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county of Devonshire, England, about 1617, and came to this country in 1639, settling at New- bury, Massachusetts. The next year he moved to the neighboring town of Haverhill, where he lived nearly half a century, or until his death in 1686. The original tract of land on which he settled in 1640 and on which he built a log house in 1647, was in what is now known as the West Parish. The farm itself is called "Poplar Lawn," and has never been out of the possession of his direct descendants. In some of the old records the name of Thomas Corliss, of Devonshire, England, appears as the father of George Corliss; but whether this refers to the American emigrant is not cer- tainly known. George Corliss appears to have been an enterprising and industrious citizen, one well qualified to take part in the settlement of a new town. At his death, October 19, 1686, he left a large property, being possessed of most of the land on both sides of the old "Spicket Path" for a distance of more than three miles. It is a fact worthy of note, that George Corliss, his son, John, and his grand- son, John (2), all died on the same farm, and each one when sitting in the same chair. The name of George Corliss appears on the list of freemen of Haverhill in 1645, and March 26, 1650, he was chosen constable. He served as selectman in 1648-53-57-70-79.
On October 26, 1645, at Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, George Corliss was united in mar- riage to Joanna Davis. There is evidence to show that she was either sister or daughter of Thomas Davis, a sawyer, of Marlborough, England, who came over in the "James and William," in April, 1635. The Corliss mar- riage was the second in town, and there is a tradition in the family that at the time it occurred the bridegroom was possessed of a pair of silk breeches of such generous propor- tions that his wife afterward converted them into a gown for herself. There is no further record of Joanna Corliss after the settlement of her husband's estate, unless she contracted a second marriage. The county records show that on October 4, 1687 "Johannah Corley" married James Ordway, at Newbury, Massa- chusetts. Children of George and Joanna (Davis) Corliss: Mary, born September 6, 1646; John, whose sketch follows; Joanna, born April 28, 1650; Martha, June 2, 1652; Deborah, June 6, 1655; Ann, November 8, 1657 ; Huldah, November 18, 1661; Sarah, February 23, 1663. According to the father's will, the eldest daughter, Mary, married Will- iam Neff ; Martha married Samuel Ladd ; Deb-
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orah married Thomas Eastman ; Huldah mar- ried Samuel Kingsbury. The youngest daugh- ter is mentioned in the will as "Sarah Corley."
This history of Mary Neff, the eldest child and the first Corliss born in this country, is associated with such a remarkable Indian ex- ploit that it is worth relating in detail. Mary Corliss was born at the old homestead in Haverhill, September 8, 1646, and died Octo- ber 22, 1722. On January 23, 1663, being then in her seventeenth year, she was married to William Neff, of Newbury, Massachusetts, who then lived at Haverhill. He died with the army at Pemaquid, now Bristol, Maine, in February, 1689, at the early age of forty- seven. On March 15, 1697, Mrs. Neff, who was acting as nurse for Mrs. Hannah Dustin, of Haverhill, who had a new-born child, was captured with others of the family by a party of Indians. The women were obliged to march, half-clad, through the snow, up the valley of the Merrimack. It was probably the original intention to carry them to Canada, but the Indians for some reason decided to encamp on what is now known as Dustin's Island, at the junction of the Merrimack and Contoocook rivers, six miles above Concord, New Hamp- shire. On the night of March 30, Mrs. Dustin, with the help of Mrs. Neff and a youth, Sam- uel Lennardson, rose on their captors and scalped ten Indians, afterwards escaping down the river in canoes. They subsequently ap- peared before the general court in Boston, which voted to Thomas Dustin, in behalf of his wife, the sum of twenty-five pounds, and to Mrs. Neff and Samuel Lennardson the sum of twelve pounds ten shillings each. In 1738 the general court made a grant of two hun- dred acres of land to Joseph Neff, son of Will- iam and Mary, in behalf of the services ren- dered by his mother. Many presents were made them by their friends, and Goveror Nick- olson, of Maryland, sent to Mrs. Dustin and Mrs. Neff a heavy pewter tankard, suitably engraved. Statues of Mrs. Dustin have been erected on Dustin's Island and at Haverhill, Massachusetts.
(II) John, only son and second child of George and Joanna (Davis) Corliss, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 4, 1648, and died at the same place, February 17, 1698. He lived on the ancestral farm all his life, and at his death left an estate which was ap- praised at one hundred pounds in land and thirty-seven pounds in personal property. Among the items in the inventory occurs this statement : "To 3 pounds of sheep wool 3s ---
to ax hiloxy 18s." The latter commodity must be left for some future antiquarian to interpret. The name of John Corliss appears among the soldiers paid by the town, August 24, 1676, and also in the list of those who took the oath of allegiance at Haverhill, November 28, 1677. On December 17, 1684, John Corliss married Mary, daughter of Gilbert Wilford, of Haver- hill, Massachusetts, who was born November 18, 1667, at Merrimack, New Hampshire. Chil- dren: John, born March 4, 1686; Mary, Feb- ruary 25, 1687 ; Thomas, March 2, 1689; Han- nah, 1691 ; Timothy, December 13, 1693; Jon- athan, whose sketch follows; and Mehitable, May 15, 1698. After the death of John Cor- liss, his widow, Mary (Wilford) Corliss, mar- ried (second) William Whittaker, and had two daughters: Rachel, born November 4, 1703 ; and Susannah, January 13, 1705.
(III) Jonathan, fourth son of John and Mary (Wilford) Corliss, was born at the old homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts, July 16, 1695, and died at Salem, New Hampshire, March 22, 1787. He first settled in Haverhill, on land given him by his father, but soon after sold out and moved to the nearby town of Salem, New Hampshire, where he bought three hundred acres of land and began farming in the wilderness. Perhaps the reason for his moving to Salem was that his grandfather, George Corliss, had originally owned land there. In the latter's will occurs this item: "I give to my son John ( father of Jonathan) the farme that he lives on wth two comonages and my lower Spicket medow and my medow at polocy." The latter place means Policy Pond, now called Canobie Lake, which lies in the town of Salem, New Hampshire. Jona- than Corliss was an honest, upright man, and for many years a prominent member of the Congregational church. At the advanced age of ninety-one, only a year before his death, by his own request he was taken down into the water in a chair, and baptized by Rev. Mr. Fletcher. On January 3, 1716, Jonathan Cor- liss married Elizabeth Moore, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who died August 2, 1786, after a wedded life of seventy years. Children : Mary, born July 27, 1717; Elizabeth, April 14, 1719; Priscilla, September 7, 1722; Jonathan, October 8, 1724; Lydia, June 22, 1727 ; John Moore, whose sketch follows ; Asa, 1732 ; Dan- iel, 1734; David, died in the French war ; Abel ; Susannah; and one whose name has been lost.
(IV) John Moore, second son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Moore) Corliss, was born at Salem, New Hampshire, in 1730, and died at
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Alexandria, that state, in 1823. In the report of the Centennial Celebration at Orford, New Hampshire, published in 1865, is found the following interesting statement, which illus- trates some of the hardships of pioneer set- tlers: "John Moore Corliss and his brother Jonathan were the first settlers of the town of Alexandria, N. H., and at the time of his wife's death were the only men in the town. They cut a log from a pine tree and dug it out for a coffin, and buried her in the woods. In 1852, while repairing the roads, her re- mains were found, and buried by the side of her husband's. Her hair was in a good state of preservation, only changed from black to flax color, though having been buried over eighty years." Hayward's "New England Gazeteer," published in 1839, says that Alex- andria, New Hampshire, was first settled by Jonathan, John M. and William Corliss, in 1769. Who William was, does not appear ; possibly he may have been a cousin of the other two. John M. Corliss lived to be ninety-three, one year older than his father, Jonathan Corliss; and by all accounts was a man of remarkable phy- sical strength. The Orford report, previously referred to, says that John Moore Corliss was what was called in his day, "a double-jointed man." He must have possessed great vitality, for "when young, his hair was black ; at eighty it was white; it then began to turn dark, and at the age of ninety-three (the time of his death) it was as black and glossy as a young person's."
John Moore Corliss had three wives and nine children. His first wife, Lydia Sanborn, died in 1770. It is probable that at least five of the children belonged to her: Elihu, born March 22, 1758; Daniel, mentioned in the following paragraph; John Moore, 1765; Sampson and Lydia. John Moore Corliss's second wife was a Simons ; but nothing further is known of her except that she died in 1772, probably within a year of her marriage. The third wife was Betsey Langley; and the last four children were: Olive ; Dolly, born Octo- ber 27, 1780; Jonathan ; and one whose name has been lost.
(V) Daniel, second son of John Moore and lydia (Sanborn) Corliss, was born at Alexandria, New Hampshire, May 20, 1762, and died there in May, 1842. He married Rachel Bailey, of Salem, New Hampshire, born April 2, 1766. Among their children were: David, died at the age of twenty-three ; John, died at forty-five ; Folsom ; Ransom ; and Rachel, who is mentioned below.
(VI) Rachel, daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Bailey) Corliss, was born January 22, 1802, at Alexandria, New Hampshire, and died Jan- uary 4, 1880, at Bristol, in that state. In 1821 she was married to Josiah Hill, who was born in 1795, and died at Alexandria, in 1835, at the early age of forty. The name of Hill is one of the most numerous and distinguished in this country ; but, owing to the imperfection or records, it is exceedingly difficult to trace. The only Josiah Hill recorded in the vital statistics of New Hampshire was the son of Jonathan Hill, and was born at Candia, New Hampshire, March 25, 1798. Among the chil- dren of Josiah and Rachel (Corliss) Hill was Sylvester Bradley, mentioned below.
(VII) Sylvester Bradley, son of Josiah and Rachel (Corliss) Hill, was born at Alexandria, New Hampshire, February 8, 1827, and died at Chicopee, Massachusetts, May 21, 1900. On April 4, 1857, he married Catherine Amelia Blauvelt, daughter of Henry Kanol and Chris- tine (Diedrick) Blauvelt, who was born at Athens, Green county, New York, September 13, 1833. (See Blauvelt, VI). Their daugh- ter, Katharine, was born December 8, 1858, and was married, December 8, 1880, to Will- iam McClench, of Chicopee, Massachusetts.
BLAUVELT This name, which originally signified blue field, is one of the oldest Dutch patronym- ics in this country. The first American rec- ord dates back to November 18, 1646, when Captain William Blauvelt appears as a wit- ness at a New York baptism. The name does not appear again for several years, owing to the fact that most of the early Hollanders seemed to have dropped their surnames when they came to this country. It is said that down to the closing years of their first century in America the Dutch settlers scarcely used their surnames in address or church records, but called themselves simply Jansen, or Hendrick- sen, or the like, meaning son of Jan or son of Hendrick. In course of time they saw the need of clearer family identification, and assumed or resumed the designations of the old country.
The following family, on their arrival in America, appear to have been known simply as Gerretsens, but soon after taking up their new home revealed themselves as Blauvelts. Several of them settled on the Tappan or Orangetown patent, which coincides with the present Orangetown. The civil history begins with the grant of this land to sixteen men on March 24, 1686. The church history begins
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with an organization by eleven members, on October 24, 1694.
(I) Gerret Hendricksen, first American an- cestor of this line, was born in Deventer, Hol- land, about 1624, and died in New York about 1684. His family had taken the surname Blauvelt in their own country, but there is no probability that he himself ever made use of it during his lifetime. On May 7, 1646, according to the New York marriage register, Gerret Hendricksen was united to Marie or Marretje Lamberts, who was born in New Netherlands, about 1625. Mr. James Riker, who wrote the "History of Harlem," says that she was a daughter of Lambert Huybertsen Moll, of Bushwick, Long Island. Children of Gerret and Marretje (Lamberts) Hendrick- sen : Hendrick Gerretse, baptized August 9, 1648; Huybert Gerretse, May 13, 1657; Jo- hannes Gerretse, mentioned below ; Margrietje Gerrets, September 25, 1661 ; Abram Gerretse, January 17, 1663; Isaac, January 27, 1666; Maria Gerrets, January 28, 1668; and Marretje Gerrets, March 26, 1670. From the five brothers on this list, all Rockland county and Bergen county Blauvelts have descended.
(II) Johannes Gerretse Blauvelt, third son and child of Gerret and Marretje (Lamberts) Hendricksen, was baptized in New York City, April 9. 1659. The date of his death is not known, but he was living at Tappan as late as 1729. Johannes Gerretse Blauvelt was one of the original purchasers of the Tappan patent, and was one of the founders and first members of their church, received October 24, 1694. He was a deacon in 1695 and again in 1701. His name is entered on the church books sometimes with the surname of Blauvelt, and sometimes without. In 1729 there were five members of the original land patent still living, among them Johannes Blauvelt; and in that year they donated ninety-seven acres of their land to the Tappan church. Johannes Blau- velt married Catie Cornelisse, of Tappan, New York, and their children were baptized at Tappan between 1694 and 1714. Their names were : Cornelis, Margrietje, Johannes, men- tioned below ; Jacobus, Lea, Rachel, Katrina, Elizabeth, David and Sara. It does not ap- pear that Mrs. Blauvelt (Catie Cornelisse ) was ever received into the church.
(III) Johannes, second son of Johannes Gerretse and Catie (Cornelisse) Blauvelt, was born or baptized at Tappan, New York, Octo- ber 15, 1700. He married Catherine Ricker, born at Orange, Rockland county, New York. Among their children was John.
(IV) John, son of Johannes and Catherine (Ricker) Blauvelt, was born at Orange, Rock- land county, New York, about 1745, and died at Nyack, New York. He married Anna Kanol, born at Caeymans, Albany county, New York. Among their children was Henry Kanol Blauvelt.
(V) Henry Kanol, son of John and Anna (Kanol) Blauvelt, was born at Caeymans, Albany, New York, in 1799, and died May 18, 1883, at Springfield, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Christine Diedrick, born at Athens, Green county, New York, died in New York, in 1845. Among their children was Catherine Amelia.
(VI) Catherine Amelia, daughter of Henry Kanol and Christine (Diedrick ) Blauvelt, was born at Athens, Green county, New York, Sep- tember 13, 1833. On April 4, 1857, she was married to Sylvester Bradley Hill, born at Alexandria, New Hampshire, February 8, 1827, died at Chicopee, Massachusetts, May 21, 1900. Their daughter, Katherine Hill, born December 8, 1858, married William W. McClench, of Chicopee, Massachusetts (see Corliss, VII).
JOHNSON
The Johnsons of this sketch are descended from one of the pioneer settlers of Winni-
cumet, New Hampshire, which then embraced what is now the towns of Hampton, North Hampton, Kensington, Hampton Falls, a part of Rye and a part of Seabrook.
(I) Edmund Johnson, earliest known an- cestor of this family in the male line, according to well-kept and perhaps well-founded tradi- tion, with six of his sons, was drowned about the year 1600, while fishing in the river at Pouty Pond, in the south of Wales.
(II) John, only, surviving son of Edmund Johnson, escaped the fate of his father and brothers by being at home with his mother. He was born in 1588, and was twelve years old at the time of his father's death. He had two sons, John Ap John, a distinguished co- laborer with George Fox in founding the Society of Friends or Quakers, in 1653; and Edmund, next mentioned ; perhaps others.
(III) Edmund (2), son of John Johnson, came from Wales in 1635, and settled in Winni- cumet. In 1639 Winnicumet granted "To Ed- mund Johnson 10 acres for an home lot, six acres of fresh meadow, whereoff three acres or thereabouts lying near brother Jones run- neth between into the upland, and the rest he is to have near ye widow Bristow's lot, and the rest in the east field if it be there to be had.
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Also fifteen acres of planting ground, part of it adjoining his house lot, and the rest in the east field." At the same time Edmund was granted three shares in the ox common, three shares in the cow common, and at a subsequent time three shares in the town common and meeting house green. This house lot has re- mained in the Johnson name two hundred and seventy-five years, and was lately owned and occupied by two brothers, Joseph and Na- thaniel Johnson, direct descendants of Ed- mund Johnson the settler. Edmund died March 10, 1651, leaving a widow, Mary, who married Thomas Coleman. Children of Ed- mund and Mary Johnson : Peter, John, James and Dorcas.
(IV) Peter, eldest child of Edmund (2) and Mary Johnson, was born in 1639, in Win- nicumet, and was drowned in the Hampton river, November 16, 1674. He was baptized in infancy by Father Bacheler, as he was called, early in 1639, and became a member of the church. From his time many of this family have adhered to the Quaker faith. Peter mar- ried "2nd month 7th day 1660," Ruth Moul- ton, of Hampton, and they had Mary, Ruth, Edmund and Peter.
(V) Edmund (3), eldest son of Peter and Ruth (Moulton) Johnson, was born May 8, 1671, and died November II, 1737. He set- tled in the north part of Hampton, on Little river, and lived there till 1701, when he had leave by vote of the town to lay down his land on Little river and take up over toward Kingston, in the parish of Kensington. At this time (1701) Edmund and his father-in- law's family, the Greens, and Elihu Chase, took up three large tracts of land in and around what is now the village of Kensington, and settled upon the same, the three farms adjoin- ing. The Greens and the Chases have always kept their farms along in their respective names. The Johnson farm has passed from the Johnson name. Edmund Johnson married Abigail Green, in 1693. Children : Abigail, Ruth, Esther, Dorcas, Peter, Obadiah, Mary an 1 Patience.
(VI) Obadiah, second son of Edmund (3) and Abigail (Green) Johnson, was born in Kensington, October 3, 1705. He married, in 1729-30, Judith Brown, of Newbury, Mass- achusetts. Children : Edmund, Abigail, Oba- diah, Patience and Enoch.
(VII) Edmund (4), eldest child of Obadiah and Judith ( Brown) Johnson, was born De- cember 10, 1730, and died June 8, 1811. He settled at East Weare, New Hampshire, previ-
ous to 1776, when he bought his farm, now known as the old Johnson homestead, in East Weare village, which has remained in the Johnson name since that date. Edmund mar- ried, in 1755, Hannah, daughter of Tristram and Judith Collins, of South Hampton. She died June 18, 1818. Children: Rhoda, Pa- tience, Robert, Tristram, Edmund, Judith, Obadiah and Rhoda.
(VIII) Robert, eldest son of Edmund (4) and Hannah (Collins) Johnson, was born Feb- ruary 27, 1760, and died September 16, 1843. He lived most of his life on the homestead. In 1788 he married Abigail, daughter of John and Susannah (Huntington) Peaslee, of Weare. She died July 22, 1854. Children : Hannah, John, Mary, Edmund, Susan, Moses and Elijah.
(IX) John (2), eldest son of Robert and Abigail (Peaslee) Johnson, was born in Weare, October II, 1789, and died May 9, 1850. He married Phebe Kimball, of Pembroke, daugh- ter of Thomas and Olive (Lovejoy) Kimball (see Kimball, VI). She was born November II, 1897, and died April 19, 1858. Children : William Wallace, Mary Ann, Harriet C., John Warren, Robert B. and Elvira D.
(X) Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John (2) and Phebe (Kimball) Johnson, was born in East Weare, New Hampshire, December 14, 1819, and married Joseph U. McClench, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, January 5, 1845 (see McClench, III).
(The Kimball Line).
(II) Richard (2), second son of Richard (q. v.) and Ursula (Scott) Kimball, was born at Rattlesden, county of Suffolk, England, about 1623, and came to America with his father in the ship "Elizabeth." He went to Wenham between the years 1652 and 1696, and was the first settler of the name in that town. He was called a wheelwright and yeo- man. He was a large landowner, and appears to have been the largest taxpayer among the early settlers. He was a grand juror of the town of Wenham in 1661. He died in 1676. He married twice, both of his wives having Mary for the given name. It is probable that his second wife was Mary Gott. His first wife died September, 1672. He had nine chil- dren, of whom eight were alive at the time of his death, as is shown by an agreement made between them and his widow. Their names follow : John, Samuel, Thomas, Ephraim, Caleb, Christopher, Richard and Nathaniel.
(III) Thomas, third son of Richard (2)
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and Mary Kimball, was born in Wenham, Massachusetts, November 12, 1657, and re- sided there all his life. He was accepted as a townsman and granted town privileges Novem- ber 1, 1682. He was grantor and grantee of vari- ous pieces of land. May 6, 1716, he bought land in Andover, which he gave to his son Daniel. He made his will December 10, 1730, and it was proven October 16, 1732. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Potter, of Ipswich. She died December 4, 1723. Chil- dren : Thomas, Daniel, Richard, Elizabeth, Lydia, Edmund and Paul.
(IV) Daniel, second son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Potter) Kimball, was born in Wen- ham, Massachusetts, about 1684, and died De- cember 17, 1754, in Andover, where he had settled about 1710. He was received into the first church in 1727, where his wife Esther had been received in 1713. He was a cooper by trade, and owned considerable real estate, a part of which he deeded to his sons. He mar- ried (first ) November 27, 1708, Sarah David- son ; (second) April 5, 1712, Esther, daugh- ter of Abraham and Esther Foster, of An- dover. She was born June 3, 1683, and died June 12, 1753. They had four children: Dan- iel, Thomas, Andrew and Sarah.
(V) Thomas (2), second son of Daniel and Esther (Foster) Kimball, was born July 29, 1716, and died December 5, 1767, at Andover, where he resided all his life. He married, March 3, 1743, Penelope Johnson. They had Phebe, John, Rebecca and Thomas, next men- tioned.
(VI) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) and Penelope (Johnson) Kimball, was born July 17, 1753, in Andover, Massachusetts, and died in Pembroke, New Hampshire, where he then resided in 1825. He married, March 6, 1781, Olive Lovejoy. Children : Olive (died young), John, Sally, Rebecca, Thomas, Olive, Betsey, Phebe and Susan.
(VII) Phebe, sixth daughter of Thomas (3) and Olive (Lovejoy) Kimball, was born November II, 1799, married John Johnson, of Weare (see Johnson, IX), and died April 19, 1858.
(For preceding generations see Luke Hitchcock 1)
(III) Nathaniel Hitch- HITCHCOCK cock, son of John Hitch- cock, was born in Spring- field, August 28, 1677, died April 27, 1777 (town records say 1761). He was a weaver by trade, and was the first settler of Brim- field in 1714. In 1722 he was the first signer
of a petition for a better apportionment of lands and a survey of the township. He had the fifth choice of the drawings of public lands, lots of one hundred and twenty acres each, April II, 1722. He married, at Spring- field, October 15, 1713, Abigail Lombard, who died March 20, 1757. Children: I. Nathaniel, born August 14, 1714; married Mary Han- cock. 2. Noah, January 14, 1715-16; mention- ed below. 3. Moses, August 26, 1717. 4. Joseph, August 25, 1719; married (first) Abi- gail King : (second) Patience Stebbins ; (third) Mary Burt. 5. John, married Bethia Burt. 6. Abigail, died October 7, 1732. 7. Elijah.
(IV) Noah, son of Nathaniel Hitchcock, was born in Brimfield, January 14, 1715-16, died March 12, 1799. He lived in Brimfield, and his house, which he raised himself, was on or near the site afterwards used by Lemuel Allen. He took down the frame and built on the spot now or lately occupied by Pliny F. Spaulding. This house was removed to a site north of the Hitchcock free school, and is now or was lately occupied by Lyman Web- ster. Noah Hitchcock served as selectman of Brimfield three years. He built in 1762 a pound for Brimfield, the bill for which the town refused to pay, but thirteen years after- ward, in 1775, he compelled them to pay it with interest. He was a shoemaker by trade, and his lapstone and pincers are still preserved. He married, November 28, 1738, Mary Burt, born 1711, died January 10, 1792. He mar- ried (second) December 20, 1792, Margaret Brown, widow, of Western, now Warren,
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