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(VII) Nathaniel, son of Calvin Bryant, was born at Richmond, February 13, 1817. He re- sided on the homestead of his father-in-law, Wyman C. Thayer, and was a prosperous farmer. He was wounded in the service during the civil war, served with the First New Hampshire Cavalry for a period of three years. He married, at Richmond, Lorinda Thayer, daughter of Wyman C. Thayer. Children, born at Richmond: I. Lavonia Diancy, Novem- ber 9, 1849; married H. P. Bray. 2. Lorinda Angela, October 23, 1850; married Charles Henry Thayer ( see Thayer family). 3. Lau- retta Sultanna. married Frank Bowen. 4. Lovisiana Irene, November 24, 1855; mar- ried Frank Narramore. 5. Leon Lester, died aged two years. 6. Lewis W., December 17, 1857: died February 26, 1878. 7. Leopold Lewis, died aged eighteen.
George Badcock, brother of BADCOCK Robert Badcock, of Milton, Massachusetts, and probably of James Badcock, of Rhode Island, was born in England. He settled in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts. where he was supervisor of high- ways in 1656. He removed to the adjoining town of Milton and died there in 1671. He married Mary His will, dated Sep- tember 26, 1671, and proved February 2, fol- lowing, bequeathed to wife Mary; children Benjamin, Return, George, Joseph and Enoch Badcock ; Mary Ellen, Dorothy Rachel and Leah Badcock ; brother Robert Badcock being
appointed overseer with his neighbor, Joseph Belcher. He had land in Dartmouth as well as Dorchester and Milton. Children: I. Benja- min, mentioned below. 2. Dorothy, married, March 29, 1672, John Daniel. 3. Return, mar- ried, December 1, 1681, Sarah Denison. 4. Enoch, married Susannah Gregory. 5. Mary Ellen. 6. George, born February 26, 1658; died young. 7. Rachel, March 8, 1660. 8. Leah. 9. George, June 12, 1665 ; married Ruth
IO. Samuel, September, 1668. II. Joseph, May 13, 1670.
( II) Benjamin, son of George Badcock, was born in Dorchester, or England, about 1650, died in Milton, Massachusetts, 1690. He married, at Milton, February II, 1674, Hannah Daniel. Children, born at Milton : I. Hannah, February 27, 1675. 2. Benjamin, April 29, 1678; died young. 3. Patience, Au- gust 31, 1680; died young. 4. Mary, July 28, 1682; died January 26, 1683. 5. William, 1684, or later ; mentioned below. 6. Ruhamah, about 1686; married, April 4, 1706, Joseph Billings. 7. George, August 9, 1688.
( III) William, son of Benjamin Badcock, was born in Milton in 1684, or later, and set- tled in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Mary -- - (W. S. Appleton says wife's name Lucy), March, 1710. He probably left the town, as no record appears of him except the birth of his son, William, born July, 17II ; mentioned below. Jason, of Westborough, born March 30, 1726, may have been his son also.
(IV) William (2), son of William ( I) Bad- cock, was born at Marlborough, July 171I, died at Northborough, formerly part of Marl- borough, November 25, 1801, aged ninety, according to the town record. He lived in Marlborough and Northborough. He married Lydia According to the census of 1790 he and his sons, Jonas and Reuben, were heads of families at Northborough. His will . was dated at Northborough, August 5, 1791. He bequeathed to his sons William and Jonas lands at Northborough and to Jonas his pew in the meeting house; also making bequests to his daughters Lucy, Mary Wood, Lydia Fay. To his son Reuben he gave only five shillings, having already given him his share. His wife Lydia died August 31, 1788, at Northborough. Children, born at Marlborough: I. Lydia, May 23, 1739. 2. William, July 17, 1741 ; settled at Westborough; married (intention dated April 20, 1764) Sybil Green. 3. Mary, October 31, 1743. 4. Jonas, December II, 1745; died February 16, 1745-46. 5. Jonas,
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December 11, 1748. 6. Lucy, April 7, 1751. 7. Reuben, 1755 ; mentioned below.
(V) Reuben, son of William (2) Badcock, was born in Northborough, 1755, died there January 12, 1844. William Fay was adminis- trator and his sureties were Reuben Badcock and Jesse Woods. His age at death is given as eighty-nine years in the town records. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Samuel Wood's company, General Ward's regiment, on the Lexington alarm, and in the same company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regi- ment later in 1775; also in Lieutenant Seth Rice's company, Colonel John Cushing's regi- ment, in 1777. He married (intention June 5, 1779) Hannah Goddard, of Bolton, the de- scendant of an old family of that name then and now of Wiltshire, England. Children, born at Northborough: I. Lydia, May 14. 1780. 2. Hannah, May 24, 1781. 3. James, June 17. 1783. 4. Julia, April 6, 1785. 5. Reuben, April 3. 1787. 6. Abel, June 13, 1789. 7. Silas, June 16, 1791. 8. Rebecca, June 7, 1793. 9. Mary, March 6, 1795. 10. Patty, June 30, 1797 : died June 7, 1828. II. Anna, June 21, 1800. 12. Sophia, February 24, 1803. 13. William Goddard, January 25, 1806; men- tioned below.
(VI) William Goddard Badcock (name changed to Emerson by state legislature, March II, 1828, from Badcock ), son of Reuben Bad- cock, was born at Northborough, January 25, 1806. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. After his first marriage he taught school in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He learned the trade of carpenter and was a contractor and builder for many years. In 1850 he removed to Holyoke, then just develop- ing, and then to Springfield, Massachusetts. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of that city. In politics he was first a Whig. later a Republican; he was a strong Aboli- tionist. He died April 19, 1887. He married (first ) Susan Perkins, of Hopkinton, Massa- chusetts, died at Southborough, March 18, 1843, aged thirty-seven years, daughter of Thomas Perkins. He married ( second) Au- gust 8, 1847, Lovina H. Fay, of Southborough, born June 7, 1822, died December 19, 1897, daughter of Edmund and Anna ( Angier ) Fay. Children of first wife: 1. Paesiello, born Feb- ruary 10, 1832. 2. Mary, September 10, 1833 ; died September 26, 1853. 3. Marcellus, South- borough, January 7, 1843 ; died November 18. 1878. Children of second wife: 4. William Francis, Holyoke, October 6, 1849 : mentioned
below. 5. Annie, March 8, 1859. 6. Henry H .. October 2, 1865.
(VII) William Francis, son of William Goddard Emerson, was born at Holyoke, Mass- achusetts, October 6, 1849. His parents re- moved to Springfield when he was a year old and he was educated there in the public schools. He became an accountant and was in the employ of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company and the firms of Lane & Smith and Smith & Adams in this profession for a period of twenty years. In 1872 he removed to Long- meadow, Massachusetts, and engaged in farm- ing, an occupation that he has followed to the present time. In 1865 he joined the First Baptist Church, of Springfield, and in 1866 became a charter member of the State Street Baptist Church, of Springfield. He is now a member of the First Congregational Church, of Longmeadow, of which he was superintend- ent of the Sunday school from 1900 to 1903. He is treasurer of the Hampden Conference of the Congregational churches. He is his- torian of George Washington Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution. Since 1887 he has been a member of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society. He has been a member of the Springfield Board of Trade for fifteen years. He has been prominent also in public life. He has been town clerk since 1895 and was a member of the school committee for seven years, and Republican town committee- man for eighteen years. In politics he is a Republican and was chairman for fifteen years of the town and district organization. He married, February 13, 1875. Juliet Webster, born May 6, 1847, daughter of Calvin and Dolly ( Russell) Webster, of East Longmea- dow, a descendant of Governor John Webster, of Connecticut. Children: 1. Perley Andrus, born April 4, 1876. 2. William Simons, March 23, 1879. 3. Robert Fraser, April 4. 1882. 4. Frances Webster, October 19, 1886. 5. Fay, August 2, 1889. All now living.
Secretary Edward Rawson, im- RAWSON migrant ancestor, was born April 16, 1615, at Dillingham, Dorset- shire, England, son of David Rawson, citizen and merchant tailor of London, England. His mother was Margaret, sister of Rev. John Wil- son, minister at Boston. Edward Rawson came to New England in 1637 and settled in Newbury, where he was one of the grantees and proprietors, second town clerk, notary public and register, serving from April 19,
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1638, to 1647; was also selectman and com- missioner to hear and determine small causes ; was deputy to the general court from New- bury from 1638 nearly every year until 1650; clerk of house of deputies 1645-46 and 1649. He had a special grant for his services to the general court, a tract of fifteen hundred acres near the Narragansett country. He and Joseph Hills revised the laws of the province. He succeeded Increase Nowell, who had been secre- tary of the colony since the beginning in 1636. Rawson was chosen May 22, 1650, and after that made his home in Boston. He was re- elected annually to his position until 1686, when Sir Edmund Andros came into power. His residence in Boston was on Rawson Lane, so called until changed to Bromfield street, and he owned some acres bordering on the Common. He and his wife were members of the church of Rev. John Wilson, after whose death Rawson became one of the twenty-eight disaffected persons who left the First Church and united to form the Third or Old South Church in May, 1669. He became agent or steward of an English Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel among the Indians in New England, in 1651. He countersigned the warrant sent to Massachusetts for the arrest of the regicides Goffe, Whalley and Dixwell, but the arrests were never made. The one blot on his good record was his participation in the persecution of the Quakers, then a fash- ionable custom. His salary as secretary was at first twenty pounds a year, later sixty pounds. He was subsequently elected recorder of Suffolk county. His family Bible is now or was lately in the possession of R. R. Dodge, of East Sutton, Massachusetts, having de- scended through this line: John Rawson Young (6), Anna (5), David (4), David (3), William (2) and Edward (1). He was an efficient officer, and a useful and distinguished citizen. He died August 27, 1693, and admin- istration was granted to his son William. The warrant to distribute the estate was dated April 6, 1695; a partial account was dated January 14, 1722.
He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas Perne, granddaughter of John Hooker, who married a sister of Edmund Grindal, arch- bishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Children : I. Daughter, married and remained in England. 2. Edward, grad- uate of Harvard, 1653 ; settled in Horsmonden, Kent county, England, 1655. 3. Rachel, mar- ried, January 18, 1683, William Aubrey. 4. David, born May 6, 1644; went to England.
5. Perne, born September 16, 1646; married Rev. Samuel Torrey. 6. William, born May 21, 1651 ; married, July 31, 1673, Anne Glover. 7. Susan, died in Roxbury, 1654. 8. Hannah, baptized October 10, 1653 ; died May 27, 1656. 9. Rebecca, born October 19, 1654 ; died young. IO. Rebecca, born May 23, 1656. II. Eliza- beth, born November 12, 1657; married Thomas Broughton. 12. Rev. Grindal, men- tioned below.
(II) Rev. Grindal, son of Edward Rawson, was born in Boston, January 23, 1659. He was graduated at Harvard in 1678. After re- ceiving his first degree, Bachelor of Arts, he was invited by his brother-in-law, Rev. Sam- uel Torrey, to come to his house and study divinity, and proved an apt pupil. He preach- ed his first sermon at Medfield, and for two months after that he was heard in various churches until October 4, 1680, when he accepted the invitation to fill the pulpit at Mendon, Massachusetts. He preached there until April 7, 1684, when he was permanently settled as minister of the town.
Rev. Cotton Mather, classmate and friend of the Rev. Grindal Rawson, in his preface to his sermon preached at the funeral of the latter, quotes the language used by President Urian Oakes at Commencement in 1678, when he conferred degrees on the class of that year. Following is a translation : "The third, some- what high-sounding, is Grindal Rawson, sprung likewise from a most illustrious stock, for his honored father holds a high place in the state; the very pious and orthodox John Wilson, a truly Apostolic man, was his great- grandmother's brother and the Right Rev. Ed- mund Grindal, sometime Archbishop of Can- terbury, a most saintly man and in the Arch- bishopric little less than a Puritan, his great- great-grandmother's brother and may God grant that in learning, holiness and excellence of character he may resemble both Wilson and Grindal." Mr. Mather himself said: We generally esteemed him a truly pious man and a very prudent one, and a person of temper and every way qualified for a friend that might be delighted in. We honored him for his industrious oversight of the flock in the wilderness which had been committed unto him and the variety of successful pains which he took for the good of those to whom God had therefore exceedingly endeared him. We honored him for his intellectual abilities which procured frequent applications to him and brought him sometimes upon our most con- spicuous theatres. And we usually took it for
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granted that things would be fairly done where he had an hand in the doing of them. We honored him for his doing the work of an evangelist among our Indians of whose lan- guage he was a master that has scarce an equal and for whose welfare his projections and performances were such as render our loss herein hardly to be repaired. Such services are Pyramids." Dr. Metcalf said of him: "He was an excellent scholar and eminent divine." His reputation as a theologian was of such a character that the general court sometimes preferred grave and serious ques- tions of ecclesiastical polity to him for deci- sion. In 1698 he visited the Indian tribes of the Province with the Rev. Samuel Danforth, of Taunton. He was appointed chaplain to the forces going to Canada. He wrote the pamphlet entitled "Confession of Faith," pub- lished in English and Indian. His Artillery Election sermon in 1703, Election Sermon, May 25, 1709, were published. He died Febru- ary 6, 1715. A stone suitably inscribed marks his burial place in Mendon.
He married Susanna, daughter of Rev. John Wilson, of Medfield; sister of Dr. John Wil- son, of Braintree ; granddaughter of Rev. John Wilson. She died July 8. 1748. They were distant relatives. Children: I. Edward, born November 21, 1683. 2. Edward, born 1684; died May 26, 1685. 3. Susanna, born October 31, 1686; married, 1719, Benjamin Reynolds. 4. Edmund, born July 8, 1689. 5. Wilson, born June 23, 1692; mentioned below. 6. John, born October 1, 1695; married Mercy Hay- ward. 7. Mary, born June 22, 1699; married, April 9, 1724, Joseph Dorr. 8. Rachel, born September 6, 1701 ; married Samuel Wood. 9. David, born October 25, 1703; died Janu- ary 18, 1704. 10. Grindal, born September 6, 1707; married Dorothy Chauncey. II. Elizabeth, born April 21, 1710.
(III) Wilson, son of Rev. Grindal Raw- son, was born in Mendon, June 23, 1692 ; died December 1, 1726. He was a farmer at Men- don. He married Margaret Arthur, of Nan- tucket, May 4, 1712; she died November 14, 1757. Children: 1. Wilson, born August 13, 1713, at Mendon ; mentioned below. 2. Pris- cilla, born December 17, 1715. 3. Mary, born May 12, 1717 ; died June 22, 1717. 4. Grindal, born July 13, 1719. 5. Edward, born April 2, 1721 ; married Mary Morse. 6. Stephen, born April 2, 1722. 7. Paul, born April 9, 1725 ; married Phebe Gardner. 8. John, born January 23, 1727.
(IV) Wilson (2), son of Wilson ( 1) Raw-
son, was born August 13, 1713. He settled in Upton, and died there in 1778. His will was dated July 5, 1778, and filed December 2 following. He married Abigail Temple, of Harvard (intention dated December 24, 1737 ). Children: I. Wilson, born October 24, 1738; died March 15, 1744. 2. Caleb, born April 23, 1741. 3. Abigail, born June 9, 1743; mar- ried Whitney. 4. Joshua, born April
12, 1746. 5. Mary, born March 2, 1748. 6. Wilson, born February 20, 1752 ; soldier in the revolution. 7. Joshua, born April 1, 1755. 8. Artemas, mentioned below.
(V) Artemas, son of Wilson (2) Rawson, was born at Upton, Massachusetts, 1759; died there March 27, 1815. He was a farmer in Upton. In the revolution he was a private in Captain Ezra Woods's company on the Lex- ington alarm, return dated April 19, 1775; also in Captain Benjamin Farrar's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment, in Rhode Island campaign ; enlisted December 8, 1776, discharged January 2, 1777 ; service twenty-six days at Providence ; company marched from Upton to Rhode Island, and was in camp at Providence. He married, No- vember 25, 1779, Dorcas Bachelor, of Grafton. Children, born in Upton: 1. Levi, born Janu- ary 19, 1780. 2. Asenath (given Marcena in genealogy), born July 13, 1782. 3. Emma, born January 25. 1784. 4. Artemas, born Sep- tember 13, 1785 ; mentioned below. 5. Phila, born May II, 1787 (also given Philander ). 6. Dorcas, born and died 1790. 7. Mark B., born March 3, 1793. 8. Dorcas B., born March 2, 1795; married William Brooks. 9. Na- thaniel Ward, born April 11, 1797 ; died Janu- ary 30, 1818.
(VI) Artemas (2), son of Artemas (I) Rawson, was born in Upton, September 13, 1785. He had a common school education. In addition to work on his father's farm, he learned the trade of shoemaker. For a few years he followed his trade in his native town, then moved to Paris, Maine, where he con- tinued to make shoes, after the custom of the times and also conducted a farm there up to 1832, then removed to Oxford, Maine, and bought a small farm and continued to manu- facture shoes in the winter. In 1859 he re- moved to Arlington, Massachusetts, retiring at that time from active labor and business. He (lied at Lynn, Massachusetts,' November 29, 1869. Mr. Rawson was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican in his later years. When a young man he belonged to
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the state militia. He married, March 3, 1816, at Paris, Maine, Dorcas B. Rice, born June, 1799, died March 12, 1884. Children : I. Solon, born October 27, 1817; died April 28, 1892 ; married, at Lynn, Lydia Hackett Down- ing, of East Oxford, Maine, daughter of Amos (born in Andover, Massachusetts, July 13, 1782) and Ruth (Walcott) Downing; chil- dren : i. Charles Solon, born January 10, 1849, married (first ) November, 1879, Louisa Smith- ers, of Boston ; child, Charles Edward, born October 20, 1880; (second) April 15, 1897, Rose Merrifield ; ii. Willard Allen, born July 7, 1852, died 1893, married Nellie Kingsbury, of Boston; children: Wayne and Ida May; iii. Anna Lydia, born November 15, 1856, mar- ried. June 5, 1890, Melvin Hutchinson, born at Milan, New Hampshire, August 27, 1851 ; iv. Ida May, born January 13, 1860, died July 29. 1861. 2. Aurelia P., born July 22, 1819; married Nelson Foss, of Strafford, New Hampshire; children: i. Horace; ii. Jacob, born 1847, married, 1868, Ann E. Derbyshire, of Lowell, Massachusetts, born February 3, 1849. daughter of Joseph and Sarah ( Platt) Derbyshire. 3. Warren, born July 18, 1821. 4. Mary, born October 19, 1824; married Charles Oliver, of Vallejo, California; no issue. 5. William, born August 1, 1826; mar- ried Phebe Nickerson, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and died in California; children: i. Mary Ella: ii. Gertrude. 6. Dorcas, born May, 1828; died December, 1892. 7. Miranda, born June 17, 1831 ; married, February 16, 1850, Charles Albion Rice, of Lynn, Massa- chusetts (see Rice, VII). 8. Ann, born June 25, 1833 : died August 28, 1871 ; married Eben Swan, of Lynn. 9. James, born July 6, 1835 ; married Sarah Merrill, of Westbrook, Maine; children : Edward and Frederick. 10. Van Buren, born July 17, 1837; died September 16, 1869: married Thirza Jones, of Oxford, Maine ; children: i. Amy, married Fred Raw- son; ii. Alice. II. Elbridge Marcellus, born November 12, 1840; mentioned below. 12. Samuel Greenlief, born August 10, 1842; died March 5, 1865 ; unmarried.
(VII) Elbridge Marcellus, son of Artemas Rawson, was born at Oxford, Maine, Novem- ber 12, 1840. He received his education in the common schools of his native town, work- ing on his father's farm. At the age of seven- teen he came to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he served a three years' apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter with Daniel Hyde. At the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in the Fifteenth Massachusetts Battalion, Com-
pany I, Captain William D. Chamberlain. The company left Boston, May 10, 1861, for Fortress Monroe, where the company was later merged into the Twenty-ninth Massachu- setts Regiment in Sumner's Second Army Corps, Richardson's First Division, Meagher's Second Brigade. The regiment remained at Fortress Monroe until November, 1861, at which time General McClellan took command of the army, and the Twenty-ninth went into winter quarters at Newport News, joining Mc- Clellan's forces in the spring of 1862, just before the battle of Fair Oaks, and was in the battle May 31 and June 1, 1862. He was through the Pennsylvania campaign, marched to reinforce Pope, where the Second Corps covered his retreat. The regiment was in the battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862, and Antietam the 17th. The regiment soon went into winter quarters at Fredericksburg, and the following spring joined Burnsides' army of the Ohio, Potter's Ninth Army Corps, Ferrero's First Division, Christ's Second Bri- gade, the regiment under command of Colonel Ebenezer W. Peirce. The corps went to Paris, Kentucky, when they were ordered to rein- force General Grant at Vicksburg, and while enroute met Jackson and drove him out. The regiment later went to East Tennessee and was at the siege of Knoxville. It subsequently came to Annapolis, Maryland, where the corps was reorganized, and later was in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, after which was sent back to Washington, and May 24, 1864, was mustered out of service. While at the battle of the Wilderness he was wound- ed and laid in hospital about six weeks.
After returning from the war, Mr. Raw- son came to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he entered the employ of his old employer, Dan- iel Hyde, as a journeyman carpenter, remain- ing several years. In 1872 he removed to Boston, where he worked at his trade for N. W. Morrison, and when the Simmons block was erected he became superintendent of that building, remaining in that service twenty-nine years, since which time Mr. Rawson has led a retired life as far as active business pursuits are concerned ; he is interested in bonds and real estate. In 1883 he built his present resi- dence in Brookline, and three years later a fine residence at 52 Harrison street (nearby). He was brought up in the Methodist religion, but now attends the Unitarian church at Brookline. He is a Republican in politics. He has the distinction of belonging to the oldest lodge of Masons in the country, St. John's of
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Boston, having joined it in November, 1880. He is a member of St. Andrews Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, joining in 1880; Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, 1880; John A. Andrews Post, No. 15, Grand Army of the Republic, of Boston. Mr. Rawson married, October 6, 1878, Emma Rice Vose, born No- vember 1, 1835, daughter of Royal and Mary Ann (Sanford) Vose. Royal Vose was a mason contractor.
(For preceding generations see Edmund Rice 1).
(IV) Gershom, son of Ephraim RICE Rice, was born June 17, 1703. He married, at Sudbury, May 27, 1728, Elizabeth Battle, of Dedham, Massachusetts. They probably removed to Dedham, possibly to Maine. The Battle family is an old and prominent Dedham family. Children, born at Sudbury: I. Moses, August 17, 1729; mar- ried Sarah Walker. 2. Elizabeth, June 25, 1731 ; married Longley Bartlett. 3. Ephraim, May 18, 1733 ; married Mary Battle, of Ded- ham. 4. Josiah, July 8, 1735; married Sybel Battle, of Dedham. 5. Nathaniel, April 23, 1739: mentioned below. 6. Olive, May 20, 1741 ; married Samuel Puffer, of Sudbury. 7. Lois, February 27, 1747; married Samuel Smith, of Dedham. 8. Jonathan, July 14, 1749; married Eunice Willis. 9. Samuel, November 17, 1752 ; married Abigail Underwood.
(V) Nathaniel, son of Gershom Rice, was born in Sudbury, April 23, 1739. According to the federal census of 1790, Nathaniel Rice was the only head of family of this surname in Buxton, Maine. He had two males over sixteen, two under sixteen, and two females in his family. From him the Buxton family is descended. He probably lived also at Ded- ham, Massachusetts, after leaving Sudbury. Children : I. Frances L., married Sally J. Roberts ; children : Susan, Warren, William T., Stillman F. and Oliver D. 2. David, men- tioned below. Three or more other children. (See Biographical Review of Maine, p. 280; Rice Genealogy, pp. 67, 117, and Dedham rec- ords ).
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