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* and threat- ening him with many violent words, to break open his store. He (the delinquent) further declareth that he received his drink at the house of William Scadlock." Mr. Bolles afterwards removed to Wells, Maine, where he held the office of town clerk from 1654 to 1664, during which period his dwelling house and the first volume of the town records were burned by the Indians. Joseph Bolles, born 1608, died at Wells, Maine, in the fall of 1678. His will bears date of September 18, of that year, and was admitted to probate in Novem- ber, 1678. "His inventory made and appraised by us the 29th of November, 1678. Will- iam Symonds-Joseph Storer," enumerates "houses, lands, and meadows belonging to the home lots appraised by us underwritten at four hundred and eighty pounds," and his whole estate was appraised at £842 Is. 6d. He was both grantor and grantee of numerous pieces of land. At his death his real estate, reduced already by divers grants to his chil- dren was appraised at £530. Various circum- stances show that he was a man of high char- acter and standing, universally respected and honored. In July, 1653, commissioners of Massachusetts held a court at Wells, and ap- pointed him "Clerk of the Writs." with power to grant warrants, attachments, etc. In 1660, the King having restored to the Gorges family what had been usurped by Massachusetts, Archdale, Gorges' agent, went to Maine with commissioners for various persons and among others, Mr. Bolles, as counsellors and magis- trates. In 1664 Sir Ferdinand Gorges, grand- son of the original patentee, commissioned "sundry of his loving friends, including Mr. Bolles, as deputies and commissioners for the government of the Province of Maine." In all cases where the name is found written by his own hand, it is spelled Bolles ; but copyists,
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recording officers, and others out of the family spell it capriciously and in many different ways, as Bauls, Bowls, Bowels, Boals, Bolls, Bools, Boolls, Booles, Bowalls. John A. Bolles, genealogist of the Bolles family, from whom the history of the early generations of this family is taken conjectures that Joseph Bolles married a daughter of Morgan Howell, who owned land at Cape Porpoise, and who devised and bequeathed to Mrs. Bolles and her chil- dren all his estate and property, and appointed her executrix of his will November 12, 1666. Mr. Bolles' whole family survived him, and his widow was living in 1684, after which time nothing is known of her. The following family record is written in Mr. Bolles' own hand-writing in the Wells town records: "The ages of Mr. Joseph Bolles, born February, 1608, and Mary Bolles, his wife, in March, 1624; I. Mary Bolles, their daughter, born August 7, 1641 ; 2. Thomas Bolles, his oldest son, December 1, 1644; 3. Samuel Bolles, born March 12, 1646; 4. Hannah Bolles, No- vember 25, 1649: 5. Eliza Bolles, January 15, 1652; 6. Joseph Bolles, March 15, 1654; 7. Sarah Bolles, January 20, 1657; 8. Mercy Bolles, August 1I, 1661."
(II) Samuel, son of Joseph and Mary Bolles, was born in Wells, March 12, 1646. In 1668, as appears by the town records, the inhabitants of Wells granted him three hun- dred acres of land, on condition that he should "improve the same within a year." He after- ward removed to Rochester, Massachusetts. "One of his descendants informs me," writes the family genealogist, "that after being three times burnt out in Maine, by the Indians, he moved first to Clark's Island in Boston Har- bor, and next to Rochester, Massachusetts, where he changed lands with Samuel Ham- mond, and that his house was about two miles north of Mattapoisette Village." He and his wife were living in 1713. In June, 1712, they conveyed to Henry Flint, of Cambridge, six hundred acres of land, situated in New Dart- mouth, alias Sheepscot, commonly known by the name of Dyer's Neck, or Nassacmac, which said neck of land, says the deed, was for- merly granted by Robin Hood Sagamore of the said Nassacmac, unto William Dyer, father of said Mary. In 1713, they conveyed to Samuel Hammond, of Rochester, three hun- (red and ten acres of land, lying in the town- ship of Wells. Dyer and his son, Christo- pher, were killed and scalped by Indians at Dyer's Neck. Neither record nor tradition gives the date of death of Samuel Bolles, or
that of his wife. He married Mary, daughter of William Dyer, of Sheepscot, Maine, and they had three children: Joseph, Samuel and Jonathan.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Mary Bolles, has left us no record of the dates of his birth or death. His will was dated October 3. 1764. He married Lydia Balch, and they had eight children: Lydia, Samuel, Benjamin, David, Ruth, Deliverance, Deborah and Joanna.
(IV) David, son of Samuel (2) and Lydia ( Balch) Bolles, removed from Rochester, Massachusetts, about 1782, to Richmond, New Hampshire. He married Lydia Kirby and they were the parents of eleven children : John, Nathaniel, Catherine, David, Obed, Elijah, Jonathan, Abigail, Mary, Jesse and Hannah.
(V) Jesse, son of David and Lydia ( Kirby) Bolles, or Bowles, as the name began to be spelled, was born in 1779, died May 10, 1855. He owned a farm in the town of Bethlehem, New Hampshire, where the Maplewood Casino now stands. He married Polly Gale, born 1775. died October 21, 1841. Their chil- dren were: Caleb W., and Mary, who died young.
(VI) Caleb W., only son of Jesse and Polly (Gale) Bowles, was born 1809, died at Little- ton, February 8, 1882. He was buried at Sugar Hill. He owned a farm and resided in Bethlehem, where the Maplewood Casino now stands. Later he removed to Sugar Hill. He married (first) September 28, 1831, Martha Goodnow, of Lisbon, born 1806, died 1858. Their children were: Henry, Mary, Lyman E., Martha and Augusta. He married (sec- ond) Sally Barrett.
(VII) Lyman Eliot, son of Caleb W. and Martha (Goodnow) Bowles, was born in Franconia, New Hampshire, October 8, 1838, died at Newtown, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1871. In his boyhood he lived at Bethle- hem and there attended the primary schools. He was a steady, studious boy and fond of his books. As soon as he was able he attended an academy and learned mathematics, Latin and Greek, which he liked better. When he had made sufficient preparation he taught in the district schools in Lyman and Lisbon, New Hampshire, and Rockingham and Athens, Ver- mont. He was well qualified for his duties ; a sympathetic and thorough teacher ; possessed the confidence and respect of his pupils. For two or three years he was employed in the ice business in New York City, and then went to New Orleans, Louisiana. This was in the time
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of the civil war. While on his way there by boat he was attacked by a rheumatic fever, and his fellow travelers did not expect him to survive ; but he recovered, though slowly, and after spending a year in the Crescent City, returned to Athens, Vermont, where he worked on the farm of his father-in-law about three years. From Vermont he went to New- town, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the business of life insurance. Mr. Bowles was from a child a person whose personality and character were such as to make those he met his friends. He was a clean, moral man, always temperate, and for years a good Templar. He was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, and was buried by that Order in Sunset Hill cemetery in Lisbon, New Hampshire. He married, March 8, 1865, at Athens, Vermont, Julia Louise Leland (see Leland VII), who was born in Lowell, Ver- mont, September 14, 1840, daughter of Otis and Nancy (Spalding) Leland, who survives him. She resides with her son in Long- meadow, Massachusetts. The children of Lyman E. and Julia L. (Leland) Bowles are : Henry L., Angie S., Caleb W. and Martha.
(VIII) Henry Leland, eldest child of Lyman E. and Julia L. (Leland) Bowles, was born in Athens, Vermont, January 6, 1866, and was educated in the common schools and Vermont Academy at Saxtons River. After leav- ing school at the age of seventeen years, he went to Iowa and lived on a farm near Osage in Mitchell county, nearly two years. From there he went to California and worked at whatever was most accessible about Los Angeles, and later was employed in the lumber business at Santa Ana. Return- ing to the east he worked six months in the United States watch factory in Waltham, Massachusetts, and was next night clerk at the old Essex House at Salem, three years, and then a solicitor in the employ of the Met- ropolitan Life Insurance Company in South Boston. He then made another change and entered the service of J. A. Whitcomb, pro- prietor of the Baltimore Dairy Lunch busi- ness in Boston, and at Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, where his next three years were passed. He then engaged on his own account in feeding the public and opened a place in Springfield, Massachusetts, and conducted a successful business. Soon he added another and another until now ( 1909) he has twenty- three places where meals are served, employs three hundred and fifty persons and conducts a business of eleven hundred thousand dollars
annually. Between Hartford, Connecticut, and Buffalo, New York, he has nine restau- rants, of which he is sole proprietor. In Providence the Bowles Baltimore Lunch Company has four restaurants. Bowles & Company, Charles C. Gilbert being the com- pany, has ten restaurants in the west. His enterprises have all proved profitable and Mr. Bowles has invested his surplus largely in Springfield real estate. He is a Mason, a mem- ber of Hampden Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Commandery, Knights Templar, also of Melha Shrine. He is a member of Hartford Lodge of Elks, the Nayasset Club, the Springfield Automobile and several fish and game clubs. In politics he is independent. Since 1904 he has resided in Longmeadow, where he has quite a large farm. His mother is the mistress of his home, which is one of good cheer and refinement.
(The Leland Line).
This name, the preponderance of authority indicates, comes from lee, leigh, lea, ley, or lye, all of which, though orthographically dif- ferent, have the same signification and denote a pasture. Leland, therefore, denoting pasture land, suggests that in early times this family may have been generally shepherds and tillers of the soil. Distinguished men in England and America have borne the name Leyland. The Leland attaining the greatest distinction was John, chaplain to King Henry VIII, the only person ever holding the office of "King's Antiquary," one of the most accomplished scholars and voluminous writers of his own or any other age. The Lelands of America have numbered among them many men promi- nent in their lines of labor. The Leland coat- of-arms is: Gules a saltier argent-charged with three Pallets azure, on chief or crest, with a crow, rising transfixed with an arrow. Cui deveo, fidus.
(I) Henry Leland, the progenitor of almost all without exception who bear the name in this country, according to the most accurate information available, was born in England about the year 1625. It is supposed that he came to America in 1652, as the church records of Dorchester show that he united with the church in that town in 1653. After a short residence in Dorchester he settled on land in what was afterward the town of Sherburne, where he resided until his death April 4, 1680. Henry Leland made his will March 27, 1680 (O. S.) and it was probated June 8 following. He wrote his name Layland. There is good
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reason for believing that Henry Leland was a man in character like his comrades in those days, distinguished for firmness, courage, patient endurance, and invincible moral and religious integrity. He married Margaret Badcock, by whom he had five children, all born in America: Hopestill (died young), Experience, Hopestill, Ebenezer and Eleazer.
(II) Ebenezer, son of Henry and Margaret ( Badcock) Leland, was born in Old Medfield, January 25, 1657, died in Sherburne, Massa- chusetts, 1742. He was a farmer like most men in the colony those days. Timothy Leland administered on the estate of Ebenezer Leland, which amounted to f198 Ios, 6d. Administration granted October 18, 1742. Ebenezer married (first) Deborah, whose surname does not appear; (second) Mary Hunt. His children were: Deborah, Ebene- zer, Timothy, James, Susannah, Patience, Martha, Isaac, Sibella and Amariah.
(III) Captain James, son of Ebenezer and Deborah Leland, was born in Sherburne in 1687, died in Grafton, 1768. He was a farmer and was a military man, serving as captain. The commissioners' return of his father's estate January 12, 1753, recites: Captain James Leland received in the year 1708, £17-10-0. James spent his early life in Sher- burne, but after marriage he took his wife and young family and in 1723 removed to the county of Worcester, and settled on a township of land called Hassan- amisco, which afterward took the corporate name of Grafton. James Leland married Hannah Learned, by whom he had: Jerusha, Thankful, (died young), Benjamin, Moses, James, Hannah, Thankful, Thomas, Deliver- ance, Phineas and Prudence.
(IV) Phineas, son of James and Hannah (Learned) Leland, was born in Grafton in 1730, died there in 1773. Like all his brothers and sisters who attained majority he settled near his father in Grafton and had a part of his father's estate for a farm. This was situ- ated on the Blackstone river. Phineas Leland married (first) Lydia Fletcher, and (second) Sarah Warren. His children, all born in the homestead estate, were: Lydia, Phineas, Eleazer, Joseph, David W., Thomas, Sarah, Caleb, Joshua, Lydia and Deliverance.
(V) Caleb, son of Phineas Leland, was born in 1765, died in Baltimore, Vermont, in 1843. He was a farmer and resided in Graf- ton until about the year 1800, when he re- moved to Chester, Vermont, and soon after to the adjoining town of Baltimore, where he
continued to live until his death. He married Lakin Willard; children : Nancy, Otis, Joshua, Maria, Caleb, Lakin, Joseph W., Hannah R., Charles and James A.
(VI) Otis, son of Caleb and Lakin (Will- ard) Leland, was born in Grafton, Massa- chusetts, in 1791, died in Weathersfield, Ver- mont, 1871. He owned a farm and resided for a time in Athens, Vermont. He was well educated and well versed in Latin and mathe- matics and taught school for several years. He married, January 4, 1820, Nancy Spald- ing, born November 30, 1800, daughter of Jesse and Winifred (Swift) Spalding (See Spalding VII). Their children were Octavius A., Ellen R., Josephine M., Granville, Joseph W., Levi P., Mary, Julia L., Henry S. and John.
(VII) Julia Louise, daughter of Otis and Nancy (Spalding) Leland, was born in Lowell, September 14, 1840, married, March 8, 1865, Lyman Eliot Bowles (see Bowles VII).
(The Spalding Line).
The family of Spalding claim and rightfully too it seems to be descended from one of the earliest families that settled in Virginia, 1619, though there had been a colony of men at Jamestown for a dozen years before that. The name seems to be derived from Spalding, a market town in Lincolnshire, England. The Spaldings have been distinguished in civil and military life for many generations, both in Europe and America. In law, medicine, theology, and in commerce and manufactures, as well as in the minor employments, Spald- ings have held prominent places. It has been computed that eighteen of this name partici- pated in the battle of Bunker Hill, where one had a horse shot under him.
(I) Edward Spalding and Edmund Spald- ing are supposed to have emigrated from England together with Sir George Yeardley in 1619, and settled at Jamestown, Virginia. In the "Virginia Colonial Record" is given "Lists of the Living and the Dead in Vir- ginia, Feb. 16, 1623." In this list, under the head "Att James Citie and within the Corpora- tion thereof," is to be found in "List of the Living," Edward Spalding, Uxox Spalding, Puer Spalding, Puella Spalding, indicating that Edward Spalding with his wife and son and a daughter lived at Jamestown at the time of the making of the list. Edward Spalding is supposed to have been one of those respect- able settlers who for one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco secured wives from among
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the "ninety agreeable persons, young and in- corrupt," who went to Virginia in 1619. Having seen the massacre of the English by the Indians in March, 1622, and not being satisfied with the conditions in Virginia, Ed- ward Spalding probably left the colony and went to Massachusetts. He is found of record at Braintree, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman May 13, 1640. On October I, 1645, he and nineteen others petitioned for a grant of ten thousand acres of land and the general court complied with their request. In 1652 he was one of twenty to petition for the establishment of the town of Chelmsford, and this petition was granted on May 10 following, and the settlement immediately began. He was one of the selectmen chosen at the first town meeting there in 1654, again in 1656, and in 1660-61. On the first division of lands, February 4, 1661, he was granted twenty- eight acres. In 1663 he was surveyor of high- ways and in 1665 one of a committee to lay out the meadow lands. In 1666 he was one of the surveyors of Newfield, of which he was an original proprietor, and afterwards he was one of the surveyors of North Chelmsford. He is of record in 1664 as possessing an orchard of apple trees, orchards being much desired in the colony at that time. Edward Spalding died February 26, 1670. His will was made "the 13th day of Feb. 1666" and in it he makes "Rachel Spalding my wife my sole executor." This was probated April 5, 1670. The inventory of his estate amounted to one hundred and forty pounds, eight shillings, ten pence. Edward Spalding's first wife, Mar- garet, died at Braintree, in August, 1640, and his daughter Grace the following year. His second wife, Rachel, died before April 5, 1670. The children of first wife were: John, Ed- ward and Grace; of second wife: Benjamin, Joseph, Dinah and Andrew, who is next men- tioned.
(II) Andrew, youngest child of Edward and Rachel Spalding, was born November 19, 1652, died May 5, 1713. He succeeded by the terms of his father's will to the paternal estate, and was a deacon of the church at the time of his death, and in that position he was succeeded by his son Andrew and grandson Ephraim. His will was executed June 6, 1712, and he signed it with his mark. He married, April 30. 1674, Hannah Jefes, a daughter of Henry Jefes, of Billerica. She died January 21, 1730. Their children were : Hannah, Andrew, Henry, John, Rachel, William, Joanna, Benoni and Mary.
(III) Andrew (2), eldest son of Andrew (I) and Hannah (Jefes) Spalding, was born March 25, 1678, in Chelmsford, where he passed his life and died November 7, 1753. He was a deacon in the church there. He received, as his brothers did, a portion of real estate before his father's death, and an equal share of that portion in which his mother had a life estate after her death. On September 2, 1726, he deeded land in Londonderry, New Hampshire, to John Goffe, of that town. The deed was dated Dunstable, September 2, 1726. He married, February 5, 1701, Abigail Warren, who died May 12, 1768. Their children were : Andrew, Jacob and Henry (twins), Josiah, Ephraim, Isaac, Abigail and Joanna (twins), James, David, Benjamin and Sally.
(IV) James, son of Andrew (2) and Abi- gail (Warren) Spalding, was born October 27, 1714, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and died about 1790. He removed to New Ipswich, New Hampshire, but after a few years returned to Westford, where he died. He mar- ried (first) Anna, whose surname is unknown. She was admitted to the church of Westford, Massachusetts, September 4, 1737, and died May 24, 1770. He married (second) Widow Eunice Fassett, of Westford, January 15, 1771, published December 25, 1770. She died in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, March, 1812, aged ninety-five or ninety-six. She was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The children of James Spalding, all by first wife and all born in Westford, were: Benjamin, James, Susanna (died young), Silas (died young), Caleb, James and Susanna (died young) (twins), Amos, (died young), Susanna, Anna, Silas and Phinehas.
(V) Benjamin, eldest child of James and Anna Spalding, was born in Westford, Mass- achusetts, March 15, 1738, and was baptized March 26, 1738. William, his son, stated that his father went from Westford, Massachusetts, to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, then called Dorchester-Canada, as the town was granted to the soldiers of Dorchester, in consideration of their services in an expedition against Can- ada, in 1690; from Ashburnham he went to Jaffrey, New Hampshire. When he married his second wife, he removed to Marlboro, New Hampshire, where he died in 1810. Benjamin Spalding, of Ashburnham, serving in the war of the revolution as a lieutenant and was in service at Dobb's Ferry, Tarrytown, and North Castle, New Jersey, in 1776. He appeared to have served in various regiments during the war. He married (first) Sarah Chandler, of
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Westford, Massachusetts ; published February 3, 1759. She was born March 18, 1739, died October 3, 1796. He married (second) Mrs. Betty Flood, of Marlboro, New Hampshire. The children, all by first wife and born in Jaffrey, were: Susanna, Willard, Benjamin, Sarah (died young), William (died young), Reuben, Moses, Jesse, Peter, Sarah and Will- iam.
(VI) Jesse, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Chandler) Spalding, was born in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, September 20, 1772, died May 22,, 1858. He married, May 31, 1798, Winifred Swift, of Boston; she died Sep- tember 18, 1868, in Cavendish, Vermont, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. The oldest and the six youngest children of this family were born in Cavendish, Vermont. The chil- dren were: Betsey, Nancy, Jesse, Horace, Addison, Luther, Roxanna, Benjamin, Otis and Elzina.
(VII) Nancy, second child of Jesse and Wini- fred ( Swift ) Spalding, was born November 30, 1800, and died at Weathersfield, Vermont, 1873. She married, January 4, 1820, Otis Leland, of Baltimore, Vermont (see Leland VI), and resided in Lowell and Chester, Vermont.
PRATT The surname Pratt occurs among the earliest English family rec- ords, before the year 1200, and indicates that the family came with the Nor- mans to England. John Pratt orde Pratellis or de Pratis, as then generally spelled, held the Manor of Patrickborne (Merton Bridge and Pelham Hundred) in 1200. Four brothers, John, William, Engebraw and Peter de. Pratellis, figured prominently in the reign of Richard I and John, all living in 1201. John was a favorite minister. In 119I Will- iam and Peter both made a gallant record in the Crusade. John Pratt was in parliament from Beverly in 1298 and 1305. Before the year 1300 the family was well known and widely scattered through England, and the shortened form of the name Prat was the com- mon spelling. The other forms, Pratte, Pradt, Praed, Prete, Prate, Praer, and Prayers are also found. The surname means meadow and was a place name before it became a surname.
(I) William Pratt, immigrant ancestor, was admitted a freeman in 1651. He prob- ably lived in Weymouth and we know prac- tically nothing of his history.
(II) William (2), believed to be the son of William ( 1) Pratt, lived in Weymouth and was admitted a freeman in 1680. He settled
in Norton, Massachusetts, formerly part of Taunton. He married (first) Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Richard Baker; (second) Experi- ence - -- , who was admitted to the church at Norton, November 1, 1714. Children: I. Elizabeth, married, December 8, 1714, at Nor- ton, Nathaniel Dunham. 2. Josiah, settled at Norton. Children of second wife: 3. Thank- ful. 4. Joanna, born September 23, 1692. 5. William, born October 3, 1695.
(III) Josiah, son of William (2) Pratt, was born about 1690, probably at Weymouth. He lived at Norton in that section that was incor- porated as Mansfield. He married, November 22, 1716, Sarah Jones, of Taunton. She died March 2, 1723, and he married ( second) May 20, 1725, Tabitha Smith. Children, born at Norton, now Mansfield: 1. Josiah Jr., Febru- ary 14, 1719-20, mentioned below. 2. Naomi, March 18, 1721-22. 3. Nehemiah, February 9. 1723-24. Children of second wife: 4. Judah, July 30, 1727. 5. Zephaniah, July 5, 1729. 6. Samuel, July 23, 1731, was living in 1790, according to the federal census that year. 7. Sarah, February 22, 1736. 8. Mercy, Feb- ruary 13, 1738-39. 9. Carety, November 18, 1742. 10. John, June 19, 1744 ; both he and his son John were heads of families in 1790, acording to the census at Mansfield.
(IV) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (1) Pratt, was born at Norton, February 14, 1719-20. He married at Norton (intention dated Sep- tember 17, 1743) Abigail Williams. He settled at Stoughton, an adjacent town. Children, born at Stoughton: I. Josiah, May 26, 1745, lived at Mansfield. 2. Isaac, November 24; 1746, lived at Stoughton. 3. Joseph, April I, 1749, mentioned below. Perhaps others.
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