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1666, nominates his wife Gertrude as execu- trix of his estate. Children: I. Damaris, bap- tized 2, 22, 1643 ; married Joshua Buffum. 2. Hannah, 5, 20, 1645, died soon. 3. Hannah, I, 26, 1648; married March 26, 1672, Caleb Buffum. 4. George 5, 8, 1649. 5. Joseph, 8, 27. 1650. 6. Benjamin, 2, 17. 1653. 7. Sam- uel, 3, 18, 1656. 8. Enos, mentioned in his father's will.
(II) Joseph Pope, son of Joseph and Ger- trude Pope, born in Salem, died in 1712. He was a farmer at Salem Village ( Danvers ). He married Bethseda, daughter of Peter Fol- ger, one of the first settlers on Nantucket island, and one of the foremost men in public service in the colonies in his time. Abiah Fol- ger, sister of Bethseda, married Josiah Frank- lin and they were parents of Benjamin Frank- lin. Joseph and Bethseda (Folger) Pope had children: 1. Joseph, died young. 2. Beth- seda, born April 9, 1683, died young. 3. Ger- trude, August 27, 1685; married Ebenezer Flint. 4. Joseph, June 16, 1687. 5. Enos, June 6, 1690. 6. Eleazer, December 4, 1693. 7. Jerusha, April 1, 1695. 8. Nathaniel, No- vember 20, 1699.
(III) Eleazer Pope, son of Joseph and Bethseda (Fogler) Pope, born December 4, 1693. died 2, 5mo, 1734. He was a cord- wainer, and at the time of his death his prop- erty included the dwelling and shop on land near "the elm tree" on Boston street, Salem. He married April 3, 1718, Hannah Buffing- ton, by whom he had one son, Stephen.
(IV) Stephen Pope, son of Eleazer and Hannah ( Buffington) Pope, died October 9, 1675. He followed the occupation of his father, and had the shop and house inherited from him. He married Mary Buffum, born July 8, 1723, died July, 1788, daughter of Joshua Buffum of Salem. Children: I. Han- nah, born May 31, 1746, died May 20, 1840; married Thomas Nicholas, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, and Salem, who died 1805. 2. Mary, born March 24, 1748, died young. 3. Eleazer, born March 21. 1751. 4. Gertrude, born October 19, 1753, died September 24. 1833. 5. Folger, born February 14, 1756. 6. Stephen, born June 6, 1759, died young. 7. Sarah, born August 20, 1761, died October 18, 1841 ; married David Nichols. 8. Joshua, born November 24, 1763. 9. James, born December 16, 1765.
(V) Eleazer Pope, son of Stephen and Mary (Buffum) Pope, born in Salem, March 21, 1751, died February 5, 1818. He was a farmer, mentioned yeoman in the records. He
married Esther, daughter of Jonathan Bux- ton. She was born December 9, 1760, and died October 17, 1818, Their children : I. Mary, born July 16, 1788. 2. Esther, born October 27, 1790; married Henry Grant, of Salem. 3. Eleazer, born March 14, 1793. 4. Stephen, born March 11, 1796, died Liverpool, England, January 25, 1827; married March 13, 1821, Abigail McShane, of Salem, who died August 6, 1844. 5. Gertrude, born Aug- ust 14, 1799: married December 26, 1822, Jonathan Barrett, born Salem, December II, 1790, died April 18, 1829; had Eleazer Pope Barrett, September 29, 1824, and Martha Os- born Barrett, July 9, 1827.
(VI) Mary Pope, daughter of Eleazer and Esther (Buxton ) Pope, was born July 16, 1788, and married Joshua Buxton of Danvers. They had Joshua Buxton, born October 1.4, 1817; Mary Jane Buxton, born October 20, 1821 : Henry Varney Buxton, born July 23, 1824 (see Buxton family).
Simon Huntington, with HUNTINGTON his wife, who before marriage was Margaret Baret, of Norwich, England; and his three sons-William, Simon and Samuel-sailed for New England in 1633. He died of small pox during the passage and his family probably landed in Boston. The earliest reference to them on this side of the ocean is found in the records of the First Church in Roxbury, Mass- achusetts, wherein is an entry in the hand- writing of the Rev. John Eliot as follows : "Margaret Huntington, widow, came in 1633. Her husband died by the way of small pox. She brought children with her." It is quite probable that she was again married, in 1635-6, to Thomas Stoughton, then of Dor- chester, and removed to Windsor, Connecticut.
(II) William probably eldest son of Simon and Margaret (Baret) Huntington, was of Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1640, and later lived in Amesbury. He appears to have been quite prominent in both places, owning con- siderable real estate, and died in Amesbury in 1689. He married Joanna, daughter of John Bayley, who went from Salisbury to Newbury in1 1650. John Bayley was a passenger on the "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked on the coast of Maine. having on board a consider- able number of emigrants who found their way to the settlements in Massachusetts. Wil- liam Huntington was father of John, James and Mary.
(III) John, eldest child of William and Jo-
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anna (Bayley) Huntington, born in Ames- bury, August, 1643, died there about 1727. He married Elizabeth Hunt; children: Hannah, died young ; Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah, Susannah, William, Samuel and Deborah.
(IV) William, seventh child and eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Hunt) Huntington, was lifelong resident of Amesbury, Massachu- setts. He married Mary Goodwin, January 27, 1708-09, and he probably was the same William Huntington who was married the sec- ond time, December 19, 1725, to Mary Colby, a widow. He was executor of his father's will. Children, all born in Amesbury: John, Lydia, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Deborah, Wil- liam. Timothy and Judith.
(\') John, eldest son and child of William and Mary (Goodwin ) Huntington, was born in Amesbury, January 5, 1709-10. He lived on the old homestead of his grandfather. His wife, Abigail Jones, was a member of the Society of Friends, and their children, some of whom married with members of their sect, were John, Mary, Merriam, Susannah, Wil- liam, Sarah and Elizabeth.
(VI) John, eldest child of John and Abigail (Jones) Huntington, was born in Amesbury, August 15, 1737. He married Hannah Wood ; children : Jacob, Benjamin, Moses, John, Hannah, Mary, Abigail, Daniel, Sarah and Judith.
(VII) Benjamin, second child of John and Hannah (Wood) Huntington, was born in Amesbury, April 24, 1760. In early manhood he went to Weare. New Hampshire, and pur- chased one hundred acres of land lying about a mile west of Clifton Grove, which is still known as the old Huntington farm, and he resided there for the remainder of his life. He also bought land in Henniker. He married Elizabeth Buxton ; children : Hannah, born December 13, 1781 : married Jonathan Puring- ton, of Lincoln, Vermont ; Jacob, born Sep- tember 3. 1783: Sarah, born October 9, 1785, married Robert Gove, of Deering, New Hamp- shire : Betsey, born February 14, 1788, married Timothy Matthews; Thomas, born February 20, 1791, married Anna Johnson ; Anna, born late in 1791, married Daniel Buxton ; Lydia, died young ; John, born August 5, 1797, mar- ried Peace Purington ; Benjamin, born Octo- ber 17, 1799, married Sally Buxton, and mar- ried second, Mary A. Beard.
(VIII) Jacob, second child and eldest son of Benjamin and Elizabeth ( Buxton) Hunt- ington, was born September 3, 1783. At the age of nineteen years he went to live upon a
tract of land containing one hundred acres, owned by his father, and after purchasing it in small lots he enlarged the property by the addition of adjoining land, leaving at his death, which occurred July 15, 1857, a good farm of one hundred sixty acres. He was noted for his physical strength and power of endurance, also as a staunch Whig and a leader in the anti-slavery movement, which latter was prompted by his belief in the Quaker doctrine, and he was instrumental in establish- ing the Friends' Meeting at what is known as the Friends' Settlement in Henniker. He married, May 4, 1809. Huldah Gove, of Weare, died October 20, 1819; married, sec- ond, February 1, 1823, Mehitable Hedding. died March 4, 1827. In October, 1829, he married third, Lavinia B., daughter of Theo- philus Breed, of Lynn, Massachusetts; she (lied October 3. 1859. He had eight children, four born of his first marriage, and four of the second: Elijah Brown, born June 15. 1811 ; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1813, married Jacob Huntington, probably a relative, and died September 16, 1838; Sarah G., born May 31, 1815, died June 15, 1834: Robert G .. born May 21, 1817, died October 22, 1819; Franklin Theophilus, born August 21, 1830; Hulda G., born March 23, 1834, married Joshua Buxton, died in 1906; a son, born July 25, 1838, died September 27, 1838; Joseph John, born March 16, 1840, married Mary T. Gordon and had Henry, Alice and Arthur Gordon.
( IX) Hulda Gove Huntington, daughter of Jacob and Lavinia B. (Breed ) Huntington, born March 23, 1834, in Henniker, New Hampshire, died March 22, 1906, in Peabody, Massachusetts. She married Joshua Buxton ( see Buxton family) ; two children: Horace Francis Buxton, born in Peabody, March I, 1858; and Henry Herbert Buxton, born in Peabody, April 13, 1869.
American references do not BUSHBY furnish any satisfactory account of the family of this surname, and careful research fails to disclose a record of the immigrant ancestor of the New Eng- land Bushbys, if indeed there was any who crossed the Atlantic bearing the surname as here written. The name Bushby first appears in the town records of Medford, and there in entering marriages, births and deaths in a single family it is written Bushby, Bishby and Bisby, according to the understanding of the person or official making the entry. It is rea-
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sonably certain that Robert Bushby, of Med- ford, was not the immigrant ancestor of the family here considered, and while various theories are advanced in regard to his probable parentage, none of them lead us to a satisfac- tory conclusion as to his forebears, although there are certain indications which point to possible connection with the old colonial Bis- bee family, which appears in various chroni- cles in several different forms of spelling. There was a Nicholas Bushbee who came from England to Boston and lived in the vicinity of Charlestown during the first half of the seven- teenth century ; and he had a son John, whose name was written Bushby, but it is not known that this John was in any way of kin to the ancestors of Robert of Medford. Busbee is one of the several old forms used by those claiming the surname Bisbee.
(I) Robert Bushby, the earliest known pro- genitor of the family here treated, married, November 7, 1734, Mary Pierce, of Medford. They both died in that town, he December 23. 1756, and she November 3, 1778: children : 1. Robert, born October 18, 1735, died No- vember 4, 1735. 2. Adam, November 3, 1737. 3. Jolin, February 26, 1741. 4. Mary, January 3. 1744. 5. Robert, January 30, 1748, died in Billerica. He was a soldier of the revolution and his service in that war is given in the state records as follows : Robert Bushby, Med- ford (also given Mystic), private, Captain Jeremiah Stiles's company, Colonel Paul Dud- ley Sargent's regiment ; company return Octo- ber. 1775: also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Camp Cambridge, November 27. 1775: also, return of men en- listed into continental army from Lieutenant Stephen Hall's company of the First Middle- sex county regiment, dated February 19, 1778 : residence. Medford (also given Malden) : joined Captain Cushing's company of Colonel Patterson's regiment, enlistment, three years.
(II) John Bushby, son and third child of Robert and Mary (Pierce) Bushby, was born in Medford, February 26, 1741, and in 1758 removed to Danvers (now Peabody), where he was a brickmaker for Jeremiah Page. He afterward became prominently identified with public affairs, and was superintendent of the poor farm and still later became deputy sher- iff. John Bushby made an excellent record as a soldier of the revolution, and one in which his descendants may feel just pride. He has four enlistments and his service may be men- tioned as follows: John Bushbe, Danvers ; private in Captain Wilkins's company, Colonel
Wigglesworth's regiment; paid travel allow- ance from Albany to his home; service to January 15, 1777. Corporal in Captain Jere- miah Putnam's company, Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment, August 12 to December 31, 1778: service four months twenty four days in Rhode Island. Corporal in same company and regiment, muster roll from January to No- vember, 1778, dated North Kingston : enlist- ment to expire January 1, 1779 ; reported on command as butcher. Also mentioned in list of men mustered in Suffolk county by Nathan- iel Baker, muster master, dated Boston, Feb- ruary 16, 1777: Captain Cushing's company. Brigadier General Patterson's battalion : pri- vate in Captain Nathaniel Cushing's company. Colonel Joseph Vose's regiment ; continental army pay accounts for service from January I, 1777, to November 20, 1778. He married Brown: children : 1. John, married - Berry, of Danvers. 2. Asa, born June, 1771. 3. Temperance, married Richard Searle. (III) Asa Bushby, second son and child of
John and (Brown) Bushby, born in Danvers, Massachusetts, June, 1771, died there November 27. 1833. He was a farmer. lle married Lydia Wilson, born August 14. 1765. died January 1, 1844, daughter of Ben- jamin Wilson, born 1734, died January 6, 1818. married Lydia Bancroft, born May 1. 1739, died July 5, 1801. Asa and Lydia ( Wilson) Bushby had children: 1. Asa, Jr., born about 1793, died January 18, 1862, aged sixty-nine years: married Sophronia Abbott, died August 4, 1879, aged eighty-four years. 2. William, born March 22, 1794. died Dan- vers, July 27. 1881 : married Martha Batch- elder, born February 11, 1805, died March 15. 1884. He was an early tanner and currier in Peabody. 3. Joseph, died August 16, 1876. 4. Sally, born July 17. 1798, died February 19, 1849; married June 11, 1824. Kendall Osborn, Sr. 5. Henry; see forward. 6. Lydia, born January 19, 1809, died in Pea- body. September 23, 1893.
(IV) Joseph Bushby, third son and third child of Asa and Lydia ( Wilson) Bushby, died August 16, 1876, aged almost seventy- four years. His wife Almira, daughter of Allen and Rebecca ( Hobbs) Peabody, died August 7, 1880, aged seventy-six years. Chil- dren: 1. Francis, died October 2, 1834, age four years. 2. Myra, died October 26, 1860. age twenty-two years. 3. Sallie, died Febru- ary 19, 1861, age ninteen years. 4. Joseph. 5. Warren, married Mary Jane Newhall. 6. Asa, died single. 7. Sophronia, married Al-
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bert A. Messer. 8. Lydia, married Stanley Hart, of Peabody. 9. Mary, married James M. Trow : one child, Lorena, married Edwin Stone. 10. Elizabeth WV., born September, 1843, died November 25, 1905; married D. Cutler Brown ; child, Edna McV., born Salem May 25, 1882, married D. Ernest Murray, of Salem.
(IV) Henry Bushby, fourth son and fourth child of Asa and Lydia (Wilson) Bushby, born March 9, 1805. died October 2, 1883. He was a farmer in Peabody. He married Mary Abbott, born August 15, 1804, died May 8, 1876, a sister of wife of Asa Bushby, Jr. Henry and Mary (Abbott) Bushby had chil- dren : I. Henry, married Grace Williams ; had George, Frank, Annie, Sarah Abbott (married Charles Hathaway, of Salem, and had Henry Hathaway) and Charles. 2. Nathan, married Sophia Wolcott. 3. William. 4. Philip, not married. 5. Horace, born Feb- ruary 8, 1848.
(V) William Bushby, third son and third child of Henry and Mary ( Abbott) Bushby, was born in Danvers (now Peabody) October 30, 1835, and received his education in the public schools of that town. His life has been spent on the farm where he was born, where he and his brothers Henry and Philip worked with their father until his death in 1883, when the property was divided. Since that time Mr. Bushby has been a farmer on his own account, now and for the last ten years having the assistance of his own son, and together they carry on a daily milk delivery business in the towns of Danvers and Peabody. Like his father before him, Mr. Bushby is a prac- tical and thrifty farmer, and while not par- ticularly active in public affairs he is known as one of the substantial men of the town. Originally he was a Democrat, but during more recent years has been identified with the Republican party. At the present time he is meat inspector for the town of Peabody. Mr. Bushby married first. Mary S. Dodge, died May 28, 1868, aged thirty years eight months ; married second, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. David and Sarah ( Batchelder) Tilton. He had two children by his first wife and one child by his second wife: I. Frankie, died four months old. 2. Mary Alice, wife of Frank C. Lummus. 3. William, born July 19, 1884.
(V) Horace Bushby, youngest son and child of Henry and Mary (Abbott) Bushby, was born February 8, 1848; married first, Susan Gray, died May 4, 1885, daughter of Andrew and Melinda ( Bancroft) Gray ; mar-
ried second. Harriet M. Simonds, born in Farmington, Maine, died in Peabody, Massa- chusetts, September 27, 1898, daughter of Charles and Mary ( Coates ) Simonds. Horace and Susan (Gray) Bushby had children, all born in Peabody: 1. Fred W., born Febru- ary II, 1871 ; married Ida Tigh. 2. Helen G., died aged about nineteen years. 3. Louise A., born November 8, 1878; married Roger Merrill. 4. Philip Osborn, born December 21, 1880 ; married Irene Miller, of Peabody.
(VI) William Bushby, only child of William and Sarah Elizabeth (Tilton) Bushby, was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, July 19, 1884. He was educated in the Peabody public schools, and afterward took a business course in the Salem Commercial School. He is a farmer with his father, and besides the general work of the farm they have a milk delivery business in Danvers and Peabody. In politics he is a Republican, and a member of the Essex Republican Club. Mr. Bushby married Cora Carlton, of Peabody.
They were not all French- PUBLICOVER men who peopled that part of New France which in early times was called Acadia; and not all Scotchmen and Scotch-Irish who went there in later years and gave to the region the name of New Scotland, or Nova Scotia ; and they were not all Englishmen who subse- quently possessed the territory there and ac- quired sovereignty and jurisdiction ; but among those who have dwelt for generations in that part of the royal province was a liberal sprink- ling of Germans and Dutchmen, whose place of abode has been maintained for many years in the township of West Dublin, in the county of Lunenburg.
For several generations at least the Public- overs and the Sponegals have lived and labored and prospered in West Dublin, and until within the last half century their English speech was broken and imperfect, with strong German accent; and from the fact that a tradition among them still runs to the effect that their ancestors came originally from Germany and Holland, there is undoubtedly more of sound truth than vague tradition respecting their re- mote ancestry. These families, and others as well of different names, have dwelt in Lunen- burg county for perhaps more than a century, and while they have lived well, educated their children well, and become prosperous and forehanded, their chief care has been for the material things of life and the future of their
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children rather than for the preservation of family records in the form of genealogy. Pride of ancestry ever has been maintained among them and each succeeding generation appears to have striven to improve upon the conditions of its predecessor, and their labors in this re- spect have not been in vain.
(1) Jacob Publicover was born in Lunen- burg county, Nova Scotia, about the year 1790, but it is believed that his father emi- grated there from Holland. They were farmers and fishermen, the former being the chief occupation. Jacob married a Miss Cot- man, and had children, among them sons William, Solomon and Jacob, and a daughter Eleanor, whose married name is Peterson.
(II) The son Jacob was born in Lunenburg county, 1820, and died in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, in 1904. He was a farmer and lum- berman, an industrious and thrifty man, and got along well in life, both in years and the comforts of living. He married Ellen Spone- gal, born in 1826, died 1898. daughter of James Sponegal, of West Dublin, himself an energetic man, a farmer, and who also did some fishing, as did nearly all of the inhabit- ants of that part of Lunenburg county. Jacob and Ellen had a large family of ten children. four of whom eventually came to live in New England. Children. 1. Jacob Leander, lives in Nova Scotia. 2. Stephen, now dead. 3. Saloame, married Charles Dakin and is now dead. 4. Minoah, now dead. 5. Austin S., now dead. 6. Stanage, lives in Gloucester. Massachusetts. 7. Ada C., married Franklin Smith and lives in Nova Scotia. 8. Leah M., married Nathan Dexter, and lives in Nova Scotia. 9. James Erbin, now living in Boston. IO. William Alexander of Eastern Point, Glou- cester.
(III) William Alexander Publicover was a boy of less than seventeen years old when he determined to strike out for himself, and with that purpose in mind he went on board the schooner "Eleazer Boynton" and landed in Gloucester in 1887. He soon found employ- ment in a summer hotel, and worked in one capacity and another until he gained a good practical understanding of the business, and when summer season closed he sometimes went as master of vessels to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. In 1900 he secured a lease of the Rockaway House, on Eastern Point, in Gloucester, managed it with good success until 1904, and then purchased the property and its surrounding grounds, one of the most attractive and inviting summer re-
sorts on Cape Ann. Mr. Publicover is a Ma- son, member of Acacia Lodge, F. and A. M., of East Gloucester ; an Odd Fellow, member of Ocean Lodge; an Elk, Lodge No. 892 of Gloucester ; and in politics is a Republican. He married, October 22, 1907, Elizabeth May Cameron, born in Gloucester, June 2, 1884, daughter of Clarence Walter Cameron and Mary (Murphy) Cameron, both natives of Gloucester, the former born September 12. 1858, and the latter December 25, 1860. They married April 12, 1877, and have six children : Clarence Walter, Jr., born November 29. 1879, married Mabel Ring: George Edward, born August 29, 1880; Emily Adams, born April 29, 1882; Elizabeth May, born June 2, 1884, now Mrs. Publicover : Marion Evelyn, born February 25. 1893; Harriet Shepard, born September 25. 1900, died May 20. 1901.
FARRAR The early generations of this
surname in America spelled the
name in divers ways-Farr. Farough, Farrowe, Farrar and Farrow, and the same diversity is found among the de- scendants of the same progenitor.
(I) George Farrar, immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1594, according to a deposition in the Dexter case in 1657, when he gave his age as sixty-three years. He was a shipwright by trade, coming with Higginson among the first settlers in Salem in 1629 and receiving a grant of land in 1630. His widow deposed June 2, 1684, that she had lived fifty- four years in Lynn on a tract given to her hus- band by the town of Lynn. This includes the period from about 1643 to about 1650, when they lived at Ipswich, however. The Ipswich records speak of him in 1643; he was herd keeper there in 1647 and famous killer of foxes there, according to the town records. Some of his children were born in Ipswich. He followed farming at Salem most of his life, however. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. He died October 24, 1662. He married first, Ann Whitmore, February 16, 1643-44; she deposed 1658 that her age was about forty. Married second, Elizabeth who died March. 1687. Children, born at Ipswich and Salem, but order of birth un- known: 1. George, born at Ipswich, May 9, 1650, probably the George killed by the In- dians in King Philip's war. September 27, 1676, at Wells, Maine. 2. John, died October 29. 1672. 3. Lazarus, died December 9, 1669. 4. Benjamin, mentioned below. 5. Joseph, married Hannah Walden. 6. Mary, born at
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Ipswich, January 6, 1644. 7. Martha, born at Ipswich, February 25, 1646-47. 8. Elizabeth, married Nicolas Hutchins. 9. Sarah. IO. Phebe, about 1650.
(II) Benjamin Farrar, son of George Far- rar (1), was born about 1660 in Salem, Mass- achusetts. He was admitted a freeman there in 1691. He married, July 28, 1680, Elizabeth Burrill, daughter of Francis Burrill. She died March 1I, 1697. Children, born at Lynn, Massachusetts: I. Elizabeth, July 3, 1682. 2. Mary, July 28, 1684. 3. Sarah, February 18, 1686-87. 4. Hannah, April 18, 1690. 5. John, July 5, 1692. died November 5, 1692. 6. John, mentioned below.
(III) John Farrar, son of Benjamin Farrar (2), was born in Lynn, September 1I, 1695. He married Mary Collins, at Lynn, August 2, 1715. Children, born at Lynn: 1. John, born July 19. 1716, mentioned below. 2. Joseph. 3. Mary, married, at Framingham, March 27, 1751. John Trowbridge.
(IV) Major . John Farrar, son of John Farrar (3), was born in Lynn, July 19, 1716. He was administrator of the estate of an un- married brother, Joseph, who died in the Cape Breton expedition of the army, leaving eigh- teen pounds, sixteen shillings for wages due, 1745. He settled in Framingham, Massachu- setts, residing on the Parson Swift place. His house was on the south side of the road. and he had a grist mill on the river near the east line of the I. S. Wheeler farm. He also owned the Eli Bullard farm on the east side of the river, but sold it in 1770 to John Fiske. He was selectman, town treasurer, deputy sheriff of Middlesex county, major of the Third Middlesex Regiment from 1757 to 1772. He was in town office practically all the time after he settled in the town until 1774. In May, 1774, he was elected on the committee of safety and correspondence in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. He was an early settler in Mo- nadnock No. 4, as Fitzwilliam was first called, and was moderator of the first town meeting in 1770. In the same year he was on a com- mittee to procure a minister. He died at Fitz- william, January, 1777. His executor, Nathan Winch, sold his Framingham farm of fifty-six acres April 14, 1777, to Stephen Jen- nings.
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