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John Moore was born in Ireland. MOORE He lived for many years in Spen- cer and Webster, Massachusetts.
He married Catherine -, and reared a large family.
( II) John N., son of John Moore, was born in Webster, Massachusetts. He attended the district schools of his native town, and when but sixteen began to work at the shoemaker's trade. Afterward he was employed in the Sargent card clothing factory, at Leicester, Massachu- setts. Subsequently he removed to Worcester, where for many years he was a foreman in the wire mills of Washburn & Moen, now part of the American Steel & Wire Company. He is now in the piano business in Worcester. For thirty-six years he was organist and choir di- rector of the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception and of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of Leicester. In politics he is a staunch Dem- ocrat, and for many years has served his party as warden in his election precinct. He married. in Worcester, Mary A. Dolan, daughter of Lawrence and Ellen ( Mulvey) Dolan, of Wor- cester, where the family settled in the forties. Children: George, James, John Francis, men- tioned below ; Edward. born February 24. 1883: William, Mary.
(III) John Francis, son of John N. Moore,
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was born in Worcester, February 24, 1881, and received his early education in the public schools of that city. After graduating from the Worcester high school he was in partner- ship with his two brothers for four years, in business as newsdealers, and saved the money required for his expenses in the medical school. In 1903 he entered the Baltimore Medical Col- lege at Baltimore, Maryland, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1907. During his fourth year he was an interne at the Maryland General Hospital, and after graduation for fourteen months at St. Joseph's Hospital, Balti- more, and later house surgeon for a time. His brother Edward graduated from Holy Cross College in the class of 1902, a teacher in New York state, and is now a law student at Ford- ham Law School. His brother James grad- uated from Holy Cross College in 1900, and was ordained at Montreal, Canada, in the Catholic priesthood ; spent a year in study in Rome, and is now head of the Roman Catholic Missionary Board, of Springfield, Massachu- setts.
Dr. Moore practiced his profession at South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, from 1903, and in 1909 came to Worcester, Massachusetts, and has an excellent practice. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church of that parish, and of the Knights of Columbus. In politics he is a Republican.
GREEN William Green, immigrant an- cestor, was one of the original proprietors of Groton, Massa- chusetts. It is not known that he was related to the other early settlers of this surname. He had a fourteen-acre right in Groton and his house lot of seventeen acres was on both sides of the street or great country road, as it was called. He married Mary Their home was on the present site of the Lawrence Academy and some of the adjacent property and their land extended as far north as the road across Broad meadow. Children, born at Groton: I. William, July 13, 1665; men- tioned below. 2. Anna, May 12, 1667. 3. Jolin, March, 1669, lived at Groton. 4. Elea- zer, May 20, 1672; resided at Groton. 5. Elizabeth, March 1I, 1680. 6. Hannah, March 28. 1682. 7. Hannah, April 10. 1683.
(II) William (2), son of William ( 1) Green, was born July 13. 1665, at Groton. He must have left Groton with the family when the Indians threatened the settlement in King Philip's war and the family is thought to have taken refuge in Charlestown. He married at
Charlestown, June 20, 1705, Mary Barron. He had William and doubtless other children.
(III) William (3), son of William (2) Green, was born about 1706. He appears to have settled in Groton before his marriage, March 9, 1727, to Hannah Holden. Children, born at Groton: 1. William, December 25, 1727. 2. Simeon, September 15, 1729; men- tioned below. 3. Jonas, March 15, 1731. 4. Hannah, December 4, 1732.
(IV) Simeon, son of William (2) Green, was born at Groton, September 15, 1729. He was a soldier in the revolution at the battle of Lexington and at Bunker Hill, in Lieuten- ant Isaac Woods's company, Colonel William Prescott's regiment. He was paid for losses in these battles by an order of the general court dated June 13, 1776. He or his son of the same name, but without a "Jr." attached was in Captain Thomas Hovey's company, Colonel Nathan Tyler's regiment in Rhode Island in 1779. He was wounded in the bat- tle of Bunker Hill. He and his wife united with the church in Pepperell, formerly part of Groton, in 1768, and were dismissed thence to the church in Townsend in 1793. He lived there until his death, September 18, 1813. He married, September 12, 1753, Mary Shattuck, born September 22, 1730, died in Townsend, June 27. 1810, daughter of Jonathan Shattuck, born in Groton, June 29, 1693, died in Pep- perell. September 18, 1771 ; married, June 25, 1719. Elizabeth Chamberlain, born May 26, 1700, daughter of Thomas and Abigail ( Nut- ting) Chamberlain. John Shattuck, father of Jonathan, was born in Watertown, June 4, 1666, and was killed with his eldest son by the Indians in Groton, May 8, 1709; farmer ; mar- ried Mary Blood, born September 1, 1672, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Longley) Blood, and granddaughter of Richard Blood and William Longley ; she was left with a large family of young children to provide for. John Shattuck, father of John, was born in Water- town, February II, 1647, and was drowned as he was passing over the Charlestown Ferry, September 14. 1675 ; had land granted in Gro- ton, but did not live there long ; was a carpen- ter by trade ; was in Captain Richard Beers's company from Watertown at Hadley and lost his life while carrying a report to the governor of the death of Beers and the disaster to the troops ; he married, June 20, 1664, Ruth Whit- ney, born April 15, 1645, daughter of John and Elinor Whitney, of Watertown. William Shattuck, father of John, was the immigrant and progenitor of all of this surname or of
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nearly all in New England; shoemaker; set- tled in Watertown; died August 14, 1672, aged fifty; widow Susanna married Philip Norcross. Children of Simeon and Mary (Shattuck) Green, born in Pepperell: I. Oli- ver, March 24, 1754. 2. Simeon, April 24, 1755. 3. Hannah, September 23, 1757. 4. Mary, November 16, 1759. 5. Solomon, 1764; mentioned below. 6. Jonathan, married Abi- gail Shipley.
(V) Solomon, son of Simeon Green, was born in Pepperell in 1764. He married, in 1786, Sarah Hilton. He died May 31, 1803; she died September 2, 1850, aged eighty-two years. Children : Simeon, Solomon, Ralph, Samuel. Sally, Asahel, Asher, Rebecca and Alvin.
(VI) Asahel, son of Solomon Green, was born in Townsend, Massachusetts. He re- sided in Lunnenburg, Worcester county, Mass- achusetts. He died July 19, 1878. He mar- ried, October 31, 1824. Nancy Shattuck, born June 6, 1806, died February 10, 1871, daugh- ter of Abijah and Nancy (Sanderson) Shat- tuck. Her father was born in Pepperell, January 16, 1770, son of Jonathan and Abia (Chamberlain) Shattuck. Abijah was a far- mer on the paternal homestead. Jonathan Shattuck, born in Pepperell, March 16, 1747, settled on his father's farm on Windfall Plain ; millwright ; erected a mill on Sucker brook and is said to have been employed in con- structing more than fifty mills in various places. Jonathan Shattuck, father of Jona- than, was born in Groton, April 2, 1720, and at an early age removed with his father to Windfall Plain, Pepperell; married, January 27, 1743, Kezia Farnsworth, born April 17, 1723, daughter of Ebenezer. Jonathan Shat- tuck, father of the last-named Jonathan, was born at Groton, June 29, 1693, and is men- tioned above. Children of Asahel and Nancy ( Shattuck ) Green: I. Andrew, November 22, 1825, died April 23, 1830. 2. Mary Ann, July 30, 1827, died October 26, 1839. 3. Henry, March 28, 1829, died September 13, 1829. 4. Jane, August 8, 1830. 5. Louisa, March 26, 1832, died November 1, 1839. 6. Andrew Jackson, December 1, 1834. 7. Thomas Jef- ferson, October 26, 1836, mentioned below. 8. Abijah Shattuck, December 26, 1838. 9. Elizabeth Snow, October 26, 1840. 10. Mary, May 8, 1842. II. Everett, April 2, 1844.
(VII) Thomas Jefferson, son of Asahel Green, was born October 26, 1836. He was educated in the public schools, and has been a prominent contractor and lumber merchant
of Westfield, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and one of its trustees. He married, at Westfield, Oc- tober 23, 1861, Alvira Eunice Loomis, born May 16, 1843, at Russell, died April 6, 1903, at Westfield. (See Loomis, VII.) Children, born at Westfield: I. Addison Loomis, men- tioned below. 2. Lillian Isola, June 24, 1864, died February 5, 1866. 3. Lena Ella, April 6, 1867. 4. Arthur Everett, August 25, 1874.
(VIII) Addison Loomis, son of Thomas Jefferson Green, was born in Westfield, Oc- tober 23, 1862. He attended the public schools there and graduated in the class of 1885 at Wesleyan University. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1887. Since January of that year he has been en- gaged in general practice at Holyoke, Massa- chusetts. He is in partnership with Fred F. Bennett in the firm of Green & Bennett. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fra- ternities of his college : of Mt. Tom Lodge of Free Masons; of Royal Arch Masons; of Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; of Wampanoag Tribe of Red Men; of the Holyoke Club of Holyoke and the Nayasset Club of Springfield. He and his family are members of the St. Paul's Protestant Episco- pal Church of Holyoke. He is a trustee of the People's Savings Bank of Holyoke. He married. at Holyoke. December 10, 1890, Maud Ingersoll, born in Hartford, August 28, 1868, daughter of Joseph Langford Bennett. Her father was born at Plainfield, Connecticut, June 27, 1838, died March II, 1898, at Wash- ington, D. C., and was buried in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, Washington ; married Carrie Ross, born March 24, 1844, at Providence, Rhode Island ; died January 25, 1885, at Hart- ford, Connecticut. Mrs. Green had a brother Fred Fox Bennett, born February 27, 1870. Children : 1. Addison Bennett, born August 22, 1891 : graduate of Maria Hotchkiss School of Lakeville, Connecticut ; student at Yale, class of 1913. 2. Donald Ross, April 8, 1894. 3. Constance, August 5, 1898. 4. David Loomis, April 27, 1901.
(The Loomis Line. For first generation see Joseph Loomis 1).
(II) Nathaniel Loomis, son of Joseph Loomis, was born in England, and married, November 24, 1653, Elizabeth, daughter of John Moore. He came to Windsor, Connecti- cut, with his father in 1639; was a freeman there in 1654: admitted to the church, May
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3, 1663. He died August 19, 1688. His will was dated August 17, 1688. Children: I. Elizabeth, born August 7, 1655. 2. Lieuten- ant Nathaniel, March 20, 1657-58. 3. Abigail, March 27, 1659. 4. Josiah, February 17, 1660-61, mentioned below. 5. Jonathan, March 30, 1664. 6. David, January 1I, 1667- 68. 7. Hezekiah, February 21, 1668-69. 8. Moses, May 15, 1671. 9. Mindwell, July 20. 1673. IO. Ebenezer, March 22, 1675.
( III) Josiah, son of Nathaniel Loomis, was born February 17, 1660-61. He married, Oc- tober 23, 1683, Mary Rockwell. She was born January 18, 1663, died April 2, 1738. He re- moved to East Windsor in 1700 and died in Lebanon, October 20, 1735. Children: I. Mary, born January 18, 1685-86. 2. Josiah, January 23, 1687-88. 3. Abigail, August 10, 1691. 4. Lieutenant Caleb, December 23, 1693, mentioned below. 5. Ephraim, May 2, 1698. 6. Nathaniel, October, 1700.
(IV) Lieutenant Caleb, son of Josiah Loomis, was born December 23, 1693. He married, February 28, 1728, Joannah Skin- ner. He died August 4, 1784, in East Had- dam. Children : 1. Caleb, born November 28, 1728, mentioned below. 2. Joannah, 1730. 3. Sarah, 1732. 4. Ann, baptized September 12, 1742. 5. Lois, baptized August 26, 1744. 6. Solomon, baptized December 18, 1748. 7. Lydia, baptized January 28, 1750. 8. Jacob, baptized August 30, 1752. 9. Mary, baptized March 17, 1754.
(V) Caleb (2), son of Lieutenant Caleb ( 1) Loomis, was born November 28, 1728. He married, August 31, 1755, Ann Strong. He died January 28, 1774. He lived in Col- chester, Connecticut. Children: 1. Jacob, born June 1. 1756, mentioned below. 2. Caleb, October 4, 1758. 3. Samuel, May 12, 1760. 4. Ann, September 27, 1764.
(VI) Jacob, son of Caleb (2) Loomis, was born June 1, 1756. Ile married Thankful Hubbard. She died April 28, 1849, aged ninety-four years. He died December I, 1840, in Russell, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Ilubbard, born May 20, 1776. 2. Josiah, Au- gust 27, 1777. 3. Jacob, April 27, 1780. 4. Anna, January 5. 1783. 5. Hannah, June 23, 1785 ; died October 23, 1793. 6. Caleb, Sep- tember 4, 1788, mentioned below. 7. Lyman, December 10. 1793. 8. Solomon, January 16, 1797.
(VHI) Caleb (3), son of Jacob Loomis, was born September 4, 1788. He married, Feb- ruary 18, 1813, Eunice Andrus. He died
March, 1849. Children: 1. Henry, born Oc- tober 8, 1813. 2. Ralph, March 16, 1817. 3. Harly, October 6, 1821. 4. Oren, February 7, 1824, died August, 1864; married, October 16, 1842, Caroline E. Lampson; their daugh- ter, Alvira Eunice, married Thomas Jefferson Green ; (see Green, VII).
This name is not a common GRACEY one, and it is presumable that all who bear it in this coun- try are of kindred blood. Its origin is some- what uncertain, but it is presumably Irish, al- though it comes to this country from England.
(I) William Gracy (as the name was then spelled) went from Liverpool, England, to northern Ireland. It is not certain whether or not he came to this country with his chil- dren.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) Gracy, resided in northern Ireland, whence he removed to Montreal, Canada, in 1828, with his sons, his wife being then deceased. He had children: David, James, John, Mary, Maud and Charles. The mother was an Eng- lish woman.
( III) John, third son of William (2) Gracey, was born in 1816, in England, and lived for a time in northern Ireland, whence he removed with his father to Montreal. Thence he removed to Peacham, Vermont, where he lived for about fifty years, and died. He married Vodacca Heath Page, a native of that town, who died in April, 1909, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Sally ( Heath) Page, of Newbury, Vermont. (See Page, VI.) Chil- dren : 1. Mary Ellen, wife of John F. Morse, of Peacham, Vermont ; has one son. 2. Addie O., married Joseph W. Wilson, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, and has one son. 3. John Clark, married Lizzie Ferguson, and resides in Peacham, Vermont. 4. Sarah Anne, wife of Edwin C. Porter, of St. Johnsbury, Ver- mont. 5. Orice M.
(1\') Orice M., youngest child of John and Vodacca H. (Page) Gracey, was born March 12, 1850, in Ryegate, Vermont, and was five years oldl when he removed with his parents to the nearby town of Peacham. There he re- mained until he attained his majority, attend- ing the district schools and Caledonia County Academy. In early years he was accustomed to the labors of the farm, but soon after reach- ing manhood went to Ipswich, Massachusetts where he was employed for nine years as an upholsterer. He was subsequently occupied in
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the same manner at Gardner, Massachusetts, for a period of eight years, and was also for a time in the grocery business with William Gray. He was subsequently in charge of the upholstery department in the Heywood Bros. chair shop, and was two years connected with Ferdinand & Austin, furniture dealers, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1892 he re- moved to Somerville, Massachusetts, where he has ever since been an active and prominent citizen. He served as a member of the com- mon council for two years, 1896-97, and in 1898 was a member of the board of aldermen. He is the Boston representative of the Sani- tary Dust Removing Company, a Massachu- setts corporation. He married Esther Almira, daughter of William and Rebecca (Shattuck) Gray, of Ipswich, Massachusetts (see Gray, VII), and had a daughter and son, Albertina and Frank M. The former died at the age of nineteen years.
(V) Frank Martin, only son of Orice M. and Esther A. (Gray) Gracey, was born June 22, 1884, in Gardner, Massachusetts. He at- tended the public schools of Fitchburg, and after the removal of the family to Somerville graduated from the English high school in the class of 1902. He was subsequently a student of the Massachusetts Normal Art School in the class of 1906, and was founder and editor of the school paper Centre of Vision, estab- lished in 1903, and continued as its editor through that and the following years. In 1905 he became an exchange editor, and on his graduation in 1906 was elected as instructor in drawing, in which capacity he served one year. He was assistant curator of the school in 1904-05-06, and two years he was connected with the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and in April, 1908, was elected instructor in free-hand drawing of the Massachusetts Nor- inal Art School, which position he still fills. Mr. Gracey has a refined nature, and is a natu- ral artist. being interested in every uplifting influence. For many years he has been very actively identified with the Methodist Epis- copal church, and is a local preacher, licensed by the New England Conference. He has held nearly every office in connection with church work, and officiated at one time as pastor of the Cushman Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an active worker in the ranks of the Pro- hibition party, and is ever seeking to promote the welfare of his fellow men. He married Ruthella Louise June, daughter of Franklin S. and Athella E. (Lund) Sprague, of Somer- ville.
(The Page Line).
There were numerous immigrants of this name in the early period of Puritan immigra- tion, and all leave a numerous progeny. One settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, another at Watertown, Massachusetts, and others at various points of the latter colony. All of these families have been known for their re- spectability, industry, thrift and co-operation with their several communities in promoting honest growth and moral upbuilding.
(I) John Page, a native of England, set- tled in Hingham, Massachusetts, where he was one of the signers of a petition to the general court, November 4. 1646. He removed to Haverhill, same colony, about 1652, and died November 23, 1687. His estate was admin- istered by his grandson, Thomas Page, ap- pointed March 12, 1722, and division was made in November of the following year. He mar- ried Mary, a daughter of George Marsh, who survived him, and died February 15, 1697. Children : John, Onesiphorus, Benjamin, Mary, Joseph, Cornelius, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mercy, Ephraim, besides a still born son.
(II) Cornelius, son of John and Mary ( Marsh) Page, was baptized July 15, 1649, in Hingham, and resided in Haverhill, where he died October 11, 1697. He subscribed to the oath of fidelity and allegiance in 1669 and again in 1677. He married (first) November 13, 1674. in Haverhill, Martha, daughter of John and Jane Clough, of Salisbury, Massa- chusetts, born March 22, 1654, in Salisbury, died May II. 1683, in Haverhill. He married (second ) January 16, 1684, in Haverhill, Mary Marsh, daughter of Onesiphorus Marsh, and granddaughter of George Marsh. She died about six weeks after her husband, October II, 1697. Children: John, Amos, Elizabeth, Jo- anna, Melitable, Cornelius, died young ; Jo- seph, died young : Joseph, Sarah, Thomas and Cornelius.
( III) Joseph, son of Cornelius Page, and second child of his second wife, Mary ( Marsh) Page, was born September 12, 1689. in Haverhill, and resided in that part of Hav- erhill which was set off to Plaistow, New Hampshire, in 1741. He married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Brewer) Thomson, born July 27, 1691, in Salisbury. They had eleven children, born between 171I and 1735. These are not on record in either Haverhill or New Hampshire.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Mary ( Thomson) Page, was born about 1725, in what was then Haverhill, but which became
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Plaistow in 1741. He settled in that part of Plaistow which is now Atkinson, and bought land there in 1768. Two years later when he sold lands in Haverhill, he was called of that town. He also sold lands in Haverhill in 1771. The vital records of New Hampshire have no mention of his marriage.
(V) Josiah, probably a son of Joseph (2) Page, was born 1748, in Plaistow, and lived in Haverhill until after 1772. Before 1774 he settled in Newbury, Vermont, and removed thence to Ryegate, Vermont, in 1782. He served for a time as a soldier of the revolution, as did his brother Jacob, who settled in New- bury. November 5, 1775, he is on record as a corporal in Captain David Copp's company, stationed at Pierce's Island. He married Lydia Pettee, of South Berwick, Maine. Their first two children were born in Haverhill; the next four in Newbury ; and the last three in Ryegate. Namely, Jonathan, mentioned below; Mary, born March 14, 1772; Abigail, July 18, 1774; Joseph Kimball, August 17, 1776; John, died young : Sarah, September 18, 1780; John, August 11, 1782 ; Phoebe, Novem- ber 23, 1786; William, August 20, 1790.
(VI) Jonathan, eldest child of Josiah and Lydia ( Pettee) Page, was born February 22, 1770, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and resided in Ryegate, Vermont. He married Sally Heath, who was probably a descendant of Jesse Heath, a revolutionary soldier, who served through many enlistments from New- bury, Vermont, during the years 1776-77-78- 79-80-81. He was not a resident of Newbury or Bradford, but may have come from Peacham or Ryegate. Jonathan Page and wife were the parents of fourteen children, including: Jacob, Sally, William, Alanson, Mary. Caroline, Lydia, Jessie, Vodacca Heath.
(The Gray Line).
This is one of the earliest Massachusetts names, and has still numerous representatives within the borders of the Commonwealth. It has been identified with the growth and up- building of many communities, to whose best interests it has contributed its natural share. It is a very old name in England, but no con- nection has been founded between the immi- grants on this side and their English ancestry. (I) Thomas Gray was an inhabitant of Massachusetts as early as 1622, when he bought Nantasket from the Indian sachem named Chikataubut. He resided there with John Gray and Walter Knight and maintained
a refuge for Episcopalians, who were driven out of the neighboring Puritan settlements. In 1631 he was at Marble Harbor, then a part of Salem, and was excluded from the Puritan settlements near him. He remained at Marble- head after 1660. Because of his non-connec- tion with the New England church parties, little attention was paid to him in the records, so nothing further can be learned concerning him. It is presumable that the next mentioned was a son of his.
(II) Robert Gray, born 1604, was a resi- dent of Salem and was a mariner. He was fined in 1669 for attending a Quaker meeting, and made a will in Salem as early as 1662. He removed to Andover in 1679, in which year he received from his father-in-law a deed to five acres of land on the south side of Holt's Hill in Andover. He subsequently acquired much land in the vicinity, and had three fine farms, which he gave to his sons. He married, in 1668, Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Holt, a pioneer of Andover. both being then thirty- four years of age. They had children : Kath- erine, Joanna, Hannah, married Thomas Abbot, Andrew, Thomas, Aaron, Bravitor, Henry and Edward. The father died at An- dover in 1718, aged eighty-four years. His widow survived him about ten years, and died in 1728, at the age of ninety-four.
(III) Edward, son of Robert and Hannah ( Holt) Gray, was born about 1679, probably in Salem. and resided in Andover in what was known as Farnum district. He married Sarah, daughter of Christopher and Hannah ( Baker ) Osgood, and had children: Edward, Thomas, Hannah, married Daniel Colby and resided in Dracut : Majorie, married William Wardwell: Abigail, married Thomas Ward- well ; Priscilla, wife of Daniel Carleton ; Lydia, married John Stevens, and had descendants in Thetford, Vermont: Sarah, wife of Thomas Stevens ; and Elizabeth, wife of Ephraim Kim- ball, of Bucksford.
(IV) Thomas (2), second son of Edward and Sarah ( Osgood) Gray, resided in the Far- num district of Andover, and had children: Sarah, married Stephen Ayer, of Haverhill ; Phoebe, wife of Amos Damon, of Reading ; Hannah, wife of John Lacy, of North An- dover ; Thomas, married Mary Holt; and Amos, married Lucy Lovejoy. (They had fifty-two separate homes in Andover.) Phoebe, married Joel Jenkins, and resided on Iligh street, Andover; Abiel, wife of Orlando Lovejoy, of the north parish of Andover :
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Sarah, wife of Samuel Gunnison, of Andover ; Jacob, mentioned below; Noah, who removed to Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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