Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 122

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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and the church erected attended service reg- ularly though he was never a communicant himself. His wife and children joined the church, and his sons Samuel and Michael were pillars in it as long as they lived. He died January 10, 1826, aged seventy-seven years. He married, November 24, 1771, Elizabeth Church, born May 28, 1749, daugh- ter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Potwine) Church. Her parents were married at Hart- ford, November 27, 1746, and she had one brother, Joseph, born September 13, 1747. Children of Dr. Indicott : I. John, born June 28, 1773 ; died in 1795, on brig "Samuel," on a voyage to Turk's Island, where he was buried. 2. James, born April 18, 1776; died in 1799, of yellow fever, on one of the West Indies, and was buried there. 3. Joseph (or James ?) ; master of a brig; lost at sea with his vessel off the Jersey coast. 4. William, born July 17, 1781; partner in wholesale house of Indicott & Pomroy, Hartford ; never married; died in Longmeadow, June 12, 1852. 5. Samuel, born September 1, 1783 ; died January 28, 1831 ; came to Wilbraham with his father in 1800; married, November 17, 1814, Mary Ann, daughter of Elder At- well, of Enfield, Connecticut. 6. Elizabeth, born December 3, 1785; married Andrew - McIntosh, of Willington, Connecticut ; (see McIntosh). 7. Mary, born April 22, 1788. 8. Michael, born May 17, 1792 ; came to Wil- braham with the family in 1800, but returned to Hartford, and became a clerk in the store of his brother William ; later became a farm- er in Wilbraham ; married a daughter of Rev. George Atwell, of Enfield; died at Wilbra- ham, December 28, 1855.

PAGE John Page, immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He settled first in Hingham, Massachusetts, and was one of the signers of a petition to the general court, November 4, 1646. He removed to Haverhill about 1652, and died November 23, 1687. Administration on his estate was granted to his grandson, Thomas Page, March 12, 1721-22, and the estate was finally divided in November, 1723. His widow died February 15, 1796-97. He mar- ried Mary Marsh, daughter of George Marsh. Children : 1. John, baptized July II. 1641, married, in Hingham, June 14. 1663, Saralı Davis. 2. Onesiphorus, baptized No- vember 20, 1642, mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, baptized July 14, 1644, married, September 21, 1666, Mary Whittier. 4.

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Mary, baptized May 3, 1646, married, Oc- tober 23, 1665, John Dow; (second), July 14, 1673, Samuel Shepard. 5. Joseph, baptized March 5, 1647-48, married, at Hingham, Jan- uary 21, 1671, Judith Guile; (second), De- cember 2, 1673, Martha Heath. 6. Cor- nelius, baptized July 15, 1649. 7. Sarah, baptized July 18, 1651, married, January 14, 1669, James Sanders. 8. Elizabeth, born June 15, 1653, died July 3, 1653. 9. Mercy, born April 1, 1655, married, November 13, 1674, John Clough. 10. Son, born and died March 26, 1658. 11. Ephraim, born Febru- ary 27, 1659, died July 22, 1659.

(II) Sergeant Onesiphorus, son of John Page, was baptized at Hingham, November 20, 1642. He was a weaver by trade. He took the oath of allegiance at Salisbury, where he was a householder in 1677. He was admitted to the Salisbury church, July 3, 1687. He died June 28, 1706, at Salisbury. His will was dated April 9, 1705, and proved September 2, 1706. He married (first) No- vember 22, 1664, Mary Hauxworth, who died May 8, 1695. He married (second), July 31, 1695, Sarah (Morrill), widow of Philip Row- ell. She married (third), May 29, 1708, Dan- iel Merrill. Children: I. Mary, died Oc- tober 5, 1666. 2. Mary, born October 29, 1666, died young. 3. Joseph, born April 6, 1670, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, born June 23, 1672, married, April 21, 1693, Wil- liam Smith. 5. Mary, born November 18, 1674, died young. 6. Sarah. born July 6, 1677. 7. Onesiphorus, born February 10, 1678-79, married (first) Ruth Merrill, ( sec- ond) November 21, 17II, Mehitable Dow, widow. 8. Cornelius, died 1683. 9. Mary. born September 29, 1686. 10. John, born February 21, 1696-97.

(III) Joseph, son of Onesiphorus Page, was born in Salisbury, April 6, 1670. He married (first) March 12, 1690-91. Sarah Smith, who died October 21, 1691, daughter of Richard Smith. He married (second) Elizabeth Children, born at Salis- bury: I. Sarah, born October 12, 1691. By the second wife: 2. Judith, born October 22, 1692, died March 16, 1695-96. 3. John, born June 17, 1696, mentioned below. 4. Joseph, born September 3, 1698. 5. Joshua, born No- vember 15, 1700. 6. Benjamin, born May 14, 1703. 7. Mary, born May 26, 1706. 8. Onesiphorus, born September 18, 1708.

(IV) John (2), son of Joseph Page, was born in Salisbury, June 17, 1696, died March TI, 1767. He married, May 16, 1720, Mary

Winslow, who died August 21, 1774, in her seventy-seventh year. They lived at Salisbury. Children: I. Ebenezer. 2. Samuel, settled in Weare. 3. Betty. 4. Moses, born Septem- ber 3. 1726, mentioned below. 5. John. 6. Ephraim, born 1730. married Hannah Currier. 7. Mary. 8. Benjamin, died young. 9. Ben- jamin. 10. Enoch, settled in Wentworth, New Hampshire.

(\') Moses, son of John (2) Page, was born September 3, 1726, died September 27, 1805, at Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He re- sided in Gilmanton and Epping. New Hamp- shire, and married Judith French, daughter of Benjamin French Sr. Children, born in Epp- ing: I. Judith, March 29, 1757. 2. Mary, March 2, 1759. 3. Elizabeth, February 9. 1761. 4. John (twin), February 2, 1763. 5. Benjamin (twin), February 2, 1763, men- tioned below. 6. Ebenezer, December 30, 1766. 7. Hannah, February 21, 1769. 8. Moses, January 29, 1771. 9. Andrew, born in Gilmanton.

(VI) Benjamin, son of Moses Page, was born in Epping, New Hampshire, February 2, 1763. He married, April 26, 1787, Ruth Bean, of Brentwood, New Hampshire. They lived in Belmont, New Hampshire, and later removed to Waterborough, Maine. Children. born in Belmont: 1. James, 1797, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, September 26, 1798. Other children.

(VII) James, son of Benjamin Page, was born in 1797 in Belmont, New Hampshire, and moved with his parents when young to Waterborough, Maine. He was a millwright and lived in various towns. He died in 1840. at the age of forty-three. He married Eliza Woodman, born 1799, daughter of John Woodman, a millwright of Buxton, Maine. She died in Biddeford, Maine, at the age of ninety-two years. Children: I. Amos Wood- man (twin), born August 8, 1823. died Au- gust 31, 1891 ; married, October 4, 1848, Caro- line Warren Shute, born October 31, 1825. died November 25, 1888. 2. John Woodman (twin), born August 8, 1823. Born at Hollis. Maine : 3. Abigail. 4. Moses. 5. Thomas Clarke, mentioned below. 6. Harriet A. 7. Eliza Jane.

(VIII) Thomas Clarke, son of James Page, was born in Hollis, Maine, April 23. 1832. At an early age he went to work upon his uncle's farm at Biddeford, Maine, attend- ing school whenever there was opportunity. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed in a shoe manufactory at Haverhill. Massachu-

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setts, where he remained two and a half years, going then to Biddeford, Maine, where he learned the machinist's trade. He was am- bitious and went to school whenever he could, making the most of his meagre opportunities for an education. In 1853 he went as a journeyman machinist to Holyoke, Massachu- setts, and in 1857 and 1858 established a small repair shop in a room scarcely large enough to contain his lathe and bench. This enterprise afterwards became one of the largest concerns of the kind in the state. In 1859 he took a partner, S. S. Chase, under the firm name of T. C. Page & Company, and a few years later organized the Holyoke Machine Company and built shops now running under that name. He acted as general manager and agent until 1865. when he had accumulated enough money to buy a. knitting machine invented by I. W. Lamb. Mr. Page began at once to manufac- ture these machines at Rochester, New York, whither he removed, and in 1867 the company bought the old Massachusetts Arms Company property at Chicopee Falls and organized a stock company known as the Lamb Knitting Machine Manufacturing Company, capital $200,000, making Lamb and Tuttle knitting machines. In 1893 a combination was effect- ed with A. G. Spaulding & Brothers of New York and the capital increased, the new name being the Lamb Manufacturing Company. The business was large and varied, consisting of Spaulding bicycles, gymnasium apparatus, American club skates, golf and other sporting goods, and gave employment to five hundred hands. The business increased rapidly and the company prospered. Mr. Page was treas- urer, manager and agent. The factories were equipped with every modern improvement and made a speciality of finely finished work. In 1898 he retired and went abroad with his wife and daughter. On account of his wife's health, they soon returned, and in 1900 he re- sumed business with J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company. He is also interested in real estate and owns a number of valuable houses in the city. He is a member of Belcher Lodge of Free Masons : of Unity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Springfield Commandery and Massachusetts Consistory, and the order of the Mystic Shrine. He is a director of the Con- fectionery Machine Manufacturing Company : of the Page-Storms Drop Forge Company ; vice-president of the Chicopee Falls Savings Bank. ITe was a director and the last presi- dent of the First National Bank of Chicopee ; director and treasurer of the Page Chocolate

Company; in 1909 he is second vice-presi- dent and second assistant treasurer of J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company, and Stevens- Duryea Company. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He married (first) November 10, 1855, Charlotte Wheeler, born March 29, 1832, died October 9, 1878, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail Wheeler. He married (second) September 3, 1879, Mary E. Davis, of Ells- worth, Maine, born September 14, 1848, daughter of James F. and Jane (Lord) Da- vis, of "Mayflower" ancestry. Children of first wife: I. Frederick H., born October 26, 1856, died May 18, 1864. 2. Edgar W., born October 25, 1858, died August 10, 1859. 3. Adelaide F., born January 17, 1861, died Au- gust 30, 1863. 4. Frank H., born April 24, 1864, mentioned below. 5. Edward Clarke, born March 28, 1868, 6. George Kennedy, born July 25, 1870. Child of second wife: 7. Katherine H., born March 1I, 1886.

(IX) Frank H., son of Thomas Clarke Page, was born in Holyoke, April 24, 1864. He attended the public schools at Chicopee Falls and was a student in Williston Seminary at Easthampton for one year, and a special stu- dent for four years in the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology of Boston. In 1886 he went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and organ- ized the Northwest Knitting Company, of which he was the first treasurer. In 1889 he bought an interest in the Paris-Murton Com- pany, a concern engaged in the manufacture of confectionery at Minneapolis. Soon after- ward he was one of the inventors of the auto- matic Starch Buck which marked the begin- ning of a new era in the manufacture of can- dy by machinery, and the joint inventor with Gabriel Carlson of the Mogul Candy Ma- chine. He organized the Confectionery Ma- chine Company in Minneapolis and began bus- iness there. In 1894 the entire plant was re- moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where it has since been operated. Mr. Page is presi- dent of the company and manager of the busi- ness, which is the largest of its kind in the world. He married, in 1887, Bertha Baus- man, of Minneapolis. Three children: Fran- ces, born September 18, 1889. Kenneth B., June, 1897. Doris, June, 1899.

In the early records the sur- WHITTEN name Whitten is spelled Wheeton, Whetton, Whee- den, Whiten, Whiton, Whiting, Whitin, Whit- ton, Whyton and Wyton, and several of these forms survive to the present time. The rela-

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tionship of the various immigrants from which the Whitin, Whiting, Whiton, Wheaton, Weadon, Wheadon, and Whitten families de- scend, is not known, but all were English and the surname is of ancient English origin. Doubtless there were branches of the family also in Ireland and Scotland. According to tradition there were three brothers of the Whitten family early settlers in New Hamp- shire, Samuel, Thomas, and John Whitten, or Whidden. In 1671 John and Samuel Whit- ten (or Whidden) were members of the church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and contributed to the fund for the maintenance of Rev. Mr. Moody.

(I) Michael, son of John or Samuel Whit- ten, was born about 1670, and settled in Ports- mouth. Samuel Whidden (or Whitten) prob- ably his brother, had a daughter Margaret, born in Portsmouth, September, 1695, and his wife occupied a seat in the North Church of Portsmouth with "Widow Whidden," prob- ably the mother of Samuel and Michael. Michael married June 6, 1694. His children were baptized in the same church June 5, 1709, as follows: 1. Michael, married Anna Drew, May 27, 1719, at Portsmouth. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Samuel. 4. Abigail. 5. Elizabeth. See vol. iv, p. 54, New Hampshire Gen. Mag.). Michael was a member of the church in 1699 and ealier.

(II) John, son of Michael Whitten, was born about 1700, in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. and settled in the adjacent town of Kingston, New Hampshire, probably near the Salisbury, Massachusetts, for the "History of Kennebunkport, Maine," formerly Arundel, Maine, states that he came from Salisbury about 1724. He drew a lot at Arundel, on the Saco river, in 1728, and was a proprietor of the town in 1737. He married, at Salis- bury, Ruth Merrill, born at Salisbury, July 26, 1711. daughter of Deacon John Merrill. Her father was a soldier in 1710, a house- wright by trade, born 1674, married, Septem- ber 23, 1702, Mary Allen, and he died January 7, 1756. Sergeant Daniel Merrill, father of Deacon John, was a resident of Newbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts, born 1642, married, May 14. 1667, Sarah Clough, who died March 18, 1705-06; married ( second) May 29, 1708, Sarah Morrill, widow of. Philip Rowell and Onesiphorus Page: he died June 27, 1717. Nathaniel Merrill, father of Sergeant Daniel, was the immigrant ancestor, brother of John Merrill. Nathaniel Merrill died March 16, 1654-55, leaving a widow Susannah. John iv-17

may have been the John Whitten who married, April 24, 1745-46, at Kingston, New Hamp- shire, Bridget Wyman. Children, according to Kennebunkport history : I. John, born 1734; died 1802; married Hannah Walker, of Arundel, and went to Topsham, Maine, 1764. 2. Phineas, moved east. 3. Samuel, mentioned below. 4. Humphrey, married Hannah Las- sell. 5. Israel, married Sarah Fairfield; was in same company in the revolution with brothers Joseph and Samuel. 6. Joseph, sol- dier in the revolution; died at Lyman, Maine, 1797; married Ann Burnham. 7. Mary, mar- ried Samuel Waterhouse. 8. Hannah, mar- ried - - Knight. 9. Ruth, married

Clay. 10. Martha, married Gordon. II. Sarah, married Daniel Davis. 12. Lydia, married Moses Wadlin. 13. Anna, married (first) Captain English; (second) John Bur- bank.

(III) Samuel, son of John Whitten, was born at Kennebunkport, formerly Arundel, about 1735. He settled in his native town, but late in life moved away, probably to Alfred. He married Hannah Poindexter, of Arundel. He was a soldier in the revolution, third cor- poral in Captain John Elden's company, Col- onel Lemuel Robinson's regiment at Rox- bury, Massachusetts, during the seige of Bos- ton, 1776. His son Samuel and his brothers Israel, Joseph, and perhaps John, were in the same company. John was an officer in the service. He had a son Samuel, mentioned be- low. According to the census of 1790 he had two males over sixteen, two under that age, and four females in his family.

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Whitten, was born in Arundel, about 1760. He served in Captain John Elden's company, Colonel Lemuel Robinson, in the revolution, and was drafted October 7, 1777, in Captain Joshua Nason's company, Colonel Joseph Storer's regiment, and was in the campaign that ended with the taking of General Bur- goyne's army. In 1790, Joseph, Israel and Samuel were the heads of families of this name living in Arundel. In Arundel the spell- ing Whitten has been followed, but in the vi- cinity we find Whittum, Whitton and Whid- den. Some of the family settled at Alfred, before 1767. John Whitten married, at Al- fred, Maine, before 1767. John Whitten mar- ried, at Alfred, April 23, 1767, Sarah Hodgden ; Mary Whitten married there, November 30. 1768. Richard Dearborn ; Richard Whitten mar- ried there, November 3. 1784, Mercy Jose. The latter settled at Parsonfield, and was ancestor

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of the Parsfield family of Whittens. Samuel married twice, and had twelve children by the first wife, and four by the second. The town records are incomplete and do not give the dates of birth of all these children. Children, born at Alfred: 1. Samuel, blacksmith and farmer, married Lucinda Ladd, and settled in Saco, Maine. (A Samuel Whitten married at Alfred, December 14, 1828, Olive Hill). 2. Mary, married, March 30, 1824, at Alfred, Thatcher Friend. 3. Nancy, married Thomas Buckminster, coffin-maker and undertaker; married (second), Caroline -- 4. Wil- liam, born October 17, 1799; mentioned be- low. 5. Abel (?), married at Alfred, October 25, 1824, Judith Hubbard. 6. Daniel, mar- ried (?), at Alfred, August 1, 1817, Dorothy Cluff. 7. Nahum (?), married, at Alfred, May, 1810, Betsey Wormwood. 8. George, born October 17, 1802. 9. James, January 4, 1804.

(V) William, son of Samuel Whitten, was born at Alfred, October 17. 1799, and was educated in the district schools of his native town. When a young man he went west, but after a few years came home, and worked for a few years at farming and other vocations. He finally settled on a farm on the line be- tween Biddeford and Kennebunkport, and was a well-to-do farmer and influential citi- zen. He was kindly and affable by nature, and made many warm friends. He was a Whig in politics, and both he and his wife were active in the Methodist church and ear- nest and consistent Christians. He married, in Saco, Maine, Lucy Mckinney, born in Saco, May 25, 1800, died at the advanced age of ninety-four years, daughter of John and Tabitha ( Phillips ) McKinney, both natives of Maine. Her father lived to the age of eighty- four. Of a large family, Mrs. Whitten was the only daughter. Children: I. Irving, born at Saco, August 2, 1831, a mason and farmer at North Lexington, Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Bird, of Walpole, Massachusetts (now deceased). 2. Lucy Jane, born Novem- ber 25, 1833 ; resides at Biddeford, unmarried. 3. William Henry, mentioned below.

(VI) William Henry, son of William Whit- ten, was born at Biddeford, September 16. 1838, and educated in the common schools. He learned the trade of mason, and three years after serving his apprenticeship engaged in business on his own account. After a few years, however, he followed an inclination of his youth and went to sea in a whaling vessel. For three years and seven months

he was whaling in the Indian Ocean, and some years afterward was a mariner in the merchant service, visiting many ports in Europe and the West Indies during the course of his voyages. After his marriage he gave up the sea and resumed his business as a ma- son and contractor, and settled in West Rox- bury, Massachusetts, now Jamaica Plain, Bos- ton, where he bought a home, and prospered in business. He invested in real estate, and owns some valuable property in the section in which he resides. He acquired a comfortable competence, and retired from business several years ago. He is a Republican in politics, conscientious in the discharge of his duties as a citizen. His life has been characterized by great industry and application, earnestness of purposes and strict integrity in all his busi- ness relations. In religion he is a Methodist.

He married, in Biddeford, Maine, Novem- ber 23, 1865, Emily I. Pritham, born April II, 1832, daughter of Samuel and Matilda ( Milli- ken) Pritham, granddaughter of John and May (Googan ) Pritham. Her grandfather was of an old New England family, born in New Hampshire, settled in Old Orchard, and was drowned off the beach of Scarborough at the age of fifty-seven years ; her grandmother was a native of Old Orchard, Maine, of an old Maine family, died at the advanced age of eighty-three, leaving four sons and four daughters. Samuel Pritham was brought up on his father's farm, to which he succeeded when his father died, and on which he lived until his death in 1877, at the ripe old age of eighty-three years. Mrs. Whitten had three brothers-James Pritham, a farmer and car- penter, lives in Portland, Maine, a widower and childless, having lost his only daughter ; Samuel Shirley Pritham, a farmer of Free- port, married Alice Stokes, and has three daughters : Charles Pritham, a farmer of Freeport, married Nellie ( Merrill) Robinson, and has two sons and a daughter. She also had two sisters-Eliza Pritham, died in 1901, at Freeport, wife of Enoch Brewer (de- ceased ), and Henrietta Pritham, who died in childhood.

Children of William Henry and Emily J. Whitten: 1. Ida Jane, born August 2, 1866; resides with her parents in Jamaica Plain ; married Frederick Serex; one child, Sophia E. Serrex. 2. Ernest P., born October 13, 1867, a civil engineer in the government ser- vice at Manila, Philippine Islands ; married Susan Crowfoot ; children : Mabel E., Ralph H., Clarence E. 3. Agnes H., born August

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30, 1868, a skilful musician and teacher of music ; died May 29, 1908, unmarried. 4. Mary W., born October 25, 1872; married Jonathan A. Hunt, of Westborough, Massa- chusetts, a manufacturer. 5. William H., born March 2, 1874, graduate of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, an expert in the United States Patent Office, Washington, formerly in the hydrographic department. 6. Henrietta, died in infancy. 7. Clarence, died in infancy.

QUIMBY This name is not numerously represented in New England or in any part of America, but the quality of its representatives will compare favorably with that of many families of much larger numbers. It has been identified with the development of Massachusetts, and is en- titled to honorable mention in connection therewith. It begins at an early period of American history, in settlement of the Mas- sachusetts Bay Colony, and is still continuing in a worthy way along the lines of civilization.

(I) Robert Quimby (also written Quinby) is found of record in Amesbury, Massachu- setts, as a ship carpenter, and was there mar- ried about 1657 to Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- liam and Elizabeth Osgood, of Salisbury. He purchased land in Amesbury next year, and received grants in 1659 and 1668. He is of record as a "townsman" in 1660, and holding a meeting house seat in 1667. He died about 1677, and it is probable that his death occurred in the Indian massacre at Amesbury, July 7 that year; his wife was wounded in that mas- sacre but survived. She was appointed ad- ministratrix of his estate October 9 that year, and the inventory was made August 27. Their son Robert was appointed to administer the es- tates of both parents September 26, 1694, and it was not divided until 1700. Their children were : Lydia, William, Robert, John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Philip and Joseph.

(II) William, eldest son and second child of Robert and Elizabeth (Osgood) Quimby (Quinby), was born June II, 1660, in Salis- bury, and resided in Amesbury. He took the oath of allegiance in 1677, and was a member of the training band in 1680. He was living in 1700, and administration upon his estate was granted June II, 1705. The inventory was presented by his brother Robert. The Christian name of his wife was Sarah, but no record of her birth, death or parentage is ob- tainable. Children recorded in Amesbury : Elizabeth and William.

(III) William (2), son of William ( 1) and Sarah Quimby, was born October 8, 1693, in Amesbury. He married Hannah Barnard, born November 26, 1694, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Jewell) Barnard. They owned the covenant in the Second Salisbury church, February 4, 1728, and had children baptized at that church August 16, 1730, namely : Sam- uel, Joseph, Enoch, and Hannah ; and on June 9, 1734, their sons Moses and Aaron were also baptized.

(IV) Aaron, son of William (2) and Han- nah (Barnard) Quimby, was born July 22, 1733, and baptized June 9, 1734, in the Second Salisbury church. He was among those who asked for the incorporation of Hawke, now Danville, New Hampshire, and this town was incorporated February 20, 1760. There are several among the incorporators of the same name, including Moses, who was probably his brother. They removed to Derryfield, now Manchester, whence they went as pioneer set- tlers to Weare in 1752-53-54, says one ac- count. The "History of Carroll County" states that Aaron Quimby was one of the incorpora- tors of Weare, one of its first selectmen, served in the old French war, went on the ex- pedition to Canada in 1755, was a captain in the revolution, and was promoted to ma- jor." His revolutionary record is as follows : Aaron Quinby's name is on pay roll of Cap- tain John Parker's company Colonel Timothy Bedell's regiment of rangers, "raised by the Colony of New Hampshire in defence of the Liberties of America, joined the Northern di- vision of the Continental army under General Montgomery, 1775." He was a sergeant, en- tered the service July II, discharged Decem- ber 20, after serving five months and ten days, for which he received pay, twelve pounds six- teen shillings, and coat and blanket valued at one pound sixteen shillings, billeting ten shill- ings six pence; amounting in all to fifteen pounds two shillings six pence. In the mus- ter-roll his age is given as forty-one, occupa- tion husbandman, and he is credited to the town of Weare. His name appears again on a muster and payroll of the men raised and mustered in the Seventh Regiment, December 16-17, 1776, to be under the command of Col- onel David Gilman, Captain Gorden's com- pany, to recruit the American army till March I, 1777. The payroll of Captain Aaron Quin- by's company of volunteers in Colonel Moses Kelly's regiment in the expedition to Rhode Island, has the following record: Aaron Quimby, captain, entered service August 6,

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 122

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