Brookfield Town (part 13 of 18)

Granted 1713 and 1720; conveyed 1746 to John Worcester of Boxford; and same year to Deacon Samuel Gould of Boxford ; sold 1767 to Nathan Gould ; in 1770 by N. G. to Asa Waters of Sutton ; in 1772 to Benjamin Babbitt of Middleboro ; conveyed to Capt. Caleb Clark in 1777 J to John Waite in 1784; to Nathaniel Waite (a hundred acres of it) in 1787, which Waite sells May 14, 1798 for $2,000 to Uriah W. Johnson of Woodstock, Ct.

No. Zd. - Edward Walker. Granted 1718 to 172I. The east part was conveyed to Levi Walker, the middle to Simeon Walker, and seventy acres of the North-west part to Ebenezer Smith, who conveyed 1762 to Silas How, and he 1764 to Ebenezer Bartlett, who sold sixty acres 1765 to Solomon Goodale, who sold thirty acres of the north side 1767 to Jonathan Bond.

No. 87. - John Patterson and William Hair. Granted 1720. This grant seems to have been occupied solely by Hair, on which he settled ; the fulling-mill referred to in Chapter I. was near by on Five-mile river. The house H. erected by him was the one tenanted by the step-father of the famous Madame Jumel, when" she was in her girlhood. See in Genealogical Register, Jumel.

No. 92. - Abraham Ayres. Granted 17 14. Within this grant were fifteen acres of meadow belonging to Sergt. John Ayres, deceased, John Younglove, deceased, and John Warner, deceased. The lot was conveyed 1727 to Gershom Keyes, to Samuel Porter same year, and to William. Ayres in 1731. The first schoolhouse in old Brookfield was located in the south-west part of this grant. [See ante, p. 200.]

Granted 17 14; sold to Obadiah Rice, and the west part to IMirick Rice, then in 1772 to James Drake, in 17S5 to Abraham Walker, in 1790 to James Smith, then to Jude Ayres, and in 181 6 to John Deland.

No. 98. - Joseph Perry and Others. Twenty acres of north-east part granted 1710 to Joseph Perry, then known as Smith's meadow, being "about a mile north-east the horse shades." The west part may have been conveyed to Hopestill Hinds.

Granted 1721, being "near the old bridge." This appears to be the lot granted Woolcott " on condition that he doth erect and build a saw mill," which he soon after set up at north-west corner of the lot.

Granted 17 10; sold 1715 to Thomas Baker; part granted to Baker 1 713, sold 1726 to John Green, and thirty acres of north-east part sold to Paul Deland.

Granted 1701, with three acres of meadow at "Tower hill " (the first time that name appears on the records, said meadow being at south-west corner of No. 51) ; sold 1719 to Ebenezer How, and same year to Obadiah Rice of Marlboro.

Granted 16S7; a grist mill was built on the lot before 171 7, and the house now, 1886, standing was built as early as 1723; conveyed 1725, with the new house, to Nathaniel Woolcott " to have the same after my decease and not before." Nathaniel conveys the same by will, probated 1771, to son-in-law John Waite ; who conveys iSoo to Nathaniel Waite, and next year John and Nathaniel quit-claim to Aaron Forbes, who conveys 1S08 to Jonathan Parks.

Granted 1701, and built upon the same year. This lot was conveyed to John Hamilton, and by, him, together with No. in, was sold 1729 to Roger Stevens, in 1 734 to Thomas Stevens, in 1 743 to Jacob Stevens, and same year to Job Hinckley, who by will gave it to his son David ; sold 1754 to John Hamilton, 1760 to Obadiah Deland, 1771 to Samuel Hinckley, who sold to Silas Haskell, and by him to Francis Hair.

Granted Dec. 9, 1714, on condition that she "tarry s in this Province, and marry s to Capt. Thomas Baker." This grant of forty acres of upland, took in the east part of the lot. [See ante, pp. 186.] The lot was sold to John Hamilton.

Granted 1701, and built upon the same year. [See ante, pp. 159, 166.] Sold by his heirs 1721 to Obadiah Rice, who conveyed same year to Daniel Walker.

Granted 1687, and soon built upon. This was the scene of the murder of Woolcott's wife and two children, by the Indians July 27, 1693. [See ante, pp. 146 et seqr\ John Hamilton bought out the heirs of Woolcott and sold 1721 to John Johnson, jr., of Woodstock, Ct. ; sold 1741 to Zachariah Brown, in 1764 to Jonathan Richardson of Natick, who sold 1797 to Levi Daniels of Medway.

Granted 1720; conveyed to Jonas Clark. The above three grants, with other lands adjoining on the southerly side, in all estimated at one thousand acres, were conveyed 1 744 to George Harrington of Waltham, " with three houses, two barns, grist-mill, saw-mill, blacksmith's shop and corn houses thereon," for the consideration of ;2^5,ooo, old tenor. Harrington came to reside here.

Addenda By The Committee North Brookfield

At the writing of the notice of this church (ante, p. 2S6) the facts at hand were so meagre that it seems proper that something more definite should now be said in regard to it. Services were held for the first time by the Catholics in North Brookfield (who then numbered about fifty) in June, 1851 ; and soon after this town became a mission of Webster, and Father Levecque from there attended to its interests, and afterwards Father Mignault and Rev. James Quan of the same place. About the year i860 the town became a mission of Ware, and was under the supervision of Rev. P. Healy, who was succeeded by Rev. William Moran of the same town.

In 1862 the site of the present church was purchased by Rev. P. Healy; and in October, 1S66, the erection of the present church was commenced, under the direction of Rev. William Moran. It was completed in July, 1867, and a resident pastor. Rev. Edward Turpin, was appointed to take charge of the parish ; he died here only one year after his appointment, and was buried at Fitchburg. He was succeeded by Rev. Henry M. Smyth, who, after three years' service, also died, and was buried here. He was succeeded by Rev. Michael Walsh, who continued in the pastorate thirteen years and six months; but his health was very poor during the last year or more of this time, so he was able to perform but little pastoral service. He died while on a visit to his brother in Natick in May, 1885 ; he was brought to this town for burial, and a very large concourse of people, not only of his own parish, but of the citizens generally, attended his funeral, filling his church to its utmost capacity. The bishop and 'a very large number of the clergy were present, and took part in the service. He was buried in a vault in front of the church. Another appointment was immediately made, and the present incumbent. Rev. James P. Tuite, was transferred from Clinton, and took charge of the parish. He soon purchased the " G. B. Dewing place " for a parsonage, and occupied it in less than two months after his appointment. The society is in a prosperous and flourishing condition, owning a church, parsonage with fifteen acres of land, and a cemetery of four acres, free from all encumbrance. The society has a membership of twenty-two hundred, and a sabbath school of four hundred and fifty pupils.

Methodist-Episcopal Church

Additional to and explanatory of what has been said of meetinghouses (see pp. 251, 277, and 284), there is evidence that the first meeting-house (see p. 249) was vacated by the parish when it began to occupy its new house, built in 1823, and dedicated Jan. i, 1824; but the old house was left standing until about 1832, and during a part of this time it was occupied by the Methodists, who evidently became the owners of the land on which it stood, and after its removal built their first house upon the same spot. The old house was sold at auction to one Southworth, who used the two side porches in the construction of a dwelling-house on the east side of North Main Street, nearly opposite to the residence of the late Hon. Freeman Walker \ and the main house was taken down. The Methodists occupied their new house at the Lower Village until 1846, when, in order to be more central, they held their meetings in the Town Hall in the Upper Village, and other places (see p. 284). In 1853 they moved their meeting-house from the Lower to the Upper Village, locating it on Spring Street ; but before it had been fully repaired it was destroyed by fire, Feb. 24, 1854 ; and the Methodist- Episcopal Church and Society was without a meeting-house of their own till the one on Grove Street, now occupied by them, was built in i860.

First Congregational Church

In addition to what is said {a7ite, p. 277) about the remodelling of the meeting-house of the First Congregational Society in 1874, the following particulars are given : The pews were appraised for ^4,672, and removed to open the way for a different manner of seating. One of Hook & Co.'s organs was put in, costing $3,000. The amount expended upon the house, including the two items above named, was about $17,000. The horse-sheds upon parish land were bought in by the society, and put into good repair ; and thus all individual ownerships were extinguished. The money to meet all the expenses was raised by subscription. After the re-dedication of the house, Oct. 15, 1874, the money for parish expenses was obtained from annual rentals of the seats, until 1885 ; since which time the seats are made free, and the money raised by subscription.

In 1886 the society, in order to meet a long-felt want, voted to erect a connecting building between the meeting-house and chapel, 55 feet long and 22 feet wide, containing a kitchen and two large, commodious parlors and two dressing-rooms.

The entire cost of this new building and its inside furnishings was about $2,000, the money for which was obtained by subscription, through the efforts of the ladies.

Town Houses

The first Town House (so called) was erected in 1833 by fifty-three different shareholders, on land which appears to have been deeded by Daniel Gilbert, Esq., to the town and the parish for such a purpose (the same being now a part of the site of the Union Congregational meetinghouse). These citizens organized Oct. 4, 1832, under the name of the " North Brookfield Town House Company ; " Tyler Batcheller President, Jonathan Cary Vice-President, Thomas Jones Secretary, and Joseph Doane Treasurer, after sixty-six shares (probably at ten dollars each) seem to have been subscribed for.

The building was occupied by the town, the parish, and by School District No. 2 as tenants, under certain conditions, until Nov. 2, 1836, when forty-five shares, at seven dollars and a half each, were transferred to said School District No. 2, and the company disbanded. The district continued in ownership and occupancy; lenting privileges to the town and to the parish, and renting the Hall for various purposes while the building stood.

In this Hall occurred some of the most stirring speeches and debates upon American Slavery by Garrison, Phillips, Abby Kelley, John M. Fiske, and others from out of town, and by Rev, Dr. Snell, the Walkers, Deacon Moore, and others in town, that ever resounded from the walls of any edifice in this place. Here the voices of Jonathan Walker, L. Moody, William Johnson, Dr. Thomas Lafon, and others, were raised against slavery ; and of Elihu Burritt, x^masa Walker, and others, in favor of the cessation of international wars. Here also the tall, slim, youthful, and studious Charles Sumner made his first appearance in the town, in his lecture upon " The Value of Time,'' opening with these quoted words, ^' I Jiave lost a day.'"

Destruction Of The Building

In the early winter of 1S46, while a Sunday evening meeting was being held in the Hall by the Methodists, the preacher from his place in the desk noticed near the remote south-east corner, over a lamp, a hole burned through the plastering, and notified the congregation, which immediately broke up ; and it was found that the attic and roof were well on fire, and, as there was no means of suppressing the fire, the whole structure was soon in ruins.

The store building was sold to Edmund Smith for about three hundred and fifty dollars, and removed, at an expense to the town of sixty-six dol- lars, to Mr. Smith's land on the corner of Main and Maple Streets, and used as a part of his shoe manufactory; and now (in 1887) is occupied by the Knights of Labor organization as a store and hall, it having been recently very nicely fitted up for them by the present owners, Messrs. E. & A. H. Ratcheller & Co.

The town, by their building committee. Freeman Walker, William Adams, Pliny Nye, PJonum Nye, Charles Duncan, Timothy P. Clark, and Chauncy Edmands, soon after the purcha-e of the land, erected a new building, probably about fifty by seventy-five feet on the ground, costing a little over nine thousand dollars. The basement story was occu[)ied as a stove and tinware shop, meat-market, etc. ; the ground story on the Main Street as a store or stores ; and the rear or west end was finished off as the "Lower Town Hall," and used for small meetings, schools, etc., until the partition was removed, and the room added to the rear end of the stores. The Town Hall and ante-rooms occupied all of the next story above, and the upper or attic story was used as a pocket-book manufactory, and for other purposes.

About six o'clock p.m., Oct. 14, 1862, a fire was accidentally started in the north store occupied by Hiram Knight (the other, or south store, being occupied by George C. Lincoln), and the whole structure with nearly all its contents, including the Town Records, the books of the North Brookfield Savings Bank (Mr. Knight being then Town Clerk and Treasurer of the Savings Bank), and various records pertaining to School District No. 2, etc., was soon reduced to ashes. Two shoe manufactories, two barns, and a part of the hotel were involved in the conflagration. Total losses about forty thousand dollars.

In 1S63, the town by its committee, Charles Adams, jr., Freeman Walker, Gideon B. Dewing, Erastus Hill, and Dexter Stoddard erected its present Town House building at a cost of twenty thousand dollars.

In the basement are a market, a stove-store, and the town " Lock-up ; " in the ground story on Main Street there are three stores, and a goodsized room for town officers and town books ; in the story next above is a spacious Town Hall and several ante-rooms ; and the upper story is devoted to an assessors' room, and for storage purposes. Ever since the building was erected the yearly rents received for the use of stores and the Hall have amounted to considerable more than a fair rate of interest on the entire investment.

In addition to what is said in relation to schools on pp. 255 and 256, the parish records show that the first schoolhouse built at the expense of the parish was the one built in 1759, located about twenty-five rods north of the meeting-house (see ante, 255), and on the spot now occu- pied by the Potter house, - Daniel Potter's house at that time being located further east, on the higher ground. The location of this house was changed to near where the present house stands, just north of the old meeting-house site. It was there burnt in iSi6. A new one was erected, and made long enough for two schoolrooms, continuing to be used by District No. i till 1871, when it was sold to William Fullam and removed to the foot of Kittridge hill ; and the fine two-story schoolhouse now standing on nearly the same location was erected by the town at a cost of nearly $6,000. The town also built a new schoolhouse in No. 8 the same year, costing $1,860.

In 1847, the year after the destruction of the so-called Town House, the inhabitants of School District No. 2 purchased the Grove lot of Daniel Gilbert, Esq., for $1,000, and erected a schoolhouse thereon 42 X 64 feet, - a one-story building, 14 feet posts, containing two spacious rooms, and costing about $2,500. About four years later the house was raised, adding two more schoolrooms under the same roof.

About twenty-five years ago District No. 3 built a new house, and the other districts repaired or reconstructed their schoolhouses from time to time.

The first high-school house (a frame building) was built by the town in 1856, on land purchased of Dea. Tyler Batcheller, on Grove street, costing $8,000 or more. The lower story was used as a schoolroom, and the upper was finished off as a hall.

Somewhere about 1867 the hall was taken for a high-school room, and the lower story was rented to School District No. 2 for a schoolroom until i86g. This building was burnt May 14, 1878, the fire starting (probably) from the furnace in the basement, which was also occupied as an engine-house for the fire-engines and other apparatus of a kindred nature, and these were also mostly destroyed.

During the same year the present brick high-school house was erected by the town at a cost of $15,000 or more; and also the brick enginehouse near the District No. 2 Grove schoolhouse, so called.

School Districts

After the arrangement in 1765 {%tQ School Districts, ante, p. 256), the number of schoolhouses in the parish had increased to five; in 187 1 to six ; and sometime afterward another was added.

" At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Second Precinct in Brookfield on the 30th day of March, A.D. 1791, Voted Lieut. William Ayres Moderator. Voted to appoint a committee of nine men to take up the matter respecting schooling ; to consider the circumstances of all parts of the Precinct, and report to the Precinct the number of Districts that in their opinion will be most convenient, and to propose to the Precinct the division of the Districts. Voted that Lieut. William Ayres, Capt. Daniel Gilbert, Thomas Hale Esq., Capt. Jonas Brigham, Lieut. Jonas Newell, Daniel Forbes Esq., Capt. John Waite, Lieut. Isaac Church, and Mr. Rufus Hamilton be the committee."

Said committee reported Apr. 13, 1 791, recommending the division of the Precinct into six Districts. It was voted to accept and adopt the report, and the meeting was dismissed.

But so much dissatisfaction was found to exist, that a new meeting was called, and held Aug. 29, 1791, and a new committee of seven men was chosen, consisting of Benjamin Adams, Thomas Hale, Esq., Lieut. Jonas Newell, Mr. Jonas Bigelow, Daniel Forbes, Esq., Lieut. Isaac Church, and Lieut. Rufus Hamilton, to take up the matter at large respecting schooling, and report to the Precinct the number of Districts that in their opinion will be most convenient ; and to propose the limits of the same, endeavoring to make them as nearly equal as the nature of things will admit ; and that they report to the Precinct the particular spots or places where, in their opinion, the several schoolhouses ought to stand.

Sept. 26, 1 791, the committee reported ; but their report was debated and not accepted. Oct. 4, the same committee submitted their report, with alterations, which was accepted. They recommended that the schoolhouses by the meeting-house and by Samuel Cheever's, and the one by Theophilus Potter's, and by Nathan Moore's, and the one near Daniel Forbes', and the one near the house of William Ayres, 2d, should stand in the places where they now are, unless removed by an agreement of the District. They also recommended that the Southeast District should re-unite and remove their schoolhouse to the corner of the road near Mr. Thomas Hathaway's (now Loren G. Sherman's), which removal seems not to have ever taken place. The seven Districts were to consist of the following inhabitants ; viz., -

The Precinct ratified the doings of the committee ; and with the exception of the division of the Centre District into No. i and No. 2, in 1833, district lines remained substantially the same until 1869, when the district system, as such, was abolished by the town, under legislative authority, all the school-district property passing into the ownership of the town, the property having been appraised by a committee, as follows, to wit: District No. i, ^400 ; No. 2, $6,800 ; No. 3, $542 ; No. 4, $591 ; No. 5, $336 ; No. 6, $620 ; No. 7, $407 ; No. 8, $225 ; total, $9,921 ; to pay which sum a tax was assessed upon the whole town, with overlayings of $89.49, making a total tax of $10,010.49 ; on each poll $1.90 ; on each dollar 5 ^^ mills ; and from this tax there was remitted to each tax-payer his proportion of the appraised value of the school property in the district to which he belonged.

School Districts

In District No. 7, 41 polls; property tax-payers, Rufus Babcock, H. A. Belcher, George A. Bemis, Carlo R. Bemis, Louis Burno, Edward Cain, Michael Cain, Freeman R. Doane, Hiram Forbes, heirs of Dexter Forbes, William FuUam, Nathaniel Green, Mary Green, Horace Green, Thomas A. Harwood, George Harwood, Ethan A. Harwood, George Harwood (trustee), James Heffron, John Hoone, Timothy Horrigan, Persis Howe, Oliver Hinds, George Jackson, Charles E. Jenks, David W. Lane, Horace Spooner, Avilda B. Stoddard, Edwin M. Tucker, Moses Tyler, Josiah Whiting, Catherine B. Whiting, Nymphus M. Whiting, David L. Winslow, William E. Wright, Catherine J. Wright ; non-residents, T. J. Cowing (or his heirs), Elisha Drake, Pliny Forbes, Jesse Moulton, Abner Smith, heirs of O. A. Tomblin, Aaron Watson.

High School. 47 High School

As stated in the text, on page 277, a public high school was established in town in 1857. " For several years before this date," says Mr. T. C. Bates in an address delivered at the re-union of past and present members, Dec. 2, 1878, "there had been in the town, occasionally, what were called select schools. These were of a higher grade than our common schools, and were maintained by those who patronized them, a certain sum being paid per term by the scholars to the teacher, who received no money from the town. Some of these were very superior schools, and productive of great good. Many of those present to-night, will remembei'the excellent school of Rev. William Miller; and although this was prior to the establishment of our high school, it is doubtful if any person who has ever taught in our town, with perhaps a single exception, was more popular with both scholars and parents than Mr. Miller. The single exception to which I refer, is Mr. O. W. Whitaker, the first principal of our high school. Without doubt it was from the great interest which these select schools inspired among our people generally, that our high school was first established and sustained at the expense of the town by taxation, in the same manner all our public schools were maintained. There was evident need for such a school here, not occasionally a term during the fall or spring, but continuously, from year to year. Many of our people who were very desirous of giving their children a better education than they could obtain in our common schools, did not have the means with which to carry out their wishes ; and to such an extent was this sentiment pervading the town, that it did not require much of an effort to secure a vote to establish such an institution here \Vi permanent form, to be maintained at the expense of the people as a whole by general taxation. Accordingly, a high-school house was built in 1856-7, at a cost of $9,225.

" There were men, of course, who criticised the investment, and seriously questioned the advisability ; some from one motive, and some from another. Some tax payers had no children to be educated, and opposed the appropriations from year to year by the town. Others lived far from the centre village, and deemed it improbable that they would ever get sufficient advantages to justify their cheerfully submitting to taxation for educating the children of others. But as a whole, the people of North Brookfield have been very liberal in their appropriations for this purpose, having expended since the school was first started the sum of ^20,711 to maintain it, not including the cost the present year of $2,000, which, added to the first cost of the building, makes a total of $29,936. The cost of the new building, to take the place of the one destroyed by fire, will be about $7,000 in excess of the amount received for insurance on the old one. Thus it will be seen that there has been up to the present time, an outlay by the town of about $40,000 to establish and maintain for twenty years our high school.

" In this time there have been fourteen principals and eight assistants, and about seven hundred different scholars. And what is the visible result ? One of our number has attained to eminence as a lawyer, and is the present city solicitor of Worcester - I refer to F. T. Blackmer, Esq. ; another is sure to make his mark in the same line - I refer to Henry W. King, now in the Law school at Cambridge ; we have sent forth three physicians, viz., Drs. George Spooner, Will. Hebard and Eben Perkins ; three are clergymen, viz. Rev. Edwin Babcock, Charles Huntington and Robert Clark ; two are bankers, E. W. Skerry in Iowa, and Alfred Burrill in Boston ; one, Alonzo Stoddard, is a singer of national reputation. Many young lady graduates have already acquired praiseworthy renown as teachers in our public schools. And every part of our United States is to-day receiving benefits from the former students of this school.

" Who can ever estimate the great advantages of this institution thus far in our community, socially and morally, as well as in an educational point of view? No one. Its benefits have been manifold, and its cost is most amply repaid to our people, in ways that may not be easily demonstrated in detail - but are none the less real."

The school committee in their Report for 1878 say : "The high school building was burnt May 14, and a new brick house has been erected on its site. It has double the seating capacity of the old one. . . . Through the liberality of T. C. Bates, Esq., an excellent bell was placed in the tower, soon after its completion. Principal C. M. Clay closed the fourth year of his service, and was succeeded by Mr. D. N. Putney, who resigned at the close of the first term, and the committee have engaged Mr. R. B. Clarke."

1879. - The town made a special appropriation of $500, for the purchase of apparatus for the high school. " The school is well supplied in the department of Physics, and has an excellent cabinet case in which to keep the apparatus." Teachers this year : Mr. R. B. Clarke, Miss Emily Edson.

1880. - The town appropriated the sum of ^1,200, to finish and furnish two rooms in the high-school building ; and at a special meeting " voied, to elevate the L in the rear, in order to give an exit on that side from all the rooms " - which was done at a cost of $355.

i88r. - The school committee in their annual Report say: "High School - In addition to a preparatory course for college, a course of English studies has been prescribed, in order that pupils not wishing to pursue a college course may have the privilege of receiving the benefit of a three-years English course in the High School, without being compelled to study Latin and Greek, or leave the school. A class of the ninth grade is still in the school, so that the aggregate number of pupils is fifty-two. Without this class, and the English department, the school would contain only twenty-six members."

1882. - "The course of study in the High School has been revised and completed. The General Course has been much changed and enlarged. Instead of the three years course, a full course of four years has been substituted. It seemed manifestly unjust that those who do not care to pursue the study of Latin and Greek through the whole course, should be cut off from the benefits of equal training, along their chosen line, with those who preferred the Classical Course. And, on the other hand, it was equally unjust, and also detrimental to the interests and to the reputation of our schools, that those who had taken but a partial course of three years should receive the same graduating honors, and a certificate of Hke attainments as those who had done the work and received the discipHne of a full course. The natural limit of time for recitation forbids as wide a divergence in the two courses as we could wish ] and as far as possible they are made to harmonize during the two first years. After the first half of the second year, Latin is dropped from the General Course, and higher English branches take its place.

With the present possibilities of lower grade instruction, it is impossible to fit students properly for college in the four years of High School study. It seemed best, therefore, to add a year of post-graduate study for such as would like to pursue a college course."

1884. - The scliool year opened with Mr. Kittridge and Miss Ayres in charge of the high school. Mr. K. resigned in the middle of the winter term, much to the regret of the committee and parents. The committee in their report say : " For the good work done, and the noble influences exerted here, great honor and praise are due to Mr. Kittridge, and to his equally able and faithful assistant Miss Edith J. Ayres." Mr. Charles O. Thurston was appointed to fill the place of Mr. K. Number of pupils enrolled, 66.

1885. - Miss Ayres continued her services through the year. Mr. Thurston resigned at the close of the spring term, and Mr. George H. Rockwood was appointed principal, and remained till the close of the year. The number of weeks in the school year, 40 ; number of scholars enrolled, 60; average attendance, 57. Amount of salaries paid the two teachers, $1,729.

Dewing & Edmands

Referring to ante, p. 275, we will give a somewhat fuller and more accurate statement in regard to the business of this firm and tlieir successors, than the facts then at hand enabled us to do. Their business was next in amount and importance to that of the Messrs. Balcheller. The firm consisted of G. B. Dewing and S. S. Edmands ; they commenced business in 1835 at the old Edmands place in the east part of the town, but continued there only a few months, when they removed to the village, and occupied a shop north of the old hotel on the corner where the "Knights of Labor" store now is (1887) ; and after being there two years, they moved into the large three-story shop which they had built on the lot just south of the old hotel, where the "Walker Block " now stands. Here they very much increased their business, making only russet brogans and coarse, thick boots, designed especially for the Southern trade. In i S3 7, to increase and facihtate their trade, they established a boot-and-shoe house in Mobile, Ala., where they had a large trade with the planters along the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, furnishing boots and shoes for their slaves, many of whom had feet of enormous size; and their measures, marked "Tom," " Pete," " Sam," "Joe," etc., were sent on here, and the shoes made and sent on, with each measure inside the shoes with the name. Some of these shoes were made on a last, size 18. Mr. Edmands remembers one pair of shoes of this size, said to be for a slave on a Mississippi plantation, who was formerly an African chief. Mr. Dewing usually spent his winters in Mobile. The firm continued in successful business till 1S50, when, having decided to retire, they sold their shop and the good-will of their trade to S. M. Edmands tS: Co., who succeeded to their business Oct. i, 1850. This company consisted of S. M. Edmands, T. M. Duncan, and L. E. Waite ; but Mr. Waite, having become interested in business at the West, decided to go there, and consequently withdrew from the firm in the spring of 185 1. This company manufactured russet brogans (slaveshoes) exclusively, and the great bulk of their goods were sold direct to customers in New Orleans and Mobile, and the balance to jobbinghouses in New York engaged in the Southern trade ; but experience proved that the per cent of losses was much greater on goods sold at New York than those sold direct South. In 185 1 the firm sold only forty thousand dollars' worth of goods ; but their trade rapidly increased from year to year, and, feeling the need of more room, they built in 1856 a much larger and more commodious shop nearly opposite Capt. Bonum Nye's on Summer Street, to which they removed in the latter part of 1856 ; and on Aug. i of this year Charles Duncan became a partner in the firm, in which he continued till near the close of i860, when he sold his interest to the other members of the company, and retired. In 1S59 the sales of the company amounted to a hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars ; but soon after the presidential election in the fall of i860, which resulted in the election of Lincoln, the South became enraged, and secession very soon began. State after State seceded, and all business relations with the slave States were at once terminated ; and if any of the merchants there were disposed to pay their Northern creditors, they were strictly prohibited from doing so ; and thus the enormous amounts due to Northern merchants and manufacturers became entirely unavailable so long as the rebellion existed ; and the long and terrible war so impoverished the whole South that all Northern claims were thus almost entirely wiped out. Previous to the war, manufacturers sold nearly all their goods on a credit of six or eight months, and at the breaking-out of the Rebellion this company had claims amountiiig to upwards of ninety thousand dollars against good customers in New

Orleans, Mobile, and one or two other smaller Southern cities, in full settlement of which they received less than twelve thousand dollars after the close of the war ; but the firm paid all their indebtedness, and continued their business with a greatly reduced capital, making mostly, after the war, boots for the New York and Western markets. Mr. E. H. Hurlbut, who had been in the employ of the company ever since it commenced business in 1850, was admitted as a partner Jan. i, 1866, and the firm name was changed to Edmands, Duncan, & Hurlbut ; and the company thus continued with very satisfactory success till Dec. 9, 187 1, when their shop and all its contents was destroyed by fire, and the company was dissolved early in 1872.

Additional to what is said {ante, p. 275) in relation to the business of Messrs. E. & A. H. Batcheller & Co., the History Committee are permitted to give the following: In 1886 the number of persons employed was thirteen hundred, and the amount of sales of manufactured goods for that year about three millions of dollars.

They also own and occupy the box factory and last and crimping form factory on Walnut Street, the building on Grove Street known as the " Jenks Shop," and the " Skating Rink " ( 120 by 60 feet on the ground) on Summer Street ; and they also hire for storage purposes the large four-story shop of Edmands & Co. on the same street.

For upwards of a quarter of a century this has been the largest boot and shoe manufacturing concern in the United States ; and it maintains that position to-day, both as to the quantity and value of boots and shoes annually produced.

Introductory

" The work of collecting the genealogical records, which was intrusted to me, has been constantly pursued now for more than three years and a half. The progress during the last year has been less rapid than in other previous years ; but in reality much more has been accomplished, than in any other year ; not in the number of family schedules filled out, but in matters of history connected with them, and with those before obtained, all of which is essential to the work in hand. These matters of genealogy, and of history incidental to them, in which I have been deeply interested, are now in as satisfactory condition to me as they ever can be. There is much that is unattainable now, and would continue to be so, even if additional years should be devoted to the work.

I hope, however, before the schedules leave my custody, that I may be authorized to get them bound in a suitable manner - they have all been carefully copied - and when bound, that the two sets may be deposited in different places, in order to avoid casualties by fire.

To some it may seem unnecessary to bind these schedules, inasmuch as the printed History may be supposed to embrace all that is valuable in them : but it will not ; many things are recorded in them, to publish which would swell the volume beyond any reasonable size. There are many things of strictly personal and local interest, but which would not be of interest to the general reader. And much contained in them may be greatly condensed without detracting from its historic value.

In accordance with the suggestion in the above Report, the town voted to bind the schedules, as arranged in alphabetical order : and they make ten bulky quarto volumes, one set of which is deposited in the town clerk's office, where they may be consulted for the purposes of family history.

In Trod Uctor V.

The plan of this Register is simple. A heavy-faced numeral attached to a family name indicates that the person is the head of a line ; and his children and descendants, if they are to appear as fathers of families, have each his consecutive number, by which he can be traced, either forward or backward in the line. If no figure follows a child's name, his branch is not farther traced.

Genealogical Kegiste

ADAMS, William 1 (of Ipswich), was of Cambridge as early as 1635 ; removed to Ipswich, where he was a commoner in 1641 ; a farmer, and d. 1661 ; his widow was living 1681. Children, William, d. Ipswich, Jan. 18, 1659, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Stacey, who d. 1655. They had three sons, one of whom, Rev. William, b.

4. Benjamin, son of Thomas 3, settled in Marlboro; removed about 173S, to North Brookfield ; built where his grandson, Col. William lived; d. Sept. 15, 1785.

10. William, son of Deacon Benjamin 5, b. Mar. 20, 1789, d. Feb. 26, 1S7 1; colonel. He held at different times all the principal parish and town offices ; justice of the peace 40 years, representative three terms, postmaster, rose through the military grades to the rank of colonel. He m. (i) June 13, 1819, Adah Forbes, d. Nov. 13, 1852 ; (2) June 23, 1856, Mrs. Dulcena B. Bishop. Children, William Forbes, b. Mar. 4, 1820 19 ; Thomas Edwin, b. Jan. 2, 1824 20.

11. Thomas, son of Deacon Benjamin 5, b. Feb. 7, 1792 ; fitted for college with Dr. Snell, and at Leicester Academy ; graduated Dartmouth College 1814 ; studied Theology with Dr. Snell; licensed Sept. 1816, and Oct. 1817, appointed Missionary to the District of Maine; ordained Vassalboro, Aug. 26, 1818, and dismissed 1834 ; settled Waterville, 1835, dismissed 1838; engaged in Temperance work in Maine and Massachusetts; went 1S46 to Hampton, O., where he learned the German language, and preached to that people. In 1862 returned to Maine; d. Winslow, Feb. 4, 1881, but buried in Vassalboro, where a chapel called the "Adams Memorial Chapel," was erected and dedicated Oct. 31, 1883, to his memory. He m. (i) June 13, 1819, Sarah, daughter of Joshua Barnard, who d. Vassalboro, June 18, 1821, aged 25; {2) Sept. 3, 1822, Lavina, daughter of William Swan of Winslow, d. July 15, 1826, aged 29; (3) Aug. 16, 1827, Catherine S., daughter of Caleb Lyman of Woodstock, Vt., d. Nov. 28, 1870. Children, Thomas B., b. May 3, 1820, d. New York City, 1875, unmarried ; Benjamin H., b. June 10, 1821, d. young ; Sarah B., b. June 22, 1824; William Swan, b. Oct. 24, 1828, assistant editor New York Sun, d. Apr. 22, 1877 ; m. Nov. 1867, Mary Agnes Hunt; Edwin Francis, b. Dec. 30, 1839, 21.

Genealogical Register

ADAMS (of Quincy), Henry 1, came from England to America, as stated by some, about 1630, and settled at Braintree (now Quincy), Mass. President John Adams, who erected a monument to his memory, says on it that he came from Devonshire, Eng. President John Quincy Adams believed that he came from Braintree, Essex Co., Eng., about 1634. The monument alluded to is in the old cemetery in Quincy, and bears the following inscription : -

"In Memory of Henry Adams who took his flight from the dragon persecution in devonshire in england and alighted with eight sons, NEAR Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England, and

" This stone and several others have been placed in this yard, by a great-great-grandson, from a veneration of the piety, humility, sim- PLICITY, prudence, PATIENCE, TEMPERANCE, FRUGALITY, INDUSTRY AND PERSEVERANCE OF HIS ANCESTORS, IN HOPES OF RECOMMENDING AN IMITATION OF THEIR VIRTUES TO THEIR POSTERITY."

The name of his wife is unknown, not being mentioned in his will, probated June 8, 1647. He d. Oct. 1646, and was buried on the eighth of the month. Children, Henry, b. Englai d, 1604 ; removed to Medfield, where he was the first town clerk; was killed by the Indians Feb. 2, 1676, near his own doorway. M. 1643, Elizabeth Paine, who, on the same date of her husband's death, being at the house of Rev. Mr. Wilson, lying upon a bed in the chamber, was mortally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a Capt. Jacob, who was with several soldiers in the room below, the ball penetrating the ceiling and floor above, into her body. Seven children, Thomas, b. England 1612 ; m. Mary Blackmer of Braintree; removed first to Concord, thence to Chelmsford, where he was Commissioner for the Court of Chelmsford, 1667 ; d. 16S8 ; Samttel, b. England, 1617; resided in Concord, Charlestown, and thence 1654, removed to Chelmsford, where he d. 1666. [A Capt. Samuel Adams, said to have been a brother of Thomas, was chosen Commissioner for the Court of Chelmsford, 1667.] He m. (i) Rebecca Graves; (2) Esther Sparhawk ; yonatkan,h.'Rng\2Lnd, 1619; settled in Medfield; m. (i) Elizabeth ; (2) Mary ; Peter, b. England, 1622 ; removed to Medfield, and m.

Braintree ; was a maltster and made freeman, 1653 ; chosen selectman, Apr. 10, 1673 > was great grandfather of President John Adams ; m. Nov. 26, 1650, Abigail, daughter of Gregory Baxter, who d. Aug. 27, 1692 ; he d. Dec. 6, 1694, and was buried in the family ground at Quincy. His monument is that alluded to, in the inscription on his father's tombstone, " WHO LIES here at his left hand " ; Edward, b. England, 1630 2; Ursula, named in her father's will, which is all known of her at present.

2. Edward, son of Henry 1, b. England, 1630; removed to Medfield, where he was much employed in public affairs ; was an ensign, and for several years selectman; also Representative in the first two General Courts after the deposition of to have settled in Milton; John,\). Dec. 22, 16S4, resided in Medway; Danie!, b. Jan. 12, 1686, resided in West Medway ; Eleazer, b. Sept. 22, 16S7, lived in Medway ; Obadiah, b. Jan. 28, 1689, lived in Medway; yonathaji, b. about 1692, lived in Medway ; Thomas ; Children by 2d wife Susanna : Thomas, b. Feb. 5, 1695, resided in Ashford, Ct., and Amherst; Susanna, h. 1697; Jeremiah, b. July 13, 1699, and settled in Brookfield; m. Mclntire of Needham ; Abrahatn, b. Aug. i, 1701 4;

27, 1744; Josiah, b. July 5, 1746, m. July 21, 1768, Nancy Sampson of Sturbridge; had a son Josiah, thence rtmoved to New York State, and had other children ; Siisaniia, b. Nov. 3, 174S; Patience, b. Dec. 19, 1750, probably m. Dec. i, 176S, Reuben Lamb of Spencer; Obadiah, was killed 1776, at Dorchester, in the Revolutionary war; Jesse, b. June 20, 1755 5. A Mary Adams m. May 4, 1767, Emerson Woolcott. Another Mary m. Jan. 1762, Erastus Hamilton, and still another m. Nov. 20, 1775, Robert Stevenson. A Susanna Adams m. Feb. 15, 1776, Isaac Lackey of Spencer.

5. Jesse, son of Abraham 4, b. June 20, 1755, m. Oct. 11, 1781, Miriam Richardson of Brookfield, who d. Sept. 29, 1843, aged 81 years; he d. Sept. 24, 1827. He was a patriot and soldier in the Revolutionary war, and after an eight months' service in the militia, in 1776, he enlisted in Capt. Asa Danforth's Company, Col. Learned's Regiment, and served one year in the Massachusetts Line; was also engaged in another eight months' service, and was at the capture of Burgoyne. At the expiration of his term of service, he received an honorable discharge, and was granted a pension, $8 per month, from Dec. 8, 1S19; his widow also became a recipient of $40 per annum, from Mar. 4, 1836, which was increased to $76.88 from Mar. 4, 1843. He m. Oct. 11, 1781, Miriam Richardson of Brookfield, who d. Sept. 29, 1843, aged 81 years ; he d. Sept. 24, 1827. Children, Charles, b. Feb. 13, 1782 6 ; Asa, b. Dec. 17, 1783, resides in Brookfield, m. (1) Sept. 11, 1808, Cynthia Brown; (2) Feb. 19, 1837, widow Betsey Curtis, b. Mar. 27, 1804, d. Stockbridge, Nov. 14, 1867 ; Silas, b. Oct. 18, 1786 or '87, m. Mar. 12, 1812, Tirzah Morey of Sturbridge, who d. at Shelburne Falls; he d. Brookfield, July 29, 1842; Esther, b. Aug. 23 or

6. Charles, son of Jesse 5, b. Rrookfielcl, Feb. 13, 1782; a physician, and was educated at the common district school in Brookfield, and at Leicester Academy. After teaching a year or two at Half Moon, N.Y., he entered the office of Dr. Asa Walker of Barre as a medical student, where he devoted himself to three years' hard study, and one year's practice with Dr. Walker. On the decease of Dr. Cleaves at Antrim, N.H., he removed thither, began an independent professional career, lasting nine years, when, in 1816, on the death of Dr. Seth Fobes of Oakham, Mass., he removed to that place, where he resided until his decease, making in all nearly seventy years of continuous medical practice. He m. Feb. 13, iSog, Sarah McAllister of Antrim, N.H., who d. Oakham Dec. 5, 186S ; he d. Mar. 6, 1875. Children, Charles, b. Jan. 31, iSio 7 ; Austin, b. Antrim, June 23, 181 1, m. (i) Apr. 23, 1843, Charlotte Noyes of Oakham, (2) Oct. 14, 1846, Almira Stearns of Oakham; Charlotte, b. Antrim, May 21, 18 13, m. Nov. i, 1835, John F. Howard of Boston, and d. at Oakham, Oct. 14, 1849 ! Lyman, b. Antrim, Apr. i, 1815, m. Sarah Brown of Baltimore, and d. New Orleans, Mar. 18, 1859; Levi, b. Oakham, Mar. 7, 1817 8; Horace, h. Oct. 9, 1819, d. Apr. 4, 1849; Clarinda, b. Nov. 17, 1823, m. Nov. 12, 1846, George W. Ellis of Boston, who d. Nov. 22, 1884; John, b. Apr. 4, 1827, m. Oct. 14, 1S60, Marietta Pierce.

7. Charles, son of Dr. Charles 6, b. Antrim, N.H., Jan. 31, iSio. He came to North Brookfield from Ware, in Sept. 1832 ; was- clerk in the store of S. H. Skerry & Co., until Apr. 1S33, then entered as bookkeeper in the counting-room of T. & E. Batcheller & Walker, where he remained until 1851 (the firm changing in 1834 to T. & E. Batcheller), when he became a member of the firm of T. & E. B. & Co., continuing in active business until Jan. i, i860, when he retired to private life. He built his house in 1839 ; as a public servant he has been honored and trusted with some of the most prominent official positions of the town and State ; was Town Clerk 10 yrs., 1836-1846 ; some time Clerk of First Congregational Society; Representative to State Legislature, 1850-1-2 and 62 ; State Senator, 1865-6-77 and 78 ; member of Executive Council, 1867-8-9 and 70 ; Treasurer and Receiver General of the Commonwealth, 187 1-2-3-4 and 5; Justice of the Peace since 1S52; member of the Baltimore (Presidential) Convention in 1864; Commissioner of the Norwich and W^orcester Railroad Sinking Fund ; President of North Brookfield Savings Bank fifteen or more years ; Trustee of the Appleton Library and Fund from its foundation in 1859; town assessor, besides having been on numerous important committees. He m. May 8, 1S34, Eliza Cummings of Ware, and d. Apr. 19, 1886. Children, Joseph Charles, b. North Brookfield, July 9, 1835, d. Sept. 9, 1836; Charles Woodburn, b. Apr. 13, 1838 9; Ellen Eliza, b. Sept. 22, 1839, m. June 20, 1866, Frank A. Smith, and d. July 26, 1S66; Jolin Quincy, b. Apr. 22, 1843 10; George Arthur, b. Nov. 13, 1848 11.

8. Levi, Deacon, son of Dr. Charles 6, b. Oakham, Mar. 17, 1817. Deacon Adams had a thorough common school education, and afterwards studied with Rev. Asa Hixon and Rev. Leonard Parker (then ministers of Oakham), and subsequently attended at Leicester Academy two terms under Preceptors Richards and Spooner ; then for several years engaged in teaching, first in Oakham and Rutland, afterwards in Montgomery and Bloomingburg, N.Y. ; still later in Dorchester and Northampton, Mass. A few of the last years of his life he was bookkeeper for T. & E. Batcheller, and eventually failing health obliged him to relinquish all business cares, and seek retirement in more private avocations. Nov. 2, 1854, he was chosen Deacon of the First Congregational Church, and continued in office until his decease ; was Town and Parish Clerk from 1855 to i860, and Representative to

Legislature 1856. He was highly respected, and of whom it miciht be said, "he had not an enemy in the world." In 1S52, for the benefit of his health, he made a voyage to Europe, visiting Russia, Sweden, Denmark, England, France, &c., and wrote several very interesting letters during his absence (see Rev. C. Cushing's sermon at his funeral, Aug. 15, i860). He. m. (i) Aug. 14, 1S45, Sarah L., daughter of Oliver Ward, b. Sept. 20, 1819, d. Sept. 21, 1849; (-) May 16, 1854, Clara McFarland Dwight of Belchertown ; no issue ; he d. Aug. 10, i860.

9. Charles Woodburn, son of Charles 7, b. North Brookfield, Apr. 13, 1838 ; many years cashier and bookkeeper for the Messrs. Batcheller ; Justice of the Peace seven years, and Commissioner to qualify civil officers since 1870; m. Apr. 25, 1861, Sarah C. Poland of North Brookfield. Children, Charles Joseph, b. Feb. 10, 1866, d. same day; Ellen Eliza, b. Jan. 15, 1868; Katherine Sarah, b. Aug. 18, 1S69, d. Feb. I, 1870; Marion Sarah, b. July 8, 187 1, d. Sept. 10, 1S72 ; Charles Joseph, b. Jan. 23, 1874; Mary Woodburn, b. Mar. 2, 1880.

10. John Quincy, son of Charles 7, b. Apr. 22, 1S43 ; for many years in the office of the State Treasurer as bookkeeper, and subsequently as chief clerk ; resides in Auburndale; m. Feb. 14, 1867, Sarah L. Smith. Children, Jane Harrington, b. North I^rookfield, May 29, 1870 ; Sally McAllister, b. Hillside, Roxbury, Feb. 14, 1873; Alice Eliza, b. North Brookfield, Mar. 12, 1875; John Charles Arthur, b. Auburndale (Newton), Sept. 19, 1S82 ; Donald Augustus, b. Sept. 3, 1885.

11. George Arthur, son of Charles 7, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 13, 1848; has been a Clerk, and later, a Music Teacher ; m. May 18, 1875, Mary L. Ingraham of Worcester. Child, Arthur Itigraham, b. Nov. 26, 18S3.

AIKENS, AKINS, James, had a grant of So acres next north of Jabez Olmstead, in 1717, and later of 79 acres, afterwards known as the Cheever place. He m. Oct. 15, 17 18, Mary Gibbs of Brookfield. Child, Mercy, b. Jan. 3, 1721.

ALLARD, Peter 1, was of Huguenot parentage. Late in the last century he, his wife Patiencg (Crafts), and their family joined a colony and settled the town of Woodstock, Vt. Child, Jonathan, b. July 12, 1773 2.

2. Jonathan, son of Peter 1, b. Woodstock, Ct., July 12, 1773; farmer, miller, hatchet and wrought nail maker ; probably removed from Bellows Falls to Oakham about 1807, and thence in 1818 to North Brookfield wh^re he bought of Isaac Hunter his first estate, on which he built a house, - sold it and purchased the lot adjoining the old Batcheller place (since occupied by Daniel R. Knight), where Winslow Bryant now lives. Previous to his marriage he was a surveyor, a teacher in Ballston and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where, his son says, he owned a valuable property. He m. (i) Aug. 19, 179S, Liania Loomis of Vermont, who d. July 2, 1803; (2) Apr. 6, 180S, widow Sally Thayer of Oakham, Mass., who d. in Morenci, Mich., May 9, 1S66; he d. Dec. 8, 1S53, in Virginia, Cass County, 111. Children, Clara, b. Vermont, Oct. 14, 1799, d. June 22, 1803 ; Clara, b. Vermont, July 2, 1803 ; Liania Lavinia, b. Oakham, Jan. 25, 1809, d. Sept. 22, 18 10; John Parmenter, b. do., Feb. 7, 1811 3; Liania Goodell,h. June 22, 1813; m. Apr. 21, 1836, Davidson Barr, d. Spencer, Oct. 16, 1841 (see Barr) ; Catherine Lois, b. Dec. 12, 1815, m. Orson Barker of Morenci, Mich., and d. there in 1879 5 Luther Stockwell, b. North Brookfield, Aug. 29, 1822 4 ; Sarah Ann, b. North Brookfield, May 31, 1828, m. Philander Barker of Morenci, Mich., where she d. Oct. 2, i86r.

3. John Parmenter, son of Jonathan 2, b. Oakham, Feb. 7, iSii ; was a lawyer, trader, surveyor, engineer, etc. ; was educated in the common schools, and a student at Greenfield and Deerfield academies ; taught schools ; went west and was appointed deputy surveyor for the N. W. District; worked at the laying out of Grand

Haven and Grand Rapids, Mich., about 1837 ; afterwards settled at Allegan, Mich., where he engaged some in law practice, also, in boating, and wooden ware business and general merchandise including the establishment of a flour mill ; d. here Oct. 14, 1845; "^- F^b- 7> '840, Susan E. Abbott of Allegan. Child, Eliza, b. Jan. 1845.

4. Luther Stockwell, son of Jonathan 2, b. North Brookfield, Aug. 29, 1822. Editor and lawyer in Hot Springs, Ark.; received a common school education in North Brookfield ; left there in the winter of 1836 in charge of Mr. Amos Bowker to go to his brother John, who was on U.S. survey in Michigan ; travelled the whole distance in a vehicle which, one side up was a wagon, the other side up was a sleigh ; stopped a while near Buffalo, then the scene of the "Patriot" war; witnessed the bombardment of Navy Island by the British and resumed his journey to Michigan, where he remained a year, and returned to Massachusetts whence, after two years' schooling, he once more visited Michigan and entered Allegan Academy. After finishing his course of studies there, he went to Chicago, and made the acquaintance of Gen. John C. Fremont, who was then about starting on his first western expedition, and engaged his services as first assistant topographical engineer. After a short experience, his health failed him and he returned to St. Louis ; went south, taught school and penmanship ; returned to Michigan, studied and practised medicine ; was in the Mexican war under Scott - and took part in the late Rebellion; withal, like unto his brother John he has experienced one grand round of miscellaneous and varied business occupations not often the-common lot of man. He m. Oct. 3, 1S49, Miss S. F. Payne of Virginia, 111. Children (b. Virginia, 111.) Henry Clarence, b. Aug. 30, 1850; editor and publisher at Fort Smith, Ark.; Ellen Isabel, b. Apr. I, 1852, m. John Wolfington of Virginia, 111. ; May Eliza, b. Nov. 21, 1855; Williatn P., b. Mar. 17, 1857, d. Sept. 29, 1861 ; John Jesse, b. Sept. 5, 1858 ; Sarah Catherine, b. Feb. 5, i860; Luther Stockwell, b. Nov. 14, 1861, a local editor; U. S. Grant, b. Mar. 4, 1S69.

ALLEN, Israel 1, came from Shrewsbury, in 1783 ; a soldier in the Revolution, and was in the fight at Bunker Hill. His children were Silas 2, Ivory, Jemima, Jtitiia, Ashbell and Alvin, b. Jan. i, 1784 or 5 3.

5. Harvey, son of Silas 2, b. Spencer, Nov. 19, 182S; enlisted in the Fortysecond Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and d. of disease contracted in the service; m. Nov. 27, 1S50, Mary Ann Gilbert, d. July 14, 1865. Children, Charles Warren, b. Dec. 13, 1856, d. Oct. 11, 1857 ; Carrie Louise, b. July 6, 1862.

12. Arnold (illegitimate), came from Oakham about 181 5, when eight years of age, and was brought up by Charles A. Knovvlton. In 1S31 he engaged in farming in the employ of Deacon T. Batcheller, and next year went into a shoe shop ; m. May I, 1834, Lucy L. King, and d. Oct. 18, 1835.

AMSDEN, Hartwell 1, b. Southboro, 1S21 ; m. Harriet Danforth of Connecticut, b. New York State, 1818. Children, /da, b. Northboro, 1847, m. 1878, Frank

The only one of the sons of Sergt. John, who returned to Brookfield at the Re- Settlement was Joseph 4, who had grants of land in Brookfield as follows : in 17 13, sixty acres ;

4. Ebenezer, who received grants, in all of four hundred and thirty-four acres; he in. 1 7 ID, Dorcas Getchell of Salisbury; no children on record.

5. John, called on the records "John, Sen.," came to Brookfield 17 14; received grants, in all of two hundred and ninety-five acres ; wife Elizabeth ; child recorded in Brookfield, Hannah, b. July 9, 1715, d. Oct. 31, 1725. Probably other children were born earlier, at Newbury.

1841 ; published (i) Sept. 28, 1800, to Betsey Richmond of Brookfield, d. Oct. 17, 1808; m. (2) Feb. i, 1810, Persis, daughter of Jude Ayers 11, and Sally (Babbitt), b. 17S9. Children [first wife], Betsey, b. North Brookfield, Aug. 8, 1801, m. Sept. 18, 1827, George W. Morse of Leicester, and d. East Brookfield; Sally, b. Sept. 5, 1806; was an illeg. daughter of Persis Ayers, prior to her m. with Mr. Babbitt; called respectively Sally Babbitt and Sally Ayres ; her father was James Allen ; m. Danforth Chapman of Ashford, Ct ; [-.econd wife], Pascail, b. Aug. 17, 1810, d. Aug. 25, following ; Omacinda,h. Enfield, Oct. 4, 1811, m. Elijah Allen of Ware; Celia, b. Warren, Julv 12, 1S12, m. Ephraim Burr of Providence, R.L ; Mary Ann, b. do., June 29, 1815, m. Samuel Fairbanks (Hill) of Spencer; Tryphosa, b. July 2, i8r7; m. Sept. 16, 1836, Henry Graves of North Brookfield; Benjamin, b. North

3. William Jones, son of Benjamin 1, b. Warren, June 25, 1823; member of 'Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers in the civil war; m. Nov. 1843, Caroline M.

4. James Ayres, son of Benjamin 1, b. Warren, July 25, 1828, m. May 22, 1850, Hannah, daughter of Apollos Redding of Ware (who lost both hands blasting rocks), d. Ware about i860. Child, a daughter d. infancy.

BACON, John, jr., 1, resided between the Rowland F. Doane and Deacon Moore place, on the lot north side of the present road (see old cellar hole). He and first wife were early members of Second Precinct Church; was deacon Oct. 3, 1766. Church Records allude to his death without date. He m. (i) Mar. 25, 1763, widow Mary Olds of Brookfield, d. Aug. 30, 1779; (2) July 25, 17S1, widow Alice Leach of Oakham. Child, Reuben, b. Brookfield, Dec. 8, 1763.

2. Thomas, probably brother of John, jr. 1 ; he and wife were members of Second Precinct Church ; m. Feb. 3, 1775, Hepzibah Boutelle of Brookfield. Children, Betsey, b. Brookfield, June 28, 1777, d. July 31, 1779; Betsey, b. Nov. 11, 1779.

BAILEY, Horace, b. Berlin, Mass., 1794; lived where Nathaniel Smith (who bought of him) resided for many years ; removed to Berlin and thence to Westboro, where he d. Mar. 2, 1870; m. 1816, Elizabeth Whitney of Bolton, Mass. Children, Frederick, b. Berlin, 1817 ; Alvina W., b. North Brookfield, Oct. 2, 1824, m. George Fisher of Westboro ; Alfred T., b. Berlin, 18 19, d. young. -

BALDWIN. [An Old Testament, printed 1707, now in the family of Ebenezer Parkman, contains the following Record : Henry Baldwin of Woburn m. Abigail

3. Jeduthan, son of Isaac 2, settled in North Brookfield ; lived on the site of a house now a part of the Big Shop ; a leading man in the Second Precinct affairs, as well as in Town affairs; captain in expedition against Crown Point, Sept. 15 to Nov. 27, 1755; assistant engineer, Cambridge, Mar. 16, 1776; lieutenant-colonel, Apr. 16, 1776; engineer with rank of colonel, Sept. 3, 1776; served at Ticonderoga ; at West Point with regiment of artificers in Oct. 1780; and in various other service in the army; resigned his commission Apr. 26, 1782. He was a member of the Provincial Congress 1774-5; ^^^^ °"^ °^ ^^^ original subscribers of ;^ioo to the Fund of Leicester Academy ; d. June 4, 178S. He m. Apr. 28, 1757, Lucy Parkman, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer of Westboro, who m. (2) Nov. 13, 1793, ^^^'^- Eli Forbes, then of Gloucester. Children, Jeduthan, b. July 10, 1758, killed Oct. 31, 1763; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 12, 1761, m. Feb. 2t, 1789, Wheat Gilbert; Isaac, b. Mar. 31, 1764, d. Apr. I, 1783; Z//r)', b. Jan. 6, 1767, d. young ; Luke,\>. Apr. 14, 1769, m. Sept. 8, 1789, Polly Avery of Boston (b Apr. 21, 1770), and settled in the West Parish.

BALL, Daniel, son of Benjamin of Framingham, and grandson of John of Watertown, was b. in Framingham, Dec. 29, 1722, where he s'ettled ; came to Brookfield 1752. He m. (i) Aug. 25, 174S, Patience Gleason of Framingham; (2) 1772, Elizabeth Prouty of Spencer. Children, Daniel, b. Framingham, Apr. 9, 1749; Abigail, b. Mar. 4, 1751; Ebenezer, b. Brookfield, Mar. 3, 1753; MartJia,h. Apr. 24, 1755; Benjamin Gott, b. May 6, 1757, m. Dec. 4, 1783, Huldah Hatfield of Brook-

Jacob, brother of Daniel, b. May 28, 1712, bought in Brookfield, Aug. 17, 1740, a hundred and thirty-one acres of Samuel Owen of Quabin, which he sold, 1741, to his brother Thomas, and returned to P'ramingham.

2. Benjamin, son of Thomas 1, settled Leverett. He m. 1774, Jerusha Woodbury of Sunderland. Children, Benjamin ; a physician ; practised in Wendell ; Silas, settled Townsend, Vt., returned to Leverett ; had children, Orus, Silas, Samantha, Laura, Laurintha, Seth, Sally.

3. Silas, son of Thomas 1 ; studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Kittridge ; was surgeon in the Navy during the Revolution ; settled Leverett, d. 1807. He m. Rhoda Griffin of Tewksbury. Children, Zebina, b. in Leverett, studied medicine with his father ; settled as a physician in New York in 1827, d. in 1837 ; he m. Margaret Pennell ; ^Mz/^aw, settled Amherst, 1820, d. 1S37; he m. Martha Field, daughter of William of Leverett; Silas, ^ physician, 1. Montague, m. Electa Field, daughter of Moses; Rhoda, m. Henry Bartlett of New York; Hannah, m. John Hilliard; Zelina, d. at five years.

BANISTER 1, Christopher, carpenter, was a proprietor of Marlboro, 1657; d. Mar. 30, 1678. He m. Jane Goodnow of Sudbury. Their third child was -

2. Joseph, b. May 2, 1675, wheelwright. Nov. 17, 1701, he received a grant of 40 acres upland in Brookfield, which he exchanged, Sept. 1 1, 1703, with Henry Taylor, for 25 acres and a dwelling-house, bounded north on the old country road, east on Edward Walker, Sen., south on Commons, west on John Hamilton. This places his house about a mile east of South Brookfield village. In 1714 he received his first grant on the south side of the river, where his descendants after lived. He had

6. Seth, son of Seth 3, a leading man in military affairs ; in 1777 had served in the army 19 months, the highest average in the Third Precinct ; commanded a company in the service, and afterwards rose to the rank of colonel. He m. Marcy Warriner of Brimfield. Children, William Bostwick, b. Nov. 8, 1773; Liberty, b. Oct. 16, 1775; Seth, b. Jan. 4, 1778.

BARNARD, Joshua, 1, b. Hopkinton, May, 1790; tanner and currier; d. Wausecon, O. ; m. Nov. 1815, Mary Phillips of Grafton, who d. Minnesota, Dec. 1859, aged 73. Children, Mary P., b. North Brookfield, Nov. 1816 ; m. May, 1847, Alexander C. Stevens of Becket, resides in Wausecon, O. [Children, Ashley P., b. Aug. 10, 1848, m. Nov. 2, 1876, Alice Hadden of Cleveland, O. ; I. Clark, b. June 19, 1851, a lumber dealer, m. Nov. 4, 1875, Maria L. Wemple of Collamore, O. ; Lucius E. S., b. Mar. 8, 1854,3 physician]; John, b. North Brookfield, Jan. 1818 2 ; Sarah, b. Mar. 1820, d. Becket, 1845; Russell, b. North Brookfield, May, 1822, resides in Ayer; yi^j////;?, b. Templeton, July, 1826; Methodist clergyman, Medford, Minn.; m. Jan. 1S47, Samantha Ames of Becket [child, Charles J., a student in Northfield College, Minnesota] ; Ltccius, b. Templeton, Feb. 1S28, a music teacher in Pittsfield, m. Mar. 1847, Marion Smith of Collamore, O.

2. John, son of Joshua 1, b. North Brookfield, Jan. iSi8; m. (i) Susan McCrea of Williamstown; had a daughter who m. 1859, Mr. Pitcher of Illinois; lived Iowa, four children ; (2) Ruth Coon of Williamstown ; children, a daughter, died infancy ; a son, died in civil war; (3) Sarah Bill of Washington, Mass.; five children, one d. ; eldest son m. and a farmer in Shelbyville, Minn. ; two other sons, farmers.

BARNS or BARNES. Thomas 1, came to America in the Speedwell, May, 1656; bought land of Jonathan Johnson in Marlboro, 1663, where he settled and d. 1679. He m. Abigail Goodnow, daughter of Thomas of Sudbury. Children, Thomas, b. Mar. 23, 1662 2; Dorothy ; John; William, b. Apr. 3, 1669, was in Brookfield, 1698, probably remained but a short time and removed to Haddam, Ct. ; Abigail ; Susanna.

2. Thomas, son of Thomas 1, settled Marlboro ; his house and goods were destroyed by the Indians in King Philip's War [see his petition in Massachusetts Archives LX. 124]. Aug. 27, 1691, he received a grant of a 40 acre home-lot in Brookfield, on the north side of the Country road, near the Gilbert P'ort, where he built ; sold to John Hamilton, and in 1699 bought the Coy estate at the west foot of Foster's hill ; he also bought the Parsons' and Kent home-lots on the hill, and held in all by grant and purchase 1,100 acres. Late in life he made his home with his son Comfort, who lived north of the Ditch meadow swamp, near the Jonathan Nye house. He d. Apr. 23, 1734, being fatally gored by a bull. He m. 1685, Mary How, daughter of Samuel and Martha of Sudbury, d. Feb. 4, 1719, "Sept. 17,

1 7 14, granted to Mary, wife of Thomas Barns, 45 a. for charges and expenses of the Committee from time to time " [Committee's Kecords\ ; her house being the stopping place of the Committee, when on duty at Brookfield. Children, Martha, m. Thomas Gilbert; Samuel Z; Prudence, m. Dec. 4, 1722, Eleazar Warner; Lydia, b. Oct. 9, 1692; Thankful, b. May i, 1695, "^- J^ibez Olmstead ; Noah, "under age in 1715 " 4; Comfort, 5.

5. Comfort, son of Thomas 2, deacon ; had grant of 60 acres in 1718, and in all 163 acres ; lived near the Jonathan Nye place North of Ditch meadow swamp, in

12. Joseph, son of Comfort 5, "Joseph Barns, the first person born on any part of the land that now makes the town of New Braintree, died in Western, March 25, 1826, aged 97 years, 4 mos." [New Braintree Records.] He m. (i) Dec. 8, 1755,

24. Thomas, son of Jonathan 10, b. July 16, 1764; farmer and gunsmith; resided on the Renselaer-Bliss place; m. Jan. 14, 1786, Mahala Hill of Brookfield, and d. Bakersfield, Vt., whither he had removed. Col. Pliny Nye lived with Mr. Barns when a boy, and was brought up by him. Children (Brookfield), Jojiathan, b. 1787, d. infancy; Lucy Ann, b. Nov. iSoi, m. Mar. 11, 181S, Zenas Dow of North Brookfield, d. Bakersfield, Vt.

30. Asa, son of Samuel 15, b. June 21, 1790, m. Fanny Brown of Warren, and d. at the "Pine Tree Place" in West Brookfield. Children (Brookfield), LyJia Fowler, b. June 24, 1825; George Augustus, b. Apr. 27, 1828, m. Mary Ann Tyler of Warren ; Sophronia, b. Aug. 17, 1830, m. Edwin Strickland of Enfield, and d. Springfield; Catherine Frances, b. Feb. ir, 1833, m. Calvin Kimball; Mary Jane, b. Nov. 6, 1835, m. Elbridge Kimball of Enfield ; William, resides in Springfield.

35. Noah, son of Jonah 27, b. July i, 1802, m. July 4, 1830, Lydia, widow of Francis Barnes of North Brookfield, d. West Brookfield, Sept. 1862. Children

W., a carpenter in Hardwick, m. Emily N. Garrison of Staten Island ; Willard A., a butcher in Bridgewater, m. Mary Hawes ; Harrison F., a moulder, m. Mary Swift ;

William B.,2i lumberman in Michigan, m. Kate Ayres; Augustus T.,h. Sept. 25, 1838 44. [For six other children omitted here, see Supplement to the Volumes by C. Adams, jr.]

46. Wilder U., son of Harvey 45, b. Hardwick, Feb. I2, 1840, came from Hardwick 1S67, and settled on the old Kimball place; was a member of Company K, Forty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. His Company, with Companies D, G, and I, were prevented by a leaky boat from being captured at Galveston ; Company K stopped at New Orleans, where they were detailed as pontooners, and were present at the taking of Port Hudson, laying a bridge under fire from the Fort. He m. Apr. 20, 1S64, Rhoda J. Fay of Hardwick. Children, Frederick Wi!der,\>. Feb. 26, 1865; Jennie Maria, b. Sept. 26, 1S66, m. Sept. 9, 18S4, Frank K. Holman of Spencer; George Hammond, h. Aug. 5, 1868; Herbert Wells, b. June 24, 1870 ; Addie Larissa, b. Aug. 20, 1872.

BARNUM, Cutler, b. Brookfield, Feb. 20, 1S26; member Twenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers for 3 years, and wounded May 16, 1864, in front of Petersburg, Va. ; m. Jan. 22, 1849, Martha A. Stone of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Frank Arthur, b. 1849; Clara Maria, b. Feb. 5, 1854; Frederick Cutler, b. Dec. 15, 1S62.

BARSTOW, Jeremiah 1, origin unknown ; m. Rhoda Parker, who d. Mar. 10, 1817, aged 54; he d. North Brookfield, Jan. 10, 1829. Children, John, was a physician in Maine, where he m. ; Rebecca, m. Dec. 14, 1S06, Josiah Washburn of

Brookfield; removed to Litchfield, N.Y. ; Jeremiah, left and never heard from; Salome, m. Feb. 7, iSio, Aaron Norton of Hartford, N.Y., and removed to Litchfield, N.Y. ; Lavinia, went to Maine, and m. ; Rhoda, m. Gates of Litchfield ; Charles, b. May 31, 1796 2.

10. Charles Henry, son of Elias H. 8, b. Aug. 6, i84i,m. Apr. 11, 1867, Hattie Hagar of Binghampton, N.Y. He was in the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and served through the war; taken prisoner at Bull Run, and was an inmate of Andersonville prison for one year ; no issue.

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BATCHELLER, Joseph 1, came from Canterbury, Eng., in 1636, with wife Elizabeth, i child, 3 servants, and settled in Wenham ; little is known of him, except he was deputy to General Court 1644, and one of a committee to examine "ye booke deliued in by Mr. Eellingham & compare it with y'' booke of records & returne their objections & thaughts thereof to this howse in writing." He was admitted to First Church, Salem, Feb. 12, 1637-S. His brothers Henry and John came with him with their families; the former settled in Ipswich; the Inventory of his estate, ^209.08.6, was taken by Abraham Foster and Thomas Metcalf, and returned to Court, Sept. 30, 1679, by John Warner of Ipswich and John Bacheller of Wenham, Joseph d. about 1647. Children, Mark,%\^\\\ by the Indians, Dec. 15, 1675; John 2, baptized Salem, Jan. 20, 1638-9; Elizabeth, xa. Dec. 1666, James Davis; Haimah, baptized June 23, 1644, m. Apr. 1665, John Warner of Ipswich.

2. John, son of Joseph 1, baptized First Church, Salem, Jan. 20, 1638-9; settled in Wenham, and d. Nov. 17, 1698 ; m. (i) July, 1661, Mary Dennis, who d. June 26, 1665 ; (2) May 4, 1666, Sarah, daughter of Robert Goodale of Salem, d. Mar. 22, 1729. Sept. 20, 1665, Robert Goodale of Salem deeds to his daughter Sarah, w. of John Bacheller of Wenham, 32 acres upland and 8 acres meadow, being part of 1,100 acres granted by the town of Salem to several proprietors. Children, Joseph, b.

d. Jan. 10, 1754; m. Hannah Tarbox; Mark, b. May, 1678, d. infancy; Elizabeth, m. Thomas Willett ; Ebeiiezer, m. Sarah Tarbox ; Hannah ; Mafy ; Sarah ; David 3.

20. John (Brookfield Records), d. Brookfield, June to, 1765, aged 53; m. Elizabeth , who d. Brookfield, Nov. 8, 179S, aged 87. A John Batcheller lived very

Marriages recorded in Brookfield unaccounted for : - William Ranger and Mehitable Batcheller, m. Dec. 17, 1761. Abraham Cutler and Huldah Batcheller, m. May 25, 1768. William Torrance of Belchertown and Hepzibah Batcheller of Brookfield, m. Jan. 11, 1774.

Moses Davis and Lydia Batcheller of Western, m. Mar. 25, 1779. John Batcheller and Hannah Allen m. Nov. 15, 1781. Nathaniel Sawyer and Orpha Batcheller, m. Dec. I, 1805. Andrew Batcheller and Sally Felton, m. Feb. 17, 1807. Thiel Batcheller of Albany and Sally Ludden of Brookfield, m. Jan. 10, 1809.

BATES, Clement 1, b. in Hingham, County of Kent, Eng., in 1595, embarked at London for New England, Apr. 6, 1635 (in the ship Elizabeth, William Stagg master), aged 40, with his wife Anna also aged 40, and five children, James aged 14, Clement aged 12, Rachel aged 8, Joseph aged 5, and Benjamin aged 2, with two servants. Had born here Samuel, Mar. 24, 1639. He settled in Hingham, Mass., about the time Rev. Peter Hobart and his followers arrived there, and on Sept. 18, 1635, received a grant of five acres of land on Town Street (now South Street) which has been in possession of the original grantee and his descendants for two and a half centuries. As late as 1S86 the old house was still standing. In that year, however, a more modern edifice was erected on the old site, and is to-day occupied by a descendant of Clement.

The name of Bates was a common one in England, and the ancestors of Clement Bates are traceable for five generations prior to the period when the Puritans took their departure for New England : thus Thomas Bates 1 of Lydd, Parish of All Hallows, d. in 1485, leaving a son John, who d. in 1522. yohn 2 (Thomas 1) had a son Andrew who d. at L>dd in 1533, leaving four sons. Aiidretv 3 (John 2, Thomas 1) had a son Jolui 4, who d. at Lydd in 15S0, leaving three sons, one of whom James 5, who d. at Lydd in 1614, was the father of Clement 1, as also of Edward and James, both of whom came over with their brother Clement. The former settled at Weymouth, Mass., the latter at Dorchester, Mass. Clement d. at Hingham, Sept. 17, 1671, aged 76. Anna his wife d. Oct. i, 1669, aged 74. Clement and Anna Bates had six children, who were all b. in Hingham, Eng., except Samuel, the youngest, who was born in Hingham, Mass. James, b. 1621 ; Clemettt, b. 1623, d. Nov. 1639; Rachel, b. 1627, d. June, 1647 ! Joseph 2, b. 1630; Bettjamin, b. 1633; Samuel, b. Mar. 24, 1639, in Hingham, Mass.

8. Elijah, oldest son of Obadiah 7, b. in Cohasset, Mass., Apr. 25, 1796, m. in Boston, Mass., Aug. 2, 1818, Sarah Fletcher, who was b. May 3, 1799, in Boston, Mass., and is still living in North Brookfield. She was the youngest child of Jonathan and Lucretia Fletcher. Jonathan Fletcher, b. in Acton, Mass., Jan. 21, 1758, m. May 20, 17S2, Lucretia Emerson, who was b. in Acton, Mass., Aug.

4, 1764. He d. in Boston, Jan. 5, 1807. She d. in Thomaston, Me., July 7, 1800. They had four children, viz., Frances, b. in Acton, Mass., Feb. 20, 1784, d. Sept. 18, 1824, in Claiborne, Ala. ; Susan, b. in Boston, Mass., Feb. 27, 1789, d. May 3, 1876, in Mobile, Ala.; Lucretia, b. in Boston, Mass., Sept. 8, 1797, d. Sept. 2, 1800, in Boston, Mass. ; Sarah, b. in Boston, May 3, 1799. Jonathan Fletcher was a fifer boy in the Acton company of minute men at the battle of Concord, Apr. 19, 1775, led by Capt. Isaac Davis, and was afterwards commissioned as lieutenant and then to captain of a company raised in Fitchburg and Acton and adjoining towns. He was in command of his company at the surrender of Burgoyne's army. He was a warm friend of Gen. Knox, and after the war went to Thomaston, Me., with Gen. Knox, and lived near him for many years. Elijah Bates was a furniture manufacturer in Boston, and came from there to North Brookfield with his family to engage in same business here in 1820. He was the first of this name in the town, and first occupied the new house then being built by Capt. Moses Bond, nearly opposite the Dr. Potter place, afterwards known as the Luther Holmes place, until he purchased in 1824 of Cheney Dane the place where he ever afterwards lived. The old house was occujMed by him for some years, until he moved it to the opposite side of the street and west some fifty rods, where it now stands. A new house was erected by him on the site of the one removed, and this new one was destroyed by fire in 1844 ; but another, an exact duplicate of the one destroyed, was erected on the same site the same year, and the same has ever since remained in the family, and is now owned by the youngest son, Theodore. Mr. Bates was for many years, in addition to the manufacture of furniture, engaged extensively in the manufacture of boxes or cases for the boot and shoe manufacturers of North Brookfield and the adjoining towns. He was a successful business man; and although he was unfortunate in meeting several heavy losses by fires, no man ever lost a dollar by him. He took a deep interest in the old Liberty party and the Anti-Slavery agitation ; and when the war of the Rebellion came, he encouraged his sons to offer their services for the Union cause, and one of them was among the first, if not the very first person, to enlist from North Brookfield. He was a public spirited citizen, and held many of the offices and positions of honor and trust in the town. Had fourteen children, all b. in North Brookfield except the oldest, Susan Frances, h. Boston, July 18, iSigS; Aitgnstiis Emerson, b. June 14, 1821 10; Martha Ann, b. July 30, 182J 11 ; Samuel Loring, b. Sept. 18, 1825 12 ; Sarah Cornelia, b. June 12, 1827 13 ; Joseph Saville, b. Apr. 14, 1829 14 ; Richard Whitney, b. June 20, 1831 15; Henry Elijah, b. Feb. 12, 1834, d. Mar. 5, 1834; George Albert, b. May i, 1835, d. Sept. 18, 1837 ; George Albert, b. July i, 1837 16; Thomas Suell, b. Sept. 5, 1839 17; Emma Josephine, b. Sept. i, 1841, d. Aug. 7, 1842; Theodore Cornelius, b. June 4, 1843 ^^ ! Myra Eugenia, b. Mar. 18, 1846 19.

Helen Frauces Rogers (r,) b. Jan. 16, 1845, at Monson, Mass., m. Feb. 2t, 1861, Henry Shaw Haselden, at Nashville, Tenn., who was b. Aug. 24, 1833, at Georgetown, S.C. [Children, Mary Letitia, b. Mar. 7, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn.; Harry Ariel, b. Sept. 25, 1S6S, at Nashville, Tenn.; Charles Pinckney, b. Aug. i, 1873, at Atlanta, Ga. ; Theodore Bates, b. Aug. 4, 1875, ^^ Atlanta, Ga. ; Mattie Fletcher, b. Apr. 17, 18S0, at Worcester, Mass.] ; Martha Ann Bates Rogers m. (2) May 17, 1851, Alpha W. Bryan, who was b. at Ypsilanti, Mich., Feb. 27, 1S24. They have had three children, viz., Lyman Curtis (2), Charles Henry (3), Roger Bates (4) ; Ly>}ian Curtis Bryan (2), b. Nov. 5, 1852, at Winchester, Ky., m. Sept. i, 1882, Sarah Isabelle Atwood of Boston, who was b. Aug. 26, 1856, in Georgetown, Mass. ; Charles Henry Bryan (3), b. Jan. 17, 1858, at Edgefield, Tenn., d. Aug. 15, 1878, at Worcester, Mass.; Roger Bates Bryan (4), b. Dec. 22, 1S60, at Nashville, Tenn., graduated at the United States Military Academy at West Point, June 12, 1883, and is now lieutenant in the Second Regiment United States Cavalry.

16. George Albert, son of Elijah 8, b. July r, 1837, m. Apr. 26, 1870, Anna S. Morrell, only child of Hon. Daniel J. Morrell of Johnstown, Penn. ; she was b. Jan. 14, 1850, at Philadelphia, Penn. He d. Sept. 7, 1877, at Johnstown, Penn. They had one child, viz., Daniel J. Morrell Bates, b. Dec. 26, 1S72, at Johnstown, Penn. George Albert was a soldier in the Twelfth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers 1861, and at the time of his death he was the assistant general manager of the Cambria Iron Company of Johnstown and Philadelphia, Penn.

17. Thomas Snell, son of Elijah 8, b. Sept. 5, 1839, d. Feb. 16, 1864, at Washington, D.C. He was the first soldier to enlist from North Brookfield in the First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers in 1861.

18. Theodore Cornelius, son of Elijah 8, b. June 4, 1843, "i- Dec. 24, 1868, Emma Frances Duncan of North Brookfield, Mass, who was b. March 11, 1845, at North Brookfield, Mass. They have one child, Tryphosa Dtmcan Bates, b. April 14, 1876, at North Brookfield, Mass. He was educated at the North Brookfield High Schon], and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N.H., and was a teacher for several years in North Brookfield and the other Brookfields, after which he was in business in Boston until 1876 ; since which time he has been engaged as a manufacturer in Worcester, Mass., still retaining his residence in his native town. He has always been much interested in the success of the Public Schools of the town, and for several years was a member of the school committee. He represented the Twelfth Worcester Representative District (which included the town of North Brookfield and all the other Brookfields) in the Legislature of 1879, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1883, declining a unanimous re-nomination to both positions at the end of one year in each, and he never missed a vote while a member of either the House or the Senate. He was elected by the Legislature of Massachusetts a State director of the Boston & Albany Railroad in 1881, and continued in that position until the Commonwealth disposed of its stocic in that corporation. He was appointed by the President of the United States as Commissioner of Massachusetts for the contemplated World's Fair in New York in 1883. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the North Brookfield Free Public Library and Reading Room, for the establishment and maintenance of which he donated to the town his salary while in both branches of the Legislature ; he has never charged the town any thing for any service he ever rendered it. He has been a director of the North Brookfield Railroad Co., since its organization in 1875, ^"*1 clerk of the corporation. He is Chairman of the Town History Committee, and has been a member since the first committee was chosen by the town.

2. Frank, b. Canada ; m. Lucy Chanquette. Children, Cordelia, b. Canada ; m. Napoleon Duclos of North Brookfield ; Emma, b. Millbury ; Joseph, b. Warren ; Fred, b. 1856, West Brookfield.

3. Simpson, a farmer, lived on the Bell place, which takes its name from him ; m. Chloe , who after his decease, Jan. 12, 1S09, m. Feb. 27, iSio, Aaron Andrews of Ware ; no issue. [Dr. Snell's Record.]

5. Thomas, son of James 4, b. Coleraine, Apr. 25, 1817, m. June 7, 1840, Etta Haskins, who m. (2) Leonard Haskell; Thomas d. North Brookfield, Oct. 7, 1851. Children, Ellen, b. North Brookfield, June 10, 1841, m. Eugene Erwin of Hartford, Ct. ; Alonzo, b. Coleraine, Sept. i, 1842 ; Leander, b. West Brookfield, Mar. 21, 1845, m. Mar. 22, 1872, Velina Warren of New Braintree; removed to Kansas, thence to California; Emery, b. West Brookfield, Nov. 25, 184S, d. in two weeks; Rosalie, b. North Brookfield, June 10, 1851.

Marriages of unknown families of Bell, on Brookfield Records. Martha Bell, m. Jan. 2, 1742, Samuel Ayres. Mary Bell, m. June 8, 1744, Moses Bartlett. Sarah Bell, m. Dec. 19, 1750, Ephraim Walker. Elizabeth Bell, published Nov. 1754, to Matthew Barr.

1825, Emily Thompson of New Braintree, who d. West Boylston, Aug. 23, 1863'; he d. East Brookfield, Feb. 7, 1863. Children, Nancy C, b. North Brookfield, Oct. 27,

5. Tyler, b. Paxton, June 3, 1S06, m. Caroline A. Brown of Paxton, and d. Aug. II, 1876. Children (Paxton), Carlo R.,\>. Dec. 6, 1831 6; George W.,\y. Apr. 19, 1833, m. Nellie A. Smith of Vermont; Caroline J., m. Manly Ludden of Spencer; Charles A., enlisted for nine months in civil war from Paxton, m. Anna Bemis of Spencer; Mary E., d. Paxton; Sophronia L., m. Joseph Whitney of Oakham; Austin T.

BETTIS, BETTYS, BETTEES, BEETES, Thomas, b. Wenham; received grants at Brookfield as follows : " Nov. 17, 1701, to Thomas Bettice 40 a. W. on Mr. Smith - further I find in an old paper an accompt of several parcels of meadow, and Bettis amongst the rest," signed Joseph Hawley. "Jan. 7, 1721, granted to heirs of Thomas Bettes, dec''., 60 a. E. on Five-mile river, S. on John Willcoott's, E. on town line, W. on s'' Bettees meadow." "Jan. 21, 17 21, to heirs of Thomas Bettis, dec''., 18 a. on Five-mile river, N. on John Clary, and 2 a. meadow on the plain W. of the 18 a." He was killed by the Indians July 29, 1704 (see ante, p. 166). His

BIGELOW. - [The Genealogy of this family from 1540 to 1718, by Jason Bigelow Perry of Rindge, N.H., may be found in the large Vol. in the Town Clerk's office. North Brookfield, compiled by Hon. Chas. Adams, jr.]

BIRD, Benjamin 1, b. Stoughton, lived and died in Waltham; m. Nov. 9, 1775, Mary Prentice, b. July 15, 1753, d. Mar. 7, 1826. Children, Eunice, b. Cambridge, Sept. 2, 1776, d. Sept. 28 following ; Charles, b. Aug! 25, 1777, d. North Brookfield Feb. 12, 1S51. He was blind, and could easily detect, by the voice, all persons of his acquaintance, and the children by the smell of their heads. He was also an expert with the horse, in detecting his good points, as well as blemishes; Polly, b. Oct. 30, 1779, m. Samuel Shedd of Boston; Harriet, b. Aug. 26, 1781, m. Thomas Gillespie of Boston or Waltham, and d. Apr. 16, 1868; Horatio, b. Jan. 18, 1784, m. May 10, 1812, Sybil Pierce of Waltham, d. 1838 or 9; Abner, b. Mar. 2, 17862; Orra, b. Jan. i, 1789, m. about 1807, Reuel Richardson of Connecticut, and d. Sept. 16, 1872. After the decease of Benjamin at Waltham, his widow and some of her children removed to Brookfield, and long occupied a house just west of the Cowan mill : a cellar hole indicates the spot. After Abner m., they lived farther east, the last house in town, on south side of Spencer road.

Bond

BOND. The Bonds of this town, according to Mr. H. G. Somerby's researches in England, and genealogies of the families of the name in New England, are descended from Jonas Bond of Bury St. Edmunds, as follows : -

3. William, who came to New England and settled in Watertown, Mass., where he d. Dec. 14, 1695; "^- (0 F^^- 7' 1649-50, Sarah Bruce of Watertown, who d. Feb. 1692-3; (2) 1695, ^^I's- Elizabeth Nevinson of Watertown. By ist wife he had nine children, of whom the third son was

1744, m. Hepzibah Pratt, settled in Westboro, and soon after the Revolutionary war, removed to New York State, and thence to Bondstown, now Hampden, O., where he died; Lydia, b. Mendon, Jan. 12, 1747, m. Moses Wheelock; Elizabeth, b. Westboro, Mar. 28, 1752, d. 1756; Lucy, b. June 22, 1755.

7. Jonathan, Deacon, son of Deacon Jonathan 6, b. Watertown, Apr. 22, 1736; was a Deacon in Boylston; m. Ruth Tyler, who d. North Brookfield, Apr. 26, 1814, and d. Boylston, 1784. After his decease, she went to live with her son Deacon Jonathan, and m. (2) Oct. 11, 1809, Robert Bruce of North Brookfield. Children, Jonathatt, b. Sturbridge, Mar. 17, 1760 9; Joseph, b. Mar. 18, 1762, d. Oct. 16, 1781 [see Harv. Coll. Oration, by Harrison Gray Otis] ; Solomon, b. May 9, 1764 10 ; Mary, b. Brookfield, Aug. 28, 17 - , m. and d. soon after; Sarah, b. Mar. 14, 1771, m. Abijah Pierce of Boylston, and had two children; Ruth, b. Mar. 14, 177 1, m. John Bond of Boylston, and d. soon after, leaving son Tyler ; Eunice, m. John Gale of Stratford, Ct.

9. Jonathan, son of Deacon Jonathan 7, b. Sturbridge, Mar. 17, 1760, d. Sept. 3, 1821, in Boylston; m. Lucy Andrews. Children (Boylston), Joseph, b. Nov. 20, 1784, m. Sophia Smith of Sterling and settled in Worcester; Eli, b. May 28, 1794,

10. Solomon, son of Deacon Jonathan 7, b. Boylston or Sturbridge, May 9, 1764, a physician ; studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Kittridge of North Brookfield, and commenced practice in Plainfield, Mass.; removed 1797 to Enfield, Ct., after which he, with his brother-in-law Judge Hinckley of Northampton, engaged in the purchase of lands of the State of Connecticut, situated on the Western Reserve, O., accumulating a large estate. He m. Feb. 2, 1792, Sally Hinckley of North Brookfield, and d. Enfield, Nov. 4, 1S14, aged fifty-one ; she d. Clinton, N.Y., Dec. 9, 1853, aged eighty-five. Children, Mary Proctor, b. Plainfield, Nov. 16, 1792, m. July 3, 1821, Asa Olmstead of Wilbraham, b. Enfield, Ct., Apr. 19, 1791, physician; practised in Wilbraham, Northfield, and Clinton, N.Y., where he d. Feb. 25, 1874, aged eighty-three; Rebecca Hinckley, b. Connecticut, Nov. 17, 1794, m. Jan. 27, 1824, Levi Bliss of Brimfield, b. Apr. 23, 17S8, d. Brimfield, July 25, 1856, merchant ; Solomon, b. Connecticut, Mar. 13, 1797, d. Enfield, March 15, 1812; Thomas Hinckley, b. Enfield, Ct., Jan. 14, 1804, m. (i) Sept. 14, 182S, Elizabeth Goodrich of New Haven, who d. Mar. 16, 1864, aged fifty-seven; (2) Mary C. Hinman of Hartford; lawyer ; graduated Yale Law School, New Haven; admitted 1S27, to the Bar; practised in Pittsburg, Pa. ; Collector of Oswego ; member of State Senate, and in 1854 removed to New Haven, where he was elected Representative and State Senator [children, John Goodrich, b. Oct. 17, 1829, a Captain in Military and Marine Service, resigned Jan. I, 1872 ; Josephine Maria, b. Oct. 9, 1842, m. June 10, 1S63, Edward Le Moyne of New York, firm of Le Moyne & Son. Children, Elizabeth Goodrich, b. Apr. 22, 1864; Josephine Clara, b. Dec. 19, 186S; Henrietta, b. Dec. 27, 1872]; Eliza Ann, b. Enfield, Mar. 22, 1807, m. Sept. 4, 1837, Francis B. Stebbins, lawyer, and d. Brimfield, Nov. 10, 1882.

14. Moses, son of Lieut. Thomas 8, b. Brookfield, Apr. 5, 1784; a merchant; published Aug. 29, 1S09, to Lucy Fiske of Sterling, and d. Templeton, Feb. 14, 1846; she d. Northampton, Sept. 28, 1861, aged eighty. Children, Lucy Bush, b. Brookfield, Mar. 27, i8ii, m. June 10, 1830, Hon. Artemas Lee of Templeton, b. Barre, Nov. 2, 1793, 3- merchant and prominent citizen of Templeton; repeatedly a member of the House and Senate, a colonel in the militia, a man of great strength of character, energy and influence ; d. Templeton, June 27, 1870 [children, Ellen Maria, b. Aug. 30, 1832 ; Edward Dwight, b. Jan. 16, 1834; merchant; d. Apr. 17, 1864, in the army in Virginia; Caroline Frances, b. Oct. 26, 1835, d. Aug. 27, 1836; Henry Winthrup, b. Mar. 14, 1838; merchant; d. Boston, Nov. 6, 1879; Josephine Harding, b. Mar. 7, 1840, m. Leonard A. Jones, lawyer of Boston ; Charles Francis, b. Oct. 16, 1842, m. Mary A. Hare of Templeton, who d. Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1864]; Martha, b. North Brookfield, Oct. 31, 1813, m. Dr. Henry Lincoln of Lancaster; Catherine, b. Apr. 12, 1S15, m. Samuel L. Harding of Templeton; Harriet Eliza, b. June 16, 1S21, m. Addison J. Lincoln of Templeton.