died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, March 22, 1901. He received his early education in Candia. and worked in his father's blacksmith shop mornings and nights. Saturdays and holidays. Often he spoke of swinging the large hammer while his father swung the smaller one as the iron was being shaped on the anvil. But when he was twelve years old. his father died, which closed the blacksmith shop, and he and his older brother had to adopt some other method besides the small farm by which to aid in the support of the large family, three of whom were younger than himself, whereupon he turned his attention to shoe-making, which, aside from farming, was the principal business of the town. But being desirous of acquiring a more liberal education than his limited time in school thus far had afforded him, he had his open book upon his bench and studied while he worked, with such marked success that at the age of sixteen, he was able to accept the offered position of school teacher in his home town, carefully saving every possible dollar that was not elsewhere needed until three years later when he saw the long coveted way at last open to enter Pembroke Academy, where he prepared himself for college, but decided, instead of pursuing his previous intention, to become a student for a year at the Bridgewater Normal School, the better to prepare himself for the profession of teaching in Massachusetts. He graduated from there in 1856 and immediately obtained a position in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as submaster in the Oliver grammar school, also teaching the singing, and, on the resignation of Mr. Walton, five years later, became its principal. Soon after taking up his residence in Lawrence, he began reading law in the office of Nathaniel G. White, then intending to fit himself for its practice in later years, but just as he was ready to be admitted to the bar, he was induced to enter the Essex Savings Bank, at first in the capacity of teller, but upon the death of Nathaniel White the following year, succeeded him as treasurer, which position he held until his death, with the pleasant satisfaction during that time of watching its growth from two hundred and fifty thousand to eight and a half million dollars. It seemed at first that all his law study had been useless, but instead, it proved of the greatest advantage, not only in his bank work, but in the many and various other enterprises in which he was from time to time, enlisted, and added much to his success. He was also possessed to a remarkable degree of the ability to grasp the meat of a subject quickly and correctly. He often said that he could derive as much rest and enjoyment by a change from one form of exertion or line of thought to another as from a vacation spent among new and strange surroundings. Thus it was, that in addition to the constantly growing demand upon his time and ability by the bank of which he was the head, he was able to serve as one of the trustees and take active charge of the White Fund, conducting its course of lectures as well as managing its financial affairs ; as trustee of various city sinking funds ; as director of other banks than his own ; as a trustee of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital ; and as chairman of the advisorv board of the Lawrence General Hospital ; for many years as treasurer of the street railway of his city ; as a member of the city council during the earlier davs of his residence in Lawrence, and as its

There were two important factors associated with his boyhood life, to which he often referred, that gave shape and encouragement to bis early aspirations and ambition. One was a weekly lyceum, maintained during the winter with debates on popular subjects in wdiich old and young participated, and wdiere many a Canclia boy received his first lessons in oratory and came to Pembroke with his confidence on the floor well established; and of them Mr. Eaton easily ranked among the first. The other was a choice public library containing only about two hundred volumes, but all of a solid and instructive character, which he read and reread until they were thoroughly engrafted into his memory with an inspiring influence through all his life.

Being a Congregationalist in his religious faith, he immediately upon coming to Lawrence allied himself with the Lawrence Street Church, soon becoming identified with all its various interests. He at once entered heartily into its Sabbath school work, both in the home and mission departments, being upon the death of a long-loved and honored superintendent, chosen to fill his place, which he held for twenty-five years, but which the accumulation of other requirements finally obliged him to relinquish, though still remaining as a teacher. He was also early elected as one of its deacons to fill the first vacancy that occurred, which position he held for the remainder of his life, being the "senior" for many years and always in close conference and companionship with each of the three pastors that occujMcd the position while he was living. It was, therefore, eminently fitting that the last sad rites occasioned by his sudden and altogether unexpected death after a day of customary health and business activity, should, by public request, have been rendered from the church home he had loved so long and served so faithfully which was filled to overflowing by a grieved and tearful throng.

Mr. Eaton married, November 14, i860, Elizabeth Frances Jenness. born April 16, 1837, at Epsom. New Hampshire, daughter of William T. and Mary Jane (Sanders) Jenness. William T. Jenness was born April 5, 1802, in Deerfield, died in Lawrence, July 14, 1870. Mary J. (Sanders) Jenness, daughter of Job Sanders, was born January 10, 1818, in Epsom, died in Lawrence, March 25, 1900. Jonathan Jenness, father of W^illiam T. Jenness, died March 4, 1840. Mrs. Eaton was a graduate of Pembroke Academy, class of 1854. and while a student there met her future husband. In 1855 her parents removed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and there she taught in the public schools five years, until her marriage. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Eaton: i. George Herbert, born August 29, 1861, died January 15, 1893; he received his education in the public schools at Lawrence and Harvard College, graduating with honors from the latter institution with the class of 1882, and from Harvard Law School in 1884. He was an attorney-at-law in Lawrence, acquiring a large and lucrative practice. He married Grace Laura Truell, daughter of Hon. Byron Truell and Mary Elizabeth (Armstrong) Truell ; no children. 2. Fred Henry, born September 6, 1874, attended the public schools of Lawrence and Phillips Academy at Andover ; graduated from the Boston Law School in 1897, and, practiced his profession in Lawrence since that time. He is vice-president and trustee of the Essex Savings Bank, director of the Bay State National Bank, and director of the Lawrence Co-operative Bank. He married, August 24, 1897, Abbie Maude Sherman, of Lawrence, daughter of Judge Edgar Jay and Abbie Louise (Simmons) Sherman; the former coming from Brownsville, Vermont, and the latter from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Children: i. James Henry, born November 29, 1898. 2. Alma Sherman, October 29, 1904. 3. Elizabeth Frances, December I, 1907. Fred H. Eaton is a Republican in politics, and served as alderman of second ward.

The following article was prepared by Hon. Robert H. Tewksbury, of Lawrence, who was a close friend for many years of James Henry Eaton, deceased :

"Mr. Eaton spent forty-five years of his intensely active and eminently useful life in the city of Lawrence. His employment during all this time required of him steady and persistent intellectual labor, and he entered with indomitable energy upon the important business that came to him as the years and decades passed. He was physically vigorous, mentally alert and constantly on the watch for opportunities to use his -rare physical endurance and mental equipment for the material and spiritual enrichment of his neighbors, and every citizen of Lawrence, whatever his or her race, nationality or creed, claimed him as a neighbor and counsellor. He was of figure not large but well knit and active. There was nothing lethargic, timid or vacillating in his action. He could think while upon his feet, in active motion among the crowd ; hence, although he acted promptly and impulsively, he rarely acted injudiciously.

"In boyhood, while hard at work on the shoemaker's bench and at the blacksmith's forge, studying meanwhile to equip his mind for larger work and influence, he grasped the significance of this life of probation, caught a glimpse of the possibility of an eternal life beyond these measurable years, hence the best thing that can be said of any man can be said of him, that, at the very beginning of his career he became a Christian and it can also be said that he never denied the faith. He constantly squared his life, in the school room, in the bank, and in ofificial position, with tjie unimpeachable and enduring Word he had so humbly and fully accepted.

"Mr. Eaton had a many sided and rare personality. He had the patience and the thoroughness to attend to every detail of complicated business without being absorbed and exhausted by them or losing sight of the great principles to which all important and successful work must conform.

"In the model savings institution, that he virtually established, he always insisted that the small depositor should have the same rights and the same attention as the larger, and, in making loans, the small borrower received the same courtesy and regard as the largest patron. Although he was notably alert and efficient in the despatch of business he was so careful to acknowledge the rights of all that he seldom had occasion to apologize for his action. He had few intervals of quiet. Labor was his pastime and in the change from one line of arduous work to another he found his rest. It is a sure sign of largeness of heart and breadth of mind when a man can, as he did, attend to duties the most diverse without becoming brusque or neglectful of other's rights, or without being confused by the blending of many cares and neglectful of matters of vital importance.

"Mr. Eaton was always in earnest yet he always dispensed cheerfulness along his pathway and was never downcast or morose ; he saw the sunny side of life and a silver lining to the darkest cloud. He was gifted with a command of expressive language and had a breezy, emphatic and magnetic delivery that made him a welcome guest and speaker at any convention, gathering or banquet where just causes were championed or where noble leaders were honored. His wit, his directness, and his magnetism were infectious. His oration delivered at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Lawrence, in 1895, will be long remembered by the hearers.

"Mr. Eaton loved men and he loved to receive the praise and applause of his fellow men, but he never practiced the arts of the demagogue to secure popular favor, and he constantly defended the right, as he understood it, whatever the public verdict might be. He was a lover of animals : his horse and his dog were his companions ; they loved him and understood him.

"For many years a trustee of the sinking funds of the city, his reports were always promptly made and concluded thus, 'No losses, no expenses.' As one of the trustees, and the active manager for years of the free lecture and library fund, bequeathed by Judge White and others for the benefit of the industrial classes of Lawrence and vicinity, he was efficient and judicious and he rendered valuable service in caring for the erection and ecjuipment of the public library building, the completion of which was made possible by the generous donation of Mrs. Nathaniel G. White and daughter. As mayor, Mr. Eaton's administration for two years - 1898 and 1899 - showed a most careful and tireless supervision of public affairs in every detail. He insisted upon the best obtainable service in all the de- I)artments, and required all heads of departments to confine expenditures within the appropriations made therefor. ^lany important improvements were carried out under his supervision. The location, erection and equipment of the stately and commodious new high school building was under the charge of a 1)uilding commission of which he was chairman.

"I'nassuming in manner, simple and economical in ])ersonal expenditure, yet generous of habit, industrious by training and natural inclination, honest and loyal from principle, liis name will stand prominent among those who have left the impress of their personality upon the community in which he won the love and lespect of his associates, and where he constantly helped and generously aided every jmblic-spirited enterprise and every laudable cause. The personal appearance and lifelike expression of Mr. Eaton is well preserved in a fine oil portrait, by Churchill, the skilled artist, secured by his life associates, and held for presentation to the city of Lawrence when a suitable place for the work shall have been secured."

Tay is perhaps another form of the TAY old English or Anglo-Saxon Tey. Tey is the name of three places in county Essex, England, considered by one authority (Edmunds) to be possibly a corruption from an old British word "ty," signifying a house. Thus in Burke are found mention of the family names of Tay (in Essex), Tey, (London, 1595, and Northumberland), Teye, Teys (Essex). Hence there appears to be some ground for the theory that the surname derived its origin from the name of some place (as above, presumably in Essex, Old England). In the region about Boston in former times the provincial pronunciation was Toy, which may be due to the English way of pronouncing "a" like "o" in certain words. Thus in early times there was one Henry Tay, or Toy, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who died about 1655, of whom no more is known. William was of Boston (of whom more beyond), who had sons Isaiah and Jeremiah, both of I^oston ; Nathaniel, of P>illerica - all ])rominent men. There was also a John Tey, of Boston, evidently a transient, who in his will refers to a son Allen in England, who probably never came to this country. There were undoubtedly others of this name in this country at that early period, and the name is used in America to-day luider the two forms of Tay and Toy, being evidently descendants in one form or another of this stock.

(I) William Tay, died 1683, married September 14, 1644, Grace Newell, who died at Roxbury, April 11. 17 12, in her ninety-first year, daughter of Abraham and Frances Newell, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was evidently a man of some property and position in the older country, and his name is found among those wlio had land granted to them very early in Taunton, ]^Iassachusetts. and also a little later in Ih'llerica. In 1643 he gave one Leonard Buttles two acres on Long Island, in Boston Harbor, in exchange for twenty acres at Muddy River, now in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is said of him that he was in middle life a distiller, which wouUl account to some extent for his previous property. In 1659 he had accredited to him an estate in Billerica where he had lived a few years, perhaj^s from 1656. He was for one year town clfrk of Billerica. The last will and testament of William Tay, aged seventy-two years, contains the following provisions: "Concerning the ground that my house was burnt on I give to my son Jeremiah and my daughter Elizabeth .... only that my son Jere- miah and my daughter Elizabeth pay to my grandchild Elizabeth Tay ten pounds - that is my eldest son's daughter .... I give unto my son Nathaniel all my housings at Billerica, with forty acres of upland about the housing, and that piece of meadow called Nutting meadow, and a piece of meadow called Shawshin the hither side . . . son Nathaniel to pay unto my wife as long as she lives forty shillings a year in corn at money's price son Isaiah, that piece of land that is bounded on one side by Mrs. Thacher and on the other by Major Skinner's bakehouse and so bounded by Major Shrimpton's lane and by Major Wilson's narrow lane .... he to pay my wife, etc. I further give to my son Isaiah ten acres upland at Billerica, called by the name of Willows Pangs; to daughter Grace all my upland and meadow that is undisposed of at Billerica, she to pay my wife. I give to my beloved wife the land at Muddy River that is unsold to help furnish the frame that I have bought to be set on my land, and after the house is finished my wife to live in part of it ... . after my wife's decease my son Jeremiah and my daughter Elizabeth are to have it. As for my land that I have by my wife at Roxbury I leave it all to her," etc. Wife sole executrix. Dated April 28, 1680, probated April 12, 1683. The inventory of the estate, apprized 7 April, 1683, discloses following real estate : The dwellinghouse and land, £150. In Roxbury, old house and barn, orchard, pastureland and woodland, and fence belonging hereinto, f 80 ; in Billerica, parcel of upland and meadow, £28 at place called Strong water brook ; one hundred acres meadow, Shawshin river, £7 ; forty acres lying upon Willows Pangs ; eight acres upland towards the common field. Children: i. Grace, born 23d, 6 month, 1645, died January 2t,, 1716; married January, 1662-3, Thomas Willis ; resided at Medford, Massachusetts. 2. John, baptized 21 day, 9 month, 1647; married, had daughter Elizabeth. 3. Isaiah, baptized 10 day. I month, 1650; married Mary Watkins, of Charlestown. He was deputy to the general court, and a soldier in King Philip's war, as private, sergeant, and lieutenant. 4. Abiel, born 21 January, 1652, died young ; not mentioned in father's will. 5. Nathaniel, born February 23, 1654; see forward. 6. Jeremiah, born i8th July, 1657, married March 14, 1683, Mercy Woodward, of I'oston ; she married second, April 4, 1715, John Eustin, of Boston. 7. Elizabeth, born lune 25, 1660. died at Roxbury, about 1741 ;

(II) Nathaniel Tay, son of William Tay (i), born at Boston, February 23, 1654, died at Woburn, April 18, 1724; married May 30, 1677, Bathsheba Wyman, born October 6, 1658, died July 9, 1730, daughter of Lieutenant John and Sarah (Nutt) Wyman, of Woburn, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in Captain Isaac Johnson's company in the Narragansctt campaign of 1675, where his name appears as Nathaniel Toy, credited with twelve shillings for w'ages under date of September 3, 1675. His wife distinguished herself in the same war in connection with Lieutenant John Wyman's (her father) difficulty with Constable John Sears, in Woburn, in 1676, published in "Woburn Men in the Indian and other Wars," pp. 11-14. He was a mariner, and after dwelling for a time in Billerica, where he inherited lands from his father, appears to have removed with his family to Woburn, where several of his children were born. He evidently was of Woburn before December 17, 1701, when he sold to John Lillie certain land next adjoining to his (Tay's) garden and his own land before his house, the edifice occupied later by his descendant Major Samuel Tay, and now still standing, No. 907 Main street, North Woburn. This land was sold with the intent of enlarging said Lillie's garden; Lillie's house is also still standing in good condition. Children: I. Nathaniel, born June 17, 1678. 2. Sarah, born April 15, 1680; married July 18, 1706, Thomas Jones ; she was a widow, and residing in Boston in 1733. 3. Bathsheba, born March 30. 1682, married James Haywood, of Woburn, Massachusetts. 4. Elizabeth, born March 15. 1683, died young. 5. Grace, born April 20. 1686, died young. 6. Mary, born March 16, 1688; married January 13, 1708, James Barnes, of Boston. 7. Isabel, birth unrecorded; married August 20, 1718. George Skinner, of Boston. 8. Elizabeth, birth unrecorded; married November 13, 1719, Joseph Chamberlain, of Hull, Massachusetts. 9. William, born October 25, 1700, see forward. 10. Grace, born May 18, 1704; married December 24. 1724, Benjamin Walker, of Woburn.

(III) W^illiam Tay; son of Nathaniel Tay (2), born at Woburn, Massachusetts, October 25, 1700, died there, December 8. 1780; married first, January 2, 1724, Abigail Jones, born June 6. 1708. died September 26. 1778. daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Snow) Jones, of Woburn; married second, May 16, 1780, Bethia, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliz- abeth Parker, of Reading, Massachusetts, and widow of Hezekiah Winn, of Wilmington, Massachusetts. Lieutenant WilHam Tay, generally described as Lieutenant William Tay, senior, to distinguish him from others of the same name and title, was an old man at the time of the revolutionary war, and was styled gentleman in will dated February 19, 1772, probated March 7, 1781. He lived on the east side of the Main street. North Woburn. In the tax lists he is called lieutenant from 1746 to 1780. He was commissioned lieutenant by Governor Phipps, October 18, 1745 ; was selectman of Woburn many times between 1744 and 1780, unless the latter part of this record refers to his son Lieutenant William Tay. Children, all by first wife: i. Nathaniel, born July 15, 1724, died April 2, 1758; married August 3, 1748, Rebecca Holden, who married second, October 21, 1766, Nathan Pearson, of Wilmington, Massachusetts. 2. William, born July II, 1726, died March 17, 1795; married Susanna Jones. 3. Abigail, born January 16, 1728, married first (intention dated January 26, 1749) Abijah Chandler, of Andover, Massachusetts; married second, October 26, 1758, Robert Gray, of Andover, Massachusetts. 4. Tsaiah, born April 2, 1730; married May 29, 1753, Abigail Simonds, of Lexington, Massachusetts. 5. John, born March 29, 1732. died 1782; married March 11, 1755, Susanna Pierce, of Woburn. 6. Elizabeth, born March 30, 1734; married June 18, 1761, William Abbott, Jr., of Andover, Massachusetts. 7. Ruth, born August 20, 1736, died January 15, 1747. 8. Samuel, born December 4, 1738; see forward. 9. Joshua, born April 3, 1741, died December 29, 1801 ; married December 3, 1762, Susanna Richardson. 10. Sarah, born June 2"], 1743. married (intention dated December 8, 1764) Joshua Eames, of Woburn. 11. Mary, jjorn July 6, 1745. died May 5. 1747.

(T\") ]\Iajor Samuel Tay, son of William Tay (3), born at Woburn, December 4, 1738, died there, November 2 or 3, 1804. aged sixtysix years; married April 27, 1769, Sarah Johnson, born December 4, 1743. daughter of Francis and Sarah (\\\'man) Johnson, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Alajor Samuel Tay was a resident all his life of Woburn, and a celebrated military officer. While under age he enlisted, April 10, 1758, in Captain Ebenezer Jones's company. Colonel Ebenezer Nichols's regiment, and went with it to Lake George, where he performed active service at a very interesting time in the history of this country. After a service of seven months and twentyone days he was discharged October 29, 1758. His next important service of which we have record, aside from mention of him in a bayonet roll of the East Company of the militia in Woburn. April 15, 1758, is that of April 19, 1775. At that time he was a sergeant of same comjiany, otherwise known as Fox's company, that marched per roll from Woburn to Concord and thience to Cambridge, his term of service being five days-. He was active through the whole of the revolutionary war, as a member of committees, and also as one of those whose services for agreeing with men to enter the military .service who were paid by the town, per receipts still extant. In 1776, as captain, he led fifty \\'oburn men in an expedition to Canada, in other words, to Ticonderoga. for the period of five months. These men were probably what we call to-day a volunteer force, gathered from the dififerent companies of militia, and marched from Woburn on a memorable day, June 24, 1776. It is recorded, that before this company started. Rev. John Marrett, of the second parish (now Burlington). ])rcached to it at a lecture in -his parish at five p. m.. Sunday, July 14. 1776, and on the same date, when the company marched for Crown Point, he prayed with them at Deacon Blanchard's in his parish. Under date of ]\Iay 26. 1776, he is mentioned in a list of officers chosen by the several companies in the local militia regiment as second lieutenant of Captain Jesse \\'yman's \\'oburn company, which officers were ordered in council to be commissioned, ]\Iay 6, 1776. There is also preserved a memorandum stating that said Tay, captain, (--f Woburn, marched with his company July 2(^, 1776. On September 3, 1776, being then at Ticonderoga, he was reported as caj^tain in Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, I'rigadier General Hricket's brigade ; and he is also named in the same capacity during the months of November and December, 1776. He appears to have returned to Woburn with his company before February 14, 1777, receiving mileage and travel allowance from Fort Edward to \\'oburn, distance two hundred and fifty miles. In 1 78 1, near the close of active service in Massachusetts during the war, he was captain in Lieutenant Colonel Webb's regiment, engaged July 7, 1 78 1, discharged December i.

1 781, service five months five days, including eleven days (two hundred and eighteen miles ) travel home. This regiment was raised in Suffolk and Middlesex counties to reinforce the Continental army for three months, but as often the case, they were held for a longer period. In 1784 he was promoted to major, and went by this title to the day of his death. He held the office of selectman 1786. He had previously been a constable, and several commissions of his military service are still preserved among the families of his descendants. His house in Woburn is still standing, and is No. 907 A'Tain street. The estate adjoining the house occupied a greater part of the center of the present North village in that city, and precisely one hundred years ago was minutely described in an assessor's list of that day : the house forty by thirty, two storied in front, one in rear. There were other buildings, including one very old barn. The farm contained one hundred acres of land, bounded west on the country road, or main street. Children : I. Sarah, born March 22, 1770, buried March 7, 1820; married October 6, 1789, Jeduthun Richardson, Jr.; resided at Medford. 2. Esther, married March 12, 1795, Isaac Emery, of Concord, New Hampshire. 3. William, died at Stoneham, Massachusetts, April 27, 1820. aged forty-one years; married Lucy Bradley, of Concord, New Hampshire. 4. Abigail Jones, born March 16, 1781, married February 14, 1807, Isaac Eastman, of Concord, New Hampshire. 5. Samuel, born May 12. 1784, see forward. 6. Francis Johnson, born April 21, 1787.

(V) Samuel Tay, son of Major Samuel Tay (4), born at Woburn, May 12, 1784. died at Medford, June 26, 1844, aged sixty years; married Nancy Ladd, born at Alexandria, New Hampshire, November 22, 1790, died at Stoneham, Massachusetts, February 28, 1827, aged thirty-seven years, daughter of Peter and Rhoda (Ouimby) Ladd. He was a farmer at Bristol, New Hampshire, where his first child was born, and about 1813 moved to Stoneham, Massachusetts. Later he removed to Medford, and lived with his son Samuel, in whose house he died. He early learned the trade of stonemason, which he followed during his life. He a large powerful man, and very stern in bis discipline. He served in the war of 1812. He was a Democrat politically, and a Methodist in religious belief. Children: i. Samuel, born at Bristol. New Hampshire, July 20,

Shaw, of Northwood, New Hampshire ; children: i. Mary Wyman (Shaw), married Trueworthy Hill, had son John (Hill), ii. John (Shaw). iii. Betsey (Shaw). iv. Nancy (Shaw), married Leighton. 3. Nathaniel, born at Alexandria, New Hampshire, January 29, 1814, died at Medford, Massachusetts, November 30, 1894, aged eighty years; married (intention dated November 26, 1837) Mary Davis Small, who died September 8, 1896, daughter of Francis and Jane (Davis) Small, of East Raymond, !Maine. Children: i. Mary Jane, died May 27, 1893, aged fiftyfour years ; married September 14, 1859, xMonzo Joyce, of Medford, Massachusetts, who died January 13, 1903. Children: (a) Howard W. (Joyce), born March 7, 1862. (b) Maria Josephine (Joyce) born July 10, 1865, married November 18, 1891, John H. Turner, of Maiden, Massachusetts, ii. Nathaniel Howard, died August 30, 1848, aged six years, eleven months, and twenty-four days. iii. Maria Josephine, born December 16, 1843, ^li^d August 20, 1905, married Clement F. Drake, of Holland, A^ermont. Child: (a) Estelle Fuller (Drake), married John A. Marsell, reside at Brimfield, Massachusetts, iv. Ella A., born October 21, 185 1, married August 2, 1 87 1, Edward T. Pigeon, of East Boston. ChiM : (a) Edward N. (Pigeon). 4. Aaron, born at South Reading, November i, 1819, died at Medford, February i, 1891, aged seventy-one years three months; married (intention dated January 13, 1852) Anna Jane Samson, born May 21, 1831, died at Medford, September i, 1907, daughter of Thomas H. and Eleanor (Josselyn) Samson of Pembroke. (VI) Samuel Tay. son of Samuel Tay (5), born at Bristol, New Hampshire, July 20, 1810, died June I, 1895. aged eighty- four years, married first, January 28, 1834, Mary Wyman Hill, born at Medford, ^Massachusetts, baptized October 23, 1814, died March 21, 1854, daught-^r of Washington and Rhoda (Tufts) Hill, of Medford, Massachusetts; married second, January 30, 1858, Mrs. Mary (Johnson) Jordan, of Biddeford, Maine, born at Haverhill, ^Massachusetts, died at Medford, Massachusetts. March 15, 1894, aged seventy-nine years two months, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Chandler) Johnson. At an early age he removed with his parents to Stoneham, Massachusetts, where he received his schooling, and soon afterwards was employed on the Hurd farm, near Spot Pond. He remained a few years and then came to Medford. This was a few years before he was married. He then worked for Ira Ackerman in the old Aledford granite quarries, in the loeahty known as Pine Hill Lodge. He worked here about two years, but his labor did not prove profitable, as a considerable sum due him was never paid him. He subsequently entered the employ of his brother Nathaniel Tay, who had moved to Med ford, and had set up the manufacture of spikes. He was with him several years, and when Nathaniel moved his business to Allentown, Pennsylvania, he went with him, and remained away three years. Returning to Medford he found employment in the Waterman & Litchfield sash and blind factory as watchman. He remained here about six years, when he entered the em- ])loy of Benjamin Wright, on his farm, staying here four years, subsequently working for Eliazur Wright. In later life he retired and died from an operation in Boston City Hospital. He was frugal and saving, and accummulated a competence. He was a man of precision, and strict in all things. His temperance principles were very strong, and he instilled them into the minds of his children. He was naturally reticent. In religion he belonged to the Unitarian denomination. He was an old school Jacksonian Democrat. He was a private about 1833 in the old Medford militia. Children: i. Mary Aim, born June 22, 1835; married March 19, 1855, Joseph Chapman Miller, of Medford, Massachusetts; children: i. Joseph Chapman (Miller), born A])ril 21, 1861, married November 16, 1836. Lizzie Pinkham Ellis; had: (a) Marion Isabel (Miller), born September 16, 1887. (b) Sherburne Ellis (Miller), born February 17, 1889. ii. Belville Winstow (Miller), born April 5, 1870, died September 5, 1870. 2. Daughter, buried November 7, 1838. aged thirteen days. 3. Ruth Tufts, born October 16. 1839, died October 2^, 1839. 4. Aaron L.. born .August 16, 1841 ; married July 21, 1863, Mrs. Mary Jane (Cook) Carter, born October 15. 1839. died October 2, 1905, daughter of Edward and Mary Cook; resides at Melrose, Massachusetts; children: i. Elizabeth J., born December 13, 1866. ii. Mary W., born September 7, 1869, died June 26, 1877. 5. Nancy Ladd, born November 30, 1842, died April 25, 1894, married April 8, 1866, Charles Butters, of Medford; children: i. George Irven (Butters), born June 7, 1867, married October 19, 1803, Mabel Newman, of Cambridge; resides at Lynn; children: (a) Florence (Butters), born September 21, 1894. (b) George Leonard (Butters), born February I. 1897. ii. Dolly Florence, born April 4, 1881, married

June 14, 1907, William Augustus Brown, of Lebanon, New Hampshire ; child, Jennie Louise (Brown), born October 31, 1907. 6. Ruth Tufts, born October 20, i8z|4, married William G. Humphrey, of New York. 7. Samuel Bell, born April 11, 1851 ; see forward. 8. Rhoda Wyman, born Alarch 2, 1854; married ]ylay 4, 1882, Charles A. Loud, of Salem, Massachusetts, resides in California.

(VH) Samuel Bell Tay, son of Samuel Tay (6), born at Medford, Massachusetts, April II, 1851; married June 14, 1876, Ida Russell Wright, born at Boston, October 24, 1841, daughter of Elizur and Susan (Clark) Wright, of Medford. He received his education in the public schools until he was sixteen years of age, working on his father's farm, and subsequently on the farm of Elizur Wright for a period of four years. Then going to Philadelphia he made railroad spikes in the factory of Coredan Winch. After four years there he returned to ]\ledford, and again entered the employ of Elizur Wright, who afterwards became his father-in-law, taking charge of the farm, .\fter the death of Mr. Wright the farm came to his daughter, Ida R., whom Mr. Tay married in 1876. Mr. Tay continued his farming and market gardening business to about 1900, when he retired. He raised all kinds of farm truck and lettuce, with market at Boston, going to market each day. He has also engaged in raising hogs, having one thousand on hand at a time. The farm was of fifty acres, situated in the northerly part of Medford, opposite to the Fells, twenty- four acres having been purchased by the state for its park system, about a dozen years since. Mr. Tay has in his possession original commission of his great-grandfather. Captain Samuel Tay, given by Governor John Hancock, September 6, 1 78 1, during the revolutionary war, and also the wills of his ancestors and other papers. He is a L'nitarian in belief, and also a Democrat. He has served his party as delegate to numerous .state conventions, and is inspector of voting for the city of Medford since the introduction of the Australian ballot. He is an honorary member of the company known as the Lawrence Light Guards of Medford. Children: i. Dorothy, born March 10. 1877; married June 20, 1906. Alfred Gordon Wilmot, of Somerville, Massachusetts. 2. Winifred, born February 27, 1879. 3. Ruth, born June II, 1881. 4. Samuel Wright, born April 28, 1884; now a United States government surveyor in Alaska.

Boston And Eastern Massaceiusetts

Rye, New Hampshire, Hved at Ormsby, county Norfolk, England, where he died in April, 1634, leaving a widow Margaret, who married second, William Godfrey, and a son Thomas, who came with her and Mr. Godfrey to America. The Godfreys lived first at Dedham and Watertown, Massachusetts, after coming to America, and he was admitted a freeman in 1640. In May, 1648, Godfrey went to Hampton, New Hampshire, and bought of Samuel Getchell, then of Salisbury, five acres for a house lot between the lots of Thomas Leavitt and Giles Fuller, on the Exeter road. May 18, 1649, being called of Watertown, he bought of William Payne, of Ipswich, fort3^-four acres in Hampton with one share of the great ox-commons and two shares of all other commons. He lived in Hampton on the west side of the country road a little distance south of the residence now or late of Christopher G. Toppan ; he was selectman, 1654; deacon of the church as early as 1660, and until his death, March 25, 1671. Margaret was his second wife; she married third, John Marion. Children of Deacon William and Margaret Godfrey: i. Isaac, born in Watertown, April 15, 1639; ii. Sarah, born in Watertown, May 15, 1642; iii. Deborah, born about 1645.

( II) Thomas Webster, only known child of Thomas and Margaret Webster (i), was born in Ormsby, county Norfolk, England, about 1634; married. November 2, 1657, at Hampton, New Hampshire, Sarah Brewer, and lived where William Howard had lived, where Oliver Towle lately lived. Webster died January 5, 171 5, aged eighty-three years. Children, born in Hampton: i. Mary, born December 19, 1658; married William Swaine. 2. Sarah, born January 22, 1661 ; married William Lane. 3. Hannah, born December 23, 1663; died February i, 1664. 4. Thomas, born January 20, 1665. 5. Ebenezer. born August I, 1667; was one of the grantees of Kingston in 1694; his grandson Ebenezer was one of the first proprietors of Stevenstown, incorporated as Salisbury in 1767, settling in that part of the town now Franklin, New Hampshire. 6. Isaac, born April 12, 1670; married Mary Hutchins. 7. John, born February 16, 1674; mentioned below. 8. Abigail, born January i, 1679; died August 31, 1758; married John Nay.

(X ) Richard Webster, son of Josiah Webster (4), was born January i, 1754; married, October 29, 1778, Elizabeth Randall. He died January 16, 1836. She died March 14, 1826, aged seventy-one years. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in the company of Captain Parker at Fort Sullivan, and in the company of Captain Parsons in the Rhode Islan;1 campaign ; also went in several cruises in privateers. Children, born in Rye: i. Betsey, born March 3, 1779; married Joshua Seavey. 2. Abigail, born August 24, 1780; married, April, 1809, Levi Randall. 3. Martha, born November 25, 1781 ; married first, February 2, 1822, Ebenezer Odiorne ; second, John Foye. 4. Sarah, born July 12, 1783, married James Marden. 5. Hannah, born December 16, 1784; married John Jenness. 6. Olive, born November 19, 1786; died August 15, 1802. 7. Richard, born October 6. 1788; mentioned below. 8. Mark Randall. iDorn April 20, 1791 ; married November 26, 1829, Mary Ann Long, lived in Rye; died July 17, 1865, leaving a large family.

(\T) Richard Webster, son of Richard Webster (5), was born in Rye, New Hampshire, October 6, 1788; married Polly Philbrick, daughter of Thomas Philbrick. He was educated in the public schools, and when a young man taught school in Rye. He engaged in business in Epsom, New Hampshire, having a general store, and was for many years a prominent citizen of that town. He was town clerk for a time. He returned to Rye in later years and conducted a farm there until his death. Children: i. Daniel, born July

2. Roswell W., married Susan Johnstone ; child : Emma, married George Hodgdon, and had Bertha Hodgdon and Mabel Hodgdon, both of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 3. Mary Smith, married Benjamin Norton ; children : i. Emma Norton,, married William G. Kidder, and had Mollie Kidder, James Kidder and Walter Kidder, all of West Somerville, Massachusetts ; ii. Plummer Norton, married Christina Shaw. 4. Benjamin Franklin, married Sarah Senter ; resides at Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; children : i. Frank ; ii. Stella. 5. Sarah Ann, married Benjamin Parker; children: i. George; ii. Joanna, married W^illard Snow, and had Helen Parker Snow, George Abbott Snow and Sadie Emma Snow ; iii. Abbott Parker ; iv. William Parker ; V. Ida Parker, unmarried ; vi. Sarah Parker, died young. 6. Ursula, died young. 7. Richard, born September 24, 1830; mentioned below. 8. David, married Arvilla Johnstone; child: Carrie Clifton, married Rev. Charles E. O. Nichols and had George Nichols, Mary Nichols and Gilbert Nichols ; they reside at Bridgeton, New Jersey. 9. Emily P., unmarried. 10. John P., married Sarah Dunn; resides at Bradford, Massachusetts: children:

(VH) Richard Webster, son of Richard Webster (6), was born in Epsom, New Hampshire, September 24, 1830. He received his education in the public schools of Rye and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Afterward he went to Waltham, Massachusetts, where he learned the carpenter's trade. He came to Haverhill in 1850 to work as a journeyman, his first work there being done on the house of Luther Day, Summer street. After a time he embarked in business for himself as a contractor and builder, and in time became the leading builder in Haverhill and vicinity. He invested extensively in Haverhill real estate. First he bought a portion of the old Emerson estate, laid it out in house lots, built and sold houses as well as lots. He laid out Franklin street from Winter street to Fifth avenue and Fifth avenue as far as Primrose street. He also laid out and built up Rockland street on Mt. Washington. More than any other one man he accomplished in developing the real estate and building of Haverhill in his day. Mr. Webster was a member of the common council of the city from Ward Five, and was president of the board. He was a member of Haverhill Lodge, Order of Elks, and attended the Baptist church. He died February 9, 1904. Mr. Webster enjoyed the fullest confidence and respect of his townsmen. In business, church and social life he was uniformly faithful to his duties, demonstrating the finest qualities of mind and heart. He married first, Mary Ann Ferguson, who died. He married Seconal. February 23, 1871, Isabella J. Maxwell, born January 4, 1846, daughter of Duncan and Annie (Eraser) Maxwell. His widow survives him, living in the old home. Children of Richard and ]\Iary Ann Webster: i. Annie Scott, married Daniel W. Stratton ; resides at Hudson, Massachusetts. 2. Charles William, married Mary Ruggenthen ; resides at Haverhill. 3. Clara Jane, married Othy B. 1 'arker : resides at Yonkers, New York. 4. Mary Ilelen. married Charles A\'. Wilkins; lives at Hudson, Massachusetts. Children of Richard and Isabella J. M. Webster. 5. Florence Isabel, born February 18, 1872, resides at Haverhill. 6. Richard, born June 2^, 1874, died 1888. 7. Edith Maxwell, born June 7, 1877, 'i^'^'^ ^t Haverhill. 8. Harriet Louise, born .November 30, 1879; lives at home. Haverhill. 9. Ruth Emily, born September 2, 1884; lives at home, Haverhill.

( I ) Mighill Cressy, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1628, according to his own deposition made in 1658 that he was thirty years old. He landed at Salem with his brother William, probably in 1649. and lived for a time in the family of Lieutenant Thomas Lathrop, afterward Captain Lathrop, who with sixty of his soldiers fell in the massacre by the Indians at Bloody Brook in Deerfield, September 18, 1675. They were styled "the flower of Essex." From June, 1652, to May, 1656. he lived in the family of Joshua Ray, at "Royal Side," Salem, now Beverly. His brother William settled in Connecticut. Mighill Cressv married (first), in 1658, Mary Bachelder, baptized at

Salem, September 19, 1640, died August, 1659, daughter of John and Elizabeth Bachelder, of "Royal Side." He removed to Ipswich and married (second), April 6, 1660, Mary Quilter, born in Ipswich, May 2, 1641, daughter of Mark Quilter. He died in Ipswich in April, 1670. The record of the court concerning the settlement of his estate is as follows: "Mighill Cresie dyeing intestate The Court grants Administration unto Mary Cresie the widdow. A(nd) there being an Inventory presented of fifty-two pounds, and foure children The Court order the eldest sonn to have 8' in the land at Salem if it be worth it or elce made up 8' and the other 3 children 4' a peece all when they come to age. The widdow to enjoy the rest of the Estate." The widow removed with her children to Rowley in April, 1761, and died there May 7, 1707, Children: i. John, born August, 1659, mentioned below. 2. Mighill, born April i, 1661, in Ipswich. 3. William, born 1663, in Ipswich. 4. Mary, born 1667, in Ispwich, married, April 20, 1698, Samuel Hidden, of Rowley.

(II) John Cressy, son of Mighill Cressy, was born at Royal Side, Salem, in August, 1659. In 1675 he chose his uncle, Joseph Bachelder, to be his guardian. He lived with his grandfather Bachelder in Salem after his father died. He was a tailor by tra^e, and his home was in Salem on land at Royal Side, formerly belonging to his Grandfather Bachelder. He was deacon of the Second Church at Beverly. He died July 22, 1735, and a slate stone marks his grave as follows: "Here Lyeth the Body of Deacon John Cresy who died July ye 22d 1735 li'' ys 76th year of his age." His will was dated July 12, 1734, and proved August

18, 1735. He married Sarah Gaines, born in Ipswich, November 23, 1665, died at Royal Side, Salem, April 4, 1751. daughter of John and Mary ( Tredwell ) Gaines, of Ipswich. Children: i. Mary, born July 7. baptized August 2. 1686 ; married Joseph Foster, of Ipswich. 2. John, born September 9, baptized October 14, 1688; died December 17, 1690. 3. Sarah, born August 3, baptized August 7, 1692; married, February 2, 1718-19, James Smith, of Beverly. 4. John, born August 5, 1694, mentioned below. 5. Joseph, born June

(Ill) John Cressy, son of John Cressy, was born in Salem, August 5, 1694, and baptized the same day. He died October 19, 1718. He married, November 20, 1717, Mary Lovett, of Beverly, who married (second), June 28, 1722, John Conant, of Beverly. Child: i. John, baptized February r, 1718-19, mentioned below.

(IV^) John Cressy, son of John Cressy, was baptized February i, 17 18-19, in Salem. He was a weaver by trade. He married, December 24, 1740, Elizabeth Woodbury, of Salem^ daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Dodge) Woodbury. She died before her husband. Administration on his estate was granted March 10, 1796, to Joseph Wood, of Beverly. Children: i. Elizabeth, born December 30,, 1741, died November 29, 1805, unmarried. 2. John, born March 9, 1746, mentioned below. 3. Anna, born August 30, 1755, married (first) April 4, 1776, John Herrick ; (second), July 29, 1787, Morris Nash.

(V) John Cressy, son of John Cressy, was born in Salem, March 9, 1746. He married (first), January 3, 1773, Mary Herrick,, widow. He married (second), May 18, 1790, Rebecca Cressy, born August 13, baptized August 16, 1747, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Ober) Cressy. Rebecca was widow successively of Daniel Twiss, Thomas Davis and John Lander. John Cressy was in the revolution in Captain Caleb Dodge's company of minutemen of the second parish, and answered the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775 ; also in Captain Moses Brown's company. Colonel John Glover's (fourteenth) regiment in 1776. Children, born at Royal Side, Beverly: I. William, born August 3, 1773. 2. John, born October 22, 1774, mentioned below. 3. Maxwell, born March 19, 1776. 4. Henry, born April 26, 1778. 5. Molly, born October 9, 1780. 6. Elizabeth, born October 21, 1782. 7. Joseph, born October 24, 1784.

(\T) Captain John Cressy, son of John Cressy, born Salem, October 22, 1774, died aged ninety-six years. He lived on the farm at Royal Side, and married, September 12, 1797, Mary Bachelder, born at Beverly, April 26. 1778, daughter of , Nathaniel and Mary Bachelder. In his younger days he followed the sea and became a master mariner. He sailed fishing vessels to the Grand Banks. After he gave up the sea he was a farmer at "Royal Side" in Beverly. He lived to the great age of ninety-six years, retaining all his faculties to the end except his eyesight. He was nearly blind during his last few years. In politics he was a staunch Whig. He attended the Dane Street Congregational Church. Children, born in Beverly: i. William, born September 28, 1798, a sea- faring man, was drowned in the Mediterranean sea. 2. Mary, born September 12, 1799, died January 9, 1879; married Josiah Pickett ; children : Josiah. John W., Charles, Mary H., Sarah F., ^lary E., Martha, George, Hepzibah Pickett. 3. John, born July 20, 1801, married Joanna Woodbury; children: John B., William A.. Freeborn, Benjamin. 4. Josiah, born August 22, 1804, married Hannah Dawkins. 5. Elizabeth, born August 25, 1806. married Woodward Tucker. (After 1804 the father dropped the use of "3d." after his name). 6. Sophia, born November 11, 1808, married Aaron Cressy. 7. Sarah, born December 29, 181 1, married Israel Cressy. 8. Joseph, born January 30, 1 8 14, mentioned below. 9. Hepzibah IJachelder, born May 22., 1816. married Nathaniel Porter. 10. Benjamin, born August 15, 1818-19, died at sea.

(VII) Joseph Cressy, son of John Cressy, born Beverly, January 30, 1814, died in 1888. He was educated in the pu1)lic schools of his native town, and early in life began to follow the sea and continued until he was forty years old, when he gave up the sea and followed farming. He had a dairy and milk route and was one of the most prosperous farmers of the town. He was one of the substantial and influential men of the town, imbued with public spirit, concerned in the welfare of the town and of his neighbors. He commanded the esteem and confidence of all his townsmen. He was a Republican in national politics, but independent in municipal afifairs. He attended the Dane Street (Congregational Church. He was a member of Bass River Lodge, No. 141, of Odd Fellows, and of the Encami)ment. He married Louisa J. Young, who died ]\lay, 1892, (laughter of x-Xbram K. and Mary (Mascoll) Young. Children, born in Beverly: i. Mary Louise, born October, 1861, lived in Danvers ; married A. D. Walker ; children : Douglass, Frederick, Louise. 2. Frederick Osgood, born March 31, 1864, mentioned below.

(VIII) Frederick Osgood Cressy, son of Joseph Cressy, was born in Beverly, March 31, 1864. He attended the Washington school in his native town. At the age of twelve he began to assist his father in the milk business and on the farm. He continued on the farm and at the age of twenty-eight was successful enough to be the owner of a large herd of cattle. He succeeded to his father's farm and business after his death and has conducted it since with much success. He has devoted all his attention to his farm and business and various real estate holdings in Beverly. He is a member of no lodges nor secret societies. He attends the Washington Street Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. He married, December 22, 1892, Ella W. Thissel, born Beverly, February 5, 1864, daughter of George and Mary (Foster) Thissel. Other children of Mr. and Mrs. Thissel : George, Frank, Richard, all living in Beverly ; Charles, deceased ; Alice, lives in Chicago, widow of Eben Nourse; Mary E., unmarried. Child of Frederick O. Cressy and wife, is Joseph Thorndike, born March 5, 1894; (Beverly high school, class of 1913).

a century and a half, and their names are found in various church and town records in the eastern part of Massachusetts. Jonatiian Edmester is said to have been born in Plymouth, although the published records of that town give no account of him or of his ancestors, hence very little is known of him or his family except that he married Jemima Clapp, daughter of Samuel Clapp and his second wife, ?Iannah Price. Samuel Clapp was a son of Samuel Clapp. son of Nathaniel Clapp, son of Ebenezer Clapp, son of Nathaniel Clapp, whose father, Nicholas Clapp (or Clap) was the immigrant ancestor of the family in America and of whom mention is made elsewhere in these annals.

(I) Jonathan Edmester removed from Plymouth to South Maiden, where for a time he tauglit school anrl afterwafd became owner and proprietor of the brickyard which formerly had been the property of his wife's father. By his wife Jemima. Mr. Edmester had nine children: Aaron, Elijah, born August ii, 1807; Moses, James Clapp. Timothy, Sarah, Susan', Caroline, and Emily, born March 27, 1810.

(II) James Clapp Edmester, son of Jonathan Edmester (i), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was a brickmaker. The family name of his first wife was Furness, and by her he had one son Warren Edmester, and one daughter, Annie. He married, second,

(Ill) Elijah Briggs, fifth child of James Clapp and Anne (Woodbury) Edmester, was born in South Maiden, December 14, 1837. At the age of twelve years began learning the trade of brickmaking, the occupation followed by his father and grandfather, and also by the father of his grandfather's wife. At the age of twenty-two he was made foreman of his father's brickyard, and in 1876 he himself became proprietor of the business which had been founded by his grandfather in 1807, and of which he is still the head. Air. Edmester is a Republican, but not active in politics, and he and his family attend the Universalist church. In his younger days he was a member of the old volunteer General Taylor fire engine company and also at one time a member of the hand hose company. He is and for many years has been a member of Palestine Lodge, F. and A. M. ; Everett Lodge, No. 36, I O. O. F., and of Assawomsett Tribe, I. O. R. M. Mr. Edmester married, September 30, 1865, Susan Stimpson, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, daughter of George and Sarah (Hires) Stimpson.

George Stimpson was a die-sinker by occupation, and an old line Whig in politics, and a Universalist in his religious belief. Nine children were born of the marriage of George Stimpson and Sarah Hires: i. George Stimpson, married Caroline Belyea. 2. Washington Stimpson. 3. Lucy Stimpson, married George T. Barney, a manufacturer of perfumes in South Maiden. 4. Sarah Stimpson, married James Connor. 5. Jefiferson Stimpson, married Henrietta Moore. 6. Edwin Stimpson. 7. Albert Stimpson, died when twenty-one years old. 8. Susan Stimpson, wife of Elijah Briggs Edmester. 9. Martha Washington Stimpson, wife of Gustavus A. Norton. Andrew Stimpson, father of George Stimpson, who married Sarah Hires, w^as born in Charlestown, on Main street, near the old bridge, and by business occupation was a dealer in horses. He married four times, and the first three of his wives were Indian girls. The name of his last wife is unknowai. His father, Andrew Stimpson, was born in Charlestown, but on account of imperfect family records little is known of him, except that he was probably a descendant of Andrew Stimpson, who came from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and was an early settler in Cambridge. Andrew Stimpson, the immigrant, had by wife Jane, several children, among them Andrew, Sarah and Rebecca, besides others whose names are not known.

Elijah Briggs Edmester and Susan Stimpson had five children: i. Franklin Herbert, born July 25, 1866: married Janette Freeman Doty; children: Hilda Hires Edmester, born January 23, 1898; lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is engaged in the wholesale rubber business. 2. Henry Morton, born October 3, 1868, died June 2"], 1869. 3. Alvin Currier, born May 29, 1871. 4. Alice, born March 17, 1875, died July 18, 1875. 5. Mabel E., born April 17, 1876.

Robert Burnham ( i ) , born BURNHAM at Norwich, Norfolk, England, 1581, married, in 1608, Mary Andrews and by her had seven children. Three of their sons, John, Robert and Thomas, came to America in 1635, probably under the charge of their maternal uncle. Captain Andrews, master of the "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked off the coast of Maine. It is supposed that they were minors at that time and possibly may have been a part of the ship's crew and had no intention to remain in the new country but the wrecking of the vessel changed their plans. They settled in Ipswich, and a large part of those of the Burnham surname in New England are descendants of either one or the other of them.

(II) Deacon John Burnham. of Ipswich, son of Robert and Mary (Andrews) Burnham, was born in Norwich, England, in 1618, and was seventeen years old when he came to this country. Two years later he was a soldier of the Pequot war, and in 1639 he had lands granted him for that service. He became well possessed in lands, was one of the founders of the church at Chebacco, and one of its first deacons, 1683. He died November 5, 1694. His \vife's name was Mary, and she bore him four children, John, Josiah, Anna and Elizabeth.

(III) Josiah Burnham, son of Deacon John and Mary Burnham, born May 9, 1662, died October 25, 1692. He married July 12, 1687, Abigail, daughter of Thomas Varney. She died October 31, 1692, six days after the death of her husband. They had three children, Josiah, Jacob and Ebenezer.

(\^) William Burnham, son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Butler) Burnham, was born April 22. 1738. The military records show that William Burnham { Ipswich ) was a private in Captain Abraham Dodge's company of Colonel Moses Little's (seventeenth) regiment; enlisted May 3, 1775, and served twelve weeks and six days; mentioned in company returns October 9, 1775 ; order for bounty coat. December 21, 1775; private in Captain David Low's (third) company of Colonel Cogswell's regiment; April 30, 1778, returned as member of the trainband ; private in Captain Dodge's company of Colonel Putnam's regiment; warrant for pay February 22. 1785. He married. December 25, 1770, Tabitha Goldsmith. They had thirteen children: i. Seth, born March 10, 1772, see forward. 2. Josiah. October 20,

1774, died single January 3, 1862. 4. Abigail, May 30, 1776, died single. 5. Mary, April 30, 1778, died single. 6. William, March i, 1780. died August 11, 1851, married Sally Burnham. 7. Lois, June 15, 1781, married Ebenezer Haskell. 8. Abraham, A])ril 15, 1783. shipped as surgeon on board a brig at Salem during the war of 1812-15; was captured on the third day out by an English brig and taken to Liverpool, England. He went into a hospital there for the purpose of improving his knowledge of surgery and was stricken and died with small pox. 9. Andrew, born August 5, 1785, died 1886, aged one hun- (hxd and one years; married Susan B. Motley. 10. Fanny, April 13, 1787. married Ebenezer Mayhew. 11. Abel, November 19, 1789, married Esther Butler. 12. Sarah, September 13, 1 791, married Samuel Burnham. 13. Tabitha, March 15, 1795, married Abner Andrews.

(\T) Seth Burnham, son of William and Tabitha (Goldsmith) Burnham, born Ipswich, March 10, 1772, died Essex, Massachusetts, May 13, 1858. He was the founder of one of the Essex families of Burnhams and in all respects an enterprising and honorable man.

being well remembered by many of the older residents of that town. He married (first), December 3, 1803, Rachel, daughter of Captain Mark and Hannah (Goodhue) Burnham. She died October 10, 1812, and he married (second) Rebecca Andrews, who died in February. 1827. He had five children by each marriage, all born in Essex: I. Enos, died single. 2. Seth, October 20, 1806. died March, 1852, married Abigail Burnham. 3. William, twin, December 20, 181 1, married Hannah B. Low. 4. Hannah, twin, December 20. 181 1, married Nathaniel Mclntyre. 5. Rachel, married Caleb Low. 6. Daniel, August 22, 181 5, married Hepzibah Butman. 7. Obed, March 10, 1817, married Margaret Lee. 8. ]\Iary, married William I>. Peart, of Danvcrs. 9. Andrew, September 11. 1823, see forward. 10. Rebecca. January 12, 1826, married William H. Herrick, of Danvers. Captain Mark Burnham's ancestry may be mentioned as follows: (I) Robert Burnham, of Norwich, Norfolk, England, by his wife Mary had three sons who came to New England and settled in Ipswich. (II) Lieutenant Thomas Ikirniiam, son of Robert and Mary Burnham, was born in England in 1623, came with his brothers John and Robert in the "Angel Gabriel" in 1635 and was wrecked off the Elaine coa.st, later settled in Ipswich ; fought during the Pe(|Uot war in 1^)36-37; was selectman, sergeant of militia, ensign and lieutenant; deputy to the general court, 1683-85, and a man of means and infiuence in the town ; married, 1645, Mary Tuttle and had twelve children. (Ill) John lUirnham, son of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary Burnham, born 1648, died 1704; married, June 6, 1668, Elizabeth \\'ells, and had nine children. ( I\' ) Thomas Burnham, son of John and Elizabeth Burnham, born September 30, 1673, died 1748: married Susannah

Burnham, son of Thomas and Susannah Burnham, born 1702, died February 12, 1783; married. March 5. 1730, Jane Pride, of Ipswich, born 1703, died .August 28, 1792; had six children. (\'I) Captain Alark Burnham, son of Jeremiah and Jane Burnham, born March 11, 1739, died June 9, 1791 ; married, November 26, 1767, Hannah Goodhue, born 1745. died July 31. 1804; had seven children, among them a daughter Rachel, born September, 1776, died October 10, 1812; married Seth Burnham (VI above).

setts, September 9, 1902. He was a ship carpenter by trade and proved so practical and energetic in his work that he became foreman in the extensive shipyards of Donald Mc- Kay, East Boston, and superintended the construction of many of the finest crafts on the high seas in the palmiest days of the American merchant marine. He was without doubt one of the most thorough and practical shipbuilders in New England in his time and his judgment of quality of materials and construction was not surpassed by that of any man. On May 9, 1854, during the administration of President Pierce, he was appointed inspector of hulls, a federal office, and performed the duties of that position for the next forty years. In 1852-53 he was a member of the common council of Boston, and after his removal from the city to the suburban town of North Chelsea (Revere) he took even greater interest in affairs of municipal government. For five years he was chairman of the board of selectmen, several years a member and chairman of the school committee, one of the founders of the Revere Public Library and for several years a member of its board of trustees. He attended the Congregational church. Mr. Burnham married (first), September 10, 1844, Abby C. Phillips, of Lynn, who died August 6, 1845, having borne him one child. He married (second), October 21, 1847, Anna B. Duncan, who died December 22, 1891, having borne him three children. His children were : I. Edward W., born June 17, 1845, cHed September 6, 1845. 2. Edward W., born December 2, 1848. died April 15, 1849. 3- Albert S.. born September 25, 1850. 4. Florence A., born September 28, 1857.

(Vni) Albert Stanwood Burnham, son of Andrew and Anna B. (Duncan) Burnham, was born in East Boston, September 25, 1850, and for the last more than thirty years has been an im.portant factor in the civil and business life of the town of Revere, where he has hved since childhood. He received his education in the public schools, and at the age of seventeen began an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner, and having served out his time he worked as a journeyman until 1874, and then became proprietor of a drug store in Revere. He was prominently identified with the establishment of the Revere Water Company, one of its incorporators in April, 1882, director and clerk of company, and superintendent of works in Revere and Winthrop till 1905, when town purchased the works, and since then has been superintendent of Revere system. In many other ways he also has long been connected with the affairs of town government, and has at various times filled the offices of moderator of town meetings, member of the board of selectmen, trustee of the public library, school committee, board of health, and board of auditors. In 1884-85 he represented Revere in the lower house of the general court, and in 1893-94 was elected to a seat in the senate from the first Suffolk district, being the first senator of that town after its incorporation.

Mr. Burnham attends service at the Unitarian church, in political preference is a Republican, and is a member of the New England Water Works Association, the order of the Golden Cross, and of Neptune Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Revere.

He married, April 29, 1874, Eudora M. Phelps, born October 12, 1849, daughter of Timothy, Jr^and Harriet S. (Rankin) Phelps. Mr. and Mrs. Burnham have five children, all born in Revere: i. Clara Estelle, September 14, 1875, married James E. Treen, now of Ellensburg, Washington. 2. Florence Edwina, June 24, 1882. 3. Helen Louise, August 24, 1885. 4. Marion Augusta, June 20, i< 5. Dora, August 3, 1894.

Samuel Woods, immigrant an- WOODS cestor, born in England, was one of the earliest settlers of Groton, Massachusetts. The birth of his son Thomas in 1(363 w^s the third recorded in the town. His great-grandson, Henry Woods, was a general in the revoluntion. Two of his grandchildren, Thomas and Daniel Woods, were killed in Lovewell's fight at Pequawaket, May 8, 1725. His home was near Barralock Hill. He was one of the original proprietors, owning an eleven-acre right. He is the progenitor of most of the Wood and Woods families of this all but the eldest born at Groton: i. Samuel, kept the tavern at Groton, 1710-11 ; was town treasurer some years ; married, December 30, 1685, Hannah Farwell, at Groton. 2. Thomas, born September 9, 1663. 3. Elizabeth, September II, 1665. 4. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 5. Mary, born August 2, 1670. 6. Abigail, August 19, 1672. 7. Hannah, born July 18, 1674: died September 29, 1703.

(II) Nathaniel Woods, son of Samuel Woods, was born March 27, 1667-8. He lived in his native town and kept the tavern from 1713 to 1719. He married Alice . Children, born in Groton: i. Nathaniel, Jr., Oc-

(HI) Isaac Woods, son of Nathaniel Woods, was born in Groton, February 20, 1 699- 1 700. He settled in his native town, and married there, September 21, 1725, Abigail

(IV) Nehemiah Woods, son of Isaac Woods, born at Groton, December 6, 1731, (lied January 10, 181 5. He married, April 20, 1756, Sarah Lakin, of (iroton, at Hollis, New Hampshire. They lived at Groton until about 1760, when they settled in Hollis. He was a soldier in the revolution, in 1778, private in Captain Daniel Emerson's company. Colonel Nichol's regiment. Northern army. Children: I. Sarah. 2. Jonas, born September

4, 1759, at Groton; died in Hollis, November 25, 1847; married Lydia Hobart. April 26, 1 781 ; seven children. 3. Nehemiah. 4. Betsey. 5. Ephraim, mentioned below.

(\T) Ephraim Woods, son of Ephraim Woods, was born at Hollis, December 20. 1800. He learned the trade of cooper, followed in his day by many of the farmers of southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts. He removed to Salem, Massachusetts, and followed his trade there. He engaged in business on his own account and his business grew rapidly. He had a large shop in that part of Salem known as North Fields at that time. The barrels, casks, kegs and staves from the shop were known in every port reached 1)y the great fleet of Salem merchantmen of his day. As the farmers made hoops, staves and barrels in the winter, so Mr. Woods combined with his coopering business an extensive nursery, and became the best known nurseryman of his section. He was especially successful in growing fruit trees, and among the excellent varieties of fruit that he put on the market were the Nodhead apple and the Lady Washington pear. He exported fruit trees to Texas and various foreign ports, and sent many shi]:)loads of young trees and scions. Many of the older orchards of New England have trees raised in his nursery at North Salem. He also grew trees of various kinds for shade and ornamental purposes, and the great sugar maples of North street, Salem, from Orne street to Liberty Hill avenue, were planted by him, as well as many other shade trees in Salem and vicinity. Nursery street and Woodside street, Salem, were cut through his old nursery, as their names suggest. ^Ir. Woods was a prominent citizen, the head of the local Democratic organization, and of wide and wholesome influence in political affairs. He was one of the leading members of the First Universalist church of Salem. He died in Salem, 1869, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in that city. He married. May 3, 1827, Mary A. Cole, of Beverly, Massachusetts, born November 2, 1806, daughter of Oliver and Polly ('Dedham) Cole; one child, George Henry, mentioned below.

(VH) Lieutenant Colonel George Henry W^oods, son of Ephraim Woods, was born in Salem, February 2. 1 831. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Latin high school of Salem, completing his preparation for college at Wesleyan Seminary, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, graduating from Brown University in the class of 1853, and from Harvard Law School with the degree of LL. B. in 1855. He practiced law for a time in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but after the civil war, preferring a mercantile career en- gaged in the grain commission business, first in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later at Decatur, Ilhnois, where he was in partnership with Albert G. Webber, attorney at law, under the firm name of George H. Woods & Company, and still later was a member of the firm of W. T. Roberts & Company, grain commission dealers.

When the civil war broke out he entered the service and was mustered in April 29, 1861, as first lieutenant of Company D, First Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers. He was appointed regimental quartermaster July 18, 1 86 1, and captain and commissary of subsistence of volunteers November 16, 1 86 1. He served as lieutenant-colonel, commissary of subsistence, by assignment, from August 20 to September 27, 1862, and from January 9, 1863, to July 3, 1865. He was chief commissary of subsistence of both .Sedgwick's and Richardson's divisions of both the Second and Third Corps, and also of the Cavalry Corps, and finally of the Middle Military Division under General Philip H. Sheridan. While serving in the latter capacity it fell to him to be the bearer of the first authentic information to General Sheridan, then at W^inchester, of the disaster of the army at Cedar Creek, which resulted in General Sheridan's famous ride "from Winchester, twenty miles away." (See Gen. Sheridan's "Personal Memoirs," vol. 2). He also fulfilled important duties as stafif officer under Generals Sheridan, W. H. French and E. V. Sumner. He was seriously wounded during the Seven Days battle of the Peninsular campaign of 1862, while a stafif officer for General E. V. Sumner. After the assassination of President Lincoln he was one of the honored bodyguard during the funeral. He was mustered out and honorably discharged from the service with rank of captain and commissary of subsistence of volunteers, July 11, 1865, after the close of the war. He was brevetted major of volunteers, July 10, 1865, for efficient and meritorious services.

He never fully recovered from the wound and hardships of war, and though he lived until September 30, 1884, his health was never good, and he was obliged to travel much for his health from time to time. His former partner wrote this of his character and abilities :

"One day in the early summer months of 1 88 1 a gentleman walked into my office, then at 137 East Prairie street, in the city of Decatur; he informed me that his name was W^oods, and that he was looking for desk room. This gentleman was Colonel George H. Woods.

He was a large man physically, his manner and appearance plainly indicating a man of culture, refinement and business. I was so favorably impressed by Colonel Woods that we were soon office partners and friends. One of the first prominent characteristics of Colonel Woods was his strong individuality. He was a man of superior mental endowments. When he spoke, all others listened. He was a man of commanding presence although he was the embodiment of politeness. There was a delicacy and refinement about Colonel Woods that would have graced the most polished young lady. He was exceedingly careful in sparing the feelings of others, and was scrupulously just and honest in all his dealings. No one who knew him ever questioned Colonel Woods' honesty nor his word. He was a man of personal purity in thought and in action. One day a number of other men present at the office began to tell stories that were not to be repeated in polite company. Colonel Woods became as indignant as I ever knew him to be, and said : 'Gentlemen, have you forgotten yourselves? I do not want to be unkind, but I must insist on having such talk stopped.' At another time, while in courts in a grain case in which he was interested, the presiding judge was ruling decidedly adverse to our side of the case, and wdien his attorney was unsuccessful in gaining his point Colonel Woods arose and asked the court to be heard. He was so polite and dignified that the judge not only heard him, but at the succeeding question reversed himself and held with us.

"When Colonel ^Woods received his mail, on returning to the office from an absence, he always put the letter from his wife into his inside vest pocket, and I think always read it when alone. There was something extraordinary in the complexion of Colonel Woods. His face was as smooth and delicately white as a baby's in the glow of a spring morning. A day or two before his death I met him, remarked how well he looked, and said : 'Colonel, you look like the picture and type of a Judge.' He smiled and thanked me for the compliment. A day or two afterwards, God's finger touched him and he slept."

Colonel Woods married, July 22, 1857, Kate Tannatt, born December 29, 1835, at Peekskill, New York, daughter of James S. and Mary (Gilmour) Tannatt. Her father was born in Boston, descendant of an old Welsh nobleman who came to America chiefly for the pleasures of the hunt. James Tannatt went abroad when young; he was for many years editor of various New York publications. Mary (Gilmour) Tannatt, a brilliant woman, was a descendant of Sir John Gilmour, of Craigmiller Castle, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Kate Tannatt Woods, as she has been known for a half century in the American literary world, achieved distinction early in life as an author, editor and poet. In childhood she had delicate health and a chronic rheumatic trouble kept her from enjoying the active sports of girlhood. But she was fond of study and excelled in scholarship. Books were her greatest source of pleasure and her tastes were carefully cultivated by her parents, though her reading of fiction was limited to the works of Scott. She began to write for publication at the age of ten, and at the present time she is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. She has not only contributed to the leading magazines regularly, but for many years published one book a year. She was an editor of the Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia for many years. Her jniblished poems and short stories, of which she has written hundreds, have not been collected, though they have contributed largely, if not chietly, to her fame and literary standing. In early life many of her works were published under the pseudonym "Kate True." Among her notable juvenile books and novels are: "Six Little Rebels," "Dr. Dick," "Out and About," "All Around a Rocking Chair," "Twice Two/' "That Dreadful Boy," "The Minister's Secret," "Hester Hepworth," "Hidden for Years." "Barbara's Ward," "A Fair Maid of Marblehead," "Toots and His Friends," "A Little New England Maid." Two of her poems. "The Wooing of Grandmother Ciray," and "Grandfather Gray," have been beautifully illustrated in a recent edition. Mrs. Woods has been an editorial writer on the Boston Globe and other newspapers. She has written extensively on the subjects of embroidery and cooking, and ranks high as an authority in those dejiartments. Since her sons have grown to manhood she has been much on the public platform and active in various organizations of women. She is in much demand as a public speaker and lecturer, has often read from her works in public for various charitable purposes, and often lectures on historical subjects.

She never allows literature to turn her from the path of domestic duty. Her education was interru])ted by the death of her father. She had been a promising student in the Peekskill Seminary. Her mother went with Kate to live with her eldest daughter who had married a doctor, then practicing in New Hampshire, later at Manchester, Massachusetts. Subsequently the family lived at Salem, and Kate taught school when many of her pupils in her classes were older than she. On account of her health she had to decline a position of larger responsibility and salary. She spent a year in the study of music in New York City, and her fondness for music has always continued. She has no little skill also as a painter in oil and water colors, having won many prizes in the art line. Her knowledge of the fine arts has made her a critic of high standing and has served her well in her literary work. She has inherited enough love of outdoor sports to make her an excellent horsewoman, and to give her a delicate and enthusiastic appreciation of the out-door world. After her marriage she went to Minneapolis with her husband, her first two children were born there, and some of her finest poems were written there. When her husband went to the front in the civil war, she went with him, taking her two babes, and devoted herself to the care of the sick and wounded. After the death of her husband she sailed for Europe where she spent six months in study, travel and rest.