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(VI) Wright, eldest child of Joseph (2) and Ruth (Wright) Bridgman, was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, June 3, 1772, and died September 8, 1839. He married, Decem- ber 15, 1796, Irene, daughter of Phineas Smith, of Granby, Massachusetts. She was born prob- ably in Granby, April 9, 1777, and died in Belchertown, Massachusetts, April 23, 1840. He was a merchant in Belchertown and a lead- ing citizen of the place. Children of Wright and Irene (Smith) Bridgman, born in Belcher- town: I. Wright, December 1, 1797, died De- cember 19, 1797. 2. Henry, January 2, 1799; married, May 25, 1820, Clarissa Washburn; two sons: William Henry, born 1825, and Elliott, born 1830. He died June 9, 1853. 3.
Mary C., January 22, 1801 ; married Samuel Hopkins; had five children, and died about 1867. 4. John Baptist, May 3, 1803, died in Boston, January 7, 1862. He graduated from Harvard Medical School 1828; married, No- vember 27, 1832, Betsey Maria Lee, of Spring- field, Massachusetts ; had three daughters ; phy- sician in Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1833-1858. 5. Wright, July 23, 1805, died May 31, 1874; married, September 10, 1826, Mary P. Steb- bins ; (second) February 2, 1853, Mary Hawks Sunderland; (third) June 2, 1869, Eliza A. Ferre. He had seven children. 6. Porter, June 6, 1808; married Amanda King, of Ware ; five children. 7. Phineas Smith (q. v.). 8. Calvin, December 21, 1812, died March 3, 1882. 9. Helen Maria, November 9, 1818, died January 6, 1849.
(VII) Phineas Smith, son of Wright and Irene ( Smith) Bridgman, was born in Belcher- town, Massachusetts, June 20, 1810. He mar- ried, July 22, 1828, Sarah, daughter of Her- man and Sarah ( Dickinson) Stebbins, of Gran- by, Massachusetts. She was born April 28, 1810, and died in Belchertown, Massachusetts, January 28, 1885, and her husband died March 9, 1886. He was a merchant, and for many years in business with his brother Calvin, and served as postmaster of Belchertown, 1852-61. Children of Phineas and Sarah (Stebbins) Bridgman, born in Belchertown: I. Jane Au- gusta, October 1I, 1829; married, November 23, 1847, Edwin C. Hayes, and died April 16, 1855. leaving two children. 2. Frederick Bruce, February 21, 1832 ; married Harriet Sanford; had two sons: Frederic Horatio ( 1864-1884), and Harry Calvin ( 1866-1867). He died Ati- gust 10, 1872. 3. Sophronia Smith, June 30, 1834; married, December 20, 1850, Harvey Purdy, of Belchertown; three children. 4. William Eustace (q. v.). 5. Eugene, March 24, 1839 ; married, December 22, 1865, Eliza, daugh- ter of Porter and Amanda (King) Bridgman. 6. Edward Stebbins, June 10, 1841 ; married, June 1, 1866, Dorcas Louisa Bement, at Pal- mer, Massachusetts ; two children : Harry Bem- ent, October 28, 1874, and Maud Louisa, June I, 1883. 7. Frank Howe, January 24, 1844; married, October 5, 1869, Mary Ellen Snow. 8. Arthur, June 21, 1849 ; married Sarah Rus- sell.
(VIII) William Eustace, second son and fourth child of Phineas Smith and Sarah ( Steb- bins) Bridgman, was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, October 17, 1836. He was brought up on his father's farm, and attended the public school. He learned the trade of
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carriage trimming, and became an expert work- man. He then engaged in general merchandis- ing, and became postmaster of the town and justice of the peace. His appointment as post- master was made by President Cleveland at the beginning of his first administration, the first fourth-class postmaster appointed by the president in New England, and he held the office continuously for nine years. In 1875 he was elected by the Democratic party a repre- sentative from the Fifth Hampshire district to the general court of Massachusetts, and also served as a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago in 1892. He was made a trustee of the Amherst Savings Bank and a director of the National Bank of Amherst. His fraternal affiliation is with the Masons, and he gained the thirty-second degree. His religious affiliation is with the Baptist church. He married, November 13, 1860, Elizabeth Rebecca, daughter of Shubael and Charlotte (Smith) Kenfield, of Enfield, Massachusetts, born in Enfield, May 22, 1838. Her father was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 6, 1801, son of Shubael and Bertha (Sel- ton ) Kenfield, of Belchertown, and was mar- ried in 1821, in Vernon, to Charlotte M. Smith, born in Williamstown, June 22, 1801. She died in Belchertown, May 26, 1891, and Shu- bael Kenfield died in Enfield November 28, 1862. Children of Shubael and Charlotte M. (Smith) Kenfield, born in Enfield: Timothy, April 23, 1822; Charlotte, February 20, 1824; Mary S. June 1, 1826; Maria, June 19, 1828; Sarah M., September 5, 1830 ; Charles S., May 9, 1836; Elizabeth Rebecca (q. v.) ; Emily W., January 21, 1841 ; Amos W., October 26, 1843. The children of her grandparents, Shubael and Bertha ( Selton ) Kenfield, of Belchertown, were: John, Zera, Shubael, Polly and Bertha.
DAVIS William Davis, immigrant ances- tor, was born in England or Wales, in 1617. The tradition in the family that he came from Wales is cor- roborated by the coat-of-arms used by his son Ichabod in scaling his will, and is the same as that of the Davis family of Caermarthen, South Wales. Moreover, a William Davis of that family resided there in 1623, possibly the father of William mentioned above, who set- tled in Roxbury in 1635, coming in the ship "Ann." The arms: Gules a griffin segreant or. It is said that William was brother of Tobias Davis, who also settled in Roxbury, whose wife Sarah died in February, 1648, and who married (second) December 13, 1649,
Bridget Kinman, who died April 25, 1690, leaving a son John and daughters Sarah Stephens, and Abigail. William Davis was admitted a freeman in 1673. His wife Eliz- abeth was buried May 4, 1658, and he married (second) October 21, 1658, Alice Thorp, who died soon afterward. He married (third) Jane - -. His wife Elizabeth was admitted a member of the church October 7, 1649, when the three oldest children were baptized. His wife Alice was admitted June 4, 1663, and his wife Jane, June 8, 1673. He was admitted to full communion April 20, 1673. His widow Jane died May 12, 1714, at Watertown, where she was living with her daughter Jane. He died December 9, 1683, at Roxbury, aged sixty-six years. His will was dated December 6, three days earlier. Children of first wife: I. John, born October 1, 1643. 2. Samuel, February 21, 1645. 3. Joseph, October 12, 1649. Children of second wife: 4. William, baptized June 14, 1663; died December, 1678. 5. Elizabeth, baptized June 14, 1663. 6. Mat- thew, baptized January 24, 1664; settled in Woodstock, now of Connecticut. 7. Jonathan, born February 2. 1665 ; settled at Woodstock. Children of third wife: 8. Mary, born March 28, 1669. 9. Jane, December 21, 1670 ; married January 28, 1696, Josiah Goddard, and lived at Watertown. 10. Rachel, August 26, 1672. The following were baptized in Roxbury, given by genealogy as children of William and Jane Davis also: II. Benjamin, born May 31, 1674. 12. Ichabod, mentioned below. 14. William, born 1680. 15. Sarah, baptized July 20, 1681. 16. Isaac, baptized April 18, 1683.
(1I) Ichabod, son of William Davis, was born in Roxbury, and baptized April 1, 1676. He married Bathia He was deacon of the Roxbury church, and a man of promi- nence. He was a tailor by trade. He bought in 1733 fifty-one acres of land in Dudley, of Clement Corbin, and again in 1737 one hun- dred acres of William Dudley. This farm adjoined the Indian meadow. In 1750 he sold to his son Benjamin half of one hundred and seven acres in Dudley, the place where his son dwelt. Ichabod died March 16, 1754, leav- ing the balance of his Dudley property to his son Benjamin, mentioned below, the only child of whom there is record.
(III) Benjamin, son of Ichabod Davis, was born in Roxbury, in 1710. He was a trader, and became widely known as "Retailer Ben." Hle removed to Oxford in' 1731, when he came of age. In 1750 he was living at Dudley, and his father deeded him a half interest in the farm
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on which he was living. He inherited the other half in 1754 from his father. Dudley was formerly a part of Oxford. He bought in 1740. of Samuel Davis, eighty-five acres in Oxford of the Bernon land in the eastern part, near the house now of Lucien M. Chaffee. The lot number is H. 22; the house long ago was removed. He was a lieutenant in the French war, and settled on his return near Nipmuck pond of Thompson's grant, where he had a contract to clear the land for sheep- walks. He was ejected on account of a bad title. He was a man of integrity and judg- ment. In 1763 he was one of the three referees, with Josiah Brewer and Rev. Thad- deus Maccarty, of Worcester, to determine the question of Mr. Hall's salary. He was a deputy to the general court in 1749. A bridle path ran from his house to the house of Stephen Streeter, of Douglass, and it has been called a bridal path because three sons of Davis married three daughters of Streeter. Benjamin Davis married, March 13, 1734, Sybil Rockett (Rockwood), the first female of English parentage born in Oxford. She died 1787. All the children except the youngest were born or recorded in Oxford: 1. Sybil, born December 28, 1736; married William Davis. 2. Joseph, born 1739; died 1741. 3. Joseph, born 1741-2. 4. Craft, born April 15, 1744; mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, born March 5, 1747; married, 1780, Hannah- Streeter. 6. Susanna, born 1749; married John Bound. 7. James Hovey, born July 27, 1751 ; married, 1777, Mary Streeter. 8. Ezekiel, born January 17, 1754. 9. Sarah, born Decem- ber 3, 1759; married Francis Blandin.
(IV) Craft, son of Benjamin Davis, was born April 15, 1744, and settled in Oxford, in that part which became the town of Webster, a mile from the east village. He was a noted hunter and fisherman, and died December 5, 1836, aged ninety-two years. He married, January 16, 1772, Catherine, daughter of Stephen Streeter, of Douglass. Children: I. Sarah, born September 26, 1772, died young. 2. Benjamin, born September 20, 1774; men- tioned below. 3. Sally, born December 5, 1778; married (first) Joshua Wetherell ; (sec- ond) Rufus Humphrey. 4. Ward, born De- cember 1, 1782. 5. Katie, born April 2, 1784; married, May 31, 1804, Roger Stevens. 6. Craft, born July 18, 1786. 7. John, born Octo- ber 13, 1788; died 1803. 8. Stephen, born June 22, 1791. 9. Sukey, born August 15, 1794; married N. Webb Hall.
10. James Hovey,
born November 7, 1797. II. Lucetta, born April 21, 1803 ; married Jonathan Harwood.
(V) Benjamin (2), son of Craft Davis, was born September 20, 1774, and died September 19, 1860. He settled at Ware. He married, October 3, 1796, Theodocia Barnes, of Ware, born June 23, 1776, died January 29, 1861. Children: I. Nancy, born March 17, 1800; married (first) Reuben Sherman; (second) William Goodwin. 2. Elmira, born Decem- ber 31, 1801 ; married Calvin Whitaker. 3. Cynthia, born February 21, 1804; married Elmer Loomis. 4. Rev. William Page, born September 6, 1806; married Elizabeth Bul- lock. 5. Sarah, born February 13, 1809; mar- ried James F. Brooks. 6. Benjamin, born July 16, 1811 ; mentioned below. 7. Dr. Wil- lard Gould, born March 1, 1814; married March 3, 1846, Mary A. Tygert. 7. Lucy P., died unmarried. 8. Caroline, married John Baker.
(VI) Benjamin (3) son of Benjamin (2) Davis, was born July 16, 1811, and died June 28, 1890, at Ware, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools of Ware, after- wards attending the academy at Monson, Massachusetts. He worked on a farm, and later in the mills. He opened a general store in the village of Indian Orchard, Massachu- setts, and built up a successful business. He was a Republican in politics, and was repre- sentative to the general court in 1858. For twenty years he served as assessor of the town of Ware. He married, May 4, 1836, Cordelia Buffington, of Ashford, born June 4, 1818, died June 4, 1891. Children : 1. Benjamin F., born November 9, 1837 ; mentioned below. 2. George Royal, born January 3, 1840, at Palmer ; prominent Chicago lawyer ; served in the civil war ; representative to congress six years ; county treasurer for Cook county, Illi- nois ; director general of the World's Colum- bian Exposition, 1892. 3. William Page, born June 29, 1842 ; died 1843. 4. Henry Charles, born October 22, 1843; see forward. 5. Cor- delia Jane, born May 26, 1848; married Albert Howard. 6. Helen A., born December 26, 1849. 7. Mary Ann, born September 10, 1859; married Myron L. Harwood. 8. Andrew J., born February 6, 1860. 9. Georgianna Frances, July 29, 1862.
(VII) Benjamin Franklin, son of Benja- min (3) Davis, was born November 9, 1837, at Three Rivers, a part of Palmer, Massachu- setts. He was educated in the district schools of his native town and at Williston Seminary
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of Easthampton. He began to work in his father's factory, and later was clerk in the Protective Union Store, No. 151, of which his father had charge. He began farming on the old homestead at Ware when he was eighteen years old. He removed to Enfield, where he followed farming and lumbering for about sixteen years, and was very successful. He became a prominent citizen there, being an overseer of the poor ; in 1875 representative to the general court, and in 1880 selectman; also assessor and chairman of the board. He has always been a Republican in politics. Since his return to Ware he has been and is still a member of the board of assessors there. For about twenty-five years he conducted the farm in Ware, having a large and profitable milk business. He retired from active labor in 1908. For a number of years he has been an auctioneer, and his services have been in fre- quent demand. He is one of the best known and most popular citizens of Ware. In religion he is a Methodist.
He married, July 26, 1856, Mary Jane Phil- . lips, born August 9, 1837, at Chicopee, Massa- chusetts, died March 4, 1882, at Enfield. He married (second) November 24, 1894. Susan Maria Goyette, born at Worcester, Massachu- setts, April 23, 1867. Children: I. Jennie F., born December 17, 1856, at Ware; married Frank E. Morris; children : Frank A., Ralph and Hope. 2. Emma C., born March 4, 1860, at Palmer ; married Walter Newton ; children : Florence, Lewis, Genevieve, Belle and Ruth. 3. Mary E., born December 15, 1861, at Ware; unmarried. 4. Benjamin F. Jr., born July 31, 1864, at Ware; farmer in New Jersey ; chil- dren : George R., Mabel, Walter and John. 5. Anna Belle, born March 22, 1866; married Frank Booth; seven children; reside in Hood River, Oregon. 6. George W., born August 29, 1869, at Enfield ; died June 18, 1884. 7. Cora Maria, born June 3, 1872, at Enfield ; married Fred Farrar, Manchester. 8. Helen A., born June 22, 1874, at Enfield; married Roy Cummings. 9. Rev. Charles H., born April 21, 1876, at Enfield; minister of Sum- merville, Connecticut, church five years, now pastor of Congregational church at Hollis, New Hampshire ; married, December 2, 1907, Gertrude Kahn. 10. Mabel P., born January 16, 1880, at Enfield ; married Philip S. Moore; child, Dorothy D.
(VII) Henry Charles, son of Benjamin (3) Davis, was born October 22, 1843, at Palmer. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Williston Seminary at East-
hampton. He studied his profession in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1868. He was admitted to the bar that year and began to practice in his native town. He has an extensive practice, and ranks among the fore- most lawyers of that section of the state. He was appointed judge of the district of Eastern Hampshire court in 1903.
Mr. Davis is a Republican in politics. He has represented his district in the general court and the town as member of the school committee. He is a member of Eden Lodge of Free Masons. In religion he is a Congre- gationalist. He married, May 4, 1876, Jane Almira Demond, born September 20, 1847, at Ware, daughter of Lorenzo and Jane Chap- man (Maslen) Demond, (see Demond VII). Children, born in Ware: I. Henry Charles, born February 19, 1877; married October, 1907, Dell Marden. 2. John Andrew, born February 23, 1879; married Ilzadie A. Jordan, and had daughter Gertrude, born June 18, 1907. 3. Marion, born July 29, 1882. 4. May, May 1, 1885. 5. Arthur L., December 10, 1888.
This surname lends itself to a DEMOND great variety of spellings. We find Damon, Damond, Dam- mon, Dimond, Dammond and even Deming and Demming. It was probably De Mond originally, and of French origin. The two principal branches of the family in New Eng- land trace their ancestry to immigrants at Reading and at Scituate, Massachusetts.
(I) Thomas Demond, or Damon, the immi- grant ancestor, was doubtless a brother of John Damon, of Reading, Massachusetts. He also settled in Reading. His farm was on Cowdrey Hill. Very little is known of him and his only child known was Thomas, men- tioned below.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) De- mond, was born January 31, 1659, at Reading, and died there October 20, 1723. He resided on Cowdrey Hill, Reading. He married, May 15, 1683, Lncy Ann Emerson, born at Milton, October 2, 1667, died at Reading, 1740, daugh- ter of Rev. Joseph and Elizabeth (Wood- mansy) Emerson, of Mendon. His widow married (second) Captain John Brown of Reading. Children: 1. Lucy Ann, born May 20, 1684 ; married, 1706, - Kendall Bout- well. 2. Joseph, born September 28, 1686; mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer, born March 12, 1688. 4. Thomas, February 9, 1690. 5. Elizabeth, June 26, 1693; married Benjamin
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Gerry. 6. Hannah, February 16, 1695; mar- ried Samuel Leman. 7. Susanna, 1697 ; mar- ried Nathaniel Townsend. 8. Mehitable, No- vember 20, 1699; married Nathaniel Cowdrey. 9. Mary, August 31, 1701; married John Holden. 10. Thomas, December 25, 1703; died 1797; married Abigail Price. II. Ed- ward. 12. John, born May 10, 1709. 13. Abi- gail, . November 29, 1713; married Robert Thompson.
(III) Joseph, son of Thomas (2) Demond, was born in Reading, September 28, 1686, and died in 1777. He was one of the early settlers of Mendon, Worcester county, where his grandfather Rev. Joseph Emerson was min- ister. He bought rights of Josiah Thayer and shared in the seventh division of common lands there June 10, 1726; shared in eighth division July 1, 1729, in ninth division May 10, 1733, and again December 3, 1736, in tenth division, and 1745-6 in eleventh division of land in Uxbridge, set off from Mendon. John Emerson, his cousin, deeded land of the tenth division to him at Mendon and Uxbridge in 1736. But he must have returned to Reading to live, for he was described as Joseph Damon, Sr., of Reading, in a deed of gift May 12, 1744, to his son Joseph Damon, of Uxbridge, blacksmith, part of his homestead of sixty-five acres on the country road adjoining James Emerson's farm, also other lands. He lived in Mendon, perhaps in that part incorporated as Uxbridge. He married, 1707, at Reading, Mary Batchelder; (second) 1755, at Reading, Lydia (Emery) Bancroft. Children : 1. Joseph Jr., born about 1708; died 1762, at Uxbridge, leaving children : Joseph ; Mary, married Sol- omon Biglo; Eunice, Thomas and Ebenezer. 2. Jabez, was witness of deeds in family, guar- dian of Joseph Jr.'s children, 1762. 3. Daniel, mentioned below.
(IV) Daniel Demond was probably of the Scituate family. The first known of him defi- nitely, however, was in Mendon, Worcester county, whence he removed to Leicester, in the same county. He was not in Mendon long ; he was not a proprietor, and none of the name was there in 1711 or earlier. But he was of Mendon when his intentions of marriage were published at Leicester, November 3, 1733, to Deliverance Reed, a widow. That may have been his second marriage also. He settled in the north part of Leicester, on the estate lately owned by Amasa Southwick, and owned land on Tea Lane. He died 1739-40, and his widow Deliverance married, January 20, 1742- 43, Robert Woodard. Nathaniel Patten was
appointed guardian of some of his children, August 1, 1752, and his estate was divided June 28, 1753. He was a weaver by trade as shown by deed of John Lynd to him, dated November 3, 1733, of land in Leicester. He bought land of Joseph Potter in 1734-5, March 7. Children: 1. Daniel, born at Leicester, June 9, 1734, in the section set off as Paxton ; died at Rutland, December 21, 1848, aged eighty-three years eight months; John Lynd was his guardian in 1753 ; he was a felt-maker, removed to Providence, Rhode Island ; deeded his share of the homestead to John Lynd, July 5, 1753. 2. Mary, married John Converse Jr. 3. Elijah, mentioned below.
(V) Elijah, son of Daniel Demond, was born at Leicester, now Paxton, July 31, 1738. He died at Rutland, Massachusetts, August 14 or 18, 1825, aged eighty-six years. He moved to Rutland about 1765. He bought land there June 3, 1765, of Eleazer Davis, of Templeton. He married Lucy They deeded land to their son Daniel of Rutland, April 2, 1796. She died at Rutland August 6, 1819, aged seventy-six. His will, dated July 13, 1824, proved December 7, 1824, bequeathed to son Israel, of Barre, son Daniel, of Rutland, son Alpheus of Ware, daughter Betsey Clark of Spencer, daughter Dilla Haven, of Sanger- field, New York, wife Polly of his son Asa and their children, Mary, Martin, Loring and Sul- livan ; granddaughter Lucy Prouty of Spencer and granddaughter Mary Demond, daughter of his son Asa. Children, recorded at Rut- land: I. Israel How, born February 8, 1764, at Paxton. 2. Daniel Jr., April 6, 1765 ; mar- ried, November 26, 1789, at Rutland, Hannah Mills ; bought land of Calvin Glazier, at Rut- land, April 7, 1791, was a joiner by trade. 3. Dilla, December 1, 1768. 4. Elizabeth, Feb- ruary 17, 1771. 5. Elijah, November 25, 1772. 6. Asa, August 29, 1775, at Spencer ; died Jan- uary 14, 1828, at Ware. 7. Lucy, died No- vember 25, 1776. 8. Alpheus, see forward.
(VI) Alpheus, son of Elijah Demond, was born in Rutland, August 15, 1779. He was educated in the public schools of Rutland. Early in life he was a successful general mer- chant in Spencer, and was selectman of that town for a time. He removed to Ware, Mass- achusetts, April 1, 1813, with Colonel Thomas Denny, of Leicester, and bought of the heirs of Isaac Magoon four hundred acres of land including the mills privilege where Captain Jabez Olmstead built mills as early as 1730. Demond and Denny built a new dam at the middle falls, repaired the saw mill and grist
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mill, and started two carding machines and also began to manufacture machinery. In 1814 the cotton mill was erected at the middle falls, where the new mill now stands. It was the intention to make yarn with power and weave by hand, power looms not having come into use. On account of lack of capital the enterprise languished from 1814 to 1821, when the property was sold at a loss to Holbrook & Dexter. It passed to the Ware Company, incorporated in 1823 for $600,000, and the woolen and cotton mills that have since been the nucleus of a thriving manufacturing town were erected. The water power is valuable, the fall being seventy feet in seventy rods, and when Mr. Demond began operations there were no mills nearer than Worcester and Monson. Mr. Demond laid out the streets, built the church and virtually founded the town. He was one of the pioneers of textile manufacturing of central Massachusetts. Col- onel Denny died in 1814 when the enterprise was hardly on its feet, and Mr. Demond lacked the capital to carry out his plans alone. At the same time the close of the war with Great Britain was disastrous to manufactur- ing. Demond, however, was superintendent of much of the later work and was identified with the interests of the town as long as he lived. When age compelled him to retire from active business he was the patriarch of the village, and held in the greatest reverence and respect. He filled various offices of trust and honor with fidelity and ability ; he was representative to the general court in 1826 and 1833. He joined the Congregational Church at Ware by profession of faith, and was an active and effi- cient worker. He died at Ware, August 27, 1859, aged eighty years. He married, Sep- temiber, 1806, Mary Stone, of Oakham; (sec- ond) Priscilla McClentock; (third) Clarissa Dean. Children of first wife: I. Albert Augustine, born at Spencer, August 10, 1807. 2. Augusta, June 27, 1810. 3. Lorenzo, July 31, 1812; mentioned below. 4. Alice F., born at Ware. 5. Mary Stone, born at Ware. Chil- dren of second wife, born at Ware : 6. Thomas. 7. Edwin. 8. Charles.
(VII) Lorenzo, son of Alpheus Demond, was born at Spencer, July 31, 1812, and died at Ware, November 13, 1872. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and became a prominent citizen of that town. He was a manufacturer of straw goods. In religion he was Congregationalist ; in politics a Whig, and later a Republican. Ile married Jane Chap- man Maslen, born at North Bradley, England,
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