Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 38

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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of Sudbury was dedicated. At that time the twenty-nine bodies were all found, the marks of the wounds showing in some cases after a lapse of nearly two hundred years. He mar- ried Abigail Lindall, of Marshfield. Children of Captain Wadsworth : I. Ebenezer, born 1660, died 1717; married Mary 2. Christopher, 1661, died unmarried, 1687; his grave is marked by the oldest stone in the graveyard at Milton. 3. Timothy, 1662. 4. Joseph, 1667, died 1750. 5. Rev. Benjamin, 1670, graduated at Harvard College, 1690; president of Harvard, 1725; died 1734; mar- ried Ruth Curwin. 6. Abigail, 1672, married Andrew Boardman. 7. John, mentioned below. The family met with a severe loss a few weeks before the birth of Rev. Benjamin, before mentioned. The dwelling house in which they lived took fire in the night time, burning to the ground. A few articles of household furniture and clothing were saved, and, as a temporary shelter while a new house was being erected, the family resided in the barn, and here the future college president was born.


(III) Deacon John, son of Captain Samuel Wadsworth, was born in Milton in 1674, and died in 1734, leaving a large estate, valued at seven thousand and eighty-two pounds. Among his effects was a negro slave, Caesar. Deacon John Wadsworth was a prominent man in both church and town affairs at Milton. He was deputy to the general court in 1717-25-26-32- 33. He was associated with Manasseh Tucker, Samuel Miller and Moses Belcher in the pur- chase of the Blue Hill lands, fifteen hundred acres of which were annexed to Milton in 1712. He married Elizabeth Vose, who died in 1756. Children : 1. Mary, born 1699, mar- ried, 1720, Robert Anderson. 2. Abigail, 1700, married Benjamin Fenno. 3. Elizabeth, 1701, married T. Tolman. 4. Rev. John, 1703, grad- uated at Harvard, 1723; died June 15, 1766. 5. Ruth, 1705, married Parrot. 6. Benjamin, 1707, mentioned below. 7. Joseph, 1712. 8. Grace, 1713, married Thomas Dean, of Dedham. 9. Margaret, 1714, married Ben- jamin Fuller. 10. Hannah, 1716. 1I. Ebe- nezer, 1718, married Patience Swift. 12. Sam- uel, 1720.


(IV) Deacon Benjamin, son of Deacon John Wadsworth, was born in Milton in 1707, and died October 17, 1771. He built a house on Wadsworth Hill, Milton, about the time of his marriage. The house is still standing. He was a prominent man and twenty-eight years. deacon of the church. He married, in 1735, Esther Tucker. Children: 1. Elizabeth, born


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1736, died 1751. 2. Ruth, 1737, married Ralph Houghton. 3. John, 1739, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, 1741. 5. Mary, 1743. 6. Ann, 1745, died young. 7. Sarah, 1747, married Ebe- nezer Glover. 8. Benjamin, 1750. 9. Esther, 1752, married Nathan Vose. 10. Joseph, 1755, died same year.


(V) John (2), son of Deacon Benjamin Wadsworth, was born in Milton in 1739 and died in 1775. He married, in 1760, Catherine Bullard. He was a minute-man and started with his company on the Lexington alarm, but was obliged to give up owing to ill health, and died the same year. His widow sent her team to transport the cassivus for the fortifications at Dorchester Heights. Children : I. Rebecca, born 1761, died young. 2. Joseph, 1763, died 1816. 3. Benjamin, 1765, mentioned below. 4. William, 1768, died 1824. 5. John, 1770, died 1847.


(VI) Benjamin (2), son of John (2) Wads- worth, was born in Milton in 1765 and died in 1829. He was a plowmaker and resided at Milton. He married Mary Babcock. Chil- dren: I. Rebecca, born and died 1790. 2. Sarah, born and died 1791. 3. Isaac, born 1792. 4. Jason, 1794, died 1870. 5. Mary, 1795, died 1879. 6. Catherine, 1797, married Thomas Copeland. 7. Thomas Thatcher, 1799, mentioned below. 8. Benjamin, born and died 1800.


(VII) Thomas Thatcher, son of Benjamin (2) Wadsworth, was born in Milton in 1799 and died there in 1882. He received his edu- cation in the public schools and at Milton Academy, and learned the trade of cabinet making. He worked at his trade at Milton for more than twenty-five years. He made birch tables which he sold in Boston, and also made very beautiful mahogany furniture. About 1862 he gave up cabinet making and conducted his farm the remainder of his life. He was a member of Union Lodge of Free Masons. Dorchester, and later of Macedonian Lodge at Milton. He served as selectman of the town for several years, and as chairman of the board a part of the time, and also as a member of the legislature two years. He attended the Unitarian church. He married, in 1829, at Roxbury, Mary Bradlee, daughter of Lemuel Bradlee. Child: Edwin Dexter, born December 3, 1832, mentioned below.


(VIII) Captain Edwin Dexter, son of Thomas Thatcher Wadsworth, was born in Milton on the homestead, December 3, 1832, died there February 21, 1901. He attended the public schools of his native town and also


Milton Academy. On October 31, 1849, a month before his seventeenth birthday, he accompanied his father's cousin, William Bab- cock, to California, going by way of Cape Horn, arrived at San Francisco April 6, 1850, and spending less than two years in the gold fields ; returned on account of sickness. After recovering his health he entered the merchant marine service. He was engaged in foreign trade and visited the principal ports of Europe and South America, and the far East. He was the chief officer of the first American merchantship that traded in a Japanese port, the ship "Florence." Captain Wadsworth was then only twenty-five years old. During the civil war he commanded a transport con- veying soldiers to different points along the southern coast. Later he was in command of steamships of the Cromwell and Black Star lines, plying between New York and New Orleans. In 1868. he gave up a seafaring life and settled in Milton, where for five years he engaged in the coal business.


In politics he was a Republican and was active in town affairs. He served as select- man, and was on the school committee six years, part of the time as chairman. He was a member and chairman of the board of assessors, and was trustee of the public library for eighteen years, from its foundation. He was a member of the board of water commis- sioners of Milton and did much to aid in the establishment of an improved sewerage system in the town. He was treasurer of the Boston Marine Society for twelve years, up to his death, and secretary of the Society of Cali- fornia Pioneers of New England from 1890 to 1895. He was for five years secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1896 he was elected a member of the county commissioners of Norfolk county for a term of three years, and re-elected for a second term. To the exacting duties of this office he brought a pleasing personality, ripe judg- ment, and zealous care and thought. He was a charter member and Past Master of Mace- donian Lodge of Free Masons of Milton. As a public spirited citizen he was always ready with his influence to aid in forwarding all measures calculated to be of benefit to the community. Always honest and upright, he won the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, and gave them in return the best that was in him in the execution of the duties of the various offices which he was called upon to fill. He married, November 5, 1862, Ellen


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Maria Emerson, born in Milton, March 24, 1840, daughter of Joshua and Ann Gulliver (Babcock) Emerson, of Milton. Children : I. Dexter Emerson, born March 7, 1866, en- gaged in the dry goods business in Quincy ; married, June 21, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois, Kate Shumway Anderson. 2. Annie Mary, September 20, 1868, died unmarried June 3, 1902.


BUSH The Bush family is of ancient Eng-


lish origin. The first pioneer of the family in this country was Ran- dolph or Reynold Bush, who was a proprietor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1641. He mortgaged land there in 1644 and redeemed it in 1657. He doubtless removed soon after- ward to Connecticut.


(I) Jonathan Bush, probably a son of Ran- dolph Bush, was born in 1650 and died in 1739. He was one of the early settlers of Enfield, Connecticut, and his name appears on the records as early as 1680. He owned the fourth lot on the west side at the upper end of the town and afterwards lived north of Freshwater. He married Sarah


Children, born at Enfield: 1. Jonathan, men- tioned below. 2. John, November 22, 1685, died young. 3. Sarah, married, in 1718, Ben- jamin Sittan and settled at Somers, Connec- ticut, formerly part of Enfield. 4. Daniel, born November 13, 1689. 5. Ebenezer, August 19, 1692. 6. Caleb, December 27, 1697. 7. Sarah, September 27, 1699.


(II) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) Bush, was born about 1682, in Enfield, and died February 28, 1746. His epitaph reads : "He fineshed his Pessabel (peaceable) and exemplary life Febry. ye 28th in the 65th year of his age." He was a wheelwright by trade. His children quitclaimed their rights in the estate of their grandfather, Jonathan Bush. He married Rachel Kibbe, of Enfield, who died in 1786, aged ninety-eight years. Children, born at Enfield: 1. Jonathan, May 2, . 1710, lived in Springfield, Massachusetts. 2. Joshua, August 17, 1712, married Experience French. 3. Moses, 1714. 4. Aaron, August 18, 1717, mentioned below. 5. Rachel, May 30, 1722, married Job Larkham. 6. Caleb, August 7, 1725, married Martha, daughter of Ebenezer Pease. 7. Elizabeth, January 12, 1727-28.


(III) Aaron, son of Jonathan (2) Bush, was born August 18, 1717, died at Enfield in 1805. He was a prominent citizen and for many years held offices of trust and honor in his native town. He was highway surveyor


in 1753, collector of taxes in 1755, tything- man in 1767, on the school committee in 1770, and held these offices and others at different times. He married, September 21, 1743, Alice French, born April 30, 1720, died December 2, 1778. Their home was on Terry Lane. Children, born at Enfield: 1. Alice, Septem- ber 26, 1744. 2. Aaron, August 23, 1746. 3. Moses, June 27, 1748. 4. Oliver, May 12, 1750. 5. Elizabeth, May 5, 1752. 6. Rufus, July 16, 1754, mentioned below. 7. Abel. 8. Sarah, November 14, 1756. 9. Mary, April 13, 1759. 10. John, September 25, 1763.


( IV) Rufus, son of Aaron Bush, was born July 16, 1754. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion, a private in the tenth company, Captain Hezekiah Parsons, of Enfield, at the siege of Boston in 1775. He was also in Captain Abbe's company in the Connecticut Line Regiment, 1777-81, and saw much active service. Late in life he was a pensioner of the government and he was living in 1840. In 1790 he appears in the federal census as the head of a family at Enfield, having two sons under sixteen and four females in his family. He married (first) March 30, 1780, Huldah Alden, of Enfield. She died there October 2, 1817, aged sixty- two years. He married (second) September 23, 1818, Resine Redotha, of Enfield. Chil- dren of first wife, born at Enfield: I. Huldah, February 10, 1781. 2. Lydia, July 28, 1782. 3. Rufus, May 24, 1784, mentioned below. 4. Porter, January 18, 1786.


(V) Rufus (2), son of Rufus (1) Bush, was born at Enfield, May 24, 1784. He mar- ried, at Enfield, March 1, 1801, Sally Allen, and the town records state that he was "six- teen the last of May, she fifteen in January." He was a carpenter and builder and one of the leading contractors of that section in his day. He lived at Enfield during his active life. In politics he was a Democrat.


(VI) David A., son of Rufus (2) Bush, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, 1803, died July 7, 1870. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and at the age of fifteen was employed by Potter & King, plow manufac- turers, and remained with them until he went to Chicopee Falls. Here he worked on the construction of the first water wheels and flumes in use there. While living in Chicopee Falls he refused to pay the church tax, as he did not believe in the doctrines taught, and never attended their services. The church authorities seized his coat to satisfy the tax. He was a strong Universalist and assisted in the erection of the first Universalist church of


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Springfield. From Chicopee Falls he went to Providence and later to Willimansett and in 1830 removed to Springfield, where he bought the plow and wagon manufactory of Ebe- nezer Crane. In a comparatively short time he succeeded in building up a very extensive business. His factory was at the corner of Main and Cross streets. He invested in real estate and owned the line of houses on Cross street. Bush block, and other property. He married, April 30, 1827, Betsey Williams, of Westfield, died February 22, 1879, at seventy- three years, daughter of Naboth Williams, who died in 1821. Children: I. Elizabeth Page, died young. 2. Austin B., mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth Page, married Dennis S. Goff, of Springfield ; had one child, Jessie B., who married Henry Safford, of Springfield, Mass- achusetts. 4. Melancthon Whitamore, died young.


(VII) Austin B., son of David A. Bush, was born in Willimansett, December 21, 1829. He received his early education in the public schools and Clinton Institute in New York, supplemented by a year at the Norwich Mili- tary Academy of Vermont, under Captain Alden Partridge. He started to learn wagon making in his father's factory, but gave it up to go into the grocery business. Six years later he took a position in the United States armory, where he was engaged in the stock- ing department until the close of the civil war. Since then he has put all his time into the care of the large amount of real estate left him by his father. In politics he is a Democrat and has been clerk of the returning board of ward three and has once received the nomination for alderman in this Republican ward. For some time he was a member of Cataract Engine Company No. 2. He has been an ex- tensive traveller in his own country, and is well-informed. He is a member of St. Paul's Church and its treasurer, and for many years teacher in the Sunday school. He married (first ) January II, 1854, Susan P. Millard, of Levant, Maine, born November 7, 1832, died August 8, 1891, daughter of David and Rebecca Millard. He married (second) Feb- ruary 15, 1892, Mrs. Persis (Crawford) Pros- ser. born October 13, 1844, daughter of Will- iam and Almira (Cheney) Crawford, of Oak- har, Massachusetts, and widow of Charles M. Prosser. Her grandfather, Alexander Craw- ford. worked in the United States armory and finished the first rifle ever made in the Spring- fieidl armory. Children of first wife : I. James, died young. 2. Harry Dean, born April 2,


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1857, graduated at the Springfield high school and in 1879 from Worcester Institute of Tech- nology ; has held many important positions on the Pacific coast and has been superintendent of the Dominion Bridge Company of Canada ; also with George Morrison, bridge builder of New York, and on the water works of Port- land, Oregon ; married Emma Wetherbee, of Gardner, Massachusetts. She died December 7, 1907. He married (second) Mrs. Frances Davis, January 21, 1909.


(The Crawford Line).


Aaron Crawford, immigrant ancestor, was born in county Tyrone in 1677. If George Crawford were his ancestor, the family had been there some sixty years when he was born, and George would have been his grandfather or great-grandfather. He came to New Eng- land with his family in 1713, some five years before the extensive emigration of the Scotch- Irish began. He arrived in Boston in the spring or summer of 1713, and lived there probably until he settled in Rutland, Massa- chusetts, soon afterward. A member of the Crawford family was elected to town office in Rutland at the first town-meeting in July, 1722, and it is believed that Aaron Crawford was one of the first settlers of the town. He married Agnes Wilson in the parish of Caly, county Tyrone, Ireland. She was born 1678. Three sons, Samuel, John and Alexander, born in the parish of Caly, Ireland, were brought over by the parents, also Martha. Aaron and his wife both died at Rutland and are buried in the graveyard in the centre of the town. He died August 6, 1754; she died December 10, 1760. Children : 1. Samuel, born 1705, died October 17, 1760 ; married Margaret Montgomery and had no children. 2. Martha, 1706, died September 20, 1795, in Rutland ; mar- ried, May 24, 1733. James Bell. 3. John, born in Ireland, settled in Palmer, died unmarried. 4. Alexander, 1713, mentioned below. 5. Isa- bella, died young. 6. Mary, Rutland, April 15, 1721, married, April 15, 1745, William McCobb. 7. Moses, died unmarried in Rut- land.


(II) Alexander, son of Aaron Crawford, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, early in 1713, and was but a few months old when his parents came to America. He went to Rutland with his family in 1719 and helped his father clear the farm during his youth. He settled in Rutland and followed the life of a pioneer farmer until 1750, when he re- moved to West Wing, now Oakham, where he


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died October II, 1793, in his eightieth year. He married, February 5, 1735-36, Elizabeth Crawford, who died April 27, 1774, aged sixty-two. She was doubtless also born in Ireland, in Londonderry county, emigrating with several brothers and sisters from Mag- herafelt of that county, and settling in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. She was perhaps a distant relative of her husband. Children : I. William, died young. 2. John, born January 7, 1739, captain in the revolu- tion ; married, February 9, 1759, Rachel Hen- derson. 3. Child, died young. 4. Aaron, mar- ried, January 31, 1768, Giles Gill. 5. William, born October 23, 1745, mentioned below.


(III) William, son of Alexander Crawford, was born in Rutland, October 23, 1745. He removed to Oakham with his parents when five years of age and was brought up on the farm, getting a meagre education in the com- mon schools. He learned the trade of clock- making and became one of the most skillful and famous mechanics in his line. His home was in the castern part of the town. He was a soldier in the revolution, sergeant in Captain John Crawford's company, Colonel James Con- verse's regiment, enlisting July 22, 1777, and was discharged July 26, 1777, serving in the Rhode Island campaign. He was under the same officers on the Bennington alarm, from August 20 to August 23, 1777. He was short of stature and somewhat lame in consequence of a fever sore. He became captain of his company in the militia and was afterwards always called Captain Crawford. He married Mary Henderson, born July 30, 1748, died November 26, 1838, of old age, daughter of James and Sarah Henderson, of Rutland. Children: I. Elizabeth, born February 10, 1774, died February 3, 1838; married, 1815, Jonathan King. 2. James, August II, 1775, married Mollie Butler. 3. Lucy, February 7, 1778. 4. William, February 25, 1780, died March 30, 1781. 5. Sarah, January 30, 1782, died February I, 1798. 6. William, January 30. 1782 (twin), died February 1, 1798. 7. William, October 5. 1784, representative to the general court ; graduate of Dartmouth ; county commissioner : general in the state militia. 8. Rufus, November 13, 1785, married, 1820, Clarissa Cunningham. 9. Molly, October 6, 1787, married, June 27, 1812, Samuel Tenney. 10. Alexander, April 16, 1792, mentioned be- low. 11. Isabella, February 24, 1796, died November 16, 1845.


(IV) Alexander (2), son of William Craw- ford. was born in Oakham, April 16, 1792.


He married, September 6, 1813, Mary Hender- son. Children, born at Oakham: I. Emeline Mariah, September 30, 1814 .. 2. Anson Alex- ander, January 17, 1817. 3. William A., Octo- ber 7, 1820, mentioned below. 4. Harriet.


(V) William Amory, son of Alexander (2) Crawford, was born at Oakham, Octo- ber 7, 1820, and resided there. He married Almira E. Cheney. Children: I. Persis C., born at Oakham, October 13, 1844, who mar- ried (first) August 30, 1870, Charles M. Pros- ser, of New Berlin, Chenango county, New York ; he died January 15, 1878. She married (second) Austin B. Bush (see Bush family), February 15, 1892; he died December 23, 1904. Mrs. Bush is a member of Mercy War- ren Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- lution, of Springfield, Massachusetts. 2. Mary L., born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 4, 1846, married Lacell Jones; one child, Lula A., who married Edward Lee; now resides in Worcester, Massachusetts.


This family is of ancient Eng-


. FISHER lish origin and the surname, Fisher, is taken from the occu-


pation. Some of the familes in England bore arms, one of which is as follows: Azure, a dolphin embowed naiant or.


(I) Anthony Fisher, the first of this name of whom there is definite record, lived in the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the parish of Syleham, county Suffolk, Eng- land, on the south bank of the Waveney river, on a freehold estate called "Wignotte." He married Mary Fiske, daughter of William and Anne Fiske, of St. James, South Elmasham, county Suffolk, England. The Fiske family was an old Puritan family of that county, which had suffered during the religious per- secutions of Queen Mary's reign. Anthony Fisher was buried April 11, 1640. Children : I. Joshua, baptized February 24, 1585, died 1674 in Medfield, Massachusetts; married (first) -; (second) February 7, 1638, at Syleham, England, Anne Luson, who came to New England and settled at Dedham; Joshua came to New England in 1639 and set- tled first at Dedham ; admitted a freeman May 13, 1640; blacksmith by trade; removed to Medfield, 1650; was first deacon of the Med- field church : selectman 1653-55. 2. Mary. twin sister of Joshua, married W. Brigge, of Deningham, county Suffolk, England. 3. Anthony, baptized April 23, 1591, mentioned below. 4. Amos, married Anne Morrise, widow of Daniel Locke; resided at Eastridge


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Hall, parish of Wesley, county Essex, England. 5. Rev. Cornelius, baptized August 6, 1599, married Elizabeth --; had degree of M. A. from Cambridge University and resided at Brigholt, county Suffolk, England. 6. Martha, married John Buckingham, of Syleham, Eng- land.


(II) Anthony (2), son of Anthony (I) Fisher, was baptized at Syleham, England, April 23, 1591. He was the immigrant ances- tor, and came to New England probably in the ship "Rose," arriving in Boston, June 26, 1637. He settled at Dedham, and subscribed to the covenant there July 18, 1637. He was admitted a freeman in May, 1645, and was selectman of Dedham in 1646-47; elected county commissioner September 3, 1660, and deputy to the general court, May 2, 1649. He was woodreeve in 1653-54-57-58-61-62. He removed to Dorchester and was chosen select- man there December 5. 1664, and the two years following ; was commissioner in 1666. He died in Dorchester, April 18, 1671. His first wife Mary was admitted to the church at Dedham, March 27, 1642, and he on March 14, 1645. He married (second) November 14, 1663, Isabel Breck, widow of Edward Breck, of Dorchester. Children, all by first wife: I. Anthony, mentioned below. 2. Cornelius, married (first) February 23, 1653, at Dedham, Leah Heaton, who died at Wrentham, January 12, 1664; married (second) July 25, 1665, Sarah Everett ; he died at Wrentham, June 2, 1699. 3. Nathaniel, born, at Syleham, Eng- land, came to Dedham, 1637, and married there December 26, 1649, Esther Hunting; died at Dedham, May 23, 1676. 4. Daniel, born in England, came to Dedham, 1637, admitted freeman, May 13, 1640; called sergeant in the records ; member of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1642, and sergeant in 1655 ; mentioned as ensign in 1658-59; appointed captain of militia, October 15, 1673; about 1671 two of the regicide judges of Charles I, Colonel Goffe and Colonel Whalley, were hidden by Captain Daniel Fisher in a little wood back of his house on Lowder street, near a pond; Captain Daniel's daughter Lydia supplied them with food; Goffe was sent dis- guised as a servingman on horseback to Had- ley, remaining a year in the care of friends of Captain Daniel Fisher ; Daniel married, No- vember 16, 1641, Abigail Mariott. 5. Lydia, married Daniel Morse, of Sherborn. 6. John, died in Dedham, September 5, 1637, the first death recorded in Dedham.


(III) Anthony (3), son of Anthony (2)


Fisher, was born in England, came with his parents to New England, and settled in Ded- ham in 1637. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1644. He was admitted a freeman, May 6, 1646, and joined the Dedham church, July 20, 1645. He was chosen surveyor of Dedham in 1652-53-54. He removed to Dorchester and was selectman there in 1666. He married, in Dedham, September 7, 1647, Joanna Faxon, only daughter of Thomas and Jane Faxon, of Braintree. Children : I. Mehitable, born June 27, 1648, probably died young. 2. Experience, baptized August 11, 1650, probably died young. 3. Josiah, born May 1, 1654, mentioned below. 4. Abiah, baptized August 3, 1656, married, March 5, 1685, Benjamin Colburn, of Ded- ham; died November 18, 1688. 5. Sarah, October 29, 1658, married, May 22, 1677, John Guild. 6. Deborah, baptized February 24, 1661, married, October 20, 1679, James Fales. 7. Judith, baptized July 5, 1663, married, Jan- uary 3, 1684, John Bullen. 8. Eleazer, born September 18, 1669, married, October 13, 1698, Mary Avery.




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