NOTES AND ADDITIONS

TO THE

HISTORY OF GLOUCESTER,

BY

JOHN J. BABSON.

PART FIRST: EARLY SETTLERS.

GLOUCESTER, MASS.:

M. , . B. PERLEY, TELEGRAPH OFFICE.

1876.

PUBLISHElt'S NOTICE.

The genealogical notes contained in the following pages were prepared by the author of the History of Gloucester, and published, by instalments, in the columns of the_ G"/uu.eester Telegraph, <'omn1eneing in 1872. They constitute Part First of his ""Notes and Addi­tions" to the history~ and extend the account of the ~·Early Settlers." They are confined to t.he familie~ of those who were inhabitants of -the town before 1701, and who, except a few., are still represented by descendants living in Gloucester and bearing th~ir names.

Additional notes relating to a few of the fa1nilies will he found on the last four pages. At the time these notes were printed in the Telegraph, a number of sheets were struck

off' in pamphlet for1n, in aerordance with the desire of ~ome who wished to ·preserve them ; and in that form they are now presented by the publisher of that paper.

M. V. B. PERLEY.

E"RR,ATA. Page 3, column 1, line 26 from top, for "other" read surviving.

" 16, " 2, ~' 28 cc u ,, ''granter" " grantee.

" 17, " 1, " 2 " bottom," "brother'' " father. " 23, " 2, " 13 c, " c, "Ulin" " Uran.

" 34, " 2, " 6 u top, " "it" " tbe account. " 35, '' 2, " 15 " bottom,,, "Hugh" " John. h 41, " 2, " 9 " " " "18'>..J.,, " 1721. u 45, '' 1, " 4 " top, ,, "ancester" " ancestor. " 62, " 1, u 4 " bottom, " ''is,, " are.

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EARLY SETTLERS. In preparing the History it was my desire, i the remainder of bis estate, bot.h real and per­

in my account of each of the early settlers ! sonal, to be equally di'v'ided betwixt bis two who became the founder of a family in the i youngest sons Samoel and ZerobbabeL · town, to trace at least one line of his desccn- I The History shows the prominence among dants down to a period within the memory of I his townsmen of Joseph, the eldest of these persons then living. I accomplished this in 1 sons. He was, I think, the largest landhoJder nearly every instance; but the book exhibits I of bis time, or of any time, in Gloucest.er; a few defects in this particular, which I shall I owning 220 aeres at Eastern Point, valued at

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endeavor-to supply in these Notes. J £880, and large lots in other parts oftbe to~ JOSEPH ALLEN.-Man:v families of tltis name i amon!! which were " wharf and ware house

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were among the early settlers of New Eng- I and one acre of land near ye ferry place," land, and it is still very common in the mother where within the memory of living persons country ;-the estimated number bearing it, in no signs of ·business bot the ruins have been --- . England and Wales, in 1853, having -been no seen. Other items of bis estate were, silver 'less than forty thousand, five hundred. In plate, £46.18.8; eight negro slaves, £200.13.4 ~ Mr. Savage's vainable Genealogu;al Dictionary five vessels and a half, £802.13.4 ; 690 bushels of the First Settlers of New Engl,a,nd one might I com, £92. The heirs of his large estate were not unreasonably expect to find a New England I bis two sons, William and Nathaniel; Abigail, parentage for our Allen. From that however I.wife of Capt. Wm. Ellery; Martha, wife of it does not appear that he was a descendant Rev. Aaron Smith; Rachel, wife or Capt. John from William, one of the first planters, or Stevens; Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Wm. Stev-

• . that he was born in this country, unless be e:µs; Lucy; and the heirs of Mary Low, de-was the Joseph, son of William of Newbury, ceased. Besides these children -there were born Oct. 13, 1663; though he is not named Anna, who probably died young; Susanna, the with other children in his father's will, made :ftrst wife of Rev. John Rogers, minister pf in 167 4. In the will of our Joseph Allen, made the fourth parish, who died .before her father, June 24, and proved Oct. 20, 1724, he gives leaving no child; and Joseph, born in 1709, son Joseph £25, Thomas £15,. John £30, daugh- who died before May 26, 1739, when his father ter Rachel £10, Anne £16, Rose £60, and in was appointed administrator of bis estate, the case she never marries liberty to abide in the inventory and settlement of which exhibit one eastern chamber of his dwelling house during of the most remarkable instances of extensive her life; grandchild Jeremiah £5 in case be business and early pecuniary prosperity that lives to be 21 years old; to beloved wife Rose the history of the town aft"ords. His large one-third of his real and personal estate during stock and great variety of dry goods, includ­her life, and if that be not sufficient support, ing broadcloths, velvet.s, :flowered silk, Man­twenty shillings a year out of the remaining tua silk, and :flowered ca11imaneo, arrest.s at­two-thirds as long as she remains a widow: tention as indicating that a portion at least

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or the people must have been able to indulge came with a packet direct.ed to me tro1n Bos­the love of dress to a considerable extent. ton, giving an· account of the death or Nathan­In addition to his ~t stock or shop goods iel Allen, aged about twenty years~ who died be had real estate and vessel property, and of the small pox, being inoculated. I went at ,a silvertankanl, porringers and cups £107.12"; eleven o'clock to bis father's-called them up making, with debts due and other. assets, the and tarried there till near twelve-very dis­whole · value or his estate £10,769.3.10 in the consolat.e-1 slept bot little." currency of the time, when ~m was appraised Rev. Aaron Smith, the husband or Martha at six, and wheat at ten, shillings per bushel. Allen9 was the minister of Marlborough, where He was intending marriage with Mrs.• Martha he was ordained June 11, 1740. His intention Hubbard, of Boston, Dec. 28, 1731,-and by bis of marriage is recorded here July 12, 1740. wife Martha, his son Joseph was born in 1735, In the closing years of his ministry he was ,, who must have died before 1742, when the bal- 1 afflicted by ill health and other troubles, and ance of the estate, upwards of £4800, was di- j was finally dismissed, at his own request, in vided equally between the widow and father of!! 17-'i8. He removed to East Sudbury, where he the deceased. , died in 1781, aged sixty-seven. He had two

William, son of Joseph the second, one of i daughters, Martha and Anne, born Aug. 22, the early settlers of New Gloucester~ Me., j 174:6, one of whom, perhaps, was the daughter pla~ed on record the names of thirteen chil- j who married Rev. Josiah Bridge, second min~­dreil born to him here, and one or two are· _ister of East Sudbury. Mr. Chandler records said to have been omitted, or added to the in his Journal, May~ll, 1764,-"'About 1 o'clock number in his new abode. He left behind a went to Leet. up in Town. Mr. Aaron Smith son Joseph, who was at one time the keeper preached, Ps.119-96, last part-a very learned ot our Poor House, but finally removed to Discourse-all the perfection of the -- all Maine; and a son William, who died in Glou- human Glory will have an end." The wife of cester .about 1827, aged 77, leaving several Joseph Allen the second was Mary~ daughter children, but none by whom the name was of Nathaniel Coit, bom in 1688. She must have perpetuated in town. ~is son William settled survived her husband many years, if, as I sup­in Onond8t,o-a County, New York, and two aged pose, a funeral ring I have seen in possession uaaghters still survive here. Of Elizabeth, of one of the Allen family commemorJ.tes her daughter .of William Allen sen. who married death. On this ring is inscribed, '" Mary Allen Samuel Stevens_ and died in Portland at the Obt, Sept. 12, 1777, aged 87," or, perhaps, 89-a.ge · of ninety-eight, a tine portrait by Copley for the figures are much worn. is in possession of her great-grandson Edward Thomas, the second of the five sons of Jo-Russell, Esq., of Boston. seph the first who survived their father; died_

Nathaniel, the other son of Joseph. was the in 1778, aged eighty-nine. His first wife was father of nine sons and three daughters, but Elizabeth, probably daughter of Nathaniel Coit, neither the name nor the blood was trans- and sister of the wife of his brother Josepb. witted to a grand-child. Mary, the youngest She died Joly 15, 1756, and be next married, in of his children and the survivor of them all, 1758, Jemima, widow ~f Joseph Davis of Squam. i~ supposed to have spent most of her life with Three of his ten children were sons by whom her relatives of the Sargent family; but her the name was perpetuated, but whether by all last days were passed as a boarder in a private of them down to the present time I am unable family in her native town, and ended Sept. 3, to say. One of them, Thomas, married Jemima 1846, at the age of seventy-three. She was Haskell and had nine children; but I know or the possessor of' portraits or her father and only one by whom the name bas been continued, mother by Copley, now owned, it is believed, -the William mentioned in the History, born by Thomas C. Amory, Esq., of Boston. Rev. in 1735. He is said to have died about 1803. Samuel Chandler's Journal mentions one of David, another son of Thomas sen., married the occasions of domestic sorrow by which in 1745 Mary, daughter of Rev. John White, Mr. Allen's household must have been often by whom he had a son, David, and seven darkened. " April 14, 1764, about half past daughters. By a second wife, Sarah Allen, ten o'clock I was called op by a passenger who probably widow of Zerubbabel, he has one

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daughter, Sarah, recorded in our books; but I John bom June 4, 1746, and was dead -in 1749. there were certainly two other children by this Ambrose ma.med Lucy Hodgkins in 17 40, and marriage, Isaac and Rebecca, twins. Isaac besides -rour daughters, had a son Ambrose, may have been the Capt. Isaac Allen, the apprai- j bom Nov. 23, 1140, who, perhaps, was the fa. sal of whose estate was presen~ at Probate I ther or Ambrose. the well-known miller of

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Court, Nov. 30, 1801. Rebecca married Thom- Town Parish forty or 4fty years ago. Nehe-as Baker, and lived to old age. She is my an- miah married Abigail Stanwood in 174:7, and thority for the statement that her half-brother, bad nine children, including sons Jo~ Nehe­David, sailed from Boston during the revoln- miah, WiJJiam, James, Joshua and Isaac, of tionary war in command of a privateer, which, w_hom I know no more. Solomon married in about two hours after leaving port, was ob- June ·G, 1754-, Susanna, daughter of Joshua served to sink suddenly to bottom, carrying Riggs, bom Dec. 6, 1737. Five daughters, and down all on board. The other son of Thomas , sons, Solomon and John, are recorded to him~ Allen, sen., was Isaac, born June 18, 1731. He The former is probably the Capt. Solomon Al­married, Nov. 8th., 1751, Abigail, daughter of Jen who died in June, 1836, aged 8.f., though the Rev. John White, and died Dec. HJ, 1757, recorded date ofhi~ birth would mak"e him but leaving three children, Thomas, Isaac and Ab- 81. The venerable Mark Allen of Riverdale, igail. Isaac settled in New Gloucester, Me. now ninety years old, is of this family. Our Thomas was brought up by his grandfather at records have an intention of marriage between the ancestral home, which came into his posses- Jeremiah Allen and Abigail Allen of Manches­sion by the will of the latter on his death, in ter, and the birth of their three sons,-Jere-1778: Hed.iedinFeby.1839,aged85. His son, miah, June 23, 1764; Joseph, Joly 14, 1765,and Capt. Wm. Allen, was lost in the Sch. Diligent, Benjamin, Ang. 29, 1766. Eunice AJlen was about 1827, on his return passage from the West the wife of John Huse, the centell&rian, and Indies: having never been heard of after the died in the Work Honse, Dec. 14, 1806, aged departure of the vessel for home. His only oth- eighty. er son, ])avid, is now the owner and occupant Samuel, son or the :ftrst Joseph, recorded the of t~e paternal estate; aft"ording one of the births of eigh~ children, and this is all the ad­few instances, very rare in Gloucester, or, in- ditional information I can . give concerning --deed any where else in America, in wn.ieh sue- him. Perhaps he joined the great emigration cessive generations of the same family and to New Gloucester, or left for some other name have had their home on the same spot place. Samuel Allen, Jr., born in 1726, was nearly two hundred years. But hei'e unhappi- intending marriage with Sarah Goodrich, Nov~ ly the succession may end; for David, only 10, 1769, and his son Joseph was born June 19, child of the preceding, the brave and lament- 1762. Joseph, probably second son of Sam­ed lieut. colonel of the 12th Mass. Regiment, uel sen., born in 1727, married Mary Plummer who fell in the battle of the Wilderness, May i~ 1748, and had two cltlldren, Mary and Sam-5, 1864, was the last of his race in this line. ueL He became a ship master and was lost

These two sons of the ftrst Jose~h Allen, of on the Isle of Sable CJ1. his passage home from whose families I have given some further in- Malaga. He was 8poken by an outward boand formation, were officers in the militia, and are vessel, whose captain gave Allen the wrong frequently designated by their military title. longitude, which, it was supposed, was the I can add somewhat to the brief mention of the cause of bis loss. The captain discovered his three other sons in the History. John, born mistake after he had parted from Allen, and

• 18 April, 1692. Administration of his estate reported the circumst.ance on his arrival home~ was granted t.o Eunice, his widow,May I, 1739, Some vestiges of Allen's vessel, and the dead and, April 17, 1749, division· of his real estate body of a man, were found on the island by was made among his children, John, Ambrose., some :ftshermen the next Spring. William, Nehemiah, Solomon, Jeremiah and Eunice. brother of the preceding, bom in 1744, mar.:. John had in May, 1747, a grant of land on both tied F~rience Bennet in 1767. He was a sides of the way leading to Hodgkins' Ferry, sea captain and died in July 1814. She died bounded by heirs of John Allen, decer.sed. He in July 1829, aged eighty-six. Only· four of married Abigail Davis in 17 44-, and had a son his children are recorded. Experience, born'

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in 17689 : who married a Gunnison, and died j lat.e hnsband9 showing a small balance. An­about 1858; William, who _was twice manied,

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drew, son of Benjamin Allen, by Mary bis wife. and, died Sept. 4, 1815,.leaving sons Nathaniel was born Ang. 5, 1756. -K., now of' Salem .. and William9 who·. removed · John Allen, jr., of Manchester, and Sarah to Portland, Me., upwards of thirty years.ago, Ring intended marriage Nov. 21, 1756, but the and there died; Robert and John. . Besides record goes f' a. to say that Sarah Allen, daugh- -these there were three daughters,,, one of ter of John _j_Uen, jr., late of Manchester, by whom, Raebel, married :fkst Cal)i _ Michael , Keturah Rust, alias Fuller, his wife~ was born .Parsons, and next Mr. Jesse Wilson, and died j Aug. 30, 1758, and John., July 25, 1760. John Dee. 11, 1867, aged 97, leaving with many

1.Allen and Esther Sargent were married Nov._

pleasant memories of her delightful old age. ' 17, 1772. Perhaps he was of the family- of" Another, Sally, is the venerable widow of the Joseph, and grandson of his son John. late Capt. B. Ring, still living, in her ninety- 1 Jacob All€n, sojourner, was intending mar­second year. Rarely, indeed, do three sisters! riage with Anna Allen Sep. 27, 1774; and with attain such ext1:9eme longevity. I Sarah Hughes Jany 13, -1775.

Of' the sons of Zernbbabel, youngest son of 1, Will" All Sd d T b·th B · , . 1am en, , an a 1 . a ray in-

the first Joseph, I can trace but two to their t ded. . N 29 1--o d Ze bb b I b

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"ed S h l en marnage · ov. , , , . en :- rn a e , om m , • , marn ara Robinson in 17 ol, and had sons Andrew .. born Twenty-eight males of this name in Glouces-in 11152; Mark, 1755; and zernbbabel, 1756; te~· and eleven in ~ockport appear in the la~t in which year the father died at ~ea. The last Directory of the towns. Zerubbabel was one of the crew of the ill- RALPH .ANDREWs.-I can find no earlier home fated p1ivateer Gloucester, which was lost at sea in 1777, with a large company of men be­longing mostly to this town. Jacob, born in 1784, married Sarah Parsons in 1758, and was intending marriage with Sally Low in 1766. Administration of his _ estate w~s granted to Sarah Allen Nov. 1: 1787. Two daughters; Sarah and Lydia, are recorded to him. His resiclence was the house in the burying-place lane in which Rev. John White spent the last years of his life. Ebenezer .Alle:a and Sarah Bennet were intending marriage Nov. 1, 1760.

Besides the descendants of Joseph, there were other Allens in town as early as 1729, in which year, Oct. 1, Benj. Allen and Mary Riggs were married. Their children on record are Cath­erine, Benjamin. Mar• and 1\-Ioses. There ~ere also Isaac and Susanna, as appears from the petition, .Ang. 24, 1765, of Catherine Rich­ardson, Mary Wharf and Susanna .Allen, heirs of Benj. Allen, late of Gloucester, deceased., praying the Judge of Probate that they may have their respective portions of their father's estate, their brother ls!lac being dead. The fa­ther was deadm 1761, in which year, June 4, the mother also died, aged fifty-six. This Isaac was the same, probably, who married Elizabeth Littlehale, June 17, 1760, and bad a daughter Mary born in 1762. She married James Blake Jan. 9, 1766, and Aug. 24-, same y~ar, present­ed account of administration of estate of her

for this settler. He lived, probably, some­where on the west side of' the Cut, as, in 1702, William Haskell sen., and Deacon Jos. Has­kell, residing in that section, were joined with the overseers of the poor to see if they could :find a convenient pla(,-e to remove Ralph An­drews and bis family t.o for his more comfor­table subsistence. In 1704: it was " left to the Selectmen to take care of Ralph Andrews, and to appoint a place where to set a small house for him to live in,-the inhabitants of ye town to build ·ye sd house." The land now assigned to him was probably the same that was-'' con­firmed" to his son Thomas in 1719, on condi­tion that be 8hould take care of nis mother Abigail. This Thomas had a grant of timber for a house in 1712, and married, I suppose, in 1718, Mercy Story o! Ipswich, who bore him daughters Mercy, in 1720, and Harriet, in 1722, when my knowledge of him ends.

Francis, second son of Ralph, had, in 1723, a grant of land at Kettle Cove way to· Fresh Water Cove. This grant was also conditioned upon bis maintenance of his mother, for the care of whom, the year before, the selectmen bad agreed with William Davis, the husband of her daughter Abigail. He married Eliza­beth Barrett Dec. 11, 1712, and had Elizabeth, born in 1716; Francis, 1719; .Abigail, 1721; John, 1724; Barrett, 1725; John, again, 1727; and Agnes, 1730. John may have been the

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same who mamed Eunice Sawyer in 17 48, and had daughters Eunice and Deborah.

Ralpli Andrews also had, without doubt, a son Raipb, the record of whose birth long since disappeared, in consequence, I think, of the tattered and worn condition of the unpro­tected outside leaves of the book in which it was entered. He appears to have risen but little above bis father's unfortunate lot. He married Jane Elwell, May 28. 1724-, between which date and 1740, when Isaac Eveleth was paid £4-.17.3 for sundries supplied to him, I learn nothing about him, except that some time in these years be must have become the father of a son Job, who, July 13, 1754:, was intend­ing marriage with Mary Diggs, late of ;Fal­mouth, and whose happiness be interrupted by forbidding the banns. The cruelty however was of only four days duration, at the end of which the prohibition was withdrawn. The date of their marriage is not given, but we have the record of birth of their three sons;­Job, in 1755; Daniel, 1758; and Francis 1762. Ralph was a widower in 1754, and may have softened towards bis son in consequence of the thoughts of connubial bliss he was himself indulging; for it appears that he was intending marriage with Mary Kent, Dec. 7, in"'that year, though only the intention is recorded, which is followed by a similar intention with Mary Clark, May 7, 1757. I know nothing more of him till his death, (in the second Parish, I think,) Nov. 3, 1778, at the age of eighty-three.

'\Villiam and John Andrews were probably sons of Ensign William Andrews of Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, who died before 1716, leaving sons ,vmiam, John and Ezekiel, and six daughters, one of whom married Joshua Nor­wood, and another Samuel Gott, who bad their homes at the end of the Cape. At this place, it is likely, William Andrews fixed his resi­dence, perhaps not far from the point of land which preserves his name. His first appear­ance in town is on the birth, by his wife Eliz­abeth~ of his daughter Mary, Dec. 5, 1711. He had a son Jonathan born in 1713, a son William in 1716, and William, again, in 1723. Here I lose sight of the father, but keep in view the sons Jonathan and William; the for­mer of whom intended marriage with Hannah Robinson, March 1, 1740, and was married to widow Anna Tarr, Nov. 23, 1752. By his first wife he had a son Jonathan, the same, I sup-

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pose, who was intending marriage with Ban­n3h Morgan, Dec. 25, 1773, and had a son John born June 14, 1774. By bis second wife he has recorded an only son, William Tarr., born May 2, 1756, the same without doubt who died at Sandy Bay in 1829. William Andrews, jr.; married Ruth Riggs Nov. 2, 1744, and be­sides three daughters, had sons John and William.

John Andrews and Sarah Curtis were mar­ried Jan. 22, 1712; and John Andrews, of Ip­swich, and Elizabeth Wallis were married Dec. 6, 1716. No children are recorded in our books to either.

Twenty-six males of this name are in the Gloucester and Rockport Directory for 1869, some of whom, without doubt, can trace their descent from ,vnliam of Ipswich, but whether any can go back to Ralph I know not.

JAMES BABSON.-This settler and his moth­er Isabel appear to ha Ye been the sole emigrants to New England of this name ; and the number bearing it in the mother country must have been very small, as I infer from the result of an ex­amination la..c..t summer, at the Registrar Gener­al's Office, in ·London, of the records of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales for the six preceding years, which revealed the fact that the name did not appear during that pe­riod. A tradition in one branch of the famiJy here reported that the widow Isabel and her son came from Bristol, England; but this had its origin perhaps from the circumstance that Elinor Hill, the wife of James, was f1·om that city; for ·the name d6es not now exist there, and a learned antiquarian whom I met in Bris­tol told me it was entirely new to him.

The widow Isabel had several grants of land, of which the earliest entered on the records is under date of 1644. The record of her pur­chase of Ashley's lot in the harbor is without date, but it was probably bought before the grants were made 'by the town. The grant to her son James is in these words, "Dec. 23, 1658, given to James Babson twelve acres of fresh meadow lying above the mill, also twen­ty acres of upland lying by the side of it." On this land he settled, and it finally passed into the possession of Thomas Witham, who mar­ried his youngest daughter Abigail. In that family it has ever since remained. James Bab­son made his will Dec. 4, 1683 and died l>ec.

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21, same year. The inventory or his est.ate is rental affection which I have and doe beare nn--

as follows:- to my son, and also for his dutiful carriage and Houses and upland and marsh, fresh behavior of himself towards me. and to encour-

and salt, £52.10 age him still to take care or and be helpful to ~nd other pieces of land in the harbor, 10. me in my old age, in case I should stand il;l For cattle, great and small,_ 30.16 need, and being willing to ~ettle him in some 9ne mare, }.. part of my estate." The son had already built For swine great and small, 2.10 a house on this land. A few years before this l!'or beds and bedding thereunto belonging9 6. time John, sen. was probably a wood-coas~r.,-For pots, kettle and trying-pan, 1. as we find_ him in 1707 paying the usual yearly For pewter, .10 rate for the passage of his vessel through the For guns and sword and bullets and bullet Cut. He had nine children, of whom the old-

mould, 2. est, Elias, born Sept. 4, 1687, died May 15, 1720, For barrels, <."best, and other lumber, .10 -probably unmarried.· James, the next .. born For one cart and sled and plough and tack- I July~' 1689, married Ruth Lovett, Dec. 26, 1721,

ling thereunto belonging, and other i and had two children born in Gloucester :-_ husbandry tools, 3.10 1 John, Nov. 16, 1722, and Ruth!' July 5, 1725;

For wearing clothes, 1. 10 ! soon after which be appears to have, removed ---·1 to Beverly or Wenham, and there to have had £111.16 Isaac and Sarah, both of whom, wit}! Ruth Fitts,

His daughter Elizabeth wa.(; living with her signed a deed of land in Gloucester in 1754. mother, unmarried .. Dec. 21. 1704. when the He died before 1737 in Bristol. England, ac­latter "for yt she my daughter now is and hath cording to family tradition. His widow mar­t"or many years continued with and attended on ried a Somes. The son Isaac married Mehita­me in my age and weak estate, gives her five ble Cue and died mate of a Yessel at Point :1.cres of land at Eastern Point, her bed where- Petre, Gaudaloupe, Dec. 6, 1760, leaving four on she then lodged, sheets and- blankets, .the daughters and sons James and Isaac :-the lat­curtains being her own already, iron pot, brass ter being the graduate of Harvard College men­kettle, &c." She probably married Thomas tioned in the History. James, born .March 5, Sheath, May 18, 1716. Abigail Witham died 17 48, married Elinor Conant of Bever~y, May Feby. 25, 1745, -aged seventy-three, as on her 23, 1771. He sailed from Salem for Wilming­grave stone may be seen. Of her numerous ton, N. C. and took a load of naval stores for children was Daniel, the third Gloucester grad- the West Indies. When six days out ]_ie was uate at Harvard College. taken by an English Privateer and carried to

Of James, born Sept. 29, 1648, and Elinor, Liverpool, whence he took passage for New June 15, 1651, I know no more. · Philip and Han- York. He died on board of the vessel, of small­nah Baker, then both of Salem, were married pox, .July 13, 1777, leaving a son Isaac who died Oct. 22, 1689. They had a daughter Anna born in Beverly about March, 1850, aged seventy­there_ Aug. 22, 1690, and, according to the Bev- nine, and a son John, born July 4, 1776, died erly Town Records, another Anna born Aug. May 29, 1824. He also had a son James, born 22, 1692, in which year, Dec. 13, 1692, the moth- Dec. 1, 1773, of whom I can tell nothing fur­er died and the father disappears from view. ther. John, third son of John Babson, born ThedaughtermarriedperhapslsraelHendricks, Dec. 14, 1691, married Mary Butman, Jany. 6, sojourner at Gloucester, Marab 15, 1720. John, 1715, and died June 1, 1720. His son James, born Nov. 27,-1660, was married by Rev. John born Dec. 19, 1717, married Hannah Smith in Emerson to Dorcas Elwell, Nov. 8, 1686,-the 1738 and had nine children, of whom James, earliest marriage on our records performed by Hannah, wife of Capt. Aaron Newhall, Anna, a minister. It is not known that he ever resi- Dorcas, Mary, and Benjamin were living at the ded with his family on his land at Straitsmouth. time of their father's death. Concerning this In 1717 he was living on the lot at the harbor event, Mr. Chandler records in his Journal, un­that had belonged to his grandmother, one-half der date of Sept. 2, 1759,-" visited Capt. Bab­of which, in that year, be gave to bis son John son, vecy dangerous, near death. I came home in consideration of that "natural love and pa- and went -to bed ill-about two o'clock they

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sent f'or me to Capt. Babson._ I- sent word that I was ill and unable, bo.t by t.lmir repeated im­portunity, considering the distress of the fam­ily, I rose and went. While I was attempting to pray with him I fainted away. I came home about four, left him dying-his wife very ill. Molly Pierce and Ca;pt. James Babson both died about six o'clock." His widowdied Nov. 26, following. James, son of the preceding, married Rebecca Sanders, April 6, 1764,and bad a son James, the same perhaps, who died in Jany, 1827, a daughter Mary .Jackson, who mar­ried Dr. Thomas Babbitt, Benjamin and Rebec­ca. The ancestral estate on Front Street, after continuing in the family about a century and a half. passed to other ownership on the death of this James in 1790. John Babson, sen., besid~ the three sons already mentioned, had four children who died in infancy, a daughter Dor­cas, born June 26, 169i, married Robert Ran­dal Jan. 19, 1721, and a son Josiah who died Jun~ 6, 1720, aged seventeen. The family name is perpetuated in this branch only by the de­scendants of Capt. William Babson of Squam, unless it is borne by some of the posterity of James who settled in Wenham or Beverly. From him may have come the Babsons said to be living in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

Richard Babson, seventh child and youngest son of the :fi.1-st James~ was born June 1~ 1663. His second wife was probably the widow of John Reading. He calls himself in a deed " seaman or coaster," and may have removed to Falmouth, Me., before 1727, as a.deed con­veying bis house and land at Fresh Water Cove to his son John, tor £34, was acknowledged at that place Oct. 10, 1720. Of his eight daugh­ters, five appear to have been married, and of his four sons three died in infancy. The other, John, born July 9, 1687, married Hannah Hodg­kins Aug. 20, 1711. Many of the Babsons can trace their origin to this marriage. The fruits of it were two daughters and seven sons. The oldest of the latter, Thomas, died the day after his birth. The next, John,~was thrice married; first to Deborah Stevens, Jany. 11. 1739; second to Abigail Allen, perhaps widow of John, Dee. 2, 1756; and third to Anne Savery March 20, 1771. He r~ided in what is known as the old Garrison Honse on Back Street, and died in March, 1797, aged eighty-four. I can only add, concerning his sons, that Sainuel, the merchant, noticed in the History, born in 1741, married Lydia Plum-

mer May 4, 1765, and besides three ~crb.ters, had sons Samuel. 'fheodore and Charles, of whom the first died at St. Enst.atius, aged twen­ty six; and that Nathaniel, born Dec. 6, 1749, is probably the pen;on of the same name. in a list of prisoners belonging to Capt. Wanl's company in the expedition against Quebec in 1775. The next children of John and Hannah Hodgkins were Samuel and Solomon, born June 12, 1715. Of the first nothing more is known. Solomon married Nov. 9, 1739, Elizabeth, prob­ably daughter of John Parsons. Besides six daughters, he had three sons,-Solo~on, John and Zebulon. and died about 176$.' John was , the merchant of Gloucester and Newburyport, noticed in the History. Zebulon married Mary Allen in 1775. He sailed from N ewbucy­port in command of the ship Diamond, belong­ing -to bis brother, and was washed overboard and lost on the third day out, leaving three daughters, all of whom died unmarried, and a son Zebulon who settled in Portland, Me. Solomon married Dorothy Brown Aug. 29: 1765, and besides the five children named in the town and church records, had, according to my notes, six more. Four of these children were sons,­Solomon, Frederick, John and Joshua. The father was a sea captain, and is said to have foundered at sea on his passage from the West Indies. Philip, next brother of the twin Solo­mon, born July 29, 1719, married Ma!Y, proba­bly daughter of John Elwell, July 24-, 1744, and was intending marriage with Abigail Giddings of Exeter, June o, 1756; and this is all I can say of him. William, the next, born. Oct. 18, 1721, ma1Tied Mary Williams, July 24, 17 44, and next Elizabeth Choate, May 14, 1765. I sup­pose he is lhe William who died in 1775, bavuig been for some time in a weak state of health, and whose death was occasioned or hastened by the compulsion under which be was obliged to act as pilot to the Falcon in the attack upon the town in that year; Lindsay having taken him out of a :fishing boat for that purpose, and threatened him with death if he ran the ship ashore. Bis son William born Oct. 25, 1745, married Elizabeth Wallis Nov. 7, 1769, and was lost in the privateer ship Gloucester. He had William who died mate of a ship on a voyage to India; David, born Oct. 2, 1772, and settled at Pigeon Cove; Joseph, born June 2, 1777, the retired sea captain who died April 19, 1839; and Isaac. Descendants of the first of these

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two Willi:nns and of Wi!4iam of Sqnam · com- I the age or 6, Job and James. Feb. 9, 1735, be­prise all bat one or two that now bear the name ing then non -coapos mentis he was placed un­on Cape Ann. Joseph, youngest son of ·John der guardianship of his son John. The oldest and Hannah, born July 18, 1731, married Mar- of his nine sons, John, married Experience_ t~daughterof Abraham Somes,June 12, 1755. Haskell Feby.11, 1731, and bad children John, He had seven children here bef~re 1-1'73, when I David, Jonathan, Patience, Experience, Eliza­he . remo,·ecl to Naskeag, now Brooklin, Me., beth and Job. Moses Bennett, born Oct. 19. where he died Jany, la, 1815, aged eighty-four. 1715, intended marriage with Elizabeth Fox of His oldest s<.>n, Jo~epb, born Dec. 6, 1756, died Boston, Jan. 19, 1745. Sept. 4, 1764, theu of in Newburyport in April 1843, and the young- Boston~ h_e sold to Andrew Millet, the estate of est, James, born after the emigration to :Maine, Anthony Bennett, deceased. Stephen Bennett died in 1863 at eighty-eight. Of this branch is married Mary Hook and bad, besides three Joseph E. Babson, a literary gentleman resid- daughters, sons Stephel!, Francis and Job; ing in Chelsea. twins, William, and Noah Davis, probably the

ANTHO~Y BEs~n;rT.-Mr. Savage mentions Capt~ Noah Bennett who in a Yessel of Glou­a John of Beverly in 1668, son of Peter of Bris- cester sailed from the West Indies, and was tol, Eng. I cannot say that our Anthony was . lost in a white squail in about an hour after co)mected with this family, for there were many I leaving port. Mrs. Mary Bennett, wife of Ste­or' the name among the early settlers of New· phen, died June 10, 1788, aged S<!Venty-eight. England. I can say, however, that Mr. S. ap- Of the four other sons of Anthony .Bennett, Jr. pears to mistake in n1s.king him remove from I can say no more. He died in June, 1737. Gloucester to Beverly, and next to Rowley, John, son of Anthony, Sen., had a wife Eiiz­unless indeed he ms.de a brief sojoun1 in each a.beth, daughters Jcrusha and Ruth, and sons of these places, for his last home was certain- . Anthony and Jonathan. Anthouy, born Feby. ly in Gloucester. One of his grants of land in l 4, 1714, I suppose to have been the same who 1679 was of six acres at Goose Cove, where married Susanna Haskell April 27, 1732. He perhaps he settled, instead of on the east side I had a daughter Jerusha born Sept. 3,' 1732, and of Mill River, though he also had a grant of I besides five other daughters, six sons, two_ of one acre there. Richard Window, in his will,

1 whom probably were Jonathan, who died in

calls him son-in-law. By his wife Abigail he I New Gloucester, Me. in 1825, aged seventy­had Anthony, born Nov. 12, 1679; John, born I nine, and Moses, who died in the same town in April 11, H386; Abigail, born Sept. 7, 1688; and j 1832, at the same age. The inventory of the Peter, whose birth is not recorded. I will not I estate of John Bennett, Jri.ly 5, 1725, includes venture to add Andrew, for I have not so good 1

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,. 3 1-2 acres, with the privilege of a stream authority as for Peter, though the former had~ bought of Mr. Newman, and one com-mill and in 1706, a grant of land between Anthony Ben- \ a fulling-mill and privilege and utensils belong­net's and widow Somes' land. The inventory I ing to ye same" ; valued at £200. of the estate of this settler amountld to £103.- Concerning Peter, son of Anthony, Sen., I 14; including house, upland :md meadow, £44; can only add that he -married Hannah, daugb­and a quarter part of a saw mill, £8. In the ter of Isaac Eveleth in }'eb., 1704, and that he account of administration, his widow Abigail was at one time the owner of a large tract of makes a. charge for "getting ye jury to view land at the head of our cape, and of Milk Is­ye body of ye deceased, he coming to an un- 'land opposite. timely end." Perhaps the saw mill here men- Andrew Bennett was intending marriage tioned was near-the outlet of Cape Pond Brook, with Rebecca Townsend of Charlestown, NoY. where his son John and ·his successors of the 12, 1709, and with Bethiah Carter of the same same family carried on the grist mill known town, May 14, 1703. The births of Jonathan down into the present century as Bennett's by the first, and of Bcthiah and Lydia by the Mill. The oldest son, Anthony, had a wife second wife, are on our records. He died Jan. Rebecca to whom lie was married July 13, 1704, 15, 1718, aged 36. and by whom, besides four daughters, he had A John Bennett and wife Agnes had a daugh-sons John, David, died at the age of 19, Moses, ter Elizabeth born here Jan. 19, 1690. Peter, Stephen~ Nathaniel, Jonathan, died at The mal"l"iage of Benjamin Bennett of Do-

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ver, N. H. and Penelope Cook, Dec. 16, 1714, is only one male descen!!.cmt of these is given. on our records, as also the births of Mary, Ben- He says that John or Kittery removed to Glou­jamin, John and William, their children. He cester, and perhaps here married Margaret was "drowned at sea a fishing" July 18, 1723, Lambert, but I shall claim Margaret for John, aged about thirty-six. I son of our Thomas, till another wife or the

Three males of the name of Bennett are giv-1 same baptismal name is found for him. . en in the last Glou~ter Directory, one of The first record of land to Thomas Bray is whom certainly is not or the family of the ear- of three. acres bough,t of Thomas Smith, "run­ly settler, nor can I say that the other two are. ning southeast from the house, and lying next The last one, as I suppose, was William, an to Thomas Jones on the one side and Mr. ·' ancient mariner," long sin~e deceased, who Blynman on the other, with a piece of marsh had a son William, for many years a citizen of I lying by the side of it." From this it may be Maine, but now residing in Noya Scotia. 1 inferred that his first residence hE:re_ was in the

TH0llAS BRAY.-Bray is the name of a sea- vicinity or the other settlers, somewp'ere near port town and fashionable watering place in the meeting-house, bot he probably soon re­Ireland, about twelve miles from Dublin. It moved across the rh·er. His children were is also the name of a parish on the Thames, in) Mary, born Jany. 16, 1G47, married John Ring, Berkshire Co., England, chiefly noted for its of Ipswich; Thomas, born March 31, 164-9, vicar of easy conscience, who in four reigns died Aug. 12, 1653; Thomas, born May 15, 1653; changed his religion four times, and on being John, born May 11, 1654; Nathaniel, born June reproached with unsteadiness replied that be 21, 1~56; Thomas, again, born Jan. 19, 1659; had always governed himself by what be Hannah, born March 21, 1662, married John thought a very laudable principle, which was Roberts Feb. 4, 1677; Esther, born April 13, never, on any terms, if he could avoid it, to 1664, married Philip Stanwood Oct. 30, 1683; part with his vicarage. It is a family name and Sar-J.h. who married James Sawyer. I add too, and has been borne by eminent men. Sir the will of Thomas Bray and the inventory of Richard Bray was one of the privy council of bis estate. Henry VI., and bis son, Sir Regi"lrald, helped ·' The last will and testament of Thomas Bray, Henry VII. to the throne, and received honors senior, made tl\e two and twentieth day ofNo­and wealth from that monarch. He bad great vember, in the year of our Lord God, 1672. taste and skill in architecture, of which Henry " Imprimis. I Thomas Bray being weak in VII.'s chapel at Westminster, the building of body and being aged, yet of sound memory do which be principally directed, is sufficient proof. make this my last will and testament in man­He died in 1503. Dr. Thomas Bray, a learned ner and form following-that is to say, thus­and pious divine and author, whose life was '' I do make my wife :Mary Bray my sole and one of great usefulness, died in 1730, aged full executrix of all my goods, cattle, bouseing, seventy-three. The Brays had a seat iai Glou- orchards and lands during her life, and after her cester Co., England. The manor of Great Bar- death this my e~tate to be dispose1 of thns­rington in that county was after 1553 conveyed " Item. I do give and bequeath unto John to tbem by the marriage of a daughter of the Bray, my oldest son, this my dwelling house Mornington family with Reginald Bray, Esq. and lands with the several appurtenances be­In the church there is the monument of Capt. longing to it as is expressed here : that is to Edward Bray, who is represented in armor, say, the land lying next to that which was for­with a ruff around his neck and a sword girded merly Edmund Clark's and the orchard and gar­on the right side. This peculiarity is reported den with the several parcels of land lying upon to have originated from the captain's having the hill above the house, as also the meadow killed a man at Tilbury Camp, and from his hav- ground at Biscoe Island, out of which, when ing determined, in token of his sorrow and sin- he comes to enjoy this land and marsh, he is to cere repentance, never more to use bis right pay unto his two sisters, Mary and Sarah-un­hand. to Mary Ring ten pounds within one year, and

Besides Thomas of Gloucester, Mr. Savage within one year after ten pounds unto his sister finds five Brays among the early settlers of Sarah. New England, but in the second generation "I do also give unto my son Nathaniel Bray

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that parcel of land that was f~erly Edmund Clark's and that parcel or·ma1-sh that lyeth at ~e Little River; out of which be is to pay un­to his brother, Thomas Bray, ten pounds with­in one year after he comes unto it.

" I do also give unto my SOJ! Thomas· ·Brny six acres of land lying at Long Cove, and if the said-Thomas Bray do not like to make use of

· it himself, yt tb<m he is to sell the same six acres of' land unto his two brothers, but if he like to make use of it himself, yt then his· two brothers shall afford him liberty to take thatch as much as conveniently they can ~pare.

" Item. I do give unto my daughter Mary Ring's three sons twenty shillings apiece, which my son Nathaniel is to pay at the end of two years.

"Item. I do give unto my two younger daugh­ters Hannah Bray and Esther Bray to have their portion out of ye stock after the decease of their mother, according as my wife shall sec good, that is to say, ten pounds apiece out of ye stock or land.

" Witnessed by

'' The mark of THO)US BRAY, SE~UOR-

Thomas Millett, sen. Thomas Millett, jr. John Millet."

Proved March 29, 1692. '' The inventory ofye estate of Thomas Bray,

deceased, who died ye last of November, in ye year 1691. '' Houseing and land, upland andme-adow£92. '' Cattle oxen and other cattle 20. "Sheep £3.15, swine £1.15, books 10 R. , 6. " Beds and bedding 6. "Iron pots a,nd kettles and pe"--tcr 4.10 " Household lumber £3 3.

lived and dwelt with him, 50 shillings, t.o be paid when she became eighteen years of' age, provided she continued to live with his wife to be helpful to her.

His i~ventory shows real estate, £130, and personal, £60.

Nathaniel, second son of Thomas, (the His-. tory mistakes in calling him the youngest) mar­ried Martha Wadin Jany. 22, 1684-. Perhaps . the wife's name was Weeden, an early New England one. His son Nathaniel was father of Isaac, born June 30, 1716, who, I suppose,-mar­ricd Abigail Averill~ July 22,_ 1748, and had a son Isaac bo1n June 14-, i749; probably the Capt. Isa~c Bray who died Jan. 16, 1830, aged eighty. Of Thomas, youngest son of Thomas. sen. I can give no further information. His son Aaron died Aug. 14; 1772, aged seventy­three. Ebenezer, son 6f his son Thomas, born ~pr. 18, 1732, was the schoolmaster who, Nov. 6, 1760, received by Yote of the town £7, "to­wards helping him to the Latting Tongue."

The names of thirty-two males of this fami­ly in Gloucester, and ten in Rockport, are in the last Directory; every one of whom, it is likely, can easily trace his descent from the -emigrant ancestor; ancl more than half of whom reside in the section where he lived.

JOHN BnowN.-So numerous are the Browns

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among the early emigrants to New England that it would be assuming too much to claim :my pnrticular one for the father of our John, unless upon good authority. I will therefore only Yenture to suggest that he may have been the .John, son of John of Salem, born Feb. 21, 1662 ;-the year of birth of our settler:- The i~ventory of his estate~ £297.9, in our Probate Records, bears date of Ju!le 5, 1732. His ~hil­dren born in Gloucester were :-Joseph, Jan.

.10 · 4, died Feb. 21, 1695; Sarah, July 6, 1696; Re-" New cloth and wooien yarn l. 5 M bekah, Feb. IO, 1699; Jonathan, ay 4, died

£133.5" July 22, 1701; Rachel, July 7, 1702; Jonathan, John Bray, oldest son of Thomas, married Sept. 20, 1705 ;· a son, 14-, died 21 Sept., 1707;

Margaret L:imbert Nov. 10, 1679.·~ In his will Joseph, Feb. 17, 1709. It was. without doubt, of 23 Jany. I il4;he-g"ave his wife Margaret all the father of these children who was intending his property :-real estate during her life, and f marriage with Elizabeth Somes April 3, 1713, reversion of it to his loving kinsm:)n John ; and the birth of whose sons,-William, July 3, Bray, son of his brother Thomas Bray; and if! 1714, and Daniel, June 28, 1717, is on our re­he should not survive his wife, his brother, i cords. Elisha, son of John, I suppose, and Thomas Bray, to inherit his house and lands. I born before his father's removal to Glouces­To David Stockwell, who then dwelt with him, l ter, married, NoY. 21, 1717, Hannah, probably

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£10. To Margaret Kinnicum, wife of Benj. ! daughter of Joseph Gardner, born June 10, Kinnicum, £6. To Mary Emons, who then I 1100. His son Stephen, baptised Oct. 12, 17 40

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was, I suppose, the Stephen who died Nov. 6, j BUTMAN, or BOOTMAN.-The only emigrant 1815. Samuel, another son, was baptised Nov. I to New England of this name, found by Mr. 1744, perhaps not bom, as in the History, in\ Savage, is Jeremiah, of Salem, who married, that year. Jonathan married Lydia Elwell, : Oct. 8, 1659, Esther Lambert, and had Mary, March 7, 1728, and had sons,-Jonathan, born! Jeremy and Mather, or, perhaps Martha .. or,

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June 4, 1731; and Jacob, bom Aug. 13, 1733; · by another perhaps Matthew, as there was a. after which we hear no more of the father. Matthew Butman of Beverly, in 1714, who ha<l

Joseph Brown married Mary Elwell Dec. 2, sons Matthew and Jeremiah. Our settler John, 1731. Besides four children who died in infan- j though not mentioned by Mr. S., was probably cy, and daughters Mary, Abigail and Lydia,

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: of this family. His son Jeremiah left an only he had sons Joseph and Thomas; the first of son of the same name, born Nov. 19, 1714-, who which is not recorded in the town books, but married Abigail Norwood Nov. 17, 1737, and, has his baptism in the 1st church records, Sept. besides three daughters, had sons Jere¥1iah, 3, 1732; and the latter, born Sept. 24-, 1736, may born Nov. 20, 1742; and William, May 2', 1751. have been the Thomas who died in July, 1822, John, the second son, married Mary Giddings, at the reported age of ninety-nine: doubtless Jan. 18, 1728, who died Oct. 25, 1730, aged an exaggeration of thirteen years. twenty-two; and :Mary Sargent, Dec. 20, 1734.

William Brown married Elizabeth Phipps Jonathan, third son of John, sen. born Jan. 27, Dec. 9, 1735. No births of his children are re- 1708, had a wife Judith, a son Jonathan, born corded, but tp.e baptisms of six are preserved: in Newbury Sept. 21, 1734-; and Samuel and Elizabeth, Oct. 3, 1736; William, Oct. l, 1738; John and :five daughters born in Gloucester. Abigail, July 10, 1743; Eunice, Dec. 1745; Han- It was probably this son Jonathan who mar­nah, Oct. 2, 1748; and James, June 3, 1753. ried Hannah Griffin Dec. 5, 1758, who died

Daniel, brother of the preceding, married Sa- April 17, 1767, and Elizabeth Haraden Nov. 29, rah Row Feb. 2, 174-1, and, besides four daugh- 1771; and had by both wives, besides seven tcrs,had :five sons :-Daniel, born July 26, 1749; daughters, sons Jonathan, Thomas and David. Job, born 8, died 15 Aug., 1751; William, Nov. The head of the Cape seems to have been the 18, 1752; Abraham, Aug. 19, 1754; and· John, chief seat of this family, and the name is still Nov. 5, 1764. borne by a few persons in Rockport.

Our records arc confusing with regard to the RICHARD BYLEs.-Capt. Charles Byles, son Jonathans. He of this name, son of the first of this settler, was born Dec. 20, 1700. He has Jonathan, may have been the same who mar- the births of three children in the town records: ried Rebecca .Ayres, probably daughter of Hannah, born April 13, 1728, married Job Stan­Thomas, ~Tuly 9, 1752, and had .Jonathan bap- wood, Sept. 14~ 1749; Abi~rail, .Ang. 1730; and tised at our first church Aug. 26, 1753, besides Charles, Jan. 21, 1732. I :3-m able to add three several more children in subsequent years; but more;-_ Susanna, born Feb. 6, 1737; married who was Jonathan, jr. who married Dec. 3, first, Caleb Lincoln, and second, Levi Roberts, 174:1, Hannah Davis, daughter, I suppose, of and died Nov. 18, 1830, aged ninety-three; Na­Elias, one of the richest citizens of bis time. thaniel, born Feb. 5, 1741; and Sarah, June 7, and settled in Town Parish, on the border of 1745; married :first, Henry Edgar, and second, Mill river, near his wife's early home? He has Richard Littlehale, and died in Sept., 1822, aged the births of three children recorded in the seventy-seven. Capt. Byles bad forty-one men town books, one of wh~ was probably the in his company at the siege of Louisburg in Jonathan who died Oct. 18, 1831, aged eighty- 1745, who were on pay from Feb. 16 to Sept. 30. se,·en; and the baptisms of four others, not all WILLIAM CARD--! find no father for this the rest, in the records of the Fourth church. settler. Only two of the name a1·e mentioned One of the la.st was Ephraim, perhaps the same by llr. Savage among the early settlers of New who died .Jan. 22. 1843, aged eighty-one. England :-Francis, a soldier in the Indian war,

A Jonathan died Oct. 15, 1809. 1677; and William of Newbury in 1680; both Thirty-six of this name, two with final e, without children. William, the oldest son of

are-i.n the last Gloucester Directory; some of our settler, born May .20, 1696, married Rebec­whom can probably tr-ace their descent from ca Wallis, Aug. 25, 1717. His three children the first settler without difficulty. mentioned in the History were William, born

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Oct. 9, 1717; Martha, Aug. 20, 1719; and Job, 1723, and Samuel April 9, 1731. Mu.ch labor ,, Nov. ✓17, 1721. William manied ){ary Babson, bestowed upon the attempt to trace the family Jan. 10, 17 45, and bad Mary, born in 17 48, died in this branch down to the present century leads soon, and :Mary, Feb. 8, 1750, who mamed, to no satisfactory result. I find the maniage first, William Sargent, second, Da,·id Plummer, of Joseph, jr. and Mercy Ridgel, Jan. 11, 1789, and third, Capt. Jolln Beach, and?died in Jone, and nothing more of him; also that of John 1834, aged eighty-four. These two children and Rebecca Brown, Feby. 21, 1740, with the are on the town records; but the records of birth of his son John in 17 40, and daughter the first church have two more ;-William, bap- Rachel in 1742, when my knqwledge of father tised Oct. 21, 1753; and Job, Nov. 30, 1755. and children ends. But my perplexity begins William bec:ime a sea-captain~ He married in with Benjamin, who I suppose was the same Gloucester, first, .Abig-Jil Ryerson, March 19, who married Lucy Stanwood in 1747, and had 1787; and second, Sally, daughter of Capt. Ja- Benjamin, born Nov. 16, 1748, and Naomi, No,·. cob Allen, May 8, 1791. He removed to Port- 19, 1752. Then comes anothe-r Benjamin, whose ~and, Me., and died there at the age of sixty- parentage I do not find, who 1narried Naomi five. His ~idow also died iu that city, aged

I Stanwood in 1750, and had a son Benjamin born

eighty-four. He had a son Jacob Allen Card, Nov. 30, 1753; perhaps the same who married whoi:1ied in California. leaving a son George, Esther Lurvey in 1777, and was probably the r.

now of Portland;-the only male descendant revolutionary patriot who died in October~ known to me, bearing the name of this settler 1827, aged seventy-five. One of tbe~e Benja­:is a family cognomen. mins has, in the records of the Fourth Church,.

The three children of Benjamin, who mar- the baptisms of Lucy, 175G; Joshua, 1762; and ried Rachel York, Dec. 28, 1732, were Benja- John, 1765. Joshua I suppose to have been min, born May 9, 1734; Joseph, Oct. 30, 1735; the same who died in Rockport, Dec. 22, 184-2, and William, April 26, 1737. Benjamin mar- aged seventy-nine. Samuel, youngest son of ried Rebecc:i Witham, Feby. 17, 1756. No the second Joseph, is supposed to have been children are recorded in the town. books, bu~ the Samuel, 3d, (two Samuels of Sandy Bay,. the baptisms of several are preserved. l mentioned in the History, being older than he)

Eo:!\IUND CL.UtKE.-This settler had land on who married Sarah Lurvey about 1752, and,. the south side of Poles, where he probably had besides the births of two children in the town his house; perhaps at Trynall Cove, where the records, has the baptisms of four more in those widow of his sou Joseph was living in 1704. of the Fourth Church. Edmund, youngest son His wife Agne~ was, I think, a daughter of of the first Joseph, married Elizabeth Pierce, Walter Tybbot. who mentions in his will, 1651, of Manchester, Nov. 24, 1718, and had seven son-in-law Edmund Clark, not Edward, as Mr. daughters. and sons Edmund and _Benjamin. Savage has it in Gen. Diet. I, 393. His inven- The former probably married Margaret Collet, tory, 28th 12mo. 1665, shows an estate of £84.5, of Manchester, Oct. 21, 1743; and the latter7 and debts £33. His son John died Jan. 2, 1681. Mary Burnham, of Wenham, Feb. 20, 1755; ·Joseph was born Nov. 16, 1650, and is the on- and each had a second wife, but w~itbera child ly child of his father whose birth is in our re- recorded, except Benjamin, t-he birth of whose cords. He married Hannah Davis March 27, son Benjamin in May, 1757, is given. 1662, and died Nov. 29, 1696; leaving an estate Twenty-one males of this name are found in of £21.8. His children were Hannah, born Jan. the last Directory of the town, of whom seven 16, 1683; Joseph, Sept. 10, 1684 ;...Edmund, April at least bear it by change of name. How many i, 1686; Abigai!,__Dec. 20, 1687, died soon; of the remainder, if any, are descended from Mary, March 9, 1689, probably died June 7, the early settler, I know not. 1709; John, l1arch 6, 1692; and Edmund again, PETER CoFFIN.-This settler was born in Dec. 3, 1695. Joseph, the eldest of these sons, Newbury, July 27, 1667. His wife was Apphia married Rachel Pickworth, of Manchester, Dole, born Dec. 7, 1668, daughter of Richard }.{arch 5, 1707. He and his sons, Joseph, born Dole, who was born in Bristol, England. She April 15, 1717, aud John, born June 18, 1718, died in Gloucester, Jan. 19, 1746. Besides.the were tax-payers in the Town Parish in 1740. two recorded here, they had several otherchil­Two other sons were Benjamin, born Aug. 16, dren, born probably in Newbury, one of whom,

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Tristram~ born Aug. IO, 1696~ married Dorothy I olutionary pensioner, who died in July ·1ssf, Tufts, March 22, 1722, and bad four children; I aged seventy-six. Ezekiel, brother of the last the oldest of which, Peter, born Aug. IO, 1723, · named John~ born Nov. 15, 1727, married Mary was the prominent citizen of Gloucester, men- Adams Nov. 3, 1748, and had a daughter Mol­tioned in the History. The name is still borne ly who married Jeremiah Robinson and died here by a few of his descendants. young. leaving a daughter Polly, born .Jan. 12,

JOHN CoLLL~s.-f{e has with other lots re-11771 ;-the widow Ri&:,as who died in Rock~ corded under the date of 164-9, ,~ four acres of port a few years since, aged over ninety. upland bought of William Brown and John Her grundfather, Ezekiel Collins, was a sol­Luther, together with three acres given by the dier in the campaign against Quebec in 1759, town, running from his house in the harbor and wrote to his wife, about three weeks be­and high-water mark, northerly unto the north- fore the city was taken, the following inter­east end of the swamp at the head of the lots." esting letter, which, by the favor of .Addison He died March 25, 1675; not 1695, as in the Gott, Esq., of Rockport, I give here, with a History. His daughter Ann married Charles few corrections in the spelling. James July 17, 1673. The children of his son "Point Levi, August the 22, 1759. John were John, born 12, died 20 Dec., 1659; '· My dear and loving wife. I hope with the Mary, born June 25, 1661; John, March 21, _blessing of God these lines will find you and 1663; Ezekiel, Feb. 23, 1664; Ebenezer, Feb. our dear children in as good health as they 6, 1666; Daniel. May 14, 1669; Samuel, born leave me. I have been very much disordered, 3. died 8 April, 1G71; Amos. April 14, 1672; but I am now as wen as is common for me, and Benjamin, Feb. 24, 1675. James, the other tho' many others are sick. My dear I have son of John Collins, died on a voyage to Bar- nothing strange to write but what you will badoes in 1685, leaving a widow in Salem, hear of by others' letters. The French at his second wife, with an intant son James; and, Quebec fight us courageously as yet. We ex­by his first wife, Hannah, a son Adoniram, the pect every night to see them fire ·rafts eome same, probably, who married Mary, daughter down among us; they are only waiting for an of Joshua Ward, Nov 20, 1701. opportunity in hopes to burn our :tleet and de-

Of the sons of John Collins, Jr.-.~ho re- stroy us all. But as they have been mistaken moved to Salem just before his deat!1, about three times I hope they will this time. Also

· 1677, Ezekiel, without doubt, and Daniel, my dear when I shall see you I do not know. probably, returned to their native town for But I hope to see you and our dear children in wives and a home; though the latter, if the God's good time. I received a letter from you husband of Mary Norwood, was forty-seven at and was glad to bear from you. You write his marriage. Ebenezer is supposed to have you bad sent others, but I never saw but one, remained with his mother in Salem, where she I should be very glad to have a few lines from had taken a second husband. He made his you that I might know• bow you do. I have will at Bilboa, Spain, Dec. 29, 1696, in which sent several letters to yon which I hope you he mentions his honored mother Mrs. Meheta- received. I saw Samuel Thomas a few days ble Butman, loving wife Ann and her two chil- ago and be told me that in general the Cape dren, and brothers Ezekiel and Daniel, but no Ann people were well. I saw uncle Daniel child of his own then born. Collins and sevtrnl others of the Company and

Besides the four sons of Ezekiel mentioned they were well. My dear I hope you wont in the History, he had daughters Patience, Ab- want for any things of necessary for you or igail and Elizabeth. Each of the sons married our children. Joshua Riggs is well and re­and had several children. The oldest John, members his duty to his father and mother and born March 12, 1696, married Bathsheba Don- love to all his friends. Remember me to all ham, at Plymouth, Nov. 3, 1719, and had three that ask after me, one as well as another. sons and five daughters. One of the sons, " I am my dear your true and faithful bus-John, born Sept. 11, 1720, married Abigail Ty- band till death. ler, Jan. 6, 17 47, and had, according to the re­cords, one daughter and four sons, the yomig­est of which was Ca.pt. Isaac Collins, a rev-

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" EZEKIEL COLLINS.,,

Ebenezer, second son of the first Ezekiel, born June 11, 1698~ married Eunice Collins

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Jan. 7, 1720, and, besides six daughters, bad igail born in Boston, and sons William and sons Samuel, James, Ebenezer and Daniel. John baptised here. The son John probably Two.•or these are mentioned in the History, married Hannah Palfrey, of Boston, Sept. 23~ and of the other two I know no more. I sup- 1770. Joseph Curney married Ann Matcbet, pose that the father occupied the paternal June 8, 1786, and bad five sons, one of whom~ home, and that h_e was the subject of the fol- Joseph, born July 24, 1742, was intending mar- . lowing notice in Rev. Samuel Chandler's Jour- riage with widow Mary Collins, Nov. 2, 1763. nat "1768, Sept. 23. About sixo'clockin the Two children, Jos~pb in 1765~ and Joshua in evening I was sent for to Ebenezer Collins, 1767, are recorder} to him. The former was, ~ized with an apoplectic." '' 25, I was called perhaps, the Joseph who removed to Maine up about sunrise to go to Mr. Collins;, found forty or :fifty years ago; but, whether so or him in a dying posture, insensible." "27, I not, that emigrant was the last male of bi~ attended the funeral of Eben'r Collins."- family known to me. Daniel, brother of the preceding, born Feb.7, Elisha Curney, Jr. wa:8 intending marriage 1708, married first, Lucy Warner Nov. 2, 1737, with Elizabeth Duncan, April 14, 1739; but I who died in 1748, and second, widow Sarah Ste- know of no children, unless Hannah, daughter vens. He is the uncle Daniel mentioned in of Elisha, baptised Dec. 5, 1756, was bis child. the Jetter of' ~zekiel, and the same, perhaps, JOHN DAv1s.-The earliest mention of this whose death is thus briefly noticed in a list of! settler I have found is Feb. 8, 1648, when John· deaths in Mr. Chandler's journal :-" 1759: Nov. Da,·is of " Ja'baque, within the bounds and lim­Daniel Collins, expedition." its of Ipswich," ~old land in that town to Dan-

By his two wives he bad six sons and tbree iel Ring of Ipswich, fisherman. He appears to daughters. His son Daniel, born Aug. 17, have been living in Ipswich as late as HIB7; but 174.~, was ensign in one of th~ Gloucester Nov. 7, 1682, lie calls himself John Davis sen. compctnies that fought on Bunker Hill. He of Glouce~ter, and then sells to Isaac Eveleth married Lu·cy Elwell, July 21, 1767, and Polly "house and land, barn and orchard, running Tufts of Medford~ Nov 3, 1777. He left sev- up to the common by Poles, so commonly call­eral children, one of wbom, William, died ·ed." In the deed be calls his wife Alice Davis, Feb. 14, 1845, aged fifty-se,·en, leaving no son. but the signature is the mark of Fran~es Da,·is.

Amos, youngest son of Ezekiel. born July The children of his son ,James were John, born 28, 1708, married Susanna Boden of Marble- March 10, 1660; James, 12, died 23 March, 1662; head, Ja11. 7. 17'34. He had a son David born .James, March 16, Hi63; Joseph, 25 April, died. -in that town Sept. 17, 1734, and Hannah~ Sim- 4 May, 1665; Elizabeth, Sept. 2, 1669; Abigail, son, and Amos born here; the last in 1740. Apl. 13, 1672; Joseph1 Jan. 25, 1674; Smmnna, soon after which he may ha,e gone back to Nov. 20, 1676, died Dec. 20, 1723; Hannah:· Marblehead. May 28, 1679; Ebenezer, ~.farcb 26, l:681; and

In the last century there seemed to be prom- Mark, May 20, 1683, died April 15, 1706. -ise of a long contiuu:111cc of this name iu town ,John, the oldest of these children, married by descendants of the early settler; but I Ann Harnden, Jan. 6, 1&15. In his will, prov­know not that one of the ten bearing it, in the eel March 16, 1729, he mentions wife Ann, sons last Gloucester Directory, can trace back to Benj. and Joseph, grandchildren John Low and him. · Sarah Low, and grandchild Sarah, d:lughter of : .Joa~ CUR~~ .-He is the only one of this his son John, deceased. This son bad married

name found among the early settlers of New Sarah Abbot, Jan. 27, 1716, by whom Oct. 9. England. The children of bi~-son Elisha were 1716, his daughter Sarah was born. Benjamin, .John, born fn 1698; Jm;~ph, 1700, died 1706; born Feb. 25, 1694:, married Elizabeth Low, Abigail, 1703; Rebekah, 1705; llary, 17-08; Sept. 15, 1718, and has the births of John and .Joseph, 1711; Elisha, 1714; Elizabeth, 1717, Benjamin recorded in our books. The son died soon; and Danie], 171~. The John Cur- Benjamin was of Ipswich in 1754, when his ney who married Mary Cook has no children father mortgaged land in Squam to him; and, recorded, unless he is the Capt. John Cun1ey perhaps, was the Benjamin of Newburyport. who, more than twenty years after his first lately deceased in 1788. Joseph the other son marriage, had~ by wife Abigail, a daughter Ab- of John, born Oct. 9, 1700, is supposed to be

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the same who married Jemima Haskell, Sept. 21, 1732, and had Jemima, Joseph, William, .Abigail and Anna. He died about 1753, and bis widow became the second wife of Lieut. Thomas Allen. I know no descendants or the son Joseph; but of William there are several, as mentioned iii the History.

Lieut. James Davis, in.a deed, is called cord­wainer. The house and land be bought of William Somes, in 1706. was situated on the way leading from the tide-mill in Town Parish to the backroad. He left an estate or £2893.5.2.

in 1740, bad sons Elias and Job, and died be­fore 1751. Elizabeth manied David Harraden, and Hannah married Jonathan Brown. jr. Sol­omon, brother of Elias., born March 30, 169E, was not so rich in worldly goods as his broth­er, but be had a larger share of those blessings which Scripture calls " the heritage of the Lord." The town and church records together give us the names of. eleven children by bis :first wife, and one by his second ; to which I have good reason for thinking that two more at least should be added. He calls himself

The History contains a notice of his son James, "coaster," in a mortgage deed of 1759, in which born Dec. 5, 1691, to which I have only to add year he sold to Sam'l Plummer ten and , a half the following, from the records of the Third acres of land near Mill River, inherited from Church, ".Aug. 15, 1776. Died James Davis, bis father. He also sold to the same person Esq. He was elected a deacon of this church more land and his own dwelling house in 1763 . • July 9, 1734. He was employeo as a Selectman --after which I bal'"e no knowledge of him. His ,md a representative of this town for a number , ~on Solomon was a mariner. He married and of years, whiclt office he sustained with honor j had three children in Gloucester, and removed ,md approbation of his constituents, but most' to Boston before 17'59. Next to Solomon wer<· especially to his God, whom he sen·ed with twin sons James and Samuel._ The former I tidelity, that I trust ye 7 chap. Eccles. 1st v ., suppose to be the Jame~, living in Town Par­may be applied to his character." (A good; isb, who had, in 1755, a son Noah named for a name is better than precious ointment; and i brother lost at sea. and other children in sub­the day of death than the day of one's birth.! sequent years. The Jatter was prob:1bly the Eccles. VII : 1.) I may also add that four of I Samuel who married Sarah Whittridge, and the children of this worthy citizen were sons : besides a son Samuel, whose birth is recorded~ --J3mes, John, Elias, who died in infancy, and bad a son Elias, the father of the retired India Andrew. Elias, next son of Lieut. James Da- captain of the same name, who died Aug. 27'. Yis, born Jan. 26, 1694, left at his decease the 1863, aged eighty; and of several sons and largest estate that had been acquired by any j daughters besides. Noah, fourth son of Solo­citizen of the town at that time :-upwards or l mon, was intending marriage with Mary Ben­£-1500. I suppose that bis home was some- I nett, March 25, 1752. He must have been the . where on the east side of Mill River, and that! one lost at sea., above mentioned. The other he carried on his business in that section of the I children of Solomon, of .whose 'birth or bap­town. The inventory of his estate mentions : tism we have the record, were eight daughters. d'\Yelling house, warehouse and wharf, and fish- i but I think he had by his second wife, two ing room at Canso, a large amount of merchan- '1 more. Daniel, who had bis home in Town dise, and the following vessels:- Parish, not in Sandy Bay, and Thomas. The

Schooner John, £460. I death of the latter by shipwreck is mentioned " Mary, 330 ! in the History. He left sons Thomas, Solomon. '' Molly, 170 ! and Stephen Low, all sbipmasters of Glouces-.. Flying Horse, 150 i ter.

3-4 • • Greyhound, 131.5 Ebenezer Davis, youngest son of the first 3--t •· Elizabeth, 2Q5.5 James, also resided in the Fourth Parish, and

The heirs of this large estate were his sons I there carried on his maritime business. His Mark and Job, and daughters Elizabeth and j will was proved Nov. 27, 1732. In the inven­Hannah. Mark had a wife Mary, and children i tory of his estate, amounting to £3047.7.2, I_ Elizabeth, Mary and Jemima,· and died about ! find •• 3-4: sloop Good Intent, 3-4 sloop Eliza-.

' 1746. His widow married Stephen Greenleaf; beth, 3-4- sloop Dolphin, 1-2 cargo gone to Vir-of Newbury, and wns again a widow in 1760.; ginia, 6 silver spoons, £6, negro man, £95, a~d; .Job married Thomasine Greenleaf of Newbury,! Straitsmouth Island, £225." The fatter wa~

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granted to his father by the General Court in years in which his three youngest children were 1699, in consideration of his services in the bom. His sale of land to Ezekiel Woodward, French and Indian wars. ,,:He lert· an only son in 1707, did not include his fulling-mill and a Abraham, bom Aug. 26~ 1709, who had a wif'e small house at the head or Little River; for in Mary and several children; but all I know of the next year he had a grant of land near his his family is contained in his will, made Sept. mill, on which he was " to erect a bigger house. ' 7

6, 1788, and proved July 7, 1789. In that he This house was undoubtedly, the venerable· ,, names wif'e Eunice, son Joseph of Newbury, dwelling we still see there ;-one of the very daughter Mary Wheelwright, and several grand- few of the style of architecture then prevail­children. Susanna, one of the daughters of I ing, still standing in the town. ~benezer DaYis, and mother of Chief Justice To the close of the seventeenth century all Parsons, the most distinguished for ability, as the Davises in town were descendants of the some think, of all our Massachusetts judges, first settler John; but in the first quarter of died in Boston, Dec. 18, 1794, aged seventy- the next century several other families of tlus five. widely-dift"used name are to'und residing here.

Jacob Davis, son of the first John, left an There was an Isaac Davis, an early settler at ·estate of £298.17, of which the following were Casco·Bay, who bad sons John and Samuel liv-the items:- ing in Gloucester in 1784. The former was Bol!Se. upland and meadow, £211.10 living in 1749, then eighty-nine years of age~ Cart yoke, chains and other working ,The four sons of l}is son Samuel, who were

tools 2.01 lo~t at sea, were Ebenezer in 1746, aged twen-Half of a sloop and four canoes, 12.10 ty-one; Samuel in 1759, aged thirty:two; Wil-Cattle, sheep and swine, 39. liam in 1759, aged twenty-one; and Henry in Bedding, £11.9. Saddle and pillion, £1.5, 12.14 1766, aged twenty-tour. The son Samuel was Gun, cutlass and beJt, 1. probably the same who married Anna Barber, Household stuff, yam and wool, 13.02 Oct. 6, 17 48, and bad sons Ebenezer and Sam-Wearing apparel, 7. uel, and daughter Anna. Samuel, brother of

Debts, £20.17. John, as I suppose, was·not probably the grant-His children were Jacob, born :Feb. 26, 1662; er of land at Sandy Bay in 1725, as mentioned John~ Nov. 25, 1665, died soon; Elizabeth, June in the History; nor is it likely that he removed 27, 1667; Susanna, June 27~ 1670; Moses, July thither. He has nine children recorded, two 6, 1673; Mary, June 3, 1676; Aaron, Nov. 2, of whom, Isaac and James, with their mother 1678; John, July 17, 1681, died soon; and Sa- Ann, then a widow, appear to have been living rah, Dec. 2, 1685. Of Moses I can give no fur- in Town Parish in 17 40. Isaac, born Oct. 9, ther information. Of the other two sons who 1711, had a wife Mary, and se,·eral children., lived to maturity, the History traces descen- James, born Oct. 28, 1717, probably_ married dants of Jacob through five generations, and Mary Finson, by whom he had six chilq_ren, of Aaron through two. The records give Ja- and died about 1751. Samuel had another son, cob five children; three less than he is known Joseph, born Dec. 11, 1722. I will Yenture to

1 to have had. Those living at his death were suppose that he married Anna Cunningham, Moses, William, Aaron, Joseph, Mary and Eliz- Feb. 8, 1743, and that all three of the brothers abeth. l\foses, born Jan. 9, 1690, settled in had descendants of the second generation. Ipswich, and was married, but his will, proved Ebenezer Davis, who married Elizabeth Tarr, Feb. 20, 1753, makes no· mention of children. Feb. 9, 1715, and died Feb. 15, 1725, leaving a William, born Apr. 6, 1695, I suppose to have son Henry and two daughters, was possibly

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been the same who married Abigail Andrews, brother, more likely son, of "old Mr. John May 17, 1716,- ana~Mary Dolliver, July 1, 1719. Davis" of Sandy Bay; for Samuel, probably He bad ten children by both wives, and died brother or son of the latter, was appointed ad­about 1752. Of Joseph, whose birth is not re- ministrator of the estate of Ebenezer, and is corded, I only know that be was living in Ports- called his brother. His son may have been the mouth, N. H. in 1753. Henrywho married Lydia Smith, Aug. 11, 1735,

Jacob Davis the second, was of Ipswich in and had many children. 1708, any may have resided there during the A Sylvanus Davis, with wife Mary, was here,

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perhaps residing at Kettle Cove, in 1712, when their daneabter Abigail was born. He bad another child, -Daniel, bom in 1718, in which year, in April, administration of his estate was taken by his widow. A person of this name was prominent in the eastern settlements, at an earlier date, but he left no child.

There was a Daniel Davis in town in 1720, when be married Mary Stanwood, by whom, besides three daughters, he had sons David, Jonathan and Walklate.

The next one we fl.nd is Moses, ·who married Abigail Sargent in 1726, and had eight children, of whom were sons Moses, Daniel, Alford and Ebenezer.

Sixty-severi males of this name in Glouces­ter and Rockport, are in the last Directory of the two towns.

A1'"THO~"Y DAY .-Several of the name of Day are found by Mr. Savage among the early set­tles of New England. Nathaniel and Robert were both of Ipswich before 1640, but I know nothing of Anthony till his appearance in Glou­cester, about 164-5~ when he sold land to John Pearce. It does not appear when and where be married Susan ·l:latchet, servant to William Vinson, who, I suppose, was the wife Susanna mentioned in the records as the mothe.!._~f his children. The :first of bis children recorded here was John, born April 28, 1657, in which year he bought house and land, once in posses­sion of Charles Glover, having "the rocks call­ed the Poles on one side." His other children were Ezekiel, born Murch 8, 1659, died soon; Ezekiel, again, May 19, 1662;. Nathaniel, Sept. 9, 1665 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 2, 1667; Samuel, Feb. 25, 1£69; and Joseph, April 4, 1672. Besides these, it is supposed he had sons Timothy and Thomas, born before 1657. Of the six sons of the former, I know the end of only one :-An­thony, who, by bis wife Penelope had three daughters born here, and died Jan. 12, 1712. Two sons of Timothy, Timothy and Joseph, are given in the church records, but not in the town books. John, another son, born Feb. 1, 1684, I suppose to be the same· who, by wife Dorothy, has the births of eleven children re­corded; to which goodly number should proba­bly be added one more :-John, baptised Oct. IS, 1713. The latter, I think, was the John who in May, 1747, then of Norwich, Conn., potter, was administrator of the estate of his brother, John Day of Gloucester. Zebedee, ·one of the

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eleven children above mentioned, was, without doubt, be who married Margaret Bofee, Feb. 19. 1743. This is as far as my notes go with this branch of the family; nor can I add much concerning the posterity of the next son, Thom­as. :Pis son Thomas, who was lost at sea in 1716, manied Mary Denning., March 7, 1700. and besides two daughters, has sons Josiah and Stephen recorded in the-town books, and two, Thomas :md Jacob, in . the church records. Thomas, son of the first Anthony, also had a son Joseph, the same, I suppose, who married Abigail Crowell, Oct. 17, 1700, bywbom he bad sons Joseph, Samuel and Isaac, and flv-e da;ugl1-ters.

John, first son of Anthony whose birth is re­corded in Gloucester, married Alice Leach. Dec. 12, 1681. She was probably a daughter of widow Alice Leach, second wife of Robert Elwell. John Day wus a soldier in the Indian war of 1675, and received a grant of land at Kettle Cove for bis services. He was living near Poles in 1715, and may have reached YerJ old age; for Joseph WinslO"w, the husband, I suppose, of his youngest daughter, Sarah, wa~ administrator of bis estat~ in 17 42. I can trace no descendants of this son beaiing th<~ family name.

Ezekiel, son of the :first Anthony, has the births of nine children recorded ; but be also had probably Ezekiel, born about 1692, and LJ­dia, about 1704, not recorded. Ezekiel appears to have left no descendant&. His brother .Jon­a than bad sons Jonathan and David, and died young. Each of the three other brothers, Pe­latiah, Samuel, andNathanjel, had several chil­dren. .The youngest, Nathaniel, born Sept. 28~ 1716, was probably the same who was living in Town Parish in 1740, married Susanna Stan­wood, Dec, 5, 1739, and had a son Nathaniel. born Apr. 24, 1740, a son Abraham, Dec. 9, 1745~ and nine daughters. Nathaniel, jr., married Mary Davis, Nov. 27, 1764, and is shown by· town and church records to have had eleven children, including two pairs of twins ; Mercy and Deliverance, born in 1777, and Isaac and Rebecca in 1782. The Days now living in the ancient seat of the family may be descendant~ of Anthony in this line.

Joseph, youngest son of Anthony, recorded the births of ten children, of whom four were sons: Joseph, James, Jeremiah, and William. The oldest of these' may be the Joseph, born

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ltarch S, 1698, who married Pattence Boyd, in Gloocester, but I have seen no other mention Dec. 7, 1719, and had several children, ooe of of him than the account otbis death. I ftnd in ,, -

which. Jane, was probably the Jane Day who married John Carter, Dee. 27, 17.U, and the widow Jane Carter who died in Jan. 1814-, aged ninety-four.

The last Gloucester Directory contains twen­ty-six males of this name, about one-half of whom were living in that section of the town where the first who bore it here had his home.

the town records a grant, without date, trom Wi1Jiam Vinson to William Ellery, of two acres of upland lyh~.g betwixt Osman Dutch's and his own. On this land, on what is now Spring St. on or near the spot occupied by the house of Mr.- Parker Burnham, William Ellery had his home. His widow was living there in 1708·; and in 1747 his son Nathaniel sold to James

· NICHOLAS DENXI!iG.-Two Dennings are Edgerly, w~o had married his sister Elinor, found among the early settlers of New Eng- widow of James Sawyer, '·a parcel of land ad­land, both without children; and one having a joining to Spring Cove, alias Vinson's, · or El­son who was absent at the time of his father's ery~s Cove, so called, including the barn and an death. Our Nicholas had a son Nicholas, who, house to be built over the old cellar of the old jn 1724, received a grant of land where his house ~hich was my father Ellery's." The house stood. ,vnnam and George were proba- house then built was without doubt the same bly also his sons. Concerning the son Nicho- that Edgerly sold in 1769 to William Fuller for las, ~ can only add that he and bis wife Eliza- £113.6.8. It was taken away twenty years or'· heth and daughters :Margaret and Hannah were more ago. :tll baptised May 9, 1725; -and that be probably In the Probate Records I find the!ollowing became a widower, and married for his second "' Inventory of William Ellery who died 9 Dec. wife Ann Fuller~ Jan. 14, 1732, by whom a son 1696." Nicholas was bon1 Oct. 12, 1732. William "For housing and land, £81; Cattell, Denning had, in 1725, a house westward of 10.10. 91.10 Fresh ,v ater Co,·e. He married Hannah Paine, " Horse, 3; Swine, 1 ; 2-3 of a Sloop, 28. 32 Dec. 5, 1706. The births of two children, "beds and bedding, 15; wearing cloth, 10. 25 Samuel in 1707, and M8.ry in 1716,-are record~ ".table linen and yarn, 3 ed in the town books ; but the records of the " pewter and brass, 4 tirst church have the baptisms or three others: "Iron pots and other iron, 3; books 10s. 3.10 -Sarah, in 1710; William, in 1713; and Wil- "arms, 2; money, 30. 32 liam, again, in_ 1727. A William Denning and "chest and table cubbord and other lumber 3." wife Susanna had a daughter Elizabeth born, amounting to £194. Aug. 9, 1729. George Denning married Han- Among the charges in the account of admin-

·uah Byles, perhaps sister of Richard, :?tfarch 30, istration of the estate are the following :-1708. He had sons, Job, James, George and " A coffin, 8s; digging ye gr-ave and ringing ye .Joseph, and a daughter Hannah. Each of the bell, 3s." sons appears to have married in town, and all 1 "Ru~, wine, cyder and Shug'r for ye funeral, but one of them have children recorded.- £2.5." George married Mary Eveleth Nov. 21, 1738, and had sons, Francis, George, Simeon and .Joseph. It was probably the last named son, born May 6, 1752, who was intending marriage with Molly Haskell, Oct. 16, 1773.

Eight in Gioucester and two in Rockport of this name, now sp_clt Dennen, are in the last Directory, all of whom, it is likely, are descend­ed from Nicholas.

\VILLIAM ELLERY .-The only other person of thi~ name, appearing among the early setlers of ~ ew England, is Isaac Ellery, who was killed in the Indian wa.r of 1675, Dec. 19, at the great N arrag-dllset fight. He is St\id to have belonged

" 8 pair gloves, 16s; a· frame over y~ grave, 5s. 6d."

"Mr John Emerson for phisic and cow pasture, £2."

"minister's rate for ye year 1696, 15s. l0d." "2 country rates in ye year 97, lls. 4d." " ditto in s'd year, 6s; a town rate in s'd year,

4." "minister's rate in 97, lls."

The names of William Ellery's children are given in the History, without the date of birth, which I here add. William, born Sept. 15, 1664; Hannah, Jan. 25, 1666; Benjamin, Sept. 6, 1669; Susanna, Feb. 2, 1673; Mary, Feb. 24,

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\677; Abipil, March 20, 1679; John, Jone 25, enty-third year; and his mother~ Mehittabl~ 1681; Nathaniel, March 31, 1683; Jemima, Apr. Dee. 4, 179.f., in her sixty-fourth year. 17, 1686; Elinor, Nov. 22, 1688; Elinor, Jan. 30, The next son of William Ellery of Newport 1691 ; William, March 17, 1693; ))ependance, was William. the signer. ot the Declaration. Jan. 24, 1697. The ~tory shows the distinc- His 11.rst wife died Sept. 7, 1764, and he next tion attained by Benjamin, his son William, and married, June 28, 1767,Abigail CaseyofBristol, grandson William, the signer of the Deelara- R. I. who died July 27. 1793, aged ftfty years. tion of Independence. F~r much information Both wives bore him children, one of whom, of this branch of the family, in addition to that William, died May 9, 1~, aged seventy-four. therein given, I am indebted to Rev. C. C. Bea- An interesting memoir of the venerable signer, man, who kindly procured it for me in Newport. by his grandson, Prof. E. T. Channing, is in From him I learn that Benjamin Ellery had the Sparks' ,: American Biography." }.,rom the in­following children :-Anstiss, born in Bristol, scription on his gravestone we learn that " He R. I., Feb. 19, 1697; Abigail Wanton, Feb. 24-, died after an illness of four days, Feb. 15, 1820, 1698, died May 12, 1726; William, Oct. 31, 1701; retat 92. He was in the full possession 'qt his Benjamin, March 23, 1705, died in May 1722, of: powers to the close of his long life. Rarely small pox; John, born in Newport, Nov. 25. ! unfitted by disease for study, society or offi­died Dec. 12, 1707; Samuel, Nov. 25, 1708, died l•ci~l duty, and waiting for death with the hope .Jan. 20, 1714 ; Hannah, Jan. 31, 1710; died Dec. ! of a christian."

t 16, 1711; John,June2, 1712; died May 1, 1713;: ChristopherEllerymarriedMary_Vemonand Mary, • .\ug. 5, 1715. The only one of his sons died in 1789. The Vernon house is still stand­who lived to be marlied was William; whose ing in Newport, and is pointed out as an inter­children were,-Abigail, born Dec. 14. 1723; esting historical spot; for it was there that died Nov. 14, 1726; Benjamin, Feb. 5, 1725; Count Rochambeau had his quarters, ·"in the William, the signer of the Declaration, Dec. 11, revolutionary war, and thither Gen. Washing-1727; .Abigail, May 27, died July 3, 1729; ton repaired on his visit to Newport. I have Ann, May 6, 1732, ma1·ried Rev. Mr. Burt of but little information cencerning the family of Bristol, had no children·, and died in 1806; and Christopher Ellery, but I suppose that Cbristo­Chtjstopher, April 22, 1736; Benjamin, 'the old- pher who was born Nov. 1, 1768, and died Dec. est of these sons, married Lucy Vassal, Nov. 2, 1840, having been a Senator in the U.S. !!2, 1749, who died Oct. 19, 1752, leaving a son Congress, was his son. OnavisittoNewport, William, who died May 28, 1753. He next mar- a few years since, I found the name of :E;llery ried Mehittable Redwood, Jan. 22, 1769; by borne there by two or three persons only: few­whom he had a daughter Martha Redwood, born er even than in the home of the emigrant an­in 1772, and a son Abraham Redwood, born cestor. May 24, 1773. The daughter married Christo- The children of Nathaniel Ellery, son of the pher Grant Champlin, April 14, 1793, who died first William, were, Anne,• born Dec. 7, 1721, in 1839, aged seventy-two. She died Feb. 23, died Feb. 20, 1797; Mary, June 21, 1723, mar-184:7; in her seventy-fifth year. having had no ricd Rev. John Rogen;:, and died in Feb., 1766; children. Abraham Redwood Ellery was edu- Jane, Jan. 17, 1725; Nathaniel, Oct. 20, 1726; cated at Harvard College, and studied law in Jerusha, Aug. 16, 1728, died soon; William, the office of Theopilus Parsons. When the July~ 1730; and Daniel, August 9, 1732. In ad­Provisional army was raised, in the Presidency dition to these there was certainly an Epes, or of John Adams, and placed under the command whom neither the birth or baptism is recorded. of General Hamilton, he was appointed a cap- He is called "trader" in a deed froni his father tain, and formed part of the military family of April 3, 1761, conveying to him the dwelling Gen. Hamilton. He was soon appointed Assis- house and land of the latter, and other real tant Adjutant General. On leaving the army estate. This dwelling house stood on what is he married Charlotte Weisenfels of New. York, now the westerly comer of Front and Hancock and removed to New Orleans to practice as a stree~. I know no more of this }~pes Ellery lawyer. He died of yellow fever, at the bay of except that be bad, by his wife Alice, a dangh­St. Louis, Nov. 1, 1820, aged forty-seven. His ter Polly born Sept. 11, 1783, and a son Wil­father, Benjamin, died Dec. 12, 1797, in bis sev- liam, Jan. 29, 1788. He may have been the

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member of this family who is. said to have re- st.anding on the comer of Western Avenue and moved t.o Baltimore, Md.-,. ana possibly anees- Front Street, and-now belonging to the estate tor of the subject or the following paragraph of the late Samuel Gilbert. ·in the " Richmond Whig" of March S, 1864-, William, son of the fl.rst Nathaniel Ellery~ describing the part borne by ... Henly's Batt.al- born in 1730, married Abigail Foster of Boston. ion of the Local Def~nce Troops," at t~~ time August I, 1765. He was one of the represen­ofKilpatrick's raid. '· The casoalities in Hen- tatives to the General Court held in Watertown ly's Battalion were one killed, Capt. Albert El- in 1776. The date of his death is not known: lery, and six wounded. Capt. Ellery was chief nor does it appear that he had other children clerk·of the Second Auditor's Office, and com- than Mary Ann, born Oct. 9, 1766, who was in­manded the company formed of the clerks of tending marriage with Nath'l Warner~ jr., April that bureau. He was an efficient officer and I 29, 1803; and Abigail, born Oct. 22, 1768, who~ most estimable gentleman. His loss is deep-

1 it is supposed, accompanie"l or followed her

ly deplored by his iate comrades, and indeed mother to the alms house, .and died there Dec. by all who knew him." 8, 1813.

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WiUiam, son of the first Willi:im, married tatc of Nath'l Ellery. Probably he gave it all j Dorcas, daughter of Elias Elwell, May 22, 1719. to bis children before his decense. His son I She died Feb. 13, 1733, and he next married. Nathaniel married Rachel, daughter of Col. : -<)ct. 1, 1739, Abigail, d_;mghter oi Joseph Allen~ John Stevens, Oct. 20, 1747; she died July l, who died Aug. 19, 1798, aged eighty-three. By 1750; leaving two children, John Stevens and these two wives I count fifteen children:­Raebel. The former, born Sept. 28, 1748, mar- Mary, born in 172C; William, 1721; Benjamin~ riedMaryEdgar,July4-,17(i9. ShediedinNov. 1723; Abigail, 1726; .John, 1729; Elias, 1731; 1770, in giving birth to her first child, which Dorcas, 1733; Joseph Allen, 17 40; A_big..til, died in a few days, :md he next married, Oct. again, Ii 42; Benjamin, ngain, 17 4-t-; Abigail! 22, 1772; Esther, daughter of ,vinthrop Sar- again, 1746; Lucy, 1748; Susanna, 1750; Anne, gent, by whom, as the records sho~-, he had a 1752; and .John, again, .1757. This is the Wil­son John Stevens and a daughter Sarah. The liain Ellery mentioned in the History as the date of his death I have not learned. He built owner and occupant of the house in Town Par­the house still standing on the westerly comer ish built by Hev .• John "\\"bite; and still in pos­ot" Hancock and Middle streets, said to be n.ne session of the Ellery family. His son Benja­of the first three-story houses built in the town. min, who died in 1825, occupied it till his death. His sister Rachel became the second wife of J:{e was grtrndson of the first ,Yilliam, and we Daniel Uogcrs, an emin~nt merchant in the ha Ye here a remarkable instance of the lives of town, in the last century, and died NoY. 20, futher, son and grandson covering a very long 1833, aged eighty-four. Nath'l Ellery next

I period of time; for the grandson died one hu1:1-

married Mary Parsons, Sept 17, 1751, and hud dred and tw'-:!nty-nine years after his grandfa­sons Nathaniel, ,vnliam, anJ Epes, and <laugh- tbcr, who at his decease must haYe been sixty ors l\lary, Judith and Ann. The 80n Nathan- or upwards; thus extending the three genera­icl. born Feb., 1753, graduated at Harvard tions tlirough nearly two centuries. This Ben­College in 1772 .. He married, Dec. 11, 1788, j~1min married Sarah Gooch of Portsmouth, N. Sarah Kinnicum, (perhaps Sarah Cunningham, H. who .d_ied Dec. 7, 1843, in her ninetieth year. born Feb. 19, 1766). She died Dec. 28, 1841. Dependance, the youngest son, posthumous Of William, brother of the pre~eding, I can child of the first William, had eleven children, say no more; and of Epes. I will only add that. as mentioned in the History. Their names his widow, Mrs. -Knna (O.dell) Ellery, died were,-Dependance, born 1723; Sarah, 1725; Sept. 30, 1863, in her ninety-fourth year. The Anstiss~ 1728; Mary, 1730; Jonathan, 1732; date of the death of the second Nathaniel El- John, 1734; William, 1736; Abigail, 1739; Ben­lery is not known. His will" made Sept. 21, jamin, 1742; Susanna, 1744; and.Jemima, 1746. 1771, was proved May 3, 1779. The Inventory He appears to have been a mariner. He and of May 23, 1783, amounts to £1861.11.1, of Job Eveleth bought in 1725 about an acre of which the house was £1200. This house was land on what is now the easterly comer of the large mansion, then having a gambrel roof, Front and Short Streets, and probably built

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on it the house standing there at the time of bis death. The account ot administration- of his estate was presented by his son John in 1761. His real estate was valued at £140, and his personal at £21.6. · This son died before 1773, when administration de boniB non was granted to David Rowe, the husband of bis sister Sarah. The · settlement by Rowe men­tions Anstiss, wife of Robert Cross, Mary Riggs, widow, Abigail Ellery, singlewoman, and the legal representatives of John. Of the other six children of Dependance Ellery I can give no farther information. John was a fisherman. He manied Anne Canneby, June 2, 1758, and had John, born in 1769·; Daniel, 1761; Ann, 1764:; and Benjamin, 1766; all of whom appear in the first church record of bap­tisms; but I can add no more concerning them.

If I repeat here from the mstory, that Mary, daughter of Daniel Ellery, was baptized Jan. 11, 1766, these Notes will contain the names of all known Gloucester descendants of William Ellery, bearing the family name, down to 1775. In Gloucester and Newport together, probably not more than a dozen males bear it at the present time; and I know not that it is else­where more common.

ROBERT ELWELL.-This is the only one of the name given by Mr. Savage in the ~Genea­logical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England.'' He :finds this settler in Dorchester in 1635 and in Salem in 1688. There he had two children baptized Aug. 28, 1639, whose names are not given in the church record; and John, Feb. 23, 1640; and Isaac, Feb. 27, 1642. Mr. S. says that he also had baptized at Salem, Thomas, April 22~ 1665; and Richard, Apr. 11, 1668. · His children recorded in Gloucester were Sarah, born 20, died 23 April, 1651 ; Sarah again, born May 12, 1652, died Aug. 20, 1665; Thomas, Nov. 21, 1654; and Jacob, June 10, 1657, died in May following. He first appears as an own­er of :and 2d mo., 1642, when he bought of Mr. Milward "two acres of upland lying in the harbor, between the lots of John Collins and Zebulon mn, and running from his house north­erly over the next swamp." This lot was sit­uated, as nearly as I can judge, a little east of what is now Centre street. In 1651 he bad a grant of" Stage Neck," now called Rocky Neck, which bis grandson Robert sold to Na-­thaniel Sawyer in 1705. His will, made May 15, 1683, was proved 16 June following. It is

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a lengthy docmnent: giving to his oldest son, Samuel, "the house I now dwell in, together with all the land and buildings-near adjoining, as also all the neck of land whereupon my said house standeth·:" to son John three acres of meadow at Little Good Barbor: to son Isaac '' my cloak after my decease" : to son Joseph a yearling steere: to son Thomas·the·halfacre · of land, with the orchard his house st.andetb. upon; one acre of meadow or marsh at Stark­naught Harbor, and also one yearling: to daugh­ter Dolliver a two year old heifer: to grandson Samuel "all that my house and land his father now liveth in and upon, lying and being situ­ate on the-other side of the river or harbor in Gloucester" : to gran_dson Robert "who now liveth with me, all my quarter part of my catch, in case he abides with his father and helps him"·: and to grandson William, son to Josiah, deceased, " a calf of this year's breeding/' He entreats his dear and well beloved friends Mr. John Emerson and Jeffrey Parsons to be executors. His inventory· of 26 June, 1683, amounting to £290.10, contains the -following items :-" house and land, upland and marsh, £182. All his wearing clothes, £8.12. In bed­ding, brass, iron, and several other things, £21.13. Several milk vessels, 17s. For other several things, as guns, swords, cart, plow and tackling, £5.12. Other things· belonging to husbandrie, £1.10. Neat cattle, horse flesh, sheep and swine. £69. One beame, one-half hundred and· case of bottles, £1.6." Bis wid­ow Alice made her will March 24:, 1691 ; giving her estate to her five daughters, except to Alice Bennet a small iron kettle. Sarah, one of these daughters, married John )Iillet, and for a sec­ond husband Morris Smith. Abigail, another, married John Day. Besides these :five daugh­ters by her :first h~sband, she had _two sons: Samuel and Robert Leach. Robert Elwell's " daughter Dolliver" was Mary who married Sam. Dolliver. She survived him and -was, I suppose, the widow Macy Dolliver who married James Gardiner, Dec. 16, 1684.

The eight children of Samuel Elwell, son of Robert, were, Samuel, bom March 14, 1660; Jacob, Aug. -10, 1662; Robert, Dec. 13, 1664; Esther,-Aug. 15, 1667; Sarah, March, 1670, died, . , soon; Ebenezer, Feb. 29, 1671; Hannah, Aug. 2, 1674; and Elizabeth, July 30, 1678. The in­ventory of bis estate amounted to £19.12s, of which "bible and other books " are down at

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twelve shUJint,l. I can add but little to what the :first Samuel, two were sons, Joseph, the History tells of his children. Of Samuel, bom July 22, 1699; and Ebenezer, March 1, nothing more than that he- transferred, July 1702; neither of whom appears to have mar-25, 1680, the property given to him by his ried in town. The elder Ebenezer bad,

. grandfather to Sam'l Bishop of Ipswich, for a March, 1695, a grant of" an acre of ground debt of £75. Vinson, one of the ten children to set a house upon, between his brother of Jacob, married Mary Lurvey, Dec. 21! 1782, Thomas Elwell and Abraham Robinson."­and bad Vinson, bon:i July 4.-, 17$3; Rachel, Oct. No such brother of himself or wife appears 25, 1735; Mary, Feb. 28, 1738; Lydia, baptized, in the records. He died before 1721. Es­April 6, 1740; and Lydia, again, baptized June tber Elwell, widow of Samuel, in a petition 26,, 17 43. Rachel married William Hutchings to the Selectmen, March, 1721, about six months May 8, 1757, whose son Wi1Jiam Vinson Hutch- before her death, then very aged, says " it had ings, born Sept. 28, 1762, shipmaster, and mer- pleased God to exercise her with much sick­chant in Boston, was grandfather of Col. Wil- ness in ye year past, and Jos. Gardiner, her liam Vinson Hutchings, an officer in the late son-in-law, also having been sick, &be prays war, formerly of Gloucester, but now of Bos- relief." Her daughter Esther also came to the ton. Wimam, brother of Vinson, was proba- same sad condition of dependence upon the bly the one of that name who has recorded by town, and at the age of more than four score his W1fe Elizabeth, besides two .. daughters, was maintained in the family of her brother-in- _ a son' Jacob, born Nov. 15, 1729; and Wil- law,Joseph Gardiner.✓ She was never married. liam, born June 21, 1742. The five sons of John EIJvell, probably second son of Robert, Robert, son of Samuel, we!'e Robert, Samu- must have been about seventy years old when el, Benjamin, Joseph and John. The last two be died in captivity, Feb. 1710. March 11, 1677, settled in Biddeford, Me. Of Benjamin I he had a grant of two acres of land on Eastern know no more. Perhaps Robert married Jem- Point, near Rocky Neck, where the selectmen ima Smith, Nov. 11, 1718, and bad a son Jona- had given him liberty to build a house. He than baptized at the first church Oct. 81, 1725, was away when the six-acre lots at the Cape ten years after his father's death at Ipswich, were granted in 1689, and ·' did draw never a "under the doctor's bands." Samuel married lot," but be received one elsewhere in lieu of Rebecca Brown, April 17, 1718. Administra- it in 1707. His children born in Gloucester were tion of his estate was granted to his son Sam- Susanna, born April 24, 1678; Mary, Feb. 9, uel, May 11, 1742. He had nine children, of 1681; Christian, May 16, 1688; and Penelope, whom five were sons. Samuel, the oldest, born and died, Aug. 1688. He left an estate born Oct. 5, 1718, married Judith Rowe Dec. of £24.-.5.6, and debts enough to absorb the 14, 1738, and built, on land belonging to his whole of it. His only son, John, married wife, a house still standing on the Rockport Mary, daughter of Abraham Robinson; and road, and occupied by descendants of his perhaps a second wife, Mary Joslyn, Jany. 7, daughter Lois, who married Abraham Wil- 1709. A Mary, wife of John Elwell, died Dec. Iiams, whose father was lost on a :fishing 26, 1717, aged about forty-eight years. Eight voyage in the great gale of March, 1766, and children by the first M~ry, and two by the whose mother, Raebel, became the second last, are 1·ecorded. lfour of them were sons; wife of Samuel Elwell, May 6, 1770. He was John, Andrew, and Abraham, and one with an a sea captain, and instructed many of the unknown name. John born March 16, 1690, youngsaUors of the town in navigation. Four married Lydia Giddings, Dec. 15 1712, and, of his nine children were sons ;-Samuel and besides three daughters, had sons John and Robert by the first, and William abd Benjamin Zebulon. Of John I can say no more, unless h~ by the second -wife:- Robert, born in 1754, was the same who married Ruth Atwell, Nov. married Martha Tomlinson; and died. about 16, 1760; but this may have been a second 1820; leaving a son Robert, the ancient marl- marriage of the father. The inventory of the ner of that name who died Aug. 8, 1862, aged estate of Capt John Elwell, of June 21, 1766, 82. Capt. Samuel Elwell is said to have amounting to £186.3.6, and naming wife Ruth, died about 1800, upwards of 80 years of age. is m·the Probate Records. Zebulon married Lu­Of the seven children of Ebenezer, son of cy Ingersol, Nov. 20, 17 44, and died about 1756.

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She was probably the Lucy Elwell who died Sept. 4, 1810, aged eighty-:fl.ve. His daughter Mary married Capt. Nathaniel Giddings, of Exeter, N. H. by whom she had a daugh­ter Lucy who married Luther Dana of Gro­ton, and became the mother of two men much distinguished for scientific attainments ; -James F. Dana, Professor in Dartmouth College, and SamnelL. Dana, M:. D. of Low­ell: both now deceased. Dr. Dana was in practice in Gloucester a year or more, about 1818. Elizabeth, another daughter of Zebulon Elwell, was the wife of Col. John Tucker, and died Nov. 17, 1831, aged eighty-one: and Lydia, youngest daughter of the same, married James Holland; a man well remtmbe1·ed by a few of our oldest people as a fl.fer for many years on occasions of military _parade. He is said to have been in Burgoyne's army; but could hardly have been in it at the surrender in Oct. 1777, as he was married here •in April, of that year. Andrew, son of the second John Elwell, married Lydia Gearing, Dec. 12, 1723. The town and church records together give them eight children ; of whom were sons An­drew, Abraham, and Isaac. .Andrew, born April 1, 1730; married Hannah Smith, Dec. 13, 1750. The town records give him two chil­dren, and the church records, beside~hese, three more. The oldest, Andrew, born ·oct. 15, 1751, I presume to be the same who mar­ried Abigail Boynton, Nov. 2, 1773, and Mary Dyer, Feb. 8, 1780. The latter died a widow, Oct. 22, 1832. One of the children of this last marriage was Samuel, who, when a young man, lost his rir-ht band by the bursting of a gun in firing a salute on board of a privateer. He died Sept. 28, 1869, aged seventy-eight; leaving a son .Andrew, who was colonel of the 23d Mass. Regiment in the lat.e ~ civil war. Abraham, next son of the first Andrew, born Nov. 4, 1733,. married Lucy Mattocks, April 2, 1755, and had a son Abraham~ baptized Aug. 13, 1758, of whom, or of the father, I know no more. Isaac, the other son of .Andrew, born July 13, 1735, I must believe to have been the same who married Agnes Nelson, March 18, 1753; notwithstanding the bridegroom had hardly completed his eighteenth year. He had a son Isaac, born May 16, 1753; and a son John, born May 31, 1755, who died in 1798, and was the father of the venerable Isaac Elwell of Riverdale, now near the close of his eighty-

eighth year .. Another son, Zebulon, bom Kay 27, 1757, was the father of a family of sailors, to whom fell an unusual share of the casual­ties of a sea-faring life; and most of whom died young: Zebulon in the West Indies. Isaac was lo.st on a :fl.shing voyage to the Banks. William went to Lisbon, in the time of the long embargo, and was never heard from after leav­ing port for home. Benjamin. died in a prison ship, in England, and Al>raham on bis passage to Surinam, in a vessel of which he was cap­tain. Henry, another sailor of this family, abandoned the employment after a few ye.ars' trial of its hardships, and is now living in town, at the age of almost eighty.

The second wife of Isaac Elwell, next son of Robert, was Mary, widow of Hugh Rowe, and daughter of Thomas Prince. He was a shoe­maker. He booght of William Colman, May 4, 1667, a dwelling house and six acres of up­land in the harbor '' between the great swamp on the west and northwest and the highway on the south leading from the · middle bridge and going to the Little Good Harbor." This de­scription points to the present High street as the location of this house ; the :first mentioned in that section of the town. The children of Isaac Elwell were Isaac~ born Jan. 15, 1667; Jane, Nov. 21, 1668; Jonathan, Oct. 21, 1670; Eliezer, July, 16, 1673; Abigail, April 13, 16-76; David, March 10, 1679; Bethiah, April 5, 1682, Hannah; and Joshua, Feb. 4, 1687. Be­sides these, the settlement of his estate sliows that he had by his second wife a daught.er Je­mima. Though his death preceded that of his wife by several years, the inventory of each was presented at Probate Court in March 1723. His amounted to £51.10, and hers to £177.5. 2. In the division of his estate, sons Eliezer and Joshua, and daughters Abigail Stover, Jo­hanna Tucker, Bethiah Ulin and Jemima El­well are mentioned. An Isaac Elwell, jr., pro­bably his son, was drowned 5 Jan., 1690-Elie­zer married Em. Downing, Jan. 21, 1697, and, besides two daughters, has sons Jonathan, Da­vid, and Paine recorded in the oown books, all of whom appear to have married; but I know no living descendants of any of them. Joshua married Alice Low in 1709 or 1710. She died Jan. 8, 1717, andhe next married Abigail Riggs, Nov. 28, 1717. By those two wives, eleven chil­dren are recorded: of whom I know but three who lived to maturity and perpetuated the

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name :-Isaac, Thomas, and Mark. Isaac, bom these ehildrea are all recorded, and, in addi­Oct. 31, 1714, married Susanna Stanwood, Nov. tion, the birth of Nehemiah, in April, 1701, who 15, 1738. Of'hiseleven·childrensixweresons; was drowned July S~, 1716; and the baptism two Isaacs, Joshua, David, Solomon, and Elias. of' Hannah, June 16, 1723. His inventory

-The second Isaac, born July 2, 1743, married shows real estate, £1825; and personal, £272. Martha Brown, Nov. 17, 1767, and a second S.9. One of the items is "1 small island in wife, Mrs. Tammy_ Davison, March _lS, 1791, the harborCdlled five pound Island," valued at who died in March 1888, aged ninety-two.- £20. His son WilJia.m, born May 8, 1698, mar­Nine children, all by his first wife, are record- ried Ruth York. Oct. 27, 1720. No child is re­ed. His sons were Isaac, Elias, and David. corded to them, nor is any one ~entioned _ in

· The latter, a retired ship-master, and the last of his will, made Feb. 26, 1735, and proved June the family, died in Florida, April 27, 18i0, aged 23, 1741. Nor do the Gloucester records give eighty-two. Thomas, son of' the first Jos.hua, either wife or child to Josiah, born · July 25, born Aug. 18, 1718, married Lucy Pierce, 1703; but his will, made April 20, 1739, when Oct. 22, 17 40, and had a son Thomas, born he was "bound to sea,"· and proved April 16,

·_Feb. 22, 1741; after which date I learn no more 1744, mentions wife Lamer, to whom he gave of him. Mark, before mentioned, the other one-half of his estate; bequeathing the other son of Joshua, born Sept. 17, 1780, was appren- half to his brother Elias. He left a house and ti~ to a farmer in Dudley, Mass., where he gard~n spot, valued at £55; and other proper-:­·was· bred in that occupation. He married in ty to the amount of £15.9.S. The next son, ·Dudley, and had three sons,-Mark, Abiel, and Elias, born July 30, 1709, also goes~n the town Benjamin, each of whom married and had is- records without wife or child; but here again sue. Mark died Nov. SO, 1857, in his eighty- the probate books came to our aid, and show first year, and Benjamin died July 21, 1851, that he had a wife Abigail, to whom, by his aged sixty-six. WiJUam S. ;Elwell, of Spring- will, made in 1740, and proved in 1752, he gave field, an artist, is a son of Benjamin. his property. Daniel, bom Feb. 27, 1712, I

Josiah Elwell, son of the first Robert, mar- suppose to be the same who married Mary ried Mary, daughter of John Collins, June~~' Stanwood, Jan. 23, 1740; and had a son Dan-1666. Their children were, Dorcas, born June iel, born June SO, and died Nov. 4, 1741, which 18, 1666; Elias, Oct. 16, 1668; Nehemiah, Dec. is all I can tell of him. Nehemiah, youngest 21, 1671 ; William, July 5, 167 4 ; and Josiah, Dec. son of Elias, born Sep. 4, 1718, had a wife Ma-21, 1676; who died, probably unmarried, Dec. ry and a son William, who was born in Gos-5, 1716. A strict enforcement of puritan laws port, England, Ja11. 31, 1747. He · also had occasioned the punishment of the parents., at daughters Mary and Dorcas, and a son Elias, a Quarterly Court in Salem, Nov. 27, 1666, tor who was born Oct. 81, 1755. Mary Elwell,­the crime of which the early birth of their fir8' probably his widow, was admwistratrix 01 his child was a proof; but it does not appear to estate in 1762. I can trace the fll'st son, William, have entailed any very lasting stigma upon the no farther; nor Elias, unless he was the soldier wife, for, after the death of Elwell, she was of the revolution, of that name, who died in twice married; :ftrstto John Cook, and next to 1834; but another Elias, sonoflsaac, born Oct. that highly respectable citizen, Capt. James 6, 1755, may be more justly entitled to honor Davfu. She die9- March 9, 1725, aged seventy- as the patriot of that war. No information nine. Josiah Elwell died abroad, and at the of the posterity of Robert Elwell, that I pos­request of his father, an inventory of his es- sess, enables me to bring down this branch to a tate was made April 18, 1680,,by John Cook, living descendant, bearing the name. who married_his ___ ~dow. His only daughter, The children of Joseph, son of the first Rob-Dorcas, married John Babson. Of his sons, ert, were-Hezekiah, born June 2, 1670; Jo­I :ftnd the marriage of but one,-Elias, who seph, Aug.19, 1672; Samuel, Junes, 1675; and married Dorcas Low, Nov. 12, 1690. In his Benjamin, Sep. IS, 1678. A Mary Elwell, per­will, made May 1, and proved Aug. 1, 1787, he haps his wife, died March 25, 1680. mentions wife Dorcas, daughters Experience The children of Thomas were-Sarah, bom and Dorcas Ellery, and sons William, Josiah, Aug. 24:, 1676; Thomas, April 26, 1678; Mary, Elias, Daniel, and Nehemiah. The births of March 13, 1680; WilJiam, April 8, 1682; and

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Elisha, March 30, 1684. It is probable that Eliezer, born in 1698. Administration of the these two sons of Robert Elwell had, with estate of the second Jonathan, and of that of their families, removed from town before 1689, Lydia, his wife, was granted to his son-in-law as their names do not appear in the division Thomas Cary, March 6, 1748. His inventory of land made in that year; besides, no son amounted to £121.9.6; and hers to £~15.17. of either appears to have married in town, un- He is said to be late of Gloucester and she late· less Samuel, son of .Joseph, was the same who of Beverly. From her inventory I copy the fol-· married Abigail Elwell .. Nov. 16, 1738, and died lowing articles, to show the wardrobe and :fln­before May 25, 17 47, when administration of ery of a lady of that tim~ : " 1 cloak, 30s; 1 do, his estate was granted to his widow Abigail. 22s 6: 1 velvet head, 15s; 1 do, 12s 6; 1 pr. In the inventory, amounting to £18.17 .2. I Stays, 25s; 1 do. 15s : 1 gown, 25s; 1 do. 20s; find a barn set down at £3; and among the ar- 1 petty coat, 7s; 2 do, 7s 6; 1 cloke, 7s 6; 1 ticles ofhis scanty household furniture " an in- apron, ls ; 1 quilted coat, 12s. ; 1 do. 2s; 8 yds. strument to strike fire, 6s." scotch plad, 5s 4; 1 gown, 25s; 1 gown.20s.;

In the early generations of this family, the 1 Riding hood, 30s ; 1 gown, 2s 6 ; velvet hood, record of birth may, in a few instances, have 8s 6; 3 pr. of shoes, 15s; 1 apron, 10s; 2 do., been omitted; for no research of mine tells 8s 6; 2 do., 5s; 7 caps, 18s; 2 handkerchiefs, who was the father of James, who married Ss; 1 gold ring, 20s; 1 locket, 20s; gold neck­Mary Giddings, Dec. 21, 1714, had a son James, lace, 40s; 1 pair of jewels, 6s; 1 pr. of silver born Feb. 20, 1716, and was lost at sea in Oc- buttons, 3s." Mixed with these articles, the tober, of that year, aged twenty-five; or of following, not usually found in a lady's ward­Caleb, who married Sarah Mains, Oct. 9, 1729, robe, also appear " 1 law book, 6s; 1 pair of and had a son Caleb and four daughters; or of breeches, 3s 6; 1 man's coat, 10s." In. the di­Jonathan, who, by his wife, Abigail, had a vision of the real estate, June, 1752, son Na. daughter Abigail, born July 16, 1727, and a thaniel, heirs of Lydia Cary, and daughters son Nathaniel, born June 15, 1729; orofanoth- .Anna and Lucy are mentioned. er Jonathan, who by bis wife Lydia, had a son Descendants of Robert Elwell are numerous, Nathaniel, born in June, 1730, a ~nghter and may be found in various parts of the Unit­Anne, born in Dec. 1732, and a daughterLucy, ed States. The names or twenty-four males in without date of birth; or of yet another Jona- Gloucester, s.nd six in Rockport, appear in the than, who married Abigail, daughter of Samuel last Directory of the two towns. Stevens, March 28, 1737, and, besides daugb- SYLVESTER EVELEl'H.-Or Eveleigh, as by ters, had sons Jonathan, Robert, Samuel and himself written it may be seen in our first book William, and died March 10, 1808, aged ninety- of records, in acknowledgment of a privilege four; orof William, jr., who, by his wife Eliz- to pass over his land, dated July 16, 1672. He abeth, had a SOR William, born Sept. 6, 1733, was the only earJyemigra-qt to New England of a daughter Elizabeth, Dec. 10, 1736, William, this name, and appears first, according to Mr. again, Jan. 9, 1741, Paine, April 8, 1744, and Savage, as a baker at Boston in 1642. His son Henry Butler, Mar. 27, 1746. I suppose that Joseph was baptized there March ·26, 1643, this family removed to North Yarmouth, Me., about one year and three-quarters old: thus whence Paine returned to Gloucester, as men- authenticating the ~at length of days of the tioned jn the History. He was therein stated patriarch of Ipswich, who died at the age of to be probably a descendant of the first Isaac; 105. His daughter Hannah was also baptised but it seems certain now that he was not. Per- there, Oct. 8, 1643. Mary who married Thom­haps the son William was the same who mar- as Millet, and Susanna, who -married James ried Anna Tarr in 1766, and had a son William Stevens, were probably born in England. I born in Angus~ of that year. William, broth- find no record of the settlement of the estate er of Paine, is said to have removed to North of Sylvester Eveleth. The house in which he Yarmouth or Freeport soon after his marriage, lived many years after his removal from his and to have had a son William who was bred a I first abode in Gloucester stood not far distant mariner and was lost overboard in Casco Bay,/ from the house still standing in a ruined condi­on his passage from the West Indies.

1 tion in West Gloucester, built by his grandson

One of the Jonathans was probably son of I about a hundred and seventy years ago. 7

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I find in the Probate Records the following inventory of the estate _of .Isaac, probably son of Sylvester Eveleth : ·

"An Inventorie of ye goods and Relicks of lsaa~ Evely who died Intestate : " Imps. The dwelling house barn up- ,

. land and meadow 62. o.o "-for neat cattle •'for sheep " for a ma1·e u for Bedsteads bed and bedding "for tables chests and other lumber

about ye house .. , for Brass Pewter and Iron Potts and

a pair of Andirons '' for Husbandry Tooles " for one third part o~ sloop " for_ books 10s to ,v earing Cloatbes 5 '- for 1a pair of Curtains and Valance " for Sheets Pillowbeeres and Table

Linnen " for Instruments and seafaring Books ·' for Cotton and Sheeps Wool '" It for two small gold Rings and silver

. spoon

" The Inventory and sum of it amounts

9 1.15.0 1.15.0 8. o.o

2.10.0

6. o.o 15.

9. 0.0 5.10.0 1.15.

4.10 1. 5 1.0

1. 2

to · £115.17.0 "Apprised by us the 26 of January 1685

"James Stevens, sen. " Thomas Millett " Thos. Riggs sen.

" Debts that are known and to be paid by ye widow amount to ye sum of £4.10."

The children of Isaac Eveleth were Isaac, born March 22, 1680; Hannah, May 9, 1681, married Peter Bennet; Job, March 15, 1683; and Mary, April 10, 1685, died April 7, 1686.­All I can add concerning the son Isaac is, that ·he is named in the will of Thomas Millett, his step-father, made June 9, 1707. Job married Abigail Sargent, July 8, 1708, and, besides four daughters, had a son Isaac, born July 15, 1711, who was appointed administrator of his fath­er's e~tate, Oct. 7, 1751. He married Rachel Sargent, Nov.-15,-1737, and Jemima Parsons, Jan. 1, 1741. By the first wife he had a son Isaac, born Sept. 13, 1738 ; and by the second a son ,vnuam, born Sept. 15, 1745; a son Job baptized April 2, 17 49; and five daughtc~.­Here my knowledge of this branch of the fam­ily ends.

Joseph Eveleth married Mary, daughter of

Edward Bragg of Ipswich, April I, 1667. She died Jan. 22, 171 t-, in the sixty-fourth year of her age. His children born in Gloucester were,. -John, born Feb. 18, 1670; Elizabeth, Dec. 1,, 1671; married first Francis Perkins of Ipswich,. and after 1706, George Giddings of Gloucester; and Joseph, May 31, 1674. About this time be removed to Chebacco, and there had Isaac, born Oct. 1676; Edward, July 25, 1679; Moses Feb. 13, 1681; Mary, Nov. 13, 1683, married Stephen Perkins; and Hannah, Oct. 1, 1685.­These are all I find recorded; but there were certainly two more sons,-.James and Jacob; mentioned in the deed by_ which the father gave, May 27, 1719, to his two sons, '· Isaac of Gloucester, yeoman, and Edward of Ipswich, trader," one half of that tract of land which be, said Joseph, had of his father-in-law, l\:lr. Ed­,~·ard Bragg, about 70 acres, " and is ye liYing which I now dwell 1ipon." I have nothing to add to what the History'relates of the father, except that he is said, in an obituary notice, to have left several children of a great age, one of whom was upwards of seventy years old. I know not which child of seventy and up­wards is here meant, unless it was Isaac, who at the date of his father's death, Dec. 1, 1745, was in his seventieth year. Hi8 two oldest children had then been dead several years, and there is no evidence that Joseph, the next, was then living.

Mr. Savage mentions but one child of Rev. Jolm Eveleth ;-Joseph, who died Oct. 27, 1714, aged eighteen. I learn that be also bad a son Francis, who had three sons,-Joseph, .John, and Francis; all born in Stow : of these, Fran­cis, who died in Stow, never had any children. Joseph· settled in Princeton, :Mass., where he ha.d a family of cbild~en, among whom was one son,-Joshua, who lived there, and had two sons, Joshua and Ephraim, both of whon1 became ministers, and have long been dead. John, the other son of Francis, died in Stow. He bad two sons ;-Daniel, who died in Stow about 1844, leaving three sons; a.nd John, of Augusta, Me James Eveleth, a joiner, and Samuel a fisherman, who with their sister Sa­rah lived at Cape Porpoige a short time, ahout the close of the revolutionary war, were said to be grandchildren of Re,· .• John Eveleth. Isaac

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third son of Joseph E,·eleth. bought of \Villia.m Stevens, May 1699, for £12.10. one quarter part of the s:!l.wmill at Little River; and in

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April, 1700, he received from his father a gift I was a trader in Ipswich. He was Lieut. Col. I

of sixty acres of land on the north-west side of , and Capt. of the 2d company in the 5th Mass. I

that river. His wife Sarah still goes, in my 1 regiment in the e:\..--pedition to Louisbourg in manuscript. with the baptismal name only.- i 17 45. He married first, Elizabeth Perkins, Jan. She died Dec. 26, 1721, aged forty-two; and'. 4, 1704, who died March 11, 1713, aged thirty­be next married, Dec. 20, 1722, Abigail Par- ! two ; second, Mrs. Elizabeth Epes, who died sons, probably widow of Nathaniel, who had Aug. 24, 1733; third, Mary Wise, Aug. 10, 1737; died of' small-pox May 21 preceding. She died ' and a fourth wife, Bridget, who survived him. May 5, 17G2, aged eighty-six. From his in- ; He died Nov. 5, 1759, aged eighty .. ,-,By his first ventory of Aug. 5, 1755, amounting to £1308.4. : wife he had two children, and by the sec-7, I take the following items, to show the value ; ond, nine; of whom five. died~ in infancy.­of such property at that time;-" horse and . Three of his sons,-Joseph, Edward, and Dan-

: , ' tackling, 100s; 7 cows and five calves~ £16.2.8; ; iel lived to maturity. I suppose the oldest to a yoke of oxen, £6.13.4-; 28 sheep and 15 lambs, j have been the Joseph Eveleth, Jr., whose estate 18fis; negroman,£4-6.13.4." In the settlement: was administered upon in 1739, and among of his estn.te ther,· is a charge for coffin, grave : whose effects were an eighth part of a sch~~n­and bell~ 20s." and '· gloves," 20s; and al~o; er, and sea-clothes, quadrant, an1 navigation mention of his heirs ;-Isaac, Mary Dennit1g, · books. He left a wife Mary, and a daughter Hannah Byles, Abigail Herrick, and Ruth Good- :Mary, probably an infa1.1t. Edward the next rich, deceased. His daughter Sarah married of the three sons, graduated at Harvard Col­John Tyler, Dec. 10, 1719, and died Feb. 20, lege in 1738, and died in Ipswich, May 6, 178l, 1721. He owned a large and fine farm, which aged sixty-three. He was a school-master; by division and subdivision has lost its ancient or at least was engaged in that occupation here character; and the ruined house where he and in 1757. In his father's will of 27 Oct. 1752, bis descendants bad a home tor about a century i this son is said to be " bereayed of his under­and a half, will soon cease to enhance the inter- i standing." Daniel Eveleth was a hatter of est in the landscape in which it stands. Isaac~ Boston, but I know no more about him, ex­son of the preceding, married Elizabet~ Par- cept that he was an ensign at the siege of sons, probably daughter of his step-mother, . Louisbourg. Dec. 25, 1729. Besides a daughter Sarah, and ! James Eveleth, son of the centenarian, Jo­a daughter Elizabeth who married Alexander; seph, was probably born between 1685 and Parran. the town records give him the follow-\ 1690. He was intending marriage, 26, 12· mo. ingsons :-I~rutc, born Oct. I, 1730, died in Vir- ! 1715, wi-th Elizabeth Giddings; but I have no ginia, Aug. 9, 1746; Nath'l, • .\ug. 9, ··.died Dec. further information about him except that de-1. 1732; Nath'l again Aug. 23, 1736; Andrew rived from his will, made May 4, 1773, and Dec. 29, 1738; Joseph, May 10, 1741; and Per- proved June 28 following.. In that be men­kins, No,·. 2, 1743. To these should be added

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, tions four daughters, and gives to son James Abigail and Susanne; and Isaac, who was bap- and his children one quarter part of the lower tised March 3, 1754. I know nothing n1ore of farm in Chebacco, where bis said son then Perkins than that be was a subscriber to the lived This son married, and died in Essex, meeting hou~e in New Gloucester, Me., in Dec. 15, 1802: aged eighty-seven years and three 1770. ..\.ndrew was intending marriage with I months. His wife died Oct. 24, 1791, aged sev­Sarah Byles, Aug. 10~ 17!15, and died before enty-four. The only sons by this man-iage, 1770; and Isaac was intending marriage with known to me, are Aaron, born in 1750;who mar­Mrs. Lucy Avery, Nov. 14, 1801; but I know riedAnnaAndrewsinl775,anddiedaboutl839: not that the name was perpetuated by any of and Joseph, born in 1756, who was a blacksmith the sons except NJ.thaniel. who was one of the of Salem, and was in the revolutionary war an pioneers of New Gloucester, where he was artificer in the army. He died Feb. 4, 1847, town clerk forty years, and had there ten sons aged ninety-one. Capt. Jonathan Eveleth, of and three daughters. He died Nov. 23, 1824-, Essex, son of Aaron, born Dec. 15, 1775, mar­leaving three sons at ]ea.'-t, N:1thaniel, .Joseph, ried Mary Smith, Nov. 14, 1805, and died Sept. and Isaac, who lived to old age. 6, 1848. Thirteen children were born to him,

Edward, the next son of .Jo~eph of Chehacco, one of whom, Edward: is living in Essex.

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Dr. Edward·S. Eveleth-who has-brought the I them:-Sarah,- born 16, died 21 April. IGG2; nam~ ba.c~ to the final _home of his emigrant I James, Oct. 5, lG~! died same day; George~ ancestor, 1s a son of Edward, son of Jonathan, ! May 22, 1664; Eli7~beth, June 11. 166G; Sarah1

who was·sonof Aaron, whowassonot'James, April 17, 1668; Mary, Sept. 13, died Oct. 25 • . who was son of James, who was son of Joseph, 1671: Joseph, Oct. 23, 1672; RebecC3, Sept. w~~ ~s son of Sy~v~ter; beyond wh?m, on 15, 1675; John, Jan.11, 1678; and James, Aug. this side of the Atlantic, no [Dan can go. 27, 1681. In his will, made Jan. 23, 1683 and

·JAKEW GARDNER.-Several families of this proved March 31~ 1685, he _calls Joseph his name·were among the early settlers of New oldest son. This son had in 1694, a grant of England; but with no one of them can I con- land on Eastern Point, on the eastern side of nect oar settler. One of the pieces of la.nd Peter Mud'-s neck, near which was a house

· given to him in 1661 by William Vinson his O then erected to make earthern ware in." He father-in-law, was a lot of two acres lyi~g at married Hannah, daughter of Samuel Elwell, the end of his own lot. On this iand Gardner Jan. 2: 1695. The date of his death is not pFObably built the house with which, and half known, but he appears to have been living ·a-shallop and a long gun, he bargained in 16G8 ab?ut -1750. The records have, besides two w:_ith Hugh Row for his " third part of a farm, c?lldren still-born and four daughte"rs, the with, one share and coulter and one cart and a births of sons Joseph and Samuel. Joseph, pair of wheels with four iron hoops about the ~orn May 9, 1707, ~arried Susanna Crowell~ ~tocks, and the frame of a house with an the Feb. 15, 1728, and had sons Joseph, Robert,

.- cboards he had at the bead of the cape, and S~muel, James and Coas, and a daughter Ly­tbateh to thatch the ·house; the said Row to dia. Joseph, the oldest of these sons, born be at the charge of making up the back and June ~5~ 17:9, I suppose to be the same who oven,- and to daub the houRe sufficiently upon ":as intending marriage with Rebecca Gid­both sides and ends.'' dings, March 15~ 1751, and had a son Joseph

The History gives James Gardner one wife: baptized May 24, 1752; after which we learn ·but the town records show that he had a sec- no more of father or son. Robert, born Nov. ond,-widow Mary Dolliver; though they "3, 1732, was intending marriage with Mary strangely err in giving the date of his last mar- Moor, Nov· 1, 1755. His daughter Mary was •riage Dec. 16, 1684:, when the husband, accord- baptjzed Sept. 26, 1756, and his name next ap­ing to the same records, had been dead eight pears on his marriage to Lydia Witham, Oct. days. The entries in the records were evident- 28, 1762- Two children by this marriage, ly made at the same time, and the probate Rob~rt and Lydia, are recorded; but I C3n add books warrant the conclusion that the clerk nothing more about him, except that be died made a ·mistake in one or both of them. Feb. 15, 1815, aged eighty-two. I may also

The following is the inventory of his estate. add that he is the only descendant of James :cc House, upland and meadow £50 Gardner, the date of whose death I have oeen ''·One horse and mare 2 able to ascertain. James Gardner, son of ·" for cattle 8 two years old and one calf 4.15 the second Joseph, ~om Oct. 3, 1737, was "-for six small pigs 13 sheep and lambs 4. 6 probably the same who was intending mar-'' for tools beet}~ rings and wedges 1. o riage with Rebecca Gardner, Oct. 26, 1759, by "for one pott kettle and trammel 1. 15 whom he had daughters Rebecca and Susanna. ''for other household stuff for bed and Coas, youngest son of the same Joseph, mar.=

bedding 4. 5 ried Sarah Perkins Dec. 11, 1763. She was a "for his wearing_ clothes a~d two daughter of Mrs. Mary Perkins, and grand-

small chests - s. 7 daughter of the famous Capt. Andrew Robin-" Two cows £4.10 one gun 14 5. 4 son. The large house in which Mrs. Perkins "One Bill book and one adze 2 kept a. tavern, _as mentioned in the History,

was still standing about the beginning of this 76.l A'' t h C C ~ cen :ury, w en apt. -oas Gardner was its oc-

"Debts £37.0.8"

The History does not name all his children, and I therefore give here a corrected list of

cupant; but it had long before ceased to be a public house. Coas Gardner had a son Coas~ a son Benjamin Perkins, and several daugh-._

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ters; concerning whom I have no forther inf or- It I add that a Daniel Gardner, sojourner, mation. Samuel, brotheroftheseeonclJosepb, and Sarah Clarke, were intending marriage, born Aug.26, 1709,married SusannaSmitb,Jan. Nov. 13, 1756, and that a Thomas Gardner 13, 1732, and had sons Samuel and Joseph, of and Mary Stacy were married Sept. 19, 1769, whom or of the father, I can say no more.

1 these Notes will contain the name of every

.John, son of the first James married Miriam J male of the name of Gardner, known to me. Sampson, Jan. 24, 1704. He was also living I who lived in the town before 1775. It is borne about 1750. Of his ten children, there were j by a few-persons now living here; but I can­sons,-John, William, Israel, Mos~s. David. / not say that one of them is a descendant from Jonathan, and Solomon. .John, born Oct. 11.1 our early settler James. 1705, married Rebecca Smith, Nov. 18, 1729, GEORGE GIDDINGS -This settler was, with-and widow Mary Webster, Dec. 26, 1748. Be- i out doubt, oldest son of Lt. John Giddings of

I sides two daughters, be bad ~ns John, Israel~ I Chebacco, and grandson of George, an early and Daniel ; but I know not that the name I settler of Ipswich. He was bom in 1664: Tile

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wns perpetuated by any one, except John. I date of bis death I do not find. Bis second bon1, Oct. 30, 1730, who married Lydia Car- wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Pt-rkins, daughter of lisle, Dec. 6, 1748, and probably Abigail Giles Joseph Eveleth, and widow of Francis Perkins. in 1766. He had seven children, of whom two His children were-Lydia, born March 6, 1692; were sons who died young, ~nd one was an Mary, May 15, 1695; John, Jan. 2. 1698; Rob­Israel, of whom I know no· more. Daniel ap- ert, Oct. 3, 1700; Zebulon, April 25, 1703: Mercy pears to have married twice; but no children and Deliverance, Feb. 26, 1708; Sarah, July 30, are recorded to him. William Gardner, born 1710; George, Jan. 26, 1714; and Joseph, April May 11, 1708, married Sarah Stanwood, Jan. 6, 12, 1717. Of the oldest son, John, I can say no 1736, and bad son~ ,vnuam, Israel, and Moses, more. Robert married Rebecca, daughter of ~nd two daughters. The son ""illiam was pro- Capt. Andrew Robinson, Jan. 2, 1724. His cbil­bably the same who was intending marriage dren were-Lucretia, born Sept. 14, 1725; Rob­with Susanna Collins, of Boston, Nov. 21, inson, Aug. 30, 1727.; Rebecca, June 30, 1730; 1765. David, born :Feb. 23, 17I5~married~ry Mercy, Oct. 25, 1731; William, April 16, 1733; Gardner, Nov. 29, 1739. He bad several daugb- and Andrew, Aug. 13, 1735. Rebecca married ters, and sons David, James, Mose8, and Josh- ..Alexander Smith, and bad a daughter Rebecca ua. James I suppose to. be.the one of that who married Samuel Webber, President of Har­name who married Rebecca Elwell, March 1, vard College, at whose house. in Cambridge, 1768. Solomon, yo~ngest son of the first John, Mrs. Smith died in 1810. Andrew is the only born .June 20, 1724, married Esther Carli!--le, son of Robert whose marriage is given in our May 4-, 1748. He fell overboard from aves- records. He married Elizabeth Davis, Feb. 3, sel, otf Cape Ann, and was drowned. His 1700, and besides two daughters-Elizabeth and widow is reported to have died at the age of Rebecca,· bad son&-Andrew Robinson, bom ninety-six; and a private record which has i Sept. 22. 1763; and George .. June 15, 1765. He the date of her death,-Jan. 14, 1820, gives her was an able and highly respected ship~master, the same age. But exaggeration of the age of and was lost at sea in the early part of the rev­old people is not uncommon She was born olutionary war. He lived in a house which was Oct. 3, 1728; therefore a little more than nine- standing between fifty and sixty years ago, at ty-one at death. Solomon Gardner had two the westerly corner of Center Street and Middle sons,-Joseph Carlisle and Solomon, ruid six Street. Bis son, Andrew R. Giddings, is ~nti­daugbters. I know not that either of the sons tied to a more extended notice than that given was married. in the History. Leaving Dummer Academy at

James Gardner, youngest son of the first the age of :fifteen, he went into the store of Mr. James. bad a wife Abig-ail, to whom be was Daniel Sargent in Boston, where he remained married Jan.23, 1707. He had four daughters, a year, and then embarked upon a sea-faring and a son James, and was dead in 1733. The life. On a second voyage to the West Indies son .Tames, born April 6, 1711, probably mar- he was taken prisoner at St. Christopher's, and ried Lydia Smith, May 31, 1736; but I can trace after remaining some time in prison was put him no farther. . on board an English ship and sent to England.

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In London he was fortunate enough to meet a Capt. Giddings died ill DanTille, June 27, IM 1 ~ Cape Ann acquaintance, ~t. George Bales, in his eighty-fourth year. whoprocuredhimaprotectionfortheSouthsea George, son of the first Gloucester George, whale fishery. He made a voyage of eighteen married Judith Ingel'SOl, Sept. o, 1739, :md was months with Capt. Hales, and returned to Lon- dead in 1752. He had a son George and three don with a ship-load of oil, but to a poor mar- daughters, of whom I know no more. ket. Peace had taken place, and this young man Joseph, tbc next son, married Elizabeth Da­now ~ed his thoughts homeward. In pur- vis, Nov. 11, 1740, and bad a son Joseph, born suit of a voyage to America he visited France, in 17 41 ; and a daughter Elizabeth in 17 44; Spain, and the Netherlands, and finally procur- after which I have no knowledge of father or ed a passage from .Amsterdam to New York the either child. month before he was twenty-one. The story Joshua Giddings, also son or Lt. John of of his wanderings. adventures, and hardships, Chebacco, came to Gloucester about 1707, and during the time of his absence, is similar to had. by his wife Abigail, a daughter .A,big-.i.il that of hundreds of his townsmen at that dis- and son Jacob, besides four-other children who astrous period; many of whom were not like died y~ung. He was lost at sea in Oct., 1716. him so happy as to return to home and friends. Thomas Giddings, tailor, another son of Lt. During the three years immediately following John, bought a house and land ofBenj. Lufkht · his arrival home, he made three voyages to Eu• in 1710, and moved over the line into town;; rope and then went to make himself a place of By his wife Sarah four sons, Job, Joseph, and permanent abode in the new-plantation of Pe- .Joshua, were born here. This family p?'obably jepscot, now the town of Danville, Me., adjoin- returned to Chebacco, or removed to some oth­ing New Gloucester. But his love of the ocean er place. A Thomas, perhaps bis son, died in was yet strong enough to induce him to make Chebacco, July 29, 1802, aged ninety-four. He one more voyage; upon his return from which walked nine miles to Gloucester within a year . he quitted the sea forever, and, to use his own before his death. expression, laid down his anchor in the wilder- Besides these three sons of Lt. John Gid­ness. Qualliled by education and natural gifts -dings, four of his daughters probably settled in for various occupations, be became a promi- Gloucester :-Elizabeth, wife of Mark Haskell; nent man in the region where he had settled; Jane, wife of Joseph Harraden ; Sarah, wife of and made himself useful in public offices, land John Harraden; and Mary, wife of Benjn.min surveying, and other employments. He wrote York. much. and was so skilled in chirography that Lawrence Giddings, of whose parentage I he could write the Lord's Prayer on a piece of am ignorant, married Elizabeth Day, Jan. 15~ paper that a fourpence half-penny would cover. ! 1119, and had six children, all of whom, except· The pleasure he found in the use of his pen led one, a daughter Hannah, died young. -to an extensive correspondence, and to the re- A John Giddings was intending marriage cord in a diary of everything he thought worth with Elizabeth Gnodhue of Ipswich, Oct. 10, remembering. In this too he sometimes gave 1767. I know no more of him; nor do I kuow

· express~on to his thoughts and feelings in verse. that any descendant of the early settler, Georg<', I enjoyed the happiness of a call upon Capt. Gid. bearing the name, has lived in the town in the dings at his home in Danville, when he was in present century. his eightieth year. He was then quite deaf and JOHN IIADLEY.-The land granted to this set­nearly blind; but his mental faculties bad not tler in 1683, was situated on what is now Jack­apparently lost any of their vigor. He pointed son street. In 1712, his widow Susanna gaye with evident pleasure to the noble row of trees, property to her kinswoman, Dorcas Elwell, extending along the side of the road for a con- wife of Elias, for her care and kindness towards siderable distance in front of his house and his her since her widowhood, and to encourage her adjoining land, which he bad set out more than to be kind and helpful to her in her old age. fifty years before; and with a lingering fond- She had a grant of land in 1717, after which I nes& for the ha.bits of his early life, called my hear no more of her. The children of John attention to the well-trodden foot-path inside Hadley, jr. were-John, born Oct. 17, 1708 ; of the row, saying, '-this is my quarter-deck." Susanna, Nov. 22, 1709; Hannah, Feb. 1, 1711,

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died May 19, 1714; Daniel, Feb. 25, 1712; Han- no mention, either as husband or father. In nab, Nov. 8, 1714; Samuel, Aug. 4:, 1717; Jo- 1710 he bad a grant of land near his father's, sepb, Nov. 24, 1724:; and Benjamin, March 29, bordering on Ipswich line. The last mention 1726. The oldest son, John, married Sarah of bis name I find is in 1746. A Samuel mar­Witham, Dee. 1, 1737. In his will, made July I riedHannah Tappan, Jan. 25, 1747, and, besides 18, 1772, and proved Apr. 25, 1774. he mentions three daughters, had a son Samuel, who was wife Sarah, son JQbn, and three daughters. In born Aug. 16, 174:6, the same perhaps wh9 was it he calls himself John Hadley, jr., and thus intending marriage. with Mary Andrews, of Ips­makes it appear that his father was then living wich, Oct. 15, 1768. at a Ycry advanced age. The son John was bap- Of Benjamin, youngest son of the settler, I tized Oct. 1, 1738. He married Abigail With- can add nothing to what the History tells.­am, Feb. 28, 1765, and died June 11, 1809, aged Neither of his sons appears to have married in seYenty. His wife is also said to have lived town. .And of Nathaniel, John, James, and to old ~ge. Besides three daughters~ one of Joseph, the other sons of the ,settler, I have whom, Mary, married Reuben Brooks of San- sought further information in vain, · The town dy Bay, he had a ~on John, who was born May records show that a William Hadlock bad, by 22, 1776; but I know no more of him. Benja- his wife Susanna, a son William, born Feb. 4, min, son of the second John, married Sarah 1780; Nathaniel, June 24, 1783; and James, Elwell, May 9, 1744, and had a son Benjamin Dec. 27, 1786. A Nathaniel, probably the sec­born Sept. 2, 1744, and a son Joseph baptized ond of these sons, was intending marriage with Aug. 10, 1746. This last soB was probably the Nancy Wallis, June 18, 1806. An old widow same Joseph who married Sarah Gardner, Mar. Hadlock died in West Parish, Aug. 12, 1763; 13, 1766, and she, I suppose, was the Sarah and a Mrs. Hadlock died in town, July, 1837, Hadley who died in the Poor House, in May, aged ninety-two. The name may have contin-1835, in her ninety-fifth year. I do not find ued to a later date, but the last Directory does that either of these brothers bad a son, nor can not contain it. I say that either of the few now bearing the EDw ARD HARA DEN. - It does not. appear name here is descc.:nded from the John, who that any otber early settler of New England was nephew of the early settler.--- 'bore and perpetuated this name. This one is

NATHO"IEL IIADLOCK.-This settler proba- found in Ipswich in 1651, but my inquiries there bly came from Salem. I have not found the for the wife and children who came with him date of his death. Bis children were-Nathan- to Gloucester have been fruitless .. The His­iel, born April 22, 1677; Deborah, June 18, 1679; tory mistakes in giving the date of his wife's John,Feb.27,1682; James,Junel3,1684; Sam- death, as it does also perhaps in making his uel, April 27, 1687; Mary, Oct. 30, 1696; Benja- home at Squam Point. There is better reason min, Mar. 16, 1700; and Wil1iam and Joseph, for supposing that he lived near the head of "baptized before 1703." William, who· was Lobster Cove. His widow died May 14:, 1699, drowned, as mentioned in the History, left a aged sixty-nine. His children born here were daughter Lucy, and a son Nathaniel, who was -Andrew, born Feb. 13, 1658, died March 4, born Sept. 28, 1722. He is the same, I suppose, 1683; Ann, March 2, 1661; John, Aug. 7, 1663; who was intending marriage with Mary Mar- Thomas, Sept. 8, 1666, died .April 26, 1683; Jo­shall, of Ipswich, Nov. 15, 1750, and with Sa- seph, Aug. 18, 1668; Sarah, Jan. 30, 1670, died ro-11 Robinson, Dec. 29, 1759, and who married Sept. 3, 1672; and Benjamin, Sept. 11, 1671. Hannah Ra.I, Dec. 6, 1764. The town records Those he brought with him. were-~ward, have the birth of his daughter Lucy, March Mary, Elizabeth, and .Abigail. The following 3, 1770; and the records of the first church inventory of his estate shows that, like all the have the baptism of Nathaniel, son of Nathan- otherearly settlers, he was chiefly employed in iel Hadlock, Aug.~, 1756, another Natb'l, May agricultural pursuits: 13, 1759, and still another, Oct. i, 1760. Per- "June 26, 1683. An Inventory of the goods haps it was the last of these who was one of and chattels of Edward Harrendine whoe dyed the crew of the privateer Gloucester, lost at intestate:-sea in the· revolutionary war. '' Imps. The houseing and upland, £120.

Of Samuel, son of the first Nathaniel, I find I" 16 acres of sa.lt marsh, 64:.

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" 9 cows at 50s p cow, 3 oxen at· :.£S.10S p ~x and 2 young bull~at :£5.10,

" 2 yearlings and 5 calves, " 1 horse and 1 3 year old colt, "sheep and lams :£3.6, swine£,7.10, and

husbandry tackling :£3.9, " sheeps wool9s, Indian Com, 40s, and/

barrels, tubs, pailes, and other lum-b'r, 40s,

'' gnµs, sword, and ammunition £,3.5, and · canoos and that belong to y'm :£3.10,

" Iron Potts, brass and pewter, hangers, -· tongs, fire shovell,

"beds, beding, and linen :£15, wearing

41-10 4.10 5.

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births of two children, Sarah and Joseph, re­corded in the town records, and the baptisms of two more, Benjamin and Sarah, in the re­cords of the first church. Perhaps others were baptized at the third church. Benjamin, the next son of the second Edward, born Jan. 10, 1704, married Lydia Wells, Jan. 10, 1729, and, besides two daughters, had a son John, of

4. 9 whom, or of the father, I know no more. John, son of the first Edward, married Sarah,

6.15 daugbter o( Lt. John Giddings of Chebacco,

4. Feb. 7, 1693, and died Nov. 11, 1724-, aged six­ty-one. She died Oct. 10, 1722, aged about forty-nine. He was sometimes engaged in the

19.10 maritime 8ervicc of the colony, and in that em­ployme_nt and in the pursuit of bis own busi-

1. 8 ness, which probably often led to intercourse with the Indians at the eastward, may ha,·e

" which amount to £285. 7" made use of the "armor" which forms one of.

cloathes £4.10, · '·' sadle, bridle and sadle cloath, 16s,

books, 12s,

Edward, oldest son of this settler, married the articles of his inventory, and is set down Sarah, daughter of William Haskell, Feb. 5, at forty shillings. Another item of .bis inven-1684. She died Mar. 4, 1691, and be next mar- tory is "a sloop named ye Squirrel," valued at ried Hannah, daughter of Samuel York, Oct. £160. This must have been the vessel taken by 31, 1693. She died Sept. 4, 1725, aged about the noted pirate Phillips, as related in the His­fifty. Th~ date of his death is not known, but tory; and the Andrew Haraden, the hero of the he certainly lived to old age. By both wives recapture, was second son of the owner. The he had :fifteen children, not eighteen, as stated former survived his great exploit but a short in the ~istory. Three of these were sons who. time: for he died Dec. 12, 1724, having on the married in town. Edward, born April 7, 1689, 17th September preceding married Mary Davis, married Hannah Somes~ Jan. 13, 1713, who died whose son Andrew, born July 7, 1725, died Nov. at the age of thirty-four, Feb. 21, 1723, "with- 15, 1726. ShctookforhersecondbusbandDea­in an hour after she was delivered of a living con William Parsons. Capt. John Haraden left child,'' who was appropriately named Benoni. an estate of £1195.12.8, and six sons and three She had already borne four cbiidren, of whom daughters to share it. John, his oldest .son, two only, named Joseph and William, survived born Nov. 11, 1695, married Martha Coft, Dec. · the period of infancy. It is somewhat remark- 25, 1718. He was a deacon of the church at able that her mother, Jane~ wife of Timothy Annisquam, and there carried on thefishingbus­Somes, also died (at the age of forty-one) on iness successfully till his death, which probably the day ·on which she bad given birth to a liv- occurred in 1733; for his invt:ntory in the Pro­i ng child; and. what is still more remarkable, bate records is of Dec. 1, in that year. Among the birth of this child followed that of a living bis effects were,-'' 5 whale irons and lances, one on the day before :-the eleventh the moth- £1-5; negro caned Bristow, £90; negro called er had brought forth. This Edward Haraden Ruth, £65; a sloop called ye Sea Flower, £380; next married Mary Sargent, Nov. 26, 1724, by a schooner ~tlled the Squirrel, £205 ; and a

· whom be bas the births of two- daughters re.- small sloop called the Fish Trap, £95." Few corded in the town. book~. I do not find the men in town had acquired so large an estate as date of his death. Perhaps it was his son Jo- he left. His widow married .Jedediah Davis, seph~ born Aug. 17, 1718, wbo married Abigail Oct. 3, 1734. He left two sons,-N atbaniel and Da.\·is, Jan. 10, J74-9. Benoni married Keziah John; and a daughter Martha, who married Saunders, Feb. 25, 174:7, and had two daughters William Babson. Nathaniel, born March 12. and a son Edward. Joseph, second .son of Ed- 1728, I suppose to be the same who was intend­ward Haraden, jr., born June 17, 1696,"matTied 1I ing marriage with Mary Kimball of Ipswich, Sarah Wells of lps\\ich, in 1721, and had the Oct. 16, 1762, and with Elizabeth "\Varner of

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Newburyport, Feb. 8, 1772. By his wife Mary, he bad sons Nathaniel and John, and a daugh­ter Mary. John, son of Deacon John, born June 19, 1730, is supposed to be the John who was intending marriage with Sarah Bootman, Oct. 29, 1763. Thomas, son of Capt. John Har:. aden, born June 2.7, 1704, married Elizabeth, daughter of CoL Edward Eveleth of Ipswich, Oct. 29, 1727. He died about 1733, leaving a son Thomas and a daughter Elizabeth. His widow married Joseph Low, Nov. 18, 1736. I cannot affirm that J osepb, son of Capt. John Haraden, born Nov. 3, 1710, is the same who had, by his wife Joanna, a son Andrew, born Jan. 14, 1734; and two Johns, Timothy and Daniel, in subsequent years; but I venture to assign this wife and these children to him, as the one to whom they probably belong. Joan­na Haraden, alias Lane, gave in at Probate Court, June 3, 1751, inventory of the estate of her husband Joseph Haraden, 3d. Andrew, son of this Joseph, born Jan. 14, 1734, was intend­ing marriage with Lydia Griffin, Dec. 3, 1757. Six children are recorded to him, of whom the last two were sons :-Timothy and Jonathan. Timothy, another son of the same Joseph, born June 10, 1738, married Mary, daughter of Rev. Benj. Bradstreet, and had a daughter Jenny born Nov.18, 1763. He died before 1769, when his widow married William Fuller.

David, youngest son of Capt. John Haraden, married Elizabeth Davis, May 24, 1739. Be­sides three daughters, he had five sons,-David, Thomas who died, Thomas again, Andrew and Ignatius. The eldest of these, David, born Dec. 18, 1744, married Hannah Whipple of Ips­wich, March 17, 1768. He died Oct. 7, 1821. She died July 5, 1821, aged seventy-fiYe. He was the first of his family who settled in the Harbor Parish, and so far as I know, the :first and only worshiper in town who had ·his seat on Sundays in the pulpit with the minister. He attended the Universalist church, and, on account of deafness, got as near as possible to his beloved pastor, that he might lose nothing that fell from his lips in the exercises of the sanctuary. Mr. Haraden left :five sons :-John, Thomas, David, Jonathan, and Andrew, of two of whom, John and David, there are no living descendants. Thomas settled in Boston and had a daughter who became the wife of Jonas Chickering, the eminent piano-forte manufac­turer, of that city. Jonathan and Andrew

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were twins, were both of one trade-carpen­ters, and both died in 1832, in their forty-sev­enth year,-tbe first on the 15th of April, and the other on the 15th of August.

Joseph, son of the first Edward, married Jane, daughter of Lt. John Giddings of Che­bacco, Nov. 26, 1691; and Hannah Stevens, Feb. 1, 1700. He died May 19, 1716; having made, two days before bis death, a verbal will. which was allowed Jone 18 following. To his wife Hannah he gave one-third of his estate and his young negro boy Cresar; and, having no chil­dren, he bequeathed the remainder ti;<> his broth­ers and sisters : excepting a legacy of ten shil­lings each to Wm. Tucker, Richard Tucker, Nehemiah Somes. Patience York and Susanna Stevens, all of whom he had brought up. ·His inventory amounted to .:£766.3; the chief items of which, besides farming stock, were-" bouse­ing and land adjoining, .:£290; a deck sJoop, .£ 130; and open sloop, .:£85." .,

Benjamin Haraden married Deborah Nor­wood, Jan. 15, 1696. He died Feb. 3, 1725, leav­ing au estate of £668. The records give him seven sons and fonr daughters. Of the former I find the marriage of only two :-Joseph, born Dec. 26, 1105, I suppose to be the same who married Patience York, Dec. 3, 1729, and be­sides three daughters, bad sons Caleb, Job, William, and Ebenezer. Ebenezer, sonofBen­jamin, married Susanna Day, Dec.-31, 1741, by whom he bad a son Benjamin and two daugh­ters. Administration of his estate was grant­ed to Capt. James Day, of Boston, June 6, 1750.

Of the exploits of Cap~. Jonathan Haraden, ~ho died in Salem, Nov. 1803, in his :fifty-ninth year, and who was employed in public and pri­vate armed ships in the revolutionary war, an account may be found in Hunt's " Merchants' Maeaazine" for 1859.

According to the last Directory, only seven male descendants of Edward Haraden, bearing the name, could be found on Cape Ann; and I know not that they are more numerous in any other place.

GEORGE HARVEY.-A Thomas Harvey, fish­erman, of Gloucester, owned, in 1665, one-third of a shallop in company with Robert Skamp and Peter Duncan; but we hear no more of him. George, according to Mr. Savage, was possibly son of Peter, a ship-builder of Salem, where, by his wife Sarah, he had the following children, -Sarah, born Oct. 11, 1678; Nehemiah, Stpt.

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SO, 16'K>; and Rose, Jan:- 11, 1~, died Feb. 25, 1'106; all of whom are named in our records But be bad in addition a son George, not re­oorded, who, according to the age given at his death, most have been born in 1687 ; and a son Benjamin, whose birth, Oct. 27, 1697, is given in our books. Sarah, wife ef George Harvey, was a daughter of Mrs. Anna Judkin by a for­mer husband, (Nehemiah Howard of Salem,) and the latter was one of five daughters of Capt. William Dixie of Beverly, who it is probable first set foot on New England soil at Cape Ann in 1629. George Harvey the second was intend­ing marriage with Sarah Butman, Dec. 17, 1713. She died Nov. 29, 1718, aged twenty-five, and he next married Patience York, March 15, 1720. He died Nov. 24, 1724, aged thirty-seven. Be­~ides three daughters-Sarah, Hannah, and Ab­igail, be had a son Nehemiah, born Aug. 19, 1716, and a son Benjamin, of whom I know no more. The inventory of his estate, real, £359, and personal, £38.5s, includes nine acres on the north and seventeen acres on the south side of the highway leading from the Meeting House to Sandy Bay, and a small house and about five acres land, with orchard on the same, at Try­nan Cove. Nehemiah Harvey- married Abigail Hodgkins, Dec. 7, 1741. He died before 1757, and his widow married Robert Guy. She is said to have died about 1800. The children of the first marriage were-Abigail, born Sept. 9, 1742; Sarah, May 6, 1744, who married Spen­cer Thomas; Hannah, Mar. 22, 1747, who mar­ried Philip Babson; Nehemiah, Nov. 28, 1751; Benjamin, Sept. 29, 1753; and George, whose birth is not recorded. By one of the sons only, Benjamin, has the name, so far as I can learn, been perpetuated in town. He married Sarah Lurvey, and died about 1813. He had the birth of Sally recorded, March 27, 1778 ; Ben-jamin, May-1, 1780; Nehemiah, June 24-, 1782; and Patty, Aug. 24, 1784; but to this list five more should be added,-George, Isaac, Abigail, Joseph, and Mary.

Ten maleS.ln Gloucester and one in Rockport, of this name, are given in the last Directory.

Wn.LIA.."\I HASKELL.-He and his brother Rog­er of Salem appear to have been the only early settlers of New England of this name, who left descendants. Mark, another brother, is said to have settl(!d in Plymouth, but of him I know no more than that he is mentioned in the will of his brother Roger, 1667. In the History,

descendants of each of the sons of WiJUam, except John, are traced down to a living per­son. John, only son of John, left no posterity. I give here the :first four generations of this family; repeating somewhat from the History, in order to render it complete.

William Haskell married Mary, daughter or Walter Tibbot, Nov. 6,. 1643, and died Aug. 20, 1693, aged about seventy-three. She died Aug. 16, 1693. His children were-William, born Aug. 26,-1644; Joseph, June 2, 1646; Benjamin; John; Ruth, married Nehemiah Grover of Bev­erly in 1674; Mary, married William Dodge or Beverly in 1673; Mark, April 8, 1658; Sarah, June 28, 1660, married Edward Haraden of Glou­cester, Feb. 5, 1684:; and Elinor, May 28, 1663, who married Jacob Griggs of Beverly, Nov. 12, 1685. His will made July 3, 1692, was prQved Sept. 4, 1693. In it he gave to his wife the use, for her life time, of the no~h-east end of bis dwelling house; all his household goods, except his :fire-arms and edge tools and all other tools and utensils that are for husban­dry; ten pounds yearly; and two cows, and sufficient wood; to his son William one-half of his farm in Bradford and various pieces of land in Gloucester, one of which was a lot called Harding's lot; to son Joseph three acres of salt marsh, next to that he former­ly sold to Thomas Penny; a. little island of marsh next towards Goodman Crosses, about three acres; and, " by way of exchange," all that tract of upland lying south of his farm, running from a pine tree on the north-west side of his farm towards Thomas Lufkin's, about twenty acres; to son Benjamin the.. upland where his house standeth, seven acres more or less, together with six acres he had from the town, on their last division of land; also twen­ty acres of upland at a place called Stool Rock, and twelve acres salt marsh; to son John all that small living he bought of Deacon Stevens, in Gloucester, several lots of marsh, and twen­ty acres of upland toward Goodman Lufkin's; to daughter Ruth Grover one-quarter part of his farm at Bradford; to daughter Mary Dodge the same ; to daughter Elinor Griggs two acres of salt marsh; to heirs of his daughter Sarah Haraden " £10 current pay of the Merchants "; to Mark and William, the two sons of his son Mark, deceased, th'e new house where Eliz­abeth, Mark's widow lived, and that small or­chard called Mark's orchard; one-half of all

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the rest to sons Joseph and Benjamin, and the other half to his two grandsons William and Mark, sons of Mark, deceased. No person in town had then left so large an estate as be had accumulated; though his neighbor, Henry Wal­ker, who followed him to the grave in nine days: left a larger one. The inventory of William Haskell is as follows :-

" for wearing apparel £10. .a for houseing, upland and meadow 457.10 " neat cattle, £27 ; horse kind, £6.10;

sheep, 6 39.10 '' wheat and barley, £4.2; Indian com:

£4.10 8.12 '' beds and bedding and all that belong-

eth to them 20. '' home made cloth, 20s ; Table linen. 30s- 2.10 " books 30s; put.er and Lattin ware, 40 3.10 " brass, «s; Iron potts kettle and pot

hook, 24s 3. 8 " tramels fire slice tonges and Irons

pressing Irons smoothing Irons & candlesticks and other things 3.12

'" glasses dishes trenchers trays and bowls .12 " swine 70s fire arms and cutlash £4 7 .10 " bedsteads chests tables chairs box.es

and cubbords 3. " plows carts and Tackling to them

with four Iron chains 2.10 " Axes Iron Crow carpenters tools and

other old iron 3. 5 " 6 house sickles and 2 pairstilliards 1. " Saddles pillion and other furniture for

horses 2. " Woolen yarn £1 wheels and cards 5s 1. 5 "Barrels tubs and other wooden ware 1.10 " 3 old cannoues 1. " money and a set of silver buttons 22s

sash Ss I.IO

£573.14: " Debts due to the estate £7 .2. " Debts due from the estate 32.3.6 " clear eb-tate £S4:8.12. 6."

William Haskell, jr. married Mary Walker, July 3, 1667, and died June 5, 1708. She died Nov. 12, 1715. He left an estate of £666.6.3, consisting of land, buildings, and farm stock. His children were-Mary, born April 29, 1668, married Jacob Davis, Sept. 14, 1687, and Eze­kiel Woodward, April 15, 1719; William, Nov. 6, 1670; Joseph, April 20, 1673; Abigail, Mar.

2, 1675, married Nathaniel Parsons, Dec. 27, 1697, and Isaac Eveleth, Dec. 20, 1722 ; Henry, April 2, 1678; Andrew, 27 July, died 14 August, 1680; Lydia, Sept. 4, 1681, married probably Feb. 3, 1704, Ebenezer Parsons, and became the mother of Moses, the minister of Byfield, whose son Theopilus was the learned lawyer and chief' justi~e of Massachusetts; Sarah, Feb. 26, 168.f., died Feb. 20, 1691; Elizabeth, .April 5, 1686, married Thomas Sargent, Sept. 27, 1710, and James Godfrey, June 4, 174-; Hannah, Oct. 30, 1688, died Feb. 15, 1691; Jacob, Jan. 15, 1691; and Sarah, Sept. 11, 1692, who married her cousin Daniel Haskell; De~.'31, 1716.

Joseph, next son of the 1lrst William, mar­ried Man- G:1.:aY...es or Andover, Dec. 2, 167 4, and died .Nov. 12, 1727, aged eighty-one. She died April 8, 1733, aged eighty. ms children were -Mary, bom April 29, 1676, married a Lord; Walter, bom 18, died 22 Nov., 1677; Elizabeth, Oct. 24, 1679, died Oct. 28, 1700; Joseph, Nov. 27, 1681; Hannah, Oct. 30, 1683, married a Da­vis, probably Aaron, and died March 25, 1780; Dorcas, Mar. 7, 1685, ma1Tied Eliezer Hubbard, of Salisbury, Dec. 16, 1712; Daniel, Dec. 16, 1688; Ebenezer, Feb. 22, 1690; Dorothy, Nov. 15, 1694, married Joseph Goodhue of Ipswich, May 9, 1724:; and Naomi, Dec. 26, 1696, mar­ried Isaac Frye, Oct. 13, 1725.

Benjamin, the next son or the first William, was born probably in 164:8, for. he was ninety­two at his death, and his will was proved May 25, 1741. He married Nov. 21, 1677, Mary, daughter or Thomas Riggs, who died Jan. 29, 1698, aged thirty-nine. He bad the following children :-Elinor, born Aug. 26, 1678; married Daniel Ring, and died June 10, 1713; Hannah, born 7, died 28 Dec.\' 1679; Patience~ June 1, 1681, married Hugh Roberts, March 17, 1703; Benjamin, March 13, 1683; John, April 1, 1685, probably died unmarried; Josiah, Sept. 25, 1687; Thomas, Jan. 1, 1690; William, April 6, 1695; and Sarah, who married a Pride, proba-bly Joseph. ·

John, the next son~ married Mary Baker, May 20, 1685, and died Feb. 2, 1718, aged sixty-nine. She died Nov. 24, 1723, aged :fifty-eight. His children were-John, born 3, died 21 April, 1686; Edith, May 22, 1687, died unmarried; Mary, Aug. 24:, 1688, died unmarried; Sarah and Hannah, Dec. 21, 1690, both of whom died young; Ruth, Dec. 28, 1693, married John Clark, Nov. 17, 1718; and John, Oct. 8, 1695, who prob-

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ably married Grace CummiJlgs, May 16, 1723, j His children were-Rachel, born Mar. 13, 169i, and ~rtainly died without oft"spring. married Jeremiah Riggs, Dec. 31, 1716; .Joseph,

Mark, youngest son of the first William, Dec.16, 1698, married Mary Woodward, May 17, married Elizabeth, daughter, I suppose, of Lt. 1720, and was dismissed to the church in Har­John Giddings of Ipswich, Dec. 16, 1685. He vard in 1735; Abraham, March 8, 1701, married died Sept. 8, 1691, aged thirty-three. ~is cbil- Amy Stevens, Mar.11.1725, and was dismissed dren were-George, born Oct; 18, died Nov.10, ! to the church in Stratham in 1732; Hannah, 1686; Mark1 Sept. 16, 1687; and William, Jan. ! June 28, 1703, married James Godfrey, June 1, 1, 1690. Mr. Savage(" Genealogical Diction-! 1723; Moses, Dec. 25, 1705; Stephen, July 7,

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ary ") much doubts the second marriage of the : 1708; both of whom probably died before reach-widow of Mark Haskell, as given in the, Histo- ; ing manhood; Andrew, Dec. 6, 1711, married ry; but there can be no reasonable doubt, for i Elinor Haskell, Oct. 3, 1737; and Jeremiah, Oct. the Probate Records show, Jan. 16, 1725, that! 2"J, 1714. Mark and William Haskell received of their l Henry, SOil of William Haskell, jr., married .. honoured father-i~-law, Mr. John Dennison, I Ruth (York, perhaps), Jan. 13, 1703, and was and their honoured mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Den- ; dismissed to the church in Harvard in 1735. nison, alias Haskell, both of Ipswich," certain i His children were-Ruth, born 7, died 15 Oct., mon~y due them from the estate of their grand- i 1703; Mary, Nov. 13, 1704, married Benj. Ray-. father, William Haskell. i of Falmouth, Me., May 12, 1726; Henry, June

William, son of William Haskell, jr., married, 5, 1706: married Huldah Smith in 173~, and was .Abigail, probably daughter of Capt. James Da- dismissed to the church in Harvard in 1737; vis, Sept. 8, 1692, and died Jan. 17, 1731, aged Ruth, Aug. 27, 1709; Sarah, Aug. 19, 1713, sixty-one. She died Dec. 30, 1730, aged fifty- married Nathaniel Bray, Nov. 22, 1733; Samuel, eight. He was one of those who in the first Sept. 3, 1715; and Lydia; June 28, 1718. One quarter of the last century engaged in a vigor- of the daughters married a Mead, probably af­ous ·prosecution of the fishing business; but be ter the removal of the family to Harvard. appears to have been the only one who carrie<!_ Jacob, youngest son of William Haskell, jr., it on in the section where he lived. The settle- married Abigail Marcy, Dec. 31, 1716, and died ment of his estate shows that he pursued it with Aug. 6, 1756, aged sixty-five. She died April success; for his inventory amounts to £2565. 10, 1778, aged eighty-three. His children were In bis will he mentions bis two fishing vessels -Jacob, born Oct. 27, 1718, married Tabitha and interest in the great sloop, her rigging and Day, Nov. 29, 1739; Abner, Dec. 5, 1721; .Abi­cargo, at Salem, of which one Carleton was gail, Jan. 27, 1724, married Thomas Lufkin, 3d, master. His children were-William, born of Ipswich; Alexander, Mar. 4, 1726, married probably in 1693; Mark, Aug. 10, 1695, bad a Lucy Haskell, April 27, 1749, and Rachel Stan-

. wife Jemima, and may have been the Capt. Mark wood, Oct. 7, 1762, was dismissed to the church Haskell, who died at the age of eighty; Eliza- in Attl~borough in 1766; Israel, Oct. 30, 1729, beth, Nov. 29, 1696, married John Parsons, June married Abigail Davis, Dec. 13, 1753; Amos, 6, 1716; Abigail, Aug. 16, 1699, married .John twin to Israel, married Mary Riggs, Nov. 20, Tyler, Feb. 22, ·1122; Jemima., Dec. 1, 1704:, mar- 1750, and Abigail Bray, April 9, 1754; Esther, ried Joseph Dav:is, Sept. 21, 1732, and Lieut. baptized Jan. 23, 1732, married Samuel Stone of Thomas Allen in 1758; Jedediah, July 31, died Manchester; and Zebulon, born Oct. 17, 1734, Aug. 17, 1708 ;" Keziah, Feb. 28, 1711, married married Elizabeth Haskell, perhaps widow of Samuel Herrick, Jan. 3, 1731; SJ!.d James, Sept. Josiah, Nov. 14, 1765, and died at the age of 24:, 1712, who married Anna Goodhue in 1739, eighty-four. His son Zebulon married Judith and was dismisse<fto the church in Harvard in Herrick, Mar. 16, 1797, and died July 20, 1863, 1756. aged ninety-three; leaving several descendants

Joseph, next son of William Haskell, jr., mar- bearing the family name. From Amos, through ried Raebel Elwell, Mar. 19, 1696, and died Apr. his son Amos and grandson Amos, and Asa, son 11, 1718, aged forty-three. The date of her of the latter, is descended Henry C. L. Haskell death I do not know. In his will he directed of West Gloucester, who is collecting materi­that his son Moses should " learn the trade and als for a genealogy of the family. mystery of a cooper," which was his own trade. William, son of William Haskell the third,

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had a wife Abigail, who died Feb. 2, 1737. He next married Susanna, perhaps widow of Dan­iel Parsons, Sept. 12, 1789, and died about 1752. By both wives he had eleveu children. His widow removed from the second Parish to the harbor, and for several years kept a boarding house in Middle street. Her daughter Anna married, Nov. 29, 1762, Rev. Thomas Pierce of Scarborough, Me., who was employed in town some time as a school-master, before he enter­ed the ministry, and was probably a boarder in the house of Anna's mother. William, the oldest son of this William, born Dec. 10, 1719, married Ruth Bennett, Oct. 16, 1742. I suppose he was the William Haskell who "' was killed in 1759 in the King's service." He had seven children, all of whom were baptized at the sec­ond church, and one of whom, William, born June 8, 1751, was the sixth of an unbroken line of William Haskells; but him I can trace no farther.

The children of Joseph, son of the :first Wil­liam, have been already given. His oldest son, Joseph, married Sarah, probably daughter of Jacob Davis, Jan. 13, 1705, and died Dec. 18, 1768, aged eighty-seve~. She died Mar. 25, 1725, aged forty. His children were - Elizabeth, born Oct. 21, died Dec. 28, l 706; --5.~~, Dec. 19, 1707, died Feb. 17, 1708; Mercy, April 21, 1709, died July 1, 1717; Jonathan, Oct. 25, 1710, married Mary Sawyer, Jan. 6, 1736, and was lost at sea on a :fishing voyage in 1738 ; Susan­na, Feb. 20, 1712 ; Dorcas, Aug. 26, 1713; Da­vid, April 9, 1715, married Elizabeth Pope, Jan. 15, 1741, and Sarah Haskell in 1779, and d.ied in August, 1791; Isaac, June 30, 1716, married Dorothy Hubbard in 17 42, and a second wife, widow Eunice Herrick, and died April 27, 1804, and she died April 29, 1805, aged eighty-three; Aaron, August 16, died Nov. 80, 1717; Ruth. Jan. 25, 1719; Joseph, Aug. 19, 1720, married Ann Steele, Jan. 3, 1750; and Sarah, Feb. 26, 1723.

Daniel, next son of Joseph, married Sarah Haskell, Dec. 31, 1716, and died Dec. 4, 1768, aged eighty. She died July 10, 1773, aged eigh­ty. His children were-Daniel, born Sept. 21, died Dec. 15, 1717. ; Daniel, Oct. 2, died Dec. 12, 1718 ; Mary, Oct. 30, 1719 ; Aaron, Aug. 26, 1721 ; Caleb, July 24-, 1723, manied Elizabeth Haskell, Dec. 11, 1750; Daniel, April 27, 1725, was in­tending marriage with Hannah Johnson of Ips­wich, Nov. 13, 1750; Nehemiah, Mar. 23, 1727;

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Judith, Feb. I, 1730; Sarah, Dec. 22, 1731; Joel~ July 9, 1733, married Joanna Burnham, June 19, 1755; and Moses, May 15, 1736, was intending marriage with Sarah Haskell, Nov. 19, 1763.

Ebenezer, youngest son of the first Joseph, had a wife Elizabeth, and is probably the Eben­ezer who is said to have died at the age of eigh­ty. He had the following children :-Ezra.. born Jan. 27, 1725, probably died young; Ebenezer, May 28, 1726; Elizabeth,Feb. IO, 1728; Enoch, July 1, 1730, was intending marriage with Lucy Burnham of Ipswich, Dec. 30, 1756, and with Dorcas Frye of Andover, Nov. 9, 1759 ; Phine­as, Sept. 18, 1732, probably married ,Susanna Burnham in 1761 ; Elijah, Oct. 20, i 734 ; Ste­phen, Dec. 1, 1736, was intending marriage with Sarah Ring, April 4:, 1764 ; and Sarah, baptized Mar. 11, 1739. Abraham, son of Stephen, died Aug. 16, 184-9, aged seventy-eight, leaving de­scendants bearing the family name.

Benjamin, son of the ftrst Benjamin, married Elizabeth Allen, in 1708; who died Sept. 3, 1724, aged thirty-five, and ·Elizabeth Bennett, Aug .. 24, 1725, who died Dec.23.1774. He died Feb. 9, 1764, aged seventy-nine. His children were -Deliverance, born and died Nov. I, 1709; Ex­perience, bom Dec. 13, 1 'lll; Prudence, Aug. 8, 1713; Elinor, Aug. 14, 1715; Benjamin, Mar. 22, 1718, died Aug. 4, 1722; Mary and Thank­f'ul, Nov. 8, 1719, died same day; Patience, July 29, 1722; and Elizabeth, Nov. 8, 1727.

Josiah, son of the first Benjamin; married Mary Collins, Dec. 7, 1715, and died before Nov. 1762, when his son Josiah was appointed admin­istrator of his estate. He had John, born Oct. 12, 1716, married Macy Bray, Nov. 15, 1748; .Joshua, Aug. 20, 1718, married Elinor Bray, March 81, 1741, and Esther Parsons, Nov. 4, 1767; Eunice, April 30, 1722; Sarah, Oct. IO, 1726; Josiah, Sept. 17, 1730, probably married Elizabeth Choate in 1757; and Adoniram, Jan. 14, 1738. The last two sons were lost at sea together in 1764. John and Joshua appear to have removed from the second· parish to the harbor, about 1758, where· John had, Qesides other children, a son John, born Mar. 19, 1764, who married Polly Goodhue, July 17, 1785, was a ship-master, and died at Holmes's Hole, where he put in on his passage from the West Indies, sick, Nov.13, 1806, aged forty-three. His old­est son, John, a captain in the East India trade~ d.ied at.sea on his passage from India, Mar. 30, 1827, aged forty-one: leaving an only daughter.

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Thomas., next son or the first Benjamin. mar• Here are given, or the children of this settler, riedHannab Freezof~ewburyin 1717, whodied nine; or his grandchildren, forty-one; and or Feb. 10, 1718, aged twenty. He next married bis great-grandchildren, one hundred and sev­Mary Parsons, Nov. 26, 1719. He had Thomas, en; and I have reason to feel quite confident born Jan. 27, 1718; Hannah, Oct. 26, 1720; Ma- that the account includes every one of his de­ry, April 21, 1722; Solomon, Feb. 5, 1724:; Ben- sc~ndants or these three generations, who was jamin,May3, 1726; all borJ!.inGloucester; and born in Gloucester, and bore the name of Has­William and others born in Falmouth, Me., to kell. which place the father, called "a sober sort of In the " Directory" the names of thirty man," removed with his family in 1726. More males in Gloucester and fourteen in: Rockport, distinguished was he in another way : for he are given. had ten children, seventy-nine grandchildren, SAMUEL HoDGKINs.-A few persons of this and fifty-eight great-grandchildren. He died name appear among the early settlers of New in 1785, aged ninety-five. England; chiefly in Connecticut. William of

William, youngest son of the first Benjamin, Ipswich is not mentioned by Mr. Felt, in his married Jerusha Bennet, Jan. 1, 1729, and died list of settlers to 1652; but his deposition, giv­July 21., 1778, aged eighty-three. His children en in 1691, when he was about sixty-nine years w~re-Benjamin, born Oct. 28, 1730; Keturah, old, testifies to the use of the beach adjoining May 2, 1732; Abimelech, May 9, 1733; Jerusha,_ Little Neck in Ipswich '• above fifty years more Dec. 25, 1737; Sarah, Sept. 11, 1739; Lucy, May or less." He dieaDec. 26, 1693, leaving a wife 31, 1742; and-Judith, Jt11y 29, 1746. The son Grace, who was daughter of Osman Dutch of Benjamin I suppose to be the same who mar- this town. By her, according to the Ipswich ried Abigail Babson, March 15, 1770-; Records, he had Samuel, born Nov. 2, 1658; and

Mark Haskell, son of the fl.rst Mark, married Mary,Apr. 6, 1661. Therewasalsoason Thom­Martha Tuthill, of Ipswich, in 1710. He had as, who died Nov.16, 1719, aged fifty-one, prob­Elizabeth, born Dec. 23, 1710; Martha, Feb. ably the father of Thomas, who died Dec. 30~ 18, 1712; Mark, Aug: 19, 1713; Lucy, May 21, 1788, aged ninety-six. There can be-scarcely 1715; Priscilla, Oct. 18, 1718; Jane, June--22;· a doubt that Samuel, son of William of Ipswich~ died July 2, 1722; Jane, May 31, died June 9, was the Gloucester settler of that name. The. 1723; Jemima, Sept. 27, died Oct. 15, 1724; childl·en of Samuel Hodgkins, as given in our and George, bo~ 3, died 15 Aug., 1726. Mark records, were-Samuel, born Oct. 24, 1684; Han­Haskell was of Ipswich in 1729, and probably nah, May 18, 1686; John, June 6, 1688; Philip, died there in 1775, aged eighty-eight. Deacon Jan. 25, 1690; William, Mar. 2, 1691; a daugh­Mark Haskell of Ipswich, who clied there Mar. ter, May 5, 1694; Jedediah, Mar. 8, 1696; Pa-

. 15, 1825, aged eighty-one, was probably his tience, Aug. 21, 1697; Abigail, June 11, 1699.; grandson. Mercy, July 28, 1700; David, April 14; 1702;

William, the othersonoftheftrst:Mark, mar- Martha, Jan. 4, 1704; Anna, Apr. 5, 1705;- Jon­ried Jemima Hubbard, of Salisbury. He died athau, July 1, 1706; and Experience, Jan. 31~ Dec. 10, 1766, aged seventy-seven. She died 1708: :fifteen in all. _The date of his death I do in 1762, at the same age. His children were- not :fl.nd; but there is reason to suppose that he Jemima, born Mar. 2, 1713, died Mar. 2; 1735; was living as late as 1740. Job, April 27, ~716, whose marriage I find not, To Samuel Hodgkins, jr., there were born died in New Gloucester, Me., in July, 1806; sev~n daughters in succession, and then his first Comfort, May 28, 1717, married Parker Sawyer, son-Samuel, Nov. ~6, 1729. I do not find the Nov. 10, 17 42, and died Sept; 5, 1809; Nathan- date of his father's death, but he probably lived, iel, Jan. 16,- 171-9; married Hannah, daughter of to be very old; for administration of his estate Rev. John White, Nov. 11, 1740, and diedJuly was taken by his son Samuel, March 30, 1767. 31, 1808; Hubbard, May 3, 1720, married Anne His inventory of June 2, amount.s to £83.8.2, Millet, Nov. 17, 1740, and died April 9, 1811; of which house, barn and garden, are down at Elizabeth, Nov. 8, died Dec. 8, 1723; William, £40.16. I suppose this Samuel to·be the same Jan. 17, 1726, married Elizabeth Haskell, Nov. who was intending marriage with Lydia Stan-6, 1746, and died April 27, 1806; and Qeorge, wood, Nov. 27, 1756. ms son Samuel married bom 10, died 19 Feb., 1729. A"bigail Sayward, March 15, 1753, by whom he

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had Samuel, bom May 16, 1753; James, Nov. 6-EoRGE INGEBSOL-Besides the Salem tam-80, 1764:; andAbigail,June2S, 1757. Theseare ily of Ingersoll, Mr. Savage mentions but one all recorded in the town books; but the records other or the name among. the early settlers of the Fourth Church, give six more children, of New England,-that of John, of Hartford. of whom three were sons, namely ,-William, Concerning our settler, I can only add to who: it is said, was lost in the ship Tempest, what the History relates, the letter therein in the revolutionary war; Benjamin, who set- alluded to, written by him, descn1>ing the tied in Harpswell, Me. ; and Nathaniel, who set- horrid work of the Indians at Falmouth in tied at Cape Porpoise, and died in 1815. The 1675. "Yesterday morning being ye 9 of date of the father's death I have not been able Sept. was heard three guns and was seen a to ascertain. His oldest son, Samuel, married great smok up in ye River above Mr. Mack­Jemima Allen, and died Sept. 17, 1818, aged worth's, whereupon I caused an alarm. This sixty-five. James, the next son, had a wife day being the 10th, I came to ye place. I found Hannah, and died June 4:, 1815, aged sixty-one. a house burned down, and six ·pe~ons killed Each of these two brothers had several sons, and three of ye same family could not be found. and most of those in town now bearing the An old man and woman were half in and halt name are probably descended from one or_the out of ye house, neere half' burnt. Their owne other of them. The second Samuel Hodgkins son was shot through ye body and also his head had a second son, James, born June 2, 1782, and dashed in pieces. This young man's wife was died the same day; but there was a James dead, her head skined. She was bigg with whose birth or baptism I nowhere :flnd, who child; two children having their heads dashed was intending marriage with Mary Herrick, in pieces, and laid by-another with yr belly's to July 2, 1755, and had sons,-Wilks, James and ye ground and an oake planke laid upon their Eben~zer. Perhaps the whole family removed backs." t The children of George Ingersol, to Frenchmen's Bay, where Wilks is said to whosebirth is given in our records, are-Jo­have settled. seph, born Oct. 14, 1646; Elizabeth, Feb. I,

If I add that Jonathan, probably son of the 164:8, died March 9, 1649; Elizabeth, Mar. 19, tlrstJonathan, bomFeb.18, 1737,--m~edBetty 1651; and Mary, Aug. 12, 1657. Besides these Messervey, Sept. 1, 1762, and had sons-Jona- there was a son Samuel, bom after the remo­than and Benjamin, the History and these Notes val of the family to Falmouth, Me., and a son together will contain the name of every male John, probably born before. The ~r, I sup­descendant of Samuel Hodgkins known to me pose, was the John who died in Kittery, Me. to have borne the name in town before 1775. 1716, though Mr. Savage thinks he was broth­The num~er of males bearing it in Gloucester er of our George; but unless there was anoth­and Rockport together, given in the Directory er of the same name at that place in 1713, it for 1869, was forty-six. appears that the one in question was son ot

WII..LLUt: HouGH.-This settler had several George; for John Ingersol of Kittery, Maine, children after his removal to New London, one house carpenter, sold, Nov. 1713, to his broth­of which, WiUiam, was born Oct. 13, 1657, and er Joseph of Gloucester, 100 acres of land at married Ann Lothrop of Norwich. The latter Capesick, in Falmouth, which said John pur­may have been the William Hough who was a chased of George M:unjoy in 1673. tallow-chandler in Boston, and was probably I have not ascertained how many sons of Jo­ancestor of the late Benjamin K. Hough: men- 1 seph Ingersol came with their father from Fal­tioned in the History; for among his papers mouth. There was a Benjamin certainly, and' was found an unsigned ~ of this William. probably a Joseph. Benjamin was intending It bears date Dec. 20, 1705, and mentions chil- marriage with Mary Hunt of Ipswich, Nov. 16, dren of Edward Bricknell, his wife's former 1711; and besides two daughters, had four sons husband, beloved wife Mary, eldest son not yet -Benjamin, William, Nathaniel and Joseph, twenty-one years old, daughter Abigail, daugh- born here before his return to Falmouth, abollt' ter Elizabeth Pitts, wife of James Pitts, their 1726. daughter Elizabeth Pitts and son WiUiam Pitts, Joseph, probably son of Joseph, married Mary· and four children by his present wife, Wi1Jiam, Brewer, Dec. 2, 1707. Nine children are re­Abigail, Lydia, and Ebenezer. corded to him, two of whom-Joseph and John.,

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appear to have married and perpetuated the is the one mentioned in the History as a tavem­name in town. In 174:0,..-ihese two sons, with keeper at the Harbor. His children were­their father, were living in the fourth parish, Jonathan, Francis, Perkins, Lucy, Simeon, and where the latter is supposed to have died about David. David, next son of Samuel, married 1755, in which year bis son John Bdroinistered Mary Sargent, Dec. 10, 1718. He was drowned upon his estate. His son Joseph, born July 12, in_ 1730; leaving sons-David, Sargent, a.lid 1708, married Hannah. P!"Obably daughter of Medifer. The wt son died in the "wars" in Samuel Davis, Nov. 18, 1732, and besides :ftve 1759. David, bom Oct. 4, 1724, married Sarah daughters, bad sons-Joseph, Isaac and James, Sargent, Dec. 29, 17 47, and perhaps had a sec~ of whom I can tell no more. John Ingersol, ond wife, if not a third, and may have been the born July 14, 1719", was intending _marriage David of-whose estate Dr. Samuel Rogers was with Anna Stockbridge, May 9, 1741; and mar- appointedadminbiirator in 1774. He had a son ried widow Lydia Woodbury, July 22, 1775. David, bom May 25, 1750, who, I suppose, was His children, ten in, number~ were all by the t~e David who marrie<;t Sarah Morgan, and was :first marriage. One of his sons, Samuel, born lost at sea soon after the birth of his only son Dec. 15, 1753, married Lucy, probably widow David. The latter married Nabby Sawyer, of Daniel Woodbury, and daughter of Joshua Sept. 18, 1796, and died May 1, 1844, aged sev­Riggs, April 11, 1786. He was drowned at or enty-one; leaving a son David, now living Jn near 'Squam, on his return from a :fishing trip1 his seventy-seven!h year, to whom has fallen an leaving sons by whom the name has been unusual share of the blessings of life-twelve brought down to the present time. sons born in succession, happily-followed by

Samuel, son of George Ingersol, driven from twins; a vigorous constitution and perfect Fafinouth "by-tlfe liidiarChostilities, · went -t<? health. Charlestown, where, Mr. Savage informs us, Of Nehemiah Ingersol, next son of the :ftrst his wife Judith brought to baptism their chil- Samuel, I can tell nothing but the date of his dren, Samuel, .Josiah, Jonathan, Rebecca, and birth. Joel, the youngest son, married Mary Dorcas, all on 10 Jnne,1694, and David, i·sept., Averill, Dec. 19, 1734, and had sons-Benjamin, 1695. He, 12 July, 1696, aged near tlfty, was- Joel, Samuel, and Jonathan; of not any one of baptized. His children born in Gloucester whom can I say anything more than that, Sept. were-Nehemiah, bornSept.15,1705; and Joel, 18, 1758, Benjamin was administrator of his Jone 27, 1709. His daughter Rebecca married brother Joel's estate, which consisted of two­famous Capt Andrew Robinson,.and died Nov. :fifteenths of house and land at Eastern Point, 11, 1743, aged :6.fty-seven. Dorcas married valued at £3.18.3. Samuel Row, Jan. 2, 1709. Samuel Ingersol There was a Solomon Ingersol, whose b~ was an active shipwright, having his place of or baptism is not found, who married Mary business at Eastern Point, near that where Sanders, Jan. 10, 1735, and had sons Solomon Capt. Robinson built the first schooner. The and James, and a daughter Mary. Possibly he d~te of his death is not known, but he certain- was a son of the :first Samuel. ]y lived to extreme old age. Here are given, 'ffl:th some quali:ftcation, the

Samuel, eldest son of Sa~uel, married Sarah males of the :first three generations of the de­Sargent in 1708, and, besides three daughters, scendantsofGeorgelngersolwhowereconnect­had sons Samuel, Zebulon, .Andrew, Solomon, ed with our history, and bore the family name; and John. Josiah, the-i;ie:x:t son, married Mary and, also with qnali:ftcation, one branch of the Stevens, Dec. 30, 1712. His will, made Oct. 1, family of each of his two sons who lived in 1760, and proved May"'BO, 1768, mentions sons Gloucester, is traced down to the present time. Josiah, WillUim,NehemiahandJohn; and four JoBN LA.NE.-This settler, in a deposition daughters. His son Josiah, born July 11, t716, given in 1733, says he went with his father, married Bethiah Sargent, April 11, 1740, and James Lane, from ){alden "to a place since died Jan. 13, 1789. Two of the daughters of called North Yarmouth. in Casco Bay. about this Josiah, first Bethiah and next Mary, mar- seventy-five yea.rs since, and there lived till ried David Pearce, an eminent merchant of the ariven uom tlience oy--the Jriclians in the first town. Jonathan, next son of the first Samuel, war.~ He had probably been in Gloucester a married Elizabeth Perkins, June 14, 1717. He few years when he and Nath'l Day received, in

1701, a grant of swamp-land "up in the woods above their houses, with the consent of John Haraden, Samuel Sargent, Edward Hara.den, and the rest ot the neighbors." It appears that he was living on the northern part of Plum Cove Neck in 1726, when he had a grant of land there, near his house. He brought to Gloucester five children certainly,. but, I think, not a son Da­vid, as stated in the History. These five were -James; John;.,losiah:; Dorcas, who married William Tucker, cfan. 8, 1718; and Sarah, who married Thomas Riggs, D.ec. 17, 1713, and died Nov. 18, 1715. His children born here were­Hepzibah, born July 20, 1694, married Caleb Woodbury, Nov. 27, 1718, and died Feb. 12~ 1732? Mary, Ang. 8, 1696, married Thomas Fin­son, Dec. 6, 1716, and Joseph Thurston., Mar. 9, 1725; Joseph, Oct.15, 1698; Benjamin.,Joly 25, 1700; Deborah, }.,eb. 19, 1703, died May 9 .. 1729; and Job., Feb. 8., 1705. John Lane died Jan. 24, 1738, aged eighty-six, as may be seen on his grave-stone in the Lanesville burying ground. His wife Dorcas died Feb. 9, 1751, in the ninety-third year of lier age. He left an estate of nearly £2000.

James, probably oldest son of John, married _Ruth, daughter of John Riggs, Oct. 25, 1710. She died Aug. 18, 1711, aged twenty, and he next married Judith Woodbury llN. 715. Dea­con James Lane, as we learn from his grave­stone, died Apr. 20, 1751, aged sixty-nine. His widow Judith died Aug. 29, 1770, aged eighty­:tlve. He left a large amount of real estate and farming stock; one-quarter part of a schooner at sea, £22; and a negro man and negro woman. In the list of his farming s1iock a yoke of oxen is valued £12.13.4, and 7 cows £24.13.8. His children were-James, born Aug. 8, 1711, died May 14, 1729; William, Ang. 24, 171~;_ Bltth, Dec. 27, 1718, married a Morgan; Josiah, '.Mar. 29, 1721; Mary, June 25, 1723; Jolin, Aug. 8, 1725; and James, Oct. 9, 1129. The oldest of these sons,_WiJUam., married Lydia Griffin, Jan. 1, 1738, a.nu veoorah Langsford in 1756. He died before Jhne 2r716Q. when Deborah, his ~e, presented the inventory of his estate at Probate Court. The town records give him nine children, among whom were four sons­Wllliam, who died in France about 1759, aged ~ighteen; John, Nicholas, and William again. Josiah, next son of Deacon James Lane, mar­ried Abigail Norwood, Mar. 20, 1743. No chil­dren of this marriage are recorded. His wid-

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ow Abigail was administrator of his estate Nov. S, 1766. James, youngest son of Deacon James Lane, died., probably nnmarried, before Nov., 1754, when bis brother William was made administrator of his estate.

John, son of the first John, married Mary, daughter, I suppose, of John Riggs. He wss killed by Indians at Penobscot, Jnne 22, 1724-, aged thirty-six. . In the inventory of his estate I find " one-half of two vessels, one a coaster and one a fishing vessel, £65." His children were- Mary, bom Mar. 13, 1714, married John Roberts, Nov. 13, 1735; Patience, Joly 12, 1715, died same day; Sarah, Jone 18, J.~16, married Eliphalet Day, April 29, 1735; Ruth, April 21, died May 6, 1718; Dorcas~ Jone 4, 1719; John, March 21, died Apr. 6, 1721; David, June, 1722; and Comfort, Aug. 18, 1724, died before 1737. The son David manied Abigail, probably the daughter of Samuel Lane, Oct. 31, 17 4-3, and was intending marriage with Deliverance Gott, May ~, 1769. The records give him, besides three daughters, sons John and David. The latter, born Dec 1, 1750, married Hannah Merchant, probably in 1772. He is said to have died in 1826. His wife Hannah died Nov. 80, 184-0, aged nearly eighty-seven. No children of this marriage are recorded; but there were certainly some., the youngest of whom was Samuel Lane, Esq., formerly a prominent citizen of his native town, but for many years of Chelsea, Mass., where he died April 29, 1873, in his eightieth year.

Josiah, son of the first John, married Rachel, daughter of Samuel York, Jan. 15 .. 1713. He died Nov. 23, 1747, aged fifty-eight. Havingno children, he gave m• his will to his "beloved friend and kinsman, Ambrose }"'inson," his nephew, all of his real estate, reserving to his wife the use of it during her life, and one-half of his personal. Both together were valued at £936. In the personal we find a negro man, £70, and negro woman, £55.

Joseph, next son of John, ~ed. Deborah Haraden, Jan. I, 1821,. and was intending marriage with widow Joanna Haraden, Nov. 12, 17 60. Concerning him I can only add that he had the following children.,-Deborah, bom Dec. 17, 1721, died May 17, 1723; Deborah again, April 24, 1724; Jo8eph, May 3, 1725, died March 9, 1726; Joseph again, Aug. 20, 1726; Caleb, No:v. 16, 1729; Solomon, Oct. 29, 1731, and Ann, Jan. 7, 1741. The son Caleb

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entered his int.ention of marriage with Lydia Riggs, Nov.15,. 1752~ I...find not the date of his death. She died March 21, 1812, aged eighty-one. The town records have the births of two of bis children, to which the family record adds eight more; one of which is Ca­leb, bom May 23, 1759. . He married Abiah, daughter of Jesse Saville, and died April 5, 1850, aged nearly ninety-one. She died Feb. 18, 1843, aged seventy-six. Concerning ~ children the records are entirely silent; but I _,

have seen a hst of the twelve that were bom to him, and ffnish what I have to say of this branch of the family by adding that one of them, John S. Lane, died in Gloucester, May 1, 1870, aged eighty-five.

Benjamin, next son of John, married Eliza­~th Griffin, Jan. 6, 1726, and had the follow­ing children,-Thomas, bom 5, died 10 Sept~, 1726; Benjamin, bom Nov. 23, 1727; Eliza­beth, Jan. 3, 1730; Jonathan, Oct. 2, 1731; John, Oct. 15, 1733 ; Lydia, Feb. 24, 1786; and Hezekiah, Mar. 31, 1738. It appears that each of the sons married in town. Job, youngest son of John, married Mary Ashby, Nov. 26, 1734:. His children were-Sarah, bom Sept. 10, 1735; Job,July 11, 1738; and Martha, Eben­ezer, Deborah, Andrew" and another. This-son settled in Sandy Bay, where he probably died; but the date of his death is not known, nor is that of his brothers Joseph and Benjamin.

There were several families of this name among the early settlers of New England, and decendants of our John are still numerous on Cape Ann.

THOMAS Low.-This settler was son of Dea­con Thomas Low of Chebacco, Ipswich. He probably came to Gloucester in 1691, in which year, March 1, one Symonds and his wife Eliz­abeth, the father and mother of Thomas Low's wife, without doubt leased to him, " for and during ye space of one hundred years," sever­al lots of land in Gloucester. One of these lots was twelve and two-thirds acres of pasture land" toyeeastwardofye highway and house," which was probably the same that Harlakenden Symonds bought of John Kettle in 1664. To this spot he was attracted, it is likely, by the recent settlement near it of his sister Ruth, the wife of Rev. John Emerson. Another lot consisted of eight and a half acres west of the dwelling house, on the other side of the high­way. The Ipswich Records have the marriage

of Thomas Low and Mary Brown, May 24, 1686, and the birth of Symonds, son of Thomas Low, Nov. 21, 1689; but the marriage of our Thomas with Sarah, daughter of Harlakenden Symonds, I do not find. With this wife and son Symonds b~ certainly came to Gloucester, where he had Thomas, bom Oct. S, 1692, of whom I can say no more; Elizaheth, Nov. 20, 1695; and John, Oct. 18, 1697; and died Feb. 8, 1698, leaving per­sonal estare to the amount of £80, as folk>ws ·=

-" House, £45; 2 cows and 2 heifers, £5; 1 Horse, 30s; 4: sheep, 30s ; 3 pigs, 20s ; one ca­noe, 20s; bedding and furniture belonging to it, £7 ; wearing cloth~s,_£3 ; trnnk and chests, 20s ; arms, 4:0s ; cart and plow and tackling, £3; bras& and pewter and other necessaries, £3; othtr household stu1f, 80s; table linen, sos; ta­ble and chairs and other lumber, 40s; 2 bibles and other good books, 20s." His debts amoriht­ed to £12 6.8, nearly half being bis doctor's bill.

Symonds, oldest son of Thomas Low, mar­ried Sarah, daughter of Lieut. John Davis, Dec. 8, 1719. She died Aug. 6, 1724, aged twenty­seven; and he next married Deborah Low, June 17, 1725. The date of his death is not found, but his inventory of Sept. 14:, 1737, consisting of real estate, £1191, and personal, £24:9.10.6, is in the Probate Records. By both wives he had ten children, of seven of whom-Sarah, John, Abigail, Elizabeth, Dorcas, Martha, and Daniel, the widow Deborah was made guardi­an Oct. 18, 1737. Of the son John I know no more. Daniel died, probably unmarried, be­fore Nov. 12, 1760, when his sister Dorcas ad-ministered upon his estate. ·

John, youngest son of Thomas Low, married Mary, daughter of Capt. Joseph Allen, Jan. 20, 172~- She was dead when her father's estate was settled, in 1750, and be was intending mar­riage with Lydia Allen. probably widow of Zer­ubabel, July 27, 1751. The date of his death is not known, but the Probate Records show that he was dead in 1761. His estate, all personal, · ~ounted to £107.16-4, and was proved insol­vent. In his inventory are several items of farming stock; but the land he cultivated he may have held under the still unexpired lease made by his grandfather Symonds in 1691 to his father. The town records give him eight children :-Mary, John, two Josephs, William, Anna, Susanna .Allen, and Joshua; but the ·church records add two more,-Nathaniel and Benjamin; and the Probate books still another,

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David, bom before 1736. Of' the oldest son, John, I have 1:ittle to add to what the IDstory tells. The record of his excellent ebaracter is preserved in the sermon preached at his funer­al by Rev. Dr. Forbes, and he has a high eulo­gium in the Columbian Centinel of' Nov. 19, 1796. Few men in town had at the time of his death left so large a.nest.ate as his; which con­sisted or real valned at $10,465, and personal to the amount of' $4283. The long enumera­tion of his various parcels of real estate in his inventory leads me to think that no other citi­zen has ever owned so large a portion of our soil. And all thi:s property, says his reverend pastor, he acquired '' by acting uniformly on the principles of fair integrity, honest indus­try, and prudent economy." Of the ten chil­dren of Col. Low seven were sons, of two only of whom are there living descendants bearing the name. Besides the three sons named in the History he had an Isaac, who died a young man in Charleston, S. C., and a John, a Daniel, and a George, all of whom also died young.

William, son of the first John, born April 8, 1781, married Dorcas Ellery, July 28, 1751, and Judith Day, April 30, 1767. Besides several daughters, the r~cords give him the fullowing sons :-William, .Elias, Daniel, Abrnham, and Benjamin. The son William I ·suppose to be the same who was intending marriage with Anna Thurston, Sept. 21, 1776. He settled in Sandy Bay Parish, where the name is still borne by descendants. Elias Low was intending mar­riage with Raebel Day, Dec. 29, 1776. He was a shipmaster. He had sons, but I learn no more of him or them; or of any one of his three other brothers. Joseph, next son of the ftrst John, may be the Joseph who was intending marriage with Elizabeth ~binson, Apr. 12, 1755, and had a son Joseph born May 29, 1756; though this may have been the second marriage of another Joseph, who appears in town on his marriage to widow Elizabeth Hara.den, Nov. 18, 1736. The children of the latter were-Joseph, John, Mary, Thomas, and Edward, the last of whom was probably the same who was intending mar­riage with Rachel Baker, Nov. 9, 1771- Na­thaniel Low, next son of the first John, was intending marriage with Elizabeth, probably daughter of Jonathan Fellows, Oct. 7, 1758, and with Mary Riggs, Sept. 9, 1775. The chil­dren recorded to him are-Cornelius, Nathan­iel, Gustavus, Jonathan Fellows, Caleb and

Cornelius again, concerning any one of whom I can say no more.

Besides Thomas of Ipswich, there were sev­era.i others of this name among the early set­tlers of' New England. All the :families bear­ing it in Gloucester before 1775 are mentioned here. or in the History, or in both, and are without doubt descended from the Ipswich settler.

THOMAS LoFKIN.-Mr. Savage says "Lufkin is a name at Dedham, Old England." Farmer mentions Hugh of Salem, 1654; and with this exception, Thomas of Gloucester is the only one of the name found among the early settlers . . of New England. He had proba'bly been in town a few years when he received, 16, 12 mo., 1679, " six acres of upland above Deacon Has­kell's saw mill, not to sell or give it unless -he improve it by building on it." In this remote section, near the Ipswich, now Essex, line, the family seems to have continued ever since. His children recorded.here were-Joseph, bom Nov. 16, 1674; Ebenezer, May 18, 1676; Abra­ham, 14, and Isaac, 16, and both died 20 Feb., 1678; Abigail, April 9, 1682; Henry, May 23, 1684; and James and Elizabeth, April 9, 1686. To these I will venture to add Thomas Lufkin, jr., who in 1690 received a grant of six acres of land on the east side of Walker's Creek. He married Mary Miles, Jan. 22, 1690, who, I sup­pose, was the mother of John born Oct. 24:, and died Nov. 24, 1690, she herself having died three days before. The second Thomas next married Sarah Downing, Dec. 22, 1692. He had a son Thomas born here, but perhaps he soon crossed the line and became an inhabitant of-Ipswich;

• :(or it seems probable that he was the Thomas Lufkin, sen. of that town, whose will was made June 18, and proved July 20, 1747. In ~t men­tion is made of wife Sarah, sons Thomas, Jere­miah and John, daughters Sarah Commins and .Jemima Beket, grandchildren Jacob, Isaac and Jemima, children of his son Jacob, deceased, and grandson Moses, son or his son Moses, de­ceased. His son Thomas, executor, is called by the widow, in relinquishment, her son in law. He is probably the Thomas Lufkin of Ipswich who married Rachel Riggs of this town, Dec. 8, 1720, and may have been father of Thomas Lufkin, 3d, of Ipswich who was in­tending maniage with Abigail Haskell, Mar. 9, 174:5, and who, without do~bt, was the Thomas Lufkin who was living in the latter part of the

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last _century just over the line separating the two towns. This Tho~ purchased land on the-Gloucester side, near the mouth of Walker's Creek, on which his son Thomas settled as a farmer. The latter was a revolutionary pa­triot, and died•in Fe~ruary, 1842, aged eighty­Dine; leaving a son Thomas, who diedilllGlou­cester, June 13, 1869, aged ninety :-the last of an apparently continuous line of the name of Thomas through six generations. Mr. Isaac .tut.kin, an aged farmer of West Gl~ucester, is a brother of the last mentioned Thonias; and there are others of this branch of the family living in town. Perhaps Moses, son of Moses Luf'kin of Ipswich, who settled in Gloucester, and died June 7, 1846, aged ninety, and whose descendants are numerous, was also of this branch; for his f~ther may have been the grand­so~ Moses, mentioned. in the will of Thomas Lufkin, to which allusion has been made. The son Jacob, named in this will, married Mary Davis of this town, Nov. 30, 1720, and died before 2 June, 1737. The Gloucester records give him six children, three of whom are those mentioned in the will. One of these, Jacob, born Feb. 26, 1728, is the same, I suppose, who married Hannah Day, Nov. 13, 1750, and had a daughter Hannah born April 17, 1751.

Joseph,. son of the first Thomas, married Hannah Ring, Jan. 29, 1708, and died Nov. 12, 1730, aged about fifty-six; leaving an estate of £681. He had three daughters, a son John, and a son Joseph. All I know of John is that his will, made Jan. 3, 1737, was proved Nov. 3, 17 46, and gave to his brother Joseph all his estate, provided he did not live to marry. Joseph was intending marriage with Hannah Andrews of Ipswich, Oct. 28, 1738. Besides four daugh­ters, he had sons-Joseph, John, James, and

· David, the last of whom, bom March 17, 1752, probably married Mary Sayward, June 21, 1780, and was living about fifty years ago, on what is now called Sea Street.

Ebenezer, son of the first Thomas, was mar­ried to his wife Sarah, April ·12, 1700, and per­haps to a second wife, Sarah Ingalls, in 1744:. His children were four daughters, two of whom died unmarried. Anna, bom May 13, 1701, mar­ried William Stevens of Chebacco Parish, June 2, 1725; and l4a.ry, born May 13, 1703, married Samuel Cogswell of Ipswich, Feb. 13, 1724. Ebenezer Lufkin died in Sept. or Oct., 17 46; for his will was made Sept. 23, and proved Oct.

6, that year. In it he gave to his wife Sarah all she brought with her and £40, she . acquit­ting ·bis estate; t.o son William Stevens, in right of Anna his wife, all his real estate, one­half ·or household goods, exclusive of what bis wife brought, and all the rest of his personal. estate; to son Sam'l Cogswell one-halt of house­hold goods and :£240to be paid by his executor.

Henry, son of the first Thomas, had a wife Mercy, by whom his son Jonathan was oo.m April 13, 1112, and sons-Ebenezer and Heney, and five daughters in subsequent years. He died Mar. 13, 1725, aged about forty; leaving..a small estate which was insolvent. I trace none of this branch farther. ·

.A ~enjamin Lufkin, perhaps son of the first Thomas, married Abigail Parker, Jan. 7, 1713. Three daughters and two sons-Benjamin and· Zebulon, are recorded to him. Benjamin, born Oct. 8, 1713, is the -same, I suppose, who mar­ried Ruth Haskell, Oct. 29, 1740, and besides a son Heney had a son Benjamin, bom Mar. 30, 1742, who probably married Sarah Babson Em­mons, July 1, 1765, settled in the Harbor Par­ish and there had Benjamin baptized May 25~ 1766, and other children born in subsequent years. Zebulon, son of.the first Benjamin, bom

pt. 9, 1722, married Sarah Haskell, July 22, 17 45, and had, besides three 1laughters, the fol­lowing sons :-Zebulon, Jonathan, Aaron, Eb­enezer, and Joseph, of not one of whom can I say more. _

In the '' Gloucester and Rockport Directory" for 1869 this name is borne by twenty-nine males, all of whom are probably of this family.·

THOMAS Mn,1,1,wr .-The Millets were ranked among the most respectable inhabitants of Marazion, ( a town about three miles from Pen­zance; in the County of Cornwall, England,) when in its early and, :flourishing state, partic­ularly in the time of Elizabeth, in whose reign William Millet was the high sheri1f of the coun­ty. Leonard Millet, who lived at M~ion in the tillle of Charles II, was the father of Rob­ert Millett, one of the brave but unfortunate naval officers who was lost with Sir Cloudesley Shevel on the rocks at Scilly, Oct. 22, 1707. A James Millet was vicar of the parish of St. Just fifty-four years. All this and much more ot the Millet family in England is contained in a letter from J. N. R. Millet, Esq., of Penzance to Dr • .Asa:MilletofBridgewater,Mass., whose interest in the history of his family will prompt

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him to improve the opportunity or a visit to ealledBlynroan's farm_,. HediedJune 18, 1707. Europe, on which he is now absent, to do all His will of June 9, 1707, proved Ang. 2, 1708, that zeal and intelligence can accomplish to :flnd gives to his wife -0 all yt my houses & upland, the English home or Thomas, bis emigrant an- about ftve acres, be it more or less, situate and cester. Concerning him I can add l>nt little to lying in Gloucester, near- ye mWS ft. ~.as for­what the History tells. The deposition of merly Mr. John Emerson's; as also ye orchard Samuel Warner, March 26, 1678, shows that he and garden belonging to ye aforesaid house."

--bought Iani1 in Brooldleld, and that he had a It also makes other provision for her; but his ,. · grant of land from the town. The inventory large farm, or about two hundred acres of land, of his estate " which he left in his wife's pos- lying partly in Manchester and partly in Gloµ­session," amounting to £128.1, was presented cester, and his stock -or cattle, hors_~s,;sh~p a.t Probate Court, Sept. 26, 1676. It contains and swine went to his sons Thomas and John. the following items :-"His.house land marsh The son Thomas settled in N. H., ~ a~ Qys-· and upland lyeing to the house, :.£50; 12 acres of ter River, from which place he . .re_moved -to upland upon the Island, £12; 8 acres of marsh Dover N eek, where he r_esi~ed during the re­at the Island, £32; 4: acres of marsh at the cove, mainder of his life, engaged chi~fly fn the bu&i­:.£12; 1 cow, 10 sheep; wearing clothing, £3.6s; ness of ship-building. He is said to'.h&v.e-been

. :,·, and linen, £1.I0s; and in bedding, :.£3.10; in a man of ''property and character," and _to books, 17s." Mary, wife of Thomas Millet, was have filled several important public offices, and

. daughter of John G;reenoway. I suppose she to have died in 1763·. His wife was Rose Bun­is the Mary Mill.et, who, according to the re- ker of Durham, by whom he had thirteen chil­cords, died June 5, 1682; for in the agreement dren. Seven of these died young,-six of them of her children about the division of their fa- of throat distemper. Of the rest, one only was ther's estate, Sept. 27, following, Sarah, widow a son, who went to England and died of small­of John, has £12 "for the tending of their pox, leaving no children; and :five were daugh­mother, Mary Millet, late deceased." Besides ters who married, and of whom three at le~t Richard, of whom very little is known, Thomas had many children. Elizabeth, one of his daqgh­Millet is the only O!,le of the name found among ters, died in :Nov., 1813, aged eighty-eight;· and the early settlers of" New Engl~ His chil- Lydia, another, Mar. 4, 1821, age~ .e.ighty:sevei:i. dren were -Thom~ born in Engla~d, · 1633; John, the other son of the second thon;u1.S;ijy­the following, born in Dorchester-John, born ed on the farm at Kettle Cove; ·h~vitjg)><>~ght July 8, 1635; Jonathan, July 27, 16~, ~ied soon; his brother's half for £600. He got entangl~ Mary, Aug. 21, 1639, married Thomas Riggs; in the famous Land Bank scheme; and from. Mehitable, Mar.14, 1642, married IsaacElwell; misfortnne,im.providence, or some other cause, perhaps also Nathaniel, born in 1647; and Be- died poor. The date of his death is not known; thia, who married Moses Ayres. but the Probate Records show account of ad-

Thomas, the oldest son, married Mary, daugh- ministration of his ~state, June 1, 17 47. }le ter of Sylvester Eveleth, May 21, 1655. She married Eunice, daughter of Richard Babson, probably died Jan. 7, (not July, as in the His- Dec. 24, 1723, and had the following children: tory) 1687; and he next married Abigail Eve- -David, born March 3, 1724:; Abigail, July I, leth, widow of Isaac, and daughter of John Coit. 1726; Abigail again, Mar. 26, 1728;. John, Feb., It is not known that he had children by the first 1730; Mary, July 2, 1733 ; Solo:µion, May 13,

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marriage; but the records give him three as 1735; Thomas, Oct. 2, 1737; Eunice, Nov. 10, the fruit of the last:-Thomas, born Dec. 20, 1739, died soon; and Eunice again, Sept~ 22, 1689; John, Apr.19, 1692; and Nathaniel, Sept. 1743. David, the oldes~ son, I suppose to be 27, 1694, who died April 2, 1695. I know not the same who was intending marriage with when he moved to Kettle Cove. Dec. 1, 1699, Anna Byles, Jan. 26, 1745, and had a daughter

_ for £60, he sold to James Davis, jr., a house Anna, born Dec. 2, same year. He was at New and twelve acres of land lying on the highway_ Gloucester, Me., as early as 1762, but fl.n~y leading from the meeting house to the harbor; settled in Minot. John, the next son, ~. said and in the same year there was au agreement to have been a sea-captain, and ~ Jia,ve' been between him and the town for settling the accidentallykilled on board o(~.~~i~~r_mtlie bounds of his farm at Kettle Cove, '" commonly West Indies. He married ~~·Woodhouse.

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J-une 28, 1753. Six daughters were bom to Green and removed to Falmouth, Me. TbE him in succession and then a son John, who property he sold probably came to him from hiE ,, was-baptized Sept. 15, 1765. To these must be father and had been owned by his grandfather. added Solomon and Nathaniel, bom probably His oldest son certainly, and probably thE in Maine, whither the fAmily removed. Five of youngest also, went to Falmouth; but the othet the daughters and all of the sons married in son, Morris~ remained here and had eight chil­Maine, and descendants are numerous in and dren; one of whom was Joseph; born in 1729, about Norway, in that state. - The son John who, I suppose married Elizabea Stanwood, married Martha Sawyer and had eleven chil- Feb. 14, 1750, and died Nov.13, 1806. His son ~n, all of whom were living in 1865 :-the James, bom Oct.6, 1753,-mayhave been the rev­oldest seventy-four and the youngestflfty-three olutionary patriot of that name, who died--in years old. Of Solomon, next son of John and Oct., 184:l. · It appears that the other sons o1 Eunice Millet, I can say no more. Thomas, Morris Millet, Morris and Samuel, married an~ the youngest son, married Eunice Parsons, perpetuated the name in town. Morris, sen. May 29, 1764. ···He served in the French war was living in 1740, near·tlie meeting house in

, and was a soldier in Capt Warner's company tbe Fourth Parish, but I know not when he died. ·at Bunker Hill; but left the army after the Nathaniel, youngest son of the first Thom­battle of Trenton, when his term expired, and as, married Ann Lister, May 3, 1670. He died embarked in privateering. In this employment Nov. 9, 1719, aged seventy-two. She di~ he was taken prisoner and carried to the West ·March 9, Ins, aged sixty-six. Nov. 9, 1674, Indies, where he was kept-in conftnement till he sold a house and lalid on Town Neck which the close of the war. He also removed to Maine his father gave him, and removed to the other and was the·fourth settler in the town of Leeds, side of .Annisquam River, where he received a wbere he lived till his death, at an advanced grant of land at Stony Cove. In 1699 he sold age, in 1820. He had sevei'al children, one of a house, barn, and orchard at ·Stony Cove and whom; Zebulon Parsons }fillet, was father of removed to Kettle· C.ove, where he appears to Dr. Asa Millet., now living in Bridgewater, have lived during the remainder of his life. Mass. .His children were,-Mary, born June 29, 1671;

John, second son of the first Thomas, mar- Daniel, July 31, 1673, died next day; Thomas, ried Sarah Leach, July 3, 1663, and died Nov. March 9, 1675; Nathaniel, March 2, 1677, died 3, 1678, leaving a" clear estate" of £73.ls; in- Jan. 25, 1682; Abigail, Oct. 12, 1679, married eluding house, barn, and land, £24 ; and neat John Ring, and died No,. 20, 1723 ; Andrew, cattle and swine, £23. His children wereJohn, July ~, 1681; Nathan, Jan. 11~ 1683; Nathan­born Oct. 23, 1665, died soon; Hannah, March iel, July 11, 1685; Mary, March 26, 1687, died 9, 1667; John, April 22, 1669; 'l'homas, Nov. Jan. 12, 1692; Elizabeth, Sept. 28, 1690; and 23, 1671; Sarah, July 1, 1674:, died Aug. 21, Hannah, Nov. 2, 1694. Thomas, the-son who 1675; Andrew, 9, died 13, May, 1676; and Eliz- was drowned at Casco Bay in 1722, married abetb, Oct. 24:, 1677, who married SamuelFos- Elizabeth Batchelder, June 18, 1696. She died ter. The son John probably died unmarried, March 27, 1713, and he next married Abigail, for no wife or child appears; and, Feb. 20, daughter of John Grover of Beverly. His 1723, his sister Elizabeth conveys to her broth- children werc,-Abigail, born Nov. 2, 1696; er Thomas, for-£10, her right in the estate of John, July 23, 1698, died.Feb. 5, 1711; Nathan­her deceased brother John. Thomas married iel, July 4, 1700; Ebenezer and Deliverance, Martha Ingersol, Jan. 10, 1695, and had the Jan. 19, 1703; Andrew, May 30, 1705; and following children,-John, born Nov. 6, 1695; Elizabeth, baptized Sept. 2'1, 1708. Neither of Hannah, Jan. 26~1697; Moms, Oct. 15, 1699; the sons appears to have married in town. Joseph, Jan. 12, 1702, died Oct. 16, 1710; Sarah, Perhaps the widow and all her step-children March 4:, 1704; Martha, April 28, 1706; Martha removed to Beverly, where there was a Na-­again, May 27, 1707; Mary, Feb. 7, 1109; Bath- thaniel Millet, a housewright in 1735; the same sheba, Mar. 12, 1711; Elizabeth, Jan. 28, 1718; probably who sold in 17 4:2, then of Hopkinton, and Thomas, May, 1715. In 1723 Thomas Mil- a common right in the former town. let sold to Joseph Allen, for £481, bis house and Andrew, son of Nathaniel Millet, manied Be­land on the westerly side of the Meeting-house thiah Day. He died Mar. 25, 1718,'aged thil'ty-

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seven, and she next married Ebenezer Merchant of Yarmouth, Dec. 24, 1719. By Millet she bad the following children :-John, born Jan. 26, 1708, died Sept. 26, 1730, probably unmarried; Bethiah, July 18, 1709; Abraham, Dec. 10, 1710; Andrew, Sept. 7, 1712; Joseph, Mar. 14, 1714; and Jeremiah, Feb. 16, 1716. The town records show that .Abraham, J~seph and Jeremiah mar­ried in town, and that each had several children. Perhaps their mother, after the death of her husband, removed with her children from Kettle Cove into Town Parish, the h~me of her father;

-for each of these three sons was living in that section of the town in 17 40, where by their pro­geny the name was perpetuated. about a hundred years. The marriage of the other brother, An­drew, is not found; but Isaac, son of Andrew, baptized Aug. 17, 1785, may have been his son..

Nathan, the next son of the first Nathaniel, married Sarah, daughter or Richard Babson, Feb. 8, 1709, and was drowned near Manches­ter Neck, Jan. 6, 1724. His children were,­Sarah, born Aug., 1709; Mary, Feb. 28, 1711; Jonathan, Feb. 9, 1718 ; Daniel, May 30, 1715 ; Ann, March 25, 1718 ; Hannah, April 19, 1722 ; and Nathan, May 12, 1724:. Of not one of the sons can I say more, except that Abel Davis, his brother-in-law., was administrator of the es­tate of Nathan, Nov. 4, 174:5.

Nathaniel, son of the first Nathaniel, married Dorcas Davis. May 21, 1708, and was intending marriage with Hepzibah James of Manchester, March 6, 1756. He died in 1764, aged eighty. His children were,-Isaac, born Jan. 29, 1709, died Feb. 26, 1789; John, born .April 5, 1711; Jacob, March 20, 1717; D~rcas, Aug. 29, 1720; Abigail, Feb. 22, 1724:; and Sarah, Apr. 10, 1729. His will mentions grandchild Hannah Millet; alias Varrell, and daughters Dorcas Hodgkins and Abigail Boynton, but no sons. The long line of Millets, continuing the name at Kettle

: Cove, of which his father probably dreamed when ·he received the grant of land there that was not to be alienated from the family as long as any of them survived, dc:>e5 not seem there­fore to have extended in this.branch beyond the

· second generation; and, if it did in any other, · I think it came not down to a period within the · memory of a living person. In the inventory of N.a.s.niel Millet, I :tlnd his real estate valued at £141.8.4-.. ' the old homestead" standing at

::£27; and personal £33.17.4:;·of:which were:flve cows, £18.

Here are given the :tlrs~ three generations of the descendants of Thomas Millet who bore bis name; and one branch of the family is traced down to living persons. But these are not of Gloucester; tor the ancient stock seems to have died out here within a few years, and the few on Cape Ann now bearing the name are not thought to belong to this family.

FRANCIS NORWOO_p.-At the time of the set­tlement of New England there was a family of N orwoods in the parish of Lechampton, about eight miles from Gloucester, in the mother country. According to the pedigree of this family, Francis Norwood, one of ~t~ members, died in 1682, aged eighty-two. The date of birth of our settler of that name is not known, nor can I add much to what the History tells about him, except te say that there is probably no truth in the account of one of his descen­dants that he once kept a tavern in Lynn. His marriage is in our records, and the date of that, so far as I know, is his ~rst appearance in New England; and if he :fted to America at the time of the restoration of Charles II, Gloucester may have been his first abiding place here. His first grant of land at Goose Cove bears date March 18, 1664. Subsequently. be bad other grants, and by purchase became the owner of several six-acre lots near Pigeon Cove. His children were-Thomas, born Dec. 10, 1664; Francis, Dec. 9, 1666; Elizabeth, Feb. 17, 1669; Mary, Mar. 7, 1672, married Samuel.Sargent; Stephen, Nov. 24, 1674:; Deborah, Sept. 4-: 1677. married Benj. Baraden; Hannah, Nov. 8, died Dec. 25, 1679; Joshua, Feb. 27, 1683; Caleb, Aug. 12, 1685; and Abigail, Jan 30, 1690. His will was made Jan. 28,.1706, and proved March 21; 1709. It gave to his loving wife Elizabeth £2.IOs yearly as long as she remained bis wid­ow, eight bushels of Indian com, two bushels of malt, one hundred and forty pounds of pork, two barrels of good cider and apples for her own spending, both winter and summer, one cow to give her milk for hero~ use, fl.ve cords of :ftrewood., and part of his_ dwelling house and bedding. " The cider to be made good and winter apples to be good and brought into ye cellar in time convenient before the fro&-t do hurt either ye apples or cider." He also gives his wife "two chests, one of which is made Windscot f~hion, which came from Linn, and ye other chest that my wife bad when I mar­ried with her." To his son Thomas, besides

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what he had already gi~en him. in money and j ried Mrs. Mary Tarr, Sept. 15, 1793. The only other pay, 2s in money and his-wearing clothes. child recorded to him is a daughter Lucy, by The reason he gave hiBi no more, he says, was the ~t marriage. The son Jonathan, born that Thomas went from him at twelve to his .March 28, 1740, was int.ending marriage with grandfather Coldam at Lynn, and was settled Elizabeth Davis, :March 16, 1776. He is said by his grandfather and himself in houseing and to have had sons Jonathan and Zaccheus who lands in that town. To son Francis, certain were·both drowned unmarried, and a son Abra­lots or land. To son Jo~hua sixty acres at Pi- ham, who settled in Maine. The son Gusta­geon Cove and other land, providing he should vus, bom March 6, 1752, settled at Goose Cove pay his sister Deborah £20, and his sister Abi:.. and died March 6, 184:1, leaving issue. or the

· gall £15. To Mary Sargent, £20; to Deborah other sons or the first Jonathan I can give ·no Hara.den £20; and to Abigail Norwood £20. further- account.

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To his youngest son, Caleb, certain lots or land, Stephen, son or the first Francis, has no child one of which was that on which his brother recorded, but it appears by his father's will Stephen had built a house. To granddaughter that he let't a daugh~r_Elizabeth. Elizabeth, daughter or bis son Stephen, deceas- The children or Joshua Norwood were-Eliz­ed, :£5. To his sons Francis and Caleb his abeth, bom Jan. 2, 1706; Joshua, Oct. 18, 1707; dwelling house and other property, neat cattle, Elizabeth, 8, died 15 Oct., 1709; Sarah, N:ov.

,horse kind, sheep, and swine; and these two 10, 1710; Stephen, baptized July 19, 1713; ·Han-1sons were appointed executors of his will. . nab., bom Mar. 10, 1715 ; Mary, .l.pril 15, 1n 7;

Thomas, who settled in Lynn, married Mary Susanna, Feb. 26, 1719, died Dec. 3, 1726; Fran­Brown, Aug. 24, 168~, and had six children: cis, April 7, 1721; Abigail, Mar. -28, 1723; Miri­Francis, Ebenezer, Mary, Thomas, Mary, and am., Feb. 14, 1725; Susanna, Feb. 24:, 1727; Ra­Jonathan. From the "History of Lynn" it chel, Dee. 27, 1728; Patience, Aug. 5, 1731; and appears that the name was perpetuated there Caleb, the date of whose birth is not ~ven. through at least another generation. The second Susanna is called Elizabeth in the

Francis Norwood, jr. married Mary, daugh- recordofbaptisms; butthismustbeamistake, ter of Deacon James Stevens, Jan. 24, 1693. as also the record -0f the birth of the second He probably lived a retired life at Goos~ove, Elizabeth; for the first Elizabeth lived to be­taking no active part in public a1fairs. His come the wife of Ebenezer Pool, and died in children were-Francis, born Apr. 1, 1695, died old age. Of the four sons of .Joshua I know June 25, 171¾; Mary, Nov. 3, 1697; Francis, buttwowbomarried,-JoshuaandCaleb. No Dec. 16, 1700, died Nov., 1724; Lucy, Oct. 20, record of the marriage of the former bas been 1703; Stephen, Feb. 21, 1706, died March 18, seen by me, but I learn from a very aged per-1711; William, Apr. 4, 1708; Jonatban,Jan.14, son, who remembers his wife, that her name 1712; a son born April 3, 1714, died same day; was Sarah Gutridge or Goodrich, and that she and Abigail, Dee. 18, 1715. The son Wi1Jiam was thought to belong in Rowley. ThisJosh­married Judith Woodbury, probably daughter ua lived to old age, and ended bis days in a of William, May 30, 1732, and had, according to small house or hut near Pigeon Hill. He was the records, four children :-Judith, William, a fisherman in ~ly life, but in his latter years Mary, and James. Of the two sons I find the was employed in getting out mooring stones marriage of James only. He was born May 5, and mill stones. And this seems to have been 1745 and died March 11, 1814. He married his the humble beginning of the business of quar­cousin Judith, Sept. 20, 1791, but it is said that rying stone, now so extensively carried on at Susanna, her sister, had been a previous wife. the head of the Cape. No children are record­The records give Jonathan Norwood and Eliz- ed to Joshua Norwood,jr., in the town records, abetb, his wife, the following children :-Fran- but those of the first church have the baptism cis, Esther, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Snsanna, of Solomon, his son,Feb. 8, 1747. The latter, Abraham, Ebenezer, Mary, Gustavus, Samuel, it is likely, was the Solomon who was intend­Judith, Judith, and Zaccheus. I suppose it was ing marriage with Rebecca Gamage~ Act. 11, Francis, the first of these sons, bo1"1l Feb. 9, 1766, by whom his son Daniel was born .Nov. 4, 1736, who was intending marriage with Anna 1780; and his son James, May 15, 1782. Our Lee of Manchester, Apr. 20, 1762, and who mar- records say that Daniel, son of Solomon, died

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Oct. 16, 1863, aged 83 years, 1 mo., 12 days; and that James, son or Solomon and Locy, died June 30, 1852, aged seventy-one. Probably Joshua. Norwood, jr., who was intending mar­riage .with Ruth Andrews, Ang. 15, 1765, and Isaac, who was inten~ marriage with Eliza­beth Andrews, Aug. 4-, 1768, were also sons of the second Joshua, ~ut I can add nothing fur­ther about them. Caleb, youngest child of the first Joshua, was intending marriage with Eliz­abeth Grover, Dec. 13, 1759, and with Jernsha Story, of Ipswich, Apr. 4-, 1770. She died Aug. 15, 1810, aged seventy-seven. He died Aug. 11, 1814-, aged seventy-eight. His children by his flrst wife were-Caleb, Stephen, Elizabeth, John, and Rachel; and by the second, Francis and William. The oldest son, Caleb, born July 5, 1762, married Jero.sha Story, daughter of his step-mother, July 16, 1781, and Esther Gott, Dec. 16, 1816. He served as selectman and rep­resentative, and died Nov. 7, 1824-, aged sixty­three. Stephen and John both married young and went to Boothbay, Me., but :finally return­ed to Gloucester, where John died. Stephen is said to have died in Hamilton. Francis, born ApriJ 23, 1771, married Lucy Pool~ Nov. 7, 1793. He was a major in the militia and deacon of the Sandy Bay church. He died Oct. 6, 1823, aged :fifty-two. His wife died Dee. 11, 1844-, aged sixty-eight. Rev. Francis Norwood, men­tioned in the History, is their son. William, the youngest son of Caleb, was the venerable citizen of Rockport, who died Oct. 7, 1867, wanting but eighteen days of completing his ninety-third year. Before leaving this branch of the family, I may add concerning Mary, daughter of the :first Joshua Norwood., that, from information obtained at Bristol, Me., at my request, by Addison Gott, Esq., of Rockport, it seems that she died in Mar., 1814:; therefore ninety-seven years old, and not one hundred and five, as tradition in the History reports.

The children of Caleb, youngest son of the . first Francis, were-Elizabeth, born July 31, 1709, married Jonathan Fellows; Caleb, Feb. 25, 1712; Abigail, Mar. 8, 1714, married Fran­cis Marsh:i.11; Sarah, March 25, 1716, married Samuel Gooding; Samuel, April 5, 1719, bap­tized Gustavus, and so named in his father's will; Alice, May 21, 1721, married a Gaines; and Deborah, Jan. 31, 1727, married Robert Campbell; and this is all I can add concerning Caleb or his children.

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The Directory for 1869 contains the names of twenty males of this fjlmny in Gloucester and nineteen in Rockport; all of whom probably can easily trace their descent from Francis.

JEFFREY PARSONS.-Mr. Savage finds ·some eight or ten persons of this name among the early emigrants to New England, and relates concerning Jeffrey that he is said to have been bom about 1631, at A.Jphington, near Exeter, Devonshire County, England. This is quite likelv to be correct; for the name is still com­mon in that region, and we know that from Ashprington, near Dartmouth, in the same county, a niece of Jeft"rey addJ,"eBsed to her cousin James in New England, the' following letter:-

,, Dear Cousin : I sometime since received a letter from

my son, in which he sent me the welcome news that he had seen his relations in New England, and that my uncle Jeft"rey had five sons and two daughters living near together in good fashion and in good health, and that you had sent me a book for a token, which I take very kindly ~d give you many thanks for, though I have not yet received it, my son being not yet returned to England, but I had a letter from him the last week that he hopes to be home in a short time, being now in Port Mahon, in the island of Minorca. My father, your uncle James Par­sons, died about six years since, and my moth­er about twelve. They left behind them seven children, whereof John, Robert, and Isabel are since dead; but James, Jeft"rey, and Sarah, who, together with myself are (God be praised) alive and in good health, join with me in their kind love and service to you, and to the whole fam­ily of our uncle. I am married to one Francis Morgan, so that if you please at any time to send me a letter, you must dire·ct for Elizabeth Morgan_ at Ashprington, near Dartmouth, in Devon, England.

I have had no opportunity of making you any requital for your present., and therefore must desire you to accept of my prayers and good wishes for yourself and family and all my relations, to whom I desire once more to be kindly remembered, and so rest their and your most affectionate kinswoman and hearty ser-vant, ELIZAB'ETH MORGAN."

May 14, 1714. Prof. Parsons, in his memoir of his father,

says that his ancestor J eifrey was a '' success-

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fu1 merchant"; but this is a mistake: there l '" books 14s saddle pilliQn&pillion cloth was no man in Gloucei:,'tt}I', in his days, who I and bridle 15s could be truly so designated. His will and the "- chests chairs tubs & other lumber inventory of his estate sufficiently att.est his oc- '" cart and wheels ploughs & yok~ & eupation. By that instrument, made Dec. 7, . chains

1. 9 s. 6

5. 2. 1688, and proved Feb. 24, 1689, he gave to his '' for cannoes

wife Sarah and son James, all of his estate £317. 5.0'~ " hereafter in these presents n6t otherwise dis-

posed of to improve for themselves and bring- Je:tfrey Parsons married Sarah Vinson, Nov. ing up of ye young children and keeping of the 11, 1657, and died Aug. 19, 1689. She died Jan,.. family together;" to his son James the three 12, 1708. His children were-James, born Dec. acres whereupon his house· stood, three acres 18, 1658; Je:trrey, Jan. 31, 1660; Sarah, Apr. 19, of planting land at the south end of his field 1663, married John Lee; John, May 14, 1666; (formerly called by the name of fisherman's Elizabeth, Mar. 22, 1669, mar1ied John Durgee field), certain otht-r lots of land and a yoke of and died Sept. 23, 1711; Jeremiah, May 28, 1672,

, oxen, two cows, and ten sheep; to his son Jef- said to have settled in Virginia; Nathaniel, Mar. frey, besides marsh land and other things he 16, 1675; Abigail, Mar. 25, 1678, married Abra­had already given him, certain lots of land and ham Foster, July 2, 1699; Ebenezer, 5 died 6 "the mare he hath already in bis own keeping, Jan., 1680; and Ebenezer, again, Dec. 28, 168l­

provided he return the first colt of said mare to James married Hannah Younglove of Ips­my son Jeremiah when it is fit to wean", and wich, Dec. IS, 1688, and died Oct.1, 1733. She five ewe sheep; to his wife Abigail three ewe died March 11, 1733, aged seventy-eight. He sheep; to Jeffrey's son Jonathan one yearling was a very prominent citizen. and particularly heifer; to his son John several pieces of land, useful in the office of town clerk by the full­one yoke of cattle four years old nnd one horse ness, neatness, and accuracy of his records. of three years old; to sons Jeremiah, Nathan- His children were-James, born Feb. 16, 1690; iel and Ebenezer, and daughters Sarah~ Eliza- Joseph, about 1692, died at Cambridge, a stn­beth and .Abigail £10 each; to children of James _dent of Harvard College, Oct. 30, 1722; and Elie­Gardner small bequests; and to Sarah, wife of zer, Mar. 9, 1694. James Parsons, blacksmith, Robert Elwell, a cow. Next follow certain and Eliezer Parsons, cordwainer, divided the provisions in case his wife '"do marry again". estate of their father, Elder James Parsons, The will is a lengthy document, but the fore- Nov. 1, 1734. The land of which it consisted going are the chief items contained in it. was situated, chiefly, if not wholly, on the west-

His inventory I give in full. erly side of the Cut, a~d the two brothers prob-"' for house and barn and outhousing ably lived in that part of the town. James

and upland orchyard and meadow married Mary Parkman, of Boston, Apr. 2, 1715, ground £200. and died Nov. 15, 1761. He is called "' Shore-

"" for oxen cows and other neat cattell 43. man~~ June 7, 1753, when· he mortgaged land "'for sheep, £4, for swine £15 19. O.O to Wm. Bowdoin of Boston, to secure a debt "" for horses mare and colt 11. 0.0 of "" 328 ounces, troyweight, of coined silver." "'two feather beds and what belongs His children were-Mary, born Dec. 28, 1718,

to ym 8. drowned llay 18, 1721; Hannah, born and died "two small beds more & what did be- May 8, 1722; Ann, born April 14, 1723, died

long to ym 2. Sept. 11, 1760; James, Aug. 20, 1725, a soldier "' his wearing cloaths 8. in the expedition to Louisbourg in 17 45, died <" brass kettleironpots pot books tram- Aug. 20, same year; Benjamin, Oct. 28, 1727;

mels skillet warming pan & pewter 5.10 Hannah, Sept. 7, 1730; and Eliphalet. l\'Iay 8, "'one musket and other arms 2. 1732, who died in the military service of the ""for wool wheel and cards 2. province, at Albany, Aug. 9, 1756, probably un-"" 8 yards new cotton and linen cloth married. Benjamin married Sarah Grover,

and a comb to dress flax 1. Nov. 9, 1752. The date of his death I do not "" carpenter's tools 1 pr stilyards & old find. Besides two daughters, and two sons

iron 4. 1 who died in infancy, the records give him a

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Benjamin, a James, and an Edmund. I sup­pose that James was the Capt. James Parsons who diecl in 1830, aged seventy-five; and that Edmund, born Mar. 17, 1759, was the same who bad, by his wife Lydia, a son Edmond born Sept. 2, 1788.

Eliezer, youngest son of Elder James Par­sons married Mary, .perhaps daughter of Eze­kiel Day, Feb. 18, 1720. He died before Nov. 7, 1748, when his son Joseph administered on his estate. The records give him the follow­ing children-Joseph, born Dec. I, 1720, be­came a mariner, married Jemima Bennett, Feb. 14-, 1746, and died about 1754, leaving, besides three daughters, a son Joseph; Hannah, Feb. 18, 1723; Mary, Nov. 25, 1725; Lucy, May 28, 1729, died Oct. 7, 1756; Eliezer, Sept. 14, 1731, died Oct. 10, 1756, probably unmarried; Eze­kiel, Oct 31, 1733; and Abraham and Philemon, Apr. 3, 1737. Ezekiel was intending marriage with Sarah Cressy, of Rowley, Sept. 17, 1757; but I lose sight of him Aug. 26, 1764, when his son Ezekiel was born. This son was probably the same who married Fanny Goodrich Jan. 27, 1790, by whom, according to the records, he had a son Ezekiel and a son Nicholas Goodrich. Philemon married Patty Davis, April 5, 1759. She, I suppose, was the " Miss Patty Parsons " who died Jan. 13, 1819, aged eightY:nine. The children by this ma1Tiage, as given in the re­cords, besides two daughters, were-Eliezer, Henry, Davis, George, Phil em on, and Henry, again ; by one or more of whom, or by other descendants of Elder James Parsons, previous­ly mentioned, the name has probably been per­petuated in town to the present time.

Jeffrey Parsons, the second, settled in that part of the town since called the Farms, on the road leading to Little Good Harbor Beach, where he had grants of land still occupied by descendants. He married Abigail Younglove, of Ipswich, May 5, 1686. She died in 1734. The date of his death is not known; but if it was recent when his will was proved (April 9, 1750,) be must have lived to be about ninety years old. His children were-Jonathan, born Feb. 8, 1687; Samuel, Feb. 2~ 1690; Ebenezer, Oct. 17, 1691, died May 29, 1692; William, Jan. 8, 1693, died April 21, same year; Josiah, Feb. 23, 1694, died 3 of next month; Sarah, Feb. ~, 1695, married Jefford Cogswell, of Ipswich, Dec. 27, 1722; Jeremiah, March 26, 1697; and Abigail, May 31, 1699, who died Feb. 5, 1700 ..

The four who survived. the period of infancy are named in their father's will, dated March 14, 1734, in which he confirms the provision he had already made for them by gifts. Jonathan married Lydia, probably daughter of John Stan­wood, Feb. 6, 1711, and had the following chil­dren :-Lydia, ~m Dec. 4, 1711; Jonathan, July 24, 1713; John, May 8, 1716; Abigail, July 30, 1718; Zebulon; Nov. IS, died Dec.15, 1720; James and Joseph, Feb. 15, 1722; Hepzibah, Nov. 21, 1726; and David, Oct., 1728. The old­est of these sons, Jonathan, married Susanna, probably daughter of William Millberry, and the young widow of Daniel Hadley~ Dec. 14, 1738. Besides five daughters, the records give him four sons-Jonathan, Daniel, William, and Jonathan, again. The latter, baptized July 11, 1756, may have been the same who married Molly Parsons, Dec. 26, 1780, and the Jonathan who died Mar. 26, 1817. John, next son of the first Jonathan, married Anna Clark, Nov. 15, 1739. Both lived to very advanced. age. She may have been the "' widow Parsons " who died Sept. 28, 1816, aged ninety-four. The town records give him three children,-Jonathan, Ebenezer and Jeffrey, to whom the first church records add Anna and Job. There was also probably a ·John. Jonathan married Sarah Winnery, July 28, 1763. He died during the rev­olutionary war of a wound received on board of a privateer. One of his sons, John, mar­ried Dorcas Rowe, Mar. 7, 1787, and was the fa­ther of the venerable citizen of the same name, a retired ship-master, still living. Jeffrey, son of John and Anna, was a soldier in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was drowned near Salt Is-

• la~d in 1792. He and his son Jeffrey went from . their home, at the Farms, about eleven o'clock at night, to take their :fishing boat round to Sandy Bay, and in a few hours ·the son return­ed to the house with the sad intelligence of his father's death. The boat had struck upon Salt Island Ledge, and soon .tUled and sank. Mr. P. and bis son secured a plank on which they attempted to reach the shore. Having nearly gained it, the son left the plank to swim for the land and soon succeeded in getting upon the rocks at Salt Island, but the father got into the breakers and was drowned. A son of Jeffrey Parsons, named Job, was drowned about a year before this on Squa.m Bar.

James, son of -the first Jonathan, married Abigail, probably daughter of .Joseph Tarr,

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Nov. 8, 1744, and Sarah Lane, Jan. 27, 1759. He settled at Sandy Bay and died there, ac-,,. cording to the records· ·of the fifth church, in January, 1789. The town records give him, by both wives, eleven children, to whom, it is ~d, two more should be added,--Jerusha and Martha. I know bnt two of Ills sons who mar­ried and settled in Glou~ester;--James and Jon­athan Platts. The former, born Oct. 25, 1746, was twice married; :ti~t to Deborah Lane, and . . '

next to Patience Knight. He dic..>-d Aug. 20, 1796. In the settlement of his estate mention is made of his four minor children-James, Esther, Nancy, and George. The~e were by his second wife ; but there were also children ,by the first, not recorded, one of whom~ Wil­liam, a ship-master of Gloucester, died Nov. 3, 1823, aged forty-three, leaving an only son, Wilqam, formerly a. mcrch~t of Gloucester, but now of Boston. Jonathan Platts Parsons, born April 4, 1768, married Martha Bootman, Dec. 22, 1790, and died April 12, J 852, leaving children, one of whom is Gorham, formerly and for several years post-master of the town. And~ew, brother of Jonathan P., settled in Belfast, Me., and William, his half-brother, was killed at Bunker Hill. Joseph, son of the first Jonathan, married Bethany Gott, Jan. 8, 1748_. He is said to have been lost, with all the crew of a schoontr commanded by Capt. Job Knight, on a :fishing trip to the Grand Banks, about 1790. The records give him a son Joseph and six daughters. David, the next and youngest son of Jonathan, married Mary ,vinnery, Aug. 17, 1758. Several children are recorded to him, ~mong whom was John, who died in Rockport, .April 5, 1854:, aged almost ninety, the father of ·John, whose labors in horticulture entitle him to be considered a public benefactor; Ebene-

, zer, who was washed overboard with three of his shipmates from a vessel on the :fishing banks and drowned; Joseph, who lived at the Farms and died at an advanced age; and Benjamin, of East Gloucester, who died May 3, 1867, aged eighty-five. Samuel, second son of the second Je:ffrey, was iQten_qiJ}g marriage with Ruth Lee, of Manchester, Nov. 28, 1713. He diecl in Dec. 1761, leaving widow Ruth, who survived him four years at least. His children were-Ruth, born July 25, 1715; Samuel, May 25, 1717; Re­becca, Dec. 27, 1718; Abigail, July 26, 1721, married John Todd of Rowley; David, July 10, 1728; Andrew~ 7 died 20 August, 1725; N ehe-

miah, Nov. 27,.1726; Lydia,Junel8, 172&, mar­ried William Hobson of Rowley; Andrew, }lay 6, 1730; Sarah, Feb. 8, 1732; Amos, Oct., 1733; and Elizabeth, baptized Nov. 26, 1738, married James Kekey, Jan. 1, 1761. Samuel, the eld­est of these sons, married Lydia Sawyer, May. 6, 1741, and besides five daughters, had sons­Samuel, Edward, David, and Parker. He re­moved to New Gloucester, Me., several years before the incorporation of that town. His brother N ~hemiah married Elizabeth Bray, Feb. 11, 1752, and had two 80ns,-Nehemiah, and Andr~w- He died before Oct. 30, 1765, the date of inventory of his small estate, which proved insolvent. Andrew, the next brother, marri~ Mary Sawyer, April 16, 1752. His daughter, Molly was born here in the same year, afterwhichhe removed to Rowley, where he had a wife Rebecca, and daughter Rebecca,. and died before 1763'. Jeremiah, youngest son of the second Jeft'rey, married Sus~nna Cogs­well, of Ipswich, Dec. 14:, 1721. The records give him four children,---Jeremiah, born Mar. 10, 1724:; Jeft'rey, July 8, 1726; Susanna, July 11, 1728; and Zaccheus, Aug. 21, 1731~ whose death is found recorded in Mr. Chandler's jour­nal, May, 1755. The date of the father's death .is not ascertained ; but administration of his estate was granted to his son Jeremiah, Nov. 7, 1757. This son married :Mary Milberry, Dec. 12, 1751, and died about 1760, leaving, besides three daughters, two sons-Jeremiah and Zac­cheus, the former of whom, born July 1, 1753,. I suppose to be the same who died Oct. 9, 1815. These three Jeremiahs lived at the Farms,. and · probably occupied the land originally acquired there by their ancestor, the second Jeft'rey .. •John, third son of the :first Jeffrey, married

Isabella Haynes, perhaps of Rowley, Jan. 19,. 1693. She died Nov. 25, 1700, and he next mar­ried Sarah Norton, probably of Ipswlch, July 29, 1701. She died July 25, 1726, aged :fifty-six. He died Dec. 1, 1714. His home was at Fish­ermen's Field, where he prob:ibly engaged in both agricultural and maritime pursuits, for he and his brothers bad erected a :fishing stage there in 1695, and the inventory of his estate, amounting to £593.13, includes,'' besides fann­ing stock, one-third of a :fishing vessel, £19, one-half a shallop, £15, and one-l1alf of an open sloop, £20." He had the following children­John, born Oct. 29, 1693; Mary, Apr. 28, 1695; Josiah. Aug. 22, 1697; Hannah and Rachel.

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Ang. 26, 1699 ; the former of whom died Sept. 1, same year, and the latter March 26, 1725; Thomas, May 10, 1702; Daniel, Apr. 28, 1704; Solomon, Feb. 16, 1706; Sarah. Jan. 5, 1709; and Hannah, Mar. 23, 1711. John, the oldest son, married Elizabeth Haskell, June 6, 1716. I do not :find the date of his death, or the set­tlement of his estate;- but it is certain that he lived to old age. His children were-John, born July i3, 1717; Mark, July 6., 1719; Eliz­abeth, Apr. 30, 1721; Nathaniel., Feb. 13, 1723; Abigail, Nov. 21, 1724; Zebulon, Sept. 30, 1726; William, July 14, 1728; Isabella, Feb. 4, 1730; Joshua, Aug. 30, 1732; Jemima, born and died Sept. 23, 1734; Jemima again, June 10, 1736; and Eunice, May 16, 1739. It appears that each of the six sons here named married in town, and that four of them had children, but I trace to their end only Mark, Nathaniel, and Zebulon. Mark was a sea-captain, and the probate records show that the inventory of his estate was pre­sented May 13, 1756. The will of Nathaniel, made May 9, 1753, was proved Aug. 6, follow­ing. In it he gives property to Hannah, his wife, and to the :first of the children of any or either of his brothers that should be named Na­thaniel his gold shirt-sleeve buttons. Zebulon was also a sea-captain, of whose estate Jacob Parsons was appointed administra~r June 29, 1767. JosiaJ!, next son of the first John, mar­ried Eunice, probably daughter of Nath'l Sar­gent, Dec. 24, 1719, by whom he had the follow­ing children-Josiah, born Sept. IO, 17~0; Eu­nice, Aug. 2, 1722; Na~haniel, Ang. 27, 1724; Rachel, June 29, 1726; Job,. June 19, 1728; Sa­rah, May 15, 1730; Abraham, July 5, 1732; Deb­orah, May 31, 1734; Lydia, July 5, 1736; and Mary, Oct. 15, 1738. He removed to "New­market in Exeter, N. H.," before Feb. 21, 1743, when, in a deed of land in Gloucester to Nath'! Sargent, he calls himself '' coaster," of that place. Thomas, next son or JoHb, marrie Rachel, probably daughter of Jabez Baker, of Sandy Bay, Jan. 21, 1729., and died March 13, 1732, aged twenty-nine, leaving two children­Rachel and Thomas. He also, it may be sup­posed, was a sea-faring man, as the settlement of his estate shows that he owned five-eighths of a coasting sloop, which was valued at £112. Daniel, brother of the preceding, married Su­sanna Warner, May 9, 1732, and died of small pox, at .Antigua, May 2, 1738, leaving an estate

·of £750, as shown by his inventory. His chil-14

dren were - Susanna and Lucretia, both of whom died before their father, and Susanna., again, born June I, 1737. His widow became the second wife of Capt. William Haskell, af­ter whose decease she opened a boarding house on Middle street, which she kept several yea~. and to which a son by her second marriage gave some celebrity as'' Phil Haskell's t:n·ern.'• Solomon, youngest "SOD of the first John_ was intending marriage with Abigail Knowlton, Jan. 14, 1730, who died Feb. 15, 1741., aged thirty­four; and with Sarah Dodge~ of Wenham, .July 26, 174:l, who died Jan. 29, 1779, aged sixty­four. He died March 24, 1779, aged .seventy­three. His children were-Abigail, born Feb. 21, 1731; Miriam, Nov. 16, 1732, died April 24, 17 4-2; Sarah, Aug. 5, 1734; Lucy, Sept. 30~ 1736, drowned July 9, 1750; and Solomon, July 10, 1739. This, his only son, married Pruuence Dodge, of Sutton, Sept. 29, 1773, who died Aug. 25, 1831, aged eighty-four. He died Oct. 5, 1807. Tyler, of Manebester; Jacob, who re­moved to Illinois; and Oliver, of Salem, were his sons; beside whom there were another son, Isaac, and four daughters. Descendants of Jefl:rey Parsons, in this line, bearing the namt..>, are not thought to be numerous in Gloucester.

Nathaniel, fifth son of Jeffrey Parsons, mar­ried Abigail, daughter of the second William Haskell, Dec. 27, 1697. He died of small pox May 21, 1722. She became the second wife of Isaac Eveleth, Dec. 20, following, and· died May 5, 1762, aged eighty-six. Nathaniel Parsons is supposed to have had his home near that of his father, at Fishermen's Fieid, and there to have carried on the agricult.ural and maritime pur­suits in which, from the inventory of his es­tate, it appears that he engaged. According to that document he died possessed of an estate of £1072.14.3. Among his effects were-three ''scooners ", va]ued at £313 ; part of two sloops, .

27 ; shop goods and stores for fishing, £80.6.9 ; and a hive of bees, 10s. His children were­Nathaniel, born Dec. 14, 1698, died of small pox A.ng. 22, 1721; William, Oct. 15, 1700; Andrew, 11, died 25 July, 1703; Abigail, Sept. 5, 1704, diedJan.3, 1724; Judith, Nov.11,1706; Stephen, Feb. 14, 1709; Elizabeth, Dec. 2, 1711, married Isaac Eveleth, jr., son of her step-father; An­drew, Feb. 8, 1714, died in the West Indies; and Jemima, May 1, 1716. The son William married Mary, widow of .Andrew Haraden, Mar. 15, 1727, and Mrs. Abigail Beck, of Newbury, in 1753.

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He died Joly 10, 1755, having been for many tied in Boston .. and to have been a ship-master years one of the most prominent citizens of the many years. He had two children, both of town. The inventory of his real estate gives whom died young. Another child of this mar­the large amount of £4183.11, including two riage was Judith Parsons, who for many years farms, Millett's Island, Biskey Island, and hi-s kept a school in a small'house near where the dwellin~ house. The latter, valued at £525, is Forbes school house now stands, and is well still standing, t}lough much chang~ in outward remembered by many of our elderly people as appearance, at the south;.east comer of Middle their :first guide in the way of learning. She and Washington streets. His children were- died July 29, 1846, aged eighty-three. By bis William, born March 15, 1728; Mary, Feb. 29, second marriage, Enoch Parsons had a. son 1730; Martha, Mar. 17, 1732; Judith, June 27, Stephen, who died young, and a daughter Bet-1734; William, again, Nov. 1, 1736; Andrew. sey, who married Epes Saville. Daniel, broth­May 3

1 1738; Nathaniel, July 3, 1739; Willard, er of Enoch, married Dorcas Allen, May 13,

Feb. is, 174-2; Abigail, Feb. 6, 1744; and Oba- 1762. He was a ship-master, and died in 1785, diah, April 5, 1747. The son William is men- aged forty-seven. She died Mar. 31, 1829, aged tioned in his father's will, but I can learn noth- eighty-eight. Besides three children who died ing more about him, except that he is thought ' young, and a daughter Mary, who married bydescendantsofbisbrotherNathaniel to have Joshua Riggs, be bad three sons-Michael-A.,

-,settled in Boston. Andrew is not mentioned Henry, and Christopher, all of whom took to in his father's will, and therefore probably died I the sea for a li~ng. Michael A., born Dec. 24, young. Nathaniel married Esther, daughter 1769, married Rachel Allen, Sept. 21, 1796, and of Jonathan Norwood, of ..\nnisquam, and is died at sea, master of the sbfp William and supposed to have died about 1780, leaving two Henry, on his passage from Batavia, May 18, sons-Nathaniel, born Jan. 16, 1766; and Wil- 1804. His widow married Jesse Wilson, and liam Norwood, Oct. 5, 17-67, who was lost at died Dec. 11, 1867, aged ninety-seven. Of the sea while young. Nathaniel married Susanna four children of Capt. Parsons, a daughter Ra­Norwood, Dec. 1, 1805, and died Nov. 27, 1823. chel alone survives. His son Daniel was lost His home was on the estate .first occupied by at sea in 1826 ; bis son Michael A., a ship-mas­his own and his wife's ancestor, Francis Nor- ter, died in Surinam, Nov., 1844~ leaving an wood; and this estate is ~till in possession of only son, of the same name, now in the U. S.

· his family. Willard, the next son of Deacon service in Ari'l.ona; and bis daughter Sarah A., William Parsons, is supposed to be the same the authoress mentioned in the History, mar­who married Martha Wharf, July 16, 1765, and tied Moses Nowell and died Oct. 9, 1868, aged Mrs. Mary Ayres, May 30, 1792. The records sixty-four& Henry Parsons, born Oct. 21, 1771, give the birth of his daughter Patty, Feb. 18, married Betsey Wharf. After following the 1773; and this completes my knowledge con- sea many years as a ship-master, he became cerninghim. Of Rev. Obadiah Parsons,young- Port Warden of New York, and died_snddenly est son of Deacon William, I have nothing to bl that city in November, 1843, leaving no de­add to what the History relates. Stephen Par- scendant. His brother Christopher married sons, son of the ,first Nathaniel, married Abi- Catherine GreeB Hubbard, and died at sea,

. gall, daughter of Capt. Andrew Robinson, Mar. March 28, 1804, without issue . . 9~ 1732, by whom he bad three children-Enoch, From what is here given concerning the pos-bom Aug. 16, 1734; Daniel, June 30, 1738; and terity of the :first Nathaniel, it appears that in Abigail, Sept. 1, 1739. He was lost in a hurri- the progeny of Nathaniel of Annisquam, his cane in the West Indies.. His widow married great-grandson, are to be found the only de­again twice..: :first, David Ring, and next, Jo- scendants of Jeft"rey, in this line, now living in seph Sargent, and died in Dec., 1781, aged six- town and bearing the family name. ty-six. His son Enoch married Judith Collins, Ebenezer, youngest son of Jeffrey Parsons, Oct. 7, 1762, and widow Dorcas Sawyer, July married Lydia, daughter of the second William 6, 1779, and died April 14, 1817, aged eighty- Haskell, Feb. 3, 1704. She died Oct. 2, 1734, two. By the :first marriage there was a son aged fifty-three. His intention of m.arriage Enoch, ot"' whom I know·no more, and a son with Mrs. Alice Norwood was entered on the Charles, who is said to have married and set- records April 11, 1741, but does not appear to

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have been followed by a conjugal unioB, for Jacob Parsons, Oet. 24, 1769, and died or small­she, I suppose, was the widow of the same pox at Rainsford Island, May 9. 1771. His wid­name who became the third wife of Rev. John ow became the second wife or Samuel Wbitte­White; and we have the record of Mr. Parsons' more, Esq. Nehemiah married Susanna Ellery, intention of marriage, Dec. 4, 1742, with Mrs. Sept. 27, 1769, and died Aug. 9, 1798. He left Jemima Todd, or Rowley, who became his wire an estate of about eighteen thousand dollars, and died Apr. 25, 1752, aged sixty-ftve. He next consisting chiefly of stocks and notes. Besides married Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews, of Ipswich, a daughter Susanna, he bad a son Nehemiah, Oct. 31., 1754, who survived him. He died Dec. who settled in Boston, and a son William, who 19, 1763, aged eighty-two. He was a tanner by was lost at sea. Thomas married Judith Kins--trade: and left an estate of £686. His children man, Dec. IO, 1780. He was a merchant in were-Lydia, born Apr. 28, 1705, married first, Gloucester and in Boston, and died in the lat­Zerubbabel Allen, and second, Deacon John ter city, June 15, 1837. He also bad a daughter, Low; Ebenezer, April 20, 1707, lost overboard and two sons-Thomas and Charles. Aaron, about twenty leagues to the westward of Cape the next and youngest son of Dea:con,Isaac Par­Sable. Oct. 3, 1752; Jacob, May 25, 1709; Nebe- sons, married Polly Dolliver, Apr. 25, 1784, and miah, May 27, 1711, died Aug. 18, 1726; Isaac, died June 21, 1809. She died Oct. 22, 1816. He June 14, 1714; Moses, June 20, 1716; and Eu- wasamerchantandaccumulatedwhatwasthen nice, Aug. 7, 1718, died Apr. 20, 1719. The son considered a large estate. He too bad a daugh­Jacob married Sarah Redding, May 10, 1732, ter, and two sons-Aaron, who died unmarried who died in .Aug., 1735. He next married Han- Mar. 31, 1838, aged forty-eight; and Winthrop, nah Parsons, probably in Sept., 1738; and was who died Oct. 2, 1873, aged seventy-eight, leav­intending marriage, Oct. 31, 1752, with widow ing a son by whom alone, it is supposed, the Sarah Rust, of Ipswich, who became his wife name is perpetuated in town in this line of de­and survived him. The date of his death is not scent from the :first Jeffrey. Moses, youngest known. His will, made Feb. 20, 1784, and prov- son of Ebenezer Parsons, married Susanna· ed June 7, following, gives the approximate _Davis, Jan. 11, 1743. She, it is presumed, was time. His ch~dren were-Jacob, born Nov.21, the daughter of Ebenezer Davis, a merchant 1732; Jacob, again, April 27, 1234; Hannah, and prominent citizen of the town, and was June 21, 1739; Daniel, Feb. 23, 1741; Sarah, born June 3, 1719. Professor Parsons, in bis Jan. 28, 174-3; Jacob, again,April I,1745; Su- memoirofhisfather,saysshewasadaugbterof sanna, May 1, 1747; and Sarah, again, June 30, Abraham Davis and his wife Anne, daughter of 17 49. Hannah and Sarah are the only children Andrew Robinson; but this must aii be wrong, mentioned in his will. Isaac, son of Ebenezer, surely, for our only Abraham Davis, of that married Hannah Burnham, of Ipswich, July 4, time, was a brother of Susanna, and Capt. Rob-1739, and died July 5, 1767. She died Dec. 30, inson's daughter Anne married Nath'l Kinsman. 1793, aged seventy-seven. He bad the follow- Less in error is the biographer, I am happy to ing children-Isaac~ born April 14, 1740, died believe, in the high qualities he ascribes to his Oct. 9, 1825, prominent among the first settlers grandmother. A remarkable and ''heroic" pe­of New Gloucester, Me., as mentioned in the culiarityof her character was a distrust of med­History; Ebenezer,1741; Nathan, Jan. 21,1744; icine; from, which, after careful observation, Nehemiah,June 29, 1746; Hannah, Apr.29, 1749; she had come to believe that quite as much was Caleb, July 28, 1751, lost at sea, Aug. 30, 1772; to be feared as hoped, and she acted according­Lydia, Jan. 8, 1754; Thomas, Nov. 22, 1756; ly; for in a violent and long-continued fever and Aaron, Jan. 25, 1759. Ebenezer married not one particle of medicine would she take Rebecca Joslyn, and, besides two daughters, from the beginning to the end. She recovered had three sons-Isaac, Ebenezer, and Nathan. from this sickness, and after living some years He was a mariner and was probably lost by in good health, with one of her children in Bos­shipwreck; as, in the settlement of his estate, ton, died there Dec. 18, 1794. After graduating his widow, who was appointed administratrix at college Mr. Parsons probably lived in Glou­Sept. 4, 1778, charges for expense of Nehemi- cester till his settlement in the ministry at By­ah Parsons' journey to Marshfield to bury him. field, where he died Dec. 14, 1783. While living Nathan married Sarah, daughter of his uncle here he preached occasionally and some time

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kept a private school in the Harbor Parish. for granted that he was an industrious and en­From a sm~ memorandum book, 8howing that terprising man, from the fact that he relieved he. was so employed h.ere1n 1741, I gh·e the fol-, his property of the mortgage which he gave lowing extracts : when he bought it, and, besides £540 personal

"" Daniel Warner recites Dr. Watts' Divine estate divided among bis widow and nine chil­Songs; Dr. Watts' Hymns, 1st Book, 41 Hymns; dren, left in real the following large amoun~ :· Catechism with proofs.'' , \ Dwellino house Barn Cider mill a small

. , 0 ' ' ' "~ An account of Books- given away. Dr. grist mill, and about tlfty-six acres of

Watts' Divine Songs, Gouge's Guide to Youth, 1

mowing land, tillage land, and orchard and Colman's Sermon on Mr. Holden, given to adjoining, with other buildings thereon, £901

. Thomas Saunders, Daniel Warner, llartha Par- Seventy-five acres of land lying on the sons, Susanna Skvens." northerly side of the homestead between

The children of Rev. Moses Parsons were- t.hat and Piaeon Hill 250 0 '

~oses, born in Glo~cester, May 13, ~44, died\ About thirty-five acres o~ land adjoining 1n 1801; Eben, born 1nByfield, July, 1,46, was a to the westerly side·ofthe homestead, 175 disting~ished merc~ant, a~d died Nov. 27, 181~; J About thirty-nine acres of land on the .Theophilus, Jan., 1'-18, died young; Thcoph1-, southerly side of the way leading from lus, Feb. 13, 1750, the Chief Justice of Massa- I Sandy Bay to Town, 234 chusetts, died Oct. 30~ 1813; Theodore, Aug. 1, About one hundred and forty-one acres of -17·51, probably perished at sea, about 1779; Su- land where Jonathan Pool lived, 564 s!:l.nna, April, 1753; William, Aug. 6, 1755, an Wood lots and thatch lot 85 eminent merchant of Boston, died :Mar.19, 1837; and a daughter whose name or date of birth I I £2209 have not learned. Among his personal were included-~ne-half

Repeating somewhat from the History, to of a coasting sloop, £75; and a small schooner, make this account complete, I ha\'"e here given £45. all. as I have reason to believe, of the first three It appears that he brought to his new and generations of the d~scendants Qf Jeffrey Par-_ lonely home by the sea :five children-Jonathan; sons who bore his name. Later generations Miriam, who ma-rriedJohn Choate, of Ipswich, have widely diffused the name, but it is still Mar. 3, 1718; Robert; Ebenezer; and Joshua; borne by more persons on Cape Ann than that and that four were born to him here-Caleb, of any other ofthe :first settlers. In the "Di- Nov. 21, 1701; John, June 18, 1703; Return, rectory" of 1869 the names of eighty-four males April 22, 1722; and Abigail, Mar. 9, 1725, who may .be counted. married John Dane, Jan. 27, 1743, and died

JOHN PooL.-The estate he bought of John Aug. 24, 1804. Mr. Pool died May 19, 1727, and Emerson, jr., in 1700, was situated at the south- his widow Abigail, who was daughter of Nath'l erly end oftbe lots laid out at the Cape in 1688. Ballard, of Lynn, marlied Samuel Pearce,Nov. Emerson was not then of age, but a six-acre lot 21, 1728. (numbered eighty-two) was granted to him in Jonathan, oldest son of John Pool, married 1693, and be had grants of adjoining land in 1694 Hannah Burnham, of Ipswich, Jan. 4, 1722. He and 1697. He also bought a lot of six acres ad- was an elder of the Sandy Bay Church, and died joining his o~ of Thomas Low, who, though (probably about eighty-two years old) in 1776, not an inhabitant till after 1688~ was allowed I in which year, April 1, his.will was proved. His to participate in the benefit of the grant then children were-Sarah, born Oct. 28, 1722, mar­made. All this land was inclqded in Pool's pur- ried Eliezer Lurvey, Nov. 11, 1742; Hannah, chase., and he made great additions to it in sub- Mar. 2, 1725, died June 13, 1738; Mary, Feb. 7, sequent years~- -I have.seen no evidence that 1727,diedJune21, 1738; Miriam,Nov.24,1729, this settler came from England. More likely died Apr. 13, 1738; Abigail, Jan. 21, 1733, mar­is it that he was of New England parentage; 1 ried Ephraim Sheldon, Apr. IS, 1754; Jonathan, perhaps .son of .Jonathan, of Reading, whose I July 14, 1736, died July 21, 1738; and Jonathan, father John is found by Mr. Sa\Tage at Cam- again, Jan. 2, 1743. These four children who bridge in 1632, afterwards at Lynn, and last died in 1738 were victims of a throat distemper, of Reading. Most certainly it may be taken l which prevailed at Sandy Bay that year with

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distressing fatality; carrying mourning also into the homes or two other members of the Pool family, from each of which it took with heart-rending rapidity four of their pleasant children ; as the swferers are tenderly called in a notice of the sickness. Jonathan Pool, jr. married Sarah Howard, Feb. 7, 1771, and the name, it is said, is still borne by his descen­dants in Rockport.

Robert Pool married Anna, perhaps daugh­ter of Jolm Sargent, Jan. I, 1724. A tradition­ary account of the wanderings of this son is given in the History. I know nothing certnin about him, except that he ~old, Aug. 31~ 1753, then calling himself'' coaster," land near Har­bor Swamp; and that he had the following chil­dren-David, born Nov. 10, 1724; Robert, Jan. 16, 1727; Nehemiah, Oct. 30, 1729, died Nov. 26, 1736; Jonathan, Mar. 18, 1733, died Dec. 15, 1736 ; Anna, Nov. 16, 1735, died Dec. 3, 1736; Joseph, Apr. I, 1738; Benjamin, baptized July 27, 1740; and James, Apr. 3, 1743, the only one of the sons for whom I can find a wife; pre­suming him to be the same who married Sarah Marshall, March 26, 1772. Benjamin, without doubt, "died abroad at sea" in 1763, as stated in the journal of Rev. Samuel Chandler.

Ebenezer Pool married Elizabeth., __ daughter of Joshua Norwood, Jan. 30, 1724, and died of small-pox in May, 1779, aged about eighty. She died in Sept., 1775, aged about seventy. He was one of a company who, in 1743, had liber­ty to build a wharf at the Whirlpool, so called; and also so much of Bear Skin N eek as would be sufficient to set a warehouse on. In 1756 he was one of the Selectmen :-the first from Sandy Bay after that section was incorporated as a separate parish. His children were-Eb­enezer, born Apr. 13, 1725; Elizabeth, Apr. 13, 1727, married a Trask; Francis, June 19, 1729; Stephen, Aug. 14, 1731; Lucy, Feb. 26, 1734; Lucy, again, and Moses, June 30, 1736, the last of whom died Apr. 8, 1738; John, baptized Dec. 3, 1738; Miriam, born Oct.16, 1742; and Mary., Mar.19, 1748, who married John Kezur of New­buryport. Lucy married David Tarr. The old­est son, Ebenezer, married Martha Tarr, Oct. 30, 1746, and died Nov. 26, 1751. His daughter Martha was baptized Sept. 6, 1747, and died Oct. 9, 1748. Another Martha was baptized Nov.13, 1748, and a daughter Miriam, Aug. 11, 1751; who without doubt were the grand-daughters Martha Harriman and Miriam Jewett, mention-

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ed in the will of the elder Ebenezer. The wid­ow married John Hobson, jr., and removed with him to Rowley, where probably her two daugh­ters married.. Francis Pool was intending mar­riage with Lois Story of Ipswich, Aug. 22, 1752, who died his wife in 1776, and with Margaret Somes, Dec. 22, 1776. He died April 21, 1804, aged seventy-five; leaving a large estate. The town records have tbe birth of his son Ebene­zer, Feb.12, 1753, without douht the Capt. Eb­enezer who died Sept. 17, 1809, aged fifty-six; and the records of the fifth church ~rive the baptisms of Lois, Moses, David, Esther, Na­than, Sarah, Aaron, Solomon, and· Solomon, again, all by his first wife ; and of Esther by the second. But there must have been also by the first, Francis, who was killed in the battle ?f Bunker Hill, anri another Francis by the sec­ond, who died Feb. 1, 1843, aged fifty-nine. I know not that either Moses or David was mar­ried, but :five of the brothers certainly were, and each had children. Nathan died before 1801 i Aaron, died Jan. 3, 1845, aged seventy-seven; and Solomon died Dec. 5, 1841, aged seventy. Stephen, next son of the first Ebenezer, mar­ried Judith Grover, July 29, 1754-, and died Dec. 20, 1813, aged eighty-two. She died July 2, · 1822, aged eighty-four. The town records give the births of his first two children-Judith and Patience, to whom the fifth church records add Stephen, Edmund, Betty, Moses, William, Bet­ty, William, Joseph, and Sally. 'fo this large number I must add one more-Ebenezer, dea­con and otherwise prominent at Sandy Bay, born, says his grave-stone, Sept. 8, 1764, and died liay 30, 1842, aged. seventy-eight. He left a son Ebeneier, the venerable local antiquary of his native village, still living far advanced beyond four score years of uge. . Stephen, old­est son of Stephen Pool, died Aug. 11, i819, aged sixty-two. .Abigail, his wife, died June 11, 1846, aged eighty-three. I know not how many of the other sons mar1ied; Edmund and Moses probably did. The latter is supposed to be the same who came to a sad end in the woods, Mayll, 1810. John, the next and youngest son of the first Ebenezer, married Abigail Davis, Sept. 21, 1767, but survived the union only a short time. By his will of May 2, 1768, he left the whole of a small estate to his wife, who has­tened to share it with another husband by mar­rying John Low, sojourner, Oct. 18, same year.

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Deliverance, probably daughter of George Gid­dings, Dec. 28, 1725. Th,e story of his acciden­ul death is told in the History. His widow married Samuel Lane. His children were­Deliverance, born Mar.13, 1727, married Joseph Gott; Elizabeth and Sar-ah, May 2, 1729; Josh­ua, Oct. 10, 1730; Mary, (baptized Kercy) May 31, 1732; Isaac, June 22, i734; Mark. Mar. 31, 1736, died June 26, 1738; Esther, Mar. 10, 1738; and Mark, again, Oct. 9, 1739. Of the son Josh­ua I can only say that Mr. E. Pool informs me that it was not he, as the· History states, who was lost in the ship Tempest, but Joshua son of Mark. Mark married Deborah Tarr, April 15, 1760. His children, as given in the records of the fifth church~ were -Dtborah, Joshua, Esther, Olive, Lucy, Mark, Lois, and a second Joshua. The son Mark was the Capt. Mark :Pool who <lied· July 14:, 1808, aged thirty-six. Ifwe couid suppo~e that the brave soldier Mark had a wife at seventeen, the baptisms in our first church records of Joseph, April 24, 1757, and of Oliver, Aug. 29, 1759~ sons ot'" Mark Pool, mi~ht reasonably be assigned to him.

Caleb, fifth son of John Pool, married Mar­tha :rloreman of Ipswich, March 28, 1727. She died Dec. 23, 1760, and he next married Sarah Howe of Ipswich, Aug. 4, 1761-. who died Feb. 2G, 1770. It is said that he had a third wife, sister of the second, who died about the time of his own death, of small pox, of which dis­etlse he died May 17, 1779. He was a deacon of the fifth church. The probate records give the inventory of his property, '' in silver mon­ey at Gs Sd per oz.," £755, consisting chiefly of real estate. His children were-John, born June 27, 1728, died March 21, 1738; Caleb, Aug: 30, 1730, died May 24, 1734; Josiah, Aug. 4:, 1732, died March 12, 1738; Martha, July 7, 1734, died March 5, 1738; Ann, Feb. 7, 1737, died March 28, 1738; Lucy, :March, 1739, died July 23, 1868; Ann, baptized Aug. 30, 1741; Caleb, August, 1748; Martha, Aug. 17, 1746; John, March 4, 1750; and Abraham, born Oct. 5, 176.5. The son Caleb married Lucy, daugh­ter of Deacon-Nat-h'l Haskell, and grand daugh­ter of Rev. John White, and died in 1815. She, I suppose~ was the widow Lucy Pool who died Sept. 23, 1837, aged eigh~y-seven. He was of­ten a selectman and was otherwise, without donbt, a useful citizen. In the latter years of his life, the" signs, wonders and visions," by which God spoke to him for many years, and

of which be talked much and wrote some, caused him to be regarded, in the general opin­ion of his townsmen, as a man of unsound mind; but '' a certain tendency to insanity," according to high authority, '' has always at­tended the opening of the religious sense ~n men." The children of this Caleb were-Ca­leb, who had a wife Rebecca and several chil­dren; Nathaniel, father, I presume, of Nathan­iel, a farmer of Rockport, who graduated at Brown {!nh~ersity in 1853; Hannah, who mar­ried Deacon Isaac Patch; Lucy, who married Maj. Francis Norwood; Martha, who married, first, Capt. William Parsons, and, next, Samuel Caswell; and Lois, who married Jabez Tarr. .Toh:n, next son of Deacon Caleb Pool, married widow Anna Davis and bad the following chil­dren, though not perhaps in the order here named :-Nancy, John, Samuel, Martha Bc➔.re­man, Clarissa, Lucinda, Polly, and Henry, who was drowned near Thatcher's Island. Abra­ham, next and youngest son of Deacon Caleb Pool, mapied Mary Lufkin, Dec. 1, 1785. He died Feb. 1, 1841, aged seventy-five. She died Oct. 5, 1855, aged eighty-nine. His children were-Josiah, Abraham Howe, Sally Howe, William, Maria, Sophia, Joshua, Thankful, and Lois, all deceased. The only sons who married were Abraham H. and William. The former married Rachel, daughter of Job Tarr, and died May 4, 18(;0, aged seventy. William married Sophia, daughter of Jabez Tarr, and died Nov. 3; 1871, aged seventy-five. His wife died Feb. 14, 1867, aged seventy. While yet a young man he was colonel of the Gloucester regiment of militia, and in later -years made himself useful in teaching, in land surveying, and as clerk of his native town from its incor­poration to near the end of his life. Besides two daughters, Coi. Pool left two sons :-Cal­vin W., who succeeded his father as town clerk of Rockport, to whom I am indebted for valu­able aid in preparing this account of his fam­ily; and Wellington, of Wenham, of which town he is the clerk.

John, next son of the first John, married Jemima Elwell, perhaps daughter of Isaac, Oct. 29, 1729. A grave stone in the parish burying ground at Rockport tells of the death of Jemima Pool, Fe'b. 12, 1760, aged fifty-six. I suppose she was the wife of John Pool; but the town records have the marriage of a John Pool, who I think must have been the one here

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mentioned, to widow Patience Grover, June 3, 1706. Mary, the only daughter of ·Thomas 1752. If so, a mistake in date must be sup- Prince, became first the second wife of Hugh posed to account for the discrepancy. He died Rowe, and next the second wife of Isaac El­July 14-, 1767; having made his will on June I well, ·and died March 3, l 723~ aged sixty-five. 22, preceding, in which he mentions son Isaac, The division of the estate of Thomas Prince, and daughters Sarah, wife of John Rowe, and jr., shows that he left the following ~hildren: Mercy. His inventory shows real estate to -John, Edward, Isaac, Elizabeth, Sarah ~d the amount of £1493, and personal £138. His Abigail. The latter married Samuel Sable of children were-Jemima, born June 3, 1730, died Haverhill. John m?}rried Abigail, daughter of May 6, 1737; John, Sept. 3, 1731, died June 1 .. the first William Ellery, and, I think, took as 1738; Sarah, Jan. 14-, 1734, died May 31, 1738; a second wife, Aug. 7, 1746, Mary, widow of Job, Feb. 3, 1736, died June 12, 1738; Jemima, Elder James Sayward. Capt. John Prince bad Feb. 21, 1738, died May 6, 1738; Isaac, April 3, eight children, of whom two were sons-John, 1739; Sarah, baptized .Aug. 5, 174-1; Mercy, who died in childhood, and Isaac._ His daugh­Dec. 16, 1743; and Hannah, Jan'y, 174-6. Isaac ter Mary was the wife of Elder Phileinon War­manied Olive, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer ner. Of Edward I know no more; and I learn Cleaveland, Dec. 5, 1765. His children, ac- nothing of Isaac, till, at the age of forty-sev­cording to the records of the fifth church, were en, he became the third husband of Honor, -John, .Jemima, Isaac, Isaac again, William daughter of Richard Tarr. Two children by Pitts, Olive Cleaveland, Ebenezer Cleaveland, this marriage-Sarah and John, are recorded. and Nabby Stevens; all of whom, it is sup- The latter was probably the John Prince, jr., posed, were born in Sandy Bay, before the who was intending marriage with Mary Has­removal of the family to New Castle, Me., to- kell, Nov. 29, 1755, and bad a daughter Mary wards the end of the last century. baptized .Aug. 27, 17 58. He appears to have

Concerning Return Pool, youngest son of the been one of the earliest settlers at New Glou­first John, I only know that, 17 :M:arcb, 174-5, cester, Me. then of Boston, cooper, he sold to bis brother JOHN PuLCIFER.-The only other early set­Ebenezer land at Sandy Bay that he inherited I tler of New England, of this name, was Bene­from his father, the deecl of which-shows that diet Pulclfer of Ipswich, of whom our John he bad a wife Martha. may possibly have been the son. The History

I am able to add here that Hannah, widow tells all I know about him, but I add here some of Elder Jonathan Pool, died June 4-, 1777, and further information regarding his descendants. that Jonathan second had the following cbil- His children were-.Tohn, born Nov. 17, 1685, dren:-Sally; Hannah; Jonathan, who died died Aug. 27, 1707; Joanna, Oct. 7, 1688; Ma­unmarried July 2, 1847, aged seventy; Polly; ry, April 8, 1691 ; Thomas, Feb. 10, 1693; Eb­Solomon, who died Aug. 4-, 1855, aged seventy- enezer, July 20, 1695; Mary, April 27, 1697; four; and Josiah. No research tells when the David, Jan. 9, 1701; •and Jonathan, July 30, father of these children died. 1704. Thomas died Sept. 27, 177S. Besides

The account here given of the family of this three daughters. the records give him sons­settler is supposed to include all of his descen- Thomas, Nathaniel and Samuel. Nathaniel, dants of the first three generations, who lived born May 29, 1736, was a soldier in the French in Gloucester and bore his name. Though wars and lived to old age, but I know not 'tile many of later generations have emigrated, de- date of Jlis death. His wife was Abigail Proc­scendants of the name of Pool are still numer- ter, with whom he was intending marriage ous on Cape Ann. In the "Directory" for Nov. 27, 1765. The records· give him five 1869, thirty-five in Rockport and eight in Glou- daughters in succession, and then four sons :­cester are given. Nathaniel, Samuel, Epes Procter, and Isaac.

THOMAS PRINcE.-John, son of this settler, Nathaniel died Dec. 25, 1865, aged eighty-six. was probably a soldier in the Indian war of A tradition was current some years ago, that 1675, and died, or left town, before 1679, when a man of this family was one of a number ot his brother Isaac received a soldier's lot at fishermen, who were taken from two schoon­Kettle Cove which John was entitled to draw. ers by Indians~ at Sheepscot River, Me., in the It appears that Isaac died unmarried before early part of the last century. The Indians

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fastened the men to stakes and then barbarou.~ ly tomahawked them all ,.except Pulcifer, who was suffered to live,· and, after three months' confinement among the savages, made his es­cape and returned home to Gloucester. His mmd was so much aft"ected by the awful sight or the murder of .his companions, and his oth­~r suff'erings, that the mention of the word In­dian would throw him into a paroxysm of fright. I~ is said that in one of these paroxysms he

·wandered about in the woods a week, haviBg fled thither upon being told that some savages were near in a boat.

The children of Ebenezer were-John, Eb­enezer, Stephen, Edmund, Joseph, Benjamin., and five daughters. David had, besides three daughters, an only son David, born Sept. 29, 1731, who married Hannah Pulcifer of Brent­wqod, N. II., and settled in Polaud.. Maine, where he is said to have died at th~ age ot" ninety-two. The name is still perpetuate'] in Gloucester by a few descendants of John, the first settler.

THOMAS RrGGs.-Only one other person of this name, having a family, is found by Mr. Savage among the early settlers of New Eng­land :-Edward, of Roxbury, 1633. Thomas first appears in Gloucester at the date of.his marriage to Mary, daughter of Thomas Millet, June 7, 1658. Dec. 23, same year, he had a grant of six acres of upland lying at Little Riv­er, not Goose Cove, as in the History; nnd, Oct. 7, 1661, he b_ought of Coe and the Wakleys houses, gardens and home lots situated on the " south side of a salt water cove called Goose Cove." There he lived a long and useful life, and there, and around that spot, bis descend­ants have continued to the present time. By grant and purchase he acquired several other lots of land ; and was at one time the largest oper in the common territory. His wife•died Jan. 23, 1695., aged fifty-five; and he married, next, Elizabeth Frese, Oct. 30, 1695, who died June 16, 1722, aged about eighty. He died Feb. 26, 1722, aged about ninety, a.s the town clerk records, though~he was called thirty-two in 1667. His children were-Mary, born Mar. 6, 1659, married Benj. Haskell; Thomas, Jari. 23, 1661, died soon; Sarah, Feb. 16, 1662, married John Tucker; Ann, April 27, 1664, married Nath'! Wharf; Thoma..", Dec. 7, 1666; John, Feb. 27, 1669; Elizabeth, April 27, 1672, mar­ried Ezekiel Collins; Abigail, Dec. 29, 1678;

and Andrew, Jan. 8, 1682. The sons of Thom• as Riggs were farmers, and were not conspic­uous in public affairs.

Thomas Riggs, jr., married Ann Wheeler or Salisbury, Nov. 22, 1687, who died Sept. 28, 1723, aged ftf'ty-six. He next married Eliza­beth Wood of Beverly, in 1724:; who died May 19, 1727, aged about fifty-nine. He probably had a third wife, Ruth Dodge of Wenham, with whom he was intending marriage Aug. 26, 1727. He died ~ Aug. 1756, aged eighty-nine years and eight months. His will, proved Oct. 18, following, provided that his wife Ruth should have the room in his dwelling house which she pleased to live in, and that bis sons Aaron and Joshua should furnish for her every year, while she remained his widow, ten bushels of good Indian com, two bushels of good malt, one hundred pounds of pork, one hundred pounds of beef, and fire-wood at the door; also to keep for her use a good cow and six sheep. Four sons and six daughters are named in the will : Thomas, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Mary Honey­buss, Abigail Elwell, Ann Richardson, Hannah Adams, Sarah Marsh. and Lydia Davis. The latter was the wife of Solomon Davis, but she had previonsly been married to Thomas Can­neby. The oldest son, Thomas, born Jan. 16, 1690, married Sarah Lane, Dec. 17, 1713. She died Nov. 18, 1715, and he married, next, Sa­rah Hunt of Ipswich. The records give him two daughters, - Sarah and Hannah, a son Thomas who died in infancy, and a son James. I know nothing more of this Thomas, except that he was dead in 17 40. Moses, the ne:x:t son, born Mar. 31, 1698, married Merey Gowen, Mar. 19, 1727. According to the records he had the following children-Mercy, Thomas, Moses and James; but he also had certainly a son Aaron, and died befo're .Aug.17, 1736, when the inventory of his estate, amounting to less than £100, was presented at Probate Court. I sup­pose that Thomas, the oldest of these four brothers, was the same to whom the General Court allowed, March 16, 1758, "£2.6.8 in full for the half pay he was entitled to on his re­enlisting in the service in the last Crown Point Expedition." Moses, the next brother, mar­ried Mary Ellery, Feb. 26, 1756, and had three sons-Moses, Benjamin, and James, of whom, or of the parents, I know little more. Benja­min, born :Mar. 26, 1759, went in his boyhood to Westport, Me., became an active and sue-

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cessfnl business man, and-died, at about eighty, l Joshua, youngest son of the second Thomas, quite wealthy. James, next son of the first j bom Feb. 26, 1707, married Experience Stan­Moses, died before 1761, leaving no wife or! wood, Oct. 23, 1735. He was a farmer and is child. Aaron, the youngest son, ,vas, without j supposed to have died about 1790. The record doubt, the .Aaron Riggs, jr. who appears on the I gives him eleven children :-Susanna., Experi­record as the father, by hL~ wife Rachel. or a ence, Josh~ Abraham. Mary, Ann, James, son Gowen, born Sept. 5, 1156, and Samuel, William, Mar~ Martha, and Lucy. The son June 4-., 1758; and the same Aaron who died Joshua married .Mary Griffin, and had ·a son .Aug. 26, 1811. So-also probably was the Ra- Joshua, who was a sea-captain, and a son Sam­chel, who died Mar. 7 .. 1813, aged se,·enty-th·e, uel, who died April 23, 184-6, aged seventy-six. bis widow. Aaron, third son of the second i Abraham married Eliz:Lbeth Riggs and has the Thomas, born .Tan. 18, 1700, married Thoma- 1

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: births of three children recorded, one of whom sine Wentworth of Dover-, with whom bis in-, was Susanna; the same, I suppose., who mar­tention of marriage was published July 18, 1724. i ried Epes Woodbury, and died at Fo11y Cove, She died Aug. 21, 1743, six clays after the birth! Nov. 24, 1862, aged ninety-one: · James was a

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of her twelfth child. He next married, proba-1 ship-master, and married Mary, daughter of bly in Oct., 1744, his cousin Anne Riggs, daugh- ! Rev. John Rogers, Feb. 9, 177~. Their only ter of his uncle Andrew. She died Aug. 1, ! son James, a mate of a vessel, died in New.Or-

' 1773, aged sixty-two, and he was intending, at! leans, about 1823., leaving a widow still living, the age of seventy-four, to take for his third! in West Gloucester, at the advanced age of wife .Abigail Burnham. The Probate records ninety-four. call him housewrigbt, and say that administra-

1 John, son of the first Thomas, married Ruth

tion of his estate was granted to Aaron Riggs, ! Wheeler, Jan. 1, 1690. He died Jan. J.2 or 18, Oct. 6, 1789. If his death was then recent he ; 1748. The date of her death is not known, nor must have lived to be nearly ninety. The re-! is bis second marriage recorded, but the settle­cords give him three sons and thirteen daugh- ment of bis estate shows that he left a widow ters, born in the following order :-Ann~ Sa- Dorothy. She made her will, Feb. IO, 1758., rah, Lydia, Thomasine, Mary, Ruth, Hannah, ! then living, in Topsfield; but in it makes no .( died soon,) Martha, WentwQ!th, Hannah, mention of the children of John Riggs. His :te,<1'3.in, Elizabeth, A.arvn., (died soon,) Sarah, children were-~utb, born Nov. 4, 1690, mar­Dorothy., Aaron .. again, and Judith. The son riedJames Lane, and died Aug. 18, 1711; John, Wentworth married Elizabeth Giddings, Mar. Mar. 22, 1692; Jeremiah, Oct. 5, 1694; Macy, 26, 1761, and had the births of two daughters June 30, 1696, married .John Lane; Com!ort, -Elizabeth and Thomasine, recorded. Aaron May 3, 1698, married Thomas Cotton of Port~­was intending marriage with Martha Adams, mouth, N. H.; Jonathan, died Jan. 19., l'iOO; May 20, 1775. She became his wife and the Jonathan, born Dec. 20, 1700; Abigail, Sept. IO, mother of his eight children, one of w.hom, 1702, married Nath'l. Low of Ipswich, and died Miss Ann Riggs, is still living, in her eigbty- Aug. 6, l'i74; Rachel, Ang. 30, 1704, manied :fifth year. Becoming a widower at seventy- Thomas Lufkin of Ipswich; Elizabeth, June four, this Aaron, like his father, inclined to 26, 1707, married Daniel Hill of Newbury; and marry again; and therefore took to wife, about Ruth, again, Feb. 16, 1713, married Adam Well­Sept., 1823, 1\-Irs. Polly Oakes, widow of John man. The oldest son, John, married Abigail Oakes, who was lost on Cashes' Ledge in the Coit, who died Mar. 31, 1733; and he next mar­great gale of 1808. She died in Hockport, July ried Abigail Tucker, Mar. 3, 1734. He died in 13, 1865, over ninety-four years old. Mr. Riggs July or August, 1736. According to the record died Sept. 15, 1828, aged seventy-eight. He his children were-Abigail; John; John, again; bad a_ son Wentworth; a son John, who died Ruth; Martha; Comfort; and J erem\ih. Of Dec. 1, 1852, aged seventy-one; a son Andrew, the latter, I know no more. John, born Aug. who was a sailor in the U. s. Navy, and died 31, 1723, married Susanna Collins,Jnne 17, 1746. somewhere on the lakes, about 1814, leaving He had deceased in 1748; leaving an only son sons who have been prominent business men Nathaniel. Jeremiah. next son of the :first in the town; a son Joshua; and a son Thomas, John, married Rachel Haskell, Dec. 31, 17H1, who died April 2, 1849, aged fifty-six. and had Rachel, Wheeler, Joseph, and Ruth

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born h~re, before his removal to Falmouth, Me: Jonathan, youngest son of the :first John, is f~.mnd on the records_ as the father of Jonathan, 1\1:try, Jemima, and Ruth, by his wife Mary ; and next appears on his marriage to Sarah Phips, Dec. 13, 1742. The children of this un­ion were-John, Sarah, Susan, another John, Comfort, Abimelech, and. Rachel; - of none of whom.- or of the parents, can I say more.

Andrew, youngest son of the first Thomas, married l1ary Richardson, Jan. 24-, 1704. It is certain that he lived to very old age, but there is no record or his death, or that of his wife. His children were-Mary, born April 24-, 1705 ; Elizabeth, Feb. G, 1707; ,vnuam, Jan. 23, 1709; Anna, Jan 11, 1711; Joseph, Sept. 26, 1713; :Margaret, Feb. 4, 171 G; Patience~ Sept. 4-, 1718; George, Feb. 22, 1721; and Anna, again, July 13, 17t4. The oldest son, \Villiam, married Mary Hilton,Nov.12, 1734.and bad th~ follow­ing cl1ildren :-,Villiam, Esther, Sarah, and Jeremiah. The inventory of hi...._ estate, con­taining. one item only-a. third of a wood lot, valued at £5.5s, wns placed on record Jan. 21, 1747. Joseph, brother of the preceding, mar­ried Priscilfa .Allen, Oct. 25, 1738, who died in 17 50. It appears that he was next married to Sarah Demerit in 1761, and again, to Mary Greenleaf in 1761. The records give him four children-Priscilla, Anna, Mary, and Joseph; and I can say no more of the father or his o:ff­spring., unless the son Joseph w:is the same who married Sarah Smith, Nov. 23, 1772. George, youngest son of Andrew, married Rachel El-

-well, lteb. 1, 17 44. No record tens the death of ' . either; but he is said to have died about 1798.

His children were-Timothy, who died young; Elizabeth; Rachel; George; Elizabeth, again; Timothy, again ; :Mary; Samuel; :Martha; and Asa. The last named son died l:lar. 10, 1821, aged sixty-one.

The David Riggs_ mentioned in the History as a soldier· in the French wars of the last cen­tury, was an illegitimate son of the second John. He was a servant of Isaac Allen, and enlisteq in the Crown Point Expedition of 1755, f~on1 which-lie never returned; having died near Lake George., aged about twenty ..

In this account of the family of this settler is given, with some repetition from the His­tory to make it complete, all of his descendants of the first three generations, known to me as natives of Gloucester and bearing his name.

In the Directory for 1869 eleven of this name are gh·en, seven or whom bad their homes on or near the spot where their emigrant ancestor settled and liV<!d so many years.

JOHN RoBERTs.-Of the numerous families of this name among the early settlers of New Eng­land, mentioned by Mr. Savage, I ftnd no one to which our John can be so reasonably assigned as that of Robert of Ipswich. The children of John, as given in the town records. were­N atbauiel, born Mar. 26, 1679; John, Dec. 12, 1680; Samuel, Mar. 25, 1685; Thomas, Aug. 2, 1687; Ebenezer, Jan. 22, lb"90; Mary, Oct. 28, 1696; and Job., Mar. 19, 1701. To these the records of the first chQrch add Susanna, ,vn­liam, and Elizabeth, as .... baptized before 1703.n

Nathaniel., oldest son of John, is supposed to ha \-·c married l\Iary Biles of Beverly, with whom, according to the records of that town, he was intending marriage Apr. 6, 170,. The birth or bis SOD J onatban is recorded here, March 28, 1708; but probably he soon removed to Bever­ly, of which place he was certainly an inhabi­tant some years later.

The children of the second John were-Ben­jamin,'born Dec. 2, 1703; Patience, l\Iar. 9, 1707, died Dec. 24, 1713; Samuel, Feb. 25, 1710, died Aug. 2, 1727; John, April 20, 1714; Patience, .again, Dec. 2, 1715; and Ephraim, Nov. 5, 1721. Benjamin, the oldest son, married Ruth Martin, Dec. 17, 1728, and had William, who died soon, Mary, Judith, Samuel, Joshua, Benjamin, Ruth, and William, again; of not one of whom can I say more, unless William, born July 15, 17 44, be the same who was intending marriage with Mary Davis., Nov. 26, 1763. John, son of -the second John, married Mary Lane, Nov. 13, 1735. The records give him the following children :­David, born 8, died 9 Aug., 1736; Comfort, . ..\.ug. 8, 1737, died same ~ay; Sarah; Elipbalet; Levi; Hannah; John; and Sarah, again. The son Levi married Susanna, widow of Caleb Lincoln, and daughter, probably of Capt. Charles Byles, Oct. 25. 1774. She died Nov. 18, 1830, aged ninety-three. Ephraim, youngest son of the second John, married Dolly Francis, who was from Medford, June 7, 1737. His children were -Patience, who died soon; Ephraim; Nathan; and Dolly.

The date of marriage of Samuel, son of the first John, Feb. 27, 1707, is given in the records· but the wife's name is Bot found~ nor are any children recorded to him.

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Of Thomas~ the next sen, nothing is learned, oldest of these, Abraham, born Feb. 1, 1704.-, except the date of his birth. married Lydia Day, Nov. 28, 1728. She died

Ebenezer, had a wife Sarah, by whom three July I, 1779. The date of his death is not children,-Samuel, Ebenezer, and Sarah, were known. He also had a great number of chil­born to him here before .his removal to Fal- dren :-six sons and six daughters. The sons mouth, Me. In that place he had two more- were-Abraham, Jonathan, Matthew, Ezekiel, \Villiam and Vinson. The son Samuel died in I Daniel .. and Peter; of whom I find but three childhood. Ebenezer, jr., born Dec. 13, 1717, who married in town: Jonathan, born Aug. 30, married :Mary Kinnicum of Gloucester, June 7, 1733 .. I suppose to be the same who was intend-1737, ancl had a son William born, in Falmouth, ing marriage with Sarah Annis, Nov. 24, 1758. liar. 15, 1738. No child is recorded to him, but, besides the

William, son of the first John, was probably son Jonathan who died in 1843, it is said that the William Roberts, who; by his wife Sarah~ he had sons Abraham and Isaac, and daughters had a son Job born in Falmouth, Mar. 14, 1721. :Mary, Esther, and .Anne. Ezekiel Robinson, If so, he must have gone in advance of the · born Nov. 16, 1737, married Abigail ~ierce, June other Gloucester people who removed to that 26, 1760, who died in ~July? 1762. His next wife pface; aud he probably died before they got was .A.big-ail Tarbox, with whom he was intend­there, or returned and died here soon: for the. ing marriage Dec. 8, 1764. He was taken by a Probate Records show that Sarah Roberts pre- British ship of war in 1777, while returning sented account of administration of her bus- from a trading voyage to Virginia, and c.-arried band \Villiam, May 17, 1725. In it mention is to Halifax, N. S., where he died the same year. made of a bed sold at Casco Bay, a.nd of bring- His son Ezekiel, born No,·. 15, 1770, went in his ing up a young child. boyhood to live with his uncle Tarbox, in Maine.

Persons of this name have never been nu- He married Eunice Ba.dgerof Windham, at New merous in town; but it is ~till borne here by Gloucester, Sept. 4, 179-!. After 1803, he lived descendants of the first settler, two of whom in Gardiuer, where he died Dec. 7, 1856,. aged reside in the section of the town where he first eighty-six. His wife died there Nov ... 9, 1848,. made his home. aged seventy. His son Thomas B. was, in 1859>

ABRAH.All RoBr~soN.-I can give no addi- a Baptist minister in Kendusteag, Me ... , and an, tional information in regard to this settler; and other son, Ezekiel, was a Methodist :minister concerning his son, Abraham, whose lc"e tradi- and had been several years a Presiding Elder; tiun lengthened to one hundred and two years, and Francis Ashbury, son of the latter, was I can only add.that I have found the year of his then a professor in Readfield Seminary. ,vu .. birth. In a deposition, given Feb. 20, 1722, he liam, son of the first Ezekiel, died in tb.e Wes.t calls himself seventy-seven years old: showing Indies of yellow fever. Daniel, another son,, that he was born in 1644, or e;irly in 1G45. The was living in 1859, in Gardiner, where he edit. latest date to which I can trace him is March, eel the '~ Maine Farmer's Almana,c.~' Daniel

• • 1730, when Deborah, widow of Joseph York, Robinson, borninl744,marriedMaeyQuetville, had set off to her one-third part-of a house and Jul_y 12,. 1767, and this is all I can say of him .. land at Eastern Point, to be for her use afte1' Samuel, son of the third Abraham, born Sept. the decease of Abraham Robinson, sen. The 15, 1706, married Elizabeth Littlefield, Feb. 8, History omits the full date of birth of his chil- 1728. He prol>ably died about 1784. Besides. dren, and I therefore give it here: Mary, Aug. four daughters, he had sons Samuel; James,. 20, 1669; Sarah, Sept. 17, 1671 ; Elizabeth, Sept. John, Benjamin, and Andrew; of whom the first 12,. 1673; Abigail, Jan. 4, 1675; Abraham, Oct. three appear to have married in town. Samuel 15, 1677; Andrew, Oct. 2, 1679; Stephen, Dec. lived in Town Parish, and died in August, 1815,. 9, 1681; Ann, April 12, 1684; Dorcas, July 27, aged eighty-four. 1686; Deborah, Oct. 12, 1688; Hannah, Jan. 27, Andrew, third son of the third Abraham, born 1691, died Aug. 13, 1717; and Jane, Oct.13, 1698. Nov. 16, 1710, married Martha Gardner, Jan. 1,. The son .Abraham had by his two wives eleven 1736. To him were born in succession five. children, of whom six were sons :-Abraham, sons, - two Andrews, Jonathan, Henry, and Samuel, Andrew, John, Jonathan, and David, Joh~; and then a daughter Martha. I find the. of whom the first three married in town. The marriage of Jcmatb~n Qnly, sup.,posin~ bim w

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be the same who married ..\.nna Batting, Jan. Rockport, a few years ago, at a great age. A 10, 1765. He was born April 21, 17 42, and was, visit to this \"'enerable woman, which I made in I think, the Jonathan wh9 died Jan. 30, 1821. i861, when her mental faculties were wonder­Jonathan and his wife Anna bad a son Jona- fully preserved, failed to elicit anything to add than, who died Joly 8, 1842, aged seventy-eight; weight to the traditionary account of the de­an old Grand Bank skipper. Two other sous, scent ot her family from Rev. John Robinson, Andrew and John, are said to have died in or to confirm the story of the remarkable lona Havana, of yellow fever, about 1809. - gevity of her grandf.ither·s grandfather, Abra•

Of famous Capt. Andrew Robinson, second ham Robinson. son of the secon<l Abraham, the History p.ives Descendants of this settler, bearing tbe name, a large account, to which I have notlling to add. have never been numerous in Gloucestt:r, and · The children of Stephen, youngest son of the the nomb~r at the present time does not prob­second Abraham, were-two sous born dead, a ably exceed a dozen. daughter that died in infancy, a daughter Mary, Jon~ RowE.-lt would be gratifying to know and three sons :-Stephen, Smith, and Jere- what it was that so mucl~ disturbed the peace mfah. Stephen, born July 11. l 709~ married of this settler. The e,·idence of his disqui~t, Mary Clark, Feb. 29, 1730, and had a daughter allud~d to in the History, is furnished by the Sarab, born Aug. 9, 1731; and a son Stephen, Quarterly Court Records, which inform us that baptized Sept. 12, 173<->. He may have removed be was pr<•sented, June 26, 1656, '' for saying to +\Iarblehe:id, as administration of the estate if bis wife were ·ow his mind he would set his of a Stephen, late of that place, was granted· house on tire and tun away by ye light and ye to his widow Mary, Jan. 23, 1740. The son devil should take ye farme; and speaking the Stephen was probably the same who was in- same a second time, added, that he would Jive no tending marriage with Eunice Clark, Feb. 22, longer among such a company of bell-hounds." 1755, and with Rachel Lurvey, June 29, 1756. The presentment was acknowledged in a writ­I :find neither the birth or baptism of any cbild ing presented at Court, and he was fined twen­of bis, but I suppose th:it Stephen, who died ty shillings and sentenced to make a confession Oct. 20, 1829, aged sixty-nine, was his son. at the next town meeting in Glouces~er. I find Jeremiah Robinson, son oft.he first Stephen, .. noearlierNewEnglandhomeforhimtbanGlou­born .JuJy 10, 1719, married Elhabeth Lufkin, cester. The in,·entory of his estate amounted Nov. 5, 1741. The chief employment of his to £205.16.10. His widow Bridget, married life was that of grave-digger at the old bury- ,villiam Colman, No¥. 14~ 1GG2~ and died 1.-Iay ing-ground. In that he was engaged from 1741 2, 1680. till about the close of the century, when, after The :first wife of the second John, Mary Dick­an old age of poverty, he was himself laid at inson, was probably the Mary Rowe, daughter rest where he had deposited so many ot' his of Joh.1 Dickinson of Salisbury, mentioned in fellow-mortals. The records give him three the will of the hitter9 nee. 27, 1683. - She died children-Elizabeth, Jeremiah and Hannah, to \ April 25~ 1684, and be next married Sept., -1684. whom I can add one more-Sarah Smith, who Sarah Redington, who was, without doubt, the married Samuel Davis. Perhaps she was the\ Sarah Rowe, called daughter of Abraham Red­Mrs. Sarah Da,·is who died in June, 1838, aged , ington of Boxford, in his will of Oct. 14, 1693. eighty-four. The son Jeremiah,. born Apr. 24-, \ She died Feb. 15, 1701 •. His children were-1747, married .Molly Collins, April 17, 1770. I John, born .April 6, 1665, died Nov. 18, 1690, They both died within a week, about 1776, to- probably unmarried; James, Dec. 25, 1666, a gether with an infant daughter who was bu- grantee of a six acre lot at the Cape in 1688. ried in her mother's arms. This last Jeremiah but I learn no more of him; Thomas, Nov. 26, left a son Jere~_iah, born in 1773, who became 1668; Mary, Feb. 11, 1670; Elizabeth, May 21, a seaman. When a young man he returned . 1673; Stephen, Nov. 26, 1675; Samuel, :Mar. 26, home sick from a voyage to the West Indies,

11678; Ebenezer, Aug. 19, 1680, died Sept. 24-,

and died at the house of bis aunt Sarah. Pol- 1~92; Andrew, Dec. 31, 1683, died Aug. 15, 1700; ly, his sister, born Jan.12, 1771, married, :first, _Benjamin, Aug. 1, died Oct. 24, 1685; Sarc1.h'! John Oakes of Sandy Bay, who was lost at sea liar. 28, 1687, died Aug. 21, 1700; John, Dec. 20, in 1808, and, next, Aaron Riggs; and died in 1691., died Aug. 29, 1700; and Rebekah, July 21,

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1694. The son Thomas married Sarah Brown~ J 1762, who married Betsey Marsh, Sept. 9, 1784, Jan. 8, 16..06, and died April 6, 1700, leaving no • and was lost, with all his shipmates, on a voy-known issue. Stephen married Martha Low, July 6, 1699, who died Dec. 4-, 1718, aged about thirty-nine; and be next married Elizabeth Curney, Nov. 6, 1721, and died April 28, 1731. His widow is said to have attained great age. The children of the two marriages were-Su­sanna, Sarah, Stephen, Martha, Sarah again, John, Stephen 3eaain, Elizabeth, John again, Thomas, Joseph, lienjamin, David and Jona­than. Eleven of these children were living when their father died. Susanna married Wil­liam Millbury, Aug. 19, 1717; Martha munied Benjamin Boynton, Nov. 29, 1723; Sarah mar­ried John Winnery, Dec. 7, 1735. Stephen, born Dec. 25, 1709, married Mercy Day, per­haps daughter of John, Dec. 13, 1731. The to~ records have the birth of his daughter Mercy, who died soon; and the baptism of Mary, daugh­ter of Stephen Rowe, June 10, 1750 is found in the records of the first church. John, the next son, born June 28, 1714,married Mary, probably daughter of Jabez Baker, of SandyBay,Nov.11, 1736. She died about 1752, and he next mar­ried Abigail Langsford, June 16, 1752, who died of small pox, Dec. 15, 1779. He died Oct. 2, 1781. The History tells of the military distinc­tion of this family. The town reeords give him, by both wives, ten children ; but by the last there were five or six more, it is said; and certainly Isaac, born Dec. 31, 1761, a revolu­tionary pensioner, who died Jan. 2, 1852. Five of the children recorded were sons :-John, the Bunker Hill captain; two of the name of Jabez, of which the last, born July 26, 1740, married in Sandy Bay, and died about 1816, leaving de­scendants there ; and two Ebenezers, the last of whom, born Aug. 13, 1750, removed to George­town, Me., and is thought to have died there about 1837.

Samuel, son of the first John, married. Dor­cas Ingersol, Jan. 2, 1709, and, besides three daughters-Dorcas, Judith, and a second Dor­cas, had sons-Samuel, James, Jonathan, and Andrew; the last of whom died in childhood. James only, so far as I know, left descendants in town. He was born Oct. 31, 1715, and mar­ried Abigail Rowe, Feb. 28, 1736. The oldest of his seven children, James, born Mar. 2, 1738, married Elizabeth Sanders, Dec. IO, 1761, and died Mar. 26, 1819. I know not how many chil­dren he had, but certainly James, born Apr. 26,

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age t.o the Grand Bank in 1786, a few months before the birth of his only son, James, the old sea-captain who died Mar. 17, 1870, aged eighty­tbree. Hugh, the other son of the ftrst John, died Dec. 11, 1696. His widow became the sec­ond wife or Isaac Elwell, and died Mar. 3, 1723, aged sixty-ftve. H!-,8 children were-Rachel, bom Nov. 10, 1668, married Samuel Day; Ruth, June 26, 1671, married Nath'l Day; Mary, Feb. 5, 1673, married Ezekiel Day; Margaret, Sept. 25, died Dec. 2, 1675; Abigail, Dec. 19, 1677, married James Hardy; Abraham, 4pr. 26, le80, married Bethiah Elwell, Jan. 17, 1705, and died July 8, 1706, a few months after the death of his only child, an infant ; Isaac, Oct. 13, 1682, died Joly 23, 1723~ leaving no known wife or child; Jacob, June 17,-1685; Joseph, May 19, 1687; Benjamin, Nov. 9, 1690; and Martha, June 18, 1695. To these should be added, as shown in the settlement of the mother's estate, a daugh­ter Mary, who married Richard Langsford. The son Jacob married Mary Curney, Jan. 7, 1713, and died of small-pox in 1730. His children were-Jacob, who died in infancy; Mary; and Jacob, again. Joseph, brother of the preced­ing, married Abigail Smith, Sept. 8, 1712. Be­sides a daughter Abigail, be had sons-Joseph, Job, and Abraham; the last of whom died in childhood. Joseph, born Dec. 9, 1712, I sup­pose to be the same who married Sarah Day, Nov. 26, 1737, and removed to Newbury, with six children, in 1754:. One of these children, Zebulon., born here in 17 44, was, without doubt, the Capt. Zebulon Rowe, who, according to the Newbury records, was paid by that t.own for· service in the revolutionary war. Of Benjamin, youngest son of Hugh, I learn no more.

Of the descendants of this settler, all known to me of the :first three generations, who bore his name, are included in this account. Mr. Savage finds a few others of thi_s name among the early settlers of New England, but I doubt if the descendants of any one of them, if of all together, are more numerous than those of John of Gloucester. Fifty-three males bearing it, in Gloucester and Rockport, may be counted in the Directory for 1869.

WILLIAJ."'\I S.ARG.E.i."'iT.-1 can add nothing to what the History tells of this settler. The full date of birth of each or his children, there omit-

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ted, ts here given,-John, March 18, 1653; An- land, to which place he had gone as the pilot or drew, Dec. 3, · 1655; ~illiam, Aug. 16, 1658; a vessel. Dudley manied Hannah, daughter Samuel, Mar. 22, 1660; Nathaniel, Oct. SO~ died of Rev. Daniel Fuller and settled in Newbury­Nov. 7, 1663; Abigail, Mays, 1665; Nathaniel, port. RogerdiedyounginNewOrleans. Ben­again, May 28, 1671; Joseph, Mar. 27, 1675; jamin went to Sedgwick, Ile. and there died. and Mary, Nov. 24, 1678. Abigail was twice Oliver settled in Orland, Me., and a son George married :-first, to William Stevens, and, next, Washington also settled in Maine. Another to Nathaniel Coit, and died Jan. 8, -1710. Roger was drowned o1f Eastern Point, by the

John Sargent had, Jan. 4-, 167-1, a grant of upsetting of a boat. Five of the daughters of land on the westerly side of Squam River'' over Dr. Sargent were married; of whom two, Mrs. against" his father's hoase. He afterwards Knowlton and Mrs. Rust, are still living, at the had other grants in that vicinity, and seems to vt!nerable age of eighty-five and eighty-three, have made his home in that section of the town. respectively; and it is pretty safe to say that He lost his life in the public service, as narrat- they a1·e the only two living sisters who are ed in the History, in 1710; and, twenty-five great, great, grand-children of one of the first years afterwards, his heirs received a grant of settlers of Gloucester. Thomas, next son of two hundred acres of Province land in consid- the first John, born May 9, 1685, ma1Ti.ed Eliza­eration thereof. His five sons were,-John, beth Haskell, Sept. 27, 1710. He-died Apr.-29, 'a'homas, Andrew, David and Joseph; of whom 1735, and his widow married James God(rey. three appear to have married in town. John, He had a son 'khomas, who, says the ·record, born Jan. 29, 1683, married Bethiah Davis, Dec. "was killt•d with a cart wheel," May 27, 1729; 23, 1714. By her he had three children-John; and sons John and Andrew, or whom I know David, who died soon; and Bethiah, who mar- no more. Joseph, youngest son of the first ried Josiah Ingersoll. He had a second wife, John, born Apr. 23, 1702, married Martha Day, Mary, widow of William Ring, to whom he was Jan. 26, 1727. She died May 14, 1733, and he, it married Oct. 25, 1738; and by her had thr~e is supposed, about the same time. Two sons more children-Thomas; Abigail, who married -David and Joseph are recorded to him, but William Presson; and David, who die<Lso.on-. all I know of them is that Joseph died in child­The father died about 17 54, aged a boot seventy. hood. His son· John, born Aug. 18, 1720, married .Abi- .Andrew, second son of the first William, does gail Parsons, Dec. 4, 174-4-, and died in less than not appear in Gloucester after 1679. He was three years, leaving a small estate which was probably the Andrew of Ipswich, of whose es­divided between bis widow and his father. tate bis widow Mary was appointed adminis­Thomas, the other.son, born Oct. 19, 1739, is said tratrix, Mar. 81, 1691, and had, as one of the to have gone in early life on some military ex- sureties on her bond, Mr. William Sargent, sen. pedition with Dr. Rea of Danvers. Upon his of Gloucester. One of the items_in the inven­retum home he married Lucy, daughter of Wil- tory is-" Due to ye estate in bills £5..5 "; and liam Haskell, of West Parish, and settled in j in_ the '' Inventory of goods of Audrew Sar­that part of the town ns a doctor, where, it is gent, late of Ipswich, deceased, and found in said, he was much employed in cases of com- the possession of Mary Ingalls, formerly ye mon sickness. He· confined himself chiefly to widow and relict of s'd Andrew at her decease, the root and herb practice, though he resorted ta.ken 7 May, 1697 ," mention is ms.de of '' £55 much to the use of millipedes, better known by j entered in the inventory of Andrew Sargent not the homely name of sow-bugs; which, strange I here included being give::i to one of the children a.~ it may seem, were contained in the materia by Stephen Glover." Perhaps this child was medicaofthe.regolarpractitionerstillacompar- the Nathaniel Sargent who graduated at Har­atively recent period. Dr. Sargent died Ang. vard College, 1707; to whom, according to Mr. 29, 1828, in his eighty-ninth year. Bis wife Savage," Stephen Glover gave all bis proper­Lucy bore him nine children and died. Be next ty, requiring that he should be bred up to learn­married Jemima1 daughter of Deacon Nathaniel ing." Haskell, who added eight more, and died in her Concerning William, third son of the first ninety-third year. Several of the children died William, I can only add to what the History young. Abimelech, the oldest son, died in Port- tells of him, that the number of his children,

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therein stated as eleven, should be increased by the addition of two. Eight of them were daughters. or the :tlve sons we know that two died in infancy, and that the other three were named William, Charles~ and Jonathan, of whom, or of the parents, or other children, I know nothing after the birth of Jonathan, in 1714.

Samuel, fourth son of the :fl.rst William, left four sons who married in town; and their de­scendants comprise probably three-fourths of all of the name now living here; and most of them are on the north side of the Cape, where this son was one of the first settlers. His son Samuel, born April 8, 1690, I suppose to be the same whose will, made .Jan. 25, 1761, was prov­ed Apr. 5, 1763. In it he mentions wife Mary, son Samuel, grandson Samuel who then lived with him, and two daughters, Mary and Martha. The next son, William, born about 1692, bas the births of four sons-Stephen, William, Jon­athan, and Samuel, and a daughter Susanna, .recorded. Of the nine children of Francis, the next son, born Sept. 5, 1694, six were sons­William, Francis, Joshua, Michael, York, and Peter. Francis died unmarried, about 1758, and of the others I :find, before 177 5, only the marriage of Joshua; though a Peter was in­tending marriage with Rebecca.-PJerce, March 26, 1·174:_ Solomon, the youngest son of Sam­uel, born Feb. 12, 1708, bad, according to the records, Solomon, Winthrop, David, and Sarah. Besides these four sons of Sam'l Sargent, sen., he had two-Stephen, who died Oct. 12, 1724, .aged twenty-:flve, :,and Joshua, who died Oct. 23, same year, aged twenty-one.

The second wife of Nathaniel, fifth son of the :first William, was probably widow of Jonathan .Stevens. One of his sons died in infancy, a.nd three of them married in town: Nathaniel, born Sept. 22, 1702, married Judith Parsons, Nov. 9~ 1725. He kept a tavern on the spot where the Baptist church now stands, and died about 1769. The town records give him two sons-Nathan­iel and David, and three daughters, by his wife Judith, and a daughter Abigail, by his wife Abigail; but the latter is a mistake of the town clerk, as I have proved. Abigail was also a daughter of Judith. She married Daniel War­ner, and died Nov. 8, 1817, agea eighty-six. To these six children of Nathaniel Sargent, the records of the first church add four more :­Elizabeth, Ann, Andrew, and Molly. Daniel,

son or the tlrst Nathaniel, bom Ju1y·29, 1714-, married Lydia Stanwood, Jan. 17, 1744. The town and church records together give him two daughters and four sons. William, one or the latter, born Dec. 7, 1750, was the victim or the revolutionary war, mentioned in the His­tory. There is no record of his marriage, bot we know that his wife was Mary, daughter or William Card, and that she had for a second husband David Plummer, a merchant of the town, and for a third Capt. John Beach. Her only child by Sargent was a soil William, whe died Nov. 1, 1865; aged, says the record, 97 years, 1 mo., and 21 days; an exaggeration of :fl ve years at least, as I infer from information , derived from himself. This venerable citizen left no descendant. Nathaniel, another of the sons of Daniel Sargent, baptized June 30, 1754, married .Abigail, daughter of Isaac .Allen, and grand-daughter of Rev. John White. He was a ship-master, and was absent many years in France, but :finally returned, and died in Glou­cester, Oct. 18, 1819. Peter, son of the first Nathaniel, born June 2, 1721, married Rebekah Ingersol, Jan. 16, 1743. His sons were-Peter, Jonathan, David, Nathaniel, and Robert. Jon­athan was the father of Nathaniel, who died Aug. 20, 1872, aged eighty-:flve. Anna, only sister of Jonathan, married James Odell, and died in January, 1831, aged eighty-two.

Joseph, sixth and youngest son of the ftrst William, probably left an only c~d-Joseph, born May 16, 1713, who, I suppose, was the Joseph Sargent, jr., who had a wife Dorothy, by whom several daughters and a son Joseph were born to him between 1739 and 1757.

Twenty-one males of this name were found ·in town, in 1869, nearly if not all of whom were descendants of the first settler William.

J ..L'IES SA WYER.-This settler, it is quite cer­tain, was not a son of William of Newbury. According to Mr. Savage there were several Sawyers among the early settlers of New Eng­land, among whom he mentions a James of Ipswich in 1669, probably our settler of that name; but who his father was no research of mine, or of John M. Bradbury, Esq., of Ips­wich, who has kindly examined the records or that town for me, can tell. Mr. B. informs me that a Samuel Sawyer of Ipswich bought a house and land there in 1654. Possibly James was of bis family, though the rare appe~rance of Samuel as a baptismal name in H1e early

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generations or the descendants of James may not favor this conjecture.· No record of the marriage of the latter has yet been found, but from a quit-claim deed or children of Thomas Bray, of May 12, 1712, we know that she was bis daughter. The record of her birth is not preserved, but it i~ probable that she was born in 1661. She died April 2-4:, 1727. The will of James Sawyer, made May 25, 1703, six days before his death, was proved Jone 28, follow­ing. In it he gives most of his estate to bis son .Abraham, providing that he should pay to his brothers and sisters the bequests made to them, and that he should furnish his mother " one quarter part of ye fruit of ye orchard;

, two cows yearly, to be maintained winter and summer; 9 lbs. of sheep's wool ; 6 lbs. of Flax tow; 12 bushels Indian corn yearly, and malt to make her beer, as much as may be conven-, ient; 1 Iron pot and 1 skillet for her use; 100 lbs. good pork, well salted; 40 lbs. good beef; and wood cut and brought to the house, :flt to be laid on her ftre." He gives his daughter Sarah £12, and says "if my daughter Sarah be in election to be married my executor must and shall provide out of ye estate I shall hereafter leave unto him, a complete suit to all parts of her body :flt and convenient for O"Qe of her rank to be married iB." He left an estate of about £400. His will mentions all of his children. They were-Thomas; John; Mary, who mar­ried William l{ing, and died Dec. 18, 1717, aged forty-ftve; Nathaniel, born Dec. 29, 1677; Abra­ham, Nov. 5, 1680, died unmarried, probably about 1752; Sarah, June 19, 1683, married John· Mariner, and died Aug. 26, 1724:; Isaac, :Feb. 14, 1684; Jacob, Feb. 24, 168'i; and James, Nov. 18, 1691.

Thomas Sawyer married :first Hannah, prob­ably daughter of John Millet, Feb. 17, 1690, who died Sept. 15, following. He next mar­ried Hannah F9ster, Nov. 18, 1691. I suppose -she was daughter of Thomas Very and widow ·.of Bartholomew Foster, born in 1653, and therc­·fore about twice as old as h~r husband. He ·.appears to :ha~~~come into possession of the -house and land of Foster, situated near the .Harbor Beach, and to have been much employ­ed about the watch-house not far distant. He died Jan. 12, 1711, leaving an only son James, born Sept. 23, 1692, who married Elinor, daugh­ter of William Ellery, Nov. 30, 1714, and died Nov. 1, 1730. His children were-Thomas,

bom June 1, 1716; Mary, June 28, 1720, who probably died unmarried before 1741; and James, baptized Aug. 26, 1722. The marriage of Thoma.~ is not on the town records, but those of the :first church have the baptism of a Thomas, son of Thomas, Oct. 11, 1740. James, I think, was the James Sawyer, 3d, who mar­ried Hannah Williams, Feb. IS, 174:3, and had three children-Hannah, Thomas, and Molly, baptized at the first church. Here ends my knowledge of the descendants of Thomas, old- . est son of James Sawyer.

John, the next son, married Rebecca Stan­ford, Feb. 20, 1701, and had the following chil­dren :-Sarah, John, Mary, Job, Joseph, Jona­than, Rebecca, and Daniel, all born here before 1719. ·Mr.Willis, in his History of Portland, says-"" In the autumn of 1725 Jeremiah Riggs and John Sawyer came here from Cape Ann -with their families.!- They became useful in~ habitants, and are the ancestors of a numerous race who continue to reside among-us." Rev. T. Smith adds, in bis journal, '" they were both good sort of men, errors excepted."

Nathaniel, the third son, married Hannah Parker, Nov. 4, 1706. Besides seven daugh­ters, he had three sons :-Nathaniel, John, and Parker. Of the ftrst I· know no more. John, born April 3, 1717, married Martha Hubbard of Salisbury, in 17 45, and had, according to the Gloucester records, eight children, of whom three were sons-John, Nathaniel, and Parker. He was a deacon of the second church. In 1763 he removed with his family to New Gloucester, Ile., where he was one of the first permanent_ settlers. :Parker married Comfort_ Haskell, Nov. 10, 1742. He died about 1750, and_ she Sept •. 6, 1809, at the great age of ninety-two. His childt·en were-William, Jonathan Haskell, Comfort, Tammy, and Parker.

Isaac, ftfl.h son of the fl.rst James, married Martha Bond, March 19, 1706. He had sons Isaac, Edward, Thomas, and Abraham, and four daughters. He joined or followed his brother John in the emigration to Falmouth, Me., and died there Feb. 13, 1772, aged eighty-eight.

Jacob, the next son of James, married Sarah Wallis, Feb. 2, 1716, and, besides two daugh­ters, bad sons-Jacob, Josiah, and Samuel born here before he removed to Falmouth, :Me., about 1726.

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ard Babson, Dec. 23, 1714,and settled near the '' a good deal or company," according.to Mr. home of his wife at Fresh Water Co\·e. His Chandler's journal, was probably her mother's children were James, born Oct. 20, 1715; Han- sister Anne, the wife or John ,vheeler. This nab., Mar. 9, 1717., married :Michael Webber,jr.;

1 Abraham was prosperous in his business (that

Raebel, Dec. 17, 1718, married John Parsons, 3d; of a sail maker,) and continued to reside in the Eunice, Mar. 28, 1722, died in Aug. 1727; David .. house which be built on the easterly corner of Sept. 13, 172G; Eunice, Oct. 11, 1727 '!' married Central Wharf and Front Street till 1784, when John Andrews; :Mary, baptized :Mar. 12, 1732; he sold it to his son Abraham and removed to Abraham, baptized Mar. 6, 1737; and Jemima the old homestead at Fresh Water Cove which who was twice married :-first to S:tmuel More- he had inherited from his father. There he liv­bead, and next to Thomas Pulcifer, jr. The ed till 1791, when, with his wife and son John, date of the father's death is not knowu, but it/ a boy of fifteen, he removed to New Gloucester, is certain that he lived to a gre:tt age, for his Me., where be died Apr. 4, 1815, aged se,·enty­will, made as late as Aug. 1, 177 4-, was proved eight, and was followed to the grave by bis wife Feb. 5, 1776. In it he gives legacies to four the 23d of the next month, at the age of ,eighty. daughters, grandchildren aml great-grandchil- Besides daughters and the son John before dren, and th·e residue to his son Abraham. mentioned, and the son A bra.ham notict:d in the His oldest son, James, married Debor-.1.h \Yeb- History, he had sons James and ?\loses, the ber, :Mar. 13, 1739, and died in 174G, leaving latter of whom removed with a wife and three a son James and two daughters-Sarah, who children to New Gloucester in 1797. James married Sto,er Sayward, and Hannah. who married Betsey Hough, Feb. 23, 1786, and died married Ebenezer :Marble. The inventory of, in Gloucester, leaving children who settled in his estate shows that he had considerable mon-1 Halifax, N. s. Abraham, married Raebel, ey in gold and silver pieces, one-eighth of a j daughter of Paul Dolliver, Sept. 26, 1784. He schooner in company with John Stevens, and j learned the trade of his father and succeeded laud with his fat.her. His widow married James j to his business, in which he accumulated a Bishop. The son James born March 14, 1740, handsome estate, and died at the great age of married Anne Davis, Oct. 26, l ,62, by whom the ninety-five, May 3, 1856. in the house built by records give him two sons-James ;ind David, his father nearly a hundred years before. His -an<l a daughter Aune, of any one of whom I can wife died Sept. 26, 1843, aged eighty-five. He say no more. The Probate Records show that left a daughter Harriet who was the wife of he died about 1770. David, ~econd son of the Gen. John ,vebber, and died Nov. 4, 1872, in second James, married Martha Boynton, Aug., her eightieth year, and a daughter Rachel, the 16, 17 46. He was without doubt the David widow of Cyrus Stevens, still living at the ven­Sawyer whose funeral is mentioned in Mr. erable age of elghty-eight. Charles, the only Chandler's journal, under date of Nov. 29, 1754. son of Mr. Sawyer, married Sally Corliss of Besides twin daughters, he had sons David and North Yarmouth, May ~8, 1812. After a few James. If the former became a husband at years spent in maritime busines~ at Fresh nineteen he was probably the David who mar- '\Yater Cove, he died Aug.11, 1821, in the thir­ried Sarah Ingersol, Dec. 20, 1770. James was ty-third year of bis age. His death was occa­baptized Joly 1, 1753, and was, I suppose, the sioned by a malignant fever, contracted in Bos­same who married Deborah Newman in 1776. ton, on board of a vessel which be bad freight­I know not the date of his death, but his wid- ed at home with fish for that market. Two of ow died in Boston, Sept. 2, 1837, aged eighty. the owners of the vessel also took the disease, His oldest son, James, married Lydia Morgan, one of whom, ,villiam Clark, died. The other, and died Feb. 21, 1858, in his eighty-first year, Mr. George Davis of Annisquam, is still living. leaving descendants in Gloucester. Abraham, Mr. Sawyer's son Samuel E., for many years- a youngest son of the second James, married successful merchant in Boston, and long to be Mary, probably daughter of Henry Sayward, remembered and honored for various benefac­April 13, 1758. · She was born Sept. I, 1735. tions to his native town, is the present owner Her mother was Abigail, daughter, I suppose. and occupant of the family estate which has of Nathaniel Sargent, and the Mrs. ,vheeler at been the home of four generations of his an­whose house she was married in presence of cestors, and which wealth and taste, added to

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natural advantages, have made one of the most attractive spots on our Cape.

The Sawyers are not. numerous in Glouces­ter; about ten or a dozen men bear the name, and these, so far as I know, are descended from James, youngest son of the first settler.

JAMES SAYWARD.-Without doubt ~his set­tler came to Gloucester from York, Me., where the only family of this name among the early settlers of New England is found. A James Sayward administered upon the estate of his sister Sarah Sayward, late of Haverhill, June 26, 1694, and ln the settlement of his account mentions sisters Mary Bray and Hannah Pre­ble and children of his brothers John and Jon­athan Sayward, deceased. The birth of Elder

· Sayward's daughter Deborah, in 1694. is record­ed here, but the date of his first grant of land is March 16, 1696; (not 1690, as in the History.) Thi$ grant was '' half an acre of ground be­tween the run that runs into Cripple Cove and Cripple Cov-e Hill, situate on the south side of the hill and north side of the run ; butting home to high water mark.". On this spot he was bound to build a house within twelve months, or forfeit his grant on failure to do so without sufficient reason. By subsequent grants and purchase he became a large own~r of pastur­age and other land in that section of the town, and his descendants still own the land .first grant­ed to him and there perpetuate the name. The inscriptions on the grave-stones of this set­tler and his wife Deborah, in our old burying­ground. are as follows:

'' Here Lyes Buried ye Body of Elder James Sayward Who Died February the 13th 1736-7 in the 68th year of his age."

" Here Lyes Buried ye Body of Mrs Deborah Sayward, wife of Mr James Sayward aged 67

, years. Deed July ye 13th 1734.

" She was to us i' the Day of her sweet Life A Tender Mother and a golden Wife, But now She's gone unto a Place of Rest: God's will in Life or Death is always best, Us left in Time for her to mourn and cry:: God grant that we may all get good thereby."

Elder Saywar<rs second wife was Mary, wid­ow of Ebenezer Davis, a merchant of the town. Her maiden name was Wharf. I suppose she was the widow Mary Sayward who married John Prince, August 7, 17 46.

In his will this settler provides that his wife should have all that he received of her former

husband's estate :-1 cow, 1 bed and furniture, 12 chairs, an oval table and chest of drawers, and a negro woman and child. He also gives her one-third of his est.ate and £80 per year during her widowhood. Most of his real es­tate was divided between bis sons Samuel ·and Joseph. To his son Henry he gives his inter­est in North Yarmouth, in Casco Bay, and a portion or his land in Gloucester. To daugh­ters Elizabeth and Deborah each a silver tan­kard and £4-5. To daughter Hannah a silv-er porringer and £46. To daughter Mary, £80. To daughter Abigail, (probably the wife of his son Henry,) a small silver cup and silver spoon, and to his grand daught~r, .Martha Somes, £40.

The inventory of his estate contains the fol­lowing items : Dwelling house with three acres of land, £620; wharf and warehouse, £100; or­chard,_ mowing ground with cider mills, 2 barns .with pig house and iarden spot, £720; 6 acres salt marsh, £180; 79 acres pasture land, £1580; 2 lots of land at the cape, £110; a quarter of a lot, £10; 4 acres at Eastern Point, £27; Cash, £226.14.6; notes of hand, £70; bond, £100; plate, £, 118; wearing apparel, £33; beds, bed­ding, cows, oxen, young cattle, sheep and swine, £,660.3.6; negro man, .£100; amounting in all to .£4654-.18.

His daughter Elizabeth was probably born before her father settled in Gloucester. Our records give the birth of her daughter Martha, May 24, 1711, who must have been fue grand daughter :Martha Somes mentioned in the will. I suppose the mother to have been the Eliza­beth Sayward who married Elias Wise, of York, Dec. 27, 1722. The other children of Elder Say­ward were-Deborah, born June 14, 1G94, mar­ried James Stevens, July 15, 1717, and diedbe­fore 1737; James, born 15, died 26 Nov., 1697; James, Aug. 18, 1699, died Nov. 30, 1724, in York, Me.; Samuel, Apr. 21, 1701; Henry, Feb. 19, 1704; Mary,.Jan 14, 1706, the same, it is likely, who was intending marriage with Mr. ~loses Bradstreet, of Newbury, Jan. 16, 1731; Joseph, March 1, 1708; and Hannah, July 31, 1712, who married John Sanders, Jan. 22, 1735.

Samuel, the oldest son who survived his fa­ther, married Lucy, probably daughter of the second Francis Norwood, April 7, 1729. I can say nothing more of him than ihat the records give him a son Samuel, born Oct. 28, 1730; and a daughter Judith, Nov. 21, 1738; and that ad­ministration on his estate was granted Mar. 29,

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1782. In the inventory~ amounting to about £316, no mention is made of vessel or farming stock, but three slavP.s are set down, one, a ne­gro man Kitt, £,6.13.4; a girl, £26; and anoth­er girl, £24. His son Samuel was intending marriage with Mary Sanders, Feb. 28, 1761, but he married widow Sosanna Lord, daughter of Elder Daniel Giddings of Chebacco, April 20, same year. I suppose be was the Capt. Samuel Sayward who died in Feb., 1812. The records give him five children, bot to these five more should be added. He had sons Samuel and Epes who become sea-captains ·and died at sea, unmarried; a son Jonathan, also a ship-master, died a bachelor. Another son, Daniel, horn Oct. 3, 1766, was captain of a packet ship be­tween New Orleans and Liverpool. His home was on the spot :first granted to his ancestor, and now occupied by his children and grand children; and it is one of the few instances in which a grant to an early settler of Gloucester has remained in the same family to the present time. Capt. Daniel Sayward married Sarah, daughter of Capt. William Coas, and died about the :first of April, 1834, aged sixty-seven. Capt. Henry Sayward, brother of the preceding, was also a ship-master. He was long in the employ of David Pearce, and left in his bands the earn­ings of a life time, all of which he !Q.s~ on the failure of that merchant. He died in Feb., 1814, leaving a widow and children. Another of this family of sea-captains was John Sayward, fa­ther of John and Samuel, ship-masters and mer­chants of recent times, both of whom are now deceased.

Henry, next son of Elder Sayward, married Abigail, probably daughter of Nath'l Sargent, Jan. 20, 1730, and, besides two daughte1·s, had a son Stover who was born Apr. 19, 1741, after whose birth I know no more of the father. The son married Sarah Sawyer, Dec.13, 1763. All I can say of him is, that be was a sea-captain, and that our records give him a daughter Abi­gail, and that James Stover Sayward, who died Dec. 28, 1845, aged eighty-one, was probably his son. The only son of the latter, of whom I have any knowledge, was Rev. James H. Say­ward, who was some time settled at Mansfield, Mass., and died in Fitz William, N. H., where he was engaged in pastoral labors, Jan. 13, 1844, at the age of thirty-six.

Joseph, youngest son of Elder James, mar­ried Sarah Giddings, Jan. 20, 1730. The town

records give him five children, to which num­ber those of the first church add six more, and the father's will, or April 3, 1779, nam~s a son George, not elsewhere mentioned. The other children named in the will are-son Joseph~ daughters Sarah Parsons, Deborah Tarbox, Ly­dia W oodbnry, Nancy Tarr, and Lu<--y Tarr; and son James, deceased. His oldest son, Joseph, born Sept. 10, 1732, briefly noticed in the His­tory, was intending· marriage with Abigail Smith, Sept. 13, 1755. He died in April, 1814:, and she died June 9, following. Besides three daughters he bad sons Joseph, James, Benja­min and William. The latter was the old pilot of Gloucester who died Apr. 18, 1848, aged .eighty­two. He married Abigail Ingersol, '.Nov. 23, 1788, and, besides other children, bad a son William, who became a ship-master and died_ abroad, leaving a son ,villiam who is a promi­nent citizen of Boston. James, second son of the first Joseph, born in Nov., 1734:, was intend­ing marriage with Abigail Westway, Sept. 30, 1756. He died of small pox in a foreign port, about 1760, leaving two daughters, one of whom married Capt. David Lufkin. George, brother of the preceding, married Susanna Palfray, Feb. 14, 1774, who in the ten following years gave birth to sons George, John, Richard, and Wil­liam, and two daughters, and perhaps to more children afterwards in Camden, Me., to which place the family removed.

This account of the family of Elder James Sayward includes all of the :first three ·genera­tions of bis descendants who bore and perpet­uated the name. The few who now bear it in Gloucester are all descendants from. the son Samuel.

MORRIS So:MES.-Here is another of our set­tlers who was the only one of the name among the early emigrants to New England. He had. without date, " six acres of upland bought with six acres of upland given, lying to his house upori the northeast side of the mill river, bound­ed with the water on the one side and running from the water into the woods northerly, hav­ing the highway through the middle of it." On this spot be probably had his home for life, and it was without doubt the same property sold by bis grandson William in 1707 to Lieut. James Davis: then described as '' on ye northerly and eastwardly side of ye highway leading from ye mills." This settler, like most of his towns­men, was chiefly employed in agricultural pur-

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suits, as may be inferred from the in\'entory of his estate, which cont~ins the following'items: -

4' Ho~ses and lands, £,15.0; ,.,.4: oxen, £,14; ~

cows, £5; 3 heifers, .:£6; 1 heifer., 30s; 6 swine, £5; 10 sheep, :£4; a feather bed and bedding with a pair of curtains, .:£5 ; a flock bed and bedding, 50s; 2 iron pots with pot-hooks, 16s; 3 pewter platters., 12s; 1 trammel, fire shovel, and tongs, 12s; 2 chests and 3 chairs, 18s; 2 _iron chains and 1 iron crow, 28s; 1 musket, 20s ;:' amounting to .:£19S.Gs. Morris Some~ died Jan. 13, 1689, aged seventy-five. By, bis flr;t wife Margerie., who died Jan. 22, 1646, he had Mary., horn M:trcb 1, 164-2, married .John Hammond, Oct. 17, 1660; Sarah, June 15, lG-1:3, married Henry With~lm, June 15, 1665; and Timothy. not recorded, but certainly son of Morris. By bis second wife, Elizabeth, daugh­ter of .John Kendall of Cambridge, to wbom he was mai"ried June 26, 1647, he had John, born April 22~ 164-8; Lydia, Oct. 3, 1649; Nathaniel, .July 27., 1651, died unmarrietl, Juiy 12, 1690; Patience, Mar. 10, 1652; Joseph~ Dec. 3, 1654, killed in tbe·great fight with the Indians at Nar­raganset ~ort, Dec. 1675; Abigail, :May 6~ 1655, confined in Boston Jail on a charge of witch­craft from :May 23, 1692 to Jan. 3, 1693; and Hannah, Sept. 3, 1658. .

Timothy married .Jane, probably daughter of Philip Stanwood, April 2, 1673- She uied Oct. 30, 1696, and he uext married Hannah Despar. Mar. 11, 1697. He died Feb. 1, 1706. His chil­dren were-Timothy, bo1·n ,July 27. 1673; Jane, Dec. I, 1674; Alice, March 11, 1677, Jiving un­married in 1720; Joseph, Aug. 27, 167!), died unmarried before 1720; William, Jan. 24, 1681; Ruth, Apr. 12, 1684, married Samnel Lee, Feb. 13, 1718; Ichabod, Apr. 3, 1687; Hannah, Nov. 25, 1689, married Edward Harraden, Jan. 18, 1713; Morris, 1692, lost at s~a, 1716; Nathan­iel, Apr. 2., 1695; Mercy, Oct. 29, 1696, and Pa­tience, next day, an~ both died soon ; Patience~ Nov. 25, 1697; Samuel, Sept. 15, died Dec. 9, 1699; Ebenezer, Nov. 25, 1700; Mary, Apr. 22, 1702; and Abiel, June 29, 1706. Qf these seY­enteen children, twelve are named i:1 their father's will of 29 Jan., 1706, which also men­tions a daughter in-law, Sar:::.h Despar. He left an estate of .:£95.9s. His son Timothy married Elizabeth Robinson, Dec. 31, 1695. I have found no record of his death, or of the settle­ment of his e~tate ; but I presume that the Eliz­abeth Somes who married John Brown, in 1713,

was his widow. He left six children, all sonsy the oldest of which, Stephen, born Nov. 4, 1696, married Rachel, probaoly daughter or John Brown, Sept. 29, 1719. In 174-5 she had become a widow and married John Collins, but her pre­,·ious husband bad probably died in 1737, as in the settlement of her account as administr-J.­trix of bis estate, in 17 48, she charges for bring­ing up young children eleven yt!.1.rs. The in­ventory amounted to £156.17s, and included carpenters' tools. The records give him the followiag children :-Stephen, Joseph, Eliza­beth, ,villiam, Rachel, ,villiam again, Nehemi­ah, and Samuel. Of the oldest son .. Stephen, I know no more. Joseph, born-April 18, 1722, I suppose to be the same who married Susanna Daxis in 1757. She was a daughter of Solomon Davis, and her mother was Mary Small of Kit­tery, Me., daughter of Samuel who was son of Francis Small. ~Joseph Somes bad four chil­dren by his wife Susanna, one of whom was a daughter Sarah, of whom., or of her fatlier and mother, I can add nothing further. The records contain nothing more than their marriage. The next son of Stephen that lived to mature years was William, born July 7, 1730. I know not what William it was, if not he, who married Elizabeth Davis, Mar. 22, 1753, but he certain­ly married Margaret, daughter of Job Giddings of Ipswich, with whom he was intending mar­riage Feb. 23, 1757. She was administr-atrix of her husband's estate June 6, 1777, and became the Recond wife of Francis Pool of Sanely Bay.

The children of William Somes were-Wil­liam, Stephen, Joseph, Peggy, who -married Jabez Tarr of Sandy Bay, and John; th~ lat­ter, born 1\-Iarch 3, 1767, was representative in 1808 and 1809. He was twice married and died Sept. 3, 1820, lca.ving sons John, now of Charles­town, and Benj. F., of Qloucester. The late Capt. Alfrecl Somes was also his son. Nehe­miah, next son of Stephen, born Feb. 18, 1732. was intending marriage with Susanna Bray, Nov. 8, 1755. According to the town mid church records he had, besides three daughters, sons Nehemiah and John, of neither of whom can I trace descendants. Samuel, youngest son of Stephen, born Oct. 31, 1736, married Hannah Davis, Nov. 9, 1761. He is said to have been lost on a fishing voyage to the Grand Banks, as were also two of his sons, Samuel and Stephen, at different times. Besides a daughter Han­nah, his only other child was a son John, born

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Oct., 1767, who married Nabby Saunders, Nov.,: from aloft into the sea and was lost; and Ben-' 1791~ and died Sept. 3, 1820., leaving many sons, ; jamin who became mate of a :-.llip and lost hi~

of whom, Geo1·ge \V., is the only one now liv- i life on shipboard at the hands ofa sailor. Capt. ing; and one daughter, the ,·enerabl<• widow ; Isaac Somes., brother of the la.~t named Capt. of the late David Allen, whose only child was : Sa.muel. died Apr. 14, 1873. in his ninety-third Lieut. Col. David Allen, . who was killed in : year,-the last male of this brttnch of the faw­battle in our late civil war The last Glouces- l ily bearing the family name. A ,·em:rable sis­ter :Directory bas six m·ales bearing the name I ter of these two brothel"s, the widow of the late of Somes., and these are all descended from ' Capt. H. C. l\lackay, is still li·ring, at a great William and Samuel, sons of Stephen, son of age. the second Timothy, who was grandson of Of William, son of the first Timothy, born Morris, the first settler. Jan. 24, 1681, we have no record of wife or child.

Timothy, second son of the second Timothy, 1 He probahly dit-d in Amesbury. where be left a bom Mar. 4-, 1699,. married Abigail, daughter of: widow Hannah who married a Smitl1. ',Nor can Jonathan Springer, Jan. 24, 1721. The birth of; l add to what the History relates about Ichabod,. his son Timothy, Oct. 29, 1721.,andof Jonathan, i born April 3, 1H87, next son of Timothy. Jlis Nov. 8, 1723, is on record. Of the father, or of i son \Villiam., born Aug. 16, 1713, does not again• Jonathan, I know no more. Timothy I suppose I appear. Aud there is no evideuee that llorris, to be the same who married .Abigail Andrews, : the next son, was a husband or fa.ther when he

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Dec. 18, 1743, and, besides two daughters, had j was lost at sea in 1716; but the records have sons Timothy, Francis, and Jonathan, the last the marriage of a Morris and Locy Day, Mar. of whom was probably the Jonathan who died 24, 1740, and show that they had, besides three in New Gloucester in 1824-, aged seventy-one. dangbters, a son David.

Joseph, next son of the second Timothy, born Nathaniel, next son oftbe first Timothy, oorn Oct. 27, 1701, married Sarah Harvey, Dec. 23, Apr. 2, 1695., married Sn~anna ,vhittredge,Jan. 1731, after which date l learn no more of him. 11, 1722, and had a ~on Nathaniel and a daugh-

Nehemiah, the next son, born Aug. 22, 1704, ter Susanna~ of-whom I know no more. Prob­married Abigail Collins, July 27 ~ 1730;--an_d had a ably it was the father who was iutending mar~ <laughter Abigail born May 28, 1731, who died riage with Martha Row, .April 3, 1742, and died soon, and the mother died July 17, same year. in 1760. In 1763, widow .M.arth:1 Somes, as one He next married Lucy Rogers of Truro and had of the pour of the town, was in the care_ of Mr. a daughter Lucy and a son N chemiah. The lat- James Rowe. ter was baptized Oct. 16, 1737, and is thought Ebenezer, son of Timothy Somes by his sec-to have become a merchant in Boston. oud wife, born Nov. 25, 1700~ had a lot in the

The next two, and young.est children, of the division of land in 1721, as heir of his father's second Timothy were twins-Abraham and common right, and he is the only Somes that Isaac., born Aug. 21, 1707. Abraham married dre,vin that division. He is probably the Eben­Martl(a Etnerson., Dec. 3, 1730. I can add noth- ezer of whose estate Ruth Somes was appointed ing to what the History tells of his children, administratrix, Oct. 26, 17 42. I find not his except to give the names of all of them. They marriage or the birth of any child. were-Abraham, Benjamin, Martha, Isaac, The records of the first church have the bap .. Elizabeth, Mercy, Isaac again, John, Joseph, tism of Patience., April 18, and Mary, May 23" Daniel, and James. Isaac, twin-brother of l'i14, daughters of Jane Somes. Patience mar-­Abraham, married Eunice Godfrey, Dec. 17, ried Thomas Oakes in 1730, and died Oct. 24, 1730. He had a second wife, widow Lydia 1745. The mother died in 1739 at Oakes' house. Reading, with whom he was intending mar- John Somes, son of Morris, married Hannah. riage Nov. 10, 17 44. No children by the first eldest daughter of Samuel Shattuck of Salem, marriage are recorded, and onlytwo by the sec- who was, Mr. Savage says,"· the happymessen­ond,-Eunice and Isaac; but there was certain- ger of Charles II, who brought the order to stop ly another, Samuel, born about 1755, sea-cap- the execrable policy of persecuting the Quak­tain and merchant, father of Capt. Samuel who ers," of whose sufferings Somes had been a par­had two sons :-Samuel, who went to sea iu his taker, as mentioned 1n the History. He made youth with bis father, and in a gale of wind fell his will Nov. 30, 1687, being then bound to sea.

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In it be gives :£5 each to loving sisters Abigail: seven. By bis wife (Mary Rast) be ha.d many and Mary Hammouds, anamentions son~ John, i children~ one of whom, Job, is still living, at "Samuel, Joseph, and Benjamin, of whom only the old home of his f~ther, at the age of eight}·­Beujamin was living whtn the will was admit- eight, and another, Mrs. Mary James, in the ted to probate, Nov. 28, 1700. In the inventory I same section of the city, at the still greater ag~ of bis e:,;tate we tind 181 ounces silver plate, a: of ninety-four. David, the other son of the negro named Andrew and OBe named Hercules, l second Philip, married Susanna, daughter of and a large amount of household linen. \Lieut.James Davis, No,·. 24, 1720. No record

In this account of the family of Morris Somes, l tells the death of either, but we know that they .I ha,·e given the name of P.Verymale of the first\ uved long enough to have ten children, four of four gener:ttions of his descendants who bore i whom died in infancy. Of the others, four were his name, of whom I have knowledge; and I daughters and two were sons,-David and Sol­have traced two branches of tis posterity from omon. Of David I can say no more. Solomon his grandson Timothy down to the present time. married Betsey Bennett, Nov. 20~ 1,55, and was

PHILIP STANW0OD.-Here we have a Lother intending marriage with Susanna Wheeler, name uot elsewhere found among the early em- Dec. "16, 1769. The town records and those of igrants to New England. The History tells all the fourth church together give him nine chil­l know of him, but I here gh·e the full date of dren, of whom four were sons,-Solomon, w~o

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birth of each of his children, born in Glouces- · became a sea-captain, and died Nov. 6, 1811, ter, ancl not therein contained: John, born aged thirty-nine; Richard Goss,'tbe venerable March 24, 1653; Jane, Iday 14, 1655, married ship-master and respected citize-n who died Timothy Somes, • .\pr. 2, 1673; Samuel, Mar. 5, April 28, 1860~ aged eighty-six; David,- who 1658; .Jonathan, Mar. 29, 1661; Naomi,Apr. 29, went down at sea in the sh-ip-Winthrop & Mary,. 1664-, marrit!d \Villiam Sargent. jr., Oct. 26, with all on board, on the pa..c.:sage :fr01n India,. 1681; Ruth, Mar. 10, 1667; and Hannah, Sept. abollt 1801; and Nathaniel, of whom I know nO' 16, 1670. His son Philip was probably born be- more. A son of Capt. Ricliard G., in Boston,. fore he came to Gloucester; an9 perhaps. he. and a grandson in Marysville, Cal., are, so far· also brought a daughter ~iary ~fora Mary Stan- as I can learn,. aH the males bearing· the name· wood gave birth to a daughter Mary, Feb. 19, in: this line of descent from- the second Philip. 1673, who, or her mother, died March 3, 1674. There may be others, for I snwose it was this

Philip the second married :Mary Blackwell, Philip who :mmTied Lydia, probably widow of' Nov. 22, 1677, who died Jan. 3, 1679, and he next John :Mogritl-ge, Jan. 20, 1736, and, besides a married Estht:r, daughter of Thomas Bray, Oct. daughter Esther, had sons Benjamin and Abra-· 30, 1683. He died Sept. 24-~ 1728. His children ham, both of whom appear to have married in were-Esther, born Sept. 2, 1684; Philip, Dec. town. I ftnd no record of the father's death,• 16, 1685, died 1686; Mary, June 3, 1687; Philip nor any evidence that he was living in town af­again, March 10, 1690; David, Feb. 14, 1694;: ter 1740. AdministrationoftheestateofPhil-· John, Mar. 15~ 1698, clied Mar. 5, 1718; Hannah, I ip of Newbury was granted to Isabel lrls wife, Feb. 7, 1703; and Abigail, Nov. 14-, 1705. The i Nov. 12, 175~. sou Philip m~rried Sarah Hnraden, Dec. 18, i John, next son of the :first Philip, married. 1718, and, be~i4es three daughters~ he had a son ) Lydia Butler, Dec. 9, 1680, and died Jan. 25,. John, who died young, a son Zebulon, of whoin j 1796. According to the records be bad three' I know no more,and a son Job, the soldier men- sons and six daughters. The sons were John,. tioned in the History. TheJatter, born Feb. Jonathan, and Js.mes. John, born Sep-t. 26,. 14, 1727, ma!'.'riE:~_Hannah, daughter of Richard 1681, married Deborah Robinson. Adminis-Byles~ Sept. 14, 1749, by whom be had a son trationofhisestatewasgra.ntedtoDeaconJobn Zebulon, born Apr. 17, 1751. She probably died Low~ April 8~ 1754. The inventory amounted within a year or two after that date, as he had a to :£,n.10.9., of which house and land was :£35.­daughter Hannah Byles born by bis wife Mar- ; 13.4. The records give him three sons and six tha, Nov. 25., 1755. The date of his death I do

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1 daughters. John, the ~ldest, born Sept. ~8 .. not find. His son Zebulon, a merchant and far- , 1709. I suppose to be the same who married

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mer, bought the Woodward farm, at Little Riv- I Hannah Clark, Feb. 25, 1734, and of whom I er, and there died in August, 1838, aged eighty- : can say no more. Stephen, the next son, born

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Oct. 4-, i72i, married ?tlary Stanwood about Jonathan, youngest son of the first Philip, 1746. The town records have the births of sev- married Mary Nichols, Dec. 17, 1688. He prob"' en children born to him, and the records of the ably lived to very old age, foi: the inventory of fourth church have the baptisms of two more. his estate (real :£187.10, and personal :£13.7,) Two of them were twin sons,-Stcphen and was presented at Probate Court, May 31, 17 45. Charles. Both of these sons were in the revo- Besides four children who died in infancy or lutionary army, in Capt. Benj. Kimbalrs com- childhood, he had a son Thomas who died on­pany, in August, 1775, when tbt:ir father was married Feb. 6, 17!5, aged twenty-three; and _paid by the town 2-ls. for two blankets deliver- sons Jonathan, Ebenezer, David, and Nehemi­ed to them There were also two other sons, ah; and a daughter Mary. A Jonathan married -Joseph and Jonathan. A Stephen Stanwood, widow Rachel Card, Sept. 18, 1739, and bad a the f:i.ther or son probably, died Oct. 29., 1809. son Jonathan, born Dec. 21, 1748, and James, Charles, next son of the second John, born Aug . .Aug. 6, 1745. Ebenez€!r married Hannah War-27, li27, married Mary \Yoodbury, Nov. to, ner of Ipswich, bad two sons-Eb~bezer and 1750, and bad three sons-Charles, Humphrey, William, and died Sept. 9, 1727, aged twenty­and Abel, arid a daughter Molly. born before eight. The inventory of his estate amount-1759, after which date I know nothing of any J>f ed to .£235. 13.6, of which :£2.5s is down for them. Jonathan, second son of the first John, ·' fishing craft and boots." David married Dor• born Sept. 12, 1683, married Dorcas Robinson, cas Randall, .May 8, 1733, by whom he bad thir­Aug. 21, 1707. Besides five daughters, he had teen children. Three of them were n~ed Da­six sons-Jonathan, Joseph, \Villiam, Andrew, vid, the last of whoin died in infancy in Sept., -John, and Joel; each of whom appears to have 1750. His other sons were Isaac and Sa!nuel married iu Gloucester and, excepting Joel, to and one of an unknown name. ·Nehemiah Stan­have had many children. He married Abigail wood, born Nov. 13, 170-l, married Bethiah ,voodbury and died a yonng man, leaving her Elwell, Jan. 14, 1731, and had nine children of with two children-Joel and Abigail. She next whom :fiv·e were sons :-Joshua, Nehemiah, Eb­married Deacon William Stevens of New Glou- enezer, Isaac, and Jonathan. The son Nehe­cester and died there March 11;-IS08, aged miah, born June 26, 1733, was intending mar ... eighty-two. James, the other son of the first riage with Ruth Morgan~ Jan. 31., 1756. The ~John, born Mar. 17, 1690, married Mary, daugh- records give him thre.e.sons: -Nehemiah, Da• ter of Lieut. James Davis, Dec. 25, 17J.2. He vid, and Henry, to whom should probably be had :five daughters and two sons-James and added one more at least-John Morgan Stan ... William. The father and his brother Jonathan wood, who died Oc~. 30, 1852, aged seve1:1ty­appear to h:tve been admitted residents of Fal- eight, and was the father oftbe _Nehe~iah who mouth; Me., in 1728, but it seems that all of d,ied . May 7, 1872, aged seve~i;y"~two. · Henry the son~ of the latter married here. Stanwood, born Aug: 28, 1767, married :Mary

Samuel, son of the :first Philip, was married A.ilen Merritt, Oct. 16, 1790, and had a son to Hannah Percy or Prcssy, Nov. 16~ 1686, by, Henry who died Sept. 29, 1849, aged sixty. Rev. Thomas Wells, at Amesbury. His chil- Nearly all the male descendants of Philip dren were-Hannah, !>orn September 20, 1687; Stanwood, bearing the family name; now living Samuel, April 30, 1689; William, Dec. 2, 1690; here, of whom only thirteen can be counted in one whose name is lost, March 19, 1693; and the Directory for 1869, are probably descended Ebenezer, July 20, 1695. The father was of from Jonathan, his youngest ~on; and most .Amesbury in 1697, and was perhaps the Samu- of them are found in the _ section of the town el Stanwood whose inventory of £64: was pre- where their ancestor fixed his home more than sented at Probate Court, by widow Hannah, two hundred years ago . • June 6, 1726. It was probably the son Ebene- WILLIAM STEVENs.-By the Salem records zer who by his wife Jane had two sons-Samu- it appears that this eminent shipwright had el and David, born in Brunswick, and two oth- l a grant of land " in ye narrow of ye neck/' ers., William and Thomas, and two daughters in 1637, for the building of ships. This land born here before 1730, after which I know .~ot was probably at Marblehead, where he was rat­that the name was perpetuated in town in this ed the same year, and also in 164:0. We know line. of but two ships that he built in Gloucester, one

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in 1643 one and in 1661; ,but it can hardly be all that know the cattle doe say, and yt this doubted that he built other vessels here in the honored court might have opportunity to ease intervening yeara. It was but a few years after the oppressed, I speake not at all in reference the latter date that we lose sight of him alto- to the court at Salem, but to those who were gether; at last, unhappily. as a sutferer for ex- the executioners of the sentence. I shall ercising a freedom of speech not' suited to the heere make bold to acquant you with their ~e in which he lived. The· cruel treatment to carriage, in the prizing of the sayd cattle which he and his family were subjected on (viz) two very large and good milch (!owes that account is set forth in the following doc- at six pounds tenn shillings, two very large uments on record in our State archives: oxen at· almost four years ould at eight

'· At a county court held at Salem·tbe 25th pounds tenn shillings; a great bull about four 4 mo 1667. years ould at five and fifty shillings, a heif-

"' William Stevens being complained of to er fair with calfe and well grown, at forty this court for speaking of disloyal words five shillings, a two years ould heifer at one against his majesty our soueraigne Lord poun~ tenn shillings :-these things I make & King, Charles the second : the said Stevens bould to present to the honored court, hum­appeering before this court, whoe hearing the bly requesting that you would be pleased to evidence & examining the said Stevens, who take it into your consideration, if I may did in substance owne what was testified find so much faver, that the :fine itself~ or against him : doe adjudge the said Stevens, some of the fine may be eased, ~r at least, that be is disfranchised of being a fre·eman of that I may have relicfe in respect of the extra­this jurisdiction, and not capable to beare any ordinary prize that they have put upon the office, and soe to continue during the conrts cattle :-my husband having been absent about pleasure, and to pay twenty pounds fine, and three weeks, in which time they came for the also all other charges that doe arise upon tryall fine, and not as yet is bee returned. In this of the case, and to be imprisoned for one solitary condition, deprived of soe great a month. . part of our lively hood, necessity one the one

HThis is a true copie, taken out of Salem hand and confidence in your clemencie towards Court records. the afflicted one the other, the former urges,

" pr. me Hilliard Veren~ Clerk." the latter embouldens me to take this opportu-" The hnmble petition of Phillip Stevens, nity of the pr sent session of the court, to pros-

wife of William Stevens of Gloucester. ecute this my petition, hoping that you will " Whereas it hath pleased the honored court please to take it into your serious consider­

at Salem last, to impose a certain fine upon ation, soe desiring the Lord to guide you in my husband, for some rash and inconsiderate all your weighty ~ffairs, humbly - take my speech~s spoken. by him, in reference to his leave." majestie, wh fine could bee not other than very "At a Generali Court held at Boston the greevious to me and the rest of the family, es- 9th of Octobr 1667. pecially considering our ould age, opportunity 44 In answer to this petition the court, upon in that respect being past wherein we might information of the greatnes of the fact, refer­recover and help ourselves again, either by in- ring to the person against whom it was comit­dustry or otherwise : but although this was ted, Judge that the penalty inflicted was rather such an afflixion, as in respect of our age and beneath than above the merit of the offence, eondition otherwise circumstanced, I was rea- and ·therefore cannot but justify the court that dy to think .it intollerable; there hath bin in had cognizance of the cause. Yet considenng the execution of the sentence1 much severity what personall punishment the sayd partyes and great afflixion added to the before afflict- husband hath already undergonne and also that ed, and as I conceave, and not only myself bnt the payment of such a fine will rather (fall) all our neighbors of the towne, who know and upon herself and family, who are in this respect have heard of the business do apprehend, very innocent, together with the severity of them unconscionable and nn-christian carriage in ye that executed the sentence, to which may be prising of ye cattle, which they had for the added the craziness of the man in respect of tine, being twenty pounds, to exceed thirty, as his understanding :-doe therefore order, that

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the sayd catle so taken be returned to the peti- '' The Deputyes having already acted bere­tioner in kind, to be to hir propper use & be- in, we see no reason of an answer from us hooft"e, for the mayntenance of hirself and fam- in behalf of ye Committy. ily in hir old age, such necessary charges be- '' p. James Russell.'' ing deducted as have been expended in the J f w-

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- th r. ames, son o 1 1am tevens, was pro a-prosecution ereo . . · Th. - t . f A - . 1 t·t· bly born 1n England. Isaac and Marv were '" 1s 1s a rue cop1e o n or1gma pe 1 ion •

h·b·t d t th G · ll C . rt · O t b I both baptized in Salem, 2, 11 mo., 1639. The ex 1 1 e o e enera ou 1n c o er as 1

'. name of Isaac appears nowhere on our rec-above, & the Courts answer thereunto being h ls h t I

fi d . . ords, nor anyw ere e e t a can n , ex-compared w th ye ong1nall & taken out of ye . · h els .

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rt d cept 111 t e county recor m . J.Y.Lary mus con s recor s. · d --~ have advanced beyond the per10 of lllJ.ancy As attests Edw Rawson, Sec'ty." . .

at the date of her baptism, for she married 4

' There being an order made the last ses­sion of this court upon the pet n of the wife of Mr William Stevens of Glosester, that what es­tate has been taken away from the sd Stevens by virtue of the order of the county court of Essex, should be restr'd., which said order of the gen 11 court hath not hitherto taken effect, by reason the court <lid not nominate the per­sons who were intended in the said order, to make such return as aforesaid: Upon a fur­ther to this court, the court doth hereby or­der and appoint the next court ·or that county to see the order of the gen 11 court fulfilled, and that the cattle taken away be returned in kind, or otherwise the true value of them as they were soulde, necessary charges being deduct­ed. the Deputys have past this desiring the consent of o r hon rd magists hereto.

" William Torrey. Chair. H The magists consent not hereto.

"Edw Rawson, Sec'y. " 12th 3d 1668."

John Coit May 21, 1652. She appea~ to have had a second husband-John Fitch; and died Nov. 7, 1692. Ruth, the other daughter of William Stevens, was baptized in Salem, 7, 1 mo., 1641. She married Stephen Glover, Oct. ,. 1663, and died Aug. 16, 1664, eleven days after an infant daughter.

James Stevens was a very prominent citi­zen, as the History shows. He married Susan­na Eveleth, Dec. 31, 1656, and died. March 25, 1697. His children, all of whom are not there­in mentioned, were born as follows :-Wil­liam, Mar. 10, 1658; James, 23, died 30 Jan., 1660; James, Feb. 4, 1661, probably died Sept. 27, 1688; Isaac, Ang. 15, died Dec. 20, 1664; Samuel, Dec. 5, 1665; Isaac, 11, died 27 Nov., 1668; Ebenezer, Sept. 20, 1670; Mary, June 13, 1672, married Francis Norwood; Hannah, .Apr. 9, 1675; David, Nov. 5, 1677; and Jonathan, J\Ia,r. 7, 1679. There is reason to suppose that the home of James Stevens was on the border of Mill River, nearly opposite Poles Hill.

., At a second session of ye Generali Court William, oldest son Qf James Stevens, mar-of Election, held at Boston 9th October 1667. riecl Ab1gall Sargent, June 15, 1682. ~~me (here follows a copy of the foregoing with the i~to possession of the land of his grandfather following addition.) at the Cut, and there without doubt had his

" At a Generali Court held in Boston, May liome.--He died Sept. 24, 1701 : and at the 19, 1680. - -time ·or his decease was the leading merchant 44 Upon Complaint that this order above is not of the town in maritime business, small as his fulfilled for want of explanation whoe should investments in it were. According to the in­P form the same, This court doth order yt ye ventory his estate consisted of " one-half of Treas r of the county of Essex, doe see the a deck sloop, £26; one-third of an open sloop, same bee forthwith fulfilled, either in speties £15; two-thirds of another open sloop, £16; or in a value equivelant J the fine being taken a negro woman, £18; mulatto boy, £10; one­by sd county court of Essex I and to be payd third of a ware house, £5 ; house· and home­to the pet r or her ord r. The Depntys have stead, £78; privilege called ye Cut. £30; two passed this desiring the consent of o r hon d cows, £5; oxen, yearlings, swmeand sheep; magis s hereto. English goods, £5; and Barbadoes goods,

"William Torrey, ·Chair. £40 ;" amounting in all to £392.11. The rec-" Not consented to by ye Mags. E. R. s. ords give him eight children, but the only ones

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that survived their father were-Samuel, born career, brought up at last at the Gloucester Sept. 21, 1691; Abigail, June 29, 1694:; and work-house, and there died, July 22, 1830, aged Susanna, Nov. 18, 1698,"who married Jeremiah f::ixty-four. The next son, Samuel, settled in Butman. The widow married Nathaniel Coit, Newburyport, where he carried on business Feb. 17, 1702, and died Jan. 8, 1710. The real and bec-ame a highly respected citizen. He estate of the father was divided among the married Anna Pierce, of that place, and died three children above named, March 6, 1713. on a plantation in St. Domingo in 1826, aged It included "" the dwelling house & homestead about sixty. He left a son Samuel, who died and a very sorry old saw mill and orchard in Newburyport, Sept. 7, 1857, aged sixty­and common right:" all of which were val- four, leaving children; and a son Isaac, a ven­ried at .£74. erable gentleman now living iu Chadestown

Samuel, son of the preceding, married An- District, Boston. So far as I can learn, mem­na, probably daughter of Capt. Joseph Allen, bers of this family are the only descendants of Jan. 23, 1713. They both lived to very old our ancient and famous shipwright by whom age, for bis will, made July 2, 1767, was not the name is now borne. · The fourth son of the

. proved till Oct. 25, 1774, and it is certain that last ,vnuam, was Isaac, who also settled in he and his wife were both living in April of the Newburyport, as a baker. He married ~1ary preceding year. In a deed of that year he call- Catherine Dutua, a French girl from Guadu­ed himself ~,yeoman," and as he owned con- loupe, and appears to have died bef~re 1800, side_rable land it is probable that be spent bis leaving no offspring. The next and youngest life chiefly in agricultural pursuits. In public son was John, of who!ll I can only .say that he office be only appears us one of the selectmen, hacl a daughter Catherine to whom her uncle in which cu pa city he served six years. His Isaac left by his will one hundred dollars. children were~-Anna, born Jan. 22, 1714, mar- Samuel, son of Deacon James Stevens, mar­ried Josiah Bradbury, :March 6, 1738; Abigail, I ried Mary, daughterof\Villiam Ellery, Jan. 12, Nov. 23, 1715, married Jonathan Elwell, :March 1693. He died Nov. 16, 1756, aged ninety-one, 28, 1737; \Villiam, Feb. 22, 1718; liary, March and she, after a little more than a year of wi-31~ 1720, died unmarried, probably about 1803; 1 -dowhood, married Elder Edmund Grover, both Hannah, July 27, 1722, married Nathaniel Par- bride and bridegroom being over eighty years sons in 1746, and Nymphas Stacy, Sept. 28, old. The town records do not give the date of 1769; Samuel, July 19, 1725~ of whom we learn the marriage, but l:lr. Chandler's journal says, no more; and Smmnna, Oct. 17~ 1727, who nev- '" llarch 16, 1758, Elder Grover and Madam er married~ and is said to have gone in old ~e Stevens married by Mr. \Vhite." It is · worthy to live with relatiYes in :Maine, where she died. of mention that this venerable pastor also was

,vnliam, only son of the preceding who is then past four score. l:family acquiescence in known to have perpetuated the name, proba- these strange nuptials may be inferred from bly married, about 1741, Anna, daughter of Eb- another entry by l:lr. Chandler, a few days la­enezer Davis. They had a gon ,vnliam born ter, when he alludes to a visit ·" at Elder Gro­May 8, 1742, soon after which date the father ver's in the Harbour," and adds, "their chil­died. · dren together." But conjugal happiness is held

,villiam, son of the last \Villiam~ married by a very frail tenure at eighty, and in this case Dorcas Patch, July 10, 1763. She, I suppose, it came to an end in a few months PY the death w'.ls the widow of Nathan Patch, and daughter of the aged bride. Samue~ Stevens, by his wife of David Stanwood. She was born May 27, Mary, had ten children, of whom seven lived 1736, a.nd was intending marriage with Na than to mature years. Three of these were daugh­Patch Sept. -7, 1-7-54-. This William was a ma- ters: Mary, born Feb. 2, 1694, married Josiah son by trade, but I know nothing more a~out i Ingersol, Dec. 30, 1712; Abigail~ May 7, 1702, him except that be died before 1781, leaving a: married Joseph llillier of Boston, Apr. 15, widow with five boys. The oldest of these,1' 1719; and Susanna, Mar. 25~_ 1717, married Da­William, is said to have married and to have · vid Pearce,· Jan. 20, 1736, and became the had a son William, who became a mariner, and i mother of two distinguished merchants of the of whom nothing more is told. David Stan-1 town,-David and William Pearce. wood, the next, after a somewhat discreditable Samuel, the oldest son of ~Ir. Stevens, born

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May 7, 1696, married Abigail daughter of Jo- drank tea at Capt. John Stevens'-his new wife seph York, an early merchant of the town, came on Tuesday." She was the widow of Col. Oct. 23, 1718. He perished at sea in 172:l. John Gorham, of Barnstable; and, besides one The records give him two sons,-York and son, brought to her new husband three beauti­Joseph, but I know no more of either. His ful ~aughters, one of whom married Eben Par­widow married Jacob Randall, Jan. 13, 1725, sons, another became the wife of Daniel Rog­and was probably dead in 17-U. ers, and the other lived unmarried and died at

• James, the next son of Samuel, born April an advanced age. Col. John Ste,~ens died Apr.

4:, 1699, I must belie\·e to be the same who mar- 13, 1779, aged seventy-two. His wife died Dec. ried Deborah, daughter of Elder James Say- 25, 1786, aged seventy-three. He left an estate ward, July 15, 1717, though the bridegroom or £31G3, encumbered with debts to the amount was then only a little o,·er eighteen; so young of £t014- He owned and occupied the house that the History assigns her to another J a.mes. on the corner of Washington and Froat Streets, who it is found never attained marriageable now in possession of Gorham P. Low;, Esq. age. James and Deborah had three daughters ,villiam, youngest son of Samue1' St~vens, born in Gloucester: -Mary, ~lay 2, 1718; sen., boru Jan. 9, 1713, married Elizabeth, Deborah, Oct. 23, 1719; and Abigail, Oct. 2, daughter of Joseph~..:\llen, Esq., Nov. 22, 1733, 1721. .lbout this time he probably removed and died :M:ay 10, 1767, aged fifty-four. She from town, and we hear no more of him till died .Aug. 18, 1778, aged sixty-four. Besides July~ 1737, when he was of Durham, N. H. his prominence in public affairs, he was .an ac­He was then appointed guardian to ~- ·Mary tive business man, but died deeply insolvent. Stevens, alias Sanders, Deborah. Abigail, Su- The invento.ry of his estate shows that he own­sanna, Elizabeth, Samuel and James, all chil- ed three fishing schooners; a farm with dwel­dren which he had by his ·wife Deborah. deceas- ling house at Eastern Point, valued at £800; ed, daughter of Elder James Sayward, late of some farming stock; and a dwelling house, val­Gloucester, deceas~d." Sept. 13, 1737, he mar- ued at £480. The latter was the house still ried Elizabeth Day, and about that time estab- standing on the easterly corner of l\1iddle and lished himself as an innholder in Gloucester, in Short streets. Besides three daughters, Eliz­the house which had been owned and occupied abeth, Anne, and Mary, no one of whom, so many years by Rev. John White, and is still far as I know. lived to marry, he had a son standing; and which he sold in 17 40, for £300, William who died unmarried, Sept. 27, 1763, to ,vnliam Ellery. In April 1750~ he is called aged twenty-six. John, another son, born Jnne .. innholder" of Boston, and in November of 1, 1741, married Judith Sargent, Oct. 3, 1769, the same year, "trader," of Gloucester. Jan. and died in St. Eustatia, leaving no child. She 20, 1754, he married Mrs. Mary Dow, of Ports- became the second wite of Rev. John Murray. mouth, N. H., and, according to a deed of the A portrait of this lady, painted by Copley, ic; . . surviving execu~or of his will, Nov. 19, 1768, in possession of her relative, Ignatius Sargent, seems to have spent his last days in that town. Esq., of Brookline. Another son of William

John, next son of Samuel, born July 11, 1707, Stevens, Samuel~ the youngest, born March 12, married Rachel, daughter of Joseph Allen, Esq., 17-18, married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter Nov. 12, 1729. Besides a son John who died of Col. ,villiam .Allen, Oct. 12, 1·;73; not in the in infancy, and another of the same name of year of his birth, as erroneously stated in the whom nothing more is known, he had a daugh- History. He died Dec. 9, 1795. His widow, ter Rachel, born Sept. 21, 1731, who married with a son and daughters, removed to Port­Nathaniel Ellery, Oct. 20, 1747, and died July land, Me., ·where the son} uamed William Sam-1, 17 50, before completing her nineteenth year, uel, died unmarried, Aug. 27, 1804, aged twen­leaving two children :-John Stevens Ellery, ty-seven. Mrs. Stevens died in Portiand, Apr. who became a prominent merchant of the 4, 1850; having attained the great age of nine­town; and Rachel, who became the second wife ty-seven years, five months, and eight days. of Daniel Rogers, Esq., another distinguished Ebenezer, son of Deacon James Stevens, is merchant. The date of John Stevens' second not known to have married, nor can I trace marriage is not on our books, but Mr. Chand- j him beyond 1697, .when he was absent at se:1. ler records, under date of June 20, 1754, '"I I In the History he is erroneously supposed to

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have married and died in town, but he was ezer Davis, Feb, 9, 1715, and died Dec. 29., therein mistaken for another person of the 1724; a daughter (Honour), May 10, 1693, mar-

.• . same name. ried, 1, John Wise, Nov. 2, 1712, 2, John Won-

David, son of Deacon James Stevens, mar- son, Feb.18, 1720, and 3, Isaac Prince, Dec. 10, ried Hannah, probably daughter of John Sar- 1730, and had children by each husband-nine gent, Feb. 11, 1703, and had two daughters,- in all; Richard, Aug. 26, 1695; Joseph, Jan.­Hannah and Rachel. / 16, 1698; Benjamin, April 9, 1700; Caleb, July

Jonathan, youngest son of the same, married 4, 1703; Samuel, June 25, 1706; Abigail, June Mary, daughter, I suppose, of William Sar- 11, 1709; and Sarah, Sept. 11, 1716, married gent, 2d, .March 13, 1707, and had a son Jona- Thomas Dresser, Jan. 6, 1733. The sons Wil­than, born Dec. 7, 1707, who was living in liam and John were probably born before . .•

1737, and was the same, perhaps, who was in_ their father settled in Sandy Bay; and .Abigail, tending marriage with Sarah Balston, June 3, here given, but not mentioned in her father's 17 45. will, died early, withou~ doubt.

There is no record of the death of these last William, probably oldest son of Richard : two sons of Deacon James Stevens, but the Tarr, .married Elizabeth Felt, Dec. 21, 1708. probate books show that administration on The time of death of either is not found, but their respective estates was granted, May 15, he was living at Sandy Bay in 1754. Besides 1710, to their only surviving brother, Samuel. _a daughter Mary, who married Joshua Ken~

This article, the fruit of much research, in dall; Eunice; Abigail, who married James Par­addition to some repetitiC\nS from the History sons; and Lydia; he had three sons :.-Wil­to make it complete, contains all I know about liam, born April 22, 1713; Richard, Feb. 3, the descendants of the skilful shipwright who 1715; and Jonathan, March 31, 1718. William built in London, before he made his home on married Ma1 tha Card, probably daughter of the shores of Cape Ann, the great ship '' Roy- William: Dec. 17, 1739, who died soon witho~t al Merchant," of 600 tons. I issue, and he next married, Jan. 6, 1744, Anna

RICHARD TARR.-Besides this settler, Mr. ~arris, by whom he had daughters Martha and Savage finds a few others of the name who Anna. The latter was born Nov. 14, 1749, a were early in New England, but of one only few months after the death of her father, who of these are descendants mentioned. The will was,d1·own_ed; as I am informed by Mr. Pool, of Richard of Gloucester, made Jan. 7, 1729, the venerable local antiquary of Rockport. was proved June 13, 1732. In it he makes pro- The widow married .Jonathan Andrews. The vision for his wife Elizabeth during her widow- next son, Richard, I suppose to be the same hood; to son William gives £5, and all bis I who married Mary Flynn, Jan. 1, 1740, and wearing clothes and apparel; to sons John, 1 had four daughters baptized at the first church,· Richard, Joseph, Benjamin, Caleb and Samuel, and of whom I can say no more. Tlie daugh­£5 each; to Henry Davis~ Elizabeth Davis and ters' names were-Mary, Elizabeth, Agnes;·and Hannah Davis, children of bis daughter Eliza- Eunice. I do not find the marriage or any 0th­beth Davis, deceased, 5s. each; to his daugb- er incident of the life of Jonathan. ters Honour W onson and Sarah Tarr, 5s. each. Of John, next son of Richard, sen., I learn In the inventory of his estate we find real es- nothing more than his intention of marriage tate, consisting·or house and barn, and includ- with Elizabeth Heans of Marblehead, April 8, ing five acres of land northeast of the house, 11714, and the birth, June 9, 1719, and baptism next the sea, valued at £300 : and J?ersonal,- at the first church, Aug. 16, same year, of bis 3 cows, £2i; 1 pair steers, £10: 3 yearlings, £8; daughter Elizabeth; but he was probably liv-1 calf, £1; 20 sheep and 6 lambs, £20; 1 mare ing in town in 1725. and colt, 60s.; 4 swine, £3; 3 beds and furni- Rfohard, next son of Richard Tarr, has in ture, £16.5s,; warming pan and frying pan, the History, I fear, a wife to whom he was £1.5s.; saw and augers, and other articles, never married. Perhaps he was the Richard making the amount in all £99.2.6. The full who married Sarah Beal, at Beverly, Dtc. 29, date of birth of his children recorded in Glou- 1719, and after the birth of a son Richard here, cester, not given in the History, is here ad- Sept. 10, 1722, may have removed to Marble­<1ed :-Elizabeth, Jan. 10, 1691, married Eben- head, as a Sarah Tarr was administratrix of

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the est.at.e or Richard or that town, May 22, 17 45. Ir this conjecture be accepted, the Rich­ard who was killed by the Indians at Fox Is­lands, in 172-t-, must be the same who married Grace Hodgkins, Feb. 20, 1722, and had Haz­eJponl, born Dec. 20, 1722; and William, May 15, 1724. This Richard 1nay have been a ne­phew or other relative or the settler at Sandy Bay. Of his children I can say nothing, un­less it was his son WUUam who married Sarah Williams,JoJy 9, 1754.

Joseph, fourth son ot Richard Tarr, married Sarah., perhaps daughter or Nathaniel Sargent, Joly 28, 1719. His children recorded here were -Abigail born Dec. S, 1719; Joseph, Sept. 11, 1721; Benjamin, Dec. 2, 1723; and Nathaniel, Kar. 9, 17:!6, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William Fears, Jone 7'! 1752. Mr. Pool says that J oscph Tarr and his family removed to Parker's Island, Georgetown, Me., and that he has met his descendants there.

Benjamin. next son of the ftrst Richard, mar­ried Re~ the yoon: widow of William Card, and daughter of James Wallis, Feb . .f.., 1724. She had had three children by her first husband when he was lost at sea in 1722. This son settled in Sandy Bay, and is said to have died about 1783. She died "ho. 4, 1782, aged eighty-three. The town records give him three children :-Rebecca, born Nov, 18, 1724, married Thomas Row, Dec, 30, 1742; Benja­min, nee. 25, 1726; and James, M:ch. 13, 1729 : to whom the records of the fl.rs t church add Lucy, baptized Aug.~, 1731; and Ano, Feb. 15, 1736, who married Daniel Thurston: to all of whom Mr. Pool adds three more,-J ohn, born about 1733; Deborah, who married l\fark Pool; and Henry. Benjamin, the oldest son, married Mary, daughter of Daniel Barber, Dec. 22, 1748. I fl.nd no record of the death of either, but he is said to have died in 1814:, aged eighty-eight. In the records he has two children only:-Benjamin, born Aug.25.1749; and Mary, Feb. 17, 1752 : but there were eer­tainJy many others,-Dan1~1 B., born May 12, 175-l; Job, Dec. 17, 1765; and Jabez, Aog.19, 17S8; known to me : and Moses, Epes, David, Robert and Francis, mentioned t.o me by Mr. Pool. The son Benjamin married Lucy Say­ward. Aug. 9, 1772, and was the father of Capt, Charles Tarr, who died in Rockport, Nov. 3, 1871, aged _ninety-three years and eight mos~ The three sons whose date ot birth is above

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given., also married and lived to old &e:,ae.-Job to about 81, says Mr. PooL Daniel B. and Ja­bez were both revolotioD&ry soldiers., and the latter fought on Bonker Hill. He died Nov. 25, 18", aged eighty-five, the last survivor or the Gloucester soldiers engaged in that ba~e: Daniel B. died April 16, 1840, aged eighty-six. James Tarr, son or. the first Benjamin, married Locy Pool, probably in l 753~ ~ides his tw~ sons, William and James, who were lost at sea in the ship Tempest, Mr. Pool tells me that he had a Solomon and Benjamin, and daughters; bot the date ot the death or rather or mother he tells not, though he thinks the former died about 1807, and the latter about 1818. John1 next son or the first Benjamin, born, Mr. Pool thinks, about 1733, married Elizabeth Goss of 'Squam in 1755, who was born Oct. 14:. 1736. He enlisted in the army and died iu camp, iii Rhode l8land, in 1776, leaving a son John who was with his father in the army, and died a pensioner of the revolutionary ~ar, .May 29~ 1838, aged eighty-one years and eight months. His wife was Agnes Tbnrston, who died Dec. 27, 18.U, aged eighty-one: Hr. Pool says they had fourteen cbildre~ and that this last John had brothers,-Joseph, who died about 1833, a bachelor; Andrew; and Abner L., who was drowned, unmarried : and two sisters who mar­ried. Mrs. Elizabeth (Goss) Tarr died in Apr., 1831, aged ninety-fonr and a halt years. Hen­ry, the other son of the fl.rst Benjamin, mar­ried Mercy Sayward in 1762. His son Henry, born in 1763, was lost in the ship Tempest, and a son Zebulon~ born in 1768, was drown~ near Cape Cod, young~lid on married; and Mr~ Pool says that he also had other sons,-Nath:­aniel, Daniel, John Sayward, Caleb, and Hen­ry again.

Caleb, sixth son of the first Richard, had a wife Martha, for whom no somame is yet found. They had twin sons, born Nov. 8, 1725, died in two days., ar.d the e!even following children :-Martha, Caleb,. Mary, Joshua, Dav­id, Hannah, Samuel, Jonathan, Susanna, Sarah, and Jonathan again. The father's will was proved Jone s,,J752. The son Caleb marri~d Hannah Davis, Oct. 21, 17 48. The town and church records together give him nine chil­dren, of whom I can say nothing tnrther. Joshua married ~unice Collins, May 21, 1754: The records give no children, but .Mr. Pool informs me that he had sons Ebenezer and

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Jonathan, and three or more daughters. Da,·- order as they were bom.'· There was a John, id married Lucy Pool -~n 1758, and was drown- too, of Portsmouth, who died )lay 2, 1706. ed, says Mr. Pool, near Thacher's Island, com- The name of John of Glout.-ester first occurs ing in from ttshing, in 1'2'59 or 1760, leaving a on his marriage to Sarah Rigw;;, May 9, 1681, son David, who was a revolutionary soldier, an<l it is not found afterwards, except in the and married and left descendants in ~ockport. record of the birth of each of his children, tm

Samuel, youngest son of Richard Tarr, mar- June 1707, when there was ... granted to Sarah ried Elizabeth Williams, Oct. 12, _J726. He Tucker the wife of John Tucker aud for her was drowned in Sheepscot Ri\"'er, Me., June heirs lawfully bome of her owne body about 27, 1739. Pt:rhaps she was the widow Eliza- ten acres of ground above the head of Goose beth Tarr who married Saniuel Clatk, Jr., in Cove." He did not share in any of the gen-1747. The children of Samuel Tarr were:- eral divisions or land, and it is not known Samuel, born March, 1729; Jacob, baptized when or where be or his wife died. His clill­J an 30, 1731; Jeremiah, born Feb. 5, 1733; dren were-Mary, born Oct. 5, 1682; Sarah, Abrahsm, 1734-; Elizabeth, baptized Jan. 2, March 14-, 1685; John, Dec. 27, 1686; William, 1737; and Elizabeth again, born Dec. 12, 1738, May · l_l, 1690; Tl1omas, July 18, 1692, drown­matTied Isaac Jacobb, Feb. 15, 1757. The son ed in Carolina in 1717; Richard, March 27, Samuel married . Ruth Gamage, Sept. 9, 1760, 1695 ; Abigail, JulJ 15, 1697; Joseph, Feb. 2r6, and bad Samuel, born 1761; Oliver, 1764; and. 1701; and Grace. _July 27, 1706. -Abraham, 1769: about which time, or soon af- The son John married Mary Lane, Dec. 14-, ter, the father must ha'\-·e died, ns bis widow 1714; and perh~ps widow Sarah A"dams about married John Turner, Jan. 21, 1772. Jacob forty years later. Of bis tweh·e children, four married Lois Elwell, Dec. 15, 1753, and had two -Mary, John, Samuel and Jonathan-died in daughters and a son Jacob. The 1:itter was infancy: the others were-Thoma.4,, William,

. baptized at the first church Jan. 15, 1758. Abra- David, Job, a second Samuel, Eunice, a sec­ham married Mebitable Clough. No children ond Mary, and Martha. Thoma..~, born April are recorded, but Mr. Pool says_' be bad Eliz- 26, 1718, married Raebel Leach, Sept. 3, 1739, abeth, Abraham, Mary Saunders, and Joseph and had four daughters,-Mary, Susy, Rachel Clowlin, and died before 1767, when.his widow and Martha, the last two of whom were born married Moses Cooper. Some of the descen- in Falmouth. William, bom June 26, 1720, .dants of Samuei settled at Eastern Point, married Ann Riggs, Nov. 3, 1743, had two cbil­wheuce, according to Mr. Pool, one of them, dren-John and Thomasine-and died Sept. 2, Abraham, removed to B1istol, Me. 1746. David is not known to have married.

Descendants of Richard Tarr are numerous. Job, born Apr. 22, 1728, married Ruth Dodge_, lu the Directory for 1869 I count thirty-nine of Wenham, Dec. 21, 1749, and !tad three males in Gloucester and twenty.nine in Rock- daughters,-Mary, Ruth and Lucy, and a son port,among whom are James P., r~presentative Nehemiah; of all of whom, parents as well as from Rockport in 1841, the first from the town, chiltlren, I can say_no more. Samuel, youngest and James G., representative from Gloucester son of the second Jo}ln, born April 26, 1729 or in 1873 and 1874. 1730, does not appear to have married, unless

JOHN TucKER--Ofno one of the numerous he be the same as Lemuel, who was intending families of this name among the early settlers marriage with Mercy Riggs, May 11, 1751, and of New England, mentioned by Mr. Savage, is with Ruth Millet, Mcb. 25, 1769. The births it so p1-obable that our John was a branch as of bis ftve children-Mary, Lemuel, John, --of that one settled about Piscataqua River. James and George-all by his wife Mercy, There was a-Hugh of Kittery, and a Hugh who complete my knowledge concerning him. _ had a son John baptized at our ftrst church W~lliam, second son of the :flrst John, mar­Mcb. 10, 1706. There was a Lewis ofNew.cas- ried Dorcas, daughter of John Lane, Jan. 8, tie, and a Lewis, perhaps bis son, whose· ftve 1713. They.-~~ a daughter Dorcas who_died ~hildren-Elizabeth, ~wis, Joshua, Isaac and in in~ancy, a~~t~nd second Abigail, and sons John-born in the first ten years of the last WillYJ,Jll an~ 1Jqli~- William, born May 22, F,Cntury '" at ~it~~rY side in Pascataqua Riv- 1721, married Patience Riggs, Oct. 18, 1742. ,~," by Jo~nhiS;'.}Y.lfe,.are in our records '~ in Besides three ~ughters,-Dorcas, Ehzabeth

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and Patience, he had three sons,-William, I so far as the town records show. Joseph. Daniel and Richard. William, born March 4. born April 8, 1728, was intending maniage 1745, married Rebecca Merchant, Dec. 24, 1765, with Elizabeth Hilton, Jan. 26, 1752. Be was. by whom probably was born the Willizun bap- I suppose, the Joseph who died Jan. 16, 18le. tized at the fourth church Nov. 2, 1766. Be- The records gh·e him two sons-Joseph and comin:t a widower, he next married, Ang. 16, \ William Bilton, both of whom appear to have 1773, Eliza~th Riggs, who bore him two sons; married in town; and two daughters-Eliza­-Abraham and Gideon, and died I>ec. 20, 1178.

1 beth and Mary, who died in infancy. Concern­

He married next, Dec. 28, 1780, Abigail Riggs, ipg Richard, youngest son of Richard, I can who died Dec. 28, 1823. He died Feb. 15, 1804-. add nothing. The children of the last marriage were,-. Joseph, you~gest son of the first John, can Richard, Thomas, Isaac, · Jacob, Reoecca, ha\·e no further notice here, for without some Joshua, John and Simeon H. John was the j show of identity it can not reasonably be as­well-known sexton and undertaker, who died I sumed that he. was the Joshua ·wh() married Joly 27, 1872, aged seventy-seven. Daniel Sarah Denning, March 6, 1734, and had a son Tucker, born Jan. 6, 1747, was intending mar-j Samo.el born May 31, following. riage with Margaret Lurvey, Nov, 25, 1769. Here are given all of the first three gene~­She died in Aug., 1829, aged eighty-seven. tioos of the descendants of John Tucker who The town records have the birth of bis son bore his name, and of whom I have knowledge, Jonathan, April 11, 1775, and the records of and a. few of later posterity are added, tracing the fourth church have the baptisms of Dan- one branch down to the present time. It is iel, Aug. 11, 1771, of Daniel, again, Aug. 31, shown by the last Directory that there are on 1777, and of Patience, Feb. 27, 1780. It was our Cape twenty-seven males bearing the the last Daniel, I suppose, who died Jan. 1~ name, ot" whom ten live in the section where

. 1855, aged seventy.seven. the original settler had his home. John, second son of the first William, born WILLIAM V1NsoN.-His · will made Mar, 19,

J~n. 30, 1725, married Mary Davis, Nov., 1746. 1684:, and proved Nov. 25, 1690, mentions Besides three daughters, Mary, L.qcy and Su- "dear and loving wife Rachel,., but the Pro-

··-sanna, and one without a name, he ·had two bate 1·ecords say that "Sarah, the widow and sons, John and Nathaniel John was the rev- relict of William Vinson of Gloucester, ap­olutionaey and militia officer, mentioned. in the peared in coo.rt at Salem, 25 Nov., 1690," and History. He married Elizabeth Elwell, Oct. presented an inventory of the estate of her 22, 1772, and died in Jan., 1831, aged eighty- husband, taken Sept. 25, preceding.. In this two. She died Nov. 17, 1831, aged eighty-one. document we ftnd-"' dwelling house, &c., He had a son John, of whom I know no more, £125; cows and other neat cattle, £39; a horse ·and two daughters :-Betsey, who ms.med and a mare, £13;" apd other items, to make Elias W. Hayes, and Lucy, who married Col. up in all £188.3.8. The debts are given at £8. William Beach. The children of this settler were - Sarah,·

Nathaniel, a revolutionary soldier also, and probably bom in Salem, married Jefl"rey Par­a Grand Bank skipper, married Judith Rob- sons, Nov. 11, loo7, and died Jan. 12, 1708; bins, Jan. 4, 1787, and had many children. He Hannah, also born there prol>ably, married died June 2, 1848, aged 87 years and 15 day!il, William Ellery, Oct. 8, ~663, and died Dec. 24, says the record, but the right computation 1675; Elizabeth, born May 16, 1644, married makes him then 85 years and 25 days. She James Gardner, Jone 19, 1661; and died Mar. died May 8, 1842, aged seventy-nine. 4, 1684; Richard, died July 24, 1652; John,

Richard, son of the first John, married A.bi- May lo, 1648, died before 1683, probably un­gail Harvey, Jan. 16, 1718, and was dead in married; William, Sept. 9, 1651, died Dec. 9; 1733. His children were-Abigail, Benjamin, 1615; Richard, again, Sept. I, 1658, died Dee.

· Sarah, George, Joseph and Richard. Benjamin 26. 1675; Thomas, April 1, 1662, died Dec. 31, had a ~n Benjamin, born, not apparently in 1675; and Abigail, May 8, 1668, married Jacob wedlock, April 3, 1741. George, !>om April Elwell, Joly 5, 1686.; William Vinson's second 24, 1725, married Hannah Parsons, Nov. 23, wife was widow ·Rachel Cook, who had s. son 1748, and died Oct. 8, 1756, without o1fspring, John, and probably had had a previous bus-

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pand Langton, by whom she had a daughter J'o:ex WALUB.-The inventory or tbis set­~chel, who married ~agh Rowe. and a daugh- tler, in the Probate records, bearing date Jan. ter Mary, who married Thomas Day; as Vin- 29 1691, contains the tolJowing items: one SOD called Rowe Ilia son-in-law ancl MaTy Day yoke of oxen, ,s.7 ; 2 cows, :£3; 2 steers and 1 his daughter-in-law. heifer., :£4; one-tbird of a small shallop, :£3;

Bv.imY W ALDR.-The name or tldssettler is household fomitllre and money, :£33.13; total, brought into these Notes- for the -purpose of :£00.lSs. "Also aboui 240 acres of·land in giving the inven~ry of bis estate, which, at Casco· Bay, on Parpooduck side. where Jno. the time of his decease, Aug. 20, 1693, was the Wallis bad a house· which he lived in."' His

. largest that had been a~mulated in the town. son Josiah, by wife Mary, bad a son John bom It shows that his employment, like that of the here Aug. 23, 1695, and a daughter Susanna; other settlers. Md been upon the land. and Aag. 25, 1699. There were t.vo other chil­not upon the sea. His will, made Aug. 29, dren by this wire, born probably at Casco 1690; and proTed ()et. 20~ 1'693., gives to Na- Bay :-Mary, who manied Paul Dolliver, Feb. thaniel Coit, ,. who now liveth with me, all my 11. 1113, and Sarah, who married Jacob Saw­houses and laods;" to b1s grandBOn Joseph yer,Feb.12, 1116. This wife was killed by·the Haskell £20 when twenty years old; ... to the Indians at Casco Bay, in 1703. and be was e"¥ery one" of bis son WiBiam Haske'ffs chil- next married, Dec. 19, 170C-,, to one w~e dr~n £5; to bis grand-daugliter Sarah Robin-· name appears not..on the records. By her he son £20; to Andrew Robinson ,~ that now liv- bad ~o children: J~iah, bom i70S., and etb with me" £20, wbe'D twenty years old; and Samuel, April 24-, 1711; and be died Feb. 7, to an the rest of his "son Abraham Robin- 1741, aged about seventy-Dine. His will, or "Son's" children £2.10 each when of age. Tbe Dec. 31, 1739, mentions wife Sarah and all the inventory is as follows:- children before named except Sosanna and .Jo.

Buildings, orchard and tillage land.. £ 120 siab. Sixty acres marsh, 300 John was the son who was canied on his One hundred and ftft.y acres pssture~ father's back in the escape from the Indian

more or less, 300 slaughter in which hi~ mother suffered. He wearing apparel, £12; beds and bed- married Patience, daughter of Samuel Hodg-

ding, £12, books, 10s, 2,.10 kim, Jan. s, 1719, aocl had the following cbil-·o1d chests, chains and wooden ware~ dreo :-John, bom Dec. 31, 1719; Padeooe,

2 goos and swo~ 50s,'Pot and Dec. 26, 1721; David, Nov .. 19, 1723; Susan-kettle and other iron ware £2 4 .. 10 na., bapti7.ed Joly 9, 1727 ; Josiah, bap. Sept . .,

lron tackliug for husbandry, :£3~ 1729; Mary. born Aog. 00-, 1731; Josiah, Oct. English Com, :£6 9 15, 1738; Jose~ April 1, 1786; and .Benjamin,

Indian Com, .£12, so sheep, £.38, Oct. 4, 1738. The father went back to Casco· horse bridle and saddle, £5, 00 Bay ancl was living there in 1768; bot be seems

s oxen, £JG; JO cows, .£38; 3 steers, to have left behind his sons John and David, £1310; 2 st.eers, :.£.s. 15•10 for the town records give the maniage or

bull, £.S.·10s, 3 young cattle~ £G; 4- John, Jr., and Dorcas Millet, Feb.12, 1740, and

calves 50s • £I- the birth of their dau!?bter Dorcas, Ma:y 22, , . ;_ swine, a, !7 .... Hay and a \Ow eomb, 1 17 46; and the marriage or David and Eliza-

beth Short well, April s, i 7 45. The cbildren or £922.10

The legatees-or money were an grandchil­dren of his wife. ~ of Abraham Robin­son., her son by her ffrst hm;band, and or Mary Bro~, her daughter by her second, who took the name of ber s&eprather and married Wil­liaID. Haskell. By what tie or claim Nathaniel Coit came in tor Dearly the whole estate, I cannot sa.y.

this marriage were-David, Daniel, Betty, and John, recorded io the town books, aDd Betty. again, Mary, Joseph, and two named Caty Den­ney~ in the record of baptisms at the :flrst­cburcb. Tbe lither is said to have Hved to old age. His SOD David, Jr., bom ()ct. 13. 1745, ma.med Abigail Goodrich, Jan. 1, 1771. He lived on Front St. many years, was some­time a coaster, but 1loally removed to Kettle Cove, where he died. I do not learn that he

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b:id chilclren. Daniel. born .June 13. 1747·.. .J:imes. son of the 1>receding •. m~ricd Han~ married ~~.1ry Bah~on .. June 25. 17fix. Tlw nab Card •. nee. 8.. 1720. and had two .dat1:!h=­towu :md church records together ;,!h-~ him ters. - Hannah ancJ Sarah. .A~ th~ Hi~tory two D:mieli-;. two J::n-id~. and ~:unue1, hut I t<·ll~. he shared the unb:1ppy fi1te of bis brother im.,w nothin~·more of p:1rent~ or chilclrcn. ex- I Joseph .. at Fox H:trbor .. in 1724. ~Jonat~nn, cept thnt Dnni~l. horn Sept. 25. 1770. mnrrie<l the next son., is. without doubt. the same who I~:tbella \VE-bhc: •. M:1y8, 17!H. ancl remo,·ecl to nrnrried Eunice, prob:ihly daughter of Winiam ~{:tine. John~ thc_next brother, born June J, Tarr, Dec. 18. 1740. and w;,s intending. mar-17.:i;";, may he the ~nme who married Ann:1 rh1ge with Mary· Willhuns.. Dec. 16. 1749. Clou;!b .. Au~. 14. 1774, and had n. ~on Moses. Hannnh, .Jonathan and .Jumes are the children born April :10. 1774. n.nd a d:rn!!hter Ann:1. Au~- mentioned by the first mnrriage .. and Benja.-24-. 1777. .Jo~eph. the next son or navic'J. hap- min and John by the second. Tne son Jame$ tized -lt"c.•h. 4. 17;";9. married Sttr.th. daughter of w.1s. I suppose, the ~ames who marr:ej Judith Ahel Woodbury.. He w.1~ Jo~t in a ve~sel Sinf,!cr •• Jan. 24, 1769. which w:1s supposc:1 1o h:n-e fonnderrcl soon Of the descendant.1o; of Jolm Wallis, all who after Je:,ving Gloucester on :t foreign Yoyaf.!e, ·3hout 1800. His widow Jh·ed to be very old. The recor<l~ h:n-e the birth of his ~on .Jo~eph, JnJy 2r.. 1789. :1nd no other, hut there were he­~icle~ .John and D:n·id .. the Jnttn· hein~:l. ,~ener-

hore the name in town before 1775 are hei:-e •riven· :md th·e. ~cnerntions are tra.ced in one P!, ' .. . - .

line down to the pre~eut day. The name is now usually spelt Wal1acc.

M1C1JAF.r.. \VKnsa-:n.-Tbis settler. who died ahle citizen of Rockport at the presPnt time. .Jan. 12. 1729, nged nenrly .ninety. was, ln. the ~Tos· .. ph married widow Sally Bray. wa.~ a f:tr- opinio.n of John S. Web~er, Esq., who i$. in­mer at \Vest Gloucc\ster. and died there March ,·e~tigating the f.1.mily history, the f.1ther of _20. 1874. nged 8-l- ycnr~ and 8 months. His S.1mue1 .. Michael and Jaml's, the fir~t persons wife ~till livec.:, nearly :1s old. Hi~ descendnnts of the nnme in tO\Yll who w<.~rc known .. to be and those of hi~ brothers comprise nearly all busb.mcls and fi1ther~. Samn~l and ,Jctme3 nf the few now hearin~ the name on the Cnpe. 1 were only b~·ief sojourners here. The Michael

S:unnd, youngest son of .Josin~m:irri d 8a- with n wife Deborah in l ,01, and the Miclrne r:1h Thom:1~~ Nov. 14. 173-l. The to,,·n records who appc:irs with a wife S3ntha.:fcw years lat~ h:n•e the births of his four ctau~hters-Surah.. er .. are thought by Mr. \V. to be identical. The "Elizah<>th. Hannah nnd Lucretia~ and the children of the lust nnmed :Michael were :-Mi-church records the b:1pti~m of n son 8amue1, April 10. 17-18. nfter which I kno,v nothing of nny of the fl1mily. unless the :-.on he the snme who m:1rric<l Lucy Brown, Sept. 22, 1787. A Smnucl cli<.·d Dec. 12. l8Q1; •

. T.tmes \Vnilis. ·son of-the fir~t i-;ettlcr .John. h:ul a wife Mnrtlrn. and tbe following chilrlre11: Elizabeth, proh:thly married \VilJhun Andrews; ,l:un~s; Heheknh, born ,fan. 8, Hi9:l, mnrried, flr~t. William C:irrl, Au~. 2:;, 1 il 7, and .. ~ec­ond, Benjamin Tnrr, Feb. 4. 1724-., :111d flied ,l,rn. 4. 1782; Martha .. Dec. 16, .1701; .To~~•ph .. April 24-. 1701. kiiled hy Indians at Fox Hnr­bor, 172-l-; Bcnj~a.min, Oct. 6. 1707; and .Jona­than, .June 17, 1711. The will of James \Val­lis, m:1dc Aug .• 1731~ proved 1743, pr~n·kles for hi-. wife M:trth:1 ·" a comfortpl)le ~ul)sistence .. " and mentions sons Jon:tthan and Benjamin, the fatter in enpth·ity nnd hearc.l of no more by me; :ind dnugbters Eliz.:tbetl1 and Rebekah. The ... .

inn~ntory of his estate, l,lar. 31, 1744, amount­ed to £186.14:.4.

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chacl, horn .Jan. 2C, 1716; Dehornh, No\~. 2, 1717; .James. Sept. 1-l-, 171!); .J9hn •• July 15,. 1 -•')•). J h J I 9 8 1-9 I • B . . . 1l£· , -- • oscp , . u y _ • , -t, enJ.~m1u. 1, .1y 21. l,2fi; Mary. li28. died Feb. 1. J:i29; Na­thnn, Aug. 28. I i30 ~ {gnatiu~ •• Jnly G,1733; and M:1ry, }'eh. 14. 1,3a. Pro.hnbly there wns nn c:irlier Nat.Imo. for the records cont.ain the clPath of Nathan. son of Mich::iel aud S:1r.1h ~Vehbcr. 23 .fan ,-1730. in .the 20t.h y<~ar of his :1~e. The d:1te of the f.1ther's cteath is rot known. hut ndminb,tr:1th-m of his estate was granted to his wife S:,r:lh 11 Feb .• 11,m •.

Mic-ha•·1. son of the precedin!! .. n-arriPd Hnn­nah, d:tuf,!hter of ,James Sawyer .• July I.a. 1739. He was lost at sen. between Gloucester nnd Boston, in Ango~t. 17fi0. She died in ·•New Gloucester, Me .• F()b 7, 1803, ~~ed eighty-~ix.; Beside~ four dau~hte~·. - H:mnah. Ret>ekah; nnd two S:u-:1hs~ he h:1<1 a son ~John. horn April 7. 1742, aud a. son Michael. baptized at the first church· Sept. 4. 1757. It is ~aid he had ,_uotber Michael, born Jan •. 1760, and that he

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was a soldier in Capt. Joseph Ro!>y's company, mnrried life •. These children were,-Natban­in the continental anny-in t775, and fought on iel, born March 9, lfi85; Rebecca, April 21, Bonker Hill. We know that a Michael and 1686; Mary. April 7, lti87; Charity, 22. died 24 .Joseph Webber were on the roll of that com- Feb., l(;sts; Thomas, Jan. SO, 1689; Mercy and pany. He married Sarah C;,mpbell of Port- Experience, June 15, H.'J0. dfod same d:,y; bmd, Me., in 178:? .. a~1d :-.ettled in New ~louces- Hannah, July ~t, 1691; Arthur, Mareb 5, 1694; ter. where he di<.~ March 19; 1827. She died John, Jan. 15, 1(;96; Patieuce, Oct. 17, died March , , 1829, :iged sixty-six. They bad nine Dec. 9, 169,; Abraham, Oct. 11,. 16"9,. died ct,ildren. of whom one wa.~ Gen. John W cb- March 19, 1706; and Lydia, Nov. 27. 1701. who ber; named in the Hi~tory. John, elder broth- died Jan. 20, 1702. The date or the fiLther,s er of Michael, married Lydia Mor~au, Dec. 16, death is not known, but it is certain that he 1766. He:! also settled in New Gloucester, w:,s wru; living in 1734, and probably much later, an officer in the militia, and died without issue if,~ I suppose, he was tbe Nathaniel Wb:trf May 9, 1809, aged sixty-seven. of who:-.e e~n.ate his 80DS - Isaac aud Arthur

James, second son of the first Michael, mar- were appointed administrators 11 Aug. 1755. lied Patience~ probably duughter of John Wal- The History m:ikt-s the oldest son. N:itbaniel, Us, March 2-l,. 1739, and had Patience., James, marry Hannah Ste\·cus, lfeb. 7, 1715~ but there Nat~n and Deborah, or not one of whom, or may be some doubt whether this were m:1rriage of the parents, do · I know anything more. or that son or secon..d marriage or the father. Perhaps they all accomp:inied Wallis on bis re- Hannah SteYcns was, perlrnps. widow of J>a­mov:,l to Falmouth. vid. aud the chiid1·cn or this marri:tge were,-

Beojumin, firth son of Michael: married Hau- Thomas, born March 21, 1717, and Isaac, June nab .. d:iughter of John Babson, No\". 29. 1750. 7, 1720. If it was 1uar1iage or the sou, be Beside:-; their two li-On~, mentioned in the Hi~- must have died soon after the birth of this iast torr, tbey had u daugber Hannah, who married chBd. a8 Arthur, his hrothcr. is called eldl"bt \\ .. illinm Morgan, aud a daughter Mury. who son of bis f:itht-r iu l 7t3. 'Ibis 'Jbomas mar­married I>auiel Staples :\nd settled in Maine. rie.d Dorcas Laue, Nov. 16, 1;35_ He wus a.

Ignatius, youn~e~t son of Michael. married Grand Bank skipper. uud was lm;t., with all of Eliz.,hcth, daughter of Hobert Stewart, M:trch bis crew. on a ,·oy:1ge to the Bauks in 1753. lle-13, 1737. He was a :-bipruali-ter, and diecl at sen ~ides two daughttrs,-Uorells aud Su rah, be in command of a vessel. She died April 21, had six sons,-Job. Johu • .Nathaniel, Thomas~ )821, in her eighty-ninth year. His first child David, :md Eliphalct Day. l know not tbut and only son was the ignatius who died :Feb. more tlUJn two of them married: Thoma~. born 1, 18~9, ngetl seventy-two; uamed in the Hi~- .. ~ug. 3, 1747., probably murried Sarah Lufkin in tory. Then followed tbct--e seven daughter~.- i ,us, by whom he had three children; l~nd ~oou EEzabeth,Anna, Sm'a.h. Deborah, Estht-r.Judith atl.t'.r, it is :-;upposeu, rcmon~d to New Glou~es­and J:,;:,belln; euch.of whom wus married. ter. M~-, where~ iu tbe old burying ground, a

John, .Jo~eph and Nathan. other sons of the grave Rtoue record~ bis death, Jan. 22, 1835, ng­,flrst Michael, did not perpetuate the uum~ in ed c.-:igbty-~even. aucl another that of Snr-Jh his Gloucester, or anywhere else that I can le8rn; wife, July 21, 1835,_ aµ.ed cight.y-cigbt. His and at the pres~nt time it is borne here by three children were 'l'bomu:-.. Sarah ant.I Susun­very few of his de8ceudants. The History nn, wbo were b:iptiz~d at the fourth church. and this Note together contain the namt-s of Thomas, \\<itbout doubt, wa..~ the smue whQ all of the family known to me t,o h:n-e lived in died in New Glouce:-;te1\ Feb. 15 .. 18H4-, ag•·d to,vn berore 17i5. ninety-tlnee- l>avid, born Feb. 2, lio2, is the

N.ATUAXn-:1 .. WIL\l?F--This settler bought ot same, I presume, wh1> bud :1. wife Jenny, and, Henry Jo~lyu, Nov. I .. 1H93, a house and la.ud besides five daughters, thr~e sons,-Eliphulet, between hrnd of Timothy Somes and hind of Nathaniel and \\"illiam. N:tthaniel died May Thomas Riggs. sen., but he first uppe:Lrs in 28~ 18-l-7, aged forty-eight. Ism1c, brother or town on bis ma1·rhlge. 30 J:u, .• lf>84, to Ann, the tirst Thomas, married Catherine Connolly dnoghter of Thomas Rigg~ .. who died Dec. 17,. of Newbury, Sept. 9, li44, and hnd six chil• 1701. aged thirty-seYen; baving t-.ri\'en birth to dren., including ~on~ John C ... Isaac and Hum­:thirteen children in the se\·entcen years of her pbrey. Isaac, born April 13, 17-1-9, married

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Mary W:illis. M::ay 27', 1770., and bad sixdsn!!h- estate of Thoma..~ Wathen .. " :i. cote and a pare ten; andasoo .John. He was a se:1.-cisptaiu. orbri<-besanda<lohlet .. '·£1.u;~ .• and tools.£1, but wb~n :u1d where he met bis end I know not. W3s returned by Zebulon Hill and S.tephen Glo­Hi~ widow dk-d in Boston in April. 184-1, aged \."er .. both of Glouce~tcr .. 4th mo •• 16.=i.1. No eighty-eight. other \Vitlum1 hut Heury appears :,mong the

Arthur, son of the ft~t 'S'athaniel. appe:,~ to e:1rly settle~or New 1-:ogl.md. I flud no gn,nt ba\·e lived :1. b:1cbelor till Marcil 24-.. 1737. when of hmd to him till tbc general grant or six ~1cre be nmrrioo Martha J..ee. Besides three d:lU:!h- lots in lfi&S; but it is <.-t-ni,in tlutt hi:-. ~on te~~ the records :!ive him ~ons.-Abraham. Tbomcl.S· i,.old to .Joseph York" in July 1701. he­John :md S:tmuel. the fl.n.t of whom. born .Jut)~ fore his fiLtber·s de:tth .. ei~hteen acres lying t7~ 17:-38. married Mary Allen, Feb. 9 .. 176:! .. :md near Loh:--ter Co\·e, that had belonged to l1iru. died lly suicide, as told in the Ristory. (p. 4-aU) His oame tlr:-.t occu~ in the record of bis m:1r­prob:1bl~· w;thout i~sue. Samuel .. born April rhl;:e., .June la~ H»G-•., to Sar-Jh" daogllter of 13. 174G. married Haunah Da,·i~., .June. 177:?.. Morris Some~~ who dil"d May 11. 1689. He

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and h:td Hannah. Susanmi anll Samuel, beyond ne~t marrk-d. Oct. 23., u;91,. Lydia Griffin, \\'bo whom my research has not extended. 'died Nov. l. 1702. He <.lk-d April 17~ 1702. His

John., ~on of the first Nathaniel .. \Vas intenc1- chil<lrcn were :-Thoma.~. born Sept. l9. 1666; ing marrh~e with Hannah Cleigh .. March 5, Henry .. Oet. 27', HiGS; .John .. Feh. 19. 1671. died 1, rn. The records give him ten children, in- Ju:1c 18. H,71; S:uuud .. Feb. 26~ 1673; :1nd Jo­eluding two pairs or twins. The names or hi~ seµh, Dec. 21, 1676. The last I t.r-.1ce not be­sons were, - Jamcs,..John (of which name tht-re yond lG95. were two). Natbuniel and Arthur. J:1mes. born Thom:1s Witham mnrried Abigail, the yoon~­J.m. 23., li20. married Runic,-c Day. J:m. 5., li4-l, est chmghtcr of James B:ibsou, Juiy 8 .. Jf:91, ·and had eight c!iildreu, of whom two were ana died Aug. 1, 1736. :iged se\·enty. She died son~~~:unes and John. Arthur, born June Feb. 25, 1745 .. aged ~evt.·nty-tllrce: the date o,f 18 .. 173t. I suppose to be the same wbo mar- de:ttb of euch being le:trned only from tl J: ried Lydia. Cunningham Oct. 31" li.31. and. he- gnl\·estones iu the old burying :,..rroond. Their sides three d:mgbters. had six son~.-.J:onathan, cbildreu were :-John, born May 1, 16£2. died Arthur .. ,Jo~eph, Kinnicum. Abr:tham and Oli- Nov. 14 .. 1709; J.um.·s., Dec. 21, 1693; Henry, ver. Abraham~ born Dec. 18., 17'►9, was prob- Dec. G, 16~5; Joseph, Dec. Hi. lii!'7; I>anid, ably tbe old fisherman who died Fe•1. 25, I Sal. Aug. 30, 1700; Ehenl·Zer. Muy 6. 1702: Abi;.:a.il,

A William, of wltom I do not find the f.tth- April 4, 1704; Sar.lb. June 8. li'0fi; ·Zebulon, er., mar1·ied l\{artha Williams, Nov. 12., 1772, J~u. 8, 170~; Patieuce, 14""cb. 15.1710 .. married, and hnd a ~n William, und two daughters: first, Edmund Gro,·er, and. isecoud. Johu Pool; Marth:1. and Lucy. An Arthur was intending and Th:tnkf"ul ... Jan. 2, 1713, who mnrried Elie­marriage with Racl,el Jackson of Sheep~t, zer Gro,·cr. The fotb~r must have been a man March 1, 17a5; and an Arthur with .Judith of uncommon qualities., for, apparentJy begin­Bootman., June 24. 1766. ning with nothing., he broo~ht up an but one of

Nathaniel Wharf was tile only person of the tbis great filmily to mature years, cduc:ttt>d one name among the e:uly settlers of New Eng• son at Harvard College, and left~ e~tate ,·al­land. All or his male descendants be;iriog u<.>d at almost £4000.. His will/i1mde July 29~ the name, who, a.~ far as my research can dis- 1736, gh·es to his wife Abigail house at tbe co,·er., were born in Gloucester before 1775, heud or the harbor to d\\·cll in duriug Iler wi­.are included in this account ot the family. I I dowhood., all household stuff necess:u-y to keep know r.ot to what cxt:eut the name has been house, two e.ows, ten sheep, ten cords of fire­perpetuated by emigrants, but it is borne in the wood brought to her door, four barrels cider, last Gloucester Directory by only five person~. ten bushels corn, one hundred pounds each of

H1'~snv WtTHAM.-Too easily" many years pork anJ beef brought to her house, anJ ap­ago, ,vnb little skill in r~ding ancient chirog- pies; to son James upper end of great marsh rapby., was the Dc't.me Thomas \Vatben in our or meadow; to sou Joseph. one-third of f:irm county r(.aeords called by me Witham; and it at the cape, having gi\·eo his son Henry oue­was su~est.ed in the History that he mh.tbt third in time past~ now gives the other tllird have been Cather of Henry. The inventory of to Joseph and Henry; to son Daniel Iowet

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p:irt of great m:u"8b; to fo-C,ns Ebenezer and a:?t•il forty-nine; leaxing a !--On Willi:lm Henry, Zebulon, homeste:td, bom .. e .. t:m-hou~w. h;1rn. who ~cttlcd iu llliuois, and rcmo,·cd thence to .,. ttdds. or<·b:1rds, mid· tan-y:1rds hc.·longing to Hou~tou. Texm,. where he died in 185:;. hom~tead.•on hoth ~ides or the w:1y; to .hune~. Joseph mul Zet>ulon, wharf and ware-bou~c :tt

.Joseph~ the ucxt ~ou of Tboum:-., mnrried ~J:me Hnr:t<leu, prob:tbly chm;.:.htcr of .John,

be:ul of the h:tr1>01·; to d:au.~hrer .\b1~nil £ IZ>O Dec, 2. 172i-;, and hue.I J:me. Ahi;.tai!, .Jo~t>µh, iu Pro,·iucc l>ill~.; to Sar:ib £50. to he paid by Andrew .. Jane, :t!!,tin. Sarah and Edmund Gro­Ehenezer anc.l Zebulon: to l':tticucc Gro,·er £100. beside~ what she bud ;tlremJy reccin:d; to Th:u1kf'ul Gro,·er £ IOO; to Joseph Gatchel.

·his npprenticl'. £10; :me.I. fostly~ n ucgro man to bis son Henry. Smm~ or the itl:ms'ot" his iu­Yet)tory we1e-the bome:-;tt!nd. about 67 acrl•:-;. £ 1700; two-thirds or farm at the c:,pc, nhout 90 acres~ und one-third or :L b:1r11 thereon, £,20; hou:-c ;1.nc.l barn uear head or the harbor. £~OU; wlrnrf :md w:arc-bou~e, £150; stock of" leathl'r. £ms; two yoke or OX<.-ll. £.u; Hille

CO)Vs," £5-l; thre(• heifer,:,; and ~teer. £rn. lO; aud s,,;inc. hor~cs, :mu 1.~o ~hel'p ;mtl larnhs.

James, the ohh.st sou of Thomas who Ih·cd to mature )·ear:-:, umrrit-d Hcpzib"h. daughtc.-r prol>al>Jy or John Stanwood, Fcl,. 7, 17:!3. lic-8idcs th·c d.mghtcr:--.-Susauna, 8,truh and Hc­bekah, twins, i<achcl arnl .Jerusha. he had sou:-:, -.Ju.me:-.. John. Tbo111:1s anti ZcbulotJ, the tir:-t three of whom appcur to have manied in town. A cellar ou a lonely ~pot ucnr what was ouce. known as Stacy's Piucs, on the back road to Uockport. murks the home ot' Jumes \Vitham

\"er; of no one of whom. par,mts or claildr~ n, cnn I ~:ty m~re. except th:tt. I ~uppose An­drew~ born Oct. 28. 1 ,:~.t~ to be tile :,,:.nnc who married ~a rah \\'ith .. 1m, M:1y I 1". 1 i58. and had :1. son Jo~cph :n1d four d.tuµhters recorded in the town book~. Joseph \\"itlmm. ~en., dkd before Sept. ~4~ 17-14. when bis widow .June :1d111inistcred ou bis cst:1ie.

n.m1cl, the next son .. m:iniell Lydi:t, dnugh­Lcr of Thomas Sanders, .Jan. 7, t ,35. A:.. a. prominent citizen the History gives a sutfi­cic11t account of him. His children were~.:..._\ flrsi'.. :tnd secoud Lydia, n first, :second and third Daniel, Thomn~, .John, )::1ry. a first and sec­ond .Judith, Marthn. :ind one without n. nmnc. l kuow bnt two of the daught<.•rs tlrnt married. -Lydia, who married J.uues Porter and <lh:d Nov. 4~ 1773. nud M:1ry, who becnme tlll· wife of .Jacob Hodgkins. Tlae third l>:rnicl was the youngest cl1ilcl, :rnd was horn .-\u~. S, 17.'>3•

He wus a tailor. and lived iu a bou:--e on Plea~­:mt street which was :fiw mu. y ycnrs the resi­dence of his father. He was twice rn.irricd:

and bis son Thomas, who. it is s,tiu, were cm- first, to Sus:1.1111:1 Row, April 11. 17::-30, by whom ployed by some or the Low fiunHy to watd1 he had ~ons I>m1iel aud .Joseph; :rncl. secoud, their flocks and bcrd.s in the neighboring pas- to l\lr:-. . .M.n·y Humphreys. widow of \\,'illium. tu1·es. Iu its later dnys the olu house wa~ fre- i suppose, b_y whom he had two childreu.­queutly ,·i:sitl'd !>y young people, :rnd wu.s the l William .md .Judith. He~ I ~upposc. w,ts the scene of a good deul of m~rth and jollity. _ I ])~niel Witl_1.un who die~l M.ty 4, -1815. His

Henry, the next son ot Thomas. married., widow mnrncd .Jountb:m Sargent, Aug. G; 1810, Jan. 18, 1733, lfochel. widow or Thomas Par- both.bride and bridegroom being well advnnc­sons and daughkr of Elder Jabez Buker of" e<l in years. S:tudy Bny. He :..cttled ut Saudy Bay, probably Ehenez.er~ next son of Tbomns, mnn-ied Eliz­,m the l:rnd bequeathed to him by his father, nheth Patee, J:m. 14. 1735. The town records became an elder of the tiftb church. a.ud uil'd give him but one child, but the records of the l'farch 18. I 777. aged eighty-two. She died in first church swell the list to nine, whose nnru~s :Jan., Ii95. ngcd over ninety. Their children werc,-Benjamin~ Dorc:1s, Lucy, Ann, Asu.Jer­were.-Anna~ Moses, Mary, Patience, .Joshua, emiah, Esther, Eli1' .• ubeth :md Ebenezer. Ben­Betbiuh, Henry ... Abigail. Caleb and Ebenezer. jamin w .. 1s baptized March 28, 1736, and died I know not that more than one of the sons De{!. IO, 1814. Hi~ marriage is not gh·en in married. Henry, born Feb. 13, li4-4. married the town records, but we know thut his wife widow Anna Duvi~, Dec. 17, 1767 ~ and is said wa~ an Ayres, probably Uuth, daughter of to have died at about. eighty years ot" age. His Thomns. Nor are any of his children 011 the son Hcn1,. ~ays ~fr. Pool, died in 1819~ of a town books; but the church records have the malignant feyer caught on hoard of a vessel in baptisms of five, one of whon,, Charlt!S, bap­Boston, recently arrh·ed from a sickly port, tized Aug. 9, 176i, married Dorcas Witham,

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Oct. 27, 1791, and died in the fall or 1795, of a: town records give him three children,-Samu­fever, which also carded otr about that time: el, \Villiam and Rebekah, to whom the church

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his brothers Jesse and Nathaniel. His only records add John, Benjamin, Deborah and Jo-son, Charles, is t:ne venerable owner and occu- seph. The father was a Grand Bank skipper, pant of the estate at the Farms which succes- and he and his son William were lost at sea, in sive generations of his family ha\·e held more 1759, by the foundering of a vessel in which than a hundred and e~ghty years. they were coming from the Banks. He was

Zebulon, youngest son of Thomas, married spoken near Cape A!].D, just before he was sup­Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sauders, Dec, posed to be lost, and was thought to have gone 17, 1736. She died Nov. 27~ 1767, aged fifty, dl>Wn in_ consequence of carrying a press of and he next married Dorcas Lane, tlan. 28, sail in a heavy blow, in attempting to get into 1770. who died Oct. ~, 1825, aged eighty-three. port before a g:ile should come on. The son He died Jan. 22, 1794-, aged eighty-six. A. sca-1 Samuel married Elizabeth., daughter of Timo­captain iu the early part of his life, his latter thy Higgin~, March 23, 1758, and h;;ilJ several sears were spent as a farme1· on the estate he- ii children; one of whom, Deborah, born., as she queathed to him by bis father. By his first said., Oct. 4 .. 17(,Q, and certainly baptized at the wife he had twelve children: nine sons,-Sau-1 tirst church Oct. 12, same year, bas a distinc­ders., Zebulon, William, l\lark., Joseph, Ed- tiou in our history that no other native of the ward, Edward, again, John; then one without town bas attained. In 1804 she became the a name, then a nameless daughter, an Elizabeth, second wifo of Capt. Jos. Sanders, and after and, lastly., a son Thomas. To these his sec- having two children separated from him and ond wife added se,·en more,-Do1·cas, \Villiam, I supported herself many years by teaching a· Daniel, Moses, .-\nna, John L. and Aaron; the \ school for sipall children. ,vhen old age came last in 1781 .. when his father was in his sen~n- . on she foun<l a borne io the family of relatives,

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ty-fourth year. Several of the sons married in I and~ after liugering till past a hundred, with town, some of ,vhom are said to have remov- ! mental and physical fal.culties not much imp:1ir­ed to Maine. Sanders, born Jan. 17, 1737, 1 ed, dit:d April 12, 1868, at the extraordinary age married Patience, probably daughter-of Thom- of on~ hundred and one years, six months, and as Harris of Sandy Bay, Dec. 13, 1759, and, be- eight days. sides other chilc.lren, had a son Thomas, who This account of the ,vitham family mentions settled in Minot, Me., and a s_on Zebulon, who every one, known to me, of the first.three gen­died in Rockport, March 4, 1840, aged seventy- erations c.,f the descendants of Henry, the first four. John L. was twice married1 and died settler, ·who bore his _name. Of six sons of the without issue Oct. 6, 186-5, aged eigbty-seveu; first Thomas, here are given the names of six­presenting the rare instance of the lives of ty-sb: children, - thirty-six sons and thirty father, son and grandson covering a period of daughters. By these•sous it might have been one hundred and ninety-nine years. 1 reasonably expected that the name would be

Henry, second son of the first Henry~ died~ I l:trgely perpetuated in town; but the havoc of probably unmarried, before April 24-, 1695, i war and emigration probably combined, in the when an inventory of his personal estate,--H 1 · last century, to take off many of the young Sarge Coat, 35s; l yoke oxen, £7: 6 sheep, men, and I count in the last Directory only 36s; debts due, 40s; and money, £,16;" was twenty males of the name ln Gloucester and presented at Probate Court. He also had real Rockport together. estate to the amount of £28.17. Hul\lPHREY WOODBC'RY.-ltisdifficulttoim-

Samuel, brother of the preceding, married agine the inducement by which this settler was Rebekah, probably daughter of James Gardner, led to exchange the fertile soil of BeTerly for Dec. 5, 1705. The date of his death 'is not! the rocky island in Annisquam river where he known, but it is certain that he was dead in: seems to have spent the latter half of a long 1716. His children were :-Samuel, born July Ufe. Biskie, now called Rust's, Island is men-11, 1707; Rebekah, Oct. 11, 1710; and John, tioned in the early records, and gr-an~ of land Sept. 10, 1713. I know not that the latter on it were made soon after the settlement of married. Samuel married Deborah, probably the town; but nob0<ly is known to have lived daughter of John Stanwood,July 3, 1732. The there before Humphrey Woodbury had his

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home upon it. An old eeIJar still to be seen I on the second destruction or that town, as ap­t.here was probably once <,•overed by his house. 1 pear~ by a deposition given by them in 1759. Karch li, 1686, the town ,·oted •" that tile com- Di~couraged, it is likely, by tlte dread of con­mon upon Biskie Island is reserved to put the tinned Indian hostility, Samuel York, like se,·­rams . upon and 1io wean ealfs if need be." enl other suiferers °from the same cause., sought Woodbury must have been already there; for refuge in Gloucester. He settled at Annis­the birth of his daughter Elizflbeth. July 30, quam, probably before 1693, wheu his daugh-1682, is io our reconls. · His other chUurt.·n re- ter Hannah married Edward Haradeu. The corded here are, - Nathaniel, born July 23 .. l three daughters mentioned in his will, not 1'68t; Susanna., Sept.18, 1695; and Humphrey, I named in the History, were!-Hannab; Sar­June 24-, 1698. The three children of •bis s<lll l ah, wife of Abraham Robinson; and Rachel, Nathan, who was one of the number born in! wife of .Joshth Lane. Another daughttr, Eliz­-Beverly, were,-Samuel, Hannah and Bethiah; I abeth, married Samuel Griffin in 1703. and

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of no one of whom, or of the father. do l j probably died before her father. He died ,know more. His son Hompbrey married Abi- i Mm"<:h 18, 1718,. aged seventy-three., and the gall Bray, Jan. 13, 1726, and had, besides daugh- j Mrs. York who died Nov. 28, 1724-, was, with­ters Abigail and Mary., two sons,-Huruphrcy I out doubt, Hannah, his wife. and~1Abel. 'l'be daughter Abigail married Joel SMmuel, bis son, married Mary Dutch, of Stanwood and had two children, Joel and Abi- Ipswich, Feb. 21, ·--1706, who died April 16, ·gail, and soon after became a widow. She 1709, and he next married Mary Eotter, witlt then went to New Gloucester, to lh•e with her whom he was intending marriage Oct. 27, r,11. father, who had removed thither and taken a I The Ipswich records show that he had many lot near the block house. There she married l children, several of whom died young, and that Deacon William Stevens, and died March 11, ! he died in that town June 7, 1767, when, ac-1808, aged eighty-two. Abel remained in Glou- ! cording to t.he deposition before mentioned, he cester~ and was intending marriage with Jeru-' must have been eighty-nine years old. sha Day, Nov. 15, 1700. Besides- a daugbt~r -- 'Benjamin, the next son, married Mary Gid­Jernsba, who married Israel Rust and lived to ding~, Dec. 7, 1704. Besides two children who a greatage., he had adaughter Sarah, who mar- died in infancy, he had,-Benjamin~ born Dec. ried Joseph Wallis a11d lived to be very old, 30, 1710; John, June 8, 1713; Samuel, Oct. 13, and four sons, Abel, two lssachar~, and Win- 1715; and Mary, March 11, 1718. He joined throp. The latter was intending marriage the emi~ration to Falmouth, :Me., the home of with Lydia Clark, Aug. 5, 1795, and beyon<l his childhood, in 1727, where~ without doubt, him I have traced no descendant of this ~et- he was living at the date of his deposition in· tier bearing the name ot \Voodbury. 1759. My inquiry for the time of bis death

SAMUEL YoRK.-Besides the Yorks of Do- has been fruitless. ver, Mr. Savage finds but one •• James or Ston- Richard, brother of the preceding, married ington, among the early settlers of New Eng- Patience Hatch, Jan. 17, 1711, and died May 2,

'land. There can scarcely be a doubt, I pre- 1718, aged twenty-nine. His widow married sume, that John, son of Richard of Hover, re- George Harvey, March 15, 1720. He left four ·moved with his wife Roth to North Yarmouth children,-Patience, who married Joseph Har­about 1680; and she, probably, was the Ruth aden; Thomas; Mary, who married Samuel York whose deposition of Feb. 7, 1687, about Griffin; and Richard, who died soon after his the treatment of herself and her son by the father. Richard York came into possession, Indians, is in-the-Massachusetts archives. by the will of his father, of the estate at Lob-

Whether Samuel were brother or other rel- ster Cove which the latter bought of Timothy ative of this John, I can not say; bot it is cer- Somes· in 1700, and there carried on the fish­tain that a Samuel York was concerned in pnr- ing business. His inventory mentions schoon­cbasing of the Indians a large traet of land on. er Endeavor., and sloops Tryal and Dolphin, the east side of Androscoggin river as early as and shows a total amount of £907 .5.6. His July 22, 1670; and be was proba!:>ly the father son Thomas, born Aug. 10, 1713, married Dor­of Samuel, born in 1678, and Benjamin, born othy Low of Ipswich, Nov. 7, 1734. Both died in 1680, who were children living in Falmouth before 1764,leavingthree children,-Elizabeth,

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Joseph and Thomas. The latter may have j di~ there at the age of thirty-four. He had been brought up in Ipswich by his guardian, ! four sQos., one of whom was Deacon Samuel

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Timothy Bragg. Joseph, boru Feb. 20., 1742 .. : York, who settled in North Yarmouth, and remained at or near his native home, and mar- ! died in that town, April 11, 1830, aged eighty­ried Martha Griffin, Sept. 25, 176·1. I know'. three. He was twiee married, and had by his nothing more of either., except that the rec- first wife sc,·eu children., and by th.e sec~nd ords give them three. children~ Joseph, Doro- thirteeu. Ma·. John York, for the last forty thy and Thomas, the la.st of wh.om, born _Dec. years or more a eitlzen of Rockport., and oow Ii, 1780, married Nancy Thompson, widow., ' Ji\"'ing there at the ,·enerable age of eighty­and settled in Rockport., where he died Marchi three, is the la.st survivor of the twenty chil-17, 1868. He had three daughters, all of whom '1 drcn. Samuel Yo1·k, Esq., representative of married; but he him~elf, so far as I know, 1 Rockport in 1856., is his son. Besides the de­was the last descendant of Samuel York who i sceodants of Mr. John York, I know none now

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bore the name on Cape Ano. : bearing the name on Cape Ann. Joseph York, probably connected with the;·

abo,·e family, may have come to Gloucester :it '. the same time. He bought of Thomas With- i .am, July I ,ot, "eighteen acres near Lob~ttr : ADDITIONAL NOTES .

Cove, which was his fllther~s, Henry Witham;: ALI..EN.-Rose, daughter of the drst Joseph bounded east with land of .John Davis, west by: Allen, was probably the same who married Edward Ha1-aden, south with ye river called i Thomas Lee., of Manchester, Jan. 13, 1726. Lobster Cove, am.-t on ye northerly end with i Joseph, son of the second Joseph, married ye sea in Ipswich Bay." At this place, neat· i l\lartha Hubbard'.' of Boston, Jan. 11, 1732, and the location of Samuel York, he carried on th~ i died April 2., 1739. Lucy., daughter of the same, fishing business and engaged perhaps in other l became the wife of Thomas Marshall of Bos-

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trade. The settlement of his estate shows · ton; whose intention of marriage with her was that he had been prosperous, for a b3lance of published May 16, 17i7. He was a distingnish­£1420 was left to be divided among-his heirs. ed officer in the revolutionary war. Among the items in his inventory are,-house, The portrait by Copley., stated in the article barn, orchard., 2 ware houses~ wharf~ and 20 on this family to be of Elizabeth, daughter of acres of land, valued at £750; SO acres of land William Allen, sen., does not represent that at Plum Cove, £100; schooner and furniture, lady, but her mother. £215; small fishing sloop, £100; silver., £28.7.3; Mary Allen, wife of David, and daughter of gold, £13.!l.6; and 1470 lbs. tobacco. Joseph Rev. John White, died Aug. 29, 1765. York married, 1., Abigail, daughter of Abraham Isaac Allen, who settled in New Gloucester, Robinson., Jan. 10, 1700, who died July 13, M~ . ., is said to have died in Minot., Me., in 1855, 1720; and 2, Deborah Haraden, May 23., l726. at the age of ninety-nine. H~ died Oct. 13, 1728. His children were,- BUT:\IAN.-Jcremiah, son of the first Jeremi­Abigail, born Jan. 29, 1701, married, I, San1- ah, was lost at sea, on a voyage to the Banks, uel Stevens, Oct. 23, 1718, and 2, Jacob Ran-

1 in 1753. His son Jeremiah died in 1819, says

dall, Jan. 13, 1725; Ruth, Feb. 28, 1 ,03, mar-1

M.r. Pool, who adds that his wife was Martha f'ied William Elwell., Oct. 27, 1720; Mary, May Hart·is, by whom he had many children, the 14., 1705, married Francis Sargent, Aug. 9, youngest of whom was John, ~ho died March 1722; Sarah, July 5, 1707., married William 16, 1866~ aged eighty-one._ Young, Nov. 24., 1725; Hannah, who married ELLERY.-Th~ widow of William, the first _ William Knight of Manchester, March 18, settler., must have attained great age, for she 1729; Joseph~ Oct. 27, 1711; and Rachel, Aug. was living at the date of the will or her son 21., 1713., who probably married Benjamin John, Dec. 11, 1741, then eighty-six years old. Card, Dec, 28, 1782. I do not find that Jo- l The name of the second wife of William El­eph, the only son of Joseph York, married in I 1ery, the signer of the Declaration of Indepen­Gloucester. Possibly lte settled in Falmouth, dence, was Abigail Carey, not Casey., as print­Me., where a Joseph York lived in the flrst ed in the Note on this family. half of the last century, and is said to hav-e I John, eldest son of the first William by his

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second wife., became a ~~-captain and mer- how long he lived, but be fiu:1.lly settled in Bnl­chaot of Boston. where ·be married, Ang. 30 or timore, .Md . ., and died there'.' Joly 18., 184-9. 31., 1710, Jane'.' only daughter of C·1pt. John His wife died at the age of seventy. His old­Bonner. She died Oct. SO. 1739. Tbc d:1te or 1/ tal--t 8on, Albert, born in Richmond, Va., was his death I ha,·e not found, but his will., made

I killed in the rebel service in the fate civil war~

Dec. 11, 1741, was .proved July 31, lH:t. In as r,efore told. \Villiam'.' his next son, gradu­that he gave freedom to his ncgro man sen·ant.., :1tcd at the Unh·ersity of l\laryland~ practiced named Cornwall, and to another (after ~c\·er l mcd~cinc in Baltimore, and finally settled in yea1-i:;) named Gloucester; to hi:-- nieec Mary.,; Lu Grange. Mo., where he died in 1860, :,ged daughter of his brother \\"'illium, who had lh·- i about forty-four. _.Augustus, another son, set­ed with him ten years, £200; :md the rest of 1, tied in \Vest Virginia. Ann, hi:» daughter, his estate to his sou John. He h,td four cbil- ; married Dr. Boaman of Virginia., and settled dren,-John, Mary, Nathaniel and .Jane, the: in La Gr:.mge, Missouri. first of whom ouly appca1·~ to have rc:whed ; Eli.ls Ellery, son of the second \\"illiam, prob­mature age. John, born .Iteb. 19. I 712, gradu-: ably became a sea-captain, and is supposed to ated at Harvard College in 1732, and became a have !>c~u the same who sailed in a sloop from mcrchaut in Hartfor<.l, Conn, where he married, Boston., Sept., 1758, bound to .Africa, and suf­July',~8, 1737, Mary, only child of Mr. John Au~- fered ~hipwreck on the passage~ as related in tin, a merchant of that town. A uewsp,1per of :i letter from him to bis owners in Boston, the day alludes to the bride as "" a.u agreeable dtlted J:imaica, April 15, 1759 •. Tb~ fvllo,ving young gt:ntlewoman and heiress to a hu-ge es- i~ un ~xtru.ct from the letter: tate," and adds '" above 300 persons we1·e at ·• Soon after left the coast met with hard this solemnity, for whom a plentiful and splcn- gales or wind, which sprung my ma8t; on the did entertainment was provided. 'Tis ~aid so tirst of December, in a ,·ery benvy storm, grand a wedding was scarce ever kuowu in shipped a sea which broke 6 or more of the these parts." :Mr. John Ellery died in 1746, timbers in the Starboard \V~te and made her leaving two sons, John and \Villiam. John, leak so fast, that w~ obliged to keep the Pumps born in 1739., graduated :a.t Yale College~ 1758, continually at work; on the 2Gth lost the Rud­ma1Tied Eunice Hooker, March 26, 1760, and der Irons, so that we could r.ot steer at all, died April 14, 1764. \Villiam was twice mar- and was left a wreck to the mercy of the Seas, ried, but left no son known to me. He had the forebooms and some of the carliugs fell in­three daughters, one of whom, Jane, marric<.J to the Hold., and the mainboom unship'd. ~e Henry Seymour, and was the mother of Thom- had not a Cake or Bread on board for above 3 us H. Seymour, late governor of Connecticut· Months und but a Pin~ of Water a Man for two· William Ellery was a distinguished citizen of Months,. and one without any. In -this Ex­Hartford, and was the first postmast~r of that tremity and Di~tress we continued till the 22d place under the United States government. of :March, almost famished when providen­He died in 1812. tially a Snow from ~whitehaveu bound to Ja-

Anne, eldest child of· tbe first Nathaniel, maica took us off the· wreck. ,ve took out a b(?rn Dec. 7, 1721, married \Villiam Ingersol., a few things and left the sloop half full of ,va­sea-captain., Nov. 23, 1749, became a widow, I ter. Shall take passage next Week in Capt. think, about 1770~ and died Feb. 20, 1797. Wells for Boston."

The A.lice, wife of Epes, probably youngest · Perhaps it was this Elias who was the sub­child of the first Nathaniel, was Alice Foster, ject of the following item in the Boston Post wiT.h whom he was,intending marriage Feb. 23, Boy of Sept. 24, 1759 :-""\Ve have an account 1780. Besid<•s his two children, mentioned from Barbadoes that Capt. Ellery of this town, elsewhere, it appears from his family bible, in flom the coast of Guinea, die<l there tw9 days possession of a descendant now or lately living after he arrived." in Missouri, that he had a son Epes, born in Mr. Chandler also re.cords in 1759 the death Gloucester, July 2, 1780. He is said to have of Daniel Ellery, '" at the '\Vest Indies~ of been a goldsmith in Boston. He marrit.!d .Ann fever." He, ,vithout doubt, was the Daniel, Bullard, of Watertown, Nov. 29, 1810, and re- [ son of the first Nathaniel. moved to Richmond, Va., where I know not No record tells the death of Depend:mce,

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youngest son of the ftrst William Ellery; but, years old; that Joshua, lsaaCy and Stephen, tn a list or deaths in 175S, in ~r Chandler•s other sons of Jo,;boa, Jr., removed, each with journal, I :flnd the name ot Dependaoce Ellery, a family, to Blue Hill. Me. ; that M~, anoth­which I presume refers to this person, or to er, settled in Eastport, Me.; ard tlut Nathan, bis son or the 881De name •• To the roor cbil- another, remained at Glooce!ter · and Bettled dren of bis son John, mentioned elfewhere at 'Squam. in these Notes, should be added-William, Poot.-Jobn Pool, it seems certain,_ was not baptized Nov. 27~ 1768; Betty, Oct. 28. 1770; a son or Jona"than, of Reading. Mr. E Pool and Nathaniel·, (po~tbntrous) March 7, 1773; informs me th~t a tradition in the family says Benjamin, born in 1742, son of Depe1.dance, that be was born in Taunton, England, and was the same, I .sup~se, who, according to fled from that place, at the time or Jt>ft"rey•s .Mr. Chandler'sjournal, died u z:broad" in 1,59. "" bloody assizes," to the northern part or the

John Stevens Ell~ry, oldest son of the sec- coon try, whence be emigrated to New Eng-ond Nathaniel, died Ang. 23, 1797, aged forty- land. _ . nine, and was buried witb masonic honors on Jemima, wife of the second J'obn Pool, died the following day. He was one of the Jan. 21, 17a0, in the 50th year of her age. principal merchants of the town nna left con- Pn1scE.-Joho Prince, who settled in New eiderable property. William, his brother, is Gloucester, Mt.•., died there about 1813, it 1s said to have died of a fe,·er in Martin:co, dur- said. His wife w:is Mary, daughter of Jona­log the revolutionary war, 2ged about twenty- than Haskell., of Gloucester. She died in one. Minot, Me., at the bonse ·of her son Jonathan,

Mr. Harrison El!ery, or Bo~ton, son or the Sept. 28, 1836, aged nii1ety-nine yea~ and ten late William Ellery, of Chelsea. ha::1 materialti months. They had a daughter Mary, bom for an interesting genQalogic.ll and biog1·.1phi- here. Ang. 20, 1758., and a son John, born in cal account of his f:imily, from wl.ich h...: ha~ New Glouce8ter, Jan. 20, 1161. kindly furnished several item:, for this article. Jons SlnTn.-Thc first of the three John

ELWELL.-John Eh, ell~ sc-n of the flrst Rob- Smiths, mentioned in the History (p. 159,) ert, married Jane Duriu, Oct. I, 166i, probahly had, by wife Rebekah~ason Daniel, born Sept. in Salem. · Their son John was- born Oct. 1-l, 10., 1692. Arg. 1, 169-i, be bought land at 1668, and·daughter Jane, 23, 11 mo. 1671. Eastern J>oint, and then probably fixed bis-

HASKELt-~Benjamin, son or the first \Vil• abode there, on the south side of Smith's Col"e, _ limn, mariie'd for ·second wife Emma B01id. of 1 "here be and se·ver..il generations of his de­Beverly, Jone 10 1698 Patience, his d:rngh• scendants lived. His o~her children were­ter, niarried·Jobn, not Hugh Roberts, assta~ed M·nry~ born Aug. Ii, lG96, died )l~rch 15, In the Ncte on tlifs family. um,; Joseph, ,July 3. 1699, died Aug. 28, 170°1;

LAl\---& . .:.;..;.Joscpb, 80D of toe first John. died and Jonathan, born Sept. 23, 1702. ofthe i'U:t!1-April 24, 1743, In tbe 45th year of l is a·ge; au~I e1· I can ·say no more. The son Daniel married \Ve mlist thel"eihre suppose tl1.it it u·al'4 his ~on · l .. ydi:l. pt>'rhaj)s daugl1ter of Jobn $:irgent~ .Joseph. who, at the :tgc of t,velity-four, 1mir- .fan. 4, 171;, :i11d. hacl"four da.ughter:,, and'i'ont rted widow .foarinA H.irmden ivitb half a dozen 8ons--Dauicl, Jolin, And1·ew and ·Benjamin; ebildren-. of "·t1cim I>a1iiel, Joliri and Hannah oniy sur-. Jctmes f..anc~ a single m:W1, son of Deacon vived to slmre in the divhdon of their fathers

J"-antes ~rntre. with0'Ot ·doul>t, m:isiei- of a fish- te:H eslafe. Tiis mventory, amounting' to ing Scliaoriei-, wtts lost Oil a voyage-to 'the G raPd £ I =168, 16s, IOd., is dat~d J.iine 4, i1'.{s, and 'bas .Bank, tu 1753. . anion·g its ite·ms;sifver and gold, £10, 1-ls, Sd.;

NoRWOOD.-Francis ·Norwood, Jr., married C3.~b, £187, 15s.; bonds for money, £38 .. 2s.; for second wife, Mrs. Esther Foster, of and a sloop, £4-62, 10s. The charges ~aainst Charlestown, Sept. 12, 1726. the estate were £618, 16s., of which £336 are

· Mr. Pool says the name of the wir~ or down for funeral expenses. His son Daniel,· Joshnll Nor\Vood, Jr., was Aldrich, and add~ called cordwainer, born Feb. 11, 1722, was that bis son Solomon married for second wife, twice married: first, to Bethiab Baker, and, Loig (Rowe) Lt.f.{in,. and had by both wives ~ ev- next, to Sarah E,·eleth. The town and church euteen children, and died in 182-4, eighty-four -records together show that he bad sons-

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Daniel, David, ~ob, and William, and three · Sarah, Jonathan, Mary, and Amos; and an daoght.ers ; bot I can tell no more of p:Ll'eDts or estate ot £.86-l-, 16s, 1 Od. children. Jolln Smith, Jr., mariner, and wire Sosanna

John, second son of the first Dantei born first ap~red at the birth or their son John, ~ 2-..?, 1723, married Abigail, probablydaugb- Nov. 2, 170-2, who died June 25, 1719. How, ter of Samoe~ Fleming, Nov. 27, 174-6, and died if at all, be -~as related to the first John, I Jan. 9, 1789. Sb.e died Nov. 21, 1807, a~acl have not Jea~ed, His other children were eighty-two. lie occupied the estate or· hi~ three chlught~r~, auJ a son Joseph, who was grandfather at Eastern Point, and there ~1r- born .l\larch 20, 170CJ. Administr-J.tion or his ried on the flshing __ business, as appears from small esta~ (.£~01, 6s), was granted to hi:t bis haying two sclioont-rs· in the Grand i.k1Jk_ wit.low Susanna, May 13, 1713. She died Mar. fishery in 177-l. He is said to ha,·e been l:ir~- t, 17t5. 'J.'he s·oi1 Joseph is the same, I sop-. ly engaged in this and other trades after· th~ pose,. who,.~_-=1rried Abigail Ga1-clner, i'~b. 2f,, war, but his dealings· had become of swall 1n:o. Th~ r~cords g!ve him six chilc.lren, of. amount towards.the close of hislif,e.: The in- whom th1e.e_ were ;sons,-Joseph, .John, and ventory of his esta~ is gh·en in the Prol>:1te .fames, wh_o ,appear to have married in town records, and amonnt:s to £.213. lie was oce and to ban~- batl f:imilies The latter had a sou of the Committee of Safety in 1776, and a Cb.ulet,, ouru Apl"il 1, 177t; the same. I pre­selectman in that and a few following year~. some, who dit;~ Nov. 9, 184:5, aged seventy­Besides t'hree daughters, he bad se,·en SQ~s, three., and two other son_s, James ~~ud, ~amoel, of whom the sole _represeutath·e bc_aring the or whom I can say no more. The sous or name, known to me, is Jacob Allen Swith, of Joseph were-Joseph, \Villiam~ and Benjamin; Bangor. Henry, father ot the hitter, born and of . Johu,. - John, Joseph, lleuj.imiu, May 4, 1766, ~uarried LJdi:1, daughter of Ci1pt. J.1mes Gardut'r, und S:1muel. This family of Jacob Allen,' No,·. J 1, 1792.: She dict.l_.June

I Suuths seclll:- w.s~ to h:1.ve been settled ut

I.·. ·r • ' . 1, 1816, aged fiftY.. He died in Surin_:uu~ ..-\ug. E~stcr~. Point., _but the descend~nts n~,y bear-2'J, 1810, leaving;besides Jacob A., other <:bil· ing the_.munc th<·re, if any, m~st ~-~ very few. dren, one of ,~hom, Joh,n, W:18 of th.c. untor-· SolIES.-.: \Villiam, son of the first Timothy, tonate crew of the sloop \Villiam, which~ under marded Hannah Sargent, of Amesbt1ry, July command of Capt. Joseph ltostc1:, s:iifcti7 rrom 13, 1701. Ehenezer, another son of the same, U?oucester for the \Vest Indies, ~ug. ~, 1816 married Ruth, ,vidow of .James B_abson, with and was never heard or more ... Johu Smith who~ she was intending marriage July 9, and Sargeat Smith, whose prhratee~h~.; ·ex­ploits are . related in the History, (µ. 4t5 ), were two of __ the seven sons above mentioned. John was born Oct._·so, 1748; an~ m:1.rried Sa­rah, daughter of" Deacon llubbanl Haskell. She took 1'br second husb:i'ra.d-.. ~ohµ_,..,Rogers, famous as ~hool master, and for long service as town clerk. Sargent Smith engaged in trade after the ·war, and died insolven~ about 1785 •.

Jon~t~~ youngest son of the ~rsf John, married Mag Carlisle, April 26, 1723. He died in October, ~732, leaving fou,; ~hildren :-

l~.37. :.r~ ~he· lis~ · of early settlers given in the His­

tory, (p. 54) perhaps the name_ of. ~enry Mad­l~-s.houh1 be added, thoogh all, I know .about him is, that·an inventory of tl}e estate of Henry·_ lfud~cll, _ o! Gloucester, amouniing_ to £16, 10~, w~ returned to Probate Court by Peter Duncan, July 3, 1663. Andrew Sargent, prob­ably son of bur William, sen., was in. England in 167~, and bfought a letter to a P~ip Madie from hi~ wife~ A Philip Mudie ot Gloucester had _been complained. or for not living with his wife.