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(II) Captain Nathaniel, third son and fourth child of Edward and Ann (Coleman) Allen, was born at Nantucket, Massachusetts, Febru- ary 24, 1700, died April 7, 1776. He was a mariner and had charge of the coasting trade, spending the greater part of his time on the sea and consequently having little time to spare for the public affairs of his town. He was a member of the Society of Friends but, after his second marriage, which was out of meeting, he was dropped from its membership. He mar- ried (first) January 1, 1724, Provided Gaskell, who died January 30, 1730, daughter of Cap- tain Samuel Gaskell, granddaughter of Samuel and Provided (Southwick) Gaskell, of New-
buryport, Massachusetts, and a descendant of that Cassandra Southwick of whom Whittier has written one of his most touching poems. Children: I. Edmund, born October, 1726, died unmarried, August 26, 1763. 2. Provided, born July 12, 1728, died December 3, 1798; she married, March 17, 1747, Daniel Gardner, born August 24, 1727, died July 9, 1780, son of Samuel and Patience Gardner ; they resided on Nantucket Island, had ten children, whose descendants are still residents of the island. Captain Nathaniel Allen married (second) May 2, 1732, Mercy Coffin, born September 3, 1701, died April 24, 1781, widow of Prince Coffin, and daughter of Nathan and Mercy Skiff. On the maternal side she was the grand- daughter of John and Hope ( Howland) Chap- man, great-granddaughter of John and Eliza- beth ( Tilley) Howland, and great-great-grand- daughter of John Tilley, who came to this coun- try in the "Mayflower." She was also a de- scendant of Governor Carver, as the records in the old Hartford Bible show. The children of Captain Nathaniel and Mercy (Skiff) (Coffin) Allen were: I. Abigail, born April 10, 1733, died February 14, 1817 ; she married, May 5. 1785, Jonathan Moores, born June 12, 1725, died September 3, 1795, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Moores. 2. Susanna, born April I, 1737, died unmarried, April 11, 1796. 3. Joseph, see forward. 4. Benjamin, born Janu- ary I, 1740, was lost at sea ; he married (pub- lished December 4, 1765) Abigail Trott, born October 15, 1756, died November 18, 1811, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Trott. 5. Mercy, born September 4, 1742, died March 29, 1825 ; she married, December 4, 1760, Ste- phen Macy, born June 6, 1741, died February 8, 1822, son of David and Dinah Macy. 6. Captain Oliver, who died in Shutesbury, Mass- achusetts, in 1792: he was master of a trading vessel for many years, then retired to a farm and became prominent as a member of the committee of correspondence during the revo- lution. He married Joanna
(III) Joseph, eldest son and third child of Captain Nathaniel and Mercy (Skiff) (Coffin) Allen, was born at Nantucket, Massachusetts, April 1, 1737, died at Shutesbury, Massachu- setts. December 20, 1804. He sold his real estate holdings in Nantucket in 1766 and re- moved to Newport, Rhode Island. He is said to have served in the continental army during the revolutionary war, and after the conflict returned to Rhode Island, where he was noted as the owner of fine horses, with which he was often a winner in speeding them on the turf.
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His last days were spent in peaceful retirement in the home of his son Robert. He married, December 4, 1753, Hephzibah Coffin, born at Nantucket, November 18, 1736, died at Ports- mouth, or Newport, Rhode Island, about 1769, daughter of Robert and Susanna Coffin. She numbered among her ancestors many promi- nent people, among them being: Hon. Peter Coffin, of Dover, New Hampshire; Edward Starbuck, of Derbyshire, England, and Nan- tucket, Massachusetts; Thomas Gardner, of county Dorset, England, and Nantucket ; John Severance, of Salisbury, Massachusetts ; Peter Folger, of county Norfolk, England ; Richard Kimball, of county Suffolk, England, and of Ipswich, Massachusetts ; and many others. The children of Joseph and Hephzibah (Coffin) Allen were: 1. An infant, who died about 1754. 2. Hephzibah, born about 1756, died in 1784 : she married, February 21. 1771, Peleg Gardner, who died in 1809, son of John and Keziah Gardner ; he was a mariner and sailed from Nantucket, taking his sons with him. 3. Margaret, born August 31, 1758, died June 19, 1850; she married Nathan Brooks. 4. Betsey, born November 3. 1762, died September 16, 1808: she married. December 3, 1780, Benja- min Brown, born January 19, 1756, died De- cember 24, 1818, son of John and Mehitable Brown; they had five children. 5. Joseph, born 1764, died October 23, 1823; he was a successful practicioner of medicine in Buck- land, Massachusetts ; he married, about 1800, Lucretia Smead, born October 12, 1776, died in September. 1839; they had four children, many of whose descendants have followed various professions with honor. 6. Robert, see below.
(IV) Robert, youngest child of Joseph and Hephzibah (Coffin) Allen, was born at New- port, Rhode Island, November 10, 1767, died in Wallingford, Vermont, May 15, 1856. His mother died when he was but two years of age and he was brought up in the family of his uncle, Captain Oliver Allen, who had retired from a seafaring life to a farm at Hardwick, Massachusetts, and later removed to Shutes- bury in the same state, in whose schools young Robert received his education. He was young when he married and settled on a farm in Shutesbury, where his eight children were born. In 1806 he removed to Wallingford, Vermont, cleared a farm there upon which he spent the remainder of his useful life, and which was in the possession of his descendants until 1897. For many years he was engaged in buying large herds of cattle and driving them to Brigh-
ton market, where, being a man of sound judg- ment in business matters, he was invariably successful in disposing of them to advantage. He was sincere and earnest in his religious belief and was one of the founders of the Bap- tist church, which is still standing in East Wallingford, Vermont. He married, in 1786, Rhoda Cady, born in Shutesbury, March 16, 1765, died May 22, 1850, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Cady, great-granddaughter of Captain Joseph Cady, a noted Indian fighter of Killingly, Connecticut, and a descendant of Nicholas Cady, the immigrant, of Watertown, Massachusetts. In her youth Mrs. Allen was a noted beauty, and that the spirit of patriotism was not lacking in her immediate family is evinced by the fact that when her father and brothers were engaged in the service of their country, the female members of the family bore all the burdens and responsibilities of carrying on the farm industry. One of her brothers, Jeremiah, was a member of the fam- ous "Boston Tea Party." being temporarily in Boston at the time of its occurrence, and avail- ing himself gladly of the opportunity of join- ing in the adventure, a fact which he frequently related when it was safe to do so. Mrs. Allen's mother died at the advanced age of one hun- (red and three years. The children of Robert and Rhoda (Cady ) Allen were: I. Rufus, born September 22, 1787, died September 30, 1879: he was a school teacher and noted for his remarkable mathematical acumen ; he mar- ried, August 12, 1810, Sarah Furbush Warren, born in Newfane, Vermont, March 18, 1789, died October 12, 1862. 2. Rhoda, born April 30, 1789, died September 28, 1840; she mar- ried, December 11, 1808, Jonathan Anderson, born August 25, 1785, died December 9, 1872. 3. Oliver, born March 27, 1792, died October 23, 1852; he was a deacon of the Baptist church, and resided with his family of eleven children in East Wallingford, Vermont ; he married ( first ) October 9, 1813, Nancy Sarah Sweetland, born in Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- shire, February 18, 1790, died September 13. 1850; he married (second) Mrs. Jerusha Bis- sell, of Rutland, Vermont. 4. Calvin, born September 11, 1794, died September 28, 1796. 5. Joseph, born August 27, 1797, died July 20, 1875 ; he was prominent many years in White- hall, New York, in mercantile and public affairs, and accumulated a large property ; he married (first ) 1825, Sally Cook, born Decem- ber 30, 1801, died November 28, 1830 ; he mar- ried (second) Alpha Cook, a sister of his first wife, born November 20, 1809, died August
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25, 1872; he had a family of eight children. 6. Hephzibah, born April 11, 1800, died Sep- tember 13, 1803. 7. Betsey, born September 21, 1803, died December 8, 1887; she married, November 12, 1822, Levi Warren Marsh, born August 4, 1798, died January 13, 1888 ; he was seventh in descent from John Marsh, who set- tled in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1633; they resided in Wallingford and had nine children. 8. Robert, see below.
(V) Deacon Robert (2), youngest child of Robert (I) and Rhoda (Cady) Allen, was born in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, April 16, 1805, and died in Vernon, Vermont, August 21, 1889. He resided for short periods in sev- eral towns in the state of Vermont, and finally settled in Vernon in 1856, and there made his permanent home. He was a man of generous impulses and gave largely of his means for benevolent purposes. His moral worth was acknowledged by all with whom he came in contact ; he was deeply imbued with the honest religious views he had received in early life and he was for many years deacon in the church at Vernon. He married, October 25. 1832, Eliza Paine Doolittle, born in Townshend, Vermont, February 25, 1812, and died in Ver- non, Vermont, March 31, 1908, daughter of Roswell and Clarissa ( Burt) Doolittle. Chil- dren : I. Orrin Peer, see forward. 2. Jason Cady, born in Wallingford, Vermont, Febru- ary 26, 1835 ; he is a real estate owner in Ver- non, Vermont, where he has lived on the Allen homestead since 1856; he has held with honor nearly every office in the gift of the township, and was elected to the Vermont legislature in 1896, receiving every vote with the exception of two ; he married, December I, 1864, Mary Sophia Combs, born in Enfield, Connecticut, February 14, 1846, died January 12, 1896, and their son, Robert Cady, is married and lives on the Allen homestead in Vernon. 3. Julia Augusta, born in Newfane, Vermont, July 30, 1837, died there January 23, 1839. 4. Charles Anderson, born in Jamaica, Vermont, February 1, 1840, died in Athens, August II, 1865 ; he was a young man of much promise and success ; he married, September 6, 1864, Abbie E. Ball, of Athens, Vermont, who died Septem- ber 9, 1872. 5. Robert Clark, born in Jamaica, Vermont. October 8, 1842; he resides in North Springfield, Vermont, where he has been for many years a building contractor and road commissioner ; he married (first) June 18, 1864, Jane A. Lockwood, who died April 29, 1867; married (second) October 13, 1867, Lucy C. Lockwood, who died November 7,
1868 ; married (third) November 5, 1869, Mrs. Hattie N. (Chapman) Henry; he has one daughter who is unmarried and resides in North Springfield. 6. Sarah Augusta, born in Jamaica, Vermont, October 30, 1846, died in Vernon, February 13, 1905 ; she married, Janu- ary 18, 1869, Lafayette W. Stoddard, and had children : Wallace E., now residing in Williams- town, Massachusetts ; Bertha, married Chester D. Hicks, and resides in Springfield. 7. Vesta Eliza, born in Windham, Vermont, November 6, 1854, died in Vernon, January 16, 1862.
(VI) Orrin Peer, eldest child of Deacon Robert (2) and Eliza Paine (Doolittle) Allen, was born in Wallingford, Vermont, September 30, 1833. He completed his education at the Chester ( Vermont) Academy, where he won an enviable reputation as a diligent and earnest student, at the same time teaching schools in the towns of Windham, Cavendish and Vernon, Vermont, and after being graduated he taught school in Hackensack, New Jersey. For several years he was superintendent of schools in Ver- non, resigning this office upon his removal from the state of Vermont. He settled in Palmer, Mass- achusetts, October 5, 1859, establishing himself in the pharmaceutical business and continued in this line until the fall of 1902, when he retired from commercial enterprises. Early in life he had evinced a decided taste for liter- ary pursuits and his course of reading has been an unusually extensive one, ranging through nearly all the departments of literature and embracing the classics, poetry, history and the various sciences. He commenced writing for publication at the age of fifteen years and has been a prolific contributor since that time. For many years he has been interested in the sub- ject of local history and genealogy ; has written many historical papers for the press relating to Palmer and other localities. He has com- piled and published the genealogies of Samuel Lee, of Watertown, Massachusetts ; Abraham Doolittle, of New Haven : John Fairman, of Enfield, Connecticut ; William Scott, of Hat- field, Massachusetts; John Scott, of Spring- field ; Edward Allen, of Nantucket ; and Sam- tel Allen, of Enfield, Connecticut. He has gathered material for a volume of the pioneer Allens of America, and is now ( 1908) engaged in completing the genealogy of Nicholas Cady, of Watertown, Massachusetts, 1645-1908. He wrote the History of the Second Congrega- tional Church of Palmer in 1895, and on the occasion of the public celebration of the jubilee anniversary of the church in 1897, he was chosen to deliver the historical address. He
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was also chosen to deliver the historical address upon the occasion of the celebration of the centennial of the Thomas Lodge of Masons of Palmer, in 1896, of which he is a member. He has never sought public office, yet he has been called upon to fill many positions of trust and responsibility. He was secretary and treas- urer of the Eastern Hampden Agricultural Society for nineteen years; member of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture for three years ; many years a trustee of the Pal- mer Savings Bank; for several years superin- tendent of the Sunday school connected with the Second Congregational Church of Palmer, and for seventeen years clerk of the church. He was one of the pioneers in the movement for founding the Young Men's Library Asso- ciation of Palmer in 1878, was its librarian for a period of twelve years and a trustee up to the present time. When the history of Palmer was contemplated in 1883 Mr. Allen was chosen by the town as one of the publishing committee, in which he was elected chairman, and devoted much of his time to the collection of the neces- sary material until its completion in 1889. He was the prime mover in the establishment of the Palmer Historical Society, which was organized in May, 1899, and incorporated through his efforts in May, 1900; he has served as curator of this society since its organization. He has also collected and identified a very complete flora of Palmer, this embracing some four hundred and fifty specimens.
Mr. Allen married ( first ) February, 1860, Harriet Lyndon Maria Garvin, born in Boston, September 12, 1840, died in Palmer, February 25, 1862. Their only child, Ina Lyndon, was born in Palmer, May 16, 1861, and married Charles R. Carroll ; they had ten children, of whom a daughter, Alice Lyndon, was gradu- ated from the Charlemont high school and the Moody School at East Northfield, and became a student at the Syracuse University. Mr. Allen married ( second) June 16, 1863, Lucinda Elmina Scott, born in Vernon, Vermont, June 5, 1845. Her ancestors took a notable and active part in the colonial and revolutionary days. One of them, William Scott, partici- pated in the famous "Falls" fight with the Indians : Captain Moses Scott, her great-great- grand father, was one of the brave defenders of Fort Massachusetts; his son, Ebenezer Scott, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Allen, survived a captivity among the French and Indians of Quebec, came back and bore his share bravely as a soldier in the American revolution, lived to a good old age, and became
one of the honored pensioners of the United States government. Orrin Peer and Lucinda Elmina ( Scott ) Allen had children : I. Walter Scott, born February II, 1867, received his education in the public schools of Palmer and in the Mitchell's Boys' School, at Billerica, Massachusetts, where he was awarded a gold medal for superior scholarship. 2. Julia Ade- line, born July 6, 1869, was graduated from the Palmer high school in 1888 and from the Westfield Normal school in 1892 ; she was pre- cocious as a musician, having successfully played on the piano at an entertainment at the Palmer Opera House, when but five years of age ; since then she has been engaged as a teacher of music. 3. Lillie May, born Sep- tember 7, 1870, was graduated from the Pal- mer high school in 1888, and completed her education at the Westfield Normal school in 1891 ; she is now an assistant in the postoffice in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
ALLEN Lewis Allen, immigrant ancestor, was living in Watertown Farms (Weston) , Massachusetts, in 1665, and died there January 24, 1708. There is a tradition that he came from Wales. He mar- ried (first) Sarah Ives, born in Watertown, October 11, 1639, daughter of Miles and Mar- tha Ives. He married (second) Mary (Sher- man ) Freeman, widow of Henry Freeman, of Watertown, who died November 12, 1672. She died July 15, 1703, and was probably the eldest daughter of Rev. John Sherman. Children of first wife, born in Watertown Farms : I. Child, born and died November, 1665. 2. Lewis, born and died December, 1666. 3. Sarah, born January 3, 1668, mentioned in the will of her grandfather Ives, December, 1683. 4. Abel, born September 15, 1669, mentioned below. 5. Mary, born April 14, 1671. Child of second wife: 6. Ebenezer, born about 1677.
( II) Abel, son of Lewis Allen, was born in Watertown Farms, September 15, 1669, and died there early in 1756. His will was made in1 1750 and proved May 3. 1756. He lived on the farm that his father had occupied, but never owned. In December, 1683, Miles Ives, his grandfather, gave to Abel Allen the farm his son-in-law, Lewis Allen, is living on. Abel Allen married ( first ) Sarah - -, who died September 18, 1736. He married (second) September 18, 1738, Elizabeth Shepard, who survived him. Children, all by first wife, born at Watertown Farms: 1. Robert, January 21. 1694. 2. Sarah, March 9, 1696; married, July 30. 1724. Peter Fales, of Walpole. 3. Sus-
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anna, January 10, 1698; married, May 13, 1720, Isaac Harrington, of Weston. 4. John, No- vember 25, 1699. 5. George, October 23, 1701, mentioned below. 6. Samuel, December 5, 1703, not mentioned in his father's will. 7. David, July 8, 1705. 8. Mary, November 3, 1707, not mentioned in will. 9. Lydia, March 3, 1710, not mentioned in will. 10. Abel, April 19, 1714.
(III) George, son of Abel Allen, was born at Watertown Farms. October 23, 1701. He was a farmer and followed his elder brothers to Walpole, and in 1728 or 1729 located per- manently in what later became the adjoining town of Sharon (then a part of Stoughton). He died there in the first half of the year 1792, aged ninety years. William Savage, Jr., was appointed administrator of his estate on June 20 of that year. He married (intention pub- lished April 26, 1729) Mary Talbot, of Stough- ton, born March 24, 1708, died January 19, 1804, daughter of George and Mary Talbot. Children, all born in what is now Sharon: I. Mary. March 31, 1731. 2. Turell, February 21, 1734, died in Stoughton, February 27, 1824 ; married (first) November 28, 1762, Margaret Stearns; (second) October 18, 1798, Sally Dersy. of Stoughton. 3. George, April 7, 1736, mentioned below. 4. Ebenezer, about 1741, enlisted for service at Lake George, April 2, 1759; reported as on a former expedition ; in service in Nova Scotia in 1760. 5. Abel, 1744, died 1744. 6. Seth, March 13, 1746, married Jemima Jordan. 7. Elizabeth, June 12, 1756.
(IV) George (2), son of George ( I) Allen, was born in Sharon, April 7, 1736. He mar- ried (first ) in 1759, Experience Stearns, daugh- ter of Jonathan Stearns, of Stoughton. He married (second) in 1777, Mercy Jordan, of Stoughton. He enlisted May 31, 1754, for the defense of the eastern frontier.
(V) Bethuel, son or nephew of George (2) Allen, was born in 1772 in Stoughton, died at Newton, Massachusetts, December 3, 1838. He married, at Canton, December 17, 1797, Martha (called Patty) Bent, daughter of Rufus and Ann ( McKenzie) Bent. Her father was born March 10, 1742, and was housewright at Milton and Boston, and Marietta, Ohio; mar- ried, December 6, 1767, Ann Mckenzie, widow of Andrew Mckenzie, and daughter of Alex- ander Middleton, who came from Scotland in 1735. Her ancestry was: Rufus Bent (5), Joseph (4), Joseph (3), Joseph (2), John Bent, the immigrant. The children were prob- ably born but are not recorded at Canton. Five were baptized at the same time, June 2, 1822, at Newton, Massachusetts, where the family
settled. He had a large farm in Newton. Children : I. Ann Middleton, married Na- thaniel Tracy, of Newburyport. 2. Kinsley, born 1800; married, November 16, 1826, Abi- gail F. Smith; died at Newton, July 16, 1840, leaving Kinsley Bethuel, who died January 15, 1832 ; Bowen, born at Canton, October 9, 1827, married Mary Bent, born September 29, 1836; died in the China sea. 3. Maria. 4. Joseph Bent, baptized June 2, 1822, lived in Boston. 5. James Edward, baptized June 2, 1822. 6. William Henry, born 1816, baptized June 2, 1822, mentioned below. 7. Charles Dwight, baptized June 2, 1822. 8. Martha, baptized June 2, 1822 ; married William G. Means.
(VI) William Henry, son of Bethuel Allen, was born in 1816, at Newton. About 1822 he went with his father's family to Newton, where he was baptized with brothers and sisters, June 2, 1822. He was educated in the Chauncey Hall School, Boston. He began his business career in a large dry goods house in New York City and a few years later opened a dry goods store on his own account in Boston. His busi- ness flourished and he became a prominent merchant. He made his home in Canton and was very fond of nature and outdoor life. He was devoted to his family, a man of many friends and highly respected in the community. He was a member of the Unitarian church at Canton. In politics he was a Democrat. He married Sarah Barnard Kinsley, daughter of Silas Kinsley, of Dorchester, and Prudence (Bent) Kinsley, who was born in Dorchester and died in Canton. Her father was a farmer in Canton on the present Allen homestead. Children of Silas and Prudence (Bent) Kins- ley : i. Rufus Kinsley, one of the founders of the Adams Express Company ; ii. Mary Bent Kinsley ; iii. Allen Kinsley ; iv. Edward Kins- ley ; v. Ann Kinsley ; vi. Henry Kinsley ; vii. Helen Kinsley ; viii. Charles Kinsley ; ix. Sarah Barnard Kinsley, married William Henry Allen, mentioned above. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Allen : 1. William, born 1842, in Boston, died in 1888, at Canton. 2. Fanny, born 1844, at Canton. 3. Gertrude, 1846, at Canton, unmar- ried. 4. Mary, 1849. 5. Sarah, 1853, married Dudley Hall, of Medford, tea merchant, Bos- ton ; child, Dudley Hall Jr., in banking business in Boston.
(For first generation see Robert Sanderson 1).
(II) William Sanderson, SANDERSON son of Robert Sanderson, was born at Hampden. 1641. He took the oath of fidelity in 1652.
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All his children except Hannah were born in Watertown, and he then removed to Groton, but on account of trouble with the Indians re- turned to Watertown. He married, in Water- town, December 18, 1666, Sarah - Chil- dren: 1. John, born October 13, 1667. 2. Sarah, March 17, 1668-69, married, February 4, 1695-96, Andrew White. 3. William, Sep- tember 6, 1670, married (first ) Abigail Traine ; (second) May 14, 1704, Anna Shattuck. 4. Mary, November 30, 1671. 5. Hannah, Gro- ton, May 3, 1674. 6. Lydia, Watertown, April 21, 1679. 7. Joseph, August 28, 1680, men- tioned below ..
(III) Joseph, son of William Sanderson, was born in Watertown, August 28, 1680, set- tled in Groton. He married there Sarah, daugh- ter of Samuel and Hannah Page. His estate was administered in 1736 by his widow Sarah. Children : I. Joseph, mentioned below. 2. David, born September 5, 1715, married Eunice 3. Sarah, January 19, 1716-17. 4. William, July 17, 1718. 5. Hannah, April 5, 1720. 6. Joseph, March 17, 1721-22, died young. 7. Susanna, May 18, 1723. 8. Gideon, February 19, 1724-25. 9. Joseph, March 5, 1726-27. 10. Sarah, October 15, 1729. II. John, December 13, 1731.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Sand- erson, was born August 30, 1714, died at Whately, March 20, 1772. He settled at Whately in 1752 with his wife and eight chil- dren. He built a log house near Abraham Parker's, perhaps on land belonging to him. Later he built a house on his own land, where the old Sanderson house was burned about 1880. He married, in 1737, Ruth Parker, who died December 8, 1780, aged sixty-four, daugh- ter of Isaac Parker. In his will he mentions ten of his twelve children who were married and had families. From him have descended between twelve and fifteen hundred children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great- great-grandchildren. Children: 1. Ruth, born in Groton, October 6, 1737, married Jonathan Spafford. 2. Esther, April 6, 1739, married Captain Abel Dinsmore. 3. Joseph, March 8, 1741. 4. Anna, August 7, 1742, married Medad Harvey. 5. James, April 7, 1744. 6. Thomas, March 16, 1746. 7. Abraham, June 10, 1748. 8. David, May 15, 1750. 9. Child, 1752, died young. 10. John, March 11, 1754, mentioned below. 11. Asa, April 11, 1756. 12. Isaac, October 9, 1757.
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