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measures and when the people of Boston rose to arms. April 18, 1689, Mr. Bradstreet and fourteen of the magistrates signed a demand upon Andros to relinquish his office and sur- render the government and fortifications to the people. The revolution took place, Brad- street took charge of the government and An- dros was thrown in prison. The old charter was restored and the general court again as- sembled. Mr. Bradstreet was annually re- elected governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, under the union of these pro- vinces, until the arrival of Sir William Phipps in May, 1692, with a new charter from Wil- liam of Orange, which deprived the people of the right to elect the governor and which named Bradstreet as senior counsellor to the governor. But the venerable governor decided to retire from public life. He died March 27. 1697. in the ninety-fifth year of his age, at Salem, and the general court voted "in con- sideration of the long and extraordinary ser- vice of Simon Bradstreet, late governor, one hundred pounds toward defraying the charges of his interment." His tomb is in the old Charter street burying ground, Salem.
"Mr. Bradstreet, although a strict Puritan in faith, and as decidedly opposed to all heresy and schism as his austere relative Dudley, was endowed with a different temper and for the sake of peace or with the hope of reformation, could more readily excuse an offender. He seems to have been embued with a spirit more gentle and to have been influenced by a better idea of religious freedom than some of his associates in the colony. While the Anti- nomian controversy was pending he seems to have been inclined to more moderate measures than the exasperated magistrates and elders. * * To speak evil of rulers was an offence, but Bradstreet favored freedom of speech. He condemned the excesses of the witchcraft delusion, and was one of the few prominent men that opposed the frightful crimes of the ministers and judges committed in the name of the law." "He was a man," says Felt, "of deep discernment, whom neither wealth nor honor could allure from duty. He poised with an equal balance the authority of the King and the liberty of the people."
His first wife, Anne Dudley, was one of the most intellectual women of the colony, a poet of ability. worthy daughter of a governor, and worthy wife of another governor. "In liberal ideas and toleration she was far ahead of her cold Puritan surroundings. At her death, honors and laurels were heaped unstintedly
upon her name, and laudatory sermons com- memorative were preached in all the principal churches of the colony ; funeral elegies and ad- dresses hours in length were delivered, accord- ing to the dearest and dreariest form of Puri- tan custom." She was probably buried at An- dover, but no gravestone now marks her rest- ing place. She died September 16, 1672, aged about sixty. Governor Bradstreet married second. Ann (Downing) Gardner, sister of Sir George Downing, and widow of Captain Joseph Gardner. His will was dated Decem- ber 23. 1689, proved January 27. 1692-3. Chil- dren, all by first wife: 1. Dr. Samuel, a phy- sician, graduate of Harvard College, 1653 ; married first, Mercy Tyng: second, Martha 2. Sarah, married first. Richard Hub- bard; second, Major Samuel Ward. 3. Rev. Simon, born 1638 : married Lucy Woodbridge, who married second, Daniel Eppes. 4. Colonel Dudley, born 1648; married Ann, widow of Theodore Price. 6. Hannah or Ann, married June 3, 1659, Andrew Wiggin, of Exeter, son of Governor Thomas. 7. Mercy, married Oc- tober 31, 1672, Major Nathaniel Wade. 8. John, mentioned below.
(11) John Bradstreet, son of Governor Simon Bradstreet, was born July 22, 1653, at Andover, Massachusetts. He died at Tops- field, in the same colony, January 11, 1718. He was a prominent citizen of Topsfield. He married, June 11, 1677, Sarah Perkins, daugh- ter of William. Children, born at Topsfield : I. Simon, born April 14. 1682: mentioned be- low. 2. John, born January 3. 1693; mar- ried Rebecca, daughter of John and Sarah (Dickenson) Andrews. 3. Margaret, born .November 27, 1696. 4. Samuel, born August 4, 1699 : mentioned below. 5. Mercy, married John Hazen, of Boxford. Three other daughters were living in 1710, but their names are not known.
(III) Simon Bradstreet, son of John Brad- street. was born at Topsfield, Massachusetts, April 14. 1682. He lived at Topsfield. He married, October 12, 1711, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Joseph Capen, of Topsfield. Chil- (ren, born at Topsfield: I. Elizabeth, born August 28, 1712; married November 2, 1729, Joseph Peabody ; died December 31, 1751. 2. Simon, born April 21, 1714; married Anna Flint : their son Henry, born 1741, was father of Daniel, the father of John M .. founder of Bradstreet Commercial Angency. 3. Dudley, born May 27, 1716. 4. John, born March 2. 1718: mentioned below. 5. Margaret, born April 24, 1720; married Andrews. 6.
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Priscilla, born September 27, 1722. 7. Lucy, born November 25, 1724; married, 1776, Rob- ert Andrews. 8. Dr. Joseph, born May 18, 1727 : married Abby Fuller, of Middleton. 9. Mercy, born November 27, 1728; married Stone. 10. Mary, born May 10, 1731 ; married Elisha Wildes.
(IV) John Bradstreet, son of Simon Brad- street, was born at Topsfield, March 2, 1718. He married, January 13, 1742, Elizabeth Fisk, of Wenham. Children, born at Topsfield : I. Priscilla, born January 8, 1745 ; married June 12, 1764, John Killam, of Boxford. 2. Mary, born December 22, 1748; married John Dodge, of Beverly. 3. Mehitable, born June 2, 1751. 4. Huldah, born April 15, 1754. 5. Lucy. born March 27, 1758. 6. Eunice, born August 16, 1760; married March 25, 1783, Benjamin Em- erson. 7. Captain Dudley, born October 8, 1765 ; mentioned below. 8. Elizabeth, married 1769, John Gould. 9. Sarah, born February I, 1756; married Daniel Gould.
(V) Captain Dudley Bradstreet, son of John Bradstreet, was born at Topsfield, Octo- ber 8, 1765. He lived in the old house on the Bradstreet homestead first owned by Governor Bradstreet, at Topsfield, and in the possession of his descendants ever since. The place de- scended to Colonel Porter Bradstreet (8). Captain Bradstreet was a prominent citizen and active in the militia. He married, Sep- tember 29, 1789, Polly Porter, of Danvers. He married second, Hannah Prince. He died April 23, 1833. Children, born at Topsfield of first wife: I. Colonel Porter, born Decem- ber 1, 1789; married April 8, 1812, Mehitable Bradstreet. 2. Major John, born October 8, 1792 ; mentioned below. 3. Dudley, born Aug- ust 16, 1796; died September 25, 1832. 4. Joseph. born November 1, 1801 ; married Abi- gail Shaw, of Beverly. 5. Elizabeth P., born January II. 1803 ; married December 20, 1846, Silas Cochran. 6. Albert G., born May 19, 1805 : married April 5, 1836, Lydia B. Stearns. 7. Rev. Thomas J., born April 7, 1807 ; grad- nate of Yale College: married Amanda Thomas, daughter of Seth Thomas, the fam- ous clock manufacturer, of Plymouth Hollow (now Thomaston), Connecticut ; children : Albert, Thomas, George, Edward and Mary. 8. Sarah, born March 7, 1812; married Octo- ber 8, 1734, Ahira H. Putman, of Danvers. 9. Jonathan, born October 1, 1808; died April 6, 1842; shot at Burlington. Iowa. 10. Lydia, born November 30, 1813; married May 18, 1847, Stephen White, of South Hadley, Mass- achusetts.
(VI) Major John Bradstreet, son of Cap- tain Dudley Bradstreet, was born at Topsfield, October 8, 1792. He married, April 23, 1826, Sarah Rea. He was major of his regiment, and a prominent citizen of Danvers, Massa- chusetts. Children, born at Danvers: I. Dud- ley, born July 6, 1827 ; mentioned below. 2. John, born April 25, 1829. 3. Israel R., born December 23, 1830. 4. Harrison P., born March 31, 1836. 5. Sarah R., born April 30, 1839.
(VII) Dudley Bradstreet, son of Major John Bradstreet, was born in Danvers, July 6, 1827. He was educated in the district school (No. 3) of his native town, and at the academy at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He learned the trade of tanner, and followed it as a trade and business all his active life. He made his home in Topsfield, February 22, 1848, and has lived there, where so many generations of his forefathers had lived, all the rest of his days to the present time. He has a record of voting at town and state elec- tions for sixty consecutive years. He has been a prominent citizen for half a century or more. Hle held almost every position of trust and honor in the gift of his townsmen-was a member of the school committee fifteen years, and of the board of selectmen for twenty-five years, and in 1879 was elected representa- tive to the general court for year 1880. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Con- gregationalist. He married Mehitable Brad- street, daughter of Josiah and Sarah ( Patch) Bradstreet. (See below). Children, born at Topsfield: 1. Sarah Josephine ; married J. Loring Gould; resides at Melrose; six chil- dren : i. Harlan Gould, died aged four years : ii. Lawrence Dudley Gould; iii. Ethel Gertrude Gould : iv. Marion Bradstreet Gould ; v. Wal- lace Irving Gould ; vi. Sturgis Gould. 2. Hor- ace Dudley, married Mabel W. Warner ; chil- dren: i. Faith Ethelyn; ii. Mildred Ray; iii. Hilda, died aged eleven months; iv. Horace Edward (twin) ; v. Horton Dudley, (twin). 3. Josiah Porter, married Adelaide Smith ; child, Judson. 4. Samuel Wallace, unmarried. 5. Alice Gertrude, single. 6. Ruth Adelaide, married Frank Bradstreet ; children: i. Rich- ard: ii. Helen; iii. Bertha, died aged six months. 7. John Henry, married Lizzie Knee- land ; children: i. Dorothy Ann; ii. Kenneth. 8. Percy Leroy. 9. Albert Chase. 10. Me- hitable Dudley.
(III) Samuel Bradstreet, son of John Bradstreet (2), was born in Topsfield, Aug- ust 4, 1699. He lived at Topsfield. He mar-
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ried, 1722, Sarah Clarke. Children, born at Topsfield: 1. Ann, born October 23, 1724. 2. Sarah, born February 4, 1726-7. 3. Samuel, born March 8, 1729 ; mentioned below. 4. Eli- jah, born August 8, 1731. 5. Eunice, born April 15, 1733. 6. Asa, born April 20, 1736.
(IV) Samuel Bradstreet, son of Samuel Bradstreet, was born in Topsfield, March 8, 1729. He married, April 5. 1763, Ruth Lam- son. Children, born at Topsfield: 1. Samuel, born January 2, 1764. 2. Ruth, born March 8, 1766; married May 8, 1791, Billy (Bela) Emerson. 3. Elijah, born July 4, 1767 ; mar- ried Phebe Ingalls, of Andover. 4. Asa, born May 29, 1769; married November 30, 1790. Abigail Balch, of Topsfield. 5. John ; see for- ward. 6. Moses, born August 26, 1773 : mar- ried May 7, 1795, Lydia Peabody. Child of second wife: 7. Daughter, died young.
(V) John Bradstreet, son of Samuel Brad- street, was born in Topsfield, December 9, 1771. He married, January 9. 1792, Mehit- able Balch. Children, born at Topsfield : I. Mehitable, born March 29, 1793. 2. Cornelius. born October 30, 1796. 3. Ruth, born Febru- ary 16, 1799; married Solomon Wildes, of Boston, as second wife. 4. Cynthia, born No- vember, 1802. 5. Josiah, born September 25, 1804: mentioned below. 6. John, born No- vember 11, 18II.
(VI) Josiah Bradstreet, son of John Brad- street, was born at Topsfield, September 25. 1804. He married Sarah Patch. Children, born at Topsfield: 1. Mehitable Porter, mar- ried Dudley Bradstreet (7), mentioned above. 2. Josiah, Jr. 3. Sarah. 4. Henrietta. 5. John. 6. Eliza. 7. Joseph P., born April II, 1846, at Topsfield. 8. Anne.
The surname Saville, Savel, SAVILLE Savell, Savill or Savile, is of ancient date in England. The surname was adopted by one of the most illustrious families of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, as early as the twelfth century and in the thirteenth Savile was a large and flourishing family. Some writers have fancifully ascribed to this name an Ital- ian origin, but the name was originally Nor- man without doubt. The evidence tends to show that all the families of this surname had a common origin. Thomas Savile, Esq., of Savile Hall, Yorkshire, in the time of Henry III had two sons : 1. John, his heir : 2. Henry, ancestor of the Savilles, baronets, of Copley and Meehley. Sir John Savile, sheriff of county York, in the fifth and eleventh years
of Richard II, great-great-grandson of John, first mentioned, had two sons: 1. Sir John, whose daughter and heir, Isabel, married Thomas D'Arcy ; 2. Henry --- ; ancestors of Savile, baronets, of Thornhill. In various parts of England the family bears this coat-of-arms or one closely resembling it: Argent on a bend sable three owls of the field. Branches of the family have been prominent at Oxton and Rufford Abbey in Nottinghamshire, in Derby and Devonshire.
(I) William Saville was the immigrant an- cestor as far as known of all of the early families of New England. He was a joiner by trade. He settled in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, and was employed there by the 110- torious Nathaniel Eaton in 1641. He removed to Braintree where his descendants have been numerous to the present time. He married Hannah Tidd, daughter of John Tidd, tailor, an immigrant from Hartford, England. and she is mentioned in her father's will. She died August 14, 1650, and he married (second). November 2, 1655, Sarah Gannitt. He died April 6, 1669. His will was dated February, 1668-69. bequeathing to wife Sarah, sons John, Samuel, Benjamin and William, daughters Hannah and Sarah. By agreement made June 14. 1669, between the widow and sons, she was to have all she brought to their father at the time of his marriage. Children : I. John, born April 22, 1642. 2. Samuel, October 30, 1643. 3. Benjamin, October 28, 1645, resided at Braintree. 4. Hannah, March 11. 1648. 5. William. July 17, 1652. Child of Sarah: 6. Sarah, October 15, 1654.
( III ) Thomas Saville, doubtless a grandson of William Saville ( 1), was born April 17, 1699. He is said to have been living at Mal- den, Massachusetts, before removing to Glou- cester, where he made his home. A branch of the Saville family located in the adjacent town of Medford, and at an early date some of the preceding generation lived at Woburn. He was a cooper by trade and followed his trade at Annisquam (Gloucester ), where he died March 19. 1783, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He married, January 24, 1720, Mary Haraden, born February 5. 1704. died at Gloucester, June 4, 1775. Children : I. Thomas, born April 17, 1723, died young. 2. Hannah, born September 26, 1725, died young. 3. James, born July 12, 1726, died young. 4. John, born July 12, 1727, died No- vember 18, 1790; married, May 30, 1751. Sarah Haraden. 5. Mary, born May 23, 1729, died March 23, 1800. 6. Thomas, born Aug-
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ust 4, 1731, died of small pox. 7. Hannah, born December 14, 1733, died 1759. 8. Dominicus, baptized April 24, 1735. 9. Oliver, born February 28, 1736, died young. 10. Eliz- abeth, baptized September 4, 1737. 11. Oliver, born July 31, 1738, died at sea 1755. 12. Jesse, born December 16, 1740; mentioned below.
(IV) Jesse Saville, son of Thomas Saville (3), born at Gloucester, December 16, 1740, baptized in the Third Church, December 31 of the same year. He received a good education, and held a commission under the King of officer of customs. This office was held at the expense of much unpopularity and consid- erable personal danger. The strict perform- ance of what he considered his duty made him extremely unpopular, and he suffered severely in person and property. In those days im- mediately preceding the revolution the feeling was even more bitter. In 1768 the exasperated people searched his home in quest of one Samuel Fellows, a collector of revenues. The man had fled, and escaped his pursuers, but the mob vented its anger upon Saville and his family. He was knocked down while defend- ing his home, and narrowly escaped more seri- ous injury. The merchants continued to vio- late the customs laws, and, notwithstanding the recent scene at his house, he insisted upon their compliance with the law. He defied pub- lic sentiment, perhaps unwisely, and on the night of March 22, 1770, he was seized in his bed by a party of men disguised as negroes and Indians, and dragged in an inhuman man- ner to the harbor four miles distant, where he was subjected to various indignities until his tormentors were tired. This outrage caused much hard feeling in the town, and it was called to the attention of the governor. Jesse Saville died at an advanced age, March IO, 1823. He married (first), October 6, 1763, Martha Babson, born October 8, 1745, died April 19, 1785. He married (second), Mrs. Hannah Dane, of Ipswich, who died May 3, 1827, aged eighty years. Children of first wife: I. Thomas, born August 18, 1764, mentioned below. 2. Abiah, born June 12, 1766, died February 18, 1843. 3. John, born April 16, 1768, went to sea at the age of four- teen, was taken by a British frigate to Eng- land, and never returned. 4. William, born March 17, 1770, died January II, 1853; schoolmaster, trader, farmer, town clerk. 5. James, born October 16, 1772, died June 6, 1805. 6. Martha, born December 16, 1774, died December 13. 1801. 7. Oliver, born Jan-
uary 20, 1777, died on voyage from India, of small pox, March 14, 1801. 8. Epps, born March 1779, died July 6, 1820. 9. David, born March 13, 1781, died 1801; lost at sea with crew from ship "Winthrop and Mary." Chil- dren of second wife: 10. Mary Dane, born March 7, 1787. 11. Hannah, born December 24, 1790, died 1854.
(V) Thomas Saville, son of Jesse Saville (4), born at Gloucester, August 18, 1764, died there May 7, 1845. He received an excellent education for those times, and both he and his brother William were school masters in the districts of Gloucester. They were both known as "Master Saville," and were success- ful in their calling. The occupation seemed to prevail among the Savilles; Sir William Saville was teacher of mathematics to Queen Elizabeth. In later years Thomas Saville went to sea and became captain of a vessel. During the Embargo acts, while in the West Indies, his ship was captured by a French frigate and taken to Guadeloupe, where the vessel and cargo were confiscated. He was obliged to return home in another ship. While in port in Gloucester, he used to secrete the cargo in the attic of his house, to evade the revenue officers. During the last part of his life he kept the Tavern House at Annisquam for his son John, and was active as long as his health permitted, he being a great sufferer from rheumatism. He was a member of the Orthodox church, and brought up his family in strict accordance with that faith. He was a prominent figure in the history of Annis- quam.
He married, May 10, 1787, Betsey Hara- den, born June 15, 1764, died September 23, 1836. Children: I. Betsey, born June 5, 1788, died May 22, 1816; married Charles Wheeler ; children: Roscoe Wheeler, Charles Wheeler. 2. Thomas, born June 3, 1791, died on shipboard from Havana, September 4, 1809. 3. John, born April 6, 1793, died December 20, 1834; married Caroline Peabody, of Boston ;" children: Elizabeth, married Ezra Leonard, of Gloucester, and had Charles Leonard ; Wil- liam, Arianna, John Thomas. 4. Ira, born August 31, 1797, died December 21 1865; married, November 5, 1827, Mary Bates, of Cohassett, who died December 15, 1888, aged eighty-six years, seven months, ten days ; chil- dren : i. Mary Bates, born June 8, 1837, died September 17, 1905; married, October 3, 1861, John Butterfield Spaulding, of Lexington, and had John Stillman Spaulding, born August 30, 1865 (married July 25, 1895, Grace Lovejoy,
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of Chelsea, and had Edward Lovejoy Spauld- ing, born December 15, 1896, and Stillman Saville Spaulding, born July 5, 1903, died January 28, 1904) ; ii. Ira Austin Spaulding. born October 21, 1841, died December 29, 1844; iii. Ellen Bayley Spaulding, born No- vember 18, 1843, married, June 1, 1865, Ralph Irving Lane, of Gloucester, and had Ralph Edgar Lane, born March 6, 1867 (married, January 22, 1897, Vera Perin, of Roxbury, and had Rachel Perin Lane, born July 2, 1898, and Irving Saville Lane, born March 28, 1901, died June II, 1903). 5. Martha Babson, born April 22, 1802, died November 23, 1871 ; mar- ried Isaiah Jewett, of Gloucester ; children : i. James Saville Jewett, born November 10, 1830, married, October 2, 1866, Ellen Frances Clough, of Gloucester, and had James Saville Jewett, Frederick Saville Jewett (married Annie Griffin and had Marion Jewett), Annie Babson Jewett (married, June 4. 1907, Charles Samuel Allen, of Allston), Frank Jewett, Martha Ann Jewett, Alice Jewett and William Jewett. 6. David, born June 2, 1804. mentioned below. 7. James Babson, born January 29, 1808, died September 7, 1894; married, December 10, 1849, Rebecca Anni Crouse, of Nova Scotia; children: i. William James, born May 29, 1852, married (first ). September 28, 1874, Emma E. Fuller, divorced and married (second), December 2, 1903, Sadie M. Littlehale, of New Bedford; ji. David Thomas, born August 18, 1858, married June 3, 1878, Mary Isabelle Gleason, of Dor- chester, and had Norma Louis, born January 6, 1880, and Josephine Lewis, born Septem- ber 1, 1881. 8. Laura, born April 5, 1810, died October 15, 1881 ; married, January 1, 1832, Gustavus Griffin, of Gloucester; children: i. Charles Carroll Griffin, married Eleanor Saun- ders and had Wallace Carroll Griffin, born, October 1, 1863, (married Mrs. Annie Part- ridge and had Blanche, Florence and Henry Griffin ), Delia Griffin, born September 18, 1865, Henry Griffin, born December 10, 1867, Osborne Griffin; ii. Caroline Griffin, died March 16, 1906; iii. Gustavus Griffin, Jr., married Adeline Going and had Lester K. Griffin, born March 22, 1864, and Addie Grif- fin, married McClellan ; iv. Betsey Griffin, born July 28, 1838, died November 6, 1870, married Henry Jones, of Bayview, and had Etta F. Jones, born October 12, 1866; v. Ruel Griffin, born August 14, 1840, died Octo- ber, 1876, married Ann Eliza Clough; vi. Laura Ann Griffin, born September 24, 1842. married, August 20, 1865, William H. Chard
and had William H. Chard, Jr., born July 29, 1866, died October 9, 1886; Arthur Griffin Chard, born March 5, 1869, died March 19, 1869: Kate Osgood Chard, born August 8, 1870, died February 8, 1873; Herbert Chard, born December 31, 1871, died January 20. 1872; Lizzie Brewer Chard, born October 10, 1873, died September 20, 1880; Ernest Dade Chard, born September 30, 1876 (married, February 7, 1906, Geneva P. Chadwick) : Abbie Maria Chard, born June 3, 1878, died September 28, 1880; Laura Saville Chard, born November 19, 1882; Caroline Griffin Chard, born January 10, 1885. vii. John Griffin, born December 14, 1844, married, 1868, Abby Maria Chard, and had Fred Grif- fin, born October 18. 1868, died December, 1880: George Brewer Griffin, born March 17, 1873 (married Mabel Wentworth) ; Grace Griffin, born January 31, 1887; viii. Sarah Griffin, born January 11. 1848; ix. Ada Griffin, born August 5, 1849, married Henry Hamlin and had Charles Babson Hamlin, born August 20, 1828; x. Abby Haraden Griffin, born May 21, 1851, married William Arthur Gibson and had Rena Gibson, born October 24, 1875; William Arthur Gibson, Jr. : Bessie Emma Gibson, born March 24, 1888.
(\'1) David Saville, son of Thomas Saville (5), born at Gloucester, June 2, 1804. IIe attended the common schools of his native town until he was fourteen years old, when he went to sea on a vessel bound for Pacific waters. They put into a Chilean port, and the entire crew was impressed into the Chilean service. He deserted as soon as the oppor- tunity came and returned home. He became master of a vessel in the West India trade, and early in the forties obtained a position in the old custom house in Boston, where he re- mained until 1849. At this time the gold fever broke out, and September 18 of that year ( 1849) he and his son Leonard A. sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, to California. They arrived in San Francisco after a one hundred and sixty days trip around the Horn. He entered into the produce supply business in San Francisco, and two years later removed to Sacramento, and was engaged in the gro- cery and mining supplies trade. Owing to impaired health the store was given up, and later he entered the stevedore and wharfage business, continuing until 1854. He returned east to Lexington, but after a short stay, in 1854, went again to San Francisco, where he resumed the wharfage business, and speculated some in mining stock. After another trip
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east he returned to California to settle up his affairs. At this time the city was suffering from an epidemic of small pox, which he con- tracted, and died July, 1868. He was buried in San Francisco. He was a man of fine intel- lect, energetic and forceful. His family was his chief happiness. He was a member of the Universalist church at Annisquam. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from Gloucester in 1835-36. He married, September 12, 1830, Ann Woodbury Leonard, born at Gloucester, July 20, 1808, died at Lex- ington, August 15, 1882, daughter of Rev. Ezra and Nancy (Woodbury) Leonard, of Gloucester. Children : 1. Leonard Augustus, born January 31, 1833, mentioned below. 2. John, born July 7. 1835, died January 6, 1838. 3. Annie Woodbury, born July 8, 1838, mar- ried, December 13, 1860, David Wood Muzzy, of Lexington : children: i. Benjamin Muzzy, born September 19, 1866, drowned August 24, 1885: ii. Susan Wood Muzzy, born July 20, 1868 ; iii. David Saville Muzzy, born October 9, 1870, married, September, 1901, Ina Bullis and had David Muzzy, born September 6, 1902, and Elizabeth Muzzy, born February 23. 1904; iv. IIelen Elizabeth Muzzy, born August 21, 1874; v. Annie Leonard Muzzy, born June 28, 1877 : vi. Clifford Loring Muzzy, born December 1I, 1886. 4. Clifford, born July 19, 1840, served nine months in North Carolina during the civil war. 5. David, born May 8, 1843, shot by accident September 29, 1853. 6. Frank Edward, born December 24, 1846, married, June 3, 1869, Lydia Caroline Gerrish, of Chelsea; children: i. Frank Ed- ward, born March 17, 1871, married, October 16, 1895. Emma C. Willcutt, of South Boston, and had Gladys Caroline, born August 5, 1896; Helen Frances, born September 27. 1897; Edward Clifford, born February 7, 1900; Royal Willcutt, born November 23, 1902: Arthur Frank, born May 5, 1904: 11. Ezra Leonard, born September 23, 1873. died April 22, 1875 ; iii. Sarah Augusta, born July 17, 1876, died December 11, 1877 : iv. Clifford, born November 4, 1877, married, November 4, 1900, Josephine Leach, and had Josephine Gerrish, born May 28, 1903.
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