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(IV) William Thorning, son of John Thorning (3), was born in Lincoln, January 20, 1758, and died at his home in Lexington, March 24, 1829, in his seventy-second year. He was brought up on his father's farm in Lincoln. It is related that on the morning of April 19, 1775, he carried an invalid sister in his arms to a hut in the woods, for safety. In the afternoon of the same day, while the British were on the road between Concord and Lexington, retreating, he came down from his home and fired into their ranks. In the "Town of Lincoln" it says: "A man named William Thorning was hiding in a hole in tne field a short distance west of the Nelson house on the afternoon of April 19, 1775; when the British in retreat passed along the road opposite where he lay, he fired into their ranks. A volley was fired in reply, the bullets cutting up the ground about him. He ran for the woods but was met by the flank guard who fired at _ him, but he was not hit. After the British had gone along he came otit of the woods and ran up behind a large boulder, which stands just west of the Nelson house, and fired into the ranks again."

From the time of the battle of Lexington until the winter of 1781 the records show him in active service in the Revolution. He fought on April 19, 1775, in Captain William Smith's company of minute-men of Lincoln, Colonel Abijah Pierce's regiment, by the side of his brother John. Immediately afterward he enlisted in the service and served on picket duty under Major Loammi Baldwin, detailed under Captain Reuben Dickerman. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill, judging from the records, in Captain William Smith's company, Colonel Nixon's regiment (fifth), in which he served in June, 1775. This fact is corroborated by tradition, as his descendants know of his being at the famous battle from statements made by his widow and daughter Mary. He was in 1776 in Captain Asahel Wheeler's company, Colonel John Robinson's regiment ; also in Captain Daniel Lathrop's company of artillery, Colonel Craft's regiment, part of 1776 and 1777. He was in Captain Samuel Farrar's company, Colonel Reed's regiment in 1777, detached from Colonel Eleazer Brook's regiment to reinforce General Gates in the northern campaign. He seems to have returned to the artillery in 1778 in Lathrop's company; and again in Captain Farrar's company, Colonel Brook's regiment in 1778 was sent to reinforce the Continental army. His age was given at this time as twenty-three, his height five feet ten inches. He served in Captain Thomas Hovey's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment, in 1779, from July 14 to December 25, at Rhode Island. He gave his age as twenty-two, and his height was recorded as five feet eleven inches when he entered the Continental army, June 5, 1780, under Captain James Cooper. His complexion was described as ruddy. He was discharged December 5, 1780. His last service recorded on the Massachusetts Rolls was from August, 1781, to November 30 following at Rhode Island, in Captain Asa Drury's company, Colonel Turner's regiment.

In 1781 he and his brother removed to Lexington. The Lexington history (Hudson) says of them: "In December, 1781, Thomas Cutler, in conformity to the law then existing, gave notice to the selectmen that he had taken into his'house to reside John Thorning and wife and their daughter Sarah, with Eunice Phillips, also William Thorning, and that they came from Lincoln." The brothers no doubt worked as husbandmen for Thomas Cutler. On December 15, 1794, twelve years after his marriage, William Thorning bought of Timothy Jones, of Lexington, fourteen acres of land for sixty-five pounds, near the land of Thomas Cutler, on Wood street. He bought of Samuel Lane, August 3, 1807, four acres for one hundred and seventy dollars; and February 13, 1821, a William Thorning, yeoman, bought of Cyrus Thorning twenty acres for seven hundred dollars. His property was inherited by his daughter Polly, (or Mary) who married Leonard Wood September Io, 1823; and June 2, 1851, she transferred it to her son, William Thorning Wood, who was then in business in West Cambridge, and who in turn, May 24, 1854, transferred several acres to A. P. Richardson. This land has since been owned by Isaac Medill and is now (1908) owned by Benjamin F. Heald.

tion, and early learned to sing and play the violin. He was accustomed to take his instrument with him as he visited his friends for social recreation. He learned the art of shoemaking in connection with his earlier farm work, and became a prosperous farmer as time went on as is evidenced by his successive purchases of land. He married, June 18, 1782, at Littleton, Eunice Phillips, born 1756. She died February 10, 1849, aged ninety-three. William E. Wood, of Arlington, has the tradition that her two preceding ancestors died at the ages of ninety-one and ninety-six. Children, all born in Lexington: 1. William, born March 21, 1783; died suddenly November 18, 1818. 2. Abigail, born April 26, 1784; died in Lexington, December 16, 1838. 3. John, born June 29, 1785; married at Charlestown, (intention published December 17, 1815) Nancy White. She died at Somerville, November 11, 1848. John Thorning died at Somerville, November 22, 1874. Their daughter: i. Nancy Thorning, born December, 1819, married Edwin Munroe, Jr., of Somerville, son of Edwin and Eliza Munroe. Edwin Munroe Jr., died September 1, 1868, at Somerville. Nancy (Thorning) Munroe died at Somerville, May 19, 1883. a. Lillian Thorning Munroe, daughter of Edwin and Nancy Munroe, born at Somerville, December 7, 1849; married, December 7, 1871, Alva L. Hollander, born in Boston, June 16, 1848, son of Jacob L. and Maria (Baldwin) Hollander. Lillian Thorning Munroe died at Somervit.e, December 27, 1880: Children of Alva L. and Lillian (Munroe) Hollander, both born in Somerville: aa. Charles Edwin Hollander, born July 16, 1873; married Mary Hale of Newark, Ohio. bb. Earle Munroe Hollander, born August 25, 1879; married Amanda Chevalliar of San Francisco, California. Children: aaa. Alva Munroe Hollander, born at Pasadena, California, April 14, 1904. bbb. Charles Edwin Hollander, born at Pasadena, California, June 3, 1905. Alva L. Hollander is with the firm of L. P. Hollander & Co., Boston, the well-known importers of dry goods. He married (second) at Somerville, Adine Elizabeth Runey, daughter of John and Lydia (Vinal) Runey. Child: Wilkie Baldwin Hollander, born at Somerville, August 6, 1884. 4. Eunice, born January 28, 1787; died in Lexington, November, 1841. 5. Sally, born December 29, 1788; died in Lexington, unmarried, August 27, 1846. In the latter years of her life she assisted her sister, Mrs. Leonard Wood, as keeper of the Lexington poor house. 6. Polly

(Mary), born November 2, 1790; married September 10, 1823, Leonard Wood of Burlington, (See Wood family). She died, in Waltham, February 29, 1876. 7. Dorcas, born June 14, 1792; married August 25, 1821, William Child, of Groton. She died in Groton; September 12, 1870. William Child, son of Captain Abraham Child, was born in Waltham, September 16, 1770, and died in Groton, June 18, 1844. 8. Isaac, born June 7, 1794, died suddenly in Lexington, April 2, 1833. 9g. Cyrus, born June 18, 1796; married Susannah White of West Cambridge, 1821; he died in Lexington, January 6, 1826. Children: i. William, (gravestone record) died October 14, 1827, aged four years three months. 11. Infant, (gravestone) died November 18, 1826, aged seven months. 10. Leonard, born August 8, 1799; married May 17, 1827, Almira (or Elmira) Whitney, born July 20, 1806, daughter of William Whitney, of Harvard, Massachusetts. She died at Ashby, Massachusetts, January 28, 1873. Leonard Thorning died at Ashby, September 15, 1881. Children: 7. Cyrus Henry Thorning, born in Lexington, February 23, 1828; married (first) at Lowell, May 1, 1851, Hannah Marston, born at Concord, New Hampshire, January 17, 1832, died at Deerfield, New Hampshire, September 8, 1857; child, Franklin P. Thorning, born at Methuen, Massachusetts, November 16, 1853, who died at Lowell, September 27, 1854; married, (second), January 12, 1860, Ellen M. Wilson, who was born at Peterboro, New Hampshire, January 1, 1840, and who died September 20, 1862. Child: Fred Ellis Thorning, born December 30, 1861, died, September 15, 1862; married, (third) October 10, 1865, Mary F. (Marshall) Sherwell, born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, November 209, 1837, widow of Walter Sherwell of Lowell. No children by this marriage. Cyrus Henry Thorning died at Lowell, March 24, 1887. 1. William Leonard Thorning, born at Lexington, January 31, 1830; died at Lexington, October 26, 1832. «wi. John Francis Thorning, born at Lexington, May 13, 1832. He served three years in the civil war of 1861-5 in the 7th Massachusetts Battery. He is now living (1908) at Ashby, Massachusetts, with his brother George and family. «iv. Augustus Wyman Thorning, born at Lowell, February 3, 1835, died at Clinton, Massachusetts, May 15, 1889; married at Groton, Massachusetts, Margaret Agnes McFarland, of Scotland. He served nine months in the civil war of 1861-5 in the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, Company

B, of Groton. He died at Clinton, Massachusetts, May 15, 1889. Children: a. George A. Thorning, born at Westford, Massachusetts, September 17, 1867; unmarried; now living (1908) at Abington, Massachusetts. 0. Elmira Agnes Thorning, born at Westford, February 3, 1869; died at Boston, May 15, 1879. c. William H. Thorning, born at Westford, December 27, 1872; married, December 25, 1895, Tillie Lewis, of Somerville, Massachusetts. d. Cora Isabella Thorning, born at Westford, November 25, 1874; died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, November 24, 1876. @. Lunette H. Thorning, born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 16, 1877; died at Rockland, Massachusetts, February 8, 1898. /f. Bertha F. M. Thorning, born at Clinton, January 20, 1883; died at Clinton, August 9, 1887. v. Sarah Thorning, born at Lowell, July 4, 1837; died at Lowell, December 6, 1836. wi. George Washington Thorning, born at Lowell, February 19, 1840. Married at West Townsend, Massachusetts, August 13, 1868, Sarah Ann Eaves, who was born at Mason, New Hampshire, June 19, 1846, daughter of Robert Eaves, born in England, died at Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1854; and Mary (Farmer) Eaves, born at West Townsend, Massachusetts, 1818; died at home of her daughter at Ashby, June 19, 1906. Children: a. Mary Lillian Thorning, born at Mason, New Hampshire, July 26, 1869; married at West Townsend, May 1, 1889, Walter E. Hayward, son of Charles P. and Sarah Jane Hayward, of Temple, New Hampshire. Their children: aa. Persis Medora Hayward, born at Temple, July 29, 1890; bb. Hattie Thorning Hayward, born at Temple, January 3, 1893; cc. Charles Prescott Hayward, born at Temple, June 8, 1900. b. Annie Francis Wood Thorning, born at Mason, New Hampshire, May 3, 1871; married, January 22, 1902, at Ashby, Massachusetts, Samuel Davis Blatchley, son of Joel Hall and Mary Hall (Davis) Blatchley of Guilford, Connecticut. Their children: aa. Mary Davis Blatchley, born at Guilford, Connecticut, November 27, 1902. bb. Sarah Thorning Blatchley, born at Guilford, Connecticut, February 19, 1905. c. Charles Henry Thorning, born at West Townsend, Massachusetts, January 3, 1890. He is now (1908) engaged in farming at Ashby. George W. Thorning (vi) with his wife, his son Charles, and his brother John Francis is now living (1908) at Ashby, Massachusetts, on the place where his mother and father died. wi. Harriet Thorning, born at Lowell, March 29, 1842; died at Lowell, August 17, 1846.

forty years a_ representative citizen and business man of Waltham, was Daniel Hovey, of Ipswich, in whose honor the members of the Hovey family have formed an association under the name of the Daniel Hovey Association, and they meet at Ipswich in August of each year, where they have placed a Memorial Tablet to the memory of Daniel Hovey in the house of the Historical Association of Ipswich. The Rev. Horace Carter Hovey, D. D., of Newburyport, Massachusetts. is president of this association at the present time, and the late Hamblin L. Hovey was a very enthusiastic member and a faithful worker in the association from its founding until his demise. The ancestors of Hamblin L. Hovey on both sides of the family were soldiers in the War of the Revolution. One of these ancestors was the Rev. Samuel Hovey, one of the founders of the first church built in Weare, New Hampshire, the second Baptist church formed in the state of New Hampshire. Several of his ancestors were preachers, and one of them was called "the fighting parson" because of his strength and power in athletics. -It is related of him that passing through a village where a fair was in progress and a wrestling match was to take place, he accepted a challenge to take part, and won the victory over all competitors, thereby winning the above title. The line of descent is traced through the Rev. Samuel and Miriam (George) Hovey to Levi Hovey, who was the father of Timothy Hovey, a native of East Weare, New Hampshire, a carpenter by trade, who married Sarah Gould, who bore him children: John, Diantha, Lavinia, Levi A., Hannah B., Nathan, Lucian B., David, Stanford, Mary Ann. Their son, Levi Arthur, born December 22, 1809, at East Weare, New Hampshire, died January 18, 1839, at the early age of twenty-nine. It is believed that he was a carpenter, builder and cabinetmaker by occupation. He married Huldah Dow Currier, born December 11, 18109, died July 16, 1894, daughter of Thomas and Eunice (Fox) Currier, both of Weare, New Hampshire. Their only child was Hamblin Levi, see forward. ;

Hamblin Levi Hovey was born at Lowell, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, June 17, 1838. When but six months old his father died, and his mother took him to live with her father, Thomas Currier, at East Weare, New Hampshire, where he resided until he was ten ten years of age, at which time his mother married Albert Haven Emerson, and removed to Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire, where he remained and attended school until he was fifteen years old, when he went to live with his uncle, D. G. Currier, in Waltham, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Waltham high school. On leaving school he was for a short time clerk for his uncle, Mr. Currier, in the retail clothing business, and later was in the same line with J. W. Smith, of Boston. In the autumn of 1863 he went to Springfield, Illinois, where he engaged in the commission business, continuing until the fall of Richmond in 1865, when he went to that city where, after a few months spent in government employ he became one of the founders of the Powhatan Granite Company, which furnished the granite for many of the buildings in Washington, D. C. He remained in Richmond until October, 1867, when he returned to Waltham to enter the office of J. W. Parmenter, in the coal, wood and brick business. Mr. Parmenter retired from business in 1870 and Mr. Hovey became his successor, continuing until 1882, when he retired from the business and devoted all his time and energy to the various banks and corporations with which he was connected. He was chairman of the board of water commissioners several years ; chairman of the sewer commission when it was organized ; trustee and chairman of the investment committee of the Waltham Savings Bank many years; director in the Newton and Watertown Gas & Electric Light Company twenty-five years, and its president for eight years, until it was sold to a Boston company and he retired; director in the Waltham National Bank twenty-five years, and its president ten years, which office he held at the time of his death; was several years president of the Waltham Crayon Company; served as treasurer of the Leland Home for Aged Women a number of years, and was its president for six years, holding the office until his death; and vice-president of the Waltham Hospital. For nearly forty years he was actively identified with the business interests of Waltham, and was interested in whatever effected the public and social welfare of the community.

Mr. Hovey was of quiet, studious tastes, and early became a member of the Everett Literary Society, of Waltham, composed of some of the best young men of the town. In 1861 he enlisted in Company M, First Massachusetts Cavalry, and went with his regiment to Hilton Head, South Carolina, was made corporal, and continued with his regiment until 1863 when, owing to ill health, he was honorably discharged. Although not a member of any church, he was throughout his whole life a constant attendant of Christ Episcopal Church, Waltham, and served for many years as one of the vestry, and was always ready to give financial aid whenever it was needed by the church. He was from early manhood a staunch Republican, and always ready to aid the party financially, but although often urged to take office he preferred the life of a private citizen. He was a life member of Monitor Lodge of Free Masons; a member of the F. P. H. Rogers Post, No. 29, Grand Army of the Republic; The Pencil and Brush Club; Middlesex and Home Market clubs of Boston; Waltham Club and_ several literary and social clubs. : Mr. Hovey possessed a very cheerful, helpful nature, and his thought was always' for others, never for himself. Strictly conscientious, he put the best of himself into whatever he undertook, as careful, if not more so, when transacting business for others than when only himself was concerned. The following has been said of him by various of his friends: "One of God's Noblemen;"' 'A man beloved and honored by every creed and class; "A man of affairs, soldier, citizen, husband, friend, Mason, he leaves a good name, and an honorable record." He was a rare man." Mr. Hovey married, in Waltham, June 3, 1868, H. Adelaide, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, June 3, 1843, only child of Jonas Willis and Harriot (Kingsbury) Parmenter ; the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas F. Fales, who was for nearly fifty years rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Waltham, and a close personal friend of the family. Mr. Parmenter was engaged in a coal, wood and brick business in Waltham for many years, director in Waltham National Bank, trustee in Waltham Savings Bank, director in Newton and Watertown Gas Light Company many years, a kind and devoted husband and father, a good citizen and a public-spirited man. The death of Mr. Hovey occurred May

Allen Smith (5), was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, February 20, 1831. He was educated there in the public schools, and upon reaching his majority he went to California during the early fifties in the height of the gold excitemen. He was very successful in his mining ventures there, and he remained in the west until 1869, when he returned east and associated himself with his brother, Ethan Al- len Smith, in the concrete business in Lowell. This business developed into a very profitable and successful industry, and Mr. Smith remained in active business until recently, when ill health caused him to retire from active management. He still retained his ownership in the business. He was a man of great energy and industry in his active years. He devoted himself unreservedly to his business, and he took solid satisfaction in maintaining the high reputation of the firm by substantial and satisfactory work. He stood among the highest rank of business men in Lowell. In politics Mr. Smith was a Republican. He was a member of the Lodge of Free Masons, of the Lodge of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias; and was a member of the Baptist Church of Lowell. He died September 13, 1907.

Mr. Smith married, 1871, Luelah L. Cross, daughter of John Cross, of Weare, Massachusetts. She died in 1873. Their only child is Emma S. Smith, who married Frank E. Harris, and they have one child, Chauncey Everett Harris. Mir. and Mrs. Harris reside in Lowell.

(III) John Carpenter, son of Richard (2), called John Sr., is known positively to be the elder brother of John Carpenter, the town clerk of London whose bequest for school purposes immortalized his name. It was not uncommon at that period to find two living children of the same parents have the same given names, confusing as it is to the genealogist. John Sr. and another brother Robert were mentioned in the will of John Carpenter, the town clerk, and they were named executors.

(IX) William Carpenter, son of William Carpenter (8), was born in 1576; carpenter by trade; rented certain tenements and gardens at Hounsditch in 1625, formerly property of John Carpenter, the town clerk, brother of John (3).

(X) William Carpenter, son of William Carpenter (9), was born in England, 1605. He came to New England before 1640, and was admitted a freeman of Weymouth, May 13, 1640. He was one of the leading citizens from the first; deputy to general court 1641, 1643, 1645; constable 1641. He became an inhabitant March 28, 1645, and is reckoned among the founders of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He was a friend of Governor Bradford, who married his cousin, Alice Carpenter. He was proprietors' clerk of Rehoboth, the records of which date from 1643; he was one of the directors of the town 1647 and 1055. His name is tenth on the list of fiftyeight settlers in Rehoboth from Weymouth. He shared in the first division and owned much land. In partnership with his cousin, William Carpenter, of Rhode Island, he owned land at Pawtucket. He was appointed captain, 1642, and was in active service protecting the lives and property of the colony. His will was dated April 10, 1659, and proved April 21, 1659. He married Abigail : who died February 22, 1687. Their first three children were born in England, the next three in Weymouth, and Samuel in Rehoboth. He diéd* February 7; 1650; ') Children: "mn join born about 1628; married Hannah Hope; died May 23, 1695; settled in Connecticut. 2. William, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born about 1633; married Margaret, daughter of George Sutton, May 25, 1655; founder in 1663 of Baptist church in Massachusetts; buried in Barrington, now Rhode Island, May 6, 1675. 4. Hannah, born April 3, 1640; married Joseph Carpenter. 5. Abiah, born April 7, 1643. 6. Abigail, born April 9, 1643; married John Titus Jr. 7. Samuel born 1644.

(XI) William Carpenter, son of William Carpenter (10), born in England, 1631-2, was brought to America by his parents when he was very young. He married, October 5, 1651, Priscilla Bennett, died October 20, 1663 ; second, December 10, 1663, Miriam Searles, , died at Rehoboth, May 1, 1722, aged ninetythree years; a stone marks her grave. He was a farmer in Rehoboth; he died there January 26, 1703, aged seventy-two years. He was town clerk from May 13, 1668 until his death, except 1693; deputy to general court, 1656, 1668; deacon, 1668; clerk of community of North Purchase, 1682; committee to sell old meeting house, 1683; highway surveyor. He was a man of superior ability and good education, as shown by his handwriting and the positions he filled. His house was on the left side of the road leading from East Providence to the meeting house in Rehoboth ; his grave is marked by a stone in the Rehoboth burying ground. Children of William and' Priscilla, Garpenter:) 1 john born'October 19, 1652; married Rebecca Readaway, settled in Woodstock. 2. William, born June 20, 1659. 3. Priscilla, born July 24, 1661; married Richard Sweet. 4. Benjamin, born October 20, 1663; married Hannah Strong. Children of William and Miriam Carpenter : 5. Josiah, born December 18, 1664; married Elizabeth Read. 6. Nathaniel, born May 12, 1667; married Rachel Cooper; second, Mary Preston; third, Mary Cooper; fourth, Mary Bacon. 7. Daniel, born October 8, 1669. 8. Noah, mentioned below. 9. Miriam, born October 6, 1674; married Jonathan Bliss. ro. Obadiah, born March 12, 1677-8; married Deliverance Preston. 11. Ephraim, born April 25, 1681, died young. 12. Ephraim, born April 25, 1683; married Hannah Read. 13. Hannah, born April 10, 1684; married Jonathan Chaffee. 14. Abigail, born April 25, 1687 ; married Daniel Perrin 3d.

(XII) Noah Carpenter, son of William Carpenter (11), born in Rehoboth, March 28, 1672; married, December 3, 1700, Sarah Johnson, born April 4, 1677, died September 29, 1726, daughter of Matthew Johnson, and granddaughter of Edward Johnson, who was born in Hernehill, near Canterbury, county Kent, England, and came over with Governor Winthrop in 1630. Noah married second, Ruth, May 22, 1727, daughter of Abraham and Ruth (Foster) Follett, and widow of Abraham ' Talbot. She died June 10, 1745. He married third, Tabitha, widow of William 3ishop, of Attleboro (published November 29, 1745). She died June 7, 1753, and he died April, 1756, at Attleboro. He was a farmer and linen wheel maker; a Free Mason, served as town clerk and proprietors' clerk. He and Caleb Hall deeded a lot of land to the Presbyterian church at Attleboro. His will is dated

February 1, 1756. His children: 1. Noah Jr., born November 21, 1701; married Persis Follett. 2. Marian, born December 25, 1702; married Andrew Carpenter. 3. Sarah, born September 24, 1704; married Isaac Follett. 4. Stephen, born July 23, 1706; married Dorothy Whittaker ; second, Rebecca Sprague. 5. Asa, born March 10, 1707-8; died April 12, 1733. 6. Mary, born January 24, 1709-10; married John Alverson. 7. Margaret, born March 30, 1712; married Benjamin Richardson. 8. Simon, born November 13, 1713; died December, 8, 1713. 9. Isaiah, mentioned below. 10. Simon, born August 20, 1716; married Sarah Sawyer; second, Phebe Gould. 11. Martha, born and died May 25, 1719. 12. Elisha, born August 28, 1721. 13. Amy, born February 2, 1723-4; married Ebenezer Whittaker. 14. Priscilla, born May 1, 1728; married Philip Brown, of Cumberland.

(XIII) Isaiah Carpenter, son of Noah Carpenter (12), born at Attleboro, February 7, 1714; married Althea, widow of John Titus, September 12, 1734. She was born May 29, 1714. Isaiah was killed March 23, 1744, by a falling tree. Their first two children were born at Attleboro, the other two at Sutton. Children: 1. Sarah, born November 14, 1736; married. John Bradford. 2. Isaiah, Jr., born September 27, 1738; died November 1, 1748. 3. John, born December 16, 1740, removed to Vermont. 4. Jonah, mentioned below.

(XIV) Jonah Carpenter, son of Isaiah Carpenter (13), born in Sutton, Massachusetts, 1744; married, November 22, 1769, Zerviah, daughter of Isaac Whitmore, of Thompson, Connecticut. She died August 29, 1834. He died January 31, 1805 at Ashford, Connecticut. His father was killed about the time of his birth, and he was adopted by Isaac Whitmore. He was a minute man in the Revolutionary army and fought in the campaign about Boston in 1775. During his absence in the war, his wife did the farm work, harvesting the corn and carrying it up a ladder to the corn crib. This unusually severe labor she used to tell her children and grandchildren caused her to become round-shouldered, and she bore throughout life the marks of her contribution to the cause of liberty. Their children, born at Ashford, Connecticut: 1. Althea, born September 19, 1772; married Abial Cheney. 2. Rev. Asa, born October 10, 1770, in Pomfret; married Erepta, daughter of John Crow; Asa was settled at Waterford. 3. Joseph Titus, born January 2, 1774. 4. Jonah, mentioned below. 5. Chester,

(XV) Jonah Carpenter, son of Jonah Carpenter (14), born at Ashford, Connecticut, October 4, 1777; married Hannah, daughter of Obadiah Rice, who removed from Brookfield, Massachusetts, to Hartland, and thence to Waterford, Vermont. He died August, 1867. He was town clerk 1817-23. and representative to the legislature 1823. He removed from Connecticut to Vermont soon after 1800, and made the trip twice on foot. He was captain of the Waterford military company and deacon of the church. Children, born at Waterford: 1. Accliva, born June 4, 1801, married Israel Scott, resided in Newport, Vermont. 2. Zerviah, born October 22, 1802, died February 10, 1803. 3. Lucius, born February 4, 1804; married Mary Adams, December, 1827; resided at Springfield, Ohio. 4. Zerviah, born January 29, 1806; married John Gilfillen ; lived in Barnet, Vermont; seventeen children. 5. Rev. Erasmus, born April 20, 1808; settled at Littleton and Swanzey, New Hampshire, and in Vermont. 6. Francis R., mentioned below. 7. Emily Charlotte, born July 10, 1811; married Timothy B. Pratt, of Newport, Vermont. 8. Marietta Elvina, born October 22, 1814; married Alpheus Daggett. g. Hannah, born August 30, 1816; married Abraham R. Ross. 10. Jonah, born February. 10, 1618, died ,March 1846, at: Baruet: Vermont.

(XVI) Francis Rice Carpenter, son of Jonah Carpenter (15), born November 10, 1809, at Waterford, Vermont; married December 30, 1835, Achsah, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Williams) Holbrook. She was born October 19, 1812, died September 6, 1886; he died March 26, 1883. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, a successful, 'selfmade man, shrewd and correct in his business affairs, of superior ability and character. He held various positions of trust and honor ; was justice of the peace for fifty years; assistant judge of Caledonia county four years, and directed the building of the county jail; two years representative in the legislature. He was prominent in building up the church, and was deacon many years and superintendent of the Sunday school. Children: 1. EImore Augustus, born October 1, 1836; died March 14, 1877, at Waterford. 2. Allen F., mentioned below. 3. Harlan Jonah, born April 16, 1846; died September 5, 1891; had homestead at Waterford.

(XVII) Allen Francis Carpenter, second and only survivor of the three sons of Francis Rice and Achsah (Holbrook) Carpenter, was born at Waterford, Vermont, February 28, 1842. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at St. Johnsbury Academy. He enlisted for service in the civil war, in Company H, Twelfth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and was mustered in in October, 1862, being something more than twenty years of age. His regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and he participated in all the stirring campaigns of that great army until the expiration of his term, and was honorably discharged in July, 1863. In the following year he located in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he has since resided. He gave his first attention to learning the grocery business, and in 1869 opened an establishment in that line on his own account. His business has prospered and extended from year to year, and that he is recognized as of the highest ability in his trade circles is attested by the called, and the associations he enjoys. He was responsible positions to which he has been one of the organizing members of the Boston Retail Grocers' Association; and was president of that body in 1896 and 1897. He was general manager of the Boston Food Fair, held in Mechanics' Building, Boston, in October, 1897; and is treasurer of the New England Grocers' Publishing Company, a director of the Sprague & Hathaway Company, and a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. He is actively identified with the principal public and semi-public interests of Somerville. He has been a director of the Somerville National Bank from its organization; was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Somerville Trust Company, in the fall of 1907, and is a member of its directorate; and is a trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank. He was a member of the common council, 1889; of the board of aldermen, 1890-91; represented the city in the general court, 1893-94, serving on the committee on public reservations, and other important committees ; and is a member of the Somerville Board of Health, of which he has been chairman for several years. He is also a trustee of the Somerville Hospital, and a member of its executive committee; and is also a trustee of the Somerville Home for the Aged. He is affiliated with numerous Masonic bodies - Charity Lodge, F. and A. M.; Somerville Chapter, R. A. M.;. Coeur De Lion Commandery, K. T.; Somerville Council, S. P. R. S.; he is also a member of Oasis Lodge and Somerville Encampment,

Mr. Carpenter married, December 26, 1873, Caroline S. Pratt, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, born February 3, 1846, died March 1, 1903, daughter of Job and Susan (Nichols) Pratt. Of this union was born one child, Irving Francis, November 27, 1886. He attended the public grammar and high schools, entered Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New Hampshire, one year, graduating in 1906, and is now a student in Harvard College, class of IQIO.

Buttrick, son of Major John Buttrick, of Concord, married, and had children: 1. Abner, married Hannah S. Parkhurst, daughter of and Rachel (Howard) Parkhurst. 2. Alden B. 3. John A., mentioned below.

John A. Buttrick, born at Saco, Maine, April 14, 1813, died March 31, 1879. He married, September 13, 1841, Martha Parkhurst. He lived in Lowell. He was. engaged in the grocery business with his brothers, A. W. and Alden B. He was a member of the First Baptist Church. Children, born in Lowell: 1. Abner W., born August 28, 1842. 2. Emma S., born February 8, 1845. 3. Alice, died in infancy. 4. Elizabeth W., died in infancy. 5. Fred A., mentioned below. 6. Ella Brooks, born January 10, 1850, died 1860.

Fred A. Buttrick, son of John A. Buttrick, was born in Lowell, January 10, 1848. He was educated in the public schools of that city. At the age of sixteen he left school. He was clerk for two years in a grocery store, he then took a course in the Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts. He spent the year 1870 in Wyoming, in banking, returning to Lowell in 1871 with his father. In 1875 he was made treasurer pro tem of the City Institution for Savings, on account of the illness of his father. He became treasurer of the Savings Bank in September, 1875, and president in November, 1896. He was vice-president of the Appleton National Bank until a recent law prohibited a person from holding the presidency of both national and savings banks at the same time. He is one of the sinking fund commissioners of the city of Lowell. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Unitarian. He is a member of Kilwinning Lodge of Free Masons; and member of the Yorick Club and the Vesper Country Club of Lowell. He married, May 24, 1882, Florence W. Clark, born April 2, 1860, daughter of Francis T. and Eleanor (Wheeler) Clark. Children: 1. Eleanor Brooks, born September 23, 1883, at Lowell, educated in Rogers Hall School, Lowell, and Quincy Mansion School, Quincy, Massachusetts. 2. Winthrop Parkhurst, born at Lowell, June 29, 1886; educated in the public and high schools of Lowell, and in Williams College, class of 1g09.

Frank Norwood Bott, son of BOTT Frank Bott, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, June 24, 1876. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, subsequently removing with his parents from Gloucester to Arlington, Massachusetts, where he was a student in the Cotting high school, completing two years of study. He also took the business training afforded by a course in Comer's Commercial College, Boston. He began his business life as clerk at the age of eighteen, April, 1895, for The Twitchell, Champlin Company, 71 Commercial street, Boston, packers of canned goods, manufacturing grocers and importers. of groceries. After three years with this house he was sent out as traveling salesman. He has continued to the present time as traveling salesman for this firm in Boston, and New England. Mr. Bott resides at 47 Irving street, Arlington. He is a member of the Universalist church, and for the past five years has been its treasurer. In politics hevis "a "Re publican. He married, December 31, 1902, Mary Louisa Morrill, born August 6, 1876, daughter of Dr. George H. and (Forsythe) Morrill, of St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a well-known physician and surgeon. Children, born in Arlington: 1. Mary, born August 13, 1904. 2. Morrill, born October 18, 1905.

his native parish. He came to this country when a young man and learned the printer's trade. He was one of the first compositors employed by Henry O. Houghton, the founder of Houghton, Mifflin & Company, the Riverside Press. He worked in the printing establishment of the Riverside Press for fifty-one: years, and was one of the oldest, most trustworthy and efficient men. He died at his home on Putnam avenue, Cambridge, Mssachusetts, October, 1900, in his seventy-sixth year. He was a faithful member of St. Paul's Catholic Church. He married in Boston, Massachusetts, Ellen Carr, who was born in county Galway, Ireland, 1826, daughter of Martin and Margaret (Cosgrove) Carr. They had three children, all born in Cambridge: 1. John Hubert, mentioned below. 2. Mary Anna. 3. Ellen Louise.

(11) John Hubert Corcoran, son of John Corcoran (1), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 1, 1855, and was educated there in the Webster grammar school and the Cambridge high school. He then went to work as clerk in the dry goods store of the late Dana W. Hyde, of Cambridge, in 1871, and remained in his employ in various capacities until 1881, when he engaged in the dry goods business on his own account. His store was in the building formerly occupied by John S. Bates, one of the oldest stands in the city. It was located on the present site of the Central Trust Company. In 1893 he moved his business to his present location on Massachusetts avenue, in a building constructed especially for his use and needs. He has the largest and best dry goods store in Cambridge, occupying basement and first floor of the building. Mr. Corcoran stands well in the business and social life of the city. He has been active in municipal politics. He was member of the common council three years, and president two years; member of the board of aldermen two years, and president one year. He was president of the Citizens' Trade Association for two years; trustee of the Cambridge Public Library; member of the Cambridge Water Board: He is a trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, director of the Cambridge Electric Light Company, member of the Colonial Club, the Boston City Club; of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Boston, president of the New England Dry Goods Association; delegate to State Board of Trade; member of Ozanane Council, Knights of Columbus, and the Catholic Union. His residence is at 50 Lexington avenue, Cambridge. He is a man of enterprise, public spirit and integrity, a useful citizen in every walk of life.

He married, December 27, 1893, Anna M. Ford, who was born in Weymouth, 1868, daughter of John and Margaret (Reid) Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Children: John Ford Corcoran (deceased), born February 21,

BUTTERICK American ancestor of Sidney Homer Butterick, born in England, came to Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled in the town of Concord. He married Sarah Bateman, also a native of England, who immigrated with him to the New World. Their son,

(VI) John Proctor Butterick, son of Willard and Mary (Bartlett) Butterick, born in Gorham, Maine; married Mary W. Fuller of Bedford, Massachusetts, and lived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Their son,

(VII) John Willard , Butterick, born in Fitchburg, married Sarah Homer, of Boston, Massachusetts. They had four children: Sidney Homer, Ella Louise, Josephine W., and Mary A. Butterick.

(VIII) Sidney Homer Butterick was born in Acton, Massachusetts, December 25, 1850, son of John Willard and Sarah (Homer) Butterick. He attended the public schools, and was married, September 22, 1874, to Sarah E., daughter of Joseph T. and (Atherton) Swan. They established their home in Melrose, Massachusetts. Their children were: Charles H., Joseph D., Sydney Homer, Jr., . John W., and Sarah E. Butterick. Mr. Butterick became prominent in the civic affairs of Melrose, serving as mayor of the city 1903-04-05. He was made a trustee of several large estates. His political affiliation was with the Republican party and his church affiliation with the Universalist denomination, serving the church of Melrose as a member and as superintendent of the Sunday school from 1884. He was a member of the board of directors of the Melrose Hospital and vicepresident of the board.

Maine, and here G. Pray Smith was brought up, and alternated work on his father's farm with attendance at the district school and academy. In 1867 he left home to study the art of engraving, being possessed of an ambition to make art his profession. He located in Worcester, where he worked as an engraver up to 1875, when the artistic fever was over, and he determined to become a miner and ranchman in the far west. He located in Nevada, where he acquired large interests and became the controlling owner of the Buck Mountain gold mine, one of the most profitable gold mines in the territory, and in 1907 he was still in control of the property as president and general manager of the Buck Mountain Gold Mining Company. He also acquired a large cattle ranch in New Mexico, which he held as an investment, the property including eighty thousand acres of land, all of which he placed under fence, and in 1907 there were several thousand growing cattle on the ranch, the matured stock producing a large annual income. Besides his western interests, Mr. Smith, on locating in Massachusetts, became interested in eastern enterprises, and he organized, became vice president, treasurer and general manager of the Boston Fuel Company, with offices in the Beacon Building on Beacon street. He also organized the Beacon Machinery Company, which owns and controls the patented machinery used by the Boston Fuel Company in the manufacture of peat into commercial fuel. The universal destruction of peat throughout every state in the United for works. Continuous practical demonstra- States gives to their corporations a vast field tions are being made of the value and utility of properly prepared peat for general heating purposes which has carried the enterprise into the region of practicability, and it only needs the introduction of specially prepared stoves and furnaces to make its use universal. Mr. Smith is one of the owners of a well equipped stock farm near McCordsville, Indiana, and the pacers and trotters bred upon this farm have become familiar as favorite objects of admiration at every trotting association in the country, for their peculiar grace, beauty and wonderful intelligence.

Mr. Smith has behind him a genealogical record that gives him especial pride by reason of the blood that runs in his veins. His Revolutionary ancestors were not rare in the annals of that seven years effort to throw off the yoke of England, and he is doing a duty to his country and to the liberty loving in all the world by doing his part in keeping alive the spirit of liberty, through encouraging the work done by the various patriotic societies of America. He was instrumental in founding the Sons of America, and as head of that patriotic and philanthropic order he placed the organization in a commanding position among the fraternal societies of the United States and the Mortuary Benefit Fund suggested by him has in the quarter century of its existence distributed over $100,000 annually to members in benefits. Mr. Smith became peculiarly prominent in this connection at the convention of the order held in Washington, D. C., where in his address to the convention he touched upon the murder of Dr, Cronin, of Chicago, in a way that caused the Associated Press to telegraph that portion of his address verbatim, to all parts of the English speaking world.

Mr: Smith with his wife and daughter Ethel, born in 1890, made a delightful home in their beautiful residence on Otis street, Newtonville, that charming suburb of Boston, and here with the fine roads and bridle paths of the neighborhood, he with his family enjoyed to the fullest the companionship of his intelligent and well trained horses. Mr. Smith became known all over the United States, and of him the New York Herald said: "A man who wears his heart upon his sleeve,' and an author who dedicated a novel to him which became widely read, described him as "A man who loves a horse, whose heart pulsates in a royal setting, whose fidelity never falters, and whose friendship never fails!"

This name does not appear in America until after 1650. Some have supposed that its origin was French rather than English. This theory is borne out by its non-appearance in the lists of English heraldry. Some have believed that the American line was of Huguenot origin, and others that the name was long distinguished in France, notably in the person of one Count Larrabee.

If this theory holds good, the name may have been originally l'Arabie (L'arabie) or some other form of the word, becoming in America Larabee, or Larrabee, with other variations due to the unsettled system of spelling in that day, notably in the vicinity of Middlesex county, a spelling so far away from the original as Leatherby, probably the way two centuries ago the name was colonially or pro- vincially pronounced. Thus, as late as 1808, the Reverend John Marrett, pastor of the church in Woburn, second parish, now Burlington, in recording the death of a member of this family, writes the name Lartharbee.

(1) Stephen Larrabee, immigrant ancestor, with William Larrabee, a kinsman, came to New England with the early immigrants. William settled in Malden, Massachusetts, where he married, November, 1655, Elizabeth Felt, and died leaving no children. His will, proved October 24, 1692, names wife Elizabeth, and several kinsmen and kinswomen, named Stephen, William, Isaac, Thomas, Samuel, Benjamin, and Jane Larrabee, and Hannah, a daughter of said Jane, also John Larrabee, a kinsman "'beyond the sea; he bequeathed to Stephen Larrabee "my cousin's [nephew] Stephen's eldest son,' he calls Nathaniel Nichols another kinsman of his. His estate was enumerated in an inventory taken September 28, 1692, as a house and barn with twenty acres of land. William Larrabee was a soldier in King Philips' War, 1675-6. Stephen Larrabee was one of the pioneers of North Yarmouth, Maine, where he early purchased lands. As the lands were not occupied for many years because of danger during the period of Indian hostilities, it is likely that he himself did not occupy them, but at a later period a petition dated March 6, 1732-3, in which the names of his sons appear would indicate that they, at least, had an interest in them, if not a settlement upon them. What relation existed between Stephen and William is not clear, but it may have been a "cousin," or nephew, as that term was commonly defined at that time. Stephen Larrabee was a soldier in the early Indian wars in Maine.

The name of his wife and the date of his marriage are unknown, and careful research has failed to reveal either the date of his death or that of his wife. This is not strange, as the unsettled state of a new country, harrassed by hostile Indians rendered many things peculiar to a more settled and orderly community next to impossible. Children:

1. Stephen, see forward. 2. William, born 1658, died 1728, married first - ; second, March 3, 1706, Catherine Adams; resided at Wells, Maine. 3. Isaac, married Elinor - ; resided at Lynn, Massachusetts. 4. Thomas, of Scarborough, Maine; killed by Indians, April 19, 1723. 5. Samuel, died before 1727; married, November 15, 1695, Lydia Bish. 6. Captain Benjamin, married, December 16, 1686, Deborah Ingersoll, of Kittery, Maine. 7. John, died "beyond the sea." 8.

(II) Stephen Larrabee, son of Stephen Larrabee (1) born probably at North Yarmouth, Maine, died there, 1718, aged sixty-six years ; married Isabel He was a resident of North Yarmouth, Maine, and of Malden, Massachusetts. The latter part of his life was spent at North Yarmouth. Children: 1. Stephen, born 1682; married, January 10, 1704, Margaret Pain, resided at Medford, Massachusetts, and North Yarmouth, Maine. 2. Deacon William; married, August 12, 1708, Lydia Adams; resided at Boston. 3. Captain John, married September 29, 1710, Elizabeth Jordon; resided at Boston. 4. Samuel, married first, January 14, 1717, Sarah Breed, of Lynn; second, widow Mary Simonds, of Shirley, Massachusetts. 5. Abigail, born at Malden, Massachusetts, September, 1694 ; married, November 13, 1718, James Trout, of Boston. 6. Captain Benjamin, born at Malden, February 11, 1696, died at Brunswick, Maine, May 9, 1748; married, May 18, 1727, Mary FEilthorpe, who married second, John Oulton. 7. Ephraim, see forward. 8. Margaret, married - Brock. ;

(111) Ephraim Larrabee, son of Stephen rabee (2), born probably at North Yarmouth, Maine, 1698, died at Stoneham, Massachusetts; married, April 17, 1717, Anna, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Lawrence) Holden, of Groton and Stoneham, Massachusetts. Ephraim Larrabee came to Charlestown End, now Stoneham, as an early settler, where he was active in the incorporation of the town. He was a farmer and cordwainer, and a part of his homestead is known as '"'Sewell's Woods." He was an original member of the church in Stoneham, and his name was continued on the church books, although in 1749 he appears to have removed to Woburn, where he resided until 1762, in that year disposing of his property there, and with wife returning to Stoneham, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The dates of their deaths are unknown. Children: t. Ephraim, married, April 19, 1749, Elizabeth Wesson, of Reading: resided at Lynnfield, Massachusetts. 2. Thomas. see forward. 3. Rebecca, married November 15, 1737, John Connery; resided in Woburn. 4. John, resided at Lynnfield, Massachusetts. ~ (IV) Thomas Larrabee, son of Ephraim second, November 8, 1748, Abial Stratton, born January 28, 1729, died at Burlington, Massachusetts, March 12, 1808, daughter of Nathaniel and Esther (Parker) Stratton of Newton, Massachusetts.

Thomas Larrabee resided at first in that part of Stoneham now included in the city of Melrose; subsequently removed to Woburn, owning a farm in the second parish, where he lived until his death. He served in the French and Indian war in Captain William Jones's company for thirty-two weeks from March 31 to November 14, 1760, from Woburn; in the Revolutionary war for nine days in the Lexington alarm, 1775, and in two months service in the militia in 1776. He was drafted for service in the Noster army in August, 1777, but hired a substitute. In 1791 his home was located in the west school district of Woburn, second parish, now Burlington. He first appeared in Woburn accompanied by his wife and family and one Alice Stratton, March 22, 1749-50, being located at the house of Ephraim Larrabee, or Leatherby, his father, who came with his wife and family from Stoneham to Woburn the previous December, or December 29, 1749. Children: 1. Nathaniel, borri March 22, 1749, died August 29, 1782; married February 2, 1780, Prudence Winn, of Woburn. 2. Samuel, see forward. 3. Thomas, born August 15, 1752, died at Dover, Massachusetts, "July fi, 1O32;smartiied, june, 1778, Bathsheba Morse, of Dedham, who died November 10, 1843. 4. Ephraim, died at Woburn, Noveniber. 1780, aged twenty-seven years. 5. Sarah, born November 8, 1755, died

(V) Samuel Larrabee, son of Thomas Larrabee (4), born 1751; married Hannah who died at Stoneham, March 25. 1826, aged seventy-five years. Samuel Larrabee resided for a time at least in the easterly part of Stoneham, now Mielrose, where he kept the 'White Face" tavern; he was also a cordwainer or shoemaker. He and his wife Hannah were members of the church at Stoneham, admitted September 9, 1789. Children: 1. John, see forward. 2. Elizabeth, married (published May 26, 1798) Nathaniel Willey. 3. Samuel, married March 6, 1800, Polly Green. 4. Mary, married (published November 27, 1286) John Paine. 5. Hannah, married (published August 23, 1805) Martin Green, of Stoneham. 6. Nancy, married May 5, 1811, Benjamin Lynde, Jr.. of Malden. 7. Sally, married

(VI) John Larrabee, son of Samuel Larrabee (5) born at Stoneham, or North Malden, now Melrose, 1776, died at Malden, December 15, 1834; married September 15, 1801, Betsey Vinton, born at Malden, November 12, 1781, died at Melrose, November 24, 1860, daughter of Lieutenant John and Mary (Traill) "Vinton. Lieutenant John Vinton served in the Revolutionary war. Children: 1. John, see forward. 2. Mary, born February 2, 1804; married, April 1, 1827, John Lynde, of Malden. 3. George, born March 2, 1806, died at Malden, September 6, 1840; married Julia Smith, of New York, who died 1848. 4. William, born February 16, 1808; married, November 11, 1832, Lucy Johnson Mann, of Bevyerly, Massachusetts. 5. Eliza, born March 16, 1810; married (published November 8, 1847, ) George E. Fuller. 6. Nancy, born September 6, 1813; married (published June 29, 1844, ) Artemas Barrett. 7. Charles, born January 4, 1816, died March -1;-1816.82)sally, born March 6, 1817; married September 6, 1835, William Wright, of Reading. 9. Charles, born January 31, 1820, died at Melrose, November 23, 1890; married, August 3, 1844, Emily Howard, who died at Melrose, March 28, 1868.

(VIII) John Larrabee, son of John Larrabee (7), born at Malden, May 25, 1825, died at Melrose, August 17, 1859, married Sarah Jane Kimball, born at North Turner, Maine, died at Melrose, February 13, I9g01, aged. eighty-one years nine months and seventeen days, daughter of Heber and Olive (Tupper)

Kimball, and granddaughter of Ezra Kimball, of Wells, Maine, who was a private in Captain Noah Moulton Littlefield's company of minutemen which marched on the alarm of April I9, 1775; service, five days.

(1X) Honorable John Larrabee son of John Larrabee (8), born at North Malden, now Melrose, April 21, 1850; married first, September 18, 1876, Lydia Ellen Ricker, born at Great Falls, New Hampshire, died at Melrose, Massachusetts, May 18, 1890, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Clements) Ricker; married second, December 8, 1892, Mary Edna, daughter of Sullivan and Sarah Abbie (Ricker) Atkins. Mr. Larrabee was educated in the public schools of Melrose. He established himself as a pharmacist in Melrose 'in 1867. After twenty-three years of successful business he admitted to partnership Mr. A. C. Stearns, and since that period the business has been conducted under the firm name of Larrabee & Stearns.

Mr. Larrabee has been closely identified with his native town, now city of Melrose, in public afiairs as well as business enterprises, and has held public office continuously therein for thirty years. Elected first as town clerk, he served twenty-one years (1873 to 1894) ; during this time he was also clerk of the board of selectmen five years (1888 to 1893), and registrar of voters ten years, (1884 to 1894). Elected as sewer commissioner in 1894, he served until 1900, when the town became a city, and he was appointed and served one year as city treasurer. December 10, 1900, he was elected mayor, being the second incumbent of that office, served during 1901, was re-elected without opposition, and served also in 1902. During these years of service he was appointed upon many important committees, viz.: Increase of water supply and settlement of claims in connection therewith, drainage, erection of school buildings, care of cemeteries, etc. Elected in 1886 as trustee of the Melrose Savings Bank, he served that institution as clerk twenty-one years, several years as auditor, and is at present vice-president and a member of its investment committee. In 1892 he with others organized the Melrose National Bank, was its first cashier, elected also a director, and has continued in the latter office and upon the finance committee. In 1886 and 1887 he represented Meelrose in the legislature; was appointed by the governor in 1887 a member of the board of registration in pharmacy, was reappointed and continued to serve until 1900, was secretary several years, and subsequently president of the board. In politics he is a Republican; a member of the First Baptist Church; of Wyoming Lodge, F. and A. M.; Waverly Royal Arch, Chapter > Melrose Bodge; 1.70. \On be Fordwell Lodge, K. of P.; Massachusetts Chapter Sons of American Revolution, as great grandson of Lieutenant John Vinton; and of the Franklin Fraternity, a literary organization organized in Melrose in 1863.

The surname Pratt occurs among the earliest English family records, before the year 1200, and indicates that the family came with the Normans to England. John Pratt (or de Pratellis, or de Pratis, as then generally spelled) held the Manor of Patrickborne (Merton 3ridge and Pelham Hundred) in 1200. Four brothers - John, William, Engebraw and Peter de Pratellis - figured prominently in the reigns of Richard I and John, all living in 1201. John was a favorite minister. In 1191 William and Peter both made a gallant record in the Crusade. John Pratt was in Parliament from Beverly in 1298 and 1305. Before the year 1300 the family was well known and widely scattered through England, and the shortened form of the name Prat was the common spelling. The other forms - Pratte, Pradt, Praed, Prate, Praer, and Prayers - are also found. The surname means meadow, and was a place-name before it became a surname. (1) John Pratt, of Malden, county Essex, England, is given as the progenitor of this family by "Wyman's Charlestown," an excellent authority. If this is correct, we probably have the will of John's father, dated Fehruary I, 1618-9, proved August II, 1619, at Chelmsford, county Essex, of which an abstract follows: "John Pratt of Malden, in the parish of All Saints, to Mir. Hunsden his minister 20 pounds; minister of St. Mary's ten pounds; to the poor of the parishes of All Saints, St. Mary's St. Peter's each parish ten pounds ; son-in-law, Mr. Thomas Celhirst ; Mr. Samuel Temple; brother, Joseph Pratt; to son Elisha lands in Steple, county of Essex, and his house in Malden, when twenty-one .and 150 pounds; to son Jeremy ten pounds when twenty-one; son Samuel, son Elisha to be made Master of Arts; daughter Elizabeth not twenty; daughter Marah not twenty; wife

Pratt

(II) Richard Pratt, youngest of the nine children of John Pratt (1), according to Savage and Wyman, born in Malden, England, and baptized there June 29, 1615, settled in Malden, Massachusetts, and died there in 1691. His will, dated May 8, was proved October 6, devising to wife and children and grandson James Hovey. The inventory included house valued at twenty pounds and four acres of land. Children of Richard and Mary Pratt: 1. Mary, born September, 1643, married Thomas Skinner. 2) Siomcds, born March or May 5, 1646, died 1718; resided in Malden. 3. Mercy, born June 15, 1650. 4. John, born 1655; mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, married Gershom Hawkes. 6. Martha, married John Pratt, son of Thomas, 1686. 7. Hannah, married Joseph Hovey.

(II1) John Pratt, son of Richard Pratt (2), was born in Malden in 1655. He was a mariner. He married Mary who died July 17, 1710, aged fifty-five years, according to town records. (Gravestone gives May 17, 1710, in fifty-sixth year). He was called John Sr., and died June 3, 1708, aged fifty-three years four months on June 3, 1708 at Malden. (Gravestone). John Pratt. of Malden, was at the Falls Fight in King Philip's war, May 19, 1676, at Hadley, under Captain William Turner, and his son Thomas had a grant of Narragansett land in Bernardston, Massachusetts, many years later, on account of the father's service. His widow and son Thomas were administrators appointed June 22, 1708. The inventory, dated June 28, 1708, amounted to 227 pounds, and the estate was divided Pebruary (19, 171112.» Childrens a. John; died October, 1704, age twenty-one (gravestone at Malden). 2. Thomas, probably of Rumney Marsh. Had slave Ginne, baptized at Malden, as of Chelsea, 1750. 3. Ebenezer, boatman, removed to Boston. 4. Joseph. 5. William. 6. Caleb. 7. Joshua. 8. Mary, born March 6, 1696. 9. Hannah. 10. Abigail. (Five were minors in 1708).

(II1) Thomas Pratt, son of Richard Pratt (2), was born March or May 5, 1646. He settled at Malden, and died there in 1718. Children of John and Alice: 1. Richard. 2. John, settled in Attleborough, Massachusetts. 3. Mary, married Ephraim Grover, of Norton, Massachusetts. 4. Sarah, married Perkins. 5. Thomas, born 1700; mentioned below. 6. Hannah, married Richard Skinner.

(IV) Thomas Pratt, son of Thomas Pratt (3), was born in Malden, in 1700, and married there, June 24, 1725, Lydia Lunde (by Rev. J. Emerson). He died at Malden, August 20, 1776, aged seventy-six years. Children, born in Malden: 1. Lydia, born October 20, 1726.. 2. Thomas)"born) Aprilia 1729; died April 2, 1815, aged eighty-six years; resided in Malden. 3. Amos, born April 11, 1734; mentioned below. 4. Richard, born March 16, 1735-6.

(V) Amos Pratt, son of Thomas Pratt (4), was born in Malden, April 11, 1734. He married (intentions at Malden) March 29, 1761, Sarah Upham, daughter of John and Sarah Upham of Lynn. They settled in what is now Saugus, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in the first Lynn company responding to the Lexington Alarm, April 10, 1775, and marching to Concord. Children (town records): 1. Sarah, born at August 10, 1763, at Lynn. 3. David, born at Malden' May 19, 1762. 2. Amos, Jr., born Lynn, June 20, 1766; mentioned below. 4. Jonathan, born July 23, 1770; removed to Reading, and had the place lately owned by Jonathan Nichols, Sr., and occupied late by Mrs. Winch; married Mercy Burditt, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Burditt; children, born at Reading: David, married, 1821, Hannah Patch, of Greenfield, New Hampshire; Jonathan, of Reading. 5. Phebe, born at Lynn, May 20, 1773.

(V) David Pratt, son of Amos Pratt (4), was born in Lynn, (Saugus) June 20, 1766. He came to Reading, a neighboring town, with his brother Jonathan, and settled there. He learned the trade of shoemaking and became a prosperous shoe manufacturer in Reading.

(VII) Daniel Pratt, son of David Pratt (6), was born in Saugus, Massachusetts, February 24, 1797. He was educated there in the common schools, and succeeded his father in the shoe manufacturing business. After a time he engaged in the manufacture and sale of clocks in Reading, Massachusetts, in partnership with Jonathan Frost, in 1832. After three years Mr. Frost withdrew, and Mr. Pratt continued the business on his own account. In 1846 Mr. Pratt removed the clock business to Boston, locating first at 49 Union street, where he continued in business with much success until his death in 1871. He admitted his son to partnership, and after his death the latter continued the business under the present name of Daniel Pratt's Son. Mr. Pratt was a man of sterling integrity, thoroughly honest, and of firm purpose and much force of character. He held the confidence of his townsmen in a marked degree. From early life he took a lively interest in public affairs, and was a man of much public spirit. He held many offices of trust and honor in the town of Reading; was selectman; was for twenty-one years town clerk (1831-52); was representative to the general court in 1845 and 1847; and fire warden several years. He was president of what was probably the first banking institution of Reading. He was chief marshal of the bi-centennial celebration of the foundation of the town in 1844. He died in Reading, March 17, 1871, at the age of seventy-four years, leaving an honorable record of usefulness as a citizen and of success in business. He married, March 30, 1818, Delia Burt, who was born May 19, 1797, in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Daniel F., mentioned below; and Delia, who married Benjamin Boyce.

(VIII) Daniel F. Pratt, son of Daniel Pratt (7), was born September 7, 1823. He had a common school education in his native town, and when quite young entered the employ of his father in the clock business, first in Reading, and later in Boston, where he continued with increasing success during his active life. For a few years after his father's death the business was continued at the old location by Daniel F. Pratt and his brother-in-law, under the name of Daniel Pratt's Sons. In November, 1880, this firm was dissolved, and Mr. Pratt continued alone, locating his store at 339 Washington street, Boston, and making the name simply Daniel Pratt's Son. These quarters soon proved inadequate for the needs of the increasing business, and accordingly the business was moved to Hawley street, and later (January, 1895) to its present location, 53 Franklin street. Mr. Pratt was always interested in public affairs, but had rarely held office. He was a Republican in politics. In 1878 and 1889 he made extended trips abroad, but preferred a quiet, domestic life. He married Angeline B. Burt, who was born July 18, 1828, in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, daughter 'of Brown and Abbie A. (French) Burt. Children: 1. Frank W. B.,. born' October 1, 1851; mentioned below. 2. Henrietta H., born May 30, 1858: married Warren H. Manning, June 2nd, 1885; one child, Warren Harold. 3. Wilbur, born March 23, 1862. 4. Chester, born June 17, 1869; married March 18, 1903, to Bertha L. Ramsdell, of West Newton; one child, Daniel C., born February 26, 1900.

Pratt (8), was born in Reading, October 1, 1851. He received his education in the public schools in Boston. He was first employed as a bookkeeper by A. C. Masury & Company, Boston, oil dealers, but subsequently entered the employ of his father in the clock business of Daniel Pratt's Son. In 1888 he became a partner in his father's business, and since his father retired he has conducted the business, which is one of the largest establishments in this line of business in New England. He is a member of the Congregational church of Reading. In politics he is a Republican, and has held minor offices. He is a member of the Congregational Club of Boston, and of the Congregational church of Reading. His home is at 21 Sanborn street, Reading. He married, December 25, 1872, Sarah A. Weston, daughter of Franklin Weston, of Reading. Children: 1. Marian T., born May 20, 1877; graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1899. 2. Winthrop E., born October 17, 1879; educated in Reading high school; is in business with his father; married, June 24, 1904, Harriet M. Hyde, of Reading; one child, Winthrop E., Jr., born July 24, 1906.

Richard Bailey, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England and came from Yorkshire in May. 1635, in the ship "Bevis" when he was fifteen years of age, an apprentice of Christopher Stanley, tailor, and was by him assigned August 8, 1639, to Isaac Cullimore, carpenter. He settled in Newbury, then Rowley, Massachusetts, where he owned a farm, and a share in the first cloth mill set up in America. This mill was on the old Dummer mill site as it is known to the present day, having been until recently owned by one of the Dummer family. It is said that Bailey was a very pious person, and that in a storm during the voyage over the company would call upon him to pray for their safety. He died between the years 1647 and 1648. He married Ednah Holstead, or Halstead, by whom he had an only child, a son Joseph. She married (second) December 1, 1648, Ezekiel Northend, of Rowley, who probably took possession of the homestead, and it has been in the Northend family ever since. She was probably born in Halifax Parish, West Riding, Yorkshire; died at Rowley, February 3, 1706. Ezekiel Northend died September 7, 1608.

father's death, and was brought up in the Northend family. He settled in the north part of Rowley on the Merrimac river, not far from the western border of Newbury, Massachusetts. This section was at first called Merrimac lands, later Bradford, and in 1850 the eastern part of the town was incorporated by the name of Groveland. Most of the original lot was lately owned by D. W. Hopkinson and M. M. Palmer. Mr. Hopkinson is a descendant and his house occupies the site of that of the original dwelling on the southerly side of Main street. Mr. Bailey was one of the leading citizens and was elected to various church, town and military offices; was selectman twenty-three years, between 1675 and 1710; deacon from the formation of the church until his death, October 11, 1712. His wife Abigail died November 17, 1735. Children, born at Bradford: 1. Abigail, born March 9, 1671, married Samuel Tenney; died November 28, 1689. 2. Elder Richard, September 30, 1675, mentioned below. 3. Anne, September 24, 1678, married Jonas Platts. 4. Elizabeth, April 9, 1681, married Robert Hastings. 5. Joseph, Jr., February 13, 1683, settled in West Newbury. 6. Ednah, June 26, 1686, married John Hastings. 7. Deacon John, November 26, 1691, settled in Methuen, Massachusetts. 8. Sarah, July 6, 1694, married, March 29, 1716, James Davis.

(III) Richard Bailey, son of Joseph Bailey (2), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, September 30, 1675. He settled on the Bailey homestead in Bradford, where he died November 19, 1748, aged seventy-three. Besides his real estate in Bradford he owned land in other towns in the vicinity and near Falmouth (Portland), Maine. He was a man of business, active, energetic and influential; was often moderator of town meetings; selectman for more than twenty-five years after his father's death; on committees to settle difficult questions for the town; was elected deacon of the church to succeed his father; in 1718, with Samuel Tenney, the other aged deacon, was appointed elder. He married, February 21, 1706, Joanna Webster, daughter of Nathan and Mary Webster, of Bradford, born August 26, 1682. Children: 1. Jonathan, born December 9, 1706. 2. Nathan, born December 13, 1708. 3. Abigail, born April 7, 1711. 4. Richard, born 1713, died in i705. 5.) joseph, born January 28)1715) 0o: Richard, born May 9, 1717. 7. Ebenezer, born April 16, 1719, mentioned below. 8. Amos, born January 27, 1720-21. 9. Joanna, born March 9, 1727, school teacher, residing at Deacon Balch's, where she died May 31, 1814; fifty years and more after her death one of the chambers of her house where she died was furnished with the things she had prepared for her wedding in her youth, her engagement being broken before the wedding.

(LV) Ebenezer Bailey, son of Richard Bailey (3), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, April 16, 1719. Married Sarah Palmer, who was born at Bradford, July 5, 1722, died May 1813, daughter of Samuel and _ Elizabeth Palmer. He settled on the street northeast of the house of his brother Richard. He died there November 17, 1815. Children, born in Bradford: 1. Ebenezer, born July 13, 1740, married, October 21, 1762, Mehitable Eaton; settled in Weare, New Hampshire. 2. Samuel, born November 3, 1745, married Hannah Clark, of Hampstead, New Hampshire; settled in Weare. 3. Daniel, born January 26, 1748, settled in Weare; married, November 29, 1774, Sarah Mudgett; removed to Fletcher, Vermont, in 1795; he died September 6, 1832) 4. Jonathan; bom March 29, 1750, died in 1761. 5. Jesse, born March 26, 1752, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, born July 21, 1755, married, May 4, 1780, Joseph Webster. 7. Nathan, born May 2, 1758, died in the Revolutionary service. 8. Susanna, born March 31, 1761, married, November 3, 1778, Joshua Webster, and settled in West Haverhill. 9. Jonathan, born February 27, 1764, married, October 18, 1787, Elizabeth Emerson; died March 25, 1843; he married (second) Joanna, widow of Benjamin Gage, daughter of Day Emerson.

(V) Jesse Bailey, son of Ebenezer Bailey (4), was born in Bradford, March 26, 1752. Married, September 3, 1776, Sarah Philbrick, born August 12; 1760, died) December, 1845, daughter of Samuel Philbrick, of Seabrook, New Hampshire. He was a farmer at Weare, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Phebe, born June 25, 1777, married Jesse Bailey, son of Ebenezer, her uncle: 2. Samuel Philbrick, born February 27, 1780, married Betsey Balch, of Topsfield, Massachusetts. 3. Bradbury, born May 20, 1782, married, March 2, 1809, Agnes Marshall. 4. Jesse, born September 29, 1784, married, March, 1807, Polly Barnard. 5. Ebenezer, born June 26, 1786, mentioned below. 6. David H., born January 10, 1790, married, July 2, 1820, Sabra Philbrick; lawyer; graduate Mid-. dlebury; lived in Unity, Rochester and Oswego, New York, and Weare, New Hampshire. 7. Jonathan, born January 9, 1792, married Sarah Marshall; resided in Unity and removed to Raymondsville, Wisconsin. 8. Sarah, born August 13, 1794, married Major Christopher Cross; settled in Lowell, Massachusetts. 9. Gilman, born 1797, died in 1800: 10> "Ira, born) in) 13e00, dred 1802." TTSolomon Sanborn, born September 16, 1803, married, November 7, 1833, Elvira Manahan, and lived in Francestown, New Hampshire.

(VI) Ebenezer Bailey, son of Jesse Bailey (5), was born in Weare, New Hampshire, June 26, 1786. Married, October 8, 1806, Miriam Barnard, sister to Jesse Bailey's wife, daughter of John Barnard, of Weare. They resided one year at Ludlow, Massachusetts; at Unity for five years and then settled on his father's homestead in the southwest part of Weare. Children: 1. Surena, born 1807, married John Bartlett, and resided on the Bartlett homestead. 2. Eliza, born 1808, married Gorham P. Kendrick. 3. John Barnard, born 1815, mentioned below. 4. Sarah Philbrick, born 1826, married Daniel Hoyt and William Thayer.

(VII) John Barnard Bailey, son of Ebenezer Bailey (6), was born in Weare, New Hampshire, in 1815. Married Frances Woodbury Patterson, daughter of John Patterson, of Billerica, Massachusetts, and New Boston, New Hampshire. She was born in 1818. He kept a general store in Manchester, New Hampshire. Children: 1.,. John "Mason, born 1840, mentioned below. 2. Mary Frances, born 1841, married Charles Bartlett, of Boston; children: Edward Mason Bartlett, Grace Bartlett. 3. Emma.

(VIII) Dr. John Mason Bailey, son of John Bernard Bailey (7), born in Weare, 1840, died September 8, 1898. During his early life he went to Milford, Massachusetts. He fitted for Dartmouth College by attendance at public schools, and later was a student at a Virginia college, graduating from the law department thereof. He was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, and in 1890 came to Boston and practiced law for a number of years, after which he removed to Kentucky and was there engaged in an extensive lumber trade. Later he took up his residence in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where he practiced dentistry for three years, and where he was an important factor in politics. In 1887 he came to Billerica, Massachusetts, and practiced dentistry for several years, achieving success in his profession. After traveling extensively he finally located in the southern portion of the United States, and immediately became interested in the construction of railial roads, and under his supervision and direction various railroads were built, including the Atlantic & Danville, the Bristol & Tennessee. Dr. Bailey was also of a mechanical turn of mind, and had many patents pertaining to the production of cheaper gas and also devices of electrical importance which were looked upon by experts as being important to both the telephone company and the public, as they would reduce cost of production, thus reducing the rates to the advantage of the public. He was the author of numerous articles on both the gas and electric subjects, and thus gained national reputation and recognition from people interested along these lines. In 1881 he published ""The Book of Ensilage"' (Orange Judd Company), which is a masterly production, he being the founder and the first _ to introduce ensilage, and also the founder and introducer of silo, which is of such great importance to the farmers of the present day. He is also the author of numerous other works, among which was "Transportation." He was a Unitarian in religion, and a Republican in politics.

Dr. Bailéy married, August 20, - 1877, Phebe Jane Gaskill, born October 12, 1855, daughter of Libbeus and Mary A. (Law) Gaskill. Libbeus Gaskill was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, July 23, 1802, of an old Rhode Island family. He went to Pelham, New Hampshire, in early manhood, thence to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where he engaged in the real estate business, and there died January 21, 1868. He married. at Smithfield, October 19, 1841, Philena S. Sawyer, of Smithfield; he married (second), April 10, 1848, at Cumberland, Mary A. Law. Children of Dr. John M. and Phebe J. Bailey: 1. Florence Ethel, born June 3, 1878, graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1900, after which she was a teacher in California; she married, November 7, 1907, W. J. Wilson, of Los Angeles, California, a mine owner, one of the wealthy residents of that city. 2. Alice, born March 6, 1880, resides at home in Billerica with her mother. 3. John G., born July 10, 1881, married, 1906, Marion Dutton, of Billerica; resides at Billerica. 4. Helen J., born April 2, 1883, died in 1885.

(1) James Bailey, brother of Richard Bailey, was born in England, 1612, appeared in Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts, before 1640; married Lydia , and had four children.

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(11) John Bailey, the eldest son of James, the immigrant, and Lydia Bailey, was born in Rowley in 1642. He was married June 16, 1668, to Mary Maghill, and they had six children. John Bailey died in Rowley, November 19, 1690.

(III) Jonathan Bailey, eldest son of John and Mary (Maghill) Bailey, was born in Rowley, August 31, 1670, and his first wife was Hannah Walker.

(IV) Jonathan Bailey, Jr., the eldest son of Captain Jonathan Bailey by his first wife, Hannah Bailey, was born in Rowley, February I, 1695, and was married March 28, 1735, to Bridget Boynton, by whom he had four children.

Moores and Abiah (Dunstan) Bailey, parents of Thomas Dunstan Bailey, lived and died in Salem, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, and had the following children all born in Salem, New Hampshire: Moores, Ruthena, Thomas Dunstan, David, Abiah and John Bailey.

Thomas Dunstan Bailey, son of Moores and Abiah (Dunstan) Bailey, was born October 14, 1830. He removed to Lowell, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, in 1844, where he attended school and learned the trade of mason and builder. He was also an interior decorator and plasterer, and having considerable inventive genius devised and patented several ingenious articles of practical use including a bootjack that came to be adopted by boot and shoe makers in their business. He was married April 11, 1843, to Ruth Folsom Goodhue, of Hebron, Grafton county, New Hampshire, where she was born November 14, 1816. The children of this union were: Stephen Goodhue, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, January 23, 1845; Clara Emerson, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 5, 1847, Persis Maynard, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, August 5, 1849, died April 2, 1850. Ruth, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, September 7, 1851. Martha Kitredge, born March 25, 1854.

Stephen Goodhue Bailey, son of Thomas Dunstan and Ruth Folsom (Goodhue) Bailey, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, January 23, 1845. He was married to Ella P., daughter of Sidney Pray, of Lowell, and their children were: Sidney Pray, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 23, 1876. Thomas Dunstan, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, July 25, 1878. Phillip Goodhue, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, March 7, 1880. Paul, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, July 1, 1884. Ruth M.., born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1896.

as Dunstan and Ruth Folsom (Goodhue) Bailey, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 5, 1847. She was married (first) to Alonzo Douglas, and by this mariage had one son, Walter Douglas. She married (second) Sheldon W. Churchill, of Lowell, and her children by her second husband were: Eleanor M., Clara Louise and Daniel Everett Churchill.

Thomas Dunstan Bailey, Sr., continued the business of mason and builder during his active life. He was a Whig and Republican in party affiliations, but held no office. He was with his family a regular attendant of the Advent Christian Church on Grand street, Lowell, and his home was made pleasant in his declining years by the presence of both children and grandchildren.

Thomas Grover who came from England in 1642 and settled in 'Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His son, Thomas Grover, married Sarah Cheswick. Their son Andrew, married Mary ; their son James married Sarah Austin, and their son James married Sarah Wellman. James and Sarah (Wellman) Grover were the parents of John Grover, a Revolutionary soldier, who married Jerusha Miley, and their grandson was Cuvier Grover (1829-1885), a division commander in the Federal army during the Civil war and won brevets of brigadier and major-general United States America for gallant services throughout the war. His kinsman, Henry Grover, married Henrietta, daughter of David Higgins, who came from Barnstable county, Massachusetts, and they had eleven children, all born in Wardsboro, Vermont, and named in the order of

Henry M., who married Jane Wilson, and with his wife and two children lived in Cambridge street, Winchester, Middlesex county. 4. Amanda F. 5. Edward Augustus. 6. Horace N. 7. Mason D. 8. Marcia H. 9. Noah F. 10. Lyman, who served in the First United States Sharpshooters, Colonel Hiram Burden, in the Civil war, and served all through the war, and was twice wounded. He married , and had one son and two daughters,.and lives in Cuba, Missouri. 11. Ella, died young. Henry Grover (father) died in 1852.

that place up to 1851, when he went to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving in that city December 26 of that year. He engaged in trucking for a dry goods store, 1852-53, and then entered a dry goods store as clerk, remaining about two years. In 1871 he started in business for himself, jobbing in fruits, buying and selling foreign fruits; he remained about four years at No. 108 State street, Boston; the following four years was located at Chatham street, and the subsequent fourteen years was with W. L. Hooper, after which he retired from active pursuits. He was a fireman in the Boston volunteer department, joining in 1852; was a member of the Knights of Honor; an attendant of the Congregational church in Somerville, and was a voting member of the Republican party, but not an office seeker or office holder. He was married August 17, 1859, to Eleanor J. Holt, of Temple, New Hampshire, who died August 26, 1904. The children of Horace N. and Eleanor J. (Holt) Grover, were: 1. Frederick, born December 25, 1861, died August 14, 1862. 2. Ella Susan, born March 26, 1865, died December 3, 1869. 3. Flora Belle, born June 2, 1867. 4. Nelson H., born March 15, 1872, married Emily Gifford, and she died January 1, 1906. Mr. Grover makes his home at 26 Oxford street, Somerville.

He was educated there in the common schools. He married, December 1, 1819, Nancy, daughter of David Tewksbury. Children: 1. Thomas, born March 20, 1821; married Sarah Ann Greenleaf: resided at Nashua, New Hampshire; he died March 2, 1852. 2. Ezra D., born January 18, 1823, married Mary C. Jennis; resided in Providence, Rhode Island; died December 10, 1900. 3. John B., born November 6, 1824, married Rebecca W. Richards ; resided in Manchester, New Hampshire. 4. Charles B., born January 6, 1827, died in Hartford, Connecticut, January 17, 1847. 5. David T., born January 8, 1820, died in California, March 8, 1861, 6. Amos T., see forward. 7. Ivers; born December 2, 1832, died June 21, 1894. 8. Sarah T., born December 1, 1834, died November 21, 1901. g. Clarinda (1), born August 11, 1836, died August 17, 1837. 10. Almos, born February 22, 1838, married Martha A. Jackson. I1. Bian iA:, see forward... 2. Clarinda (2), born June 25, 1842, married Procter C. Lull;

(V) Amos T. Smith, son of John Smith (4), was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, February 20, 1831. He was educated there in the common schools, and upon reaching his majority went to California during the early fifties in the height of the gold excitement. He was very successful in his mining ventures there and he remained in the west until 1869, when he returned east and associated himself with his brother, Ethan Allen Smith, in the concrete business in Lowell. This business developed into a very profitable and successful industry, and Mr. Smith remained in active business until January, 1907, when ill health cavsed him to retire from active business. He was a man of great energy and industry in his active years; he devoted himself unreservedly to his business and he took solid satisfaction in maintaining the high reputation of the firm by substantial and satisfactory work. He stood among the highest rank of business men in Lowell. On September 13, 1907, he died of paralysis. In politics Mr. Smith was a Republican. He was a member of the Free Masons and Odd Fellows. He married, December 14, 1871, Luella L. Cross, who died in 1873, daughter of John Cross, of Weare, New Hampshire. Their only child is Emma L. Smith, who married Frank E. Harris, and they have one child, Chauncey Everett Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Harris reside in Lowell.

(V) Ethan Allen Smith, son of John Smith (4), was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, March 31, 1840. He attended the schools of his native town. In 1865 he went to Concord, New Hampshire, where he engaged in the concrete business with his brother Ezra, afterwards going to Manchester, remaining there two years. In 1869 he removed to Lowell, where he engaged in real estate and concreting. In 1871 his brother Amos T. Smith, mentioned above, went into partnership with him under the firm name of E. A. & A. T. Smith. Their business became the most extensive and profitable of any in their line of work in that section of the country. The firm is known for its excellent and reliable work all through this section. Mr. Smith is one of the leading business men of the city. He has invested extensively in Lowell real estate, and his interests and those of the city are identical. He has faithfully supported every movement intended to promote the welfare and growth of the city of Lowell, and has rejoiced in its great development. He is a director of the Middlesex Trust Company, and his judgment is respected in financial circles. His residence at 84 Marlborough street is said to be one of the finest in the city.

Mr. Smith is an active and _ earnest member of the Republican party, supporting its candidates and principles to the extent of his ability and contributing freely to the support of its campaigns. He has declined, however, to accept public office himself. In religion he is a Universalist. He is well and favorably known in Masonic circles, a member of William North Lodge of Free Masons; Royal and Select Masters; Royal Arch Masons; Knights Templar and of the various bodies of Masonry to the thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Odd Fellows, Lowell. He belongs to the Yorick Club and the Highland Club. Mr. Smith is a very active, popular, influential and useful citizen.

He married, March 19, 1863, Maria E. Burtt, daughter of Jacob Burtt, of Bennington, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Alice G,, married Horace P. Beals, and they have one

England with his wife Elizabeth and settled first in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He subsequently removed to New London. Children: 1. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. William, Jr. 3. Daniel, died in

(II) Samuel Comstock, son of William Comstock (1), born probably in England, died about 1660. He married Ann , who married second, John Smith, a stone mason. She died after 1661. His name appears frequently on the court records both as plaintiff and defendant. He removed to Providence, Rhode Island, and March 1, 1654, bought of John Smith, who afterwards became Ann Comstock's second husband, his house and lot, comprising four acres of land, in the north part of Providence. Children: 1. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, born May, 1655.

(II1) Captain Samuel Comstock, son of Samuel Comstock (2), born 1654, died May 27, 1727. He resided in Providence, Rhode Island. He was deputy to the general court in 1699, 1702-7-8-11; appointed May 6, 1702, on a committee by assembly to audit the general treasurer's accounts and other colony debts. He deposed March 22, 1717, that he was sixty-three years old. His will was dated December 21, 1726, and proved September 18, 1727, bequeathing to wife Elizabeth his negro woman Effe and all the rest of movable estate for life, at her death to be given to children. He married, November 22, 1878, Elizabeth Arnold, died October 20, 1747, daughter of Thomas and Phebe (Parkhurst ) Arnold. Children: 1. Samuel, born April 16, 1679; died April 1, 1727; married Anne Inman. 2. Hazadiah, born April 16, 1682; died February 21, 1764; married first, Catherine Pray; second, August 10, 1730, Martha Balsom. 3. Thomas, born November 7, 1684; died 1761; married, July' 6, (1713) Meney Jenckes. 4. Daniel, born July 9, 1686; died December 22, 1768; married first 3] Second, August 2, 1750, Elizabeth Buffum. 5. Elizabeth, born December 18, 1690; married December 1, 1717, John Sayles. (6. jelm mentioned below. 7. Ichabod, born June 9, 1696; died January 26, 1775; married first, September 13, 1722, Zibiah Wilkinson; second, March 26, 1747, Elizabeth Boyce. 8. Job, born April 4, 1699; married first, Phebe Jenckes; second, November 22, 1735, Phebe Balcom.

(IV) John Comstock, son of Samuel Comstock (3), born March 26, 1693, died January 12, 1750. He resided in Providence, was. a blacksmith, and was a very wealthy man for his day. He deeded much of his property to his sons before he died - to son Samuel thirty acres, dwelling house and barn; to son Joseph seventeen acres and dwelling house; to son Jeremiah one hundred and fifty acres; to son John, a quarter of forge adjoining to corn mill, etc.; to sons John, Jonathan, James, Nathan and Ichabod "my homestead farm and dwelling house in which I now dwell, about 170 acres, and also land in the neck [I bought of Sam, an Indian, and other lots." Administration of his estate was granted to his sons Samuel and John, February 12, 1750, and the inventory was 1,968 pounds two shillings. He was buried in the North burial ground. He married first, Esther, daughter of William and Patience (Sprague) Jenckes; second, Sarah Dexter, born June 27, 1698, died 1773, . daughter of John and Alice (Smith) Dexter. Children: 1. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Joseph. 3. Jeremiah. 4. John. 5. Jonathan. 6. James. 7. Nathan. 8. Ichabod.

Island. He married Hannah Dwinnell. They settled in Douglas district, later called Dudley, Massachusetts, near the Rhode Island line. The births of their children are recorded at Douglas. He was a cordwainer by trade. Samuel Comstock sold land in Douglas November 14, 1751, to Josiah Humes, a minor son of Samuel Humes; in southeast part of Douglas, May io, 1773, to Nathaniel Emerson ; also seventy-three acres to Samuel Humes April 7, 1781; also February 14, 1783, to John Bates, of Killingly, Connecticut, land in Dudley. He bought land December 7, 1770, of Solomon Jepherson of Douglas district, thirtyeight acres; of Peter Lewis, land in Douglas district, April 7,.1772; of Susanna - Warten; of Dudley, May 22, 1777; also of Samuel Humes, of Dudley, 104 acres April 7, 1781. He subsequently settled in Vershire, Vermont. Although most of the family were Quakers, he was a soldier in the Revolution, in Captain Edward Seagrave's company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment (20th) in 1775. Children, recorded in Douglas, born in Douglas district, now Dudley: 1. John, born December to, 1760; soldier in the Revolution. 2. Mickel or Michael, born December 2, 1762; soldier in the Revolution from Douglas. 3. Israel, born September 4, 1764, mentioned below. 4. Luce or Lucy, born May 6, 1766. 5. Samuel, Jr., born April 2, 1768. 6. Dwinnell, born April 26; 1771. '7. Hannah, born June 15, 1773:

(VI) Israel Comstock, son of Samuel Comstock (5), was born in Dudley, September 4, 1764. He settled in Lyme, New Hampshire, and Vershire, Vermont. He married Mary McLane, of Lyme, New Hampshire. Among his children was Israel, mentioned below.

(VII) Israel Comstock, son of Israel Comstock (6), was born about 1800. He married Wealthy McIntyre. Child, Hiram McIntyre, mentioned below.

(VIII) Hiram McIntyre Comstock, son of Israel Comstock (7), was born at Stratford, October 19, 1833. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. At the age of eighteen he came to Boston, and a few years later engaged in business with Charles S. Gove, under the firm name of Comstock & Gove, manufacturers of soda water. The business prospered, and Mr. Comstock remained in the firm at the head of the extensive business that had grown up until his death March 22, 1883. He was a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he made his home and where his widow now resides. He was a prominent Free Mason, a member of the lodge ; Cambridge Chapiv - 47 ter, Royal. Arch Masons; Boston Commandery, Knights Templar; and other Masonic bodies, having taken the thirty-second degree of Masonry. Mr. Comstock married, January I, 1857, Betsey J. Richardson, born in Corinth, Vermont, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Batchelder) Richardson. (See the Richardson family). Mr. and Mrs. Comstock had one child, died in infancy. Mrs. Comstock was from early life a lover of art, and when quite young developed a talent for painting. After the death of her husband she pursued her art studies under some of the best masters in this country and in Europe, attaining a creditable rank among contemporary artists. The gift has been consecrated to charity. The proceeds of the sale of her pictures are devoted to some worthy cause. Mrs. Comstock is a New England womdn of the best type, but among her many sterling qualities most conspicuous are courage, cheerfulness and charity. She is a member of the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge; of Hannah Winthrop Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution ; and of the Society of the Founders and Patriots of America.

Two brothers, Edward and William Richardson, were early settlers at Newbury, Massachusetts. Edward was born in England in 1617; was sixty-one in 1678, when he took the oath of allegiance. He was a member of the Newbury church, and during the schism he sided against the pastor, Rev. Mr. Parker. He was one of the grantees of Penacook (Concord), New Hampshire, but his and other grants were forfeited later. He died November 14, 1685, aged sixty-eight. Children: 1. John, born 1647. 2. Edward, born December 2, 1649. 3. Joshua, born 1651; married Mary Parker. 4. Caleb, born August 18, 1652. 5. Ruth, born November 23, 1655. 6. Moses, born April 4, 1658. 7. Mary, born September 2, 1660. 8. Sarah, married May 31, 1692, John Foster.

(1) William Richardson, brother of Edward, born in England, about 1620, settled at Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640. His servant, Thomas Jones, was freed from service May 20, 1642. He married at Newbury, August 23, 1654, Elizabeth Wiseman. He resided at West Newbury. In 1656 he was a creditor of Henry Fay, of Newbury. His widow Elizabeth settled his estate. The inventory was dated March 30, 1657, amounting to fifty-two pounds. He had a house and four acres of land. He died March 25, 1657. Chil- dren, born at Newbury: 1. Joseph, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, born March 13, 1657. 3. Elizabeth, married September 28, 1688, John Clifford.