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(V) Thomas Morse, son of Deacon Stephen Morse (4), born June 30, 1726. He resided at Bradford, Massachusetts. He was a weaver. He married May 20, 1747, Elizabeth Bartlett. Children: I. Elizabeth, born 1748: married Moses Spofford. 2. Deacon Thomas, born August 3, 1749; mentioned below. 3. Judith, born July 27, 1751, married June, 1821, Ephi- raim Wesson, of Groton, Vermont. 4. Moody, born January 12, 1753; resided at Peacham, Vermont. 5. Benjamin, born February 5, 1754; died December 23, 1828; married Olive Greenough. 6. Stephen, born January 28, 1757 ; died 1839: married Sally Kay, of Hav- erhill, New Hampshire. 7. Mobly. baptized February 15, 1761 ; married Andrew Peabody, of Bradford. 8. Joseph, baptized October 24. 1762; married Carlton ; resided at Machias, Maine. 9. Edmund, baptized Octo- ber 7. 1764: married Wesson ; settled at Groton, Vermont. 10. John, settled at Bar- net, Vermont ; married Jennie Kay. II. Su- sanna, married February, 1784, Samuel Carl- ton, of Boxford.
(VI) Deacon Thomas Morse, son of Thomas Morse (5), born August 3, 1749, died November 13, 1826. He resided at Bradford, and was deacon of the church of the East Parish. He married, August 13, 1771, Re- becca, daughter of Samuel and Susanna Cole, of Boxford. Children: 1. Samuel, born Jan- uary 9, 1772 ; mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, born January 2, 1773. 3. Benjamin, born February 12, 1774; died August 25, 1775. 4. Benjamin, born September 28, 1777; resided at Haverhill, New Hampshire; removed to Vermont, and kept a tavern ; had children. 5. Richard, born July 17, 1779; married Polly Burbank : settled at Wiscasset, Maine ; died leaving child, Adaline, married Hop- kinson, of Bradford. 6. Rebecca, born May 18, 1781 ; married Moses Kimball, of Brad- ford ; had Sarah, Jacob, William James and Moses Kimball, of New York. 7. Moses, born July 18, 1783; married Betsey Carlton, No- vember, 1807; resided on homestead at Brad- ford. 8. Sally, born July 17, 1785; married Paul Hopkinson, of Bradford; fifteen chil- dren. 9. James, born March 11, 1787; shoe-
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maker : married - Merrill: resided in
Vermont. 10. Stephen. born August 16, 1789 : died September 15, 1791. at Bradford.
(VII) Samuel Morse, son of Thomas Morse (6), was born January 9. 1772. He re- sided at Oxford, Industry and Wiscasset, Maine, at Haverhill. New Hampshire, and finally at Georgetown, Massachusetts. He was a farmer all his life. He was a Congregation- alist. lle married, 1798, Esther Bettys, of Rowley, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Sam- uel, born September. 1799: married Mary Parker: resided at Boxford. 2. Moses D., born August 7, 1804: married Betsey Pierce : resided at Georgetown. 3. Caleb. married Naomi Wetherbee: died at Industry, Maine. 4. Thomas, born December 8. 1810; married Mary Nichols; resided at Georgetown. 5. James, born January 18, 1814: married Mary Page, resided at Atkinson, New Hampshire. 6. John, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, married Daniel Withee; resided at Industry, Maine. John and probably Sarah were born of a first marriage of their father.
(\'111) John Morse, son of Samuel Morse (7). was born in 1795, in Oxford. Maine. Ile was educated in the public school of the several towns in which the family lived, and at Bradford Academy ( Massachusetts ), under Benjamin Greenleaf. Hle took up the trade of morocco dressing and tanning in Roxbury. Massachusetts, and followed it for several years in the employ of Guy Carleton and later for Thomas Hayes & Harding in Haverhill. He died in the prime of life in 1840, aged forty- five years. He was a Congregationalist in religion. He married. 1818. Sarah Townsend, of Boston, Massachusetts, born in 1799, died September 18, 1857. aged fifty-eight years. Children : 1. John Brooks, married Mary Foot, of Searsport, Maine : children: i. Sarah Francis, married William Elwell, of Boston : ii. Ella, married the Rev. Mr. Grimes, of Bos- ton : iii. Frederick, married and lives in Wor- cester, Massachusetts. 2. James K., died aged twenty-seven years ; was unmarried. 3. Fred- erick. married, July 4. 1844, Martha Foot, of Searsport, Maine : children : i. George Melvin, born May 4, 1845: ii. Emma, born March 7. 1846, died at Haverhill, Massachusetts : Frederick Morse was a baker by trade and followed that occupation in Boston many years ; had three bakeries and several stores, and died in Boston; he was a Free Mason. 4. Milton M., married : no chil- dren : died at the age of thirty-seven, after
a voyage around the world. 5. Albert. born in Haverhill, March 17, 1826. died De- cember 26,-1897 : for many years he conducted several stores and bakeries in Boston : was a Free Mason : was highly esteemed by all who knew him: married Henrietta Philbrick, of Boston : children: Edward E., Etta D. and Emma F. 6. George A., mentioned below. 7. Charles F., mentioned below. Two other chil- dren died young.
( IX) George A. Morse, son of John Morse (8), was born in Haverhill, 1832. and was educated in the public schools of that city. In his early life he was engaged in the shoe busi- ness in Haverhill and in New York city. When the California gold fever broke out in 1849 he, with others, went around Cape Horn in the clipper ship "Winged Racer" of Boston. He was absent from home about six years, return- ing by way of Manilla, London and Liverpool, arriving in New York in the winter of 1856. Hle was engaged in the dry goods business un- til the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Second Battalion of Infantry, which was ordered to Fort Warren by Gover- nor Andrew to do garrison duty. He remained at the fort during the summer of 1861. when the battalion was ordered back to Boston and relieved from duty. He subsequently joined the Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer In- fantry as private, which left Boston for the front in August, 1862. The following Decem- ber he was commissioned second lieutenant, and in May following was advanced to first lieutenant and commanded Company E in the three days' fight at the battle of Gettysburg. Soon after he was appointed adjutant of the regiment. The following August he was de- tached from the regiment to do staff duty, which position he held until the close of the war, participating in all the engagements, from Lookout Mountain, under General Hooker. including Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea. serving with five different brigade commanders, the last one, General William Cogswell. Mr. Morse was a member of sev- eral fraternal organizations. He joined the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks soon after it was instituted in 1878, and was tyler for ten years previous to his death. He never missed a meeting of the lodge until he was confined to his bed. He died August. 1897. His funeral services were conducted by Exalted Ruler J. Fred Roesch and his staff of officers. The services were at the grave, in compliance with a desire expressed by Mr. Morse, and
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the remains were interred in the plot of ground known as "Elk's Rest."
(IX) Charles F. Morse, son of John Morse (8), was born in Haverhill, January 6, 1834, and was educated there in the public schools. He worked in the shoe factories during his youth until he was seventeen years of age, when he accepted a position in Philadelphia in a wholesale jobbing house, dealing in boots and shoes. He took a similar position with Tenney & Company, a Boston firm of jobbers, and finally engaged in this line of business on his own account, continuing for a period of two years. From 1865 to 1882 he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in Haver- hill and built up a large business. He then turned his attention and his capital to real estate and building. He built some thirty resi- dences and blocks, and opened Arlington street, Haverhill, as a residential section, also built Arlington street from Highland avenue three hundred and sixty-six feet east. Since 1897 he has retired from the building business, devoting himself to the care and maintenance of his real estate investments, and traveling to California several times on business. He has been a very active, enterprising and far- sighted man of business, investing his savings wisely and at the same time aiding in the de- velopment and growth of his native city. He is held in the highest esteem by his townsmen. He is a member of Merrimack Lodge of Free Masons In politics he is a Republican. Dur- ing the Civil war Mr. Morse was taken pris- oner and was confined for two months in Libby prison in Richmond, although not an enlisted soldier, being on a visit to his brother, Lieutenant George A. Morse, being in the rear of General Burnside's headquarters when cap- tured. During part of the war Mr. Morse was in the boot and shoe business on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington.
Mr. Morse married, first, in 1866, Lucinda F. Twitchell, born in Bethel, Maine, educated at Gould's Academy in Bethel, Maine, and Bradford Academy, Bradford, Massachusetts; she was a teacher in Bradford Academy; she died in 1874. They were the parents of one child. William Adams, died in infancy. Mr. Morse married, second, 1875, Minnie A. Read, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1846, daughter of Thomas J. and Sarah A. ( Burton ) Read, and sister of Walter A. Read, now state treasurer of Rhode Island. Children : I. Walter Holmes, died aged two years. 2. Alice F., born October 30, 1878, a musician of much talent.
Dennis Downing, immigrant DOWNING ancestor, was an early settler at Kittery, Maine, and a signer of the submission to the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay in 1652. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was living in 1690 at Kittery. Children : 1. Dennis. 2. John, had sons Benjamin and John, born about 1659 ; married, second, Susanna Miller, daugh- ter of John Miller; the son John married Elizabeth Harrison and had children: Harri- son, John and Benjamin. This family be- came very numerous in Newington, New Hampshire, and Kennebunk, Maine, and to it doubtless belongs the line mentioned below. 3. Joshua, born 1644, married, about 1675, Patience Hatch, daughter of Philip and Pa- tience Hatch ; second, Rebecca Trickey, widow of Joseph Trickey and daughter of William and Rebecca (Mackworth) Rogers; Joshua married, second, April 28. 1709, Sarah Hatch, daughter of Captain John and Sarah Hatch, of Portsmouth; he was killed by the Indians at Wells, December 18, 1712, and his widow married, September 14. 1713, James Chad- bourne.
(I) David Downing was born in 1738 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, or came there when very young. He lived in Newburyport and Andover. He was in the British service as a soldier in the French war and was wounded. He afterwards served in the revo- lution. He settled in Antrim, New Hamp- shire, in 1781, on what is known as the William Wilkins place at the foot of the Sand hill and lived there thirteen years, moving with his son in 1794 to Marlow, New Hampshire, where he died in 1798. His widow survived him and reached the age of nearly one hundred and one years. Children: I. Daniel, settled in An- trim and died in 1798; was a soldier in the revolution. 2. Samuel, born November 30, 1761, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, settled at Antrim; removed to New York state and located at Edinburgh, Saratoga county ; died there February 19, 1867, aged one hundred and five years, two months and twenty-one days, the last surviving soldier of the revolu- tionary war. 3. Palfrey, mentioned below.
(II) Palfrey Downing, son of David Down- ing ( 1), was born at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1761.62. In 1780 he gave his age as eigh- teen when enlisting. If that age was correctly given he entered the service at fifteen in Cap- tain Abbot's company, Colonel Tupper's regi- ment, in 1777. In 1777 he was also in Cap- tain Benjamin Farnum's company, Colonel
LA Downing
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Ebenezer Francis's regiment. He was in the second Andover company, enlisting February 16, 1778, under Captain John Abbot, Jr., and in 1779 was in Captain Stephen Abbot's com- pany, Colonel Benjamin Tupper's regiment. and was corporal in the same company in 1780- 81. He stated his age as eighteen, his height five fect, seven inches, complexion light, hair dark, occupation husbandman, and place of birth Andover. He was sergeant of his com- pany in 1781-82. His commission from Lieu- tenant Colonel Vose of the First Massachu- setts Regiment as sergeant dated April 24. 1783. is preserved by his descendants. Ile seems to have removed to New Hampshire and continued his military service, for another commission as second lieutenant of the elev- enth company. Eleventh Regiment, given by John Langdon, Esq., governor of New Hamp- shire, is dated at Portsmouth, June 23. 1788. lle married, first, a Miss Lovejoy, and sec- ond, a Miss Barnard. Children, all born at Andover: 1. Temperance. 2. Palfrey (or Paulfrey ). 3. Samuel, mentioned below. 4. John. 5. Lydia.
( HT) Samuel Downing, son of Palfrey Downing (2), born at Andover. December 15. 1798, died at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1855. Ile married Ruby Frye, born at Andover, September 9. 1800, died in 1887. Children, born in Andover: 1. Samuel, born Novem- ber 3. 1821, married Rebecca H. Bailey, of Andover : children : Eliza. Eben B .. George, Horace. Albert, Laura, Gertrude. 2. Frederick F., born November 14, 1823, married Amelia Myers, and has three chil- dren : Otilla, Fred, Augusta. 3. Oliver, born August 30, 1825. married Harriet Wake- field, one child, Frank, died 1882. 4. Eliza R., born February 10, 1828, married John A. Wiley, of North Andover. (See Wiley sketch). 5. Augusta, born June 24, 1830, mar- ried Ichabod S. Nichols. 6. Emily, born De- cember 27, 1832, married M. N. Howe, of Andover: child, Fred M. Howe. 7. George O., born May 22, 1835, married Melissa J. Higbee : children : Emily M., Walter W .. Minnie M. 8. John N., born November 13, 1837, served in a New Jersey regiment in the civil war; married Ellen Clark, one child. Leverett C .: John died in Kingston, New Hampshire. 9. Annie L., born February 14. 1840, married Elijah Wright : children: Win- nie, died young: George L., living in North Andover. 10. Leverett Henry, born April 6. 1843, mentioned below. 11. Frank A., born May 10, 1846, died young.
(IV) Leverett Henry Downing. son of Samuel Downing (3), was born in Frye village, Andover, April 6, 1843. He removed to Lawrence with his father's family when he was seven years old, and was educated in the public schools of Lawrence. When he was fourteen years old he went to Greenport, New York, where he spent one year, returning then to North Andover, where he attended school for a time. He began his apprenticeship to learn the trade of machinist in the spring of 1859 and served three years. He enlisted twice during the civil war, but on account of his height and physical condition was not accepted „as a soldier. He went to work at his trade in 1863 for the Mckay Sewing Machine Com- pany. Mr. Downing became a skillful me- chanic with much inventive ability. He pat- ented a machine for "sewing up" fire hose, and in 1873 went to England to complete the sale of this device to the purchaser, George P. Dodge. He opened the first rubber goods store in Lawrence in 1876 and conducted it until 1888 when he sold out, and since that time has been engaged in the real estate busi- ness in Lawrence. He resides at North An- dover, where he built his present home on Elm street. He is Independent in politics, a Con- gregationalist in religion.
Hle married, October 24, 1863. Lucy .. Morss. born December 10, 1845, at North An- dover, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Brad- ley ) Morss. (See Morss sketch ). Children of Leverett H. and Lucy A. Downing: 1. Annie L., born May 6, 1864, died November 15. 1804: married Albert H. Kent, of Suf- field, Connecticut, and lived in Hartford in that state ; children : i. Mason W., born May 18. 1800. adopted by his grandfather, Leverett H. Downing in 1906, both parents being dead ; ii. Lucy, died young. 2. Freddie L., born Jan- uary 23. 1867, died July 6, 1870. 3. Frank M .. born July 27, 1860, died March 19, 1890: was teller in the Pacific National Bank. 4. John L., born February 3. 1873, died March 21. 1899: graduate of the New England Conser- vatory of Music, Boston, and of much musical talent : married Clara Morrison, November. 1894: left one child Frank L., born May 23. 1897. 5. Mary E .. born May 29. 1875, died February 6, 1894.
(For first generation see Anthony Morse)
(II) Joshua Morse,
MORSE (MORSS) son of Anthony Morse (1). born in Newbury, Massachusetts, July 24, 1653. died
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there March 28. 1691-92. He settled in New- bury and was a blacksmith and farmer. He owned land at Piscataqua. He married, first, Hannah or Joannah Kimball, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball, about 1680. She died April 10, 1691. He married, second, Mary Children of first wife: I. Hannah, born February 11, 1681, died Oc- tober 4, 1732; married, February, 1705, John Emery, and had nine children. 2. Joshua, born April 11. 1686, died July 1. 1688. 3 Anthony, mentioned below.
(III) Anthony Morse, son of Joshua Morse (2), was born in Newbury, April 11, 1686. twin of. Joshua. He was a farmer at Newbury where he died intestate in 1728. His admini- strator was appointed March 3. 1728-29, the inventory dated February 22, 1728-29. He married ( intention dated April, 1710) Judith Moody, born February 12, 1682-83, daughter of Dr. Caleb and Sarah Moody. Children born at Newbury: 1. Caleb, born March 16, 1710-11. dismissed from the church at Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, to the second church at Newbury in 1734. 2. Joshua, baptized Febru- ary 1. 1713-14, married Prudence Ordway. 3. Moses, born February 28, 1715-16, mentioned below. 4. Moody, captain, born April 1, 1719. died 1804; married, May 7, 1741, Hannah Carleton, at Andover. 5. Anthony, born April 9, 1721, dismissed from the Third Church at Newbury, 1741-42, to Salisbury; married Martha Merrill; second, February 2, 1763, Martha Eastman. 6. Judith, born May ' 19. 1724. married. January 19, 1743-44, Enoch Stickney. 7. Joanna, born August 22, 1726, married Jonathan Chase, son of Charles and Hepsibah Chase.
(IV) Moses Morse, son of Anthony Morse ( 3). was born in Newbury, February 28, 1715. He resided in West Newbury. He married there, first, December 16, 1742, Anna Sawyer, and, second. September 1, 1759, Sarah ( Hale) Brickett. (widow of Barnard Brickett). born December 10, 1720. Children born at New- bury: 1. David, born March 20, 1744. died July 18, 1745. 2. Dr. Francis, born July 18, 1745, married, 1781, Lovice Bartlett, at Marl- borough. 3. David, born November 1I, 1746- 47. mentioned below. 4. Molly, born January 25, 1748-49, married, first, Ezekiel Goodwin, and, second, Trussell. 5. Judith, born
October 15, 1750.
6. Joseph, born January
25. 1755, married Whitman : died in the revolutionary service. 7. Moody, born October 23, 1756, died December 25, 1776, in the revolutionary service. 8. Ezekiel, born Oc-
tober 24. 1760. 9. Ruth, born September 2, 1762. 10. Judith, born March 1, 1766, mar- ried Lieutenant Amos Abbott, son of Amos and Rebecca Abbott.
(\') David Morse, son of Moses Morse (4), was born at Newbury, November II. 1746-47. He married, first, September 3, 1770. Abigail Bayley, born January 25, 1748- 49. daughter of Edmund and Abigail ( Bart- lett ) Bayley. He died May 22, 1802. Chil- dren born at Newbury: 1. Abigail, born March 13. 1771, died young. 2. Moses, born September 18, 1773, married Rebecca Bartlett, of Newbury. 3. Joseph, born August 6, 1775, married Susan Pearson, of Newbury and Haverhill. 4. Moody, born August 13, 1777, died August 28. 1848 ; married Sally Follans- bee and lived in Paxton, Danvers and An- dover. Massachusetts. 5. David, born Octo- ber 12, 1779, died at sea aged twenty. 6. Anna, married Cornelius Felton: children: i. Pro- fessor Cornelius C., professor of Greek at Harvard College : ii. Samuel M. (A. M.), civil engineer ; iii. Lydia B., principal of the Female Seminary at South Boston ; iv. Maria, married George Bent, of Boston. 7. Samuel, born January 12, 1784, mentioned below. 8. Ed- mund, born December 31, 1788, married, Jan- mary 2, 1818, Rebecca Leach; second, March IO, 1846, Chloe Farnum. 9. Abigail, born August 11, 1790, married Joshua Bailey. 10. John (twin), born August II, 1790, married, December 13, 1818, Sophronia Balch ; lived at Bradford.
(VI) Samuel Morss, son of David Morse (5). born January 12, 1784. died May 19, 1863. This family preferred the spelling Morss, which was in use to some extent inter- changeably with Mors and Morse from the earliest record. He married, in 1811, Betsey Davis, born at Newbury in 1794, died Decem- ber 5. 1853, daughter of Stephen and Betsey (Sawyer) Davis. They lived at West New- bury. Children born at Newbury: I. Rebecca Pike, born August 30, 1812, married, first, Fitts, and had George; married, sec- ond, John Morse, son of Moses. 2. Samuel Bailey, born June 10, 1814, died October, 1830. 3. Elisha W., born October 19, 1817, married, 1840, Phebe Hale; he died 1906. 4. Eliza Ann, born November 3. 1820, died April 6, 1904; married Stephen Brown, Jr. 5. Jacob W., born May 13, 1823, mentioned below. 6. Hannah D., born September 24. 1825, married James Brown : children: Mary Jane, Ella, Charles, died young. 7. Thomas D .. born June 12, 1827, died June 12, 1829.
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(VII) Jacob W. Morss, son of Samuel Morss (6), was born in Newbury, May 13, 1823, lived in Andover. He married, in 1842. Elizabeth Bradley, daughter of George Brad- ley, born in England in 1823, died 1890. He married, second, January 11. 1896, Charlotte J. Bradley, who died May, 1903. He is living in North Andover. He served in the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry in the civil war. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Walter S., born Sep- tember 18, 1842. 2. James, died in infancy. 3. Lucy A., born December 10, 1845, married Leverett H. Downing, of North Andover. (See Downing sketch ). 4. Frank M., born February 25. 1848, died 1861. 5. George C., born October 9. 1851. 6. Charles II., born December 4. 1857.
The family name Snow has been SNOW known in New England's history since the earliest times of the Plymouth colony, and one of the founders of the family in America was Nicholas Snow, who came in the ship "Ann" in 1623. settled first in Plymouth, and in 1642 removed to Eastham, where he was one of the first seven settlers of that town. The territory of East- ham then included the afterward known Well- fleet district and the town of Orleans, the latter having been set off from the mother town in 1797.
Nicholas Snow was the first town clerk of Eastham, and held office from 1646 to 1662. when he was succeeded by his son Mark, who was clerk from 1663 to 1675 and again from 1693 to 1695. From the time when Nicholas Snow went from Plymouth to Eastham (now Orleans) to the present day, some in each succeeding generation of his descendants have been identified in some prominent manner with the history of that region. The history of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans ( Rev. Enoch Pratt. 1884) mentions Nicholas Snow as a man of considerable distinction and as having been employed "in the public transactions of the colony and of this town. He was a deputy, selectman seven years and town clerk sixteen years." He died in 1671, and his wife died in 1676. He had one share in the division of lands made in 1623. The wife of Nicholas Snow was Constance Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, and by whom he had a large family of children. His son Mark mar- ried, in 1660, Jane, daughter of Governor Prince, and had eight children. He held the office of town clerk twelve years and was dep- uty to the general court three terms.
Among the other immigrant ancestors of the name Snow there may be mentioned William Snoe. "an apprentice to Mr. Richard Derby, 1637, and by him brought over out of Eng- land and assigned over to Edward Doton, 1638, to serve him seven years." at Plymouth. Anthony Snow, another immigrant, was at Plymouth in 1638 and afterward at Marsh- field.
Thomas Snow. grandfather of Abbott Law- rence Snow, lived in Orleans, Massachusetts, and so far as family recollections indicate, he was born and died there, married there and raised a family, but there appears to be no record of his children. except that among them were his sons Willis and Clement Snow, both of whom spent their lives in Orleans.
Willis Snow, son of Thomas, was a sea cap- tain and sailed from Wellfleet ( Provincetown ) many years. His vessel was in the merchant service, and he owned her in company with Calvin Snow until the latter sold out his inter- est in her to his partner and went to Chicago, where he amassed a fortune. Soon after the beginning of the late civil war Willis Snow quit the sea and began boating on the Erie canal. between Buffalo and New York City, but he soon found that the life of an inland sailor was as monotonous as deep sea sailing was hazardous during the period of the war, and at the end of a single year he returned to Orleans and was auctioneer there many years. He died there March 4, 1890, his death being accidental. He married Rebecca Gould, and by her had eight children, all born in Orleans: 1. Willis L. 2. Zeviah, married Solomon Tay- lor : lives in Orleans. 3. Thomas Weston. 4. Louisa. married .Asa S. Rogers, of Harwich, Massachusetts. 5. Mercy, married M. M. Pierce. 6. James Monroe. 7. Abbott Law- rence. 8. Estella, died aged four years.
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