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1686, died young. 10. Joseph, May 14, 1688, died January 19, 1704-05. II. Benjamin, October 8, 1690, died young. 12. Benjamin, December 22, 1692. 13. Hannah, February 25, 1694-95, married, June 23, 1713, Judge John Griswold; died May II, 1773. 14. Ste- phen, January 19, 1698-99, married (first) December 24, 1719, Abigail Lord; (second) January 25, 1742-43, Mary Pickett, widow. 15. Lydia, February 18, 1701-02, died unmarried. (III) John, son of Lieutenant Thomas (2) Lee, was born September 21, 1670, died Jan- uary 17, 1716. He married, February 8, 1692, Elizabeth Smith, of Lyme, who married (sec- ond) 1722, John Bates, of Groton, Connec- ticut. She died in 1761-62, aged about ninety years. Children: 1. Sarah, born November 12, 1693, married John Lay. 2. Elizabeth, April 30, 1695, died unmarried 1720. 3. Phebe, March 2, 1696-97, married (first) James Elderkin; (second) Samuel Southward. 4. Lucy, June 20, 1699, married, January 17, 1716-17, Amos Tinker. 5. Jane, May 20, 1701, married Thomas Way. 6. John, May 17, 1703, mentioned below. 7. Joseph, Novem- ber 24, 1705, married, August 21, 1727, Mary Allen ; died August 29, 1779. 8. Mary, Jan- uary 30, 1707-08, married John Comstock. 9. Hepzibah, May 16, 1710, married, February 25, 1735-36, Elisha Lee ; died 1783. 10. Ben- jamin, September 4, 1712, married, March 25, 1736, Mary Ely ; died 1777. 11. Joanna, April 28, 1715, married John Beckwith.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Lee, was born May 17, 1703, died August 26, 1745. He was a representative and king's attorney, and was much employed in public business. He was one who in 1743 withstood the vision- ary Rev. James Davenport, when under his influence the people of New London made a fire to burn their idols. John Lee said that his idols were his wife and children, and that he could not burn them-it would be con- trary to the law of God and man; that it was impossible to destroy idolatry without a change of heart and of the affections. He married (first) March 14, 1723-24, Lydia Allen, of Montville, Connecticut ; (second) February 17, 1731-32, his cousin, Eunice Lee ; (third) October 7, 1741, Abigail Tully, who married (second) Deacon Caleb Chapman, and died May 2, 1773. Children of first wife: I. Eliz- beth, born November 2, 1724, married, Au- gust 13, 1747, Captain Abner Lee ; died No- vember 2, 1761. 2. Lydia, August 13, 1727, died unmarried. 3. Parthenia, October 15, 1730. Children of second wife: 4. Dr. John,
July 25, 1733, married Elizabeth Griswold. 5. Martin, July 26, 1735, died young. 6. Giles, July 27, 1737, married (first) Delight Way ; ( second) Smith; (third) Martha Crook; died 1790. 7. Ann, August 1, 1739, married, July 23, 1761, Ensign Zechariah Marvin; died March 1, 1777. Children of third wife: 8. Eunice, January 14, 1742-43, married Samuel Hall. 9. Andrew, May 7, 1745, mentioned below.
(V) Rev. Andrew, son of John (2) Lee, was born May 7, 1745, died August 24, 1832. He graduated from Yale College in 1766 and was settled as the first minister at Hanover, the north society of Lisbon, Connecticut, Octo- ber 26, 1768. He was pastor of this church for more than sixty years. He built his house in 1770. In 1809 he received from Harvard College the honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. He was a fellow of Yale College. He was a man of generous impulses and candid and liberal in sentiment. He pub- lished a volume of sermons and various sep- arate discourses which display vigorous thought and nice discrimination. He was, however, deficient in pulpit oratory, his de- livery being heavy and monotonous. During the revolution he served from January I to October 15, 1777, in the Fourth Regiment Connecticut Line, under Colonel John Durkee, as chaplain in the army. He was a lover of science and a good classic scholar of his day. His theology was moderately Calvinistic. He retired a few years before he died. Rev. Dr. Samuel Nott preached his funeral sermon. He married (first ) December 15, 1768, Eunice Hall, who died October 7, 1800. She was of a fine complexion, small stature, remarkable sprightliness and activity. He married (sec- ond) October 22, 1801, Abigail ( Williams) Smith, widow of Ebenezer Smith, of Roxbury, Massachusetts ; she died May 23, 1831. Chil- dren, all by first wife: I. Eunice, born Octo- ber 22, 1769, married, January 21, 1796, Rev. Ezra Witter, of Wilbraham. 2. Mary, April 16, 1771, married, February 12, 1795, Hon. William Perkins. 3. John, February 21, 1773, married, September 30, 1798, Mary Griffin ; died July 29, 1814. 4. Dr. Tully, December 27, 1774, married, May 19, 1796, Lois Abell ; died May 11, 1806. 5. Abigail, May 23, 1777, married, December, 1799, Charles Lord; died 1817. 6. Andrew, June 2, 1779, married, 1807, Lemira Bushnell ; died February 3, 1815. 7. Lucy, June 23, 1781, married, June 3, 1802, Dr. Judah Bliss. 8. Hon. Martin, June II, 1783, died April 17, 1868; married Ann Wen-
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dell. 9. William, August 15, 1785, mentioned below. 10. Betsey, May 4, 1793, died young. (VI) Deacon William, son of Rev. Andrew Lee, was born in Hanover, Connecticut, Au- gust 15, 1785, died March 24, 1871. He lived on the homestead in Hanover all his life and was a farmer. For forty-one years he was deacon of the church of which his father was pastor. He was an earnest Christian and an active temperance worker, and very much in sympathy with the anti-slavery movement, and a zealous worker in that cause. He mar- ried (first) April 9, 1812, Nancy Bingham, of Lisbon, Connecticut. She died January 4, 1825, aged thirty-seven, and he married (sec- ond) Sarah Storrs, who died December 6, 1838. He married (third) May 27, 1840, Thankful Ayer, who died December 4, 1880. Children of first wife: I. Eliza Williams, born March 17, 1813, married Aaron Crary. 2. Eunice Hall, December 4, 1815, married Levi P. Rowland. 3. Nancy, September 19, 1817, married Nathan P. Bishop. 4. Andrew, January 25, 1820, married Eliza Hitchcock. 5. Talitha Bingham, July 10, 1822, married Moses Gallup. 6. Lucy Perkins, January 4, 1825, married Roger A. Bishop. Children of second wife: 7. William Storrs, December 15, 1827, resided on the homestead; learned trade of tinsmith at Plainfield; removed to Springfield and settled after marriage at Sprague on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres ; makes a specialty of peach raising ; mar- ried, April 4, 1860, Frances Anna Calkins, daughter of Elisha and Abby (Chapman) Calkins, of East Lyme; children: i. Abbie S., died May 1, 1896; graduate of Normal school ; teacher of Workingmen's school ; mem- ber of Society of Ethical Culture, People's singing classes and People's Choral Union ; ii. William Storrs, Jr., who graduated at Storrs Agricultural College ; married, March 28, 1894, Hetty Chapman, of Sprague ; had three daugh- ters and one son. 8. Samuel Henry, mentioned below.
(VII) Rev. Samuel Henry, son of William Lee, was born in Hanover, now, Sprague, Connecticut, December 21, 1832. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and then attended the academy at Plainfield for one winter, in 1847 entering Worcester Academy at Worcester, Massachu- setts. In the winter of that year he taught school at Hanover for ten dollars a month and his board, when not seventeen years old. In 1850, at the close of the harvest season, he went to the State Normal school at New
Britain, and commencing in December of that year taught in New Britain until the spring of 1851, continuing through the summer and fall of the same year in the Normal school. In the fall of 1852 he taught a boy's prepara- tory school in Farmington, Connecticut, teach- ing English and studying Latin. In the winter of 1851-52 he was a teacher in the Greenwich public school. He graduated from the Normal school in the class of 1852 and from Williston Seminary at Easthampton in 1854. He then entered Yale College and was graduated in 1858 with the degree of A. B. He received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater in 1904. He returned to the normal school as teacher of mathematics for two years. He took up the study of theology and in 1860 entered Yale Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1862. He accepted a call to the pastorate of the Porter Evangelical Church (Congregational) of North Bridge- water, now Brockton, Massachusetts, and was ordained September 17, 1862. He was active and earnest in supporting the Union both in and out of the pulpit. He resigned his pas- torate in February, 1866, and the year previ- ous (1865) entered the service of the Chris- tian commission and was in Sherman's army, then in Washington, waiting to be mustered out of service. He received a call to the Hammond Street Church in Bangor, Maine, but declined it and accepted the pastorate of the Congregational church at Greenfield, Mass- achusetts, where he was installed in August, 1866. Here he succeeded in uniting a divided church and in erecting a beautiful stone edifice. In 1872 he became pastor of the First Con- gregational Church of Cleveland, Ohio, and he enjoyed a very successful pastorate of seven years. In 1878 he accepted the professorship of political economy in Oberlin College, Ohio, and during the five years that he filled this chair he was active in raising funds for the institution. During the next two years he had temporary charge of the old parish in Brattleborough, Vermont. In December, 1885, he took up his residence in New Haven, Con- necticut, supplying pulpits in that city and vicinity, particularly that of the Ferry Con- gregational Church of New Haven and the Congregational church of Georgetown, Con- necticut. In 1884 he attended a summer school, conducted by Professor W. R. Harper, at Worcester, Massachusetts, studying Hebrew. He became a great admirer of Professor Har- per and at his instance Dr. Noah Porter, presi- dent of Yale, secured his appointment as pro-
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fessor of Semitic Languages at Yale Univer- sity. But it was necessary to raise an endow- ment of $60,000 to support the chair. Mr. Lee was instrumental in securing the professor- ship of Semitic languages at Yale for Dr. Harper. In the spring of 1890 Mr., Lee acepted the chair of history and political econ- omy in the French-American College at Spring- field, Massachusetts, and from the beginning of his work there aided the institution, as he had Oberlin and Yale by raising necessary funds from time to time. Three years later, July 12, 1893, upon the resignation of Rev. C. E. Amaron, he became president of the college. The college flourished under his leadership, the standard of instruction was raised, the number of students increased and in 1906 the present name was adopted, the American International College. In 1893 a a new dormitory was built, ealled Gymnasium Hall, and in 1898-99 the woman's hall was erected. In July, 1908, President Lee resigned, but as president emeritus still takes a keen interest in the work and progress of the col- lege to which he has devoted so much energy and labor. He resides at 106 Wilbraham road, Springfield. He is a member of the Congregational Club and Reality Club. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, August 7, 1861, Emma C. Carter, born January 31, 1835, daughter of Evits and Emma (Taylor ) Carter, of Pleasant Valley, Connecticut. She is a member of the Society of Mayflower Decendants. Children : I. Gerald Stanley, born October 4, 1862, men- tioned below. 2. Christabel, April 30, 1865, graduate of Wellesley College in 1888; teacher one year in the Ladies Seminary at Rochester, New York; married, August 28, 1885, Philo Perry Safford, son of Rev. John D. Safford ; graduate of Oberlin College and of Columbia Law School and now practicing law in New York City; children: Geoffrey Lee, Eliza- beth L., Meodore L. and Philip L. 3. Grace, Greenfield, December 13, 1867, student three years in Wellesley College ; teacher six months in the American International College at Springfield ; member of the working force of the Children's Aid Society of Boston three years; secretary of the Children's Aid Society at Baltimore in 1900; died December 28, 1900. 4. Rev. Theodore Storrs, Cleveland, Ohio, May 23, 1873, educated at the New Haven high school, the Williston Seminary, and the American International College, but his health failed and he did not take a degree ; after a prolonged visit in the south he graduated
from Amherst College in 1900 and from the Union Theological Seminary of New York in 1903; ordained pastor of the White Plains Congregational Church, October 20, 1903; now a missionary in Satara District, India ; married, October 1, 1903, Hannah Hume, daughter of R. A. Hume; child, Graee, born in India.
(VIII) Rev. Gerald Stanley, son of Rev. Samuel Henry Lee, was born at Brockton, October 4, 1862. He attended the public schools and entered Oberlin College, but com- pleted his course and took his degree at Mid- dlebury College, Vermont, with the elass of 1885. He was ordained in the Congregational church and preached one year at Princeton, Minnesota. For four years he was pastor of the Congregational chureh at Sharon, Con- necticut. In 1895 he was installed as pastor of the Park Congregational Church of West Springfield, Massachusetts. He resigned his pastorate in 1896 and since then has been engaged in literary work, making his home in Northampton. He married, June 25, 1896, Jennette Barbour Perry, born November 10, 1860. They have one child, Geraldine, born April 1, 1897. Mrs. Lee is a well-known author. Among the books she has published are: "Kate Wetherell," "Pillar of Salt," (1901), "The Son of a Fiddler" (1902), "Uncle William" ( 1906), "The Ibsen Secret" (1906), "Simeon Tetlow's Shadow" ( 1908). Mrs. Lee is professor of English in Smith Col- lege, Northampton. Mr. Lee is one of the prominent of the younger American authors and magazine writers. He is the author of the following books: "An Old New England Church by a Young New England Parson," published by W. W. Knight Company in 1891 ; "The Shadow Christ," published by the Cen- tury Company in 1896; "The Lost Art of Reading," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1902; "The Voice of the Machines ;" "In- spired Millionaires," published by Mount Tom Press in 1908.
(For preceding generations see Thomas Lee 1).
ยท (IV) Rev. Joseph Lee, son of John LEE Lee, was born in Lyme, August 24, 1705, died August 29, 1779. He married, August 21, 1727, Mary Allen, of Montville. He was a lay preacher, was or- dained in the Presbyterian church and became pastor of the church at Oyster Bay, Long Island. When the revolution broke out he re- turned to Lyme and died there. He had ten children. His sons : 1. Samuel, mentioned below.
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2. Dr. Joseph. 3. Rev. Jason, married, Janu- ary 21, 1762, Mrs. Abiah Brown. The other children died before reaching maturity.
(V) Samuel, son of Rev. Joseph Lee, was born in 1728, probably in Lyme, Connecticut. He settled in Middletown, Connecticut, where he died in 1793. He married Rhoda Lee. ( According to the Bliss Genealogy he married her sister Lois, March 28, 1751. Lois was born April 25, 1728). Rhoda Bliss was born in 1731, daughter of Thomas and Lois (Cald- well) Bliss, of Middletown, Connecticut. Thomas Bliss, a cooper by trade, was born April 20, 1704, married, May 10, 1727, Lois Caldwell, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Butler ) Caldwell, of Hartford. His widow, born February 18, 1705, married (second) January 31, 1754, Deacon Joseph White. Thomas Bliss, father of Thomas, was born February or March. 1668: married Hannah Caldwell. Samuel Bliss, father of Thomas, was born in England in 1624; married, No- vember 10, 1664-65, Mary Leonard, daughter of John and Sarah (Heath) Leonard. She was born September 14. 1647, and died in 1724: he died March 23, 1720. Samuel Bliss was the son of Jonathan Bliss, of England, and grandson of Thomas Bliss. Rhoda ( Bliss) Lee died in 1815. Children : I. Margaret, born November 16, 1751. 2. Samuel, July 26, 1753, died young. 3. Maribel, July 28, 1755. 4. David, March 4, 1757. 5. Rhoda, November 3. 1760. 6. James Wilson, March 31, 1763. 7. John, February 1, 1766. 8. Samuel, June 23. 1767. mentioned below. 9. Rachel, De- cember II. 1768. 10. Bliss, May 4, 1770. II. Benjamin, August 23, 1772.
(VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Lee, was born at Middletown, June 23, 1767, mar- ried Lucretia Curtis. Children, born in Mid- dletown: 1. Samuel Wilson, born September 14. 1792, mentioned below. 2. James Wilson. 3. Rhoda. Probably other children.
(VII) Samuel Wilson, son of Samuel (2) Lee, was born in Middletown, September 14, 1792, died at Northampton, Massachusetts, July, 1875. He was educated in the public schools. He learned the trade of tinsmith at Berlin, Connecticut, and followed it at Green- field and Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived also at Conway and Northampton, Mass- achusetts. He married, at Greenfield, Novem- ber 19, 1820, Electa Bacon, born at Conway, November 25, 1797, died at Northampton, April 1, 1857, daughter of William and Me- hitable (Warren) Bacon. Mehitable died in 1844; daughter of William and Mary (Dal-
rymple) Warren. The Dalrymple family was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. William Bacon was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, December 27, 1756, son of William and Mary Bacon, of Sutton. His Uncle Jonathan also lived in Sut- ton, in that part of the town set off to Upton. William, Jr., was a soldier in the revolution in the Sutton Company, Captain John Putnam, Colonel Ebenezer Learned's regiment on the Lexington alarm; also in Captain Isaac Bol- ster's company. He was at the battle of Ticon- deroga and at Yorktown. Once a bullet from a British gun cut the string from which his powder horn hung about his neck. After the revolution he moved to Conway. Samuel Wilson Lee was a member of Jerusalem Lodge of Free Masons and a past master. He mar- ried (second) November 26, 1857. Children of Samuel Wilson Lee, the first three born in Conway, the others in Northampton: 1. Sam- uel Wilson, Jr., October 13, 1821, died March 17, 1825. 2. Electa Bacon, September 30, 1824, resides at 227 Locust street, Florence station, Northampton, Massachusetts ; unmar- ried. 3. Cornelia Frances, December 7, 1826, died January 18, 1908, married, January 8, 1848, Rev. William Bates ; children: i. Will- iam Bates, Jr., born March 16, 1849; ii. Arthur Lee Bates, born March 25, 1851; iii. Jane Bates, born July 6, 1854 ; iv. Samuel Lee Bates, born February 25, 1857; v. Katherine Lee Bates, born August 12, 1859, professor in Wellesley College. 4. Charles Henry, Janu- ary 1, 1830, died May 18, 1832. 5. Katherine Elizabeth, December 11, 1832, died unmarried at Grantville, May 2, 1874. 6. Samuel Will- iam, April 14, 1835, mentioned below.
(VIII) Samuel William, son of Samuel Wilson Lee, was born in Northampton, April 14, 1835, died there April 22, 1901. He was educated in the public schools, and early in life learned the trade of tinsmith under his father. He engaged in business later as a tinsmith in Northampton. He became a part- ner in the firm of William H. Todd & Com- pany, hardware dealers, Northampton. He was a Republican in politics and a Congrega- tionalist in religion. He was a member of Jerusalem Lodge, Free Masons; Northampton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; William Par- sons Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Northampton Commandery, Knights Templar. He married Hepzibah Fisk Severance, born July 9, 1833, daughter of Horace and Mary (Fisk) Severance. (See Severance VI). Children: 1. Samuel William, Jr., born Au- gust 10, 1857, mentioned below. 2. Grace
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Angeline, February 2, 1859, died August 26, 1884; married John W. Robinson; child, Arthur Lee Robinson, married, August 10, 1907, Mary Marsh, of Amherst. 3. Arthur Bacon, September 23, 1861, died December 3, 1898; married Rose T. Torrey ; they have no children. 4. Philip Severance, July 6, 1867, died August II, 1869.
(IX) Samuel William (2), son of Samuel William ( I) Lee, was born August 10, 1857, in Northampton. He received his education in the common schools of his native town, and at the age of sixteen became a clerk in the insurance office of Peck & Pierce. After four years in this position he became bookkeeper for the Mill River Button Company at Leeds, Massachusetts. Afterward he was bookkeeper for the Nonotuck Silk Mills of Leeds and in February, 1902, was elected a director of the corporation, and manager of the mills of this company at Florence. After the death of George H. Ray, treasurer of the corporation, November 30, 1903, Mr. Lee was elected to succeed him and since that time has managed the affairs of the company with ability and success. This company has for many years maintained a leading position in the industrial world. It was established in 1838 and has large mills at Florence, Leeds and Hayden- ville, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connec- ticut, manufacturing the celebrated Corticelli spool silk, Corticelli machine twist, Corticelli sewing silk and buttonhole twist, Corticelli wash embroidery silk, Corticelli crochet and knitting silk, Corticelli purse twist, dental floss, surgeons silk, darning silk, silk braids and spun silk on cones and tubes for manufac- turers, worsted and mohair dress braids, trim- mings, braids and bindings. Mr. Lee is a Republican and has taken an active part in public affairs. He has been a member of the common council of Northampton, and of the school committee, of which he was chair- man during the last year of his term. He was formerly secretary of the board of trustees of the Forbes Library and is now a trustee. He is a member of Jerusalem Lodge of Free Masons: of Northampton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of William Parsons Council, Royal and Select Masters : of North- ampton Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he was commander three years; Melha Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine of Spring- field, Massachusetts. He resides at Leeds. He married, April 20, 1881, Emina L. Dimock, born in Hebron, Connecticut, daughter of Lucius and Electa (Jones) Dimock. (See
Dimock VII). They have one child, Harold Dimock, born March 29, 1882, educated at Philips Academy, Andover, and graduated at Yale College, class of 1907; now with his father in the Nonotuck Mills.
(The Severance Line).
John Severance, immigrant ancestor, was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1637. He was admitted a freeman that year and in 1640 was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He removed to Salisbury about 1639, where he had a grant of land. He was one of the prudential com- mittee in 1642, and in 1645 was appointed highway surveyor. On December 21, 1647, he sold his houses, the "new and old" to Thomas Bradbury, and opened an ordinary. He was afterwards known as a "victualler and vinter." He was on a committee in 1652 to repair the meeting house. His will was dated April 7. 1682, and proved May 9, 1682. He married (first) in England, in 1635, Abi- gail Kimball, who died June 19, 1658. He married (second) October 27, 1663, Mrs. Sus- anna Ambrose, of Boston, widow of Henry Ambrose. He died April 9, 1682. Children : I. Samuel, born September 19, 1637, died young. 2. Ebenezer, March 7, 1639, died un- married, September, 1667. 3. Abigail, Janu- ary 7, 1641, died same day. 4. Abigail, May 25, 1643, married, November 29, 1664, John Church. 5. Mary, August 5, 1645, married, November 3, 1663, James Coffin. 6. John, November 27, 1647, mentioned below. 7. Joseph, February 15, 1650. 8. Elizabeth, April 8, 1652, died 1656. 9. Benjamin, January 13, 1654. 10. Ephraim, April 8, 1656. 11. Eliza- beth (twin), June 17, 1658, married, 1686, Samuel Eastman. 12. Daughter (twin), June 17, 1658, died June 23, following.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Severance, was born November 27, 1647, in Salisbury. He and his father kept the inn, and about 1672 he went to Boston, where he settled. In 1680 he removed to Suffield, Connecticut, and in 1689 to Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he settled on Lot No. I. He became a large land owner in Deerfield. About 1703 he removed again to Bedford, Westchester county, New York, remaining there about twelve years, returning to Deerfield about 1713, and living the last years of his life with his son Joseph. He married, August 15. 1672, Mary Children, first four born in Boston, the others in Suffield: 1. Ebenezer, September 19, 1673. 2. Abigail, May 5, 1675, died January, 1691.
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3. John, September 22, 1676. 4. Daniel, June 3, 1678, killed by the Indians, September 15, 1694. 5. Mary, July 14, 1681. 6. Joseph, October 26, 1682, mentioned below.
(III) Joseph, son of John (2) Severance, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, October 26, 1682, died April 10, 1766. He was a tailor by trade, and resided first at Deerfield, where he owned a house and home lot. He was in. the fight in the meadows in 1704 and was a soldier in the service in 1713. He was wound- ed by the Indians and made a cripple, and was compensated for this by the general court, which granted him two hundred acres of land east of Northfield on Mount Grace. His father also gave him land in Deerfield. He lived also at Northfield, and followed his trade there. He was corporal in Captain Kellogg's com- pany in 1723 and orderly in 1747. He was selectman in 1722. A few years before his death he divided his real estate in Deerfield among his children, and he and his wife went to live with the youngest son, Moses, in Mon- tague, where they both died and were buried. He married, November 17, 1712, Anna Kel- logg, born July 14, 1689, died March 13, 1781, daughter of Martin Kellogg, of Hadley. Chil- dren, born in Deerfield: I. Joseph, October 7, 1713. 2. Anna, December 25, 1715, mar- ried, October 21, 1737, Samuel Bordwell. 3. Martin, September 10, 1718. 4. John, Decem- ber 15, 1720. 5. Experience, March 14, 1723, married, July 23, 1749, Phineas Nevers. 6. Jonathan, June 12, 1725, mentioned below. 7. Rebecca, March 4, 1728, married, November 29, 1743, Samuel Smead. 8. Moses, March 23, 1730. 9. Abigail, November 16, 1732.
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