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'^'^ Samuel Miller oi and Milton, a soldier under Maj. William Bradford in King Philip's war, second son of John, b. Rehoboth, Oct. 5, 1658 ; d. Milton, 1735 ; bur. in the Miller tomb which he built in 1719 in Milton cemetery ; m. second, June 25, 1690, Rebecca Belcher (b. Nov. 12, 1671), dau. of Joseph and Rebecca (Gill) Belcher of Milton, and gr. dau. of John and Ann Gill of Boston ; among ten children b. in Milton between 1692 and 1718 - Rev. Ebenezer, D. D., of Braintree (Quincy) Mass., graduate Harvard coll. 1722 and receiving M. A. from Oxford univ. (Eng. ) 1727, m. Martha Nottram and among descendants - Anna Smith Miller m. Chief Justice George T. Bigelow of Massachusetts.

'"Cb/. Samuel Miller of Milton, " Colonel of the Regiment, Justice of the Peace and Quorum, and Representative to the Great and General Court," first son of Samuel, b. Milton about 1692 ; bap. Ap. 8, 1694 ; d. Feb. 4, 1761 aged 68 years; m. Oct,

Mr. Calef while in London early in the revolution was pressed on board a British man-of-war in search of Dutch prizes, and for many years did not see his native country ; shortly after his marria'ge he settled in Cape Elizabeth on part of the Winter-Jordan inheritance, " the ould plantation at Spurwinke," but in 1815 sold his farm of 180 acres and returning to Massachusetts located in Walpole.

VIII ^ Charles Winter Coppenhagen Senter (Eng. U. S. navy) b. Walpole, Nov. 3, 1837 ; lost with his ship, U. S. steamer Oneida^ when run into by the English mail steamer Bombay off Yokohama, Japan, Jan. 24, 1870 ; unm.

Eng, Senter was both soldier and sailor in the civil war - enlisted and mustered July 16, 1861, private, co. A, 13th reg. Mass. vol. infantry, discharged May 4, 1863 having been appointed 3d asst. engineer in the navy the preceding Ap. 21; assigned May 16, 1863 to the Richniojid (Gulf squadron), detached July 11, 1865 with rank of 2d asst. engineer from Sept. 28, 1864, assigned Oct. 2, 1865 to the She nan- doaJi (East India squadron), transferred in i86S at his own request, to tlie Oneida of the same squadron ; he was a general favorite with his fellow officers and all who knew him, living a life of moral rectitude and leaving an unblemished name. The American citizens of Yokohama erected a monument to the memor)' of those who perished in the ill-fated ship, and their bodies, recovered a few years ago by divers, were interred amid Buddhist and Taoist rites in a Japanese sea-shore hamlet.

VII -Mehitable Miller Calef b. Boston, Feb. 3, 1803 ; bap. by Rev. Samuel West, Aug. 14, 1805 ; d. Boston, Mar. 14, 1871 ; bur. in ]\It. Auburn cemetery beside her parents, husband and children ; m, as second wife, at Walpole by Rev. John P. B. vStorer, Mar. 17, 1831, Arnold Wilhelm Martel Coppenhagen of Boston and Dorchester (b. Cologne, Ger., Mar. 17, 1777, bap. Mar. 30, 1777, the vSt. Maurice parish register giving the christian name Guillaume Arnaud Marie, d. Dorchester, Dec. 17, 1 851), son of Col. Cornelius and Anna Maria (Schmitz) Coppenhagen of Cologne.

VIII ' Arnold William Coppenhagen of Dorchester b. Dorchester, Aug, 16, 1832 ; d. Boston, Dec. 10, 1866 ; unm. ; a soldier in the civil war - mustered May 16, 1864, private, 12th Unattached co. infantry, Mass. vol. militia (Capt. Charles F. Walcott's Home Guard stationed at Provincetown, Cape Cod), mustered out Aug. 15, 1864. 41^111 ^ Mehitable Calef Coppenhagen, writer of this book, i\]^"\ b. Dorchester, May 3, 1836; m. Mav 3, 1871,

Mr. Wilson was a graduate Harvard coll. 1853, pioneer in Kansas (territory), laying out Manhattan in 1855 and organizing the public schools of Riley county in i860, clerk of the senate, first legislature (state) in 1861 and representative in the second in 1862, revising with

Chief Justice Ewingthe state statutes ; on duty in 1862 at military headquarters, Kansas City, Mo., with his law partner Maj. Preston B, Plumb, late U. S. senator, and in 1865 at St. Louis, l\Io. , on the staff of Gen. Thomas Ewing, district commander. Three children : ' Arnold Coppenhagen Wilson d. young. "Mehitable Calef Wilson d. young. '^ Arnold Wilson (adopted) b. May 31, 1885.

VIII '^ Maria Frances Coppenhagen b. Dorchester, Mar. 24, 1838; d. Boston, Mar. 6, 1869; num.; the "My beloved daughter Maria" whose face and figure are portrayed as the Angel of the Resurrection modeled by Martin Milmore for the Coppenhagen monument in ]\It. Auburn cemetery.

VIII Henry Coppenhagen of New York, lawyer, b. Dorchester, Oct. 8, 1842; m. Ap. 28, i8Si, Lou Belle l^mbry (b. Richmond, Ky. ), dan. of Judge James H. and Eliza S. (Pierce) Embr)- of Washington ; no surviving children.

Mr. Coppenhagen was a graduate Harvard coll. 1866, and until his marriage made Boston his home with the exception of several years spent in travel over both hemispheres.

VIII * Sarah Winter Coppenhagen b. Dorchester, Nov. 25, 1845 ? d- Boston, Dec. 12, 1870 ; num.; the namesake of her ancestress Sarah Winter, wife of Rev. Robert Jordan, and dan. of John Winter in Cape Elizabeth in 1632, " agent of the Plymouth Company owning the Cape." VII Winter Calef b. Boston, May 18, 1804; bap.

ht Abraham lo and Esther (Fox) Gibson, b. Fitchburg, Mass., Sept. i, 1769 (Sept. 2 town records); bap. First church, Sept. 11, 1769 ; d. Boston, July 10, 1816 ; bur. in tomb 89 built by himself and brother John in 1800 in Central ground (Boston common); m. first, at Boston by Rev, Samuel Parker, rector Trinity church, Nov. 18, 1792 (pub. Oct. 26, 1792), Frances Davis (bap. King's chapel, Boston, Feb. 28, 1770, d. Boston, Nov. 23, 1804 aged 34 years), dan. of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Lanksford) Davis ; ui. second, by Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, rector Trinity church. Mar. 3, 1805, Mrs. Susan (Norcross) Spurr (b. Watertown, Mass., Oct. 24, 1783, d. Boston, Ap. 16, 1829), ^^^^'^- of Seth and Jernsha (Learned) Norcross.

Mr. Gibson, one of the "two rival merchant princes of Boston" and a gentleman of great energy and indomitable will, was an extensive iron dealer and real estate owner ; he resided prior to 1805 at 105 Orange street (now part of Washington) but that year purchased the large house and garden, 15 Court street (south side near Tremont), remaining there until his death. In the financial crisis of 1815 losing heavily in ships and real estate and by endorsements, he fell ill and died in the prime of active life. His estate was administered upon July 29, 1816 by his brother John Gibson and Ebenezer Farley, the inventory showing the amount of $261,000 ; on the same date Gideon Snow was appointed guardian of the minor children by the first marriage, and Josiah P. Cooke of the children by the second. His widow at her death in 1829 ^^^^ ^Y ^i^^ $127,006 to be equally divided among her seven children including Mrs. Susan (Spurr) Marshall and John W. Spurr, the two by her former marriage. ClIILDRKN : .VII 'Abraham Gibson bap. Oct. 27, 1793 ; bur. Sept. 7, 1794 aii'ed I vear.

Mr. Gibson at the time of his early death was employed as supercargo, and by his will dated Oct, 7, 1819 and proved ]\Iay 13, 1822, gave his property to John Gardiner Gibson, his only surviving own brother.

" This young lady as remarkable for her correct principles as for the delicacy and propriety of her manners, is, alas ! too early a victim to a rapid decline, and while the event of her death claims the tear of her sorrowing friends, they can be consoled only by the remembrance of her virtues and the hope of her reward."

Miss Gibson, by her will naming " uncle John Gibson sole executor," bequeathed to her own sister Frances Davis Gibson, her one half of pew 64, King's chapel, which they had bought together Jan. 14, 1817, and her real estate in equal shares to this sister and her two own brothers, VII ^Frances Davis Gibson b. Boston; bap. Trinity church, Nov. 9, 1799 (Fanny baptismal register); bur. Nov. 13, 1 819 aged 22 years; m. by Rev. Henry Ware, ]\Iay 7, 1818 (pub, July 30, 1817), Joseph White of Boston, accidentally recorded as James White in Mr. Ware's entry and so copied on Boston records (d. Oct. 5, 1867 at which date he had been cashier of the Atlas bank since its organization in 1833).

Gardner Gibsoii-Rosendell] ; d. at sea May 12, 1838; bur, under St. Paul's church (Boston), Oct. 5, 1838 and since reinterred in Mt. Auburn cenieter}^; m. Sept. 19, 1833, Catharine Hammond (b. 1804, d. Mar. 19, 1888), dau. of Samuel Hammond, a prominent Boston merchant.

Mr. Gibson was the namesake of Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, asst. rector Trinity church 1 792-1805 and rector 1805-1830, succeeding Rev. Samuel Parker when made bishop in 1805. For several years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Cuba but on his marriage returned to Boston, and not long before his death while visiting the newly opened Quincy granite quarries, was seriously injured by an accident, and his two Cuban guests were killed instantly. CHILDREN :

VHI 'Charles Hammond Gibson of Boston b. Boston, Nov. I, 1836; m. Dec. 12, 1871, Rosamond Warren, dau. of Dr. Jonathan Mason Warren of Boston, gr. dau. of Dr. John Collins Warren, the eminent Boston surgeon, and gt. gr. dau. of Dr. John Warren, the revolutionary patriot ; three children : ' Mary Ethel Gibson b. Naftant, Mass., June 30, 1873 ; num. "Charles Hammond Gibson of Boston b. Boston, Nov. 21, 1874 ; a gentleman interested in heraldic research and witli Comte de Mauny-Talvande in the establishment of Patronages in the south of France similar to Boys' clubs in America, also author 7\c'o Goillemen hi Toiirai7ie ; unm. "^Rosamond Gibson b. Boston, Ap. 12, 1878.

VIII ''Amanda Augusta Gibson b. Boston, Jan. 5, 1840; m. first, Aug. 20, 1863, John M. Brooks of Bo.ston, merchant (d. Maiden, Mass., Nov. 6, 1876 aged 46 years), son of Jeremiah and Abigail A. (Donnell) Brooksof York Village, Me.; m. second, Jan. I, 1878, Horatio Fiske Park of Weymouth and Newtonville, Mass. (b. Dorchester, Jan. 21, 1843, d. Newtonville, Ap. 9, 1883), son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth M. (Cook) Park, and gr. son of Robert and Anna (Gibson-Martin) Park, see 190 ; three children: 'John Gibson Brooks of York Village b. Dorchester, Dec. 20, 1866 ; unm. ^ Alice Amanda Park Brooks b. Dorchester, Aug. 18, 1871 ; d. Weymouth, Jan. 10, 1877. 'Jessamine Augusta Brooks b. Maiden, Jan. 8, 1876 ; unm.

Kju John Gibson

VIII ^ Susan Isabel Gibson b. Dorchester, July 21, 1842; ni. Jan. i, 1863, John Henry Park of Maiden and Woburn, IMass. (b. Dorchester, Dec. 2, 1838), son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth M. (Cook) Park, and gr. son of Robert and Anna (Gibson-Martin) Park, see WO. VIII ^George Gilnian Gibson b. Boston, Nov. 4, 1845;

VI Lucy Gibson, seventh child of Lt. Abraham lo and Esther (Fox) Gibson, b. Fitchburg, Mass., May 19, 1771 ; bap. First church, June 2, 1771; d. Andover, Vt., Feb. 25, 1859 ; bur. in East Hill cemetery ; m. at Townsend, Mass., June 30, 1795, Peter Adams of Townsend and Andover (b. Townsend, Feb. 25, 1761, d. Andover, July 30, 1832, bur. beside his wife), son of Archalus and Hannah Adams.

Mr. Adams was a revolutionary soldier - private, Capt. John Hartwell's co. , Col. Nicholas Dike's reg. Dec. 14, 1776 to Mar. I, 1777 ; private under " Lt. Jackson of the artillery " July 6 to Dec. 8, 1780, a Townsend company raised by Resolve of June 5, 1780. In 1801 he removed to Vermont and locating in the comparatively new Andover became the leading merchant of the place. Children : VII ^ Lucy Fox Adams. 4:^ child of Peter and Lucy 41 (Gibson) Adams, b. Andover Vt, June 27, 1804; d. St. Louis, Mo., June 25, 1888; m. Nov. 22, 1830, Esther Penther Chandler (b. Feb. 6, 1809), dan. of Dr. Charles Wolcott and Nancy (White) Chandler, and descendant of William and Annis Chandler, pioneers in Roxbury, Mass. in 1637, see :iH.

Children : VIII ^ Hiland Adams 'j. Ludlow, Jan. 30, 1833; d. June 5, 1836. VIII 'Charles Abram Adams of Wallingford, Vt. and Chillicothe, Mo., merchant, b. Andover, Nov. 3, 1837; m.

Hon. Mr. Pollard was a soldier in the civil war - commissioned Jnly 12 and mustered Sept. 3, 1863, ist It., CO. I, 8tli reg. Vt. infantry, promoted capt. Nov. 7, 1863, commissioned maj., 8th (veteran) reg. Vt. infantry Ap. 6, 1865, mustered out June 28, 1865.

iieapolis; one child: ^ Frank A. Craft b. Minneapolis, Aug. 2, 1889. VIII ^Norman S. Adams of Brooklyn, N. Y., custom-honse officer (New York), b. Ludlow, July 7, 1839; m. at Rochester, May 20, 1873, Adelaide Van Valkenburgh (b. Ivittle Falls, N. Y., May 2, 1842).

VI John Gibson of Boston, Mass., eighth child of Lt. Abraham 15 and Esther (Fox) Gibson, b. Fitchburg, Mass., Mar. 20, 1776; bap. First church, Ap. 25, 1776 ; d, Boston, July 14, 1825 ; bur. in Central ground (Boston common) in the tomb built by himself and his brother Abraham and inscribed: " No 89 - Abraham - & John Gibson's - Tomb - 1800" ; m. at Boston by Rev. Samuel West, Oct. 22, 1795, Phebe Low (bap. Hollis Street church, Jan. 30, 1797, admitted to communion Sept. 4, 1814, d. Boston, Jan. 2, 1S38 aged 62 years, bur. Jan. 4, 1838 in the Gibson tomb).

Mr. Gibson was a leading distiller and highly esteemed for his executive and thorough business qualifications ; his residence was 10 Warren street near Hollis Street church of which he was a prominent member ; he died intestate and the estate amounting to ^28,000 was administered upon by his son-in-law Robert Bradford.

Children : VII 'Esther Fox Gibson b. Boston, Jan. 14, 1797 ; bap. with her mother by Rev. Samuel West, Jan. 30, 1797 ; d. Boston, Feb. 9, 1869 ; bur. in the Gibson tomb ; m. Nov. II, 1814, Warham Priest of Boston, son of John and Rebecca (Gibson) Priest, see 34. VII ' Phebe Low Gibson. 48

VII ^Abigail Pope Gibson, a very beautiful girl, bap. Hollis Street church, July i, 1810; d. Oct. 8, 1818 aged 18 years. VII *John Fox Gibson bap. July i, 1810 ; d. young. VII ' Harriette Gibson. 49

VII ^ Mary Ann Gibson b. Boston, May 25, 1813 (family record), a baptism entry on Hollis Street church original records for 1812 written by Rev. Horace Holley,

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VII Phebe Loav Gibson, second child of John 411 and Phebe (Low) Gibson, b. Boston, Mass., about 1799; bap. Hollis Street church, July i, 1810 ; d. Cambridge, Mass., about 1840; m. Sept. 3, 1818, Robert Bradford of Boston.

Mr. Bradford was a gentleman respected in both social and business circles, and as junior warden of All Saints' chnrch was actively interested in its welfare. One child: ^ Robert Ransom Bradford b. Omaha, Sept. 6, 1885.

VII Harriette Gibson, fifth child of John 4.7 and Phebe (Low) Gibson, b. Boston, Mass., June 6, i8io; bap. Hollis Street church, July i, i8io ; d. Wayland, Mass., Nov. 21, 1870 ; m. May i, 1829, ^^^j- Micah Maynard Rutter of Wayland (b. Wayland, May i, 1806, d. Newbern, N. C, Nov. 8, 1870), son of Gen. Micah Maynard Rutter, and descendant of John Rutter, pioneer in 1638 in the eastern part of Sudbury called Wayland since Mar. II, 1835. Cmilijren : VIII ^ Micah Maynard Rutter of Lawrence and Methuen, Mass. b. Newton, Mass., June 25, 1830; m. Jan. 31, 1854, Martha Bartlett Glover (b. Orano, Me., May 26, 1836, d. Methuen, Dec. 8, 1896).

IX 'Jesse Maynard Rutter of Methuen b. Lawrence, Dec. 31, 1858 ; m. Mar. 4, 1897, iVgnes Walker Gall, dau. of Archibald and Janet (Walker) Gall of Biel, E. Lothian, Scotland.

VIII - Harriette Gibson Rutter b. Newton, May 4, 1834 ; d. Wayland, July 4, 1889 ; m. Nov. 28, 1854, George A. Rice of Wayland (b. Wayland, Aug. 21, 1822, d. July 20, 1888), son of Samuel and Dorcas (Heard) Rice, and descendant of Dea. Edmund Rice of Barkhamstead, Eng., pioneer in Sudbury (present Wayland) in 1639 (George A.*"; Samuer'; Ezekiel", a revolutionary soldier; Eliakim"'; Elisha"'; Thomas"; Dea. Edmund').

IX ' Nellie Riitter Rice, resident on the Rice homestead of 1639, b. Wayland, Ap. 22, 1856; m. Ang. 20, 1890, David Fuller Fiske of Wayland (b. Dedham, Mass., Feb. 7, 1836) ; no children. p Mr. Fiske was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted July 20, 1861, private, co. H, 13th Mass. vol. infantry, mustered out Aug. i, 1S64. VIII Frederick Rutter of Lawrence, manufacturer, b. Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 31, 1836; ni. Dec. 27, i860, Ann Maria Turner (b. Ellsworth, Me., Nov. 11, 1839).

IV Timothy Gibson (Capt.) of Sudbury, Groton and Stow, Mass. and Henniker, N. H., second child of Dea. Timothy i) and Rebecca (Gates) Gibson, b. Stow, Jan. 20, 1702/3; d. Henniker, Jan. 18, 1782; m. Dec. 29, 1725, Persis Rice (b. Sudbury, Jan. 10, 1706/7, d. Henniker, Mar. 22, 1781), dan. of Dea. Jonathan and Anne (Darby) Rice, gr. dau. of Joseph Rice, and gt. gr. dan. of Dea. Edmund Rice, the English pioneer »«in Sudbury in 1639 the year of its incorporation, and in that part of the town set off in 1780 as East Sudbury and since 1835 named Wayland.

Capt. Gibson was very young when his parents moved from Stow to Sudbury and in some inexplicable way his birth is entered on Sudbury copied records although not on the original ; there is, however, no question that he was born in Stow even if there is no confirmatory town record, as the family did not remove from Stow to Sudbury till after June 21, 1703, the date of the deed made by Mr. Abraham Holman of Stow " to show my love unto and care of Timothy Gibson [Dea.] now living with me & hath done from a child." His boyhood and early manhood were spent in Sndbnry and he never occnpied houselot 33 in Lunenburg, Mass., bought of Ephraim Sautle in 1723 by "Timothy Gibson for son Timothy," the father retaining it for another son.

About the date of his marriage he removed to Groton, locating most likely on property which he purchased Dec. IT, 1724 from two parties, one tract of 30 acres from S. Scripture for ;^35, the other of 25 acres from "eleven persons " for ;^30, both deeds describing him as " Timothy Gibson Jr. of Sudbury, yeoman ; " between Dec. 23, 1729 and Oct. 7, 1730 he made three other purchases (12^ acres) in Groton, the deeds naming him " Timothy Gibson of Groton." Whether he remained in the town any length of time after 1730 is not clear, nor do Groton records give the birth of children after that date. It is certain that early in 1733 he was living in Stow shown from the sale made May 7, 1733 by "John Forster to Timothy Gibson Jr. of Stow, yeoman, 134 J acres in Stow including Cornet's pond, the south side of Elsabeth [Assabet] river, southerly of ^ a great brushy hill [a nameless hill southeast of Boon's liill], and bounded east by the highway, north and west by Dea. Nathaniel Hapgood, and southeasterly on Marlboro line to Marlboro Corner, house, barn, &c. - also all my right in the meeting house," and this property in the southeast of Stow was his home for the next forty years ; he further increased his Stow acquisitions by Philip Brown selling Ap. 28, 1763 for ;^4o, some 21 acres to "Timothy Gibson of Stow, gentleman." That he owned real estate in Lunenburg is seen by a deed for 20 acres dated Jan. 3, 1774 and given by his son "Abel Gibson and wife Mary of Lunenburg, to Timothy Gibson of Stow," which 20 acres were doubtless a portion of Mary's inheritance from her father Arrington Gibson of Lunenburg, He was a prominent person in Stow - selectman 1734, 1735,

1736 and 1739, constable 1745 and probably holder of some military office as he was always called Capt. Gibson ; he was also an active member of First church, joining his father May 17, 1736, in the negative vote for a £60 appropriation to Rev. John Gardner, and on Jan. 27, 1755 buying the " north east corner of pew ground," another version worded : "January 27"' 1755.. Capt. Tim. Gibson bought the north east corner pew in the old church." As eldest of the sons surviving Dea. Gibson in 1757, he was of great help to his step-mother Mrs. Submit Gibson who by her will dated Sept. 24, 1758, gave among other small bequests to connections, "my mother's gold ring to Capt, Timothy Gibson, to wife Persis, Taffety gown, and neck laces to daughters Persisand Lucy," and named him residuary legatee and executor.

Early in 1774 when over seventy-one years old, Capt. Gibson removed to Henniker on Contoocook river, a promising New Hampshire town incorporated Nov. 10, 1768, his farm lying at the foot of Craney hill south side the Contoocook ; his patriotic and beneficial influence was felt in the neighborhood, and until his death he rendered service to the revolutionary struggle especially by pecuniary aid ; he was among the fiftyone signers of the "association test" called for by resolution of Continental congress of Mar. 14, 1776, forwarded to Henniker Ap. 12, 1776 and framed as follows :

" In cousequeuce of the Resolutiou of the Hon'''* Congress and to show our determination in joining our American brethren in defending the lives, liberties and properties of the inhabitants of the United Colonies, we the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will to the utmost of our power, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the british fleets and armies against the United American Colonies."

He must have been buried in one of the two old cemeteries, the earlier laid out Mar. 26, 1770 in the southerly part of the town, and the other about 1775 near the southeast corner ; no stone to his memory, however, is found in either ground though a careful search has been made by Coh L. W. Cogswell, historian of Henniker, and the grave of Capt. Timothy Gibson remains unknown. Children :

VI ^ Nahum Brown of Henniker, a deaf mute, b. Stow, Ap. 26, 1772 ; m. Abiel Eastman ; among children - Thomas Brown of Henniker, "the mute Cincinnatus of America," b. Henniker, 1804, pupil Hartford school (Conn.) 1821-1827, first president New England Gallaudet association, president New England Clerc monumental association and vice-president Nat. Clerc association.

Mr. Gibson was probably the " my beloved grandson, Jacob Gibson " [adopted] to whom Dea. Daniel Hapgood of Stow bequeathed several hundred acres in Waterford, Me., see 10^ and was undoubtedly the "Jacob Gibson in Waterford in 1797 " [Waterford records].

V Joiitithaii Gibson of Stow, Mass., first child of Capt. Timothy JO and Persis (Rice) Gibson, b. Groton, Mass., Dec. 15, 1726; d. Stow, Jan. 12, 1754; m. at Holliston, Mass., Nov. 25, 1748, Mary Forristall (b. Holliston, July 5, 1730, m. second, Eli Jones, d. Mar. 18, 1813), dan. of John and Elizabeth Forristall of Holliston, but in her publishment to Jonathan Gibson Oct. I, 1748, the surname is accidentally entered Forrester on Stow records.

Mr, Gibson left no will and his widow Mary was appointed administratrix Feb. 25, 1754, her father-inlaw "Timothy Gibson Jr., gentleman," and her brother-in-law "Stephen Gibson, yeoman," as bondsmen; the appraisement of Mar. i, 1754 by William Rice, Daniel Hapgood and Stephen Gibson, showed " real estate o and personal ^581 2 s. including ^25 for blue coat, black jacket and blush breeches;" in 1761 Mary, then widow of Eli Jones, made application before Justice Danforth for certain privileges for her children by both marriages. Children : VI ^ Betty Gibson, " 3J yrs. old" at the time of her father's death, and in her fifteenth year choosing Dec. 18, 1764,

Ebenezer Marshall as guardian, b. Stow, June 6, 1750, d. Fitchburg, Mass., Sept. 12, 1824, ^^e gravestone in I^aurel Hill cemetery naming her Betsey; m. Feb. 8, 1774 (pub. Jan. 21, 1774 Stow records), her father's cousin Reuben Gibson of Fitchburg, son of Capt. Reuben and Lois (Smith) Gibson, see liK'i. VI 'Thaddeus Gibson (Sergt.) ,j2

VI Tliaddeus Gibson (Serg-t.) of Bellingham and^ Milford, Mass. and Henniker, N. H., second child of Jonathan i>l and ]\Iary (Forristall) Gibson, b. Stow, Mass., 1753 (probably June as by court records he was " seven mos. old " at the time of his father's death Jan. 12, 1754); d. Henniker, Feb. 23, 1834; bur. in Center cemetery, the old Center yard ; m. first, at Bellingham by Rev. Noah Alden, pastor Bellingham Baptist church, Feb. 2, 1778 (pub. Dec. 20, 1777), Elizabeth Sumner (b. Mendon, Mass., Aug. 16, 1754, d. Henniker, Mar. 17, 1819), dan. of James and Mary (Bigelow) Sumner' of Mendon (the east part which became Milford Ap. 11, 1780), and descendant of William Sumner, the English pioneer in Dorchester, Mass. in 1636 ; m. second. Mar. 30, 1831, Lydia Kemp of Henniker.

Sergt. Gibson on Ap. 28, 1769, then nearly sixteen years old but by the usual court entry " upwards of 14 years," selected Ebenezer Marshall as guardian, and as early as 1775, if not earlier, was living in Bellingham ; in 1779 he moved to the adjoining Milford (then part of Mendon) and for the next four years made it his home at intervals ; that he and his family were in Warner, N. H. late in 1781 is seen by an entry in the record book of the Milford Congregational church, the East parish church of old Mendon organized some 70 years after the incorporation of the town May 15, 1667 : " Thaddeus Gibson, Elizabeth his wife and two children, lyois [Lewis] and Mary, came from Warner, Hampshire S'" to reside in Milford, Jan'y lo"* 1782. Taken in by James Sumner,"

In 1783 he settled in Henniker on a 300 acre farm in the west of the town known as Westboro Corner and, with the exception of a two years' stay in Warner after his wife's death in 1819, made Henniker his permanent home, leaving the farm for "the village" on returning from Warner. He always took an active interest in both secular and religious affairs - selectman 1799, one of the thirty-three persons in 1801 voting "no" to the settlement of Rev. Moses Sawyer, and in 1807 on the committee for building schoolhouses. Under the will of his father-in-law he became joint owner with his wife Elizabeth and her sister, of considerable real estate in Milford, and Nov. 7, 1795 sold advantageously several tracts of this land "bequeathed to us by our father, James Sumner, deceased."

He was a revolutionary soldier - private, Capt. Samuel Cobb's CO., Col. Joseph Reed's reg. Mass. militia (Worcester county) May 6 to Nov. 6, 1775, served at Roxbury ; sergt., Capt. Samuel Warren's co., Col. Joseph Reed's reg. Jan. 1776 to Feb. 1777, service at White Plains, Trenton, Princeton and elsewhere ; private, Capt. Amos Ellis' co.. Col. Benjamin Hawse's reg. Sept. 25 to Oct, 31, 1777, Rhode Island service ; private, Capt. Jacob Haskin's co.. Col, John Jacobs' reg, July 2, 1778 to Jan. i, 1779, "the men raised in Bellingham by Resolve of June 12, 1778, and paid bounty by the selectmen." He became a revolutionary pensioner under the act passed Mar. 18, 1818 "for service in the War for 9 mos. on Continental establishment," his pension beginning Ap. 4, 1818, for some reason discontinued, restored Ap. i, 1823 ^^^ ^^^ force at the time of his death ; there is nothing to show that he came in under the act of 17S6 " for wounds and disabilities " as no public pension documents of that date are in existence. In his own affidavits he stated that "he enlisted in the spring of 1777 at Bellingham for S mos. in Mass. line under Capt. Sabin Mann, marched to Rhode Island, chosen sergt., served 8 mos. and then dismissed," but could furnish no documentary evidence ; he had, however, the following valuable testimony for service in 1776 :

" I certifN' that Thaddeiis Gibson served as Serg*. in my Co. in Col. Joseph Reed's Reg^ in the Continental Annj' in the year 1776 - [signed] Samuel Warren, Captain," and dated Milford, Ap. 9, 17S7.

VII ^ Otis Gibson of Henniker b. Henniker, May 27, 1787 ; d. Henniker, Aug. 7, 1872 ; ul first, Rebecca Button of Hillsboro, N. H. ; m. second, 1842, Harriet Pressey. CHILDREN :

VIII ^ Lewis C. Gibson of Heiiniker b. Henniker, Jul)- 5, 1844; m. first, Mrs. Elizabeth Farren of Henniker (d. 1892) ; ni. second, Ap. i6, 1894, Ida M. Woodward of Manchester, N. H. ; no children.

VIII 'Louisa M. McCaine (adopted) b. Oct. 19, 1823; m. Nov. II, 1850, David McCaine of Francestown and St. Paul, son of Daniel McCaine ; no children.

Mr. Rice was a soldier in the civil war - mustered Aug. 29, 1862, Corp., CO. D, nth reg. N. H. vol. infantry, wounded at battle of Spottsylvania Court House, Va., jMay 12, 1864, discharged Oct. 20, 1864. Two children b. in W. Henniker: ' Hattie May Rice b. July 29, 1867;

VII Mary (Folly) Gibson, second child of Sergt. Thaddeus 52 and Elizabeth (Sumner) Gibson, b. (probably Mendon, Mass.) 1780; d, Warner, N. H., May 3, 1865; m, John Whitcomb of Warner, farmer (b. Warner, Mar. 29, 1785, d. May 21, 1878), son of Jacob and Olive Whitcomb of Warner, and gr. son of Benjamin Whitcomb of Stow, Mass. Children :

IX * Paulina S. Whitcomb b. Warner, June 12, 1846; ni. as second wife, Jan. 22, 1873, her brother-inlaw Levi P. Woodbury of New Boston and Gofifstown, N. H.; one child : ^ Sarah M. Woodbury b. New Boston, Jan. 31, 1876; unm.

VIII Wlmira Whitcomb b. Warner, Mar. 30, 1816 ; m. as second wife. May 8, 1870, Dexter Whitcomb of Henniker (Dexter"'; Zaccheus"' of Henniker; Benjamin" of Henniker ; Benjamin ' of Stow) ; no children.

VII Naliiim Gibson of Henniker, N. H., third child of Sergt. Thaddeus 52 and Elizabeth (Sumner) Gibson, b. Mil ford, Mass., July 14, 1783; d. Henniker, Mar. 13, 1832 ; m. Lydia Davis of Amherst, N. H. (m. second John Stuart, d. Mar. 2, 1870.)

VII Olive Gibson, fifth child of Sergt. Thaddeus ,VZ and Elizabeth (Sumner) Gibson, b. Milford, Mass., Oct, 18, 1792 ; d. Henniker, N. H., July 23, 1863; m, June . 20, 181 1, Joseph Wadsworth of Henniker. Children : VIII ^Dorothy Wadsworth b. Henniker, Aug. 7, 1813 ; d. Jan. II, 1892 ; m. Mar. 22, 1848, Benoni Fuller of Lempster and Peterboro, N. H.

VII Jjiiiies Gibson of Henniker, N, H., ninth child of Sergt. Thaddeus -T*^ and Elizabeth (Sumner) Gibson, b. Henniker, 1800; d. Sept. 3, 1875; m. 1835, Harriet Pressey, dan. of Elijah and Sarah Pressey of Henniker.

Ciipt. Timothy''^' , Dca. Tiinofliy'" , John Jr.", John ' V Tiiiiotliy GiT)Soii (Capt.) of Stow, Mass., Henniker, N. H. and Brownfield, Me., third child of Capt. Timothy »>0 and Persis (Rice) Gibson, b. Stow, Dec. 17, 1738; d. Brownfield, Jan. 16, 1814 ; bnr. in Burnt Meadow Brook cemetery, the old East Brownfield cemetery ; m. (pub. Feb. 20, 1773) Margaret Whitman (b. Stow, Jan. 14, 1755, d. Brownfield, June 29, 1838, bur. beside her husband), dau. of Zechariah and Elizabeth (Gates) Whitman of Stow, and descendant of John Whitman, the English pioneer in Weymouth, Mass. in 1638 (Margaret" ; Zechariah'"; John"' of Stow; Rev. Zechariah" of Nantasket, Mass.; John').

Capt. Gibson before reaching his majority served in the Fr. and Ind. war, his record reading thus : " Muster Roll - Capt. Abijah Hall Comp. Col. Willard's Reg - in Exp. to Crown Pt. from May 9, 1759 to Jany 12, 1760, Timothy Gibson, Sergt, Stow - fr. May 2 to Nov. 27 - 30 wks," and perhaps this service as sergeant may have given rise to his familiar appellation of " Captain Gibson."

Until his marriage, if not afterwards, he remained one of the paternal household ; his first purchase in his native town was not till Feb. 19, 1770 when he bought for ^300 from John Gordon and wife Mary " 35 acres in Stow, estate of our father Ebenezer Graves, | house and the mill " - the site of this old mill on the east side the Assabet being only a few rods below the present dam of Rock Bottom woolen mills near Rock Bottom (village) in the south of the town ; another purchase, the deed dated Sept. i, 1773 and describing him as "Timothy Gibson Jr. of Stow, yeoman," was from Jonas Temple of Marlboro, conveying " 30 acres by White's pond between Stow and Marlboro," the pond retaining its name to this day.

On the removal of his parents from Stow to Henniker, probably in the spring of 1774, he accompanied them and resided in their home at the foot of Craney hill, busied with farm cares and running saw and grist mills on the Contoocook. During his quarter of a centur^^'s stay in New Hampshire he filled many offices of trust, both state and town - delegate to the Provincial congress convened at Exeter, May 17, 1775 and to the convention held at Concord, Jnne 13, 1778 *' to form state government," the first jnstice of the peace in Ilenniker by vote of Mar. 21, 1776, selectman 1776 and 1778, town clerk 1776, 1777 and 1778, representative 1776, 1777, 1794, 1796 and 1797; he further showed his love of country by signing the " association test " in 1776 and procuring men and money throughout the revolutionary war.

In 1798, four years prior to its incorporation Feb. 20, 1802, he settled in the north of Brownfield on a tract of 900 acres of tillage and timber land west side Saco river, which property, deeded Nov. 24, 1777 by Benjamin Epes to Benjamin Jacobs, was in turn, together with 100 acres in the adjoining Fryeburg, sold Aug. 18, 1797 in consideration of ^3,500, by " Benjamin Jacobs of Brownfield in the county of York [Oxford since 1805] and commonwealth of Massachusetts [Maine not set off and admitted into the Union till Mar. 15, 1820], to Timothy Gibson of Hannover [Henniker] in the county of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire." With Capt. Gibson's removal to his new home he carried the reputation as " possessor of sound judgment and excellent executive ability, and as one of the ablest citizens in the state."

VI Jonathan Gibson of Brownfield, Me., second child of Capt. Timothy 57 and Margaret (Whitman) Gibson, b. Henniker, N. H., May 13, 1777 ; lost at sea Ap. 1807 ; m. Polly Mansfield, dau. of Samuel and Hepsibah (Williams) Mansfield of Brownfield.

VII Betsey H. Gibson, third child of Jonathan 58 and Polly (Mansfield) Gibson, b. Brownfield, Me., Jan. 29, 1804 ; d. Conway, N. H., Nov. 21, 1829 5 bur. in the Merrill family lot (Conway) ; m. as first wife, Mark Merrill of Conway (b. Conway, Nov. 30, 1793, m. second, Mrs. Harriet Broughton - Gibson, widow of

Mr. Merrill was a soldier in the war of 1812 - private, Capt. Joshua Merriam's co. of infantry, 3d reg. (Size's) N. H. detached militia Oct. 15 to Nov. 9, 1814.

Children: VIII ' Albion P. Merrill of Denmark, Me. b. Conway, Oct. 24, 1823 ) "^- fi^st, Sept. 7, 1848, Eliza H. Bradbury (b. Brownfield, Aug. 22, 1825, ^- Oct. 7, 1884), dau. of Elijah and Sally (Howard) Bradbury, and gr. dau. of Hon. Joseph and Rebecca (Gleason) Howard of Brownfield ; ni. second, Oct. 26, 1886, Mrs. Mary D. (Clark) Oilman of Denmark. CHILDREN :

Capt. Timothy", Capt. Timothy''', Dca. Timothy"', John jr.", John ' VI Timothy Gibson of Brownfield, Me., farmer, fourth child of Capt. Timothy o7 and Margaret

Capt. Gibson was commissioned Aug. 2, 1834, captain, ist CO. Me. artillery, 2d brigade, 6th division, resigned Dec. 10, 1839 ; during the so-called Madawaska war his company was rendezvoused at Augusta, Me., Mar. 6 and dismissed Mar. 27, 1839. VII ^Timothy Gibson. 61

VII Timothy Gibson of Brownfield and Saccarappa (now Westbrook), Me., third child of Timothy 60 and Lois (Mansfield) Gibson and the last Timothy of five successive generations, b. Brownfield, Sept. 18, 1811 ; d. Rising City, Neb., Dec. 8, 1884 ; m. first, May 24, 1833, Martha Miller of Brownfield (b. Ap. 20, 1816, d. July 10, 1846) ; m. second, Nov. 29, 1847, ^lary P. Freeman of Saccarappa (d, Ap. 22, 1857).

VII Tobias Gibson of St. Louis, Mo. and Saccarappa and Bridgton, Me., fourth child of Timothy 60 and Lois (Mansfield) Gibson, b. Brownfield, Me., July 23,

VI Zachariiili Gibson (Kev.) of Winthrop and Brownfield, Me., fifth child of Capt. Timothy o7 and Margaret (Whitman) Gibson, b. Henniker, N. H., Sept. 3, 1781 ; d. Brownfield, Dec. 6, 1839; bnr. in Brownfield Center cemetery ; m. first, Jnne 4, 181 1, Theodate Bennett (b. Middleboro, M^ss. , June 27, 1783, d. Winthrop, Aug. 7, 1825), d^"- of Batchelder and Mary (Sampson) Bennett ; m. second, Feb. 24, 1828, Mrs. Susan (Bean) Howard (b. July 16, 1793, d. Brownfield, Ap. 10, 1831), dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Bean of Brownfield ; m. third, Dec. 25, 1832, Sally Boynton (b. Brownfield, Mar, 15, 1801, d. Brownfield, Mar. 7, 1872), dau. of William and Betsey Boynton.

Rev. Mr. Gibson in early manhood became a Methodist clergyman, but after a few years of ministry was compelled by failing health to withdraw from active work in the Conference and devote his remaining days to quietly serving the Lord by words of moral counsel, deeds of kindness and a life replete with high aspirations for the good of humanity.

Children : VII ^ Mary Sampson Gibson b. Winthrop, June 12, 1812 ; m. 1831, Josiah Lakeman Elder of Brownfield (b, Gorham, Me., Ap. 10, 1810, d. after 1839), son of John and Mary (Lakeman) Elder.

VIII ' William Bangs Elder of Lytic, Colo. b. Brownfield, Mar. 17, 1832 ; m. May 15, 1859, Sarah M. Kimball of Lovell, Me.; one child: ' Oren Gibson Elder of Lytle b. Lovell, Jan. 13, 1S62 ; num.

VIII ^ Josiah Lakeman Elder (Maj.) of Eynn, Mass. and Montpelier, Vt. b. Brownfield, May 11, 1839; m. second, Nov. 6, 1880, Caroline H. Emerson of Lebanon, Vt.

uate Princeton tlieo. seminary (N. J.) 1845, ^- Winthrop, Aug. 4, 181 7 ; d. Philadelphia, Pa., May 17, 1853 while attending the Presbyterian synod ; unm, VII 'Helena Theodate Gibson b. Winthrop, Nov. 26, 1819 ; d. Masontown, W. Va., June 22, 1897 ; m. June 8, 1841, Harrison G. O. Morton of Winthrop, Me., Williamsburg, la., Maineland, Neb. and Rockville, Md. (b. Winthrop, Oct. 22, 1810, d. Rockville, Ap. i, 1891), son of Mordecai and Priscilla (Bennett) Morton.

Mr. Morton was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted July 21 and mustered Aug. 18, 1862, private, co. B, 17th reg. Me. vol. infantry, wounded at battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863, transferred in 1864 to 129th co. , 2d batt. veteran reserve corps, detailed Mar. 20, 1865, messenger at headquarters 2 2d army corps, mustered out June 17, 1865. Two children: ^ Clara Alice Morton b. Columbia, Jan. 7, 1890. ^William Norman Cribb Morton b. Hagerstown, Md., Sept. 22, 1893.

Mr. Morton was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted Dec. 28 and mustered Dec. 29, 1863, private, co. E (color company), ist reg. Me. heavy artillery (the company losing at battle of the Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864, seventy-five men of the five hundred lost by the regiment), detailed May 9, 1864, clerk at Gen. Hancock's headquarters under Q. M. Gen. Ingalls, transferred to Gen. Grant's headquarters under Capt. Samuel F. Gibson, a. q. m., mustered out June 13, 1865.

Mr. Morton was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted July 20 and mustered Aug. 18, 1862, private, co. B, 17th reg. Me. vol. infantry, participated in nineteen battles, detailed Aug. 11, 1864, chief clerk under Capt. Bronson, commander of musters 2d army corps, mustered out June 4, 1865. VIII Hlary Tyler Morton b. Winthrop, Dec. 2, 1847; m. Feb. 28, 1866, Samuel C. Holden of Rockville (b. Fryeburg, Me., Nov. 14, 1841); three children: ' Edward Fowler Holden of Hagerstown b. Williamsburg, Dec. 4, 1867; m. May 4, 1893, Josephine Fahrney (b. 1863). " Herbert Henry Holden of Rockville b. Maineland, Ap. 20, 1875. ^ Charles Gibson Holden b. Billerica, May 5, 1888. VIII '^Oren Frederic Morton of Masontown, teacher, graduate University of Nebraska (Ivincoln) 1879, b. Fryeburg, Jan. 27, 1857; unm. VII *Oren Bennett Gibson of San Francisco, Cal., Portland,

28, 1835. VII ^ Eliza Ann Gibson b. Brownfield, Mar. 16, 1837 ; m. June 18, 1863, William Henry Stickney of Brownfield, an extensive sheep raiser several years on an estaiicia in the Argentine republic (b. Brownfield, June 18, 1836), son of Dea. Samuel and Virene (Rice) Stickney of Brownfield, and descendant of William Stickney of Frampton, co. Lincoln, Eng., pioneer in Boston in 1638 and Rowley, Mass. in 1640 (William H.'"' ; Dea. Samuel "' ; Maj. John^' of Concord, N. H., set apart as Penny Cook or Pennacook Jan. 11, 1726, incorporated as Rumford Feb. 27, 1734 and as Concord May 25, 1765; Lt. Jonathan'' of Rumford, a Crown Point soldier; Col. Jeremiah '^ of Pennacook ; William "' of Bradford, Mass. ; Lt. Samuel " of Bradford ; William ').

Mrs. Stickney, inheriting her father's spirit to elevate the human race, has served many years in the "peaceful war for God and home and every land " - the work of the Women's christian temperance union.

Capt. Timothy", Capt. Timothy^'', Dea. Timoihy^^^, John jr}\ John^ VI Polly Gibson, seventh child of Capt. Timothy 57 and Margaret (Whitman) Gibson, b. Henniker, N. H., Aug. 21, 1785; d. Brownfield, Me., July 16, 1877; bur. in Burnt Meadow Brook cemetery ; m. 1801, Dudley Bean of Brownfield (b. Brownfield, Nov. 12, 1772, d. Nov. 10, 1839), son of Curtis and Affie (Merrill) Bean.

VIII ' Reuben Smith of Denmark, farmer, b. Denmark, Mar. 27, 1853 ; m. Oct. 8, 1876, Roxanie F. Richardson of Fryeburg, Me.; six children b. in Denmark: ^ Russell Rounsville Smith b. Aug. 9, 1877. ^ Sadie Louise Smith b. Sept. 27, 1879.

VII ^Margaret G. Bean b. Brownfield, Aug. 21, 1820; m. Mar. I, 1845, Hiram Bragg of Dixmont and Hampden Corner, Me. (b. June 28, 1821), son of Stephen and Hannah (Wing) Bragg.

VII ^^ Sarah Jane Bean b. Brownfield, May 9, 1827 ; m. Ap. 9, 1850, Edward Deering Boynton of Cornish, Me., builder and contractor (b. Mar. 16, 1828, d. Nov. 4, 1886), son of Edward D. and Aphire (Philbrick) Boynton of Cornish.

Folly "'^ Capt. Timothy"', Capt. Timothy'''', Dca. Timothy ''''\ John jr}\ John'' VII Lorania Bean, second child of Dudley and Polly C4 (Gibson) Bean, b. Brownfield, Me., July 11, 1806; d. Waterboro, Me., June 2, 1894 ; m. Dec. 1829, Clark Clement of Brownfield (b. 1807), son of Obadiah and Phebe (Kezar) Clement of Brownfield.

IX ' Elizabeth R. Hamilton b. Waterboro, Dec. 27, 1863 ; m. Ap. 6, 1887, Frank H. Hobbs of Waterboro, school superintendent ; one child: ^ Elmer Hamilton Hobbs b. Waterboro, Sept. 28, 1888.

iiiiah and Elizabeth P. (Sterling) Leavitt ; two children b. in Sisseton: ' Herbert Leicester Leavitt b. Aug. 25, 1895. "Morna May Leavitt b. May 22, 1897.

VII Sopliroiiia Bean, seventh child of Dudley and Polly m (Gibson) Bean, b. Brownfield, Me., July 21, 1816; m. June 29, 1836, Ezra IMeserve of Brownfield (b. Mar. i, 1799, d. June 7, 1869), son of Silas and Betsey (Meserve) Meserve of Brownfield. Children : VIII ' Davenport D. Meserve of Brownfield b. Brownfield, Oct. 29, 1837; m. July 3, 1864, Eliza Ann Quimby, dau. of Josiah and Sarah B. (Wentworth) Quimby.

VI Robert Gibson (Lt.) of Brownfield and Bangor, Me., eighth child of Capt. Timothy o7 and Margaret (Whitman) Gibson, b. Henniker, N. H., Aug. 22, 1787; d. Paris, Me., Mar. 12, 1866; bur. in Brownfield Center cemetery; m. Feb. 12, 1815, Sarah Kast McHard Molineux (d. Fryeburg, Me., Dec. 15, 1857), dau. of Robert and Peggy McHard (Kast) Molineux of Boston, Mass. and Hopkinton, N. H.

Ivt. Gibson was a soldier in the war of 181 2 - 3d It., 34tli U. S. infantry (Col. J. D. Learned) Ap. 30, 1813, promoted 2d It. Mar. 7, 1814 and ist It. Aug. 13, 1814, discharged June 15, 1815 ; officially recorded "on recruiting service at Portland from Ap. 18 to Oct. i, 1813 and from Mar. 1814 until his discharge," also as "belonging to Massachusetts" of which Maine was then a territory - this record varying a little from his commission which states that " he was ensign in the 2d reg. of infantry, Mass. militia, resigned Nov. 30, 1814, and Dec. 27, 1814 was commissioned by President Madison, ist lieutenant in 34tli reg. U. S. infantry, to date from Aug. 13, 1814."

Mr. Gibson as successor of his father-in-law, was "mine host" of the well-known Washington house at No. Conway 1868-1878 ; he also spent several years in Butte county, Cal., at both Cohasset on a timber ranch and Pine Creek on a fruit farm.

J 48 John Gibson

way Corner (called Conway), merchant, graduate Bowdoin coll. 1879 (b. Mt. Vernon, Me., Dec. 22, 1855), son of John M. and Elizabeth A. Fifield ; two children b. in Conway : ^ Ernest Gibson Fifield b. Ap. 11, 1890. - Martha Boardman Fifield b. Aug. 8, 1892. VIII '' Anna Molineux Gibson b. Paris, Dec. i, 1867; unm.

VII 'George Lafayette Gibson of Boston, Mass., San Francisco, Cal. and Carson City, Neb. b. Brownfield, Sept. 9, 1823 ) ^- Cohasset, Ap. 25, 1885 ; m. Aug. 18, 1855, Henrietta Molineux.

VI Abel Gibson (Capt.) of Brownfield, Me., farmer, ninth child of Capt. Timothy J7 and Margaret (Whitman) Gibson, b. Henuiker, N. H., Mar. 23, 1790 ; d. Brownfield, July 25, 1852 ; bur. in Burnt Meadow Brook cemetery ; m. Feb. 22, 1818 (family record), Ann Howard (b. May 11, 1795, d. Macomb, 111., Feb. 10, 1882), dau. of Hon. Joseph and Rebecca (Gleason) Howard of Brownfield.

Capt. Gibson, the last Gibson owner and occupant of the homestead (Gibson Place so-called) on the Saco, was a gentleman of marked ability and enterprise, captain of militia, member Maine legislature 1842, also holder of other civil offices.

He was a soldier in the war of 181 2 - corp., Capt. Philip Eastman's co. of artillery, Col. James Steele's reg. Mass. militia Sept. 11 to 24, 1814, defense of Portland.

Col. Gibson was a graduate U. S. mil. acad. (West Point) 1839 and commissioned July i, 1839, 2d It., 2d artillery, promoted ist It. June 18, 1846, capt. July 9, 1853, maj., 3d artillery July 25, 1863 and It. col. Ap. 4, 1869, retired at his own request, Dec. 15, 1870. He served throughout the Mexican war but at its close met with an accident which disabled him from future field service ; during the civil war he was appointed June 25, 1862, col., ii2th reg. Pa. volunteers (2d Pa. artillery) and mustered out volunteer service July 22, 1864, part of this time in charge of the defense of Washington, D. C. ; he was commandant at Fort Warren (Boston harbor) Sept. 8, 1864-Jan. i, 1865 and again Oct. 1865- Ap. 4, 1869; for several years also connected with the U. S. coast survey.

Mr. Newman studied art both in America and Europe, is a fine portrait and landscape painter and an admirable teacher in sketching. Six children : ^ Howard Augustus Newman b. and d. New York, N. Y.," Oct. 23, 1883. -Max Gibson Newman b. Fryeburg, Ap. 21, 1885. ^ Paul Jones Newman b. Fryeburg, Jan. 3, 1888. * Arthur Dow Newman b. Fryeburg, Aug. 30, 1889. '"^ George Burgess Newman b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 30, i8go. ^Benjamin Newman b. and d. Fryeburg, Nov. i, 1893.

Hon. Mr. McMillan was a cadet U. S. mil. acad. (West Point) 1820 and 1821, merchant, member of Maine legislature, also a fine scholar and, as said of him, " few men in our country were as well-informed as he respecting its history and progress in all its relations."

Hon. Mr. Gibson was a graduate Bowdoin coll. 185 1, " went west " in 1858 and during a twenty years' residence in Minneapolis was actively engaged in private and public pursuits, building and operating the famous Cataract flour mill and the North star woolen mill; he was one of the Public library founders, also regent University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) 1871-1879 when he removed to Cascade county, Mon. and became interested in sheep raising, mining and advancing his theory that "the bench lands of northern Montana could produce without irrigation bounteous crops of oats, wheat and other cereals ; " when a company purchased his property, the site of present Great Falls on the Missouri, he became vice-president of the company, first mayor of the new city, bank director, organizer of

VIII "Bertha Weston Hadley, a fine pianist, stndying in Berlin, Ger. and for two years director Conservatory of mnsic, Forest Grove, Or., b. Galesbiirg, Aug. 7, 1868; m. Sept. 12, 1893, Claude Malcom Seeley of Tacoma, Wash.

VIII * Daniel Augustine Bean b. Brownfield, May 20, 1846 ; a soldier in the civil war - enlisted Nov. 2 and nmstered Nov. 11, 1861, private, co. A, nth reg. Me. vol. infantry, wounded at battle of Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862, detailed in q. m. dept. June 1862-May, 1864, wounded at picket skirmish, Bermuda Hundred, Va., June I, 1864, d. Fortress Monroe, Va., June 6, 1864, bur. (no. 2880) in Hampton nat. cemetery (Va.); the official record gives the date when Mr. Bean was mortall)' wounded as June 2, 1864, but in his last letter dated the day before his death and from ward 12, McClellan hospital (Fortress Monroe), he wrote : " I was wounded June ist on the outer pickets, about ten miles from Bermuda Hundred ; was wounded back of the second reserved picket, behind a small tree, was taken to the regimental hospital and had the ball extracted." On Sept. 15, 1890 the G. A. R. post no. 160 (Brownfield), dept. of Maine, was named Daniel A. Bean and, as said by Sergt. Maj. Elias P. Morton of the Eleventh Maine, " the name of one of the best and bravest soldiers who went from Brownfield."

VIII ^Jennie Hadley Bean b. Brownfield, Oct. 22, 1854; m, Feb. 20, 1878, Alpheus S. Leighton of Portland and Strondwater, Me. (b. Windham, Me., Oct. 16, 1855); '^"'^ child : 'Fred Weston Leighton b. Portland, Oct. 10, 1S79. VII ^' Marshall Spring Hadley of Washington and Rochester,

VIII ' Elizabeth Axford Hadley b. Washington, Sept. 6, 1849; m. at Pontiac, Mich., Jan. 26, 1875, Albert Holden Comstock of E. Saginaw, Mich, and Duluth, Minn. (b. Pontiac, Feb. 22, 1847), son of Elkanah B. and Eliza (Holden) Comstock.

Mr. Comstock during his long residence in E. Saginaw was cashier Home nat. bank, and since his removal to Duluth in 1895 has been vice-president Marshall-Wells company, wholesale iron and steel merchants. One child: ' Marg-nerite Whitman Comstock b. E. Saginaw, Jan. 9, 1876; unm.

VIII "Margaret Hadley b. Washington, Dec. i, 1853; ^^^- at E. Saginaw, Nov. 29, 1876, Charles Sumner Burch of Chicago, 111. and Grand Rapids, Mich., book publisher in the former city and present managing editor Evening Press (b. Pinckney, Mich., June 30, 1854); three children: 'Grace Margaret Burch b. Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 22, 1877. - Arlisle Burch b. Evanston, 111., Feb. 13,

VII '^ Eliza Jane Hadley b. Brownfield, July i, 1832; m. at Wataga, Jan. 5, 1859, Alfred Hagerman of Oxford, Mich., stock and wool dealer (b. Northampton, Pa., Nov. 6, 1826).

VII Lydia Straw Hadley, second child of Dr. Samuel S. and Margaret W. (U) (Gibson) Hadley, b. Brownfield, Me., Sept. 20, 1811; m. first, June 23, 1836, Silas Crockett Bradbur}^ of Brownfield, Me. and Menomonee and Marinette, Wis. (b. Brownfield, 1807, drowned in Lake Michigan, Oct. 1847;) m. second, 1854, James Maker of Brownfield. Children : VIII ^ Izah Gibson Bradbury b. Brownfield, Alay 30, 1837 ; m. Mar. 4, 1857, Harvey Lucas of New Sharon, la.

VII Abel Gibson Hadley of Wataga, Sparta township, 111., New Sharon, la. and North Bend, Kan., third child of Dr. Samuel S. and Margaret W. 69 (Gibson) Hadley,

Children : VIII ' Weymouth Hadley of Wataga and Keithsburg, 111., dealer in drugs, paints and oils, b. Brownfield, Mar. 8, 1841 ; m. at Wataga, May 2, 1867, Laura A. ShurtlefF(b. Victoria, 111., Aug. 20, 1848), dan, of William A. Shurtleff. Mr. Hadley was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted Aug. 6 and mustered Sept. 2, 1862, private, co. I, io2d reg. 111. vol, infantry, discharged June 6, 1865; present quarter-master of his G. A. R. post.

VI Samuel Gibson of Denmark and Norway, Me., twelfth child of Capt. Timothy 57 and Margaret (Whitman) Gibson, b. Henniker, N. H., Feb. 22, 1797 ; d. Norway, Sept. 11, 1865 ; bur. in Rustfield cemetery; m. Nov. 25, 181S, Rebecca Howard (b. May i, 1793, d. Sept. 20, 1879), dan. of Hon. Joseph and Rebecca (Gleasou) Howard of Brownfield.

Mr. Gibson was a man of importance both as merchant and sheriff of Oxford countv; althoug-h too vo^unfr to be a soldier in the war of 1812, he often served "at camp " with his brother lyt. Robert Gibson while the latter was on duty.

Rev. Mr. Tenney was a graduate Pembroke acad. (N. H.) 1829, studied theology with the father of the celebrated Rev. Thomas Starr King and in 1833 began preaching as a Universalist clergyman.

Mrs. Tenney was a true Christian, a devoted wife and mother, and by her loving, genial nature endeared herself to a large circle of friends. CHILDREN : VIII ^ Samuel A. Tenney b. Norway, Feb. 23, 1841 ; d.

Rev. Mr. Tenney was a graduate Tufts div. school 1878 and prior to his present settlement in 1889, had charge of parishes in Mattapoisett and Stoughton, Mass. Two children b. in Stoughton: ^ Ruth Tenney b. Dec. 23, 1881. -Miriam Tenney b. July 15, 1884.

Capt. Gibson was a graduate Bowdoin coll. 1844, read law with his uncle Judge Joseph Howard of Portland, Me. (Howard & Shepley) and in 1847 was admitted to the bar; after a few years' practice in Patten he went to California as clerk in the q. m. dept., U. S. army, and on his return resumed the legal profession in 1851 at Bethel where for years he was prominent in the temperance movement and other town and county interests.

He was a soldier in the civil war - commissioned by President Lincoln, Nov. 23, 1864, capt. and a. q. m. volunteers, on duty at Gen. Grant's headquarters, resigned May 8, 1865.

VIII ^ Fred Herbert Gibson of San Francisco, Cal. b. Norway, June 4, 1855 ; m. Oct. 31, 1883, Molly Christienson of Denmark ; two children b. in Eureka, Cal. : ^ Mary Christine Gibson b. Mar. 24, 1885. 'Fred Harold Gibson b. July 2, 1888.

VIII ^George Robert Gibson of San Francisco b. Norway, Feb. II, 1859; m. Dec. 9, 1890, Maramne Bounard of San Francisco ; two children b. in San Francisco: ^Dorothy Gibson b. Mar. 30, 1893; d. Aug. 13, 1894. "Helen Randall Gibson b. Sept. 19, 1896.

Mr. Gibson remained in Stow some little time after his marriage, but was a resident of Lnnenburg as early as Jan. 3, 1774 shown by a deed of that date to his father for 20 acres, and as late as Ap. 14, 1776 when "Abel Gibson of Lnnenburg, husbandman," joined by wife Mary, conveyed to her brother " Timothy Gibson of Lunenburg, 19 acres with a dwelling house," doubtless a portion of the Arrington Gibson estate in the south of the town ; directly after this sale he moved to Henniker and was there in time to sign the " association test" received from Continental congress after Ap. 12, 1776.

He lived in the southeast of Henniker, served on several committees and was selectman in 1778; his name appears for the last time on town records as follows : "Valuation of Abel Gibson's property for 1798. i Poll, 2 cows - i-i year old. Taxes 2/8" [^2 8 s.]; either in this year or the next he and his family removed to New York and before locating in Solon resided in the Susquehanna valley at Butternuts and Unadilla (Otsego county) and German (Chenango county).

Mr. Gibson was a soldier in the war of 181 2 - private, Capt. James Selleck's co., 27th reg. (Bellinger's) N. Y. militia Sept. 19 to Nov. 2, 1814.

V Josei^li Gibson (Cti])t,) of Stow, Mass. and Henniker, N. H., eighth child of Capt. Timothy JO and Persis (Rice) Gibson, b. Stow, July 8, 1750 ; d. Henniker, May 23, 1801 ; bur. in the old cemetery laid out about 1775 near his home in the southeast of the town, south side Contoocook river ; m. (pub. May 28, 1772) Olive Randall of Stow (b. Aug. 26, 1749, d. Henniker, Dec. 30, 1816).

Capt. Gibson was about twenty-four years of age at the time of his removal from Stow to Henniker and until his untimely death, the result of an accident while riding horseback, took an active interest in public affairs both civil and military - selectman 1787, 1790, 1791, 1796, 1797 and 1799, probably captain the Henniker "alarm list" called for by Order of 1776, and later commander of the town company, one of the so-called " slam bang " companies; he was, however, prevented by disability from serving as a soldier in the revolutionary war.

Mrs. Cowdrey was a lady of fine artistic taste, loving to study Gibson lineage, and perpetuating her family name by erecting a monument in the Henniker cemetery to the memory of her parents, sister Dolly and two young brothers, the inscribed verse composed by Chancellor Joseph Gibson Hoyt, gr. son of Capt. Joseph Gibson :

Prof. Gibson, often called the " Ole Bull of America " and noted as a violin teacher and orchestral performer, was the only American first violinist retained throughout Gilmore's peace jubilee of 1872. CHILDREN : d. June 12, 1895. IX ^Caroline Josephine Holt b. Cambridge, Dec. i, 1887. VIII 'Charles Varnum Holt (Lt.) of Cambridge b. Wilton, Feb. 7, 1841; d. Cambridge, Sept. 1864; m. Sarah Fiske of Cambridge ; no children.

Mr. Gibson was a successful teacher many years and later a thrifty farmer, holding many important offices in his native state - selectman, justice of the peace and representative.

VII ^Sophalia Gibson b. Henniker, Feb. 18, 1815; d. Two Rivers, Wis., July, 1858; m. R. P. Eaton, lawyer and " one of the best in Wisconsin ; " no gr. children.

VII 'Sophronia Gibson b. Henniker, Mar. 30, 1817; d. New York, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1898; bur. in Baleville cemetery (N. J.); m. first, Oct. 1838, Randolph French HoytofE. Weare, N. H. (b. Dunbarton, N. H., Jan. 7, 181 7, d. Oct. 29, 1854), son of Joshua F. and Olive Randall (Gibson) Hoyt, and gr. son of the revolutionary soldier Et. Benjamin and Lydia (French) Hoyt, see 82; m.

Dr. Adams was a graduate Clavernock acad. (on the Hudson) 1877, Brown univ. 1881 and New York homeopathic med. coll. 1884, and is present asst. surgeon 2d reg. N. J. militia. Two children b. in Hackensack : ^ Harold Bertram Adams b. July 30, 1889 ; d. Aug. 24, 1897. " F'lora Adams b. Hackensack, Aug. 18, 1892. VII 'J. Randolph Gibson. 81

VIII ^ Frank R. Gibson of New Paynesville, Minn., graindealer, b. Plymouth, Aug. 31, 1859; m. Sept. 21, 1884, Mary Smith ; one adopted child: ^ Charles Romeo Gibson b. Aug. 26, 1892. VIII 'Lulun C. Gibson of So. Omaha, real estate agent, b. Plymouth, Ap. 17, 1862 ; m. Nov. 6, 1888, Harriet W. Zufelt of Sheboygan, Wis. ; one child : ' Lulun C. Gibson b. So. Omaha, Dec. II, 1893. VIII " Clarence D. Gibson of So. Omaha b. Greenbush, Ap. I, 1870 ; m. Feb. 4, 1888, Allie M. Hamlin J of Greenbush ; three children: ' Arthur Clare

Mr. Gibson "went west" when fourteen years old, was a schoolmaster the first six years, then a Daguerreotype artist and for thirty years prior to moving to Chilton in 1882 developing "the sun picture art" in Fond du Lac and Milwaukee, Wis., Galveston, Tex., St. lyouis, Mo. and elsewhere.

VII J. llandolpli Gibson of Manchester, N. H., merchant, third child of Jacob SO and Sophronia (Whitney) Gibson, b. Henniker, N. H., Ap. 23, 1819 ; d. Manchester, Nov. 15, 1849; ^'^^' Oct. 3, 1842, lyucinda Colwell Paige (b. Weare, N. H., June 25, 1819), dan. of David and Jerusha (Archer) Paige.

Children : VIII ' Charles David Paige Gibson of Jersey City, N. J., chemist, mechanical engineer and inventor the Gibson carbonic acid motor-system, b. Weare, July 13, 1844 ; m. Oct. 8, 1871, Alice Schoppe (b. So. Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1847), dau. of Henry A. and Abby H. (Dunton) Schoppe.

Mr. Hoyt was a prosperous farmer and extensive cattle dealer; he filled several important offices - selectman 1833, 1834 and 1835, town treasurer 1841 and 1844, representative 1843.

Chancellor Hoyt was a graduate Yale coll. 1840 receiving L. L. D. from Dartmouth coll. 1859, professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and Greek at Phillips-Exeter acad. (Exeter) from 1841 until chosen in 1859 the first chancellor of Washington univ. (St. Louis). He was author of text and other books and at the time of his death was preparing by request, a work published shortly afterwards entitled Miscellajieoits Writings - Addresses^ Lectures and Re- * viezvs^ and in the preface Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D,, vice-president Harvard college, pays just tribute to "his broad, generous, hospitable nature and Christian faith, trust and hope."

Mr. Hoyt always resided on the home farm and actively engaged in stock raising ; he was selectman 1854 and town treasurer 1859 and i860. CHILDREN :

VIII ' Celestia Currier Hoyt b. Dunbarton, June 11, 1843 ; m. Ap. 24, 1872, George Frank Marshall of Weare ; one child : ' Orrie Lavinia Marshall b. Weare, Oct. 28, 1879.

VIII 'Ellen Abbie Hoyt b. Dunbarton, Sept. 23, 1844; m. Nov. 23, 1870, George Washington Elliott of Hopkinton ; one child : ^ Marcia Elliott b. Hopkinton, Dec. 3, 1872.

And His Descendants

VIII ^ Sewell Eaton Hoyt of Dunbarton, farmer and resident on the old homestead, b, Dunbarton, Mar. 15, 1846 ; unm. VIII * Clara Belle Hoyt b. Dunbarton, Ap. 7, 1850; m. Aug. 31, 1870, Christie Mason Wheeler of Dunbarton; four children b. in Dunbarton: ^Benjamin H. Wheeler of Dunbarton b. Jan. 4, 1872; unm. ^ Scott Milton Wheeler of Milford, N. H. b. Oct. 3, 1873; "^- Sept. 6, 1896, Alice W. Merrell of Canada. '^ N orris Oilman Wheeler b. Feb. 25, 1884. 'Eva Mabel Wheeler, b. Feb. 28, 1889; d. June 27, 1892.

IV John Gibson (Capt.) of Lunenburg, Mass., " ye South Town" of the Turkey Hills' district until Aug. I, 1728, fourth child of Dea. Timothy 9 and Rebecca (Gates) Gibson, b. Sudbury, Mass., Ap. 28, 1708 (town original records but accidentally omitted from the copied records); d. Lunenburg, June 10, 1761, his gravestone in the South yard inscribed: ^'^ Memento mori - Capt. John Gibson - departed this life - June 10, 1 761 - Aged 54 yrs. ; " m. at Lunenburg by the bride's father "Edward Hartwell Esq''," Nov. 9, 1737, Elizabeth Hartwell (b. 1715, m. second, May 9, 1764, Jacob Gates of Harvard, Mass., d. Feb. i, 1792), dan. of Judge Edward and Sarah (Wilder) Hartwell.

'Ens. William Hartwell of co. Keut, Eng., freemau in 1636 in Concord, Mass. (the part set oflF Ap. 19, 1754 as Iju coin) and owner of several hundred acres of land, d. 1690. He was quite a military man as the Colonial Records show that Corp. Hartwell was appointed Oct. 15, 1673, quartermaster in Capt. Thomas Wheeler's troop, " the 2d troop of horse in Middlesex county." Children: ^ Sarah. "^John. ^Marj'. *Samuel. '"- Martha.

^^John Hartwell of Concord, first son of Ens. William, b. Concord, Dec. 23, 1640; m. first, 1664, Priscill a Wright ; m. second, 1602, Elizabeth Wright; chiklren: ^ Ebenezer. ^John. ^Samuel. * Sarah. * William. ® Joseph. "^ Judge Edward. * Jonathan.

^"^^ Judge Edward Hartwell of Lancaster and Lunenburg, Mass., fifth son of John, b. Concord, Aug. 23, 1689; d. Lunenburg, Feb. 17, 1785 ; ni. Sarah Wilder (d. 1764 aged 80 years). He was among the eighty original proprietors of "ye South Town," and on his removal there in 1724 became one of the leading men of the place if not the leader, both as civilian and soldier - land surveyor, member of many committees, justice of the peace, town clerk, judge Court common pleas, representative several years, lieutenant and captain of militia rising in 1745 to the rank of major. Children: ^ Sarah b. 1712. ^ Asael b. 1714. ^Elizabeth, wife of Capt. John Gibson. ''Edward b. 1716. ^Jonathan b. 1719. *James. 'William. * Joseph of Lunenburg b. 1727. ^Benjamin. ^"Phineas of Lunenburg b. 1732 ; m. Mary Pierce, see 221.

Capt. Gibson was one of " the Gibson brothers " of local history and the first of the four who settled in Lunenbtirg ; he was there as early as 1734, and if earlier than 1731 leaving the parental homestead while in Sudbury, not when removed to Pomciticut hill in the adjoining Stow ; he located in the south of the town on property deeded him May 15, 1734 by his father " in consideration of love, good will and effection for my son John Gibson of Lunenburg " - household lot " no. 72 of 46} acres;" upland of "60 acres, no. 69 in second Division ; " " meadow Lott containing five acres and Lyeth on the Northerly side of Massapooage pond," the record entry reading : " Meadow N"- 4 : 5 Acres ; " he must have increased his real estate as Feb. 7, 1736 he sold to John Fitch of Lunenburg, in who.se honor the ftitiire Fitchburg was named, 36^ acres, a part of house lot no. 66.

school committee 1748, 1754 and 1756, moderator at town meetings 1753 and 1757, captain of militia, probably chosen prior to " March 4th 1754 ; " he served also on various temporary committees - in 1740 "to Buld the South End School house," in 1748 " to Repair the old meetings House," the church which he and his wife had joined Aug. 3, 1740, and in 1761 only a few months before his death, one of three " to Enquire into the Bounds of the Buring yard."

V Sarah Gibson, only child of Capt. John 83 and Elizabeth (Hartwell) Gibson, b. Lunenburg, Mass., June 19, 1743 ("June y' 8th 1743" town records, old style) ; d. Leominster, Mass., Aug. 15, 181 7 ; m. Oct. 3, 1762 (pub. Sept. 20, 1762), Rev. Francis Gardner of Leominster (b. Stow, Mass., Feb. 19, 1737, d. Watertown, Mass., June 2, 1814), son of Rev. John and Mary (Baxter) Gardner, and descendant of Richard Gardner, the English pioneer in 1642 in Woburn, Mass., called Charlestown Lower Village until that year (Rev. Francis " ; Rev. John'", pastor Stow First church ; Henry" of Charlestown ; Richard').

Rev. Mr. Gardner was a graduate Harvard coll. 1755 and ordained Dec. 22, 1762, pastor First church in Leominster (northwestern part of Lancaster till set off July 4, 1740) ; his death after a long pastorate of fiftytwo years, was greatly lamented by the parish and town, and his remains were interred in Leominster cemetery " with every mark of respect due to so venerable and highly esteemed a divine."

VI John Gardner of Leominster, Mass., fourth child of Rev. Francis and Sarah 84 (Gibson) Gardner, b. Leominster, Jan. 2, 1768 ; d. Leominster, Aug. 24, 1856 ; m. Oct. 21, 1795, Elizabeth Greenleaf (b. Sept. 2, 1768, d. July 25, 1814), dau. of Gen. William Greenleaf of Lancaster, Mass.

Mr. Gardner, "John Gardner, Esq." as inscribed on the gravestone, was a farmer all his long life ; he was also the first postmaster in the town holding the office forty years.

VIII ^ William Whitwell Greenough of Cambridge, Mass. b. Boston, June 25, 1818 ; m. June 15, 1841, Catherine S. Curtis, dau. of Hon. Charles Pelham Curtis of Boston ; six children.

VIII 'James Browne Gardner of Roxbury and Brookline, Mass. b. Boston, Mar. 12, 1842 ; m. first, IVIa}' 4, 1877, Mary E. Hatch (d. Ap. 20, 1879), dau. of Albert Gallatin and Harriet (Lemniex) Hatch of Windsor, Vt.; m. second, Nov. 24, 1887, Eliza Cushman McHenry of St. John, N. B. (d. Nov. 7, 1896) ; one child : ' Francis Albert Gardner, the only gt. gt. gr. child of Rev. Francis and Sarah (Gibson) Gardner surnamed Gardner, graduate Highland mil. acad. (Worcester, Mass.) 1897, t). Boston, Ap. 15, 1879.

VII Dorothy Hancock Garclner, third child of John 85 and Elizabeth (Greenleaf ) Gardner, b. Leominster, Mass., Ap. II, 1799 (family record) and named for her mother's aunt Madam Dorothy (Quincy) Hancock, wife of John Hancock, revolutionary patriot, chief signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor Massachusetts ; d. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 4, 1890 ; m. Jan, 8, 1826, Ferdinand Elliot White of Boston, Mass., merchant (b. Boston, Aug. 21, 1788, d. Jan. 4, 1853), son of Ebene^er and Abigail (Bell) White.

IX ' Elliot Williams of New York, lawyer, student Cornell univ. and graduate Columbia univ. law school 1875, b. Buffalo, Aug. 19, 1850; num.

IX * Reginald H. Williams of New York, lawyer and clerk Supreme court, b. New York, Oct. 6, 1859; T-inm. IX ^ Kenneth Williams of Brooklyn, lawyer and examiner Title guarantee and trust company of Brooklyn, b. Fordliam, N. Y., May i, 1865; m. Aug. 4, 1896, Jessie Amelia Lines, dau. of Oliver T. Lines, M. D., of Brooklyn. IX ' Mary Williams b. Fordliam, Aug. 17, 1866; d. July 30, 1868. VIII " Frances Gardner White b. Boston ; d. Mar. 23, 1898 ; m. Ap. 18, 1854, Richard Manning Hodges, M. D., of Boston (d. Feb. 9, 1896).

Dr. Hodges was a graduate Harvard coll. 1847 ^^'^ Harvard med. school 1850, later studying in Paris and Berlin ; he was asst. professor of surgery Harvard med. school and 1878-1890 one of the board of overseers Harvard university.

Dr. Hodges was a graduate Harvard coll. 1878 and Harvard med. school 1881, finishing his studies in Europe. One child: ^Richard Manning Hodges b. Boston, Feb. 28, 1889.

Col. Curtis was a soldier in the civil war - commissioned Jan. 4, 1862, 2d It., ist Mass. cavalry, promoted istlt. July 19, 1862, made adj. of his regiment and in 1863 placed on the staff of Gen. Benhani, commander of the engineer brigade, promoted capt. Feb. 6, 1864 and shortly afterwards detailed under Judge Advocate Gen. Holt, promoted maj. and judge advocate volunteers

Mar. 12, 1894; d. young. "Dorothea Curtis Jordan b. Fortress Monroe, Va., Mar. i, 1895. IX ^ Margaret Stevenson Curtis d. young. IX * Herbert Pelham Curtis d. young. IX ''Thomas Pelham Curtis of Cambridge, electrical engineer, b. San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 11, 1873; m. Aug. 4, 1893, Frances King Small, dan. of Gen. Michael P. Small, U. S. army.

Mr. Curtis was a graduate Massachusetts institute of technology 1894, is a fine athlete and among the victors at the Olympic games in Athens, Greece, 1896. One child: 'Helena Curtis b. and d. 1896. VIII "^John Gardner White of Cambridge b. Boston, Feb. 23, 1833; d. Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1896 ; m. June 26, 1862, Mary Beach, dan. of George Beach, president Phenix bank, Hartford, Conn.

Mr. White was a graduate Trinity coll. (Hartford) 1854 receiving A. M. in 1857; in early life he was engaged in civil engineering, later connected with banking and mercantile enterprises ; his death was a great loss not only to St. John's church where he was warden, and the Mission church of the x\scension, but to the Episcopal theo. school in Cambridge and various charitable associations.

Rev. Mr. White was a graduate Harvard coll. 1884 and the Episcopal theo. school 1892; in 1888 and 1889 he was Mcllvaine professor Kenyon coll. (Gambier, O.), in 1892 and 1893 temporary professor of English literature Trinity coll. and since 1893 has filled the chair of ecclesiastical history theo. dept., University of the South (Severance); he is also author Sketch of the Philosophy of American Literature and other works.

VIII ' Frederick Charles White of Buffalo and New York, lawyer, b. Boston, Feb. 23, 1833 ; d. New York, July 10, 1894 ; m, Catherine Waterman of Buffalo.

Mr. White studied his profession with his brother-inlaw I. Thornton Williams and also at Harvard law school, and while a resident of Buffalo was Erie county court clerk.

VIH nVilliam Greenough White (Lt.) of Boston b. Boston, Ap. 13, 1840 ; a soldier in the civil war - mustered June 26, 1861, ist It, CO. A, 12th reg. Mass. infantry (the so-called Webster regiment), killed at battle of Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862 while commanding in place of the captain who had fallen in the previous engagement.

John'''\ Sarah", Capt. John" , Dea. Timothy "'^, John J7-.", John'^ VII 3Iary Gardner, fifth child of John So and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gardner, b. Leominster, Mass., Nov. 14, 1801 ; d, Worcester, Mass., July 29, 1850; m. Feb. 12, 1821, William P. Thurston of Leominster (b. 1795, d. 1849), son of Rev. Pearson and Jerusha (Greenleaf) Thurston, and descendant of Daniel Thurston, the English pioneer in Newbury, Mass. prior to 1638 (William P. ''' ; Rev. Pearson "" ; Samuel'" ; Jonathan'"; Daniel"; Daniel'). Children :

VIII ^ Sarah Greenough Thurston b. Leominster, June 4, 1823 ; d. Newtonville, Mass., May 19, 1896; m. Ap. 22, 1845, George Osgood of Boston and Cambridge, IMass., a highly esteemed Boston merchant (b. Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 14, 1819, d. Newtonville, Oct. 13, 1884).

Dr. Osgood was a graduate Massachusetts agricultural coll. (Amherst) 1876 and the New veterinarv coll. (Edinburgh, Scot.) 1881, receiving later M. R. C. V. S. from the Royal coll. of veterinary surgeons (London, Eng.) ; he was chairman several years Massachusetts board of cattle commissioners and is present professor of veterinary surgery Harvard univ. and president U. S. veterinary med. association. Five children : ^George Osgood b. Sunderland, Mass., May 19, 1882. ^ Frederick H. Osgood b. Springfield, Aug. 7, 1883. ^ Myron B. Osgood b. Springfield, July 24, 1885 ; d. July i, 1890. * Vivian Osgood b. Springfield, Jan. 4, 1888. -' Champion B. Osgood b. Springfield, Oct. 25, 1891. IX HValter G. Osgood b. Brookline, Mass., Jan. 10,

VII Ann Sewell Gardner (birth christian name Esther Sewell), seventh child of John S5 and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gardner, b. Leominster, Mass., Feb. 6, 1805; d. Nashua, N. H., July 31, 1889; m. Dec. 25, 1826, Leonard White Noyes of Nashua (b. Canaan, N.

VIII ^ Frank Gardner Noyes (Col.) of Clinton, la. and Nashua, graduate Harvard law school 1856, b. Nashua, July 6, 1833 ; m. Dec. 10, 1852, Hannah Elizabeth Richardson of Lowell, Mass.

Col. Noyes was a soldier in the civil war - appointed Nov. 27, 1861, a. d. c. to Gov. Kirkwood of Iowa with rank and pay as cavalry colonel, resigned Sept. 26, 1862; commissioned capt. and c. s. volunteers Nov. 26, 1862 and It. col. and c. s. in 1864, assigned by President Lincoln chief c. s. 13th army corps June 2- Aug. I, 1864, brevetted maj. volunteers Sept. i, 1865, mustered out Oct. 9, 1865. In 1893 he served as commander N. H. dept.. Grand army of the republic.

IX ^ Anne Sewell Gardner Noyes b. Clinton, Oct. 25, 1857; m. June 10, 1886, Sheridan Pitt Read, graduate Harvard coll. 18S5 and late U. S. consul at Tien-Tsin, China; four children: 'Fran-

VI Sophia Gardner, tenth child of Rev. Francis and Sarah S4z (Gibson) Gardner, b. Leominster, Mass., Mar. 27, 1778; d. Leominster, Oct. 8, 1857; m. Nov. 19, 1795, Charles Prentiss of Leominster (b. Reading, Mass., Oct. 8, 1774 ; d. Brimfield, Mass., Oct. 19, 1820), son of Rev. Caleb and Pamela (Mellen) Prentiss, and descendant of Henry and Joan Prentice of Cambridge, Mass. (Charles '' ; Rev. Caleb ^ who changed the surname spelling from Prentice to Prentiss ; Caleb '" of Cambridge ; Dea. Henry '" of Cambridge ; Solomon " of Cambridge ; Henry', " planter of Cambridge " prior to 1640 and whose widow Joan in 1662 married John Gibson of Cambridge, see 1),

Mr. Prentiss was a graduate Harvard coll. 1795, and well known as a prose and poetical writer, newspaper editor and author of the first School History of the United Statesand his descendants. 197

VII Sophia Prentiss, first child of Charles and Sophia 90 (Gardner) Prentiss, b. Leominster, Mass., Sept. i, 1796 ; d. Oct. 27, 1864; m. 1821, Thomas J. Lobdell of Boston, Mass., manufacturer of the first calico prints made in this country, and later merchant in the East India trade. Children :

Lt. Motte was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted Dec. 13, 1862 and mustered Jan. 3, 1863, ist. It., 13th battery Mass. light artillery, resigned Mar. 9, 1864.

IX ^Margaret Berrien Motte b. Boston, 1866 ; m, 1894, Russell Sargent of New Haven, Conn. ; one child : ' Loring Motte Sargent b. May, 1895.

VI Ann (Kancy) Gardner, fourteenth child of Rev. Francis and Sarah 84 (Gibson) Gardner, b. Leominster, Mass., Ap. 13, 1786 ; d. May 4, 1865 ; m. July 18, 1806, Samuel Salisbury, a very prominent merchant of Boston, Mass. (d. Jan. 29, 1849.) Children : VII ^ Elizabeth Sewell Salisbury b. Boston, July 5, 1807 ; d. May 22, 1850 ; m. June 8, 1836, Nathaniel Chauncey of Philadelphia, Pa.

VIII ^ Charles Chauncey (Capt.) of Philadelphia, lawyer, graduate Harvard coll. 1859, ^- Philadelphia, Aug. 15, 1838 ; m. M. Agnes Robinson, dan. of Moncure Robinson of Philadelphia ; no children. Capt. Chauncey was a soldier in the civil war - appointed Nov. 1861, ist It. and adj., 2d reg. Pa. vol. cavalry, promoted July, 1862, capt., co. K, serving as a. d. c. on staffs of Gen. Stall and Gen. Kilpatrick till returned to his company after July 3, 1863, discharged Oct. 1864. VIII ^Elihu Chauncey of New York, N. Y., graduate Harvard coll. 1861, b. Philadelphia, Aug. 17, 1840; m. Nov. 14, 1871, Mary Jane Potter, dan. of Rev. Horatio Potter of New York, bishop; one child : ^ Nathalie Elizabeth Chauncey b. New York, July 14, 1887. VIII ^Francis Gardner Chauncey d. young. VII ^ Anne Gardner Salisbury b. Boston, Dec. 16, 1809 ; d. Jan.

VIII ^ Annie Gardner Salisbury b. Med way; d. San Diego, Cal., Mar. 14, 1892; m. Dec. 22, 1877,. Prof. Theodore Salisbury Woolsey of New Haven, Conn., graduate Yale coll. 1872 and present professor of international law Yale law school (b. New Haven, Oct. 22, 1852), son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey, late president Yale univ. ; two children: ^ Theodore Salisbury Woolsey b. New Haven, Oct. 2, 1879. ^ Heathcote Muirson Woolsey b. Leominster, June 5, 1884.

VIII ^Elizabeth Parker Salisbury b. Medway, June 12, 1849 5 Ji^i^e 21, 1870, Desmond Fitz Gerald of Brookline, son of Capt. Lionel Charles William Henry Fitz Gerald of Thurlow Park, co. Mayo, Ire.; four children b. in Brookline: 'Caroline Elizabeth Fitz Gerald b. Ap. 5, 1871; m. Dec. 12, 1899, Charles Augustus Van Rensselaer of New York. - Harriot Fitz Gerald b. June 25, 1872; m. Nov. 18, 1897, Robert Jones Clark of Boston. ^ Harold Fitz Gerald, senior Harvard coll. 1899, b. May 19, 1877. * Stephen Salisbury Fitz Gerald, senior Harvard coll. 1899, b. Sept. 19, 1878.

VIII ^ Agnes Chauucey Salisbury b. Brookline, Oct. 8, 1858 ; m. Nov. i, 1888, Lewis George Fry of Stonycroft, Simpsfield, co. Surry, Eng., graduate New coll. (Oxford univ.) 1884, son of Hon. Lewis Fry, M. P., of Bristol, Eng.; two children :

IV Arrington Gibson of Stow and Lunenburg, Mass., eighth child of Dea. Timothy 9 and Rebecca (Gates) Gibson, b. Sudbury, Mass., Mar. 22, 1717 and named for his Errington ancestry ; d. Lunenburg, Feb. 24, 1756, his gravestone in the South yard inscribed : "Arrington Gibson - departed this life - Feb, 24, 1756

Mr. Gibson was one of " the Gibson brothers " of local history and the second of the four who settled in Lunenburg ; he was hardly of age when he took leave of the paternal home on Pomciticut hill in Stow, followed his brother Capt. John to Lunenburg ( " y* South Town " till 172S) and located near him in the south of the town ; as these two brothers were not separated in life so in death they repose on the same sunny slope in the old burying ground ; his home was the Ephraim Sautle " House Lott number 33 First Division" deeded him together with "second Division Lott number 34" [upland of 60 acres] by his father "tenth day of March in the thirteenth year [1740] of his Majesty's Reign [George II], in consideration

He was a man of great size and physical strength and courage, but was prevented by early death from holding many public offices ; he was, however, surveyor of highways 1746 and 1750, tithingman 1753 and constable 1754; he was also a good church member, both he and " wife Mary renewing baptismal covenant in the First church Oct. 26, 1740, and Mary admitted to f, c. May 9, 1756," a few months after his decease.

V Silas Gibson of Lunenburg and Ashby, Mass. and Londonderry, Vt., fourth child of Arrington 93 and Mary Gibson, b. Lunenburg, Sept. i, 1747 (Sept. 12 family record, new style)\ d. Londonderry, Ap. 25, 1834; m. at Fitchburg, Mass. by Rev. John Payson, Feb. 20, 1773 town records, Jan. 21, 1773 family record (pub. Dec. 9, 1772), Damaris Bennett (b. Leominster, Mass., Oct. 19, 1755, d. Londonderry, May 10, 1839),

John Gibson

Mr. Gibson was a revolutionary soldier - private, Capt. George Kimball's co., marched from Lunenburg Ap. 20, 1775 on Lexington alarm, served 10 da^'S ; private, Capt. Joseph Bellows' co. Oct. i to 19, 1777, service at Saratoga.

He moved to Ashby prior to Sept. 8, 1794 as in a deed made to him on that date by "Abraham Gibson of Fitchburg, yeoman," for 10 acres in Ashby, he is called " Silas Gibson of Ashby ; " in 1800 he removed permanently to Londonderry.

Silas'', Arrington", Dea. Timothy^'^'^, John jr}^, John ^ VI Arriiigton Oilbsoii of Londonderry, Vt, second child of Silas OJ: and Damaris (Bennett) Gibson, b. Lunenburg, Mass., Mar. 14, 1774 ; bap. Ap. 3, 1774 ; d. Londonderry, Nov. i, 1857 ; m. 1803, Mary (Nancy) Cochran (d. Dec. 22, 1844 aged 65 years), dau. of Dea. David Cochran of Londonderry.

Children : VIII ' Francis Newton Gibson, M. D., of New Ipswich, N. H. and Lincoln, Neb., graduate Dartmouth med. school 1862, b. Londonderry, Oct. 18, 1839 ; m. Nov. 23, 1867, Mary A. Bellows of New Ipswich (b. Buffalo, N. Y., May 10, 1845), ^^.u. of Charles Cotesworth and Abby Parker (Champney) Bellows (Mary A." ; Charles C."' ; Caleb'" ; Gen. Benjamin", the revolutionary soldier ; Col. Benjamin', founder of Walpole, N. H. and Bellows Falls, Vt.)

Dr. Gibson was a soldier in the civil war - appointed Aug. 6, 1862, asst. surgeon, 9th reg. N. H. infantry and surgeon Jan. 18, 1865, mustered out June 10, 1865.

IX ' Mabel Hooper Gibson b. Alstead, Sept. 27, 1874; m. Feb. 18, 1897, Charles Dwinell of Weeping Water; one child: ^Albert Dwinell b. Weeping Water, Feb. 25, 1898.

Mr. Gibson was a gentleman of influence - selectman, constable and school committee ; he owned considerable property in Lunenburg both by inheritance and purchase, and also had land in the adjoining Ashby buying Jan. 12, 1778, from Thomas Shed for £(>2,'i the Brown farm of 40 acres near Pearl hill.

Mr. Tweed about the time of his marriage bought and occupied what was known as the " Nod farm " in Wilmington (setoff from Reading and Woburn Sept. 25, 1730) ; in 18 19, however, he and his family removed to the Timothy Gibson homestead in Lunenburg.

VIII ^ William Henry Tweed of Boston and Dorchester, Mass. b. Lowell, Aug. 17, 1840; m. at Boston, Sept. 9, 1869, Ella Sophie Simmons (b. Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 2, 1848).

Ami His Dkscendants

\'lli "'Harrison Austin Tweed b. Lowell, Nov. 2, 1S45; a soldier in the civil war - enlisted Feb. 24, 1862, landsman on board U. S. gunboat Marblehead^ injured before Yorktown, Va., d. Naval hospital, Norfolk, Va., July 25, 1862 (July 26 official record).

IX ^Vanie Buck Robinson b. Woburn, Sept. 9, 1850; in. Jan. i, 1883, Herbert Beenian Dow of Woburn, asst. actuary New England mutual life insurance company (Boston), graduate Harvard coll. 1879 receiving A. M. from Dartmouth coll. 1884 (b. Woburn, Mar. 7, 1858) ; two children : ' Ethel Robinson Dow b. Audover, N. H., Aug. 4, 1884. 'Roland Beeman Dow b. Woburn, Feb. 12, 1889.

CHILDREN : IX ^ Emma Julia Buck b. Stoneham, July 24, 1852; m. Nov. 30, 1870, Charles Henry Taylor of New London, N. H., Cleveland, O. and Pittsburg, Pa.

Mr. Taylor was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted Sept. 15, 1862, private, co. C, 45th reg. Mass. infantry, discharged July 7, 1863. Five children: ^ Hattie Lillian Taylor b. Stoneham, Feb. 26, 1872; unm. "Grace ]May Taylor b. New London, Aug. 15, 1874; m. Nov. 30, 1897, Reuben Elisha McMahon of Cleveland. Charles Emmons Taylor of Cleveland b. Cle\-eland, Sept. 26, 1876; m. July 31, 1897, Emma Oehling. ^ Harrv Elmer Taylor b. Cleveland,

CHILDREN : IX ' Harry Milton Latham of Stoneham, electrical engineer, graduate Massachusetts institute of technology 1893, b. vStoneham, June 2, 1871; num.

IX ' Fred Gaylord Harnden of Wakefield b. Stonehani, June 10, 1852 ; m. Ap. 29, 1871, Mary Emma Slack; four children b. in Wakefield: ^Jessie Fvinnia Harnden d. young. - Addie May Haruden b. Feb. 18, 1874; m. Henry A. McCombie.

1869 ; umii. IX '^ Henry Perley Harnden of Haverill, Mass. b. Reading, Feb. 27, 1874; nnni. \'III ^Otis Harnden of Haverill b. Wilmington, Sept. 1839;

Mr. Abbott was a soldier in the civil war - enlisted July 22, 1862 (1861 official record), private, co. H, ist reg. Mass. heavy artillery, discharged Feb. 20, 1864 ; reenlisted same date, discharged Aug. 16, 1865 (from CO. B official record).

IX ^ Clarence Tweed Abbott of Wakefield, druggist, student Massachusetts coll. of pharmacy (Boston) 1883-1885, b. Wilmington, May 30, 1865; unm.

VII Abigail T^veed, fourth child of James and vSarali 9H (Gibson) Tweed, b. Wilmington, INIass., Feb. 21, 1804; d. Lowell, Mass., Mar. 28, 1855; m. May 12,

Mr. Walker was much interested in genealogy and was the orator at the Tweed family reunion held near Foster's pond (Andover, Mass.) June 17, 1887.

5, 1S63, d. Wareliaiii, Mass., Oct. 4, 1895); one child : ' Ernest Bartholow Dunstan b. Sharon Springs, Nov. 18, 1892. IX ' Paul Bartholow, M. D., of Philadelphia, graduate Harvard coll. 1889 and Jefferson med. coll. (Philadelphia) 1891, b. Cincinnati, Feb. 10, 1868; unni.

IX ' Isabel Clinton Kingman b. Bridgewater, Nov. 4, 1858; m. June 9, 1884, Walter C. Packard of Bridgewater ; one child : ^ Walter Clintan Packard b, Bridgewater, June 26, 1885.

VII Emmoiis Tweed of Lowell, Mass. and Indianapolis, Ind., ninth child of James and Sarah ,98 (Gibson) Tweed, b. Wilmington, Mass., July 23, 1817 ; d. Indianapolis, Dec. 25, 1858; m. at Lowell, Oct. 29, 1840, Clara Coburn (d. Indianapolis, Nov. 11, 1887). Children : VIII ' Charles Emmons Tweed of Indianapolis b. Lowell, Sept. 17, 1841 ; m. at Indianapolis, July 23, 1865, Melissa A. Fields (b. Aug. 15, 1845).

IX ^ Clara M. Tweed b. Indianapolis, Feb. i, 1867 ; m. Feb. I, 1887, E- H. Rhineknobbe of Indianapolis ; two children b. in Indianapolis: ^ Edna Rhineknobbe b. July 29, 1888. " Emmons Rliineknobbe b. Aug. 4, 1890.

\'III Harriet Tyler Billings b. Lowell, Jan. 23, 1834; d. May, 1887; m. first, John Elliott of Lowell ; m. second, Daniel Edwards Fiske of Ui)ton, Mass.; one child: 'Waldo Wallace Elliott d. voun'j'.

IX ''Abbie Pearson Swain b. Wilmington, Nov. 19, 1868 ; m. Archibald L. G. McCormack of Worcester, Mass.; one child: ^ Charles ^IcCormack d. Sept. I, 1885 aged i year.

VIII 'Mary B. Pearson b. Wilmington, May 24, 1834; lost with the ill-fated C//y of Cohoiibus off Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Jan. 18, 1884; m. Caleb Richardson of Everett, Mass. (b. Aug. 5, 1830, lost with his wife Jan. 18, 1884.)

And His Dkscjkxdaxts

VIII Aiig-eliiia Fearsoii, third child of Aaron and Dolly 100 (Eames) Pearson b. Boston, Mass., June 14, 1829; drowned Wilmington, Mass., Jan. 20, 1863 while skating on Nod mill pond ; m. Sept. 12, 1850, George Gowing of Wilmington (b. Wilmington, July 29, 1828, drowned with his wife Jan. 20, 1863). .

IX ^Jennie May Mershon b. Norwich, May 24, 1862 ; m. Mar. 25, 1885, James B. Hinckley of Norwich and New Haven, Conn.; two children b. in Norwich: ^ Elsie Louise Hinckley b. Feb. 10, 1886. ^Gerard Mershon Hinckley b. Sept. i, 1889.

IX Henrietta Averill Eanies b. Ipswich, Mar. 14, 1874 ; in. May 22, 1895, William Horace Killain of Reading, Mass. (b. Reading, May 2, 1871); one child: ' Leonard Arrington Killani b. Reading, Ap. 17, 1896.

VI Persis Gibson, sixth child of Timothy ,97 and Sarah (Foster) Gibson, b. Lunenburg, Mass., June 17, 1786; d. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 9, 1865; bur. in Wildwood cemetery (Wilmington, Mass.); m. Daniel Stiinpson of Wilmington (d. Wilmington, ?ilay 16, 1828 aged 45 5'ears, bur. beside his wife).

Children: VII ' Charlotte vStimpson b. Wilmington, Aug. 2, 1S08 ; d, Philadelphia, May 6, 1870; bur. in Mt. Moriah cemetery ; m. Nov. 24, 1831, John Huse Brown of Wilmington and Philadelphia (b. Kittery, Me., Dec. 25,

VIII '^ Maria Blanchard Brown b. Wilmington, Sept. 4, 1838; m. Jan. 23, 1877, Francis Ebenezer Hathaway of Boston, Mass., merchant (b. Enfield, Mass. iMar. 9, 1829); ^wo children b. in Boston: ^John Winslow Hathaway, graduate Harvard coll. 1899 and student Harvard law school, b. May 16, 1878. "George Stimpson Hathaway, voungest student Harvard med. school, b. June 4, 1881.

' Philip Goss of Lancaster, " merchant of Boston " as entered on town records, d. Lancaster, prior to May 26, 169S the date of administration of his estate ; bur. in the Old Burial Field " laid out in 165S on " Bur3-ing Place Hill;" m. first, Hannah Hopkins; m. second, at Concord, Mass., Mar. 29, 1690, Mary Prescott (b. Lancaster, Feb. 20, 1669, m. second, Nov. 20, 1698 John Houghton of Lancaster), dau. of John and Sarah (Hayward) Prescott. Previous to locating in Lancaster Mr. Goss made his home either in Mudd}' River or Roxbury, Mass. (the former set off from Boston as Brookline in 1705, the latter incorporated in 1630 and in 1868 annexed to Boston); on his arrival in Lancaster he bought and occupied a part of the homestead of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson whose wife Marj' is familiar to posterity by the story of her Indian captivity in King Philip's war of 1675 and 1676. Mr. Goss must have been a man of public spirit and valor as during the Indian raids of 1692 he held a garrison of nine men at North river bridge (Lancaster). Children : ' Philip of Brookfield, Mass. bap. Roxbury, Feb. 16,

"in 75 yr. of Her Age," bur. in the Lower village cemetery); children bap. in Lancaster liy Rev. John Prentice : ' William of Lancaster bap. May 13, 1716, his mother "owning the covenant " that day ; m. June 16, 1736, Lucy Hall of Stow ; among sons - the revolutionary soldier Capt. Daniel of Lancaster. ^Elizabeth bap. May 13, 1716. ^ Mary bap. Jan. 20, 1717. *John bap. Sept. 7, 1718; probably the John Goss of Lancaster who d. "Oct. y*^ 5th 1747 aet 30 yrs." and was buried in the old common burying ground. ^ Sarah, wife of Dea. Stephen Gibson.

''John Prescott, " founder of Lancaster," b. Shevington, Lancashire, Eng.; d. Lancaster, 1681, his gravestone marked: " * * * * PRESCO - TT - DASES - ED - THIS - LIFE - 1681 ; " m. Mary Platts of Yorkshire, Eng. He came over after 1635, was in Watertown, Mass. prior to 1641 and about 1646 in Lancaster then called Nashwash ; he was a man of great activity and enterprise, member of Nashaway iron company and the first person in the new town to build a grist mill on the Nashaway (Nashua); also a large land owner leaving at his death some 700 acres. Children : ' Mary b. England, 1630 ; ni. Thomas Sawyer of Lancaster. ^Martha b. England; m. as first wife, John Rngg of I^ancastcr. '''"Joint. ''vSarah b. Eng- second wife, John Rugg of Lancaster. *Lydia b. Watertown, 1641; m. Joseph Fairbanks. 'Jonathan of Concord b. Lancaster, about 1646; d. 1721. *Jonas of Groton, Mass. b. Lancaster, 1648; ni. Mary Loker, "the Sudbury belle;" among grandsons the three Prescott brothers of revolutionary fame - Col. James of Groton ; Col. William of Pepperell, Mass., commander of the American troops at Bunker hill battle ; Maj. Gen. Oliver of Groton.

"John Prescott of Lancaster, first son of John, bap. Sowerby, Halifax parish, Yorkshire, Eng., Ap. i, 1635 ; d. after 1704; m. 1668, Sarah Hayward ; among children - Mary, second wife of Philip Goss.