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The Rev. Ebenezer Morse, who served as minister, doctor and lawyer, and whose relations with the parish were very har- monious up to the Revolution, espoused the cause of the Royal government and became a tory. On pages 273-274 His- tory of Worcester County, under the head of Shrewsbury, we find the following: May 2d, 1774, the town voted, " that Phineas Heywood, Isaac Temple, Edward Flint, Ross Wyman, and Isaac Harrington be a committee to examine the Rev. Ebenezer Morse and others suspected of toryism." Mr. Morse was found guilty, and it was voted " that the committee of correspondence forth- with take from said Morse his arms, ammunition and warlike implements of all kinds, to remain in said committee's hands for the present ; and that the said Morse do not pass over the lines of the 2nd parish in Shrewsbury, on any occasion whatever, with- out a permit from two or more of the committee of said precinct."
FIRST BURIAL.
Epitaph found inscribed on the headstone of the first grave in the old cemetery :
" Here lies ye body of Garner Maynard, son of Mr. Elisha and Mrs. Huldah Maynard, who died Apr. ye 14th 1745, aeg. 11 months and 11 days."
And on the foot-stone :
" This is ye first body that in this burying ground doth lie."
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BOYLSTON'S ROLL OF HONOR IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
Ferdinand Andrews, 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D.
William A. Andrews, 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co .D.
Samuel E. Andrews, 53d Regiment Infantry, 9 months, Co. K.
George H. Andrews, 53d Regiment, Infantry, 9 months, Co. K.
George W. Brewer, Corporal 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D. Re- enlisted. Killed at Cold Harbor, Va.
Walter A. Brigham, 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D.
Alonzo H. Bigelow, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
Augustus Brigham, Corporal, 21st Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. E.
Henry F. Brigham, 21st Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. E.
Henry C. Brewer, 5th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. E.
George Bennett, 5th Regiment Infantry, -, Co. E.
Asa A. Bennett, 5th Regiment Infantry, -, Co. E.
Edward A. Estabrook, 51st Regiment Infantry, 9 months.
John M. Forbes, Sergeant, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C. Died Salisbury, N. C,
Benjamin C. Fawcett, 21st Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. E. Re- enlisted.
Webster M. Flagg, 53d Regiment Infantry, 9 months, Co. K.
J. Henry Flagg, 4th Cavalry and 5th Infantry.
Elliott Flagg, 4th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. I. Killed at the battle of Antietam, Md.
Augustus Flagg, 15th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. B.
Charles H. Glazier, 21st Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. E.
William J. Howe, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years. Co. C.
Henry J. Hyde, 3d Regiment, Co. D.
Charles Hooper, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
J. Emerson Holbrook, 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D.
Francis M. Harrington, 53d Regiment Infantry, 9 months, Co.K. Reenlisted 57th Regiment, Co. K.
Elmer B. Howe, 15th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
Albert S. Hastings, 21st Regiment Infantry. 3 years, Co. E. Reenlisted. Died in Camp Nelson, Ky.
Theodore Hazard, 54th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D.
Henry Hazard, 54th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D.
Flavel Leach, Jr., 15th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. B.
Henry J. Locke, 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D. Reenlisted.
Alfred G. Larkin, Sergeant, 4th Cavalry, Co. C.
Gilbert F. Miller, 53d Regiment Infantry, 9 months, Co. B.
Jonathan A. Morey, 34th Regiment, Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
Patrick Neyland, 15th Regiment, Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
Benjamin W. Parker, 13th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. I.
John W. Partridge, 25th Regiment Infantry. 3 years, Co. D, Transferred to Signal Corps.
James E. Prentice, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
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John R. Roberts, 2d Regiment, Infantry, 3 years. Co. K. Killed at Cedar Mountain, Va.
James E. Taylor, 25th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. D. Reenlisted. John Tucker, Corporal, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
Watson Wilson. 36th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. I. Died of wounds at Washington, D. C.
Joseph M. Wright, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years. Co. C.
James M. Wilson, Corporal, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. C.
John W. Warren, 21st Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. E.
Henry White; Sergeant, 21st Regiment Infantry, 3 years. Co. E. Reenlisted.
Thomas B. Warren, 34th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. F. Transferred to V. R. C.
William H. Whipple, 57th Regiment Infantry, 3 years, Co. K.
Alanson Warner, 4th Regiment Heavy Artillery, 1 year, Co. D.
James H. Wilson, 21st Regiment Infantry, -, Co. L.
THE BUSH FAMILY.
[At the after-dinner exercises, the toast, " The Bush Family," was responded to by Dr. William Frederic Hol- combe, of New York, (a son of Lucy Bush and Deacon August tine Holcombe, of Sterling). Dr. Holcombe said : " It seems to me more appropriate that Charles Henry Bush from Boston, son of John Wm. Bush, should reply, and I forbear until he appears for his ancestors." Mr. Bush standing on a chair, bowed to the audience which greeted him heartily ; he said : " I am very much pleased to be present in this home of my forefathers, but I must be excused from making any remarks, as I am not accustomed to public speaking, being generally occupied with mercantile affairs, besides I am unacquainted here, and know little about the Bush family in Boylston." An old gentleman near by said : "Go on, we knew your father well and he was beloved by us all." Mr. Bush in concluding said : " I shall feel thankful to my cousin. Dr. Holcombe, if he will proceed with his remarks because he as fully as myself represents the Bush family, and can speak for it."]
Dr. Holcombe then said : " I now exhibit a representation of the residence of Col. Jotham Bush ; it was built in 1796, and des- troyed by fire Oct. 20, 1859. I have surrounded it by thirty-six
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portraits of the Bush family, decendants of Col. Bush and Mary Taylor, and of his brother John Bush and Charity Platt.
I cannot now speak of the personal qualities of the Bush family, of Boylston, as my time is limited. You will remem- ber that " Good wine needs no Bush." I will reverse this and say, that a good Bush needs no wine. Though I see in your " Boylston Centennial " of to-day, that in 1768 during a church council held for seven days in " ye North Parish of Shrewsbury " the clergy required plenty of good " spirits," while convened at the well-known inn of Ezra Beaman.
The name of Bush is probably derived like many others from location of residence. The ancient Bush people very likely lived "in the Bush," as they now say in England, meaning in the wood or forest. Like Adam and Eve, they dwelt in " the groves " which were " God's first temples."
The Bush family had no more royal, ancient residence, and they have always been admirers of nature.
In Drake's and in Hotten's New England Emigrants, it is recorded that John Bush, aged 22, arrived in 1634, in ship "Alex - ander " from London, and settled in Watertown, Mass., and died in Cambridge, Nov. 1, 1662. By wife Elizabeth, he had five children ; among them Abiah (or Abial) born March 2, 1661, who went to Marlborough in 1690. (See Hudson's Marlborough and Ward's Shrewsbury.) He married June 27, 1688, Grace Barrett ; among their seven children was John, born July 18, 1699, married, April 24, 1723, Martha, daughter of Isaac Tem- ple and Martha Joslin. He moved in 1729 to North Parish of Shrewsbury, where he died, July 14, 1757 ; his wife died March 2. 1792, aged 92. His house was cast of the road nearly oppo- site the old residence of his grandson, Col. Jotham Bush. The well can still be seen near the highway.
John Bush (1st) had five children, viz : 1, John (2nd) : 2, Martha ; 3, Persis ; born, May 82, 1727 (married Rev. Eben- ezer Morse, M. D., and had eleven children) : 4, Jotham (1st) : born, May 23, 1729; 5, Martha ; born, Jan. 13, 1738 (married Cyprian Keyes, Jr., May 27, 1756, had four sons and five daughters).
Jotham (1st) being like his relatives here, a tory or royalist,
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was sent by military authorities, and placed on a vessel in Bos- ton Harbor, where he died of small-pox in 1778. He married, March 24, 1750, Hepzibah, daughter of Deacon Cyprian Keyes and Hepzibah Howe; (She married 2nd in 1779, Edward Ray- mond, Esq., of Sterling). Jotham Bush (1st) had six sons and four daughters ; of these Jotham (2nd) was known in Boylston as " Col. Jotham," for service in local militia. He was a farmer. merchant, inn-keeper and carried on business opposite and north of the old cemetery, in the house now owned by J. G. Warner, it was built by David Taylor, an uncle of Mrs. Bush. On retiring from business to the other farm, he sold his house to Aaron White. Esq.Colonel Bush was born April 8, 1757 ; died, Dec. 13. 1837 ; he married June 8, 1781, Mary, daughter of John Taylor, Jr., and Jemima Holloway, granddaughter of John Taylor, and great grand-daughter of Eleazer Taylor, Sr., and Lydia Barrett, of Marlborough, but a first settler in North Parish, Shrewsbury. The obituaries of Col. Bush and wife can be seen in Worcester Spy of Nov. 17, 1836, and Dec. 13, 1837 respectively.
They had ten children :
(1.) Mary, born June 15, 1782; died, Sept. 24, 1867 ; married Major Elijah Brigham, of Westboro ; had Mary Sophia and Theodore Frederick.
(2.) Jemima Holloway, born Sept. 15, 1:84; married Thomas Bond, Esq., of West Brookfield, and died July 20, 1866, at Springfield ; had Henry Morris, Lucy Ann, Clarinda, Thomas, Wm. Bush, George Taylor, Mary Bush, Ephraim Ward, Edward Newton.
(3.) John, born Dec. 2, 1786 ; died April 14, 1788.
(4.) Clarinda, born Aug. 4, 1790 ; married Rev. Alex Lovell, a native of West Boylston ; had Mary Bush and Thomas Alexander ; died Feb. 20, 1878, at Waltham.
(5.) Harriet, born Jan. 5, 1793, died Sept. 8, 1794.
(6.) Lucy, born March 30. 1794, married June 1, 1825. Dea. Augustine Holcombe, of Sterling, Mass .: married second. Rev. Bancroft Fowler ; died Oct. 3, 1854, at Stockbridge. Mass. Of five children two lived to adult age; Susan Huntington died), Dr. William Frederic Holcombe, of New York city.
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(7.) Harriet, born May 23, 1796, married Col. Oliver Saw- yer, Jr., of Boylston, died Sept. 9, 1872, at Brooklyn, N. Y. One daughter, Harriet, married Thomas White, Esq .; they have Salome Elizabeth. (2). Alfred Sawyer died in Sterling, aged 53, leaving a daughter Harriet, (now the wife of Mr. Mears); has one daughter.
(8.) Martha, born Feb. 10, 1798, is now living, aged 88, in Brooklyn, N. Y. She was married June 4, 1823, by Rev. Ward Cotton, to Rev. Baxter Dickinson, native of Amherst, settled then in Longmeadow, Mass .; he died, 1875, aged 80, in Brooklyn. N. Y .; had Richard Storrs, William Cowper, Martha, Mary, Harriet, Isabella.
Rev. Richard Storrs Dickinson was associate pastor of Rev. Dr. Barnes, of Philadelphia, and died while on a visit to Eu- rope in Edinburgh.
Rev. William Cowper Dickinson, pastor of College Hill Presbyterian Church, near Cincinnati, has sons and daughters.
(9.) Jotham 3d (called Deacon Jotham), boin Sept. 30, 1800, died here July 30, 1880, married Hannah Fisher ; chil- dren, Augustine Holcombe (dead), and Mary Dickinson.
(10.) John William, born May 5, 1803, died in Spring- field, Mass., 1843 ; children, William Delano, Charles Henry, (in Boston), Martha Dickinson. (now Mrs. Dr. Francis Wil- lard, of Dorchester, Mass .; has Harry).
Concerning John Bush, 2d, he was born July 4, 1755. He was a royalist during the Revolutionary war and made much money as an Exchange Broker, and had a tavern and restaurant on Pearl Street, New York. He moved to Worcester in 1800 to the Chandler Mansion on (Main Street, opp. the Old South Church), which was sold at his death, in 1816, to Ira M. Barton, Esq. John Bush had by his first wife, Charity Platt, Cornelia, Richard Platt, Jonas, who was a Doctor. He had Caroline and George, now in California.
Cornelia married Elnathan Pratt, of Worcester, and had five children, one, Jotham Bush Pratt, living in Worcester.
Richard Platt Bush had William Henry, John, James Feltz, Richard, Charles Craft, Charles.
John had by Sarah Ann Wheeler one son. John died in
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1345, on his way from New Orleans, leaving Allen Carnes Bush, now of St. Louis, Mo., he has two daughters and one son. Por- traits are shown of five generations of this branch.
Levi, a son of Jotham Bush, 1st, was born March 26, 1769. married Nov. 23, 1784, Martha Ball ; had eight children, one, Dr. John Bush, born July 3, 1792, grad-uated at Bowdoin Col- lege, Maine, in 1814, was widely known for his learning. He died Feb. 29, 1876, at Vasalboro, Me. During a vacation, in 1812, passed with his uncle, Col. Jotham Bush, he arranged and penned the very ornamental Gencological Chart of the Bush, Keyes and Taylor families, which I now, by kindness of the owner, Mrs. Martha Bush Dickinson, present for your inspection.
Martha, daughter of Levi Bush, was born Aug. 19. 1787. died May 2, 1854, married Prof. Parker Cleveland, M. D. L.L. D., of Bowdoin College. They left a large family : Jotham. a son of Levi, died at Newton Corners, without issue, about 1875. Levi 2d, born Aug. 31. 1797, died in Westfield, Mass., about 1878, leaving, by two wives, a large family of daughters. I shall soon publish a history of the Bush family giving the female lines. especially of Fitch, Smith, Robbins, of Sterling, and of others, the daughters of Levi Bush.
Of the family of Col. Jotham Bush, Martha, aged nearly $9. alone remains. She is in excellent health, in full possession of her mental powers, and ever commands the respect, love and veneration of all.
In a recent interview with her concerning the people and old times in Boylston, she kindly, without any reference to any manuscript, recited to me an Acrostic composed for her by a Boylston friend about 1818. It so completely portrays her ex- cellent qualities that I feel certain her old Boylston friends will enjoy hearing it.
ACROSTIC TO MARTHA BUSH.
Might I invoke great Milton's muse And Homer's pen with freedom use, Rich with these gifts, my pen I'd lend To paint the virtues of my friend. Hers are those graces that impart A thrilling charm to every heart.
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Beauteous in form, in feature fair, Unknown to pride or selfish care, Sincere in heart, of temper mild, Heaven owns her a favorite child.
Few of the name of Bush remain in this region, though in the female line, the descent is numerous. It is unnecessary to speak at length of the virtues and excellent qualities of Col. Jo- tham Bush and Mary Taylor. Your town records furnish in- formation concerning what he did for Boylston. Your church records state what they and what their son, Deacon Jotham Bush, did for this parish. Let the descendants of the Bush family endeavor to be worthy of their ancestry.
THE BIGELOW FAMILY.
[In answer to an invitation from the General Committee to Mrs. N. J. Bigelow, wife of the late Andrew Bigolow, D. D., and daughter of the late Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Boston, to send them some facts relating to the life of Rev. Dr. Bigelow, the fol- lowing communication has been received : ]
The Centennial address by Henry M. Smith, Esq., informs us "that among the first settlers in Shrewsbury who took up allotments in what is now Boylston were the Bigelos," which familiar name has been identified with its history up to the present time.
We find in the " Return of Capt. Ezra Beaman's Company, June 6, 1777," Abel and Charles Biglo, with Joseph Bigelo, Jun. ; also that Capt. Joseph Bigelo was chosen treasurer at the first meeting, March 13, 1786, after the incorporation of the town."
Near the entrance of the old cemetery at the left are nine grave-stones bearing this name, varying in the last syllable, Big low and Big-e-low, three of which are in memory of the father, grandfather and great grandfather of families in our community to-day.
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Capt. Joseph Biglow, died Jan. 24, 1783, 81 years of age. His wife, Martha D., died Oct. 15, 1782, 70 years of age.
Their son, Charles Bigelow, died Nov. 20, 1782, aged 52 years.' His widow moved to Sudbury and married - Smith.
Andrew Bigelow died Sept. 11, 1834, aged 71 years.
Andrew, son of Charles and second of nine children, when sixteen years of age, enlisted in 1780 for the remainder of the war. These last " three years men " were subjected to great hardships, and by the depreciation of the " Continental Cur- rency " received the least compensation for their services. His children remember his recital of the sufferings of the soldiers during one winter in the woods of Pennsylvania, from want of shoes, through inability of the government to provide better for her troops.
In 1785 he married Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Fassett, of Boylston. Children: Allethusa; Clerimond; Lucy, died in child- hood; Jonathan; Solomon; Asahel; Mary ; John, died in child- hood; William Pitt only survives, born April 10th, 1801, resides with his son, Henry W. Bigelow, in Newtonville. Sarah, wife of Andrew Bigelow, died Jan. 25, 1806, aged 41 years.
Second wife, Mrs. Lydia Whitney. Children : Francis W. W., deceased ; Andrew, Jr., deceased ; James ; John T. E. ; Sarah F ; Lydia L., deceased.
Mrs. Lydia W. Bigelow died Jan. 10, 1862, aged 83 years and 4 months.
For years after the war only widows who were the first wives of Revolutionary soldiers diew pensions, but through the influence of Rev. Andrew Bigelow, and the Hon. Horace Mann, when in Congress, the bill was so amended that all widows received a pension. Mrs. Bigelow drew $100 yearly.
This father of fifteen children, whose motto was, "Find out what is right, stick to it and go ahead," not only from necessity but from principle, brought up these sons and daughters in hab- its of strict obedience and close industry. A great reader, full of anecdote, and of a retentive memory, the home influences from the parents favored all the means of education the town then afforded. The supervision and deep interest of their pastor, Rev. Dr. Cotton, in school instruction, with his friendly approval and
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words of encouragement " in finding so many Bigelows at the head of classes," were never forgotten by this family. These early surroundings fostering the elements of success in each character, led three of these boys to start out in life for them- selves, with a fixed purpose to employ head, heart and hands, in laying a foundation for future happiness, respectability, and use- fulness in the world.
Rev. Jonathan Bigelow left home to learn a trade, but as he became interested in religion, he studied for college and gradu- ated at Yale, and was pastor of the Center Church in Rochester, Mass., from May 10, 1827 to 1849. After service in Ohio, he died in 1855, sixty-two years of age, and was buried in Collamer, his church erecting a monument to his memory. Married " Eliza Tappan, a lady eminently qualified amid rare facilities for edu- cation, and of deep piety, for the duties of a pastor's wife. Her numerous contributions to the New York Observer and published works show the pen of a ready writer."
Rev. Asahel Bigelow left home when twenty years of age, his father giving him his time, and in the fall of 1817 walked to Andover, forty-five miles, and entered the Academy-" went through the Latin grammar in a fortnight,"-graduated from Harvard College in the Class of 1823, and Andover Theological Seminary in - ; was ordained pastor of the Orthodox Congre- gational Church in Walpole, Mass., March 28, 1828, his brother Rev. Jonathan, preaching the sermon. In 1850 he settled in Hancock, N. H., and after this pastorate of twenty-five years, and a ministry of forty-nine years, he retired from active labor and passed away in Hancock Aug. 16, 1877.
We quote from another : " Mr. Bigelow was pre-eminently a Bible preacher-a man of deep piety and earnest prayer, a dili- gent student of lively and cheerful disposition, he was everywhere beloved." His widow, Mrs. Dorcas F. Bigelow, daughter of Hon. Henry Homes, of Boston, resides with her daughter, Mrs. Tuttle, in Hancock, N. H. Her only child, Charles Tuttle, grad- uated from Bowdoin College, Maine, and is at present a student in Germany.
Rev. Andrew Bigelow, D. D., was the second son of the sec- ond marriage. The years of his minority were chiefly spent in
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mechanical pursuits with his father, but with an irrepressible desire to prepare himself for the Christian ministry he bought two years' time of his father, studied at Amherst Academy. under the care of Rev. Mr. Colton, and in less than a year entered Am- herst College in 1834. With that invincible determination and energy so characteristic of him through life, contending with physical infirmity, often studying on his bed, he graduated in the Class of 1838.
Resuming teaching, and while Principal of Rochester Acad- emy, Mass., two and a half years, he read theology with his brother, Rev. Jonathan Bigelow and Dr. Thomas Robbins; was licensed by the Old Colony Association, and ordained pastor of the church in South Dartmouth 1841, Rev. Asahiel Bigelow preaching the sermon. After pastorates in the towns of West Needham, Westhampton (only a year in consequence of an injury by accident), and Medfield eleven years, he was invited to supply the pulpit in his native town, and commenced labor in the fall of 1866. The uniform courtesy and kindness extended to himself and wife, in so many different forms, for nearly seven years, rendered the relation between pastor and people one of peculiar interest ; with heart and hand both united in labors for the wel- fare of Zion ; the interior of the Church was repaired and im- proved by the addition of a fine organ. His love for the young with his untiring efforts for the highest success in the schools of his parish, are still remembered; and when declining years ob- liged him to relinquish the Master's work he so much loved. and seek a home in a neighboring town, the same happy intercourse continued.
In the words of another : "The pulpit and parish labors of Dr. Bigelow have been characterized by soundness of tlicology, spirituality of discourse, boldness in proclaiming what he thought to be truth, sociability of intercourse, and success in the winning of souls. He had much of the missionary spirit, and seemed to delight in serving the weaker churches. His worth as an educa- tional director (himself a teacher of rare ability ), has insepara- bly connected his name with the cause of universal and scholarly education."
He passed away, in Southboro, Sept. 23, 1882, leaving a
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widow, the daughter of Marshall P. Wilder, of Boston ; his first wife, Emily Louisa, daughter of Hon. William Blackler, of Mar- bleliead, died in Medfield July 4, 1857. Their two children died in infancy. Rev. Andrew Bigelow was aged 72 years 9 months when he deceased.
Families in town :
First .- James Bigelow, resides with his second son, James A. His third son, William S. (M. D.), graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College March 13, 1884, is practis- ing in Philipsburg, Penn., married a niece of Mrs. John B. Gougli.
Second .- John T. E. Bigelow (and wife), named for his maternal and paternal ancestors, Jolin Bigelow, Thomas and liis son Elias Sawyer, who were carried captives to Canada in 1705 : the two elder, by building a saw-mill secured their freedom. Elias remained to run it a year, and during this time he won the heart of the Governor's daughter, pledging his return after a visit to his parents ; but as they objected to the match, tradition says, " Batrix Pope sat many a long and tedious year waiting her lover's return, until worn out with watching she passed over Jordan to seek for him in the promised land."
Third .- Mrs. Sarah F., wife of Newel Parker.
The mother of Miss Dorothea Dix, the philanthropist, was sister to Andrew Bigelow, Senior.
THE KENDALL FAMILY.
Though the Kendalls have never been very numerous in Boylston, there was one family that moved into the town soon after its incorporation. They came from Ashburnham in 1792. " Francis Kendall, who was the ancestor of most of the Kendalls of Massachusetts, and indeed of New England, came from England, and settled in Woburn, as carly as somewhere from 1636 to 1640, and was made freeman in 1647."
" He married Dec. 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, of that town, and
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had John, born 1646, Thomas, born 1648, Samuel, born May 8, 1659, besides several daughters."
This son Samuel married Rebekah -, and their son Samuel, born Aug. 13, 1684, married Prudence -, whose son Samuel, born 1711, married Phoebe Brintain Sept. 23, 1736.
The following children of Samuel and Phoebe Kendall, were baptized, in Sterling, by Rev. Mr. Mellen:
Samuel, baptized February 17, 1745.
Rebecca, 66 :6
Abigail,
July 20, 1746.
Caleb, 66 May 15, 1748.
Bartholomew, baptized February 18, 1749.
Caleb, baptized March 24, 1750.
Bartholomew, baptized February 28, 1753.
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