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(IV) Thomas Bickford, son of John (3) and Elizabeth (Tibbetts) Bickford, was born at Oyster River, May 18, 1694. He married Esther , who was baptized at Durham, New Hampshire. Their children were: I. Temperance, baptized by Rev. Hugh Adams at Durham, June 7, 1719. 2. Thomas, see forward. 3. Rebecca, baptized September 20, 1739. 4. Sarah, baptized September 20, 17309. 5. Joseph, baptized December 30, 1741.

(V) Thomas Bickford, son of Thomas (4) and Esther Bickford, was born at Durham, New Hampshire, and baptized there February 18, 1721-2. He was a soldier in the American revolution, in the company of Captain James Davis, and was a drummer in Lieutenant Bragdon's party at Kittery Point, Maine, in 1775. He was also in Captain Stilson's company in 1776, of Colonel Isaac Wyman's regiment. Joseph Bickford was a mem-+ ber of the same company. His sons John and Thomas were also in the revolutionary service - the former being accredited to Dearborn, the record of the two Thomases may have become confused. We find a Thomas Bickford in Killingly, Connecticut, October 5, 1785, a member of the Baptist church in that place. He probably removed with his family about the close of the revolutionary war. Family tradition has it that he came to Killingly from Epsom, New Hampshire; he had been living in that vicinity. The records of Epsom have been almost totally destroyed. Consequently there is no complete record. He married, and had.a number of children, among them were Thomas, see forward; and John, mentioned above.

(VI) Thomas Bickford, son of Thomas Bickford (5), was probably born in New Hampshire, and removed with the remainder of the family to Killingly, Connecticut. He married Sarah Goodspeed; their children were: Thomas, Jr., Joseph, see forward; Nelson, Ira, Almira, Marinda, Hannah and Mary.

(VII) Joseph Bickford, son of Thomas (6) and Sarah (Goodspeed) Bickford, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, October 20, 1813, and died in 1884. His education was acquired in the common schools of the district in which the family resided, and he followed the occupation of farming. In addition to this he was engaged in the manufacture of shoes in a small way, taking home the materials from the large shops or factories, as was the custom of the day, and employed a number of assistants in this line of business. During the civil war he served a short term in the Eighteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. In politics he was a Democrat until the breaking out of the rebellion, after which he was a staunch Republican. He was a justice of the peace for many years. He was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was also interested in educational matters and served as a school district committeeman. He was a man of sterling character, and one upon whom his neighbors and friends found a helper in time of trouble. He married, September 23, 1838, Phoebe C. Hibbard, born June Io, 1814, died in 1890. Their children were: 1. Erskine Frank, see forward. 2. Helen M., born July, 1842; married (first) Abial Miller; (second) Herbert A. Rounds, and resides in Walpole, Massachusetts. 3. Vernon, born June, 1844, died at Epsom, New Hampshire, February 28, 1903. He married (first) Nancy Hammond, had one child: Ernest L., who resides in Everett, Massachusetts ; he married for a second wife, Mrs. Irene H. Landis. 4. Caroline J., born in Thompson, Connecticut. November, 1849; married John N. Williams, and resides in Malden.

(VIII) Erskine Frank Bickford, eldest child of Joseph (7) and Phoebe C. (Hibbard) Bickford, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, June 4, 1840. His education was obtained in the public schools of Thompson, Connecticut, and this was supplemented by home study, observation and extended reading. At the age of twenty-five years at the close of the Civil war, he entered the service of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, which was at that time a small corporation, so small that Mr. Bickford was enabled to discharge the numerous office duties with the assistance of but one man. His ability and conscientious performance of the duties assigned him led to his gradual rise to the position of Superintendent, the details of the manufacturing department devolving entirely upon him. He was eminently qualified for this kind of work, and when the: Boston company was merged with the United States Rubber Company in 1898, Mr. Bickford was appointed manufacturing agent of the former company's two factories, employing when running full capacity three thousand and five hundred persons. During the past eighteen years he has been a member of the board of directors of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, and when he resigned the position of manu- facturing agent, April 1, 1907, the board of directors passed an appreciative and eulogistic vote of thanks for his devotion to duty and the faithfulness that characterized his connection with the company for a period of forty-two years. The vote was as follows:

"Voted that the resignation of Mr. E. F. Bickford as Manufacturing Agent be accepted, and that in so doing this Board wishes to place on record its high appreciation of the devotion and faithfulness his connection of nearly fortytwo years with the affairs of this company, and takes pleasure in testifying to the great success which has attended his efforts in maintaining the high standard of the company's product during his administration as Superintendent.

"While permitting him to retire from the duties of Manufacturing Agent, we are gratified to know that it will still be our privilege to retain his valuable services as a member of this Board.

During the Civil war Mr. Bickford enlisted, in August, 1862, in Company D, Eighteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and was an active participant in Generals Siegel's and Hunter's Raids in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and a number of other stirring campaigns. He was wounded at the battle of Piedmont, Virginia, at which time he was taken prisoner, sent to Staunton, Virginia, and from thence to a hospital prison at Richinond, Virginia. At the expiration of three months he was released and transferred to Annapolis, Maryland, where he was made hospital steward, and held this position until the close of the war. He was honorably discharged in May, 1865. The bullet which caused the wound has never been removed, all attempts to extract it having proved futile. He has resided at Malden, Massachusetts, since 1865. He is a trustee of the Malden Hospital and the Associated Charities of Malden; president of the Malden Industrial Aid Society ; trustee of the Malden Savings Bank ; and director of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of the Baptist church, and has been chairman of the standing committee for a period of twenty years. He is a man of studious and quiet habits, and conservative in his views.

town, New Hampshire, and granddaughter of David Putnam, a descendant of an old Essex county, Massachusetts, family. Mrs. Bickford's mother was Mary Hill, of Malden, also descended from an old Massachusetts family. Mr. and Mrs. Bickford have had no children, but adopted a girl of eight years, Lucy Bickford, who married, in 1897, Edwin L. Phipps, of Malden. They have one child: Dorothy, born September 3d, 1904.

John Fisher, the earliest of the name known in this country, was born about 1700. His wife Mary was admitted to the church at Preston, Connecticut, April 7, 1723. He married second, Juda Coterill, of Stonington, Connecticut. Children: 1. Barzillai, mentioned below. 2. Thankful, joined church at Preston, November 15, 1747.

(II) Barzillai Fisher, son of John Fisher (1), born January, 1730, died January, 1813; lived in Preston, Connecticut, until 1769, when he purchased the farm left vacant by Rev. Mr. Burroughs, at Killingly, Connecticut. Here he became a citizen of note. Of his nine children, four sons served in the Revolution with credit, according to the history of Windham county. His grandsons Laban and Barzillai Fisher were lieutenants in the artillery company in Killingly in 1805, and later. Barzillai Fisher himself is credited with service on the Lexington alarm, from Killingly, in Captain Ephraim Warren's company of minute men. He married, 1754, Lydia Dexter; married second, Jennings. Children: 1. Nathan, died in prison ship "Jersey," during the Revolution. 2. John, served through the whole Revolutionary war; born 1755, died 1843. 3. Asahel; mentioned below.

(III) Asahel Fisher, son of Barzillai Fisher (2), was born about 1760. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in Captain Stephen Crosby's company, of Killingly, in the summer of 1776, in Connecticut state troops, Third Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, Colonel Comfort Sage. The regiment was raised to reinforce Washington in New York City and on Long Island, and was caught and suffered great loss on the retreat to the north. His company was in the battle of White Plains. He was captured and held a prisoner for some time. He had a common school education, and was brought tip on the homestead as a farmer, but later followed the sea. He was a Free Mason, and a very intelligent and wellread man. He married Anna Borden. Chil-

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(IV) Albigence Fisher, son of Asahel Fisher (3), born in Killingly, July 16, 1794, died in Lowell, June 24, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, then learned the trade of machinist. He worked in various machine shops in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Waltham, Massachusetts, and finally settled in Lowell, of which he was one of the early settlers. He associated himself with the owners of the Lowell machine shop when it was in its first stage of development, and was in this concern the rest of his life. He was recognized as one of the leading citizens of Lowell, a man of wide influence and highly esteemed. In politics Mr. Fisher was an old line Whig until the party went to pieces, when he became a Republican. He represented his district in the general court with credit. He was one of the most prominent Free. Masons of his day, having taken the Thirty-second degree. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, as were also his father and paternal ancestors before him as far as the family history is known. He married Fannie, daughter of James Bradbury, a manufacturer of Waltham, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Waldo A. 2. Francis M. 3. Lydia A., lives in the homestead, Wilder street, Lowell; is a member of St. Anne's Protestant Epicopal Church.

He married Mary Haynes, daughter of Deacon John Haynes, of Sudbury, May 18, 1671 or 1672. She married second, John Prescott. Josiah was in Marlborough in 1675, and helped defend the inhabitants during the opening of King Philip's war. Children: 1. Mary, born 1672; died young. 2. Mary, born May 4, 1674; died young. 3. Josiah, married

(III) Josiah Howe, son of Josiah Howe (2), was born in Marlborough, in 1678, and died there September 20, 1766, aged seventyeight. He married June 14, 1706, Sarah Bigelow; second November 22, 1713, Mary Marble. Children, born in Marlborough: 1. Phinehas, born December 4, 1707; resided at Shrewsbury; married Abigail Bennett. 2.

(V) Josiah Howe, son of Josiah Howe (4), was born in Marlborough, June 30, 1748, and died January 15, 1827, aged seventy-eight years five months and eighteen days; married February 24, 1770, Molly Adams, who died June 1, 1845, aged ninety-three years ten months and two days. He was deacon of the Marlborough church. Children, born at Marlborough: 1. John, born September 9, 1772; married Lydia Williams. 2. Lydia, born March 12, 1775; died January 15, 1790. 3. Solomon, born March 28, 1777; married May 19, 1802, Sarah Stow; lived and died in Berlin. 4. Eunice, born July 28, 1780; married October 30, 1799, Joseph Howe; mentioned elsewhere. 5. Josiah, born March 27, 1783; married Phebe Harrington; resided at South Orange. 6. Lewis, born May 2, 1792; married first, March 28, 1816, Sally Witt; second, June 28, 1853, Asenath Boyd. 7. Lucy, born November I, 1794, married Benjamin Clark.

The Bill family of England has an ancient and honorable record, extending back almost to the beginning of the use of surnames in that country. The name means a kind of weapon and the progenitor doubtless took his ' surname from his occupation in war - a bill-man. A bill was a sort of battle-ax. The family is from Denmark originally, according to the best authority. The family has been prominent in Shropshire for some five centuries and is numerovs also in Wiltshire, Kent, Herefordshire, Yorkshire and Staffordshire. Dr. Thomas Bill, born about 1490, was a prominent physician, an attendant of Princess Elizabeth in 1549. John Bill, born 1576, was a well-known London publisher. He appears in London in 1613 as "Publisher to King James I, Most Excellent Majestie." One of the earliest works published by John Bill was by the king himself. He brought out many editions of the Bible. He or his partner, Christopher Barker, published the first news sheet called the English Mercurie issued to contradict false reports concerning the descent of the Spanish Armada upon the coast of England. After he received the royal license his place of business became known as Printing House Square, its present name.

John Bill married first Anne Mountford, daughter of Thomas Mountford, D. D. She was the author of a book entitled "Mirror of Modestie," published in London in 1621. A second and very rare edition was published in i719. She died May 3, 1621, aged thirtythree. He married (second) Joan Franklin, of Throwley, Kent. He made his will 1630; was buried in St. Anne's Blackfriar, London. He left a bequest to the parish of Much succeeded his father as publisher of Bibles and books. 4. Henry. 5. Mary. The Bill coat-of-arms: Ermine two wood-bills (battle axes) sa. with long handles ppr. in saltaire on a chief az. a pale or, charge with a rose gu. between two pelicans' heads erased at the neck argent.

(1) John Bill, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England. The best authority indicates that he was the John, mentioned above, son of the book publisher, John Bill. Little is known of him. He and his wife Dorothy came to this country before 1635. Their children, John, aged thirteen, and Marie, aged eleven, came to Boston in 1635, John in the ship "Hopewell," Marie in the ship "Planter." The father died in December, 1638, and a month later Richard Tuttle became responsible to the town of Boston for Dorothy Bill, widow, "a sojourner at his house" and "for anything about her." It is probable that Dorothy was sister of Tuttle. The genealogy by Ledyard Bill gives this list of the children of John and Dorothy, and states that all of the name with a few exceptions are descended from them: I. James, born in England in 1615. 2. Thomas, born about 1618, married Elizabeth Nichols and

(II) Philip Bill, son of John Bill (1), was born in England about 1620. He lived at Pulling Point, then part of Boston, where his brother James and mother Dorothy were living. Next he resided at Ipswich until 1667 or 1668, when he removed to New London, Connecticut, after spending some months visiting relatives at Pulling Point. Bill settled on the east side of the Thames river in that part of New London incorporated in 1705 in the town of Groton. Bill became the owner of a large amount of real estate. He died July 8, 1689, of a throat distemper, and his daughter Margaret died the same day. His widow Hannah married Samuel Bucknall or Buckland, of New London, and died in 1709. Children: 1. Philip, born about 1658, married Elizabeth Lester; (second) Mary 2. Mary, born about 1661. 3. Margaret, born about 1663, died July 8, 1689. 4. Samuel, mentioned below. 5. John, born about 1667, married Mercy Fowler; (second) Hannah Hurst. 6. Elizabeth, born in New London. 7. Jonathan, baptized November 5, 1671, was living in 1708. 8.Joshua, born October 16, 1675, married Joanna Potts; (second) Hannah Swodel.

(III) Samuel Bill, son of Philip Bill (2), was born about 1665 in Boston or vicinity; came with his father to Groton, Connecticut, then part of New London in 1669. He married (first) Mercy Houghton, daughter of Richard Houghton, of New London. He married (second) Elizabeth He and his wife Mercy were admitted to the church in New London, September 3, 1693. He was one of the five members of the church who signed the complaint against Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall, afterwards governor of Connecticut. His will was proved January 27, 1729- 30, in which he gives his house to wife Elizabeth and mentions his children: 1. Hannah. 2. Samuel, born about 1690, married Hannah ; (second) Joanna Atwell. 3. Philip, mentioned below. 4. James, born about 1694, married Mary Swodel. 5. Child, baptized December 14, 1695. 6. Ebenezer, born 169 - , married Patience Ingraham. 7. Joshua, born 1698, baptized June 5. 8. Jonathan, baptized September 8, 1700. 9. Mercy, baptized September 27, 1702, married Joseph Marsh, who removed to Hartford, Vermont, and was the first lieutenant-governor and for several years judge of the county court; he died September 9, 1811. 10. John. 11. Abigail.

Soon after his marriage he settled in Lebanon near his uncle, John Bill, who had been there some twenty years. His brothers James and Ebenezer and also his father removed to Lebanon about the same time. He owned land in Groton deeded to him by his father. His will was dated June 24, 1754, proved December 24, 1762. His son Elisha had the real estate and was executor. Children: 1. Zipporah, born in Groton, February 16, 1715, married Jabez Chappell. 2. Lucy, born in Groton, December 25, 1717. 3. Elisha, mentioned below. 4. Philip, born Sain lebanon: {December 21, /,1723.) married Mary Tilden. 5. Solomon, born in Lebanon, April 25, 1726, married Sarah Sizer. 6. Mercy, born January 6, 1729, married Joseph Simmons. 7. Elijah, born July 17, 1731, died young. Children of Philip and Elizabeth Bill: 8, Jonathan, born September 15, 1735, married Elizabeth Dunham. 9. Sybil, born in Lebanon, March 6, 1740. 10. Samuel, born in Lebanon, July 4, 1744, married Martha Goodwin and Sarah Mills.

born in Groton, Connecticut, February 7, 1719. Married, June 25, 1744, Lydia Woodward. He removed with his father to Lebanon in 1723 and received a farm from his father by deed June 24, 1754. His widow died May 24, 1786. Children: 1. Calvin, born May 8, 1745, married Lois Gibbs. 2. Rachel, born July 2, 1747. 3. Elisha, mentioned below. 4. Azariah, born April 27, 1751, married Elizabeth Daggett. 5. Reuben, born June 21, 1753, married Amy Fuller. 6. Lydia, born April 26, 1756. 7. Aaron, born September 10, 1759, died October 27, 1760. (VI) Elisha Bill, son of Elisha Bill (5), was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, April 18, 1749. Married Christiana Baxter, born June 1, 1752. This family lived in Hebron, Connecticut, until 1801, when they removed to Hartwick, Otsego county, New York, and Elisha died there December 4, 1844, aged ninety-five. His wife Christiana died June 18, 1841, aged eighty-nine. Children: 1. Alanson, mentioned below. 2. Reuben, born October 1, 1775, died in infancy. 3. Persis, born August 18, 1777, married Solomon Curtis and (second) Isaac Edson. 4. Elisha, born March 30, 1780. 5. Zelotes, born October 5, 1782. 6. Polly, born April 13, 1786,

(VII) Alanson Bill, son of Elisha Bill (6), was born in Hebron, Connecticut, April 13, 1774. Married Electa Hill. Children: Ensign, Elijah, John, Cyrus, mentioned below; Sarah, Electa.

(VIII) Cyrus Bill, son of Alanson Bill (7), was born about 1800. He married and settled in Woodbury, Vermont. (See History of Washington County, Childs). Child, Gilman, mentioned below.

(IX) Gilman Bill, son of Cyrus Bill (8), was born April 10, 1822, in Woodbury, Vermont, and was educated there in the common schools. His father died when he was only five years old. Gilman Bill went to housekeeping soon after his marriage and took his mother to his home and provided for her .the remainder of her life. He was a farmer at Woodbury all his life except during seven years before his marriage, when he followed the sea, chiefly in fishing vessels. He also kept a hotel during his later years, at Woodbury. He was a Republican in politics and held various town offices. He was well read and had a store of general information. He was a leading citizen of the town. He married, January I, 1849, Rosanna Ainsworth (See Ainsworth sketch). Children: Elijah, Elle, Alma, Laura, Lynde, Freeman M., mentioned below.

(X) Freeman M. Bill, son of Gilman Bill (9), was born in Woodbury, Vermont, October 27, 1859, on the homestead. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. He went west where he was employed as clerk in a grocery store. He returned home and when he came of age removed to Lowell to engage in the retail grocery business, in which he was very successful. He entered the wholesale business and at length gave his whole attention to that branch of the business. He makes a specialty of teas and coffees. Mr. Bill is a staunch Republican, but has never sought public office. He is a member of the Free Masons and Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Yorick Club. He is an active member of the Congregational church and a liberal supporter of its benevolences.

He married, January 24, 1882, Mary F. Morse, daughter of Julius F. and Maria (Kemerer) Morse, who was born in Vermont. Children: 1. Marion, educated in the public and high schools of Lowell, resides at home. 2. Ruth, resides at home.

The Ainsworth family takes its name from the chapelry Ainsworth (Aines or Haynes enclosure) commonly called Cockey Moor, which is situated in the parish of Middleton, Salford Hundred, in the county Palatine of Lancaster, England. As long ago as 1369 John Ainsworth owned lands there. The Lancashire Ainsworths have had four coats-of-arms of ancient date, evidently of common origin: The first: Gules three battle axes argent. Crest: Two battle axes in saltire proper. Motto: Courage sans Peur. The second coat-of-arms: Azure three spades argent, another within a bordure or. Crest: Two battle axes in Saltire proper. Third coat: Argent on a bend sable three crescents of the first. Fourth: Sable on a bend argent three crescents of the field.

(1) Daniel Ainsworth, immigrant ancestor, doubtless a descendant of the ancient Lancashire family, was born in England and came to this country as early as 1647, when he was the owner of a house and twelve acres of land in the village and twenty or more acres elsewhere in Roxbury. He sold land there February 15, 1648, and again November 4, 1664, his wife Alice consenting. He died November 13, 1680, intestate. William Garey and Robert Pepper were appointed administrators February 21, 1680; were succeeded by John Gore, February 18, 1684, at the death of the widow Alice for the benefit of the next of kin. The widow died January 9, 1684-85. This property went to Edward Ainsworth, mentioned below.

(11) Edward Ainsworth, son or nephew of Daniel Ainsworth (1), was born according to the best accounts in 1652. If the family tradition is correct he was born in England, and came to this country upon the invitation of his father's brother, Daniel, mentioned above, to become his heir, but becoming uneasy went to sea and was wrecked on the coast of Georgia. All hands on board except him perished. The evidence of shipwreck seems conclusive, though the various branches of the family have the details widely varied. At any rate we find that Edward inherited the real estate of Daniel and settled there until after that town sent out its young men to settle New Roxbury, Massachusetts, now Woodstock, Connecticut. Then he sold the homestead to Isaac Biscom, December 17, 1702, and made his home in Woodstock, where for thirty-eight years he followed a yeoman's life. In 1725 he made over his homestead to his eldest son on condition that he maintain his parents the remainder of their lives. July 15, 1737, Edward, Jr. relinquished the property and the youngest son Nathan undertook the care of his parents. Edward's will is dated August 10, 1737, at Woodstock, and was proved at Worcester, August 18, 1741. He married, January 11, 1687-88, Joanna Hemmingway, born September 21, 1670, daughter of Joshua and Joanna (Evans) Hemmingway. She died December 23, 1748. He died March 5, 1740- 41, aged about eighty-nine years. Children: 1. Joshua, born January 22, 1688-89, died young. 2. Hannah, born January 21, 1689-90, married, March 2, 1716, John Johnson, of Brookfield. 3. Edward, born August 18, 1693. 4. Elizabeth, born November 18, 1695, married, March 16, 1732, John Jennings, of Woodstock. 5. Daniel, born October 7, 1697, died 1718 of rattlesnake bite. 6. Joanna, born December 31, 1699, died young. 7. Joanna, born October 5, 1700, married (first), July 1, 1719, Ebenezer Holmes; (second), July 13, 1724, Maturin Allard. 8. Judith, born January 25, 1702-03, married, May 2, 1723, James Marcy. g. Dorcas, born April 14, 1706, married, April 18, 1728, Jacob Child, of Woodstock. 10. Thomas, mentioned below. 11. Mary, married, April 19, 1731, John Green. 12. Smith, born March 25, 1712. 13. Nathan, born July 20, 1715.

(111) Thomas Ainsworth, son of Edward Ainsworth (2), was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, April 15, 1708. Married (first), about 1729, Dorothy Kellogg; (second) Ehlinor Kellogg, sister of Dorothy; (third) Ruth Mason, who administered on his estate. He died at. Brookfield, Massachusetts, about February 4, 1794. In 1790, on account of the infirmities of age, his son Jacob was appointed his guardian, but after a short time the son was removed from his guardianship, the court finding Thomas competent to manage his own affairs. The order of birth of his children is unknown. Children, all born at Brookfield: 1. Thomas, born February 3, 1731. 2. Smith. 3. Ephraim, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, married Nathaniel Abbott. 5. Dolly, married, February 16, 1757, Joseph Wood. 6. Jacob, born January 21, 1743. 7. Daniel. 8. Martin. 9. Edward, soldier in Revolution. 10. Joseph. 11. Moses. 12. Beulah, married Reuben Burt. 13. Hannah, born May 11, 1747. 14. Mary. tt

(IV) Elder Ephraim Ainsworth, son of Thomas Ainsworth (3), was born in 1737 in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Married, in 1757, Eunice Burt, sister of Mary Wedge, widow, who married Ephraim's brother Smith. She was five days younger than her husband and died five days after Ephraim was buried. A seat in the Brookfield meeting house was assigned to him September 12, 1757. He removed to Sturbridge in 1766, then removed to Windsor, Vermont; thence to Royalston and about 1800 to Woodbury, Vermont. Ephraim was then an elder of the Free Will Baptist church. Elder Ainsworth, just before his death had his family and neighbors called to his bedside and preached his own funeral sermon from the text Revelation xiv, 13, and as soon as the amen was said "he immediately expired," according to the testimony of his grandson who was present. Children: 1. Eunice, born December 22, 1758, at Brimfield, married John Bettis. 2. Ephraim, born March 24, 1761. . 3. Amy, Ruhamah )or Ruany, born August 11, 1763, at Brimfield, married, July 14, 1801, John Thomas. 4. Thomas, born April 16, 1767, at Sturbridge. 5. Benjamin, mentioned below. 6. Smith, married Sally Smith; selectman of Woodbury in 1806; living in Calais in 1812; died in Pennsylvania aged about eighty.

(V) Benjamin Ainsworth, son of Ephraim Ainsworth (4), was born at Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Married (first) Sally Burnham, sister of his brother's wife. He married (second), September 9, 1838, Louisa Rollins. He died September 18, 1858, at Woodbury, Vermont. He was an early settler in that town and received lot No. 56 of Jane's survey; was constable the first year of the town. Children of Benjamin and Sally Ainsworth: 1. Benjamin, born October 27, 1797. 2. Frederick, born January 4, 1801. 3. Ephraim, born December 4, 1805. 4. Nathan, born December 9, 1806. 5. Bemis, born February 23, 1809, mentioned below. Children of Benjamin and Louisa Ainsworth: 6. Eli Warren. 7. Harry Alfred, soldier in Civil war. 8. Asa, born April 21, 1842, died October 22, 1857. 9. Mary, born March 28, 1843, died March 25, 1857. 10. Albert Llewellyn, born October 29, 1844, served in Sixth Vermont Infantry, 1861- 62; died at Woodbury, October 29, 1862. 11. Alfreda, born July 11, 1850, died July 11, 1864.

(VI) Bemis Ainsworth, son of Benjamin Ainsworth (5), was born February 23, 1809, at Woodbury, Vermont, died May 23, 1844. He was a farmer of Woodbury. He married Lydia Bachelder. Children, born at Woodbury: I. Rosanna, born September 26, 1831, married, January 1, 1849, Gilman Bill; she died November 23, 1891 (see Bill sketch). 2. Susanna, born May 4, 1833, married (first),

There is reason to believe that the Dennis family of Ipswich and Marblehead were closely related. The Marblehead branch is especially prolific. It is likely that both families were of French Huguenot origin, though the progenitor was doubtless English-speaking and from England, or the English islands to which the Protestant French flocked when persecuted in their native land.

(1) Thomas Dennis, first ancestor in America, was in Ipswich, Massachusetts, before October 26, 1668, when he married Grace Searle. She died October 24, 1686, aged fifty years, (gravestone). He died May 23, 1706, about sixty-eight, though the epitaph has him but fifty-three. Very little is known of this generation. A pillow case spun, woven and sewed by Grace (Searle) Dennis and embroidered with her initials is in possession of her descendants. According to a foot-note (p. 75) in Hammatt's "Early Inhabitants of Ipswich," it was in the possession of the printer of that edition (1854) having descended to her daughter Elizabeth (Dennis) Hovey, her granddaughter Elizabeth (Hovey) Caldwell, greatgreat-grandmother of Mr. A. Caldwell of Ipswich. Dennis had a seat in the Ipswich meeting house in 1700. His son John and wife Elizabeth had seats in 1702. Children: 1. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. John, born September 22, 1673; had horses on the common in 1697. 3. Elizabeth, married Ebenezer Hovey.

(IL) Thomas Dennis, son of Thomas Dennis (1), born November 30, 1669, died in Ipswich, 1702, in the prime of life. His widow Elizabeth 'was appointed administratrix January I, 1702-3.

(III) Thomas Dennis, son of Thomas Dennis (2), was born in Ipswich, about 1700. He married Mary , and was among the earliest settlers of Sutton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, where many Ipswich families located. He was assigned the fifth seat in the meeting house in Sutton in 1731, but as early as the spring of 1725 the birth of his daughter Elizabeth is recorded in Sutton. It is interesting to note the varied spelling of this name in early records - Danis, Dannes, Dannis, Deanas, Denes, Denis, Dennes, Denness, Dennice, Denice, Denniss, Dinnis and Dynis.

Dennis

Probably still other and more ingenious spellings were devised by the simple spellers of Ipswich and Sutton. Thomas Dennis had a farm of forty-five acres which before his death he deeded to his only son, Samuel, April 5, 1755. Children, born in Sutton: 1. Elizabeth, born April 21, 1725; married February 7, 1745, Benajah Hall, of Dudley. 2. Lydia, baptized September 13, 1730. 3. Rev. Samuel, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, baptized April 15, 1744. ;

(IV) Rev. Samuel Dennis, son of Thomas Dennis (3), born in Sutton, Massachusetts, April 3, 1732; married, at Sutton, March 27, 1754, Patience Benham, of Uxbridge. He was a Baptist minister. He preached in Petersham several years, then in Barre, Massachusetts, finally removing to Hardwick, where he bought the Sears farm in 1777 and died in 1784. Children: 1. Adonijah, mentioned below. 2. Patience, married May 3, 1788, Anna Cobb. 3. Thomas, died at Barre, January 29, 1809, aged forty-seven; married November 30, 1788, Dolly Rice. 4. Samuel, married Anna Cobb, May 3, 1788. 5. Polly, married May 24, 1790, Roger Wing. 6. Dillea, married, 1773, Earl Flagg, at Petersham. 7. Isaac (?), settled in Barre.

(V) Adonijah Dennis, son of Samuel Dennis (4), was born in Sutton, July 12, 1759. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Petersham, Massachusetts, in Captain Ezekiel Knowlton's company, Colonel Dike's regiment, enlisting March 31, 1777. He served in the battle of Stillwater. He married Eunice Sibley, of New Salem, Massachusetts, (published May 1, 1780). He was a farmer, and inherited the homestead near Barre, and died there September 30, 1844, aged eighty-five. His wife Eunice died September 15, 1842, aged eighty-two. Children: 1. Royal, born

1781, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born 1784; married Cynthia Barrett,, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, and died at Concord, Massachusetts, January 21, 1864,

(VI) Royal Dennis, son of Adonijah Dennis (5), was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, in 1781. He married, Susan (Sukey, Sankey) Watson (published October 6, 1802) sister of James Y. Watson, of Fairhaven. She was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and died in Rockland, Maine. In 1807 he removed to Fairhaven, Vermont, and was captain of militia there and a leading citizen. In 1823 he removed to Hartford, New York, where he died in 1830. Dennis kept the old Lyon tavern at Fair Haven, Vermont, one year, and in May, 1809, bought of Alexander Donahue the old Hennessy store, where Mr. Graves store was located later, with about an acre and a half of land, and by building an addition eastward over the old highway and putting on a new front with balconies on the west, facing the new highway, he converted it into a large and commodious hotel, which was kept by him, and was widely known throughout the country as the Dennis Tavern. Mr. Dennis became involved in financial difficulties by endorsing notes for Dr. Ebenezer Hurd, and was obliged to make over his place, March 15, 1822, to his brother Samuel Dennis of Boston, by whom it was afterward sold, through John P. Colburn, attorney, to Lucy Wilmot, in August, 1829. He was in the service for a short time in the war of 1812, near Plattsburg. Children: 1. Child, born July, 1803, died March 29, 1805. 2. Bowman W., born July 4, 1805; worked with Jacob Willard, mason, until 1826, removed to Byron, Michigan, where he was an eminent, active and beloved member of the Odd Fellows fraternity. 3. William W., resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 4. Polly, married William Barber, of Pontiac, Michigan. 5. Elizabeth, married Stephen G. Hidden, of Concord, July 30, 1838, and died in 1869, February. 6. George R., settled in Fentonville, Michigan. 7. James Y., resided in Rochester, New York. 8. Selah Gridley, born 1820; mentioned below.

(VII) Selah Gridley Dennis, son of Royal Dennis (6), was born in Fair Haven, Vermont, in 1820. He married July 19, 1847, Bethia Thorndike. He followed his father's business as hotel proprietor. He was landlord of the old Commercial House at Rockland, Maine, and had the Thorndike Hotel there in 1856. In March, 1862, he removed from Rockland to Boston, Miassachusetts, and became proprietor of the Commercial House. He also resided at Hallowell, Maine, for a number of years. Children: 1. George M.,

(VIII) Charles Selah Dennis, son of Selah Gridley Dennis (7), was born in Rockland, Maine, about 1851. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the academy at Hallowell, Maine. After completing his schooling he followed the sea for a number of years, but in 1875, during the decline of shipping business, he engaged in the warehouse business at the old Damon wharf in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He subsequently became the manager of the Boston Wharf Company and also of the Constitution Wharf Company. He resigned in April, 1897, and engaged in business on his own account in the same line of trade under the firm name of Dennis & Lovejoy. He is at present the manager of the Quincy Market Cold Storage Warehouse Company of Boston, and is one of the best known men in the warehouse business in New England. He has always taken a lively interest in public affairs, but has never sought nor held public office. He is popular in club and social life. He belongs, among other organizations, to the Pine Tree State Club of Boston, and to the Exchange Club.

His residence is at No. 4 Chestnut Park, Melrose. He was well and favorably known to his townsmen for his many good qualities of mind and heart.

Abraham Shaw, the immigrant SHAW ancestor, was a resident of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, before coming to New England. He came before 1636 and was admitted a freeman, March 9, 1636-37. He was a proprietor of Watertown in 1636. His house there was burned October, 1636, and he removed to Dedham. He signed the famous compact and was constable of Dedham, elected September 6, 1638. He removed thence to Cambridge and was a town officer in 1640. He had a grant of "'coal or iron ore which may be found in any common land at this country's disposing," November 2, 1637, and it is presumed that he made a search for minerals at a time when great mineral wealth was expected from the earth in New England. He was given liberty to erect a corn mill, February 12, 1636-37. Mary Shaw, presumed to be his widow, was admitted to the Charlestown church, July 1, 1645. He died in 1638, leaving a will in which he bequeathed to his eldest son Joseph; children Mary, John and Martha, the two latter being infants; Joseph and John to have his Edward Allen administered

(III) John Shaw, son of John Shaw (2), of Weymouth, was born about 1655. He married Hannah Children, born at Weymouth or Bridgewater: 1. Hannah, born December 16, 1679, died young. . 2. Abraham, born February 14, 1685. 3. Hannah, born April 26, 1687. 4. John, born January 20, 1690. 5. Mary, born May 5, 1691. 6. Benjamin, mentioned below.

(IV) Benjamin Shaw, son of John Sha (3), born in Weymouth, July 25, 1693; married Hannah Rogers. He settled in Abington, formerly Bridgewater. Children: 1. Benjamin, born 1728. 2. William, born February 22, 1730. 3. James, see forward. 4. John, resided in East Bridgewater.

(V) James Shaw, son of Benjamin Shaw (4), born in Bridgewater or Abington, about 1732, married, 1752, Margaret Mora. He was at one time a member of the Milton church. Children: 1. David, born 1757, removed to Vermont. 2. James, see forward. 3. Eunice, baptized at East Bridgewater in 1777. 4. Margaret, born 1779 at Abington.

(VI) James Shaw, son of James Shaw (5), was born in Abington, Massachusetts, 1760. He and his brother David settled 1n Woodstock, Vermont, and in 1790 they petitioned to be separated from the Grafton Presbytery, indicating that they belonged to the Presbyterian church. From one of them descended Richard P., mentioned below.

cember 8, 1870. He married Olive Russell, born in Shrewsbury, Vermont, died in Lowell, August 25, 1888. He came to Lowell in 1838, and was employed as a gardener and in the mills. In politics he was a Republican. Children: 1. Richard W. 2. Frank E., mentioned below.

(VIII) Frank E. Shaw, son of Richard P. Shaw (7), was born in Lowell, January 16, 1841. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen years he began work in the meat and provision business in the employ of Major Coburn. After one year he took a position as clerk in the fruit store of J. C. Frost. In 1860 he was employed by Colonel Thurston, proprietor of the Washington House, corner of Central and Church streets, as office clerk, remaining until 1874 when he bought the hotel and continued as proprietor until June, 1884. In 1883 he became proprietor of the American House, Lowell. He sold his interests in the Washington House to C. H. Duprez and gave his whole attention to his new hotel. His business there grew and flourished and he remained as proprietor until 1898, when he sold the American House and retired. He devoted his entire attention to the care of his real estate and other investments during the remainder of his life. He died at Lowell, January 18, 1907, and only two weeks from the time of his death his son also died.

Mr. Shaw knew the hotel business from top to bottom. He knew the value of a good equipment and he made the American House attractive; the rooms were well furnished and heated ; the table had a high reputation. Moreover, Mr. Shaw had the good nature, tact, and magnetism that attracted men and made him personally popular. He made friends among his guests, and was well known by traveling men the country over. He was a member of the Highland Club, The Club of Lowell, and of the Board of Trade. He was a Democrat and somewhat active in politics. He was a representative to the general court in 1886. In religion he was a Unitarian. He was well known in the various lodges and fraternal orders of Lowell; was a member of Free Masons, Independent Order of Red Men, Benevolent Order of Elks, United Order of Good Fellows and United Order of Workmen.

He married, February 10, 1875, Ellen M. Maxfield, daughter of Curier and Lydia (Maxwell) Maxfield, of Lowell. She survives him and lives in their beautiful home at 698 Westford street, Lowell. Mr. Shaw used to ascribe to the influence, capability and de- votion of his wife his great reason for success in business. Of high social standing Mrs. Shaw knew how to help and co-operate with her husband in his business and still retain the domestic life that both prized greatly. They had but one child, Russell Maxfield, born May 29, 1879, and died January, 1907. The loss of both husband and only son in the same month was a great shock to Mrs. Shaw, a bereavement in which she had the sympathy of the entire city.

Lieutenant Thomas Smith, im- SMITH migrant ancestor, born in Ireland, about 1690, is said to have come to New England among the earliest of the Scotch Presbyterians from Ulster, in the north of Ireland, and to have located for a short time in Hampton, New Hampshire. He was admitted a grantee of Chester, New Hampshire, November 20, 1720, in place of Richard Swan, whose rights he doubtless bought. Smith was a lot layer in the new town of Chester as early as 1725, and a man of prominence, a selectman there in 1728. He married a sister of John Carr, of Chester. The story of the capture of Smith and Carr by the Indians in 1724 is told in the "New Hampshire Historical Society Collections," volume 7, page 404. Carr was only eighteen years old. Smith and he were making brush fence to secure the cow from Indians, when they were surprised by the crack of a gun, the ball passing between them and touching Smith. "The Indians sprang upon and captured them. A scuffle ensued in which Smith turned the butt of his gun with a view of sinking the lock into the head of Captain Joe English, leader of the Indians, but missed his aim. The hill in New Boston whose southern end is very steep as seen from Auburn, was named for this Indian. They were captured. They proceeded northward till night, when the keepers each managed to secure his prisoner for the night. They were not allowed to see where each other lodged. Smith's captor cut a notch in the spreading root of a beech tree fitted in the ankle of the prisoner, then drove down a stake so as to make the foot secure, while the prisoner was lying on his back. His arms were also tied above him with the sinews of a deer. The next day they pursued their journey, the prisoners not being allowed to speak to each other. The next night Smith took special notice in which direction Carr was placed from him. He was secured as the night previous with the addition of having hooks put over his elbows and driven firmly into the ground. Resolved to make his escape after the Indian was asleep (the Indian slept on the ends of the cords with which he was bound) he gradually tried the strength of his strong arms and the hooks gave way. Then he found that the cords would give. He continued to strain upon them until he could get his thumbs under the cord that stretched across his breast and with that aid he raised it upon his chin, then got it into his mouth and, after a jong trial, succeeded in raising it over his nose and finally over his entire head. He might have killed the party, but thought it would be murder. Leaving them to their pleasing dreams, they found a stream of water in which they traveled as far as possible to elude the dogs. At length they climbed some trees and soon the day dawned when they heard the alarm war whoops of their disappointed captors which was answered by another party on the opposite side of them. Their position was now a critical one - directly between two parties of Indians so near as to answer each other with the voice. Descending they made their way back toward Chester where they arrived on the evening of the third day after capture. The garrison was at Chester, not Londonderry."

He came from Chester to New Boston about 1734, when the entire country was a wilderness and settled on what has been known of late years as the Hiram Lull place in the eastern part of the town. Perhaps some of his family remained at the old home in Chester, for it was not sold until March, 1762. The purchaser was Gideon Rowell, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. For two years, the "History of Boston" says, Smith was the only white man within the present limits of New Boston. Before the town was granted he built a frame house, and it was near his house that the proprietors built sixty houses, a grist mill and a saw mill, as early as 1740, and his house is now or was lately standing in a good state of preservation, constituting part of the old Lull house. Smith was obliged to flee from his home once on account of hostile Indians before his family came to New Boston. There had been cases of violence at Goffstown, a few miles away, and seeing traces of the savages near his cabin, Smith decided not to risk another capture with the Indians and fled to a place of safety, remaining until hostilities ceased. Children: 1. Samuel, lived in 1765 where the late Deacon Thomas Smith resided in New Boston. 2. James, died of cold when on the road from his father's house to Parker's in Goffstown. 3. Reuben, soldier in the Rev-

(II) Deacon John Smith, son of Thomas Smith (1), was born in 1726 in Chester, New Hampshire. He went to New Boston from Chester soon after his father located there. He married a daughter of William McNeil; second, Ann Brown, of Francestown. He was a soldier in the Revolution, in the company of Captain Peter Coffin, 1775, his son John Jr. being in the same company. He was deacon of the Presbyterian church at New Boston and a citizen of influence and many honors. He died September 3, 1800, in his seventy-fourth year. On his tomb this line is inscribed: "The sweet remembrance of the just will flourish though they sleep in dust." He was the father of nineteen children, five by. his first wife, fourteen by his second: Children of John and first wife: 1. Martha, died young. 2. Sarah, married McMarston; second Major John Burns, a soldier in the Revolution, also war of 1812; died at Whitfield. 3. Jane, died January 10, 1756, and with sister Martha were the first buried in the burying ground at New Boston. 4. Mary, married Robert, father of Dr. John Burns. 5. John, soldier in Revolution; settled in Francestown; married Elizabeth Campbell, of Litchfield; lieutenant in militia; deacon in Congregational church at Francestown; died September 3, 1800. Children of Deacon John and Ann (Brown) Smith: 6. Janey. 7. Thomas, mentioned below. 8. Elizabeth. 9. William. 10. David. 11. Susanna. 12. Ann. 13. Samuel, resided in school district No. 5. 14. Martha. 15. Reuben. 16. Elizabeth B. 17. Robert. 18. Infant died unnamed. 19. James D.

(III) Deacon Thomas Smith, son of Deacon John Smith (2), born in New Boston, May 7, 1765, died there May 1, 1854; married Esther Poland, born March 1, 1774, died October 8, 1851. He was a man of great decision and force of character, industrious and thrifty, and became one 'of the most prosperous and independent farmers of his community. He reared a large family of children, contributed generously to various benevolent enterprises, never overlooking, we are told, the claims which God had upon his possessions. As a Christian he was uniform in his feelings, consistent in his daily walk, strict observer of the Sabbath and constant attendant on the sanctuary, emphatically a pillar of the Presbyterian church, and his end was peace. His death, we are told, was seriously felt by the church and the community. Chil- dren: I. Susanna, born January 27, 1792; married Thomas George, of Weare; second, Joseph Adams, of New Boston; removed to Johnson, Vermont; died there December 12, 1843. 2. Ann, born March 17, 1794; married Thomas Ring; removed to New York. _ 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Esther, born August 20, 1798; married Asa Dodge, of Francestown. 5. Thomas, born April 8, 1801; married Nancy Gove, of Weare; resided at New Boston. 6. William, born May 22, 1803; resided at Croyden, New Hampshire. 7. Moses, born June 8, 1805; married Eliza Bailey, of Weare; resided at Johnson, Vermont. 8. Rachel, born August 10, 1807; married Ambrose Story; resided at Antrim, New Hampshire. 9. Clarinda, born January 9, 1810; married John McCurdy. to. Ivers, born March 31, 1812; married Sarah Hoyt, of Weare; resided at New Boston. 11. George W., born January 19, 1815; died February 15, 1858. 12. Ethan, born October 17, 1817; married Alvira Morrill; resided at Weare. 13. Sarah, born October 23, 1819.

(IV) John Smith, son of Deacon Thomas Smith (3), was born at New Boston, May 14, 1796. He was educated there in the common schools and succeeded to the homestead after the death of his father. He was a farmer all his active years. He died at an advanced age. He married, December 1, 1819, Nancy, daughter of David Tewsbury. Children: 1. Ezra D., married Mary Jennis; resided in Concord, New Hampshire. 2. John B., married Rebecca W. Richards; resided in California. 3. Amos T., settled in California. 4. Ivers. 5. Sarah T. 6. Almas. 7: Ethan Allen, mentioned below. 8. Clara. 9. Barrett, died

(\V) Ethan Allen Smith, son of John Smith (4), was born on the old homestead in New Boston, March 31, 1840. He attended the district schools of his native town and worked on his father's farm during his youth. He continued to follow farming for a livelihood until he was twenty-eight years old. He then learned the trade of mason, and in 1869 he went into business in partnership with his brother, Amos T. Smith, mentioned above. They made a specialty of the construction of concrete walks, and had their principal place of business at Lowell, where they both resided during the rest of their lives. Their business became the most extensive and profitable of any in their line of work in that section of the country. The firm is known for its excellent and reliable work all through this section. Mr. Smith is one of the leading business men of the city. He has invested extensively in Lowell real estate, and his interests and those of the city are identical. He has faithfully supported every movement intended to promote the welfare and growth of the city of Lowell and has rejoiced in its great development. He is a director of the Middlesex Trust Company, and his judgment is respected in financial circles. His residence at 84 Marlborough street is said to be one of the finest in the city. He is an active and earnest member of the Republican party, supporting its candidates and principles to the extent of his ability, and contributing freely to the support of its campaigns. He has declined, however, to accept public office, himself. In religion he is a Universalist, and with his family attends the Universalist Church. He is wel! and favorably known in Masonic circles, a member of William North Lodge; of the council, Royal and Select Masters; of the chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of the commandery, Knights Templar, and of the various bodies of Masonry to the thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Odd Fellows, Lowell. He belongs to the Yorick Club and Highland Club. Mr. Smith is a very active, popular, influential and useful citizen. He married Maria E., daughter of Jacob Burtt, of Bennington, Vermont. Children: 1. Alice G., married Horace E. Xeals; one son, Alfred Beals. 2. Mabel, died in infancy.

Ralph Hill, immigrant ancestor, HILL was born according to tradition in Billericay, England. He came from England to Plymouth, where he was a yeoman as early as 1638. This tradition is strengthened by the fact that a clergyman named Ralph Hill lived in county Essex, England, not far from Billericay, 1645-1669, and his daughter Sarah by wife Persis was baptized at Shalforth, August 10, 1645; in 1650 was at Ridgwell "'a godly practicing minister" afterward at Pottswick, where he was ejected for holding Puritan beliefs, and in 1669 was at Sheldon "having a conventicle there." Our Ralph Hill "of Wellinsgly" (probably a locality in Plymouth, New England) sold land for twelve pounds September 16, 1643, to Stephen Wood, house and garden at "Wobury," twelve acres or thereabouts and we soon afterward find him in Woburn, Massachusetts, where he was a selectman in 1649. He was admitted a freeman in 1647. He join- ed the first settlers at Shawshin, and lived on "the farm'' in what is now Billerica, a mile southwest of the village, his house standing a little west of the place where Mrs. Judkins's heirs lately lived. In April, 1663, he gave to the town half an acre of land for a burial place and on the twenty-ninth of the same month died, his own body being the first buried in the ground he had given. His first wife died, and he married second, at Plymouth, December 21, 1638, Margaret, widow of Roger Toothaker and mother of Roger. She died November 22, 1683, aged seventy-six years. Children: 1. Jane, born in England; married Francis Littlefield. 2. Ralph, married November 15, 1660, Martha Toothaker. 3. Mlartha. 4. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 5. Jonathan, born April 20, 1646; married October, 1666, Hannah Stowers. 6. Rebecca, married Caleb Farley.

(II) Nathaniel Hill, son of Ralph Hill (1), born probably at Plymouth, died May 14, 1706, at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He married, June 21, 1667, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Holmes, of Cambridge, and she died October 9, 1685. Children, born at Billerica: 1. Nathaniel, March 31, 1668. 2. Ralph, October 14, 1669; died April 23, 1742 (leaving in his will directions to buy thirty gallons of sweet wine for his funeral if occasion. require). 3. John, born May 27, 1671; married June 22, 1711, Elizabeth Blodgett, of Chelmsford; he died April 15, 1742. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Jonathan, born June 17, 1674; died at Chelmsford, March 24, 1711. 6. James, born December 10, 1675; died December, 1721. 7. Elizabeth, born March 13, 1676-7. g. Jane, born December 15, 1680; died November 15, 1711. 10. Anna, born June g, 1682; died June 10, following. 11. Abigail, born December 26, 1683.

(III) Lieutenant Joseph Hill, son of Nathaniel Hill (2), born in Billerica, March 18, 1672-3; died April 19, 1752; married Susanna Baldwin, who died January 15, 1758, daughter of John Baldwin, the immigrant ancestor. Children, born at Billerica: 1. Susanna, born February 18, 1704-5; married Daniel Proctor. 2. Elizabeth, born December 10, 1706; married Benjamin Shea. 3. Joseph, born March 13, 1708-9. 4. Mary, born December 6, 1710. 5. Jane, born November 7, 1712. 6. Ebenezer, born July 11, 1714. 7. John, born April 18, 1716. 8. Jonathan, mentioned below. 9. Esther, born February 21, 1720-1; died April 27, 1736.

(V) Ralph Hill, son of Jonathan Hill (4), born in Billerica, September 20, 1747; died there April 10, 1831; married April 9, 1777, Mary Jones, of Concord. He settled in Ashby, Middlesex county, and established a mill there. He was a soldier in the Ashby company in the Revolution (See vol. vii, p. 896, "Mass. Sold. and Sailors in Rev.") Children, born in Ashby: 1. Job, born July 7, 1780; resided in Petersborough, New Hampshire. 2. Polly, born September 5, 1782; married - Fiske; lived in Montpelier, Vermont. 3. Brewer, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, born July 15, 1787; married Vynthia Lake, of Rindge, New Hampshire, and died in Ohio. 5. Betsey, born January 12, 1790, died young. 6. Phebe, born August 13, 1792; married Stephen Wright, of Hanover. 7. Nancy, born May 18, 1795; married Peter Sloan, of Townsend ; resided in Berlin, Vermont. 8. Emma, born April 24, 1798; married Stephen Taylor, of Montpelier, Vermont; removed to Barton, Vermont. 9. Abigail, born February 14, 1800; married David Poor, of Montpelier, Vermont.

(VI) Brewer Hill, son of Ralph Hill (5), born in Ashby, Massachusetts, September 16, 1784, died in Billerica, May 14, 1879. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed during his active life. When a young man he removed to Townsend. After a year in that town he located for a time in Boston, settling finally in Cambridge, where he lived for about fifty years, working at his trade in various capacities. In 1864 he removed to Billerica, where he lived the rest of his days. He died there May 14, 1879. He married, October 6, 1816, Celinda Carpenter, of Woodstock, Connecticut. She died November 26, 1887, aged one hundred years. Children: 1. Laura Williams, born February 1, 1819; married Jonathan, son of John Hill, of Billerica. 2. Susan Blanchard, born March 12, 1821; married Jerome Bock, of Brighton; removed to Burlington, lowa. 3. John Brewer, born October 29, 1822; married Mary Jane Dutton, of Bedford; resided at South Boston. 4. Charles Henry, mentioned below. 5. Amos W., born October 18, 1826; married Helen Gregg. 6. Elizabeth, born July 20, 1828; married Joseph Hurd, of Surrey, New Hampshire. (VII) Charles Henry Hill, son of Brewer Hill (6), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 20, 1824. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and learned the trade of machinist, engaging in business for himself with a machine shop in Billerica. He has acquired a competence and having spent seventy years in the machine shop as workman and master, he is about to retire and enjoy a well-earned and well-deserved period of retirement. Mr. Hill made a specialty of manufacturing leather-splitting machinery. He has a-very attractive home not far from his shop, on a site commanding one of the most beautiful views in the county, in the southern part of old Billerica. Mr. Hill has always shown a lively interest in public affairs. In politics he is a Republican, and has represented his district in the general court. He is a faithful and devout member of the Congregational church. He has been a Mason for over fifty years, and has been an Odd Fellow for more than sixty years. He married first, December 16, 1849, Martha Whitford, of Billerica; second, October 26, 1861, Apphia Cordelia, daughter of Samuel Foster, of Lowell. She was born in Ludlow, Vermont. Child of first wife: 1. Martha, born November 19, 1851; died young. Children of Charles H. and Apphia C. Hill: 2. Nathaniel, born August 8, 1862; died August 18, 1865. 3. Margaret Elizabeth, born February 8, 1867; lives with her father. 4. Foster Benjamin, born August 7, 1869; is a traveling salesman. John French, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1612 in England. He had land granted him at Mount Wallaston (Braintree) for five heads February 24, 1639-40. He was ad- mitted to the church in Dorchester, January 27, 1042, and the births of his first two children are recorded there. He was admitted a freeman May 29, 1644. His first wife, whom he married in England, died according to her gravestone, Iebruary 28, 1681, aged fifty-nine years. He married (second), July 8, 1683, Elinor, daughter of Rev. William Thompson, and widow of William Veazey. She was born in 1626 and died April 23, 1711, aged eightyfive years. He was prominent among the early settlers and active in town affairs. He died August 6, 1692, aged eighty years. Division of the estate was made to his eldest son, John, to Dependence, Thomas, Samuel, William (son of William, deceased) ; to Temperance, wife of John Bowditch; to Elizabeth Wheelock, of Mendon; and the children of Mary Lamb, deceased. Children: 1. John, born February 28,. 1641, baptized February 12, 1642-43. 2. Thomas, born July 10, 1643, died aged thirteen years, October 28, 1656. The following were all born in Braintree: 3. Dependence (son), born March 7, 1648-49. 4. Temperance, born March 30, 1651, married John Bowditch; she died August 12, 1720. 5. William, born March 31, 1653, had son William. 6. Elizabeth, born September 29, 1655, married - - - - Wheelock, of Mendon. 7. Thomas, born March 10, 1657-58, died within a year. 8. Samuel, mentioned below.

(11) Samuel French, son of John French (1), born in Braintree, February 22, 1659-60; died October 13, 1718; married Ann, daughter of Alexander Marsh. She died February 4, 1712. Children, all born at Braintree: 1. Samuel, born November 17, 1680, died young. 2. Samuel, born September 13, 1688. 3. Hannah, born January 15, 1690. 4. Alexander, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin. 6. Josiah, born March 20, 1700. 7. Nathaniel, born April Ti 7O2:

(IIT) Alexander French, son of Samuel French (2), born at Braintree, December 13, 1695; died June 2, 1732. Married Mary, daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Mehitable (Adams) White. She died May 30, 1732, and he married (second), May 14, 1734, Rebecca Staples. Thomas White, Jr., was son of Thomas White, the immigrant settler at Weymouth. Children of Alexander and Mary French: 1. Alexander, born February 28, 1724. 2. Samuel, mentioned below. 3. Isaac,

(IV) Samuel French, son of Alexander French (3), born at Braintree, September 5, 1725; married Mary Paine. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Children, born at Braintree: 1. Mary, born January 24, 1748, died April 17, 1748. 2. Mary, born October, 1750, died November 2, 1753. 3. Elijah, born February 10, 1754-55. 4. Samuel, born January 18, 1755-56. 5. Asa, mentioned below.

(V) Asa French, son of Samuel French (4), born at Braintree, May 3, 1757; married Sarah White. He was a soldier of the Revolution in Captain Josiah Smith's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment, 1776; enlisted in the Continental army from Captain Smith's company, Fourth Hampshire regiment, and was in Captain Montague's company, Colonel Porter's regiment, 1778. If this Continental army service belongs to this Asa French he resided at South Hadley and died about March, 1779, when a receipt for his pay was signed by John French.

(VII) Marvin M. French, son of Jabez French (6), born January 8, 1821; married Emeline, born January 8, 1821, died June 28, 1890, daughter of Spencer and Sophia (Clapp) Clark. Children: 1. Ellen Sophia, born October 6, 1849, married at Northampton, October 24, 1878, ;children: i. Henry, born August 31, 1879, died on board the transport "Mobile," August 18, 1898, private in Company I, Second Massachusetts Regiment in the Spanish war; ii. Leicester (twin), born December 7, 1880; iii. Dudleigh (twin), born December 7, 1880; iv. Katrine, born October 23, 1886. 2. Anna Emerson, born June 17, 1853, married, April 29, 1874, John Curtis Fowle, and had one son, Robert H., born July 1, 1878. 3. James Marvin, mentioned below.

(VIII) James Marvin French, son of Marvin M. French (7), was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, January 14, 1855. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town. He began his business career as clerk in the clothing store of his father at Northampton for three years, and was then clerk in the freight office of the Connecticut River Railroad Company, now a part of the Boston & Maine system. He then took a position in the Boston office of the old Eastern Railroad, also absorbed by the Boston & Maine system. He was clerk in the treasurer's office from August 16, 1877, until March 24, 1879, when he was transferred to Portland as ticket agent of the Eastern Railroad, the Maine Central Railroad and the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad and served until April, 1886, when he was appointed ticket agent of the western division of the Boston & Maine Railroad at the Haymarket Square Station, Boston, and in 1887 he was placed in charge of the ticket department of the eastern division also. When the present station in Boston was completed in 1893 he became ticket agent of three divisions, the eastern, western and southern divisions of the Boston & Maine Railroad and also the Fitchburg Railroad which later was leased to the Boston & Maine. Mr. French has remained in charge of all four divisions of the system having terminals in Boston. He is a member of Soley Lodge of Free Masons of Somerville; of Somerville Royal Arch Chapter; of Coeur de Lion Commandery, Knights Templar. He belongs to the International Ticket Agents' Association. In religion he is a Universalist; in politics a Republican.

He married, at Portland, Maine, May 24, 1882, Carrie E. Sanborn (See sketch of Daniel W. Sanborn). She is a graduate of the Somerville high school, class of 1877. Children: 1. Edward Sanborn, mentioned below. 2. Lucy Emeline, born June 10, 1887, graduate of the Somerville high school, 1906; student at Bradford Academy. 3. Helen Clark, born November 2, 1889, student in high school (08). 4. Carrie Brackett, born December 19, 1891, died May 12, 1903. 5. Marjorie, born January 6, 1897.

(IX) Edward Sanborn French, son of James Marvin French (8), was born at Portland, Maine, December 11, 1883. He attended the Somerville public schools, graduating from the Latin high school in 1902, president of his class. He entered Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in 1906 with the degree of A. B. He is at present an accountant in the Boston office of the Boston & Maine Railroad. He is a member of Soley Lodge of Free Masons, of the Acacia Masonic Fraternity ; of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, at Claremont, New Hampshire; of the New Hampshire Club of Boston.

parts of the United States and Europe which he often visited. As a leading educational publisher and president of the publishing house which he founded, he has exerted a wide influence.

Mr. Heath was born in the town of Salem, Maine, at the foot of beautiful Mt. Abram, in Franklin county, October 26, 1843, and at the age of sixty-four died at his home in Newtonville, Massachusetts, January 29, 1908. He was the second son of Daniel Heath (1814- 1902) and Mila Ann Record (1816-1907) ; and grandson of Benjamin Heath (1788- 1870) and Ruth Hinkley Heath (1790-1859) on the one side, and Henry Record (born 1785) and Mercy Bradley Record (born 1788) on the other-side. The earlier ancestors were among the first settlers of Massachusetts ; they came from England in 1632 and succeeding years.

He attended school in his native town and in Farmington, Maine, and was prepared for college at the Nichols Latin School, Lewiston, Maine. He was graduated at Amherst College, A. B. 1868, A. M. 1871; on leaving college he was principal of the Southboro High School, Southboro, Massachusetts, 1868-69 ; studied in the Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, Maine, 1870-72; traveled and studied the subject of pedagogy in Europe 1873; was supervisor of schools in Farmington, Maine, 1874, and the same year he accepted a proposition from Ginn Brothers to represent their house in Rochester, New York. This brought him into a business which interested him and of which he had made a careful and intelligent study. School books suited to the rapidly advancing systems that obtained in well conducted schools had become a prime necessity and Mr. Heath had as teacher, master of high school, and supervisor of a schovul system learned these wants. When he gave his services to the school-book publishers, they gained not only an adept salesman but an embryo book publisher who had decided ideas, and his employers were wise enough to adopt many of these ideas. In 1875 he opened their branch office in New York City, and in 1876 he was made a member of the firm, which then became Ginn & Heath. He withdrew his connection with that firm in 1885, in order to carry out his own plans for the making of school books. The new business was established as D. C. Heath & Company in Boston, August 1, 1885. In November, 1895, the business of the firm was incorporated with D. C. Heath, president; C. H. Ames, secretary; W. E. Pulsifer, treasurer; and W. S. Smyth, vice- president. The business of this corporation ranks third among the great schoolbook publishing houses of America, and has its offices at Boston, New York, Chicago, San Franciso, Austin, Atlanta, and London, England.

Mr. Heath served as president of the Amberst Alumni Association, and of the Pine Tree State Club of Boston. He was one of the founders of the Twentieth Century Club, a trustee of the People's Palace, a member of the Boston Athenaeum, of the Boston City Club, the University Club, the Congregational Club, the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, Psi Upsilon (Amherst), and the Aldine Club of New York. He identified himself also with the Municipal Reform League, the Massachusetts Civic League, two Forestry Associations, the American Free Trade League, the National Society for Promoting Industrial Education the National Educational Association, and the Religous Educational Association. In Newton Mr. Heath's local interests were innumerable. He was a member of the Central Congregational church, and of the Newton Club, the Tuesday Club, the Every Saturday Club, the Katahdin Club, and Brae Burn Golf Club, and president of the Newton Education Association.

Mr. Heath married, January 6, 1881, Mrs. Nelly Lloyd Knox of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and their children, born in Newtonville, Massachusetts, are: Arnold C., Daniel Collamore, and Warren. His marriage also gave him a stepson James Lloyd Knox, who has shared with the sons the beautiful home at the "Heathcote."

'His name has stood preeminently for the best scholarship, the best taste, the most progressive spirit, and the highest honor in the educational publishing field. It has stood equally for good citizenship, public spirit, and the most faithful social service in Boston and Newton, for Mr, Heath's community interests were of the broadest, his identification with useful and advanced movements was constant, his industry and organizing power were notable, and his natural qualities of leadership were recognized and utilized in every circle which he touched.

"Mr. Heath has been viewed as a born publisher, and in the work for which he was so conspicuously fitted he found his joy and rendered a service which will give his name long remembrance. A frequent visitor to Europe, few American publishers were more highly esteemed or more warmly welcomed in Lon- don and Leipsic. Abroad, as at home, he carried with him ever and everywhere that rare geniality, sympathy, and quick human interest that made him so beloved and so central a magnet in his home, business, and social life. An ardent reader of books, an earnest student, and a genuine reformer, the educational movements and the politics of England and Germany commanded his interest almost as warmly as American affairs."

England, December 31, 1832, and received a common school education in that place. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to learn the trade of calico printer, and he became an expert in his line of business. He came to America in 1855, and early the year following he entered the employ of the Pacific Mills at Lawrence, Massachusetts. After eighteen years of faithful work at his trade he was placed in charge of the printing department of the Middlesex Bleaching and Dye Works, in Somerville, where he located, September Ist, 1873, of which subsequently he bought a half interest. He was successful in business and took rank among the prominent manufacturers of the city of Somerville. He was a liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. In Masonic circles he became very prominent. He held virtually all the chairs in succession in Lawrence Lodge, No. 59, Free Masons. In the grand chapter he was district deputy, grand high priest and deputy grand high priest. For several years he was the illustrious grand master of Royal and Select Masters. In 1883 he was elected grand conductor of the General Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters of the United States for three years. He was also most puissant sovereign grand commander of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. "His private library was one of the richest in choice Masonic literature of any in New England. He acquired no small fame as a collector of coins, medals and articles of vertu, as well as books. He was a student of art and history. He was intensely interested in historical research, and was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society of Odd Volumes, and other literary organizations. He was greatly respected and beloved not only among those of his family and in his business who knew him best, but among his associates in learning and study, those of kindred tastes and gifts. He was as conspicuous for his learning as for his

Thomas Roberts, immigrant ancestor, one of the earliest settlers on Dover Neck, New Hampshire, came, according to family tradition, with Edward and William Hilton, for the purpose of trading in 1623. The land he possessed has been owned and occupied by his descendants uninterruptedly to the present time. In 1638 he was elected president of the court in place of Captain John Underhill, whom they expelled for various crimes. Roberts was elected to various offices of trust, had many grants of land in Dover and vicinity, and owned land on the east side of Dover Neck and on the west side of Back River. Sewal in his "History of Quakers" speaks of him as rebuking his sons Thomas and John who, while constables, used excessive virulence in enforcing the laws against Quakers in 1662. He had been a member of the church for more than twenty years, and was a man of the highest character. His will, dated September 27, 1673, proved June 30, 1674, bequeathed to Richard Rich, husband of his daughter Sarah, also to other three children. He was buried in the northeast corner of the old burial ground at Dover Neck, where many of his descendants were afterward laid. Children: | 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, born 1633; married Mary ; son Nathaniel had son Nathaniel Roberts who settled in Somersworth, New Hampshire; was born April 22, 1713; lost at sea, leaving children David, Isaac, George, Nathaniel and daughters. 3. Hester, married John Martin; lived in New Jersey, 1673. 4. Anne, married Joseph Philbrick.

(II) Sergeant John Roberts, son of Thomas Roberts (1), born in Dover, 1629; married Abigail Nutter, daughter 'of one of the leading pioneers of Dover, Hatevil Nutter. He owned land near his father's, and doubtless lived on it, certainly on the Neck, though he also owned land west of Back River as well as some marsh land near Great Bay. He was a delegate to the New Hampshire convention of 1689. Children, born in Dover: 1. Joseph, had son Ebenezer, born February 24, 1705-6, and other children. 2. Hatevil, married Lydia ; lived in Dover. 3. Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, married John Hall (3).

(IV) Love Roberts, only known son of Thomas Roberts (3), was born in Dover or vicinity about 1685. He settled in Dover, and married Elizabeth That part of Dover known as Somersworth was set off December 19, 1729, and incorporated as a town April 22, 1754. There were soldiers in the Revolution of this family from Somersworth Love Roberts, Francis Roberts and George Roberts. Children @f Love Roberts: 1. Hannah, born May Io, 1713. 2. Love, born April 21, 1721.

(V) Roberts, son or nephew of Love Roberts (4), was born in Somersworth about 1740. He was a weaver by trade, and is said to have lived on the Garland place. He removed to Berwick, Maine. He married a daughter of

(VI) Ebenezer Roberts, son of Roberts (5), born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, about 1770; married a daughter of Major James Roberts. James Roberts, of Berwick, was ensigned in the Revolution in Captain Philip Hubbard's company, Colonel James Scammon's regiment, in 1775; also captain in Colonel Lemuel Robinson's regiment, 1776; also major in Colonel John Whittier's regiment, 1776, and lieutenant colonel of Colonel Wigglesworth's regiment. Children of Ebenezer: 1. James How, mentioned below. 2. Joshua. 3. Alexander. 4. Rebecca. 5. Betsey. 6. Martha.

(VIII) Ebenezer Roberts, son of James How Roberts (7), was born in Berwick, Maine, September 2, 1831. He was educated in his native town and followed farming all his active days. He married, October 12, 1855, Mary Fletcher Rankin, born April, 1833, daughter of Rev. Dr. James Henry and Caroline Carleton (Frye) Rankin, of Danville, Vermont.

ville, Maine, February 8, 1817, married first January I1, 1836, Rev. James Henry Rankin, D. D., and had two daughters - Mary Fletcher Rankin, mentioned above, and Helen Wallace Rankin; she married second, Calvin A. Morse, and had daughter Susan Emma Morse; she married third, 1872, Benjamin F. Emerson. Mary Holt Fletcher, mother of Caroline Carleton Frye, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, November 22, 1787, died April 7, 1871; married Samuel Frye, of Dracut, Massachusetts, resided at Danville, Vermont; children: Aaron Porter, Mary Holt, Hannah A., Harriet N. Caroline Carleton, mentioned above, and Adeline C. Frye. Andrew Fletcher, father of Mary Holt Fletcher, born in Chelmsford, resided in his native town in the section now the city of Lowell, where he owned three hundred acres of land and was a prosperous farmer; died April" 2,°°1792; "marred fulyaea, 1774, Mary Holt, who married _ second, Willey; removed to MHopkinton, New Hampshire, selling the Fletcher estate to the first company organized to develop the water power at Lowell. Children of Andrew Fletcher: Nehemiah; Aaron; Moses; Jonathan; Porter; Patty; Mary Holt and Caleb Parker. Andrew Fletcher, father of Andrew last mentioned, born in Chelmsford October 2, 1721, resided there all his life, dying April 23, 1759; married Miay 14, 1745, Lydia Howard, who died February 9, 1747; second, May 5, 1748, Elizabeth Parker; children of first wife: Lydia; Andrew; children of second wife: Elizabeth and Benjamin. Josiah Fletcher, father of Andrew, born in Chelmsford, April 8, 1787, succeeded to the homestead of his grandfather, William Fletcher, and died in his native town January 30, 1760; married Joanna, daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Jefts) Spalding; children: Sarah, Josiah, Andrew, Rachel, Joanna and Henry. Lieutenant William Fletcher, father of Josiah Fletcher, was born in Chelmsford February 21, 1687; prominent citizen of Chelmsford; lieutenant, commissioned by Governor Dudley in 1704; owner of much land; died 1713; married Sarah Richardson, who died in 1748, aged eighty-eight years; children: Sarah, Esther, William, Reuben, Josiah, Mary, Lydia, Robert, Bethia, Ezekiel, Daniel, Deborah, Phebe and Rebecca. William Fletcher, father of William just mentioned, was born in England, coming to America with his father; was admitted a freeman in 1643; acquired a large estate at Chelmsford, and this estate descended in the family for many generations, and a part of it is now with- in the city of Lowell. The first town meeting was held in his house, and he was chosen one of the first board of selectmen of Chelmsford. He died November 6, 1677. He martied October 7, 1645 Lydia Bates, who died October 12, 1704; children: Lydia, Joshua, Mary, Paul, Sarah, William, Esther and Samuel Fletcher. Robert Fletcher, immigrant, father of William, came from Yorkshire, England, 1630, with wife and three sons, and settled at Concord, Massachusetts. Children of Ebenezer and Mary Fletcher (Rankin) Roberts: 1. Fred Henry, mentioned below. 2. Herbert F., resided formerly at Milford, now living at Wilmington, Massachusetts, manufacturer of confectionery, Fulton street, Boston ; married Kate Broster; children: Althera Adeline . Roberts, Eben Walker Roberts, Helen Fletcher Roberts, Olive Roberts.

(IX) Fred Henry Roberts, son of Ebenezer Roberts (8), was born in Berwick, Maine, July 15, 1856. His parents came to Boston to reside when he was ten years old, he was educated in the public schools of Boston and the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. In 1897 he embarked in business on his own account in Boston, beginning with a small capital in modest way. His business flourished and the Apollo chocolates became known all over the country. The business was incorporated under the name of the F. H. Roberts Company. The factory and salesroom of the company is at 128 Cross street, Boston. The specialty of the house continues to be distinctively high grade chocolates and bon-bons, bearing the Apollo brand. The officers of the corporation are: F. H. Roberts, president; A. L. Albrink, treasurer ; W. H. Cole, vice-president. The volume of business of the company now amounts to a half million dollars annually.

1899. In religion he is a Methodist, and is a liberal supporter of his church and of various charities. In politics he is a Republican, with independent proclivities. He is a prominent Free Mason a member of Washington Lodge, of Manchester, New Hampshire; Mt. Horeb Chapter, R. A. M.; Adinorum Council, R. S. M.; Trinity Commandery, K. T.; Edward A. Raymond Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32d degree, of Nashua, New Hampshire. He married, November 17, 1886, Althera A. Clendennin, born September 1, 1851, at East Derry, New Hampshire, died July, 1906, youngest daughter of Robert and Phebe (Kimball) Clendennin, granddaughter of Robert and Susan (Dow)

Clendennin, great-granddaughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Humphrey) Clendennin. William Clendennin, father of Robert last mentioned, married Hannah Morrison; his father, Archibald Clendennin, was the immigrant from Ulster Province, north of Ireland, in 1719, and one of the first settlers of Nitfield or Londonderry, New Hampshire, where all his descendants, mentioned above, lived. The Clendennin family is of ancient Scotch ancestry, and, like all the early Scotch-Irish settlers at Londonderry, was of the Presbyterian faith.

name in Massachusetts and Maine and possibly of the whole country, was born in England, about 1620. He was a pioneer in Salisbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1640, and proprietor of that town from 1646 to 1677. He married Jane , who died November 19, 1683. He died June 27, 1684. His will, proved September 30, 1684, bequeathed to eldest son Stephen, daughters Mary and Naomi Flanders and Sarah Newhall; grandchild Thomas Flanders, residue to be divided between sons Philip and John. Children: 1. Mary, died May 4, 1650. 2. Stephen, mentioned below.. 3. Mary, born May 7, 1650. 4. Philip, born July 14, 1652; married Martha Collins. 5. Sarah, born November 5, 1654. 6. Naomi, born December 15, 1656; married April 4, 1699, Benjamin Eastman. 7. John, born February 11, 1659; married Elizabeth Sargent; settled at Salisbury, later at Hampton, New Hampshire; descendants numerous. (II) Stephen Flanders, son of Stephen Flanders (1), born in Salisbury, March 8, 1646, died October 6, 1744, aged ninety-eight years six months twenty-six days; married December 28, 1670, Abigail Carter, born February II, 1653, daughter of Thomas and Mary Carter. They resided at Salisbury. Children: 1. Thomas, born February 17, 1671; died April 12, 1672. 2. Stephen, born January 31, 1672; married, 1706, Sarah Blaisdell. 3. Thomas, born December 3, 1673; married March 8, 1711, Catherine Hackett. 4, Daniel, mentioned below. 5. Joseph, born March 28, 1677. 6. Philip, born January 11, 1678; died February 23, 1678. 7. Sarah, born December 7, 1679; died January 16 following. 8. Philip, born January 8, 1681; married, February 2, 1710, Joanna Smith, resided at Kingston, New Hampshire. g. Jane, born March 1684; married, 1711, John Martin. 10. Jeremiah, born September, 1686; married, 1724, Mary Hayes. 11. Abigail, born October, 1688; married, 1734, Jabez Page.

(III) Daniel Flanders, son of Stephen Flanders (2), born in Salisbury, March 16, 1676, lived at Amesbury. Children: 1. Daniel. 2. Jedidiah, mentioned below.

(IV) Jedidiah Flanders, son of Daniel Flanders (3), born in Amesbury, April 13, 1705; married January 3, 1728, Eleanor Barnard. They settled in his native town. Children, born in Amesbury: 1. Sarah, born June 4, 1730; married Joseph Cass. 2. Timothy, born April 14, 1732; married Jane Fitz; lived in Amesbury. 3. Hannah, born February 1, 1735; married Levi Jones and Levi Mills. 4. Daniel, born February 5, 1738; married Sarah Weed; lived at Hopkinton, New Hampshire. 5. Barnard, born April 29, 1741; married Anne Currier, of South Hampton. 6. EIeanor, born December 9, 1745; married, December 14, 1766, Parker Flanders. 7. Jedidiah, mentioned below.

(V) Jedidiah Flanders, son of Jedidiah Flanders (4), born in Amesbury, August 29, 1748; married Judith Tewksbury; resided at Salisbury until the spring of 1795, when he removed to Cornville, Maine, and settled in the wilderness. Seven families had settled before he came. He built mills in that town. All his eleven children but one married and lived near him. He died December 6, 1823, aged seventy-five years three months seven days.

(VI) James Flanders, grandson or near relative of Jedidiah Flanders (5), born about 1810, lived at Baring, Oldtown and Carroll, Maine. Children: 1. Elbridge W. 2. Mary Ann. 3. James. 4. Samuel. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Adariene 7. Charles A., mentioned below. 8. Mary Gale.

(VII) Charles A. Flanders, son of James Flanders (6), born at Baring, Maine, died 1890, at Sacramento, California, where he is buried. He was educated in the common schools, and at the age of sixteen went to Nevada. He became interested in the lumber business, and became eventually one of the largest dealers in lumber in the west, and was well known through the south and west. He was the founder of the town of Lodi, Califorfornia. He became famous in the mining regions as the owner of the wonderful placer gold mine "Widow," which he sold later to an English syndicate. He returned east and made his home in Somerville. He was a prominent Iiree Mason, one of the charter members of Coeur de Lion Commandery, Knights Templar. He married Evelyn Frances Lindsay, born at Carroll, Maine, April 22, 1850. Children: 1. Ralph L., mentioned below. 2. Harry, born at Empire City, Nevada, October 3, 1874.

(VIIL) Ralph L. Flanders, son of Charles A. Flanders (7), was born at Carroll, Maine, August I, 1869. When he was a year old he removed with the family to Empire City, Nevada. Seven years later he returned from Nevada to his old home in Carroll, where he attended the public schools and the Lee Normal Academy, graduating in the class of 1886, the youngest graduate of that academy. He taught school at Topsfield, Massachusetts, and at Drew, Maine, for a year. In 1888 he took a course in Gray's Business College, Portland, Maine, and the following year became bookkeeper for Savage, Flanders & Elms, wholesale tobacco dealers. After three years the firm was reorganized and he became one of the partners, under the firm name of Savage, Flanders & Company. The firm had a large and prosperous business. In 1897 he sold out to advantage and engaged in the real estate and brokerage business in Bangor, Maine, for two years. Having sold his business in Bangor he removed to Boston to accept the position of assistant manager of the New England Conservatory of Music, a position to which he was chosen by vote of the trustees. He was. elected general manager January 2, 1902, the youngest man to hold such a position. The New England Conservatory of Music is the largest institution of its kind in the World, and one of the best managed and most successful. Within three years from his appointment the number of students had increased from 1850 to 2803, and the growth has been steady. Year by year the Conservatory has gained in reputation and standing as the quality of its teaching has been demonstrated and the work of its students and graduates manifested. It has the unqualified approval of the best musical people of the country, and is drawing its students from all sections of America. While the high standard of instruction, the best talent in the musical world on the staff of instruction and the enthusiastic support of the alumni contribute together to the growth and prosperity of the Conservatory, the excellent business management of Mr. Flanders has made the most of the opportunities offered to the institution for development. Mr. Flanders makes his home at 10 Brooks street, Brookline, Massachusetts. He married October 7, 1896, Mary Louise, born August 12, 1870, daughter of Joseph B. and Eleanor. (Berry) Ayer, of Bangor, Maine. She was educated in the public and high schools of Bangor, and studied instrumental music in Boston, and taught music several years before marriage. Children: 1. Evelyn Hope, born at Bangor, November 28, 1808. 2. Frances Mary, born at Boston, September 7, 1901. 3. Marion Louise, born at Brookline, Massachusetts, April 19, 1906.

TAYLOR Granville, Prince Edward Island, where he spent his active years. He was a very successful farmer. Of his nine children, the youngest was George Hugh Taylor, mentioned below.

(II) George Hugh Taylor, son of James Taylor (1), was born in Granville, February 4, 1770. He was educated in the common schools, and at the age of eighteen left home and settled at Manchester, New Hampshire. He learned the trade of carpenter, and has followed it as a trade and business ever since. He came to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1895, and entered the employ of the Kitson Machine Company, where he is still employed. He is a regular attendant upon the services of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has shown a great interest in the charitable and benevolent work of his church, especially in his own neighborhood, in the development of which he has taken an active part. In politics Mr. Taylor is a Republican. He is a member of no secret societies, and his chief interests are found in his business and his home.

from Tenterden, England, in March, 1634, with wife Lydia, seven children and seven servants. He settled at Scituate, where he was living and had his house built, according to Parson Lothrop, as early as September, 1634. He was the first ruling elder of the Scituate church, indicating that he was one of the foremost citizens. He held many town offices. His was the third house on Kent street, south of Greenfield Lane. He also had lands at Long Marsh, and in 1640 land on the east side of North river, below the Gravelly Beach. His will, dated May 25, 1641, proved July 31,

1641, bequeathed to wife; sons Joseph, Thomas and Stephen; daughters Judith, Mary Sarah, and Lydia; servants Edward Ginkins and Edward Tarte; his wife to have a house at Tenterden. His son Joseph was made executor of the will of his father's brother, Joseph Tilden, citizen and girdler by trade, of London, February 1, 1642. The widow Lydia and daughters Mary and Sarah were the legatees, and Lydia afterwards married Richard Garrett. Children: 1. Joseph, married Elizabeth Twisden; had the homestead. 2. Thomas (a Thomas came to Plymouth in 1623 and had three lots assigned to him - perhaps the same). 3. Mary, married March 13, 1630, Thomas Lapham. 4. Sarah, married March 13, 1630, George Sutton. 5. Judith, married Abraham Prebles. 6. Lydia, married Richard Garrett. 7. Stephen, mentioned below.

(IIIT) David Tilden, son of Stephen Tilden (2), born in Marshfield, 1686, died at Stoughton, July 3, 1756, aged seventy-one years; married Abigail Pitcher, born about 1690. They settled in Stoughton. Children, born at Scituate: 1. David Jr., born 1711. 2. Abigail, 1713. 3. Hannah, 1715. 4. Elijah, mentioned below. Born at Stoughton: 5. Stephen, January 28, 1726-7. 6. Nathaniel, July 23, 1730.

(IV) Elijah Tilden, son of David Tilden (3), born in Scituate, 1720, died at Stoughton, March 7, 1799, aged seventy-nine years; married, March 3, 1743, Ruth Wadsworth, who died May 18, 1761, at Stoughton. Children: 1, Elijah, born December 13, 1744, died young. 2. Elijah, mentioned below. 3. Ezra, born June 7, 1751; soldier in Revolution. 4. Ruth, born February 17, 1753, died March 6, 1773. 5. William, born September 9, 1755, resided in Stoughton. 6. Mary, born January Bi F750:

(V) Elijah Tilden, son of Elijah Tilden (4), was born in Stoughton, August 31, 1746. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain William Briggs's company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment, 1775; in Captain Timothy Stow's company, Colonel Ephraim Wheelock's regiment, 1776; in Captain John Ellis's company, Colonel Thomas Poor's regiment, 1778-9, in Captain Job Cushing's

(VI) Elijah Tilden, son or grandson of Elijah Tilden (5), born at Scituate, April 20, 1802; died July 1, 1873. He had a brother Lindale, or lLendal, who married Chloe 7 , of Scituate; owned part of the ship "Four Sisters," of Scituate, built 1819. Elijah settled at Hingham; married Lucy, daughter of Tobias and Sukey (Damon) Cook, born at Scituate, December 29, 1808; she married second, June 15, 1875, Isaac L. Kenerson, a widower. She died November 21, 1879, in her seventy-first year. He was a truckman by trade, and his home was on Main street, Hingham Center. Children: 1. Lucy Ann, born October 1, 1828, died November 2 following. 2. Elijah Douglas, born October 23, 1830. 3. James Henry, born December 28, 1831; married February 12, 1856, Mary H., daughter of Seth S. Wilder; she died August 26, 1866; he died September 29, 1874. 4. George Washington, born March 27, 1833. 5. Robert Cook, mentioned below. 6. Lucy Ann, born March 14, 1838; died May 14, 1860. 7. Lydia Douglas, born June 15, 1839; married Willard Snow, daughter of Simeon; died at Somerville, May 25, 1872. 8. Amanda, born April 7, 1842; married April, 1870, John T. Siders. 9. Tobias Cook, born May 24, 1844. 10. Edwin Franklin, born November 12, 1846; married January 29, 1877, Laura M. Sylvester. 11. Joseph Warren, born July 5, 1840; died August 28, 1840. 12. Warren Alfred, born October 20, 1850; died October 12; 1o5 1.

(VII) Robert Cook Tilden, son of Elijah Tilden (6), born in Hingham, January 13, 1836; married Jane Taylor, born on Prince Edward Island, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Purdy) Clay Taylor, whose children were Elizabeth, William, Catherine, Marian, Jane, mentioned above, Zelpha, Rebecca, Henry, James and Ira Taylor. Jacob Taylor had one other child, Nancy, by a first wife. Elisha Taylor, father of Jacob, was a drummer boy in the Revolutionary army, in a Maine company under Captain Noah Lankton, Colonel Mark Hopkins, 1776, was taken prisoner by the British and sent to Canada, where he finally settled, and married Bushey. Children of Robert Cook and Jane Tilden: 1. Harriet E., mentioned below. 2. Elmer E., born July 5, 1862; married Asenath Mann; resides at 80 Porter street, Somerville; child. Irene. 3. Edith A., born November 7, 1873;