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(VI) Zaccheus Gould, son of Richard Gould, was born in 1589, according to his own depo- sition. He resided in Hemel Hempsted and Massenden prior to his emigration to New Eng-
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land about 1638. He settled first in Lynn. then Ipswich. His brother Jeremy settled in Weymouth, and removed to Rhode Island. Zaccheus removed finally to Topsfield, Massa- chusetts, being one of the original settlers, and acquired a large landed estate. He died in 1670. He married Phoebe Deacon, who died Novem- ber 20. 1663. Children: I. Phebe, married Thomas Perkins. 2. Mary, married John Reddington. 3. Martha, married John Mew- march. 4. Priscilla. 5. John, mentioned be- low.
(VII) Captain John Gould, son of Zaccheus Gould, was born in England, June 10-21. 1635. He was prominent in public affairs, and was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to Governor Andros. He married October 12. 1660. Sarah Baker, born March 9, 1641, daugh- ter of John Baker. He died January 20, 1708-9. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarah. 3. Thomas. 4. Samuel. 5. Zac- cheus. 6. Priscilla. 7. Joseph. 8. Mary.
(VIII) Ensign John Gould, son of Captain John Gould, born in Topsfield. December 1. 1662, died November 5. 1724: married first, November 10, 1684. Phebe, daughter of John and Phebe French, granddaughter of Ensign Thomas French, who died in 1696. Children, born at Topsfield: 1. John. 2. Mary. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Sarah. 5. Hannah. 6. Daniel, mentioned below. 7. David. 8. Solomon. 9. Lydia.
(IX ) Daniel Gould, son of John Gould. born November 8. 1699, died December II, 1766. He resided in Topsfield, and was se- lectman in 1739 and 1742. He married first, July 28, 1731. Lydia Averill, born December II. 1712, died December 22, 1739, daughter of Ebenezer and Mehitable (Foster ) Averill : second. January 3. 1753. Lucy ( Tarbox ) Per- kins, born October 25. 1722, died August 29, 1806, daughter of Captain Thomas Tarbox, of Wenham, and widow of Elisha Perkins. She married third. Asa Gould. Children by first wife: 1. Ruth, born June 28, 1732: died November 3. 1747. 2. Daniel, born March 31. 1735 : died November 22, 1747. 3. Lydia, born June 3. 1737: died November 8. 1747. Children of second wife: 4. Daniel, born De- cember 8, 1753: married first. 1782, Mary Booth: second. 1788, Eunice Perley, widow : third, Ann M. Rawson, widow ; died 1842. 5. Elisha, born February 20, 1755 ; married, 1779, Elizabeth Peabody. 6. Lucy, born July 23. 1757 : married 1778, Nathaniel Goldsmith : died 1800. 7. Samuel, born March 6, 1759; mentioned below. 8. Lydia, born December
31. 1760; married 1783 Samuel Hood: died 1834. 9. Ruth, born December 3. 1762 ; mar- ried 1791 John Hood, Jr .: died 1840. 10. Moses, born June 10, 1766 ; married 1798 Anne Mecum : died 1831.
( X) Samuel Gould, son of Daniel Gould, born March 6, 1759. died April 12, 1837. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Nathaniel Wade's company. Colonel Moses Little's regiment. ( 12th), in 1776. Ile en- listed in the continental army. Justin Ely, com- missioner, and was assigned August 23. 1779, to Captain James Tisdale's company at Spring- field ; also in Captain Herrick's company. Colo- nel Cogswell's regiment, described as of Tops- field. aged twenty, height five feet six inches, complexion light : enlisted for nine months De- cember 8, 1779, under John Cushing, commis- sioner : June 5. 1778. was enlisted by Justin Elv. commissioner, and assigned to Colonel Timothy Bigelow's regiment, October 11. 1780, under Lieutenant Lynde, his age given as twenty-one: was discharged December 12, 1780. He married first, February 12, 1784. Abigail, daughter of John Lamson: second, February 13, 1792, Ruth Towne, born Feb- ruary, 1763. died January 19, 1851, daughter of Joshua Towne. Children of first wife: 1. Samuel, born April 5, 1785 : mentioned below. 2. Lucy, born March 2, 1787 ; died unmarried, November 27. 1875. 3. Josiah, born January 8, 1789: married, 1816, Betsey Gould; died 1851. 4. Child, died young. Children of sec- ond wife: 5. Asa. baptized June, 1793 ; died unmarried. September 1, 1838. 6. Abigail, born March 26. 1795 : died unmarried. Febru- ary 1, 1873. 7: Ruth, born July 4, 1797 : mar- ried. 1820. George Thomas; died 1883. 8. Sally, born October 19, 1799; married, 1830, Amos Fletcher : died 1881. 9. Polly, born January 21, 1803 : married, 1831. Samuel W. Weston : died 1879.
( XI) Samuel Lamson Gould, son of Sam- uel Gould, born April 5. 1785. died April 9. 1860 : married May 6, 1807, Mary Long, born October. 1784, died July 29, 1870. Children : 1. Samuel Lamson, born March 26, 1809: mar- ried first. Ann Poor: second, Althea H. Stearns : died 1892. 2. Ansel. born February 7. 1811 ; married June 23. 1859, Matilda Rad- cliffe : died May 27. 1885. 3. Charles, men- tioned below.
(XII) Charles Gould, son of Samuel Lam- son Gould, was born April 15, 1814. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He lived all his active life at Tops- field, where he was engaged in shoemaking
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In politics he was a Republican, and in relig- ion a Congregationalist. He was a member of a military company, the Topsfield Warren Blues. He married, December 7, 1837, Eliza- beth Averill Gould, born December 6, 1816, daughter of John and Mary (Averill ) Gould. Children: 1. Mary Elizabeth, born at Tops- field, July 23, 1839; educated in Topsfield public schools and Topsfield Academy : teacher for a number of years in Center primary school; an active and loyal member of Con- gregational church. 2. Sarah Jane, born Feb- ruary 27, 1841 ; married, June 17, 1866, John Bailey, of Topsfield; one son-Merrill P. 3. Charles Wallace, born February 14, 1848; married November 27. 1873. Jean Holley : no children : lives at 6 Ash street, Salem, Massa- chusetts. 4. George Ansel, born April 10, 1849, unmarried : resides at Topsfield. 5 William Pitman, born January 9, 1855; married, 1882, Mattie E. Nichols; one son, Arthur Linwood Gould, born November. 1882.
(IX) Ensign Solomon Gould, son of En- sign John Gould (8), born in Topsfield, March 19. 1704. died December 15, 1762; married first, December 19. 1734, Elizabeth Robinson, died April 24, 1749, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Cummings) Robinson, granddaugh- ter of John Cummings and John and Dorothy (Clark ) Robinson. Dorothy was daughter of Daniel Clark, the immigrant. John Cummings, father of Elizabeth, married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Samuel and Hannah ( Brackett ) Kings- ley ; was son of John and Sarah ( Howlett) Cummings, and grandson of Isaac Cummings. Samuel Kingsley was son of Elder Stephen Kingsley, the immigrant. Hannah Brackett was daughter of Captain Richard Brackett, and Sarah Howlett was daughter of Ensign Thomas Howlett. Children of Ensign Solo- mon Gould by first wife: I. Elizabeth. 2. Solomon. 3. Nathaniel. 4. Lydia. 5. John, mentioned below.
(X) John Gould, son of Ensign Solomon Gould, was born in Topsfield. February 20, 1746. He was a soldier in the revolution. He married first, February 9, 1769. Elizabeth Bradstreet, died October 18, 1775, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fisk) Bradstreet ; second, June 3, 1777, Bethiah, widow of Josiah Fitts and Daniel Boardman, daughter of John and Bethia ( Giddings) Burnham, granddaugh- ter of Deacon Solomon and Sarah (Burnham ) Giddings. Deacon Solomon was son of Lieu- tenant Solomon and Margery (Goodhue) Gid- dings, and grandson of Lieutenant John Gid-
dings and Sarah ( Rand) Giddings. Sarah was daughter of Francis Rand. Margery Goodhue was daughter of Captain William and Hannah ( Dane ) Goodhue, and granddaughter of Deacon William and Margery ( Watson ) Goodhue. Hannah Dane was daughter of Rev. Francis Dane, granddaughter of John and Elizabeth ( Ingalls) Dane, and great grand- daughter of Edmund Ingalls. George Gid- dings, the immigrant, was father of Lieuten- ant John Giddings. Sarah ( Burnham) Gid- dings was daughter of David and Elizabeth (Perkins) Burnham, granddaughter of John Burnham and great granddaughter of Lieu- tenant Thomas Burnham and Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Deacon Thomas Welles. Elizabeth Perkins was daughter of Jacob and Sarah ( Wainwright ) Perkins, granddaughter of John Perkins and great granddaughter of John Per- kins. Sarah ( Wainwright) Perkins was daughter of Francis Wainwright. Children of John and Bethia Gould : I. David, died young. 2. Rebecca. 3. John. mentioned be- low. 4. David, died young. 5. Elsey. 6. David. 7. Martha.
(XI) John Gould, son of John Gould, was born August 29, 1785. He married, November 30, 1800, Mary, daughter of Elijah Averill, descendant of Lieutenant Isaac Averill, who served in the revolution. Elijalı Averill mar- ried a daughter of Major Joseph Gould, also a revolutionary soldier, son of Captain Josephi and Priscilla ( Perkins) Gould, grandson of the redoubtable Captain John Gould (7), men- tioned above. Captain Tobijah Perkins, father of Priscilla (Perkins) Gould, married Sarah, daughter of John Dennison, of Ipswich and Topsfield. Lieutenant Isaac Averill married Priscilla. daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth ( Bradstreet ) Peabody, descendant of the im- migrant, Francis Peabody, through Isaac and Sarah ( Estes) Peabody. Sarah was doubt- less daughter of Matthew Estes, immigrant, born May 28. 1645, died July 9, 1723. son of Robert and Dorothy Estes, of Dover, England : married June 14, 1767, Philadelphia ( Jenkins) Hayes, widow of Edward Hayes, and daugh- ter of Reginald and Ann Jenkins, of Kittery, Maine : Matthew Estes was a Quaker and cap- tain of the sloop "Unity," of Boston. Eliza- beth ( Bradstreet) Peabody was a descendant of Governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet, the poet. daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. Through vari- ous lines of descent, John Gould is also de- scended from many other prominent families, including the Appleton, Glover, Capen, Bass,
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Jackson, Hovey, Foster, etc. Major John Appleton, son of Samuel Appleton, the immi- grant, married Priscilla Glover, daughter of Rev. Joses Glover who left London in charge of the first printing press brought to America, and died on the passage. His widow married Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. Children of John and Mary (Averill) Gould: 1. Mary Averill. 2. Lucy Peabody. 3. Sarah Friend. 4. Elizabeth Averill, mar- ried Charles Gould, mentioned above. 5. John Averill, born March 6, 1819. 6. Adeline Wal- lace.
For many generations the
SANDERSON Sanderson family has held high rank in the common- wealth of Massachusetts, exemplifying that type of citizenship which leads in national growth and progress, energetic, intellectual. guided by high ideals.
( I) Edward Sanderson, pioneer ancestor, born in England, 1615, emigrated to America, settling in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1636. and died September 1. 1674. He married. October 15. 1645. Mary, daughter of Bagot ( or Brigget ) Eggleston, of Dorchester. One child. Jonathan.
(II) Deacon Jonathan Sanderson, son of Edward and Mary ( Eggleston ) Sanderson. was born in Watertown, September 15, 1646. died September 3, 1735. He married, October 24, 1669. Abia Bartlett, daughter of Ensign Thomas and Hannah Bartlett : she died Sep- tember 13. 1723. Deacon Sanderson and his wife moved from Watertown to Cambridge. where all their children were born. Later they removed to Waltham, where he built the ancient house at Piety Corner. which was torn down about 1897. He served as constable in 1695, and as selectman from 1703 to 1719. He and his wife are buried at Waltham, and by their side are buried their son Jonathan and grandson Jonathan, both deacons.
( III) Samuel Sanderson, son of Deacon Jonathan and Abia ( Bartlett ) Sanderson. was born in Cambridge, May 28, 1681, died July 8, 1722, from a lightning stroke. He mar- ried, April 13. 1708, Mercy Gale, daughter of Abraham and Sarah ( Fisk) Gale, who died May 8. 1776, aged ninety-two years.
(IV) Abraham Sanderson, son of Samuel and Mercy ( Gale) Sanderson, was born in Watertown, March 28, 1711, died December 3. 1776. He settled in Lunenburg. Massachu- setts, and married, December 6, 1733. Patience Smith, born February 28, 1716, daughter of
Elisha and Patience ( Brown ) Smith, of Wes- ton, Massachusetts. They were the parents of thirteen children.
(V) Jacob Sanderson, son of Abraham and Patience ( Smith ) Sanderson, was born Aug- ust 3. 1741, died February 9. 1829. He was a revolutionary soldier. He enlisted as a pri- vate in Captain George Kimball's company, and marched on the Lexington alarm. Later he was a private in Captain Joseph Fuller's company, Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment. He enlisted August 20, 1777, and marched to New York, where he was engaged in the battles of Stillwater, September 15, and Sara- toga. October 7, 1777, and was at the capture of General Burgoyne. He married, December 18. 1760, Elizabeth Child, born February 14. 1743, died September 4. 1794. daughter of John and Tabitha ( Seger) Child, of Newton. (Vl) Jonathan Sanderson, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Child ) Sanderson, was born May 4. 1766, in Worcester, died April 19, 1841. He married, October 30, 1794, Mehitable Spof- ford, born September 4, 1771, died September 18, 1847. daughter of Abijah and Mary ( Town) Spofford, of Townsend, Massachu- setts.
(VII) Jesse Sanderson, son of Jonathan and Mehitable (Spofford ) Sanderson, was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, December 20, 1803, died January 17, 1891. lle was at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, and saw General LaFayette. lle married first, April 3. 1828, Marilla Tur- ner, born July 17, 1806, died May 23. 1868, daughter of Isaac and Abigail ( Whiting ) Tur- ner. Ile married second. Frances L. Cook. Children of first wife: 1. Marilla, born May 8. 1830. 2. Turner J., September 25, 1831. 3. Lucy E., August 24, 1833, died 1896. 4. Al- bert. November 15, 1835. died 1901. 5. Alonzo, November 29, 1837. 6. Helen A., January 16, 1840. 7. Andrew. April 16, 1842. 8. Martin, January 30, 1843. 9. George E., October 8, 1845. 10. Ella Maria. December 22. 1850, died 1900. Child of second wife: Sherman, born November 22, 1871.
(VII) Alonzo Sanderson, son of Jesse and Marilla ( Turner ) Sanderson, was born No- vember 29, 1837. He married, October 5. 1864. in Athol, Massachusetts, Helen Frances Kendall, born July 10, 1841, daughter of Ozi and Fannie A. ( Ainsworth) Kendall. They had one child, lloward Kendall Sanderson.
( IX ) Howard Kendall Sanderson, only child of Rev. Alonzo and Helen (Kendall ) Sander- son, was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts,
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July 10, 1865. Descended through both par- ents from men who planted the colony of Massachusetts Bay, numbering among his an- cestry the scholar and preacher, as well as the sturdy yeoman and fearless soldier, spending his own early life in the quiet of the parsonage, where in truth, plain living and high thinking were the rule, he was peculiarly fitted by na- ture for the double service which it seemed to be his to render to mankind through the short life that was given him on earth. When he was eight years of age, his parents moved to Lynn, where the long pastorate of his father at the Trinity Methodist Church began, and in the Lynn public schools he received his formal education. Of a peculiarly nervous organiza- tion, constant care and watchfulness were needed during the period of his youth and its attended rapid physical growth, in order to keep him in health, and thus it was that the liberal education of the schools was denied him. Nevertheless, in him were combined the indomitable courage and industry and energy of the most hardy of his yeoman and soldier sires, together with a gentleness and sympathy and upward vision which could have belonged only to those of them who had the highest and purest aspirations. Consequently, from his very earliest manhood, his was an ever widen- ing horizon. Ambitious from the beginning- ambitious to make for himself a place in the affairs of men-he was yet more ambitious that that place should be one which he could better serve his fellows than himself.
The story of his life, written out from the standpoint of simple data, can be told in a few lines. At the age of sixteen, although his standing at school had been high and his work well and thoroughly done, it was deemed wise, on account of the state of his health, not to continue his connection there beyond the high school ; yet his restless, eager spirit would not allow him to be idle, and he was soon engaged in the printing business in a small way in his own home. When still but a boy he had opened an office in the city and was conducting a suc- cessful business. This, however, he gave up after two years to take a position as salesman in the wholesale printing house of Golding & Company, of Boston. While employed there he was married, on August 1, 1887, to Carrie M. Flanders, a teacher in the public schools of Lynn. In 1889 he began his connection with the Lynn postoffice, when seeking out-of-door employment, he applied for and obtained a position as substitute letter carrier. He was soon made a regular carrier, then promoted
to the position of superintendent of carriers, and was finally appointed assistant postmaster, under Captain A. J. Hoitt, postmaster.
From boyhood he had been a collector. Be- ginning as a lad to collect miscellaneous curios which he spent many hours in labeling and arranging, he gradually became interested in coins, in postage stamps, and in autographs of famous men. His collection of coins never became extensive. His collection of auto- graphs, begun at the age of seventeen, became one of the most interesting if not one of the most valuable in the country, numbering within it a set of the governors of Massachusetts, the presidents of the United States, generals of the revolution, kings and queens of England, and a full set, lacking one, of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Many of the specimens in his collection were full auto- graph letters signed, and many of those of the men of the revolution bore dates of that period. The collection of postage stamps, begun at the age of eight, was a hobby and delight through his boyhood, and the knowledge gained in the pursuit made him later an expert not only in the discovery of rarities, but also in the detec- tion of counterfeit issues. For several years after his marriage he had been carrying on, as an aside, the business of stamps-buying and selling large collections as they came upon the market. This business increased to such an extent that in 1893 he gave up his connection with the postoffice, and went abroad in order to come in touch with the great foreign dealers and to increase his stock in trade. For seven years he continued in the business as a pro- fessional philatelist, and his name became known to the trade the world over. His stock in stamps during much of this time was kept at $25,000, and at one time he handled a single collection valued at $75,000. During these years, however, he was not alone en- gaged in the pursuit of private interests. He had begun very early to be deeply impressed with political questions, and he felt very strongly that every citizen had definite obliga- tions and duties. These, as he saw them, he discharged with characteristic energy and fi- delity, and his ability and integrity won him recognition in the field of political activity. He was twice elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives, and twice to the state senate. Upon his second election to each branch, he received the highest majority ever given to any man in Lynn up to that time. On May 12, 1900, upon the death of Postmaster Fogg, he was appointed postmaster of Lynn,
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and on December 6, 1904, during his last ill- ness, he received his second appointment to the same position.
He was prominently connected with the Masonic fraternity, being a past master of Golden Fleece Lodge; a member of Sutton Royal Arch Chapter ; past master of Zebulun Council, Royal and Select Masters ; a member of Olivet Commandery, Knights Templar ; of the Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree; Giles F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, sixteenth degree, of which body his election as master occurred five days before his death; Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix, eighteenth degree : Mass- achusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree ; and Aleppo Temple N. M. S. He was a mem- ber of the West Lynn Lodge of Odd Fellows; of the Lynn Historical Society ; the Old Essex Chapter, S. A. R .: the Oxford Club; and president of the New England Postmasters' Association.
In his public life, he was open, loyal and fearless. Friends and foe knew exactly where to find him. In his private life he was clean, upright, and true-a man to trust and to con- fide in, one who made friends and kept them- not only among those high in the councils of the state, but also in the ranks of the lowly where many a one will remember through life his kindly sympathy and his brotherly help.
Besides this diversity of interests and duties which occupied him, he had been for years a student of history, particularly the history of his own country, and latterly had spent much time in historical research, the result of which had been the preparation of material which he contemplated publishing in the near future, with the purpose of giving to his own city and county a history of the revolutionary period. unique in its scope and of timely interest and value. Upon this work he was engaged at the time of his death, and in the course of its pre- paration he had located the graves of 196 revolutionary soldiers who had gone out from old Lynn to the War for Independence. A large proportion of these graves had been for many years unknown as well as unmarked. He applied for and obtained from the United States government marble headstones to mark these sacred spots. With his own hands he helped to set these stones, and at his suggestion the Old Essex Chapter, S. A. R., and the Lynn Historical Society, placed at each the bronze marker of the S. A. R. The formal dedication of both stones and markers, on June 17th,
1904, will be an occasion which the people of Lynn will be glad to remember, and the 196 flags which wave from them on each Me- morial Day, will be a reminder of those men of Lynn who helped to make the nation pos- sible, and of the man who rescued their names from oblivion. Almost the last public service in which Mr. Sanderson participated was the dedication, on November 10th, 1904. of the boulder erected on the grounds of the Lynn Public Library by the Daughters of the Revo- lution tto the memory of the Lynn revolu- tionary soldiers.
The last year of his life was given literally in the service of others. Overestimating his strength, he had not learned to spare himself, and at length, worn and weary. he became the prey of a fatal illness. His death from ty- phoid fever occurred on the 14th of Decem- ber, 1904, at the age of thirty-nine years and five months. His wife and one son, Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson, and father and mother were left.
Many words might be used in estimating rightly the achievements and character of this young man whose career seemed but just be- gun when the hand of death was laid upon him. Ardent and high spirited, he brought to every task the full strength of his youthful enthusi- asm. Standing six feet tall, with the frame of an athlete, and the dignified bearing that was his by nature, possessed of a keen wit, and ideas which carried weight wherever he appeared, it was not strange that he was sought after as a public speaker, or that he rose to more than local prominence in that field. Sensitive to praise and blame, yet fear- less in expressing in word and deed his con- victions, spotless in life, warm-hearted, gen- erous, and sympathetic, he made few enemies in life, and when he died, people remembered most how much they had loved and admired him.
The Kendall family, of which KENDALL Mrs. Alonzo Sanderson ( see Sanderson family) is a repre- sentative, came from the town of Kendall on the river Kent. Westmoreland county, Eng- land. The emigrants to this country were Francis and Deacon Thomas Kendall, who sailed from England under the alias of Myles, again taking the name of Kendall upon reach- ing this country. Their father, John Kendall. lived in Cambridge, England, in 1646, where he died in 1660. Francis is the common an-
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cestor of all the Kendalls in this country. Deacon Thomas had ten daughters, but no male descendants.
( I) Francis Kendall was in Charlestown, Massachusetts, prior to 1640. and also resided in Woburn. He was a landholder, and was by occupation a miller. He married, at Wo- burn, December 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, daugh- ter of the Rev. John and Abigail Tidd, of Woburn. He died in 1708, and his wife in I705.
(II) Thomas Kendall, son of Francis and Mary ( Tidd) Kendall, born January 10, 1648, in Woburn, died May 25, 1730. He married, 1673. Ruth Blodgett, born December 28, 1656, (lied December 18, 1695, daughter of Samuel Blodgett, Sr.
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