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American Ancestry
GIVING THE
NAME AND DESCENT, IN THE MALE LINE.
OF
AMERICANS WHOSE ANCESTORS SETTLED
IN THE
UNITED STATES
PREVIOUS TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
A. D. 1776.
VOL. III.
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Embracing Linkages frcim the Whole of the
U N I T E I^ S T A T E S.
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" Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform their duty to the world."— Daniel Webster.
ALBANY, N. Y.: JOEL MUNSELL'S SONS, 82 STATE STREET
1888.
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STANDARD SERIES
ARMSTRONG, GEORGE WASHING- TON of Boston, Mass., b. Aug. ii, 1836 (m. 1st, Dec. 10, 1868, Louise Marston of Bridgewater, N. H., who died Feb. 17, 1880, 2nd, Dec. 12, 1882, Flora E. Greene, daughter of Dr. Reuben Greene of Boston, ch. Mabelle, Louise, d. 1876, Ethel), was organizer and is president of the Armstrong Transfer Company of Boston, is interested and actively engaged in the management and construction of railroads, and director in various corporations; only son of David of Boston, b. at Windham, N. H., Nov. 8, 1806, d. at Boston, Mass., Sept. 14, 1851 (m. Mahala Lovering, b. Feb. 10, i8io, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Winslow) Lovering of Loudon, N. H., she a lineal descendant of Edward Winslow, governor of Massa- chusetts in 1633); eldest son of Robert of Windham, N. H., b. April 6, 1779, d. Aug. 21, 1849 (ni- July 21, 1803, Alice Park, b. May 22, 1775, d. Nov. 10, 1830, dau. of Alexander and Sarah (Maxwell) Park of Windham); eldest son of David of Wind- ham, b. June II, 1747, d. June 21, 1836 (m. Jan. 8, 1775, Elizabeth Hemphill, b. Oct. 22, 1753. d- Jan. 2, 1839, dau. of Robert and Eleanor (Clark) Hemphill), signer of the Association List in 1776; youngest son of Deacon John of Windham, b. in County Londonderry, Ireland, 1713, d. at Windham, N. H., May 6, 1795 (m. Janet Wiley, d. at Windham, Oct. 12, 1776), he was a pioneer of the Scotch settlement of Windham, N. 11.,
was active in religious and secular affairs and a signer of the Association List in 1776; only son of Charter Robert of London- derry, N. H., b. in County Londonderry, Ireland, an early settler and proprietor pre- vious to June 21, 1722, in Londonderry, N. H., and one of those to whom the char- ter of the town was given. (His ancestor emigrated from Scotland among the numer- ous members of the clan of Armstrong who found a home in the North of Ireland. Their home in Scotland was near the Eng- lish border in the towns of Canonbie, Cas- tleton and other contiguous places. The most noted chief of the race was Gilnockie Armstrong, the Robin Hood of the Border, whose stronghold, a stone structure called the Hollows Tower, is still in existence.)
ATWATER, EDWARD E. of New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale College 1836, ordained pastor First Cong. Church, Ravenna, Ohio, 1841 (m. Rebecca H. Dana of Pomfret, Vt.), author of Descendants of David Atwater one of the First Planters of New Haven, History of the Colony of New Haven, and editor of History of the City of New Haven; son of EHhu of New Haven, b. at Cedar Hill, now Hamden, Conn., Dec. I, 1786, d. Jan. 3, 1875 (m. ist, Oct. 20, 1811, Julia Thompson, 2nd, Sept. 22, 1819, Betsey Tyler); son of Jared of Cedar Hill, b. Sept. 24, 1758, d. Feb. 28, i8i3(m. Eunice Dicker- man); son of David of Cedar Hill, then East Farms, Conn.,b. Sept. 15, 1723 (m. ist.
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Nov. 25, 1746, Elizabeth Basset, who was the mother of his children, 2nd, Mrs. Abiah Cooper); son of Joshua of East Farms, b. Jan. 25, 1686, d. Jan. 29, 1773 (m. Nov, 22, 1721, Anna Bradley); son of David of East Farms, b. July 13, 1650, d. Jan. 10, 1736; son of David, bp. Oct. 8, 1616, came to America with his sister Anne and brother Joshua in company with John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton; son of Joliu of the parish of Lenham, County of Kent, England
(m. Susan ). On the probate records
at Canterbury the family of the emigrant can be traced as owners of land at Lenham as far back as 1484. Hasted in his History of Kent says they removed thither from Ospringe in the same county.
BARTOW, EVELYN P. of Providence, R. L; son of Edj^ar John, b. at Fish- kill, N. Y., April 29, 1809 (m. ist, Nov. 13, 1838, Harriette Constable Pierrepont, who died July 6, 1855, 2nd, Oct. 4, i860, Caroline Gamble), president of the Chelsea Paper Company, Norwich, Conn., the largest at that time in the country, one of the originators of the Union Ferry Company and caused the bridge leading to the Wall Street Ferry to be built at his own expense, founder of the Church of the Holy Trinity, and connected with the origin of all the important institutions of the city of Brook- lyn; son of Augustus of Fishkill, N. Y., b. at Westchester, N. Y,, 1762, d. at Fishkill, Jan. 18, 1810 (m. 1780 Clarina Bartow, his second cousin), held several public offices of local interest, such as assessor, etc.; son of John of Pelham Manor House, West- chester county, N. Y., b. 1740 at Westches- ter, d. i8i6 at New York city (m. Nov. 1 761 Mary, dan. Barnardus Ryder of Bay- side, Flushing, N. Y.), vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Westchester, lived in wealth at the Manor House of his grandfather, Lord Pell; son of Theophilus of West- chester, b. Aug. 17, i7ii,at Westchester (m. Bathsheba, dau. of Thomas Pell, lord of the Manor of Pelham, Westchester county, N. Y.), vestryman of St. Peter's, Westchester; son of Rev. John of Westchester, b. at Crediton, Devonshire, England, 1672, d. at Westchester, Feb. 9, 1726 (m. at Freehold,
N. J., Feb. 17, 1705, Helena, dau. of Hon. John Reid), grad. at Christ College, Cam- bridgeshire, 1692, curate Pampisford, Cam- bridgeshire, 1694, vicar May 28, 1697, sent to America by the Ven. Propagation Society, 1702, founder and first rector of St. Peter's Church, Westchester, 1702-26; son of Doc- tor Thomas of Crediton, Devonshire, bp.
at Awliscombe, 1636 (m. Grace ),
physician, his dau. Mary m. Dr. John Hos- kins, one of the earliest surgeons in Guy's Hospital; son of Peter of Awliscombe, Devonshire, bp. there July 9, 1609 (m. Eliza- beth ), engaged in the wars in the
troublous times of Charles I, on the Royal- ist side, was heavily fined but pardoned by the joint action of the House of Lords and Commons, and was a man of wealth and influence; son of Peter of Awliscombe, formerly of Ottery St. Mary, buried May 21, 1619, at Awliscombe (m. April 30, 1598, Alice Borrough, dau. of John and Alice);
supposed son of General Bertaut of
Brittany, France.
BATTERSON, JAMES GOODWIN of Hartford, Conn., A. M. Yale, (m. June 2, 1851, Eunice Elizabeth Goodwin), archi- tect and sculptor, and HERMON GRIS- WOLD, Philadelphia (m. Oct. 16, 1866, Sarah Eliza Farnum), rector of St. Clements and the Church of the Annunciation, Phila- delphia, author, poet, priest, his works on church music are well-known; sons of Simeon Seeley, b. March 22, 1797 (m. May 28, 1820, Melissa Roberts); son of George (m. Mary Seeley of Weston, Conn.); son of (xOorge of Fairfield, Conn. (m. Mary Oysterbanks, of Welsh descent), who with his brother William, are the first of the name found in Connecticut, and supposed to have came from Scotland; son of James of Scotland.
BEEKMAN, GEORGE CRAWFORD, lawyer, residing at Freehold, Mon- mouth county, N. J., b. at Middletown in said county, July 2, 1839, S^^^- Princeton Coll., 1859, receiving degrees of A. B. and A. M., studied law with Joel Parker, the well- known war governor of New Jersey, and vi^as licensed, by the supreme court of New Jersey, as an attorney in 1863, and as
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counselor three years later, began practice of law at Freehold, where he has since re- mained,appointed commissioner of supreme court, and master and examiner of chancery of New Jersey, appointed by Gov. Randolph and confirmed by senate of New Jersey law or president judge of the county courts of Monmouth county, N. J., in 1869, served as such for three years, was a delegate from New Jersey to the democratic convention at St. Louis, which nominated Mr. Tilden for president in 1876, was elected senator of New Jersey from Monmouth county in 1878, and served the term of three years in State senate, drew and secured passage of several important general laws, such as existing bribery laws in New Jersey, and advocated and voted for reform measures passed by New Jersey legislature in 1879- 81 (m. Nov. 6, 1878, Laura B. Alston, dau. of Abraham D. Alston and granddau. of David Alston, b. on Staten Island, N. Y. History of Alston family appears in Clute's History of Staten Island. Has three chil- dren by this marriage, Alston, Anna C, and Jacob Ten Broeck); son of Rev. Jacob Ten Broeck of Middletown, Monmouth county, N. J., b. April 10, 1801, at Har- lingen, Somerset county, N. J., d. April 23. 1875, at Middletown, Monmouth county, N. J. (m. Feb. 12, 1833, Ann Crawford, dau. of George Crawford, b. at Middletown aforesaid, Feb. 22, 1801, and died there, in same dwelling where she had always lived, May 18, 1876), he graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., was licensed as clergyman of Dutch church by Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., called to Reformed church at Holmdel, Mon- mouth county, N. J., preached there ten years, he also founded the Dutch church at Middletown aforesaid. By his efforts and contributions of his private means, the church edifice was finished in 1836, he also did much missionary work through Mon- mouth CO., where he preached the gospel of Christ fifty years; son of Samuel Beekmau of Harlingen, Somerset county, N. J., b. on the Beekman homestead, on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., September 21, 1766, d. March 4, 1850, at Harlingen, Somerset county, N. J. (m. 1786, at Harlingen, N. J.,
to Helena Ten Broeck, youngest dau. of Hon. Cornelius Ten Broeck and his wife Margaret Louw, b. at Harlingen, N. J., Jan. 26, 1768, d. on the homestead where born and always lived, Feb. 15, 1855), Samuel Beekman was collector of Mont- gomery township, Somerset county, N. J., 1819-20, captain of a militia company in Somerset county, N. J., served as deacon and elder of Dutch church at Harlingen, N. J., he was well known in Somerset county, N. J., and respected as an upright man, whose word was his bond, and faithful in all things; son of Samuel Beekman of Beek- man homestead, on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., b. Nov. 26, 1729, on Beek- man homestead aforesaid, d. Oct. 19, 1808, on Beekman homestead aforesaid (m. Dec. 5, 1765, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Waldron and his wife Anne Delamater, of Newtown, Long Island, b. Jan. 29, 1744, d. April 7, 1806), Samuel Beekman left a last will which was admitted to probate in Somerset county aforesaid; son of Martin Beek- man, or as sometimes spelled Beeckman, of Beekman homestead, on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., b. 1685, at Scho- dack on Hudson river. New York, d. Oct. 27, 1757, at Beekman homestead aforesaid (m. June 21, 1724, at Harlem, N. Y., Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Waldron and his wife Neeltje, dau. of Capt. Frans Jansen Bloetjoet of Flushing, L. I., Samuel Wal- dron was the son of Resolved Waldron of Harlem, N. Y., Elizabeth his dau., b. in 1700, d. Nov. 27,1760); son of Hendrick Beeckman of Schodack on Hudson river, N. Y., prior to 1710, b. at Albany, N. Y., date unknown, d. prior to 1735, at Beek- man homestead, on River Raritan, N. J. (m. 1685, Annetje, dau. of Pieter Quackenbush and Maritje, his wife), in 1685 he was fire- master of Albany and resided there until 1697, Octavo Coenradts, a merchant of New York city, deeded to above-named Hendrick Beeckman, a tract of 250 acres on River Raritan, Somerset county, N. J., Nov. 13, 1710, this deed and land still (1888) re- mains in the family; son of Marten Hen- drikse Beeckman of Albany, N. Y., d. prior to June 21, 1677 (m. Susanna Jans), came to America from Hamelwaard, Hoi-
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land, in 1638 and settled at Albany. He was a blacksmith by trade.
BLOOD, HENRY AMES of Washing- ton, D. C, grad. Dartmouth College, author of the History of Temple, N. H., has passed greater part of his life in Wash- ington, D. C, connected with Department of State (m. Oct. 19, 1880, Mary E., dau. of Col. Ephraim Flint Miller, collector of the Port of Salem, Mass., granddau. of Gen. James Miller of Peterboro, N. H., con- cerning whom see preface to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Medallic History of the United States, etc., and a lineal descendant of Hon. Thomas Flint, a first settler of Con- cord, Mass.); son of Ephraim Whiting", b. at Temple, N. H., July 26, 1799, d. at Temple (m. 2nd, Lavinia, dau. of Capt. Jacob Ames, formerly of Hancock, N. H., a desc. of Jacob Ames, who m. Ruth Shat- tuck, also, through the wife of David Ames, her grandfather, from John Morrison, who d. 1775 at Peterboro, N. H., aged 98, also from the Wallaces and Mitchells of Lon- donderry and Peterboro, N. H., also from Robert Reynolds of Boston, the Whitneys and Shattucks of Watertown, also from Richard Blood and Capt. James Parker of Groton, Mass. —as did her husband through his grandmother Spalding — also, through her mother Milly Symonds, from John Cummings and his wife Sarah Lawrence, a lineal descendant of John Lawrence of Wisset in Suffolk, Eng., and Watertown and Groton, Mass.); son of Ephraim, b. at Temple, March 6, 1779 (m. 1798 Mar- tha Whiting, dau. of Oliver Whiting, a desc. of John Whytynge, a mayor of Boston, Eng., and of Rev. Samuel Whiting, first minister of Lynn, Mass., 1635); youngest son of (Jen. Francis of Concord, Mass., and Temple, N. H., b. March 18, 1735, d. Oct. i3i4 (m. Elizabeth Spalding, a desc. of Edward Spalding, a first settler of Chelmsford, Mass., also of Richard Blood, a first settler of Groton, Mass., and of the distinguished Capt. James Parker of Gro- ton, who d. 1701), Gen. Francis Blood was a lawyer, councillor and holder of many posts of trust in New Hampshire during and after the Revolutionary war; son of Stephen of Concord, b. Feb. 22, 1703 (m.
Mary ); son of Josiah of Concord,
b. April 6, 1664 (m. ist, Mary, dau. of Humphrey Barrett, d. s. p., 2nd, Mary
on Feb. 3, 1690); son of Rohert of
Concord, d. Oct. 27, 1701, at Concord (m. 1653 Elizabeth, dau. of the celebrated Major Simon Willard, sister of Rev. Samuel Willard, who bp. Benjamin Franklin and was pastor of the Old South Church, also vice-pres. of Harvard Univ., and one of whose grandsons became pres. of Harvard University); son of James of Concord, 1638, supposed to have come from Derbyshire, England, and d. Dec. 17, 1683. His sons Robert and John sold an estate in Rud- dington, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1649. This genealogy is based on facts found in the Whiting- St. John Memorial; Butler's Groton; WdiZQvC s Billerica; Blood's 7>w//<?, N. H.; Drake's Boston; Walcutt's Concord in the Colonial Period; Shattuck's Concord, Mass.; New Eng. Hist, and Genealogical Register, vols, iii, p. 120, xiv, xv, xvii, xxiii, p. 488, xxvi, xxviii ; Chester Genealogy, vol. xxii ; Parton's Life of Franklin; Savage's Gen. Diet., vol. i, p. 507 ; Spalding Geneal- ogy; Abbott Genealogy; Mon-ison Genealogy; Willard Genealogy ; Palfrey's New England, vol. ii, p. 38, note; Cooke's Life of Em- erson; Dana's American Cyclopedia, art. "Henry VH;" Burke's Extinct Peerage, 1883, p. 33; Coolidge and Mansfield's iWw England, vol. i, p. 664.
BOLLES, TIMOTHY DIX of Wash- ington, D. C, grad. Dwight School, Boston, 1864, U. S. Naval Acad., 1869, ensign, 1870, master, 1872, lieutenant, 1875, at Smithsonian Inst., b. Oct. 31, 1847, at Boston (m. at Baltimore July 14, 1880, Caro- line A. Carroll, desc. from Daniel Carroll the Signer); and FRANK BOLLES of Cambridge, Mass., grad. Columbia Law School, 1878, Harvard Law School, 1882, associate editor Boston Advertiser, secre- tary Harvard College, 1886, secretary Har. Univ., 1887, b. Oct. 31, 1856, at Winchester, Mass. (m. Elizabeth Swan of Cambridge); son of Jolm A. of Boston, b. at Ashford, Conn., April 16, 1809, d. at Washington, D. C, May II, 1878 (m. Nov. 11, 1834, Catherine Hartwrell Dix, dau. of Col. Timothy Dix)
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grad. Brown Univ., 1829, M. A., 1832, ad- mitted to Boston bar, 1833, Secretary of State of Massachusetts, 1840, com. of education, 1852, enlisted July, i86i,and served through- out the war, mustered out as bt. brig.-gen., judge adv. -gen. navy dept. and vice-pres. Columbia College till death; son of Rev. Matthew Bolles of Ashford, Conn., b. April 21, 1769, d. Sept. 26, 1838 (m. Sept. 15, 1793, Ann Hubbard of Mansfield, Conn.), preached at Fairfield, Conn., Milford, N. H., Marblehead and West Bridgewater, Mass. ; son of David of New London, Conn., b. Jan. 14, 1743, d. Feb. 14, 1807, at Ashford now Eastford, Conn. (m. Jan. 10, 1765, Susannah Grant of New London), farmer, minister, one of the first pastors of the Bap- tist church in Hartford, Conn.; son of Enoch of New London, b. Oct. 20, 1715, d. Dec. 3, 1800 (m. ist, Nov. 2, 1738, Hannah Moore, 2nd, about 1768, Lucj' Wheeler), farmer, quaker; son of John of New London, b. Aug. 1677, d. Jan. 7, 1767 (m. ist, Jan. 3, 1699, Sarah Edgecombe of New London, grand- dau. of Nicholas Edgecombe of Plymouth, Eng., 2nd, Elizabeth Wood of Groton, Con n.), was a Baptist minister and author; son of Thomas of New London, b. at Wells, Me., Dec. I, 1644, d. at New London, May 26, 1727 (m. ist, July I, 1660, Ziphora Wheeler, 2nd, Rebecca Waller, 3rd, Hopestill Chap- pell), he bought from Owaneco son of Uncas, sachem of the Mohicans the home- stead still known as Bolles Hill, above New London and still in the family, he was com. of the peace for over twenty years, and held other town offices; son of Joseph of Wells, Me., b. at Lincolnshire, Eng., d. at Wells, Me., Oct. 1678 (m. 1639-40, Mary Howell), town clerk, deputy and com. from Prov. of Maine, desc. from the English Bolles of Scrampton, Lincolnshire, Eng., who desc. from the Norman Frenchman Boels, who crossed with William the Conqueror and whose name stands on the Roll of Battle Abbey.
BUTLER, CHARLES EZEKIEL of Hudson, N. Y. (m. jst, Harriet Bes- sac, 2nd, Sarah C. Bessac), and FAYETTE M. of Hudson, capt. and brevet lieut.- col. N. Y. S. vols., judge-adv. of corps
and div. courts-martial, severely wounded and imprisoned at Richmond, Va., lieut.- col. insp.-genl's dept. S. N. Y., 1872 to 1875; sons of Ezekiel of Stockport and Hudson, b. 1789, d. 1872 (m. ist, Drusilla Linsley, 2nd, Elizabeth, the mother of Charles E., dau. of Dr. Alex. Coventry, son of Capt. Geo. Coventry, gentleman of his Majesty's New York Independent Com- pany, commanded by Colonel Lord Am- herst, under Georges Hand HI, 1755 to 1761, 3rd, Lois Bartlett, the mother of Fayette M.), served in war of 1812-14, postmaster, jus- tice of peace; son of Ezekiel of Hudson, b. at Branford, Conn., 1761, d. 1830 (m. 1788 Lydia, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Tyler Frisbie of Branford), served in Rev. army, discharged with badge of merit by George Washington, June 10, 1783, mem. com. council of Hudson five terms, assessor; son of Ezekiel of Branford, b. 1734, d. 1776-7 (m. Mabel Jones, a direct desc. of Theophilus Eaton, colonial governor, and of Colonel Sir John Jones, who married Catharine, the sister of Oliver Cromwell), a salt manufacturer at Branford who refused to supply the British troops with salt, his works destroyed and a reward offered for him dead or alive; son of Jonathan (m. in 1726 Temperance, dau. of Deacon Daniel Buckingham of Milton, Conn., a desc. of "The Pioneer" who arrived at Boston in ship Hector, 1637). Saybrook Records state he was an Irish gentleman who came to New London and afterward settled at Say- brook, Conn., where he died March 30, 1760, aged 60.
BUTLER, GEORGE H., M. D., of New York, grad. Bellevue Hospital Med. College 1869, acting past assistant sur- geon U. S. navy in war of the Rebellion Jan. 9, 1864, to Nov. 12, 1868, author of Thomas Butlerandhis Descendants and of some mis- cellaneous papers on medical subjects, b. in Berwick, Maine, May 31, 1841 (m. June 13, 1872, Henrietta L., granddaughter of Hon. Samuel Lawrence); eldest son of David G. of Great Falls, N. H., b. at Berwick, Jan. 5, 1813 (married June 21, 1835, Mary S. Pike of Waterborough, Maine), a retired lumber merchant; fourth son of James of
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Berwick, b. Jan. 17, 1783, d. Jan. 21, 1856 (m. 1804, Hannah Grant); tenth son of Moses of Berwick, b. Feb. 28, 1741, d. Sept. 21, 1823 (m. Dec. 18, 1764, Keziah Nason), was a patriot and soldier of the Revolution and an attorney for many years; seventh son of Thomas (and wife Mehitable) of Berwick, b. March 6, 1698, will dated Feb. I759> was elected constable 1725, surveyor of lands for ten years and owner in the Quamphegon Mills; eldest son of Thomas (and wife Elizabeth) of Berwick, b. about 1674, settled in Kittery, Maine, 1698, select- man of Berwick, 1714-26, teacher, 1716, commissioner, 1720, surveyor of lands, 1713 -1736, exporter of furs and timber, land and mill-owner, etc. — See Thomas Butler and his Descendants.
BYRAM, WILLIAM HENRY of Kan- sas City, Missouri, civil engineer and architect, grad. of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1877, born at Detroit, Michigan, July 31, 1851 (m. at Detroit, June i, 1880, Florence C, dau. of William and Lucy Nier, children, Mabel and Harry); son of Charles, b. Feb. 19, 1811, at New York city, d. July 28, 1886, at Detroit, Mich. (m. at Detroit, March 24, 1835, Harriet Palmer, who was b. Jan. 9, 1815), was one of the pioneers of Michigan in 1831, widely known in Detroit; son of Ebenezer Alden, b. Feb. 3, 1781, at Morristown, N. J., d. June 22, 1857, at De- troit, Mich. (m. May 24, 1806, Eliza Burtsell, b. Aug. II, 1786, d. Jan. 26, 1877); son of Joseph, b. at Mendham, N. J., Aug. 22, 1753, d. at Caldwell, N. J., April 27, 1829' (m. March 21, 1776, Esther Douglass, b. Oct.
I, 1756, d. March 28, 1844); son of Ebene- zer, b. 1716, d. at Morristown, N. J., Sept. 14, 1762 (married Nov. 22, 1738, Abigail, dau. of Capt. Ebenezer Alden, who was grandson of John Alden, d. Oct. 19, 1762); son of Ebenezer, b. 1692, d. Aug. 9, 1753 (m. 1714, Hannah Hayward, b. 1690, d. Jan.
II, 1761, dau. of Joseph Hayward), served in King Philip's war and head of the colony which went to New Jersey, June 18, 1744, leader of the church, and known as Old Captain Ebenezer; son of Nicholas, d. Sept. 1727 (m. 1st, 1676, Mary, dau. of Dea. Samuel Edson, 2nd, a sister of Rev. James
Keith), physician; son of Nicholas (m. Susanna, dau. of Abraham Shaw of Ded- ham, Mass.), came from Kent, England. A tradition says he was the son of an Eng- lish gentleman. See Mitchell's History of Btidgewater.
GARY, LISTON D. of Glasco, Kansas, b. Feb. 8, 1846, at Merrittstown, War- ren county, Ohio (m. Dec. 25, 1873, Eliza- beth Ward of Cherokee, Iowa, who d. Aug. 23, 1875, 2nd, Jan. 14, 1877, Cynthia Messi- moreof Warsaw, Ind., who d. Apr. 29, 1887), merchant and farmer ; fourth son of Isaac of Merrittstown, Ohio, and Dalton, Ind., b. July 25, 1815, d. Oct. 19, 1853 (nci- Nov. 25, 1837, Osee Gray), grad. Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, a physician and sur- geon; youngest son of Simeon of Dodds, Ohio, b. at Mendham, Morris county, N. J,, Feb. 22, 1777, d. at Dodds, July 27, 1830 (m. Ma)% 1805, Rachel Merritt of Red Stone, Penn.), a weaver and farmer; fourth son of Beriah of Bridgewater, Mass., b. 1729, d. at Mendham, Feb. 10, 1795 (m. Oct. j6, 1754, Mary Cook, 2nd, July, 1769, Jane Rogers, both of Mendham), a weaver and farmer; third son of John of Bridgewater, b. 1690
(m. 1718, Experience ); second son
of Jonathan of Bridgewater, b. 1656, d. 1695 (m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel Allen); fourth son of John, the Plymouth Pilgrim, b. at Somersetshire near Bristol, England, d. at Plymouth, 1681 (m. 1644, Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Godfrey), came to America in 1634, at which time he joined the Plym- outh colony. For a history of his line back to A. D. 1198, see Cary Memorials.
CASEY, THOMAS LINCOLN of U. S. army, graduated West Point Mil. Acad., 1879, 2d lieut. Corps of Engineers, 1879, ist lieut. 1881, author of monographs on Coleoptera of N. America, and ED- WARD PEARCE CASEY, Columbia College School of Mines, 1886, degree of civil engineer; sons of Thomas Lincoln Casey of U. S. Army, b. at Madison Bar- racks, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., May 10, 1831 (m. May 8, 1856, Emma Weir, dau. of Prof. Robert Walter Weir and Louisa Ferguson of New York city), grad. Military Acad., 1852, brevet 2d lieut. Corps of Engineers,
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July, 1852, brevet It. -col. and colonel, March 12, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service during the Rebellion, engineer and archi- tect of Washington Monument at Washing- ton, 1884, engineer of War and Navy Dept. Building at Washington; eldest son of Silas of U. S. Army, b. at East Greenwich, R. I., July 12, 1807, d. at Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1882 (m. July 12, 1830, Abby Perry Pearce, dau. of Hon. Dutee Jerauld Pearce and Abigail Coggeshall Perry of Newport, R, I.), grad. Military Acad., 1826, brevet 2d lieut., 1826, colonel, 1861, brevet brig.- gen., 1862, brevet major-gen., 1865, author of infantry tactics for armies of U. S.; son of Wanton of East Greenwich, R. I., b. Feb. 24, 1760, d. Dec. 17, 1842 (m. Oct. 25, 1789, Elizabeth Goodale, dau. of Major Nathan Goodale of 5th Mass. Continen- tals and Elizabeth Phelps of Brookfield, Mass.), an incorporator of Kentish Guards, R. I., Oct., 1774, and served in same to Jan., 1779, ^ fi^'st settler of Marietta, Ohio, 1788, and justice of the peace; only child of Silas of East Greenwich, b. June 5, 1734, d. Sept. 27, 1814 (m. May 7, 1759, Abigail Coggeshall, dau. of Daniel Coggeshail and Mary Wanton, niece of Govs. John and William Wanton of Rhode Island), an ex- tensive merchant and importer prior to Revolution, freeman, 1756, justice of peace; only son of Thomas of East Greenwich, b. at Newport, Nov. 18, 1706, d. April 20, 1797 (m. Nov. 22, 1728, Comfort, dau. of Thomas and Sarah Langford of East Green- wich), freeman, 1728, ensign, 1738, on com- mittee of war for colony, 1761-2, justice of peace, 1763-73, town council, 1766-72, deputy, 1756-7; son of Adam of Newport, b. about 1667 at NeWport, d. at Coventry, R. I., April, 1765 (m. March 8, 1706, Mary, dau. of Edward and Mary Greenman of Newport, R. I.), freeman, 1714, lieut. 1742 in Trained Band; son of Tliomas of Newport, b. about 1637, d. at Newport about 1719, came from Plymouth, England, about 1658, by tradition the only survivor of a Glouces- tershire family that had planted in Ulster, Ireland, and was massacred in Oct., 1641.
CHAPMAN, REV. JACOB of Exeter, N. H., b. at Tamworth, N. H., March ii.
i8io,grad. Dart. Col. 1835, And.Theol. Sem. 1839, ordained Fryeburg, Me., June 23, 1845 (m. 1840, Mary C, dau. of Hon. Nathaniel Howe, Bridgton, Me., whod. 1869, m. Sept. 1871, Mary E., dau. of Charles Lane of Strat- ham, N. H.), was teacher in Bridgton Acad., prof. Franklin Coll., Lancaster, and at Har- risburg, Pa., and from 1852, pastor twelve years in Marshall, 111., afterward at Deerfield and at Kingston, N. H ., compiled the Fol- som Genealogy and the Genealogy of the Philbricks and Philbrooks, and of Leonard Weeks of Greenland, and Family, and aided in the Genealogy of Edward Chap- man of Ipswich, etc.; eldest son of Samnel, b. at Greenland, May 11, 1781, farmer in Tamworth, where he d. Oct. 30, 1857 (m. ist, at Tamworth, Feb. 10, 1808, Elizabeth S., dau. of Levi Folsom, who d. 1821, 2nd, Mary Hoit, and 3rd, Mrs. Betsey Gil- man); fourth son of Job, b. at Greenland, Nov. I, 1747 (m. Jan. 8, 1771, Penelope, dau. of Benj. Philbrook), d. March 26, 1837, and she d. May, 1838; son of Paul, b. at Hampton, Nov. 4, 1704 (m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Samuel Weeks of Greenland), d. Oct. 18, 1754, in Greenland, he was a cooper, then a farmer, clerk of the pro- prietors of the town of Epsom, N. H. ; son of Samuel of Hampton and Greenland, shoe- maker, etc., b. at Ipswich, Mass., Feb. 12, 1679 (m. 1702, Phebe Balch of Manchester), d. April 21, 1742; son of Samuel of No. Hill, Hampton, b. 1654, d. Jan. 26, 1722 (m. Ruth, dau. of Samuel Ingals, who d. at Ips- wich, June 22, 1700; son of Edward, b. in England (m. 1642, Mary, dau. of Mark Sy- mondsof Rowley, Mass.), d. Ipswich, April 18, 1678, he was a miller, then a farmer.
CHASE, CHARLES of Groton, N. H., selectman, jurist, b. March 30, 1809, d. at Meredith, N. H., Nov. 6, 1864 (m. ist, Dec, 1832, Almira Moore, 2nd, Feb. 28, 1852, Sarah Boynton), and Rev. WILLIAM PLUMMER CHASE, b. May 31, 1812, d. at South Vineland, N. J., 1878 (m. May 12, 1835, Sarah Ann Morehouse of Warrens- burgh, N. Y.), F. W. Baptist denomina- tion, and Rev. URIAH CHASE of Water- borough, Me., b. Sept. 28, 1820 (m. ist, Oct. 25, 1855, Harriet Ann Kimball, 2nd,
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Feb. 17, 1863, Lizzie Guilford), F. W. Bap- tist, and LEVI BADGER CHASE of Sturbridge, Mass., late private Co. F, Fifty- first Regt. Mass. Vols, in Rebellion, com- piler of the Plimpton Genealogy, writer of a History of Sturbridge, Mass., b. Oct. 24, 1833 (m. ist, Sept. 9, 1855, Flavia Elizabeth Lyman of Rose, N. Y., 2nd, Oct. 24, 1858, Matilda Fiske Plimpton); sons of Levi of Canterbury, N. H., b. there April 8, 1782, d. there April 12, 1854 (m. June, 1808, Sally Page of New Sharon, Me., desc. from Rob- ert Page of Armsby, Norfolk county, Eng., through Reuben'', David^, David*, Chris- topher^, Thomas^, Dea. Robert^ of Hamp- ton, N. H., eldest son of Robert' and his wife Margaret); eldest son of Edward of Canterbury, N. H., b. at Stratham, N. H., Nov. 24, 1754, d. at Canterbury, June 19, 1814 (m. 1779, Polly Moore of Stratham, N. H.), enlisted May 30, 1775, in Col. Enoch Poor's N. H. regiment, re-enlisted Sept. 23, 1776, in Col. Thomas Tash's regiment, New Hampshire Continentals; second son of Jonathan of Stratham, N. H., re- moved to Loudon, N. H., about 1780, b. at Stratham, May i, 1730, d. at Loudon, Sept. 18, 1808 (m. 1749, Anne Taylor), was active in forwarding the settlement of several New Hampshire towns and in land speculation; eldest son of Jonathan of Stratham, N. H., b. at Newbury, Mass., Sept. 1707, d. at Stratham, 1744 (m. I729(?), Lydia Rollins); son of Jon.athan of Stratham after 1717, b. Jan. 13, 1683, at Newbury, Mass., d. at Stratham, N. H., April(?), 1749 (m. 1703, Joanna Palmer of Bradford, Mass.), one of the original proprietors of Sanbornton, N. H.; second son of Thomas of Newbury, Mass., b. at Newburyport, Mass., July 25, 1654, d. at Newbury, Jan. 1733 (m. ist, Nov. 22, 1677, Rebecca Follansbec, 2nd, Aug.(?), 1713, Elizabeth Mowers), assessor 1698; second son of Aquila of Hampton, N. H., 1640, and Newbury or Newbury- port, 1646, b. 1618, at parish of Chesham, Eng., d. Dec. 27, 1670, at Newburyport, Mass. (m. Ann Wheeler at Hampton, N. H.), master of a vessel sailing from New- buryport; second son of Aquila of Ches- ham, Buckingham county, Eng., b. there Aug. 14, 1580 (m. June 22, 1606, Martha
Jelliman); fourth son of Richard of Ches- ham, Eng., bp. Aug. 3, 1542 (m. April 16, 1564, Joan Bishop); second son of Thoinas of Hundrick, parish of Chesham, Eng.
CLEVELAND, WILLIAM NEALE, b. April 7, 1832 (m. Anna Thomas), presb. minister, and RICHARD CECIL, lost at sea Oct. 22,i872,and STEPHEN GROVER. b. at Caldwell, N. J., March 18, 1837 (m. Frances Folsom), sheriff of Erie county, N. Y., 1870, mayor of Buffalo, 1881, governor of New York State, 1882, president of United States, 1885, and LEWIS FRED- ERICK, lost at sea Oct. 22, 1872; sons of Richard Falley Cleveland, b. June 19, 1804, d. Oct. I, 1883 (m. Sept. 10, 1829, Anne, dau. of Abner Neale), grad. Prince- ton, pastor Presb. Ch. Windham, Conn., Caldwell, N. J., Fayette, N. Y., and Hol- land Patent, N. Y.; son of William of Norwich, Conn., b. Dec. 20, 1770, d. Aug. 18, 1837 (m. Margaret Falley of French descent), silversmith; son of Aaron of Woburn, Mass., b. Feb. 3, 1744, d. Sept. 21, 1815 (m. Abiah Hyde), poet, preacher, writer, statesman, orator, wit; son of Aaron, b. Oct. 29, 1715, d. Aug. II, 1757 (m. Susan Porter), minister; son of Aaron of Woburn, b. July 9, 1680 (m. Jan. i, 1702, Abigail Waters), housewright, gentleman; son of Aaron of Woburn, b. Jan. 10, 1655, d. Sept, 14, 1716 (m. Sept 10, 1675, Dorcas Wilson), housewright; son of Moses of Woburn, d. Jan. 9, 1701-2 (m. Sept. 26, 1648, Anne Winn), came to Massachusetts in 1635, and supposed to be a son of Samuel ; son of Thomas, vicar of Hinckley; son of Wil- liam, who removed from York to Hinckley in Leicestershire, England where he was buried, a very aged man Jan. 17, 1630.
CLIFT, WILLIAM of Mystic Bridge, Conn., b. Sept. 12, 1817, at Griswold, Conn. (m. Jan. i, 1845, Harriet A., dau. of Rev. Absalom Peters, D. D., of New York city), grad. Amh'st Coll., 1839, Union Theol. Sem., 1843, ordained at Stoningtonboro', Dec. 17, 1844, and pastor, 1844-64, con- troller of Woodlawn Cemetery, New York city, 1864-7, associate editor American Agriculturist, 1867-8, pastor Cong, church at Mystic Bridge, 1869-79, pastor at Had-
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lyme, Conn., 1880-5, one of the editors of The Homestead for seven years, and of The Examiner, author of several published ser- mons, and a contributor to agricultural papers for thirty-five years; son of William of Griswold, Conn., b. Aug. 28, 1763, d. Jan. 30, 1831 (m. June 5, 1813, Nancy D. Avery), a farmer living upon the homestead ; son of Amos of Griswold, b. Sept. 3, 1737, d. July 29, 1806 (m. ist, Feb. 12, i76i,Mary Coit, d. July 20, 1790,2nd, Anna D. Avery, d. Sept. 2, 1798), a farmer and innkeeper; son of Samuel of Plainfield, Conn., b. in Marshfield, Mass., Oct. 22, 1709, d. at Gris- wold, Conn., Aug. 22, 1794 (m. about 1732, Lydia Dogget), a farmer and shoemaker, lived on the Jerry Kinsman place; son of William of Marshfield, Mass., was put ashore when but seven years of age, in the harbor of Scituate, Mass. (m. Nov. 25, 1691, Lydia Wills, b. 1676, d. July i, 1761, buried in the old churchyard at Marshfield, dau. of Samuel Wills, son of William, who was the first of the name in Scituate, and lived on Wills island, and died in 1688, aged ninety and left his farm.to his son Samuel Wills). Tradition reports with great confidence (through Pero, an old negro in the family, who died Jan. 28, 1807, aged eighty-one, and who knew the first generation) that William Clift was sent from England by his relatives, because he was heir to a large estate, which they would inherit in case of his death. He spent his life in Scituate and Marblehead, Mass.
COLE, FRANK THEODORE of Co- lumbus, Ohio, grad. Williston Sem. 1873, Williams College, 1877, Columbia Law School, 1879, admitted to New York Bar, 1879, Ohio Bar, 1880, editor of the Cole Genealogy; first son of Theodore of Westmoreland, N. H., b. May 11, 1813, d. July 2, 1885 (m. August, 1845, Livilla Gleason), was for many years master of a whale ship sailing from New Bedford, memberof Vermont legislature, 1862, mem- ber of New Hampshire legislature, 1881-2; sixth son of Asa of Westmoreland, mill- wright, b. at Harvard, Mass., Dec. 8, 1768, d. at Westmoreland, Dec. 6, 1816 (m. 1793, Anna Goldsmith of Harvard); second son
of Abijah of Harvard, Mass., a soldier in expedition against Quebec about 1755, b. at H. about 1737, d. 1768 (m. 1759, Sarah Kent of Harvard); second son of Jonathan of Boxford and Harvard, a farmer, b. at Lynn, Mass., 1696, d. at Westmoreland, N. H., April 6, 1780 (m. April 8, 1724, Judith Bowen of Boxford); first son of John of Boxford, a farmer, b. at Salem, Mass., May 18, 1668, d. at Boxford, Feb. 5, 1737 (m. Mary Eaton); first son of John of Salem and Lynn, a cooper, b. at Salem, 164-, d. at Lynn, Oct. 8, 1703 (m. ist. May 28, 1667, Mary Knight, 2nd, Sarah Alsbee of Mai- den, who was tried for witchcraft at Charles- town, Mass., and acquitted, Feb. i, 1693); second son of Thomas of Salem, a husband- man, b. in England, d. at Salem, Dec. 15,
1678 (m. Ann ), probably the Thomas
who came in the ship Mary and John, March 24, 1633, was at Salem in 1649, and probably at Hampton previously.
CRANE, ZENAS, Jr., of Dalton, Mass., manufacturer of fine paper, U. S. bank-note paper, etc., executive councillor, 1884-5 (m. Ellen, dau of Charles J. Kitt- redge); son of Zenas Marshall of Dal- ton, State senator, 1856-7, executive coun- cillor, 1862-3, a leader in the perfection of paper, for years supplying the govern- ment and foreign powers with bond, bank- note and other finer grades, b. Jan. 21, 1815, d. March 12, 1887 (m. ist, Caroline, dau. of Winthrop Laflin, 2nd, Louisa Laf- lin, her sister); son of Zenas of Dalton, a pioneer paper manufacturer, representative, 1811, executive councillor, 1836-7 and 1862- 3, State senator, 1856-7, b. at Canton, Mass., May 9, 1777, d. at Dalton, June 29, 1845 (m. Lucinda, dau. of Gains Brewer); son of Stephen, b. May 19, 1734 (m. 1762, Susannah Babcock); son of Benjamin, b. Dec. 17, 1692, at Braintree, Mass. (m. Dec. 27, 1722, Abigail Houghton); son of Ste- phen (m. July 2, 1676, Mary Denison); son of Henry, who came from England to the present Milton (then Dorchester), Mass., in the year 1648-9.
CROSBY, ERNEST HOWARD of New York city (m. Oct. 12, 1881, Fanny Kendall Schieffelin, and has children Mar-
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garet Eleanor, b. April 25, 1884, and Maun- sell SchiefFelin, b. Feb. 14, 1887), grad. New York University, 1876, Columbia College Law School, 1878, lawyer, member of assembly of State of New York, 1887-8; and NICHOLAS EVERTSON CROSBY of New York city, tutor of Greek in Columbia College; sons of Rev. Howard of New York, b. Feb. 27, 1826 (m. March 17, 1847, Margaret Evertson Givan, by whom he also had children Edith Rutgers, Agnes Givan and Grace Ashton), A. B., New York Univ., 1844, A. M., New York Univ., 1847, D. D., Harvard College, 1859, LL. D., Columbia College, 1871, Prof, of Greek, N. Y. Univ. 1851-9, Rutgers Col- lege, 1859-63, pastor ist Presb. Ch. New Brunswick, 1861-2, pastor 4th Ave. Presb. Ch. New York, 1863- , member Bible Re- vision Com., 1872-81, pres. Soc. for Preven- tion of Crime, 1877- ; son of William B. of New York, b. Feb. 7, 1786, d. March 18, 1865 (m. Feb. 7, 1807, Harriet Ashton Clark- son); son of Dr. Ebenezer of New York, b. at Quincy(then called Braintree), Mass., Sept. 30, 1753, d. at New York, July 15, 1788 (m. Catharine Bedlow), grad. Harvard College, 1777, Med. Dept. Univ. of Penn- sylvania, 1780, surgeon of General Wash- ington's guard during Revolution, after which he became professor in Columbia College, in which office he died; son of Judge Joseph of Braintree, b. circ. 1687, d. 1769 (m. 1st, Dec. 23,1726, Abigail Adams, who d. 1732, and 2nd, Ann Belcher), mem- ber of Massachusetts legislature; son of Joseph of Braintree, b. at Cambridge, 1638, d. at Braintree, Nov. 26, 1695 (m. ist, April 1, 1675, Sarah Brackett, the mother of Judge Joseph, and m. 2nd, Mrs. Eleanor Paine, formerly Veasy); son of Simon of Cam- bridge, b. in England, 1609, came to America from London in 1635 in the ship Susan and Ellyn with his wife Ann and son Thomas, settled at Cambridge, Mass., where he became a freeman in 1636, held several town offices and died in 1639.
CURRIER, JOHN McNAB of Newport, Vt., physician, grad. Med. Dept. Dart. College, 1858, surgeon-general of Vermont, 1872-4, pension surgeon, 1875-6, editor and
publisher of the Vermont Medical Journal, 1874, editor and publisher of Archives of Science and Transactions of the Orleans County Society of Natural Sciences, 1870-4, member Am. Assoc. Advanc. Science, and mem. Brit. Assoc. Advanc. Science, b. Aug. 4, 1832, at Bath, N. H. (m. Aug. 8, i860, Susan Havens Powers of Woodstock, Vt.); son of Capt. Samuel of Bath, N. H., b. Nov. 17, 1781, in Landaff, N. H., d. March 20, 1849, at Bath, N. H. (m. ist, Elizabeth Hand (no children), 2nd, Rachel Annis of Bath, N. H., March 7, 1816), one of the pioneers of Bath, N. H. ; son of Ezra of Landaff and Bath, N. H., and Ryegate, Vt., b. June 25, 1749, at Amesbury, Mass., died in 1825 at Bath, N. H. (m. Anne Cassidy or Cassetty); sonof Gideon of Amesbury, Mass.,b. 1712, Amesbury, Mass., d. at Chester, N. H. (m. Mary Brown in 1737); son of Benjamin of Amesbury, Mass., b. 1688, at Amesbury, Mass. ; son of Deacon Thomas of Ames- bury, Mass., b. , 1646, at Amesbury,
Mass.; son of Richard of Salisbury, Mass., b. 1617, d. at Salisbury, Mass., was one of the original settlers of Salisbury, Mass., in 1640, and quite probably came from Eng- land.
CUSHMAN, REV. GEORGE FRANCIS, D. D. of New York city, b. Feb. 24, 1819, at Pawtucket, Mass., grad. Amherst College, 1840, A. M. Brown Univ., 1846, D. D. Univ. of Alabama, i860, teacher in Alabama six years, ordained deacon Episco- pal Church, 1849, and Priest, 1850, by Bishop Cobbs, had parishes in Eufaula, Oswichee, Auburn, where he built a church, and Ca- haba, Alabama, in Pawtucket, Mass., now Rhode Island, where a church was built, at Exeter, N. H., Sycamore, Princeton and Chicago, 111., and is assistant minister of a parish in Brooklyn, was on the editorial staff of the Diocese, the Province and the Living Church in III., and since 1880, of The Church- man, New York, author of Doctrine and Duty, a volume of sermons, and more than forty occasional sermons and addresses; son of Apollos, b. at Middleboro, Mass., Aug. 9, 1782, grad. Brown Univ., 1802, admitted to the bar, 1806, would never accept of any political office, but was of eminent standing
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at the Bristol County Bar and enjoyed a large and widely extended practice, he lived at Pawtucket from 1815 until his death, Sept. 17, 1864 (m. June 21, 1809, Anna Maria, dau. of Major-Gen. William Barton of Providence, who, during the Revolution, July, 1777, captured Gen. Prescott at New- port, and received a sword from Congress as a testimonial of his services); son of Zebedee, b. at Middleboro, Mass., Feb. 17, 1740 (m. 1763, Sarah Paddleford), d. at Taunton, Mass., March, 1833, for many years he did business in the winter at Charleston, S. C; son of Jabez, b. Aug.
II, 1713 (m. Paddleford); son of
Benjamin, b. at Plymouth, Mass., 1691 (m. ist, Jan. 8, 1712, Sarah Eaton, 2nd, March 14, 1738-9, Mrs, Sarah Bell), d. at Plymouth, Oct. 17, 1770, a farmer; son of Thomas, b. at Plymouth, Sept. 16, 1637 (m. ist, Nov. 17, 1664, Ruth Rowland, dau. of John Rowland, one of the "old comers," 2nd, Oct. 16, 1679, Abigail Fuller), d. at Ply- mouth, Aug. 23, 1726, a farmer; son of Thomas the Elder, b. in England, Feb., 1608, came to Plymouth in the Fortune, Nov., 1621 (m, about 1635-6, Mary Allerton, who was the last survivor of the Mayjiower Com- pany), he was three years elder of the church at Plymouth, and died there Dec. 10 or 11, 1691, the church erected a monument for him, on which he is called " that precious servant of God;" son of Robert, b. in England, 1580-85. A leader of the Puritan exiles at Leyden. With Carver and Martin organized the expedition in the Mayflower, 1820. Sailed in the Mayflower from South- ampton, Aug. 5, 1620, in company with the Speedwell, and was appointed "assistant governor; " the Speedwell being unsea- worthy, he returned to England in her and took charge of the rest of the Puritan band, emigrating with them in the Fortune and arriving at Plymouth, New England, Nov. 9, 1621. On Dec. 12 he preached (although a layman) a sermon entitled "The sin and dan- ger of self love," the first sermon preached in America. Returned to England, leaving his son Thomas in the colony. Captured and detained in France for fourteen days. Wrote and published a vindication of colo- nial enterprise. Made an appeal for Chris-
tian missions to the Indians. Agent for the colonists in England. Obtained a royal charter for territory on Cape Ann. Must have died in England. The history of the Pilgrim expedition shows that Robert Cush- man was the leading and most energetic spirit of the enterprise, both in Leyden and England.
DARLING, CHARLES W. of Utica, N. Y., brig.-gen., and mil. eng. -in-chief, S. N. Y., 1867-8, author of Anthropophagy, Acropolis to Heliopolis, Aboo Simbel, etc. (m. Angeline E., dau. of Jacob A. Robertson, granddau. of Archibald Robertson, a noted Scotch artist); son of Charles Chauncey of N. Y., b. Jan. 27, 1799, at New Haven, Conn, (m. July 28, 1829, Adeline E., dau. of Wil- liam Dana of Boston, b. June 12, 1798, d. Sept. II, 18B2, granddau. of Major Robert Davis of the Revolutionary Army, whose brothers were Brig.-Gen. Amasa Davis, and Hon. Caleb Davis, speaker of the house of representatives of Massachusetts, 1780, the three brothers all resided in Boston, and were members of the ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts), grad. Yale College, 1820, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823, is now a retired Presby- terian clergyman; son of Samuel of New Haven, Conn., b. Jan. 30, 1751, d. Jan. 15, 1842 (m. Dec. 22, 1799, Clarinda, b. March 23, 1759, d. July 25, 1847, dau of Rev. Richard Ely, b. at Lyme, Conn., Sept. 30, 1733, d. Aug. 23, 1814), grad. Yale, 1769, became a doctor of medicine, and was first secretary of the Medical Society of New Haven county, chosen deacon in First Presbyterian Church, 1786, which office he held until his decease, a period of fifty-six years; son of Thomasof New Haven, Conn., b. Feb. 21, 1719, at Newport, R. L, d. Nov. 30, 1789, in Woodbridge, suburb of New Haven, grad. at Yale, 1740 (m. July 23, 1745, Abigail Noyes, b. March 20, 1724, dau. of Rev. Joseph Noyes, b. 1688, and Abigail Pierpont, his wife, b. 1696, granddau. of Rev. James Pierpont of New Haven, Conn., b. 1659, great granddau. of Rev. Joseph Haynes, b. 1641, great great granddau. of John Haynes, elected governor of Massa- chusetts in 1635, upon his removal to Con-
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necticut he was elected governor of that colony, and died in office, 1654, came from Essex county, England, to Boston, Mass., 1632, and m. Mabel Harlakenden, 1638), was judge of the county court, and deputy to general assembly, 1774, described by Presi- dent Ezra Stiles as being a man of large stature, of a strong reasoning mind, calm and judicious, of integrity and uprightness, and of great prudence and judicial gravity. His dau. Abigail m. Judge Charles Chaun- cey of New Haven; son of Samuel of New Haven, b. 1680 (m. Susannah Childs), re- moved from Providence to New Haven, with his wife and child, accompanied by a sister of his wife (a widow), named Dorothy Griffin, admitted to practice as an attorney in New Haven in 1737.
DAVIES, HENRY EUGENE. B. A. of Columbia College, 1857, late major- gen. U. S. Volunteers, b. July 2, 1836 (m. Aug. 10, 1858, Julia Rich of Fishkill, N. Y.), and WILLIAM GILBERT DAVIES, B. A. and B. S. of Trinity College, i860, M. A., 1864, b. March 21, 1842 (m. Dec. 15, 1870, Lucie Carter Rice of Boston), and JULIEN TAPPAN DAVIES, B. A. of Columbia College, 1866, LL. B. of same, 1868, M. A., 1869, b. Sept. 25, 1845 (m. April 22, 1869, Alice Martin of Albany), and FRANCIS HERBERT DAVIES, b. Sept. 16, 1849 ("^- April 27, 1876, Cornelia Rockenbaugh of New York); sons of Henry Ebenezer of New York city, b. at Black Lake, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1805, d. at New York city, Dec. 17, 1881 (m. July i, 1835, Rebecca Waldo Tappan of Boston, desc. from Abraham Toppan, who settled at New- buryport, Mass., 1630), alderman, 1840, cor- poration counsel, 1850, judge of supreme court, 1855, judge of court of appeals, 1859; son of Thomas John of Black Lake, N. Y., b. at Washington, Conn., 1767, d. at Black Lake, April 18, 1845 (m. Dec. 27, 1792, Ruth Foote of Watertown, Conn.), sheriff and county judge of St. Lawrence county, N. Y.; son of John of Washington, Conn., b. at Kinton, Herefordshire, England, June, 1735, d. at Washington, Conn., April 18, 1799 (m. about 1760, Eunice Hotchkiss of New Haven), his younger brother, Thomas,
b. Jan. 2, 1737, d. May 12, 1766, grad. Yale College, went to England for ordination and was among the first missionaries in Con- necticut; son of John of Litchfield, Conn., b. at Kinton, England, 1711, d. at Litchfield, Conn., May 19, 1797 (m. ist, about 1733, Elizabeth Brown, 2nd, about 1742, Mary Powell, both of Herefordshire); son of John of Litchfield, Conn., b. at Kinton, England, 1680, d. at Litchfield, Conn., Nov. 22, 1758 (m. about 1710, Catherine Spencer of Here- fordshire), one of the founders and bene- factors of St. Michael's Church, Litchfield, Conn., which contains a tablet to his mem- ory.
DAVIS, W. W. H. of Doylestown, Pa., professor at Portsmouth, Va., Military Academy, 1842-4, captain in Mexican war, 1846-8, brevetted brig.-gen., U. S. Volun- teers, March 13, 1865, for meritorious services during the operations against Charleston, S. C, author of Spanish Con- quest of New Mexico, History of Bucks County, and other historical works, U. S. district attorney, secretary of territory and acting governor of New Mexico, 1853-7, U. S. commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1878, U. S. pension agent at Phila., 1885-9; son of John of Davisville, Pa., b. Aug. 7, 1788, d. April I, 1878 (m. March 13, 1813, Amy Hart), he was a soldier of 1812, founder of the village which bears his name, commander of the American forces, member of Congress, surveyor of the Port of Phila- delphia; son of John of Ohio, b. Sept. 6, 1760, d. Jan. 25, 1832 (m. Jan. 26, 1783, Ann, dau. of William Simpson), a soldier of the Revolution; son of William, who came from Great Britain about 1740, and settled in Solebury township, Bucks county, Pa., near the line of Upper Makefield (m. about 1756, Sarah, b. 1735, d. May 10, 1819, dau. of John Burley of Upper Makefield).
DOANE, WILLIAM CROSWELL of Albany, N. Y., b. March 2, 1832 (m. Nov. 24, 1853, Sarah Katharine Condit), ordained deacon St. Mary's Ch., Burlington, N. J., 1853, ordained priest, 1856, conse- crated first bishop of Albany, 1869; son of George Washington Doane of Burlington, b. May 27, 1799, d. April 27, 1859 (m. Sept.
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17, 1829, Eliza Greene, wid. of James Per- kins), ordained i82i,asst. rector Trinity Ch., New York, 1821-24, prof. Washington Col- lege, Hartford, Conn., 1824, rector Trinity Ch., Boston, bishop of New Jersey in 1832, founded St. Mary's Hall, founded Burling- ton Coll., author Songs by the Way; Sermons, etc.; son of Jonathan, b. 1756, d. 1821 (m. 1797, Mary Higgins), architect of State buildings in Trenton, N. J.; son of Ebe- nezer, b. 1732, d. i8i8 (m. 1754, Annie SchaefTer), resided in Canada, died and was buried near Toronto, Canada; son of Joseph of Bucks county. Pa., b. i6gi, d. lyS-C?) (m. 1727, Mary Carter); son of Daniel, b. at Sandwich, Mass.,d. 1724-5, at
Newtown, Pa. (m. Mehitable ), a
Quaker, friend and assistant of William Penn; see certificate from the Friends Society, dated "3, 17,1696"; son of Daniel of Eastham, Mass., b. 1636, d. 1712 (m. Hepzibah Cole), moved to Sandwich, Mass., where he died; son of John, b. in England, came to America between 1620 and 1623, settled in Plymouth, Mass., founded and resided in the town of Eastham, 1644, was the associate and assistant of Governor Prince, 1630.
DURKEE, CORNELIUS EMERSON of Saratoga, N. Y., b. May 22, 1837, at Shoreham, Vt. (m. Jan. 12, 1859, Jane Josephine Upham); son of Paoli, b. Feb. I, 1807, at Enosburgh, Vt., d. Feb. 4, 1880, at Saratoga (m. Oct. 25, 1832, Lydia Stod- dard Eldridge), grad. Univ. of Vermont, degree of M. A. Middlebury College, Aug.
18, 1843; son of Harvey of Royalton, Vt., b. Aug. 4, 1773, at Royalton, d. Feb. 20, 1827, at Burlington, Vt. (m. ist, March 9, 1797, Patta Robinson, 2nd, Dec. 31, 1809, Dolly Sabin); son of Timothy of Wood- bury, Conn., b. May, 1737, d. March 22, 1797, at Royalton (m. May 3, 1758, Lucy Smalley); son of Nathaniel of Wind- ham, Conn. (m. Aug. 21, 1727, Mary Baker).
EDSALL, THOMAS HENRY of Glen- wood Springs, Colo., grad. Brown University, A. B., 1861, adjt. 176th N. Y. Vols., 1862-3, Columbia Coll. Law School, 1864-5, member bar New York city, 1865-86,
trustee N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Soc, vice- president Soc. Sons of the Rev., member N. Y. Hist. Soc, University Club New York, author of several genealogical and historical papers, b. Oct. 7, 1840 (m. Oct. 3, 1865, Marie Louise Burroughs); only son of Thomas of East Saginaw, Mich., b. Nov. 8, 1814, d. March 25, i88i (m. Nov. 22, 1837, Phebe A.,dau. of Hon. Nathaniel Jones of Orange county, N. Y., judge common pleas, mem. of assembly, senator, surveyor-gen'l, canal comm'r, mem. of congress. New York), supervisor, mem. board of water comm'rs, treasurer gas company, mem. board of trade; fifth son of Jesse of Goshen, N. Y., b. May 26, 1782, d. Sept. 24, 1849 (rn- Dec. 24, 1801, Temperance, dau. of John Dunning of Wal- kill, Orange county, N. Y.); seventh son of Jacobns (James) of Vernon, Sussex county, N. J., bp. at Bergen, N. J., Jan. 3, 1725, d. cir. 1800 (m. 2nd, 1781, Hannah McWhorter), captain N. J. State troops, Am. Revolution; third son of Richard of Bergen county, N. J., bp. at Bergen D. Ref. Ch., April 2, 1683 (m. 3rd, 1720, Hillegonde, dau. of Capt. Jacobus De Key of New York city), planter, surveyor, early settler in Orange county, N. Y.; third son of Samnel, native of Reading, Berks county, England, founder of the American family, b. cir. 1633, d. 1702-4 (m. 3rd, Ruth, dau. of Richard Woodhull, Esq., of Seatalcott, L. L, founder of the American family, b. Sept. 13, 1620, at Thenford (Manor), N. Hamptonshire, England, came to Massachusetts cir. 1640, South Hampton, L. L, 1644, Seatalcott (Brookhaven), 1655, prominent citizen until he d. Oct. 16, 1790). Mr. Edsall came to Boston July, 1648, in the Tryall, John Graves, Master, settled in New Amsterdam, 1655, admitted burgher, 1657, appointed ensign by Gov. Stuyvesant, 1663, mem. of council Gov. Philip Carteret and of court of judicature, N. J., and presi- dent town of Bergen, 1667-82, deputy for Hackinsack and Out Plantations, 1686, com- missioner and treasurer of Bergen county, 1688, mem. of council Lieut. -Gov. Leisler, New York, 1689-91, justice of common pleas Queens county, N. Y., 1689-1701, also merchant, planter and extensive land- owner in New York, New Jersey and Penn- sylvania.
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ELIOT, WALTER GRAEME, b. Nov. i6, 1857, in New York city, sanitary and civil engineer of New York city, grad. School of Mines Columbia College, E. M., C. E., Ph. B., 1878, Ph. D., 1881, appointed special agent of U. S. tenth census report on the " water-works systems of the princi- pal cities of the United States," 1880-81, ap- pointed assistant sanitary engineer of New York Board of Health, 1881-6, clubs, Uni- versity, Zeta Psi, author '* Sketch of the Eliot Family," New York, 1887; eldest son of Augustus G. Eliot, M. D., of New York, b. at Kingston, N. Y., July 18, 1821 (m. Dec. 10, 1850, Elizabeth Antoinette, dau. of Col. Amos Proctor of Exeter, N. H., and Boston, Mass.), grad. Yale College, 1839, M. D. of New York Coll. Phys. & Surgeons, 1843, resident physician to N. Y. Hospital, 1844, and to N. Y. Asylum for Lying-in Women, 1845-6, visiting physician to Northern Dis- pensary, 1846-7, and Bellevue Hospital, 1847-8; eldest son of Daniel Eliot, Esq., gentleman, of New York city, seat, Marl- boro'-on-Hudson, N. Y., b. Oct. i, 1792, at Dublin, N. H., d. March 30, 1868, at New York city (m. Oct. 6, 1818, Abigail, dau. of Hon. Samuel Greeley of Boston, and granddau. of Roger Sherman); one of the selectmen of his birthplace, grad. Dartmouth College, 1813, and removed to New York city and studied medicine, in 1842 ap- pointed by New York Chamber of Com- merce one of a committee of nine to visit Washington for tariff revision, was president and member of various associations, etc., of New York city; son of Lieut. David Eliot of Bradford, Mass., and Dublin, N. H., b. at Bradford, Mass., 1751, d. at Dublin, N. H., 1793 (m. ist, 1778, Hannah Adams of New Ipswich, 2nd, 1789, Lucy, dau. of Amos (?) Emory, Esq., of Keene, N. H.), was an officer in Col. James Reed's 3d N. H. regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, after- ward a civil engineer of New Hampshire; son of John Eliot, Esq., gentleman, of Beverly and Bradford, Mass., b. at Beverly, March 10, 1717, d. at Mason, N. H., June
25, 1781 (m. Sarah , d. 1791), removed
from Bradford, Mass., to Mason, N. H., in his old age; third son of John Eliot, Esq., of Beverly, Mass., b. Sept. 10, 1693, at
Beverly, Mass., d. April 8, 1751, at Beverly, Mass. (m. ist, April 20, 1715, Elizabeth Balch of Newbury, Mass., 2nd, April 20, 1720, Hannah Waldron of Beverly, (?) Mass.); fourth son of William Eliott, Esq., gentleman, of Beverly, Mass., b. Jan. I, 1655, in East Coker, England, d. Feb. 19, 1721, at Beverly (m. July 10, 1681, Mar)'^, widow of Nathan Parker and dau. of Francis Browne, Esq., of Newbury, Mass.); second son of Hon. Andrew Eliott of Beverly, Mass., b. April 24, 1627, in East Coker, Somersetshire, Eng., d. March i, 1703-4, at Beverly, Mass. (m. ist, April 23, 1649, Grace Woodier of Somerset, Eng., d. Feb. 8, 1652, 2nd, Feb. 2, 1654, Mary Woodier of Somerset, England), removed with his family, about 1665, to Beverly, Mass., for many years Town Clerk there, elected from there Representative to the general court of Massachusetts and served for several years, one of the longest terms, in 1686 was one of the witnesses taken from Beverly to at- tend at the execution of the Indian deed of the town of Salem, was one of the jurors in the Salem witchcraft trials, and a signer of the public document of regret for said ac- tion, he held successively every office of honor in the gift of the town, he was a man of considerable property; eldest son of Wil- liam Eliott, Esq., 2d, of East Coker, Somerset, Eng., b. Feb. 28, 1603, at East Coker, d. at East Coker (date uncertain) (m.
1626, Emma ); eldest son of William
Eliott, Esq., of East Coker, Somerset, Eng., bp. June 23, 1577, d. March 29, 1642, at East Coker, Somerset, Eng.; second son of Henry Eliot, Esq., gentleman, of Somerset,
Eng., b. 1550 (m. 1575, Alice , d. Dec.
15, 1590); son of Thomas Eliot, gentleman, of Somerset and Devon, Eng., b. about 1525, d. June 3, 1597, at East Coker, Somerset; arms, azure, on a bend engrailed a baton, or; mottoes, Per Saxa per ignes, Fortiter et Recte; crest, a hand, couped at the wrist, in armor, holding a cutlass in bend.
E SLING, CHARLES HENRY AUGUSTINE of Philadelphia, Pa., grad. St. Joseph's Jesuit College of Phila- delphia, 1863, LL. B. University of Penn- sylvania, 1882, lawyer, lecturer, essayist.
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poet, special envoy to the Holy See from the Primate and Catholic laity of the United States, at the Golden Episcopal Jubilee of Pope Pius IX, 1877, founder and first vice- president of De Sales Institute (Catholic Club) of Philadelphia, 1870, co-founder and first president of Pegasus, Poets Club of Philadelphia, 1884, one of the original organizers and first vice-president of the American Catholic Historical Society, the parent organization of its kind in the United States, 1884, b. Jan. 21, 1845, unmarried; only son of Joseph Jeremiah of Philadel- phia, b. May 9, i8i3(m. Nov. 30, 1843, Mary Anna, dau. of Jacob and Catherine Hola- han), member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, d. Feb. 5, 1874; eldest son of Nicholas 2d, of Philadelphia, b. Oct. 17, 1786 (m. 1807, Catherine, dau. of Jeremiah Hornketh of Philadelphia), city comm'r 5th district of Philadelphia, 1813, "assistant" to committee for defense of Philadelphia and auxiliary superintendent of the erection of the fortifications, 1814, health officer of the Port of Philadelphia from Jan. 31, 1817- 19, harbor-master March 21, 1836-39, d. 1845; eldest son of Nicholas 1st, of Philadelphia,
b. (m. Nov. 27, 1784, Catherine, dau.
of Henry Snyder), a soldier of the Revolu- tion, an escaped prisoner from the British lines at New York, a subscriber to the oath of allegiance to the State government of Pennsylvania after the Declaration of Inde- pendence, mem. of " The Friendly Society," 1795, one of the earliest pew-holders of St. Mary's R. C. Church, Philadelphia, and trustee of that church, 1799-1883, an original subscriber to and pew-holder in St. Augustine's R. C. Church, Philadelphia, 1800, d. Dec. 1803; eldest son of John Paul of Philadelphia, a native of the Pala- tinate, b. circa, 1725, came to America with his father, 1740 (m. Aug. 4, 1746, at German- town, Pa., to Anna Christina Bittenbender, said to have been the dau. of the Burgo- master of the city of Darmstadt, and who with his brothers was among the early set- tlers of Northhampton county, Pa., her two brothers being massacred by the Indians), one of the original subscribers to St. Mary's R. C. Church, Philadelphia, 1758, one of its incorporators, 1788, and one of its
original trustees, 1788-98, also one of the original trustees of the Holy Trinity German R. C. school-house property, 1788, a tanner and learned his trade under Nagle of Ger- mantown, a prominent citizen of Philadel- phia, 1758-98, he established his sons in the brickmaking business and created an extensive reputation in that industry, d. Sept. 18, 1798; supposed to have been the second son of John George, b. circa, 1692, a native of the Palatinate-on-the-Rhine, who arrived at Philadelphia in the ship Loyal Judith, Nov. 25, 1740, settled first at Ger- mantown, afterward at Philadelphia. His wife's Christian name was Mary Magdalen, his children were Peter, John Paul, Nicho- las, Eve married to Phillip Schilling, Mary Magdalen married to Emmanuel Ohms, member of St. Joseph's R. C. Church, Phila- delphia, 1741, d. , buried according
to tradition in the site of what is now Wash- ington Square, Philadelphia.
FOWLER, ROBERT LUDLOW, B. L., Columbia College, b. April 15, 1849, at Newburgh, Orange county, N. Y. (m. Julia Groesbeck, dau. of Hon. William S. Groesbeck, LL. D., of Ohio, and a grand- dau. of Hon. Jacob Burnet, M. A., senator in congress, and a great granddau. of Hon. William Burnet, M. A., member of Conti- nental Congress), and THOMAS POWELL FOWLER, B. L., Columbia College, b. Oct. 26, 1852, at Newburgh, Orange county, N. Y., residence New York (m. April 26, 1876, Isabella Dunning, dau. of Benjamin F. Dunning, Esq., A. B., Union College of New York, N. Y.), and JACOB SEBRING FOWLER, b. Jan. 5, 1854, at Newburgh, Orange county, N. Y., d. Feb. 21, 1882, in Florida; son of Isaac Sebring Fowler of New York city, b. Dec. 5, 1822, at New- burgh, N. Y. (married Sept. 7, 1847, Mary Ludlow Powell of Newburgh, N. Y., dau. of Robert Ludlow Powell, by Louisa Orso, his wife); youngest son of Caleb Fowler of Newburgh, N. Y., b. Feb. 5, 1775, at Newburgh, N. Y., d. March 8, 1826, at Newburgh, N. Y. (m. Aug. 28, 1798, Catherine Sebring. dau. of Isaac Sebring of the Province of New York); eldest son of Isaac Fowler, Jr., of Newburgh, N. Y., b.
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April 30, 1746, at Newburgh, N. Y., d. 1793, at Newburgh, N. Y. (m. 1771, in the Prov- ince of New York, Glorianah Merritt, dau. of Caleb Merritt, b. July 7, 1758, d. May 2, 1791); only son of Isaac Fowler, Sr., of Newburgh, N. Y., b. 1715, at Flushing, L. I. (N. Y.), d. 1787, at Newburgh, N. Y. (m. 1740, in the Province of New York, Mar- garett Theall, dau. of Charles Theall, and great granddau. of Capt. Joseph Theall); second son of John Fowler of Newburgh, N. Y., b. 1686, at Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., d. 1768, at Newburgh, N. Y. (m.
Abigail , and had eight children born
in the Province of New York); second son of William Fowler of Flushing, Long Island, b. 1660, at East Chester, N. Y., d. 1714 (m. Mary Thorne, dau. of John Thome of the Province of New York), will proved May 25, 1714; second son of Henry Fowler of Mamaroneck, N. Y., b. in England, d. Oct. 1704, at East Chester, N. Y. (m. Abi- gail , had five children), will proved,
1704; second son of William Fowler of New Haven, Conn., and Milford, Conn., b. in England, d. 1660 (m. in England, his children were born in England prior to his emigration from that country). He arrived in Boston, from London, England, June 26, 1637, and is known historically as the first magistrate of New Haven, where, being one of the few emigrants who had received a classical education, he soon became a man of distinction.
FRANCIS, JOHN M., of Troy. N. Y., senior proprietor and editor Troy Daily Times, member State Constitutional Convention, 1867-8, U. S. Minister resident to Greece, 1871-4, to Portugal, 1882-4, and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria-Hun- gary, 1884-5, b. March 6, 1823 (m. Oct. 8, 1847, Harriet Elizabeth Tucker and had Charles S. Francis, grad. Cornell Univer- sity, 1877, was six years on 3d div. staff N. G., S. N. Y., first as captkin and aid-de- camp, and afterward lieutenant-colonel and inspector, was aid-de-camp with rank of colonel on Gov. Cornell's staff, 1880-3, and now junior proprietor and general manager of the Troy Daily Times); sixth son of Richard, b. April 3, 1761, at Llyssyfran,
Pembrokeshire, South Wales, d. Feb. 13, 1845, at Plattsburgh, Steuben county, N. Y. (m. April 4, 1804, Mary Stewart, b. Feb. 22, 1784, at Litchfield, Conn.), emigrated to the United States in 1798, settled in Frankfort, Herkimer county, N. Y., was engineer and surveyor, served as justice of the peace, removed to Plattsburgh, Steuben county, N. Y., in 181 5; son of John of Llyssyfran, Wales, b. Jan. 12, 1726; son of Richard, d. March 10, 1767.
a AGE, FREDERICK HEALEY, b.Oct. 20, 1874, at Boston, Mass.; son of Frederick Johnson Gage of Boston, Mass., member of the firm of Boyd, Leeds & Co., wholesale grocers, b. Sept. 12, 1843, at Boscawen, N. H. (m. March 11, 1868, Harriet A. Morse); and Isaac William Gage, b. Sept. I, 1861, at Boscawen, N. H., d. Dec. 17, 1880, at Boscawen, N. H.; sons of Isaac Kimball Gage of Boscawen, N. H., b. Oct. 27, i8i8, at Boscawen, N. H. (m. Oct. 27, 1842, Susan G., dau. of Reuben Johnson), obtained his education at the dis- trict school and one year at Franklin and Boscawen academies. In 1841 he succeeded Jeremiah Kimball as partner in trade with Luther G. Johnson, in Fishersville, in the store opposite his present residence, he re- mained in trade till 1850, when, desiring a more active and profitable employment, he moved to Lawrence, Mass., and entered the service of the Essex Company. In 1852, upon the organization of the first city gov- ernment, he was elected to the common council, and in 1853 was president of that body, returning to Boscawen in 1854, he became one of the firm of Gage, Porter & Co., in the manufacture of saws, which he carried on until 1882, when he sold out, he has frequently been chosen to fill offices in town, was treasurer of the New England Agricultural Society, 1865-69, was member of the convention to revise the Constitution of New Hampshire in 1876, honorary de- gree of master of arts was conferred on him by the trustees of Dartmouth College, June 29, 1876, secretary of the trustees and mem- ber of the executive committee of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home many years; son of William Hazeltine of Boscawen,
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N. H., b. March 21, 1791, at Sanbornton, N. H,, d. Sept. 26, 1872 (m. ist, Jan. 25, 1814, Molly B., dau. of Bradbury Morrison, mother of Isaac K., 2nd, Sarah Sargent), moved to Boscawen, N. H.; son of TliaU- deus of Franklin, N. H., b. April 17, 1754, at Bradford, N. H., d. May n, 1845, at Franklin, N. H. (m. ist, Nov. 30, 1775, Abi- gail Merrill, the mother of W. H., 2nd, July 29, 1790, Molly Bean), moved from Bradford to Sanbornton, N. H., settling in what is now Franklin; youngest son of Moses of Bradford, Mass., b. May i, 1706 (m. April 12, 1733, Mary Hazeltine); youngest son of Dauiel of Bradford, Mass., b. March 2, 1676, d. March 14, 1747 (m. Martha Bur- bank), established the well-known " Gages " or Upper Ferry on the Merrimack river, where the old " Gage House " now stands; eldest son of Dauiel of Bradford, Mass., d. Nov. 8, 1705 (m. May 3, 1675, Sarah Kim- ball); second son of John Gage (m. ist,
Anna , 2nd, Sarah, widow of Robert
Keyes of Stoneham, Suffolk, England), came to America with John Winthrop, Jr., son of Gov. Winthrop, and landed at Salem, June 12, 1630, one of the ten original pro- prietors of Ipswich, Mass., removed to Rowley in 1664, d. 1673; he was the second son of Sir John Gage, Bart., of Stoneham, Suffolk, who married Penelope, widow of Sir George Trenchard, d. Oct. 3, 1633; nephew of John Gage, Esq., of Sussex; eldest son of Sir Edward Gage, Knight of the reign of Queen Mary (m. Elizabeth Parker); eldest son of Sir John Gage, Knight, knighted May 22, 1541 (m. Philippa Guilderford); son of William Gage, Esq., b. 1456 (m. Agnes Bolney); son of Sir John Gage (m. Eleanor St. Clere), knighted, 1454, d. Sept. 30, i486; son of John Gage (m. Joan Sudgrove); son of John Gage of 1408. The family is of Norman extraction and derive their descent from De Gaga or De Gauga, or Gage, who, in 1066, erected a seat at Clarenwell in Gloucestershire, in the time of William the Conqueror.
n ARRISON, JOSEPH F., M. D.. D. D.,
Vi of Camden, N. J., a physician at Swedesboro, N. J., 1845-55, entered minis- try of Episcopal Church, 185$, rector of St.
Paul's Church, Camden, N. J., 1855-84, elected to and accepted the Moorhead Pro- fessor of Liturgies and Canon Law in P. E. Divinity School of Philadelphia, Pa., 1884 (children C. G. Garrison, William H. Garri- son, L. M. Garrison and J. Lea Garrison); son of Charles, who for over fifty years practiced medicine at Swedesboro; son of William, a captain in the New Jersey Volunteersduringthe warof the Revolution, and with his company was sent to join Washington's army after the return from Long Island. His son William was a sur- geon in the army and died in camp at Tom's River, N. J. His other children were Ruth (m. Nathan Leake), Edmund, George and Amos. The first settler came from Eng- land to Lynn, Mass.; some of his descend- ants removed to Long Island, thence to Cumberland county, N. J.
alLLETTE, JOHN W. of CatskiU Station (town of Greenport), N. Y.,b. March 9, i860, at Philadelphia, Pa.; son of JOHN E. GILLETTE of Catskill Station, N. Y., b. Oct. 4, 1828 (m. Sarah A. Westfield); son of Ely H. of Colchester, Conn., b. Oct. 6, 1794, d. 1863 (m. Mary Williams); son of Ely of Colchester, Conn., b. May 14, 1767, d. Dec. II, 1846 (in. Phoebe Hall); son of Aaron of Colchester, Conn., b. May 23, 1732, d. Jan. 19, 1786 (m. Anna Pratt); son of Jonathan of Colchester, Conn., b. June 28, 1685, d. Jan. 3, 1755 (m. Sarah Ely); son of Josiah of Windsor, Conn., b. or bp. July 14, 1650, d. Oct. 29, 1736. His wife was Joanna Taintor; they moved to Colchester, Conn., in 1702. Josiah was the son of Jonathan and Mary, who are supposed to have been born in Dorchester, England, came to this country in the ship A/ary &• John in 1630, with the company and church of which Rev. Jno. Warham was pastor, they settled in Dorchester, Mass., but after a time moved to Windsor, Conn., where Jonathan died Aug. 23, 1677, and Mary, his wife, Jan. 5, 1685. The family is Huguenot.
&ILLETT, PHILIP G. of Jacksonville, 111., b. 1833, grad. Asbury Uni- versity, Green Castle, Ind. (m. 1855, Ellen Phipps), appointed in 1858 principal of
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Illinois State Institute for Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville, 111., which position he has since held and now holds, for three years member of the International Sunday School Lesson Committee; and FRANCIS G. GILLETT, b. 1837, grad. Asbury Uni- versity, Green Castle, Ind. (m. 1859, Hes- ter Conner), appointed assistant paymaster U. S. navy during the war, d. 1876, of yellow fever, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while stationed as paymaster there; and SIMEON PALMER GILLETT, b. Nov. 2, 1840, appointed midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., Sept. 20, 1856, grad. June, i860, and was ordered to the East India squadron, where he was serving on board the Dacotah at the break- ing out of the war, was then ordered home with the ship, served during the entire period of the war at the naval academy and on the blockade from Appalachee Bay, Fla., to Richmond, Va., was in at the sur- render of Savannah, Charleston, Fort Fisher, and went with the advance into Richmond on the staff of Admiral William Radford, was for the following three years in command of the battalion of cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy, 1869-71 served for two years in the European fleet, and resigned as lieutenant commander Dec. 30, 1871 (m. Dec. 21, 1865, Ann Grace Lowry), after resignation went into the banking business, in 1874 organized the Citizens' Nat. Bank at Evansville, Ind., and is now president of the same; and OMER T. GILLETT, b. 1845, grad. of Asbury Uni- versity, Green Castle, Ind., served as pri- vate in the war, afterward studied medi- cine and practiced his profession (m. 1871, Mary Brokenshire, now a resident of Colorado Springs, Col.); sons of Rev. Samuel Trumbull Grillett of Indianapo- lis, Ind., b. Feb. 19, 1809, at the old Gillett homestead, Chenango Valley, N. Y. (m. 1831, Harriet Ann Goode, at Madison, Ind.), appointed midshipman U. S. navy, 1826, resigned 1837 and was appointed chaplain in the U. S. navy, resigned 1840, and has been in the Methodist ministry since, was one of the engineers surveying the first railroad in Indiana; son of Simeon Gillett of Chenango Valley, N. Y., b.
Sept. 15, 1769, d. June 18, 1818, at Fort Harrison, Ind. (m. ist, Hannah Rees, 2nd, Salome Smith Palmer), was one of the largest manufacturers in Western New York previous to going west; son of Simeon Gillett of Connecticut and New York, b. Oct. 16, 1744 (old style), at Win- tonburg, now Bloomfield, Conn.,d. Jan. 17, 1796 (new style), at Eaton, N. Y. (m. May 20, 1762, Rebecca Andrews); son of Jonah Gillett of Windsor and Wintonburg, Conn., b. at Windsor, Conn., d. May 21, 1782, and was buried in the Old Winton- burg burial place, now Bloomfield, Conn, (m. Haskins); son of Thomas Gil- lett of Windsor or Wintonburg, Conn.,
b. May 31, 1678, d. June 11, (m. ist,
Nov. 21, 1700, Martha Mills, 2nd, Feb. 26, 1704, Hannah Clark); son of Johnathan Gillett of Windsor, Conn. (m. ist, April 23, 1661, Mary Kelsey, 2nd, Dec. 14, 1687, Miriam Dibble); son of Johnathan Gil- lett of England and Massachusetts and Connecticut, d. Aug. 23, 1677, at Windsor, Conn. Johnathan Gillett and his brother Nathan came to America in the ship Mary and John in 1630 and settled in Dorchester, Mass., but removed in 1635 with his chil- dren, Cornelius, Johnathan and Mary, to Windsor, Conn., where Anna, Joseph, Samuel, Abigail, Jeremiah and Josias were born. The crew of the Mary and John, says old Colonial History, were " Good men and true."
alLMAN, ARTHUR of Cambridge, Mass., projector of the Institution for the Collegiate Instruction of Women by professors of Harvard College, familiarly known as " The Harvard Annex," editor of the first American edition of the complete poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of "The John Oilman Genealogy," "A History of the American People," and other works, b. June 22, 1837, at Alton, 111. (m. ist, Amy Cooke Ball of Lee, Mass., 2nd, Stella Houghton Scott of Tuscaloosa, Ala,); WINTHROP SARGENT OILMAN of Niederhiirst, Palisades, N. Y., b. Sept. 28, 1839, at Alton, III. (m. Oct. 23, 1861, Anna Canfield Park), has always been a banker in New York city; THEODORE OILMAN, b.
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Jan. 2, 1841, at Alton, 111. (m. Oct. 22, 1863, Elizabeth Drinker Paxson), has always been a banker in New York city; BENJAMIN IVES OILMAN, b. Feb. 19, 1852, in New York city, B. A., Williams College, 1872, M. A., same college, fellow of Johns-Hop- kins University, student in France, Ger- many and Italy for some years; sons of Win- throp Sargent (oilman, b. March 28, 1808, at Marietta, Ohio, pursued his studies in Philadelphia, began business life in New York city, continued it, after 1829, for some years at Alton, 111. (m. Dec. 4, 1834, at Car- rollton, 111., Abia Swift Lippincott), removed (after the murder of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, martyr for the cause of the liberty of un- licensed printing, whose press Mr. Oilman protected) to St. Louis, and afterward re- turned to New York city, where he was for years a banker, d. Oct. 3, 1884, at his country place, Heyhoe, Palisades, N. Y., was prominent in connection with the Presb. Church, for which, as chairman of a com- mittee, he raised a memorial fund of seven million dollars, contributed to the press on subjects of public interest many articles of weight; son of Benjamin Ives Grilman of Marietta, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pa., and New York city, b. July 29, 1766, at Exeter, N. H. (m. Feb., 1790, Hannah Robbins of Plymouth, Mass., a descendant of the Rev. John Prince of Berkshire, England, and relative of the families of Hinkley, Hale, Ives, Bethune, Le Baron, etc.), edu- cated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., clerk of the court of common pleas of Wash- ington county, Ohio, member of the con- vention which framed the Constitution of the State of Ohio, in 1802, business man in Philadelphia, Pa., and New York ; son of Joseph Gilman of Exeter, N. H., and Marietta, Ohio, b. May 5, 1738, at Exeter, N. H., d. May 14, 1806 (m. ist, Jane Tyler of Boston, Mass., 2nd, Sept. 22, 1763, Rebecca Ives of Beverly, Mass.), began business in Boston, was member of Com- mittee of Safety of New Hampshire, and chairman of it during the Revolution, was treasurer of the county of Rockingham, 1716, and justice of the peace, was at dif- ferent times senator and member of the governor's council, removed to Ohio in
1788, with the Ohio Company, was justice of the peace, judge of probate, judge of the court of common pleas, and was appointed by President Washington, United States Circuit Judge for the Northwestern Terri- tory; son of Nicholas Gilman of Exeter and Durham, N. H., b. Jan. 18, 1707-8, d. April 13, 1748 (m. Oct. 22, 1730, Mary Thing), A. B., Harvard College, 1724, M. A., 1727, pastor of the church at Durham, from 1742 to death, friend of the Rev. John Whitefield and Sir Wm. Pepperell; son of Nicholas Oilman of Exeter, N. H., b. Dec. 26, 1672, d. March 10, 1749 i^- June 10, 1697, Sarah Clark of Newbury, N. H.), was judge of the superior court, gentleman of property; son of John Oilman of Exeter, N. H., b. Jan. 10, 1624, at Hingham, Norfolk, England, d. July 24, 1708, at Exeter, N. H. (m. June 20, 1657, Elizabeth Treworgye), came to America with his father, prominent officer in town and State, a royal councillor under the colonial government, member and speaker of the house of representatives; he received large grants of land himself, and in 1727 the region about Gilmanton, N. H., was granted to his family for services rendered in wars with the Indians; son of Edward Oilman of Hingham, Norfolk, England, b. 1587 or 1588(7), d. June 22, 1681, at Exeter, N. H. (m. June 3, 1614, Mary Clark), emigrated to America, 1638. settled at and named Hing- ham, Msss., removed to Exeter, N. H., in 1641 Plymouth Colony granted him a tract eight miles square, now called Rehoboth, Mass. ; son of Robert Oilman of Caston. Norfolk, England, bp. July 10, 1559, at Caston, England, buried March 6, 1631, at Caston, England; son of Edward Oilman of Caston, Norfolk, England (m. June 22, 1550, Rose Rysse of Caston, England), will dated Feb. 5, 1573, proved July 7, 1573. Had a mansion house and other estates which he left to his eldest son John, and his three other sons and five daughters.
&OODE, GEOROE BROWN, of Wash- ington, D. C, grad. Wesleyan Uni- versity, 1870, Ph. D., Indiana University, 1875, assistant secretary Smithsonian Insti- tution, in charge of U. S. Nat. Museum, U. S. Com. of Fisheries, U. S. Comm'r to
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Int'l Fisheries Exhibition at Berlin, 1880, and to Int'l Fisheries Exhibition at Lon- don, 1883, author of Game Fishes of U. S. , Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the U. S., American Fishes, Virginia Cousins,
etc., etc., b. Feb. 13, 1851 (m. , 1877,
Sarah Ford Judd, dau. of Orange Judd, desc. from Thomas Judd, b. 1608, came to Cambridge, Mass., 1633-4, also Lewis, Curtis, Hopkins, Dickens, Dike, Wright, Tybbot, Dolliver and Ehvell families, all in New England before 1700), and Sarah Lamsar Ford, his wife, daughter of Thomas Ford, sometime alderman of Coventry, England, who came to Boston about 1800; son of Francis Collier Goode (brothers, Dr. Samuel M., Rev. William H., Hon. Patrick G.) of Cincinnati, O., b. Aug. 28,' 1811 (rn. May 7, 1850, Sarah Woodruff Crane, dau. of Israel Cooper Crane of New Albany, Ind. — desc. in 7th generation from Jasper Crane, b. 1600-1605, came to Massa- chusetts and New Haven before 1639, founder of Newark colony, and from Swaine, Cooper, Runyon, Blackford, and Cross families, all in America before 1735 — and Hannah Lyon, desc. from the Lyons and Frazees of Northern New Jersey, where they settled before 1700), pioneer settler of Northern Indiana ; son of Philip (xOOde of WaynesviUe, O. (broth- ers, Burwell, Samuel (of Texas) Gaines, Henry J.), b. March 15, 1771, d. Sept. 24, 1824 (m. May 7, 1793, Rebekah Hayes, dau. of Richard Hayes, planter, of Amelia county, Va,, desc. in 6th generation from Richard Hayes, planter, of Isle of Wight county, Va., 1642 (Henning's Statutes, L, p. 247), early anti-slavery Virginian, friend and neighbor of Patrick Henry, in Char- lotte county, Va., pioneer settler of West- ern Ohio, 1805; son of Samuel Goode of Charlotte county, Va. (brothers, Robert, Philip, Mackarnen), b. 1742, d. before 1796 (m. 1770, Mary Collier, dau. of John
Collier — son of John and (Gaines)
Collier of Little York, Va., desc. from the Colliers of " Darleston," Staffordshire — and Elizabeth (?) Meredith of a Welsh family, established in Virginia early in the 17th century), planter, one of the earliest members of the Methodist Episcopal
church in America, 1772; son of Samuel Goode of Prince Edward county, Va., wealthy planter (brothers, Samuel, William, Philip, Mackarnen, Edward, John), b. about 1700, d. August, 1796 (m. Miss Burwell, granddau. of Maj. Lewis Burwell of "Fairfield," desc. from the "ancient family of the Burwells of the counties of Bedford and Northampton," b. 1626, came to Virginia, m. Lucy, dau. of Capt. Robert Higginson, and, it is supposed, Martha, dau. of John Lear, secretary of the Coun- cil of Virginia); son of Samuel Goode of " Winepeck," Henrico county, Va. (broth- ers, Robert, John, Thomas, Joseph), b. about 1659, d. 1735 (m. Martha Jones, dau. of Samuel Jones, pioneer, living, 1716, in Henrico county, Va., and granddau. of a Welsh immigrant), pioneer settler near present site of Richmond, Va., engaged in early Indian wars; son of John Goode of "Whitby," Henrico (now Chesterfield) county, Va., b. 1620-30, probably in the north of Cornwall, d. 1709 (m. before 1660, Martha Mackarnen, in Barbadoes, whose father was a pioneer settler and planter in Barbadoes, of a Scotch family which, about 1650, became established in Southern England), probably a Royalist soldier, came to Barbadoes prior to 1659 and to Virginia 1659-60, was a neighbor and friend of "Bacon, the Rebel," and with him in his Indian wars of 1676, ancestor of at least 6,000 people now living, and of a hundred or more Confederate soldiers killed in battle; son of Richard Goode of Cornwall, England ; son of Richard Goode of "Whitsbury" and "Whitley," in Cornwall, b. 1560, and Joan Downe; son of Richard Goode of " Whitley" (who, at the herald's visitations of 1620, was head of the Cornish branch of the Goode family, and traced back eight generations to Rich- ard Gode, who flourished in the fourteenth century (Harleian MSS., 1079, fol. 224 b.), and Isabell Penhevill, desc. from numer- ous Cornish families, and through the DeMohunys from Saxon Kings of Eng- land and Queen Margaret of Scotland, and by double lives through Tregarthian and Vallebert from William the Conqueror. Family traditions and documents.
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GORDON, JAMES FRISBY,b. Sept. 15, 1807, at Chestertown, Md., d. Feb., 1883, at Ilchester, Md., clerk of Kent Co., Md., 1852-58, judge of orphans' court of Howard county, 1869-75 (m. Dec. 7, 1832, Sarah M. Tate, and had ch. : z, Joseph Nich- olson, b. Oct. 16, 1832, ni. Jan. 28, 1863, Isabel Mary Mewburn and had Frank Mew- burn, b. Oct. II, 1864, and Arthur, b. Sept. I, 1872, ii, Annie Louise, b. June 13, 1836, m. July 28, 1864, Dr. William Stimpson of Mass., b. Feb. 14, 1831, d. May 26, 1872, naturalist to the North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Comm. Ringold and Rogers, director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and had William Gordon, M. D., b. April 24, 1865, Herbert Baird, b. Jan. 31,1869), and JOSEPH NICHOLSON GORDON, b. March 13, 1818 (m. Aug. 23, 1837, Mary M. Seckle and had z, Hannah, m. James Edwards Holmead who had one child, Alfred, ii, Mary Elizabeth, Hi, Caro- line Ada, iv, Charles, m. Harriet Cunning- ham, V, Kate Virginia); sons of Joseph Nicholson, M. D., of Chestertown, Md., clerk of Kent county, Md., for about twenty- five years, b. Oct. 9, 1775, d. April 28, 1849 (m. Nov. I, 1804, Mary Frisby, b. March 23, 1779, and had z, Anna Elizabeth, b. Aug. 10, 1805, d. Jan. 30, 1844, m. Nov. 29, 1831, James B. Ricaud and had one child, Mary R., b. March 13, 1833, ii, Caroline Rebecca, b. Feb. 28, 1811, d. March 24, 1842, m. Nov. 29, 1838, Dr. L. M. Ricaud and had one child, Charles Gordon, b. Sept. 16, 1859, Hi, James, see above, iv, Charles, b. Dec. 16, 1808, d. May 23, 1838, v, Joseph Nich- olson, see above); son of Charles of Aber- deen, Scotland, b. Dec. 11, 1721, d. Oct. 24, 1786, at Chestertown, Md. (m. ist, Alice George and had one child, Mary, who m. Capt. Veasey, m. 2nd, Dec. 26, 1764, Eliza- beth, dau. of Col. Joseph N. Nicholson of Chestertown, Md., and had /, Hannah who m. James McClean and had one child, James Gordon, ii, Elizabeth Ann who m. Judge Worrell, Hi, Anna Maria who was second wife of Judge Worrell, iv, John, v, Charles, midshipman, Jan. 24, 1799, lieut., Jan. t6, 1800, commander, April 25, 1806, captain, March 2, 1813, d. in 1817 from a wound received in a duel with Senator Hanson of
Maryland, presented with a sword by the State of Maryland for gallantry at Tripoli, monument erected to him at Messina by his brother officers, vi, Sarah Nicholson, vii, Alice, viii, Joseph Nicholson, see above), lieut. in Lord Ogilvie's regt., sur- rendered at Carlisle Castle, Dec. 30, 1745, condemned for high treason, Oct. 11, 1746, banished to America about 1747, settled in Cecil county, Md., afterward in Kent county, Md.; son of Patrick of Binhall, Aberdeen, Scotland, b. 1682, d. March 22, 1761 (m. Jan. 25, 1713, Ann, dau. of Wil- liam Hay of Rothmay, b. Jan. 19, 1689, d. 1730, and had i, Elizabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1764, «, Patrick, b. Nov. 18, 1715, d. March 8, 1720, Hi, John, b. May 13, 1717, iv, Ann, b. Feb. 18, 1789, V, Charles, see above, vi, Alexander, b. Aug. 13, 1724, d. Dec, 1780, vii, James, b. Nov. 8, 1728); son of Sir John Gordon, a descendant of Richard de Gordon, knight banneret, who in 1150 granted the monks of Kelso lands at Gor don, near Huntley Strather.
GREENOUGH, WILLIAM WHIT- WELL of Boston, b. June 25, 1818, grad. Harvard University, 1837 (m. June 15, 1841, Catherine Scollay, dau. of Charles Pelham Curtis), president trustees of the public library of the city of Boston since 1866 (sons, ist, WILLIAM GREEN- OUGH, b. June 29, 1843, at Cambridge, grad. Harvard University, 1863 (m. April 26, 1871, Alice Mary Patterson of New York city), merchant and manufacturer in New York city; 2nd, CHARLES PEL- HAM GREENOUGH, b. July 29, 1844, at Cambridge, grad. Harvard University, 1864 (m. June 11, 1874, Mary Dwight Vose of Boston), counselor-at-law, Boston; 3d, MALCOLM SCOLLAY GREENOUGH, b. Aug. 3, 1848, at Cambridge, grad. Har- vard University, 1868 (m. June 20, 1872, Lizzie Tiffany of Worcester, Mass.), engi- neer, Boston; son of William Greenough of Boston, b. Sept. 14, 1792, at Newton, Mass., d. Jan. 17, 1874, at Boston (m. Aug. 23, 1S17, Sarah, dau. of John Gardner, Esq., of Leominster, Mass.), merchant, Boston; son of Rev. William Greenough of Newton, Mass., b. June 29, 1756, at
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Boston, d. Nov. 7, 1831, at Newton (m. ist, June I, 1785, Abigail, dau. of Rev. Stephen Badger of Natick, 2nd, May 22, 1798, Lydia, dau. of John Haskins of Boston); son of Deacoii Thomas (xreen- ou^h of Boston, b. May 6, 1710, at Boston, d. Aug. 10, 1785 (m. ist, May 9, 1734, Martha, dau. of William Clark of Boston, 2nd, May 24, 1750, Sarah, dau. of David Stoddard of Boston); son of John Green- OUgh of Boston, b. Oct. 17, 1672, at Bos- ton, d. 1732 at Boston (m. Oct. 18, 1693, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Gross of Bos- ton) ; son of William Greenough of Bos- ton, b. 1640 in the west of England, d. Aug. 6, 1693, at Boston (m. ist, Oct. 10, 1660, Ruth, dau. of Thomas Swift, 2nd, 1680, Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Rains- ford, 3rd, Nov. 29, 1688, Sarah Shove of Chelmsford), a noted shipbuilder. Public records and family bibles, comprising part of the genealogy of the Greenough family in New England, in possession of W. W. G.
&URLEY, LEWIS E., Troy, N. Y., b. Dec. 30, 1826 (m. Oct. 28, 1858, Olive E. Barnes, 2nd, Aug. 21, 1878, A. Louise Brown), grad. Union College, Schenectady, 185 r, was school com'r at Troy for twelve years, since engaged in manufacture of engineer's instruments with his son Wil- liam F. Gurley, a grad. of Williams Col- lege, 1882, and WILLIAM GURLEY, Troy, grad. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., 1839, alderman, fire commissioner, mem- ber of assembly, 1867, b, March 16, 1821, d. Jan. II, 1887 (m. at Troy, June 24, 1847, Maria R. Kenney, and has son Louis W. Gurley of Troy, a grad. of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1882) ; sons of Ephraim, b. at Mansfield, Ct., March 4, 1789, d. at Troy, Feb. 7, 1829 (m. at Wil- lington. Conn., 1812, Clarissa Sharp), was an iron founder in 1818 at Troy, the first in that place.
HALL, THEODORE PARSONS of De- troit, Mich., grad. Yale College, 1856, studied law in Binghamton, N. Y., 1857, cashier State Bk. of Mich., i860, commis- sion grain and shipping business, 1863, re- tired, 1880, author Genealogical Notes and various historical sketches, b. Rocky Hill,
Conn., Dec. 15, 1835 (m. Jan. 11, i860, Al- exandrine Louise Godefroy, dau. of Pierre son of Gabriel, son of Jacques, a founder of Detroit, 1701); third son of Samuel Holden Parsons of Binghamton, N. Y., State senator, 1846-1848, b. in Middletown, Conn., June 28, 1804, d. in Binghamton, March 5, 1877 (m. 1826, Emeline Mehetable Bulkeley of Rocky Hill, dau. of Charles, son of Charles, son of Charles, son of Ed- ward, son of Gershom, son of Rev. Peter, founder of Concord, Mass., 1635); second son of William Brenton of Middletown, grad. Yale College, 1786, M. D., 1787, treasurer State Med. Soc, 1799, d. in Middletown, 1809, b. in Meriden, Conn., May 31, 1764 (m. 1796, Mehetable, dau. of Major-General Samuel Holden Par- sons, grad. Harvard, 1756, hon. deg. Yale, 1781, chief judge N. W. Ter., a founder of Marietta, O. , son of Rev. Jonathan of Newburyport, Mass., Yale College, 1729); eldest son of Brenton of Meriden, b. in Cheshire, Conn., 1738, d. in Meriden, 1820, rep. from Wallingford, Conn., 1787-1802, from Meriden, 1806 (m. Feb. 18, Lament, dau. of Capt. Jonathan Collins); sixth son of Samuel of Cheshire, b. 1695, Wallingford, d. Cheshire, 1776, grad. Yale College, 1716, first minister in Cheshire, 1724, uncleand tu- tor of Lyman Hall, signer Declaration of In- dependence, and gov. Georgia (m. Jan. 25, 1727, Anne Law, dau. of Gov. Jonathan Law of Connecticut, granddau. of Rev. Jos. Eliot of Guilford, and great granddau. of Rev. John (the Apostle) and of Gov.Wm. Brenton of Rhode Island); second son of John of Wallingford, judge and asst. Upper House, 1722-1730, b. Dec. 23, 1670, d. April 29, 1730 (m. 1691, Mary Lyman, dau. of John, son of Richard, a founder of Hartford, Conn.); eldest son of Samuel of Walling- ford, b. New Haven, Conn., May 21, 1648, d. Wallingford, March 5, 1725; dep. gen. comr., 1698-1705, capt. Train Band, 1704, selectman, 1718 (m. 1668, Hannah Walker, dau. of John and Grace of New Haven); third son of John Hall, b. England, 1605, d. Wallingford, 1676; a founder of New Haven and Wallingford and deacon of the first church, who came from Warwickshire, Eng., 1633 (m. 1641, Jeannie Wollen, b.
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England, 1620), and became founder of the Wallingford branch of Halls in America. See HalVs Genealogical Notes.
HALLOCK, W. H. of Linden, New Jer- sey, b. New York city, Aug. 18, 1827, on New York Journal of Commerce, 1845-71, New York Republic, 1873, assist- ant editor American Ship, asst. editor Iron Age, 18S0-7, and CHARLES HALLOCK of Washington, D. C, b. New York city, March 13, 1834, Yale College, 1850, grad. Amherst Col., 1854, asst. editor New Haven Register, 1855, New York Journal of Com- merce, 1856-61, Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, 1863, St. John (N. B.) Telegraph, 1864, Hu- morist, St. John, N. B., 1864, broker in St. John and New York, 1864-7, secretary Blooming Grove Park Association, 1871-72, founder of Forest and Stream, 1873-80, laid out town of Hallock, county seat of Kittson county, Minnesota, 1880-87, director of Flushing and Queens County Bank, 1873, author of the Fishing Tourist (1873), Camp Life in Florida (1876), Sportsman's Gazet- teer (1877), Vacation Rambles in Michi- gan (1877), American Club List (1878), Dog Fancier's Directory (1880), Our New Alaska (1886); sons of Gerard Hallock of New Haven, Conn., b. Plainfield, Mass., 1800 (m. 1826, Eliza Allen, dau. of Ezra Allen of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.), grad. salutatorian Williams College, 1819, tutor Amherst Academy, 1820-21, tutor Salem (Mass.) High School, 1822-23, on Boston Telegraph, 1823, Boston Recorder, 1825, New York Observer, 1825-27, New York Journal of Commerce, 1827-61, secretary Southern Aid Society, 1854-61, builder and donor of South Congregational Church, New Haven, 1853; his eldest brother, Rev. Wm. A. Hallock of New York, b. Plain- field, June 2, 1794, grad. valedictorian Wil- liams College, 1819, for forty-five years cor- responding secretary American Tract So- ciety, and editor American Messenger and Child's Paper; and his youngest brother Ho- man, b. Plainfield, May 24, 1803, Amherst College, 1820, missionary printer to Smyrna, inventor and founder of Arabic type, of the reversed pantagraph, and first combination time lock, 1836; sons of Rev. Moses Hal-
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lock, for forty-five years pastor in Plain- field, Mass., b. Plainfield, Mass., 1760, d. in Goshen, Mass., Oct. 21, 1835; son of William, aged 85, b. in Brookhaven, L. L, 1730; son of Noah of Mount Sinai, L. L, b. 1696, d. 1773; son of William, b. about 1670; son of William of Southold, L. I., d. Sept. 28, 1684; son of Peter of South- old, who, with thirteen Pilgrim fathers, including Rev. John Youngs, landed at New Haven, Oct. 21, 1640, and subse- quently located at Southold, L. L, being the first settlers there. Peter Hallock's original homestead is still occupied by his descendants. In the records of the several earlier wills the signature is Halliock, and it has been conjectured that the name was originally identified with Holyoke. It is believed that Peter Hallock came from Hingham, Norfolk county, England, one hundred miles north-east of London, as Rev. Mr. Youngs was settled there from 1634 to 1640.
HAYES, BIRCHARD AUSTIN of To- ledo, Ohio, b. Nov. 4, 1853 (m. Dec. 30, 1886, Mary Nancy Sherman), Lit. B., Cor- nell University, 1874, LL. B., Harvard Uni- versity, 1877, and WEBB COOK HAYES of Cleveland, Ohio, b. March 20, 1856, and RUTHERFORD PLATT HAYES of Fremont, Ohio, b. June 24, 1858, B. S., Cornell University, 1880; sons of RU- THERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES of Fremont, Ohio (b. Oct. 4, 1822, Delaware, O. (m. to Lucy Ware Webb, Dec. 30, 1852), A. B., 1842, and A. M., 1845, Kenyon Col- lege, LL. B., 1845, Harvard University, city solicitor of Cincinnati, 1858-1861, major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of 23d regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteer In- fantry, and brigadier-general and brevet major-general, 1861-1865, representative in congress, 1865-1868, governor of Ohio, 1868-1872 and 1876-1877, president of the United States, 1877-1881 ; son of Ruther- ford Hayes of Wilmington and Dum- merston Vt., Delaware, Ohio, b. Jan. 4, 1787, at Brattleboro, Vt., d. July 20, 1822, at Delaware. Ohio (m. Sophia Birchard, Sept. 13, 1 8 13); son of Rutherford Hayes of Brattleboro, Vermont, b. July 29, 1756,
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Branford, Conn., d. Sept. 25, 1836, Brattle- boro, Vt. (m. 1779, Chloe Smith), served as ensign (commissioned July 24, 1782) in the "South (Vermont) Regiment" of New York troops, and received a grant of land in Chenango county, N. Y., for losses and services; son of Ezekiel Hayes of New Haven and Branford, Conn., b. Nov. 21, 1744, Salmon Brook, Conn., d. Oct. 17, 1807, New Haven, Conn. (m. Rebecca Russell, Dec. 26, 1749), served in Revolutionary army with the rank of cap- tain, was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown; son of Daniel Hayes of Sims- bury, Conn., b. April 26, 1686, Windsor, Conn., d. Sept. 23, 1756, Simsbury, Conn, (m. ist, Martha Holcombe, 2d, May 4, 1721,
Sarah Lee, 3d, Mary ), in Queen
Anne's war he was taken prisoner by the Indians, carried to Canada, and kept a cap- tive for five years; son of George Hayes of Windsor and Simsbury, Conn., b. in Scot- land, d. Sept. 2, 1725, Simsbury, Conn, (m. 2d, Abigail Dibble, August 29, 1683.)
HERRICK, LUCIUS CARROLL of Columbus, O., since 1882, Wood- stock, O., 1869-82, Urbana, O., 1869, New York city, 1866-9, grad. M. D., Univ. of Vermont, 1864, physician, asst. surg. 4th U. S. colored cavalry in war of Rebellion, 1863- 66, dist. physician, N. Y. Lying-in Asylum, 1867-8, librarian, Woodstock Library Asso- ciation, 1874-82, treasurer, Ohio State San- itary Association, 1887-8, author of Heryick Genealogy^ 1885, b. Sept. 2, 1840 (m. Aug. 16, 1871, Louise Taylor of Woodstock, O., descended from Colonel John Taylor, who was b. in Scotland, settled in Orange county, N. Y., and served as colonel in Revolutionary war); fifth son of Lorenzo Dow Herrick of West Randolph, Vt., b. Sept. 8, 1806, West Randolph, Vt., d. Sept. 12, 1874, West Randolph, Vt. (m. ist, Dec. 11,1832, Zilpha Ann Haskins of Middlesex, Vt., who d. May ig, 1849, m. 2nd, Betsey Almina Booth of West Randolph, Vt., Sept. 9, 1849), was one of the incorporators of West Randolph Academy in 1847, and a member of its board of trustees until his death, also filled various public offices in his township and the State militia; fifth son of
Stephen Herrick of West Randolph, Vt., b. March,i76o, Preston, Conn., d. Nov. 2,1841, West Randolph, Vt. (m. 1783, at Hanover, N. H., Rebecca McCray, who was b, in Ellington, Conn., Sept. 8, 1766, and d. March 3, 1847), served in Revolutionary war, was taken prisoner and confined in the old " Jersey " prison ship, eighteen months, was a licensed preacher in M. E. church, and was noted for his remarkably retentive memory; second son of Israel Herrick of Preston, Conn., b. June 11, 1720, Preston, Conn., d. May, 1760, Preston, Conn. (m. Nov. 17, 1748, Hannah Tucker, who d. May, 1760); fifth son of Timothy Herrickof Preston, Conn., b. Jan. 4, 1861, Beverly, Mass.; fifth son of Ephraim Herrick of Beverly, Mass., b. Feb. 11, 1638, d. Sept. 18, 1693, Beverly, Mass. (m. July 3, 1661, Mary Cross of Salem, Mass.), set- tled on a farm given him by his father at Birch Plain, in Beverly, took oath of free- man, April 29, 1668; third son of Henry Herrick of Salem, Mass., b. Aug. 16, 1604, London, Eng,, d.1671, will proved at Salem, Mass., March 28, 1671 (m. circa, 1632, Editha Laskin, dau. of Mr. Hugh Las- kin of Salem, b. 1614, and was living in 1674), was among the founders of the first church in Salem, 1629, and of the first church of Beverly, 1667; fifth son of Sir William Herrick of London and Beau- manor Park, Leicestershire, Eng., b. 1557, Leicester, Eng., d. March 2, 1652-3, Beau- manor Park, Eng. (m. 1596, Joan, dau. of Richard May, Esq., of London, Eng., who was b. 1578, and d. July 3, 1645), was a member of Parliament, from 1601 to 1630, knighted, 1605, was ambassador to Turkey, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; fifth son of John Eyrick or Heyrick of Leicester, Eng., b. 1513, d. April 2, 1589 (m. Mary Bond, dau. of John Bond, Esq., of War- wickshire, Eng., d. Dec. 8, 161 1, aet. 97), he was mayor of Leicester, in 1559 and 1572.
HI ATT, OLIVER S. of Fairmount, Kansas, b. Feb. 4, 1839, at Richmond, Ind. (m. Dec. 31, 1861, Mary E. Maris, and has two daughters, Effie Hiatt (m. Dec. 31, 1885, Dr. William R. Van Tuyl of Leaven-
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worth, Kansas) and Mamie E. Hiatt), was twice elected member of the board of Leavenworth county commissioners and is now serving his third term as auditor of said county and second term as director of Kansas State Penitentiary; son of Elaill B. of Westfield, Ind., b. March 7, 1821, at New Garden, N. C, d. Sept. 15, 1887, at Westfield, Ind. (m. in 1838, Sarah, dau. of Wilson and Clarkcy J. Horn of Wayne county, Ind.); son of Amer of Westfield, b. Jan. 28, 1794, at New Garden, N. C, d. Oct. 19, 1877, at Westfield (m. June 12, 1816, at New Garden monthly meeting, Achsah, dau. of Joel Willis of Highland county, Ohio, who was born Aug. 23, 1764, at York, Pa., d. Oct. 24,1842, at Highland, m. Hannah Jessup of York, and was son of William Willis of York, Pa., where he died Sept. 25, 1801).
HORD, OSCAR B., b. in 1829, attorney- general of Indiana for two terms, and law partner of the late Vice-President Thomas A. Hendricks, and WILLIAM TALIAFERRO HORD, medical director U. S. Navy, b. on March 3, 1832, in Mason county, Kentucky, graduated in medicine at University of Pennsylvania, and entered the navy in 1854, he served throughout the war of the Rebellion and is at present stationed at the Naval Asylum at Phila- delphia, Pa. (m. Eleanor, dau. of Major Arnold Harris, U. S. A.), and FRANCIS T. HORD, b, in 1835, State senator of Indiana for several terms, and also attor- ney-general for two terms, and KENDAL MOSS HORD, b. in 1840, circuit judge of Johnson and Shelby counties, Ind., for eighteen years, and GEORGE HORD, b. in 1833, ELIAS HORD, b. in 1838, HENRY HORD, b. in 1843, MARY HORD, b. in 1827, and JOSEPHINE HORD, b. in 1843; sons of Francis Triplett Hord of Mays- ville. Mason county, Ky., b. in Mason county, Ky., Sept. 19, 1797, d. May 25, 1869, at Maysville, Mason county, Ky. (m. Sept. 20, 1826, Elizabeth Scott, dau. of Kendal Moss, Esq., of Fleming county, Ky.), was one of the most eminent lawyers in the State of Kentucky; son of EHas Hord of Mason county, Ky., b. March 9, 1773, Prince William county, Va., d. in Mason
county, Ky., in 1821 (m. Sept. 15, 1796, Ann, daughter of Francis Triplett), com- manded a company of mounted Kentucky riflemen during the war of 1812, partici- pated in Winchester's defeat and the battle of the Thames, and in the retreat of the British at the latter was one of the first to overtake the carriage of Gen. Proctor, after a chase of twenty miles, he and his three brothers, Edward, Thomas and Jesse, all of whom participated in this war, were over six feet in height and weighed over two hundred pounds; son of Jesse Hord of Caroline county, Va., b. Nov. 30, 1749, in Virginia, d. in Mason county, Ky., in 1814 (m. May 7, 1772, Antoinette Hord), was a large land-holder in Virginia, par- ticipated in the Revolutionary war, and at its close, 1786, in consequence of pecu- niary losses, emigrated to Kentucky and settled in Mason county; son of Tliomas, b. Sept. 7, 1701, in Virginia (m. June 24, 1726, Jane Miller); son of John, b. in Eng- land, came with two brothers to America, and bought land in Maryland. It was un- justly taxed, he refused payment, forces were sent by the king and besieged Howard's Fort, and at last, deserted by his men, he fled to Virginia and settled eight miles be- low Port Ro)'al, for security dropping the " wa " from his name. The remains of his fort were called "Howard's Folly." He died in 1712 at his estate of " Shady Grove," which remained in his family until 1821.
HULL, FREDERICK DOTY of New Lebanon, N. Y., b. Aug. 29, 1871; son of GEORGE F. HULL of New Leb anon (m. Oct. 16, 1862, Amy, dau. of Leon- ard Doty of Stephentown, sixth in descent from Edward Doty of the MayJlower)\ son of Charles WiUiam of New Lebanon, b. 1798, d. 1866 (m. Lucena Ann, dau. of Rev. Jesse Churchill and his wife, Olive Tilden, a desc. of Nathaniel Tilden who arrived in the Hercules in 1634, the ancestor of the Tildens of New Lebanon); son of Jeremiah of Stonington, Conn. (m. Keturah Randall Williams); son of Latham of Stonington, b. at S. Kingston, R. I., 1750, d. at Ston- ington, 1807 (m. ist, Anne Wheeler, 2nd, ); son of Stephen of S. Kings-
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ton, b. at Westerly, R. I., 1715, d. 1798 (m. Martha Clark(?); son of Tristram of West- erly, b. 1677, d. 1718 (m. Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Dyer, a son of William Dyer, whose wife Mary was executed on Boston com- mon because she befriended a Quaker, Jan. I, 1660); son of Joseph of Barnstable, b. 1652 (m. Experience, dau. of Robert and Deborah Harper), freeman, May 5, 1696, governor's assistant, 1699, 1701-3, suffered much persecution because he was a mem- ber of the Society of Friends, of which community he was a minister, in May, 1681, he was fined £'^ for beating the sheriff who had persecuted him as a Quaker; son of Tristram of Barnstable, R. I., b. 1624, d.
1666 (m. Blanche ); selectman of
Barnstable for many years, a captain, left property to the value oi £\\^o 2s. 5^/. ,a large amount in those days; son of Rev. Joseph Hull, born 1594, took his degree at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, 1614, instituted rector of Northleigh, Devon, Eng., April 4, 1621, resigned his benefice upon relig- ous scruples in 1631, gathered a company of emigrants in Devon and Somerset, sailed from Weymouth, Eng., with his second wife, Agnes, seven children and three serv- ants, March 20, 1635, landed in America, first minister at Weymouth, Mass., founded Barnstable, Mass., 1639, excommunicated at Barnstable merely for going to Yarmouth without leave, but afterward readmitted, minister at Isles of Shoals, 1641, at York, 1642, Oyster River, 1662, again at the Isles of Shoals, died intestate, Nov. 19, 1665, buried at York, Maine.
TNGALLS, JOHN JAMES of Atchison, -L Kans., b. at Middleton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833, grad. Williams College, 1855, LL.D., 1884, admitted to the Essex county bar,
1857, removed to Sumner, Kans., Oct. 4,
1858, delegate to constitutional convention,
1859, secretary of State senate, 1860-61, State senator, 1862, judge-advocate, major and lieut.-colonel, 1863-5, U. S. senator, 1873-1879-1885, president /ri? tempore U. S. senate, 1887 (m. Sept. 27,1865, Anna Louisa, b. at New York city, April 9, 1843, eldest dau. of Ellsworth Chesebrough and Anna Louisa Addison); son of ELIAS THEO-
DORE INGALLS of Haverhill, Mass., b. Oct. 7, 1810 (m. Eliza Chase, Dec. 27, 1832), merchant, manufacturer, inventor of many patented machines, city assessor, dea- con; son of Theodore Ing'alls of Middle- ton, Mass., b. at Andover, March 30, 1764, d. at Middleton, Mass., Nov. 7, 1817 (m. Ruth Flint), farmer, manufacturer of scythes, ploughs, axes and iron work, active poli- tician; son of Francis Ingalls of Andover, Mass., b. at Andover, Mass., Jan. 26, 1731, d. at Andover, Mass., April 3, 1795 (m. Eunice Jennings, Nov. 12, 1754, who d. Ma}'^ 23, 1799), farmer, housebuilder; son of Francis Ing'alls of Andover, Mass., b. at Andover, Mass., Dec. 20, 1694, d. at Ando- ver, Mass., Jan. 26, 1759 (m. ist, Nov. 19, 1719, Lydia Ingalls, who d. April 29, 1743, 2nd, Lydia Stevens, d.1790), farmer; son of Henry Ingalls of Andover, Mass., b. at Lynn, Mass., Dec. 8, 1656, d. at Andover, Mass., Feb. 8,1698 (m. June 6,1688, Abigail Emery, who d. July 12, 1756, aged 87), cap- tain, French and Indian wars, farmer; son of Henry Ingalls of Andover, Mass., b. 1627, d. at Andover, Feb. 8,1719 (m.ist, July 6, 1653, Mary Osgood, 2nd, Aug. i, 1688, Sarah Abbott), one of the earliest settlers of Andover, Mass.; son of Edmond Ingalls of Lynn, Mass., b. in England, about 1595, d. at Lynn, Mass., Sept., 1648 (m. Anne
), founded, with his brother Francis,
the city of Lynn, Mass., 1628.
TSHAM, CHARLES of New York, b. July J- 20, 1853, B. A., Harvard, 1876, and SAMUEL ISHAM of New York, b. May 12, 1855, B. A., Yale, 1875, and WILLIAM BURHANS ISHAM, b. Dec. 9, 1857, B. A., Princeton, 1879, and PORTER ISHAM, b. March 11, 1863; sons of WILLIAM BRADLEY ISHAM of New York, b. April 29, 1827, at Maiden, Ulster county, N.Y.(m. June 9, 1852, Julia, dau. of Col. Benjamin Peck Burhans of Warrensburg, N. Y.); son of Charles of Maiden, Ulster county, N. Y., b. Aug. 20, 1784, at Colchester, Conn., d. at Maiden, Nov. 15, 1856 (m. Dec. 27, 1814, Flora, dau. of Judge William Bradley of Hartford, Conn.); son of Samuel of Maiden, b. Dec. 19, 1752, at Colchester, Conn., d. June 13, 1827, at Maiden (m. Jan. 18, 1775,
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Mary Adams); son of John Ishaiil, 2(1, of
Colchester, Conn., b. at Barnstable, Mass., August 6, 1721, d. at Colchester, March 2, 1802 (m. Dec. 19, 1751, Dorothy, dau. of Ephraim Foote of Colchester, Conn.), cap- tain of a company during the French war, and engaged in the ill-starred expedition to the West Indies; third son of Isaac Ishani of Barnstable, Mass., b. February, 1682, will admitted to probate August 5, 1771, at Barnstable (m. May 3, 1716, at Barnstable to Thankful, b. April 19, i6g6, dau. of Thomas Lumbert, Jr.); second son of John Ishamof Barnstable, Mass., b. in England, will admitted to probate Oct. 10, 1713, at Barnstable (m. Dec. 16, 1677, Jane, b. March 21, 1664, dau. of Robert Parker of Barnstable, her will was admitted to pro- bate Feb. 24, 1719-20, at Barnstable). This John Isham came to the Cape in an English vessel, and it has always been understood that he came from Northhamptonshire, Eng., where the name is definitely localized, and he seems to have been the ancestor of all of the name now found in the United States, excepting the Virginia family.
TSHAM, EDWARD SWIFT of Chicago, -L 111., and Manchester, Vt., grad. Wil- liams College, 1857, A. M., i860, lawyer, legislature of Illinois, 1865-6, b. in Ben- nington, Vt., Jan. 15, i836(m. May 21, 1861, Fannie, dau. of Thomas Burch of Little Falls, N. Y.); eldest son of Pierrepont Isham of Bennington, Vt., b. at Manches- ter, Vt., August 5, 1802, d. March 8, 1872 (m. Semanthe, dau. of Noadiah Swift, M. D., of Bennington, Vt.), A. M., Williams College, 1856, justice of supreme court of Vermont; eldest son of Ezra Isham, M. D., of Manchester, Vt.,b. at Colchester, Conn., March 15, 1773, d. at Manchester, Vt., Feb. 8, 1835 (m. June 21, 1801, Nancy (Anna), dau. of Robert Pierrepont of Manchester, Vt., b. at Littlefield, Conn.); youngest son of John Isham, 2d, of Colchester, Conn., b. at Barnstable, Mass., August 6, 1721, d. at Colchester, March 2, 1802 (m. Dec. 19, 1751, Dorothy, dau. of Ephraim Foote of Colches- ter, Conn.), captain of a company during the French war, and engaged in the ill- starred expedition to the West Indies; third
son of Isaac Isham of Barnstable, Mass., b. February, 1682, will admitted to probate August 5, 1771, at Barnstable (m. May 3, 1716, at Barnstable to Thankful, b. April
19, 1696, dau. of Thomas Lumbert, Jr.); second son of John Isham of Barnstable, Mass., b. in England, will admitted to pro- bate Oct. 10, 1713, at Barnstable (m. Dec. 16, 1677, Jane, b. March 21, 1664, dau. of Robert Parker of Barnstable, her will was admitted to probate Feb. 24, 1719-20, at Barnstable). This John Isham came to the Cape in an English vessel, and it has always been understood that he came from North- hamptonshire, Eng., where the name is definitely localized, and he seems to have been the ancestor of all of the name now found in the United States, excepting the Virginia family.
JAMESON, EPHRAIM ORCUTT of *J Millis, Mass., b. Jan. 23, 1832, in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, graduated from Dartmouth College, 1855, and from Andover Theo. Seminary, 1858 (m. Sept.
20, 1858, Mary Joanna, dau. of the Rev. William Cogswell, D. D.), pastor of the East Cong. Church, Concord, N. H., 1859- 1865, the Union Evang. Church of Salis- bury and Amesbury, Mass., 1865-1871, also, since 1871, of the Church of Christ in Millis, formerly East Medvva)', Mass., author of "The Cogswells in America," "The Hist, of Medway, Mass.," "The Choates in America," and other smaller works, superintendent of public schools in Millis, Mass., chaplain of the Mass. State Grange; son of Daniel of Dunbarton, N. H., b. April 29, 1795, in Dunbarton, N. H., d. Sept. 6, 1864 (m. Oct. 3, 1824, Mary Twiss), a farmer; son of Daniel of Dunbar- ton, N. H.,b. Feb. 25, 1762, in Starkstown, N. H., after 1765 in Dunbarton, d. July 9, 1814, at Dunbarton, N. H. (m. Oct. 7, 1788, Hannah Burnham), a prominent citi- zen of the town, holding office of town clerk eleven years, selectman five years, and twice chosen the Representative to the State legislature; son of Hug'h who with his brother Thomas emigrated from the north of Ireland to the Isle of Man, and about 1740 to America and settled in Lon-
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donderry, N. H., b. near Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland (m. ist, Chrystal White- head of the Isle of Man, 2nd, Jane McHenry of Londonderry, N. H.), one of the original proprietors and settlers of Starkstown, now Dunbarton, N. H., where he died; son of William of Belfast, Ireland, who was a vigorous Scotchman, whose ancestors were of Glasgow or the vicinity of Dunbarton Castle on the banks of the Clyde, Scotland.
KIMBALL, JOHN, A. M., of Concord, N. H., b. at Canterbury, N. H., April 13, 1821, mayor Concord, 1872-5, senator, 1881-2 (m. May 27, 1846, Maria, dau. of Elam Phillips); son of Benjamin of Bos- cawen, N. H., b. at Canterbury, N. H., Dec. 27, 1794 (m. Feb. i, 1820, Ruth, dau. of David Ames), elected State representa- tive, 1834; son of John of Exeter, N. H., b. at Exeter, November 20, 1767, d. Feb. 26, 1861 (m, Nov. 21, 1793, Sarah, dau. of Benj. Moulton); son of Joseph of Exeter, N. H., b. at Exeter, January 29, 1730-1, d. Nov. 6, 1814 (m. about 1762, Sarah Smith); son of John of Exeter, N. H., b. at Wen- ham, Mass., Dec. 20, 1699, d.
(m. ist, Feb. 14, 1722-3, Abigail Lyford, 2d, Sept. 18, 1740, Sarah, dau. of Dea. Thomas Wilson); son of Caleb of Exeter, N. H.,b. at Wenham, Mass., April 9, 1665, d. at Wenham, Mass., Jan. 25, 1725-6 (m. Sarah
y, son of Richard, removed to
Wenham, Mass., as early as 1656, b. in England, 1623, d. at Wenham, Mass., May 26, 1676 (m. ist, Mary Gott, 2d, Mary
), one of the proprietors of Ipswich,
Mass., in 1648, selectman at Wenham, Mass., in 1658; son of Richard, b. 1595, in England, d. June 22, 1675 (m. in England, ist, Ursula Scott, 2d, Oct. 23, 1661, Margaret, widow of Henry Dow). April 10, 1634, he embarked at Ipswich, Eng., in ship Eliza- beth, for Massachusetts, and landed at Ips- wich, Mass. He first settled at Watertown, Mass., of which he was a proprietor in 1636-7, and freeman, 1637-8, but returned to Ipswich where he died.
KING, HENRY WILLIAM, b. at West- field, Mass., Sept. 24, 1815, grad. Washington (now Trinity) College, Hart- ford, Conn., Aug. 4. 1836, studied law
at Cincinnati Law School, secretary of State of Ohio, 1850-1 (m. Oct. 20, 1842, Mary Crosby, d. Nov. 20, 1857), and LEICESTER KING, Jr., b. July 26, 1823, at Warren,Ohio, educated at Western Reserve College, Hud- son, Ohio, and Bethany College, W. Va. (m. ist, Dec. 10, 1844, Eliza Purinton, at War- ren, Ohio, 2nd, May 2, 1874, Rebecca A. Roberts, at Pittsburgh, Pa.), now lives at Washington, D. C, and DAVID LEICES- TER KING, b. Dec. 25, 1825, at Warren, Ohio, grad. scientific course Bethany Col- lege W. Va., July 4, 1843, studied law at Dane Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1847-8, admitted to the practice of law August 14, 1848 (m. May i, 1849, Bettie Washington Steele, at Charleston, W. Va., great granddau. of Betty Washington Lewis, George Washington's only sister), now liv- ing at Akron, Ohio, and HEZEKIAH HUNTINGTON KING, b. at Warren. Ohio, Aug. 3, 1829, now living unmarried at Savannah, Ga.; sons of Leicester King of Warren, Ohio, last three years of life at Akron, Ohio, b. at Suffield, Conn., May i, 1789, d. Sept. 19, 1856, at Bloomfield, Trum- ball county, Ohio (m. Oct. 12, 1814, at Hart- ford, Conn., Julia Ann, dau. of Hon. Heze- kiah Huntington and Susan Kent of that city, was b. in Suffield, Conn., Dec. 10, 1790, d. Jan. 24, 1849, she was a lineal descendant of John Dwight from England, 1635, also of Richard Lyman from England, 163 1, Simeon Huntington from England, 1630), was associate judge common pleas Trum- bull county, Ohio, State senator of Ohio, 1835-39, Liberty party candidate for gov- ernor of Ohio, 1842, again in 1844, nomi- nated by same party for vice-president with John P. Hale for president in 1847; son of David King of Suffield, Conn., b. at Suf- feld. Conn., April 16, 1758, died at Suffield, Conn., May 4, 1832 (m, Hannah, dau. of Israel Holly of Suffield, Conn., b. June 4, 1758, d. May 4, 1831), was a large land-holder and filled many offices of public trust; son of Ebenezer King, Jr. of Suffield, Conn., b. Feb. 22, 1728, at Suffield, Conn., d. April 10, 1810, at Suffield, Conn. (m. ist, Dec. 11, 1751, Chloe, dau. of Joseph Kent and Han- nah Gillett, who died at Suffield, Conn., Oct. II, 1772, m. 2nd, Aug. 10, 1773, Eunice
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Hale); son of Ebenezer King* of Suffield, Conn., b. at Suffield, Conn., Dec. 8, 1706, d. at Suffield, Conn., June 17, 1781 (m. March 30, 1724, Abigail Seymour, who d. in June, 1796); son of James King' of Suf- field, Conn., b. at Ispwich, Mass., March 14, 1675, d. at Suffield, Conn., July 15, 1745 (m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thos. Huxley and Sarah Spencer of Hartford, Conn.); son of
James Kin^ of Suffield, Conn., b.
, d. at Suffield, Conn., May 13, 1722
(m. March 23, 1674, Elizabeth Fuller at Ispwich, Mass., who d. June 30, 1722). He was one of the original proprietors of Suf- field, Conn., and left a large landed estate.
KISSAM, DANIEL WHITEHEAD, JR., M. D., of New York city, grad. College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1815, b. November 29, 1792, d. March 3, 1835, on board brig Neptune, at sea, unmarried (whose brothers, Benjamin T., Joseph, Samuel, Timothy T., George and Edward, were merchants here from 1810 to 1867); son of Daniel W. Kissam, M. D., of Huntington, Suffolk county N. Y., b. at North Hempstead, L. I., March 23, 1763, d. at Huntington L. I., Nov. 21, 1839 (m. ist, June 26, 1787, Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Ben- jamin Tredwell, and niece of Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, D. D., first bishop of Connecticut, 2d, Oct. 17, 1805, Phebe, dau. of Wilmot Oakley, and cousin of the late Chief Justice T. J. Oakley), practiced his profession in Suffolk and Queens counties successfully from 1786 to 1830; second son of Joseph of North Hempstead, L. I., b. August 22, 1731, d. May 20, 1815 (m. Oct. 9, 1752, Mary, dau. of George Hewlett of same town, whose brother Benjamin, an eminent lawyer of New York city, m. Catharine, dau. of Petrus Rutgers, d. 1782); third son of Josepll of North Hempstead, L. I. (m. Feb. 7, 1727, Deborah, dau. of Hon. Jonathan Whitehead), vestryman St. George's Church, Hempstead, 1751 to 1761; son of Daniel of Madnan's now Great Neck, b. 1669, d. 1752 (m. Elizabeth Combes), vestryman St. George's parish, 1703; eldest son of John (yeoman) of Flushing, b. July, 1644 (m. July 10, 1667, Susannah, dau. of William Thome, of Jamaica, L. I.). The
name of the last mentioned, who was the founder of the family in America, under- went various changes, as the early records show, and though it is not positively known, some claim that he came originally from Amsterdam, Holland, others trace him a Huguenot to Montpelier, France. The Kis- sams, attached to the Church of England and holding offices under the Crown, to which allegiance had been sworn, sided, during the Revolution, with the loyalists. The family, in its various generations since its first settlement in Queens county, has contributed many valuable men to posi- tions of honor and trust, as well as to the legal and medical professions.
LANE, JOHN WILLIAM, b. Sept. 7, 1827, grad. Amherst College, 1856, A. M. 1859, AndoverSem., 1859, ord. pastor of the Congregational church, Whately, Mass., Oct. 17, i860, after eighteen years removed to North Hadley, where he re- mains pastor in 1888 (m. Aug. 26, 1868, Mary Haynes of Townsend, Mass., a teacher at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley, and had eight children, five of whom survive), in early life he learned the carpen- ter's trade, and many buildings of his pa- rishioners and others show that thirty years of literary labor have not diminished his skill as an architect, he has also been a teacher of elocution in Amh. Coll. and now with the Mass. Agricultural College in Am- herst, and CHARLES E., b. in Newfields, South Newmarket, N. H., Dec. 27, 1837, A. B., Amherst College, 1865, Andover Seminary, 1868, d. Aug. 17, 1868, unmar- ried; sons of Charles, b. at Stratham, Nov. 27, 1796, tanner and merchant in South Newmarket fifty years, retired in 1867, d. at Stratham, Oct. 27, 1884, aged 88 (m. ist, Sept. 17, 1821, Hannah, dau. of Abr. French of Pittsfield, b. Feb. 2, 1802, d. Jan. 18, 1841, leaving two sons and three daugh- ters, m. 2d, Oct. 9, 1842, Elizabeth, dau. of Isaiah Berry of Greenland, b. 1804), he was a quiet, industrious and useful citizen and a faithful and benevolent member of the church; second son of Jabez, farmer, b. at Stratham, May 16, 1760 (m. Oct. 2, 1783, Eunice, dau. of Gideon Colcord of
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Newmarket, and had nine children, the eighth of whom, Deacon Edmund James, bookseller in Dover, prepared valuable records of this family for the N. E. Hist. Genealogical Register, April, 1873; son of Deacon Samuel, b. at Hampton, Oct. 6, 1718, d. Dec. 29, 1806 (m. ist, Dec. 24, 1741, Mary James, b. 1722, d. Jan. 1769, m. 2d, 1794, Mrs. Rachel (Parsons) widow of Gid- eon Colcord, she was b. 1726, and d. Jan. 1813), was a tanner and shoemaker in Stratham, successful in business, and a surveyor, aiding the government in laying out new towns, an influential citizen, a selectman, town clerk, a member of the provincial assembly in 1776, a deacon of the church and much respected; son of Deacon Joshua, b, at Hampton, June 5, 1696, and resided there (m. Dec. 24, 1717, Bathsheba, dau. of Samuel Robie, b. Aug. 1696, d. April, 1765), they had sixteen children, nearly all of whom became active Christians, he was killed by lightning, as he stood on his door-step, June 14, 1766, was an eminent and useful member of the church; son of William, b. at Boston, October i, 1659, ^ tailor (m. June 21, 1680, Sarah, dau. of Thos. Webster of Hampton, b. 1660), and resided in Hampton, where he died, Feb. 14, 1749; son of William, b. in England, resided in Boston (his wife, Mary, deceased, and he m. 2d, Aug. 21, 1656, Mary, dau. of Thos. Brewer of Rox- bury, and had seven children.)
LEARNED, RICHARD ADAMS, of Lone Oak Farm, Sussex county, N. J., grad. Rutgers Coll., 1885, farmer, b. Oct. 4, 1862; eldest son of JAMES EDGERTON LEARNED of New York, b. March 4, 1839 ("i- ist, April 10, 1861, Hannah Lydia Adams, 2nd, June 2, 1874, Frances Rebecca Pinkerton), editor and writer; eldest son of EDWARD HALLAM LEARNED of New London, Conn., b. Oct. 14, 1815 (m. 1st, Jan. 15, 1837, Sarah Edgerton, 2nd, Nov. 19, 1850, R. Jeannette Redfield), mer- chant and banker; eldest son of Edward of New London, b. April 2, 1786, d. Dec. 6, 1849 (m. Nov. 24, 1814, Nancy Coit), merchant; youngest son of Amasa of New London, b. Nov. 15, 1750, d. May 4, 1825
(m. April i, 1773, Grace Hallam of New London), grad. Yale Coll. 1772, mem. Con- gress 1791-95, mem. of constitutional con- vention to ratify the Constitution of the U. S. 1788, "assistant" of the State, mem- ber of the council; son of Ebenezer of Kil- lingly, Ct., b. March 11, 1723, d. Dec. 6, 1779 (m. Dec. 28, 1749, Keziah, dau. of Jus- tice Joseph Leavens), deacon, selectman 1760; third son of William of Killingly, b. Feb. 12, 1688, d. June 11, 1747 (m. Nov. 24, 1715, Hannah Bryant), deacon, 1742, sur- veyor of highways 1729, selectman 1740-44, town treas. 1742-46; son of Isaac of Fra- mingham, b. Sept. 16, 1655, d. Sept. 15, 1737 (m. July 23, 1679, Sarah Bigelow), wounded in the battle of Narragansett; second son of Isaac of Woburn, Mass., and Chelmsford, Mass., b. in England, Feb. 25, 1623, d. Nov. 27, 1657 (m. July 9, 1646, Mary, dau. of Isaac Sternes of Nay- land, Suffolk, Eng.); only son of WIL- LIAM LEARNED of Bermondsey, Sur- rey, Eng., b. 1 590(7), who with his wife Goodith and at least two of their children came to America about 1632, and settled at Charlestown and Woburn, Mass. He and his wife were the first persons admitted to the church of Charlestown, Mass., "1632, 10 mo. day 6."' A widow, Jane(?), survived him and died in Maiden, 1660. He was selectman first of Charlestown, and then of Woburn, to which latter place he removed in 1641.
LEDYARD, LINCKLAEN, eldest son, b. Oct. 17, i82o(m. Dec, 1843, Helen Clarissa, dau. of Seymour), d. April 24, 1864, name reversed by act of legislature, 1844, to Ledyard Lincklaen, grad. Union Coll., admitted to the bar 1842, was village and school trustee at Cazenovia, author of scientific and political papers, including the Guide to Geology in New York State, and JONATHAN DENISE, second son,b.May I, 1823 (m. Elizabeth FitzHugh of Sonyea, Livingston county, N. Y.), both d. on the St. Lawrence, June, 1857, •" the loss of steamer Montreal, left no issue, and GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE, third son, b. Feb. 19, 1825, farmer and manufacturer, edu- cated Cazenovia Seminary and Poughkeep-
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sie Collegiate School, president village of Cazenovia, 1875-6, town railroad commis- sioner, and other local offices, served on Gov. Seymour's staff, as aid-de-camp, in 1854, with rank of colonel (m. 1857, Anne FitzHugh), and CORNELIUS CUYLER. fourth son, b. 1827, d. young, and L. WOLTERS, fifth son, educated at Pough- keepsie Coll. Sch., Harvard Law Sch. LL. B., admitted to the bar, resided at The Oaks in Cazenovia, held offices of local trust, conducted Fernwood farm, selecting Guern- sey cattle on the Channel islands (m. June I, 1867, Elizabeth D, Vail, adopted dau. of John R. Murray of Murray Hill, N. Y., and Murray Hill in the Genesee valley); sons of Jonathan Denise (Forman) Ledyard of Cazenovia, N. Y., b. June 10, 1793, at Middletown Point, d. at Cazenovia, Jan. 7, 1874 (m. Oct. 26, 1819, Jane Strawbridge of Phila.), after the death of his mother, 1798, he was adopted by Col. Jan von Lincklaen (of Amsterdam, Holland, son of Anthony Quiryn von Lincklaen, and served in Dutch navy, resigned and came to America 1792, was agent for Holland Land Co., explored much of Central New York 1792, settled the village of Cazenovia, named for Theophilus de Cazenove, mar- ried Helen, dau. of Benjamin Ledyard, who had no issue, and he died in 1822), was educated in Albany by Dr. Nott, afterward at Whitesboro by Dr. Halsey, grad. Union Coll. 1812, was admitted to bar 1815, and upon the death of Mr. Lincklaen in 1822 the management of the entire property devolved upon him, consisting of 125,000 acres in Madison and Che- nango counties, held several local town and village offices, was president of the Third Great Western Turnpike Company, brigadier-general of militia, delegate to na- tional convention at Harrisburg in 1839, etc.; son of Benjamin Ledyard of Mid- dletown Point, Monmouth county, N. J., b. March 5, 1753, at Groton, Conn., d. No- vember 9, 1803, at Aurora, N. Y. (m. ist, January 22, 1775, Catharine Forman, by whom he had ten children, 2nd, Ann Rhea, by whom he had no issue), was engaged in commercial business in New York in 1775, when on the outbreak of hostilities he
raised a company for First Regiment Con- tinental Infantry, Col. McDougal com- manding, of which he was commissioned captain, promoted major in 1776, was en- gaged in battle of White Plains and at Monmouth, an original member of the N. Y. S. Society of the Cincinnati, at the peace he became a partner in business with Col. Walker, removed with his family and col- ored servants, then slaves, to Aurora, N. Y., in the wilderness; son of YoungS Ledyard of New London, Conn., b. Jan. 25, 1731, d. April 4, 1762, at sea (m. June, 1748, Amelia Avery), captain of a vessel in the West India trade, brother of William Ledyard, who, as colonel of Connecticut militia and commandant of the garrisoned post of New London and Groton, was killed in defense of Fort Griswold, Sept., 1781, a first cousin of John Ledyard, the traveler ; son of John Led- yard, descendant of a Wiltshire family of Ledyards of Bristol, Eng., b. 1700, d. at Hartford, Conn., Sept. 3, 1771 (m. ist, Deborah, dau. of Judge Benj. Young of Southold, L. I., 2nd, Mary, widow of John Ellery of Hartford), removed to Groton, Conn., 1727, justice for the county of New London, auditor of supreme court, deputy to general assembly, associated with Jona- than Trumbull and James Wadsworth in committee on public affairs, removed to Hartford about 1753, which town he repre- sented in assembly until 1762.
LEEDS, BENJAMIN F. of Philadelphia, b. April 22, 1837, and JOSIAH WOODWARD LEEDS of Philadelphia, b. Jan. 5, 1841, author of Peace Histories of the United States (m. Deborah Crenshaw), and ALBERT RIPLEY LEEDS of Ho- boken, b. June 27, 1843, grad. Harvard Coll. 1865 (m. Margaretta Reed West), one of the faculty of the Stevens Insti- tute of Technology; sons of Benjamin Sykes Leeds of Philadelphia, b. Oct. 20, 1802, d. Sept. 3, 1864 (m. March 7, 1832, Beulah Bassett); son of Daniel of Leeds- ville, N. J., b. May 28, 1757, d. Oct. 18, 1829 (m. May 11, 1788, Margery Scull), was a member of the Society of Friends and an elder in their meeting; son of Japheth (m.
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Rebecca Woodward), made will April 12, 1781; son of Japheth of Leeds Point, N. J., b. Oct. 24, 1683, will proved Dec. 15,
1748 (m. Deborah ), member of
Society of Friends; son of Daniel of Springfield, N. J., b. in England, 1652, d. at Springfield, Sept. 28, 1720 (m. ist, Feb. 21, 1681, Ann Stacy, 2nd, March, 1683, Dorothy Young, 3rd, Jean Smout), ap- pointed by Queen Anne a member of Council of Province of New Jersey, sur- veyor-general, author of the first book printed in the Prov. of Pa.; son of Thomas, an Englishman, settled at Shrewsbury, N. J., i677(?), b. i62o(?), d. at Shrewsbury, N. J.,
about 1686 (m. in England, , 2nd,
at Burlington, Aug. 6, 1678, Margaret Col- lier of Marcus Hook, Pa., who d. 1705.)
LOCKWOOD, JOSEPH ALSOP, b. at Poundridge, N. Y,, Nov. 5, 1847 (m. Feb. 18, i88o, Emma Clark), resides at Yonkers, N. Y., grad. Union Coll., 1867, C. E., supt. Yonkers water- works, and JAMES BETTS LOCKWOOD, b. at Poundridge, N. Y., July 18, 1849 (m. Oct. 31, 1877, Cora Martin), resides at White Plains, N. Y,, grad. Union Coll., 1870, A. M., counselor at law, school commis- sioner, second dist. Westchester county, 1885-8, and DEWITT CLINTON LOCK- WOOD, b. at Poundridge, N. Y., July 4, 1851, resides at New York city; sons of Alsop Hunt Lockwood of Poundridge, N. Y., b. at Poundridge, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1814, d. at New York city, Dec. 8, 1874 (m. Nov. 22, 1836, Mary E. Reynolds), supervisor of Poundridge, 1844-1853, 1856- 1868, sheriff of Westchester county, 1853-6, member of Assembly, Westchester county, 1864, 1865; son of Horatio Lockwood of Poundridge, N. Y.,b. at Ridgefield,Conn., Sept. 6, 1779, d. at Poundridge, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1853 (m. Bethia Lockwood), super- visor of Poundridge, N. Y., 1820-23, 1825- 39, member of Assembly, Westchester county, 1833-36, 1841-42; son of Ebeiiezer Lockwood of Poundridge, N. Y., b. at Stamford, Conn., March 31, 1737, d. at Poundridge, N. Y., July 29, 1821 (m. ist, Feb. 16, 1761, Hannah Smith, 2nd, Sarah Waring), prior to the Revolution one of His
Majesty's justices of the peace and one of the quorum, first major Second Regt. West- chester county militia, commission Oct. 14, 1775, member Committee of Safety and N. Y. Provincial Congress for West- chester county, member first Constitutional Convention of New York, member second board Regents of the University, first judge of Westchester county, 1791-3, member of Assembly, Westchester county, 1778-79, 1784-88, supervisor of Poundridge, N. Y., 1772-79, 1782-86, one of commissioners appointed by Legislature to select county seat of Westchester county, active in war of the Revolution, forty guineas offered by British for his capture, his house burned and cattle seized by Col. Tarleton during his raid on Poundridge, July 2, 1779; son of Joseph Lockwood of Poundridge, N. Y., b. at Stamford, Conn., March 15, 1699, d. at Poundridge, N. Y., June 15, 1757 (m. Sarah Hoyt), one of original settlers of Poundridge, N. Y.; son of Joseph Lock- WOOd of Poundridge, N. Y., b. at Stam- ford, Conn,, 1666, d. at Poundridge, N. Y., 1750 (m. May 19, 1698, Elizabeth Ayres); son of Jonathan Lockwood of Greenwich, Conn., b. at Watertown, Mass., Sept. 10, 1634, member Connecticut Legislature from Greenwich, Conn.; son of ROBERT LOCKWOOD of Watertown, Mass., b. in England, arrived at Salem, Mass., May 30, 1630, in the Mary and John, and was a free- man of Watertown, Mass.
LURTY, WARREN SEYMOUR, of "The Oaks," Harrisonburg, Va., b. May 18, 1839, ^t Clarksburg, Va.(m. May 22, 1866, Mary C, dau. of Dr. A. M. Newman, by whom he has one son, Guy Carlton Lurty), adjutant of Nineteenth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. Army, assistant adjutant- general on William L. Jackson's staff, cap- tain of Lurty's Horse Artillery, and cap- tured the day he was made major of artil- lery at the battle of Cedarville, under com- mand of Gen. Early, was three times ap- pointed United States district attorney for western district of Virginia, retired from office in i88i, continued to practice law; son of Beverly Hooe Lurty of Clarksburg, b. 1811, member of Legislature of West
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Virginia for two terms, was in the Consti- tutional Convention of the State in 1881, and afterward appointed to an office in the United States Senate (m. Mary C, cousin of Lieut. -Gen. Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, dau. of Dr. William Williams of Pa., and Catharine Jackson, son of Dr. William Williams, a brother of Roger Williams, whose mother was a sister to General Joseph Warren); son of Moore (m. Mary Seymour Key), became a captain of a vessel and served as an officer in the U. S. Navy in the war with England in 1812, and subsequently sailed in his ship to the island of Martinique, where he died; son of Cap- tain John, who emigrated from France, but embarked at Liverpool, England, prior to 1776, was of Huguenot descent, ap- pointed lieutenant by the Virginia Commit- tee of Safety, June 20, 1776, and assigned duties, subsequently appointed captain on board the Dragon, and resigned April 15,
1779 (m. ist, , by whom he
had a son, John, who died in the Virginia navy, 2d, Rosa, dau. of John and Martha (Moore) Bronaugh, and had Mary Ann Ste- vens Lurty, m. Abram Buford Proctor, William R. Lurty, m. Mary Key, Moore Lurty, as above, and Robert Morris Lurty m. Mary Land ridge.)
McCLELLAN, ROBERT HENRY of Troy, N. Y., b. Dec. 28, 1826, grad. Union Coll., 1845, called to the bar in 1848, surrogate of Rensselaer county in 1855, author of the Executors' Guide (three edi- tions), and Surrogate's Court Practice (two editions) (m. 1852, Jeannette E., dau. of Abraham Tobey, of West Stockbridge, Mass.); son of Samuel McClellan of Nas- sau, N. Y., b. June 14, 1787, d. April 8, 1855 (ni' June I, 1816, Laura Hannah Cook, dau. of Philip Cook and Thankful Tuttle), doctor of medicine, president of the Rens- selaer County Medical Society, ruling elder of the Reformed Dutch Church; son of Hu^li McClellan of Coleraine, Mass., b. in Ireland, April 4, 1744 (m. Sarah Wil- son), captain of Massachusetts minute men, served in the Revolutionary war un- der General Gates, was a colonel in the State service in the Shay's rebellion, and
for many years a member of the general court, he had ten children, born in Cole- raine, Mass.; son of Michael McClellan (m. Jane Henry), who came from Currin, Londonderry, Ireland, with his wife and eight children, two born afterward, and landed in America, settled as a farmer at Coleraine, Franklin county, Mass., in 1749, the farm remained in possession of his de- scendants until 1873. Jane Henry, his wife, was a sister of Robert Henry, father of John V. Henry of Albany, N. Y.
MESSIMORE, HENRY, b. April 22, 1832, Columbiana county, Ohio (m. Oct. 3, 1855, Margaretta Edwards, Colum- biana county, Ohio, present residence, Glasco, Kansas, business farming (Cynthia, their only child, b. April 2, 1857, attended Pleasant Hill College, 1872, Warsaw, Ind., grad. August 19, 1875, National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, attended War- saw Conservatory of Music, 1875-76, at Warsaw, Ind. (m. Jan. 14, 1877, to Liston D. Cary, Esq.), d. April 29, 1887, at Glasco, Kansas); son of Georg'C Messimore, near Pierceton, Ind., b. Nov. 17, 1800, York county, Pa., d. Nov. 4, 1874, Pierceton, Ind. (m. April 22, 1823, Margaret Thomas, in Columbiana county, Ohio), farmer; son of John Messimore of Bayard, Columbiana county, Ohio, b. about 1760, York county. Pa., d. about 1830, Columbiana county, Ohio (m. about 1788, Catherine Der Wechter in York county. Pa.); son of John Messi- more of York county, Pa., b. about 1720, in Germany, d. at York, Pa., emigrated about
1727 to America; Messimore of
York county, Pa., b. about 1690 in Ger- many, d. in York county, Pa. Had two sons, John and Yotter, the latter was the youngest and never had any children.
MONTGOMERY, JAMES MORTI- MER, b. at New York city, Feb. 16, 1855, and RICHARD MALCOLM MONTGOMERY, born at Bergen, N. J., Dec. 19, 1853; sons of JOHN ROBB MONTGOMERY of New York city, b. at New York city, April 6, 1824 (m. Oct. 10, 1852, Jane Malcolm Ball); sons of JANE MALCOLM BALL of New York, b. at New York, Feb. 24, 1830 (m. Oct. 10, 1852,
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John Robb Montgomery of New York); dau. of SARAH AYSCOUGH MAL- COLM of Brooklyn, N. Y., b. at Brook- lyn, N. Y., June 17, 1802 (m. Thomas P. Ball of New York); dau. of CoL Richard Montgomery Malcolm of New York city, b. at Elizabethtown, N. J., 1776, d. at Baracoa, Cuba, 1823 (m. 1798, Ann Henry at Princeton, N. J.), grad. Princeton Coll., 1798, enlisted in Thirteenth N. Y. Infty., rank first lieut., 1811, was wounded in charge at Queenstown Heights, and event- ually rose to the rank of lieut. -col. Thir- teenth Infty.; son of Col. Wm. Malcolm of New York, b. at Aberdeen, Scotland, 1750, d. at New York city, Sept., 1792 (m. 1770, Sarah, dau. of Surgeon Richard Ays- cough, R. N.), was a Son of Liberty at breaking out of Revolution, raised the Sec- ond (Malcom's) Regt. at his own expense and served until 1779, when the Second Regt. was consolidated with " Spencers," he then served as ass't adj.-gen'l of the northern dep't under Gen. Gates, at close of the war he commanded the militia of New York and Richmond counties with rank of brig. -gen. and was in command of the militia at reception of Pres. Washing- ton, April 30, 1789, he served one term, 1785, as alderman of New York city, several terms in New York Legislature, was vice- president of St. Andrew's Society, held high rank in Masons of this State, was grand warden, was one of the incorporators of the Chamber of Commerce, 1784, and was buried with military and Masonic hon- ors from the old brick church there. His second son, Samuel Bayard Malcolm, mar- ried Elizabeth, dau. of Gen. Philip Schuyler.
MORGAN, APPLETON, A. M., LL. B., prest. of the New York Shakespeare Society, and of the New York and Palisade Railroad Company, b. at Portland, Me., Oct. 2, 1850, author of Macaronic Poetry, 1871, a Treatise on the Law of Literature, 2 vols., 1874, Notes to Best's Treatise on the Law of Evidence, 2 vols., 1873, Notes to Addison on Contracts, 3 vols., 1875, The Shakespearean Myth, 1881, Venus and Adonis, a study in Warwickshire Dialect, 1885, Digesta Shakespeareana, 1886, Shake-
speare in Fact and in Criticism, 1887, etc.; son of Peyton Randolph of Brimfield, Mass., b. at Brimfield, Mass., Dec. 16, 1803, d. at Racine, Wis., Jan. 12, 1871 (m. Nov. 9, 1843, Joanna Dodge, dau. of Gen. James Appleton of Portland, Me.), Gen. Apple- ton commanded as colonel of volunteers at Fort Sevvell, Marblehead, Mass., during the war of 1812, and defended that fort against a detachment of the British Atlantic fleet; son of Major Abner, A. B. of Brim- field, Mass., b. at Brimfield, Mass., Jan. 9, 1746, d. at Lima, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1837 (m. March 31, 1796, Persis Morgan), grad. Har- vard College, 1773, member of general court of Massachusetts which met at Watertown July 19, 1775, to Jan. 21, 1776, became major of first regiment of Continental troops raised in Massachusetts, this regiment (Col. Por- ter) marched with Arnold to Quebec and returned with him on his disastrous retreat, at Crown Point, July 8, 1776, he drew up address of field officers to Gen. John Sul- livan on his withdrawing from command of army of Canada, served until Aug. 29, 1778, when he was appointed brigade major for Hampton county, Mass., and detailed there to supervise enlistments, in 1781 he was commissioned by Gov. John Hancock a justice of the Quorum for that county, in 1782 was chairman of Committee of Public Safety, in 1798 was assessor for Hampton district to collect direct U. S. tax levied on the States by act of Congress, 1798, was a leading lawyer in large practice, selectman of Brimfield for twenty-two years, and member of the State Legislature for eighteen years; son of Jonathan of Brimfield, Mass., b. at Brimfield, Mass., Feb. 6, 1708, d. at Brimfield, Mass., Sept. 11, 1796 (m. Feb. 26, 1745, Ruth Miller); son of Deacon Dayid of Brimfield, Mass., b. at Spring- field, Mass., Feb. 18, 1679, d. at Spring- field, Mass., Sept. ti, 1760 (m. 1703, Deb- orah Colton); son of Joseph of Springfield and Brimfield, Mass., b. at Springfield, Mass., March, 1640, d. at Brimfield, Mass., May, 1719 (m. March, 1677, Tryphenia Smith); son of CAPT. MILES MORGAN (the emigrant and founder of the family in America) of Bristol, Eng., and Springfield, Mass., b. at Llandaflf, Wales, April, 1616, d.
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at Springfield, Mass., May, 1686. He was the youngest son of William Morgan, who removed from LlandafF in Wales to Bristol, Eng., and became a merchant there (date uncertain, but prior to 1635). A vessel hav- ing been chartered to carry colonists from Bristol to America, Miles, being about nineteen, in a spirit of adventure deter- mined to " try his luck " in the new world, and embarked. On shipboard he became interested in a young girl named Prudence Gilbert. On reaching New England early in 1636, Miss Gilbert went with friends to Beverley, Mass., while Miles joined a party headed by Col. Pyncheon, which started from Roxbury, Mass., and went into the wilderness, founding what is now the city of Springfield, Mass. He became prominent in the colony and was chosen captain of its militia. He found means to send a proposal of marriage to Miss Prudence Gilbert, and, on its being accepted, went on foot for her with an Indian guide. He brought her back on foot the whole distance with such relief as could be obtained from one horse, loaded with Miss Gilbert's household goods, the Indian going ahead, Capt. Morgan with loaded blunderbuss pointed at the Indian next, and then Miss Gilbert leading the horse. Capt. Morgan built a blockhouse and stockade, in which, at the sack of Springfield by the Indians, the white inhab- itants took refuge and a messenger was dis- patched to Boston for aid. Captain Samuel Appleton, at the head of twenty-four men, marched to the aid of Captain Morgan and raised the siege. It is interesting to note that Miss Joanna Appleton who, in 1843, married Peyton R. Morgan, the fourth great-grandson of Capt. Miles, was a lineal descendant of this Capt. Appleton. See Hyde's Hist, of Brimfield.
MORRISON, LEONARD ALLISON of Windham, N. H., author, historian, member of N. H. house, 1885-6, senator, 1887-8, educated at Tilton, N. H., Semi- nary, degree of A. M. from Dartmouth Coll., 1884, published in 1880 his History of the Morison or Morrison Family, in 1883 his History of Windham, N. H., traveled
in Europe, 1884, published in 1887 his Rambles in Europe with Historical Facts relating to Scotch-American Families, b. at Windham, N. H., Feb. 21, 1843, single; son of Jeremiah of Windham, N. H., b. there April 20, 1795, died there Nov. 24, 1862 (m. Jan. 27, 1836, Eleanor Reed, dau. of Joab Kimball, b. at Peacham, Vt., Jan. 8, 1808, d. at Windham, N. H., Aug. 8, 1866), was active in church, member of House of Rep. of N. H., 1825-26, '41, '52, constitutional con., 1850; fifth son of Dea. Samuel of Windham, N. H., b. there Sep. 28, 1748, d. there Jan. 2, 1816 (m. ist, May 20, 1779, Sarah Park of Windham, b. Sept. 4, 1757, d. Dec. 27, 1789, m. 2nd, Aug. 31, 1792, Mrs. Margaret (Dinsmoor) Armor, b. at Windham, Oct. 14, 1759, d. Sept. 18, 1837), deacon, signer of association test, soldier of the Revolution; second son of Lieut. Samuel of Windham, N. H., b. 1704 at Aghadowey, county Londonderry, Ireland, d. Feb. II, 1776, at Windham, N. H. (m. Martha, dau. of Samuel Allison, b. at Lon- donderry, N. H., March 31, 1720, d. at Windham, Dec. 3, 1761), emigrated to America at fifteen years, was locally promi- nent in church and municipal affairs, known as "gentleman" on records, was deacon, waslieut. in French and Indian war; eldest son of Charter James of Londonderry, N. H., b. about 1675 in Scotland or Ireland, d. 1756 at Londonderry, N. H. (m. ist, Mary Wallace, in Ireland, 2nd, Janet Steele), was in defense of Londonderry, Ireland, 1688-89, emigrated to Londonderry, N. H., 1719, was one of those to whom charter of town was given; eldest son of John Morrison of Scotland, b. 1628 in county Aberdeen, Scotland, d. Feb. 16, 1736, at Londonderry, N. H., aged 108 years (m. ist, , 2nd, Janet Steele), re- moved to Aghadowey, county Londonderry, Ireland, previous to 1688, was in the cele- brated defense of city of Londonderry, Ire- land, with family in 1688-89, being, with others, driven beneath the walls of the city by orders of Gen. Conrad de Rosen, came to Londonderry, N. H., about 1720. The early home of the Morisons was in the island of Lewis, the chief of the clan lived at Habost, district of Ness. The chiefs
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were hereditary judges for several centu- ries, the last judge dying about 1600.
MUNSELL, CLAUDE G. of Albany, N. Y.; son of FRANK MUNSELL of Albany (m. Mary S. Houghtaling), compiler of the Munsell Genealogy, member of the Penn. Hist. Soc. ; son of Joel of Albany, b. at Northfield, Mass., April 14, 1808, d. at Albany, Jan. 15, 1880 (m. ist, June 17, 1834, Jane C. Bigelow, d. June 17, 1854, 2nd, Sept, II, 1856, Mary A. Reid), a pioneer historical printer, author of the Annals of Albany and of other historical and typo- graphical works, member of many historical societies, a tablet to his memory was erected by the city of Albany, 1886; son of Joel of Northfield, Mass., b. Jan. 14, 1783, at Windsor, Conn., d. April 3, 1865, at Al- bany, N. Y. (m. May 5, 1807, Cynthia Paine), a pioneer plow manufacturer; son of Hezekiah of East Windsor, Conn., b. there Jan. 17, 1753, d. there April 14, 1844 (m. Jan. 24, 1777, Irene Bissell), served in the Revolution from April, 1775, to Nov. 1780, was tall and erect and used frequently after the age of seventy-five to compete with young men in the field; son of Elislia of East Windsor, Conn., b. there Sept. 15, 1723, d. there Nov. 22, 1803 (m. Dec. 27, 1750, Kezia Taylor); son of Jacob of Wind- sor, Conn., b. 1690(7) at New London, Conn., d. at Windsor after 1741 (m. ist, 1713, Sarah Calkins, who d. I7i6(?), 2nd, Feb. 15, 1718, Phebe Loomis), was ferry- man at Windsor, 1731, and innkeeper; son of Thomas of New London, 1681, b. about 1660, d. at New London, 1712 (m. Lydia ).
NICHOLLS, GEORGE HUNTING- TON, Hoosac Falls, N. Y., b. at Bridge- port, Conn., grad. Trinity Coll., Hartford, Conn., 1839, ordained deacon, 1841, priest, 1842, rector of St. John's Church, Salisbury, Conn., 1845, Grace Church, Cherry Valley, N. Y., 1854, St. Mark's Church. Hoosac Falls, N. Y., 1865, rector-emeritus, 1882, S. T. D. Hobart Coll., Geneva, N. Y., 1886 (m. June 8, 1842, Julia Louisa, dau. of Walter Phelps of Hartford, Conn., a direct desc. of Judge William Phelps, b. in England, came to Windsor, Conn,, with
Rev. John Warham in 1635, and dau. of Julia Steel Beach, a direct desc. of Secretary John Steel, a pioneer of Hartford); only son of Charles TheophilllS, b. at Strat- ford, July 21, 1771, d.at Bridgeport, Oct. 19, 1849, senior warden St. John's Church, pay- master Fourth Reg. Conn. Cavalry under Gen. Joseph Walker, July, 1809 (m. ist, Sarah Lewis, dau. of Hon. Jabez Hunting- ton Tomlinson of Stratford, a desc. of Christopher Huntington, and an officer in Continental arm)', private guard of Major John Andre, Oct., 1780, representative, magistrate, and sister of Gov. Gideon Tom- linson of Connecticut, 1827-30, 2nd, Mrs. Harriet Heller Morris, dau. of Rev. James Heller, a chaplain of British army during its occupation of New York); son of Philip of Stratford, Conn., b. Jan. 2, 1726, d. May 15, 1807, captain, chairman of committee to relieve suffering poor under Boston Poor Bill, 1794, member of committee to intercede with Gen. Tryon, 1774, vestry- man Christ Ch., Stratford, 1769-85, first lay delegate from Connecticut to the gen. conv. of Prot. Epis. Ch., 1792, father-in- law of Rev. Philo Shelton, the first clergy- man ever episcopally ordained in the U. S. (m. ist, Mehetable, dau. of William Peet, d. Sept. 23, 1756, 2nd, Mary, dau. of Joseph Prince and niece of Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of Old South Ch., Boston, 1718-58, "the most assiduous annalist of New Eng- land history since the first generation," and great granddaughter of Thomas Hinck- ley, governor of Massachusetts, 1680-92); son of TheophilllS of Stratford, Conn., b. March 31, 1703, d. April 7, 1774, magis- trate, deputy to forty-one sessions of the Gen, Court 1736-72, vestryman of Christ Church, Stratford, 1746-69, built the first store and opened first trade on the harbor of Bridgeport, 1730 (m, Jan. 2, 1723, Sarah, dau. of Lieut. Ebenezer, and granddau. of Capt. William Curtis, an officer in King Philip's war, member of the council of war and captain of " such forces as shall be sent from Fairfield county against the Dutch at New York," 1672-75, and deputy for many years to the General Court of the Colony); son of Richard of Stratford, b. Nov. 26, 1678, d. Sept. 29, 1756, committeman, chair-
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man of com. securing Pembroke Green or Park (m. June 3, 1702, Comfort, dau. of Theophilus and granddau. of Hon. Samuel Sherman, deputy to Gen. Court of New Haven and Connecticut, assistant or sen- ator, 1662-67, member of the council of war, 1665, ancestor of Gen. William T. Sherman, U. S. A.); son of Isaac, Jr., b. at Stratford, March 12, 1654, d. 1690 (m.
Mary ); son of Isaac, b. in England,
1625, came with his father to Stratford, Conn., 1639, d. there 1695 (m. 1646, Mar- garet ), deputy to Gen. Court, 1662-
64, father-in-law of Rev. Israel Chauncey, pastor of church at Stratford, 1665-1703, member of council of war of Connecticut and army surgeon during King Philip's war, 1675, one of the founders of Yale Coll. and elected its first president, Nov. 11, 1701, father of Rev. Chas. Chauncey, mem- ber of the council of Saybrook 1708, one of the founders of the Fairfield Association; son of Francis, b. in England, I595(?), d. at Stratford, 1650, came to America; i635(?) with three sons and one daughter, Mrs. Richard Mills, was one of the original pro- prietors who, with Rev. Adam Blakeman and sixteen other families, settled at Strat- ford, Conn., on 76,000 acres, 1639, and in Oct, 1639, was appointed by the Gen. Court acting captain of the Train Band, there are some evidences that he belonged to the famous regiment of Horse Guards of London (m. 2nd, Anne, dau. of "Saintly Deacon Barnabas Wynes," b. in Wales and came with Rev. John Young as one of the original proprietors of Southold, L. I., in 1640). " The origin of the ancient family of Nicolls has been by antiquarians vari- ously and largely treated upon. It is stated that at the time of Edward the Confessor one Nicholas de Albini alias Nigell or NichoU came over from Normandy and was the common ancestor." — Burke.
NIMS, HENRY BARNARD of Troy, N. Y., b. at Ware, Mass., Sept. 9, 1828 (m. May 17, 1853, Susan Augusta Miles), publisher, bookseller; only son of Seth of Amherst, Mass., b. at Conway, Mass., Sept. 11, 1798, d. at Amherst, Sept. 25, 1877 (m. Nov. 26, 1823, Emila Dickin-
son), was an active and pronounced demo- crat and held the offices ot school commis- sioner, constable, selectman, and was post- master during the administrations of Polk, Pierce and Buchanan; son of Israel of Conway, Mass., b. Feb. 15, i75i,d. Sept. 20, 1828 (m. 1st, Dec. 12, 1773, Ruth Childs, 2nd, May 6, 1788, Bethiah Bangs and had fifteen children); son of Jeremiah of Deer- field, Mass., b. 1721, d. July 12, 1797, at Conway, Mass. (m. Mary Nims); son of John of Deerfield, Mass., b. 1679 at North- ampton, Mass. (m. 1707, Elizabeth Hull), his homestead was on lot one, west side of the street in Deerfield, Mass.; son of God- frey of Northampton, d. about 1705 (m. ist, Mary Williams, 2nd, Mehitable Hull, who with three of her children and two children of the first wife were- slain Feb. 29, 1704, by the Indians while on their way as captives to Canada after the destruction of Deerfield).
OLIVER, FITCH EDWARD, M. D., of Boston, Mass., b. Nov. 25, 1819 (m. July 17, 1866, Susan Lawrence, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Charles Mason, D. D,, of Boston, a son of the Hon. Jeremiah Mason, children, Charles Edward, Andrew, Mary Mason, Edward Pullen, Everard Lawrence and Susan Lawrence), grad. Dartmouth Coll., 1839, M. D at Harvard Univ., 1843, wais many years one of the visiting physi- cians of the Boston City Hospital, is a member of the Mass. Hist. Soc. ; son of Daniel, M. D., LL. D., of Cambridge, Mass., b. Sept. 9, 1787, at Marblehead, d. June I, 1842, at Cambridge (m. Dec. i, 1817, Mary Robinson, only dau. of Edward Pullen of Salem), distinguished as a class- ical and general scholar, lecturer, teacher and physician, and held professorships in Dartmouth, Bowdoin and other colleges, was author of The First Lines of Physiol- ogy; son of Rev. Thomas Fitch of Garri- son Forest, Md., near Baltimore, Md., b. May 14, 1757, at Salem, Mass., d. Jan. 25, 1797, at Garrison Forest (m. Sarah, dau. of William Pynchon of Salem), was the fifth deacon ordained by Bishop Seabury, and was rector of St. John's Church, Provi- dence, St. Michael's, Marblehead, and St.
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Thomas', Garrison Forest; son of Andrew, Jr., of Salem, Mass., b. Nov. 13, 1731, at Boston, d. Dec. 6, 1799, at Salem (m. Mary, eldest dau. of Benjamin Lynde), was judge of Court of Common Pleas of Essex, but was especially interested in science and was one of the founders of the Am. Acad, of Arts and Sciences and member of the Am. Philos. Soc; son of Andrew of Bos- ton, b. there March 28, 1706, d. there March 3, 1774 (m. Mary, dau. of Hon. Thomas Fitch of Boston), was sec. of Prov. of Mass. Bay for many }'ears, lieut.-gov. in 1772, he lived at a stormy political period, but was never disloyal to the government under which he served; son of Daniel of Boston, b. there Feb. 28, 1664, d. there July 23, 1732 (m. April, 1696, Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. Andrew Belcher and sister of Gov. Belcher), was for many years connected with the charitable department of the city government, and left a bequest for the maintenance by the city of a spinning school, was a man of wealth and benevo- lence; son of Peter of Boston, b. 1618 in England, d. 1670 at Boston (m. Sarah, dau. of John Newdigate), served with honor in the wars with the Indians and was at one time commander of the Ancient and Honor- able Artillery Company, his tomb is in the Granary Burial Ground; son of Thomas of Boston, who came from England in the ship William and Francis in 1632, d. June I, 1658, at Boston, nearly ninety years of
age (m. Anne ), was educated a
physician, was one of the first who prac- ticed his profession in the Mass Colony, and was one of the elders of the First Church.
OVERTON, GILBERT EDMOND, U. S. A. (m. Feb. 20, 1873, at Detroit, Jane Dyson Watkins), Sec. Lieut. Fourth N. Y. Vol. Cavalry, Sept. 26, 1861, First Lieut, and Adjt. Twelfth N. Y. Vol. Cavalry, Oct. 25, 1862, Sec. Lieut. Sixth U. S. (Reg.) Cavalry, Oct. 2, 1867, promoted to First Lieut. May 22, 1872, to Captain Dec. 30, 1881, in active service as Captain 1888, and ALBERT RU- DOLPH OVERTON (m. Therese de An- gelis at New York city); sons of Gilbert Davis of New York, b. July 12, 1812, at
Southold, N. Y., d. July 30, 1849, at New York (m. Jan. 17, 1838, at New York to Julia Frances Westcott); son of Maltiah of Southold, N. Y., b. July 31, 1776, at New London, Conn., d. Nov. i, 1839 (m. Dec. 30, 1799, Lucretia Davis); son of Nathaniel of Southold, N. Y., b. 1734, d. Feb. 15, 1817 (m. 1768, Keziah Coleman); son of Nathaniel of Southold, b. there 1708, d, there Aug. or Oct. 29, 1799 (f"- 1st, May 23, 1732, Alathea Way, 2nd, Aug. 25 or 29, 1754, Mary Terry); son of Isaac of South- old, b. there 1683, d. there Nov. 4 or 7, 1723 (m. Abigail Moore); son of Isaac of South- old, b. there 1658, d. there 1688 (m. Sarah
); son of (m. Hannah Elton,
sister of John Elton). The records of Southold show that John Elton left his es- tate by will to Isaac Overton, "son of his sister Hannah;" will proved at Southold and was dated 1675.
PHILLIPS, ALBERT MERRITT of Auburn, Mass., b. at Charlton, Mass. (m. Mary Charlotte, dau. of Stephen Sibley, a desc. of John Sibley of Salem, 1629); son of AUSTIN TOWNE PHILLIPS of Charl- ton and Auburn, Mass., b. Aug. 26, 1815, at Charlton (m. Jan. i, 1843, Abigail, dau. of Hiram Willis); youngest son of Daniel of Charlton, Mass., b. March i, 1776, at Auburn (then Oxford), d. March 27, 1848, at Charlton (m. ist, 1798, Hannah, dau. of Samuel Small, 2nd, Aug. 28, 1800, Jemima, dau. of Jonathan Dennis, 3rd, Dec. 27,1807, Abigail, dau. of Asa Dresser, 4th, Dec. 19, 1816, Lucy, dau. of Gershom Harwood); youngest son of Israel of Oxford, Mass., b. Aug. 17, 1737. d. Feb. 28, 1800 (m. Sept. 18, 1760, Huldah, dau. of Dea. Jonathan Towne), was one of the thirty-four who were sent from Oxford, Aug. 18, 1758, for the relief of Fort William Henry; third son of Joseph of Oxford, Mass., b. Dec. 4, 1702, at Watertown, Mass., d. April 23, 1771, at Oxford (m. ist, Ruth Towne, 2nd, Bathsheba Towne); seventh son of The- ophilus of Watertown, Mass., b. May 28, 1636, d. prior to Dec. 3, 1730 (m. ist, Berthia Kettell or Kendal, 2nd, Nov. 21, 1677, Mary Bennet); fourth son of George, first minis- ter of Watertown, Mass., b. about 1593 at
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Rainham, St- Martins, county of Norfolk, England, d. July i, 1644, at Watertown, Mass. (m. ist, dau. of Richard Sargent, 2nd, Elizabeth, probably widow of Capt. Robert Welden), grad. at Gonville and Cains College, Cambridge, Eng., in 1613, M. A., 1617, nonconformist minister, dis- tinguished for his knowledge of the scrip- tures, settled in Suffolk county, but, on account of the religious persecution in England, left for America April 12, 1630, in the ship Arbella, with Gov. Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall, having with him his wife and two children, and arrived at Salem June 12, became pastor of the Watertown church in July, and so contin- ued "greatly respected and beloved " until his death, he was first freeman, first advo- cate of the Congregational order and dis- cipline, promulgated liberal views upon civil government in advance of his con- temporaries, which were for a time regarded as novel, suspicious and extreme, but as generally accepted afterward, became, to a large extent, interwoven in the fabric of our free institutions; son of Christopher of Rainham, St. Martins, Eng.
READ, HARMON PUMPELLY of Albany, N. Y., b. i860, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, member of the Geographical Society of France, of the His- torical Society of New York, etc., president of the Y. M. A. of Albany, 1886, major and inspector of rifle practice. Fifth Brig,, N. G. , S. N. Y., first vice-prest. of the Uncondi- tional Club, 1888; son of JOHN MERE- DITH READ of Albany, b. 1837 (m. Del- phine Marie, dau. of Harmon Pumpelly), LL. B., M. A., F. S. A., M. R. I. A., etc., educated at a military school and at Brown Univ., commanded National Cadets of Prov., R. I., aide-de-camp with rank of colonel to the gov. of R. I., 1855, organized the wide-awake movement which swept the State of N. Y. for Lincoln in i860, accepted in Nov. of that year the office of adj. -gen. of the State of N. Y. rank of brig.-gen., chairman of the gov. com. which welcomed Pres. Lincoln at Buffalo, chairman of the com. of three to draft a bill appropriating three millions for the purchase of arms and 6
equipments, 1861, received the official thanks of the war dept. for his energy, abil- ity and zeal in the organization and equip- ment of troops during the war, appointed by Gen. Grant consul-gen. of the U. S. for France and Algeria, likewise acted as con- sul-gen. of Germany during Franco-German war, received the repeated thanks of the German and French governments, in 1872 chairman of a commission to examine into the expediency of extending the study of the English language in the French army, appointed, Nov., 1873, minister resident in Greece, received the repeated thanks of government while holding that position, resigned Sept. 23, 1879, on this occasion the sec. of state addressed to him a letter expressing the extreme regret of the U. S. government at his retirement, in which he says; " The manner in which you have con- ducted the duties of minister of this gov- ernment to Greece has been such as to merit hearty approval," etc., the moment he was freed from official ties he set to work with ardor to promote the interests of the Greeks who were then pleading their cause before Europe, in 1881 King George in recognition of his eminent services to Greece since his resignation of the post of U. S. minister, created him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (the highest dignity in the gift of the Greek government), he was pres. of the Am. Social Science Con- gress at Albany, 1868, and vice-pres. of the British Social Science Congress at Ply- mouth in 1872, author of many public ad- dresses, learned papers, and of " Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson," also of " Relation of the Soil to Plants and Ani- mals," etc.; son of John Meredith of Phila., b. 1797, d. 1874 (m. Priscilla Mar- shall, desc. from Gov. Bradford of the May- flower), grad. at Univ. of Penna., LL. D., called to the bar, 1823, member of Penn. leg., 1823, att'y-gen. of the State, judge of Supreme Court, chief justice, author; son of John of Phila., b. 1769, d. 1854 (m. Martha, dau. of Brig.-gen Samuel Meredith, mem. Continental Congress, first treasurer of the U. S.), grad. Princeton Coll., 1787, mem. State leg., 1815-16, State senator, city solicitor; son of George of Delaware,
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b. 1734, d. 1798 (m. Gertrude, dau. of Rev. Geo. Ross, and sister to George Ross, one of the signers of the declaration of Ameri- can independence, and of John Ross, Royal attorney-general), called to the bar, 1754, attorney-gen. of county, 1763-74, member of leg. of Delaware, president of the Dela- ware State, mem. of constitutional congress,
1774-77, ONE OF THE SIX SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE WHO WERE ALSO FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITU- TION OF THE United States, judge of the Court of Appeals, 1779, chief justice of Del- aware, U. S. senator, 1789-93, his brother, Col. James Read, crossed the Delaware river with Gen. Washington on Christmas night, 1776, and afterward distinguished himself in various battles, his third brother, Capt. Thomas Read, stood eighth on the Conti- nental navy list in 1776 and commanded the frigate Washington and also the guns which raked the Assanpink at the battle of Trenton; son of Colonel John, one of the original proprietors of Charlestown,and one of commissioners appointed by the Colo- nial Legislature of Maryland to layout and govern that city, b. in Dublin, 1688, camfe to America and purchased lands in Cecil county, Md., d. June 15, 1756 (m. Mary Howell, an aunt of Gov. Howell of N. J.); son of Henry, b. in England; son of Charles; son of Richard of Dunstew, who was the brother of Sir Thomas Read, knight, of Barton Court, Brockett Hall, Dunstew and Ipsden; son of Sir Thomas (m. Mary, dau. of George Stonehouse, Esq., clerk of the Green Cloth), lord of the man- ors of Beedon, Barton and Dunstew, high sheriff for the county of Berks, 1581; son of Thomas of Barton Court, 1575 (m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Hoo of the Hoo county, Hertford); son of William, lord of the manors of Beedon and Stanmore, obtained Barton Court, 1536 (m. Dorothy, dau. of John Beaumont of Cole Orton); son of Edward, high sheriff for Berkshire in the seventeenth year of Henry VI, 1439, and again in 1451, lord of the manor of Beedon, and is named in Fuller's British Worthies. The arms of this historic family are: Gu., a saltier, between four garbs, or. Crest, on the stump of a tree, vert, a falcon, rising,
ppr., belled and jessed, or. Motto, Cedant Arma Togae.
ROCHESTER, THOMAS FOR XI TESCUE of Rochester, N. Y., b. Oct. 8, 1823, grad. Geneva Coll., 1845, M. D., Univ. of Penn., 1848 (m. May 6, 1882, Margaret Munro, dau. of Rt. Rev. W. H. De Lancey, first bishop of western New York). LL. D., Hobart Coll., 1885, dean Med. Dept. Univ. of Buffalo, pres. N. Y. State Med. Soc, 1875-76, d. May 24, 1887; eldest son of Thonias H., b. at Hagers- town, Md., Sept. 23, 1797, mayor of the city of Rochester, N. Y., 1839, died Oct. 6, 1874; third son of Col. Nathaniel, founder of the city of Rochester, N. Y., b. Feb. 21, 1752, in Westmoreland Co., Va., col. of North Carolina troops in 1777, mem. of N. Carolina leg., 1776, member of Maryland leg., about 1790, presidential elector (favor of Jas. Madison) for Maryland, 1808, and for New York in 1816, and mem. N. Y. leg., 1821-22; third son of John of West- moreland Co., Va.,b. about 1708, d. Nov., 1754; eldest son of William of Westmore- land Co., Va., b. about 1680, d. Oct., 1750; son of Nicholas, b. in England about 1640, d. in Virginia after 1719.
ROCHESTER, WILLIAM BEATTY, U. S. A., b. Feb. 15, 1826 (m. June 19, 1862, Anna L. Martin of Albany), major and paymaster, U. S. A., from June i, 1861, paymaster-gen., U. S. A., since Feb. 17, 1882; son of Judge William Beatty of Buffalo, N. Y., b. Jan. 29, 1789, at Hagerstown, Md,, d. June 15, 1838 (m. Jan. 31, 1816, Amanda Hopkins), was a circuit judge of New York, 1824-26, "bucktail" candidate for gov. of New York, 1826, presidential elector for James Monroe, 1820, was lost at sea on steamer Pulaski off the coast of South Carolina, June 15, 1838 ; son of Nathaniel of Rochester, N. Y., b. Feb. 21, 1752, d. May 14, 1831 (m. April 20, 1788, at Hagerstown, Md., Sophia Beatty of Frederick, Md.), founder of Rochester, N. Y., in 1810, was colonel, dep'y-com'g- gen. North Carolina forces from May 10, 1776, was presidential elector for James Madison in 1808, again for James Monroe in 1816.
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■pOOF, CLARENCE M. of New York -Ll; city, b. Sept. 7, 1842 (m. Feb. 25, 1868, Katharine H., dau. of Henry I. Hoyt of Norwalk, Conn.), and FRANCIS H. ROOF of Rhinebeck, N. Y., grad. Med. Dept. of Columbia Coll., N. Y., 1862, act- ing assistant surgeon, U. S. A., 1865-66 in the war of Rebellion, b. Dec. 4, 1840(01. May 24, 1866, Mary M., dau. of James and granddau. of Samuel Stocking of Utica, N. Y.); sons of Philip V. of Cooperstown, N. Y., b. Nov. 23, 1808, at Canajoharie, N. Y., d. Nov. 2, 1882, at Rhinebeck, N. Y. (m. ist, Dec. 22, 1830, Mary E., dau. of Henry Loucks, LL. D., of Palatine Bridge, N. Y., 2nd, 1828, Eliza M., dau. of Harvey W. Babcock of Cooperstown, N. Y.), a sheriff of Otsego county; son of Martin of Cana- joharie, N. Y., grad. Union Coll., 1806, b. April 19, 1783, d. April 3, 1827 (m. ist, Feb. 10, 1805, at Canajoharie, Neeltje, dau. of Philip Van Alstyn, and granddau. of Gosen Van Alstyn and Elizabeth Schuyler, her father Philip was member of N. Y. assembly, 1798, during the Revolution his house, yet standing at Canajoharie, was palisaded and called Fort Rensselaer, she d. Feb. 21, 1810, 2nd, Elizabeth W., dau. of Gerrit A. Lansing and Elizabeth, grand- dau. of Jacobus Wynkoop, a captain in the Fourth N. Y. Continentals in Revolu- tion); son of Johaniiis of Fort Stanwix, N. Y., 1760-77, Canajoharie, 1777-98, b. Dec. 7, 1735, at Baden, Germany, d. Nov. 15, 1798, at Canajoharie, N. Y. (m. Annie M. Leonhardo of Heidelberg, Baden), came to America in 1759, became an Indian trader at Fort Stanwix in 1760, being the first established at that fort, was captain of Tryon county exempt militia, on duty against the tories at Fort Stanwix, at battle of Oriskany and at Canajoharie, was founder of the village of Canajoharie, his eldest son, John, born at Fort Stanwix, 1761, was the first white child born in what is now Oneida county, he was at the battle of Oriskany and with Gen. Herkimer at his death, was col, of militia and mem. N. Y. assembly, 1802; son of Johaiinis Ruelfof Durlach in Baden; son of Joliaii Andreas of Durlach in Baden, a native of Wur- temburg, a desc. of Malbert RuefF, who
removed to Baden after the " thirty years' war."
SANBORN, JOHN BENJAMIN of St. Paul, Minn., lawyer, brevet major- general in war of Rebellion, special Indian commissioner, 1867-68; son of Frederick of Epsom, N. H., b. Oct. 27, 1789, d. May 9, 1881 (m. March 20, 1816, Lucy L, Sargent, who d. June 17, 1863); son of Josiali, b. Oct. 4, 1763 (m. 1788-89 Anna Locke); son of Eliphalet of Epsom, N. H., b. July 19, 1730, d. July 27. 1794 (m. Nov. 19, 1761, Margaret Wallace who d. April 29, 1836); son of Reuben of Epsom, N. H., b. April
10, 1699 (m. Margaret ) ; son of
Josiall (m. ist, Aug. 25, 1681, Hannah Moulton, 2nd, widow Sarah Perkins); son of William of Hampton, b. about 1622, d. at Hampton, Sept. 18, 1692 (m. Mary Moulton), freeman, 1678, selectman and representative; son of JoIin(?) of Hamp- ton, b. about 1600, d. in England (m. dau. of Rev. Stephen Bachilor).
SANDS, JAMES THOMAS, b. at St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 22, 1844; son of Samuel (xilbert, b, in Montgomery Co., Pa., Feb. 28, 1816, d. at San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 21, 1870 (m. at Camden, Mo., April 13, 1843, Ann Maria, dau. of Thos. and Comfort Wright, «<?/ Hancock, Thos. Wright was a cousin of Gov. Silas Wright of New York and Comfort Hancock was a daughter of Isaac Hancock, a cousin of Gov. John Hancock of Boston, Mass.), a California pioneer of 1849, was the first to grow wheat and barley in northern part of the State (Long Bar, Yuba Co.), and first to manufacture tobacco from native plants at Marysville, Yuba Co.; son of James, b. in Montgomery Co., Pa., Oct. 15, 1785, d. there July 24, 1825 (m. ist, Miss Gilbert, 2nd, Miss Herman, by whom he had a daughter), colonel in war of 1812, and with Gen. Jackson at the taking of Fort Bar- rancas, Florida, from the Spanish; son of Samuel, b. in Pennsylvania, June 13, 1736, d. in Montgomery Co., Pa., Feb. 12, 1792 (m. Catherine Bechtel); son of John, b. at Sands' Point, L. I., 1710, d. in Pennsyl- vania, 1775, assisted William Penn in set- tling Pennsylvania; son of James, b. at
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Block Island, R. I., 1672, d. at Long Island, N. Y., 1731 (m. 1697, Mary Cornell); son of James Sands or Sandys (spelled both ways), b. in England, 1622, d. at Block Island, R. I., March 13, 1695 (m. Sarah, dau. of John and Catherine Walker of Portsmouth, R. I.), was a follower of the celebrated Ann Hutchenson, and in 1643 was resident at Portsmouth, R. I., and in 1661 was one of the purchasers of Block Is. ; brother of Henry Sandys or Sandis — Sands, who was bom in England, died at Boston, Mass., 165 1, was, with his wife Sybil, member of the church, Dec. 20, 1638, and was, with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and others, founder of the church at Rowley, Mass., in 1646 removed back to Boston, was a friend of Roger Williams ; son of Henry Sandes,'or Sands, b. Sept. 30, 1572, d. 1626, was in holy orders; was the sixth son of Edwin Sandis, who died arch- bishop of York during Queen Elizabeth's reign, and brother of Sir Edwin Sandys, London treasurer, and Geo. Sandys, resi- dent treasurer of Virginia Co., 1620; son of Edwin Sandis (Sandes, Sandys, Sands), b. at Hawkshead, Lancashire, Eng., 15 19, d. at Southwell near Newark, Nottinghamp- shire, Eng., July 10, 1588 (m. Cicily Wil- ford of Hartridge, Kent, Eng.) was bishop of Worcester, then London, and in 1576 was made archbishop of York, which dig- nity he held until his death. The family can be traced by record to Ulnod, a Saxon who dwelt at a place called Sande in the Isle of Wight, county of Hampshire, Eng., and in the reign of Edward the Confessor, as was the custom of the age and during the Holy Wars, he took the surname of Sande from where he came.
SARG^ENT, WILLIAM MITCHELL of Portland, Me., counsellor-at-law, grad. Harvard Univ., 1869, A. M., 1872, contrib- utor to local genealogical and historical works, editor of York Deeds and Maine Wills, member Maine Hist. Soc, Maine Geneal. Soc, and of the Georges Society, b. Sept. 5, 1848. at El Dorado, Ark. (m. Oct. 27, 1886, Mabel Hurd); son of Wil- liam True of Portland, Me., b. at No. Yar- mouth, Me., July 24, 1807, d. at Portland,
Me., April 19, 1886 (m. Oct. 13, 1847, Han- nah Brown Mitchell, descended in the eighth generation from Experience Mitch- ell of Bridgewater, Mass.); son of Jolin of No. Yarmouth, Me., b. at Scarborough, Me., June 3, 1771, d. at No. Yarmouth, Me., Sept. 7, 1844 (m. Oct. 7, 1795, Eleanor True, descended in the sixth generation from Henry True of Salem, Mass., emi- grated from Iluddersfield, Yorkshire, Eng.); son of Jolin of Scarborough, Me., buried at Scarborough, Me., Jan. 3, 1771 (m. Oct. 30, 1765, Margaret Thompson, granddau. of Paul Thompson of Scarborough and Kittery, Me.), about whom further informa- tion is sought. It is supposed that the above John Sargent is descended from the first William Sargent of Amesbury, Mass., but positive information of the connecting line is wanting, and for it the subject of this sketch offers a generous reward.
SHERMAN, CHARLES POMEROY of Philadelphia, Pa., b. at Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 6, 1847, admitted to Philadelphia bar, 1881; eldest son of BYRON SHER MAN, formerly of New York, N. Y., now of St. Louis, Mo., b. at Homer, N. Y., June 3, 1824 (m. ist, Feb. 24, 1847, Mary Pomeroy, b. April 17, 1827, d. March 23, 1849, dau. of Daniel Pomeroy of Brooklyn, N. Y., a descendant of Eltweed Pomeroy, who came, 1630, in ship John and Mary from Devonshire, Eng., and who was a descendant of Sir Ralph de la Pomeroy, b. at the Manor of Pomeroy, Normandy, about 1025, who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, and fought in the battle of Hastings, and d. at the castle of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, Eng., 2nd, Nov. 30, 1852, Julia Burnham); eldest son of John of Homer, N. Y., b. at Brimfield, Mass., June 16, 1796, d. July 11, 1869 (m. May 28, 1823, Lucy, dau. of Joseph King
and Pomero)'); third son of Tliomas
of Brimfield, Mass., b. Dec. 28, 1766, d. Jan. 14, 1844 (m. July , 1789, Sarah, dau. of Reuben Tovvnsley and Abigail Morgan); son of Tliomas of Brimfield, Mass., b. Sept. 6, 1721, d. (m. ); sev-
enth son of Dr. Jolin of Brimfield, Mass., b. at Sudbury, Mass., about 1675, d.
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(m. ); son of Rev. James of Sud-
bury, Mass., b, about 1645, d. (m.
); son of Rev. John, b. at Dedham, Essex Co., Eng., Dec. 26, 1613, d. at Watertown, Mass., Aug*8, 1685 (m. 2nd, Mary Launce), Puritan, educated at Cam- bridge, Eng., came to Boston, Mass., with his father, 1634, fellow of, and lectured at Harvard Coll., magistrate and minister; eldest son of Edmond, b. at Dedham, Eng., June 23, 1595, d. at New Haven, Conn.,
1641 (m. 1st, Joan , 2nd, Judith
Angier), Puritan, came to Boston, Mass., 1634; second son of Ediiioud, b, at Ded- ham, Eng., , d. at Dedham, 1600 (m. 1st, Ann Pelatte, 2nd, Anne Clear); second son of Henry, b. at Dedham, 1520, d. , buried at Dedham, 1589 (m. Agnes Butler); son of Thomas of Suffolk Co., Eng., b. , d. , buried at Dedham, March 16, 1564.
SIBLEY, HIRAM of Rochester, N. Y., b. Feb. 6, 1807. first pres. Western Union Telegraph Co., pres. Bank of Mon- roe, founder of Sibley Coll. of Mechanic Arts, and Sibley Hall, founder and senior proprietor of one of the largest seed firms in America; son of Benjamin of Adams, Mass., b. April 29, 1768, d. Oct. 2, 1829 (m. Zilpha Davis); son of Timothy of Sutton, Mass., b. Nov. 2, 1727, d. Dec. 6, 1818 (m. Oct. 16, 1753, Anne Waite, 2nd, Mrs. Han- nah Amidon), served in Revolution as col.; son of John, b. Sept. 18, 1687 (m. Zerniah Gould); son of Joseph, b. 1655 (m. Susanna
), a fisherman; son of John, who
came with his brother Richard and their wives from England in 1629, and settled at Salem, Mass., united with the church at Charlestown, 1634, took freeman's oath, 1635, selectman of Salem and went to gen- eral court at Boston, d. 1661.
S LOCUM, ELLIOTT TRUAX of De- troit, Mich., b. at Trenton, Mich., May 15, 1839, attended Rev. Moses Hunter's Episcopal school on Grosse Isle, grad. Union Coll., Schenectady, N. Y., 1862, sec. degree Univ. of Mich. 1869, engaged on two thousand acres in farming and stock- raising 1862-72, senator 1869, one of the first directors of the Chicago and Canada
Southern R. R., one of the founders of the First Nat. Bank at Whitehall, Mich., and is now one of the directors of the Detroit Nat. Bank, also a trustee of the Saratoga Monument Association of N. Y. State, member of the Michigan Club, member of the Detroit Club, a director of the Grosse Point Club, pres. of Belle Isle Park Com- mission (m. July 30, 1872, Charlotte Gross, dau. of Ransom E. Wood of Grand Rapids); son of (xiles Bryan of Slocum's Is., b. July II, 1808, at Saratoga, N. Y., d. Jan. 26, 1884, at Slocum's Island, Wayne county, Mich. (m. in 1S38 Sophia Maria Brigham Truax of Trenton, Mich.), he went to Ohio in 1831 and assisted in surveying the village of Vistula now Toledo, conducted the first store there, went to Newport, Mich., in 1833-4 in t^>e stave business, established the first store and wharf at Trenton 1834, erected mills at Slocum's Grove, Mich., extended his purchases of lands in Michigan and devoted his time to their improvement and to sheep raising, becoming the most extensive wool grower in the State 1840-55, at one time owned three miles of lands along Detroit river including Slocum's Island, cleared over 1,500 acres of timber land, engaged in drawing piles and build- ing wharves 1843-51, built the two bridges over Rouge river, was original owner of lands which are now Whitehall, Slocum's Grove, etc., etc. ; son of Jeremiah of Saratoga, b. 1780, d. Feb. 15, 1832 (m. Eliza- beth Byran), farmer and lumberman; son of (xiles of Saratoga, b. Jan. 5, 1759, d. Nov. 14, 1826 (m. Sarah Ross), one of the few who escaped Indian massacre in Wyoming valley, Pa., 1778, removed to Dutchess co. N. Y., thence to Saratoga in 1786, thence to Claverack about 1806, returned to Sara- toga about 1815, farmer, innkeeper and merchant, served in Sullivan's expedition ; son of Jonathan, b. May i, 1733, d. Dec, 16, 1778 (m. Feb. 23, 1757, Ruth Tripp), was a blacksmith at Warwick, R. I., 1757- 71, removed to Wyoming valley, Pa., about 1774, killed by the Indians; son of Hon. Joseph of E. Greenwich, R. I., b. Jan. 30, 1706 (m. Sept. 27, 1724, Patience Carr), ad- mitted freeman 1732, farmer and dealer in land, deputy to Gen. Assembly 1741-4; son
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of Giles of Newport, R. L, b. there, d. | there before 1724 (m. Nov. 23, 1704, Mary Paine), freeman 1707; son of Samuel of Newport, b. i657(?); son of Giles, b. in Somersetshire, Eng., d. at Portsmouth, R. I., 1682, made numerous purchases and sales of land in Portsmouth; son of An- thony of Taunton, Mass., b. in England, came to America in 1637 and settled at Taunton.
SMITH, JAMES MURDOCK of Buf- falo, N. Y., LL. D. Hobart Coll., judge Sup. Court, Buffalo, 1874, chief justice 1886, author From Buffalo to Vienna, 1882, b. Aug. 23, 1816 (m. ist, 1840, Martha Wash- ington, dau. of E. A. Bradley of Buffalo, 2nd, 1845, Margaret Louisa, dau. of John P. Sherwood of Oneida Castle, N. Y.); son of Harvey Douglas of Gouverneur, N. Y., b. Nov. 9, 1789, at Pawlet, Vt., d. Sept. 28, 1864, at Gouverneur, N. Y., mem- ber of assembly, 1829, supervisor, 1827, '35, '37, special county judge, 1858, surrogate of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., 1859, town clerk, justice of the peace for 37 years, author of the genealogies of the Smith, Douglas and Murdock families (m. ist, Sept. 17, 1812, Harriet, dau. of Rev. James Murdock of Martinsburg, N. Y., 2nd, Jan. 2, 1822, Mary Haven, dau. of Rev. John B. Preston); son of Natlianiel of Suffield, Conn., and of Rupert and Pawlet, Vt., b. May 22, 1729, at Suffield, d. Oct. 19, 1821, at St. Armand, Canada (m. ist, 1750, Sarah McCartee, 2nd, 1779, Sarah, dau. Domineor William Douglas of Shoreham, Vt.,a cadet of the Lochleven Douglases (Earls of Mor ton) of Scotland); son of Nathaniel of Suf- field, Conn., b. March 3, 1702, d. I776,admit- ted to Suffield church Feb. 27, 1725 (m. Dec. 14, 1727, Mercy Smith of Suffield); son of Ebenezer of Hadley, Mass., and Suffield, Conn., b. in 1668, at Northampton, Mass., d. Sept. 15, 1728, at Suffield, Conn. (m. 1693, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Huxley of Suffijeld); son of Samuel of Northampton and Had- ley, b. Jan. 27, 1639, at Wethersfield, Conn., d. Sept. 10, 1703, at Hadley, Mass. (m. 1662, Mary, dau. of James Ensign of Hartford, Conn.); son of Rev. Henry, b. 1557, an ordained clergyman who came from Blaby,
Leicestershire, Eng., to America, and went to Wethersfield, Conn., where he became
the first settled minister, 1633 (m. ist,
, 2nd, Dorothy ); son of Eras- mus, b. at Withcock, Leicestershire, Eng., resided at Sowerby and Husband's Bos- worth (m. ist, a Miss Bydd, 2nd Margery, dau. of William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer of Queen Elizabeth, and the widow of Roger Carr); son of John of Withcock, b. about 1495, d. before 1525; son of William Heriz of Withcock, in the time of Henry VH, who, for some unknown reason, changed his name from Heriz (or Herries) to Smith.
SNELL, MERWIN-MARIEFITZ POR- TER of Washington, D. C, b. Aug. 2, 1863, at Hallock Castle, New Haven, Conn., clerk U. S. fish commission, mem- ber Philosophical Society of Washington, and Anthropological Society of Washing- ton, editor of Carroll Institute Gazette, au- thor of Hints on the Study of the Sacred Books and of other works; son of REV. MOSES PORTER SNELL of Washington, congre- gationalist, alumnus of Amherst Coll. and Hartford Theol. Sem., b. May 3, 1839, at North Brookfield, Mass. (m. Aug. 31, 1862, Mary Cordelia, dau. of Gerard Hallock, editor N. V. Journal of Commerce, brother of Rev. William A., founder and for forty years secretary of the American Tract So- ciety, and father of Charles, formerly editor of N. V. Forest and Stream, and a descend- ant of Peter Hallock, who was one of the original colony that settled at New Haven, Conn., under Rev. John Davenport in 1638, but afterward removed to Southold, L. L), sergeant, enlisted in 36th Regiment, Co. E, in fight at Jackson, Miss., July, '63, Mass. vols, and mustered in Aug. 27, '62, after- ward ist lieut. 39th Reg., Co. I, U. S. col- ored troops, adjutant at time of mine ex- plosion at Petersburgh, Va., and in thickest of fight, acting aid-de-camp to Major-Gen. Crawford, third div. fifth army corps, and in battles of ist and 2d Hatcher's Run, White Oak Roads, Five Forks and at Lee's surrender, brevetted captain for bravery on the field, an aid-de-camp to Gen. Duncan, after being mustered out with his regiment
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in Dec, 1865, he went to Hartford, Conn., and erected the estate of Glensmary where he resided till 1871, and has since lived in Washington, D. C, in the civil service of the government and engaged also in minis terial work and in the service of the Am. Bible Soc; son of Deacon Thomas of North Brookfield, Mass., b. there Aug. 17, 1809 (m. ist, May 16, 1836, Lucretia Colt Porter, dau, of Col. Moses, son of Eleazer, great grandson of Samuel, who settled at Hadley, Mass., 1659, and dau. of Susannah Edwards, dau. of Jonathan, the famous theologian and metaphysician, and his wife Sarah Pierpont, a descendant of Rev. James Pierpont, minister of Center Church, New Haven, 1684-1714, m. 2nd, Aug. 28, 1861, Mary W. Fisher); son of Rev. Tlioiuas of North Brookfield, Mass., b. Nov. 21, 1774, d. May 4, 1862 (m. about 1800 Tirzah Strong, a relative of Dr. Nathan Strong of Hartford, and had Ebenezer Strong Snell, first student of Amherst College, and from 1831 to 1876 prof, of mathematics and natural philosophy there), grad. Dartmouth Coll. 1795, pastor ist Cong. Church North Brookfield 1797- 1862, trustee of Williams Coll. and foremost founder of Amherst Coll.; son of Deacon Ebenezer of North Bridgewater till 1772 then of Cummington, Mass., b. Oct. i, 1738, at North Bridgewater, d. Aug. 2, 1813 (m. 1764, Sarah, dau. of Capt. Abiel Pack- ard); son of Deacon Zechariah of North Bridgewater, b. 1704, d. 1768 (m. 1731, Abigail, dau. of Deacon Joseph H. Hay- ward), was one of the early settlers of North Bridgewater; son of Josiall of West Bridge- water, b. 1674, d. 1753 (m. 1699, Anna, dau. of Zachariah Alden of Duxbury, Mass., son of John Alden by the celebrated marriage in Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Siandish); son of Thomas of West Bridgewater, b. in England, d. probably 1724 (m. about 1670, Martha, dau. of Arthur Harris), settled in West Bridgewater 1665, was largest land- owner in town, and portions of it still bear his name.
STOCKBRIDGE, FRANCIS BROWN of Kalamazoo, Mich., b. April 9, 1826, embarked in business in Chicago 1847, moved to Allegan county, Mich., in 1851,
and became a manufacturer of lumber and general merchant, member of Mich. Leg. 1867, senator in 1869 and 1871 (m. 1863, Betsy Arnold of Gun Plains); son of John of Bath, Me., b. 1800, in Scituate, Mass., d. May 3, 1869, at Bath, Me. (m. ist, Oct. 15, 1805, Theodosia, dau. of Rev. Tristram Oilman of North Yarmouth, Me., she d. Nov. I, 1822, 2nd, Jan. i, 1824, Eliza L, dau. of Hon. John Russell of Boston, who was for many years editor and proprietor of the Boston Commercial Gazette, she was the mother of F. B. S , of Mrs. Cornelia R. Sheldon of Kalamazoo, and of Mrs. Marcia E. Houghteling of Chicago); son of William of Hanover, Mass., b. there Dec. 20, 1752, d. Feb. 20, 1831 (m. Oct. 9, 1774, Ruth, dau. of Jno. Baily), in 1798 he was the largest landholder in Hanover,and a leading citizen; son of David of Hanover, b. 1713, d. Dec. 13, 1788 (m. Jan., 1736, Deborah, dau. of Judge John Cushing), representative 1749-56, 1760-2, justice of the peace under King George for many years, and his records are still in existence, in the possession of his grandson Libbeus of Hanover; son of Joseph of Hanover, afterward of Pembroke, Mass., b. 1673, d. March 11, 1773, aged 100 years; son of Charles of Boston, afterward of Scituate, Mass., d. 1683, built the second water mill in Plymouth in 1673, on thirty acres granted by the King, also corn mill on Herring's creek in 1673; son of John of England, b. 1608, d. Aug. 13, 1657, at Scituate, came from England to America on the Blessing in June, 1635, twenty-seven years old, was a large land-owner, built Stockbridge Man- sion House in 1656, which was a garrison during King Philip's War, and stood till 1840.
STONE, WILLIAM EBEN of Cam- bridge, Mass., grad. Brown Univ. 1866. b. Nov. 27, 1845 (m. June 22, 1871, Kathe- rine Maria, dau. of Rev. Charles Fay, D. D.); youngest son of Ebenezer of Walpole, Mass., b. Oct. 10, 1797, at Sherborn, Mass., d. Aug. 13, 1869, at Walpole (m. Nov. 23, 1831, Elizabeth Holbrook, dau. of Jno. H. Hawes of Roxbury, Mass.), physician, grad. Brown Univ. 1820, A. M. Brown Univ.
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1823, M. D. of Harvard Col. 1824; sixth son of Silas of Sherborn, Mass., b. April 5, 1755, at Natick, Mass., d. July 12, 1820, at Sherborn (m. Jan. 9, 1781, Jenette, dau, of Dea. Jona Twitchell of Sherborn), a soldier in the Revolution and was twice wounded; fourth son of Silas of Natick, Mass., and Dublin, N. H.,b. April 29, 1728, at Framingham, Mass., d. Oct., 1777, at Lansingburg, N. Y. (m. Jan. 25, 1749, Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. Jona. Russell of Sherborn), one of the earliest settlers of Dublin, N. H., died in the Revolutionary army on way to Albany after the battle of Saratoga; fourth son of Ebenezer of Fra- mingham, b. April 16, 1688, at Sudbury, Mass., d. June, 1739, at Framingham (m. May 10, 1721, Prudence, dau. of Joseph Pratt of Framingham); second son of Nathaniel of Sudbury, b. there May 11, 1660, d. Oct., 1732, in Framingham (m. April 25, 1684, Sarah, dau. of Hon. Capt. Jno. Waite of Maiden, Mass ), selectman of Framingham four years; fourth son of John of Sudbury and Cambridge, bapt. at Nayland, Suffolk county, Eng., July 31, 1618, d. at Cambridge, Mass., May 5, 1683 (m. 1639, Anne, dau. of Edward Howe of Watertown, Mass.), was one of the earliest settlers of Sudbury, and on the death of his father returned to Cam- bridge and occupied the homestead, was town clerk of Sudbury 1655, was on com- mittee *' to order and settle the rebuilding of Lancaster" 1679, was deacon and ruling elder, was representative 1682-3 5 eldest son of Gregory of Cambridge, b. in Eng- land 1590, d. at Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 30, 1672 (m, ist, July 30, 1617, at Nayland, Eng., Margaret Garrad, m. 2nd, Widow Lydia Cooper), came from Nayland, Eng., about
1635, and settled at Cambridge, freeman
1636, owner of large tracts of land in Cam- bridge and Watertown, deacon and last survivor of original members of the church, magistrate and representative to the General Court 1638.
STRYKER, WILLIAM SCUDDER of Trenton, N. J., b. there June 6, 1838 (m. Sept. 14, 1870, Helen Boudinot, dau. of Lewis Atterbury of N. Y. city), graduated Coll. of N. J. 1858, B. A. and M. A. there.
entered the service at first call for troops April 16, 1861, major and aid-de-camp to Maj.-Gen. Gillmore in siege of Charleston, at close of war was in charge of Pa)'^ Dept. U. S. A., Parole Camp, Columbus, Ohio, was brevetted lieut.-col. for meritorious services, resigned from army in June, 1866, on staff Gov. of N. J., made adj. -gen. of N. J. April 12, 1867, which office he still holds, was brevetted maj.-gen. for long and meri- torious services Feb. 9, 1874, has compiled officially and published Register of Jerseymen in the Revolutionary War, Record of N. J. Vols, in Civil War, and several works on historical subjects relating to New Jersey, is a member of various historical societies, fellow of the Am. Geog. Soc, member of the Royal Hist Soc. of London, and of the Society of the Cincinnati of N. J.; son of Thomas J. of Trenton, b. June 23, 1800, at Princeton, N. J., d. Sept. 28, 1872, at Trenton (m. ist, Nov. 19, 1829, Hannah, dau. of John Scudder of Scudder's Falls, N. J., m. 2nd, Jan. 17, 1844, Elizabeth S., widow of John Chambers, dau. of John Scudder), was trustee and elder of ist Presb. Ch., Trenton, manager N. J. State Lunatic Asylum, judge Court of Common Pleas, representative to Peace Conv. at Washington in 1861, director of Trenton Banking Co. and cashier thereof thirty years; son of Christoffle H. of Princeton, b. Sept. 28, 1761, d. Oct. 18, 1805 (m. April 9, 1789, Ruth, dau. of Joseph Cowart); son of Abraham of Franklin Township, N. J., b. Aug. 4, 1715, at Flatbush, L. I., d. April 4, 1777 (m. 1st, Nov. 23, 1739, o. s., Ida Ryder, m. 2nd, Katriena Cornell, m. 3rd, Oct. 16, 1760, Katriena Hogeland), was deacon in Dutch Church at Harlingen, N. J.; son of Jan of Flatbush, L. I., b. Aug. 6, 1684, d. Aug. 17, 1770 (m. ist, 1704, Margarita, dau. of Johannes Schenck, m. 2nd, Feb. 17, 1722, Sara, dau. of Michael Hansen Bergen), sachem of the Tammany Society, N. Y.; son of Pieter of Flatbush, b. there Nov. i, 1653, d. June 11, 1741 (m. May 29, 1681, Annetje Barends), one of the patentees of the town of Flatbush, high sheriff of Kings county, L. I., judge of court, captain of foot militia; son of Jan of Midwout, Flatbush, b. 1615, at Ruinen,
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Prov. of Drenth, Holland, d. 1697, at Mid- wout, L. I. (m. 1st, Lambertje Seubering, m. 2nd, April 30, 1679, Swantje Jans De Potter, m. 3rd, March 31, 1687, Tuentje Teunis), chief magistrate of Midwout, schepen of the Dutch towns on Long Island, representative in the great Landtdag at New Amsterdam, April 10, 1664.
SWARTWOUT, SATTERLEE of Stam- ford, Conn., b. May 30, 1840, at N. Y. (m. June 3, 1869, Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of Alfred P. Edgerton, M. E. Civil Service Com.); and ROBERT DUNSCOMBE SWARTWOUT, b. Feb. 17, 1844, at N. Y. (m. Caroline Maria, dau. of Joseph Ketchum of N. Y.); and JOHN HENRY SWART- WOUT, b. Nov. 19, 1849, at Stamford, Conn.; and JOANNA KETCHUM SWARTWOUT, b. Sept. 14. 1856, at Stam- ford (m. William Henry, son of Rolin San- ford of N. Y.), children of Robert of Stamford, b. April 10, 1815, at N. Y. (m. Sarah Stearns, dau. of Samuel Satterlee of New York), merchant in New York; son of Robert of New York, b. 1778, at Pough- keepsie, d. 1848 at New York (m. Marga- ret Dunscomb), merchant in New York, quartermaster-general U. S. A. 1812-15, navy agent; son of Abraham of Pough- keepsie, bapt. there Feb. 13, 1742, d. there Oct. 15, 1799 (m. Mary North), captain N. Y. line 1776; son of Abraham of Pough- keepsie, b. 1703 (m. Tryntje Van Klerk); son of Benjamin of Poughkeepsie, b. 1673 (m. 1700, Rachel Schepmoes); son of Roe- loif of Esopus, N. Y., b. in Holland (m. 1657, Eva Albertse Bradt, widow of An- thony de Hooges), first sheriff of Esopus, under the charter granted by the States General in 1661, member of Gov. Lesler's council 1689, also under commission of Lesler dated Dec. 26, 1689, justice and col- lector for Ulster county Dec. 24, 1689.
TAINTOR, CHARLES WYATT of Manchester; Conn., b. at Shelburne, Mass., Nov. 29, 1850, was a teacher in pub- lic schools of Conn., is a dealer in rare books, farmer, etc.; son of Charles Mi- chael of Manchester, b. at Shelburne, Dec. 4, 1817 (m. Aug. 18, 1846, Mary Lord of Lyme, Conn.), farmer, antiquary, collector
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of relics, author of the Taintor Genealogy, compiler of Extracts from Colchester and Brainford Records; son of Charles of Shelburne, Mass., and Colchester, Conn., b. at Orford, N. H., Apr. 16, 1787, d. at Colchester, June 16, 1864 (m. May 2, 1810, Phebe Hubbard Wells of Shelburne), farmer, teacher in public school in Shel- burne ; son of Michael of Orford, N. H., b. at Westchester, a parish in Colchester, Mar. 14, 1748, d. at Orford, Apr. 14, 1831 (m. Apr. 2, 1767, Lydia Loomis of Bolton, Conn.), engaged in West India trade before Revolution, served as an officer in war as volunteer, deacon, sealer of weights and measures, royal arch mason, bought a farm at Orford and moved his family there sev- eral years before the Revolution; son of Michael of Westchester, a parish in Col- chester, b. Dec. 31, 1719, d. there Nov. 26, 1748 (m. Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Loomis of Colchester), farmer, grand juror and held other offices; son of Michael of Col- chester, b. at Windsor, Conn., Sept. 3, 1680, d. at Colchester, Mar. 16, 1771 (m. Dec. 3, 1712, Eunice Foot), removed to Colchester about 1700, deacon; son of Michael of Windsor and Colchester, b. at Brainford, Conn., Oct. 12, 1652, d. Feb. 19, 1731 (m. ist, Apr. 3, 1679, Mary Loomis of Windsor, m. 2nd, Aug. 1697, Mabel (Olmstead) Butler), was in Windsor in 1679, selectman 1697- 1700, was one of the " ist Principal Plant- ers of Colchester " about 1700 where he was town clerk until his death, was justice of the peace, deputy to Conn. Gen. Court 26 sessions, commissioner for settling bounds between Colchester, Lebanon and Hebron; son of Michael of Brainford, d. between Dec. 22, 1672, and Mar. 20, 1673 (m. Eliza- beth, dau. of Robert Rose), was master of a ketch trading out of Brainford to Virginia in 1653 and had been master of a vessel previous to 1650, was in Brainford in 1650, recorder there in 1667 and several years after deputy to Conn. Gen. Court several sessions, judge of court; son of Charles of Wethersfield and Fairfield, had lands recorded at Wethersfield in 1643 sold them to John Talcott and removed to Fairfield, deputy to Gen. Court from there in 1647-8, had title of " Mr.," was lost at sea with Mr.
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AMERICAN ANCESTRY.
Jeremiah Jagger on a voyage to West Indies in Oct., 1654.
TALCOTT, SEBASTIAN VISSCHER of Albany, N. Y., civil engineer, brig- adier-general, quartermaster-general in war of Rebellion 1862-63, author Genealogical Notes, b. Nov. 24, 1812 (m. Nov. 23, 1843, Olivia Maria Shearman, descended from Thomas Sherman of Yaxley, England, who d. 1564); second son of George of Albany, b. Dec. 6, 1786, d. Apr. 25, 1862 (m. Nov. 17, 1810, Angelica, widow of Samuel Reed and dau. of Isaac H. Bogart), brevet-briga- dier-general for meritorious services par- ticularly in the Mexican war; eldest son of GrCOrg^e of Glastenbury, Conn., b. Sept. 30, 1755» d. June 13, 1813 (m. ist. Mar. 16, 1777, Vienna Bradford, m. 2nd, Feb. 9, 1786, Abigail Goodrich), served in Rev. war; youngest son of Eliziir of Glastenbury, b. Dec. 31, 1709, d. Nov. 24, 1797 (m. Dec. 31, 1730, Ruth, a desc. of Thomas Wright who came from England 1639), colonel in Rev. army; fourth son of Benjamin of Glastenbury, b. Mar. i, 1674, d. Nov. 12, 1727 (m. Jan. 5, 1699, Sarah Hollister, desc. from the Hollisters of Bristol, England), deacon, lieut. in "Trained Band;" second son of Samuel, b. 1634-35, d. Nov. 10, 1691 (m. Nov. 7, 1661, Hannah, dau. of Elizur Holyoak), grad. of Har- vard Coll. 1658, freeman 1662, commis- sioner 1670-84, deputy to General Court, captain of troop of horse, one of the origi- nal settlers of Wethersfield and Glasten- bury; son of John, d. 1660 (m. Dorothy Mott), came from England in the Lion, and arrived at Boston Sept. 16, 1632, freeman 1632, rep. at General Court 1634, selectman 1634, one of the founders of Hartford; son of John of Braintree, Eng., bp. Oct. 4, 1562 (m. Anne, dau. of William