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juror in Wells in the county court at York ; in 1648 constable and juror, and again in 1647- 49. He removed to Dover, New Hampshire, in 1650, in that part set off later as the town of Somersworth. The lower part, including the Wentworth farm, was set off from Som- ersworth in 1849 as the town of Rollinsford. Most of the numerous grants of land to Went- worth were in that vicinity, north and east of Garrison Hill on the east side of the present road to Great Falls and west of the north of Fresh Creek tide-water. The Boston & Maine railroad runs through the property, which was also cut by the turnpike to South Berwick. Part of the estate has come down to the family to Bartholomew Wentworth, now or lately living on the old place. In 1651 Wentworth was a selectman of Dover ; also in 1657-60-64- 70 ; moderator of town meeting 1661 ; commis- sioner 1663 ; lot-layer 1657-60-61. He was on important committees of church and town, but the office by which he is best remembered is that of Ruling Elder of the First Church of Dover, organized December, 1638. He was elected before 1655 and served in the pastor- ates of Daniel Maud, John Reyner, John Rey- ner Jr., and John Pike, a period of more than forty years. He often preached in the absence of the pastor. He officiated as minister at Cocheco in 1665-6 and seems to be the first person employed by public authority to preach within the limits of the present city of Dover. He preached more commonly, we are told, at Quamphegan, now South Berwick, Maine. He preached in Exeter in 1690 and 1693. In March, 1693, the town agreed with him to sup- ply the pulpit for one whole year, if he be able, and to pay him fifty pounds for his services. In 1693 he gave his farm at Cocheco to his son Benjamin, whose descendants still own some of the land. The story of the saving of Heard's garrison by Elder Wentworth is famous. On the evening of June 27, 1689, squaws asked leave to sleep by the kitchen fires in the various garrison houses, a common practice. Just before dawn, the Indian murderers were admitted by the squaws and in three of the houses they killed twenty-three and carried away twenty-nine captives. Wentworth was awakened by the barking of a dog, and found the Indians entering the open door, pushed them out and managed to hold the door till help came. Two bullets passed through the door above him. He returned to Dover and died March 16, 1696-7.
He married (first) Elizabeth Kenny; (sec- ond) probably Elizabeth -, who survived
him. Children : 1. Samuel, born 1641. 2. John. 3. Gershom. 4. Ezekiel. 5. Elizabeth, born 1653 ; married (first ) James Sharp ; ( sec- ond ) Richard Tozer, Jr. 6. Paul. 7. Sylvanus. 8. Timothy. 9. Sarah. 10. Ephraim ; see for- ward. II. Benjamin.
(II) Ephraim, son of Elder William Went- worth, died in Dover, New Hampshire. He owned the mill privilege at Fresh creek, which he received from his father, and which he sold in 1652. On November 8, 1708, he bought of John Tuttle Sr. half the lower fall of Salmon river, the west side. He also bought a hun- dred acres, being half the grant made to Will- iam Pomfret in 1656, in Cocheco woods. He was surveyor of highways in 1702 and fence viewer in 1709. He married (first) Mary, daughter of Richard and Grace Miller of Kit- tery, Maine; (second) Elizabeth -, prob- ably widow of Joseph Beard. His will, dated March 16, 1738, proved June 29, 1748, men- tions wife, and bequeaths homestead to son Ezekiel. Children: I. Ephraim; married, February II, 1724-5, Martha Gray. 2. Spen- cer, married Keziah Heard. 3. Ezekiel, died 1762; married (first) Dorothy Wentworth ; (second) Sarah Nock, widow of David Lyford. 4. Samuel ; mentioned below. 5. Jon- athan ; married Abigail Heard, of Dover. 6. Mary ; married Nehemiah Kimball, of Dover. 7. Anna ; married Ephraim Hamm. 8. Martha, married Joseph Twombly; resided at Mad- bury, New Hampshire. 9. Elizabeth; said to have married - Twombly.
(III) Samuel, son of Ephraim Wentworth, was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Waldron's company, from Dover, New Hamp- shire, July, 1775; also August, 1776, in Cap- tain Caleb Hodgdon's company, Colonel Long's regiment ; and in Captain Abraham Perkins's company, same regiment, one month's service, December and January, 1776-7, on pay-roll at New Castle; also in Captain Daniel McDuffee's company, Colonel Stephen Evans's regiment, 1777. He had pay in advance and was reported fit to march on the advance to Ticonderoga, but refused to march. At this time he was called of Roches-
ter, and in other records as of Somersworth. He died March 4, 1789. He married (first) Patience Downs, born April 3, 1721, died in Somersworth, New Hampshire, September 10, 1776, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Downs ; married (second) Elizabeth Carter, of Ports- mouth, widow successively of Captain Gowen, Captain Hill and Captain Carter. He married (third) Margaret (Haines) Horne, widow,
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who survived him. Children, all by first wife : I. Jonathan, born September 8, 1741. 2. Sarah, June 17, 1745 ; married April 13, 1775, Samuel Roberts. 3. Enoch, January 6, 1752. 4. Kezia, September 25, 1754 ; married John Philpot. 5. Mary, September 14, 1757; married Andrew Horne Jr. 6. Daniel, born about 1758; died in the revolution. 7. Amaziah, March 30, 1760. 8. Samuel, November 29, 1763. 9. Jacob, men- tioned below.
(IV) Jacob, son of Samuel Wentworth, was born January 1, 1766. He received a farm from the widow of his uncle Spencer Went- worth, who lived with him during her last days. The farm was on the road from Roch- ester to Dover, near the latter town. He was in the war of 1812, under command of Gen- eral Wade Hampton. He received a wound at the Canada frontier, of which he died Jan- uary 1, 1814, and further particulars never reached his family. He married, in Septem- ber, 1789, Martha, daughter of Daniel Hurd, of Dover, granddaughter of John and Charity (Day) Hurd. John Hurd was a descendant of John Hurd, or Heard, original owner of the garrison house at Dover. Moses Hurd, Mar- tha's brother, was also in the war of 1812. Martha Wentworth died a widow, June, 1857, aged eighty-five, at the home of her daughter, Sarah (Clough) in Effingham, New Hamp- shire. Children: I. John, born August 3, 1790. 2. Lewis, June 6, 1792; mentioned below. 3. Ann, June 6, 1794; married (first) January 1, 1816, John Rogers; (second) June 21, 1827, Samuel Rogers; died May 6, 1869. 4. Abigail, December 8, 1796; died 1818. 5. Patience, September 12, 1798; married, 1817, Hiram Philpot. 6. Moses, May 29, 1802. 7. Ezekiel, May II, 1806. 8. Mary, September 14, 1808; married Kimball Eastman.
(V) Lewis, son of Jacob Wentworth, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, June 6, 1792, and died in Exeter, New Hampshire. He married, September 27, 1813, Hannah Ever- son, of Dover, born November 26, 1787. Chil- dren : 1. Child, died young. 2. John Rogers, born November 13, 1815 ; mentioned below. 3. James M., November 9, 1818. 4. Lewis E., April 29, 1823.
(VI) John Rogers, son of Lewis Went- worth, was born November 13, 1815. In his younger days he worked in a mill in Rollings- ford, New Hampshire, and later did teaming for this mill. Later he removed to South Berwick, Maine, where he operated a large farm and dairy. In 1858 he went to northern Iowa, where he purchased a farm on which
he spent the rest of his life. He married (first) December 5, 1839, Elizabeth Mary, born 1813, daughter of James Pike Went- worth. She died March 23, 1842, and he mar- ried (second) Lovina L. Mitchell, born De- cember 5, 1820, in Chesterville, Maine, died in 1880. He died in 1876, in Iowa. Children, all by second wife: I. Charles Edwin, born May 20, 1845; died November 27, 1850. 2. George O., born May 15, 1847; mentioned below. 3. Frank A., born November 26, 1848. 4. Mary E., born August 8, 1850. 5. Nettie T., born February 16, 1855; died March 5, 1861. 6. John, born 1857; died 1858. 7. Ed- ward H., born January 9, 1860.
(VII) George Orwell, son of John Rogers Wentworth, was born in South Berwick, Maine, May 15, 1847. He was educated in the public schools of Berwick. He was reared on his father's farm, and in 1858 went with his father and the rest of the family to Went- worth, and later to Jamestown, Iowa. He fol- lowed farming there, except for the time he was in the service, until 1873. At the age of seventeen he enlisted, October 31, 1864, in Company F, Thirteenth Iowa Regiment. He was unable to join his regiment, which was in the vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia, the enemy having cut the railroad. He participated in all of General Thomas's operations against Gen- eral Hood, and in the disastrous defeat of the Confederate army at Nashville, Tennessee. He finally joined his regiment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and was with General Sher- man's army at the capture of General John- ston, at Raleigh. He was in the Grand Review at Washington City, which signalized the end of the war, and was honorably discharged with his command, July 21, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky.
In 1873 he returned east and engaged in the meat and provision business for several years at Stoughton, Massachusetts. He was afterward clerk in a clothing store in that town. Since 1892 he has been in the insurance and real estate business at Stoughton. He built a number of houses in Stoughton and remodeled several others. He resides on the old White homestead there. He has taken a prominent part in public affairs and has been a useful citizen of the town. He was select- man five years, town clerk and treasurer twelve years, still serving in this office. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of Rising Star Lodge of Free Masons; of Stoughton Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of Post 72, Grand Army of the Republic. He married,
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December 19, 1874, Emma Frances White, born May 15, 1850, at Stoughton, Massachu- setts, (in the house in which she still lives), daughter of Harrison and Eliza Jane (Mitch- ell) White. Her father was born May 10, 1810, at Mansfield, died February, 1900, at Stoughton; he was first a teamster, then a meat and provision dealer in Stoughton. Mar- ried (first) Ann Erskine, of Stoughton; (sec- ond) Eliza Jane Mitchell, who was born at Richmond, Maine, and died in Stoughton ; children of first wife: George, Georgianna (twin of George), Elizabeth, Caroline, Will- iam H .; children of second wife: Florentine, Emma Frances, (mentioned above) ; Mary Ellen White. Warren White, father of Will- iam Harrison White, was born in Mansfield, and died in Stoughton ; married Cynthia Hard- ing ; was a farmer at Mansfield and Stough- ton ; children : Avilla, Hilliard White, Jere- miah, Fannie, Isaac, Luretta, Millard, Hil- liard, Emely, and Emery White.
Child of George O. Wentworth: Emma Bell, born 1877, died 1896.
Beal or Beals is an English sur- BEALS name of great antiquity, derived from the name of a place. It means literally a narrow pass. The Scandiva- vian giant Beli, from whom the name may descend, was slain by Freyr. The French form de la Beale is found in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth century. There is a hamlet of this name in the detached portion of Durham. England. The family is numerous in Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire, Eng- land. Their coat-of-arms : Argent a chevron be- tween three pheons sable the two in chief lying fesseways point to point. Another ancient coat- of-arms of this family was derived from Will- iam Beale, port-reeve of Maidstone in the fourteenth century; his descendant, Sir John Beale, of Farmington Court, Kent, was high sheriff of county Kent in 1665. Arms: Sable on a chevron or between three griffin's heads erased argent ; as many estoiles gules. Crest : A unicorn's head erased or semel of estoiles gules.
(I) John Beal, immigrant ancestor, came from the parish of Hingham, county Norfolk, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts, with his wife and five sons, three daughters and two servants. This fact is stated in many words on the town clerk's records by Daniel Cush- ing, fourth town clerk of Hingham. He was born in Hingham, England, or vicinity. He
had a grant of land at Hingham, Massachu- setts, September 18, 1638, six acres for a house lot on what is now South street, near Hersey street. He was a shoemaker. He was admitted a freeman in 1639 and was deputy to the general court in 1640 and 1659. He mar- ried (first) Nazereth Hobart, born in Eng- land about 1600, died at Hingham, September 23, 1658, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey ) Hobart. He married (second) March 10, 1659, Mary Jacob, widow of Nich- olas Jacob, who died at Hingham, June 15, 1681. In noticing his death, David Hobart, son of Rev. Peter Hobart, made full record "April 1, 1688, my uncle John Beal died sud- denly." Judge Sewell also made record on the same date "Father Beai of Hingham died aged one hundred years." His will was dated September 27, 1687, and bequeathed to his children and grandchildren. Children, all by first wife: I. Martha, born 1620; married (first ) March 16, 1640, William Halloway, of Plymouth ; married ( second ) June 29, 1649, Samuel Dunham ; died April 26, 1690. 2. Mary, born 1622; married, December 30, 1647, James Whiton, of Hingham ; died December 12, 1696. 3. Sarah, born 1625 ; married (first) March 22, 1648-49, Thomas Marsh; (second) September 5, 1662, Edmund Sheffield, of Braintree ; died at Braintree, November 9, 1710. 4. John, born about 1627. 5. Nathaniel, born 1629. 6. Jeremiah, born about 1631 ; mentioned below. 7. Joshua, born about 1633. 8. Caleb, born 1636. 9. Rebecca, baptized at Hingham, February, 1640-41 ; died December 13, 1686. 10. Jacob, born October 13, 1642. (II) Jeremiah, son of John Beals, was born in England about 1631. He came with his par- ents to America, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was a blacksmith. He was constable in 1672, selectman in 1671-73- 84 : deputy to the general court in 1691-92 and 1701. He resided on Bachelor street, near Main street, near the meeting house of the First Parish, but late in life removed to East street near Hull street. He married, Novem- ber 18. 1652, Sara Ripley, born in England, died in Hingham, June 29, 1715, daughter of William Ripley. He died August 10, 1716, aged eighty-five years. Children, born at Hingham: I. Jeremiah, May 13, 1655. 2. John, March 8, 1656-57 ; mentioned below. 3. Sarah, July, 1659 ; married, January 21, 1679- 80, John Lane. 4. Lazarus, September 7, 1661. 5. Phebe, March 2, 1663-64: died July 12, 1665. 6. Mary, May 6, 1666; married,
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December 23, 1702, John Orcutt, of Bridge- water. 7. Elizabeth, May 16, 1669; married, December 29, 1708, Ephraim Lane.
(III) John (2), son of Jeremiah Beals, was born in Hingham, March 8, 1656-57, died December 30, 1735. He resided on East street at Rocky Nook. He married, about 1686, Hannah - -, who died April 27, 1762, aged ninety-three years. His will was dated May 7, 1734, and proved January 27, 1735-36. Chil- dren, born at Hingham: 1. Sarah, October 12,
1687. 2. Ruth, 1690; married, 1718, Richard Cobb; died May 14, 1719. 3. Infant, died young. 4. Infant, died young. 5. Hannah, October 14, 1695 ; married, November 15, 1722, Caleb Marsh. 6. Lydia, April 10, 1697 ; mar- ried, December 25, 1718, David Lincoln. 7. Deborah, June 22, 1699; died November 14, 17II. 8. John, December 30, 1700. 9. Daniel, June I, 1703 ; married, October 15, 1724. Eliz- abeth Tucker. 10. Samuel, February 2. 1704- 05 ; mentioned below. II. Stephen, September 16, 1707. 12. Mary, May 7, 1710; married, November 20, 1729, Thomas Waterman.
(IV) Samuel, son of John (2) Beals, was born at Hingham, February 2, 1704-05, died in 1750. He settled at East Bridgewater on the Eleazer Keith place. He married, in 1725, Mary, daughter of Elnathan Bassett. Chil- dren, born at Bridgewater: I. Samuel, 1726; married, 1745, Elizabeth Blackman; settled in Medford ; had David and Samuel. 2. Nathan, 1727 ; married Bathsheba . 3. Daniel, 1729: mentioned below. 4. Jonathan, 1730; died 1813; married (first) in 1751, Abigail Harlow; (second) Abigail (Snow) Edgerton. 5. Joseph (twin), 1733; died young. 6. Ben- jamin (twin), 1733; married Sarah and settled at Medford. 7. Seth, 1736. 8. Mary, 1742. 9. Joseph, 1743.
(V) Daniel, son of Samuel Beals, was born at Bridgewater in 1729. died about 1761. He married (first) in 1750, Mehitable Byram, daughter of Joseph Byram. She was re- ceived into the Congregational church at Mil- ford, Worchester county, Massachusetts, from the Third church of Bridgewater, July 13, 1760. They resided near the present town of Hopedale, formerly Milford, originally Men- don. He died July 13, 1760, and his widow Mehitable married (second ) April 24. 1764, Robert Saunders. Children, born at Bridge- water : I. Samuel, 1750; married, March 16, 1775, Sarah Saunders; removed to Windsor, Massachusetts, about 1770, and located on a farm now or lately owned by Albert Ford ; children: Daniel, of Windsor, and Sarah. 2.
Daniel, 1753. 3. Joshua, 1755 ; mentioned be - low. 4. Mehitable, 1758 ; married, 1777, Joseph Green, of Worthington, Massachusetts. 5. Josiah, January 6, 1761, at Milford ; mentioned below.
(VI) Joshua, son of Daniel Beals, was born at Bridgewater in 1755, died at Windsor, July 2, 1836, aged eighty-one (an error of ten years in this record). He resided on Windsor Hill, coming to Windsor from Milford about 1775. He was on the committee of safety and corre- spondence in the revolution in the year 1779 ; constable 1783; surveyor of highways 1787; warden 1788; assessor 1790-92. He was on a committee of the town to settle with the part of the town set off as Cheshire ; was selectman in 1794. The census of 1790 states that he had three males over sixteen, four under sixteen and three females, in his family, though the rec- rods show but five children all under sixteen. Possibly the family of his brother Samuel was living with him. Samuel's name was not on the list though the town history gives his family as stated above, and there are two named Joshua. The most likely explanation of this problem is that Samuel (not Joshua) Beals should be credited with the largest family, he being the eldest. Joshua's wife Elizabeth lived to the age of eight-two years. Children : 1. Joshua, Jr., born January 29, 1780: lived in Windsor: married, January 9, 1803, Polly Turner ; children: i. Joshua, born December 27. 1804; married, December 2, 1830, Hannah Wilkes ; ii. Cassandra ( ?), died April 18, 1813; iii. Judson, born April 29, 1806; iv. Mary, born September 19, 1810; v. Esther Liza, born May 20, 18II; vi. Olive Alvina, born January 29, 1814: vii. Susan, born March 28, 1816. 2. Samuel, May 9. 1783. 3. Elizabeth, March 29, 1784. 4. Josiah, August 14. 1786. 5. Joseph, Decem- ber 17. 1889. 6. Daniel, March II, 1792. . 7. Polly, May 28, 1794. 8. Montesque (?), Feb- ruary 17, 1797.
(VI) Josiah, son of Daniel Beals, was born in Milford. January 6, 1761. He came with his brothers to Windsor, Massachusetts, and died at Windsor Hill. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain William Clark's company. Colonel Benjamin Simond's regiment, marching from Windsor to Sharts- bury under orders of General Fellows in 1780 ; also in Lieutenant John. Coe's company, Col- (nel Simons regiment on another alarm. He married twice. Children of his second wife, Lois, born at Windsor: 1. James, born June 7, 1701 ; removed to Ogdensburg, New York.
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2. Lois or Louis, February 6, 1794. 3. Electa, November 29, 1786; died unmarried at the age of fifty-three years. 4. Cassandra, died young. 5. Mehitable, resided in Goshen and Windsor. 6. Josiah F. 7. Maria L., died in Windsor while visiting after removing to New York state. 8. Clara A., resided with her brother on Windsor Hill.
(VII) Chauncey, nephew or son of Josiah Beals, was born about 1800 in Windsor, and died at Chester, an adjacent town. He mar- ried Cynthia Hamlin, a native of the adja- cent town of Plainfield. She also died at Northampton. Children : I. Leantha Sophia, born in Cummington, according to the town records of Windsor, August 15, 1832. 2. Theron Hamlin, November 21, 1836; men- tioned below. 3. Clerandi, born at Florence. 4. Edwin, died at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Theron Hamlin, son of Chauncey Beals, was born in Cummington and recorded at Windsor, November 21, 1836. He died at Huntington. Massachusetts, in 1904. He was educated in the common schools, and followed farming for his vocation. He married Emily Tucker, born at Hinsdale, Massachusetts, 1840, died October, 1906, at Huntington. Children : I. George H., born March 29, 1862 ; mentioned below. 2. Edmund C., December, 1864; mar- ried Minnie Griffin, of Holyoke, and had eight children. 3. Carrie, born and died at Hayden- ville, Massachusetts. 4. Emily, born and died at Haydenville. 5. Hattie, born at Worthing- ton : married Napoleon Beauregard, of Spring- field, and has three children. 6. Theron O., born in Chester ; married Effie Cordner ; re- sides at Palmer. 7. Cora, married (first) Clarence Johnson ; (second) Robert Vining ; one child by each marriage. 8. Harry, born in Chester ; married Ethel Smith, of Bristol, Con- necticut.
(IX) George Hamlin, son of Theron Ham- lin Beals, was born at Haydenville, Massachu- setts, March 29, 1862. The homestead is in Williamsburg in the village known as Hayden- ville. He was educated in the public schools of his native town until 1870, when he removed to Huntington. He continued his schooling in that town until he was eleven years old when he was "bound out" to a farmer. He continued to attend the district school in the winter terms. He left farming in 1885 to work for Whitman P. Williams in his grist mill and continued in this position until 1890, when Mr. Williams retired on account of his ill health. Since 1891 Mr. Beals has been the owner of the business. He has the esteem and
confidence of all his townsmen. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist church of Huntington. In politics he is a Republican. He married Susie Herring, born April 23, 1870, at Chester, Mass- achusetts, daughter of Samuel and Susan Her- ring. Children, born at Huntington : 1. Mabel, August 29, 1887. 2. Ethel, October 3, 1889. 3. Florence, April 4, 1895. 4. George W., March 4, 1908.
(For preceding generations see Anthony Fisher 1). (III) Cornelius, second son and FISHER child of Anthony (2) and Mary Fisher, was born in England, died at Wrentham, Massachusetts, June 2, 1699, being the first head of a family to die a natural death in the town for a period of thirty years. He joined the Dedham church, Febru- ary 6, 1648; was made a freeman, May 2, 1649 ; admitted a townsman at Dedham, Janu- ary 3, 1652-53. He was a carpenter by trade, and his property at Dedham was assessed at seventy-six pounds, February 20, 1657. He was constable in that town in 1668, and pound- master in 1672. He was one of the thirteen Wollonspang proprietors, who signed, Febru- ary 27, 1662-63, and was in Wollonspang and Wrentham when they were established as sepa- rate towns in 1673, having gone there with the first settlers. These settlers located on the east- erly and southeasterly side of Whiting's Pond, on the Great Pond, probably on what is now Franklin and South streets. November 2, 1669, they were assessed for the payment of Captain Pynchon, ninety-six pounds, ten shillings, for the purchase of the Indian right at Pawcomp- tucke. December 29, 1673, "The Towne is debtor to Cornelius Fisher for mending fence about the church at 3 shillings." January 12, 1674, the Dedham selectmen agreed with Cor- nelius Fisher to ring the bell and sweep the meeting house "and for his paynes heer in he is to recaive 50 shillings for one holle yeare" and as his property was next to the cemetery he is required to keep the fence in repair. He He subscribed to an agreement to go back and rebuild and reinhabit Wrentham, the inhabit- ants having abandoned the town, March 30, 1675, during King Philip's war, but it is not known where the family lived during this period. He was representative to the general court in 1692. By his will he mentions one half meadow at Pine Plaine and meadow land at Stony Brook. The inventory of his estate, June 20. 1699, shows the homestead, one hun- drcd and five pounds, outlands and meadows, etc., sixty-eight pounds. He married (first)
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at Dedham, February 23, 1653, Leah, who died at Wrentham, January 12, 1664, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Heaton. Children : I. Elizabeth, born June 20, 1654; died September 14, 1665. 2. Leah, May 5, 1656 ; died September 10, 1720. 3. Experience, January 10, 1658. 4. Cornelius, February 8, 1660; died January 6, 1743. 5. Ann, August 22, 1661. 6. Eleazer, see forward. He married (second at Ded- ham, July 25, 1665, Sarah, born April 12, 1644, died at Wrentham, February 28, 1675, daughter of Richard and Mary (Winch) Ever- ett. Children: 7. Dorothy, born April 17, 1667; died April 10, 1668. 8. Sarah, 1668; died November 2, 1751. 9. Jonathan, Octo- ber 26, 1671 ; died November 9, 1675.
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