Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 129

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924


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descendants of Governor Endicott as a memo- rial to him and his son; also two farms on the Ipswich river, bought of Captains Trask and Hawthorne. Children: I. John, born about 1632. 2. Zerrubbabel, mentioned below.


(II) Dr. Zerrubbabel, son of Governor John Endicott, resided in Salem, where he was a practicing physician. He made his will in No- vember, 1683, and died in 1684. He married (first) in 1654, Mary -. who died in 1677. He married ( second) Elizabeth Win- throp, daughter of Governor Winthrop, and widow of Rev. Antipas Newman. Children, all by the first wife: I. John, born 1657. 2. Samuel, born 1659; mentioned below. 3. Zer- rubbabel. born February 14, 1664. 4. Benja- min, born 1665. 5. Mary, born 1667 ; married, August 2, 1685, Isaac Williams, of Salem. 6. Joseph. born 1672. 7. Sarah, born 1673 ; mar- ried Brown. 8. Elizabeth, born 1675; married Nathaniel Gilbert, of Boston. 9. Han- nah. born 1676: married Edward Gasbull. IO. Mehitable, born 1677; died unmarried 1698.


(III) Samuel, son of Dr. Zerrubbabel Endi- cott, was baptized at the first church at Salem, September 19, 1666. He resided at Orchard Farm. Salem, and married Hannah Felton. He died in 1694. She married (second) De- cember 15, 1697, Thorndike Proctor. Children : I. Samuel, born August 30. 1687 ; mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born 1691 ; married, April 3. 1712, Benjamin Porter. 3. John, born Octo- ber 18, 1695.


(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Endi- cott. was born August 30, 1687. He was baptized at adult age. at South Danvers, September 30, 1716. He married (first) his cousin. Anna Endicott, December 20, 171I. She died in May, 1723, and he married ( sec- ond) February II, 1724, Margaret ( Pratt) Foster, widow. He died in May, 1766, aged seventy-nine, and is buried in the family bury- ing ground at Danvers. Children of first wife : I. John, born April 29, 1713 ; mentioned below. 2. Sarah, born September 19, 1715 ; died young. 3. Samuel, born March 12, 1717. 4. Sarah, born 1719; married Dr. Benjamin Jones. 5 Robert, born 1721 ; drowned ; unmarried. Chil- dren of second wife: 6. Margaret, born De- cember. 1724 (twin) ; married, June 30, 1743, Hobart Clark. 7. Hannah (twin), born De- cember, 1724; married, September 10, 1769, Francis Monroe. 8. Ann, born November, 1727; married, December 1, 1761, Thomas Andrews. 9. Elias, born December, 1729. 10. Joseph, born February, 1731. II. Lydia, born 1734; married Peter Putnam. 12. Ruth, born


1739; married, December 19, 1765, Joseph Dole ; died 1828.


(V) John (2), son of Samuel (2), Endi- cott, was baptized at the South Church, Dan- vers, June 9, 1717; died in 1783. He resided on the Orchard Farm which contained the Governor's homestead. He married, May 18, 1738, Elizabeth Jacobs, who died August, 1809, aged ninety-one years. She was a woman of great energy, and it is related of her that on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill, when Colonel Timothy Pickering halted his company for a few minutes near the south meeting house at Danvers, such was her impatience at the delay that she walked up to the captain and said : "Why on earth don't you march ; don't you hear the guns at Charlestown?" Children, born at Danvers: I. John, born 1739, men- tioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born 1741, died young. 3. William, born 1742. 4. Robert, born October 29, 1756.


(VI) John (3), son of John (2) Endicott, was born at Danvers in 1739, baptized in the South Church, June 7, 1741. He inherited the Orchard Farm. He was a soldier in the revo- lution, second lieutenant in Captain Caleb Low's company, (third Danvers), Colonel Henry Herrick's regiment (Eight Essex County) ; also lieutenant in Captain Asa Prince's company, Colonel Timothy Picker- ing's regiment, which marched to Danbury, Connecticut, via Providence, Rhode Island, in 1776 ; also second lieutenant in Captain Caleb Low's company, in 1776. He died in Danvers, March, 1816. He married Martha Putnam, daughter of Samuel Putnam. She died Sep- tember, 1821, a woman of great purity and strength of character, of blameless life and speech. Children, born at Danvers: 1. Samuel, born June, 1763, mentioned below. 2. John, born January 13, 1765. 3. Moses, born March 19, 1757. 4. Ann, born January, 1769, mar- ried Solomon Giddings, of Beverly. 5. Eliz- abeth, born' August, 1771, married Janies Gray. 6. Jacob, born July 9, 1773. 7. Martha (twin). born September, 1775, married Jere- miah Page, of Danvers. 8. Nathan (twin), born September. 1775, died young. 9. Sarah, born September, 1778, died unmarried. 10. Rebecca, born May 20, 1780, married Daniel Hardy. II. William, born 1782, died 1806. 12. Timothy, born July 27, 1785, married Har- riet Martin, of Sterling.


(VII) Samuel (3). son of John (3) Endi- cott, was born in Danvers, June, 1763, and baptized November 1, 1767. He followed the sea in his younger days, but retired. He


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owned with his brothers the ancestral "Orchard Farm" at Danvers, but lived at Salem. He was prominent in public affairs and often selectman. He represented the town in the general court. At one time he and his five brothers (John, Moses, Jacob, William and Timothy) were in command of vessels sailing from Salem. He died May 1, 1828. He mar- ried, May 18, 1794. Elizabeth Putnam, daugh- ter of William Putnam, of Sterling, Massa- chusetts. She died November 9, 1841. Chil- dren, born at Salem: 1. Samuel, born March 13, 1795, at Danvers, died unmarried May 15, 1828, in Sterling. 2. Elizabeth, born April 28, 1797, at Salem; died February 6, 1866, in Salem ; married, February, 1838, Augustus Perry. 3. Martha, born November 27, 1799, married, July 7. 1823, Francis Peabody ; she died March 12, 1891. 4. William Putnam, born March 5, 1803, mentioned below. 5. Clarissa, born December 16, 1807, married September 5, 1827, George Peabody ; she died April 18, 1892.


(VIII) William Putnam, son of Samuel (3) Endicott, was born at Salem, March 5. 1803, baptized March 13, 1803; died March II, 1888. He was educated in the public schools and at Harvard College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1822. He was a member of the Unitarian church. The old Orchard Farm, upon which five genera- tions of Mr. Endicott's ancestors had tilled the soil, was in Salem Village, now Danversport, and was granted originally to Governor Endi- cott by the Court of Assistants, July 3, 1632. It was passed down from father to eldest son until 1828, when it was sold and remained out of the family for sixty years, when it was bought by a descendant of the governor. Though somewhat diminished in size, this farm is now the property of a member of the family and the famous pear tree, said to have been planted by the governor himself in 1635. still bears fruit. Mr. Endicott lived in Salem in the house formerly owned and occupied by his wife's brother, Benjamin William Crownin- shield, who was secretary of the navy, 1814-17. under Madison and afterward a member of Congress several years. He married, January 31, 1826, Mary Crowninshield, who died March 13, 1838, daughter of Hon. Jacob Crowninshield, great-granddaughter of Rich- ter Caspar von Crounscheklt, who came from Leipsic to Boston about 1688. Jacob Crown- inshield was a state senator in Massachusetts 1800 to 1802, and a prominent congressman from 1802 to 1808. He was appointed secre-


tary of the navy by Jefferson at the begin- ning of the second term in 1805 and was confirmed as such by the senate. Though his commission is on file in the department of state at Washington, he declined the office for personal reasons-that he could not be absent from his business and family all the year. The correspondence between him and Jefferson on this subject, on trade, on finance and on the political aspect of parties in New England, is very interesting, being partly preserved. His career as sailor and sea captain ( for he com- manded a ship when he was twenty-two years old) was during that exciting period before and after the French revolution when the arbi- trary decrees, paper blockades, seizures and detentions of our ships and imprisonment of our seamen seriously affected the commerce of New England. In 1800 he had left the sea and joined his father and brothers in the firm of George Crowninshield & Sons. Jacob Crown- inshield died at Washington, April 15, 1808, at the early age of thirty-eight years. After his death his firm continued its foreign commerce and took a conspicuous part in the war of 1812, arming and equipping several privateers, one of which, the "America," made numerous captures, fought some notable battles and became famous, realizing her owners several hundred thousand dollars in prize money. The firm not only assisted the naval power of the government but strained their resources to lend money to the national treasury during the war. Jacob Crowninshield married, June 5, 1796. Sarah Gardner, daughter of John and Sarah (Derby) Gardner. Mr. Endicott married (second) December 4. 1844, Mrs. Harriet F. Peabody, nee French, widow of Joseph W. Peabody; she died March 18, 1886. Children of first wife, born at Salem: I. William Crowninshield (baptized William Gardner). born November 19, 1826, mentioned below. 2. Mary Crowninshield, born February 4, 1830; died February 26, 1833. 3. George Frederic born September 11, 1832, died January II, 1833. 4. Sarah Rogers, born March 3, 1838, married June 20, 1872, George Dexter.


(IX) Hon. William Crowninshield, son of William Putnam Endicott, was born at Salem11, November 19, 1826, died in Boston, May 6, 1900. From a sketch of his life con- tributed in 1902 to the Massachusetts Histor- ical Society by Charles Francis Adams, and written by his son, William C. Endicott Jr .. the following is quoted :


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Salem, William Gardner Endicott. After the death of his uncle, William Crowninshield, who was lost at sea while making a voyage from Marseilles to Genoa, his name was changed on April 19, 1837, by a special Act of the Legislature, to William Crowninshield Endicott." *


* "He was educated in the public and private schools of Salem, and entered Harvard college in 1843 from the Salem Latin School. His scholarship was above the average, and during his college life, he acquired an unusual love for books which gave him an extended knowledge and acquaint- ance with literature. He graduated from Har- vard in 1847. At his commencement, he deliv- ered a disquisition on 'Public Honors at Dif- ferent Ages.' During the last year of his col- lege life, it had been proposed that after grad- uation he should go to China, and enter one of the firms which at that time was very pros- perous and appeared to have an unusual busi- ness opened for a young man * * * but he believed that law was his vocation, and immediately after his graduation he began its study in the office of Nathaniel J. Lord, at that time one of the most prominent lawyers in Salem. The winter of 1849-50 he spent at the Harvard Law school, where he remained for one year, and in 1850 was admitted to the Essex County Bar. In 1853 he formed a co- partnership with Jairus Ware Perry, and for twenty or more years the firm of Perry & Endicott had a large portion of the legal prac- tice in Essex county. Mr. Perry confined himself principally to office work, and Mr. Endicott tried and argued the cases in court. During these years he was active in local poli- tics and delivered political speeches in the various towns of the county, and lectures upon many subjects before the lyceums and other societies. He also interested himself more or less in the city government of Salem by serv- ing three terms in the Common Council, 1852, 1853 and 1857, when on January 25, he was unanimously elected president of the common council. From 1858 to 1863 he was elected city solicitor of Salem, and though after that he does not seem to have been again elected city solicitor, he served in that capacity from time to time, through vote of the aldermen of the city. For three years he was the candidate for Attorney General on the Democratic ticket, with Theodore H. Sweetser in 1866, and with John Quincy Adams in 1867 and 1868; and in the autumn of 1870 he was the Democratic candidate from the Fifth Congressional dis- trict for the 42nd Congress against Benjamin


F. Butler. In each of these years Mr. Endi- cott shared defeat with the other Democratic candidates. On February 23, 1873, the Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts passed an act increasing the number of Associate Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court to six. At that time no Democrat was upon the bench. Gov- ernor Washburn, a Republican governor, appointed Mr. Endicott to fill the judgeship, which has ever been considered a graceful and public-spirited act. The appointment was a great surprise to him, and his first knowledge of the fact was when his friend and classmate, the Hon. Charles Allen, asked him whether he would accept the position from the governor. The appointment was made on March 5, 1873. During the next nine years Mr. Endicott devoted his time and his strength to the work of the court. For the most part his opinions were written in his own handwriting. His opinions (378 in number), are to be found in the Massachusetts reports, Vols. 112-113, and of these many opinions, written during the nine years of his service as judge of the court, 'not one of his opinions has since been over- ruled.' The strain of this life told upon Mr. Endicott's health, and in the spring of 1882 he went to Europe. On October 25 of that year, he resigned his seat upon the bench, and trav- elled abroad for some eighteen months. His resignation was accepted by Governor Long with the greatest regret. In the autumn of 1883 Mr. Endicott returned from Europe and resumed the practice of law. Shortly after- wards he was retained as general counsel of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, which position he held for many years. Originally a Whig in politics, he voted for Taylor and Fillmore in 1848, and for Bell and Everett in 1860, and since those days always supported the Democratic ticket. In 1884 he was nominated by the Democratic convention at Worcester as its candidate for governor. At first he refused the nomination, but, finally, much against his will, accepted it with the understanding that he should not take the stump. Undoubtedly his prominence as candidate for governor brought him to the attention of President Cleveland, and in Feb- ruary, 1885, Mr. Cleveland sent for Mr. Endi- cott to come to Albany, when he offered him a place in his cabinet as Secretary of War. He accepted it, and his career in the War Depart- ment during the four years of Mr. Cleveland's administration is now a matter of history. A Board of Fortification and other Defences, known as the Endicott Board, of which Mr.


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Endicott was chairman, was created by an act of Congress dated March 3, 1885. The work of the board was long and laborious, and the coast defences of the present day are the result of the recommendations of this board.


"On his return to Massachusetts he resumed his profession and was counsel in several prominent cases; but he never took up the active work of his earlier years, and only accepted a few of the most important cases which came to him.


"In 1867 he was one of nine trustees named by George Peabody of London in his letter of 'Gift and Instrument of Trust' accompanying a large donation for 'The Promotion of Science and Useful Knowledge in the County of Essex.' He was chosen vice-president of the trustees, and the second president, and held that office until his resignation in 1897. On October 7, 1891, he was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Charles Devens as one of the trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, and was appointed a member of the executive committee. On April 6, 1897. he resigned from this board." "He always took a deep interest in the welfare of Harvard College, and was elected a member of the board of overseers from 1875 to 1876, from 1876 to 1882 and from 1883 to 1889. In 1885 he resigned for the reason that he had been chosen a Fellow of the corporation in June, 1884. On Commencement Day, 1882, the degree of LL. D. 'was conferred upon him in glad recognition of his attainments, station and influence.' On September 24, 1895, he resigned from the corporation.


"In 1848 he was commissioned first lieuten- ant in the 6th Regiment of Light Infantry, 4th Brigade, 2nd Division of Militia of the Com- monwealth, and, in 1850, captain. He was president of the Salem Bank ; trustee of Salem Savings Bank, president of Salem National Bank ; resident member of Massachusetts His- torical Society ; honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha; trustee of Groton school ; member of Saturday Club ; president of Alumni Association of Harvard college ; member of committee of Supreme Court Cen- tennial celebration ; trustee of the Massachu- setts Eye and Ear Infirmary ; first president of the University Club, Boston; member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.


"His addresses, such as those delivered in 1867 upon the opening of the Peabody Acad- emy of Science in Salem, and in 1878 upon the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Salem, were graceful, showed learning and refined


taste in the use of his language. He always stood for what was best, and was consistently firm, impartial, dignified and just. He had a righteous contempt for anything that was mean or unworthy, and held those standards which belong to the higher type of a New England man. It has been often said that he was born to be a judge, and he certainly filled that office with dignity, patience, honor and ability. In appearance he was tall and strik- ing, with dignity and repose of bearing, and with unusual charm of manner, he attracted all with whom he came in contact. Democratic and simple in his tastes, he made lasting friends among all classes."


The greater part of his life was spent in Salem, where he lived until 1894, when he moved to Danvers, and passed a large part of the year there. He visited Europe several times, but soon withdrew from active life. He married, December 13, 1859, his cousin, Ellen Peabody, daughter of George and Clara (Endicott) Peabody, of Salem. Children: I. William Crowninshield, born September 28, 1860, mentioned below. 2. Mary Crownin- shield, born March 15, 1864, married, Novem- ber 15, 1888, Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M. P., of Birmingham, England.


(X) William Crowninshield (2), son of Hon. William Crowninshield (1) Endicott, was born in Salem, September 28, 1860. Mar- ried, October 3, 1889, Maria Louise Huron.


(For early generations see preceding sketch). (VII) Captain Moses Endi- ENDICOTT cott, son of John ( 3) Endicott, was born at Danvers, March 19, 1767, baptized there November 1. 1767. He died at Havana, Cuba, March 5, 1807. He was educated in the public schools, and early in life began to follow the sea, becoming an able master mariner. He was cut off in the prime of life, leaving a wife and five children. He was an affectionate husband and kind father and was sincerely mourned not only by his family and friends but by the many poor and unfortunate persons whom he had befriended and helped. He married, in 1788, Anna Towne. Children, born in Danvers: I. Nancy, August 31, 1788, married Dr. George Osgood. 2. Nathan, September 19, 1790. 3. Charles Moses, December 6, 1793, mentioned below. 4. Lewis Repillet, February 24, 1796, died October 8, 1796. 5. Sarah, April 4, 1798, died August 18, 1801. 6. Augusta, July 25, 1803, married Rev. B. B. Deane, D. D. ; she (lied July 7, 1847. 7. Lewis, July 27, 1805.


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(VIII) Charles Moses, son of Captain Moses Endicott, was born December 6, 1793, at Danvers. He entered upon a mercantile career in the East India trade and accumu- lated a considerable fortune. He was cashier of the Salem Bank, president of the East India Marine Society, and a man of large influence and ability. He married, June 8, 1818, Sarah Rolland Blythe. They resided in Salem. Children: I. Charles Edward, born July 7, 1832. 2. Ingersoll Bowditch, May 17, 1835. mentioned below.


(IX) Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Charles Moses Endicott, was born in Salem, May 17, 1835. He was educated in private schools in Salem, and has lived a retired life. He mar- ried Ann Caroline Dennett, born at Standish, Maine, February 3, 1839, died June 23, 1897, daughter of Gardner and Eliza R. (Howe) Dennett. Her father, Gardner Dennett, was born June 14, 1811, died February II, 1887, son of Samuel Dennett, born December 22, 1769, died February 22, 1884, and Mary (Lowell) Dennett. born April 15, 1779, mar- ried, April 23, 1792.


The mother of Ann Caroline Dennett, Eliza R. (Howe) Dennett, was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, February 20, 1812, died March II, 1854. Children of Gardner and Eliza A. (Howe) Dennett: i. Ann Caroline, married Ingersoll B. Endicott, mentioned above; ii. Mary Frances Dennett, born December 9, 1841, lives in Chicago; iii. Edwin Gardner Dennett, born May 23, 1844, died September II, 1869; iv. Frederic Oscar Dennett, born December 17, 1847, lives at Chicago, married, June 24. 1869, Emeline Smith Crawford, and had two daughters, Fannie C. Dennett, born August 19, 1881, died February 17, 1884, and Mary Crawford Dennett, born July 3, 1885, died March 18, 1903. Children of Ingersoll B. and Ann Caroline (Dennett) Endicott : I. George Gardner, born at Standish, Maine, September 19, 1857, mentioned below. 2. Eliza Howe, August 6, 1859, in Standish, Maine, married, December 1I, 1881, Charles Edward Rich; residing in New York City; children : i. Endicott G. Rich, born March 17, 1883 ; ii. Carleton Wheeler Rich, born Febru- ary 17, 1885. 3. Carrie Ingersoll, September 25, 1862, in Boston, married, June 24, 1885, Frank Oakley Thissell, of Bangor, Maine; child, Frank O. Thissell Jr., born October 15, 1889, in Boston ; they live in Boston. 4. Emma Crawford, Boston, October 4, 1866, died in Boston, September 2, 1868.


(X) George Gardner, son of Ingersoll


Bowditch Endicott, was born in Standish, Maine, September 19, 1857. He came to Salem with his parents when very young and later moved to Boston and was educated there. He was connected with the firm of Chickering & Sons, 791 Tremont street, Boston, manufac- turers of pianos, until May, 1899, when he resigned from that position and has since been actively engaged in the copper mining business, being secretary and treasurer of a number of mining corporations. His office is at 60 State street, Boston. He resides in that section of Boston known as Longwood. He married, in Boston, June 30, 1891, Emily Cunningham, of Wiscasset. Their only child is John, born at Newtonville, Massachusets, February 3, 1894.


BARNEY The first date now known in the history of this family, is 1601. It is evident that the an- cestors lived for some time in England, and also that the American immigrant came to Massachusetts for the same purpose as did nearly every other person who settled in New England at that time-the opportunity to wor- ship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. The fortitude, determination, and high principles thus involved are characteristics which have come down through the genera- tions and are still clearly apparent in his de- scendants.


(I) Edward Barney, of Bradenham, county of Bucks, England, in his will dated 1643, made a bequest to his son Jacob, "if he be living at the time of my death, and come over to England. "


(II) Jacob Barney, undoubtedly the one above referred to in the will of Edward Barney, was born in England, in 1601, and in 1634 came to Salem, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman, May 14, 1634, and died April 28, 1673, aged seventy-two years. His wife, whose baptismal name was Elizabeth, survived him. He opposed the sentence of the general court against those who petition for freer franchise. . This indicates that he was more liberal in theology than were most of his con- temporaries. At a town meeting held Febru- ary 2, 1639, Jacob Barney was granted fifty acres of meadow, and was granted an addi- tional fifty acres January 28, 1650. His name appears often in the early records of Salem as an appraiser of estates, and also on a peti- tion dated June 29, 1658, and recorded in Salem county court papers. A well known writer says of Jacob: "An intelligent mer- chant, often selectman and deputy to the gen-


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eral court, 1635-38-47-53-65, and served on the first grand jury that ever sat in this coun- try. The loss of such men as Mr. Barney is not easily supplied." Following is brief men- tion of the children of Jacob and Elizabeth Barney : I. Jacob, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, married John Grover, May 13, 1656; died in November, 1662. 3. Hannah, wife of John Cromwell, of Salem, who died in September, 1700, and mentions in his will his wife, but no children. 4. John, baptized in Salem, De- cember 15, 1639; died before his father.




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