Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 88

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986

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River railroad ; clerk at the Wilnoth Hotel, now Park Square Hotel, Westfield, Massa- chusetts, and the Rockingham Hotel, Spring- field. He was engaged in the restaurant busi- ness on Main street, corner of Pynchon, ten years, and then proprietor of various hotels which he conducted with success, among which was Hotel Gilmore. The last hotel which he carried on was the Laton House, Nashua. New Hampshire, which he had for three years. At the end of that time he retired from active business. He is member of Roswell Lee Lodge, F. and A. M. Hollister D. Per- kins married, in Springfield, December 17, 1885, Hattie A. Patterson, daughter of Cap- tain S. G. and Hannah Patterson, of 18 Franklin street. Springfield. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Stidham. Mrs. Perkins died at Hartford, Connecticut, June, 1899. There were no children.

(The Osborne Line).

Ezra Osborne died in Springfield, Massa- chusetts. He was a revolutionary soldier, and after his death his wife drew a pension on that account. He was the first Baptist set- tler in Springfield, and lived in what was known as the old Linus Dickinson place on Long Hill : the first Baptist meeting, however, was held in the old house where Mrs. Os- borne died. This was sold to Ezra Osborne's son Chester on March 27. 1820, by Samuel and Abigail Barker, for the sum of $265, with one acre of land. Mr. Osborne was a machin- ist by occupation, and a Republican in politics. He married Mary -- , who died in Spring- field, being over ninety years of age. Chil- dren : Ezra, born October 27, 1784: Chester, December 16, 1786: Abigail. February 20, 1789: Willis.

(II) Chester, second son of Ezra and Mary Osborne, was born December 16, 1786, died in Springfield, February, 1879, aged ninety-two years, three months. He was an armorer and was counted a prosperous man for his time, yet he is remembered to have said that the best pay he ever made was during the month of his fiftieth birthday, when his wages at the historic gun factory amounted to the sum of fifty dollars. He gave to the hill upon which Dr. Philip Kilroy's residence now stands the name of Fort Pleasant, from which the street later cut in this section was called Fort Pleas- ant avenue. Mr. Osborne at one time owned much of this land, and he sold a part of it to Mr. Stoors for a comparative insignificant sim, as values go to-day. For a long time

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the lot was known as Storr's lot, and was a favorite view place for people of Springfield. He married. November 27, 1810. Olive Wa- terhouse, born November 2. 1789. and they had seven children: I. Chester E., born Jan- uary 9. 1812, was a carriage maker ; he lived in Springfield, Barre and Palmer till the close of the civil war, and after that at Westfield : he died February 24, 1893, aged eighty-one. 2. Olive Harriet, born February 25, 1813, died November 15, 1894, in her eighty-second years : she married Harrison Smith. who died May 21. 1859, aged forty-seven years. 3. Na- thaniel W., born March 31, 1814. died March 21. 1862, aged forty-eight years. 4. Abigail Catherine. born October 12, 1817, married Charles Bacon and died June 1, 1861. 5. Amanda M., mentioned below. 6. Aurelia Esther, born January 4. 1822, died December 5. 1902. aged eighty years : she married James L. Burgess. a grocer, who died in Springfield, February 22. 1893. aged nearly seventy-two years. 7. Mary Rosina, born March 19. 1827, died young.

(III) Amanda Mercy, third daughter of Chester and Olive (Waterhouse) Osborne, was born April 16, 1819, and married at Long Hill. June 13, 1839, Drayton Perkins, of Springfield (see Perkins I). She celebrated the eighty-ninth anniversary of her birth at her home, 11 Gardner street, entertaining over thirty of her friends at a supper which she prepared herself. During the day nearly fif- ty friends were entertained, and each was pre- sented by Mrs. Perkins with a needle book of which she had made one hundred since the preceding September. She also celebrated her ninetieth birthday anniversary in 1909. She is a regular attendant at the State Street Bap- tist Church. Her son, H. D. Perkins, who with one exception is her sole relative, lives with her. She has always been a resident of Springfield.

This family has furnished a WESTON governor to the state of New Hampshire, as well as many other worthy and valuable citizens. It is rep- resented in the early settlement of several dif- ferent points in Massachusetts. and has been long identified with the commonwealth. Among the pioneers of Salem, Massachusetts, was Francis Weston, who was made a free- man there in 1633 and was representative to the general court in the next year. Soon after he removed to Providence, and in 1639 was one of the founders of the Baptist church in

America. John Weston came to Salem in 1644, and Edmund Weston to Duxbury in 1645. It is presumed that these and Thomas Weston, mentionel hereinafter, were relatives, but no certain information in this regard is afforded by the records. The first of the name in Massachusetts was Thomas Weston, a merchant, who came from London and com- menced a colony at Wissagaser, now called Weymouth, in 1622. This colony was super- intended by Richard Green, a brother-in-law of Weston, who died very suddenly, and soon after this Thomas Weston returned to Lon- don, and not long after he died at Bristol, England. After his death, his widow re- mained in England. It is not believed by modern genealogists that John Weston, of Sa- lem, was a relative of Thomas above named and we shall therefore begin with the next named as the first generation. Descendants now use two form in spelling the name-Wes- son and Weston.

(I) About the year 1644, during the civil war in England, John Weston came from Buckinghamshire, England, to Salem, Massa- chusetts. He left his widowed mother and secured a passage to America by concealing himself in an emigrant ship until well out to sea. He was then thirteen years of age. He was a member of the First Church in Salem in 1648, and about the year 1652 removed to Reading. He lived in that part of the town now Wakefield. He was a large land proprie- tor, his property adjoining the meeting house square and bordering on the southeast part of the Reading pond, extending thence south- erly. He was a man of great industry and wealth, being the largest taxpayer in the town and became distinguished for important ser- vices and active participation in the formation and administration of the colonial govern- ment. Deeply interested in religious matters, he frequently penciled down sermons, in which he exhibited a good degree of skill. He died about the year 1723, at the advanced age of more than ninety-two years. He married. April 18, 1653, Sarah Fitch, daughter of Dea- con Zachary and Mary Fitch, of Reading. Children : John (died young), Sarah, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Samuel. Stephen and Thomas.

(II) John (2), second son and fourth child of John (1) and Sarah (Fitch) Weston, was born March 9, 1661, in Reading, which town was his home throughout life. He married. November 26, 1684, Mary Bryant, born in 1666, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Ken-

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dall) Bryant. Children : John, Abraham, Samuel, Mary, Stephen, Zachariah, James, Benjamin, Jeremiah, Timothy, a still-born son, Jonathan, Sarah and John. The first of these, born 1685, was killed during the French war in an engagement at Casco Bay, June II, 1707. The last was born in 1709.

(III) James, sixth son of John (2) and Mary ( Bryant) Weston, was horn March 27, 1697, in Reading, and passed his life as a citi- zen of that town, dying October 10, 1726. He married, April 8, 1718, Joanna Phillips, who died March 17, 1726.

(IV) James (2), son of James (I) and Joanna ( Phillips) Weston, was born March 13, 1719, in Reading, died there June 21, 1759, aged forty years. He married Esther Miles, of Concord, Massachusetts.

(V) Nathan, son of James (2) and Esther (Miles) Weston, was born July 14, 1745, in Reading, and resided in that town in early life, removing to New Ipswich, New Hamp- shire, and from there to Rockingham, Ver- mont ; in the last named town he owned the Intervale Farm in the northeast portion and died there November 29, 1829. He mar- ried, April 8, 1768, Hannah Mansfield, born February 27, 1745, died in Rockingham, No- vember 30, 1825. Children: I. Nathan, lived in Springfield, Vermont. 2. Rev. James. 3. Joseph, who receives further mention below. 4. Pierson. 5. John. 6. Ezekiel.

(VI) Joseph, third son of Nathan and Hannah ( Mansfield) Weston, was born March 31, 1774, probably in Reading, and was a farmer in Rockingham, Vermont, Novem- ber, 1820, when he removed to Springfield in the same state and subsequently resided in Wethersfield, Vermont, where he died Janu- ary 14, 1838. He married, February 3, 1801, Lucinda Mather, born November 17, 1780. and survived him four years, dying July II, 1852. Children: Lewis, Horace, Jehiel, Ran- dilla, James, Lucinda, Joseph and Reuben.

(VII) Horace, second son of Joseph and Lucinda ( Mather) Weston was born Decem- ber 27. 1802, in Rockingham, Vermont, and from an early age worked out among neigh- boring farmers, his wages going to aid in sup- port of the family. On attaining his majority he engaged with John Davis, afterward his father-in-law, and continued in his service at one and one-half dollars per day until May 1, 1827. At that time he purchased a farm in Rockingham, and in 1834 he sold this and bought a farm in Springfield, known as the Parker Place on Parker Hill. He remained

on this farm nineteen years, when he sold it and purchased a place in Windsor known as Ingersoll Farm, consisting of five hundred acres, for which he paid $15,000. He con- tinued on this place until his death, May 20, 1871. He was a man of sound judgment in all business matters, was highly esteemed as a citizen, and was frequently chosen to posi- tions of honor and trust in both Springfield and Windsor. He represented the former town in the state legislature in 1852. A man of domestic tastes, he was fond of reading and did not seek to engage extensively in public affairs. He was an active member of the Universalist church in Springfield, Vermont, and contributed liberally to its support. He married, May 1, 1827, Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hinick) Davis, and they were the parents of two sons: Albert and Horacc.

(VIII) Horace (2), younger son of Hor- ace (I) and Mary (Davis) Weston, was born October 31, 1835. in Springfield. Vermont, and was educated at the Wesleyan Seminary in that town. He became the owner of the paternal homestead in Windsor in 1871, and subsequently purchased seven hundred acres in Wethersfield and was known as one of the best and most extensive farmers in that sec- tion of New England. He represented Wind- sor in the legislature in 1872-73, was seven- teen years a selectman, serving fifteen years in succession ; thirteen years a lister ; and served twenty years as justice of the peace. He mar- ried, December 6, 1859, Sarah C., daughter of George and Susan (Wait) Dake. She was born December 18, 1838, and lives in Wind- sor, Vermont. Mr. Weston died January 8, 1906. Children : George Dake, Frederick H., Charles A. and John.

(IX) George Dake, eldest son of Horace (2) and Sarah C. (Dake) Weston, was born August 9, 1860, in Windsor, and attended the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school in 1879. He then cu- tered Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. in 1884. He subsequently pursued a medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1887. Fol- lowing this for fifteen months, he was interne at the Philadelphia Hospital, and subsequently was in practice two and a half years at Fort Payne, Alabama. In April, 1892, he settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, and since that time has been continuously engaged in general practice with gratifying success. He is a

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member of the Hampden County Medical So- ciety, the Massachusetts State Medical So- ciety, the American Medical Association and the Springfield Academy of Medicine. He is on the staff of the Springfield and Mercy hos- pitals of Springfield, and is consulting physi- cian of the former .- He is a Knight Templar, has attained the thirty-second Masonic degree, and is affiliated with Melha Temple of the Mystic Shrine. In politics Dr. Weston is a consistent Republican and for the last twelve years, (1909) he has served as a member of the Springfield school board. These services and affiliations amply testify to his work as a man, a citizen and a physician. He married, July 30, 1901, at Springfield, Massa- chusetts, Alice Haskell, born July 14, 1861, daughter of Reid and Maretta (Thrasher) Haskell, of Wetherfield, Vermont.

HUMPHREY Sir Robert de Humfrey- ville was one of the fol- lowers of William the Conqueror. Humphrey, Lord of Bohun, had descendants who became earls of Here- ford. The family had many members who went with the Crusaders to the Holy Land, and many have distinguished themselves in other ways. The name is found in several counties, in the Domesday Book, and has long been common in all parts of England. John Humphrey was deputy governor of the Mas- sachusetts Company, and returned to England in 1632, but left sons behind him.

(I) Isaac Humphreys, with his wife Mary, was living in Dudley, Massachusetts, where the following children are recorded : Mary, born September 19, 1761 ; Esther, June 30, 1764, and Noah August 12, 1767. As it has been ascertained from another source that three brothers, Noah, Stephen and Elijah, were born in Dudley at some time approxi- mately near the dates given above, it is sup- posed that Elijah and Stephen may have been also children of Isaac and Mary.

(II) Noah, son of Isaac and Mary Hum- phrey, was born August 12, 1767, at Dudley, Massachusetts, and settled in Hartford, Con- necticut, where he died April 15, 1824. It is supposed he was the Noah who married Ann Bidwell, of East Hartford, Connecticut. His children, born in Hartford, were: Lemuel; Samuel, born and died in Hartford ; and Hor- ace, who removed to Cape Cod, Massachu- setts.

(III) Lemuel, eldest son of Noah Hum- phrey, was born about 1794. at Hartford,

Connecticut, and married Marcie Martin, of Ellington, who died about 1881. He engaged in the manufacture of soap and candles at Hartford, and later became a member of the firm of R. S. & G. Sims, which he continued un- til his death at Hartford. He was much respect- ed by his neighbors, and was of a kindly and philanthropic disposition, taking a friendly in- terest in his fellowmen. His children were: I. Henry Sooter. 2. Frederick M., served in the United States navy and died in Hartford, in 1854. 3. Cyprian N., married Mrs. Louisa B. Davis. 4. Marcie, died young, at Hart- ford. 5. Frances, married Charles B. Smith, of Hartford.

(IV) Henry Sooter, eldest son of Lemuel and Marcie (Martin) Humphrey, was born in 1817, in Hartford, Connecticut, died at Chico- pee, Massachusetts, January 21, 1892. He re- moved to Ogdensburg, New York, in pioneer days, and there started in the forwarding business also in wholesale and retail drugs, living on a farm and driving back and forth to his store. When about fifty years of age he sold out and removed to Springfield, Massa- chusetts, where he went into the spice busi- ness with John Fox, of that place. Later be- came general agent for Fire & Marine Insur- ance Company, and afterward adjuster for the Hartford Insurance Company. He next entered the employ of W. D. & James H. Sherrerd Company, of Philadelphia. He came to be known as one of the best insurance adjusters in the country. In his declining years he retired, settling first in Springfield and later in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Mr. Humphrey was an earnest member of St. John's Episcopal Church, while living in Og- densburg, and was a vestryman. He was also captain of the local militia of the town and foreman of the volunteer fire department. He married Mary, daughter of Captain Stephen and Mary (Palmer) Gregory, of Guilford, Vermont, and they had children as follows : I. Charles Henry, born June 19, 1841, mar- ried Rosamond Winant, of Hackensack, New Jersey ; he had two children. Rosamond Mar- cy, deceased, and George Richardson. 2. Frank Gregory, born in 1846, died unmarried. in 1883. 3. Frederick, born in 1848, died un- married in 1870. 4. James Lemuel.

(V) James Lemuel, fourth son of Henry Sooter and Mary (Gregory) Humphrey, was born November 19, 1851, at Ogdensburg, New York, where he spent his early years on his grandfathers farm ; he removed to Massachu- setts with his parents, and there attended the

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Cambridge high school and Phillips Exeter Academy. He spent two years as office boy for Howard Brothers, his first experience in the line of business, then removed to New York City and for some years was employed as clerk in a company dealing in carriages and saddlery. As his lungs were found to be weak, he returned to Ogdensburg and spent eight or nine years on his grandfather's farm, which were of such benefit to him that he again entered the business world, and for thirteen years travelled for a Chicago firm dealing in steel products, and two years for a Pittsburg house, Singer Nimmick & Company, Ltd. He then removed to Springfield,, Mas- sachusetts, where he became connected with Olmstead & Tuttle Company, of Chicopee, of which he is now vice-president, and is also in- terested with Mr. Tuttle in real estate, under the name of Tuttle & Humphrey. He is a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of Springfield. He is unmarried. Mr. Hum- phrey is considered one of the wide-awake and enterprising business men of Chicopee, and is much interested in the city's develop- ment ; his many years of travel have been of great value to him, and have enabled him to sce the possibilities in his environment.

SHATTUCK A brave, hardy, patriotic and liberty-loving race in America have sprung from early colonists of this name in Massachusetts. The citizens of this cognomen performed yeo- man service in the Colonial days in the found- ing of the civil liberties that their descendants, in common with all other Americans, now en- joy. A goodly per cent of Shattucks have fought in all the principal wars of the nation, and a duc proportion have filled places of in- fluence, honor and trust in the various pro- fessions and institutions of learning, and un- der the government. The number of persons of this name now living in the United States is probably about fifteen thousand. The American spelling of the name is Shattuck, the old English form Shattocke. There are many other carly forms now in use.

(1) William Shattuck is the most remote ancestor with whom the persons of the Shat- tuck family in America are enabled to con- nect themselves. Of his parentage and birth- place nothing definite is known, though there is no doubt that his immediate ancestors and connections were residents of England, and that they were either of Lancashire, Somerset- shire or Berkshire. William Shattuck was

born in England in 1621 or 1622, and died in Watertown, Massachusetts, August 14, 1672. He was a weaver, and in addition to his trade also engaged in agriculture. His name ap- pears in the old list of proprietors of Water- town, made about 1642, twelve years after its first settlement, although he was but twenty years of age. The first allotment of land to him was a homestall of one acre, by estima- tion, and three acres of upland by estimation. To this estate he made large additions by sub- sequent grants and purchases. Among other parcels of land the records show a house, gar- den and thirty acres of land situated on Com- mon Hill, near his own estate; a farm at Stony Brook near the present bounds of Weston, also a dwelling house and a large farm in an- other part of the town. He resided in Water- town about thirty years, and acquired for the times in which he lived a large property, the inventory of which at his death amounted to £434 19S II1/2 d sterling, of which £200 was in real estate, and £234 19S II12 d in personal estate, including £103 17s 71/2 d in money. He appears, so far as can be ascertained from contemporary records, to have sustained the character of a sagacious, energetic and suc- cessful business man; of an honest, upright and worthy citizen ; and of a good and peace- ful neighbor. He held a respectable social po- sition among his fellow townsmen, and his family and the families to whom they were al- lied by marriage were highly respected, and among the most wealth and influential in Wa- tertown. He was buried in the ancient bury- ing ground situated on the old road leading from Cambridge to Watertown, a short dis- tance westerly of Mount Auburn. He mar- ried, about 1642, Susan or Susanna -. She married (second) fifteen months after his death, November 18, 1673, Richard Norcross, who survived her. She died in Watertown. December 11, 1686. The children of this union were : Susanna, Mary, John, Philip, Joanna, William, Rebecca, Abigail, Benjamin and Samuel.

(II) Dr. Philip, second son of William and Susan or Susanna Shattuck, was born in Wa- tertown, probably in 1648, died in what is now Waltham, June 26, 1722. He resided near the Waverly station on the Fitchburg railroad, easterly of Beaver Brook; and his estate ex- tended northerly into Cambridge. He was a physician of eminence, and for a long period a leading man in the public affairs of the town. He was chosen moderator of town meetings. and held the offices of assessor, town treas-

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urer, chairman of the selectmen, and very many other important stations of public trust and responsibility. A gravestone erected to his memory was standing in the Waltham cemetery in 1852, bearing the following in- scription :

"Here Lyes Buried ye Body of Doctr PHILIP SHATTUCK, who decd June ye 26th, 1722, in ye 74th year of his Age. Blessed are the Dead that Die in the Lord."

A new marble tablet was later erected, to which the above inscription was transferred, with the following appended : "The above rec- ord was transferred from a moss-grown crum- bling headstone of slate, to one of more en- during marble, by a descendant of the 5th gen- eration, A. D. 1853." His will was dated Janu- ary 29, and proved August 30, 1722. He had two sons by the name of Philip living at the same time, one by each wife, and they were distingusihed from each other in his will as "Philip Shattuck of Saybrook," and "Philip Shattuck, the younger," or as "the youngest son of my present beloved wife." Accounts of two living children of the same name in one family sometimes occurs in the early history of this country and in England, but this is the only instance found in this family. Dr. Shat- tuck married (first) November 9, 1670, Debor- ah Barstow, daughter of William and Anna Barstow. She died November 24, 1679. He married (second) February II, 1680, Rebecca Chamberlain, who survived him, and died in 1728. She also left a will dated December 13, 1727, which was probated November 19, 1728. Children of first wife : Deborah, Philip, Susan- nah, Anna; by the second wife: Joseph (died young), Rebecca, Benjamin, Joseph, Nathan- iel, Isaac, Amos, Sarah, Theophilus and Philip.

(III) Dr. Joseph, third son of Dr. Philip and Rebecca (Chamberlain) Shattuck, was born in Watertown, March 6, 1687. He was a physician and resided in Boston from 1708 to

1715. He afterwards removed to Watertown, and assumed the medical practice of his father and there he died in the full vigor of life, May 19, 1729. He married, in Boston, October 12, 1708, Mary Ladd, of that town. His first three or four children were born in Boston, and were baptized in the Brattle Street Church, of which the parents were members. Chil- dren : Joseph (died young), Rebecca, Joseplt Mary, Samuel, Sarah, Nathaniel, John and William.

(IV) Samuel, third son of Dr. Joseph and Mary (Ladd) Shattuck, was born in Water- town, May 29, 1716, died in Montague, De- cember 29, 1760. He was probably the Sam- uel Shattuck who was a proprietor of Peter- sham at its first incorporation. He afterward settled in Deerfield. His eldest son served a campaign in the French war, and on his return brought home the smallpox, and gave it to both his parents. The mother and son recov- ered, but the father died. Samuel Shattuck married, December 4, 1740, Sarah Clesson, born January 10, 1722, daughter of Joseph and Hannah ( Anns) Clesson, of Northamp- ton, and granddaughter of Matthew and Mary (Phelps) Clesson, who were married in 1670. Her will, dated September 14, 1785, appoints her kinsman, Eliakim Ames, her executor, and leaves legacies to ten children or their repre- sentatives. Children : Samuel, Sarah, Joseph (died young), William, Joseph, Oliver, Han- nah, Mary, Joanna, Lucinda and Submit.

(V) Captain Oliver, fifth son of Samuel and Sarah (Clesson) Shattuck, was born in Deerfield, July 29, 1751, died in Hawley, Au- gust 27, 1797. Like his father and grand- father he was a comparatively young man at the time of his death. He commanded a com- pany from the county of Hampshire in the revolutionary army from July to November. 1781. His will, dated April 10, was probated September 12, 1797. The Massachusetts Rev- olutionary Rolls state that Oliver Shattuck was "Captain in a regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Barnabas Sears ; engaged July 17, 1781 ; discharged November 8, 1781 ; service, three months, twenty-eight days, in- cluding five days (100 miles) travel home : regiment raised from Hampshire County Mili tia to serve three months. Roll dated Deer- field." He married, November 10, 1772, Lucy Parker, born January 30, 1751, daughter of Nathaniel and Eleanor (Walker) Parker, of Groton. She married (second) December, 1797, Joseph Longley, and died in Hawley, May 20, 1834, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. Children: Lucy (died young), Amile (died young), Lucy, Oliver, Amile, Polly, Justus, Pliny, Henry and Harriet (twins). Electa, Calvin and Thera.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 88

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 986

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986