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(For preceding generations see Robert Tower 1).
(IV) Peter Tower, son of Ben-
TOWER jamin Tower, was born July 17, 1697, died in Hingham, April 19, 1781. He lived on the homestead in Hing- ham, was a weaver by trade and also a cooper. He conducted the farm, and did some trading. His will dated October 19, 1769, was proved April 25, 1781. He married, in Hingham, February I, 1727-28, Ann Tower, born 1708, died September 6, 1801, daughter of Samuel and granddaughter of John Tower, the immi- grant. Children, born in Hingham : I. Samuel, March 17, 1728-29. 2. Richard, September 2, 1730, died September 3, 1730. 3. Isaiah, Sep- tember 2, 1731. 4. Joshua, April 25, 1733. 5. Jeremiah, March 24, 1738, died September 16, 1738. 6. Jesse, November 17, 1739, died Feb- ruary 22, 1744-45. 7. Jesse, December 1, 1745. 8. Stephen, baptized August 25, 1750, died September 30, 1751. 9. Laban, mentioned below.
(V) Laban, son of Peter Tower, was born in Hingham, August 3, 1751, died there July 30, 1824. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Jotham Loring's company at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; in Captain James Lincoln's company of guards in Hing- ham in 1776 and with Captain Pyam Cushing
at Hull in June of that year ; also in the same year in a company of men from Hingham under Lieutenant Theophilus Wilder, doing duty as a sergeant. From May to July, 1777, he was with his brother's company in Rhode Island, and in 1778 was with Captain Jabez Wilder at Hull, and with Captain Elias Whiton's company doing guard duty. He was a cooper by trade, and lived on the homestead. His will was dated July 28, 1824, and proved September 7 following. It bequeathed the homestead, after his wife's death, to his grand- son, William Tower, mentioned below. He married, May 2, 1776, Esther Cushing, born in Weymouth, June 10, 1757, daughter of Frederick and Grace ( Bate) Cushing. She died May 30, 1828, in Hingham. Children : I. Grace, born March 23, 1777. 2. Lucy, men- tioned below.
(VI) Lucy, daughter of Laban Tower, was born in Hingham, May 19, 1780, died there April 24, 1855. She had a son William, men- tioned below.
(VII) William, son of Lucy Tower, was born in Hingham, April 18, 1808, died there April 12, 1879. He was educated in the pub- lic schools in his native town, and afterwards kept a general store in Hingham a number of years. He was a great antiquarian and an authority thereon. He furnished the log cabin at the Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876. He was something of a musician, and played in the band. He and his family attended the Unitarian church. He married, September 13, 1840, Lucy Augusta Young, of Bath, Maine, born May 4, 1820, died March, 1900, daughter of John and Lucy (Chubbuck) Young. Chil- ' dren, born in Hingham: 1. Lucy Ann, Octo- ber 17, 1853, died 1877. 2. William Arthur, July 16, 1855, died February, 1900. 3. Charles Sumner, June 19, 1856. 4. John Henry, June 17, 1858, mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth Maria, December 31, 1861, married Charles M. Clark, resides in Hingham.
(VIII) John Henry, son of William Tower. was born June 17, 1858, in Hingham. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and early in life began to study music. He became proficient on several musical instru- ments and played in various bands and orches- tras in Hingham, Salem, Boston and other places. When his father-in-law died in 1893 he continued his business at the boarding house until 1905 when he retired from that. He is a member of Orphans Hope Lodge of Free Masons; of. Pentalpha Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of South Shore Commandery, Knights
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Templar. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Wessagussett Club and up to February, 1909, was president ; is a member of North Weymouth Improvement Association, and president of same. He married, August 31, 1879, Georgie Etta Batchelder, born March 4, 1862, at Baldwin, Maine, daughter of George Washington Pierce and Harriet Maria ( Marr) Batchelder. They have no children. ( See Batchelder family ).
BATCHELDER The English surname Batchelder is identical with Bacheller, and is, of course, variously spelled in the early rec- ords. The name itself is doubtless from the word bachelor, the ancient meaning of which was simply young man. The earliest mention of the name indicates that it was given origi- nally to mark the condition of its possessor as an unmarried man or a young man, when there was another of the same personal name in the vicinity. The English registers of the thir- teenth and fourteenth centuries, where the name is first found, use the French prefix "le." Thus we find Jordanus le Bachelor and Gil- bert le Bachelor, and we may be reasonably sure that the names Jordan and Gilbert were then so common in Normandy that it was necessary to indicate by some addition to the personal name that there was an older or married person of the same name in the neigh- borhood. In 1297 the "le" was used and dropped at a later date. Before 1660 the name was common in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Wilts, Hampshire, Bucks, Middlesex, Norfolk and Suffolk, all in southeastern England. There ' were seven immigrants of this name to New England : Alexander of Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Rev. Stephen of Lynn, Massachu- setts, and Hampton, New Hampshire ; Henry of Ipswich ; Joseph and John of Salem ; Will- iam of Charlestown and John of Watertown, Dedham and Reading.
( I) Rev. Stephen Batchelder ( Bachiler ), the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1561. He matriculated at St. Jolin's Col- lege, Oxford, in 1581, and in 1586, at the age of twenty-six, was presented by Lord de la Warr to the living of Wherwell ( Horrall), a pretty village in Hampshire on the river Test. The Oxford registers do not give Mr. Bachiler's home, but there were at Kongsclere, Burghclere and Highclere (a few miles from Wherwell) a large family of Bachilers, and at Upper Clatford in 1571 there died a Richard Bach- iler whose will mentions several family names
found in Hampton, New Hampshire. While Stephen Bachiler was at Wherwell, there were living at Andover and Weyhill, a few miles away, Rev. James Samborne, whose son, Rev. James Samborne Jr., was rector of Grately (nearby) in 1604, and of Upper Clatford from 1610 to 1628. Mr. Bachiler was deprived of his living in 1605, presumably for holding Calvinistic or Puritan beliefs, and he took refuge in Holland, it is said, but no record of his life there is found. His son-in-law, Rev. John Wing, was the first pastor of the English church at Middleburgh in Holland from 1620 and it is worth noting that Mr. Samuel Bach- iler, minister to Sir Charles Morgan's fighting regiment in Holland, was the same year called to a pastorate in Flushing, Holland. Samuel is thought by some genealogists to have been son of Stephen ; but he was author of a book called "Miles Christianus"-perhaps the same volume that Rev. Stephen sent to the wife of Governor Winthrop in October, 1639, from Hampton. He said in this letter : "Present my great respect and thankfulness unto you in a little token. And though it be little in itself, yet doth it contain greater weight of true worth than can easily be comprehended but of the spiritual man. Looking among some special reserved books, and light- ing on this little treatise of one of mine own poor children. I conceived nothing might suit more to my love, nor your acceptance. As God gives you leisure to read anything that may further your piety, and hope of a better life than this, if you shall please to vouchsafe a little part of that time to read this by degrees, I Shall judge it more than a sufficient satis- faction to my love and desire of furthering you in the way of grace."
When in London in 1631 making prepara- tions to come to New England, permission was granted to him, his wife Helen, and daughter, Ann Sandburn ( Samborne), widow, who lived in the Strand, London, to go to Flushing for two months to visit his sons and daughters there. Flushing is in Zealand, near Middle- burgh, and was garrisoned by the English for half a century beginning 1572. Soon after leaving Wherwell, Mr. Batchelder settles at Newton Stacy, the nearest hamlet to the east- ward, and bought land there in 1622, selling it in1 1631. He sailed for Boston, March 9, 1632, on the ship, "William and Frances," being pastor of the colony sent over by the Plow company to settle the Plow Patent in Maine. His son-in-law, Christopher Hussey, of Dork- ing, settled in Lynn, where he was joined by
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Mr. Batchelder, who formed a small church there, baptizing first his grandson, Stephen Hussey, born 1630. The Plow Colony was a failure. At Lynn Mr. Batchelder came into collision with the authorities and was restricted for a time to preaching to those that came with him. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. In February, 1636, he removed to Ips- wich where he was granted fifty acres of land. He was one of the founders of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and though seventy-six years old at that time, walked from Ipswich to Sand- wich. But he soon moved again, this time to Newbury, where he had a tract of land July 6, 1638. Finally he, and his company who petitioned therefor, were granted liberty to begin a plantation at Winnicunnett, later called Hampton, New Hampshire. The settlement was begun October 16, 1638. The town was incorporated June 7, 1639, and soon afterward named Hampton. In 1639 Ipswich voted to give Mr. Batchelder sixty acres of upland and twenty of meadow if he would reside in that town as preacher three years, but he preferred Hampton, where he received three hundred acres for a farm, besides his house lot. He gave the town a church bell which was used until it cracked in 1703 and was then sent to England to help pay for a new bell. Soon trouble arose in the church and raged for several years. Even the personal character of the octogenarian was assailed. He had a call to Exeter, New Hampshire, and Casco, Maine, but finally accepted neither. He left Hampton and resided in Portsmouth in 1647. He gave all his property to his grand- children in that year and returned to England sometime between 1650 and 1658, and settled in Hackney, part of London, where he died in 1660. He married (first) in England, Helen , born 1583, died 1642; (second) also in England, His third marriage about 1648 to Mary - was unfortunate. Grave charges were made against her and he sued for divorce. When he went to England he left her behind. He may have erred, but in the main his life was clean and honorable. He was learned and had a very long and eventful, if not entirely successful life. A description of his coat-of-arms is given in "Morgan's Sphere of the Gentry," printed in 1661: Vert a plough in fesse and in base the sun rising or. Motto: Sol justiter evoritur. Children : I. Theodate, born 1596, married Captain Christo- pher Hussey. 2. Nathaniel, 1590, mentioned below. 3. Deborah, 1592, married John Wing. 4. Stephen, 1594. 5. Ann, 1601.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Rev. Stephen Batch- elder, was born in England in 1590 and resided there. He married Hester Mercer, of South- ampton, a niece of Rev. John Priaulx, arch- deacon of Sarum. Children: I. Stephen, merchant of London. 2. Anna, married Daniel DuCornet. 3. Francis, resided in England. 4. Nathaniel, born 1630, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, resided in England.
(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (I) Batchelder, was born in 1630 in England and was the immigrant ancestor. He resided in Hampton, New Hampshire, where he held many offices of trust. He was some time con- stable, and nine years selectman. It is said that after the death of his first wife, when he had determined to marry again, he resolved to be governed in his choice by the direction in which his staff, held perpendicularly over the floor, should fall, when dropped from his hand. The experiment being tried, the staff fell towards the southwest, and in that direc- tion he bent his steps. Having travelled as far as Woburn, he called on the Widow Wyman, and offered her his hand, stating that he was going to Boston and would call for her answer on his return. It was favorable, and they were married at once. His will was dated February 14, 1706-07. He died suddenly, January 2, 1710. He married (first) Decem- IO, 1656, Deborah Smith, daughter of John Smith, of Martha's Vineyard, sister of John and niece of Ruth Dalton. She died March 8, 1675, and he married (second) October 31, 1677, Mrs. Mary (Carter) Wyman, daughter of Rev. Thomas Carter and widow of John Wyman, of Woburn. She was born July 24, 1648, died 1688, and was probably cousin of his first wife. He married (third) October 3, 1689, Elizabeth B. Knill, widow of John Knill; she survived her husband; she was admitted to the church at Charlestown, Sep- tember 2, 1677. Children: I. Deborah, born October 12, 1657, married, January 25, 1677, Joseph Palmer. 2. Nathaniel, December 24, 1659, mentioned below. 3. Ruth, May 9, 1662, married, July 8, 1684, Deacon James Blake; died January II, 1752. 4. Esther, December 22, 1664, married Deacon Samuel Shaw ; died January 24, 1715. 5. Abigail, December 28, 1667, married, November 4, 1689, Deacon John Dearborn; died November 14, 1736. 6. Jane, January 8, 1669, married, November 10, 1687, Benjamin Lamprey. 7. Stephen, July 31, 1672, died December 7, 1762. 8. Benjamin, September 19, 1673, married Susanna Page. 9. Stephen, March 8. 1675, married Mary
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Dearborn. 10. Mercy, December 11, 1677, married, July 12, 1694, Samuel Dearborn. II. Mary, September 18, 1679, died young. I2. Samuel, January 10, 1681. 13. Jonathan, 1683, married Sarah Blake. 14. Thomas, 1685, married (first) Mary Moulton; (second) Sarah Tuck. 15. Joseph, August 9, 1687, mar- ried Mehitable Marston. 16. Mary, October 17, 1688, died young. 17. Theodate, married, November 18, 1703, Maurice Hobbs.
(IV) Deacon Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) Batchelder, was born at Hampton, New Hampshire, December 24, 1659, died in 1745. He resided at Hampton Falls, was one of the assessors in 1719-20, and selectman in 1722. He was one of the original proprietors of Chester, New Hampshire. He married Eliza- beth Foss, of Portsmouth, born 1666, died 1746. Children: 1. Deborah, born April 9, 1686, married, January 8, 1708, David Tilton; (second) June 14, 1733, Deacon Jonathan Fel- lows. 2. Nathaniel, February 19, 1690, men- tioned below. 3. John, July 28, 1692, married Abigail Cram. 4. Elizabeth, 1694. married, January 21, 1713, Richard Sanborn ; died Jan- uary 21, 1753. 5. Josiah, July 1, 1695, mar- ried Sarah Page. 6. Jethro, January 2, 1698, married Dorothy Sanborn. 7. Nathan, July 2, 1700, married Mary Tilton. 8. Phinehas, No- vember 1, 1701, married Elizabeth Gilman. 9. Ebenezer, December 10, 1710, married Doro- thy -
(V) Nathaniel (4), son of Deacon Nathaniel ( 3) Batchelder, was born at Hampton, Febru- ary 19, 1690, died about October, 1723. He resided in Hampton Falls and Kensington, New Hampshire. He was a soldier in 1710 in Captain Shadrach Walton's company in the expedition against Port Royal. He married, at Hampton Falls, February 24, 1717, Sarah Robie, born March 28, 1689, daughter of Samuel Robie. His will was dated October
1, 1723. Children: 1. Nathaniel, born July 6, 1719, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, Janu- ary 25, 1720, married Mercy Tuck. 3. Joshua, September 2, 1722, at Chester. 4. Thomas, February 21, 1724 (posthumous ) ; married Joanna
(V1) Nathaniel (5), son of Nathaniel (4) Batchelder, was born in Hampton Falls, July 6, 1719. died June 18, 1764. He resided at Kensington, New Hampshire, and married there February 10, 1742, Margaret Tilton. Children: 1. Joseph, born October 29, 1743, married Rachel Prescott. 2. Nathaniel, March 6, 1745, married Rachel Prescott. 3. John, March 24, 1747. 4. Ephraim, mentioned below.
5. Joanna, August II, 1751, died December 4, I754. 6. Josiah, October 31, 1753, married
and Deborah Allen. 7. Thomas, bap- tized November 21, 1756. 8. Elizabeth, bap- tized September 17, 1758. 9. Samuel, born April 21, 1760. 10. Timothy, born October 30, 1762, married Nancy Morrill.
(VII) Ephraim, son of Nathaniel (5) Batchelder, was born May 15, 1749, died June 15, 1815. He and his son Ephraim were early settlers in Baldwin, Maine, removing there from New Hampshire. He was in the revo- Intion in Captain Daniel Gordon's company, Colonel David Gilman's regiment, in 1776-77. At the first town meeting of Baldwin he was elected constable, in 1802. He married (first ) Apphia Lowell, born April 14. 1742, died No- vember 2, 1807; (second) at Baldwin, May 13, 1808, Lydia (Hall) Richardson, widow, of Standish, born 1743, died November 12, 1823. Children : I. Samuel, born April 21, 1765, married Anna Richardson. 2. Timothy, re- moved to LeRoy, New York. 3. Josiah. 4. John, February 27, 1774. 5. Ephraim, Octo- ber 5, 1775. 6. Sylvanus, mentioned below. 7. Sarah, June 4, 1779, married, September II, 1803, Samuel Hardy : died October 31, 1804. 8. Margaret, May 26, 1781. 9. Thomas, May 27, 1784. 10. Edward, died July 20, 1787.
(VIII) Captain Sylvanus, son of Ephraim Batchelder, was born in New Hampshire, October 20, 1777. He removed to Baldwin, Maine, with his parents, where he died Febru- ary 3, 1868. He was a carpenter, stone mason and farmer. He was commissioned March 29, 1810, ensign of a military company by Gov- ernor Elbridge Gerry, and later was promoted to captain. He married (first) March 3, 1803, at Baldwin, Abigail Richardson, of Standish, born June 21, 1782, died May 11, 1849, daugh- ter of Moses and Lydia Richardson. He mar- ried (second) November 31, (sic), 1853, Mrs. Nancy Bishop, who died May 2, 1864. Chil- dren, all by first wife : 1. Edward Richardson, born September 26, 1804, mentioned below. 2. Lydia, October 19, 1806, married, April 2, 1826, Josiah F. Sanborn; died October 24, 1842. 3. Sally, August 31, 1808, married, October 10, 1830, John Burnell ; died Decem- ber 12, 1832. 4. Ephraim, May 26, 1811. ınar- ried Hannah Mckinney. 5. Abigail, April 2, 1815, married, November 21, 1833, Eleazer Burnell. 6. Sylvanus, August 18, 1817, mar- ried, April 5, 1839. Deborah Small. 7. Eliza- beth, May 3, 1820, died May 6, 1820. 8. Eliz- abeth Ann, October 3, 1821, died August 9, 1828. 9. Rosanna, July 21, 1826, died Febru-
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ary 21, 1843. 10. Ann Briggs, March 16, 1832, died May 2, 1843.
(IX) Captain Edward Richardson, son of Captain Sylvanus Batchelder, was born in Baldwin, Maine, September 26, 1804. He had a farm, and was a stone mason and cooper by trade, residing in Baldwin. At one time he was captain of militia. He died March 31, 1851. He married. in Baldwin, December 25, 1827. Clarinda Cram, born September 22, 1805, died May 27, 1870. Children: 1. John Briggs, born September 19, 1829, married Sarah W. Harden. 2. Joseph S., May 15, 1831, married ( first ) Sarah Rounds; ( second) Mary Kezar; (third) Lucy Williamson. 3. Edward Franklin, December 8, 1833, died in the war. 4. George W. P., August 31, 1836, mentioned below. 5. Charles Augustus, Janu- ary 1, 1839. 6. William Henry, February 20, 1843. 7. Leander R., May 21, 1845, married (first) Susan Orcutt; (second) Elizabeth Pugsley.
(X) George Washington Pierce, son of Captain Edward R. Batchelder, was born at Baldwin, Maine, August 31, 1836, died De- cember 31. 1893, at North Weymouth, Massa- chusetts, where he resided. He married, No- vember 19, 1858, Harriet Maria Marr, born at Baldwin, Maine, July 8, 1842, died at North Weymouth, January 21, 1891. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Baldwin, and assisted his father on the farm. He learned the trade of shoe maker, at which he worked a number of years, after which he was in the hotel business in the town of Cornish and Baldwin, Maine. Then became a general con- tractor, doing mtich construction work on rail- roads. He then removed to North Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he became the proprietor of what is known as the Bradley Fertilizing Companies boarding house which accommo- dates some three hundred people; there he remained until his death. Children: I. Jean- nette Augusta, born November 15, 1860, at Cornish, Maine, married Charles M. Cushing (see Cushing family) and resides at North Weymouth : one child, Harriet M. Cushing, born December 8, 1883, died February 19, 1887. 2. Georgie Etta, born March 4, 1862, at Baldwin, Maine, married, August 31, 1879, John Henry Tower. (See Tower family).
JACOBS The surname Jacobs is derived from the baptismal name and is common in many countries. We find it in use in England as early as the fif- teenth century. William Jacobs was among
the gentry of Berkshire in 1433; Nicholas Jacobs was living in Suffolk and Humphrey Jacobs in Warwickshire at the same time. The coats-of-arms of the various families in Eng- land vary but little from the following ancient arms of the family: A chevron gules between three wolves heads erased proper. Crest: A wolf passant proper.
: (I) Nicholas Jacobs, immigrant ancestor, was one of the very few early planters who came to Bare Cove, now Hingham, Massachu- setts, prior to the arrival of Rev. Peter Hobart and his company in 1636. According to the "Cushing manuscript," Nicholas Jacob with his wife and two children and their cosen Thomas Lincoln, weaver, came from Old Hingham ( England) and settled in this Hing- ham, 1633." In September, 1635, he had a grant of a house lot at Hingham. He lived at Watertown for a short time before that, however, and owned a homestead which he sold before 1636. In June, 1636, he had granted to him six acres of planting ground upon Weariall Hill, and June 4, 1636, the first of the great lots next to the Weymouth river and a lot of six acres "at the head of the plain next to Edeard Gilman, his brother-in- law." He had also a house lot on Bachelor street, which he sold later to Gilman. He was admitted a freeman in 1635-36; was selectman in 1636; one of the committee of nine to divide Conuhasset in 1640; deputy to the general court in 1648-49; one of the three commis- sioners to be presented to the general court in 1656. He was honored with various other trusts by his townsmen. He kept an ordinary in Hingham in 1640. He died June 5, 1657, and his widow Mary married ( second) March 10, 1658-59, John Beal. His will was dated May 18. 1657, and proved July 25 following, bequeathing an estate appraised at three hun- dred and ninety-three pounds to wife Mary and children, each of whom had to pay a stipulated sum annually to their mother. Chil- dren: 1. John, born in England about 1630. 2. Elizabeth, 1632, married (first) December 4, 1648, John Thaxter; (second) March 23, 1690-91, Daniel Cushing. 3. Mary, married John Otis Jr. 4. Sarah, married, February 25, 1652-53, Matthew Cushing Jr. 5. Hannah, baptized in Hingham, February 23, 1639-40, married, December 16, 1657, Thomas Loring. 6. Josiah, baptized in Hingham, November 6, 1642, buried November 4 following. 7. Deb- orah, baptized in Hingham, November 26, 1643, married, February II, 1663-64, Nathaniel Thomas. 8. Joseph, mentioned below.
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(II) Joseph, son of Nicholas Jacobs, was born in Hingham, May I, and baptized May 10, 1646. He was a carpenter by trade, and was admitted a freeman at Hingham and had a lot of land near Great Hill, and four shares in the division of lands in 1670. He was con- stable in Hingham in 1685. He was mentioned in the will of his brother John, who died in 1693 and soon afterwards removed to Bristol, Rhode Island, where he died February 9. 1708. He married Hannah -, born at Hull, April 30, 1650. Children, born at Hing- ham and recorded at Bristol: 1. Joseph, Feb- ruary 20, 1672-73, died young. 2. Joseph, April 10, 1675, died at Bristol, November I, 1703. 3. Benjamin, June 27, 1677, died young. 4. Benjamin, April 10, 1680, died at Bristol, August 17, 1703. 5. Nathaniel, June 26, (Bristol records ), June 29 (Hingham rec- ords), 1683, mentioned below. 6. Mary, Sep- tember 16, 1686, died at Bristol, March 22, 1695-96 ( March 22, 1694-95 according to gravestone).
(III) Nathaniel, son of Joseph Jacobs, was born in Hingham, June 26 or 29, 1683. He was a child when his father removed to Bristol, and there he spent his youth and early man- hood. He removed to Woodstock, Connecti- cut, and after a short time to Thompson, buy- ing of John Wiley for nine hundred pounds, old tenor, a tract of land of the Saltonstall tract, and Wiley returned to Woodstock. Jacobs and his five sons took possession and cleared the forest and settled. Afterwards the farm was and is still known as the Jacobs District of Thompson. His house was on the frontier at the time, on the route from Hart- ford to Boston, and was a welcome stopping place for travellers between those towns. It came to be known as the "Half-Way House." He was active in the town and church and served with Deacon Johnson on a committee to make provision for the entertainment and reception of the ordaining council in 1737 when Mr. Abel Stiles was ordained and install- cd July 27, 1737. So he must have been in Thompson a few years before he bought the Saltonstall farm. He married Mercy Whit- man ( Wightman or Weightman, as the name was originally spelled), daughter of Zachariah Wightman, born 1644, died 1726, and Sarah ( Alcock ) Wightman, daughter of Dr. John Alcock, born in England, 1627, and Sarah ( Palsyore ) Alcock. Children: I. Mary, born August 28. 1715. 2. Joseph, July 12, 1717. 3. Benjamin, April 26, 1719. 4. Nathaniel, April 26, 1719. died young. 5. Nathaniel.
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