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17. Charlotte A., daughter of William 11, b. Jan. 19, 1S07, m. June 30, 1825, Samuel Johnson, b. Lynn, Mar. 12, 1792, d. Brookfield, Aug. 24, 1869; merchant. Children (Boston), Samuel, b. Mar. 20, 1826; merchant of Boston; m. Mar. 29, 1859, Mary A. Stoddard of Boston ; Charlotte A. (twin), b. Mar. 20, 1826, m. June 6, 1849, Rev. James H. Means, D.D., of Boston; George W.,h. Dec. 28, 1827; lawyer in Brookfield ; has filled most of the town offices ; chairman of selectmen many years; State senator, 1870; representative, 1S77-1880, and delegate to National Republican Convention 1868 ; trustee of State Primary and Reform Schools ; m. Feb. 24, 1857, Mary E. Stowell of Brookfield; Mafy A., b. Dec. 8, 1829, m. June 10, 185S, Professor Austin Phelps, D.D., of Andover ; Amos H, b. Aug. 4, 1831 ; physician of Salem ; m. Sept. 22, 1859, Frances S. Benjamin of Athens, Greece ; Francis H.,h. Jan. 15, 1835; clergyman at Andover; m. June 6, 1867, Mary A. Dove of Andover; Edward C, b. Nov. i, 1839; merchant, Boston: m. Oct. 14, 1863, Alice T. Robbins of Boston. He served in Forty-fourth Regiment as first lieutenant and adjutant.

23. Jonathan, b. Rutland, m. Susannah Parmenter of Rutland, and d. there. Children (Rutland), Abel Parmenter, m. Esther M. Morse of Enfield, d. Rutland; Susan, m. William B. Foster of Rutland, and d. there; Edivin, d. Rutland; Eve- Iena,d. Rutland; Edxvin Leander,\>. Dec. 5, 1815 24; Thomas Reed, b. May 14, 1817 25; Hervey, b. May 15, 1819; Daniel King, m. Harriet Underwood of Rutland; George A., b. Mar. 28, 1823; m. (1) Apr. 1847, Caroline A. Estabrook of Rutland; (2) Mary W. More of Barre; Louisa, d. Rutland; Irving A., resides in Boston.

in the Georgia Penitentiary, and manager of four shoe manufacturing companies there. He m. Apr, 18, 1854, Sarah Mead of North Brookfield. Children, Frederick N.,\x. North Brookfield, Sept. 4, 1856; Sarah A., b. Sept. 11, 1858, d. Spencer, Mar. II, 1863; Mary E., b. Spencer, Oct. 4, 1S61, d. Apr. 2, 1863.

IVES, Jesse B., b. Monson, Jan. 7, 1808; carpenter; m. Sept. 1834, Almira Lombard of Brimfield, and d. North Brookfield, July 12, 1870. Child, Emily Almira, b. North Brookfield, Oct. 15, 1839, m. Dec. 14, 1859, David M. Earle of North Brookfield ; resides Worcester.

JENKS (JENCKS, JENKES, JENCKES), Joseph 1, b. 1602, came from Hammersmith, Eng., a widower, settled in Lynn, 1643, ^"^^ ^- Mar. 1682-3, aged eighty-one. He was a blacksmith and machinist at the iron foundry, made the dies for coining the " Pine Tree " money, and built the first fire-engine in this country. "A man of great genius " : He was granted the first patent for inventions in America, of which the following is a copy : - (See p. 645.)

The Co't consid'"inge y<^ necessity of raising such manifactures of engins of mils to go by water for speedy dispatch of much worke Jenkes mo- w th few hands, & being sufficiently informed of y** ability of y'' petinopolye tion'' to p forme such workes grant his petition (y' no oth'' p-son shall set up, or use any such new invention, or trade for fourteen yeares w*hout y'' licence of him y<^ said Joseph Jenkes) so farr as concernes any such new invention, & so as it shalbe alwayes in y" pow"" of this Co''te to restrain y'' exportation of such manifactures, & y" prizes of them to moderation if occasion so require.

2. Joseph, son of Joseph 1, b. England, 1634; removed to Concord, and m. Esther, daughter of William Ballard of Lynn, removed thence to Warwick, R.I., and afterwards to Pawtucket, and settled on a tract of land he bought of the Indians ; in 1681 was governor's assistant; built a forge, which was destroyed 1675, ^^ ^^ Wampanoag war; d. Jan. 4, 1717, aged eighty-four. Children, Joseph, b. 1657, d. June 15, 1740; was governor of Rhode Island 1727 to 1732; Nathaniel, b. 1662, d. 1723 ; a major of the militia; Rev. Ebenezer, d. May 14, 1726; pastor of church in Providence ; William, b. 1674 3 ; also five daughters.

3. William, son of Joseph 2, b. Pawtucket, 1674, m. Patience, daughter of Jonathan Sprague of Providence, and d. Oct. 2, 1765. He was judge, senator, and a member of Providence Church. Among his children was son,

12. Jonathan, son of Gideon 5, b. Aug. 18, 1781, m. Mary Reed of Northampton, who d. 1843. Children (Brookfield), Alfred, m. Apr. 7, 1830, Lucy Abbott of Brookfield ; Lucy, m. Martin Stoddard of North Brookfield ; William T., m. Martha A. Abbott of Brookfield, Mar. 13, 1833; Thankful, m. Mar. 11, 1829, Washington Walker of Brookfield ; Harvey, in. July 3, 1833, Almira Walker ; Mercy, d. in Iowa ; Hiram, m. Sarah Slayton of East Brookfield.

; 15. Nicholas, son of Nicholas 7, b. North Brookfield, Feb. 4, 1785; physician ; m. Oct. 17, 1S09, Betsey Potter of North Brookfield, and d. Middleboro, Dec.

22. John "Whipple Potter, son of Dr. Nicholas 15, b. West Boylston, May r, 1819; teacher; m. Oct. 30, 1S42, Sarah Pierce Tucker of Middleboro. 'Children (Middleboro), ii//j/^« T/zr/iw, b. Apr. 18, 1S44, d. Aug. 13, following; Elisha Tucker, b. Aug. 28, 1S45 ; inventor of a special museum lock, rack and bracket for adjustable shelving; m. Oct. 24, 1866, Mary Adelaide Thomas of North Dighton; Sarah Elizabeth, b. Apr. 10, 1848, d. Apr. 26, 1849; Abbie Lincoln, b. Sept. 13, 1850, m. Sept. 23, 1875, Joseph Brooks Simmons of Middleboro; Sadie Bessie, b. June 7, 1861. Mr. Jenks graduated Brown University, 183S ; taught academies in Georgia 1838 to 1842; principal of Pierce Academy in Middleboro 1S42 to 1871, since when he has been professor of zoology, and curator of the museum in Brown University.

23. Charles William, son of Dr. Nicholas 15, b. Southbridge, Apr. 24, 1826; agent for the " Brush Electric Light;" resides Boston Highlands; m. (i) Aug. 30, 1849, Moriah B., daughter of William Johnson of North Brookfield, who d. June 25, 1866; '(2) Feb. 2, 1867, Lydia Ames Newell of Boston. Children, William Johnson, b. North Brookfield, Aug. 23, 1S52 ; an editor in Brockton; m. Aug. 3 or 23, 1875, Irene Walker of North Brookfield ; Charles Nicholas, b. Oct. 19, 1855; Mary, b. Boston, June 6, i860, d. July 18, following; Arthur Edmands, b. Jan. 4, 1S64 ;

27. Hadwin Brown, son of Oliver A. 16, b. June 24, 1818; boot manufacturer in North Brookfield and Worcester ; m. Oct. 6, 1841, Mary Lee Walker of Barre. Child, Mary Louise, b. North Brookfield, Jan. 2, 1844, m. Jan. 20, 1875, Shepard K. Robbins of Boston.

29. John Henry, son of Oliver A. 16, b. June 10, 1S23 ; shoemaker, store clerk, and merchant in Keene, N.H. ; was sergeant-major in Fourteenth New Hampshire Regiment, and killed at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864; m. Almina Crawford of Oakham. Children (North Brookfield), Flora, b. July i, 1854, m. Frank Gordon of New York ; Jessie, b. and d. North Brookfield ; Henry.

JENNINGS, Stephen 1, was of Hatfield 1677, freeman, 1690; bought Apr. 15, 1693, of Hezekiah Dickinson, the William Prichard home lot and rights in Brookfield, a hundred and four acres, but did not come to reside till 1695 o^" 1696; sold this place. Mar. 25, 1707, to his sons Stephen and Joseph, and lived near Woolcott's; had grant of land sixty acres; date of death unknown, but before 1720. He m. May 15, 1677, Hannah, widow of Samuel Gillett, and daughter of John

Dickinson of Hadley. She with two of her Gillett children was taken captive by the Indians, Sept. 19, same year, and carried to Canada. Oct. 24, her husband and Benjamin Wait (whosejwife and three children were captives) started for Canada, on the attempt to redeem^their families and friends. After a perilous journey, via ^Albany, they reached Sorell in January. Negotiations lingered ; and they left Sorell not till May 2, having redeemed all the captives. The party returned to Albany May 22; reached Kinderhook May 27, "where they found men and horses sent from Hatfieldj rode through the woods to Westfield, and all arrived safely at Hatfield, after an absence of eight months." The cost of redemption was over two hundred pounds, which was collected by contribution in the towns. The date of her death is unknown.

Children, Captivity, b. in Canada, May 14, 1678, m. Abljah Bartlett of Brookfield, who was afterward killed there by the Indians; Stephen, b. June 16, i6So2; Joseph, b. Aug. 23, 16S2 3; Sarah, b. Aug. 29, 16S4; Benjamin, b. , killed by the

Indians July 22, 1710; John, was living in Brookfield, and received a grant of sixtytwo acres of land in 1720; Jonathan, b. Nov. 24, 1692 4; Ebeneze}-, 5.

2. Stephen, son of Stephen 1. Had grants of land in Brookfield, seventy-five acres Mar. 8, 17 10, and sixty-eight acres June 26; was killed by the Indians July 22,

3. Joseph, son of Stephen 1, deacon, esquire, held his father's homestead; bought the Coy, Parsons, Warner, Kent, and Younglove home-lots on Foster's hill ; received grants of nine hundred and seventy-one acres, his real estate in all amounting to thirteen hundred and fifty acres. He was living 1751. He m. (i) Mary Rich, man of estate and distinction ; " prominent in the church and colony ; representative, 1634 to 1648 ; surveyor general of all the " armes " of the colonies ; d. Roxbury, Sept. 29, 1659. Children, Isaac 2; Hiunphrey, m. Mar. 20, 1642, Ellen Cheney, and removed to Hingham ; a daughter, m. Robert Puffer of Roxbury.

who d. Aug. 13, 1683; freeman. Mar. 4, 1635; member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1645; captain, 1667 ; representative in 1671 ; was killed at the gate of the Indian Fort, at the head of his troops in the Great Swamp fight at Narragansett, Dec. 19, 1675; ^^^ ^'^ officer in the church, and as such with Rev. John Eliot, " and other two such Plead Officers," received in trust from Thomas Bell, Sen., of London (whose will was probated May 3, 1672), all his estate lying in Roxbury, North-east, " in the parts beyond the seas, for the maintenance of a Scoole master and free schoole for the teaching and instruction of Poore mens children at Roxbury aforesaid forever." Mr. Bell, above named, was a member of

From the North Brookfield Journal of Oct. 16, 18S0 : " Mr. Parker Johnson, our most aged townsman, quietly passed away on Monday evening last. He came here with his father in 1799, at whose death he was called upon at the early age of sixteen years, to take charge of the farm where he has since resided, and to aid his mother in ' bringing up ' his seven younger brothers and sisters, all of whom lived to see their families grow up around them here, esteemed by neighbors and friends. His first wife died soon after their marriage, and his second wife survives him with several children. . . . The quiet, uneventful life of a farmer offers but little of interest to the outside world, but those who had the pleasure of an acquaintance with Mr. Johnson will cherish the memory of his faithfulness in the discharge of every duty, his strict integrity, and his exemplary Christian life. In Sept. 1814, he marched as fifer in the Light Infantry Company of Brookfield, commanded by Capt. Lewis Abbott, the whole company being ordered to camp at South Boston in the regiment of Col. Salem Towne, in order to resist the landing of the British at Boston or vicinity. He was commissioned as fife major Sept. 12, i8i7,and for many years afterward acted with the town militia in that capacity."

15. John Hawkins, son of Waldo 11, m. June i, 1S69, Alice Amidon of North Brookfield ; served in the late civil war. Child, Willie Amidon, b. North Brookfield, June I, 1870, d. June 4, 1S80.

17. Hosea Whiting, son of Waldo 11, resides in Chelsea; m. May 22, 1873, Stella Grace Sparks of North Brookfield. Child, Henry Sparks, b. North Brookfield, Oct. 22, 1874.

19. Abiathar, son of Abiathar of Woburn ; son of Abiathar of Woburn ; son of Joseph of Woburn ; son of Edward of Woburn ; son of Edward the famous captain and author of " Wonder Working Providences " - was b. in Weston, Sept. 30, 1795 i came to North Brookfield, Apr. 1826, and lived in the last house towards New Braintree, beyond the Carruth place ; removed to the Abraham Hunter place in Oakham, Apr. 1833, now the William Dwelly place; m. (i) May 18, 1826, Adeline Bisco of Spencer, b. Spencer, Nov. 16, 1801, d. North Brookfield, Sept. 14, 1827 ;

22. Pibbles, son of William 21, m. May, 1862, Julia Whipple of Hardwick; resides in Greenwich. Children (North Brookfield), Leander, b. Apr. 13, 1868, d. Sept. 8, following ; Leon, b. Dec. 25, 1870.

3. Thomas, M.D., b. Rindge, N.H., Nov. 7, 1S05; attended two or three terms at Exeter Academy, and taught school as many winters ; began the study of medicine with the physician in Rindge, and entered the office of Dr. Anson Bates of Barre; graduated Dartmouth Medical College, 1830; came to this town (succeeding Dr. Cheney Potter) in 1830, and remained till 1834 ; built the house now owned by C. A. Bush, and an office where the west room of C. Adams, jr.'s, house stands; was in the drug business in St. Louis six or seven years ; then in Boston, firm of Jones, Denny, & Ward, corner of Milk and Kilby Streets ; afterwards manufacturer of lard oil ; in city council two years ; alderman three years. He- m. 1832, Sophia L. Bacon of Granville, Mass., and d. West Cambridge, Feb. 5, [849. She d. Galesburg, 111., May 29, 1865, aged sixty-three. Child, Henry T., b. Boston, Apr. 18, 1843, d. Apr. 30, following. They had also an adopted daughter of French Canadian parents of

b. 1836, m. (i) Dr. James Taylor of Edinburgh, Scotland; settled at Bunker Hill, 111. ; (2) Dr. Extell, a German, who d. at St. Louis. After the decease of Dr. Thomas Jones, his widow and adopted daughter spent two years in Florence,

Italy, where the latter acquired the modern languages, returned and was professor of languages in the Women's College, St. Joseph, Mo. She d. St. Louis, Apr. 26, 1877.

JUMEL, Madame. About half a mile southerly from the " Jenks place," now occupied by James H. Goodrich on the east side of the road leading by the " Hair Place," now occupied by Henry M. Green, is an old cellar-hole where a house once stood, in which, in 1794, a young girl lived with her sister, mother, and step-father in extreme poverty. This young girl afterwards became the distinguished personage whose name stands at the head of this paragraph. The following particulars of her most romantic life were given to Hon. Charles Adams, jr., by Thomas Henry Edsall, Esq., a lawyer of New York City, who was appointed with the late distinguished lawyer Charles O'Connor of New York to manage the legal proceedings hereinafter referred to.

About 177S to 1780 a sailor named Bowen, belonging to Providence, R.I., was lost at sea, leaving in that place a widow, Phebe, with two young daughters, Polly and Betsey, both horn probably between 1773 ^^^ ^111 - On the i6th of Sept. 1790, the widow married Capt. Jonathan Clark, who had served in the Revolution, a native of Weymouth, by trade a shoemaker, poor and somewhat dissipated. They were married in Providence, and resided there with her two daughters [2lxs.A perhaps 2, son) till June 4, 1 79 1, when they were "expelled" from Yxoy'\d.Qv\z&, probably lest they should become a town charge. In Feb. 1793, they were in Rehoboth, an adjoining town across the Seekonk River in Massachusetts ; in September of that year in Taunton, and in Feb. 1794, they were residing in Brookfield, at the house indicated above, whence they removed the next summer to Rutland, Mass., where they lived until the autumn of 1797. Their " manner of life " previously may be inferred from what it was in Rutland. There they lived in a small one-story cabin, partly under ground, about fifteen or twenty feet in area, built into the southerly side of a sand hill, called "Goose Hill," in what is known as "New Boston." The site of their house is now included in a town burying-ground, first used as such about sixty years ago, and stood where the gate now stands. It had but one room, which the whole family occupied in common, with a single chimney on one side ; with two doors leading respectively to the road and to the roof. Just within the front door, opening upon a road now discontinued, Clark used to sit at his bench, and work at his trade. His wife worked out in the families of their neighbors, to whom she not unfrequently complained of the crossness of her husband. He had become quite dissipated, but retained his taste for reading, to which he was much given.

The family did not go to meeting, nor the girls to school, nor did the girls visit the neighboring houses ; and some incidents related by old people who in 1834 recollected the family, indicated that the reputation of the young women was not above suspicion.

Mr. Edsall writes July 8, 1S84, " I had fifteen receipts, which were given to Clark in Sept. 1797, the last month probably of his residence in Rutland, all except one given for 'one dollar in full of all demands,' which indicated that he spent that month in settling up with his neighbors, showing that he was not entirely itnpeczmious. It is not impossible that their departure was made in anticipation of a * warning' from the town authorities. Sometime that autumn (1797) Clark and his family removed to North Carolina, where both parents were carried off by an epidemic in 1798. The two girls managed in some way to get to Washington, and afterwards to New York, where Betsey, who possessed great beauty and an attractive manner, captivated the very wealthy French merchant Stephen Jumel, and became his wife. The date of their marriage cannot be accurately determined, but was about 1804 to 1808." Thus the lowly-born, uneducated Betsey Bowen rose from her obscurity and poverty, and became the wife of one of the merchant princes of New York, the possessor of wealth, and every thing that wealth could command.

They lived together until 1832, when Jumel died, having settled upon his wife a very large estate, and she was designated as " Madame Jumel."

Late in the same year, 1832, she was married to Aaron Burr, who had been Vice- President of the United States from 1801 to 1S05, the first term of President Jefferson's administration.

This was an ill-advised, unhappy, and brief union. He was then seventy-six, and she about fifty-five. They separated in 1833, and she commenced a suit for divorce that year or the ne.xt.

The date of the decree of divorce is not found on the records of New York ; and it is not impossible that none was obtained ; but b}\ decree or ivithotit one, they were separated, and she took the name of her first husband, and was ever afterwards known as " Madame Jumel."

Having unlimited means at her disposal, she spent much of her time in France, residing alternately in the French capital and in our own commercial metropolis.

She was for many years well known at Saratoga Springs and Niagara Falls by most of the fashionable visitors at these fashionable places, and occasionally spent a winter in New Orleans. The estate settled on her by her first husband consisted largely in real estate in New York City, - on Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and other streets, - and a large tract of land on Washington Heights, including the historic mansion of the English Col. Morris, overlooking Harlem River, in which she resided at the time of her death.

She owned a large amount of real estate at Saratoga Springs, purchased by herself; and here she used to make great display of dress and equipage at her annual visits.

Madame Jumel was endowed by nature with wonderful personal beauty of form and feature, united with a most attractive and fascinating manner, and these characteristics, together with great mental vivacity, she retained to old age, even to the very verge of life. She died at the "Jumel Mansion" in New York, June 14, 1S65, aged over ninety years.

After her death her will was admitted to probate, giving the bulk of her estate to the Episcopal Church and its rector at Washington Heights, and to various charitable societies and institutions. The members of her family, consisting of a nephew and niece, children of a daughter of her sister Polly, whom she had adopted, and their father Nelson Chase, Esq., a lawyer of New York City, all of whom resided with her, and had reasonably expected to succeed to her estate, were given but little.

The late celebrated Charles O'Connor was retained on their behalf, and he brought suit to annul the will. It was in the course of his preparation for the trial of this case which engrossed all his great learning, and which he intended to make the crowning effort of his professional career, that the early history of " Madame Jumel " was hunted up, and the clouds of romance which had surrounded it were dissipated.

The will was set aside, and Mr. Chase and his children became possessed of the estate. But their tenure was soon assailed from another quarter. By the laws of New York, an illegitimate child inherits from the mother.

The will being out of the way, George Washington Bowen, a citizen of Providence, R.I., brought suit to recover a part of the property, claiming to be the son of Betsey Bowen born out of marriage at that place in 1794. After a long and severe contest, in which Hon. George F. Hoar of Massachusetts was leading counsel for the claimant, Mr. O'Connor scored another victory for his clients. Still another attack was made by the children of Polly Bowen, who had married a brassfounder named Jones, and claimed the estate as heirs-at-law of their aunt. In this case the notorious Count Johannes, once an actor, named George Jones, represented the plaintiffs, who were defeated. Finally, the heirs of Stephen Jumel in France and elsewhere, came forward to assert their claims to the estate, and brought suit which resulted in a compromise ; and the property which has so long been the subject of litigation has now been sold, and its proceeds divided.

Mr. Chase became the purchaser of the " Jumel Mansion," which he now occupies as his residence. The compromises which ended the litigation were successively made within a year or so (i.e., in 1882 or 1S83). The value of the property at that time (parts of it having been theretofore taken for public use - for a reservoir at High Bridge, and for other purposes, besides what was dissipated in the many litigations), was probably more than a million of dollars. Lower prices were obtained at the public sale than could have been realized at private sale a few years before, when there was speculation in up-town lots.

Mr. Chase once told Mr. Edsall that he had received a bona fide offer of three million dollars for the up-town tracts, which he had reason to think was made in behalf of the late imperial family of France on the eve of its downfall.

" Madame Jumel's Property to be sold, New York, June jo, 1881. After protracted litigation Judge Barrett to-day rendered a decision decreeing the sale of old Madame Jumel's property, possession of which has been contested by the heirs since 1S65. The property consists of 1,400 lots in different parts of the city."

KANE, Edward, b. Ireland, 1S21, m. Mary Ann Powers of Greeenville, R.I., 1856. They lived many years on what was the old Nathan Thompson place, one and a half miles east of North Brookfield Village. No issue.

KEEP, William E., son of Noble Keep and Ann (Johnson) of Leverett, b. Hillsboro, N.H., June 22, 1810; shoemaker, mariner, &c. ; his grandfather was Moses, who lived and died in Leverett; m. (i) 1S35, Almira Waite of North Brookfield, who d. Apr. 5, i860; (2) widow Rice of Philadelphia; (3) widow Cooper of Worcester; (4) widow Jane Rice (nee Giles) of Athol. Children, Lutlte7-a Ann, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 25, 1835, d. July 15, 1837; John, b. Philadelphia, 1846, killed in battle at Antietam ; William, b. 1848, d. in Andersonville prison.

KEITH, Bezer, b. Warren; a painter; m. Sept. 10, 1845, Louisa Harwood of North Brookfield, who d. there May 2S, 1847, and he d. Chicago about 1862. Child (North Brookfield), Jonas Harwood, b. Dec. 14, 1846 ; m. Catherine Hewitt of Council Bluffs, la.

KEITH, Isaac N., b. Bridgewater or Oakham, Oct. 11, 1804, m. Nov. 16, 1828, Martha Maria Bruce of North Brookfield, and d. North Brookfield, Oct. 16, 1831 ; she m. (2) John M. Doane of North Brookfield ; (3) Capt. Joseph Hartwell of Ware, and is now a widow. Child, Henry Newton, b. North Brookfield, Apr. 18, 1830, d. Oct. 17, 1831.

15. George Perley, son of Perley 8, m. May 6, 1852, Mary Ann Bemis, daughter of Nathaniel 2 of Brookfield. Children, Anna Maria, b. Sturbridge, Sept. 6, 1855, m. Feb. 3, 1881, John P. Ranger of North Brookfield; Charles Bemis, b. July 27, 1859; Frank Mayo, b. Brookfield, May 31, 1S63; Bertie Stanley and Samuel Frederick (twins), b. July 14, 1871.

KIELY, Thomas, b. Ireland, m. Aug. 14, 1844, Elizabeth Quigley at Albany, N.Y., and d. Salem, Oct. 26, 1S55. Children, Elizabeth b. Brimfield, July, 1845, m. Apr. 16, 1870, Michael McNamara of North Brookfield ; John, b. Worcester, Oct. 184S ; Catherine, b. Salem, Oct. 1853. [Elizabeth Quigley was thp first Irish girl in West Brookfield ; her mother died at thirty-eight years of age, leaving seven children, - six living in North Brookfield, and one in Rutland.]

King

9. Cheney Potter, son of John 5 ; a conductor; m. Nov. 1S52, Jane A. Pike of Petersham, and d. Worcester, July 17, 1864. Child, d. 3 days old.

KING, William C. 1, b. Franklin, Dec. 31, 1820, m. Dec. 12, 184S, Emeline Batcheller of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Tyler Batcheller, b. Sept. 20, 1S54; lawyer in Boston; m. Feb. 27, 1883, Annie Eichberg of Boston; she was b. Geneva, Switzerland, and brought by her parents to Boston, when an infant; Mary E., b. July 31, 1861, m. May 6, 1885, at North Brookfield, Dr. Julius Garst, b. Dayton, O., Dec. 12, 1855.

3. Henry W., son of George 2; lawyer, firm of Rice & King, Worcester, but resides North Brookfield. He m. May 9, 18S0, Florence W. Le Favour of Boston Highlands. Child, George Adams, b. North Brookfield, Dec. 28, 1883 t-^^- ^.""g is a member of the committee on Town History].

3. George A., son of Joel M. 2, m. June 11, 1874, Louisa M. Holmes of Sturbridge. Child, George Russell, b. North Brookfield, June 14, 1877.

4. John, son of John 3, m. Mary . Child, Benjamin, a physician in Tewksbury and Andover, where he d. July 10, 1776 [children, all physicians; Benjamin of Exeter ; Henry of Tewksbury ; John of Framingham ; Jacob of Billerica and Ohio ; Rufus of Portsmouth ; George of Epping, N.H. ; Theodore of Kittery, Me. ; and Charles of Watertown]. John, Sen., probably had other children.

12. Asaph, son of Jacob 6; a physician; studied medicine under his father's tuition, and completed his course in Boston in 1812 ; was assistant surgeon onboard a privateer. In 1815 he rode from Boston to Paris, Me., on horseback, where he eventually settled, in the north part of the town, and continued in a successful practice fifty years, till 1866. His physical weight was about three hundred pounds ; a man of good common sense, a sound judgment, of social and cheerful disposition.

abstemious habits, and an inveterate smoker; he was in his most amiable mood after a good dinner, and a pipe smoke. He m. (i) Eliza Stowell of Paris, Me. ; (2) Janette Young of North Yarmouth, Me., after whose decease he removed, in 1867, to New Haven, Ct., where he d. Feb. 6, 1868, of spinal disease, from which he had suffered for two years previous. Children (Paris), Charles F., m, (2) Julia (Harrington) Bigelow of New Braintree; Eliza, d. ; George ; resides in St. Louis.

18. Benjamin Franklin, son of Edward Augustus 16 ; superintendent oil works in Petrolia, Can. ; m. Apr. 27, 1S76, Sophia Lancaster of Petrolia. Child, Edward Lancaster, b. in Petrolia, .

2. Hiram, son of Silas 1, was town clerk twenty-eight years, between 1852 and 1882 ; school committee ten years ; selectman five years ; town treasurer three years; assessor in 1869; overseer of the poor twenty years; chairman of committee to lay out and fit up Walnut Grove Cemetery, 1855-6; United States Enrolling Officer, 1861 to 1863 ; United States Assistant Assessor Internal Revenue, 1865 to 1870, including the towns of North Brookfield, Oakham, New Braintree, West Brookfield, and Warren ; justice of the peace since 1853 ; clerk, treasurer, collector, and prudential committee in Congregational Society several years ; treasurer and secretary of North Brookfield Savings Bank from its incorporation, 1853, ten years; representative from Twelfth Worcester District to Legislature of 1882; member of the Town Plistory Committee from 1879 ; a merchant from 1840 to 1865 , clerk in shoe factory from 1871 to 1882. He m. (i) June 19, 1838, Louisa Allen of Oakham, who d. North Brookfield, Nov. 11, 1839 ; (2) Nov. 29, 1842, Sarah Amelia Foster of Barre Centre, N.Y. Children (North Brookfield), James Allen, b. Sept. 8, 1839, m. Sept. 25, 1862, Susan M. Swift of Southbridge. He was a private in Company F, Forty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and d. Aug. 10, 1863, on board steamer " Granite State," in Long Island Sound, on the passage home from New Orleans; Sarah Louisa, b. July 15, 1844, d. Aug. 24, 1845; Helen Amelia, b. Nov. 2, 1846, d. Feb. 14, 1848 ; Hiram Arthur, b. Apr. 24, 1851 4; Harriet Elizabeth, b. Dec. 11, 1S53, m. June 6, 1878, Rev. George H. Wilson of North Brookfield ; Carrie Foster, b. Aug. 26, 1S56 ; Robert Aden, b. May 7, i860.

3. Charles S. (changed from Joshua L.), son of Silas 1 ; lived in Leicester from 1844 to 1862, where he was constable, assessor, collector, treasurer, school commit- tee, selectman, and chairman of the board when he left the State in 1862 ; a member of Forty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers ; taught school in Leicester many years. After his discharge from the regiment was in business in New York City till 1875 ; came to North Brookfield as warden of the town farm in 1876, of which he had charge six years, then bought the Capt. John Knight or " Brick House place." He m. (i) May 21, 1S46, Anna S. Howard of Leicester, who d. Feb. 19, 1856; (2) Nov. 16, i860, Louisa A. Edwards of Leicester. Children, Charles A. H., b. Leicester, Jan. 17, 1849, ^- Sept. 25, 1S49 ; Ruth N., b. Feb. 7, 1851, an accountant in Worcester; Frederick, b. Sept. 23, 1853, m. Sept. 20, 1880, Abbie E. Chase of Worcester; Fra7ik, b. Feb. 3, 1856, d. Apr. 11, 1856; Cora B., b. Aug. 4, 1864 ; James Arthur, b. Oct. 9, 1867, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 30, 1883 ; Charles Lester, b. Dec. 4, 1S69 ; Lou, b. New York, Dec. 22, 1871, d. there July 8, 1875; Jennie L., b. North Brookfield, Mar. i, 187S.

4. Hiram Arthur, son of Hiram 2, expressman ; m. Dec. 16, 1879, Hattie A. Doane of East Brookfield. Children, Albert Pliny, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 10, 1881 ; Marion Elizabeth, b. West Brookfield, Feb. 5, 1884.

KNIGHT, Joshua 5, b. Boston or vicinity, 1778. He and his brother Caleb were orphan inmates of an almshouse, but were " put cut " by the authorities to farmers - Joshua, in Charlton or Spencer ; he lived in Spencer several years after marriage, and came to this town about 1807. He m. Huldah Rowland, probably of Charlton, who d. Jan. 27, 1844, aged 71 ; he d. May, 1S47. Children, Daniel Rowland, b. Spencer, May 9, 1802 6 ; John, b. Jan. 2, 1804 7 ; Alvira, b. North Brookfield, 1807, d. Nov. 23, 1S66; Huldah, b. 1810, m. Aug. 31, 1837, Allen Harrington of Brookfield, and d. North Brookfield, June 10, 1844 ; a child, d. Sept. 27, 1807, aged two years.

9. Daniel Webster, son of Daniel R. 6, was representative at General Court, and served three years in the Union army; m. June 20, 1866, Francis M. Wood of North Brookfield ; a child, d. at birth.

KNOWLTON, Robert, a farmer, came here probably from Shrewsbury, and lived on the E. B. Bush, now J. C. Converse, place. He m. Mar. 13, 1807, Elizabeth (or Lydia) Thurston of Westboro, and d. Nov. 18, 1818, aged 44; was found dead in the road ; had gone into the woods that day to cut a well-pole, and, on his return home, had apparently sat down by the wayside to rest, where he expired, and was shortly afterwards found by a Mr. Harwood. His widow m. (2) Oct. 5, 18 19, Josiah Bush of North Brookfield, and after his decease, returned to Westboro, where she d. Feb. 8, 1S60.

2. John F., son of Samuel 1, m. Ellen Whitcomb of Waltham ; he was killed by sharpshooters at Petersburg, Va., June 29, 1864. Children, Mary, b. New Braintree, d. infancy ; Nathan, b. Spencer, m, in Maine ; Etta, b. North Brookfield, m. Aug. 23, 1884, Roderick E. Chesley of North Brookfield ; Eddie, b. New Braintree ; resides Maine.

LAMSON, John 1, a tailor and farmer, came to town about 1750, from New Hampshire, as supposed. He lived where George Jenks lived and died. He subsequently succeeded to the ownership of the place, which descended to his son William, and grandson William P., now owned by J. N. Brown. His paternal ancestor William, settled in that part of Ipswich now Hamilton, where he d. Feb. i, 1658-9; had eight children ; his widow Sarah m. (2) Thomas Hartshorn of Reading. Jonathan a great-grandson of said William had six sons, one of whom settled in New Boston, and another in Mount Vernon, N.H., from one of whom descended the

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4. William Pinckney, son of William 3, lived and d. on the farm owned by his father and grandfather Lamson and his great-grandfather Weeks. He m. June 8, 1S37, Eliza Gilmore of Greenwich, and d. Oct. 15, 1857. Children (North Brookfield), yoh7i Dexter, b. Feb. 25, 1S3S 6; Charles H., b. Apr. 21, 1843, "^- J'^^e, 1875, Hattie Lowe of Worcester, and d. there Dec. 30, 1S78; Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 22, 1845; George Lyman, b. Feb. 4, 1848, m. Sept. 1S79, Ellen P. Adams of Milford.

widow of Trowbridge Rainger of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), James E.,h. May 5, 1S49 2; Alice M., b. Sept. 25, 1851, m. July 4, 1871, Charles W. Dustin of Springfield.

2. John F., son of John 1, m. 1867, widow Frances M. Childs of Oxford. He served in the Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers three years, in the civil war. Children, John F., b. North Brookfield, July, 1S68, d. Nov. 30, 18S0 ; Ralph Brooks, b. Jan. 10, 1875, d- -D^c. i, 1880. Her son Harrie D. Childs, b. Oxford, i860, m. Nov. 29, 1880, Carrie L. Stoddard of North Brookfield.

hardware merchant, Fitchburg; m. May 24, 187J, Abbie L. Phillips of Worcester; Mary Elizabeth, b. May 11, 1851 ; Ltuy Angenette, b. Mar. 23, 1S54.

LAWRENCE, Horace J., b. New York, Aug. 25, 1850; editor and publisher of the A'orth Brookfield Journal ; m. Oct. 3, 1876, Laura Peirce Blanchard of Palmer, b. Jan. 29, 1854. Child, Frances Temple, b. Palmer, Aug. 26, 1878.

LEAVITT, Adolphus, b. Canada, m. Jan. 1S54, Sarah Lupin of North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Peter, b. 1857; Alevena, b. 1859; Dono, b. 1873 > Mary Loitisa, b. 1876 ; Arthur, b. 1S78. Five other children have died.

LINCOLN, Christopher 1, b. Hingham, Nov. 8, 1779; a tailor; m. Feb. 9, 1805, Eliza Williston of Boston, and d. Walpole, N.H., Oct. 18, 1830. Children, Christopher C, b. Boston, Nov. 12, 1805, <^- there Mar. 10, 1810; Samuel Williston, b. June 12, 180S ; was in the army in Texas under Gen. Samuel Houston, during her struggle for Independence ; enlisted in the United-States Navy at the outbreak of the Mexican war ; was at the bombardment of Vera Cruz, and other engagements ; served in the Navy during the Rebellion, and was at the taking of Mobile, and was more than twenty years in the naval service of United States, and is now a disabled soldier in the " Home" at Wollaston, Mass.; Eliza Ann, b. June 16, 1810, d. North Brookfield, Dec. 30, 1868 ; Eleazer Jackson, b. Feb. 20, 1814, d. July 14, following; Mary Jackson, b. Nov. 18, 1S15, m. May, 1851, James T. White of Roxbury ; Harriet Newell, b. Jan. 14, 1818, a dressmaker; George Caleb, b. Jan. 9, 1S21 2 ; Sarah Maria, b. Walpole, N.H., Apr. 5, 1823, m. Sept. 28, 1845, Griffin C. Reynolds of Boston; Charles Spragiie, b. Apr. 20, 1825 ; a lawyer ; m. Oct. 8, 1856, Louise E. Plimpton of Somerville ; John Bradford, b. Dec. 8, 1828, m. Dec. 24, 1863, Hannah E. Kemp of Westboro, and d. there Oct. 30, 1864.

2. George Caleb, son of Christopher 1, a shoe manufacturer and merchant ; m. (i) Marinda Julia Evans of Windsor, Vt., July, 1843 (-) Apr. 2, 1857, Anna Maria Leach of Northboro. Children, Charles Sfrague, b. Walpole, N.H., Feb. 22, 1849,

George C. Lincoln, the father, was selectman, 1866-7, ^nd from 1869 to 1879 ; town treasurer 1868 to 1877 > representative to General Court, 1878; occupied the south store in the Town House, when it was burnt in 1862. His son George T., and Fergus Lee Adams (nephew of Hon. Charles Adams, jr.), lads fifteen years old, established the North Brookfeld Journal znd job-printing office, Jan. i, 1874, which they continued until Oct. 17, 1876, when Adams sold out to Lincoln, and entered the State Printing Office at Boston. Sickness soon compelled him to return home, where he d. June 14, 1877. Jan. i, 1878, Lincoln sold out to George French, who afterwards disposed of it to H. J. Lawrence.

2. Joseph H., son of F. H., foreman in shoe factory; served 3 years in Company F, Thirty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, in the civil war; m. Dec. 24, 1861, Rindie E. Allen of Sturbridge. Children, Mabel A., b. Sturbridge, July 13, 1S64; Fannie L., b. Brookfield, Aug. 26, 1866.

LOWE, Abraham 1, b. Lunenburg, Feb. 11, 1755 ; a physician ; m. Oct. 30, 17S8, Charlotte Hale of Rindge, N.H., and d. Ashburnham, Oct. 23, 1S34. Children (Ashburnham), Abigail H., b. Jan. 24, 1791, m. June 10, 1814, William H. Cutler of Killingly, Ct., and d. at Andover, Oct. 24, 1873; Charlotte, b. May 29, 1793, m. June 4, 1S40, David Goodwin of Chelsea, Vt., and d. Ashburnham, Mar. 1877 ; Abi-a/iam Thompson, h. Aug. 15, 1796; banker, Boston; was educated a physician, then became a wholesale druggist in Boston, in which he acquired a fortune ; for many years president and active manager of the First National Bank in Boston, and is well known on State Street as a thorough financier. He m. (i) Emma Barr of Ashby ; (2) her sister Susan Barr ; (3) her sister Eliza Barr ; (4) 1861, Cordelia Burditt of Cambridge ; Mary H., b. May 9, 1801, m. May 4, 1S25, Samuel Woods of Andover, and d. Ashburnham, Dec. 1838 ; George H., b. May 12, 1803 2.

3. George A., son of George H. 2, a merchant in Salt Lake City, Utah; m. Oct 9, 1S66. Anna M. Dewing of North Brookfield. Children, Alice, b. Chicago, Jan. 1S6S, d. same month; Catherine Amelia, b. Corrinne, Utah, Oct. 22, 1873.

LUCE, Asa 1, b. Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard; m. Mary Waite of North Brookfield, and d. New Braintree. Had son James, b. North Brookfield, July 18, 1835 2, and several other children.

LYSCOM, John, jr., a farmer, captain of militia, member of the Committee of Correspondence of Brookfield, chosen Sept. 12, 1774, and was prominent in military affairs during the Revolutionary War; lived on the Bell place; d. Jan. 29, 1803, aged seventy-four. He m. May 6, 1784, Phebe Crabtree of Brookfield.

MACOMBER, John 1, b. Oakham; carpenter; m. Abigail Packard of Oakham, who d. Worcester, Nov. 6, 18S4; he d. in Oakham. Children, Gardner, b. 1826; machinist ; m. Henrietta Woodis of Oakham ; Lnther, b. 1828 ; a carpenter ; m. Kaw Ho Waharo, a native of the Sandwich Islands ; John, b. 1834 2 ; Edzain, d. New Haven; George, d. Arizona; James, d. in the army at Newbern, N.C. ; Abigail;

MAGNER, Edward, b. Ireland, m. Mary Murphy of Ireland, and came here in 1865; she d. Northampton. Children, John, b. Ireland, 1862; Patrick, b. 1864; Timothy, b. 1865; William, b. North Brookfield, Feb. 7, 1870.

MAHONEY, John, 2d, b. County Cork, Ireland, 1823, m. in Chicopee, Jan. 19, 1856, Bridget Carroll of Bally Kelly, County Clare, Ireland. This family came from Ware, Feb. 14, 1857, and lived near the old Hale place. Children (North Brookfield), Mary A., b. May 29, 1857 ; ICate, b. Nov. 29, 1S59 ; James, b. Hardwick, May 9, 1863; Nellie M., b. North Brookfield, Sept. 29, 1865.

MAHONEY, Patrick, b. " Letter," m. in Goleen, Kate Leary of Cahir, Ireland, and d. in " Letter." Children, yohaiina, b. Dong, County Cork, Ireland, 180S, m. in Crookhaven, Jonathan Downey of Ballyouge, Ireland ; resides North Brookfield ; James, b. 181 1, m. in Goleen, Mary Driscoll of "Letter;" farmer in Ireland; Michael, b. 1814, d. in Dong; Patrick, b. 1817, d. "Letter;" A^ancy, b. 1820, m. in Goleen, Florence Canty of Craughan ; resides Corin, County Cork ; yohii, b. 1823 ; farmer ; m. in Chicopee, Jan. 19, 1S56, Bridget Carroll of Bally Kelly ; resides North Brookfield; Mary, b. "Letter," 1826, m. in Goleen, Timothy McCarty o£ Carnaugh, County Cork; resides Buffalo, N.Y. ; Timothy, b. 1829; farmer; m. in Chicopee, Kate Hair of Innisdiinan, Ireland; resides Ware; Cornelitis, b. 1832; farmer; m. in Goleen, Kate McCarty of Ballyouge, Ireland; Ellen, b. 1835; m. in New Bedford, Timothy Sullivan of Cain, Ireland, and d. New Bedford, July i, 1865.

MAHONEY, Patrick, b. Ireland, m. in Boston, Ellen Miller, nee O'Brien, widow of William Miller, b. Ireland, 1829. She m. said Miller, 1S43, came to New England, 1846 ; the ship was lost at sea, her husband was drowned, and she with her fourteen-months old child strapped to her back was drawn ashore by the saiiors.

MAHONEY, John, b. Ireland, m. 1851, Mary Haley of North BrookfieM. She was b. Ireland, and d. North Brookfield. Children (North Brookfield), Eliot, b. 1S53, m. May 29, 1873, Michael. Noonan of North Brookfield; Mary, b. 1855; Timothy, h. 1S56; Daniel, h. 1858; Johit,\i. 1S60; Kate,h. 1S65.

MANDALL, Walter, b. in Hardwick, m. (i) Julia Freeman of Oakham ; (2) Adeline Paige of Hardwick ; (3) Almira Moulton of Hardwick, d. Hardwick, June, 1S52. Children (Hardwick), D. Webster, treasurer in Greenwich ; Henry E., farmer in Oakham ; Walter G., b. Oct. i, 1848; janitor in North Brookfield; m. Sept. 14, 1875, Anna E. Churchill of North Brookfield.

MARKS, Joseph, of Springfield, where he had a grant of land, located on the west side of the river, dated Feb. 2, 1685; was a soldier in Capt. Bull's company, which was sent to Albany and Schenectady in November, 1689, to protect the English settlers there against the French and Indians. In a skirmish, Marks and Samuel Beamon were taken prisoners. Beamon escaped ; but Marks was carried to Canada, whence, after a varied experience, he returned about March, 1692, and soon after came to Brookfield, where he received a grant of sixty acres of upland for a houselot. He afterwards had additional grants of a hundred and eighty acres. His was one of the "fortified houses," named in connection with the Indian wars. He and his sons had extensive grants of land on the southerly side of Quabaug river, between Lashaway and the west line of the old township. " Marks's mountain," in Warren, is named for him.

MARSH, John, b. Grafton, Jan. 2, 17SS, m. Mar. 16, 1811, Roxana Bruce of North Brookfield, and d. North Brookfield, Oct. 2, 1816; she was«daughter of Antipas Bruce, and d. Sept. 22, 1828. Children, Tivins, b. and d. North Brookfield, Dec. 19, 181 1 ; Roxaiia Bruce, b. Feb. 10,. 1S13, ni. Apr 7, 1833, Danforth Gilbert of North Brookfield, who d. Sept. 28, 1S39 ; yoh)i E., b. Mar. 10, iSi6; name changed to Marshall; was a merchant in Philadelphia, where he d. Sept. 1864; m. Mar. 1841, Susan Babbit of Barre [child, Clara Jane, b. 1S41, m. and settled in Philadelphia].

MARTIN, Oramel, M.D., son of Samuel (and Azubah) of Douglas (who was b. 1770), b. Hoosick, N.Y., July 21, 1810. His grandfather, Isaac, was b. Douglas, and d. Whitingham, Vt. ; his great-grandfather was b. Dublin, Ireland - his wife was Mrs. O'Neill. His mother Azubah, b. Woodstock, Ct., and d. in McDonough, N.Y. ; her father was Mason Martin, who d. at Coleraine ; his great-grandfather was William Deliverance Seaborn Martin, he being b. on his passage from England here. Mr. Martin was a school teacher in New York State at 19, and afterwards studied medicine at Rowe ; graduated at Castleton, Vt., 1832, and at Pittsfield, fall of 1833, and came soon after to New Braintree, and practised about twelve years. In 1845-6, he was in the hospitals in France. Practised in North Brookfield from Aug. 1846, to Apr. 30, 1848; in Hopkinton, to Jan. 31, 1850, thence to Worcester, where he now resides. He m. (i) Mar. 28, 1S37, Elmina B. Borden of New Braintree, who d. June 19, 1S64; (2) Nov. 28, 1S67, Emma Houston of Manchester, N.H. Children, JiiUa M., b. New Braintree, Feb. 23, 1840, m. Dec. 8, 1875, Samuel Utley of Worcester ; Susan E., b. July 12, 1843.

MARTIN, Saxton P., M.D., son of Samuel, and nephew of Dr. Oramel, b. Whitingham, Vt., Sept. 24, 1S24. He studied medicine with his uncle. Dr. Oramel ; graduated Pittsfield Medical School - practised a few months in New York State, and came to Oakham, 1850, where he remained a few years and removed to New Braintree; then to Millbury, two years; thence to Hudson, Wis.; then returned to New Braintree ; then came to North Brookfield, where he practised dentistry, also in Worcester, during which time he accumulated a small fortune of about $12,000. He m. Feb. 29, 1851, Aurilla J. Daniels of McDonough, N.Y., and d. there Nov. 29, 1873; she was b. May 24, 1S23. Children, Josephine Aurelia, b. Oakham, July 13,

MARTIN, Thomas, b. Ireland; ni. Ann McGara, who d. in Ireland ; he d. Albany, N.Y., Feb. 1875. Child, IMichael, b. Ireland, Apr. 12, 1840, m. Nancy Keith of Leicester, Nov. 1878.

MATTHEWS, Daniel, jr., millwright, from Southboro, bought of William Ayres, Apr. 24, 1749, land and mill privilege on Sucker brook, near the New Braintree line ; d.'in 1805, leaving a legacy of twenty-five dollars to the Second Parish. He m. Huldah Putnam, b. May 25, 1734, of Sutton, a sister of Gen. Rufus Putnam. Children recorded in Brookfield, Daniel, b. July 20, 1754, d. Dec. 21, 1756; Susanna, b. July 29, 1756, d. Sept. 24, 1758.

2. David, son of Silas, b. Leverett, Dec. 27, 1778 ; m. Nov. 25, 1802, Lydia, daughter of Thomas Rainger of Brookfield, and d. there Aug. 4, 1859. Children, Hiratn, b. Brookfield, Jan. 5, 1804; a grocer; m. (i) Phebe Adams of Brookfield ; (2) Mercy Ketchum, in Troy, N.Y. ; (3) Alzina Nichols of New York State, and d. Troy, Apr. 27, 1870; Harriet Woods, b. Hardwick, July 29, 1806; m. (i) Cephas Bemis of Spencer; (2) John F. Dewing of North Brookfield, and d. North Brookfield, Jan. 30, 1873; b. July 2, 1808, m. Frederick Burden of Stafford, Ct., and d. Connecticut, Sept. 20, 1850; Fanny Rainger, b. Brookfield, May 8, 1816, m. in Brookfield, May 24, 1835, Slade A. Earle of Leicester.

MAXWELL, Cornelius C, b. Bordeaux, France; a barber; m. Mary Donohue of Boston, and d. North Brookfield, Mar. 2, 1878; she d. Jan. 1883, aged 75; no issue.

MAY, Asa 1, b. Spencer, m. about 1821, Lydia Moulton of Spencer, and d. there Jan. 1S3S. Children (Spencer), Louisa Ann, d. June, 1S3S; Isaac Moulton, b. Aug. 18, 1825 2; Chloe Maria, m. Turner C. Davis of Oxford; Joel Henry, b. Mar. 4,

McCarthy, Andrew, b. Ireland, m. in Brookline, 1856.', Mary . Children (North Brookfield), Honora, b. Nov. ; Bridget, b. Jan. 1867, Katie, b.

McCONNELL, John B., b. Wallingford, Vt , 1845; machine agent; m. 1873, Katie Connolly in Vermont. Children, Fdix 3"., b. Monson, July, 1876; William A., b. Pittsfield, Sept. 1877.

McMAHAN, John (known as John Mahan), b. Ireland; carpenter; m. Jane Gilhooly -of Ireland. Children, Mary, b. Worcester, Mar. 1849, m. Nov. 1868, James Conroy of North Brookfield; James, b. July, 1851, m. Ellen Mahan of Sutton; Rosajtna, b. Sept. 1853, m. Morris Egan of Worcester; Elleti, b. 1854; John, b. Apr. 1S56; Catherine, b. i860, m. David Snow of Worcester.

MEAD, Zaccheus 1, b. Mattapoisett (formerly Rochester), 1725; a tailor; m. Nov. 27, 1755, Sarah Barlow of Rochester, and d. North Brookfield, Feb. 24, 1825, aged ninety-nine; she d. North Brookfield, July 13, 1810, aged eighty-three. Children, Afine, b. Rochester, Nov. 18, 175S ; Ebenezer, b. 1760 2 ; Samuel, b. 1764, m. 1797, Sukey Clapp of Rochester. [Mattapoisett (fornlferly Rochester) incorporated

MELLEN, David, b. Oxford, Mav 14, 1759; laborer; m. Grace Stoddard of Hingham, and d. Charlestown, about 1830. Children, Samuel, d. Oakham, 1823 ; Abel, m. (i) 1826, Charlotte Perkins of York, Me. ; (2) about 1829, Mary A. Helms of Nova Scotia, and d. Charle«town; Adeline (twin), m. John Chamberlain ; Fra, b. Sept. 17, 1799; restaurant keeper; m. Nov. 16, 1825, Mary A. Gillard of Boston, and d. Charlestown, Sept. 5. 1837; David, b. Oakham, Mar. 15,1804; restaurant keeper; m. Aug. 20, 1827. Sarah Ann Hilton of Boston, and d. Charlestown, Nov. 16, 1835; Thomas Sitell, b. North Brookfield, 1807, m. (i) Aug. 31, 1830, Rebecca Perry; (2) Eliza Turner Merriam of Charlestown, who d. Sept. 10, 1873, 3ged 65; George Washington, h. Oakham; painter; m. Sophia Ballard of Charlestown, and d. Dedham ; Catherine, lived in the family of Otis Stone, and d. there about 1829; Mary.xw.^oX-Wi Chamberlain of Charlestown, and d. there about 1836; James, h. Nov. I, 1815; building mover ; m. Sept. 10, 1837, Sarah A. (Hilton) Mellen, widow of his brother David, and d. Cambridge, June 11, 1876.

MERRIAM, Isaac S., b. Oxford, Nov. 15, 1S14, m. May 10, 1840, Josephine B. Beard of Hillsborough, Ga. Town clerk in Auburn and justice of the peace twenty years. Children, Thomas, b. Macon, Ga., Feb. 12, 1S41 ; machinist in Worcester;

2. James, Deacon, son of Comfort 1, superintendent of Batcheller's shoe factory ; was representative from Barre in 1857 ; school committee in North Brookfield, 1S61-2; was corporal Company F, Forty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; m. Nov. 23, 1S48, Julia A. Lincoln of Oakham. Children, Julia Frances, b. New Braintree, Sept. 2, 1S49, i"- ^ct. 21^ 1S69, Emerson H. Stoddard of North Brookfield; resides East Brookfield; Emma Harriet, h. yi.2ir. 19, 1S52, d. Feb. 25, 1S54; Ja/Hes Edward, b. Barre, Aug. 24, 1855, m. Apr. 20, 1S80, Olive A. Holmes of North Brookfield; Horatio Lincoln, h. North Brookfield, Mar. 9, 1S61 ; Laura Maria, h.'6&^t. 14, 1862; Clara Almira, b. July 3, 1864, d. Jan. 20, 1S66; Editk Rebecca, b. Jan. 29, 186S.

MIRICK, Thomas 1, of Hartford, 1638, in which year he settled in Springfield; d. Sept. 7, 1704. He m. (i) July 14, 1639, Sarah Stebbins, daughter of Rowland; (2) Aug. 21, 1653, Elizabeth Tilley, d. Aug. 21, 16S4. He had five children by first wife, and eight by second wife. The sixth child by second wife was

MONTAGUE, James S., b. Fletcher, Vt., Mar. 19, 1818 ; resided in Brookfield ; boot and shoe manufacturer; deacon Congregational Church from 1844, till his death; town treasurer; selectman; representative, 1867; m. June 2, 1843, Rhoda B. Potter of North Brookfield, and d. Brookfield, Dec. 15, 1879. Children (Brookfield), Lucy Elizabeth, b. Jan. 16, 1845; teacher in Portland, Me.; Laura Electa, b. Aug. 26, 1848, d. Aug. 21, i860; William Frederick, b. Nov. 28, 1851 ; fruit ranch. Riverside, Cal.; m. July, 1879, Edna Louise Hall of Brookfield.

MONTAGUE, William H., b. Fletcher, Vt., Aug. 26, 1824; carpenter; afterwards boot manufacturer, and superintendent fifteen years of the Batcheller factory ; later in grain business in North Brookfield ; n». Feb. 2, 1854, Laura H. Potter of North Brookfield.

MONTAGUE, Richard, b. Aug. 2, 1799; merchant tailor and farmer; m. (i) Dec. 19, 1826, Content Skerry of North Brookfield, who d. Feb. 1842; (2) Mary Bradford of Keene, N.H.; (3) Caroline Farnsworth of Lancaster, and d. Rockford,

MOORE, Thomas 1, a farmer, m. (i) Apr. 24, 1747, Ruth Nichols of West Brookfield, who d. Nov. 17, 1765 ; (2) Sept. 1766, widow Priscilla Holland of Sutton, and d, Brookfield, Jan. 6, 1807. The Moores came from Marlboro to Worcester. Thomas and a brother Daniel came from Worcester to Brookfield; Thomas built

2. Thomas, Lieutenant, son of Thomas 1, m. July 26, 1770, Rebecca Harrington in Brookfield, and d. Cummington, June 12, 1842 ; she d. Chesterfield, Mar. 30, 1818, aged 64. Children (Brookfield), Thomas, b. July 15, 1771 ; physician; m. Betsey Vaughn of East Greenwich, R.I., and d. Chesterfield, May 15, iS6i [children,

MOORE, Nathan 1, b. Sudbury, Mar. 10, 1762, m. July 13, 1786, Mrs. Mercy Bruce, nee Gilbert of North Brookfield, who d. Apr. 28, 1837. He d. June 3, 1848; was in the Revolutionary war, and the old flint-lock gun, carried by him in the Revolution, and by his son Joseph A. (in the war of 1812), is now in possession of the youngest grandson of the latter. Children (North Brookfield), Sally, b. Jan. 19, 1787, d. Nov. II, 1865, unmarried; Alvan, b. May 18, 1789, m. Caroline Annable of Litchfield, N.Y., and d. Ware, 1835; Clarhsa,h. Mar. 18, 1791, m. July 21, 1814, William Snow of North Brookfield, and d. Chicopee, Dec. 19, 1874 ; Orttiacinda, b. May 27, 1793, m. William Thompson of New Braintree, and d. in West Brookfield Joseph Appletoii,h. Aug. 11, 1795 2; Mary, b. Oct. 10, 1797, m. Apr. i, 1823, Lyman Bush of North Brookfield; resides Exira, la.; Esther, b. Feb. 17, 1800, m. Apr. 11, 1822, Nathaniel Snow of North Brookfield, and d. Feb. 25, 1834; Josiah Warren, b. June 22, 1S05, d. Apr. 27, 1830 [Nathan had a brother Jonathan, b. Sudbury, about 1764, who lived unmarried many years with the Misses Wright, who lived to a great age, and d. unmarried. He returned to Sudbury, where he d. Their house stood south of the Jonathan Pellet brick house, where John Hoone now lives].

3. Joseph Appleton, son of Joseph A. 2, m. Aug. 24, 1852, Marietta S. Loring of Oakham ; a farmer in Papillion, Neb. Child, Isabelle Abigail, b. North Brookfield, June 7, 1854, m. in Oakham, Jan. i, 1874, Eben M. Lancaster of East Bowdoin ham, Me.

MORSE, Robert, b. a slave in Louis, Va., Aug. 1847. He fell in with Dr. Warren Tyler, when he was in the army, became his groom and body-servant, and came to North Brookfield with him. His master's name was Capt. James Dickinson. He m. Nov. 15, 1871, Fannie C. Williams, in North Brookfield ; b. Culpepper, Va., Dec. 1850. Children, Lizzie W., b. North Brookfield, Aug. 9, 1872 ; Isabelle, b. Aug. 21, 1S74; Sarah A., b. Virginia, May, 1876; Robert, b. North Brookfield, July 24, 1878 ; Frederick, b. Oct. 16, 1S85.

MULLIKIN, James B., b. New Jersey, Mar. 7, 1849; in corset shop, Worcester ; m. Oct. 30, 1S73, Emma L. Batcheller of North Brookfield, daughter of E. D. Batcheller, b. Mar. 14, 1852. Child, George Batcheller, b. Mar. 21, 1875.

MUNROE, Joshua 1, b. Spencer, Jan. 6, 1780; was son of Amos Munroe, and came from Lexington to Spencer ; farmer; m. Oct. 17, 1S05, Sarah Cutter of Spencer, and d. there 1859. Children (Spencer), Z^tc/w, m. Priscilla of Michigan;

3. Joshua, son of Joshua 1. His mother dying near the time of his birth, he was placed in the family of Mr. Andrew Buxton, where he was reared to man's estate ; was educated in the higher branches of study at Uxbridge and elsewhere, and taught school in North Brookfield and Spencer; went South, and became distinguished as a teacher in Maryland and Virginia. In 1876, removed West, and m. June I, 1876, Anna Graham of Washington County, Md. ; settled in Plainwell, Mich., on a small farm, as a fruit grower, where he d. Sept. 19, 1882 ; no issue.

MURPHY, Peter, b. Ireland, 1812; came to North Brookfield, 1846, m. Margaret Caulden, and d. Dec. 10, 18S2. Children (North Brookfield), Sarah, b. 1850; Catherine, b. 1854, m. George Kelly of Worcester; James, b. 1S57.

where he m. Miriam, daughter of Ebenezer Witt of Brookfield, who in his will (Feb. ig, 177 1 ), gives to Ebenezer, son of Daniel Newhall, deceased, an eighty acre lot, laid out to Enoch Hinds, the said Ebenezer to pay certain sums to the other children of Daniel Newhall. He d. Dec. 30, 1756, and his widow m. (2) Amos Hamilton 6, whose first wife, Lydia, d. Apr. 30, 1761. [Newhall Family, by H. F. Waters.] Children, Ebenezer, b. Brookfield, Feb. 13, 1745 2; Joseph, h. July 2, 1747 3; Jonas, b. Dec. 14, 1749, m. June 19, 1781, Azubah Bartlett of Brookfield; Daniel, b. May 10, 1754 ("m. Esther Warren of Leicester," H. F. Waters).

4. Ebenezer Francis, son of Colonel Ebenezer 2, known familiarly as Father Newell, became a member of the church at St. Stephens, New Brunswick, in 1800 ; licensed to preach at Loudon, N.H., Mar. 23, i8c6; ordained Deacon June 17, 1809, at Monmouth, Me. ; ordained Elder, June 24, 181 1. He preached first on Pembroke Circuit, N.H., extensively in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Central Massachusetts, and after the marriage to his second wife was transferred from Maine to this Conference in 1831, and established his home in Brookfield ; was superannuated 1842, and until 1847 prosecuted his labors in the vicinity of Brookfield and northerly to Royalston. In 1847, rode with his daughter, Olive F., in a carriage to South

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Carolina, and returned in season the next year to attend the Conference. In 1856, he returned from a second visit to South Carolina, and a third return was compelled by the breaking out of the civil war, after which, in 1S66, he went there again to establish a Freedman's School, but d. the next year, and was buried beside his daughter. He m. (i) Oct. 21, iSio, Fanny Butterfield of Sidney, Me., who d. there Apr. 24, 1824; (2) Polly Blanchard Pendleton, who d. Brookfield, Apr. 21, 1852. He d. Johnsonville, S.C, Mar. 8, 1867. Children, Ebenezer Butterfield, b. Walden, Vt., Dec. 4, 1812 (or 11) 5; Olive Famty, b. Croydon, Vt, Oct. 20, 1814 (or 13) ; m. Nov. 14, 1849, Jo^in Wesley Lovell of Williamsburg, S.C, and d. Johnsonville, S.C, Oct. 14, 1S63. He is a farmer, b. Dec. 26, 1831, and lived (1884) in South Carolina.

9. William Henry Westberly, son of Ebenezer B. 5, m. Jane Rebecca Owens of Williamsburg County. Children (Williamsburg County), James Henry, b. July 22, 1879; Elizabeth Hattic, b. June 3, 1882.

10. Polly Blanchard, daughter of Ebenezer B. 5, m. John Cooper ; she was burned to death Dec. 14, 1877. Children (Williamsburg County), Susa7tna Butterfield, b. Feb. 10, 1872 ; Annie Coulsair, b. Apr. 4, 1874 ; Lillie Belle, b. Apr. 14, 1876.

11. Harriet Maria, daughter of Ebenezer B. 5, m. James Folkers of Williamsburg County. Children (Waynesville, Ga.), Charles Hampton, b. Dec. 4, 1876; Ebenezer Octavitis, b. Mar. 7, 1879 ; Eliza Julia, b. Sept. 26, 1881 ; an in/ant, b. July 9, 1883.

12. Eliza Henrietta, daughter of Ebenezer B. 5, m. Redding Cannon of Waynesville, Ga. Children (Williamsburg County), George Verdz, b. Jan. 27, 1879; Samuel Jersey, b. Sept. 12, 1882.

NEWTON, Peter K., b. Vermont, 1811 ; m. Catherine Wheelock of Warwick, -who d. New Braintree, 1868. Children (Warwick), ^(j;v>//rt, m. Henry Tucker of New Braintree ; Frank, b. 1850 ; Fraticis D. (twin), b. 1850, m. Aug. 10, 1S76, Sarah Walker of North Brookfield.

NOONE, William, b. Ireland. He was probably the first Irishman who came to live in North Brookfield, and was a very industrious and respectable citizen. He m. 1S40, Bridget Raftery, and d. North Brookfield, June 5, 1870. Children (North Brookfield), Maiy,^. 1S44; John,h. 1846, m. May 4, 1S76, Jennie McCormick of Barre.

When 21 years old, Hon. Bonum Nye commenced teaching common schools, and taught 20 terms in 19 successive years. At the same age he began land surveying, which he still continues. In 1823 he was commissioned ensign; in 1826 lieutenant; in 1828 captain of Massachusetts Militia, and was honorably discharged from military service at his own request in 1829. In 1S23, first chosen town assessor, serving at different times about 15 years; also serving as selectman, overseer of poor, and school committee about the same number of years in each capacity ; a justice of peace ever since 1S35. From 1S50 to 1857 he was a county commissioner, and chairman of the Board the last three years ; civil engineer of the Board during the whole time, and afterwards a special commissioner 3 years. A trustee of the North Brookfield Savings Bank from its organization in 1854, and its treasurer since Jan. i, 1864. He was appointed by the Governor (with Francis H. Dewey of Worcester and Asaph Wood of Gardner), commissioner to ascertain the true boundary line between the towns of Uxbridge and Douglas; reporting to the General Cou. : of 1864. He has made more deeds and wills, and settled and aided in settling more estates, than any other man in North Brookfield. He became a member of the First Congregational Society when 21 years old, and united with the church in 1819; and was clerk of the church 18 or 20 years, and is now the oldest member of the church and of the society, and the oldest man in the town ; a member of the Sabbath School committee several years, and a Sabbath School teacher for more than 60 years. A director and president of the North Brookfield Railroad Co. ever since its organization in 1875. In all the offices held by him in his native town and county, he has discharged his duties with ability and fidelity. His long life of activity and usefulness has rarely if ever been equalled by any person in this vicinity. In the society and church he has ever taken an earnest and unfaltering interest. His services in the schools of the town, both as teacher and committee, have been of great value. Industry, accuracy, and strict attention to the minutest details of all matters intrusted to him, have always been his marked characteristics. He has been a most valuable citizen, and now enjoys the respect and esteem of the very large number of people to whom he has become known during his long and busy life.

Col. Pliny Nye was for more than fifty years one of the rhost prominent of North Brookfield citizens. In 1817, he bought property in the west part of the town, which in 1826 he exchanged for the place in the (then) Centre Village, where he died; living there forty-nine and a half years.

The life of Col. Nye may safely be called successful ; not in the accumulation of great wealth, but in acquiring a competency of this world's goods, doing faithfully whatever he undertook, and establishing and maintaining through life a character for honesty and integrity that is above all price. He was emphatically a self-made man. Deprived in infancy of his natural guardians, and left to the care of comparative strangers, his education was much neglected, and consequently defective ; but supplemented by a naturally strong mind, a retentive memory, untiring industry, and indomitable perseverance, the defect was to a great extent overcome, and he acquired a very fair education, not formal nor ornamental, but eminently practical.

This, united with his strong common sense, and his well-known integrity, gave him, while quite a young man, a prominence among his fellow-citizens, seldom accorded in those days to a man of his age. He held at different times nearly every office of honor or trust within the gift of the town, representing it in the

General Court of 1839. He was promoted through all the military grades up to colonel of militia. He was well read in general history, and his knowledge of American history and biography was very extensive and accurate. He was also well informed upon all the current topics of the day. Attendance at town and parish meetings was a duty, which in health he was never known to neglect. He usually took an active part in the discussion of all matters pertaining to the public welfare, always advocating with voice and vote all measures for the promotion of education, and the good morals of the people. His remarks, at all times characterized by candor and good sense, were listened to with attention and respect, and few men e.xercised more influence than he in the public affairs of the town. In the course of his business life he had occasion to employ at different times a large number of young men, who were for the time received into his family, and treated as members of it. To them he extended his friendly, almost paternal, care and advice.

The friendships he then formed with them were never broken. Some of them now are prominent members of other and distant communities ; but they never forgot their benefactor ; nor to call on him for advice when in want of it ; and it was always kindly and candidly given. " He was my friend, faithful and just to me," as was said by one at his funeral. His sympathies were on the side of humanity and justice. He was a temperance man from the beginning of that reform. He was also early and earnestly in the anti-slavery movement (being really converted to it long before it took form here, from witnessing the workings and results of slavery while living in South Carolina as early 181 1 and 1812).

He joined the Liberty Party at its organization, a stand thirty years ago requiring no small degree of self-sacrifice, and sometimes even involving social ostracism. His anti-slavery views were not unfrequently assailed, but were held with unflinching firmness and defended with zeal and ability, and yet with courtesy towards all who differed from him in opinion. Col. Nye never made a public profession of his religious belief, but "the tree is known by its fruit," and judged by that standard he was undoubtedly a Christian. He will long be remembered as an upright man.

2. James Merrill, son of James 1, resides London, Eng. ; general manager American Bell Telephone Company for Continent of Europe, Egypt, Australia, etc. ; m. 1866, Mary W. Hubbard of Brimfield. Children (Washington, D.C), Mary Maude, b. 1872, d. young; Arthur, b. 1S74 ; Alice, b. 1875.

OWEN, Samuel 1, from Springfield, settled Brookfield, 1688, lived and kept tavern on north side of road east of Warding Rock ; received in all grants of two hundred and twenty-seven acres; m. 1681, Ann Pettee, widow of John. Children (Springfield), ^'rtra/^, b. 1682; Abigail, h. 1685; Samuel, b. 1688 2; perhaps others in Brookfield.

5. W^illard, son of Paul 1, m. Maria C Reed of Oakham, d. in West Brookfield. Children, Hammond W., b. Brookfield, Feb. 16, 1841, resides Shrewsbury; Alice M., h. West Brookfield ; Harlan, h. West Brookfield, d. young.

PAIGE, Henry J., b. in Vermont, 1826, m. 1847, Celia Robinson of Sturbridge. Children, George H, h. in Sturbridge, m. Alice Rogers of Haverhill ; Fred E., m. Emily Chickering of Brookfield; Lorilla, b. i860, d. young.

Barnes; returned to Brookfield, with a son [Joseph Pomeroy], who d. Apr. 6. 1827, aged II years; lived with her mother, widow of Merrick Rice, on the hill west of where Orin A. Buxton and son now live; d. May 15, 1857 ; she was known as " Aunt Sally Barnes " ; Theodosia, d. unmarried.

PARKS, Jonathan 1, b. Shrewsbury, 1753, removed to Spencer, and came to North Brookfield in iSoS ; kept a hotel for many years on the place which he bought of Aaron Forbes; d. Feb. 10, 1847, aged 94. He m. (i) Dec. 7, 1780, Rhoda Allen of Shrewsbury, d. May 27, 1785; (2) Apr. 18, 1787, Sarah Livermore of Spencer, d. Dec. 29, 1829. Children, Henry ; Elefina ; Cephas, b. in Spencer; Sarah, m. Dickinson; Elliot, b. Apr. 7, 1797 2.

PATTERSON, John, had grant Dec. 5, 1720, of a sixty-acre house lot, and Dec. 20, "granted to J. P. and William Hare (in addition to 60 a. each) a stream for a fulling mill, they setting up the trade of a fuller and dressing off cloth within 18 months, the stream to be theirs so long as they maintain said trade and no longer." Same date "granted to J. P. and W. H. 49 a. near Five-mile river, and 71a. N. of Horse-pond brook." The fulling mill was built on Five-mile river. Wife, Mary. Children, John, b. Apr. 25, 1724; Margaret, \>. Jan. 15, 1726. [John sen. and jr. were in Brookfield, 1748.]

PECK, S. Dexter, b. Hardwick, Apr. 24, 1837 ; enlisted from Hardwick, and served three years from July 8, 1862, in Company K, Thirty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; came to North Brookfield, 1870; m. Feb. 11, 1S60, Sarah A. E. Thompson of West Brookfield, b. Ware, Sept. 8, 1839. Children, William D.,

PELLET. This family trace their descent from Governor William Bradford, who came in the " Mayflower" to Plymiouth in 1620. The line is through William b.

Mary Holmes; Thomas, who settled Norwich, Ct., m. (i) Anna Fitch, daughter of Rev. James of Norwich; (2) Priscilla Mason, daughter of Major John, the hero of

4. John, son of Richard 2, emigrated from Canterbury, Ct., to Paupack, Pa., in 1774, was driven out by the Indiiyns during the Wyoming massacre in 1778, returned in 1783, and died there 1801. He m. Nov. 12, 1741, Hepzibah Felton or Fitch.

PERRY, John 1, clothworker, of London, Eng., b. 1613; came to Watertown, where he was living 1674. He m. Johanna Holland, daughter of Joseph of London [see his will, Gen. Reg., Oct. 1883, p. 337], where she d. 1667. Children, John 2 ; Josiah ; Elizabeth.

2. John, son of John 1, tailor; b. 1644, in England; settled Watertown, where his children were born. Nov. 15, 1701, he received grants of land in Brookfield, viz., twenty acres, and seven and a half acres of upland, and twelve and a half acres of meadow [he appears to have been living in Brookfield, at this date, perhaps on land bequeathed by his father-in-law, Clary] ; May 25, 1710, he received additional grant of seven acres "lying near his old cellar " [Brookfield Land Grants, 8, 525]. An autograph letter of his is quoted, ante, p. 161. In 1722, then of Brookfield, he gives power of attorney to John Hamilton of Brookfield to dispose of his lands and "rights," who sells in 1729, home lot, etc., to Roger Stevens. He lived on what is known as the "Hair place," northwest of "Perry's pond," which was named for him. He appears to have returned to Watertown after 1722, and d. before Dec. 23, 1724, when his widow sells land [Midd. Deeds, 25, 155]. He m. Dec. 13, 1667, Sarah Clary, daughter of John of Watertown and Hadley [see his will at Northampton]. She, then a widow of Watertown, made a will, Aug. 2, I726, giving movable estate to son-in-law Thomas Grover of Watertown, he to take care of her through life; she d. Oct. 11, 1730; will probated Nov. 13, 1730. Their children b. in Watertown, John, b. Oct. i, d. Nov. 8, 1668; John, b. Mar. 3, 1669-70, lived

3. Joseph, son of John 2, weaver; settled Brookfield. Mar. 8, 1709-10, he received grant of sixty acres in Brookfield, on condition of "living there four years after he is dismissed of being a soldier;" he received other large grants in Brookfield ; he served in Capt. Joseph Kellogg's company, stationed at Northfield, May 19 to Nov. 16, 1725. He m. Mary . Children, John, b. Nov. 13, 1712; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 20, 1714, m. Oct. 9, 1735, Isaac White; Joseph, b. Aug. 8, 1716 4; Mary, b. June 27, 1718.

PICKARD, Samuel 1, b. Boxford ; inn-keeper ; m. Mar. 14, 1765, Hannah Ball, d. Feb. 13, 1794; lived at the Ball place, now known as the Ives place.

Luther Poland went to Vermont, Oct. 1814, with an ox-team and load of goods. His older brother Joseph carried his wife and babe with a horse and wagon. He spent the following winter in Westford with Mr. George Dewing, who married his sister Lucy. They lived in a small frame house covered with a single thickness of boards without lath, plaster, clapboards or even battens. In the spring of 1S16, he moved into a new house which he had built on a lot of land he had purchased, adjoining the farm of Mr. Dewing, but lying in the town of Underbill. This year occurred the famous " cold season," when there was a heavy snow-fall in June, and an early frost in the fall. The corn was entirely destroyed, and most of the other crops. Two or three seasons following were of similar character, though somewhat milder ; and the wolf actually stood at the door of not a few of the scattered settlers. Mr. Poland said it seemed as if his family must have suffered from hunger but for his mechanical trade (carpenter and joiner) which brought him a scanty income. After living here a few years, he and his neighbors began to think about a school for their children. There was no schoolhouse within a mile and a half ; and a few families living upon the creek road in Underbill, with Mr. Dewing in Westford, petitioned to be set off as a school district, and after a hard struggle their request was granted. All of them being poor they proceeded to build a log schoolhouse fourteen by sixteen feet square, and hired a girl to teach; and here commenced the education of his children and those of several others, nearly all of whom have made worthy men and women.

In the spring of 1S21, Mr. Poland removed to Coit's Gore, an unorganized section in Franklin County, and in 1S25 was largely instrumental in securing its organization into the town of Waterville. He was its first representative to the State Legislature, and had repeated re-elections.

In 1823, he with a few others organized a Congregational Church, of which he was one of the deacons for more than twenty years, until he removed from town. The Vermont Watchman and State Journal of June 23, iSSo, announces the death of Deacon Luther Poland in the ninety-first year of his age. It further says : "Father Poland was a great reader, and became a very well informed man, but he was of a very modest and retiring disposition, and always enjoyed the quiet of home and retired life far better than official place, yet in all these he served most faithfully."

He svas a humble and sincere, but not an ostentatious or bigoted. Christian. Always of limited pecuniary means, but possessed of a liberal spirit, ready to bear his full share of public burdens. His long life was without a stain or blemish.

6. Luke Potter, son of Luther 3. Hon. Luke P. Poland read law with Hon. Samuel A. Willard of Morristown, Vt., was admitted to the Bar in Dec. 1836, and practised law in Morristown until elected a judge of the Supreme Court, Nov. 1848. In 1850 he removed to St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he now resides ; a distinguished citizen of Vermont ; member of Congress and United-States senator for several years. He m. (i) June 23, 1838, Martha S. Page of Waterville, Vt., d. St. Johnsbury, Apr. 9, 1853; (2) Apr. 11, 1854, Adelia H. Page of St. Johnsbury. Children, Susati, b. Jan. 12, 1840, d. young; Martin Luther, b. Aug. i, 1S41, graduated West Point, 1864, captain of ordnance, United States Army, d. Fort Yumar, Arizona Territory, Aug. 20, 187S; Mary Frances, b. Sept. 30, 1843, ^- ^'^- Johnsbury, Aug. 31, 1S65; Isabel Emma, b. Feb. 12, 1848, m. Oct. 6,*i869, Andrew E. Rankin of St. Johnsbury.

PORTER, Joshua 1, M.D., traces his descent from John of Hingham, through Samuel, John, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Joshua, b. Hamilton, Apr. 1782, m. Hannah Peck. His son Joshua, b. Hamilton, Oct. 20, 180S, settled as a physician in North Brookfield, d. Jan. 6, 1874. He m. May 6, 1835, Martha Lee Smith of Manchester, d. Dec. 8, 1SS4. Children, Frederick William, b. May 12, 1836 2; Sarah Snell, b.

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11. Frederick A., son of John 7, d. St. Joseph, Mich., Sept. 10, 1862, m. Jan. i, 1828, Isabella Britton of Litchfield, N.Y. Children, Gloriana ; Harriet ; Aiegnstiis ; Frederick ; yohn ; Edwin; Calvin.

15. John Cheney, son of Dr. Cheney 8. He early manifested a disposition to apply himself closely to his studies or business, rather than to mingle in the amusements of boys of his age. Withdrawn from school at the age of fourteen, he entered for a time the employ of his brother, then was for two or three years in the store of E. W. and S. H. Skerry at Oakhani. Returning to North Brookfield, he became a partner in the mercantile firm of Carey, Ward, & Potter. In 1836, he accepted a partnership in the wholesale boot and shoe firm of Walker, Emerson, & Co. of Boston, which, on the retirement of Mr. Amasa Walker, became Emerson, Harris, & Potter. At the end of the term of copartnership he became senior partner, and remained so until his retirement from active business in 1854. He lived in Boston till 1850, when he purchased a fine estate in Walnut Park, Newton, where he resided until his death. In 1S63, he became treasurer of a worsted mill in Newton. In 1S66, he was elected president of the National Shoe and Leather Bank of Boston, which office he continued to hold. In 1858, he with his wife united with the Eliot Church of Newton, Rev. Dr. Wellman, pastor. In 1862-3, with his wife and daughter, he spent about seventeen months in Europe. While yet a young man, his habits of industry and business fidelity enabled him to accumulate a competent fortune, which he used in beautifying his house and grounds in Newton, and also in numerous and constant benefactions to public and private charities. After a long and painful illness, he died, Apr. 26, 1870. His pastor preached an appropriate memorial sermon from the words, " Well done, thou good and faithful servant."

16. John Cheney, son of Frederick A. 14; boot and shoe manufacturer ; senior partner in the firm of Potter, White, & Bailey, Boston, Mass.; m. Oct. i, 1857, Lucy Bailey of Newton. Children (Newton), Frank Cheney, b. May 28, i860; Albert Bailey, b. May 23, 1S64; Kate, b. Oct. 15, 1866.

17. Frederick H., son of Frederick A. 14, m. Sept. 26, 1876, Abby J. Irish of Southbridge. Child, Fred Burton, b. North Brookfield, May 27, 1880.

12. John, son of Silas 6, d. Bakersfield, Vt., m. Dec. 25, 1808, Sarah Hunter of New Braintree. Children (b. in Bakersfield, Vt.), Achsah, m. Silas Robertson of St. Albans, Vt , and d. Malone, N. V. ; Rhoda, m. Lorenzo Hatch of Spencer, resides Fairfield, Vt. ; Silas, m. Polly Dunham of Fairfield, Vt. ; resides there; Aaron, m. Abigail Rawson of Oakham, removed to Ohio, where both d., leaving three children ; Dolly, m. Royal Dunn of Bakersfield, who d. there, leaving three children ; John Hunter, b. Nov. 22, 1819 14 ; Edivard, m. and lives in East Fairfield, Vt. ; Robert 15; Robina,xa. hXix&A Sturtevant of Fairfield, Vt. ; resides there ; Betsey, va. Stephen Holmes of Fairfield, Vt., and d. there, leaving two sons ; Persis, m. in Berkshire, Vt., and lives there ; Royal, was a soldier in the late war from Illinois, and later settled in Iowa.

POTVIN, Louis Victor, b. Canada, m. (i) Lucy C. Le Clair of Southbridge, who d. there ; (2) Jan. 16, 1876, Angeline Beaulieu. Child, Oswald, b. North Brookfield, Jan. 25, 1S73.

POTVIN, Thomas, b. Canada, 1813, m. Judith Labrin. Children (b. in Webster), Almira, b. 1847, i"- Austin Casway, resides Spencer ; Thomas, b. 1849, resides Webster; Helen, b. June 7, 1855, resides New York; Adelaide, b. 1856, m. Alvanda Lavanture, resides North Brookfield ; Delia, b. i860, resides New York ; Eugene, b. 1S62, resides North Brookfield ; A'oah, b. 1S64.

PROUTY, Richard 1, b. England, came to Massachusetts as a "stowaway " at the age of fourteen. He settled in Scituate about 1667. His son Isaac 2, b. in Scituate, ni. Elizabeth Merrill. Of their numerous famil)', six sons and one daughter b. in Scituate, came to Spencer, Mass., previous to 1741, viz., Jacob, b. May 14, 1715, m. Dec. 8, 1741, Ann Capen of Spencer; David, b. 1716, m. 1739, Elizabeth Smith of Spencer ; John, b. 17 iS, m. Oct. 1745, Abigail Johnson of Spencer; Adam,

PUTNAM, Rufus, was son of Deacon Elisha of Sutton, where he was b. Apr. 9, 1738. His father died when he was about seven years old; and after 1747, he lived with his step-father, Capt. John Saddler of Upton. In Mar. 1754, he was bound as apprentice to his brother-in-law, Daniel Matthews of Brookfield, a millwright, where he worked till Mar. 15, 1757, when he enlisted in Capt. Ebenezer Learned's Company for service at Fort Edward, and remained till Feb. 2, 1758. He again enlisted in 175S, in Capt. Jos. Whitcomb's Company, Col. T. Ruggles' Regiment, and served near Lake George. He enlisted Apr. 2, 1759, in Capt. John Sibley's Company (transferred to Capt. William Page's) for the Ticonderoga campaign ; returned to Brookfield Dec. 16. He was out in the campaign of 1760, and received a commission of ensign ; returned home Dec. i.

Mar. 3, 1761, Mr. Putnam bought the "mill privilege, mill, and tools," on Horsepond brook in North Brookfield, of Joseph Bartlett. In 1768, Bartlett sells his farm, the mill privilege excepted, to Zebulon Rice; and Jan. 4, 1775, Rice sells the same to Putnam.

Mr. Putnam resided there till the spring of 1781, May 24th of which year he bought the confiscated estate of Daniel Murray of Rutland, for ;i^900, silver money. He remained in Rutland till he removed to Ohio, in Dec. 1787. He d. at Marietta, O., May 4, 1824.

Thus it appears that Gen. Putnam's Jiome,{xovc\. 1754 to 1781, was in North Brookfield. He united with the First Congregational Church there, Feb. 15, 1770. May 2T, 1770, he, in company with Deacon Thomas Rich and Joseph Packard, received from the town a grant of two hundred and sixteen acres of land on Great Ragged Hill. He held various town offices in Brookfield, and was on the Committee of Correspondence in 1774.

Gen. Putnam's military career was sketched in the account of the American Revo- *Iution, and need not be repeated here. [See afite, pp. 233, 235, 236.] He subscribed one hundred pounds to the original fund of Leicester Academy, and was a member of the first Board of Trustees, in 1784. His business in Brookfield was running his mill, building mills, and land surveying; in which he was an expert, and the study and practice of which prepared him for the distinguished part he bore, as engineer, in the army - though it should be stated that he made a special study of engineering under Col. Timothy Dwight of Northampton.

PUTNAM, Aaron, m. Patience Potter of Brookfield, June 6, 1770, daughter of Daniel, and sister of Capt. John Potter. After the death of Mr. Putnam, she m. Michael Smith, an Englishman (see his schedule). She d. May 8, 181 1. He d. Brookfield, Oct. 3, 1777. Children (b. in Brookfield), Sally, b. June 26, 177 r, m. John

Cannon of Oakham; Calvin, b. Feb. 5, 1773, m. Nabby Davidson [their children, Sarah, who m. Anson Nichols; Hannah; Abigail; Samuel, d. and left one son, Samuel W. Putnam]; Luther, b. Nov. 23, 1775, d. young; Franklin, h. Nov. 17, 1776, d. young.

QUIGLEY, Thomas 1, b. and d. in Ireland, m. Elizabeth Gleason, who also d. in Ireland. Children (b. Ireland), Alary, m- Patrick Bahan, who d. in England; she d. New York; Matthew, m. Ann Wiley, d. North Brookfield, July 26, 18S1, aged 94;

Vance, who d. Jan. 7, 1S77 ; Betsey Elizabeth, d. North Brookfield, unmarried, May, 12, 1885 ; Catherine, m. Thomas Kiley; John, b. June 29, 1S15 3; Ann,m. Thomas Welch; resides Rutland.

3. John, son of Thomas 1, was the first of his name and family in town in 1844, when there were but seven Irishmen here, viz., William Noon, Philip Cain, William Vance, James Downey, James Dempsey, Thomas Conners, and Michael Fogerty ; James Haley and Dennis Quigley 2 coming next in 1846. He m. Jan. 11, 1847, Mary Whalen of North Brookfield, who was b. Ireland about 1820. Children (b. North Brookfield), Thomas, b. Oct. 13, 184S; Ann, b. Oct. 13, 1848, m. Sept. 8, 1872, Patrick J. Downey; James, b. Sept. i, 1850; Margaret, b. Jan. 13, 1S52 ; Johri J, b. Sept. 28, 1853, m. Lizzie Mahon of Natick; resides there; Julia E., b. Aug. 6, 1855; Mary A., b. June 7, 1857.

Ranger

RANGER, John 1, son of Job, b. New Braintree, Aug. 13, 1S22; merchant in Boston; d. New Braintree, Aug. 17, 1857. He m. May 31, 1848, Catherine Nye of North Brookfield, daughter of Colonel Pliny. Children, Catherine Frances, b. North Brookfield, Dec. 2, 1852, d. Jan. 7, 1876; John Pliny, b. New Braintree, Jan. 2, 1856 2.

RAWSON, Edward 1, b. Gillingham, Dorsetshire, Eng., Apr. 15, 1615; came to Newbury, Mass., about 1637, where he held various public offices, until chosen colonial secretary in 1647 > d. Aug. 27, 1693. ^^ "^' "^ England, Rachel Perue, daughter of Thomas, granddaughter of John Hooker, Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Of their twelve children, the seventh was William 2, b. May 21, 1651 ; lived in Boston and Dorchester; m. July 11, 1673, Ann Glover of Dorchester, by whom he had twenty children, of whom the thirteenth was Nathaniel Z, b. 1689, who m. Hannah Thompson of Braintree, and had Edward^, b. Apr. 19, 1724, settled in Mendon; m. Deborah Warren of Upton, who d. Feb. II, 1802. Children (b. in Mendon), Levi, b. Mar. 27, 1748 5; Olive, b. Aug, 13, 1749, d. Oct. 9, 1774; Hannah, b. June 22, 1751; Eunice, b. July 25, 1753; Mark, b. Jan. 31, 1757 ; Luke, b. Nov. 9, 1759, d. young ; Oliver, b. Nov. 9, 1759, d. young; Thompson, b. Feb. 23, 1764 6.

2. Micah T., son of Col. Micah 1, d. North Brookfield, Jan. 11, 18S5. He m. (i) Sept. 16, 1834, Abigail Harlow of Shrewsbury, d. from being thrown from a carriage, July I, 1852; (2) May 10, 1854, Susan Bassett Gorham of Barre. Child, Thomas Narlotv, b. North Brookfield, Sept. 14, 1835, m. Ji^pe 11, 1862, Mary Frances Whiting, daughter of Lewis.

Samuel G. Reed commenced carriage making in North Brookfield, June 30, 1830. Cary & Rice bought the land on which the shop was built, at the corner of the streets by the burying-ground, purchasing at the same time all the land west in the same lot bounded by three roads and Col. Adams' mowing lot, on the west, being about ten acres, for $1,000. There were no buildings on the whole lot, except Cary & Rice's store at the south-east corner. The shop built in 1S30 was the first building raised in town without liquor. And the marriage of Fannie L. Tilton at Boylston, 1S32, was the first wedding without something stronger than coffee as appears by church records at Boylston. In his communication, Mr. Reed further says : " The first Temperance Society was formed in 1830 or 1831, joined by most of the young men, followed by a great revival. If I mistake not, the stoves were first placed in the Meeting-House 1830, or 1831 (1833, C. A., jr), as I recollect Mr. Chauncy Edmands stating that our feet would be colder than before, etc. When I came to N. B., in 1830, Ezra Batcheller's and Wid. Potter's houses were the only new dwellings in sight. The Whitney Kittridge house was soon raised, and very many were begun in 1831-1833. I commenced building my brick house 1832 (it stood on site of the hotel), and sold it to John C. Potter in 1835 or 1836, and the shops to Freeman Walker in 1S35. Bought of Daniel Gilbert, Esq., the lot on which M. T. Reed's houses stand, in 1836, and built the shop the same year, and the house of M. T. Reed in 1S37. I recollect Esquire Gilbert said he remembered the rebel Shay laying the single wall that was upon the west side of the road from the burying-ground to Dr. Snell's, for his father. My shop of 1835 was the first building on the lot that extended beyond Charles Duncan's, except the brick store might have been built" (corner of South Main and Summer Streets).

5. Sumner, son of Col. Micah 1, m. Apr. 19, 1843, Marcia Jane Henshaw of Brookfield. Their adopted child, Ella Frances Allen, b. New Britain, Ct., Apr. 19, 1S42, m. Oct. 6, 1S70, Freeman F. Glazier of North Brookfield.

2. Nathan, son of Nathan 1, d. North Brookfield, Oct. 22, 1858. He m. Mar. 3, 1S46, Catherine Woodis of Oakham. Children (b. in Oakham), Henry, b. 1847, resides Danvers; Catherine, b. 1849, d. in Hudson.

RICE, Cheney, son of Edward and Sarah of Brookfield, b. Dec. i, 1764, lived on place now occupied by Oren A. Buxton. He m. Feb. 8, 1790, Deborah Converse.

RICE, Samuel Buckminster, son of Dr. Tilly and Eunice, b. Brookfield, June 14, 1760, d. Apr. 14, 1828. He m. Nov. 4, 1808, Abigail Bradish. Children, Sajntiel, b. Nov. 7, 1809, m. Augusta Lombard of Brimfield, and d. in New Haven, Ct., June, 1864; George Mej-rick, b. Nov. 20, 1810, resides Worcester; m. June, 1832, Rutha J. White of Worcester; Frances Eaton, b. Apr. 8, 1812, m. Jan. 31, 1838, Hezekiah Sabin of Providence, R.I. ; resides Providence ; Charlotte Austin, b. Jan. II, 18 14, m. July 27, 1837, Lucius Tomblen of West Brookfield; resides there; James Chandler, b. Apr. 15, 1817, m. Catherine Rice of Worcester; resides Milfordton, O. ; William Henry, b. Mar. 24, 1819, d. Brimfield, Oct. 26, 1875; he m. Ann Phillips of Sturbridge ; Merrick, b. Oct. 4, 1821, m. Lucy Morse of Westfield ; resides there; Frederick, h. May 8, 1823, m. 1S48, Louisa Allen of Ware, and d. Dec. 1850.

RICHARDSON, Abijah, b. in Gushing, Me., Apr. 28, 1S40, m. i860, Caroline George of Webster. Children, IVarren E., b. Webster, d. young; Nellie, b. 1864;

RICHMOND, Ezra, m. June 26, 1778, Rutli Segur of Spencer. Children, Cynthia, m. May, 1819, William Bridges of Spencer; Ann ; Polly, m. (i) Crossman ; (2) May, 1837, William Bush of Spencer; Lucy, m. Silas Sylvester.

ROSS, Deacon Willard N., b. Vermont, May 30, 1829 ; a manufacturer of weaving reeds; d. Fitchburg, Nov. 2, 1S75. He m. Nov. 21, 1871, Mary A. Moore of North Brookfield, daughter of Deacon J. A. Child, William Henry, b. Fitchburg Sept. 30, 1S72.

RUGG, Oramel, b. Heath, m. (i) June 23, 1S52, Frances E. Harwood of North Brookfield; (2) 1857, Anna Rebecca McLane of Bloomington, 111. Child, Prances Louisa, b. at Bloomington, 111., -Feb. 28, 1856.

RUSK, Major John 1, b. Ireland, 1776; was commissioner of public works in Ireland ; served through the war with France under Sir William Ponsonby, and was wounded at the battle of Waterloo. He m. Eliza N. Beresford of Dublin. He d. - in Ireland, Aug. 21, 1841. Children, William ; Alexander ; Alargaret Jane ; Eliza ; John 2.

2. John, son of John 1, b. Ireland, Sept. 23, 1S26, m. Nov. 21, 1851, Mary Powers of Worcester. Children (b. in North Brookfield), Anna Maria, d. North Brookfield ; Eliza Jane, m. John Mulcahy of Brookfield ; Louisa ; William, d. North Brookfield ; Marianne ; John.

RUSSELL, Edward J., b. Hadley, Oct. 23, 1833; deputy sheriff since Jan. i, 1872'; member of Gov. George D. Robinson's staff in 1885 ; [for his military record, see Records of the Rebellion, ante, 332]. He m. Jan. 8, 1856, Lucenia Prouty of North Brookfield. Children, Charles Arthur, b. Oct. 12, 1866, d. young; Bertha Lucenia, b. Sept. 26, 1867.

RYAN, William 1, b. Ireland, m. Margaret Crowley of Ireland. Children (b. there), Dennis ; Timothy ; William ; Mary, m. Jerry Herlihy ; Kate ; John, b. May 20, 1855 2.

SCOTT, Jefferson, b. in Vermont, d. North Brookfield, Nov. n, 1S68, aged 64. He m. Nancy Kinsley, b. Vermont, d. North Brookfield, Aug. 11, 1S82. An adopted child, Frederick, b. 1S29, d. June 26, 1S57.

SHAMBO, Frank, b. Canada, m. (i) Zoe Beaudry, who d. 1872 ; (2) Sept. 17, 1872, Rosa Lozo. Children, Frank, b. Millbury, m. Jan. i, 1872, Josephine Newton of Ilolyoke ; Alfred, b. Boylston ; Esther, b. North Brookfield, m. Joseph Rondeau.