Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 96

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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(VII) William Hobbs, son of Joseph Ger- rish Goodwin, was born October 9, 1822, died May 13, 1897. Mr. Goodwin acquired his early training in business in the counting room of his uncle, Governor Ichabod Goodwin, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and during that period was a member of the governor's house- hold. The house was engaged in the East India trade and Mr. Goodwin made several voyages to India on business and lived in Cal- cutta a number of years before his marriage. He came to Boston in 1853 and continued in the East India trade up to 1873, when he became president of the Elliot National Bank of Boston and devoted his attention mainly to the banking business during the remainder of his life. He was a staunch Republican in poli- tics, and for one term was a member of the Massachusetts lower house. He was a Uni- tarian in religion, devoted to the work of the church, liberal in support of same, and mani- fested a great interest in all things pertaining to benefit mankind. He married in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, June 29, 1852, Mary Evert Wendell, born August 28, 1828, daugh- ter of Jacob Wendell (see Wendell family). Children : I. Wendell, born May 6, 1853, died unmarried March 31, 1898; graduate of Har- vard College in the class of 1874: an active business man in Boston and New York until his death. 2. Frances, December 7, 1854, resides at the homestead, Jamaica Plain. 3. Hettie Rogers, April 13, 1856, died August 17, 1908; married William P. Warner, a prom- inent banker; children: i. Goodwin Warner, born January 17, 1887; ii. Dorothy Sherburne Warner, born September 1, 1889; iii. Margaret Warner, born August 4, 1891; iv. Elizabeth Warner, born August 21, 1899. 4. Mary Evert,

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April 13, 1859, married Rear Admiral Arthur P. Nazro, of the United States navy ; had no children. 5. Caroline Wendell (twin), Octo- . ber 25, 1861, married (first) Arthur Green- ough, who died in Colorado in 1890; (second) in 1892, David Stoddard Greenough, brother of her first husband ; child, Mary Greenough, born September 6, 1896. 6. William Hobbs, Jr. (twin), October 25, 1861, died February 18, 1904; graduate of Harvard, class of 1884 : stood very high as a business man and citizen ; member of the Boston stock exchange ; married, June 18, 1897, Eleanor Sherwin ; chil- dren: i. William Hobbs, Jr., born May 4, 1898: ii. Isabel, June II, 1899; iii. Eleanor, March II, 1901.

WENDELL Evert Jansen Wendel, immi- grant ancestor, came of a Protestant family resident at Uphward, East Friesland. There is no record of the place or date of his birth. His mother was a widow in 1650. She died and was buried at Uphward, February, 1657. Evert Jansen Wendel came from Emden under the Dutch West India Company to New Nether- land, America, 1640. He lived in New Am- sterdam on Manhattan Island for nearly five years after his arrival. His home was on Beaver Lane, between the present Broadway and Broad street, New York City. He re- moved to the trading post of Fort Orange, which is now the site of Albany, New York. He received a grant of land. About 1700 he lived on the west corner of James and State streets; he died in 1709 and was probably buried under the old church then standing at the junction of Yonker and Handelaer streets, now State street and Broadway, Albany. He was a leading man, and held various offices of trust among them that of Regerenden Dijaken of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1656, and magistrate of Fort Orange, 1660-61. He married (first) July 31, 1644, Susanna Trieux, daughter of Philip and Susanna du Trieux. Her father was marshal of New Netherland. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Everhardus Bogardus in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at New Amsterdam. Married (second ) in 1663. Martje Abrahamse Vosburgh, of Beverwyck, widow of Tomas Jansen Mingael. Married (third) Arianntje Children of first wife: I. Thomas, inherited his father's estate; died unmarried. 2. Abraham, married, April 12, 1698, Mayken Van Nes, of Albany. 3. Elsje, baptized 1647. 4. Johannes, baptized 1649, mentioned below.

5. Diewer, baptized 1653. 6. Hieronymus, bap- tized 1655, married Airaantje Harmense Visscher. 7. Philip, baptized .1657, married, June 17, 1688, Maria Harmense Visscher. 8. Evert, baptized 1660, married Elizabeth San- ders; died June 16, 1702. Children of second wife: 9. Isaac. 10. Susanna, married, August 18, 1686, Johannes Teller. 11. Diewertje, mar- ried (first) Myndert Wemp; (second) June 21, 1671, Johannes Sanderse Glen.

(II) Johannes Wendel, son of Evert Jan- sen Wendel, was born in New Amsterdam, 1649, and baptized in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church February 2 of that year. At an early period he became a general trader in Albany. He prospered and amassed much property, and achieved prominence in the colony. He lived on the present State street, Albany. He was magistrate in 1684; captain in the Colonial service in 1685; alderman of Albany in 1686; in 1690 he with others was empowered with discretionary authority to treat with the Five Nations, and to superin- tend the defense of Albany. He died in 1691, and his will was proved February 9 of that year. He left a large landed estate, having acquired by marriage a considerable addition to an already large estate. He married (first) Maritie Jillisse Meyer, daughter of Gillis Pie- terse and Elsie Hendrikse Meyer. Married (second) Elizabeth Staats, daughter of Major Abraham and Katrina (Jochemse) Staats. She married (second) April 25, 1695, Captain Jo- hannes Schuyler. Children of first wife: I. Elsie, married, July 3, 1696, Abraham Staats, Jr. 2. Maritie, married, June 23, 1729, Jan Johannese Oothout. Children of second wife : 3. Abraham, baptized December 27, 1678, men- tioned below. 4. Susanna, married Jacobus Davidtse Schuyler. 5. Catalyntje, married Jacobus Davidtse Schuyler. 6. Elizabeth, mar- ried Johannes Ten Broeck. 7. Johannes, bap- tized March 2, 1684, married Elizabeth Wal- ters. 8. Ephraim, baptized June 3, 1685, mar- ried Anna - - 9. Isaac, baptized January 28. 1687, married, November 28, 1717, Cata- lyna Van Dyck. 10. Sarah, baptized Novem- ber II, 1688. II. Jacob, baptized August 5, 1691, married, August 12, 1714, Sarah Oliver ; removed to Boston.

(III) Abraham Wendell, son of Johannes Wendel, was baptized in Albany. December 7, 1678, and on his mother's marriage to John Schuyler was sent to live with Colonel De Puyster in New York, where he grew up. He became an importer of importance, engaged in trade with the leading cities of Holland and

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with those of New England. He was an ex- tensive landowner and a wealthy man, liberal, and a worthy citizen. Late in life he retired from business and removed to Boston, where he died September 28, 1734, and was buried in the family tomb of his son, John Wendell, numbered 55 in the Granary burying ground on Tremont street. He married, May 15, 1702, Katarina De Key, eldest daughter of Thennis and Helena (Van Brugh) De Key. Children and dates of baptisms: I. John, baptized May 2, 1703, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, Aug- 11st 20, 1704, married, April 15, 1725, Edmund Quincy ; died November 7, 1769. 3. Abraham, March 3, 1706, died April 17, 1741 ; married Jane Phillips. 4. Helena De Key. September 21. 1707, died in West Indies; married John Rogers. 5. Catharina, March 27, 1709, mar- ried William Bulfinch. 6. Jacobus, August 3. 1712. 7. Lucretia, July 18, 1714, died 1752 ; married Samuel Sturgis. 8. Theunis De Key, June 24. 1716, died young. 9. Theunis De Key. October 30, 1717. 10. Hendrikus, August 3, 1719. 11. Sarah, January 20, 1721, married John Dennie. 12. Mary, married Peter Oliver.

(IV) John, son of Abraham Wendell, was baptized May 2, 1703, in the Reformed Prot- estant Dutch Church of New York. He was educated in New York, and then removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where he engaged in business. He was a merchant and importer, in partnership with his uncle, Hon. Jacob Wen- dell. The firm had a large wholesale ware- house located in Merchants' Row, then the commercial centre of the West India trade, situated at that time on the waterside. The firm was a great sufferer in the disastrous fire which swept the city, March 20, 1760, and never fully recovered from the loss. John Wendell ranked among the first citizens and was repeatedly commissioned in the militia, being field officer at the time of his death. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company from 1733, was ensign of that corps in 1735 and commander in 1740. His mansion stood in 1760 on the corner of Queen (the present Court) and Tremont streets, facing on Tremont. The building now standing on the site is the same structure, though greatly altered and remodelled. A tablet inserted in the Court street end com- memorates the fact of its occupation by Wash- ington on the occasion of his visit to Boston in 1789. John Wendell married, November IO, 1724. Elizabeth Quincy, daughter of Hon. Edmund and Dorothy (Flynt) Quincy, of Braintree. (See Lowell's Letter Book II,

178). Married (second) in 1751 Mercy ( Bar- rett) Skinner, of Marblehead. He died De- cember 15, 1762. Children, all by first wife : 1. Jacob, born November 23, 1725. 2. Abra- ham, September 23, 1727, died unmarried April 13, 1752. 3. Elizabeth, October 16, 1729, mar- ried Solomon Davis. 4. John, September 10, 1731, mentioned below. 5. Dorothy, March 19, 1733, married Richard Skinner. 6. Ed- mund, May 13, 1735, married Knight ; (lied March 2, 1793. 7. Jacob, October 19, 1736. 8. Henry Flynt, December 23. 1737, died at sea. 9. Josiah, lost at sea January 21, 1762. 10. Catherine, married Solomon Davis ; (lied April 7, 1805. 11. Sarah. 12. Thomas, April 1744. married Elizabeth Trivett. 13. Sarah, May 1, 1745, married John Gerry ; (second) June 18, 1786, General John Fiske. 14. Isaac. 15. Child, stillborn.

(V) John (2), son of John ( 1) Wendell, was born in Boston, September 10, 1731. He entered Harvard College at the age of fifteen, graduating in 1750. He removed soon after- wards to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and became a lawyer. His contemporaries were prominent in the revolution, and he was a personal friend of Hon. Elbridge Gerry, Gen- eral Philip Schuyler, General Peter Gainse- voort, General John Sullivan and Thomas Dudley. He was a man of vigorous mind and generous disposition. He was a fluent writer and a student. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale College in 1768 and from Dartmouth in 1773. He died in Ports- mouth, April 29, 1808, in his seventy-seventh year. He married (first) June 20, 1753, Sarah Wentworth, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Frost) Wentworth, of Portsmouth. She died November 17, 1772. Married (second) Aug- ust 20, 1778, Dorothy Sherburne, born Aug- ust 20, 1752, daughter of Judge Henry and Sarah ( Warner) Sherburne. Children of first wife: I. Sarah Wentworth, born October 5, 1754, married, December 31, 1784. Edward Sargent. 2. Elizabeth, October 11, 1755, died July 16, 1756. 3. John, October 25, 1757, died August 15, 1799, unmarried. 4. Daniel Went- worth February 15, 1760, died January 27. 1780. 6. Edmund, July 15, 1762, died May 14, 1763. 6. Elizabeth, April 9, 1764. 7. Helena De Key, February 28, 1766, married Benjamin Sherburne. 8. Edmund, March 4, 1769, married Elizabeth Cotton. 9. Hannah, March 3, 1770, died April 17, 1771. 10. George Wentworth, March 22, 1771, married, August 15. 1795, Rebecca Sherburne. 11. Child, died young. Children of second wife: 12. Doro-

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thy Sherburne, February II, 1780, married, August 7, 1802, Reuben Shapley Randall. 13. Mary, September 30, 1781, died March 20, 1787. 14. Daniel, November 25, 1783, died unmarried March 24, 1807. 15. Abraham, March 18, 1785, married Susan Gardner ; died March 27, 1865. 16. Isaac, November 1, 1786, married Ann Austin Whittier. 17. Jacob, De- cember 10, 1788, mentioned below. 18. Mary Sherburne, August 7, 1790, died August 19, 1790. 19. Henry Flynt, July 10, 1791, died August 25, 1796.

(VI) Jacob, son of John (2) Wendell, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 10, 1788, died August 27, 1865. He was educated in his native town and early engaged in business. In 1815, in partnership with his brother, Isaac Wendell, and others, he em- barked in the industry of manufacturing cotton goods and established some of the earlier mills of New Hampshire. They purchased the Waldron farm in Dover, New Hampshire, and erected several mills. The first mill was started in 1821 and two years later another mill was built upon Salmon Falls river on a site purchased of Gershom Horn, being the pioneer enterprise of the Great Falls corpora- tion. The mills earned a handsome profit until the disastrous financial panic of 1827-28, when few manufacturers escaped bankruptcy. The great Falls Manufacturing Company failed and Mr. Wendell lost a large part of his for- tune. He was an admirably upright man. He held to the Unitarian faith, and was a zealous and faithful member of the South Parish Society of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, unit- ing with the church during the memorable pastorate of Rev. Nathan Parker, between whom and Mr. Wendell existed a lifelong friendship. He was keenly interested in Amer- ican antiquarianism and was a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society from 1847 to the time of his death. His home was on Pleasant street, Portsmouth. He mar- ried, August 15, 1816, Mehitable Rindge Rogers, born September 2, 1795, died April 30, 1859, only daughter of Mark and Susanna (Shores-Gardner ) Rogers, of Portsmouth. Children: I. Mark Rogers, see forward. 2. Mehitable Rindge (twin), born June 30, 1818, married, October 28, 1844, Isaac Henry Stan- wood, of Woodville, Mississippi; died in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, October 3, 1847, and buried at Portsmouth ; child, James Rindge Stanwood. 3. Caroline Quincy, December 24, 1820, inherited the homestead at Portsmouth, and died there, 1890. 4. Jacob, September 23, 1822, died

March 20, 1826, and buried at Portsmouth. 5. Mary Evert, December 25, 1824, died April 29, 1826, and buried at Portsmouth. 6. Jacob, July 24, 1826, died in New York City, May 21, 1898; resided in Boston and New York, and was a successful commission merchant. He married, in Boston, October 24, 1854, Mary Bertodi Barrett, born in Boston, November 19, 1832; children :. i. Barrett, professor of English in Harvard College ; was born in Bos- ton, August 23, 1855 ; married, in Quincy, Mass- achusetts, June 1, 1880, Edith Greenough ; (children : Barrett, Jr., born April 19, 1881 ; Mary Barrett, born in Boston, February 17, 1883, married in Newcastle, New Hampshire, September 8, 1902, G. M. Wheelock, child, Thomas Gordon Wheelock, born January 22, 1904 ; William Greenough, born in Boston, No- vember II, 1888; Edith, born in Boston, Sep- tember 5, 1893) ; ii. Gordon, born in Boston, February 5, 1859; commission merchant in New York City; married, in Philadelphia, 1887, Frances C. Elwyn; iii. Evert Jansen, born in Boston, December 5, 1860; iv. Jacob, born in New York, April 13, 1869; engaged in business in New York City ; married, 1895, in Washington, Marion Fendall; children : Jacob, Reginald Lee, Anna Catherine, Fred- erick and Philippa Fendall. 7. Mary Evert, August 28, 1828, married, June 29, 1852, Will- iam Hobbs Goodwin, of North Berwick, Maine; (see Goodwin). 8. George Blunt, January 31, 1831, died at Quincy, Massachu- setts, December 25, 1881; married, January 7. 1861, Elizabeth Thompson, of Portsmouth ; she resides in Quincy, Massachusetts.

The Rindge family is of English origin, the immigrant ancestor being Daniel Rindge, who came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1639, and removed to Ipswich in 1648; married Mary Kinsman and died in February, 1661. Isaac, son of Daniel Rindge, married Elizabeth (Dutch) Kinsman. Their son, John, born at Portsmouth, June 1, 1695, married Ann Odiorne, of Newcastle; was a merchant of high standing and had a handsome estate; served several terms in the provincial assem- bly, was commissioner to the court of Great Britain in behalf of the province to settle the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1731-32, while he was in his Majesty's Council in 1738-40. Of their thir- teen children one, Elizabeth, married Mark Hinckley Wentworth, and was mother of John Wentworth, last royal governor of New Hamp- shire ; another Mehitable, born September 22, 1725, married Daniel Rogers. Mark Rogers

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was the tenth child of Hon. Daniel and Me- hitable (Rindge) Rogers. He was a descend- ant through Daniel Rogers, of Portsmouth; Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, of Portsmouth; Rev. John Rogers, of Ipswich, fifth president of Harvard College; Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, the immigrant ancestor, who settled in Ipswich, 1636; and Rev. John Rogers, the noted Puri- tan preacher, of Dedham, county Sussex, Eng- land.

(VII) Mark Rogers, eldest child of Jacob Wendell, was born in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, June 30, 1818, died February 28, 1901, and was buried in Forest Hills. In his young manhood he left his native place and went to New Orleans, Louisiana. He came back east before 1850, and located in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, where he became connected with the Lawrence & Company (later Lawrence, Stone Company), manufacturers' agents. He acquired an intimate practical knowledge of the business, and after some years came to Boston, shortly before the breaking out of the rebellion, and aided in organizing the firm of Perry, Wendell, Fay & Company, later Wen- dell, Fay & Company, widely known manu- facturers' agents, one of their largest plants being the Middlesex Mills, of which Mr. Wen- dell was one of the promoters, and for many years he was a large stockholder and a direc- tor. He was a moving spirit in the progress of the business of the firm, and was highly regarded for his masterly business ability. After engaging in business in Boston, Mr. Wendell was a director for many years in the old Boston National Bank. He established himself on a beautiful estate on Greenough avenue, Jamaica Plain, and where he resided until his death. His widow and a portion of the family yet reside there, and are prominent in the social life of that beautiful residential section. Mr. Wendell was for some years a member of the Eliot Club. He married, June 13, 1849, Catherine (nee Gates) Thaxter, tak- ing the latter name by adoption. Children of Mark Rogers and Catherine ( Thaxter) Wen- dell: I. Katharine R., born May II, 1851, is unmarried ; resides at the family home. 2. Frank T., January 30, 1852, died June 12, 1905. He was successor to his father's busi- ness. He married, in Roxbury, Helen Stan- ford, who resides at Jamaica Plain. Children : Mark Thaxter, John Wheelwright, Dorothy and Constance (twins), Percy, Thaxter. 3. Eliza Paris, Jamaica Plain, July 15, 1854, mar- ried Richard Devens, a relative of General Charles Devens, a distinguished officer in the

Union army during the rebellion. She resides on the Greenough avenue estate, Jamaica Plain. 4. Caroline Quincy, resides with her mother ; unmarried. 5. Benjamin Thaxter, October 30, 1859, educated in the schools of Boston ; is engaged with his brother, Mark Rogers Wendell, in the capacity of proprietors of the Clark Manufacturing Company, Boston, and is actively interested in local affairs. He is a member of the Eliot Club. 6. Mark Rogers, Jr., July 24, 1864, and after completing his public school education, he associated himself with his brothers, as proprietors of the Clark Manufacturing Company (inc.), organized in 1899. Besides giving his attention to this large and successful enterprise, he is active in many affairs affecting Greater Boston, and is highly regarded in both business and social circles ; he married, in Jamaica Plain, Emily Andrews Clark, born in Dorchester, and was liberally educated in private schools.

GAINES The Gaines family from Eng- land settled early in Virginia and became one of the leading

families of that section at an early date. The

Massachusetts branch setled in Berkshire

county before the revolution. William Gaines was a soldier in the revolution from Shef- field, Massachusetts, in Lieutenant Colonel Millens's company, Colonel James Wesson's regiment, in 1777 ; Ebenezer Gaines, of North- ampton, a youth of sixteen, was in the army in 1779. John Gaines was in a Stockbridge company in 1777. Joshua and William of Sheffeld were also in the army.

(I) Joseph Gaines was in the revolution from western Massachusetts in Captain Tim- othy Childs's company, Colonel David Leon- ard's regiment at the battle of Ticonderoga. After the war he and his brother David settled in Guilford, Vermont, settled and cleared their farms, in the southeast part of the town. David may have been father instead of elder brother. According to the census of 1790 David and Joseph were the only heads of families of this surname in that part of Vermont. David had two males over sixteen and seven females ; Joseph had three males under sixteen and three females in his family. Children: I. Joseph, mentioned below. 2. Jesse, married, 1813, Lucy Stebbins, sister of Tabitha Steb- bins who married Joseph Gaines, Jr.

(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) Gaines, was born about 1790 in western Massachu- setts : came with his father to Guilford and settled when he came of age on the farm

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owned later by his son Joel. He was a farmer and shoemaker by tradc. He married Tabitha Stebbins, born February 15, 1791 (see Steb- bins family herewith), daughter of Abner and Mindwell ( Mars) Stebbins. They had ten children, of whom eight grew to maturity. He dicd in 1869, she in 1878. Children : Horace, had part of the homestead ; Mindwell, Lucina, . Lucy, Joseph, Joel, Electa, Benjamin.

(III) Joel, son of Joseph (2) Gaines, was born at Guilford, May 17, 1829, and was edu- cated there in the public schools. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm and himself followed farming all his active life. He mar- ried, August 2, 1890, Sarah Jane Tubbs, born December 19, 1836, daughter of Samuel Tubbs. Children: 1. William B., born March 16, 1861, mentioned below. 2. Mary, died in infancy. 3. Everett E., born in Guilford, Aug- ust 23, 1864, now selectman of that town and a prominent and useful citizen. 4. Emma M., born October 28. 1869, married Charles J. Andrews.

(IV) William B., son of Joel Gaines, was born in Guilford, March 16, 1861. He attend- ed the public schools of his native town and the Powers Institute. At the age of eighteen he left home to work as clerk in a general store at Bernardston, Massachusetts. In 1880 he came to Greenfield as clerk in a crockery store. In 1884 he entered the lumber business as junior member of the firm of T. N. Austin & Company, dealers in lumber at Greenfield, and in 1893 he bought out the interests of Mr. Austin and incorporated the business as the Franklin County Lumber Company, of which he is treasurer and manager. He has scored a large success in business and stands high in the estimation of his business asso- ciates. He is a member of the Second Congre- gational Parish; of Republican Lodge of Free Masons; of Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Titus Strong Council, Royal and Select Masters; of Connecticut Vallcy Com- mandery, Knights Templar, and of Arcana Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. He is a member of the New England Paint and Oil Club ; president of the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers' Association and vicc-presi- dent of the Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. He is a member of the Greenfield Club and the Masonic Club ; direc- tor of the Greenfield Board of Trade ; member of Company L. Second Regiment Massachu- setts Volunteer Militia ; sergcant in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. In politics he is a Republican. Hc married,

October 10, 1883, Fannie E. Austin, born July II, 1858, daughter of Thomas Austin, of Greenfield. They have one child, Francis Leroy, born February 11, 1887.

Rowland Stebbins, immigrant STEBBINS ancestor, was born in or near Stebbing, county Essex, Eng- land, in 1594, died December 14, 1671, at Northampton, Massachusetts. At the age of forty he came to America in the ship "Francis," of Ipswich, sailing April 30, 1634, with his wife Sarah, aged forty-three years, and chil- dren, Thomas, aged fourteen; Sarah, aged eleven ; John, aged eight ; Elizabeth, aged six, and servant, Mary Winch, aged fifteen. He resided at Springfield, Massachusetts, soon after its settlement, about 1639 ; had a grant of land there December 24, 1640, and other grants later : was a proprietor in 1641. His wife Sarah died at Springfield and was buried October 4, 1649. He removed to Northampton, about 1668, from Springfield and died there. His will, dated March 1, 1669, bequeathed to son Thomas and his seven children; to son John and nine children ; to daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Clarke and her three children ; to son- in-law Merrick's three daughters; to Mary Munde; friend John Pynchon and brother Robert Bartlett, overseers. Children : I. Thomas, born 1620, married Hannah Wright. 2. Saralı, 1623, married Thomas Merrick. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, 1628, married John Clarke.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 96

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