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(V) Theodore, son of David Barker, was born in Methuen, March 31, 1762, died in Temple, New Hampshire, 1847. He was a soldier in the revolution in 1780, aged eighteen, in Captain Isaac Frye's company from Temple, Third New Hampshire Regiment. He married (first) in 1788, Rebecca Heald, of Temple, (second) in 1806, Elizabeth Corliss, of Salem, New Hampshire. Children: I. Rebecca, mar- ried, September 2, 1812, Daniel Spafford. 2. Polly, born January 4, 1793, married, April 5, 1814, F. A. Edwards; removed to Chester, Vermont. 3. Susanna, October 23, 1795, mar- ried, November 14, 1819, Frederick Brooks, of Stoddard, New Hampshire. 4. Hannah, May 4, 1798, married, April 24, 1828, Stephen Putnam, of Wilton, New Hampshire. 5. Louisa, October II, 1807, married, December 6, 1832, Oren Blood, of Temple; died at Wilton. 6. Theodore, January 28, 1809, mar-
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ried, April 10, 1832, Rachel Cragin. 7. Olive, February 4, 1811, married, March 1, 1831, Oliver W. Boynton, of Temple. (See Boyn- ton sketch).
WILCOX The Wilcox family is of Saxon origin and was seated at Bury St. Edmunds, county Suffolk, England, before the Norman Conquest. Sir John Dugdale in the visitation of the county of Suffolk mentions fifteen generations of the family previous to the year 1600. This traces the lineage back to the year 1200, when the surname came into use as an inherited family name. On old records the spellings Wilcox, Wilcocks, Wilcoxson and Willcox are used interchangeably.
(I) William Wilcox, or Wilcoxson as com- monly spelled, was born in 1601 at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. He came to this country when thirty-four years old in the ship, "Planter," having a certificate from the min- ister at St. Albans. Another William Wilcox settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay, and became a proprietor of that town and a town officer ; was admitted a freeman, May 25, 1636; died November 28, 1653, leaving a will that mentions various relatives and friends. Will- iam Wilcox of this sketch was probably related ; was admitted a freeman in Massachusetts, De- cember 7, 1636. He was a linen weaver by trade. He removed to Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639; was a representative to Hartford in 1647 and died in 1652. He married Margaret born 1611. Children: I. John, born 1633. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, died March 12, 1713 ; sergeant ; lived at Windsor and at Meadow Plain, Simsbury. 4. Obadiah, born 1641, died 1713 ; settled in Guilford, Con- necticut. 5. Timothy, died June 13, 1713 ; dea- con ; married Johanna Birdsay, December 28, 1664. 6. Elizabeth, married, April 16, 1663, Henry Stiles, of Windsor, Connecticut. 7. Hannah, married, March 17, 1664, Lieutenant Daniel Hayden. 8. Sarah, died 1691 ; married, March 7, 1665, John Meigs, of Madison, Con- necticut. 9. Phebe, married, December II, 1669, John Birdsay, of Stratford.
(II) Joseph, son of William Wilcox, was born about 1635, died February 9, 1703. He settled in Killingworth, Conecticut, and his descendants have been numerous in that town, always spelling the name Wilcox or Willcox. He married Anna ---. He was one of the twenty-seven proprietors of Killingworth under the act of 1663, and a Widow Wilcox was one of the Saybrook purchasers from Killingworth
in 1687. Children, born at Killingworth: I. Joseph, October 29, 1659, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, November 13, 1661. 3. Samuel, 1663. 4. Hannah, January 19, 1665. 5. Nathaniel, August 29, 1668. 6. William, January 9, 1671. 7. John, 1675. 8. Margaret, 1679.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Wil- cox, was born at Killingworth, October 29, 1659. He was a proprietor and yoeman and important in the town. He married, February 14, 1683, Hannah Kelsey, of Killingworth. He died there February 2, 1726. Had son Stephen, mentioned below.
(IV) Stephen, son of Joseph (2) Wilcox, was born July 12, 1706, in Killingworth, died there December 22, 1781. He was one of the grantees of Newport, New Hampshire, in 1761, and was appointed on a committee of four at Killingworth, December 25, 1764, to allot the lands to grantees, and this duty was per formed July 6, 1765, at Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was one of a committee chosen on the second Tuesday of March, 1765, to open a cart road to Newport at the west end of the lots as laid out, and at the same meeting was appointed to go to Portsmouth to get an extension of the conditions of the town charter. His sons Jesse, Uriah and Phinehas, and daughter Lydia, wife of Samuel Hurd, came to Newport after the lots were laid out and settled on the father's grant, each being given three hundred acres of land. The first meeting of the proprietors of the new town was held October 13, 1767, at the house of Jesse Wilcox, and Stephen Wilcox was the moderator, and appointed on a committee to assign lots. He seems to have returned to his home in Connecticut. He married, May 10, 1733, Mary Pierson, born May 10, 1713, died December 13, 1795. (See Pierson family). Children, born in Killingworth: I. Mary (twin), September 7, 1734, married Hurd; died June 18, 1805. 2. Lydia (twin), September 7, 1734, married Samuel Hurd ; died December 13, 1798. 3. Hepsibeth, July 3, 1736, died June 7, 1816. 4. Sarah, January 6, 1738, died April 17, 1819. 5. Stephen, Jan- uary 8, 1740, died January 20, 1823. 6. Asa, December 17, 1741, died at Havana in the French war, September 10, 1761, aged twenty- six. 7. Jesse, October 5, 1744, died March 12, 1823, at Newport, New Hampshire; married Thankful Stevens, June II, 1767. 8. Phineas, January 13, 1747, died at Newport, 1819. 9. Uriah, March 13, 1749, mentioned below. 10. Eunice, June 14, 1751. II. Mabel, December 5, 1752. 12. Joseph, January 22, 1755, died
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January 17, 1817. 13. Nathan, November 5, 1758, died March 23, 1813.
(V) Captain Uriah Wilcox, son of Stephen Wilcox, was born at Killingworth, March 13, 1749. He came from his native town in June, 1765, to the new settlement at Newport, New Hampshire, with his father and brothers. He received a tract of three hundred acres of his father's grant, now known as Aaron Cady's lot, No. 38. He settled on the hundred-acre farm known now as the A. Hurd lot on the Goshen road in the south part of the town, and was a successful farmer. He was prom- inent in town affairs. He was a soldier in the revolution, second lieutenant in Captain Christian Webber's company, Colonel David Hobart's regiment ; first lieutenant and captain of Colonel Benjamin Bellows's regiment later in 1777 in the northern army. He was deacon of the church of which he and his wife were members. In 1776 he signed the association test. He was a delegate to the convention that drew up the state constitution. He was repre- sentative to the general court in 1794-95-96-99- 1801-03-04-06-18-20, and state senator in 1826. He was selectman of the town in 1778-82-84-88-90-91-92-94-95-97. He married (first) Hannah Wright, of Killingworth, and (second) Hannah Bartlett, of Unity, New Hampshire. Children: 1. Uriah, born March 18, 1779, graduate of Dartmouth, 1804, died at Riceborough, George, unmarried. 2. Han- nah, July 12, 1780, died October 13, 1850; married Hon. David Allen, of Newport ; chil- dren : i. Ebenezer Allen, born April 8, 1804; ii. David Allen, December 1, 1805; iii. Uriah W. Allen, October 9, 1807; iv. Elvira Allen, November 18, 1809, married Philo Fuller ; v. Nahum W. Allen, November 6, 1812; vi. Han- nah Cordelia Allen, December 1, 1814, married Gilbert Beach ; vii. Roxanna Allen, February 19, 1817, married J. Manning Hale ; viii. Sam- uel J. Allen, January 4, 1819; ix. Harriet Allen, April 26, 1821, married Dr. Thomas Sanborn; x. Albert G. Allen, November 12, 1823, died 1845; xi. William Allen, October 20, 1825, died July 1, 1858. 3. Hepzibah, April II, 1782, married Benjamin Kilsey. 4. David, April 10, 1785, married Betsey Kelsey ; children: i. David S. Wilcox, born June 26, 1813; ii. Emeline J. Wilcox, May II, 1815; iii. Sybil M. Wilcox, December 16, 1817, mar- ried Harvey Gile; iv. Elizabethi Wilcox, May 4, 1819, married Micah Boardman ; v. Diantha Wilcox, May 18, 1823, married David Parker; vi. Grace M. Wilcox, February 27, 1824, mar- ried George Marsh ; vii. Deborah Wilcox, Feb-
ruary 19, 1826, married Amos O. Woodbury ; viii. Arzilla Wilcox, January 16, 1828, mar- ried David Marsh ; ix. Carlos F. Wilcox, April II, 1830, married Abbie A. Parsons; x. Mar- garet Wilcox, March 17, 1832, married Abner Morrill; xi. Sylvanus H. Wilcox, April 30, 1834, married Hulda Harrington ; xii. Helen M. Wilcox, January 27, 1837, married Colonel Ira M. Barton. 5. Sarah, December 5, 1786, married Colonel Benjamin Carr; children: i. Sally Maria Carr, born November 10, 1812, married George W. Howe; ii. Uriah W. Carr, October 30, 1814, married Lucretia Russell ; iii. Roxanna P. Carr, July 5. 1819, married James Heath; iv. Benjamin F. Carr, Septem- ber 16, 1822, married Alice Bascomb ; v. Fred- erick Carr, April 14, 1825, married Mary Whitney; vi. Owen Carr, February 3, 1829, died June 18, 1862; vii. Frances F. Carr, Feb- ruary 6, 1832, married R. P. Claggett. 6. John, June 15, 1789, died November 9, 1872 ; married Lydia P. Sawyer. 7. Joshua, Febru- ary 25, 1792, married Abigail Kelsey. 8. Roxanna, February 22, 1794, married Josiah Knowlton, of Hopkinton. 9. Siloam S., Janu- ary II, 1796, married Experience Hurd. 10. Joseph, February II, 1799, mentioned below. II. Betsey, February 14, 1801, married Joseph Greenough.
(VI) Joseph (3), son of Captain Uriah Wilcox, was born in Newport, New Hamp- shire, February II, 1799, died there February 23, 1882. He was educated in the district school, and settled on a part of the home- stead which he inherited. After a time he sold this farm and bought a larger one nearer the village, of four or five hundred acres. He was an industrious farmer and took great pride in his place. He was progressive in his methods and raised large numbers of sheep, selling the wool to the nearby mills and to woolbuyers who came to the farmers for their supply. He was a prominent citizen, upright and honorable, of large and wholesome influ- ence in the community, active in the anti- slavery and temperance movements. Before the war, even in New Hampshire, the pro- slavery sentiment was strong and men holding the views of Mr. Wilcox and stoutly maintain- ing them, as he did, were violently opposed and thoroughly hated by the "Copperheads" among their neighbors. He had no desire to hold public office, but he was intensely inter- ested and active in public affairs, both of the town and the nation. In politics he was a Whig and later a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Orthodox Congrega-
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tional church, and he was deacon for many years, up to his death. He married, January 10, 1826, Nancy Wilmarth, born at Newport, New Hampshire, August 16, 1806, died at Medford, Massachusetts, September 23, 1894, daughter of Daniel and Nancy ( Munroe) Wil- marth, of Newport. Children: I. Joseph Edwin, born September 16, 1826; died Febru- ary 25, 1875 ; married, April 5, 1853, Eunice C. Gregg; children: i. Sarah Alice Wilcox, born February 8, 1854, died April 27, 1879; ii. Helen Frances Wilcox, January 16, 1856, mar- ried, July 1, 1903, Stephen Francis Lund, who died May 23, 1906; iii. George Munroe Wil- cox, January 31, 1858, died August 18, 1903; married, November 2, 1882, Katherine Mckay and had Edith Martha, born November 21, 1883, died May 17, 1908; (married, June 28, 1907, Charles Henry James and had Donald Wilcox James, born May II, 1908) and Maud Elizabeth, February 14, 1885, died March 26, 1893; iv. Nanette Munroe Wilcox, July 31, 1850; v. Priscilla Gregg Wilcox, October 8, 1862; vi. Charles Edwin Wilcox, November 6. 1864, married Jennie McFadden and had Edwin Joseph, born February 16, 1901, Gladys Grace, January 25, 1904, and Charles Jesse, February 26, 1906; vii. Daniel William Wil- cox, January 30, 1869, married, October 9, 1907, Eunice Elizabeth Turner ; viii. Grace Lorantia Wilcox, November 5, 1873. 2. Daniel Wilmarth, December 19, 1828, mentioned below. 3. George Munroe, December 6, 1834, died at sea, May 16, 1855. 4. Henry Allen, April 16, 1842, married Marian Moore.
(VII) Daniel Wilmarth, son of Joseph Wil- cox, was born at Newport, December 19, 1828. He attended the district school and Kimball Union Academy of Meriden, New Hampshire. In his youth he worked on his father's farm in the vicinity. At the age of seventeen he left home and began his business career as clerk for the firm of A. L. White & Company, dealers in leather, Blackstone and Fulton streets, Boston. He returned to Newport a few years later and entered partnership with Albert Wilcox under the firm name of Albert Wilcox & Company, dealers in general mer- chandise. After three years the senior part- ner sold his intesests to Francis Comstock and the firm name became Wilcox & Comstock. The post office was located in their store and Mr. Wilcox was assistant postmaster. Two years later Mr. Wilcox withdrew from the firm and became a collector for a scythe com- pany, traveling in New England. In January, 1856, he became a member of the firm of
Joseph Day & Company, dealers in leather, Boston, continuing for a period of about three years, when the senior member retired and the firm name became Day, Wilcox & Company, of which Mr. Wilcox was the senior member ; this firm continued up to 1893. They operated tanneries, and had a store on Clinton street, Boston. One of the tanneries was that of Waldmyer & Company at Winchester, Massa- chusetts ; others were for the manufacture of sole leather at Mountain Home, Spragueville and East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1872 the firm was burned out in the great fire. The store was at that time on High street. After- wards the firm located at South street. After the firm was dissolved, Mr. Wilcox continued the business alone until about 1898, when he retired. In 1868 he purchased the Henry A. Page property in Medford, Massachusetts, and made his home there. He and his family are members of the Mystic Trinitarian Congrega- tional Church of Medford, and he was a deacon from 1875 to 1905, when he was elected deacon emeritus, which position he has held up to the present. In 1867 he was deacon of the Melrose Congregational church. In politics he is a Republican and he has been delegate to numerous state conventions of his party, was town auditor of Melrose for a time and water commissioner of Medford. He was a member of the Congregational Club ; director of the Malden National Bank for forty-one years ; director of the National Bank of North America of Boston more than thirty years.
He married, September 15, 1852, at New- port, New Hampshire, Martha Ann Chapin, born August 10, 1832, daughter of David Brainard and Zerviah H. (Farnsworth) Chapin, of Newport. Her father was a black- smith and deacon of the church. Children: I. Mary Ella, born July 14, 1857, married, July 5, 1882, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, of Medford, now pastor of Clinton Avenue Trinitarian Congregational Church, of Brooklyn, New York; children: i. Daniel Wilcox Boynton, born October 13, 1883 ; ii. Edward Chadbourne Boynton, June 11, 1885, both graduates of Amherst College ; iii. Morrison Russell Boyn- ton, October 31, 1887, now a student at Amherst College ; iv. Grace Morrison Boynton, August 14, 1890, now a student in Wellesley College; v. Elizabeth Boynton, December 8, 1891; vi. Marjorie Lillian Boynton. December 14, 1893; vii. Nehemiah Boynton Jr., July 9, 1896. 2. Emma Josephine, April 9, 1860. 3. Lillian Agnes, July 25, 1861, mar- ried, April 25, 1895, Charles Edwards Miller,
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of Dorchester; children: i. Lloyd Wilcox Miller, born June 27, 1896; ii. Alden Williams Miller, April 11, 1898. 4. Marian Newell, April 22, 1869, married Jonathan Munroe Gil- more, of Pasadena, California; child, Thomas Munroe Gilmore, born April 12, 1903, died September 16, 1903. 5. Martha Chapin, June 6, 1871, married, June 25, 1902, William Grant Smith, of Detroit, Michigan; child, Josephine Wilcox Smith, born March 4, 1908.
PIERSON Abraham Pierson was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1613. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1632, and came to New England in 1639. He was an ordained minister of the Episcopal faith, and preached for a time in England. He was ordained as a Congregational minister at Boston, Massachu- setts, and in 1640 was appointed pastor of the church at the new settlement of Southampton, Long Island. This settlement was the first town in New York settled by the English. In 1647 he came across the sound and' with a part of his congregation founded the town of Branford, Connecticut, where he remained twenty years. He was to the Indians of Con- necticut what Eliot was to the Indians of Massachusetts. He united with John Daven- port in opposing the union of the Connecticut and New Haven colonies in 1665, and the differences which arose caused him, with a part of his people, to remove to New Jersey and found the town of Newark. The church formed there became a Presbyterian church. For twelve years Mr. Pierson served as minis- ter, and there died August 9, 1678. He mar- ried Abigail Wheelwright, daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright, of Lincolnshire, England, later of New Hampshire. Children : I. Rev. Abraham, born 1641, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, 1642. 3. John, 1643. 4. Abigail, 1644, married, 1663, John Davenport Jr. 5. Grace, 1650, married Samuel Kitchell. 6. Susanna, December, 1652, married Jonathan Ball. 7. Rebecca, 1654, died November, 1732; married Joseph Johnson. 8. Theophilus, 1659, died 1713. 9. Isaac. 10. Mary.
(II) Rev. Abraham (2), son of Rev. Abra- ham (I) Pierson, was born at Lynn, Massa- chusetts, in 1641, died May 5, 1707, at Killing- worth, Connecticut. He graduated at Harvard College in 1668 and removed with his father to Newark, New Jersey. He settled at Lynn as colleague with his father, July 28, 1669. On the death of his father in 1678 he became the sole pastor. He returned to Connecticut,
and in 1694 became pastor of the church at Killingworth. In 1701 he was made the first president of Yale College, and remained in that office until his death. He instituted at the college a "System of Natural Philosophy" which continued in use many years. He inher- ited his father's library of four hundred and forty volumes, a large one for those days, and the most of it he bequeathed to Yale College. Two fine monuments have been erected to his memory, one at Old Killingworth, the other on the Yale campus near the old library. He married, at Branford, Connecticut, Abigail Clark, daughter of George Clark, of Milford, Connecticut. Children : Abraham, mentioned below ; Sarah, Susanna, Mary, Hannah, Ruth, James, Abigail, John, born 1689, died August 3. 1770.
(III) Worshipful Abraham (3), son of Rev. Abraham (2) Pierson, was born at Newark, New Jersey, in 1680, died on Long Hill, Killingworth, January 8, 1752. He was a colonial magistrate of great learning and use- fulness in both church and state. He was thrice married. His third wife, whom he mar- ried in 1736, was Mrs. Mary Hart, born 1710, died January 8, 1752, the same day as her hus- band. Children: 1. Jedidiah, born September 17, 17II. 2. Mary, May 10, 1713, married, May 10, 1733, Stephen Wilcox. (See Wilcox. family ). 3. John, May 13, 1717. 4. Phineas, December 29, 1718. 5. Samuel, April 15, 1721, died 1801. 6. Dodo, 1724, died January 19, 1796; in the revolution. 7. Nathan, March 24, 1726. 8. Sarah, August 8, 1728, died young. 9. Sarah, July 9, 1732.
IRWIN Richard William Irwin, lawyer, born Northampton, Massachu- setts, February 18, 1857, son of William and Mary ( Blake) Irwin, was edu- cated in public schools ; received degree LL.B. Boston University Law School, 1885 ; married, in Springfield, Massachusetts, November 16, 1892, Florence E. Bangs; served apprentice- ship at machinist's trade in Florence Sewing Machine shop, Northampton ; employed at this trade in Elgin Watch Factory, Elgin, Illinois, for two years, and engaged in the house furnishing business at Natick, Massachusetts, with his brother, T. L. Irwin, under the firm name of Irwin Brothers, about two years ; has practiced law in Northampton since 1885 ; city solicitor from 1890 to 1894 ; appointed by Gov- ernor Guild to be the district attorney for the Northwestern District, vice Dana Malone elected attorney-general, and was elected at the
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polls the following year ; his district includes the counties of Hampshire and Franklin ; vice- president of the Northampton Co-operative Bank ; trustee of the Nonotuck Savings Bank ; director of The Haydenville Company, of Haydenville, Massachusetts; captain of Com- pany I, Second Regiment Massachusetts Vol- unteer Militia, 1886 to 1891; Massachusetts house of representatives, 1894-95; senate, 1896-97-98 : member of the governor's council, 1903-04; Mason, Odd Fellow and Elk; resi- dence No. 77 Henshaw avenue ; office No. 160 Main street, Northampton.
The name of Prindle or PRINDLE Pringle, as it is more com- monly spelled in England and Scotland, has Scotland for been historically eminent in many centuries. Alexander Pringle appears to have been the progenitor of the family, and is said to have been one of the promoters of the Fourth Crusade and com- manded one of the divisions of Scottish sol- diers engaged in Palestine. The family seems to have been numerous near the border line between England and Scotland, and Northum- berland is still the home of families of the name. The Pringles of Yair and Whythank were neighbors and distant kinsfolk of Sir Walter Scott. There are many graves of Pringles in Melrose Abbey and churchyard. The earliest record of Pringles or Prindles in America is of John whose name appears as an 'after planter" in Milford, Connecticut, in 1645. It is not known whether he was a rela- tive of the William mentioned below.
(I) William Prindle, immigrant ancestor, was a native of Scotland. He is first mentioned in the New Haven colonial records in 1653 as "the Scotchman who lives at Mr. Allerton's," who was one of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims. William Prindle settled in New Haven, and was a proprietor there in 1685. He took the oath of fidelity, April 4, 1654. His will was dated October 17, 1689, and proved June 5, 1690. He lived in what was known as West Farms, in what is now West Haven, and a part of this land is still owned by the family. He was employed by the town to sweep the chim- neys twice a year. "Feb. 1I, 1655 .- The gov- ernor further acquainted the town that William Pringle, who was spoke of to the last court to sweep chimneys for the town, had been with him, and propounded some difficulty in the work, but the manner of paying discour- aged him much, but hoping that may be amended, he is willing to try another year, if
the town will lend him 40 shillings in corn, and let him have a canvas frock, and hood, to cover his clothes when doth the work. But now, Peter Mallory, from him declared, that the 40 shillings to be lent, he let it fall, so he may have the frock propounded, and his pay for his work duly paid him. The town declared if canvas can be got, he shall have such a frock and hood, he promising that if he leave the work, to leave such garment to the town again, and that men pay him down for his labor, or otherwise to his content, but if not, upon complaint the court will see it reduced, and that all chimneys in the town be included, and none exempted from pay, though they sweep them themselves, provided that he come within such time Winter and Summer, as is expressed in an order in the town records!"
He married, December 7, 1655, Mary Des- borough, Mr. Stephen Goodyear, magistrate, officiating. Children, born in New Haven: I. Phebe, March 16, 1656-57, married, November 5, 1677, Eleazer Beecher. 2. John, October 5, 1658, married (first) Mary Hull; (second) Abigail Hawkins; (third) Hannah Botsford; died November 25, 1734. 3. Mary, March 8, 1659-60, married John Roach; died August 16, 1691. 4. Ebenezer, September 10, 1661, mentioned below. 5. Joseph, June 11, 1663, married Mary Brown; died March 18, 1737- 38. 6. Jonathan, June 7, 1665, died young. 7. Sarah, October 19, 1666, probably died young. 8. Samuel, April 15, 1668, married (first) Dorothy Plum; (second) Sarah Chap- man; died September 20, 1750. 9. Eleazer, June 7, 1669, married Elizabeth Andrews; died 1713. 10. Hannah, March 6, 1670-71, married probably John Hull. 11. Joanna, Feb- ruary 2, 1672, died July 26, 1673.
(II) Ebenezer, son of William Prindle, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, September 10, 1661, died in 1740. He settled first in Mil- ford, Connecticut, and joined the church there July 4, 1703. About 1709 he sold his property there and removed to Newtown, where he bought land of Lemuel Eells. He received a grant of land there also and became one of the prominent men in the new town. He was chosen surveyor of highways, and was elected on the first board of selectmen at a meeting held at the house of Daniel Foote, December 4, 17II. He was re-elected in 1712 and follow- ing years. The same day he was chosen one of a committee to consider the matter of establishing a grist mill on Pond brook. His will was dated June 26, 1740, and proved August 8, 1740. He married Elizabeth Hubby,
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