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cember 2, 1906. 2. Walter Dimmock, see for- ward. 3. Jessie H., died in infancy. 4. James E., died in infancy. 5. Edward H., died in infancy. 6. Mary Agnes, born November 21, 1876; married, December 27, 1906, Herman Sweezey, of New Haven, Connecticut.
(XI) Walter Dimmock, son of Edward Hunt and Harriet Elvira (Goulding) Phelps, was born in Springfield, October 9, 1868, and attended the public and high school of that city. He entered the establishment of his father in which he continued till the latter's death. He is now engaged in the publishing business. He married Flora W., daughter of Myron C. Graves, of Springfield, Massachu- setts, October 23, 1889, by whom he has two children: Harriet Davis, born October 30, 1894, Dorothy Alice, May 12, 1897.
(For preceding generations see John Doane 1). (IV) Simeon Doane, son of Sam- DOANE uel Doane, was born at Eastham, Massachusetts, December 1, 1708, and died there December 4, 1789. He lived in Eastham, on a part of the homestead. His will was dated April 24, 1784. He married, October 1, 1730, Apphia Higgins. Children : I. Ruth, born March 30, 1733-4; married Phineas Smith. 2. Abigail, born August 6, 1735; married Eldredge. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Benjamin. 5. Ephraim. 6. Isaiah, born about 1742. 7. Phebe, married Smith.
(V) John, son of Simeon Doane, was born in Eastham, about 1738, and died there April 19, 1800, in his sixty-second year. It is thought he was buried in the old Herring-Pond burial ground, near the church where he had wor- shiped (gravestone). He was a private in the French war in 1758, under Captain Samuel Knowles, Colonel Timothy Doty's regiment ; also in Captain Jabez Snow's company, Col- onel John Thomas' regiment, at Annapolis Royal, March 27 to November 1, 1759; also in same company November 2, 1759, to June 23, 1760. He lived in the present town of East- ham, on the north side of the harbor .. He was a deacon of the middle parish church during Rev. Mr. Cheever's ministry. The house he built and occupied on the homestead, was standing until a few years ago, when it was torn down. He married, about 1761, Betsey Snow, who died October 22, 1819 (grave- stone). Children, born in Eastham: I. Timo- thy, May 13, 1762; mentioned below. 2. Heman, March 15, 1764. 3. Sarah, June 18, 1767. 4. Betty, March 21, 1769 ; married, Feb-
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ruary II, 1793. Abijah Mayo. 5. Abigail, March 21, 1771. 6. John, April 19, 1777. 7. Simeon, July 31, 1780.
(VI) Timothy, son of Deacon John Doane, was born in Eastham, May 13, 1762, and died at Orleans, Massachusetts, January 19, 1822 (gravestone at Orleans). He lived in that part of Eastham which was set off as Orleans in 1757. He married, March 7, 1781, Jedediah Higgins, who died March 4, 1847, aged eighty- four years. Children, born in Eastham : I. Beriah, November 25, 1782. 2. Abigail, March 5, 1784. 3. Mehitable, November 15, 1785; married, March 7, 1805, William Smith. 4. Lewis, September 24, 1787. 5. Timothy, June
2, 1789. 6. John, May 28, 1791 ; mentioned below. 7. Sally, October 9, 1794, died Decem- ber 26, 1830; married, November 7, 1816, Zoeth Taylor. 8. Betty, November 6, 1796; married, 1819, Sparrow Horton. 9. Nancy, February 19, 1799; married, December 30, 1821, Captain Sears Rogers. 10. Isaac, June 4, 1804 ; married, November 20, 1836, Phoebe F. Foster.
(VII) John (2), son of Timothy Doane, was born in Eastham, May 28, 1791, and died at Orleans, March 3, 1881. He received his early education in the public schools, and attended Sandwich Academy and a school at Bridgewater. He studied law with John Reed, and was admitted to the bar in Barnstable about 1818. He practised his profession for more than fifty years. He was a representa- tive to the legislature, and in 1830 was elected state senator, in which office he served three terms with dignity and ability. He was at one time a member of the governor's council. In 1850 and 1853 he was elected county commis- sioner. He lived to a ripe old age and the enjoyment of a rare social position, respected by all who knew him. Upon the town in which he lived and upon the public whose interests he sought to serve, he made a lasting impression as an honest and sound counsellor, who in all his professional career advised settlements, compromises and concessions, instead of liti- gation in the courts. He was familiarly known all over the Cape, as "Squire Doane." He was a friend to young men seeking an education. He was one of the earliest, if not the first, to engage in aboriculture in this country, and planted many acres of old lands to pine and oaks.
The following tribute by a friend describes his character well: "He was one of the repre- sentative men of Cape Cod, and worthy of the high esteem in which he was held and of all
the honors that were paid to him. Mr. Doane was a lawyer of the old school, one of the class that inclined to repress rather than encourage litigation, and while conscientious and faithful in the discharge of all professional duty, never sought to create professional business. He was a safe and wise counsellor, though perhaps too distrustful of his own judgment-a failing however, which never injured a client, nor diminished the confidence of his fellows in the soundness of his opinions. A constant attend- ant upon the terms of the court, he rarely addressed the bench and never argued a case to the jury, his native modesty and diffidence only preventing; but no member of the old Barnstable bar prepared his cases more thoroughly ; and in his day he was not the only one of that bar who availed himself of the magical influence of the silver-tongued Nymphas Marston with a Cape Cod jury. I said, Mr. Doane was one of the representative men of Cape Cod. He was modest, but self- reliant ; economical and thrifty, and at the same time zealous and public spirited ; grave and dignified, but never morose or unsocial; a man true, exact and faithful in all his public and private relations. I had the pleasure of paying my respects to him a year or two since in his pleasant home, where he was the central object of devoted affection."
He married, November 13, 1820, Polly Eld- ridge, born July 28, 1796, died January 3, 1875, daughter of Barnabas and Zipporah Eld- ridge. Children, born in Orleans: I. Thomas, September 20, 1821 ; see forward. 2. Caro- line, August 14, 1823; died December 30, 1882: married Captain Allen H. Knowles, of Yarmouthport, who died July 4, 1861 ; had Sarah, Allen H., and Caroline Knowles. 3.
John, April 28, 1825, died August 25, 1873, in Nebraska ; married, January 1, 1853, at Paw- tucket, Rhode Island, Almira Starkweather. 4. Martha, September 13. 1827, died August 29, 1894, unmarried. 5. Mary, August 17, 1829. died August 22, 1894; married Captain Seth Doane, of Orleans, of the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Company. 6. Lucy, born September 13, 1831, died November 22, 1849, at Bradford, Massachusetts. 7. Henry, born January 22. 1834 : graduated at Harvard Law School 1859, and practiced law for a time in Boston ; captain of Forty-third Tiger Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in 1862 ; in service in North Caro- lina and in battles of Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- boro. siege of Washington ; mustered out July 30, 1863 ; returned to Orleans in failing health, and died September 2, 1865 ; will dated Decem-
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ber 10, 1862, containing this clause : "I give my gun and pistol to my brother Charles, not doubting that he will use the same, should occasion call, in the defence of liberty and good government ;" his name appears on the mural tablet in Memorial Hall, Harvard College. 8. ยท Charles Watson, mentioned below.
(VIII) Thomas Doane, eldest of the eight children of John and Polly ( Eldridge) Doane, was born at Orleans, September 20, 1821, and died October 22, 1897. He was one of the most eminent civil engineers of his day. He began his education in the academy established by his father and others, leaving it at the age of nineteen to enter the English Academy at Andover, which he attended five terms. He then entered the office of the distinguished civil engineer, Samuel M. Felton, remaining three years. He was then engaged as engineer of the Windsor White River Division of the Vermont Central railroad, and from 1847 to 1849 was resident engineer of the Cheshire railroad at Walpole, New Hampshire. In De- cember in the latter year he returned to Charles- town, Massachusetts, and opened an office, carrying on general civil engineering and sur- vey work, personally and through capable assist- ants, until his death. At one time or another he was connected with all the railroads out of Boston, and particularly with the Boston & Maine railroad. In 1863, under the State of Massachusetts, he became chief engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel, which he completed, under great difficulty, by change of method previ- ously followed, and the introduction of modern ideas and appliances. He relocated the tunnel line and established its grades, connected the two ends by precise measurements and levels, built the dam across the Deerfield river to furnish water-power for turbines to operate air compressers, and for the first time effected the successful use of nitro-glycerine, the use of machine drills operated by compressed air, and "simultaneous blasting" by electricity. Mr. Doane invented the carriages on which machine drills were operated, and he was designated the pioneer of compressed air in this country. As early as 1873 he proposed the compressed air power plants for use in cities, and which have but recently been established. In 1869, as chief engineer of the Burlington & Missouri River railroad in Nebraska, he in four years completed four miles of road, constructed a telegraph line its entire length, and established a steam ferry over the Missouri river at Platts- mouth. In 1875, at the opening of the Hoosac Tunnel, he ran the first locomotive through it.
In 1879 he became consulting and acting chief engineer of the Northern Pacific railroad, and located its lines in Washington and part of Dakota. While in Nebraska he secured a square mile site for Doane College (named in his honor) at Crete, and made to it a large contribution. For many years he was one of its trustees, and the bulk of his estate was willed to it at his death. He was a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and president nine years ; of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; a director of the Associated Charities of Boston, and president of the Charlestown branch ; of the New England His- toric Genealogical Society; vice-president of the Hunt Asylum for Destitute Children ; first president of the Charlestown Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a liberal contributor to its support ; a member of the Congregational Club, the Bunker Hill Boys Club, the American College and Educational Society, the Winthrop Church in Charlestown, and for fourteen years one of its deacons. He was a man of high principles and unswerving integrity, kind and considerate to all, generous toward all worthy objects, and lived an earnest and christian life.
Mr. Doane married (first) Sophia D. Clarke, of Brattleborough, Vermont; (second) Louise Barber. His children were by his first mar- riage : Mrs. David B. Perry, wife of the presi- dent of Doane College ; Mrs. W. O. Weeden, wife of a Congregational minister ; Mrs. H. B. Twombly; and Rev. John Doane, pastor of Plymouth Church, Lincoln, Nebraska.
(VIII) Charles Watson, son of Hon. John Doane, was born at Orleans, July 9, 1840. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Orleans Academy. At the age of nineteen he shipped as a sailor before the mast, and at the age of twenty-five had risen to the rank of master mariner. His first command was the vessel "Colorado," owned by Henry S. Hallett, and he made his first voyage from Liverpool, where he took a cargo of salt for ballast and proceeded to Calcutta, India, re- turning with a cargo of East India goods to New York. His next voyage was in command of a new ship. "Sarah Hignett," owned . by Paul Curtis & Brother, on a voyage from New York to Calcutta. His next ship was "The Puritan." owned by Elijah Williams & Com- pany, of which he had command for the next six years, sailing to all parts of the world. One of his largest cargoes was a complete sugar refining plant manufactured in Philadel- phia and delivered in Peru, South America.
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From this voyage he returned with ballast to San Francisco. He sailed for Hong Kong from Portland, Oregon, with a cargo of flour and spars, and returned to Boston with tea and other Chinese goods. His last voyage ended in misfortune. When off the river Hoogley, near Calcutta, he picked up a pilot. The weather was bad, and the pilot attempted to sail up the river, but through bad judgment in miscalculating the set of the current, he ran the vessel on the quicksands outside the Hoogley river. On account of the heavy seas, no tugs or steamers could come to the assistance of the stranded vessel. The crew finally had to aban- don the ship. Two of the boats were picked up and the men taken to Calcutta. The boat in which Captain Doane left the ship landed at the light-ship. "The Puritan" gradually sank in the quicksands and was a total loss. Captain Doane returned to London on one of the P. & O. steamers, whence he returned to his home in Orleans. He had been master of ships for eighteen years and decided to retire from the business. After a short time he located at Crete, Nebraska, where he had a sheep and horse ranch, and carried on general farming. After living at Crete, Nebraska, twenty-three years, a part of which time he conducted a ranch, he retired from the busi- ness and in 1902 returned to Massachusetts, and bought a home at Milton, where he has resided since. He is a member of the Knights of Honor; for many years member of the Modern Woodmen, and Knights and Ladies of Security. In politics he is a Republican.
Charles Watson Doane married, in Marl- boro, Massachusetts, June 13, 1877, Mary Appleton Doane. Children: 1. John Apple- ton, born at Orleans, April 16, 1878; superin- tendent of machine shops of Taylor Iron & Steel Company, High Bridge, New Jersey ; married (first) in Dorchester Lower Mills, Au- gust 30, 1901, Ida Helen Mason, who died May 25, 1902, at Milton ; married (second) Octo- ber 29, 1906, Mabel Hopkins, of Crete, Ne- braska ; child : Beulah Appleton, born August 13, 1907. 2. Charles Watson, Jr., born in Orleans, March 19, 1879; is a draughtsman with Westinghouse Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; married in Pittsburg, May 16, 1907, Lillian May Bossart ; one child, Charles Watson (3d), born December 19, 1908.
Mrs. Mary Appleton Doane, wife of Charles Watson Doane, is a Daughter of the Revolu- tion. She is a descendant of the immigrant, John Doane, and daughter of Captain Isaac anel Mary (Freeman) Doane. Her father was a
ship master in the California and East India trade. His last ship was the "Samuel Apple- ton." He took his family on one voyage around the world. He died aged forty-six years, and his widow is yet living, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-two years. Of their seven children Mrs. Charles W. Doane is the only one living. Three of the brothers of Captain Isaac Doane were ship masters.
BACON Bacon is the name of an ancient seigniory in Normandy, and from this place the Norman ancestors in England took their name nearly a thousand years ago. According to the genealogy of the great Suffolk family of Bacon, one Grimald, or Grimaldus, a relative of the Norman chieftain, William de Warrenne, came to England at the time of the Conquest and settled near Holt, in Suffolk. His great-grandson took the surname Bacon, or rather resumed the use of the place- name as a surname. In the north of France the surname Bacon is still in use. William Bacon in 1082 endowed the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen. The surname Bacon is found in the Battle Rolls in England in the eleventh century, and in the Hundred Rolls in the thir- teenth. There are occasional variations in spell- ing, such as Bacun and Bachun, and in some instances the surname Bacon may have been corrupted from Beacon. From their connec- tion with Bayeux, the Bacons were sometimes Latinized De Bajocis. Sir William Bacon, of the knights bearing banners in the reign of Philip III. in France, bore arms-a beech tree.
Grimaldus, mentioned above, had three sons : I. Radulph. 2. Edmund, took the name of his abode for his surname. 3. Ranulph, or Ralph, was known as Ralph de Bacons-Thorpe (thorp means village ) ; his son, Roger de Baconsthorp, was father of Robert Bacon, who assumed the name without the particle implying location, and the name has continued in various lines of descent. George, son of Ralph de Baconsthorp, was father of Roger Bacon, who released to his sister Agnes lands belonging to the family in Normandy, and from him for many generations, descended the Bacons of Drinkstone and Hes- sett, county Suffolk. The lineage of Nathaniel Bacon, of Virginia, the famous "rebel" of early colonial days, has been traced. Richard Bacon (7), whose lineage is Reginald (6), Robert (5), Roger (4), George (3), Ralph (2), Gri- maklus (1), who was first to bear the arms of his family : Gules on a chief argent two mullets sable. The Bacon family at Hessett bears these arms : Argent on a fesse engrailed between
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three escutcheons gules three mullets or. The original seat of the family was in Suffolk, near Ipswich, perhaps Barham, but families of im- portance of this name have lived and been numerous in Durham, Hampshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Yorkshire and other counties.
(I) Michael Bacon, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1575, probably in county Suffolk, England. He went from England to the north of Ireland in 1633, and seven years later came to New England with Samuel Cooke and John Smyth, also from Ulster, Ireland. They were proposed as proprietors of the town of Ded- ham, Massachusetts, May 23, 1640, and the records show that it was "agreed upon that the Towne of Dedham shall entertain Mr. Saml. Cooke, together with his estate, and also Mr. Smith and Mr. Bacon, all from Ireland, and afford to them such accomdation of upland and meadow as their estates shall require." From a record made the next month it would appear that the wife of Bacon preceded him. He signed the famous Dedham Church covenant. His wife was admitted to the church Septem- ber 17, 1641, and died April 2, 1648. In 1644 he gave of his land to the town for one of the highways (p. 364, Gen. Reg. 1902). He died April 18, 1648, the same month as his wife. His will, dated four days earlier, mentions all his children except Alice, who died the month previous. The inventory was dated April 20, 1649, and the estate amounted to nearly fifty- five pounds. Some writers state that William Bacon, of Salem, was a brother ; he also was an Englishman born, who lived in Dublin, Ireland, in 1639; his wife Rebecca was sister of Humphrey Potter, who was slain in a massa- cre in Ireland, and daughter of Thomas Potter, sometime mayor of Coventry, England. Chil- dren of Michael: 1. Michael, born 1608; men- tioned below. 2. Daniel, was of Woburn, 1640; of Bridgewater ; of Newton, 1669; admitted freeman May 26, 1647. 3. John, admitted free- man at Dedham, 1647; died June 17, 1683. 4. Alice, married, March 31, 1647, Thomas Ban- croft, who died March 24, 1648; she died March 29, 1648. 5. Sarah, married, April 14, 1648, Anthony Hubbard, of Dedham; died 1652.
(II) Michael (2), son of Michael ( I) Bacon, was born in England, in 1608, as indicated by his deposition on June 17, 1668, stating his age as about sixty years. He went to Ireland with his father, and came to America with him. He subscribed to the town orders for Woburn, and became one of the original proprietors in 1640. He was chosen surveyor of highways in Woburn
in 1644. He bought of Roger Shaw in 1648 a farm in the northwest part of Cambridge, now within the town of Bedford, including all the meadow adjoining the Great Swamp, near the east corner of the town of Concord, on the Shawshin river, on which Bacon is said to have built a mill before 1675, which is now or was lately standing. In a mortgage recorded June 8, 1675, he was called a citizen of Billerica. In August, 1675, the town of Billerica, in provid- ing defense against the Indians in King Philip's war, assigned Michael Bacon to garrison No. Io. under Timothy Brooks. He died July 4, 1688. He married (first) Mary died August 26, 1655; (second) October 26, 1655, Mary Richardson, died May 19, 1670; (third) November 28, 1670, Mary Noyes. Children : I. Michael, born 1640; mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, January 4, 1642, at Woburn. 3. Sarah, August 24, 1644, at Woburn.
(III) Michael (3), son of Michael (2) Bacon, was born in 1640, probably in Charles- town, where his father was located for a time before going to Woburn. He was a shoemaker by trade. He was mentioned in a deed by his father October 4, 1666, as Michael, Jr. He bought of Rev. Mr. Mitchell the farm of five hundred acres for two hundred pounds in July, 1682. This farm was granted originally by the town of Cambridge to its minister in 1652. It was on the Shawshin river, included a mill, and was known for many years afterwards as the Bacon homestead. From Michael, third of the name, are descended many prominent men in Bedford and vicinity during the past two hundred years. His house, at last accounts still standing, was built, it is said, before 1700. Six later generations have been born or lived on the homestead. Of the twenty-six minute- men from Bedford in the Concord fight, six were Bacons, all of this family, and two others were in the company of militia in that engage- ment. Nine Bacons were reported as liable for military duty in the town of Bedford, May 15, 1775. The "History of Bedford" also mentions the musical ability that seems char- acteristic of the family. Michael Bacon died at Bedford, August 13, 1707. He married, March 22, 1660, Sarah Richardson, died Au- gust 15, 1694, daughter of Thomas Richardson. Children : I. Mary, born March 1, 1661, in Woburn. 2. Sarah, born August 24, 1663, at Woburn. 3. Abigail, born at Woburn, March 5, 1666-7. 4. Jonathan, born at Billerica, July 14, 1672 ; mentioned below. 5. Nathaniel, born September 18, 1675, at Billerica. 6. Josiah, born August 20, 1678, died October 14, 1723.
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7. Ruth, born July 24, 1681, at Billerica. 8. Benjamin, born 1683, at Bedford, died Novem- ber 19, 1747.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Michael (2) Bacon, was born at Billerica, July 14, 1672, and died January 12, 1754. He was a leading citizen of Billerica, and in 1669 was approved to keep an ordinary. He and two of his brothers were in the Indian wars with "Major Lane" in 1706. He was deputy to the general court from Biller- ica in 1726, and selectman in 1719 and 1727. He was one of the petitioners for the forma- tion of the town of Bedford, and as a principal inhabitant was appointed to assemble the first town meeting, October 6, 1729, when he was chosen one of the first selectmen. He married (first) January 3. 1694, Elizabeth Giles, died 1738; (second) September 22, 1739, Elizabeth Hancock. widow of Benjamin Wyman, of Wo- burn. Children, born in Billerica : I. Eliza- beth, November 26, 1695. 2. Sarah, December 25, 1696; married Israel Putnam. 3. Anna, April 28, 1698, died October 8, 1698. 4. Jona- than, December 18, 1700; mentioned below. 5. Mary, September 18, 1702. 6. Bridget, Jan- 11ary 5, 1706-7. 7. Anna, August 19, 1709.
(V) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan ( I) Bacon, was born at Billerica, December 18, 1700. He lived in Bedford, Massachusetts, and married Ruth He came to Ux- bridge, Massachusetts, in 1733, and owned the water power at what is now Whitinsville. He sold to his son Jonathan six hundred acres of land on the Mumford river, with mills, also a farm of two hundred acres adjoining or near the larger tract, then in Sutton. The record of his family is in Sutton from 1741 to 1746. He died before February, 1764. The Sutton history says his homestead was in that part of Sutton now Upton. Children: I. William, born in Bedford, died young. 2. William, married Mary - - ; lived in Sutton. 3. Jonathan, settled in Dudley, had a large family: married Martha 4. James, mentioned below. 5. Danicl (?), settled in Charlton. 6. Amos, died September 12, 1741. 7. Elizabeth, born at Sutton, August 28, 1741 ; married. August 23, 1759, Joshua Hicks. 8. David. born April 26, 1744, at Sutton ; mar- ried, December 17, 1767, Tabitha Wakefield. 9. Ruth, born May 28, 1746 ; married, at Sutton, November 5, 1765.
(VI) James, son of Jonathan (2) Bacon, was born about 1735, in Uxbridge. He settled in Dudley, Massachusetts, where he married, March 30, 1760, Martha Jewell, of a distin- guished Connecticut family. He was a singer
of note in his day, and when a young man taught school. About 1763 he removed from Dudley to Charlton, and five years later to Brimfield, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the revolution. Children, the first two of whom were in Dudley, the next two in Charl- ton and the others in Brimfield: I. Mary, born February or September 17, 1761 ; mar- ried Thomas Lumbard; died December 29, 1791. 2. Martha, born June 27 or 28, 1762, died September, 1775. 3. Abigail, born Sep- tember 10, 1764; married Abner Stebbins. 4. Sarah, born April 17, 1766; married, February I. 1786, Gideon Lumbard. 5. James, born May 23, 1768, died November, 1768, baptized at Dudley, May 30. 6. Hannah, born June 9. !769. baptized at Dudley : married, November 19, 1789. Gardner Weyman. 7. John, born Au- gust 30, 1771, died September, 1775. 8. Chloe, born March 19, 1774, died September, 1775. 9. Amasa. born June 13, 1776; mentioned below. 10. Patience, born April 9, 1779. II. Cynthia, born April 13, 1781 ; married, Octo- ber 2. 1800, Samuel Nichols.
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