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(V) Captain Lawrence, son of John Kemp, was born September 24, 1733, and died at Groton, October 2, 1805. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, in Captain Cles- son's company, of Deerfield; was captain in the thirteenth company, Colonel David Field's (Fifth Hampshire) regiment, commissioned May 3, 1776, and was at Ticonderoga in 1777; also captain in Colonel David Well's regiment in Burgoyne campaign. He removed from Groton to Deerfield and thence in 1767 to Shelburne, Massachusetts. He married, July 12, 1756, Dorothy Stebbins, died October 5, 1820, aged eighty-two years. Children, born at Deerfield and Shelburne: I. Oliver, De- cember 15, 1757. 2. Solomon, May 23, 1759; died August 20, 1762. 3. John, 1766; mar- ried, March 29, 1786, Hannah Wells. 4. Dorothy, baptized 1766, married, 1787, Abel Wilder. 5. Hannah, died February 12, 1766. ยท 6. Lawrence, mentioned below. 7. Mehitable, born August 9, 1779.
Dorothy (Stebbins) Kemp, wife of Captain Lawrence Kemp, was born January 6, 1738, daughter of John and Hannah (Allen) Steb- bins, granddaughter of John and Dorothy ( Alexander). John Stebbins, born January 28, 1647, died December 19, 1724, served in King Phillip's war under Captains Lothrop and Mosely, and was only survivor of Bloody Massacre, son of John Stebbins, born 1626,
died March 9, 1679, and grandson of the im- migrant Riwaland Stebbins (see Stebbins). Dorothy (Alexander) Stebbins was born about 1660, daughter of John and Beatrice Alexander, and granddaughter of the immi- grant, John Alexander, who came from Scot- land before 1640. Hannah (Allen) Stebbins, born February 12, 1698-99, daughter of Ed- ward Allen, born May 1, 1663, died Novem- ber 24, 1683, married Mary Painter, February 10, 1740, and granddaughter of Edward Allen Sr., 1663, died November 21, 1696, married November 24, 1658, Sarah Kimball, daughter of Richard Kimball, the immigrant (see Kim- ball).
(VI) Lawrence (2), son of Lawrence (1) Kemp, was born at Shelburne, Massachu- setts, March 3, 1776. He settled in Shel- burne, and died there August 3, 1821. He married, October 9, 1799, Mehitable Ellis, of Buckland, Massachusetts, daughter of Ben- jamin and Lois (Mann) Ellis, granddaughter of Reuben and Mehitable (Scott) Ellis, and also of Thomas Mann (3), Samuel (2), Wil- liam (1). Benjamin Ellis, born May 7, 1751, was son of Reuben Ellis, born November 5, 1728, died April 21, 1786, of Ashfield and Sunderland, Massachusetts ; married Mehita- ble Scott, born May 3, 1722, daughter of Richard Scott and Elizabeth (Belding) Scott. Elizabeth (Belding) born December 28, 1658, died October 6, 1720, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Wells) Belding, granddaughter of Samuel and Mary Belding, and grandson of Richard Belding (see Belding). Reuben El- lis was son of Richard Ellis, the first settler of Ashfield, Massachusetts, and his wife Jane, daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth (Drake) Phillips, granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Packer) Phillips, and great granddaughter of Richard Phillips. Eliza- beth Drake was daughter of Thomas Drake ; Richard Scott was son of William and Han- nah (Allis) Scott, grandson of William and Mary Allis, of Hatfield.
Children of Lawrence and Mehitable (El- lis) Kemp, was born in Deerfield: I. Sum- ner, born February 12, 1800; died at sea on a whaling voyage. 2. Lawrence, born Sep- tember 21, 1802, mentioned below. 3. Abner, born February 12, 1804; went west. 4. John Stebbins, born February 6, 1806; died in Heath. 5. Lucinda, born January 25, 1808; married, October 18, 1827, Orin Dole. 6. Benjamin Ellis, born December 9, 1810; mar- ried Sarah W. Eddy, November 28, 1834. 7. Joseph, born August 30, 1813; lived at Ann
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Arbor, Michigan. 8. Noah C., born Febru- ary 16, 1817 ; died unmarried, at Coleraine.
(VII) Lawrence (3), son of Lawrence (2) Kemp, was born in Deerfield, September 21, 1802, died July 14, 1850, aged forty-seven years, seven months and twenty-two days. He married Mary, daughter of Enos and Lu- cretia (Clark) Stewart ; she died in Needham, December 13, 1885. Children : I. Mary Ann, born January 4, 1831; married, October 6, 1852, Asahel G. Matthews, son of Silas and Hannah (Gilbert) Matthews; children: i. Mary Ella; ii. Anna Lizzie; iii. Florence Maria, married, September 14, 1882, Harry Gaylord Collins and has two children: Hazel G. and Frances M. Collins. 2. Sumner, born February 6, 1833; married, December 25, 1856, Hannah Button ; children : Eva, Cora, Mary, a son died young and Charles Kemp. 3. Horace, born August 17, 1835, mentioned below. 4. Lucretia, born March 24, 1838; married Eben Phelps ; died in Needham, De- cember 7, 1891. 5. Charles S., born August 4, 1840; died in Coleraine, November 12, 1862, unmarried. 6. Ann Jeannette, born February 10, 1845; died July 31, 1845. 7. Elsie Cordelia, born July 20, 1847; died in Springfield, Massachusetts, September 14, 1865.
(VIII) Horace, son of Lawrence (3) Kemp, was born at Shelburne, August 17, 1835. He was educated in the public schools, and has been engaged in farming in Coleraine. He married, April 22, 1858, Eliza Ann, daughter of Walter and Salome (Shepardson) Bell (see Bell, III). Children: 1. Elsie, born at Ley- den, March 18, 1859; married, December 20, 1874, M. Dayton Miner, son of Cyrus and Freelove (Packard) Miner ; he is a carpenter and builder at Leyden; children: i. Arthur Horace Miner, born April 21, 1876, at North Adams, Massachusetts ; married, October 7, 1900, Bertha Mayor Packard, daughter of Davis Hayward and Frances La Von (Tyler) Packard; children: a. Kenneth Packard Miner, born at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, September 1, 1901 ; b. Arthur Dayton Miner, born at Atlantic, Massachusetts, December 7, 1903 ; c. Winchester Rutledge Miner, born at Yonkers, New York, January 28, 1907 ; d. Margaret Miner, born at Yonkers, New York, October 13, 1909. ii. Annie Vesta Miner, born at Leyden, August 4, 1878 ; mar- ried, February 2, 1898, George Deane Bol- ton, a farmer of Leyden ; child: Charles Bell Bolton, born October 24, 1900. iii. Homer Dayton Miner, born at Leydon, July 7, 1886. iv-27
2. Ida Grace, born at Coleraine, May 31, 1861 ; married, March 13, 1881, Charles Dew- ey Miner, a farmer of Coleraine, son of Whit- man Miner; child: Mavie Lucretia Miner, born at Coleraine, August 12, 1884; married Thomas White, April 27, 1901. 3. Walter Horace, born at Coleraine, July 2, 1863; a prosperous farmer of his native town; he is a member of the board of selectmen and is prominent in the affairs of the town; he was assessor for many years and a member of the school board; married Mae Sophia Mar- tin, daughter of William and Ellen (Shep- ardson) Martin; children : i. Bessie Mae, born June 22, 1883 ; ii. George Walter, bor11 July 25, 1884; iii. Howard Martin, born Jan- uary 8, 1887; iv. Nellie Martiel, born Janu- ary 21, 1896. 4. William Sumner, born No- vember 16, 1870, mentioned below. 5. Har- vey Lawrence, born at Coleraine, December 3, 1883.
(IX) William Sumner, son of Horace Kemp, was born in Coleraine, November 16, 1870, on the old Walter Bell homestead. He attended the public schools of his native town and the Powers Institute at Bernardston, Mas- sachusetts, where he was graduated in the class of 1889, of which he was president. During his youth he worked on his father's farm. In the winter of 1889-90 he taught school in the south district of Leyden and re- turned to farming in the spring. In August, 1890, he went to Grand Island, Nebraska, as messenger in the office of the Grand Island Banking Company, and from time to time was promoted. At the end of three years he re- signed the position of assistant teller in this bank to accept a position as messenger in the Brookline National Bank of Brookline, Mas- sachusetts, September 1, 1893, but immediate- ly afterward was made bookkeeper, and Janu- ary I, 1894, teller. He continued in this office until November 2, 1898, when he became the cashier. After six years he resigned as cashier of this bank to accept the responsible office of treasurer of the Holtzer-Cabot Elec- tric Company of Brookline, and he has con- tinued with this concern, of which he is also secretary and director of the corporation, to the present time. The company manufactures electric motors, telephones and electrical ap- paratus. The home office and factory is at Brookline, Massachusetts, the Chicago office at 395-97 Dearborn street. He was active in organizing the Brookline Co-operative Bank and has been secretary, treasurer and vice- president and is still a member of the board of
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directors. He is master of Bethhoren Lodge of Free Masons. In religion he is Unitarian and in politics Republican. He has never mar- ried.
The Bell family of this sketch is
BELL of very ancient Scotch ancestry. Before the year 1300 the family was established in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and there flourished for many generations. It is reputed to be of Anglo-Norman origin and the surname is thought to have been from the French Bel. A branch of this family settled in Ireland when King James colonized the north of Ireland with Scotch Presbyterians and English Episcopalians in 1610 and later. The first of the name found on the Irish rec- ords was Andrew Bell, a tenant of John Hamilton, who had a grant of five hundred acres in 1619 in the precinct of Fewes, county Armagh, Ireland. There may have been oth- ers of the Bell family, coming later, or he may have been the progenitor of all the family which is still numerous in that section of Ire- land. In the counties of Armagh, ' Antrim, Down and Tyrone, all of Ulster there were one hundred and sixty-nine births in the Bell families, indicating a population in this com- paratively small territory of 7,500 of the name of Bell, and establishing the standing of the family as one of the most numerous of Scotch- Irish families in Ireland. Several of the fam- ily came to New England from the Scotch counties of Ireland in 1719 and during the years following when the Scotch-Irish were seeking homes in this country in large num- bers.
John Bell, progenitor of the ninth, thirteenth and forty-first governors of New Hampshire, was born in the vicinity of Coleraine, prob- ably in the parish of Ballymony, county An- trim, Ireland, in 1678, and died in London- derry, New Hampshire, July 8, 1743, aged sixty-four years. He was not of the first com- pany of Scotch-Irish who founded Nutfield, now Londonderry, New Hampshire, in April, 1719, but he was there in 1720, and received a grant of sixty acres in the Aiken Range, where he and his son John afterward lived. He returned to Ireland in 1722, having cleared his farm and prepared a house, and brought his wife and two surviving daughters, two of his children having died in infancy. He was a useful and respected citizen and held vari- ous offices. He drew lands amounting in all to three hundred acres. He married in Ire- land, Elizabeth Todd, daughter of John and
Rachel (Nelson) Todd, sister of Colonel An- drew Todd. She died August 30, 1771, aged eighty-two years. Children: I. Samuel, born September 28, 1723; removed to Cambridge, New York. 2. Letitia, married Deacon George Duncan. 3. Naomi, married Captain William Duncan. 4. Elizabeth, married James Duncan. 5. Mary, married George Duncan. 6. John, married Mary Ann Gilmore.
William Bell, of Palmer, Massachusetts, said to be John's son by the history of Palmer, married Elizabeth and had a large family of children between 1736 and 1757. The list of children as given above is on the au- thority of Parker's history of Londonderry. If William were a son of John, Thomas, men- tioned below, may be also. Both were certain- ly related to the Londonderry settler very closely. Many of the Londonderry people came to Palmer and Colerain to settle.
(I) Thomas Bell, immigrant ancestor, son or nephew of John Bell, mentioned above, was born in Ireland, doubtless at Ballymony, near Coleraine, county Antrim, in 1717. He died September 1, 1789, aged seventy-two, at Cole- raine, Massachusetts. He married in Boston, October 18, 1743, Esther Bell, sister of James, who was cousin of Thomas Bell. She died at Coleraine, April 17, 1782, aged sixty-five years. The history of East Boston by Somers states that he went to Derry (Londonderry), New Hampshire, and afterward lived at Rox- bury, Massachusetts. There was another family of this name at Roxbury and another Thomas Bell of about the same age. The two may readily be confused. But we know that Thomas Bell who went to Coleraine and was related to the Scotch-Irish Bells of New Hampshire was the lessee of Noddles Island in Boston Harbor. This lease was executed November 4. 1760, by Thomas Bell and Sam- uel Cochran. Bell sold his moiety to his son- in-law, Henry Howell Williams, June 1, 1763. Cochran died May 9, 1763, and the island was leased to Bell and Williams, November 15, 1764. This lease came into the possession of John Avery, of Lowell, Massachusetts, who gave it to Harvard College library. The his- tory of Coleraine informs us that Thomas and William Bell came to Coleraine from Rox- bury. Presumably this William is the same mentioned above, called a son of Jolin Bell, of Londonderry, but possibly a nephew and very likely a brother of Thomas. Thomas Bell had a lot of land in the second division of Cole- raine in 1751, but it was after 1765 when he
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came there with his family and settled perma- nently.
The inventory of his estate was filed at Northampton, October 23, 1789. Three Scotch neighbors, Hugh McClellan, Jonathan McGee and William Caldwell, were appraisers. It shows only his personal estate. As he left no will he doubtless deeded his lands to his sons. He was a delegate to the provincial congress in 1775. Much information about the chil- dren of Thomas has been gleaned from the will of his son James, who bequeathed to his wife and brothers and sisters, having no issue. To his wife James bequeathed land he pur- chased of Samuel Cochran in 1786 and land he bought of Thomas Bell (his father) in 1763, the latter being his homestead. He own- ed the farm on which his brother Thomas lived, and gave him a life interest in it. He gave a similar interest to his brother Walter and sisters Elizabeth Williams and Polly Mathews in other lands. All his property was in Coleraine. After the death of his brothers and sisters, he provided that the estate should be equally divided among their children. The will was dated March 9, 1791, and proved December 4, 1798.
Children of Thomas Bell : I. Polly, married John Mathews and lived at Coleraine. 2. James, married Margaret ---; died 1798 ; left no children (see will mentioned above). 3. Thomas, born 1750; soldier in the revolu- tion from Coleraine from 1775 to 1780 almost continuously ; in 1780 gave his age as thirty years; height, five feet, five inches; com- plexion, ruddy. 4. Walter, born May 18, 1759; mentioned below. 5. Elizabeth, mar- ried Henry Howell Williams, son of Joseph (Joseph 3, Stephen 2, Robert I Williams of Roxbury) of Noddles Island and Coleraine.
(II) Walter, son of Thomas Bell, was born May 18, 1759, according to a family Bible. He died December 12, 1851. He married Sal- ly Bell, daughter of James and Sally (Crouch) Bell. She was born September 8, 1763, ac- cording to the same Bible. She may have been descended from the English family of Bells, mentioned above, though she is said to have been a cousin of her husband. She died August 10, 1848, aged eighty-five years. Walter Bell was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Hugh McClellan's com- pany of Coleraine, Colonel David Wells's regiment, from September 22, to October 18, 1777, in the northern army. He lived at Coleraine. In the census of 1790 he had two sons under sixteen and six females in his
family. His brother Thomas had three sons under sixteen and five females in his family. His brother James had three sons over six- teen, one under that age, and three females in his family.
Children of Walter and Sarah Bell: I. Pa- tience, born February 24, 1780. 2. Elizabeth, April 5, 1782. 3. Margaret, February 27, 1784. 4. Sarah, July 3, 1786; married
Prouty ; she died September 2, 1829. 5. Thomas, March 31, 1788, died October 2, 1815, aged twenty-seven years, five months, twenty-eight days. 6. Harriet, February I, 1790. 7. Walter Jr., December 15, 1792, mentioned below. 8. James, May 8, 1795; married, March 15, 1821, Sarah Stedman, daughter of Philemon and Sarah Stedman. 9. Henry W., July 2, 1798. 10. Nancy, June I, 180-, II. John A., May 17, 1807-08; mar- ried, May 21, 1826, Desire Mixter, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Mixter; wife died September 25, 1830, aged twenty-four. 12. William, January 27, 1810; married Mary Coolidge.
(III) Walter (2), son of Walter (I) Bell, was born in Coleraine, December 15, 1792. This record and those given of his father's family are from a family Bible now in the possession of Grace Dunnells. He married, December 16, 1821, Salome Shepardson, daughter of Joseph Shepardson. She was born August 26, 1803, died August 1, 1882. Children: I. Joseph Shepardson, born June 4, 1823. 2. Sarah Survier, December 17, 1824, died June II, 1825. 3. Mary Sophia, April 19, 1826-27. 4. James Packer, October 27, 1828. 5. Augustus Warren, December 12, 1832. 6. Eliza Ann, June 7, 1835 ; mar- ried Horace Kemp (see Kemp, VIII). 7. Harriet Gertrude, August 31, 1844.
The name Newcomb is said NEWCOMB to be of Saxon origin, "Combe" signifying a low situation, a vale, a place between two hills. Newcome is defined by Hallowell as "strang- ers newly arrived", but the family of this name, who trace back to Hugh Newcome, of Saltfleetby, county Lincoln, in the reign of Richar Coeur de Lion, (1189-92) are not parvenues in this or any other sense. The name is doubtless the same as Newcombe, though the locality from which it is derived is unknown. In early records in this country the name is found written Newcom, Newcome, Newcomb, Newcombe, Newcum, Newkum, Newkom, Newckum, Nucom, Nuccome, Nu-
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comb, Nuccombe, Nucum, etc., in some in- stances in two or more ways in the same doc- ument. Now it is usually spelled Newcomb. The records of baptisms, marriages, etc., at Saltfleetby, where the family has been seated seven hundred years, begin in 1558, and are written in Latin. In these records the name is written Newcomen.
(I) Captain Andrew Newcomb, progenitor of the largest branch of the family in Amer- ica, tradition says, emigrated from the west of England, perhaps Devonshire or Wales. First mention of him was made in 1663, in Boston, Massachusetts, when he married his second wife, Grace, widow of William Rix (or Ricks). He was a mariner or sea captain, and it is probable that this had always been his occupation. In 1679 he was "Master of ye Sloope Edmund and Martha", then in New York, bound for "Boston in New Eng," prob- ably from Virginia, a part of his cargo being tobacco. Suffolk deeds contain a copy of an agreement dated February 14, 1672, in which Andrew Newcomb and wife Grace are to enjoy during life the old dwelling house, "now in the tenure and occupation of the said New- comb", formerly of William Ricks, deceased. Andrew Newcomb signed his name both New- comb and Newcombe. His will, dated Janti- ary 31, 1682-83, entered December 9, 1686, be- queathed to wife, daughter Grace Buttler, grandson Newcomb Blake, and others. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Andrew, born about 1640; mentioned below. 2. Susannah, mar- ried Philip Blake, of Boston; second, Prichett, or Pritchard. Child of second wife: 3. Grace, born October 20, 1664, in Boston ; married James Butler; (second) April 15, 1692, Andrew Rankin.
(II) Lieutenant Andrew (2), son of Cap- tain Andrew (I) Newcomb, was born prob- ably in England, about 1640. He was doubt- less living at or near the isle of Shoals in 1666. The earliest record of his purchase of land in this country bears date April 20, 1669, in which it appears that Andrew Newcomb of Kittery, York county, Maine, fisherman, bought a house in Kittery and six acres of land ; sold this July 7, 1674, to John Cutt, of Portsmouth. The place is still in Kittery, about half a mile north of Portsmouth, and is owned and occupied (1874) by Miss Sally Carter. Andrew Newcomb was constable in 1671, at the isle of Shoals. He removed about 1675, and settled in Edgartown, Massachu- setts, where he was a proprietor, and at vari- ous times received shares in the division of
lands in the town. He served as juror several times; constable 1681 ; selectman 1693; over- seer 1693 ; assessor 1695. He was chosen lieu- tenant April 13, 1691, and the same year was in command of the fortification. He owned the land on which the court house now stands, in the village of Edgartown. He died some- time between March 7, 1703-04, and October 22, 1708. He married (first) about 1661, Sarah , died about 1674; (second) in 1676, in Edgartown, Anna Bayes, born about 1658, daughter of Captain Thomas and Anna (Baker) Bayes. She survived her husband about twenty-five years, dying in 1731, aged about seventy-three. Children of first wife: I. Simeon, born about 1662; sometimes also written Simon; resided in Eastham, now Truro, Massachusetts. 2. Andrew, born about 1664; died June, 1687. 3. Simon, born 1666; mentioned below. 4. Thomas, born about 1668; married Elizabeth Cook. 5. Sarah, born about 1670; married, January 9, 1690- 91, Joshua Conant. 6. Mary, or Mercy, born about 1672; married, October 4, 1694, Cap- tain Thomas Lumbert, of Barnstable. 7. Peter, born about 1674; married Mercy Smith. Children of second wife: 8. Anna, born 1677 ; married Lieutenant Matthew Mayhew, of Edgartown; died April 16, 1723. 9. Eliza- beth, born about 1681; married, March 5, 1699-1700, Captain John Atkins, of Eastham. IO. Joseph, born 1683; married Joyce Butler. II. Emblem, born about 1685; married, April 8, 1703, Samuel Atkins. 12. Tabitha, born about 1688; married Peter Ray. 13. Hannah, born about 1694; married, October 14, 1714, Thomas Dumary. 14. Zerviah, born 1698- 99; married, November 2, 1716, Josiah Bearse. 15. Mary, born about 1700; married, June 13, 1728, Jonathan Pease, of Edgartown.
(III) Simon, son of Andrew (2) Newcomb, was born about 1666, probably at Kittery, Maine. He went with his parents to the Isle of Shoals, and thence to Edgartown, where he lived until 1713, removing then to Leba- non, Connecticut, where he lived until his death, January 20, 1744-5, in his seventy- ninth year. He was a proprietor of Edgar- town, and owned several shares in the island of Chappaquiddick, where he kept large num- bers of cattle and sheep. He owned land in Tisbury, and his name appears frequently in real estate transactions there, and a path there is still known as "Simon Newcomb's Path." His first purchase of land at Leba- non was of Mary and Israel Phelps, Septem- ber 26, 1711, about 160 acres on the east side
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of the town, with buildings, orchards, gar- dens, fences, fencing stuff and fruit trees thereon, also fifty acres common right, and thirty acres common at the village. The farm is situated on the south side of Windham road, near Phelps Hill. He took the free- man's oath at Lebanon, and was elected high- way surveyor in 1714; grand juryman 1718; fence viewer 1741 ; appointed guardian to Ca- leb Jones in 1721 ; was also a member of var- ious committees on town affairs. His will was dated July 23, 1741, and recorded March 17, 1745. He died January 20, 1744-5, in his seventy-ninth year. He married Deborah -, who died June 17, 1756, in her ninety- second year. Their graves are marked by stones. Children: I. John, born about 1688- 9; married Alice Lumbert. 2. Thomas, born 1691-2; married (first) Eunice Manning ; (second) Judith Woodworth. 3. Hezekiah, born 1693-4; mentioned below. 4. Obadiah, born 1695; married (first) Abigail ; (second) MIrs. Mary Post. 5. Deborah, born 1696-7 ; married Captain Timothy Hatch. 6. Sarah, born about 1698; married, January 13, 1719-20, Ebenezer Nye. 7. Benjamin, born about 1700; married Hannah Clark. 8. Elizabeth, born 1701-2; married, April 20, 1721, Ebenezer Wright. 9. Simon, born about 1705 ; married (first) Jerusha Lathrop; (second) Jane Worth.
(IV) Hezekiah, son of Simon Newcomb, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, in 1693-4, and removed at the age of ten with his parents to Lebanon, Connecticut. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, probably at New London, where he joined the church and was baptized December 25, 1716. At the time of his marriage he settled in Lebanon, and was admitted to the church March 22, 1719, his wife on November 20, 1720. He took the freeman's oath and held various town offices. He made no less than twelve purchases of land in Lebanon, and also became a proprietor of the town of Fall- town, now Bernardstown, Massachusetts, which he deeded to his grandson Hezekiah Newcomb, of Lebanon, for good-will and ef- fection. He never lived there, though his sons Silas and Peter were there four or five years. Later some of his grandsons settled there. He was a very pious man, and said to have been a deacon in the church. It is re- lated that Submit (Downer) Newcomb, wife of his son James, said that "during the whole time of her having ten children in his (Heze- kiah's) house, she never heard him speak an
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