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(IV) Samson (2) Sherman, son of Job and Amie (Spencer) Sherman, was born July 23, 1737, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he spent his life, engaged in agriculture and died January 24, 1801. He married, December 9, 1761, Ruth Fish, daughter of David and Jemima (Tallman) Fish, of Ports- mouth. Children: 1. Walter, born April 4, 1763; married Rebecca Anthony, of Portsmouth. 2. Amy, born January 6, 1764; married Daniel Anthony, of Portsmouth. 3. Job, born January 21, 1766; mar- ried Alice Anthony. 4. Susanna, born October 19, 1767; married Peleg Almy, of Portsmouth. 5. Han- nah, born January 27, 1769; married Jonathan Den- nis, of Portsmouth. 6. Anne, born November 19, 1770; married Nathan Chase of Portsmouth. 7. David, born June, 1772; married Waite Sherman, of Portsmouth. 8. Ruth, born October 21, 1773, died in infancy. 9. Ruth, born February 20, 1778; mar- ried Obadiah David, of New Bedford, Massachu- setts. 10. Asa, mentioned below. 11. Abigail, born April 2, 1782; married Abram David, of Fair- haven, Massachusetts. 12. Mary, born November 18, 1783; married David Shove, of Berkley, Massachu- setts.
(V) Asa Sherman, son of Samson (2) and Ruth (Fish) Sherman, was born December 22, 1779, in Portsmouth, and died in Fall River, December 29, 1863. His remains were interred in the Friends' Cemetery, Portsmouth. He was a birthright mem- ber of the Society of Friends, was a farmer and landowner in Portsmouth. He married, at Friends' Meeting, in Newport, November 11, 1805, Elizabeth Mitchell, born October 17, 1782, in Middletown,
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Rhode Island, daughter of Richard and Joanna (Lawton) Mitchell. (See Mitchell IV). Children: 1. Ruth, born November 21, 1806. 2. Joanna, born July 30, 1808, died in Fall River, September 9, 1863. 3. Sarah, born February 30, 1810; married, November 20, 1839, Abner Slade, of Swansea, Mas- sachusetts. 4. Amy, born September 16, 1811; mar- ried, October 21, 1839, Mark Anthony, of Taunton, Massachusetts. 5. Richard Mitchell, born Septem- ber 16, 1813. 6. Mary, mentioned below. 7. Asa, born December 23, 1817. 8. Daniel, born June 25, 1820. 9. William, born April 19, 1823. 10. Annie, born July 17, 1826, died in Fall River, January 15, 1849.
(VI) Mary Sherman, fifth daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Sherman, was born September 16, 1815, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She mar- ried, October 5, 1842, Hon. William Lawton Slade, of Somerset, Massachusetts. (See Slade VI).
(The Paine Line).
For the origin of the surname Paine we must trace far beyond the opening of the surname period into the Graeco-Roman civilization. In the classical Latin of Tacitus paganus (from which Payne and Paine were ultimately evolved) is fre- quently found in contradistinction to miles or ar- matus, where comparison is made between a regu- lar enrolled soldier (armatus) and the raw half- armed rustics who sometimes formed a rude militia in Roman wars, or, more widely, between a soldier and a civilian. Paganus retained its original sig- nificance, although this was lost sight of during the ages which followed the introduction of Christianity. The name meant literally in the beginning, a vil- lager, the resident of a pagus, a canton, country district or commune. In its early application paganus was used by the Christian church to denote those who refused to believe in the one true God. It has long been accepted that the application of the name paganus, villager, to non- Christians was due to the fact that it was in the rural districts that the old faiths lingered longest.
The English form comes to us through the French Pagan of Payan, a country-man. This was a favorite fontname in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, which would account for its great popularity as a surname. Payan and Payn came into England with the Norman Conquest. The following verse from Chaucer illustrates the use of the word:
The Constable and Dame Hermegile, his wife, Were payenes and that country everywhere.
-Man of Lawes Tale.
Arms-Paly of six argent and vert, on a chief azure three garhs or.
Crest-A lion rampant proper, supporting a wheat sheaf or.
There were several immigrants of the name in the New England colonies before the close of the seventeenth century, the majority of whom became the founders of families which have left the impress of the name on the history of the communities in which they settled. The Rhode Island family com-
prises the descendants of Anthony Paine, who was among the earliest settlers of the town of Ports- mouth.
) Anthony Paine, immigrant ancestor and progenitor, was a native of England. He is first of record in the American colonies in 1638, when he is recorded as an inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. On April 30, 1639, he was one of the twenty-nine signers of the following compact for 2 form of civil government for Portsmouth: "We whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of His Majesty, King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politic, unto his laws according to matters of justice." On November 10, 1643, he en- tered into an agreement with Rose Grinnell, prior to their marriage, that upon the death of either, the property of the one deceased should go to the chil- dren of that person. Anthony Paine died in 1650; his will bears the date, May 6, 1649. He was twice married. His first wife died before 1643, in which year he married (second) Rose Grinnell, daughter of Matthew Grinnell; she later married James Weeden, and died some time after 1673.
(II) Mary Paine, daughter of Anthony Paine, be- came the wife of John Tripp, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She survived her husband, and mar- ried (second), April 4, 1683, Benjamin Engell, and died February 12, 1687. From Mary (Paine) Tripp the line descends to Caroline E. (Slade) Brayton, through her son, James Tripp, and her daughters Elizabeth and Isabel Tripp.
(The Line Through James Tripp).
(III) James Tripp, son of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp, married Mercy Lawton, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Hazard) Lawton.
(IV) Elizabeth Tripp, daughter of James and Mercy (Lawton) Tripp, became the wife of Rich- ard Mitchell, founder of the Mitchell family in Rhode Island. (See Mitchell I).
(V) James Mitchell, son of Richard and Eliz- abeth (Tripp) Mitchell, married Anna Folger, daughter of Jethro and Mary (Starbuck) Folger. (See Folger V).
(VI) Richard Mitchell, son of James and Anna (Folger) Mitchell, married Joanna Lawton, daugh- ter of John and Sarah Lawton.
(VII) Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Richard and Joanna (Lawton) Mitchell, married Asa Sher- man. (See Sherman V).
(VIII) Mary Sherman, daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Sherman, became the wife of the Hon. William Lawton Slade, of Fall River, Massachusetts, and mother of:
(IX) Caroline Elizabeth Slade, daughter of Hon. William Lawton and Mary (Sherman) Slade, be- came the wife of the late Hezekiah Anthony Bray- ton, of Fall River. (See Brayton VII).
(The Line Through Elizabeth Tripp).
(III) Elizabeth Tripp, daughter of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp, became the wife of Zuriel Hall.
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(IV) Mary Hall, daughter of Zuriel and Eliz- abeth (Tripp) Hall, married Robert Fish.
(V) David Fish, son of Robert and Mary (Hall) Fish, married Jemima Tallman, daughter of James and Hannah (Swain) Tallman.
(VI) Ruth Fish, daughter of David and Jemima (Tallman) Fish, married Samson (2) Sherman. (See Sherman IV).
(VII) Asa Sherman, son of Samson (2) and Ruth (Fish) Sherman, married Elizabeth Mitchell, daugh- ter of Richard and Joanna (Lawton) Mitchell.
(VIII) Mary Sherman, married Hon. William Lawton Slade.
(IX) Caroline Elizabeth (Slade) Brayton.
(The Line Through Isabel Tripp).
(III) Isabel Tripp, daughter of John and Mary (Paine) Tripp, married Samson Sherman. (See Sherman II).
(IV) Job Sherman, son of Samson and Isabel (Tripp) Sherman, married Amie Spencer.
(V) Samson (2) Sherman, son of Job and Amie (Spencer) Sherman, married Ruth Fish.
(VI) Asa Sherman, son of Samson (2) and Ruth (Fish) Sherman, married Elizabeth Mitchell.
(VII) Mary Sherman, daughter of Asa and Eliz- abeth (Mitchell) Sherman, married Hon. William Lawton Slade.
(VIII) Caroline Elizabeth Slade, daughter of Hon. William Lawton and Mary (Sherman) Slade, became the wife of the late Hezekiah Anthony Brayton, of Fall River. (See Brayton VII).
RICHARD MITCHELL-Among prominent per- sons of the Mitchell family are to be named the following:
Sir Andrew Mitchell was vice-admiral of the British fleet that forced the entrance to Texel Is- land, Holland, in the war against the French and the Dutch, in 1794. He captured the Dutch fleet, helping to establish the naval supremacy of Great Britain.
Sir Charles H. B. Mitchell, high commissioner of the State of Perak, one of the Malay States, was directly responsible for the first meeting of the native chiefs and the British residents for the pur- pose of friendly discussion, in 1897.
James Mitchell, Scotchman, who perfected an ingenious amplification of the Maelzel metronome. John Mitchell, who perfected and manufactured the first machine that made steel pens.
J. A. Mitchell, one of the founders and the first editor of the weekly magazine, "Life."
J. C. Mitchell, one of the most famous of the early racquet players. .
J. K. Mitchell, one of the pioneers of the liquid gas field. He first froze sulphurous acid gas to a solid .
Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, member of the Zoologi- cal Society of London, a recognized authority in the study of mammalia.
R. A. H. Mitchell, Eton, Oxford, Hants, promi- nent Britainer, and the greatest cricket player of all times.
W. M. Mitchell, well known astronomer, specializ- ing in the study of the sun.
Maria Mitchell, of the Rhode Island branch, prominent American astronomer and educator.
Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell, of the Long Island branch, United States Senator and author, who urged the adoption of Freedonia as the proper name for this country in his "Address to the Fredes or People of the United States."
Stephen Mitchell, a tobacco manufacturer of inter- national repute, who founded the second largest library in Scotland.
(The Mitchells in America).
Arms-Sable, a fess wavy between three mascles or. Crest-A phoenix in flames proper. Motto-Spernit humum.
There are many branches of this family scat- tered throughout the United States, founded in the early Colonial days by several representatives of the house who came from England and Scotland and settled principally in the New England States. The descendants were numerous, and migrated from one part of the country to another as new regions were opened. Almost invariably, however, members of the various branches are to be found within a short distance of the original location of the pro- genitor.
The Mitchells of Rhode Island form one of the oldest as well as one of the most distinguished branches of the family in the United States. They comprise the descendants of Richard Mitchell, of Newport.
The Mitchells of Roanoke county, Virginia, founded in the early part of the seventeenth cen- tury, have continued to live on and in the vicinity of the old family estate. They are related by mar- riage to the family of Colonel Zachary Lewis, whose father was a messmate of General Wash- ington during the war with the French. They are connected in the same degree with the Thomas and Graham families, the latter that of a governor of North Carolina, William Grahanı.
The Pennsylvania family was founded by the de- scendants of William Mitchell and his wife Eliz- abeth, who emigrated from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Bermuda. Offspring of this branch also settled in Baltimore. Another branch of York county, Pennsylvania, claims George Mitchell, born in Scotland in 1734, as progenitor.
The Long Island family, of ancient origin, has furnished many famous public men. The Nan- tucket stock, of which Professor Maria Mitchell, and her brother, Henry Mitchell, were descended, has been highly distinguished. The Connecticut Mitchells claim kin with Rebecca Motte, of Revolu- tionary fame; with Governor Saltonstall and Gov- ernor Dudley, and also with the Gardiners of Gardiner's Island.
One western branch of the family claim "Honest John Hart," one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey, as an ancestor. James Mitchell, a Scotch settler from Glasgow in 1730, founded the family which produced among
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other well known men, Stephen Mitchell, who was one of the settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and a member of the first Continental Congress held at Philadelphia. He was also chief justice of Connecticut. Donald Mitchell, best known as "Ike Marvel," the essayist, was of the third generation in America. Stephen Mitchell had six sons, all col- lege graduates. Matthew Mitchell was the pro- genitor of another family in Connecticut. He was a passenger on the "James" in 1635, together with his wife and child, and settled in Connecticut, near Wethersfield, of which place he became town clerk in 1639. He was a representative at court from Saybrook; he took an active part in the Pequot War, and removed to Hempstead, Long Island, in 1643. The town of Hingham, Massachusetts, was probably named by Edward Mitchell, a passenger on the ship "Diligent" from Hingham, England, in 1638.
Experience Mitchell, who lived in Plymouth, Duxbury, and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, came from England on the "Ann," in 1623. He married Jane Cook, daughter of Francis Cook, one of the "Mayflower" passengers.
Many of the famous figures of the Revolution were members of the Mitchell family. They in- clude: Major Abiel and Colonel Mitchell, from Massachusetts; Captain Alexander Mitchell from New Jersey; Nathaniel Mitchell, captain of a bat- talion of the Flying Camp, from Delaware; Captain Joseph Mitchell, from Virginia; Captain James and Major Ephraim Mitchell, of South Carolina, and Lieutenant John Mitchell, of Georgia.
(The Rhode Island Mitchells).
(I) Richard Mitchell, immigrant ancestor and progenitor, was a native of Bricktown, Isle of Wight, Great Britain, born in 1686. There he learned the trade of tailor, and on attaining his majority decided to go into business for himself in his native place. He visited London in order to obtain the necessary materials, and while there was seized by a press gang, and taken on board a man-of-war. Tailors were not then exempted, as were mechanics, from impressment. The vessel on which he sailed spent some time at Newport, Rhode Island, and here Richard Mitchell found opportunity to escape. Tradition runs to the effect that he made a suit of clothes for the governor's son, which so pleased the latter that he secreted him and kept him in concealment until after the vessel had sailed. He continued to reside in New- port, and became a member of the Society of Friends, later taking a prominent part in local affairs.
In 1708 he married Elizabeth Tripp, of Dart- mouth, Massachusetts, born in 1685, daughter of James and Mercy (Lawton) Tripp, granddaughter of James and Mary (Paine) Tripp, and of George and Elizabeth (Hazard) Lawton; she was the great- granddaughter of Thomas Hazard, founder of the noted Hazard family of Rhode Island. Richard Mitchell died September 24, 1722, at the age of thirty-six years, and his widow married (second),
April 18, 1734, William Wood; she died February 13, 1740. Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Tripp) Mitchell: 1. Elizabeth, born July 13, 1709; mar- ried, December 8, 1726, Jabez Carpenter. 2. Mary, born October 17, 1712; married, May 18, 1732, Caleb Coggeshall .. 3. James, mentioned below. 4. Rich- ard, born September 5, 1719; settled in Nantucket, Massachusetts. 5. Joseph, born November 25, 1720.
(II) James Mitchell, first son of Richard and Elizabeth (Tripp) Mitchell, was born April 20, 1715, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was a member of the Society of Friends, in which he was an elder. He lived for a time in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and ther married Anna Folger, daughter of Jethro and Mary (Starbuck) Folger, of Nantucket. He moved later to Middletown, Rhode Island, near the Portsmouth line, and continued to reside there until his death on October 5, 1799. Children : 1. Mary, born November 10, 1739; married Matthew Barker, of Newport. 2. James, born August 31, 1743; married Elizabeth Anthony. 3. Elizabeth, born July 9, 1746; married Giles Hoosier. 4. Hep- sabeth, born March 14, 1750; married (first) Peter Chase; (second) David Buffum. 5. Richard, men- tioned below.
(III) Richard (2) Mitchell, son of James and Anna (Folger) Mitchell, was born November 25, 1754, in Middletown, Rhode Island, and lived in that town, near what is known as Mitchell's Lane, where he died October 26, 1833, and where he is buried. He married, November 6, 1776, Joanna Lawton, a native of Portsmouth, daughter of John and Sarah Lawton, who died August 6, 1830. Children: 1. Jethro Folger, born March 14, 1778; married Anne Gould. 2. Isaac, born August 21, 1779; married Sarah Gould. 3. John, born January 15, 1781; married Katherine Gould. 4. Elizabeth, mentioned below. 5. Peter, born July 3, 1784; mar- ried Mary Wales. 6. Sarah, born May 19, 1787. 7. Joanna, born December 3, 1788; married David Rod- man. 8. Ann, born August 6, 1791. 9. Richard, born February 20, 1793.
(IV) Elizabeth Mitchell, eldest daughter of Rich- ard (2) and Joanna (Lawton) Mitchell, was born in Middletown, Rhode Island, October 17, 1782. She became the wife of Asa Sherman, of Ports- mouth, Rhode Island. (See Sherman V).
The most prominent member of the Nantucket family of that name, descendant of old Quaker stock, Maria Mitchell, was born August 1, 1818, the daughter of William Mitchell. Her father, William Mitchell (1791-1869) was a school teacher and a self-taught astronomer, who rated chronometers for Nantucket whalers. He was well known in the New England States as a learned man, and held the position of overseer of Harvard University from 1857 to 1865, with all the prestige attached to such an office. For a time he was in the employ of the United States Coast Survey, and did some excellent work in that department.
Miss Maria Mitchell had as early as 1831 (during the annual eclipse of the sun) been her father's assistant, and the progress she made under his tutorage, together with the certain genius she pos-
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sessed in the science, may be visualized from the fact that sixteen years later, on October 1, 1847, she discovered a telescopic comet, seen by De Vico on October 3, by W. R. Dawes, October 7, and by Madame Rumker, October 11. For this discov- ery, outstripping as she did the famous astronomers of the world, she received a gold medal with the congratulations of the King of Denmark, and was elected in 1848 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, being the first woman member of the organization. In 1850, as further recognition of her excellent work, she was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
She removed from Nantucket to Lynn, Massa- chusetts, in 1861, setting up in the latter city the great equatorial telescope which had been presented to her by popular subscription by the women of America. Here she lived and studied until late in the year 1865, when she was chosen professor of astronomy and director of the Observatory at Vas- sar College. She continued actively in this position until 1888, how she became professor emeritus. For many years she had specialized in the study of Jupiter and Saturn, and in 1874 began to make pho- tographs of the sun. She died in Lynn, Massa- chusetts, June 28, 1889.
Henry Mitchell (1830-1902), her brother, was a famous hydrographer.
Adjoining the Maria Mitchell homestead, which is still carefully preserved, stands a memorial astron- omical observatory and library erected in Miss Mit- chell's honor, by popular subscription, in 1908. In it are kept the valuable collections and records which she and her brother made during years of patient research in the fields of their chosen sciences.
(The Folger Line).
The genealogical notes of Benjamin Franklin contain an inference that the Folger family, of which he was a descendant, was of Flemish origin, and was established in England at the time of Queen Elizabeth. His gleanings on the subject con- stitute all we know of the early records in America, from the time of the immigrant ancestor down, which are very complete, however, and are evidence that the family played an important part in the life and affairs of the early settlement of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from the time of its founding.
(I) John Folger, immigrant ancestor and pro- genitor, was a native of England, and possibly a resident of Norwich, County Norfolk, whence he sailed for America in 1635, with his son, Peter Folger. He is said to have come on the same ship with Hugh Peters. In 1642 John Folger owned a homestead and six acres of land in Watertown. Although there is no actual record of the fact, it is probable that John and Peter Folger accom- panied Thomas Mayhew, Jr., to Martha's Vine- yard in 1641-42. John Folger owned a house, up- land, commonage and meadow land at the Vineyard, and resided there until his death, about 1660. His widow was Meribell Folger, whose surname is said to have been Gibbs.
(II) Peter Folger, son of John Folger, was born in England in 1617, and accompanied his father to America in 1635, removing with him to the Vine- yard in 1641-42. While here he taught school and surveyed land, also assisting Thomas Mayhew, Jr., in his labors as missionary among the Indians. Rev. Experience Mayhew, in a letter to John Gard- ner, Esquire, dated 1694, states that when Thomas Mayhew, Jr., left for England in 1657, he left the care of his church and mission to Peter Folger. At a meeting of the proprietors of Nantucket, held in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in the latter part of 1660 or early in 1661, five persons were chosen to meas- ure the land. Peter Folger was one of these, and as evidence of the remarkable confidence of the people in him, we have the order stating that the proceeding of any three of this body of men should be accounted legal and valid, if Peter Folger was one. In the summer of 1659 he is said to have accompanied Tristram Coffin and others who visited the Island of Nantucket to view it at the time of the purchase from Mayhew. He was there in 1661-62 as a surveyor, and although not one of the first proprietors he may be regarded as a very early settler, having removed to the Island in 1663, at the invitation of the proprietors who deeded him half a share of land on the condition that he would live in Nantucket and act as interpreter among the Indians. The following is the deed of the prop- erty, dated Nantucket, July 4, 1663:
These presents witnesseth that we whose names are under- written do give, and grant unto peter foulger, half a share of accommodations on the land above sayd, that is to say half so much as one of the twenty purchasers, both in respect to up- land meadow, wood, timber and other appurtenances belonging to him and his heirs forever on condition that he com to in- habit the Island aforesayd with his family within one year after the sale hereof. Likewise that the sayd peter shall attend the English in the way of an Interpreter between the Indians and them upon al necessary ocasions, his house lot to be layd at the place commonly called by the name of Rogers field so as may be most convenient
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Cotton Mather describes Peter Folger as an "Able Godley Englishman who was employed in teaching the youth in Reading, Writing and the Principles of Religion by Catechism, being well learned likewise in the Scriptures and Capable of Help in religious matters." On July 21, 1673, he was chosen clerk of the court and recorder, which office he held for many years. To him fell the laurels as the greatest scholar of the early com- munity. His poem, "A Looking Glass for the Times," published April 23, 1676, shows him an advocate of religious liberty and strongly condemns the persecuting spirit of New England. It is be- lieved that when an old man he embraced the views of the Friends. Peter Folger died in 1690. In 1644 he married Mary Morrill, who had been
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an inmate of the family of Hugh Peters; she died in 1704. Among their children were: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Abiah, who became the wife of Josiah Franklin, of Boston, and mother of Ben- jamin Franklin.
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