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Sergeant Francis Smith was a SMITH resident of Middletown, Connec- ticut. He removed to Bolton. Connecticut, where his children were born. He married there, February 8, 1711, Hannah Hubbard, of Glastonbury, Connecticut. Chil- dren, born at Bolton: I. Deborah, November
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21, 1711. 2. Hannah, March 6, 1714. 3. Fran- ces, February 29, 1716. 4. Prudence, March 2, 1718. 5. Mary, February 27, 1720. 6. Jon- athan, October 11, 1722. 7. David, October 3, 1725; mentioned below. 8. Martha, No- vember 28, 1727. 9. Noah, April 14, 1730.
(II) David, son of Francis Smith, was born at Bolton, October 3, 1725, and married Eunice Children: I. David, mentioned be- low. 2. Roswell, born January 19, 1758 ; mar- ried Hannah Kingsbury.
(III) David (2), son of David (1) Smith, was born March 26, 1764. He settled in Ver- non, Connecticut. He married Olive Talcott, born January 20, 1768. Children: 1. Aurora, born May 25, 1792. 2. Olive, September 1, 1798. 3. Warren, January 27, 1800; died at Chicopee, January 11, 1870; married Mary W. G. -; no issue. 4. David Talcott, born July 23, 1804; mentioned below. 5. Mary, born June 16, 1807; married Horace Taylor, of Hartford, Connecticut. 6. Daniel, born September 9, 1810; settled in Newburgh, New York.
(IV) David Talcott, son of David (2) Smith, was born in Vernon, Connecticut, July 23, 1804, and married there, May 27, 1828, Mary McLean. He married ( second) - Children: 1. Francis, lived in Wilbraham and Somerville, New Jersey. 2. Warren, mentioned below. 3. James Harper, lived in New Jersey, and Hartford, Connecti- cut. These sons were legatees in the will of their uncle Warren, who died at Chicopee, January II, 1870.
(V) Warren, son of David Talcott Smith, was born in Vernon, Connecticut, October 7, 1836, and died at Chicopee, December 1, 1903, aged sixty-five years. He attended school in his native town, and when a young man came to Chicopee to work in the drug store of his father's brother, Warren Smith. He went to Tuskegee, Alabama, a few years later, and re- mained there until after the beginning of the civil war. He returned to Chicopee in 1862, and was admitted to partnership by his uncle, Warren Smith. A few years later he em- barked in the drug business at Chicopee on his own account, and was very successful in his venture. He had for many years one of the best and largest drug stores in the city. His place of business was on Exchange street; his resi- dence 117 South street. He continued until the spring before he died, when he retired on account of ill health. He was an earnest, up- right and manly citizen, held in the highest re- spect by his townsmen. He was interested
in public affairs, but never held public office. He was a member of Chicopee Lodge of Free Masons, and was a Unitarian in religion. He married, 1864, Charlotte L. Smith, born at Warehouse Point, Connecticut, daughter of Hiram Smith, of that place. Children : I. Lottie Louise, married Dr. C. H. Prindle, of Chicopee. 2. Margaret Anna, married Harry H. McIntyre, of St. Louis, Missouri. 3. Alice Washburn, married F. E. Volley. 4. Frank Warren, mentioned below. 5. Leon, married Catherine Jackson.
(VI) Frank Warren, son of Warren Smith, was born in Chicopee, January 31, 1877. He was educated in the public schools of Chicopee, and graduated from the Chicopee high school in the class of 1893. He became a clerk in his father's drug store, and was associated in busi- ness with him until shortly before his death, when the father retired. Since then the busi- ness has been conducted by the son, who suc- ceeded to the property after the father and founder died. The business has continued to grow and flourish. Mr. Smith is a member of the Oxford Club, of Chicopee. He is an inde- pendent Republican in politics, and a member of the First Unitarian Church, of Chicopee. He married, September 19, 1904, Annette Ella Hoague, born in Chicopee, daughter of John H. and Ella (Randall) Hoague.
Aaron, son of Aaron and Joanna SMITH (Ingraham) Smith, was born in Wilmington, Windham county, Vermont, in 1821. He attended the district school in Wilmington, and on leaving school, learned the trade of carpenter. After he be- came a master of his trade he obtained work in the Otis Mill at Ware, Massachusetts, and when the civil war occurred found profitable work in the armory and rifle shops of the United States Armory at Springfield, Massa- chusetts. After the war demand for arms had ceased he returned to Ware and estab- lished himself as a carpenter, builder and con- tractor, and built a large percentage of the houses erected in Ware after the close of the war. His contracts as a builder extended to neighboring towns and cities. These enter- prises enabled him to accumulate a large for- tune and to secure a number of fine building sites and other real estate. On one of these sites he laid out beautifully arranged grounds, planted a large orchard, and planned and erect- ed a fine stone mansion in which he expended a large fortune and occupied three years in its building. Ill health cut him off from finish-
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ing his plans and compelled him to spend the winter months in the South. His father had become interested in the cultivation of the silk- worm, and to carry out his project with better success he removed to a farm in New York state and unsuccessfully tried to make the venture profitable. He married Sally Jane, daughter of Ebenezer and Sally ( Bartell) Car- penter, of Summerset, Vermont. Her mother, Sally ( Bartlett) Carpenter, was born in Marl- boro, Vermont, in 1797, and died in Summer- set, Vermont, in 1899, aged ninety-seven years. Her nine children were: Emeline; Pliny ; Hannah; Augusta ; Lucy ; Clarence ; Lutheria ; Sally Jane, and an infant girl who died before receiving a name. Children of Aaron and Sally Jane (Carpenter) Smith were : I. Adelia Augusta, born in Ware, Massachusetts, 1857; married Myron Bailey, of Northampton, Mass- achusetts; children: Sidney A. and George R. 2. Frederic William, born in Ware Massa- chusetts, 1860; married Mary McKenny ; child, May. 3. George Edward, born in Ware, Mass- achusetts, in 1870; married, Sadie Eddy; no children. 4. Floridene, born in Ware, Massa- chusetts, 1872; remained single, making her home with her parents at the homestead in Ware. Aaron Smith, the father of these chil- dren, died in Kingsley, Florida, April 28, 1890. Mrs. Smith died in Ware, August 14, 1902.
SMITH The early immigrants of this family to America were mostly artisans. That they were pos- sessed of strong characters is evidenced in a thousand ways to the student of history. Its bearers are still contributing their share to the moral and material development of their respective communities.
(I) John Smith, the earliest known ances- tor of the line herein treated, was born in Saxony, Germany, 1808, died 1888, at Somer- ville, Massachusetts. He came to the United States in 1883. He was a man of high stand- ing, wealth and influence, and for many years prior to his death lived a retired life.
(II) John G., son of John Smith, was born in Saxony, Germany, 1844; died April 30, 1898, in Somerville, Massachusetts. From 1860 until his death he was engaged in the grocery and provision business in Somerville, accumulating thereby a lucrative livelihood and a competence. He married Catherine Duane, born in Galway, Ireland, 1845, died July 13, 1889. Children: 1. William H., born No- vember II, 1875 : see forward. 2. Charles E., born in Somerville, 1877; attended the public
and high schools of his native place, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated; after occupying various positions, he was appointed in 1906 to the office of bridge engineer for the Missouri Pacific railroad, in which capacity he is now serving; he resides in St. Louis; he married, in 1905, Pearl Colby, of Cleveland, Ohio. 3. Augustus, born in Somerville, 1879; attended the public and high schools, the latter one year ; learned the trade of brick mason ; at the present time (1909) engaged with his. brother, William H., serving as foreman in the brick and tile works; had charge of the subways in Boston; unmarried. 4. Mabel C., born in Somerville, January 25, 1884; attended the public schools and Wilton Academy, Wilton, Maine, graduating in the class of 1905, and in 1907 graduated from the Framingham State Normal School; teacher in the public schools of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
(III) William H., son of John G. and Cath- erine (Duane) Smith, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, November 1I, 1875. He at- tended the public schools of Somerville, in- cluding one year at high school. His first employment was in the office of Rotch & Tilden, architects, Boston, where he remained one year. The following five years he was employed with Norcross Brothers, after which he learned the trades of brick masonry and building construction, preparatory to fully equiping himself with a complete knowledge of contracting in all its branches. After be- coming thoroughly familiar with several trades, he made a specialty of the tile business. The largest works in the tile contracting, and which would be a credit to men many years older than Mr. Smith, are the subway stations of the Boston Elevated Railway, both old and new, and the stations of the East Boston Tun- nel, total of $150,000 contracts, all of which are enduring and creditable monuments to his skill and ability along his line of work, demon- strating in a practical manner the high class of his workmanship. He also built the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal pockets at Charlestown (Boston). The following description of this, the largest reinforced concrete coal pocket, is of interest, not only because of the size of the pocket, and the methods and material used in the superstructure, but also because by the use of concrete piles it was found possible to save considerable time and money in the con- struction of the foundations. Ground con- ditions at the site were of such a nature that the use of any other method of foundation
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construction would have rendered progress slow and difficult. The pocket is capable of holding ten thousand tons of coal; it is one hundred and eighty-two feet long, ninety-two feet wide, and twenty-four feet deep, and is set up on square columns arranged to allow the construction of paved driveways thirteen feet wide, with a head room of ten feet, six inches, under the pocket, so that in loading a team may be driven through any of the driveways under the pocket containing the grade of coal desired. The pocket is divided into twelve separate pockets, one division wall running the entire length through the centre of the pocket, and partition walls every thirty feet apart transversely across the pocket, mak- ing pockets thirty feet by forty-five in dimen- sion. At Port Antonia, Jamaica, Mr. Smith did the constructing of all the tile and cement work (interior ) on the magnificent Titchfield Hotel. At Atlantic City he was the construct- ing contractor for all the cement work (in- terior and exterior) of the famous Marlboro- Blenheim Hotel, this contract alone calling for $85,000 expenditure. On the Oneida, New York, court house he had the contract for construction of the fire-proofing. At Buffalo, New York, he performed the cement work on the Pierce Auto Works, and he had also many contracts of importance, nearly all as large and some smaller, in all parts of the United States. He has just closed a contract to build a $600,000 interurban railroad, running south from Salisbury, North Carolina, for a distance of about thirty miles.
Yet with all the above, Mr. Smith was forced to give up the tile business and other contracting because of his ability to perform larger works. He is at present (1909) en- gaged in constructing a dam on the Staunton river, Virginia, for the Southern Power & Lighting Company, at a cost of $1, 100,000. This dam is to be used to transmit power through Virginia and North Carolina ( 12,000 horse power; one year to build). He was awarded the contract for fire-proofing the New Bedford, Massachusetts, City Hall, and also the Public Library, at a cost of $100,000, eight months to complete the work. He recently completed a building for the Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine, also the Washburn Garage. Mr. Smith was again forced to give up (sell out) certain other large contracts in order that he might find ample time to devote to his latest and largest undertaking, which in itself is nothing short of phenomenal. An English syndicate is building the interurban railroad
for the Kansas City & Kansas Southwestern Railway Company through to Independence, total mileage two hundred and forty-five miles, at a total cost of $12,000,000, one-third of which is the allotment given to the construc- tion contract awarded to Mr. Smith. The importance and size of this contract can be best imagined when one considers he will have two thousand men under his charge, paying $100,- 000 each month for labor. Mr. Smith was one of the principal contractors of the Washington Street Tunnel, work on which was begun Oc- tober 6, 1904. Mr. Smith has his office at 445 Tremont building, Boston. He served as representative to the general court in 1907-08; alderman-at-large in Somerville board of ald- ermen, 1904-05-06, member of the Massachu- setts Republican Club, the Central Club and many other societies.
Mr. Smith married, June 12, 1902, Susan T. Dwyer, daughter of Timothy C. and Mary (Rafferty) Dwyer, parents of eight children : Mary, married Dr. William H. Clancy, of Cambridge, two children: William and Mary; Katherine, Gertrude, Susan T., Herbert, Joseph, William and John. Timothy C. Dwyer, born 1843; superintendent of Holy Cross cemetery at Malden; member of common council, 1887, and alderman in 1888. Mary (Rafferty) Dwyer is a daughter of Patrick Rafferty, who was an undertaker in Somer- ville for a number of years, member of the first city government of Somerville, 1872, con- mon council, and in 1876 of board of aldermen.
(For preceding generations see Richard Thayer 1 and 2).
(III) Cornelius Thayer, son of
THAYER Richard (2) Thayer, was born September 18, 1670, and set- tled in Braintree. He married, in 1694, Abi- gail Copeland, who died January 1, 1731. Chil- dren: 1. Cornelius, born 1695. 2. Moses, 1698. 3. Gideon, March 1, 1700. 4 .. David.
1702. 5. Ezekiel, 1704. 6. Eliakim, 1706. 7. Hezekiah, 1708; mentioned below. 8. Jere- miah, 1710; died November 9, 1711. 9. Abi- gail, born January 11, 1712. 10. Jeremiah, August 20, 1716.
(IV) Hezekiah, son of Cornelius Thayer, was born in 1708, and died October 19, 1854. He married, November 13, 1729, Christian, widow of Moses Thayer. Children: I. Heze- kiah, born September 30, 1730; mentioned be- low. 2. Thankful, September 11, 1732. 3. Dorcas, August 3, 1734. 4. Silas, July 20. 1742. 5. Noah, July 11, 1745.
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(V) Hezekiah (2), son of Hezekiah (I) Thaver, was born September 30, 1730, and married in 1751, Mary Stetson. Children: I. Levi, born February 2, 1752. 2. Rufus, De- cember 10, 1774. 3. Reuben, 1758. 4. Sam- uel, mentioned below. 5. Nancy. 6. Dorcas, December 7, 1764. 7. Ames. 8. Thankful.
(VI) Samuel, son of Hezekiah Thayer, married Sarah Stetson. He died aged sixty- eight years, and his wife died aged seventy years. Children : Samuel, Amasa, Lilly.
(VII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Thayer, was born June 6, 1792, in Randolph, where he resided. He married, November 24, 1816, Rachel Alden. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and remain- ed upon the farm of his father. He had a general store, and also carried on the shoemak- ing business, as well as farming. He was a Congregationalist in religion. Children : I. Henry Dearborn, born November 17, 1817; mentioned below. 2. Sarah Ann, 1819; mar- ried Eldredge Arnold.
(VIII) Henry Dearborn, son of Samuel (2) Thayer, was born in Randolph, November 17, 1817, and is now living at the advanced age of ninety-two ( 1909) in excellent health and in full possession of his faculties. Active and alert mentally and physically he appears like a well preserved man of sixty years. He reads without glasses and makes a daily trip to the village for his mail. He stands erect and walks briskly about his business. One of the oldest men of the town, he is doubtless the most energetic and active, and no man in town is better known or more highly respected. He lives in the house in which he was born, and in which three generations were born. He attended the district schools of his native town, and in his boyhood worked on the homestead with his father. He learned the trade of shoe- maker, like most of the farmer's sons of his day, but preferred the carpenter's trade, which on account of his health, he took up later and he followed this nearly all of his active busi- ness life. He worked on most of the best houses built during the past seventy-five years in Randolph and the adjacent towns. He re- tired from business in 1886. He is a member of the Randolph Baptist Church. In politics he is a Republican. He married, November II, 1837, at Randolph, Sarah Clark, born May 5, 1819, died January 30, 1898, daughter of Abner and Sally Clark, of Randolph. Chil- dren, born at Randolph: 1. Rachel Alden, born September 1, 1839; died at Randolph, Septem- ber 1, 1868; married I. D. Page. 2. Mary S.,
May 23, 1841 ; died June 15, 1868; married Henry Martin Newton; child, Mary S., mar- ried Martin D. Cobb. 3. Charles Henry, June 26, 1843 ; mentioned below. 4. Winslow Wat- son, April 8, 1845; served in the civil war ; graduated after the war from the Stetson Academy; was bookkeeper for the firm of Isaac Mann & Torrey ; now at the head of the Ellsworth-Thayer Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturers of gloves ; is a prominent thirty-second degree Mason; married Frances Boyd; children: i. Winnie Frances, died aged seventeen; ii. Lucius ; iii. Jessie Wells; iv. Mary Sargent ; v. Arthur Dearborn.
(IX) Charles Henry, son of Henry Dear- born Thayer, was born in Randolph, June 26, 1843. He attended the public and high schools of his native town, and at the age of sixteen went to Canton, Massachusetts, and served his time as a machinist with Jedediah Morse. Though too young to enlist he entered the service in the First Massachusetts Cavalry and served from beginning to end of the civil war. During the war he served on escort duty at General Sheridan's headquarters under Major Seargent, who was killed; Major Chamber- lain then took command and later he was wounded ; then Major Brigham, who later was chief in command of cavalry, took command. After he was mustered out in 1865 he went to work for the Spencer Rifle Company, Sudbury street, Boston. After a few years he entered the employ of B. F. Sturtevant & Company, manufacturers of blowers and ventilating ap- paratus, as a machinist and continued in vari- ous positions requiring skill and ability, for a period of twenty-eight years. Then he re- moved to South Braintree where he worked in the paper mill until he retired in 1905. Mr. Thayer has been selectman of Randolph since 1897. He is also a member of the board of health and assessors of that town. Few men have the confidence and respect of their towns- men in so large a degree. He has been a com- petent and efficient town officer and fully justi- fied the confidence reposed in him. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He has always taken a keen interest in affairs of the town, and possesses a remarkably exact knowledge of its history. He was made an Odd Fellow in Ris- ing Star Lodge, but later became a charter member of Puritan Lodge ; is one of the oldest active members ; also a member of Massasoit Encampment, No. I, of Boston. He married, November 29, 1871, Lorinda Angela Bryant, born October 23, 1852, at Richmond, New
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Hampshire, daughter of Nathaniel and Lorinda (Thayer ) Bryant. (See Bryant family). Their only child is Samuel Henry, born July 18, 1872; graduate of McCullum Institute, Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire ; Burdett's Col- lege and Shelden School; has diplomas from all of these ; member of Braintree Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; married (first ) Mary Kennedy; (second) Rose Ellen Stetson Rey- nolds ; he resides in Braintree and is a book- keeper by profession.
(The Bryant Line).
(11) Kendall, son of Abraham Bryant (q. v.), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1680. He settled in Reading where he doubt- less lived all his life, following farming. He married there, in 1704, Elizabeth Swaine, daughter of Major Jeremiah and Mary (Smith) Swaine. Children, born at Reading : I. Elizabeth, 1705. 2. Kendall, 1709 ; mention- ed below. 3. Anna (twin), 1709. 4. Jeremiah, 1714. 5. Mary, 1717. 6. James, 1719. 7. Hepsibath, 1722. 8. Abigail, 1724.
(III) Kendall (2), son of Kendall (1) Bryant, was born in Reading in 1709; died at the home of his sons John or Thomas, at Jaffray, New Hampshire, November 30, 1797, aged eighty-eight years. The history of Jaf- fray states that he came from Pepperell, Mass- achusetts, to Jaffray, and lived on lot 14, range 4, in that town. His homestead remained in the family until the death of Colonel George Bryant in Jaffray in 1865. Later the place was owned by Samuel D. Jewell. Kendall Bryant, his wife, and son John were charter member of the first church in Jaffray. He married Mary Martin, who died at Jaffray, March 17, 1794, aged eighty-four years. Chil- dren : I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. John, born 1750; died at Jaffray, March 14, 1800, aged forty-nine years, eight months; married Lucy Lawrence, daughter of Joseph and Eliz- abeth ( Martin ) Lawrence ; they had six chil- dren at Jaffray.
(IV) Thomas, son of Kendall (2) Bryant, was born 1730-40. He was living in Concord, Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1769, and doubt- less for a number of years afterward, for his son served in the war from Concord as late as 1779-80. He settled later in Jaffray, New Hampshire, with his father and younger brother Jolin. He may have lived at Temple- ton and Pepperell also before locating in New Hampshire. He was fence viewer there in 1786 and a taxpayer as late as 1794. His widow died at Templeton, Massachusetts,
September 16, 1815, aged eighty-five years. She was probably living with her son Nathan at the time of her death. Children, born at Concord: I. Nathan, born January 11, 1762; died at Templeton, July 13, 1828, aged sixty- seven years. 2. Elizabeth, July 5, 1763. 3. Chandler, November 18, 1764; mentioned be- low. 4. Daniel. 5. Samuel, May 1, 1767. 6. Reuben, March II, 1769; lived at Concord.
(V) Captain Chandler, son of Thomas Bryant, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, November 18, 1764; died at Richmond, New Hampshire, April 18, 1840, aged seventy-six. He married (first ) Elizabeth , who died at Jaffray, November 24, 1786. He married (second) at Templeton, Massachusetts, March 12, 1787, Susanna Byam. He was at that time a resident of Jaffray. He came from Templeton to Jaffray with his father and set- tled there after his first marriage, removing to Richmond after his second marriage. He lived first on the Richard Peters place, then on the Ebenezer Cole place, near the town pound, and afterward on other farms in the town. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was a soldier in the revolution from his native town, Con- cord. He was in Captain Samuel Heald's company. Colonel John Jacobs's regiment of Light Infantry, enlisting September 15, 1779, and serving about two months in Rhode Island ; also enlisting for six months, October 25, 1780. He entered the service in camp under Captain James Cooper. The record shows that he was aged sixteen; resided at Concord; had a ruddy complexion ; his height was five feet, eight inches. (See Massachu- setts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution. Vol. II, pages 474 and 725). He commanded the Richmond company and in the war of 1812 led his command to the northern frontier. Children, born at Jaffray : I. Elizabeth, Au- gust 21, 1784: married Applin ; (sec- ond) Daniel Ellis. 2. Sally, November 19, 1786: married Luther Cass. Children of sec- ond wife, born at Richmond, probably: 3. Susanna, December 26, 1788. 4. Calvin, men- tioned below. 5. Chauncey, died in Keene. 6. Samuel, died in Pennsylvania. 7. Carlton, died in Michigan. 8. Thomas, died in Charles- town, New Hampshire.
(VI) Calvin, son of Captain Chandler Bryant, was born in Richmond, about 1790; died there June 5, 1864. He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and settled on the homestead of his wife's father. He followed the occupation of farming for some time, after which he purchased large
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tracts of timber and cut it into shooks; this occupation he followed throughout the. re- mainder of his life. In 1845 he removed to the Samuel Carpenter farm and later to the George Buffum place. He married, at Rich- mond, February 27, 1812, Susanna Aldrich, daughter of Ananias Aldrich, of Richmond. Children, born at Richmond: I. Hiram, Au- gust 3. 1813. 2. Nathaniel, February 13, 1817; mentioned below. 3. Diancy, November 18, 1818 : still living at Keene, New Hampshire ; very active; married John H. Starkey. 4. Calvin, July 4, 1821. 5. Luther, October 2, 1823; died December 29, 1838. 6. Mary Ann, October II. 1826; married Samuel Willard. 7. Eliza Ann, December 1, 1828; married John Scott, Jr. 8. Angela, December 1, 1830; mar- ried N. G. Woodbury. 9. Alfreeda, May 6, 1833; married H. Foster Thayer. 10. Al- marinda, June 21, 1835 ; married Samuel Ball. II. George. Diancy and Mary Ann are the only members of the family living at the pres- ent time (1909).
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