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(V) Joseph, son of Josiah (2) Pratt, was born at Stoughton, April 1, 1749. He lived at Mansfield : married, perhaps second wife, at Norton, January 15, 1784, Anna Tucker. He was a soldier in the revolution from Stough- ton, a private in Captain Josiah Pratt's com- pany, Colonel Lemuel Robinson's regiment, April 19, 1775: also in Captain Pratt's com- pany, Colonel Gill's regiment in 1776; also in Captain Ed. Bridges Savell's company, Colonel Gill's regiment. There were many of the same name in this section and it is impossible to identify all the military records.
(VI) Josiah (3), son of Joseph Pratt, was born September 15, 1769, settled at Mansfield. Child, Josiah, mentioned below.
(VII) Josiah (4), son of Josiah (3) Pratt, was born at Mansfield, January 26, 1802, and died May 18, 1887. He married May 1, 1828,
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Catherine Hall, born December 20, 1808, died July 23, 1890, daughter of Joel and Lucretia Hall. They lived in East Charlemont, Massa- chusetts, where he engaged in the manufac- ture of scythe snaths and axes ; later he moved to Shelburne Falls, and continued the manu- facture of axes there. Children, born at Charlemont : 1. Frank J., January 17, 1829. 2. Mary Hannah, December 8, 1830. 3. Cath- erine Augusta, March 28, 1833. 4. Francis Roscoe, mentioned below. 5. Julia M., April 29, 1837. 6. George Bancroft, October 23, 1841. 7. Ellery C., December 23, 1846, died October 25, 1850. 8. Anna Isadore, born Jan- uary 29, 1850.
(VIII) Francis Roscoe, son of Josiah (4) Pratt, was born in East Charlemont, Massa- chusetts, April 3, 1835. He was engaged in the manufacture of axes at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, and later connected with vari- ous manufacturing enterprises there, being superintendent and director of the H. H. May- hew Company for many years. About 1900 he moved to Greenfield and became interested in and a director of Goodell-Pratt Company, tool manufacturers. He married, December 24, 1863, Lydia Taft, born at Newfane, Ver- mont, January 15, 1831, daughter of Caleb and Mary Taft. Her father was born at West Dummerston, Vermont, May 14, 1795; mar- ried Mary Burnet, of West Dummerston, born May 1, 1801. The Taft family is descended from Robert Taft, of Mendon, Massachusetts, from whom most of the Taft families of the country are descended, including Judge Will- iam H. Taft, the Republican president. Child, William M., born August 13, 1867, mentioned below.
(IX) William M., son of Francis Roscoe Pratt, was born at Shelburne Falls, August 13, 1867. He attended the public schools of his native town and was graduated from the Arms Academy at Shelburne Falls in the class of 1883. He then went to South Dakota, where he became cashier of the Pukwana Bank in 1885, and editor and publisher of the Pukwana Press. He was assistant cashier of the Case & Whitbeck Bank at Kimball, South Dakota, from 1886 to 1890. He resigned to accept the position of secretary of the H. H. Mayhew Company at Shelburne Falls. In 1895 he became treasurer of the Goodell-Pratt Com- pany of Greenfield. He is also president of the Massachusetts Tool Company; vice-presi- dent of the American Hardware Manufac- turers Association; director of the First National Bank of Greenfield; of the Inter
Insurers of America ; director of the Whitbeck National Bank, Chamberlain, South Dakota, and the Goodell Tool Company, Shelburne Falls, and several other corporations. He is a member of the National Civic Federation and the American Chamber of Commerce of Paris; of the Country Club, Greenfield Club, of Greenfield, and the Hardware Club of New York City. He married, in Pukwana, South Dakota, September 14, 1886, Emma C. Rich- ardson, born September 29, 1865, daughter of Asa W. M. Richardson, of (Lowell) Dracut, Massachusetts. Children : I. Ethel Anna, born July 7, 1887, died January 15, 1901. 2. Francis W., April 11, 1894. 3. Florence L., March 25, 1897.
Matthew Pratt was born in Eng- PRATT land about 1600. He probably came to New England with the Gorges company in 1623, though the author of the genealogy fails to find positive evidence. Joshua and Phinehas Pratt, brothers, came in the ship "Anne" to Plymouth in 1623. Phinehas went to Weymouth later and our first record of Matthew was at Weymouth. The family tradition of descendants of Matthew says they were related. He may have been a younger brother or nephew. Matthew's name appears on the list of "old residents" about 1643. His name was spelled Macute and in similar ways, but the weight of evidence proves that Matthew was the correct form. He received a grant from the general court, December 7, 1636, of twenty acres. He became one of the prominent citizens of Weymouth and was often townsman or selectman. He had other grants of land from time to time and became a large landed proprietor. His will was dated March 25, 1672, and proved April 30, 1673. He mentions his wife Elizabeth, his children and grandchildren. He died August 26, 1672. He married Elizabeth Bate. Children: I. Thomas, born before 1628, died April 19, 1676. 2. Matthew, 1628, died January 12, 1713. 3. John, died October 3, 1716. 4. Samuel, men- tioned below. 5. Joseph, June 10, 1637, died December 24, 1720. 6. Elizabeth, died Febru- ary 26, 1726. 7. Mary.
(II) Samuel, son of Matthew Pratt, was born about 1633 and died in 1678. He, like his brothers, was a town officer and large land owner in Weymouth. His estate was valued at two hundred and seventy-five pounds, twelve shillings. His son Samuel moved to Taunton, and was ancestor of most of the Pratt families in that vicinity. Samuel Pratt
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married, July 19, 1660, Hannah Rogers, who died October 16, 1715. Children : I. Judith, born July 25, 1661. 2. John, August 17, 1663, died February 8, 1744. 3. Hannah, December 21, 1665. 4. Mary, March 3, 1668, married William Dyer. 5. Samuel, November 15, 1670. 6. Experience, January 8, 1672. 7. Ebenezer, 1674, mentioned below.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Pratt, was born in Weymouth in 1674 and died in 1752. He was prominent in town affairs and held office. In 1714 he was identified with the establishment of the fishing trade between Weymouth and Cape Sable, being with others granted land called Hunt's Hill and the Beach, in North Weymouth, on which to carry on the business. He paid four pounds, five shillings, for a pew in the meeting house, on the "west side of the great dore." He married (first) Martha - -, who died May, 1720. He mar- ried (second) December 25, 1720, Waitstill Washburn. Children, all 'by first wife: I. Ebenezer, born August 6, 1702, mentioned below. 2. Ann, April 24, 1704. 3. Mary, August 23, 1706. 4. Sarah, October 3, 1708. 5. Samuel, December 19, 1712, died December 28, 1793; married (first) February 17, 1737, Betty Bicknell ; second Mary
(IV) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (I) Pratt, was born in Weymouth, August 6, 1702, died October 9, 1760. He married, in 1726, Tabitha Crane, of Weymouth, who died 1756. Children: I. Silas, born September 9, 1729, died 1776. 2. Tabitha, April 8, 1732, married, 1754, Lieutenant Ebenezer Porter. 3. Ebe- nezer, May 9, 1734. 4. Abner, January 14, 1736, mentioned below. 5. Hannah, August 7, 1738, married, 1754, Samuel Bate. 6. Stephen, March 27, 1740, died January 16, 1806. 7. Rebecca, July 16, 1741, married, October 26, 1760, Stephen Pain Jr. 8. Shere- biah, April 5, 1745. 9. Reliance, November 16, 1749, married, 1766, Ebenezer Hovey. IO. Molly, married, 1777. Zach. Bicknell Jr.
(V) Abner, son of Ebenezer (2) Pratt, was born in Weymouth, January 14, 1736. He married (first ) June 19, 1756, Mary Porter, born December 15, 1739, died 1758, daughter of Ebenezer and Mellea Porter. He married (second) December 19, 1758, Margaret Humphrey, born February 8, 1739, died Janu- ary 20, 1832, daughter of James and Ann Humphrey. Child of first wife: I. Laban, born May, 1758, died same year. Children of second wife : 2. Laban, 1759, mentioned below. 3. Mary, 1760. 4. Alvan, October 1, 1762. 5. Lucy, August 26, 1764, married, April 29,
1784, Levi Bates. 6. Esther, April 6, 1768, married, May 22, 1788, Jonathan Derby. 7. Sarah, November 1, 1770, married, May 28, 1789, John Rice. 8. Hannah, March 12, 1773, married, 1793, Seth Johnson. 9. Abner, Sep- tember 1, 1775, died October 9, 1845.
(VI) Laban, son of Abner Pratt, was born in 1759, and married, April 14, 1785, Lucy Pratt, born September 2, 1765, died October 13, 1837, daughter of Matthew and Mary Pratt. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion from Weymouth, in Captain Joseph Bax- ter's company, Colonel McIntosh's regiment ; also in General Lovell's regiment in 1778 in Rhode Island, in the Continental army in 1778. Children: 1. Lucy, born August 16, 1786, married Samuel Loring, of Hull. 2. Laban, June 27, 1788, died August 6, 1826; married, 1807, Nancy Thayer. 3. Ansel, April 9, 1790, died unmarried. 4. Sophia, June 28, 1791, married, 1828, Daniel Dyer. 5. Lewis, Janu- ary 12, 1796, married, 1819, Elizabeth Wilder ; married (second) May 19, 1827, Mary Gould. 6. Jonathan D., May, 1798, died June 22, 1868; married, 1823, Mary W. Whiton. 7. Norton, December 22, 1800, mentioned below. 8. Mary L., May 21, 1804, married, May 20, 1831, Lemuel French Jr.
(VII) Norton, son of Laban Pratt, was born December 22, 1800, in Weymouth, died October 27, 1879. He went to Braintree (now South Braintree) at age of fifty. He married (first) January 20, 1823, Priscilla Loud, daugh- ter of Benjamin Loud, she died 1842. He married (second) December 1I, 1844, Emeline Merritt, born July 4, 1808, died February 20, 1878. Children by first wife: I. Lucy Ann, born April 16, 1824, married Edwin Pratt, of Weymouth. 2. Mary Norton, February 9, 1825. 3. Francis B., January 15, 1827, mar- ried (first) May I, 1850, Abigail A. Nash; (second) November 27, 1856, Lavinia A. Nash ; children : i. Francis Norton, born June 19. 1858, died December 19, 1860; ii. Abby Priscilla, born August 7, 1861 ; iii. Son (twin), born May 14, 1866, died same day ; iv. Daugh- ter (twin), born May 14, 1866, died same day ; v. Fannie Bartlett, born October 27, 1869. 4. Laban, November 15, 1829, mentioned below. 5. Margaret H., June 29, 1832. 6. Marina, August 15, 1835, married Daniel Potter. 7. Betsey Tirrell, born December II, 1836, died February 1, 1843. 8. Harriet P., October 27, 1839. 9. Melitable R., March 27, 1842, died August 7, 1842. Child of second wife: IO. Edward Norton, October, 1851, married, June 16, 1880, Harriet D. Whittier; died 1898.
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(VIII) Laban (2), son of Norton Pratt, was born in Abington, November 15, 1829. He graduated from Phillips Andover Academy in 1848. He became a director of the Dor- chester Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1859, and has served in a similar capacity in the Milton Blue Hill National Bank since 1865. He has occupied various positions of honor and trust, having served on the school committee of Dorchester three years, 1865-68; as representative in the general court from Dorchester, 1871-72; alderman from ward 24, city of Boston, 1882; was appointed member of the Massachusetts state board of charity in 1889 and performed his duties conscien- tiously and faithfully until his resignation in the spring of 1909; became actively connected with the Dorchester Co-operative Bank in 1891, served as its vice-president many years, and in 1907 became president, was park com- missioner for eleven years, 1895-1906. His life career has been characterized by persever- ance, diligence, integrity, and a high sense of honor in all his transactions, and he is deservedly held in the highest esteem through- out the community. Mr. Pratt married, March 4, 1856, Elizabeth Bradford Bartlett, born in 1832, daughter of David B. and Abigail ( Free- man ) Bartlett, of Kingston, Massachusetts. Few couples are privileged to celebrate their "Golden Wedding," but Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have had the very unusual happiness of observ- ing their fifty-third wedding anniversary.
WHITE Captain Thomas White, immi- grant ancestor, was born in Eng- land about 1599. He came to America and settled in Weymouth, Massachu- setts, where he was admitted a freeman, March 3, 1635, and where he lived the remainder of his life. He was deputy to the general court from 1637 to 1657, and again in 1671, and held other offices of trust and responsibility. He died at Weymouth in July or August, 1679. Children, born at Weymouth: I. Joseph, born about 1640, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, married, June 24, 1659, Captain John Baxter. 3. Samuel, born at Weymouth, 1642, married Mary Dyer. 4. Thomas, married Mary Pratt. 5. Ebenezer, born at Weymouth, 1648, married Hannah Phillips.
(II) Captain Joseph, son of Captain Thomas White, was born at Weymouth about 1640, died at Mendon, March 23, 1706. He was one of the original proprietors of Mendon, and settled there. His name appears in the Pro- prietors' Records in all divisions of land
till his death. In 1669 he was surveyor, and May 19, 1669, was on a committee to purchase lands from the Indians. In 1670 he was on a committee to call a minister, and in 1673-86-89 was selectman. In 1694 he was elected assessor, but resigned. He was the largest taxpayer in town for many years. He was sergeant in command of a company of scouts, November 15, 1675, and was in com- mand of the garrison at Mendon in King Philip's war, and in 1689 was called captain on the . records. He married, September 19, 1660, Lydia Rogers, born at Weymouth, March 27, 1642, daughter of Deacon John Rogers, a pioneer of Weymouth. Children, the first three and probably Ann and Mary born at Weymouth, the others at Mendon : I. Joseph, July 5, 1661, died young. 2. Joseph (twin), December 17, 1662, mentioned below. 3. Lydia (twin), December 17, 1662, married Thomas Cook. 4. Thomas, April 1, 1665, married (first) Mehitable -; (second) Mary 5. Samuel, February 14, 1666, married Anna Bigney. 6. John, December 3, 1668, mar- ried Sarah 7. Ebenezer, December 4, 1670, died at Mendon, August 27, 1726. 8. Ann, married William Trask. 9. Mary, married Ebenezer Hill. IO. Experience, December 5, 1680, married, at Mendon, Feb- ruary 10, 1701-02, Ephraim Miller. II. Han- nah, November 29, 1681, married, at Mendon, July 22, 1701, Samuel Warfield.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Captain Joseph (I) White, was born at Weymouth, December 17, 1662, died October 28, 1757. He lived in that part of Mendon which became Uxbridge, was selectman in 1690, and held other town offices. He had the care of the meeting house and was corporal of the militia in 1707, and was called sergeant in 1714. He was on the committee to seat the meeting house and was surveyor in 1719. He was one of the founders of the First Church of Uxbridge and is then referred to as lieutenant. He married Lydia Copeland, born in Braintree. May 31, 1661, died at Mendon, May 8, 1727, daughter of Lawrence and Lydia (Townsend) Copeland. Children, born at Mendon: I. Joseph, October 19, 1683, mentioned below. 2. Lydia, May 10, 1686, married, March 21, 1704-05, Micall Met- calf. 3. Thomas, November 26, 1688, married Deborah 4. Hannah, December 9, 1691, died 1761. 5. Abigail, November IO, 1693, married, at Mendon, March 31, 1712. John Thompson. 6. William, 1696, married (first) Huldah Thayer; (second) at Mendon, August 3, 1721, Elizabeth Thayer; (third) at
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Mendon, November 16, 1749, Elizabeth (Harper) Brummel. 7. Benjamin, May 28, 1701, married, at Mendon, May 23, 1720, Mary Thayer.
(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) White, was born in Mendon, October 19, 1683, died at Uxbridge, June 15, 1737. The inventory of his estate amounted to two thousand one hun- dred and fifty-one pounds, nine shillings. eight pence, and his real estate was divided among his nine children, December 2, 1737. The record of his death refers to him as captain. He married, at Medfield, May 24, 1711, Pru- dence Smith, born at Medfield, July 19, 1691, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Turner) Smith. She married (second) at Mendon, September 3, 1739, Benoni Benson. Children, born at Mendon, later (after 1727) Uxbridge : I. Joseph, September 22, 1712, married, Decem- ber 4, 1734, Judith Clark, of Uxbridge. 2. Peter, December 6, 1714, mentioned below. 3. Aaron, May 22, 1717, married, at Mendon, December 25, 1739, Susannah Thayer. 4. Abigail, probably 1719, married, at Mendon, January 2, 1768, Uriah Thayer. 5. Moses, August 31, 1721, married, at Mendon, Decem- ber 12, 1749, Abigail Holbrook. 6. Sarah, November 8, 1724, married, at Mendon, March 16, 1749, John Lysure. 7. Ebenezer, Novem- ber 20, 1726, married, at Uxbridge, April 21, 1748, Elizabeth Ellis. 8. Prudence, September 4, 1729, married, at Mendon, December 14, 1745, James Albee. 9. Rachel, November 14, 1732, married, at Mendon, December 14, 1749, Thomas Darling.
(V) Peter, son of Joseph (3) White, was born at Mendon, December 6, 1714. He mar- ried, at Uxbridge, May 20, 1736, Jemima Taft, born at Mendon, April 1, 1713, daughter of Robert Jr. and Elizabeth Taft, and grand- daughter of Robert Taft, ancestor of Presi- dent William H. Taft. Children, born at Uxbridge : 1. Joseph, June 25, 1738, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, December 17, 1743. 3. Peter, October 19, 1746; married, at Uxbridge, December 4, 1766, Chloe Farnum. 4. Jemima, December 15, 1750; married, September 6, 1770, Joseph Cleveland. 5. Nathan, June 10, 1755.
(VI) Joseph (4), son of Peter White, was born at Uxbridge, June 25, 1738, died Febru- ary 5. 1805 (gravestone). He married, at Uxbridge, March 15, 1759, Deborah Fish, wlio (lied March 6, 1825 (gravestone), daughter of John Jr. and Susanna (Taft) Fish. Both are buried at Wardsborough, Vermont, and doubt- less died there. Children, born at Uxbridge :
I. Henry, May 19, 1763, died at Uxbridge, March 4, 1773. 2. Bethia, December 7, 1767. 3. Dolly, April 9, 1771. 4. Joseph, March 15, 1773, mentioned below. 5. Henry, December 15, 1774. 6. Deborah, July 14, 1778. 7. Abi- gail, March 18, 1780. 8. Peter, February 13, 1785.
(VII) Joseph (5), son of Joseph (4) White, was born at Uxbridge, March 15, 1773, died March 29, 1826, probably at Wardsborough, Vermont. He married Hannah Hazeltine, born at Wardsborough, March 17, 1781, died there September 3, 1866, daughter of Abner Jr. and Martha (Robbins) Hazeltine. He removed from Uxbridge to Wardsborough about 1795. Children: 1. Bezaliel, born April 15, 1801, died February 15, 1885, married Farmer. 2. Abner, September 26, 1802, mentioned below. 3. Chloe, March 16, 1804, died August 12, 1877 ; married Joseph King. 4. Martha, March 24, 1806, died April 3, 1893; married Eliab Scott. 5. Farnum, July 16, 1808, died October 18, 1868; married Emily Bissell. 6. Peter, July 17, 1810, died March 21, 1890. 7. Mary Ann, October 16, 1812, died November 6, 1825. 8. Rensaelear, February 15, 1815, died April 12, 1818. 9. Erastus, September 7, 1817, died September 9, 1880: married Lucinda Dryden. 10. Daniel R., April 1, 1820, died December 12, 1882. II. Lucius A., November 16, 1823, married Lucretia Newell. -
(VIII) Abner, son of Joseph (5) White, was born in Dover, Vermont, September 26, 1802, died December 28, 1883. He lived at Wardsborough and later removed to North- bridge, Massachusetts, where he died. He was a farmer. In politics he was a Whig, later a Republican. In religion he was a Congrega- tionalist. He married (first) at Dover, April 2, 1835, Charlotte Harvey, born in Wards- borough, February 22, 1803, died there May 20, 1854, daughter of Rufus and Sarah (Jones ) Harvey. He married (second) at Wards- borough, May 30, 1855, Ann Fitts ; (third) at Northbridge, Massachusetts, April 27, 1868, Abigail Aldrich, widow. Children, born at Wardsborough, all by first wife: I. Joseph Harvey, January 16, 1837, mentioned below. 2. Lydia Amelia, August 28, 1838, married J. Frank Seavey. 3. Rufus Augustus, September 4, 1840, married Augusta E. Derby. 4. Charles Abner, November 2, 1842, married Anna W. Nichols. 5. William Franklin, Sep- tember 23, 1844, died unmarried January 10, 1862. 6. Lucius Elmer, December 1, 1846, married Mary J. Herbert.
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(IX) Joseph Harvey, son of Abner White, was born at Wardsborough, Vermont, Janu- ary 16, 1837, died at Somerville, Massachu- setts, October 15, 1907. He was educated in the public schools and at the academy at Town- send, Vermont, and assisted his father on the farm. About 1860 he went to Boston, and entered the retail provision business with his uncle, Eratus White. He enlisted for the civil war in Company E, Forty-seventh Massachu- setts Regiment, September 8, 1862, and was honorably discharged when the regiment was mustered out of service a year later. He then entered into partnership.with his brother, Cap- tain Rufus A. White, in the wholesale produce business. A few years later he became a part- ner with George H. Yeaton in the same line of trade. After the death of his partner, in 1873, he conducted the business alone until 1898, when he took his son, J. Harvey White, and later his son, Walter J. White, into the firm. In 1906 the firm sold out. Mr. White lived in Charlestown until 1881, when he removed to Somerville, where he lived the remainder of his life. He attended the Winthrop Congrega- tional Church, Charlestown, and the Winter Hill Congregational Church in Somerville. He married, at Newfane, Vermont, November 22, 1864, Fannie Angelia Scott, born in Wards- borough, December 30, 1840, died at Arlington, Massachusetts, February 18, 1905, daughter of Captain Eliab (5) and Hadassah ( Plympton) Scott, and descended through Ira (4), Lieu- tenant Reuben (3), Richard (2), from Will- iam Scott, of Hatfield. Children, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts : I. Joseph Harvey, September 14, 1869, mentioned below. 2. Clarence Scott, March 14, 1872, married, at Rutland, Vermont, June I, 1895, Nina Cheney Nelson, born March 14, 1875, daugh- ter of Edwin L. and Clara (Cheney) Nelson. 3. Mabel Amelia, September 15, 1876, died June II, 1877. 4. Walter Irving, April 24, 1878, married, at Somerville, September 3, 1900, Amy Louise Baxter, born at Neponset, February 26, 1875, daughter of Hiram F. and Mary Frances Baxter. They have one daugh- ter, Mabel Florence, born July 3, 1901, at Arlington, Massachusetts.
(X) Joseph Harvey (2), son 'of Joseph Harvey (I) White, was born at Charlestown, September 14, 1869. He attended the public schools of Boston and Somerville, Massachu- setts, graduating from the Forster grammar school of Somerville and the Somerville high school. He was a special student in the class of 1892 of Harvard College for a year. In
1889 he left college to work for his father in the wholesale produce business at 7 Black- stone street, Boston, and was admitted to part- nership, August 1, 1892. He continued in the firm until January 1, 1898, when he entered the service of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, with which he has since been con- nected in the office of publicity agent. In politics Mr. White is an active and influential Republican. For several years he was presi- dent of the Somerville Young Men's Republi- can Club; member and officer of the Repub- lican city committee of Somerville for a num- ber of years and delegate to various nominat- ing conventions of his party. He is a member of Soley Lodge of Free Masons ; of Somerville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, and Unity Council, Royal Arcanum, of Somerville; of the Central Club of Somerville, the Harvard Club of Boston and of the Boston Press Club. He is a member and an earnest worker in the Winter Hill Congregational Church and has been superintendent of the Sunday school, clerk of the society and chairman of the execu- tive committee of that church. He is a mem- ber of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, of which he was a director for four years. He married, June 7, 1899, at Somerville, Alice Carrie Burgess, born at Charlestown, June 23, 1872, died at Somerville, November 1, 1907, daughter of Edward Bacon and Julia Ann (Samson) Burgess. They had one child, Ruth, born at Somerville, May 17, 1906, died May 19, 1906.
HALL Philippi Hall, widow, was born in 1684 and died at the age of ninety in 1774. She was mother or step- mother of Jonathan Hall and settled with him in Walpole, New Hampshire. Her husband was undoubtedly of old New England stock. The family may have come from Walpole, Massachusetts. Jonathan Hall, of Taunton, Massachusetts, perhaps the Jonathan men- tioned below, married, at Dedham, Massachu- setts, adjoining Walpole, April II, 1726-27, Sarah Smith. His eldest daughter was named Sarah and his son Elisha married Philippi Smith, pointing without doubt to the fact that Philippi, a very unusual name, was of the Smith family, which came to Walpole, New Hampshire, from Walpole, Massachusetts. This Jonathan Hall, of Taunton, was son of John Hall and grandson of George Hall.
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early settler at Walpole, New Hampshire, on land north of the William Hooper place, and the remains of the old cellar are still to be seen on the old farm, which descended to his son John and was lately owned by Henry Foster. He came to Walpole with his family soon after 1760. Pelatiah, probably a brother, came also; died January II, 1784, aged eighty- two years, at Walpole. Children: I. Sarah, born 174I, married, 1770, Captain Levi Hooper. 2. Elisha, 1746, married, 1770, Philippi Smith who died without issue May 24, 1818; lived on the George Joslin place. 3. Abraham, married Polly Floyd, daughter of Benjamin, in 1783. 4. Recompense, married, 1775, Phebe Gary and settled at Westminster, Vermont. 5. Jonathan Jr., (called Old Munn) a distinguished revolutionary soldier. 6. John, resided on the homestead; married Submit - and had eight children. 7. David, 1750, mentioned below. 8. Elizabeth, married Gould, of Westminster.
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