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maiden name is not given, but there is much reason for believing that it was Hunt and she was probably of Ipswich, Massachusetts, at the time. John Grant, of Rowley, married Mary Hunt who made her will in 1697 and calls Ann Wood and Susannah Todd, wife of John Todd, of Rowley, "sisters" ; and in papers on file in the Essex county probate court with the will both Ann and Susannah are mentioned as being about sixty years old in 1697. In the will of John Todd he mentions "Brother Hunt ;" in an affidavit in the Salem records Thomas Wood calls himself forty years old in 1675 and calls John Todd "brother."

There is reason to believe that Thomas Wood was the son of William Wood, of Concord, Massachusetts, who came from Matlock, England, in 1638, at the age of fifty-six years, with his nephew, Hon. Thomas Flint, and settled in Concord. William died May 14, 1671, aged eighty-nine. He is believed by some to have written the book entitled "New England Prospects." The will of this William of Concord is dated September 15, 1670, and was proved June 20, 1672. He bequeathed property to his daughter, Ruth Wheeler, and sonin-law, Thomas Wheeler; to his grandchild, Abigail Hosmer ; to sons Thomas and Michael. Shattuck in his history of Concord gives the names of his children as: Michael, Ruth, Abraham, Isaac, Thomas, Jacob, John and Abigail.

Thomas Wood was buried at Rowley, September 12, 1687. His widow Ann died De-, cember 29, 17 14. All their children were born at Rowley: i. Mary, January 15, 1655. 2. John, November 2, 1656, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, August 10, 1658, married Mary Hunt, probably of Ipswich; was buried December I, 1702. 4. Ann or Mary Ann, August 8, 1660. married, January 15, 1678-79, Benjamin Plumer. 5. Ruth, May 21, 1662, married Captain Joseph Jewett, January 16, 1680-81 ; he died October 30, 1694, and she married (second), October 26, 1696, John Lunt; she died November 29, 1634. 6. Josiah (twin), September 5, 1664, married, 1685, Sarah Elithorpe ; (second), 1689, Mary Felt. 7. Elizabeth (twin), September 5, 1664. 8. Samuel, December 26, 1666, married Margaret Elithorpe ; he died November 25, 1690. 9. Solomon, May 17, 1669, married Mary Hazeltine ; ancestor of the Wood family of Mendon and Uxbridge, Worcester county, Massachusetts. 10. Ebenezer, December 29, 1671, married Rachel Nichols. II. James, June 22, 1674, died October 18, 1694.

(11) John Wood, son of Thomas Wood (i), was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, November 2, 1656. He lived first in Rowley village (Boxford), but about 1682 settled at Bradford, Massachusetts. The farm that he originally settled on is still owned and occupied by the family, the present owner being Bradley O. Wood, in what is now Groveland, Massachusetts, formerly part of Bradford. The place has never been sold out of the Wood family. He married, January 16, 1680, Isabel Hazen, born July 21, 1662, daughter of Edward Hazen. Her father was an early settler at Rowley ; his wife Elizabeth was buried September 18, 1649, and he married (second) Hannah Grant, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Grant; he was selectman in 1650-51-54- 60-61-65-68; judge in 1666; was buried at Rowley, July 22, 1683 ' widow married, March 17, 1684, George Browne, of Haverhill, who adopted Richard Hazen as his heir ; she died February 15, 1716. The first two children of John and Isabel Wood were baptized at Boxford ; the other nine were born at Bradford, Massachusetts. Children: i. John, baptized

(HI) Edward Wood, son of John Wood (2), born in Bradford, September 7, 1689, died there December 26, 1779, in his eightyninth year. His gravestone is in the old burial ground at Groveland. He lived on the homestead at Bradford. He married, December 23, 171 3, at Newbury, Mary Spofiford, of Rowley. She was born August 7. 1682, died December 26, 1779, aged eighty-nine years, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Birkbee) Spofford. Her parents were married December 5, 1676. Her father was born January 31, 1653, died January I, 1744, aged ninety-one; her mother died November 18, 1729. Samuel was the son of the immigrant ancestors, John and Elizabeth (Scott) Spofiford. Children, born at Bradford: i. Moses, September 27, 1 716, mentioned below. 2. Mary, December 10, 1718. 3. Samuel, July 11, 1721. 4. Ebenezer, April 16, 1727. 5. John, June 25, 1 73 1. 6. Sarah, June 13, 1734.

(IV) Moses Woo(l, son of Edward Wood (3), born September 27, 17 16, at Bradford, Massachusetts, died March 5, 1799, aged eighty-two years. His gravestone in the old yard at Groveland has been preserved. He married, November 21, 1739, Mehitable Stickney, who died March 11, 1781. in her sixtyfourth year. She w^as born March 3, 1717, daughter of Thomas and IVFary (Mullikin) Stickney, and granddaughter of Robert and Rebecca Mullikin. Thomas Stickney was born August 23, 1694, resided in Bradford; was lieutenant ; fence-viewer ; tithingman ; surveyor; member of the grand jury; died October 27, 1769. Samuel Stickney, father of Thomas Stickney, was born July 2, 1663 ; married Mary Heseltine, daughter of Abiah and Elizabeth (Langhorne) Heseltine. His wife Mary was born at Rowley, April 30, 1672, died December 30, 1 7 14. Samuel Stickney, father of Samuel Stickney, was born in England in 1633; married, April 18, 1653, Julia Swan; (second), April 6, 1674, Prudence (Leaver) Gage, of Bradford and Rowley. William Stickney, father of Samuel Stickney, was the immigrant. Moses Wood lived on the homestead in Bradford. Children, born in Bradford: i. John, October 11, 1741. 2. Thomas, April 8, 1744.

(\') Samuel Wood, son of Moses Wood (4). born in Bradford, Massachusetts, February 9, 1756, died there November 19, 1839, aged eighty-two years. His gravestone is in the family lot in the old burial ground at Groveland. He had the homestead of his fathers and was a farmer in Bradford, now Groveland. He married, July, 1783, Lucy Russell, who died his widow, February 28, 1843, aged eighty-five years, seven months. Children, born at Bradford: i. Sally, August

(VI) Thomas Wood, son of Samuel Wood (5), born December 16, 1792, at Bradford, had a common school education, and followed farming on the homestead in his native town. He married, January 8, 1818, Betsey Harriman. who died at Bradford, April 24, 1884, daughter of Moses and Jane ITarriman, of Bradford. Children, born at Bradford: i. ]\Iaria S., October 3, 1818. 2. IMoscs H., July 20, 1820. 3. Child, June 28, 1822. 4. Charles T., September, 1823. 5. Samuel H., July 19, 1825. 6. Alice, November 9. 1827. 7. Bradley O., December 7, 1832 (resides on the Wood homestead). 8. Justin R., mentioned below. 9. Martha Robinson, June 20, 1843.

(VII) Justin R. Wood, son of Thomas Wood (6), born in Bradford, Massachusetts, was educated in the public schools, and has followed farming in Groveland all his life. He is a prominent citizen of his native town. He married Laura Ann Goss, born September 2, 1839, daughter of Allen H. and Sophia C. (Parker) Goss. Allen H. Goss was born December 17, 1786, son of Richard and Hannah Goss. Richard Goss was born March 10, 1747, son of John and Mehitable Goss. Children : I. Roswell L., born September 26,

(VIII) Roswell L. Wood, son of Justin R. Wood (7), born in Groveland, Massacbusetts, September 26, 1865, was educated in the public schools. He has for a number of years been engaged in the real estate and auctioneering business and has built up a flourishing business in Haverhill, where he has his office, and in the adjacent towns. In politics Mr. Wood is a staunch Republican. He has been a member of the common council of the city of Haverhill and also of the board of aldermen. He was elected an overseer of the poor in 1901-02-03. In 1904 he was elected mayor of the city of Haverhill and re-elected five consecutive terms. His administration has been characterized by prudence, economy and efficiency, and he has won the confidence of his political opponents as well as his friends. He has displayed in his administration of municipal afifairs executive ability of a high order. Mr. Wood is popular with all classes of his townsmen. He is a member of Mispah Lodge of Odd Fellows, Greshen Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of Haverhill Lodge, B. P. O. E. He and his family attend the LTnion Church.

name and the surname Richardson undoubtedly originated with them. William Belward, Lord' of the Moiety of Malpasse, soon after the conquest, 1066, had two sons, the younger named Richard, who being of small size was called Richard the Little. One of his sons was called "John Richardson," taking his father's name with the addition of "Son" for his surname ; and from this came the family name of Richardson, so well represented throughout England for centuries, and also, though less numerously, in Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

In Yorkshire and Durham, and perhaps in other counties in England, the Richardsons were seated as early as the sixteenth century, and before the year 1600 arms were granted them through one Nicholas Richardson, of Durham, who settled in Yorkshire in 1561.

The Richardsons of Gloucestershire had coatsof-arms in 1588, those of Durham in 161 5, and in 1630 one Richard Richardson, Esq., of Bradford, in Yorkshire, afterward of Bierley, paid a fine of forty pounds for declining the honor of knighthood profl:'ered by Charles I. Burke in his "Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland" mentions arms granted to many distinguished persons of the Richardson surname, but in this place it is not necessary to follow them all.

The emigration of the Richardsons from England to America is believed to have begun in 1630, when Ezekiel Richardson came over in one of the ships of Winthrop's fleet, and he was followed in 1636 by his brothers Samuel and Thomas. The "Richardson Memorial" furnishes an account somewhat in detail of others of the same surname during the next ten years after the arrival of Ezekiel, but it is not assumed that all of these immigrants were of kin to each other. Those of the name with whom we have to deal in this narrative are the three brothers - Ezekiel, who led the way, and his brothers Samuel and Thomas, who came a few years afterward. The line here particularly treated is that of one of the descendants of Samuel Richardson, the second of the three brothers, and who figures in New England colonial history as one of the founders of the town of Woburn, Massachusetts.

(I) Samuel Richardson, born in England about 1610, may have come to America with his elder brother Ezekiel, in 1630, although it is believed that he did not in fact come until a few years later ; the w^eight of opinion among genealogists of the famil}^ is that he arrived on the shores of New England in 1636. The three brothers had lots assigned them April 20, 1838, "on the Misticke side and above the Ponds," in what now is Maiden, and in the records of December, 1638, their names appear as having the pasturing of cows on the common. In 1640, November 5, the three brothers, with four other settlers, were selected by the church in Charlestown to found a new plantation within the limits of that town, but in the region included in the town of Woburn as soon afterward established ; and they also helped in planting the first church in Woburn, in laying out houselots, the common, and the lands for meadow and pasturage. Their houses were built near to each other, and that part of the highway on which they lived has since been called 'Richardson's row.' It was laid out as a street in 1647.

burn 1 644- 1 646 and 1 649-1 651 ; in 1645 he paid the largest tax of any man in Woburn, hence it may be inferred that he was an enterprising man, although young in years, if he was born in 1610. He died March 23, 1658, leaving no will, and his widow and eldest son were appointed administrators. The baptismal name of his wife was Joanna, but her family name is unknown. The first two of their children were born in Charlestown and the others in Woburn: i. Mary, baptized February 25, 1637-8; married Thomas, son of Deacon John Mousall, one of the founders of Woburn ; lived in Charlestown. 2. John, baptized November 12, 1639; married Elizabeth Bacon ; second Mary Pierson ; third, Margaret Willing. 3. Hannah, born March 8, 1641-2, died April 8, 1642. 4. Joseph, born July 2^], 1643; married Hannah Green. 5. Samuel, born May 22.

Hannah Kingsbury; third, I'hcbe lialdwin; fourth, Sarah Hayward. 6. Stephen, born August 15, 1649; married Abigail Wyman. 7. Thomas, born December 31, 165 1 ; died September 27, 1657. 8. Elizabeth, born 165 - ; living 1666, at date of her mother's will.

(II) Joseph Richardson, second son and fourth child of Samuel Richardson and his wife Joanna, born in Wol)urn. Massachusetts. July 27, 1643, died there 2^1 arch 5, 1717-18. He was admitted freeman May 15, 1672. and thcreu]~)on was received into full communion into the church. During King Philip's war he was a soldier under Major Samuel Applcton, and took j^art in the memorable swamp fight and the attack on the Narragansett fort, December 19, 1675. He was selectman of Woburn 1693-94. 1702. November 5, 1666, he married Hannah Green, born about 1647, died May 20, 1721, having survived her husband about four years. She was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Green, of ]\Ialden. Her father was born in England about 1606, and came to New England about or before 1640, lived in that part of Maiden now Melrose, and was selectman of Maiden in 1658. He died December 19, 1667. Joseph Richardson and Hannah Green had five children: i. Hannah, born October 22, 1667 ; married Daniel Baldwin. 2. ^lary, born March 22, 1668-9 ; married first, James Fowie ; second, Samuel Walker. 3. Elizabeth, born June 28, 1670; married first, John Coggin; second, Jacob Wyman. 4. Joseph, born May 19, 1672; married Mary Blodget. 5. Stephen, born February 7, 1673-4; married Bridget Richardson.

<III) Joseph Richardson, fourth child and elder son of Joseph and Hannah (Green) Richardson, born in Woburn, May 19, 1672, died there December 5, 1754, aged eighty-two years, having passed the whole of his useful Hfe in that town. In his will he calls himself "gentleman." He was selectman 1714 and 1 716. He married, October 24, 1693, Mary Blodget. born in Woburn, September 15, 1673, died there March 11, 1752, aged seventy-eight years. Her father, Samuel Blodget, was selectman of Woburn 1681. Joseph Richardson and Mary Blodget had ten children: i. Mary, born January 10, 1694-5 ; married Henry Baldwin. 2. Hannah, born August 17, 1697; married. May 21, 1728, Thomas Carter, grandson of Rev. Thomas Carter, of Woburn. 3. Joseph, born November 8, 1699 ; married Susanna Wyman. 4. Josiah, born January 12, 1701-2; married Experience Wright. 5. Reuben, born June 12, 1704; married Esther Wyman. 6. Oliver, born August 15, 1706; married first, Lydia Wyman ; second, Eunice Pierce. 7-8. David and Samuel, twins, born October 12, 1708, died same day. 9. Charles, born July 2^, 1710; married first. Mary Roper;

(IN) Reuben Richardson, third son and fifih child of Joseph and Mary (Blodget) Richardson, born in Woburn, June 12, 1704, died in Stoneham. Massachusetts, December 22, 1776, aged seventy-two years. He removed from Woburn to the adjoining town of Stoneham in 1734, and in 1742 was constable. He "owned the covenant" and was baj)tized August 5, 1744, his wife being already a member of the church. He was selectman of Stoneham in 1757 and again in 1772. In 1726 he married Esther Wyman, born February 25, 1709, died February 8, 1809, having lived to within a few days of the remarkable age of one hundred years. Her father was Samuel Wyman, born November 29, 1667, son of Francis Wyman and Abigail Reed ; her mother was Rebecca Johnson, born March i, 1665, daughter of Matthew Johnson and granddaughter of Captain Edward Johnson, "the father of Woburn." The genealogy of the Wyman family says that Lieutenant John Wyman and his brother Francis Wyman were among the first settlers of Woburn in 1641. They were tanners by occupation, church members, and persons of much respectability and worth. Francis Wyman was admitted freeman of the colony, May 6, 1657. Their names are often found associated in legal writings. They owned together five hundred acres of land at Shawsheen (Billerica) in 1665. Francis Wyman was selectman of Wobiirn in 1674 and 1675. Of the thirteen children of Reuben Richardson and Esther \Vyman, four were born in Woburn and nine in Stoneham, and nearly all of them lived to advanced age. Children: i. Joseph, born February 9, 1727; married Abigail Felton. 2. Esther, born April 16, 1729; married, 1751, Francis Leathe of Woburn. 3. Reuben, born December 22, 1731 ; married Jerusha Kendall. 4. Ruth, born May 23, 1733 ; married John Geary. 5. Abel, born October 23, 1736; married Alary Thompson. 6. Caleb, born October 24, 1738; married Sarah Richardson. 7. Elijah, born May 4, 1741 ; married Ruth Gould. 8. Mary, born August 2, 1743; married John Swan. 9. Jerusha, born June 2, 1745; married Reuben Locke. 10. Josiah, born November 8, 1747; married Jerusha Brooks. II.- Loammi, born January 12, 1749- 50; died at the age of fifteen months. 12. Thaddeus, born August 7, 1752; married Lydia Vinton. 13. Charles, born February 17, 1756; married Anna Bruce.

(V) Caleb Richardson, sixth child of Reuben and Esther (Wyman) Richardson, born in Stoneham, October 24, 1738, died April 4, 1814, after an illness of twenty-four hours. His life was spent in Stoneham, where he was a farmer and possessed a good property. He was a surveyor of highways 1772, selectman 1777, one of the committee in Stoneham to hire soldiers to fill the town's quota, 1778, and in 1794 was a membeY of the committee to settle with Rev. John Cleaveland, the minister of the town. His wife, whom he married July

10, 1743, died December 3, 1812. She was a daughter of Stephen Richardson and Mary Sawyer, granddaughter of Deacon Stephen Richardson and Bridget Richardson (daughter of Theophilus Richardson and Mary Champney, and granddaughter of Ezekiel Richardson, the eldest of the three immigrant brothers, and his wife Susanna), great-granddaughter of Joseph Richardson and Hannah Green, and great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Richardson, the second of the three immigrant brothers, and his wife Joanna. Caleb Richardson and his wife Sarah had seven children: i. Sarah, born June 22, 1769; married Captain David Geary. 2. Caleb, born June 6, 1771, died April 28, 1772. 3. Caleb, born June i, 1773; married Sarah Willey. 4. Rufus, born August 7, 1775; married first, Anna Geary; second, Martha Gardner. 5. Reuben, born May 13, 1777; married Sarah Vinton. 6. Josiah, born August 6, 1779; married Betsey Vinton, her sister. 7. Mary, born November 5, 1781, died of consumption, January 22, 1803.

(VI) Captain Rufus Richardson, son of Caleb and Sarah Richardson, born in Stoneham, August 7, 1775, died there November 6, 1853. He was an enterprising and prosperous farmer, and always lived on the farm where he was born. He was well known in the town, highly respected by all citizens, and took considerable interest in public affairs. At one time he was captain of a company of militia, an organization in which he took much pride, and by reason of his rank as its commanding officer, he was always afterward addressed as Captain Richardson. In 1821 he was town treasurer and collector of Stoneham. He attended church service regularly and contributed to the support of the church, although he did not become a full member until a short time previous to his death. His first wife, whom he married November 18, 1801, was Anna Gerry, born December 29, 1777, died September 5, 1808, daughter of Captain David Geary and Anna Buckman. He married second, June 21, 1814, Martha Gardner, born April 9, 1790, daughter of Henry and Martha Gardner, of Woburn, and sister of Deacon Henry Gardner, also of Woburn. By his first wife Captain Richardson had three children, and two by his second wife: i. Anna, born May II, 1802, died June 16, 1802. 2. Rufus, born July 5, 1803; married Elizabeth Iris. 3. Caleb, born December 18, 1808; unmarried. 4. Faustina, born June 11, 1815, died May 8, 1834. 5. Ann Ellen, born February 8, 1826; married October 9, i860, Dr. William Flint Stevens, of Stoneham, born January 17, 1807, son of Rev. John Hathaway Stevens, for many years was pastor of Stoneham. Children : John Hathaway Stevens, born about 1864; Florence, died in infancy.

(VII) Rufus Richardson, eldest son and second child of Captain Rufus Richardson and Anna Geary, his first wife, born in Stoneham, Massachusetts, July 5, 1803, died there February 9, 1 83 1, leaving two young children, both sons, who after their father's death were taken into the family of their grandfather. Captain Rufus Richardson, and brought up there. On April 8, 1827, Rufus Richardson married Elizabeth Iris, and had two children :

(VIII) Caleb Richardson, younger of the two children of Rufus and Elizabeth (Iris) Richardson, was born in Stoneham, August 5, 1830, and was less than a year old when his father died. (After the death of Rufus Richardson, father of Rufus and Caleb, their mother "utterly and finally forsook them, giving no previous notice, and never troubled herself about them any more. They were well provided for by their paternal grandfather, who was appointed their guardian in 1831." Richardson Genealogy). Caleb attended the district school and worked on the farm until he was about nineteen years old, and in 1849 set out on a voyage to the gold fields of California, sailing by way of Cape Horn. In 1 85 1 he returned east, and it is said that in so doing he w'orked his way to Panama, crossed the isthmus on foot and then took passage for home. Soon after his return from California Mr. Richardson began making shoes, but about 1855 started in business as a butcher and meat dealer. In 1870 he removed to Everett, Massachusetts, and afterward until his unfortunate death was prominently identified with the business and public life of that city. He was in all respects a successful, progressive and ])ublic sjMrited business man, taking an active part in municipal affairs, but declined the several offices which were tendered him, except that of road commissioner, which he held a single year. He was chiefly instrumental in organizing the Everett fire dejiartment upon an efficient and permanent basis, was a member of Palestine Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Everett, and in religious preference a Universalist.

Mr. Richardson married Mary Bradley Pearson, wdio was born May 23, 1834, in North Wilmington, Massachusetts, and was drowned with her husband, January 18, 1884. She was a daughter of Aaron Pearson, whose wife was Dolly Eames, and granddaughter of Aaron Pearson, a soldier of the revolution, private in Captain Nathan Chandler's com- I)any of Colonel Thomas Noxon's Sixth regiment of Massachusetts troops. Mr. Richardson and his wife were passengers on board the steamship "City of Columbus" of the Boston and Savannah line which sunk off Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, January 18, 1884. The story of the disaster is filled with serious interest to the children and descendants of Caleb

The "City of Columbus" left Bo.ston at three o'clock Friday afternoon, January 18, 1884, with eighty-one passengers and a crew of forty-six officers and men, bound for Savannah, Georgia. At 3.45 in the morning she struck the 'Devil's Reef Bridge,' a sunken ledge of rocks off Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard. The passengers, almost without exception, and many of the crew were below. IMost of them rushed to the deck in their night clothes, but so sudden had been the shock and so short the time between the striking of the steamer and its sinking, that many of the women and children did not appear at all. The steamer's boats and life-rafts were launched as soon as possible, but were almost immediately engulfed by the sea that was running. Seven got away on a raft, but were never heard of again. The more fortunate succeeded in climbing into the rigging, which was above water, and none who failed to get a foothold there were saved. The sufferings endured for the next few hours by these drenched and half-dressed persons in the rigging are indescribable. The waves broke over them with remorseless violence, pieces of spars and disabled tackle fell upon them, and every hour witnessed the end of the sufferings of some poor mortal whose stiffened fingers relinquished their grip on the frozen ropes, and whose exhausted frame sank into the wintry sea. The mental anguish of the survivors was intensified by seeing the bodies of those who had not been notified in time to leave their beds, washed out through the gaping apertures torn by the waves in the ship's side. About forty men in all took refuge in the rigging. The hardships which attended this solitary means of escape will be realized when it is recalled that five of the men rescued from the rigging died of their sufferings before reaching shore, and that neither woman nor child escaped alive from the doomed steamer. As soon as the distress of the vessel was known at Gay Head a life-boat put off bravely, albeit a tremendous sea was running from the northwest. This boat's crew took seven persons down from the rigging, one of whom died on the way back to shore. This was about 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon, and it was past noon wdien another life-boat succeeded in getting near the "City of Columbus." The revenue cutter "Dexter" had arrived upon the scene by this time and her boats had already taken more than a dozen out of the rigging. The life-boat quickly transferred several more from the Columbus to the cutter, and shortly the rigging was cleared of survivors, not, however, without further loss of life. The gallantry of Lieutenant John U. Rhodes, of the "Dexttr," is one of the brightest pages in the histor}' of the revenue cutter service. It is worthy a place alongside anything that has been written concerning the self-abnegation of United States officers upon the sea.

The "Columbus" went down with her forefoot resting on a sunken ledge, and the railing around her bow was visible above water. The refugees were mostly in the fore and main top and rigging, and to reach them it was impossible to row over the rigging, as the boats would have been pounded to pieces. The men in the rigging were forced to jump into the sea and were caught as they rose to the surface and pulled into the boat. Quick work was demanded on the part of the life savers, for the castaways were too benumbed with cold to live long after striking the icy water. Most of the survivors could not swim, but nearly all were saved. Two brothers jumped from the rigging almost simultaneously. Lieutenant Kennedy jum])ed for one, but at that instant the cutter's gig rose fifteen feet on the crest of a wave and had to be thrown over to starboard to avoid being swamped. The poor fellow was not seen afterward, but hardly an instant later the other brother was pulled into the boat.

Captain S. E. Wright was among the last to leave the ship. Two men who were frozen so stiff as to be unable to relinquish their holds on the ratlines were the only persons remaining on the steamer, except the captain. Lieutenant Rhodes called to Captain Wright to jump. "Save those men first,"' he shouted. "They are frozen," was the reply. The captain then jumped and was rescued by the officer, who returned to the cutter, asked for a man to steer that he might swim to the ship and take the unfortunate men down. His request was granted, but on nearing the wreck again he found it folly to attempt to get alongside. Lieutenant Rhodes refused to give up the attempt, and sang out to the men in the life-boat to take him to the wreck. Tying a line about him he stood in the bow of the lifeboat within thirty feet of the vessel when he sprang into the sea. When almost within reach of the wreck he was struck by a piece of timber on the leg and sank. He was pulled aboard and taken to the cutter, where i*: was found that his leg was cut, but disdaining to give up so he demanded another chance. The sea was smoother, and with dry clothing on he set out again and this time reached the men in the shrouds. One man was hanging with his arms and feet through the ratlines, and begged not to be taken down. He was Caleb Richardson, of Everett, and he died in the boat before the cutter was reached. His companion in the ratlines was also almost gone, and expired before reaching the "Dexter." Thus the lieutenant's heroic endeavors were in vain, but not as L^nited States officers reckon the risking of their lives.

Caleb and Mary Bradley (Pearson) Richardson had four children : i. Charles W., born in Stoneham, died in Everett ; married Charlotte Tukey ; had one daughter, Irene Richardson, now living with her mother in Everett. 2. Amelia, born in Stoneham ; no further record. 3. Mabel, born in Somerville, Massachusetts; married Alonzo Frederick, of Stoneham ; one daughter, Ethel Mary Frederick. 4. William Pearson, born in Everett, July 18, 1872. (See post).

(IX) William Pearson Richardson, youngest son and child of Caleb and Mary Bradley (Pearson) Richardson, was born in Everett, Massachusetts, in 1872, and received his education in the public and high schools of that city. In business life he is a dealer in real estate, and having considerable interests in city property, he naturally takes an equal interest in public affairs. He is a strong Republican, and has been chairman of the city board of health since 1905. He also is a member and corporal of the military organization known as the Spanish War Cadets. In 1902 Mr. Richardson married Caroline Frances Films, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph and Adelaide (Knowles) Films, the former a native of Scituate, Massachusetts, and the latter of Weston, Massachusetts.

The Chase family is of ancient CHASE English origin, derived undoubtedly from the French word, chasseur, to hunt. The ancestral seat of the branch of the family from which the American line is descended was at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, through which runs a rai)idly flowing river, the Chess, which gives the name to the place. The Chase arms ; Gules four crosses patonce argent (two and two) on a canton azure a lion rampant, or.

(III) Mathew Chase, son of John Chase (2), was of Chesham; married Ehzabeth Bould, daughter of Richard Bould. Children : I. Richard, married Alary Roberts. 2. Francis.

( I\' ) Thomas Chase, son of Mathew Chase (3), was of the Hundrich in parish Chesham. Children, born at Hundrich : i. John, baptized November 30, 1540. 2. Richard, baptized August 3, 1542, mentioned below. 3. Agnes, baptized January 9, 1551. 4. William. 5. Christian.

(\') Richard Chase, son of Thomas Chase (-4), was born in Hundrich, Chesham. England, and baptized August 3, 1542; married, April 16, T5C)4, Joan Bishop. Children, born at H^undrich : i. Robert, baptized September 2, 1565. 2. Ilenry, baptized August 10, 1567. 3. Lydia, baptized October 4, 1573.

(\'l) A(|uila Chase, son of Richard Chase (5), was baptized at Hundrich, Chesham, England, August 14, 1580. Children: 1. Thomas, came to .America. 2. A(|uila. mentioned below.

(All) Acjuila Chase, son of Aciuila Chase (6), was born in England in 1618 and was the American immigrant. 1 le was a mariner, probably employed by his uncle or brother, Thomas Chase, who was in i()2() i)art owner of the ship "John and h^-ancis." lie was of Hampton, New liampshire, as early as 1640: removed to Xewbury, Alassachusetts, in 164^1, when he had four acres granted for a house lot and six acres of marsh, on condition that he go to sea and do service in the town with a boat for four years. lie and his wife and David Wheeler were tlned "for gathering pease on the Sabbath" but were admonished and the fine remitted in September, 164O. He was a shipmaster and died December 2^, 1670, aged fifty-two. His will was dated September 79, 1670. He married Anne Wheeler, daughter of John \\' heeler, and she married (second), June 14, 1672, Daniel Alussiloway. She died in Alay 1688. Children: t. Sarah, married, Alay 15, 1666, Charles Annis, born in Ireland, 1638. 2. Anna, born July 6, 1647. 3. Priscilla. born March 14, 1640, married, February 10, 1 67 1, Abel Alerrill. 4. Alary, born

(ATII) John Chase, son of Aquila Chase 17), was born November 2, 1655, at Newbury, Alassachusetts. He married (first). May 23. i()77, at Newbury. ['Elizabeth Bingham or llnigley; (second), December 21, 1687, Eydia Challis, who survived him. He took the prescribed oath of allegiance and fidelity at Newbury in 1678. He was the first Chase in Newl)ury. lie was a soldier in King Philip's war, and was under Captain Turner in the brails fight. Alay 18, 1676. His will, dated October 22, 1730, proved Alarch 17, 1739, states that John Chase was his son and mentions his grandson John, son of his son John, therebv disjiroving the statement that John (3) Cha.se wa.s the son of Ann Chase (2), made in the 1)1(1 genealogy. Children of John and Elizabeth Chase: 1. William, born January 20, "'7<^"79- John, born about 1680, married Abigail Cha^e; resided at Ham])ton, New liampshire. L'hildren of John and Lvdia Chase: 3. I'hilip, born September 2^, 1688, at -Newbury, married, A])ril 17, 1712, Mary b'ollansbee. 4. Charles, born January 12, \(iS()-i)0. married, July [5, 1714, Ilei)sibah Carr. 3. Jacob, married, August 24, 1716, Joanna Davis; resided at Newbury and Haverhill, Alassachusetts. 6. Abraham, married. .\'oveml)er 16, 17 lO. Ruth Morse: (second)

(IN) David Chase, son of John Chase (8), was born October 20, 1710, at Newbury, Alassachusetts, and died before 1803. when his estate was being administered. His grandson Nicholas was a surety on the administrator's bond Alarch 5, 1805. David died intestate. He married, November 24, 1729, Sarah Emer}'. He settled at Haverhill and probabh- died there. Children, born in Haverhill: i. David, December i, 1730. 2. Joshua, October ^i- ^733- 3- Anthony, December 7. 1735, soldier in Cape Breton expedition ; had water power and mills, fulling, grist and saw mills at Haverhill: married first, June 29, 1758, Abigail Woodman; second, May i, 1782. Sarah Swett, widow ; received by deed land from his father David, September 2, 1763. 4. Tristram, born January 2t,. 1737. 5. Simeon. Also three daughters.

(X) David Chase, "the younger." son of David Chase, "the elder," (9), was born in Haverhill, December i, 1730. He lived in Haverhill and Newbury. He bought land of his brother Anthony, in Haverhill, October 30, 1765. Enoch Bartlett and Anthony sold other land to David, of Newbury, yeoman, and he bought other lots from time to time. He died in Newbury in 1805 and left a nuncupative will which was proved March 4, 1805, according to which his children were: i. IJenjamin. 2. Nicholas. 3. Sarah, married Woodman. 4. Hannah, had Nicholas her brother for guardian, being noii. comp. 5. Daniel. 6. Simeon (so-called in will, to distinguish him from some one of the same name, doubtless his Uncle Simeon); died before his father; mentioned below.

(XI) Simeon Chase, son of David Chase, the younger, (10), was born about 1760 and died before 1805. He was a cooper, and lived in Newburyport. He joined with the other heirs, John and Hannah Flanders, of Deering, New Hampshire ; Sarah IJayley, of Berlin, X'ermont ; in a deed conveying to Stephen r.ailey, Jr., their rights in the real estate of their late father. Stephen Bayley, of Newbury, F'ebruary 24, 1793. Simeon married Eunice, daughter of Stephen Bailey, just mentioned. He ])robably followed the sea for a time. At the time of his father's and grandfather's death in 1805 guardians were appointed for his children: i. Amos, aged about sixteen, mentioned below. 2. Simeon, born 1791-92, "aged about thirteen." 3. William, born 1795, aged ten in 1805.

(XH) Amos Bailey Chase, son of Simeon Chase (11), born in the east parish of Haverhill, January 4, 1788, died November 28, 1852. He bought land in Haverhill, August Ti, 1824, of David How, and again in 1827. He married, February 6, 18 12, Mary Colby, born April 16, 1788, died December 17, 1876, at an advanced age, a native also of East Haverhill. Children : Eunice Bailey and Rufus Longley, mentioned below.

(XHI) Eunice Bailey Chase, daughter of .Kmos Bailey Chase (12), born in Haverhill, January 2, 1814; died August 14, 1868. She married, April 16, 1834, John Marden. Children: I. Henry Frank, born November 5, 1835, married, June 14, i860, Lucy A. Hoyt ; died in service during civil war, in Andersonville prison ; child, Arabella Florence Marden, born May 4, 1 861, married Dr. Charles F. Foye ; daughter Mildred Chase Foye, born November i, 1888. 2. George O., born February 20, 1841. died in Andersonville in May, 1864. 3. Mary F., born October 15. 1850, died July 29, 1856.

25, 1818, died there December 18, 1865. He was educated in the public schools and learned the shoe mamifacturing business in early life, becoming the leading manufacturer in his day and acquiring a substantial fortune. He was a citizen of large influence in the city of Haverhill, though he declined to accept public office. He was a strong Abolitionist. He was a director in the First National Bank of Haverhill, in the Union Bank of Haverhill later, when merged, continuing as director, and was prominent in financial circles. He and his family attended the Centre Congregational Church of Haverhill. A man of sterling character, a useful citizen, he had the confidence and esteem of all his townsmen and acquaintances. He was the first private subscriber to United States bonds issued during civil war from this part of the country. He married, November

26, 1845, Jaiie Perkins Wells, born at Sanbornton. New Hampshire, September 3, 1820, living in the old home in Haverhill. Children : 1. James Edward, born August 15, 1846, married, February 23, 1874, Emma Gertrude Butters ; children : i. Agnes Gertrude, born December 16, 1874, married August 15, 1901, Walter Lockhart Allen, of St. Louis ; no children; ii. Bessie Tyler, born February 24, 1878, married, September 26, 1899, James Lawson, of Little Rock, -Arkansas ; daughter, Emma (jertrude Lawson, born August 12, 1900. 2. Ellen F., born May 3, 1850, unmarried; resides with her mother in the home at Haverhill. 3. Rufus Amos, born November 29, 1852, (lied January 5, 1859. 4. Lowell Tyler, born June 3, 1855, died June 15, 1855. 5. Katie Wells, born November 6, 1857, died October 26. 1891 ; married Edward Albert ]\Iitchell, of Haverhill, June 4, 1885 ; daughter, lanette \\'ells Mitchell born April i, 1886.