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(VII) Amasa, son of James Bacon, was born June 13. 1776, died June 10, 1855. He resided in that part of Brimfield known as Parksville, and built the first grist mill of Brim- field and vicinity. He married Hannah Dodge, born April 9, 1776, died August 2, 1854, of an old Brookfield family. Children, born at Brim- field: I. Rufus Freeman, September 2, 1800. 2. Lucy Lee, February II, 1802, died Decem- ber 15, 1805. 3. Sarah, September 14, 1803; married. September 5, 1833, Andrew P. Fitts, of Leicester. 4. James, September 5, 1805. 5. George, May 23, 1807 ; mentioned below. 6. Almira. July 10, 1809 ; married, March 1, 1832, John W. Baker, of Uxbridge. 7. Clarissa, October 3, 1811 ; married Roswell Foskett. 8. Liberty, August 23, 1812. 9. Maria, February 18. 1816: married Estes Bond, of Sturbridge ; (second) Henry Towne. 10. Fanny, August 23, 1819, died September 26, 1821. 11. Diana, Inne 0, 1821 ; married, February 23, 1842, Frederick S. Pike.
(VIII) George, son of Amasa Bacon, was born at Brimfield, May 23. 1807, and died June 8, 1891. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and followed the occupa- tion of farmer. In religion he was a Unitarian, and in politics a Republican. He married (first ) December 25, 1831, Eunice Lombard (or Lumbard), who died childless August 2. 1832. He married (second) September 24, 1834, Marv Eliza Ferry, born 1815, died Octo- ber 25, 1862, daughter of Hezekiah and Han-
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nah (Fisher) Ferry. Her father was one of the most substantial busness men of Palmer, and left a good farm to each of his eight sons. Hannah Fisher was born in Boston ; her father was a soldier in the revolution ; her mother was a Cooley, of Springfield ; three of her brothers were sea captains. Children of second wife : I. George Norval, born July 29, 1835, died April 19, 1895: married Jennie E. Munroe ; lived at Fiskdale, Massachusetts ; left no issue. 2. John Flavel, born February 9, 1839, died September 14, 1862. 3. Albert Sherman, born January 17, 1844 ; mentioned below. 4. Mary Fisher, born March 1, 1851 ; married, April 12, 1876, Seth W. Smith; now residing at 162 Piney-woods avenue, Springfield ; children : Alice Maud Smith, Florence Smith, Roy Smith. 5. Alice Maud, born February 8, 1853 ; resides at South Hadley.
(IX) Albert Sherman, son of George Bacon, was born in Brimfield, January 17, 1844. He was educated in the public schools and Hitch- cock Academy. He is now (1909) living in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married, Octo- ber 6, 1867, Cynthia Leonard, of Worthington, Massachusetts, born November 13. 1842, died February 28, 1899, daughter of William and Mary S. C. (Everett ) Leonard. Children, born at Brimfield: 1. Fanny Gertrude, July 19 1868; resides at 420 Washington street, Dorchester : married Edwin Packenham Rug- gles, of Milton, Massachusetts; child, Helen Ruggles. 2. George Albert, August 27, 1869; mentioned below. 3. Clarence Norval, born at Wales. Massachusetts, December 4, 1871 ; mar- ried Rose Martha Mavforth, of Springfield ; children: i. Doris Newberth, born August 4, 1900; ii. Rosalind Alberta, March 1, 1902; iii. Norval Albert, October 2, 1903. 4. Ruth Gray, born at Wales, Massachusetts, August 21, 1874: resides with her father in Dorchester. 5. Grace Mabel, born at Northampton, Massa- chusetts, April 27, 1878 ; resides with her father. 6. Jane May, born at Hinsdale, New Hamp- shire. May 27, 1880; resides with her father.
(X) George Albert, son of Albert Sherman Bacon. was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, August 27. 1869. He attended the public schools in Northampton, Massachusetts, and Hinsdale. New Hampshire, also Boston Uni- versity College of Liberal Arts and Boston University School of Law, graduating from the latter in 1895: also studied law in the office of Dean Edmund H. Bennett, in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1895, and com- menced practice as attorney at law in Spring- field. June 17, 1895, where he has enjoyed a
large practice, and is one of the best known and most successful corporation lawyers in Western Massachusetts. He is always active in all important matters for civic advancement. As a Republican he has been prominent in city politics, having held several offices of distinc- tion. He is a member of the Springfield Lodge of Masons, De Soto Lodge of Odd Fellows, the Springfield Board of Trade, the Nayasset Club, Winthrop Club, Springfield Country Club, and Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity.
He married, January 22, 1902, Mabel Maria Sedgwick, of Boston, born November 13, 1876, in Adams, Massachusetts, daughter of Fred- erick R. and Mary ( Kilmer) Sedgwick.
Jeremiah Norcross, immigrant NORCROSS ancestor, came from England to America in 1638, and from Bond's "History of Watertown" we learn that he was a proprietor in that place as early as 1642, his family then consisting of his wife and three children-Nathaniel, Richard and Sarah. The original homestead in Watertown consisted of about twenty-six acres, the title to which was held within the family for more than one hundred and sixty years. A portion of this estate was later purchased by the United States government, and is now the location of the Watertown Arsenal. The senior Norcross, in 1654, when arranging to visit England, exe- cuted a will in which the various members of his family are mentioned, leaving at his death the greater part of his estate to his son Richard. The brother Nathaniel received the degree of A. B. at Catherine Hall College, Cambridge, 1636-7, was called to become the minister at Lancaster, Massachusetts, and signed with others a petition to the general court to plant a settlement there. But there being so much delay in preparing for the settlement and build- ing the early houses that his attention was called in another direction, he is said to have returned to England in 1646. Jeremiah Norcross mar- ried Adrean Smith. He died in England in 1657. Children: 1. Nathaniel, born in Lon- don ; married Mary Gilbert, of Taunton. 2. Richard, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, married Francis Massy.
(II) Richard, son of Jeremiah Norcross, was born in England, in 1621, and was the possessor of a small estate at Watertown, Mass- achusetts, in 1642. He was the first school master in that town, from 1651 to about 1700 followed the occupation of a school teacher, and for nearly a quarter of a century was the only person in the town to fill that office. He
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married (first ) June 24, 1650, Mary Brooks, who died in 1672; (second) November 18, 1673, Susannah Shattuck, who died December II, 1686, widow of William Shattuck. Chil- dren: I. Mary, born August 27, 1652, died 1661. 2. Jeremiah, born March 3, 1655, died unmarried. 3. Sarah, born December 28, 1651 ; married, September 23, 1680, Joseph Childs, Jr. 4. Richard, born August 4, 1660; mentioned below. 5. Mary, born July 10, 1663 ; married, April 2, 1712, John Stearns. 6. Nathaniel, born December 18, 1665. 7. Samuel, May 4, 1671.
(III) Richard (2), son of Richard ( I) Nor- cross, was born in Watertown, August 4, 1660, and resided in Weston, Massachusetts. He married (first) August 10, 1686, Rose, daugh- ter of John Woodward, of Watertown; (sec- ond) August 6, 1695, Hannah Saunders, who died May 14, 1743. Children of first wife, born at Weston: I. Richard, December 30, 1687. 2. Samuel, October 4, 1689. 3. Abigail, July 11, 1692. Children of second wife: 4. John, December 28, 1696. 5. Hannah, Febru- ary 16, 1699. 6. Joseph, July 1, 1701 ; resided at Weston and Putnam. 7. Jeremiah, July 20, 1703; resided in Lunenburg. 8. Rose, March 20, 1708; married, October 20, 1733, Edmund Mason, of Boston. 9. Peter, September 28, 1710; resided in Mendon. 10. William, men- tioned below.
(IV) William, son of Richard (2) Norcross, was born in Weston, March 14, 1715, and resided in Sudbury. He married, November 6, 174-, Lydia Wheeler, born March 25, 1722, daughter of John Wheeler, and a descendant of Thomas, of Concord. Children, born at Sudbury: I. William, March 18, 1742, died young. 2. Daniel, March 9, 1745. 3. Saralı, October 1, 1746. 4. William, September 20, 1748; mentioned below. 5. Sarah, June 3, 1759; married, 1779, George Fillmore, who was in the revolution.
(V) William (2), son of William ( 1) Nor- cross, was born September 20, 1748, died Au- gust 14, 1803. He married, November 17, 1774, Sarah Marsh, of Sturbridge, born Febru- ary 13, 1756, died January 9, 1823. He laid out the burying ground at Monson and was the first to be buried there. He built the old house in 1775, now occupied by S. F. Cushman Sons & Company. A William Norcross from Mass- achusetts was in the revolution, second lieuten- ant in Captain John Mott's company, Colonel Elias Dayton's regiment ( Third New Jersey) in 1777. He resigned November II, 1777, 011 account of illness. Children: 1. Joel, born
August 6, 1776; mentioned below. 2. Amos, born June 10, 1778; proprietor of Monson Hotel; died August 27, 1853. 3. Sarah, born May 29, 1780 ; died September 2, 1863 ; married Rufus Flynt (see Flynt). 4. Betsey, born October 16, 1783; married Timothy Packard, who died March 15, 1865, aged eighty-three years ; she died August 6, 1812; children: i. Lanna Packard, born October 20, 1805, died 18II : ii. William N. Packard, born February 25, 1809, died 1878; iii. Fairbanks, born May 8, 1812. 5. William, born August 4, 1785; resided at Brimfield, Massachusetts, merchant ; died October 27, 1813. 6. Erasmus, born July 22, 1794 ; resided in New York City ; died Au- gust 23, 1874, aged eighty years.
(VI) Joel, son of William (2) Norcross, was born August 6, 1776. He owned much real estate, building a large number of houses for investment. He established the Hampden County Cotton Mills, and was one of the principal stockholders of the corporation. He was one of the original promoters and builders of the Petersham and Monson turnpike from the Connecticut line to New Hampshire ; and one of the large stockholders and a director of the Western railroad, as that section of the Boston & Albany road between Worcester and Albany was originally called. He was the founder of Monson Academy, and a prominent member of the Congregational church at Mon- son. He married (first) December 16, 1798, Betsey Fay, born November 5, 1777, died Sep- tember 5, 1829 (genealogy in manuscript in library of New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston). He married (second) Janu- ary 6, 1834, Sarah Vaill, born March 29, 1788, died April 25, 1854, daughter of Rev. Joseph Vaill, of Hadlyme, Connecticut. He died May 5, 1846. Children of first wife, born at Monson : I. Hiram, March 31. 1800, died February 26, 1829. 2. Austin, Febru- ary 25, 1802. 3. Emily. July 3, 1804; mar- ried, May 7, 1828, Edward Dickinson. 4. William Otis, September 13, 1806, of Newark, New Jersey ; died January 24, 1863. 5. Eli, September 20, 1809, died October 20, 1811. 6. Lavinia, September 22, 1812; married, No- vember 4, 1834, Loring Norcross. 7. Alfred, July 16, 1815; mentioned below. 8. Nancy Fay, October 13, 1818. 9. Joel W., November 15, 1821; author of "Fay Genealogy" men- tioned above, and of a manuscript genealogy of the Norcross family in the same library ; resided at Lynn, Massachusetts ; married, Jan- uary 17, 1854, Lannisa H. Jones, born in Chi- cago, April 26, 1833: died May 4, 1862, in
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New York City; married ( second) April 26, 1866, Maggie P., daughter of Elisha Gunnison, of Roxbury.
(VII) Alfred, son of Joel Norcross, was born in Monson, July 16, 1815. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. He was first a clerk in the general store, then proprietor of a livery stable. When his father died he succeeded to his business, and was occupied largely in the management of his real estate and other property. He was a prominent and influential citizen, active in public affairs, selectman of Monson for a number of years. He was a member of the First Congregational church. He married, January 20, 1841, Olivia Chapin, born January 26, 1816, daughter of Jonathan and Olivia (Dickinson) Chapin. She died February 9, 1898, and he died December 5, 1888. Children, born in Monson: I. Eliza- beth Porter, May 12, 1843, died young. 2. Maria Olivia, October 29, 1845, died aged five years. 3. Arthur Dickinson, November 7, 1848; mentioned below. 4. Herbert Chapin, November 8, 1855 ; merchant at Monson ; mar- ried, December 25, 1884, Martha C., daughter of John L. and Sarah Bacon, of Brimfield. 5. Edward Dickinson, September 3, 1860, died aged eighteen months.
(VIII) Hon. Arthur Dickinson Norcross, son of Alfred Norcross, was born November 7, 1848, at Monson. He attended the public schools and the academy in his native town, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, where he was graduated in 1871, in the first class taking their degrees at this insti- tution. He then worked two years in the straw shop of Merrick, Fay & Company, of Monson, as an inspector. In 1873 he was appointed clerk. and later assistant postmaster in the postoffice at Monson. He was appointed post- master in 1881 and served until 1886, when he engaged in mercantile business. His store was destroyed by fire in November, 1893, and he did not resume business. His time has been occupied in the management of his real estate and in attending to various offices and trusts. He is a leading Republican in this section and has been elected to many offices of responsi- bility and honor. He was elected water com- missioner of the town in 1894, and has been chairman of the board to the present time ; selectman ten years, and chairman during that time ; road commissioner for two years ; mem- ber of the school committee several years ; and chief engineer of the fire department for a number of years. He represented the first Hampden district in the general court in 1904-
1905 and 1906; and in 1908 and 1909 he was state senator from the Worcester-Hampden district. He has taken a prominent part in the legislation of those years he has been in the general court, and has held places on important committees. He is a trustee of the Monson Savings Bank ; director of the Monson National Bank; director of the Monson Free Library, and trustee of the Monson Academy. He is gifted musically, and has sung from time to time in quartettes and choruses in Monson, Amherst, Worcester, Boston, and various other places, and has directed many musical organi- zations. He was a member, while in college, of the Washington Irving Literary Society, and its first president ; and member of the D G K fraternity. He was on the base ball nine, and one of the winning boat crew of 1871.
He married, January 4, 1882, Augusta V. Kinney, born February 4, 1860, daughter of George Kinney. Children, born at Monson: I. June, June 19, 1884. 2. Arthur Dickinson, Jr., November 8, 1895. 3. Grace, died in infancy.
PHILLIPS There appears great confusion in the records as to the identity of John Phillips, the immigrant to New Plymouth. Governor Bradford states that "John Phillips came to Plymouth as a servant seeking service and a change of mas- ters in 1630." This has been the subject of much controversy and the occasion of some correspondence between the Massachusetts Bay Puritans and the Plymouth Pilgrims. This John Phillips, according to the Plymouth Colony Wills as recorded and published in the Gene- alogical Advertiser, Vol. III, p. 28, was aged eighty-seven years at the time he made his will, October 20, 1691, which would bring his birth year 1602 and his age when he resided in Plymouth Colony in 1630 as twenty-eight years which is beyond the period of life in which it was usual for servants to be under bonds of service. As no mention is made of his first marriage, or of the birth of children by his first wife, on the Plymouth Records, we are bound to assume that he had a wife and chil- dren before he came to the Colony. There is no record except that statement of Winthrop that he was an immigrant of 1630. He is on record as having purchased land at Duxbury in 1639, and of immediate grants of land being made to him by the colony, adjacent to his property, which facts would indicate him to have been at that time a man of property and already of the responsibility that falls upon freemen with family. Then his son. John (2),
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was killed by lightning in 1658, when about twenty-five years of age, another proof of an early marriage. In 1643 he was an inhabitant of Duxbury, his name appearing on the records as being able to bear arms and this takes it out of the possibility that this John was his son and not the patriarch. In 1653 he was engaged in a law suit with a Marshfield citizen ; he was constable of Marshfield in 1657; was propounded as a freeman of that town in 1659, but it does not appear that he took the oath of freeman to which he was entitled and could have claimed. He appears to have had sons : John, Samuel and Jeremiah, and a daughter Mary, according to the tract published by Dr. Shurtleff entitled "Lightning in Marshfield," etc., and the fact that John Phillips, Jr., accord- ing to the Plymouth Records, Court Orders, Vol. III, p. 141, reading the verdict of the inquest held upon the death of John Phillips, Jr., names the place in which it occurred as "Mr. Buckley's," clearly a clerical error, in- tended for "Mr. Bulkley," the minister who had formerly occupied the house then occupied by the victim of the stroke of lightning, as it is called in the official inquest "his dwelling." This would indicate that he met death in the house, but not necessarily that it was his house, as no mention is made of his wife or children, and it is quite apparent that Timothy William- son was the householder and that John Phillips, Jr., took refuge in the home from the tempest then raging. We will now trace the family through the successive generations to meet the objects of this article, with the best obtainable data as to the facts.
(I) John Phillips, born in England about 1602, married and had besides his wife, Mary, whose surname does not appear, three sons and one daughter, when he is found in Duxbury and Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, all the period between 1639 and 1690. He died in Marsh- field between the dates of making his will, October 20, 1691, and its probate, May 10, 1692, and probably in May, 1692, ten to fifteen days before the will was probated, which was the usual time allowed to elapse. The chil- dren of John Phillips by his first wife, who came with him to New England and brought with her four children, or who may have died in England, were: I. John, killed by lightning at South Mansfield, Plymouth Colony, July 31, 1658, probably unmarried and aged about twenty-five years. 2. Samuel, who married, in 1675, probably Mrs. Mary Cobb; had three children : Mehitable, born 1676; Samuel, 1678, who may have been one of the proprietors of
Easton, Massachusetts ; Thomas. 3. Jeremiah, killed by lightning, June 23, 1666, at Mansfield, unmarried. 4. Mary, a feeble minded child who never married, but survived her father and all his wives. The date of his first wife's death or the fact of her presence in New Eng- land is not on record. John Phillips married, July 6, 1654, as his second wife, Grace, widow of William Halloway, of Duxbury and Mans- field. She was probably born in England, 1615-20, and by her marriage to William Hallo- way had prior to March, 1652-53 (the date of her husband's death), two daughters, Grace and Hannah (or Jane) Halloway. By this marriage John Phillips had two sons, making his fifth and sixth children: 5. Joseph, born March 31, 1655, who did not marry and was killed in the "Captain Pierce Fight" at Reho- both, March 26, 1677. 6. Benjamin (q. v.). The mother of these children was killed by lightning at Mansfield, Massachusetts, June 23, 1666, at which time her son Jeremiah was also killed. Her husband and his children, Samuel and Mary, and her children by her first hus- band, Hannah and Grace Halloway, and her children by her second marriage, Joseph and Benjamin Phillips, and Mr. Shurtleff, his wife, and two sons, William and Thomas Shurtleff, and Mr. Thomas Rogers, were prostrated but recovered from the effects of the shock. This occurrence following the death by light- ning of the elder son John (2), eight years before, created a profound sensation through- out New England. John Phillips married as his third wife, Mrs. Faith Clark Dotey, who came from England in the ship "Francis," from Ipswich, 1634, having been born in 1619, daughter of Tristram and Faith Clark, of Dux- bury. She married (first) Edward Dotey, the "Mayflower" Pilgrim, who died at Plymouth, August 23, 1655, and by him she had nine chil- dren. The ante-nuptial agreement between John Phillips and Mrs. Faith Clark Dotey appears in the records of the general court of Plymouth Colony, and is dated February 23, 1666-67, and on March 14, 1666-67, some nine months after the sudden and tragic death of his second wife, John Phillips, at the age of sixty-five years, married Mrs. Faith Clark Dotey, seventeen years his junior in age. The household of the patriarch immediately after this marriage consisted of his third wife with her children by her first husband, his son Sam- nel and daughter Mary, child of his first wife ; his sons, Joseph and Benjamin, children by his second wife ; and Hannah (or Jane) Halloway, daughter of his second wife, by her first hus-
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band. John Phillips lived with his third wife and their various children for eight or more years. By this marriage he had no children. Mrs. Faith (Clark Dotey) Phillips was buried in Marshfield, December 21, 1675, at the age of fifty-six years, but the exact date of her death is not recorded. John Phillips married his fourth wife, April 3, 1677, Mrs. Anna ( Hatch) Torrey, of Scituate, a daughter of Elder Will- iam Hatch, and widow of Lieutenant James Torrey, to whom she was married November 2, 1643. Her own house had just been burned by the Indians and as she was the mother of ten children by her first husband, she had need of shelter and protection. She died before her second husband, although much younger, and this made the fourth wife he had followed to the grave.
(II) Benjamin, fifth son and sixth child of John Phillips, the patriarch immigrant, and sec- ond son by his second wife, Grace (Halloway) Phillips, was born in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, in 1657, and lived with his father up to the time of his marriage, January 12, 1682, to Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Pit- ney) Thomas, of Marshfield. They had seven children born in Marshfield as follows: I. John, 1682, married, 1710, Patience Stevens, who died in November, 1760, aged eighty years. Their child, Captain Nathaniel, born 1713, mar- ried, 1735, Joanna White, who died February 3, 1798. Captain Nathaniel died May 15, 1795. 2. Joseph, March 29, 1685; married, 17II, Mary Eames and had six children : Naomi and Elizabeth, 1711; Elisha, 1713; Agatha, 1716; Jerusha, 1721; Mary, 1725. Joseph Phillips died and his widow married Benjamin Hatch in 1740. 3. Benjamin (q. v.). 4. Sarah, June 29, 1689. 5. Thomas, January 17, 1691 ; mar- ried (first) 1725, Mary (Eames) Sherman, and by her had six children: Obadiah, 1729; Thomas, 1731; Mary, 1733; Lydia, 1734-35; Mark, 1736; Deborah, 1739. He married (sec- ond) Mrs. Herman Allen. 6. Jeremiah, 1697; married and had issue: Isaac, 1703, married Sarah White, 1729, died February 15, 1788-89 ; Bethia, 1705, married, 1725, Ichabod Wash- born. 7. Abigail, 1699; probably married James Hawks.
(III) Benjamin (2), third son of Benjamin (I) and Sarah (Thomas) Phillips, was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, May 20, 1687. He married (first) in 1716, Eleanor Baker, and by her had three children: I. Jedediah, born in 1717, died in 1789. 2. Benjamin, 1719. 3. Captain John (q. v.). Eleanor (Baker) Phillips died in May, 1726, and Benjamin
Phillips married as his second wife, Desire Sherman, and by her he had four daughters as follows: 4. Desire, born 1729. 5. Eleanor, 1731. 6. Penelope, 1735. 7. Alice, 1742. De- sire (Sherman) Phillips died May 10, 1750.
(IV) Captain John (2), third son of Benja- min (2) and Eleanor (Baker) Phillips, was born about 1721. He lived in Duxbury and Weymouth, was a captain in the French and Indian war, 1775, married and had three chil- dren, the first born son being given the name of his father, John (q. v.).
(V) John (3), son of Captain John (2) Phillips, was born in Weymouth, Massachu- setts, about 1755. He was brought up in Wey- mouth, partook of the military spirit of his father, and in the American revolution became a member of the Continental army and is said to have been a member of the bodyguard of Washington but as there were several Cap- tain John Phillips in the revolution and from Plymouth Colony, it is uncertain as to the identity of John, the son of Captain John of the French and Indian war .. This we do know that he was a farmer in Duxbury and a soldier in the American revolution. John, of Duxbury, married and had three children : I. Lemuel. 2. Isaac (q. v.). 3. John.
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