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He was elected secretary of the Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company and of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, February 1, 1880. The main office of both these companies was in Dedham. He was elected treasurer of the Norfolk Mutual, Jan- uary 1, 1885, and held that office until the time of his death. His experience in bookkeeping, banking and business gave him an admirable training for the important position he held in the insurance world. He showed great accur- acy and faithfulness in administering his office even to the smallest detail. He had a fund of common sense and a matured and well-poised judgment that brought him to the foremost ranks in his line of business. He always jus- tified the great confidence placed in him by the directors of the companies with which he was connected. In 1877 Mr. Howe was chosen a trustee of the Dedham Institution
for Savings, and held the office continuously the rest of his life. He was an active and in- fluential citizen of Dedham. He became a member of the Congregational church, in which he was prominent to the day of his death, serving as its treasurer, clerk, teacher in its Sabbath school, deacon, and moderator of the Allin Evangelical Society. He was generous in his contributions to the support of the church and its various benevolences and charities. His interest in the Dedham Histor- ical Society began with its formation in Feb- ruary, 1859, and at the second meeting on the fifteenth of that month he was chosen a mem- ber. During his long membership his presence at the meetings and the active part he occas- ionally took in the discussion made him a valued associate. From 1886 to 1888 he served as curator, and was on the building committee during those years while the new building was being erected. In politics he was a Republican. He married, at Dedham, January 4, 1857, Julia Ann, daughter of Oliver and Persis Gibson (Forbush) Hunt. (See Hunt family). Children, born in Ded- ham: I. Oliver Hunt, born May 29, 1860; mentioned below. 2. Francis Elijah, died in infancy. 3. Walter Clark, M. D., born June 21, 1872; educated in the public and high schools of Dedham, graduating at Amherst College 1894, and at Harvard Medical School 1898; was for a time house-surgeon of the Children's Hospital, Boston; now practicing in Boston; married Amelia Maria, daughter of Judge Ely. (See Ely family).
(IX) Dr. Oliver Hunt Howe, son of Elijah Howe (8), was born in Dedham, May 29, 1860. He attended the Dedham public and high schools, and studied his profession in Harvard Medical School, where he was grad- uated in 1886 with the degree of M. D. He served for a time as house surgeon and assist- ant to the superintendent of the Boston City Hospital. He opened an office at Cohasset, Massachusetts, and has established an excel- lent practice. He is a member of the District Medical Society and the Massachusetts Med- ical Society; also of the Masonic fraternity. In politics he is a Republican. He married, at Dedham, November 26, 1889, Martha Dresser Paul, daughter of Ebenezer and Sus- an Paul. Children: 1. Paul H., born Febru- ary 3, 1893. 2. Julia N. Cheever, born Octo- ber 24, 1895. 3. Richard Withington, born January 26, 1899. 4. Henry Forbush, born January 15, 1905.
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HUNT William Hunt was the immi- grant ancestor of the family in America. It is believed that he was born in 1605 in England. He came to this country and settled before 1640 in Con- cord, Massachusetts, and was admitted a free- man of the Massachusetts Bay Colony June 2, 1641. Ile was witness to a will of his neigh- bor William Bowstred, October 23, 1643. He was a farmer. He married first, Elizabeth Bent, died 1861 ; second, Mercy (Hurd) Rice, widow of Edmund Rice, of Sudbury. He removed to Marlborough, where he died in October, 1667. He made his will October 23. 1667, leaving an estate valued in the inven- tory at five hundred ninety-six pounds. He bequeathed to wife Mary; to sons Samuel, Nehemiah and Isaac; and daughter Elizabeth Barnes. Children: 1. Nehemiah, born 1631 ; married, June 1, 1683, Mary Toll (Towle) ; settled in Concord. 2. Isaac, born 1647 : mar- ried, May 14, 1667, Mary Stone. 3. William. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Hannah. 6. Samuel, men- tioned below.
(11) Samuel Hunt, son of William Hunt (I), was born in 1633, probably in England. He married Elizabeth Redding, and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Sam- tel, Jr., born November 17. 1657 ; died Janu- ary II, 1742-43. 2. William, born April 23, 1660; died April 29, 1660. 3. Elizabeth, born May 29, 1661. 4. William, born 1663; men- tioned below. 5. Joseph, born October 28, 1665. 6. Peter, born August 8, 1669, died young. 7. Peter, born May 14, 1670; died under twenty-one years.
(III) William Hunt, son of Samuel Hunt (2), born at Ipswich, 1663. died there Decem- ber 12, 1742; he married first, June 9, 1684, -; second, Rose Newman (intentions (lated March 6), 1724. Children, born in Ips- wich: I. Sarah, born June 6, 1685. 2. Wil- liam, died August 16, 1753. 3. Agnes, mar- ried - - Heard. 4. Mary, married Ingersoon. 5. Abigail, married -- Hodg- kins. 6. Elizabeth, born December 10 or 26. 1694. 7. Rebecca, born April 21, 1697. 8. Ezekiel, born May 30, 1699; died August II, 1700. 9. Hannah, born July 4, 1701. IO. Dorothy, born August 13, 1703. II. Mehita- ble, born July 12, 1705. 12. Ruth, born May 22, 1708. 13. Ezekiel, mentioned below.
(IV) Ezekiel Hunt, son of William Hunt (3), born July 15, 1710, in Ipswich ; married there, Susanna Berry (intentions dated April 15, 1732) ; second, March 8, 1743-44, Eliza- beth Hodgkins. Children, born at Ipswich :
I. Ezekiel, born April 6, 1735; mentioned be- low. 2. Susanna, October 17, 1736. 3. Na- thaniel, September 15, 1738. 4. William, March 18, 1741. Children of second wife: 5. Joseph, born 1744; died November 11, 1771. 6. Isaac (twin). 7. Rebecca (twin). (V) Ezekiel Hunt, son of Ezekiel Hunt (4), born in Ipswich, April 6, 1735, died at East Douglas. Massachusetts, January 25, 1803. He settled in Douglas when a young man. He was a soldier in the revolution from that town, a private in Captain Job Knapp's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment from July 28 to August 7, 1780, marching to Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the alarm of July 27 : also in same company on Rhode Island alarm March 2, 1780: also in Captain Joseph Elliott's company, Colonel William Thomas's regiment, 1781. Service is also credited to Ezekiel Hunt of the adjacent town of North- bridge, doubtless the same man, in Captain Josiah Wood's company, on the Lexington alarm, April 19. 1775: Captain David Batchel- ler's company, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Ty- ler's regiment, 1776; in same company, under Colonel Ezra Wood, 1778, in a New York campaign. He married, 1735, Eunice White, who married second, Silas Cummings. Hunt died January 25, 1803. Children: 1. Sus- anna, born January 5, 1762. 2. William, born January 12, 1764: died November 15, 1832. 3. Judith, born 1766. 4. Ezekiel, born March 3. 1771 ; died March 7. 1849. 5. Joseph, born June 22, 1773. 6. Oliver, born September 14, 1775; mentioned below. 7. Otis, born Aug- ust 10, 1778. 8. Eunice, born January 21, 1781. 9. Clark, born October 21, 1783.
(VI) Oliver Hunt, son of Ezekiel Hunt (5), born in East Douglas, September 14, 1775 : married, June 29, 1797, Diademia Whit- ing : second, January 25, 1808, Phebe Balcom. About 1798 he and his brother Joseph Hunt built a small wooden shop on the site of the old axe shop lately demolished at East Doug- las, on Main street, and they carried on at first the general custom blacksmithing busi- ness. This old shop stood near the Rev. Wil- liam T. Briggs house. It would happen as a matter of course that among the miscellaneous work done at such an establishment a dam- aged axe would be brought occasionally for repairs and remodeling, and it was not long before the skill of the Hunt Brothers gave them a high reputation for their edge tools, and the axes that they began to make were in high favor from the outset. They drifted into the manufacture of axes and other edge
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tools and in a few years they were obliged to enlarge their plant by the addition of another building, which was erected at Douglas Cen- ter and Oliver took charge of it, his partner remaining at East Douglas. Business reverses followed after a hard struggle, however. Joseph Hunt retained the old shop at East Douglas and continued the business, and Oliver went to work for David Dudley forg- ing axes in the shop his firm had lately owned. Lindley & Morse carried on the business for a time, and were succeeded by David Phillips. In 1814 a new partnership was formed by the indefatigable Hunt Brothers, and a second failure followed. Oliver Hunt afterward bought the plant of Job Knapp and Jesse Bal- com, who had owned it for a time, and with his two sons. Warren and Otis Hunt, went back to work in the old shop, and this time to achieve success. Benjamin Cragin became the selling agent of the firm. The market was excellent, but the difficulties of transportation very great. Mr. Cragin took a load of axes to the Boston market once a week. Business grew step by step, and another building was erected. This building of late years has been used by the Douglas Axe Company for an ice- house. About 1823 the old building on Main street was destroyed by fire, and another erected in its place. The latter in turn has been torn down to make way for important improvements on Main street. The mark familiar to all dealers and users of axes was "I O H," for the firm name Joseph and Oliver Hunt. Gradually machinery took the place of hand labor as the business grew. The busi- ness was incorporated in 1835 as the Douglas Axe Company, and became the leading con- cern in this line of business in the United States.
Children, born at Douglas, by first wife : I. Deacon Warren, born April 30, 1799; "in his day and generation he was the leading cit- izen of Douglas, active in town affairs, inter- ested in public improvements and prominent in the church. Generous and public-spirited by nature, he was accustomed to look forward to results, keeping constantly in view the growth and prosperity of the place, and en- deavoring to make them keep pace with its business development. Probably he did more than anyone to build up the village." He mar- ried Martha Kelley, July 12, 1821 ; children : i. Francis Warren, born August 2, 1827; ii. Martha Jane, born January 30, 1830, died No- vember 23, 1837; iii. Caroline Augusta, born September 7, 1833. 2. Otis Whitney, born
July 19, 1801 ; died December 21, 1858; mar- ried Submit Cummings; children: i. Charles Edwin, born July 25, 1824; ii. Edwin Augus- tus, born February 25, 1826, died May 8, 1857; iii. William, born April 4, 1828; iv. Franklin L., born September 1, 1834; v. Mary Louise, born February 13, 1839; vi. Otis W., born November 13, 1849. Children of second wife: 3. Diademia, born August 19, 1802; married, 1835, Luther Stone; child, Louensia Augusta, born 1826. 4. Anderson, born Jan- uary 31. 1804; married, May 18, 1831, Eliza Forbush ; married second, May 30, 1842, Nancy Chamberlain : children: i. Lysander Perry, born September 3. 1832, married, 1857, Minerva A. Batchelder ; ii. Charles Anderson, born June 23, 1834 ; married October 20, 1859, Sarah Chamberlain, and had Arthur Chamber- lain, born October 11, 1866, and Clarence Mel- len, born June 17, 1870; iii. Harlan Page, born July 6, 1836, married, November 26, 1863, Sarah Louise Cunliffe, and had Nellie E., born October 23, 1865, and Emma L., born March 20, 1874: children of second wife: iv. Ellen Eliza, born March 3, 1843; v. Anna Francelia, born November 11, 1845; vi. George Warren, born November 1I, 1847, married, November 14, 1878, Josephine M., daughter of Newell Taft. 5. Austin, born November 24, 1807. 6. Oliver, born November 28, 1809; mention- ed below. 7. Leander B., born July 15, 1812, married, November 8, 1836, Lydia B. Nourse ; second, October 27, 1852, Mary H. Hanchet ; children : i. Antoinette Eliza, born October 25, 1839, married, September 7, 1864, Lucius M. Thayer: children : Walter Nourse. born April 8. 1870: May Hunt, October 29, 1873; Daisy Lillian, February 10, 1877; ii. Louis Herbert, born June 21, 1846, died October 2, 1846; iii. Herbert Eugene, born October 29, 1848, married May 29, 1870, Amelia Palmer, and had Mabel Gertrude, born June II, 1871, died September 9, 1871, Bertha Grenville, born August 17, 1873, and Eliza- beth Baker, born February 9, 1876; iv. Alfred Epher, born March 31, 1855, married, Octo- ber 28, 1878, Minnie T. McQuesten, of Nash- ua, New Hampshire; v. Arthur Leander, born August 7, 1856, died April 23, 1860; vi. Mary Toby, born November 21, 1857, died November 14, 1858. 8. Harriet N., born November 21, 1814; married (published Octo- ber 12, 1837). Charles Hutchins; children : i. Alice Ann Hutchins, died April 22, 1861 ; ii. George Francis Hutchins, born October 5, 1841 ; married, December 28, 1869, Annie L. Bodkin, second, May 12, 1875, Edna P. Fair-
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banks ; (children : i. Charles Francis Hutchins, born February 1, 1871, officer Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, Worcester ; ii. Willie Lee Hutchins, born January 27, 1873; iii. Henry Talbot Hutchins, born February 3, 1877) ; iii. Harriet Augusta Hutchins, born June 15, 1844, married, October 3. 1871, Seth Richards, of Worcester, music dealer; iv. Charles Henry Hutchins, born January 13, 1847; head of Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, Worcester and Providence; married, September 2, 1873, Lila E. Knowles, of Wor- cester ; child : Arthur Knowles Hutchins, born 1878; v. Oliver Clay Hutchins, born February 21, 1850; vi. Jessie Gertrude Hutchins, born October 1, 1859.
(VII) Oliver Hunt, son of Oliver Hunt (6), was born at Douglas, November 28, 1809. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and learned the business of axe manufacturing, in which his father was en- gaged. He was in partnership with his father and brother. Later the business was incor- porated as the Douglas Axe Company, and grew to large proportions, being at present one of the most extensive and prosperous in- dustries in that section of the state. He was connected with the business for many years in various capacities as manager and owner. He married, May 10, 1832, Persis G. Forbush, born February 19, 1808. Children: 1. Julia Ann, born July 19, 1833; married, January 4, 1857, Elijah Howe, Jr. (See Howe family). 2. Helen Maria, born February 22, 1835 : died August 30, 1838. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born April 19, 1837: died November 15, 1838. 4. Sarah Elizabeth, born January 30, 1843: died September 5. 1843. 5. Anna Olivia, born July 27, 1845; died August 14, 1845.
Daniel Black, the immigrant an- BLACK cestor, was a Scotchman. Many of his descendants spell their name Blake. He may have been one of the Scotch soldiers that Cromwell sent over as prisoners of war. Savage says he was at Rowley in 1660. IIe settled in that part of the town that became Boxford, and the court records show that in September, 1660, he was fined for making love to Faith, the daughter of Edmund Bridges "without her parent's per- mission." But he was a persistent suitor and finally married the girl. He died at Boxford, December 5, 1680. Children : I. Daniel, born August 24, 1667; mentioned below. 2. Mehitable, born March 10, 1671. 3. John, born July 28, 1672. 4. Edmund, born Feb-
ruary 6, 1674. 5. James, resided in Boxford. 6. Josiah, of York : mentioned below.
(II) Daniel Black, son of Daniel Black (I), was born in Boxford, August 24. 1667. He was a weaver by trade. He removed to York, Maine, and deeded land to Daniel Wood, Sr., of Boxford, sixty-two acres of upland and meadow in Boxford, twenty-eight acres near Stetson Pond, and thirty-four near Andover Road. Ile married, July 14, 1690, Mary Cummings, of Topsfield : second. July 19. 1695, at Boxford, Sarah Adams, of York. Maine. Daniel Black had a grant from the town of Saco of twenty acres, sold by his widow Sarah and son Samuel to John Har- mon. December 5. 1717. Sarah and Samuel also deeded to Jonathan Young, Jr., ten acres near Cape Neddick Pond, in York, and var- ious other parcels. He bought land by deed (lated September 24. 1698, eleven acres at Burnt Plain in York of Thomas Wise, and about the same time two acres at Dummers Cove of Thomas Moore ; mortgaged. Septem- ber 5. 1700, three acres of land and buildings on the highway and near Meeting House creek, York. He bought more land of Sam- tel Webber, February 29. 1703-04, located on the north side of Sentry Hill: deeded two acres on the north side of Hull's creek in York to Peter Nowell, August 24, 1709 ( York Deeds. Book \'IHl fol 30). He died before 1712, when his widow bought land of Peter Nowell, twenty acres on the northeast side of the highway by the market place in York. Children of Daniel and Sarah Black : I. Samuel. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Mehitable. (All
his heirs, according to deeds on record).
(II) Josiah Black, doubtless also son of Daniel Black ( I), was in York before 1700, according to the history of Kittery, York county, Maine. In a deed dated April 6, 1719, he received a gift of land from Lewis Bane (or Bean). Job Banks, and Benjamin Preble, three Scotch settlers probably, and some relation to Black, perhaps brothers-in- law, as the consideration in the deed was "love and affection." Peter Nowell seems to be a relative also. Ridlon thinks this Josiah Black was himself an immigrant in 1718 with the Scotch Irish.
(III) William Black was son of one of the early settlers, doubtless Josiah, for Daniel left but one son, Samuel, as shown by the settle- ment of his estate. The will of William Black, proved at Kittery, January 1, 1727-28, bequeathed to wife Sarah and sons William and Joshua. Children: 1. William, had chil-
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dren William and Elizabeth; removed to Harpswell, Maine, and lived on Bailey's Isl- and. 2. Joshua, mentioned below.
(IV) Joshua Black, son of William Black (3), was born at York, about 1695, and died in 1753. His will was proved April 6, 1756. He married Mary -, and descendants are still living in Kittery, some having changed the spelling of their names to Blake. Chil- dren, recorded in Kittery: 1. Benjamin, born April 19, 1719; not named in father's will, but was in grandfather's. 2. Jonathan, born February 15. 1720; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born January 2, 1722. 4. Joshua, Jr., (twin), born December 27, 1724; died May 3, 1742. 5. Henry (twin), born December 27, 1724; died February following. 6. Henry, born December 1, 1726. 7. Thomas, born August, 1728; died 1729. 8. Saralı, born May 12, 1730: married Nicholas Collins. 9. Almy or Amy, born March 8, 1731. 10. Catherine, born May 15, 1734. II. Thomas, born Octo- ber. 1738; died about 1756, unmarried ; in His Majesty's service in the French War; will dated April 30. 1756; brother Henry a legatee. 12. Margery, born August 19, 1739.
(V) Jonathan Black, son of Joshua Black (4), was born February 15, 1720. He prob- ably settled in Limington.
(VI) Josiah Black, son or nephew of Jon- athan Black (5), was born in 1750. Accord- ing to the Saco history he was of the family given above. The above records, in fact, in- clude all that is known of this family down to Josiah Black, of Limington. He married Martha Cockson, and settled in Limington before the revolution. He was a soldier in the continental army, and served in the campaign in Vermont, ending with Burgoyne's surrender October 7, 1777. Josiah Black died at Lim- ington, July 4, 1840. Children: 1. Mary, born May 10, 1775 ; married Jacob Small. 2. John, born August 31, 1777; mentioned be- low. 3. Joab, born November 4, 1780: mar- ried Hannah Hamlin : children, born at Lim- ington: i. Josiah, born October 1, 1802; ii. Olive, born August 14, 1804; iii. Hannah, born December 18, 1809; iv. Ira, born Sep- tember 8, 1811 ; v. Lovina, born October 20, 1814. 4. Josiah, born August 31, 1784; mar- ried Mary Libby, of Scarborough, where he died July, 1864; children: i. Zebulon, born December 12, 1808, married Elmira Person ; ii. John, born December 24, 1810, married, July 17, 1837, Roxanna Andrews, of Bethel, and had two daughters, Olive and Hannah ; iii. Josiah S., born November 29, 1812, mar-
ried Eunice B. Smith and had son, David T., born December 27, 1838; iv. Mercy, born January 21, 1816, died young; v. Martha, born March 29, 1817, married John L. Plais- ted; vi. David I., born September 28, 1819; vii. Joab, had son Alvah; viii. Almer, born April 13, 1824, married Betsey Bailey; ix. Mary L., born May 6, 1827, married Lorenzo Goodwin. 5. Mercy, born January 8, 1789; married Amos Libby. 6. Aaron, born Sep- tember 10, 1791; married Lydia Libby. 7. Betsey, born February 22, 1798.
(VII) John Black, son of Josiah Black (6), was born in Limington, Maine, August 31. 1777. He married Hannah Hamlin. Chil- dren, born in Limington : I. John, born 1807 : died 1879 ; married Mary Anderson, of Limington : children, born in Porter, Maine : i. Frank Melville; ii. Mary; iii. Marcia; iv. Abbie ; v. Henry ; vi. James Anderson. 2. Samuel, mentioned below.
(VIII) Samuel Black, son or nephew of John Black (7), was a farmer in Hiram, Maine. He married Polly Milliken. Chil- dren, born in Hiram: I. John C. 2. Sally M. 3. Sewell L. 4. Sophia. 5. Ezekiel M. 6. Joshua L. 7. Lydia S. 8. Richard H. 9. Gardner M. 10. Samuel W. II. Eliza Ann. 12. Mary Jane.
(IX) Gardner Merrill Black, son of Sam- uel Black (8), was born in Hiram, Maine. He settled in Corinna, Maine, and died there recently. He married Nancy Sevey. They had eleven children, viz: 1. Porter M. 2. and 3. Died in infancy. 4. Angelia N. 5. Mary A. 6. George A. 7. Adrianna. 8. Eliza. 9. Rosina. 10. John. II. Ella, died young.
(X) Porter Merrill Black, son of Gardner Merrill Black (9), was born in Stetson, Maine. March 13, 1840. He was educated in the district schools of Augusta, Maine, and worked on the farm with his father until he enlisted in the civil war in 1861 in the Third Maine Battery. He took part in the battle of Gettysburg. Later in 1863 he was mustered out and returned to his home. He worked in the Washington mill at Lawrence until 1882 when he embarked in the wholesale and retail tea business, continuing until 1889, and acquiring a competence. He had a large and flourishing business. Since disposing of his tea business he has been interested in the lead and zinc mines at Galena, Kansas. In politics Mr. Black is a Republican. He has been agent of the board of health for the past two years and has served in the common council of the
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city. He is a member of Monadnock Lodge of Odd Fellows; of Post Needham, Grand Army, No. 39, and Kearsarge Encampment, and of the Lawrence Board of Trade. He married, January 26, 1871, at Lawrence, Annie Hartts, born July 27, 1844, at Lincoln, Maine, daughter of Henry and Annie (White) Hartts, whose children were: 1. Ellen Hartts; ii. Annie Hartts, mentioned above; iii. Henry Hartts; iv. George Hartts. Mr. and Mrs. Black have no children.
EMERSON The Emerson family, which has been prominent in New England since its first set- tlement, originated in England and numbers among its members many distinguished and able men. The first to use the name Emerson in England was Johannes Emeryson, of Brancepeth parish, Durham county, who was born before 1300. From him the various branches of the English family are descended, though the line cannot be traced perfectly. The coat-of-arms was borne by the American branches of the family as well as by the Eng- lish.
(I) Thomas Emerson was born some time before 1540, in England. He was a resident of Great Dunmow, county Essex, where his three children are registered. He was prob- ably son of Ralf, of Foxton, who received arms in 1535. Children: 1. Robert, men- tioned below. 2. Joan, baptized 1562. 3. John, baptized 1565.
(II) Robert Emerson, son of Thomas Em- erson (I), was born at Great Dunmow, and baptized there October 25, 1561. He may be identical with Robert Emerson, of Bishop's Stortford, who married there November 24, 1578, Susan Crabb, who was buried there No- vember 20, 1626, aged seventy years. Robert was buried at Bishop's Stortford, January 6, 1620. Children : I. Alice, baptized at Bishop's Stortford, November 22, 1579. 2. Margaret, baptized February 21, 1581-82. 3. Thomas, baptized July 26, 1584; mentioned below. 4. Anne. 5. Robert, baptized April 12, 1596. 6. John.
(III) Thomas Emerson, the immigrant to America, was son of Robert Emerson (2), baptized at Bishop's Stortford, July 26, 1584. In the church wardens' book of St. Michael's he is recorded as a collector for the poor in 1636, the year probably that he came to Amer- ica. He married, at Bishop's Stortford, July 1. 16II, Elizabeth Brewster, and the genealo- gist of the English Emersons suggests that she
was the daughter of the postmaster of Scroo- by, the elder of the colony at Plymouth in New England. Emerson was in Ipswich as early as 1638, when his name appears on the list of proprietors of that town, and he was selectman in 1646. Late in life he conveyed to his son John for a yearly rental during the lives of himself and wife Elizabeth, the home- stead on which he lived, making many stipula- tions of interest. He died May, 1666, in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His will, dated May 31, 1653, with codicil January 4, 1660, proved May 10, 1666, named his wife Elizabeth as executrix, and bequeathed also to sons Joseph, John and Nathaniel, daughters Elizabeth Ful- ler and Susan Emerson; to son James "if he shall come over to this country ;" and to wife Elizabeth. Children, all baptized in St. Michael's Church, Bishop's Stortford : I. Robert, May 24, 1612. 2. Benjamin, October 2, 1614. 3. Ralfe, October 19, 1615; killed June 1626, by falling tree. 4. James, February 16, 1617; never emigrated. 5.
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