Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 24

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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(XVI) Joseph, son of Nathaniel Dickinson, was born in 1632. He lived in Northampton from 1664 to 1674 and then removed to North- field. He was slain with Captain Beers, Sep- tember 4, 1675, in King Philip's war. He married Phebe Bracy, daughter of Mrs. Mar- tin. Children : 1. Samuel, born May 24, 1666, died in Hatfield, 1690-91. 2. Joseph, April 27, 1668. 3. Nathaniel, May 20, 1670, mentioned below. 4. John, May 2. 1672. 5. Azariah, May 15, 1674, settled in Haddam, Connecticut.

(XVII) Deacon Nathaniel, son of Joseph Dickinson, was born May 20, 1670, died in 1745. He resided in Hatfield, and married Hannah White, daughter of Daniel White, of

that town. Children: 1. Jonathan, born No- vember 7, 1699, mentioned below. 2. Martha, December 25, 1701, married, March 2, 1727, Elnathan Graves. 3. Obadiah, July 28, 1704. 4. Nathan, April, 1707, died May 10, 1707. 5. Joshua, February 7, 1709. 6. Elijah, Febru- ary 24, 1712, died June 8, 1714. 7. Elijah, September 20, 1714, died May 28, 1715. 8. Joel, March 23, 1716. 9. Lucy, September 9, 1718, died December 24, 1718.

(XVIII) Jonathan, son of Deacon Nathaniel Dickinson, was born in Hatfield, November 7, 1699, and settled first in Hadley on School Meadows. About 1748 he removed to Am- herst, where he died December II, 1787. He married, April 2, 1724, Mary Smith, who died April 13, 1763, daughter of Nathaniel Smith, of Hatfield. Children: 1. Simeon, born about 1726. 2. Noah, about 1729, mentioned below. 3. Jonathan. 4. Mary, married, April 16, 1752, Hezekiah Belding. 5. Martha, married Joseph Dickinson, of Amherst, and died August 12, 1779.

(XIX) Noah, son of Jonathan Dickinson, was born about 1729 and died March 28, 1815. He served in the revolution as first lieutenant in Captain Reuben Dickinson's company, Fourth Amherst, Fourth Hampshire county regiment, in 1776; as lieutenant in Captain John Thompson's company, Colonel Leonard's regiment in 1777, with the army of the north for two months ; also as lieutenant in command of a company in Colonel Elisha Porter's regi- ment in August, 1777; in Captain Reuben Dickinson's company, Colonel Porter's regi- ment at the Stillwater alarm in September and October, 1777, and in the same company in 1778. He resigned April 18, 1780. He mar- ried (first) April 28, 1757. Mary Dickinson, who died June 1, 1791, aged fifty-four, daugh- ter of Deacon Ebenezer Dickinson. He mar- ried (second) March 22, 1792, Susan Ward. Children : Mary, born about 1758, married, July 7, 1779, Hon. Ebenezer Mattoon, of Am- herst ; died July 30, 1835. Son by second wife: Jonathan, baptized June 7, 1795, men- tioned below.

(XX) Jonathan, son of Noah Dickinson, was baptized June 7, 1795, died October 2, 1840. He married, September 19, 1816, Amy Stoughton Dickinson, daughter of John and Lydia ( Eastman) Dickinson. Her father was born in Shutsbury, Massachusetts, in 1757, son of Nehemiah and Annie E. Dickinson, and was a soldier at Bunker Hill. Children, all born in Amherst: 1. John. 2. Noah. 3. Charles. 4. Martin. 5. Rebecca. 6. Susan. 7. Sophia,

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born February 5, 1832, graduate from Ripley College at Poultney, Vermont, at the age of twenty-one, and taught school at Amherst, Holyoke and Springfield, Massachusetts ; mar- ried, October 15, 1856, Austin Dwight Street. (See Street family ).

SAWYER

Tradition says that three

brothers emigrated to America from Lincolnshire, England. sailing in a ship commanded by Captain Parker, and that their names were William, Edmund and Thomas. They arrived 1636, although Savage does not find William and Thomas until 1643. The fact that the Rowley records show Edward instead of Edmund, as shown that a tract of land was set off to Thomas Sawyer and another to Edward Sawyer in 1643, one of the boundaries of each lot being upon the ocean side, thus showing that the three brothers were William, Edward and Thomas, and that they came early in 1643 or just previ- ous. Edmund came over seven years earlier and whether he was a brother of the others cannot be ascertained, but all agree that Thomas Sawyer was in Lancaster a few years after living at Rowley, and has descendants multiplied by the thousands.

Thomas Sawyer was among the first emi- grants to Lancaster. Richard Linton, Law- rence Waters and Thomas Bell had gifts of land in what was afterward Lancaster as an induce- ment to settle there, Thomas Sawyer coming later. He was one of the nine persons in 1653 who organized the town, and gave it the name of Lancaster. He was a blacksmith and tiller of the soil, and one of the most conspicuous of the citizens. His farm was in the present grounds of the Seventh Day Adventists, be- tween North Lancaster and Clinton. His house was just behind the house now or lately owned by John A. Rice, of Lancaster. There is a stone to mark his grave in the old graveyard at Lancaster. This house was in the most central part of the Indian raid. He seems to have escaped with all his numerous family, with the exception of his son Ephraim, who was killed at or near the house of his grand- father, John Prescott. Thomas Sawyer's garrison proved a safe defense against the French and Indians. There was among their numbers a high French officer who it is said was mortally wounded while in the fight which much exasperated them. Lancaster remained desolate for some three years, and where the family of Sawyer resided during that time is not evident but it is certain that they soon

reappeared and helped rebuild the town, and he took a prominent part in its growth and prosperity during the next thirty years. It is now believed that John Sawyer, of Lanca- shire, England, was the father of these three brothers who came to. America.

(I) Thomas Sawyer took the oath of allegi- ance in 1647, and was on the list of proprietors in Lancaster in 1648. He was one of the first six settlers and one of the prudential managers of the town in 1647 .. He was admitted a free- man in 1654. He was a blacksmith by trade, and his house was on the east side of what is now Main street, South Lancaster, next south of the home of his father-in-law, John Pres- cott. He was one of the leading men of the town all his life. He had command of one of the garrisons at the time of King Philip's war. There were only five full-fledged free- men in the town of Lancaster in 1654-Ed- ward Breck, Richard Smith, William Kerley, John Whitcomb and Thomas Sawyer. He died September 12, 1706, aged about ninety years. His will was dated March 6, 1705-06, and proved April 12, 1720. He bequeathed to wife Mary, sons Thomas, Joshua, James, Caleb and Nathaniel, and daughter Mary Wilder. The latter testified that she had her father and mother during eight or nine months while her brother Thomas was in captivity. Her name and that of her mother was gen- erally spelled Marie. Thomas Sawyer mar- ried Mary, daughter of John Prescott, a black- smith, who came from Sowerby in the parish of Halifax, England, West Riding of York- shire, where he married Mary Blatts, a York- shire girl. He was born in Lancashire, and came to Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1645-46, for the purpose of building up the town. He took the oath of allegiance in 1652. His family escaped the massacre and returned to the town in 1682. Children: 1. Thomas, born July 2, 1649, mentioned below. 2. Ephraim, January 16, 1650-51, dicd February 10, 1676, killed by Indians at Prescott garrison. 3. Mary, No- vember 4, 1652-53, married, 1673, Nathaniel Wilder ; children, born at Sudbury : i. Nathaniel, born 1675 ; ii. Ephraim, 1677; iii. Mary, 1679; iv. Elizabeth, 1681; v. Dorothy, 1686; vi. Nathaniel, 1688; vii. Ennice, 1690; viii. Oliver, 1604. 4. Elizabeth, January, 1654, died young. 5. Joshua, March 13, 1655, dicd July 14, 1738; married, January 2, 1677-78, Sarah Potter ; children : i. Abigail, born 1679 ; ii. Joshua, 1684; iii. Sarah, 1687 ; iv. Hannah, 1689; v. Martha, 1692; vi. Elizabeth, 1698. 6. James, Janu- ary 22, 1657, married ( first ) February 4, 1677,

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Mary Marble; (second) Mary Prescott, of Pomfret, Connecticut ; children: i. Ephraim, born December, 1678; ii. James, July 12, 1686 ; iii. Mary, September 17, 1696; iv. Benjamin, February II, 1697-98. 7. Caleb, February 20, 1659, mentioned below. 8. John, April, 1661, married, January 16, 1686, Mary Bull, of Worcester ; children: i. Edward, born 1687; ii. Jacob; iii. Joseph; iv. Moses, 1722, died 1729: v. Oliver ; vi. Mercy. 9. Elizabeth, bap- tized January 5, 1663-64, married James Hos- mer, of Marlboro. 10. Deborah, born 1666, died young. II. Nathaniel, born October 24, 1670, married (first) Mary ; (second) 1695, Elizabeth ; children: i. Amos, born June 20, 1693; ii. Samuel, 1698, died 1784; iii. John, 1700, died October 2, 1731 ; iv. Ezra, 1702, died 1765; v. Nathaniel; vi. Thomas, 1711, died 1727; vii. Phinehas; viii. Mary ; ix. Ephraim.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Sawyer, was born July 2, 1649, died Septem- ber 5, 1736, at Lancaster. His will bequeathed to four sons and two daughters, and twelve pounds to purchase a communion vessel for the Lancaster church. He was the first white child born in Lancaster. His capture by the Indians forms one of the most familiar stories of the colonial period in Massachusetts. At the time of his capture he was living in the garrison with his father's family. Queen Anne's war was making the lives of the col- onists unsafe, especially on the frontier. Indians made frequent attacks and massacred men, women and children. On October 16, 1695, Thomas Sawyer Jr., his son Elias, and John Bigelow, of Marlboro, were at work in his saw mill where they were surprised and cap- tured by the Indians. They were taken to Canada and Bigelow and young Sawyer were turned over to the French to ransom but they kept Thomas Sawyer to put to death by tor- ture. Sawyer proposed to the French gov- ernor that he should build a saw mill on the Chamblay river in consideration of saving his life from the Indians and giving the three captives their freedom. The French needed the mill and were glad of the opportunity. But the Indians had to be reckoned with. They insisted on burning Thomas Sawyer at the stake. They knew him and knew he was a brave man, not afraid of torture and death. The crafty French governor defeated their purpose by a ruse to the church. When Sawyer was tied to the stake a French friar appeared with a key in his hand and so terrible did he paint the tortures of purgatory, the key of which

he told them he had in his hand ready to un- lock, that they gave up their victim. Indians fear the unseen more than the real dangers and doubtless the friar took care not to specify what he would do in case the auto-de-fe was carried out. Sawyer built the mill successfully, the first in Canada it is said. He and Bigelow came home after seven or eight months of captivity to their delighted people. Elias Saw- yer was kept a year longer to run the mill and teach the others to run it. The captives were treated well after the French found them use- ful to them.

-; (second) 1672, Hannah 1670, Sarah - Thomas Sawyer married (first)

-; (third) 1718, Mary White. Children : I. Mary, born December, 1671, married Joshua Rice, of Marlboro. 2. Hannah, 1675, married Jonathan Moore, of Marlboro. 3. William, 1679, died in Bolton, 1740; married Mary -. 4. Joseph, 1682, died July 10, 1737 ; married (first) Sarah -- , who died March 17, 1717; married (second) March 10, 1718, Abigail Wilder. 5. Bazalcel, born May 23, 1685, died April 5, 1760; married Judith -, who died March 24, 1774. 6. Elias, see forward.

(III) Elias, son of Thomas (2) Sawyer, was born in 1690 in Lancaster. He was taken prisoner by the Indians with his father, as related above, and taken to Canada. After remaining in Canada a year, teaching the French to run the saw mill that his father built as the price of their ransom, he returned to his home in Lancaster. He and his wife Beatrix owned the covenant in the First Church of Lancaster, March 24, 1716-17, and at that time their two eldest children were bap- tized. By deed dated December 2, 1735 ( Wor- cester deeds Book 27, page 510), he received from his father Thomas Sawyer, of Lancaster, land on the east side of the Still river in the "Intervale Hollera" and elsewhere in Lan- caster. This deed refers to land given to his

brother Bezaleel by their father. Before his death he deeded his property in large part if not wholly to his children. Elias Sawyer, of Bolton, deeded to Elijah Sawyer, of Bolton, the west part of the homestead where he was then living May 31, 1749, for two hundred and seventy-six pounds or equivalent ; he deeded to Elijah, May 31, 1749, half his dwelling house in Bolton on Still river adjoining land of Ephraim Houghton on the Still river road; land at Halloway Ontervale, "Intervale Hol- lera" mentioned above, and on Kerley's plain etc. ; also half his town right. On the same day Elias gave a farm of two hundred and

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nineteen acres to son Elisha in Lancaster. He died in Bolton, November 20, 1752, aged sixty- three years, or according to his gravestone in the old Lancaster burial ground in his sixty- third year. His widow Beatrix ("Batrice" in this paper ) was appointed administratrix, Jan- uary 29, 1753, her sons Elijah and Elisha being the sureties on her bond, Elijah then of Bolton as well as his mother, while Elisha was of Lancaster. Children baptized in the First Church of Lancaster : I. Elijah, baptized March 24, 1716-17, mentioned below. 2. Thankful, baptized March 24, 1716-17. 3. Elisha, born August 17, 1718, married Ruth -: had Jotham, born April 27, 1745; Thankful, August 1, 1747 (twin) ; Elias, Au- gust 1, 1747 (twin). 4. Betty, baptized Feb- ruary 25, 1721-22. 5. Prudence, September 26, 1726, baptized December 18, 1726.

(IV) Elijah, son of Elias Sawyer, was born in Bolton about 1715, baptized in the First Lancaster Church, March 24, 1716-17. He and his brother Elisha, Nathaniel Carter, of Leominster, and Thomas Carter, of Lunen- burg, deeded land to Nathaniel Wyman, of Lancaster, December 30, 1753. Elijah himself deeded land to this Nathaniel Carter (perhaps his brother-in-law), and Thomas Carter, of Lunenburg, June 2, 1753. He had the home. stead, as told in the sketch of his father, and lived in Bolton all his life. He deeded prop- erty valued at six thousand pounds to his son Elias, a blacksmith of Bolton, April 8. 1784. He had previously deeded to his son Calvin property valued at the same sum in Bolton. He married (first ) July 18, 1740, Ruth White. He married ( second) Ldyia -, who died, his widow, May 5, 1799, aged seventy-two years, six months and one day. She was buried on the Old Common and her gravestone still stands. He died intestate at Bolton before 1799. Children: Calvin, born 1750: Elias; Luther; probably several daughters.

(V) Calvin, son of Elijah Sawyer, was born in Bolton in 1750. He was educated there in the public schools. He received half of his father's homestead, as stated. Abijah Phelps deeded land in Lancaster of the late Edward Phelps to Calvin Sawyer, December 10, 1784. John Barnard deeded a parcel of land near Van's Hill, Bolton, to Calvin Sawyer, October 23, 1786. Calvin bought fifty acres of Daniel Gage, of Hubbardston, in that town in 1798. This transfer may belong to Calvin Jr., however. Calvin died in 1802 intestate. His wife Abigail was born August 19, 1753, died November 1, 1839. Children, born in

Bolton (records from family) : I. Elijah, January 25, 1773, blacksmith. 2. Calvin, Octo- ber 25, 1775, owned land in Hubbardston and lived there for a time; deeded fifty acres in Hubbardston to brother, Luther Sawyer, of Bolton, January 2, 1800. 3. Luther, February I, 1777, died May 28, 1826; lived at Bolton ; deeded to brothers, Elijah and Calvin, land in Hubbardston, April 1I, 1801 ; married Keziah 4. Nathan, November 4, 1779, died January 18, 1817. 5. Daniel, November I, 1782, mentioned below. 6. Oliver, February 4, 1784, died March 24, 1836. 7. Abigail, Au- gust 12, 1787. 8. Catharine, October 27, 1789, died February 6, 1808. 9. Elias, August 19, 1791, died February, 1849. 10. Silas, Novem- ber 26, 1793, died March 24, 1856. Guardians of Elias and Silas appointed in 181 I.

(VI) Daniel, son of Calvin Sawyer, was born in Bolton, November 1, 1782, died November 4, 1847. ] He lived in Bolton where he was deacon of the church many years. He was known for his mechanical ability, being a wheelwright of the old school, as was his brother, Major Oliver Sawyer. They were of the family of the famous mechanical Sawyers spoken of in many of the town his- tories. Deacon Sawyer, being a wood worker, made all the coffins used in the town for many years. He lived on a great stage route, and became well known for his fine pick handles and general wheelwright work. In those days all commodities were teamed over the road, heavy loaded wagons constantly passing his door on their way to or from Boston, many going to Brattleboro, Vermont, or beyond. As he had the opportunity to get the very best hickory timber grown in Massachusetts, his name spread among the teamsters from Ver- mont where such timber did not grow, and he had a large business with these people. He married (first) Rachel Jewett, born in Bolton, February 21, 1783, died November 12, 1843. He married ( second) Mary -, who sur- vived him. Edwin A. Whitcomb was appoint- ed administrator of his estate by request of the heirs. He was a well-to-do farmer. Chil- dren, born in Bolton, by first wife: I. Cath- arine, August 29, 1810, died October 7, 1862 ; married, June 7, 1838, Jonathan Whitcomb, born at Stow, March 11, 1793, died May 7, 1856; children: i. Emily A. Whitcomb, born April 2, 1839, died December 12, 1867, mar- ried, May 8, 1867, Edmond Stow, of Stow ; ii. Mary E. Whitcomb, born August 8, 1841, married, May 19, 1862, Francis Gates, of Stow (children : Elliott W. Gates, born February

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25, 1863, married, November 24, 1891, Eliza- beth Burkill, of Hudson, Massachusetts ; Ervin F. Gates, born April 25, 1864, married, No- vember 27, 1894, Sarah Clark, of Hudson; Sarah C. Gates, born September 10, 1865, mar- ried E. W. Van Deusen, of New York; iv. Florence E. Gates, born March 28, 1878, mar- ried, October 5, 1895, Walter H. White, of Hudson) ; iii. Ellen C. Whitcomb, born Au- gust 13, 1846; iv. Henry S. Whitcomb, born November 13, 1848, married, May 1, 1878, Hattie Wadhaus, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and had Ada Frances, born in Chicago, May 31, 1879. 2. Alfred, January 27, 1812, died De- cember 27, 1897 ; married, May 17, 1837, Mar- garet Hendry, of Peacham, Vermont; chil- dren : Amory, Laura, Lucien, all residing in the west. 3. Emily, June 26, 1815, died De- cember 15, 1874; married, April 28, 1841, Reuben Newton. 4. Edwin, July 20, 1817, mentioned below. Child of second wife: 5. Margaret H. (mentioned as heir in settlement of estate).

(VII) Edwin, son of Daniel Sawyer, was born at Bolton, Massachusetts, July 20, 1817, died at Watertown, Massachusetts, July 20, 1885. He received his educational training in the schools of his native town, and upon tak- ing up the practical duties of life learned the wheelwright trade, which line he pursued throughout the active years of his life. He removed to Watertown in 1856 and here also became known as a skillful and reliable wagon maker; he was scrupulously just and con- scientious in all his affairs, and was regarded as a useful and good citizen. He married, at Stow, Massachusetts, March 3, 1850, Sarah B. Wright, of Boxboro, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Joel and Dolly (Reid) Wright, she died at Watertown, February 8, 1902. Of this mar- riage was born one child, Herbert H., born July 6, 1857, mentioned below.

(VIII) Herbert H., son of Edwin Sawyer, was born in Watertown, July 6, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. After leaving school he at once engaged in a commercial life, eventually becoming a proprietor and owner of the largest manu- facturing industry of its kind in New England. He was a prominent citizen, holding many offices of responsibility and trust of both public and private nature. He married, June 18, 1883, Alice Jane Tourtellotte, born April 22, 1855, daughter of William H. and Mercy Jane (Comstock) Tourtellotte. They have one child, Minnie T., born October 26, 1884. (See

sketches of Tourtellotte and Comstock fami- lies ).

'The Tourtellotte Line).

(I) Abraham Tourtellotte, (name also spelled Turtelotte, Turtellot, Turtelott, Tour- tellott) immigrant ancestor, was a native of Bordeaux, France, and was a merchant and mariner. He arrived in Boston in the ship, "Friendship," John Ware, master, from Lon- don in 1687. In 1688 he was appointed admin- istrator of the estate of his brother Benjamin, who died September 25, 1687, on the voyage from London. He settled first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and removed in 1697 to New- port, Rhode Island. He sold his mansion house at Roxbury, and two and one half acres of land, to Prudence Thompson, June 1, 1699. Both he and his son Gabriel were lost at sea while on the way to Newport on a vessel of which he was master. His widow died at the home of her son, Abraham, in Gloucester, Rhode Island. He married, in Roxbury, 1692- 93, Marie Bernon, daughter of Gabriel and Esther (LeRoy) Bernon. Gabriel Bernon was of noble descent according to the French stand- ards of nobility. The family claimed affilia- tion with the house of the Dukes of Burgundy, and it seems very probable that that claim was well founded, but by documentary evidence they were descendants of Raoul de Bernon, who fought in the Crusades and who had a coat-of-arms which he was entitled to trans- mit to his descendants, of whom Gabriel was certainly one. Two mayors of Rochelle in successive generations were elected from this family and this under French law and the charter of the city ennobled them and their descendants. He may have made an earlier marriage and had children by his first wife, but if so, they did not come to America. He was a Huguenot in religion. Children: I. Gabriel, born September 24, 1694, in Roxbury, lost at sea; unmarried. 2. Esther, June 12, 1696, married, January 19, 1716, Israel Hard- ing, son of John Harding. 3. Abraham, about 1698, mentioned below.

(II) Abraham (2), son of Abraham ( I) Tour- tellotte, was born in September or October, 1698, probably in Newport, Rhode Island, ( some family authorities say Roxbury, Massa- chusetts) died November 23, 1762. He was a joiner by trade. He was admitted a freeman in 1722 and that year bought of Joseph Hop- kins sixty-seven acres of land with house, in Providence. On January 29, 1724, he bought of Samuel Inman a house and twenty acres

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for sixty pounds, and the same date sold to William Bates for forty pounds twenty acres "where Samuel Inman dwelleth, with house etc." He removed to Gloucester, Rhode Island, and March 14, 1743, was granted a license to keep a tavern in the house where he dwelt. On September 8 following his wife, Hannah, brought in an account of her first husband's estate, being Jeremiah Corpe, innholder, who was drowned by falling from a sloop April 22, 1741. The inn kept by Abraham Tour- tellotte may have been and probably was the same kept by Jeremiah Corpe. Abraham was deputy to the general court in 1747. His will was dated November 19, 1757, proved April 13, 1763, and bequeathed to wife and children, and was quite complicated. There was a dis- pute as to its validity on account of the condi- tion of mind of the maker, and his sons Abra- ham and Benjamin appealed to the governor and council. The executors named refusing to take administration, it was granted to his son Abraham. The inventory amounted to one thousand three hundred and eighty-five pounds, eighteen shillings, and included a large amount of household goods. Abraham married ( first ) Lydia Ballard, born March 29, 1700, daugh- ter of Isaac and Dorothy (Hearnden) Ballard. He married (second) January 29, 1743, Han- nah Corpe, born November 6, 1713, widow of Jeremiah Corpe, and daughter of William and Elizabeth (Stafford ) Case. He married (third) Welthian Williams, daughter of Nehe- miah and Rachel (Mann) Sheldon. She mar- ried (third) May 27, 1770, Samuel Thurber. Children of first wife: I. Mary, born March 20, 1721. 2. Lydia, January 24, 1723. 3. Esther, January 24, 1723 (twin). 4. Abra- ham, February 27, 1725. 5. Jonathan, Sep- tember 15, 1728. 6. Benjamin, November 30, 1730. 7. Sarah, April 22, 1735. Children of second wife: 8. Stephen. 9. William. 10. Jesse, mentioned below. II. Daniel. 12. Anne.

(III) Jesse, son of Abraham Tourtellotte, was born about 1740. He settled in Mendon, Massachusetts, and was a soldier in the revo- lution from that town, a private in Captain Peter Penniman's company, Lieutenant Col- onel Nathan Tyler's regiment from Decem- ber 8, 1776, to January 2, 1777, at Providence, Rhode Island : also in Captain B. Read's com- pany, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment in 1780. (See p. 200; Vol. XVI Mass. Soldiers and Sailors). His will is in the Worcester records, (lated August 29, 1837, and proved April 26, 1841. He bequeathed to wife Lydia and to children mentioned below. Children : I.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 24

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

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