Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 123

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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fifty acres of wild land at Whittingham, Ver- mont, cut the timber, burned it, after the cus- tom of the times, and made potash of the ashes. He carried the potash in hogsheads and traded it for groceries, etc., the trip taking from two to four weeks. He built a log house and a few years later a substantial frame house and added two hundred acres of land to his holdings. He was a brave and patriotic soldier in the war of 1812, a staunch Whig in later years. He died aged fifty years. He was a Universalist in religion. He married Dorcas Lyon, of Colerain. They had eight. children.

(VIII) Baxter Hall, son of Joshua (2) Newell, was born in Willington, Vermont, Au- gust 1, 1813, died at the age of seventy-nine years. He had to go to work when but a child, but with his savings he was able to buy a farm when he came of age, one hundred and fifty acres adjoining the homestead in Whitingham. He followed farming in his native town until 1868, when he sold his farm to his son Ches- ter, and in 1877 he removed to Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, bought a house and retired from active business, but on the death of one of his sons he became a partner in the firm with his other son and continued in business as a general merchant at Shelburne Falls until his death in 1893. He was a Republican in politics, was a selectman of Whitingham for a number of years and chairman, was assessor and overseer of the poor in Whitingham. He was a Congregationalist in religion. He mar- ried Rachel Briggs. He died March 28, 1893. Children: 1. Charles B., general merchant at Shelburne Falls in partnership with his brother John L., retired after the store was burned in 1875; bought the Barrett farm in Rowe in 1883, two hundred and fifty acres of land ; was representative to the general court, assessor, overseer of the poor and selectman ; president of the Agricultural Society at Charlemont ; married, November 1, 1862, Lucy J. Dexter, daughter of John P. and Jane (Green) Dexter, of Whitingham. 2. Herbert, born April 2, 1855, mentioned below. 3. John L. 4. Chester B. 5. Luana R.

(IX) Herbert, son of Baxter Hall Newell, was born at Whitingham, April 2, 1855, and was educated in the public schools, at Frank- lin Academy of Shelburne Falls, and Williston Seminary at Easthampton. At the age of twelve he was a clerk in his father's store, at fourteen bookkeeper, and at the age of twenty- one was admitted to partnership. His senior partner and brother, John L. Newell, died in

1895, and his father succeeded him in the firm. Another brother Charles B. was bought out by Herbert, after the store was destroyed by fire in 1875. Since the death of his father he has been sole proprietor. The business at the present time is the largest in its line in that section of the state. Mr. Newell is a dealer in hardware, paints, oils and wall paper. The store was originally in the Odd Fellows block and is now in a brick building on the same site, erected by Mr. Newell after the fire. It is opposite the river bridge. Mr. Newell has been vice-president of the Shelburne Falls Na- tional Bank since 1893, director since 1890; trustee and clerk of the Shelburne Falls Sav- ings Bank, trustee of Arms Academy since 1899; treasurer of the Covell Aqueduct, of Shelburne Falls, since 1901; town auditor, member of the school committee and at present chairman. He is an active and influential Re- publican. In 1895 he represented the first Franklin district in the general court and was clerk of the committee on taxation. In 1903- 04 he was state senator from the Franklin and Hampden districts, serving as chairman of the committee on prisons in 1903, and of educa- tion in 1904, also as member of the committee on constitutional amendments and of the com- mittee on federal relations and of taxation. He is a member of the parish of the Congre- gational church; Mountain Lodge, Free Masons; Connecticut Valley Commandery, Knights Templar; past noble grand of the Aletheian Lodge, Free Masons; past captain of Canton Tabor and past chief patriarch of the Aletheian Encampment ; colonel of the Third Regiment of Patriarchs Militant ; presi- dent and vice-president for several years of the Shelburne Club. His residence is the old White house, Bridge street, Shelburne Falls. He married, November 28, 1879, Addie M., daughter of Charles R. and Fanny A. ( Patter- son) White, of Shelburne Falls. Her father was born at Buckland, February 22, 1824, a carpenter and cutlery manufacturer, served two years in the civil war in Company E, Fifty- second Regiment. Her mother was daughter of Calvin Patterson, who died in 1893. Mr. White was a Whig in politics, later a Repub- lican and active in temperance work ; was past noble grand of Aletheian Lodge of Odd Fel- lows. Children of Herbert and Addie M. Newell: 1. Dexter H., born January 12, 1880, in partnership with his father. 2. Gertrude F., April 8, 1883: a teacher in Arms Academy, Shelburne Falls.

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HAMILTON This family for centuries has been one of the most distin- guished in Scotland and Eng- land, and closely related to Royalty in both countries. Before 1300 the family was estab- lished in Scotland in Lanarkshire, Renfrew- shire and Ayrshire, and has been numerous ever since. The name is a place name of Nor- man origin. The family in Scotland possesses the titles of the dukedom of Hamilton (and of Chatelherault in France) ; marquisates of Clydesdale and Hamilton ; earldoms of Arrn, Haddington, Lanark, Melrose, Orkney, Rothes, Ruglen : viscountcy of Kirkwall; lordships of Aberbrothwick, Abercorn, Binning, Byres, Haliburton, Hamilton, Kilpatrick, Machanshire, Mountcastle, Paisley, Polmount, Riccarton ; baronies of Bargeny, Belhaven and Stenton. The Lanarkshire family, whose seat was in Westburn, and from whom the American immi- grant mentioned below is said to have sprung, bore these arms : Gules, three cinquefoils ermine, within a border counter point of the second and first. Crest: A hand grasping a lance in bend proper. Motto: "Et Arma et Virtus." Many families of this name emi- grated to Ireland and settled in Ulster in the counties of Tyrone, Antrim and Londonderry.

Among the settlers of Nova Scotia were a number of Hamiltons from Scotland and the north of Ireland and at least one branch of the family from Maine. The similarity of names indicates near relationship. Robert Hamilton, immigrant, who founded the family of this surname in Colchester county, had a son Arch- ibald.

(I) Archibald Hamilton, probably the immi- grant, settled in Digby, Nova Scotia, about the time of the American revolution.

(II) John, son of Archibald Hamilton, was born at Digby, Nova Scotia, in 1783. He came to the Cranberry Isles in Maine when a young man. He married Eunice Gilley, who died August 13, 1874, aged eighty-eight years, four months. He died April 28, 1855. Children : Thomas, Eunice, Daniel, William, John, George. Jeremiah, and perhaps others.

(III) Thomas, son of John Hamilton, was born in the Cranberry Isles about 1810, and died in 1891. He moved from there to Blue Hill. He lived also at Brooklin, Maine, for- merly Sedgwick. He was a farmer. He mar- ried Susan Carter, who died April 9, 1881, daughter of John Carter. Children : I. James, born September 5, 1828. 2. Alexander, Au- gust 12. 1830. 3. Benjamin, September 24, 1832. 4. John. 1834. 5. Susan. 6. Julia. 7.

Adelaide. 8. Henry C., May 12, 1845, men- tioned below. 9. Sidney. 10. Frederick. II. Ruby.

(IV) Henry C., son of Thomas Hamilton, was born at Blue Hill, Maine, May 12, 1845, and was educated in the public schools of Brooklin, Maine, and there he settled and fol- lowed farming throughout his active life. He married Eva G. Bayard, born August 22, 1847, (lied May 23, 1907, daughter of Hezekiah C. Bayard. Children: I. Harry E., born July 18, 1869, mentioned below. 2. Flod B., De- cember 8, 1882, resides at Brooklin, Maine.

(V ) Harry Edward, son of Henry C. Hamil- ton, was born in Brooklin, Maine, July 18, 1869. He attended the public schools of his native town and prepared for college at Hebron Academy, graduating from Colby College at Waterville, Maine, in the class of 1896. He joined Colby Chapter of Delta Epsilon fra- ternity. During the following five years he taught school in Everett, Massachusetts. The following two years he was manager of a retail shoe store at Bellows Falls, Vermont, and in June, 1903, became a partner in the firm of Hamilton & Butterfield, dealers in boots and shoes, at No. 68 Main street, Greenfield, Mass -- achusetts. His partner is O. R. Butterfield. Their business flourished, and in January 5, 1905, the firm opened another store at No. 461 Main street, Athol, Massachusetts. Both enter- prises are very successful. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Second Congregational Church of Greenfield; Granite Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of West Paris, Maine ; Frank- lin Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; Arcana Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star ; Connecti- cut Valley Commandery, Knights Templar. He married, March 31, 1897, Frances Dunham, of West Paris, Maine, born January 10, 1872, daughter of Samuel W. and Rachel A. Dun- ham. Children: 1. Charlotte D., born July 9. 1898. 2. Catherine F., born September 29. 1902. 3. Donald B., born July 2, 1907. 4. Richard A., born April 12, 1909.

(VIH) Lorenzo Dow Nick- NICKERSON erson, son of Phineas (q. v.) and Mary Stuart ( Hurd) Nickerson, was born in Harwich, Massachusetts, about 1840. In the record of his marriage he is designated a mariner. He married, in Harwich, April 20. 1870. Emmeline Sears, born in Dennis, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 2, 1842, daughter of Sylvanus and Phebe ( Berry) Sears. Her grandparents were Ed- ward and Abigail ( Baker) Sears, and she is a

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descendant in the eighth generation of Rich- ard (1), Silas (2), Silas (3), Silas (4), Ed- ward (5). Edward (6), and Sylvanus (7) Sears.

(IX) Captain William C. Nickerson, son of Lorenzo Dow and Emmeline (Sears) Nicker- son, was born at South Dennis, Massachusetts, February 18, 1877. His father died September 9, 1907, aged sixty-two years. Captain Nick- erson was educated in common schools, and began his business career as a clerk in a coun- try store, continuing for two years, and then, at the age of nineteen, went to sea. He began in a coasting vessel and has continued in that trade ever since. He advanced rapidly in his profession and became master at the age of twenty-six, being at the present time (1910) master of a steamship plying between the ports of Providence, Rhode Island, and Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been on this line of steamships for four years, and has never been shipwrecked or had any serious accident. Captain Nickerson married at Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1908. Ethel, born in New Jersey, September 22, 1889, (laughter of Captain Edward P. Page, for . merly sailing from New York as master of square rigged ships in the African trade, but now master of steamer out of that port.

ADAMS Whether the name of Adams be borne by one in public, profes- sional or business life or in hum- ble position the bearer may well feel a pride in its possession which has ample justification. This name is indelibly inscribed among the first on the immortal scroll of our republic, and is synonymous with patriotism, Loyalty to principle, practical common sense, and all that may be credited to public and private virtue. It has been an honor to Massachu- setts and to the nation as well. In tracing the genealogy of this numerous family in its vari- ous pedigrees, confusion frequently arises o11 account of the multiplicity of the same Chris- tian names, and this is perhaps no more ap- parent than in that of the name of Isaac, which was borne by the first ancestor treated of in this sketch. and by his descendants in several generations.

(1) Isaac Adams, the first in this line- age, is first found in Boston, about 1833. his name appearing in the Boston directory as that of a cartman, or one engaged in the business of trucking, with headquarters at 337 Washington street, that number being then just south of West street, in what is now

the great department store section of the city. The directory of that date contains several other Adamses of the same Christian name. apparently belonging to men of different fami- lies who were engaged in various lines of busi- ness. The subject of this writing continued in the trucking business for a score of years, a good portion of the time at his original stand. In 1853 he gave up this business and leased a house at 504 Washington street, near the corner of Beach street, further south than West street, and opened it as a boarding house. Previous to this time the houses in that section had been the dwellings of people in good cir- cumstances who under the pressure of the march of business had been led to seek homes in what they considered more desirable resi- dential localities. These dwellings were doubt- less well adapted for Mr. Adams's purpose. and he seems to have been successful from the start, for in the next year we find him occu- pying more of them, the directory giving his address as 504 and 510 Washington street, this seeming to indicate that he had rented all of the houses from 504 to 510 inclusive. Here he remained until 1868, when he was compelled to give up on account of the prop- erty being sold for mercantile purposes. After a respite from this business for three years, he opened in the same line at 159 Harrison ave- nue, where he continued until his deatlı, which occurred on December 22, 1875, at the age of sixty-nine years three months, showing that he was born in September, 1806. In the rec- ord of his death it is stated that he was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was the son of Thomas Adams. He was buried in Med- ford, Massachusetts, in which town he owned a house, with land and stable, which was oc- cupied by one of his sons. Mr. Adams mar- ried ( first ) Sarah E., maiden name unknown, who died at Boston, about 1830. Children : I. Isaac Jr., born at Newburyport, in 1828; see forward. 2. Charles F., born at Newbury- port, May, 1831, died at Medford, April 10, 1889. He was for a number of years station master at Medford, Hillside station, on the Boston & Maine railroad, Southern Division, formerly the Boston & Lowell railroad. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born at Boston, December, 1838, died at Malden, Massachusetts, April 10. 1885, aged forty-seven years four months ; married, at Boston, November 25, 1855, Fred- erick S. Sears, born at Wiscasset, Maine, Sep- tember, 1834; died at Malden, May 7, 1885, following his wife in less than one month. He was a son of Jeremiah and Sarah Sears, and

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his age was fifty years seven months twenty- three days at the time of his death. Both Mr. Sears and his wife were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, Massachusetts. Isaac Adams married (second) January 24, 1847, Hannah W. (Skinner ) Tyler, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, born at Beverly, Massachu- setts, in 1823. daughter of Glover and Lydia Skinner, and widow of Thomas H. Tyler, of the United States navy. They were parents of George H. Tyler, a well-known theatrical manager of Boston, who lost his life by acci- dental drowning in 1884. By this second mar- riage Mr. Adams had one son, Franklin R. Adams, who left his home for foreign parts when a young man and was never afterwards heard from by his relatives. Isaac Adams's second wife, Hannah, survived him and died at Winthrop, Massachusetts, September 3. 1888, aged sixty-five years, and was buried at Medford. Mr. Adams left a will dated March II. 1868, proved January 31, 1876, in the Suf- folk county probate court at Boston, by which he devised and bequeathed to his wife Hannah his house and lot at Medford, and the larger portion of his personal property, including all money in savings banks and elsewhere, but excepting his library and the furnishings of his stable at Medford. He gave the use and im- provement of the stable and contents and about three and one-half acres of land on which it stood to his son, Charles F., during his life. His library he bequeathed to his grandchil- dren, and the rest of his property, including the remainder expectant upon the death of his son Charles, he gave to his three other chil- dren. In the will Mr. Adams mentioned his wife and all his children by name, and ap- pointed his son Isaac Jr. and his son-in-law. Frederick S. Sears, as executors. The inven- tory of Mr. Adams estate shows that he left quite a substantial property. During the early years of his residence on Washington street, Boston, he united with Rev. Robert Turn- bull's church, of the Baptist denomination, of which he became quite an active member. This society worshiped for some time in the building familiar to the public as "The Me- lodeon," it having been previously an enter- tainment hall. Later they built a new church on Harrison avenue, at the corner of Harvard street, and this has since been called the Har- vard Street Baptist Church.

(II) Isaac (2), son of Isaac ( I) and Sarah E. Adams, born at Newburyport, Massachu- setts. in 1828, died at Brooklyn, New York,

in 1897, aged sixty-nine years, both he and his father dying when very near the same age. He married at Boston, March 20, 1850, Lucy A. Brett, born at North Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts, October 10, 1832, died at Brooklyn, New York, a year or two after her husband. She was daughter of Jeremiah and Eliza A. ( Hubbart ) Brett, of North Bridgewater, and a descendant of one of the original proprietors of the town of Bridgewater. Those of the name of Brett, as well as all who are of direct descent through marriage alliances, have good reason to look with satisfaction upon the rec- ord of their immigrant progenitor, for it shows him to have been a man of intelligence, all- round capabilities and possessed of versatile talents. The history of North Bridgewater says of him : "William Brett came to Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1645, from Kent, England, and afterwards became one of the original pro- prietors of the town of Bridgewater, and lo- cated in what is now West Bridgewater. He was an elder of the church, and often, when Rev. James Keith was sick, he preached to the people. He was a leading man both in church and town affairs, and was often chosen as representative to the general court of the colony. Probably from this ancestor spring all of the name of Brett in this country." The lineage of Lucy Brett is as follows: (I) Will- iam Brett. Duxbury, 1645. (II) Nathaniel Brett, married Sarah Hayward, 1683. (III) Seth Brett, born February 24. 1688; married Sarah Alden. (IV) Samuel Brett, born Au- gust 22, 1714: married Hannah Packard, 1737. (V) Isaac Brett, born September 19, 1738; married Priscilla Jackson, January 17, 1765. (VI) Joseph Brett, born 1770: mar- ried Olive Beale, December 21, 1797. (VII) Jeremiah Brett, born February 1, 1805 ; mar- ried Eliza A. Hubbart, July 4, 1830. (VIII) Lucy A. Brett, born October 10, 1832; mar- ried Isaac Adams Jr. (before named), March 20. 1850.

Isaac Adams Jr. learned the trade of piano forte maker when quite young, and followed this occupation during the rest of his life. He was for nearly half a century associated with the firm of Chickering & Sons, manufacturers of the celebrated pianos bearing that name. He was with this firm in Boston up to about 1878, and from that time thereafter, until his death in 1897, he was at their factory in New York City. He was a skillful mechanic, and his position at New York was that of super- vising the regulating department of the fac-

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tory, which required great care and discern- ment as well as absolute knowledge of the makeup of all parts of the piano. In religion Mr. Adams was an Episcopalian, and in poli- tics a Republican, but he never took any active part in public affairs, although for a time he was a member of the militia in Boston and par- ticipated in the ceremony of laying the cor- ner stone of the Washington Monument at Washington, D. C., July 4, 1848, when he was about twenty years of age. Children : I. Isaac Safford, born at Boston, January 27, 1851 ; married, at New York City, March 23, 1881, Elizabeth Lawther, of New York ; children: i. Hazel C., born at New York, 1885 ; ii. Safford, born at New York, 1888. 2. Lucy E., born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, November 8, 1862; married Mr. Keim, at New York City, Feb- ruary 19. 1883 ; they took up their residence in Philadelphia. Children : I. George Adams Keim, born 1887 : ii. Ella Tyler Keim, 1898. 3. Edward Everett Butman : see forward.

(III) Edward Everett Butman Adams, son of Isaac Jr. and Lucy A. ( Brett ) Adams, was born at Somerville, August 17, 1872 ; married. at Brooklyn, New York, October 19, 1898, Bessie Lowell Bayley, daughter of Horace S. and Emma W. Bayley. Mr. Bayley is a mem- ber of the firm of Thom & Bayley, hat manu- facturers, and is an officer of the Merrimac Hat Company of Amesbury, Massachusetts. Mr. Adams went to New York City with his parents when he was about six years of age, and has resided there and in Brooklyn ever since. He was educated in the public schools of New York City. At the age of seventeen years he began his business career as a clerk in the banking house of Henry Clews & Com- pany. New York, and subsequently was with the firms of Henry Allen & Company. W. R. Houghtaling & Company, F. D. Hooper & Company, Sutro Brothers & Company, and lastly as cashier for E. F. Hutton & Company. bankers, on New street. into which firm he was admitted as a partner in 1900. He is also treasurer of the West Tonopah Consoli- dated Company, and a member of the finance committee of the Livermore Lumber Company of Bridgeport. Connecticut, also a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. Like his father he is an Episcopalian in religion, and a Re- publican in politics. He is a member and officer of Aurora Grata Lodge of Free Ma- sons, No. 756. of New York City: of the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, and of the Lincoln Club of Brooklyn.

Thomas Malone lived at Woods

MALONE Harbor, Nova Scotia. He mar- ried Remembrance Goodwin. Children : Abraham, Henry (mentioned below ) , Samuel, Thomas, Jeremiah, Jane, Martha, Susan, Mari Ann, Mary, Rebecca and Theresa. (II) Henry, son of Thomas Malone, was born at Woods Harbor, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia. He married there, Deborah, daughter of Cornelius and Mary Alice (Nick- erson) Chatwind (see Nickerson). Children : I. George O. 2. Cornelius M., mentioned below. 3. Elias A., resides in Winthrop, Massachusetts ; no issue. 4. Mary A., mar- ried Solomon Nickerson; four children; in business at 8 T Wharf, Boston. 5. Hattie, married Eldredge Nickerson, master of schooner "Quannapowitt"; five children. 6. Henry Dexter, mentioned below.

(III) Cornelius Marshall, son of Henry Malone, was born at Woods Harbor, Nova Scotia, October 10, 1858. He was educated there in the public schools. In 1895 he came to Boston, and for ten years was a salesman and clerk in a grocery store there. Since 1905 he has been in business on his own account as a carpenter and contractor. In politics he is a Republican. He married Mahala, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth ( Nickerson) Nickerson ( see Nickerson ). Children: 1. Minnie May, born October 10, 1887; married Edward Smith ; has daughter Elizabeth. 2. Lulu Bea- trice. married Frank Gray ; one child, Evelyn Gray. 3. George Gilden, born October 19. 1891. 4. Freda Alba, December 14. 1894. 5. Howard Marshall, August 31, 1907.

(III) Henry Dexter, son of Henry Malone, was born at Woods Harbor, Nova Scotia, Oc- tober 10. 1866. He was a master mariner and owned several fishing vessels. He lost a hand in an accident and retired from the sea. In 1908 he bought his present business. He is a prosperous ship chandler at 193 Atlantic avenne, Boston. He married Margaret. daughter of James and Amelia (Lloyd) Peter- son of Lockport, Nova Scotia. She has one brother. William. Children : I. Launcelot, born July 17, 1891. 2. Harry, October 7, 1802. 3. Roy. July 17, 1897. 4. Minnie Dacia. October 10, 1899. 5. Wallace. Septem- ber 8, 1901.

(The Nickerson Line).

(Il) Captain Joseph Nickerson, son of William Nickerson (q. v.), was born in Mass- achusetts, and baptized at Yarmouth, Decem- ber 16, 1647. He married Ruhamah

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He lived at Yarmouth, Chatham and East Har- wich, Massachusetts. He had a son William, mentioned below, and probably several other children whose identity has not been suffici- ently established.

(III) William, son of Captain Joseph Nick- erson, was born in Chatham or vicinity, about 1680. He married, November 4, 1703, Lydia Maker, at Eastham, now Orleans. He was a yeoman. His will is dated September 15. 1760, and proved March 12, 1765. He lived at Chatham and Harwich. Children : John, Isaac, Joseph, Silas, William, Rachel. Lydia, Mary and Priscilla.

(IV) John, son of William Nickerson, was born about 1705, died after 1770; married, March 14, 1727-8, Dorcas Bassett, of Chatham, at Harwich. Children, born at Harwich: Phineas, Bassett, Abner, John, Christian, Christiana, William, Asa and Isaac.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 123

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

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