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(VI) Roger, son of Governor Roger Wol- cott, was born in Windsor, September 14, 1704, and died October 19, 1758, aged fifty- five years (gravestone record). He was a representative to the general assembly of Con- necticut ; major of Connecticut troops ; mem- ber of council; judge of superior court, and
on the commission to revise the laws of the province. His premature death alone pre- vented him from attaining the governorship. He was on the commission that met delegates form the other colonies at Albany in June, 1754, to arrange a plan of union. The Con- necticut delegation dissented from the plan adopted and the union was not effected at that time. He married (first) October 10, 1728, Marah, daughter of Captain Benjamin New- bury. She was born February 5, 1710, and died June 5, 1758, aged forty-nine years. He married (second) June 19, 1759, Eunice Ely, daughter of John Ely, of Springfield and daughter of John Colton. Children of first wife: I. Roger, born September 18, 1729. died November 15 following. 2. Marah, born October 15, 1730: died August 4, 1737. 3. Roger, born June 16, 1733 ; died November I, 1736. 4. Sarah, born June 7, 1735; married Elisha Streeter. 5. Roger, born November IO, 1737. 6. Epaphras, born May 2, 1740: mentioned below. 7. Mary, born April 4. 1742 ; married, April 22, 1764, Jesse Goodell. 8. Emeline, born October 20, 1744; died Feb- ruary 25, 1745. 9. Parmenio, born April 17, 1746. IO. Amelia, born October 27, 1750; married, May 30, 1771, Marvin Lord, of Lyme. II. Martha, born April 23, 1753 ; died May following.
(VII) Epaphras, son of Roger Wolcott, was born May 2, 1740. He was a soldier in the revolution, in the expedition against Canada, in Captain Giles Wolcott's company. He married, June, 1762, Mabel Burnham, of Hampton, daughter of John Burnham. of East Hartford, Connecticut. She died March 27, 1814, aged seventy-nine years. Children : I. Sarah, born January 10, 1764; married February 5, 1795, Ebenezer Pomeroy, of Hadley, Massachusetts. 2. James, born April 19, 1766; mentioned below. 3. Mabel. born March 17, 1770; married John B. Richard- son, of Easthampton, Massachusetts. 4. Mary, born July 26, 1773; married, November 2, 1795, Aaron Davis, of Hinsdale, Massachu- sets.
(VIII) James, son of Epaphras Wolcott. was born April 19, 1766. He married, Janu- ary 17, 1786, Miriam Munsell : children, born at Southampton, Massachusetts : I. Anson. born April 9, 1787. 2. Epaphras, April 7. 1789. 3. James. 4. Stephen P., mentioned below.
(IX) Stephen P., son of James Wolcott. was born in Southampton, about 1783. He was a carpenter by trade. He married, De-
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cember 27, 1804, Lucy Strong. Children, born at Southampton : I. Isaac Stebbins, born March, 1806; married Eliza, daughter of John and Esther Rust, of Southampton. 2. Tryphosa Bush, born December 25, 1808; married Esther Sheldon. 3. Angelina, born March 6, 1812; died 1823. 4. Stephen Bartlett, born April 16, 1814, merchant of Illyria, Ohio, of which he has been post master ; married, 1840, Harriet Newell Cheever ; children: George Henry, Ida, Ara- bella and Cora Cheever. 5. Hannah, born March 25, 1816; married Rev. Lemuel Pome- roy, born at Sunderland; graduate of Am- herst College, 1835; settled in Huntsburgh, Ohio, later in Kansas; child, Hannah Wolcott Pomeroy. 6. Mary Maria, born February 12, 1818; married, December 15, 1839, Orange Frary, of Southampton; died February 16, 1841 ; no children. 7. Cyrenus Brooks, born 1820; married Harriet Newell Abbott, of Au- gusta, Maine; children : William, Frederic, Theophilus and Harriet. 8. George Morris, mentioned below. 9. Daniel Pomeroy, resides in Holyoke.
(X) George Morris, son of Stephen P. Wolcott, was born December 12, 1825. He married Sarah A. Wesson, born March 6, 1845, daughter of William C. and Elizabeth (Jones) Wesson.
(The Wesson Line).
(IV) William Wesson, son or nephew of Samuel Wesson (q. v.), was born about 1700. He and his brother Jeremiah settled at Sud- bury, Massachusetts. William married at Sudbury, March 30, 1721-22, Mary Stanhope, of an ancient Sudbury family. He appears to have been an early settler of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, with other Sudbury men. Some of his descendants have a tradition that he was an immigrant, but all the evidence at hand tends to show that he belongs in the Reading family of which the Springfield Wes- sons are also descended, except perhaps the following interesting advertisement copied from the Boston Evening Post, of June 1I, 1753: "If William Pullen, who was born in Shobrook, six miles from Exeter, England, and came to these parts thirty or forty years ago (about the same time that William Wes- son settled in Sudbury) is yet alive and will come to William Wesson of Hopkinton in New England, he may hear of an estate in land worth 500 sterling per annum left him by one Mr. Pullen of Thorverton near Exeter and there is no heir found to enjoy it." Wil-
liam Wesson was a member of the Hopkinton church in 1752, and must have been of age. A Captain William Wesson, probably of this family, died at Marlborough, March 21, 1816, aged forty-four. Children : William, men- tioned below; John, soldier in the revolution ; perhaps others.
(IV) William, son of William Wesson, was born about 1730-40. He married, April IJ, 1764, at Southborough, Mary Bruce ; (sec- ond) at Southborough, being then of Hop- kinton, February 9, 1789, Mrs. Sally Bixby, of Hopkinton. He was a soldier in the revo- lution, credited to Dudley, Massachusetts, in Captain Corbin's company, Colonel Davis's regiment, in 1777. According to the federal census there were two of the family in Hop- kinton in 1790-John; a brother Levi, who appears to be a relative, probably son of John (IV). William was then in Athol, and had one son over sixteen, one under that age, and three females in his family. Children: I. Josiah, whose will at Worcester has made clear much of the family history, dated May 23, 1843, at Athol, filed June 20, 1843, be- queathing to his sister Susanna Priest, niece Mary Brown, to children of brother William Wesson, to other heirs not named, and leaving the greater part of his estate to Maria, wife of Samuel Cummings Jr., including lands in Athol and Petersham. 2. William, Brigham, mentioned below. 3. Daughter, married Brown. 4. Susanna, married - - Priest. (V) Rev. William Brigham Wesson, son of William Wesson (q. v).
(VI) William Cutler Wesson, son of Rev. William Brigham Wesson, was born at Hard- wick, December 23, 1814. He married, June 14, 1840, at Hardwick, Elizabeth Jones. He was a farmer, and lived on the homestead. Children, born at Hardwick : I. Maria E., born March 29, 1841, John D. Morton. 2. Sarah A., born March 6, 1845; married, No- vember 5, 1868, George M. Wolcott (see Wol- cott).
The name Pierce was common
PIERCE in England in a very early age, and had many ways of spelling such as Parr, Piers, Pierce, Pears, Pearse, Peers, Peirce and Purse. Coat-of-arms : Three ravens, rising. Motto: "Dixit et fecit" (He said and he did). Crest: Dove, with olive branch in bill.
(I) Thomas Pierce, emigrant ancestor of Harry H. Pierce, of North Attleboro, Mas- sachusetts, came from England (doubtless
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Norfolk) and settled at Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, 1633-34, with his wife, Elizabeth. He was born in England in 1583-84 and his wife Elizabeth was born 1595-96. She died October 7, 1666. He was admitted to the first church at Charlestown, February 21, 1634-35, with his son Thomas; Elizabeth, his wife, was admitted January 10, previously. He was ad- mitted a freeman May 6, 1635. September 27, 1642, he was one of the twenty-one com- missioners appointed by the great and general court "to see that Salt petre heapes were made by all the farmers of the colony." He had a grant of four acres of planting ground in 1635-36. He was possessed of large estates in and around Charlestown, as far back as Medford and Woburn, and his property was inventoried at four hundred and four - teen pounds, which was an ample for-
tune in those times. His will was dated November 7, 1665. He gave to Har- vard College twenty shillings, the bulk of his estate going to his wife Elizabeth; his "loving friend Richard Russell, Thomas Danforth, and his son John he nominated overseer of his will. He married Elizabeth -. Chil- dren : I. John. 2. Samuel. 3. Thomas, mentioned below. 4. Robert, married Sarah Eyre. 5. Mary, married Peter Tufts. 6. Elizabeth, married Randall Nichols. 7. Persis, married (first) William Bridge and (second) John Harrison. 8. Abigail, June 17, 1629.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Pierce, was born in England in 1608, and came to New England about 1633-34. As no mention is made of him coming with his par- ents, it is surmised that he came shortly after them if not with them. He married shortly after his arrival and settled in Charlestown. He was styled Sergeant Thomas, and was ad- mitted to the Charlestown church, February 21, 1634, at the same time as his father, show- ing that the family must have emigrated to- gether. Sergeant Thomas Pierce was among the original settlers of Woburn in 1643, and was taxed there in 1645; was selectman in 1660; and many times was on the committee for dividing the common lands there. He was also one of "the right proprietors chozen March 28, 1667, and also of the general court committee appointed for the same purpose ill 1668." He was a large land owner as he sells Thomas Richardson forty acres formerly of John Cole, southeast of Mount Discovery ; aslo numerous real estate transactions in his name are found in the Middlesex county reg- iv-11
isters in Cambridge. The inventory of his estate after his decease, November 6, 1683, amounted to four hundred and forty pounds, and was appraised by Matthew Johnson and James Convers. He was sergeant 1669-82 and a member of Captain Thomas Prentice's troop, also under Lieutenant Oakes in King Philip's war, 1675-76. He married, May 6, 1635, Elizabeth Cole, who died March 5, 1688, daughter of Rice and Arnold Cole; children : I. Abigail, born August 17, 1639. 2. John, March 7, 1643. 3. Thomas, June 21, 1645. 4. Elizabeth, December 25, 1646, died March IO, 1670. 5. Joseph, September 22, 1648, died February 27, 1649. 6. Joseph, August 13, 1649, died 1716. 7. Stephen, July 16, 1651, died January 31, 1742. 8. Samuel, February 20, 1654, died October 27, 1655. 9. Samuel, April 7, 1656, died July 5, 1721. 10. William, March 7, 1658, died August 22, 1720. II. James, May 7, 1659, mentioned below. 12. Abigail, November 20, 1660, died September 7, 1719. 13. Benjamin.
(III) James, son of Thomas (2) Pierce, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, May 7, 1659, died there January 20, 1742. He gave a deed to his "brother" Moses Parker, of Chelmsford, under date of January 21, 1707. He served in campaigns against the Indians in and around Woburn. He was a husbandman and dwelt in the easterly part of Woburn on present Cambridge street, on the place latterly known as the Jacob Pierce place. He mar- ried, 1686, Elizabeth Parker, born April IO, 1663, died October 16, 1715, daughter of Abraham and Rose (Whitlock) Parker, of Woburn, Massachusetts. Children: I. Eliz- abeth, October II, 1688. 2. James, February 28, 1690, mentioned below. 3. Rebeckah, Sep- tember 16, 1692.
(IV) James (2), son of James (I) and Elizabeth (Parker) Pierce, was born at Wo- burn, Massachusetts, February 28, 1690, died there December 21, 1773. He was a yoeman at Woburn and housewright. His will was made March 15, 1769. He gives to his wife, Phebe, the use and improvement of one-half of his real estate. His son Jocob he appointed his sole executor and gives all his real estate in Woburn and elsewhere together and his right in the meeting house in the First Parish and other personal belongings. He remem- bers his six daughters in the will. Samuel Wyman, Nathan Richardson and Josiah Park- er, witnesses. He married (first) Hannah He married (second) Phebe Reed. born March 22, 1695, daughter of Lieutenant
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Joseph and Phebe (Walker) Reed, of Wo-
burn. Children : I. Rebecca, October 8,
IZII. 2. Phebe, September 28, 1713. 3. James. 4. Joshua, April 1, 1722, mentioned below. 5. Jacob, September 15, 1724, died November 14, 1774. 6. Keziah, October IO, 1726, died December 19, 1788. 7. Mary, June 24, 1730, died January II, 1773. 8. Es- ther, March 14, 1733, died January 8, 1772. 9. Eunice, February 19, 1735, died April 5, 1774. IO. Susanna, May 22, 1736, died May 23, 1736. II. Susanna.
(V) Joshua, second son of James (2) Pierce, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, April 1, 1722, died there February 13, 1771. He is mentioned as a reputable farmer of Woburn. He is left but one shilling in his father's will, having previously received his just proportion of his father's estate. He married (first) February 18, 1749, Susanna Ried, born September 9, 1726, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Converse) Ried, of Wo- burn. He married (second) October 27, 1753. Esther Richardson, born August 6, 1727, died June, 1819, daughter of Nathan and Esther Richardson. Children : 1. Esther, born April 16, 1754, died February 27, 1842. 2. Joshua, September 16, 1756, mentioned below. 3. Susanna, July 4, 1758, February 24, 1809. 4. Phebe, May 3, 1761. 5. Daniel, August 8, 1763, died before 1830. 5. Nathan, Septem- ber II, 1766, died January 29, 1853. 6. James, September 8, 1768, died February 4, 1749.
(VI) Joshua (2), eldest son of Joshua (I) and Esther (Richardson) Pierce, was born at Woburn, September 6, 1756, died at Hudson, New Hampshire, September 24, 1857, aged one hundred and one years. When a young man he and his brother Daniel settled at Hud- son, New Hampshire, and his brothers, Na- than and James, in nearby towns. Joshua was married at the age of twenty-five years and soon began housekeeping on a farm of con- siderable area, in Hudson. He followed this occupation together with cooper for many years. He was a man of much influence in his community and deeply religious. Ile married, December, 25, 1781, Sarah Lund, born July 6, 1763, died October 20, 1851, aged eighty-eight years. Children : I. Joshua, born February 27, 1783, died Feb- ruary 10, 1784. 2. John, April 22, 1785, died October II, 1825. 3. Joshua, mentioned be- low. 4. James, March 31, 1792, died May 10, 1871. 5. Joseph B., October 4, 1794, died January 7, 1841. 6. Abraham, November 6, 1798, died Angust 18, 1804. 7. Isaac, No-
vember 6, 1798, died November 24, 1798. 8. Cosmore, August 28, 1802, died January 31, 1804.
(VII) Joshua (3), third son of Joshua (2) and Sarah (Lund) Pierce, was born at Hud- son, New Hampshire, July 9, 1787, died at Nashua, New Hampshire, September 16, 1828. He was brought up on his father's farm, ac- quiring the usual common school education of a farmer's son at that period. He remained at home during his minority, but soon after his marriage settled on the farm he lived and died on. This farm compared favorably with the best in that section and was of large area. situated on the Merrimac river, on the road to Hudson, New Hampshire, and the present Indian Head corporation of cotton manufac- ture. one of the largest in the state, comprises the major part of Joshua's Pierce's farm which was sold after his death by his brother. He raised the common crops, sheep, cattle and horses, and was industrious, frugal and honest with all mankind. His wife, a most capable woman, died within a week of her husband, leaving a family of children. He married, March 10, 1810, Dolly Hutchins, born May 18, 1790, died September 24, 1828, daughter of General Gordon Hutchins (of revolutionary fame). Children: I. Sarah L., born March 26, 1811, married, March 21, 1829, Hervey Bugbee, children : i. Edwin F., December 6, 1830. ii. Edward H., August II, 1832, died March II, 1837. iii. James H .. July 29, 1834, died July 1, 1863. iv. Edward H., January 29, 1837, died July 30, 1838. v. Albert P., April 27, 1840. vi. Clara I., No- vember 21, 1842. vii. Frederick P., March 7. 1853. viii. Clinton P., January 3, 1856. 2. Joshua D., mentioned below. 3. Hannah L., January 29, 1815, married, January 22, 1837, William S. Graves, children: i. Edward, De- cember 31, 1840. ii. Sarah R., July 31, 1845. 4. Nancy H., June 3, 1817, married Charles P. Danforth. 5. Andrew Jackson, January 30, 1821, married Caroline Holmes. 6. Dolly J., March, 1823, married Jesse A. Woodward.
(VIII) Joshua D., eldest son of Joshua (3) and Dolly (Hutchins) Pierce, was born at Nashua, New Hampshire, March 22, 1813, died at Augusta, Maine, December 17, 1884. At the age of eleven years his parents died while he was attending the academy at Derby, New Hampshire. He continued here up to about seventeen years of age, living with his uncle, James Pierce. After completing his schooling he began a clerkship in a furniture store at Nashua, thoroughly mastering every.
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branch of the business, and in 1837 removed to Augusta, Maine, where he established him- self in the manufacture and selling of furni- ture on Water street of that town, his father having left him a competency in his will and with what he had saved during his clerkship at Nashua gave him a successful start. He later added to his furniture stock crockery and glass ware. This proved to be a paying ad- junct to the furniture line, and fully or more profitable, for in 1860 he sold the furniture end of the business to L. C. Avery and made the crockery business his specialty. His store was the most attractive and best stocked in the state and at his death he was the oldest importer of crockery in New England (and one of the largest stores). He carried all the costly lines of French china, having thirty-two stock patterns, and for that time showed the magnitude and character of his trade. He was the first customer in the United States who handled the Reed and Barton hollow ware, when the firm was in its infancy. He continued his business up to October 10, 1881, when he retired from the active end of the business and three years later, December 17, 1884, he died at his residence at 18 Green street. Mr. Pierce was a man of retired habits, passionately fond of his fireside. He was amiable in his manner and a gentleman of the old school, true to his principles which were his religion. He was considered the soul of honor in every dealing, leaving no stain on the page of just accounts. He was by faith a Unitarian and he contributed to the church where his family attended. He was a sterling Andrew Jackson Democrat, remaining strong for the Union during the trying times that be- set his country's honor. He would not accept the gift of office from his citizens, but for a time was fence-viewer and tithingman. He was also truant officer of his town. He was a member of the Augusta Lodge of Odd Fel- lows in his early residence in Maine.
He married, January 8, 1835, Lucy Louisa Corbin, born in Salem, New York, February 21, 1813, died at Augusta, Maine, February 22, 1886, daughter of Asa and Abigail Giles (Hurd) Corbin, of Salem, New York. Abi- gail Giles (Hurd) Corbin, who died April, 1847, was a daughter of Dr. Stephen Hurd. Asa Corbin was a farmer and revolutionary soldier. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce: I. Edward Corbin, born January 30, 1836, died March 24, 1896; he was a captain in the civil war; married, December 31, 1867, Mary Say- ward, of Bangor, Maine; children : i. Ed-
ward Sayward, born February 7, 1869; ii. Cora Kennedy, October 12, 1870, married, June 27, 1903, Harry D. West, children : Charles Edward, born May 6, 1906, and Rob- ert Pierce, July 11, 1907; iii. Charles Corbin, born December 18, 1874. 2. Charles Ather- ton, April 11, 1839, died August 20, 1868. 3. Andrew Jackson, November II, 1841, living at Augusta, Maine, 1909. 4. Joshua Frank- lin, mentioned below. 5. Harriet Stanwood, June 24, 1848, resides at Boston. 6. George Morton, June 30, 1851, resides at Boston. 7. Robert Waterston, May 16, 1854, resides at Boston.
(IX) Joshua Franklin, third son of Joshua D. and Lucy L. (Corbin) Pierce, was born at Augusta, Maine, May 28, 1844. He attended the public schools of his native town, taking a course in the Augusta high school up to fifteen years of age. During his early manhood years, he was taught the habits of industry and economy. As soon as his schooling was com- plete, he began by selling papers for a time, later entering the express business where he remained a number of years. During the civil war he received an appointment of govern- ment clerk at Augusta and after the war again entered the express business, continuing in this when he entered into the book and sta- tionery trade in Augusta, and has continued in that up to the present time, being one of the leaders in his time. Mr. Pierce is an attend- ant of the Episcopal church. While not active in the conduct of local affairs, he has always adhered to Democratic principles, being affili- ated with that party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Augusta. Is a member of the Abnaki Club of Augusta. He married, June 7, 1871, Emma A. Hutchinson, of Vas- salboro, Maine, born October 30, 1848, daugh- ter of John and Betsey Ann (Ladd) Hutchin- son. John was a teacher. Children: I. Har- ry Hutchinson, born December 17, 1874, men- tioned below. 2. Annie Louise, August 12, 1879, married, June 7, 1904. Dr. Albert H. Sturtevant, children : i. Joan, born May 4, 1905. ii. Mary, October 15, 1906.
(X) Harry Hutchinson, only son of Joshua Franklin and Emma A. (Hutchinson) Pierce, was born at Augusta, Maine, December 17, 1874. His educational training was received in the public schools of his native city, gradu- ating from the Augusta high school in 1892. He entered the Augusta National Bank as clerk, remaining in the capacity for one year, subsequently accepting a similar position in the Granite National Bank at Augusta, for a
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like time. He later came to Boston where for a short time he was cashier of the Kennebec Steamboat Company. Mr. Pierce became identified with the Boston Journal, and was in the employ of this paper about four years as assistant superintendent of the circulation department. In 1897 Mr. Pierce accepted the position of salesman for T. I. Smith & Com- pany, manufacturers of jewelry at North At- tleboro, Massachusetts, and became their west- ern representative with headquarters at Chi- cago. After about five years, at the time of the incorporation of the new firm of T. I. Smith Company in 1901, under Rhode Island laws, Mr. Pierce became a member of the new firm with office of secretary and assistant treasurer, which office he now holds. Mr. Pierce is also salesman for the Western trade to some extent, which he has done since giving up his Chicago office. He occupies a beauti- ful residence with spacious grounds on Wash- ington street in the residential section of the town. He is an attendant of Grace Episcopal Church at North Attleboro. He is a Repub- lican in politics, and a member of Bethlehem Lodge of Masons at Augusta, Maine. He is a member of North Attleboro Lodge, No. IOII, of Elks, and of the North Attleboro Jewelers' Club. He married, June 27, 1900, at North Attleboro, Fanny Smith Curtis, born October 21, 1880, daughter of Henry How- land and Eva Codding (Smith) Curtis, of North Attleboro. They have one child, Harry Hutchinson, Jr., born November 18, 1902.
PIERCE John Pers, of Norwich, Norfolk county, England, weaver, came to New England in the year 1637, with his wife Elizabeth and four chil- dren, either in the "John and Dorothy" of Norwich, or the "Rose" of Yarmouth. The following extract from a register of certain emigrants to New England says: "April the 8th 1637. The examination of John Pers, of Norwich, weaver, aged 49 years, and his wife Elizabeth, aged 36 years, and four children- John, Barbre, Elizabeth and Judith, and one servant, John Gedney, aged 19 years, are de- sirous to passe to Boston, New England, to inhabitt." Bond and Savage agree in identify- ing this John Pers with John Pers, of Water- town, who was a weaver and appears to have come over about 1637, and who had a wife Elizabeth and children John, Elizabeth and Judith. If this identification is correct some of his children must have come to New Eng- land before him, and the four here named
were probably the youngest of the family. Elizabeth was doubtless ten years or more older than she is here represented. She is said in the county records to have been "aged about 79" at the time of her death in 1667.
(I) John Peirce was a freeman of Water- town in 1638, and was one of the original pro- prietors of this town. He was a grantee of one lot in Watertown, and a purchaser of three lots before 1644, one of which was the homestall of twelve acres, land now bounded north by Belmont street, south by R. Beach, west by W. Parker, east by B. Pierson; this was made up of two lots in the town plot, six acres granted to J. Smith, Sr., and the same to W. Barsham. He was born in 1588, died August 19, 1661. His wife Elizabeth was born in 1601 (1591 ?), died March 12, 1666- 67. Children : I. Anthony, born 1609, in England (see forward). 2. Esther, born in England; married, 1636, Joseph Morse, Jr .; children : i. Joseph, born April 30, 1637, mar- ried Susanna Shattuck; ii. John, born Febru- ary 28, 1638-39, married Ann Smith and Abi- gail Stevens; iii. Jonathan, died May, 1643; iv. Jonathan, born November 7, 1643, mar- ried Abigail Shattuck ; v. Esther, born May 7, 1646, married Jonathan Bullard; vi. Sarah, married Timothy Cooper ; vii. Jeremiah, mar- ried Abigail Woodward and Sarah Wood- ward; viii. Isaac. 3. Mary, born in England, married Clement Coldam, of Lynn and Glou- cester ; died January 26, 1704-05 ; children: i. Judith, died February 28, 1650; ii. Elizabeth, married Francis Norwood. 4. Robert, born in England, about 1620 ; married, before Oc- tober 16, 1646, Mary Knight; children: i. Judith, born September 30, 1651, died May 30, 1689; ii. Mary, born January 21, 1653-54, married, October 14, 1672, John Walker; iii. Nathaniel, born December 4, 1655, married, December 27, 1677, Hannah Converse ; iv. Elizabeth, born March 6, 1658-59, married, February 24, 1681-82, Samuel Wilson; v. Jonathan, born February, 1662-63, married,. November 19, 1689, Hannah Wilson; vi. John ; vii. Benjamin ; viii. Joseph, born May I, 1672, married Ruth 5. John, born in England ; married Elizabeth -; chil- dren: i. John and Elizabeth (twins), born June 16, 1643 ; both died young ; ii. John, born November 23, 1644, married Ann Huthwitt ; iii. Joseph, born September 12, 1646; iv. Thomas, born May 3, 1649. 6. Barbre, born in England, may have died on the passage over as nothing further is known of her. 7. Eliza- beth, born in England; married. 1643, John
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