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(XVIII) Benjamin, son of Simeon Lyman, was born June 20, 1820. He married Mary Pomeroy, of Westfield. In early life he learned the machinist's trade, which he followed for several years. He was an invalid for many years. He died December 1, 1873. His wife died November, 1872. They had one son, Her- bert. - In religious belief a Congregationalist and a Republican in politics.
(XIX) Herbert, son of Benjamin Lyman, was born October 10, 1846, died January 15, 1899. He graduated from the old Westfield Academy. In 1866 he entered the Hampden National Bank of Westfield, where he re- mained about three years. He then entered the Fletcher & Norton hardware store as clerk, remaining until about 1869, when he formed a partnership with Franklin Leonard and engaged in the banking, brokerage, real estate and insurance business, continuing until 1878, when he engaged in the insurance busi- ness, which he carried on until his death. He was a Republican but never held office. He was treasurer of the Westfield Public Library for several years, treasurer of the First Con- gregational Society for many years, and super- intendent of Sunday schools of that society. He married, June 3, 1873, H. Emogene Hey- wood, of Holyoke; two children : William F., born August 28, 1877, engaged in the insurance business; and Mary E., born September 18, 1881, graduate of Mt. Holyoke College.
The surname Heywood is HEYWOOD distinct from Haywood, Hayward and Howard, al- though the spelling of each in every possible way makes it difficult not to confuse the fami- lies, especially where Heywards, Howards and
Heywoods were living in the same town. The derivation of the name Heywood is given in a pedigree prepared by Peter John Heywood, of Whitehaven, England, in 1781, and pub- lished in "Hunter's Life and Times of Oliver Heywood," who was a non-conformist clergy- man of note in the days of Charles I. The pedigree runs back to the year 1164, a period when surnames were beginning to come into use in the mother country. Often some local feature of a man's place of residence was em- ployed to distinguish him from others bearing the same christian name. The earliest authen- tic document containing the name of Hey- wood or its prototype is a title deed, still pre- served, for a tract of land in Lancashire, from one Adame de Burgo or de Bury, who held the Knight's fee to a large section of territory in the vicinity to Peter de Ey-wood, that is, "of wooded island." The latter was the re- puted founder of the Heywood family in Eng- land, from which the American family is de- scended. This estate remained in the posses- sion of the descendants of Peter Heywood more than five hundred years, or until 1717, when Robert Heywood sold it to John Star- key, of Rochdale, whose grandson, James Starkey, dying intestate, allowed the place to pass into the hands of the Crown. It is now an attractive public park, having been donated for the purpose by Queen Victoria. While the English line from this Peter Heywood is traced in an unbroken line, the ancestry of the emigrant to America had not at last accounts been discovered. James and John Heywood, both about twenty-two years old, presumably brothers, came together in the ship "Planter" in 1636. They were both certified from Step- ney parish, London. James Heywood settled in Charlestown and Woburn, where he died November 20, 1642.
(I) John Heywood, mentioned above, was probably born in London about 1620, died January 1I, 1707. He settled in Concord. Massachusetts, and was admitted a freeman in 1670. He married (first) August 17, 1656, Rebecca Atkinson, daughter of Thomas At- kinson. She was probably not his first wife. unless his age is estimated wrongly. She died 1665. He married (second) August 5, 1665, Sarah Simonds. He married (third) Priscilla who survived him. Children of first wife: 1. Rebecca, born September 9, 1657. died young. 2. Rebecca, born May 13, 1660. 3. Jolin, born April 5, 1662, mentioned below. 4. Persis, born April 11, 1664. 5. Benoni, born July 31, 1665, died young. Children of
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second wife : 6. Sarah, born August 30, 1666. 7. Judith, born January 3, 1667. 8. Mary, born November 3, 1669. 9. Abigail, born April 9, 1672. 10. William, born April 17, 1674. II. Huldah, born September 17, 1675. 12. James, born January 27, 1678-79. 13. Joseph, born January 3, 1680-81. 14. Benja- min, born March 17, 1682-83.
(II) Deacon John (2), son of John (I) Heywood, was born in Concord, April 5, 1662, died there January 2, 1718. He was constable of Concord in 1676, and in his later years kept an ordinary or inn. He married Sarah -. Children : 1. Sarah. 2. Thomas, born July 13, 1686. 3. Samuel, born October 11, 1687, men- tioned below. 4. Edmund, born July 31, 1689. 5. Josiah, born November 15, 1691, married Lydia -. 6. Daniel, born April 15, 1694, removed to Worcester; married Hannah Ward. 7. Eleazer, born August 3, 1696. 8. Nathan, born September 24, 1698. 9. Sarah, born January 18, 1700-0I. IO. John, born March 14, 1703, settled in Lunenburg. II. Mary, born March 23, 1704. 12. Phineas, born July 18, 1707, settled in Shrewsbury ; married Elizabeth Moore; died March 6, 1770. 13. Benjamin, born October 25, 1709.
(III) Deacon Samuel, son of Deacon John (2) Heywood, was born October II, 1687, died October 28, 1750. He resided in Con- cord, where he was a prominent citizen, serv- ing as deacon of the church, town clerk, and in other town offices. He married, January 19, 1709-10, Elizabeth Hubbard, (ceremony by Rev. Joseph Estabrook) and she died Decem- ber 25, 1757, aged sixty-six years, six months, according to her gravestone. Children, born at Concord : I. Samuel, born October 18, 1710, died January 12, 1712-13. 2. Amos, born Feb- ruary 18, 1711-12, died young. 3. Elizabeth, born June 3, 1714. 4. Samuel, born March 4, 1715-16. 5. Jonathan, born December 3, 1717. 6. Amos. born October 3, 1719, mentioned below. 7. Jonas, born August 21, 1721. 8. Charles, born December 24, 1723. 9. Rebecca, born December 23, 1725. 10. Aaron, born Septem- ber 24, 1727, died young. II. Aaron, born No- vember II, 1728. 12. John, born June 22, 1729. 13. Sarah, born June 19, 1731. 14. Mary, born April 8, 1733.
(IV) Captain Amos, son of Deacon Samuel Heywood, was born at Concord, October 3, 1719. died February 7, 1792, at Holden, Mas- sachusetts. He and his brother Samuel were among the early settlers of Holden in Wor- cester county. He was received into the Hol- den church in 1742. He was on the committee
on the lime lot and on other town committees. He was ensign in the militia company in 1763 and captain in 1771. He was selectman in 1762, 1763 and 1780. He was active in both town and church during his long life. He mar- ried, August 30, 1743, at Concord, Mary Butt- rick, of Concord, of the same family as Major Buttrick who commanded the Americans at the Concord fight. She died January 21, 1793, aged seventy-three years. Children: 1. Dan- iel, born July 2, 1744. 2. Silas, born Febru- ary 20, 1745-46, mentioned below. 3. Amos, born March 17, 1748. 4. Mary, born April 9, 1750. 5. Daniel, born February 24, 1752. 6. Lucy, born February 28, 1751, died young. 7. Eunice, born January 1, 1756, married, Au- gust 19, 1779, Abiel Buttrick. 8. Lucy, born October 31, 1757, married, March 7, 1782, Lemuel Heywood. 9. Elizabeth, born October 30, 1759, married, January 28, 1781, John Forbes. IO. Levi, born November 21, 1761. II. Alpheus (twin), born May 21, 1764, mar- ried, October 14, 1794, Patty Davis. 12. Twin born May 21, 1764.
(V) Silas, son of Amos Heywood, was born in Holden, February 20, 1745-46, died at Royalston, Massachusetts, November 21, 1825. He settled in Royalston when a young man ; was a farmer. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion, a private in Captain Jotham Houghton's company, detailed from Colonel Nathan Spar- hawk's regiment (the seventh) and General Warner's brigade to reinforce the guards at the Rutland barracks under Colonel Jacob Ger- rish and to escort troops of the Saratoga con- vention to Enfield, Connecticut. (Mass. Rev. Rolls Vol. VII p. 640). He married, Novem- ber II, 1779, Hannah Goddard, of Shrewsbury, who died at Royalston, January 18, 1821, in her seventy-first year. Children, born at Roy- alston: I. Hannah, born January 6, 1781, died May 16, 1795. 2. Betsey, born April 4, 1782, died May 23, 1795. 3. Silas, born October 21, 1783, mentioned below. 4. Grace, born Feb- ruary 7, 1785. 5. Lucy, born July 10, 1787. 6 Benjamin, born July 12, 1789, died April 19, 1795. 7. Sarah, born July 23, 1792, died May 22, 1795. 8. Benjamin, born November 19, 1795, married, September 17, 1819, Sally Cut- ler.
(VI) Silas (2), son of Silas (I) Heywood, was born in Royalston, October 21, 1783 ; died May 2, 1819, at Royalston. He married, June 25, 1812, Hannah Heywood, of Winchendon, who was born September 24, 1785. at Win- chendon, died February 21, 1829, at Royalston. Children, born at Royalston : I. Silas Nel-
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son, born May 7, 1813, died September I, 1815. 2. Daniel, born April 4, 1815. men- tioned below. 3. Silas N., born December 9, 1816, died 1904, at Springfield ; married Mary E. Reed ; child, Sarah E. 4. Hannah Grace, born September 13. 1818, married Wil- liam O. Brown.
(VII) Daniel, son of Silas (2) Heywood. was born in Royalston, April 4, 1815, died November 29. 1884, at Holyoke, Massachu- setts. He married Levina Partridge, born November 30. 1819, at Dedham, died January 10, 1899, at Holyoke. Children: I. H. Emo- gene, born August 16, 1846, married Herbert Lyman, of Westfield. June 3, 1873. (See Ly- man, XIX). 2. Francis D., born September 28, 1848, married Belle Cady; children: i. Herbert, born November 10, 1876, died 1886; ii. Clara E., born August 2, 1878, married Charles E. Scott ; iii. Francis, born 1889. 3. William H., born February 7, 1850, married Clementina Hazen ; children: i. Ralph, born June 29, 1877, died July, 1895; ii. Alice, born March, 1882. 4. George, born 1856, died 1857.
BURNHAM Walter Le Veutre came to England at the time of the Conquest in 1066 in the train of his cousin-german, Earl Warren, son- in-law of William the Conqueror. He was lord of the Saxon village of Burnham and others, and from Burnham, where he lived, he was known as De Burnham. He took his surname from this town. The name is often spelled Burnam, Bernam and Barnham, as well as Burnham, and in the old Anglo-Saxon, Beornham, Byrnhom, etc. In the old Norse the name is Bjorh, which in Anglo-Saxon is Beorn, and Burn (a bear), meaning according to Ferguson, "chief, hero, man." There were towns of this name in both Somersetshire and county Sussex before 900, and the family has been distinguished ever since. The ancient coat of arms is: Sable a cross between four crescents argent.
(I) Robert Burnham, the English progeni- tor, lived at Norwich, county Norfolk, Eng- land. He married Mary, sister of Captain Andrews. Their three sons Robert, John and Thomas Burnham sailed in the ill-fated ship "Angel Gabriel," of which Captain Andrews was owner and master, and which carly in 1630 was wrecked on the coast of Maine. Their lives were saved, but all their valuable's and possessions in a chest were lost. The captain and his three nephews settled first at
Ipswich. John and Thomas were soldiers in the Pequot war, and settled permanently in Chebacco, the second parish of Ipswich, af- terwards Essex. Children of Robert Burn- ham: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Robert, removed to Boston, and became one of a com- pany that purchased the town of Dover, New Hampshire, whither he removed. 3. Thomas, settled in Chebacco.
(I) Deacon John, son of Robert Burnham, was born in England, 1618 or 1628, and died in 1703-04. He came to New England with his brothers in 1635, and settled in Chebacco. He was in the Pequot war, and in 1639 the town of Ipswich granted him land for his services. He was deacon of the church. His farm was on the east side of what is now Haskell's creek. He was a carpenter by trade, and was legatee of his uncle, Captain Robert Andrews. He was owner of three-fourths of the brigan- tine "Swan." His will was dated December 31, 1703 and proved January 24 following. He married Mary - -, who deposed in 1670 that she was aged about forty-five years. Chil- dren: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Josiah, born May 9, 1662 ; married July 12, 1687, Abi- gail Burnham ; died October 25, 1692. 3.
Anna, married - Low. 4. Elizabeth, mar- ried Thomas Kinsman.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) Burnham, resided at Chebacco, second parish of Ipswich, and in 1693 was granted liberty to erect a gristmill on the Chebacco river at the launch- ing place. He married Sarah -, and died in 1716. His will was dated December 17, 1708. Children : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, married Hannalı Coggswell. 3. Jonathan, born November 3, 1695: married Rose -; died October 9, 1779. 4. Robert. 5. Sarah, married, January 10, 1708, Jacob Brown. 6. Mary. 7. Elizabeth, married Thomas Choate. 8. Hannah, married Poole.
(IV) Jolin (3), son of John (2) Burnham, married (first) October 21, 1710, Ann Choate, boru May 22, 1691, died Angust 15, 1739, daugliter of Captain Thomas Choate; (sec- ond) in 1740, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodhne. Chil- dren, all by first wife: 1. John, mentioned be- low. 2. Samuel, married November 17, 1743, Martha Storey. 3. Jeremiah, married 1736, Mrs. Abigail Andrews. 4. Ann, married April 3, 1740, Josiah Burnham. 5. Mary, married October 28, 1741, Thomas Andrews. 6. Abi- gail, married 1743, Humphrey Choate. 7. Sarah. 8. Nehemiah.
(V) Jolını (A), son of John (3) Burnham,
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was born at Ipswich, or Chebacco, about 1710, and died in Ipswich in 1738. He married, May IO, 1733, Mary Burnham.
(VI) John (3), son of John (4) Burnham, was born in Ipswich or Chebacco, in 1738. He settled in Falmouth, now Portland, coming from Ipswich, according to family history, about 1760. He was an enterprising and prom- inent citizen, packing fish, one of the pioneers in that business. He built the first wharf at Portland, and it was destroyed during the rev- olution, when the town was burned. He re- . turned, and his was the first house rebuilt. He built another wharf and continued his busi- ness, and his descendants to the present time have owned an interest in his wharf at Port- land. He died July 29, 1798, at Portland, aged sixty years. He married, April 1, 1762, Abi- gail, daughter of David Stickney, who was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, July 4, 1703, and removed to Falmouth, Maine. In the first federal census in 1790 John Burnham had two sons under sixteen and five females in his fam- ily. He had eight sons and five daughters in all. Among them were: I. Josiah, born Jan- uary 23, 1770; married four times ; children : i. John; ii. Josiah had son George born 1801, a prominent citizen of Portland; iii. George ; iv. Harriet, married Alfred Soule; v. Lucy, married Pierce Burr. 2. Child, died at Port- land in 1769. 3. Captain Charles, died at Port- land, 1830. 4. Moses, mentioned below. All his sons followed the sea.
(VII) Moses, son of John (5) Burnham, was born in Portland, in 1774; died there Feb- ruary 18, 1848. He married Hannah H. Foss, who died October 12, 1851, aged seventy-four years. Children: William, David, Susan, Jane, Lucy, Olive, Samuel S., Royal, Henry and Hannah.
(VIII ) Samuel S., son of Moses Burnham, was born at South Portland, Maine, Septem- ber 3, 1804; died there May 28, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He was engaged for many years in the lumber and saw mill business. He married Priscilla Blunt, born September 9, 1804, died February, 1889. Children: I. Melinda H., born 1828. 2. Emily M., 1830. 3. James B., 1833. 4. George W., 1838. 5. Frederick Lord, mentioned below. ,6. Carrie, 1845.
(IX) Frederick L., son of Samuel S. Burn- ham, was born in Buxton, Maine, August 29, 1843. He attended the public schools in Wat- erboro, later in Biddeford. After his father died in 1852 his mother took the family to Montague, Massachusetts, where he attended
school. He began in early life to work on a farm, and was clerk in store for a time in Chi- copee, Massachusetts, then went to Orange, la- ter to Ewing, and learned the trade of piano making, but not liking the trade returned to school for a time, and again became clerk in a store. He enlisted in the beginning of the civil war, but was refused on account of his youth. In September, 1861, he went to Forestdale, Rhode Island, where he was employed in mak- ing cavalry sabres for the government. In May, 1862, he went from there to Maine, where he enlisted September 2, 1862, in Com- pany D, Twenty-sixth Maine Volunteers, go- ing into camp September 16 and proceeding to Arlington Heights, Virginia, October 23. He served through the Red River and Port Hud- son campaigns, and when he was mustered out, August 17, 1863, had the rank of third sergeant. He returned to Massachusetts and worked at Springfield until 1864. He removed to Providence, Rhode Island, and Greenfield in 1867,was a carpenter and builder and contrac- tor for twenty-five years and since 1873 ha been engaged in the real estate business with much success. In politics he is a Prohibition- ist. He is a member of Edwin E. Day Post, No. 174, G. A. R., was quartermaster for many years and commander for four and a half years. He is a member of Pocumptuck Lodge, I. O. O. F., passed through the chairs; be- longs to the Encampment and was a member of the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment in 1873, he was made an Odd Fellow in 1866. He married, January 7, 1864, Catherine A. Tracy, born in Malone, New York, daughter of Martin Tracy. Children: I. George G., born March 12, 1865. 2. Lizzie Mabel, born September 15, 1867. 3. Minnie A., born Oc- tober 26, 1869. 4. Jennie Hope, born Novem- ber 21, 1871. 5. Frederick W., born June 14, 1873; mentioned below. 6. Walter Edwin, born November II, 1882.
(X) Frederick William, son of Frederick L. Burnham, was born in Greenfield, June 14, 1873, and educated there in the public schools. He began his business career in the employ of a milk dealer, and after working three years bought out his employer and continued in bus- iness on his own account for three years. In 1892 he began to learn the trade of carpenter, and since 1897 has been in business in Green- field as a builder and contractor. In that time he has built one hundred and sixteen houses and taken rank among the leading contractors of this section. He also has an extensive lum- ber business. He is a member of the Second
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Congregational Church. He is interested in public affairs, and was on the building com- mittee of the new Public Library. In politics he is a Republican. He married, May 16, 1894, Leona Kate Foskett, born March 9, 1876, daughter of Albert and Harriet Eliza ( How- ard ) Foskett, of Orange. Children: I. Paul- ine, born May 26, 1898. 2. Chester Foskett, October 16, 1906.
(For ancestry see preceding sketch).
(IX) James Blunt, son of BURNHAM Samuel S. Burnham, was born in Buxton, in 1833, and died December, 1885. He was a carpenter by trade, and worked in the piano factory at Montague City, Massachusetts, whither he re- moved in 1852. In later years he was a suc- cessful carpenter and builder. In religion he was a Unitarian, in politics a Republican. He married, 1855, Abbie A. Wells, born January 18, 1835, daughter of Charles Wells of Green- field. Children: I. Cyrus G., born August 28, 1856. 2. Allen C., born March 10, 1858; mentioned below. 3. Fred G., born January 3, 1860. 4. Frank P., December 10, 1872. (X) Allen C., son of James Blunt Burn- ham, was born in Montague City, March IO, 1858, and was educated there in the public schools. For a number of years he was en- gaged in the buying and selling of cattle. Since 1888 he has been manufacturing brick in part- nership with his brother, F. G. Burnham, at Montague City. He is a member of Pocum- tuck Lodge of Odd Fellow, and of the Pe- somesky Club. In politics he is a Republican. He was for two years selectman of the town of Montague, and in 1908 was elected a coun- ty commissioner of the county of Franklin. He is a trustee of the Crocker Institution for Savings at Turners Falls. He is unmarried.
Daniel Burnham was prob- BURNHAM ably a descendant of John Burnham, many of whose descendants lived in the western part of Mas- sachusetts, but none of the family historians have established the ancestry. The records are insufficient for the purpose. He was born in 1743 and settled in what is now the village of Montague City in the town of Montague, where he died October 11, 1783, aged forty years. He was a soldier in the revolution from Montague, a private in Captain Thomas Grove's company of minute-men, Colonel Williams's regiment, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775 : also in Captain Reuben Pol-
ly's company, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Wil- liams's regiment from December 16, 1776, to March 19, 1777. Children : Reuel, Silas, Daniel, mentioned below, Moses.
(II) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Burn- ham, was born in Montague in 1778 and died there March 28, 1851. He married, Febru- ary I, 1802, Lucy Dodge, doubtless a descend- ant of the Utley family, of Connecticut and. western Massachusetts. He married (second) June 1, 1839, Laura Hovey Russell. Children, born at Montague: I. Roderick R., February I, 1804, married, January 1, 1833, Nancy Wil- marth ; died December 21, 1854. 2. Daniel, November 14, 1805, died September 3, 1834; married, July 19, 1825, Sarah H. Gardner, and had two children, Elihu and Silas. 3. Alvira A., March 22, 1807, married, June 13,. 1825, Bela Burnett. 4. Lucy, February 14,. 1809, married Joel S. Shumway. 5. John E.,. October 14, 1810, died January 22, 1820. 6. Utley, July 1, 1812, mentioned below. 7. An- drew, September 16, 1814, died May 2, 1820, killed by lightning. 8. John, November II,. 1816, died February 19, 1835. 9. Alonzo, Au- gust 10, 1821, lived at Montague ; married there, May 16, 1852, Harriet M. Littlejohn .. IO. George W., March 31, 1823, married, September 21, 1854, Cordelia A. Wilcox. II .. Sarah, December 3, 1824, married L. B. Grout. Child of second wife. 12. Daniel W.
(III) Utley, son of Daniel (2) Burnham, was born at Montague, July 1, 1812. He was educated in his native town. He was a farm- er in Deerfield, Massachusetts. He married, December 9, 1834, Sarah A. Burnham, widow of Daniel Burnham, of Montague. Children : Martha, Charlotte, Thomas Waters, Eliza Warner, Gideon and Alden.
(IV) Thomas Waters, son of Utley Burn- ham, was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, February 8, 1838, died December 7, 1894. He. was educated in the public schools. He learned the trade of carpenter and cabinetmaker, worked in a piano factory and later in life was engaged in the sale of cutlery. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, and served three years in the civil war as corporal. He was a member of Post No. 162, Grand Army of the Republic, of Turner's Falls. In politics lie was a Republican. He married, April 9, 1865, Harriet A. Brewer, born June 15, 1842, daughter of N. C. Brew- er, of Montague, Massachusetts. Chil- dren, born at Montague : 1. Walter E., born Ewing, Massachusetts, August 17, 1867, mar- ried Florence Clark. 2. Mattie B., September-
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12, 1869, Montague City, married Herman Seiler. 3. William Adams, October 1, 1871, mentioned below. 4. Katie, May 30, 1873, died November 5, 1873.
(V) William Adams, son of Thomas Wat- ers Burnham, was born in Montague City, Massachusetts, October 1, 1871. He attended the public school of his native town and grad- uated from the Turner's Falls high school. He began his business career as clerk in a dry goods store at Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he was employed for four years. He returned to Montague City, September 23, 1895, and in partnership with his brother, Wal- ter E. Burnham, engaged in business as gen- eral merchants. The firm has built up a large and successful business. He has been post- master since February, 1896. He is a Repub- lican in politics and was a member of the town committee two years and delegate to various nominating conventions. He is a prominent member of Mechanics Lodge of Free Masons and of Peskeompskut Club of Turner's Falls. He married, June 15, 1898, Flora Wells, born in Starksboro, Vermont, March 27, 1876, daughter of George and Louise Wells, of Am- herst, Massachusetts. Children, born at Mon- tague City : I. Harriet Louise, July 2, 1903. 2. Lester George, February 10, 1907.
This surname is found in KELLOGG England early in the sixteenth century, and there are differ- ences of opinion as to its origin. Some think the name comes from two Gaelic words mean- ing lake and cemetery, making it a place name. The earliest record of the family is in Debden, county Essex, England, when in January, 1525, Nicholas Kellogg was taxed. William Kellogg was also on the tax list. There were many ways of spelling the name, among them being Kelhogge, Kellogue, Cologe, Calaug, Cellodge, Kellock, Killhog, Collidge, Cellog, Kellog, and many others. There were many families of the name in county Essex, Great Leigh and Brain- tree being the seat of different branches proba- bly of the same family.
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