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(V) William (2) Slade, son of Jonathan and Mary (Chase) Slade, was born June 4, 1780, in Swansea, Massachusetts, and resided in that part of the town which later became Somerset, all his life. Here all his children were born, and here he died September 7, 1852. He was an influential and active citizen of the community, and filled many offices of trust and responsibility. In 1812 he was one of the purchasers of .the land on which was built the Pocasset Company's mill, one of the first two mills in what was then the town of Troy, now the city of Fall River. These mills were the subsequent pioneers in the cloth-making industry, established in 1813. Mr. Slade was one of the original stock- holders in the Fall River Manufactory, and in 1822 was one of the eight corporators of the Pocasset Manufacturing Company, which gave great impetus to the cotton manufacturing industry of Fall River. He was also an original proprietor of the Watuppa Manufacturing Company. In 1826 he began the operation of a horse boat at the ferry, and in 1846 adopted steam as a motive power.
William Slade married Phebe Lawton, daughter of Dr. William and Abigail (Farrington) Lawton, born August 21, 1781, in Newport, Rhode Island, died March 18, 1874, in her ninety-third year. (See Lawton). Children, all born in Somerset: 1. Abi- gail L., born January 22, 1809. 2. Lydia Ann, born September 17, 1811. 3. Amanda, born December 2, 1813. 4. Jonathan, born September 23, 1815. 5. William Lawton, mentioned below. 6. David, born September 4, 1819. 7. Mary, born September 30, 1821
(VI) Hon. William Lawton Slade, son of Wil- liam (2) and .Phebe (Lawton) Slade, was born September 6, 1817, in Somerset, Massachusetts. He was reared upon the homestead farm, attending the common schools of the section and later the Friends' School at Providence. He continued to operate the ferry, and was an extensive farmer, ac- quiring in his lifetime several fine farms. In 1871 he purchased the ferry property of the Brightmans, lying on the. east side of Taunton river, and in com- pany with his brother, Jonathan Slade, was the last to operate the ferry which had been in the family more than two centuries, and was discontin- ued on the construction of the bridge in 1876.
He early became interested in the manufacturing concerns of Fall River, and was a member of the first board of directors, and later, president of the
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Montaup Mills Company, organized in 1871 for the manufacture of duck and cotton bags, then a new industry in Fall River. He was one of the pro- moters in 1871 of the Slade mill, the first of a group of factories erected in the southern district of the city built on a Slade farm, of which he was director and president. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Stafford Mills, and held stock in several other manufacturing enter- prises of Fall River. In 1860 he was made a direc- tor of what subsequently became the Fall River National Bank.
For many years he served as a selectman of the town of Somerset, his long continuance in this office testifying to his efficiency. In 1859 and again in 1864 he represented the town of Somerset in the General Assembly of the State, and was a mem- ber of the committee on agriculture during his first term, and on public charitable institutions in his second. He was a member of the committee of arrangements for the burial of Senator Charles Sum- ner. In 1863 he was a member of the Massachu- sctts Senate, in which body he served as a mem- ber of the committee on agriculture. His political affiliations were with the Republican party; though not an office seeker, he accepted public office as a part of his duty as a good citizen. He was often called upon to engage in the settlement of estates and served as a commissioner for that purpose. In him the cause of temperance ever found a staunch and energetic supporter. He was a life- long member of the Society of Friends.
Mr. Slade died July 29, 1895, and two days later the board of directors of the Slade Mill paid the following tribute to him as a man and as an executive :
William Lawton Slade was one of the originators of this company, and has been its president since the date of its in- corporation in 1871. He has always identified himself with its interests, and its welfare has heen his constant care. He gave freely of his time and thought to the husiness of the corporation. Every subject presented to his attention received from him calm consideration and mature deliberation, and his judgment was universally respected. He was broad in his views, far-reaching in his suggestions, and looked not alone to the present, but to the future.
He was a man of nohle presence, high character, sound judgment, and unswerving integrity. He was pleasant in his manner, and was universally esteemed and respected.
This corporation has lost in him a firm friend, a wise coun- sellor and a sagacious advisor, and its directors, each and every one, feel a kecn sense of personal bereavement.
It is resolved that we attend his funeral in a body and that copies of this record be furnished to his family and for publication.
HENRY S. FENNER, Clerk.
Mr. Slade married, October 5, 1842, Mary Sher- man, daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Sherman, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. (See Sher- man VI). She was born September 16, 1815, in Portsmouth, and died March 29, 1900, in Somerset, Massachusetts. Children : 1. Caroline Elizabeth, mentioned below. 2. Abigail L., born March 15, 1848; married James T. Milne; died November 5, 1872. 3. Mary, born July 12, 1852, died August 15, 1877; married Velona W. Haughwout, and left three children: Mary, Alice and Elizabeth; of these, Mary and Elizabeth died in young womanhood, and Alice
is the wife of Preston C. West, and resides in Sas- katchewan, Canada. 4. Sarah Sherman, died young. 5. Anna Mitchell, died young.
(VII) Caroline Elizabeth Slade, eldest child of Hon. William Lawton and Mary (Sherman) Slade, was born January 3, 1846, in Somerset, Massachu- setts, and became the wife of the late Hezekiah Anthony Brayton, of Fall River. (See Brayton VII).
REV. OBADIAH HOLMES-Rev. Obadiah Holmes, immigrant ancestor and progenitor of this family in America, was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, about the year 1606. Of his early life we have been unable to obtain. any information. He came to this country about the year 1639, and set- tled first in Salem, Massachusetts, and then in Re- hoboth, where he resided eleven years. While living here he became a convert to the distinctive views of the .Baptists, and was especially strenuous in rejecting infant baptism, and in maintaining the doctrine of "soul liberty." He became a member of the Baptist church of Newport, of which Dr. John Clarke was the pastor, and in July, 1651, was the companion of his minister in the visit to Lynn, Massachusetts, which brought such horrible conse- quences upon him. He was fined thirty pounds by the magistrates of Boston for his part in the affair. The alternative was the payment of the fine or to be publicly whipped. . The fines of Dr. Clarke and his companion, Mr. Crandall, were provided for, but that of Mr. Holmes was not paid. He was kept in prison until September, 1651, when he under- went the cruel penalty of the sentence which had been pronounced against him. According to the testimony of Governor Joseph Jenks, he "was whipped thirty stripes, and in such an unmerciful manner that, in many days, if not some weeks, he would take no rest but as he lay upon his knees and elbows, not being able to suffer any part of his body to touch the bed whereon he lay." On recovering he removed from Rehoboth to Newport, and there assumed the pastorship of Dr. Clarke's church during the latter's absence in England. His connection with the church as pastor and as assist- ant to Dr. Clarke on his return from England, continued until 1682, when he died at the advanced age of seventy-six years. He was buried in a grave on his own property, over which a monument with suitable inscription was later raised to his memory.
Holmes Arms-Barry, wavy of six, or and azure, on a can- ton, gules, a lion passant of the first.
Crest-Out of a naval crown, or, a dexter arm embowed in armor, holding a trident, proper, spear gold.
Motto-Justum et tenacem propositi.
(II) Sarah Holmes, daughter of Rev. Obadiah and Katherine (Hyde) Holmes, became the wife of William Slade. (See Slade I).
(II) Lydia Holmes, daughter of Rev. Obadiah and Katherine (Hyde) Holmes, became the wife of Major John Bowne. Through them was de- scended the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, in the following line: (III) Richard and Sarah (Bowne) Salter. (IV) Mordecai and Hannah (Sal-
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ter) Lincoln. (V) John and Rebecca (- -) Lin- coln. (VI) Captain Abraham and Bathsheba (Her- ring) Lincoln. (VII) Thomas and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln. (VIII) Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln Arms-Argent, a lion rampant proper.
(The Chase Line).
The surname Chase is of ancient French origin, and had its source in the French verb, chaser, to hunt. In the intermingling of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French tongues, the word chase was adopted in its original meaning, and later came to be applied to that part of a forest or park termed the chase, an open piece of ground for the herding of deer and other game. Residents near these large deer enclosures, of which every knight or noble had at least one under the Feudal regime, adopted the name Chase as a surname, when the custom spread to the middle classes. Chase families had before this date, however, wielded large power among the landed gentry and nobility. The ancestral seat of the American branch of the ancient English family was at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, through which passes the river Chess. Several immigrants of the name were in the New England colonies in the first half of the seventeenth century. Their progeny is large and prominent, and is today found in every part of the United States. One of the most notable descendants of the early Chase family was the Hon. Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln, and successor of Judge Roger B. Taney as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(1) William Chase, immigrant ancestor and founder of the line herein under consideration, was born in England, and came to America in the year 1630 in company with John Winthrop. Thomas and Aquila Chase, who settled in Hampton, New Hamp- shire, in 1639, were brothers, and are thought by many authorities to have been cousins of William Chase, the first comer. The record of Rev. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, of "such as adjoined themselves to this church," the first church of Rox- bury, has this entry: "William Chase, he came with the first company, bringing with him his wife Mary and his son William." "He later had a daughter which they named Mary, born about the middle of 3rd month 1637, after which date he removed to Scituate, but went with a company who made a new plantation at Yarmouth." On October 19, 1630, William Chase applied for admission as a freeman in Roxbury, where he subsequently became a town officer. In 1634 he was made a freeman in Boston. In 1639 he was constable in Yarmouth, Massachu- setts, whither he had removed the year previous, and where he died. His will, proved May 13, 1659, was dated May 4th of that year, and the court or- dered Robert Dennis to divide the estate as he or- dered. Benjamin, his son, received the third part. In October, 1659, his widow Mary was found dead, and a coroner's inquest decided that she had died a natural death. In 1645 William Chase served against the Narragansett Indians. In 1643, his name as well as that of his son appears on the
list of males able to bear arms, between the ages of sixteen and sixty. In 1645 he was a drummer in Myles Standish's company "that went to the banks opposite Providence."
(II) William (2) Chase, son of William (1) and Mary Chase, was born in England about 1623, and acocmpanied his parents to America in 1630, at the age of about seven years. In 1638 he removed with his father's family to Yarmouth, where he resided during the remainder of his life, and where he died on February 27, 1685. His home was near the Herring river in the vicinity of what was later known as Denniss or Harwich. The records of the activities have nearly all been lost through the total destruction of the records of the town of Yarmouth by fire. In 1643 he was enrolled as able to bear arms, and in 1645 saw service, and was in Captain Myles Standish's company "that went to the banks opposite Providence." Many of his large family of children became affiliated with the doctrines of the Society of Friends, subsequently removing to Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, and to Swansea, Massachu- setts.
(III) Samuel Chase, son of William (2) Chase, was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He married, in 1699, Sarah Sherman, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Tripp) Sherman. He was a prosperous farmer and large landholder in Yarmouth.
(IV) Phebe Chase, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Chase, was born January 22, 1700. She married, December 6, 1720, Edward Slade, son of William and Sarah (Holmes) Slade. (See Slade II).
(The Buffum Line).
(I) Robert Buffum, immigrant ancestor and progenitor of a family which has been continuous and prominent in New England for more than two hundred and seventy years, was born in Yorkshire or Devonshire, England, and was in Salem, Massa- chusetts, as early as the year 1638. He was a yeoman and to some extent a trader. All the family, except Robert Buffum, through sympathy with the Quakers who were then being persecuted, became Quakers themselves. On one occasion De- borah Buffum, youngest daughter of the founder, through great religious fervor and excitement, re- moved nearly all of her clothing, and marched through the streets of Salem, proclaiming that she was bearing testimony against the nakedness of the world. She was later tried and condemned to walk through the streets of Salem, in the same manner, at the "tail end" of a cart, accompanied by her mother.
Robert Buffum was a husbandman by principal occupation, and the trade he carried on was the sale of garden seeds, which was continued by his widow after his death. She, Tamosin Buffum, was appointed to administer the estate, which was in- ventoried at two hundred and seventy pounds. He made a will disposing of his worldly estate in man- ner prescribed by law, but when it was offered for probate the subscribing witneses, being Friends, would only affirm, and not swear "on the book,"
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hence the instrument was refused probate by the court. Robert Buffum died in 1669, and his wife, who was born in 1606, died in 1688. They were the parents of the following children: 1. Joseph, born in 1635; on account of sympathy with the Quakers he was banished from the colony, and returning to England laid his case before the King, who or- dered the Salem authorities to take him back, and it is a fact worthy of note that the first Quaker meeting held in New England was later held at his house; he married Damaris Pope. 2. Lydia, born in 1644; married (first) John Hills; (second) George Locker. 3. Margaret, married John Smith. 4. Sarah, married William Beane. 5. Mary, born in 1648; married Jeremiah Beale. 6. Caleb, mentioned below. 7. Deborah, married Robert Wilson.
(II) Caleb Buffum, son of Robert and Tamosin Buffum, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, July 29, 1650, and died in 1731. He and his brother Joseph were executors of their mother's will, which was proved June 19, 1688. Under the will Caleb Buffum received two acres of meadow and a great pewter basin. He married, March 26, 1672, Hannah Pope, who was born about 1648, daughter of Joseph and Gertrude Pope. Their children were: 1. Caleb, born May 14, 1673. 2. Robert, born December 1, 1675. 3. Jonathan, mentioned below. 4. Benjamin. 5. Hannah. 6. Tamosin.
(III) Jonathan Buffum, son of Caleb and Hannah (Pope) Buffum, was born about 1677. He married Mercy -, and they were the parents of several children, among whom the following are recorded: 1. Jonathan, born December 8, 1713, died young. 2. Deborah, born February 1, 1716-17. 3. Jonathan, born September 16, 1719. 4. Mercy, mentioned be- low. There were probably others, but no record of them can be found.
(IV) Mercy Buffum, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy Buffum, was born July 3, 1723, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died November 18, 1797, in Swansea, Massachusetts. She married Samuel Slade. (See Slade III).
ASA SHERMAN-The following is an heraldic description of the coat-of-arms of the Shermans of Yaxley, County Suffolk, given under Henry VII. to Thomas Sherman:
Arms-Or, a lion rampant, sable, between three oak leaves vert.
Crest-A sea lion, sejant,, sable, charged on the shoulder with three hezants, two and one.
Motto-Mortem vince virtute.
Of the London Sherman's, descendants of the Yaxley house:
Arms-Same arms. An annulet for difference.
Crest-A sea lion, sejant, per pale, or and argent, guttee- de-poix, finned, of the first, gold, on the shoulder a crescent for difference.
Of Ipswich, County Suffolk; brother of Thomas Sherman, of Yaxley:
Arms-Azure, a pelican or, vulning her breast proper.
Crest-A sea lion, sejant, per pale, or and argent, guttee- de-poix, finned, gold.
The surname of Sherman in England is of Ger- man origin, and at the present time in Germany and adjacent countries the name is found spelled Schurman, Schearman, and Schierman. It is de- rived from the occupation of some progenitor who was a dresser or shearer of cloth. The family bore arms, and probably lived in the County of Suffolk until the fifteen century, when branches were estab- lished in Essex. The name is found in England as early as 1420, and through wills and other docu- ments is traced as follows:
(I) Thomas Sherman, Gentleman, was born about 1420, and resided in Diss and Yaxley, England, dy- ing in 1493. He had a wife Agnes, and a son, John.
(II) John Sherman, Gentleman, born about 1450, died November, 1504. He was of Yaxley. He mar- ried Agnes Fullen, daughter of Thomas Fullen. They had a son Thomas.
(III) Thomas (2) Sherman, son of John and Agnes (Fullen) Sherman, was born about 1480, and died in November, 1551. He resided in Diss, on the river Waveney, between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. His will mentions property including the manors of Royden and Royden Tuft, with appurtenances, at Royden and Bessingham, and other properties in Norfolk and Suffolk. His wife, Jane, who was probably not his first, was a daughter of John Waller, of Wortham, Suffolk. Children: 1. Thomas. 2. Richard. 3. John. 4 Henry, mentioned below. 5. William. 6. An- thony. 7. Francis. 8. Bartholomew. 9. James.
(IV) Henry Sherman, son of Thomas (2) and Jane (Waller) Sherman, was born about 1530, in Yaxley, and is mentioned in his father's will. His. will, made January 20, 1589, proved July 25, 1590, was made at Colchester, where he lived. His first wife, Agnes (Butler) Sherman, was buried October 14, 1580. He married (second) Margery Wilson, a widow. Children: 1. Henry, mentioned below. 2. Edmund, married Anna Clere, died 1601; his son Edmund was the father of Rev. John Sherman, of New Haven, Connecticut, where Edmund died in 1641. 3. Dr. Robert, of London. 4. Judith, mar- ried Nicholas Fynce. 5. John, died without issue.
(V) Henry (2) Sherman, son of Henry (1) Sherman, was born about 1555, in Colchester, and resided in Dedham, County Essex, England, where he made his will, August 21, 1610. It was proved on September 8th following. He married Susan Hills, whose will was made ten days after his, and. proved in the following month. Six of the sons mentioned below were living when the father died. Children: 1. Henry, born 1571, died in 1642. 2. Samuel, mentioned below. 3. Susan, born in 1575. 4. Edmund, or Edward, born about 1577. 5. Na- thaniel, born 158-, died young. 6. Nathaniel, born in 1582. 7. Elizabeth, born about 1587. 8. Ezekiel, born July 25, 1589. 9. Mary, born July 27, 1592. 10. Daniel, died in 1634. 11. Anne, married Thomas. Wilson. 12. Phebe, married Simeon Fenn.
(VI) Samuel Sherman, son of Henry (2) and Susan (Hills) Sherman, was born 1572, and died in Dedham, England, in 1615. He married Philippa Ward.
ÆT MEMORIA
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(The Shermans in America).
(I) Philip Sherman, immigrant ancestor and progenitor of the American branch of the Shermans, was the seventh child of Samuel and Philippa (Ward) Sherman, and was born February 5, 1610, in Dedham, England. He died in March, 1687, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He came to America when twenty-three years old, and settled in Rox- bury, Massachusetts. Here he was made a freeman, May 14, 1634, standing next on the list after Gov- ernor Haynes. In 1635 he returned to England, re- maining a short time, but was again in Roxbury, November 20, 1637, when he and others were warned to give up all arms because "the opinions and revelations of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson have seduced and led into dangerous errors many of the people here in New England." The church record says that he was brought over to "Familism" by Porter, his wife's stepfather.
In 1636 he was one of the purchasers of the Island of Aquidneck, now Rhode Island, and on the formation of a government, became secretary under Governor William Coddington. The Massachusetts authorities evidently believed he was still under their jurisdiction, for, on March 12, 1638, though he had summons to appear at the next court "to answer such things as shall be objected," he did not answer this summons, but continued to be a prominent figure in Rhode Island affairs. He continued to serve in public office, and was made a freeman March 16, 1641; general recorder from 1648 to 1652, and deputy from 1665 to 1667. He was among the sixteen persons who were requested, on April 4, 1676, to be present at the next meeting of the deputies to give advice and help in regard to the Narragansett campaign. He was public-spirited and enterprising, a man of substance and evidently of considerable influence in local affairs. After his removal to Rhode Island he left the Congregational church and became a member of the Society of Friends. Tradition affirms that he was "a devout but determined man." The early records prepared by him still remain in Portsmouth, and show him to have been a very neat and expert penman, as well as an educated man. His will shows that he was wealthy for the times. In 1634 he married Sarah Odding, stepdaughter of John Porter, of Roxbury, and his wife Margaret, who was a Widow Odding at the time of her marriage to John Porter.
Philip Sherman's children: 1. Eber, born in 1634, lived in Kingstown, Rhode Island; died in 1706. 2. Sarah, born in 1636, married Thomas Mumford. 3. Peleg, born in 1638, died 1719, in Kingstown, Rhode Island. 4. Mary, born 1639, died young. 5. Edmond, born 1641; lived in Portsmouth and Dartmouth; died in 1719. 6. Samson, mentioned be- low. 7. William, born 1643, died young. 8. John, born 1644; a farmer and blacksmith in what is now South Dartmouth; died April 16, 1734. 9. Mary, born 1645; married Samuel Wilbur. 10. Hannah, born 1647; married William Chase. 11. Samuel, born 1648; lived in Portsmouth; died October 9,
1717. 12. Benjamin, born 1650; lived in Portsmouth.
13. Philippa, born October 1, 1652; married Ben- jamin Chase.
(II) Samson Sherman, son of Philip and Sarah (Odding) Sherman, was born in 1642, in Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, where he passed his life, and died June 27, 1718. He married, March 4, 1675, Isabel Tripp, born in 1651, daughter of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp. (See Tripp and Paine). She died in 1716. Children: 1. Philip, born January 16, 1676. 2. Sarah, born September 4, 1677. 3. Alice, born January 12, 1680. 4. Samuel, born January 28, 1682. 5. Abiel, born October 15, 1683. 6. Isabel, born 1686. 7. Job, mentioned below.
(III) Job Sherman, son of Samson and Isabel (Tripp) Sherman, was born November 8, 1687, in Portsmouth, and died there November 16, 1747. He married (first), December 23, 1714, Bridget Gardi- ner, of Kingstown, and (second), in 1732, Amie Spencer, of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Chil- dren of the first married: 1. Philip, born October 12, 1715. 2. Israel, born October 31, 1717. 3. Mary, born January 16, 1719. 4. Job, born May 2, 1722. 5. Bridget, born May 7, 1724. 6. Sarah, born October 29, 1726. 7. Alice, born April 25, 1728. 8. Mary, born October 13, 1730. Children of the second marriage: 9. Amie, born May 27, 1734. 10. Benjamin, born September 14, 1735. 11. Samson (2), mentioned below. 12. Martha, born November 28, 1738. 13. Walter, born August 20, 1740. 14. Dorcas, born November 2, 1742. 15. Abigail, born September 10, 1744.
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