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Woodman, Mary Barker, and their children. It was proved September 25, 1694. Children : I. John, born June 20, 1639, at Newbury ; selectman, and prominent in militia ; died March 5, 1689, while on military duty. 2. Timothy, born September 23, 1641. The fol- lowing born at Andover: 3. Nathan, 1643; married, 1692, Elizabeth Abbot; served in King Philip's war as corporal. 4. Ephraim, 1649; married, 1680, Sarah Abbot; sergeant of militia; selectman. 5. Joseph, May 15, 1654; mentioned below. 5. Captain Benja- min, June 24, 1656; married Susannah Symmes; died 1730; deputy to general court. 7. Elizabeth, married Joshua Woodman. 8. Mary, married John Barker.
(II) Joseph, son of John Stevens, was born in Andover, May 15, 1654, and died Febru- ary 25, 1743, aged eighty-eight years. He set- tled in his native town, and in 1675 took the oath of allegiance prescribed by the king. He was elected deacon of the church in 1694, and was a leading citizen of the town for many years, constable, highway surveyor, and on committee for care of the church. He mar- ried (first) May 28, 1679, Mary Ingalls, born January 25, 1659, died September 21, 1699, daughter of Henry and Mary (Osgood) In- galls. He married ( second) Elizabeth Brown. Children, born at Andover: I. Rev. Joseph, June 20, 1682; graduate of Harvard College, 1703; minister at Charlestown, ordained Oc- tober 13, 1713; died of small pox November 16, 1791. 2. James, January 31, 1685-86; mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, born about 1690. Probably other children.
(III) Captain James, son of Deacon Joseph Stevens, was born in Andover, January 31, 1685-6, and died May 25, 1769, aged eighty- four years. On his gravestone is inscribed : "Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord." He was in the French and Indian wars, 1744- 49, and commanded a company of Andover men in the Cape Breton expedition, taking part in the capture of Louisburg. With others of this army he was one of the first who pe- titioned for a grant of land for services, No- vember 22, 1751, and received land in the province of Maine. He was a prominent man in his day; selectman in 1742; town treasurer from 1721 to 1729 and from 1733 to 1734. In his will, 1768, he bequeathed to grandson Jonathan, son of deceased son James, the land east of the road from John Johnson's to the meeting house. He married, March 18, 1712- 13, Dorothy Frye, born 1695, died March 7, 1751, aged fifty-six, daughter of Captain James
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and Lydia (Osgood) Frye. Children: I. Phebe, born 1714; married, 1736, Benjamin Harrod, of Boston. 2. Mary, born 1717 ; mar- ried, 1739, Samuel Appleton, of Haverhill. 3. James, born October 17, 1721; mentioned below. 4. Joseph, born 1725-28. 5. Benja- min, 1732; married Hannah Varnum, of Dra- cut, and died 1793. Three others died of throat distemper in 1738, and two others died in infancy.
(IV) Ensign James (2), son of Captain James ( I) Stevens, was born at Andover, Oc- tober 17, 1721. He raised a company at Andover, and fought in the French and In- dian war. He marched to Lake George as ensign, at the head of his company, and died there of camp fever, November 28, 1755, in his thirty-fifth year. He was in Captain Abiel Frye's company, Colonel Williams's reg- iment. His widow petitioned for reimburse- ment for loss of personal effects in the service. He married, August 1, 1745, Sarah Peabody, born March 31, 1728, died September 26, 1808, daughter of John and Sarah (Ingalls) Peabody. She married (second) John Peters. Children: I. Jonathan, mentioned below. 2. James, settled in Jaffrey, New Hampshire ; marched on alarm at Lexington, April 19, 1775. 3. Lydia, married a Mr. Peters.
(V) Jonathan, son of Ensign James (2) Stevens, was born April 8, 1747, in Andover, and died April 3, 1834. He marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, with his brother, in Captain Thomas Poor's company, Colonel James Frye's regiment. He served in Captain Benjamin Ames's company, Colonel Frye's regiment, at the battle of Bunker Hill, and on the anniversary of the battle he invari- ably invited his comrades in the fight, and entertained them at his home with hearty, old- fashioned hospitality, while the old veterans fought their battles over again. He was also in the battle of Ticonderoga, and a letter to his sister, dated at Pawlet, October 1, 1777, is published in "History of Andover" (p. 377). He was a large strong man, and worked as a farmer all day and carried on the trade of currier after candle light. In 1799, when it was desired to establish Franklin Academy, he gave land on the hill north of the meeting house for the academy. It was the first academy where both sexes were tanght. He married, December 15, 1773, Susanna Bragg, born August 19, 1755, died March 3, 1840, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy ( Ingalls) Bragg. Children: 1. Jonathan, born July 3, 1774 : married, June 27, 1799, Debbe Poor ;
lived in Andover, Maine, and died in Cutler, Maine. 2. James, born November, 1777. 3. Dolly, born November 21, 1779, died young. 4. Jeremy, born August 22, 1781, died in 1800. 5. Hannah, born May 5, 1783, married Thomas Prime, of Salem. 6. Isaac, born May 10, 1785 ; married, September 29, 1814, Hannah Cummings ; (second) Betsey Poor ; farmer at Andover ; sons: Major General Isaac Ingalls, and Oliver, district attorney Suffolk county. 7. Nathaniel, born October 19, 1786; men- tioned below. 8. Dolly, born September 26, 1788. 9. Moses, born October 1, 1790; col- lege graduate, and teacher of school for boys at Nashville, Tennessee. 10. Sally, born No- vember 9, 1792. II. Oliver, born May 3, 1794, died in New Orleans. 12. Judge Will- iam, born January 21, 1799; married (first) Eliza Leach Watson; (second) Elizabeth Barnard Phillips, daughter Lydia Phillips Stevens, resides on Everett street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 13. Susanna, married Cap- tain Ephraim McFarland, of Belfast, Maine.
(VI) Captain Nathaniel, son of Jonathan Stevens, was born in Andover, October 19, 1786, and died at North Andover, March 7, 1865. He and his brother William were edu- cated in the public schools and at Franklin Academy. In 1804, after leaving school, he took a sea voyage to Leghorn as a common sailor before the mast, for the sake of his health and the experience. He was a trader in Andover from 1810 to 1812. He was a lieu- tenant in the Andover company in the war of 1812 and was later captain. The example and encouragement of his father-in-law, Moses Hale, started him in the manufacturing busi- ness. Entering partnership with Dr. Joseph Kittredge and Josiah Monroe in 1813, he built the wooden mill on the site of the first saw mill in the Cochickawick river, the same building, with brick instead of wooden walls, being still in use as part of the Stevens mills. James Scholfield was engaged to take charge of the mills, and Mr. Stevens devoted his en- tire attention to manufacturing. By perse- verance and energy he soon mastered in all its details the art of manufacturing cloth. He then decided to give up making broadcloth, in which he experimented first, because of the difficulty of making the goods and the uncer- tainty of profit, and began to manufacture flannels, the pioneer in this manufacture in this country. In 1828 and 1831 he bought out his partners and took entire charge of the mill and business. He was warned by well- meaning friends that he would lose his time
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and sink his capital. Abbot Lawrence, the im- porter, especially warned him that American manufacturers could not compete with the British successfully. "Take my advice," said he, one day, when Mr. Stevens carried a load of flannels to Boston, "sell out your mill and go into some other business." "Never," re- plied Mr. Stevens, "as long as I can get water to turn my mill wheel." Captain Stevens con- tinued despite the discouragements of small and insufficient capital, of narrow and incon- venient quarters, and of a market flooded with foreign goods, against the advice of his friends, and won eventually a brilliant success. He lived to become one of the most wealthy, honored and influential manufacturers of the country, a leader in the woolen industry of the country, carrying on a business for half a century with continuous success and increasing volume. He had the satisfaction also of see- ing the industry, in which he was a pioneer, become of giant proportions in the United States ; he saw American looms producing the best goods and winning a place in the markets of the world, employing millions of dollars in capital, and hundreds of thousands of men, perhaps no one manufacturer, no single indi- vidual in this country, contributed more than Mr. Stevens in paving the way for the textile industries that have held the prestige of New England when she ceased to be of importance as an agricultural community. He opened the way to wealth for the nation by proving that American mills could be operated profitably. He was a remarkably shrewd and far-sighted business man, of much common sense and con- summate executive ability. He had no pre- cedents to fall back upon. He had to rely on his own discretion in making goods and mar- keting them. He was always generous with the wealth that came as a fruit of his enter- prise and industry. He contributed to every charity within his reach and was especially eager to contribute to the welfare and progress of his native town. He was the leading citizen of North Andover for many years. He de- rived much pleasure from the cultivation of his ancestral acres. He was a man of iron constitution and phenomenal industry. He used to say that he never felt fatigue until he was fifty years old. He was a member of the Merrimac Power Association, and one of the founders of the city of Lawrence, formerly a part of Andover. He believed in the value of sound learning, and gave the best possible education to all of his large family. In poli- tics he was an ardent Democrat, a loyal sup-
porter of Andrew Jackson's administration, and formidable in debate in defending and supporting "Old Hickory." When the civil war came, he was loyal to the Union, and did his utmost to support the administration in his old age. In religion he was a Unitarian. Three of his sons became associated with him in business in Andover, and all five became prominent manufacturers. To the sons as well as to the father, the town of Andover, the town of North Andover, and all the other vil- lages in which the family has mills, owe a great debt. They have been model mill pro- prietors in every sense of the word.
Mr. Stevens married, November 6, 1815, Harriet Hale, born August 21, 1794, died Jan- uary 29, 1882, daughter of Moses Hale, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Her father was a pioneer manufacturer. Children : 1. Charles Abbot, mentioned below. 2. Henry Hale, mentioned below. 3. Ann Eliza, married John H. D. Smith. 4. Julia Maria, married Rev. Sylvan S. Hunting. 5. Moses Tyler, men- tioned below. 6. Catherine, married Hon. Oliver Stevens. 7. George, married Harriet Lyman Brooks, of Newport, Rhode Island. 8. Harriet, died 1843. 9. Horace Nathaniel, married Susan Peters.
(VII) Charles Abbot, son of Nathaniel Stevens, was born in Andover, in August, 1816, and died at Ware, Massachusetts, April 7, 1892, aged seventy-six years. He learned the manufacturing business in his father's mill at Andover. In 1841, with George H. Gilbert, he removed to Ware and began to manufact- ure woolens. The firm prospered for ten years, then dissolved, and each of the partners continued in business alone, both being re- markably successful. Mr. Gilbert died in 1868. Mr. Stevens married, April 20, 1842, Maria Tyler. He was a man of stalwart presence, fresh complexion, genial disposition and manners, and was, as a biographer ex- presses it, "one of nature's noblemen." He was a Republican, active in politics, and rep- resented his district in congress, and for many years was a member of the governor's council. Children : I. Charles Edward, born April 21. 1843. 2. Jonathan Tyler, born November 29, 1844: married Alice Coburn.
(VII) Henry Hale, son of Nathaniel Stevens, was born in Andover, April 6, 1818, and died at Kissimmee, Florida, March IO, 1901. He was educated at Franklin Academy, Andover. He entered his father's woolen in- dustry, remaining until 1842, when he engaged in the manufacture of woolen cloth until 1845,
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in company with George Hodges, when he visited Great Britain and Ireland to study the manufacture of linens. In 1846 he returned and began the manufacture of linens at Dud- ley, Massachusetts, in the old merino wool factory. The first lot of flax machinery was received in May, 1846, and Mr. Stevens began to make crash and later burlaps from Ameri- can grown flax. The business proved suc- cessful, and in 1855 he made an extensive im- provement in the plant, building dams, erected new water wheels, and repaired the buildings. In 1862-65 he erected the fine building which has since been the main mill, of stone, five stories high, seventy by two hundred and seven feet, with an extension seventy by eighty- three, and an east wing forty by two hundred and ten, and a west wing twenty-four by eigthy. By much native energy, ability and perseverance, Mr. Stevens built up a large business in a hitherto unoccupied field, and maintained the lead in this industry in this country to the time of his death. At one time this was the only mill of the kind in this coun- try. He received five gold medals as awards on goods of his manufacture. The mills were devoted exclusively in later years to the manu- facture of crash. The business was incorpo- rated in 1867 with David Nevins Sr. as presi- dent and one of the largest stockholders. In January, 1877, Mr. Stevens retired from the management of the company. The capital stock was then $350,000, and the capacity of the plant six million yards a year. M. T. Stevens of North Andover was afterwards president of the company. In politics Mr. Stevens was a Democrat ; in religion a Unitar- ian. He was a member of the state legisla- ture, held minor town offices, and served as a member of several national conventions.
He married, December 7, 1843, Eliza Poor Osborn, born at Danvers, November 30, 1823, daughter of Miles and Eliza ( Poor ) Osborn, granddaughter (paternal) of Lydia South- wick, sixth in descent from Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, who were banished in 1659 from Massachusetts Bay Colony because they were Quakers. Daniel Southwick, their son, with his sister Provided, was ordered by the court to be sold into slavery in Virginia or the Barbadoes on the same day their parents were sentenced to banishment. Her paternal great-grandmother, Mary Proctor, fourth in descent from John Proctor, who was hanged on a charge of witchcraft at Salem, Massa- chusetts, August 17, 1692. Her maternal great-grandfather, Colonel Thomas Poor, of
Andover and Methuen, was son of Thomas and Mary (Adams) Poor, the granddaughter of William and Ann (Sewell) Longfellow. Ann Sewell was sister of the famous Chief Justice Sewell. Colonel Poor was a promi- nent figure in the French and Indian war and in the revolution.
Children of Henry Hale and Eliza (Poor) Stevens: I. Harriet Louisa, born in Andover, October 10, 1844 ; married, at Dudley, August 28, 1873, John Edward Stevens of Leeds, England ; she and her husband lived three years in Russia ; children: i. Sidney, born at Stuttgart, Ger- many, June 3, 1877 ; married Edith Hawkins, and had John Edward (10), born March '27, 1909, at Ludlow, Massachusetts; ii. Mary Louise, born at Dresden, Germany, May 15, 1879, married Walter C, Arensberg, of Oak- mont, Pennsylvania; iii. John Naylor, born at Ludlow, Massachusetts, April 14, 1883 ; mar- ried Leila Stebbins Saffords, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Harriet died July 7, 1901. 2. Eben Sutton, born at Dudley, December II, 1846; educated in the public schools and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; built a mill near Quinebaug in West Dudley, Massa- chusetts, in 1872, and engaged with great suc- cess in the manufacture of jute goods, and under his personal supervision the business grew to large proportions ; married, in Oxford, September 10, 1872, Gertrude, sister of Hon. Richard Olney, daughter of Wilson and Eliza (Butler) Olney ; child, Gertrude Olney, born in Dudley, November 15, 1873, married, in Dudley, June 1894, Clarence Edwin Cleveland. 3. Mary Kittredge, born in Dudley, November 5. 1849 ; educated in private schools : resides at 105 Ingersoll Grove. Springfield, Massachu- setts ; member of Mercy Warren Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and prominent in social life.
(VII) Moses Tyler, son of Nathaniel Stevens, was born in Andover, October 10, 1825. He was educated in the public schools and in Franklin Academy and Phillips Acad- emy of Andover, taking one year in Dart- mouth College. He left college to become associated in business with his father. He learned every detail of the manufacturing and marketing of flannel, and in 1850 was admitted to partnership with his father under the name of Nathaniel Stevens & Son. This partner- ship lasted for a period of twenty-six years. The firm was dissolved in 1876, about ten years after the death of the senior partner, the business being continued by his brothers and himself separately. He then began to
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manufacture ladies' dress goods. In 1886 his sons Nathaniel and Samuel D. Stevens were admitted to partnership, and the firm name M. T. Stevens & Sons adopted. In July, 1879, Mr. Stevens bought the Marland mills at An- dover, established in 1834 by Abraham Mar- land, a native of Ashton parish, Lancashire, England, employing about one hundred and fifty hands and manufacturing about five hun- dred thousand pounds of wool yearly. The Stevens mills at Haverhill, Andover and North Andover were connected by telephone soon afterward, and the management made easier. The old mills at North Andover employed about a hundred hands, using over three hun- dred thousand pounds of wool yearly. The Stevens firm acquired another mill at Frank- lin Falls, New Hampshire. As a manufac- turer of woolen goods Mr. Stevens ranks among the foremost in the country. He is president of the Stevens Linen Works, a cor- poration of Webster, Massachusetts. He was conceded to be the owner of the largest private woolen establishment in the country.
AIr. Stevens was as prominent in public life as in the business world. He represented his district in the general court in 1861, and was state senator in 1868, serving on im- portant committees. He was the first Demo- crat elected from his district to congress -- the Fifth district, formerly the Eighth. In 1890 he defeated Frederick T. Greenhalge, an able and popular congressman, afterward gov- ernor of Massachusetts. Mr. Stevens was placed on the ways and means committee, and introduced the bill placing wool on the free list in the Fifty-second Congress. He was the most prominent American woolen manufact- urer favoring free wool, and was a powerful factor in framing tariff legislation. He was re-elected for the next term, and again served on the ways and means committee. Mr. Stevens has given freely to private and public charities. He has contributed five thousand dollars to the Johnson high school building, and aided the First and Second Parish churches generously. He is keenly interested in all that makes for the material and moral welfare of North Andover. He gave a free summer resort at Lake Cochockawich for the poor. He is a director and former president of the Andover National Bank; trustee and former president of the Andover Savings Bank : and director of the Mutual Fire Insur- ance Company. In religion he is a Unitarian, and is treasurer and one of the chief support-
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ers of the North Parish church. He was prominent- in the Unitarian Club of Beacon street, Boston. He married, at North An- dover, May 5, 1853, Charlotte Emeline Os- good, daughter of Isaac and Charlotte (Adams) Osgood. Children : I. Mary O. 2. Nathaniel, married Elizabeth White. 3. Samuel D. 4 Virginia. 5. Helen. 6. Moses Tyler.
Samuel Packard, immigrant PACKARD ancestor, came to New Eng- land with his wife and one child in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich, John Martin, master, in 1638. He came from Windham, a small hamlet near Hingham, county Suffolk, England. He settled in Hing- ham, Massachusetts, and removed about 1660 to Bridgewater. He held office there in 1664, and was licensed to keep an ordinary in 1670. His sons and probably he himself were sol- diers under Captain Benjamin Church, in King Philip's war, in 1675-76. His will was dated 1684. Children: I. Elizabeth, born probably in England ; married, 1665, Thomas Alger, of WVest Bridgewater. 2. Samuel Jr., born in Hingham; married Elizabeth Lathrop. 3. Zaccheus, mentioned below. 4. Thomas, born in Hingham; living in Bridgewater in 1673. 5. John, born in Hingham. 6. Nathaniel, mar- ried daughter of John Kingman. 7. Mary, married Richard Phillips. 8. Hannah, mar- ried Thomas Randall. 9, Israel. 10. Jael, married John Smith. II. Deborah, married Samuel Washburn. 12. Deliverance, married Thomas Washburn.
(II) Zaccheus, son of Samuel Packard, was born in Hingham, and died in Bridgewater, August 3, 1723. He married Sarah, daughter of John Howard, of West Bridgewater. Children, born in Bridgewater : I. Israel, April 27, 1680. 2. Sarah, August 19, 1682 ; married July 27, 1704, Captain Josiah Edson; died 1754. 3. Jonathan, December 7, 1684; mar- ried, December 24, 1719, Susanna Hayward; (second) Abigail 4. David, Febru- ary II, 1687; married, December 17, 1712, Hannah Ames; died November 3, 1755. 5. Solomon, March 20, 1689; married, Novem- ber 16, 1715, Sarah Lathrop; (second) Su- sanna Kingman; (third) October 5. 1760, Dorothy, widow of Mark Perkins. 6. Deacon James, mentioned below. 7. Zaccheus, September 4, 1693; married, October 21, 1725, Mercy Alden ; died 1776. 8. John, Oc- tober 8, 1695 ; married, 1726, Lydia Thomson ;
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died June 3, 1738. 9. Captain Abiel, born April 29, 1699; married, January II, 1723, Sarah Ames; died 1776.
(III) Deacon James, son of Zaccheus Packard, was born June 2, 1691, and died No- vember 4, 1765. He married, in 1722, Je- mima, daughter of Joseph Keith. Children : I. James, born 1724. 2. Keziah, 1727, mar- ried, 1748, Nehemiah Lincoln. 3. Jemima, 1729; married, 1759, Ichabod Edson. 4. Re- becca, 1732; married, 1749, Luke Perkins. 5. Reuben, mentioned below.
(IV) Reuben, son of Deacon James Pack- ard, was born in 1737. He removed to Heb- ron, Maine. He married (first) in 1759, Anne Perkins ; (second) in 1796, Jerusha Hol- brook, of Weymouth. Children, all by first wife: I. Ichabod, born 1760; married Rachel Cole. 2. Nehemiah, mentioned below. 3.
Susanna, born 1763. 4. Anne, 1765.
(V) Nehemiah, son of Reuben Packard, was born in Bridgewater, in 1762. He was a solider from Bridgewater, in the revolution, in Captain Josiah Packard's company, Colonel Edward Mitchell's regiment ( Third Plymouth County) ; later in Captain John Porter's com- pany, Colonel Wigglesworth's regiment, 1777. He was enlisted by James Hatch, muster master, and was then but sixteen years old, according to revolutionary rolls. He was a drummer in Captain Pilsbury's company, Colonel Calvin Smith's regiment in 1780, and was at West Point with the army in 1780. Ac- cording to the descriptive lists he was nineteen years old, five feet six inches in height, and of dark complexion, dark hair and dark eyes, in 1781. He was also in Captain Benjamin Pike's company, Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Smith's regiment. He was one of the soldiers of the Eighth company, Sixth Massachusetts regiment entitled to a gratuity of $80 for serv- ing during the war, in accordance with Act of Congress of May 15, 1778. About 1780 he removed to Oakham, Massachusetts, where he lived the rest of his life. He married (in- tention dated at Oakham, October 23, 1780), Lucy Nye, of Barre, who died at Oakham, August 29, 1846, aged eighty-three. Her gravestone gives her age as eighty-four. He died at Oakham, January 24, 1830, aged sixty- eight years, according to town records. Chil- dren, recorded as born at Oakham: I. Hannah, May 14, 1780. 2. Ruth, October 26, 1783; died July 31, 1824. 3. Susanna, November 7, 1785 ; died March 29, 1786. 4. Rebecca, born December 21, 1786. 5. Nathan, June 29, 1789; died March 18, 1815. 6. Sally, born
April 27, 1792. 7. Parley, mentioned below.
(VI) Parley, son of Nehemiah Packard, was born in Oakham, March 30, 1794, and died there September 26, 1849. He was a farmer and substantial citizen of Oakham. He married (intention dated at Oakham, Novem- ber 15, 1812) Anna Allen, of Spencer. Chil- dren, born at Oakham: I. Betsey, December 16, 1814; married Isaac Pratt. 2. Ann, No- vember 18, 1817; married Sumner Ross. 3. Otis, mentioned below. 4. David, December 28, 1828.
(VII) Otis, son of Parley Packard, was born at Oakham, December 16, 1821, and died at Ware, Massachusetts, 1906. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. He followed farming in Ware. He married Miliata Ross. Children, born at Ware: I. Clara, 1851; married Fred Hitchcock. 2. Henry Otis, mentioned below. 3. Lizzie, re- sides at Ware. 4. Child died in infancy.
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