Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 98

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924

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Congregational church of Weymouth, and a member of the Free Masons. He married Deborah Ayers Pratt, born 1823, died 1905, at Weymouth, daughter of Asa Pratt. Chil- dren : I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Susan, married Charles Lemon, born in England. 3. Rebecca. 4. Fannie W., died six years of age. 5. Christopher, resides in California, and has charge of his father's estate in that state.

(VI) Samuel (5), son of Samuel (4) Webb, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1850. He was educated in the public schools of San Francisco and Weymouth, and later returned to California, where he has a large ranch. He married Sophia Remme, born in Yreka, Cali- fornia. Children : Alice, Miriam, Fanny, Wil- helmina, Samuel Henry, Robert, Edwin.

(The White Line).

(II) Captain Ebenezer White, son of Thomas White (q. v.), was born in Weymouth, in 1648, lived and died there, 1703. His original home- stead was recently occupied and owned by Deacon Abiel White, of Weymouth, and is near the house of the late Christopher C. Webb (see above). He was admitted a freeman in 1674. He was a highly respected and useful citizen, of strict integrity and moral worth. His will was dated July 19, 1703, and his in- ventory amounted to nine hundred and fifty- five pounds, ten shillings, six pence-a large estate for his day. He married Hannah Phillips, born November 25, 1654, at Yarmouth, daugh- ter of Nicholas and Hannah (Salter) Phillips. Children : 1. Ebenezer, born February 17, 1672 ; graduate of Harvard College, 1692; or- dained October 9, 1696, minister of church at Southampton, Long Island; married Hannah Pierson. 2. Thomas, born August 19, 1673; mentioned below. 3. Deacon Samuel, born 1676 ; married, September 14, 1692, Ann Pratt. 4. Joseph, married Sarah -; (second) Catherine Andrews, 1743. 5. Hannah, born May 5, 1681 ; married John Alden, of Middle- borough. 6. Abigail, born March 1683; mar- ried Samuel Reed. 7. Benjamin, born Febru- ary 21. 1684; married Ruth Reed; (second) Ann Bicknell. 8. Experience, born July I, 1686; married Joseph Pool. 9. Elizabeth, born November 9, 1688; matried David Pierson.

(III) Deacon Thomas, son of Captain Eben- ezer White, was born at Weymouth, August 19. 1673. He resided at Weymouth on the homestead previously occupied by his uncle Samuel White, and died there April 28, 1752, aged seventy-nine years. He was distinguished in both civil and military life, was deacon of

the Weymouth church, and held many town offices. He married (first) in 1700, Mary White, baptized November II, 1677, daughter of James and Sarah ( Baker) White, of Dor- chester, Massachusetts. She died November 3, 1716, aged forty-one, and he married (sec- ond) September 15, 1740, Silence (Torrey) French, widow of Samuel French, of Abing- ton. Children, born at Weymouth: I. Dr. Nathaniel, September 4, 1701, died November 23, 1758; graduate of Harvard, 1725 ; married, April 27, 1726, Sarah Lovell; (second) April 15, 1742, Ruth Holbrook ; ( third ) July 1, 1755, Lydia or Abigail Heath. 2. Jonathan, October 21, 1702 ; married, January 1, 1731-2, Hannah Lovell ; settled in New York. 3. John, Septem- ber 25, 1704; married, January 23, 1734-5, Hannah Dyer ; (second) May 24, 1739, Rachel Loring ; removed to North Yarmouth, Maine; deacon ; died November 1, 1747. 4. Thomas, May 5. 1707 ; married, November 30, 1738, Sarah Loring. 5. Ebenezer, December 21, 1709; graduate of Harvard, 1733; ordained at Danbury, Conecticut, March II, 1736; dis- missed March, 1764 ; died September 11, 1769, at Weymouth ; married (second) January 14, 1747, Mary French. 6. James, November 5, 1712; mentioned below. 7. Mary, February 12, 1714; married, June: 19, 1735, Micah Allen. 8. Silence, November 13, 1716; mar- ried, January 22, 1738, Captain John Hayward.

(IV) James, son of Deacon Thomas White, was born in Weymouth, November 5, 1712; died March I, 1793, aged eighty years. He resided on Fore River, in Weymouth, in the house built by his uncle, Joseph White, from lumber brought from England, now occupied by the family of Samuel Webb, a descendant, mentioned below. The house was built about 1700. White was captain of the military com- pany ; deputy to the general court; held vari- ous town offices, and had a large estate, of which his son John received the largest share. He married, April 16, 1748; Miriam Kingman, born October 2, 1720, daughter of John and Hannah (Tirrell) Kingman, of Weymouth. She died December 29, 1791, aged sixty-two. Children, born at Weymouth : I. Hannah, Octo- ber 10, 1740, died November 20, 1751. 2. Mary, February 20, 175 -; married Nathan Vose. 3. Hannah, June 12, 1753, died June 26, 1753. 4. Hannah, October 25, 1754: mar- ried Lemuel Adams, of Milton. 5. Silence, December 5, 1756; married Jonathan Swift, of Milton. 6. John, March 6, 1759; mentioned below. 7. Susanna, March 16, 1761, died April I, 1761. 8. Sarah (twin), August 8, 1762;

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married Hon. Daniel Baxter. 9. Miriam (twin), August 8, 1762; married Colonel Benjamin Hayden. 10. Deborah, July 17, 1765 ; married Deacon Caleb Hayward, son of Captain John ; (sccond) Deacon John White, of Concord, January 19, 1807.

(V) John, son of James White, was born at Weymouth, March 6, 1759; died November 7, 1816, aged fifty-eight. He inherited the man- sion house and a large part of his father's estate. He married, April 29, 1791, Nancy Babcock, of Milton. Children, born at Wey- mouth: I. James, August 12, 1793. 2. Ann, June 14, 1795 ; married Josiah Vose. 3. Sus- anna ( twin), November 6, 1798; married Hon. Christopher Columbus Webb, November 13, 1817 (sce Webb). 4. Maria, June 27, 1800; married Colonel Royal Turner, of Randolph, son of Seth. 5. Harriet, March 19, 1805; mar- ried. July 18, 1829, Benjamin C. Harris. 6. George, married, and left a son George, who married and left a daughter Catherine, who married a Clapp and resides in Dorchester. 7. Arthur.

The two great families of Rhode GREENE Island Greenes, of which a branch of one family is delineated in this article, are traced, say the genealogists, from a companion of William the Conqueror through a lordly line of descendants to the immigrants, John of Warwick and John of Quidnesset. The immigrant Greenes were prom- inent men among their fellows, and the brave record of the family has been kept up since their time. Of this family have been General Nathaniel Grcene, second only to Washing- ton as a general in the revolution; General George Sears Greene and General Francis Vin- ton Greene. It has supplied Rhode Island with representatives, senators, supreme judges and governors, and many others less distinguished have been hardly less useful.

(1) Alexander, a knight at the king's court, was the great-grandson of one of the Norman nobles who invaded England with William the Conqueror in 1066. King John bestowed the estate of Boughton in Northampton on him in 1202. He is the earliest known ancestor of the Greene families of Warwick and Quid- nesset in Rhode Island. He probably received liis estate for services rendered in putting down a rebellion of John's nobles, and what was given him had probably belonged to one of the lords whom the king had attainted. Lord Alexander assumed a surname after his chief estate, de Greene de Boketon, that is, the Lord

of the Park of the Deer Enclosure. A green in those times was a park. Boketon is a very old word meaning the ducks' (dokes) ton or paled-in enclosure. Centuries ago the terminal syllable ton had lost its original sense, and meant a town, so that Boketon, still used in the original sense, shows Lord Alexander came to an estate named long before, and noted for its extensive parks and deer preserves. Boke- ton became Bucks and Buckston, and later Roughton, its present name. It lies in North- ampton. For a long time the full name de Greenc de Boketon was used in legal docu- ments. Naturally in everyday speech it was shortened to de Greene. During the reign of Henry VI, 1422-1471, with its attendant French wars, the patriotic de Greenes dropped the patrician de as too Frenchy in sound for Eng- lishmen, as they now considered themselves.

(II) Sir Walter de Boketon, son of Sir Alexander, succceded his father to the title and estates, and was probably a crusading knight in the seventh crusade, which ended in 1240, as he was listed in the old rolls of the twentieth year of Henry III (1236) and the forty-fifth year of the same king ( 1261).

( III) Sir John de Greene de Boketon, the son of Sir Walter, accompanied King Edward III to the Holy Land as a crusading knight and perished there, leaving an infant son.

(IV) Sir Noinas, only child of Sir John de Greene de Boketon, received the title of his ancestors in his infancy. He accompanied Ed- ward I against the Scots in 1296, and is men- tioned in the records of 1319 as then alive. He marricd Alice, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Bottishane, of Brauston.

(V) Sir Noinas (2), fifth Lord de Greene Boketon, was born in 1292, son of Sir Noinas (1). When about forty years old he was made high sheriff of Northampton ( 1330-1332), in the early part of the reign of Edward III. "The office in those days was esteemed equal to the care of princes, a place of great trust and reputation." He married Lucie, daughter of Eudo de la Zouche and Millicent, one of the sisters and heirs of George de Cantelupe, Lord of Abergaveny. Lady Lucie had royal blood. One house of de la Zouche was lineally descended from Alan the famous Earl and sovereign of Little Britain. One son was born of this marriage.

(VI) Sir Henry, son of Sir Noinas de Greene de Boketon (2), was the foremost lawyer of his day and was made lord chief justice of England. He was speaker of the house of lords in two Parliaments ( 1363-64), and be-

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came at last the King's nearest counsel. IIe died in 1370, in the sixtieth year of his age, and was buried at Boughton. He left to his posterity one of the most considerable estates of the age. He married Katherine, daughter of Sir John, and only sister of Sir Simon Dray- ton. of Drayton. They had six children, Thomas, Henry, Nicholas, Richard, Margaret and Ama- dila.

(VII) Sir Henry (2), the second son of Sir Henry (1) de Greene de Boketon, was made the heir of his father in spite of the English law of primogenture through a special license given by the King. Henry was a very rich man and possessed many estates. He married Matilda, sole heiress of her father, Lord Thomas Mauduit, who also had five lordships and other fair possessions. Henry was a man of ability and became as prominent a statesman as his father had been. He was a member of the House of Commons, and one of its leaders. He was knighted and became one of the King's near counselors. As a fav- orite of the King, he received many more manors and estates. Sir Henry was one of a commission appointed over King Richard II, whose eccentricity amounted almost to insanity, and as such counseled the King to confiscate the estates of the banished Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford and Lancaster. After the overthrow of Richard, Sir Henry was taken prisoner by Bolingbroke and beheaded in the market square in Bristol, September 2, 1399. Shakespeare devotes much of Acts I and II of his Richard II to Sir Henry Greene. The chil- dren of Sir Henry and Lady Matilda were: Ralph. John, Thomas, Henry, Eleanor, Eliza- beth and Mary.

(VIII) Thomas (3). third son of Sir Henry (2) Greene, was the only son of his father whose line remained to bear the name of Greene. From him came the Gillingham Greenes, and from them again came the Warwick and Quidnesset Greenes, two of the most important lines of that name in America.

(IX) The name of the son of Thomas Greene who was the ninth of this line has not been preserved. He was born about 1420, and came to manhood in the middle of the "bloody cen- tury." This included the period of the Wars of the Roses and but little authentic history of many families during this time is to be found. (X) John (2). the next of the line is supposed to have been born about 1450. Dickens says that King Richard III sent word to Sir Robert Brackenbury by John Greene, ordering him to put the two princes to death. But Sir Robert i-30

refused to execute the command. After the death of Richard, John Greene lost no time in putting the seas between himself and Henry VII, the rival and successor of Richard. He returned to England, where he lived a while, then fled again and died abroad. He is known as "John, the fugitive" in the family records.

(XI) Robert Greene, gentleman, son of John (2), purchased an estate at Gillingham in Dor- setshire, which he called Bowridge Hill. On the old records it is usually spoken of as Por- ridge Hill, the local pronunciation of Bowridge Hill. He had five children: Peter, Richard, John, Alice and Anne. From Richard's line came Surgeon John Greene, the head of the Warwick Greenes, and from John came John of Quidnesset, the head of a numerous Rhode Island family of Greenes.

(XII) Richard, second son of Robert Greene, inherited his father's estate, married and left a son and a daughter.

(XIII) Richard (2), son of Richard (I), and wife, Mary, had five sons and four daugh- ters.

(XIV) Surgeon John (3), (variously called John Senior. John the Elder, John of Salisbury. Chirurgeon John, Surgeon John, John of Provi- dence and John of Warwick), the fourth son of Richard and Mary Greene, was born at Bowridge Hall, Gillingham, England, probably in 1585. In most American genealogies he is called the son of Peter Greene of Aukley Hall. This is a mistake. Peter was his eldest brother, the heir of Bowridge Hall. His home was at Aukley Hall, Salisbury. He left England to enjoy religious freedom and probably for per- sonal safety, and with his wife and five chil- dren set sail from Southampton in April, 1635, in the ship "James," and arrived at Boston, May 3rd of the same year. He lived for some time at Salem, and was among the first to fol- low Roger Williams to Providence. The latter showed his confidence in him by making him one of the trustees to whom Providence was deeded, and of this land he received his pro- portionate allotment when it was divided. Dur- ing Roger Williams' visit to England in 1641, Surgeon John wrote a bold pamphlet on what was called the Verin Controversy, a question of heresy and the states right to put down such beliefs. He flatly charged the legislature of the Bay with "usurping the power of Christ over the Churches and men's consciences." The year after his settlement at Providence he visited Boston. There he expressed himself freely as to the tyranny of town officers in try- ing to control men's consciences. Palfrey states

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that the Boston authorities, September 19, 1637, fined him twenty pounds for "seditious dis- course," and sent him away with an injunction to keep away in the future. In 1643 Surgeon John was living at Shawomet or Shawmut, afterward called Warwick, when the Massa- chusetts authorities and forty soldiers broke up the settlement by force, and took nearly all the settlers of Shawomet prisoners. Joan, wife of Surgeon John, was drawing near death. In her weak state, she was dreadfully alarmed, and her husband carried her off for refuge to the friendly Indians at Conanicut, Rhode Island, where she died. He escaped capture and the trials of his comrades. In 1644 Surgeon John was selected as a representative of Providence Plantations to cross the ocean and lay their side of the controversy with Massachusetts before the English authorities. In England he became the best known man of the Colony with the exception of Roger Williams. Surgeon John died in 1759 at Warwick (Shawomet) and was buried at Conanicut by the side of his first wife. John Greene married (first) November 4, 1619, at St. Thomas' Church, Salisbury, England, Joan Tatersall (or Joane Tatarsole, as the old records have it). They had five children, three sons and two daugh- ters, four of whom left issue. They were Mary, John, James and Thomas. All three sons were at various times assistant president of the Col- ony. While in England he married (second) a lady whom he had known in Rhode Island, Widow Alice Daniels, who had returned home. She soon died, and after his return to Rhode Island he married ( third) Philippa (or Phellix) , who survived him.

(XV) James, second son of John (3) and Joan (Tatersall) Greene, was born in Eng- land and baptized June 21, 1626. At the age of nine years he came with his parents to Massachusetts, and went with them on their removal the next year to Rhode Island. He was a prominent citizen, held the office of assistant president of the Colony and lived until April 27, 1698. He married (first) De- liverance Potter ; (second) Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of John Anthony.

(XVI) Jabez, son of James and Elizabeth (Anthony) Greene, moved in later life into the edge of Quidnesset territory, on the Poto- whommet, where he and his son built the fam- ous anchor mills and forge which made them all rich. He married (first) Mary Gorton, and had two daughters ; ( second) Mary Greene, probably the daughter of Captain Edward and granddaughter of John Greene, the head of

the Quidnesset branch of Greenes. She was the mother of all his sons. He married (third) Grace Whitman, by whom he had one daugh- ter. The sons were: James, born February 21, 1701 ; Benjamin, December 16, 1703 ; Jabez, May 26, 1705; Nathaniel, September 4, 1707 ; John, December 14, 1709; and Rufus, April 21, 1714.

(XVII) James (2), eldest son of Jabez and Mary (Greene) Greene, was born February 21, 1701, and married (first) in 1726, Eliza- beth Gould, sister to the wife of his brother Jabez. He married (second) in 1734, Han- nah Tucker. Of the first wife were born James and Paul; of the second were Elizabeth, Sam- uel, Jabez and Abraham, next mentioned.

(XVIII) Abraham, youngest child of James (3) and Hannah ( Tucker) Greene, was born August 10, 1740. He married ( first) Septem- ber 5, 1765, Patience Arnold ; (second) 1771, Mary Reynolds.

(XIX) William, son of Abraham and Pa- tience (Arnold) Greene, was born February 13, 1769, died December 30, 1848. He mar- ried (first) 1726, Sarah Shaw, who died July 24, 1807; (second) 1809, Mary Wilcox. The children by the first wife were: James, Matty ( ?), Perry, Eliza and Sally; by second wife, Robert Wilcox.

(XX) James (3), eldest son of William and Sarah (Shaw) Greene, was born in 1797, died October 21, 1864. He married Lucy N. Sher- man, and they had: I. Mary Wilcox, born 1820, married W. H. Allen. 2. William S., mentioned below. 3. Albert Crawford, 1825, died 1881 ; married Lucretia Whipple. 4. Eliz- abeth, married Solomon P. Wells. 5. Harris Ray, 1829, died 1892; married Nettie Scaman. 6. John Flavel, 1833; married (first) Ann E. Blackwell; (second ) Sarah E. Hull. 7. Lucy E., 1836, died 1893 ; married Roger T. Ester- brooks. 8. Nathaniel Sherman, 1842 ; married (first ) Lucy Cole ; (second) Josephine

(XXI) William Shaw, eldest son of James (3) and Lucy N. (Sherman) Greene, was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island, Sep- tember 29, 1822, died in Springfield, Massa- chusetts, June 21, 1878. His preparation for college was made at South Kingston under the tuition of Rev. Charles Vernon, a most estimable man and a teacher to whom he was very much attached. He entered Waterville (College) Maine, as a freshman in 1845, and completed the course as a member of one of the best and most studious classes that ever graduated from that institution. After gradu- ating he engaged in teaching for several years,

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first as principal of the academy at East Corinth ; from October, 1853, for one year in the Jud- son Female Seminary at Marion, Alabama ; and from September, 1854, to July, 1858, as principal of the Worcester Academy. One year from the fall of 1858 he spent in Europe. About the close of 1859 he returned to Wor- cester and is thought to have resumed the office of principal of the academy, while at the same time he prosecuted the study of law under the direction of Dwight Foster. He next re- moved to Springfield, where after a short period of study in the office of O. A. Seamans he was admitted to the bar in 1862, and there began practice and continued in it till the close of his life. He was first a partner with M. P. Knowl- ton and later with H. W. Bosworth, with whom he was associated at the time of his death. During the years 1867-68-69, he was a partner in the operations of the Wells River Lumber Company in Vermont, which terminated dis- astrously. He was a man greatly esteemed for the conscientious manner in which he con- ducted his business and his kindness to the poor, whom he often gratuitously counseled and aided, even when pressed with matters involving great pecuniary interest. Highly gifted by nature, he became a most scholarly, cultured and refined gentleman. He was ever the center of attraction in the society in which he moved, not only because of his manifest scholarship and fund of information, but also and especially from his rare powers of con- versation, which in a most eminent degree blended real richness and fertility of thought with the most mirthful wit and humor. He everywhere made hosts of friends, and what is a better proof of his real goodness of heart he never lost any. He was a member of Spring- field Commandery, Knights Templar, though not an active one. He was always noted for his simplicity in dress and manner. He was a man of good ability and of earnest religious convictions ; and though for many years the victim of a painful malady (general weakness of the digestive system and hereditary disease of the liver ), he was remarkable to the end for a sweet and cheerful disposition and genial bearing. He married, May 1I, 1870, Carrie E. Patton, born in Springfield, May 7, 1849, daughter of William and Caroline E. (Sikes) Patton (see Patton VII). There was born of this marriage one child, Harrie W., next mentioned.

(XXII) Harrie William, only living child of William S. and Carrie E. (Patton) Greene, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, October 9,

1872. Studied medicine and graduated from Boston University School of Medicine, June 6, 1894. He settled in Springfield, May, 1896, practiced medicine a short time, and upon the death of his grandfather ( William Patton), who was a real estate dealer, gave up medicine and went into real estate.

PATTON This is an ancient English sur- name dating back to the very beginning of the use of sur- names in England and taken, as was often the case, from a locality. Richard Patten was a resident of Pattine, near Chelmsford, Essex county, England, as early as III9. One of his descendants, Richard Patten, of Wayne- fleet, was a man of distinction from 1422 to 1462, was bishop of Winchester and lord high chancellor and founded Magdalen College at Oxford. Hector, Robert and William Pat- ten came from Ireland and settled in New England. Nathaniel Patten, of Crewkerne, England, settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Another William, mentioned below, came evi- dently from England but there is no clue to · the place of his birth, though Somerset has been suggested.

(I) William Patten of this sketch is first mentioned in this country in the Cambridge town records under date of March 13, 1635- 36, when by vote of the townsmen it was agreed that he should keep one hundred cattle belong- ing to the inhabitants of the town for the space of seven months for twenty pounds, one half to be paid in money when he had kept half his time, and the other half in corn (grain) when he had done keeping. In 1638 he also had an agreement to keep the town cows. In 1646 Brother Patten was fined for having one hog without keeper, thrice one shilling. On the 20th day of the third month, 1649, Andrew Stevenson and William Patten were appointed to execute the town order concerning hogs, and to levy on all such as shall be found break- ing that rule, then just penalty of the same being therein prescribed. In the same year liberty was granted some of the townsmen, among them William Patten, for the present hay time to mow the common meadow at Shawshine "provided they intrench upon noe property." On two or three different occasions we find him appointed as one of the surveyors of fences, his district being that about the Menotomy fields. He was also appointed sur- veyor of highways on one or two occasions. Between 1660 and 1668 William Patten was granted liberty on several occasions to take

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lumber from the common "to repair fencez," "for a cart," "for a cow house," "to build a lean-to and an end to his farm," and to "re- payre his old house at towne." He did not always ask for permission, for in 1662 he was fined twenty shillings for felling trees on the common, contrary to town orders. Fines levied by the selectmen were sometimes abated, for in 1663 it appears that a fine imposed upon William Patten was abated five shillings. In 1642 William Patten was enrolled as a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany of Boston. He lived on what is now Massachusetts avenue, opposite the Common. The proprietors' records show that he had "one house and garden about halfe an Acre upon the Cow Common." "In the New Lotts next Mlanotomie two Acres of planteing grounde." In 1645 forty-seven lots on the west side of Menotomy river were granted to the several inhabitants of the town. In this distribution William Patten had "Three Acre more or lesse." June 9, 1652. an agreement was made by the church as to the division of Shawshine. In this William Patten was assigned lot 87, containing eighty acres, yet it is doubtful if he ever lived there, but remained in Cambridge until his death. In 1655 "The Great Deed from the Cambridge Proprietors to the Billerica Pro- prietors," making Shawshine or Billerica an independent town, was executed and William Patten was one of the signers. This deed is still preserved by the town of Billerica. Will- iam Patten died Deceniber 10, 1668. He left no will, but on April 2, 1669, his widow filed with the court an inventory of property amount- ing to one hundred and ninety-nine pounds, three shillings and eight pence. The articles enumerated and their value show him to have been a citizen in good circumstances. William Patten married before coming to this country Mary - , who died September 20, 1673. Their children were: Mary, William, Thomas, Sarah, Nathaniel ( died young ) and Nathaniel. ( Il) Thomas, second son of William and Mary Patten, was born at Cambridge, October, 1636, died January 16, 1690. Hle removed in 1654 to Billerica, and resided there till his death. Ilis house was on the west of Long street, south of the Common, near the house of Francis Richardson. Ile owned consider- able land in Billerica at the time of his death, and also owned an interest in a sawmill near Pattenville. He does not seem to have taken an active part in the public affairs of the town ; in the treasurer's account of the town for the year 1664 Ralph Hill. Sen., and Thomas Pat-

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 98

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924