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(VI) Joseph Bicknell, son of Joseph Bicknell (5), was born 1754. He resided at Abington, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Edward Cobb's company. Colonel Mitchell's regiment, at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; also in the expedition to Bristol, Rhode Island, December 9, 1776; in Captain James Allen's company. Colonel Eliphalet Cary's regiment, in 1777, and in Captain Nathan Snow's company. Colonel Ilawes' regiment, same year. He also served in 1780. He settled in Lunenburg, Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1788, buying a farm there of Daniel Brown of Lunenburg, Bicknell being described as a yeoman of Abington. The farm consisted of two sixty-acre lots, with l)uil(lings, excepting twenty acres deeded to Thomas Oldham, and including six acres in Pearl Hill meadow bought by Brown of Joseph Eaton. This deed, dated April 16, 1788, is on record at Worcester. He added from time to time to his holdings by purchase in 1793 from Thomas Kimball and Amos Hazeltine, in 1799 from Thomas Oldham, mentioned above, and Joseph Curtis ; in 1804 from Reuben Bathrick and Jacob Caldwell, and in 1805 from Jacob Welsh. He gave a farm to his son Seth, in deed dated 1824. He married Abigail (Nabby) , who survived him. He died in 1826. In his will proved that year he mentions as legatees : Son Seth, who was executor ; James ; Nabby, married John Marshall ; Joseph ; Silvia Whitney and Jetson ; grandchildren : James Fitch (?), William I. Bushnell, James T. Bushnell, Joseph G. Bushnell and Mary Jane Bushnell. His son Jetson died two years before his father, leaving a widow Sophia.

(VII) James Bicknell, son of Joseph Bicknell (6), born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, March 12, 1775, died February 11, 1838. He bought land in Lunenburg of Joseph Turner, in 1 80 1, and of Marlbry Turner the same year. About 1804 he removed to Belfast, Maine, where he lived a short time, and about 1807 removed to Green Plantation, now called Belmont, Maine. He married, ]\Iarch 21, 1798,

Hannah Marshall. He was a mason by trade. Their first two children were born at Lunenburg, the next two at Belfast, Maine^ and the rest at Belmont, Maine. Children: i. Lebbeus, born August i8, 1799; married, January, 1821, at Belmont, Maine, Betsey Clay; died February 5, 1839. 2. Edmund, born September 29, 1802; married, A'larch, 1825, at Northport, Maine, Nancy Gardner ; died at Belfast, Maine. 3. Nancy, born April 27, 1805; married, May 19, 1825, Otis Cushman ; died at Monroe, Maine. 4. Hannah, born August 8, 1808; married, September 20, 1831, Samuel Fletcher; died at Belmont, Maine. 5. James, born June 16, 1810; mentioned below. 6. Abigail, born March 21, 1812; married, October 8, 1839, at Belmont, Warren Cunningham; died January 2, 1844. 7. Sarah, born September 13, 1813 ; married, October 18, 1838, John Watson; died July i, 1843, at Andover. 8. Mary L., born April 22, 1817; died at Belmont, unmarried, December 2, 1844.

(VHI) James Bicknell, son of James Bicknell (7), born at Green Plantation, now Belmont, Maine, June 16, 1810, died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, January 4, 1895. He was a farmer. He married first. May 7, 1837, Hannah McKeen; married second, April 26, 1842, at Belfast, Maine, Elvira Pitcher, born at Belfast, April I, 1818, died January 14, 1892, daughter of William Pitcher. Child of first wife: I. Mary L., born February 2, 1840; married James Barker ; resides in Pasadena, California. Children of second wife: 2. James, born at Belmont, January 4, 1844; died May 18, 1906; married Josephine Neal; one child, Adelaide L., married Daniel C. Smith, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. 3. Edmund, born July 23, 1846; mentioned below. 4. Ephraim, born October 23, 1849; died January 31, 1850. 5. William P., born January 14, 1852; married Lillian Marriner ; one child, Leslie M. 6. Annette E., born May 28, 1855 ; died December, 1893, unmarried.

(IX) Edmund Bicknell, son of James Bicknell (8), was born July 23, 1846, at Belmont, Maine, then known as Green Plantation. He grew up on his father's farm, and attended the old district school in winter, working on the farm at other seasons, like other farmers' sons of his day. At the age of eighteen he began to teach school himself, and continued as teacher for five years in the winter terms. Many of the farmers in that section were also coopers by trade, and there was a cooper's shop on the Bicknell farm where during the slack season on the farm lime and mackerel barrels were made and, to use Mr. Bicknell's own language, "this was our muscle-developing headquarters, between hoeing and haying, to prevent undue hilarity." Thus his last years before leaving home were divided in summer between farming and coopering, and in winter between coopering and teaching school. Mr. Bicknell supplemented his own schooling by a course of study in the Bangor Commercial School. At the age of twentysix, like his brother James, he left the homestead to come to Lawrence, Massachusetts, to make his own way in the world. He began his career as clerk in the clothing store of his brother James, who was in business under his own name, J. Bicknell, Jr. At the end of his first year he invested his savings in the business, and was admitted a partner by his brother. Since then the business has been conducted under the firm name of Bicknell Brothers. With the increased capital, greater knowledge of business on the part of the two brothers, and the added energy and enterprise of the younger, the store grew prosperous, business increased rapidly and four years after the store was opened the business had outgrown the quarters. The firm moved to the new Howard's Block, 523 Essex street. Soon these quarters also proved inadequate for the business of the firm. The land on which the present building of the firm is located, at 469 Essex street, was bought, and the block erected especially for the store purposes. The new quarters were occupied in the autumn of 1879. The store was at that time one of the largest and most elaborately appointed clothing houses in New England outside of Boston. From the "Style Book," issued by the firm we quote: "Our competitors had a right to be jealous, and they were. They watched the growth of the so-called "Mushroom Clothing House," and when our elaborate opening came they were profuse in their prophecies of failure. While they were waiting for their prophecies to materialize, the people were encouraging Bicknell Brothers in their efiforts to please them by their patronage, and thus our trade rapidly increased. In one feature of the management of our business during these thirtyseven years we feel justified in claiming a degree of pride ; namely, we have never borrowed a dollar with which to pay for a bill of goods. Neither have we ever paid for a bill of goods with a promissory note. Other features, which have led to the little success we have had, would perhaps seem like boast-

The firm of Bicknell Brothers has remained in the front rank of clothing merchants of IMassachusetts, its record for fair dealing, courtesy and uprightness in dealing unsurpassed, its enterprise and energy unexcelled ^nd in many respects unequalled. The Bicknell Brothers had the instinct of advertising, and the business world concedes that the bright, catching, humorous advertising of this firm constituted its greatest asset, developing new business constantly and keeping their house in the lead. Edmund Bicknell, who has charge of the advertising, has a special gift for clever phrasing and attractive announcements - original, unique, fetching. His literary ability is revealed very clearly in the memorial volume to his son Ralph, printed for the family. This volume is a worthy monument to a gifted and beloved son, prepared in the shadow of the greatest sorrow that had entered the father's life. From it we shall quote in sketch of Ralph Bicknell. Mr. Bicknell loves music and is a player of some skill on the violin. In politics he is a Republican. He and his family attend the Universalist church. He is a member of the Bradley Farm Golf Club; the Home Club of Lawrence; the Home Market Club of Boston, and the Republican Club of Boston. He is a director and vice-president of the Lawrence National Bank.

Mr. Bicknell married, December 4, 1874, Susan Bennett Dyer, born April 2, 1856, daughter of George and Ruth A. (Boardman) Dyer. Her father was born in New Haven, Maine, January i, 1815, and died in Belfast, Maine, son of George Dyer, and descendant of an old provincial family of Maine. He was a farmer in Searsmont most of his life, and was also owner of a saw-mill in that town. He was a Democrat in politics, and active in public afifairs. holding the office of selectman and other positions of trust and responsibility. George Dyer, father of George and grandfather of Mrs. Susan B. (Dyer) Bicknell, was born in New Haven, Maine, and died in Searsmont. He was also a farmer and miller. Children of George and Ruth A. (Boardman) Dyer: i. Ellen Dyer, died aged six years; ii. Joseph Dyer, died aged two years ; iii. George B., married first, Abbie Thayer, and second, Laura Toothacher (children of first wife, Percy and Joseph Dyer; of second wife. Raymond and Sabra Dyer) ; iv. Annie F. Dyer, died 1902, married Uriah Dyer, no children ; V. Susan B. Dyer, mentioned above, married Edmund Bicknell ; vi. Charles E. Dyer, died 1901, unmarried; vii. Esther F. Dyer, died 1908, married first, Herbert Barker, married second, W. O. Sergeant (child by first husband, Karl Barker ; children by second husband : Ruth D. Sergeant, Winthrop O. Sergeant) ; viii. Edwin K. Dyer, married Grace Robinson; ix. Alexander P. Dyer, died 1887, unmarried.

Isaac Boardman, father of Ruth A. Boardman, mentioned above, was a resident of New Haven, Maine. He died at Belfast, Maine. He followed the sea all his life, and became children : i. Captain Isaac Boardman, also a sea captain, who died in Belfast, married Kcziah Emery, and had one child, Emery Boardman; ii. Amelia Boardman, married Joseph Cann (children - Etta, Joseph, George, Minnie and Grace) ; iii. Ruth A., married George Dyer, mentioned above ; iv. Georgianna Boardman, married Frank Frederick (children - George Frederick, \\'alter Frederick and Frank Frederick).

The children of Edmund and Susan Bennett (Dyer) Bicknell, born in Lawrence : i. Ralph Edmund, born October 31, 1881 ; mentioned below. 2. I^aul R., born December i, 1886; died May 6, 1894, in Lawrence. 3. Philip Dyer, born November 30, 1895; died September 4, 1896, in Pasadena. California.

(X) Ralph Edmund Bicknell, son of Edmund Bicknell (9), was born in Lawrence, ^Massachusetts, October 31, 1881. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and during his last year in school was business manager of the Essex School Jounial, in the columns of which appeared many articles of interest from his pen. This little magazine is said to have been the only publication of its kind issued in any grammar school in the United States at that time, and it was certainly a marvel of excellence, considering the youth of its editorial and business stafts. His enthusiasm for a higher education was unbounded, but his school life was terminated a few months before his class graduated from the grammar school, though he received his diploma in due course. In March, 1896, he took a sudden and severe cold, and the disease which finally caused his death developed. A battle for life and health lasting eight long years followed. In May he went to Pasadena, California, with his father and mother and their infant son. Thence the family went directly into the heart of the Sierra Madre mountains, four thousand feet above sea level, and built a cloth tent in which they lived for five months. There the child died, inflicting another grievous blow upon the stricken family, especially upon the elder brother, who was struggling with the great white plague. The following winter was spent in a cottage in the foothills at Altadena, and Ralph and his father spent much of their time in the saddle. In April, after the rainy season, they made a trip to the Yosemite Valley in a prairie schooner, covering 1170 miles in the space of fifty days. In July they returned to Lawrence, and Ralph divided his time between his beautiful home. Granite Park, in Lawrence, the seashore at Ogunquit Beach, and the White Mountains at Conway, New Hampshire, until October, 1899, when he went to The Home, a first-class hotel at Denver, Colorado, designed especially for healthseekers. His mother accompanied him. In spring they went to Guadalajara, Mexico, to avoid the unpleasant spring weather of Colorado, and in May returned to Colorado Springs, where they remained until autumn. Returning to Lawrence in October, 1899, Ralph spent the holidays at home, and in January went back alone to Colorado Springs. His courage was good, and the prospect of cure seemed good, but in the following July his parents were called to his bedside. He had a serious attack oj typhoid nature. He was taken to a health resort at Manitou Park, situated at an elevation fifteen hundred feet higher than Colorado .Springs, and his mother remained with him. Three months later they returned to Colorado Springs, and in December Ralph was so much better that his mother came home. Each year during his eight years of sickness he improved in the cold weather, and each year his hot weather setback was greater than his gain in cold weather. In April, 1901, his mother was called to him again, and they removed to the lower altitudes of California, returning two months later to Manitou Park, and his mother returned home. In September his condition was so much better that he also came home. That was his last visit to Lawrence. Though he looked well, he was still in the clutches of tuberculosis, and December 2 again started for Colorado Springs, sleeping outdoors there even when the weather was below zero. In July his annual relapse came. His mother went to him and took him to the mountain foothills near Palmer Lake, where he again recovered rapidly. They returned to Colorado Springs and settled in winter quarters, his mother returning to Lawrence later in the month. Ten months later, in August, 1903, he had an attack of typhoid fever and his mother was again called to his bedside. In the words of the father, taken from the memorial volume, the last chapter of the story must be told: "The best effort in medical skill by his faithful doctor, together with the joy of his mother's presence, and her tender care and tireless nursing, soon drove away the fever, but the efifect on his strength and wasted form, after eight years of constant fighting, was too much to be overcome. Seven long months of the sweetest patience, unbounded gratitude and most heroic reconciliation ever put forth by man, and the end came. No warrior or general ever fought a braver battle. None deserve greater praise for heroism. Had his case been simply disease of the lungs, a complete cure would have long since been accomplished. It was the many complications, all of a tubercular nature, that bafiled every effort to bring about a cure. Who can say that the victory he has gained is not many times greater than would have been the cure for which he so desperately fought?" He died March 31, 1904.

He was an apt scholar, and from early childhood was an intelligent reader of newspapers, magazines and books. "In his school life we found it necessary to hold him back rather than urge him ahead. Study was a continuous pleasure to him. He loved his teachers, and they in turn admired his sweet disposition, enthusiasm, honesty and manly conduct. During his school life, never, to my knowledge, did he have an enemy. The intensity of the disappointment that came to him when he was made to realize he must be separated from everything dear to his boyhood, cut short indefinitely of all the happy dreams of future school associations, only to flee to the far West for his life, was truly pathetic. * * * He was an energetic student all his life. His determination to educate himself was eagerly continued through his eight years of "cure chasing." His diaries tell the story of his never-let-up energy. They commenced on January first and ended not until December thirty-first. * * * Always supplied liberally with selected reading matter, and with a long list of correspondence, added to his newspaper and magazine articles, he found no idle moments. No trashy literature ever occupied his time or poisoned his brain. He made a special effort to become acquainted with and to associate with men and women from whom he could learn. Among the most enjoyable friends he made at Colorado Springs were clergymen and college professors. His wonderful store of knowledge of the events of the day, of men and things, and his untiring historic research, ancient and modern, made him such a conversationalist as caused these learned men to marvel. As his physical condition weakened, it seemed that his mental brilliancy quickened. Unlike most sick people, he never failed to greet his callers with a smile, and sent them away full of admiration. When asked how he felt his answer was never a complaining one. * * * He was sympathetic to a fault. To be brought into contact, as he must necessarily be in a health resort, with many poor sick persons who had not the means to obtain medical attendance, nourishing food or the comforts of life, gave him great sadness. Little do his friends know of the good cheer he has caused by kind word and deed. His appreciation of a kind word or act toward himself, no matter how small, was unbounded. It came from the heart and it amounted to enthusiasm." In the published collection of his writings in this memorial volume we have evidence of genius of a promising order. In verse as well as in prose he wrote cleverly. From his first school composition to his magazine articles his literary work had the vital and human element of entertainment. He had the gift of a born newspaperman in gathering facts of interest, and in his letters or newspaper articles giving them an original dress that compel the reader to keep to the end of his story. Though the book was published primarily and solely for the family in memory of the young man, it has a place in the descriptive literature of this country, and loses nothing from the intensely ])ersonal note given to it by the loving father who compiled it. Every seeker of health, of whom there are hundreds of thousands, would read with interest the pages of this volume and its witty and vivid descriptions of men, scenery, and daily life. The hundreds of illustrations from photographs taken by Ralph Bicknell or his companions, are in themselves enough to make the book of lasting value and interest.

Bordman in the early records. It is an ancient English surname. The coat-of-arms of the Boardman family, England : Per pale indented ermine and sable

(I) Giles Boardman, to whom this family has been traced in England, lived in Cambridge, county Cambridge, England. (See N. E. Reg. 1895, p. 497).

married second, Stephen Day, locksmith. Boardman's will was dated February 10, 17 16, and proved April 19, 1617, in Cambridge. Children of Andrew and Rebecca Boardman: Richard, Andrew, Thomas ; William, mentioned below.

(III) Major William Boardman, born 16 14, son of Andrew Boardman, was the immigrant ancestor. He came over with his mother and stepfather in 1638. In 1659 Day paid hirh a legacy of fifty pounds left in the father's will mentioned above (each of the four sons was to have forty poimds) admitting that it should have been paid twenty-three years earlier. As a boy he was apprenticed to Richard (iridley until October 17, 1639, to William Townsend, then to Thomas Witherly, mariner, from January 30, 1639-40. In 1656 Boardman owned and occupied the estate at the east corner of Harvard S(|uare and Dunster street, and at the death of his stepfather came into possession of the estate on the opposite corner, to which his son Aaron added the adjoining land, extending the estate to Brighton street. Both estates remained in the family for one hundred and fifty years or more. He was steward and cook many years for Harvard College, resigning as steward in 1667, being succeeded by Thomas Dan forth. He was admitted a freeman May 26, 1652. He died March 25, 1685, aged seventy-one. He was a tailor by trade. He married Frances , who survived him. He deposed August 26, 1672, that his age was fifty-seven. Children: i. Moses, died March 16, 1661-62. 2. Rebecca, born November i, 1643: married August 4, 1664, John Palfrey. 3. Andrew, born 1646. 4. Aaron, born 1649. 5. Frances, born 1650; died unmarried, September, 1618. 6. Martha, born about 1653 ; married, April 17, 1672, Daniel Epes. 7. Mary, born March 9, 1655-56. 8. William, born December 6, 1657; mentioned below. 9. Elizabeth, born August 17, 1660; married, April 28, 1686, John Cooper. The elder children were baptized together.

r>(jar(lman (3), bom in Cambridge, December 6, 1657, (lied at JVlalden, March 14, 1695-96, aged thirty-eight, according to his gravestone, lie resided at Cambridge and Maiden. He was a car])enter by trade. He was admitted a freeman March 22, 1689-90. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, in the company of Cai)tain Wheeler, and was in the fight at (iroton, l<\'bruary 29, 1675-76. He bf)Ught a tract of land on the Maiden and Lynn line in kuniney, Marsh 1 Boston (now Chelsea), la'bruary 27, 1686-87, bonnded by lands of Daniel Hutchins, John White, Isaac Wadrow, Richard irons and Nicholas Potter, lie married Sarah . Their children: i. William, born 16S5; mentioned below-. 2. Lydia, born at Maiden, May 2, 1687. 3. Mary, married Thomas Cheever, February 11, 1701, son of Thomas Cheever (2), and grandson of the famous sclioolmaster, Ezekiel Cheever (i).

(V) William T.oardman, only son of W^illiam lioardman (4), was born in 1685. He bDiight of his sisters, Mary Cheever and Lydia r.oardman, both of Lynn, their share in the land at Kumney Marsh, March 16, 1708, three Inmdred acres. He also lived at Lynn, where he died October 10, 1753, in his sixty-eighth year, lie married (intention dated A])ril 10, 1708), May 17, 1708, Abiah Sprague, of C'harlestown. The record of this family in Wyman's "Charlestown" is incorrect, as a com])arison of the birth records of Charlesti)\vn and Lynn shows. Children, recorded at Lynn: 1. William, born July 29, 1710; mentioned below. 2. John, born August 26, 1712; married Eunice Cheever, January 8, 1 740-41 ; had sons Ivory and John, and four daughters. 3. Mary, born March 25, 1716. 4. Sarah, l)orn March 18, 1719-20; died ALiy ii, 1722. 5. .Sarah, born May 11, 1722. 6. Aaron, born March 14, 1724-25; died November 11, 1799; married Se])tember 26, 1754, Mary Cheever. 7. Amos, born March 12, 1727-28. 8. Samuel born July 27, 1731. William (5) deeded to several sons his real estate in 1753; to Aaron of Chelsea he gave his homestead, ])artly in Lynn, partly Chelsea, near the Maiden line ; ])art of the original ])urchase of William (3) ; to John L)Oardman he gave another ]iart of his homestead adjoining Aaron's share, January 8, 1753; to William, Jr., of Chelsea, he gave two acres where his house and barns stand, west of the Maiden line, January 8, 1753.

married (intentions dated September 7, 1735), Elizabeth Hill, of Maiden. Lie died in 1760. His will was made May 20, 1758, proved May 26, 1760, in Sufifolk. He Ijought land on Conduit street, l)Oston, near the head of the town dock, adjoining a brick tenement of the Simon Willard estate, November 22, 1748. I le was a feltmaker by trade. At the time of his making the will his children were all minors. Children: i. William. 2. Benjamin. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Thomas.

(V'll) Joseph IJoardman, son of William Uoardmaii (6), born in Boston, August 12, 1753, died in Isleborough, Maine, October 29, 1831, or November 28, 1831, aged eighty-one according to another. He removed to Isleborough and took up a hundred acres. He married, October 2, 1774, Mary Pendleton, who died July 26, 1827, daughter of Cai)tain Thomas Pendleton, wdio gave a farm near lloardman's Cove to Joseph and Mary. Theirs was the first wedding on the island, and it is related that everybody was present. (See j'en(llet(jn family). He served on the committee (Jii a new meeting house in 1798. Children, born at Isleborough: i. Thomas, born June 24, 1775; died October 25, 1849; married

(VIII) Isaac Case Iioardman, son of Joseph lioardman (7), born August 28, 1792, at Jsleborough; died at Belfast, September 22, 1862; married (intention dated January 11, 1817), Esther Farrow. Children: i. Esther 1\, born March 9, 1819; died 1827. 2. Isaac M., born May 24, 1821 ; resided at P)elfast. 3. Ruth, born August 27, 1823; married Ceorge Dyer. (See Dyer family). 4. Mary P., born January 18, 1826; died young. 5. Joseph, born November 15, 1827, died young. 6. Pamelia, married Henry P. Cann. 7. Ceorgiamia, born at I'elfast; married Frank B. Frederick.

Boston And Eastern Aiassacitusetts

Bryan Pendleton, born PENDLETON 1599, was an early settler of Watertown, Massachusetts. Pie was admitted a freeman September 3, 1634; was selectman 1635-36-37; deputy to the general court 1636-37-38-47-48. He helped settle Sudbury, and resided there two years. With his wife, Eleanor, he sold land and housing at Watertown March 20, 1648, to Robert Daniel, of Cambridge, which he had ])urchased of Robert Lockwood and Nicholas l\na])p. lie removed to Ipswich, pcrhaixs, and certainly to P'ortsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was representative to the legislature in 1654-58-60-61-63. He then removed to Saco, Winter Plarbor, Maine, but after a dozen years or so was driven out by the Indians during King Philip's war, and lied to Portsmouth, in August, 1676. He was a captain, member of the artillery company in

1646. and in Portsmouth was major; Alay 13, 1640, he was appointed by the court to train the com])any. He was a member of Governor Danforth's council, 1680. His will dated August 9, 1677, proved April 5, 1681, be(|ueathed to wife l^leanor and his children, and to grandchild, Pendleton Metcher. Children: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married Fletcher.

(II) James Pendleton, son of Bryan Pendleton (i), was admitted a freeman May 10, 1648. He settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was one of the founders of the First Church in 1671. In 1674 he removed to Stonington, Connecticut, and in about four years to Westerly, Rhode Island, wdiere he took the oath of allegiance September 17, 1679. 1 le was justice of the peace in 1686, and justice of the inferior court of common ])leas in 1687-88. The children of James Pendleton made an agreement January 26, 1703: "having a gift of land given us by our grandfather I'rian Pendleton, to be divided amongst us after our father's decease, as by deed bearing date 1674, Aug. 31 ; and our brother Caleb, having built upon said land, we nuitually agree for ourselves, with full consent of our father James Pendleton, that our brother Caleb shall have his ])art of land where he now is." The win of James I'endleton was dated February 9, 1703, and proved December 21, 1709, his wife Hannah and son Caleb being the executors. He married first, October 22,

1647, Mary Palmer, died November 7, 1655. He married second. April 29, 1656, at Sudbury, Hannah, daughter of Edmund and Ann Cioodnow. Children of first wife: I. James, born November i, 1650; died young. 2. Mary. 3. llannah. Children of second wife : 4. ]>ryan, born Se]itember 27, 1659; died young. 5. Joseph, born December 29, 1 661 ; died September, 1706; married first, July 8, 1696, Deborah Miner; second, December ii, 1700. Patience Potts. 6. Edmond, born June

7. Ann, born November 12, 1667; married, October 18, 1693, Eleazer Brown. 8. Caleb, born August 8, 1669; mentioned below. 9. Sarah, baptized April 18, 1675; died young. 10. Eleanor, baptized July 20, 1679; married William Walker. 11. Dorothy, baptized October 3, 1686; married Nicholas Cottrell; died about 1747.

( III ) Caleb I'endleton, son of James Pendleton (2). born August 8, 1669, died 1746. lie resided at Westerly, Rhode Island, and (luring his last sickness made his home with his (laughter Anna, wife of Samuel Babcock. Mis will was dated March 10, 1745-46 and pro\ed March 31, 1746. Children: i. James, born abcjut i6(jo; mentioned below. 2. Sarah, llrown. (). r.rian, baptized June 15, 1701. 7. Ann, baptized August 22, 1703; married Samuel ll;ibcock. 8. Read, married Saunders, i). Susanna, married Stci)hen Wilcox. 10. Ruth, married I'enoni Smith.

(IV) James Pendleton, son of Caleb I'endleton (3), born about 1690, baptized July 23, K)i;3: married, January 12. 1709-10, Elizabeth, daughter of (ieorgc Lanphere ; second, January 8, 1717-18, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brown of Stonington, Connecticut. Children: i. James, born November 21, 1710. 2. Obadiah, born November i, 17 12.

(V) Captain Thomas Pendleton, son of James Pendleton (4), born at Westerly, Rhode Island, January 3, 1719; married, 1741, Dorcas, daughter of Tristram Dodge, of Block Island. Pendleton was a master mariner, and went to (ireenland in whale fishing, and once put in at Castinc, Maine, and decided that he would settle there. In 1753 he sold his pro- perty at Westerly for 1,130 pounds, and in 1766 removed to Long Island, Isleborough, Maine, and took up nine hundred acres of land. The whole family soon followed and settled on this land. His house was a few rods northeast of Dark Harbor. He was an active citizen, and his name appears often on the town records. He was tall, with red hair and blue eyes. He died in 1809; his wife in 1796. Children: I. Mark, died aged nineteen. 2. Stephen, died young. 3. Samuel, born 1745; married Bathsheba Dodge. 4. Margaret, born 1747. 5. Thomas, Jr., born 1749, town officer in 1790. 6. Gideon, born 1751 ; married Matilda Gilkey. 7. Joshua, born 1755; married first, Sally Nutter; second, Sally Ames. 8. Nathaniel, born 1757; married Cynthia West. 9. Mary, born 1758; married Joseph Boardman. 10. Stephen, born February 9, 1763, at Westerly; married, September 25, 1786, Prudence Dodge, born at Block Island, November 23, 1763.

equivalent, is also used as a surname. The famous Italian, Tintoretta, was so called from the fact that his father was a tintore, or dyer. The coat-of-arms of the Dyer family of Tottenham, county Middlesex, England, is : Or a chief indented gules. Crest : Out of a coronet a goat's head sable armed gold. The family was prominent also in county Hertford.

(I) William Dyer, the immigrant ancestor, was a milliner living in England, and came to Boston as early as 1635. He and his wife Mary joined the church in Boston in December, 1635, of which Mr. Wilson was pastor. On March 15, 1637, he and others signed a remonstrance affirming the innocence of Mr. Wheelwright, and on November 15 following was disenfranchised for signing the statement. Five days later they were warned to deliver up all guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot, etc., because "the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England." In 1638 Mr. Winthrop thus alludes to him and his wife: "The wife of one William Dyer, a milliner in the New Exchange, a very proper and fair woman, and both of them notoriously infected with Mrs. Hutchinson's errors, and very censorious and troublesome." He removed about 1638 to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and was a charter member of the church formed there March 7, 1638, and was elected clerk the same day. April 28, 1639, he and eight others signed a compact preparatory to the settlement of Newport, Rhode Island, and the June following he was ohe of a committee to apportion land. He had a grant of eighty-seven acres recorded at Newport March 10, 1640. From 1640 to 1647 inclusive he was secretary for the towns of Portsmouth and Newport, and was general recorder in 1648. In 1650-51-52-53 he was attorney-general. Early in 1653 he returned from a trip to England, having gone there with John Clarke and Roger Williams to obtain a revocation of Governor Coddington's power, and he left his wife in England. On May 18 of that year he received a commission from the assembly as "Commander in Chief upon sea," to act against the Dutch. Pie was admitted a freeman in 1655.

His wife Mary returned from England in 1657, after a five years' stay, during which time she had become a Quaker, and was a minister of that denomination. On disembarking at Boston, she was put in prison, but was released at the intercession of her husband and leave granted him to take her to his home in Rhode Island "bound in a great penalty not to lodge her in any town of the colony, nor to permit any to have speech with her in the journey." In 1659 she returned to Boston, and was tried and condemned to death with Marmaduke Stephenson and William Robinson, but was reprieved on the very scaffold with the rope around her neck. The day after her reprieve, October 31, 1659, she wrote: "Once more to the General Court assembled in Boston, speaks Mary Dyer, even as before ; My life is not accepted, neither availeth me in comparison of the lives and liberty of the truth, etc." She again returned to Rhode Island, but in a few months went back to Boston. Ten days after her return. May 31, 1660, she was brought before Governor Endicott. He said "Are you the same Mary that was here before?" She replied, "I am the same Mary Dyer." He then said, "You will own yourself a Quaker, will you not?" She answered, "I own myself to be reproachfully so called." He sentenced her to be hung the day following. On the gallows she was abjured by her early pastor, Mr. Wilson, to repent, and not to be "So deluded and carried away by the deceit of the devil." She was accused of having said she had been in Paradise, to which she rephed, "Yea, I have been in Paradise these several days. No ear can hear, no tongue can utter, no heart can understand the sweet incomes and refreshings of the spirit of the Lord which I now feel." She was accompanied from the prison to the gallows by a band of soldiers, and drums were beaten before and behind her that none might hear her speak. She is described as "a person of no mean extract or parentage, of an estate pretty plentiful, of a comely stature and countenance, of a piercing knowledge in many things, of a wonderful sweet and pleasant discourse." The Friends' records at Portsmouth thus note her death : "Mary Dyer the wife of William Dyer of Newport in Rhode Island ; She was put to death at the town of Boston with the like cruel hand as the Martyrs were in Queen Marys time u])on the 31 day of the 3d mo. 1660."

William Dyer was commissioner in 1661-62 ; deputy to the general court 1664 to 1666; general solicitor, 1665-66-68; secretary to the council, in 1669. In 1669 he with others purchased Dyer's Island, and afterwards became the sole owner, in 1670 deeding it to his son William. He died before December 24, 1677, and in 1681 his widow Catherine had her dower set ofif by order of the town council, and she was living six years later. He married first, Mary , who died June i, after 1680. Children: i. Samuel, born 1635; married Ann Hutchinson. 2. Mary. 3. William ; mentioned below. 4. Mahershallalhashbaz, married Martha Pearse. 5. Henry, born 1647, died February, 1690; married Elizabeth Sanford. 6. Charles, born 1650, died May 15,

(II) William Dyer, son of \\'illiam Dyer (i), was collector of customs for America at the port of New York, receiving his appointment from the Duke of York. He was a member of the governor's council 1675-76. In 1681 he was indicted for high treason on the charge of collecting unlawful duties, and was sent to England for trial. Arriving there, no one appeared to prosecute him, and he returned in 1682 to New York with more ample powers. From here he is said to have gone to Delaware.

(HI) Dr. William Dyer, son of William (2) Dyer, settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The fact that his son William was called Junissimus, indicating that there were more than two of the name, corroborates the history of Truro, Massachusetts, which points to William Dyer, of Rhode Island, as the father of William of Barnstable. Nothing else is known of the father's family, however. Other children may have remained in New York or Delaware. There was no other William Dyer in Barnstable or vicinity when William Junissimus was born in 1690. He m'arried, December, 1686, Mary, daughter of William Taylor, of Barnstable. He lived at Truro before the original proprietors came, though the births of his children are recorded in Barnstable. His house at Truro was that owned by the late Captain Ebenezer Atkins, «ind taken down within a generation. He died July 2"] , 1738, aged eighty-five; his wife Mary died October 8, 1738, aged eighty, according to their gravestones. Their descendants are numerous in Truro and vicinity. Children: i. Lydia, born March 30, 1688.

(IV) William Dyer, Junissimus, son of Dr. William Dyer (3), was born in Truro, October 30, 1690. fie resided at Truro, and perhaps at Marshfield. Children: i. Ambrose. 2. John. 3. William, born 1739, went to North Haven, Maine. 4. Joseph. 5. Anthony, mentioned below. 6. Christopher. 7. Samuel, married Mary Paine; settled in Longnook. 8. Levi. 9. Benjamin, removed with Anthony and William to Vinal Haven, ]\laine. 10. Hannah. II. Isabel.

(V) Anthony Dyer, son of William Dyer (4), was born'on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, about 1740. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain John Blunt's company. Major William Lithgow's detachment, 1779, in the service on the frontiers of Lincoln county, Maine, at Penobscot. He came to Vinal Haven, and bought the lot known as the Crockett and Cabot farm. He was prominent in town affairs, especially on North Island, and was selectman in 1799 and 1801. Children: I. Isaac, married, 1815, Susan Eastman ; resided at South Thomaston. 2. Cap-

(VI) George Dyer, son of Anthony Dyer (5), was born about 1765. He was selectman of Vinal Haven, 1813 to 1829 inclusive. He was a farmer and miller. He died in Searsmont, where his son settled.

(VH) George Dyer, son of George Dyer (6), born in New Haven, Maine, January i, i8r5, died in Belfast, Maine. He was a farmer in Searsmont most of his life, and was also the owner of a saw mill in that town. He was a Democrat in politics, and active in public affairs, holding the ofifice of selectman and other positions of trust and responsibility. He married Ruth A. Boardman. (See Boardman family). Child, Susan Bennett, born* April 21, 1856; married Edmund Bicknell. (See Bicknell family).

The surname Colburn has COLBURN has been variously spelled for many centuries. The ancient spelling, Colbrand, designated the progenitors of the family in Tipton, county Stafford, England, as early as 1631, and at Rowley Regis in the same county. In the Visitation of 1619 in this county we have an account of the pedigree for some three hundred years. The derivative branches of the family, Colbronds or Colebournes, of Kinver or Groby, Leicestershire ; of Dudley, county Stafford ; and of Coventry, county Warwick, bear the same arms : Argent a chevron between three buglehorns sable stringed or. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet a reindeer's head argent attired or. The family at Bruton, county Somerset, has very similar arms : Argent on a chevron between three buglehorns sable stringed of the same and garnished or as many mullets of the last. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or a reindeer's head argent attired gold. Another Colbourne coat-ofarms is : Gules on a fesse gules a crescent of the first a canton of the second. Baron Seaton and other distinguished persons in England belong to this family.

The American families are traced to several immigrant ancestors. Robert Colburn was a resident of Ipswich in 1648; William Colburn, of Brentwood, England, settled in Boston. Edward Colburn, of Concord, has many descendants in Dracut, Massachusetts, spelling the name Coburn in most cases.

(I) Nathaniel Colburn (Coleborne) the immigrant ancestor, was a proprietor of Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1637, was one of the signers of the Dedham covenant, was admitted to the church January 29, 1641, and was admitted a freeman June 21, 1641. He was a town officer and on important committees. He married, July 25, 1639, Priscilla Clarke, who was admitted to the church October 23, 1640. He accumulated considerable property, which was divided among his eleven children. He died May 14, 1691. His will was dated June 30, 1690, and proved April 26, 1692. Children: I. Sarah, born April 15, 1640; married William Partridge, of Medfield. 2. Rebecca, born February 17, 1642-43; married, 1661, John Pratt, of Medfield. 3. Nathaniel, born March 3, 1644; married, November 19, 1669, Mary Brooks, who died April 21, 1708; he died September 18, 1689. 4- Priscilla, born April I, 1646; married, November 12, 1668, Joseph Morse. 5. John, born July 29, 1648; married, 1674, Experience Leland, born May 16, 1656, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Babcock) Leland, of Medfield; died December 20, 1708. 6. Mary, born January 21, 1650-51; died December 17, 1685; married, October i, 1672, John Richards, of Dedham, born July I, 1641, died December 21, 1688. 7. Hannah, born January 20, 1652-53 ; died April 3, 1728; married, January 16, 1677-78, Thomas Aid ridge, who died October 23, 1694. 8. Samuel, born January 25, 1654-55 ; mentioned below. 9. Deborah, born January 28, 1656-57; died August 30, 1684; married, January 15, 1679-80, Joseph Wight. 10. Benjamin, born September 24, 1659; died September 30, 1714; married first, March 5, 1684-85, Abiah, daughter of Anthony and Joanna (Faxon) Fisher; second, Bethia Bullen, of Medfield. 11. Joseph, born December i, 1662; died April 20, 1718; married Mary Holbrook.

(HI) Ephraim Colburn, son of Samuel Colburn (2), born November 5, 1687,. died August 7, 1775; married, December 5, 1709, Elizabeth, born May 21, 1694, daughter of Timothy and Sarah Whiting. Children: i.

Hannah, born March 9, 1710-11; married, August 23, 1732, Ebenezer Lewis, of Dorchester, born May 29, 1705, son of John and Anna (Whiting) Lewis. 2. Samuel, born March 6,

(\^) Ichabod Colburn, son of Ephraim Colburn (4), born February 20, 1754, died March 8. 1828. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in Captain William Ellis's company. Captain Heath's regiment, April 19, 1775 ; also cori)oral in Captain Abel Richards's company. Colonel Mcintosh's regiment, 1778, on service at Roxbury and Boston. He married, December 13, 1781, Anna Ellis, who died March 31. 1829. Children: i. Mille, born December 8, 1782; died June i, 1802. 2. Thatcher, born February 20, 1787; mentioned below. 3. Betsey, born November i, 1789; died August 15, 1803.

(Yl) Thatcher Colburn, son of Ichabod Colburn (5), born February 20, 1787, died December 26, 1866; married, June. 1823. Hitty Cleveland, who died July 26, 1881. Children: i. Waldo, born November 13, 1824; mentioned below. 2. George Cleveland, born May 3, 1827; married first, Louisa H. Sparrow ; second, January 6, 1866, Helen S. Sherman. 3. Ichabod Ellis, born August 20,

(VII) Hon. Waldo Colburn, son of Thatcher Colburn (6), was born in that part of Dedham now called Westwood, November 13, 1824, and died September 26, 1885. He received his early education in the schools of his native town, and at the age of fifteen entered Phillips Academy, at Andover, remaining until 1845. After two years of varied pursuits, including civil engineering and surveying, on May 13, 1847, he entered the law office of Ira Cleveland, and later took a course at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar May 3, 1850, and continued in the practice of his profession until May 27, 1875, with eminent success. During this period he held many positions of trust and responsibility in the town. A representative to the general court in 1850 and 1854. he became the chairman of important committees, and "earnestly opposed loaning State's credit to the Hoosac Tunnel scheme." A senator in 1870, "He served on the judiciary committee and had charge of drafting the well known corporation act." From 1855 to 1864 he was chairman of the selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor, and for many years was moderator of town meetings. He was elected a member of the Dedham Institution for Savings in 1850, a trustee in i860, and its president in 1877, and continued in these offices until his death. He was also a director of the Dedham National Bank. On May 27, 1875, Governor William Gaston appointed Mr. Colburn one of the justices of the superior court, and this action was highly commended. His promotion to the supreme court bench by Governor John D. Long was equally well merited. The latter position he held at the time of his death. Politically Judge Colburn was a member of the old \Vhig party, but upon the death of that organization he became a member of the Democratic party. He was for several years a candidate of that party for attorney-general. He married first, November 21, 1852, Mary E. Gay, born 1830, died October. 1859. He married second, August 5, 1861, Elizabeth C. Sampson, born February i, 1827. Children: I. ^lary Ellis Gay, born June i, 1856. 2. Anne Florence, born Februarv 5, 1858; married, July II, 1888, Dr. Andrew Hall Hodgdon ; children : i. Waldo Colburn Hodgdon, born August 14, 1889; ii- Andrew Yates, February 18, 1891 ; iii. Richard Lord Hodgdon,

(ATI) Howard Colburn, son of Thatcher Colburn (6), born on the old farm at Westwood, Dedham, December 4, 1838, died unmarried, September 28, 1907. He resided on the farm which has been in the Colburn family since it was originally granted to Nathaniel Colburn, the immigrant ancestor. He received his education in the public schools, and in Williston Academy, Easthampton, Massachusetts. For several years he remained at home caring for the farm. He was a young man of steadiness of Mnind and character, and had many friends among his townsmen. In 1872 he was elected a member of the board of selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor. He was re-elected except in 1887 until 1892, when he declined re-election. He was chairman of the selectmen from 1883, of the board of assessors until 1892, with the exception of three years, and of the overseers of the poor until the incorporation of Westwood, with the exception of one year. He w'as an excellent town officer, and gave his time and attention freely to the work. He made himself familiar not only with all the many details of the town business but with the laws governing the same. He carefully scrutinized proposed appropriations, and was cautious and thrifty in the management of town finances. Although he was prudent and conservative, he was not penurious. He was particularly interested in the care of the poor, and kept his membership in the board of overseers after he had declined to serve in any other office. His judgment in matters concerning the conduct of this department of town business was especially good, and he used great wisdom in distributing help in the proper channels. He was elected a trustee of the Dedham Institution for Savings in 1887, and vice-president in 1905, and was on the important committee on investment and securities. April 5, 1881, he was elected a director of the Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company; of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company July i, 1885, s"*^! treasurer of the company July 7, 1886. He was elected director of the Dedham National Bank January 8. 1884. All these positions he held at the time of his death. In 1885 he was appointed deputy sherifif of Norfolk county, by Sheriff Augustus B. Endicott, and held this office and that of special sheriff at the time of his death. Mr. Colburn enjoyed the confidence and esteem of every one who knew him, and his long years of public service bear mute testimony to his sterling worth and integrity.

The family of Fitts, or Fitz, is FITTS one of great anticiuity, and according to Charles Edwin Fitz, of New Orleans, Louisiana, the names of three or four of its members appear on the roll of Battle Abbey. The name Fitz was doubtless derived from the French word "fils" (Norman French "fiz") signifying son. John Fitz, bencher, of Lincoln Inn, was born at or near the town of Tavistock, Devonshire, England, famous for producing so many sages in the law, the study of which he sedulously followed and became so expert that he was accounted one of the most illustrious lawyers of his day. He reared his family to wealth and greatness. John Fitz was in the prime of life in 1428. He established a country home about a mile from the town of Tavistock, but within the parish. One of his descendants, also named John Fitz, buried in 1539 or 1559, commemorated by a stone in the Tavistock church. There are the figures of a knight and lady on the stone, showing that he was a soldier. His arms also were inscribed on the stone. The sons of John Fitz were: i. John, inherited his father's estate ; died without issue. 2. Walter, who after his brother, succeeded to the estate. 3. Roger. (The English history of the Fitz family was taken from the history written by Mr. James Flarris Fitts, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama).

(II) Walter Fitts, son of John Fitts (i), was probably born about 1450, and died 15 10. He married Mary Sampson. Children: i. John, married a daughter of Roger Greville. 2. Robert.

(V) Walter Fitts, son of Robert Fitts (4), was a contemporary of Sir Francis Drake, who married a niece of the mother of his cousin. Sir John Fitts. He is said to have had business relations with Sir Richard Greville. He had two sons - Robert, born 1600, and Richard.

(5), was born 1600. He and his brother Richard emigrated to Massachusetts previous to 1639, when he was a property owner in Sahsbury, Massachusetts. His brother Richard settled in Newbury, near Sahsbury, and both were called planters in the records. Tradition says that previous to going to Salisbury he settled in Ipswich in 1635. He came from Tavistock, Devonshire, England. He was a man of high social position, of education and Puritan integrity. He removed to Ipswich in 1652, where he lived until he died, May 9, 1665. He was on the tax rolls in Salisbury in 1650, and owned a share in Plum Island in 1664. He and his wife Grace gave testimony December 22, 1664, as to the promise made by Simon Thompson desiring their son Abraham, who married his daughter, to come to Ipswich and reside. He married first, in England, Ann Barnes, and second, Grace, sister of Robert Lord. The will of Robert Fitts, dated January 5, 1663, and proved June 26, 1664, mentions his wife Grace and son Abraham, to whom he left land at Salisbury, which he purchased of his "brother William Barnes." no doubt the brother of his first wife. The widow died April 25, 1684. The estate was valued at two hundred and thirty pounds, which was a large sum for those days.

(VII) Abraham Fitts, son of Robert Fitts (6), was born about the time his parents came to America, say 1(^)35. Fie married. May 16, 1655, Sarah, daughter of Simon Thompson, of Ipswich, Governor Simon Bradstreet performing the ceremony. She died June 4. 1664. He married second, the widow of Tyler Birdley, Rebecca Birdley, January 7, 1668. Abraham Fitts lived at Salisbury, ^Massachusetts, during his youth, but at the time of his marriage removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts, at the request of Symon Thompson, his wife's father, who conveyed to him the house and land he had bought from Humphrey Griffin, containing three acres, bounded by Rocky Hill towards the west, John Fuller to the south, and the highway east and northeast. He w-as heir and executor of the will of his uncle, Richard Fitts, wdio left no children. He joined the church in full communion February 22, 1673. He was admitted a freeman March II, 1673-74. The estate was inventoried at three hundred and sixty-six pounds ten shillings. He had a house and fifty acres of land at Ipswich, besides land at Salisbury. Children of first wife: i. Sarah, born February 21, 1657; died January 14, 1660. 2. Abraham, died 1 7 14. 3. Robert, born March 30, 1660; died June 15, 1661. 4. Sarah, born March 15, 1661. Children of second wife:

Richard Fitts, son of Abraham Fitts (7), was born February 26, 1672. On January 16, 169 1, his father conveyed to him in fee all his lands in Salisbury, where he built a block house for his residence and to shield his family from the Indians, by whom they were repeatedly attacked. These same lands have never passed out of the family, being still owned by the descendants of Robert Fitts, grandfather of Richard, to whom they were originally granted. The will of Richard Fitts was dated July 25, 1741, and proved January 14, 1745. He died December 3, 1744. He married ]\Iarch 18, 1694-95, Sarah Thorne. His wife was a superior woman, remarkable for resolution of character, walking sixteen miles to worship at Ipswich, of which church she was a member. "She w'as a dutiful and aft"ectionate wife, a kind mother, and a pious, charitable and useful member of society. She died March, 1773, aged one hundred years." Children: i. Isaac, born December 19, 1695; died August 10, 1696. 2. Sarah, born July 12, i6()7; married, February 8, 1721, Jeremiah Allen. 3. Nathaniel, born July 13, 1699; died February 6, 1784. 4. ]\Iartha, born February 2"], 1702; married, April i. 1727, John Eastman, of Salisbury. 5. Richard, born January 20. 1705; mentioned below. 6. Ward, "daughter, borne 9th June. 1707." 7. Daniel, born April 30, 1710; cHed March 30, 1796. 8. Jerusha, born December 10, 1712; married Roger Eastman, Januarv 25, 1730.

(IX) Richard Fitts, 'son of Richard Fitts (8). was born January 20. 1705. He settled in what was afterwards South Hampton, New Hampshire, then an uncultivated territory infested by Indians. On July 26, 1742, he with twenty-eight others who had "done considerable" towards building a meeting house at a place called "Logging Plain," gave it to the town, which had been incorporated the May preceding. ]\Iarch i, 1756, he was on a committee appointed by the town to survey a route for a highway. He died February 23. 1791. His will was dated May 3, 1787, and proved March 16, 1791. He married first, April 6, 1727, Sarah Brown, born September 14, 1708, died about 1754. daughter of Ephraim and Lydia Brown of Salisbury, Massachusetts. He owned the covenant of the Con- gregational West Church at Sahsbury, December 24, 1727. His wife Sarah united with tlie same church May 5, 1728. He married second, April, 1757, Dorothy Evans, of SaUsbury. Children, all by first wife: i. Sarah, born November 27, 1727; married Daniel Ouimby, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. 2. l3aniel, born September 25, 1729; baptized October, 1729. 3. Nathaniel, died unmarried, May II, 1779. 4. Elizabeth, born February 5' 1733; baptized March 9, 1733; published to Timothy Flanders, of Salisbury, December 2, 1752- 5- Jonathan, born July 29, 1734; married Susannah Pike. 6. Lydia, born November 3, 1737; baptized December 4, 1737; married Ebenezer Eastman. 7. Abigail, born September 10, 1739; married Nathaniel Morrill, of Brentwood, New Hampshire. 8. Mary, born May 22, 1743; married Moses Jones, of Enfield, New Hampshire. 9. Ephraim, born May 10, 1745; mentioned below. 10. Martha, born March 13, 1747; married Jonathan King. 11. Isaac, born March 27, 1749; died unmarried, February 17, 1778, at Concord, New Hampshire, from disease contracted in the revolution. 12. Anna, born January 20, 1751; married Moses Sawyer, of Salisbury, New Hampshire. 13. Child, died young. 14. Child, died young.

(X) Ephraim Fitts, son of Richard Fitts (9), was born May 10, 1745. He learned the trade of a blacksmith with his cousin Abraham Fitts, of Chester, New Hampshire, and settled there. He was tithingman 1769-72-73, besides holding other town offices. He was in the revolution, in the Chester company, and after the war settled in South Hampton, New Hampshire. He died April 13, 1800, and letters of administration were granted to his widow and his son Thomas Worthen Fitts, May 19, 1800. He married, August 29, 1765, Rhoda Worthen, of Chester, New Hampshire, Rev. Mr. Cotton, of Sandown, New Hampshire, officiating. She was born 1743, and died February 28, 1826. Children: i. Sarah, born December 13, 1765; married Thomas Clifford. 2. Lydia, born March 19, 1768; died March 5, 1778. 3. Richard, born February 22, 1770; died October 6, 1835. 4. Elizabeth, born February 4, 1772 ; married February 24, 1800, Nathaniel Howe, of Enfield, New Hampshire; died 1858. 5. Thomas Worthen, born March 17. 1774; mentioned below. 6. Mary, born September 14, 1776; married May 9, 1823, William Clifford, of Candia, New Hampshire. 7. Lydia, born February 6, 1779; died unmarried, February

(XI) Thomas Worthen Fitts, son of Ephraim Fitts (10), born March 17, 1774, died at Dorchester, New Hampshire, June 11, 1813. He married, November 28, 1799, Sarah French, of South Hampton, New Hampshire, Rev. Nathaniel Noyes officiating. She died March 7, 1866, aged eighty-five. Children: i. Parmelia, bom July 17, 1801 ; married Elihu Woodman, of Kingston, New Hampshire. 2. Thomas Jefferson, born December 21, 1802; married December 29, 1829, Thankful F. Aloore, of Dorchester, New Hampshire. 3. Daniel French, born April 2, 1805 ; married Susan Fellows, of Danville, New Hampshire. 4. Sarah, born January 14, 1807; married Russell F. Clifford, of Warren, New Hampshire. 5. Drusilla, born January 28, 1809; died February 8, 1809. 6. Joseph, born December 28, 1810; mentioned below. 7. Elizabeth, born December 24, 1812; married Joseph Magoon, of East Kingston, New Hampshire.

(XII) Joseph Fitts, son of Thomas Worthen Fitts (11), was born at South Hampton, New Hampshire, December 28, 1810. His education was obtained in the district schools of Dorchester, New Hampshire, and he worked on his father's farm until he came of age. In 183 1 he left home and located at Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he worked at the trade of shoemaker, and later became a manufacturer on his own account. He built up an extensive and prosperous business in Haverhill, and became one of the leading shoe manufacturers of that city. He employed many men, and his relations with his help were admirable. His advice was frequently sought by younger men in the same line of business. He was a useful and public-spirited citizen, upright and straightforward in his methods, and commanded the respect and confidence of all with whom he had business relations. He retired from active business a few years before his death, but continued to live in Haverhill. He died there December 4, 1883, aged seventy-three years. Mr. Fitts was a Republican in politics, and served the city as a member of the common council from Ward Four. He was a devout and loyal member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Haverhill, was one of its trustees, and superintendent of its Sunday school. He was a member of Merrimack Lodge of Free Masons, Haverhill. Mr. Fitts had invested to a large extent in Haverhill real estate, and he did much to build up the city in a material way, building a large number of dwelling houses from time to time on Mount Washington and in other districts of the city.

He married, October 8, 1834, Hannah Rowell, born August 12, 1813, died March 6, 1902, daughter of Philip Rowell, of East Kingston, New Hampshire. She was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and was active in its missionary society. Children, born in Haverhill: i. Alfred M., born December 12, 1836; drowned in the Merrimac river, June 30, 1858; had been associated in business with his father, and had a promising career before him. 2. Mary Frances, resides at home, 78 Washington avenue, Haverhill. 3. Warren J., born June 7, 1841 ; was commissioned second lieutenant of the Thirtyfifth Regiment in the civil war; married Louisa H. Rugg ; children: i. .\nnie L. ; ii. Ralph W. 4. Leroy B., born October 5, 1846; resides in Haverhill ; married Frances Thurston; children: i. Mabel; ii. Howard. 5. Hannah P.. born 1849; died July 29. 1850. 6. Horace L., born January 10, 1852; died 1882; married Eva z^dams ; son, Wallace J. Mary Frances Fitts is a life member of the Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Home Mission Society, also a life member of the Haverhill Children's Home Societv.

Matthias Farnsworth, FARNSWORTH the immigrant ancestor, settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, soon after 1650. He was born in England in 16 12, probably in or near Farnworth, Lancashire. He married, probably as his second wife, Mary, daughter of George Farr, later of Lynn, Massachusetts. Farnsworth was a weaver by trade. He was admitted a freeman of Lynn, May 16, 1670, and died January 21, 1688-89. His widow died 1717. The three eldest children were probably by the first wife. Children: i. Elizabeth, born 1647, probably in England, but possibly in Lynn ; married January 16, 1667, James Robertson, or Robinson, born 1632, died December 8, 1720, She died December 22, 1729, aged eighty-two years. 2. Matthias, born 1649; married, 1681, Sarah, daughter of John Nutting. 3. John, born about 1651-52; married, December 8, 1686, Hannah Aldis, of Dedham, Massachusetts, born July 4, 1666; he died October 17, 1729.

4. Benjamin, born 1667 ; mentioned below. 5. Joseph, born November 16, 1657, at Lynn, Massachusetts; died October 31, 1674, unmarried. 6. Mary, born October 11, 1660, at Lynn; married, April ii, 1676, Samuel Thatcher, of Watertown, Massachusetts, born October 20, 1648, died October 21, 1726; she died August 17, 1725. 7. Sarah, born about 1663-64, probably at Groton ; married Simon Stone, of Watertown. 8. Samuel, born October, 1669; married, December 12, 1706, Mary Whitcomb Willard, widow of Simon Willard. he died 1726-27. 9. Abigail, born January 17, 1671 ; married John Llartshorn, her cousin.

(H) Benjamin Farnsworth, son of Matthias Farnsworth (i), born 1667; married, 1695, Mary Prescott, born February 3, 1674, daughter of Jonas and Mary (Loker) Prescott. His wife died October 28, 1735. He built his house and lived on the easterly side of the road running on the west side of the broad meadow a little south of the residence lately occupied by Abel Farnsworth, and he owned the stretch of land west of the meadow and south of the road from Farmers' Row across the meadow to the first parish meeting house. The house stood until 1830, though not occupied during its last years of existence. Benjamin was a town officer, selectman for some years. He was a member of the church at Groton, and his children were baptized there. During his last years his wife had the care of him, and was appointed his guardian during his illness. Children, born at Groton : I. Mary, born January 5, 1696; married Lieutenant \\'illiam Tarbell. 2. Martha, born January 9, 1698. 3. I'cnjamin, born January,

Rebecca Pratt, of Maiden. 4. Isaac, born July 14, 1701 ; married, April, 1723, Sarah Page, daughter of Samuel ; resided at Lunenburg. Massachusetts, and was town clerk ten years there. 5. Lieutenant Ezra, born January 17, 1703; married, April 25, 1726; Elizabeth Loker, daughter of Joseph. 6. Amos, born November 2"], 1704; married, November 20, 1735, Lydia, daughter of John and Sarah (Prescott) Longley. 7. Lydia, born September 26. 1706; married, December 19, 1725, Samuel Tarbell. 8. Aaron, born August 29, 1709; mentioned below. 9. Martha, May born October 14, 1713; married, 1739, Thankful Ward, of Worcester. 11. Deborah, born 1715-16; married, March 19, 1735; Samuel Bowers, Jr., who had the first tavern in Groton.

(III) Aaron Farnsworth, son of Benjamin Farnsworth (2), born at Groton, August 29, 1709, died there July 7, 1769. He was a farmer in his native town. He married first, March 29, 1739, Hannah Barron, died 1743.

1747. He married third, 1749, Elizabeth Parker, died December 12, 1766, aged fortyseven. He married fourth, June 16, 1767, Sarah Bement, born 1723. His widow Sarah

1822, aged ninety-nine years ten months. Children, born at Groton: i. Zaccheus, born November 29, 1729; married, at Pepperell, Abigail Whitney. 2. Sybil, born November 12, 1730; died 1 75 1, unmarried. 3. Mary, born March 29, 1732; married March 2, 1767, Colonel Asmyn Baker; settled in Charlestown, New Hampshire. 4. Hannah, born June II, 1734; married, December 17, 1753, James Locke, Jr. 5. Eunice, born November 26, 1735 ; married Joseph Weston, of Concord. 6. Samuel, born August 13, 1737. 7. Esther, born July 24, 1739; married, November i, 1759. Josiah Parker, Jr. Child of Aaron and Sarah: 8. Aaron, born January 5, 1745; mentioned below. Children of Aaron and Elizabeth: 9. Timothy, born July 28, 1751. 10. Sybil, born 1752-53.

(IV) Aaron Farnsworth, son of Aaron Farnsworth (3), born January 5, 1745; married, September 17, 1767, Abigail Johnson, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married second, Bathsheba -= --. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Henry Farwell's company of minute-men. Colonel William Prescott's regiment, on the Lexington alarm. Children, born at Groton: i. Timothy, born October 6, 1770; married Elizabeth Robb; second, Sally Clary; resided at Petersborough and Dublin, New Hampshire. 2. Aaron, born October 20, 1772; married Catherine Vader ; lived at Schenectady, New York. 3. William, born April 6, 1774, died young. 4. Solomon Johnson, born February 6, 1776; mentioned below. 5. Sally, born February 28, 1778; married Josiah Scripture, of Townsend. 6. Samuel, born December 8, 1779; married Elizabeth Dadman, October 2, 1808: died November 26, 1828, at Schenectady, New York. 7. Jonathan, born September 19, 1781 ; married Lucy Kittridge. 8. Abel, born December 4,

Marquis de Lafayette, born July 22, 1788; married September 1809, Sally Tarbell; resided in Petersborough, New Hampshire. II. Fanny, born July 15, 1790; married

(V) Solomon Johnson Farnsworth, son of Aaron Farnsworth (4), born in Groton, February 6, 1776, died February 9, 1844. He settled at Petersborough, New Hampshire, and Methuen, Massachusetts. He married, at Reading, Massachusetts, Betsey Nichols, born December 22, 1781, died November 9, 1864. Children: i. Timothy. 2. Francis. 3. Parker. 4. Sally. 5. Jane. 6. Eliza. 7. Eleanor. 8. Moses. 9. Jeremiah H., mentioned below.

(VI) Jeremiah H. Farnsworth, son of Solomon Johnson Farnsworth (5), was born at Townsend, Massachusetts, January 29, 1812. He was educated in the common school, and worked in his youth at the cooper's trade with his father. When he was about twenty-one he embarked in business for himself as a shoe manufacturer in Methuen, Massachusetts, and continued there until 1843, when he removed to Haverhill and established a manufacturing business there in partnership with Jared Howe, under the firm name of Farnsworth & Howe. The firm also conducted a grocery business in the same building in which their shoe factory was located. After a few years Mr. Howe retired from the business, and Mr. Farnsworth continued the business successfully until about 1876, when he turned it over to his son, Sylvester P. He was a director of the Haverhill Savings and National Bank. He was a member of the Center Congregational Church, and later of the North Congregational Church. He was entirely a self-made man, highly respected and honored by his townsmen. He married, November 23, 1835, at Pembroke, New Hampshire, Clarinda B. Carter, born at Corinth, Vermont, 181 3. Children: i. Newton Haskell, born October 2, 1838, died November, 1875; was a manufacturer of boots and shoes in Haverhill. 2. Sylvester P., mentioned below.

(VII) Sylvester P. Farnsworth, son of Jeremiah H. Farnsworth (6), was born at Methuen, Massachusetts, May 29, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and New London, New

Hampshire. He was engaged with his father in the manufacture of boots and shoes until September 16, 1861, when he enlisted in the Twenty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as Henry Wilson's regiment, and took part in many battles and engagements. He was in the battle of Hanover Court House, the Seven-day fight, the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and Welden Railroad. He was mustered out of service September 16, 1864.

After the war Mr. Farnsworth returned to Haverhill and worked for his father in the business of manufacturing shoes, succeeding him in business. In 1883 ^^- Farnsworth decided to give up business, and since then he has lived retired at his home in Haverhill. He is a member of the Haverhill Board of Trade. He is a member of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to the Union Veteran Union of Haverhill. He married first, Mary W. Witherell, and second, Sarah May Lent, born 1864, daughter of Gilbert and Frances (Johns) Lent. He has no children.

All of the old families of CHEEVER the surname Cheever in New England appear to come from the same stock. There were several immigrant ancestors, but all nearly related.

Bartholomew Cheever. born in England, settled in Boston, a shoemaker by trade, admitted freeman May 26. 1647, and to the church May 31. 1646, died 1693; his will, dated October 21, proved December 28. 1693, bequeathed to wife Lydia, brother Daniel, mentioned below, and his seven children by name ; to cousin Ezekiel Cheever, the schoolmaster of Boston, mentioned below, and Richard Cheever with his son Bartholomew ; to cousins Elizabeth Harwood, W'illiam and Samuel Barrett. William Thwing, Benjamin Marsh ; to Stephen Palmer that married brother Daniel Cheever's daughter Elizabeth; to the children of cousin Ballantine and to the poor of the old church ; his widow Lydia was a sister of William Barrett : her will was proved March 14, 1701 ; they had no children. Daniel Cheever, born in England, brother of the preceding, was a husbandman at Cambridge, deposing April 7, 1664, that he was aged about forty-three years; his wife Hester was a member of the church ; he died March,

1703-04; his will dated April 30, 1698, proved June 21, 1704, refers to brother Bartholomew Cheever, of Boston, deceased, bequeaths to sons Israel and James; daughters Lydia Luxford, Elizabeth Palmer and Hannah Barrett, wife of William Barrett, son-in-law of Joseph Champney. Children: i. Mary, born February 14. 1645-46. 2. Lydia, born November 26, 1647. 3- James, born at Sudbury, December 7. 1649. 4- John, baptized July 31, 1659.

Ezekiel Cheever, the famous and worthy schoolmaster of Boston, was born in London, January 25, 1614-15, resided in Boston in 1637, in New Haven in 1638, Ipswich in 1650, Charlestown in November, 1661, and again in Boston, January 6. 1670. President Eliot, of Harvard College, has recently written a book about him. He was an interesting figure in the early history of the colonies. He married,

Haven, January 20. 1649; second, November 18, 1652, Ellen Lothrop, sister of Captain Thomas Lothrop, of Beverly. She died September 10, 1706. He died at Boston, August 21, 1708; his will, dated February 16, 1705-

06. and proved August 24, 1708, bequeathed to wife Ellen, children Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Ezekiel. Thomas and Susanna, to grandson Ezekiel Russell. Children: i. Samuel, born September 22, 1639. 2. Mary, baptized November 29, 1640, married William Lewis. 3. Ezekiel. baptized June 12, 1642. 4. Elizabeth, baptized April 6, 1645 ! married Samuel Goldthwaite. 5. Sarah, baptized September 21. 1646. 6. Hannah, baptized June 25. 1648.

Abraham Cheever, brother of Bartholomew, died in 1669. Richard Cheever, of Boston, mentioned by Bartholomew, died in 1709, his widow Abigail being appointed administratrix August 8, 1709. The eldest son of Ezekiel, Rev. Samuel Cheever, minister at Marblehead, Massachusetts, was called cousin of Peter Cheever, mentioned below.

(I) Peter Cheever, the immigrant ancestor, was a nephew of Ezekiel Cheever, the schoolmaster, and closely related to the other Cheever immigrants, though much younger. He was probably of age in 1668 when his name appears on a petition to the general court concerning imposts, signed by the citizens of Salem where he was then living. He was a soldier in King Philip's War in the company of Captain Samuel Brocklebank in 1675. His name appears next to that of Ezekiel Cheever on the list of members of the Salem old troop in 1678 in a petition to Major Denison. He was a glover by trade and appears to have remained at Salem all his active life. He died in 1699. His will dated July 15, 1699, proved August 7, 1699, mentions his cousin Samuel, of Marblehead. Children: i. Samuel, baptized August, 1688. 2. Peter, baptized, August, 1688; mentioned below. 3. Daniel, married Sarah ; he was baptized an adult March 3, 1728; children: i. Daniel, baptized August 20, 1727; ii. Desire, baptized August 3, 1729.

when he bought of Benjamin Lynde a piece of land probably at what is now the corner of Brown and Winter streets. The homestead was afterwards owned and occupied as a tannery by his son Samuel. Children, baptized at Salem: i. Margaret, October, 1731. 2. Peter, February 11, 1732; died 1801, at Andover ; married first, Margaret Ives ; second, Martha Osgood. 3. Daniel, February ii, 1735; mentioned below. 4. Samuel, October 30. 1737; clied March 19, 1814; married Sally Ring, of Scarborough. 5. Hannah, September 13, 1 741. 6. Margaret, June 5, 1743. 7. Benjamin, baptized at the Tabernacle January 25, 1746; married Mary Card (nee Barr). 8. Lydia, July i, 1750. 9. Henry, February 2, 1752.

(Ill) Daniel Cheever,, son of Peter Cheever (2), was born February, 1732. He was a soldier in the revolution, second sergeant in Captain Samuel King's company in 1775; quarter gunner in Captain John Simonds's company of gunners ; also in Captain Samuel King's company at Salem and Lynn in 1775. He married Sarah Hawthorn (See p. 249. Vol. 22 Essex Inst. Coll.) Children, baptized at Salem: i. Daniel, December 25, 1763. 2. Joseph, December 30, 1764, died young. 3. Joseph, July 5, 1767. 4. John, August 9, 1767. 5. Nathaniel, June 4. 1769. 6. Ebenezer, August II, 1771 ; mentioned below. 7. Joseph, August 26, 1777. 8. Nathaniel, September 6, 1778; died November 6, 1813; married Abigail Hutchinson. 9. Captain Joseph, August

(V) John Cheever, son of Ebenezer Cheever (4), was born at Beverly, May 20, 1800, and died September 29, 1851, at Blue Hill, Maine. He married Betsey Lovett Gardner, born at Beverly, December 22, 1803, and died October 19, 1886, at Andover, buried in North Andover. Children, born at Blue Hill: I. Betsey J., born March 12, 1824; died April 7, 1857; married Reuben George W. Dodge, of Blue Hill. 2. John Gardner, born June 28, 1826; followed the sea. 3. Sarah Susan, born December 15, 1829; died November 20, 1896; unmarried. 4. Horace Walter, born November 14, 1833. 5- Austin Whitney, born June 7, 1836; died December, 1858, at Haverhill, Massachusetts. 6. George Batchelder, born May 26, 1838; served in the civil war. Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ; was confined a long time in the Lincoln Hospital and died soon after leaving the hospital, January 19, 1866. 7. Ella T., born January 29, 1845, "ow living in Andover. John Cheever was educated in the district schools and learned the trade of shipbuilder. He followed shipbuilding as a bi:isiness, though for a time he had a grocery store at Blue Hill. He was the most prominent man of that section for a number of years. He built and owned a number of ships used in foreign trade. One of his vessels was called the "Sarah Jackson" and another the "Equator," of which he was owner of two-thirds and all its cargo when she was lost at sea without insurance, causing him to lose a considerable part of his savings. He was a faithful and devout member of the Congregational church.

(VI) Horace Walter Cheever, son of John Cheever (5), was born at Blue Hill, Maine, November 14, 1833. He received his education in the district schools and worked on his father's farm in his youth. Before buying the farm mentioned below he dealt in shoe soles, etc. When he left home he bought a farm in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and followed farming the remainder of his active life with marked success. In politics he was a Republican ; in religion a Congregationalist. He married Hannah Frances Cole, born in Lowell, March 29, 1840, daughter of Timothy Cole, who lived in Haverhill. Children: i. Lilla G., born December 28, 1859; married James I. Steel, of Haverhill ; have two children. 2. John Austin, born September 23, 1861 ; died April, 1902, unmarried. 3. Minnie Susan, born March 2, 1864, unmarried. 4. Alice Brown, born January 9, 1867; married, 1895, Louis P. Benson. 5. Hattie C, born June 14, 1869; married Frank E. Drew, of Haverhill. 6. George Horace, born April 15, 1872; died November 19, 1903. 7. Clara, died in infancy. 8. Infant son, died young. All of the children were born in Haverhill.

The ancestors of the sub- TEWKSBURY ject of this sketch were influential among the settlers of a\Ianchcster-by-the-Sea, in old Essex county, Massachusetts, in the closing decades of the seventeenth century. The old world ancestors were English farmers, and, while records are obscure, it is generally conceded that the first immigrants of the name came from Gloucester county, England, where the old market town of Tewkesbury is located. The traceable line of descent begins and continues as follows :

( I ) Thomas Tewksbury seems to have come to the town about the year 1680, and was the first of the name to become active in the afifairs of that ancient colonial township. Me rei)resented the town of Manchester in the colonial legislature of 1692 and again in 1693, and was one of the selectmen in charge of town afi'airs during the same years. The pay of legislators was not tempting in those days, for it is recorded that he collected a sum eciual to about seventy-five cents per day for his services at the colonial general court.

(III) John Tewksbury, son of Thomas (2) and Rebecca, one of eight children, was born in Manchester, in 1728. He married first, Elizabeth Tilton, who died June 11, 1772; and second, Ruth Masters, who died September 15, 1793. He died in 1775. He was clerk of the land proprietors of the township, served many years as town clerk and selectman, and was one of the committee of safety appointed in the town in 1774 before the actual outbreak of the Revolutionary war. He was for many years a deacon in the old Congregational church.

(IV) John Tewksbury, son of John Tewksbury (3), was born in Manchester, November ii, 1753. Lie was a soldier in the i^evolution, a private in Captain Andrew Master's company of minute-men from Manchester, responding to the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. marching to Medford; was also in Captain Joseph Whipple's comi)any, 1775, in sea coast defense duty at Cdoucester and Manchester; was in the navy in 1780, on the brigantine "Grifiin," Captain Gideon Flenfield. He married Sarah Lendall, of Manchester, by whom he had ten children. At the close of the Revolutionary war he removed, with many other families of the vicinity, to the town of Ho])kint(Mi, New IIam[)shire, and remained there until his death.

(V) Joseph Tewksbury, son of John (4), one of a large family, was born at Hopkinton, New IIami)shire, in 1797, and resided there luitil his death in November, 1866. He was an industrious and hard working farmer, content to be faithful over a few things, but was a man of quick perception and of strong common sense. When once convinced that he was right he could not be moved from his position. At one time he was the pioneer abolitionist of the town, and for twenty years he was a deacon of the Baptist church. He married Eliza Butler, of Essex, Massachusetts, who died in 1874.

(\'I) Robert Haskell Tewksbury, son of Josei)h Tewksbury (5), and Eliza P>utler, one of seven children, was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, April 11, 1833. The schools of that town gave him his only educational advantages. In 1852 he left home and located in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he has since lived. During nearly all his active life he has served as a cashier and accountant. For two years, 1863 and 1864, he was an assessor of taxes; for a period of ten years from 1864 to 1874 was city treasurer and collector of taxes; in 1875 was mayor of Lawrence, and, on closing his official term, accepted the position of cashier, accountant and land agent with the Essex Company, the corporation that developed the water power at Lawrence, which company owned, improved and sold ' much of the land underlying the city. In this position he continued after thirty-three years of service. In addition to his regular duties he has served the city of Lawrence for five years as a memher of the board in charge of public water works, and for six years as a member of, and clerk of, the Lawrence school building commissions, having charge of the erection and equipment of the high school building and two principal grammar school houses. He is also president of the Lawrence Savings Bank, and was for a quarter of a century secretary of an association of pioneer citizens known as The Old Residents' Association. He is a Veteran Odd Fellow, a member of Monadnock Lodge. In politics he has always been a Republican, with independent leanings.

He married first, November 24, 1859, Angelia Catherine Hawthorne, daughter of Calvin and Rachael (Jackman) Hawthorne, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire. He married second, June 14, 1894, Amelia Burkinshaw, daughter of William H. Burkinshaw and Ruth Parkin, of Sheffield, England. The children by the first marriage are Willis H. and Robert L. There are no children by the second marriage.

Mr. Tewksbury is deeply interested in all matters pertaining to the history of the Merrimack Valley, and is frequently called upon to address historical societies and literary clubs. On the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Lawrence, in 1903, Mr. Tewksbury was selected to write and deliver the historical poem commemorating the occasion, which was published in the Eagle and Tribune souvenir volume, and is reproduced below.

The Peabody family is said PEABODY to have originated in England about the year 6i, at the time that Nero ruled Britain as well as the rest of the Roman empire. The ancient Britons, who were tribes of the more ancient Cambri, were vassals of Nero Parsutagus, in the right of Queen Boadicea, his wife, was the reigning king of Icena, Britain. When he died, although he gave half his vast estate to the Emperor, the rapacity of the tyrant was not satisfied and he seized the whole. When the Queen interfered with his officers in their confiscation he ordered her publicly whipped. A rebellion followed. Boadie, a patriarch of one of the tribes, fought for the Queen and killed a Roman officer, Galbuta, whose armor he took as a trophy. The Britons were finally subdued, and Boadie retired to the hills. Hence the name Pea or I-^ay, meaning hill - Peaboadie or Paybodie. The name was variously spelled, but means "man of hills." The Peabody arms contains the insignia from the arms of Galbuta, two suns. The arms are described ; party per fess, nebule Gules azure ; two suns proper with a garb; crest, scroll and motto. "Murus Aerus Conscientia Sana." The arms are very ancient.

(I) John Peabody, the immigrant ancestor of all the American branches of the Peabody family, came to America about 1635, probably with his son William, as their names are mentioned together in the list of original proprietors of the town of Plymouth. John Peabody owned ten acres at Bluefish in the Plymouth colony in 1637. He was admitted a freeman January 2, 1637-38, and with William Peabody, his son, was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater in 1645. He lived in Duxbury. His will is dated July 16, 1649, at Duxbury, Plymouth colony, and proved at Boston, April 2'j, 1667, but recorded at- Plymouth. He died at Bridgewater in 1667, aged seventy-seven years. He married Isabel

Thomas, mentioned in will in 1667. 2. Francis, born 1614; mentioned below. 3. William, born 1619-20; came to Plymouth colony and settled in Rhode Island ; married Elizabeth Aldcn. 4. Annis (Agnes), married John Rouse, who was with William Peabody, one of the original proprietors of Little Compton, originally Seaconet.

(II) Francis Peabody, son of John Peabody (i), was born at vSt. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, in 1614. He came to New England in the ship "Planter," Nicholas Erarice, master, sailing April 2, 1635, and first settled in Ipswich, where he was a proprietor in 1636. In 1638 he was one of the original settlers of Hampton, New Hampshire, then Norfolk county, with Rev. Stephen Bachilor and twelve others, and they resided there several years. He was on the grand jury, also the trial jury there. He was admitted a free- man there May i8, 1642. He sold his estate at Hampton, May 25, 1650, and removed to Topsfield, Massachusetts, in order to be nearer Boston. His new farm was adjoining those of Richard Dorman and Mr. Simonds. He became a very prominent man there, both on account of his property and influence. He owned large tracts of land in Topsfield, Boxford and Rowley. His will is dated January 20, 1695, and proved August 7, 1698. He died February 19, 1697-98, aged eighty-three years. His widow died April 9, 1705. He married Mary, daughter of Reginald Foster, of the family named in Scott's "Marmion" and "Lay of the Last Minstrel." Children: I. John, born 1642. 2. Joseph, born 1644; married I>ethiah Bridges. 3. William, born 1647; mentioned below. 4. Lsaac, born 1648.

(IV) Ephraim Peabody, son of William Peabody (3), was born April 23, 1689. He resided at Boxford. His mind was deranged from 1732 until his death, June i, 1740. He had as guardians Thomas Reddington and his brother Stephen Peabody. His will was dated July 4, 1728, and proved June 23, 1740. He married Hannah Reddington, July 13, 1712. Children: i. Thomas, born July 14, 1713; resided at Boxford, then at Lunenburg. 2. Abraham, born October 6, 17 17. 3. Ephraim, born February 10, 1720; resided at Ashford and Windham, Connecticut. 4. Hannah, born May 8, 1725. 5. Nathaniel, born December 18, 1727; mentioned below. 6. Stephen, born 1729, died 1733. 7. Mary, born 1731.

(V) Nathaniel Peabody, son of Ephraim Peabody (4), born December 18, 1727, died August 17, 1778. He resided at Boxford. He married, February 26, 1755, Hepsibah Barker, of Andover, Massachusetts. His estate was inventoried at eight thousand one hundred thirty-seven pounds eleven shillings four pence. Children: i. Amasa, born May 23, 1755; resided at Boxford, afterward at Dracut ; married Rhoda Runnels. 2. Ephraim, born November 16, 1757; married Betsey Gage, of Pelham, 1783; died 1804; resided at Methuen. 3. John, born August 18, 1763; mentioned below. 4. Nathaniel, born 1767; resided at Ijoxford, afterwards at Dracut; married, April I, 1789, Betsey Cole.

(VT) John Peabody, son of Nathaniel Peabody (5), was born at Boxford, Massachusetts, August 18, 1763. He settled in Bradford when he was twenty- four years old, removing thither with two brothers, Nathaniel and Ephraim Peabody. Nathaniel settled in what is now part of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, and became a prosperous farmer ; Ephraim settled in Methuen, Massachusetts, where he also was successful in farming. John Peabody was a blacksmith by trade. He built a shop in Bradford, and followed his trade there the rest of his days, teaching it to two of his sons. He was a man of large frame and great strength, and, inclining to obesity, finally attained the enormous weight of almost five hundred pounds. He died in 1838, aged seventy-five years. He was a Democrat in politics, a man of sound character and good judgment. He married, September 15, 1788 (also given Sei)tember 21, town records), Alice Carleton, born in l>radford. Children, born in Bradford: i. Sally, born June 20, 1789. 2. Charlotte, born May 19, 1791 ; married Tenney. 3. Roxana, born March

6. 1793; ^^ic<i unmarried. 4. John Jr., born May 24, 1795; married first, Elizabeth Horn; second Elizabeth /Mien. 5. Nathaniel, born July 7. 1797; mentioned below. 6. Leonard, born February 7, 1800; married first, Hannah Welch ; second Dolly Abbott. 7. Eliza, born February 11, 1802; married Deacon Allan, of Manchester, Massachusetts. 8. Martha, born August 6, 1804. 9. Mary, born October 16, 1806.

(VH) Nathaniel Peabody, son of John Peabody (6), born in Bradford, Massachusetts, July 7, 1797; married, March 18, 1821, Mary Foote. He was educated in the common schools, and learned the trade of blacksmith in his father's shop and succeeded his father as the village blacksmith of Bradford. He also owned and conducted a tavern in Bradford for many years. He was a prominent and influential citizen. In religion he was a Congregationalist. He died in 1876, and his widow in 1889, aged eighty-seven years. Children, born at Bradford: i. Martha Jane, born August 24, 1821. 2. Calvin, born September 16, 1823. 3. William Henry, born October 17, 1825; resided at Bradford. 4. George, born February 4, 1828. 5. Walter Scott, born December 19, 1830; mentioned below. 6. Charles Nathaniel, born May 18, 1833. 7. Benjamin Carleton. born August 2, 1836. 8. Francis, born April

5. 1842; resides in Bradford, Massachusetts. (VHI) Walter Scott Peabody, son of Nathaniel Peabody (7), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, December 19, 1830. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker, combining farming and shoemaking after the custom of New England farmers in his younger days. He died March 21, 1892. He was a Congregationalist in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He represented his district in the general court for one term, and was for some years selectman of the town of Groveland, which was set ofif from the town of Bradford, being originally the east precinct of Bradford and incorporated as a separate town March 8, 1850. He married Mary E. Poore, born December 9, 1833, in Boston, and who survives him. She was the daughter of John D. Poore and Rebecca Hanson. Children: i. Winfield Scott, born September 8, 1855. 2. Frederick W., February 8, 1857; mentioned below. 3. George E., born June 14, 1858. 4. Fannie, born September 10, i860, died December 28, 1863. 5. Martha Jane, born March 8, 1865.

(IX) Frederick W. Peabody, son of Walter Scott Peabody (8), was born in South Groveland, Massachusetts, formerly Bradford, February 8, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and during his boyhood acquired the trade of shoemaker, and divided his time when not in school between the farm in summer and the shop in winter. He had a special gift in music, and cultivated this talent, became a skillful violinist, and for a number of years was leader of an orchestra in Haverhill. He also gave instruction on the violin and became well known in musical circles in the state. In

1886 he purchased the Tasker Music House, located at 208 Merrimack street, Haverhill, and has conducted it successfully since. He deals in musical instruments of all kinds and in all sorts of musical publications for instruments and the voice. He has also another store in the same line in Amesbury, Massachusetts, another at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a fourth at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He is one of the best known and most prosperous dealers in pianos in northern and northeastern Massachusetts. He is treasurer of the William Bourne & Son Piano Company, of Boston. The pianos made by this concern have been on the market for seventy years, and are especially well-known and liked in the city of Haverhill, where they have been sold in large numbers for the past thirty-five years. Mr. Peabody also sells the pianos of V^ose & Sons; Paul G. Mehlin ; the Peabody; the Linderman ; the Schirmer ; the Janssen, and others. He makes a specialty in recent years of phonographs and cylinders, and piano players.

He is a member of Saggahew Lodge of Free Masons; of Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of the Pentucket Club. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Peabody stands high in the business world and has the esteem of all his townsmen. Fle married Lena L. Allan, born June 28, i86r, in Corinna, Maine, daughter of W. S. Allan. Children: i. Pauline, born September 29, 1890; educated in public schools. 2. Allan K., born February 13, 1895; student. 3. Blanche, born March 12, 1902.

England, settled early in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay. Soon after 1636 he located in the adjacent town of Dorchester, where his descendants have been numerous. It seems likely from the place of residence, the given names of children and the intimate connection between their families, that he was brother of James Howe, also of Roxbury. The descendants of these two pioneers settled in Ipswich, Gloucester, Marblehead, Dedham, Milton and other points along the sea coast. The early records of Dorchester show that Abraham "had leave granted to live in the house he built, although more than a mile from the meeting house." The settlers had to provide, for reasons of mutual protection against danger and for the sake of public worship, that the houses should be built in villages. He was admitted a freeman May 2, 1638; was a member of Mr. John Eliot's church, and in 1645 o^^ of the signers of the Roxbury Latin School. Howe's wife died at Roxbury in 1645, ^'"i^ "^^ married second, and proved November 2, 1676, shortly after his death. He bequeathed to children Abraham, Israel, Isaac, Hester, and Deborah ; to daughter Sarah's children - Joseph, Isaac and Sarah. He was a weaver by trade. He sold a lot of land in Milton, March 16, 1668-69, to Robert Babcock. (Suffolk deeds vii, 280). Children: i. Abraham, baptized September 25, 1653; a weaver. 2. Elizabeth, died before her father. 3. Sarah, whose children were mentioned in her father's will. 4. Isaac, born June 24, 1639, baptized March 30, 1656; mentioned below. 5. Deborah, born September 4, 1641. 6. Israel, born July 7, 1644; married Tabitha ; settled in Boston and Dorchester. 7. Esther, married Henry Mason, and second, John Sears.