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(I) Henry Wood, immigrant ancestor of the Middleborough family, was in Plymouth as early as 1641. He was sometimes called "alias Atwood." He was a proprietor of Plymouth, September 16, 1641 ; on the list of men of Plymouth able to bear arms. 1643. He removed to Middleborough where he married.
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April 25, 1644, Abigail Jenney. He died be- fore September 30, 1670, when the inventory of his estate was taken. Administration was granted to his widow Abigail. His son John made a nuncupative will dated April 13, 1673, bequeathing to his two youngest brothers, his sister Mary and his mother. The court order- ed land of his to be given over to Abiel and Isaac, the two youngest brothers, by Samuel, the eldest. Children : I. Samuel, born May 25, 1647, mentioned below. 2. Jonathan, Jan- uary 1, 1649. 3. David, October 17, 1651, married Mary Coombs, daughter of Cuthbert Cuthbertson and widow of Francis Coombs ; children : i. John, born 1686; ii. David, 1688; iii. Jabez, 1691. 4. Sarah. 5. John. 6.
Isaac. 7. Abiel, married Abiah Bowen ; chil- dren, born at Middleborough: i. Elnathan, 1686; ii. Abiah, 1689; iii. Abiel, 1691; iv. Timothy, 1693; v. Jerusha, 1695; vi. Eben- ezer, 1697; vii. Judah, 1700; viii. Thomas, 1703.
(II) Samuel, son of Henry Wood. was born May 25, 1647. He married Rebecca and lived in Middleborough. Children : I. Henry. 2. Ephraim. 3. Samuel, mention- ed below. 4. Jabez, married Mercy Fuller. 5. Hannah, married Smith. 6. Ann. 7. Susanna.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Wood, was born in Middleborough about 1675. He married Joanna Children, born at Middleborough : I. Abner. 2. Susan- na. 3. Azubah. 4. Rebecca.
(IV) Robert, cousin of Samuel (2) Wood, and grandson of one of the family given above, was born at Middleborough about 1740- 60. He was a soldier in the revolution in Cap- tain Nathaniel Wood's company. Colonel Sim- eon Cary's regiment at Roxbury in 1776. There were no less than twenty families in Middleborough, all descended as far as can be ascertained from Henry Wood, living in Mid- dleborough when the federal census of 1790 was taken. Robert died, removed or was un- married in 1790. He is not given among thie heads of families.
(V) Robert (2), son or nephew of Robert (1) Wood, was born in Middleborough, No- vember 16, 1796, died October 12, 1867. He was a ship-builder in early life, afterwards a farmer. He married December 28, 1820, at Cumberland, Mary Trask, born in Cumber- land, died December 15, 1884, daughter of James Trask Jr. Their children : 1. Lucinda, . born September 10, 1829. 2. Owen, February 20, 1831, mentioned below. 3. George, May
13, 1838. 4. Jenet. 5. Robert. 6. John. 7. Horace. 8. Albert.
(VI) Owen, son of Robert (2) Wood, was born at Franklin, Massachusetts, February 20, 1831, died July 17, 1891. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of shoemaker. In early life he engaged in the manufacture of shoes and boots at Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His product was called the Mansfield Shoe and attained a wide fame and popularity. Previously he had been a soldier in the Mexican war, enlisting from Fort Adams, Rhode Island; he was wounded and stricken with malarial fever in the service and he was disqualified for service in the civil war later. He worked at farming for a time after he was mustered out, then he engaged in the shoe business as superintendent of the Pin- gree & Smith factory at Detroit, Michigan, remaining for three years, and afterward es- tablished the business at Hopkinton. He was prominent in public life in Hopkinton and held many offices of honor and trust. He was a member of the Hopkinton school committee for three years, town treasurer six years, se- lectman ten years. He was representative to the general court of Massachusetts in 1881-82 from the twenty-seventh Middlesex district, and served on important committees in the house. His popularity and the confidence in which he was held by his townsmen without regard to politics is shown by the fact that he was never defeated, though a candidate for office no less than thirty-two times. In na- tional politics he was a Democrat, but in local affairs lie voted with the non-partisan Citizen party, a distinctly local organization. In re- ligion he was a Congregationalist. He was a trustee of the Hopkinton Savings Bank for many years. He was a prominent Free Mason, one of the charter members and founders of Jolin Warren Lodge, in which he held all the offices in succession. He was a member of Montgomery Lodge of Milford previously. He married, 1853, Emily Maria Mansfield, born May 1, 1836, died April 12, 1891, daugh- ter of Franklin Brown and Eliza (Loomis) Mansfield, and granddaughter of William and Mary ( Piper) Mansfield, of Camden, Maine. Children : 1. Eugene, married Mary J. Bates, who survives him, living at Millbury, Massa- chusetts ; child, Owen E. 3. Charles I., re- sides in Richmond, Virginia ; married Mary E. Ferguson ; children : Jessie and Donald. 3. Hattie. 4. George O., June 18, 1869, men- tioned below. 5. Theron, married Sarah E. O'Brien : three children died young.
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(VII) George Owen, son of Owen Wood, was born in Hopkinton, June 18, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive town. He began his business career in the employ of Claflin, Coburn & Company. He started in the grocery business in partner- ship with his brother, Charles I. Wood, at Putnam, Connecticut. Since 1893 he has been a real estate broker with offices at 31 Milk street, Boston, and has built up a large and profitable business. His residence is at 333 Park street, Dorchester. In politics Mr. Wood is a Republican. From 1898 to 1906 he was a member of the common council of Boston and served efficiently in this office. He was on the committee on collections, contingent expenses of which he was chairman, on institutions and on legislative matters. He is a member of Abadour Lodge, Free Masons; Mt. Vernon Royal Arch Chapter; Joseph Warren Com- mandery; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine; the Eastern Star ; Eagle Lodge, No. 114, Odd. Fellows; Daughters of Rebekah; Dorchester Council, Royal Arcanum. He is also a mem- ber of the Dorchester Club and of the Chris- tian Science church. He married, June 10, 1891, Grace L. Adams, born March 31, 1871, daughter of Amos R. and Sarah E. (Fisk) Adams, and granddaughter of Aaron and (Rockwood) Adams. She has a sis- ter, Nellie Adams, and a brother, Wilbus F. Adams, who married Hattie A. Phipps. Her father had a brother, Henry Adams, and a sister Mary, who married James Palmer, of South Framingham, an inspector in the Bos- ton custom house. Children: I. George Amos, born September 27, 1892. 2. Carl Adams, August 10, 1895. 3. Katherine Louise, March 22. 1899.
(For preceding generations see Christopher Avery 1).
(IV) Captain Christopher Av- AVERY ery, son of Captain James and Deborah (Stallyon) Avery, was born in New London (Groton), Connecticut, January 23. 1679, and died in Groton, January 20, 1753. He married (first) December 9, 1704, Abigail, daughter of Captain John Parke. She died February 12, 1713, and he married (second) April 1, 1714, Prudence, widow of Richard Wheeler, and whose family name was Payson. He married (third) Janu- ary I, 1735, Mrs. Esther Prentice, died 1753. daughter of Nathaniel Hammond; married (fourth) Suanna Stoddard, who survived him and is mentioned in his will. Captain Christo- pher Avery had four children by his first and
five by his second wife : I. John, born August 26, 1705, died August 21, 1790. 2. Abigail, born July 16, 1707. 3. Christopher, Novem- ber 16, 1709. 4. Nathan, March 10, 1712, died September 7, 1780. 5. Priscilla, born April 29, 1715 ; married Joseph Breed. 6. Isaac (or Jabez), born March 26, 1717, died before 1726. 7. Hannah, born February 10, 1719. 8. Jacob, August 25, 1721, died May, 1792. 9. Temperance, born September 14, 1725.
(V) Colonel Christopher, son of Captain Christopher and Abigail (Parke) Avery, was born in Groton, November 16, 1709, and died there July 2, 1778. He married, September 10, 1735, Eunice Prentice, born 1716, died March 22, 1796. Children: I. Esther, born April 14, 1736; married Daniel Williams. 2. Christopher, January 23, 1737-8, died July 5, 1819. 3. Eunice, December II, 1740; mar- ried George Avery. 4. Lucy, December 10, 1742; married - Allyn. 5. Nathan, May 2, 1744. 6. Thomas, February 10, 1746. 7. Anna, February 2, 1748, died before June 10, 1778. 8. Samuel, November 15, 1752, died August 12, 1836. 9. Prentice, February 10, 1755, died before June 10, 1778. 10. Oliver, February 8, 1757, died November 3, 1836. II. Abigail, February 22, 1759; married Oc- tober 30, 1785, Vine Stoddard. 12. Sarah, August 7, 1761. 13. Hannah, January 20, 1763.
(VI) Nathan, son of Colonel Christopher and Eunice (Prentice) Avery, was born in Groton, Connecticut, May 2, 1744, and mar- ried, in 1770, Rebecca Elderkin, the dates of whose birth and death are not known. Ac- cording to the "Avery Genealogy" they had four children, of the first two of whom noth- ing is known except their names : I. Nathan, Jr. 2. Rebecca. 3. Prentice; see forward. 4. Roxcelena, October 19, 1779.
(VII) Prentice, son of Nathan and Rebec- ca (Elderkin) Avery, was probably in Nor- wich, Connecticut, October 5, 1776, and died there September 22, 1811. He married, Oc- tober 9, 1802, Mary Gallup, born 1780, died 1870, daughter of Jesse Gallup. Children, all probably born in Norwich: I. Ardelia Ever- ett. November 5, 1803; married Benjamin Durfey. 2. Eunice Allyn, March 13, 1805. 3. Mary, January 3, 1807, died October 20. 1809. 4. Nathan Prentice, January 22, 1809.
(VIII) Nathan Prentice, only son of Pren- tice and Mary (Gallup) Avery, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, January 22, 1809, and died September 13, 1863 : married (first) May II. 1835. at Griswold, Connecticut, by Rev.
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Mr. Jewett, Lydia Durfey, who died Decem- ber 31, 1843; married (second) January 12, 1845, Sybil B. Woodworth, of Norwich. He had four children, all born of his first mar- riage and in Norwich: I. Edwin P., October 26, 1836. 2. Lucy Jane, May 29, 1839, died February 27, 1850. 3. Mary C., February 6, 1841, died December 7, 1842. 4. Albert L., December 18, 1843, died February 8, 1844. Nathan Prentice Avery was a carpenter and joiner during the early part of his life, later became a contractor and builder, and also be- came somewhat extensively interested in the manufacture of paper. He was in all respects a capable, successful and straightforward busi- ness man. He was an ardent supporter of the old Whig party and its principles, and lived long enough to witness and take part in the or- ganization of the Republican party and to see its first successful candidate inaugurated at Washington as our national president and be- gin the righteous work of slave emancipation and the still more arduous work of subduing the states in rebellion against the federal union ; but he died two years before Lincoln's work and the first great mission of his party were fully accomplished. In religious prefer- ence Mr. Avery was a consistent member of the Congregational church, and one of the deacons of that church in Norwich.
(IX) Captain Edwin Prentice Avery, son of Nathan Prentice and Lydia (Durfey) Av- ery, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, Oc- tober 26, 1836, and after completing his early education in the public schools of that city be- came interested in the paper manufactory of which his father was proprietor. Soon after- ward, however, he left that employment and engaged in business in New York and Nor- wich, Connecticut. He went to Florence, Massachusetts, in 1881, where he became con- nected with the Nonotuck Silk Company. In 1891 he came to Holyoke and became book- keeper for the William Skinner Manufactur- ing Company. He enlisted in Company A, Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, during the civil war, and he made an excellent war record. During his service he was cap- tured by the enemy and held prisoner at Libby and Belle Isle for a considerable time. Cap- tain Avery was a Free and Accepted Mason, and a regular attendant at the services of the Congregational church. He married. October 16, 1866, Adelaide L., daughter of Deacon Simcon and Mary Ann ( Morgan) Smith, of East Lyme, Connecticut. Mrs. Avery, through her mother in the Morgan line, is of the same
ancestral family as was Aaron Burr, and had in her possession letters written by that noted figure in our early national history. Captain Edwin Prentice and Adelaide L. (Smith) Av- ery had two children : Nathan Prentice (see forward), and Sybil Louise, born January 18, 1873.
(X) Nathan Prentice, only son of Captain Edwin Prentice and Adelaide L. (Smith) Av- ery, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, May 13, 1869, and acquired his elementary educa- tion in the public schools of his native city, his secondary education at Northampton high school, class of '87, and his higher education at Amherst College, where he graduated A.B. in 1891. The next few years after leaving college were devoted to pedagogical work, first as principal of Yates High and Union School at Chittenango, Madison county, New York, and he afterward took a post-graduate course at Clark University. He is a member of two college fraternities-Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. In the meantime he took up the study of law, and in 1896 was admitted to practice in the courts of this state. In the same year he began his professional career in association with Judge Edward W. Chapin, of Holyoke, and soon came to be recognized as one of the leading young members of the Hampden bar. For five years he was city solicitor of Holyoke, and for five years has served as mayor of that city by successive re- elections. Mr. Avery is an independent in politics. He holds membership in several Ma- sonic bodies, and several other fraternal or- ders, is an Odd Fellow, member of the Sons of Veterans, of the Congregational church. and secretary of the board of trustees of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Holyoke. He married July 7, 1897, Katherine Barnes Van Valkenburg, a descendant of an old Holland Dutch family of the Mohawk valley in New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Avery have two children : Adelaide and Katherine Avery.
FLINT The Flint family was one of those who attained prominence in the settlement of the early colonies. Henry Flint, one of the first ministers of Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, ar- rived in this country from England in 1635. He became a member of the church in Boston, soon after removing to Braintree, where he was ordained as minister of the gospel, March 17, 1640, and died April 27, 1668. His wife, a sister of President Oaks, of Harvard College, died in March, 1645. They had five sons and
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five daughters. Josiah, eldest son of Rev. Henry Flint, was graduated from Harvard College in 1664 and ordained at Dorchester in 1671. His son Henry was graduated from the same college in 1693 and soon afterward be- came a tutor in that institution, a position he occupied for forty years and his portrait may still be seen there.
(I) Thomas, brother of Rev. Henry Flint mentioned above, came from England to Bos- ton in 1635 and settled in Concord in 1637. While in England he resided in Mattock, Der- byshire, where he sold his property for four thousand pounds, expending nearly all of this amount in improving the town of Concord. He was a representative to the general court of Massachusetts from 1637 to 1640 and lieu- tenant-governor many years. Children: I. John, see forward. 2. Ephraim, born 1642, married 1684, died August 3, 1722, leaving no children. Thomas Flint had other children.
(II) John, son of Thomas Flint, died in 1687. He was lieutenant and representative from 1677 to 1687. He married Mary, sister of Mr. Oaks, president of Harvard College. Children : Mary, born 1668, died 1675; Thomas, born 1670, died 1675; John, born 1673, died 1675; Abigail, born 1674, died 1769 ; John, see forward.
(III) John (2), youngest child of John (I) and Mary (Oaks) Flint, was born July 18, 1677, resided in Concord, Massachusetts, and married, May 7, 1713. Children : Ephraim, born 1713, died 1762; Abigail, born 1715, died 1762; Mary, born 1717, died 1719; Sarah, born 1720, died 1789; John, see forward; Hannah, born 1724, died 1792; Jane, born 1727, died 1786.
(IV) John (3), second son and fifth child of John (2) Flint, was born May 12, 1722, and died in 1792. He married, January 12, 1744, Hepsibah Brown. Children : Hepsibah, born 1744, died 1790; Edward, born 1749, died 1812; John, born 1751, died 1822; Abi- gail, born 1753, died 1753; Nathan, see for- ward; Ephraim, born 1757, died 1769; Thomas, born 1759, died 1840; Eleazer, born 1761, died 1839; John, born 1763, died 1842; Abisha. born 1766, died 1807.
(V) Nathan, third son and fifth child of John (3) and Hepsibah (Brown) Flint, was born in 1755, and died in 1824. He married Molly Brown. Children : Molly, born 1782; Abigail, 1783, died 1786; Nathan, 1785, died 1786 : Abigail, born August 31, 1786; Nathan, May II, 1788, died 1809; Ephraim, see for- ward ; Hannah, born November 9, 1791, died
April 7, 1875; Polly, born 1793, died 1826; Hepsibah, born 1795, died 1858; David B., born September 23, 1797, died December 25, 1871; John, born November 8, 1799; Char- lotte, born January 5, 1802, died October 7, 1882; Almira, born January 31, 1806, died 1862.
(VI) Ephraim, third son and sixth child of Nathan and Molly (Brown) Flint, was born November 10, 1789, and died November 3, 1865. He married, April 30, 1816, Deborah Brooks. Children: Ephraim H., born March 1, 1817; Mary A., November 1, 1818; Deborah A., September 25, 1820, died 1867; Elias B., born May 21, 1823, died October 5, 1853; David B., see forward; Charles I., born Sep- tember 23, 1833.
(VII) David Brown, third son and fifth child of Ephraim and Deborah (Brooks) Flint, was born in Winchenden, Massachu- setts, June 18, 1827, and died in his home in Dale street, Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 27, 1900. His early years were spent on the farm of his father, and he enjoyed the advantages of a common school education and was for a time under the instruction of the late Mr. Washburn, afterward governor of Massachu- setts, and who regarded young Flint as of an ambitious and determined character and an excellent student. At the age of nineteen years, having completed his education as far as local opportunities admitted, Mr. Flint went to Orange, Massachusetts, where he entered the employ of Rodney Hunt, a well known machinist and manufacturer. Before many years he was associated with Mr. Hunt as a partner, the firm name being Hunt, Wade & Flint, and the concern made rapid strides for- ward. They were engaged in the manufacture of water wheels and cotton mill supplies, but the foresight of Mr. Flint soon made them abandon water wheels and manufacture tur- bine wheels, and in consequence the business of the firm made great progress. Some years later it was incorporated, the plant being known as the Rodney-Hunt Machine Com- pany, becoming one of the wealthiest manu- facturing concerns in western Massachusetts, with Mr. Flint as leading spirit and manager. His close and constant application to business interests had, however, impaired his health, and he was obliged to retire from an active business life but did not withdraw his inter- ests from the company. He established him- self in his pleasant home in Dale street where, surrounded by his family and friends, he re- sided until his death. He was a man of com-
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manding appearance, strong mental attain- ments, and many noble qualities which en- deared him to all, and to none more so than to the men in his employ ; generous and scrupu- lously honest, and possessed of the most pro- gressive and practical ideas. He was a mem- ber of the Congregational church, and gave his political support to the Republican party, taking an active and intelligent interest in the affairs of his town and the nation, but never cared to hold public office. He married, Janu- ary 12, 1853, Clarissa Greene (see Greene). She is a woman of much force of character and mental activity, has been a great traveler, and is a broadminded well informed member of the Congregational church. Children, all born in Orange, Massachusetts: I. Arthur Eugene, May 15, 1855, died February 8, 1865. 2. Clara Gertrude, December 2, 1856, died March 9, 1867. 3. Arria Emogene, January 7, 1866; married William E. Fay, a broker of Boston, official in many mining propositions, and known as one of the most reliable and successful business men of Boston ; he and his family live in Dorchester and are leading spirits in the local societies of that community ; children: Edith, born March 1, 1894; a stu- dent in the Dorchester high school, and Arthur Flint, born December II, 1895, attends the common school. 4. Perley Greene, born June 16, 1872; has a well established reputation as a shoc manufacturer of Brockton, Massachu- setts ; married Elsie, daughter of Alfred Ewer, bank examiner of Massachusetts.
(The Greene Line).
(I) Robert Greene located in Wales (then a part of Brimfield), Massachusetts, in 1743. After a time he removed to Tolland, Connecti- cut, then returned to Wales, where he resided until his death. He married, October II, 1744, Sarah, sister of Ichabod and Deacon Joel Rogers. Children, the three eldest born in Wales, the next four in Tolland, and the two youngest in Wales : Ruth, February 14, 1745 ; Joel, May 5, 1748; Lydia, March 6, 1750, died in Tolland, July 5, 1851 ; Lydia, born July 28, 1751 ; Amos, June 22, 1753; Nathan, see for- ward; Eunice, born February 14, 1757, died in Wales, 1822: Solmon, born March 12, 1766; Reuben, May 24, 1769.
(II) Nathan, third son and sixth child of Robert and Sarah ( Rogers) Greene, was born in Tolland, Connecticut, March 28, 1755, and died May 6, 1838. Afer his marriage he re- moved to Whitingham, Vermont, with his young bride. They were obliged to travel with
their entire outfit on foot or horseback from Greenfield, Massachusetts, a distance of twen- ty miles, guided only by blazed trees. He had made a favorable selection for a homestead, built his log cabin and cleared and cultivated a patch of land. His cabin stood in an un- broken wilderness, and there were several other families who had settled in different parts of the town. Nathan Greene was an extensive land owner. The town records show that he sold in 1785 and the few years imme- diately following, tracts of land or farms to nine different persons, and having become old he sold his homestead to David Hosley, Jr., his son-in-law, March 20, 1822, taking back a life lease of the premises. He was a man of great physical strength and intellectual devel- opment, energetic and ambitious, always ready with a joke, yet of great will power and de- cision of character, attributes which appear to be characteristic of the Greene family. He married, May 10, 1780, Sarah Shields, born November 24, 1758, who had lived with Rev. Mr. Stebbins, of Monson, as her father died when she was very young; she died in May, 1843. Children : Hannah, born January 31, 1781, married Lincoln Hall, and removed to Pennsylvania ; Alfred, see forward; Rhoda, born July 12, 1785, died July 26, 1806; Lydia, born April 17, 1787, died December 3, 1864; Polly, born June 22, 1789; Anna, born Octo- ber 21, 1791, died January 10, 1847; Nathan, Jr., born December 3, 1793, died November 30, 1837; Twins, born March 17, 1795; Dan- iel, born December 18, 1796, died October 9, 1849 : Sally, born March 3, 1799, died January 20. 1870.
(III) Alfred, eldest son and second child of Nathan and Sarah (Shields) Greene, was born in Whitingham, Vermont, November 21, 1783, and died July 19, 1873. He is said to have been the first male child born in the town, and he purchased the southwestern part of the homestead from his father and also the Dun- nel place adjoining, where he established his home and lived and died. He learned the car- penter's trade early in life, and at the age of seventeen years was one of the workmen upon the old meeting house which was erected in the summer and fall of 1799. He soon be- came a master carpenter and builder, and erected the greater number of the principal buildings in the town during the next forty years. He was a man of unusual strength and power of endurance, and even in old age took a lively interest in business and the care of his farm. The day before he was taken sick he
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walked six miles in the forenoon to transact business, and then worked the greater part of the day in the hay field with almost the vigor of youth. In the afternoon a sudden shower came upon him and he was drenched before he could reach shelter. This shock was too great for one of his age and he succumbed to an attack of typhoid which set in, living but ten days. He married, March 26, 1810, Clar- issa, born February 26, 1788, died June 21, 1868, daughter of Asa and Submit (Sever- ance) Smith. Children : Eli, born October 9, 1812, died August 21, 1854; Alfred, Jr., born August 7, 1814, died August 28, 1864; Reu- ben, born February 18, 1817, died February 27, 1900; Polly, born February 2, 1819, died January 28, 1892; Asa, born October 6, 1821, died October 1, 1866; Miranda, born Novem- ber II, 1824, is living in Winchester ; Clarissa, see forward.
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