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( \' ) Captain Edward Clarke, son of Edmund, Jr. and Margaret (Collet) Clarke, was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, January 10, 1746, his name being written in the vital records of that town as Edmond Clerk. The names of his brother Samuel and sister Frances are written Clerk, while his sisters Margaret and Mehitable are mentioned as Clark. Captain Clarke was a master mariner and tlied on board ship while on a voyage to Lisbon, Portugal. He married (Ipswich records), January II, 1769, Lucy Clinton, "of the Hamlet" (Hamilton), but the Manchester records say that his wife was Lucy Clint, of Ipswich, and that they married ( intention ) May 7, 1768. The names of their children are not known, but among them was a son William.

(\T) William Clarke, son of Captain Edward and Lucy (Clinton) Clarke, was born at Ipswich Hamlet (Hamilton), September 4, 1771, and married, December 24, 1792, Hannah Lufkin, who was born April 20, 1771, and by whom he had nine children: i. Edward, born in Hamilton, September 28, 1793. 2. William, born in Hamilton, August 15, 1795. 3. Caleb Henderson, born in Hamilton, January 31, 1798. 4. Lucy, born in Newbury, January 25, 1800. 5. Aaron, born in Ipswich, April 25, 1802. 6. Sarah Brown, born in Ipswich, September 17, 1804. 7. Henry, born in Ipswich, June 24, 1808. 8. Elizabeth Edner, born in Ipswich, November 10, 1809. 9. Daniel, born in Ipswich, December 19, 181 2.

(\TI) Daniel Clarke, son of William and Hannah (Lufkin) Clarke, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, December 19, 1812, and died there December 30, 1896. He was a cabinet maker by trade and, in accordance with the old-time custom, was an undertaker in connection with business as cabinet maker. He also was one of the Odd Fellows of the lodge

(Vni) Philip Embury Clarke, son of Daniel and Mary P. (Cheever) Clarke, was born in Ipswich, September ii, 1837, and for more than forty years has been closely identified with the business life of that town. After leaving school he took to the sea and was a sailor until 1859. In the latter part of the following year he married, and about one year later entered the l-^nion army. He enlisted February 21. 1862, in Company A, First Battalion, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and was artificer of his company. He served for more than three years, with credit to his town and himself, and was mustered out of service at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, October 20, 1865. From 1870 to 1874 Mr. Clarke was collector of customs at the port of Ipswich. For twenty-eight years he was superintendent of the Ipswich cemetery and for ten years was president of the board of trustees of the cemetery. Since 1878 his business occupation has been that of undertaker and funeral director. In 1894 he was elected representative of Ipswich to the general court. Mr. Clarke is a member and past commander of General James Appleton Post, No. 128, Grand Army Republic, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is a Pythian Knight, a Red Man, and also a Pilgrim Father.

He married, November 29, i860, Mary E. Fellows, by whom he has four children: i. Effie W., born December 20, 1861, now Mrs. John D. Knowlton ; one child, Elizabeth L. 2. Anna C, now Mrs. James S. Robinson; has four children : Harriet E., Helene M., Rebecca S. and Philip J. 3. Mary Everett, born September 17, 1875, now Mrs. Oliver R. Underbill ; one child, Doris P. 4. Helen B., born February 20, 1880, resides at home.

the Goldthwaites were seated in several English shires for many generations previous to the immigration of anyone of that surname to the shores of New England, and from knowledge based on firmer ground than ancient traditions their ancestry is traced to the time of the Conqueror and their name had its origin in the family name Gold, coupled with the word thwaite, the latter a derivative of the Anglo Saxon verb thwoetan, meaning to cut down, or more liberally defined, an open space cleared in a forest. Gold, according to Lower, was a personal or baptismal name.

( I ) The Goldthwaites of the Yorkshire branch of the English family of that name furnished the ancestor of the American Goldthwaites in Thomas Goldthwaite (i), who was born in England about the year 1610, although it appears that at the time of his immigration he was living in Lincolnshire, adjoining Yorkshire. Without doubt he was a descendant of some branch of the Kirkby Malzeard family, whose original home was in what is now Gowthwaite in that parish, three miles from Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, West Riding. He is believed to have come to this country in the same fleet with Governor Winthrop, which arrived in 1630, although the first mention of his name is found in the records of the general court held in Boston, June 14, 1631. He soon afterward went'to Roxbury, where the name of Thomas Gouldthwaite appears in Rev. John Eliot's list of church members in 1632. He was made freeman May 14, 1634, and in 1636 was granted ten acres of land in Salem, and admitted a member of the Salem church, June 5, 1637. The records shows that Tho: Goldwhatye and Elizabeth Goldthwayt were among the signers of the covenant in 1637 under the ministry of Rev. John Fiske. Thomas Goldthwaite afterward received other grants of land in Salem and made various land purchases ; he evidently was a person of some consequence in the town, for his name appears frequently in the records, as selectman in 1656, constable in 1659 and grand juror in 1661.

in 1636, and she must have died sometime before 1671, for he then had a second wife, Rachel Leach, daughter of Lawrence and Elizabeth Leach. Lawrence Leach, of Salem, 1629, came in one of the fleet with Higginson, and was made freeman May 18, 1631. He was a mill owner on the Beverly side of the town and took a prominent part in public affairs, his name appearing frequently as holder of various offices. He died in June. 1662, leaving his estate to his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1674. Thomas Goldthwaite died in March, 1683, aged about seventy-three, his second wife Rachel and two of his three children surviving him. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth Goldthwaite: i. Samuel, baptized Ahgust 20, 1637, see forward. 2. Mehitable, baptized August 27, 1640; "Hittabell Goldthwrite" died May 3, 1668. (Salem Rec). 3. Elizabeth, baptized November 20, 1642, married John King.

(II) Samuel Golclthwaite. eldest child and only son of Thomas and Elizabeth Goldthwaite. was a cooper by trade and had his home on the west end of his father's farm, in what now is the town square in Peabody. The original Goldthwaite farm was directly opposite the present site of the Peabody church. He was a zealous church member, a man of resolute character and sound common sense. It is related of him that during the period of the witchcraft excitement in Salem one of his daughters became infected with the prevailing epidemic and began to "cry out" against some person as bewitching her, whereupon her father is said to have taken her out to the barn and administered wholesome punishment and thus ended all further trouble so far as concerned his own family. He died in the latter part of the year 17 18, his will being admitted to probate December 31. He married, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, September 6, 1666, Elizabeth Cheever, who was baptized April 2, 1645, daughter of Ezekiel Cheever and ]\Iary his wife. Ezekiel Cheever was the famous master of the Boston Latin school and was born in London, England, January 25, 1614, son of William Cheever and ^Margaret his wife. He was admitted a pupil at Christ's Hospital, April 3, 1626, and went thence to the University of Cambridge where his name has been found in the register of Emanuel College, January 12, 1632-33. He came to Boston in New England in 1637 and removed thence to New Haven, where he was chosen one of the twelve foundation members of the church, June. 1639; was deputy to the court, 1645-46, preached occasionally and throughout the period of his residence there taught school, first in his own house and afterward in a free school established by the town. In 1650 he removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and became the first master of its grammar school, which was established about that time. Afterward for a time he taught school at Charlestown, from 1661 to 1670, and still later in Boston, in the Latin school, for thirty-eight years, until the time of his death, August 21, 1708, then having completed seventy years continuous service as a teacher. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheever) Goldthwaite: I. Elizabeth, born October 7, 1667, died in infancy. Samuel, born March 5, 1668-69, married Mary Reed. 3. Thomas, born December 14, 1670, died young. 4. Ezekiel, born August 3, 1674, see forward. 5. John, born 1667, married (first) Sarah Hopkins; married (second) Jane (Tawley) Halsey. 6. Nathaniel, married Elizabeth Burt. 7. Mary, married John Nichols. 8. Elizabeth, married Thomas Price. 9. Hannah, born April 9, 1686-87, married Edward Nichols. 10. Thomas, born March i, 1688-89, probably died young.

(Ill) Ezekiel Goldthwaite, third son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cheever) Goldthwaite, born August 3, 1674, baptized June, 1675, was a mason by trade and lived in that part of Salem which afterward was set off to form Peabody. He acquired considerable land from his father and also owned others in the vicinity of New Salem. He was engaged in (juite a number of land transactions. His name appears in the records as collector, assessor, one of the committee "for altering the meeting house," and also one of the prudential committee. He was appointed collector September 3. 1708. He clied in 1761, at the age of more than eighty-seven years. He left no will, giving deeds during his life as provision for his children. He married. March 20, 1695-96, Esther Boyce, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Meachum) Boyce, and granddaughter of Joseph and EUinor Boyce. Joseph Boyce, the senior, was born about 1608, became a member of the church in Salem in 1641, was made freeman in 1642, and by occupation was a tanner, one of the first in that trade in New England. Shortly after marriage Ezekiel Goldthwaite received as a gift from his father land and dwelling house which had been built by his grandfather, Thomas Goldthwaite, before 1 661. Children of Ezekiel and Esther (Boyce) Goldthwaite: i. Esther, born about 1697, married, September 14. 1737, John Case. 2. Hannah. 1700, died in 1788, unmarried. 3. Samuel, 1703. see forward. 4. Ezekiel, 1706, married Eunice Cutler. 5. Joseph, 1709, married Mary Batters. 6. David, 1712, married Sarah I'atters.

(I\') Samuel Goldthwaite, eldest son of Ezekiel and Esther (Boyce) Goldthwaite, born Salem, about 1703. baptized October 17, 1703, died Northbridge, Massachusetts, Alay 8, 1789, aged eighty-seven years. After his marriage he lived for a time in South Danvers and removed to Smithfield^ Rhode Island, about 1735, having bought in 1733 the homestead of Isaac Richardson. December i, 1759, he sold his farm there and bought, December 4, same year, land lying partly in the towns of Uxbridge and Sutton, Massachusetts, the latter being afterward annexed to Northbridge. There he resided until his death. He married, January 18, 1726, Sarah Reed, born Salem, May 15, 1703, died May 9, 1787, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Green) Reed. They had nine children: i. Sarah, baptized November 26, 1727, married, February 10, 1752, Joseph Buxton; children, Sarah and Samuel. 2. Lois, baptized 1729. 3. John,

4. Stephen, baptized April 7, 1734, married Patience Very. 5. Joseph, born 1735, see forward. 6. Hannah, married Japhet Taft. 7. Jonathan, born January 14, 1742, married Lydia Chase. 8. Jacob, born 1744, married Rachel Axtell. 9. Ezekiel, born October 18, 1748, married Anna Adams.

(V) Joseph Goldthwaite, the soldier of the revolution, son of Samuel and Sarah (Reed) Goldthwaite, was born probably in Danvers, Massachusetts, 1735, and was very young when his father removed to Rhode Island. He was taxed in Danvers in 1758-59, married there in the year last mentioned, but in 1761 was living in that part of Sutton which afterward became Northbridge. He was a farmer, forty years old, and living in Northbridge at the beginning of the revolution. He remained there until 1793, when he bought one hundred and fifty acres in Peru, Berkshire county, and moved there. He enlisted in Captain Joseph Wood's company from Northbridge at the Lexington alarm, and served five days ; enlist- ^ ed in Captain Samuel Reed's company, which marched in December, 1776, and served three months and thirteen days. At the Rhode Island alarm he again enlisted, July 28, 1780, in Captain David Batcheller's company of Colonel Tyler's regiment, and then served fifteen days. He married, January 7, 1759, Mary Goldthwaite, of Danvers, his second cousin, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca Goldthwaite, the latter also being a distant relative of her husband. Joseph and Mary Goldthwaite joined the church in Uxbridge on confession of their faith April 6, 1766, and was received into the church at Peru by letter May 31, 1795. He died December 29, 1812; she died January 13, 1812. Children: i. Rebecca, born about 1759, married. May 16, 1808, probably as his second wife, Henry Gilbert, of Peru, who died August 20, 1831. She died August 2, 1842. 2. Abigail, born about 1761. married Thomas Allison. 3. Sarah, born about 1763, married Isaac French. 4. Daniel, born 1765, married Lucy Colton. 5. Mehitable, baptized April 5, 1767. married Nathan Chase. 6. Dr. Joseph, baptized February 5, 1769, married (first) Cynthia Ballard; married (second)

26, 1 77 1, probably died young. 8. Ruth, baptized May 2, 1773, married William Frissell, Jr. 9. Ebenezer, born October i, 1775, see forward. 10. Benjamin, born March 10, 1776, married Orpha Curtis, ii. Nathan, date of

(VI) Ebenezer Goldthwaite, son of Joseph and Mary (Goldthwaite) Goldthwaite, born Northbridge, Massachusetts, October i, 1775, died Peterborough, New Hampshire, December 12, 1867, aged ninety-two years. W^as named for his mother's brother who was killed less than six months before at Lexington. Before he was twenty years old he removed with his father's family to Peru, Massachusetts, and in 1801 bought a tract of land with a saw mill; and besides this he had seventy-five acres of land given to him by his father in 1804. These lands he sold in the following year and afterward for several years devoted his attention to the management of farms for other owners, among which was the large farm owned by Colonel Pickman in South Salem, and the Derby farm near Salem Willows, where all his children were born. He also lived in Wenham, W^akefield and other towns in the eastern part of the state. On January 27, 1820, Mr. Goldthwaite married, at Salem, Mrs. Rebecca (Gardner) Allen, widow of Captain John Allen, of Salem, who died a prisoner of war at Dartmoor, England, in 18 14. She was born irt September, 1789, died December 19, 1852, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Stevens) Gardner, the latter a daughter of Brimsley Stevens, of North Andover, who was attorneygeneral of Massachusetts during the revolution. Ebenezer and Rebecca (Gardner) (Allen) Goldthwaite had five children: i. Ebenezer Gardner, born October 30, 1820, died in the Soldiers' Home at Togus, Maine, in 1886; married (first). July 20, 1845, Harriet Augusta Pervear ; married (second), July 3, 1852, Anstice Carter, of Peterboro, New Hampshire ; during the civil war he was a sharpshooter attached to Colonel Henry Wilson's Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry. 2. Charles, born October 2, 1822, married Mary Antoinette Goodridge. 3. Rebecca Allen, born November 17, 1824, married Major Nathan D. Stoodley. 4. Harriet Gardner, born December 1826, died November 15, 1831, Wenham. 5. William Henry, born June 16, 1829, see forward.

achn setts, June 16, 1829, died Uaion, New Hampshire, February 20, 1907. Buried Pine Grove cemetery, Lynn. He was a custom shoemaker by trade, and spent the early part of his business life in New Hampshire, where he was educated in public schools. Later he returned to his native state_, lived in Stoneham about twelve years and afterward in Lynn. He was a member of the L O. O. F. of Stoneham, and in politics was a Democrat. His wife, whom he married in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, February 10, 1854, was Caroline E. Wheeler, born in New Ipswich in 1833, died 1889, daughter of Samuel Cook and Abby (Wilson) Wheeler. They had four children: I. Charles Henry, born New Ipswich, July 13, 1854. died Lynn, Massachusetts, December 29, 1905 : married, in Stoneham, Massachusetts, October 15, 1874, Nellie J. Fowle, born Woburn, Massachusetts. May 30, 1856, daughter of John J. and Hannah (Porter) Fowle. Mr. Goldthwaite was a successful shoe manufecturer in Lynn and an active figure in the political history of that city, on the Republican side ; served as alderman and member of the city council. Children : Harry Johnson, born November 4, 1876, died July 27, 1887; Charles Bertram, born September 13, 1879; Nellie Blanche, born March 2"], 1881, died March 5, 1887 ; Harold, born October 14, 1884 ; Earl, born February 11, 1889; William, born June 30, 1891, died September. 1891. 2. William Edgar, born Peterboro, New Hampshire, June 26, 1856, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, December 29, 1906, married Abby Frances Daniel, of Stoneham, ^Massachusetts. ]Mr. Goldthwaite was a shoe manufacturer in Lynn and afterward was engaged in the leather business. Children: Bertha Frances, born 1877; Harry, died young; Frederick Herbert, born 1887. 3. George Gardner, born November 22, 1858, married in January, 1890. Mrs. Helen M. (Steele) Gordon, born Lynn, January 29, 1846, died December 26, 1907, daughter of Andrew and Betsey (Gowdy) Steele. No children. 4. Abby Isabel, born Peterboro, New Hampshire, October 13, 1863, married, January 30, 1894, George E. Cain, a former veterinary surgeon and now a real estate dealer in Lynn. One child : Ruth Coggswell Cain, born Lynn, April 1 1, 1899. (See Cain).

was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and was a shoemaker by trade. He spent the greater part of his business life in Lynn, working in the factories there until the time of his death, March 16, 1900, at the age of seventytwo years. He married Julia A. Heath, who was born in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and who on her mother's side is a descendant of the old Peaslee family of New England. She lives in Lynn, making her home with her only son, George E. Cain.

George E. Cain, whose birth and parentage are mentioned in the preceding paragraph, received his early education in Lynn public and grammar school, and after leaving school studied for a chemist with Warren Toppon, Lynn, and followed the drug business in Randolph for several years. He then entered the Chicago \>terinary College, made the course of that institution, graduating D. V". S. in 1891 and began practice in that city. Soon afterward, however, he was appointed to a lectureship on the faculty of the veterinary college of the University of Iowa, at Des Moines, and filled that position until 1893, when he resigned and returned to Lynn. Having established himself in active practice in his native city, Dr. Cain opened and for some time carried on a drug store in connection with professional work, for he was a registered pharmacist under the laws of the commonwealth. However, during the next two years he became considerably interested in city property in Lynn, and in 1903 he abandoned his veterinary practice, sold out his drug business and afterward gave his entire attention to real estate operations. He has developed and laid out several tracts of land and brought them into the market for residence purposes, erected dwelling houses and business blocks, and by his enterprise and progressive spirit has contributed much to the growth and prosperity of Lynn during the last ten or more years. In politics Dr. Cain is a Republican, and he also is a member of the Lynn Yacht Club and the Prospect Club, an ex-member of the Independent Order Odd Fellows; Peter Woodland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Order of United Workmen, both of L\Tin. On Januarys 30, 1894. he married Abby Isabel Goldthwaite. Child. Ruth Cogswell, born April 11, 1899.

Sergeant John Stevens came from England to Salisbury in the same province ; William Stevens, also of Gonsham, Oxfordshire, England, settled in Newbury.

(I) William Stevens, immigrant ancestor of the Gloucester and Marblehead families, may be related to the other pioneers mentioned. He was born in England ; was a shipwright by trade ; settled first at Salem, where he was a proprietor in 1636-7. He was taxed at Marblehead in 1637, but later settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He built a vessel for Mr. Griffin in 1633 (says Pope) and one for John Brown of Salem, and one for Nicholas and John Bulhack, of Jersey, merchants, in 1661-2. The contract is to be found in the Essex files. He deeded land to wife Philip. and to sons James and Isaac in 1667. He was an active and prominent citizen. He was charged with treason to Charles H. in 1667, and fined. The wife Philip petitioned for relief on the ground of their old age. and her petition was granted October 9, 1667. Children: i. Isaac, baptized at Salem, January 2, 1639. 2. Mary, baptized January 2, 1639-40. 3. Ruth, baptized March 7, 1640-1. 4. Joshua, baptized July 21, 1666; (perhaps grandson).

second Mary . Children, born at Marblehead, of first wife: i. Susanna, born October, 1693. 2. Joseph (record torn, leaving only one letter "n" or "h") ; mentioned below. Children of second wife : 3. Samuel, born March 10, 17 10. 4. Benjamin, born October 10, 1711. 5. Thomas. 6. Roger (?).

(IV) Joseph Stevens, son of Robert Stevens (3), was born probably June 10, 1696. He married, July 17, 1727, Abigail Mains, of Gloucester. Children, born at Marblehead: i. Abigail, baptized June 23, 1728. 2. Joseph, baptized August 16, 1730. 3. Abigail, born December 30, 1732. 4. John, mentioned below. 5. Hilton, baptized June 24, 1739. 6. William.

(V) Captain John Stevens, son of Joseph Stevens, baptized September 12, 1736, died at Marblehead, March 19, 1813, aged seventyseven years. He married, March 22, 1770, Abigail Majory, who died March 4, 1807. He was a master mariner. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain William Bacon's company. Colonel John Glover's regiment (twentyfirst) in 1775. It is difficult to tell from the records the revolutionary service of the various John Stevens of this vicinity, however. Children, born at Marblehead: i. John, baptized January 20, 1771. 2. Francis, baptized July 12, 1772; mentioned below. 3. Thomas, baptized June 16. 1782. 4. Abigail, baptized September 28, 1783. 5. Eleanor Palmer, baptized September 24, 1786 (twin). 6. Mary, baptized September 24, 1786 (twin of Eleanor). 7. Mary, baptized September 24, 1789; died young. 8. Mary, baptized January 25, 1789.

(\^I) Francis Stevens, son of Captain John Stevens, was baptized July 12, 1772, at Marblehead. He married there, June 10, 1798, Mary Tucker. Children, born at Marblehead : I. Mary, born September 28, 1798. 2. Francis, Jr., born June 20, 1802. 3. Abigail Paine, baptized June 21, 1807. 4. John Christopher, baptized November 20, 1808. 5. Abigail Paine, born December 16, 1809. 6. Elizabeth Conway, born February 23, 1813. 7. John George, born January 28, 1815; mentioned below. 8. Rebecca Ann Stevens, born May 11, 1817.

(\'II) John George Stevens, son of Francis Stevens, was born in Marblehead January 28, 181 5. He was killed in a railroad accident at Salem, November 5, 1848, aged forty years. He was a mariner and shoemaker. He married, January 23, 1838, Margaret Garney Goldthwaite, born February 7, 181 5, daughter of Moses Goldthwaite, of Marblehead. (See Goldthwaite family). She died April, 1894. Children, born at Marblehead : i. John H. 2. Francis, born July 19, 1845. 3. Augustus, mentioned below.

(VIII) Augustus Stevens, son of John George Stevens, born at Marblehead, February 19, 1848, died September 20, 1907. He was educated in the public schools. He began his business career as a dealer in fruit in Marblehead, and enjoyed a flourishing trade for many years. In 1894 he embarked in business as a manufacturer of shoes in his native town, and continued in this line successfully the rest of his life. He was characterized by strict integrity, sound judgment and great enterprise in business. He was an active and useful citizen, a leader in public enterprises. He took a great interest in getting up celebrations on July 4th, Old Home \\'eek, and at other appropriate times, his first one being gotten up in 1875, and continuing every year until the time of his death. He was the first to propose the illuminations of the harbor and the display of fireworks upon the occasion of the annual visits of the yachts from New York and elsewhere, and this custom has been continued till the present time, the celebration of this year (1908) in which his son, who is a member of the board of selectmen, took an active part, being one of the most beautiful ever seen in this section of the country. He was a member of the New England Order of Protection; in politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a Congregationalist. He married March 28, 1 87 1, Lizzie Harriss, born in Marblehead, daughter of William B. and Rebecca E. ( La Favor) Harriss, the former born in Marblehead. Children, born at Alarblehead : i. Joel B., born June 13, 1872. 2. John G., born April 15, 1874; mentioned below. 3. Augustus Jr., born January 9, 1877. 4. William H., June II, 1879. 5. Charles E., December 23, 1880. 6. Jennie L., October 26, 1884. 7. Harrv E., May 3, 1887. 8. Mabel P., December 9, 1891. 9. Earle G., April 4, 1893. 10. Lizzie, March 4, 1895. The children were all born at the present home of John G. Stevens, where some of them still live with the widow.

(IX) John G. Stevens, son of Augustus Stevens, was born at Marblehead, April 15, 1874, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. He then went to work for his father in the shoe factory, and learned the business. When his father died he succeeded to the business, and has continued it. He is one of the most energetic and enterprising shoe manufacturers of the town. In politics Mr. Stevens is a Democrat, and he served the town as overseer of the poor in 1905-6. and selectman 1907-8, and is still serving on this board. He is a member of Atlantic Lodge, No. 55, 1. O. O. F. ; of Naumkeag Encampment. I. O. O. F., of Salem ; Montauk Tribe, No. i. Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Phenix Fire Association.

(V) Ezekiel Gold- GOLDTHWAITE thwaite, son of Samuel Goldthwaite, was born October i8, 1748. in Smithfield, Rhode Island. When about twelve years old he removed with his father to what is now Northbridge, Massachusetts, where he married, December 3. 1772, Anna x-\dams, born April 8, 1754. daughter of James and Elizabeth (Dean) Adams, of Northbridge. He settled on land given him by his father April I, 1775. and remained there until 1784, when he bought land in South Danvers, where he removed. The purchase included a pew in the meeting house, "now occupied by one Joseph Flint." He died very suddenly June 18, 1800, of a disease much resembling Asiatic cholera. His widow married second, November 6, 1803, Captain Caleb Moulton. of Sudbury. She died of "lung fever" December 31, 1843, aged ninety-one years seven months twenty-two days. Children: I. Ezekiel, born January i, 1774; married Polly Fuller. 2. Joel, born January 9, 1776; died January i, 1853; unmarried. 3. Elijah, born October 12, 1777; died May 3, 1800, at sea. 4. Prudence, born August 14, 1779; married Jonathan Wilson. 5. Beulah, born October 31, 1781 ; married Stephen R. Dockham. 6. Lucinda, born September 16, 1783; married first, Ezra Dodge; second, Stephen Fogg. 7. Luther, born January 12, 1786; married Hannah Meader Lawrence. 8. Moses, born September 29. 1787 ; mentioned below. 9. Willard, born July 6, 1790; married Dolly Johnson. 10. Aaron, born November 6, 1793; married Christina Peabody. 11. Anna, born March 8. 1797 ; married William Johnson ; died June 24, 1880.

( \'I ) Moses Goldthwaite, son of Ezekiel Goldthwaite. born in South Danvers, September 29. 1787, died July 13, 1864. Fie resided in Salem. He married. May 31, 1812, Margaret D. Garney, of Marblehead. born December, 1791, died November 17, 1875. Children: i. Moses, born August 18. 1812; married Elizabeth Barker Wormstead. 2. Margaret, born February 7, 1815; married John Stevens, of Marblehead. (See Stevens). 3. Susan L., born January i. 1817; married John Gardner; died August 8, 1894. 4. Ann A., born October 8, 1819; married William Lamorell ; died April, 1863. 5. John, born July 2. 1823; married Helen Brown. 6. Benjamin F., bom July I. 1825. 7. Joel, born April 4. 183 1 ; married Ellen A. Rand. 8. William Johnson, born May 7, 1834; married Mary L. Pitman. '

Anthony Bennett, immigrant BENNETT ancestor, was the nephew of Richard Bennett, of Salem. There is a tradition that the family was originally Welsh. Richard Bennett was in Salem as early as 1635 ; removed to Boston where his wife Sybil died September 13, 1653; he married, second, Margaret Gurgefield, widow ; his will dated June 21 and July 6, proved September 8, 1677, bequeathed to wife Margaret; son Jonas Clarke, and Susanna, his wife; grandchildren Susanna, daughter of his son Peter ; cousin (i. e. nephew). Anthony Bennett, "of Bass River." frees his negro man Jethro and gives him a house lot; his son Peter was a legatee in the will of his mother's brother, Major Ralph Hooker, of Barbadoes, March

14, 1663, proved April 15, 1664. Anthony Bennett settled in Goose Cove, Gloucester, as early as 1679, and owned six acres of land. He also owned land on the east side of Mill river, Gloucester. He owned a saw mill near the outlet of Cape Pond brook where his son John succeeded him in the mill business, the site being still known as Bennett's ]\Iills. He died in 1714 and his inventory amounted to one hundred and three pounds.

The will of Richard Window, (Windoe, Winder or Winde) of Gloucester, indicates that the father of Anthony was dead and his mother was the second wife of Window. Richard Window was in Gloucester in 1647 or earlier ; was charged with "living apart from his wife," but he showed that he had "sent for his wife" and she would not come ; was a town officer in 1654 ; married, March 30, 1659, Bridget Travis, widow of Henry Travis. Window's will dated May 2, 1665, proved June 7, 1665, bequeathed to his wife Bridget and her son James Travers ; daughter Ann ; son-in-law (used for stepson always) Anthony, committing him to the care of his Uncle Bennett (his uncle Richard probably) ; to "daughter-in-law Elizabeth Bennett a Bible that was her father's" (she was evidently a sister of Anthony Bennett and step-daughter of Window, her mother dying before the third marriage to Widow Travis) ; also to Richard Coding. At the date of this will Anthony was probably a minor. It is conjectured that the name Winthrop is a modification of the name Window, and perhaps the correct spelling of the surname. Winthrop is used as a Christian name in several generations of the family

3. Abigail, born September 7, 1688. 4. Peter married, February, 1704, Hannah Eveluth. 5 Andrew, had a grant of land in 1706 adjoining Anthony's farm ; children : Jonathan, Bethia and Lydia.

(H) Anthony Bennett, son of Anthony Bennett (i), was born in Gloucester, November 12, 1679. He married, July 13, 1704, Rebecca . Late in life his son John became his guardian, appointed February 9, 1735- Children: John, David, died aged nineteen ; Moses, Peter, Stephen, Nathaniel, Jonathan, died aged six ; Job, James.

(IV) John Bennett, son of John Bennett (3), was born in Gloucester, about 1735. He seems to have settled in Portsmouth and Gilmanton. New Hampshire. He married Betsey

Bennett, Sr. and family and John, Jr. and family were living in Gilmanton. Some of his children: i. John, had son John, probably born in New Durham in 1787, died at Portsmouth, August 10, 1872, son of John and Lydia; William P. Bennett, born 1820^ died at Portsmouth, son of John and Jane Bennett. 2. Winthrop, mentioned below. 3. Andrew, married and had a family in Gilmanton.

He was a member of the Congregational church. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in the field artillery, under Captain George Turner, and in the same company later under Captain Hall Jackson, of Portsmouth, in 1776. He probably moved to Gilmanton

Fullsom. (William J. Bennett, son of Andrew, died at Londonderry, N. H.^ December 8. 1893, aged sixty-seven years, seven months; mother was Mary (Hall) Bennett). 2. John, married Lydia Gillman. -3. Joseph. 4. William, married Flint. 5. Jeremiah. 6.

Deborah, married Israel French. 7. Nancy, married John Marsh. 8. Mary, married Matthias Weeks. 9. Richard P., mentioned below. 10. Gilman. 11. Polly, married Shubael Clay. (Winthrop Bennett, related to this family, died March 31, 1875, at Moultonborough. New Hampshire, aged eighty-two, and another Winthrop died there December 12, 1876, aged forty-eight, probably his son).

(VI) Richard P. Bennett, son of Winthrop Bennett (5), was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire* He was a shoemaker by trade. He removed to Haverhill and began the manufacture of boots and shoes, building up a large trade and later taking his two sons into partnership. He was one of the substantial citizens of Haverhill for a long period of time, and was held in the highest esteem by his townsmen. He was a Whig in politics. He married, March 31, 1817, Ruth E. Edwards, born in Gilmanton, May 10, 1790, died November 20, 1852, daughter of John and Betsey Edwards. Children, born in Gilmanton: i.

Sabrina E., born November 18, 1818, died December 22, i860, aged forty-two years ; she married Oliver Turner, of Concord, New Hampshire. 2. Ehnira E., born July 24, 1823, died August 21, 1825. 3. Jeremiah W., born October 31, 1825, married Caroline E. Fuller; children: Mary and Ruth E. 4. Decatur R.. mentioned below. 5. Frances S., born May 2y, 1833, resides in Haverhill in the old home.

(YH) Decatur R. Bennett, son of Richard i\ Bennett (6), was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, November 14, 1829. He attended the public schools of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Professor Greenleaf's school in Bradford for a time. He then learned the shoe business with his father, and in due course of time became his partner. His brother, Jeremiah W., also a student of Professor Greenleaf's school after attending the public schools of Haverhill, was also a partner, and for a period of forty years the brothers conducted the business their father had established. In later years they admitted to partnership Hon. Thomas E. Burnham, who has been thrice elected mayor of the city of Haverhill. Mr. Burnham began his connection with the firm when he was a lad of thirteen years. Afterward Fred D. McGregor was also admitted to the firm and finally succeeded to the entire business, which he is conducting at the present time.

Elizabeth Burt. Children: i. Elizabeth, born February i, 1700. 2. Nathaniel, born 1707, mentioned below. 3. Abigail, baptized at adult age, February 23, 1734-35. 4. Mary, married, November 2^). 1738, John Proctor. 5. Sarah, married, April 27, 1740, John Langford. 6. Ebenezer, born about 17 17, married Sarah Newman. (The family name Goldthwait is spelled both with and without the final "e").

(IV) Nathaniel Goldthwait, son of Nathaniel Goldthwait (3). was born at South Danvers, about 1707, died there in 1794, aged eighty-seven. He married (first), February 18, 1736, his cousin, Rebecca Goldthwait, born 1 71 5. He married (second), (intention published May 27, 1749) Mrs. Sarah (Cavendish) Girdler, of Marblehead, widow of Richard Girdler. She had six children by her first husband. Children of Nathaniel and Rebecca Goldthwait: i. Mary, born 1738, married Joseph Goldthwait. 2. Elizabeth, born April 19, 1743, married Nathan Upton. Children of second wife: 3. Nathaniel, born July 9, 1752, mentioned below. 4. Ebenezer, born 1754, killed at Lexington, April 19, 1775, aged twenty-one. 5. George, baptized September 12, 1762, died aged twenty-one. 6. Rebecca, baptized April 24, 1763, married (first) William Roberts; ( second ) John Osborn.

(\') Nathaniej Goldthwait, son of Nathaniel (loldthwait (4), was born at South Danvers, July 9, 1752, died April 2, 1842. He and his brother Ebenezer answered the Lexington alarm, April 19. 1775, and he saw his brother shot down at his side. He often rehearsed the story of his brother's death, which remained deeply fixed in his mind all his life. He used often to tell how Ebenezer, after he was shot, called to him to take him away, and how, as he was about to do so, a British soldier coming up, thrust his bayonet into his brother, and he fell back dead. As Nathaniel grew old, he dwelt more and more on the subject, often speaking of the last look his brother gave him as something which would never pass out of his memory. He served also in the revolution in Captain James Prentiss' company, Colonel Samuel Brewster's regiment, in 1777, and his name was on the roll of that regiment, which was discharged at Saratoga and sent home after Burgoyne's surrender, the mileage allowed him being two hundred and thirtyseven miles. He served afterward on the brig "Lexington," David Smith, Jr., commander, and was enrolled October 2, 1780, as a sailor, described as five feet, eight inches high, of dark complexion. He married, April 17, 1783, Abigail Sprague Eustis, born November 27, 1759, died November 25, 1806, daughter of Joshua and Abigail (Sprague) Eustis, of Chelsea. Children: i. Sarah, born February 8, 1784, married Captain Richard Smith.

(VI) Ebenezer Goldthwait, son of Nathaniel Goldthwait (5), was born in South Danvers, July i, 1791, died October 17, 1859. He was for many years a seafaring man, but finally gave up the sea and devoted his attention to his farm in Danvers. He was highway surveyor, and also did considerable teaming for the townspeople. He married, December 7, 1817, Polly Smith, who died October 17, 1872. Children: i. Hannah, born February 4, 1 8 19, married Thomas Hardy. 2. Abigail, born June 22, 1820, married Stephen Blaney.

3. Mary, born November 6, 1823, married Joseph S. Hodgkins. 4. Nancy Stone, born August 19, 1825, died young. 5. Emily Wilder, born March 17, 1828, married John Higgins. 6. Eben, born March 21, 1834, and the only one living, mentioned below. 7. George, born March 5, 1839, died unmarried.

(VH) Eben Goldthwait, son of Ebenezer Goldthwait (6), was born in Salem, March 21, 1834. He was educated in the public schools. He learned the trade of morocco dresser and followed this for a number of years. In 1859 he started in business on his own account as a morocco leather manufacturer. His factory was located on Washington street, Lynn, where he conducted a flourishing business for a period of twenty years. In 1879 he removed to Peabody and continued in the same business for five years, retiring at the end of that time. He has made his home in Lynn since sixteen years of age in the same ward, and is one of the best known citizens of that city. He is a Democrat in politics, but has never sought public office. Fie is a Universalist in religion, and a member of Bay State Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Goldthwait is the last of the branch of Nathaniel Goldthwait (3) to bear the family surname, though the descendants in female lines are numerous.

He married, December 2, 1856, Martha Low, born July 14, 1836, daughter of John and Hannah (Thomas) Low, of Lynn. Her grandfather was also named John Low, who came from England as a young man and settled in Salem. He was a mariner and was lost at sea during the war of 1812. Child: Mary Emma, born March 7, 1857, married November 2, 1875, Harding Dunbar Porter, a merchant, of Lynn, son of Theron and Elizabeth (Freeman) Porter, of Nova Scotia, where he was born; children of Harding Dunbar and Mary Emma Porter: i. Anna Goldthwait, born July 23, 1876, graduate of Smith College; ii. Stanley Freeman, born February 19, 1878, graduate of Lynn high school, died aged twenty-two years ; iii. Harding.

New England scattered about New Hampshire, and it is said that seven or eight distinct branches were represented among the early settlers of Sanbornton alone. The family was very early at Hampton and has contributed much to the development of many sections of the state.

(I) Robert Smith was born about 161 1, and was among the first at Exeter, New Hampshire, being a signer of the Combination in 1639. He settled in Hampton as early as 1657 and died there August 30, 1706. He was by trade a tailor, but probably engaged chiefly in husbandry in that pioneer period. His wife Susanna was killed by lightning June 12, 1680, and he lived a widower for more than twentysix years. No record of the births of his children were made, and they may not appear herein in their chronological order. They included Deborah, Nathaniel, John, Meribah, Asahel, Jonathan and Joseph.

(II) Jonathan Smith, son of Robert and Susanna Smith, was a brickmaker and settled in Exeter. He married, January 25, 1670, Mehitable Holdred. Their children were : Israel, Jacob, Ithiel, Abigail, Joseph, Leah and Mehitable.

(III) Joseph Smith, fourth son and fifth child of Jonathan and Mehitable (Holdred) Smith, was born February 7, 1680, in Exeter, New Hampshire, and was one of the grantees of Stratham, being the fifteenth to sign his name on the petition for the incorporation of that town, 1748. Four years subsequently, on the division of lands, he drew lots numbered forty- four and eighteen, and the latter subsequently fell to his son Elisha. Joseph Smith evidently was a man of some consequence in the early history of Sanbornton, and some of his sons after him also became prominently

(IV) Joseph Smith, son of Joseph Smith, Sr., born October 12, 1725, went from Stratham to Sanbornton, and in the allotment of houselots drew numbers seventy-one and sixty, and built his house on the former. It is not certain whether he or his eldest son Joseph served during the revolution, but one of them was there, the weight of opinion according the honor to his son, who is said to have come to the town in advance of his father Joseph the elder in early life, served his time as a ship carpenter in Newburyport and built the first dam at the "threshing mill," where he sacrificed his own life, July 4, 1795, while rescuing a boy from drowning. One of the stories regarding this event is that he drowned himself, but the stronger belief has been that while walking on the dam with the rescued child in his arms he fell and struck his head on an exposed pin (treenail) and fractured his skull. Near the same brook his wife had died of apoplexy, June 29, 1790. Henry Smith, son of Joseph, always said that he was the middle one of a family of fifteen children, seven being older and seven younger than himself, but the christian names of all of this Joseph's children cannot be given. Those whose names are known were : Joseph, David, William, Henry. Solomon, Stephen, Hannah, Michael, Enoch and Samuel.

(V) David Smith, second son and child of Joseph Smith, was a farmer in Stratham, he was born and died. The name of his wife is not known, but he had children: i. Susan, married John Taylor. 2. David, settled in Newington, New Hampshire. 3. Lydia, died single. 4. Sarah, married (first) Joseph Scannell, and (second) Langley. 5. Mehitable, married Edward Scammon. 6. Deborah, married Reuben Smith. 7. Rachel, married Nathaniel Knowles. 8. Abigail, married Hiram Wetherill. 9. John, never married. 10. Clara, died young, lockjaw, sliver in foot. 11. Mercy, married Reuben Stockbridge ; died April 30, 1842. 12. Joseph. 13. Jonathan.

(VI) Jonathan Smith, youngest son and child of David .Smith, born in April, 1800, died May 21, 1843. He was a farmer by principal occupation. He was in war of 1812 as drummer boy (age thirteen) ; a drum was presented to him by state of New Hampshire, and it is now in possession of his grandson, Thornton A. Smith. He married Betsey Nutter, and by her had four children: i. David. 2. Joseph H., married Janette Emery, died May 6, 1852. 3. Benjamin Eranklin, died single, October 5, 1880. 4. Alonzo Jewell, married (first) Lizzie Morton, (second) Cora Shattuck.

(VTI) David Smith, eldest son and child of Jonathan Smith, born in Stratham, New Hampshire, May 14, 1820, was a carpenter and joiner, having learned the trade with Squire Jewell, of Northampton, New Hampshire. He came to this state when a young man and was a well known figure in business circles in Everett, for more than twenty-five years. He was prominently identified with the business life and the institutions of that city, and came to be regarded as one of its substantial men. his business life having been rewarded with gratifying success. He always took an unselfish interest in town and city affairs, and while he frequently was asked to stand as a candidate for public office, he as fre(|uently declined all such oft'ers of political preferment. He was a Republican in politics and a firm beliver in the principles of his party. He also was an exemplary member of the Baptist church, a regular attendant at its services and a generous contributor to its support. He was one of the charter members of Everett Lodge, No. 36, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Smith died in Northampton, New Hampshire, February 16, 1903. He married Mary K. Tozicr, of Waterville, Maine. She was born in 1823 and was a daughter of Stephen and Joanna Tozier. David and Mary (Tozier) Smith had four children: i. Mary Estelle, born June 6, 1848, married Marcellus B. Parker. 2. Thornton Adams, born January 2, 1850. 3. Lizzie Medora. born May 7, 1852. married Gouverneur Kent. 4. Cora Allison, died in infancy.

(VIII) Thornton Adams Smith, only son of David and Mary K. (Tozier) Smith, born in Greenland, New Hampshire, January 2, 1850, received his early education in the public schools of Chelsea, IMassachusetts, where his father lived at one time, and also in Boston; but he left school when about fifteen years old and started out to make his own way in life. During the next several years he worked as clerk in various mercantile business houses, and from 1872 to 1900 was connected with the following companies : New York and Boston Despatch Company as general cashier and auditor, also treasurer several years; with the Armstrong Transfer Company, as general cashier and auditor, also treasurer of Boston Cab Company several years. Since 1900 connected with the dry goods commission business. Like liis father, Mr. Smith takes considerable interest in public affairs in Everett, is a firm Republican, and has been a member of the city sinking fund commission. He is a member and master of Palestine Lodge, F. and A. M., and past grand of Everett Lodge, No. 36, L O. O. F. He serves as vestryman at Grace Episcopal Church, Everett. He married, October 31, 1878, Carrie L. Wallace, born in Maiden, Massachusetts, July 2^, 1856, daughter of James A. Wallace, born in Dover, New Hampshire, and Abbie J. Currier, his wife, and granddaughter of James Wallace, who married Dorothy Pray, of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son, Hugh Wallace Smith, born in Everett, August 15, 1884, educated in public and high schoofs, Everett, graduated class 1903; entered Tufts College, September 17, 1903, class 1907, degree A. B. ; entered Berkeley Divinity School (Episcopal), Middletown, Connecticut, graduate class 1909. Mrs. Thornton A. Smith is a graduate of Everett high school, class of 1875, and has been a member of the board of management of the Whidden Memorial Hospital of Everett since its incorporation. She is an active member of the Friday Club of Everett, member of Ladies' Aid Society of the church with which she is identified, active in various charitable societies, and treasurer of Hospital Guild.

and business names, adopted about the twelfth century as family names, like butcher, baker, chandler, merchant, brewer, etc. Skinner means simply a dealer in furs and hides. The Skinners Company of London received a charter of incorporation as early as the reign of Edward HI and has a coat-ofarms of ancient date. The families of Skinner are found in all parts of England. The Skinners of Le Burtons and Ledbury, county Hereford, descended from Stephen Skinner (1557,)' elder son of Stephen Skinner, of county Hereford. Arms : Sable a chevron or between three grifftns' heads erased argent a mullet for difference. Crest: A griffin's head erased argent holding in the beak a hand couped, gules on the breast a mullet for difference. The families at Cowley, Devonshire ; in London ; in county Essex ; in the Isle of Wight ; in Dewlish, and various other localities also bear arms. Thomas Skinner was lord mayor of London in 1596. A common device

(I) Sergeant Thomas Skinner, immigrant ancestor of the Essex county families, born in 1617 in England, died March 2, 1703-04, in Maiden, Massachusetts. He came from Chichester, county Sussex, England, bringing with him his wife and two sons. He lived at one time at Sundeanerie parish, Chichester. He was a victualler, and May 31, 1652, was licensed to keep an inn at Maiden. His house at Maiden was occupied later by Thomas Call. He married Call's widow and again came into possession of his first homestead, which was situated at the southeast corner of Cross and Walnut streets. Maiden. Call may have been a tenant, however. The old place was given to Skinner's son Abraham, March 15, 1694-95. Skinner was admited a freeman May 18, 1653.

who died April 9, 167 1. He married (second) Lydia (Shepardson) Call, widow of Thomas Call. She died December 17, 1723, aged eighty-seven. Children, born at Chichester, England: i. Thomas, July 25, 1645, married Mary Pratt; removed with family about 1700 to Colchester, Connecticut (see N. E. Reg. vol. 53, p. 401 ). 2. Abraham, mentioned below.

(II) Abraham Skinner, son of Thomas Skinner, (i), was born in Sundeanerie parish, Chichester, and baptized in Pallant Parish church, September 29, 1649. He had the homestead in Maiden, Massachusetts, paying certain sums to his brother and mother Lydia. He died before his father. Sergeant Thomas Skinner deeded to his widow, Hannah, lot 75 in the second division, in consideration of her maintaining the grantor and his wife. May 2'], 1698. He served in King Philip's war in 1675 under Captain Prentice, and his son Abraham was a grantee on account of his service in Narragansett township, No. 2. A large rock at the corner of Cross and Walnut streets on the old homestead was known as Skinner's Rock and was not removed until 1887. Children, born at Maiden : i. Abraham, born April 8, 1681. had the homestead at Maiden. 2. Thomas, born December 7, 1688 (given 1691 in the printed Maiden records, but 1688 in various other good authorities) ; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born September, 1690.

(III) Thomas Skinner, son of Abraham Skinner (2), born December 7, 1688, died June I, 1737, at Maiden. He married, December 16, 1708, Mehitable Durrant, who died April 20, 1777, aged eighty-eight. He lived at Maiden and vicinity. Their first four children were baptized at the church of North Chelsea. September 20, 1719. Children: i. Rev. Thomas, graduate of Harvard College in 1732, minister at Colchester, Connecticut ; married Mary Newhall, of an old Lynn family, June 15, 1740. 2. Abraham, blacksmith at Maiden, married, January 8, ,1738-39, Dorothy Wade. 3. John, married, December 22, 1743, Martha \\''hitmore ; resided at Woburn ; died May 2, 1 75 1, at Medford, Massachusetts. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Mehitable, was in her nineteenth year in 1742. 6. Hannah, born 1730. (Three more children were born at Maiden). 7. William, married Priscilla Hobbs.

( IV) Joseph Skinner, son of Thomas Skinner (3), was born at Maiden or Chelsea about 1715-17. He was taxed in Charlestown, 1737- 41-48. He settled in Lynn. He married

1743-44, Abigail Brown, (intention also recorded at Lynn). She died at Lynn, October. 1808, aged eighty-five years. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and died in the service. December 2. 1756. Children: i. Peggy, born 1736, died 1813. 2. Susan, born 1740, died 1805. 3. Lois, born 1746, died August. 1821. 4. William, mentioned below.

(V^) William Skinner, son of Joseph Skinner (4), born in Lynn or vicinity, December, 1756, died at Lynn, December 24, 1800. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Simeon Brown's company, d'olonel Jacob Gcrrish's regiment in 1778 at W^inter Hill; also in Captain Samuel Huse's company. Colonel Jacob (ierrish's regiment, later in 1778 at Cambridge. Other service credited to a William Skinner, of Marblehead. apparently also belongs to him. He married, December 16, 1777, Peggy Collins, of Lynn, born 1754. died February 27, 1806. Children, born at Lynn: i. William, Jr., born July 4, 1779, married, August 30, 1807. Martha Cheever. of Maiden ; children: i. Susannah, born March 5, 1809, died March 6. 1809; ii. John W., born October 6, 1810, married a Miss Oliver, of Saugus, Massachusetts; iii. William C, born November 7. 1812. married, August 17. 1836. a Miss Breed, of Lynn ; iv. Benjamin, born October 27, 1814. died April 4. 1822 ; v. Jacob C. born October 17, 1816; vi. Martha C, born August

(\T ) John Skinner, son of William Skimier (5). was born in Lynn, February 26. 1792. He married Tamesin Shaw, born September 24, 1794. of Danvers, Massachusetts. They lived at Lynn, where he followed the trade of shoemaker, and manufactured shoes and boots during his active life. Children, born at Lynn :

(VII) Benjamin Shaw Skinner, son of John Skinner (6), was born in Lynn, February 21. 1819. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, but when only twelve years of age began to work in the shoe shop of his father and followed the trade of shoemaker until he was twenty-two. He then learned the carpenter's trade and followed it in Lynn for sixteen years. In 1856 I\Ir. Skinner engaged in business as a manufacturer of heels for boots and shoes and he found a ready market for his product among the manu- facturers of Lynn and vicinity. He built up a large and prosperous business. In later years his sons became associated with him in the business, and when he finally decided to retire in 1889 he placed his sons in charge as his successors. Although nearly eighty-nine years of age, Mr. Skinner is still one of the most familiar figures on the streets of Lynn (1908), known to all the older citizens and respected by everybody. He is well preserved physically and mentally. In politics Mr. Skinner was first a Whig, then a Republican. He cast his first vote for William Henry Harrison and has never missed voting at a general election since then, nor has he ever ridden to or from the polling place on account of sickness or lack of interest. Though never a candidate for public office, he has always taken a keen interest in public men and public questions. He is a member of the Boston Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married, June i, 1841, at Salem, Massachusetts, Sarah Mansfield, born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, June 27, 1821, died at Lynn, May 12, 1874, aged fifty-three, daughter of Elisha and Sally (Whitman) Mansfield. Children: I. Sarah Angeline, born in Ashburnham, January 20, 1843, married Lysander Fullerton, of Whitman, Massachusetts, where they reside; children: Willard E., Benjamin Franklin, Sarah Lizzie, Carrie Newton. 2. John Henry, born in Lynn, December 14, 1848, married Frances Bacheller, of Lynn. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born at Lynn, October 9, 1853, resides at home with her parents. 4. Benjamin Warren, born in Lynn, December 16, 1859, resides in Lynn ; is collector and financial man of the firm of Hill, Welch & Company; married Emily M. Atwood, of New Boston, New Hampshire ; children : Florence Mansfield and Benjamin Atwood. An adopted daughter, Annie Mansfield Skinner, married George William Brown, of Lynn.

Hale family, was born at Newbury, 1762, married, 1785, Phoebe Coburn, of Dracut. He moved from Dracut to Derry, New Hampshire, and thence to Haverhill. He was a pioneer in the manufacture of textiles, making cotton goods at a very early period, and in 1804 established a woolen factory at Little River. He was a successful business man, and was esteemed in the communities in which he resided.

Phoebe (Coburn) Hale, was born at Dracut in 1788. He succeeded his father as a manufacturer, and his business career was noted for straightforward transactions and the strictest integrity. He married Hannah Church, daughter of Samuel Crookson, a retired merchant of Boston.

(HI) Ezekiel James Madison Hale, son of Ezekiel and Hannah Church (Crookson) Hale, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 30, 1813. He fitted for college at Bradford Academy under Benjamin Greenleaf, and entered Dartmouth College in 1831, graduating therefrom in 1835, and among his classmates were John Plummer Healey, Harry Hibbard and Amos Tuck. He began to read law with Oilman Parker, of Haverhill, but preferring business to a profession he connected himself with his father's mills. As a boy and young man he was quiet and studious, and thus laid the foundation for an active and useful career. Being successful as a manufacturer, he purchased extensive woolen mills at Littleton, New Hampshire, where he made flannels. Purchasing the mill privileges and factory at South Groveland in 1859, he built two additional structures and concentrated his manufacturing at that point. The water power was improved and supplemented by steam power. Continually extending his business, Mr. Hale purchased the remaining mill sites on the stream, and up to 1875 constantly increased the size of his buildings and his facilities for conducting his business successfully, and he gave employment to four or five hundred skilled operatives, about one-half the population of the village. His employees resided in single dwellings and blocks erected by Mr. Hale for that purpose, and the progress and activity in the village was the direct result of his mills being located there. He also donated a lot as a site for a Catholic church and assisted in the erection of the same. Mr. Hale enjoyed the distinction of being the most extensive private manufacturer in the United States, and his business success w^as proportionate to his abilities.

Mr. Hale was for many years a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and president for several years of the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad. For twenty-three years he was president of the Merrimack Bank of Haverhill, retiring shortly before his death, which occurred June 4, 1881. In 1848 he represented his district in the state senate, fulfilling his duties to the satisfaction of all concerned. In his charitable work as in business he was apt to be decided and even curt in his responses to the numerous appHcants, but those who were in close touch with him declare that his private benevolences were more than the world knew. In his public benefactions he was thoughtful and considerate, taking great care in studying details so that his gifts should work to the best advantage. He took the precaution to provide for the support of the resident clergymen for the church he had built at South Groveland, the St. James Episcopal Church, he providing the site, erecting the structure and donating the furnishings for the same. In 1873 he donated to the city of Haverhill the means wherewith to erect a building for a library, the same being built in 1874-75 and dedicated November 11, 1875. He left a fund of fifty thousand dollars for the maintenance of the library and an equal amount the interest of which is to be applied annually in the purchase of books. He also determined to found a hospital in his native city, and to this end he himself purchased a site and was instrumental in securing the co-operation of the city government. The legislature passed an act which was accepted by the city council, February 13, 1882, authorizing the city to erect and maintain the Haverhill City Hospital. Mr. Hale left by will fifty thousand dollars for a hospital fund.

Mr. Hale married first, February 3, 1837, Lucy Lapham, daughter of Benjamin Parker, a merchant of East Bradford, now Groveland. They were the parents of seven children, among whom were Harry H. and Samuel C, who survived their father. Mrs. Hale died in March, 1856. Mr. Hale married second, February 5. 1862, Ruth C. Parker, sister of his first wife, and they were the parents of one child. Edward, who survived his father.

There is no end of all that might EDGETT be said from the experience and learning of any one who has lived a long and studious life amid the affairs and ])ursuits of mankind - especially in an age of the greatest progress in arts and sciences. For this reason, or for sake of brevity, the field of law, war, literature, history, science and mercantile work, in which George W. Edgett, B. L., the author of those selections presented in a book he is preparing, will not be reviewed in this narrative.

George W. Edgett was born in Wayne county. Pennsylvania, October 9, 1834. His ]5arents, Henry and Lydia S. (Lapham) Edgett, both born in 1806, in Dutchess county,

New York, where they were married, were pioneers in the wilderness of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where they made a farm, to which the enterprising father added a saw mill and made lumber for the New York, Philadelphia and home markets. After a few years, in addition to farming and lumbering, the elder Edgett built a store in the village of Prompton, where he carried on trade in all sorts of necessary merchandise, besides discharging the duties of postmaster. After a life of hard work, however, in his seventyfourth year, he died penniless, mostly on account of trusting everybody and being a negligent collector. The mother of George W. Edgett was an incessant economic toiler - a woman of the greatest integrity, tenderness and love, justly proud of her descent from one of the best families. She gave birth to five children, of whom but three lived to grow up. Of these, Alvah B., the eldest, and Frances M., the youngest, married and brought up children. George W., who survived them, has remained single. Born the same year, the parents died forty-two days apart, at the ages of seventythree years three months, and seventy-three years four months, respectively.

George W. Edgett began his academic studies in Bethany University, which is now defunct. He taught school for a time and prepared for college during four years in \\'yoming Seminary ; entered Yale College in 1855, studied law, was admitted to the bar of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, in 1859, practiced law in various counties, and was admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor in the su])reme court of I'ennsylvania, at Philadel])hia. in 1870, making him eligible to practice in the United States courts.

He removed to Boston in 1873, where he pursued a mercantile business until 1880. After this, he resided chiefly in Winthrop, near Boston, where he owned a small estate, and devoted his time to study and travel. Inspired by the lofty ambitions of youth and the highest ideals of professional life at the outset of his career, after having gained the assurance of success in oratory, in forensic debate and the practice of his profession, finally the warlike nature of contention in courts of law becaine repugnant to him. It was thought by some that his aversion to the strenuous work of his profession was on account of indolence ; but the fact was, that when he found the frequent necessity of concealing truth, of making the worse appear the better reason, of meeting artifice with artifice and of creating false theories in defence of criminals - when he witnessed how the love of money and renown could make men prostitute a power of eloquence to advocate a wrong or defend iniquity ; when he realized the sham, the sophistry, the crafty use of precedents, the ever growing desire of lawyers in a contest, to secure victory instead of truth; or when he saw the Goddess of Justice, the personified spirit of equity and law, in perpetual change - now the executor of savage laws and now the protean ideal of civilized evolution made by the diverse colors of opinions from a world's judiciary, subject to codes unstable, statutes mercenary, and supplied with scales to weigh imperial, financial and legal abilities, instead of actual rights and wrongs - he came to know what hapless lovers feel in the fruition of deceptive dreams: after worship, repulsion ; "after love, ashes." And so, unlike those old worthies who bade good bye in strains of poesy to all other beloved pursuits, and wedded themselves forever to the law, he said farewell to law and having acquired a small competency by other means, he found more happiness in the boundless field of cosmology, searching into natural laws, than he could possibly arrive at in the field of human laws. He developed a particular fondness for chemistry, particularly experimental chemistry, and his essay "A New Study of Nature," demonstrates his thorough experience and broad knowledge of that great science, and affords an index to the course of reasoning by which he came to a self-satisfied state of mind in relation to the nature, constitution and laws of creation. Another essay, published in pamphlet form, some forty pages, "Isomorism," combined with a study of "What is Mind?" shows his fondness for metaphysical studies. He now has well, nigh completed a volume of considerable proportions entitled "Walks, Talks, Travels and Essays," and various other writings, including frec|uent interspersion of poetical stanzas which indicate in some degree how his mind trains with the Muses. Mr. Edgett, liberally informed on a wide range of topics, and fully up to the thought of the present as well as of the past, is a charming conversationalist whom it is at once delightful and instructive to meet. Despite his advanced years, his mind is in the fullness of its powers, and his physical energies are remarkably well preserved. In the field of politics. Mr. Edgett stands for the highest American ideals. In 1900 he stumped the seven counties of lower California against President McKinley and his policies ; and he afterwards wrote and delivered a powerful says the surname Eldredge, Eldridge and Eldred were originally the same, and Freeman, in his "History of Cape Cod," quotes Savage as authority in speaking of the Eldridge families of old Barnstable county, beginning with Nicholas, son of Robert Eldredge, as being the first representative under the charter.

( I ) The Beverly Eldredges are of the Harwich branch of the parent family. The first of whom we have any account is Captain West Daggett Eldredge, born in Harwich, March 18. 1785, died in Beverly, Massachusetts, November 4, 1873. He was a mariner for more than thirty years and made numerous voyages to far-distant ports in Europe and the Orient. During his latter years he lived on a farm in Beverly. He married, December 12, 1810. Anna Thissell, born March 28, 1790, died March 30, 1874; children: i. William James, born Beverly, February 17, 1812, died young. 2. \\'illiam West, February 19, 1814; see forward. 3. Esther Thissell, November 18, 1816. 4. Joseph E. F., September 16, 1818. 5. James Flint, June 19, 1821. 6. Annie, September 9, 1823, married, October 10. 1844. James D. Abbott, cordwainer. 7. Elizabeth, born October 9. 1825. 8. Stephen, November 25, 1827. (;. F>enjamin. June 26, 1829, died April 22. 1832.

(II) William West Eldredge, second son and child of West Daggett and Anna (Thissell) Eldredge, born February 19, 1814, died January i, 1891. He was reared and educated in Beverly and lived there all his life. By occupation he was a fisherman and a shoemaker, and also a stone mason. He married, March 24, T836. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of lienjamin and Sarah (Gilham) Obear. of \\>st Virginia, born January 29. 1815. Children: T. Benjamin West, born March 22. 1837. 2. West Daggett, born November 7, 1838 ; enlisted during civil war in Second Heavy Massachusetts Artillery; was transferred to the navy, serving until close of the war as ensign, later hospital steward ; after the war was inspector in government service. 3. Ann Elizabeth. August i. 1840. 4. Perley Gilham. 5. Louise Loring. July 10. 1846.

(HI) Perley Gilham Eldredge, fourth child and third son of William West and Mary Elizabeth (Obear) Eldredge, was born in Beverly. Massachusetts. November 15. 1843. ^^ attended school in liis native city until he was thirteen years old, then struck out for himself and learned the trade of shoemaking. In the year 1886 he formed a firm with Messrs. Millett and Woodbury and went into business, the firm style being Alillett, Woodbury & Company, which was continued until November, when Mr. Eldredge sold his interest. He served in the civil war, enlisting in 1864 in the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, and is a member of Post No. 89, G. A. R. Like his father he is a Baptist in religious preference. He married, April, 1873, ^lary A., daughter of Joshua and Sally (Andrews) Kennison, of Beverly, a descendant of old Massachusetts stock, and ninth in a family of eleven children. Children: Edward I'erley, May 21, 1874, lives at home with his parents; Eleanor Obear,born September 15, 1888, died January 25, 1908.

Suffolk county, England, where his son Henry was born and baptized August 12, 161 5. He married LIrsula, daughter of Henry Scott, of Rattlesden. The will of Henry Scott, dated September 24. 1624, was proved in the court of the archdeaconry of Sudbury, January 10, following. He was buried in Rattlesden, December 24, 1624. The will mentions Abigail. Henry, Elizabeth and Richard Kimball, his grandchildren, the children of Richard and Ursula (Scott) Kimball ; his wife Martha, and sons Roger and Thomas Scott, the latter of whom came to x'Xmerica in the same ship with Richard Kimball and Martha Scott, the widow, aged sixty years. The family came to America in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ipswich, sailing April 30. 1634. The ages of the family as then given were: Richard, thirty-nine, with wife L'rsula and children; Henry, fifteen; Elizabeth, thirteen ; Richard, eleven ; Mary, nine ; Martha, five ; John, three ; Thomas, one. They settled in Watertown. where Henry Kimball, aged forty-two. and family also settled. This Henry is thought to have been a brother. He came in the same ship.

The home lot of Richard Kimball was six acres on the Cambridge line, now in the city of Cambridge, near the corner of Huron avenue and Appleton street. He was admitted a freeman ]\Iay 6. 1635. and was a proprietor in 1636-37. Soon after this he moved to Ipswich, where the settlers required the services of a wheelwright. He followed his trade and carried on his farm, The town granted him a house lot February 23, 1637, next adjoining Goodwin Simons, at the west end of the town. He was granted at the same time forty acres beyond the North river, near the land of Robert Scott. In 1641 he was mentioned as one of the commoners of Ipswich and was appointed one of the selectmen, ("Seven Men") March i. 1645. He had various other grants of land and served on various town committees. He was one of the executors of the estate of his brother-inlaw, Thomas Scott, who died February, 1653-54. He was one of the proprietors of Plumb Island. He married, second, October 23, 1661, Margaret, widow of Henry Dow, of Hampton. New Hampshire. She died March J. 1675-76. His will dated March 5. 1674, was proved September 28. 1675. He bequeathed to his wife fulfilment of marriage contract, and named children and other relatives. He died June 22. 1675, aged eighty years. Children; i. Abigail, born in Rattlesden. Suffolk county, England, died in Salisbury. Massachusetts, June 17, 1658; married in England John Severans ( Severance) ; twelve children. 2. Henry, born in Rattlesden, 161 5. 3. Elizabeth, born in Rattlesden. 1621. 4. Richard, born in Rattlesden, 1623; died May 26. 1676, in Wenham, ^Massachusetts. 5. Mary, born in Rattlesden, 1625, married Robert Dutch, of Gloucester and Ipswich, and had six children. 6. Martha, born in Rattlesden, 1629. married Joseph Fowler, son of Philip and Martha Fowler ; he was killed by the Indians, May 19. 1676. near Deerfield, Massachusetts, in King Philip's war ; had four children. 7. John, born in Rattlesden, 1631, died May 6. 1698. 8. Thomas, born 1633, died Mav 3, 1676. 9. Sarah, born in Watertown, Massachusetts. 1635, died June 12. 1690; married. November 24, 1658, Edward .Allen, of Ipswich, and had eleven children. 10. Benjamin, born in Ipswich. AFassachusetts, 1637, mentioned below. 11. Caleb, born in Ipswich, 1639. died 1682.

(11) Benjamin Kimball, son of Richard Kimball (i), was born in 1637, about the time his father moved from Watertown to Ipswich. He died June 11. 1695. He resided in Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1639 removed to Salisbury, Massachusetts, thence to Rowley, where May 12. 1663. he bought land of Elizabeth Starrett, of Haverhill. This land was in what was later Bradford. On February 20, 1668, at the first town meeting in Merrimack, afterwards Bradford, he was elected an overseer of the town. He bought various other lots of land in Bradford, tie and his brother Richard Kimball were soldiers in 1683-84 in Captain Appleton's company. Another brother, Thomas, was killed by Indians, May 3, 1676. Benjamin was a cornet of horse troops. His iiouse was in the west part of Bradford not far from the ancient cemetery. He was a wheelwright as well as carpenter and farmer.

He married, in Salisbury, April, 1661, Mercy Hazeltine, born October 16, 1642, died January 5, 1707-08, daughter of Robert and Ann Hazeltine. She was one of the first members received into the church at Bradford, when she and sixteen other women were admitted January 7, 1702-03. He owned a fourth part of a saw mill at Haverhill near Amesbury, bought of Matthew Harriman. The gravestones of Benjamin and Mercy Kimball are in the old graveyard. Children : I. Anna, born December 23, 166 1, died January I, 1774; married, April 21, 1682, Richard Barker, of Andover. 2. Mary, born December 2'j, 1663, died February 5, 1664. 3. Richard, born December 3, 1664, died Jannary 10. 1710-11. 4. Elizabeth, born July 24, 1669, married Edward Carleton, of Bradford. 5. David, born July 26, 167 1, died June 14, 1743. 6. Jonathan, born November 26, 1673, mentioned below. 7. Robert, born March 5, 1675-76, died February 24, 1744. 8. Abraham, born March 24, 1677-78, died February 25, 1707-08. 9. Samuel, born March 28, 1680. 10. Ebenezer, (twin), born June 20. 1684, died January 23, 1715. n. Abigail, (twin), born June 20, 1684, died January 23, 1715; married, June 2, 1703, Moses Day. .

(HI) Jonathan Kimball, son of Benjamin Kimball (2), born in Bradford, Massachusetts, November 26, 1673, died September 30, 1747. He married, July 15, 1696, Lydia Day, born March 18, 1676, died September 16, 1739, daughter of John and Sarah (Pengry) Day. He married, second, November 3, 1739, Jane Plummer, widow, who died in 1764. She survived him. Fie bequeathed all his lands to be equally divided between his four sons, Benjamin, Jonathan, Nathaniel and Isaac, November 2, 1733. Children, born in Bradford:

(IV) Nathaniel Kimball, son of Jonathan Kimball (3), born in Bradford, August 30, 1700, died in 1772. He lived in Bradford and owned much real estate. He also owned land in Chester, New Hampshire, and in Dracut and Haverhill, Massachusetts. He married, January 9, 1729, Dorothy Tenney, born 1704, died November 11, 1784. Children: I. Moses, born December 8, 1729, died before his father. 2. Ann, born February 24, 1731, died 1 75 1. 3. Sarah, born October 7, 1733, married, February 17, 1756, Jonathan Chadwick. 4. Lydia, born October 21, 1736, married, April 28, 1768, John Thurston, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 5. Rebecca, born August 3, 1737, married, February 14, 1769, William Foster, of Boxford, Massachusetts. 6. Nathaniel, born July 22, 1739, married, July 29. 1 761, Susanna Bailey, and died soon afterward. 7. Jonathan, born January 10, 1742, died February 19, 1763. 8. Samuel, born November 18, 1743, resided at Boxford. 9. Dorothy, baptized December 3, 1745, died young. 10. Daniel, born June 11, 1747, mentioned below. II. Hannah, born June 29, 1749. married, July 11, 1779, Moses SpolTord.

(\'") Daniel Kimball, son of Nathaniel Kimball (4), born in I^radford, June 11, 1747, was drowned in the Merrimack river while returning from the marsh with a boat load of hay, August 19, 1800. He resided at Bradford. He was town treasurer for a number of years and frequently selectman. While not serving in the revolution, he was very active in town affairs at that time. He was appointed lieutenant in the Fourth company of the Third regiment, Essex county division, June 17, 1786, and was afterwards known as Lieutenant Daniel Kimball. He was a successful man. He married, January 12, 1769, Elizabeth Tenney, born February 5, 1753. died November 9, 1836. Children: i. Betsey, born September 2}^, 1770, died 1817; married. May 31, 1792, Nathaniel Gage, of Andover, Massachusetts. 2. Nathaniel, born July 26, 1772, died October 23, 1778. 3. Mary, born March 3, 1774, married, April 22, 1799, Rev. Jonathan Whittaker. of Sharon, Massachusetts. 4. Jane, born February 26, 1776, married, January 16, 1801, Richard Gage, of Londonderry, New Hampshire. 5.

Daniel, born July 3, 1778, died January 7, 1862. 6. Nathaniel, born April 28, 1780, died at Manchester, New Hampshire. 7. David Tenney, born November 23, 1782, died at Ipswich, February 3, i860. 8. Samuel, born March 9, 1785, mentioned below. 9. Clarissa, born September 24, 1786, died at Needham, Massachusetts, April 30, 1855; married Rev. William Ritchie. 10. Sophia, born October 16, 1788, died August 9, 1826; married, June, 1824, Edward Kimball. 11. Almira, born October 22, 1793, died August 15, 1826; married Leonard Everett, of Canton, Massachusetts.

( \'I ) Samuel Kimball, son of Lieutenant Daniel Kimball (5), born in Bradford, JNIarch 9, 1785, resided and died in Gofifstown, New Hampshire. He married, April 10, 1806, Anna Smith, of Salem, New Hampshire. Children: I. Daniel B., born March 15, 1807, mentioned below. 2. Samuel Augustus, born 21, 1809. 3. William Ritchie, born February 18, 181 1, married Almira Coburn ; married, second, June 11, 1871, Sarah A. M. Grover. 4. Milton, born May 13, 181 5, died January 25, 1816. 5. James Smith, born December 26, 18 16, died September i, 1819. 6. Louisa Maria, born July 8, 18 19, married Henry Lancaster, of Manchester, New Hampshire. 7. Laura Ann Smith, born December 2, 1 82 1, married James V>. Stevens, of Gofifstown, New Hamjishire. 8. Mary Smith, born December 19, 1824, married George Stoddard, of Gofifstown. 9. Susanna Everett, married her brother-in-law, James P>. Stevens. 10. Almira, married Lewis Page.

(VH) Daniel B. Kimball, son of Samuel Kimball (6), born in Bradford, ]\Iarch 15, 1807, died December 28, 1879. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. Early in life he engaged in the shoe and leather trade in Boston, and continued until 1873 when he retired. His place of business was at that time at 67 Kilby street. He resided in Haverhill and Bradford all his life. The section of Bradford in wdiich he lived is now part of the city of Haverhill. He was active in public life, and a man of much influence in the community. He was a prominent member of the Congregational church of Bradford. In politics he was a Republican, though never an aspirant for public office. He was devoted to his home and business. Lie married, June 19, 1838, Charlotte Chandler Tenney, born January 22, 181 5, died February 12. 1907, at the advanced age of ninety-two years and twenty-one days, the only child of James

Chandler and Charlotte (Peabody) Tenney, both members of old Bradford families. She was named for both her parents. Her father was a shoe manufacturer, born April, 1789, in Bradford, died when only twenty-six years old. Her mother was born in Bradford, May 19, 1791, died there June 28, 1823, also in early life. ^

Charlotte Chandler Tenney, when but eight years old, and while Bradford Academy was yet a school for both boys and girls, in 1823, was enrolled as a student, and for ten years following received her education there under lienjamin Greenleaf, the preceptor, and Miss .Abigail C. Liaseltine, preceptress. In 1833, when she was a senior, she and Mary Anne Allen were called upon to assist in teaching. After completing the course, at which time she was not graduated, nor were diplomas granted, she returned to the school as a preceptress, teaching Latin in 1834-35-36. In 1842 she was awarded her diploma, that being the first year in which diplomas were given in the academy. At the time of her death, Mrs. Kimball was the oldest living student of 1 Bradford Academy. Since her marriage she lived in the old Kimball homestead in Bradford, very near the house in which she was born, and which still stands on the lot adjoining the George Cogswell school. During all the years of her long life Mrs. Kimball's interest in her alma mater never lagged, and at the annual reunions and commencements she was always an honored and distinguished guest. During the centennial celebration of 1903 she was present, the oldest student of the school. Ller birthdays in later years were always memorable occasions for a host of relatives and friends, and each year she received from far distant points loving remembrances of school days from classmates and school friends. Her last birthday, a month before her death, was (|uietly observed, but she received the gifts and tokens with smiles, the memory of childhood and schools again revived. She was interested in genealogy, and knew much of the history of the old families of her native town.

Children: i. Charlotte Peabody, born April 24, 1839, educated at Bradford Academy, teacher there for several years ; married, March 15, 1870, John Howard Nichols, born at Kingston, New Plampshire, December 18, 1837, treasurer of the Dw^ight Manufacturing Company and of the Great Falls jVIanufacturing Company; was for several years in business in China : they reside in Newton. ]\Iassa- chnsetts ; children : i. Howard Gardner Nichols, deceased, was born April i6, 1871, graduate of Harvard College in 1893, agent of the Dwight Manufacturing Company at Alabama City, Alabama, where the company has a large mill ; ii. Eleanor Hunnewell Nichols, born April 14, 1872, graduate of Smith College in 1895; iii. Grace Nichols, born July 2t^, 1874; iv. Charlotte Nichols, born February 4, 1879, married Edward Farnham Green. 2. Edgar Leroy, born December 5, 1844. 3. Katherine /\nna, born August 8, 1846, died unmarried January 5, 1890. 4. Alice Carleton, born February 23, 1850, died May 18, 1854. 5. Eleanor H., born July 25, 1855. 6. Grace Haseltine, born September 12, 1858. Miss Eleanor H. Kimball and Miss Grace Kimball reside in the old home, 181 Alain street, Bradford. The children of Mrs. Daniel B. Kimball erected a stone in memory of their maternal great-grandfather, John Tenney.

be son of Nathaniel Wright, and descendant of John Wright, Lord of Kelvedon Hall, who died in 1551, of London, England, and of an ancient English family, was an early settler at Springfield, then Agawam, Massachusetts. He was there in 1639, a proprietor as early as 1641, and removed to the neighboring town of Northampton in 1655 or 1656. He was a prominent citizen, serving the towns in which he lived on important committees and in various offices. He was deacon of the church at Northampton, and in the absence of the pastor sometimes conducted the services and preached regularly in 1656 and 1657. He was admitted a freeman April 13, 1648. He died while asleep in his chair, October 17, 1665. He married, in England,

His will, dated November 10, 1663, proved March 27, 1666, mentions wife Margaret, sons James and Judah, with residue to son Samuel; daughters Mary, Margaret, Hester and Lydia. Children: i. Benjamin, born in England, 1627; died at Northampton, 1668; married at Springfield. 2. Samuel, born about 1629; mentioned below. 3. Hester, born about 163 1 ; married, February 18, 1651- 52, Samuel Marshfield. 4. Margaret, born about 1633 ; married, December 8, 1653, Thomas Bancroft. 5. Lydia, born about 1635 ; married, October 23, 1654. Lawrence Bliss; second, October 3, 1678, John Norton;

(II) Samuel Wright, son of Deacon Samuel Wright (i), was born in England, in 1629. He was an "Engager" for Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1 67 1, and settled there in 1673. He fell a victim to the Indians in King Philip's war, September 2, 1675. He married, November 24, 1653, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Burt. His widow married second, September 26, 1684, Nathaniel Dickinson, of Hatfield. Children: i. Samuel, born October 3, 1654. 2. Joseph, born June 2, 1657; married Thankful Taylor and Mary Barker.

(III) Lieutenant Eliezer Wright, son of Samuel Wright (2), born in Northampton, Massachusetts, October 20, 1668, died May 12, 1753. He was a lieutenant in Father Rasle's war. He came to Northfield with his father in the early settlement. He was a blacksmith by trade. Fie married Mary Pardee, who died August 16, 1746. Children: I. Eliezer, born 1689. 2. Hepzibah, born February 14, 1691 ; died June, 1693. 3. Mary, born September 12, 1695, died May 3, 1714.

(IV) Azariah Wright, son of Eliezer Wright (3), born in Northfield, March 6, 1697, cl'cd October 17, 1772. He was a wheelwright and weaver by trade. He came to live at Northfield in the third settlement July 4, 1727, according to his own memorandum. He married, January 2^, 1726, Elizabeth, daughter of William Arms, of Deerfield, and widow of Ebenezer Field, black-

(V) Captain Azariah Wright, son of Azariah Wright (4), was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, March 7, 1737-38. He had a remarkable career as a soldier and pioneer. In the old French and Indian war he was a soldier under Captain John IJurk, and at Hinsdale in 1757. He was peculiarly fitted by nature for the rough life of a pioneer. He delighted to act in those scenes which tended fully to develop his capacity to overcome the obstacles of an unknown wilderness. As early as 1770 he was captain of a military company at Westminster, Vermont, where he had made his home. He was a strict disciplinarian and he is said to have trained his men with all the rigor and severity of a martinet. He took part in the events of March, 1775, leading up to what is known as the Westminster massacre. The Whigs were opposed to the holding of court by the Tory judges, against whose administration of justice and authority, derived from New York governors, they rebelled. The Whigs took possession of the court house and held it until Sheriff Paterson with a drunken posse attacked them with firearms and drove them out. The Whigs had no guns, and the indignation following the massacre of two men and wounding of others in this assault knew no bounds. Captain Azariah and his company and several other militia companies of the vicinity, sheriff, judges, and all the guilty Tories were thrown into prison, and the prisoners of the sheriff released. But for the outbreak of the revolution this massacre would have been of more historical importance. The Tory prisoners were sent to New York and never tried. His brother, Medad Wright, seems to have been in sympathy with the Tories, or at least with the New York side of this controversy, and accepted a commission as lieutenant from the governor of New York, but never raised the company. He was also constable of the west parish of Westminster. Captain Wright has been called an "Ethan Allen" for the part he took in the New York-New Hampshire land grant difficulties which culminated in this massacre. He was a soldier in the revolution, and in 1776 went with twelve men of his town to Quebec. He made a famous attack on Thomas Chandler, Jr., whom he had had trouble with, and through two very illiterate and abusive letters stirred up opposition enough to cause Chandler the loss of his office as speaker of the house. Chandler sued Wright for ten thousand pounds, and got a verdict for three pounds, but the total cost, as shown by the execution issued, was $806. He was at times an obstreperous person, and at least once had trouble with his second wife, due, she said, to his chastising her. Fle was generally called "L^ncle Riah," He was generally popular, though his quick temper and bold, rough and outspoken manners made him feared by many. The singular recklessness of the man is shown by his hold-up of a minister and church that attempted to excommunicate him. There arc two stories of the cause of the trouble. One states that it started in the factional feeling in the church dating from the departure of Rev. Mr. Goodell under a cloud. Uncle Riah was a friend of Goodell, and had an antipathy for the new minister, Rev. Joseph Bullen, and this feeling led to an outbreak in which Wright tweaked the minister's nose, cuffed his cheeks, and "committed other enormities," so we are told. But the other story has it that Wright stayed at home from church to watch for a sly old bear that was doing much damage to his farm, and that for shooting the bear he was to be turned out of the church. At any rate, his discharge pa])crs were in the minister's hands one Sunday, and Riah came, not only armed, but with a week's provisions in his haversack. When the minister attempted to read the excommunication, Riah aimed his gun and threatened to shoot. The minister dared not proceed, and handed the paper to a deacon, John Sessions. The gun followed the paper, and the deacon declined the job that the parson abandoned. The paper was never read. One account tells of the flight of the pastor and congregation, leaving Wright in the church alone, but it is more likely that an armistice was declared, and the hatchet finally buried, for notwithstanding this rebellion and incendiary per- formance, Riah remained in the church in good standing all his life. His first wife, Mary, died November 27, 1776, aged thirtyfour; his second wife, Mary, died December 8, 1797, aged fifty-five years. He died at Westminster, August 27, 181 1. Children: Azariah, mentioned below, and others.

(V) Azariah Wright, son of Captain Azariah Wright (4), was born in Westminster, Vermont, about 1760. According to the census of 1790 Captain Azariah Wright had four males over sixteen and none under sixteen, besides three females in his family ; his brother Medad, also of Westminster, had five males over sixteen, three under, and three females. The history of Westminster and the town of Dummerston, where Azariah settled about 1790, are interwoven, but the records show that Azariah had a house there about 1800. The father was credited as second lieutenant on the official rolls, 1776. Azariah, Jr., was in Captain William Hutchins's company in 1779; in Major Elkanah Day's company, from Westminster, in 1780; in Captain Benjamin Wright's company, Colonel Bradley's regiment, 1782.

( \T ) Bemis Wright, son of Azariah Wright (5), was born about 1790, in Westminster, or Dummerston. He lived in the adjacent town of Brattleboro.

(ATI) Edward Erastus Wright, son of Bemis Wright ( 6 ) , was born in Brattleborough, Vermont, about 1825. He removed to Boston, Massachusetts, when a young man. followed the sea, and learned the trade of lead worker. He resided at one time at 45 Pleasant street, Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was a Methodist in religion ; a Republican in politics. He married Jane Medcalf, a native of Dublin, Ireland. Children, born in Charlestown: i. John Bemis (twin), born February 27, 1854; mentioned below. 2. Adaline Farnsworth (twin), born February 2^, 1854; married Herbert A. Smith; resides in Aspen street, Roxbury. 3. Sidney Samuel, educated at Warren school, Charlestown ; station agent and postmaster at South Charlestown, New Hampshire ; has always been in railroad work, beginning at the foot of the ladder ; a Republican in politics ; served three years in the United States navy, on U. S. S. "Ossipee" and U. S. S. "Worcester ;" member of Hiram Lodge, No. 9, Free Masons ; Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Sullivan Commandery, Knights Templar, all of Claremont, New Hampshire ; member of the Episcopal Church ; married at Putney, Vermont, April 15, 1883, Mary A. Gline, born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, daughter of Willard Gline, a farmer ; children : i. Daisy Jane, born July 25, 1885 ; ii. Grace Alice, born Alarch 28, 1893. 4- Mary Jane.