Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 81

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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(III) Daniel, son of Samuel Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, February 28, 1694, and died in 1797. He removed from Dartmouth to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was ad- mitted a freeman in May, 1732, and where he carried on the business of house carpenter with his brother, Wing Spooner. After a time he removed to New Bedford and thence to Hard- wick, prior to June 16, 1748. In a deed of July 14, 1750, he is described as of Petersham,

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and was living there the preceding year, when he and his wife were admitted to the church by letter from the Dartmouth church. On July II, 1750, he was chosen deacon of the First Church, Petersham, and held that office many years. He was active in town affairs and served in some capacity from 1755 to 1768. An addition to the village was laid out by him. He was remarkably vigorous in his old age, and it is said that after he had passed his nine- tieth year he made the journey to Vermont on horseback to visit his sons. His home in Petersham is still standing, and is owned by a descendant. He married, October 10, 1728, Elizabeth Ruggles, born October 21, 1710, died August, 1767, daughter of John and Hannah (Devotion) Ruggles. He married (second) September 3, 1767. Bethiah Nichols; (third) October 16, 1780, Mary, born October 9, 1727, died May 9, 1822, widow of Paul Dean, daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Rosilla ( Coombes) Whit- comb. Children: I. Lucy, born August 29, 1729; died April 2, 1821. 2. Elizabeth, born January 14, 1731 ; died November 24, 1756. 3. Philip, born December 13, 1733; died Sep- tember 30, 1826. 4. Shearjashub, born Au- gust 14, 1735 ; died April 25, 1785. 5. Ruggles, born March 24, 1737; died 1831. 6. Wing. born December 29, 1738; mentioned below. 7. Eliakim, born April 7, 1740; died January 3, 1820. 8. Daniel, born December 10, 1741 ; died November, 1828. 9. Hannah, born June 25, 1743: died young. 10. Paul, born March 20, 1746 ; died September 5, 1789.

(IV) Wing, son of Deacon Daniel Spooner, was born December 29, 1738, and died Decem- ber 7, 1810. He served in the French and Indian war, enlisting when nineteen years of age in Captain Stone's company, and in 1758 serving in the company of Captain Alexander Dalrymple, under Colonel Jedediah Preble. In April, 1775. he was a private in Captain John Wheeler's company, Colonel Ephraim Doo- little's regiment, and became captain of a com- pany. He commanded a company in Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's regiment at the battle of Bennington, and was present at the battle of White Plains. His house in Petersham is still standing, on the New Salem road in Petersham, about a half-mile west of that village. He married, Jannary 27, 1763, Eunice Stevens, born August 31. 1746, died August, 1838, daughter of Joseph Stevens. Children : 1. Stevens, born August 17, 1763; died August 17. 1827. 2. Ruggles, born April 18, 1765 : (lied June 2, 1836. 3. Hannah, born January 7, 1767 ; died June 10, 1828. 4. Dolly, born

May 12, 1769; died September 23, 1852. 5. Joel, born April 26, 1771; died February 14, 1850. 6. Charles, born January 13, 1773 ; died September 23, 1816. 7. Wing (twin), born November 20, 1775; mentioned below. 8. Eunice (twin with Wing), died November 14, 1861. 9. Asa, born February 20, 1778; died August 14, 1851. 10. Daniel, born May 25, 1780; died April 1, 1849; married, May 3, 1807, Louisa Dana. II. Joseph, born August 29, 1782; died October II, 1782. 12. Lois, born December 24, 1783 ; died April 9, 1844.

(V) Wing (2), son of Wing (I) Spooner, was born November 20, 1775, and died May 22, 1853, in Petersham. He was a farmer, and lived all his life in his native town. He was prominent in town affairs, and frequently held office. He married, in 1800, Mary Gould, born 1780, died November 27, 1854, daughter of Dr. John and Matilda (Daniels) Gould. Children: I. Lebbeus, born March 21, 1806; married, May 22, 1831, Laura Negus; (sec- ond) September 2, 1851, Patience Bartlett. 2. Stevens, born January 19, 1808; mentioned below. 3. Maria, born January 8, 1810; died young. 4. Maria, born September 8, 1811. 5. Laura, born November 4, 1813; married, No- vember 23, 1835, William G. Goddard. 6. William, born January 20, 1815. 7. Sarah, March 17, 1820.

(VI) Stevens, son of Wing (2) Spooner, was born in Petersham, January 19, 1808, and died December 29, 1882. He occupied the home- stead in Petersham, and for fifty years was a singer and played double bass in the church choir. He married Mary Angela Negus. Chil- dren : I. George H., born 1833. 2. Caroline N., 1835. 3. Benjamin White, 1837; men- tioned below.

(VII) Benjamin White, son of Stevens Spooner, was born in Petersham, July 8, 1837. He received his education in the public schools of his native town, supplemented by a course in the schools at Westminster, Vermont. He worked on the farm with his father until the breaking out of the civil war, when hc enlisted as a member of Company F, Fifty-third Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, serv- ing through the Gulf campaign. He was pres- ent at the siege of Port Hudson, as well as many minor engagements ; was also with Gen- eral N. P. Banks on the Red River expedition, and held the rank of corporal. At the close of the war he returned to Petersham and car- ried on the farm, and was also a large dealer in stock, and carried on a meat business. He is a Republican in politics, and is actively inter-

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ested in the work of his party. For many years he was on the parish committee of the Unitarian church, of which he has long been a member. He is a member of the Athol Grand Army Post, and the Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry.

He married, January 1, 1862, Fannie M. Grout, who died December 23. 1904, daughter of Sylvester Grout, of Westminster, Vermont. Children: 1. Carrie, born July 8, 1864; mar- ried George W. Harris. 2. Mabel A., born April 8, 1866; unmarried. 3. Fanny Gertrude, born May 15, 1868 ; married Horatio N. Tower (see Tower ). 4. Edith Blanche, born January 24, 1874; married B. W. Towne. 5. George Hayes, born March 5, 1877 ; married Freda- ricka Fuhr.

The records state that Stick- STICKNEY ney is a large village on the Boston road, eight and one- half miles north of Boston station, in the soke of Bolingbroke, Union of Spilsby, Lindsley division, diocese of Lincoln, England. From this came the surname Stickney. In the parish register of St. Mary's Church, parish of Framp- ton, wapentake of Kirton, Lincoln county, England, three and one-half miles south from Boston, are many records of baptisms, mar- riages and burials of Stickneys from 1558 to 1609. The name does not appear on those records after that date. Tradition and informa- tion obtained in England render it probable that the family removed to Hull or its vicinity.

(I) William Stickney, the first settler, was the ancestor of nearly all who have since borne that name in America. It is inferred from rec- ords procured in England that he was the Will- iam who was mentioned as baptized in St. Mary's Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire, Eng- land, April 6, 1592, son of William Stickney, of Frampton, who was baptized December 30, 1558, and married, June 16, 1585, Margaret Peirson, and grandson of Robert Stickney, of Frampton, who made his will October 3 and was buried October 18, 1582.

William Stickney, the settler, seems to have come probably from Hull, Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1637, and from the records of the First Church, in Boston, it appears that "The 6t of ye IIth moneth 1638 Willyam Stickney a husbandman & Elizabeth his wife" and others were admitted; and "The 24th day of ye 9th Moneth 1639, Our brethren Mr. Henry Sandys, William Stickney * * * by ye Churches Silence were dismissed to ye gathering of a Church at Rowley if the Lord so please."

William Stickney with his wife and three eldest children were among the original settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts. "On the seventh of October 1640 * Willi : Stickney were * * admitted Freemen." In 1639 William Stick- ney had land allotted to him upon which he erected a house, on the corner of Bradford and Wethersfield streets. He was a member of an important committee in 1652 to draw up "a covenant and agreement," between the town of Rowley and the first settlers of the Merri- mack lands, now Bradford. He was clerk of the market, on jury of trials 1653, selectman 1656 and 1661, also in 1661 styled lieutenant. The ancient possession books of Rowley con- tain frequent records of grants of land to him and from him and his wife. In the town books of Rowley, it is recorded that William Stick- ney was buried January 25, 1665. Elizabeth Stickney survived her husband several years. The date of her death is not known. On the two hundredth anniversary of the death of William Stickney, a granite obelisk was erected on his grave bearing the following inscription :

WILLIAM STICKNEY BORN IN FRAMPTON, ENGLAND, A. D. 1592. WAS, WITH HIS WIFE ELIZABETH OF BOSTON, IN N. E. IN 1638 OF ROWLEY IN 1639, WHERE HE DIED A. D. 1665 ERECTED BY HIS DESCENDANTS JOSIAH STICKNEY, OF BOSTON. MATTHEW ADAMS STICKNEY OF SALEM, JOSEPH HENRY STICKNEY, OF BALTIMORE, MD., 1865.

The children were: 1. Samuel, born in Eng- land, 1633; married Julia Swan; Prudence Gage. 2. Amos, born England, 1635. 3. Mary, born in England, 1637 : married James Borker, Jr. 4. John, born I mo. 14 da. 1640; married Hannah Brocklebank, June 29, 1680. 5. Faith, born 12 mo. 4 da. 1641 ; married Samuel Gage. 6. Andrew, born 3 mo. II da. 1644; married Eduah Lambert; Elizabeth Jewett. 7. Thomas, born I mo. 3 da. 1646: married Mehitable Kimball. 8. Elizabeth, born I mo. 3 da. 1646 ; died December 4, 1659, Rowley, Rec., Decem- ber 7, Court Records. 9. Mercy, born II mo. 4 da. 1648; died September 17, 1660.

(II) Amos, second son of William and Elizabeth Stickney, was born in England, about

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1635, and died in Newbury, Massachusetts, acre of arable land in Newbury. April 29, 1736, of Edward Richardson, of Newbury, innholder, for £21 I 3-4 acres of land in New- August 29, 1678. He came with his father to Rowley, Massachusetts, and learned the trade of weaver, tradition says, from John Pear- . bury, July 24, 1733, Moses Stickney, for £260 son, who according to Johnson had set up in in current money, conveys to Stephen Pettin- gill of Newbury, coaster, a certain tenement in Newbury, it being about two acres of land with dwelling house and barn standing thereon, September 16, 1734, Moses Stickney of Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, formerly of Newbury, Massachusettes, for £30, conveys to James Pearson of Newbury, two and one-half acres of pasture land near New Bridge in Newbury. Coffin, the historian, says, "he died a member of the Society of Friends," which is probable, as his wife's connections were of that so- ciety. Administration on the estate of Moses Stickney was granted December 6, 1758 His inventory, taken "6th 12th mo., 1758" dis- closes house and barn on four acres of land, eighteen acres in another parcel, and nine acres in another. Moses Stickney is styled in deeds cordwainer, yeoman, and husbandman, and his descendants at Hampton say that he was a master mariner. He resided in that part of Newbury, now Newburyport, on Merrimack street, but he sold his property in 1733, and removed to Hampton, New Hampshire, where he left a family who became connected by mar- riage with some of the first families of the state. He married, September 7, 1707, Sarah, daughter of Elihu and Elizabeth (Wade) Wardwell, of Newbury, granddaughter of Colonel Jonathan Wade, of Ipswich, who left her £50 in his will, dated 1669. Children : Sarah, Eunice, John, Jane, Wade, Molly, Will- iam, Elizabeth and Susan. Rowley before 1643 "the first fulling mill in America." After completing his trade he estab- lished himself as a weaver in the neighboring town of Newbury, where his father had left him "some part of the estate toward settling there." January 19, 1658, Amos Stickney, of Newbury, bought of Robert Morse, tailor, and Ann, his wife, of Newbury, for £34, "all that house and three acres of land situate, lyeing and being in Newbury above sayd, on the South of the trayneing greene, one acre whereon the house, garden and orchard, is setuat upon," &c. May II, 1663, he in consideration of a mare and colt delivered him by Anthony Morse Jr., of New- bury, sold him two acres of land purchased of Robert Morse. May 13, 1663, he bought of Solomon Keyes of Newbury, and Frances his wife, for £60 "all the house, barn and ye parcell of land on which it standeth, and ye whole lot formerly purchased of Wm. Titcomb of 4 acres, with privileges of a freehold as it lyeth in Newbury in the south-west corner of South Field, next Little Pine Swamp," &c. "Amos Stickney, of Newbury, took the oath of fidelity to the commonwealth this 25 of ye 3 mo. 1669 before me Robert Pike, Com." September 19, 1670, "The Town granted to William Titcomb and Amos Stickney the little pine swamp to be their proprierty with the skirts of the common, provided they make and maintain a sufficient fence about the hole for the safety of the cattle from time to time." Amos Stickney made a will August 27, 1678, which was proved September 24, 1678. He lived on the homestead and freehold bought of Solomon Keyes. He married, in Newbury, June 24, 1663, Sarah Morse. After his death she married (second) in Newbury, December 17, 1684, Stephen Acreman. She died there December 7, 1711. Children: Sarah (died young ), John, Andrew, Amos, Joseph, Ben- jamin, Hannah, Sarah, and Moses, the sub- ject of the next paragraph.

(III) Moses, youngest child of Amos and Sarah (Morse) Stickney, was born in New- bury, November 26, 1677, and died at Hamp- ton Falls, New Hampshire, February 27, 1756. Moses Stickney bought lands as follows: No- vember 14, 1705, of Henry Lunt, of Newbury, weaver, for £15, one acre of arable land in Newbury, April 23, 1712, of Edmund Titcomb, of Newbury, joiner, for £17 10 s. and one

(IV) William (2), third son of Moses and Sarah (Wardwell) Stickney, was born in Newbury, October 5, 1719, and died in Newbury, September 28, 1790. February 6, 1755, William Stickney, of Newbury, ship- wright, bought of his brother, John Stickney, merchant, a dwelling house and barn. April 21, 1772, he bought eighteen acres of land and buildings thereon for £240. May 18, 1773, he bought for froo a house and barn in Newbury. He made several other purchases, the last December 4, 1789. He was on the grand jury, February 27, and March 9, 1768, and March 28, 1769. May 2, 1786, he was chosen one of a committee in Newbury to instruct their rep- resentatives to the general court. The inven- tory of the estate of William Stickney, taken July 22, 1791, includes among other things, one house and barn with twenty acres of tillage, and eighteen of pasture land, £494; thirty-

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five acres of pasture land in Highfield, £105; 28 rods of land in Newburyport, with dwell- inghouse, store and barn thereon, £300; state notes, gun, library, cattle, farming tools, silver plate, &c. In the house, on the estate Will- iam Stickney bought of his brother John, in 1755, he resided till 1772, when he bought property in Newbury, upon which he removed and resided till his death. He was in the Third Foot Company of Newbury, com- manded by Major Joseph Coffin, 1757. He married Wilthen Perkins, who survived him, and died in Newburyport, September 27, 1821. aged ninety. Her will, dated January 6, 1808, was proved December, 1821. Children : Sally, William (died young), Elizabeth, Abi- gail, Anna, Moses, William, Benjamin, Jane and John.

(V) General Benjamin, fourth son of Will- iam (2) and Wilthen ( Perkins) Stickney, was born in Newburyport, June 13, 1767, and bap- tized at St. Paul's Church, August 10, 1770. He removed from Newburyport with his father when nine years of age, to Newbury, oldtown. He was major of militia as early as 1798, and wrote from Newbury, September 9, 1814, to Colonel John Johnson, of the Fifth Regiment, "to have it in readiness to march at a moments warning to Boston"; signed "by order of General Stickney." In 1828 he was elected major-general, and continued to hold that office until his death. He was a justice of the peace in Newbury, and for eight years a naval officer in the custom house at New- buryport. He died July 19, 1846, in New- bury, where a monument is erected to his memory. His will, dated March 2, 1844, was probated August, 1846. His inventory made September 21, 1846, gives items: homestead, house, barn, eighteen acres of land, cattle, two pews in Rev. Mr. Whittington's church, sil- ver plate, books, family pictures, &c. Benja- min Stickney married, in Newbury, June 5, 1793, by Rev. Mr. Kimball, Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Dole) Poor. She was born September 21, 1772, was a member of Rev. Mr. Withington's church and died in Newbury, December 17, 1854. Children : Charles, John, Benjamin (died young), Anna, Sarah, Benjamin, Robert Clark, Jane Clark, and Edward.

(VI) Robert Clark, fifth son of General Benjamin and Anna (Poor) Stickney, was born in Newbury, September 1, 1809. He was a partner with his uncle in timber lands and manufacturing lumber at Calais, Maine. He represented Calais in the state legislature, was ii-33

a commissary during the civil war in the Army of the Potomac, and was afterward in gov- ernment employ at Washington, D. C. He married, in Calais, December 20, 1838, Susan Eliza, daughter of John C. and Margaret Dutch, of Eastport, Maine. She died in Calais, September 4, 1857, aged forty. Chil- dren : A son (died young) ; John Morton; a son (died young) ; Anna Caroline; Charles Edward, mentioned below; a son (died young ).

(VII) Charles Edward, fourth son of Rob- ert C. and Susan (Dutch) Stickney was born in Calais, Maine, February 22, 1853, and died in Springfield, Massachusetts, at his home, 102 School street, January 27, 1909. The first nine years of his life he passed in Calais, and then went to live with relatives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, his father being in the army, and his mother having died when he was four years old. He attended the Abbott school in Pittsfield, and later a military academy at Au- burndale, Massachusetts. When he left Pitts- field as a young man he went to Boston with the John C. Page Company, then one of the largest insurance concerns in New England. He remained in Boston for some years, and be- fore leaving filled the position of fire insurance adjuster. He went from Boston to Philadel- phia and received the appointment of special agent of the Fire Association of Philadelphia, and later resigned this position to become spe- cial agent for the Continental Company in New York City. In 1887 he became a part- ner with Dr. Joseph C. and James H. Pynchon in the insurance business in Springfield, con- tinuing till 1896, when he bought out his part- ners' interests. From that time till his death he conducted the business alone Mr. Stickney was one of the best known fire insurance men in New England. He was an acknowledged expert in this branch of business, and for twenty years had been the Springfield and Western Massachusetts agent for many of the leading fire insurance companies of the world. He had increased his own business here and always held the confidence of property owners. He was special agent for all the properties of the Catholic diocese of Springfield, and had placed all of the insurance for the Boston & Albany railroad for years, up to the time of its affiliation with the New York Central. He was one of the three men who placed insurance several years ago for the Central on all the lines of the Boston & Albany, the West Shore and the Big Four. Mr. Stickney was a Re- publican, and as such served in the Springfield

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council in 1892-93, and drafted the ordinances creating the fire commission. He was largely responsible for getting the measure through, in the face of much opposition. The local board of trade always enjoyed his hearty en- dorsement. He was one of the original mem- bers of the Nayasset Club and its first secretary, and was a prominent member of the Transpor- tation Club of New York. He was a member of the Springfield Country Club, and was especially fond of out door sports. He was active in the First Congregational church.

Charles E. Stickney married, October 31, 1883, Mary De Forrest Newell, born in Long Meadow, August 7, 1857, daughter of Samuel R. and Augusta (Hine) Newell, of Spring- field. (See Newell, VIII.) Children : 1. Sam- uel Newell, born September 2, 1884; attended the Springfield high school for two years, then St. Paul's School at Concord, New Hampshire, three years, and entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1908, and is now in business in Galveston, Texas. 2. Isabel, born December 8, 1886; educated in the Mc- Duffie School of Springfield, and Mrs. Dow's school at Briar Cliff, New York ; died August IO, 1909.

(The Newell Line-see Abraham Newell 1).

(VIII) Samuel Ruggles, eldest child of Cyrus and Celina (Sessions) Newell, was born in Springfield, July 31, 1822, and died Decem- ber 4, 1878 He worked on his father's farm and attended school until 1837, having among his schoolmates Samuel Bowles, Charles O. Chapin, James Kirkham and others who were later well known in business circles in Spring- field. When Samuel was fourteen his father removed to Long Meadow and after two years of work on the farm there the lad began his active business life. In the spring of 1837 he went to Wilbraham, where he was employed in a store during the ensuing summer. Re- turning to Long Meadow in the autumn, he remained at home and attended school through the winter. At the close of the school term he entered the employ of Bolles & Childs, wholesale dealers in small wares, at Hartford, and with them remained five years. He was afterward for some time clerk with Gerry Hastings, in the same business, in Hartford. He spent the next year at home and in a store at Springfield. In the spring of 1845 he went to Naugatuck, Connecticut, and served two years as a bookkeeper in the woolen mill of William De Forest. He was then employed in the factory of Ames & Newell, at Union

City, until the dissolution of that firm in the autumn of 1848. He next engaged in set- tling up the business of the firm in New York, and in the spring of 1849 went to Long Meadow and became a member of the firm of D. Chandler & Company. A year after Nelson C. Newell sold out his interest in the India Rubber business, the two brothers associated themselves with Dimond Chandler in the man- ufacture of buttons which Mr. Chandler had started some years before. At that time Mr. Chandler employed six hands and the busi- ness was in its infancy in every respect. They continued with Mr. Chandler until just before the civil war, under the firm name of Dimond Chandler & Company, and then bought him out. At that time there were but thirty hands employed. A short time after taking control of the business under the firm name of Newell Brothers, Daniel Colton interested himself in having the business removed to Springfield, and at his suggestion and by his assistance they established themselves in their present business location at the foot of Howard street. At that time they manufactured only covered buttons, but soon added ivory buttons, and the business has grown steadily and rapidly. A few years ago the firm name of Newell Brothers was changed to that of Newell Brothers Manufacturing Company. Of the firm of Newell Brothers, Samuel R. was always the financial manager, and after the formation of the Newell Brothers Manufact- uring Company he was its treasurer. He had also been president of the Dickinson Hard Rubber Company, which was formed a few years before his death for the manufacture of rubber buttons, and was a partner in the New York firm of Newell Brothers & Dick- inson. Mr. Newell lived to see his firm's list of employees grow from six to five hundred, and doubtless his unremitting attention to business was in part, at least, responsible for the original development of the disease which terminated his life at the comparatively early age of fifty-six. Mr. Newell never held any public office, though he always took great in- terest in political matters, and the last time he left his house was on November 5, for the purpose of voting. In parish and church affairs he was always conspicuously active and helpful, and the First church and parish had in him a member who could always be de- pended on to do whatever work was required of him. He was a most faithful worker and generous giver, and is greatly missed in the official places in church and parish where his

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advice and counsel was always listened to with profound respect. Few men are more in- stinctively correct in their judgments and de- cisions than he was, and those who had been associated with him the longest and the closest bear the most grateful testimony to the sunny kindness, quiet energy and conscientious de- votion to duty which characterized his actions. Mr. Newell was a deacon in the First church from 1871 till his death, and was for some time superintendent of the Sabbath school. When he left the superintendency in 1873 he became a teacher, and so remained until a few weeks before his death. His place at the Sab- bath services and at the weekly prayer meet- ing was never vacant when he was in health except for extraordinary reasons. As a busi- ness man and a citizen Mr. Newell long filled a prominent place in the community.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 81

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