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of Israel Whitney), Anna, Roxana, and Dolly. Children : 1. James, born July II, 1785 ; men- tioned below. 2. Jonas, born April 30, 1787. 3. Sally, born May 31, 1789; married Israel Whitney. 4. Samuel, born December 2, 1791. 5. John, March 22, 1794. 6. Anne, June 14, 1796. 7. Roxana, March 10, 1798. 8. Dolly Bacon, November 6, 1801. 9. Marshall, died February 2, 1807.
(VII) James (5), son of James (4) Barn- ard, was born July 11, 1785. in Watertown. He lived in Weston, formerly part of Watertown, and in New Hampshire. He married, and had children.
(VIII) Jonas, son of James (5) Barn- ard, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, according to the Newton town records, May 27, 1804, and died at Jamaica Plain, February 7, 1895. He went to New Hampshire in early childhood. He worked at farming and shoe- making, and when a young man came to the village of Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, locating about 1835 at Jamaica Plain, now part of Boston, where he was in business in a modest way making boots and shoes for many years. He was active in town and church affairs. He married, at Newton Lower Falls (intentions dated March 18, 1827). Jane Hagar, born February 2, 1807, died March 6, 1895, aged eighty-eight, daughter of Isaac and Eunice Hagar. (See Hagar family). Chil- dren : 1. Mary Jane, born September 4, 1830; baptized at Newton, June 19, 1831 ; died Feb- ruary 5, 1855, unmarried. 2. Sarah Burnham, born October 30, 1833: baptized at Newton, June 1, 1834; died June 28, 1856, unmarried. 3. Jonas I., born February 15, 1838; died Aug- ust 25, 1858, unmarried. 4. Harriet A., born January 26, 1840: died March 30, 1846. 5. Daniel Hagar, mentioned below.
(IX) Daniel Hagar, second son of Jonas Barnard, was born in West Roxbury, now Jamaica Plain. Boston, November 14, 1845. and died near his birth-place, January 22, 1891. He received his education in the public schools of West Roxbury. Early in life he went to work. After he came of age he en- gaged in the meat and provision business in the firm of Bennett & Barnard. The market was on Green street, Jamaica Plain. The firm enjoyed a prosperous business for a period of eighteen years, when, shortly before his death, Mr. Barnard retired. He was a staunch Republican, giving his hearty support to the candidates and principles of his party, but sought no office. He was an active communi- cant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He
was one of the best known and most popular Masons of the section in which he lived. He had filled all the chairs in succession of Eliot Lodge; had been an officer in the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Commandery of Knights Templar, and had taken the thirty- second degree of the Scottish Rite. He was past noble grand of Daniel Hersey Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Jamaica Plain. He was up- right and honorable in all the walks of life, commanding the esteem and friendship of many men, and the respect of the whole com- munity. He was the only one of his father's children who married, and he left no chil- dren. He married, at Jamaica Plain, July 26, 1875. Sarah E. Brown, born in Boston, May IO, 1842, and who survives him. Except for a few years, Mrs. Barnard has lived all her life in Jamaica Plain. She was educated there in a private school. Her church associations are there, and her kindly, charitable, sympath- etic ways have won her a host of friends in all classes, old and young, and especially among the poor and unfortunate of the neigh- borhood. She is the daughter of Edwin and Sarah ( Mecum) Brown. Her father was born in Fitchburg, Worcester county, Massa- chusetts, June 19, 1805 : her mother was born in Boston, October 26, 1809, died July 7, 1867, at Jamaica Plain. Her father died at Jamaica Plain, Boston, October 24, 1901, at an ad- vanced age. He learned the trade of cabinet maker in his youth, and when a young man became a partner in the firm of Brown & Hallett, piano manufacturers. After the firm dissolved, a few years later, Mr. Brown became foreman for the firm of Jonas Chick- ering & Company, piano manufacturers, and after a short time again engaged in business in the firm of Brown & Allen. After a varied career of success and failure the firm dis- solved, and he became a partner in the well- known firm of Brown & Haines, Worcester. Mr. Haines died and the firm dissolved. In his later years he was foreman in the firm of Brown & Woodward, a prominent and success- ful firm of piano manufacturers. He made and lost several fortunes, but never lost his courage. When fortune smiled upon him he was generous to a fault. He was generous not only to the poor and wretched, but to others in busi- ness. He rejoiced most in making others happy. In politics he was a Republican. He was a prominent member of Salome Lodge of Odd Fellows, Boston; of the Massachusetts Mechanic Charitable Association. He and his wife were active in the Universalist Church
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at Boston. Mr. Brown and wife had six chil- dren: I. Caroline Elizabeth, died at age of five. 2. Edwin W., resides in Boston. 3. Sarah A., died an infant. 4. George H., resides at Newton. 5. Albert W., resides at Jamaica Plain. 6. Sarah E., who became wife of Daniel H. Barnard.
HAGAR William Hagar, or Hager, immi- grant ancestor, resided in Water- town, where he died January 10, 1683-4. His will was dated January 10, 1683-4. and proved April I following. He married, March 20, 1644-45, Mary Bemis, who died "an aged woman" in December, 1695. Children : 1. Mary, born December 25, 1645; probably died young. 2. Ruhanah, born No- vember 20, 1647; married Joseph Waight. 3. Samuel (twin), born November 20, 1647 ; died February 13, 1703-4. 4. Hannah, born No- vember 21, 1649; married Priest. 5. Sarah, born September 3, 1651 ; died March 7, 1746; married, March 12, 1673-4, Nathaniel Whitney. 6. Susannah, married, about 1680, Joseph Grout. 7. William, born February 12, 1658-9; mentioned below. 8. Rebecca, born October 28, 1661 ; married, July 14, 1681, Na- thaniel Heely. 9. Abigail, married, March 30, 1687, Benjamin Whitney. 10. Mehitable, mar- ried, June 20, 1687, Nathaniel Norcross ; died April 5, 1691.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) Hagar, was born in Watertown, February 12, 1658-9, and died May 8, 1731. He married, in Watertown, March 30, 1687, Sarah Benja- min, who died October 22, 1745, aged eighty- two. Children: I. William. 2. Sarah, mar- ried, May 13, 1712, John Flagg. 3. John, born April 29, 1697; married Sarah
4. Ebenezer, born August 13, 1698. 5. Joseph, born January 1, 1701-2; mentioned below. 6. Mehitable, born May 7, 1704; married, Feb- ruary 28, 1726-7, Joseph Travers. 7. Mary ( ?). 8. Mercy, died November 23, 1772, aged sixty-five.
(III) Joseph, son of William (2) Hagar, was born in Watertown, January 1, 1701-2. He settled in Waltham, and served as select- man in 1747-48-51-54. He married, January I, 1729-30, Grace Bigelow. Children : I. Joseph, born December 31, 1736; died Octo- ber 1. 1776. 2. Uriah, born January 1, 1738-9; died 1741. 3. William, born October 25, 1741 ; died March 31, 1782. 4. Isaac, born Septem- ber 6, 1742; mentioned below. 5. Grace, born May 7, 1744; married, December 20, 1764, Jonathan Harrington. 6. Lydia, born No-
vember 6, 1746; married, November 6, 1764, Deacon John Sanderson. 7. Benjamin, born January 26, 1749-50; died in Weybridge, Ver- mont, 1823. 8. Jonathan, born August 31, 1751 ; died April 9, 1783.
(IV) Colonel Isaac, son of Joseph Hagar, was born September 6, 1742, and died Janu- ary 17, 1791. He resided in Waltham. He was a soldier in the revolution, ensign in Cap- tain Abraham Pierce's company, of Waltham, April 19, 1775, under Colonel Samuel That- cher ; also second lieutenant in same company in 1776, and in Captain Edward Fuller's com- pany, under Colonel Eleazer Brooks, in same year ; lieutenant in Captain Fuller's company, Colonel William McIntosh's regiment, at Rox- bury, in 1778, and was after the war colonel of militia. He married, April 26, 1770, Anne Bullard. Children: I. Anna, baptized June 9, 1771. 2. Isaac, born May 12, 1773; died September 7, 1777. 3. Joel, baptized July 9, 1775 ; died August 3, 1784. 4. Jonas, baptized June 29, 1777 ; died August 3, 1784. 5. Isaac, born July 22, 1779; mentioned below. 6. David, born October 14, 1781. 7. Polly, born October 6, 1783 ; married, November 3, 1808, Abraham Pierce. 8. Joel, born October 14, 1785. 9. Henry, July 17, 1789.
(V) Isaac (2), son of Colonel Isaac (I) Hagar, was born July 22, 1779, and died in 1828. He married, May 19, 1804, Eunice Steadman, born at Weston. Children, born at Newton: 1. Eunice, March 8, 1805. 2. Jane, February 2, 1807; married Jonas Barnard. (See Barnard family). 3. Mary, February 19, 1809. 4. Isaac, December 28, 1810. 5. Emma, baptized May 30, 1813. 6. Calvin, baptized November 10, 1813. 7. Sally, baptized Octo- ber 20, 1816. 8. Liefy, December 21, 1817. 9. Daniel, born April 22, 1820; for many years principal of the State Normal School at Salem, Massachusetts. 10. Walter, baptized June 15, 1823.
William Reed, immigrant ancestor,
REED is believed to be the son of Thomas and Mary Reed, of Brocket Hall, England. He was born in 1587, and was one of the oldest of the Puritan immigrants in Massachusetts. He came in the ship "Defense," Captain Edward Fosdick, sailing July 3, and arriving October 6, 1635. He settled first in Dorchester, and was admitted a freeman March 4, 1638-39. He sold his land in Dor- chester in August, 1639, to Thomas Clark, and removed to Scituate, Massachusetts, where in 1644 he was town constable. He sent his
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wife to Dorchester on horseback with her infant child in 1644 to have him baptized in the church of which they were members. He returned to Muddy River ( Brookline) and bought of his brother Esdras a farm on which he lived until 1648, when he bought a place of Nicholas Davis, of Woburn. He is progenitor of a very numerous family living in the vicin- ity of Woburn, Lexington, Bedford and Bur- lington. He died in 1656, while in England, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. His will, dated April 9. 1656, was proved in London, October 31, 1656, and recorded also at Charlestown, Mass- achusetts. Administration was granted to widow Mabel. He bequeathed to his wife; to the four youngest children : to his three chil- dren that are married in New England viz. : George, Ralph and Michael (sic). He married ( first or second), Mabel Kendall, who was born in 1605. She married after Reed's death, Harry Summers, of Woburn, November 21, 1660. She died a widow, at the home of her son George, with whom she had been living. June 5, 1690, aged eighty-five years. Chil- dren: I. George, born in England, 1629. 2. Ralph, born in England, 1630. 3. Justice (afterwards called Abigail), born 1633. Born in America: 4. Bethia, married John Johnson. 5. Israel. 6. Sarah, married Sam- uel Walker, September 10, 1662. 7. Rebecca, married Joseph Winn. No trace of the son Michael named in the will is found in America.
( II) Ralph, son of William Reed, was born in England, in 1630, died January 4, 17II. He married Mary Pierce, daughter of An- thony Pierce, or Pers, of Watertown, the first marriage recorded at Woburn, March 31, 1654. His farm was the homestead that his father bought of Nicholas Davis, of Charles- town, and he afterwards owned and occupied the farm called later the Sylvanus Wood Farm. Children, born at Woburn: I. John, men- tioned below. 2. Joseph. 3. William, born 1658. 4. David. 5. Daniel. 6. Timothy, born February 14, 1664, died January 12, 1729. 7. Jonathan, died May 5, 1710. 8. Mary, mar- ried Benjamin Pierce.
(III) John, son of Ralph Reed, was born in Woburn, in 1660, died March 9, 1733. He married, March 21, 1682, Elizabeth Holden. He was a weaver by trade. He bought a lot of land January 1. 1700, of Henry Baldwin, near the Billerica line in Woburn. He settled there, and the farm is still owned and occu- pied by lineal descendants. He married (sec- ond ). December 4. 1705, Abigail Baldwin, His will was dated July 20, 1732. It mentions
the children, viz .: 1. John, born March 23, 1684. 2. Ralph, September 5, 1686, mentioned below. 3. Elizabeth, February 25, 1690. Chil- dren of second marriage : 4. Susanna, March 13, 1706. 5. Henry, 1708. 6. Amos, May 25, 1710.
(IV) Ralph (2), son of John Reed, was born at Woburn, September 5, 1686, died there August 23, 1769. He married, 1709, Mary Pierce. He also settled in Woburn. Their children, born in Woburn: I. David (twin), May 3, 1710. 2. Jonathan (twin), May 3, 1710. 3. John, August 14, 1712, died January 14, 1756. 4. Maria (twin), November 30, 1714. 5. Mary (twin), November 30, 1714. 6. Abigail, May 25, 1717. 7. Jonathan, March 9, 1722, lived at Billerica. 8. Joshua, June 18, 1724, mentioned below. 9. Amos, March 13, 1728.
(V) Joshua, son of Ralph (2) Reed, was born at Woburn, June 18, 1724, died there in the precinct now called Burlington, July 19, 1786. He married, July, 1742, Hannah Proc- tor. His farm was where his grandson Isaiah lived later, and a group of buttonwood trees now or lately marked the site of the old house. He was a licensed innholder. It is difficult to determine from the records the revolutionary service of the various Joshua Reeds of this section. His services seems to be: Private in Captain Jonathan Fox's company at the fight at Concord and Cambridge, April 19, 1775: lieutenant in Captain Jonas Richard- son's company, Colonel James Frye's regiment (the first) in 1775; also captain in Colonel Varnum's regiment, engaged January 1, 1776, Children: 1. Joshua Jr., born December 14, 1742 ; also a soldier in the revolution. 2. Han- nah, April 2, 1745. 3. Esther, born at Biller- ica, February 14, 1746. 4. Elizabeth, born at Billerica, April 23, 1749. 5. Lucy, November 25, 1754. 6. John, March 29, 1757. 7. James, April 14, 1759. 8. Jonathan, February 13, 1761. mentioned below. 9. Mary, May 24. 1763. 10. Judith, March 6, 1768.
(VI) Jonathan, son of Joshua Reed, was born February 13, 1761, died August 17, 1820. He married Ruth Tay, of Woburn, October 14. 1790. She married ( second ), Jesse Deane, February 1, 1827, and she died February II, 1834. His home was on the old Reed place left to him by his father, in that part of the town set off as Burlington. Children, all born at Burlington : 1. Jonathan, October 26, 1792. 2. Isaiah, mentioned below. 3. Abigail, mar- ried Jacob Saunders. 4. Moses Abbott. 5. Joshua, April 3, 1801. 6. Eliza. 7. Franklin. 8 Mary Ann.
M Ellen Reid
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(\'II) Isaiah, son of Jonathan Reed, was born at Burlington, Massachusetts, April 3, 1795. died there November 16. 1881. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm, and attended the brief terms of the district school. For some years before marriage he was an officer in the state prison. Charlestown, and a sword- cane that he carried is in the possession of his family. He carried on the old Stoddard farm for several years after his marriage. The old Reed farm in Burlington that has descended from one generation to another in the Reed family was his home. He bought, after his father's death, the rights of his brothers and sisters, and conducted the farm until his death. In religion he was an Orthodox Congregation- alist ; in politics a Whig, and later a Repub- lican. In his youthful days he belonged to the militia company of his town. He married, February 26. 1815, Sally Ellsworth, born Feb- ruary 17, 1785, at Deering, New Hampshire, died May 27, 1878. Their children : I. Isaiah, born July 7. 1816. mentioned below. 2. Char- lotte Lucretia, born December 25, 1871, mar- ried, September 19, 1839, John F. Snow. 3. Jonathan Ellsworth, born January 10, 1819, died January 12, 1888; married, April 12, 1846, Deborah R. Hunt. 4. Joseph Wyatt, born April 26, 1820, died April 17, 1898; married, April 25. 1844. Mehitable C. Wyman. 5. Josiah Thomas, born November 1I, 1821, died August 1, 1893 ; married, April 20, 1848, Lydia M. Symmes, died March 28, 1876. 6 William Abbott, born November 8, 1823, mar- ried (first ), October 5. 1848, Mary Ann Skil- ton ; (second), February 26, 1857, Andora G. Loucks, resided in Philadelphia. 7. Nancy Lowell. born March 24. 1825, died September 20, 1895; married, April 27, 1845, Charles D. Partridge, who died December II, 1877. 8. Franklin Oliver (recorded Oliver Franklin), born July 3, 1826, married ( first), November 6. 1850, Mary Charlotte Roberts, who died November 12, 1883; (second), Abbie Roberts ; (third ), Frances Hawkins. 9. Levi Houghton, born November 18, 1829, died September 13, 1896: married (first), September 15, 1853, Jane Cook ; (second), October 3, 1864, Octa- via Marshall.
(VIII) Isaiah (2), son of Isaiah (I), Reed. was born at Burlington, July 7, 1816. He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and at Warren Academy in the same village. He learned the trade of currier under B. F. Thompson, of Winchester, and worked at his trade to the time of his mar- riage in 1837. Then he bought the old Con-
verse place of Revolutionary fame, and had a teaming business in addition to his farming. When the Boston & Lowell Railroad Company built its second line of tracks, he was employed throughout the period of construction. After- ward he worked again for Mr. Thompson. At length he and his brother Jonathan bought the homestead of their father. A few years later Isaiah bought out his brother and became the sole owner. He added by purchase a por- tion of the adjoining Fiske farm, originally part of the Reed tract. In winter he carried on a large business in wood and lumber. He established in a small way the business now conducted by his son Thomas I. Reed, begin- ning in a room twenty feet square to cure hams and bacon. He followed the business of cur- ing hams, at which he was an expert, until the time of his death, and the business grew to large proportions. He associated his son with him in the business and the son succeeded him as proprietor. He was a member of the Congregational church and was on the parish committee, being a leading citizen of the town as well as prominent figure in the church. He was active in temperance movements, an able and convincing advocate of temperance. In politics he was first a Whig, then a Republi- can. He was highway surveyor of the town, member of the school committee and held other positions of trust and honor. He was instrumental in getting through what is known as the new road in Burlington, he carrying the chain for the surveyor. The road was built by Asa Shildon of Wilmington. He mar- ried, November 28, 1837, at Loudon, New Hampshire, Mary Blake Wales, born January 8, 1814, died January 17, 1893, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Babcock) Wales, of Lou- don ; children: 1. George Wales, born July 28, 1840, died April 20, 1848. 2. Thomas Isaiah, mentioned below.
(IX) Thomas Isaiah, son of Isaiah (2) Reed, was born at Burlington, July 14, 1846. He was educated in the public schools and at Warren Academy, Woburn. He worked on the farm in his youth. He left home first to accept a position with the firm of F. O. Reed & Company, Charlestown, remaining from May to September. His father sustaining a compound fracture of the leg which incapac- itated him for work for some time, Thomas I. returned to Burlington and assumed charge of his father's farm, remaining for one year. He then resumed his position with F. O. Reed & Company, Charlestown, which he held a year, at the expiration of which time the name
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was changed to Reed, Sawin & Company, and F. O. Reed & Company purchased a store in Boston. Mr. Reed remained with the first company a year after the name was changed, and then accepted a position with F. O. Reed & Company in Boston, remaining two years, and having a one-fourth interest. In 1870 he returned to his father's farm in Burlington, and was employed there until 1874, when he leased the farm of his mother, his father hav- ing previously died, and conducted business in his own name. The present extensive busi- ness was established at this time. After his mother's death the entire property came to him. Year by year the business of curing hams has been enlarged and has grown more prosperous. From the early days of the beginning, when he began with one hundred hams, there has been a great change in the volume of business. Mr. Reed buys and sells by the carload. His Burlington hams and bacon are known far and wide; they are fam- ous for their excellence, and while his trade extends all over New England his own towns- men are his best customers. He has some for- eign trade also; for five years he had the con- tract to supply all the ham for the Robert Col- lege of the American Board of Foreign Mis- sions at Constantinople. He has one of the best plants in the country. It is located on the old Reed farm, has a floor area of ten thousand square feet, including three large smoke houses and large vaults capable of hold- ing four hundred thousand pounds of the pro- duct under process of curing. Nothing is lack- ing to the completeness of this curing plant, and even the teams used in transporting his goods are models in every respect. In addi- tion to his other business he deals extensively in wood for fuel and has a large retail trade in Winchester, Medford and Boston. A busier man than Mr. Reed would be hard to find and he devotes himself exclusively to his busi- ness, knowing every detail and neglecting nothing. His two sons are employed with him in business and are receiving careful and thor- ough training.
Mr. Reed is a member of the Congregational church at Burlington, and has been deacon for several years, superintendent of the Sunday school since 1871 to the present time, member of the parish committee since 1881, and has been treasurer of both the church and parish a number of years. He has been intensely interested in the growth and welfare of the church, and it is to his efforts largely that the best entertainments for the amusement and
instruction of the people have been provided in the church and town. He has broad views of life and a practical knowledge of human nature that have made him a very useful ser- vant of the Lord, as the good old phrase of the Fathers would have described him. He was chairman of the committee that raised the funds and remodeled Christ's church. In politics he is a Republican, and has often been chosen delegate to important nominating con- ventions. He has been on the congressional committee since 1902; has served the town of Burlington on the school committee; and has been elected to various other town offices which he was obliged to decline. Mr. Reed is at pres- ent promoting the establishment of an electric lighting plant in the town of Burlington to fill a very evident need and demand. He is a member of Crystal Fount Lodge, No. 9, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Bur- lington Agricultural Society, of which he was the second president, serving for a number of years, and its marshal annually at the fairs, He was formerly president of the Boston & Lowell Street Railway Company, resigning March 21, 1904. He is a member of the Wo- burn Five Cent Savings Bank.
In addition to the foregoing narrative, it may be very appropriately said that Mr. Reed has been active in certain other directions ; first, as a member of the Congregational Sun- day School Superintendents' Union, with head- quarters in Boston; secondly, as one of the Phalanx Associates of Woburn, composed of ex-members of Company G, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; thirdly, as the chief suggester, promoter and originator of the Rural Free Delivery of mail matter for his home town; fourthly, as mainly instru- mental in obtaining the location and active operation of the electric street railway through the streets of Burlington. Mr. Reed is never backward in any effort to improve the advan- tages of his small but very excellent country town. Within a radius of fifteen miles of the popular metropolis of Boston and its populous congeners known to the world as Greater Bos- ton, is the small town of Burlington, with a population of scarcely more than six hundred inhabitants, as rural in its outward aspects and character of its people as any country town in New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont, where the people are all reasonably well-to-do, and none who are excessively rich or exceedingly poor. In this community Mr. Reed, by reason of his industry and intrinsic merit, is the acknowledged leader. As superintendent of
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the only Sunday school in Burlington for many years, he has maintained his interest in the welfare of the young, and kept himself in touch with the rising generation.
Upon one occasion, on March 31, 1881, he had a very narrow escape from fatal accident at Winchester, described as follows in the Woburn Advertiser for April 7, 1881 :
Railroad Accident .- On Thursday evening, while Mr. Thomas I. Reed, of Burlington, was driving his heavy team across the Lowell rail- road track at the crossing, an extra train came along and killed one of the horses. Mr. Reed was thrown out and the wagon was carried some distance by the locomotive.
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