Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 65

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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*This family name is variously written Ienks and .Iencks.

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the office of captain, later becoming major. The assembly appointed him and his brother Joseph, May 2, 17II, to build a bridge at Pawtucket. He was a member of the town council in 1719-20-21-22-23, and was deputy to the general court in 1709-10-13. His will was dated April 27, 1721, with codicil July 31, 1723, and was proved October 21, 1723. The inventory showed an estate worth two hundred pounds. He married, November 4, 1686, Hannah Bosworth. Children : Jona- than, Nathaniel, mentioned below, Hannah, Elizabeth.

(IV) Captain Nathaniel (2), son of Major Nathaniel (I) Jenks, was born in Providence or vicinity about 1695. He was a blacksmith by trade, and lived at Providence, where he died June 8, 1753. He married, February 28, 1722-23 (by William Jenckes), Lydia Arnold, died January 23, 1727-28. He married (second) March 29, 1729-30. Children, born in Providence: I. Martha, born March 14, 1724. 2. Stephen, born May 8, 1726, men- tioned below. 3. Lydia, born September 3, 1728. Children of second wife: 4. Joanna, born June 18. 1730. 5. Ichabod, born Janu- ary 2, 1731-32. 6. James, born October 13, 1733.

(V) Captain Stephen, son of Captain Na- thaniel (2) Jenks, was born in Providence, May 8, 1726. He was captain of a military company and served against the Indians. He lived at Smithfield and Providence. He mar- ried Sarah Children, except the first two, born in Providence: I. Eleazer, born March 3, 1747, at Smithfield. 2. Nathaniel, born at Smithfield, June 3. 1749. 3. Moses, born September 14. 1751. 4. Stephen, born March 31, 1756, mentioned below. 5. Benja- min, born September 2, 1758. 6. Jerahmeel, born July 18, 1762.

(VI) Stephen (2), son of Captain Stephen ( 1) Jenks, was born in Providence, March 31, 1756. He lived in Smithfield after his mar- riage until about 1777, then at Spencer, Massa -. chusetts, until about 1781, and finally at Prov- idence and North Providence, Rhode Island. The records are at North Providence of all his children. He married, November 19, 1775. Mercy Arnold, born June 23, 1757, daughter of Joshua and Amy Arnold, of Smithfield, Rhode Island. Children, born at Smithfield: I. Arnold, born April 5, 1776. mentioned below. Children born at Spencer : 2. Sarah, born 1778, died October 2, 1796. 3. Stephen, born April 8, 1780, died March 31, 1785. Children born in Providence : 4. David,

born December 5, 1782. 5. George, born Oc- tober 19, 1785. 6. Sabra, born June 3, 1788. 7. Nathan, born January 24, 1791, died July 21, 1801. 8. Lydia, born May 13, 1793. 9. Lyndon, born January. 7, 1796. 10. Alvin, born July 24, 1798. 11. Jerahmeel, born No- vember 3, 1800.

(VII) Arnold, son of Stephen (2) Jenks, was born April 5, 1776, married, April 19, 1801, Mary Healy, of Pawtucket, and among their children was Horace, mentioned below.

(VIII) Horace, son of Arnold Jenks, bought a mill site at what is now Ludlow and formed a company for the manufacture of woolen cloth. One of his partners in this enterprise was Samuel Slater, afterwards the great manufacturer. Horace Jenks married Roxanna, daughter of Ephraim Tiffany and Submit (Lathrop) Hunn. Children : 1. Mary Catherine, married Daniel Gay, of Springfield. 2. Louise Tiffany, born March 22, 1828, mar- ried Obadiah Frary (see Frary, III). 3. William Henry, born November 16, 1830, mar- ried Mary Abbott. 4. Horace Arnold, mar- ried Lydia Bagnell, of Plymouth, Massachu- setts. 5. Fred Hunn, born July 11, 1836, now of Brooklyn, New York. 6. Sarah Frances, married Albert Tinkham and has one son Fred.

Daniel Hovey, immigrant an- HOVEY cestor, was born probably in England, in 1618. It is now thought that he came to Ipswich, Massachu- setts, in the ship "Griffin," in 1633, in the col- ony of John Winthrop Jr. In 1637 Mr. Hoffe, who is supposed to be Daniel Hovey, was an assistant to Governor Haynes, who also came in the "Griffin." At any rate he was settled at Ipswich in 1637, and the owner of six acres of land there, situated on Muddy Creek. In 1639 he was granted one acre by the town for a house lot on the south side of the Town river, between the lot of William Holdred and that of Thomas Sherman, and bought a half acre of Holdred to add to his house lot. In 1665 he had a share in Plum Island, Hog Island, and Castle Neck. He was on the town committees to view Ipswich Neck and Castle Neck, and served with Simon Thompson to lay out lots to other settlers. In 1659 he re- ceived permission to build a wharf which Felt's History describes as built in 1660. This ancient landing place, now two hundred and forty-five years old, is still in use by small craft, thoughi somewhat dilapidated and out of repair. Hovey's house was in existence until

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1894, when it was destroyed by fire. For seventeen years previously, however, it had been dismantled and tenantless. Relics from the ancient house have been scattered among the Hovey descendants all over the country. Hovey was interested in the settlement at Quaboag, afterward Brookfield, Massachu- setts. A colony from Ipswich went. there in 1660. He joined it in 1668, and for about seven years he appears to have lived there. King Philip's war in 1675 drove the settlers from Brookfield, which was totally destroyed. After its destruction Hovey went for a time to Hadley. Massachusetts, with his sons Thomas and Joseph. He was there in 1677, when he sold some of his Ipswich property to John Dane, whose daughter married James Hovey in 1670. He subsequently returned to Ipswich to live, and died April 24, 1692. His will was made March 18, 1691-92. Among numerous parcels of land mentioned were three acres on Plum Island, land on both sides of the road leading to Hovey wharf and back along the road to Labor-in-vain Creek, estates at Brookfield, Swampfield and Topsfield, Massachusetts. Thomas Hovey, his executor, estimated the personal estate after the payment of debts, to be over six hundred pounds. Daniel Hovey was evi- dently a man of piety. He was admitted a freeman March II, 1673, and took his full part in the duties of pioneer citizenship in Ipswich and Brookfield. He married Abi- gail, sister of Thomas Andrews, an Ipswich school teacher. Her father, Robert Andrews, was the first in the vicinity of Ipswich allowed by the general court to keep a tavern. This was in 1635, and in 1636 he was also allowed to sell wine. Mrs. Hovey died June 24, 1665, before her husband moved to Brookfield. Children : 1. Daniel, born 1642 ; resided in Ips- wich and Brookfield ; married, October 8, 1665, Esther Treadwell, who died January 4, 1730, aged ninety years, daughter of Thomas Tread- well; children: i. Daniel, born 1666; ii. Na- thaniel, 1667; iii. Thomas, 1673, settled at Boxford; iv. John, 1675; v. Ebenezer, 1682; vi. Abigail; vii. Mary; viii. Mercy. 2. John, settled in Topsfield ; had sons Ivory, Luke and John, born 1707, progenitor of a large number of descendants there. 3. Thomas, settled in Hadley. and had sons Daniel and Thomas, and numerous descendants in Hadley and vicinity ; was executor of his father's will. 4. James, mentioned below. 5. Joseph, settled at Hadley with brother Thomas and later re-

moved to Milton, where he died, leaving sons : i. Joseph, born 1678; ii. Ebenezer, 1680; iii. John, 1684; iv. Caleb, of Newton, 1687; v. Thomas. 6. Nathaniel, 1657; had son Na- thaniel.

(II) James, son of Daniel Hovey, was born about 1650, in Ipswich, and settled with his father and brother in Brookfield. In 1668 three home lots were laid out there to Daniel Hovey, of Ipswich, and his sons James and Thomas. Thomas did not settle in Brook- field, but went to Hadley. Daniel and James settled in 1668, and stayed until the town was destroyed in 1675. James Hovey, a young man, was killed while fighting the Indians in King Philip's war. He left children: I. Daniel, brought up by his grandfather, for whom he was named. 2. James, mentioned below. 3. Priscilla, married Samuel Smith.

(III) James (2), son of James (1) Hovey, was born at Brookfield, in 1674. He settled at Malden, Massachusetts, was deacon of the church there, and a man of prominence. He had a grant of land at Malden in 1704-05, some years after he had made his home there. He fought in the French and Indian wars and was taken prisoner. The name of James Hovey, of Malden, was on a roll of English prisoners in the hands of the French and In- dians in Canada, which was brought by mes- sengers of the French governor, Vaudreil, in the winter of 1710-II. When he was taken and when he was released does not appear on the records. He married (first) Deborah by whom he had eleven children ; (second) Elizabeth, died October 1, 1750, aged fifty-four years ; (third) May 7, 1751, Susanna Dexter, died February 14, 1768, aged fifty-seven years. He died at Malden, July 13, 1765. Most of his children located at or near Mansfield, Connecticut, and have left a large number of descendants in Connecticut. Children of first wife: I. James, born Sep- tember 24, 1695. 2. Deborah, April 2, 1697. 3. Edmund, July 10, 1699; mentioned below. 4. John, February, 1700; died young. 5. Mary, December, 1702; married Nathan Sprague, April 17, 1749-50. 6. Joseph, Feb- ruary 6, 1704-05 ; married (first) Ruth Clos- son ; (second) Thankful Hovey. 7. Thomas, February 1, 1706-07. 8. Priscilla, December II, 1708. 9. Daniel, December 7, 1710 ; mar- ried Elizabeth Slap. 10. Samuel, April 29, 1713, died March 17, 1714. II. Abigail, March 15, 1714. Children of second wife: 12. James, born June 21, 1719. 13. Elizabeth,

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1723; died June 28, 1736. 14. Mary, born October 24, 1727. 15. John, October 23, 1730. 16. Joseph, June 10, 1739.

(IV) Edmund, son of James (2) Hovey, was born at Malden, July 10, 1699. He set- tled in Mansfield, and married (first) Febru- ary 8, 1727, Mary Earwell; (second) April 16, 1747, Anne Huntington. Children, born at Mansfield. I. Edmund, November 19, 1728; died 1769: married, December 15, 1749, Mary Gilbert. 2. Isaac, August 7, 1730; died 1767. 3. Mary, November 8, 1732; died 1749. 4. Aaron, April 22, 1735; died 1812; lived at Mansfield. 4. James, August 14, 1737; men- tioned below. 6. William, May 29, 1740; died 1748. 7. Elijah, September 30, 1741 ; died 1748. 8. Elizabeth, June 22, 1744; died 1811. Children of second wife: 9. Ann, born Janu- ary 20, 1747-48 ; died 1825. 10. William, July 6. 1749; died 1846. 11. Priscilla, April 17, 1751; died 1851. 12. Amos, April 9, 1753; died 1840. 13. Mary, 1755; died 1846.

(V) James (3), son of Edmund Hovey, was born at Mansfield, August 14, 1737. He is said to have died in 1767. Elijah and James, of Brimfield, are believed to be his sons. James Hovey, of South Brimfield, was in that town as early as 1775, a soldier in the revolution, that year, in Captain Amos Wal- bridge's company, Colonel David Brewer's regiment. In 1776, when he enlisted in Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment, he gave his age as twenty-one years, and his height five feet seven inches. He was also in Captain Daniel Winchester's company, Colonel John Bliss's regiment, assigned from that to Cap- tain Caleb Keep's company, Colonel Shep- ard's regiment, from 1777 to 1780.

(VI) Elijah, son of James (3) Hovey, was born about 1760, perhaps in Pomfret, Con- necticut. He settled in Monson, Massachu- setts, with his brother James, about 1775. James was in the revolution in 1776, from Brimfield, but neither appear in a list of in- habitants of 1775. Elijah deeded land there in 1800. Monson is one of the few towns of Massachusetts for which the schedule of names taken in the first federal census of 1790 is missing. He married Wealthy Utley. Children : Horace ; Oliver ; Hiram ; Oren, men- tioned below : Wealthy ; Sally ; Harriet. The order of birth is not known. Elijah Hovey set- tled in Munson, Ohio, later in life, but started to return home, was taken ill on the way, died, and was buried in a New York town. His widow returned to Monson, where she died

May 4, 1842, aged seventy-three years (gravestone).

(VII) Oren, son of Elijah Hovey, was born in Monson, Massachusetts, about 1800. He married Sally Childs .. Children: 1. Will- iam Oren, Daniel, Henry, Charles, Sarah, Mina and George.

(VIII) William Oren, son of Oren Hovey, settled in Monson and followed farming. In politics he is Democrat. He married Lucy, Daughter of Elam and Lavinia ( Bugbee) Ferry. Children, born at Monson: I. Fred- erick William, born December, 1867 ; married Gertrude Browning. 2. Bert, died in infancy. 3. Robert Ferry, mentioned below.

(IX) Dr. Robert Ferry Hovey, son of Will- iam Oren Hovey, was born at Monson, Febru- ary 19, 1875. He attended the district schools of his native town, and famous old Monson Academy from 1888 to 1891. He entered the New York Homoeopathic College and Hospital in 1894, and graduated in 1897 with the degree of M. D. For the next two years he was resident surgeon of the Rochester ( New York) Homoeopathic Hospital. He began to practice in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and in 1900 removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he has since practiced with marked success. Since 1901 he has been surgeon to the Wesson Memorial Hospital. He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the Mass- achusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Springfield Academy of Medicine, the Western Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, of which he is secretary and treasurer ; of the Allen Homoeopathic Materia Medica Club, and of the Winthrop Club, of Springfield. In politics he is Independent. He married, Au- gust 24. 1904, Florence Celia McWilliams, of Canandaigua, New York, born May 1, 1876, daughter of John and Margaret (Whetman) Mc Williams.

VAILLE Dr. Henry R. Vaille was a native of Marlborough, Vermont, where he was born in 1809, and spent his boyhood. He was of the Underwood family. and descended from that old New England colonial family, a sketch of which appears in this work. When a young man he changed his name to Vaille, from a mere fancy for the name, and from no estrangement with his family, but simply to please his intended, but for business reasons found it impractical to re- sume his former name later in life. His father was a farmer in Marlborough, and much of

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youth was spent on the homestead. He attend- ed the public schools of his native town and of Brattleborough, Vermont, and entered Will- iams College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1835. He was one of the last ten survivors of that class, and at commencement in 1884 the class reunion was attended by but two of the ten-Orrin Archer and Rev. Wor- cester Willey, of Andover, Massachusetts.

After graduation, Dr. Vaille became the first and only principal of the town high school, on School street, the school being discontinued soon because the people of Chicopee section objected to the distance from their homes. The present high school was started by the school district afterward formed. Mr. Vaille began the study of medicine in the office of a promi- nent physician at Springfield, Dr. Joshua Frost, and completed his studies at the Pittsfield Medical College, Massachusetts, and in Paris hospitals. He began to practice in Long- meadow, Massachusetts, but soon removed to Springfield, where he succeeded to the estab- lished practice of Dr. Frost. During the civil war he was in the service of the Christian Commission at the front for a time, and in the fall of 1863 was on duty in the military hos- pitals at Middletown, Maryland, attending the wounded after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. During his active career he enjoyed the largest and best practice in this section. He was an able and skillful physician and surgeon, a life-long student, always abreast of the advance in medical knowledge, possess- ing the confidence of patients and fellow- practitioners in the highest degree. Some years before his death he withdrew from active prac- tice and spent his declining years at his home in Springfield. He is described by an old friend as "a man of vim and fire, active shrewd and practical, and, like the late Dr. Collins, fond of driving one of the fastest horses in town." He joined the church early in life, and was a good citizen, attending to the duties of citizenship faithfully and exerting a whole- some influence in public as well as private life. He took no prominent part in politics and be- longed to no social organizations. He was a Republican in later years, formerly a Whig. He served the city with fidelity in the school board for a number of years, and was city physician for a long time. He was a member of the District Medical Society and of the Massachusetts Medical Society. At the time of his death, the former society, in a memorial to Dr. Vaille, said: "One who ever maintained the honor and worked for the interests of

legitimate medicine in opposition to every from of empiricism." A sister, Mrs. Colburn, of Langdon, New Hampshire, died the same day as Dr. Vaille, and Mrs. Goodell, of Marl- borough, Vermont, survived him.

He married (first) Anna Pitman, daughter of Rev. B. H. Pitman, of Albany, New York. She died 1847. He married (second) 1849, Sarah W. Lewis, of Walpole, sister of Mrs. John E. Hixon and Mrs. Emerson Wight, of Springfield. His widow survives him, residing at 201 Maple street, Springfield. She is a member of the Congregational church, and well known and greatly esteemed in social life in this community. Children of first wife: I. Henry R., born in Springfield, now deceased ; his widow resides in Athol, Massachusetts ; one son, Howard Stanhope, resides in New York. 2. Thomas P., born in Springfield ; resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Children of second wife: Frederick O., born July 28, 1850; resides in Denver, Colorado; married Harriet Wolcott ; children : Harriet W., Edith W. and Agnes W. 4. Frank W., born Decem- ber 7, 1854; resides in Seattle, Washington ; superintendent of thirteenth division of the railway mail service; married Juna Boaz, of Indianapolis, Indiana ; children : Frank W. Jr., and Madora. 5. Madora C., born May 15, 1857; married Andrew Brabner Wallace, of Springfield, Massachusetts ; children : Andrew Brabner, Jr., Douglas Vaille, Madora, Ruth and Norman. 6. Howard T., born February 26, 1861 ; resides at Denver, Colorado ; engaged in telephone business; married Martha Elder. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; children : Rebecca and Sarah.

(For preceding generations see Captain Edward Johnson 1).

(III) Obadiah, third son of

JOHNSON John Johnson, was born in Woburn, June 15, 1664. He settled in Canterbury, Windham county, Con- necticut.

(IV) Obadiah (2), son of Obadiah (1) Johnson, was born about 1700.

(V) General Obadiah (3), son of Obadiah (2) Johnson, was born in Canterbury, Con- necticut, in 1736. He was a prominent citizen, and an officer in the militia before the revolu- tion. He was major of the Third Connecticut Regiment, under Colonel Israel Putnam, sta- tioned at Cambridge, during the siege of Bos- ton, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill : was lieutenant-colonel in Colonel Andrew Ward's regiment, stationed in New York, near

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Fort Lee, took part in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and encamped with Washing- ton's army at Morristown; became colonel of the Twenty-first Connecticut Regiment of militia, and in 1777 of the Twenty-fifth Regi- ment. He served the town of Canterbury also on the committee of inspection at the time the revolution began. He was afterward com- missioned general. He died in 1801. He married, and among his children was John.

(VI) John (2), son of General Obadiah (3) Johnson, married, and among his children was Frank.

(VII) Frank, son of John (2) Johnson, was born in 1821, died January 10, 1888. He was a banker. He resided in Norwich, Con- necticut. He married Mary Rebecca Mackie, born 1827, died March 21, 1885, daughter of John and Mary Rebecca Mackie. Children : I. Edward Whiting, born 1849; died 1878. 2. Frank Mackie, born April 22, 1856; mentioned below. 3. John Mackie, born 1859 ; died Octo- ber 24, 1898. 4. Arthur Gilman, born 1865; died 1878.

(VIII) Dr. Frank Mackie Johnson, son of Frank Johnson, was born at Norwich, Con- necticut, April 22, 1856. He attended the public schools and the Norwich Free Academy. He entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1879 with the degree of B. S. He studied his profession in Harvard Medical School, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1883. He then went abroad and studied in the schools and hospitals of London, Paris and Vienna. He returned to Massachusetts and opened his office in Boston, and for twenty years devoted himself to his general practice. He also continued his studies, and since 1903 has been a most successful spe- cialist in diseases of the kidneys, bladder and

kindred diseases. He has written many mono- graphs and contributions to medical literature, namely : "Cystoscopic Measures an Adjuvant in the Treatment of many Conditions found in Women ;" "Cystoscopy and Renal Lavage;" "Cystoscopic et Lavages des Reins (Revue Practique ) ;" "Lavage of the Renal Pelvis in the Treatment of Lithaemia Pyelitis and cer- tain forms of Nephritis;" "Lavage in the Treatment of Diseases of the Kidneys ;" "Lithaemia, its Diagnosis and Local Treat- ment ;" "Renal Lavage in Pyelitis and Certain Forms of Nephritis ;" "Addenda to Therapeu- tic Measures in Certain Forms of Nephritis ;". "Certain Diseases of the Kidneys, the Sequelae of Gonorrhoea and their Treatment ;" "The Diagnosis of Abnormalities and Diseases of

the Uretes ;" "Remarks upon Symtomotology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Renal Calculus;" "Stenosis of the Female Urethra, its Recogni- tion and Treatment." While in general prac- tice, Dr. Johnson was medical examiner for twelve of the leading insurance companies. He has taken courses in his special subjects at the Post-Graduate School, College and Hospital, of New York. He is associate editor of the American Urological Magazine.

He is a member of Ulysses Lodge of Free Masons; the University Club; the Country Club ; the New York Yacht Club ; the Anglers Club, of which he is president ; member and president of the Single Hook Club ; member of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association, and of the American Fishery Association. He has written many articles in the sporting papers on angling and kindred subjects, also for Forest, Lake and River. He is a member of the Massachusetts Forestry Association and of the North American Fish and Game Protec- tive Association. He is a member of various medical societies -- the Boston Medical Society, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Society, American Urological Society, New England Urological Society. He was three years a cadet and nine years surgeon of the Massachusetts Light Artillery. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society, Sons of the American Revolution.

Dr. Johnson married (first) Olive Smith Witter, born 1861, died June 4, 1894, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Witter, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Married (second) Anna Mabel Maxim, born November 6, 1862, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Maxim, of Taunton, Massachusetts. Children of first wife: I. Frank M., born June 9, 1885. 2. Cecil Haven, born February 25, 1887. 3. Mary Rebecca, born June 1, 1889.

FARNUM Farnham is the name of an ancient and honored English family. In America the spell- ing Farnum is used by some branches of the family, and branches of the Varnum family spell their name Farnum also. According to Burke the family seat of the Farnhams in Eng- land was in Leicester county, at Querndon House. By deeds without dates there appears to have been two Lords of Querndon in Lei- cestershire prior to the reign of Edward I. Burke gives the line of the principal family of the name as follows: I. Robert Farnham. 2. Sir Robert Farnham, knight. 3. Sir John Farnham, of Querndon, county Leicester, in

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reign of Edward I. 4. Sir Robert Farnham, knight, living in Querndon, 1346. 5. John Farnham, Esquire, married Margaret Billing- ton. 6. Robert Farnham, Esquire, living in 1440, ancestor of many of the Farnhams, of Querndon. 7. Thomas Farnham, Esquire, of Nether Hall, ancestor of the fourth degree. 8. William Farnham, Esquire, of Nether Hall, knight, married Barbara, sister of Sir John Hersey, and had: 1. John, married Dorothy Walwyn, whose only daughter, Dorothy, mar- ried Sir George Wright. 2. Thomas, of Stoughton, died 1562, leaving an only daugh- ter, Katharine, who married Sir Thomas Beau- mont. 3. Matthew, succeeded his elder brother in the estates. 9. Matthew Farnham, Esquire, of Nether Hall, married Lamentia Barrett, of Medbourn, Leicestershire, and had: Mary, married Richard Dawes ; Humphrey, see for- ward. 10. Humphrey Farnham, of Nether Hall, married Elizabeth, daughter of William Digby, Esquire, of Welby. He lived at the period that the two American emigrants, John and Ralph, went to New England, and while he was perhaps not their father, there is every reason to believe the emigrants were from Lei- cestershire, and close relatives. The coat-of- arms of the branch of the family herein con- sidered, is: A shield, divided into four squares of blue and white, into a crescent on each upper square, for service in the Crusades. Crest : A griffin's head erect, ready to strike.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 65

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008