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74; 1836, Daniel Taylor, 65 ; 1836, Luther Wright ; 1837, Moses Woods, 87; 1837, Solomon Smith, 84; 1837, Amos Noyes, 72; 1838, Deacon Phineas Wheeler, 65; 1838, Ebenezer Barker, 73; 1838, Silas Piper; 1838, Benjamin Hayward; 1839, Nathaniel Faulkner, 73; 1839, David Baruard, 45 ; 1839, Peter Fletcher ; 1839, Jonathan Powers; 1840, Capt. John Handley, 54 ; 1840, Simon llosmer ; 1840, Daniel F. Barker ; 1810, John Oliver; 1841, Jonathan Billings, the clock maker, 64; 1841, Reuben Wheeler ; 1841, Joseph B. Chamberlain ; 1841, Daniel White ; 1841, Ephraim Brooks; 1841, Peter llaynes ; 1841, Hannah Leighton, 92; 1842, Jonas Wood ; 1842, Abel Proctor, 87; 1842, John Wheeler ; 1843, Paul Conant; 1844, Luther Robbins, 41; 1844, Samuel Iland- ley ; 1844, William Stearns; 1845, Moses Faulkner; 1846, Ammi F. Adams, 79 ; 1846, Charles Handley, 87; 1846, William Reed, 68; 1847, Danforth Law, 44; 1847, Amos Ilandley, 75 ; 1847, John Chaffin, 68 ; 1848, Samuel Hosmer, 86, Revolutionary soldier; 1828, Amos Law, 51 ; 1848, John S. Fletcher, 67; 1848, Ebenezer Robbins, 60 ; 1848, Jonathan Wheeler, 61 ; 1849, Ephraim Hapgood, 67; 1819, Allen Richardson, 63 ; 1849, Nathaniel Stearns, 61; 1849, Joseph Barker, 74; 1849, Thomas Thorp, 94; 1850, Joseph Brown, 44: 1851, Nathaniel G. Brown, 70 ; 1851, Nathan Wright, 60; 1851, Ebenezer Davis, 74; 1852, Tilly Rob- bins, 79; 1852, Silas Holden, 58; 1853, Daniel Wetherbee, father of Pirineas, 66; 1853, Daniel Barker, 79; 1854, Nathan D. Hosmer, 83 ; 1834, Joseph Harris, fatber of Daniel, 85 ; 1854, Henry Woods, 79 ; 1855, Ebenezer Barker, 53 ; 1855, Jouathan Barker, 78; 1855, Asa Par- ker, 63 ; 1855, Luther B. Jones, 67 ; 1856, Dr. Charles Tuttle, 87 ; 18'6, Abijah Oliver, 86; 1856, Ebenezer Smith, 81; 1856, John Handley, father of David M., 93; 1856, Solomon Smith, 61; 1858, Reuben Bar- ker, 72; 1859, Paltialı Brooks, 77; 1859, Eli Faulkner, 79; 1859, Silas Piper, 67; 1860, Francis Piper, son of Josiah, 80; 1860, Dea. John White, 75; 1861, Silas Jones, 74; 1861, Edward Wetherbee, 79; 1861, Jedidiah Tuttle, 67 ; 1861, Abraham Conant, 77; 1862, Cyrus Wheeler, 59 ; 1862, Joel Oliver, 84 ; 1863, John Harris, 88; 1863, Joseph Bra- brook, 83; 1863, Reuben Wheeler, Josiah D.'s father, 81 ; 1863, Joel Conant, 75; 1863, Ahel Robbins, 71; 1864, Simon Tuttle, 71; 1864, James Keyes, 89 ; 1864, William Reed, father of Moses' father, 83 ; 1865, Dr. John M. Miles, 63 ; 1865, George W. Robbins, son of Philip, 84; 1865, Charles Robbins, 79; 1866, Luther Conant, 80; 1867, Ivory Keyes, 62 ; 1868, Hon. Stevens Hayward, 81 ; 1868, Jonathan B. Davis, 78; 1868, Luther Davis, 81; 1869, Dr. Peter Goodnow, died in Boston, 80 ; 1870, Cyrus Putnam, 72 ; 1870, Amos Handley, 70; 1872, Mehitable Barker Piper, 101-2-1, March 25; 1872, Abel Jones, 88; 1872, Dea. Silas Ilosmer, 80; 1872, Jonathan Hosmer, 86; 1872, Simeon Knights; 1873, James Harris, 68 ; 1873, Ahel Farrar, 76; 1873, Eluathan Jones, 78 ; 1863, William Reed, 69 ; 1874, Silas Taylor, 80; 1874, Nathaniel HIap- good, 89; 1874, George Robbins, 90; 1874, Simon Hapgood, 86 ; 1875, Alden Fuller, 77; 1875, Dr. llarris Cowdry, 72; 1876, Ithamar Parker 78; 1876, Amos Cutter, 88 ; 1876, Oliver W. Drew, M.D., 78 ; 1876, Mrs. Eliza, wife of Elnathan Jones, 79; 1876, Samuel T. Adams, 79; 1876, Mrs. Susan Abel Forbush, 76; 1877, Francis Tuttle, Esq., 86; 1877, Rufus Tenney, 82; 1877, Dennis Putnam, 82 ; 1878, Mrs. Harriet Tuttle, widow of Francis Tuttle, Esq., 82; 1878, Nathan Chaffin, 77; 1878, Thomas Taylor, 72; 1878, Silas F. Bowker, 83; 1878, Miss Submit Wheeler, 75; 1879, Daniel Jones, 66; 1879, Dea. John Fletcher, 89 ; 1879, Mrs. Sarah B. Stearns, 85 ; 1879, Jeremiah Hosmer, son of Amos and Susan, 85 ; 1879, Mrs. Harriet Davis, 82; 1879, Levi Chamberlain, 72 ; 1879, Ruth Dole, 96; 1879, Mrs. Myra T. Miles, 74 ; 1880, Ebenezer Wood, 87 ; 1880, Jonathan Wheeler, 89; 1880, Peter Tenney, 81 ; 1880, Col. Winthrop E. Faulkner, 74; 1880, Mrs. Rutb Hager, 91; 1880, Mrs. Lucy Noyes, 66; 1880, Mrs. Betsey Chaffin, 87; 1880, Williamu Davis, 89 ; 1881, Nathan Brooks, 81 ; 1881, Mrs. Ruth C., wife of Joseph P. Reed, 73; 1881, Abel Forbush, 84; 1881, Mrs. Betsey H. Adams, 86 ; 1881, Aaron Fletcher, 80; 1881, Joseph P. Reed, 73; 1881, Jonathan A. Piper, 73; 1881, James W. Wheeler, 69; 1882, Joseph Wheeler, 85 ; Jonas Blodgett, 71; 1883, Tilly Robbins, 81; Daniel Wetherbee, 68 ; 1884, Simon Hosmer, 84 ; 1887, Robert Chaffin ; 1888, David M. Handley, 86; Cyrus Barker, 85.
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Henry Shining
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
HENRY SKINNER.
We are fortunate in being able to secure this memento of the past. in the portrait of Mrs. Skinner's husband. It is an excellent presentation of the man as he appeared in early manhood. Ile was a genial, cultured gentleman; fond of reading, though not a graduate of college : moving in the choicest circles of society ; quiet in his style, but buoyant and aetive.
He went to Brookfield, when a youth, to act as clerk in a store. The storekeeper told him never to find fault with the butter which the eustomers brought for barter, but simply, upon examining its quality, to tell them how mueh he would give them.
Ilis father, Dr. Abraham Skinner, died in 1810, when Henry was obliged to return to Acton, and, in company with his brother, Franeis Skinner, for a while had charge of the farm. The homestead and farm were afterwards owned by Charles Tuttle.
Dr. Skinner built the house on this site in 1794, which, in its day, like that of Mrs. Skinner, built about the same time, ranked among the most elegant in town.
The wife of Dr. Abraham Skinner was a Miss Coit, from Marlboro'. He had a large medieal practice for years. Dr. Skinner's father was noted as a violinist. He could play on the violin and jump through a win- dow and not break the time or the tune.
Franeis Skinner, the brother of Henry, was a noted merchant in Boston, and became quite wealthy in trade, and was generous in his treatment of his brother's widow.
Mrs. Skinner tells this anecdote of her . husband, after locating in business in An- dover : " A friend of Mr. Skinner, Mr. Kid- der, said to him, one day, ' Now, Skinner, you ought to be married; and I wish to make you this proposition : If you will get married within a year, you shall have my house, rent free, for a year; but if you don't get mar-
ried within a year, you shall give me one of your best carpets for my new house.' Upon this," Mrs. Skinner said, " he eame right over to Acton and got married. He could not afford to lose the rent of that house a year, any way," said Mrs. Skinner, smilingly.
Mr. Skinner was noted, while a trader in Andover, for his earnest temperance princi- ples. He was in full sympathy with Dr. Edwards, of Andover, who was at that time, stirring the whole community with his appeals for a reform.
Among his papers is this quaint agreement, signed by Mr. Skinner, showing his style of work in this line :
" This is to Certify, That Henry Skinner agrees to give Rogers Blood cloth to make a good coat, provid- ing he does not drink any rum. gin or brandy, wine or any kind of intoxicating spirits, for twelve months from this day (Andover, July 20, 1828), and Blood is to forfeit ten dollars if he does not abide by this agreement. Signed in presence of John Berby, who promises to make the cloth into a coat for Mr. Blood if he obtained it in the aforesaid way."
The autograph appended to the portrait of Mr. Skinner, here presented, was cut from this agreement.
Mr. Skinner dying before the fulfilment of this obligation, there is this additional state- ment : -
ANDOVER, April 10, 1830.
Received of Josiah H. Adams, administrator, six dollars, in full the within obligation, by me.
ROGERS BLOOD,
Mr. Skinner was aetive in exertions to repress the liquor traffie in Andover, urging the rumseller to stop, and in some eases seeur- ing pledges to that effeet. His early death was a great publie calamity as well as a pri- vate grief.
JOSEPH BRABROOK.
He was the father of George, Alfred, Sarah, and Benjamin. His fine engraving, presented to the public in this history of Acton, is that
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of a man who had some notable features of character worthy of special remembrance. He was an honest man. So all the records prove : so all the reminiscences of the man reported by his most familiar contemporaries affirm. He was honest in large trusts ; his honesty went down also into the minutiæ of life equally sure. If he had made the mis- take of a cent in trade with the storekeeper anywhere in town, his first steps were directed back to the man with whom the mistake had been made, and his conscience was uneasy till full satisfaction had been given. The wit- nesses who rise up in judgment on the man all agree. Says one : " If there ever was an honest man in the town of Aeton, Joseph Brabrook was that man."
His integrity was impressed upon the memo- ries of his fellow-townsmen as vividly as the elear outlines of the beautiful eminence on which has stood for nearly a century and half the Brabrook homestead. Thanks to his son George, we have a permanent reminder of all the good qualities of his father and family and ancestry associated with that structure in the life-like engraving of the artist. It is a fitting tribute of a loyal son to a worthy father. The noble elm to the left in the landscape is of the same age with Alfred, another son. This cluster of elms around the Brabrook house, like the other notable elms in town, are typical illustrations of the nobility of the men who planted them and lived and died under their shade.
The house itself, though built in 1751, was put together from cellar to ridgepole with Brabrook thoroughness, and it stands to-day unroeked by the roughest winds that sweep over the heights.
Mr. Brabrook was a cooper, and made bar- rels in the winter, and the Brabrook stamp was enough to carry them forthwith into and out of the market. He raised hogs, and there were no cleaner or better hogs in town. He did not let them revel in their trough after dinner, but invented an arrangement for lift- ing it at once out of their reach till the next
meal was ready. He raised peaches, and they were of the best quality, and had the real Brabrook flavor. The canker worms at one time made their raid upon his peach orehard. He met them at their first outset, and said, " Those worms are not to eat my peach orchard," and off went the branches. A new and better growth soon repaid for the trimming.
He was a mán of moderate size ; not large, nor tall, not demonstrative, not loud spoken on the streets or elsewhere. but efficient in bringing about sure results. He lost no time at the loitering places of the village. If he took his oxen to the blacksmith's to be shod, and Blodgett said, "Please wait a few min- utes, and I will attend to your ease shortly, Mr. Brabrook," he at once started them on their homeward beat, saying, "I will come again," and he would do it. a second and a third time if necessary. He was a peaceable, careful, reverent man. He kept up his habit of asking a blessing at the table in his latest life, even when his voice could scarcely be heard by him who sat nearest at the table. Silas Conant, Sr., heard one of his last utter- ances. It was this : "O God, we thank thee for this food that is set before us ; we thank thee kindly for Christ's sake."
He was devoted to his family. He had an efficient, worthy companion in his wife, whose energy and wisdom aided him essentially in accomplishing the grand issue of his life- work.
His quiet, faithful ministries in her last painful and prolonged sufferings are remem- bered, and have endeared his name to a large circle of appreciating neighbors. His chil- dren rise up at the remembrance of his life on the Hill, and call him blessed. He died February 15, 1863, aged eighty-three years and six months. His wife, Sally, died Decem- ber 17, 1847, aged sixty-five years and six months.
Two Brabrook brothers were here as early as 1669.
Thomas married Abigail Temple, daughter
Joseph Brabrook
THE BRABROOK HOMESTEAD. 1751.
Bradley Stone
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of Richard Temple, in 1669, and died in 1692. Joseph, from whom those bearing the name descended, married Sarah Graves, in 1672, and had one, Joseph, who married Sarah Temple, and died in 1719. He was father to Benjamin and grandfather to Deacon Joseph.
Second, John, who died a soldier at Lan- easter, in 1705. Several daughters.
James, died at Fort Lawrence, in Nova Scotia, in 1756.
Benjamin Brabrook, the father of Deacon Joseph Brabrook, was second lieutenant of Company 5, Third Regiment of Militia, March 7, 1780. John Heald, first lieutenant : Simon Hunt, captain. He died January 14, 1827, aged eighty-five.
Joseph Brabrook was chosen deacon Sep- tember 29, 1775, and died April 28, 1812, aged seventy-three, holding the office thirty- seven years. Anna Brabrook, widow of Deacon Joseph, died March 2, 1816, aged seventy-five.
Joseph Brabrook, the son of Benjamin and Dorcas, was born March 24, 1738. Benjamin, son of Benjamin, was born July 12, 1741. Benjamin Brabrook, son of Benjamin, was married June 6, 1773.
Joseph Adams Brabrook, son of Joseph, Jr., and Sally, was born November 18, 1806. Benjamin F. Brabrook, son of Joseph, Jr., and Sally, was born September 15, 1809. Sarah Appleton Brabrook, daughter of Joseph and Sally, born November 29, 1826. George, son of Joseph and Sally, born November 9, 1828. Alfred.
Benjamin was a Baptist minister, and preached with efficiency, but died young.
BRADLEY STONE.
He was born Sept. 4, 1801, in Chesterfield, N. H. His father's name was Joel, and his grandfather's Peter. He came to West Acton when a young man, and established himself as a blacksmith, and soon exhibited an originality and versatility of talent which inspired great hopes of his future success.
Sept. 29, 1828, he married Clarissa Hos- mer, daughter of Nathan and sister of Mrs. John Hapgood, recently deccased. She was born March 11, 1804. She has been a bold, patient, cheerful helper and companion all his days. She lived with him uncomplain- ingly in the little schoolhouse at the cross- roads till he built the brick house on the corner, where they lived ten years. She was efficient in housekeeping, cooking at one time for thirty men when the railroad was in process of construction. She looked after the sick of the village during the long period of its growth, still caring for the same after her strength failed.
They have journeyed happily together for more than sixty years, and are now stepping down the declivities with sprightliness, hand in hand, ready for the Master's call. They must be the oldest couple in town, the hus- band in the eighty-ninth and the wife in the eighty-sixth year.
The names of their children are here given : George Henry, born in Concord, June 1, 1829, died June 24, 1856; Mary Ann II., born in Acton, May 2, 1831; Edwin, born Dec. 31, 1834, died April 27, 1886 ; Nathan Hosmer, born Oct. 4, 1838, died March 1, 1874; Clara E. Stone, born Aug. 27, 1842; Charles Bradley Stone, born July 17, 1848.
From the very construction of his mind he has been an enthusiast in every line of work or improvement which he has undertaken. He has watched with zest signs of progress in the village of his adoption. He built the first store, and when the merchandise came too tardily from the metropolis, he projected the Fitchburg Railroad. His genius and pluck, combined in sharp rivalship with that of Colonel Faulkner at the South, insured the success of the enterprise.
His first thought was a new route and road-bed to the city, but this finally yielded to a railroad charter from the Legislature, which was carried by the combined forces of the projectors. Then the question was - which village shall have the depot? This
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was at first decided in favor of the South, then the decision reversed in favor of the West, then the eompromise by which both seeured the advantage. The West was, how- ever, for quite a period, the distributing cen- tre for the country beyond in all directions, far and near.
The fire still kindles with its old lustre in the eye of Mr. Stone as he tells the story of this railroad eontest, in which he was so con- spicuous a figure.
He has been, from the beginning, a warm advoeate of the temperanee cause, of the schools, and of the government. His first vote, Democratie, was cast for General Jack- son as President, but during the Fugitive Slave Bill excitement he became a Republi- ean, on which side he has voted most of his public life. He watches with an old man's eagerness the recent developments of growth in his vieinity, and is sure of a future for the village and the town as a whole which will rival all the past.
GEORGE CLEAVELAND WRIGHT.
He was born Jan. 7, 1823, in Bedford. Mass. His father, Joel Wright, lived in Box- boro'. His mother, Dolly HI. Reed, was born in Littleton, Mass., and afterwards tanght school in Boxboro'. George lived in Box- boro' from the age of fifteen to nineteen years, when he learned the shoemaker's trade, at which he worked for nine years, the first two years in employ of Deacon John Fletcher, of Acton, and the rest of the time in business for himself at West Aeton.
December 31, 1846, he married Susan II. Davis, daughter of Jonathan B. Davis, grand- daughter of Simon Hosmer and grandniece of Captain Isaac Davis, who was killed at Concord fight.
Four of their children lived to grow up, born as follows : Estella M. Wright, Decem- ber 20, 1849: George S. Wright, July 13. 1857: Effie R. Wright, June 13, 1860; T. Bertha Wright, June 5, 1866.
At the age of thirty-one, after being in the milk business in Charlestown and Boston two years, he engaged in the coffee and spiee business as a member of the firm of Hay- ward & Co., which, after twenty-five years of successful business, united with Dwinell & Co., and soon afterwards with Mason & Co., making the firm of Dwinell, Hayward & Co., the largest coffee and spice house in New England. Though always an equal partner in every respect, he has never asked to have his name attached to the firm-name.
For the past thirty years he has been the coffee buyer of the firm, and his frequent trips to the New York markets have made him personally known to most of the promi- nent coffee men of this eountry.
As a coffee buyer he has few equals and no superiors. With the courage of his eou- victions, backed by a most thorough knowl- edge of the statistical position of the artiele in question, he has shown his right to the foremost position in his department of the business ; notably so in the rise of 1886-87, when the Brazilian coffees advanced in one year more than 250 per cent. in value.
From small beginnings the firm of Dwinell, Hayward & Co. has seen a healthy and legiti- mate growth, and to-day distributes the prod- uets of its extensive factory, located at the corner of Batterymarch and Hamilton Streets, Boston. in almost every State and Territory this side the Rocky Mountains.
Mr. Wright is strictly a self-made man. Without rich or influential friends to help, he has won for himself a position in the business world that any man might envy and few attain, and he bids fair, at the age of sixty- seven, to enjoy for many years the eompe- teney that he so well deserves.
Early in his successful career. 1861, he secured for himself a worthy home on the brow of the hill overlooking the village of West Acton, and which commands a glorious view of the surrounding country. Here his children grew up, and here he still resides.
He has been prominently identified with
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Moses Taylor
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the Universalist Parish in West Acton, and was one of three to contribute a large sum toward the erection of its present meeting- house.
In all the village and town improvements, Mr. Wright has always shown a lively inter- est and a generons help.
Lyceum and temperance, school and library, have found in him a firm friend and a most liberal patron.
In the Legislature of 1874, he represented the towns of Acton, Wayland, and Sudbury as a Republican, with credit to himself and with satisfaction to his constituents.
Though a Republican in politics, Mr. Wright has never hesitated to work and vote for principles, not party - for men, not ma- chines.
MOSES TAYLOR.
He was born in Acton, April 16, 1822. He was the son of Silas Taylor and Sophia Hapgood, who were married April 11, 1820. She was the daughter of Ephraim and Molly Hapgood, and was born February 13, 1792. and died March 10, 1869. Silas Taylor came from Boxboro' to Acton, and bought of Moses Richardson the estate situated where Moses Taylor now lives. The house then standing was unpainted, with a roof running down in the rear. There was a well-sweep and an oaken bucket in front. The chimney was made of flat stone, laid in clay and twelve feet square. It stood on that site for over a hundred years. The new house was built by Mr. Silas Taylor. The old site was known as the Barker place, Joseph Barker (2), originally.
Mr. Silas Taylor, the father of Moses, was a man of rare sense and wit, of great physi- cal power and endurance, a laborious and saving man, and accumulated for those times great possessions. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and served at Sackett's Harbor on Lake Erie, receiving a pension for the same in his later life. He was kind to the
poor, and in his quiet way befriended many in embarrassed cireminstances. He was favored in the companionship for forty-nine years of a woman of rare modesty, judgment, and grace.
The grandfather of Moses Taylor was Silas Taylor, a resident of Stow, formerly of Watertown. He commanded a company from Stow in the battle of Bennington, Vermont, August 16, 1777, and was present at the capture of Burgoyne. He was for many years a justice of the peace in Stow, and town clerk, and did most of the marrying and other town business.
The sword which he carried at Benning- ton, as also the sword carried to South Boston, by Captain Silas Jones in 1812 war, have recently been presented to the Memorial Library of Acton, by Moses Taylor.
He was educated in the common schools of Acton, and in addition attended the Academy at Ashby two terms. He had the offer of a liberal education by his father, but chose rather the homestead farm, whose acres he still cultivates to the full measure of his strength and beyond measure.
June 18, 1846, he was married, by Rev. James T. Woodbury, to Mary Elizabeth Stearns, daughter of Nathaniel Stearns, of Acton, formerly of Waltham. She was born in Littleton, November 5, 1825. Her mother was Sophia Hammond, the daughter of Mary Bigelow, of Weston - of the old Bigelow stock.
Mr. Taylor, though a busy, hard-working man upon the farm, has ever taken a deep personal interest in public affairs, having earnest convictions upon all subjects which engaged his attention. In politics he has been a Whig and Republican. In 1882 he was elected by his district of towns, including Acton, Concord, Littleton, Stow and Box- boro', as a Republican, to the Legislature. He has been justice of peace thirty years in suc- cession, beginning in 1840.
He has been an ardent friend of the mili- tary, having held commission in the Davis
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Guards as fourth, third, second, first lieuten- ant and captain, which he resigned 1857. Otherwise he would have been in position to command at the outbreak of the Rebellion. He was deputy marshal to enroll soldiers during the Rebellion. He took the United States census of Littleton, Stow, Boxboro', and Acton in 1870.
He built or remodeled the following honses at the Centre. Dr. Sanders', the parsonage, Mrs. Rouillard's, Reuben Reed, Lyman Tay- lor's, the two new structures at the east of the Common, formerly the Fletcher home- stead, where the library now stands.
When the project of building the library was pending in the mind of Mr. Wilde, rather than have the project fail, Mr. Taylor came forward with his thousand dollars and cleared the grounds for the structure. He has been parish collector at times, and on the Parish Committee for over forty years, and a mem- - ber of the choir, with his wife and children, most of the time. He is the oldest member of the Board of Trustees of the Memorial Library, having been selected by Mr. Wilde as a member for life in the charter of ineor- poration.
Mr. Silas Taylor. the father of Moses, died January 28, 1874, aged eighty years and seven months. Sophia Taylor, sister of Moses, born March 8, 1821; died August 5. 1839, aged eighteen years, four months and twenty-seven days. Martha Taylor, sister of Moses and wife of Hon. John Fletcher, born March 8, 1829, and died August 14, 1882. aged fifty-three years and five months. Silas Taylor, Jr., brother of Moses, born April 2. 1825, and died March 18, 1844, aged eigh- teen years and sixteen days.
Children of Moses and Elizabeth: Silas Hammond Taylor, born March 25, 1847, mar- ried Mary Thompson, of Oxford. Nova Scotia. Children of Hammond and Mary : Mary Elizabeth Taylor, Moses Taylor, Martha Tay- lor, Marion Celeste.
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