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(VH) Charles H. Hayes, son of Luther Hayes (6), was born in Alilton, New Hampshire, February 16, 1849, ^^'^^^ ^^as educated there in the public schools. He began to work in his father's mills at an early age. and continued until the time of his marriage. From 1876 to 1884 he was employed in the LTnited States mail service. On the latter date he came to Haverhill, where he has since resided. He purchased the George B. Wentworth box factory in Haverhill, and in partnership with Charles A. Varney conducted the business of manufacturing boxes of various kinds for a period of eight years. He continued alone from 1892 to 1903, when the C. H. Hayes corporation was formed. This concern has a large business in Haverhill and vicinity, making boxes of both paper and wood for shoe manufacturers and others. The officers of the C. H. Hayes Corporation are : President, C. H. Hayes ; vice-president, E. C. Wentworth ; secretary and treasurer, W. C. Hayes. The factory in Haverhill, at 30 and 36 Granite street, employs an average force of one hundred and twenty-five. In addition, the company has a factory at Farmington, New Hampshire, employing fifteen to twenty hands, and four saw mills in New Hampshire employing about one hundred more.

Mr. Hayes was a director of the Second National Bank of Haverhill until it was consolidated with the Haverhill Trust Company, of which he is now president. He was made president of the above bank during the consolidation. In religion Mr. Hayes is a Baptist. In politics he is a Republican, and has served one term in the board of aldermen of Haverhill. He' is a member of the Farmington, New Hampshire, Lodge of Free Masons; of Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of Haverhill Commandery, Knights Templar; also of Miltonia Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Milton Mills, New Hampshire, and ^of the Pentucket Club of Haverhill. He is one of the most active and enterprising business men of the city, one of the most influential and public-spirited citizens, and personally a man of strong and magnetic character, enjoying the friendship of many and the confidence of all his townsmen. He married, July 3, 1870, Ellen M. Gile, born April 16, 1850, daughter of Jesse Gile, of Raymond, New Hampshire. Children: i. Frank F., died aged nine months. 2. Forrest E., died aged eleven months. 3. Addie L., born March 8, 1877; married, 1899, Albert B. Blaisdell. 4. William C, born March 3, 1880; married, 1903, Millred Remmick, of Exeter, New Hampshire, associated in business with his father, as secretary and treasurer of the C. H. Hayes Corporation. 5. Marion E., born March 12, 1892. Mr. Hayes was president of the Haverhill Board of Trade in 1900-01, and is still a member. He is treasurer and trustee of the Haverhill Building Association.

was born in England, about 1616, and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts. He deposed April 12, 1664, stating his age at forty-seven. He was a planter and millwright in Salisbury, where he drew land in 1641-42, and was a commoner of that town, taxed there in 1650, and in 1654 he was the largest taxpayer of Amesbury, the town adjoining Salisbury. He was town clerk of Salisbury 1654- 58-59-62-64-68. He and his predecessor, ]\Iacy, were authorized to build a saw mill in 1656, and he owned a saw mill right in 1675. In the seating of the Amesbury meeting house in 1667 his name stands first "to set at the table," but he apparently retained membership in the Salisbury church as late as 1677. He seems to have been a soldier in King Philip's war, although older than most of the soldiers. He was for many years an active and influential citizen. His last years were spent at the home of his wife's son, Philip Rowell. He had conveyed his real estate by deed to his heirs, so that no administration was necessary at the time of his death. Twenty-five years afterward, however, his grandson was appointed administrator, November 6, 17 10, and his heirs at law were granted land at Buxton, Maine, for his service in King Philip's war. He died February 22, 1686-87, and his widow Joanna in October, 1690. His daughter Hannah joined with Sarah, widow of Philip Rowell, in petition for a settlement of the estate of Richard and Joanna Currier. He married

1676, Joanna, widow of Valentine Pindar and also of William Sargent, daughter of Henry Pindar, who came in the ship "Susan and Ellen" in April, 1636, to Ipswich, Joanna being then fourteen years old. Children of Richard and Ann Currier : i. Samuel, born in England about 1636; mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born July 8. 1643; married, June 23, 1659, Samuel Foote. 3. Thomas, born Alarch

(II) Samuel Currier, son of Richard Currier (i), was born in England about 1636. He was a weaver and millwright. As early as 1665 he settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and took the oath of allegiance to the crown there in 1677. He owned a right to a corn mill in Haverhill. He died March 14, 1712- 13, at Haverhill. His will was dated March

9, and proved April 6, 1713. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Hardy. She survived him. Children: i. Sarah, born at Bradford; married first, January 13, 1689-90, Ichabod Rogers ; second, Amos Singletary, son of Richard. 2. Ann, born at Bradford, October 22, 1696, lived at Haverhill. 3. Samuel, born and died February 26, 1669. 4. Richard, born December 24, 1670; died April 6, 1689. 5. John, born April 22, 1673 ; married, February 7, 1705-06, Grace Hall. 6. Mary, born January 2, 1675: married, October 23, 1701, Anthony Colby. 7. Alice, born August 9. 1678; married, December 6, 1701, Robert Peasley. 8. Elizabeth, born February 21, 1680. 9. Hannah, born January 24, 1682; died February 4, 1682. 10. Samuel, mentioned below.

(III) Samuel Currier, .son of Samuel Currier {2), was born February 14, 1685. at Haverhill. He was a farmer at Haverhill and Methuen. He married, June 30, 17 14, .\bigail Kelly, daughter of John and granddaughter of John Kelly, the immigrant. She died in 1734. She was admitted to the Haverhill church June 19, 1720, and her seven children were baptized there 1720- 1728. She was dismissed to become one of the charter members of the ]\Iethuen church, October 26. 1729. Children, born at Haverhill, or Methuen : i. Jonathan, born May 4, 1715; mentioned below. 2. Samuel Jr., born February 4, 1716-17. 3. Richard, born November 13, 17 18. 4. Abigail, born February 20, 1720-21 ; married Edmund Worth (Elizabeth baptized April 16, 1 72 1, perhaps the same child). 5. Alice, born ]\Iarch 28, 1723; married, November 7, 1745. Amos Davis. 6. William, born May 31, 1725. 7. John, born May 22, 1728. 8. Amos, born September 12, 1730; married, March 13, 1753, Mary Currie. of Haverhill. 9. Asa, born Afay 12, 1734; married, March 22, 1759, Rebecca Plummer, of Hampstead, New Hampshire ; died at West Point in 1781 (See Sanbornton, New Hampshire).

5. 1776. Children, born at ^Methuen, mentioned in the will: i. Asa, soldier in the revolution, for Haverhill. 2. Jonathan Jr., mentioned below. 3. Daughter, married Josiah Clough. 4. Esther. 5. Lydia. 6. Sarah. 7. Abigail, died before her father ; married Amos Jacc|ues ; children : Amos and Mehitable.

(\') Jonathan Currier Jr., son of Jonathan Currier (4), was born in Methuen, about 1740. He was a cordwainer by trade. He married Lydia Howe. January 4, 1765. This date and the dates of birth of their children are copied from the family Bible. He died July 22, 1795, intestate. The widow was appointed administratrix of the estate and guardian of the five minor sons. Her sureties were Isaac How and Nathaniel Whittier, on the guardian's bond dated September 8, 1795. She died October 20, 1803. Children, born at Methuen: I. Mary, born September 26. 1766"; died January 21, 1789. 2. Samuel, born January 7, 1769; died January 23, 181 1. 3. Jonathan, born December 12, 1770. 4. Hamiah, born March 12, 1773; died May 5, 1797. 5. Amos, born .\pril 16, 1776; died March 15, 1792.

( VI) Isaac Howe Currier, (the middle name seems to have been added in childhood), son of Jonathan Currier (5), was born in Methuen. December 15, 1790. He was brought up in his native town, lielped his father with the work of the farm, and attended the public schools in his youth. He learned the trade of silver plating in Boston, and followed it for some years. On account of ill health he returned to Methuen and engaged in farming on a place he purchased there, resided there the remainder of his life, and died there October 3, 1869, aged seventy-nine years ten months, according to the family Bible. He married Almira Farnsworth, of Reading, Massachusetts. She was born June 12, 1807, and died in Methuen. Children, born in Methuen: I. Isaac Jr., born April 27, 1812: died April 22, 1869. 2. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 3. Adaline, born April 2, 18 - ; died young. 4. Almira. born December 2, 1828: married J. S. Emery : resides at 56 Draper avenue, Arling-

(VII) Thomas Benton Currier, son of Isaac How Currier (6), was born in Methuen, August 3, 1839. He attended school in his native town, and worked with his father on the farm until he was sixteen. Then he learned the shoemaker's trade. After a time he began to manufacture boots and shoes, and continued the business on a modest scale for a period of twenty-five years. He engaged in the business of carriage building also, for twenty years. He recently sold his shop and business and retired. Mr. Currier is a Democrat ; he is a member of the Universalist church. He married, February 3, 1862, Alsina Adelia Colburn, born December 9, 1839, in Dracut (now Lowell), died in Methuen, 1908, daughter of Daniel Colburn, born October 13, 1802, died at Pelham, New Hampshire, March 14, 1868. Her mother, Alfreda Colburn, was born December S3, 1802, died July 22, 1879, at Dracut, daughter of Micah Colburn, married, April 7, 1829, Daniel Colburn; children: i. Alfreda B. Colburn, born November 7, 1827, died September 28, 1861 ; married C. E. Wright, of Chelmsford ; ii. Augusta Malvina Colburn, born June 26, 1830, died July 30, 1855 ; married Warren Moore, of Hancock, New Hampshire ; iii. Daniel Prescott Colburn, born May 12, 1832, died March 5, 1854; iv. Albert Vando Colburn, born October 8, 1834; v. Esther Colburn, born November i, 1837, died November i, 1839; vi. Alsina Adelia Colburn, born December 9, 1839; vii. George W. Colburn, born July 4, 1842, died January 14, 1902, adjutant of Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers in civil war. Benjamin Colburn, father of Daniel Colburn, was born at Dracut, Massachusetts, August, 1771. He was a descendant of the first settler, Edward Colburn, of Concord and Chelmsford, from whom the various Colburn and Coburn families of Dracut and vicinity are descended. Children of Benjamin and Abiel Colburn, born at Dracut: i. Benjamin; ii. Daniel, born October 13, 1802; iii. Juliana, born September 30, 1810; iv. Sophia Colburn, born March 22, 1815-16; v. Luther Wright Colburn, born July 25, 1821.

Children of Thomas Benton and Alsina Adelia (Colburn) Currier: i. Albert Walton, born December 27, 1862, carpenter, resides in Methuen ; has five daughters. 2. Cynthia, born November 7. 1864, died September 17, 1906; married Benjamin Currier, of Methuen. 3. Nettie M., born November 19, 1867; married Fred E. LTrquhart, of Lawrence. 4. Lillie B., born November 20, 1868; died April I, 1891 ; married Fred L. Currier, of Methuen. 5. John Brown, born November 22, 1870; died August i, -1873. 6. Emma Mabel, born May 16, 1873. /- Ethel Augusta, born December 25, 1875; died March 31, 1898. 8. Francis B., born September 13, 1882; married Eliza Campling.

Thomas Thayer was the im- TH/VYER migrant ancestor of this branch of the Thayer family. He and his brother, Richard Thayer, were the two original immigrants and the ancestors of all of this name; Richard came shortly after Thomas, both settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, and both were shoemakers. They came from Thornbury, England. Thomas Thayer came to New England before 1639; in that year he had a grant of land at Braintree for nine persons in his family, seventy-six acres in all. He died June 2, 1665. His will, dated June 24, 1664, proved September 13, 1665, bequeathed to wife and children. The widow died February 11, 1672-73. He married at Thornbury, April 13, 1618, Margery Wheeler. Children, born at Thornbury: i. Thomas, baptized at Thornbury, September 15, 1622. 2. Ferdinando, baptized April 18, 1625; mentioned below. 3. Shadrach, baptized May 10, 1629. 4. Sarah, married Jonathan Hay ward ; not named in father's will.

(II) Ferdinando Thayer, son of Thomas Thayer (i), was baptized at Thornbury, England, April 18, 1625. He came to this country with his father, and married, January 14, 1652, Huldah Hayward, of Braintree, Massachusetts. He lived in Braintree until after his father's death, when he removed to Mendon with a colony from Braintree and Weymouth. He was one of the largest proprietors in the new township ; his homestead was a little south of the present centre of the town on the Providence road. He held many offices of honor and trust. He was a man of wealth, according to the standards of his day, and he provided all his sons with farms. Several of them became extensive land owners, and many of the original Thayer farms of Mendon have never passed out of the family, and are still owned by descendants. Six of his children were born in Mendon. Mendon was first settled in 1662 as a plantation and continued thus until 1667, when it was incorporated as a town ; the settlement was broken up in King Philip's war, most of the families returning to Weymouth and Braintree until the danger had passed. The Thayers probably returned to Mendon in 1680. Ferdinando died there March 28, 1713. His wife Huldah died there September i, 1690. Children, born at Braintree: I. Sarah, born May i, 1654. 2. Huldah, born June 16, 1657. 3. Jonathan, born March 18. 1658. 4. David, born June 20, 1660; died August i, 1674. 5. Naomi, born January 28. 1662-63. Children born at Mendon : 6. Thomas. 7. Samuel. 8. Isaac. 9. Josiah. 10. Ebenezer. 11. Benjamin, mentioned below. 12. David, baptized September 17, 1677; died August 29, 1678.

(HI) Benjamin Thayer, son of Ferdinando Thayer (2), born in Mendon, December 20, 171 2, died there 1729. His estate was settled by his son-in-law, Eleazer Taft. He married first, September 15, 1690, Sarah Hay ward, who died December 8, 171 1. He married second, December 20, 1712, Hannah Hayward. Children, born at Mendon, of the first wife: I. Rachel, born March i. 1700; married, December 15, 1720, Eleazer Taft. 2. Margaret, born December 17, 1701 ; married, December 15, 1720, Jonathan Wood. 3. Grace, born May 6, 1704. 4. Sarah, born May 9, 1706; married, July 4, 1729, John Hayward. 5. Benjamin, born December 23, 1707; died February 23, 1708. 6. Lydia, born April 24, 1709. Children of second wife: 7. Benjamin, born July 13, 1713; died July 7, 1739; married, December 19. 1734, Silence Sumner. 8. Aaron, mentioned below.

(VI) Amos Thayer, son of Benjamin Thayer (5), was born in Mendon, May 7, 1774. He was a farmer and settled in ]\Iendon. He later removed to Medfield, where he engaged in the meat business. He was a selectman of Medfield for several terms. He married, December 25, 1797, Meletiah Wales. Children: i. Otis Wales, born October 3, 1798; mentioned below. 2. Elijah, born November 12, 1802: married, February 12, 1826, Mary, daughter of Daniel H. Hemmenway ; children: i. Olive, born September 18. 1831 ; ii. Charles E., October 28, 1837.

1822. He removed to Medfield with his parents and received his education there in the pubHc schools. He learned the trade of carpenter in Medfield and Boston, serving an apprenticeship of five years with Jonathan E. Gleason. When about twenty years old he went to West Dedham and worked at his trade for five years with William T. Shattuck. In 1847 he bought the business of Mr. Shattuck, and continued there until 1856, when he went to South Dedham, now Norwood, and engaged in business as a contractor and builder until 1887. During these years he did a large business, erecting many of the business buildings and residences in Norwood^ as well as Dedham. Among his contracts was that of the Universalist church, afterwards destroyed by fire ; also the Baptist church, and the village hall. At that time he had practically a monopoly in the building business in the town. He held many positions of trust and responsibility in the town. He was chairman of the board of assessors when Norwood was incorporated, serving sixteen years on the board, most of the time as chairman; was on the second board of selectmen of the new town, serving in all thirteen years ; for many years was chief engineer of the fire department; and was representative to the general court in 1879 ^'"^^ 1885, representing the Republican voters of his district. In religion he is a Universalist, and served on the building committee of the church. He married. May 30, 1854, Lucy E. Adams, born June 21, 1826, at Andover, Vermont, daughter of John and Chloe Adams. Children: i. Alia C, born March 8. 1856; married James A. Hartshorn ; children : i. Helena E. Hartshorn ; ii. Maud P. Hartshorn ; iii. George T. Hartshorn. 2. Jennie E., born September 11, 1857. 3. Addie, born January 8, i860. 4. Norman (twin), born May 21, 1863. 5. Norris (twin), born May 21, 1863; died at two and a half years. 6. Nettie, born January 16, 1868; married Captain Donald B. Smith, and had Elizabeth L. Smith.

Ralph Twombly, immigrant TWOMBLY ancestor, was living in Dover, New Hampshire, as early as 1656. He was undoubtedly born in England. He was taxed first in Dover in 1656, and had land laid out to him there October 4, 1656. He married Elizabeth .

His son John was executor of the will dated February 28, 1684-85, proved October 7, 1686. The five younger children were minors at the time of his death. Children: i. John,

(II) John Twombly, son of Ralph Twombly (i), was born in Dover, New Hampshire, about 1666. He married first, April 18, 1687, Mary, daughter of Thomas Kenney or Canney ; second, October 3, 1693, Rachel Allen. His will was made July 18, 1724. Children: I.John. 2. Joseph. 3. Samuel, born March 10, 1699; married, November 26, 1723, Judith Hanson. 4. Benjamin, settled in Somersworth. 5. William, mentioned below. 6. Sarah. 7. Mary. 8. Rachel. 9. Esther. 10. Hannah.

(III) William Twombly, son of John Twombly (2), born in Dover, New Hampshire, about 1690, died there or in Madbury, an adjoining town, in 1763. His will, dated September 14, 1763, proved October 29, 1763, bequeathed to his children - Isaac, William, Elizabeth, Eleanor, John, Ralph, and the daughter, who married Ichabod Hayes. Mary, his wife, was baptized December 16, 1733. They lived at Madbury after 1727. Children: i. Ralph, born September 13, 1713; had land in Dover. 2. Isaac, born December 19, 1715; had his father's homestead at Madbury. 3. William, born July 25, 1717, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born February 25, 1721 ; married Ichabod Hayes. 5. Elizabeth, born November i, 1723; married Benjamin Pearl ; lived in Barrington. 6. John, born January 30, 1725-26, baptized November ii, 1733. 7. Elizabeth (?), baptized September 21, 1740. 8. Eleanor, baptized with her father, April 18, 1742.

(IV) William Twombly, son of William Twombly (3), was born at Dover, July 25, 1 71 7. He settled in Madbury, New Hampshire, and after 1735 lived in the adjoining town of Barrington. His children were baptized by the Dover minister, Rev. Jonathan Cushing. William himself was baptized January 3, 1742. Children: i. Moses, baptized January 3, 1742. 2. Elizabeth, baptized January 3, 1742. 3. Joshua, baptized July 3, 1743. 4. Ebenezer, baptized May 13, 1744. 5- Nathaniel, baptized October 20, 1745. 6. Suse, baptized May 25, 1746. 7. Moses, baptized September 27, 1747. 8. Daniel, baptized December 11, 1748. 9. William, baptized September 26, 1753; mentioned below. 10. Joshua, baptized September 26, 1753.

then called of Wakefield), Lydia Horn, of Dover, who died June 30, 1857. She joined the Dover church July 4, 1824. He was a soldier in the revolution. Children, born at Dover: i. Child, died January 27, 1791. 2. Child, born 1780, died September 23, 1790.

(VI) James C. Twombly, son of William Twombly (5), was born November 11, 1787, at Dover. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of butcher, which he followed through life. During the fall and winter terms he taught school in the vicinity in Strafford county. A James Twombly married, August 18, 1807, Hannah Raynolds ; also, November 16, 1809, Lucy Mann. James Twombly (6) certainly married Lydia W'atson, of Dover. Both he and his wife were buried in the old burying ground in Dovc-r. Children, born in Dover: i. William, married Mary Caverly ; a railroad man ; children : Edgar and Helen. 2. James Baker, born 1825; mentioned below. 3. Charles, married, but had no children ; was a blacksmith by trade.

4. George, a blacksmith by trade ; soldier in the civil war ; children : Henry, Belle, and Nellie. 5. Henry, produce dealer ; was a soldier in the civil war ; married Jenette Libbey, of Dover; children: i. Bess (Elizabeth?); ii.

Grace, married Marshall. 6. IMehitable. 7. Lucy, married Alfred Whitehouse ; children : i. Hilary Whitehouse : ii. Esther Whitehouse. 8. ]\Iary, married Richard Pettee.

( VH) James Baker Twombly, son of James C. Twombly (6), was born in Dover, May 25, 1825. He married, April, 1844, Abigail Brown, born at Madbury, daughter of Joseph Brown, a famous stage driver in his day, who is buried in the old burying ground at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mr. Twombly attended the district schools of Dover, and worked for a time in the stage-stables there before he removed to Portsmouth, in 1838, residing in Portsmouth until his death in 1900, aged seventy-five. He began as an extra driver for the Eastern Stage Company, the principal stable of which was in Portsmouth, still remembered by the older citizens, before the railroad put an end to its business. He took the place of regular drivers oft" duty, going as far north as Portland and south to

Salem, Massachusetts. In 1839 the Eastern railroad, now the Boston and Maine, reached a point near the Peter Emery place, just this side of Portsmouth Plains, and the passenger trains commenced running to a temporary station at that point. Mr. Twombly used to relate the gloomy predictions of the farmers who believed the new method of transportation destined to ruin the industry of horsebreeding and to make the horses worth about five dollars a head. In many rural sections the railroad was not only unwelcome, it was distrusted and feared. The arrival of the railroad trains put an end to the stage business to P>oston, of course, and the stage companies had some reason to be sorry, but for a time the stages brought passengers and freight from the temporary terminal to the city. In 1840, however, Emery's Cut was completed and the trains came into the city of Portsmouth, the terminal being a little wooden building on the site of the present station. It was a great day when the first train arrived, and the event was properly celebrated by the ])opulace. The streets were packed with peo- ])le, bells were rung, and there was general rejoicing that tended to allay the fears of the good ]KH)ple who disliked the innovation. Mr. Twombly went to work next for Major Rice, owner of a line of stages between F^ortsmouth and Portland and was a driver on that line until ihe Portland, Saco and Portsmouth railroad was completed, when he gave up stage coaching for good. He entered the emplf)y of the railroad company, where he remained for a period of twenty-eight years, beginning as wood cutter at the time locomotives used w()(xl for fuel. He was baggagemaster at Portsmouth for fifteen years. The wood for the railroad was sawed by a circular saw operated by horse power. After he became baggagemaster one of his duties was to ring the "depot bell," fifteen minutes before the time for a train to start, for five consecutive minutes. Again five minutes before starting time, the bell was tolled. Just at the time of starting, the tolling ended with three quick strokes, a signal that warned the belated passenger to run. Then, after the conductor inspected the landscape to see if anyone happened to be tearing along in haste to catch the train, hat in one hand, valise in the other, the train would start, unless it waited for such a belated passenger. Scores of prominent citizens who today occupy high positions remember well the awe with which forty years ago they regarded the railroad official, who used to do more than all the rest put together to keep the boys off the tracks - the baggagemaster, Mr. Twombly. After he retired from the railroad business he was for a time in charge of the city stables, but failing health soon compelled him to give up all labor. He was the last of the old stage drivers in Portsmouth. He was a Democrat in politics. He died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Charles W. Dennett, 28 Dennett street, Portsmouth. Children : I. Charlotte, married Charles W. Dennett, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 2. James H., died about 1903 ; employed by the Boston & Maine railroad, at Portsmouth, first as freight agent and later as yard master. 3. Anna L., married W. L. Lampson, of Portsmouth. 4. Charles Anable ; mentioned below. (Vni) Charles Anable Twombly, son of James Baker Twombly (7), was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 26, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of that city. He began life on a farm, afterward working in a distillery. He came to Haverhill, Massachusetts, January 14, 1879, and learned the trade of shoemaking, and worked in various factories in that city until September, 1882. He then entered the employ of N. F. Senter, undertaker, for whom he worked two years. He was later with Mr. Cummins, and for six years with Richards & Dole, undertakers. In 189 1 he entered partnership with Ballard & Boynton, having a half interest, under the firm name of C. A. Twombly & Company, undertakers and embalmers, of Haverhill. The firm name has not been changed, though in 1904 Mr. Twombly became the sole owner of the business. This house has done a large share of the business of the city in recent years, having the equipment, knowledge and experience necessary for firstclass work. Mr. Twombly is a registered embalmer in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Nothing is lacking to make his establishment satisfactory. ]\Ir. Twombly stands well among the business men of the city. He is independent politically. He is a member of Merrimack Lodge of Free ^Masons ; of Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Haverhill Lodge, No. 165, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; of Palestine Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 26; of Mutual Relief Lodge of Odd Fellows; of United Order of American Mechanics, and Ancient Order of United Workmen, Daughters of Liberty, and Pilgrim Fathers, the Pentucket Club, the Massachusetts LTndertakers' Association. He is a Congregationalist in religion. He resides

He married first, Alice Lear, born February 22, 1857, daughter of Albert Lear of Portsmouth. She died May 30, 1890, and he married second, Mary J. Goodwin, born July 11, 1 861, daughter of John Goodwin, of Kingston, New Hampshire. She died February 22, 1905, and he married third, June 6, 1907, Maud B. Wentworth, daughter of William B. Wentworth, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. He had four children by his first wife: i. Harry W.. born December 3, 1885, is in U. S. Marine Hospital Corps, Company C. 2. Charles A. Jr,, born March 4, 1890; graduate of Haverhill Business College. Two died vounsf.

family name, derived from the occupation of the progenitors, as Smith, Mason, Carpenter. The name is found also pretty generally in Ireland. A branch of the family settled in the north of Ireland at the time of the grants to the Scotch and English Protestants from which the race of Scotch-Irish, so-called, is descended. John Taylor, gentleman, of Cambridgeshire, England, was granted fifteen hundred acres of land in the precinct of Loughter, county Cavan, Ulster, 1610. This was among the English grants. The Carew Manuscripts, reporting on the condition of these grants some years later, says : "John Taylor, 1,500 acres: came over in the summer of 1610. took possession and remained most part of the following winter, went into England about Shrovetide last, left his deputy with some seven or eight tenants. Came back about May last with provisions, but went back again and is not yet returned. Brought over three freeholders, whereof two are gone into England for their wives and families, the other, resident, is Taylor's deputy. One copyholder placed upon the land and eight artificers, able men and servants. A timber house with a chimney furnished, where he means to erect his dwelling house. Materials for building ready, but not drawn home. Competent arms of all sorts to furnish twelve men." In Nicholas Pynnar's survey, dated 1619, we read : "County of Cavan ; precinct of Louglity ; I. 1,500 acres John Taylor; castle and bawn (sic) built; village of fourteen houses; seven freeholders, seven lessees, ten cottagers ; able to produce fifty- four men with arms." Another settler in the grant of John Hamil- ton, grantee of Lord Ralston, precinct of Clanchy, county of Cavan, was Robert Taillor, probably Scotch, as he received his grant from Scotch "undertakers." From one of these settlers Matthew Taylor, mentioned below, doubtless descended.

from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1722, and settled on a farm in Londonderry, New Hampshire, now Derry. The farm is or was lately owned by James Calvin Taylor. Matthew, or his son of the same name, was in Captain John Gregg's scouts in June, 1746, in the old French war. Children: i. John, born September 22, 1721 ; mentioned below. 2. Matthew, went to Nova Scotia about 1761, descendants are living in the vicinity of Londonderry and Truro. 3. William, born March 22,, 1733; married Betsey Grimes (Graham); had Mary, John, Janet, Nancy, Adam, Samuel, Sarah and Betsey. 4. David, born August 10, 1735: marrietl Margaret Kelsey: had David, Robert, Rosa, William, Betsey, Jonathan and John. 5. Adam, born August 15, 1737; married Mary Cunningham; had Nancy, Janet and Betsey. 6. Samuel, remained on part of the homestead; married first, Sarah Fisher, second, Eunice Lancaster ; had son Matthew (Dartmouth, 1801 ) minister. 7. Sarah, married Deac(-)n Samuel Fisher. 8. Janet, born June 10, 1731 ; married John Anderson ; had John, Matthew and Jane Anderson.

(II) John Taylor, son of IMatthew Taylor (i), was born September 22, 1721, on the voyage to America. He married INIargaret Dickey, and resided at Londonderry, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Matthew, mentioned below. 2. James, married Dickey ; three children : Margaret, Rachel and William. 3. John, married Janet McKeen : five children : Anna, Margaret, John, Daniel and Samuel. 4. Janet, married Captain John McKeen ; seven children : James, John, Joseph, Robert, Samuel, Sarah and Janet ]\IcKeen. 5. Nancy, married William McKeen ; six children : Mary, Nancy, Margaret, John, Janet and Alice Mc- Keen.

(HI) Matthew Taylor, son of John Taylor (2), was born about 1745. He married Hannah Knight, of Atkinson, New Hampshire, and resided at Salem, New Hampshire. According to the census of 1790 his family consisted of four sons and two "females." His name appears on a petition February 13,

1783, to have an election set aside on account of errors. He was in the revolution, in Captain James Gilmore's company. Colonel Jacob Gile's regiment, in the expedition to Rhode Island in August, 1778. Children, born at Salem: i. Sarah, married Nathaniel Warner. 2. Joseph. 3. John, married Judith Bassett, of New Hampshire. 4. James. 5. Oliver, mentioned below.

(IV) Oliver Taylor, son of Matthew Taylor (3), born in Salem, New Hampshire, 1797, died in Atkinson, New Hampshire, 1857. He was a farmer, and also was engaged in lumbering. He served as selectman in Atkinson, and was a prominent member of the Methodist church, being at different times trustee, steward, class leader, etc. He assisted in the war of 1812 by contributing money for a substitute. He was a Democrat in politics. He married first, Lettice, daughter of Jonathan Page, of Atkinson. She died in 1833, aged fortytwo, and he married second, Polly White. Children of first wife: i. Otis, born September 3. 181 1, married Martha Nelson; was a farmer at Atkinson, where he died. 2. Hannah Knight, born May 7, 1817; married Matthew Paul ; removed to West Newbury, Massachustts. 3. Jonathan P., born April 28, 1819; married Charlotte Goodhue, resided at Atkinson. 4. Reuben P., born June 19, 1821 ; married Susan H. Gordon; resided at Haverhill. 5. Levi, born January 13, 1824; mentioned below. 6. Oliver, born June 12, 1826; married Lucy I-'ellows ; was a clothier at Haverhill, Massachusetts. 7. Sarah, born April i, 1829; married J. R. Farrington ; resided at Holyoke, Massachusetts. 8. Lettice, married Matthew I'aul; resided at Haverhill. 9. Asa Hall, born February 22, 1833. Child of second wife: 10. Caroline, born August 11, 1836; resided at Haverhill.

(V) Levi Taylor, son of Oliver Taylor (4), born at Atkinson, New Hampshire, January 13. 1824, died January i, 1890. He was educated in the public schools. He settled in Haverhill when a young man, and became one of its most prominent and wealthy citizens. He was the senior member of tlie famous firm of Three Taylors, dealers in clothing, Haverhill ; a member of the firm of Taylor, Goodwin & Company, dealers in lumber, coal and wood, in Bradford, Massachusetts, a town adjoining Plaverhill ; also a partner in the firm of Hoyt & Taylor Hardware Company, Haverhill. In addii-ion to these extensive and varied mercantile interests he dealt in real estate in the city of Haverhill and surrounding terri- tory upon a large scale. In the registry of deeds of Essex county alone his name appears on record upon more than four hundred conveyances of property as grantor or grantee, indicating in a word how extensive his dealings were. Many of these transactions involved large amounts of money, and represented the gains that went toward a substantial fortune. No man in the county carried on more varied and extensive business than he, and few equalled him in business sagacity, foresight and judgment. He had an expert knowledge of the value of property, was a shrewd buyer, and was thoroughly upright in all his dealings. He had the confidence of his townsmen regardless of politics and class. He was for seven years selectman of the town before the city charter was granted and served one year as mayor of the city ; was re-elected but on account of ill health declined to serve. He represented his district in the general court in 1880 and 1881, serving on many important committees, including that on public and charitable institutions. In politics, he was a Republican. He was a trustee of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College ; director of the First National Bank of Haverhill, of the Groveland Street Railroad Company, and the Haverhill Gaslight Company ; trustee of the Haverhill Five Cents Savings Bank many years; member of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a prominent member, and of the Linwood and Hilldale Cemetery Corporation of Haverhill. He married first, Elizabeth R. Currier, born in Salem, New Hampshire, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Currier. Nathan Currier was the great-great-grandson of Hannah Dustin. He married, second, Frances Sargent. Children, all by the first wife : i. Levi Lee Forest, coal dealer, Haverhill. 2. Henry R., died in boyhood. 3. Ezra W. B., mentioned below.

(VI) Ezra W. B. Taylor, son of Levi Taylor (5), was born in Haverhill, January 9, 1858. He received his education in the public schools of Haverhill and in a business college in Boston. He has been occupied in the management and development of his real estate and other property, and has not been engaged in mercantile or manufacturing business actively. He is interested in historical research, and is a member of the Historical Society of Haverhill, and treasurer of the Hannah Dustin Society of that city. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to the Pentucket Club, the Agawam Club, and the

Haverhill Golf Club. He is an attendant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He married, in St. Louis, Missouri, December 23, 1889, Ellen Virginia Godman, born in Madison, Indiana, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha ( Sering) Godman, and a descendant of the English royal family through her remote ancestors, the Godman family being a prominent family in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Godman, of Philadelphia, was her great-uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have no children.

Nathaniel Clarke, progenitor CLARKE of the Clarke family of Newbury, ]\Iassachusetts, was born in 1638, and while it is practically certain that he was related to the immigrants of this name at Ipswich, it is not known that either of them was his father. There were many immigrants of this time to New England and the relationship is hard to trace. Nathaniel Clarke was not the first of the surname in Newbury. John Clark, late citizen and surgeon of London, England, settled there in 1638, but removed to Boston in 1651 and died in 1664; he received a patent from the general court of Massachusetts on an invention for sawing wood and warming houses with little cost, and it is said that his stoves mark an era in the history of New England. Nathaniel Clarke was a witness in. the famous controversy between the town of Newbury and its minister, Rev. Mr. Parker, May 13, 1669. He was admitted a freeman April 29, 1668 ; was on a committee in 1670 to lay out the highway to Amesbury ; in May, 1684, was made naval officer of the ports of Salisbury and Newbury ; June 4, 1685, was ensign in Captain Daniel Peirce's company, at Rowley, vice Stephen Greenleaf, promoted, being the oldest sergeant; was town constable March 2, 1667. He and several others had liberty from the selectmen, December 3, 1668, to build a pew in the fourth gallery in the east end. The committee to build the parsonage January 3, 1672, was instructed to make it like Nathaniel Clarke's, giving evidence of the substantial character of his dwelling place. He was a juror in 1678-79 and 1684; constable 1667- 68; tithingman 1679-82-85; selectman 1682-88, and probably other years. He died August 25, 1690, aged about forty-eight years. Judge Sewall mentions his death in his diary, and refers to meeting him at the funeral of Captain Gerrish at Salem, August 11, 1687. He owned land on Little Pine Island and on Plum Island, as well as in Newbury, etc. His will is dated August 21, 1690, proved September 30, following; the inventory is dated September 2, 1690. He married, November 23, 1663, at Newbury, Elizabeth Somerby, born November I, 1648, died March 15, 1716, daughter of Henry and Judith Somerby, of Exeter, New Hampshire. Her father Henry was son of Richard Somerby, of Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England. Her mother w^as daughter of Edmund Greenleaf, the immigrant, one of the earliest settlers at Newbury, said to be of French Huguenot stock, the name being translated from the French form - Feuillevert. She married second, August 8, 1698, Rev. John Hall, of Beverly, who was chaplain in the expedition of 1 690 to Canada, and who died Alay 15, 1700, aged sixty- four years. Children: i. Nathaniel, born December 5, 1664; died June 6, 1665. 2. Nathaniel, born March 13. 1666; died October, 1690; mentioned below. 3. Thomas, born February 9, 1667-68; died April 25, 1722. 4. John, born January 24, 1670; died July 25, 1705. 5. Henry, born July 5, 1673; died June 9, 1749. 6. Daniel, born December 16, 1675; died before 1709. 7. Sarah, born January 7, 1677- 78; died August 25, 1741. 8. Josiah, born May 7, 1682: died April 29. 1717. 9. Elizabeth, born May 15, 1684; died January 24, 1762. 10. Judith, born January 3, 1686-87. II. Mary, born March 25, 1689; died before August 21, 1690.

(H) Nathaniel Clarke, son of Nathaniel Clarke (i), born in Newbury, March 13. 1666; married, December 15, 1685, Elizabeth Toppan, born October, 1665, daughter of Dr. Peter and Jane To])pan, and sister of Rev. Christopher Toppan. Her father was sixth in descent from Robert Toppan, of Linton, near Pately Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1686 the town granted to Nathaniel Clarke Jr., one acre of marsh land from Henry Somerby's grant. In 1690 he was a soldier in the expedition to Canada, was wounded, and died in service. Through his chajilain, John Hale, he made a will, but it was lost afterward and an administrator appointed. His widow married second, James Wise, of Newbury. Children, born in Newbury: i. Elizabeth, born July 27, 1686; died before October, 1690. 2. Nathaniel, mentioned below.

(HI) Nathaniel Clarke, son of Nathaniel Clarke (2), born in Newbury, July 29, 1689, died May 3, 1753. He was a cordwainer by trade. He bought of John Rolfe, May 31, 1 7 10, a dwelling and an acre and half of land in Newbury for iio pounds. He drew a share in Narragansett, No. i, (Buxton), Maine, in the right of Jonathan Clark, lot 21, and another in the right of Daniel Somerby, lot No. 3. Both ancestors w^ere, therefore, soldiers in King Philip's war. He spelled his name with and without the final vowel, and in this respect most of the family seem to have varied in their way of spelling the name. He married, March 7, 1709, Sarah Greenleaf, born November 3,. 1692, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Kent) Greenleaf, and greatgranddaughter of Edmund Greenleaf and of Tristram Coffin, the first magistrate of Nantucket. Sarah Kent was daughter of John and Mary Kent and Mary Kent, granddaughr ter of James Kent, brother of Richard Kent, who owned Kent's Island and much land in Oldtown, Maine. Children: i. Samuel, born April 2T^. 1710; died November 15, 1757, in Stratham. 2. Elizabeth, born October 15, 171 1. 3. Sarah. 4. John. 5. Daniel. 6. Ebenezer. 7. Stephen, born June 9, 1723 : died December, 1804. 8. Nathaniel, mentioned below.

(I\') Nathaniel Clarke, son 'of Nathaniel Clarke (3), born in Newbury, 1728, died November 7, 1805. He resided in Haverhill, and was a farmer there. He was a member of the Second Company of Foot under Major Richard Saltonstall, April 18, 1757, in the French and Indian war. During the revolution he helped the cause by loans of money to the town on several occasions, and in 1780 was on the town committee to collect clothing for the army. His will is on file at Salem. He married. February 18. 1753, i\Iary Hardy, of Bradford, born October 8, 1733, died January 13, 1817. daughter of David Hardy, son of Joseph and Alary (Burbank) Hardy, grandson of John, brother of William, who came in the family of Governor Winthrop and finally settled in Bradford. Mrs. Clarke's mother Dorcas Gage, daughter of Samuel and Mary (\\'atson) Gage and granddaughter of Daniel Gage, whose father w'as John Gage, of Rowley, was said to be son of Sir John Gage, Baronet, and his wife Penelope. Sir John Gage was grandson and heir of Edward Gage, knighted by Queen ]\Iary. Children of Nathaniel Clarke: i. David, born November 27, 1755 ; died March 16, 1833. 2. Susanna, born April 3, 1758. 3. Nathaniel, died young. 4. Mary, born March 18, 1762, died November 25, 1843. 5- Greenleaf, died young. 6. Nathaniel, born 1766; died March 19, 1846.

(V) Greenleaf Clarke, son of Nathaniel Clarke (4), born in Haverhill, May 5, 1779, died January 12, 1821, at Atkinson, New Hampshire. He had a common school education, and learned the trade of brick mason. In addition to his trade he followed farming. He settled in the town of Atkinson, which adjoins Haverhill, and September 6, 1809, bought of Samuel Eaton, of Haverhill, twenty acres and forty rods of land in Haverhill adjoining his Atkinson farm. William Cogswell witnessed the deed. Clarke's farm was large and fertile. He erected a substantial brick house upon taking up his residence in Atkinson, and there his son, Hon. Greenleaf Clarke, lived after him. Greenleaf Clarke was a prominent citizen of Atkinson, was selectman several years, and as justice of the peace was the local magistrate. He married, March I, 1810, Julia Cogswell, born February 20, 1789, died January 9, i860, daughter of Dr. William and Judith (Badger) Cogswell. Her father was a soldier in the revolution, son of Nathaniel Cogswell, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Atkinson, New Hampshire. Dr. Cogswell married, January 31, I739-40, Judith, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Peaslee) Badger. JuHa Cogswell was an intellectual woman of much force of character. Before her marriage she was preceptress in the Atkinson Academy. She married second, December 12, 1822, Amasa Coburn, by whom she had four children, all of whom died young, except Mary, who married R. D. Mooers, and lived at Manchester, New Hampshire. Children of Greenleaf and Julia (Cogswell) : i. William Cogswell, born December 10, 1810; died April 25, 1872. 2. Sarah, born May 4, 1812; married, September 29, 1835, Colonel Samuel Carleton. 3. Francis, born March 28, 1814; died July 10, 1852. 4. Greenleaf, born May 7, 1816; mentioned below. 5. Moses, born January 8, 1818; died March 27, 1864. 6. John Badger, born January 30, 1820; died October 29, 1891.

(VI) Greenleaf Clarke, son of Greenleaf Clarke (5), was born at Atkinson, New Hampshire, May 7, 1816. He was educated in the public schools, acquiring an excellent education and teaching for five years in the public schools. He became principal of the Lynn high school. He returned to Atkinson, and followed farming, and at the same time dealt in real estate and filled various public offices with credit. As justice of the peace he was the squire and magistrate, the conveyancer, making the wills and deeds and doing much of the legal and probate business of his townsmen. He was a member of the state legislature in 1842-43-77, and selectman in 1846; was appointed on the governor's staff in 1842, with the rank of colonel; was a member of the governor's council in 1850; in 1851 elected from the first councillor district of the state. In 1846 he was appointed by the governor and council as special commissioner of the Boston & Maine railroad, and he served in this important office until 1857, and was again appointed in 1880 for a term of four years. In 1836 he was a member of the state constitutional convention and in 1878 was elected to the state senate for two years from the twenty-first senatorial district. He was a leading Republican. In the senate he served on the committee on railroads, on finance, on corporations and on agriculture. As a candidate for public office he never met defeat. During the later years of his life he was treasurer of the board of trustees of the Atkinson Academy. He was a prominent Free Mason, and a Knight Templar. He died August 18, 1888. Upright, honest and straightforward, he kept faith with all men and lived an exemplary life. Of strong character, he attracted friends and wielded a strong and useful influence in the state of New Hampshire. He was for many years one of the foremost citizens of Rockingham county. He was a Congregationalist in religion. He married, March 15, 1855, Sarah Jane Noyes, born July 2, 1829, died 1898, daughter of Silas (6) and Lucy (Noyes) Noyes; granddaughter of Peter and Sarah (Noyes) Noyes; and descendant of the immigrant, Nicholas Noyes, of Newbury (see Noyes). Children: i. Sarah, born April 3, 1856. 2. Mary Coburn, born December 9, 1857. 3. Greenleaf, mentioned below. All three are unmarried.

(VII) Greenleaf Clarke, son of Hon. Greenleaf Clarke (6), was born in Atkinson, New Hampshire, June 5, 1862. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. In 1886 he engaged in the grain business in Boston, continuing for a period of seven years. During the next seven years he was traveling salesman for a Boston firm of grain dealers. In 1900 he removed to Haverhill, and established his real estate and insurance business, in which he has prospered greatly. He has been especially successful as an auctioneer, and has a record during 1906 of one hundred and seventeen separate auction sales. He is a member of Gideon Lodge, F. and A. M., of Kingston, New Hampshire ; of Rockingham Chapter, R. A. M. ; and of the Pentucket Club of Haverhill. In politics he is a Republican.

Griffin is a common baptismal GRIFFIN name in \\'ales and has been in use also as a surname for as long a time as surnames have been used. The Domesday Book of William the Conqueror gives the name of Griffin in Cornwall, Wales. Still earlier there was in Cheshire, England, a Griffin Rex, first a favorite of Edward the Confessor, and afterwards a rebel against him, probably a Welsh border prince. The same ancient records gives a "Grifin puer (boy) and Grifin, Filius." etc., as a tenant in chief in county Hereford. The name is almost as common in England as in Wales, however, especially in Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and Yorkshire, and in these counties are branches of the family bearing arms. The family at Penrith, Wales, bears these arms: Gules on a fesse between three lozenges or each charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first a demi-rose between two griffins segreant of the field. Another Griffin coat-of-arms: Gules a lion rampant or with a bordure invecked argent. Also : Ermine a bond gules cotised argent. Most of the other coats-ofarms in use have a griffin, the mythical animal, whence the name is derived in the first instance. One is : Gules three griffin's heads, two in chief couped argent and one in base erased or. Another: Argent a griffin segreant. Lord Braybrooke, who belongs to the Griffin family, has : A griffin segreant argent beaked and forelegs or. Crest : A talbot's head erased sable. Alotto : Ne vile velis. There were several of the name in ]\Iassachusetts before 1650. Hugh Griffin, of Sudbury, was proprietor there in 1639 ; town marshal and clerk of the writs ; admitted freeman May, 1645 ; died June 21, 1656. Humphrey Griffin, butcher, Ipswich, settled there in 1639; married Elizabeth Andrews; died 1662. His English ancestry has recently been discovered. Thomas Griffin, of Boston, was part owner of wharf propertv there in 1639 ; died at Roxburv in 1661.

(I) Richard Griffin, immigrant, settled in Concord, Massachusetts, and was admitted freeman March, 1637-38: was born 1590: deposed March 21, 1658-59, that he was aged about sixty-seven years; was deputy to the sreneral court and commissioner of court in

1639. He married, December 10, 1660, Alary Hay ward (Harrod), widow, at Concord. He was a prominent citizen in town afifairs. He died April 5, 1661. His will is dated March 19, 1 661, giving his age as about seventy, and it was proved June 25, 1661, bequeathing to wife Alary; to kinsman Alatthew Griffin, of Charlestown ; to Christopher Wooly. Administration was granted to widow for herself and children ; a second administration granted and bond given by his son Joseph Griffin, of Boston, tailor, j\Iarch 26, 1680.

(I) Matthew Griffin, immigrant ancestor of the Methuen family, was probably born in England. He inherited nearly half the estate of Richard Griffin, of Concord, who calls him in his will "dear kinsman, Matthew Griffin of Charlestown." It is unlikely that he would have described his son or brother as "kinsman." He may have been uncle of Matthew who was

1698. Mr. Griffin deeded to his son Alatthew a house "granted me and my wife" by her father, Robert Cutler, April 3, 1660. Hannah is a legatee of Robert Cutler, described as wife of Alatthew Griffin, and given her father's shop, tools of his trade, unwrought iron, share in shi]) "Dolphin," etc. Children of Alatthew and liannah Griffin, born at Charlestown: i. Matthew Jr., Alay 7, 1656. 2. Hannah, November II, 1657. 3. Samuel, July 20, 1659.

(II) Jonathan Griffin, son of Alatthew Griffin ( i), was born in Charlestown, Alay 29, 1670; married, November 29, 1698, at Charlestown, Susanna Carter, of Charlestown. Children, born at Charlestown: i. Jonathan, August 27, 1699, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, born February 11, 1702.

1699, died in Alethuen, February 27, 1769. He married. Alarch 10. 1724, at Reading, Sarah Hull, born 1701 and died at Alethuen, 1792. Children, the first born at Reading, the others at Stoneham: i. Sarah. November 9, 1724, married, October 25, 1744, Thomas Johnson,

(IV) Sergeant Joseph Griffin, son of Jonathan Griffin ( 3 ) , born in Stoneham, IVIay 2, 1736, died in Methuen, December 5, 1831. He married first, October 25, 1759, Rebekah Sawyer, of Methuen. He married, second, January 4, 1766, Abigail Currier, born August i,

1 741, died August 27, 1837, daughter of Jonathan and Esther Currier, of Methuen. He was a soldier in the revolution, a minute-man under Major Samuel Bodwell, April 19, 1775; also sergeant in Captain David Whittier's company under Major Benjamin Gage in 1777 when they joined the army of the north. Children, born at Methuen: i. Joseph, born April 7, 1767, died August 12. 1850; married Sally, daughter of Miles Flint ; children : i. Joseph, born September 6, 1799; ii. Elbridge, August

(V) Amos Griffin, son of Joseph Griffin (4), born at Methuen, July 7, 1780, died there February 23. 1863. He was a blacksmith by trade in Methuen. He married, in Methuen, Hannah Mansur, born March 9, 1781, died September 28, 1849. Children: i. Hannah, born June 14, 1804, married Justus Jones, of Methuen. 2. Amos, born November 12, 1806, drowned in the Merrimac river, December i, 1850. 3. Samuel M., born July 25, 1809, married Sarah Burleigh ; was a shoemaker. 4. Abigail, born August i, 181 1, married William Goodale. 5. Joseph, born May 26, 181 3, died November 4, 1825. 6. John, born April 17, 1815, died November 21, 1893; was a stone mason in Boston. 7. Enoch Howard, born April 3, 1818, died September 16, 1819. 8. Enoch Howard, mentioned below.

(VI) Enoch Howard Griffin, son of Amos Griffin (5), born in Methuen, April 18, 1820, died February 8, 1894. He received a comcon school education in his native town, and during his youth worked at home on his father's farm. He continued with his father until he engaged in the grocery business in Methuen. He was a grocer for many years. He married, August 15, 1870. Harriet Robinson, born September 12. 1848, in Vassalboro, Maine, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Lord) Robinson. Her father was born April 4, 1820, in \^assalboro ; was a teamster in business in Lawrence, and lived for about forty years in Methuen ; died in 1895. Her mother was born April 23, 1823, at Vassalboro. Children of Benjamin and Mary (Lord) Robinson, all of whom, except one, were living in 1908: I. Helen A., born November 20, 1846, married Charles Clark, of Methuen. 2. Harriet, born September 12, 1848, mentioned above. 3. Eunice, born February 28, 1850, married Albert Fish, of North Andover. 4. Charles E., born February 3, 1852, died December, 1853. 5. George, born December 12, 1854, carpenter, living in Methuen; married Henrietta Dyer. 6. Henry, born March 9, 1856, resides in Methuen. 7. Lizzie, born August 2, 1858, married George Young, of Methuen. 8. Benjamin, born October 11, i860, married Clara Edwards ; resides in Methuen. 9. Catherine, born August 6, 1864, married J. William Allen, of Methuen.

ried, second, David Alarston Ayer, born at Limerick, Maine, in 1823, died in Methuen in 1900. Mr. Ayer married, first, Ruth Sherburne, of Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, and they had six children. He had none by his second wife. Mr. Ayer received his education in the pubHc schools of Lowell and Dracut, Massachusetts. He was agent of the Bates Mills. Lewiston, Maine, and the Everett Mills at Lawrence, and held various responsible positions in different mills. For some years he was a dealer in books and stationery. He spent his last years in farming, having a place of two hundred and thirty acres in Methuen.

The children of Enoch Howard and Harriet (Robinson) Grififin : i. George W., born at Methuen, May 29, 1876, died May 2, 1889. 2. Amos Howard, mentioned below.

(VH) Amos Howard Griffin, son of Enoch Howard Griffin (6), was born in Methuen, September 24, 1881. He married, March 7. 1905, Catherine Corkum, born November 20, 1875, at Pleasantville, Nova Scotia, daughter of John Corkum.

(H) Samuel Griffin, son of GRIFFIN Matthew (iriffin (i), born July 20, 1659, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, died January 20, 1705-06, aged forty-six years. He was a housewright by trade. He married Priscilla Croswell, baptized February 6. 1686-87. She was admitted to the church October 30, 1703. Children: i. Samuel, born August 26, 1682. died May 20, 1709, aged twenty-seven. 2. John, baptized July 21, 1689. 3. Caleb, born and baptized April 3, 1692. 4. Hannah, born November 10, 1693, married, 1722, John Rose. 5. Priscilla. born August 31, 1696, married, 1719, Richard Hood. 6. Sarah, born April 12, 1700. 7. Matthew, born April 15, 1702, died March 29, 1703. 8. Matthew, mentioned below.

(III) Matthew Griffin, son of Samuel Griffin (2), born January 4, baptized January 7, 1704-05. died ]\Iarch 4. 1728-29. He was a hatter by trade. He married. July 13, 1727, ]\Iercy Jones, who owned the covenant in the church March 31, 1728. She married, second, 1734-35, William Hull. Children: i. Priscilla, born April 4, 1728. 2. Matthew, mentioned below.

(IV) Matthew Griffin, son of Matthew Griffin (3), was baptized September 28, 1729. He married, in 1777, Mary Adams, widow. Children: i. Matthew, born J779, mentioned

(V) Matthew Griffin, son of Matthew Griffin (4), was born in Westford, Massachusetts, in 1779. He was a farmer and resided in Westford all his life. He married, first, in 1 810, Sally Adams, daughter of Samuel and Sally (Kidder) Adams. He married second, a ]\Iiss Wilkins. Children: i. George A., born 181 2, married Eliza T. W^right. 2. Susanna, born 1814, married Sargent Dudley. 3. Joseph, born 1816, married a Aliss Bickford, born 1 8 19, married, 1840, Burnham Smith. 5. Benjamin Kittridge, born 1821, mentioned below. 6. Sophia Elizabeth, born 1824. married, 1840. Asa Mansfield. 7. Timothy Lilley, born 1827, married, 1852, Lydia S. Gates.

(VI) Benjamin Kittridge Griffin, son of Matthew Griffin (5). was born in Westford, March 10, 1821. He spent his youth on his father's farm, and attended the district school until he was sixteen years old. He learned the trade of shoemaking. and when a young man engaged in manufacturing boots and shoes in partnership with his brothers. Joseph and George Griffin, at Lowell, Massachusetts. After many years he sold out his share and invested extensively in real estate in Lawrence, Massachusetts, before Lawrence was organized or formed. I le built two stores on Essex street and rented them. After a time he engaged in the manufacture of leather with a tannery in Lawrence. The business was not successful, however, and he gave it uj). For a time he traded in country produce. He had the gift of mechanical genius which he turned to account. He was granted a patent January 8, 1858. on a "s])ring bed bottom" that proved very profitable. Other patents of his were also a source of much income in his later years - a hoe cultivator, a sheep rack and another spring bed. In his later years he again bought real estate in Lawrence and devoted himself to its care and improvement. He was a Cniversalist in religion, a Democrat in politics.

Mr. Griffin died at his home in Lawrence. May 23, 1900. He himself wrote and had printed an im])ressive service to be used at his funeral and the funeral of others with similar beliefs. This is a characteristic product of a gifted and thoughtful man. From it we quote : "Dear Friend : We meet together at this time, one of the saddest hours of life's experience. There is no time so solemn as the hour of death; no service so mournful as when on occasions like the present, we meet to perform our last duties to a dear and loved friend. It is not mournful because of any danger that may be thought to await our dear friend who has just left us, or that we do pass into a state of suffering or unhappiness. It is not because we have a belief in any such chimera, that we mourn at this time. Our sadness arises from the necessity of parting with our loved one, so dear to us, so good, so true, so sincere, so gentle and kind, as the one whose remains now lie before us. It is, indeed, a heavy loss we are called to sustain in this world of ours. Such as our friend cannot be spared without exciting the deepest regrets and the saddest reflections. Our dear friend has now entered upon that eternal rest, that ease, which is the heritage of all. Every form that lives must die, for the penalty of life is death. No power can break the stern decree that all on earth must part; though the chain be woven by affection and sympathy of kindreds, the beloved ones who weep for us will only for a while remain. Death has always reigned in this world, from the morning of life until the present hour; and for all we can see it will continue to do so evermore. One generation passeth away and another cometh, but the earth abideth forever. Dear Mother Nature gives us life, and when it has run its fitful round she taketh it back and foldeth it in peaceful sleep to her bosom. Sorrowing friends, it will be a willing duty as we journey through life to cherish the memory of our friend, whose loss we mourn today. One who leads such a good life as our friend has no need to fear death, nor what possibly may follow after it. If we have a continued existence there are no just grounds for apprehending that that other life has any more terrors than this. We will doubtless find there the same Deity that exists here - possessing the same kindness and love. We will meet the same Universe with the same forces and laws. There cannot be any other ; so we have nothing to fear in the future. This being true, it is all right with our departed friend who has now left us. Let us look upon death, not with apprehension and dread, but as it really is, a necessary change in nature. Life and death are essential conditions and mutually follow and sustain each other. Let it, then, not be regarded as an enemy, but rather as a friend. * * * Our birth and our death are merely processes in the boundless sweep of being. Both are but the fulfillment of nature's irrevocable law. Here in the midst of the trials and toils of this transient troubled life, the great thought that we are not alone, that whatever we are, whatever we do, whatever we feel, belong to the ever-flowing stream of existence, and hence is sacred and imperishable, should be sufficient to sustain and inspire us and give us courage and consolation. Nothing pertaining to our personal being can ever perish. Our joys and sufferings and friendships and loves will never be yielded up to darkness and decay, but all shall go to make up the great growth of human life. * * * Men may come and men may go, flowers may fade, hearts wither, and the generations go down into mother earth, but none of the glorious attributes of humanity shall ever cease to be. All that is grand and good, and noble and beautiful, is secure from the mouldering touch of time ; and no disinterested deed, no generous impulse of the human heart, but shall survive the stars, Father, Son and Mother Earth."

Mr. Grifiin married, March 9, 1843, ^^ Eden, Vermont. Abigail Dodge Adams, born April I, 1821, at Eden, died March 31, 1902, in Lawrence, daughter of David Adams, of Eden. Children: i. Lydia E., born December 27, 1843, ^t Lowell, died unmarried, March 25, 1902, at Lawrence. 2. Abbie Anna, born January 28, 1847 (twin), at Lowell, died unmarried, January 10, 1874, in Lawrence. 3. Alma Anna (twin), born January 28, 1847, died at Lawrence, December 15, 1887. 4. Anson Lawren, mentioned below.

(VH) Anson Lawren Griftin, son of Benjamin Kittridge Griffin (6), was born in Lawrence, January 8, 1854. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. He learned the trade of carpenter, and became associated with his father in his real estate and building operations. He and his father built the old home residence in 1869, beautifully situated on an eminence commanding a magnificent view of the city and surrounding country. He assisted in the building of the great Arlington Mills at Lawrence. In 1884 he built a house opposite his father's home, doing all the car])entering work with his own hands. He made his home there for several years, and in 1902 moved back into the old homestead. He worked for Davis & Furber, of the Davis & Furber Company, of North Andover, for twenty-three years, being foreman during the last ten years of that period. He retired from the Davis & F.urber Company December 6, 1907, receiving an extra month's pay and a beautiful .Morris chair donated by his employers and the foremen of other departments. He was also engaged in the coal and wood business in Essex street. Of late years his time has been fully occupied with his real estate investments, being an extensive property holder in Lawrence, North Andover and Methuen. Mr. Griffin is a Democrat in politics, and has been active in supporting his party principles and candidates. He has served as election officer since the age of twenty-one. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons.

Pie married, December 20, 1879, Emma Frances Leighton, born August 16, 1859, died November 13, 1894. Her father, John Leighton, was a farmer in Strafford, New Hampshire, and a machinist of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Children, born in Lawrence: i. Lottie A., February 4, 1881. 2. Frederick, August 16. 1885, died August 18, 1885. 3. Lawren A., born January 30, 1887, graduate of the Lawrence grammar school with class of 1901 ; is an electrician ; a member of the Free and Accepted Masons. 4. Lillie E., born September 14, 1890, graduate of the Lawrence grammar school, class of 1903. now a milliner of Lawrence. 5. Florence W., born December 5, 1892, died July 6, 1894.

Thomas Richardson, RICHARDSON English ])rogenitor of all the American families descending from the three brothers who founded W'oburn, Massachusetts, lived and died at Westmill, in Hertfordshire, England. He was of Standen when, August 24, 1590, he married Katherine Duxford, of Westmill. His will, proved at Hitchin, July 31, 1634. was dated March 4, 1630. He was a farmer. He bequeathed to wife Katherine; sons Samuel, John. James, Thomas. Ezekiel is known to be the brother of Samuel and Thomas, because he calls them brothers in his own will. He was already in America when the will was made early in 1631. and hence was not mentioned, perhaps having had his full share before emigrating, possibly against his father's wishes. Catherine, wife of Thomas (i), died March, 1631, buried ^March 10. He was buried January 8, 1633. Children, baptized in the parish church at West Mill: i. Elizabeth, January 13, 1593; married. May i, 1617, Francis Wyman ; their sons Francis and John were founders of Woburn, Massachusetts. 2. Ezekiel, came to America with W^inthrop in 1630. joining with his wife the Charlestown church, August 27, 1630; became a prominent citizen of Woburn, living in Richardson Row with his brothers Samuel and Thomas ; died October 21, 1647. 3. John, settled at Woburn before 1644. 4. James, baptized April 6, 1600. 5. Samuel baptized December 22, 1602 or 1604; mentioned below. 6. Margaret, baptized April 19, 1607. 7. Thomas, baptized July 3, 1608; admitted a freeman at Charlestown, May 2, 1638; town officer of Woburn; died at Woburn, August 28, 1651.

(II) Samuel Richardson, son of Thomas Richardson ( i ) . was the immigrant ancestor, baptized December 22, 1602 or 1604, at West Mill, Hertfordshire, England. He was sole executor of his father's will, which he presented for probate at Hitchin, July 31, 1634. He was then married, and had at least two children. His name does not appear in the tithebook of West Mill after 1635. Against Over Green, wdiere he and before him his father Thomas had lived, is written the word "none." He probably came to America with his brother Thomas in 1636. The first record in Massachusetts is under date of July i, 1636, when he was appointed on a committee in Charlestown to lay out hay lots. The j)arish records of -Standen where the Richardsons once lived have been destroyed, and the ancestry cannot be traced further.

In 1637 Samuel and Thomas were inhabitants (jf Charlestown, Massachusetts, and were each granted a house lot. Samuel was admitted to the church at Charlestown, February 18, 1637; freeman May 21, 1638; was surveyor of highways March 17, 1636-37. The three brothers - Samuel, Thomas and Ezekiel Richardson - had lots April 20, 1638, "on the i\Iisticke Side & above the Ponds." (Maiden). These three brothers and four others, (Edward Converse, Edward Johnson, John Mousall and Thomas Graves ) were appointed a committee for the establishment of a town and church at what is now Woburn, by the Charlestown people. The committee fulfilled this duty ; the church was constituted August 14, 1642. The three brothers lived in the same section, and the street on which their houses were built is called Richardson's Row to this day. His house was in what is now the northeastern part of the town of Winchester, near the tracks of the Boston & Maine railroad, and the old Richardson's Row forms part of the present Washington street. Samuel's dwelling house was near the present site of the Luther Richardson house. Samuel was selectman of the town in 1644-45-46-50- 51. In 1645 li^ P^^'^ ^^'^^ largest tax. Captain leaving four sons and two daughters, of whom the eldest John, was nineteen ; Joseph ; Samuel, about thirteen ; ancl Stephen, about eight. Petition for settlement of the estate was filed three years after his death. Joanna, the widow, bequeathed to these sons and daughter Mary Mousall and daughter Elizabeth. Children : I. Samuel, baptized at West Mill, England, July 3, 1633, died young. 2. Elizabeth, baptized at West Mill, May 22, 1635 ; mentioned in mother's will. 3. Mary, baptized February 28, 1637"; married Thomas Mousall. 4. John, baptized November 12, 1639. 5. Hannah, baptized March 8, 1641-42 ; died April 8, 1642. 6. Joseph, born July 27, 1643; married Hannah Green. 7. Samuel, born May 22, 1646;

Kingsbury. 8. Stephen, born August 15, 1649; mentioned below. 9. Thomas, born December 31, 165 1 ; died September 27, 1657. (HI) Stephen Richardson, son of Samuel Richardson (2), born in Woburn, August 15, 1649, died there March 22, 1717-18, aged sixty-nine years. ?Ie resided in Woburn, which then included the present towns of Wilmington (in part) and Burlington, and his land extended into Billerica. He was admitted a freeman in 1690. He married, in Billerica, January 2, 1674-75, Abigail Wyman. born 1659, daughter of Erancis and Abigail Wyman ( Read). They were second cousins. She died September 17, 1720, aged sixty. His will, dated August 15, 1713, proved April 22. 1718, mentions wife Abigail ; daughters Abigail Vinton, and Prudence Kendall ; sons Stephen, William, Francis, Timothy, Seth, Daniel and Solomon. Children, born in Woburn: i. Stephen, born February 20, 1675-76. 2. Francis, born January 19, 1677-78; died January 27, 1677-78. 3. William, born December 14, 1678; married Rebecca Vinton. 4. Francis, born January 15, 1680; married Sarah Houghton. 5. Timothy, born December 6, 1682; died January 18, 1682-83. 6. Abigail, born November 14, 1683 ; married John Vinton. 7. Prudence, born January 17, 1685-86; married Samuel Kendall. 8. Timothy, born January 24, 1687-88; married Susanna Holden. 9. Seth, born January 16, 1689; married Mary Brown. 10. Daniel, born October, 1691 ; married Joanna (Mousal) Miller. 11. Mary, born May 3, 1696. 12. Rebecca, born June 10, 1698; died December 6, 171 1. 13. Solomon, born March 27, 1702; married Abigail Evans, of Reading.

(IV) Stephen Richardson, son of Stephen Richardson (3), born at Woburn, February 20, 1675-76; married, 1699-1700, Susanna Wilson, born at Woburn, March 11, 1679, daughter of Lieutenant John Wilson, of Woburn and Billerica, son of John Sr., of Woburn. The widow Susanna married Daniel Simonds, born February 21, 1689, son of Benjamin and Judith Simonds. Stephen resided in Billerica, adjoining Woburn, and died intestate January 14, 1711-12, aged thirty-six. Children, born in Billerica: i. Susannah, born June 28, 1700; died June, 17 12. 2. Stephen, born August 17, 1702; married Amy Parker. 3. Henry, born June 13, 1705; married Amy Hazeltine. 4. Ebenezer, born February, 1707-08; mentioned below. 5. Amos, born January 14, 1709-1O; married twice. 6. Jonas, born June 27, 17 12, married in Sudbury, Mary Cutting, daughter of Hezekiah and Mary (Hagar) Cutting, granddaughter of Richard Cutting, the pioneer.

( \ ) Ebenezer Richardson, son of Stephen Richardson (4), born in Billerica, February, 1707-8, died at Pelham, New Hampshire, October 20, 1783. He resided in Nottingham West (now Hudson), New Hampshire, on the south line of the State and adjoining Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. After January, 1738, when the line was changed between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, his farm fell in the town of Pelham, New Hampshire. He married Ruth Winn, of Woburn, Massachusetts. The first two children were born in Nottingham West, the others in Pelham, New Hampshire: i. Ebenezer Jr.. born February 4, 1733; married Hannah Littlehale ; resided in Nottingham West and Pelham, New Hampshire, and had six children ; died October 22, 1768. 2. Jonas, born August 4, 1736; died in Pelham, September 24, 1747. Children born in Pelham: 3. Ruth, born May 20, 1740; died August 21, 1758, aged eighteen. 4. Rev. Zebediah, born March 6, 1742-3; lived in that part of Dracut cut ofif from Massachusetts in 1 741 and constituting the town of Pelham, New Plampshire ; married Rebecca Snow, born 1739-40, daughter of Joseph and Bridget Snow, of Nottingham West ; served nine months in the revolutionary army ; residing at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and Amherst, New Hampshire; was at Sanford, Maine, two years, and in 1787 became pastor of the church at Fryeburg. ]\Iaine, continuing until the church was dissolved in 1805; then joined the Baptist church at Cornish. Maine, though he resided at Fryeburg, and died in 1820, in Sanford; his wife Rebecca died 1822, aged eightytwo, leaving nine children. 5. Jonas, mentioned below. 6. Susannah, married Samuel Hutchinson ( ?).

(VI) Jonas Richardson, son of Ebenezer Richardson (5) born in Pelham, New Hampshire, October 21, 1748, died there December 19, 1813, aged sixty-five years two months. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Stephen Russell's company, of Dracut, Colonel Creen's regiment, in the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. About 1786 he removed from Pelham to Cornish, New Hampshire, and several children were born there. He then removed to X'ermont, and finally to Lisbon, Ohio, where he died, lie married, April 4. 1782, Zilpah Barker, who died September 22, 1 841, in Indiana, of chills and fever, aged seventy-nine years. Daniel Barker, her father, married (first), Phebe Merrill, of Methuen, Massachusetts, at Wilton, New Hampshire, and she died at Rochester, Vermont; married (second), Deborah Merrill, a cousin of his first wife; children: i. Zebadiah (twin), married Susan Alesser, and settled at Danville, Vermont; ii. Isaac, married Abigail Emerson, of Methuen ; iii. Deborah, married Percy Dow, of New Salem, New Hampshire, and settled at Newport, New Hamjxshire ; iv. IMiilip, died young; v. Stephen, soldier in revolution ; vi. Peter, married Sally Wood ; descendants reside at Antrim, New Hampshire, served eight years in the revolutionary army; vii. Abijah, married Susan Wood; he was one of W'ashington's lifeguard four of the five years he served in the revolution. Zilpah married Jonas Richardson ; mentioned above ; ix. Nathan, married Susan Cole ; X. Levi, resided at Fairlee, Vermont ;

2. Jonas, born May 12, 1784. 3. Achsah, born June 7, 1786 ; died at West Rutland, Vermont, unmarried. 4. Zebadiah. born October 5 or 6, 1788; died March 24, 1854, aged sixtyfive years; married Abigail Bull, of Westmoreland ; lived at Providence, Rhode Island. 5. Cynthia, born December 28, 1790; married

1793; mentioned below. 7. Charlotte, born February 5, 1797; died April 7, 1832. 9. Louisa, born August i, 1799; died aged fiftythree, unmarried. 10. Zilpah, born June 20, 1802. II. Percena, born April 25, 1804; resided in Bethel, Vermont, where she was born ; married David Whitaker, and had twelve children.

(VII) Ebenezer Richardson, son of Jonas Richardson (6), born in Cornish, New Hampshire, April 6, 1793, died November 2, i860. He settled at Lincoln, Vermont, where he conducted a farm all his active life. He married Sarah Hodges, of Pomfret. They had two children: i. Jasper, mentioned below. 2. Daughter, died young.

{\'III) Jasper Richardson, son of Ebenezer Richardson (7), was born in Woodstock, Vermont, November 26, 1822, and died January 7, 1904, at Lawrence, Massachusetts. He married, at Lincoln. \'ermont, Caroline Varney, born 1828, died March 4, 1864. He came to Lawrence in the early fifties. Child: i. Edgar Eugene, mentioned below.

(IX) Edgar Eugene Richardson, son of Jasper Richardson (8), was born in Vergennes, Vermont, September 26. 1848. He attended school in Lincoln, \'ermont, and in Lawrence, Massachusetts, whither his father came with his family a few years previous. He then learned his trade as painter and paper hanger, serving his apprenticeship with his father, who was for years master painter for the Pacific Mills of Lawrence, one of the largest corporations. Mr. Richard.son is a skilful craftsman, and has demonstrated s])ecial ability' for high-class work and the efficient handling of many workmen. In politics Mr. Richardson is a Republican. He is a member of Monadnock Lodge and Kearsarge Encampment of Odd Fellows ; of Pilgrim Fathers, Golden Cross. In religion he is a Universalist. He married, June 24, 1869, at Manchester, New Hampshire, Ellen Maria Clark, born April 26, 1856, at Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Child: i. Fred Origen, born at Lawrence, May 9, 1871 ; a commercial traveler; married October 18, 1905, Susie L. Dodge, of Manchester, New Hampshire. They have one child, Mary Ellen, born July 29, 1907. He belongs to ]\Ionadnock Lodge and Kearsarge Encampment, I. O. O. F. ; also to Grecian Lodge of Masons, of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

James Bailey, the immigrant an- BAILEY cestor, born in England, in 1612, settled in New England, at Rowley, about 1640. His brother Richard, who came over at the age of fifteen in the ship "Bevis," in May, 1635, settled first at Lynn, later near James, at Rowley. He became a large land owner and was overseer of the poor and selectman. His house was on what is now Pleasant street, and the land is now or was lately owned by Mrs. Charles H. Todd. He was buried August 10, 1677, and his will was proved September 25 following. He married Lydia Emcry, who died April 29, 1704. Children: i. John, born February 2, 1642-43 ; mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born November, 1644. 3 Jonathan, born September, 1646; died March 1665. 4. Damaris, born January 17, 1648-49 5. James, born January 15, 1650-51. 6 Thomas, born August i, 1653. 7- Samuel born August 10, 1655 ; died November, 1657 8. Samuel, born February 8, 1658-59.

(H) John Bailey, son of James Bailey (i), was born in Rowley, February 2, 1642-43. He settled in Rowley, and married there Mary Mighill, June 16, 1668, daughter of Deacon Thomas Mighill. He was a soldier in the Phipps expedition, and perished on the return from Canada. His wife administered the estate. Children: i. Jonathan, born August 31, 1670. 2. Ann, born February 24, 1673; died December 17, 1690. 3. Nathaniel, born 1675. 4. Thomas, born October 7, 1677. 5. James, born 1680; mentioned below. 6. Mary, born February i, 1683; ^i^^ 1722. 7. Elizabeth, born November 15, 1685; c^i^d January 26, 168 - ; married Daniel Tenney. 8. Lydia, born April 14, 1688; married Daniel Ritter. 9. John, born January 12, 169 1.

(HI) James Bailey, son of John Bailey (2), was born in 1680, and resided in Bradford. He married first, July 14, 1702, Hannah Wood, born January 20, 168 1 ; second, November 22, 1733, Mrs. Mary Bacon, and this marriage was what was known as a "smock" marriage, and following is the marriage record: "Bradford, December ye 24, 1733. This may certify whomsoever it may concern that James Bailey of Bradford who was married to the widow Mary Bacon November 22, last ]-)assed by me, ye subscriber, then declared that he took the said person without anything of estate and that Lydia, the wife of Eliazer Burbank & Mary the wife of Thomas Stickney & Margaret, the wife of Caleb Burbank, all of Bradford, were witnesses that the clothec she then had on were of his providing & bestowing upon her. William Balch, Minister of ye Gospel." James Bailey died early in 1769, and his will was proved at Salem, February 27, 1769. Children, all by first wife : 1. Abigail, born October 26, 1703. 2. Samuel,

James, born October 10, 1720; died young. 12. James, born February 11, 1721-22; married first, Rachel Berty; second, Mary Kincaird. 13. Hepzibah, born February 29, 1723- 24 ; married Beale.

{ IV) Joseph Bailey, son of James Bailey (3), was born in Bradford, May 18, 1708. He removed to Tewksbury about 1735, and was a member of the church there. He was something of a musician. He married first, Sarah Goss, born 1709, died April 22, 1755. Her gravestone is in the old burying ground at "J'ewksbury Centre. He married second, October 3, 1755, Apphia Bartlett. Children of first wife: I. Joseph, born May 18; 1736; married, November 29, 1759, Eleanor Harris; died August 8, 1 76 1. 2. Sarah, born September 15, 1737; died 1760. 3. Ebenezer, born April 30. 1739; married, August 15, 1762, Elizabeth Trull, of Billerica ; died 1815. 4. Jethro, born April 21, 1 741 ; married, October 16, 1766, Hannah Davis. 5. James, born July 31, 1743; died I'ebruary 28, 1761. 6. Luther, born August 2, 1745; married Experience Bailey; died November 10, 1830. 7. William, born February 13, 1747; mentioned below. 8. Hannah,

(V) 'NV'illiam Bailey, son of Joseph Bailey (4). was born February 13, 1747. He married first, Rebecca Hildreth. of Dracut, born about 1742, died April 18, 1805; second, March 26. 1806, Hannah Danforth, died September 13, 1817. He died March 12. 1836, at An (lover. Massachusetts. Children, all by first wife: i. Rebecca, born 1774; married

Thomas Boynton. 2. Hannah, born 1776; married James Ballard Lovejoy. 3. Sarah, born 1779; married Daniel Stevens. 4. William, born 1780; mentioned below. 5. Persis, born 1783; married John Lovejoy. 6. Timothy, born January 20, 1786; married, December 10, 181 1, Henrietta Blood, of Groton.

( "\T) Colonel William Bailey, son of William Eailey (5), was born in Andover, Massaclmsetts, December 28, 1780, and died January II, 1853. He resided in Andover. He married Rebecca Gilsoh, born in Pepperill, died October 10, 1858. Children: i. Rebecca, born November 19. 1804; married, November 26, 1829, Joshua Holt; died September 4, 1834. 2. William, born December 24, 1806; died November, 1807. 3. William, born September 20, 1808 ; shoemaker ; married first, June 19, 1831, Rhoda Ames; second, Mrs. Hannah (Kendall) Griffin. 4. Joseph, born November 30, 1810; married Lucy Bailey; killed by being thrown from a wagon, July 21, 1858. 5. Hannah, born March 13, 1813; married, April 19, 1849, Ezra Abbott. 6. Samuel Gilson, mentioned below.

(VH) Samuel Gilson Bailey, son of William Bailey (6), was born in Andover, June 28, 181 5, and died May 17, 1907. He married, first, November 29, 1842. Clarissa Needham, who died August 23, 1852; married second, Abigail Hardy. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and resided in Andover all his life. He sold his farm in 1896, and part of his life resided with his son, Samuel H. Bailey. Children, all by first wife: i. Clarissa Rebecca, born October 8, 1843; married first, as his second wife, January 21. 1874. Gayton O. Ames ; second, George Fitzgerald. 2. Lucretia Ann, born March 28, 1845 ; unmarried. 3. Mary Louisa, born December 5. 1846; died November 15, 1856. 4. Samuel Henry, born September 11. 1848; mentioned below. 5. Julia Faulkner, born October 17, 1850; married, October 21, 1874, Frank Augustus Fitzgerald, of Tewksbury. 6. Elbridge Gerry, born May 3. 1852; died September 3, 1852.

(VHI) Samuel Henry Bailey, son of Samuel Gilson Bailey (7), was born September ii, 1848, in Andover. He received his education in the district schools. From the age of nine he has followed farming. He spent his youth on his father's farm, where he was born, and which his grandfather also had owned. When he was nineteen years old his father placed him in charge of the farm, and when he came of age deeded half of the homestead to him. His built his house and other buildings on his part of the farm and improved the whole property. After conducting the farm eight years he leased it, and since then has lived on the farm, inherited by his wife, located in the south district of the town. Here he has been very successful in market gardening, having considerable space devoted to greenhouse cultivation. He also is an extensive producer of milk. Mr. Bailey is a member of Andover Lodge of Free Masons; of Andover Lodge of Odd Fellows, also the Rebekah Lodge; of Lincoln Lodge, No. 78, Ancient Order United W^orkmen ; and Andover Grange, No. 183, Patrons of Husbandry. In politics he is a Republican : and he has been a member of the board of selectmen of Andover since 1902. He is a member of the Baptist church. He married. November 26, 1874, Adrianna Carpenter, born 1856, in Maine, died in Andover. Massachusetts, 1882. He married second, December 20, 1884. Elizabeth Batchelder Abbott, born at Andover, July 27, 1850. daughter of Sylvester and Rhoda ( Batchelder) Abbott, of Andover. Children of first wife: i. Alma Richardson, born April 26. 1876; educated in Andover public and high schools ; married Albert Hildreth, a farmer of that town. 2. Clara Louise, born August 27. 1878. at West Andover; educated in the public schools there, graduating from the Andover high school ; married Herbert L. Trull, clerk in a wholesale grocery store of Lowell ; child : Alice E. Trull. Children of second wife: 3. Ralph Abbott, born August 2^, 1884. at West Andover, graduate of high school, now associated with his father in conducting the farm. 4. Helen Elizabeth, born August 7, 1888. at Andover, graduated from Andover hiirh school.

Boyden is an ancient English BOYDEN surname, appearing in the records as early as surnames were used, and many of the family have achieved distinction. Li the thirteenth century William Boyden was the architect of St. Alban's Cathedral. There is a village in Suffolk, of great antiquity, known as Boyden, and associated with the early history of this family. Some branches of the family have coats-of-arms.

(I) Thomas Boyden. the immigrant ancestor of the American family, born in county Sufifolk. England, sailed from Ipswich in that county in April, 1634. in the ship "Francis," after taking the prescribed oath of allegiance to England. His age as given on the passen- ger list was twenty-one, making his year of birth 1613. He worked at first for Wilham Gilson, of Scituate, Massachusetts; was admitted to the church of that town May 17, 1635, and was admitted a freeman May 23, 1647. He removed to Boston in 1650, hved there several years, and was highway surveyor of that town in 1659-60. He removed thence to Medfield, and he sold his land at Muddy River (Brookline), in Boston, February 14, 1659, to Joshua Scottow, and other land on Sudbury Lane, Boston, September 12, 1662, to Simon Lynde. He left Medfield for Groton, and still later went to Watertown, where he became a proprietor September 21, 1666, buying Benjamin Cooper's house and lands in Watertown, amounting to ninety-two acres. He sold this property to Martin Townsend, July 25, 1670. He subscribed a bushel of wheat to Harvard College in the general subscription in 1678. He was tithing man in Medfield in 1682. He married first, Frances second, November 3, 1658, Hannah (Phillips) Morse, widow of Joseph Morse. She died October 3, 1676. Children of Thomas and Frances Boyden : i. Thomas, born September 26, 1639, at Watertown. 2. Mary, born October 15, 1641. 3. Rebecca, born November I, 1643. 4. Nathaniel, born 165 1. 5. Jonathan, born February 20, 1652; mentioned below. 6. Sarah, born October 12, 1654.

(H) Captain Jonathan Boyden, son of Thomas Boyden (i), was born in Boston, February 20, 1652. He settled in Medfield, and was prominent in town afifairs - highway surveyor, selectman four years, captain of militia, 171 2; representative to the general court, 1 71 5. He died May 30, 1732. He married first, September 26, 1673, Mary Clark, born March 12, 1649, in Dedham, daughter of Joseph and Alice Clark. Her father was one of the earliest settlers of Dedham and one of the thirteen Dedham men who undertook the settlement of Medfield. (See Clark family). Boyden married second, Anne ,

Boyden (2), born July 30, 1674, in Medfield, died there March 3, 17 19. He was a farmer in his native town. He married first, November 17, 1698, Rachel Fisher, born March 24, 1680, died March 31, 1712, daughter of John and Hannah (Adams) Fisher; second, February 12, 1713. Esther Thurston, born January 2^, 1674, daughter of John and Mary (Wood) Thurston. She married again, September 14, 1727, John Turner; she died March 10, 1755. Chiklren of Jonathan Boyden by his first wife, all born in Aledfield : i. Jonathan, born March 13, 1700; mentioned below. 2. John, born September 30, 1702. 3. Marah, born July

(IV) Jonathan Boyden, son of Jonathan Boyden (3), was born in Medfield, ]\Iassachusetts, March 13, 1700. He settled in the adjacent town of Walpole. He married, May 31, 1726, Mehitable Lovell, born March 23, 1706, died July 3, 1793, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Dyer) Lovell. Children, born in W^alpole : i. Jonathan, born December 4, 1729. 2. Benjamin, born November 6, 1733; mentioned below. 3. Lydia, born July 18, 1736, died July 4, 1814; married, September 22, 1754, Jonathan Carrell.

(V) Benjamin Boyden, son of Jonathan Boyden (4), born at Walpole, November 6, 1733, died February 5, 1806. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Nathaniel Heath's company. Colonel Jonathan Reed's regiment, for three months about Boston. He married first. May 12, 1757, Huldah Armsby, of Medfield, who died February 4, 1784, daughter of Joshua and Esther (Cheney) Armsby, of Medfield. He married second, April 25, 1785, Mrs. Hannah Mansfield, of Walpole. Children, all by first wife, born at \\'alpole: i. Molly, born March 28, 1758, died July 8, 1777. 2. Phineas, born November

(VI) Phineas Boyden, son of Benjamin Boyden (5), born in Walpole, November 21, 1760; died April 21, 1828; married, January 16, 1783, Lydia, daughter of Jonathan and Freelove Boyden. She was born April 26, 1764, and died December 17, 1838. Her father, Phineas, fought in the revolution. Children: i. Molly, born ^lay 18, 1784, died August 26, 1836; married, January i, 1806, Isaac xAlden. 2. Harvey, born April 26, 1787.

(VII) James Boyden, son of Phineas Boyden (6), born August 30, 1790; married, 1811, Lucy Clapp, born August .29, 1790. died August 30, 1840. He died June 17, 1839. He was deacon of the church and a prominent citizen. Children: i. Silas, l)orn November 27, 1814; married Sallie N. I-'isher. 2. Elvira, born November 14, 1818; married, September 2, 1846, John E. Grant, of W'rentham. 3. James Lewis, born June 21, 1822; mentioned below.

(\ III) James Lewis Boyden, son of James Boyden (7), was born June 21, 1822. He lived in South Dedham, Massachusetts, where he married Milley E. ]\Iorse. born January 26, 1825. (See Morse family). Children: i. Josephine, born August 21, 1846; died September II, 1848. 2. Emma Frances, born January 15, 1850; married, October 24, 1874, Melvin I. Ellis, of Norwood. 3. James Frederick, born July 24, 1854; mentioned below. 4. Arthur Lewis, born July 16, 1858: married, January 23, 1884, Annabelle Guild: children: i. George L., born July 16, 1885 : ii. Marion Frances, May 4. 1892; iii. Natalie E., February 25, 1895; iv. Curtis Guild, born August I. 1897; V. John Edwin, born March 26, 1900.

5. Eva Nettie Pettis, born December 4, i860; married George Daniels, of Franklin ; children: i. Mildred, born March 20, 1886; ii. Clifton Boyden Daniels, born December 10, 1890; iii. Helen Louise Daniels, December, 1898.

James Lewis Boyden (8), was born in South Dedham, July 24, 1854. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at a commercial school in Boston. He entered upon his business career in the employ of \\ inslow Brothers, leather manufacturers, in 1880. Subsequently he became connected with the George H. Morrill Company, ink manufacturers, and now holds the responsible position of general foreman of the factory of this large concern at Norwood, where he has made his home for a number of years. Mr. Boyden is chief engineer of the fire department of Norwood, a popular and useful citizen. In politics he is a Republican. He married, August 15, 1878, Helen Arabelle Shattuck, born February 24, 1855, daughter of Charles Proctor and Mary (]\Iitchell) Shattuck. Children: I. -Charles Lewis, bom May 31, 1879. 2. Mary Shattuck, born July 11, 1883. (See Shattuck family).