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(VI) Captain Chandler, son of Nehemiah Cartter, was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, February 27, 1768, died in Springfield, 1853. He married (intentions published April 28, 1805) Ann Waterman, in Medfield. He re- sided in Russell and Chester, Massachusetts. He was captain of the militia at Russell, and a blacksmith by trade. Children: I. Waterman, married Frisbee and died in Blandford ; was captain of train band and commanded mounted militia ; had children: Andrew Jack- son, Hosea, Milo, Homer and Lucy. 2. Hiram, married Emma Day and resided in West Spring- field. 3. Mary, married Otis Wait. 4. Almira, married John Wilbur. 5. Harriet, married and moved to Ohio. 6. Emeline, married Eph- raim Walker, of West Becket. 7. Bethsina. 8. Julia, married Richard Church, a farmer in Becket. 9. Sarah, married Emerson Wait, brother of Otis Wait. 10. Ann, married Elijah S. Greene, of Chester, who was born in East Brookfield. II. Lorenzo, mentioned below.
(VII) Lorenzo, son of Captain Chandler Cartter, was born probably in Blandford, Mass- achusetts, May 12, 1810, and settled in Chester, Massachusetts, where he was a blacksmith. He married (first ) February 26, 1835. Polly Frisbie, born July 28, 1807, died January 10, 1844: children: Harriet Ann, born April 6, 1836; Lydia Elisa, April 17, 1838: Eli Love- man, March 31, 1841. He married (second) September 24, 1844, Sarah Smith, born March 27, 1812, died February 6, 1852; children : Lawson Frederick, born February 14, 1846; Isaac Joseph, born July 13, 1847, died in the South, December, 1878; Saralı Truelove, born June 24, 1850, died August 3, 1850. He mar- ried (third) December 17, 1853, Lucina S. Gardener, born in England, died May 30, 1902,
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daughter of Joseph Gardener, a native of Eng- land. Children: I. Charlotte Maria, born September 17, 1854: married, July 12, 1872, Jarvis Valentine Farrington ; had William A. J. Farrington, married Susan Cross, daughter of James Cross. 2. William Lorenzo, born Au- gust 23, 1856, died February 3, 1872. 3. Rich- ard Gardener Waterman, June 12, 1858; men- tioned below. 4. John Brown, born March 23, 1860, died May 30, 1871. 5. Charles Sumner, born May 20, 1863. died January 29, 1864.
(VIII) Richard Gardener Waterman, son of Lorenzo Cartter, was born in Chester, Mass- achusetts, June 12, 1858. He removed with his parents to Westfield at the age of three years. He attended the district school in West- field a year, and then three years at Southwick. At the age of eleven he went to work for a farmer at Southwick, working for his board and clothes. For six months he worked on the farm of his brother-in-law, and three years for S. W. Bryant at South Hadley Falls. He then went as a travelling salesman, selling oil on commission, but his income was so large that the firm wished him to take a regular salary. Not wishing to cut down his income, he resigned his position, and went to West Springfield as manager of the R. A. Bagg farm, remaining three years. His experience here in market gardening led him to buy a farm of his own, and in 1883 he purchased nine acres of land from W. W. Amadon, and started in the market gardening-business. From the first the enterprise was a success, and he now owns and cultivates over one hundred acres, employing from twenty to one hundred men, according to the season. He has brought the farm to a highly productive state, and has two large greenhouses, one sixty by twenty feet, the other, two hundred and seventy-six by fifty feet, together with extensive hot beds. His farm is situated on the west bank of the Connecticut river, two miles from Springfield and one and a quarter miles from Chicopee. He has all the facilities for successful market gardening, and his application to business, to- gether with his thorough knowledge of the work, has made him prosperous. He is a char- ter member of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Malta, and also a member of the Royal Arcanum, Sons of St. George, and of Tecota Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. His hours of leisure are spent in enjoy- ing outdoor life in his motor car, and he is especially fond of this mode of travel. In politics he is a Republican. He married, 1882, Ada Belle Amadon ( see Amadon family). Chil-
dren : I. Paul Raymond, died young. 2. Rich- ard, died young. 3. Ada May, died young.
(The Kellogg Line).
(I) Captain Joseph Kellogg, immigrant an- cestor, came from Great Heights, England. He married Joanna
(II) John, son of Captain Joseph Kellogg, was baptized in Farmington, Connecticut, and married Sarah Moody, daughter of Samuel and Sarah ( Demming) Moody, granddaughter of John and Anone ( Treat ) Demming, of Hart- ford, and great-granddaughter of Richard and Alice (Gaylord) Treat.
(III) Captain Samuel, son of John Kellogg, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, and mar- ried Mary Ashley.
(IV) David, son of Captain Samuel Kellogg, married Elizabeth Jones, of Enfield, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary ( Meacham) Jones.
(V) Mary, daughter of David Kellogg, mar- ried Nehemiah Cartter (see Cartter family).
Thomas Chadwell, immigrant CHADWELL ancestor, was born in Eng- land, in 1611, according to his deposition in 1680, when he stated his age as sixty-nine years. Both he and his brother Richard were shipwrights, and came about the same time, in 1636, probably together, to Salem, Massachusetts. Richard Chadwell was at Saugus in 1636, and was a witness in the Salem court in 1637. The records show that John Sampson was apprenticed to him in June, 1635, by Fran- cis Toby, of Rotherbith, county Surrey, Eng- land ; that he removed to Sandwich, Massachu- setts, of which he was a proprietor April 3, 1637 ; was in the Barbadoes in 1655; married, July 22, 1649, Katherine Presberry, of Sandwich; died November 27, 1661 ; bequeathed in will dated November 22, 1681; to son-in-law Lodo- wick Hawkes and his "cosen" Thomas, son of Moses Chadwell. Moses was son of his brother Thomas Chadwell. Thomas Chadwell went from Salem to Lynn, of which he was a proprietor as early as 1638. He removed to Sandwich before 1645, but was living in Charles- town, Massachusetts, in 1670, and finally re- turned to Lynn. He married (first) Margaret
died September 29, 1658; (second) Abigail -, died at Charlestown. Her will dated June 8, 1683, proved June 19 following, bequeathed to husband ; to sister Ann Pearson, of Piscataqua (Maine), to grandson Joseph Goose (or Negus), to sister Susanna Cross, and to sister Wheeler's daughters. Thomas
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Chadwell died February 27, 1683. His will was dated February 25, 1684, and the inventory is dated June 18, 1684. He bequeathed to son Moses ; to wife of Moses and their son Thomas ; to daughter Ruth Needham. Children : I. Moses, born April 10, 1637 ; mentioned below. 2. Benjamin (?), lived at Dover, New Hamp- shire, and Lynn; married Elizabeth Hawes ; was not named in will. 3. Thomas, not men- tioned in will ; died at Lynn, February, 1683.
(II) Moses, son of Thomas Chadwell, was born April 10, 1637. He married, February, 1661, Sarah, probably daughter of Thomas Ivory. Children, born at Lynn: I. Thomas, December 1 1, 1662 ; mentioned below. 2. Sarah, March 12, 1667-8. 3. Lewis, October 3, 1670 ( Savage gives name as Lois). 4. Moses, Sep- tember II, 1673 : died September 29, 1676. 5. Margaret, September 30, 1676. 6. Ann, June 17, 1679. 7. Elizabeth, December 18, 1681.
(III) Thomas (2), son of Moses Chadwell, was called "Jr." to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name. He was admitted a freeman in 1691. He died at Lynn, January 16, 1740. He married Hannah Chil- dren, born at Lynn : I. Moses, May 28, 1687 ; buried at Boston, April 25. 1760, or at Lynn, July 27. 1766. 2. Hannah, August 4. 1689. 3. Sarah, June 2, 1692. 4. Benjamin, mentioned below.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Thomas (2) Chad- well, was born at Lynn, December 24, 1694, and died July 16, 1748. He married, May I, 1717, at Lynn, Ruth Collins, who died May II, 1734. Children, born at Lynn: I. Moses, April 28, 1719; mentioned below. 2. Martha, November 30, 1722. 3. Benjamin, November I, 173 -. 4. Sarah, August 21, 1724. 5. Ruth, June 29, 1727. 6. Ruth (2d), October 12, 1730.
(V) Moses (2), son of Benjamin Chadwell, was born at Lynn, April 28, 1719. He married, at Lynn (intention dated September 14, 1740), Susanna Newhall, died January 20, 1743-4; ( second) (intention dated April 7, 1745) Eliz- abeth Knox (Nox), of Boston, died January 9, 1746-7; (third ) (intention dated October 25, 1747) Mary Newhall, of Lynn. Children, born at Lynn: 1. Moses. 2. Harris, March 14, 1746; mentioned below. 3. Child, April 12, 1755. 4. Ruth, baptized October 10, 1756. Probably others.
(VI) Captain Harris Chadwell, son of Moses (2) Chadwell, was born at Lynn, March 14, 1746; died there August 26, 1834. He was lieutenant of a Lynn company at the battle of Concord, April 19, 1775, in the revolution ;
lieutenant in Captain Samuel King's company later in the year in coast defence duty ; second lieutenant in Captain Benjamin Epes's com- pany, Colonel Isaac Smith's regiment ; first lieutenant in Captain Joseph Hiller's company, assigned to General Farley's brigade, in the Rhode Island campaign ; also in Captain Hiller's company, Colonel Jonathan Titcomb's regi- ment, 1777. in Rhode Island campaign. He was later a captain in the militia. He married, at Lynn, December 22, 1768, Ruth Witt, died January 30, 1834, aged eighty-three. Children, born at Lynn : I. Elizabeth, July 12, 1769. 2. Mary, December 14, 1770. 3. Moses, Febru- ary 6, 1773. 4. Lydia, June 13, 1775. 5. Harris Jr., November 13, 1777; mentioned below. 6. Ruth, June 28, 1780. 7. Sally, Octo- ber 21, 1782. 8. Susanna, January 31, 1785. 9. Patty, April 25, 1787. 10. William, Novem- ber 29, 1789.
(VII) Harris (2), son of Captain Harris ( I) Chadwell, was born at Lynn, November 13, 1777, and died there February 8, 1833, aged fifty-five years. He married (first ) July 9. 1801 (or June 23, according to a church record), Lucy Stocke, October 10, 1802, aged twenty-two years : (second) July 6, 1806, Polly Houghton, died at Lynn January 30, 1819, aged thirty-four years. Child of first wife, born at Lynn: I. Harris, Jr., May 4, 1802: died September 22, 1803. Children of second wife, born in Lynn: 2. Lucy Houghton, April 3, 1807. 3. Mary, October 28, 1809. 4. Harris Otis, July 3, 1812; married ( first) September 30, 1833. Harriet Wright, died July 29, 1839 : (second) May 24, 1840, Mary D. Dodge, of Concord. (There is a record of birth at Lynn of Otis H. on the same date. Is it a duplicate record of a twin child ?). 5. Cyrus, mentioned below.
(VIII) Cyrus, son of Harris (2) Chadwell, was born at Lynn, September 17, 1814. He was educated in the district schools, and in early life began to work at the trade of shoe- maker. He followed this trade in the inde- pendent way of the shoemaker of his day. taking his work to the little shop on his own place and making boots and shoes entirely by hand. He was a good citizen, of strong con- victions, much carnestness, tireless industfy and uprightness. He married ( intentions dated July 3, 1836) Hannah P. Putnam, of Lynn. of the same family from which General Israel Putnam and General Rufus Putnam are de- scended. He and his wife were among the early members of the Universalist church of Lynn. He died aged seventy-eight, and his
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wife at the age of seventy-seven years. Chil- dren, born at Lynn : 1. Cyrus Alvin, Septem- ber 17, 1845; mentioned below. 2. Perley Russell, March 3, 1847. 3. C. Faustina. 4. Harriet P. 5. Laura P. 6. Harris.
(IX) Cyrus Alvin, son of Cyrus Chadwell, was born at Lynn, September 17, 1845. He attended the public schools of his native city. He worked at the trade of shoemaking for a time in his father's shop, leaving to enlist in the civil war. August 8, 1862. He was a pri- vate at the age of sixteen in Company E, Cap- tain John Edward Smith, Thirty-eighth Mass- achusetts Volunteer Regiment, Colonel Ingra- ham. The regiment was later under the com- mand of Colonel Rodman, who was killed at Port Hudson, and finally under Colonel Rich- ardson, who returned with it at the close of the war. Mr. Chadwell took part in many engagements. He was in the battle of Bisland, Louisiana, and of Mansura Plains, and in the Red River campaign under General Nathaniel P. Banks, and at Port Hudson. He was for a time in the hospital at York, Pennsylvania, on account of illness, and was mustered out in May, 1865, on account of disability, and the war being over.
Upon his return to Lynn at the close of the war he resumed work at his trade. But the days of hand-work in shoemaking were rapidly passing, and he found employment in a fac- tory where some machinery operated by steam power was in use. He worked at burnishing. In 1871 he was appointed a letter carrier, soon after the free delivery system went into effect in that city, and has been in active and continu- ous service to the present time. Only one other man in the Lynn postal department has been longer in the service, and he has filled his duties in this position with zeal and fidelity, calling forth the commendation of various postmasters, as well as the appreciation of the public which he served. He was the prime mover in organizing the Grand Army Post at Lynn, and his name is at the head of the char- ter members of Post No. 5, which became in its palmy days one of the largest and wealthiest posts in the country, at one time turning out a thousand actual members on Memorial Day. Mr. Chadwell declined to serve as first com- mander, and a second time declined the honor, but afterward accepted the office and is now the third ranking past commander. In politics he is a very decided and earnest Republican.
He married, October 3, 1876, at Lynn, Char- lotte Pratt Rogers, born in Holden, Maine, October 2, 1855, daughter of Deacon Joseph
F. and Laura (Copeland) Rogers. Through her Copeland ancestry she is descended from John and Priscilla (Molines) Alden, of the "Mayflower." Deacon Rogers began his busi- ness career with nothing, and acquired a com- fortable fortune in the timber and lumber trade in Maine. He came to Lynn in 1873 on account of his disgust over the management of the affairs of his native town of Holden, Maine. He engaged in the lumber business in Lynn, and established a flourishing business, but through too extensive credits and mis- placed confidence he lost heavily. He died in 1905, at an advanced age. His widow survives him, active and in good health, at the age of eighty. They were members of the Congre- gational church, of which Mr. Rogers was deacon.
Children of Cyrus Alvin and Charlotte Pratt (Rogers) Chadwell: I. Dr. Orville R., born August 26, 1877 ; mentioned below. 2. Perley A., born November 9, 1878; resides in Lynn ; married Rhoda Strong ; child, Alvin. 3. Mel- vin Otis, born February 22, 1881; clerk in Lynn : married Julia A. Day ; children : Alice Perley, Edith Day, Florence M.
(X) Dr. Orville Rogers Chadwell, son of Cyrus Alvin Chadwell, was born in Lynn, Au- gust 26, 1877. He attended the public and high schools of his native city, and studied medicine in Boston University, graduating with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1903. Dur- ing the next four years he was an instructor in the laboratories of the Medical School. In the meantime he conducted a general practice at Jamaica Plain, Boston. He later succeeded to the practice of older physicians, and has as patients many of the best families of that sec- tion. He has been secretary of the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society for three years, and is a member of the State and National societies. He is medical examiner for the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and various insurance orders, and is a director of the Friendly Society of Jamaica Plain, and the Neighborhood House, a philanthropic organi- zation.
He married, September 21, 1904. Mabel Margaret Hubbard, born at Solon, Iowa, De- cember 5: 1877, daughter of Albert M. and Emma (Budd ) Hubbard. When she was a child the family moved to Elyria, near Cleve- land. Ohio, where she attended the public schools, completing her education at Mount Holyoke College. Her father was a cousin of President Grover Cleveland, and his paternal ancestors were among the pioneers of Ohio
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and later of Iowa. Mr. Hubbard's wife died soon after the birth of his daughter Margaret, and he removed in later years to Fruitvale, California, where he has since resided. He is a lifelong student, well versed in horticulture, and has been especially successful in the grow- ing of fruit. During the civil war he was for some time an accountant in the provost mar- shal's office. He is a member of the Congre- gational church. Children: I. Ashbell Hub- bard, lives with his father; is a mechanical engineer. 2. Meribel, lives at home with her father. 3. Edgar Hubbard, died when a young man, unmarried. 4. Mabel Margaret Hubbard, married Dr. Chadwell.
Thomas Hopkins was born in HOPKINS Birmingham, England. He mar- ried Isabella Greives, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hunter ) Greives, of Leith, Scotland.
(II) Thomas Greives Hopkins, son of Thomas Hopkins, was born in Birmingham, England, where he was educated and learned the trade of glass blower. He came to the United States in 1832 with his family, and settled in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, where he was employed in the manufacture of window glass by hand. Afterward he removed to the Adirondacks, New York, where he was also employed at his trade. Subsequently he returned to Cambridge, and from that time to his death worked prin- cipally for the New England Glass Company of that city. He married Elizabeth Hunter, who was also born in England. Children: I. Thomas, was a member of Niagara Engine Company ; married Elizabeth Shorey ; one child, Emma. 2. William, was a member of the old Niagara Engine Company; married Esther Wyman ; his son Joseph was killed while on duty as a fireman in East Cambridge. 3. John, assistant engineer of Cambridge fire depart- ment ; married Emeline Dawes ; children : i. Lillian, married Walter Shapley; ii. Lizzie, married Delmont Miller. 4. James Robert, further mentioned below. 5. Edwin, married his brother William's widow, Esther Wyman. 6. Elizabeth, married James Marr. 7. Louis B., foreman of Hose Company, No. 3, Somer- ville ; married Elsie Price ; child, Albert.
(II) James Robert, son of Thomas Greives Hopkins, was born at Cambridge, January 10, 1836, and attended the public schools there. At the age of sixteen he began to work in the furniture factory of Doe, Hazeltine & Com- pany, as an apprentice in the trade of wood carving. At the same time he took a full course
in drawing at the Lowell Institute. He con- tinued at his trade as a journeyman until the spring of 1858 at Cambridge. He then entered the employ of Haley, Morse & Boyden, of South Dedham (Norwood), but after a time returned to his former employer in Cambridge. When President Lincoln called for troops April 19, 1861, he enlisted with the Somerville Light Infantry in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and served for three months at the beginning of the civil war, and took part in the first battle of Bull Run. In the fall of 1861 he re-enlisted and went to New Orleans in General Butler's command, and served for seventeen months in the chief quartermaster's department. After he was mustered out he resumed his trade of wood carving in the factory of Doe, Hazeltine & Company, and afterward in the factory of J. W. Berry & Company, on Medford street, Charlestown. In 1870 he left his trade to en- gage in business on his own account as a gen- eral contractor and excavator.
In 1854 Mr. Hopkins became an active mem- ber of Niagara Engine Company, No. 3, at East Cambridge. His family were natural fire- fighters, and his brothers were distinguished in the fire departments of this section. He had been for some time a volunteer in this com- pany. When his mother removed to Somer- ville he went with her and resigned from the Cambridge company, but joined Somerville Hand Engine Company, No. 1, July 6, 1856, and continued in this service until 1858. Dur- ing his residence in Dedham he was a member of Washington Engine Company, No. 10. Then he returned and again joined the Somerville Company, No. I, retaining his membership there until 1865, when he joined the newly organized Hose Company, No. I, and was a member until it disbanded in 1866. While serving with Engine Company, No. I, he was second assistant foreman in 1859, and clerk in 1860. He was also clerk of Hose Company, No. 1, during its entire existence. He was appointed engineer by the board of selectmen in April, 1869, and two weeks after the city was organized he was elected chief of the fire department of Somerville. That was January 13, 1872, and since then Chief Hopkins has filled this office with great fidelity and efficiency. His courage, zeal and executive ability have been often brought to the proof. He is one of the oldest and most popular chiefs in New England, and has the distinction of holding the office of fire chief longer than any other man in the country, with one exception, this being Thomas O'Connor, of New Orleans. At
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Baltimore, in 1873, he assisted in organizing the National Association of Fire Engineers, and at one time was vice-president, and from time to time has done important work for the association and read valuable papers at the annual gatherings. He is a member of the Massachusetts State Firemen's Association, the Charlestown Volunteer, Cambridge and Som- erville Veteran's Firemen's Association, and president of the Massachusetts Fire Chiefs Club, which he was instrumental in organizing. He is also a member of John Abbot Lodge of Free Masons; of Somerville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Oasis Lodge, No. 146, Odd Fellows; of Excelsior Council, No. 3, Royal Arcanum: of the Knights of Honor; and of Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, Grand Army of the Republic. He had more than a local reputation as a singer in his younger days, and belonged to various church choirs of the vicin- ity. In religion he is a Congregationalist, and in politics a Republican.
He married, September 30, 1862, Susan Cutter Moore, born in Boston, October 12, 1838, daughter of Abram and Charlotte (Cut- ter ) Moore of Canterbury, New Hampshire and Arlington, Massachusetts (see Moore). Children : I. Charlotte Isabel, born at Somer- ville, April 7, 1866; graduate of Somerville high school ; assistant in the public library for a time ; married Joseph W. Whitaker, of Som- erville ; child : Robert L., died August 19, 1900. 2. James Wesley, born March 2, 1875; graduate of grammar school, and student three years in Somerville high school ; clerk in jewelry store of Foster & Company, West street, Bos- ton eight years, then traveled for Gulf Refin- ing Company. He married Alice M. Bow- ditch, September 30, 1908; lives in No. 84 Leamington avenue, West Somerville.
(The Moore Line).
A number of pioneers of the name of Moore came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, in the early days of the settlement, from the north of Ireland. They were of Scotch ancestry, and their descendants are numerous in all parts of the country, particularly in New Hampshire.
(I) Jonathan Moore, immigrant ancestor, was living in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1650, and according to tradition was of Scotch an- cestry and had been a colonel in the royal army. If the tradition is correct, it is likely that he was one of the prisoners of war shipped to this country by Cromwell. Very little is known of him. He had two sons, Jonathan and Will- iam, and perhaps other children.
(II) William, son of Jonathan Moore, was one of the petitioners January 4, 1715, for the incorporation of the town of Stratham from Exeter, and was elected selectman at the first town meeting of Stratham, April 16, 1716. At a subsequent town meeting, August 5 follow- ing, he was elected first deputy from the new town to the general court. He married Sarah, daughter of Andrew and granddaughter of Thomas Wiggin, the immigrant. Among their children were William, Mary and perhaps John, mentioned below.
(III) John, son or nephew of William Moore, was born about 1690, in Exeter or vicinity. He married, March 15, 1719-20, Hannah Sias, of Oyster River parish (Durham), and later in life removed to Canterbury, New Hampshire. In the first federal census taken in 1790 the following sons and grandsons were heads of families in Canterbury: Samuel had three sons under sixteen and three females in his family; Ezekiel had wife, but no children ; William had two males over sixteen, four under that age, and four females in his family ; Joseph had two sons under sixteen and four females, while Archelaus had no children living in his family. John and John, Jr., were both living during the revolution at Canterbury, and signed petitions. William, Archelaus, Eliza- beth and Samuel were baptized together at Durham, New Hampshire, December 24, 1727. Children : 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Will- iam. 3. Archelaus, was town clerk of Canter- bury 1772 and 1779; was with brother Will- iam at Concord, then Rumford, New Hamp- shire, in 1747. 4. Elizabeth. 5. Samuel.
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