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Sarah. born December, 1662:
Marah, June, 1666; Alice, December 16, 1608: Thomas, mentioned below.
( Il) Thomas (2). son of Thomas ( I) Brooks, was born in Haddam about 1670. He married, November 16, 1696, Susanna Children : Thomas. mentioned be- low ; Abraham, Jabez and Joseph.
( III) Thomas (3). son of Thomas (2) Brooks, born about 1700, died in 1781 at Had- (lam. He was deacon of the Haddam church. Ile married and had a son Thomas.
( IV) Deacon Thomas (4) Brooks, son of Thomas (3) Brooks, was born at Haddam. about 1725-30. He married and had children: Charles. Thomas, David.
(V) Chauncey Brooks, son or nephew of Deacon Thomas (4) Brooks, was born about 1760 in Bristol, Connecticut. According to the census of 1790 he had one son under six- teen and three females in his family. In 1790 Thomas. Samuel and Samuel, Jr., were also heads of families in Bristol.
(VI) Asaph, son of Chauncey Brooks. was probably horn at Bristol. He came from Chatham. formerly Bristol, in 1808 or 1816 with brothers Chauncey and Samuel and bought the Peleg Swett farm in Danbury Quarter, now Brooks street. He died at Win- chester. November 27. 1866. aged eighty- three years. Ile married Abigail. daughter of Captain Moses Hatch. Children: Trumbull Hatch. Sarah. Rachel. Birdscy and Julia.
(VII) Trumbull Hatch, son of Asaph Brooks, was born at Winchester in 18to. died in :894. Ile was a farmer and owned a saw mill. Hle lived and died in Winchester. He married Julia Dorman. of Hamden, Connecti- cut. born in 1826, diel in 1891. Children : Verritt : Celestia: William; Cornelia: Sech ; Elizabeth. married David Heady, of Winsted, sons : Merritt and Wilbar Heady: Burton Al- Ion, mentioned bel wy : Charles, lives at Win- sted. married Hattie Baslin and has four chil- dren : Marion, Armond. Julia and Louise.
Allen, son of Trumbull Hatch Brooks, was born in Winchester. Litch- field county. Connecticut. April, 1861. He was educated in the wallle schools of his na- tive toon. He has i loved farming during the greater part of his life. having a farm at Colebrook Staien in the town of Win- chester until 1800, when he came into posses- sion of the Brod. homestead, Brook street. Winchester, where his father and grandfather had lived. He males a specialty of the dairy. He has abort oue hetdred and fifty acres of land and is progressive and enterprising. He married. November 12. 1806. Josephine H .. daughter of Hiram \. and Harriet ( North) Smith, of Colebrook. Children: Willis, born
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December 4. 1807. died in infancy; Leland Trumbull, July 31 1901.
(VI) Charles Beach Moore, son
MOORE of Apollos Moore (q.v.), was born in Riverton, Barkhamsted. December 17. 1802. died March 4, 1870. He was a farmer and lived on the homestead all his life. This farm is now owned by his son. He married Rebecca. born June 18. 1805, died June 26, 1888. daughter of John Hull. Chil- dren: Henrietta. born September 3. 1829: Harriet, February 13. 1831 : Charles D .. men- tioned below : Anne Elizabeth. October 17. 1837: Watson A .. January 3. 1840.
(VII) Charles Deloraine, son of Charles Beach Moore. was born July 28, 1835. in Riverton, Barkhamsted. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at New Hartford. Connecticut. Hustonville and Jonesville, New York. He went west in 1857. but remained only three months. He worked in Torrington for ten years and for several years in the factory at Riverton. where he has always retained his home. He now lives there in the house in which he was born, and has followed farming in his later years on the homestead. He married. Octo- ber 10. 1861. Adelaide Mack. of East Had- dam, Connecticut. daughter of Calvin C. and Lucy (Lyon ) Mack. Children : 1. Henry (Harry), born September 3. 1864, died in May, 1875. 2. Leon Lionel (twin). August 21. 1868, lives in Torrington, foreman in the Coe Brass Manufacturing Company : married Elizabeth Vail : children : Lionel and Lauris- ton Mack Moore. 3. Leo Leopold (twin ). died in May. 1869. 4. Willis Cone. October 18. 1871, proprietor of an automobile garage. Torrington ; married ( first ) Nellie Randsbot- tom and had Marsden Charles Moore: mar- ried (second ) Lena Castle. 5. Lucy May. February 24. 1875. a trained nurse, superin- tendent of the hospital at Okanogan, state of Washington. 6. Amelia Marilla. May 7. 1878. married Leslie H. Eastman. of Little- ton, New Hampshire. an ice dealer: child. Dorothy May. born December 23, 1909.
The earliest record of the Davis DAVIS family of Virginia i, the origi- nal copy of a deed dated in 1601 signed by John and Susanna Davis, then liv- ing on the Potomac river, probably in Staf- ford county. Virginia, as the land conveyed was situate in Aguia creek in that county. The ancient family Bible has been preserved. Tradition states that John Davis wa- a son of Thomas Davis. of York county. Virginia. and grandson of John Davis, of Gloucester-
shire, England. the immigrant ancestor, who came to Jamestown Mom after the settk ment. In the musters of the inhabitants of Virginia in 1624 we find Thomas and John Davis. ; re- sumably brothers, who came in the ship "Toun and Francis" in 1623. Thomas Davis Was born in 158; and settled in Warwick county. Virginia, had the title of captain in 1624 and 1655: had three hundred acres in Warwick county and a grant of five hundred acres in 1602. He married (second ) Susanna Day. widow of Solomon Day.
John Davis. born 1599. settled in York county, Virginia, near the border of James City county : in 1633 sold two hundred acres of land and had other lands at that time, died in 1646. His inventory calls him of Queens creek and was dated September 14. 1646. val- uing the estate at three thousand sixty-six pound, of tobacco. He had three sons: John, who died in 1072: Thomas, died in 16;4; Wil- liam, died 1088, leaving a son William. Per- haps other children.
( I) Samuel Davis, of the Virginia family, lived in Virginia. He was of Scotch-Irish descent through his mother Mary , Beresford) Davis. He married. in 1783. Olive Hanting- ton. of English ance-try. Among their chil- dren was Calvin, mentioned below.
(II) Calvin. son of Samuel Davis, was born in Cairo, New York whither his parents removed from Virginia. January 7. 1,95. and dlied at the age of sixty-two years. His father died when he was a boy and he was adopted by a Mr. Clinger who lived in Can- ada. It is said that he was di-contented and ran away twice to join the British army, but was brought back by his foster father. Ile succeeded finally in his purpose. when about seventeen years old. and took part in the war of 1812, in the British army. Afterward he learned the trade of cabinetmaker and fol- lowed it throughout his active life. \ nam- her of pieces of his handicraft have been pre- served by descendant. He lived in ( mnada. He married his second cousin. Fhzabeth Mc- Donald. daughter of Archibald McDonald. granddaughter of John McDonaldl. who .ante from Glencoe. Scotland, and died at Kings- ton, Canada, at the home of his con-m. Alex- ander McDonald. Archibald MeDonall mar- red a daughter of Hannah Davis, daughter of John Davis, of Virginia. John had a brother Richard. The Davi- family came originally from Wales Children of Calvin Davis: Archibald. Alexander Adelphu -. Allan John. mentioned below. William. Samuel George Leslie. Hannah. Caroline.
( III) Allan John, son of Calvin Davis, was born March 14 1820. at Toronto, Canada.
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He spent his early life in Canada and learned the trade of hatter, when a hat from start to finish was made by hand, by the same work- man. In 1857 he came to Danbury, Connec- ticut, and worked at his trade as a journey- man. Later he engaged in business as one of the "Twelve Apostles," a dozen hatters. who co-operated to manufacture hats, After- ward he worked as a journeyman until obliged, by age and ill health, to retire. He married Caroline Bulkeley, born at Milford, Connecticut. December 4. 1837, died March 25, 1899, at Danbury, daughter of Stephen and Harriet (Rockwell) Bulkeley, grand- daughter of John S. Bulkeley. Children : Samuel Allan. mentioned below ; Alfred Les- lie, born September 24, 1869, married Ger- trude Bouton: children: Leslie Allan and Donald Alexander : William Alexander, May 1, 1874.
(IV) Samuel Allan, son of Allan John Davis, was born October 14, 1865. He at- tended the public schools of Danbury and graduated from the Danbury high school in the class of 1882. He entered Ilarvard Col- lege, but left to take up the study of law at Danbury. He continued his academic studies also, however, and entered the senior class at Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 1893. He was admitted to the bar, June 30, 1893, and commenced to practice at Dan- bury. He became a law partner of Judge Ly- . man D. Brewster and continued until the death of Judge. Brewster eleven years after- ward. He continued in practice alone until 1906 when he formed a partnership with Howard B. Scott and continued until Mr. Scott was appointed to the bench by Gover- nor Woodruff. Since then Mr. Davis has had no partuer. He was elected associate city judge and is now serving his fourth two-year term in that office. He has been a member of the school committee and corporation coun- cil for Danbury. In politics he is a Republi- can. He is a member of U'nicora Lodge, No. 40. Free and Accepted Masons: Royal Arch Masons: Roval and Select Masters: Knights Templar, and Mystic Shrine. He is a mem- ber of the Congregational church of Dan- bury.
TYRRELL The founder of the family of Tyrrell (known also as de Tirel, Tirel, Tyrel, Tyrrell, Terrell, Tirrell, etc. ) was Ralf. Sire de Tirel. de Poix and de Gnernanville, son of Walter I, Count of Vexin and Amiens. The Counts of Vexin were the lords of a district situated out the northern borders of France as they ex- isted in the tenth century. lying between
France and the dreal possessions of the House of Normandy. This little district known as Vexin was sometimes under the Norman dukes, sometimes under the French crown and finally was absorbed with Normandy in the French kingdom. The father of Ralf de Tirel, Walter I, Count of Vexin, lived about 995, was son of Waleran, Count of Vexin and hereditary standard bearer of France, who died in 965. The mother of Walter I was Edelgarde, a daughter of the Count of Flanders, and great-granddaughter of .Alfred the Great of England. Walter I was also lineally descended from Pepin le Gros, Charles Martel-father of Charle- magne-and Charlemagne himself. Walter I married Eve, daughter of Landry, Count of Dreux.
Ralf de Tirel had his castle near the vil- lage of Tirel on the banks of the Seine, a short distance below Paris, from which the surname is derived. Having married a daugh- ter of the Seigneur of Guernanville he be- came in time the Seigneur of Guernanville, the Chatelain of Pontoise and the Viscount of Amiens. The little village of Tirel is now called Triel. The French history of the fam- ily has been written by M. Cuvillier-Morel- D'Acy ( 18601. An elaborate history of the English and French families was published by Joseph Henry Tyrrell in 1904. The house of Tyrrell was prominent in Picardy as well as Normandy and held much land and many honors and titles.
The English family of this name was es- tallished by Sir Walter Tyrrell, who came with William the Conqueror and was promi- nent in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Sir Walter and wife Alix built the Chateau de Poix et de Moyencourt and the fortress of Famechon and was one of the most powerful lords of Picardy. He married ( first ) Olga. a Saxon girl: (second) Alix, Daine de Fre- montiers. His son Walter died before him. leaving a son Walter III, who accidentaliy killed William Rufus, king of England, and died at one of his chateaux in Picardy in 1135 ; he was a crusader and was at the siege of Jerusalem: he married Adelaide Giffard. granddaughter of Walter Giffard, first Earl of Buckingham. Walter III was succeede.l by his son Hugh, who was also a crusader : married Ada J'Ammale, descendant of Rich- and I. Duke of Normandy, and from Ralf de Mortemer, Baron of Wigmore. Roger Tyrrell. son of Sir Hugh, and grandson of Hugh Tyrrell, mentioned above, succeeded to the vast possessione of his father in Hamp- shire and county Essex. England, and became the ancestor of all the English branche, of the
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family. The Tyrrell coat-of-arms is de- scribed: Argent within a bordure engrailed gules two chevrons, azure. Crest: A pea- cock's tail issuing from the month of a boar's head, couped. erect. Motto: Sans Dieu Rien.
(I) Roger Tyrrell, descendant of the Eng- lish progenitor, Roger Tyrrell, was born in England and came to this country about 1037 with a company from London under Eaton and Davenport and became one of the original settlers of Milford, Connecticut. In 1639 he married Abigail Ufford (or Ulford), daugh- ter of Thomas and Isabel Ufford, who came from England on the ship "Lyon" in 1632. locating first at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and finally in Milford. They had sons Roger, mentioned below : and John. born at Milford. August, 1644: perhaps other children.
(II) Roger ( 2), son of Roger ( 1) Tyrrell. was born at Milford about 1639. He was admitted a freeman in 166). His widow Sarah died April 13. 1728. He appears to have removed early from Milford to what is now Woodbury, Connecticut. Children : Abi- gail, baptized Janvary. 1682: Sarah. March 16, 1684: Stephen, July, 1691: Ezra, April 16, 1693: Timothy and Martha (twins), No- vember 19, 1697.
( III) Samuel, son or nephew of Roger ( 2) Tyrrell. lived at Milford and had a son Phin- eas. mentioned below.
(IV) Phineas, son of Samuel Tyrrell, was born about 1730, died October 13. 1791. He settled at Seymour, Connecticut. He married Phebe Children : Eliakim. men- tioned below : Phineas. John. Phebe. Ann.
(V) Eliakim Tyrrell or Terrill, as it was also spelled, son of Phineas Tyrrell, was born February 10, 1760, at Seymour. Connecticut, died March 15. 1807. He married Elizabeth, born February 10. 1760, daughter of Joseph and Eliza ( Tomlinson ) Twitchell. Children : Philo. August 5. 1780, married Fannie Cili- berfield: Josiah, March 12, 1782: Truman, November 23, 1784, mentioned below . Eliza- beth, January 25. 1786: Nehemiah. June 24, 1788; Amy. November 26, 1,01 : Eliakim, January 6. 1793, married Chloe Martin : Phin- eas. April 20, 1795. saddlemaker; Solomon. July 23, 1797, died July 23. 1861 ; Isaac, May 27. 1800: Andrew. August 12. 1802: Julia, July 21, 1805.
(VI) Truman, son of Eliakim Tyrrell, was horn November 23. 1784. He resided at Bethany, Connecticut, where he died May 20. 1852. He married Ilannah, daughter of Eber and Hannah ( Welton) Lmes. She marrie.1 ( second ) Aveil Peck. She died November 19, 1866, aged seventy-six years. Children : I. Louisa, born February 20, 1814: married
(first ) Ezra S. Sperry : isecond) Burton Payne. 2. Almira, June 28, 1815. died De- cember 9. 1815. 3. Almira. December 25, 1816; married ( first ) Isaac Clark; ( second) Stephen HI. Culver. 4. Grace, January 11, 1819: married Hiram Andrew. 5. Lauren, December 12, 1820, died October 13. 1892. 6. Elizabeth, January 24, 1823 ; married Nathan- iel Proctor. 7. Smith, April 9, 1825. men- tioned below. 8. Wales, October 29, 1826. 9. Calvin, May 14, 1828, died March 29, 1846. 10. Henry, June 8, 1835, died May 18, 1836.
(VHI) Smith, son of Truman Tyrrell, was born at Seymour, April 9. 1825. died March 20, 1000. He was educated in the publie schools of his native town. He was the pioneer ice merchant of the town and by his foresight. industry and enterprise amassed a substantial fortune. In his later years he re- tired and enjoyed a well-earned rest and lei- sure. He was senior warden of Trinity Pro- testant Episcopal Church for many years. The town history says of him: "He was a very honorable and upright man." He married, April 30. 1847, at Seymour, Eliza Ann Car- rington, born at Hamden, Connecticut, April 17, 1824. died August 2. 1906, daughter of Daniel and Rachel ( Tolles) Carrington. Chil- dren, born at Seymour: Bernard Eucene. July 6. 1849: married Julia Terrell (Tyrrell). a cousin, of Wisconsin. children: Bernard Henry. Theodore, Elsie. William, Frank and Ruth: Bernard E. lived at Shelton, Connecti- cut, and died October 1. 1009; Theodore Smith, mentioned below : daughter, born April 7, 1856, died in infancy.
(\ HII) Theodore Smith, son of Smith Tyr- rell. was born at Seymour, October 5. 1852 Hle attended the public schools of his native town and entered the State Normal School at New Britain, Connecticut, from which he was graduated in the class of 1876. He then taught school for a time. but preferred mer- cantile business and became a clerk in the employ of Charles Manson & Company of New Haven, continning there for a period ci seventeen years. He was afterward with the Ansonia Furniture Company for nine years. In September. 1903. he embarked in business on his own account with a furniture store in Odd Fellows Bleek, and was successful from the first. Subsequently he leased the Ray- mond French homestead in the center of the village an historic mansion which had been a landmark of the town for many years, and adapting his stock and business to its quaint rooms, he found himself able to present a most unique and attractive display of furni- ture. carpets, draperies, crockery, pictures and wall paper. Unusual opportunities for show;
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ing goods as they will appear in the homes of customers are afforded by the quarters. The long training and good judgment of Mr. Tvr- rell have been large factors in the success he has achieved in business. Mr. Tyrrell is one of the best known and most popular mer- chants in the town of Seymour and vicinity. He is a member of Trinity Protestant Episco- pal Church. He is unmarried.
Daniel Hill lived at New London, HILL Connecticut, where he was proba- bly born. He removed to Cole- brook, Connecticut, where he died. He was a farmer and shoemaker. He married three
times. By his first wife he had no chil- dren. Children of second wife: John, Harry, Polly. Sally and Abigail. Children of third wife: Ebenezer. Sidney, Daniel, Dayton, Abiathar. Sophia, Lyman. Wesley; Willard, Susan, Charlotte and Laura.
( II) Abiathar. son of Daniel Hill, was born in Colebrook. Connecticut. in 1820. died Octo- ber 18. 1898. in Winsted. Connecticut. He was educated in the public schools. and fol- lowed farming most of his active life. He lived for a time at Tolland. Massachusetts. then at Colebrook and South Colebrook. Con- nectient, until 1865. when he came to Winsted. There he had a large farm which he con- ducted about four years. Ile came to the vil- lage of Winsted to live in 1869 and spent his last days there. In politics he was a staunch Democrat. He was an active member of the Methodist church. He married, in No- vember. 1842, Mary A. Beach. born at Hart- land. March 15, 1823. now living in Winsted. daughter of Captain Ira and Candace ( Case ) Beach, granddaughter of Zopher Beach. of Litchfield. Children of Abiathar and Mary A. Hill: 1. Edward. born March 24. 1845. a farmer at Plainville: married ( first ) Cath- erine Wood: ( second) Nellie . Ives : children of first wife: Edward. Jr., Gertrude and Eu- gene ; child of second wife: Frederick. 2. Herbert Wellington, mentioned below. 3 . Ernest Clifford, born May 23, 1855. lives at Bridgeport: has been in the employ of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company for forty years, a bridge builder : is unmarried. 4. Jennie, died young. 5. Au- gusta. died young. 6. William. died young.
( III) Herbert Wellington, son of Abiathar Hill, was born at Tolland. Massachusetts. July 23. 1848. He attended the common and select schools and the Connecticut Literary In- stitute at Sheffield. Connecticut. He began his career in a factory at Winsted, manufac- turing casket furnishings and plated ware. and for two years he was employed in a simi-
lar concern at Meriden. He then engaged in business on his own account at Winsted and for ten years conducted a meat market with nmich success, and for the past twenty-seven years has been in the undertaking and livery business at Winsted, winning a high place among the business men of the town. He is a member of Unity Lodge, No. 35, Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protect- ive Order of Elks of Winsted. In politics he is an Independent, in religion a Congrega- tionalist. He married. in 1873, Alice Camp, of Winsted, born March 24. 1853, daughter of John and Julia ( Root ) Camp. Children : 1. Alice Camp, horn April 28. 1874, married Edward M. Parmelee, superintendent of a shoe factory at Haverhill. Massachusetts ; child. Doris. 2. Lewis Loomis, born June, 1878, served in the Spanish war and two years in the Philippines: married Ella Case, of Winsted. 3. Daisy Knowlton, born May, 1884. school teacher in Winsted, living with her parents.
BROWN Asaph Brown, father of Ed- ward E. Brown, was born May 28, 1805, and lived for a time in South Carolina. near the city of Charleston. He lived in the south for a number of years, but finally came rorth, and settled in Granby, Connecticut. where he died March 24. 1865. He was a stone mason by trade. He married. July 21. 1824. Sarah Jane, born June 13. 1808. died May 30, 1891. daughter of Elijah and Emma ( Gillette ) Bacon. Children . John. born July 23. 1825; Zera, March 25. 1828: Floretta, May 1. 1830, died August 7. 1863; Henry A .. August 31. 1832: Sarah J .. Au- gust 26. 1835 : Dennis C .. May 25. 1838. lives in Meriden, Connecticut: Amon, March 18. IS41: Duane, August 27. 1843. died in the army. January 5. 1862: Eugene, July 18, 1847: Edward Ehjah, mentioned below.
( II) Edward Elijah, son of Asaph Brown. was born in Granby, April 24. 1851. He was e-lucated in the schools of Granby and Sims- bury, Connecticut. He learned the machin- ist's trade. and came to Winsted. Connectiont. in 18;2. He worked for George B. Owens in the monnfacture of clocks for a time. He also worked for the New England Pen Com- pany for ten years. In 1886 he went into the machine business for himself : at first he had a partner, Mr. Van Alstine, and did business under the name of Brown & Van Alstine, but since ISSO he and his sons have carried on the business under the name of the Brown Machine Company, and they do all kinds of machine repair work. He built his factory and a residence in 1875. He married. in 1872,
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Mary, daughter of Edward A. and Mary Ann (Lamb) Richardson : Children: 1. Wallace E., born September 25. 1873. died August. 1894. 2. Alice, May 10, 1875, married Frank E. Hall, of Winsted, with the Gilbert Clock Company; children: i. Charlotte Edna, born July 25, 1903: 1i. Franklin Edward. March 17, 1905; iii. Doris Elizabeth, July 15, 1907: iv. Ruth Evelyn. March 17. 1900. 3. Edward E .. September 21, 1879, assistant superintend- ent of Williams Typewriter Manufacturing Company of Derby. Connecticut : married. October 17. 1906. Annette J. Convers; chil- dren: i. Stanley, born August 13, 1927; ii. Dorothea Eleanor. October IS, 1909. 4. Wil- liam A., September 6, 1886, with the Brown Machine Company; married Mary Stack, March 8, 1911. 5. Edna L., February 17, 1891.
PHILLIPS This family is represented in the seventh generation in the New England states by Eben-
ezer S. Phillips, the well-known business man and thirty-third degree Mason of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
( I) Nicholas Phillips, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and settled as early as 1636 at Dedham, Massachusetts. He was a buteher by trade. He was admitted freeman, May 13. 1640, and sold land at Dedham in 1641. He was a member of the court valna- tion committee in 1640. From Dedham he removed to Weymouth, where he was a town officer. He was a Irother of Henry Phillips. a butcher also, of Dedham. He was deacon of the Weymouth church. He died Septem- ber 16. 16;2. His will was dated June 2, 1671, and proved October 3. 1672. Children : Nicholas, married Hannah Salter, and died March 15, 1669-70; Richard. mentioned Le- low: Joshua: Benjamin: Experience, born May 8, 1641: Caleb, January 22, 1644. at Weymouth: Alice or Elizabeth : Hannah, married White: Abigail.
( II) Richard, son of Nicholas Phillips, was born about 1635. He was a freeman of Wey- mouth in 1678. He married ( first) Mary Packard, daughter of Sammel Packard; (sec- ond). Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Sam- uel Edsop, of Weymouth. Children, born at Weymouth: Child. born December 7, 1657; Caleb. 1650; Mary. May 21, 1660; Mary, May 24, 1661: Joshea. May 10, 1663; Nich- olas. March 20. 1664: Elizabeth. November 27, 1665 ; Richard. October 20, 1667 : Samuel, May 7. 1670: John. mentioned below.
( 111) Captain John Phillips, son of Rich- ard Phillips, was born after I670 in Wer- mouth, Massachusetts ( see p. 41. "History of
Easton" ). From Weymouth he came to Eas- ton with William Manley and divided one share of land, lot No. 52. His house was on the site later occupied by the Morse house. Ile became a prominent citizen and was the first town clerk, an office he held for twelve years. He was the first military captain of the town, and was in the expedition to Can- ada in 1600. Forty years afterward. on ac- count of his service, he had a grant of shares in the town of Huntstown, later Ashfield. Massachusetts, and his son Thomas was one of the first settlers. He died at Easton, No- vember 14, 1760. He married ( first ) Eliza- beth Drake, who died June 24, 1748. He mar- ried (second ). April 19, 1749, Bridget who died March 17. 1764. Children of first wife, born at Weymouth: John. February 18. 1692; Richard, November 25. 1603. Born at Easton : Experience, 1699: Samuel, 1702: Joshua, mentioned below : Caleb, 1707: Jane. July 1. 1700, married Richard Ellis, the pio- neer of Ashfield: Thomas. 1712. first settler with others at Ashfield : Richard, 1713; Jane. ( See New England Genealogical Register. IlI. pp. bo and 171).
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