Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 121

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986

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(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Cowell, was born at Wrentham, Massachu- setts. March 27, 1713, died there October 3, 1740. He was a farmer at Wrentham. He married, January 21, 1735, Margaret Dear- ing, born June 25, 1712, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Man) Dearing, the latter a daugh- ter of Rev. Samuel Man, first minister in Wrentham, who graduated from Harvard in 1665. His wife was said to have been a very capable woman, and after her second marriage to Deacon Richard Fisher took her children to bring up. She died May 20, 1798, aged eighty-six years, and is buried by the side of her first husband in the old Wrentham ceme- tery. November 6, 1740, she administered his estate. The inventory, April 7. 1741, amounted to £447, with item: "Received for an Indian boy's time £20,00"; two common rights, house lot, house and lands. Children of Joseph and Margaret (Dearing) Cowell : I. Samuel, born January 16, 1737, mentioned below. 2. Olive, born February 19, 1739. died February 27, 1816; married Benjamin Hawes. She had two sons by her marriage with Dea- con Richard Fisher.

(V) Major Samuel, son of Joseph (3) Cowell, was born in Wrentham, Massachu- setts, January 16, 1737, died there February 23, 1824. He was a farmer by occupation He was a member of the First Congregational (orthodox) Church at Wrentham. He was chosen surveyor of highways, March 8, 1768. He served as captain of a company in Colonel

John Smith's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; captain in Colonel Lemuel Robinson's regiment, list of officers of Massachusetts militia commissioned 1776; captain in same regiment, engaged January 29, 1776; company marched from Wrentham, regiment raised in York and Suffolk counties, roll dated Roxbury; captain in Colonel Ephraim Wheelock's (Fourth Suffolk regi- ment, list of officers dated Wrentham, April 8. 1776, ordered in council, April 23, 1776, that a commission be issued, reported com- mission April 21, 1776; captain in Colonel Aaron Willard's regiment, pay abstract for mileage to Bennington sworn to at Boston, January 23, 1777 ; also same regiment, pay ab- stract for milage from Fort Edward home, sworn to at Boston, January 23, 1777; cap- tain of South Company in east precinct in Wrentham, Colonel Benjamin Hawes ( Fourth Suffolk County) regiment, dated September 26, 1777, order in council, September 27, 1777. in commission, reported commissioned Sep- tember 27, 1777 ; also same regiment pay roll of said Cowell's company made up for service from July 26, 1778, to August 26, 1778, at Rhode Island, sworn to at Wrentham : captain (Fourth Suffolk County) Major Seth Bul- lard's regiment, marched to Rhode Island, July 28, 1780, on an alarm, discharged August 7, 1780; also list returned by Captain Salvin Mann, March 5, 1781, showing officers and men detached from Colonel Seth Bullard's regiment to march to Tiverton, Rhode Island, to be gone no more than forty days agreeable to an order of His Excellency, John Hancock, dated Boston, February 28, 1781, one subal- tern and eight men detached from said Cowell's company. In his son's diary it is stated that Major Samuel Cowell served one campaign in the old French and Indian war in Canada when about eighteen years old. De- cember 25, 1780, was voted on committee to hire men for Continental army for three years.

Major Samuel Cowell married ( first) Je- mima Metcalf, of Holliston, born 1744, died August 28, 1793, aged forty-nine years. Chil- dren : I. David, died in infancy, January 21. 1762. 2. Joseph, born August 31, 1762. died December 10, 1786. 3. John, born March 31, 1765, died December 10, 1786. These brothers were frozen to death on Lovell's Island, Bos- ton Harbor, by being shipwrecked. 4. Mary. born October II. 1767, died November 22, 1861. 5. Olive, born September 5. 1769, died June 13, 1854. 6. Jemima, born January 9.

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1772, died February 22, 1859. 7. Samuel, born October 18, 1774, mentioned below. 8. Wil- liam, born May, 1777, died July 17, 1867. 9. Benjamin, born December 9, 1781, died May 6, 1860. 10. Martha, born October 25, 1785, died August 29, 1866. II. Matilda, born April 7, 1789, died October 31, 1873. He married (second) Mary who died January 30, 1824, aged eighty years. The fol- lowing inscription is on the tombstone of Ma- jor Samuel Cowell: "He was an officer dur- ing the war of the Revolution, was among the first to espouse the cause of his country, and he steadfastly maintained those principles which are the foundation of the government of this great people until death. He main- tained through life the character of an honest man and died in the possession of the Chris- tian's life."

(VI) Samuel (2), son of Major Samuel (1) Cowell, was born in Wrentham, October 18, 1774, died there March 26, 1861. He was a prosperous farmer, and a man of thrift and enterprise, industrious and frugal, and honest in his convictions. He was a highly honored Free Mason, and his funeral and burial, con- ducted according to Masonie rites, was of a most imposing character. His Masonie monu- ment is at the entrance of the Wrentham cemetery. He married. January 23, 1803, Sarah George, born May II. 1779, died May 31, 1862. Children: I. Hiram, born Octo- ber 27, 1804, died May 31, 1845; married Susan Fisher ; children: Horace, born 1844, died March 5, 1875 : Charles, resides in Provi- dence, Rhode Island. 2. Joseph, born Janu- ary 25, 1806, mentioned below. 3. John, born November 1I, 1800, died August 29, 1899; married Laura A. Carpenter, born May 3. 18II. died May 4, 1908: children: Helen Maria, Edward, Harper, Elizabeth, Ella. 4. George, born June 17, 1811, died March II, 1874 ; married Elvira A. Fisher, born Septem- ber 26, 1813, died October 22, 1885 : children : i. Maria Fisher, born August 9, 1843, died October 6, 1881 ; ii. George Oscar, born July, 1846, died December, 1894; iii. William Gard- ner. died in infancy : iv. Henry Cushing, born 1848, died 1898; v. John Augustus, born April 1, 1850, in Providence, Rhode Island ; member of the Cowell Furniture Company ; vi. Jere- miah Hartshorn, born 1852, in Wrentham; vii. Hattie Pratt, born 1857. 5. Henry, born June 30, 1819, married Harriet Carpenter, of Rehoboth ; children: Isabella Marion, Ray- mond, Ernest Victor, Samuel Henry, Sarah, Helen Edith, born and residing in California.

(VII) Joseph (4), son of Samuel (2) Cowell, was born in Wrentham, Massachu- setts, January 25, 1806, died there December 25, 1893. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual common school edu- cation of a farmer's son at that period, re- maining at home until his marriage in 1830, when he settled in Foxboro, where he pur- chased a twenty acre farm near the Wren- tham line. There he erected a wheelwright's . shop and followed his trade, making wagon wheels, and cultivated his farm. In 1855 he removed his family to Wrentham, and built his homestead on East street in 1860. He was employed by William E. George as fore- man in his straw shop, and then had a straw route, carrying out straw to be sewed by the townspepole and collecting it when made, con- tinuing in this up to 1878, when he retired. from active work, but did some work in the shop later ( Brown & Cowell's shop ). He was a gentleman of the old school, faithful in every duty, both as a citizen and as a church- man, being a member of the Episcopal church, in which he took a great interest and helped the church. He was a deep thinker, with clear ideas and valuable in all things. He was a staunch Democrat, and served in the office of field driver. He was a member of Excelsior Lodge, No. 87, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Foxboro, Massachusetts. He married ( first) November 17, 1830, Elizabeth George, born November 1, 1807, died July 8, 1834, daughter of Jesse and Hannah George. Children: 1. Sarah Elizabeth, born Novem- ber 10, 1831, died March 17, 1844. 2. Joseph George, born 1835 ; resides in Wrentham. He- married (second) Emily George, sister of his first wife, born October 7, 1805, died April 8, 1872. Child of second marriage: 3. Hiram Augustus, mentioned below.

(VIII) Hiram Augustus, son of Joseph (4) and Emily (George) Cowell, was born in the west part of Foxboro, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 17, 1845. He attended the district school, and at the age of ten years removed with his parents to Wrentham, where he attended the common schools and Day's Academy up to seventeen years of age, when he entered the employ of his uncle, William E. George, a straw goods manufacturer of Wrentham, first in the capacity of engineer and charge of boiler. This was at the time of the civil war, and while the old engineer of the factory, re- sponding to the "call of his country," was drilling with his company on the common, in readiness for the bugle call to leave for the

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seat of war. He later took a course in Comer's Commercial College at Boston, fitting himself for office work in Mr. George's business, and served as his bookkeeper up to 1878, when the business became involved. As a result Mr. Daniel Brown and' Mr. Cowell associated themselves together for the continuance of the business under the firm name of Brown & Cowell. At the end of sixty days, just at the beginning of a successful start, they were burned out, but nothing daunted, the partners removed their remaining effects into the old Day's Academy building until a new fac- tory could be erected, on the site of the one burned, into which they moved the following year. The business prospered from the start, and in July. 1885, Mr. Cowell retired, selling his interest to Mr. Brown, who continued it, and upon his death in 1904 was succeeded by his son, C. E. Brown. After his retirement from the straw business, Mr. Cowell devoted himself to the care of his property, became also interested in town affairs, in which he took great interest, was honored by his towns- men by being chosen a member of the board of selectmen, overseer of poor, and member of board of health in 1887. and he was made chairman of the board, which position he held up to 1894. His name was again presented to the voters of the town in 1908 for the same offices, and he was again elected and re-elected in 1909. He has served as a director of the National Bank of Wrentham for more than twenty years, and as its president since 1906; as vice-president of the Co-Operative Bank of Wrentham from its organization, October 17, 1900; treasurer of the Wrentham Ceme- tery Corporation since 1902; also treasurer and manager of the Plainville Land Com- pany, in which he has an interest; this com- pany owns factories in which manufacturing jewelers have their plants. The company also does the pumping for the town of Plainville for its public water supply system. Mr. Cowell has been interested and successful in western investments, owns considerable real estate in town and at Lake Archer, one of the beautiful lakes of the town, and a fast growing summer resort. With the offices he holds and the care of his property, Mr. Cowell says he finds his time fairly well occupied. In politics, while set-down normally as a Democrat, yet with such strong convictions in the matter of party principles and platforms, that he just calls himself an Independent. His friends often about election time call him "a man without a party." He is a member of Excelsior Lodge,

Free and Accepted Masons, of Franklin, Mas- sachusetts, and of Wampum Lodge, No. 195, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. From the institution of the lodge in Wrentham, No- vember 14, 1887, up to the present time, has passed through the chairs, and served as noble grand, and is now one of the board of trustees of the lodge.

Mr. Cowell married (first) December 16. 1869, Mary Elizabeth Warner, born May 12, 1847, died December 25, 1893, daughter of Hon. Samuel and Hannah (Pond) Warner, of Wrentham. Married (second) at Malden, Massachusetts, August 15, 1901, Mrs. Sally Adeline (Newton) Rowell, born June 22. 1861, daughter of David Brainard and Sarah Adeline ( Emery) Newton.

McINTOSH The surname MacIntosh or McIntosh was well es- tablished in counties Inver- ness and Moray, Scotland, before 1200. The name is spelled in other ways but all are of the same race and clan. The McIntosh clan is one of the oldest and most numerous of the Highlands. Like all the Scotch clans it was at war from prehistoric times with other clans, especially with the MacPhersons, who finally conquered them. The principal Hig- land clans in 1863 numbered: MacGregors, 36,000: MaKenzie, 21,000; MaLas 16,- 000; Macleods, 14,000; MacIntoshes, II,- 000; MacDonalds, 10,000. The members of each clan though sometimes only cousins a hundred times removed all bore the same name, fought and worked together. Their land was originally held in common, being periodically divided among the clan.

(I) Robert McIntosh, ancestor of this family in America, was born in Scotland, about 1670. He had a sister who married a Scotchman named Alexander, and perhaps other sisters and brothers, though nothing is now known of them. He married, about 1685, - Gordon, a native of Scotland, and immediately afterward his marriage, on account of the persecutions of the Scotch Presbyterians or Covenanters, by the Pap- ists under James II, removed to Ulster pro- vince, north of Ireland, with his sister and her husband Alexander, settling in county Antrim. In 1890 there were born in the whole of Ireland but seven children of this family, and six McIntoshes were born, doubtless descendants of Robert, in county Antrim. Children: I. Robert, born about 1685 ; came to America in 1705, and settled

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in Philadelphia. 2. Andrew, mentioned be- low. 3. Matthew, probably ancestor of the present families of the name in Antrim. 4. Hannah. 5. Catherine.

(II) Andrew, son of Robert McIntosh, was born in 1690, in county Antrim, Ireland. In 1715, at the age of twenty-five, he came to America and joined his brother Robert at Philadelphia, soon went to Boston, and later to Dedham, Massachusetts. A year later he went to Voluntown, Connecticut, and from there to Stonington, Connecticut. Here, in 1754, at the age of sixty-four, he married Naomi Delthic. There is a tradition that he was married in Ireland by his father's command to a girl whom he did not love, and that he refused to stay with her, and came to this country immedi- ately after the marriage; but he would not marry until he was assured of her death, which accounts for his late marriage to Naomi Delthic. Seven years after his mar- riage, when seventy-one years old, his first son was born. In 1777, when he was eighty- seven years old, he removed with his family to Willington, Tolland county, and bought a farm where he lived the remainder of his life. He died there March 26, 1793, aged one hundred and three years. He was a pious man, and in his old age his Bible and hymn book were constantly at his hand. Although a man of quick temper, he was always ready to atone for a fault, and it was his custom al- ways at the same time, whether in the house or field, to kneel and ask forgiveness of God. He retained his faculties to the last, and re- fused to have a physician called, saying he had no desire to see one unless he could make him young again.

(III) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (1) Mc- Intosh, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, April 30, 1761. In 1777, at the age of six- teen, he removed with his parents to Willing- ton. He married, November 25, 1781, Han- nah Lillibridge, born in Exeter, Rhode Is- land, December 12, 1765, died March 19, 1821, daughter of Elder David and Miriam (Moore) Lillibridge ; her father was a promi- nent Baptist minister of Willington. He in- herited the farm of his father and remained there until 1811. In September that year he went to Steuben, Oneida county, New York, at that time a wilderness. The entire trip was made with a span of horses and a farm wagon. He joined his son-in-law in the pur- chase of a large farm on installments, and was unable to keep up the payments, but his

son Hezekiah assumed the contract and paid for the farm. A descendant thus writes of him: "Andrew lacked ambition and energy, and never had a keen appetite for work, and as the children with him grew to be of some assistance to him on the farm, he relaxed his efforts and showed from year to year less in- clination to work, and after he was sixty years old performed no manual labor of any kind. After the death of Hannah he lived upon his sons Clark in Vernon, and Austin in Steuben, alternating between them for many years, but the last ten years of his life he lived entirely upon the two sons in Steuben. In the fall of 1840 he made a visit to New Eng- land and spent the following winter in the family of Robert, in East Longmeadow. He was there as late as April 9, 1841, but soon afterward returned to his sons in Steuben. At the time of that visit he was eighty years old, but remark- ably strong and vigorous and had the possession of all his faculties. Ten years later, when ninety years old, he could take his staff and walk off four miles with little fatigue". He died in Steuben, October 19, 1856, aged ninety-five years, five months nine- teen days. His wife Hannah was a woman of fine physique and good constitution, and a good mind. Children, born in Willington : I. Hannah, March 24, 1782; died May 7, 1806, unmarried. 2. Robert, November 9. 1783 ; married, September 17, 1787, Philena Blodgett ; died February 9, 1879, aged nine- ty-five years three months. 3. Clark, De- cember 22, 1785; married Lura Blodgett ; died December 24. 1848. 4. Naomi, May 6, 1790 ; married in March, 1809, Willard Mer- rick ; died June 12, 1868. 5. Andrew, March 26, 1793; mentioned below. 6. Hezekiah, September 4. 1797; married, February 22, 1824, Maria Moulton ; died March 22, 1886. 7. Ethan, January 26, 1800; died young. 8. Ethan, January 13, 1803; married, October IT, 1827, Olive Green ; died May 6, 1873. 9. Austin, July 21, 1806; married, September 23, 1846, Lucy Crowell. Io. Mari Ida, Au- gust 10, 1808; married, March 15, 1832, James Mitchell.

(IV) Andrew (3), son of Andrew (2) McIntosh, was born at Willington, Connecti- cut, March 26, 1793. At the age of sixteen he went to East Windsor, where his brothers Robert and Clark had previously located, re- mained there and in the adjoining towns of Ellington and Somers about four years, and then went to East Longmeadow, where he

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lived the remainder of his life. He was for a time a merchant, and had a store in the lower village nearly opposite the present site of the Baptist church. Later he was a carpenter, and used a part of his store as a shop. For the last thirty years of his life he was a farm- er, and owned a small farm a half mile south of the upper village of East Longmeadow. He taught school several terms at East Long- meadow. It is said of him: "He was an in- dustrious reader, had a fairly good memory, and was a man of wonderful observation. No- thing escaped his notice in the heavens above or the earth beneath. He was an easy fluent talker and a capital story teller. His stories were elaborated and wrought out to a finish, and he took great pleasure in telling them. His supply seemed inexhaustible. He always had one more to tell and he would take time to tell it. He loved music, and was a good singer." He was of medium height, and had fair regular features. He was slim in his youth, but af- ter he was thirty weighed never less than two hundred and fifty pounds. He was at one time captain of militia. He married (first) in 1821, Elizabeth Indicott, born in Hartford, December 3, 1785, died of cancer, November 25, 1833, daughter of Dr. John Indicott ( see Indicott ). He married (second) May 15, 1853, Dorcas, sister of Burgess Salisbury, and a tailoress by trade. She died August II, 1873. He died September 17, 1863. Chil- dren: I. Andrew Jackson, born October 3, 1822; mentioned below. 2. John Church, June 18, 1824.

(V) Andrew Jackson, son of Andrew (3) McIntosh, was born in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, October 3, 1822. He lived for a time after his mother's death with his uncle Robert, then in Springfield, and in a few years became driver for a stage line from Spring- field to Norwich. Three years later he worked for Simons & Kibbe, confectioners, and for eight years drove one of their four-horse teams, selling their goods throughout a large part of the state. For a year and a half he was conductor on a branch of the Rome & Water- town railroad. After his marriage he re- turned to Springfield, and joined his brother in the auction and commission business oppo- site Court Square, as the firm of A. J. & J. C. McIntosh. In 1863 his health had become im- pared, and he was obliged to give up business, and the firm was dissolved. He travelled in the west for a year to regain his health, and returned restored. Soon afterwards he opened a jobbing house for the sale of boots and

shoes with two Cutler brothers, the firm being Cutler, McIntosh & Company. In 1878 the Cutlers retired, and Mr. McIntosh took into partnership with him four clerks, and the firm became McIntosh & Company, and has re- mained thus to the present time. The busi- ness which was established in 1864 grew year by year to enormous proportions, employing a dozen traveling salesmen and finding cus- tomers throughout the country. Mr. McIn- tosh was an able and astute manufacturer and merchant, a wise and conservative manager. He was fond of good horses, and always owned a good pair. He married, April II, 1855, at Sackett Harbor, New York, Mary A. Soggs, born February 8, 1835, at Buffalo, N. Y., daughter of Thomas and Selina ( Clark) Soggs. She received a musical education, and was a teacher of music in her native town and vicinity until her marriage. For many years the family lived at Sackett Harbor in summer. Children : I. Daughter, born January 26, 1856, at Springfield, and died three days later. 2. Mary Clark, born at Springfield, March 10, 1857; married Ar- thur H. Glennan, of Washington, D. C. 3. Selina Elizabeth, born at Springfield, Decem- ber 30, 1858; studied two years at Wellesley College ; married, at Springfield, June 22, 1882, Rev. Henry Nason Kinney, of Boston, born at Chicago, January 30, 1856, graduate of Harvard, 1879, and Andover Theological Seminary 1882 ; pastor at Fergus Falls, Min- nesota, and Winsted, Connecticut, Indian- apolis, Indiana, and at the time of his death was chaplain of Pomona University, California. Children : Marion Kinney, born at Fergus Falls, May 26, 1883, graduate of Wellesley College, 1904; ii. Selina Kinney, born at Sackett Harbor, March 24, 1885. 4. Sarah Cushman, born June 9, 1862; men- tioned below. 5. Annie, born at Springfield, June 14, 1870 ; died in infancy.

(VI) Sarah Cushman, daughter of Andrew Jackson McIntosh, was born in Springfield. June 9, 1862. She was educated there in pri- vite schools. She married (first) at Carth- age, New York, November 10, 1882, Horace Clark, of New York City, born at Buffalo, New York, November 4, 1862. He gradu- ated from Harvard College, class of 1885, and from Harvard Medical School. class of 1888. She married (second) November 5, 1896, Dr. William Wallace Broga, born April 5, 1853, in Otis, Massachusetts. He is a grad- uate of the Albany Medical School. He prac- ticed first at Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

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for five years, and since then in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Springfield Medical Society and Nayasset Club. In politics he is a Republican, in re- ligion a Congregationalist. The children of Dr. Horace and Sarah Cushman (McIntosh) Clark : I. Lucia, born in Boston, October 25, 1883. 2. Elizabeth Woodruff, born in New- ton, Massachusetts, May 14, 1885 ; graduate of Vassar College, class of 1908. 3. Lemuel Baldwin, born at Sackett Harbor, New York, August 30, 1887. 4. Andrew McIntosh, born January 28, 1889. Dr. and Mrs. Broga have no children.

(The Indicott Line).

The surname Indicott is identical with Endicott, Endicot, etc. The best known im- migrant of the family was Governor John Endicott, of Salem, one of the most distin- guished pioneers of Massachusetts Bay. But the progenitors of Dr. John Endicott, men- tioned below, were probably of the Boston family. Gilbert, son of John Endicott, of Marldon, Devonshire, was baptized at Marl- don, October 22, 1648, and died in Dorches- ter, Massachusetts, October 18, 1716, aged sixty-eight years. His brother John com- monly spelled his name Indicott, and doubt- less his descendants have followed the style that he set; John was warden of Kings Chapel, Boston, in 1691. Another brother, William Endicott, lived in Canton, Massa- chusetts. All three were inn-keepers. Gil- bert lived at Kennebunk, Maine, for a time, but was back in Dorchester in 1690; was a soldier in King Philip's war ; died at Canton, October 18, 1716.

(I) Dr. John Indicott, very likely a de- scendant of John Indicott of Boston, men- tioned above, was born in 1749. He was well educated and studied medicine. Immediately after his marriage in 1771 he began to prac- tice in Hartford, Connecticut, and for many years was a well known and successful physi- cian. After nearly thirty years he removed to a farm on the southwesterly part of Wil- braham, Massachusetts, where he spent the rest of his life. He intended to retire from practicing medicine when he turned to farm- ing, but many demands were made upon him by his neighbors and other physicians in cases requiring consultation. He was uni- versally respected and popular in Wilbra- ham. He was a prime mover in organizing a church in the lower village of East Long- meadow, and after the society was formed

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 121

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 986

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986