Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, Part 46

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


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He married December 27, 1700. Sarah Leach, born 1737, died April 18, 1831. Azariah Allen was a son of Azariah Allen, born December 9. 1714, and lost at sea in 1752 : married Jant- ary 15. 1735-6. Lydia Hooper. Azariah Allen, last mentioned, was a son of Jonathan Allen, born 1684, died 1768, and Mary Pierce, his wife, of both of whom mention is made in a preceding paragraph. Children of John Perry and Ruth Allen: 1. Eliza F., born September 25. 1820, died March 5. 1883: married No- vember 25. 1846, Charles Lee. 2. John Perry. Jr .. born February 11, 1823: (see post). 3. Edward F., born January 30, 1827. died in Belle Isle prison, Virginia, December 5. 1863: married September 7. 1849. Ann Amelia Knight. born March 31. 1831. One child. Edward H., born June 6. 1850, died September 28, 1851. 4. Ruth L., born May 15, 1831. died June 1. 1839. 5. Ruthelia, born October 18. 1840 ; married David S. Presson, of Gloucester ( see Presson family ).


(VII) George Forster Allen, youngest son and child of Nathan, Jr. and Lucy ( Storey) Allen, and the only one of them who grew to maturity, was born in Manchester. September 10. 1826. For about sixty years he has been in some prominent way identified with the life of that town; and it was not until within the last year that he put aside the cares and re- spensibilities of business pursuits and retired to the quiet enjoyment of the fruits of his in- dustry. His entire life thus far has been spent in Manchester, and it was there he re- ceived his early education in the public schools and the once famous Chapel Hill School, the laiter an academic institution of earlier years and one of the most celebrated schools of Essex county. When he was eighteen years old Mr. Allen began an apprenticeship to the trade of shoemaking. and three years later. in 1849, was appointed postmaster of Man- chester. This was during the presidential ad- ministration of Zachary Taylor, and he held that office four years and three months. In 1850 he opened a small store and kept the post- office in the same building. His stock was small, for he started like the men of his early days, with small means; the town itself had not many inhabitants at that time, and Man- chester-by-the-Sea had not then become one of the most inviting and exclusive summer resorts on the north shore. However, in 1852, Mr. Allen, in company with Thomas W. Slade. established a general merchandise store in Manchester, carried on business with gratify- ing success for about six years, when on account


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of impaired health Mr. Allen was compelled to sell out and turn his attention to other pur- suits.


In 1861 he was elected town clerk of Man- chester and in 1862 was elected member of the board of selectmen. This office he held until 1868, through the years of the civil war, when the duties of the selectmen called for constant attention and frequent action, for up- on them rested much responsibility in connec- tion with the raising of the town's quota of men for service, the payment of bounties, and the forwarding of recruits to the companies and regiments to which they were to be at- tached. And after the close of the war it became the duty of the board of selectmen to propose and carry out the measures adopted for meeting the town's indebtedness and also to establish its business on a new foundation. Indeed, the office of selectman from 1862 to the time when the last dollar of the town debt was paid was no sinecure and during that period the responsibilities of the position were very ardu- ous. During the greater part of this period Mr. Allen was chairman of the board, and in addition to the duties of that office the select- men also were town assessors and overseers of the poor.


In 1868 Mr. Allen purchased from his for- mer partner, Mr. Slade, the mercantile business they had established in 1852, and continued as sole proprietor until the latter part of 1907. when he retired. It was in all respects a suc- cessful business, the most extensive of its kind in the town, and yielded to its owner a com- fortable fortune. For five years he served as member of the school committee and for two years as member of the board of water commissioners. For many years he has been a member of the Congregational church, its clerk for the last forty years, treasurer for thirty-three years, clerk of the parish for thirty-five years, and still continues this ser- vice ( 1908). Originally Mr. Allen was an old line Whig, and cast his first presidential vote for Zachary Taylor. In 1856 he was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Man- chester, and from that time he has taken an active part in the councils of his party in Man- chester and Essex county, although he never has been in any sense a politician. On June 16, 1855, George Forster Allen married Ara- bella McCollom, born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, August 27, 1827, daughter of Rodney and Naomi ( Wilson ) McCollom, of New Boston, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs.


Allen have had four children, all of whom died in infancy.


Arabella MeCollom, wife of George Forster Allen, was born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, August 27, 1827. Her father, Rodney McCollom, born in New Boston, New Hampshire, March 27, 1793, died there Feb- ruary 22, 1886. He was a farmer. Ile mar- ried. November 13, 1821, Naomi Wilson ; children: 1. David Alexander, born August 2, 1823. married April 5, 1859, Martha S. Cochran. 2. Arabella, married George Forster Allen. 3. Mary R., born October 23. 1835.


Rodney McCollom was a son of Alexander McCollom, of New Boston, who was born there April 22, 1766, and died there June I, 1843. He was a farmer. He married Mary Patterson, born November 12, 1772, died Jan- mary 4, 1852. They had fourteen children : I. John, born April 30, 1788, died June 8, 1822. 2. Elizabeth, born August 30, 1791, married John McLean. 3. Robert, born November 24. 1789, died March 17, 1825, unmarried. 4. Rodney, born March 27, 1793, died February 22, 1886; married Naomi Wilson. 5. Alexan- der, born February 5. 1795, died November IO, 1884. 6. Fanny, born November 5, 1796. (lied single. 1876. 7. Polly, born March 12, 1798, died young. 8. Elbridge, born July 19. 1801, died April 20, 1872. 9. Mary, born Jan- uary 5, 1805, died November 13, 1825. IO. Milton, born March 31. 1806, died August 30, 1852. [I. Haskell, born March 19, 1807. died October 19, 1873. 12. Clarissa, born Oc- tober 27, 1809, died June 12, 1875. 13. George W., born January 4, 1812, died August 8, 1813. 14. George W., born September 20. 1814, died September 4, 1878; married Mary Ann Stevens, of Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire.


Alexander MeCollom was born in London- dlerry, New Hampshire, March 22, 1731, and died in New Boston, New Hampshire (the first town clerk of this township), January 6. 1768. He was a farmer. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Archibald MeMurphy, of Londonderry; children: 1. Janette, married Eliphalet Dustin. 2. Jean, married Thomas Millen, of Newbury, Vermont. 3. John, born 1751. died November 21, 1783, unmarried. 4. Elizabeth, married Dustin. 5. Alexan- der, born April 22, 1766.


Alexander McCollom was a son of Alexan- dler McCollom, who was born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1702, and died in Londonderry, New Hampshire, April 4. 1781. He came to America in 1730, and was among the early


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settlers of the town last mentioned, and which was granted by Governor Shute to a colony of immigrants, nearly all of whom were of Scotch ancestry and had been settled in the north part of Ireland. They and their ancestors had fled from Scotland to escape religious persecution, but soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century they themselves began to feel the oppressive measures put upon their ancestors. and in order to escape persecution themselves petitioned Governor Shute and received from him a grant of a township of land in the pro- vince of New Hampshire. Alexander Mc- Collom settled in Londonderry about ten years after the grant had been made, hence was not one of the original colonists there. His wife, Janet , born about 1704, died October [I, 1773: children: 1. Alexander, mentioned above. 2. Thomas. 3. Jean, who married Brewster, of Londonderry, New Hampshire. 4. Robert. married Martha Beatty, of Londonderry. 5. Archibald. 6. John. 7. Janet, married Gordon.


(\ II) John Perry Allen, Jr., son of John Perry and Ruth (Allen) Allen, was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, February 11, 1823. and died April 26, 1890. He received his edu- cation in public and private schools, and after leaving school began his business career in the furniture manufacturing enterprise of which his father was the founder and principal mana- ger. After the destruction of the works by fire, heretofore mentioned, he engaged in vari- ous occupations, at one time being connected with the Charlestown navy yard. later repre- sented various furniture manufacturing com- panies, and still later was in the employ of the Cape Ann Anchor Works. of Gloucester. Massachusetts. Mr. Allen was a "forty-niner in the gold fields of California and was one of the pioneers in that once famous region ; and twice afterward he visited the country border- ing on the Pacific coast. On one of these oc- casions he voyaged by way of Cape Horn, on another by way of the Isthmus of Panama. and on the other he journeyed overland across the continent. The last two of these trips Mr. Allen made in connection with mining opera- tions in which he engaged as the result of his first visit to the gold fields.


On September 16, 1856, Mr. Allen married Irene Parsons Johnson, born in Manchester, Massachusetts, March 16, 1837, died there September 7. 1904. Six children, all sons, were born of this marriage: 1. Charles Perry, born September 28. 1857. When a young man he went to sea. and the ship was lost,


was never heard from again, bound for India in 1877. 2. Harry E., born November 13. 1858. He was a sailorman, and died June 12, 1903. in a hospital in Wellington, New Zea- land. 3. Richard J .. born October 12, 1850. 4. John Perry (3d ). born March 5, 1862, died February 6, 1895, aged thirty-three years ; married Hattie Hobbs, of Lynn, Massachu- setts. Ile was by trade a carpenter. 5. Ed- ward F., born December 30. 1872, died April 16. 1873. 6. Benjamin Leach, see forward.


(VIII) Benjamin Leach Allen, youngest son of John Perry, Jr., and Irene Parsons (Johnson ) Allen, was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, February 14. 1875, and re- ceived his carly education in the public and high schools of that town. When only four- teen years old he began work in the drug store of A. Lee & Sons, Manchester, and by prompt attention to his duties as a boy and careful study in connection with his work as clerk, in later years he was advanced to the position as head clerk. In the meantime he had prepared himself for the position of licensed registered pharmacist and supplemented his study and practical experience with a course at the Mass- achusetts College of Pharmacy ; and thus pre- pared he presented himself for the examina- tion of the State Board of Pharmacy, and pass- ed successfully, although at that time he was only twenty years old, the youngest candidate who had ever taken the examination and the only Manchester man to so present himself. These were strenuous years, however, in Mr. Allen's business life, for from the time he left the public school he not only earned the means to maintain himself and defray the expenses of his course in pharmacy, but during all that time he was the chief support of his widowed mother. In August, 1901, having for several years filled the position of head clerk in Lee & Son's drug store. Mr. Allen acquired a half interest in the store and business and in May. 1907, he became sole owner and proprietor. Ile always has been an earnest and industrious worker and subsequent events and present conditions have shown that he has worked to good purpose. He has been successful, and has fully deserved all the success which has rewarded his efforts. He is a member of the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Association. of Magnolia Lodge, No. 149. I. O. O. F., of Manchester, of the Manchester Club: and in politics is Republican.


On October 12, 1897. Mr. AAllen married Agnes Louise May, of Magnolia, Massachu- setts, born January 15. 1877, daughter of


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Jonathan and Florence ( Story ) May. Her father, Jonathan May, was born in Holbeton, Devonshire, England, and her mother, Flor- ence Story, was a native of Swampscott, Massachusetts, daughter of Lorenzo (?) Au- gustus Story, of Kettle Cove, now Magnolia, a small village and famous summer resort within the limits of the city of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have two children : Ethel May Allen, born August 1, 1898, and Perry Lee Allen, born March 4. 1901.


NICHOLS Nicholas Nichols was an early settler of Andover, Massachu- setts. He took the prescribed oath of allegiance to the king February II, 1678. His name is on the list of ministerial rates for the north end of Andover in 1692. He married Elizabeth and their daugh- ter Elizabeth died September 18, 1689.


(II) Nicholas Nichols, probably grandson of Nicholas Nichols ( 1), was born about 1735. A family tradition states that he was a native of the Isle of Guernsey, but this tradition may refer to an earlier ancestor. He settled in Exeter, New Hampshire, on what is now the site of the Phillips Academy. He was a bar- ber by trade. He was in the commissary de- partment of the Revolutionary army. Captain Peter Coffin sent by Nicholas Nichols, in 1775. four hundred pairs of shoes. fifty pairs of leather breeches, one hundred pairs of stock- ings. In 1778 he took three wagon loads of clothing, etc., to Morristown, New Jersey, and returned with flour and iron. He had wagons in the service later.


(III ) Captain Nicholas Nichols, son of Nicholas Nichols (2), born in Exeter, New Hampshire, June 4, 1762, died September 28, 1831, aged sixty-four. He was of Newbury- port, Massachusetts, at the time of his mar- riage to Catherine Sanborn, born May 14. 1768, died June 13, 1816, daughter of Deacon Jonathan Sanborn. Her father was baptized at Kingston, New Hampshire, February 4, 1739, married September 19, 1758, Lydia Sev- erance, who died April 4. 1827, and he died May 25, 1809. Paul Sanborn, father of Dea- con Jonathan, was born February 21, 1715, at Kingston ; married December 14, 1737, Mary Fifield, and second, December 9, 1746, Betsey Currier ; removed to Cumberland, Maine. John Sanborn, father of Paul, born in 1683, resided at Hampton Falls, removing to Kings- ton, New Hampshire, in 1725 : was a propri-


etor of Chichester ; married, January 1, 1707, Mehitable Fifield, daughter of Benjamin, who was killed by the Indians in 1706. John died January 4, 1732, his widow administering his estate. John Sanborn, father of John, was born in 1649, admitted freeman April 25, 1678 : married, November 19. 1674. Judith Coffin, daughter of Tristram, of Newbury. She was born December 4, 1653, died May 17. 1724; John died September 23, 1727. John Sanborn. the immigrant, was father of John last-named. Among the eleven children of Captain Nich- olas and Catherine ( Sanborn) Nichols was Trueworthy, mentioned below. Captain Nich- ols was a tanner and currier at Kingston, New Hampshire.


(\\') Trueworthy Nichols, son of Nicholas Nichols (3), was born March 13, 1790. He married Sarah Peaslec, and second, Mary Bar- stow. He was a tanner by trade, and also car- ried on a large farm. He was a Congregation- alist in religion, and in his later years belonged to the Whig party. He had a general store at Deerfield, New Hampshire for many years. Children: 1. Moses. 2. Judith. 3. Catherine. 4. Algernon P., mentioned below.


(V) Algernon P. Nichols, son of True- worthy Nichols (4), was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, December 17, 1814. He had a common school education and learned the trade of tanner. When a young man he came to Haverhill, Massachusetts, and conducted a tannery on Mill street. Later he became a manufacturer of reed organs, and finally de- voted his attention to his real estate, building many houses for investment and sale. He erected the Taylor Block at 110 Merrimack street. At the time of his death he owned much valuable real estate in Haverhill. He died in 1901. He was a strong anti-slavery man and supported the abolition movement to the extent of his power, and was active in the "Underground Railroad," and often assisting fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. He was a Congregationalist in religion, a mem- ber of the Center Congregational Church of Haverhill. He joined the Republican party when it was organized. and continued in that political organization the rest of his life. He married Mary Ames Boynton, born 1816, died 1898, aged eighty-one. Of their seven chil- dren, three grew to maturity: 1. Algernon Sidney, born 1847, died in Hilo. Sandwich Islands, aged twenty-nine years ; graduate of Harvard Medical School, 1869, and was a phy- sician and surgeon. 2. Sarah E., born Sep- tember 21. 1853: married John M. Poor;


Algernon ? Nichols


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child. Mary McPoor. 3. Myron .A .. mentioned below.


(\1) Myron A. Nichols, son of Algernon P. Nichols (5), was born in Haverhill, in 1858. Ile was educated in the public and high schools of that city. He became asso- ciated with his father in the real estate busi- ness, and since his father's death has contin- ued to build houses and develop real estate in Haverhill, and has largely increased the hold- ings of his father. Mr. Nichols is accounted one of the best judges of real estate values in the city, and his advice and services are fre- quently sought in important real estate tran- sactions. He is a large taxpayer, and a public spirited citizen. He is a member of the Cen- ter Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Haver- hill Board of Trade.


DUTTON The family of Dutton or Dun- ton takes its name from the ancient town of Dutton, Eng- land, mentioned thrice in Domesday Book. One part of this town was held by Odard, or U'dard, also spelled Hodard and Hudard. After Hlodard received his grant from the Earl of Chester, his descendants added the name of the town to their Christian names, as John de Dutton. The family has borne a coat-of-arms. from the earliest days, and from 1060 to the present time has ranked among the leading noble families of Great Britain.


(I) Hodard, the progenitor of the family in England, came from Normandy in 1066 with William the Conqueror. In the distribu- tion of the conquered lands he received a good part of the town of Dutton, in Cheshire, and settled there. This grant came from Hugh Lupus, formerly Earl of Avranches, later Earl of Chester. The sister of Hugh Lupus mar- ried William of Normandy. One authority makes Hodard a nephew of Ilugh Lupus, and therefore a nephew by marriage to the King. Hodard had five brothers-Edard, Wolmere, Horswyne. Wolfarth and Nigell. Hodard held Aston under William Fitz-Nigell. Baron of Halton. Hodard was Lord of Dutton; ac- cording to the family record in 1665 his land was then in the custody of his lineal descend- ant, Lady Elinor Vicomptess Kilmorey, daugh- ter of Thomas Dutton, and had been treasured then for some six centuries, in the possession of the direct heirs of Dutton.


( Il) Hugh, son of Hodard (1), also had lands conferred by the Earl of Chester at the


end of the reign of Henry I, probably at Dut- ton.


( I[1) Hugh de Dutton, son of Hugh (2), inherited the estate. Children : 1. Hugh, men- tioned below. 2. Adam, ancestor of the War- burtons. 3. Geoffrey, ancestor of the Duttons of Cheshire. 4. Sir Roger.


(IV) Hugh Dutton, son of Hugh de Dutton ( 3). married a daughter of the Baron of Dun- ham-Massy. He bought Little Moldesworth of Robert de Moldesmith; son of Matthew, about 1250. He also bought Preston near Dutton, of Henry de Nuers and Julia his wife. He bought the town of Little Leigh in fee- farm from Simon, son of Osberne, and the annual rent of two marks of silver was paid many centuries by his heirs to the Earl of Derby as of his manor of Harden. Ile pur- chased a moiety of Barnton from William, son of Henry. Children: 1. Hugh. 2. Thomas, mentioned below. 3. John. 4. Adam.


(V) Sir Thomas Dutton, son of Hugh Dut- ton (4), was living in 1249 and 1268. Hle bought Clatterwigge. a hamlet in Little Leigh, near Barterton, from Hude de Clatterwigge, about 1244. He was sheriff of Cheshire iu 1268. He built a chapel at the manor house of Dutton. He married Phillippa, daughter of Vivian de Sandon, or Standon. Children : 1. Hugh, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, had lands of his father in Staffordshire. 3. Sir Robert. 4. Mary : married William Venables. 5. Katherine, married John, son of Urian de Sancto Petro.


(VI) Sir Hugh Dutton, son of Sir Thomas Dutton (5), was born in Dutton about 1250, and died 1294. He built the county bridge at Acton Ford, about 1286. He bought Barter- ton. Ile married Joan de Sancto Petro, daugh- ter of Sir Urian. Children: I. Hugh, men- tioned below. 2. William, of Stockport in 1305. 3. Robert, parson of Eccleston. Margaret.


(VII) Sir Hugh, son of Sir Hugh Dutton (6). born December 8, 1276, married Joan Holland, daughter of Sir Robert. of Holland, in Lancashire. She married second, Edmund Talbot, of Bashall, and third, Sir John Rat- cliff, of Lancashire. She died December 24. 1326. Children: 1. Thomas, mentioned be- low. 2. William Parson of Thornton. 3. Geoffrey. 4. Robert.


(VII] ) Sir Thomas Dutton, son of Sir Hugh Dutton (7). was born at Dutton in 1315, and died in 1381. He purchased lands formerly belonging to Halton-Fell, and also those in Dutton formerly of Boydell, of Dodles-


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ton, and this made the entire township his own. He was made seneschal, governor, and re- ceiver of the castle and honor of Holton in Cheshire, by William Clinton, Earl of Hunt- ington, and also of all lands and manors in Cheshire and Lancashire. He married first, Ellen, daughter of Sir Peter Thornton, of Thornton. He married second, Phillippa Thornton, widow of Sir Peter Thornton. She died in 1389. Ile was sheriff of Cheshire, and a knight. Children: 1. Sir Peter. 2. Thomas. 3. Lawrence, his heirs. 4. Edmund, mentioned below. 5. Henry. 6. William.


(IX) Edmund Dutton, son of Sir Thomas Dutton (8), of Dutton ; married Joan, daugh- ter and heir of Henry Minshull de Church- Minshull, by whom he had the manor of Church-Manshull and Aston-Mondrau. Ilis widow married William de Hooton. Chil- dren: 1. Sir Peter, born 1367, heir of his uncle Sir Lawrence Dutton. 2. Hugh, born about 1370; mentioned below. 3. Lawrence. 4. Thomas. 5. Agnes, married William Lei- cester of Nether-Tabley. 6. Ellen.


(X) Hugh Dutton, son of Edmund Dutton (9), was born in Dutton, about 1370. He was sheriff of Cheshire in 1422. His second wife, Emma, was the widow of Hugh Ven- ables, of Golborne, and daughter of Nicholas Warren, of Pointon. Children: 1. John, heir ; mentioned below. 2. Randle, rector of Christle- ton, near Chester. 3. Hugh. 4. Elizabeth, married Richard Manley, of Manley.


(XI) John Dutton, son of Hugh Dutton ( IO), was born about 1410. He was mayor of Chester. He married Margaret Atherton. daughter of William Atherton, of Lancashire. Children : I. Peter, heir. 2. Richard, men- tioned below. 3. Geoffrey. 4. Cicely, mar- ried John Bird, of Braxton. 5. Ellen, married Gilibrand.


(XII) Richard Dutton, son of John Dut- ton (II), of Hatton, was alderman and justice of the peace of Chester.


(XIII) Ralph Dutton, son of Richard Dut- ton (12), had sons : William and Richard.


(XIV) Richard Dutton, son of Ralph Dut- ton (13), was born about 1510.


(XV) William Dutton, son of Richard Dut- ton (14), was born in Chester about 1530- 40 ; married Agnes, daughter of John Conway, of Flintshire. Children: 1. John, bought the manor of Sherborn in Gloucestershire ; one of the knights of that county to sit in parliament in 1640 ; was loyal to the king, and had to pay a large sum in consequence ; left two daugh- ters, no sons. 2. Sir Ralph, mentioned below.


(XVI) Sir Ralph Dutton, son of William Dutton (15), was born about 1570-80. He was gentleman extraordinary to King Charles I, and was high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1630. His estate was sequestered during the civil war, and he fled from the country. His son William succeeded to the large estates of John of Sherborn, his brother. Several of his sons left the country. It may be that one or more of them settled in New England.


(1) John Dutton, the American ancestor, came to America in 1630. He was before the general court of Massachusetts, October 29, 1640. The names of Dunton and Dutton have the same origin, and in the same families the two spellings were used even as late as the Revolution. It is presumed therefore that the Dutton and Dunton pioneers at Reading, Massachusetts, may have been sons of John Dutton, viz: I. Thomas, born 1621 ; mention- ed below. 2. Josiah, lived in Reading, near the Great Pond. 3. Robert, of Reading, came from Lynn ; was selectman of Reading, 1647- 49. 4. Samuel, of Reading, born about 1620: descendants spelled name Dunton ; had sons Thomas, John, Samuel, Nathaniel ; died No- vember 7, 1683.




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