Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Part 4

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 768

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BRAINTREE .- The vital records of this town have been published through the efforts of a citizen. Authority: "Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793," edited by Samuel A. Bates. The families most numerously represented in the index to the vital records of births as printed in this work are Adams, Allen, Bass, Belcher, Copeland, Faxon, French, Hayden, Hayward, Niles, Spear, Thayer, Veazie, Wales, and Webb.

WEYMOUTH .- Authority: Nash, "Histori- cal Sketch of the Town of Weymouth." The increase in population in the town of Wey- mouth was small for its first century-about 1000 being the estimate for 1643. About 1675 an official estimate sets the number of houses in round numbers at 250; which allowing five persons to a house would give a population of 1250. In 1750 the estimate was 1200. A census of 1765 showed 1258; 1776, indicated I471 ; and in 1790 a declension to 1469. In 1800 it had gained, the total being 1803. The more numerously represented names in Mr. Nash's lists are Bates, Bayley, Beals, Bicknell, Blanchard, Burrell, Cushing, French, Hol- brook, Humphrey, Hunt, Loud, Lovell, Nash, Porter, Pratt, Reed, Richards, Shaw, Smith, Thacher, Thayer Thomas, Tirrell, Torrey, Tufts, Vining, White, Whitmarsh.

OLD NORFOLK COUNTY.

In 1643 the county called Norfolk embraced six towns, four of which afterwards became a part of New Hampshire, and two remained a part of present Essex county. These two were Salisbury and Haverhill.

SALISBURY .- Authority : Hoyt, "Old Fami- lies of Salisbury and Amesbury." The names noticed to the greatest extent in this book may show with accuracy those families most num- erously represented, certainly before 1700. Among these are the names of Allen, Ayer or Ayers, Bailey or Bayley, Barnard, Bartlett, Blaisdell, Bradbury, Brown, Buswell, Carr, Chase, Clement, Colby, Currier, Davis, Dow, Eastman, Eaton, Fowler, French, Greenleaf,

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Hoyt, Kelly, Kimball, Merrill, Morrill, Morse, Osgood, l'age, Pike, Rolfe, Rowell, Stevens, True, Webster, Weed and Wells.

HAVERHILL .- In this city the names of Ayer, Chase, Emerson, Johnson, Marsh, Page, Sargent or Sargeant, Webster and Whittier appear to be among those most numerously represnted. Badger, Bartlett, Bradley, Brick- ett, Brown, Chase, Cogswell, Corliss, Duncan, Emerson, How, Johnson, Marsh, Saltonstall and White are among the more prominent names.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Of the civil officers in the provincial period the justices of the peace were elected more generally perhaps than any other from the mass of the common people. As a class they represent the more active and intelligent mem- bers of the country districts. There were very few regular lawyers then, and their places were taken in cases of necessity by average citizens. Between 1692 and 1774. therefore, the honor attached to this office was far greater than that attached to it now. In the single instance cited the county of Essex is selected, and the names are taken from Whitmore's "Civil List." As presented, the year preceding the surname shows the first time that name was mentioned.

ESSEX COUNTY.

Period from 1692 to 1774.

1692: Brown; Woodbridge ; Appleton ; Epps or Epes; Pierce; Higginson; Brad- street ; Wade ; Wainwright. 1700: Noyes ; Legg: Norden. 1701: Burrill. 1702: Sal- tonstall; Pike; Hirst ; Hale; Wolcott. 1704: Sewall. 1706: Newman. 1707: Jewett. 1714: Dummer. 1715: Hathorne; Corwin ; Turner : White : Brattle: Cawley. 1717: Rogers. 1719: Bradbury; Kent : Stevens ; Gale. 1720: Lindall ; Sargeant. 1722: Cur- rier: Gedney. 1723: Berry. 1726: Price ;

Oulton.

1727 :

Whipple ; Bagley.

1728:

Minot ; Orne ; Gerrish ; Rolfe. 1729: Lynde; Atkins. 1733: Barton ; Bayley; Plaisted ; Lambert ; Howard; Blaney; Fairfax: Bar- nard ; March ; Cogswell : Baker. I734:

Choate ; Lee ; Osgood ; Wise ; Kimball. 1736: Burleigh ; Allen; Wood. 1737: Kitchen : Hobson ; Marston ; Greenleaf. 1738: Moody ; Skinner. 1739: Frost.

1741 : Rowell. 1744: Mansfield. 1745:

Swett; Cushing.

1746: Pickman : Collins. 1747: Tasker.

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1748: Hooper; Fowle. 1749: Moseley :

Bowditch; Peaslee; Norton. 1752: Gibbs ; Farnham; Phillips. 1753: Pool. Jones ; Stevens; Davis; Saunders ; Leach. 1755: 1756: Lechmere; Curwin; Nutting; Bourn : Dalton ; Morrill or Merrill ; McHard. 1758: Gardner. 1759: Newhall. 1761 : Ropes ; Oliver ; Whitham; Prescott; Coffin ; Potter ; Gage: Mulliken ; Henchman ; Holyoke; Chip- man ; Pynchon ; Athearn ; Fairfield. 1762 : Bowers : Gilbert ; Bowen : Vans. 1763 : Plum- mer : Cockle. 1764: Geary. 1765: Frye; Emery; Putnam. 1766: Gallison. 1768:

Dowse; Story; Cabot. 1769: Cotnam; Lo- well. 1770: Roby. 1771: Derby: Calef. 1772: Harris; Carter : Sawyer : Jewett : Bar- ker ; Cheever.

A few of the above named were judges : Samuel Appleton, one of the earliest appointed, was born in England and resided in Ipswich. and held office till his death in 1696. Ile was a military man of considerable note, and com- manded one of the companies engaged in 1675 in the desperate Narragansett fight. Bartho- lomew Gedney, of Salem, was a physician, born in 1640 and died in 1699. John Ha- thorne, of Salem, was born in 1641 ; he con- tinned in office until his resignation in 1712, and died in 1717. He was appointed to the superior court. Jonathan Corwin, or Curwin, of Salem, was born in 1640, and died in office, 1718. Ile was appointed to the superior court 1715. William Browne died while in office 1716. He was succeeded by his son Samuel Brown, who continued until his death in 1731. Daniel Peirce, or Pierce, appointed in 1698, held his position until his death, 1704. \ man of greater note than most of the preceding was Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, who was graduated at Harvard 1659. He resigned from the posi- tion of judge in 1692, because of his distaste for the witchcraft trials. "He was not bred to the law, but he was a man of strong mind and sound sense"-not influenced by bigotry and fanaticism. He died in 1707, aged about 68. He was appointed judge of the inferior court of common pleas for Essex in 1702, and held the office till his death about five years afterward. ( For a full notice of his life, see Sibley, Harv. Grad., vol. ii.).

John Appleton, appointed 1704, was also judge of probate after 1732, which office he held until his death in 1739. He was a nephew of Samuel Appleton. Thomas Noyes, ap- pointed 1707, died, when very old. in 1730. John Higginson, appinted 1708, was a mer-

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chant. He held office until his death in 1720. John Burrill, of Lynn, for ten years speaker of the house of representatives, was appointed in 1720, but died in 1721. Josiah Wolcott, appointed in 1722, was a Salem merchant, and died in office. 1729. Timothy Lindall, ap- pointed in 1729, was a graduate of Harvard College in 1695, and at one time speaker of the house of representatives ( 1720). He held his seat as judge until 1754, and died in 1760. John Wainwright, appointed 1729, graduate at Harvard 1709, was a merchant of Ipswich, and died in office, 1739. Theophilus Burrill (a nephew of John Burrill ) was appointed in 1733, and died in office 1737. Thomas Berry, appointed 1733, was a graduate of Ilar- vard 1712, and died in office 1756. He was a native of Boston, and a physician of Ipswich. He was also judge of probate for Essex county, 1739-1756. Benjamin Marston, ap- pointed 1739, was a graduate of Harvard 1715, and also sheriff ; he was a resident of Salem and afterwards of Manchester. He died while holding the office of a judge, in 1754, aged 57.

Benjamin Lynde, Jr., appointed 1739, was a graduate of Harvard in 1718; son of Judge Benjamin Lynde. He was not a lawyer when appointed. Hle was appointed to the bench of the superior court. He resigned in 1772 and became judge of probate, which office he held when he died in 1781. His father was a graduate of Harvard in 1686, and studied law in London, and was the first regularly educated lawyer appointed to the bench in Massachusetts ; the father died in 1745, aged 78. He married his wife in Salem, where he had removed from Boston. He was a barris- ter or advocate and judge of the superior court 1712, and chief-justice from 1728 till his death. ( Sibley, Harv. Grad. iii. 356).

John Choate, appointed 1746, was of Ipswich, became chief-justice, and died while in office, 1766. Henry Gibbs, appointed 1754. died in office, 1759. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1726, and a Salem merchant. John Tasker, appointed 1754, was of Marblehead ; and died in office in 1761. Benjamin Pickman, appoint- ed 1756, held office till 1761. He was a Salem merchant, and died in 1774. Caleb Cushing. appointed 1759, became chief-justice after the Revolution. He was of Salisbury. Stephen Higginson, appointed 1761, died 1761, aged 45. Nathaniel Ropes, appointed 1761, was a graduate of Harvard in 1745, and judge of probate ; died 1774. Andrew Oliver, appoint- ed 1761, graduated at Harvard 1749. He held

office until the Revolution and died in 1799. William Bourn, of Marblehead, appointed 1766, was a graduate of Harvard 1743, and died 1770, aged 47. William Browne, appoint- ed 1770; died in England, 1802. He was a graduate of Harvard, 1755. He was a Loyal- ist and was made governor of Bermuda, 1781. Peter Frye. of Andover, appointed 1772, grad- uate of Harvard, 1744, held office till 1775. and died in England, 1820.

Essex county also claims among the judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, from 1692 to 1774. the following: Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin, Benjamin Lynde( ist ), Benjamin Lynde (2d), Nathaniel Ropes, and William Browne. Stephen Se- wall, of Salem, graduate at Harvard, 1721 ; was appointed in 1739, was chief justice, and died 1760. Samuel White, of Haverhill, grad- uated at Harvard, 1731, was a special justice, 1758, relative to will of Governor Bellingham. Richard Saltonstall, of Haverhill, graduated at Harvard, 1722, was appointed judge in 1736, and held his seat until his death in 1756. Before the Revolutionary War very few of the incumbents of this office were educated in the law, and to that time only four judges in the higher court were lawyers. These were Ben- jamin Lynde, the first of the two Lyndes, Paul Dudley. Edmund Trowbridge, and Wil- liam Cushing. Few regular practitioners found their way here from across the sea. There was a prejudice against lawyers at that time among the New England people. The laws of the colony and province were based on the model made abroad by skilful English lawyers, and of themselves were well enough; but in unskilled hands here were often improperly administrated.

Among later judges of the higher court were Samuel Sewall, of Marblehead, a graduate of Harvard, 1776, member of congress, 1797- 1800 ; later a chief-justice, 1813, who died in the following year at Wiscasset, Maine, 1814; Theophilus Bradbury, of Newbury, a gradu- ate of Harvard, 1757, member of congress, died 1803, whose fame belongs mostly to the District of Maine.

There were five barristers or advocates in the province in 1768, viz .: Daniel Farnham, graduate at Harvard College in 1739, studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, began prac- tice in Newburyport, became eminent ; held military office, was a loyalist, and died in 1776. William Pynchon, of Salem, graduated Har- vard College in 1743, was a native of Spring- field, became a lawyer and a judge. and died

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1789. John Chipman, graduated at Harvard in 1738, and died in 1768. Nathaniel Peas- lee Sargeant graduated at Harvard in 1750, practiced law in Haverhill. In 1776 was appointed judge, and in 1789 chief justice, holding the place until his death, 1791. John Lowell, graduated at Harvard, 1760, was afterwards of Boston, member of congress, judge of Court of Admiralty, etc., died 1802.

Another distinguished lawyer of this period was Tristram Dalton, who graduated at Har- vard. 1755, studied law in Salem, was repre- sentative from Newburyport, speaker of the house and member of the state senate ; United States senator, 1789-91, the first congress after the adoption of the constitution. He died in Boston, 1817.

RUFUS CHOATE.

In a county composed of many great men there is probably no man among them all of greater intellectual reputation than the great lawyer, Rufus Choate. He was born on Hog Island, in the town of Essex, October 1, 1799. and died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13. 1859. He began his studies with several cler- gymen in succession, and was afterwards at Hampton Academy and at Dartmouth Col- lege, where he was graduated in 1819. He then studied law in the office of William Wirt, at Washington, and at the Dane Law School at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem in 1823. He began practice in ° Danvers, where he remained and in Salem, until 1834. He was state representative in 1825, state senator in 1827, and member of congress from 1832 to 1834, in which year he removed to Boston. In 1841 he succeeded Daniel Webster in the United States Senate. In 1853 he succeeded Johm H. Clifford as attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1858. in consequence of ill health, he gave up pro- fessional labor, and in 1859 sailed for Europe. At that time the steamer on which he sailed touched at Halifax. On reaching that port lie was too feeble to proceed, and landing there, his death occurred in that city.

After the death of Mr. Webster in 1852 he was universally regarded as the head of the bar in Massachusetts. As in legislative fields he seemed out of his element, so, in the dominion of the law, he was supreme. An orator of the first class. his greatest forensic efforts were before juries, and nothing ever exceeded in interest the exhibitions of logic and eloquence which he exhibited before a jury. Boys would play truant from school to

go and hear him. The traditions of his power to sway a jury were permanent in the memory of many who had heard him. He was a man of large frame, broad shoulders, and upright figure, surrounded by a head and face which it is as impossible to describe, as one has said, as "the flash of the lightning in the cloud or the aurora in the sky.

Hle was in his procedure all activity, alert- ness, swiftness, and grace. He was much beloved by his fellow members of the bar. He had an office and residence in Salem from 1828 to 1834. He could trace his ancestry to one John Choate, an immigrant from Eng- land. who settled in a part of Ipswich, after- wards a separate town by the name of Essex, and whose son Thomas settled on Hog Island, a part of Essex, whose son, known as Colonel John, born in 1697, died in 1766. This Col- onel John was at one time elected speaker of the general court, and his brother Francis, born in 1701, and died in 1777, was the father of William, the father of David Choate, born upon Hog Island, who was the father of Rufus. David Choate had no children by a first wife, but by a second wife, Miriam, daughter of Captain Aaron Foster, he had two daughters and four sons, one of whom was Rufus. One of the brothers of Rufus Choate was Washington Choate, born 1803. (lied 1822, while a member of the junior class in Dartmouth College. Rufus spent his boy- hood by the sea, and his most brilliant and beautiful lecture, "The Romance of the Sea" -in which he had incorporated much that he had seen and thought of about the ocean, its wonders and its mysteries-was lost or stolen after its delivery in New York, and never reappeared. His father died when Rufus was only eight years old, and his mother died in 1853. at the age of eighty-one. His early surroundings were pleasant and wholesome. and many passages in his orations were de- scriptive of the scenery of Ipswich and its vicinity, with which hs youth was familiar. He early disclosed an absorbing devotion to reading, and the mature character of what he read in the few solid books then at his com- mand, would now be considered remarkable. Before he was ten. he had pretty nearly ex- hausted the heavy histories of the village library.

When in college, afterwards. he would read a chapter of the Bible just before retiring. and on waking in the morning could repeat it correctly. At the age of ten he commenced the study of Latin. and he graduated from

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college when not quite twenty. Before him, after that "stretched away forty years of in- tense study, struggle, forensic agony, and triumph."

It is not our intention here to present more than the salient features of Mr. Choate's life. with the object of calling his eminence to the attention of the present generation. He was married March 29, 1825, to Helen Olcott, by whom he had seven children. She was the daughter of Mills Olcott, Esq., a lawyer of Hanover, New Hampshire. Her death occur- red December 8, 1864.

One of his biographers says: "He threw himself with as much enthusiasm into a trial before a country justice in a shoemaker's shop as if it were before the Supreme Court. Ile magnified every litigation, and each liti- gant, magistrate, and juryman. He never hes- itated to pour out all his wealth of imagery. the profusion of his classical allusions, and all the exuberance of his rhetoric upon trival occasions and before an illiterate andience. Certain it is that. as the years went on, the appearance of Choate in any cause. under any circumstances, was the signal for thronged court rooms by audiences lifted high and still higher upon the lofty and ever re- newed flights of winged eloquence. It is not necessary to go farther with details. Such as Mr. Choate's life had been, it con- tinued till, as was inevitable, his health broke down finally in the early summer of 1859. Determining to pass the season in England, he sailed from Boston, June 29, 1859; but, becoming worse, he left the ship at Halifax. where he died July 13, not yet sixty years old, worn out."

AUTHORITIES: For authorities on the life and career of Rufus Choate consult "The Life of Rufus Choate," by Professor Samuel Gil- man Brown. Edward G. Parker published a volume of "Reminiscences." Edwin P. Whip- ple wrote much and discriminately of Choate. James T. Fields and others have done like- wise in either essays or lectures. A compre- hensive sketch of his life, by the Hon. John B. D. Cogswell, was published in the "Memo- rial Biographies" of the New England His- toric Genealogical Society, vol. iii, pp. 383- 4,36.

ANCESTRY .- John Choate (1), baptized at Groton, Bedford, Colchester, England, June 6. 1624, died at Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachu- setts, December 4, 1695, son of Robert and Sarah Choate. His wife Anne died at Che- bacco. February 16, 1727. Children : 1. John,

born June 15, 1661, died July 17, 1733, mar- ried first, July 7, 1684, Elizabeth Graves ; mar- ried second, May 19, 1690, Mrs. Elizabeth Giddings ; married, third, July 27, 1723, Mrs. Sarah Perkins, who died November 19, 1728; and married fourth, Mrs. Prudence Marshall, who died June 9, 1732. 2. Margaret, died February 28, 1692, married Abraham Fitts. 3. Samuel, died about 1713, married Mary Williams of Roxbury, Massachusetts; she married second, 1716, Samuel Story of Ips- wich. 4. Mary, born August 16, 1666; died prior to 1691. 5. Thomas; see forward. 6. Sarah; married April 13, 1693, John Burn- ham of Ipswich. 7. Joseph ; married Rebecca. 8. Benjamin : died November 26, 1753. mar- ried June 12, 1707, Abigail Burnham. (H. C. 1703. )

(II) Thomas Choate, son of John Choate (1), born at Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachu- setts, 1671, died March 3. 1745 : married first, 1690, Mary Varney, daughter of Thomas and Abigail ( Proctor ) Varney, of Ipswich, who died November 19, 1733; married second, September 24, 1734, Mrs. Mary Calef, widow of Doctor Joseph Calef; married third, No- vember 9. 1743. Mrs. Hannah Burnham, who (lied October 2, 1782. He was representative to the General Court 1723-'24-'25-'27. Chil- dren : 1. . Anne, born May 22, 1691, died Ali- gust 15. 1759, married October 21, 1710, John Burnham. 2. Thomas, born June 7, 1693, (lied August 22, 1774 ; married first, Elizabeth Burnham: married second, October 31, 1738. Mrs. Sarah Marshall: married third, Mrs. Rachel ( Riggs) Lufkin. 3. Mary, born March 18, 1695. died March 6, 1767, married De- cember. 1716. Parker Dodge. of Ipswich. 4. John, born July 25, 1697, died December 17. 1765, married March 3, 1717, Meriam Pool. 5. Abigail, born October 20, 1699, married ( published November 27, 1720) John Board- man, of Ipswich. 6. Francis, born September 13. 1701 ; see forward. 7. Rachel, born No- vember 18, 1703, died March 15, 1783: mar- ried first, January 16, 1724, Joseph Rust, who (lied February 3, 1734 ; married second, March 2, 1737. Isaac Martin. 8. Ebenezer, born March 10, 1706, married September 3, 1730. Elizabeth Greenleaf. 9. Sarah, born July 24. 1708, married Reverend Amos Cheever.

(III) Francis Choate, son of Thomas Choate (2). born at Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass- achusetts, September 13, 1701, died there Oc- tober 15, 1777 : married April 13. 1727, Han- nah Perkins, born at Boston, Massachusetts, April 4. 1708, died October 2, 1778, daughter

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of Isaac and Mary ( Pike) Perkins: Black- smith : Ruling Elder : and Esquire. Children : 1. Francis, born February 27. 1727-8. died 1740. 2. William, born September 5. 1730; see forward. 3. Abraham, born March 24. 1731-2, died April 23. 1800. married Sarah Potter. 4. Isaac, born January 31. 1734, died May 30, 1813. married Elizabeth Low. 5. Jacob, baptized August 17, 1735. died young. 6. John, born March 13. 1737: died July 7. 1791 ; married first. November 14. 1760, Mary Evelethi, who died August 8, 1788; married second, April 16, 1789. Mrs. Sarah ( Johnson ) Newman, who married third. October 24. 1792. Bradstreet Parker. 7. Hannah, born April 1. 1739, died April 18, 1785, married November 10. 1757. Rufus Lathrop. 8. Francis, born September 18. 1743. died young.

(IV) William Choate, son of Francis Choate (3), born at Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass- achusetts. September 5. 1730. died there. April 23. 1785: married January 16, 1756, Mary Giddings, born March 27. 1732, died Novem- ber 1. 1810, daughter of Job and Margaret ( Low) Giddings : sea captain : schoolmaster. Children: 1. William, born October 18. 1756. died November. 1756. 2. David, born Novem- ber 29. 1757 : see forward. 3. William, born August 10, 1759. died January, 1835 ; married August 19. 1784. Susannah Choate, daughter of Humphrey and Ruth (Lufkin ) Choate. 4. George, born February 24. 1762, died Febru- ary 8. 1826; married January 1, 1789. Su- sanna Choate, daughter of Stephen and Mary ( Low) Choate. 5. Margaret, born March 18. 1764: married May 25, 1786, John Crocker, Junior. 6. Job, born March 1. 1766, died De- cember, 1813: married first. April, 1797. Lydia Christophers ; married second Margaret Adams. 7. Mary, born November 17. 1767. died January, 1852: married October 6. 1791. Thomas Baker. 8. Hannah, born November 20, 1770. died March 5, 1810: married Janu- ary 10. 1793. Samuel Smith. 9. Sarah, born September 26. 1772, died December 26, 1801. 10. Lydia, born September 24, 1774, died De- cember 14, 1839; married February 19. 1801. John Perkins.

(\') David Choate, son of William Choate (4). born at Chebacco. Ipswich, Massachu- setts. November 29. 1757. died March 26. 1808; married first, June 24. 1784. Mary Cogswell, born December 19. 1760, died Au- gust 21, 1784, daughter of Jonathan and Mary ( Appleton ) Cogswell ; married second. Octo- ber 15. 1791. Miriam Foster, born November 28. 1771. died January 14. 1853. daughter of

Captain Aaron and Ruth ( Low) Foster, of Ipswich : school teacher. He served in the Revolutionary War, went to sea, to Havana, and Cadiz. Children: 1. Polly, born October 3. 1792. died March 29. 1855. married No- vember 28. 1813. Doctor Thomas Sewall. 2. Hannah, born August 12. 1794. died February 9. 1837 : married September 2, 1822. Reverend Robert Crowell. 3. David, born November 20. 1796, died December 17. 1872: married January 14. 1828. Elizabeth Wade. 4. Hon. Rufus, born October 1. 1799: see forward. 5. Washington, born January 17. 1803. died Feb- ruary 27. 1822. 6. Job, born December 25. 1806. died March 10. 1808.

(\1) Honorable Rufus Choate, son of David Choate (5), born at Chebacco, Ipswich, now Essex, Essex county, Massachusetts. Oc- tober 1. 1799. died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13. 1859: married at Hanover. New Hampshire. March 29. 1825. Helen Olcott. born at Hanover. New Hampshire. March 29. 1804. died at Dorchester, Massachusetts, De- cember 8. 1864. daughter of Mills and Sarah ( Porter ) Olcott .* Children: 1. Catherine Bell. born May 26, 1826, died May 24. 1830. 2. Infant, born October 25. 1828: died same clay. 3. Ilclen Olcott, born May 2, 1830 ; mar- ried June 2. 1852. Joseph Mills Bell. of Bos- ton. Massachusetts. 4. Sarah Blake. born December 15. 1831. died March 11. 1875. 5. Rufus, born May 14. 1834. died January 15. 1866. 6. Miriam Foster, born October 2. 1835: married September 23. 1856, Edward Ellerton Pratt, of Boston, Massachusetts. 7. Caroline, born September 15. 1837. died De- cember 12. 1840.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Part 4

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 768

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 768