Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 118

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886


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store and office at 323 Broadway. Since that time he has continued in this city and the busi- ness has been much enlarged and removed further up the street. Another brother, David W., was employed in the business and contin- ued to be identified with it at Cincinnati until his death. In 1867 Mr. Rose dropped out of the business. In 1866 the concern built a mill at Rockville, of which Belding Brothers became the owners the following year, and soon after a mill was erected at Belding, Michigan, Dur- ing all this time Milo M. Belding was the financial manager of the business. The mill at Rockville has been greatly enlarged and the concern is the owner of a very valuable water power there. From the small beginning of this establishment has grown up an enormous plant, embracing modern mills in many local- ities. About 1872-3 a mill was purchased at Northampton, Massachusetts, which has re- ceived extensions and additions of more than quadruple its original size, with dye house and other necessary outbuildings. The Belding brothers were interested in the Richardson Silk Company, of Belding, Michigan, which built and operated a mill in that town, which passed into the hands of the former. The plant there now embraces four large mills, in which more than one thousand persons are employed. Beside the mills, the company has erected two fine buildings of brick, stone and terra cotta, with all modern conveniences, for housing the young women in their employ, and many houses that are rented or sold on easy terms to their employes. This is not regarded by the proprietors as a philanthropy, but as sound business management, though they are interested in the welfare of humanity in gen- eral and of those with whom they come in con- tact especially. As the business grew, a plant was purchased in Montreal, Canada, and this has been expanded by the addition of new mills, nearly quadruple the original mill in size. About 1893 a large mill was erected at Petaluma. California, corresponding in style and equip- ment to the others, all of which are kept sup- plied with the most modern automatic machin- ery and thorough equipment. The treatment of the employes has always been marked by justice and kind consideration, and strikes are unknown at their plants. Some five thousand people are employed in the production and marketing of goods, and the business was in- corporated in 1882, without change of title. Wherever silk goods of any kind are used the name of Belding Brothers & Company is favorably known, and for twenty-seven


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years Milo M. Belding continued as presi- dent. On the first of January, 1909, he resigned this office and was succeeded by his son, Milo Merrick Jr., who had been pre- viously for many years treasurer of the con- cern and was in turn succeeded by his father. In 1888 Mr. Belding purchased his home on West Seventy-second street in New York City.


He is interested in several institutions be- side the silk business, and was eight years president of the Commonwealth Fire Insur- ance Company, of New York, of which he was subsequently vice-president and is now a di- rector. He is a director of the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad ; of the International Salt Company of New Jersey, New York and Illi- nois. He is also a director of the Oswegat- chie Light and Power Company of New York and the International Pulp Company of New York, and is a director of the Broadway Trust Company of New York, of which his son was several years president and is now a di- rector. Mr. Belding has not been spoiled by success, but retains a democratic character which has been his through life, and is a most genial and companionable man. He is a mem- ber of the American Genealogical Society of New York and of the New York Club. He is liberal in religious belief and for nineteen years held a seat in Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn. In political principle he is a Republican, but has never accepted any official position.


He married. April 1, 1857. Emily C. Leon- ard, born in Ashfield, daughter of William and Almira ( Day) Leonard, natives respectively of Sunderland and Northfield, Massachusetts. A (laughter born of this marriage died at the age of ten months. The only surviving child is Milo Merrick (2), for five years president of the Broadway Trust Company and now its vice-president, and president of Belding Brothers & Company. He is also a director of the Irving National Bank of New York.


(VIII) Alvah Norton, fourthi son of Hiram and Mary ( Wilson) Belding, was born March 27, 1838, in Ashfield, and was there educated in the public and high schools. When sixteen years oldl he spent one summer as a peddler of jewelry, traveling over Western Massachu- setts in the employ of W. M. Root, of Pitts- field, a large employer of men in that way, and in whose service his elder brother was en- gaged. It is thus apparent that he was ill possession of the Yankee instinct for trade, of self-reliance and the energy necessary to


success in business. These qualities have made him one of the leaders in the manufact- uring and mercantile world, but have not dwarfed his moral nature, and he continues to be one of the whole-souled and progressive members of society. When seventeen years old, young Belding accompanied his father in the removal to what is now the city of Beld- ing. Michigan, and here he worked in the con- struction of the waterpower dam for a wage of eighty-seven cents per day. These figures and those quoted above in connection with the early career of M. M. Belding, show a wide difference between conditions existing in that early day and those of the present. After the paternal farm was prepared for cultivation, Alvah N. Belding joined his elder brother, Hiram H. Belding, in the sale of sewing silk to retail and wholesale merchants of the West, the goods being purchased by M. M. Belding in the East and forwarded to them. They founded the original firm of Belding Brothers, and the two operated independently at first. As their sales increased, they found it neces- sary to have a store and office in Chicago, and this was established in 1863. They had pre- viously sold from wagons, but now the busi- ness was conducted on a larger basis, and it has continued to grow to the present time. Soon other members of the family came into the firm, whose growth has been sketched in the preceding paragraph. It very quickly came into control of the jobbing trade in the West. and its present volume is well indicated by the immense amount of machinery and large number of people employed in produc- ing the wares marketed. As it is not only necessary to dispose of the goods, but to pro- duce them economically in this age of com- petition, it is readily seen that Alvah N. Beld- ding has played no unimportant part in build- ing up this immense establishment. In 1869 he settled at Rockville, where his home has since continued. He has superintended the construction of most of the mills operated by the corporation, and has managed the opera- tions of the original mill from the time of its purchase from Mr. Rose. He is now vice- president and secretary of the corporation and makes frequent visits to the New York head- quarters in the discharge of his duties. Among outside enterprises in which he is interested is the Hotel Belding, in Belding, Michigan, which was built and is still controlled by the broth- ers, all of whom take a warm interest in the progress of that town. Alvah N. Belding is pres- ident of the Belding Land and Improvement


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Company, vice-president of the Belding Savings Bank, and director of the Spencer Electric Light & Power Company of the same place. In Oc- tober, 1900, he sold to the city of Belding a tract of land for park purposes, for which he received ten thousand dollars, and immedi- ately presented the sum to the city to be used in inducing new industries to locate there. He also made a standing offer to duplicate any sum donated for beautifying the city. Mr. Belding is a director of the American Mills Company and James J. Regan Manufacturing Company of Rockville, of the Rockville Peo- ples' Savings Bank, the National Bank of Rockville, the Belding & Paul Company, Ltd., of Montreal, and the Carlson Courier Com- pany of San Francisco, and the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad. He has a beautiful farm in Ellington, Connecticut, near Rockville, in whose cultivation and improvement he takes much of his recreation. He is one of the most public-spirited citizens of his home town and contributes in many ways to its advancement. In 1895 he built a fine home of St. Lawrence marble, on a site commanding a fine view, and named it "Castle Sunset." In 1882 he was elected as a Republican to represent the town in the legislature, receiving the largest ma- jority ever given in the city, and declined a renomination.


He married, January 6, 1870, Lizzie S. Mer- rick, born in Orange, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of H. A. and Elizabeth F. (Snow) Mer- rick, and reared in Shelburne Falls, Massa- chusetts. She is a member of Sabra Trum- bull Chapter, Daughters American Revolu- tion, the National Society of New England Women, the Mayflower Society of Boston, and vice-president of the Connecticut Branch of the International Sunshine Society of New York City. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Belding are: Florence May and Frederick Norton. The former is a graduate of Miss Brown's Finishing School of New York. Thc latter is a member of the class of 1910 at Princeton University, and is a director of Beld- ing Brothers & Company.


JOHNSON Edmund Johnson, immigrant Ancestor, came from Wales in 1635, and settled at Winni- cumet, now Hampton, New Hampshire. Ac- cording to tradition, his grandfather, Edmund Johnson, with six older sons were drowned while fishing in the river at Pontz Pool, South Wales, about 1600, leaving only the son John, then a lad of twelve years. This John had


two sons, Edmund, the immigrant, and John Ap John, a co-laborer with George Fox, the Quaker. When Johnson came to Winnicu- met, it included what is now Kensington, Hap- ton Falls, and parts of Rye and Seabrook, as well as Hampton, New Hampshire. His house lot has descended in the family and at last accounts was owned by Joseph and Na- thaniel Johnson. He died March 10, 1651, and his widow married Thomas Coleman. Children: 1. Peter, born 1639; mentioned below. 2. John, 1641. 3. James, 1643. 4. Dorcas, 1645.


(II) Peter, son of Edmund Johnson, was born at Hampton and baptized there in 1639 by Rev. Stephen Bachiler. He was drowned in the Hampton river, November 16, 1674. Hc married, April 7, 1660, Ruth Moulton, of Hampton. He was a prominent Quaker. Children, born at Hampton: I. Mary, Febru- ary 7. 1663. 2. Ruth, May 13, 1666. 3. Ed- mund, May 8, 1671: mentioned below. 4. Peter, September 25, 1674.


(III) Edmund (2), son of Peter Johnson, was born at Hampton, May 8, 1671, died there November 1I, 1737. He settled in the north part of Hampton on Little river and lived there until 1701, when he had leave to lay out land on Little river and take up a tract in what is now Kensington, near Kingston. He, his father-in-law and the Chase family settled ad- joining farms and the Chase and Green farms are still in the possession of descendants or were recently. He married, in 1693, Abigail Green. Children, born at Hampton and Ken- sington : I. Abigail, September 25, 1693. 2. Ruth, February 24, 1695. 3. Esther, Febru- ary 22, 1697. 4. Dorcas, May 5, 1699. 5. Peter, September 7, 1701. 6. Obadiah, Oc- tober 3, 1705 ; mentioned below. 7. Mary, No- vember 3. 1707. 8. Patience, September 23, I 709.


(IV) Obadiah, son of Edmund (2) John- son, was born at Kensington, October 3, 1705. Hc married, 1729-30, Judith Brown, of New- bury, Massachusetts. Children, born at Ken- sington : I. Edmund, December 10, 1730. 2. Abigail. 3. Obadiah. 4. Patience. 5. Enoch, mentioned below.


(V) Enoch, son of Obadiah Johnson, was born at Kensington, September 1, 1746, and (lied there. He married, about 1772, Lydia Huntington, and settled about that time at East Weare, New Hampshire. In 1790 the census shows that he was living in Weare and had in his family two males over sixteen, six males under that age, three females. Chil-


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dren, born at Weare: 1. Enoch, October 16, 1775. 2. John, September 27, 1777, mentioned below. - 3. Daniel, May 16, 1780. 4. Elipha- let, August 10, 1782. 5. Lydia, August 18. 1784. 6. Stephen, August 27, 1787. 7. Amos, September 28, 1789. Probably two or more others, according to the census, older than these.


(VI) John, son of Enoch Johnson, was born at Weare or Unity, New Hampshire, September 27, 1777, died March 10, 1837. He settled in Henniker, New Hampshire, where he had a farm. He married, December I, 1802, at the home of her father, Anna S. Fol- som, daughter of Joshua and Mary ( Brack- enbury ) Folsom. She was born August 29, 1783, died at Chelsea, Massachusetts, at the home of her son, Daniel Alley. Children, born at Henniker : 1. Joshua M., December 9, 1803. 2. John F., March 24, 1805. 3. Mary, born and died January 17, 1811. 4. Sarah Allen, born May 9, 1813. 5. Julia, January 25. 1816. 6. Moses H., May 1. 1819; child, Rev. John Edgar, of Philadelphia. 7. Dr. Daniel Alley, mentioned below.


(VII) Dr. Daniel Alley, son of John John- son, was born at Henniker, August 21, 1821, died February 10. 1891, at Newton Centre, Massachusetts. He attended Professor Cros- by's Academy at Nashua, New Hampshire, and studied medicine at Boston Homeopathic College and Harvard Medical School, gradu- ating from the latter in 1848 with the degree of MI. D., in the same class with Professor Louis J. R. Agassiz. The following names are on the diploma: Edward Everett, presi- clent : Jacob Bigelow, Walter Channing, George Hayward, W. V. Webster, John Ware, J. B. S. Jackson and Oliver Wendell Holmes. He also had a diploma from the Homeopathic Medical Society, signed by Dr. Gregg and Dr. Thayer, the former of whom was the president. He was the first homeopathic physician of Lynn. and practiced his profession in Lynn, Chelsea, South End. Boston, and Boston, with offices in the latter city at No. 20 Worcester street. Ile was a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society. He was a member of the first board of aldermen in the city of Chelsea, during the time when the city received its first city charter, and when Col- onel Henry Fay was its first mayor. In poli- tics Mr. Johnson was a Republican; in re- ligion a Baptist. He married, July 24, 1849, at Nashua. New Hampshire, Sally Sophia, daughter of Colonel Nathan Hunton. (See Winton. V.) She died March 1. 1904. Chil-


dren : 1. Edward Crosby, born March 18, 1852, mentioned below. 2. Sophia Louise, Septem- ber 13, 1855; married Dr. Elbridge C. Leach, residence 19 Crystal street, Newton Centre, Massachusetts ; children : i. Ethel Louise, born April 1, 1880; married Clement Hayward Kimball; ii. Mabel Maud, March 30, 1882; iii. Bernice, January 8, 1884.


(VIII) Edward Crosby, son of Dr. Daniel Alley Johnson, was born March 18, 1852, at Lynn, Massachusetts. When he was one year old the family removed to Chelsea, Massachu- setts, where he attended the public schools and Mrs. Blake's private school. He then at- tended the famous old Chauncey Hall School of Boston. He began his business career as clerk for the firm of John F. & Daniel S. Emery, ship brokers. A year later he entered the employ of J. W. Brigham & Company of Worcester and continued three years. In 1873 he took a position as bookkeeper and traveling salesman for Abbott & Richardson, wholesale dealers in shoes, Boston, and later held position as salesman with Alexander Strong, with E. A. Strong & Burt and Strong, Burt & Moore. He was connected with the firm of William Claflin, Coburn & Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, for twelve - years. During the next three years he was a partner in the firm of Robbins, Kellogg. & Company, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, shoe manufacturers, and had charge of the sales department. He was manager of the sales department for F. Brigham & Company of Hudson and when the firm was consolidated as F. Brigham & Gregory Company, he became vice-president of the corporation. The fac- tory of the company is at Hudson, Massachu- setts. The business has been prosperous, em- ploying regularly from four hundred to five hundred hands. The Boston office is at 93 Lincoln street, Boston. Mr. Johnson is one of the best known and most popular men of the leather district, known to the trade of the whole country as a capable and trustworthy salesman, and the firm has one of the highest ratings for excellence of its product and square dealing. He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, of the Northwestern Travelers' Association, and the Utica Mutual Travelers' Association. In politics he is an independent Republican, in religion a Unitarian. He married, May 23. 1877, Lucia Osgood Emery, daughter of Mayor Parker and Lucia (Osgood) Sheldon. of Gardiner, Maine, adopted daughter of Dan- iel FF. and Sarah (Woodbury) Emery, of Port-


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land. Maine. Children: I. Edward Emery, born December 17, 1878. 2. Daniel Alley, January 26, 1879 ; lives at Plymouth ; married Ethel Weston, daughter of Myles Standish Weston, of Plymouth ; child, Daniel Alley Jr. 3. Parker Sheldon, May 22, 1880; lives at 156 Mount Vernon street, Newtonville, Massa- chusetts. 4. Lucia Osgood, June 7, 1882; married Robert Whitehill ; child, David Par- menter. 5. John Winthrop, October 27, 1884. 6. Frederick Channing, November 19, 1885. 7. Eleanor Woodbury, January 29, 1889; died December 22, 1909. 8. Ruth Hunton, May 24, 1891.


(The Hunton Line).


The surname Hunton or Huntoon is of Saxon origin and of great antiquity. Hunt or hont signifies a hunter and is connected also with the word hund, meaning a hunting dog. Ton or tun means an enclosure, and the whole word means a good hunting ground. It is, therefore, a place name. The spelling is varied-Hunton, Huntoon, Henton, Hinton, Hynton, Honton, etc. In 1272 Thomas and William de Hunton lived in England. Promi- nent branches of the Hunton family have lived in Wiltshire, Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and Berkshire. The Wiltshire fam- ily has this coat-of-arms : Argent on a chevron per pale gules and azure, between three tal- bots passant Sable, as many stags' heads ca- bossed or. Crest: A demi-talbot gules col- lared and eared or, holding between his paws . a stag's head cabossed of the first. The chris- tian names of the Hampshire family in Eng- land are very similar to those of the American branch of the family, although there is no doc- umentary evidence to establish the relation- ship.


Philip Hunton, a non-conformist clergyman ' of Andover, Hampshire, England, was born about 1598, became a prominent writer and preacher and "published the most learned treatise on monarchy of any writers of his party." He married Anne He died July 1, 1682, and was buried in the church at Westbury. One of his books was condemned by the University of Oxford and was publicly burned in the quadrangle, but the decree itself was as publicly burned later and the book re- published.


(I) William Hunton or Huntoon, immi- grant ancestor of the American family, thought to be a brother of Philip Hunton, men- tioned above, was born in England, and came early to Hampton, New Hampshire. He had a grant of land at Hampton, April 24, 1643,


of upland in the southwestern part of the town, abutting the wigwam lots and on the north- east the common lands. This tract was alien- ated from him in 1644 and it is supposed that he returned to England, as nothing further is known of him.


(II) Philip Hunton was born about 1664, died May 10, 1752, "very ancient" and he is supposed to have been son of William Hun- ton. He came from England when a boy and was apprenticed to a man named Hall, of Ex- eter, New Hampshire. His name first appears on the record, signed to a petition dated Feb- ruary 21, 1697, asking for protection from the Indians. He received a grant of thirty acres of land, February 21, 1697, and another grant, March 6, 1699. He left Exeter about 1703 and settled in Kingston, New Hampshire. In 1707 he with others deserted the town on ac- count of Indian outbreaks. Later they were warned by the authorities to return to their homes at Kingston, and "the captains are hereby ordered that when they send soldiers to her Majesty's fort, William and Mary, that the above persons be the first that shall be sent there." They undoubtedly refused to re- turn home, and then the general court ordered that they be sent for, and if they still refused. to bind them for contempt of court. In 1708 Philip Hunton was back in Kingston, and bought more land there of John Foulsham or Folsom. On the morning of July 22, 1710, while Hunton and his eldest son Samuel were plowing in the field not far from the house, they were surrounded by Indians and fired upon. Samuel fell, mortally wounded ; Philip and a neighbor, Jacob Gilman, were taken prisoners and suffered terrible indigni- ties from their captors. They were obliged to run "the gauntlet," and were tormented in many other ways. Finally, after long marches and scanty fare, they arrived in Canada and were sold as prisoners of war by the French. They were informed that if they would build a saw mill for the government and teach the French to run it, they would be released. They carried out their contract and earned their freedom, though it is said that the French never operated the mill successfully. Tra- dition tells us that Hunton was in Canada about two years. In 1719 he deeded to his son John one half the land and dwelling house where he lived, and the new frame of a house about four rods from the old one, and all his share of Trickling Hill, while John agreed to give his father four thousand feet of boards a year during his life. In 1729 he gave to


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his son Philip half of his estate, the other half to become his after the testator died. He mar- ried (first ) about 1687, Betsey Hall, of Ex- eter ; (second) Hannah -- -, who died De- cember 22, 1741. Her name heads the list of communicants at the first gathering of the church at Kingston before the ordination of Mr. Ward Clark, September 17, 1725. She was of a deeply religious nature, and we are told that the lives of her two sons John and Philip were saved at the time of the Indian attack by the fact that they were kept behind the others to say morning prayers and sing a hymn before going to the fields to work. Chil- dren: 1. Samuel, born about 1689; killed by the Indians, July 23, 1710. 2. Philip, 1694. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Sarah, April 21, 1703; died May 15, 1703. 5. Elizabeth, married Deacon Joseph Elkins. 6. Sarah, married Darby Kelly.


(III) John, son of Philip Hunton, was born about 1696 at Kingston, died December 8, 1778. He was a soldier in the war in 1724 in Captain Ladd's company, having the rank of corporal; in 1740 he was a selectman of the town of Kingston. His name appears often in the town records from 1733 to. 1740. He married Mary Rundlett. Children, born at Kingston: I. Samuel, June 18, 1718. 2. Nathaniel, 1721. 3. Charles, October 12, 1725. 4. Lydia, married, November 4, 1740, Jona- than Sleeper. 5. John, July II, 1729. 6. Jo- siah, baptized September 7, 1729. 7. Daniel, baptized November 7, 1731, died young. 8. Mary, baptized May 26, 1734, died young. 9. Mary, baptized July 4, 1736, died young. 10. Daniel, baptized July 9, 1738. II. Joseph. 12. Benjamin, mentioned below.


(IV) Benjamin, son of John Hunton, was born in Kingston, July 13, 1744. The town records give him the rank of ensign. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Ebene- zer Webster's company, Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment, General Stark's brigade, in the summer of 1777, at Bennington and Stillwater. He was in the same company, Colonel Nichol's regiment, General Whipple's brigade in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778 and had the rank of sergeant. He was a farmer at Brentwood on a place he bought in 1763. He married, August 29, 1764, Deliv- erance Goss, born August 15, 1744. Children : 1. Elizabeth, April 1, 1765. 2. Joseph, August 2, 1767. 3. Benjamin, September 13, 1769, at New Salisbury. 4. John, September I, 1771, at Salisbury. 5. Hannah, July 13, 1773. 6. Polly. at Kingston, October 20, 1775. 7.


Hills, October 23, 1777, at Unity, New Hamp- shire. 8. Deliverance, October 27, 1779. 9. Nathan, mentioned below.


(V) Colonel Nathan, son of Ensign Ben- jamin Hunton, was born at Unity, New Hamp- shire, March 21, 1782, died November 24, 1879. He made his home in his native town, and was active in establishing the Baptist church there and was for many years deacon. He was a member of the state militia in his youth and rose to the rank of colonel of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment in 1822. Again when he was sixty years old he took his place in the ranks, was soon afterward elected captain, promoted to lieutenant-colonel and again to colonel of the regiment in 1850. He retained his health and faculties to a remark- able age and when ninety-one years old was marshal of the celebration at Goshen, New Hampshire. He was the oldest Free Mason in Sullivan county, if not in the state. He was selectman of Unity for many years. In politics he was always a Democrat. When he became unable to go to the polls on the last election day before he died, the town meeting, on motion of a Republican who heard of his desire to vote, adjourned to his house to receive his vote. The case is said to be unparalleled. He married (first ) November, 1805, Sally Moody, born 1780, died March 10, 1816. He mar- ried (second) November 22, 1816, Sophia Parker, born 1792, died February II, 1840. He married (third) August 31, 1840, Calista Morgan, born 1813, died March, 1843. He married ( fourth) November 2, 1844, Mrs. Amy N. Hobart. Children: I. Lydia, born September 14, 1806, died May 27, 1862 ; mar- ried David Robinson. 2. Sophronia, died young. 3. Almira Attelia, born October 7, 1809; married Edward A. Slader. 4. Louisa Sophronia, March 31, 1813 : married Professor , David Crosby. 5. Sally Sophia, died young. 6. Henry Nathan ; children: Frank, Louise. William (twin), Willard (twin). Franklin Hills, August 15, 1822. 8. Sally Sophia, No- vember 15. 1824; married, July 24, 1849, Dan- iel Alley Johnson : died March 1, 1904. (See Johnson, VII.) 9. Roxanna Atilda, October 16, 1826 ; married Dr. Elwell Woodbury. IO. Martha Jane, December 5, 1829; married Henry Holt, mattress manufacturer at Nashua, New Hampshire. 11. Julia Ann, April 1, 1832; second wife to James Baldwin, bobbin manufacturer of Nashua and Manchester, New Hampshire. 12. Calista Morgan, November 30, 1841 : married, January 30, 1866, Charles T. Phelps.




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