Rockport Town

Rockport Town

JOHN POOL was the second permanent settler of Rockport, finding upon his arrival there in the autumn of 1699, only the family of Richard Tarr, living in a log cabin. During the winter he took up a temporary residence in a small, vacant house, and in April of the following year purchased "a certain farme messuage" at a place commonly called "ye Cape," for one hundred and sixty pounds. Here he erected the first frame house of Rockport and settled with his family.

John Pool

JOHN POOL was a man of great industry and enterprise. He built the first saw mill and the first ship in Sandy Bay. In 1710 he furnished the builders of Long Wharf in Boston with their supply of hemlock timber, shipped there in his own vessel. He was not only well educated himself, but was careful to provide an education for his children. As there was no school in Sandy Bay, he sent one of his sons to school in Beverly so that he would be qualified to return and teach the other children. He served as a juryman in the court at Salem as early as 1703, and was active in the civic affairs of the community. He was a man of marked business ability, and acquired an extensive estate, about three hundred and fifty acres exclusive of wood and thatch lots. During his life he gave to each of his sons a "good, sufficient, farm."

His death came on the nineteenth of May, 1727, when he was about fifty-seven years of age. He left an estate of nearly fifteen thousand dollars, a large amount at that time, to be divided among his wife and nine children. His body was interred on his own land, and a stone bearing the following inscription marked his grave:

Estate Of John Pool Personal

Dwelling house, barn, cider mill, a small grist mill, and about fiftysix acres of mowing land, and orchard adjoining, with other buildings thereon. 901 pounds.

Real Pools At Rockport

THE "History of Rockport" contains abundant material on the Pool family. Following are quotations which either concern our particular branch of the family, or are of interest to us.

"In 1708, the town laid out the road from old town parish to the back side of the Cape to the seaside, from Sandy Bay Cove to the house of John Pool."

"In 1743, business increasing and the fishermen needing some more convenient harbour, for larger craft and safety, than Long Cove, Ebenezer Pool, John Pool, and Benjamin Tarr petition for a grant to build a wharf at the Whirlpool, so called. This was granted by the Commoners."

"(October 21, 1754). This is the first tax levied on the village. Thirty-seven men and two estates together with their polls, making forty-four, were taxed. Two vessels were taxed, one to Ebenezer Pool, the other to the estate of Jabez Baker. The highest tax was less than $9.00. Four Pools, with the Baker estate, pay about one-half of the tax."

"Deacon Solomon Pool lost his house by fire this year (1830), said to have been the first dwelling house that was ever destroyed here by fire."

"In Dock Square, the graceful and well formed elm that now adorns it, was placed there on the second day of May, 1859. It was purchased of Ebenezer Pool, Esq., at a cost of $2.50, and was taken from his homestead lot."

Exhumation And Re-Interment Of The Remains Of John Pool And His Wives

"A small congregation of men assembled near the residence of Mr. Ephraim Nickerson, corner of Railroad Avenue and King Street, on the 22d day of October, 1878; their object was to witness the exhumation and re-interment of the remains of John Pool, the second permanent settler of Sandy Bay, and those of three of his wives, which had been buried more than one hundred and fifty years on what was then his own land; but long since this estate had passed out of the possession of his descendants; therefore the call and necessity of their removal. It was a matter of special interest to the small number there assembled to know how little there remains of a fellow mortal after so long a burial. The coffins had crumbled so that only a few small fragments remained, a few bits of rusty iron, remains of nails and metallic trimmings, some bones, soft and crumbly, with fine fibres of roots and vegetable growth twined closely about, beneath and around every part, winding even into the minutest crevices and embracing every part with their delicate tracery. Even as Bryant says:

"All of the remains were placed in a neat box and were re-interred in the old cemetery, and the ancient headstone was placed to mark this last resting place."

War Record Revolution

IN our particular line of descent from the Pools there seems to have been no war service. Francis Pool, brother of Aaron (IV), was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. His brother Ebenezer also served, but evidently Aaron, the one through whom we might have had service, did not serve.

However, those desirous of membership in societies requiring war service are eligible through the service of Waffe Rand. He was a grandfather of Caroline Curtis Rand, wife of Amos (V), and served at Valley Forge.

WAFFE RAND, Lunnenburg, Private, Capt. Daniel Carliles' Co., 8th Worcester Co., joined Capt. Smith's Co., term 3 yrs., reported sick at Fishkollak - muster roll for December, 1777, sworn to in Camp Star Valley Forge - 1780 - age 29 yrs., 5 ft., 9 in., complexion light (see Wharf Rand and Wiff Rand).

Colonial Wars Line Of Descent

JOHN POOL, born in Taunton, Somerset, England, about 1670; died in Rockport, Massachusetts, May 19, 1727. He came to this country about 1690, or a little before, and married, first, Sarah Woodbury, nee Haskell, widow of Richard Woodbury and daughter of Roger Haskell. She died November 13, 1716, aged about 55.

Children

EBENEZER POOL, born in Beverly, Massachusetts, January i, 1699; died of smallpox in 1779. He married January 30, 1724, Elizabeth Norwood, daughter of Stephen Norwood.

FRANCIS POOL, born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, June 22, 1729; died at Rockport, Massachusetts, June 1804. He married Lois Storey, daughter of Zechariah Storey, October 19, 1752.

AARON POOL, baptized December 27, 1767, at Gloucester, Massachusetts; died January 3, 1845, aged 77. He married Sarah Butman, daughter of Jeremiah Butman, at Sandy Bay, June 22, 1791.

AMOS POOLE, Honourable, born September 8, 1814, at Rockport, Massachusetts; died at Cobden, Illinois, 1894. He married Caroline Curtis Rand, daughter of John Rand, at Milton, Massachusetts, October 6, 1842. He was Representative in 1856. His children were born at Milton. In about 1867 he removed to Illinois, purchasing a small estate at Cobden, where he lived, with his wife, as a gentleman farmer and fruit-grower until his death. He was buried at Milton, Massachusetts.

GEORGE AMOS POOLE, born March 20, 1843, at Milton, Massachusetts; died September 7, 19 18, at his summer home near Holland, Michigan. He married July 11, 1867, Abbie Kelly Kendall, daughter of Stephen Bachelor Kendall.

"Probably the most notable characteristics of George Amos Poole were the singularly upright character of his life and his genial and kindly disposition. This combination naturally brought him many loyal friends, both within and without the circle of his business life, and doubtless was an important factor in his business success. Coupled with these qualities was a native modesty which made personal publicity of any kind most distasteful to him.

"He spent much of his youth in Milton, Massachusetts, and with the pioneering spirit of a true New Englander came west in 1866, for some years representing the clothing firm of Philip Wadsworth and Company, of Boston. His duties took him over a good part of what was then the "wild" west, much of which west of the Missouri River he was obliged to cover by the old-fashioned stage coach or by river boats when the river was high enough.

"A few years later, with his uncle, William H.-Rand and Andrew McNally, he formed a partnership which purchased the job printing plant of the Chicago Tribune. This partnership was afterwards incorporated under the name of Rand McNally & Company, of which concern he was treasurer until 1879, when with his brother, William H. Poole, he established the printing house of Poole Bros. For many years the work of the firm was confined to printing for transportation companies, with a patronage that included practically every railroad in the country. The concern had the distinction of being the largest one in the United States exclusively engaged in transportation printing, but in later years the business was extended until it enjoyed a large commercial patronage as well.

"George Amos Poole was always interested in the welfare of the printing industry, as well as in the reputation and success of his own business. In 1887, together with Andrew McNally, J. M. W. Jones, D. R. Cameron, and C. A. Knight, well known Chicago printers at that time, he addressed a call to the printers of the entire United States to gather in Chicago as they considered the conditions at that time ripe for the formation of a national printers' organization. This meeting was held, and in it the United Typothetae of America had its origin.

"After his retirement from the active management of the business in 191 2, he spent his time principally at his summer home near Holland, Michigan, and at his winter home in Cocoanut Grove, Florida, retaining his residence in Chicago. He was particularly interested in yachts and yachting, and was prominent in that field. He was a Mason and a member of the Union League, Flossmoor Country, Windsor Golf, and Biscayne Bay Yacht, clubs."

ABBIE STUART POOLE, born June 17, 1868, at Chicago, Illinois. She was educated at Miss Rice's School in Chicago, and is an accomplished pianist, having studied with several of Chicago's foremost teachers. On December 18, 191 2, she married David Charles Davies, of Chicago.

Mr. Davies, born in Wales, June 23, 1866, was educated at the University College of Wales. He came to the United States in 1888, and in 1921 was made director and a trustee of the Field Museum of Natural History. He is a member of the Chicago, University, and Midlothian Country, clubs.

GEORGE AMOS POOLE, Jr., born August 10, 1874, at Chicago, Illinois; married October 23, 1900, Elizabeth Constance Rogers, daughter of Doctor William E. Rogers, of Memphis, Tennessee. He was educated at the Chicago public schools and entered the employ of Poole Bros., Railway Printers, in 1891. He was made vice president in 1903, and president in 191 8. He maintains his residence at Chicago and a summer home near Holland, Michigan, and is a member of the Union League, Chicago Athletic, Flossmoor Country, South Shore Country, and Opera, clubs.

2. George Amos, III, born April 8, 1907. Educated at the University High School, Chicago, and attending Yale University, 1927. Member Delta Kappa Epsilon.

FREDERICK ARTHUR POOLE, born August n, 1877, at Chicago, Illinois; married November 28, 1906, Helen Lathrop, daughter of Clarence Henry Lathrop, of Chicago. He was educated at the Chicago Manual Training School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and entered the employ of Poole Bros., Railway Printers, in 1901. He was made treasurer in 1906, and vice president in 191 8. He is a member of Phi Beta Epsilon, Sons of the Revolution, and the University, Chicago Athletic, Chicago Riding, Spur and Saddle, and Glen Oak Country, clubs.

i. Frederick Arthur, Jr., born April 26, 1908. Educated at the Chicago Latin School, and attending the University of Chicago, 1927. Member of the Sons of the Revolution and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Author of this Genealogy.

STEPHEN KENDALL POOLE, born August 2, 1883, at Chicago, Illinois; died April 19, 1916, at Chicago. He married Maybelle Hanks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 4, 19 10. He was educated at Chauncy Hall Preparatory School, Boston, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1908 he entered the employ of Poole Bros., Railway Printers, and was made secretary in 1912. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Hamilton and South Shore Country, clubs.

LOIS POOLE, born February n, 1885, at Chicago, Illinois. She was educated at Miss Starret's School, Chicago, and at Burnham Preparatory. Since then she has spent much time travelling both in this country and abroad, and is an accomplished portrait painter, having studied several years at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Sorbonne, Paris, and with European masters.

The Allied Families The Haskell Family

ROGER HASKELL was born in England about 1613. He came to this country in about 1632, accompanied by two brothers, William and Mark. Perley, in his "History of Salem," records a sister, Joanne, also. They were descended from a noted English family whose arms are recorded by Burke and Matthew.

Roger Haskell settled in Salem and served there as a juryman at court, 1655, 1662, and 1664. He was constable in 1657. In Salem he married Elizabeth Hardy, daughter of John Hardy, of Salem. Roger Haskell died in June, 1667.

SARAH HASKELL was born about 1661. She removed with the family to Beverly, Massachusetts, where, on October 16, 1679, she married Richard Woodbury, born February 1654-5, the son of Humphrey, Sr. Their children were born in Beverly. Richard Woodbury died November 20, 1690.

The Norwood Family

FRANCIS NORWOOD, "according to tradition," says Babson, "fled from England with his father at the restoration of Charles II, on account of the trouble in which the father feared they might be involved for the part taken in the civil wars of that period. The son came to New England, and is said to have kept a tavern in Lynn. He came to Gloucester about 1663, and settled at Goose Cove; at which place, by grants from the town and by purchase, he became possessed of considerable land. He married Elizabeth Coldum, daughter of Clement Coldum, October 15, 1663; and died March 4, 1709."

ELIZABETH NORWOOD, born May 7, 1703, at Gloucester, Massachusetts; died September 1775, at Gloucester, Massachusetts. She married, January 30, 1724, Ebenezer Pool (II).

The Storey Family

WILLIAM STOREY, came to New England in 1637, from Norwich, Norfolk County, England. He was a carpenter and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1648.

Deacon SETH STOREY, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, was born in 1646; died October 9, 1732. He was in Major Appleton's company Narragansett winter campaign, King Phillip's War, 1675, against the Indians. He was a member of the Grand Jury of the Superior Court, 1692-3, for witch trials. He married Elizabeth.

LOIS STOREY, born at Ipswich, March n, 1734; married October 19, 1752, at Gloucester, Massachusetts, Francis Pool (III). She died at Gloucester in 1776.

The Butman Family

JEREMIAH BUTMAN, born about 1631; died February 6, 1693-4. He came from Thropp, Suffolkshire, England, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. In Salem records we find, "Jeremiah Butman, with the consent of his uncle and guardian, Mr. Robert Newman was apprenticed to Mathew Nixon of Salem for seven years to be taught fishing." Also, "Between lots eight and nine, the lane leading to the cove was left very wide; and the western two-thirds of it was granted at a town meeting to Jeremiah Butman, March 14, 1672-3." He married Esther Lambert, daughter of Richard Lambert of Salem, October 8, 1659.

JOHN BUTMAN, born about 1667; died at Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 31, 1742. He married June 30, 1690, Sarah Robinson, born July 17, 1671.

JEREMIAH BUTMAN, born November 7, 1690; died October, 17 1 6. He married Abigail Stevens, daughter of William Stevens, January 8, 1712-3. He was master of a fishing sloop, lost at sea on his return voyage from Cape Sable, October, 1716.

JEREMIAH BUTMAN, born November 9, 1714; died 1753. Married at Gloucester, Massachusetts, November 17, 1737, Abigail Norwood, daughter of Francis Norwood. He was with "James Lane, master of a fishing schooner, never heard of since they were on the Banks in 1753."

JEREMIAH BUTMAN, born November 20, 1742, at Gloucester, Massachusetts; died January 3, 1824, at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He married January 30, 1766, at Gloucester, Massachusetts, Martha Harris, daughter of Thomas Harris.

The Rand Family

ROBERT RAND, came to America from England about 1635 and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts ; died in 1 639-40. He brought with him his wife Alice, sister of Mary, wife of Captain Richard Sprague, who was said to be a daughter of Nicholas Sharpe. She died on August 5, 1 69 1, aged ninety-eight. Robert and Alice brought several children with them, and although some may not be recorded, they are believed to be as follows:

NATHANIEL RAND, baptized November 3, 1636, at Charlestown, Massachusetts; died May 17, 1696. Was a sergeant, freeman in 1668, and selectman in 1690. He served in King Phillip's War under Captain John Cutter, 1676. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Samuel Carter, who died April 13, 1678; second, Abigail Carter, who died October 16, 1695.

EBENEZER RAND, born May 14, 1688; died July 11, 1743. He married in Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 17 10, Elizabeth Brigden, daughter of Nathaniel Brigden and Elizabeth Whaff.

WAFFE RAND, baptized December 23, 1750, at Lunenburg, Massachusetts. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and served at Valley Forge. He married, first, Sally Whittemore, and, second, Martha Dodge, daughter of Zebulon Dodge, April 10, 1774, at Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

JOHN RAND, born December 17, 1781, at Lunenburg, Massachusetts; died May 31, 1855, at Milton, Massachusetts. He married in 1803, Betsey Babcock, daughter of Stephen Babcock.

In his early youth he resided at Beverly, Massachusetts, but left his home to go on a sea voyage when only fourteen. His parents died soon after, and he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked in the carriage and harness business. When nineteen he became interested in religion and joined the Baptist church. In 1806 he severed his connection with this church and became a preacher of the new faith. In this same year he settled in Essex, Massachusetts, and remained there for seven years. In 18 14 he removed to Woodstock, Vermont, and there assisted Elder Hazen in compiling a Christian Hymn Book. He is recorded at Danville, Vermont, and at Bradford, Vermont, and in 1822 removed with his family to Milton, Massachusetts, where he and his family resided until his death. He took a deep and active interest in the cause of anti-slavery.

CAROLINE CURTIS RAND, born January 18, 1824, at Woodstock, Vermont; died February, 191 5, at Holland, Michigan. She married October 6, 1842, at Milton, Massachusetts, Hon. Amos Poole (V).

The Kendall Family

FRANCIS KENDALL, founder of the Kendall family in America, was born in England about 1620, and died in America in 1708. He was a son of John Kendall who lived in Cambridge, England, in 1646, and who died there in 1660.

Francis came to this country about 1640 or a little before. He is recorded in Charlestown in 1640, and in Woburn, Massachusetts, the same year. He married on December 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, at Woburn. She was a daughter of Reverend John Tidd. Sewell, in his "History of Woburn," says of Francis, "He was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence. He served the town at different times, eighteen years on the Board of Selectmen; and was often appointed on important committees, especially on one for distributing the common lands of the town, 1667; and on another, respecting the erection of the second meeting house, 1672."

Mary Tidd, wife of Francis, died in 1705. He died in 1708, when "according to a testimony given by him in court, 1700, he must have been eighty-eight years old."

THOMAS KENDALL, born January 10, 1648-9; died May 25, 1730. He married, first, Ruth, in 1673. She died December 18, 1695, and he married, second, Abigail Broughton, of Weston, Massachusetts. She died December 31, 17 16.

SAMUEL KENDALL, born October 29, 1682; died December 13, 1764. He married, first, Elizabeth, by whom he had fifteen children, born at Woburn, Massachusetts. Sewell says he "was a carpenter by trade, and formerly known far and wide beyond his native place as Lieutenant Kendall, from having received a Lieutenant's commission from Governor Belcher, October 5, 1732. He was a very active, enterprising, public spirited man, often employed in town business, and much engaged in promoting both the civil and the religious prosperity of Woburn. He was an original proprietor of North Town, or Townsend, and as such, became involved in a controversy with the heirs of Major Hathorne, of Salem, who claimed a portion of the lands in that town, under a prior grant from the General Court. He was also a principal settler of Pegnoig, or Athol, in the settlement of which he and several of his sons suffered much from floods, and from the depredations of Indians during the French wars between 1744 and 1760."

Elizabeth, his wife, died January 10, 1741-2, aged fifty-four. He married, second, Mehitable Hosmer, of Concord, Massachusetts, July 6, 1751. She died August 31, 1755.

Deacon JESSE KENDALL, born May 15, 1727; died April 14, 1797. He married Elizabeth Evans, daughter of Andrew Evans, about 1 75 1. He was a miller and a town officer, and resided at Athol, Massachusetts. Elizabeth died June 22, 18 13.

CALVIN KENDALL, born July 15, 1770. He married June 27, 1793, Abigail Bacheler, daughter of Stephen Bacheler, of Royalston, Massachusetts. She died February 2, 1845, aged seventy.

ABBIE KELLY KENDALL, born October 30, 1845, at East Milton, Massachusetts; died at Chicago, Illinois, December 1, 191 1. She married July 11, 1867, at Milton, Massachusetts, George Amos Poole (VI).

Index

South Shore Country Club, 59, 63. Smith College, 59. Sons of the Revolution, 61. Spur and Saddle Club, 61. Stickney School, 61. Starret, Miss, School, 65. Sorbonne, Paris, 65. Storey, family, 85. William, 85.