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( 111) David, son of Thomas (2) Brigham, was born in Marlborough, April 12, 1678, and died June 26. 1750. Hle settled on a wild tract of land of about five hundred acres, in- elnding the present hospital grounds and sev- eral adjacent farms in Westborough, then in- cluded in the town of Marlborough. He was surveyor in 1711 in Marlborough. After 1717 he was seven years sealer of leather, and six vears selectman in Westborough. His house was about sixty rods east of the present Insane Asylum. It was burned during his old age. October 16, 1737, with much of its contents.
He married (first ) Deborah --- , died Octo- ber II, 1708; (second) August 21, 1709, Mary (Leonard) Newton, widow, who died Decem- ber 1, 1741. He married a third wife, who survived him. Children of first wife: 1. John, born April 22, 1704. 2. David, September 30. 1708, died November 29, 1741. Children of second wif ?. 3. Silas, born August 9, 1710. 4. Jemima, August 24, 1712; married Edward Newton. 5. Deborah, September 17, 1714; married, November 14, 1752, Francis Harring- ton. 6. Levi, August 21, 1716. 7. Jonas, Feb- ruary 25, 1718; mentioned below. 8. Asa, De- cember 2, 1721.
(IV) Captain Jonas, son of David Brigham, was born February 25, 1718, in Westborough, and died there September 25, 1789. He settled on land inherited from his father, and built his house about twenty rods south of the pres- ent Insane Asylum. He was lieutenant in the train band, and acting captain at the relief of Fort William Henry in 1758. He stood high in the esteem of the citizens and was often in office. He was on the school committee re- peatedly ; was surveyor and constable ; seven years selectman, between 1764 and 1777 ; mod- erator of town meetings, and member of vigi- lance and other important committees. He was delegate to the county congress at the be- ginning and during the revolution. He mar- ried, January 16, 1745-6, Persis Baker, who died November 3. 1784. Children : 1. Martha, born November 1. 1746. 2. Jonas, October 29, 1748: mentioned below. 3. Hannah, married Rev. Halloway Fish. 4. Antipas, born July 23. 1750, died November 12, 1756. 5. Eli, born May 17, 1752. 6. Edward, May 21, 1754. 7. Barnabas, March 29. 1756. 8. Antipas, March 15. 1758. 9. Daniel, June 12, 1760. 10. David, March 31, 1762. 11. Persis, April 23, 1764. died February 3. 1775. 12. Joseph, born April 20, 1766. 13. William, born May 12, 1768. died December 7, 1779.
(V) Captain Jonas (2), son of Captain Jonas ( 1) Brigham, was born in Westborough, October 20, 1748, and died in Bakersfield, Ver- mont. in 1826. He settled first in North Brook- field. He was in the revolution. In 1774 hc was a minute-man, and marched to Lexington on the alarm, April 19, 1775, when he was a sergeant ; was lieutenant from Brookfield, 1777, and in the battle of Saratoga. His commission as captain of the Massachusetts militia was signed by John Hancock, July 1, 1781. He re- moved to Bakersfield, and was prominent in all the affairs of the town. He was elected eighteen times representative to the general assembly.
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On the division of the town his land fell into the limits of Enosburg, where he was mod- erator in 1797. He married (first) published January 26, 1771, Anna Draper, of Watertown, died in 1802: (second ) November 10, 1810, Polly Wyman. Children, all except the last born in Brookfield : 1. Michael, March 2, 1772; mentioned below. 2. Eli, December 14, 1774. 3. Hannah, July 7, 1776 ; married Colonel Hol- ley Taylor. 4. Sally, December 7, 1778, died unmarried. 5. Patty, April 27, 1780. 6. Jonas, March 14, 1782. 7. Luther, May 15, 1785. 8. Asa, 1786. 9. Betsey, 1788, died young. 10. Cheney, April 22, 1793, in Bakersfield.
(VI) Michael, son of Captain Jonas (2) Brigham, was born in North Brookfield, March 2, 1772, and died there in August, 1802. He was a farmer. He married, September 21, 1796. Polly Tyler, born July 10, 1776, died July 19, 1833, daughter of John and Rachel ( Crosby ) Tyler. She married ( second) April 17. 1805, William Bowdoin, of Ware. Chil- dren, born in North Brookfield: 1. John Tyler, 1795. died unmarried 1849; merchant in New York. 2. Annie Allen, December 8, 1798; mar- ried, September 21, 1819, John Gould. (See Gould ). 3. Loring W., October 30, 1799. 4. Crosby, 1802, died September 25, 1803.
Benjamin Caryl, Sr., settled at
CARYL Hopkinton, Massachusetts, among the first settlers, about 1720. Many of the pioneers were Scotch-Irish, and Caryl was doubtless one of them. He was a farmer. The name is spelled Carryl, Carriel, Cariel, and is of the same origin as Carroll. 'Children, born in Ireland: 1. Benjamin, Jr., mentioned below. 2. Samuel, settled in Sutton, an ad- joining town; ancestor of most of the Wor- cester county families of Carriel. 3. Edward, was one of the five hundred soldiers sent to Cuba from Massachusetts in the war against Spain in 1741, and perished there ; but fifty of these men lived to return home ; married Ruth ; children : i. Amos, born October 20, 1734, soldier in revolution; ii. Louisa, born November 4. 1736. 4. George, married Mar- tha and had several children at Hop- kinton. (See p. 155-60, New Eng. Reg., vol. 14).
(II) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (I) Caryl, was born about 1700, and came with his parents to Hopkinton. He married Mary- -
-. Children, born in Hopkinton: 1. John, settled with his brothers at Chester, Vermont, and according to the census of 1790 had three males over sixteen, two under sixteen and
three females in his family. 2. Joseph, born February 13, 1727-8 ; married, at Westborough, March 2, 1758, Elizabeth Dunlap ; removed to Westborough, then to Hubbardston, where he died April 6, 1787, aged fifty-nine, and she died September 18, 1800, in her sixtieth year ; he was a soldier in the revolution, from Hub- bardston, in Captain William Marean's com- pany of minute-men, Colonel Doolittle's regi- ment, on Lexington alarm; sold his farm in Westborough, March 19, 1766, to Levi Warren, land bought September 16, 1763, of David Baldwin, of Sudbury, Caryl then living in Hopkinton ; bought land of Moses Wheelock in Westborough, May 18, 1772: no children known. 3. Jonathan, born March 7, 1729- 30; removed to Hubbardston with his brother Thomas, in 1770 or 1771 ; to Chester, Vermont, about 1785; in 1790 the census records the fact that he had three males over sixteen, one under, and two females in his family at Ches- ter, while his son Jonathan, Jr., had besides himself, two males under sixteen and one female in his family. 4. Rev. Benjamin, born April 22, 1732. 5. Asa, born March 5, 1734-5; soldier in the revolution. 6. Mary, born Octo- ber 17, 1737. 7. Thomas, born April 18, 1740; mentioned below. 8. Sarah, April 30, 1743.
(III) Thomas, son of Benjamin (2) Caryl, was born in Hopkinton, April 18, 1740. He was a shoemaker by trade. He married Esther He and his brother Jonathan bought of Colonel John Murray, of Rutland, the fam- ous Loyalist of later days, a two-thirds interest in a six hundred acre tract at Hubbardston, Massachusetts, known as Great Farm, No. 18, originally laid out to Henry Franklyn, Esq., and bounded on the west by the east line of Rutland district, later Barre. (See Worcester deeds and Hubbardston Proprietors' records). The deed is dated September 25, 1770, and Murray held a mortgage on the land. They moved there in the summer of 1770, and the brother Joseph also settled there, although he never owned land in that town. Thomas was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant in Captain William Marean's company, Colonel Timothy Bigelow's regiment, on the Lexington alarm : also in Captain Sylvanus Smith's company, Colonel Timothy Bigelow's regiment, about a year in 1780. Between 1780 and 1785, Thomas, Jonathan and John removed to Chester, Wind- sor county, Vermont. Thomas sold his prop- erty at Hubbardston by deed dated June 3. 1785, to Moses Clark, of Hubbardston, to Isaac Clark, of Hubbardston, on the same date, and to William Clark, of Hubbardston, on the same
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date. Again he deeded land at Hubbardston to Joseph Clark, June 3, 1786. The Clarks seem to be related. Jonathan witnessed some of the deeds. The land they owned jointly was deeded to John Clark, of Hubbardston, Octo- ber II. 1788, and included lot No. I, one hun- dred acres and their rights in the Great Farm, No. 18. According to the federal census of 1790, Thomas had nine children, having three males over sixteen, four under, and four females in his family. Children, born at Hubbardston: I. Irena, July 22, 1770. 2. Lanson, July 31, 1772. 3. Rufus, April 9, 1774. 4. Leonilly, May 10, 1776. 5. Child, April 28, 1778. 6. Willard, January 6, 1780: mentioned below. Three others, or more.
(IV) Willard, son of Thomas Caryl, was born at Hubbardston, January 6, 1780. He re- moved in early life with his parents to Chester, Vermont, and thence to Barnard, in the same county. He was a farmer, and lived in Barnard the most of his life. He died in Yorkville, Michigan, April 16, 1861. He married (first ) Elizabeth Henry, who died June 19, 1822 ; (second) April 19, 1824, at Barre, Vermont, Patty Browning, who died at Yorkville, Michi- gan, April 25, 1868. Children of first wife: I. John Henry, born August 17, 1804, died No- vember 21, 1823. 2. Lucien Willard, born February 27, 1806. 3. Rodney Clark, born October 13, 1807 ; mentioned below. 4. Eliza- beth A., born July 31, 1809. 5. Susannah A., March 31, 1811. 6. William Oscar, September 29, 1812. 7. Isabella J., August 19, 1817. Chil- dren of second wife: 8. Charles Murray, born January 24. 1828. 9. Helen M., October 4. 1829. IO. Francis M., July 10, 1831, died March II, 1832. 1I. Horace Ballou, born Au- gust 12, 1833.
(V) Rodney Clark, son of Willard Caryl, was born in Barnard, Vermont, October 13, 1807, and died there in 1868. He married, December 31, 1831, Ardelia Jaques, born at Barnard, August 23, 1812, died at Ware, Mass- achusetts, 1802. He had a common school education, worked in a provision store, and kept a hotel there. He came to Ware in 1843 and lived there until his death. He was inter- ested in public affairs, and was an active useful citizen. In politics he was a Whig. Children, born at Barnard: 1. Son, died in infancy. 2. Henry O., born July 26, 1834, died May 9, 1893: had son Fred living at Ware. 3. Jane J., born August 3, 1835 : married George De- mond, of Ware. 4. Julia Ardelia, born August 25, 1838 ; married J. B. Gould. of Ware. (See Gould). 5. Sarah E., born July 30, 1843 ; lives
at Ware. 6. Edwin, died unmarried. 7. Emily C., born December 5, 1846; married Frank Tis- dale. 8. Susan Isabel, born at Ware, May 20, 1845; married Thomas Rollinson. 9. Lucian Willard, born at Ware, September 11, 1855; married there, November 29, 1882, Nancy Ma- tilda Le Gro; children: i. Ethel Estella, born May 14, 1884; ii. Rodney Clark, January 27, 1886; iii. Hazel Beatrice, May 8, 1888.
The name evidently came from BRIDGMAN the occupation of bridge-keep- er or bridge-builder, and ap-
pears entirely distinct from Brigham and Bridg- ham. In America it is closely confined to the neighborhood of the Connecticut Valley. Am- herst College has ten of the name in its alumni catalogue between 1826 and 1885: Williams has nine, between 1795 and 1876; Harvard five, between 1762 and 1881 ; Yale five, be- tween 1765 and 1887; and the other colleges appear singularly deficient of the name in their alumni catalogues, which would indicate the indisposition of the family to migrate from the paternal roof, Williams having two and Union one Bridgeman and one Bridgman.
(I) James Bridgman, immigrant ancestor of the family to America, was a member of the Hartford colony in 1641 ; was in Springfield, 1643 to 1655, and removed to Northampton in 1655. His wife's name was Sarah and they had eight children, four boys of whom three died during the first year of their existence, which fatality also visited one daughter. The children of James and Sarah Bridgman who reached maturity were: 1. Sarah, who mar- ried a Mr. Tileston. 2. John, born July 7, 1645, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 3. Martha, born November 20, 1649; married, June 4. 1668. Samuel Dickinson, of Hartford Colony. 4. Mary, born July 5. 1652; married, 1672, Samuel Bartlett, and died in 1674. James Bridgman, the immigrant, died in 1676, and his wife Sarah, August 31, 1668.
(II) John, eldest son of James and Sarah Bridgman, was born in Springfield, Massachu- setts Bay Colony, July 7. 1645. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Isaac Sheldon, De- cember 11, 1670. John Bridgman died in Northampton, Massachusetts, April 7, 1712, and Mary (Sheldon) Bridgman, his widow, died April 28, 1728. Children of John and Mary (Sheldon ) Bridgman, all born in North- ampton, Massachusetts: I. Mary, March 15. 1672: married, 1691, Judah Hutchinson. 2. A child, December 20, 1673, died January 4, 1674. 3. John, born October 20, 1674. 4. De-
9. E. MOMMan .
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liverance (q. v. ), March 17, 1676. 5. James, about 1677-8 6. Isaac, March 29, 1680. 7. Sarah, about 1682 ; married, 1702, John Chapin, of Springfield. 8. Ruth, August 29, 1684; died September 16, 1690. 9. Ebenezer, born Febru- ary 4, 1686. 10. Thomas, January 7, 1688; died October 30, 1742. II. Martha, August 13, 1690 ; married, 1713. Hezekiah Root. 12. Han- nah, October 24, 1693; married, 1716, John Bancroft, of Westfield,, Massachusetts. 13. Dorothy, October II, 1697; died January 20, 1705. 14. Orlando, born September 18, 1701.
(III) Deliverance, second son of John and Mary (Sheldon ) Bridgman, was born in North- ampton, Massachusetts, March 17, 1676. He married, November 26, 1702, Joanna, widow of Samuel King, and she bore him two children. Deliverance Bridgman died February 2, 1738, and his widow, Joanna, January 23, 1741, aged seventy-five years. Rhoda, only daughter of Deliverance and Joanna ( King ) Bridgman, was born August 15, 1703, and married a Mr. Guernsey, and Noah, their only son was born July 24, 1706.
(IV) Noah, only son of Deliverance and Joanna (King) Bridgman, was born in North- ampton, Massachusetts, July 24, 1706. He mar- ried, January 15, 1731, Mehitabel Warner ; children: 1. Noah, born December, 1731. 2. Elisha, December, 1733 ; died October, 1736. 3. Mehitable, June, 1736; married, 1758, Moses Parsons. 4. Eleanor, March 20, 1738-9 ; mar- ried, 1757, Elnathan Phelps. 5. Hannah, July 15, 1741 ; married, 1765, Joshua Narramore ; when left a widow before 1790, she married (second ), May 19, 1791, Jonathan Phillips. 6. Lucy, married Thomas Spoffard. 7. Rhoda, born December, 1747; married a Mr. Petti- bone. Noah Bridgman died in March, 1776, and his widow Mehitabel in 1749, aged eighty- six years.
(V) Noah (2), eldest son of Noah (I) and Mehitabel (Warner) Bridgman, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in December, 1731. He married, February 1, 1759, Mary Clark ; children : 1. Elisha, born February 18, 1760; died 1835 or '36. 2. Erastus, February 24, 1762 ; died April 21, 1805. 3. Israel, Janu- ary 28, 1764; died November 16, 1835. 4. Mercy, March, 1766; married, 1789, Levi Claf- lin. 5. Clark, November 30, 1768; died June 18, 1789. 6. Joseph (q. v.), January 23, 1771. 7. Lydia, August 24, 1774 ; married Stephen Pom- eroy. 8. Noah, December 3, 1776; died August 13, 1851 or 1857. Noah Bridgman died at the close of 1812, probably November, and his wife about 1810.
(VI) Joseph, fifth son of Noah (2) and
Mary (Clark) Bridgman, was born at Horse Mountain, Northampton, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 23, 1771. He married, November 24, 1796, Mary, daughter of William and Susannah (Gilson) Judd, of Northampton. She was born November 24, 1772, and died in Hatfield, Mass- achusetts, January 13, 1865, having borne her husband eight children and outlived him thirty- nine years, his death having taken place Octo- ber 27, 1826. Children of Joseph and Mary (Judd) Bridgman: I. Sylvester (q. v.), born October 20, 1797. 2. John, November 30, 1799 ; died May 9, 1860. 3. Ansel, February 25, 1802 ; died September 14, 1838. 4. Theodore, April 9, 1804. 5. Mary, November 3, 1806; married, February 12, 1845, Horace Waite, of Hatfield ; died April 14. 1877. 6. Lucinda, March 19, 1809; died July 4, 1810. 7. Joseph C., April II, 1811; died November 21, 1843. 8. Melzar. April 28, 1814; died March 31, 1883.
(VII) Sylvester, eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Judd) Bridgman, was born in North- ampton, Massachusetts, October 20, 1797. He married, January 10, 1826, Betsey, daughter of Worham and Sophia (Dwelley) Clapp. She was born in Northampton, July 4, 1797, and died there August 29, 1887. Children : 1. Sid- ney Edwin, born May 9, 1827. 2. Joseph Clark, born October 23, 1831. Sylvester Bridgman died in Northampton, July 22, 1870.
(VIII) Sidney Edwin, eldest son of Sylves- ter and Betsey (Clapp) Bridgman, was born at North Farms, Hampshire county, Massachu- setts, May 9, 1827. He was a pupil in the North Farms public school and at the school at the "Center," where he pursued a more ad- vanced course and where he remained up to his sixteenth year. He began his business life April 14, 1844, as a clerk in the book store of E. H. Butler & Company, established in 1797 by Simon Butler, proprietor of the Hampshire Gasette. On reaching his majority in 1848, he was admitted as a partner in the business, the firm name becoming Butler & Bridgman, and the changes in the name of the firm during Mr. Bridgman's lifetime made it successively Hop- kins, Bridgman & Company; Bridgman & Childs : S. E. Bridgman & Company, and Bridg- man & Lyman. This famous book store be- came the literary center of the old town of Northampton, and was known throughout Cen- tral Massachusetts as the "College Bookstore ;" Smith, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke and Williston being perennial customers. The establishment not only sold but published books, and E. H. Butler, Mr. Bridgman's first partner, became the proprietor of a large publishing business in Philadelphia. Mr. Bridgman's limited school
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privileges were but a grammar school course, while his book store was his academy and col- lege, and he became the head of a literary insti- tution over which he presided with dignity, and had as pupils and faculty the best minds of the central portion of the commonwealth. As a book-seller, book-maker, book-lover and au- thority on printed literature, he was fully posted on the books of his day, and his day extended over a period of sixty years. To go to North- ampton, without going to Bridgman's Book- store or consulting with Sidney E. Bridgman, was the impossible act of a literary man, be he publisher, book-seller, author, editor or littera- teur. His list of friends-for every one of his customers was a friend-included distinguished men from all the centers of learning in the New England states and from New York. He made frequent journeys to the old world, where he found himself well known in the literary circles of London, England, and Paris, and he thus enlarged his personal acquaintance with men and women of note on both continents. As the dean of the book trade in the United States he was a familiar personage at the trade-sales held annually in Boston and New York, and thus secured valuable additions to the libraries of his customers in search of rare books. To name his distinguished friends who had en- joyed his hospitality at Northampton or wel- comed him to equally hospitable homes in Europe and America, is beyond the province of this article. A roll-call of the literary people of the Nineteenth Century in America and Great Britain, with the learned men of China and Japan who have visited our shores, would contain few names not familiar to Sidney Bridgman, the book-seller of Northampton.
Mr. Bridgman married ( first), June 13, 1850. Harriet, daughter of Timothy Phelps, of Ches- terfield, Massachusetts, and by her he had three children : 1. Mary, died in childhood. 2. Anne Cleveland. 3. Howard, born August, 1859. Hannah ( Phelps) Bridgman died January 2, 1884, and Mr. Bridgman married (second), September 3, 1889, Marion, daughter of Alira and Malinda (Shurtleff ) Merrill, and widow of Henry C. Paddock. She survives her sec- ond husband, and bore him no children. He attended the Edwards Congregational Church, of Northampton, almost since its organization, and for thirty years was superintendent of the Sunday school. He was also clerk of the church a number of years, and senior deacon at the time of his death. He was a popular lay preacher in many of the towns in the Connecti- cut Valley, and in the early days of the Young Men's Christian Association he was a member
of its state executive committee, and was asso- ciated with Henry M. Moore, of Boston ; Rob- ert K. Remington, of Fall River, and K. A. Burnell, the evangelist, in the work of the asso- ciation. He contributed articles both religious and in favor of total abstinence. With Mrs. Bridgman he visited Europe and the Holy Land, and the most attractive parts of the American continent, including Mexico, Canada and Alaska. He left. the Republican party to give the weight of his active support to the Prohibitionists. Northampton had the advan- tages of his service for many years on the school committee and as moderator of the town meetings.
(IX) Howard Allen, only son of Sidney Edwin and Harriet ( Phelps) Bridgman, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, August 20, 1860 ; graduate of Northampton high school, 1878, and Amherst College, A. B., 1883; stu- dent at Hartford Theological Seminary, 1884- 85, and graduate of Yale Divinity School, Yale University, B. D., 1887 ; principal Granby high school, 1883-84; associate editor Congregation- alist, Boston, Massachusetts, 1887-89, managing editor since 1889 ; ordained to Congregational ministry, November 19, 1890 ; trustee Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama ; director South End House Social Settlement, Boston, Massa- chusetts ; director of the Monday and Twentieth Century clubs, Boston, and author of "Steps Christward" ( 1905). He married, July 27 1898, Helen North Bryant, of Witherbee, New York. Her father, Rev. Mr. Bryant, is a Congrega- tional minister. Children of Howard Allen and Helen ( Bryant) Bridgman : Harriet, Ed- win B. and Marion.
(IX) Annie Cleveland, only daughter of Sidney Edwin and Harriet ( Phelps) Bridg- man is secretary of the American Missionary Society.
Sidney Edwin Bridgman died at his home, 115 Elm street, Northampton, Massachusetts, November 25, 1906. He was a trustee of Mount Holyoke College nearly forty years.
W. K. Farrington, found- FARRINGTON er of the W. K. Farring- ton Press in Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, April 27, 1867. At the age of five he removed with his parents to Orange, New Jer- sey, and five years later to Bloomfield, same state, where he attended the public schools, and this knowledge was supplemented by at- tendance at St. John's Military Academy, Sing Sing (now Ossining), New York. At the age of eighteen he located in Newark, New Jersey.
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where he served an apprenticeship at the trade of printing. In 1888-89 he was employed in the dry goods firm of Tebbitts, Harrison & Robbins, New York City, and in 1900 was a member of the firm of Williams & Farrington. In the meantime he removed to Boston, Massa- chusetts, and served in the capacity of general manager for Wheelman Company, publishers, and in March, 1899, founded the W. K. Far- ington Press in that city.
WINTHROP The name of Winthrop- that of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Com- pany at their emigration to New England-may be traced back in various spellings for at least six centuries and a half. The family can be traced to various places in the mother country, and latterly there to Groton in Suffolk, "where they lived many years." In a volume by the late Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, entitled "Life and Letters of John Winthrop," the line of de- scent is there corrected, and begins with a man called the second Adam Winthrop, born Octo- ber 9, 1498, died November 9, 1562 (eldest son of Adam and Joane (or Jane) Burton) ; mar- ried, November 16, 1527, Alice Henry, or Henny. Children : I. Thomas, born November 8, 1528; died April, 1529. 2. William, born November 12, 1529; died March 1, 1581, at London; had wife Elizabeth, died June 2, 1578, and six children : Jonathan, Adam, Will- iam, Joshua, Elizabeth and Sarah. 3. Bridget. born January 1, 1530; died January, 1536. 4. Christopher, born January 4, 1531 ; died aged nine months. 5. Thomas (2d), born June, 1533 ; died 1537. Adam Winthrop was mar- ried (second), in 1534, to Agnes Sharpe, daugh- ter of Robert Sharpe, of Islington, she eighteen, and he thirty-six. Children: 6. Alice, born November 15, 1539; died November 8, 1607; married Sir Thomas Mildmay, and had six sons. 7. Bridget, born May 3, 1543; died No- vember 4, 1614; married Roger Alabaster, and had four sons and one daughter; one of the sons was a celebrated poet. 8. Mary, born March 1, 1544; married Abraham Veysie. 9. and 10. John and Adam, twins, born January 20, 1546; Adam died in six months and John died in Ireland, July 26, 1613; having married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Risby, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk county. II. Adam (2), born August 10, 1548; see beyond. 12. Catharine, born May 17, 1550 ; married and had children .*
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