Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 119

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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(VI) Eber, son of Shadrach (2) Pierce, was born in 1770 and died in Windsor, Massa- chusetts. He married ( first ) Judith Slayton ; ( second ) Eunice Ellison. Children : 1. Sally, born 1795, married ( first) William Ball; ( second) Josiah Smith. 2. Jairus, 1799, married Rachel Watkins. 3. Isaac S., men- tioned below. 4. Franklin, 1805, married Charlotte Wetherbee; died 1847. 5. Reu- ben, 1808, married (first) Louisa M. Ford; (second ) Dilly Ford. 6. Electa, 1810, died 1812. 7. Lydia D., 1812, married Henry B. Pierce. 8. Julia A., 1816, married Turner Joy. 9. Henry A., 1818. 10. Judith S., 1820, married John Brown. 11. Orrin G., 182-,

married Harriet Wright. 12. Celinda, married Charles Chapman.

(VII) Isaac S., son of Eber Pierce, was born in 1802 in Windsor, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and became a farmer. He was a stone mason by trade, and for a time kept the tavern at Windsor, owning considerable land in Wind- sor and in the neighboring town of Peru. He married Eliza (Hibben) Thompson, born 181I, died 1856. He died 1868. Children: I. Louis Leland, born March 4, 1833, married Emma Curtis. 2. Ellen Eliza, August 28, 1838, mar- ried Lucien Augustus Dawson. ( See Dawson, VI). 3. Frank Arthur, October 28, 1853, mar- ried Mary Cartright ; children : Eliza, Lillian E., married William Marsh, of Hadley; Dorothy.

George Ross, immigrant ancestor, ROSS was a native of Scotland, and was born there in 1635. He came to America when a young man and settled in New Haven, Connecticut. He removed to Albany, New York, and thence before 1669 to Elizabeth- town, New Jersey, where he spent most of his life. He died at Elizabethtown. He married, 1658, Constance Little. He had a son John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of George Ross, was born in 1658, later removed to Westfield, New Jersey, and died there in 1702. He had a son George, mentioned below.

(III) George (2), son of John Ross, was born in Elizabethtown in 1682 and died there November 1, 1717. He had a son George, mentioned below.

(IV) George (3), son of George (2) Ross, was born in Elizabethtown in 1708, and died in 1768. He married Joanna Ogden. He had a son Mathias, mentioned below.

(V) Mathias, son of George (3) Ross, was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, October 4, 1743, and in 1801 went to Ohio and died at the home of his son at Mount Pleasant, near Cincinnati, in 1830. He married Mary Halsey, of New Jersey, whose father was a farmer, also a soldier in the revolution. He had a son Ogden, mentioned below.

(VI) Ogden, son of Mathias Ross, was born in Elizabethtown, September 10, 1771. He removed in 1798 to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was one of the first settlers. He purchased a large farm at Mount Pleasant. near Cincin- nati, where he lived until 1835, when he bought a farm near Dayton, Ohio. In 1847 he return- ed to Cincinnati and in 1861 went to Laporte,

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Indiana, where he died September, 1869, aged ninety-nine years. He was strong and rugged and of high moral character, and his influence was always for good in the community in which he lived. He was prominent among the early Swedenborgians of the country and was active in the church. He married Lydia Ludlow. Child, Mathias Denman, mentioned below.

(VII) Mathias Denman, son of Ogden Ross, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November I, 1819, died at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, September 14, 1892. Educated in Ohio. He removed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1846, and became connected with the Bay State Mills as an expert in machinery. He came to Boston in 1848, where he was connected with manu- facturing of different kinds. He was especially interested in technical education and was one of the prime movers in promoting the estab- lishment of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which he was very much inter- ested. His work in that institution in its for- native period was of great benefit to the cause of technical education. He was especially qualified by his training and experience to foresee the needs of the institution, and in large part the technical schools of the whole country have followed the trail blazed by this institute. He helped in a material way also to bring to the institute the necessary financial · support in its early days and he was always one of its best and most sincere friends. He was for many years a member of the harbor com- mission of Boston, and in that office performed much useful public service. During the civil war he aided the government materially by rais- ing troops and in various other ways. He was a close personal friend of the great war governor, John A. Andrew. He was a lifelong Republi- can. In religion he was a Swedenborgian. He was characterized by sound common sense, sterling integrity and exceptional ability in many lines. He was broad-minded and public- spirited. of great intellectual power.

He married (first) September 1, 1847, Mary Swift Waldo, born in Boston, 1828, died March 24, 1868, daughter of Henry S. Waldo. He married (second) June 7, 1883, Caroline E. Archer, of Salem, Massachusetts, born March 7, 1842, daughter of Augustus J. and Mary J. (Waldo) Archer. (See Archer). Children of Mr. Ross, by his first wife: I. Waldo Ogden, born 1850, died December 26, 1898; married, 1884, Ellen Hayden, daughter of Franklin Hayden. 2. Mary C., 1853, died at the age of eleven months. 3. Mary A., February 25,

1855, died unmarried May 5, 1872. 4. John Hamilton, May 19, 1860, is in the Linen Thread Company, headquarters in Boston, residing in Hingham, Massachusetts; married, in 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Catherine Salicath, daughter of a distinguished surgeon of that country and of a prominent family ; children : Constance, Thornald Salicath and Harold Sali- cath. 5. Henry Francis, May 22, 1862, resides in the homestead at Jamaica Plain ; is a busi- ness man of Boston, president of the Mercan- tile Corporation of that city.

BABBIDGE Christopher Babbidge, im- migrant ancestor, was son of Roger and Hester Bab-

bidge, of Totnes or Totness, England. He came from Totnes to New England in 1662 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. On March 27, 1664-65, he was admitted into the First Church in Salem, and the same year was admitted a freeman. He was among the pro- prietors in 1661-62, and in 1668 was a peti- tioner with others against imposing a two per cent tax on all merchandise imported into the colony. On September 29, 1711, he is men- tioned in the will of Mrs. Bradstreet, wife of the governor. Christopher Babbidge married (first ) in Totnes, England, Agnes Triggs, who died in Salem, November 17, 1667. He mar- ried (second) October 5, 1674, Hannah (Jewett) Carleton, born June 15, 1641, widow of John Carleton, of Haverhill, and daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Mallinson) Jewett. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Ruth, born March 21, 1663 (another account gives May 8, 1664). 2. John, April 15, 1666. Children of second wife: 3. Hannah, July 15, 1675. 4. Mary, March 1, 1676-77 ( Anne in one record ). 5. Christopher, November 11, 1678, mentioned below. 6. Richard, October 1, 1680, died March, 1681. 7. Richard, July 14, 1682 (Elizabeth, First church records). 8. Ne- hemiah, March 25, 1684.

(II) Christopher (2), son of Christopher ( 1) Babbidge, was born in Salem, November II, 1678, and was a cordwainer by trade. He lived in the East parish of the town of Salem, and was one of the thirty-six members of the First Church who formed the East Parish church, December 25, 1718, and he sold land to the parish for a church building. He mar- ried, December 6, 1705, Lydia Marston, born January 7, 1684, daughter of Manhasseh and Mercy ( Pierce) Marston. Children : I. James, born 1706, married, June 13. 1728. Elizabeth Knowlton. 2. John, September 7, 1707, men-

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tioned below. 3. Lydia, baptized January 22, 1709. 4. Mehitable, baptized June 14, 1714, died unmarried. 5. Benjamin, baptized Feb- ruary 5, 1715, married, June 17, 1742, Abigail Mears. 6. Christopher, married, September 27, 1749, Anstis Crowninshield ; died 1751. 7. Hannah, died September, 1774; married, Octo- ber 6, 1745, Nathaniel Osgood.

(III) John, son of Christopher (2) Bab- bidge, was born September 7, 1707, died May 12, 1745. His. will was dated May 2, 1745, and proved June 14 following. He married, Jan- uary II, 1732-33, Susanna Becket, born April 15, 1714, died June 3, 1804, daughter of John and Susanna (Mason) Becket. She lived on Walnut street, Salem, where she kept a select school many years after her husband's death. She was known as Madam Babbidge, a rare title in those days. She was very corpulent, and unable to move about easily. and so kept a long stick with a knob at the end, with which to inflict slight punishment on pupils at a dis- tance from her. Her daughter Lydia assisted in teaching the older pupils. Children : I. Lydia, born September 7, 1733, died unmar- ried July 9, 1800. 2. Susanna, November 3, 1734, died June 4, 1800; married, January 22, 1756, Captain Jonathan Mason. 3. John, May 17, 1736, died October 22, 1757, unmarried. 4. Elizabeth, February 27, 1737-38, died October 17, 1797 ; married, November 17, 1770, Benja- min Ward, Jr. 5. Benjamin, January 30, 1739- 40, mentioned below. 6. Christopher, January 24, 1741-42, died August 26, 1792; married (first) January 31, 1765, Mary Young ; (sec- ond) July 28, 1768, Martha ( Silsbee) Emmer- ton, widow. 7. William, April 21, 1744. died September 14. 1753.

(IV) Benjamin, son of John Babbidge, was born in Salem, January 30, 1739-40, died Octo- ber 18, 1774. He was a cordwainer by trade. He married, October 21, 1762, Elizabeth Wood- well, probably daughter of John and Elizabeth (Gillingham) Woodwell. Children: 1. Eliza- beth, born 1763, died May 6, 1811 ; married (first) July 27. 1788, William Cotton ; (second ) November 12, 1796, Thomas Williams. 2. Benjamin, 1765, died 1811 at sea; married, 1790, Mary Phippen. 3. John, June, 1767, died March 26, 1860; married, June 25, 1789, Sarah Becket. 4. Susanna, 1769, married Colonel Samuel Archer (see Archer family ).

ARCHER Samuel Archer, immigrant an- cestor, was born, according to his own deposition, about 1608. He settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where he

took the freeman's oath, October 19, 1630. He was a carpenter by trade, and was a pro- prietor of Salem in 1636. With William Allin he built an amunition house in 1639. In 1657 he was constable, and marshal from 1654 until his death. He received sixty acres of land, February 20, 1636-37, at Jefferies creek, and November 26, 1638, about twenty acres and some meadow land. The inventory of his estate was presented June 30, 1668. He mar- ried Susanna , who was admitted to the Salem church, March 30, 1656. She married (second) October, 1668, Richard Hutchinson, of Danvers. Children, born in Salem: I. Hannah, 1632, married Matthew Dove. 2. Samuel, 1634-35, mentioned below. 3. John, baptized April 7, 1639. 4. Bethiah, baptized July 13, 1644.

(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( I) Archer, was born in 1634-35 in Salem, and was a car- penter by trade. He was admitted a freeman April 29, 1668. He married, May 21, 1660, Hannah Osgood, baptized 1642, daughter of John and Sarah Osgood, of Andover. Chil- dren: I. Samuel, baptized November 29, 1668. 2. Jonathan, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, bap- tized April 28, 1672, died young. 4. Joseph, bap- tized September, 1673. 5. Stephen, baptized March, 1677. 6. Hannah, baptized March, 1677 ; married, August 30, 1697, Nicholas Jef- fries. 7. Mary, baptized August 27, 1679. 8. Ebenezer, baptized October, 1682. 9. Na- thaniel, baptized July 28, 1685.

(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel (2) Archer, was born about 1670 in Salem, died July 16, 1746. He was called a truckman and cord- wainer. He received much real estate from his father. He married, November 8, 1699, Abigail ( Massey) Williams, born in Salem, December 26, 1671, died October 8, 1738, daughter of John and Sarah (Wells) Massey, and widow of Hilliard Williams. Children: I. Abigail, born May, 1702, died young. 2. Jon- athan, September 22, 1703, mentioned below. 3. Abigail, July 10, 1705, died August 4, 1705. 4. Samuel, September 2, 1707. 5. Nathaniel, April 17, 1710. 6. Abigail, August 17, 1711, married (first) April 26, 1734, Captain John Elkins ; (second) January 8, 1743-44, Captain William Brown.

(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1) Archer, as born in Salem, September 22, 1703, and was a coaster. Administration was grant- ed his widow Abigail, July 12, 1756. He mar- ried, January 30, 1728-29, Abigail Allen, bap- tized in First Church of Salem, August 12, 1705, died September 29, 1791, daughter of

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Joseph and Abigail Allen. Children, born in Salem: I. Samuel, baptized November 23, 1729, died young. 2. Jonathan, baptized De- cember 13, 1730, died young. 3. Samuel, bap- tized December 13, 1730, mentioned below. 4. Jonathan, baptized October 22, 1732. 5. John, baptized March 31, 1734. 6. Abigail, baptized May 9, 1736. 7. Sarah, baptized May 7, 1738, married, August 17, 1762, Benjamin Knights. 8. Bethiah, baptized March 8, 1740- 41, married, June 4, 1761, John Ward, Jr.

(V) Samuel (3), son of Jonathan (2) Archer, was baptized in Salem, December 13, 1730, and was living as late as 1787. He was a tailor by trade. He married, September 4, 1761, Bethiah Dod. Child, Samuel, mentioned below ; probably others.

(VI) Colonel Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) Archer, was born April 10, 1768, in Salem, died May 17, 1813, in Boston, where he re- sided. He married (first) June 23, 1789, Sus- anna Babbidge, born 1769, died November 25, 1807, daughter of Benjamin Babbidge. (See Babbidge family). He married (second) Deb- orah McNutt, born October 27, 1719, died July 2, 1860. Children, by first wife, baptized in St. Peter's Epicopal Church, Salem: I. Lydia, October 2, 1791. 2. William, June 16, 1793, died October 1, 1795. 3. Eliza Cotton, Decem- ber 30, 1795. 4. Maria, October 1. 1797. 5. Harriet, April 14, 1799. 6. William, December 2, 1800. 7. Adeline, born August 19, 1802, died January 8, 1803. 8. Samuel, died young. Children of second wife: 9. Agnes Deborah Taylor, born 1809, married Eben Preble; he died in 1845. 10. Augustus Joseph, born July 14. 1810, mentioned below. II. Caroline R., born 1811, died 1817. 12. Mary C., born 1813, died 1815.

(VII) Augustus Joseph, son of Samuel (4) Archer, was born July 14, 1810, at Salem, died there May II, 1898. He married, May II, 1841, at Charlestown, Mary Jane Waldo, daughter of Charles Frederick and Sarah Vose (Forster ) Waldo. Her father was son of Jonathan (5), Jonathan (4), Jonathan (3), Jonathan (2), Cornelius (1). Children, born at Salem: I. Caroline Emily, March 7, 1842, married. June 7, 1883, Mathias Denman Ross. (See Ross family). 2. Emily Waldo, April 6. 1844. 3. Agnes Deborah, July 1, 1846, died November 30, 1852. 4. Mary Waldo, Sep- tember 1, 1848, married, June 1, 1870, Charles Henry Doe. 5. Charles Frederick, March 6, 1851, married. August 29, 1875, Annie Laurie Moore. 6. Ada Louise, September 5, 1855, died January 13, 1876, unmarried. 7. George

Augustus, November 1, 1859, married, Decem- ber 12, 1895, Alice Maud Clarke.

The surname Scott is one of the

SCOTT oldest and most numerous of Scotch names. Its derivation as a surname is obviously from Scot and is similar to English, Irish, German and Wales, used as surnames. Before 1200 this surname was in use in Peebleshire, Fifeshire, Forfarshire, Roxburghshire, Dumfriesshire, Selkirkshire, Kincardineshire, etc. This family possesses the dukedoms of Buccleugh and Queensbury, marquisate of Dumfriesshire; earldoms of Buccleugh, Deloraine, Drumlanrig, Sanquhar, and Tarras; viscountcies of Hermitage, Nith, Totthorwald and Ross.

Before 1619 one or more or the family set- tled in Ulster Province which was granted by the king of England to Scotch and English settlers. In the survey of the grants of land made by Nicholas Pynnar in 1619, Thomas Scott was a settler on a grant made May 13, 1613, out of a thousand acre plot of James Cunningham, laird of Glangarnocke in the pre- cinct of Portlough, county Donegal, Ireland. Doubtless others of the family came later. About a thousand of the name Scott are now living in the Protestant counties of Antrim, Down and Londonderry, Ulster province. According to tradition the progenitor of the family came to Ireland from Roxburghshire, England.

Like all the Scotch settlers this family was opposed to union with the Catholic Irish and hence intermarried only with the other Scotch families, and though called Scotch-Irish are still pure Scotch in blood and customs and religion. They were covenanters, most of them, rigid Presbyterians, devout and faithful to man and God. It is related that the first William Scott was born in Roxburgshire ; mar- ried and left seven children, six of whom were sons, most of whom came to America about 1760 and settled in Virginia. One of them was the ancestor of General Winfield Scott, the hero of the Mexican war.

(I) William (2), son of William (I) Scott, was born in 1756, in Roxburgshire. He mar- ried (first) in Scotland, name of wife un- known, and there reared a family. Married (second) Jane Montgomery, whose ancestors came to Ulster from Scotland about 1610. He was a tenant farmer under the earl of Erne, and he lived at Ashfield near Enniskillen, a leading Protestant and Orangeman. He died in 1840, aged eighty-four years. Children :

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I. John, came to the United States after his brother Robert. 2. Elizabeth, came to this country through the kindness of her brother. 3. Robert, mentioned below.

(II) Robert, son of William (2) Scott, was born in Ashfield, county Fermanagh, Ireland, October 10, 1825. He received a common school education, and when sixteen years of age came to this country, locating in Boston with an uncle until he secured employment as clerk in a cotton business, and by diligence and perseverance he advanced step by step until he finally succeeded to the business, and for a number of years was at the head of the cotton business, both in Boston and New York. He built up a very large and profitable trade as a cotton broker and made a fortune. At one time he was rated as a millionaire, but later suffered heavy losses. He was of fine physique, over six feet in height. He was absolutely upright and honest. Once he paid a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in accord- ance with an oral promise to share in the profit or loss in a certain transaction that turned out badly. He was of great moral and physical courage. He had the characteristic Scotch traits of integrity, tenacity and keeping faith. He respected his Scotch ancestry and their piety, though he himself was an Episcopalian, and not a Presbyterian in religion. He died at Atlanta, Georgia, during a visit, December 31, 1881. He married Mary Ann Magee, a native of county Donegal, Ulster Province, Ireland. The name is also spelled McGee, MacKie, McGeagh. Her ancestors came from Scotland also to Ulster as early as 1620, and the family is numerous in the counties of An- trim, Armagh, Down, Donegal and Tyrone, Ireland. The family was in Galloway, Scot- land, very early. She came to America at the age of thirteen to join her brother, James Ma- gee, and others of her family who had gone to make their homes in New Brunswick. There she grew to womanhood and came to Boston before her marriage. She died January 26, 1894, the last survivor of the ten children of her parents. Children : 1. William, born Jan- uary 3. 1850, now a resident of Ardmoor, Oklahoma. 2. Joseph Rutherford, February 22, 1851. mentioned below. 3. Jane Mont- gomery, September 14, 1852, married Frank I. Barnes and lives in New York City. 4. Mary Ann Irwin, May 12. 1854, resides in New York City with her sister, Mrs. Barnes; is unmarried. 5. Isabella Albro, July 18, 1856, resides with her brother in the old Scott home at 263 Chestnut avenue, Jamaica Plain. 6.

Katherine Pycott, April 29, 1859, died aged three months, twenty-six days. 7. Robert Winfield, September 6, 1863, resides in the Scott homestead; salesman for the United States Leather Company. 8. Richard Walter Ashfield, December 22, 1865, employed by, the firm of C. F. Hovey & Company, dry goods dealers, Boston ; resides in Dorchester ; married Mary Pelton, and had one son, Bronson B. Scott. 9. Fannie Levisa, October 9, 1869, re- sides at the Scott home, Chestnut avenue.

(III) Joseph Rutherford, son of .Robert Scott, was born in Boston, February 22, 1851. He graduated from the Chauncy Hall school and was a student for three years in the Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology, previously taking a course in a business college. He be- came associated in business with his father, first in New York City, later in Boston. He succeeded to the business after his father died and continued it for a time. He was a prom- inent and successful cotton broker. He re- tired from this business in 1890 and since then has devoted his attention mainly to real estate investments. He was for many years active in social and club life, and was a member of the old Central Club when it was at the zenith of its reputation and popularity. In politics he is a Democrat. He is liberal and independ- ent in his religious views.

(For first generation see John Strong 1).

(II) Jerijah, youngest son and

STRONG child of Elder John and Abigail (Ford) Strong, was born in Northampton, December 12, 1665, and died

there of pleurisy,. April 24, 1754. He was a husbandman, a man of quiet habits and upright character, and enjoyed the re- spect of all of his fellow townsmen. He married, July 18, 1700, Thankful Stebbins, born May II, 1678, died May 24, 1744. daughter of John and Abigail (Bartlett) Stebbins, of Northampton. They had eight children, all born in Northampton: 1. Jerijah, September 8, 1701, died young. 2. Thankful, August 26, 1702, married, August 6, 1724, Jonathan Hunt, of Northampton. 3. Jerijah, May 14, 1705. 4. Ithamar, died August 7, 17II. 5. Ithamar, died April 16, 1714. 6. Ithamar, married, 1740, Deacon Nathaniel Brewer, of Springfield, born 1711, son of Rev. Daniel Brewer. 7. Seth, April 4, 1716, married Lois, daughter of Jonathan Strong. 8. Bella, October 4, 1719, dicd May 5, 1803.

(III) Jcrijah (2), son of Jerijah (I) and Thankful (Stebbins) Strong, was born in

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Northampton. His life was spent in the town, and like his father he was a farmer, thrifty and prosperous and highly esteemed in the community. He died October 27, 1781. His wife, whom he married May 17, 1737, was Mary Clark, born January 17, 1710-II, died July 16, 1798, daughter of Increase and Mary (Sheldon) Clark. They had five children, all born in Northampton: 1. Oliver, December 30, 1737, married, October 6, 1774. Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel and Thankful ( Clesson ) Day. 2. Mary, December 22, 1738, died young. 3. Mary, baptized February 22, 1741, died October 24, 1816, unmarried. 4. Rachel, May 19, 1746, married, 1771, Zachariah Field, of Hatfield. 5. Elijah, November II, 1752.

(IV) Elijah, son of Jerijah (2) and Mary (Clark) Strong, was born in Northampton, November II, 1752, died there July 25, 1838. He was a substantial farmer, a man of char- acter, and took little active interest in public or town affairs. He married, about 1779, Eliz- abeth Morton, of Hatfield, who died December 12, 1829, having borne her husband six chil- dren: I. Patty, born January 17, 1780, died January 16, 1846; married Nathaniel Clark, of Northampton. 2. Luther, October 18,1782. 3. Elijah, Jr., September 7, 1785. 4. Moses, bap- tized May 4, 1788. 5. Chester, baptized Feb- ruary 29, 1791, died March 29, 1823, unmar- ried. 6. Lewis, baptized May 31, 1795, died August 2, 1831, Maria Tower.

(V) Luther, son of Elijah and Elizabeth ( Morton ) Strong, was born in Northampton, October 18. 1782, died there July 11, 1847. Like his father and other of his ancestors for several generations before him he too was a farmer, and a man of excellent character. He married, December 18, 1806, Susannah Clark, born in Westhampton, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 13, 1785, died August 5, 1865, daughter of Paul and Submit ( Phelps) Clark. They had four children, all born in Northampton : I. Cephas, September 23, 1808. 2. Eliza Clark, September 24, 1811, married, April 18, 1834, Morris Strong, of Northampton, son of Cap- tain David Strong, and had one child, Mary Jane. unmarried. 3. Electa Morton, October 23, 1816, married, October 13, 1841, Jonathan Allen Clark, son of Allen Clark, of Northamp- ton, and had Helen E., born October 13, 1843, married John W. Phelps ; and Harriet S., mar- ried Aretus Loomis. 4. Susan, July 2, 1820, married, May 13, 1846, Edmund Stevens, son of Josiah Stevens, and had Harriet Susan, born June 4, 1847, married, September 16, 1868, Asa H. Hewitt; George Edmund, born Sep-

tember 12, 1849 ; Charles Melvin, born January 1, 1854.

(VI) Cephas, son of Luther and Susannah (Clark) Strong, was born in Northampton, September 23, 1808, in the old family home- stead, died February 26, 1888. He was always . a farmer in the town. He married, November 7, 1832, Esther Holbrook Starr, born May 22, 1804, died August 22, 1889, daughter of Thomas and Keziah (Thayer) Starr, of East- hampton. They had but one child, Edward Barnard Strong.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 119

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008