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(VI) Loranus, son of Squire Tinkham, was born at Middleborough, August 15, 1798, died at Northampton, Massachusetts, December 5, 1874. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. In 1823 he went with his father and brother to Hartland, Vermont, where they settled. He married, August 18, 1821, Mary Rogers, born September 7, 1799, died January 9, 1885, daughter of Sylvanus and Polly ( Mason) Rogers. His wife was born September, 1773, died August 21, 1862. Sylvanus Rogers, born 1771, died July 13, 1857, son of John Rogers. Children of Loranus Tinkham: 1. Horatio N., born October 3, 1822, died November 28, 1884; married Eliza- beth Wilson. 2. Mary Ann, married James Goodwin. 3. Susan, died 1835. 4. John, died 1837. 5. Francis M., born October 11, 1846; mentioned below.
(VII) Francis M., son of Loranus Tink- ham, was born in Claremont, New Hamp- shire, October 1I, 1846. He attended the public schools of Claremont until fifteen years of age, when he came to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he completed his educa- tion in the high school. He then became a clerk in the dry goods store of his brother, Horatio N. Tinkham. This was the largest concern in its line in Springfield. He con- tinued in the employ of his brother from 1864 to 1884, the year of his brother's death, filling positions of responsiblity. He had a carpet store on his own account in Springfield from 1884 to 1889, when he became treasurer and general manager of the United States Spring Bed Company, a position he has held to the present time. He is one of the best known manufacturers of the city. His energy, in- dustry and foresight have developed a large and flourishing business. The factory is at Brightwood. The concern manufactures woven wire mattresses, spiral spring beds, iron bed- steads, cots, etc., and ranks high in the trade. Mr. Tinkham joined the First Baptist Church in 1864 and afterward became a member of the Highland Baptist Church of that city. He has been a deacon for many years and is a prominent member and active worker in the society. In politics he is a Republican. He married, November 14, 1878, Edith M. Ellis, born in New York City, July 5, 1848, died March 6, 1903, daughter of Theodore W. and Maria L. (Van Boskerck) Ellis. They had one child, Florence Louise, born April 6, 1885.
(II) Deacon Ebenezer, son of Ephraim ( I) Tinkham, was born at Plymouth, September 30, 1651, died at Middleborough, April 8, 1718.
He settled in Middleborough and was town treasurer many years and one of the charter members of the church. He married, 1678, Elizabeth Liscomb, who also died April 8, 1718. Children : I. Ebenezer, born March 23, 1679-80; mentioned below. 2. Jeremiah, August 7, 1681, died April 5, 1715, a farmer ; married Joanna Barlow. 3. Peter, April 20, 1683.
(III) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (I) Tinkham, was born in Middleborough, March 23, 1679-80. He married Patience Pratt, who died June 5, 1720.
(IV) Peter, son of Ebenezer (2) Tinkham, was born in 1709 at Middleborough, died there October 10, 1745. He married Eunice Thomas, born 1709, died April 8, 1778. Children, born at Middleborough: 1. Sarah, 1735, died Feb- ruary 18, 1820; married Amos Tinkham, men- tioned above. 2. Peter, married Mary Thomp- son.
William Johnson, immigrant
JOHNSON ancestor, was born in Eng- land. As early as 1634 he settled in Charlestown and followed the occu- pation of planter and brick-maker there. He was admitted to the church with his wife Eliz- abeth, February 13, 1634-35 ; was a proprietor of the town and was admitted a freeman March 4, 1634-35. He deposed December 29, 1657, that he was fifty-four years old. He was at the time the grave-digger at Charles- town. He was town constable in 1657. He died December 9, 1677, and his widow Eliz- abeth married (second) Thomas Carter. His house was on Middle Row and Back street, where he bought land in 1651. His will was dated December 7, 1677, bequeathing to wife Elizabeth; children John, Joseph, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Zachariah, Isaac, Elizabeth; de- ceased daughter Ruhamah's daughter, Eliza- beth Bacon. The inventory of the estate of William and Elizabeth Johnson was taken April 12, 1686; John Johnson, of Haverhill, and Zachariah Johnson, of Charlestown, were appointed administrators of the estate of their father William and mother Elizabeth; made division of the real estate between themselves and their brothers Joseph, Isaac, Jonathan and Nathaniel, April 13, 1686. Children: 1. John. 2. Ruhamah, baptized February 21, 1634-35, married, 1654, John Knight. 3. Joseph, bap- tized February 13, 1636-37. 4. Elizabeth, bap- tized March 17, 1639-40, married, 1658-59, Edward Wyer; (second) William Moore. 5.
Jonathan, baptized August 14, 1641. 6.
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Nathaniel. 7. Zachariah, born 1646. 8. Isaae, born 1649.
(II) Joseph, son of William Johnson, was baptized February 13, 1636-37, and with his brother John was an early settler in Haverhill. His house lot of five acres and two "common- ages" adjoined that of his brother. His farm was in the northwest part of the village, and he and his sons owned three hundred aeres extending to the North Parish meeting house nearly a mile in length, mostly on the east side of the road, from the south line of the home- stead to the north side of a small stream ealled Fishing river. Fourteen years before his death, he gave by deed of gift, June 19, 1700, to his sons, Thomas, Joseph and William, the north part of the homestead. He also owned five hundred acres of land in Amesbury, and was a well-to-do farmer. He married (first) April 19, 1664, Marie Soatlie, who died Mareh 22, 1664-65. He married ( second) Hannah Tenney. Children, born in Haverhill : I. Joseph, October 15, 1667. 2. William, Jan- uary 15, 1669, ancestor of Colonel William Johnson, of Enfield. 3. Thomas, December II, 1670, mentioned below. 4. Zachariah, April 16, 1672, died October 27, 1673. 5. John, No- vember 9, 1673, died March 23, 1704-05, un- married. 6. Hannah, June 10, 1675, married, December 28, 1704, Nathaniel Osgood. 7. Mary, June 4, 1677, married, May 16, 1697, Lieutenant John Johnson. 8. Jonathan, April 24, 1678, slain February 8, 1703-04; unmar- ried. 9. Elizabeth, February 28, 1680-81, mar- ried, January 31, 1721, Samuel Worthen. 10. Nathaniel, August 15, 1683, married, 1714, Ruth Gile. II. Zaceheus, August 26, 1687, died unmarried.
(III) Deacon Thomas, son of Joseph John- son, was born in Haverhill, Deeember II, 1670, died February 18, 1742. He was a farmer and owned land in Haverhill and Amesbury, in that part set off as Newton, New Hamp- shire. The day before his marriage he bought of Joseph Bradley ten acres of land with a house thereon, and soon afterward received eleven acres from his father by deed of gift, being the north part of the homestead. In 1728, when the North Parish meeting house was ereeted, he was elected deacon of the church, and remained in that offiee from its organization in 1730 until his death. He held various town offices, and disposed of most of his estate by gift to his children before his death. He married, May 1, 1700, Elizabeth Page, born September 14, 1679, daughter of Cornelius and Martha (Clough) Page, and
granddaughter of John and Jane Clough. She died at Hampstead, New Hampshire, June 12, 1752. Children, born at North Parish of Haverhill: 1. Mehitable, February 26, 1701- 02. 2. Cornelius, January 17, 1703-04, re- moved to Andover and Coneord, New Hamp- shire. 3. Thomas, January 6, 1705-06, farmer at Plaistow. 4. Abigail, May 15, 1707. 5. Ruth, August 24, 1709. 6. John, November 15, 17II, mentioned below. 7. Susannah, Jan- uary 25, 1714-15. 8. Jabez, April 24, 1716, died young. 9. Jeremiah, June 30, 1717, mar- ried Abigail Wright. 10. Elizabeth, January 2, 1720-21.
(IV) Hon. John, son of Deacon Thomas Johnson, was born at Haverhill, North Parish, November 15, 171I. He joined the church in Haverhill, February 4, 1727-28, and in No- vember, 1730, beeame a member of the new church in the North Parish of which his father was the deacon. He bought five acres of land in the North Parish of his brother Cornelius and settled on it after his marriage. His father gave him land also. He was not only a well- to-do farmer, but a merehant of note, dealing much in ship timber. Incidentally he did mueh eonveyaneing and legal work. He was elected hog-reeve in 1732, the year after his marriage, this honor being faeetiously bestowed on young married men. He held many important places of trust and honor in the town and provinee and was influential in the town and parish. He removed early in 1648 to Haverhill district of Timberland, some six miles north. This seetion was set off from Massachusetts in 1741 when the line was determined between the provinees. He was delegated to represent his neighbors in petitioning for a town eharter and went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was sueeessful in his mission, paid the ex- penses and on the following month at the first town meeting was chosen first seleetman of the new town of Hampstead. The charter was dated January 19, 1749; the town organized February 7. 1749. He was appointed a mag- istrate and was for many years a member of the court of sessions for the entire provinee. He erected a sawmill at Wash Pond outlet. His house was near the present or late home of Dr. Knight, of Hampstead, nearly oppo- site George's Inn. He died intestate April I, 1762, in his fifty-second year. He disposed of most of his real estate by sale and deed of gift to his sons before his death. He married, November 25, 1731, Sarah Haines, born Janu- ary 9, 1710-11, daughter of Thomas and Han- nah (Harriman) Haines, of Haverhill, west
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precinct. She joined the church at Haverhill, September 18, 1726. She died September 20, 1750, having had ten children. He married (second) January, 1751, Sarah Morse, sister of Lieutenant Peter Morse. She removed to Newbury, Vermont, and married (second) Samuel Way. She married (third)
Barnard, and died at Newbury in 1795, aged sixty-five. Children: I. Jesse, born October 20, 1732, administrator of his father's estate, removed to Enfield, New Hampshire, where he died March II, 1800. 2. Sarah, July 9, 1734, died young. 3. Miriam, March 22, 1735- 36, married, October 10, 1752, Ebenezer Mudget. 4. Caleb, February 3, 1737-38, re- moved to Caledonia, New York. 5. Moses, April 13, 1740, died November 8, 1748. 6. Thomas, mentioned below. 7. Ruth, Febru- ary 3, 1743-44. 8. Elizabeth, March 6, 1744- 45, died May 1, 1747. 9. John, February 9, 1746-47, died August 18, 1757. 10. Haines, August 28, 1749, farmer in Newbury, Ver- mont. Children of second wife: II. Sarah, October 29, 1751, married Jacob Page. 12. Ruth (twin), April 23, 1754, married Samuel Hoag. 13. Elizabeth (twin) April 23, 1754, married Jacob Currier. 14. Peter, June 7, 1756, soldier in the revolution. 15. Judith, April 4, 1758, married Jesse Prescott. 16. John, February 9, 1760. 17. Tamar, July 6, 1761, married Joseph Bonat or Bonny.
(V) Colonel Thomas (2), son of Hon. John Johnson, was born in Haverhill, March 22, 1742, died at Newbury, Vermont, January 4, 1819. He was a grantee of Haverhill in 1762, but settled in Newbury, Vermont, on the Ox-Bow. He built his first house in 1766 and the second in 1775, which is still standing. He was an innkeeper, farmer and merchant. His store was at last accounts a corn barn owned by J. R. Weed. He was captain in the militia and of a company of minute-men in May, 1775; also of an independent company which marched to Ticonderoga in 1777, in which campaign he acted as aid to General Lincoln. He was placed in charge of prisoners after the surrender. He was captured Febru- ary 18, 1781, in Peacham, and taken to Canada, but returned in October. After the war he became owner of large tracts of land in New- bury and elsewhere. He represented New- bury in the convention at Cornish in 1788; was town representative in 1786-87-88-89-90- 95-97-1800-01. His journal, kept while a cap- tive in Canada, is now owned by the sons of A. G. Johnson. He was admitted to the first church in September, 1812. His funeral ser-
mon was preached by Rev. David Sutherland, of Bath. In 1830 a brick tomb covered by a single massive stone was built over the graves of him and his wives, which remained until the present monument was erected by the be- quest of his grandson, Hiram Johnson, in 1869. He married (first) February 12, 1765, at Newburyport, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Lowell, born June 30, 1741, died September 19, 1772, daughter of George Lowell. He married (second) November 26, 1772, Abi- gail (Merrill) Pool, who died December 2, 1774, daughter of Joseph Merrill, and widow
of - Pool. He married (third ) February 17, 1775, Abigail Carleton, born March 30, 1750, died March 23, 1833, daughter of Dudley Carleton. Children of first wife: I. John, born April 2, 1766, died May 9, 1847. 2. Moses, February 29, 1768, died May 17, 1840. 3. Jessie (twin), February 29, 1768, died same day. 4. Betsey, February 28, 1770, married Isaac Bayley. 5. Lowell, August 7, died Au- gust 17, 1772. Child of second wife: 6. Abi- gail, November 18, 1773, died May 22, 1796. Children of third wife: 7. Haines, July 29, 1776. 8. David, September 13, 1778, died May 17, 1865. 9. Hannah, September 8, 1781, died April 9, 1782. 10. Hannah, December 20, died December 28, 1783. II. Hannah, Au- gust 4, 1785, married David Sloan; died May 30, 1861. 12. Haines, November 9, 1787, men- tioned below. 13. Thomas, October 26, 1790, died July 7, 1792. 14. Sally, March 9, 1792, died January 27, 1859 ; married Charles Storey.
(VI) Captain Haines, son of Colonel Thomas Johnson, was born November 9, 1787, died July 3, 1878. He was a farmer and resided on the homestead. He was admitted to the first church May 4, 1829, and was captain in the militia. He married, March 14, 1813, Phebe Hazletine, born 1789, died April 10, 1881, daughter of John Hazletine Jr., and grand- daughter of General Moses Dow, of Haverhill. Children: I. Thomas, born March 27, 1814, died May 2, 1901 ; married, June 24, 1857, Mrs. Ann Austin. 2. Leonard, August 19, 1815, died August 14, 1858. 3. Alfred, April 17, 1817, died October 14, 1882; married, Feb- ruary 6, 1845, Frances Edson. 4. Abigail Carleton, September 29, 1818, died November 27, 1861; married (first) March 14, 1839, Thomas Brosk; (second) October, 1845, George Severance. 5. Mehitable Hazletine, June 12, 1820, married, December 25, 1845, John Nelson Dewey. 6. Amelia Bailey, March 22, 1822, died April 16, 1842. 7. John, Decem- ber 1, 1823, died May 17, 1861 ; married, June
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26, 1853, Elizabeth F. Stickney. 8. Mary Elizabeth, October 9, 1825, married, December 19, 1855, Albion P. Maxwell. 9. Edwin Haines, August 15, 1827, died July 11, 1881 ; married Mary Jane Galloway. 10. Perry, May 28, 1829, married, February 22, 1860, Sarah H. Daggett. II. Richard Baxter, April 17, 1831, died February 16, 1834. 12. Charlotte Fox- croft, June 29, 1833, married, September 4, 1853, David Russell. 13. Eliza Smith, May 22, 1835, married, October 19, 1858, Newell Z. Tabor. 14. Baxter, June 7, 1837, died March 30, 1841. 15. Sidney, August 15, 1840, men- tioned below. 16. Emma Grant, March 31, 1843, married, December 25, 1863, N. W. Johnson.
(VII) Deacon Sidney, son of Captain Haines Johnson, was born in Newbury, Vermont, Au- gust 15, 1840, and was chosen deacon in the first church in 1883. He is a farmer and resides on the homestead. He married, No- vember 16, 1870, Mary Elizabeth Ford, of Lowell, Massachusetts. Children : I. Leonard, born November 26, 1871, educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth Medical Col- lege ; physician at Franconia, New Hampshire ; married, July 9, 1896, Mabel Laing, daughter of Robert G. Laing. 2. Ervin Arthur, Febru- ary 26, 1873, mentioned below. 3. Louise Carleton, March 21, 1882, married Frank N. Brock. 4. Haines Holden, January 13, 1884.
(VIII) Dr. Ervin Arthur, son of Deacon Sidney Johnson, was born at Newbury, Ver- mont, February 26, 1873. He attended the public and high schools of his native town, graduating in the class of 1891. He became bookkeeper at the Dudley Mills, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. After working two years and a half he began to study his profes- sion in the Boston Dental College, graduating in the class of 1897 with the degree of D. D. S. Since then he has practiced dentistry at War- ren Chambers, Boston, and at 176 Federal street, Boston, where he has had his office since 1901. In 1905 he received the degree of D. M. D. from Tufts College. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Congregationalist. He married, October 1, 1901, Laura Helen Chamberlain, born January 7, 1877, daughter of Lieutenant R. W. and Helen F. (Corliss) Chamberlain, of Newbury, Vermont (see Chamberlain VIII). Children: I. Thomas, born July 14, 1904, died July 16, 1904. 2. Sid- ney Remembrance, September 12, 1906.
(The Chamberlain Line).
Richard Chamberlain, immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He settled in Braintree,
Massachusetts, as early as 1642, and removed thence soon afterward to Roxbury, where his descendants have been numerous. He removed to Sudbury later. His will dated April 12, 1673, and proved June 18, 1673, bequeathed to his wife what she brought at marriage, etc .; to eldest son Benjamin; daughters Rebecca, Mehitable, Elizabeth Daniels, Mary Graves; son Joseph and grandson John Graves. He married (second) Sarah Bugbee, daughter of Edward Bugbee, of Roxbury. Children: I. Richard, born December 19, 1642, died aged six days. 2. Benjamin, baptized with the next four children, June 4, 1665, at Roxbury ; re- moved to Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1713 with his brother Joseph when he was about seventy years old; sold land in East Sudbury adjoin- ing land of Joseph in 1696; children Daniel and John removed in 1720 to Colchester, Con- necticut ; he sold his home in Oxford in 1723. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. Mary. 5. Re- becca. 6. Ann. 7. Mehitable, born January 28, 1666. 8. Elizabeth, married - Daniels.
(II) Joseph, son of Richard Chamberlain, was born about 1660 and baptized at Rox- bury, June 4, 1665. He settled in Oxford about 1710 with his brother Benjamin. He sold sixty acres of land and rights of land and commonage in Sudbury. He was a soldier in King Philip's war and was at Hadley in 1676. His home lot in Oxford was on Bondet Hill on lot H. 38. He had eight children and three were of age when he went to Oxford and took up house lots there with the first proprietors. Joseph was elected to the first board of select- men of Oxford. In a deed dated February 22, 1731, Ebenezer Chamberlain, Joseph Rockett with wife Hannah, Benjamin Cham- berlain and Simon Chamberlain conveyed to their brother Joseph, of Keekamoochaug, all their rights in their father's lots laid out to soldiers of the Narragansett or Swamp fight in 1676. His will was dated March 4, 1721, and his inventory amounted to three hundred and four pounds, nineteen shillings, six pence. He died August 8, 1721. He married Hannah Children: 1. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, settled in Oxford South Gore ; married Patience 3. Ebenezer, one of the thirty original proprietors of Ox- ford ; married Sybil Moore. 4. Hannah, mar- ried Joseph Rockett. 5. Benjamin, married, July 8, 1728, Mary Amidon. 6. Simon, mar- ried, December 27, 1735, Abigail Taylor. 7. Rebecca, married Nathan Kannie.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Joseph Chamber- lain, was born at Sudbury, in the present
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village of Wayland, in 1689. He removed to Oxford in 1713 and married Elizabeth Hun- kins, and both were members of the church at Oxford. He removed to Hatfield about 1722. He was a soldier in Father Rasle's war and was taken prisoner. After his return from captivity he removed to Northfield, and was a soldier in the Crown Point expedition in 1755, and in Colonel Williams' regiment in 1759. He died November 7, 1780, and the church record says "He left a good name behind him." Children : I. Richard, born July 9, 1714. 2. Moses, March 30, 1716, mentioned below. 3. Nathaniel, January 3, 1718, died August 22, 1745. 4. Elizabeth, August 30, 1719. 5. Sarah, May 31, 1721, at Oxford. 6. Mary, July 13, 1727, at Northfield.
(IV) Deacon Moses, son of Nathaniel Chamberlain, was born at Oxford, March 30, 1716. In 1748 he bought land in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was a member of the church there at South Farms in 1787. He married Jemima Wright, who died July 30, 1801, daughter of Remembrance and Elizabeth Wright. He died June 25, 1796. It is said that both he and his son Moses served in the revolution, but it is impossible to distinguish the service of each from the records. Chil- dren: I. Susanna, born at Winchester, New Hampshire, August 29, 1740, married (first) Shepard ; (second) November 25, 1784, Captain Ephraim Stephens. 2. Azubah, No- vember 2, 1741, married Muncy. 3.
Jemima, August 25, 1743, married Johnson. 4. Lydia, January 30, 1746, married Captain Robert Hunkins. 5. Remembrance, December 19, 1747, mentioned below. 6. Moses, December 10, 1749, in the revolution ; married Abigail Stevens. 7. Asher, April 14, 1751. 8. Wright, June 14, 1757.
(V) Colonel Remembrance, son of Moses Chamberlain, was born at Litchfield, Connec- ticut, December 19, 1747, died January 10, 1813. He owned the farm north of Bedel's Bridge, where he kept a tavern many years. The farm remained in the family three gen- erations. He was in the revolution in Captain Steven's company in 1779 and 1781. He was second lieutenant in Captain Frye Bailey's company, guarding and scouting. His com- mission as first lieutenant, signed by Governor Chittenden, is owned by a descendant, and he was made captain, major, and colonel in the militia. He was prominent in the town and held substantial offices. He was a kind and generous man, but a strict Puritan in principle. He married Elizabeth Elliot, widow of Haynes
Johnson, and daughter of Edmund and Mehit- able (Worthen) Elliot. After the death of her first husband, she returned to Chester for fear of the Indians and Tories, but came back to Newbury bringing her three children with her on the horse, fording streams, and some- times being compelled to lodge in the woods. She was born at Chester, 1751, died February 8, 1829. Children: I. Moses, born November 25, 1777, mentioned below. 2. Azubah, No- vember 6, 1779, married Joseph Sawyer. 3. Elizabeth, December 19, 1781, married Joseph Kent. 4. Mehitable, December 3, 1783, mar- ried (first) Green Saunders ; (second) Octo- ber 6, 1831, Israel Willard ; died March 13, 1849. 5. Remembrance, July 12, 1785, died September 4, 1789. 6. Moody, September 12, 1787, died July 12, 1863. 7. Remembrance, December 2, 1789, married Mrs. Mehitable Peoples ; died March 4, 1855. 8. Olive, Feb- ruary 4, 1792, married Ephraim B. Stevens.
(VI) Moses (2), son of Colonel Remem- brance Chamberlain, was born at Newbury, Vermont, November 25, 1777, died in Novem- ber, 1854. He was a farmer in Bradford, Ver- mont, on the upper plain, where he bought the farm of his Uncle Moses. He married (first) Martha Child, died 1839, daughter of Cephas and Martha Child, of Woodstock, Connecticut. He married (second) Mrs. Jemima Peckett. Children, all by first wife: 1. John Elliott, born November 4, 1806, mentioned below. 2. Cephas Child, January 21, 1809, married, June 3, 1835, in Boston, 3. Martha E., April 10, 1811, married John Y. Cross. 4. Mary C., August 9, 1813, married Benjamin Chamberlain. 5. Moses Remembrance, April 20, 1816, married, September 24, 1840, Ruby S. Johnson. 6. Elizabeth A., August 1, 1818, died young. 7. Benjamin F., December 21, 1821, died unmarried. 8. Elizabeth E., August 16, 1823, married Jaret M. Haseltine. 9. Amanda N., May 21, 1826, married Henry E. Sawyer. 10. Azubah A., September 2, 1831, married Luther S. Grover.
(VII) John Elliott, son of Moses (2) Cham- berlain, was born at Bradford, Vermont, No- vember 4, 1806, died October 7, 1886. He was a farmer at South Newbury, Vermont, and a member of the constitutional convention in 1843. He held most of the town offices at various times. He was a railroad contractor and with Robert Morse built the White Moun- tain railroad from Woodsville to Littleton, and later, with Joseph A. Dodge, built the Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad extension from Littleton to the Fabyan House. He was also
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interested in other enterprises. He married, in Mareh, 1831, Laura Willard, born Febru- ary 5, 1807, died May 16, 1864, daughter of Israel Willard, of Bradford. Children : I. George Willard, born March 15, 1832. 2. Horace Elliott, November 30, 1834. 3. Re- membranee Wright, Mareh 21, 1836, mention- ed below. 4. Leona Eveline, April 9, 1842, married, November 9, 1865, John W. Currier ; died April 27, 1896. 5. Ella Amanda, August I, 1845, married, September, 1867, George B. Harriman; died June 25, 1901. 6. Charles Wesley, November 4, 1849.
(VIII) Remembrance Wright, son of John Elliott Chamberlain, was born at South New- bury, Vermont, March 21, 1836. He served in Company D, First Vermont Regiment in 1861 ; was first lieutenant in Company H, Twelfth Vermont Regiment in 1862-63. He was a farmer on the homestead and in business in Newbury Village. He was postmaster there from 1885 to 1891 inelusive. He married, Mareh 13, 1862, Helen F. Corliss, of Bradford. Children: I. George Elliott, born February 12, 1869, graduated Dartmouth Medical Col- lege, 1896; interne one year in Mary Hiteh- cock Hospital; studied in New York; began practiee at Lawrenee, Massachusetts ; became aeting assistant surgeon United States Army, Second Division, Seventh Army Corps, at Havana, Cuba; now in service in the Philip- pine Islands. 2. Laura Helen, January 7, 1877, married Dr. Ervin Arthur Johnson ( see John- son VIII).
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