Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 20

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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(V) Margaret, daughter of Samuel (2) and Luey (Colton) Colton, was born October 19, 1771, and died January 7, 1817 ; married, Sep- tember 11, 1794, David Booth (see Booth VI).

The name Jordan exists in JORDAN England, Ireland and Wales, and is quite common in Dor- setshire, Devonshire and Somerset. These

families have on their coat-of-arms a lion rampant on a shield, surrounded by nine crosses. The Wiltshire families have a bent arm holding a dagger. The name is spelled variously Jordaine, Jordayne, Jorden, Jordin, Jordon, and the present spelling, Jordan.

(I) Rev. Robert Jordan, immigrant ances- tor, was probably the son of Edward Jordan, of Worcester, England. (See Trelawney Papers, Me. Hist. Coll. p. 269). As early as 1641 he was established as successor of Rev. Richard Gibson, as elergyman of the Church of Eng- land on Richmond's Island, near Scarborough, Maine. He came to New England as a relig- ious teacher, and he and Rev. Mr. Gibson were the pioneers of Episcopaey in Maine. He was the chief supporter to the royal commissioners, and the anti-Puritan policy, and one of the leaders of the opposition to Massachusetts. Owing to his religious affinities he was an ob- ject of suspicion by the Puritan government, and was forbidden to perform marriages and baptisms. He nevertheless continued to dis- charge the duties of his office, and was accord- ingly arrested and imprisoned in the Boston jail in 1654 and 1663. For a long time he was judge of the court. He married, in Rich- mond's Island, Sarah Winter, only child of John Winter. On the death of her father in 1645, Rev. Mr. Jordan was made adminis- trator of the estate, and in this way became one of the great land owners and wealthy men of that region. After the estate was settled, he removed to the main land on the plantation of Spurwink, in Falmouth. In the second Indian war he was compelled to flee from Spurwink, and his house was burned. He went to Great Island, in the Piscataqua river, then a part of Portsmouth, and never returned. An incident of his courage and good sense is related by Rev. John Hale, pastor of the Church of Christ in Beverly, in 1697, as fol- lows: "One Mr. Thorpe, a drunken Preacher, was gotten in to preach at Black point under the appearance and profession of a minister of the Gospel, and boarded at the house of Goodman Bayly, and Baylye's wife observed his conversation to be contrary to his calling, gravely told him his way was contrary to the Gospel of Christ, and desired him to reform his life, or leave her house. So he departed from the house, and turned her enemy, and found an apportunity to do her an injury ; and it so fell out that Mr. Jordan of Spurwink had a cow died, and about that time Goody Bayly had said she intended such a day to travel to Casco Bay. Mr. Thorpe goes to Mr. Jordon's

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man or men, and saith the cow was bewitched to death, and if they would lay the carcass in the place he should appoint, he would burn it and bring the witch; and accordingly the cow is laid by the path that led from Black Point to Casco, and set on fire that day Goody Bayly was to travel that way, and so she came by while the carcass was in burning, and Thorpe had her questioned for a witch; But Mr. Jor- dan interposed on her behalf; and said that his cow dyed by his servantt's negligence, and to cover their fault they were willing to have it imputed to witchcraft ; and Mr. Thorpe knew of Goody Bayleyes intended Journey, and orders my servants (said he), without my approbation, to burn my Cow in the way where Bayly is to come ; and so unriddled the knavery and delivered the innocent."

Rev. Robert Jordan died in Portsmouth in 1679. His will was made at Great Island, January 28, 1679, and proved July 1, 1679. He lost the use of his hands before his death, and was unable to sign the will. His wife Sarah survived him, and was living in New- castle, in Portsmouth Harbor, in 1696. Chil- dren, born at Falmouth : I. John, married, 1677, Elizabeth Styleman, of Portsmouth. 2. Robert, married Eliza -. 3. Dominicus, married, 1681, Hannah Tristram, of Winter Harbor, Maine; died August 10, 1703. 4. Jedediah, settled at Great Island and then in Kittery, Maine. 5. Samuel, born about 1660, mentioned below. 6. Jeremiah, born about 1663, married Katherine -; died 1729.

(II) Samuel, son of Robert Jordan, was born at Falmouth, about 1660, and died at Kittery about 1720. He left Spurwink with his father on account of the Indian war in 1675 to reside in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, and never returned. He inherited eleven hundred acres of land from his father, a hun- dred acres more than his brothers each re- ceived, his land being considered poorer. His farm was at Purpooduck in Falmouth, includ- ing Alewife cove at the mouth of Alewife brook leading from the great pond to the sea and a cove called Pond cove. He married Mary - Children : I. Samuel, men- tioned below. 2. John, born 1695. 3. Sarah, 1698; married, January 17, 1722, at Kittery, John Robinson. 4. Nathaniel.

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Jor- dan, was born in 1690 at Kittery in York county. He was a farmer, residing at Kittery and Falmouth. He married (first) Mary -, who died in 1730; (second) March 2, 1733, Frances Cranch. Children: I. Noah.

2. Samuel, mentioned below. Samuel Jordan, of Falmouth, deeded land to Nathaniel Jor- dan, doubtless his brother, eighty acres of land on the north side of Pond Cove brook, January 15, 1732-33.

(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Jor- dan, was born about 1720 in Kittery or Fal- mouth. No record of his family has been found.

(V) Samuel (4), son or nephew of Samuel (3) Jordan, was born May 12, 1746, died April 7, 1821. He married Lydia Grover, born Sep- tember 26, 1740, died November 27, 1819. His record in the revolution appears as fol- lows : Private in Captain Abram Tyler's com- pany, Colonel Edmund Phinney's regiment, December II, 1775, at Cambridge and at Fort George in 1776. He was a matross in Captain John Wentworth's company, Colonel Peter Noyes's regiment, raised in Cumberland county in 1778 and probably on Colonel Tupper's regi- ment in 1779. There was another Samuel Jordan, born in 1758, also in the revolution in Maine. Children : I. Samuel, born August 21, 1771, mentioned below. 2. Lydia, Novem- ber II, 1773. 3. Polly, October 24, 1775. 4. Phebe, May 20, 1777. 5. Hannah, January 14, 1779. 6. Josiah, September 9, 1781. 7. Sarah, March 13, 1784.

(VI) Samuel (5), son of Samuel (4) Jor- don, was born in Cape Ann, Maine, August 21, 1771. He married Isabel Stinchfield, born June 17, 1777, died February 15, 1839. Chil- dren : I. Ephraim Grover, born December 17, 1800. 2. Hannah, June 1, 1803. 3. Eleanor, July 13, 1805. 4. William, March 16, 1808. 5. Isaiah, January 4, 1811. 6. Josiah, October 12, 1813, mentioned below. 7. William, March 14, 1817. 8. David S., August 15, 1819.

(VII) Josiah, son of Samuel (5) Jordan, was born in Poland, Maine, October 12, 1813, died May 28, 1878. He was a physician at Dover, Maine. He removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1866, and was engaged in the mortgage and loan business. He married, November 3, 1840, Mary Ann Cushman, born May 5, 1823, died January 28, 1873. Chil- dren: I. Albert Mellen, born in Monson, Maine, June 6, 1843. 2. Clara O., February 28, 1849. 3. Mary Emma, February 13, 1851. 4. Hattie M., October 20, 1853. 5. William Herbert, May 6, 1859, mentioned below. 6. Charles Francis Adams, November 17, 1861. The last five were born in Dover, Maine.

(VIII) William Herbert, son of Josiah Jordan, was born May 6, 1859, at Dover, Maine. He came with his parents to Spring-

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field when he was five years old and was educated in private and public schools in that city. He became associated with his father in the real estate and brokerage business, mak- ing loans on mortgages and other security, and when his father died he continued the business. He is a member of Springfield Lodge of Free Masons; of Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar and Melha Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a member of the Church of the Unity and of the Win- throp Club of Springfield. He married, June 7, 1881, Cora L. Bishop, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Billings) Bishop. Children : Wallace B. and Grace Cushman.

AMADON This surname has many spell- ings, among them Ammidon, Ammidown, Amadon, Hanna- down etc. Family tradition says that the im- migrant ancestor came to England where he remained several years, and then came to America with other French Huguenots. Although the name may be of French origin, there seems to be no evidence that he was a French Huguenot except that some of his descendants mingled with the Huguenots and perhaps intermarried with them at Oxford.

(I) Roger Amadon, immigrant ancestor, was in Salem as early as 1637, when he was mentioned as the owner of half an acre of meadow. He removed to Weymouth in 1640 and was of Boston in 1643. He settled finally in Rehoboth. His house was at the north- casterly end of the semicircle of houses com- prising the original village of Seeconk, and was about a mile north of the church in the present town. He drew his house lot July 18, 1648, and other lots, June 3, 1662, June 7. 1665, and in 1668 and 1671. He was one of the original proprietors of Rehoboth and was there probably as early as 1645, when it was incorporated. He married (first) Sarah -, who died at Rehoboth, June 20, 1668. He married (second) Joanna, daughter of George and Jane Harwood. She died July I, IZII. He was buried November 13, 1673. There were suspicions at the time that his (leath was not natural, and an inquest was held. His estate was divided March 4, 1674. Children of first wife: I. Ebenezer, mentioned in the settlement of the estate. 2. Sarah, born December 6, 1640, at Weymouth. 3. Lydia, February 27, 1643, at Boston. 4. Hannah, September 20, 1652, married Jeremiah Wheaton, of Rehoboth, September 13, 1719.

Children of second wife: 5. Philip, January 26, 1670, mentioned below. 6. Henry, Reho- both, January 24, 1671. 7. Mehitable, August 27, 1672, married, December 23, 1709, John Thompson, of Rehoboth.

(II) Philip, son of Roger Amadon, was born at Rehoboth, January 26, 1670, and lived there until the death of his first wife, when he removed to Mendon. In 1717 he removed to Oxford, Massachusetts, where many French Huguenots settled about that time, and died there March 15, 1747. He was a farmer and cooper. He and his wife joined the Oxford church in 1720. He was selectman 1730 and constable 1735. His will was proved May 12, 1747. Of his old homestead three-fourths belongs to the farm now or recently owned by Franklin H. Clark. and the other quarter to Lucinda Morse. He married (first) at Reho- both, May 27, 1698, Mehitable Perry, born April 30, 1680, died July 4, 1699, aged nine- teen, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Willard) Perry. He married (second) September 16, 1700, Ithamar Warfield, born March 28, 1676, daughter of Deacon John W. and Hannah (Randall) Warfield, of Mendon. Child of first wife: Henry, born February 8, 1699, married, March 31, 1718, Meltiah Cheney. Children of second wife: I. Roger, February 6. 1702. 2. Ichabod, May, 1704. 3. Mary, March 30, 1706, married, July 18, 1728, Ben- jamin Chamberlain. 4. Philip, 1708. 5. Eph- raim, 1710. 6. Ithamar, April 25, 1712, men- tioned below. 7. John, May 19, 1713. 8. Hannah, February 2, 1717, married Samuel Wheelock.

(III) Ithamar, son of Philip Amadon, was born April 25, 1712, at Mendon, died before December, 1743. In 1733 he purchased one hundred and forty-five acres of land in the castern part of Oxford. In 1739 he sold a part of it to John Curtis, a part to his brother Henry Amadon, and in 1740 the remainder to his father. He married, January 5, 1736, Ruth Curtis, who married (second) Daniel Child, and in 1747 was of Woodstock, Connec- ticut. Children : I. Ithamar, mentioned below. 2. Ebenezer, married, August 24, 1762, Sarah Flynn.

(IV) Ithamar (2), son of Ithamar (I) Amadon, was born at Dudley, Massachusetts, and settled in Granby, Massachusetts, before 1763. He married, March 29, 1759, Tabitha Green, daughter of Daniel Green, of Wood- stock, Connecticut. Children: I. Titus, born July 18, 1763, mentioned below. 2. John, May 2, 1766.

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(V) Titus, son of Ithamar (2) Amadon, was born at Granby, July 18, 1763, died March 19, 1846. He was a farmer and resided at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He served in the revolution five months and eleven days in the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, and his dis- charge was dated at West Point, December 16, 1780. He served in Captain Abel King's com- pany, Colonel Sears' regiment, from August 20, 1781, to November 20, 1781, on duty at Saratoga. He was placed on the pension roll in 1832. He married, February 28, 1788, Sabra Gilbert, born May 12, 1776, died May 13, 1852. Children : I. Elial, born December 23, 1788. 2. Clarissa, Au- gust 4, 1790, died January 24, 1827; mar- ried, 1810, Jedediah Smith. 3. Lucy, June 3, 1792. 4. Hepsibah. March 2, 1794, died Feb- ruary 17, 1871. 5. Betsey, June 22, 1795, died October 24, 1843; married. 1813, Joel Moody. 6. Joel C., March 30, 1797, died December 26, 1804. 7. Polly C., December 24, 1798, died December 8, 1803. 8. Sophia, November 13, 1800, died December 3, 1803. 9. Titus, July 7, 1803, mentioned below. 10. Sabra, July 7, 1803 (twin), died May 10, 1816. II. Hollis G., June 21, 1805. 12. Sophia, June 27, 1807, died November 23, 1846; married, 1827, Dex- ter Cross. 13. Samuel Dexter, July 4, 1809.

(VI) Titus (2), son of Titus ( I) Amadon, was born at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, July 7. 1803. died in Springfield, May 9, 1889. In 1820 he removed to Springfield and worked most of the time for sixty years in the United States armory. He served as assessor, over- seer of the poor, selectman, alderman, and four terms as representative to the general court. He married, May 22, 1828, Eliza Chaf- fee, born February 20, 1807, died April 3, 1879, daughter of Willard and Lois (Davis) Chaffee. Children : I. Edwin Bingley, born March 1, 1829, died June 5, 1858. 2. Frances Eliza, May 26, 1831, died June 7, 1887 ; mar- ried, June 20, 1867, Henry Thrall, of Spring- field. 3. William Willard, November 24, 1835, mentioned below.

(VII) William Willard, son of Titus (2) Amadon, was born November 24, 1835, at Springfield, died February 29, 1908. In 1852 he started to learn the drug business with B. M. Ford & Company in the John Hancock Bank building on the Hill, and in 1856 was engaged as manager of the business by the owner, Joseph Ingraham. In 1857 he went west on a business and pleasure trip, and returning in the spring of 1858 bought the drug store. He continued in business until

1866, when he sold it to Merritt & Sinclair. He later bought the farm in West Springfield where the Riverdale market gradens were afterward situated, and conducted it until 1882, when he took his son-in-law, R. W. Cartter, into partnership. A year later he sold the farm to Mr. Cartter, and retired from active work. From the organization of the Repub- lican party he was active and prominent. In 1856 he was on the Republican committee of ward five, and canvassed the ward within one vote of the actual number cast for Fremont and Dayton. In 1860 he canvassed the ward within three votes of the number cast for Lincoln and Hamlin. This was said to have been the closest canvass ever made in the city. In 1869 he was a member of the legis- lature. He was a member of the horse rail- road committee, and through his efforts the original charter of the Springfield street rail- way company was amended and improved. He was in business during good times, and he used to relate that more than $30,000 was left to him at one time for safe keeping by friends, not one of whom had a scrap of paper to show for the funds, but all of whom received back every penny. During the civil war he contributed liberally for the soldiers at the front. While in business he was offered vari- ous city and county positions, but refused to accept them. He was a charter member of Hampden Lodge of Free Masons, and also a Knight Templar. He married, April 26, 1859, Frances A. Bodurtha, born May 2. 1836, died February 9, 1899, of apoplexy. He married (second) November 21, 1900, Sarah F. (Davidson) Darling, an artist of Worcester. Children : 1. Fred A., born September, 1862, died young. 2. Ada B., 1863, married, 1882, R. W. Cartter, of West Springfield.

Following is some account of MERRITT Henry Merritt and some of his descendants. Others of this surname came early to New England, but none so early as Henry, who is the ancestor of a sturdy progeny, among them being Gen- eral Edwin Merritt, of St. Lawrence County, New York, once collector of port of New York, under President Grant, and kinsman to General Merritt, of the United States army. Soldiers have been numerous among his descendants, and fifty-five Merits and Merritts served in the revolutionary war.

(I) Henry Merritt was born in the county of Kent, England, probably in the parish of Tenterden, about the year 1590, and came to

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America perhaps as early as 1626, and with others called "Men of Kent," founded the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, though he was not a freeman until 1638. There is a deed in the Colony records dated 1628 from Henry Merritt to Nathaniel Tilden, of which the following is a copy : "To all Christian people to whom these pr nt c, shall come greet- ing. Know you that I, Henry Merritt of Scittuate in America Planter have in consid- era can of twenty shillings before hand payd by Nathaniel Tilden of Scittuate Planter in consideration thereof, I, the aforesaid Henry Merritt have given, bargained and sold unto the aforesaid Nathaniell Tilden and his heirs forever, all that land which I had of Goodman Byrd, lying within the fence at the North end of the third cliff unto the land of the aforesaid Nathaniell Tilden.

In Witness Whereof, I, the aforesaid Henry Merritt have hereunto set my hand and seal. Dated this the tenth of April 1628.

(Henry Merritt)-I his mark Sealed c delivered in the presence of

Thomas Hayward

Thomas T. Lapham (his seal) his mark"

Henry Merritt's house lot in 1633 was at the corner where Greenfield lane and the "drift- way" united; we believe it is now known as Merritt's corner. He had shares in the New Harbour marshes, and was also one of the Conihasset partners. That he was a man of substance and one of the leading citizens of the town, there is no doubt. His wife, called "Goodwife Merritt," joined the church in 1637. There is no other record of her. Henry died in 1653 and his son John administered on his estate. They left two sons: Henry, who died before 1673, probably without a family ; John, next mentioned ; and a daughter, Katherine.

(II) John, son of Henry Merritt, was born about 1625, and died in Scituate after 1670. He succeeded to his father's estate and was the only son of Henry Merritt who left poster- ity in Scituate. He married, April 3, 1655, Elizabeth Weyborn, daughter of Thomas Weyborn, of Boston. Their four children were: John, Henry, Jonathan and Deborah. There is no record of their births.

(III) John (2), eldest son of John ( 1) and Elizabeth ( Weyborn) Merritt, was born in Scituate in 1660, died there June 5, 1740. He married, in 1686, Elizabeth Hyland, daughter of Thomas and Elizabetlı (Stockbridge) Hyland, of Scituate, and they had twelve chil-

dren, most of whom had families. They were : John, born 1687; Thomas, 1688; Elizabeth, 1690 ; Mary, 1692; John, born and died 1695; Hannah, 1696; Henry, 1699; Abigail, 1700; Jonathan, 1702; David, 1703; Ebenezer, 1705; Ezekiel, 1709.

(IV) Jonathan, son of John (2) and Eliz- abeth (Hyland) Merritt, was born in Scit- uate in 1702, died in Hebron, Tolland county, Connecticut, October 21, 1758. He moved to Hebron about 1730 and town records show that he bought land there in November, 1735, also in 1736-46. He married, in Scituate, 1727, Mehitable Daman, daughter of Zachary and Mehitable (Chittenden) Daman. Their children were: Simeon, Noah, Jonathan, and probably others.

(V) Noah, son of Jonathan and Mehitable (Daman) Merritt, was born in Scituate in 1730, died in Templeton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, March 24, 1814. He was one of the first settlers of Templeton, as early as 1753, and was probably a builder by trade. In 1763 he contracted with the town and built the first bridge in Templeton over the Otter river. There is a stone structure still stand- ing at this site and said to be the same bridge. Noah was a member of the first church of Templeton. He was an ardent patriot in the revolution, and according to family tradition was one of thirty-seven minute-men under Captain Ezekiel Knowlton, leaving his harrow in the field where he was putting in wheat, and machinery, and with his comrades went to Lexington and remained there till after the English were driven back to Boston. After Noah's return home he told his eldest son, Noah, that one of them must stay at home and take care of the family, and the other must go to the front and fight for liberty, and gave him his choice of places. The young Noah was as brave and proud-spirited as his father, and chose to serve his country, which he did till the end of the war. The Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls give account of two or more Noah Merritts from Templeton. The younger Noah was the ancestor of General Merritt, late of New York. Noah, senior, lived to enjoy many years of life under the government he had helped to found, and he and his descendants, up to the outbreak of the civil war, were Jeffersonian Democrats. He married Sarah Lee ; children, born in Temple- ton : Noah, October or November, 1758; Abi- gail, May 27, 1760; Lucy, May $5, 1762; Sarah, August 20, 1764; Henry, March 1, 1767: Esther. March 17, 1769; Simeon, May

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23, 1771 ; Molly and Eunice (twins), June 17, 1773; Wilks, September 7, 1775; Uriah. No- vember 19, 1777; Molly, May 15, 1780; Han- nah, June 16, 1782 ; Dytha, July 4, 1786.

(VI) Captain Simeon, son of Noah and Sarah (Lee) Merritt, was born in Templeton, May 23, 1771, died on the estate where his ancestors had lived, December 6, 1844. He was a leading citizen, a member of the church where his parents had worshipped, selectman, a member of the order of Free Masons, and was for years a captain in the militia. He mar- ried, July 26, 1796, Dorcas Gay, born in Wrentham, April 19, 1775, died in Templeton, May 16, 1863. She was the daughter of Edward Jr. and his second wife, Mary Gay, and granddaughter of Edward and Rachel ( Puffer ) Gay, of Franklin, and was a descend- ant of John Gay, of Watertown, the immi- grant. Children : An infant son, deceased ; Increase Sumner, see below; Cynthia, Febru- ary 13, 1801; Lucy, June 12, 1803; Dorcas, December 13. 1804; Cordelia, January 16, 1806: Mercy Mann, November 25, 1808; Salome, March 25, 1811 ; Mary Ann, Novem- ber. 1813; Julia Fisher, October 25, 1816.

(VII) Captain Increase Sumner, son of Captain Simeon and Dorcas (Gay) Merritt, was born in Templeton, October 15, 1799, died there April 15, 1877. He was a farmer, and spent a part of his life on the old homestead. He was a member of the Unitarian church and a diligent reader of the Bible; a man of liberal views who did his own thinking. He was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type. For years he was a captain in the militia by appoint- ment of Governor Lincoln. He married Susan Penniman, born in Gardner, November 9, 1800. died in Templeton, August 21, 1862. Children : Simeon, born March 21, 1823, died December 19, 1882; Ezra Moore, March 2, 1825: Sumner Lincoln, February 25, 1827, died April, 1882; Sarah Dorcas, November 15, 1828: Christopher C., see below ; Henry, January 8, 1833, died December 4, 1908; Dul- cina, January 1, 1835; Cordelia, March 22, 1837; Marcus Morton, April 1, 1839; Martin V. B., January 6, 1841 ; Salome, February 22, 1843. The ancestry of Susan (Penniman) Merritt is traced as follows :

( I) James Penniman came from England in 1630, resided first in Boston, admitted free- inan March 6, 1632, removed to Braintree in 1639, was one of the selectmen in 1640, and died December 26, 1664. His wife was Lydia Eliot, born in Nasing, England, sister of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians of New Eng-

land. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Penniman married Thomas Wight, of Med- field. Children of James and Lydia: James, Lydia, John, Joseph, Sarah, Samuel, Hannah, Abigail and Mary.

(2) Joseph, third son of James and Lydia (Eliot) Penniman, was born August 1, 1639, died November 5, 1705. He married, 1666, Waiting Robinson, daughter of William Rob- inson, of Dorchester. She died 1690. Their children were: Joseph, Moses (died young), Mary, Moses, Deborah, and James next men- tioned.

(3) James (2), youngest son of Joseph and Waiting (Robinson) Penniman, was born in 1683 and died in 1724. He married, in 1705, a daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Veazie) Thayer. She was born in 1685. Children : William, James, Abigail, Mary and Hannah.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 20

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