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Their son, Edward Everett Wilson, born about 1855, in Biddeford, Maine. married Annie Elizabeth Hawks, a de- scendant of John Hawks, who was in Windsor, Connecticut, as early as 1640; there his name appears as Hake. In 1659 he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, being one of the first settlers of that town, and was buried there June 30, 1662. His widow, Elizabeth, married Robert Hinsdale, died September 29, 1685. Their fourth son, Eliezer Hawks, born Decem- ber 20, 1655, was one of the first settlers of Deerfield, where he was deacon of the church, very prominent in town affairs, and served continuously in some official
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capacity. He served under Captain Turner in the Indian fight at Peskeomp-
skut and escaped without injury, died
March 27, 1727, in Deerfield. He mar-
ried, April 30, 1689, Judith Smead, born
February 15, 1665, died January 27, 1719,
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Law- rence) Smead. This marriage is the first on the records of Deerfield. Their young- est child, Sergeant John Hawks, the hero of the French and Indian wars, was born December 5, 1707, in Deerfield, Massa- chusetts, was early in the military serv- ice, and was wounded, May 9, 1746, at Fort Massachusetts. In August of that year, he was sergeant in command of the small force of twenty-two men in that fortress which was attacked by a force of seven hundred French and Indians. After a defense of twenty-eight hours, he
was compelled to surrender because his ammunition was exhausted. In the last French war, he was a sergeant and lieu- tenant and had charge of the Colrain forts. In 1758 he commanded a company
under General Abercrombie in the attack on old Fort Ticonderoga. He was a major under General Amherst, in 1759, and lieutenant-colonel in 1760. He was also prominent in civil life in Deerfield, where he filled various town offices, was nine years selectman, and was buried there June 6, 1784. Eliezer Hawks, eldest son of Eliezer and Judith (Smead) Hawks, was born December 26, 1693, in Deerfield, and lived for some years on the Hawks place at Wapping. In 1743 he purchased five hundred acres of land at Charlemont, Massachusetts, where he re- sided until after 1762, when he removed to Deerfield, and died there May 14, 1774. He married, November 24, 1714, Abigail Wells, born 1697, died May 7, 1768, proba- ably a daughter of Ephraim and Abigail (Allis) Wells, of Colchester. Their youngest child, Waitstill Hawks, bap-
tized August 30, 1741, in Deerfield, set- tled in the portion of that town known as Turnip Yard, and died February II, 18II. He married, April 22, 1771, Anna Spof- ford, born about 1750, daughter of Jona- than and Ruth (Sanderson) Spofford, of Deerfield. The eldest son of this mar- riage, Silas Hawks, born April 26, 1774, lived in Charlemont and Conway, but re- moved to Deerfield, where he died De- cember 19, 1831. He married, February 28, 1798, Mary Blodgett, born 1780, daughter of Timothy and Melicent (Perry) Blodgett. Their seventh son, James Austin Hawks, born June 3, 1820, in Deerfield, removed when a young man to Belchertown, Massachusetts, to learn the trade of carriage-trimmer, a business which then flourished in that town. He married, about 1843, Ruth Peeso, of Belchertown. She was descended from an old family with romantic history. Jean (John) Picot was a descendant of an ancient and honorable French family. He was taken from the coast of France when five years of age and brought to Canada by sailors. He made his way into the interior and lived among the Indians, and engaged in campaigns with the French and Indians ; finally settled at Brookfield, Massachusetts. There he married and reared several children. The name ap- pears in the early records of Massachu- setts as Peeso, and this was modified by many of the descendants to Pease, under which name they are still known. Many retained the form Peeso, and a son, John Peeso, who lived in Brookfield, was mar- ried there October 6, 1763, to Sarah Strat- ton, born July 6, 1742, in Watertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Stratton. Their eldest child, John, was born June 20, 1765, and settled in Belchertown, where he took up land in Governor Belcher's grant; built a house at North Belchertown, which stood
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until recent years but is now fallen. He married Sarah Howard, a descendant of brave Indian fighters. Their son, John Peeso, born about 1790, in Belchertown, was the father of Ruth Peeso, who be- came the wife of James Austin Hawks; they were the parents of Annie Elizabeth Hawks, who became the wife of Edward Everett Wilson, of Biddeford, Maine. He lived for some time in Palmer, Massachu- setts, whence he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was for many years engaged in the insurance business. He is living there at the present time (1917).
Dr. James Cornelius Wilson, son of Ed- ward Everett and Annie Elizabeth (Hawks) Wilson, was born May 10, 1881, in Palmer, Massachusetts, and when two years of age removed with his father to Hartford, and the public schools of that city supplied his early education. In 1900 he entered the University of Ver- mont at Burlington, Vermont, where he pursued a medical course and was gradu- ated in 1904. For about a year he prac- ticed his profession at Hinesburg, Ver- mont, and removed thence to Hartford, where he became an interne in the Hart- ford Hospital, continuing two years, thus gaining a most profitable experience in preparation for his subsequently success- ful career. He has continued in practice to the present time in Hartford, for five years was police surgeon, and is at pres- ent, medical examiner for the town of Bloomfield, Connecticut. Dr. Wilson is an assiduous student, keeps abreast of the times, and has been extremely suc- cessful in practice. He has given much time to the care of patients in the New- ington Home for Incurables without com- pensation. He was one of the first to in- troduce the bone-grafting operation in this section, and has attained a high repu- tation as a surgeon and specialist in the
treatment of bone disorders. He is a member of Patriot Lodge, No. 33, Free and Accepted Masons, of Hinesburg, Ver- mont, a member of the Hartford City Club, and Hartford City Medical Society, Hartford County Medical Society, the Hartford Orthopedic Medical Society, and of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He is also a member of the Congrega- tional church, and in politics is a Repub- lican.
Dr. Wilson married, December 15, 1908, Nellie Beatrice Armstrong, daughter of Andrew and Minnie (Willingale) Arm- strong, of St. John, New Brunswick.
ANDERSON, James Reed,
Agriculturist.
Mr. Anderson's father, William Ander- son, was a Scotchman, who settled in the city of New Orleans, where he was a cotton inspector, a man of prominence, and died in 1844. He was a slave holder, and one of his chattels, who was a house servant, came with his widow to Weth- ersfield, where she lived many years and died at the Anderson home. He married, in 1840, Hannah Belden Welles, who with her sister had gone from Wethersfield to New Orleans, where they kept a millinery store. In 1856 she returned to Wethers- field, where she continued to reside until her death on the homestead which had belonged for many generations to her father's family. She was born February 4, 1804, in Wethersfield, a descendant of Governor Thomas Welles, who was one of the most active and valuable citizens in the pioneer colony on the Connecticut river.
Governor Thomas Welles was born in 1598, in Essex county, England, and his property there was confiscated for polit- ical reasons. He came to America as secretary to Lords Say and Seal, located
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about 1636 at Saybrook, and in the fol- lowing year was a magistrate at Hart- ford, where he continued twenty-two years to fill that office. In 1654 and in four other years he was deputy to the General Court; from 1655 to 1658 was Governor of the Connecticut Colony ; held other offices of trust and honor ; died Jan- uary 14, 1660, and was buried in Hartford. He married Elizabeth Hart, who died in 164.0.
John Welles, son of Governor Thomas Welles, born about 1621, removed to Stratford, Connecticut, and was admitted freeman by the General Court, April 20, 1645. In 1656-57, he was deputy to the General Court, was a magistrate in 1658- 59, and died August 7, 1659. He married, in 1647, Elizabeth Bourne, undoubtedly a daughter of John Bourne, who was early in Wethersfield, later at Middletown, Connecticut. She married (second) in March, 1663, John Wilcoxson, of Strat- ford.
Robert Welles, third son of John and Elizabeth Welles, was born in 1651, and was committed by his father to the care of his paternal grandfather, Governor Welles, who made him his heir and reared and educated him in Wethersfield. He was made a freeman in October, 1661; was captain of the train band at the north end of Wethersfield, in September, 1689; was deputy 1690-91-92-93-94, 1697-98-99- 1700-01, in 1705, 1707-08-09-10-II-12-13- 14. He also served as commissioner, jus- tice of the peace, and member of the Council, and died June 22, 1714. His house was one of those fortified for pro- tection against Indian attacks in 1704. He married, June 9, 1675, Elizabeth Good- rich, born 1658, died February 17, 1698, daughter of William and Sarah (Marvin) Goodrich.
Captain Robert (2) Welles, son of Cap- tain Robert (1) Welles, was born about
1684, in Wethersfield, and was among the foremost citizens of that place in public affairs, and in church and school matters. He was appointed lieutenant of Hartford Dragoons in October, 1714, captain in 1726, and died before September 14, 1738, when the inventory of his property was made. This amounted to £4708-15c, in- cluding much silver, a silver hilted sword and fine wardrobe and furniture. He mar- ried, December 12, 1706, Sarah Wolcott, of Wethersfield, daughter of Samuel and Judith (Appelton) Wolcott, last named a daughter of Worshipful Samuel Appel- ton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, of whom there is further mention elsewhere in this work.
Hezekiah Welles, son of Captain Rob- ert (2) and Sarah (Wolcott) Welles, was born December 9, 1725, and inherited from his father lands which the latter had purchased from Judith Wolcott. Heze- kiah Welles was captain of the Wethers- field Company in the Revolution, which served at Boston from January to March, 1776; also commanded a company in New Haven in 1779, and in 1780 a company of the Sixth Connecticut Militia. He died October 1, 1804. On December 17, 1747, he married Mary Boardman, born March 3, 1727, died May 23, 1786, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Belden) Boardman.
Hezekiah (2) Welles, fourth son of Hezekiah (1) Welles, born September 20, 1770, baptized three days later, lived in Wethersfield, and died July 1, 1809. He married there, October 7, 1798, Hannah Welles, born September 1I, 1776, daugh- ter of Major Chester and Hannah (Bel- den) Welles, of Wethersfield. Their third child, Hannah Belden Welles, born December 4, 1804, was married in New Orleans, 1840, to William Anderson, and became the mother of James Reed Ander- son.
James Reed Anderson was born De-
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cember 16, 1842, in the city of New Or- leans, and was left a half orphan at two years of age. In 1856 his mother removed to Connecticut and made her home in Wethersfield, where she died April 8, 1869. Mr. Anderson was educated in the public schools, early engaged in agricul- ture, and has been most of his life located on the farm where he now lives in Weth- ersfield. A part of it was long in the Welles family with which Mr. Anderson's mother was connected. His estate em- braces one hundred and forty acres, one of the largest farms in the section, a por- tion of it having formerly belonged to the Warner family. Mr. Anderson has long been active in the promotion of the inter- ests of Wethersfield, has served as select- man, and is a senior warden of Trinity Episcopal Church of Wethersfield. Polit- ically a Democrat, he has usually sup- ported his party, but did not accept the financial theories of William Jennings Bryan and did not support him for the presidency.
He married, October 5, 1887, Minnie Jane Case, who was born February 14, 1860, in Hartford, daughter of Julius Alonzo and Jennie (Crosby) Case, de- scended from one of the oldest Connecti- cut families, founded by John Case, who was born in England and came in the ship "Dorset" from Gravesend, England, Sep- tember 3, 1635, his age being then nine- teen years. The name is a very ancient one in England and is thought to have been derived from an Anglo-Norman word, meaning "hazard." The more rea- sonable derivation, however, is from the latin word "casa," meaning a house or cottage. The name appears in the Hun- dred Rolls of England in the thirteenth century. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of the following children: I. Gertrude, born September 28, 1888, a graduate of the Hartford High School, a
gifted teacher, now employed at the Northeast School of Hartford and very much in love with her work. 2. William Case, born February 3, 1891, graduated from the Wethersfield High School, and is now associated with Allyn, Hall & Company, of Boston, leading interior decorators ; he married Edna Louise Hart and has a daughter, Barbara Hart Ander- son, born April 27, 1917. 3. James Welles, born June 6, 1893, resides at home in Wethersfield, and is manager of the paternal farm. 4. Frank Edwards, born January 17, 1896, was educated in the Wethersfield High School, and is now associated with the Scottish Union In- surance Company of Hartford. 5. Mal- comb Treat, born February 1, 1903, grad- uated from the South School of Hartford in 1917. The Anderson residence on Broad street is one of the best in the town, surrounded by all the accessories of a substantial New England home.
John Case settled in Hartford, but re- moved soon to Maspeth Kills, now New- town, Long Island, in February, 1640. He sold several pieces of property in Hart- ford and vicinity, but returned to Con- necticut about 1656, and settled at Wind- sor, where he received in 1667 a grant of land in that part of the town now Sims- bury. In 1670 he was deputy to the Gen- eral Court, and again represented Sims- bury in 1674-75 and 1691. During King Philip's War, Mr. Case took refuge with his brothers in Newtown. His will, made in 1700, shows that he owned seventeen parcels of land, a corn mill and saw mill, and his inventory shows that he was a man of wealth for his day. He died Feb- ruary 21, 1704. His wife, Sarah, born 1636, died November 3, 1691, at Sins- bury, was the daughter of William and Agnes Spencer, early settlers of Hart- ford.
Their son, William Case, was born June
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5, 1665, and died March 31, 1700. He married, in 1688, Elizabeth Holcomb, who was born April 4, 1670, in Windsor, daughter of Joshua and Ruth (Sherwood) Holcomb. She was twice married after his death.
Their son, James Case, was born March 12, 1693, lived on the paternal homestead in Terry's Plain, Simsbury, and died Sep- tember 26, 1759. He married, in 1715, Esther Fithin, of Newark, New Jersey, who died September 19, 1769.
Their son, Amasa Case, born October 18, 1731, died August 18, 1824. He lived in Terry's Plain, and served as a soldier of the Revolution from August 24 to Sep- tember 25, 1776, as a part of Lieutenant Job Case's company. He had five wives. He married (first) in 1752, Elizabeth Hos- kins, born about 1732, daughter of Rob- ert and Elizabeth (Buckland) Hoskins, died May 27, 1764.
Their son, Amasa (2) Case, was born October 29, 1753, and lived in Westover's Plain in Simsbury, where he died June 23, 1834. He married Mercy Hillyer, born in 1763, died September 3, 1809.
Their fourth son, Julius Case, was born May 22, 1790, and died November II, 1834. He married Ann Phelps, daugh- ter of Noble and Abigail (Merrills-Hum- phrey) Phelps, born August 4, 1803, died November 22, 1843. Abigail Phelps was the widow of Abraham Humphrey and daughter of Benoni and Lois Merrills.
Their eldest child, Julius Alonzo Case, was born December 13, 1832, in Sims- bury, grew up in Poquonock, and settled in Hartford where he engaged in mercan- tile business in the employ of Henry C. Ransom. Later he became a partner in the firm of Case & Prentice, wholesale milliners in the old Hills Block. He died September 21, 1886, in Wethersfield, where he had made his home during the last ten years of his life, continuing in
business up to the day of his death. He was an ardent Republican in political principle, and was a member and vestry- man in old Christ Episcopal Church in Hartford. He was a very genial man, firm in principle and of strong character. He married, September 24, 1857, Jennie Crosby, who was born June 17, 1839.
Their eldest child, Minnie Jane Case, became the wife of James Reed Anderson, as previously noted.
Jennie (Crosby ) Case was a descendant of early pioneers of New England. One of these, Elder William Brewster, born in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1559, was one of the founders of the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts. He was educated at the University of Cam- bridge, was postmaster at Scrooby until 1604, came over on the "Mayflower" with his wife, Mary, and died about April 18, 1643.
His daughter, Patience Brewster, born in England, came to Plymouth in the ship "Anne," in 1623, and married, August 5, 1624, Governor Thomas Prence, this being the ninth marriage celebrated in the colony. Thomas Prence came from Eng- land in the ship "Fortune" in 1621, was Governor in 1634 and in 1638, being annu- ally elected thereafter until 1673, the year of his death. Patience (Brewster) Prence died in 1634.
Their second daughter, Mercy Prence, born about 1630, in Plymouth, removed with her father's family to Eastham in 1645, and married there, February 13, 1650, Major John Freeman, who was long prominent in church and colonial affairs, and died in that part of Eastham now Orleans, October 19, 1719, in his ninety- eighth year. His wife, Mercy, died in what is now Orleans, September 28, 171I, in her eighty-first year.
Their eldest son, John Freeman, mar- ried, December 14, 1672, Sarah, daughter
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of William Myrick, and settled in that part of Harwich which is now Brewster.
Their fourth daughter, Patience Free- man, married, October 24, 1706, Eleazur Crosby, of Harwich, and settled in Brew- ster, where he died November 9, 1759, in his eightieth year, and she died January 28, 1732.
Their third son, Isaac Crosby, was born October 8, 1719, married, in 1742, Mercy Foster.
Their son, Sylvanus Crosby, born June 12, 1770, married, October 15, 1796, Eunice Paddock, born October 3, 1778.
Their son, Nathaniel Paddock Crosby, married Jane Goodsell, and they were the parents of Jennie Crosby, born June 17, 1839, who became the wife of Julius Alonzo Case, as previously noted.
Another line of the ancestry of Mrs. Anderson is traced from Sergeant Francis Nichols, who was born in England, and was among the first settlers at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639, being an original proprietor of the town, and distributed his lands among his children before he died. He was sergeant of the local militia com- pany. The name of his first wife, who was the mother of his children, is un- known.
His son, Isaac Nichols, was probably born in England, settled at Stratford, and died there in 1695. His wife's Christian name was Margaret.
Their second son, Isaac Nichols, born March 12, 1654, at Stratford, owned a house there, and died in 1690. His wife's Christian name was Mary.
Their second son, Richard Nichols, born November 26, 1678, at Stratford, was a farmer there, and died September 20, 1756. He married, June 3, 1702, Comfort, daughter of Theophilus Sherman. She died February II, 1727.
Their eldest child, Theophilus Nichols, was born March 31, 1703, at Stratford, and died in 1774. His death was caused
by a cannon ball, which was preserved and fastened by a chain to his tombstone. He married, January 2, 1724, Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant Ebenezer Curtis, born about 1707, died September 26, 1769, aged 62 years.
Philip Nichols, second son of Theo- philus and Sarah (Curtis) Nichols, was born January 5, 1727, in Stratford, where he made his home, and died May 13, 1807, leaving an estate valued above twenty- five thousand pounds. He was a man of much influence in public affairs, for many years a magistrate, a large land owner and slave owner. He dealt extensively in live stock which he exported, together with produce of many kinds, to the West Indies. He married, October 9, 1753, Mehitable Peet, who was the mother of his eldest child, William.
William Nichols, born March 10, 1755, was very ill treated by his stepmother, Mary (Prince) Nichols, who would not allow him to sit at table with the family and he was compelled to dine with the servants and upon a scanty allowance at that. Through her influence, his father bequeathed to him only £ 1,000, while her children inherited a large property. He married Prudence Edwards, of Chestnut Hill, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a descend- ant of Henry Stewart Edwards, Duke of York, and heir apparent to the English throne. He was an officer in the Rebel- lion in the year 1700, and was sentenced to be hung. On account of his high stand- ing in society he obtained permission to ride to the place of execution on a fleet horse. His clothes were lined with gold pieces, as were his stirrups, and the but- tons on his clothing were made of various pieces of money. Under the laxity of the guards, he put spurs to his horse and rode until the animal fell dead under him. He then took to the woods and was secreted by an old woman and escaped after guards had searched the house for him.
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He made his way to the coast and took passage for America. For some time after his arrival in Connecticut, he was known as "the Duke," but presently assumed the name of John Edwards. He settled on Chestnut Hill, where he had a view of Black Rock Harbor. He married Mary, daughter of Rev. Mr. Hanford, of Norwalk. Their son, John Edwards, married Rebecca Porter, whose youngest child, Patience, became the wife of Wil- liam Nichols, as previously recorded.
Prudence Nichols, third daughter of William and Patience (Edwards) Nich- ols, became the wife of Captain William Goodsell, a descendant of Captain Thomas Goodsell, a native of Wales, who sailed from Liverpool, England, to this country about 1768, and settled in Branford, Con- necticut, where he was a prominent man. In the year following his arrival here, he married Sarah Hemenway, and they were the parents of John Goodsell, born De- cember 21, 1705, was educated at Yale College, and was the first minister of the Church of Christ on Greenfield Hill, Fair- field, in 1726, and died in 1763. He mar- ried, in 1724, Mary Lewis, of Old Mill, Stratford, and they were the parents of William Goodsell, who married Prudence Nichols, daughter of William Nichols. William and Prudence (Nichols) Good- sell were the parents of Jane Goodsell, born November 15, 1808, died April 2, 1872; married, February 14, 1831, Na- thaniel Paddock Crosby, and they were the parents of Jennie Crosby, born June 17, 1839, and was married, September 24, 1857, to Julius Alonzo Case, as above noted.
WOLFF, Arthur J., M. D., Surgeon, Specialist, Author.
An analysis of the life record of Dr. Arthur J. Wolff, gynecologist, also city
bacteriologist of Hartford, one of the rep- resentative citizens of that city, shows that keen discrimination, unflagging in- dustry and a thorough knowledge of his chosen profession constitute the princi- pal elements in the success which has crowned his efforts. He is a native of London, England, born June 7, 1855, son of Dr. Arthur S. and Sarah (Ansell) Wolff.
Dr. Arthur S. Wolff was born in Lyons, France, in 1819, and died in Brownsville, Texas, in October, 1904. He was a man of splendid classical education and un- usually broad and thorough training in medicine and surgery for his day. He received his classical education at the famous University of Lauvain, which has gone down in the ruthless devastation of the present European war. After his graduation from that institution, he pur- sued a course in medicine at the Univer- sity of Leyden, in Holland, a city made famous as the residence of the Pilgrim Fathers prior to their coming to America. After completing the course there, he pursued post-graduate studies at the Academy of Medicine in Paris, France. After completing his studies there he de- voted a period of time to extensive travel in Europe, after which he became an interne in one of the Paris hospitals. From there he went into the French army as a surgeon, serving in the Algiers cam- paign. In recognition of his work he was made a member of the Legion of Honor, the cross he received being now in the possession of his son, Dr. Arthur J. Wolff. He also went with the French army into the Crimea. He then located in London, England, where he was married, and also practiced his profession until 1858, in which year he emigrated to the United States. He located in New York City and practiced there until the outbreak of the Civil War. He served as surgeon of
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