Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 125

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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(III) Peter (2), son of John Branch, was born on Branch Island, Marshfield, May 28, 1659. As early as 1680 he came from Marsh- field to Norwich, Connecticut, and bought a tract of land there a few miles east of Nor- wich, of Oanaco, son of the famous Indian chief, Uncas, by deed dated December IO, 1683. His cattle mark was registered in 1680 at Norwich, and he was one of the original petitioners for the incorporation of the town of Preston where he lived. He was one of the incorporators and most prominent citizens of Preston, serving the town in various posi- tions of trust and honor. He was on the com- mittee that invited Rev. Solomon Treat to settle as minister in the town. He married. about 1684, Hannah Lincoln, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Austin) Lincoln, and granddaughter of Thomas Lincoln, the miller, who came from Hingham, England, to Hing- ham, Massachusetts, about 1635, and whose mill at Taunton, Massachusetts, was used as a place of meeting for the conference with King Philip before the war. Children :

I. Mary. 2. Hannah. 3. Elizabeth. 4. John, born at Preston, March 31, 1694, married, October 20, 1726, Martha Williams. 5. Peter. 6. Thomas. 7. Samuel, mentioned below. 8. Sarah. 9. Joseph.

(IV) Samuel, son of Peter (2) Branch, was born at Preston, September 3, 1701. He married, May 23. 1728, Anna Lamb, born

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1701, at North Stonington, Connecticut, daugh- ter of Isaac and Elizabeth Lamb, of Mystic, Connecticut. Among their children were: I. Samuel, born August 6, 1729, died 1772 ; mar- ried Hannah Witter, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Witter. 2. Cyprian, settled at Rich- mond, Massachusetts. 3. Vine, mentioned below.

(V) Vine, son of Samuel Branch, was born in Preston, January 21, 1743. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private from Rich- mond in Lieutenant Jabez Coe's company, Col- onel David Rosseter's regiment, Berkshire county militia, July, 1777, reinforcing the northern army; was at the battle of Benning- ton in the same company under Captain Aaron Rowley, August 13-20, 1777 ; also in the same company, Colonel John Brown's regiment of Bershire county at Pawlet, Vermont, rein- forcing the northern army in September, 1777 ; also for two days in 1780, October 18-20, in Captain Joseph Raymond's company, Colonel Rosseter's regiment, Brigadier General Fel- lows' brigade to reinforce General Stark at Stillwater, New York; also in Captain Ray- mond's company, Colonel Hyde's regiment, October 29 to November 6, 1781, on another alarm from Stillwater. Vine Branch and others of the family settled during the revolu- tion in Richmond, Berkshire county, Massa- chusetts, and in 1790 the first federal census shows that he had two males over sixteen, four under sixteen and five females in his family there. He married Dorothy Partridge. Child, Roswell, mentioned below.

(VI) Roswell, son of Vine Branch, was born 1775-80, probably at Richmond. He mar- ried Theodocia Wright and lived at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Child, Grove Wright, men- tioned below.

(VII) Deacon Grove Wright, son or nephew of Roswell Branch, was born September 21, 1803. He removed to Dalton, Massachusetts, where his birth is recorded. He removed in early life to Pittsfield, where he was raised and educated, attending the common schools. He engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. In 1834 he removed to Dalton where he was the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel. He married ( first ) Pamelia Sprague, born March 7, 1805; (second) Saralı ( Foote) Fairfield, born August 20, 1809. Children : I. Hayden W., born 1830, married ; children, Charles and Olive. 2. Caroline A., January 14, 1832, married ( first) A. C. Morse; (second) Dr. Henry Ferre ; had no children. 3. George, July 1, 1835, drowned July 13, 1843. 4.

Robert Mason, September 30, 1837, mentioned below. 5. Pamelia S., January 5, 1840, mar- ried Samuel Hubbard, child, Jesse Hubbard. Children of second wife: 6. Lucy, April 27, 1843, married Ensign M. Smith; children, Rupert and Russell Smith. 7. Ellen, Dalton, November 14, 1844, married Albert Chamber- lin and had son, Henry B. Chamberlin. 8. George Wallace, Dalton, March 19, 1847, mar- ried (first) Amy Deane, born December 9, 1846; (second) Hattie Green; child of first wife, Maud B .: child of second wife, Roy B.

(VIII) Robert Mason, son of Deacon Grove Wright Branch, was born in Dalton, Septem- ber 30, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He went to Northampton, Massachusetts, to live in 1854. He was a prominent merchant till 1903, when he retired from business. In politics he is a Democrat. He married, June 5, 1871, Martha Jane Ross, born August 6, 1846, daughter of Austin and Fidelia (Rindge) Ross (see Ross). Children: 1. Caroline Ferre, born November II, 1872, married, September 27, 1898, Edward Philip Massonneau, born January 17, 1869, died October 13, 1904, son of Robert Living- stone and Emma (Clark) Massonneau, of Red Hook, Dutchess county, New York; resided in New York City when Mr. Massonneau was connected with the New York Herald till his death; their child, Carol Branch Massonneau, born January 9, 1903, at Beacon Heights, Tuckahoe, New York. 2. Grove Ross, Sep- tember 5, 1878. 3. George Mason, September 15, 1882, died December 20, 1892.

This is one of the early New STORRS England families which has contributed especially to the de- velopment of Connecticut, and is honored by the name of a village in the town of Mansfield, that state, which is the seat of the Connecticut Agricultural School. The family has been identified with the growth and development of the best cities of this country and is still ably represented in many sections.

(I) The first of whom definite knowledge appears, pertaining to this line, was Thomas Storrs, who with his wife Mary lived in Sutten and Cumhound, Nottinghamshire, England.

(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Storrs, was baptized in 1640 and came to America in 1663, settling at Barnstable, Massachusetts. In 1666 lie was married there to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary ( Wells) Huckins, of that town. She died in 1683, and in 1685 he mar- ried Esther Agard, a widow. About 1698 he

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removed to Mansfield, Connecticut, being among the original proprietors of that town, where he died in 1719. His son Samuel was also one of the original proprietors.

(III) Thomas (2), son of Samuel and Esther (Agard) Storrs, was born October 27, 1686, in Barnstable, and was about twelve years old when his parents removed to Mans- field. For many years he was clerk for the proprietors of that town and was subsequently town clerk and justice of the peace, beside filling other public trusts, and was representa- tive at the general court of Connecticut for forty-three sessions between 1716 and 1747. A prominent man, his death occurred April 4, 1775. He married, in Mansfield, March 14, 1708, Mehitable It is possible that he had a second wife as one record shows that his widow, Margaret, died March 10, 1776.

(IV) Josiah, son of Thomas (2) Storrs, was born March 25. 1714, in Mansfield, and lived in the eastern part of the town, where his farm is still in the possession of his descendants. He married, November 9, 1743, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Sar- geant, of Mansfield, who died October 27, 1754. He survived her almost forty-two years, dying August 9, 1796.

(V) Ebenezer, son of Josiah and Mary (Sargeant ) Storrs, was born August 26, 1744. He married. February 4, 1770, Lois, daughter of Nathan Southworth.

(VI) Olive, daughter of Ebenezer and Lois (Southworth) Storrs, was born December 7, 1774, and married, February 25, 1795, Elnathan Ross, of Chaplin ( see Ross V).

WHITMAN John Whitman, immigrant ancestor, was one of the earliest settlers of Wey- mouth, Massachusetts. He came from Eng- land, perhaps from Holt, county Norfolk. The name of Whitman or Whiteman was common there. Governor Winthrop came with his company from the vicinity of Holt and settled in Weymouth. Mr. Whitman probably came to New England before 1638. He was ad- mitted a freeman, March 13, 1638-39, and was a town officer of Weymouth in 1643. He was appointed ensign by the governor in 1645, and was probably the first military officer in Wey- mouth. At the same time, May 14, 1645, he was made the magistrate of the town. He was also deacon of the church there probably from its foundation until his death, November 13, 1692. He was probably nearly ninety when he died, as the youngest of his nine children was

born in 1644 and the eldest son in 1629, while some of the daughters may have been older. It is supposed that he was married in England about 1625. The family did not follow the father to Weymouth until 1641. He had a brother Zachariah who emigrated at the time he did or soon afterward, and settled in Mil- ford, Connecticut, as early as 1639. His estate in Milford was bequeathed to Rev. Zachariah Whitman, son of his brother, John Whitman, of Weymouth. The records, according to Pope's Pioneers, show that Zachariah, aged forty, came with his wife Sarah, aged thirty- five, and child Zachariah, aged two and one half, in the ship "Elizabeth" from Weymouth, England, April II, 1635. Robert Whitman, aged twenty, from the parish of Little Minor- ies, England, came in the "Abigail" in June, 1635, and settled in Ipswich. It is not known that he was a relative. The fact that Zachariah and Robert Whitman came in 1635 makes it probable that John came also in that year.

John Whitman owned and lived upon a farm adjoining the north side of the highway, lead- ing by the north side of the meeting house of the north parish of Weymouth, and directly against it, and extending to the Weymouth river. His dwelling house was near the middle of the farm and a part of the house now on the place was built about 1680; and if this date is correct, it was occupied by the immi- grant ancestor. The farm until 1830 was owned by a descendant. He had many grants of land and must have become by purchase and otherwise the largest or one of the largest landholders in the town. He held the office of ensign until March 16, 1680. He was appointed May 15, 1664, a messenger to the Indians and held other positions of trust in the colony. Children : I. Thomas, born about 1629, died 1712; married Abigail Byram and settled in Bridgewater. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Zachariah, 1644, died November 5, 1726. 4. Abiah, 1646, mentioned below. 5. Sarah, mar- ried, about 1653, Abraham Jones, of Hingham ; died June II, 1718: resided at Hull. 6. Mary, died July 10. 1716; married, November 22, 1656, John Pratt. 7. Elizabeth, died February 2, 1720; married, May, 1657, Joseph Green. 8. Hannah, married, September 9, 1660, Ste- phen French. 9. Judith, married Philip King. (II) John (2), son of John (1) Whitman, lived in South Weymouth, on a farm he had from his father on the shores of a large pond, since called Whitman's Pond. He married, October 19, 1662, Ruth Reed, who died the same year. He married (second) Abigail

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Hollis. He died February 1, 1713. Children, all by second wife, born at Weymouth : I. Ruth, February I, 1664. 2. Mary, March 10, 1666. 3. John, July 22, 1668. 4. Ebenezer, December 4, 1670, mentioned below. 5. Ex- perience, April 1, 1673. 6. Samuel.

(III) Ebenezer, son of John (2) Whitman, was born at Weymouth, December 4, 1670, died December 23, 1732. He was a carpenter by trade. His will was dated December 21, 1732, proved January 30, 1733. The widow was exe- cutrix, and the estate amounted to one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven pounds, twelve shillings, ten pence. He married, June 13, 1705, Deborah Richards. Children : I. Daniel, born May 30, 1706, died November 25, 1715. 2. Sarah, died May 7, 1733. 3. Ann, born July 15, 17II, married, 1746, David French, of Weymouth. 4. David, born December 2, 1713, mentioned below. 5. Silence, married, Novem- ber 23, 1738, Elisha White. 6. Daniel, died 1759. 7. Deborah.

(IV) David, son of Ebenezer Whitman, was born at Weymouth, December 2, 1713, died in 1779. He lived and died at Weymouth, and his descendants are the only ones of the name living in the town now. His son David was appointed executor of the will in Novem- ber, 1779, and all the children are mentioned in that document. He married (first) Jan- uary 26, 1736, Joanna Fisher, who died Jan- uary 4, 1756. He married (second) July 4, 1757, Mrs. Hannah Bates. Children, all by first wife: 1. Sarah, born December 27, 1737, died young. 2. Hannah, January 2, 1740, married, February 26, 1761, Amos Shaw. 3.

Charity, February 27, 1742, married, Febru- ary 10, 1759, Ephraim Nash; died October, 1801. 4. David, December 13, 1749, mentioned below. 5. Samuel, February 18, 1751, died December, 1826. 6. Nehemiah, September 8, 1753, died July 7, 1835.

(V) David (2), son of David (1) Whit- man, was born December 13, 1749, died De- cember 16, 1833. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Joseph Bax- ter's company, Colonel McIntosh's regiment, General Lovell's brigade, in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778. He is credited to Bridge- water in Captain Edward Cobb's company, Colonel Titcomb's regiment in 1777; he was also in Lieutenant Zachariah Watkins's com- pany, Colonel Ezra Wood's regiment in 1779 for nine months at North River ; also in Cap- tain Abram Washburn's company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's regiment in the Rhode

Island campaign in 1781. In his youth he follow- ed the sea until his sight partly failed and after- ward he was a farmer at Weymouth. He mar- ried (intention dated June 13, 1778) Olive Lincoln, of Hingham, who died September 14, 1859. Children : I. David, born February IO, 1780, died April, 1832, married (intention dated March 22, 1816) Betsey Pool, of Han- over. 2. Horatio Cushing, died 1832. 3. Olive, born March 2, 1782, married Captain Benja- min Derby, merchant, manufacturer and cap- tain of Weymouth Artillery Company. 4. Ebe- nezer, March 29, 1783, married, October 21, 1811, Lydia Loud, who died April 23, 1824; he was a farmer at Weymouth, died February 27, 1841. 5. Sally, September 15, 1788, died unmarried. 6. Joanna, died June 5, 1856, un- married. 7. Thomas, born November 17, 1794, mentioned below. 8. Betsey, December 15, 1798, resided at Lynn; died August, 1886.

(VI) Thomas, son of David (2) Whitman, was born at Weymouth, November 17, 1794. He resided at South Weymouth, where he died November, 1843. His widow administered his estate. He married, March 6, 1825, Betsey Holbrook, born February 14, 1796, died June 26, 1869, daughter of Nathaniel and Mehitable Holbrook. Children: 1. Benjamin F., men- tioned below. 2. Mehitable, born July 5, 1832, died November 6, 1833.

(VII) Benjamin Franklin, son of Thomas Whitman, was born at South Weymouth, July II, 1826, died December 11, 1899. He was educated there in the public schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker. In his later years he was a farmer. He married, August 3, 1848, Elizabeth Lovett, born March 17, 1826, died in 1892, daughter of William J. and Abigail H. (Stodder) Lovett. Children, born at Weymouth: I. Lizzie Lovett. June 3, 1849, a school teacher. 2. Benjamin F., December 19, 1852, a shoemaker; married Abbie 3. Charles Henry, mentioned below.

( VIII) Charles Henry, son of Benjamin Franklin Whitman, was born in Weymouth, March 4, 1856, and was educated there in the public schools. He was a shoe manufacturer at Weymouth for a number of years and is now a manager and salesman of the United Shoe Machinery Company of Boston. He is a member of the Lodge of Free Masons; of Wildey Lodge, No. 21, Odd Fellows, of South Weymouth ; of Pentalpha Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of the Commandery, Knights Temp- lar, and the Temple, Order of the Mystic

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Shrine. He is a member of the Congregational church. His home is at South Weymouth. He married, August 4, 1886, Minnie Frances Salisbury, born September 6, 1866, daughter of Jotham and Mary Ann Frances ( Wilbur ) (Hicks) Salisbury. (See Salisbury family). Child, Charles Herbert, born May 31, 1888, a student in Yale College, class of 1912.

(II) Sergeant Abiah, son of John Whitman, was born in Weymouth in 1646. He inherited the homestead, and was admitted a freeman October 12, 1681. He was a large owner of the North Purchase of Taunton, now compris- ing Easton, Corton and Mansfield, Massachu- setts. He died January 28, 1727-28. He mar- ried Mary Ford, daughter of Andrew, August 10, 1674. She died March 15, 1715. His will dated January 28, 1722-23, proved February 26, 1727, bequeathed to children John, Zechary, Abiah, Elizabeth (deceased), Lydia, Thomas, Mary, Eleanor. Children: I. Elizabeth, born 1673, married Timothy Cooper; killed in the wheelpit of his sawmill in 1726. 2. Lydia, 1678, married Captain John Thomas, ship- master of Braintree. 3. John, 1681, died 1758. 4. Mary, October 14, 1683, married John Dailey, of Easton. 5. Zachary, January 2, 1685, died without issue. 6. Eleanor, Septem- ber 3. 1688, married, 1714, William Turner. 7. Abiah, mentioned below.

(III) Deacon Abiah (2), son of Abiah (I) Whitman, was born in Weymouth, November 30, 1690. He died January 30, 1770. "He was a man of great regularity, industry and piety and in much estimation among his fellow citizens and was employed in many of the town offices." He was for many years deacon of the South Parish Church. His will dated February 15, 1760, proved March 9, 1770, bequeathed to wife Sarah and children Abiah, Sarah, Ruth. He married (first) (intention dated October 2, 1715) Ruth Pittee, daughter of William and Mary ( Porter) Pittee. She was born in 1695, died September 15, 1738. He married (second) May 3, 1739, Sarah Reed, born August 1, 1715, died April 1, 1788, daughter of Thomas and Hannah ( Randall) Reed. Her will was proved May 7, 1778. Children of second wife: I. Abiah, born No- vember 5, 1743, died October 3, 1751. 2. Sarah. September 2, 1745, died September 10, 1751. 3. William, October 12, 1748, died Sep- tember 7, 1751. 4. Sarah, October 17, 1752, married Ambrose Salisbury (see Salisbury family ). 5. Ruth, October 20, 1755, married, November 8, 1783, Jesse Reed, of Abington.

The surname Salisbury, Sales-

SALISBURY bury, Salusbury or Salsbury is

of great antiquity in England and Wales. The name was derived either from the city of Salisbury, county Wilts, England, or from Salzburg, a town in Bavaria. Sir Robert Salusbury says : "My own family came over with William the Conqueror. Adam de Saltzburgh, who attended him, was a younger son of the house of Bavaria, and took the name of the town he then lived in, the present seat of the Archbishop of Saltz- burgh. Upon their residence in England the family anglified the name into Salsbury, Sales- bury and Salusbury. As soon as the Con- queror's descendants got a sufficient footing in Wales, my ancestors had a grant of the Lordship of Llewenny in the county of Den- bigh and were governors of Denbigh castle for many generations. They were the first sheriffs and first members of Parliament for the county of Denbigh." The English grant of land to Adam was in Lancashire on the banks of the river Ribble, where he built a house, now in ruins, called Salusbury Hall. The arms of the Salisburys in England are the same as those emblazoned over the gates of Salzburg: Gules a lion rampant argent ducally crowned or between three crescents of the last. The

motto : "Sat est prostrasse leoni." The Welsh or English ancestry of the American immigrants has not been definitely established, but there is reason to believe that the names Nicholas and Humphrey are derived from intermarriage with the Humphrey-Nicholas family. We know that in 1669 John Salis- bury, of Erbistock, county Salop, descended in the seventh generation from the elder Thomas Salisbury, of Lleweni, married Kath- erine Nicholas, daughter of Humphrey Nich- olas, of Llacthbwlch, county Montgomery. The mother of Nicholas Salisbury, the American immigrant, may have been also of this family. The peculiar and unusual names point strongly to this section of the family as the progenitors.

(I) Nicholas Salisbury, the first immigrant of the family, was probably a brother of Will- iam Salisbury, mentioned below. Very little is known of him. He left no record as a land- owner. He appears in Sudbury in 1685, then aged forty-eight, making his birth in 1637. His wife Elizabeth died February 17, 1687-88, aged fifty-three years, fixing her date of birth as of 1635. (See Whitmore's Copp's Hill Epitaphs; Wyman's Charlestown; Savage's Dictionary). Children: I. Nicholas, married

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in Boston, November 29, 1709 or 1710, Ann Farrise (Ferris). 2. John, born about 1665; taxpayer in Boston, 1689; his wife Annabel died September 7, 1694, and he married second (intention dated September 25, 1695) Bridget Williams, who married (second ) July 6, 1708, Nathaniel Goodwin (by Cotton Mather ) ; he was a mariner; died in 1702 and his widow administered his estate ; children of first wife: i. John, born January 5, 1690, died December 15, 1704 ; ii. Nicholas (twin), August 20, 1694; iii. James (twin), August 20, 1694 ; children of second wife: iv. Nicholas, October 28, 1697 (ancestor of Hon. Stephen Salisbury, late of Worcester and many leading families of Bos- ton ; his descendants are given with great detail in the Salisbury Genealogies and Memorials, a work of many volumes by Edward E. Salis- bury and his sister) ; iv. Benjamin, November 7, 1699, died March 15, 1770. 3. Humphrey, mentioned below. Possibly other children.

(I) William Salisbury, doubtless brother of Nicholas Salisbury (I), was ancestor of the Swansea and Rehoboth families of Massachu- setts, and the Rhode Island families of Salis- bury. He was born about 1635, and settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, now part of Boston, about 1659. He was killed in King Philip's war in 1675 and his estate probated at Suffolk. His widow Abigail married, June 9, 1676, John Williston, of Milton, Massachu- setts. He and others deeded land at Milton for the minister's house, July 17, 1664. He was of Swansea in 1671, the first of the name there. Children, born in Boston : I. William, August 14, 1659, married Hannah -; ad- ministered father's estate at Milton: settled with his brother Samuel in Swansea and Reho- both ; had seven children at Swansea, 1685- 1704. 2. Susanna, April 27, 1662. Children, born at Milton ( Dorchester) : 3. Hannah, May 18, 1665, died June 29, 1665. 4. Samuel, May 17, 1666, lived at Rehoboth. 5. Cornelius, October 7, 1668. 6. Hannah, April 20, 1671. 7. Joseph, May 5. 1675.

( II) Humphrey, doubtless son of Nicholas Salisbury, was born 1670-80. He married, at Boston, July 11, 1707, Mary Millborn ( Thomas Cheever, clergyman officiating). Their only known child was William, mentioned below.

(III) William, son of Humphrey Salisbury, was born in Boston, July 6, 1708. He married, at Boston, (intention dated June 18, 1729) Lydia Thomas. IFe settled in Braintree and was an honored and useful citizen there. He was highway surveyor in 1744 and other years, and held various offices in the town. He owned

land there in 1759 and probably earlier. Chil- dren : I. William, married, July 12, 1764, Mary Hunt, at Braintree. 2. Ambrose, men- tioned below.

(IV) Lieutenant Ambrose, son of William Salisbury, was born in Braintree, March 2, 1742, died December 16, 1804. He was prom- inent in the militia before the revolution, and during that war served in Captain Thomas White's company, Colonel Joseph Palmer's regiment at Dorchester Neck, March-May, 1776 ; also lieutenant in Captain Samuel Hol- brook's company, Colonel Bass's regiment, marching from the middle precinct of Brain- tree to Hough's Neck and Hull in 1776. Am- brose was a prominent citizen of Braintree ; culler of staves, 1781-83-84-85 ; highway sur- veyor, 1782-87; school committeeman, 1791 ; assizor of bread, 1788-89; assessor, 1789; member of the fish committee, 1788. For many years he held various town offices. He married (intention dated April 24, 1773) Sarah Whitman, born October 17, 1752, died Feb- ruary 25, 1825, daughter of Deacon Abiah and Sarah (Reed) Whitman. (See Whitman family). After the death of her brother, Abiah Whitman, the Salisburys bought of the heirs of her sister Ruth their interest in the Whit- man homestead at Weymouth and went to live there. Their children owned the property until about 1840 when the old house was torn down, after having been handed down from father to son for two hundred years. Chil- dren, born at Braintree and Weymouth : I.

William, April 6, 1775. 2. Ambrose, Decem- ber 26, 1776. 3. Mary, April 1, 1779. 4. Sarah, March 25, 1781, died September 12, 1793. 5. Abiah Whitman, June 30, 1783, mentioned below. 6. Abigail, August 18, 1785, died young. 7. Stephen, May 31, 1787, died young. 8. Lydia, September 2, 1789, died young. 9. Ruth, December 4. 1791, died young. IO. Sarah Reed, February 22, 1794. II. Ste- phen Milborn, October II. 1796, married, Sep- tember 1, 1831, Eliza Bayley.

(V) Abiah Whitman, son of Ambrose Salis- bury, was born in Weymouth, June 30, 1783. He settled at East Weymouth, where he mar- ried Patience Pratt, of Taunton, Massachu- setts. Children, born at East Weymouth: Patience, Lucinda, Abiah, William, Jotham, mentioned below : Sarah, all deceased.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 125

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