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at Wenham. 5. Samuel, born 1645 : died De- cember 4, 1705 ; lived at Ipswich. 6. Edward. date of birth unknown; died February 13. 1727 : lived at North Beverly. 7. Joseph, born 1651 : died August 10, 1716: lived at North Beverly.
( II ) Edward, son of Richard and Edith Dodge, died February 13, 1727. Like his own father and other of his relatives, Edward Dodge was often chosen to town offices, such as constable and collector of taxes, grand juror, trial juror, surveyor of highways, select- man, and member of various committees charged with some special duty. That he was of a kindly disposition was shown by his liv- ing many years with only a verbal agreement with his brother Joseph about the division of real estate held by them in common, and that only six years after reducing the agreement to writing he deeded his house and buildings and about two thirds of his land to his own sons, Edward and Mark, to be held jointly by them until they saw fit to divide it. The will of Edward Dodge, dated February 17, 1714- 15, mentions wife Mary : sons Edward, Mark and Jonathan; daughters Mary Woodbury. Edith Wood. Ruth Balch, Eleanor and Han- nah. Edward and Mark were named as his executors. Edward Dodge married, April 30. 1673, Mary Haskell, daughter of William Has- kell, who was born about 1620, and was con- nected with the family of Roger Haskell, of Salem. He appears first in Gloucester in 1643. and in 1645 mention is made of him at Plan- ter's Neck. In 1656 he had returned to Glou- cester and settled on the west side of Annis- quam river, where he owned land. The public offices to which he was elected show that he was a prominent and useful citizen. He was selectman several years, and represented Glou- cester at the general court six times in the course of twenty years. In 1681 he was ap- pointed by the general court, lieutenant of the trainband, and later became its captain. He also was one of the early deacons of the First church. He married, November 16, 1643. Mary, daughter of Walter Tybbot ; she died August 16, 1693. and William died August 20 of the same year. Children of Edward and Mary ( Haskell) Dodge: 1. Mary, born April 21. 1675 ; married Peter Woodbury. 2. Elinor. married Thomas Bray, of Beverly, January 29. 1717. 3. Jonathan, born July 3, 1679; mar- ried (published January 20, 1701-2) Esther Friend. 4. Edith, born January 3. 1681 ; died November 3. 1743; married March 9. 1709. Israel Wood. 5. Ruth, born August 16, 1685 :
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died January 9, 1727 ; married Israel Balch. 6. Hannah, born 1692; married June 15, 1720, Samuel Curtis. 7. Mark, born 1694; married (first) Sarah Dodge of Wenham; married (second ) Elizabeth Woodbury.
(III) Mark, youngest of the children of Edward and Mary (Haskell) Dodge, was born at North Beverly in 1694, and died before the final settlement of his father's estate. His own will was dated October 9, 1765, and proved April 2, 1787. He married (first) No- vember 29, 1717, Sarah, daughter of Josiah and Sarah ( Fiske) Dodge. She died Decem- ber 14, 1718, and he married ( second ) Janu- ary 25, 1721-2, Elizabeth Woodbury, daugh- ter of Isaac Woodbury, of Ipswich. By his first wife Mark Dodge had one child. and by his second marriage ten children: 1. Eleanor, born December 1, 1718; married November IO, 1742. Elisha Dodge. 2. Mark. born No- vember 8, 1722; married December 21, 1742, Lucy Edwards. 3. Benjamin, born Septem- ber 21, 1724: married, 1754. Lydia Dodge. 4. Elizabeth, baptized December 11, 1726; prob- ably died young. 5. Ezra, born May 5, 1728: married Hannah Whitting, of Haverhill. 6. Samuel, baptized November 8, 1730; probably died young. 7. Sarah, born March 11, 1732. married September, 1752, Peter Dodge. 8. Anna, born December 24, 1734; probably died young. 9. Elizabeth, born October 21, 1735; married (first) James Rea: (second) Peter Woodbury. 10. Emma, born January 15. 1738-9: married May 12, 1761, Joseph Per- kins. II. Asa, born December 29, 1741 ; mar- ried December. 1765. Sarah Trask.
(IV) Benjamin, third child and second son of Mark and Elizabeth ( Woodbury) Dodge, was born September 21, 1724, and died Octo- ber 10, 1797. He was of Beverly, and while living there was a seafaring man, in the course of his voyage having visited nearly every im- portant seaport in the world. In the later years of his life he abandoned the sea and took up his abode in New Boston, New Hampshire, where he owned land in June, 1778. He mar- ried, June 19, 1754, Mrs. Lydia Dodge, born 1734. died in New Boston, May 8, 1830, aged ninety-six years. Their children, all born in Beverly: 1. Antipas, baptized November 30, 1755 ; died same day. 2. Benjamin, born April 13. 1758 : married Eunice Boutwell. 3. Gideon, born August 1, 1760: married Polly Jones, of Amherst, New Hampshire. 4. Antipas, born February 4. 1769: married Jerusha, daughter of Ammi Dodge.
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(V) Antipas, youngest child of Benjamin and Lydia Dodge, was born in February, 1769, and died April 10, 1832. He married at New Boston, New Hampshire, Jerusha Dodge, born March 29, 1777, died May 20, 1847, daughter of Ammi Dodge, who was a son of Thomas Dodge, who was a son of Andrew Dodge, who was a son of John Dodge, who was a son of Richard Dodge, the immigrant ancestor. An- tipas and Jerusha Dodge lived in New Boston, New Hampshire, and had children: 1. Mark, born December 8, 1792; died November 15. 1849: married Eliza Wilson, of New Boston. 2. Lydia. born September 21, 1795: died Feb- ruary 5, 1832; married William Dodge, of New Boston. 3. Levina, born March 1, 1797 ; died March, 1891 ; married Elzaphan Dodge. 4. Lucy, born May 17, 1802; married Ralph Holbrook, of Bedford, New Hampshire. 5. Lucinda, born August 8, 1804: died November 5. 1878: married Levi Chamberlain, of New Boston. 6. Relief, born March 22, 1807 : died January 20, 1859. 7. Benjamin, born March 23. 1810; died April 4, 1877; married Eliza Kendall, of Mt. Vernon. 8. Aaron, born Au- gust 7, 1812: died February 3, 1886; married Abby Mears, of Beverly, Massachusetts. 9. Annis, born December 30, 1814: born dead. 10. Plumer, born September 28, 1814: died May 22, 1852, in Burke county, Georgia. II. Levi, born April 21, 1820: married Eliza Kelso, of New Boston.
(VI) Mark, eldest child of Antipas and Jerusha Dodge, was born probably in New Boston, New Hampshire, December 8, 1792, and died at Sunapee, New Hampshire, ( for- irerly Wendell), November 15, 1849. He was a farmer by principal occupation, and enjoyed much celebrity as a wood chopper. Under the old military organization of the state he held a commission as captain of militia ; but at the age of forty-seven years he had the misfortune to freeze both his hands and his feet. In 1823 he married Elizabeth Wilson, born in New Boston, June 1, 1796, died at Sunapee, October 12. 1839. They had nine children : I. John S., born July 4, 1824; died August II, 1847, in Mexico, of consumption. 2. Eliza- beth, born August 28, 1825; died in 1832. 3. Jane, born in December, 1826: died in 1827. 4. James W., born July 2. 1828: died in 1832. 5. Benjamn N., born April 18, 1830; lived at Beverly ; died August, 1894. 6. Lydia A., born March 13, 1832 ; married John G. Sischo. She died September 27, 1907. 7. James Wilson, born August 30, 1834: died in August, 1879.
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8. Albert, born February 29, 1836; lives in Gloucester. 9. Levi P., born May 25, 1839; married Henrietta C. Shackleford ; died 1893. (VII) Albert, eighth child and fifth son of Mark and Elizabeth (Wilson) Dodge, was born in the town of Wendell (now Sunapee ) New Hampshire, February 29, 1836, and for something like half a century has been closely identified with the best business interests and history of Beverly and Gloucester, although at times his various enterprises have carried him into fields beyond the borders of Essex county. When he was less than four years old his father's family was broken up by death and other misfortunes, and he then went to live with the family of Samuel Gardner of Sun- apee, and made that his home until about the time he attained his majority. After working a little less than a year at farming he engaged with Aaron Dodge to work in his grist mill at Beverly, and after two and a half years began business on his own account and ran the same mill four years. He then removed to Glou- cester and took a five year lease on the tide grist mills at Annisquam, building up an ex- tensive business on Cape Ann in the face of sharp competition. At the expiration of the lease he secured a lease of the Riverdale mills at Gloucester, later bought the property and has since conducted an extensive business in that city. From about 1868 to 1872 Mr. Dodge was half owner of the Union wharf at Salem, and the mill there, and also the historic Frye's mills. About 1872 he established a wholesale commission business in flour and grain in Boston, but this he has since discontinued, although three days of each week are spent in the city in connection with his grain interests there. In 1876 he increased his general flour- ing and grain business by the acquisition of mills at Amesbury, and this property he still owns, operating it as an electric mill. Besides these he has an elevator at Beverly, a com- bined elevator and mill in Hyde Park (not now in operation) and warehouses in Essex and Manchester. His former store in Salem has been disposed of. For more than thirty- five years Mr. Dodge has been a member of . the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and for the same time a director of the Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Since 1864 he has been a member of the Congrega- tional church in Gloucester, and for many years he took an active interest in church and Sunday-school work. In his home city and throughout Cape Ann, where he is widely known, he is regarded as a man of untiring
industry and unquestioned integrity of charac- ter, public spirited, and generous in his gifts for charitable purposes. Ile is an active mem- ber of Acacia Lodge, F. and A. M., Glou- cester. In politics he is a firm Republican, but never has held and never has sought public office, his interest being that of a citizen rather than a politician.
December 7, 1865. Albert Dodge married Abba Gott, who was born in Rockport, Mass- achusetts, September 2, 1841, and died in Gloucester, February 19, 1907. daughter of the late Addison and Abigail (Tufts) Gott and a descendant of one of the prominent old families of New England (see Gott family). Mrs. Dodge was a true christian woman and mother, loyal in her interest in church and all other good works and devoted in her love of family and home and friends. In early young womanhood she became a member of the Con- gregational church at Lanesville and in 1873 united by letter with Trinity Congrega- tional church in Gloucester. All of her sensibilities were delicate and refined, her im- pulses generous and her sympathies tender and reassuring. She loved music and for sev- eral years before her marriage was organist of the Rockport Congregational church. She never lost her interest in music, and kept it up until her death. She also was a member of Lucy Knox Chapter. Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution. Three children were born of the marriage of Albert Dodge and Abba Gott: I. George Albert, born April 26, 1868, died January 2, 1872. 2. Chester Parker, born July 31, 1871 ; educated at Amherst College ; now is engaged in the insurance business ir Winchester, Massachusetts. He married, Oc- tober 12. 1898, Maud Cummings, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, and has four children : Marion Cummings, Elizabeth Wilson, Eleanor Louise and Richard. 3. Albert, born January 19. 1879 : mining engineer ; graduate of Har- vard University, department of engineering, and now junior partner of the firm of Shore & Dodge, engineers and contractors, Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania.
ABORN The surname Aborn is variously spelled in the early records as Aberne, Aberon, Abon, Aborn, Aborne, Abourn, Abourne. Abron, Aburn, Aburne, Eaborn, Eaborne. Eaburn, Eaburne, Ebborn, Ebborne, Eborn, Eborne, Ebourn and Ebourne.
(I) Samuel Aborn, immigrant ancestor. was an early settler of Salem Village, Massa-
Alla (Goll ) Dodge
Allert Dodge
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chusetts. He was born in 1611, undoubtedly in England; was admitted a freeman in 1665 and died in the winter of 1699-1700. His will was dated July 20, 1699, and not allowed, administration being granted on his estate February 5. 1699-1700. He married Cathe- rine Smith, of Marblehead, who survived him and was living in 1701. Children, born at Salem Village: 1. Samuel, born about 1639, married Susanna Trask. 2. Joseph, born about 1642, husbandman of Salem in 1704-08. 3 Moses, born in 1645-46, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born 1648, baptized August 6, 1648, in First Church Salem; married Dr. George Jackson and lived in Marblehead. 5. Rebecca. baptized March 23. 1651-52, married, Decem- ber 10, 1680, Thomas Bell and lived in Salem. 6. Hannah, married Joseph Houlton. 7. Sarah, baptized June 15, 1656, married Benja- min Orne.
( H) Moses Aborn, son of Samuel Aborn ( I ), born in Salem Village or vicinity in 1645- 46, was baptized in the First Church of Salem August 6, 1648. He was a husbandman and lived in Marblehead in 1666-67, and then in Salem until about 1678 when he removed to Lynn, where he lived the remainder of his life. He married ( first ) Sarah Haines, Sep- temiber 9, 1671. She died in Salem, Novem- ber 1, 1676, and he married ( second ) Abigail Gilbert, of Ipswich, who was living in 1723. llis will was dated May 8, 1723, "being stricken in years" and was proved February 17, 1735-36. Children: 1. Moses, born Feb- ruary 14. 1672-73, in Salem. 2. Joseph, born April 24, 1674, in Salem. 3. Sarah, born Oc- tober 26, 1676, in Salem, married, April 11. 1718, George Flint. 4. Abigail, born May 7. 1680, in Lynn, married Raham Bancroft, of Lynn, in 1717. 5. Thomas, born January 26, 1682, in Lynn. 6. Hannah, born August 26, 1684, in Lynn, married Edward Twiss, of Salem, February 3. 1708-09, and lived in Bil- lerica. 7. Mary, born April 19, 1686, in Lynn, married, December 22, 1714, Daniel Twiss, of Salem. 8. James, born April 21, 1688, in Lynn ; cooper ; lived in Lynn, Salem and Mar- blehead. 9. John, born April 17. 1690, in Lynn. 10. Samuel, born March 1. 1692, mar- ried Martha Bancroft and Sarah Needham. II. Ebenezer, mentioned below.
(III) Ebenezer Aborn, SO1) of Moses Aborn (2), was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, January 31, 1694. He was a yeoman and lived in Lynn. His will dated September 4, 1778. was proved October 5. 1778. Married (first) ---: (second ) Margaret Moulton, of
Lynn. July 7, 1734. She was living as late as 1778. Children, born in Lynn: I. James, born 1722. 2. Benjamin. 3. Ebenezer, bap- tized March 22, 1724, in Lynnfield. 4. Joseph, baptized September 26, 1725, in Lynnfield. 5. John, mentioned below.
(IV) Dr. John Aborn, son of Ebenezer Aborn (3), was born in Lynn in 1727 and baptized in the Lynnfield Church, April 9, 1727. He was a physician and lived in Lynn, where he died November 8. 1768. He mar- ried, November 22, 1758, Rebecca Bancroft, who married ( second) Thomas Dodge in or before 1773. She died June 20, 1798, aged sixty-four years. Children, born in Lynn: 1. John, born 1759, died June 26, 1759, aged three weeks. 2. John, born August 5, 1761, died in Lynn, March 2, 176 -. 3. Samuel, born January 27, 1764, mentioned below. 4. Rebecca, born November 4. 1766, married, January 26, 1786, James Gould, of Reading. 5. Elizabeth, born December 9, 1768, died July 2. 1770.
(\) Samuel Aborn, son of Dr. John Aborn (4), was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, January 27, 1764, died in Lynn, May 19. 1844. Ile married, April 17, 1788, Mary Flint, of Danvers, daughter of Captain Samuel Flint, of South Danvers, a commissioned officer in the revolutionary war, and of his wife Ede ( U'pton ) Flint. Mary ( Flint ) Aborn died in Lynn, November 28, 1851, aged eighty-one vears. Samuel was a yeoman, living in Lynn- field. He died in Lynn, May 19, 1844. Chil- dren, born at Lynnfield: 1. John, resided in Wakefield. 2. Clara, married a Mr. Bancroft, of Lynn. 3. May, married a Mr. Nichols. 4. Samuel, had a son Samuel, who was a well known hatter in Boston. 5. Frederick, men- tioned below.
(\'I) Frederick Aborn, son of Samuel Abern (5), was born in Lynnfield, Massa- chusetts, April 6, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. In 1826 he removed to Augusta, Maine, and en- gaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes : also having a retail boot and shoe store there. In 1841 he transferred his business and resi- dence to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he con- tinued until 1849, returning again to Augusta, and was soon afterward appointed to teach the trade of shoemaking in the Maine State Reform School. He filled this position credit- ably the remainder of his life. He died at Augusta, Maine, May 9. 1861. He married, February 12, 1828, Joanna Davis Thwing, daughter of Nathaniel and dary ( Eastman )
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Thwing, and granddaughter of Nathaniel and Abigail ( Greenough ) Thwing. His wife died in Augusta, June 15. 1840. Children : 1. Mary T., married ( first ) George P. Pierce : (second ) James Stone, of Gardiner, Maine : lives in Wakefield, Massachusetts. 2. Fred- erick Warren, born June 24. 1830, married Eliza Holbrook. 3. Charles Henry, born Feb- ruary 28, 1832. 4. Samuel Clapp Thwing. bern February 7, 1834. married Martha Wil- liams ; he enlisted in Company A. Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry for three years in the civil war. 5. James Franklin, born January 6. 1836, died July 18. 1893; married Mary Elizabeth Curtis. 6. Helen Augusta, born January 15. 1841, married Edwin Lincoln Stanwood, of Portland, Maine. 7. Abbie Maria, born March 28, 1843, married Henry Haskell. of Wakefield. 8. George Edward. died young. 9. Emma Nourse, died in child- hood.
(VII) Charles Henry Aborn, son of Fred- erick Aborn (6), was born in Augusta, Maine, February 28. 1832, died in Lynn, February 8. 1904. He received his education in the public schools of Lynn, Massachusetts, whither he went with his parents from Augusta when he was nine years old. He gained a thorough knowledge of the manufacture of boots and shoes in his father's factory, and in 1854 be- gan on his own account to manufacture under the firm name of C. H. Aborn & Company. His partner was John Brooks Nichols. This firm was dissolved in 1864, when Mr. Nich- ols was succeeded in the business by James F. Aborn, brother of the senior partner. In No- vember, 1889, there was another change in the firm, when Frank Parker Aborn, son of the senior partner, took the place of James F. Aborn, who withdrew. The firm has made a specialty of ladies' shoes and has enjoyed a flourishing business for many years. Mr. Aborn had the distinction of having been in the business of manufacturing shoes for a longer time than any of the other Lynn manu- facturers, and had he lived about ten months longer. would have been fifty consecutive years in business. Few men in the business were better known or more highly esteemed. A man of excellent business ability and ster- ling common sense, he exerted a large and wholesome influence in the city of Lynn for a long time. He was a trustee of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank. In 1864-65 he was a member of Lynn common council and had always taken a lively interest in municipal
affairs. He was a member of the Oxford Club and of the Universalist Society.
Mr. Aborn married. December 6, 1857, in Lynn, Sarah Jane Wood, born in Boston, Sep- tember 27. 1836, daughter of Lyman and Re- becca ( Fogg) Wood, of Meredith, New Hampshire. Children : 1. Annie Lincoln, born July 20, 1860; married Frank Herbert Gage ; lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts. 2. Frank P., born September 7. 1865, was educated in the Lynn public and high schools, and is now junior member of the firm of C. H. Aborn & Company : he married. October 11, 1893, Grace Berry, of Winchester, Massachusetts, daughter of William F. and Belinda ( Tarbox ) Berry ; child. Marjorie, born May 9. 1896.
( I) Michael Dwinell, immi-
DWINELL grant ancestor, was born about 1640. Tradition differs as to the origin of the family, some saying it was Scotch, and others French Huguenot. One branch of the family has supposed that the Dwinells came from France, where a Count Dwinell was settled near La Rochelle. The spelling of the surname has always varied. Even at the present day we find his descend- ants called Dwinell. Dwinnell and Dwinel. The surname as written in the town records of Topsfield, where the pioneer settled, has the following variations ; Dewnell, Duenell, Doe- nell. Donell, Dunell, Dwinnill. But the best early authority is that of Rev. Joseph Capen, of Topsfield, who spelled the name Dwinell on his records from 1684 to 1725. The name Michael was also spelled in divers ways. Dwinell was a man of property, owning large tracts of land from Wenham to Middleton, Massachusetts. He died in 1717 and his will was proved in March of that year. He mar- ried Mary Children: 1. Mary, born 1668, married John Hovey and resided in Topsfield. 2. Michael, born 1670. mentioned below. 3. Thomas, born November, 1672, married, May 23. 1701. Dinah Brimsdell, of Lynn. 4. John, born 1674, married Mary Read, of Salem. 5. Elizabeth, born April, 1677, died unmarried October 29, 1759. 6. Magdalen, born 1679, married, March, 1703. James llolgate. 7. Joseph, born January. 1682, married Prudence Curtis: drowned in attempting to swim the river in 1747. 8. Susannah, born 1685, married, October 16. 1706. Nathaniel Hood, of Lynn.
(II) Dr. Michael Dwinell, son of Michael Dwinell, born in 1670, was the first physician of Topsfield. His house was above the brook
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on the knoll back of the cider mill, which was taken down in 1875. He had a barn, and a fine well of water, which still supplies his de- scendants. He died December 24. 1761, aged ninety-one years. His will was dated July 17. 1753, and proved in 1762. He mentions his wife Mary, sons Michael, Stephen, Jacob : daughters Sarah Foster, Mary, Hannah, Abi- gail : granddaughters Esther Balch, and infant David, son of Benjamin Dwinell. He was married five times. (Some writers say seven but the records show only five ). He married (first ) Hannah -; ( second ). December IO, 1724, Elizabeth Fisk, of Wenham, who (lied March 26, 1730; ( third ) Elizabeth Cave. of Danvers, who died February. 1737: ( fourth ), July 6. 1737, in Salem, Charity Cot- ton, who died November 8. 1752: (fifth ). Mary Balch, widow, February 1, 1753. She survived him. Children: 1. Thomas, born October 3. 1693, married Mary Abigail Per- kins. 2. Sarah, born 1694. married Abram Foster, of Ipswich. 3. Mary, born 1702. 4. Michael, born 1707, married Lucy Towne. 5. Stephen, born 1708, married Abigail Harris, of Ipswich. 6. Hannah, born 1710, married John Bower. 7. Jacob, born January 31, 1715-16. mentioned below. 8. AAbigail, born 1719. Children of Michael and Elizabeth Fisk: 9. Benjamin, born November, 1726, married Mary Estey. 10. Thomas, born An- gust, 1720. Children of Michael and Eliza- beth Cave: 11. Samuel, born 1731. 12. Eliz- abeth, born October. 1733.
(HI) Jacob Dwinell, son of Dr. Michael Dwinell, born January 31, 1715-16, died Sep- tember 16, 1784. He resided in Topsfield in his father's house, and was called husbandman. His will was dated September 2, 1784, and his son John was executor. He married, Decem- ber, 1739. Kezia Gould, born May 10, 1718, died December 29. 1798. daughter of John and Phebe (Towne ) Gould, of Topsfield. Children : 1. Israel, born March 2, 1740, died November 16, 1760, in the French and Indian war. 2. Ruth, born 1743. died September 13. 1743. 3. Jacob, born August 6, 1745, married, December 12, 1769. Joanna Clark, widow ; was in the revolution. 4. John, born June 15, 1747. mentioned below. 5. Mehitable, born April 30. 1748, married (first), April 4, 1771. Cornelius Balch; (second). November 7, 1799, Amos Nelson. 6. Child, died September 2, 1749. 7. Ruth, born February 8, 1751, mar- ried. December 13. 1781. David Holt. 8. Child, died March 13. 1753. 9. Phebe, born June 17. 1755. married William Estey. 10.
Abigail, baptized July 1. 1758. died June 6, 1759.
(IV) John Dwinell, son of Jacob Dwinell. born in Topsfield, June 15. 1747. died in 1818 of a carbuncle on the shoulder, aged seventy- one years. He married, February 5. 1771, Esther Richards, daughter of Joseph and Mary Richards, of Southborough. Her father died when she was an infant, and at the age of ten she was brought by her mother (in ac- cordance with her father's wish) to live with his sister. Esther Estey, wife of Aaron Estey, of Topsfield. Her father was son of Crispus and Sarah ( Collins ) Richards, of Lynn, and grandson of John Richards, a soldier in King Philip's war. Esther attended the school which was held in the house in which her aunt lived on Witch hill, and the school-master's ferule and tobacco box is still in the possession of the family. She was twenty-three years old when she was married to John Dwinell by Rev. John Emerson, who is said to have pronounced them the handsomest couple he ever married. Esther Estey's granddaughter Lydia held the light for her to put on her wedding cap. John Dwinell took his bride to the house built by his father Jacob of the oak trees from the hill in the rear. At that time the elm in front of the house was full grown. Esther Dwinell (lied October 31. 1857. aged one hundred and one years, eight months and ten days. Her Aunt Esther, with whom she lived, attained the age of over a hundred years, and her brother John was ninety-seven and her sister Hannah ninety-seven years old when they died. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Dwinell died with smallpox. Children: 1. Infant son, born December 24, 1771, died young. 2. Es- ther, baptized April 25. 1773, died August It. 1777. of dysentery. 3. John, born 1776, died of small pox, October 16, 1777. 4. Mehitable. born May 4, 1777. died October 18, 1777. of small pox. 5. Esther, born April. 1779. mar- ried. 1802. Moses Wildes, Jr., of Topsfield. 6. Infant, born 1780, died young. 7. John, born 1782. mentioned below. 8. Jacob, born 1786, baptized September. 1787: died of dysentery 1788. John Dwinell was in the revolution in Captain Joseph Gould's company. Colonel John Baker's regiment, and answered the Lex- ington alarm, April 19. 1775.
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