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(\TII) John Bemis Wright, son of Edward Erastus Wright (7), was born in Boston, February 2^, 1854. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and then engaged in several occupations suited to his years, until his mother died, leaving him at the age of fifteen entirely dependent upon his own resources. He was bound out as an apprentice in the blacksmith shop at the Charlestown navy yard, and remained until he was of age, when he received the usual diploma. At this time considerable dissatisfaction arose among the employees at the navy yard on account of the unjust suspension of many of them, and Mr. Wright exposed the matter in a series of letters printed in the Boston Herald. A reward ofl:ered by the commandant for the discovery of the anonymous author of these letters led to the blacklisting of Mr. Wright, terminating his connection with the navy yard. While he might have been very useful to the world in a government blacksmith shop, this result of his attempt to reform things in the navy yard gave to the newspaper world an exceedingly useful member. He prepared for a career as a reporter by studying shorthand, while serving his apprenticeship in the blacksmith shop, and he surmounted many practical difficulties in acquiring the art while his working hours were fully employed. He kept hanging before him in the blacksmith shop a great piece of sheet iron on which he wrote with chalk the stenographic characters, studying and memorizing them when blowing the bellows. He came to be a rapid and accurate reporter, giving his days and nights to this work after leaving the forge. He began his newspaper career on the Manchester Union (New Hampshire), afterwards joining the stafif of the IVoonsocket Patriot (Rhode Island). Thence he came to Boston and filled a position as reporter for the Daily Nezvs. After a short time he went to the Boston Herald, where he made one of the most brilliant records as a news writer, achieving a national reputation. While he was police and court reporter he reported the Mable Young case, the Conway case in New Hampshire in 1878-9, the Barron case in Dexter, Maine ; the Buzzell case, and many other noted murders, displaying remarkable detective ability. He made a study of fires in every way, and performed some remarkable feats in reporting conflagrations and fires of an unusual character. His aptitude and success kept him in close touch with the police authorities, who profited wisely by his information and suggestions. Through his efforts a conspiracy on the part of some rascally private detectives to commit incendiarism and convict innocent persons of the crime, for the purpose of securing rewards and gaining a reputation for ferreting out crime, was revealed, and the guilty ones punished. When the famous Buzzell case was tried the second time in New Hampshire courts, Mr. Wright, who believed the accused innocent of the crime for which he was hanged, was so severe in his criticism of the court that contempt proceedings were begun against him, and his escape from punishment was probably due to his keeping outside the jurisdiction of the court. His theory of innocence was based on information that he had of the unreliability of the witnesses who were used in the second trial, and the correctness of his judgment was confirmed by the statement of the boy who was said to have held the gun when the fatal shot was fired at the instigation of Buzzell, that he had been paid by the detectives employed on the case to give the incriminating testimony. This confession was not made, however, until the condemned man was hanged.

When General lienjamin I*\ Dutler made his famous political campaign which resulted in his election as governor of Mas.sachu setts, Mr. Wright followed him over the State, reporting all his speeches, a tremendous piece of work, - for, as is well known, the General was a hard man to follow in every sense of the term, his speech was rapid, and his speeches many. The accuracy of his reporting so won the approval of the speaker that when he was elected, he made Mr. Wright his stenographic secretary, a position he held during the erratic gubernatorial career of the hero of New Orleans. Mr. Wright did good service for the Herald in giving it early news from the executive chamber, and his experience qualified him so well for the work that he was taken back on the staflf, when he was needed no longer at the state house, and he held the position of political reporter. Mr. Wright never lost faith in General Butler and, though he undoubtedly had good cause to distrust the sincerity of his chief on many occasions, he remained loyal to him to the end. Upon his return to the Herald, Mr. Wright soon became the assistant city editor, in charge also of the political news, and his writing under the name, "The Sentinel at the Outside Gate," attracted widespread attention. In March, 1889, he was made head of the department of special writers, a position he resigned in the following September to take possession of the Haverhill Gazette, a daily newspaper, which he bought at that time. During the time Mr. Wright was editor and managing proprietor of that newspaper he placed it in the front rank of Republican journals in Massachusetts. He was bold and aggressive in all his undertakings and never shirked a duty, however disagreeable. Once, when doing night locals for the Herald, while j)assing Hanover street in company with another reporter, he saw three men assaulting a sailor. Without a moment's hesitation the two reporters went to the assistance of the sailer, but the odds were against them, and they sought refuge in an Italian fruit store, followed by the toughs and the rough and tumble fight that ensued attracted the a^ention of the police. Before the identity of the reporters was revealed Mr. Wright received a severe clubbing, but he did not retreat until he had seen his assailants safely lodged in the police station. Then he returned to the office and resumed his work as though nothing unusual had ha|)pened.

Mr. Wright was a member of Haverhill Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; of Palestine Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the Pentucket Club of Haverhill. Personally he was very attractive, and won many friends. He was a natural reporter, a journalist of great discretion and discernment. I le was a brilliant writer, entertaining and clever in handling the simplest subject. His force of character, his pic[uant and virile editorial work on the Gazette, won him a leading j)osition among the editors of the commonwealth. He died at the prime of life, at what promised to be the best years of his life, when he had entered upon a congenial task as an independent editor and publisher of his own newspaper. LI is death was a loss not only to the city of Haverhill but to the whole state. He died October 17, IQOO, after an illness of two months, of a complication of diseases. He was an Episcopalian in religion.

He married May i, 1878, Addie E. Taylor, born in Charlestown, sister of General Charles H. Taylor, publisher of the Boston Globe, and daughter of John Ingalls and Abigail R. ('Hapgood) Taylor. (See Hapgood family).

Her father was born at Salem, May 21, 1816, son of John and Ohve Taylor. John Ingalls Taylor was employed for many years in the Boston navy yard, Charlestown. Children of John Bemis and Addie F. (Taylor) Wright: ]. Robert L., born March 17, 1880; married, igo2, Sally B. Merrill. 2. Addie P., born ]May 20. 1881 ; married William W. W. Russ; children: i. John T. Russ, born May 31, 1904; ii. Natalie Russ, born October 27, 1905; 3. Walter S., born January 14, 1888; 4. ^larian, born December 23, 1894.

Pngland. is very ancient, as the simplicity of the arms show, as follows : Or, on an anchor between three fishes maiant, azure ; crest, a sword and quill in saltire proper. The name is also found spelled Hopgood. The name is first found in England in 1600, when six of the name made their wills ; John Hopgood, of Andover, 1608; John Habgood, the elder, yeoman, of Andover, 1615; Widow Joan Hapgood, of Tangley, February 21, 1603; William Hopgood, tanner, son of William, of North Stoneham, 161 1; Thomas Hopgood, husbandman, of Mottisfont, 1617; and John Hopgood of Tangley, probably son of Joan Hapgood, of Tangley, widow, 1638. These were members of the same family, as ^hown by the wills. John Hopgood, of Andover, whose will was proved in 1608, is supposed to have been the father of John of the same place, who in 161 5 had a wife Alice, and eight children, five of whom were : John, Katherine, Mary (wife of Henry Reade), Anne, and Alice, all of age ; and Robert, Clare and Thomas, then minors. This Thomas was probably the father of Shadrach, mentioned below.

(I) Shadrach Hapgood, immigrant ancestor of all the New England families of that name, was born about 1642, in England. When fourteen years of age he embarked from Gravesend, May 30, 1656, in the ship "Speedwell," Robert Lock, master, and in July of that year arrived at Boston. He went to Sudbury, where he had a cousin, Thomas Haynes, and October 21, 1664, married there Elizabeth Treadway, born April 3, 1646, daughter of Nathaniel Treadway, afterwards of Watertown, and Sufferance (Howe) Treadway, daughter of Elder Edward and Margaret Howe of Watertown, who claim descent from Lord Howe, an English peer. ( hi January 25, 1676, he served with his cousin Peter Noyes and Edmund Goodnow, as appraiser of the estate of Joseph Davis, of Sudbury. He petitioned for a grant in 1678-9, and with others proceeded to take possession of the land which afterwards was incorporated as the town of vStow. He had fifty acres on the south side of the Assabet river, and cleared the land. Before he could remove his family from Sudbury, however, the outbreak of ihe Indians in King Philip's war occurred, and he was summoned to the field. August 2, 1675, the company of twenty men, under Captains Hutchinson and Wheeler, agreed to meet the Indians and treat with them. They were surrounded by two hundred Indians in ambush, and eight of their number killed. Among the killed was Shadrach Hapgood. His wife Elizabeth (married second Joseph Hay ward of Concord, and had four children) v.as appointed to administer his estate, which was appraised at one hundred and forty-five pounds two shillings, September 2, 1675. October 5, 1675, she presented a new inventory, \alued at one hundred and six pounds eleven shillings, praying for an abatement of the difference in consequence of the burning of the house by the enemy. The record says "There are five children left of "Sydrack." Children: i. Nathaniel, born October 21, 1665 ; married Elizabeth Ward, of Marlborough. 2. Mary, born November 2, 1667; married April 10, 1688, John Whitney. 3. Thomas, born October i, 1669; mentioned below. 4. Sarah, born 1672; married, 1691, Jonathan Whitney. 5. Elizabeth, born 1674; died July 20, 1689 ; married probably Edwin Brown, whose estate she administered.

(II) Thomas Hapgood, son of Shadrach Hapgood (i), was born October i, 1669. He settled in Marlborough, and purchased between the years 1694 and 171 1 five different tracts of land from different persons, and this enabled him to draw at subsequent divisions a large amount of land. He owned and occupied at one time between five hundred and seven hundred acres, several farms of which still remain in the hands of his descendants. The spot where he encamped the first night on arriving here and the location of his house was about four miles from the house of his brother Nathaniel, in Stow, two miles south of Fcltonville, forty rods southwest of Round Hill, and four or six rods east of a spring; it is still pointed out. Later, in 1714, he purcliased the right to eighty acres on the north side of Ouinsigamond Pond, where his son 'J'honias settled. He was once chosen select- man, and in 1704 one of the garrison houses m I\i^arlborough was named for him. November 12, 1703, he petitioned the general court for an allowance, alleging that "he having, in 1690, been detached into the service against the Indian enemy, was engaged in the bloody light near Oyster River, New Hampshire, wherein Captain Noah Wiswell and others were slain and wounded : that he then had his left arm broken and his right hand much shot, so that he endured great pain and narrowly escaped with his life; that he was thereby much disabled for labor and getting his livelihood : forced to sell what stock he had acquired before being wounded to maintain himself since, and that in the fight he was necessitated to leave and lose his arms with which he was well furnished at his own charge."' The court granted him five pounds. He died October 4, 1764, in his ninety-fifth year, and an English publication said "Died, at ]\Iarlboro'. New England, in the ninety-fifth year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hapgood. His posterity was very numerous, viz. : nine children, ninety-two grandchildren, tw^o hundred and eight great-grandchildren ; and four greatgreat-grandchildren ; in all. three hundred and thirteen. His grandchildren saw their grandchildren and their grandfather at the same time." A double headstone marks the graves of him and his wife in the old r^lariborough cemetery. Elis will was dated June 10, 1760, and proved October 31, 1763. The estate was inventoried at over five hundred and thirty pounds, and he had in his lifetime given each of his sons farms. He married, about 1603, at Marlborough, Judith Barker, born September 9, 167 1, died August 15' 1759' daughter of John and Judith (Symonds) Barker, of Concord. Children: I. Mary, born October 6, 1694; married October 17, 1 71 7. John \Mieeler. 2. Sarah, born February 10, 1696; married first, Jonathan Howe; second. March 4. 1745-6, Benjamin Hoar, of Littleton ; died January 16, 1770. 3. Judith, born February 24, 1698; died November 8. 1742; married July 5, 1721. Lieutenant Eleazer Taylor, of Marlborough. 4. Elizabeth, born October 4. 1699; married November 28. 1717. Sergeant William Taylor; died March 17. 1763. 5. Thomas, born April 18, 1702; married August 12. 1724. Damaris Flutchins ; died October 5. 1745. 6. Hepsibeth. born June 27, 1704, married, 1822, Edward Goddard ; died July 19, 1763. 7. John, born February 9. 1706-7; mentioned below. 8. Huldah, born February 10, 1709; married

(HI) John Hapgood, son of Thomas Hapgood (2), born February 9, 1706-7, died May 26, 1762. He settled on the northwesterly part of the homestead in Alarlborough, March 18, 1735, when he received from his father one hundred and five acres of land. His will was dated April 3, 1762, and proved June 14, 1762, his widow being executrix. He married, February 17. 1731, Abigail Morse, born- ]\Iay 12. 1712. died March 31, 1798, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Stow) Morse, of ^Marlborough. He was one of the alarm list in Captain Weeks's company, 1757; was selectman several years, and a man of influence in the town. Children: i. Jonathan, born February 12. 1732; died December 14, 1736. 2. David, born July 4, 1734; died January 5. 1737. 3. Abigail, born January 16, 1737; died August 9, 1739. 4. Mary, born June 4, 1740 , married November 24, 1757, Charles Brooks. 5. Judith, born November 8, 1742; married ]\Iay 2, 1764, Solomon Barnes; died April 19, 1820. 6. Hazadiah, born July 7, 1745; married May 20, 1766, John Nourse. 7. Persis, born July 19, 1748; died November 10, 1748. 8. Hepzibah, born June 5, 1749; married May 30, 1769, Jonas Howe. 9. John, born October 8, 1752; married January 5, 1775, Lois Stevens. 10. Abigail, born August 13, 1755; married September 15, 1772, Thomas Rice; died April, 1828. II. Jonathan, mentioned below.

('I\') Deacon Jonathan Hapgood, son of John Hapgood (3), was born in IMarlborough. May 16, 1759, died April 12, 1849. He was a farmer, and lived on the homestead in Marlborough. He was elected deacon of the First Church in 1821. He married, May 6, 1783, Jerusha Gibbs, born 1762, died March 2, 1842. Children: i. David, born June i, 1783; mentioned below. 2. Persis, born May 1, 1785; married July 21, 1803, Benjamin Rice: died January 4, 1821. 3. Nathaniel, born September 14, 1787; married May 22, 1808, Elizabeth Barber. 4. Abigail, born February 4, 1790; married Josiah Oilman, of Tamworth, New Hampshire. 5. J-'rancis, born August 2, 1792; married, 1814, Dorcas Willis. 6. Jerusha, born December 13, 1794; married Rev. Elisha Perry, of Paxton. 7. Hepsibeth, born June 20, 1798; married December 3, 1818, Moses Barnes; died May 4, 1865. 8. Moses, born April 11, 1801 ; died April 15, 1805. 9. Ann Gibbs, born ^larch

(VI) Abigail Russell Hapgood, daughter of David Hapgood (5), born April 28, 1819, died at Roslindale, March 9, 1888. She married. May 21, 1842, John Ingalls Taylor, born at Salem, Massachusetts, May 21, 1816, died at Haverhill, March 31, 1890, son of John and Olive Taylor. They resided in Charlestown, where all their children were born. Children : i . Mary Elizabeth Taylor, born January 15, 1843; married August 16, 1867, R. L. Spear, of Boston, who died June 12, 1892.

2. Charles Henry Taylor, born July 14,1846; married, February 7. 1866, Georgianna Olivia Davis ; was educated in the public schools and at the age of fifteen was employed in a general printing office in Boston, in which the Massachusetts Ploughman and the Christian Register were set up ; worked in the Boston Traveler ofifice in 1861 in various capacities; at sixteen enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and served a year and a half under General N. P. Banks; was badly wounded in the assault upon Port Hudson, and honorably discharged. He reentered the Traveler ofifice, and after some time in the composing room became a reporter, and soon made his mark as an intelligent and ready writer with a nose for news ; at this time he learned shorthand, and did much work in that line ; also earned considerable reputation as a correspondent for papers in other cities, his letters to the Nezv York Tribune and Cincinnati Times attracting much attention. January I, 1869, he became private secretary to Governor William Claflin, later a member of his military staff, with rank of colonel; in 1872 was elected representative to the general court from Somerville, and reelected the following year ; defeated William S. Robinson in 1873 for clerkship of the house. In August he took charge of the Boston Globe, a new paper trying to get a foothold ; after five years without much success, he reorganized the paper into a Democratic two-cent daily conducted on popular lines, and this proved to be the turning point in the fortunes of the paper ; the record of the Globe is one of the romances of daily journalism, and places Charles H. Taylor's name among the first in journalism. 3. Gecrge William Taylor, born February 24, 1850; died ]\Iarch 10, 1868. 4. Nathaniel Hapgood Taylor, born March 4, 1854; married April 12, 1881, Anna Brooks, of x\ugusta, Maine. 5. Addie Frances, born September 4, 1855; married, May i, 1878, John B. Wright, of Charlestown (see Wright family). 6. Abbie Maria, born September 4, 1855 (twin) ; died December 4, 1855. 7. John Ingalls, born September 3, 1859; died December 18, 1867.

The name Tapley is common TAPLEY in England, and there are various spellings, among them Tapleigh, Topley, Topping, Toppan, Tapling and Topling. It is supposed to be a place-name, fpund in Cheshire. Branches of the family lived in the early part of the seventeenth century in Marldon and Paignton, near Exeter, England. The earliest record of the family is in 1553, of a John Tapley of Dawlish. There are two coats-of-arms recorded for the Tapley family ; Gules, on a fess between three escallops argent a lion passant azure ; and the following ; Gules, on a fess between three crosses crosslet fitchee, argent, a lion passant azure.

( I ) John Tapley, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England, in 1638. He married, in Salem, Massachusetts, December 6, 1663, Elizabeth, daughter of John Pride, of Salem. He was a fisherman, and settled in Salem, where he bought land in 1666 of John Mason. March 21, 1678, he sold his house and one- naif his land at the Cove to John Higginson. He was one of the petitioners in 1680 for a new church at Salem, and was a taxpayer at Salem for many years. He was living in 1693, but his wife survived him and made her home after his death with her daughters Elizabeth and Mary. She died in 1720. Children: I. Elizabeth, born January 20, 1664; married Matthew Barton, as his second wife. 2. Mary, born December 10, 1667; died July 14, 1668. 3. John, born April 7, 1669 ; mentioned below. 4. William, born August 30, 1670; married March 7, 1698-99, Elizabeth Cash. 5. Hannah, born April 21, 1672. 6. Robert, born December 17. 1673. 7. Mary, born June, 1678 ; married September 17, 1706, Christopher Batten. 8. Samuel, born February, 1683; married July 15, 1703, Elizabeth \''ealy. 9. Benjamin, born TY-bruary 3, 1688.

(II) John Tapley, son of John Tapley d), was born in Salem, April 7. 1669. He married probably Anne Lewis, daughter of I^eter and Grace Lewis, of Kittery, Maine. He was taxed one year only, 1691, in Salem, and probably removed in the vicinity of Portsmouth. Children: i. William, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married October 3, 1725, \\'illiam Partridge.

(III) William Tapley, son of John Tapley (2), was first mentioned as of Portsmouth. New Hampshire, where his first five children were born. Lie afterwards removed to Kittery, Maine. It is supposed that in early life he was a fisherman, but he was a tailor in his later years. He married, ^larch 19, 1726- 27, Rebecca Briar, of Portsmouth. She renewed the covenant at Portsmouth, October 20, 1728. and joined the church November 7, 1736. Children, baptized by Rev. John Emerson and Rev. \Mlliam Shurtlefif, at Portsmouth: T. Sarah, baptized October 20, 1728. 2. Thomas, baptized October 20, 1728. 3. Mary, baptized October 19. 1729. 4. William, baptized January 24. 1731. 5. Elizalieth. baptized August 10, 1735. 6. Joseph. l)orn 1733: married Mary Pierce; was in the Revolution. 7. Job, born September 14, 1736; mentioned below. 8. James Robert (?), born 1754. 9. Peletiah ( ?).

(V) Peletiah Tapley, son of Job Tapley (4), was born in Kittery, Maine, October 2, 1757. He married Sallie Stover, born at Brooksville, ^Maine, August 25, 1768, died there August 16. 1823. He died there October 23. 1 83 1. He removed from Kittery to Bragaduce, now Brooksville. about 1780, and settled on the right bank of the l>ragaducc river, in a log house which he built. He was one of the petitioners for the division of Bragaduce and the incorporation of Penobscot in 1785. In 1793 he was one of the incorporators of the First Parish Church at Penobscot. From 1784 to 1891 forty-five Tapley children have been born on the old Tapley ])lace, only one of whom died in infancy. Children, born in Brooksville: i. Susannah, born April 2-], 1784; died May 28, 1848: married, December 23, 1802, Jacob Osgood.

(VI) William S. Tapley, son of Peletiah Tapley (5), born at Brooksville, March 13, 1796, died at Worcester, Massachusetts, August 3, 1878. He went to Danvers, Massachusetts, when a young man, and worked as a weaver in Fowler's mill at Danversport. He resided ,at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and in various places in Maine during his life. At the time of his death he was a machinist by occupation. He married first, March 24, 181 8, Eliza Stevens, born at Danvers, February 6, 1795, died at South Danvers, September 15, 1832. He married second, at Newburyport, March 18, 1834, Caroline Bartlett, of Newbury, born March 18, 1812. Children by first wife: i. Eliza Kane, born at Brooksville, Maine, February 9, 1819; mentioned below. 2. George Stevens, born May 27, 1820; killed at South Mountain, Maryland, in the civil war, September 14, 1862. 3. Rebecca Stevens, born at Deer Isle, Maine, December 25, 1821 ; married, January 16, 1842, William T. Hewins ; died November 9, 1893. 3- William T., born at Surry, jNIaine, October 20, 1823; mafried, June 4, 1848, Martha A. Hale. 4. Elvina S., born at Surry, July 3, 1825; married first, William O. Wallis ; second, December 28, 1864, William J. Duckrell, who died July 29, 1894. 5. John S., born at Surry, July 16, 1828; died September 6, 1829, at Danvers. 6. Captain Frederick Chillis, born at Amesbury, Massachusetts, November 25, 1835; married first, September 3, 1867, Mary G. Clark; second. May 19, 1887, Emma J. Bonney; died September 8, 1896; was in civil war. 7. Henry, born September I, 1837; died 1854. 8. Moses Bartlett, born at Amesbury, September 8, 1839; married Mrs. Elizabeth (Stagg Riker) Stocking; died December 17, 1895. 9. Caroline, born at Amesbury, August 4, 1841 ; died i860. 10. Abby Ann, born at Newburyport, November 12, 1843; married February 14, 1866, George W. Davis. 11. MeHnda, born at Newburyport, July 26, 1845; died February 16. 1861. 12. Edward Burrill, born July 30, 1848; married first, 1872, Ella Sawm ; second, January 6, 1876, Lucy Sawm; died January 21, 1885. 13. Maria C, born at

(VII) Eliza Jane Tapley, daughter of William Tapley (6), was born at Brooksville, Maine, February 9, 1819. She married, at Danvers, Massachusetts, February 17, 1846, Israel Warren Andrews, born at Danvers, July I, 1820; (see Andrews family). She died at Danvers, June 4, 1876. Children: i. George Warren Andrews, born September 17, 1846; married Agnes White, of Watertown, and had daughter Agnes. 2. Mary Eliza Andrews, born April 26, 1848; died at South Hadley, September 27, 1867. 3. Sarah Ann Andrews, born April 26, 1848 (twin) ; married Daniel Peabody, of Bradford, had son Edward Peabody. 4. Benjamin Stevens Andrews, born March 6, 1850; married May 17, 1 88 1, Emma E. Farrington, born at Au Sable Forks, New York, 1856; died 1897. 5. Elvina Wallis Andrews, born April 20, 185 1 ; married Charles Lane, of Beverly, and had George, Charles and Fred Lane. 6. Martha Gould Andrews, born June 15, 1864; married Edward Davis, of Haverhill; (see Davis family).

England, before 1600, came to Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1635, from Morwich, county Norfolk, England, owner and master of the ship "Angel Gabriel." His sister Mary Andrews married Robert Burnam, and her three sons (John, Thomas and Robert Burnam) were on this vessel when it was wrecked near Pemaquid, Maine, in a violent storm, August 15, 1635. This ship was of two hundred and forty tons burden, and carried sixteen guns. After his loss. Captain Andrews left the sea and settled in Chebacco (now Essex) Massachusetts, formerly Ipswich. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635, and licensed to keep the first ordinary or tavern in the town, September 3, 1635. His house lot was on the south side of the river, near the church. He had many grants of land and acquired a large estate. He died 1643. His will, dated April 2, 1641, proved at Ipswich, March 26, 1643-44, bequeathed to wife Elizabeth, sons John and Thomas, son-in-law Franklin; daughter of Elizabeth; grandson Daniel Hovey; John, son of Humphrey Griffin, and two other sons all under twenty-one years ; to kinsmen John, Thomas and Robert Burnam. Children: i. Alice, married William Franklin, of Ipswich. 2.

Abigail, married Daniel Hovey, of Ipswich. 3. John, born 1620 : mentioned below. 4. Thomas, born in England, school master at Ipswich; died unmarried, July 10, 1683.

(II) Lieutenant John Andrews, son of Robert Andrews (i), was born in England in 1622, according to a deposition that he made in 1692. He was called the oldest son in his father's will, April 2, 1641. He was a soldier in the Pequot war, 1639. Some authorities think that Lieutenant John was not John, son of Robert, but the evidence gathered by the writer is conclusive. He is called corporal in the early records. He was a baker, also a carpenter, by trade. He was received as an inhabitant of Ipswich, 1646, and sold land there, 1652, to Mary Webster. He held the ofifices of surveyor of highways, 1666. He died at Ipswich, 1705, his will being dated ]\Iarch 13, 1705. He married first, Jane (?), (laughter of Stephen Jordan, and she is mentioned in the will of Stephen Jordan. His wife Sarah died April 29, 1666. Children: I. John, born 1648; lieutenant in King Philip's war. 2. William, called second son. 3. Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Joseph ; children born 1685-97. 5- Elizabeth, married James Giddings.

(III) Thomas Andrews, son of Lieutenant John Andrews (2), was born about 1660. He (|uitclaimed his interest in his father's estate in 1716-17. He married, February 9, 1681, Mary, daughter of Thomas Belcher of Chebacco. He married second, (intention dated April 8, 171 1 ), Mary Smith, who died March 31, 1731. Children: I. Thomas, mentioned l^elow. 2. Mary, married. April 17, 1 703, Samuel Browne, of Reading; receipted for legacy from father's estate ]\Iarch 6, 1720.

(IV) Thomas Andrews, son of Thomas Andrews (3), was born about 1685. He was executor of his father's estate. Children : I. Thomas, born about 1712; resided at Danvers; married, May 17, 1735; will dated at Danvers, November 29, 1759, proved December 24, 1759; John Andrews, witness; bequeathing to wife Sarah, children Thomas, Israel, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah and Aaron, the first four minors in 1759; children, born at Salem : i. Thomas, born October 20, 1736, had son John; ii. Israel, born September 20, 1738, died 1771 ; iii. Sarah, born February 20, 1740; iv. Elizabeth, born August 31, 1743, died January 5, 1745; v. Elizabeth, born July 22, 1746; vi. Hannah, born June 21, 1749. 2. John, mentioned below.

administered his estate, appointed April 20, 1753; estate divided in 1771. She was appointed guardian of the children, mentioned below, April 20, 1753, all being under fourteen. The estate was indebted to Solomon and Jeremiah Andrews, cousins. Children : I. John, born about 1740. 2. Mary, married Samuel Hadlock. 3. Elizabeth, married John Curbee. 4. Sarah. 5. Stephen ; mentioned below.

(\'I) Stephen Andrew% son of John Andrew (5), born about 1742, died before his father. His widow was appointed guardian of their two children: i. John, born 1765. 2. Israel, mentioned below.

(VII) Rev. Israel Andrew, son of Stephen Andrew (6), was born in Danvers, 1766; graduated at Harvard College, 1789, receiving his master's degree, 1794. He died in 182 1. I fe resided in ^liddleton, Massachusetts, and Blue Hills, Maine. He married Sallie Landouer, of French Huguenot ancestry, of Middleton, Massachusetts. Children: i. John, died single. 2. Mary, married Franklin Pierce. 3. Winthrop, was a shoe dealer in Danvers. 4. Israel Warren ; see forward.

(\'III) Israel ^\'arren Andrews, son of Rev. Israel Andrews (7) , was born at Danvers, July I, 1820, and died November, 1898. He was educated in the public schools of Danvers. He was thrown upon his own resources by the death of his father when he was but an infant, and became a wage earner in early youth. W'hen a young man he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes for several years, i'.ut the larger part of his life was spent in the i)ublic service. He was elected to represent his district in the general court, and repeatedly re-elected. He was afterward state senator, serving a period of twelve years in the two houses. He was prominent in both bodies. His strong convictions of right and wrong, his ability as a public speaker and his energy and faithfulness as a legislator, together with his long service, made him one of the leading men at the state house. He was active in the Greenback party, and was its nominee at one time for governor of the commonwealth. He served for forty years on the school committee of Danvers ; was one of the nine original trustees of the Peabody Institute ; for many years justice of the peace, and known to all his friends as Judge Andrews. Except during the period of Greenbackism, Judge Andrews was a Democrat in politics. In appearance he was of commanding figure, six feet in height, weighing two hundred and ten pounds, kindly in disposition, and of magnetic personality. He married, at Danvers, February 17, 1846, Eliza Jane Tapley, born at Brooksville, Maine, February 9, 1819, died at Danvers, June 4, 1876, daughter of William Tapley. (See Tapley family). Children, born at Danvers: i. George Warren, born September 17, 1846; has resided since about 1878 in the west, and for many years was engaged in educational work ; prominent Free Mason, having taken the thirty-second degree; married Alary Agnes White, of \Vatertown ; daughter Agnes married George Russell, of New York. 2. Mary Eliza, born April 26, 1848 (twin) ; died at South Hadley, Massachusetts, September 27, 1867, while a student at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. 3. Sarah Ann, born April 26, 1848 (twin); married Daniel Peabody ; son, Edward A. Peabody. 4. Benjamin Stevens, born March 6, 1850; principal of grammar school at Manchester, New Hampshire; died 1897; was well known in educational circles; married. May 17, 1881, Emma E. Farrington, who was born at Au Sable Forks, 1850. 5. Elvina Wallis, born April 20, 185 1 ; married Charles Lane, of Beverly, Massachusetts ; children : i. George A. ; ii. Charles Y. ; iii. Frederick A. 6. Martha Gould, mentioned below.

(IX) Martha Gould Andrew, daughter of Israel Warren Andrews (8), was born in Danvers, June 15, 1864. She was educated in the public schools of her native town and at Bradford Academy. She married, July 19, 1881, Edwin Ayer Davis, born 1857, son of Alfred and Abbie (Crowell) Davis. (See Davis family). Mrs. Davis is owner and manager of "The Leonard," a first-class apartment house at the corner of Pleasant and Pecker streets, Haverhill. It was formerly the home of the late James Winchell and stands on one of the most sightly and attractive sites in the city. Children of Edwin Ayer and Alartha Gould Andrew: i. Israel Warren Davis, died at age of eight years and seven months. 2. Ralph Eaton Davis, died aged sixteen months. 3. Leonard Augustus Davis, born in Bradford, September 25, 1893.

Hampshire. He married Polly Emerson, who died January 21, 1863, aged seventy-one years eleven months twelve days. He died September 7, 1833, aged forty-one years. Children: i. Phineas E., born June

(II) Alfred H. Davis, son of John Davis (i), born August 29, 1822, died October 26, 1893. He was educated in the public schools. Early in life he went to sea and shipped on several whaling voyages. In 1849 he joined the Argonauts who went to California for gold. L^pon his return he located in Salem, New Hampshire, and engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes for several years. He spent his last days in Ayer \^illage, where he died. He was one of the first to enlist in the Union army when the civil war broke out and served his term of nine months in a regiment of Massachusetts volunteer militia. He married Abigail M. Crowell, daughter of Jonathan and Betsey Crowell. Children: i. Ella F., married first, William Cain, and had child Cora; married second, Augustus B.« Caswell, of Haverhill. 2. Ralph E., resides in Alanchester, New Hampshire, married Mrs. Loretta George. 3. Edwin Ayer, born 1857; married Martha Gould Andrew; (see Andrew family). 4. Alfred, died young. 5. Elizabeth J., married William P. Owens ; children, Evelina and Alfred.

Gild, Guild, Guile, Gille, and Gile. According to dififerent opinions the name is derived from Gild, a village green ; or Guile, as much liquor as is brewed at once ; or Gille, the Scotch word for servant. The late Benjamin Guild, of Boston, while traveling in Great Britain, procured from the Herald's College in London a coat-of-arms which was said to belong to the Guild family, described as follows : Azure, a lion rampant, or ; Crest, on a wreath an arm couped, holding in the hand a broadsword; ]\Iotto, "]\Iaintien le Droit." There are several coats-of-arms of the Guild family, used by English and Scotch families of that name. Nearly all the persons by the name of Guild, Guiles, Guile and Gile in America, are descended from the immigrant brothers, John and Samuel Guild or Guile. They came with their sister Ann about the year 1636, when they were quite young. The marriage of James Allen and Ann Guild is recorded in Dedham, ]^Iarch 16, 1638, and the births of four of their children. John Guild settled in Dedham also and built a house there in 1640. He married, June 24, 1645, Elizabeth Crooke, and had seven children. He died October 4, 1682.

(I) Samuel Guile (Gile), the immigrant ancestor, was one of the first settlers at New'- bury, going there after a brief stay at Dedham. He remained there but a short time, and in 1640 was one of twelve who settled Pentuckct, now Haverhill. He was admitted a freeman in 1642. He received land in 1650 at Little River, and in 1652 ten acres of the second division. In 1658 he entered into an agreement for the support of a blacksmith, and had land at the third division. In 1660 he built a house and had a fourth grant of land. He died February 21, 1683. Part of his original estate still remains in possession of his descendants. He married, September I. 1647, J^idith Davis, daughter of James Davis, an immigrant, coming from Marlborough, England. He made his will February 16, 1683, a few days before his death. Children, born at Haverhill: i. Samuel, born .\ugust 30, 1648; died September, 1675. 2. Judith, born April 2, 1650; died .\pril 28, 1672; married. January 21, 1671, Joseph Page. 3. John, born December 8, 1652; married Sarah Sutton. 4. Hannah, born February, 1654: died young. 5. Sarah, born ^larch I, 1657-58; married, November 8. 1682, Peter Pattee. 6. James, born August 2"], 1660; married Ruth Parker. 7. Ephraim, mentioned below.

(II) Ephraim Gile, son of Samuel Gile (i ), was born at Haverhill, March 21, 1661- 62. He resided there, and in 171 1 was "one of the soldiers supplied with snow shoes for emergency in case of attack by the Indians." He was probably the Ephraim Gile who cut the first way to Cheshire, and was admitted an inhabitant of Chester in 1720. He married, January 5, 1686, Alartha Bradley. Children, born at Haverhill: i. ^lary, born February II, 1687; married, January 15, 1705-06, Thomas Clough. 2. Hannah, born August II, 1690; married Jonathan Clough. 3. IMehitable, born December i, 1692; married, December 29, 171 5, Nathaniel Johnson. 4. Sarah, born January 20, 1694-95 ; married, March 3, 17 17, Samuel Davis. 5. Daniel, born December 10, 1697 ; married Joanna Heath. 6. Judith, born ]May 3, 1700; married Henry Green, of Killingly, Connecticut. 7. Samuel, born February 13, 1702-03; mentioned below. 8. Ephraim, born August 15, 1705- 9- Ebenezer. born September 11, 1 70S; married Lydia Johnson.

(Ill) Samuel Gile, son of Ephraim Gile (2), was born at Haverhill, February 13, 1702-03, and died there December i, 1775. He was called of Chester in 1723. He married Sarah Emerson, born in 1708, died September 10, 1804, probably daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Philbrick) Emerson. His will was dated February 21. 1769 and proved March 4, 1776. Children, born at Haverhill: I. Hannah, born November 10. 1727;

(I\') Major John Gile, son of Samuel (jile (3), was born at Haverhill, January 4, 1739-40. He was enrolled in the militia at Haverhill in 1757 and 1758, enlisted for the invasion of Canada, and was in the expedition to Lake George, and at the reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. He bore the title of Major. In 1779 and 1780 he was selectman of Nottingham, New Hampshire, and in 1781 was one of a committee to consider a ])ian of government for the state. His will is dated ]March 13, 1800. He married Mary Xealley, daughter of Matthew and Margaret (Beverland) Nealley. Children, born in Nottingham: I. Anna, born August 20, 1763; died January 7, 1841 ; married, 1782, Samuel Gault. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Mary, born July 7, 1765; married.

(V) John Gile, son of John Gile (4), was born at Nottingham, New Hampshire. He married Lydia Tuttle, who died at Effingham, New Hampshire. He was drowned in the harbor of Wilmington, North Carolina, about 1819. Children: i. George, born 1794; mentioned below. 2. John, married Alary Rogers, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. 3. Ira, died unmarried at Chelsea, Massachusetts, July 5, 1858. 4. William, married first,

Catherine Tuttle, born at Northwood, New Hampshire, March 11, 1793; died April 6, i860; married first, Joseph Stevens; second, Ebenezcr Lovering Bennett. 6. Sally, married - - Smith, of Hollis, Maine. 7.

(AT) George Gile, son of John Gile (5), was born at Lee, New Hampshire, in 1794, and died at Durham, New Hampshire, November 4, 1828. He resided in Durham, and was a farmer, and a mason by trade. He married Clarissa Durgin. Children: i. Erastus, born January 29, 1818; mentioned below. 2. Sylvester, died young. 3. Mary, died young. 4. Joseph Stevens, born August 25, 1825 married Harriet B. Chandler, and had seven children.

(VH) Erastus Gile, son of George Gile (6), was born at Lee, New Hampshire, January 29, 18 1 8, and died April 23, 1893, at Andover, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He worked on the farm until seventeen years old, when he began to serve an apprenticeship of three years at the mason's trade. He worked as a journeyman for a time and then went into business as a mason and builder, in partnership at first with John Farnum, later alone, and finally taking into partnership his son Edward E. Gile. He was in active and successful business for a period of thirtyseven years. The death of his son and partner in 1888 was a severe blow to the father and he sold out his business and retired. Four years later he died at his home in Andover. He was the leading mason of that section for many years and had the largest contracts. He displayed unusual business ability and was a master of his trade. He was a man of much force of character and exemplary habits, being abstemious in drink and using no tobacco. He supported every important movement for the betterment of his fellow citizens or the improvement of the town. In politics he was a Democrat, in religion an Episcopalian. He commanded the fullest meed of respect and confidence from his townsmen. He married, September 15. 1842, Amanda Georgette Manning, born February 26, 1814, at Tewksbury^ Massachusetts, died March 23, 1895, at Andover, Massachusetts, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Simonds) Manning, of Tewksbury. Children, born in Andover: i. Amanda Georgette, born September i, 1843, unmarried. 2. Mary Eliza, born March 8, 1845, unmarried. 3. Sarah Manning, born October 23, 1846; unmarried. 4. Clara Durgin, born xApril 26, 1849; died September 23, 1851. 5. Edward Erastus, born April 28, 185 1 ; educated in the Andover schools and learned the trade of mason under his father's eye, entering partnership with his father ; died unmarried in 1888. 6. Sylvia Annie, born April 20, 1854, unmarried.

Richard Bartlett was born BARTLETT in Wiltshire, England, 1575. He was a shoemaker by trade. He was one of the earliest settlers of the old town of Newbury, ]\Iassachu setts. The family name in England is ancient and distinguished ; it was formerly spelt variously fjartlet, Bartlot and Bartholet. Richard Bartlett was living in Newbury before 1637, and died there May 25, 1647. His family Bible - one of the famous "Breeches Bibles," so-called from the translation of the word for the original garment worn by Adam and Eve), is now owned by W^illiam Bartlett, of Lowell ; he received it from his father. Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, late president of Dartmouth College. The records of his children's births are given, and the statement "Richard Bartlett bought this book Anno Domini 1612." Richard Bartlett was the progenitor of Hon. Josiah Bartlett, of New Hampshire, signer of the Declaration of Independence, foremost citizen of that state. His oral will, proved September 29, 1647, stated that John had already received his share ; bequeathed to Christopher, Joane and her four daughters, to Richard and John

(II) Richard Bartlett, son of Richard Bartlett (i), was born in England, October 31, 1 62 1. He was called a shoemaker and yeoman on various records. He resided first in Oldtown, Newbury, Massachusetts, removing finally to Bartlett's Corners, near Deer Island, on the Merrimac river. He was reputed to be a facetious, genial and intelligent man. He represented the town in the general court. His will was dated April 19, 1665, and proved July 18, 1698. Fle married

(III) Samuel r'artlett, son of Richard Bartlett (2), was born at Newbury, February 20, 1645-46. He was, like his father and grandfather, a cordwainer (shoemaker) by trade. He settled in Newbury and was a zealous opposer of the royal governor, Andros, and at the crisis in the English rebellion he rode to Boston in order to help put Sir Edmund Andros in prison. He died ]\Iay 15, 1732, aged eighty-six years. He married, May 23, 1671, Elizabeth Titcomb, who died August 26, 1690. Children: i. Elizabeth, born May 13, 1672; married Joshua Brown. 2. Abigail, born April 14, 1674; married Abraham Merrill Jr. 3. Samuel, born March 28, 1676. 4. Sarah, born July 7, 1678; unmarried. 5. Richard, born February 23, 1679-80. 6. Thomas, born August 13, 1681, mentioned below. 7. Tirzah, born January 20, 1683-84; ^married, January 22, 1687, Joseph Sawyer!" 8. Lydia, born November 5, 1687; married, December 27, 1722, Matthias Plant, of Newbury; died October 8, 1753.

(IV) Thomas Bartlett, son of Samuel Bartlett (3), was born in Newbury, August 13, 1 68 1. He learned the tanner's trade, and settled in Newbury. He died May 4, 1744, leaving an estate valued at four thousand eight hundred and thirty pounds. He owned land at Falmouth, now Portland, and Narragansett, No. i, now Buxton, Maine, and Kingston, New Hampshire. The signer of the Declaration of Independence resided at Kingston. He owned also Deer Island, in the Merrimac river, bought in 1727. He married, February 14, 1710-11, Sarah Webster, of Salisbury, who died January 17, 1726-27. Children: i. Israel, born April 30, 1712, mentioned below. 2. Tabitha, born in November, 1713; died unmarried, 1779. 3. Enoch, born April 5, 1715. 4. Dorothy, born February 23, 1717; married, December, 1737, Cutting Moody; died September i, 1741. 5. Nehcmiah, born February 21, 1719; died August 24, 1741. 6. James, born April 30, 1721 ; died August 24, 1741. 7. Thomas, born September 16, 1723. 8. Sarah, born June 13, 1725; married John Coggswell, Jr., trader, March 19, 1752, at Haverhill; died September 12, 1799.

(V) Israel Bartlett. son of Thomas Bartlett (4), was born at Newbury, April 30, 1712. He followed the family vocation of tanner, and resided in his native town except between the years 1738 and 1746, when he resided in Nottingham, New Hampshire. His farm there is still known as the Bartlett place ; it is on the north side of the common. He was a magistrate, and was widely known as "S(|uire" Bartlett. He died May 17, 1754, at the early age of forty-two. He had a pew in Queen Anne's Chapel, and his estate shows that he owned a negro man and girl. His widow married second, Joseph Lunt. He married. May 7, 1738, Love Hall, a descendant of Governor John Winthrop and Governor Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts. Children: i. Joseph Hall, born March 7, 1739, in Nottingham. 2. Sarah, born November 25, 1741, in Nottingham; married Colonel Windborn Adams, who was killed at Saratoga; married second, Colonel Hobart, of Exeter, where she died in 1823. 3. Thomas, born October 22, 1745, mentioned below. 4. Israel, born May 8. 1748, in Newbury. 5. Mary, born in Newbury, August 17, 1751. 6. Josiah, born March 13, 1753.

(VI) Thomas Bartlett, son of Israel Bartlett (5), was born in Newbury, October 22, 1745; married, August 19, 1773. Sarah Cilley, daughter of General Joseph Cilley, Thomas Bartlett was lieutenant-colonel of a regiment under Stark at Burgovne's surrender; was at W^st Point at the time of Arnold's treason ; was speaker of the house of representatives of New Hampshire, and judge of the court of common pleas ; died June 30, 1805. He was judge from 1790 to the time of his death. He was a selectman of the town of Nottingham, New Hampshire, where he lived, from 1782 for some years; was justice of the peace in 1 78 1. His son Bradbury was appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1832. The New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls give this abstract of his military service. He was sergeant in Captain John Willoughby's company, Colonel Chase's regiment, sent to assistance of northern army in the fall of 1777; lieutenant-colonel in Colonel Steven Evans' regiment, 1777 and 1778 ; muster master in 1777, raising troops to join Stark, and later in the war was colonel of his regiment. He lived in what is known lately as the David Lucy place. Children, born in Nottingham : I, Israel, born 1774; married Sarah Butler, daughter of Zephaniah and Abigail (Cilley) Butler; ancestor of General Benjamin F. Butler (See Butler family). Abigail Cilley was a sister of General Joseph Cilly ; they resided in Nottingham. 2. Joseph, born March 22, 1776; was a school teacher; died in Lee, New Hampshire, 1805. 3. Thomas, born April 24, 1778; mentioned below. 4. Jonathan, born July 2, 1780; resided in Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire ; married Lovy Laskey, of Lee. 5. Hon. Bradbury, born January 21, 1783, was representative to state legislature; senator; judge of court of common pleas; general of state militia ; married Alolly True, daughter of Benjamin and granddaughter of Abraham True, deacon. 6. Sarah, born July 26, 1785. 7. Hon. Josiah, born March 31, 1787; lieutenant in war of 1812; married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin True. 8. David, born April 29, 1789, resided at Epping, New Hampshire ; married Susannah, daughter of Major Greenleaf Cilley. 9. Enoch, born July 6, 1791 ; died December 20, 1818, unmarried. 10. Betsey, born August 6, 1793, died unmarried. 11. Jacob, born June 16, 1796; died unmarried. 12. Patty, born November 7, 1798, died young.

(Vn) Thomas Bartlett, son of Colonel Thomas Bartlett (6), was born in Nottingham, April 24, 1778; married, August 25, 1805, Mehitable Ford. He removed to Haverhill about 1830, and died there September 29, 1842. He was a farmer and lawyer, like his father and grandfather. He was a prominent citizen of Nottingham. Children: i. Joseph, born February 21, 1807. 2. Alice, January 27, 1809. 3. Thomas, December 29,

(VHI) Thomas Bartlett, son of Thomas Bartlett (7), was born in Nottingham, December 29, 1 8 10. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He was a keen student and close observer. He acquired a liberal education and a thorough knowledge of law. While he was a farmer all his life, he also practised law. Indeed, from the time of Israel Bartlett (5)^ born 1712, his ancestors had combined the profession of law with the occupation of farming. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were lawyers, and many of their sons as well. These country squires were distinguished for their common sense and excellent judgment. The law library of Thomas Bartlett (8) is now in the possession of his son^ Albert L. Bartlett, and contains many ancient volumes of interest to antiquarians as well as lawyers. He was a Whig in politics and he and his wife were members of the Christian church. He died October, 1857, in the prime of life. He married March 4, 1844, Patience Hawkins, born 1819, died September 2, 1891, daughter of Joseph and Nabby (Jenness) Hawkins. Children: i. Thomas S., born January 14, 1846. 2. Horace E., born August i, 1847, graduate of Dartmouth College, 1869; principal of Haverhill high school, later of Lawrence high school ; was an attorney, and partner of Hon. William H. Moody. 3. Albert Leroy, mentioned below.

(IX) Albert Leroy Bartlett, son of Thomas Bartlett (8), was born in Haverhill, ^Massachusetts, June i, 1851. He attended the public and high schools of his native place, and graduated in 1872 from Dartmouth College with the degree of A. B., receiving in 1875 the degree of blaster of Arts from his alma mater. He took up the profession of teaching, and began in 1872 in the Sawin Academy at Sherborn, Massachusetts. From 1875 to 1882 he was a teacher in the public schools of Bradford, Massachusetts, and from 1882 to 1888 was sub-master of the Flaverhill high school. He resigned to accept the position of superintendent of public instruction in the city of Haverhill, a position he filled with distinguished ability and success until 1897 when he resigned to devote all his time to literature and lecturing. From 1895 to 1897 he was lecturer on English language and literature in the New Hampshire summer normal school. In 1900 he was a lecturer at the Massachusetts summer normal school, held at Martha's Vineyard, and in 1901 at the summer normal school of Virginia. He is the author of "History of the Haverhill Academy and High School" (1900) ; "Essentials of Language and Grammar" (1900); "A Golden Way" (1902); "The Construction of English" (1903) ; "The Elements of English Grammar" ( 1906) ; and of articles in various magazines from time to time. Mr. Bartlett is one of the leading authorities in educational matters in New England. He has a national reputation through his books and addresses, and numbers among his friends many of the distinguished teachers and American men of letters.

Mr. Bartlett has never married. He is a member of Mizpah Lodge, L O. O. F., of Haverhill ; member of the Worth Congregational Church; trustee for many years of the Haverhill l\iblic Library ; and for a number of years chairman of the Haverhill Park Commission. In 1907 Mr. Bartlett donated to the city of Haverhill the land upon which the city built a school building at a cost of $50,000, and which was named the Albert L. Bartlett school, in recognition of his valuable gift.

The surname Parker is de- PARKER rived from the Latin parcariits, park keeper or shepherd. Danes, Saxons and Normans in England all seem to have had the name in use as a surname at an early date. Parens and de Parco are found in the Domesday Book. As early as 900-925 in the reign of Edward I, a Jeoffrey Parker is mentioned, though before the days of common use of surnames. At first the prefix Le (the) was common, and it is altogether likely that many Parker families had their origin like other families named for occupations in many dift'erent lines, distinct and unrelated. The coat-of-arms of the Brownsholme family of Parker, the pedigree of which is traced to William Le Parker of Extwistle, Lancashire, before 1400, and which seems most likely that to which the American line belongs : Vert, a chevron between three stags' heads, caboshed or. Crest : a leopard head affrontes erased or ducally gorged gu. Motto: Sepre ande

(Dare to be just). This coat-of-arms has descended through the Park Hall and Staffordshire lines " and is now used by Sir Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, England. It is similar to the earlier coat-of-arms of the Parker family of Extwistle, and doubtless modified from that design.

(I) Thomas Parker, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1609. He came to America in the ship "Susan and Ellen," sailing from London Alarch 11, 1635, in charge of Sir Richard Saltonstall, with whose family tradition connects that of Parker. He settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, and was admitted a freeman May 17, 1637. He was one of the first settlers in Lynn Village or Reading, and on his homestead in the eastern part of that town he and his descendants lived until 1822, when Deacon Parker, the last of the family to occupy it, died. He was a very active and prominent citizen, a man of ability and substance. He was appointed a commissioner to try small causes in 1636; was selectman in 1661 and five other years, and often honored with positions of trust. The "Parker Genealogy" locates his house within thirty rods of the present town hall of Wakefield, formerly the south parish of Reading, and on the east side of the common, adjoining the estate of Rev. Samuel Haugh. Parker was deacon of the Reading church. He gave his age as thirty when he left England; was seventy-eight when he died in 1683. His wife died January 15, 1690. His will dated August 3, 1683, bequeathed to his wife Amy; sons John, Thomas, Nathaniel, and Plananiah ; daughters ]Mary and ]\Iartha; grandchildren Samuel and Sarah Parker ; to John "a great Bible that Boniface l^urton gave me." Children: I. Thomas, born at Lynn, in 1638;

(II) Lieutenant Hananiah Parker, son of Thomas Parker (i), was born in 1638; married, September 30, 1663, Elizabeth Browne, twin sister of Joseph Browne. She was born in Reading, December 10, 1647, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Browne. Her father was a native of Inkberrow, Worcestershire. England, son of Edward Browne. Hananiah

Parker settled on land adjoining his father's farm. He was admitted a freeman October 15, 1679. He was chosen ensign of the Reading military company in 1680; lieutenant in 1684. He was one of a committee chosen by the general court to locate the highway between Woburn and Reading. He was selectman, town clerk, and deputy to the general court seven years. In 1707 he and Captain John Brown were appointed a committee to provide a school master for the town and they engaged John Webb, of Braintree, to teach "Reading, writing, casting accounts and the Latin and Greek tongues." His wife Elizabeth died February 27, 1697. He married second, December 22, 1700, Mary (Bursham) Bright, of Watertown, daughter of William Bursham, and widow of Deacon, John Bright, of Watertown. He died March 10, 1724; she died January 4, 1736, aged eighty-seven years. His will was dated May 20, 1703. Children: i. John, born August

3. 1664; mentioned below. 2. Samuel Parker, born October 24, 1666 ; married Martha Brown, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3. Elizabeth, born June, 1668; married, November 17, 1685, Samuel Cowdrey, of Reading.

( HI ) John Parker, son of Hananiah Parker (2), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, August 3, 1664. He married, October 2, 1689, Deliverance Dodge, daughter of John and Sarah Dodge, of Beverly, Massachusetts. She was born March 10 or 15, 1661. They settled soon after marriage on part of the original Deacon Thomas Parker place in the center of the town, his farm adjoining that of his father, Hananiah. Three of the deeds of John Parker and a record of his marriage in "his own handwriting have been preserved. In 1699 he purchased of John Poole, land on the north end of the Great Pond, Lake Ouanapowit. He bought and sold many other lots of land in the vicinity. He was a constable of Reading. In the spring of 1712 Parker removed with his family to Lexington, then Cambridge Farms, and settled on the homestead still occupied by his descendants. He was fence viewer in Lexington in 1714: tithingman in 1714 and 1721. He must have been a man of character and dignity, for in seating the meeting house in 1731 he was placed on the second seat with Ensign John Mason, Thomas Mead, and other leading citizens. His wife Deliverance died at Lexington, March 10, 1718; he married second, joiner by trade, and he built a shop in which he made farm implements, furniture and useful things. He taught his trade to his sons, and they in turn to theirs for many generations. He died January 22, 1741, aged seventy-eight. Children of John and Deliverance Parker, all born in Reading: i. Sarah, born July 5, died July 9, 1690. 2. Hananiah, born October 10, 1691 ; died 1711, a soldier in Queen Anne's war in Annapolis, Nova Scotia expedition. 3. Andrew, born February 14, 1693, mentioned below. 4. Josiah, born April 11, 1694; married Anna Stone, of Lexington. 5. Mary, born December 4, 1695; died 1709. 6. John, born and died in 1696. 7. Edie, born August 19, 1697; died 1709. 8. John, born November 8, 1703 ; married Experience Cloyes or Clayes, of Framingham.

(IV) Andrew Parker, son of John Parker (3), was born in Reading, February 14, 1693, and was nineteen years old when he removed with his father to Lexington in 1712. He was a husbandman and wood worker, energetic and industrious, of strong physique and great size. He was fence viewer in 1725 ; constable. He died April 8, 1776, at the age of eighty-three. He and his wife joined the church at Lexington, November 4, , 1724, when three of their children were baptized. He married at Lexington, August 2, 1720, Sarah Whitney, who was baptized April 22, 1703, daughter' of Isaiah and Sarah Whitney, of Lexington. Eleazer Whitney, father of Isaiah, settled in Cambridge Farms in 1693. He was the son of Thomas, born April 7, 1662, and grandson of the immigrant, John. (See Whitney family). Children of Andrew and Sarah Parker: i. Sarah, born February 9, 1721 ; married, June 21, 1739, Jabez Kendall, of Woburn. 2. Jonas, born February 6, 1722; married, 1745, Lucy Monroe, of Lexington. 3. Amos, born July 2"/, 1723; married, 1745, Anna Curwen Stone, of Lexington. 4. Elizabeth, born 1725; died young. 5. Thomas, born December 24, 1727; mentioned below. 6. Abigail, baptized July 27, 1729. 7. Lucy, baptized April 4, 1731 ; married. May 24, 1750, Joshua Mead, of Lexington. 8. Elizabeth, baptized June 22, 1735. 9. Andrew, baptized April 6, 1738; married, November 29, 1759, Abigail Jennison. of Water- town. 10. Keziah, baptized June i, 1740; married, June i, 1759, Joseph Wyman, of Lunenburg. 11. Ebenezer, born 1742, died young. 12. Mary, baptized October 21, 1744. (V) Thomas Parker, son of Andrew Parker (4), was baptized in Lexington, December 24, 1727; married in Lexington, by Rev. Ebenezer Bridge, Alarch 8, 1750, Jane Parrot, then of Chehiisford, born in 1729. He Hved on a part of his father's homestead in the south part of the town of Lexington, neighbor of his cousin, the famous hero of the battle of Lexington, Captain John Parker. Thomas was quartermaster of his miHtary company at Lexington in 1774. In 1776 and 1777 he was selectman and an active patriot. At the time of the battle Thomas was home sick. When the British were despoiling and ransacking the houses two of them entered the Parker house and ]\Irs. Parker w'as obliged to yield to their demands to see the house. But while apparently allowing them free access to the rooms she had her daughter carry rope to the father's room. Though sick, he was of great size and strength, and when the two soldiers appeared in his room he took them both by surprise, tied them securely and gave them over to the colonial authorities. His only son Ebenezer was fighting in his company. Parker was shrewd in business and prudent, acquiring a competence. He sold his land in Lexington to his cousins and bought timber land in Shrewsbury, new land in Hubbardston, formerly owned by his brother Amos. He bought a farm in Prince- Ion of Elisha Hedge, of Alarlborough, !^Iassachusetts, and with his son settled in that town in 1777. It was known as the Black Grove Farm. There his descendants are still living. It is an elevated region overlooking water close at hand and the West Sterling valley to the eastward, while at the west Mount ^^'achusett and picturesque Princeton adorn the landscape. He added several hundred acres to his original holding and sold to later settlers. Other Lexington settlers came and bought of him. The small red brick house erected early on this place was followed by a large brick house adjoining it, used as a tavern by Thomas Parker and later by his son Ebenezer, the original house serving as kitchen. He bought of John Bradley the meeting house half-pew used so many years by his descendants. Pie died July 3, 1799; his widow Jane died August 17, 1814, aged eighty-five, both being buried in the family burying ground on the homestead.

Children, born at Lexington: i. Ebenezer, born August 13, 1750; mentioned below. 2. William, born I751, baptized December 29; died young. 3. ]\Iary, baptized July 13, 1760; married .Jonas Smith, of Waltham. Two other children died in infancy.

(YI) Deacon Ebenezer Parker, son of Thomas Parker (5), was born in Lexington, August 13, 1750, and was baptized August 19. He married at Lexington, December 3, 1772, Dorcas Munroe, born at Lexington, November 14, 1750. daughter of William and Tabitha (Hobbs) IMunroe. Her mother was the (laughter of Josiah Hobbs, of Weston, and second, William Munroe, blacksmith, son of Lieutenant John Munroe, of Lexington, who with others had a grant of nine hundred acres of land for their service in the Indian Fight at Lamprey River, June 6, 1690. Ebenezer I'arker was in Captain John Parker's company of Lexington minute-men, having the rank and duties of corporal. He showed much coolness on the morning of the fight, remaining on the field while the company was obeying the orders to disperse, attempting to dissuade his uncle from remaining in accordance with a vow not to run from the British. The enemy w^cre approaching and surrounding them, however, and, unable to change his uncle's determination, he made his escape. He then joined in the march to Concord, the return and the running raid on the retreating Red-coats. He marched to Cambridge with his company May 6, 1775, and at the battle of Bunker Hill w^as in Captain John Parker's company assigned to guard the Neck. In 1777 he removed with his father to Princeton, and he and his wife were dismissed by the Lexington church to Princeton, November 9, 1788. His father deeded his real estate to him in 1795, amounting to three hundred acres, and in 1794 Ebenezer had increased his holdings to six hundred acres, besides owning farms in Stamford, \^ermont, Rindge and Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, and Barre, Massachusetts. He was active in church and town afifairs ; deacon of the Princeton church. He was assessor in 1782 and for almost twenty years thereafter. He was selectman most of the time from 1786 to 1805. In 1796, 1797 and 1800 he was representative from his district comprising Rutland and Oakham as well as Princeton. He settled many estates and held many positions of trust. His tavern business was large for his time, and he kept as many as ten riding horses, thirty cattle, and forty sheep. Like his father, he was large and sturdy in physique. On account of feeble health he was unable to be present at the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington when eleven of his comrades were present. His wife Dorcas died suddenly November 28, 1798. He married, second, Mary (Binney) Rice, widow of Solomon Rice, who died in Princeton, September 25, 1794. By her first husband she had two children: Betsey Rice, and John P. Rice, who became a well known merchant in Boston. She died March 22, 1816. He died October 19, 1839, at the advanced age of eighty-nine, and was buried, as were both wives, in the cemetery on the homestead. His children were all by the first wife, the first three being born and baptized in Lexington. Children: i. Abijah, born May 28, 1773; died August 21, 1775. 2. Quincy, born April 29, 1775; married Patience Brooks, of Princeton. 3. Betsey, born June 8, 1777; married Benjamin Gould. 4. Polly, born May 4, 1779; married first, Rufus Dodds, of Princeton ; second. Dr. Isaac Warren. 5. Lucy, born March ii, 1781 ; married first, Jonas Beaman, of Princeton ; and second, Edward Han ford, of Camden, Maine. 6. Ebenezer, Jr., born June 4, 1784; mentioned below. 7. Bitha (Bethia), born July 26, 1786; married Charles Folger, of Camden. 8. Aurelius D wight, born April 23, 1803, a prominent Boston lawyer ; died unmarried.

(VH) Ebenezer Parker, Jr., son of Ebenezer Parker (6), was born in Princeton, June 4, 1784; married, February 27, 1806, Hannah B. Merriam, born at Concord, March 11, 1785, daughter of Captain Amos and Deborah (Brooks) Merriam. Her parents were married December 25, 1783, at Lincoln, Massachusetts. Her father. Captain Amos, died September 16, 1804, aged forty- four ; his widow married second, Stephen Merrick, who died May 20, 1827; she died November 10, 1844. Ebenezer Parker remained upon the homestead until 181 8 when he took up the place now known as the Princeton poor farm, part of the original homestead, a short distance northeasterly from the old house. He was both farmer and clothier. He had a fulling mill at the outlet of the pond and did much business in finishing homespun for the farmers. After the destruction of the old brick house on the homestead by fire in the winter of 1835, he took charge of his father's farm. He then spent a few years in Ware, Massachusetts, but returned and built the present house on the homestead, in company with his son Frederick. He. was a man of excellent character and ability; a useful and active citizen. He was selectman in 1829; representative to the general court from his district in 1841, 1842 and 1843. At the age of seventyfive he was in good health, tall, vigorous and erect. He died at the age of eighty-five, October 25, 1869. He was a devout member of the Princeton Congregational church. His wife Hannah, a model housekeeper, a loving mother and an attractive woman, lived long and happily, dying August 31, 1876, in her ninety-second year. Children: i. Louisa, born December 13, 1806; married Eli Walker, of Holden. 2. Charles Augustus, born August 18, 1808; married Sylvia A. Moore. 3. Frederick, born June 19, 1810; married Eunice C. Howe, of Princeton. 4. Ebenezer Warren, born October 28, 1813; married Chloe A. Parmenter, of Oakham. 5. Adaline (twin), born October 24, 181 5; married Stephen H. Smith, of West Boylston. 6. Amos (twin), born October 24, 1815; married Sarah Merrill, of Beverly. 7. George (twin), born February i, 1818; married Emily R. Collier, of Northfield. 8. Child, unnamed, born and died February i, 1818. 9. Deborah ]\Ierriam, born September 9, 1819; married Israel Howe, of Princeton. 10. William Wheeler, born March 2, 1824; married Emily Walker, of Holden. 11. Edward Hanford, born December 28, 1825 ; married Mary C. Brown, of Boylston. 12. Lucy Maria, born September 10, 1828, died March 7, 1829.

(VIII) George Parker, twin son of Ebenezer Parker (7), was born in Princeton, February I, 1818. Married, September 14, 1841, Emily R. Collar, daughter of Rev. Hezekiah and Rhody (Robbins) Collar, of Northfield, Massachusetts. They lived in Lowell and for a few years only upon the Princeton homestead. In 1856, accompanied by his brother, E. Warren Parker, he went to Urbana, Illinois, to live, but he soon returned. In 1874 he removed to East Blackstone, Massachusetts, where he lived the remainder of his life. He died January 20, 1893, i" his seventy-fifth year. Children: i. Walter E., born September 27, 1847, mentioned below. 2. Herbert, born in Lowell, April 23, 1850; was a freight transfer clerk in the employ of the Providence & Worcester Railroad ; died unmarried January 23, 1873.

life were passed in Illinois, whence the family returned in 1861 to Westboro, Massachusetts, and then to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Early in 1863 he entered the employ of the Social Mill, Woonsocket, as clerk in the counting room, continuing to attend school, however. After two years he devoted all his time to his duties at the mill, except a few months spent at a drawing school in Boston. He worked his way steadily and with persistent energy to responsible positions in the mill, and when it was enlarged he made the plans and assisted in carrying them out. He became superintendent of the Globe Mill of Woonsocket, October 27, 1876, continuing in this responsible position until April i, 1881, when he left to take charge of the cotton department of the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was appointed agent of the Pacific Corporation, January i, 1887, a position he has since occupied with great success. He was from January 8, 1878, to January 12, 1892, a director of the Producers' National Bank of Woonsocket. In 1886 was made a trustee of the estate of Charles Nourse and is still serving in that capacity. In Lawrence he became vice-president of the JNIerchants' National Bank when it was organized in 1889. For several years he has been a trustee of the Essex Savings Bank, and is now its president. He was president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association in 1889, 1890 and 1891 ; president of the Lawrence Lumber Company; president of the City Mission; chairman of the board of advice of the Lawrence General Hospital ; a trustee with Judge Bell and Wilbur E. Rowell of the "White Fund," and by virtue of this a trustee of the Lawrence Public Library; a trustee of the Lowell Textile School ; was a member of the first license committee of the city of Lawrence ; in 1904 was alternate to the Chicago convention which nominated President Roosevelt; one of the founders of the Textile Club and its second president (this is for New England) ; a trustee of the Lawrence Home for Aged People; trustee of Tufts College and chairman of the finance committee ; has been a director of the Lawrence Gas Company. He is a member and formerly vicepresident of the Home Market Club, member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of the Society of Arts, London, England, and was formerly a member of the Boston Athletic Association. He has been connected with the Masonic Order since 1869, when he became a member of Morning Star Lodge of Woonsocket, of which he was master in 1877. Fie was commander of Woonsocket Commandery. Knights Templar, for two years. In politics he is a staunch and influential Republican. In 1877 he was president of the town council of Woonsocket. He is a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Universalist) Lawrence, Massachusetts.

He married first, October 12, 1870, Anna Augusta Elliott, of Woonsocket, daughter of Nathaniel and Olive A. (Jenks) Elliott. She died February 4, 1875. He married second, May 2, 1877, Alida Charlotte Willis, born at North Dana, Massachusetts, January 26, 1849, daughter of the Rev. lohn H. and Charlotte (Gleason) W^illis. of College Hill. She died September 9, 1885. He married third, January i, 1888, Mary Bradley Beetle, of Lawrence, daughter of John and Harriet (Brown) Beetle, of Nantucket. Child of first wife: Herbert S., born October 18, 1874. Child of second wife : Helen, born June 27, 1878.

John Adams was an early AD.AMS comer and first settler in the west part of Cambridge, long called Menotomy, later W^est Cambridge, and now Arlington. By many he is believed to be the son of Henry Adams, of Braintree, coming to America with his parents when young, returning with his mother to England, and coming again with his wife and daughter at a later date, and settled in Caml^ridge. Elisha Thayer, in his "Memorial of the Thayer and Adams Families," says that John, son of the first Henry, went with his brothers Thomas and Samuel to Concord and Chelmsford, where he was in 1654; "after this period I have not been able to trace him." Shattuck, in his "History of Concord," says John came to Concord, removing thence to Cambridge, where he was in 1650. Dr. James Savage, author of the "Genealogical Dictionary" which was designed to give an account of all the earliest or first comers., wrote "that he was son of Henry, as amiable credulity would assume, is highly improbable, since he came twenty years or a little less after that great progenitor, and so long outlived him, dying between June and October, 1705-06." Dr. Bond says he was "probably the eldest son of George of Watertown."

self, wife, daughter, and seven sons. An aged descendant has written that his ancestor John, of Cambridge, was a Scotchman. Numbers of Scotch settled in West Cambridge, and John's eldest daughter Rebecca married Nathaniel Patten, a Scotchman. That there was a John, brother of Thomas of Chelmsford, would seem probable from the record ; January i, 1654, Thomas of Concord and wife Mary conveyed to Samuel Stratton two parcels of land, including the house "lately called the house of John Adams." October 6, 1656, "John of Chelmsford" deeded to Samuel Stratton, of Concord, a dwelling house, etc., situated near Fair Haven, Massachusetts. No wife's signature appears to the deed. He (John) was "of Chelmsford" in 1656. Was he "John of Cambridge" whose wife was Anne, and whose children were born and baptized in Menotomy between 1650 and 1656? Thayer says John was in Chelmsford in 1654, after which he was not able to trace him.

John Adams, of Cambridge, was a millwright, and resided in Menotomy about 1650, with his wife Anne and his eldest daughter Rebecca, born in England. He was admitted a freeman in 1666. He made his will March 6, 1705-06, and died soon afterward at an advanced age. He mentions his wife Anne, sons John and Joseph, grandson William, granddaughters Martha Smith and Rebecca. His widow was living in October, 1714, when as executrix with her son "John of Sudbury," of the will of her husband, she deeded four acres to her grandson Joseph of Cambridge. Children: i. Rebecca, born in England; married, November 24, 1669, Nathaniel Patten; died December 18^ 1677. 2. Mary, born October 25, 1652; married John Eames, of Watertown ; died April 3, 1681. 3. John, born in Menotomy, about 1654; died young.

(H) Joseph Adams, son of John Adams (i). born in Menotomy, 1664, died July 20, 1701. He received from his father, September 4, 1697, a deed of the Adams homestead in Menotomy. His estate was administered by his widow, August i, 1701. He married, February 21, 1687-88, Margaret Eames, born July 8, 1666, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Blanchard) (Paddlefoot) Eames, of Sudbury. She married second, December 27, 1705, Lieutenant Daniel Dean of Concord. She was captured by the Indians February i, 1675-76, when her mother and some of the children were killed and their house at Framirigham burned. Children: i. Lieutenant Joseph, born 1688-89; mentioned below. 2. Abigail, born in Menotomy; married, April 4, 1705, John Robbins. 3. Captain Daniel, born in Menotomy, January 3, 1690; married first, April 23, 171 5, Elizabeth Minot; second, October 30, 1765, Mrs. Hannah Benney; died February 9, 1780. 4. Cherry, baptized January 31, 1697; married first, November 17, 1712, Jonathan Stone; second, Thomas Wellington; third, August 9, 1763, Captain James Lane. 5. John, born April 16, 1698; married, December 13, 1722, Love, sister of Elizabeth Minot; died October 25, 1725, aged twentyeight.

(HI) Lieutenant Joseph Adams, son of Joseph Adams (2), born in Menotomy, 1688- 89, died there October 18, 1774, aged eightysix. Was selectman and assessor of Cambridge five years between 1729 and 1738. He married first, January 18, 1710-11, Rebecca Cutter, born January 18, 1692-93, died January 12, 1717-18, daughter of William and Rebecca (Rolfe) Cutter, of Cambridge. He married second, June 26, 1718, Rachel Allen, who died a widow, August i, 1775, aged eighty-five. Children of first wife, born in Menotomy: i. Thomas, born December 3, 1711; died November 17, 1713. 2. Captain Thomas, born August 20, 1713; married first, September 22, 1737, Anna Frost; second, Lydia Chadwick ; third, September 15, 1754. Mrs. Elizabeth (Sanders) Bowman; commanded a company in the Indian war ; died November 9, 1802. 3. Deacon Joseph, born July 3, 1715; married first, January 20, 1740, Martha Frost; second, September 4 or ii, 1750, Hannah Hall. 4. Margaret, born May 26, 1717; married, October 21, 1736, Elijah Doubleday. Children of second wife, born in Menotomy: 5. Rebecca, born September 12, 1720; married, November 27, 1740, Samuel Kent; died 1793. 6. Lucy, born October 29, 1722; married, May 21, 1745, John Cutter; died April 17, 1810; no issue. 7. Captain William, born January 12, 1725; mentioned below. 8. Mary, born April 2, 1727; died young. 9. Anna, born July 8, 1729; married, April 19, 1750, Peter Tufts; died February 17, 1813. 10. Mary, born May 12, 1733; married first. June 6, 1751, Nathan Tufts; sec-

(IV) Captain William Adams, son of Lieutenant Joseph Adams (3), was born in Menotomy, January 12, 1725. He was ensign of the precinct train band in 1771, and was a captain in the revolution, in Colonel Thatcher's regiment, and marched to Dorchester Heights on Washington's order. He was selectman of West Cambridge, 1779. He died September 10, 1778, aged sixty-three. He married, June 14, 1750, Sarah Hill, died November II, 1805, aged seventy- four years. Children, all born in Menotomy: i. Deacon John, born July 21, 1751 ; mentioned below. 2. William, born December 12, 1753; married, June 26, 1781, Hannah Stone; died July 9, 1820. 3. Sarah, born April 10, 1756; married, October 19, 1773, James Perry, Jr. ; died July 19, 1780. 4. Lucy, born September 7, 1758; married, February 4, 1777, John Cutter; died November 9, 1830. 5. Anna, born March 2, 1761 ; married first, Alarch or April 25, 1781, Richard Hay ; second, Kendall Bailey. 6. Rebecca, born June 10, 1764; married, March

(V) Deacon John Adams, son of Captain William Adams (4), born in Menotomy, July 21, 1 75 1, died March 31, 18 19. He was chosen deacon at Menotomy, April 19, 1792; was selectman of Cambridge seven years, between 1781 and 1795 ; a member of the precinct committee, 1792-93, 1802, 1805; assessor of precinct, 1792-93-95, 1801, 1807. He married first, December 22-24, 1773- Ruth Perry, died July 22, 1751 ; married second, November 18, 1777, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Gardner. She died April 20, 1785, and he married third. July 26, 1786, Hannah Phelps, who died December 16, 1854, aged ninety-three years. Children of first wife: i. John, Jr., born June

(VII) John Adams, son of John Adams (6), born in North Andover, February 26, 1803, died February 10, 1875; married, January 16, 1827, Eliza A. Stevens, born April 21, 1807, died in North Andover. He resided at North Andover, where all his children were born. Children: i. George, born April i, 1827; married, February 16, 1853, Harriet E. Smith, of Exeter, New Hampshire, died June 23, 1896; he died in Jersey City, New Jersey,

(VIII) Edward Adams, son of John Adams (7), was born at North Andover, April 19, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. In his youth he worked on the homestead helping his father, but began when a young man in his present business as contractor. From a modest beginning with a single team he has worked his business up to large proportions. He has made a specialty of road building, and has built many sections of state roads in Massachusetts. He owns two stone crushers and has an extensive outfit for heavy teaming. In the winter season his men and teams are employed in lumbering, and he does a large business in timber and firewood. After making a success of his business he lost all his property twice through fire, and had to make a new start in life. He stands well in the business community, having an enviable reputation for high-class and reliable work, for personal integrity and good judgment. He has invested in North Andover real estate to a large extent, owning twelve tenements besides his homestead. He is a Republican, and has served the town for three years as street commissioner. He is a member of the Unitarian church of North Andover, and belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and to the Village Improvement Society.

He married, October 5, 1875, Susan Underwood Abbott, born June 12, 1857, at North Andover, daughter of Orlando and Charlotte (Stevens) Abbott. (See Abbott family), (Children: i. George O., born at North Andover, December 26, 1877; chemist in state experimental laboratory and station, Lawrence; married, June 23, 1901, Pearl F. Chase, born at Lawrence, December 24, 1876; child, Francis C, born August 5, 1904. 2. Charlotte, born in North Andover, June 5, 1884; married Francis B. Gallagher, of North Andover.

1653, baptized at Cambridge, died April 2, 1738. He was executor of his father's will. He was a farmer at Menotomy, at the "Foot of the Rocks," and bought various parcels of land. He was admitted to the Cambridge church August 6, 1721. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and probably took part in the Swamp fight. He married, March 6, 1677, Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Isabel Hall, of Cambridge. Children:

I. Gershom, born June i, 1679; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born September 14, 1682; married Jonathan Hall, of Medford, born September 28, 1677. 3. Hannah, born November 26, 1684; married, December 22, 1702,

II, 1701, Mehitabel, daughter of George and Sarah (Farnum) Abbott, of Andover. She was born April 4, 1680, granddaughter of George Abbott, of Rowley ; owned the covenant and was baptized May 10, 1702. He had the homestead "Under the Rocks" at Menotomy. In 1747 he and Francis Lock were fined for walking from Cambridge to Newton to attend religious services, but they appealed to the court of sessions and the judgment was reversed. He died July 7, 1753. and his wife, March 28, 1757. Children: I. Thomas, born

May 8, 1702, at Cambridge. 2. Gershom, born January 13, 1703, mentioned below. 3. George, born October 7, 1705; married Jane Butterfield. 4. Hannah, born December 29, 1707; married Thomas Emmons. 5. Mehitable, born October 9, 1709; married Ephraim W'inship Jr. 6. Lydia, born August 23, 171 1- 12; married John Whittemore. 7. Sarah, born 1714; baptized October 31. 8. Richard, baptized January 22, 17 16- 17. 9. Nehemiah, born 1717; married, July 17, 1739, jNIartha Bowman. 10. Isabel, baptized January 25, 1719-20; married Jonathan Winship, of Lexington. II. Aaron, baptized June 24, 1722; married Mary Moore, of Cambridge. 12. Thomas, baptized November 17, 1728.

(VI) Gershom Cutter, son of Gershom Cutter (5), born February 19, 1733-34, died suddenly of apoplexy. West Cambridge, April 20, 1804. He resided in "Under the Rocks," and owned a mill privilege near his house and erected a mill for grinding and turning edge tools, in which business he was engaged for many years. His dwelling was entered by British troops during the retreat from Lexington, the furniture damaged, and the house set on fire. The house was saved, however, from destruction. A British regular, killed on the estate, was buried in the meadow, forty rods distant, in the rear of the house. Cutter was a member of the Baptist church in Menotomy. He married, March 15, 1757, Rebecca Crosby, of Billerica, who died September 28, 1813, aged seventy-five. Children: I. Gershom, born November 6, 1757; married first, September 14, 1780, Hannah New^ell; second, June 22, 1786, Catherine Sumner; third, March 15, 1789, Deborah Torrey; died August 20, 1799. 2. Rebecca, born August I, 1760; married first, Andrew Cutter; second, October 29, 1797, Captain Wallis Rust; died ]\Iarch 21, 1834. 3. Amos, born February 2'/, 1763; died February 28, 1878, unmarried. 4, Hannah, born j\Iarch 17, 1768; married, December 3, 1789, Lieutenant Benjamin Locke, Jr.; died April 9, 1795. 5. Rhoda, born July 14, 1770; died September 8, 1794, unmarried. 6. Aaron, born June 4, 1772; married first, August 23, 1796, Polly Putnam; second, October 25, 1811, Alary Howe; died December 25, 1822. 7. Susanna, born October 27, 1774; married, April 5, 1798, John Adams, Jr., (See Adams family) ; died November 25, 1833. 8. Sarah, born May 20, 1778; married, November 14, 1797, Nathan Locke; died October 29, 1823. 9. Anomalous, born June 15, 1780; died same day.

(II) Timothy Abbott, son of ABBOTT George Abbott (i), of Andover, Massachusetts, was born in 1676. He was taken captive by the Indians when only seven months of age, but was returned by a squaw. He settled on a farm in Andover, which remained in the family for many generations, down to the present time. He married. January, 1690, Hannah Graves, who died November 16, 1726. Children: I. Timothy, born July i, 1693; mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born October 19, 1695; died February 11, 1751 ; married Abiel Holt, son of Nicholas Holt; removed to Windham. Connecticut. 3. Dorcas, born May 6, 1698; married, 1717, Nicholas Holt.

(HI) Timothy Abbott, son of Timothy Abbott (2), born in Andover, July i, 1693, died July 10, 1766. He lived with his father in the garrison house in Andover. He was an honest, useful and respectable citizen. He married, December, 1717, Mary Foster; chil-

(IV) Nathan Abbott, son of Timothy Abbott (3), was born January 18, 1729. He resided in Wilton, New Hampshire. He married, 1759, Jane Paul. Children: i. Paul. 2. Nathan, married Mary Wilson ; resided in Billerica. 3. Timothy. 4. Polly. 5. Patty.

(V) Caleb Abbott, son of Nathan Abbott (4), resided in Wilton, New Hampshire. He married first, 1779, Lucy Lovejoy, who died February 21, 1802, aged forty-four; he married second. Deborah Baker, who died in 1819. Children of first wife, born in Wilton: i. Caleb, born November 10, 1779; died December 5, 1846. 2. Timothy, born January 13, 1781. 3. Orlando, born November 23, 1782; died August, 1834. 4. Lucy, born February 20, 1784; married Samuel Cummings. 5. Charles, born January 8, 1786; mentioned below. 6. Gardner, born September 29, 1787.

(VI) Charles Abbott, son of Caleb Abbott (5), was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, January 8, 1786. He married, 1807, Dorcas Hart. Children: i. Charles F., born October

(VII) Orlando Abbott, son of Charles Abbott (6), was born at North Andover, September 21, 1809. He married Charlotte Stevens. He was a farmer. Both he and his wife were killed in 1877, their carriage being struck by a locomotive while they were driving across the railroad tracks in Lawrence. Children, born at North Andover: i. George W. 2. Sarah S., died 1899. 3. Charles Abbott, died 1865. 4. Emma, married Judson E. Reynolds, of Sidney, Maine. 5. Lucy, unmarried. 6. Rebecca F., married George F. Knapp, of North Andover. 7. Charlotte M., married Fred Simonds, Jr. 8. Susan Underwood, born June 12, 1857; married Edward Adams, of North Andover. (See Adams family).

Zachary Bicknell, the immi- BICKNELL grant ancestor of the Bicknell family in America, came from England early in the spring of 1635 and landed at Wessaguscus, now Weymouth, Massachusetts, within the limits of Massachusetts Bay Colony, He came with the Rev. Joseph Hull and one hundred and one others, mostly from Somerset and Dorset, in the southwest part of England. The ship's record is as follows : "Zachary Bicknell, aged 45 yeare. Agnis Bicknell, his wife, aged 27 yeare. Jno. Bicknell, his sonne aged ii yeare. Jno. Kitchin, his servannt 23 yeare." From this little family has sprung a numerous progeny, scattered over all parts of the country.

Zachary Bicknell built a house upon land granted by the town, and died the year following his arrival before March 9, 1636-37. The house and land was sold the next year to William Reed. The general court, under date of March, 1636-37, ordered "that William Reade, having bought the house and twenty acres of land at Weymouth, un fenced, which was Zachary Bicknell's for seven pounds thirteen shillings four pence of Richard Rocket and wife, is to have the sale confirmed by the child when he cometh of age, or else the child to allow such costs as the court shall think meet." Zachary Bicknell's widow married again soon after her husband's death, and was probably the second wife of Bicknell, and the mother of his son John, mentioned below.

(II) John Bicknell, son of Zachary Bicknell (i), born in England, about 1623, came to New England with his parents and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was selectman many years, and member of the general court in 1677-78. In 1661 he was one of a committee to repair the old North Church.

who died March 25, 1657-58; second, December 2, 1658, Mary, daughter of Richard Porter, of Weymouth. She died in 1679. His will, dated November 6, 1678. proved January 20, 1678-79, bequeathed all real estate to his wife except twenty acres and one and onehalf acres of salt meadow which he gives to his son John, so long as she shall remain his widow, to bring up the children to the age of twenty-one. He bequeaths to his daughters fifteen pounds each, and to the three children of John Dyer (John, Thomas and Benjamin), his grandchildren, five pounds each. Children of first wife: i. John, born 1653-54; mentioned below. 2. Mary, married John Dyer; died 1677-78. 3. Naomi, born June 21, 1657. Children of second wife: 4. Ruth, born October 26, 1660; married James Richards; died February 12, 1728. 5. Joanna, born March 2, 1663. 6. Experience, born October 20, 1665. 7. Zachary, born February 7, 1668; married Hannah Smith; removed to Swansea, Massachusetts. 8. Thomas, born August 27, 1670; died February 17, 1718; married, February 16, 1696, Ann Turner, of Hingham, and removed to Middleborough, Massachusetts. 9. Elizabeth, born April 29, 1673. 10. Hannah, born November 15, 1675.

(III) John Bicknell, son of John Bicknell (2), was born at Weymouth, 1653-54. He resided at Weymouth, and married Sarah . All the other members of the family removed from their native town. Children: I. John, born November 24, 1688; mentioned below. 2. Zachariah, born October 28, 1691. 3. Benjamin, born June 8, 1699. 4. Joseph, born February 28, 1700. Probably other children.

(IV) John Bicknell, son of John Bicknell (3), was born November 24, 1688, at Weymouth. Children: i. John, born 1715; children: i. John, born 1744; ii. Thomas, 1748; iii. Jacob, 1751. 2. Joseph, born 1719; mentioned below. 3. Nathaniel, born 1725; settled at Abington; children: i. Luke, born 1749, captain in the revolution, and colonel in militia, town clerk thirty years, married Olive Gurney; ii. Nathaniel, born 1756; iii. Humphrey, 1762; iv. Otis, 1764.

aged eighty-nine. She survived her husband. Children: i. Joseph, Jr., born 1754; mentioned below. 2. Daniel, born 1761. 3. James. Probably daughters.