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(VI) Captain Benjamin Leach, of Man- chester, born there December 27, 1749, was a son of Captain Benjamin and Emma (Knowl- ton) Leach. During his boyhood his parents lived about a quarter of a mile from the an- cestral home ( which was then owned by his grandfather, after whose death it was in- inherited by his father and after his death by Benjamin, Jr.). On the night of the Lisbon earthquake his father was at Lisbon, where he lost an eye, and the family at home at the same time were gathered around the fireplace, when the house was violently shaken and bricks came tumbling down the chimney to the great alarm of the family in front of the fire. He was a private in Captain Joseph Rea's com- pany, enlisted July 25, 1776; service three months, three days, in defence of the sea- coast ; company ordered to serve at the lines at Beverly ; discharged October 28, 1776. Be- ing a sailor and thinking he could serve his country better in that capacity, he entered the service on board the schooner "Hawk," pri- vateer, as master (his brother Ezekiel being lieutenant ). She was a well built vessel of seventy-five tons burden, mounting ten carri- age guns and eight swivels, was a prime sailor, and had on board every convenience for such a cruise, and was commanded by Captain Jeremiah Hibbert. She sailed in 1777. Ben- jamin and Ezekiel Leach were captured by the British and spent three years in Dartmoor prison, enduring many hardships. When they returned they were so indignant on account of the hard usage they had received there that they destroyed all the English made furniture in the homestead including some fine old oak
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furniture brought over by Lawrence Leach and his sons. Benjamin Leach was master of several vessels in foreign trade. He died at Manchester, December 20. 1838. January I, 1839, administration was granted to his son Benjamin. He married first, December 12, 1773, Elizabeth Samples, born November 14. 1755, died at Manchester, March 27, 1782; married second, September 1, 1784, Sarah Knowlton (7), born June 17, 1763, died Sep- tember 18, 1798, (daughter of John (6) and Mary Herrick, Ezekiel 5 and Emma Foster, Ezekiel 4 and Sarah Leach, John 3 and Bethia Carter, William 2 and Elizabeth. William I and Anne Elizabeth Smith). He married third, March 21, 1799, Betsey Bean, born Feb- urary 24, 1755, died May 17, 1832. Children by Elizabeth Samples: Elizabeth, born June 4, 1774, married Captain John Lambert ; Ruth, born April 17, 1778, married Captain John Allen. Children by Sarah Knowlton: Ben- jamin, born December II, 1785, married twice ; John, born March 11, 1788, died in November 1788 : Sarah, born August 24, 1789, died 1873, married Amos H. Mills, 1813: Mary, born June 18, 1794, died unmarried March 30, 1873: Richard, born September 18, 1798, died at Havana, Cuba, December 14, 1817.
(VII) Captain Benjamin Leach, of Man- chester, was born there December II, 1785, died October 10, 1859, son of Captain Benja- min and Sarah (Knowlton) Leach. From the age of fourteen to forty-five he followed the sea, beginning as a sailor, later was first mate of a ship under command of Captain Thomas Leach, and finally rose to the com- mand of a vessel. He visited nearly all quart- ers of the globe. At the time Lord Nelson bombarded Copenhagen he was in that port : was at St Petersburg soon after the murder of Czar Paul, and was shown the room where he died. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to farming. He represented Manches- ter in the legislature in 1834 and 1835, was justice of the peace from 1834 until his death ; one of the selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor, and town clerk and collector for several years. Ile had a large general infor- mation and tenacious memory. Few men not actually connected with political life under- stood political history better, or were more thoroughly informed of its general move- ments. He was a useful and respected citi- zen and died deeply lamented by all who knew him. At the time of his death he owned and lived on the homestead of his ancestors. He married first, February 21, 1811, Susan
Cheever, born February 14, 1785, died June 7, 1829, daughter of Ezekiel (5) and Susan (Butler) Cheever. Ezekiel Cheever was born in 1741, and was a man noted for his integ- rity, strong religious convictions, remarkable memory and extreme gentleness. "He was wont to restore to their native element any fish that were caught on the hook otherwise than by the mouth, addressing them in this fashion : 'You are the victim of an accident ; I cannot claim you ; go in peace.' This gentle disciple of Isaac Walton never deviated from a fixed price ; an advance in the market made no difference to him. One day as he was re- turning from fishing, while crossing 'Smith's Point' a dangerous bull charged upon him with mighty bellowing, whereat Mr. Cheever calmly sat down on his barrow and addressed the angry bovine with such an impressive ar- ray of scripture texts that after pawing the carth awhile and sniffing at the barrow the infuriated but perplexed beast withdrew with a crestfallen air." Ezekiel (5) was son of Rev. Ames Cheever (4). Rev. Ames (3), a graduate of Harvard College, 1707, and Ann Genish, Rev. Samuel (2) and Ruth (Angier) Cheever, ( Rev. Samuel a graduate of llar- vard College, 1659, and was the first settled minister of Marblehead), Rev. Ezekiel (1) Cheever, the distinguished Latin teacher. Ben- jamin Leach married second, January 7, 1830, Lucy Story Allen, born January 1. 1797, died March 26. 1889, widow of Nathan Allen, and (laughter of Aaron (6) and Sarah ( Crafts) Allen, Mamachi (5) and Ruth ( Edwards) Allen, Mallaca (4) and Priscilla (Hooper) Allen. Jonathan (3) and Mary ( Pierce ) Allen, Samuel (2) and Sarah (Tuck ) Allen, William ( I) and Elizabeth ( Bradley) Allen. Five children were born of his first marriage and five of the second. Children of Benjamin Leach: John, born June 24, 1813, married Ann Block. 1843: Benjamin Butler, born No- vember 18, 1815, married Cynthia Hall, June 25. 1848: Susan Cheever, born February 6, 1819: Sarah Maria, born April 10, 1821, died October 6, 1830; Elizabeth C., born January 7. 1825, married John A. Gould, October 5, 1845: Richard, born December 31, 1830, mar- ried Sarah Moody, October 25, 1855: Henry Clay, born October 9, 1832, married Caroline E. Roberts, 1866; Aaron Allen, born January 26, 1836, died October 7, 1836; Samuel, born August 29. 1837. married Helen F. Wheaton, 1870: Lewis, born December 13, 1839, mar- ried Ellen J. Ward, September 20. 1862.
(VIII) Hon. Henry Clay Leach, of Man-
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chester was born there October 9, 1832. son of Captain Benjamin and Lucy Story ( Allen ) Leach. His home was in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1855 to 1861, and he spent the summers of 1856 and 1857 in Kansas, aiding in the carly contest in that territory for free soil. He was active at the outbreak of the rebellion as a member of a military organization the object of which was to hold Missouri in the Union. In 1863 Mr. Leach removed to Colo- rado and went into business in Denver. He was elected to the territorial council in 1865, serving two years and was president of the body. This was before the days of the Paci- fic railroad, and Colorado was separated from the east by six hundred miles of trackless plains. . To the north was an unexplored wild- erness infested by Indian tribes with whom the pioneers were compelled to carry on a harassing border warfare. In 1865 a consti- tution was adopted at an irregular election, which was obnoxious to a majority of the citizens. MIr. Leach and Colonel Samuel Tap- pan spent the winter in Washington and suc- ceeded by enlisting the interest of Charles Sumner and others in securing the rejection of the bill for the admission of Colorado. The time was one of intense political excitement, not unmingled with personal peril, at times, to the actors. Mob law was often in the ascend- ant and "Judge Lynch" frequently held court. Things were in a nebulous state, "slow round- ing into form." After Mr. Leach returned east he was in busness in Boston, having his home in Salem, and for a few years he had his summer residence in Manchester at the old homestead on the 'plain.' He died at Salem April 17, 1906. He married, July 30, 1866, Caroline Elizabeth Roberts, at Salem, Massa- chusetts. She was born December 8, 1835, at Salem, died February 18, 1896. daughter of Captain Nehemiah and Hannah Ward ( Os- borne) Roberts, who married in March, 1833. He was born in 1800, at Hamilton, was a sea captain, and died off the coast of Africa in 1840. She was born in 1808, and died in 1888. Samuel and Martha (Stone) Roberts married in 1797. She was born in 1774 and died in 1845. He was born in 1768 and died in 1835, son of Joseph and Mercy (Clark) Roberts, who married in 1760. He was a son of David and Elizabeth ( Brown) Roberts. David was born in 1704, died 1792, and married, 1729, at Gloucester, later removed to Hamilton. Children : Hallet Groves, born Marchi II, 1869, died September 18, 1870; Henry Rob- erts, born September 8, 1871, married Mabel
Mann, June 25, 1901 ; Osborne, born Decem- ber 13. 1872, married Alice C. Perkins, No- vember II. 1903 : Charlotte Groves, born May 5, 1875, died February 18, 1887.
(IX) Henry Roberts Leach, son of Henry Clay and Caroline Elizabeth ( Roberts ) Leach, married June 25, 1901, Mabel Mann : children : Henry Groves, born February 17, 1902 ; Helen, born September 20, 1903; Robert Mann, born November, 1906.
(IX) Osborne Leach, son of Henry Clay Leach and Caroline Elizabeth Roberts, mar- ried November 11, 1903, Alice Choate Per- kins; children: Harriet Peabody, born De- cember 1, 1904; Anthony Osborne, born April 13, 1905; Lawrence Roberts, born July 21, 1907.
OSBORNE The family here under con- sideration is one of the old- est and withal one of the most respectable of the many that became seated in the ancient town of Salem within the ten years next following the landing of the Pilgrims; and in the mother country as well as in New England they who bore the Osborne surname were noted for respectabil- ity and high moral character.
The Yorkshire Osbornes were also an ancient people and genealogists have given them great antiquity in countries of Europe. In various records the name is found written Osborne and Osborn in the same general fami- ly, the use or disuse of the final letter being merely a matter of taste.
(I) William Osborne, of Salem, colony of Massachusetts Bay, Puritan, immigrant an- cestor of a notable family, first appears there in 1630; was made freeman May 22, 1639, having been granted June 4, 1638, with Anna- nias Coucklane, an acre of land each for a houselot, the same being near Strong-water brook; and besides his houselot William Os- borne had another grant of ten acres of land. In the records of Essex deeds ( vol. iii., p. 292) is found the following conveyance which gives some light in respect to the place of abode of the Osbornes in England : May 24, 1670. the Osbornes in England :
May 24. 1670. "Bezaliel Osbourne of South Hampton, within the precincts of East Riding of York- shire, Eng., attorney to Friswiel Mulford of East Hampton of said riding (as in an instru- ment bearing date May 14, 1670, more fully doth appear ) sendeth greeting :- That said Bezaliel Osbourne in consideration of a valuable
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sum paid by Antipas Newman of Wenham, Mass., preacher of the word of God, deed him a farm of 100 acres of upland and 10 of meadow, according to the grant of Salem, many years ago unto William Osbourne, then husband of the said Friswiel Mulford, lying in Wenham, Mass .- with consent of her hus- band John Mulford -- that the said Bezaliel Osbourne by virtue of his power of attorney from Friezwood Mulford his mother and John Mulford her husband has lawful authority to grant, etc.
"Thomasin Collacut, Joseph Osbourne, wit. "Signed Bezaliel Osbourne."
In speaking of William Osbourne, of Salem, in his "Genealogical Dictionary," Savage says that by wife called (in Felt's list of church members, 1641) Frezwith or Freesweed, had no children born there, but after his removal to Dorchester the town records there mention that by wife Frodisword he had Recompense, born May 26, 1644, at six o'clock p. m. The same authority also states that this Recom- pense Osborne graduated from Harvard Col- lege 1661 ; that at Braintree he had Hannah, born August 24, 1646, Bezeliel, born March 8, 1650, "and others afterward at Boston, by wife called in the records Fredswith, and in the Providence records by wife called Frees- word he had Joseph, born April 6, 1652, and Jonathan, born November 16, 1656. Further, says Savage, he was a merchant, and died in middle life ; that the inventory of his property, made April 29, 1662, shows over one thousand pounds, "well for that time." His widow married John Mulford of South Hampton, Yorkshire East Riding, and in 1670, "sold to Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham that IIO acres granted to Osborne." From what is stated it will be seen that William Osborne left Salem sometime after 1640 and lived in Dorchester at the date of birth of his son Re- compense ; that soon afterward he was in Braintree, where he had children born, and still later was in Boston, where, it is said, other children may have been born. He ulti- mately removed to Rhode Island and died there. It may be said, however, that the fore- going record of the immigrant's children can- not be taken as correct in all respect and that at least one of them, William, is not mentioned there. Mr. Austin, author of "One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families," himself an Os- borne by descent, gives Wapping, England, as the birthplace of William, and the date about 1640. There is no doubt whatever that
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William Osborne, the second, was a son of William and Frizwiel Osborne, but it seems impossible that he could have been born in England about 1640 (or 1644, as some ac- counts have it) for his father had then been ten years in New England, and his places of abode during the years subsequent to his land- ing in Salem are satisfactorily shown. There- fore the only reasonable assumption is that he was born in Salem or possibly in Dorches- ter.
(II) William Osborne, son of William the immigrant, died in Salem in January, 1728-29, and his will, made January 31, 1716-17, was admitted to probate February 5, 1729-30, sons William, Samuel and John being named as executors. His will was witnessed by Joseph Southwick, Jonathan Trask and George Locker. In his will he gave to his wife one- third part of the produce of all his lands, to be brought home to her by his three sons Sam- uel, John and William, who also were directed to supply her with firewood and other things necessary both in sickness and health. His property, subject to the provision made for his wife, was divided among his sons, with a bequest of twenty-four pounds to his daughter Hannah Trask. In 1721 his wife in a deposi- tion stated that she was eighty-one years old. She was Hannah Burton, born in 1640, died 1721, daughter of John Burton who came from England to Salem by way of the Bar- badoes. William and Hannah ( Burton ) Os- borne married March 17, 1672-3; children: I. Samuel, born April 27, 1675, died about 1750; married first, Eleanor Southwick, died De- cember, 1702, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Boyce) Southwick; married second, August 30, 1705. Sarah, daughter of Abraham Clark. 2. John, born August 27, 1677 ; married first, May 9, 1704. Mary Southwick, born 1676, daughter of Daniel and Esther ( Boyce) South- wick : married second, May 7. 1713, Hannah, daughter of Caleb and Hannah (Pope) Buf- fum. 3. Hannah, born December 2, 1679; married November 26, 1701, John Trask, Jr., son of John and Abigail ( Parkman) Trask. 4. William, born May 3, 1682, died September 29, 1771.
(III) William Osborne, youngest son of William and Hannah ( Burton) Osborne, was born in that part of the old town of Salem which afterward became Danvers and now is Peabody. He was a farmer, and became pos- sessed of considerable property, both personal and real. He married, February 8, 1710-II, Margaret Derby, born August 8, 1693, died
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July II, 1765, daughter of Roger and Eliza- beth (Haskett) Derby. Austin says that Roger Derby may have been a grandson of that Rich- ard Derby who was of Stonell, England, as late as 1588, and who had sons Roger, Rich- ard and Thomas. Roger Derby's first wife was Lucretia Hilman, born 1643, died May 25, 1689, daughter of Roger and Honor Hil- man. He married second, about 1690, Mrs. Elizabeth Dynn, widow of William Dynn and daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Langdon) Haskett, and sister of Martha Haskett who married Richard Derby, the latter being a son of Roger Derby. William and Margaret (Derby) Osborne had ten children: I. Wil- liam, born September 18, 1711, died July 6, 1712. 2. Stephen, born October 16, 1712, died April 8, 1773. 3. Elizabeth, born December 10, 1714, died unmarried October 20, 1789. 4. William, born February 12, 1716, died 1765; married November 3, 1737, Elizabeth Tucker, born 1719, died January 17, 1809. 5. Benja- min, born May 31, 1718, died 1734-5. 6. Margaret, born September 18, 1719, dicd July 8, 1805 ; married March 12, 1736, Joseph Buf- fum, born July 20, 1717, died September 19, 1796. 7. Jonathan, born about 1722, died 1754: married September 13, 1746, Esther, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Putnam) Marble. 8. Richard, died 1765. 9. Abigail, born 1733, married a Mr. Porter, died Febru- ary 14, 1817. 10. Benjamin, born in June 1735, died February 3, 1803; married Decem- ber 4, 1757, Elizabeth Flint.
(IV) Stephen Osborne, son of William and Margaret (Derby) Osborne, born October 16, 1712, died April 8, 1773. In some records he is called shoreman, but he also had lands and carried on a farm. He married December 12, 1735, Sarah Douglas, born November 10, 1716, daughter of Joseph Douglas and his second wife. Elizabeth King. Joseph Douglas was of Salem previous to 1694, but his carlier history cannot be traced with certainty; it is thought that he may have been a son of Thomas Douglas, of Boston, who had a son Thomas born there July 1I, 1676; and from the fact that the christian name Thomas ap- pears frequently in the records of the family, and also in the family of Joseph, it is reason- ably inferred that Thomas and Joseph were Mary
of one kin. Joseph Douglas married first, , who died after 1698; second, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel King, Jr., first of Lynn, Massachusetts, afterward of Salem, and whose wife was Tabitha Walker. Stephen and Sarah (Douglas) Osborne had children :
I. Stephen, born June 28, 1736, died January 19, 1808. 2. James, born July 20, 1738, died Aug- ust 31, 1810. 3. Sarah, born June 13, 1741, died in infancy. 4. Sarah, born May 22, 1744. 5. Hannah, born January 22, 1746. 6. Rich- ard, born August 10, 1748, lost at sea. 7. Joseph, born August 17, 1751, died Febru- ary 19, 1831. 8. Douglas, born October 6, 1756, died at sea on board a privateer.
(V) Stephen Osborne, eldest child of Stephen and Sarah (Douglas) Osborne, born June 28, 1736, died January 19, 1808. He married, December 31, 1765, Mary, daughter of Henry and Rachel (Dyer) Cook. She was born July 25, 1730, and died February 16, 1806. Henry Cook (date of birth not known) is named in his father's will, dated September 24, 1692, proved December 15, 1692, and was one of sixteen children. He is believed to have been the youngest son of Isaac Cook. Isaac Cook, born April 3, 1640, married May 3, 1644, Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Buxton (see Buxton family). His father was Henry Cook, the patriarchal an- cestor of this branch of the Cook family in New England, who lived in what now is Pea- body, Massachusetts, formerly South Danvers, more anciently called the middle precinct, be- ing a part of the old town of Salem before it was set off in 1752. Henry Cook was an inhabitant of Salem probably before 1638 and proprietor of one of the ten acre lots. His name does not appear in any of the old church or parish records, nor the names of any mem- bers of his family. His occupation was that of butcher. He died December 25, 1661 ; mar- ried, June, 1639, Judith Birdsall, who died September 11, 1689, daughter of Henry Bird- sall, whose office in connection with the old first church in Salem was that which now would be called sexton or janitor. He had ten children, of whom Isaac was the first born.
Stephen and Mary (Cook) Osborne had four children: 1. Henry, born September 30, 1766, died October, 1810: married December 2, 1796, Mary, daughter of Miles and Experi- ence (Goodale) Ward, born 1770, died June, 1835. Her mother, Experience Goodale, was a daughter of Joshua and Experience (Judd) Goodale. Experience Judd was born 1710, and died August 14, 1748; married May 21, 1734. Joshua Goodale, born in Danvers, Mass- achusetts, November 19, 1708, died May 18, 1798, son of Abraham and Hannah ( Rhodes) Goodale. Hannah Rhodes, who married, April, 1704, Abraham Goodale, was born March 28, 1679, and was a daughter of Joshua
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and Ann (Graves) Rhodes. Joshua Rhodes was born in April, 1648, died December 29, 1725, and Ann Graves his wife, died Febru- ary 21, 1735-6. She was a daughter of Thomas and Hannah Graves, of Lynn, Massachusetts. Joshua Rhodes was son of Henry Rhodes, farmer, of Lynn, born 1608, and whose house was on the west side of Saugus river. His wife was Elizabeth -, who died Novem- ber 25, 1700. Abraham Goodale, who mar- ried Hannah Rhodes, was a son of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Beacham, or Beauchamp) Goodale. 2. Sarah, born August 13, 1778, died September 2, 1809. 3. William, born February 28, 1770. 4. Mary, born January 15. 1772, died in January, 1851.
(VI) Henry Osborne, eldest child of Stephen and Mary (Cook) Osborne, born September 30, 1766, died October, 1810; mar- ried December 2, 1796, Mary Ward ; children : I. Mary Jane, died single, 1845. 2. Harriet, born February 2, 1800, died August 4, 1886; married Isaac Allen ; had Hannah Lee, Iar- riet Eliza and John Allen. 3. Stephen, born February, 1805, died November 23, 1869; married Mary Elizabeth Brace. 4. Hannah Ward, born August, 1808, died January 14, 1888; married March 13, 1833, Captain Ne- hemiah Roberts, grandfather of Osborne Leach (see Leach family). 5. Henry, born 1810, died August 14, 1886, married Louisa Shreve.
(VI) William Osborne, third child of Stephen and Mary (Cook) Osborne, was born February 28, 1770, and married September I, 1796, Ann (or Nancy), daughter of Wil- liam and Bridget (Derby) Lang, born July 2. 1776. Her mother, Bridget Derby, was a
daughter of Samuel Derby, son of Samuel Derby, son of Roger Derby. William and Ann (Lang) Osborne had children: I. Wil- liam Kendall, baptized July 6, 1817. 2. Caro- line, baptized July 6, 1817. 3. Edward Lang, baptized July 6, 1817, lost at sea. 4. Esther Norris, baptized July 6, 1817. 5. Charles, bap- tized July. 6, 1817. 6. Mary Cook, baptized July 6, 1817. 7. Martha Lang, baptized July 6, 1817. 8. John Norris, baptized November I, 1818. 9. Nancy, married General William Sutton, of Pcabody.
Coffin's History of Newbury, ORDWAY Massachusetts, states that ac- cording to tradition James Ordway, an early settler in that town, came from Wales : that he was born in 1620 and died subsequent to 1702. He was made a freeman
in 1668. He was married in Newbury, No- vember 23, 1648, to Ann Emery, born in Eng- land about the year 1631, daughter of John and Mary Emery, and granddaughter of John and Agnes Emery, of Ronsey Hants. John Emery. Jr., born September 29, 1598, his wife and children and his brother Anthony were passengers from London in the ship "James," which arrived in Boston, June 3, 1635. They settled in Newbury. Ann died March 31, 1687. James and Ann ( Emery ) Ordway were the parents of ten children : Ephraim, James, Ed- ward. Sarah, John, Isaac, Jane, Hannaniac, Ann and Mary. John Ordway, son of James Ordway, the immigrant, was born in Newbury, November 17, 1658. He married Mary God- frey, daughter of Peter and Mary Godfrey.
Stephen Ordway, who was born either in Newbury or Amesbury, was an early settler in Hebron. New Hampshire. He was pro- bably a descendant of James the immigrant through the latter's grandson, Stephen, who was a son of John and Mary ( Godfrey ) Ord- way, previously mentioned. In childhood he went to Dunbarton, New Hampshire, and when nineteen years old became a pioneer settler at Cockamouth, now Hebron, going there some years prior to the beginning of the nineteenth century. He established a home in the wilderness, cleared and improved a farm and lived to the advanced age of ninety-three years. His brother, John Ordway, a man of fine intellectual attainments, won distinction as a member and the historian of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition overland to the Pacific Ocean ( 1803-1806). Stephen Ordway married Mary Brown, who came from Bow, New Hampshire, and they had nine children : Stephen, Relief, Amos, John, Mary, Ruth, Aaron, see below ; Walter, Ann Eliza.
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