Brookfield Town (part 16 of 18)

SKERRY, Capt. Samuel 1, son of Samuel, b. Salem, Jan. iS, 1772, and d. there Oct. 22, 1808. In a sermon on his death. Dr. Snell says : "Capt. Skerry removed with his family from Salem to North Brookfield, in the spring of 1S05, to enjoy the tranquil pleasures of an agricultural life. On the Tuesday before his death he left his family in health, to transport some of the fruits of his industry to Salem for market. On the Saturday following, about five o'clock p.m., while in Mr. Pope's stable viewing a span of horses, he was kicked by one of them in the lower part of the bowels. Conveyed to the house of a friend, relief was sought for him in vain from human skill and every kind attention. He died on Sabbath - evening aged thirty-six, leaving a wife and five small children." He m. Sept. 9, 1798, Content Ward, daughter of Ebenezer and wife Mehitable (Buttolph) of Salem, b. Sept. 2, 1772, d. in North Brookfield, May 6, 1854. [She was a descendant of Miles Ward who settled at Salem 1639.] Children (b. Salem), Samuel, b. July 17, 1799, d. young; Ebenezer Ward, h. July 13, 1801 2; Martha W., b. June 6, 1804 3 ; Lydia (twin) b. June 6, 1804 4; Samuel Henry, b. North Brookfield, June 13, 1806 5 ; Content Ward, b. Mar. t6, 1S08, m. Dec. 19, 1826, Richard Montague of Keene, N.H., and d. Rockford, 111., Feb. 17, 1842.

SMITH, Isaac 1, b Billerica, m. Olinda Morse of Monson, who d. in North Brookfield. Children, Caroline, b. Sept. 23, 181 1, m. Edward N. Smith of North Brookfield, and d. Spencer ; Benjamiit, b. Canterbury, N.H., Mar. 12, 18 12 2 ; yacob, b. Northfield, N.H., Apr. 2, 18143; Liicy, b. Compton, N.H., m. Anson GifiSn, jr., of North Brookfield ; Isaac, m. Olive Nelson of Wiiliamstown ; Lydia, b. Oct. 16, 1819, m. Jime 30, 1836, Cyrus Mower of North Brookfield; Moses, m. (i) Olive - Cowen of Wiiliamstown ; (2) ; Betsey, m. Lawton Dodge of West Brookfield ; Olinda, m. Samuel F. Bigelow of North Brookfield ; David W., b. Compton, N.H., Dec. 16, 1828? 4; Letnnel,h. Compton, Sept. 16, 1829? 5; John A^ b. Compton, 1832 6; Jane, d. North Brookfield.

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2. Edward N., son of Nathaniel 1. He was gifted with a remarkable inventive genius ; was the inventor of the paper-folding machine now in use by many of the newspaper and book-publishing houses in this country and in England, and one of the very important indentions of the times. He also invented a machine for grinding and polishing convex lenses for telescopes and other optical instruments. He shared the common fate of inventors, dying in comparative obscurity, if not in poverty. Having gathered up all his worldly possessions at Washington, D.Cl, he came here to die, at the age of forty-nine. He had less than one hundred dollars in gold ; and when at his request it was taken from his valise, being scarcely able to speak, he exclaimed, " There, see the last dregs of a miserable inventor." He d. at North Brookfield, Mar. i, i86t. He m. Caroline B. Smith of Monson, b. Sept. 22, 181 1, d. 1885. Children, Edward P., b. Bow, N.H., Dec. 2, 1S33, d. North Brookfield, Sept. 25, 1883; Wyman P., b. Hopkinton, Feb. 9, 1S35, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 13, 1857 ; Edgar L., b. North Brookfield, Dec. 31, 1837, d. Liverpool, Eng., Nov. 2, 1858; Lonis V., b. Feb. 28, 1S39, d. Hazardville, Ct., Dec. 31, 1861 ; Siisan E., b. Spencer, Aug. 28, 1841, d. North Brookfield, Mar. 9, 1859; Julia C, b. Aug 12, 1S43, d. May 7, 1S60.

2. Edmund, son of Jacob 1. He worked a»farming with his father in New Hampshire till he was 19 years old, when he bought his time and came to this town on foot, without money, and brought all his worldly effects in a small bundle. He worked at the currier's trade a short time with Joshua Barnard ; then learned the trade of making sale shoes, and worked for Mr. Oliver Ward at that business for two or three years, and then at cutting leather for him in his manufactory. He subsequently began the business of manufacturing on his own account, and soon entered into a contract with Messrs. T. & E. Batcheller & Co. for the manufacture of russet brogans, which he continued several years to the advantage of both parties. In this business he accumulated a handsome property which he invested in real estate ; the present " Batcheller House " being built by him for his own residence. Closing his contract with Messrs. Batcheller, he again manufactured for himself; later he became interested with his son-in-law in Chicago; sold his real estate here, went west, and ultimately settled in Detroit, where he died Aug. 31, 1881. He was a man of great industry and perseverance, and will long be remembered here by the numerous buildings and improvements in real estate which he left behind, - monuments of his taste and enterprise. Hem. Feb. 28, 1838, Elmira Ashby of Bradford, N.H., b. Warren, N.H., Oct. ID, i8i2. Children, Sarah A., b. Sept. 6, 1839, m. Apr. 5, 1864, Capt. Frank T. Leach of Boston; lives Chicago, 111.; Angeline N., b. Sept. 30, 1845, n^- Sept. 13, 1S70, James K. Mack of Chicago, and d. Detroit, Mich., Apr. 28, 1875;

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SMITH, Moses 1, lived and d. in Heath ; m. Lucretia Brown of Heath. Children, Lo7U:ll, clergyman, m. Abby Tenney, lives Honolulu, Sandwich Islands ; Moses, m., lived, and d. Ohio ; Lncretia, m. Sullivan Taf t of Heath, and d. North Brookfield ; Russell, lived, m. and d. Albion, N.Y. ; Sarah, m. Levi Russell of Heath ; Frederick, m. Isabella Smead of Greenfield ; Augustus, b. Feb. ro, 1816 2.

SNELL, Thomas 1, b. England, settled West Bridgewater about 1665; m. Martha Harris of Bridgewater. He had eight children ; the second of whom was -

6. Ebenezer S., son of Rev. Thomas 5, fitted for college with his father; entered Williams College 1819; followed President Moore to Amherst 1S21, being the first student to be enrolled ; graduated Amherst College 1822 ; taught the Amherst Academy two years ; appointed tutor of mathematics 1825 ; in 1829, appointed assistant professor, and in 1S34 professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, which position he held till his death, Sept. 18, 1876. He m. Sept. 8, 1828, Sabra C. Clark of Conway, d. May 23, 18S3. Children, Rebecca E., b. July 23, 1829, d. 1841 ; Mary Louisa, b. Aug. 8, 1831 ; Martha P., b. Oct. 20, 1835, d. Feb. 23, i860; Tirzah Strong, b. Nov. 10, 1839, m. July 24, 1S67, Elliot C. Hall of Jamestown, N.Y. ; Sabra C, b. Jan. 31, 1845.

10. William W., son of Rev. Thomas 5, fitted for college at Monson Academy, and at the Manual-Labor vSchool at Worcester : but, as he says, in a letter, "The college part of it I left out, and took to studying machinery ; was in the machineshop of Otis Tufts in Boston one year; then travelled through the Southern and Western States nearly three years," paying his expenses by taking daguerreotypes. In the spring of 1849 began work in the Essex Machine Shop in Lawrence, remaining in Lawrence six years, most of the time in this shop ; a short time in the Pacific mills ; went to Rushford, Minn., in the spring of 1S55, and located there. Calling the few inhabitants together for a prayer and conference meeting; finding he had all the talking to do, his talking soon took the form of sermonizing, and he was soon established there as a preacher, and has remained there to the present time. He speaks of his three years' travelling as his "college course," and his experience in the machine shop as his "theological course," - doing for him, he says, "what books alone never could." He is very much respected and beloved by his own people, and in all that region. He m. Dec. 24, 1850, Jane Fay of Winchester, N.H. Children, Thomas C, b. Lawrence, Nov. 11, 1852, d. Feb. 17, 1867 ; William E., b. Manchester, N.H., May 31, 1855, lives Winona, Minn.; Caroline F., b. Rushford, Jan. 13,

13. Moses Porter, son of Thomas 8; graduated Amherst College, 1S61 ; Hartford Theological Seminary, 186S; ordained as evangelist, at North Brookfield, May

SNOW, William 1, came from England, and settled early in Bridgewater; was 21 in 1645; "'- Rebeckah Barker, daughter of Robert. Children, lVillia?n ; James ; Joseph ; Benjamin 2 ; Mary; Lydia; Hannah; Rebeckah.

4. Nathaniel, son of Ebenezer 3, b. 1731 ; lived Raynham ; removed with his family to Brookfield ; d. May i, 1819; m. . Children, no record.

SOULE, Beza 1, from Plympton ; made most of the best slate head and foot stones now standing in the old burying-ground; lived North Brookfield 1S03-1S15; removed to Chaplin, Ct. ; m. Zerviah Cushman of Plymptom. Children, Zerviah, m. John Miller, and d. in New York State ; Cootner, m. Fanny Cady of Gloucester, R.I. ; Isaiah 2 ; Susanna, m. Benjamin Chaplin of Chaplin, Ct. ; Beza, b. 1787 ; removed

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SOUTH WORTH, Solomon 1, lived Pomfret, Ct., Douglas, Uxbridge and North Brookfield, where he d. Nov. 14, 1S29, aged 75; his wife Lydia d. Feb. 9, 181S.

m. Mar. 29, iS66, at Hilton Head, S.C, Rev. Addison Blanchard of Cumberland, Me., and d. Denver, Col., Dec. 6, 18S4 ; buried in North Brookfield. [Addison Blanchard graduated Bowdoin College, 1S63, Andover Theological Seminary, 1868; enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Regiment New York Volunteers at Oneida, 1S64; second lieutenant Twenty-first Regiment United States Colored Troops, 1865 ; honorably discharged at close of war ; ordained South Bridgeton, Me., Sept. 9, 1868; pastor Warren Church, Westbrook, Me.,. Dec. 1873-Dec. 1878.] Mary J., b. July 4, 1836, m. Jan. i, 1863, Ira D. Spaulding of Boston ; William H., b. Sept. 1838, caught in a belt and killed Townsend, Nov. 1861 ; Adeline, b. Aug. 1840, m. June, 1862, Augustus B. Stickney of West Townsend, and d. Mar. 1876.

STEARNS, George, son of Isaac, b. Spencer, Aug. 1831, carriage maker in North Brookfield, m. Eliza A. Green of Oakham, b. 1833. Children, Elmer V., b. 1854; Frederick,h. 1866.

STEBBINS, Lyman 1, b. New Haven, Vt., July 22, 1794, d. Bakersfield, Vt. ; m. Lois Slade of Cornwall, Vt. Children, David Slade, lives West Brookfield, m. Ann Rice of Spencer; A^orman B. 2; Clarissa A., m. (i) George Chamberlain of Barre; (2) May 24, 1881, Hiram Eaton of North Brookfield; Orin F.,\>. Mar, 3, 1823 3.

2. Norman B., son of Lyman 1, d. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 5, 1S52; m. Alice Hayward of Spencer. Child (b. North Brookfield), Alice A^or/nan, b. July 23, 1852 (posthumous), m. Stephen B. Fiske of Upton.

2. Thomas, son of John 1 ; deacon ; lived Amesbury ; selectman seventeen years, representative two years ; d. Apr. 14, 1729. He m. Apr. 15, 1672, Martha Bartlett, daughter of Christopher of Newbury. Children, Jioger 3 ; son ; John, b. Nov. 15, 1686; Thomas, b. Nov. 18, 16SS; Ebeiiezer (daughter), b. Mar. 26, 1690, m. John Blasdale ; Abigail; and four more daughters.

3. Roger, son of Thomas 2; clothier; captain; lived Amesbury; removed to Marlboro; bought the John Perry home lot in Brookfield, Nov. 1729; d. Uec. 26, 1730. He m. Nov. 24, 1698, Sarah Nichols. Children, Abigail, b. July 17, 1705, m.

4. Roger, son of Roger 3, came to Brookfield with his father, and settled his estate. He lived on what is now North Brookfield territory, and had numerous descendants, not fewer than six of them building houses on what was then, and very properly, called Stevens Street, between the crossing of the brook, below Charles K. Stoddard's house, and what is now the head of " Furnace Pond," where very early a dam was built and mills erected. These mills were owned very early by Capt. Church, father of Mrs. Jeduthan Stevens, but were probably built before his ownership. The houses were on this street, all within a distance of half a mile ; first, east of the brook, north side of the road, a small house built by Roger 4; next, on same side, a large house built by Roger 5, and descending from him to his son, Roger 6, who lived and died there in 1S49, aged seventy-three ; the next house was on the south side, and built and occupied by Silas, a brother of Roger 5 ; the next, or fourth in order, was on the north side, built and occupied by Ezekiel 7, a brother of the two latter ; he never was married, but was a man of much business ; the next house was Jude's, another brother of same family, and was on the south side. Jude married, but had no children. The last house toward the pond was a small one, and was for many years occupied by Justus, a son of Silas, who reared a numerous family there. The house was probably occupied by others before his day.

d. Greenfield, Saratoga County, N.Y. They had Fanny, m. Freeman Tourtelotte, M.D., of Greenfield ; Solomon, who m. Julia Ann Wheeler, and lives Saratoga, N.Y. ; Mary, d. Greenfield, N.Y., Oct. 9, 1S80.

7. Ezekiel, son of Roger 4; potter; unmarried; built and lived in the house next to his father, having a pottery a few rods east of his house ; d. Apr. 9, 1800. " He was a good farmer and potter, and one of the most active business men of the town."

12. Jeduthan, son of Silas 6, was a man of rare business capacity. After the death of his uncle Ezekiel, with whom he had been associated, and who built a pottery a few rods east of his house on Stevens street, he enlarged and continued that business, on quite a large scale for those days. He rebuilt, owned and operated the mills at the east end of that street, for many years ; he also engaged largely in the manufacture of brick ; he also owned and cultivated a large tract of land in that vicinity, including a large part of the meadows bordering on the brook or river below his mills, which river then ran unobstructed from his mills quite to Quabaug or Podunk Pond.

About the 3'ear 1S12, he purchased a large tract of land, bordering along on both sides of the " Great Road," so called, in the south-east part of North Brookfield, and built the large brick hotel, known far and wide as the "Stevens Tavern," on or near the spot now occupied by the J. N. Vaughn brick house, which, to a large extent, was constructed from the materials of the old tavern. He opened this tavern in Nov. 1814. In 1S25 he bought the meadow adjoining his own, down the river, and built the dam over which the road now passes, and flowed the meadow quite back to, and over his old mill-dam, and making what is now known as the "furnace pond " or " Lake Lashaway." At the south end of this pond the " Brookfield Furnace Company " erected their large works. He was a large owner in the company ; but it was not a success, and was discontinued after a few years. The water-power created by the foresight of Mr. Stevens, was the beginning of what is now the flourishing village of East Brookfield, of which he may well be called the father and founder. He possessed sound judgment, skill, courage, energy and perseverance ; a man of integrity and punctuality, strictly reliable in all his engagements. He was lieutenant in the militia - a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and also in the war of the Shay's Rebellion. He held from time to time, all the principal offices in town. He d. Sept. 2S, 1844. He m. Nov. 12, 1789, Roxana Church, b. Nov. 23, 176S, d. Dec. 27, 1850. Children, Jcdiithan, b. Sept. 24, 1790 14 ; Achsah, b. Jan. 26, 1792, m. Apr. 2, 1815, Joseph Doane, and d. July 26, 1877 ; Savuiel, b. Sept. 19, 1793 15 ; Perley, b. Jan. 31, 1796 16 ; Martha, b. Jan. 13, 179S, m. Dec. 31, 1818, Dexter Forbes, and d. Feb. i3i 1879 ; Ezekiel, b. Apr. 10, 1800 17 ; Clarinda, b. Mar. 22, 1802, m. Jan. 29, 1828, Erastus B. Hillman of Hatfield ; Pliny, b. Mar. i, 1804, d. Waltham, Sept. 1825 William, b. May 4, i8c6, d. Sept. 5, 1829; Roxana, b. Sept. 19, 1808, m. (i) Dec. 5, 1833, Adding Boynton of Newbury; (2) Nov. 1874, Amasa Hinds of Brookfield Lyman, b. Nov. 20, 1812, d. young; Cheney, b. Apr. 23, 1814, d. 1S17.

STODDARD, Bela C. 1, b. Scituate ; settled at Passamaquoddy, Me. ; came to North Brookfleld with two of his older sons; died Jan. 10, 1817. He m. (i) Susan Stimpson of Maine ; (2) Jan. 7, 1799, Lydia Hathaway of North Brookfleld, d. Feb. 26, 1812; (3) June 28, 1812, Judith Knovvlton of North Brookfleld. Children, Reuben, b. Maine, May 25, 1790 2; Bela, b. 1792 3; Martin, b. North Brookfleld, car- penter, m. Lucy Jenks of North Brookfield, and d. Greenbush, N.Y. ; Avery, d. young ; Foster, d. Dec. lo, 1847, m. Sally Alexander of Brimfield ; Dexter, b. Nov. 6,

6. Avery, son of Bela C. 1, d. Sept. 27, 1837, m. Dec. 6, 1S27, Mrs. Lucy Bemis. Children, Cynthia, m. Austin Moulton of East Brookfield ; Hiram, settled California ; Lacy, d. ; A^athan, settled Iowa, and d. leaving two children ; Lucy, d.

16. Horace, son of Bela 3. He left Nicetown, Pa., in Mar. 1S61, for the South, and has not since been heard from. He m. Hannah Staples of Vermont.

STONE, Francis 1, the first of his family who settled in our neighborhood came to that part of New Braintree which was afterwards annexed to North Brookfield before 1742, when and where his son Francis was born. They were both in the French war ; the father was killed at Quebec under Gen. Wolfe in 1759. Francis, jr., being then but seventeen years of age and the eldest son of the family, was sent home to care for his widowed mother. The place occupied by them was the " tan-yard place," occupied successively by their descendants, and afterwards by Col. Pliny Nye, Charles A. Hibbard, James M. Haskins, and others. Children, Francis, b. 1742 2; yoiiathan, b. 175 1 3.

2. Francis, son of Francis 1 ; tanner and farmer. He was a man of great decision of character ; actively engaged with his father who was killed in the French war, and afterwards in the war of the Revolution, where he soon distinguished himself, and was promoted to the rank of captain. He had the reputation in the service of being a brave and daring soldier, and a successful leader of scouting parties. It was probably on account of his character as an officer in the Revolutionary army that he was selected as a leader in the " Shays' Rebellion" to which he attached himself, and in which he became very prominent, not only as a military leader, but also as chairman of their meetings and of the Committee of Correspondence, in which he manifested great ability as well as zeal; indeed, if there was any wisdom in counselling rebellion, he was one of the wisest counsellors in that ill-advised and illresulting movement. At the defeat and final dispersion of the rebel army at Petersham in Feb. 1787, he was among those who fled for refuge to the State of Vermont, where he remained until the decree of amnesty was issued by Gov. Hancock, when he returned to his home and the occupations of peace. He always justified the rebellion, and never was heard to express any regret in relation to it, except at its failure. Hem. (i) Sept. 11, 1760, Martha Chase, daughter of Abel and Sarah of Sutton ; (2) June, 1777, Sarah Witt, d. Dec. 12, 1S02, aged sixty.

Braintree ; Litther, left home and not heard from ; yonathan, drowned in a clay-pit in North Brookfield in infancy; Calvin, d. Enfield, m. (i) Esther Dane of West Brookfield, and had six children ; (2) Sophia Abbott of West Brookfield, and had three children ; Francis, b. Nov. 9, 1779 4.

3. Jonathan, son of Francis 1, surveyor and farmer; was b. on the "tan-yard place," near Waite's Corner ; was 8 years old when his father was killed ; means of education limited ; he, however, learned surveying, which afterwards became of service to him ; was apprenticed to his elder brother, who was a farmer and tanner; left before his term of service was out, and went on a two years' whaling voyage ; returned, and enlisted in the Revolutionary army. Col. Larned's regiment; was made an orderly sergeant, and lieutenant, in 1776; was with Gen. Rufus Putnam at the siege of Boston, when he erected the fortifications which compelled the British to evacuate Boston. In Jan. 1777, he was commissioned paymaster in Gen. Putnam's regiment ; was at Saratoga and Stillwater, and under Gates at the surrender of Burgoyne. In 1778 he was at West Point; in 1781 was made captain, in which rank he served to the end of the war. He then bought a farm in North Brookfield, which was then the home of Gen. Putnam, with whom, in 1786-7, he surveyed the lands in Maine, then belonging to Massachusetts ; was with the government troops in defence of the public stores in Springfield, against the Shays' Rebellion (when his brother, Capt. Francis, was with Shays). In or about 1788, he joined the "Ohio Company," and in that year went to Marietta to explore; 1789, July 4, he left Brookfield with his family, arriving at his new home at Belpre, O., near Marietta, in December of that year. They went with two ox-teams, with a large wagon, with cows for family use, and a horse for each of the ladies ; several other families being in their company. After crossing the mountains, they obtained a flat-boat, in which they went down the river to Belpre, where they built and lived in a log cabin, like all others of the new settlers. They had scarcely got settled in their new home when the Indian war broke out, and threatened destruction to their settlement. Nearly all were obliged to take refuge in the fort. Capt. Stone removed his family into " Farmer's Castle," the Belpre garrison, but afterwards, with his neighbors, erected four block-houses on his farm, moved into them, and remained till the war was over. Every man had to perform military duty in some capacity. A guard was kept constantly on duty. Sentinels, duly posted in the bastions at night, every half-hour called out the time, saying, "Look out sharp ! " and were answered by all the others in turn, "All's well ;" doors and windows all made bullet-proof. Scouts continually searching the woods for Indians ; all alternately laboring and keeping guard. Here Capt. Stone's military experience was of great advantage, and made him one of the most efficient defenders of the place. During this war, there were killed in the Ohio Company's settlement, and on the opposite shore of the Ohio, 38 persons, and 10 taken prisoners. It is not known that more than 4 Indians were killed. Not till the peace of 1795 was the success of the settlement assured. After that they left the garrison, improved their farms, and opened up the country. Capt. Stone was appointed treasurer of Washington County by Winthrop Sargent, acting governor of the territory in 1792. He was also appointed by the territorial legislature in 1799, with Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Ives Oilman, to lay out the University lands at Athens. He d. before this work was completed, Mar. 24, 1801. He was a member of the society or order of the "Cincinnati." He and every member of the settlement were stanch Federalists, and, in spite of the great efforts in favor of Jefferson, they were all firm adherents of Washington, with whom Capt. Stone, and several others of the company, had been associated in military camp life. His patriotism seemed to be inherited by his grandsons, no fewer than nine of them being in the late war against the Rebellion : of Benjamin F.'s sons, John in Ohio 39th, George N. in Ohio 73d, wounded at Bull Run, d. in hospital at Washington ; Francis's son Edward in Ohio 39th ; Samuel's son James in commissary department, with rank of captain, brevetted major at the close of the war. His service was in Missouri. Col. John had four sons in the war : Bradley B., in Ohio 92d, followed Sherman to the sea, was promoted to captain before he was discharged at the end of the war; Simon Bolivar, Augustus D., Jonathan F., all in i4Sth Ohio National Guards, were at City Point and Bermuda Hundred, where Simon Bolivar d. of malarial fever. William Dana, son of Grace Stone, in Missouri

4. Francis, son of Francis 2 ; farmer ; lived in North Brookfield, and on Coy's hill in West Brookfield ; d. Sept. 14, i860. He m. Mar. 27, 1804, Hannah Matthews, b. Aug. 31, 1779, d. Sept. 30, 1865. Children, Boivman, b. 1S05, d. 1807 ; Francis, b. Julv 19, 1807 ; lives Petersham ; m. Harriet Blake of West Brookfield ; Elizabeth Matthews, b. Dec. 14, 1S08, m. Ira Barlow of West Brookfield, and d. New Braintree, Mar. 17, 1838 ; William Bo7vman, b. Jan. 24, iSii, graduated Amherst College 1839, Andover Theological Seminary, 1842; licensed Brookfield Association; ordained pastor Evangelical Congregational Church in Gardner, Feb. 23, 1842; resigned 1850, at request of his father, with whom he went to reside in West Brookfield, where he still lives; m. (i) Feb. 16, 1842, Phebe W. Robinson of Hardwick ; (2) May 24, i8t;3, Samantha Robinson of Hardwick ; Liither,^. Apr. 30, 18 13, d. young; Rhoda,\t. July 8, 1814, unmarried; d. West Brookfield, July 31, 1839; Luther, b. Dec. ID, iSr6; teacher; d. Terre Haute, Ind., July 18, 1850; m. Phebe Cutler of West Brookfield; Lucy, b. West Brookfield, Aug. 13, 1818; teacher and editor; graduated Oberlin College ; was employed in select schools in North Brookfield ; early interested in the anti-slavery cause ; afterwards in the cause of woman's rights ; editor of the Woman^s yoitrnal, published in Boston ; m. Henry B. Blackwell of New York ; Sarah Witt, b. Nov. 10, 1821 ; teacher ; lives Gardner; m. Henry Lawrence of Barre.

STONE, Joseph, was a descendant of Gregory * of Cambridge, through Samuel ^ of Lexington; SamueP of Lexington; Joseph"* of Lexington ; Joseph^ was b. Lexington, June 26, 1714; settled Brookfield; was an original petitioner for the Second Precinct and a leading man ; m. Feb. 9, 1744, Sarah Potter, daughter of Ephraim of Marlboro. Children (b. Brookfield), Silas, b. Mar. 31, 1745, m. (i) Rebecca

3. Henry H., son of James 1; lives Barre; m. June, 1S70, Mrs. Huldah Bliss of North Biookfield. (l\\\\ihc.\\, Jennie ; Emerson zxidi Emory [\.W\n^); Mattie.

STONE, Daniel 1, b. Boylston, a Shays man; lived Springfield, etc.; d. West Boylston ; m. Livia Whitcomb of Stow, and had Ezra B. 2, b. West Boylston, Apr. 27, 1808.

STONE, Liberty, b. Charlton, 1S12, m. 1834, Charlotte Hamilton of Brookfield, b. 1812. Children, Henry A. ; Frank D. ; Andrew J. ; Sarah F., m. i860. Nelson H. De Lane of Brookfield; Wilson D.; Rebecca, m. 1S66, Alfred O. Blood of Charlton ; Amasa G., b. July 22, 1848; merchant ; m. Mar. 14, 187 1, Fannie L. Nichols of Charlton, and had in North Brookfield, Amasa E., b. May 4, 1876; Ella J., m. Henry Slayton of Brookfield.

STUART, James J., b. Standish, Me., Nov. 1805 ; son of Wentworth ; d. North Brookfield, May 9, 1S79; m. Aug 18, 1862, Mary A. Currier of Brownfield, Me. Children, Charles S., b. Brownfield, Aug. 21, 1863; Mary Ella,h. Oct. 22, 1866. [Mrs. Stuart m. (i) Albert Robertson of Brownfield, and had Herbert L., b. Conway, N.H., Feb. 15, 1852, carriage manufacturer, Brookfield, m. Mar. 1S75, Lillian Rice; Clara L., b. Sept. 21, 1857, m. Nov. 1878, Edward K. Haskins of New Braintree, lives North Brookfield.]

TIBBETTS, Robert M., m. Helen M. Bullard of Holliston, daughter of Alpheus. Children, Grace E., b. Holliston, 1869 ; Albert J/., b. 1873; Frederick B., b. North Brookfield, 1875.

THOMPSON, Nathan 1, b. Feb. 1741, d. New Braintree, Mar. 12, 1S14 (son Col. James Thompson of Hardwick, who represented certain Braintree proprietors of New Braintree lands). He m. (i) Nov. 15, 1770, Mary Hawes of New Braintree, who d. Apr. i, 1790; (2) Nov. 4, 1790, Mrs. Joanna Nichols, who d. suddenly [leaving two children by her first husband, - Jacob, and Katherine who m. Daniel Granger] ; (3) Oct. 5, 1793, Polly Doty of Hardwick, a sister of John and Ellis Doty, who kept tavern in Hardwick when Burgoyne's army was quartered there, and afterwards removed to Westminster. Children (all born in New Braintree), James, b. Oct. 23, 1771, d. June 21, 1790; N'athan, b. July 28, 1773 2; William, b. Aug. 30, 1775, m. Dec. 2, 1799, Susanna Winslow of North Brookfield; Mary, b. June 21, 1777, d. young; Molly, b. May i, 1779, m. 1804 or 1805, Joel Dunn of New Braintree; Jesse, b. Feb. 11, 1781, went to sea and was never heard from afterwards; Nabby, b. Apr. 26, 17S3, m.. (i) 1802 or 1803, Capt. Joseph Joselyn of New Braintree; (2) Apr. 17, 1815, Daniel Wood of New Braintree; Fersis, b. Mar. 6, 1785, m. 1807 or 1S08, Moses H. Felton of Barre, and d. in Barre;

Hamilton, b. Apr. 25, 1833 ; resides North Brookfield ; Adeline White, b. May 28, 1835, m. Feb. 19, 1857, David Rose of Springfield; resides there ; Charles Freeman, b. July 21, 1837, m. Abbie Russell of Brookfield; resides there; Mary Jane, b. May, 19, 1840, m. James Phillips of Brimfield; resides Detroit, Mich.

2. FrancLs W., son of William 1 ; resides West Brookfield ; m. Sept. 8, 1835, Mary W. Gilbert. Two of his children live North Brookfield ; William B., b. June 7, 18384; Frank H. 5.

THUOTTE, Joseph, b. Canada, 1S27, d. Canada, 186S, m. 1S46, Clementine, Chanon. Children (b. Canada), Celina, b. 1S53, m. 1871, Isaac Fregeau of Hardwick ; Celestin, b. 1855, m. Nov. 26, 1879, Mary Casey of North Brookfield; Clement, b. 1859, m. Alina Gaiget of North Brookfield ; Orina, b. 1863 ; resides North Brookfield.

TILLY, William 1, b. Ringwood, Hampshire, Eng., d. Southampton, Eng., Jan. 20, 1853, m. Sarah Sweatland of Poole, Dorsetshire, Eng. Children (b. in England), Henry, m. Lucy Highfield of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Elizabeth, m. Thomas Peers of North Brookfield ; Alfred, m. Ann Thompson of London, Eng. ; Jane ; Charles, m. Anna Baker of Southampton, Eng. ; Fanny, m. T. Robert Dunkley of London, Eng. ; George Edward, served through civil war in Fifteenth Regiment New York Volunteers; John, b. Mar. 21, 18262.

2. John, son of William 1, m. Sept. 27, 1848, Jane Taylor of London, Eng. ; came to North Brookfield from Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 1874. Children (b. in Eng-

TOMBLEN. The ancestors of Oren A. Tomblen were undoubtedly of those who came from England about 1630, and later. Savage says Edward Tomblen of Lynn came, no doubt, in the fleet with Winthrop ; admitted freeman, 1631 ; representative at the first court of deputies, 1634, and the next year "clerk of the writs." 2d, Edward, of Lynn, perhaps son, perhaps nepheiv, of the preceding, came in the "Susan and Ellen," in 1635, but went home again, lived in London, a merchant; bought of Joseph Belknap, Jan. 31, 1649, ^i^ estate called Blackbush right, near Hampton Court. 3d, Timothy of Lynn, freeman. Mar. 4, 1633, representative in almost every court from 1635 to 1644. 4th, Benjamin, at Lynn, came in the " Susan and Ellen " in 1635, aged 18, with another Ed'ward, aged 30, supposed to be brothers, and likely to be sons of either the first Edward or his brother. 5th, John of Boston, m. Dec. 26, 1660, Sarah, daughter of Matthew Barnes. 6th, Ralph, Massachusetts, 1636, of whom no more is heard.

TOMBLEN, Isaac 1, of Brookfield, m. Dec. 10, 1696, to Mary Waite of Marlboro, where he was deacon in the church. His children were, Isaac, b. 1697 2 ; Hezekiah, b. 1700; Sarah; Rnhamah 3.

He lived in what is now Westboro, on the farm of the late Deacon Isaac Davis. His wife d. Nov. 16, 1725. He d. June 24, 1745. Hezekiah lived on "Tomblen Hill," near the line of Shrewsbury. When the church in Northboro was formed, he and his father were set off to that church.

3. Ruhamah, daughter of Isaac 1, m. Jan. 15, 1729, Eleazer Pratt of Shrewsbury, set off to Westboro in 1762. Their seven children were, Hannah; Ruhamah ; Mary ; Sarah ; Ritfns ; Reuben ; Eleazer.

5. Sarah, daughter of Isaac 2, m. Dec. 26, 1728, Elisha Newton of Shrewsbury, and d. aged 90. Their twelve children were, Elisha ; Ezekiel ; Sarah ; Mary ; Timothy; Ithamar ; Solomon; Charles; Sarah; Persis ; Mary; Moses.

TOWER, Rev. James Edwin, b. Granby, June 9, 1834, son of Samuel and Mary (Clark) Tower of Hadley. Soon after his graduation from theological seminary he began preaching to the Union Congregational Society, and while the subject of giving him a call to settle was under consideration, he d. very suddenly, at Groton, Aug. iS, 1862. He m. Mar. 13, 1862, Harriet I. Eaton of Groton, who wa> b. at Stoddard, N.H., Jan. 5, 1835. [She m. (2) Sept. 27, 1871, Timothy M. Duncan.] Child, James Eaton, b. Groton, Mar. 17, 1S63 ; graduated A. C. 1885.

TOWNE, Daniel, b. Spencer, lives Oakham. He m. (i) Oct. 12, 1829, Sophronia Raymond, daughter of James of North Brookfield, who d. Oakham, Apr. 2,

Dec. 1830, m. (i) Lucius Lamb of Spencer, (2) Elijah Brown of Henniker, N.H. ; resides Hillsboro Bridge, N.H.; Alonzo, b. Dec. 24, 1831, m. Mary Sylvester of Spencer, and lives there; Hiram, b. May, 1833, lives Oakham; Sophronia, b. Oakham, July, 1842, m. (i) Willard Frink of North Brookfield, (2) Edwin S. Parker of Oakham; resides Oakham.

TRAVERS, O. J., M.D., b. New York State; settled in North Brookfield 1S77, and removed to Saratoga, N.Y., 1SS4 or 5. He m. Apr. 30, iSSo, Mary P. Lytle of Saratoga. Child, Henry Adelbert, b. Apr. 25, 18S3.

TUCKER, TOOKER, Arthur, turner, from Lancaster, came to Brookfield 17 17, received grant of sixty acres Jan. 4, 1718, and built on back road east of meeting-house; later, received grants in all of a hundred and forty-five acres; and sixtyeight acres were granted to his children. He probably had a brother Thomas b. in Lancaster. Elizabeth Pierce, widow of John Pierce of Boston, in her will, dated Mar. 4, 1723, gives to Arthur Tucker of Brookfield, money enough to buy three good cows. His wife is not named. He perhaps m. (2) May 17, 1750, Mary Sabens of Brookfield. The following were probably his children : Elizabeth, m. June 27, 1745, Ichabod How; Sibbilla Jcriisha,xa.. Mar. 22, 1750, Jeremiah Woodbury; Mary, m. Nov. 3, 1758, Robert Tenant, and d. Sept. 21, 1822 [she was the mother of Ezra 1]; Thomas, b. about 1719, d. July 11, 1783; m. July 20, 1749, Hannah Hill of Brookfield, who m. (2) Nov. 3, 1785, Nathaniel Waite. This Thomas is buried in the little graveyard on the old road from North Brookfield to West Brookfield. In his will he made a bequest to Ezra Tucker, his sister's son.

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9. Joseph W., son of Avery 3 ; lives North Brookfield ; m. Mar. 25, 1840, Mary Haskins, who d. July, 1869. Children (b. West Brookfield), Lyman, b. Feb. 9, 1841, d., of disease contracted in the army, at Alexandria, Va. ; George Avery, b. May 5. 1841;, m. 1867, Mary Ann Wood of West Brookfield; lives there.

10. Ezra A., son of Daniel 6, d. North Brookfield, Apr. 2, 1872, m. (i) Sarepta Butler of West Boylston, who was divorced ; (2) Mary Ann Boyden of Holden ; (3) Abbie C. Gillette of Barre or Oakham. Children, Edwin M., b. June 8, 1S39 12;

Coolidge of Leyden, from whom she was divorced ; (2) Jan. 20, 1877, Abiel Wilkins of Wilton, Me.; Isabella C, b. Holden, Sept. 8, 1847, m. Nov. 9, 1869, Robert W. Walker; Ella F, b. North Brookfield, July 15, 1859, m. Jan. iSSo, Charles F. Maxwell ; Albert, b. Aug. 1861 ; lives East Brookfield.

TUCKER, Robert, b. Dorsetshire, England, d. in Milton, Mass., 16S2, aged 80. Most of the families by the name of Tucker residing in this vicinity are the descendants of this Robert Tucker, who settled in Weymouth about 1635, where he had nine children, viz.: Sarah, b. 1639; James, b. 1640; Joseph, b. 1643; Elizabeth, b. 1644; Benjamin, h. 1646; Ephraim, b. 1652; Manasseh,h. 1654; Rebecca; and Alary. He removed to Milton about 1662, and purchased a tract of land still known as "Brush Hill," where "his character and education exercised an important influence for many years." In his will, dated Mar. 7, 1681, he speaks of his "new house," indicating that he built a house not long before. This is still standing on its original site, and, in 186S, was occupied by some of his descendants. Ephraim Tucker, son of Robert, had a son Ephraim, who lived on Brush Hill until 1745, when he removed to Pomfret, Ct., where he d. Jan. 26, 1774. His descendants are represented in North Brookfield in the person of Lyman Tucker. Benjamin, son of Robert, m. Ann, daughter of Edward Payson of Dorchester, and settled in Roxbury, where he had eleven children, viz.: Benjamin, b. 1670; Ann, b. 1673; Jonathan, b. 1675; Ephraim, b. 1677; Eben, b. 1679; Mary, b. 16S2 ; Edward, b. 1684; Joseph, b. 16S6; Elizabeth, b. 1688; Sarah,\}. 1696; Ann,\). 1699. ^^ was one of the original proprietors of the town of Spencer.

He was also a proprietor in the town of Woodstock, Ct., at the laying out of that town, which was then called New Roxbury, and considered a part of Worcester County.

The second Benjamin had a son Satnitel, b. July 5, 1716, who settled in Spencer, and was the ancestor of most of the families by the name of Tucker who originated there.

Joseph, sixth son of Benjamin, with several others, bought land in the south part of the so called " Mash Mugget Purchase," now Pomfret, Ct, and was the first of the name to settle in that vicinity. He also inherited land there in the settlement of his father's estate. His name appears in connection with twenty-two others in the list of those who founded the church. May 3, 1713. He had a son Joseph, who m. Aug. 6, 1744, Elizabeth Gassett, and d. June 13, 1745, at the siege of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, leaving an infant son Ephraim, b. May 12, 1745, who inherited a part of the estate of his grandfather Joseph, as shown by the will of the latter. Ephraim m. May 12, 1767, Mehitable, daughter of David Chandler of Pomfret. They had four sons and three daughters. The sons were, Walter, b. Apr. 2, 1770 ; John, b. June 15, 1776; Calvin (late of North Brookfield), b. Mar. 15,1780!; Ephrai7n, b. Aug. 28, 1782. The father never lived in North Brookfield, but in Apr. 1795, he bought of Henry Knapp, the place now (1S79) owned by Mr. George Jenks, and his sons Walter and Ephraim lived there for some years. The place was sold Jan. 20, 1809, to Beza Soule, a maker of gravestones, for $433.34. At that time it had a house, barn, and blacksmith's shop standing on it.

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4. Henry P., son of Calvin 1 ; resides Tabor, la. ; m. June 15, 1S43, Mary K. Bush of North Brookfield. Child, Emma E., adopted at Nebraska City, la., Oct. 27, 1869.

5. George F., son of Calvin 1, served three years in Company F, Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. He m. Mary Robinson, b. New York State, Apr. 14, 1822. Children (b. North Brookfield), Emory H., b. 1842 ; lives North Brookfield; Mary E., b. 1S44, m. Apr. 2, 1867, Joseph E. Kimball; Emma J., b. 1851, m. Oct. 6, 1868, Thomas E. Hall ; George, b. 1856.

6. Ephraim, son of Calvin 1, manufacturer of folding chairs, on which he has six patents ; resides Worcester. He m. Nov. 25, 1846, Laurette Culver of Ware. Children, Ellen Laurette, b. Ware, Sept. 20, 1849, d. young; Ephraim, b. East Brookfield, Sept. 26, 1852 ; Elmer Gordon, b. Worcester, June 3, 1854; Albert Lincoln, b. Feb. 8, 1861 ; Nellie Maria, b. Feb. 24, 1866.

TUCKER, Joseph Bryant, a descendant from Robert of Milton, through the Spencer branch [Joseph B.,' Ezekiel,* Ezekiel,^ Samuel,"* Benjamin ^ of Roxbury, Benjamin,^ Robert']; was b. Spencer, Feb. 7, 1828; m. Apr. 4, 1850, Arabella Harvvood of North Brookfield. Children, Clara Genevieve, b. Spencer, Apr. 30, 1851, d. North Brookfield, Oct. 22, 1869; Joseph Bryatit, b. Feb. 23, 1854; lives Worcester; Hannah Arabella, h. North Brookfield, Apr. 15, 1857; Marion Capitola,h. Feb. 11, 1859; Marina IIarwooJ,h. May 26, 1861 ; A^orman Francis and Nellie Frances (twins), b. Oct. i, 1863; Ltiella Penelope, b. Oct. 2, 1867, d. young.

TUCKER, Lyman, son of Chandler, b. East Woodstock, Ct., May 9, 1S26, m. June 12, 1S50, Roancey A. Lamb of Brookfield. Children (b. North Brookfield),

TUTTLE, Joel 1, b. Woodstock, Vt., 1796, d. Boston, Mass., Apr. 19, 1844. He m. Martha Barnes of Dummerston, Vt. Children (b. in Dummerston), Charles Augustus, b. May 15, 1822 2; Hiram, b. Mar. 19, 1824, lives North Hadley, Mass., m. Harriet Harmon of Pelham ; Louisa, b. 1826, m. Salem Abell of Boston ; James, d. aged 6; Joel IV., carriage manufacturer in Boston, m. Adelia Palmer; Persis Adelaide, b. July 21, 1832, m. Mar. 31, i860, Samuel M. Pickard ; Martha A., b. July 7, 1834, m. William Burt of Boston ; Ma7y Lucinda, b. Boston, July 14, 1837, m. William Darling of Boston.

2. Charles A. was a volunteer in Pioneer Corps, Quartermaster's Department. He m. Sept. 12, 1854, Mary Ann Knight, daughter of Capt. John. Child, Charles, b. Rutland, Oct. 15, 1855.

7. Warren, son of David 5, physician and surgeon in North Brookfield ; has been representative, and held many town offices. Was surgeon in Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, during the civil war. He m. Oct. 22, 1848, Diantha Walker of E.xeter, N.Y., who was b. Jan. i, 1823.

VANCE, William, b. Ireland, came to North Brookfield in 1S40, and d. Jan. 7, 1877. He m. Julia Quigley in Ireland. Child, Mary Ann, b. North Brookfield, May 20, 1848, d. July 7, 1853.

(b. in New York State), Mary, m. Jan. 20, 1878, Peter Gagnon of North Brookfield ; William, m. Nov. 27, 1878, Carrie Dumas of North Brookfield; Sophia, m. Apr. 15, 1872, Louis Bruno of North Brookfield ; Charles ; Peter ; Matilda; Adelia ; Carrie, b. West Brookfield ; Emma, b. North Brookfield.

" proprietor" of the town by purchasing all the lands and rights of one of the original grantees. Children (b. in Watertown), Stephen, b. Feb. 1637-8, d. young; yohn, b. May 6, 1639; m. Mary, daughter of George and Mary Woodward of Watertown, Jan. 13, 1663-4, and d. in Watertown, Aug. 24, 1691. His descendants removed to Framingham ; Thomas, b. Mar. 3, 1640-1 2; Joseph, b. 1643, m. Ruhamah, daughter of William and Mary (Bemis) Hagar of Watertown, 1674; removed to Worcester in 1675, ^"d soon after to Marlboro, where he d. Mar. 1726. His daughter Mary m. Isaac Tomblen of Brookfield, Dec. 10, 1696.

2. Thomas, son of Richard 1, m. Sarah, daughter of James and Mary Cutler, lived Watertown, and acquired much property in lands; was one of Major Appleton's soldiers in 1675, ''^ 'he Indian War, and d. in Watertown or Weston, Jan. 3, 1722-3. Children (b. in Watertown), Richard, b. Jan. 29, 1674-5, d. in Watertown, Oct. 5,

3. Joseph, son of Thomas 2, m. Sarah, widow of Joseph Stone of Lexington, and d. in Worcester, Oct. 5, 1753. He owned and lived upon a large and valuable farm in Sudbury. Removed to Worcester in 1746. Children, Priscilla, b. Watertown, Apr. 14, 1707, m. Charles Adams of Sudbury, May 27, 1729, and d. in Worcester, Feb. 4, 1768. He d. there, Nov. 3, 1773, aged 86; yi?//;/, baptized in Lexington, Sept. 26, 1708 4; /?^/;£fir<rrt, baptized in Lexington, Apr. 8, 17 11, m. John Curtis of Sudbury, June 4, 1729, who was afterwards a prominent citizen of Worcester, a captain in the French and Indian War; ancestor of Hon. George William Curtis of New York.

4. John, son of Joseph 3, m. (i) Anna Wellington, Sept. 3, 1727, daughter of John and Hannah (Morse) Wellington of Watertown ; (2) Eunice Morse, Mar. 7, 1743- 4, daughter of Jonathan and Jane Morse of Sherburne, and d. in Brookfield Jan. 27, 1761. He was a soldier in the Indian wars; in 1746 removed with his family from Sudbury to Brookfield, where he purchased a farm of three hundred acres, of Isaac Gleason, jr., and Gershom Makepeace (see ante, p. 431). Children of John and Anna (b. in Sudbury), Anna, b, Apr. 8, 1728, m. Daniel Hey wood, jr., Worcester, Nov. 29, 1753, son of Capt. Daniel Heywood, and father of Daniel Heywood 3d. A hotel was kept on the site of the present Bay State House in Worcester, by grandfather, father and son for nearly ninety years ; John,\>. Nov. 20, 1730 5 ; Joseph, b. Nov. 30, 1732, m. Martha Stone of Brookfield, Jan. 20, 1762 ; he was a captain in the French and Indian War; removed from Brookfield to Vermont in 1768. From Vermont he removed to New Hampshire, where he was representative to the General Assembly ; a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and was killed in a naval skirmish on Lake Champlain, Sept. 28, 1776 (see ante, p. 433) ; Thomas, b. Aug. 14, 1735 ; was a soldier in the French and Indian War ; was in the battle of Bennington, and was killed in a subsequent battle in 1779 ; Benjamin, b. Feb. 13, 1736-7, m. Lois Gilbert of Brookfield, Jan. 11, 1767, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Sarah, and grand-daughter of Capt. Thomas Gilbert, and d. at Waitsfield, Vt., June 28, 1822. He was in the French and Indian War before he was eighteen years of age ; removed to Vermont in 1767-8 ; was a colonel in the Revolution, and afterwards Major General of Militia, {see ante, p. 442) ; Sarah, b. May 16, 1739 ; Lydia, b. June 26, 1741. Children of John and Eunice, Richa7-d, b. Sudbury, Apr. 30. 1745, m. Susanna Allen of Brookfield, Dec. 1770, and d. Windsor, Vt., Mar. 5, 1823. He was a soldier in the Provincial Army at seventeen ; removed to Windsor, Vt., in 1768; was a captain in the battle of Bennington, and prominent in the church at Windsor; Euntce,h. Brookfield, Apr. 18, 1747; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 2, 1749-50, d. young; Priscilla, b. June iS, 1752; Jeduthan, b. June 17, 1754, m. Naomi Sterling of Lyme, Ct. (daughter of Nathan Sterling), and d. Waitsfield, Vt., before 1832 ; was in Capt. Peter Harwood's Company of soldiers in 1775, and afterwards in the Regiment of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin; William, b. Dec. 13, 1756; was in the same regiment with his brother Jeduthan, and died at Fayston, Vt., Nov. 15, 1853.

5. John, son of John 4, m. Martha Woolcott of Brookfield, 1752, and d. in Brookfield about 1815. His wife was daughter of Capt. Nathaniel and Deborah (Walker) Woolcott, b. Jan. 7, 1728, and d. Brookfield, Dec. 4, 1807 (see Woolcott). He was a corporal in the French and Indian War, and a captain in the Revolution. From 1773 until shortly before his death, he owned and lived upon the Woolcott farm, more recently known as the " Parks Place," and which was also known as the " Waite Tavern" for several years (see atite, p. 432). Children (b. in Brookfield), Beulah, b. Oct, 5, 1753, m. Elijah Hersey of Spencer, Dec. 31, 1780; they removed to Vermont ; Eunice, b. May 16, 1755, lived on a portion of her father's farm on the border of Warren, unmarried, d. 1844; Joseph, h. Feb. 26, 1757 6; Thomas, b. May 23, 1759 7; Nathaniel, b. Dec. 21, 1761 8; John, b. Apr. 29, 1764 9; Lemuel, b. Nov. 9, 1766 10 ; Alpheus, b. Apr. 26, 1773, unmarried ; lived with sister Eunice, d. Jan. 30, 1846.

8. Nathaniel, son of John 5, enlisted in Capt. Ebenezer Newell's Company, Col. D. Keyes' Regiment, and was Quarter-Master's Sergeant July 20, 1777, to Jan. 4, 1778; received the Parker Johnson place as a gift from his father; lived on the Parks place; purchased the Nymphas Whiting place, where he d. June 15, 1834.

Tie m.May % 1782, Mercy Jenks, daughter of Jonathan and Freelove (Windsor) Jenks b. Pawtucket, R.I., Jan. i, 1762, d. Sept. 4, 1S48. Children, Jonathan 7., b. Dec.

13. Otis, son of Nathaniel 8. He, Oliver Ward, and Tvler Batcheller manufactured the first sale shoes in North Brookfield. He d. Oct. 5, 1869 ; m. May I, 1825, Polly, daughter of Uriah Wyman and Hannah (Totman) Johnson, b. Jan.

14. Thomas, son of Thomas 12 ; lives New Haven, Ct. ; m. Hepzibah Sperry of New Haven. Children, ^/^tT/" W. ; Elvira; Mary Estella ; Thomas.

17. Lucius E., son of Otis 13, was for a time bookkeeper for Dewing & Edmands, shoe manufacturers ; then in trade for himself at Peoria, 111., and elsewhere ; d. Worcester, Oct. 24, 1867. He m. Nov. 30, 1848, Lucy Ann Pierce, daughter of John N. and Charlotte A. Pierce of Lowell. Children, Otis yohnsou, b. North Brook- field, Apr. 20, 1S50 ; assistant cashier for Hogg, Brown & Taylor, Boston ; bookkeeper Prescott Bank, Lowell; cashier Webster City National Bank, la.; cashier First National Bank, Meridian, Miss.; ni. Apr. 20, 1874, Marion Rickerson of Milwaukee, Wis. ; Charles N'elson, b. July 7, 1854 ; graduate of Institute of Technology, Boston ; chemist Boston; Alfred Tiilly, b. Medford, Aug. 12, 1S5S ; on the editorial staff of the Boston Herald ; m. Sept. 5, 18S3, Fisher's Island, N.Y., Emma Gibbs, daughter of Lewis N. Barlow, b. Sandwich, Mass., Feb. 26, 1861 ; Cornelia Blanche,\).]\xVj

18. Henry E., son of Otis 13 ; for a time in the Custom House, Boston ; treasurer Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad 1869-74; treasurer other companies, Boston ; lives West Newton ; m. Maiden, June 13, 1867, Ellen Ingersoll, daughter of Capt. Nicholson and Nancy (Hooper) Broughton, formerly of Marblehead. Children, Henry Ingersoll, b. Boston, Sept. 27, 1868; Edward Broughton, b. West Newton, Aug. 7, 187 1 ; A?nory Hooper, b. Feb. 3, 1873; Robert Nicholson, b. Apr. 23, 1874; Elise Otis, b. Jan. 3, 1877, d. Sept. 12, 1S77 ; Eleanor Johnson, b. Sept. 25, 1879-

5. Jonathan, son of John 3, b. Ipswich; a clothier of Sutton, May 11, 1759, when he buys forty acres, house, etc., in New Braintree of William Ba.xter, and where he was living in 1762-6-7-S and 74, near Brookfield line ; m. Martha Perkins of Royalston, in Sutton, Aug. 17, 1757. He d. in Royalston, 177S, and she married before June ist, John Haven of Royalston. Children, Jonathan ; Martha, m. Lott Woodbury of Royalston ; Esther, b. Jan. 28, 1764, m. Daniel Woodbury of Royalston, July 25, 1785, and died there Apr. i, 1S24 ; Samuel; Daniel; John; Mary; Joseph.

6. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel 4, b. Sutton, m. (i) Sarah Hohnan of BrookfieJd, May, 1770, who died there with her child, in Dec. 1781 ; (2) Hannah Draper of Brookfield, May 28, 17S2. He d. Lyme, N.H., Jan. 6, 1S07. He, with his brother Reuben, buys land in Princeton, Mass., and asks leave to erect mills there in 1769, and selling in 1771, buys fulling-mill of his father in Brookfield, in 1773. He sells there to John Rainger in T782, and with his brother Joseph sells land in New Braintree in 1786, and the same year was of Granby, Mass., and of Lyme, N.H., in 1794, when with others he sells mills in Brookfield. Children (b. in Brookfield), Nathatiiel, b. June 20, 1772; Reuben, b. Aug. 7, 1774; Molly, b. May 23, 1776; John, b. Apr. 29, 1778; Solomott, b. Mar. 4, 1780; child,h. Dec. 1781, died same day ; Theophilus (by second wife), b. Apr. 27, 1783.

10. Jonathan, son of Joseph 7, b. Sept. 5, 1797 ; clothier and trader; m. Edna Dane, daughter of William Dane of North Brookfield, July i, 1827, who was b.

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Hamilton, Mass., Jan. 23, iSoo, and lived in West Brookfield in 1880. He d. West Brookfield, Sept. 15, 1874. Children (b. North Brookfield), Joseph E., b. June 25, 1829 12 ; Saruh Edna, b. June 6, 183 1, m. George E. F. Dane of Hamilton, May 27, 1852 ; resides there; John Dane, b. May 29, 1837 ; farmer ; m. Harriet C. Dame of Dover, N.H., Apr. 21, i860; resides Townsend, Mass. Their daughter Bertha Edna was b. in Wolfbor<i, N.H., Sept. 27, 1S72. The father was in the millinery business in Wolfboro, N.H., from whence he removed to Townsend, Mass., where he resides, a farn\er.

WALKER, Edward 1, probably son of the first Samuel of Woburn, of Charlestown, 1675; soldier in Capt. Samuel Mosely's Company at Dedham, Oct. 9, 1675; a Narragansett grantee; came to Brookfield, 1702; bought July i, 1703, of Henry Taylor, twenty acres, being one-half of said Taylor's homestead ; had grants at Brookfield, in all of four hundred and fifty-six acres ; one of the most influential of the early settlers, d. 1735. He m. Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Dean of Concord, who was admitted to Charlestown Church, Jan. 8, 1698. Children, Edward, b. May 25, 1690, lived Brookfield, received grant of land on south side of the river Oct. 23, 17 13, and in all a hundred and eighty-eight acres, d. Sept. 12, 1754; m. (i)

2. Samuel, probably brother of Capt. Richard, settled in Reading ; afterwards of Woburn; named in the records, 1661. Kept the first inn in Woburn, 1675 ; selectman; d. Nov. 6, 16S4, aged 69 or 70. Children (b. Reading), 6'<?w«^/, b. Sept. 28, 16433; Joseph; Hannah; Israel; John; Benjamin; and probably Edward of Charlestown and Brookfield.

3. Samuel, son of Samuel 2, lived Woburn; selectman; d. Jan. 18, 1703 ; he m. Sarah Reed of Woburn. Children, Edward; John, b, July 2, 16654; Samtiel ; Sarah; Timothy ; Isaac ; Elias.

5. Nathaniel, son of John 4, carpenter; removed from Weston to Sturbridge, 174S, built at the north end of Walker Pond, a house which was a fine fpecimen of workmanship, and in 1872 was standing in good condition; an enterprising and patriotic man; d. 1785. He m. Mar. 8, 1731, Submit Brewer of Sturbridge. They had sixteen children, twelve of whom reached mature age. Children, yatnes, b. Weston, Nov. 15, 1732, settled Belchertown ; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 12, 1735; settled on west side of Walker Pond in Sturbridge; Phineas, b. Mar. 17, 1738 6; Lydia, b. Feb. 7, 1740; Josia/i, b. Feb. 4, 1741 ; Submit, b. July 11, 1742, blind; Asa, b. Sept. 2, 1743,

Richardson; Benjamin, b. Dec. 5, 1747, d. 1769 of disease contracted in the French War; Lucy, b. Sturbridge, Feb. 13, 1749, m. Comfort Freeman of Sturbridge; Bculah, m. White of Middlefield.

He bought a large tract of land in Stafford, Vt., commenced clearing it, built a saw-mill, intending to remove his family there, which was then a frontier settlement. But his brother-in-law, Asa Hyde, who owned a farm in Woodstock, exchanged it with him for a part of his Vermont purchase, and removed there, Mr. Walker remaining in Woodstock. His patriotism was illustrated by the fact that when he was making his purchase in Vermont he had in his saddle-bags a thousand silver dollars, for which he was offered the whole town of Peacham ; but, knowing that the colonies were in almost " perishing need " of money, and in as much as he was not then actively in the field, he chose to serve his country by loaning to it the thousand dollars; for which he only received, long after, a piece of land worth about fifty dollars.

He had previously been in the French war, and also in the battles of Crown Point and Ticonderoga. A man of sterling principles, prominent in all the reforms of the time; a strong temperance man; a humble and devout Christian. He lived respected, and died lamented.

He was captain of the Military Company in Woodstock, Ct., during the Revolutionary war; and was called out thirteen times for longer or shorter periods,, once during the whole season, and his wife did the work on the farm with the helpof her son Leonard, who was only twelve years old. He d. 1829. He m. Susanna^ Hyde, d. 1S38, aged ninety-five. Children, Leotard, b. Oct. 4, 1766; blacksmith and) card maker ; d. Sept. 9, 1851 ; m. Mar. 31, 1790, Chloe Child of Woodstock, d.

Walter, b. May 27, 1773 7; Nancy, unmarried, d. Woodstock; Sally, m. Enoch Bacon of Southbridge ; F/iineas,h. June 26, 1780, m. Lucy Allen 15; Horatio, b.

7. Deacon Walter, son of Phineas 6, b, in Woodstock, Ct, May 27, 1773; blacksmith and farmer. He removed from Woodstock, Ct, to the North Parish in Brookfield in the year 1800, and purchased for $550 six and a half acres of land with a house, barn, and blacksmith shop thereon, and succeeded to the blacksmithing business of Rufus Hardy, a former owner of the place. He here erected new buildings which were located on the ri.sing land a hundred rods north of the present First Congregational Meeting-house, one of the pleasantest situations in town, after- wards owned and occupied by his son Amasa, who innproved the place by adding a front of more modern style of architecture to the house, beautifying the grounds, planting trees, etc. The place is now owned by Mrs. A. II. Batcheller, daughter of Hon. Amasa Walker.

Here Deacon Walker lived over thirty years, and died Dec. 14, 1S35. He was appointed deacon of the Second Church in Brookfield, now the first Congregational Church of North Brookfield, in 1806, which office he held till his death. He was a prominent citizen for many years, or during his entire residence here. His whole character is justly described by Rev. Dr. Snell in his fortieth anniversary sermon in 1838 : -

"Deacon Walker, who continued in office nearly thirty years, was a very useful man in church as well as in society. His influence was uniformly in support of order, peace, and religion. He aided in works of benevolence at home and abroad, and wished that to be done which would promote the cause of Christ, while he afforded his personal service in the prayer-meeting, the religious conference, and the Sabbath school." He m. Apr. 3, 1795, Priscilla Carpenter of Woodstock; d. Oct. 30, 1835, aged sixty. Children, Amasa, b. Woodstock, May 4, 1799 8; Wa/ler, b. North Brookfield, Mar. 28, 1801 9 ; Freeman, b. Dec. 12, 1803 10.

11. Robert W., son of Hon. Amasa 8; lieutenant Company A, Thirty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers ; wounded and taken prisoner ; carries a rebel bullet in his body as a memorial of service ; m. Nov. 9, 1S69, Isabel C. Tucker. Child, Amasa, b. Nov. 12, 1S70.

Gen. Francis A. Walker fitted for college at Leicester Academy and New England Normal Institute, Lancaster ; graduated Amherst College, i860 ; studied law with Devens & Hoar, Worcester; he enlisted Aug. 1861, in the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers [for military record, see ante, p. 340] ; he was teacher of Latin and Greek at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, 1865-7; on editorial staff Springfield Republican, 1868 ; Deputy Special Commissioner of Revenue, in charge of Bureau of Statistics, Washington, D.C., 1869; Superintendent of Census, 1870-2 ; Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1871-2; Professor of Political Economy and History in Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, 1873-8; Superintendent of Tenth United States Census ; President of Institute of Technology, Boston, 1881-87. Has been trustee of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and Amherst College ; member of Cobden Club, and of the Statistical Society, London ; and member of the National Academy of Sciences ; received honorary degree of M.A. from Yale College, and Ph.D. from Amherst College. In 1877 and 1878 he delivered courses of twenty lectures at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and in 1879 ^ course of twelve lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston. His published works are: "The Indian Question," 1S74 ; " The Statistical Atlas of the United States ; " " The Wages Question," 1S76 ; "Money," 1878; "Money in its Relation to Trade and Industry," 1879.

18. John G., son of Horatio, who was the son of Phineas 6, b. Lowell, Vt., Apr. 9, iSi6; a stage driver in North Brookfield; m. Catherine Stoddard of North Brookfield, Sept. 1S48, and d. Warren, Feb. 27, 1S76 ; no children except an adopted daughter Maria Coniffe Walker, who m. Lyman Barnes of West Brookfield.

WALLEY, William, son of Joseph and Jane (Birchenough) Walley, b. England, Apr. 3, 1842 ; enlisted Aug. 20, 1S61, in the Eighteenth Regiment Infantry Massachusetts Volunteers, in camp at Arlington Heights ; went to Manassas, thence to Alexandria, thence to Fortress Monroe, there through the campaign under Mc- Clellan; wounded in second battle of Bull Run; in hospital at Washington; transferred to Second Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps; discharged Aug. 31, 1864. He m. Jan. 4, 1872, Sarah G. Bond, daughter of Gilbert of North Brookfield. Children, Charles B., b. Aug. 30, 1873; Ma7y T., b. Dec. 13, 1875; George ^, b. June 7, 1880.

WARD, Oliver, was a descendant of William,' who settled Sudbury, 1639; through John - of Newton ; Joseph ^ of Newton ; Joseph of Newton ; Nathaniel,' b. May 12, 1734, settled Grafton, d. Mar. 17, 1793; m. 1773, Hannah Batcheller of Upton, who d. Mar. 26, 1793. They had children, Asa; Sally; Asa, merchant of Boston ; Ainia, m. Elisha Chapin; Oliver, b. Grafton, Dec. 3, 17S3 6.

7. Joseph Harrison, son of Oliver 6, was teacher; assistant to his father; merchant in North Brookfield of the firms of Ward & Potter, Gary, Ward & Potter, Gary, Ward & Bond ; and in Boston of Kidder & Ward, and J. H. Ward & Co. In 1846, he went into the insurance business. He m. (i) May 12, 1836, Charlotte Bates, daughter of Dr. Anson of Barre, d. Nov. 7, 1843; (2) Sept. 12, 1853, Mrs. Deborah (Bond) Collins of Yarmouth, N.S. ; s. p.

WEBBER, Cyrus K., son of Cyrus and Betsey (Whittemore) Webber of Sturbridge, b. Sept. 21, 1841, m. Sept. 21, 1865, Helen A. Gay, daughter of George, b. Apr. 22, 1849. Children, Edith R., b. May 16, 1867 ; George E., b. Apr. 14, 1873. [Mr. Webber enlisted 1861 in Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers ; served till 1865; was in fifteen battles.]

WEBBER, Elliot D., b. Brimfield 1836; barber; enlisted Aug. 1861 in Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; served three years.

WEDGE, David, from Sudbury or Lancaster, came to Brookfield, 1716 ; received grant of thirty acres home lot, and later of seventy-seven acres more ; wife, Joanna. Children, son, b. July 22, 1722 ; son, b. Oct. 22, 1724; soil, b. July 4, 1726; daicghter, b. Mar. 12, 1731. One of the sons was Thomas, ra. Jan. 1755, Abigail Elwell ; the daughter was Hannah, m. Sept. 1757, Benjamin Griffin.

5. Ammiel, son of Supply 3; shop joiner; was of Marlboro in 1738, when he buys in North Brookfield for ^200, the farm since known as the " Lamson place ; "

7. Ammiel, son of Thomas 4 ; a soldier in the Revolution ; lived Hardwick, Leverett ; d. Wendell, Feb. 15, 1832. He m. (i) Apr. 6, 1769, Susanna Chamberlain of Petersham; (2) Feb. 26, 177S, widow Sarah (Johnson) Mandell of Petersham, d. Leverett, Dec. 1839, aged 82. Children, Artemas, b. Hardwick, Nov. 9,

2. Aaron D., son of Benjamin D. 1. He left home Feb. 18, 1862, to serve as acting Assistant Paymaster in the United States Navy ; was taken sick of remittent fever while on the steamer J. P. Jackson of the Gulf blockading squadron in May following. June 11, he was transferred to the steamer Ocean Queen for passage home, via New York, and died the same day in the South West Pass, and was buried at a place called Pilot Town. He m. (i) Dec. 12, 1848, Martha Ann Batcheller, daughter of Deacon Tyler, d. Winchester, Oct. 1, 1852; (2) Nov. 2, 1854, Ellen A. Burnham of Winchester. Children, Ella Amelia, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 12, 1849, d. Exeter, N.H., Feb. 7, 1883, m. Nov. 12, 1874, Oliver R. Burnham of Andover, Mass. ; Martha Florence, \>. Winchester, Jan. 22, 1852, d. Bloomington, 111., Mar. 27, 1881, m. Nov. 12, 1874, Alfred W. OUis of Bloomington; Arthur D., b. May 23, 1856; lives St. Joseph, Mo. ; George A., b. Nov. 27, 1857 ; lives Winchester.

WELLINGTON, Roger 1, lived in Lexington, Sutton, Ashby, and Brookfield. He had brothers, Luke and John. He m. Stearns. Children, Oliver, d. West

WESTON, James, came to Brookfield from Middleboro, about 1775. He and son James were recorded in 1791 as belonging in North School District. He d. Apr. 13, 1S22. His wife d. Feb. 15, 1820. Children (perhaps not in order of birth), James; Eliza, m. Feb. 28, 1796, Levi Harrington of New Braintree; Rehekah, m. Sept. 19, 1802, Asa Harrington of New Braintree ; Betsey, b. Sept. i, 1767, m. Nov. 4, 1813, Barnabas Raymond, and d. Nov. 24, 1854; Susan, m. Isaac Pratt of Spencer.

WHEELER, Amos, b. Charlestown, N.H., May 2, 17S3; farmer; served in the war of 1812; was killed at Eaton, P.Q., by the falling of a tree, July 3, 1849. He m. 1805, Rachel McLaughlin of Walpole, N.H. His son

Joseph B., was b. South Orange, Dec. 8, 1832; last-plater ; served in the Thirtysixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers in the late war ; m. Dec. 8, 1869, Melissa A. Shedd of North Brookfield. Children, Paul D., b. Nov. 5, 1874; Ethel A., b. Oct. 7, 1877.

WHITE, Ezekiel 1, b. Weymouth, June 8, 1748; blacksmith; settled New Braintree; removed to Braintree, and lived a while in Westhampton ; d. Jan. 10, 1821. He m. 1766, Sarah Vinton of Braintree, b. Dec. 20, 1747, d. Jan. 15, 1837. Children (b. New Braintree), Ezekiel, b. Feb. 24, 1767 ; blacksmith ; m. Mary Bates of Chesterfield, and had thirteen children, viz., Clarinda, m. William Wilder of Chesterfield ; Horace, ni. and lived in Pennsylvania ; Betsey, m. Freeborn White of Goshen ; Melintha, m. Samuel Hawkins of Chesterfield ; Sarah, m. Almander Norton of Westhampton ; Mary, m. Hawkins King of Pennsylvania ; Ephraim ; Maltby ; Lamed; Caroline; Philip; Jefferson; Bates; Green, b. Apr. 27, 1769; blacksmith; unmarried, d. Charleston, S.C. ; Sarah, b. Jan. 3, 1771, m. Hugh Thompson of New Braintree, and had nine children, viz., Dorcas, d. young ; Sarah, m. Hiram Barr of New Braintree ; John, m. Melissa Barr of New Braintree ; Ann, m. Joseph Scott of Vermont; William, m. Mary Liscom of New Braintree ; Philena, unmarried ; Jerusha, m. Israel Allen of Spencer ; Marshall, d. at the age of twenty-one ; Sophronia, m. Amherst Hawes of Oakham ; Philip, b. Braintree, Apr. 27, 1774 2 ; Nathaniel, b. Braintree, Jan. 24, 1777 ; blacksmith ; m. Electa Gould of Palmyra, N.Y., and had six children, viz., Asenath ; John M. ; Freeborn G., m. Betsey White of Goshen; Sarah Vinton; Orel; Mary; Abiathar, b. Nov. 2, 1779 3; Ephraiin, b. July 22, 1783; physician; unmarried; Job, b. Aug. 26, 1785 4; Dorothy, b. Sept. 25, 1789, m. Otis Engram of Chesterfield, and had two children, viz., Nathaniel, m. 1S42, Susan Rogers; Ammiel, m. 1S46, Maria Dwight ; William, b. Apr. 15, 1793 ; blacksmith ; m. Sarah Weaver of Waldoboro, Me., and had two children, viz., John E. ; Lewis.

3. Abiathar, son of Ezekiel 1, b. Nov. 2, 1779 ; blacksmith ; m. May 9, 1805, Nabby Bruce, daughter of Charles of North Brookfield. Children, Lucy, m. Thompson Dyer of New Braintree ; Clarinda, d. at Ware, aged twenty-five ; Chandler ; William V. and Charles B. (twins), d. when about twenty years old; Abigail A.; Dorothy, m. Wright of Jackson, Me. ; Perry G.

4. Job, son of Ezekiel 1, b. Aug. 26, 1785; blacksmith; m. (i) Betsey Quimby of Belfast, Me. ; (2) Grace Ulmer of Belfast. Children, George Ulmer ; Vinton.

WHITE, John, son of Moses, b. Westmoreland, N.H., July 12, 1796; undertaker; d. East Boston, July 25, 1861. He m. June 7, 1821, Harriet Carroll of Woodstock, Ct., b. Mar. 11, 1796, d. North Brookfield, Apr. 20, iSSo. Children, Harriet Amelia, b. Westmoreland, Mar. 27, 1822, m. Dec. 21, 1842, William L. Poland of North Brookfield; Moses Augustus, b. Westmoreland, July 8, 1S23, unmarried, d. Chicopee, Dec. 28, 1841 ; Adeline Auvilla, b. Apr. 5, 1825, m. Jan. i, 1S50, Alfred Burrill of East Boston ; lives North Brookfield ; Lucy Ann, b. Monson, Dec. 27, 1828, d. 1829; Maria Patience, b. Warwick, Oct. 29, 1832, m. Feb. 9, 1S53, Roswell M. White of Littleton, N.H.; Mary Frances, b. Warwick, Oct. 19, 1835, d. 1839; Emily Packard, b. Warwick, May 12, 1838, d. young [John White, the father, is said to have been a descendant of Peregrine, who was born on the Mayflower in Plymouth harbor, through Daniel ; John, who was killed by the Indians at Brook-

WHITING [communicated by Daniel \\;hiting 9, May 4, 1SS2], James 1, came from England, and settled in Hingham ; m. 1647, Mary Beals of Hingham. They had -

9. Daniel, son of Daniel 6, b. Hingham, June 6, 1806; shoe manufacturer and farmer. He has been selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor quite a number of years. P. S. The house he lives in he says was built for him in 1830, it being the first house that was glazed with large glass, - viz., 9x13. It was the second house built in this village without a farm attached. The first door-bell hung in this town was in this house. Mr. Whiting says there are two cellar-holes on land owned by him. One is where a colored man by the name of Caesar lived, and the other is where a Mr. Townsend lived, one and a half miles from the village, on the road between the Parker Johnson and Wm. P. Whiting places. He m. Dec. 23, 1830, Elizabeth Haskell of North Brookfield. Child, a danghter, b. and d. July, 1832; they then adopted the orphan children of Timothy C. and Melissa B. and Fanny P. Haskell, b. Rochester, N.Y., as follows : William James, b. Mar. 1S26, m. Orril Lincoln of Warren, and d. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 187 1 ; Sarah E., b. Sept. 1830, m. Sept. 19, 1S48, Rev. Thomas Wilson of Lowell, and d. Stoughton, Aug. 1S65;

Whiting

Lyman Whiting, now Rev. Lyman Whiting, D.D., was b. Apr. 28, 1S17, and lived till fifteen years old on the old homestead with his father, attending the common school when not at work on the farm ; in his fourteenth year he experienced a change of life, determined to obtain a public education, and attended one term at Amherst Academy.

In ALarch, 1835, commenced the study of Greek, and the following October was admitted to Amherst College ; having attended a select school in town during the summer. Owing to intense application to study, his health failed before the middle of the second year. A year at home on the farm, the winter spent in teaching the Centre School, restored his health. The next spring went to Cambridge, where in private study and teaching, the years of college life were passed, bringing the beginning of theological study. He graduated at Andover in 1S42 ; was married to Miss Sophia Chamberlin of Westboro, Jan. 5, 1843 > ^^^ settled the same year in Brookfield, as colleague with Rev. Micah Stone, remaining there four years; settled over the First Congregational Church ii-^ Lawrence, Mass., in June, 1S47.

In 1851, he was settled over the church in Reading, Mass., and, in a few months, his health failing, his people sent him to Europe to recover. This was the year of the World's Exposition, concerning which he wrote a lecture, which was very popular, and its repetition more than paid the expense of his European tour.

He was soon settled in Portsmouth, N.H., and remained there three years, when he accepted a call to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he remained but a few months. He then accepted a call to the High Street Church, Providence, R.I., - the renewal of a call he had seven years before declined, - and near the close of the year 1859 was settled there. After a pastorate there of little more than five years, he was called to Dubuque, la., to a church struggling under a discouraging debt, and otherwise in a low condition, but under his ministry they were soon enabled to pay their debts ; their membership was doubled, so that they were able to pay his successor double the amount of salary he received. He left Dubuque, and accepted a call to the church in Janesville, Wis. He says, *' Its beautiful new sanctuary, and cultured, ongoing people, made it, as it still is, one of the choicest gates of Zion to be found in the land, and happy is the watchman called to stand over its portal." In the fourth year there, he was seized with a painful lameness, which prevented him from freely associating with his people ; compelled him, if he preached, to do so supported by crutch, or sitting ; and after several months of suffering, obliged him to relinquish his charge.

It is now disbanded. His next settlement was at Charlestown, W. Va., where he labored a few years. He is now acting pastor at South Williamstown. In addition to his pastoral labors, he has been much employed in delivering sermons and addresses on various occasions, religious, literary, and historical ; writing for magazines and journals, among them the Congregational and Presbyterian Reviews. He was for a while associate editor of an eight page monthly, which was after merged in the " Advance," He adds, " In the ten years lived there (the Western States), upwards of thirty orations and addresses were made before theological seminaries, cdlleges and academies in four adjoining States." Also he was trustee in two colleges and the leading ladies' seminary in the West. He received the honorary degree of A.M. at Amherst College in 1844, and D.D. at Iowa College in 1868. Dr. Whiting is still engaged in the work of the ministry, with the prospect of many years of usefulness before him ; though in his long career he has devoted himself primarily and assiduously to his parochial work, he has been well and widely known. And wherever known, he has been recognized, it is believed, as a laborious student, an original thinker, a terse and striking writer, an impressive preacher, and a sound and able theologian, true to his convictions, and faithful in his utterance of the truth.

12. Galen, son of Galen 11, b. Hinghanj, Dec. 11, 1797 ; farmer ; settled in North Brookfield; left his family many years ago, and his whereabouts since are unknown. He m. Lucy Souther of Cohasset, b. Dec. lo, 1808, d. North Brookfield, Oct. i, 1873. Children, Henry D., b. Jan. 7, 1827, d. Elizabethport, N.J., Sept. 17, 1875. He m. Elizabeth Young, and had a daughter Mary ; Lncy Ann, b. Jan. 7, 1829, m. Dec. 20, 1S54, in Boston, Charles A. Haskell of Wethersfield, Vt. ; settled Lawrence, Kan. He was son of Franklin Haskell of North Brookfield; was taken sick with congestion of the lungs at Baxter Springs, Kan., where he d. Feb. 8, 1868. They had three children, Hattie Frances, b. July 10, 1857, d. 1859; Helen Grace, b. Jan. 2, i860; lives Lawrence, Kan.; Franklin, b. Nov. 27, 1863; Maria L., b. Apr. 24, 1S32, m. II. P. Dow of Worcester, and d. Lawrence, Kan., July 7,

14. William Howard, son of William P. 13 ; station agent at North Brookfield ; m. in Leicester, May 7, 1862, Lorinda S. Howe of Brookfield. Child, Rosella Howard, b. North Brookfield, Aug. 23, 1867.

15. Josiah, son of Daniel 5, b. Hingham, Nov. 29, 17S4 ; farmer; settled in Hingham; removed i8ii to Lincoln; came to North Brookfield, 1812, and bought of Daniel Forbes the William P. Whiting place, where he lived four years, when he sold to his brother Galen, and bought the farm now owned by George Har- wood, where he lived a year. He sold, and hired for a year the Ball place, long known as the Ives place. He then hired the Bell place, where he lived two years ; then leased for two years the Skerry place ; then bought of the widow of John Marsh the place now owned and occupied by his son Josiah. He lived here nine years, and then bought of William Howe the Walker place in Brookfield, where he lived two years, then leased the Banister place in that town, remaining only one year. He then returned to North Brookfield to the Marsh place, where he lived and d. Feb. 17, 1S45. He m. Merial Prouty of Scituate. Children, Jtdia Ann, b. Sept. 23, 1810, m. Nov. 5, 1829, Leonard Stoddard of North Brookfield; Osborn, b. Lincoln, Jan. 11, 1S12 16 ; Elizabeth, b. North Brookfield, Feb. 7, 1S13, m. Oct. 10, 1837, Daniel T. Hunter of Ware; yosiah,\>. ]\yi\& 5, 1815 17; Merial, h. June 6, 1817, d. Sept. 3, 1S37 ; Abigail, b. Apr. 26, 1819, m. Oct. 20, 1847, Erasmus Haston, andd. North Brookfield, June 17, 1848 ; Jacob, b. July iS, 1822, d. young; Martha L., b. Oct. 25, 1823, m. Dec. 11, 1848, J. Franklin Hebard of North Brookfield, and d. Sept. 2, 1S72 ; Mary B., b. Mar. 27, 1S25, m. Jan. 31, 1850, Hubbard Brigham of Boston, and d. Jan. 4, 1873.

^A^IL,DER, Marshall; cabinet maker; b. Sterling, 1783, d. Sterling, Aug. 30, 1845. He m. July 15, 1S14, Caperniam Knowlton of North Brookfield. Children, Charles Knowlton, b. Sterling, Jan. 24, 181 5; farmer; m. Phebe Baker of Sterling, and d. Maquoketa, la., Sept. 19, 1S68, where he had lived about fifteen years, " an honored citizen and an exemplary Christian ; " Sally Alirick, b. Watertown, N.Y., Apr. 20, 1819, m. Sept. 14, 1S37, Elijah Nichols of North Brookfield; Mary Bush, b. Watertown, Aug. 2, 1821, m. Chester Edson of Brookfield, Vt., and lives Maquoketa, la.; Jajnes Marshall, b. Watertown, Sept. 5, 1S25, d. Sterling, Mar. 6, 1865. He m. Susan Haradon.

WILDER, Rev. Sedgwick P., b. Newfane, Vt., May 28, 1847; pastor of the First Congregational Church in North Brookfield; m. Oct. 13, 1875, Jennie A. Watson of Beloit, Wis. Children, Margery Esther, b. North Brookfield, Nov. 27, 1881 ; John Watson, b. June 27, 1SS3. (See ante, p. 30).

WILSON, Rev. George Hayward, b. Salem, of English parents, Aug. 20, 1852 ; graduated, Piangor Theological Seminary, 1S76 ; ordained and installed pastor of the Union Congregational Church in North Brookfield, Sept. 6, 1S76; dismissed at his own request. May 28, 1S7S ; preached at Globe Village in Southbridge two years; went thence to Biddeford, Me., where he remained two years and seven months ; went thence to Owosso, Mich., in the fall of 1882, and was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church. He m. (i) June 8, 1876, Lorenza W. Pervier of Salem, d. North Brookfield, Nov. 25, 1876; (2) June 6, 1878, Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram Knight of North Brookfield. Children, Albert Hiram, b. Globe Village, Feb. 10, 1880, d. Biddeford, May 18, 18S0 ; Wendell Wilson Jones (adopted), b. Limerick, Me., Apr. 26, 1880 [son of Rev. D. L. Jones] ; George Robert, b. Biddeford, Me., Jan. 8, 18S2 ; Sarah May, b. Owosso, Mich., Feb. 3, 18S3; Carrie Frances, b. Sept. 16, 1S84.

WINSLOW, Kenelm 1, brother of Gov. Edward, b. Droitwich, Eng., Apr. 29, 1599 ; farmer and joiner; settled Marshfield ; d. on a visit at Salem, Sept. 13, 1672. He m. June, 1634, widow Elinor Adams of Plymouth ; buried at Marshfield, Dec. 5, i68r, aged eighty-three. Children, Kenelm, b. 1635 2 ; Ellen ; Nathaniel ; Job.

3. Samuel, son of Kenelm 2, deacon, b. Harwich, 1675 ; yeoman and cordwainer; lived Rochester; was a proprietor of Leicester, also lived Hardvvick, and probably removed with his sons to Petersham, where he d. He m. (i) Sept. 26, 1700, Bethiah Holbrook of Scituate ; (2) Nov. ir, 1703, Mercy King of Scituate, d. Rochester, Feb. 16, 1733; (3) Ruth Briggs. Children, Mary Elizabeth; Ann; Thomas ; Kenehn, b. Rochester, Feb. 2, 17 12-13 ^ ! Judith.

4. Kenelm, son of Deacon Samuel 3 ;' hotel keeper; lived Petersham, where he d. bef.ire May 5, 1777. He m. June 24, 1734, Elizabeth Clapp of Rochester, d. Petersham. Children, Kenelm; Elizabeth; Anna; Alary; Susanna; Kenelm.; Ebenezer, b. Petersham, Sept. 28, 1749 5 ; yoh?i Clapp ; Rhoda ; Dorcas.

6. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer 5, b. Petersham, Jan. 13, 177S ; clothier ; d. Shoreham, Vt., Mar. 2, 1824. He m. Nancy Aldrich of Petersham, who d. Northbridge, 1822. Child, Simeon Aldrich 8.

7. Leonard, son of Ebenezer 5, b. Petersham, May 22, 17S2 ; farmer; d. North Brookfield, Jan. 18, 1827. He m. Jan. 24, 181 1, Thankful Jenks, daughter of Gideon of North Brookfield. Children, Sicsaji, m. Rev. Elisha Perry, a Baptist minister of Marshpee, and d. 1841 ; John Combs, b. Dec. 22, 1813, m. Judith Eliza Davis of Worcester, and d. there ; Mary Combs, b. Dec. 22, 1813 (twin), m. Amasa Hinds of Brookfield, and d. Apr. 1873; Lydia White, b. 1819, m. Archelaus Baker of South Dartmouth.

9. Edward C, son of Simeon A. 8; lives North Brookfield; enlisted in the quota of Northbridge, Nov. 16, 1861, in Third Battalion of Rifles, Company B, Massachusetts Volunteers, and marched Apr. 20, 1861, for Annapolis and Fort Mc-

Henry, Baltimore, and served three months; afterwards enlisted at Millbury in Company B, Fifty-first Regiment, and served nine months. He m. June 17, 1862, Almira E. Hoyle of Webster, b. Sept., 3, 1843. Children, Helen Ida, b. Millbury, June 10, 1S64; Grace O., b. North Brookfield, Sept. 13, 187 1, d. young; Dion Irvine;, b. Mar. 9, 1S73.

WINTER, Roland 1, b. England; wife, Eleanor Robinson. Children, Roland, b. Oct. 10, 1830 2; Waller, a blacksmith, lives Palmer; John; Thomas, farmer; lives Oakham; George, b. Oct. 10, 1S43 3; Fraiik t'., lives California; William; Jane, lives Brookfield ; Eleanor, lives Brookfield ; Ann ; Isabella.

3. Ebenezer, Capt., son of John 2, b. Lynn, where he lived some years; removed as early as 1736 to Brookfield, where he d. July 5, 1781. Dr. Snell says of him: "Capt. Witt was one of the early settlers in the North Parish; lived on the place now (1850) occupied by Mr. Thomas Kendrick ; he was, for the time, a great reader, especially in theology. His opinion had great weight with all the people." He was prominent in town affairs ; and was a leader in the movement (heading two petitions) for the formation of a Second Precinct in Brookfield. His name stands fourth on the list of original members of the North Brookfield Church, organized in 1752. He was published Sept. 30, 1715, to Rebecca Breed of Lynn, who d. Mar. i, 1784, in the ninetieth year of her age; s. p.

4. John, Lieut., son of John and wife Mary Dane of _Marlboro, and nephew of Capt. Ebenezer, came to North Brookfield as early as 1744, with wife Sarah ; lived on what is known as the Cheever place, which he sold to Samuel Cheever, July 19, 1769. Probably he brought with him several children. Children recorded on Brookfield records: Benjamin, b. Aug. 15, 1750; Ivory, b. Oct. 20, 1752; Stephen b. Aug. 15, 1754; Joseph, b. Jan. 3, 1757.

7. William, brother of John 4, b. Marlboro, May 13, 1708, named as a resident of Brookfield, 1748; m. Nov. 27, 1754, Abigail Killum. No further record.

[Marriages on Brookfield records : June 23, 1760, Joseph Lane to Rebecca Witt ; May 18, 1765, Ebenezer Tidd to Mary Witt : published Sept. 1762, Aaron Woods to Sarah Witt.]

WOOLCOTT, Johnl. Among the papers filed in the Essex County Court Records at Salem, in a suit for trespass, brought March 30, 1669, by William Lord against John Home, is the following original deed : -

Memorandum, that I, John Woolcott of Salem have Bartered and sould vnto Wil[liam Lord of Salem] all and every part of my house and - misteed in Salem (formerlie in the occupation of Mr Roger Williams & from him by order from Mrs. Higenson sould vnto mee, as by a quittance vnder Mr Wms hand doth appear : as also all the out housing, w'h 2 bedsteads Table formes & shelves in the foresaid dwelling house, wth all the ffences about it or wt els ther vnto belong vnto it. Also all the interest Mrs. Higenson of Charles Towne, and so my self, had or now have in a Tenn Acres Lott of ground on the South syd : ffor & in Consideration of the some of ffifteene pounds Ten shillings Tome in hand paid (according to an order of Arbitermt mad by mr Throckmorton & John Woodbury indifferentlie chosen by vs both for that purpose) in full satisfaction of the premises, wch said some &c the said John Woolcott doth acknowledge himself fully contented and paid and therof acquiteth the sd Wm Lord his heirs & assignes for ever.

John 2, who was born 1632-3, and married at Newbury, Nov. 20, 1653, Mary, daughter of Richard Thurlow of Newbury. He was one of several petitioners belonging to Newbury, who in May, 1659, received a grant of land eight miles square, on Saco river [Wells, Me. ?] ; he owned a homestead of one hundred acres in Newbury ; and in Oct. 1661 sells six hundred acres on the Merrimack river, joining Newbury town line. He built the bridge between Newbury and Rowley in June, 1663, and a windmill at Marblehead in 1679, when he was called a millwright, though he is designated carpenter usually.

Mr. Woolcott was one of Capt. Appleton's Troopers, who were sent in September, 1675, °" ^fi expedition to protect the settlements on the Connecticut river, then menaced by the Indians ; and as the line of march took the company through Brookfield, it is likely that he noticed and was favorably impressed with the location, where he afterwards made his home. He sold his homestead and rights of freehold in Newbury (reserving two freehold lots), April, 1687, to Benjamin Rolf, and removed with family to Brookfield, where his son John had pitched the year before. The house then erected by the father or son, or by both jointly, at what is known as " Woolcott's Corner," was one of the first dwellings set up on what is now North Brookfield territory. The following grants of land are on record: " May 27, 1687, granted to Mr. Woolcott, 40 acres of upland, bounded W. by his son John's land. P'eb. 24, 1687-8, to Mr. Woolcott, 20 acres meadow, 4 acres lieth S. of the road against Joseph WoolcDtt's upland, and next to 8 acres that lyeth more easterly, only the road parteth it, and the 8 acres turns N. to the cranberry bushes and so along by Smith's land, thence to Mr. Woolcott's, and so on W. and N. by his lands : Also 8 acres meadow on Seven-mile river, and between the Seven and Five-mile rivers, the whole piece in that neck on the E. side of Five-mile river and to the upland of the Seven-mile river. March 3, 16S7-S, to Mr. W^oolcott, 10 acres on the Pine Plain."

In the fall of 16S8, as appears from Major Pynchon's Diary, Mr. Woolcott was in charge of the garrison then stationed at Brookfield ; probably the soldiers were quartered at his own house. He died at Brookfield in the latter part of September, 1690. His will recorded in the Registry at Northampton is as follows : -

Dated in Brookfield this 21 day of Septr 1690. This by the wil of Mr. John Woolcot is given to his daughter Mary fifteen pound, and to his daughter Sarah fifteen pound, and to his daughter Elizabeth thirty pound, wch Legacy is to be paid as my wife is able, or she shall se cause, & al the Rest of my goods I leave w^ my wife for her life tyme & maintenance, & after her death to be divided among my three daughters, wch are unmarried equally among ym : And I give my Two sons my Two pieces of Land at Newbury and my farm at Watertown, wch Lands is to be divided equally between ym : And I give my Two sons al my Land & meadow here, onely my son John is to have this part where the house standeth : And as for Jeames [a slave] I leave him w* my wife for her life, & after her decease to be free : This was signed & sealed and Delivered into safe keeping in prsence of us

Samll Oen [Owen] one of the witnesses hereto made oath that he was prsent wn Jno. Woolcot, deceased, did signe and seale this Instrument as his Last Wil & Testamt, & that he was of sound mind wn he did it, but seeing the Testator constituted no Executor, This Cone do grant to Mary Woolcot (widow to sd Jno. Woolcot) & to John Woolcot and to Joseph Woolcot, Administratorship, intending & e-xpecting that they perform according to the above sd Will of sd deceased.

Attest Samll Partkigg, Gierke. Decemb: 31 : 1690 : This Will of the above mentioned John Woolcot is here entered in these Records fr5 the original on file.

From the peculiar terms of the will it is evident that all the eight children were then living ; that the three older daughters, named in the order of birth, were then married, and received specific legacies ; and the three younger daughters, " unmarried," and then under age, were to be cared for by their mother, and at her decease to receive all the personal estate, money and goods then remaining.

3. John, son of John 2, b. Newbury, Oct. 25, 1660, m. Jan. 4, 1684-5, Joanna, daughter of Nathaniel Emerson of Ipswich. He was one of the first company that attempted the re-settlement of Brookfield in 16S6; probably came upon the ground that spring, and took up land which was confirmed to him by grant of the Committee. Perhaps he built a house that year. He certainly was living here the next spring when his father came on in May. He received several grants of land, viz., a home-lot of forty acres in 16S7 [besides one-half of his father's lands] ; forty-five acres of meadow in 1707 ; fourteen acres of upland north pf his meadow on Sevenmile river in 1710; ten acres in 1714; twenty acres in 1716 ; "July 12, 171S, the Committee taking into consideration the great expense Mr. John Woolcott hath been att in Brookfield in building a grist-mill ; and now he is designing and has done considerable towards the building of a Saw-mill, which is probable to be very bene- ficial t.o the : Town : grant him 40 acres of upland;" "Nov. 8, 1718, to John' Woolcott, sen., 10 acres in his father's right,' and 2 acres in his own right E. of Five-mile river, bounded E. on his own land, N. on Boston road, extending from the southwest corner of his own upland ailong by Boston road till it comes to Five-niilfe river, and from this river by the path, and so then bounded by the said river till it comes to his own meadow ; and 20 acres more upland on the Pine plain, S. E. of his own house; Dec. 30, 1720, 20 acres upland lying east of meadow formerly Stephen Jennings', and 120 acres S. of Oxford road and E. on Town line, and 42 acres S. of his former grant on Pine plain."

The house which he built as early as 1723 is still standing, and known as the " Parks' Tavern stand," now owned by the widow of George Forbes. He was a leading man in civil affairs, selectman in 1727, and prominent in the church. In April, 1747, when he was eighty-seven years old, he and his wife Joanna join in deeding to their son Nathaniel " for his kindness to us in our old age," all their real and personal estate in Brookfield, excepting enough for their comfortable maintenance.

The children of John and Joanna Woolcott (so far as is known) were : yoaiina, b. Newbury, Jan. 22, 16S6-7, m. Samuel Wheeler of Brookfield, and d. July 4,1751; Sarah, m. Apr. 13, 1719, Thomas Gibbs of Brookfield ; Ruth, unmarried ; administration on her estate granted to her father, Apr. n, 1723 ; yohn, b. about 1696 5 ; N'athaniel &; Lydia,m. A^x. 23, 1734, Ebenezer How of Brookfield; Hannah, ra. Mar. 14, 1733-4, Roger Stevens of Brookfield.

4. Joseph, son John 2, b. Newbury, Feb. 2, 1663-4, m. Mar. 4, 16S6, Rebecca, daughter, of Launcelot and Joanna (Adams) Granger of Newbury (afterwards of Suffield, Ct.) He probably came to Brookfield with his brother, and took up a home-lot, which was confirmed to him by the Committee - though he may not have built and brought his family here till later. "Feb. 24, 16S7-S, granted to Joseph Woolcott, 3 acres of meadow next his upland at S. corner. The brook is the bounds between his and his brother John's, making his complete grant of 15 acres ; also 30 acres more on S. side of the road."