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Cheever, born February 14, 1785, died June 7, 1829, daughter of Ezekiel (5) and Susan (Butler) Cheever. Ezekiel Cheever was born in 1 74 1, and was a man noted for his integrity, strong religious convictions, remarkable memory and extreme gentleness. "He was wont to restore to their native element any fish that were caught on the hook otherwise than by the mouth, addressing them in this fashion : 'You are the victim of an accident ; I cannot claim you ; go in peace.' This gentle disciple of Isaac Walton never deviated from a fixed price ; an advance in the market made no difiference to him. One day as he was returning from fishing, while crossing 'Smith's Point" a dangerous bull charged upon him with mighty bellowing, whereat Mr. Cheever calmly sat down on his barrow and addressed the angry bovine with such an imj^ressive array of scripture texts that after jiawing the earth awhile and sniffing at the barrow the infuriated but perplexed beast withdrew with a crestfallen air." Ezekiel (5) was son of Rev. Ames Cheever (4). Rev. Ames (3), a graduate of Harvard College, 1707, and Ann Cjenish, Rev. Samuel (2) and Ruth (Angier) Cheever, (Rev. Samuel a graduate of Harvard College, 1659, and was the first settled minister of Marblehead), Rev. Ezekiel (i) Cheever, the distinguished Latin teacher. Benjamin Leach married second, January 7, 1830, Lucy Story Allen, born January i, 1797, died March 26. 1889, widow of Nathan Allen, and daughter of Aaron (6) and Sarah (Crafts) Allen. Mamachi (5) and Ruth (Edwards) Allen, Mallaca (4) and Priscilla (Hooper) Allen, Jonathan (3) and Mary (Pierce) Allen, Samuel (2) and Sarah (Tuck) Allen, William (I) and Elizabeth (Bradley) Allen. Five children were born of his first marriage and five of the second. Children of Benjamin Leach: John, born June 24, 1813, married Ann Block. 1843; Benjamin Butler, born November 18. 181 5. married Cynthia Hall. June cliester was born there October 9, 1832, son of Captain Benjamin and Lucy Story (Allen) Leach. His home was in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1855 to 1861, and he spent the summers of 1856 and 1857 in Kansas, aiding in the early contest in that territory for free soil. He was active at the outbreak of the rebellion as a member of a military organization the object of which was to hold Missouri in the Union. In 1863 Mr. Leach removed to Colorado and went into business in Denver. He was elected to the territorial council in 1865, serving two years and was president of the body. This was before the days of the Pacific railroad, and Colorado was separated from the east by six hundred miles of trackless plains. To the north was an unexplored wilderness infested by Indian tribes with whom the pioneers w^ere compelled to carry on a harassing border warfare. In 1865 a constitution was adopted at an irregular election, which was obnoxious to a majority of the citizens. ]\Ir. Leach and Colonel Samuel Tappan spent the winter in W^ashington and succeeded by enlisting the interest of Charles Sumner and others in securing the rejection of the bill for the admission of Colorado. The time was one of intense political excitement, not unmingled wdth personal peril, at times, to the actors. Mob law was often in the ascendant and "Judge Lynch" frequently held court. Things were in a nebulous state, "slow rounding into form." After Mr. Leach returned east he was in busness in Boston, having his home in Salem, and for a few years he had his summer residence in Manchester at the old homestead on the 'plain.' He died at Salem April 17, 1906. He married, July 30, 1866, Caroline Elizabeth Roberts, at Salem, Massachusetts. She was born December 8, 1835, at Salem, died February 18, 1896, daughter of Captain Nehemiah and Hannah Ward (Osborne) Roberts, who married in March, 1833. He was born in 1800, at Hamilton, was a sea captain, and died off the coast of Africa in 1840. She was born in 1808, and died in 1888. Samuel and Martha (Stone) Roberts married in 1797. She was born in 1774 and died in 1845. He was born in 1768 and died in 1835, son of Joseph and Mercy (Clark) Roberts, who married in 1760. He was a son of David and Elizabeth (Brown) Roberts. David was born in 1704, died 1792, and married, 1729, at Gloucester, later removed to Hamilton. Children: Hallet Groves, born March 11, 1869, died September 18, 1870; Henry Roberts, born September 8, 1871, married Mabel

OSBORNE sideration is one of the oldest and withal one of the most respectable of the many that became seated in the ancient town of Salem within the ten years next following the landing of the Pilgrims ; and in the mother country as well as in New England they who bore the Osborne surname were noted for respectability and high moral character.

The Yorkshire Osbornes were also an ancient people and genealogists have given them great anticjuity in countries of Europe. In various records the name is found written Osborne and Osborn in the same general family, the use or disuse of the final letter being merely a matter of taste.

(I) William Osborne, of Salem, colony of Massachusetts Bay, Puritan, immigrant ancestor of a notable family, first appears there in 1630; was made freeman May 22, 1639, having been granted June 4, 1638, with Annanias Coucklane, an acre of land each for a houselot, the same being near Strong-water brook; and besides his houselot William Osborne had another grant of ten acres of land. In the records of Essex deeds (vol. iii.. p. 292) is found the following conveyance which gives some light in respect to the place of abode of the O'-'borncs in England: May 24, 1670. the Osbornes in England :

"Bezaliel Osbourne of South Hampton, within the precincts of East Riding of Yorkshire, Eng., attorney to Friswiel Alulford of East Hampton of said riding (as in an instrument bearing date May 14, 1670, more fully doth appear) sendeth greeting: - That said Bezaliel Osbourne in consideration of a valuable snm paid by Antipas Newman of Wenham, Mass., preacher of the word of God, deed him a farm of 100 acres of upland and 10 of meadow, according to the grant of Salem, many years ago unto William Osbourne, then husband of the said Friswiel Mulford, lying in Wenham, Mass. - with consent of her husband John Mulford- - that the said Bezaliel Osbourne by virtue of his power of attorney from Friezwood Mulford his mother and John iMulford her husband has lawful authority to grant, etc.

In speaking of William Osbourne, of Salem, in his "Genealogical Dictionary," Savage says that by wife called (in Felt's list of church members, 1641) Frezwith or Freesweed, had no children born there, but after his removal to Dorchester the town records there mention that by wife Frodisword he had Recompense, born May 26, 1644, at six o'clock p. m. The same authority also states that this Recompense Osborne graduated from Harvard College 1661 ; that at Braintree he had Hannah, born August 24, 1646, Bezeliel, born March 8, 1650, "and others afterward at Boston, by wife called in the records Fredswith, and in the Providence records by wife called Freesword he had Joseph, born April 6. 1652, and Jonathan, born November 16, 1656. Further, says Savage, he was a merchant, and died in middle life; that the inventory of his property, made April 29, 1662, shows over one thousand pounds, "well for that time." His widow married John Mulford of South Hampton, Yorkshire East Riding, and in 1670, "sold to Rev. .-Xntipas Newman of Wenham that no acres granted to Osborne." I'rom what is stated it will be seen that William Osborne left Salem sometime after 1640 and lived in Dorchester at the date of birth of his son Recompense ; that soon afterward he was in Braintree, where he had children born, and still later was in Boston, where, it is said, other children may have been born. He ultimately removed to Rhode Island and died there. It may be said, however, that the foregoing record of the immigrant's children cannot be taken as correct in all respect and that at least one of them, William, is not mentioned there. Mr. Austin, author of "One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," himself an Osborne by descent, gives Wapping, England, as the birthplace of William, and the date about 1640. There is no doubt whatever that

William Osborne, the second, was a son of William and Frizwiel Osborne, but it seems impossible that he could have been born in England about 1640 (or 1644, as some accounts have it) for his father had then been ten years in New England, and his places of abode during the years subsequent to his landing in Salem are satisfactorily shown. Therefore the only reasonable assumption is that he was born in Salem or possibly in Dorchester.

(II) William Osborne, son of William the immigrant, died in Salem in January, 1728-29, and his will, made January 31, 1716-17, was admitted to probate February 5, 1729-30, sons William, Samuel and John being named as executors. His will was witnessed by Joseph Southwick, Jonathan Trask and George Locker. In his will he gave to his wife onethird part of the produce of all his lands, to be brought home to her by his three sons Samuel, John and William, who also were directed to supply her with firewood and other things necessary both in sickness and health. His property, subject to the provision made for his wife, was divided among his sons, with a be(|uest of twenty-four pounds to his daughter Hannah Trask. In 1721 his wife in a dej)osition stated that she was eighty-one years old. She was Hannah Burton, born in 1640, died 1 721, daughter of John Burton who came from England to Salem by way of the Barbadoes. William and Hannah (Burton) Osborne married March 17, 1672-3; children: i. Samuel, born April 2^, 1675, died about 1750; married first, Eleanor Southwick. died December, 1702, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Boyce) Southwick; married second, .August 30, 1705, Sarah, daughter of Abraham Clark. 2. John, born August 27, 1677 ; married first, May 9, 1704, Mary Southwick, born 1676, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Boyce) Southwick ; married second. May 7, 1713, Hannah, daughter of Caleb and Hannah (Pope) P>uffum. 3. Hannah, born December 2, 1679; married November 26. 1701, John Trask. Jr., son of John and Abigail (Parkman) Trask. 4. William, born May 3, 1682, died September 29, 1 77 1.

(III) William O.sborne, youngest son of ^\'illiam and Hannah (Burton) Osborne, was born in that part of the old town of Salem which afterward became Danvers and now is Peabody. He was a farmer, and became possessed of considerable property, both personal and real. He married, February 8, 1710-11, Margaret Derby, born August 8, 1693, died

July II, 1765, daughter of Roger and Elizabeth (Haskett) Derby. Austin says that Roger Derby may have been a grandson of that Richard Derby who was of Stonell, England, as late as 1588, and who had sons Roger, Richard and Thomas. Roger Derby's first wife was Lucretia Hilman, born 1643, died May 25, 1689, daughter of Roger and Honor Hilman. He married second, about 1690, Mrs. Elizabeth Dynn, widow of William Dynn and daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Langdon) Haskett, and sister of Martha Haskett who married Richard Derby, the latter being a son of Roger Derby. William and Margaret (Derby) Osborne had ten children: i. William, born September 18, 171 1, died July 6, 1712. 2. Stephen, born October 16, 1712, died April 8, 1773. 3. Elizabeth, born December 10, 1 7 14, died unmarried October 20, 1789. 4. William, born February 12, 1716, died 1765 ; married November 3, 1737, Elizabeth Tucker, born 1719, died January 17, 1809. 5. Benjamin, born May 31, 1718, died 1734-5- 6. Margaret, born September 18, 1719, died July 8, 1805; married ]\Iarch 12, 1736, Joseph Buffum, born July 20, 171 7, died September 19, 179^^- 7- Jonathan, born about 1722, died 1754; married September 13, 1746, Esther, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Putnam) Alarble. 8. Richard, died 1765. 9. Abigail, born 1733, married a Mr. Porter, died February 14, 1817. 10. Benjamin, born in June 1735, died February 3, 1803; married December 4, 1757, Elizabeth Flint.

(IV) Stephen Osborne, son of William and Margaret (Derby) Osborne, born October 16, 17 1 2, died April 8, 1773. In some records he is called shoreman, but he also had lands and carried on a farm. He married December 12, 1735, Sarah Douglas, born November 10, 1 716, daughter of Joseph Douglas and his second wife, EHzabeth King. Joseph Douglas was of Salem previous to 1694, but his earlier history cannot be traced with certainty ; it is thought that he may have been a son of Tliomas Douglas, of Boston, who had a son Thomas born there July 11, 1676; and from the fact that the christian name Thomas appears frequently in the records of the family, and also in the family of Joseph, it is reasonably inferred that Thomas and Joseph were of one kin. Joseph Douglas married first,

Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel King, Jr.. first of Lynn, Massachusetts, afterward of Salem, and whose wife was Tabitha Walker. Stephen and Sarah (Douglas) Osborne had children:

(V) Stephen Osborne, eldest child of Stephen and Sarah (Douglas) Osborne, born June 28, 1736, died January 19, 1808. He married, December 31, 1765, Mary, daughter of Henry and Rachel (Dyer) Cook. She was born July 25, 1730, and died February 16, 1806. Henry Cook (date of birth not known) is named in his father's will, dated September 24, 1692, proved December 15, 1692, and was one of sixteen children. He is believed to have been the youngest son of Isaac Cook. Isaac Cook, born April 3, 1640, married May 3, 1644. Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Buxton (see Buxton family). His father was Henry Cook, the patriarchal ancestor of this branch of the Cook family in New England, who lived in what now is Peabody, Massachusetts, formerly South Danvers, more anciently called the middle precinct, being a part of the old town of Salem before it was set ofl:' in 1752. Henry Cook was an inhabitant of Salem probably before 1638 and proprietor of one of the ten acre lots. His name does not appear in any of the old church or parish records, nor the names of any members of his family. Flis occupation was that of butcher. He died December 25. 1661 ; married, June, 1639, Judith Birdsall. who died September 11, 1689, daughter of Henry Birdsall. whose office in connection with the old first church in Salem was that which now would be called sexton or janitor. He had ten children, of whom Isaac was the first born.

2, 1796, Mary, daughter of Miles and Experience (Goodale) Ward, born 1770, died June, 1835. Her mother. Experience Goodale, was a daughter of Joshua and Experience (Judd) Goodale. Experience Judd was born 17 10, and died August 14, 1748; married May 21, 1734, Joshua Goodale, born in Danvers, Massachusetts, November 19, 1708, died May 18, 1798, son of Abraham and Hannah (Rhodes) Goodale. Hannah Rhodes, who married, April. 1704. Abraham Goodale, was born March 28. 1679, and was a daughter of Joshua and Ann (Graves) Rhodes. Joshua Rhodes was born in April, 1648, died December 29, 1725, and Ann Graves his wife, died February 21, 1735-6. She was a daughter of Thomas and Hannah Graves, of Lynn, Massachusetts. Joshua Rhodes was son of Henry Rhodes, farmer, of Lynn, born 1608, and whose house was on the west side of Saugus river. His wife was EHzabeth , who died November 25, 1700. Abraham Goodale, who married Hannah Rhodes, was a son of Zachariah and EHzabeth (Beacham, or Beauchamp) Goodale. 2. Sarah, born August 13, 1778, died September 2, 1809. 3. William, born February 28, 1770. 4. Mary, born January 15, 1772, died in January. 185 1.

(VI) Henry Osborne, eldest child of Stephen and Mary (Cook) Osborne, born September 30, 1766, died October, 1810; married December 2, 1796, Mary Ward; children: I. Mary Jane, died single, 1845. 2. Harriet, born February 2, 1800, died August 4, 1886; married Isaac Allen ; had Hannah Lee, Flarriet Eliza and John Allen. 3. Stephen, born February, 1805, died November 23, 1869; married Mary Elizabeth I^race. 4. Hannah Ward, born August, 1808, died January 14, 1888; married March 13, 1833, Captain Nehemiah Roberts, grandfather of Osborne Leach (see Leach family). 5. Henry, born 1810, died August 14. 1886. married Louisa Shreve.

(\'I) Willianii Osborne, third child of Stephen and Mary (Cook) Osborne, was born February 28, 1770, and married September I, 1796, Ann (or Nancy), daughter of W'illiam and Bridget (Derby) Lang, born July 2, 1776. Her mother, P.ridget Derby, was a daughter of Samuel Derby, son of Samuel Derby, son of Roger Derby. William and Ann (Lang) Osborne had children: i. William Kendall, baptized July 6, 1817. 2. Caroline, baptized July 6, 18 17. 3. Edward Lang, baptized July 6, 1817, lost at sea. 4. Esther Norris, baptized July 6, 1817. 5. Charles, baptized July 6, 1817. 6. Mary Cook, baptized July 6, 181 7. 7. Martha Lang, baptized July 6, 1817. 8. John Norris, baptized November 1, 1818. 9. Nancy, married General William Sutton, of Peabody.

Coffin's History of Newbury, ORDWAY INIassachusetts, states that according to tradition James Ordway, an early settler in that town, came from Wales ; that he was born in 1620 and died subsequent to 1702. He was made a freeman in 1668. He was married in Newbury, November 23, 1648, to Ann Emery, born in England about the year 163 1, daughter of John and Mary Emery, and granddaughter of John and Agnes Emery, of Ronsey Hants. John Emery, Jr., born September 29, 1598, his wife and children and his brother Anthony were passengers from London in the ship "James," which arrived in Boston, June 3, 1635. They settled in Newbury. Ann died March 31, 1687. James and Ann (Emery) Ordway were the parents of ten children : Ephraim, James, Edward. Sarah, John, Isaac, Jane, Hannaniac, Ann and Mary. John Ordway, son of James Ordway, the immigrant, was born in Newbury, November 17, 1658. He married Mary Godfrey, daughter of Peter and Mary Godfrey.

Stephen Ordway, who was born either in Newl)ury or Amesbury, was an early settler in Hebron, New Hampshire. Fie was probably a descendant of James tlie immigrant through the latter's grandson, Stephen, who was a son of John and Mary (Godfrey) Ordway, previously mentioned. In childhood he went to Dunbarton, New Hampshire, and when nineteen years old became a pioneer settler at Cockamouth, now Hebron, going there some years prior to the beginning of the nineteenth century. He established a home in the wilderness, cleared and improved a farm anrl lived to the advanced age of ninety-three years. His brother. John Ordway, a man of fine intellectual attainments, won distinction as a member and the historian of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition overland to the Pacific Ocean (1803-1806). Stephen Ordway married Mary Brown, who came from Bow, New Hampshire, and they had nine children : Stephen, Relief, Amos, John, IMary, Ruth, Aaron, see below; Walter, Ann Eliza.

Dr. Aaron Ordway, son of Stephen and Mary (I'rown) Ordway, was born in Hebron, May 4, 1814. Fie began his education in the district schools of his native town and continued it at the Franklin Academy. He began life as a merchant in Sjiringfield, Massachusetts, but subsequently studied medicine, attending lectures at Harvard. He began his practice as a physician at Rumney, New Flampshire, and in 1847 established himself as an Eclectic physician in Lawrence. He shortly afterward opened a retail drug store and conducted it in connection with his practice, and through his untiring energv he managed to give his close personal attention to both without neglecting any of the multifarious duties devolving upon him. From early in the morning until far into the night he could be seen either at his store or going about among his patients, and so constant was his attention to business and professional duties that his friends wondered how he could posibly find time for the necessary rest and refreshment. This strenuous mode of life continued for a period of twenty-five years or until about 1872, when he retired, and having amassed a competency he thenceforward devoted himself to pursuits of a less exacting nature. He was financially interested in timber lands and in the manufacture of lumber, and was for some time president of the Brown Lumber Company of Whitefield, New Hampshire, and also of the Whitefield & Jefferson railroad.

In addition to his unusual activity and capacity for hard work, he possessed a marked individuality which asserted itself whenever occasion demanded, and among his other commendable qualities were his sincerity of purpose and his devotion to his ,friends. His interest and influence in public affairs were exceedingly beneficial to the city, and his desire for honest government was amply demonstrated during his two terms as a member of the board of aldermen. In politics he was devoted to principle rather than party, and as long as the platform coincided with hi^ conscience he could be depended upon to support it, but if otherwise he promptly manifested his disapproval, and his opposition was considered dangerous. Pie generally acted with the Republican party. Although having no preference for any particular church or creed, he was in sympathy with all religious denominations pertaining to the christian faith, and he contributed liberally toward the support of several churches that were struggling for existence. His physical powers became seriously affected in 1888. as the inevitable result of his unrestrained activities in former years. He gradually failed until his death, wdiich occurred February 8, i8qo. Dr. Ordway was very much interested in the Lawrence General Hospital, and contributed freely at the early period of its existence, and a memorial room has been furnished in his memory, by the family, because of this interest.

Dr. Ordway married. August 9, 1839, Mary Ann Mooney Kelley, of New Hampton, New Hampshire, born October 6, 181 5, died October 21, 1866, daughter of Joseph Kelley. He married, second, Mary Ann Kelley, of Franklin, New Hampshire. His children, all of the first union, are: i. Martha Ann, born October 17, 1841, married William Kibbler; children: i. Ida Mary, born January 17, 1868, died aged ten years ; ii. Leslie Lawrence, born SeiJtember 21, 187 1. 2. Aaron Patterson, born September 5, 1843, died in 1845. 3- Aaron Patterson, born August 6, 1846, married Jane Hutchins ; children : i. Edith, born November 4, 1888; ii. Helen Dorothy, born August 3, 1893. 4. Mary Ellen, born October 25, 1848. 5. Frank Leslie, born November 11, 1854, married Cora E. Hume, children: i. Grace 15., born June 3, 1884; ii. Frank Aaron, born October 4, 1894.

This name has been con- I5ATCIIELDER tinuously identified with New Hampshire from the earliest colonial period. Among the first towns settled in the state was Hampton, and this surname appears among those of the first settlers there. It has been found with many spellings, and its representatives now use more than one. The great majority use the form Batchelder as it will appear in this narrative, with an attempt, however, to conform with the various spellings of different generations. The members of this family have been conspicuous for their pertinacity of endeavor, for their moral lives and intellectual acumen. Many have occupied somewhat humble positions, but all have been good citizens. Some have achieved distinction and representatives of the name in the present day have upheld its credit and standing.

(I) Rev. Stephen Bachiler, a leading nonconformist who settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, was born in England, 1561, matriculated at St. Johns College 1581, and in 1586, at the age of twenty-six was presented by Lord de la Warr to the living of Wherwell (Horrell). a pretty village in Hampshire on the river Test. In 1605 Mr. Bachiler was 'deprived' of the benefice, presumably for calvinistic opinions, and by order of the commission appointed by James I. to, investigate religious opinions. Soon after leaving Wherwell, Mr. Bachiler settled in Newton Stacy, the nearest hamlet on the east, where he purchased land and sold it from 1622 to 1631. He sailed from England in the "William and Francis," March 9, 1632, and landed at Boston June 5 that year. Thence he proceeded to Lynn, Massachusetts, then called Saugus, where his daughter Theodate, wife of Christopher Hussey, resided. Here he commenced the exercise of his administration on Sunday, June 8, 1632, without installation, having formed a church of those who desired to join with the six or seven persons he brought with him, who are said to have been members of the church with him in England. He remained in Lynn until February, 1636, when he removed to Ipswich, from there went to Yarmouth, six miles beyond Sandwich, and next to Newbury, where July 6, 1638, the town made him a grant of land, and October 7, 1638, the general court of Massachusetts granted Mr. Stephen Bachiler and his company, who had petitioned therefor, liberty to begin a ])lantation at Winnicunnet. now called Hampton, New Hampshire. Tuesday, October 16.

1639, Winnicunnet was made a town, and about the same time the said plantation (upon Mr. Bachiler's request made known to the court) was named Hampton. There he lived until about 1647, at which time he live<l in Port smou til. He returned to England about 1654, and died at Hockney, in Middlesex, then two miles from London, 1660.

The tradition is that Mr. 1 bachiler was a man of remarkable personal presence, and was particularly noticeable on account of his wonderful eyes ; they were dark and deep set, under broad arches, and could throw lightning glances u])on occasion. For more than a century the l^>acbiler eye has been proverbial, and in Essex county, ^lassachusetts, the striking feature has been main.tained. The resemblance between the Whittiers and Daniel Webster was long ago observed by those wdio were unaware of relationship. Though unlike in many respects, there appeared to be a marked similarity in their broad and massive brows, swarthy complexion and expressive eyes. The characteristic of the eyes was in the looks of inscrutable depth, the power of shooting out sudden gleams, and the power of tender and lovable expression as well. It is now known that not only Whittier, Webster, but W. Pitt Fessenden, Caleb Cushing, William !>. Green and other prominent men inherited their fine features, penetrating eyes and gravity of manner from the same ancestor, Rev. Stephen r.achiler.

in England, and married in Hampshire or the neighboring counties in England, and were : Nathaniel (2), born 1590; married Hester Mercer, Southampton ; children : Stephen,

Anna, Francis, Nathaniel and Benjamin. (2) Deborah, born 1592; married John W'ing; they came to America with her father. Rev. Stephen Bachiler, 1632; their children, who came with their parents from England were Daniel, John and Stephen. (3) Stephen, born 1594. died 1680. (4) Theodate. born 1596; married Christopher Hussey ; she died October 20. 1649. at Hampton, New^ Hampshire; children: Stephen, born about 1630; Joseph; John, baptized at Lynn, 1635 ; Mary, born at Newbury April 2, 1638; Theodate, born at Hampton, New Hampshire, August 23, 1640; Huldali. born about 1643, died 1740. (5) Samuel, born 1598; Vvas in Holland as chaplain in 1620. (6) Ann. born irxDo; married about 1619. John Sanborn, baptized 1600, one of the Hampshire Sanborns ; their three sons - John. William and Stephen - came to America in 1632 with their grandfather. Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and they were the founders of tbe Sanborn family in x-\merica.

(HI) Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel and Hester (Mercer) Bachiler, was born in 1O30. He married December 10, 1656, Deborah, daughter of John Smith of Marthas Vineyard. She died March 8, 1675, and he married second, October 31, 1676, Mrs. Mary (Carter) Wyman, daughter of Rev. Thomas Carter and widow of John Wyman. of Woburn. She was born July 24. 1648, and died in 1688, and was a cousin of his first wife. He married third, October 23. 1689. Elizabeth B. Knill, widow of John Kniil. She survived him. He was always a resident of Hampton and held many offices of trust and honor in the town and church, being constable for some time and selectman for nine years. He died suddenly January 2, 1710. His children were: Deborah, born October 12, 1657; Nathaniel, December 24, 1659; Ruth, May 9. 1662; Esther, December 26. 1664; Abigail. December 28, 1667; Jane, January 8, 1670; Stei)hen. July 31. 1672, died in infancy; Benjamin, September 19, 1673; Stephen, March 8, 1675; Mercy, December 11, 1677; Mary, September 18, 1679, (lied in infancy; Samuel, January 10, 1681 ; Jonathan, 1683; Thomas, 1685; Joseph, August 9. 1687; Mary, October 17. 1688. died in infancy; Theodate, married Morris llobbs,

(IV) Deacon Nathaniel, eldest son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Smith) Batchelder, born at Hami)ton, New Hampshire, December 24, 1659, died 1745; married, about 1685, Elizabefh Foss, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, born 1666, died 1746. He was one of the as- sessors of Hampton Falls, 1719-20, and selectman 1722. He was one of the original proprietors of Chester, New Hampshire. His children were Deborah, Nathaniel, John, Josiah, Jethro, Elizabeth, Nathan, Phinehas and Ebcnezer.

(\I) Lieutenant Benjamin Fiatchelder (he appears to have used the liachelor form), son of Deacon John and Abigail (Crane) Batchelder, born in Candia, New Hampshire, October 20, 1737, died in Andover, New Hampshire, September 28, 1813. He was one of the early settlers of Candia, a prominent figure in public affairs, served several years as selectman, and during the revolution was lieutenant of a company in active service. The later years of his life were spent in Andover, where he died. He married, 1762, Dorotha Prescott, born October 30, 1742, died December 26, 1837, daughter of Benjamin Prescott, of Kensington, New Hampshire, and cousin of Colonel Prescott of Bunker Hill fame. Children of Lieutenant Benjamin and Dorotha (Prescott) Batchelder: Sarah, born April 24, 1764, married Major Edward Currier of Candia, New Hampshire; John, born 1766, married Sally Robinson ; Hannah, born March 23, 1768, married a Graves; Abigail, born July 18, 1770, married December 20, 1792, Weare Hilliard ; Dorothy, born April 23, 1773, married September 10, 1799, Dudley Hilton; Benjamin,born April 23, 1773, died young ; Odlin P., born September 16, 1775; Zerviah, born April 20, 1778, died February 10, 1862, married Edmund Buzzell ; Benjamin, born April 7, 1782; Nathan, born November 22, 1786.

(VH) Odlin Prescott Batchelder, son of Lieutenant Benjamin and Dorotha (Prescott) Batchelder, born in Candia, New Hampshire, September 16, 1775, died in Holliston, Massachusetts, April 30, i860. His occupation was that of tanner and currier, and he carried on business in Candia until 1817, then in Wilmot. New Hampshire, later in Lowell, Massachusetts, and in 1832 removed to Holliston, Massachusetts. He married, first, in Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1798, Huldah Searle, born June, 1777, died December 13, 1846; married second, October 7, 1847, Millicent Barrett, born 1799, died July 15, 1869. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Holliston. Children : William Searle, born Alay 28, 1800, married Rhoda Whiting; Benjamin Franklin, born November I, 1801, married Lucinda Daniels; John Calvin, born March 20, 1803 ; Mary, born November I, 1805, married Isaac Johnson; Lucretia, born December i, 1806, married October 19, 1828, Timothy Fiske ; George, born May 27, 1810, married Hannah Kingsbury; Frederick L., born January 17, 1815, married Elizabeth Willey ; Otis Robinson, born January 17, 1817, married Catherine Palmer ; Sophronia, died in infancy.

(VHI) John Calvin Batchelder, son of Odlin Prescott and Huldah (Searle) Batchelder, born in Candia, New Hampshire, March 20, 1803, died in Holliston, Massachusetts, December 26, 1891, after a long, useful and honorable life. In his youth he had no opportunity to gain more than a common school education, but his hours of study were employed to the best advantage. At the age of about eighteen years he started out to make his own way in life and went from Andover, New Hampshire, to Holliston, Massachusetts, and there learned the trade of shoemaking of his brother William S. At the bench he worked diligently until he had mastered the trade, then worked as a practical shoemaker for several years and in the course of a few more years became himself proprietor of a shoe manufacturing business. Mr. Batchelder's active business career covered a period of full three score years; a period of general success and perhaps with less of the accompaniments of reverses and losses than fall to the lot of business enterjjrises in general. He was not only a capable man, but he was also an honest man, dealing honestly with others and exacting an honest due from them. And he was a temperate man ; temperate in his habits in every respect, in his daily walk, in his home life, and was charitably inclined, giving freely and according to his means for whatever causes were worthy of his assistance, and giving in such a way as not to draw attention to himself; and he was a christian man, in word and example, always lived an upright life and did all that he could to encourage others in the same direction ; for more than sixty years he was a consistent member of the Congregational church.

(IX) John Mason Batchelder, eldest son of John Calvin and Emeline ( ]\rason ) Batchelder, was born in I lolliston, ?^Iassachusetts, January 8, 1832. The strange fusion in his veins of the Batchelder blood with its persistence, fearlessness, and outspoken bluntness, its rugged puritanism and intense bencvelence ; and the Mason blood with its approachable geniality, retiring gentleness and lack of combativeness, wrought in him that firmness tempered with diplomacy, that approachablcness alloyed with unselfishness, that has made him a marked figure in his town. He has always been a trusted leader and business adviser in his father's family, as well as with the dependent and helpless in his town who had no claim upon him. and matters of trust and probate have always been settled by him with ability and conscientiousness. Early in life he showed signs of the indomitable initiative and industry which characterized his entire business career, and which developed in his departure to the west in his early manhood where he stayed for a time. He returned to Holliston and entered into his father's emi)loy, becoming proficient in the shoe manufacturing business, but which, owing to his uncon(|uerable trading characteristic, he abandoned later to enter the general store business under the firm name of Daniels & Batchelder. He sold his interest in this business after four years to his partner, and engaged in traveling salesmanship for a year or more, after which he established for himself a grocery business which he conducted with success for about twenty years. He then retired from commercial pursuits and devoted his entire time to the settlement of estates as administrator, executor, guardian, trustee, etc. He has been a trustee for many institutions and individuals; also treasurer for the Lake Grove Cemetery for twenty years. He was commissioned by Gov. Andrew during the civil war as justice of the {)eace, which commission has been continuously renewed since. He has been trusted by his town's people in his selection for many town offices, and as representative to the general court, which office he filled with tact and business acumen, with credit to his constituency. He is a Republican in politics, but never a seeker of office. He has been prominently connected with the Congregational church since his youth, and a large share of his recreation in his busy life has been his absorbing interest in genealogical subjects, of which he has a great fund of authoritative information. During his generation he has budded well, according to his gifts, on the imperishable foundation established by that sturdy quartet of Batchelder brothers who settled in Holliston in the early decades of the 19th century, stamping their personality on the moral and civic development of the town.

(IX) Henri Batchelder, son of John Calvin and Emeline (^lason) Batchelder, was born in Holliston, Massachusetts, October 4, 1842. He was educated in the Holliston public schools. During his minority he enlisted in the United States navy, serving with honor and clue promotion on the sailing bark "Pursuit" for three years. He assisted in the capture of the steamship "Florida" and many other prizes, of which he received his share of the prize money. In 1865 he received an honorable discharge, and upon his return to civil life he engaged in the shoe manufacturing business with his father. Later he removed to West Medway, Massachusetts, taking the superintendency of the shoe manufacturing plant of Parker Brothers. In 1884 he removed to Everett, Massachusetts, and became engaged in the wholesale provision business with his brother in Boston, where he is still connected. He has been an a])t student, augmenting his early education by that practical self improvement that is open to every American. He became interested in the Chatauciua movement at its inception, and by persistent and voluminous reading, and careful observation, has developed into one of the best informed men of his city. He is a trustee of the First M. E. Church, of Everett, which he has attended since he has been a resident of that city. He has never stood for or held pubHc office since being honored by his selection as assessor in his adopted town of Medway. He is a member of the James A. Perkins Post, G. A. R., of Everett. He has inherited the marked characteristics of his Batchelder and Mason ancestors, and is highly esteemed and trusted by his business and personal friends.

(IX) Francis Batchelder, son of John Calvin and Emeline (Mason) Batchelder, was born in Holliston, Massachusetts, April 6, 1847, ^"cl for forty years has been closely identified with the business life of Boston, beginning in a small way in East Boston in 1869 and continuing there about two years, then starting a retail provision store and doing business on a larger scale and with gratifying success until 1882, when he established an extensive wholesale provision house on Blackstone street. His home is in the adjoining municipality of Everett, where he is well known in all circles, and where too, he has been a factor in the civil, social and moral life of that city, for his influence always has been for good, and his work has been for that which would educate young men and direct their energies in right channels. He is and for many years has been especially interested in advancing the welfare and influence of the Young Men's Christian Association, local and state, having active membership in both organizations. As citizen and taxpayer he naturally feels an interest in public affairs in his home city, and as one who feels it a duty to the public welfare his interest in Everett politics has been more than passive ; but he is not a politician, for every instinct of his nature is directly the opposite of everything that constitutes that character ; his interest is for clean politics, just laws and municipal regulations, and their faithful and rigid enforcement. These were the chief principles of the platform on which he stood in his candidacy for the mayoralty of Everett, and no man can say that he was in any respect remiss in his endeavors to secure their honest fulfillment during his incumbency of that office. He is a Republican in political affiliations, but with him principles weigh far more than party advantage, and if occasion requires he has the moral courage to step outside the party ranks in the advocacy and support of measures which he believes win make for the public good.

Mr. Batchelder married, April 6, 1869, Harriet L. Rawson, of Holliston, born November 22, 1847, daughter of Liberty and Harriet (Blake) Rawson, of Medway, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Simon and Abigail (Wood) Rawson (see Rawson family). Children of Francis and Harriet L. (Rawson) Batchelder: i. Grace Louise, born in East Boston, July 28, 1870; married April 8, 1891, Albert R. Shepardson ; had Douglas A. Shepardson, born December 30, 1892; Helen, born May 2^, 1894; Robert, born July 11, 1896; Rowland, born November 30, 1897; Francis, born October 7, 1901. 2. Emily Frances, born in Everett, August 14, 1872, died in Everett, August 14, 1878.

This is one of the early Eng- RAWSON lish names which has been formed by adding "son" to the name of the father. The general usage of surnames among the common people of England dates back to a comparatively short time from the present and we find many of origin similar to this. The name Ralph is of ancient usage, is a christian name and was very often written in the early English spellings, as Relf, Rauf, and many other forms. It was usually pronounced very broad, as Rawf, and when the suffix "son" was added, it was soon found convenient to omit the consonant "f," and it became very easily Rawson. In this form it has been traced back in England for a period considerably previous to the emigration of the Puritans. The records show a Richard Rawson as a canonist and jurist, who died in 1543. About 1580, General Blake, Jr., of Little Baddow, county Essex, England, married Anna, heir of Rawson. William Blake, a brother of this John, came to America in 1630 and settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts. The principal features in the Rawson coat-of-arms are a castle stamped upon a shield, a design used to commenorate some noted capture made by the one who received this coat.

(I) The first in America, so far as has been ascertained, was Edward Rawson, who came to New England 1636-7, and became an inhabitant of the town of Newbury, colony of Massachusetts Bay. Most of the people who settled in that section were from the counties of Hants and Wilkes, adjoining Dorsetshire. Rev. John Wilson, the first minister in Boston, was an uncle of Edward Rawson, his mother having been Margaret, sister of Rev. John Wilson. It is said that Edward Rawson was named for an ancestor. Sir Edward Rawson, who liv- ed in the reign of one of the Henries. Edward Rawson was a grantee of the town of Newbury, and was the first town clerk.chosen April 19, 1638, and was annually re-elected until 1647. He was also chosen selectman and commissioner for the trial of small causes, and served on various committees to lay out lands and transact other business for the town. He was one of the deputies to represent the towm in the general court in 1638, and he must have possessed more than ordinary talent for business as well as a large degree of public spirit. In 1639 he again represented the town at its third session and at the ]May session was granted five hundred acres as an inducement for him to continue the manufacture of })Owder. In 1642 he was again deputy and in 1644. In the latter year he received tw^o hundred acres upon the Cochituate river, above Dover bounds. In 1645 he was deputy, and at the close of the session the deputies passed the following vote : "That Edward Rawson is chosen & appointed clerk of the house of deputies for one whole yeere, to Enter of vote i)asscd in both houses & thus also yt passe only by them into ^he book of Record." In 1646 he was deputy and clerk, and at the November session it was ordered by the deputies "yt Edward Rawson shall have twenty marks allowed him for his paines, out of ye next levy as secrt to ye house of deputies for two yeeres passed." In ir)47-8 he continued to represent Newbury in the general court. In the latter year he received two grants of land, one of fifteen hundred acres jointly with Rev. John Wilson of Boston, and another of five hundred acres at Pequot, and with the latter he was granted five pounds on account of expenditures made in preparing for the manufacture of gunpowder. In 1(^)49 he was again representative, and was re-elected clerk, and May 22, 1650, was chosen secretary of the colony. In 1649 he was one of a committee to "Plumb Island," and from his first election as secretary of the colony he w'as continuously reelected for a period of thirty-six years, until the usurpation of the government by Sir Edmund Andros. when he was displaced. Elliott remarks of him that "he was of respectable character as we may judge from his having this of^ce so long, while there was an annual election." He owned and cultivated two farms and a meadow in that town, which bears the name of Rawson's meadow. After his removal to Boston his residence was on Rawson's Lane, where he is supposed to have died. This lane bore his name until about 1800, when it was changed to Bromfield street. He owned some acres of land here w'hich bordered on the common, out of which he sold several house lots. His salary as secretary was only twenty pounds per annum at first, but was subsequently increased to sixty pounds. To this office was soon added that of recorder of the county of Suffolk, which he held many years. The records show^ several grants of land made to him at various times for "extraordinary services." He and his wife were members of w'hat was called the First Church of Boston, of which Rev. John Wilson was pastor. When divisions arose in this church after the death of Mr. Wilson, Edward Rawson was one of the twenty-eight disafifected persons who dissolved connections with that society and formed the Third, or Old South church, in May, 1669. A corporation in England for the propagation of the gospel among the Indians in New England chose Edward Rawson as steward or agent "for the receiving and disposing of such goods and commodities" as should be sent to the united colonies, and the choice was confirmed by the commissioners of the colonies at New Haven. 1651. Edward Rawson is believed to be the author of a book published in 1 691, entitled "The Revolution in New England Justified, ' and of other similar works. It is quite apparent that he w^as one of those who participated in the persecution of the Quakers. This seems to be the only blemish u])on his fair fame and that he was an uncommonly useful and excellent man caimot be doubted.

According to the record written in his family bible by his son, and which is still carefully preserved, Edward Rawson was born April 16, 1615, and died August 2^, 1693. He married, in England. Rachel Perne, granddaughter of John Hooker, whose wife was a Grindal, sister of Edmund Grindal, Arciibishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. John Hooker, grandfather of Rachel Perne, was an uncle of the celebrated divine, Rev. Thomas Hooker, wdio founded the colony of Hartford, Connecticut. The first child of Edward Rawson, a daughter, was married in England and remained there. The others were Edward, Rachel, David, Mary Perne, Susan, William Rebecca (died young), Rebecca, Elizabeth, John and Grindal.

(II) William, third son and seventh child of Edward and Rachel (Perne) Rawson, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts. May 21, 1 65 1, and was educated for a mercantile life. He became a prominent merchant and importer of foreign goods. Up to the time of his mar- riage he resided with his father in Rawson Lane, now Bromfield street, Boston, where he kept a dry goods store. In 1689 he sold his estate and removed with his family to Dorchester, where he lived upon a portion of the "Newbury Farm" inherited by his wife. He afterwards purchased a tract of land in Braintree, which is now known as the ancient Rawson farm. It is situated near Neponset Village and has been passed down from father to son to the fifth generation. The present house is on the same site where William Rawson built his homestead. Here he lived nearly forty years and died September 20, 1726. in his seventy-fifth year. He married, 1673, Anne Glover, only daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Smith) Glover of Dorchester. She died about 1730, aged seventy-four years. In twenty-five years they had twenty children : Anne, died in infancy ; Wilson ; Margaret ; Edward, died young ; Rachel ; Dorothy, died young ; William ; David ; Dorothy ; Ebenezer, died young; Thankful; Nathaniel; Ebenezer; Edward ; Anne ; Patience ; Peletiah ; Grindal ; Mary.

(Ill) Captain William Rawson, son of William and Anne (Glover) Rawson, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, December 9, 1682; graduated from Harvard College 1703, settled in Mendon, Massachusetts. He was chosen selectman 1729, and also was chosen by the board of selectman to keep the school for three months beginning December 8 same year, to be paid at the rate of forty-five pounds per annum. On March i, 1731, he was selected town clerk and held that office several years. In the same year also he was appointed to teach the grammar school three months, which probably was the first school of that grade ever taught in Mendon. He must have been a successful teacher, for in April, 1737, he was again appointed master of the grammar school for the next ten months. He appears to have taken an active part in town afifairs in Mendon and to have enjoyed in an unusual degree the respect of the inhabitants. He was known as Captain Rawson, probably on account of his connection with the militia of the town, and it may be that he took some part in the French and Indian wars, although we have no account of his particular military service. He died in Mendon, in October, 1769. In 1710 he married Sarah Crosby, of Billerica ; children: William, born February 20, 171 1; Perne. born October 13, 1713, died young; Anne, died young; Sarah, born January 3, 1715; Rachel, born September 19, 1716, married Captain Torrey ; Anne, born 1720, married John Holton of Sutton; Perne, born January I, 1727, died April 19, 1741 ; Thomas, born May 2, 1733.

(IV) William Rawson, eldest child of Captain William and Sarah (Crosby) Rawson, born in Mendon, Massachusetts, February 20, 171 1, died there 1790. His life was spent in his native town and he is said to have been "a distinguished lawyer and considered a man of learning in his day." He was town treasurer 1734, and elected town clerk in 1740, probably succeeding his father in that office. On May 13, 1731, he married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Cook, of Uxbridge ; children :

Read; William, born 1734 (sutler for Rhode Island troops at Crown Point during French and Indian war), died at Crown Point in 1756; John, born January 23, 1738, married Elizabeth Bruce; Perne, born October 24, 1741, married Molly Aldrich ; Edward, born July 25, 1744; Margaret, born May 14, 1747, died May 29, 1748; Jonathan, born March 15, 1749, married Bathsheba Tracy ; Margaret, born

(V) Edward Rawson, son of William and Margaret (Cook) Rawson, born in Mendon, Massachusetts, July 25, 1744, died there June 16, 1823. He was a thrifty farmer, and a very useful man as a farrier. By his wife Sarah, daughter of Joseph Sadler, of Upton, he had eight children: Cyrenius^ born December 12, 1764; Sarah, born August 4, 1766, died September 24, 1848, married Elijah Taft; Joseph, born August 16, 1768; Leonard, born August

(VI) Simon Rawson, youngest child of Edward and Sarah (Sadler) Rawson, born in Mendon, Massachusetts, June 24, 1780, died there in July, 1847. He married Abigail Wood ; ten children : Manning, born September 20, 1804; Gordon, born February 11, 1806, married Sarah Cummings ; George, born October 13, 1808; Mary, born March 14, 1811; Abigail, born June 9, 1813; Henry, born April 2, 1816; Liberty, born May 12, 1819; Jemima Ann, born May 22, 1822 ; Charles E., born March 12, 1825; Simeon, born February ii, 1828.

(VII) Liberty Rawson, seventh child of Simon and Abigail (Wood) Rawson, born in Mendon, Massachusetts, May 12, 1819, died in East Holliston, Massachusetts, October 30, 1894. After his marriage he settled in Med- way, Massachusetts, removed thence to Beloit, Rock county, Wisconsin, lived there a number of years, and then returned east and took up his abode in HolHston. He married September 21, 1842, Harriet Blake of Medway ; children: Harriet Louise, born November 22, 1847; Julia Allena. born August 29, 1859; Alary Abbie, born September 8, 1867.

(VHI) Harriet Louise Rawson, eldest child of Liberty and Harriet (Blake) Rawson, born November 22, 1847, married, in HolHston, Massachusetts, April 6, 1869, to Francis Batchelder, now of Everett, Massachusetts (see Batchelder family).

The Fenno family, representa- FENNO tives of which have been prominent in various capacities and in different walks of life, trace their ancestry to Governor Thomas Dudley, who was born in England about the year 1576, died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 21, 1653. In the city of London, England, October 20, 1629, Thomas Dudley was chosen one of five officers to come to America under the royal charter that had been granted. From the time of his arrival, at Salem in 1631 to the day of his death, in July, 1653, ^^ ^"^'^^ second to no man in the colony in influence and activity. He was elected March 29, 1644, sergeant major general, and assistant. May 14, 1645, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, May 26, 1647 ; deputy governor and commissioner for United Colonies with John Endicott, Esq., assistant. Governor Dudley was the president of this commission. May 6, 1646, was elected commissioner with Simon Bradstreet, Gent, in reserve to supply places of commissioners of United Colonies. On a tablet at the corner of Dunster and South streets, Cambridge, is the following: "Thomas Dudley, Founder of Cambridge, Governor of Massachusetts, Lived here in 1630." The amount of his inventory was £1,560. The line of ancestry from Governor Thomas Dudley is as follows : Governor Thomas Dudley ( i) ; Mercy Dudley (2) ; Rev. Benjamin \Voodbridge(3) : Benjamin Woodbridge (4) ; Elizabeth Woodbridge (5) ; Mary Oilman Grafton (6), who married Joseph Fenno; John Woodbridge Fenno (7) ; Dana Grafton Fenno (8).

(VH) John Woodbridge Fenno, son of Joseph and Mary Oilman (Grafton) Fenno, born July 30, 1792, in Salem, Massachusetts, died November 7, 1859, in Boston, buried at Salem, Massachusetts. After serving as clerk seven or eight years in the old Commercial

Bank of Salem, be became a broker in that city, his great finanical capacity, integrity, farsightedness, public spirit and personal enterprise making him the leading broker there, where for a long time he transacted heavy business operations for the Peabodys, Pickerings. Brookses, and other chief shipping merchants of that place engaged in the East India and other foreign trade. Subsequently he came to Boston, and at once took a prominent rank among the most useful citizens of that city. The mercantile and commercial world of Boston and the sister cities well knew by what brilliant abilities and by what an unblemished course he advanced to fortune, being worth at one time half a million of dollars. To him more than any other man, Boston is indebted for the Merchants' Exchange on State street, as through his representations the distinguished firm of which he was a partner purchased the valuable land upon which it is built, so that it might be secured to the citizens for its present important purposes, instead of ministering merely to private ends. The land was fenced in, but the delay in purchasing it caused the other members of the firm to grow uneasy at holding such a large property unavailable for an indefinite period, and Mr. Fenno assumed the responsibility solely, and held the land thus for two years, entirely animated by a desire to benefit the citizens. At the end of this long interval the property was sold to the highest bidder at a loss of about $65,000. Mr. Fenno was a pioneer in numerous other public enterprises, his foresight suggesting them and his abilities, influence and abundant means admirably combining in carrying them out. To him we are indebted for the great and successful movement which made East Boston what it is, a populous island and the great workshop of the metropolis. Mr. Fenno was the foremost man of the company which did so much to place East Boston in the way to fulfill i)urposes which her natural position indicated, and to his efforts the existence of the first ferry is owing, and also the building of the Cunard wharf. Leading merchants will coincide with us in according great credit to Mr. Fenno for his powerful and unselfish exertions at that time. It may be mentioned as an illustration of the substantiality of the firm of Dana, Fenno & Henshaw, that it furnished great and vital aid to the Suffolk and other banks in Boston, standing firm amid the disastrous financial crisis of 1837, when many an old and honored banking institution and mercantile house was crushed beneath the monetary pressure. Among other great enterprises with which Mr. Fenno had become connected was the Grand Junction railway, and he subsequently projected that memorable and mighty international jubilee in Boston, in 1851, when Lord Elgin visited the city to join in celebrating the close friendly and profitable union between the states and the provinces. The good actions of Mr. Fenno in the days of his prosperity should at least be remembered. What he "did when he had the means is still operating beneficially in Boston, though we regret to say that he died a poor man. Mr. Fenno was a kind-hearted and in his palmy days a very benevolent man. He took a great interest in Father Taylor's ministrations, and his purse many times proved his sincerity for the sailor. Father Taylor said of him at one time, "he was one of God's noblemen." (The foregoing was taken from a Boston newspaper). Mr. Fenno was one of the merchant princes of Boston, holding membership in the firms of Dana, Fenno & Henshaw, and Harden & Company, and until within a short time of his death was keeper of records at the Boston custom house. During the war of 1812 he was given charge of the funds and valuables of the banks and property of the citizens of Salem, and with the Salem Light Infantry took them inland for safety.

John Woodbridge Fenno married, September 24, 1815, Anne Fossett Grafton, born January 15, 1794, died July 11, 1869, daughter of Woodbridge and Patience (Woodbridge) Grafton. Children: i. Elizabeth Grafton, born August 12. 1816, died October 6, 1816.

3, 1861 ; ii. John Calvin, born April 4, 1854; iii. Henry B., born April 8, 1857, died March 3, 1859; iv. Frank Prescott, born December 9, 1859; V. Charles F., born October 9, 1862, died 1893, '" Brooklyn, New York; graduate of Tufts College ; was an accomplished electrician and engineer ; vi. Fred Grafton, born February o.'j, 1870; was second officer on British steamship "Airdandlin," and was drowned in Vineyard Sound, January 23, 1900.

(VHI) Dana Grafton Fenno, (although he always wrote his name Grafton), fourth child of John Woodbridge and Anne F. (Grafton) Fenno, born at Salem, Massachusetts, February

5, 1827, died July 29, 1888, buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, under the monument he designed. His parents removed to Boston when he was three years of age. He attended private school at Salem in 1836-37-38, and in the fall of 1840 went to Europe on the return voyage of the first Cunarder. He witnessed the pageant ceremonies at the funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte, and through the courtesy of Hon. Edward Everett, minister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James, was permitted to see the face of the greatest military commander of the nineteenth century. He remained in Paris, France, until the winter of 1842, and among his schoolmates were two brothers, cousins of the eminent sculptor, August Bartholdi. Mr. Fenno commenced life as clerk with E. F. Newhall & Company, later with G. W. Warren & Company, the predecessors of Jordan, Marsh & Company, of Boston. Later he was engaged at the Merchants' Exchange Reading Room, Boston, Edwin P. Whipple, Esq., superintendent, and afterwards at the banking and insurance agency of August W. Whipple. In the winter of 1843 ^^ ^^'^^ in the employ of the Original Express Carriers, Messrs. Harnden & Company, No. 8 Court street, Boston. On January 27, 1849, he sailed from Boston in the ship "Capitol" as junior partner of the San Francisco branch of Harden & Company. In 1852-53 he was deputy sherifif of Calaveras county, Mokelumne Hill, California. January 27, 1855, he returned to Boston and renewed his associations with the Merchants' Exchange Reading Room, and some months later sailed for Truxillo, Honduras, where he was engaged in mining operations and performing some business for the merchants of Boston in the leather trade. In 1857 he went to Chicago, Illinois, and with the New York agent of the Continental Fire Insurance Company organized the Chicago Citizens' Fire Brigade, and was prominent in establishing the new paid fire department, which substituted steam engines for the hand engines. In connection with Captain E. E. Ellsworth and Lieutenant Stryker he organized the original Ellsworth Chicago Zouaves, of which he was an honorary member. He returned to New York and continued with the Continental Fire Isurance Company until April 12, 1861, when Beauregard sent his card to Anderson, which caused the firing on Fort Sumter, and the breaking out of the civil war. April 20, 1861, Mr. Fenno joined Company F (Captain Ellis), 71st Regiment New York State Militia, and was mustered in May 3, 1861. He accompanied the regiment to the navy yard at Washington, where he received the body of Colonel E. E. Ellsworth, at Port 17, on the morning of Ellsworth's death. He was a roommate of Mr. Ellsworth in Chicago, Illinois, before the war. In 1862 he was with the regiment at Tenallytown ; he returned with his company to New York, where he was mustered out of United States service September 2, 1862, with his company. He immediately commenced recruiting the 165th Regiment New York Volunteers, known as the Second Duryee Zouaves, under Captain French and Lieutenant Norris (both of the 71st New York), enlisted in Company D of that regiment September 16, 1862, and as regimental recruiting sergeant accompanied the regiment to New Orleans, Louisiana, and was honorably discharged before Fort Hudson, May 15, 1863. He returned to Boston and re-enlisted in the 3d Massachusetts Cavalry, Company D, January 5, 1864, for three years, and joined Banks's army in the Red River campaign. He was present at Henderson's Hill, Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cane River, Pine Log Crossing, Muddy Bayou, Piney Woods and numerous other heavy skirmishes. He returned to New Orleans with the 3d Massachusetts Cavalry, June, 1864, and the following month his regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, and joined Sheridan in the Shenandoah \'alley. He was present at Winchester. Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, and started with Sheridan's raiders for Petersburg, but only went as far as Staunton, Virginia. He was at the Grand Parade at Washington, D. C, and that day his regiment was ordered to report to General Pope on frontier service at Julesburg. beyond Fort Kearny, Nebraska. He was soon after ordered to return to Leavenworth, Kansas, wdiere he was mustered out of service Septemter 28, 1865, as quartermaster-sergeant. The regiment was paid off at Boston, where he received his commission of first lieutenant of October 5, 1865.

In 1866 Lieutenant Fenno was employed by the United States and Canada Express Company, Nos. 39-40 Court Square, Boston, as editor and bookkeeper. He remained with that company over ten years, and was subsequently connected with the Boston Board of Trade. At a later period he joined the survey of the N. Y., B. A. & Schenectady railroad from Bronx River to Albany, New York, and for five years was employed in the mathematical department of the New Y'ork Life Insurance Company, No. 346 Broadway, New York. For fifteen years he was a comrade of Charles Russell Lowell Post, No. 7, G. A. R., of Boston, also a member of Bunker Hill Monument Association, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Early in the seventies, during Lieutenant Fenno's association with Post No. 7, G. A. R., it was suggested by the Post that they should have a soldiers' burial lot of their own in which a deceased soldier might be honorably interred, thus avoiding all questions of a possible pauper's grave. The post obtained a lot, and then the necessity of a monument was created. Through the influence of General Benjamin F. Butler four cannon were donated to the post by the United States government, viz : three that were served against Fort Sumter from Fort Moultrie, in April, 1861. and a Confederate "Parrott" used in April, 1865, just previous to the surrender at Appomattox. Comrade Fenno's design having been accepted by the post, they were erected as a tripod, similar to a stack of muskets, and the "Parrot" placed in pyramid above, surmounted by a conical shell, holding the dear old flag. The monument represents the commencement and end of the war - it brought death to us and now shadows the dead. The thirty-eight cannon balls at the base signify that Post No. 7 will bury with military honors, free of expense, any deceased soldier of the L'nion recjuiring such service. It is historical and national in its design, and as a whole very beautiful. It is situated at Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, and fifty-six comrades repose beneath its shadow. Again, at the suggestion of Comrade Fenno, at the Centennial in Boston. 1875, on the day succeeding the arrival of the Fifth Maryland Regiment from lialtimore, a regiment largely made up of Confederates during the war, a magnificent full-sized silk American flag and staff was presented them on Boston Common, General N. P. Banks making the presentation speech. It was the first public overture of the Blue and the Gray. It was the bugle note of success of Boston's Centennial, and the keynote of Philadephia's crowning success a few months later. Comrade Fenno carried the Grand Army of Republic parade colors at Philadelphia. July 3, 1876, also the regimental tattered battle flag at the reunion of the armies at Baltimore, Maryland, May 6, 1885, also the tattered battle flag - with but one star remaining - of the 3d Maine Regiment, at the meeting of the national encampment of the Grand

Army of the Republic at Portland, Maine. The following was copied from a Baltimore paper : "A picture of the Zouaves to be presented to the Fifth - a pleasant reminder. Lieutenant Grafton Fenno, a veteran of the Mexican and of the late civil wars, and a member of the Duryee New York Zouaves, has forwarded, to -be presented to the 5th Maryland Regiment, a fine photograph of the Zouaves, taken at Union Square, New York, on the morning of their departure for Baltimore, Maryland, to attend the army of the Potomac reunion held here in May, 1885. The 5th Regiment, it will be remembered, met the Zouaves at Union Station and escorted them through the city to their headquarters at the Howard House. Lieutenant Fenno on that occasion renewed his acc|uaintance with many of the officers and men of the 5th, which began in Boston in 1875 at the Boston Centennial, and he was last year handsomely entertained at the armory. To him also belongs a large share of honor in an event notable not only in the history of the 5th Regiment, but in the quickening of that feeling of fraternity between the Blue and the Gray wdiich has grown so rapidly of late years. That event was the presentation of a stand of colors to the 5th Regiment at Boston, in 1875, by Charles Russell Lowell Post, No. 7, of which Lieutenant Fenno was at that time adjutant, and it was from him came the first suggestion that the colors be presented, although the 5th at that time had some members wdio were on the Union side during the war, many of them were old Confederates, and as Lieutenant Fenno remarked, the command was looked upon at the north as a lot of "Johnnies," and as a representative southern regiment, and the presentation, which was witnessed by at least fifty thousafid people on Boston Common, General N. P. Banks making the presentation speech, was recognized as the first public extending of the hand of friendship from the Union to the Confederate soldiers. Lieutenant Fenno afterwards moved to New York, and rejoined his old comrades, the Zouaves, and came with them to Baltimore. The photograph of the Zouaves will be presented to the 5th through Mr. Thomas M. Kenney, a former comrade of Lieutenant Fenno, and commander of Post No. 7, G. A. R., at the time of the flag presentation, but at present a resident of Baltimore and a member of the stafif of the Aiiuvicau:'

Stow. She is a descendant of old Revolutionary stock of Antrim and Hollis, New Hampshire, and Concord and Newbury, Massachusetts. The first of the name in this line was Henry Brooks (i), who probably came from Scotland and landed at Boston, 1630. He was a selectman of Woburn, 1649; he married first, Susanna Richardson, and second, July 12, 1682, Annis Jaquith. The coat-ofarms illustrated is a blazoned sable, three escallops. Crest, a brave passant. Motto : Perseverando - by perservering. As to its heraldic significance, an escalloped shell was a token of the Crusades, and one of the Popes made a decree that it should be a charge borne only by the truly noble of birth. The following is copied from the "New England Historical Genealogical Register," 1904, volume 58. published by the Society, 1904, page 48, by William R. Cutter and Arthur G. Loring, Esqs., of Woburn, Massachusetts: "Henry Brooks, a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, in 1639, having a wife and children previous to his coming to Woburn about 1650. married after arrival here, before March 27, 165 1, Susanna, widow of Ezekiel Richardson. She, in 1670, was described by an authority of that time as 'an ancient and skilful woman, living at Woburn, famous for her attainments in medical science.' She died September 15, 1681. Henry Brooks married, probably for his second wife. Annis Jaquith, July 12, 1682, and died April 12, 1683." The following was copied from Secomb's "History of Amherst, New Hampshire :" "Henry Brooks, who settled in Concord, Massachusetts, was made a freeman March 14, 1639; removed to Woburn, Massachusetts, about the year 1650; was a proprietor of land near Horn Pond January 10, 1652 ; selectman year 1669; his wife Susannah died April 15, 1681 ; he married (second) widow Annis Jaquith, July 12, 1682; spoken of as 'as an ancient and skillful woman' famous for attainments in the 'healing art." He died April 12, 1683.

(H) John Brooks, son of Henry and Susanna Brooks, resided in Woburn, Massachusetts ; died September 29, 1692 ; married Eunice, daughter of Deacon John Munsall, November i, 1649; she died January i, 1684. (Secomb's "History of Amherst, New Hampshire," and Sewell's "History of Woburn, Massachusetts'").

(HI) John Brooks, son of John and Eunice (Munsall) Brooks, was born Alarch i, 1644, died August 7, 1733; by inventory of will he died September 29, 169 1 ; married Mrs. Mary

(IV) Nathan Brooks, son of John and Mary (Richardson) Brooks, born November I, 1706, died January 6, 1751. Settled in Woburn, Massachusetts. Married Sarah Wyman, about 1726; she died February 21, 1748, aged forty years six months three days.

(V) WilHam Brooks, son of Nathan and Sarah (Wyman) Brooks, was born March 3, 1737. His birth is recorded in town books of Woburn, Massachusetts, and HolHs, New Hampshire. He married first Abigail Kemp, in Hollis, New Hampshire, March 29, 1759; second, Hepzibah Powers, September 20, 1787, in Hollis. He was always called Captain William Brooks. He was a soldier and officer in the war of the revolution. He died October 11, 1804, in Lyndcborough, New Hampshire, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.

(\T) Leonard W. Brooks, son of Captain William and Abigail (Kemp) Brooks, born January 29, 1779 or 1780, in Hollis, New Hampshire, died in Milford, New Hampshire, April 15. i860. Married Sally (Sarah) Hosley, April 27, 1806, ceremony performed by Rev. John Bullard. She was born in Peppercll, Massachusetts, October 31, 1784, died in Milford, New Hampshire, June 22, 1861. Leonard W. Brooks was an officer under General William Hull, in Detroit. Michigan, and built the first frame house in that city for General Hull. He served as first 'lieutenant and captain.

(VH) Walter Brooks, son of Leonard W. and Sarah (Hosley) Brooks, born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. November 20. 181 5, birth recorded in town books of Pepperell, Massachusetts. He married, March 31. 1842, Martha Jane, daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Messer) Moulton ; children: i. Eliza Ann, born February 5, 1843, i" Milford. New Hampshire, widow of Lieutenant Fenno, as above related. 2. Abby Maria, born August 4, 1844, died December 22, 1903; married, March 5, 1863, Sylvanus J. Talbot; one son, Edgar Forest, October 26, 1865, died December 26, 1896. 3. Albin -Warner, born August 10. 1847, married June 12. 1869, Mary Catherine Pond; children: i. Lillie Pearl, born December II. 1873; ii. Frank Warner, born September 5, 1877. 4. Leonard Walter, born June 16, 1853, married, January 4, 1887, in Colebrook, New Hampshire, Bertha .Adelle Rolfe.

Eliza Ann (Brooks) Fenno, traced her ancestry to William Moulton (i), born in Ormsby, Norfolk county, England, about 1617. He married Margaret, daughter of Robert and Lucia (Lucy) Page, with whose family he came to New England. His age is given as twenty years in his examination before leaving England, April 11, 1637. They landed probably at Boston, from whence he and the Pages went to Newbury, Massachusetts, where it seems they remained over a year before joining the new settlement at Winnacunnett, now Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1639. At that place he took up his permanent abode, settling quite near Thomas and John Moulton. He died April 18. 1664. His will, which is found in Essex county, Massachusetts, probate records, volume 2. pages 9, 10. 11, bears date March 8. 1663-64.

(II) William Aloulton, son of William and Margaret (Page) Moulton, was a resident of Newbury. He married first. May 27, 1685, Abigail, daughter of John Webster. Jr., (she died July 24, 1723), son of John Webster, of survived him. He owned land in Amesbury and Salisbury; estate valued at £1435, 7s. He is called in various deeds, weaver, inn holder, trader, merchant. He had a shop near Moulton Hill, Newbury. Massachusetts, where he made silver buckles and ornaments. Mr. Moulton's will was dated October 12, 1732, and proved October 30 following.

(III) Joseph Moulton, son of William Moulton. was born in Newbury. He was a blacksmith, and added to his business making gold beafls, etc., hence this branch has been called ''the Goldsmith Moultons." He moved to Newburyport ; his will was proved March I, 1756. He married, July 25, 1717, Mary Noyes, who survived him.

(IV) Samuel Moulton. son of Joseph and Mary (Noyes) ]\Ioulton, born I\Iay 15. 1718, married, November 29. 1743, Mary Ordway; lived in Newbury, Massachusetts.

(\') Cutting Moulton, son of Samuel and Mary (Ordway) Moulton, was a soldier in the revolutionary war. He removed from Newbury. Massachusetts, to Parsonfield, York county. Maine, 1786, and settled on a farm there later owned by William E. Moulton. He married first. Mary ]Merrill ; second. Judith Emery. He died in Parsonfield, Maine, 1809.

(VI) Joseph Moulton. son of Cutting and Judith (Emery) Moulton. was born in Parsonfield. Maine, November 6, 1791. He removed when young, to Newport, New* Hamp- shire, then to Antrim, same state, where he built the house occupied in 1877 by James Wilson. He afterwards bought the Adam Dunlap place. He married first, 181 5, Ruth Messer, who died at Hillsborough, New Hampshire, 1841 ; second, April 13, 1843, Polly Barker, who died at Antrim, New Hampshire, March 13, 1872. He died April 17, 1864. Their daughter, Martha Jane, became wife of Walter Brooks, as above related. Moulton coat -of -arms (Gloucestershire, Kent, London and Yorkshire, granted 1571) are three bars gu, between eight escallop shells ; Sa. three : two two and one ; Crest : on a pellet, a falcon rising ar. Given by Burke. "Moulton or Multon (Baron of Gilles), ar, three bars gu. a label of five points az." (See "History of the Moulton Annals or Family," by Henry W. Moulton, edited by his daughter, Claribel Moulton, and published by Edward A. Claypool, genealogist, Chicago, Illinois, 1906. Another description of the Moulton arms is: The bars black (sable) instead of red (gules). The inscription is: He beareth one coat argent, three bars sable, eight shell or, by the name of Moulton. It is also surrounded by a royal purple wreath "Five Points." Motto: "Semper Fidelis" - "Always faithful."

born in Ply- Plymouth, England, March i, 1819, died at Mobile, Alabama. November 9, 1875. He settled at Barnstead, New Hampshire, and married, 1844, Hannah Nutter, born at Barnstead, January 5, 1824, died May 21, 1885, daughter of William and Hannah (Norris) Nutter. (See sketch of Nutter and Norris families herewith). Children of Joseph and Hannah (Nutter) Whittem: i. Joseph Jarvis, born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, ]\Iarch 13, 1846, died April 13, 1846. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born April 3, 1848, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, died December 29, 1901. 3. Thomas Jarvis, born March 20, 1850, at Mobile, Alabama ; resides at North Cambridge, Massachusetts; married, October 24, 1878, Annabel D. Fisher, of Nova Scotia ; child, Arthur Fisher, born at Boston, July 21, 1879, a graduate of Harvard, has been instructor at Harvard and is now professor of French at Radcliffe. 4. Sarah Ann, born at Mobile, December 5, 1851, died of yellow fever in Baldwin county, Alabama, September 24, 1853. 5.

Emily Ann, born at Mobile, Alabama, May 17, 1854, married, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 18, 1884, Horace Melvine Wiggin, born at Exeter, New Hampshire, January 24, 1853; children: i. Joseph Alfred, born January 24, 1888, now a student at Bates College ; ii. Thomas Whittem, born November 2^, 1892. 6. John Nutter, born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 6, 1858, a printer, resides at Boston. 7. Joseph William, (changed name to William Whittem Jenness) born August 25, 1861, mentioned below.

(II) William Whittem Jenness, son of Joseph Whittem (i), was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 25. 1861. He was brought up from early childhood by his mother's sister, Josephine Augusta Nutter, who married John M. Jenness. She had no children of her own. He attended the public schools of Alton and Center Barnstead, New Hampshire, the academy at Pittsfield, New Hampshire, where he was graduated, and Bates College at Lewiston, Maine, where he took the full classical course and received the degree of A. B. He then took a year at Boston University and received his diploma (cum laude) at the end of the first year for a three years course. He studied law in the ofifice of a Mr. Pray at Lancaster, New Hampshire, and was admitted to the bar of that state. He removed to Quincy, Massachusetts, 1888, and was associated in practice with Judge Bumpus, later forming a partnership with him under the firm name of Bumpus & Jenness. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and won distinction in the practice of his profession. The firm of Bumpus & Jenness was dissolved and in the spring of 1900 Mr. Jenness took into his ofifice George W. Abele, who had just graduated from Harvard Law School; just prior to Mr. Jenness' death, the firm name was changed to Jenness & Abele. For many years Mr. Jenness enjoyed the best law practice in Quincy, and was not only a leader of the bar but prominent in public life. He was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the office of mayor of Quincy, but declined the honor. He died at his home in Quincy, March 13, 1905. Mr. Jenness was a man of sterling character and extraordinary ability, a sincere and honest advocate who at all times worked conscientiously to maintain the interests of his clients, and he would have doubtless won an even greater fame as a lawyer and public character but for his early death. He was a member of the Norfolk Bar Association, the Gran-

Mr. Jenness married, June 29, 1899, Ella A. Becker, born January 23, 1869, at East Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Ernest and Anna Frances (Reis) Becker, both of the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany. Ernest Becker was born March 14, 1829, died at Boston, Massachusetts, November 23, 1894; Anna Frances (Reis) Becker, born June 3, 1832, died at Chelsea, Massachusetts, July 26, 1888. The only child of Air. and Mrs. Jenness is William Whittem, Jr., born April 3, 1904, baptized December 10, 1904, by the Rev. William Edward Gardner ; Dr. Nathaniel Stevens Hunting was his godfather and is now his legal guardian.

the Danish surname Knut, Knott, Cnut, Canute, the same as Nutt, and Nute, Nott and Knott, old English surnames. The word means knot in Danish.

(I) Elder Hatevil Nutter, immigrant ancestor of a numerous family in New Hampshire, Maine and northern Massachusetts, was born in England in 1603, according to his own deposition. He was one of the founders of Dover, New Hampshire, coming there in the company described as "of good estate and of some account for religion" who had been induced to leave England with Captain Wiggins in 1635 and found at Dover Neck a "Compact Town," which never extended farther than High street and Dirty lane, however. He was granted in 1637 a lot that was rebounded in 1640 butting on Newichawannock river. High street, land of Samuel Haynes and William Story. The cellar hole where his house stood in Dover is still visible. Ten pear trees are growing in the cellar from trees said to have been planted by the pioneer. The house was fifteen rods north-northeast of the nearest corner of the school-house which stands on the site of the old fortification. He had a grant of land in 1643 between the Lamprell and Oyster rivers, laid out to his son Anthony in 1662. He had another grant February 2, 1658-59. of land adjoining William Sheffield's for a farm. He gave his Welchman Cove property to his son Andrew to go to grandson, John, and February 13, 1670, land to son-inlaw, John W'ingate, and his daughter Alary. He was rich and respectable, disliked by the Quakers. He held many offices and served on many important committees of town and church. No man in the colony was more active, enterprising and influential than he. His will was dated December 28, 1674, and was proved June 29, 1675, bequeathing to "his present wife Anne" and children. ' After her death Anthony, his only son, inherited the bulk of the property, and by deed and will the elder attempted to entail his land. He was the colleague of Elder William Wentworth in the Dover church and in his absence preached in his place. Children: i. Anthony, mentioned below. 2. Alary, married, before 1670, John Wingate. 3. Elizabeth, married Thomas Leighton. 4. Abigail, married Sergeant John Roberts, son of Thomas Roberts. Probably other children died young.

(H) Anthony Nutter, son of Hatevil Nutter (i), was born about 1636, perhaps as early as 1630. He resided at Dover Neck, later at Welchman's Cove on the Bloody Point side and his house at what is now Newington was used as a garrison during Indian troubles. He was a prominent soldier, a corporal in 1667, lieutenant in 1683. He was admitted a freeman Alay 22, 1662 ; was selectman of his town and representative to the legislature of New Hampshire. He was the "tall big man named Anthony Nutter" who with Wiggin in Cranfield's time visited Alason when the latter got his wig burned, his teeth knocked out and other casualties. He died February 19, 1686. He married Sarah Langstafif, daughter of Henry Langstafif. Children: i. John, mentioned below. 2. Hatevil, resided at Newington ; died in 1745 ; children : Hatevil, Anthony, Joshua. John. Eleanor. Sarah, Abigail. Daniel, Olive. Elizabeth. 3. Henry, resided at Newington; will proved 1739; married, July 26, 1703, Alary Shackford; children: Valentine, Joseph, Elizabeth, Crockett and Alary. 4. Sarah, married Captain Nathaniel Hill, son of \'alentine Hill.

(Ill) John Nutter, son of Anthony Nutter (2), was born December 27, 1663, at Dover. He resided on the Bloody Point side, now Newington, New Hampshire. Children: i. Captain John, died 1746; will dated August 16, 1746; no children. 2. Alathias, married Hannah and had John, born January 5, had John and Temperance, baptized October 26, 1728-29. 4. Hatevil, married Hannah ; children : i. John, baptized at Newington, Alay 23, 1742; ii. Benjamin, baptized November 25, 1744; iii. Hatevil. born August 18. 1751- 5- Sarah. 6. Thomas. 7. Rosamond.

(IV) James Nutter, son of John Nutter (3), was born in Newington about 1700. He married Abigail Thurber, of Newington, where they resided. Children: i. James, baptized September 29, 1736. 2. Anthony, baptized September 29, 1736. 3. Jacob, born about 1750. And others.

(V) Anthony Nutter, son of James Nutter (4), was born about 1730 and was baptized with his brother John, September 29, 1736. He married, June i, 1756, Sarah Nutter, of Portsmouth, also a descendant of Hatevil Nutter (i ). They had twin sons born 1756, baptized May 8, 1757 - Anthony, and William, mentioned below.

(VI) William Nutter, son of Anthony Nutter (5), was born December 13, 1756, baptized May 8, 1757. He served in the American navy in the revolution. He married, November 7, 1 78 1, Anna Nutter, daughter of John and Ann (Symmes) Nutter. She was born March 6, 1760. He died February 15, 181 1, and his wife August 17. 1813. both at Barnstead, New Hampshire. Children: i. Dorothy, married Nathaniel Nutter, son of Benjamin, grandson of Hatevil, Jr. (son of Hatevil Nutter (3), Anthony (2), Hatevil (i)). 2. Anna S., married Samuel Perkins. 3. Abigail, married Charles Foster. 4. William, mentioned below.

(VII) William Nutter, son of William Nutter (6), born in Barnstead, February i, 1790, died January 28, 1867. He is said to have married (first) Eleanor Peavey. This may have been a cousin William, as there were three or more of the name William in Barnstead, closely related. William Nutter married, August, 1817, Hannah Norris. born at Barnstead, August 11, 1794, died March 13, 1869. (See sketch of the Norris family herewith). Children of William and Hannah (Norris) Nutter: i. Harriet Newell, born at Barnstead, March 18, 18 18, died May, 1882, in Pittsfield, New Hampshire ; married Acanthus Young, of Portsmouth, a machinist, who removed to Barnstead and died there; adopted the younger daughter of her brother, William Nutter, Hattie Y. Nutter, born at Portsmouth, November 30, 1861, married George B. Seldon. 2. William, born at Barnstead, May 31, 1819, rigger of vessels, mate at one time of a steamer at Mobile; died June 19, 1861 ; married, August 5, 1849, Ann Jennette Wear Gotham, of Portsmouth; she married (second) John Lear, who died November 24, 1900, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Nutter had four children, namely : i.

Ellen Augusta, born May 17, 1850, died May 14, 1853 ; ii. William Augustus, born March 18, 1853, married. May 27, 1873, Judith Bartlett Eaton, born at Groveland, Massachusetts, November 20, 1852; child, William Herbert Nutter, born June 21, 1874; iii. Hannah Elizabeth, born at Portsmouth, January 27, 1855, died July 21, 1884; iv. Eva Jenette, born February 29, 1856, married, November 15, 1877, Albert Lunt ; resided at Beverly ; v. Annie Gertrude, born September 23, 1859, died October 10, i860; vi. Hattie Y., born November 30, 1861 ; married George Bogoin Seldon ; children : i. Newman Henry Seldon, born May 8, 1883; ii. Frank William Seldon, born August 22, 1887. 3. Augustus Granville, born December 13, 1820, died January 11, 1903, at Northwood, New Hampshire ; a farmer ; resided at Barnstead; married, May, 1867, Mrs. Eliza Jane Littlefield ; no children ; she died in August, 1901, at Northwood, New Hampshire. 4. Elizabeth Dame, born at Barnstead, July 19, 1822, died February 17, 1901, Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; married George Washington Watkins,born at Portsmouth, June 2, 1821, died March 18, 1883; children born at Portsmouth : i. John Franklin Watkins, born November 30, 1841, married, September 14, 1863, Julia A. Card, born November 24, 1840; ii. George Washington Watkins, born November 29. 1842, printer. New York Herald office; iii. Elizabeth Gate Watkins, born April 30, 1844, died April 30, 1847; iv. Frances Abbie Watkins, born April 5, 1846, married George Day and lived at Salem, Massachusetts ; v. Edward Watkins, born October 25, 1847, married, March 14, 1869, Mary Ellen Smith, born December 16, 1848; vi. Emma Gate Watkins, born February 4, 1849, married, December 27, 1872, James Edward Tucker, born October i, 1846: child, Ida May Tucker, born September 21, 1873. 5. Hannah, born at Barnstead, January 5, 1824, married Joseph Whittem (see sketch of Whittem (Jenness) family herewith). 6. James, born December 5, 1825, married, May 16, 1852, Ruth Chesley, born January 27, 1827; resided several years at Round Grove, Minnesota, where his wife died February 24, 1883; he now resides on a farm at Pittsfield, New Hampshire ; children : i. George Washington Nutter, born 1852, married, January i, 1882, at Round Grove, Olive Barnes and had two children ; resides at Brownton, McLeod county, Minnesota ; ii. James Edgar Nutter, born August 26, 1853, married, i88r, at Oxford, Kansas, Elizabeth Hoffman and has three children ; iii. Mary

Augusta Nutter, born August 17, 1856, married, at Round Grove, August, 1876, Frederick Moore and had three children ; iv. Frank Herbert Nutter, born April 19, i860; v. Annie Adelaide Nutter, born August 17, 1862; vi. Charlotte Emeline Nutter, born at Round Grove, September 11, 1871. 7. Mary Abbie, born September 14, 1827, died January 27, 1908: married, January 9, 1848, Samuel Jefferson Pitman, born at Barnstead, November 28, 1823, died October 29, 1900, at Barnstead, New Hampshire ; resided at Barnstead ; children : i. Alvin Augustus Pitman, born November 19, 1848, shoe manufacturer of Lynn; married, May 16, 1872, Rosetta D. Clark, born March 17, 1848; child, Etta May Pitman, born August 10, 1873; ii. Arthur William Pitman, born October 25, 1851, died April 3. 1852; iii. Almena Frances, born July 17, 1854, married, May 5, 1874, Charles Clement Currier, of Belmont, New Hampshire, born at Gilmanton, February 9, 1845; children: Addie May Currier, born August 5, 1875. at Barnstead, New Hampshire ; Alice Gertrude Currier, born at Maplewood, Massachusetts, November 8, 1880; iv. Charles William Pitman, born August 17, 1859, a practicing dental surgeon at Enfield, New Hampshire ; married Nettie Stevens, of Barnstead, New Hampshire. 8. Frances Caroline, born March 22, 1829, died January 15, 1907: married, August 3, 1854, Jeremiah Orto, son of Asa and Hannah (Wingate) Winkley, of Barrington, New Hampshire, born February 5, 1830, died November i, 1900; resided iu North Cambridge, Massachusetts ; children : i. Josephine Augusta Winkley, born at Boston, August I, 1855, married, September 8, 1875, John Connor, of Limerick. Maine, born at Parsonfield, August 9, 1843; resides in Somerville, Massachusetts ; children : Mildred Mc- Collum Connor, born in Boston, November 11, 1877; Ralph Winkley Connor, born Chelsea, January 19, 1885 ; IMarion Foye Connor, born Chelsea, December 21. 1886; ii. Lizzie Wingate Winkley, born at Parsonfield, September I. i860, for some time employed in the office of the University Press ; iii. Lura Frances, born Parsonfield, May 17, 1863; resides at Waltham, Massachusetts. 9. John Franklin, born Portsmouth, November 21, 1830, died January 3, 1835. 10. Sophia Jane, born Portsmouth, November 4, 1832, died September 29, 1882; married, September 12, 1863, George Franklin Clough, of Belmont, born in Gilmanton, now Belmont, October 13. 1833; farmer at Belmont; children, born at L'pper Gilmanton : i. Josephine May Clough, born

November 5, 1866, married. May 12, 1883, Albion Nutter Foss, North Barnstead, born August 5, i860; child, Jennie May Foss, born August 13, 1884; ii. Nellie Frances Clough, born March -18, 1868, married Albert Pitman, of North Barnstead, New Hampshire; they have three children. 11. Ellen Augusta, twin, born November 4, 1832, died January 20, 1835. 12. Ann Rebecca, born Portsmouth, March 27, 1834, died February 28, 1907; married, October 2, 1853, Joseph T. Langley, who died March 6, 1907, at Pittsfield, New Hampshire; he was son of Henry Langley, of Barnstead; no children. 13. Josephine Augusta, born Portsmouth. April 6, 1838, married, i\Iay 12, i860. John M. Jenness, of Alton, New Hampshire, born there December 3. 1833, died October 21, 1886, at Barnstead Parade. New Hampshire ; resides at Pittsfield, New Hampshire : adopted her nephew, Joseph William Whittem, when he was two years old. (See sketch of Whittem-Jenness family).

Exeter, New Hampshire, August 14. 1670. always lived there. He received sixteen acres "on the road to Hampton Farms," from his father, April 9, 1698, and on the same date land from his father-in-law. He served as a soldier from August 31, 1696, to September 2S, 1696. (Jn February 2, 1720- 21. he deeded land to his children, they to come into possession after the death of him and his wife. He married. March 4, 1692, Ruth Folsom, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Robey) Folsom, of Exeter, and granddaughter of John Folsom, who came from England in the ship "Diligence" in 1638. Children, born in Exeter: i. Samuel, born about 1693. 2. John, born December 25, 1694, died November 8, 1766; resided at Epping, New Ham|.tshire. 3. Moses, born about 1696; resided at Nottingham and Epping. 4. Nicholas, born about 1698, died 1761-62. 5. Joseph, born about 1699. 6. Jonathan, born about 1700. 7. James, mentioned below. 8. Ruth, born about 1704.