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He was a man of sterling integrity, and an accomplished business man. He married, at Springfield, on Christmas Day, 1856, Emily Olive Rodgers, daughter of Aaron D. and Olive R. (Leonard) Rodgers, granddaughter of Thomas Rodgers. Children: I. Edwin Leonard, born November 17, 1858, mentioned below. 2. William Stephen, born November 24, 1860, died March 23, 1895 ; married, Janu- ary 1, 1885, Adella E. Markham; children : Emily Eveline, born April 25, 1888, Aline Markham, December 1I, 1889, and Helen. April 10, 1892. 3. Howard Rodgers, born March 5, 1867, mentioned below. 5. Belle, born November 1, 1872, died February 24, 1874. 6. Chester Chapin, born August 6, 1879, died February 1I, 1880.
(VIII) Edwin Leonard Bemis, son of William Chaplin Bemis, was born in Spring- field. November 17, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of that city, attending the high school two years, and the Springfield Collegiate Institute one year. He began his business career as clerk in the employ of Mc- Intosh & Company, manufacturers and job- bers of boots and shoes. He remained with this firm for seventeen years, serving twelve years as traveling salesman, and being pro- moted from time to time to more important duties and increased responsibilities. In 1894 he became a stockholder in the Bemis & Call Hardware and Tool Company, and is now serving as its secretary. He is a member of Roswell Lee Lodge of Free Masons; of Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Springfield Council, Royal and Select Mas- ters; of Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; and Melha Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is an independent Republican in politics, a Congregationalist in religion, and a member of the Nayasset Club. He married. at Spring- field. April 14, 1886, Carrie Alice Vose, born at Westfield1, Massachusetts, daughter of Roger and Calista Vose. They have one child, Marion Vose, born at Springfield, August 24. 1889.
(VIII) Howard Rodgers Bemis, son of Will- iam Chaplin Bemis, was born in Springfield. March 5. 1867. He was educated in the public and high schools, Springfield. He was employed for two years by McIntosh & Company, manu- facturers and jobbers of boots and shoes, Springfield. He was then for a year in the employ of Cutler & Company, grain dealers, at North Wilbraham. In 1886 he became time-keeper for the Bemis & Call Hardware and Tool Company and soon acquired an in-
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terest in the business. He is now president and treasurer of the corporation, having suc- ceeded his father in these positions. He is a director of the Union Trust Company of Springfield, and of the Fiberloid Company of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. In politics he is a Republican. He is affiliated with Ros- well Lee Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Springfield Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; and Melha Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Faith Congregational Church, and of the Nayasset Club of Springfield. He married, at Springfield, January 8, 1889, Helen Elizabeth Kenyon, born in Springfield, daughter of Silas L. and Ella A. (Crosby ) Ken- yon, and granddaughter of John Crosby. They have one child, William Chaplin, born in Springfield, December 3, 1891.
(For ancestry see preceding sketch).
(VII) Thomas O., fourth son BEMIS of Hon. Stephen Chapin and
Julia (Skeele) Bemis, was
born in Willimansett, August 1, 1840, and died in Springfield, June 22, 1903. He went into business with his father as soon as he had completed his school course. He was brought up in the coal business in this way, and had been a coal dealer in Springfield for over forty years. He was identified with the Methodist church during his entire life, and was one of the most active members of Trinity Church, in which he had held many positions of importance and trust. He did not belong to any of the local clubs or societies, prefer- ring the quiet of his home life. In the stress of the coal famine of a few years ago, when unscrupulous men did not hesitate to take unfair advantage of their helpless customers, Mr. Bemis conducted his business with a con- scientiousness that was in marked contrast to the grasping greed of those who saw oppor- tunity to take financial advantage of the lack of fuel. Mr. Bemis strictly fulfilled his con- tracts made with the customers earlier in the season, though in many instances it must have been at a personal loss to him. Moreover, he exerted himself to supply his regular custom- ers, and none of them failed to obtain coal in some quantity. Time and again he was offered double the price if he would sell, but if it involved disappointing a regular customer, he absolutely refused to sell at any price; in one instance he was offered twenty dollars cash in hand for a ton of coal, but the offer
was refused. He firmly stood by his custom- ers. In times of business stress, like that of the coal famine, a man's character and con- science are put to the test. That Mr. Bemis stood the test was because his character was a foundation of lifelong probity and upright- ness. To those who knew him intimately he was companionable, with a vein of underlying fun that took form in a merry twinkle of the eye and a sly joke which was as fully appre- ciated when turned on himself. He married Sarah Ellen, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Bascom) Collins, of Huntington, Massachu- setts. (See Collins). Children : I. Mabel Collins, born November 18, 1863. 2. Emma Wilcox, November 8, 1870: married Charles A. Blodgett : one child, Miriam Stuart, born March 14, 1896.
COLLINS Henry Collins came to this country in 1635 in the ship "Abigail," then twenty-nine years old, settling in Lynn, Massachusetts. He was made a freeman March 9, 1637, and died in February, 1687. His wife's Christian name was Ann. Children : Henry, John, Mar- gary and Joseph.
(II) John, second son of Henry and Ann Collins, was born in England, and had chil- dren born in this country. Mary, November, 1656: John, December 17. 1657 ; Samuel, May 19, 1659: Abigail, March 23, 1661 ; John, Sep- tember 10, 1662; Joseph, June 6, 1664: Eliza- beth, April 8, 1666; Benjamin, September 19, 1667: Mary, February 20, 1670; Nathaniel, April 1, 1672 ; Hannah, April 26, 1674; Daniel, December 28, 1675: Lois, May 12, 1677 : Alice, April 30, 1678 and William, June 28, 1679.
(IV) Nathaniel Collins was, it is believed, a grandson of John Collins, and was born in Lynn. He married Deborah Morgan, March 31. 1730; children : Nathaniel, born March 30, 1731 : Mary, June 16, 1734: Anna, Septem- ber 8, 1736; Stephen, January 23, 1739; Daniel, April 2, 1742 ; Sarah, October 8, 1744 ; Jolin, March 31. 175I.
(V) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Nathaniel (I) and Deborah (Morgan) Collins, was born as above and lived in Brimfield, Massachu- setts. He married, in December, 1756, Phebe Fowler. Children : William, born October 28, 1758; Lucy, January 28, 1761 ; Calvin, March 28, 1764; Daniel, November 2, 1766; Expe- rience, May 9, 1769; Frances, June 16, 1772; Abigail, February 25, 1775.
(VI) Daniel, third son of Nathaniel (2)
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and Phebe ( Fowler ) Collins, was born in Brim- field. Massachusetts, November 2, 1766. The name of his wife was Anna Williams, born at Worthington, whom he married November 27, 1788. He kept the tavern at Falley's Cross Roads, now Huntington, Massachusetts. Their children were: Charles, born December 30, 1792 ; Flavia. August 31, 1795 : Lewis, July 17, 1797 : Franklin, January 7, 1806; Daniel, Feb- ruary 26, 1810: Christopher, September 28, 1815.
(VII) Daniel (2), eldest son of Daniel (I) and Anna ( Williams) Collins, was born Feb- ruary 26, 1810. In about 1844 he removed to Northampton, Massachusetts, and con- ducted the Wonotuck House. In 1850 he re- moved to Springfield and engaged in the gro- cery business. He was an active worker in the Republican party, and during Grant's first administration, he held an appointment in the Boston custom house. He married Emily Hatch. September 8, 1852, born at Norwich Bridge November 30. 1830. By this union one child was born, Emily Hatch, in Chester, born December 7. 1831, died December 4, 1900. in Springfield. who married, September 8, 1852, William L. Wilcox, and they had one daughter, Emily Lillian, who married J. Stu- art Kirkham. Daniel Collins' second wife was Sarah Bascom, and by her he had chil- dren : George Egbert, born in Chester Village, June 19, 1834, died in Bethlehem, New Hamp- shire, May 15, 1838; married Fannie C. Hun- newell, of Boston, who died at Clarendon Hills, June 29, 1896, aged fifty-nine. The other two children of Daniel Collins were William Morris ( mentioned below ) and Sarah Ellen. born in Chester Village, February 8, 1842, married Thomas Otis Bemis ( see Bemis).
(VIII) William Morris, second son of Daniel (2) and Sarah ( Bascom) Collins, was born in Chester Village, December 13, 1835, and died in Springfield, March 10, 1895. He attended the public schools of Huntington and Northampton. He entered his father's store in Springfield as a clerk, subsequently going into the fruit business on his own account, and later was in the drain-pipe business in Boston. In 1877 he returned to Springfield, and engaged in the coal business with T. O. Bemis. He was a staunch Republican, and served on sev- eral campaign committees. He was an active member of Trinity Methodist Church, of which he was treasurer, and greatly interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was a devotee of the rod
and gun, and it was his sole relaxation from business cares. He married, December 7, 1859, Mary Bradshaw, daughter of John and Isabel (James) Hamilton, sister of Colonel R. J. Hamilton. John Hamilton was a son of Rev. William Hamilton, a minister from the north of Ireland. William M. Collins had two children: Harry William, born in Spring- field, June 28, 1864, died there April 20, 1892; Bessie Hamilton, born August 1, 1874, in Boston, married, October 22, 1896, Andrew Blodgett Jr., and they have two children : Theodore Collins, born March 8, 1903, and William Andrew, August 28, 1906.
(For first generation see Joseph Bemis 1).
(II) John, youngest son of
BEMIS Joseph and Sarah Bemis, was born in Watertown, August, 1659, and died October 24, 1732. April 26, 1701, for fifty-six pounds, he sold to John Sherman one-eighth of the Alcock farm in Marlboro, nine hundred acres. April 6, 1702, he bought, together with his son-in-law, one hundred and sixty acres of land in Water- town, of Nathaniel Saltonstall, fellow of Har- vard College. This lot was originally granted to Sir Richard Saltonstall. He married (first) Mary Harrington, died September 8, 1716; (second) Sarah, widow of Jonathan Phillips, January 1, 1717; (third) May 30, 1726, Judith, widow of James Barnard. Chil- dren : Beriah, born June 23, 1681, married Daniel Child; Susanna, December 24, 1682, married John Hastings ; Joseph, November 17, 1684; John, October 16, 1686; Mary, Sep- tember 24, 1688, married Isaac Stearns; Samuel, 1690; Hannah, October 9, 1694; Isaac, 1696; Jonathan, 1699, died young ; Jonathan, November 17, 1701 ; Abraham, No- . vember 26, 1703; Susanna, December 3, 1705, married John Kiles; Hannah, December 3, 1706; Lydia, April 10, 1716, married Jona- than Fiske.
(III) Jonathan, eleventh child of John and Mary (Harrington) Bemis, was born Novem- ber 17, 1701. He was an innholder in Water- town. He married Annie, daughter of Daniel and Mary Lawrence. Children : Mary, born March 10, 1722, married Deacon Jona- than Sanderson ; Jonathan, January 24, 1724; David, mentioned later ; Esther, November 3, 1733; Sarah, March 8, 1739, married Elisha Learned.
(IV) David, youngest son of Jonathan and Annie (Lawrence) Bemis, was born in New- ton, Massachusetts, January 25, 1726, and
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died there in 1790. Through the energy, en- terprise and perseverance of Mr. Bemis, water power was first used for manufactur- ing purposes in Newton. About 1750 he bought thirty-nine acres on the Watertown side, and this land remained in the family more than one hundred and twenty-five years. In 1778, with Enos Sumner, he constructed a dam across the river. In 1779 a paper mill was built, and David owned a two-third in- terest therein. He may be considered as the first successful manufacturer of paper in this country. At the outset he had to struggle against difficulties, being obliged to obtain most of his machinery in Europe. His mill was consumed by fire. The Massachusetts legislature regarded the enterprise of such im- portance that it made a special grant to him to induce him to rebuild and restart the mill. This is perhaps the first instance where the protective policy of the government was be- stowed upon an infant industry. The process of paper-making was then slow. Each sheet had to be made separately. David owned a grist and snuff mill on the Watertown side. Machinery was imported from Europe to weave cotton warp, and the first cotton duck made in America was made here. Sheeting, shirting and bed-ticking were made for the southern market. In those days about every family in New England spun their own cloth. At this mill, in 1812, a gas plant for making illuminating-gas from coal was installed and the factory lighted by it. This was probably the first use of gas as an illuminant in America, and two years before it was so used in England. His son Seth invented a machine for preparing cotton for carding. It was something after the manner of the cotton- pickers of to-day. By this firm, convict labor in Charlestown penitentiary was employed in cloth-making. In this, too, the Bemises were pioneers. He married Mary, daughter of Na- thaniel and Annie ( Bowman) Bright. Chil- dren : David, born September 15, 1754, died young : Nathaniel, December 20, 1756; Luke, mentioned hereafter ; Jonathan, June 12, 1762, whose son Nathaniel graduated from Harvard College; Annie, September 3, 1764, married Jolin Richardson; Isaac, committed suicide ; Mary, February, 1769, married Isaac Vose : Hannah, married John Richardson, her de- ceased sister's former husband; Seth, Janu- ary 23, 1775, whose son graduated from Harvard College.
(V) Luke, third son of David and Mary ( Bright) Bemis, was born in Watertown, Oc-
tober II, 1759, and died in Cabotville, Feb- ruary 16, 1845. He was in the paper-mill business with his father, and later with his brother Seth. He married Hannah, daughter of Captain Ben and Martha (Brondson) Eddy. Children: Robert Eddy (see later) ; Mary Eddy, born January 4, 1801; Luke. born March 6, 1806, died in Lowell, August 19, 1888.
(VI) Robert Eddy, eldest son of Luke and Hannah (Eddy) Bemis, was born in Newton, January II, 1768, and died in Chicopee, 1874. He came to Chicopee, and was made agent of the Cabot cotton mills. He was a director in the First National Bank, and owned the Chic- opee water works. He married Martha G. Wheatland.
(VII) Robert Wheatland, son of Robert Eddy and Martha G. ( Wheatland) Bemis, was born in Chicopee, and died there June 26, 1906. He was an ice dealer and coal mer- chant, and a leading man in Chicopee, actively concerned in whatever pertained to the ad- vancement of his town. He stood high in masonry, and was raised to the master's de- gree at the Chicopee lodge. He also held the council, capitular and knight-templar ranks, and was admitted to the York, Scottish and Cryptic rites. He belonged to the Rose St. Croix, the Princes of Jerusalem, attaining to the thirty-second degree, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He married Rachel, daughter of Jahleel and Mary (Chaffee) Smith. She was born August 21, 1827. Mrs. Bemis is now going on in her eighty-second year, and is one of the mothers in Israel preserved to us from a former generation. She has a wonderful memory of facts and dates happening in the middle of the last century. From her we learn the customs of the past, transmitted to her and through her to us. She is a remark- ably intelligent woman, and it is a pleasure to the antiquarian to meet one so abounding in the facts he needs, and so willing to impart this information to others. Children: Annie Goodhue, born January 28, 1855, married Ed- ward W. Stoddard; Benjamin W., born De- cember 3, 1857, married Mary E. Campbell ; Mary Catherine, married Wilber Swan ; Caroline Rachel, born July 20, 1865, married Edward B. Dickinson ; Robert Eddy, born Oc- tober 30, 1869, married Nettie Edna Barnes, of Westfield; Edward Smith, born July 20, 1873-
Jahleel Smith, grandfather of Mrs. Robert W. Bemis, married Zuriah (or Rachel) Un-
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derwood. He lived in Sandisfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. His children were: Beriah, born October 6, 1792; Jahleel, Oc- tober 3, 1794; Elisha, October 24, 1797 ; Levi, November 10, 1799; Rachel, July 13, 1802; Henry, November 22, 1804; Isaac, April IO, 1809. Jahleel (2), son of Jahleel (1) Smith, married Mary Bliss, daughter of Captain Comfort Chaffee. Children: Mary Ann, born June 20, 1820, married Thomas Rich- ards, of Holyoke; Ellen Amanda, November 5, 1822, married Josiah Fuller, of Chicopee, who was from an old Vermont family ; Persis Maria, August 1, 1825, married Adna Bates, of Syracuse, New York; Rachel, who married Robert W. Bemis, above noted.
COLLINS Daniel Collins, the first an- cestor in this country, was born in 1648, and died May 3. 1690, in Enfield, Connecticut. From the fact that the names of his descendants are like those of Rev. Nathaniel, of Enfield, it is be- lieved that they were brothers, or closely re- lated. Nathaniel had an elder brother Daniel, who lived in England, however, and while the old English custom of naming two sons the same still lingered, documentary proof of the relationship is not known to the writer. Daniel Collins settled in Enfield about 1680. He previously lived in Derby, according to the land grant of 1681 when he was given forty acres; a house lot of twelve acres and six acres of meadow if he settled in Enfield within twelve months. His home was in the south end of the town plat. He was a constable of Enfield and held other offices. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Tibbals. She married (second) Joseph Warriner and (third) Obadiah Abbey. When the estate of Daniel was divided in 1704 Sarah Abbey was her name. Children: Daniel; Patience; Na- than, mentioned below ; Sarah, born 1686.
(II) Nathan, son of Daniel Collins, was born May 31, 1683, at Enfield, and died in Brimfield, Massachusetts, August 8, 1767, aged eighty-five years. He removed to Brimfield, formerly Springfield. He deeded land at En- field, January 24, 1704-5, to Jeremiah Lord. He was then called of Springfield. He and wife Anna deeded to John Prior his rights in the second division under the sixty acre grant to his father, March 16, 1714-5. He deeded other land to Samuel Hathaway. His brother Daniel, of Milford, Connecticut, a weaver by trade, quitclaimed his right to his father's estate October 22, 1729, to Nathan.
His sister Patience and husband James Killum quitclaimed their rights March 26, 1729. He married (first) Anne - -; (second ) Lydia Bliss, of Springfield, at Brimfield, November I, 1732. Children: I. Nathan, died October 12, 1765; married February 27, 1745, at En- field, Phebe Weld. 2. Nathaniel, mentioned below. Probably other children, not men- tioned in Brimfield records, however.
( III) Nathaniel, son of Nathan Collins, was born about 1701. He married, at Brim- field, March 31, 1730, Deborah Morgan, born 1702, daughter of David Morgan, one of the founders of Brimfield, granddaughter of David Morgan, born July 23, 1648. Myles Morgan, father of David Sr., was one of the founders of Springfield, and a statue to his honor has been erected there. Children, born at Brimfield : 1. Nathaniel, March 30, 1731 ; mentioned below. 2. Mary, June 16, 1734. 3. Anna, born September 8, 1736 ; married, July 24. 1766, Asa Putnam. 4. Stephen, January 23, 1739-40. 5. Daniel, April 2, 1742. 6. Sarah, October 8, 1744; married, November 15, 1769, William Ward. 7. John, March 31, 1750.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (I) Collins, was born in Brimfield, March 30, 1731 ; married there, December, 1756, Phebe Fowler. Children, born at Brimfield: I. Christopher, died November, 1757. 2. William, born Oc- tober 28, 1758. 3. Lucy, September 28, 1761. 4. Calvin, March 28, 1764. 5. Daniel, No- vember 2, 1766; mentioned below. 6. Expe- rience, May 9, 1769. 7. Frances, June 16, 1772. 8. Abigail, February 25, 1775.
(V) Daniel, son of Nathaniel (2) Collins Jr., was born in Brimfield, November 2, 1766. He married Anna Williams. Children: I. Charles, mentioned below. 2. Daniel. 3- Lewis. 4. Christopher.
(VI) Charles, son of Daniel Collins, was born about 1790. He was a merchant at Huntington, Massachusetts. He married Abigail Sackett. Children: 1. Henry, men- tioned below. 2. Flavia, married Charles H. Pitt. 3. Havington, married Adeline Stanton. 4. Erastus. 5. James, married Lucinda B. Copeland. 6. Fanny, married Anson Gleason.
(VII) Henry, son of Charles Collins, was born in Huntington in 1817. He was an im- porter of woolens in New York City. He married, in 1844, Elizabeth, daughter of Asa Crowell, a native of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Mr. Collins was a friend and supporter of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. He died in March, 1882; his wife died in July, 1870.
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Children, born in Brooklyn, New York: I. Henry Crowell, mentioned below. 2. Charles. 3. Grace.
(VIII) Henry Crowell, son of Henry Col- lins, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 17, 1845, and was educated there in private schools. He became associated with his father in business and succeeded him. He was a prominent importer of woolen goods for many years in New York. He retired from business in 1900, and now resides in North- ampton. He was an active and prominent member of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and was one of the staunchest supporters of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher during his pas- torate. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the New England Society and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn ; was ac- tive in other clubs.
He married, October 24, 1878, Helen S., daughter of Marvin M. and Emeline (Clark) French. (See below.) They reside at 44 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Massachu- setts. Children: I. Henry Crowell Jr., born August 31, 1879 ; died August 19, 1898 ; soldier in Spanish-American war, serving in Cuban campaign in Captain Henry L. Williams's com- pany (I), Second Massachusetts Volunteers. 2. Leicester, born December 7, 1880 (twin). 3. Dudley (twin), born December 7, 1880. 4. Katrine, born October 23, 1886.
Helen S. (French) Collins, wife of Henry Crowell Collins, was descended from John French, the immigrant (q. v.), through Samuel (II), Alexander (III), Samuel (IV), and as follows :
(V) Asa, son of Samuel (2) French, was born May 3, 1757, at Braintree, died Feb- ruary, 1842, in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was in the revolution, in Captain Samuel Fairfield's company of Hampden county, April 8, 1779; also in Captain Lyman's com- Dany, Colonel Lee's regiment, in 1777; and in Captain John Hastings' company, the sixth, Colonel Jackson's sixth regiment, in 1777, in Rhode Island and New Jersey. He married, at Williamsburg, Massachusetts, February 14, 1784, Sarah White, born February 25, 1759, in Weymouth, daughter of Ezekiel and Abi- gail ( Blanchard) White. Children: Jabez, born June 17, 1794, mentioned below, another child Ambrose, and probably others.
(V1) Jabez, son of Asa French, was born in Williamsburg, June 17, 1794, died Febru- ary II, 1857. He married Lucinda Wotton, born April 30, 1793, in Northfield, died Janu- ary 31, 1864, daughter of John Wotton, who
was born in Wotton Edge, England, December 25, 1761, and died in Northfield, December 12, 1824. Her mother was Rachel (Smith) Wotton: Children: 1. Mary, married Henry Jewett, and had George, Mary and John Jewett. 2. Marvin M., born May 7, 1820, mentioned below. 3. John, married Frances Trefethen and had Frances. 4. Martha, mar- ried Levi Smith and had Lucia, Charlton, Mary and Clinton Smith.
(VII) Marvin M., son of Jabez French, was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, May 7. 1820, died July 5, 1896. He married Emeline Clark, born January 8, 1821, died June 18, 1890, daughter of Spencer (born August 5, 1786, died April 10, 1855) and Sophia (Clapp) Clark (born February 13, 1788, died July 21, 1871). Spencer Clark was a son of Jonas and Abigail ( Morton) Clark. Children of Marvin M. French: I. Helen S., born in Northampton, married Henry C. Col- lins (see above). 2. Anna E., married John C. Fowle and had Robert Fowle. 3. James N., married Carrie Sanborn and had Edward S., Lucy E., Helen, Carrie and Marjorie. 4. Howard, married Gertrude Sperry, and had Marvin M. and John.
Among the early settlers in SHERWIN Rindge, New Hampshire, were four families of this name, two brothers, with their two cousins who were also brothers, having migrated there from Essex county, Massachusetts. The late Thomas Sherwin, for forty years prin- cipal of the Boston English High School, to- gether with all others of the name mentioned in this article, are descended from one of the Rindge settlers. The Sherwins are of English origin. Information relative to their early history in America may be found in the town records of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachu- setts. John Sherwin, of Ipswich, was married in 1667 to Frances, daughter of Edward Loomis, and in 1691 he married (second), Mary, daughter of William Chandler, of Andover.
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