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61. Hopkins.
77. Hollister.
134. Robinson.
8. Baker.
63. Hull.
79. Holmes.
136. Rosseter.
IO. Barlow. .
65. Jenkins.
80. Hoskins.
137. Ruggles.
II. Barstow.
66. Jenny.
81. Houchin.
I38. Sams.
12. Bartlett.
67. Jones.
82. Howard.
139. Sherman.
13. Bassett.
68. Keith.
84. Hunt.
14I. Smith.
14. Beal.
69. Kempton.
85. Jenner.
142. Spurr.
16. Blackwood.
71. Lawson.
87. Johnson.
144. Stearns.
17. Bourne.
72. Loring.
88. Jones.
145. Stoughton.
18. Bradford.
73. Lothrop.
89. Kibby.
146. Stow.
19. Brett.
74. Ludkin.
90. Kingman.
147. Strong.
20. Brewster.
75. Lyford.
91. Kingsley.
148. Sumner.
21. Bryant.
76. Mighill.
92. Leavitt.
149. Tappan.
22. Buck.
77. Morton.
93. Lenthall.
150. Thacher.
24. Carver.
79. Norton.
95. Lyon.
152. Thornton.
25. Chandler.
80. Oldham.
96. Makepeace.
153. Thurston.
26. Chauncy.
81. Paddy.
97. Mann.
154. Tilestone.
27. Chittenden.
82. Palmer.
98. Marsh.
155. Titus.
28. Clap.
83. Parker.
99. Marshall.
156. Torrey.
29. Clark.
84. Partridge.
100. Mason.
157. Trowbridge.
30. Cole.
85. Peabody.
101. Mather.
158. Tucker.
31. Collier.
86. Peck.
102. Maudsley.
159. Wakeman.
32. Cook.
87. Phippen.
103. Maverick.
160. Walter.
33. Cooper.
88. Prence.
104. Mayo.
161. Waltham.
34. Cotton.
89. Prince.
105. Meakins.
162. Walton.
35. Crow.
90. Rayner.
106. Metcalf.
163. Ward.
36. Cudworth.
91. Robinson.
107. Mighill.
164. Ware.
37. Cushing.
92. Saffin
108. Miller.
165. Warham.
38. Cushman.
93. Saxton.
109. Minot.
166. Waterhouse.
39. Damon.
94. Silvester.
IIO. Moore.
167. Way.
40. Doane.
95. Smith.
III. Morgan.
168. Webb.
41. Dunham.
96. Snow.
112. Morrill. 169. Weld.
42. Eames.
97. Soule.
113. Morris.
170. West.
43. Edenden.
98. Southworth.
114. Morse.
171. Wheelock.
44. Eells.
99. Sparrow.
115. Nash.
172. Wheelwright.
45. Finney.
100. Sprague.
116. Newberry.
173. White.
46. Fogg.
IOI. Standish.
117. Paine.
174. Wilson.
47. Folsom. 48. Foster.
102. Stetson.
118. Park.
175. Wilton. 176. Winchester.
49. Fuller.
104. Thomas.
120. l'eck.
177. Wiswall.
50. Gilson.
105. Thompson.
121. Perkins.
178. Withington.
51. Gray.
106. Tisdale.
122. Phelps.
179. Wolcott.
52. Harvey.
107. Tracy.
123. Phillips.
180. Woodward.
53. Hatch.
108. Turner.
124. Pierce.
181. Woolridge.
54. Hatherly.
109. Underwood.
125. Plumbe.
55. Hersey.
IIO. Vassall.
74. Hinsdale. 131. Read.
5. Annable.
60. Holmes.
76. Holbrook.
133. Riggs.
7. Atwood.
62. Howland.
78. Holman. 135. Rogers.
9. Bangs.
64. Jacob.
83. Hull.
140. Short.
15. Besbedge. 70. Kenrick.
86. Jewett.
143. Stacy.
23. Burgess.
78. Nash.
94. Lusher.
151. Thompson.
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103. Thaxter.
119. Parker.
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III. Wadsworth. 116. Whitman.
II2. Warren. 117. Willet.
113. Waterman.
118. Willis.
I14. Wetherell.
119. Winslow.
115. White. 120. Wiswall.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
I. Andrews.
21. Myles.
2. Angier.
22. Newman.
3. Bowen.
23. Paine.
4. Brenton.
24. Peck.
5. Chesebrough.
25. Perry.
6. Cole.
26. Read.
7. Danforth. 27. Russell.
8. Dean.
28. Sabin.
9. Delano.
29. Seward.
IO. Doughty.
30. Shove.
II. Earle.
31. Smith.
12. Emerson.
32. Street.
13. Gilbert.
33. Tabor.
14. Greenwood.
34. Tripp.
15. Hooke.
35. Walker.
16. Hunt.
36. Wetherell.
17. Lane.
37. Williams.
18. Leonard.
38. Winslow.
19. Luther.
39. Wyatt.
20. Macy.
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
I. Allen.
24. Lothrop.
2. Allyn.
25. Mayo.
3. Arnold.
26. Miller.
4. Bacon. 27. Newland.
5. Bourne.
28. Otis.
6. Chipman.
29. Paine.
7. Cobb.
30. Rider.
8. Crocker.
31. Robinson.
9. Dimmock.
32. Rowley.
IO. Dunham.
33. Russell.
II. Eldridge.
34. Sears.
12. Falland.
35. Skiff.
13. Fessenden.
36. Smith.
14. Freeman.
37. Snow.
15. Gendall.
38. Sparrow.
16. Hathaway.
39. Stone.
17. Hawes.
40. Swift.
18. Hinckley.
41. Thacher.
19. Hoar.
42. Thornton.
20. Howes.
43. Treat.
21. Huckins.
44. Tupper.
22. Hull.
45. Walley.
23. Leverich.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
I. Folger.
3. Mayhew.
2. Gayer.
DUKE'S COUNTY.
I. Athearn. 2. Mayhew.
CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHU- SETTS.
I. Atherton. 22. Moore.
2. Bondet. 23. Moxon.
3. Brewer. 24. Parsons.
4. Chapin. 25. Partridge.
5. Chauncy. 26. Pomeroy.
6. Clark. 27. Porter.
7. Colton. 28. Pynchon.
8. Cook. 29. Rawson.
9. Frary.
30. Rowlandson.
31. Sheldon.
32. Stillman.
33. Stoddard.
13. Houghton.
34. Taylor.
14. Hovey.
35. Welles.
15. Hunt.
36. West.
16. James.
37. Whiting.
17. Manfield.
38. Williams.
18. Marsh.
39. Wilson.
19. Marshfield.
40. Woodrop.
20. Mather.
41. Younglove.
21. Montague.
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
The first three generations of the first set- tlers having disappeared the next important list existing to give an idea of the names of the prominent families in the early part of the eighteenth century was a subscription list to a book. Even lists of subscribers to literary works were then uncommon in this community, and this list has discrepancies regarding the address of a large number which cannot be explained. Leaving out the part relating to Suffolk county (which included Boston), the much smaller list for the other counties is here included. The book referred to is Prince's "Chronology."*
Prince, who was one of the most learned men in the Province, speaking of the pros- perity of New England in 1736, in the dedica- tion of his work to the governor, lieutenant- governor, the councillors and representatives of the Massachusetts Bay government-men mostly, if not wholly, descendants of the founders of this commonwealth-and speak- ing also from the standpoint of an ecclesiast, as most clergymen of this period did, says : "It is to these (the founders) we firstly owe our pleasant houses, our fruitful fields, our
*"Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals," by Thomas Prince, M. A. (Boston, 1736).
IO. Glover.
II. Hawley.
12. Holyoke.
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growing towns and churches, our wholesome laws, our precious privileges, our grammar schools and colleges, our pious and learned ministers and magistrates, our good govern- ment and order, the public restraints of vices, the general knoweldge of our common people, the strict observation of the christian sabbath; with those remains of public modesty, sobriety, social virtues and religion; for which this country is distinguished among the British col- onies, and in which we are as happy as any on earth."
The following list of Prince's subscribers outside of Suffolk county illustrate the high standing in the community of certain families in 1736.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
I. Abbot. 40. Gibbs.
2. Allen.
41. Goddard.
3. Appleton.
42. Greaves.
4. Austin.
43. Greenwood.
13. Choate.
35. Rogers.
5. Badger.
44. Hall.
6. Barret.
45. Haven.
15. Cushing.
37. Stacey.
7. Bean.
46. Hays.
8. Blanchard.
47. Hemmingway.
17. Emerson.
39. Tufts.
9. Bradstreet.
48. Hendly.
18. Fiske.
40. Wainwright.
IO. Brattle.
49. Hide.
19. Fitch.
41. Ward.
II. Breed.
50. Hopkins.
20. Gerrish.
42. White.
13. Burr.
52. Hunt.
22. Hazen.
14. Call. 53. Hurd.
15. Cary.
54. Jenner.
I. Adams. 21. Loring.
2. Ames.
22. Marshall.
3. Balch.
23. Messenger.
4. Baxter."
24. Metcalf.
5. Blake. 25. Morse.
6. Bosson.
26. Phillips.
22. Cotton.
61. Livermore.
7. Bowles. 27. Quincy.
8. Clap. 28. Smith.
24. Dummer.
63. Lovett.
9. Dexter. 29. Taylor.
25. Durant.
64. Mason.
IO. Dudley. 30. Thayer.
26. Edes.
65. Miller.
II. Dunbar. 31. Tilestone.
28. Fessenden.
67. Parker.
13. Gardner. 33. Torrey.
29. Fiske.
68. Peabody.
14. Gay.
34. Townsend.
30. Flegg.
69. Phillips.
15. Heath.
35. Vose.
31. Fletcher.
70. Prescot.
16. Higgins. 36. Walter.
33. Flucker.
72. Rice.
18. Humphrey.
38. Whitmarsh.
34. Flynt.
73. Russell.
19. Kingsbury.
39. Whitney.
35. Foster.
74. Sartle.
20. Lincoln.
40. Wilson.
36. Foxcroft.
75. Sheaf.
37. Frost.
76. Skinner.
38. Frothingham.
77. Spring.
78. Stone.
79. Storer. 86. Webb.
80. Sutton. 87. Wells.
81. Sweetser. 88. Whitney.
82. Symmes. 89. Wigglesworth.
83. Trumbal. 90. Williams.
84. Vinton.
91. Woods.
85. Ward. 92. Wyer.
ESSEX COUNTY.
I. Allen. 23. Henchman.
2. Balch.
24. Jenison.
3. Barnard. 25. Kimbal.
4. Beck. 26. Little.
5. Berry. 27. Lynde.
6. Bixby. 28. Majory.
7. Brown. 29. March.
8. Browne.
30. Parsons.
9. Burril.
31. Payson.
IO. Capen.
32. Phillips.
II. Cheever.
33. Pickering.
12. Chipman.
34. Prince.
14. Coffin.
36. Russell.
12. Brigden.
51. Hovey.
21. Hale.
43. Wigglesworth.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
16. Cheever.
55. Johnson.
17. Codman.
56. Jones.
18. Collings.
57. Kenrick.
19. Converse.
58. Kent.
20. Cooke.
59. Kettle.
21. Coolidge.
60. Lemmon.
23. Danforth.
62. Loring.
27. Emerson.
66. Paige.
12. Dwight. 32. Tompson.
32. Flint.
71. Remington.
17. Hobart. 37. Ware.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
I. Arnold.
3. Beal.
2. Bass. 4. Bourn.
39. Fuller.
16. Dana. 38. Thorold.
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5. Carpenter. 16. Marsh.
6. Clark.
17. Palmer.
7. Cushing.
18. Parker.
8. Gardner.
19. Perkins.
9. Hovey. 20. Pratt.
IO. Howard. 21. Robinson.
II. Leavitt.
22. Stevens.
12. LeBaron.
23. Thacher.
13. Leonard.
24. Thaxter.
14. Lewis.
25. Weston.
15. Loring. 26. Winslow.
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
I. Avery. 8. Mayhew.
2. Bourn.
9. Oakes.
3. Dennis.
IO. Rotch.
4. Fessenden. II. Spear.
5. Green.
12. Stone.
6. Lewis. 13. Sturgis.
7. Lombard. 14. Webb.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
I. Bowen. 5. Crosman.
2. Church.
6. Greenwood.
3. Clap.
7. Leonard.
. 4. Cotton.
8. Williams.
CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHU- SETTS.
I. Bull. 12. Marshfield.
2. Chandler.
13. Mead.
3. Cheney.
14. Parkman.
4. Cushing. 15. Prentice.
5. Doolittle. 16. Pynchon.
6. Dwight. 17. Stebbins.
7. Flegg. 18. White.
8. Frink.
19. Wilder.
9. Huggins.
20. Williams.
IO. Lee.
21. Wright.
Cf. "New England Historical and Genealog- ical Register," vol. vi., p. 189, etc.
The tax lists of the several towns contain the names of citizens at successive periods. But previously to the revolutionary war there is very little else upon which to build a complete record. The first important census was taken in 1764, and this, as preserved, is not a record of names, but only a list of figures. The number of houses and persons of each sex was kept up in this way at occasional intervals until 1800. Thus the value of such a list as that of 1736, as above presented, may well be appreciated, even though it may contain the names of many students and clergymen of that period.
When the United States direct tax of 1798
was assessed in Massachusetts, a list was pre- pared which contains a description of real estate in the hands of private persons, and the list is now valuable for its account of farms and their boundaries, and of outlands, and for the de- scription which it gives of dwelling houses, barns, outbuildings, etc.
Following is a list of family names most numerously represented in the original eight towns of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Counties were first made in 1643, for ex- ample: Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk and Nor- folk (old Norfolk) were incorporated in that year.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
CHARLESTOWN .- Principal authority, Wy- man's "Charlestown." The families most numer- ously represented in this work are Adams (78), Austin (42), Brown (83), Cutter (60), Froth- ingham (49), Green or Greene (78), Hall (46), Harris (47), Johnson (81), Newell (45), Parker (58), Phillips (46), Pierce (54), Rand (75), Reed (43), Richardson (68), Russell (51), Smith (123), Sprague (45), Tufts (84), and Whittemore (56). The numbers in paren- theses represent the number of Wyman's family groups. He places before the name of Kettell one of those peculiar indexes with which he introduces a family of large numbers, but there are several families equally as large as that one covered by the matter in his book.
CAMBRIDGE .- Authority : Paige's "History of Cambridge." The families most numerously represented in this work are Bordman (15), Bowman (II), Bradish (II), Champney (20), Cook (20), Cooper (II), Cutler ( II), Cutter (52), Dana (32), Dickson (15), Fessenden (15), Fillebrown (16), Frost (35), Goddard (II), Gookin (15), Green (17), Hall (15), Hancock (12), Hastings (29), Hill (29), Holden (16), Hovey (14), Kidder (14), Man- ning (16), Mason (21), Moore (13), Munroe (16), Oliver (II), Parker ( II), Prentice (48), Reed (14), Robbins (25), Russell (41), Smith (16), Sparhawk (16), Stone (18), Swan (14), Watson (17), Wellington (15), Whitmore (II), Whittemore (36), Winship (36), and Wyeth (26). For the Arlington part of Cam- bridge. Authorities: Cutter's "History of Arlington," and the printed vital records. Adams (23), Butterfield (14), Cook and Cooke (13), Cutter (77), Dickson (14), Fillebrown (14), Frost (40), Hall (13), Hill (22), Locke (38), Peirce (12), Prentice (16), Robbins (13), Russell (38). Swan (27), Wellington (12), Whittemore (24), and Winship (30). For
II. Lorkin.
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the Newton part of Cambridge. Authorities : Jackson's "History of Newton," and the printed vital records. Bartlett (24), Cooke (22), Clark (23), Fuller (71), Greenwood (21), Hall (22), Hammond (38), Hyde (81), Jackson (93), Murdock (22), Park (28), Parker (51), Pren- tice (23), Richards (21), Stone (28, Trow- bridge (29), Ward (40), Williams (21), Wis- wall (24), Woodward (22). The numbers in parentheses represent the number of family groups.
WATERTOWN .- Many families of Watertown which fill much space in Bond's work are ex- tended greatly into the limits of other towns; but after careful consideration the following list is submitted for what it is worth. Author- ity : Bond's "History of Watertown." Allen, Bemis, Bigelow, Bond, Bowman, Bright, Brooks, Brown, Coolidge, Fiske, Flagg, Fuller, God- dard, Hammond, Harrington, Hastings, Jenni- son, Jones, Lawrence, Livermore, Mason, Pierce, Phillips, Saltonstall, Sanderson, Smith, Spring, Stearns, Stone, Stratton, Warren, Well- ington, White, Whitney, and Woodward.
SUDBURY .- Authority : The printed vital rec- onds. The family names most numerously represented in this town are those of Brown, Goodenow, Haynes, Hunt, Maynard, Moore, Parmenter, Rice, Smith and Willis.
CONCORD .- The names of families most numerously represented in Concord, according to the vital records and Shattuck's "History of Concord," are Adams (II), Ball ( II ), Barrett (25), Blood (15), Brooks (33), Brown (39), Buttrick (14), Dakin (10), Davis (21), Farrar (14), Fletcher ( II), Hoar (10), Hosmer (24), Hubbard (12), Hunt (13), Melvin (16), Mer- iam (14), Miles (12), Taylor (12), Wheeler (51), Wood (15). The figures in parentheses represent the number of heads of families.
WOBURN .- Authority : Johnson's printed vital record. The following statement is based upon the birth rate in that work. The family names most numerously represented are Brooks, Car- ter, Converse, Fowle, Johnson, Kendall, Pierce, Reed, Richardson, Simonds, Thompson, and Wyman. The three most numerous families are those of Johnson, Richardson, and Wyman, and the name of Richardson is represented in the birth list (to 1873) by nearly 900 entries.
MEDFORD .- The printed vital records to 1850 give as the most numerously represented names, those of Brooks, Hall and Tufts. The genea- logical records in Brooks's "History of Med- ford" add to these those of Blanchard, Francis, Reeves, Wade, Whitmore and Willis.
READING .- The vital records of this munici-
pality are not printed. From Eaton's "History of Reading" a very general estimate is made, which includes among the most numerous family names those of Bancroft, Boutwell, Browne, Bryant, Cowdry, Damon, Eaton, Em- erson, Evans, Fitch, Flint, Green, Hartshorne, Nichols, Parker, Poole, Pratt, Smith, Stimpson, Swain, Temple, Wakefield, Walton, Weston and Wiley.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The original eight towns of Essex county in 1643 were Salem, Lynn, Wenham, Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, Gloucester and Andover.
SALEM .- Salem, like its companion seaport, Boston, is an interesting place to genealogists. But it is doubtful if in spite of earnest en- deavors in that direction, on the part of a num- ber that the work is nearer accomplishment gen- erally than that of Boston, as described by Whitmore in the first part of this article. In a place so genealogically important as Salem, the vital records have been collected from vari- ous sources, and in relation to the entire subject are doubtless only fragmentary. The eighteenth century baptisms in Salem, as published by Emmerton, show for the most numerously represented families in that century the names of Andrew and Andrews, Archer, Ashby, Ash- ton, Babbidge, Barr, Bickford, Bowditch, Bray, Brookhouse, Brown and Browne, Bullock, Bur- rill, Chapman, Cheever, Clark, Clough, Clout- man, Collins, Cook, Cox, Dampney, Daniel or Daniels, Derby, Dodge, Driver, Emmerton, Felt, Fisher, Forrester, Foster, Fowler, Frye, Gale, Gardner, Gavitt, Gerrish, Giles, Glover, Goodale, Goodhue, Gould, Grafton, Grant, Gray, Hall, Hathorne, Henderson, Hill, Hodges, Holman, Horton, Howard, Hunt, Ingalls, Ingersoll, Jef- frey, Josephs, King, Lamb, Lambert, Lander, Lane, Loring, Lawrence, Leaclı, Lee, Lefavor, Liscomb and Luscomb, Mackintire, Manning, Mansfield, Marston, Mason, Massey, Masury, Mayberry, Millett, Morgan, Morong, Moses, Motey, Neal, Needham, Nichols, Oliver, Orne, Osgood, Palfrey, Palmer, Parker, Patterson, Peale, Pease, Peirce and Pierce, Phelps, Phippen, Pickering, Pickman, Pitman, Prince, Proctor, Punchard, Putnam, Richardson, Ropes, Rowell, Rust, Sage, Sanders and Saunders, Saunder- son, Savage, Silsbee, Skerry, Smith, Smithers, Southard, Stone, Swasey, Simonds and Sy- monds, Teague, Townsend, Trask, Tucker, Valpy, Very, Ward, Waters, Webb, Wellman, West, White, Williams, Woodbridge, Wood- bury and Yell, and many others who are possi- bly entitled to a place in the list. In the pub-
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lished records of the parish list of deaths, kept by William Bentley, pastor of the East Church, Salem, covering the period between 1785 and 1819, the following family names are most numerous: Allen, Archer, Babbidge, Becket, Brown and Browne, Cheever, Collins, and Crowninshield, Dean, Derby, Fairfield, Hodges, King, Lambert, Lane, Manning, Masury, Millet, Murray, Palfrey, Patterson, Peele, Perkins, Phippen, Richardson, Ropes, Silsbee, Smith, Swasey, Townsend, Ward, Waters, Webb, Well- man, White, Whittemore and Williams. In- dividuals having large families are very inter- esting genealogically, and important sociologi- cally and physiologically ; and next in interest to these facts are those of longevity; closely akin to which subject is that of fatalities, in which accidents, war and pestilence or epidem- ical disease, bear an important part, events which are more likely to affect a seaport like Salem, with a large floating element in its popu- lation, than the more inland country districts.
LYNN .- Authority : The printed vital records. The most numerous families to 1850 are those bearing the names of Alley, Bachellor, Breed, Brown, Burrill, Chase, Collins, Fuller, Hawkes, Ingalls, Johnson, Lewis, Mansfield, Mudge, Newhall, Oliver, Parrott, Phillips, Ramsdell, Rhodes, Smith and Tarbox. Of these Breed and Newhall are by far the most numerous.
WENHAM .- Authority : The printed vital rec- ords. The most numerous families to 1850 are those bearing the names of Bacheller, Dodge, Fairfield, Fiske, Kimball, Perkins and Porter. Of these Dodge and Kimball are the most numerous.
IPSWICH .- Authority : Felt, "History of Ips- wich." Andrews, Appleton, Baker, Brown, Burnham, Choate, Cogswell, Dodge, Emerson, Farley, Foster, Giddings, Goodhue, How, Hub- bard, Killam, Kimball, Knowlton, Lord, Low, Manning, Norton, Perkins, Potter, Rogers, Rust, Smith, Staniford, Story, Symonds, Treadwell, Wade, Wainwright, Ward, Warner, Whipple, Whittingham, Wigglesworth, Wise. A late authority on the subject of the most numerously represented names, of which the above are a number in this ancient town is Waters's "His- tory of Ipswich."
ROWLEY .- Authority : Blodgette, "Early Set- tlers of Rowley," in this work the family names most numerously represented are Bailey, Boyn- ton, Burpee, Clarke, Dickinson, Dresser, Ells- worth, Harriman, Harris, Hidden, Hobson, Hopkinson, Jackson, Jewett (numerously so), Johnson, Kilbourne, Mighill, Nelson, Palmer,
Pearson, Pickard, Platts, Scott, Tenney, Todd and Wood.
NEWBURY .- Newbury, better known from the city part as Newburyport, is a very old settlement, and the list of the most numerous family names, as interpreted from Coffin's "Newbury," from 1635 to 1700, contains those of Ayer, Badger, Bailey, Bartlett, Brown, Chase, Cheney, Clark, Coffin, Davis, Dole, Dummer, Emery, Goodridge, Greenleaf, Hale, Ilsley, Kelley, Knight, Kent, Lowell, Lunt, March, Merrill, Moody, Morse, Noyes, Ordway, Pet- tingell, Pike, Pillsbury, Poore, Plummer, Rolfe, Somerby, Swett, Titcomb, Toppan, Wheeler and Woodman. Whether these names were con- tinued in the same proportion in the eighteenth century is a matter of doubt, in the absence of printed vital records. Poore's "Merrimac Val- ley Researches" may furnish sufficient names to form a partial substitute.
GLOUCESTER .- Authority : Babson's "History of Gloucester." Numerous family names in Gloucester have been those of Andrews, Bab- son, Bennett, Bray, Brown, Chandler, Collins, Davis, Day, Ellery, Elwell, Eveleth, Gard- ner, Giddings, Harraden, Haskell, Ingersoll, Lane, Low, Lufkin, Millet, Norwood, Parsons, Pool, Riggs, Robinson, Sargent, Sawyer, Smith, Somes, Stanwood, Stevens, Tarr, White, Wit- ham, Woodbury, York.
ANDOVER .- This historic old town, originally embracing the present towns of Andover and North Andover, and the south portion of the city of Lawrence, was first settled in the north- erly part, now North Andover, where the first meeting-house of the town was built near the old burying ground there; and here the larger number of the inhabitants dwelt for several years after the first settlement of the town as a whole. By 1707, however, it was found that the bulk of the population had changed to the southerly part, and so a new meeting-house, then needed, was planned to be built in that part. The agitation resulted in two parishes being formed, one being the North and the other the South Precinct of the town, and two meeting places for the religious societies of that day were built. Thus the town of Cochi- chewick, its name when it became a part of the county of Essex in 1643, became eventually to be known as Andover, the southerly part espe- cially being noted as an intellectual centre the world over. In this parish there were between the years 1711 and 1809 the number of 3592 baptisms, or eighty-ninetieths infant baptisms. From the "Historical Manual of the South
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Church in Andover," published in 1859, which appears to be the principal authority on the subject of the size of families in general, are taken the following names, which appear to be those most numerously represented in the town itself: Abbot, Blanchard, Chandler, Dane, Fos- ter, Holt, Johnson, Lovejoy, Osgood, Phelps, Russell, Stevens and Wardwell. In 1859 the name of Abbot preponderates. The publica- tion of the vital records of Andover was begun in the newspapers several years ago.
SUFFOLK COUNTY.
The original eight towns of Suffolk county in 1643 were Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedham, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Hull. Omitting Boston, Roxbury and Dorchester, all now parts of the one city of Boston, we have left Dedham, Braintree, Weymouth, now parts of the new county of Norfolk, and Hingham and Hull, now parts of the present county of Plymouth.
PRESENT PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
HINGHAM .- The family names most numer- ously represented in Hingham, according to the printed history of that town, are first those of Cushing ( 123 family groups), Hersey (III), and Lincoln ( 178) ; followed closely in number by Beal (89), Gardner (84), Sprague (74), Stodder (92), and Whiton (80). Next to these in number by Barnes (35), Bates (47), Burr (33), Dunbar (36), Fearing (45), French (25), Gill (22), Hobart (53), Humphrey (31), Jacob (28), Jones (30), Lane (43), Leavitt (39), Lewis (26), Loring (46), Marsh (26), Nichols ( 22), Ripley (25), Souther (21), Sto- well (28), Thaxter (30). Tower (55), and Wilder (63).
HULL .- In 1740 the Loring family was prom- inent in Hull, which territorily and numerically has been one of the smallest towns in the State.
PRESENT NORFOLK COUNTY.
DEDHAM .- Authority : Vital records of the town of Dedham, as printed under the super- vision of Don Gleason Hill, town clerk. The most numerously represented names on these records are Allen ( Allin, Alleyne ), Bacon, Baker, Battle, Bullard, Chickering, Clapp, Clark, Colburn, Dean, Draper, Eaton, Ellis, Ever- ett. Fairbanks, Fales ( and Vales). Farrington, Fisher, Fuller, Gay, Guild, Hawes, Herring, Holmes, Kingsbury, Lewis, Mason, Metcalf, Morse, Newell, Onion, Pond, Rhoads, Rich- ards, Smith (and Smyth ), Sumner, Weather- bee, White, Whiting and Wight.
BRAINTREE .- The vital records of this town have been published through the efforts of a citizen. Authority: "Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793," edited by Samuel A. Bates. The families most numerously repre- sented in the index to the vital records of births as printed in this work are Adams, Allen, Bass, Belcher, Copeland, Faxon, French, Hayden, Hayward, Niles, Spear, Thayer, Veazie, Wales and Webb.
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