Hudson Town (part 6 of 10)

Hinds, Haines and Haynes, and the spelling for several generations varied among his descendants, this variation in some cases extending to the present time. He was admitted to the church at Salem, November 14, 1647; gave a letter of attorney November 25, 1647, to Thomas Hines, or Haynes, (both doubtless pronounced Hynes) merchant of London, for collection at Danes Halle, Bedfordshire, England, his former home. He mortgaged land at Salem, 1047, and it was discharged 1660. He owned land in common with Richard Hines at Salem. Both were related no doubt to Robert Hines who was in Salem in 1648. William Hines removed to Marblehead, and married Sarah Ingersoll. Children: William, mentioned below. Francis, mentioned below. (Il) Francis Hines, son of William Hines (1), was a resident of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Children of Francis and Elizabeth Hines: 1. William, born December 4, 1697; married December 22, 1725, Lydia Heath. 2. Elizabeth, born August 13, 1698; married, 1714, John Tarr. 3. Isabella, born May 19, 1701. 4. Deborah, bornr April 20, 17037 95: Francis, born May 18, 1705. 6. Annis, born June 26, 1707; married September 12, 1726, Nathaniel Wallis, of Beverly. 7. Sarah, born May 14, 1710. 8. Samuel, baptized October 26, 1712. 9. Hannah, baptized March Io, 1716-7. "a (II) William Hines Jr., son of William Hines (1), born about 1655, in Salem; married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and his second wife, Sarah (Hubbard) and granddaughter of Samuel and Frances Ward. Abigail joined the church May 19, 1684, at Salem, and was one of the original members of the Marblehead church. She died 1688, and he married, second, Elizabeth He was a soldier in King Philip's war under Captain Joseph Gardner, and had a grant of land as payment in 1728, over fifty years later, in the Narragansett grant, at what is now Amherst, New Hampshire. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Abigail, born January, 1684, baptized February 1,. 1684-5. 3. Rebecca,. born April 7, 1686. 4. William, mentioned below. Children of William and Elizabeth.

(111) John Hines, son of William Hines (2), born in Marblehead, February 14, 1682; married November 25, 1700, Constance Bennett. She married second, May 31, 1721, John Pickworth. Children, born at Marblehead: 1. Abigail, baptized May 26, 1706. 2. John, baptized June 22, 1707. 3. Abigail, baptized June II, 1710. 4. Susanna, baptized November 8, 1713.

(111) William Hines, son of William Hines (2), was born in Marblehead, and baptized July 22, 1688. He resided at Marblehead. Children of William and Ruth Hines, born at Marblehead: 1. John, May 24, 1720. 2. William, August 13, 1722. 3. James, baptized October 25, 1724. 4. Joseph, baptized November 13, 1726. 5. Ruth, baptized April 9, 1732. 6. Elizabeth, baptized March 21, 1735-06.

(111) Benjamin Hines, son of William Hines (2), born in Marblehead, September 3, 1705, baptized there September 16 following; married May 29, 1727, Alice Peach. Children, born at Marblehead: 1. Benjamin, baptized January 28, 1727-8. 2. John, baptized September 28, 1729. 3. William, baptized April 16, 1732. 4. Alice, baptized September 209, 1734. 5. Sarah, baptized September 12, 1736.

(V) Richard Hines, grandson of one of the above, was born in Buckfield, Maine. Children: 1. Child, born 1825, died 1827. . 2. Richard Alcanda, mentioned below.

(VI) Richard Alcanda Hines, son of Richard Hines (5), born in Maine; married Hannah Smith, a native of Poland, Maine. Children: 1. Emma J., married Leonard S. Locke; children: i. Mildred Earle Locke, born April 22, 1873, married Wilfred Eugene Robinson (children: Alden Standish Robinson ; Locke Eugene Robinson; Wilfred Earle Robinson) ; ii. Richard Standish Locke, born November 15, 1879. 2. Alfred H., mentioned below.

(VIL) Alfred H. Hines, son of Richard A. Hines (6), born at Falmouth (Portland), Maine, January 13, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1887 he started in business in Somerville as a carpenter and builder, and has enjoyed an extensive business. He was the builder of the present Young Men's Christian Association on Highland street, Somerville; the buildings of the North Packing Company, and of the New England Dressed Beef and Wool Company; also of Sprague & Hathaway, West Somerville. He built the Morgan Chapel, Boston; the buildings of the Somerville Electric Light Company; the Weston Electric Light Company, the high school building and the Melrose engine house. Mr. Hines is a member of the Odd Fellows, an active member of the Prospect Hill Congregational Church, and was formerly superintendent of the Sunday school, and for sixteen years deacon of the church. He has served also on all the important committees of the church and worked hard to promote its interests and benevolences. He is a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a Republican in politics. He married Harriet E., daughter of Robert and Jane (Taylor) Tilden of Somerville. (See sketch). Children: 1. Florence L., (twin) born August 15, 1883; married, June, 1907, Tyler Carpenter; she is a graduate of the Somerville high school. 2. Bertha (twin), born and died August 15, 1883. 3. Robert Tilden, born September 16, 1885, graduate of Somerville high school, class of Ig05. 4. Chester Gilbert, born August 24, 1887, graduate of Somerville grammar school, 1905, now a student in the Somerville high school.

England in 1633-4 and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Shortly after the Revolutionary war Captain Benjamin Pierce, a descendant of Thomas and a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Merrill) Pierce, settled in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and cleared a farm from the wilderness. He served with distinction in the war for national independence, attaining the rank of captain for gallant and meritorious conduct in the field, and after settling in New Hampshire he was commissioned a brigadier-general in the state militia. He subsequently became prominent in public affairs and was finally elected governor, retaining that office for two years - 1828-29. From

1836 until his death, which occurred in 1839, he was vice-president of the Massachusetts division of the Society of the Cincinnati. His first wife was Elizabeth Andrews, and _ his second wife was Anna Kendrick. He reared a family of nine children, and his fourth son, Franklin Pierce, became the fourth president of the United States. Samuel Pierce, also a descendant of Thomas and a distant relative of the governor, was a native of Francestown, New Hampshire, and went from there to Hebron, same state. He married Olive Lovejoy, a native of Hebron, and probably a descendant of John Lovejoy, of Andover, Massachusetts, who was born about the year 1630 and was the progenitor of most, if not all, of that name in New Hampshire.

Samuel Pierce, son of Samuel and Olive (Lovejoy) Pierce, was born in Hebron, June 12, 1819. He was educated in the district schools, and coming to Massachusetts when a young man he settled in Reading, where he acquired prominence both in business and political affairs. In 1847 he engaged in the manufacture of organ pipes, which developed into an important industrial enterprise, and he continued to direct its affairs for nearly fifty years, or until his death, which occurred September 22, 1895. In 1897 the Samuel Pierce Organ Pipe Company was formed, growing out of this business. He participated actively in local public affairs, serving with marked ability as a member of the board of selectmen ; was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives for the year 1870, and in politics he acted with the Republican party. In religion he was an active member of the South Congregational Church.

On September 9, 1841, Mr. Pierce was united in marriage with Miss Sarah C. Eaton, who survives him. She was born in North Reading, August 12, 1818, daughter of William and Mary (Gray) Eaton, and is a descendant of John Eaton, who came from England at an early date in the colonial period. Of this union there were four children: Caroline, born April 3, 1844; Walter, born June 10, 1846; Charles, born May 30, 1850; and Clara C., born May 29, 1852. Of these the only one now living is Clara C., who resides with her aged mother at the homestead in Reading.

Christopher Dempsey was born in Rath Bran, county Wicklow, Ireland, in 1775. He married there in 1812, and had seven children. He was a farmer, and was descended from an ancient Irish family of that county.

(II) Patrick Dempsey, fifth child of Christopher Dempsey (1), was born in Rath Bran, county Wicklow, March, 1822. He received his early education in the parish schools of his native place. At the age of thirteen he went to work in the city of Dublin in the employ of a relative as clerk in a grocery store. He remained there until 1841, when he determined to seek his fortune in America. His first employment in America was in the Hope Print Works at Fall River, Massachusetts. He apprenticed himself to learn the trade of cloth printing and acquired a thorough knowledge of the business, working in various mills in Cranston, Rhode Island, Somerville and Lowell, Massachusetts. His constant application, his grasp of the details and withal his high character and steadiness attracted the attention of his employers and won promotion. He was made foreman of the room where the prints underwent the process of dyeing, drying: and finishing in the course of their manufacture into the finished product. But he was ambitious to have a business of his own and with his savings from his first five years of labor as a mill operative he started in the retail grocery business on Market street. Soon afterward he began to manufacture and bottle soda water and other beverages generally called "tonics." Business prospered and he had to move to larger quarters adding to his business the bottling of beers and becoming a wholesale dealer in malt liquors. His store was at 381 and 383 Market street. He continued in the grocery business at this location until 1869 after which he devoted his whole attention to wholesaling and rectifying liquors and bottling beers, etc. Mr. Dempsey died December 13, 1902, and his business is continued by his son George E. Dempsey.

Mr. Dempsey was an interesting example of a self-made American of foreign birth. Although gifted with no little natural ability and much common sense, Mr. Dempsey knew the importance of education and hard work. He improved his mind by study in his younger years. He made the most of his opportunities. Of fine physique and commanding presence he retained his mental and physical health almost to the end of his long life. In social life he was genial and attracted friends readily. He was a man of acknowledged integrity and honor in his business dealings.

When he first entered politics he was inclined to affiliate with the Whigs, but in 1856 voted for the Free Soil candidate for president. He became a War Democrat later, and supported General George B. McClellan in 1864 and continued a Democrat for many years. In later years he was independent, especially in municipal elections. He was also a supporter of the Republican principle of Protection to American industry through a tariff system devised for the purpose. Mr. Dempsey and his wife were members and loyal supporters of the St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Lowell. For more than thirty years he was a director of the First National Bank of Lowell.

He married first, in 1848, Bridget C. Hill, of Lowell. She died January 29, 1859, leaving three children. He married second, in 1863, Margaret Deehan, daughter of Charles D. and Isabelle (Haggerty) Deehan, of Portland, Maine. Children of Patrick and Bridget C. Dempsey: 1. Katharine M., born August 2, 1850. 2. Margaretta F., born November 1, 1853. 3. Elizabeth A., born May 3, 1856. Children of Patrick and Margaret D. Dempsey: 4. George C., born April 11, 1865; married Abbie Hanley and have three children. 5. Katharine, born November 11, 1866; married James H. Carmichael and they have five children. 6. Mary Isabel, born April 6, 1869, married Dr. Thomas Harrington and they have three children. .7. Sarah, botn April) 21, 1871. 8. Helen, born January 15, 1873; married James Phelan. 9. Alice, born January 6, 1875; married Dr. George Leahey and they have two children. 10. Anna, born October 4, 1876. 11. Edith, born July 3, 1880.

Thomas Hilliard was born about 1775. He learned the trade of blacksmith, and settled in Boston, having a shop near his house, not far from Commercial street in the center of Boston. He bought land on Sheaf's Lane from John Bellows and Simeon Smith in 1804. Much of his work was for the ships in the neighboring harbor and the shipyards of the vicinity.. He was interested in public affairs, and a man of sound judgment and good education. He was appointed justice of the peace, and served as magistrate for many years. He was a member of the Methodist church, and played the bass viol in the choir. He was highly respected in the community. In politics he was a Whig. He married at Enfield, Massachusetts, Sally Watkins, born at Truro, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Cobb) Watkins. Children: 1. Thomas, born at Boston; married first, Pauline Brown; second, Abbie Sampson, of Duxbury; third, Rebecca Nockerson, of Provincetown; children of first wife: i. Mary, married Daniel C. Cook; ii. Adeline, married Benjamin Brown, and had

Abbie H. Brown; iii. Pauline, married George Whitney, and had George, Frank, Arthur, . Charles, Lena, Frederick, and Addie May Whitney ; child of third wife: iv. Rebecca. 2. Sally, married Elisha Cook, of Provincetown, and had Salome T. Cook. 3. Stephen, married Sarah Cook, and had Stephen and Sarah. 4. Jairus, married first, Emily Cook; second, Elizabeth Paine; children: i. John D., married Rebecca Hill, and had Nellie, Alice and John; ii. Helen. 5. Joan, married Reuben C. Case, of Provincetown; children; i. Sarah C. Case, married Samuel C. Small: ii. Almeda Hilliard Case, married E. Parker Cook and had Sadie Hillard Cook, died young, and William K. Cook, who married December 8, 1891 Mabel N. Gott of Arlington and have Robert Parker Cook, born June 8, 1895, and Stanwood Hilliard Cook, born May 21, 1898. 6. Richard Watkins, born November 28, 1818; mentioned below.

Richard Watkins Hilliard, son of Thomas Hilliard, was born at Provincetown, Massachusetts, November 28, 1818, and died at Arlington January 30, 1889, of heart disease. He received his education in the common schools of his native town, and early began to work as a fisherman, going to the Grand Banks, and on whaling voyages. He followed the sea up to the time of his marriage, when he did shore fishing, and became engaged as a wrecker, having charge of a wrecking crew for insurance companies. He raised many vessels and obtained salvage for the various companies with which he was connected. After twenty-three years in this business he came to East Boston and in 1865 started in the retail fish trade at 15 Central street. In November, 1876 he disposed of his business and removed to Arlington. After a few years of retired life he established himself in the fish business, and built up a large and profitable trade. He retired from active life a short time before he died. He resided on Teel street in a residence which he built. In politics he was a Republican. While living at Provincetown he attended the Methodist church, but became a member of the Maverick Orthodox Congregational church at East Boston. He was a man of profound religious convictions,-and an ardent temperance man. He was unremitting in his efforts to hold the cause of temperance, and especially to aid any victim of strong drink, to reform. He married first, November 22, 1841, Lucy Holmes Soper, born at Provincetown, died October 18, 1849, daughter of Captain Samuel Soper; second, October 4, 1851, Mrs. Caroline (Hall) French, born

January 4, 1827, daughter of William and . Sarah (Kent) Hall of Marshfield. Her father was a shipbuilder. Children of first wife: 1. Lucy Evelyn, born August 9, 1843; married March 9, 1864, Charles Parker Dyer, of Provincetown. 2. Infant, born October 1, 1849; died October 7, 1849. Children of second wife: 3. Infant, born February 9, 1853; died March 30, 1853. 2. Richard Walter, mentioned below. 5. Charles Ellsworth, born June 20, 1861; died September 24, 1861. 6. Edward C., born May 20, 1863; died October 12, 1863. 7. Carrie Watkins, died August, 1860.

Richard Walter Hilliard, son of Richard Watkins Hilliard, was born at Provincetown, April 16, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and in 1864 removed with his parents to East Boston, and entered the public schools, graduating from the Prescott Emerson grammar school in 1870. He then entered the Boston English high school, but in 1873 was obliged to relinquish his studies on account of ill health. For a year he worked for his father in the fish business. In August, 1873, he entered the employ of the Liverpool & London and Globe Insurance Companies at 66 State street, Boston, where he was clerk until January 1, 1876. The next six months he worked for John C. Paige & Company, and subsequently for the Commonwealth Insurance Company as counter clerk, at 30 Congress street. He became a special agent for this company in 1883, and the next year entered into business with W. H. Smith under the firm name of Hilliard & Smith, at 13 Kilby street, Boston. The firm did a general marine, accident, fire and life insurance business. In six months the firm was dissolved and Mr. Hilliard assumed control and removed the office to 33 Central street. In May, 1888, he was appointed secretary of the New England Bureau of United Inspection, an organization of stock companies for the purpose of inspecting properties throughout New England. Mr. Hilliard is at present manager of that organization, a position which he has held since 1905. He also does a general insurance business, which he established in 1879 at Arlington. He is special agent of the Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company. In 1889 he was instrumental in the formation of the Arlington Cooperative Bank, and was its first secretary, continuing in that office fourteen years. He erected his present beautiful residence at 90 Jason street, in 1898. He is an independent Republican in politics, and has served his party as delegate, and as secretary of the town committee. He was made a Mason in Mount Olivet Lodge, Cambridgeport, is at present a member of Hiram Lodge, of Arlington, and was its worshipful master in 1902-3; is a member of Menotomy Chapter, R. A. M., and served as its high priest in 1892-3; is a member of Orient Council, R. S. M., and of Cambridge Commandery, K. T., serving as eminent commander in 1904-5; is a member of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, Scottish Rite Masonry, of Boston; of Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, sixteenth degree; Mount Olivet Chapter of Rose Croix, eighteenth degree; of Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree, and he has served in numerous offices in these higher bodies of Masonry. He is past grand scribe of the grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Massachusetts, and at present representative of that body to the grand chapter of Tennessee Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of the Massachusetts Order of High Priesthood ; of Bethel Lodge No. 12, Odd Fellows of Arlington; of Menotomy Council, Royal Arcanum, in which he has held office. He is a member of the Arlington Boat Club, and served on its building committee and as secretary of the club. He is a member of the Insurance Library Association of Boston; of the National Fire Protection Association of the United States; is secretary and treasurer of the Fire Underwriters Uniformity Association of the United States. He joined the Maverick Congregational Church at East Boston in 1876, and became a member of the Arlington church upon his removal there. He has since been treasurer of the society, in 1887 and 1888. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school and president of the Christian Endeavor Society at Arlington.

He married first, October 27, 1880, Lizzie Palmer Nelson, born November 30, 1856, died August 26, 1888, daughter of William Johnson and Ann (Palmer) Nelson of Hingham. Her father was a contractor and builder. He married second, November 18, 1891, Della Maria Farrington, born June 14, 1871, daughter of Clayton James and Ella Leondine (Adams) Farrington, of Leominster. Her father was a clothier and shirt manufacturer, and a prominent Freemason. Mrs. Hilliard is a lineal descendant of John Alden and Priscilla, through the Adams line. Children of first wife: 1. Carrie Louise, born August 11, 1881; married April 23, 1907, George Asher Johnson, of Dorchester. 2. Marion, born March 11, 1883; died April 16, 1883. 3. Albert Watkins, born

June 27, 1885; married, March 24, 1906, Ada Normand Stephenson, of Arlington, and has one child, Marion, born October 20, 1907. 4. Charles Parker, born May 9, 1888. Child of second wife: 5. Clayton Adams, born August

LINCOLN ancestor, was from Wymondham, county Norfolk, England. He was a brother of Stephen Lincoln, and with a number of others of the name, ancestors of all the American Lincolns of Colonial ancestry, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. His mother Joan was one of the party of colonists. There were in this remarkable Lincoln colony at Hingham no less than four of the name of Thomas Lincoln, and the pioneers found it convenient to distinguish them by the names of their trades. Thomas Lincoln, miller, removed to Taunton; Thomas Miller, cooper, resided at Hingham; and Thomas Lincoln, husbandman, mentioned below. Besides these we find Daniel Lincoln, seaman and sergeant; Samuel Lincoln, progenitor of President Abraham Lincoln; and Stephen Lincoln, brother of Thomas Lincoln, the husbandman. .

Wymondham, or Windham, was _ probably the birthplace of Stephen and Thomas, but they were closely connected with the others of the name who came to Hingham, New England, from Hingham, England. Many of the descendants of Thomas Lincoln, the husbandman, have lived in Maine and in Worcester county, Massachusetts. The designation "husbandman" was found necessary in all records and legal papers, such as deeds and grants of land. Thomas was selectman in 1662- 69-72. His house was on Fort Hill street, on the upland by the side of the highway leading to Weymouth mill. He married Margaret, daughter of Richard Langer. In his will dated February 20, 1659, Langer bequeaths all the land in Hingham, New England, which he bought of his son-in-law, Thomas Lincoln, and land at Great Rock and Conihasset he gave to his daughter Margaret's son, Joshua Lincoln. Margaret died at Hingham, March 5, 1693-94. 4. Mr. Lincoln died August, 1692. His will was dated May 24, 1681; bequeathing to wife and eight children. Chil- 'dren: 1. Caleb, born October 8, 1643. died young. 2. Joshua, mentioned below. - 3. Caleb, born May 3, 1645 (twin of Joshua), married, May 8, 1684, Rachel Bate or Bates, daughter of James and Ruth (Lyford) Bates. 4. Susanna, born August 16, 1646, married,

(II) Joshua Lincoln, son of Thomas Lincoln (1), baptized at Hingham, May 3, 1645; married, April 20, 1666, Deborah, daughter of Captain Joshua and Ellen (Brook) Hobart. She was baptized in Hingham, September 12, 1647, died there November 29, 1684, aged thirty-seven years. He died April 21, 1694, im his forty-ninth year. He was a carpenter by trade; constable of Hingham 1672; selectman 1682 and 1691. His home was on Fort Hill street. Children, born in Hingham: 1. Peter, born June 6, 1667, died July 11, 1668. 2. Joshua, born Miay 9, 1669, married, June 2, 1692, Mary , who died August 9, 1693; married (second), February 12, 1693-4, Hannah Palmer, daughter of John. 3. Peter, mentioned below. 4. Jacob, born March 6, 1672-73, died April 26 following. 5. Deborah, born August 31, 1674, married, 1696, John Lasell. 6. Margaret, born May 14, 1677, died November 30, 1683. 7. Caleb, born Ociober 9g, 1678. 8. Jacob, born March 21, 1680-81. 9g. Solomon, born November 25, 1682. married Elizabeth Franklin, daughter of David Franklin, of Boston; resided in Scituate. 10. Isaac, born November 14, 1684, died December 29, 1689.

(III) Peter Lincoln, son of Joshua Lincoln (2), born in Hingham, January 19, 1670-71; married there, May 11, 1703, Ruth, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth (Hewett) Beal. She was born at Hingham, March 15, 1682-83, died November 4, 1750, in her sixty-eighth vear. He died August 31, 1731, in his sixtyfirst year. He was a cordwainer by trade. He resided in the paternal mansion on the Fort Hill street homestead. Children, born at Hingham: 1. Ruth, born September 15, 1704, died unmarried August 4, 1768. 2, Deborah, born January 16, 1705-06, married, March 11, 1745-46, John Hassell, widower. 3. Joshua, born February 4, 1707-08, married Mary Battles, May 18, 1732, daughter of Edward and

(IV) Isaac Lincoln, son of Peter Lincoln (3), was born in Hingham, April 16, 1720. He learned the tailor's trade and removed from Hingham to Boston and thence to Sudbury, Massachusetts. He married, September 26, 1743, at Sudbury, Hannah Eveluth, of that place, and he settled in Sudbury. They had one child, Isaac, mentioned below.

(V) Isaac Lincoln, son of Isaac Lincoln (4), was born at Sudbury, July 10, 1744. He married at Sudbury, February 15, 1763, Experience Willis. Lincoln was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain Moses Stone's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Ezekiel How's regiment, April 19, 1775. Children, recorded as born in Sudbury: 1. Daniel, mentioned below. 2. William, born October 20, 1766, married, October 16, 1792, Sarah Haynes. 3. David, born March 5, 1769, died young. 4. Peter, born February 26, 1771. 5. Isaac, Jr., born November 4, 1776, married, December 24, 1801, Kezia Haynes. 6. David, born May 2,/1779: 77.) Anna, born April, 1ag178s-. 8. Abigail or Nabby, born June 13, 1785, married, December 21, 1806, James Smith.

(VIL) David Lincoln, son of Daniel Lincoln (6), was born April 8, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont. About 1832 he located in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and was an active and useful citizen with high character and many sterling qualities. He was a member of the Congregational church of Hopkinton. He died at Lowell. He married, September 25, 1834, Mary A. Smith, of Hopkinton, born August, 1817. Children, born in Rutland: 1. Eliza, A., born January 19, 1868, married William D. Purrington, of New Hampshire; children:

David Lincoln (7), was born in Hopkinton, January 4, 1842. He received his early education in the district schools of Hopkinton, working on his father's farm during the summer seasons. At the age of seventeen he gave his attention exclusively to farming. His father had a large dairy farm and was a pros- perous farmer. The farm came to William H. and he has continued farming on the homestead as his principal vocation in life. He finds a market in Boston for the butter and milk produced on his farm. He has one of the largest and finest stock and dairy farms of his section of the county. In politics Mr. Lincoln is a Republican, and has always been interested in public questions and _ political campaigns, though never seeking office or caring for public honors. He belongs to no orders or societies, preferring to devote his whole time and attention to his farm and home. He is a man of quiet, domestic tastes ; kindly, charitable and tolerant in his opinions and feelings. He makes many friends and retains friendship. Although not a member of the Congregational church he is a regular attendant upon the services. He married, May 15, 1864, Jennie Smith, born in Canada, May 8, 1844. Children:) a. Ida, bora Apriiie: 1867, married Irving Sweet, of Milford; child, Walter H. Sweet. 2. George Walter, born July 20, 1870, married Mary Sweet, of Milford; children: Maud, Esther. 3. Raymond.

(II) Isaac Moorhouse, son of Benjamin Moorhouse, was born near Leeds, in Yorkshire, England. He married Juliana Pearce, daughter of Shadrach S. Pearce, a native of county Kent, England, and came to America, making his home in Boston. He was a gifted © musician and a noted violincello player in his day. All his children have inherited his talent for music. Children, born in Boston, Massachusetts: 1. Henry P., married Fanny Hutchinson, of New York City; now living in Paris, France. 2. S. Woodbridge, born March 7, 1852, mentioned below. 3. Arthur B., married Ella Metcalf, of Medford, where they now live. 4. S. Percy, married Maud Turner and resides at Wollaston, Massachusetts. 5. Mary E., married Dr. H. M. Smith, of New York City. 6. Helen J., married Moses Williams, of Escondido, California.

(II1) S. Woodbridge Moorhouse, son of Isaac Moorhouse (2), was born in Boston, March 7, 1852, and was educated in the public schools of his native city, in the Brimmer school under Principal Joshua Bates and the English high school under Thomas Sherwin, principal. After two years in the high school he left home and went to work in a wholesale grocery house in Chicago. He returned to

Boston a few years later and entered the employ of Dana Brothers, wholesale dealers in molasses, and for about eight years was traveling salesman for this concern. He left Dana Brothers to accept a similar position with W. H. Emerson, who was a dealer in the same line of goods, and was a salesman for this house for a period of nineteen years. Since 1896 Mr. Moorhouse has been connected with the firm of Haskell, Adams & Company, wholesale grocers, in charge of the buying of molasses, rice and. sugar. He is well known and highly esteemed throughout New England in the grocery trade. Among his townsmen in Melrose he is highly esteemed for his upright and straightforward character, his agreeable and attractive manner and speech. In politics Mr. Moorhouse is a Republican, but inclined to independence, especially in municipal affairs. He and his family attend the Congregational church. He is a member of the Order of American Workmen.

He married, June 10, 1874, S. Isabel Weston, daughter of Peter D. Weston, of Medford, Massachusetts. Children: Helen Isabel, born June 13, 1876, at Melrose, educated in the public and high schools of that place; now living with her parents at home. Two other children died in infancy.

John Wesley Jones, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1825, resided in Melrose for many years, and was engaged in the newspaper business. When the integrity of the Union was placed in jeopardy by the secession of the slave-holding states he marched with the nation's defenders to the scene of conflict and attained the rank of lieutenant. He married Clara Jackson, a native of Melrose, and had a family of three children.

Walter De Haven Jones, son of John W. and Clara (Jackson) Jones, was born in Melrose, August 7, 1856. His preliminary studies were pursued in the Melrose public schools, and he completed his education in Brooklyn, New York. For a period of nine years he was engaged in the wholesale clothing business in New York City, but subsequently returned to his native state, and entering the service of the Merchants' Despatch Company in Boston, was connected with that concern for over seventeen years. Upon his return from the metropolis Mr. Jones resumed his residence in Melrose, and has ever since participated actively in local civic affairs, devoting much of his time to the public service, in which he has displayed marked ability. For two years he officiated as clerk of the board of selectmen under the old town government; was for a similar period a member of the board of registrars; and since the organization of the city government in 1900 his time has been occupied almost exclusively in the interest of the municipality, his multifarious duties embracing the offices of city clerk, clerk of the board of aldermen and clerk of committees. For nine years he served as secretary of the Republican town committee, and has been affiliated with that party from the time of his majority. Aside from his prominence in political affairs he has occupied positions of honor and responsibility in various organizations - social, religious, military, philanthropic, etc. He is at the present time secretary of the board of trustees of the First Methodist church, of which he is a leading member ; was for several years secretary of the East Side Association; has been a director of the Young Men's Christian Association since 1896; superintendent of the Upham Hill Sunday school for the same length of time; was deputy grand commander of the Order of the Golden Cross in 1898-99, and is an active member of the Sons of Veterans. He is especially devoted to objects of a philanthropic or benevolent nature and takes an active interest in the work of the East Side Mission.

On October 21, 1885, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Gertrude Mabel Worth, daughter of Henry and Hannah L. (Mooers) Worth, of Melrose. Of this union there were two children. Stella Worth, born November 14, 1888; and Dettmar Wentworth, born September 2, 1890.

Robert Burns, father of George 3URNS James Burns, of Westford, Massachusetts, came to Lowell when a young man and was employed in various mills in that city at his trade. In later years he was a farmer at Westford and Ayer, Massachusetts. He married Mary Hayes, born in Ireland. Children: 1. George James, born July 14, 1855, mentioned below. 2. John. (II) George James Burns, son of Robert Burns (1), was born in Westford, Massachusetts, July 14, 1855. He received his early education in the public schools of Ayer and studied for his profession at the Boston University Law School, graduating in the class of 1878. He was admitted to the 'bar and practiced his profession with mvich success until 1895, when he became interested in the manufacture of machinery and is at present at the head of the Ayer Planing and Machinery Company. In politics Mr. Burns is a Repub- lican, and he has taken an active part in public affairs. He has been a member of the school committee of Ayer and a trustee of the public library. He served his district with credit in the house of representatives and state senate for several years. He is a member of St. Paul Lodge of Free Masons, Ayer. He attends the Unitarian church.

William Ripley, immigrant ancestor, born in. England, came to Hingham, Massachusetts, from Hingham, England, in 1638, bringing with him his wife, two sons and two daughters. He married second, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Thaxter, September 29, 1654, and died July 20, 1656. His widow married, January 20, 1658, John Dwight of Dedham, and died July 17, 1660. His will is dated June 30, 1656, bequeathing to his sons. He was admitted a freeman May 18, 1642. His town lot which he drew in 1638 contained four acres, and is on Main street, Lower Plain, or Hingham Center. The house of a descendant, the late Eben Ripley, stands on the lot, or did so recently. He was not a resident of Hingham, England, but joined the Hingham party at that point. He was a weaver by trade. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Abraham, born in England, married Mary Farnsworth, who married, after his death, Edward Jenkins, of Scituate. 3. Sarah, married October 18, 1653, Jeremiah Beale. 4. Daughter, name unknown. The sons John and Abraham were admitted freemen May 14, 1650.

(11) John Ripley, son of William Ripley (1), was born in England, about 1630. He succeeded to the homestead in Hingham; married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart; she died in Hingham, March 26, 1692, aged sixty years. He died February 3, 1683- 84. His will was dated January 21, 1683-4, and proved March 27, following. He resided on the paternal homestead on Main street, Hingham. Children: 1. John, see forward. 2. Joshua, born May 9, 1658; died May 18, 1739; settled in Windham, Connecticut. 3. Jeremiah, born September, 1662; died 1737; settled at Windham. 4. Josiah, born May 12, 1667 ; settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. 5. Peter, born October 21, 1668; settled in Hingham. 6. Rebecca, born January 18, 1670; died October 1. 1670. 7. Hezekiah, born December 15, 1672; went to Norwich, Connecti-

(IIL) John Ripley, son of John Ripley (2), born in Hingham, January 20, 1655; died September 7, 1720; married, October 13, 1686, Jane . He resided on Main street, near Bull's Pond, in Hingham. Children, born in Hingham: 1. John, born February 16, 1687- 88. 2. Hezekiah, mentioned below. 3. Jael, born December 24, 1694. 4. Bathsheba, born May ty, 1697; married, 1721, Samuel Gerry. 5. Charles, born August 3, .1699; married Deborah Wilcout. 6. Deborah, born February 26, 1702.

(IV) Hezekiah Ripley, son of John Ripley (3), born in Hingham, March 29, 1693; married, February 16, 1715-6, Sarah, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Warren) Garnet, or Gannett. She was born in Hingham July 31, 1691. He died June 20, 1736, aged forty-three. Children, all born in Hingham: 1. Hezekiah, born August 17, 1716; married December 3, 1739, Abigail Hunt; resided at Duxbury and Kingston. 2. Joshua, born December 3, 1717. 3. John, born February 14, 1719-20. 4. Abner, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born May 4g, 1725. 6. Mary, born October 16, 1727. 7. Lemuel, born November 20, 1729. 8. Jane, born December 25, 1732; married February 2, 1753, John Noyes, of Weymouth. 9g. William, baptized April 6, 1735; married Lydia Hunt, who died December 23, 1774; resided at Duxbury; cast away and lost November 17, 1766, on Duxbury Beach.

(V) Abner Ripley, son of Hezekiah Ripley (4), born August 3, 1723; died March 28, 1808: married March 14, 1746, Abigail Robbins, of Duxbury. Children: 1. Kimball, mentioned below. 2. Thaddeus, died 1827, at Duxbury.

(VI) Kimball Ripley, son of Abner Ripley (5), was born about 1750, probably at Duxbury, where his parents lived. He was a soldier in the Revolution from Duxbury, a private in Captain Samuel Bradford's company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's regiment, 1775; also. in Captain Joseph Woodworth's company, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's regiment ; also sergeant in Captain Calvin Partridge's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778. He married Sarah He died at Ipswich, March 28, 1782. Children: 1. Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Kimball Jr. 3. Joseph. 4. John. 5. Thomas. 6. Sampson.

(VIII) Nathaniel Ripley, son of Daniel Ripley (7), born in Kingston or Duxbury, May 20, 1811; married, July, 1835, Mary Dustan, of Duxbury. Children: 1. Lewis, mentioned below. 2. Thomas. 3. Amos. 4. Augustus. 5. Daughter.

(IX) Lewis Ripley, son of Nathaniel Ripley (8), settled in Augusta, Maine, where he followed his trade as carpenter. He married Susan Ripley, of Baltimore, Maryland.

(X) Henry Hill Ripley, son of Lewis Ripley (9), was born in Augusta, Maine. He was educated in the public schools. He has followed the boot and shoe business as traveling salesman for many years. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a thirtysecond degree Mason, Scottish Rite, and well known among the prominent Free Masons of the state. He married, in 1889, in Boston, Mary Angell Newell, daughter of Edward Angell Newell. Her father was born in Carbineer, Newfoundland, December 18, 1832, and died at Hingham, Massachusetts, October 18, 1897; was freight agent of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company; married, 1858, Carrie M. T. Goodwin, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, daughter of Timothy Goodwin, ship carpenter; children: i. Fred Ellis Newell, of Hingham; ii. Otis Kimball Newell, of Philadelphia; iii. Mary Angell Newell, mentioned above. Mrs. Timothy Goodwin (Sarah) is living at Salisbury Point, Massachusetts. Her grandfather Newell of Carbineer, Newfoundland, was thrice married.

Children of Henry Hill and Mary Angell (Newell) Ripley: Harry Hill Jr., born in Malden, May 20, 1890; student in Stone school, Beacon street, Boston. 2. Ed. Angell Newell, born at Malden, July 8, 1893; student in Glenwood school, Malden. Mr. Hill resides in Malden.

John Merchant, or Marchant, immigrant ancestor, settled first in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he had a grant of land for two heads February 24, 1639-40. The only other pioneer of this name in Massachusetts or New England was William Merchant, probably a brother, who settled first in Watertown, then in Ipswich. John Merchant was a proprietor of Watertown in 1642; an inhabitant of Newport a short time in 1639, but settled finally in Yarmouth, where he was constable June 7, 1648, ensign of town military company approved by the general court June 8, 1664, lieutenant August 11, 1670, when he was called senior, indicating that John Jr. was of age. His wife Sarah died at Braintree, December 3, 1638. John and Abishai, sons of John Sr., were on the Yarmouth tax roll in 1676. Children: 1. John, Jr., born about 1645. 2. Mary, born May 20, 1648. 3. Abishai (Abijah), mentioned below.

Merchant

in Edgartown, Massachusetts; had son Abishai; wife Hepsibath, died there 1764, aged seventy-two years. 2. Hannah, married, about 1695, Mathew Pease. 3. Samuel, born about 1685, taxpayer 1712 at Yarmouth. 4. Ebenezer, born about 1690, removed to Gloucester, Massachusetts ; was taxpayer in Yarmouth in 1712; (record calls him of Yarmouth) ; married, at Gloucester, December 24, 1719, Bethia Millett (nee Day) and had one child, Martha, born October 21, 1720. 5. Jabez, mentioned below.

(III) Jabez Merchant, son of Abishai Merchant (2), was born at Yarmouth, about 1695. The history of Gloucester gives his death as 1773. He removed to Gloucester with or soon after his brother Ebenezer. He was a farmer and fisherman, and had a grant of land at Gloucester in 1722-23, at Lobster Cove. He married, January 12, 1721, Mary, widow of John Babson, daughter of John Butman and his wife Sarah Robinson, a descendant of the Rey. John Robinson, the Pilgrim pastor. She died at the house of her son Daniel, March 12, 1778, aged eighty years. Three sons married and lived in Gloucester. Children, born in Gloucester: 1. Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Mary, born 1723. 3. Martha, born 1725. 4. Jabez, born 1727. 5. Lois, born 1729. 6. Samuel, born 1731. 7. John, born 1733. 8. Eunice, born 1735. 9. Lemuel, born 1737.

(IV) Daniel Merchant, son of Jabez Merchant (3), born November 18, 1721, at Gloucester, and lived there all his life. He married there, November 19, 1744. Hannah, daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Giddings) Woodbury, descendant of the immigrant John Woodbury. Daniel owned slaves, the records show, in 1755 at Gloucester. He was a farmer and fisherman. Children, born in Gloucester: 1. Jabez, mentioned below. 2. William, born September 6, 1751, died about 1805; soldier in Revolution; married Hannah, daughter of Moses and Susannah (Norwood) Wheeler; their son Epes settled at Harbor Cove. 3. Hannah, born about 1753, married, 1772, David Lane, born December I, 1750; she died November 30, 1840, aged eighty-seven. 4. Rebecca, married, December 24, 1765, William Tucker.

(V) Jabez Merchant, son of Daniel Merchant (4), was born in Gloucester, 1745-46. Babson says he was a soldier in the Revolution, and that he died in 1829, aged eighty years, but it appears that he must have been a few years older or have married unusually young.

(VI) Captain Jabez Merchant, son of Jabez Merchant (5), was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, May, 1767, and died in New Glow cester, Maine, at the advanced age of ninetyeight years. He had a common school education in his native town, and followed the sea in his youth, like his ancestors before him, and rose to the rank of master mariner. He was a prominent skipper in his day. He settled in New Gloucester, Maine. He married (first) Hannah , who was born July 20, 1772, and died in New Gloucester, Maine, married (second) Judith Bennett, born 1786, died August 22, 1856, aged seventy years thirteen days, at New Gloucester. Children: 1. Caroline A., born September 19, 1798, died October 12, 1825. 2. Mary Ann, born August 2, 1800, died September 8, 1825; married Webber. 3. George Washington, born January 28, 1803, died February 16, 1887. 4. Jabez, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 5. Louisa, born November, 1807, died September 7, 1886. 6. Maranda, born June 11, 1809, died January 6, 1889. 7. Hannah, born November 23, 1810, died February 19, 1892. 8. William York, born October 1o, 1812, died February 24, 1890. 9. Judith, born October 18, 1814, died January 18, 1896. Io. John W., born October 10, 1815. 11. Isaac S., born October 11, 1818, died young. 12. Sally Bennett, born August 9, 1820, died 1904. 13. Isaac, born February 13, 1822, died

(VII) Jabez Merchant, son of Jabez Merchant (6), born on the homestead in New Gloucester, Maine, September 12, 1805, died there April 18, 1885. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and was a farmer on the homestead most of his active life. He held various town offices, and was intensely interested in national politics, being an old line Whig. He was a Universalist in religion. He married, June 20, 1833, Esther, daughter of Michael and Sarah Webber. He married (second), November 12, 1847, Laura Bennett; married (third), March 8, 1863, Charlotte Stanchfield. Children, born at New Gloucester: 1. John Webber, born March 22, 1834, died in North Yarmouth, Maine, November 3, 1905. 2. William Henry, born November 13, 1835, killed in service in the Civil war. 3. Joel Gilman, mentioned below. 4. Franklin Augustus, born August 15, 1840, resides in Michigan. Child of second wife: 5. Abbie, born March 29, 1854.

(VIIL) Joel Gilman Merchant, son of Jabez Merchant (7), was born in the old homestead in New Gloucester, Maine, June 29, 1838, and died at Lowell, Massachusetts, March 28, 1898. He was educated in the public schools in his native town, working with his father on the farm until he was of age. He enlisted at the opening of the civil war in 1861 in Company G, Twelfth Regiment Maine Volunteers, and remained in the service until, disabled by typhoid fever, he returned home. He decided to learn the trade of machinist at Lowell, afterward entered the employ of the Otis Allen Company of Lowell, and remained for a period of thirty years as master mechanic for this concern. He was one of the most skillful and efficient men in his line of 'work, and was highly appreciated by his firm. In politics he was a Republican, but never sought public honors. He was a member of Pentucket Lodge of Free Masons; Oberlin Lodge of Odd Fellows; the Red Men; and the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a Universalist in religion, and served on the board of directors of the Grace Universalist Church in Lowell. He was a man of strong character, standing high in the esteem of his friends and townsmen.

man, daughter of Lucius and Olive (Stanchfield) Woodman, of New Gloucester, Maine. Children: 1. Edith, educated in public and high schools of Lowell; resides with her mother in Westford street, Lowell. Two children died in infancy.

Thomas Clapp, immigrant ancestor of Gilmer Clapp, of Waltham and Boston, born in Dorchester, England, 1597, was son of Richard Clap of Dorchester, and brother of Nicholas Clapp, an immigrant settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, known to genealogists as "Nicholas of Dorchester." These .two brothers were cousins of Edward and Roger Clapp, sons of William Clap, the younger, of Salcombe-Regis, Devonshire, England, and this gives us Richard Clap of Dorchester, England, and William Clap, the elder, of Salcombe, England, as brothers. The name is probably of Norse origin, if we take it to be derived from Clapa, as Osgood Clapa, a famous Danish nobleman, was a prime favorite of Hardacanute, an early English king; or it may be a cognate form of some ancient gothic word, as we find the German name Klapp of frequent occurrence. The two ways of spelling the name in England and America is not confined to families, but wills and other legal papers may be signed Clap, and the notary or copyist in the same document write it Clapp, so it has come to be a matter of taste and usage, and the two spellings indicate nothing more. Roger Clapp, cousin of Thomas, was the most prominent of the four immigrant ancestors of the Clapps of New England, by reason of the publication of his memoirs, as prepared by him about 1676 and published in 1731 under the title "Memoirs of Captain Roger Clap, Relating Some of God's Remarkable Providences to Him, in Bringing Him into New England, and some of the Straits and Afflictions the Good People Met With Here in their Beginning.' Six subsequent editions of this valuable contribution to early New England history, were published, the last appearing in 1844, as volume I of "Collections of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society."'

Thomas Clapp, the. immigrant. arrived in Boston, July 24, 1633, probably on the ship which arrived from Weymouth, England, that date. He was probably accompanied by his brother Nicholas and cousin Edward. Another brother, John, arrived much later. Thomas removed to Dorchester in 1634, and became a freeman of the town and of the col- ony 1638, and the same year removed to Weymouth, a town of recent establishment, having been set apart by the general court out of the plantation of Wessaguscas, September 2, 1635. He appears to have tarried in the new town but a short time, and his farm was located near that subsequently the property of Hon. Christopher Webb, of Weymouth. He appears in the town of Scituate, as a deacon in the First Church, 1647, and as deputy in the general court 1649, and when the town meeting petitioned the general court for an officer to take care of the poor of. the town he was made overseer in 1667 - the first record we have of an "overseer of the poor" as a town officer in Scituate. Farmer, in his "Genealogical Register,' says that Thomas Clapp removed to Hingham from Weymouth, and thence to Scituate, while Deane says he had grants of land in Hingham, but never resided there. He appears to have been in Scituate as early as 1640. As deacon of the First Church, over which Rev. Charles Chauncey was minister (1641-53), he was a witness of the difficulties that beset the pastor and parishioners of the church that led to its division at the establishment of the Second Church. Previous to his leaving Massachusetts Bay Colony he appears to have been a disciple of Richard Sylvester and of Mr. Lenthail, the minister who advocated the admitting of any baptized person to membership in the church without further examination, and Thomas Rawlins, James Torrey and William Holbrook went with Richard Sylvester to Plymouth Colony, settling in Scituate about the same time Thomas Clapp removed to that town, and it is probable the question of baptism moved all these men to seek freedom in the Pilgrim Colony. But Mr. Lenthail, instead of leaving the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, retracted his opinion before the great and general court and found peace among the Puritans. As deacon of the First Church of Scituate he was under the preaching of Mr. Charles Chauncey, and took interest in the opinions so freely expressed by that controversialist, who was a Puritan of the Puritans, and was prosecuted in England in 1635, for opposing the railing in of the communion table at Ware. For this he was imprisoned after being suspended from the ministry, condemned to costs and obliged to make humiliating recantations. Late in 1637 he left England, arrived in Plymouth Colony in May, 1638, preached with Mr. Reyner in the church of Plymouth three years, and in 1641 was elected pastor of the church in Scituate, where he was troubleful pastor for twelve years; was invited to return to Ware, England, but on reaching Boston to take passage he accepted the presidency of Harvard College, and was inaugurated November 29, 1654, and died in office February 19, 1672. As deacon of the Scituate church, Thomas Clapp naturally took part in the thirty years controversy between the First and Second Churches in Scituate, and in 1675 he was selected one of three members of a committee from the First Church appointed in 1673 to carry a letter containing news of recgnciliation to the Second Church, so long desired by the peaceloving of both congregations. His sister Prudence married her cousin Edward Clapp. The family name of his wife Abigail is not known. He died in Scituate, April 20, 1684, greatly respected, a useful and enterprising man blessed with a good wife, eight children, and length of days, having attained the ninety-seventh year of his age. The children of Thomas and Abigail Clapp were: Thomas, born in Weymouth, March 15, 1639; Increase, Samuel, Eleazer, Elizabeth, Prudence, John and Abigail, all born in Scituate.

(11) Samuel Clapp. youngest son of Thomas and Abigail Clapp, born in Scituate, March 15, 1639, died probably in 1691, but of his death there is no reliable date. He was a prominent man in the community, and with his family succeeded in possession of the homestead built and occupied by his father up to the time of his death. He was a deputy to the general court of Plymouth Colony 1680- 85, and 1690-91; served as a member of the grievance committee, appointed by the freemen of the town May 27, 1686, to draw up resolutions importing to the inhabitants the apprehensions of the community concerning the new laws that day read to them; was also a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between the towns of Scituate and Marshfield, established 1682, and also a commissioner to establish the boundary between Scituate and the Conihassett grant. Upon the union of the governments separately maintained by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony up to 1691, Samuel Clapp was elected a member of the house of representatives of the great and general court of Massachusetts, 1693-96, 1699, 1703-05, 1707-09, 1714-15, fourteen years, and the last years service in the legislature of the Colony was given when he was seventy-six years old. His skill as a legislator was evidenced by his address prepared in collaboration with John Cushing, also of Scituate, characterized as "A very spirited declaration" to Governor Andros in 1687, the occasion being the governor's grant of a warrant to Humphrey Johnson to lay out lands for his personal benefit in the town of Scituate. He owned a grist and saw mill on the mill privilege on which Stockbridge mill was subsequently built. His rank in the colonial militia was probably that of major. The date of the death of his wife was February 27, 1722, thirty-one years after the date fixed upon as probably that of the death of Samuel Clapp of the second generation. Children of Samuel and Hannah (Gill) Clapp: Samuel, born May 15, 1667; no record of his marriage, issue or death; Joseph, born December 14, 1668; Stephen (1670-1756) ; Hannah, born 1673; Dethia, 1675; John, 1677; Abigail, 1679; David, 1684; Deborah, 1686, married Joseph Bates; Jane, 1689, married Samuel Holbrook, Jr.

(III) Joseph Clapp, second child of Samuel and Hannah (Gill) Clapp, born in Scituate, December 14, 1668; married Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Leader) Allen ,and granddaughter of John and Abigail Leader, of Boston. They are supposed to have lived on Black Pond Hill, as his son Deacon Joseph Clapp and grandson Elijah Clapp lived there, probably in the house built by their ancestor. Joseph Clapp of the third generation was a deacon in the First Church of Scituate. Their first child, Samuel, was born 1695, and their last child March 9, 1714.

(IV) Samuel Clapp, the eldest child of Joseph and Abigail (Allen) Clapp, born in Scituate, November 18, 1695; married, January 7, 1725, Sarah Curtis; children: Michael, born 1726; Sarah, 1729; Mary, 1731; William 1733; Samuel, December 25, 1739, died 1817; Jerchenid; Albert, born 1791; Temperance; Sarah and Hepza. All born in Scituate.

(V) William Clapp, son of Samuel and Sarah (Curtis) Clapp, born in Scituate, December 3, 1733; married, 1767, Priscilla Otis, who died at the advanced age of ninety-five years. He probably lived in Scituate, and died at the age of seventy-four years. Children: William, Caroline, Sarah Eliza, Frederick, Edward, Hannah, Mary, George, Barney, Harriet, Barney, Henry Augustus and Emeline.

(VI) Barney Clapp, son of William and Priscilla (Otis) Clapp, born in Scituate, August 2, 1798; married Eliza B. Hall, of Boston, October 17, 1826; removed to Louisiana, and died in New Orleans, 1829. Children: James Hall Clapp, see forward; Catherine, born 1820, died 1834.

(VII) James Hall Clapp, son of Barney and Eliza B. (Hall) Clapp, was born in Covington, Louisiana, where his parents temporarily resided, 1828. He removed to Massachusetts; married (first) September 29, 1851, Ann Caroline Taylor, of Boston; lived in Newtonville, and his wife died March 3, 1860, leaving one child, Edith, born August 4, 1852.

(IX) Gilmer Clapp, son of James Hall and Harriet B. (Foster) Clapp, was born November 4, 1864. He is a trustee of the estate of Oliver Ames, with offices at No. 94 Ames Building, Boston, and resides at Waltham.

though the presumption of relationship is strong. He gave his age as twenty-six when a witness Aipril 8, 1666. He married Sarah, daughter of George Wheeler, of Concord, October 26, 1665, and probably remained in that town until his decease. His wife died December 12, 1713, in Concord. He was living in 1702. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and his name appears on a pay roll dated February 29, 1675-76. Children: 1. Mary, born February 9, 1666, married Joseph Fletcher. 2. Joseph, married, 1691. Abigail Goble, and died November 3, 1702, at Concord. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Benjamin, born March 6, 1681-82. 5. Samuel, born June 27, 1682, married (first) Abigail King; (second) Lydia Wetherbee; (third) and (fourth) Sarah Shepard; he died at Douglas, May 27, 1777. ©. Sarah, born' August 4, r7ot. 7. Francis, married Sarah and Abigail

(II) John Dudley, son of Francis Dudley (1), born March 10, 1675; married Hannah Poultier, of Medford, May 16, 1697. She died December 20, 1707. They lived at Concord and had born there: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born March 9, 1703, died at Concord, October 18, 1716. 3. Sarah, born February 16, 1705-06. 4. A son, born December 20, 1707, died young at the time of his mother's death.

(III) John Dudley, son of John Dudley (2), born August 16, 1699; married Mary - , and lived in Acton, Massachusetts. He was a housewright. He died before 1752.

Children: 1, John, born March 13, 1729, died © young. 2. Peter, born August 26, 1731, married, at Southborough, December 12, 1754, Experience Newton. 3. Daniel, mentioned below. 4. James, born November 21, 1734, was in the French war in 1758. 5. Ephraim, born about 1735. 6. John, born January 11, 1737, all born in Concord. Guardians were appointed for Daniel and Ephraim, February 12, 1752.

(IV) Daniel Dudley, son of John Dudley (3), born at Concord, June 22, 1733; married, June 28, 1757, Hannah, born February - 24, 1730-37, daughter of Henry and Sarah Farrar. In 1759 he settled in Westford, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Daniel, mentioned below. 2. Josiah, born at Concord; married, August 31, 1797, Abigail Brown, of Sudbury. 3. Ebenezer, born at Westford in 1759. 4. Jesse, born at Westford in 1761, died in Reyolutionary army in 1778. 5. Sarah, born in 1763. 6. John, born in 1765, married Sarah Dutton, of Westford, in 1787. 7. Isaac, born 1770 at Westford.

(V) Daniel Dudley, son of Daniel Dudley (4), born at Concord, March 27, 1758; baptized April 2, 1758; married, July 23, 1787, Lucy Vose, of Concord, and removed to East Sudbury (Wayland). He died intestate April 23, 1808. His widow survived him. Jacob Reeves was administrator of the estate, which was sold in 1810 - three acres of woodland to Ephraim Dudley and seven acres to Dr. Moses Dudley; sheep pasture to Ephraim; most of barn lot to Dr. Moses Dudley. Children: 1. Lewis, married, January 7, 1819, M. Winch; drowned in Dudley pond, January 16, 1838. 2. Thomas Hastings, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born September 24, 1789. 4. John Vose, born about 1792, married, July 18, 1819, Eliza Harrington; died October 17, 1837, at Wayland; children: Moses, born at Wayland, January 3, 1820; James Winthrop, born March 27, 1824. 5. Sally, married Artemas Greenwood, of Needham, October 19, 1823. Daniel Dudley (5) was a soldier in the Revolution, private in Captain Thomas Brintnall's company, Colonel Cyprian Howe's regiment, enlisted August 30, 1780, discharged November I, 1780; raised to reinforce the Continental army at Rhode Island. His service was credited to East Sudbury (now Wayland).

February 27, 1815. He married at Waltham, Massachusetts, Irene Pratt, a native of that town. He resided in Medway and other places. Children: 1. Augustine Washington, born July 16, 1837. 2. Rosanna, born September 28, 1839. 3. Sarah, born February 10, 1843. 4. Martha, born February 24, : 5. Edward Lewis. 6. Alfred Ferdinand. 7. Herbert. 8. Caroline, mentioned below.

(VIII) Caroline Dudley, daughter of Joseph Dudley (7), was born November 17, 1845. She was educated in the public schools. Early in life she removed with the family to Lowell, Massachusetts. She married, July 16, 1863, Alfred Lovingston, who was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, June 27, 1836, had a common school education and learned the trade of carpenter. For many years he has been one of the leading carpenters and builders of Lowell, Massachusetts. He retired in 1895 from the contracting business. Children of Alfred and Caroline (Dudley) Lovingston: 1. Maud, born June 23, 1865, died July 23, 1884. Blanche, born December 22, 1872, married Charles R. Goddard, an iron and steel merchant; child, Alfred Goddard, born February 19, 1900.

about 1675-80, settled in the vicinity of Rye, New Hampshire, about 1700. Thomas Guptill had a grant of fifty acres of land above Salmon Falls, May 10, 1703. He and his wife Mary sold this farm October 20, 1728, to John Shorey. In 1703 Thomas had a grant of land at Old Eliot, Maine, of fifty acres, possibly the same land mentioned above. Thomas and Mary had a daughter Mary born April 16, 1705, but it is not known that he left any sons. (1) Captain Nathaniel Guptill was born in Lubec, Maine, about 1792. At the age of sixteen he enlisted on an American privateer, and in the war of 1812 was captured by the British and thrown into prison, where he remained eighteen months, was finally exchanged, and came to Boston, but settled later in East Thomaston, Maine, now Rockland, and died there April 5, 1857. He married at Thomaston, December 22, 1817, Eleanor Spear, of East Thomaston. He followed the sea all his life and became a sea captain. Children, born in Rockland: 1. Joseph, born December 16, 1821. 2. Eleanor, born April 13, 1823, resided in Rockland. 3. Captain Robert R., mentioned below. 4. Phylotia C., born March 11, 1728; married September 109, 1846,

(II) Captain Robert R. Guptill, son of Captain Nathaniel Guptill (1), was born in East Thomaston, Maine, December 1, 1825. He also followed the sea and became a captain. He married at Rockland, Elizabeth Fayles, of that town. Children: 1. Albert D., born 1850. 2. Charles C., born 1854. 3. Robert Clifford, mentioned below.

(III) Robert Clifford Guptill, son of Captain Robert R. Guptill (2), was born at East Thomaston, now Rockland, Maine, June 24, 1857. He was educated there in the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter and has been very successful in business as a contractor and builder. He has built many important structures in Malden and vicinity, and continues one of the leaders in his line of business. He has lived in Malden since April, 1887. A few years ago he acquired a controlling interest in the Josiah Quincy Photograyure Works, which was reorganized under the name of Excel Art Company, and is now conducting an extensive business in the manufacture of engravings and high class cuts, illustrating magazines and other publications. The beautiful colored plate work in the magazine, The Holy Grail, is done by his company. He is fortunate in having in his employ the most expert and skilled artists and engravers in the country, and he has built up a very large and prosperous business. The plant is located on Drury Lane, Malden. In politics Mr. Guptill is a Republican, but has declined all public offices. In religion he is a Universalist. He is a member of the Malden Club, the Malden Automobile Club. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He married, in Rockland, Maine, 1878, Clara, daughter of James and Nancy (Bysby) Simons, of Waldoborough, Maine. Her father was a lime burner. Children of Robert C. and Clara S. Guptill: 1. Fremont S., born in Rockland, 1879; married Catherine Stout, of Malden, Massachusetts. 2. Arthur B., born 1881, in Rockland, married Edith Mansfield, of Melrose, Massachusetts. 3. Eva M., resides at home in Malden, with her parents.

Carleton, of Carleton, near Penith, in the county of Cumberland. From this feudal baron the American Carletons trace their lineage in a direct line through seventeen generations to Edward the emigrant.

Adam de Carleton, of the eighth generation in the direct line of descent from Baldwin, married Sibella, who is supposed to have belonged to the royal Plantagenet family. Sir Walter de Carleton of the twelfth generation was the last to use the prefix "de.''" The latter's son Thomas (13) was of Sutton in Lincolnshire, and his son John (14) Carleton of Sutton and Walton-upon-Thames died in 1458. John (16) Carleton, born in the year 1500, married Joyce Welbeck, a cousin of Queen Catherine, wife of Henry VIII, but the record at hand fails to state whether the royal personage referred to was Catherine Howard or Catherine Parr. Edward (17) Carleton, fifth son of John and Joyce (Welbeck) Carleton, settled at East Clauden, Surry, in 1571, and married Mary, daughter of George Bigley. Erasmus (18) Carleton, son of Edward and Mary (Bigley) Carleton, was a citizen and a mercer of St. Bartholmew's, London. The Christian name of his wife was Elizabeth and they were the parents of Edward Carleton, the emigrant ancestor of the family in New England.

Edward Carleton, son of Erasmus and Elizabeth Carleton, was born in 1605. He married Eleanor Denton, whose family name is said to be of old Roman origin. With his wife and eldest son he accompanied a party of colonists to New England under the leadership of the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, and was therefore one of the founders of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1638-39. He was made a freeman in 1642, and became the second largest landowner in the town. He was a member of the general court for the years 1644-45-46-47, served as trial justice from 1648 until his return to England in 1650-51, and died about the year 1661. Edward and Eleanor (Denton) Carleton were the parents of four children, the eldest of whom, John, was born in England in 1630. The others, born in Rowley, were Edward, Mary and Elizabeth. The birth of Edward, which took place August 28, 1639, was the first to be recorded in Rowley.

Peter Carleton, a descendant of Edward and Eleanor (Denton) Carleton, the emigrants, settled in Landaff, New Hampshire, according to information at hand, but careful examination of all available records relative to the Carletons of New England fails to reveal the place of his birth or the names of his parents, therefore the writer is unable to obtain his line of descent from the immigrant just referred to. It is reasonably certain, however, that he was of the posterity of Edward and Eleanor. The Christian name of Peter's wife was Azuba, and her surname was probably Taylor.

James M. Carleton, son of Peter and Azuba (Taylor) Carleton, was born in Landaff, March 13, 1809, and died in Reading, Massachusetts, December 9, 1886. He resided for a time in Windham, New Hampshire, and went from there to Concord, September 11, 1833. He married for his first wife Sarah Corning, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, born in that town December 1, 1805, died September 7, 1862, in Concord, New Hampshire; and on February 6, 1864, he married for his second wife Mrs. Lucinda B. Eastman (nee Buswell), widow of Deacon John Eastman. His three children, all of his first union, are: Martha M., James Henry and Sarah F. Martha M., who was born March 4, 1835, was married November 4, 1856, to John |. Eastman, of Concord, New Hampshire, and has three daughters - Maria, Helen and Hattie L. Sarah F. Carleton, who was born June 21, 1849, was married June 20, 1869, to Frank P. Hamblett, and is now a widow, having one daughter, Lena C., born October 29, 1874.

James Henry Carleton, second child and only son of James M. and Sarah (Corning) Carleton, was born in Windham, New Hampshire, September 16, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of Concord, and at the age of fifteen years he went to Medford, Massachusetts, where for a period of two years he was employed as a gardener and in other capacities. Going to Boston he entered the employ of Smith Gerrish in the stove business, in which he continued until 1862, when he enlisted in the Eleventh Battery, Massachusetts Volunteers, for nine months service in the civil war, and was honorably discharged June 18, 1863. Returning to the stove business in Boston, he was employed by S. W. Clapp for the succeeding eight years, at the expiration of which time he established himself in the same line of trade in East Boston, and selling his business there some three years later, he accepted a position with the Gardner Chilson Furnace Company, Boston. In 1876 he purchased the business of his former employer, Mr. Clapp, whose death occurred that year, and for more than thirty years conducted an extensive trade in stoves and kindred articles. In 1907 he was succeeded in the management of the business by his son, and is now living in retirement, at his pleasant home in Reading. In politics he acts with the Republican party. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Honor and the Grand Army of the Republic. The family are members of the Congregational Church.

On October 13, 1869, Mr. Carleton was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Mary Putnam, daughter of Captain Philemon and Mary (Carleton) Putnam, of Danvers, Massachusetts. Lucy Mary Putnam was a lineal descendant in the ninth generation of John Putnam, the first of the name in New England, and among his posterity were the two famous revolutionary generals, Israel and Rufus Putnam.

John Putnam, born at Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire, England, about the year 1580, came to Manchester in 1634, and settled in Salem Village, now Danvers. He was made a freeman in 1640, and his death occurred in 1663. He was accompanied from the mother country by his wife, whose maiden name was Priscilla Gould, and three of their sons - Thomas, Nathaniel and John.

John (2) Putnam, fourth son and eighth child of John and Priscilla (Gould) Putnam, was baptized at Aston Abbotts, May 27, 1627. He grew to manhood in Salem Village, and resided there until his death, which occurred April 7, 1710. He was married in Salem, March 7, 1652, to Rebecca Prince, stepdaughter of John Gedney, and a sister of Robert Prince. The children of this union were: Rebecca, Sarah, Priscilla, Jonathan, James, Hannah, Eleazer, John, Susannah and Ruth.

Lieutenant James Putnam, second son and fifth child of John and Rebecca (Prince) Putnam, was born in Salem Village, September 4, 1661. He was a lifelong resident of the village, and died there April 7, 1727. The Christian name of his first wife, who was undoubtedly the mother of all of his children, was Sarah, and November 10, 1689, she, with others, petitioned with others the church in Salem for dismissal and liberty to unite with the newly organized church at the village. She died December 25, 1717, aged fifty-three years, and on March 6, 1719-20, Lieutenant James married for his second wife Mary, widow of Daniel Rea. She died February 14, 1724-27. His children were: Sarah, Bartholmew, James, Nathan, Jonathan, Archaelaus, Elizabeth and Jethro.

Jethro Putnam, youngest child of Lieutenant James and Sarah Putnam, was baptized in Salem Village, May 2, 1702 (died there in 1751). He was married, April 14, 1726, to

Anne Putnam, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Porter) Putnam, and she survived him. She bore him four children: Huldah, Enoch, Rebecca and Nanny.

Colonel Enoch Putnam, second child and only son of Jethro and Anne (Putnam) Putnam, was born in Salem Village, February 18, 1731. He occupied the old Putnam ancestral homestead in Salem Village, which in 1757 was incorporated as the town of Danvers, and he died there in 1796. He was prominent in both civic and military affairs, and as lieutenant of Captain Israel Hutchinson's company he responded to the Lexington Alarm in April, 1775. He continued to serve in the Continental army, and attained the rank of colonel. His first wife, whom he married in Danvers, April 12, 1754, was Hannah Putnam, born May 13, 17360, died December 18, 1776, and on March 22, 1778, he married for his second wife Elizabeth Stratton, of Lincoln, Massachusetts. His four children, all of his first union, were: Jethro, Anna, Fanny and Hannah.

Colonel Jethro Putnam, eldest child and only son of Colonel Enoch and Hannah (Putnam) Putnam, was born in Danvers, December 22, 1755. He marched to Lexington in Captain Jeremiah Page's company, and attaining the rank of colonel in the Continental forces he commanded the Danvers regiment. He died May 20, 1815. He was married in Danvers, September 21, 1784, to Mary Holton, born in that town June 26, 1760, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Warner) Holton, died April 29, 1840. She was the mother of three children: Hiram, Mary and Philemon.

Philemon Putnam, youngest child of Colonel Jethro and Mary (Holton) Putnam, was born in Danvers, October 12,1789. The records at hand do not give the maiden name of his wife, but he is known to have had a son Captain Philemon, and he probably had other children. Captain Philemon Putnam married Mary Carleton Noyes, a descendant in the seventh generation of James Noyes, the immigrant ancestor of the majority of that name in America, and their daughter,,-Lucy Mary Putnam, became the wife of James Henry Carleton as previously stated. Mrs. Lucy M. Carleton died in Reading, July 15, 1901. She became the mother of four children: James P., born in Danvers, August 2, 1870; Philemon P., born in East Boston, July 6, 1872; Lucy Mary, born in Reading, October 14, 1876; and Annie, born in Reading, December 12, 1881. James P. Carleton was married, January 2, 1894, to Annie Hutchinson, of Danvers, and their children are: Margaret, born October 17, 1895, and Helen, born March 19, 1897. Philemon P. Carleton married Jennie McRea, June 17, 1905, and has one son, Philemon P., Jr., born September 19, 1906. Lucy Mary Carleton became the wife of Stewart S. Bell, of Andover, Massachusetts, October 4, 1900, and has one daughter, Lucy Catherine Bell, born August 23, 1901. Annie Carleton was married September 28, 1904, to William H.. Milton, of Danvers, and has one son, Henry C. Milton, born December 25, 1906.

(IV) Nathaniel Worth, son of WORTH John Worth (3), was born in Edgartown, Massachusetts, September 8, 1687. He resided in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. He married Jane Children, with dates of baptism: I. Sarah, November 25, 1739. 2. John, November 25, 1739. 3. Abigail, November 25, 1739. 4. Thomas, August 2, 1741. 5. Sarson, September 5, 1743. 6. Joseph, born November

(4), born in Nantucket or vicinity, in 1754, died in Edgartown, February 28, 1829, aged seventy-five years. He married first Mary ; second, April 1, 1788, Velina Pease, who died June 6, 1849, aged eighty-three. He was a prominent citizen. Children, all recorded as baptized in Edgartown: 1. John, baptized January 31, 1787, aged eight years. 2. Jared, baptized January 31, 1787, aged six years; died in eighteenth year at Havana. Children of Jethro and Velina Worth, with dates of baptism. 3. Henry Pease, September 20, 1790; mentioned below. 4. Thomas, June 17, 1796. 6. John, October 14, 1798, buried July 1, 1799. 7. Jared, May, 1800. 8. Velina Pease, May 13, 1804. 9. John Pease, June 30, 1805. 10. Edmund, September 3, 1809. It. Edmund, August 30, 1812.

(VI) Captain Henry Pease Worth, son of Jethro Worth (5), was born in Nantucket or vicinity in 1790. He followed the sea and became a captain. He settled finally in Vassalborough, Maine. He married Miss Bunker. She was an expert navigator, could navigate a vessel as well as her husband.

(VIII) Henry W. Worth, son of Alexander B. Worth (7), born at Vassalborough, Maine, January 24, 1844, died at Melrose, Massachusetts, October 29, 1906. He was educated in the public schools, and when a young man learned the trade of machinist. In his early years he worked at mechanical occupations. In his later years he was engaged in market gardening at Melrose, making a great success in the culture of strawberries and small fruits. In politics Mr. Worth was a Republican, in religion a Methodist. He was a member of the official board of the Melrose Methodist Episcopal church, and also class leader. He was a man of exemplary character, of good ability and an excellent neighbor and citizen. He commanded the esteem and confidence of the community in which he lived and was especially beloved by his friends and family who knew him best.

He married, November 29, 1864, Hannah L. Mooers, daughter of Alonzo and Sarah N. (Chadbourne) Mooers, of Vassalborough. Mrs. Worth survives her husband, and resides at the home in Melrose. Children: 1. Gertrude M., born in Vassalborough, August 23, 1865 ; married W. deHaven Jones, of Melrose ; children: Stella Jones and Dettmar Jones (a son). 2. Grace N., born in Melrose, March 16, 1870; married George Mankey, of Washington, D. C.; child, Helen Mankey. 3. Harry W., born November 7, 1876; married Mabel Keith; child, Elmer. 4. Ross H., born April 28, 1878. 5. Laura, born September 25, 1879; married Arthur R. Barnes. 6. Florence P., born May 28, 1881; married Arthur B. Wheeler; child, Marjory Wheeler. 7. Daisy, born April 7, 1883. 8. Child died in infancy.

Buffum, who came either from Yorkshire or Devonshire and settled in Salem as early as 1638. Some of the immediate descendants of the immigrant were Quakers, and_ suffered nesses preferred to affirm instead of swear. The Christian name of his wife was ""Thomasin,' and he had several children, including a son Caleb, and a daughter Mary, who became the wife of Jeremiah Neal. Caleb was born in England, February 22, 1636. He was married in Salem, March 26, 1672, to Hannah Page, daughter of the first Joseph Page, and had two sons, Caleb and Robert. Caleb Buffum second, eldest son of Caleb and Hannah (Page) Buffum, was born at Salem, in 1673. Records at hand fail to state who he married, but they mention the names of two _ sons, Joshua and Samuel. The latter was a glazier. _ The first of the family to settle in Berwick was Joshua Buffum, son of the above-mentioned Caleb second. Joshua was born at Salem in 1713, and in 1741 he married a young widow, who was a daughter of Benjamin Estes of Lynn. In 1743 he accompanied his father-inlaw to North Berwick, and he resided there for the rest of his life. In one record he is classed as a yeoman, while another designates him as cordwainer. He had four sons - Joshua, Caleb, Samuel and John.

Caleb Buffum, second son of Joshua, was a lifelong resident of North Berwick, but the records which may contain the date of his birth and death are not available to the writer. There is some evidence that he was a Quaker, as one or more relatives are known to have been members of that denomination. The maiden name of his wife was Huldah Hussey. He had a son Christopher, and perhaps other children.

Christopher Buffum, son of Caleb and Huldah (Hussey) Buffum, was a native of North Berwick, and his birth took place July 5, 1808. He resided in his native town, and his death occurred May 31, 1904. He married Grace Gerry, of Sanford, Maine, whose ancestry is the same as that of Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. She became the mother of four children: John, William F., Huldah Maria, and Mary Ellen, who is no longer living.

John Buffum, son of Christopher and Grace (Gerry) Buffum, was born in North Berwick, May 20, 1841. He was reared and educated in his native town, and continued to reside in the Pine-tree state until 1863, when he came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and in 1874 settled in Melrose. For many years he has been engaged in the lumber trade, and prominently identified with the business, political and religious interests of the city of his adoption. In politics he acts with the Republican party and for the year 1904 and again in 1906 was a member of the board of aldermen. He is a deacon of the Congregational church, and is also serving as its treasurer and chairman of its prudential committee.

On August 20, 1861, Deacon Buffum was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Williams, daughter of Sheldon and Sarah Williams, of Wells, Maine. Of this union there is one daughter, Susan Frances, who is now the wife of Joseph A. Stutsman, of Indianapolis, Indiana. They have two children - Harold D. and Grace May Stutsman. Mrs. Buffum died July 20, 1903. Mr. Buffum married, October 23, 1907, Miss Mary Ellen Garey, daughter of Leander Garey. Mr. Buffum has his office at 88 Broad street, Boston.

Humphrey Coffey was born in Ireland and educated there. Shortly after he came of age he decided to make his home in America. He came directly to Lowell, Massachusetts, and was employed in various positions until he had accumulated enough money to start in the contracting business on his own account. He built up a large and flourishing business. He was industrious, enterprising and thorough, knowing every detail of his affairs, faithful in his work and absolutely upright in all the relations of life. He was a prominent member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, and a leader among the Lowell men of Irish birth. It was often said that Mr. Coffey's word was as good as his bond. In politics he was a staunch Democrat of the old school, but he never sought public honors for himself. He married Martha Flynn, who was born in Ireland... Children; x. James». 25 Timothy. 33: Daughter unnamed, died in infancy. 4. John H., born in 1861, mentioned below.

(11) John H. Coffey, son of Humphrey Coffey (1), was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1861, and died in Lowell, September 2, 1898, in the very prime of life and at the beginning of what promised to be a notable business career. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell. He engaged in the grocery and provision trade for several years, and stood high in the opinion of the merchants and business men of the city. He was director of the Lowell National Bank and a prominent factor in financial circles. He was a member of St. Patrick's parish of the Roman Catholic Church, and a liberal supporter of the faith of his fathers. In politics he was a Democrat, giving freely to support the principles and candidates of his party but not seeking honors for himself. He was a member of the Lowell

Knights of Columbus and the Elks, and in those orders was particularly popular with his fellows. He was kindly, agreeable and attractive in his manner and speech.

He married, 1886, Annie Quinn, daughter of Peter and Mary (Cosgrove) Quinn, of Lowell. She survives him, residing in the homestead at Lowell, a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and well known in the social and religious circles of Lowell. Children: 1. Anna T., educated in the public and high schools of Lowell, graduating in 1907, now a teacher in the public schools: 2. John H., Jr., educated in the public and high schools, resides at home.

Elliot, born in Foxboro, Massachusetts, June 20, 1837. He was educated in the schools of Foxboro, Wrentham, Malden, and Somerville, and the Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge. He studied civil engineering in the office of William B. Stearns, who later was president of the Fitchburg Railroad; his early professional experience was upon that road, and upon municipal engineering in Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Somerville, and. elsewhere.

In 1862 he was appointed by the war department, assistant topographical engineer, and served in 1862-63-64, on the staffs of Captain (afterwards General) Henry L. Abott, Major D. C. Houston, Captain J. C. Palfrey, and Captain Franklin Harwood, all chief en- 'gineers of the Nineteenth Army Corps, being attached at various times to the headquarters of Generals Banks, Grover, Franklin, Cameron, and Asboth. In 1862 he prepared the official plan of the seige of Yorktown; later in the year he was assigned to the Nineteenth Army Corps, and sailed from New York with General Banks' headquarters on the "North Star" to New Orleans. Early in 1863 he served in the expedition to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which was designed, by threatening Port Hudson, to assist Farragut in running by the Confederate batteries on the Mississippi river. In April, 1863, he participated in the campaign of the "Teche" country, where he took part in the three days battle and capture of Fort Bisland, and in the capture and occupation of Opelousas, Louisiana, where he seized the Confederate land office with hundreds of plans of the country, which were of the greatest value to the Union army, besides arms and other war accoutrements.

Hudson. On this march Mr. Elliot was sick with pneumonia, but though given up by the army surgeon, he recovered and_ served throughout the siege. In this siege five of the assistant engineer corps of twelve were killed or wounded. He returned to New Orleans on July 26, from Port Hudson, where he had 'remained since its capture in charge of the confederate engineer office, and upon work on the official plan of the siege. On September 3, he was ordered to: the Sabine Pass, Texas, expedition in which he was engineer officer to Major-General William B. Franklin, and was in the disastrous battle of Sabine Pass, where two Union gunboats with one hundred and fifty or more men surrendered to the Confederates, and Franklin's whole fleet was forced to return to New Orleans. He afterwards took part in the second "Teche" expedition, under General Franklin; returning to New Orleans he was taken with malarial fever, from the effects of which he did not recover for several years. In November, 1863, he was ordered to Fort Butler on the Mississippi river, and in December, to the headquarters of General Asboth, commanding the department of West Florida. Early in 1864 he became engineer officer to General Cuvier Grover, in the contemplated campaign against Mobile (afterwards abandoned), and was placed in charge of construction of field fortifications in East Louisiana. In March, 1864, he took part in the Red River expedition, but at Alexandria, Louisiana, was again threatened with fever, and returned to Massachusetts, where he remained in ill health for nearly a year on his father's farm in Foxboro, Massachusetts. 5

While in the army Mr. Elliot twice received special mention for efficient field service, and was proffered a commission in the Corps d' Afrique in 1863, and in the loyal white troops of Louisiana in 1864, but declined both. of Louisiana in 1864, but declined both.

Among Mr. Elliot's ancestors were Major Lawrence, Captain Jonathan Wade, Lieutenant Nicholas White, Samuel Scripture, Marshall General Edward Mitchelson, Marshall General John Green, John Nutting, Zachariah Hicks and Thomas Eliot, all soldiers in the King Philip's, or other Colonial wars; also Ensign John Whitman, and Samuel Champney, soldiers in the King Philip's war, and deputies to the general court; also Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, of Ipswich, Ruling Elder Richard Champney, of Cambridge, and William Pitt, high sheriff of Bristol, England.

ted a freeman of Swansea, Massachusetts, February 22, 1669, and became a member of the Baptist church under Rev. John Myles; he was one of the proprietors of Taunton North Purchase. Of his ancestry no record has been found. He died in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, May 23, 1700, and his wife Jane, whom he probably married about 1676 or 1677, died in Taunton, Massachusetts, November 9, 1689. They had five children: Abigaile, Thomas, Jr., Joseph, Elizabeth and Benjamin. Thomas (senior) was a corporal in Captain William Turner's company in King Philip's war, in 1675 and 1676; his sword, gun and ammunition are mentioned in the inventory of his estate. Joseph, his son, was born in Taunton, March 2, 1684, and died April 21, 1752. He married, July 22, 1710, Hannah White, daughter of John White; she died March 5, 1775, aged ninety-two years. Their children were: Joseph, Jr., John, Hannah, Samuel, Nehemiah, Abigail and Ebenezer; Joseph, Sr., in 1731, was treasurer of Norton North Precinct, and afterwards selectman. Nehemiah, son of Joseph (senior), was born March 8, 1719, and died December 8, 1802; he was at one time treasurer of Norton North Precinct; he married, September 23, 1747, Mercy White, daughter of Lieutenant Nicholas White, of Norton; she was born July 7, 1723, and died May 8, 1780. Their children were: Joseph, Nehemiah, Jr., Jacob and Mercy.

Joseph, son of Nehemiah (senior), was born in Norton, June 25, 1749; he married, May 7, 1773, Joanna Morse, daughter of Elisha Morse; she was born September 17, 1751, and died December 6, 1837. Joseph Eliot was a minute man of the Revolution, and marched at the Lexington alarm, April 20, 1775, for Boston; he served through the siege of Boston and, re-enlisting, through the campaign of New York and New Jersey under General Washington and as corporal in the Saratoga campaign under General Gates; he died of disease, while in the service, December 15,1777. Mr. C. D. Elliot has his powder horn, canteen and bayonet, and his letters to his wife while he was in the army. The children of Joseph and Joanna (Morse) Eliot were: Joel and Hannah. Joel was born August 30, 1775, and died at Foxboro, Massahusetts, July 23, 1864; his wife, Mary Murray (Flagg) Elliot, was born in Cambridge, July 14, 1782, and died in Foxboro, January 23, 1865; she was daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Hicks) Flagg, and granddaughter of John Hicks, a member of the Boston Tea Party, and one of the Cambridge minute men

"who fell in defence of the liberty of the people, April 19, 1775," in whose memory the city of Cambridge has erected a monument in the old historic burying ground near Harvard Square, where they are buried. A tablet on Massachusetts avenue marks the spot where John Hicks and three other patriots were killed by the flank guard of the British. Joel Elliot lived for many years in Cambridge, having a store near Harvard Square; he was at one time a member of the Cambridge fire department; in 1816 he moved to Foxboro, Massachusetts,. where he became a_ prosperous farmer; it was he who changed the spelling of the family name from Eliot to its present form. The children of Joel and Mary M. were: Mary Joanna, Joseph, Sarah Elizabeth, Caroline, Charles Edwin, Hannah, Timothy, Joel Augustus and Nancy Maria.

Joseph, son of Joel and Mary M. (Flagg) Elliot, and father of Charles D. Elliot, was born in Cambridge, near Harvard Square, January I, 1807, and died in Somerville, Massachusetts, July 7, 1874. He married, at Mt. Holly, Vermont, December 24, 1835, Zenora, daughter of Stephen, Jr. and Sibil (Lawrence) Tucker. He built and settled in Foxboro Centre; he moved thence to Wrentham, from there to Malden, and in 1846 to Somerville, where for fifteen years he was station agent of the Prospect Street, now Union Square station of the Fitchburg Railroad; he was at one time a member of the Somerville fire department, and in early life of the state militia; in his early days Joseph Elliot was much interested in politics, and was offered the postmastership of Foxboro, which he declined. He was identified with the old Demoratic party in its contests with the Whigs, but became a Republican upon the organization of that party, and voted its ticket the remainder of his life. When quite a young man he became a Universalist ; he was a zealous believer, and was one of the first members of the First Universalist Society in Somerville ; he had a wide acquaintance with the leaders of the faith, among them the Rev. Thomas Whittemore, editor of the Trumpet, who was a frequent visitor to his home.

Zenora (Tucker) Elliot, mother of Charles D. Elliot, was born in Mt. Holly, Vermont, February 10, 1809, and died while on a visit to that place, October 25, 1885, in the same room in which she was married. She was educated at Randolph Academy, Massachusetts, one of the leading seminaries in the early part of the last century. In early life © she was a Methodist, but later a Universalist; she was much interested in religious, literary, temperance and soldiers' relief work. She was a respected member of several organizations: Her father, Stephen Tucker, Jr., was son of Captain Stephen and Abigail (Newell) Tucker. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 14, 1764, and died in Mt. Holly, Vermont, December 26, 1828. During the burning of Charlestown, June 17, 1775, his mother fled with her children across "the neck" to Medford, constantly threatened with destruction from the British shot and shell which howled past their carriage. Stephen, Jr.'s father was a sea captain and was absent on a voyage at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill. Stephen, Jr. married Sibil Lawrence, December 20, 1790, at Littleton, Massachusetts. About the year 1795 or 1796 he removed to Mt. Holly, Vermont, where he was for many years town clerk, selectman and trial Justice. Sibil Lawrence, daughter of Simon and Sibil (Robbins) Lawrence, was born June 10, 1770, and died April 16, 1813; in the Lawtence genealogy her ancestry is traced to John Lawrence, of Watertown, Massachusetts, and thence back to Sir Robert Lawrence, of Ashton Hall, England; one of the crusaders, knighted in 1191 for bravery at the siege of Acre by Richard Coeur de Lion. Her grandfather, Lieutenant Eleazer Lawrence, was prominent in the Indian wars, and Simon, her father, was a soldier in the Revolution. The children of Joseph and Zenora Flliot are: Charles Darwin, Alfred Lawrence and Mary Elvira, all living.