Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 119

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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Anthony Sadler, immigrant an-


SADLER cestor, was born in England and came to America in the ship "Confidence" in April, 1638, as an appren- tice of Stephen Kent. His age was given as nine or nineteen. Richard Sadler, who settled at Lynn as early as 1638, was clerk of writs in 164I and removed to Reading, where he was proprietor in 1644, was probably father or brother. Little is known of him, though the name Richard survives in the family. An- thony became a freeman, September 6, 1639. He was a cordwainer by trade. He married Martha, daughter of John Cheney. They lived at Newbury and Salisbury, Massachu- setts, and were among the first settlers of the latter town. Anthony was drowned in the prime of life at Salisbury, February 23, 1651. His widow married Thomas Burkby, of Ips- wich. She was buried January 24, 1658. The only child of Anthony and Martha was : Abiel, mentioned below.


(II) Abiel, son of Anthony Sadler, was born in Salisbury, November 2, 1650. He was a soldier in the colonial wars from Essex county. He settled in Gloucester, Massachu- setts, where in 1689 he owned a homestead with three acres of land above the head of Stony Cove. He was doubtless a seafaring man. He died September 15, 1697, at the age of forty-seven. His widow married Joseph Tainer. She was a daughter of Richard Dike. Children: 1. John, went to Rowley ; married Sarah Scott ; settled in Mendon, Wor- cester county, Massachusetts, as early as 1735 and held town offices there; had land at Ash- field bequeathed to son John, who lived there and at Deerfield. 2. Richard, mentioned below. 3. Edward (believed to be son) mar- ried at Boston, December 16, 1714, -


(III) Richard Sadler, believed to be son of Abiel Sadler, lived in Boston, whither many Gloucester fishermen went. He died in 1713, as indicated by his will dated October 23, 1712, proved December 18, 1713. He gave his wife Elizabeth full power of attorney and made her sole executrix. He mentions no children. He married at Boston, December 22, 1707, Eliza- beth Gourding.


(IV) William, son or nephew of Richard Sadler, was living in Gloucester in 1790, and had only three females in his family. This may have been a son, but he is the only head of the family of this surname.


(V) John, son or nephew of William Sad- ler, lived in Gloucester. Babson makes no mention of him or his father and it is likely


that both lived in Boston and other seaports and followed the sea, leaving few records from which to trace them. But we find the record of marriage of John Sadler, of Gloucester, to Mary Kendall, of Gloucester, at Marblehead, January 6, 1766. This could have been no other known John Sadler. So far as we know he had only a son John, mentioned below. But there was a William Sadler in Boston, his son or nephew, who seems to have been mar- ried often. Some of the records may belong to a brother or the father, however. William Sadler married, March 8, 1781, Nancy Gib- let (Gilbert?) ; William Sadler married, Janu- ary 6, 1785, Mary Gazewell, and the record ap- pears to show that he married a Mary Guz- well, March 1I, 1790. This is probably the same marriage, however. William Sadler married at Boston, October 13, 1791, Mary Wright, and William Sadler married, July 19, 1790, Mary Larkin. Finally, William Sadler married, July 2, 1796, Mary Lentz. Only the family records will enable the genealogist to determine how many Williams there were in Boston accounted for by these six marriage records.


(VI) John (2), son of John (I) Sadler, was a soldier in the revolution at the age of fifteen from the town of Gloucester, January 1, 1781, Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, Con- tinental army. He drew a pension late in life. He drew land from the government near Chicago, but settled in Maine, at Georgetown. The estate of John Sadler was probated in Boston in 1846. He died in Georgetown, Maine, about 1846. He married Lydia Bond. of Boston, daughter of the Boston baker whose name became famous as the originator of the "Bond" cracker. Children : Thomas, John Jr .. William, Polly, Priscilla, Caroline, Charlotte, Joshua and Moses.


(VII) John (3), son of John (2) Sadler, was born about 1795, in Boston or Gloucester. He settled at Georgetown, Maine. He was a master mariner. He sailed as privateer in the war of 1812 and captured a $60.000 prize ves- sel. He married Sarah Stevens. Children, born in Georgetown: 1. Mary Jane, married James M. Stevens, a second cousin ; children, born at Georgetown: James, Benjamin, Rhoda Jane, Elmira, Rosabelle Stevens, and others 2. Rhoda, married Alpheus Emmons : children, born at Georgetown: Nancy, John. Lemuel, Alvin, Chaney Emmons, and others. 3. Ben- jamin, mentioned below.


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attended the public schools, and at the age of twelve began to work for his father as clerk in his store. When he was sixteen he went to sea and for the next five years was with his father in the coasting trade. Then he bought a sailing vessel of his father and engaged in the coast trade on his own account. He was a master mariner well known among the mer- chants of the Atlantic coast. He retired from active life at the age of sixty-two years. He is now living with his daughter, Mrs. J. W. Wilbur, at Brookline, Massachusetts, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years (1910). In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a Baptist. He was an active member of the Baptist church at Georgetown, Maine.


He married Susan M., daughter of Wait- still and Isabelle (Ridley) Potter. She had brothers: James, George, who lives in Iowa, Henry, and sisters: Abbie, Addie, married Frank Haywood, and Emma, married Charles Morrill and had children : Addie and Frances Morrill. Children : 1. Marcus, born March 6, 1860. 2. Mary, died in infancy. 3. Georgia Emma, January 24, 1863; died August 19, 1906: married (second) Levi Fickett and had one son, Frank Fickett. 4. Addie V., men- tioned below. 5. Rev. Frank W., March 22, 1869; resides at Auburndale; married Cora Grover ; children : Eva, Mildred and Benjamin Franklin. 6. Arthur M., March 20, 1873; married Alice Nicholls ; had no children ; lives at Auburn, Maine. 7. Albert H., January 23, 1876; married Margaret Henderson and had one child, Enid; lives at Everett, Massachu- setts.


(IX) Addie V., daughter of Benjamin Sad- ler, was born at Georgetown, Maine; married, December 31, 1895, Jacob W. Wilbur, at Free- port, Maine. They have one child, Ruth A. Wilbur, born at Everett. Massachusetts.


This is a family of English BAINTON origin, and has furnished worthy and desirable citizens. But little can be learned of the earlier genera- tions in the old world.


(I) The first of the family of whom knowl- edge is now obtainable is William Bainton, born at Bradford on Avon, in England, who was a Congregationalist in religion and a Lib- eral in politics. He had three sons and a daughter, namely: George, Joseph, Charles, Elizabeth.


(II) George, eldest son of William Bain- ton, was born July 10, 1801, in Bradford on


Avon, where he passed his life. His wife, Mary (maiden name unknown), was born June 4, 1803. The date of her marriage is not discoverable. Children: Anne, born May 10, 1824; John, September 26, 1826; Joanna, November II, 1828; Nathaniel Ludlow, men- tioned below; Emma Maria, November 24. 1835; George, May 29, 1838; Arthur, May 9. 1841 ; Mary Jane, April 20, 1844. Most of these children came to the United States. The third daughter married a Clifford. The third son resides in Providence, Rhode Island, and has a large family. The next resides in the same city. The youngest daughter is the wife of Edward Rickerts, and resides in Jer- sey City, New Jersey.


(III) Nathaniel Ludlow, second son of George and Mary Bainton, was born May 8, 1833. at Bradford on Avon, where he resided, being educated in the national schools, and be- came a weaver, and subsequently a pattern de- signer, and was ultimately superintendent of a woolen mill in his native town, where he was for many years organist of Christ's Church, and also taught music. He was a Liberal and a member of the Episcopal church. He mar- ried Henrietta Bull, a native of the same place, daughter of William and Sarah Bull. William Bull was a weaver, and resided in Bradford on Avon. The name of his first wife was Sarah, but her maiden name is un- preserved. His second wife was a Simister. The children of first wife were Martha, Hen- rietta and John. The second wife was the mother of Frank Bull, who married Annie Smith. The eldest is the wife of Arthur Bainton, who resides on Laurel Hill avenue, in Providence, and the second is the wife of Nathaniel Ludlow Bainton. Children of Na- thaniel L. and Henrietta Bainton: 1. William Henry, married Julia Burton. 2. Sarah Chris- tina. married Walter H. G. Howe, and has children : Charles W. V., Lionel E. V. and Harold. 3. Clara J., wife of Herbert Usher ; has sons: Cyril Walter and Victor. 4. Hen- rietta Kate (Mrs. William Reilly), is the mother of Edward Reilly. 5. Annie Julia. married Sydney H. Bailey ; has children : Roy and Evaline. 6. Albert Edward, died at the age of twenty-five years on the Isle of Wight. 7. Hubert George, died in March, 1909. 8. Hervey Ernest, mentioned below. 9. Percy A., married Alice E. Bennett. 10. Cecelia Maud Mariane, was educated in the public and state normal schools, and taught at Gran- ville, New York, in 1895, going to Yonkers,


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same state, where she is teacher of vocal music in the public schools. II. Lillian Al- berta Mary, died in January, 1888.


(IV) Hervey Ernest, fourth son of Na- thaniel Ludlow and Henrietta ( Bull) Bainton, married, April 18, 1900, Mary, daughter of William and Sophia (Longbottom) Pilling. of Providence, Rhode Island.


CHAPMAN The surname of Chapman, which signifies merchant, oc- curs among the earliest of surnames, and the family in many of its branches was somewhat distinguished at an early period. In the year 1298 a John Chap- man was returned to parliament as burgess for Chippenham. Sir John Chapman, Knight, of Tower street, in London, was elected alderman in 1679, and served in the office of high sheriff in the same year. He was the heir of Sir William Chapman, Bart. "The Chapman Family," says Young in his history of Whitby, England, "resided at Whitby and Yburn Dale prior to the year 1400, as appears from the rolls and registers of Whitby Abbey." Sir Thomas Chapman, of Ireland, and Admiral Chapman, of Sweden, belonged to this family. This family settled at or near Whitby in the time of Henry III, as appears on ancient rec- ords, and in the time of Richard II. Some of them were prosecuted and imprisoned by the abbot of Whitby for maintaining their just rights, but were soon set at liberty with- out fines. They increased much in a century or two, and many of them were in the parlia- mentary army. Robert Chapman and John Chapman were at Yburn, near Whitby, county York, in 1387. Names of Robert and John Chapman are found through nearly every gen- eration. The Whitby family of Chapmans bore arms, per chevron, ermine and gules, a crescent, counterchanging in chief, three amu- lets of the second. Crest: Two spear heads, saltier, in front of a dexter arm embowed in arms, the hand gauntleted and grasping a broken tilting spear proper, entiled with an amuletor. Motto: "Crescit sub pondere Vir- tus" (Virtue grows under the imposed weight). This idea owes its origin to the Palm Tree which grows the more under pro- portion to the incumbent weight. The his- tory of the Chapman family both in England and America bears out this idea.


There were several families of Chapmans among the early New England immigrants, many of whom achieved distinction in their several localities. The patriotism of the fam-


ily is shown in the fact that seventy-seven are found on the Connecticut Roll of Honor, who had served in the war of the revolution. Most of those who settled in New England are prob- ably related.


(I) John Chapman, the settler, from whom has descended a numerous progeny, was of English origin, the son of John Chapman and wife Joanna Sumner, who resided about fifty miles from London. After completing his ap- prenticeship as a weaver, he made a visit to London, and while watching the shipping across the docks, he was suddenly impressed on board a man-of-war, which after some time cast anchor at Boston, Massachusetts. Watch- ing his opportunity, he regained the liberty of which he had been deprived, and made his way into the country and finally reached Wakefield, Rhode Island, where he found shelter under the hospitable roof of Samuel Allen. Subse- quently he went to North Stonington, where he worked at his trade the remainder of his life, and died in 1760. He married Sarah Brown, February 16, 1710, and had by her eight children: Sarah, Jonah, John, William, Andrew, Thomas, Sumner and Eunice.


(II) Andrew, fourth son of John and Sarah (Brown) Chapman, was born March 3, 1719, at North Stonington, and lived at that place. Andrew Chapman of the town of Lebanon was a private at the time of the Lexington alarm, and served as such fifteen days. An- drew Chapman was a member of Captain James Clark's sixth company in the Third Regiment, General Putnam's enlisting May 8, and serving until discharged, December 17, 1775. This regiment was stationed around Boston and a part of it was in the battle of Bunker Hill. Andrew Chapman is also cred- ited with being a member of Captain John Cal- kin's company. Colonel Latimer's regiment of militia, drafted August 24, and discharged Oc- tober 30, 1777. This regiment fought at Sara- toga and Stillwater, September 19 and Octo- ber 7. Andrew Chapman married Hannah, daughter of Benoni and Ruth ( Pendleton) Smith, October 15, 1745. They had ten chil- dren: Andrew, died young; Joseph, Ruth, Hannah, Andrew, Wahum, Nathan, Amos, Sarah and Jonas.


(III) Amos, sixth son of Andrew and Han- nah (Smith) Chapman, was born in North Stonington, September 7, 1763, and lived in the town of his nativity. The name Amos Chap- man is found in the "Record of Connecticut Men in the Revolution," as follows: "Amos Chapman, residence Plainfield, Stanton's com-


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pany, Colonel Sherburne's regiment ; enlisted, March 21, 1778, transferred to S. B. Webb's regiment, May 1, 1780; discharged February 8, 1781." "Amos Chapman, private; Captain Edward Bulkley's company, paid from Janu- ary 1, 1781 to February 8, 1781." "Amos Chapman, private; Captain Benajah Leffing- well's company, Norwich, 1777." He married Abigail Burdick, November 20, 1783, and they had: Amos, Betsey, John, Lucy, Sarah, Abel, Adam and Hannah.


(IV) Dr. Amos (2), eldest child of Amos (I) and Abigail (Burdick) Chapman, was born July 23, 1784. He studied medicine, went west, and settled down to the practice of his profession at Alquina, Indiana. He fell from his horse and died from his injuries. At the time of his settlement the country was new, the roads were rough and he visited his patients on horseback, that mode of traveling being almost universal. He married and his children were: Alexander Hamilton ; Matilda, married James Henry; Elizabeth, married William Busick; Amos Garner, who died un- married, having been murdered in Cincinnati. (V) Alexander Hamilton, eldest child of Dr. Amos (2) Chapman, was born in Alquina, Indiana. He married Lorynda Mc- Whinney. Children : 1. Ida L., married Will- iam H. Thompson, of Warsaw, Indiana. 2. J. Wilder, resides at Winona Lake, Indiana. 3. Edwin G., associated with Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman in evangelical work in various parts of the United States. He married Jeanie Huddles- ton, and resides at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 4. Jessie Luella, married H. E. DuBois, an edu- cator of prominence at Winona Lake, Indiana. 5. Charles Ratchford, mentioned below.


(VI) Dr. Charles Ratchford, youngest child of Alexander H. and Lorynda (McWhinney) Chapman, was born at Richmond, Indiana, July 26, 1870. He received his literary educa- tion in the public schools of Richmond and the University of Minnesota, which latter insti . tution he attended two years. From that school he went to Philadelphia, and attended Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1892. Soon afterward he was appointed by the gov- ernment assistant physician of the Sioux Indians with headquarters at Flandreau, South Dakota. making visits to all parts of the region occu - pied by the tribe over which he had charge. In 1804 he took a post-graduate course at Phil- adelphia Polyclinic College, and in 1899 settled permanently at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he has since successfully practiced his


profession with the exception of a period of six months while he was studying abroad. principally in the medical schools of Berlin. Vienna, Paris and London. He is a member of the Hampden County Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Association, and the American Medical Association, and is now president of the Western Massachusetts Oph- thalmological and Otological Society. He is also a member of the Nayasset and Country Clubs, the Springfield Automobile Club, and the Automobile Club of America. Dr. Charles R. Chapman married (first), April 18, 1893, Sarah Sabery, born in Philadelphia, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Sabery. She died in 1904, leaving two children: Charles R., born February 4, 1894, and Elizabeth Lorynda, July 9, 1897. He married (second), September 8, 1906, Hazel Sheffield, born in Warsaw, In- diana, daughter of George S. Sheffield; chil- dren: Eleanor and Hazel, twins, born April 3. 1909.


The Gowdy family is of Scotch- GOWDY Irish origin. A family of this name settled in the Connecticut Valley and another in South Carolina. The name is not common either in Ireland, Scot- land or America, however, and it is likely that the early settlers were closely related. A Gowdy family was one of the two first to settle at Abbeville, South Carolina, before 1756. In the first census taken in 1790 there was but one Gowdy family in Virginia and but one in Penn- sylvania. John Gowdy, of Powhatan county, Virginia, had two whites and no blacks in his family ; Samuel Gowdy had two males over sixteen, two under that age and four females in his family, in Cumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, where many Scotch Presbyterians set- tled. The Gowdy family of this sketch came from Virginia to Johnson City, a small town in Washington county, Tennessee, formerly part of North Carolina. In 1777 when this county was established it was bounded on the west by the Mississippi river.


(1) Cyrus Gowdy, born about 1800, settled in Hall county, Illinois, where he followed farming.


(11) Milton Washington, son of Cyrus Gowdy, was born in 1833, and died in Moline, Illinois, March, 1908, aged seventy-five years. Ile was a farmer at Groveland, Tazewell coun- ty. Illinois. He married Sarah Ann Hull, of an Indiana family, originally from New Eng- land.


(111) Clinton, son of Milton Washington


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Gowdy, was born in Allentown, July 21, 1861. He attended the district schools of his native town and entered the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- versity. He studied law while taking the aca- demic course and completed his preparation for his profession in the law offices of Judge Allen Tipton at Bloomington, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar in 1883. He practiced law in St. Clair county two years, then removed to Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced about ten years. For five years he lectured on medi- cal jurisprudence in the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, and he is recog- nized as an authority on this subject. Since 1897 he has been practicing in Springfield, Massachusetts, at 5 Elm street, making a spe- cialty of insurance, commercial and real prop- erty law. In politics he is a Republican and in 1902 was elected to the common council of the city. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and of the American Economic Association. In religion he is a Universalist and belongs to St. Paul's Church, of Springfield. He is a mem- ber also of De Soto Lodge of Odd Fellows and is a Royal Arch Mason. He married, in Octo- ber, 1898, Adeline Currier, of Springfield. They have no children. His first wife died at Atlanta (see Currier).


CURRIER The Currier family in Eng- land is identical with Currer, Currie, Curry, Corror and Carrier. The coat-of-arms of the Currier fan- ily of Wicksworth: Sable, a bend between three spears' heads. The Currier (or Carrier ) family of Gosport, Hampshire, bears: Sable, a chevron ermine between three crosses cross- let argent. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet a dragon's head vert.


(I) Richard Currier, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, about 1616. He deposed, April 12, 1664, stating his age at forty-seven. He settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, where he was a planter and millwright. He drew land in 1641-2, and was a commoner of the town, taxed there in 1650, and in 1654 was the largest taxpayer in Amesbury, the town ad- joining. He was town clerk of Salisbury in 1654-56-59-62-64-68. He and his predecessor, Macy. were authorized to build a saw mill in 1656. and he owned a saw mill right in 1676. In the seating of the Amesbury meetinghouse in 1667 his name stands first "to set at the table." but he apparently retained membership in the Salisbury church as late as 1677. He seems to have been in King Philip's war. al-


though older than most of the soldiers. He was for many years an active and influential citizen. His last years were spent at the home of his wife's son, Philip Rowell. He had con- veyed his real estate by deed to his heirs, be- fore his death. Twenty-five years afterward his grandson was appointed administrator, No- vember 6, 1710, and his heirs at law were granted land at Buxton, Maine, for his services in King Philip's war. He died February 22, 1686-7, and his widow Joanna, October, 1690. He married (first ) Ann ----; (second), Oc- tober 26, 1676, Joanna, widow of Valentine Pinder and also of William Sargent, daughter of Henry Pinder, who came in the ship "Susan and Ellen" in 1636 to Ipswich, Joanna then being fourteen years old. Children of first wife: Samuel, born in England, about 1636; Hannah, July 8, 1643; Thomas, mentioned below.


(II) Deacon Thomas, son of Richard Cur- rier, was born March 8, 1646, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and died September 27, 1712; married, December 9, 1668, Mary Osgood, died November 2, 1705, daughter of William Os- good, the pioneer settler. Her father deeded to them a quarter interest in his saw mill in 1693. Currier was received into the township in 1666 and admitted a freeman in 1670. He was town clerk of Amesbury in 1674. His will was dated August 25, 1708, and proved No- vember 3, 1712. Children: Hannah, born March 28, 1670; Thomas, mentioned below ; Richard. April 12, 1673; Samuel, January 3. 1674-5; Mary, November 28, 1676; Anne, mar- ried Samuel Barnard : William, December 14, 1704; John, November 29, 1705; Joseph, mar- ried Sarah Brown ; Benjamin, March 27, 1688; Ebenezer, August 22, 1690; Daniel, May 3. 1692.


( III ) Thomas (2), son of Deacon Thomas ( I) Currier, was born at Amesbury, Novem- ber 28, 1671; married there, September 19. 1700, Sarah Barnard. Children, born at Ames- bury: Nathaniel, October 1, 1701, died young : Timothy. July 17. 1704: Ezekiel, mentioned below : Eleanor, September 30, 1709; William, February 24. 1711-2, died June 25, 1735: Daniel, January 5. 1714-5, died August 19. 1801 : Thomas, born May 10, 1717.


(IV) Ezekiel, son of Thomas (2) Currier, was born April 29, 1707, at Amesbury. Ezekiel Currier and Daniel Currier, Jr., of Amesbury, cordwainers, deeded land to Dorothy Tux- bury. September 22, 1783, "part of the estate of Humphrey Currier set off as our shares." Another deed between the same parties, July


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30, 1783, disposed of the part set off to Han- nah for her right of dower in the estate of Timothy Currier, and also personal estate. Ezekiel gave to "my son Levi," yeoman, land in Amesbury, March 10, 1784, half the home- stead and other lots. This deed mentions his "son John deceased," and Daniel, Jr., and Humphrey Currier's land. These and other deeds established the lineage as given below. Ezekiel's will, dated April 26, 1790, proved April, 1791, bequeathed to Elinor Morrill, Mary Adams, William, grandson Ezekiel and granddaughter Anne, children of deceased son Nathaniel ; grandson Benjamin, son of his de- ceased son John; residue to son Levi. He mentions his "last wife" in his will. He mar- ried (first ) at Salisbury, January 15, 1732-3. Children : 1. Eleanor, born November 22, 1733. at Amesbury, married - Morrill. 2. Na- thaniel, born December 31, 1734, married Miriam - -; died November 26, 1769; son Ezekiel was living in Eaton, New Hampshire, in 1802, and deeded to Levi (uncle) Currier, of Amesbury, land in Salisbury "belonging to heirs of Richard Morrill (grandfather of Levi and Nathaniel) lying in common and undivided with said Levi that part that falleth to me by my father Nathaniel of Amesbury." 3. Will- iam, born May 12, 1737. 4. John, January 27. 1739. 5. Levi, mentioned below.




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