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setts, May 20, 1751, died June 26, 1805. She was a daughter of Deacon Nathan Currier, born 1710, and granddaughter of Joseph Cur- rier, who went from Warner to Ames- bury and settled in that part of the town which was known as Joppa. Zebulon and Hannah (Currier) Davis had thirteen children : I. Elizabeth, born November 8, 1773, died April 14, 1866; married, June 5, 1797, Jonathan Rand, born Rye, New Hampshire, September 5, 1776, died Hopkinton, New Hampshire, October 10, 1850. 2. Sarah, born April 16, 1775, died Hopkinton, December 31, 1851, married, October 18, 1798, Nathan Currier, born November 9, 1772, died July 12. 18.44. 3. Stephen, born February 15, 1777, died April 17, 1848; married (first), January 16, 1809, Deborah Doe, born January 14, 1784, died April 27, 1841; married (second), No- vember 17, 1843, Hannah ( Emerson) Sawyer, born June 21, 1794. died September 29. 1884. 4. Johanna, born January 30, 1779, died Ches- terville, Maine, August 10, 1849; married (first), January 24, 1804, Isaac Lane, born Raymond, New Hampshire, 1773, died Decem- ber 23, 1805; married (second), True Hodg- kins, born Sandwich, February 18, 1785, died Chesterville, April 19, 1869. 5. Anna, born August 8, 1780, died Irasburg, Vermont, March 27, 1841 ; married, 1815, Israel Hutchinson. 6. Alpheus, born September 10. 1782, see for- ward. 7. Zebulon, born February 1I, 1784, died September 23, 1875; married, March 12, 1818, Elizabeth Doe, born February 9, 1792, died February 11, 1842. 8. Molly, born No- vember 4, 1785, died in infancy. 9. Mary, born November 4, 1786, died Irasburg, Ver- mont, May 22, 1835; married, February 7, 1809, Ezekiel Little, born Hillsboro, New Hampshire, November 6, 1783, died Barre, April 16, 1848. 10. Abigail, born March 27, 1788, died Albany, Vermont, June 5, 1856; married, November 28, 1805, Samuel Pierce, born Hudson, March 28, 1785, died Albany, Vermont, October 7, 1875. II. Mehitable, born August 26. 1790, died Hopkinton, New Hampshire, June 10, 1827; married, April 5, 1813, Nathaniel Piper, born September 18, 1785, died March 6, 1825. 12. Roxene, born November 13, 1792, died in Tate, Ohio, Feb- ruary 15, 1826; married, 1813, Timothy Sprague, born Henniker, New Hampshire, February 22, 1794, died Pierce, Ohio, July 21, 1869. 13. Lydia, born August 26, 1794, died June 18, 1857 ; married, 1815, Sabin Kil- born, born Woodstock, Vermont, December 24, 1789, died Topeka, Kansas, March 23, 1875.
(V) General Aquila Davis, son of Captain Francis and Elizabeth (Ferrin) Davis, was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, June 27, 1760, and went with his father's family to Warner, New Hampshire, in 1762, then only a small child. At the age of seventeen years he entered the service and shared the fortunes of the American army on the Hudson river and in New Jersey and elsewhere; and was with his command at Saratoga ( Stillwater) when General Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates. At the end of his military service he received an honorable discharge, which reads in these words :
"Aquila Davis of the 3 N. H. Regiment, formerly an inhabitant of Amesbury in the County of Hillsboro and State of New Hamp- shire, having faithfully and honorably served as a soldier in the service of the United States of America, the term of three years-it being the term of his enlistment-is discharged the service, and has liberty to return to his own home.
"Com'ding 3d N. H. Reg. "West Point, May 10, 1780.'
After the close of the revolution General Davis took an active part in the military affairs of the state of New Hampshire, and from 1799 to 1808 was colonel commanding the thirtieth regiment of militia. From 1807 to 1809 he was brigadier-general of the fourth brigade, and in 1812, at the beginning of the the first regiment of New Hampshire volun- teers and was commissioned its colonel. Soon afterward, however, congress repealed the law then existing in regard to raising volunteer regiments and the troops comprising the First New Hampshire Volunteers were transferred to the Forty-fifth regiment of United States Infantry, of which General Davis was commis- sioned lieutenant-colonel. His services in the army were arduous, but were faithfully per- formed, and it is said of him that while sta- tioned on an island in Lake Champlain he mounted a battery of large guns and kept the British at respectful distance from the island by this formidable contrivance, which in fact was nothing but an array of heavy artillery constructed of pine logs. After the return of peace General Davis resumed his business vo- cations in Davisville and devoted his attention to the management of his mills and other ex- tensive interests. He exercised a large influ- ence in public affairs and frequently repre- sented his town in the legislature, but did not aspire to high political honors. He enjoyed
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life and was noted for good humor and ready wit. On one occasion between 1815 and 1820 there was a brigade muster at Smith's corners in the town of Salisbury, and the Rev. John Woods was chaplain of the day. The reverend gentleman had a young, spirited horse, which after arriving at the muster field became un- manageable on account of the noise of the bands and the glistening of the muskets. Gen- eral Davis was there as a spectator, seated on his old war horse, a fine animal, but perfectly quiet in the noise and excitement of the occa- sion. The chaplain was to make his prayer on horseback, within a hollow square formed by the troops, but not daring to ride his own horse he approached the doughty general and said, "My horse is afraid of the guns, and I wish you would let me take yours." "Oh, yes, take him, take him," said the general, "but if your horse is more afraid of guns than mine is of prayers, I'm mightily mistaken." General Davis died February 27, 1835, and was buried with masonic honors. He married Abigail Watts Stevens, August 8, 1785, and had a large family of sons and daughters. His sons were Paine, Theodore S., Nathaniel A., Na- than, Charles, Aquila and James. His daugh- ter, Abigail Watts Davis, born March 24, 1790, died February 4, 1869; married, August 8, 1809, Alpheus Davis, her cousin, of whom mention is made in the next paragraph.
(VI) Alpheus Davis, sixth child of Zebulon and Hannah (Currier ) Davis, born in Warner, New Hampshire, September 10, 1782, died there November 11, 1847. He was a farmer and miller in business life, and a man of much influence and sterling qualities. He married, August 8, 1809, Abigail Watts Davis, born March 24, 1790, in Warner, New Hampshire, died February 4, 1869, daughter of General Aquila Davis, of the revolutionary army, and granddaughter of Captain Francis Davis. Children: 1. Mary, died July 24, 1826. 2. Henry, born January 6, 1812, died June 28, 1879. 3. Charles, born December 24, 1814, died November 22, 1889. 4. Stephen B., born May 25, 1816, died June 2, 1884. 5. Nathaniel, born July 5, 1818. 6. Daniel C., born Septem- ber 7, 1820, see forward. 7. Edwin, born Aug- ust 3, 1822. 8. Mary Ann, born February 22, 1825, died April 25, 1854. 9. Paine, born July 7, 1827, died November 10, 1889. 10. George H., born September 11, 1833, married (first), November 7, 1858, Caroline M. Collins.
(VII) Daniel Currier Davis, sixth child of Alpheus and Abigail Watts (Davis) Davis, born in Warner, New Hampshire, September
7, 1820, died Lynn, August 22, 1905. He mar- ried, November 20, 1851, Dover, New Hamp- shire, Dorinda Soper Merrill, born Parkman, Maine, February 26, 1829, died Chelsea, Mass- achusetts, July 28, 1895. She was a daughter of Elias True and Rachel (Tarr) Merrill, and a descendant of Nathaniel Merrill of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work. Rachel (Tarr) Davis's father James Tarr, born Rockport, Massachusetts, 1777, died May 23, 1827; married Lettie McFadden, 1799, born August 12, 1782, died March 3, 1858. Lettie (McFadden) Tarr's father was born Georgetown, married Patience Pettee. Daniel Currier and Dorinda Soper (Merrill) Davis had two children: I. Frank E., see forward. 2. George L., born November 7, 1860, Lowell, died June 28, 1899; married, June 28, 1893, Marcia W. Morse. (See Mer- rill).
(VIII) Frank Everett Davis, son of Daniel and Dorinda Soper (Merrill) Davis, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, February 23, 1855, and for nearly thirty years has been in some prominent manner identified with the business life of the city of Lynn, Massachusetts. When about eight years old he went from Lowell to Chelsea, Massachusetts, and was educated in the public schools of that city and in Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Boston. When sixteen years old he began work with his father as a granite cutter, and when about twenty- three went to Lynn and became a bookkeeper in the office of Osborn & Company, remained there about five years and then returned to Chelsea and took a partnership interest in the granite business with his father. Having en- gaged in the granite business in Chelsea less than five years, Mr. Davis again went to Lynn and became a member of the firm of L. M. Brock & Company, manufacturers of proprie- tary medicines, with which he was connected until the death of Mr. Brock, November 18, 1900, when Mr. Frederick M. Newhall suc- ceeded to the Brock interests in the concern, the old firm name, however, having been con- tinued to the present time. In addition to his business interests Mr. Davis is in many other respects identified with the city of Lynn, and during his residence there has taken an active part in public affairs. He has served one year as member of the city council, member of the school committee one year and for several years past has been a member of the Republi- can city committee. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He is a trustee of Lynn Public Library. He is an Odd Fellow, member of Mystic Lodge
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of Chelsea and of Fraternity Encampment of Lynn. He also is a charter member of Nan- apashemet Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Lynn, and has always taken an active part in the work of that body.
On May 19, 1881, Frank E. Davis married Ada A. Brock, of Lynn, daughter of Lemuel Meader and Melissa A. (Sanders) Brock, of Strafford, New Hampshire. Three children have been born of this marriage: 1. Mildred Sanders, born March 8, 1884, educated in the Lynn high and clasical schools and the Massa- chusetts State Normal school at Salem. 2. Grace, born August 5, 1887, died August 7, 1887 ; buried in Woodlawn cemetery, Everett, Massachusetts. 3. Raymond Merrill, born November 28, 1890, a student in Lynn high school. (See Brock and Meader ).
MERRILL The New England Merrills of the branch considered here comes of an old English fami- ly of that name whose ancestry runs to the time of the Norman conquest. The Merrill arms as used from the third generation of the family in this country may be thus described : "Or, a barrulet between three peacocks' heads erased proper." Crest : "a peacock's head erased proper."
John and Nathaniel Merrill, brothers, came from England to America in 1633 and landed at Ipswich, Massachusetts. In 1635 they were among the original proprietors of Newbury, where they continued to live until their death. John died July 14, 1682, leaving one child, a daughter Hannah, who married Stephen Swett.
(I) Nathaniel Merrill, brother of John Mer- rill, removed to Newbury in 1634 or 1635, and died there March 16, 1655. He married Sus- annah Jordan, probably in England, and they came to America together. She died January 5, 1672. Nathaniel and Susannah (Jordan) Merrill had seven children: I. John, born 1635, died July 18, 1712 ; married Sarah Wat- son and removed with his family to Connecti- cut. 2. Abraham, born 1637, died November 28, 1772; married (first), January 18, 1660, Abigail Webster; (second), September 2, 1713, Sarah Bond. 3. Nathaniel, born 1638, married, October 6, 1661, Joanna Kinney. 4. Susanna, born 1640, died 1690; married, Octo- ber 15, 1663, John Burbank. 5. Daniel, born August 20, 1642, see forward. 6. Abel, born February 20, 1645, died October 28, 1689; married, February 10, 1671, Priscilla Chase. 7. Thomas, born 1648.
(II) Sergeant Daniel Merrill, son of Na-
thaniel and Susannah (Jordan) Merrill, born August 20, 1642, died January 27, 1717. He took oath of fidelity and allegiance in 1668, was made freeman in 1682-83. He married (first), May 14, 1667, Newbury, Sarah Clough, born Salisbury, Massachusetts, June 28, 1646, died March 18, 1705-06. She was the third daughter of John Clough (or Cluff), of Salis- bury, house carpenter, who was born about 1613, and came to America probably in the "Elizabeth" in 1635. He received land in the first division of Salisbury and also in 1640, took the oath of fidelity in 1650 and became commoner in the same year. For his second wife Daniel Merrill married, May 29, 1708, Sarah, daughter of Abraham Morrill, of Salis- bury, blacksmith, who received land in the first division in 1640, and twice afterward, was commoner in 1650 and signed the petition of 1658. He was of Cambridge in 1632. Sarah was his third child and eldest daughter, and was born October 14, 1650. She married (first), January 5, 1670, Philip Rowell, (sec- ond), July 31, 1695, Onesiphorus Page, and (third ), Daniel Merrill. Children of Sergeant Daniel and Sarah (Clough) Merrill: I. Dan- iel, born March 15, 1671, married Esther Chase and had children: Joseph, Daniel, Abi- gail, Judith, Peter, Sarah, Benjamin, Thomas, Enoch, Edmund and Moses. 2. John, born October 7. 1674, married, September 23, 1702, Mary Allin. 3. Sarah, born October 15, 1677, married, May 12, 1696, William Morse. 4. Ruth, born February 7, 1680-81, marriage in- tention published April 22, 1701, to Onesi- phorus Page. 5. Moses, born September 3, 1683, see forward. 6. Martha, born Septem- ber 3. 1683, married, June 16, 1702, John True. 7. Stephen, born September 16, 1688, mar- riage intention published November 23, 1706, to Dorothy Straw ; married, July 20, 1710, Mary Carr.
(III) Moses Merrill, third son and fifth child of Sergeant Daniel and Sarah (Clough) Merrill, born September 3, 1683, died January 17, 1756. The church records in Salisbury show that Moses Merrill and his wife Mary were admitted to full communion, May 21, 1710. The baptismal name of his wife was Mary but her family name is unknown. Four of their ten children were baptized in Salis- bury, May 28, 1710-Apphia, Sarah, Moses and Mary-and their other children, among whom was a son Daniel, were born between the years 1711 and 1723.
(IV) Daniel Merrill, son of Moses and Mary Merrill, born April 27, 1723, died Aug-
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ust 19, 1809; married, April 20, 1744, Eliza- beth Clough, and had a son Elias, see forward.
(V) Elias Merrill, son of Daniel and Eliz- abeth (Clough) Merrill, born February I, 1750, died October 18, 1802; married Rhoda True, born 1748, died December 27, 179 -.
(VI) Elias Merrill, Jr., born April 23, 1773, died August 15, 1853; married Polly Marr, July 28, 1793.
(VII) Elias True Merrill, son of Elias and Polly ( Marr) Merrill, born February 23, 1803, died August 14, 1870; married Rachel Farr, born February 24, 1802, died March 6, 1851.
(VIII) Dorinda Soper Merrill, daughter of Elias True and Rachel (Farr) Merrill, born February 26, 1829, died July 28, 1895; mar- ried, November 20, 1851, Daniel Currier Davis. (See Davis).
BROCK The surname Brock has been known in New England history since the times of the colony, yet there appears to be no present means by which the family of that name now living in Lynn, Massachusetts, can be connected with those of the same name who were settled in various parts of the east during the seventeenth century. Savage mentions John Brock, of Reading, Massachusetts, born in 1620, and came from England to America in 1637; Wil- liam Brock, of Salem, Massachusetts, 1639; Henry Brock, of Dedham, 1642; and Richard Brock, of Watertown, Massachusetts, who is said to have come over in the "Elizabeth and Ann" from London, in 1635, being then thirty- one years old.
The Wentworth genealogy gives an account of several of the Brock surname who inter- married with the Wentworths, particularly those living in New Hampshire, but mentions that all attempts to trace their ancestry to the immigrant have met with little success. In that work mention is made of Rev. John Brock, who was born in England, graduate from Harvard College in 1646, preached first in Rowley, Massachusetts, afterward on the Isle of Shoals and still later removed to Read- ing, Massachusetts, and died there; Andrew Brock, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, mariner, who had children by wife Anne; Benjamin Brock and wife Mary, who were of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1720; William Brock, of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, 1723; Nicholas Brock, husbandman, of Dover, New Hampshire, who married, in 1730, Elizabeth, daughter of John Holden; John Brock, of Newington, New Hampshire, 1732;
William Brock, of Boston, 1735; John Brock, of Boston, 1727; John Brock and wife Mary, of Woodstock, Massachusetts, 1722; and of John Brock, of Rochester, New Hampshire, 1772.
The first Brock of the family here consid- ered, of which we have an authentic record, was Stephen Brock, whose son Ephraim mar- ried Hannah and had a son Nathaniel Brock, born December 13, 1806, and married, November 3, 1831, Sarah Worth Meader, born December 26, 1804, died April 6, 1874. They lived in Strafford, New Hampshire. (See Meader family). Nathaniel Brock spent his entire life in Strafford, and was a prosper- ous farmer and one of the most representa- tive men of that town. He was elected to a seat in the lower house of the state legislature in 1852-53, and for several years was select- man of Strafford. He died in 1887.
Lemuel Meader Brock, son of Nathaniel and Sarah Worth (Meader) Brock, born in Strafford, New Hampshire, November 6, 1837, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, September 18, 1900. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and the academies in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, and South Ber- wick, Maine, and having completed his own early education taught school three years in New Hampshire. In 1859 he gave up the pedagogue's chair, went to Boston, and for the next three years engaged in the grocery business, latter carried on a wholesale butter and cheese business in that city for seven years, and still later was for about two years landlord of a hotel. The business of hotel keeping afforded Mr. Brock congenial and profitable employment, and upon his removal to Lynn in 1870 he was proprietor of a popu- lar and well kept hotel for the next seventeen years. In the meantime, however, he engaged in other pursuits, and in 1877 became partner and half owner in a proprietary medicine busi- ness which formerly had been carried on with indifferent success, but which under his capable management soon became an enterprise of considerable importance among the manufac- turing interests of Lynn. When he first ac- quired an interest in the concern the former proprietor was putting on the market in a limited way what is now known throughout the country as "Mrs. Dinsmore's Cough and Croup Balsam." This business he greatly in- creased and in 1879 became its sole proprietor, and in 1885 he so disposed of his hotel affairs that he was able to give his sole attention to the manufacture and sale of his proprietary
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medicines. Then it was that the firm name of L. M. Brock & Company became known in business circles. Mr. Brock stood at the head of the firm from the time it was formed until his death. He proved himself a capable busi- ness manager, and through his own efforts and perseverance accumulated a comfortable for- tune. Throughout the period of his residence in Lynn he was deeply interested in the welfare of its institutions, and also took a citizen's part in political affairs. He was a firm Democrat, and as the candidate of that party was twice elected representative, first in 1891 and again in 1892. He was a Mason, member of King Solo- mon Lodge, F. and A. M., of Charlestown ; an Odd Fellow, member of West Lynn Lodge, No. 65, and of West Lynn Encampment, No. 67 ; a charter member of Everett Lodge, No. 20, Knights of Pythias, of Lynn; member of Manapashemet Tribe, No. 82, I. O. R. M; and a member of Lynn Lodge, No. 117, B. P. O. E.
Mr. Brock married, February 22, 1859, Me- lissa A. Sanders, of Strafford, New Hamp- shire, and by her had two daughters: Eva Mabel, born December 27, 1859, wife of Fred M. Newhall; and Ada A., born December 8, 1861, wife of Frank E. Davis. (See Davis family).
MEADER The American families bear- ing the surname Meader are all descended from an Eng- lish family of the same name, and the latter is an ancient house on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. The immigrant ancestor was John Meader, who came from Durham, Eng- land, in 1650, landed at Boston, and in 1653 was of Dover, New Hampshire. He was born in England in 1630 and died in Dover in 1712. In 1656 he had land granted him there, in that part of "ancient Dover" which is called Oyster river.
(I) In 1669 John Meader was one of the inhabitants of Dover who presented the "hum- ble petition of Oyster River to the Honored General Court of Massachusetts" that there should be appointed two ministers for that jurisdiction, one at Dover Neck and the other at Oyster River. In 1684 with other settlers there he was dispossessed of his lands by the representatives of the Mason proprietary, but as the oppressors failed to effect a sale to others, the actual settlers were restored to their rights. In 1685 he joined in the petition against Governor Cranfield. In 1694 his gar- rison house was destroyed by the Indians.
John Meader lived to the ripe age of eighty- two years. His wife, Abigail ( Follett ) Meader, bore him five children : I. John, died 1736; married (first), Sarah Follett, died 1727, daughter of Nicholas and Abigail Follett ; mar- ried (second) Elizabeth born 1667;
married (third), Agnes died 1737. 2. Joseph, died 1728; married Elizabeth
3. Elizabeth, born March 26, 1665. 4. Sarah, born January 11, 1669. died 1719; married, March 16, 1692, Edward Wakeham, died 1719. 5. Nathaniel, born June 14, 1671, see forward.
(II) Nathaniel Meader, youngest of the five children of John and Abigail ( Follett) Meader, born at Dover, New Hampshire, June 14, 1671, was killed by the Indians in an attack on the settlement on April 23, 1704. His wife Eleanor (Hall) Meader, who died in 1705. bore her husband five children : Lydia, born August 25, 1696; Daniel, November 3. 1698: Nathaniel, March 8, 1700; Elizabeth, April 3. 1702; Eleanor, June 3, 1704.
( HI) Daniel Meader, elder son of Na- thaniel and Eleanor (Hall) Meader, born No- vember 3, 1698, married Elizabeth Allen, and had a large family of children. Of his sons at least seven settled in Rochester, New Hamp- shire, between the years 1750 and 1760; first Benjamin, Nathaniel, Elijah and Jonathan, who took up lands in that part of the town which afterward was known as Meaderborough, and later three other sons of Daniel went there. They were Joseph, Lemuel and Jedediah, and they settled near the brothers who preceded them
(IV) Lemuel Meader, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Allen) Meader, was born at Back (Oyster ) River, Dover, New Hampshire, and in 1660 went to live near his brothers in Rochester, where he died in 1773. He married Sarah Worth, born December 26, 1804, died April 6, 1874, and had children, among them a son Lemuel.
(V) Lemuel Meader, son of Lemuel and Sarah (Worth) Meader, born in Rochester, New Hampshire, April 12, 1771, died May 19, 1839. His wife, Mary (Kimball) Meader, born April 17, 1779, died July 24, 1845. She was the third daughter of Ephraim Kimball, (see Kimball family), born June 17, 1751, married, September 23. 1773, Hannah Emer- son, born February 13, 1754. Hannah (Em- erson) Meader's father was Solomon Emer- son ; mother was Elizabeth ( Smith) Emerson. Lemuel and Mary (Kimball) Meader had eight children: 1. Abigail, born January 4, 1799, married Solomon Babb and removed to
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Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois. 2. Timo- thy Eaton, born November 25, 1800, married Miriam Trickey and removed to Pawnee, Illi- nois. 3. Rev. Jesse, born December 12, 1802, married Hannah D. York and lived at Dover, New Hampshire. 4. Sarah Worth, born De- cember 26, 1804, died April 6, 1874, married, November 3, 1831, Nathaniel Brock, born De- cember 13, 1806, son of Ephraim and Hannah Brock; Ephriam was son of Stephen Brock. Their son, Lemuel Meader Brock, born in Strafford, New Hampshire, November 6, 1837, died in Lynn, Massachusetts, November 18, 1900. He married, February 22, 1859, Melissa A. Sanders of Strafford. (See Brock family). Melissa A. (Sanders) Brock's father was John Sanders, born December 18, 1812, died April 9, 1896; married, 1833, Maria Leighton Gray, born April 4, 1815, died July 31, 1897. John Saunders's father, William Saunders, born June 6, 1763, died November 30, 1834; married Comfort Drew, born July 21, 1766, died November 21, 1847.
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