Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 2

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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DEANE John Deane, immigrant ances- tor, was born in 1600, in Eng- land and died April 25, 1660. His will was proved June 7, 1660. He set- tled in Taunton, Massachusetts, and was ad- mitted a freeman of Plymouth colony Decem- ber 4, 1638. His wife Alice survived him and was living in 1668. Children: 1. John, men- tioned below. 2. Thomas, married, January 5, 1669, Katherine Stephens. 3. Israel, lieu- tenant in King Philip's war; died 1677. 4. Issac, of Taunton ; married, January 24, 1677, Hannah Leonard. 5. Nathaniel, died s. p., 1666-67. 6. Elizabeth, born about 1650; died 1734 ; married Josiah Edson.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Deane, was born about 1637, and died at Taunton, February 18, 1677. He resided at Taunton, and tradition says that he was the first white child born in Taunton. He is buried on Sum- mer street, Taunton. He married, November

7, 1663, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Samuel Edson, of Bridgewater, who probably sur- vived him. Children: I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, born November 9, 1668; married Major Jonathan Howard. 3. John, born July 26, 1670; died August 6, 1670. 4. Mehitable, born October 9, 1671 ; married Jo- seph Wilbore. 5. John, born September 18, 1674 ; died July 31, 1724. 6. Elizabeth, born March 15, 1676; died unmarried, March 15, 1749. 7. Mary, born July 15, 1680; married Seth Williams. 8. Susanna, born August 13, 1683 ; died unmarried, 1716. 9. Israel, born August 4, 1685; married Katherine Bird.

(III) Samuel, son of John (2) Deane, was born January 24, 1666-67, and died October I, 1731. He settled in Taunton, and was dea- con of the church there. He married Sarah , who survived him and died "before midnight" October 15, 1741, in her seventy- fourth year. Children : I. Sarah, born Oc- tober 15, 1694; died young. 2. Bethiah, born January 7, 1697; died October 12, 1778; mar- ried Samuel Clapp. 3. Samuel, born October 17, 1700; married Mary Avery, Rachel Dwight, and Margaret King. 4. William, mentioned below. 5. Nathan, died July II, 1741 ; married Elizabeth Nicholson. 6. Isaac, died April 27, 1734; unmarried, in his twenty- eighth year.

(IV) William, son of Samuel Deane, was born August 19, 1702, and died October 26, 1773. He married Esther Avery, born Att- gust 7, 1704, died May 9, 1773, daughter of William Avery. He built a house in Mans- field (then Norton and originally Taunton) and at last accounts it was still standing and occupied. He was at Mansfield some time be- fore he removed his wife and family thither, and one of his letters written while he was pre- paring the homestead is extant. He moved his wife and goods to his new home on a hand-sled. A pair of spectatcles made for him in 1749 is preserved by descendants. He was a farmer and useful citizen. Children : I. Isaac, born May 8, 1734. 2. William, De- cember 7, 1736. 3. Esther, September 19, 1738. 4. John, March 21, 1739-40 ; mentioned below. 5. May, born October 31, 1741. 6. May, May II, 1743. 7. Margaret, March 16, 1745-46.

(V) John (3), son of William Deane, (sometimes spelled Dean), was born in Nor- ton, March 21, 1739-40. He was a soldier in the revolution, from Mansfield, Massachu- setts, ensign in Captain Abel Clapp's company, Colonel John Daggett's regi-

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ment. in April, 1775; also first lieu- tenant in Captain Abel Clapp's com- pany (third), Colonel John Daggett's regi- ment (Fourth Bristol county ), 1776, serving in the Rhode Island campaign; also in Cap- tain Josiah Keith's company, Colonel Dag- gett's regiment, in Rhode Island, 1778, and in Captain Isaac Hodge's company, Colonel John Hathaway's regiment, at Little Comp- ton. Rhode Island, 1779. He was captain of the Third company, Colonel Dean's ( Fourth Bristol county ) regiment, and in Colonel Isaac Dean's regiment in the Rhode Island cam- paigns in 1780. He was a farmer in Mans- field and a prominent citizen. He married at Norton, September 19. 1769. Children, born at Mansfield : I. Rev. Samuel, of Scituate, Massachusetts ; graduate of Brown Univer- sity, 1805; died August 9, 1834, aged fifty ; pastor of Second Church of Scituate twenty- four years ; married Stella Washburn, daugh- ter of Hon. Seth, of Raynham ; an authority on colonial history, author of "History of Scituate". 2. Jacob, lived in house built by his father ; married Mehitable Reed. 3. John, mentioned below.

(VI) John (4). Deane, son of John (3) Deane. was born in Mansfield, June 4, 1774. and died at Norton January 7. 1841. He was of Mansfield when he married, April 4, 1811, Elizabeth Carpenter, born March 9, 1785, died March 18, 1832. He settled at Norton. Chil- dren. born at Norton: I. John Jr., February 28, 18II : of Dedham, master of transportation of Taunton branch railroad. 2. Maria, born October 25. 1813. 3. Isaac, March 28, 1815. 4. Elizabeth, December 23, 1816. 5. Oliver, Tune II. 1818; mentioned below. 6. Pliny, November 17, 1819. 7. Calvin, February 17, 1821. 8. Cornelia. October 10, 1822. 9. La- prelate. April 9, 1824.

(VII) Oliver. son of John (4) Dean (or Deane), was born at Norton, June II, 1818. He was educated in the public schools. He located in Canton. Massachusetts, where he bought a coal and ice business which he con- ducted until his death, and was numbered among the leading and most progressive and successful merchants of the town. He was interested in town affairs but never sought or accepted public office. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a Unitarian. He mar- ried. at Norton, January 21, 1844. Eliza Hunt, born 1821, died March 23, 1907, daughter of Oliver Hunt.

(VIII) Edgar Hunt, only child of Oliver Deane. was born October 22, 1846, at Canton,

and was educated there in the public schools. He was associated from youth with his father in the coal and ice business, and succeeded to his father's large property and business inter- ests. Under his ownership and management- the business has continued to grow and flour- ish. Mr. Deane is one of the leading business men of this section, upright in his dealings, of sound judgment and large influence in the community. He lends his aid, influence, time and money freely in the public interests, but has declined public office and honors. He is a member of no secret orders or clubs, and de- votes his time almost wholly to his business and domestic affairs. He married, October 12, 1873, Abbie Mayhew (Mereen) Flynn, born at Whitneyville, Maine, June 17, 1849, daughter of John and Lucy Ann ( Mayhew) Mereen. Her father was of French descent, the sur- name Morin, having been anglicized to Me- reen, and was born in 1805, at Kennebec, Maine, died in 1893, at the age of eighty-eight years. Her mother, Lucy Ann Mayhew, born 1819, at East Machias, Maine, died 1862, at Whitneyville, Maine, was of an old New Eng- land family ; children : Lorenzo Mereen; Hel- en Mereen, married Jerome Berry; Abbie Mayhew Mereen, mentioned above; Augusta Mereen, married Edward Getchell; Orin Mereen : Arno Mereen. Mr. Mereen kept a small store and dealt in lumber. His father, John Mereen, was a resident of Bath, Maine, and died there; married Rebecca Chandler. Abbie Mayhew Mereen married (first ) Charles Flynn, born October 23, 1840, at Searsport, Maine, died in 1872, in Colorado. They had one child, Mereen Chester Flynn, born Octo- ber 23, 1870, at Sauk Rapids, legally adopted by her second husband.

Children of Edgar H. and Abbie M. Deane : I-2. Eliza Bell and Oliver Lewis (twins) born January 26, 1883, at Dedham ; Eliza Bell mar- ried July 15, 1908, Harold Randolph Webb, M. D., of Arlington, Massachusetts; child, Frank W. Webb, born April 26, 1909. Oliver Lewis died at the age of six months.

This surname is derived, NICKERSON as are the names Nichol- son, Nickson, Nixon, etc., from the christian name Nicholas. The fam- ily is very numerous on Cape Cod, and nearly all, if not all, persons of the name of Nicker- son are descended from the immigrant an- cestor mentioned below.

(I) William Nickerson, immigrant ances- tor, a weaver by trade, was born in England

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in 1604, and came from Norwich, England, in April, 1637, with his wife Anne and four children, sailing in the ship "John and Doro- thy," April 5, and landing in Boston June 20. He went to Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a freeman, May 2, 1638. Re- moving to Yarmouth about 1646, he was rep- resentative from that town to the general court of Plymouth Colony in 1655. He bought lands of the Indians at Manamoiet (Chatham) before December 1, 1663, settled there soon after, and passed the remainder of his life in that place, dying about 1690. His sons-in-law, Robert Eldred (Eldridge), Tris- tram Hedges and Nathaniel Covell, were in court with him October 31, 1666, on account of a letter he had written alleged to be de- faming Governor Hinckley. In those days freedom of speech was not a reality in the colonies. As his lands were purchased with- out the persmission of the authorities of Ply- mouth Colony he was engaged in long litiga- tion, but finally he was allowed his lands. He married Ann, eldest daughter of Nicholas and Bridget Busby, of Norwich, who came over in the same ship as the Nickersons. Ann was born about 1609; she received a legacy from her father in 1660. Children : I. Nicholas, mentioned below. 2. Robert. 3. Elizabeth, married, October, 1649, Robert Eldred. 4. Ann, married, October, 1657, "Trustrum" Hedges. 5. Samuel. 6. John. 7. William. 8. Sarah, married, about 1662, Nathaniel Covell. 9. Joseph.

(II) Nicholas, son of William Nickerson, was born in England about 1630. He settled permanently in Yarmouth, dying there March 26, 1681-82. He married Mary, probably daughter of John Derbe (Derby) one of the earliest settlers of Cape Cod. Children : I. Hester, born October, 1656; married Jonathan White, son of Peregrine, of Marshfield, Feb- ruary 2, 1682-83. 2. William, January 12, 1658. 3. Elizabeth, December, 1662 (single in May, 1706). 4. John, September 10, 1664; married Elizabeth Baker, of Yarmouth, Au- gust 14, 1696. 5. Mary, July 6, 1668; mar- ried Simon Crosby, of Harwich, August 27, 1601. 6. Sarah, May 1, 1674 ; married John Burgess. of Yarmouth, about 1694. 7. Pa- tience, April 3. 1682 (single in May, 1706).

(1!I) William (2), eldest son of Nicholas Nickerson, was born January 12, 1658. He was a "soldier of Yarmouth, Fourth Expedi- tion," 1675-76. He lived in Eastham till about 1696, then removed to Harwich. His wife, whom he married at Eastham, January 22,

1690, was Mary, daughter of Mark and Jane (Prence) Snow. Her ancestors included Gov- ernor Thomas Prence (Prince) and Stephen Hopkins of "Mayflower" fame. Children: I. Mercy, born March 17, 1691-92; married Jo- seph Johnson, April 1, 1714. 2. Nicholas, March 19, 1694-95. 3. Ebenezer, June 13, 1697. 4. Jane, April 6, 1699; married Judah Baker, of Yarmouth, June 18, 1724. 5. Mary, August 13, 1701 ; married James Hard- in, October 8, 1724. 6. Thankful, July 26, 1705; married Benjamin Burgess, June 15, 1727.

(IV) Ebenezer, son of William (2) Nick- erson, was born in Harwich, April 6, 1697. He married, October 13, 1726, Elizabeth Ma- yo, great-granddaughter of the Rev. John Ma- yo, the first minister of the Second Church in Boston, and a descendant of Major John Free- man, Governor Prence and Elder Brewster. They lived in that part of Harwich which in 1823 became the town of Brewster. He and his wife were admitted to the church March 24, 1727-28. He moved to Provincetown where tradition says he had the fourth house built : died there February 15, 1768. Children: I. Mary, born August 3, 1727 ; died young. Hannah, baptized November 17, 1728. 2. 3. Mary, baptized July 19, 1730. 4. Elizabeth, baptized August 13, 1732. 5. Seth, born Oc- tober 21, 1737. 6. Nathan, born November 25, 1739.

(V) Seth, son of Ebenezer Nickerson, was born in Harwich, October 21, 1737, and bap- tized two days later. Most of his life was passed in Provincetown. He married March 19, 1761, Mary Smith, of Chatham, a descend- ant of "Mayflower" stock. He married (sec- ond) Isabel (Eldridge) Dyer. He had sixteen children ; eight by each wife. The fourth child and second son was Ebenezer.

(VI) Ebenezer (2), son of Seth Nickerson, was born in Provincetown, August 17, 1768. He married (first) Salome Collins, who bore him five children, one son and four daughters. He married (second) Eudoxa White, daugh- ter of Thomas White and Prudence Hayward, who lived in Phillipston, Massachusetts, and were of Lexington-Concord stock. By her he had thirteen children, six sons (the youngest named Thomas White) and seven daughters. Ebenezer Nickerson was one of the leading merchants in Boston of his time, and had ex- tensive shipping interests. Freeman's History of Cape Cod says of him: "His almost fastid- ions candor, truthfulness, and honesty com- manded the confidence and respect of all who

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knew him. Perhaps few private citizens were more generally known, or indeed, more pro verbially esteemed as an upright, honest man, throughout New England.

(VII) Rev. Thomas White, son of Ebene- zer (2) Nickerson, was born in Boston, Janu- ary 6, 1826. In early life he was a merchant in Boston: in later life a clergyman of the Episcopal church in Massachusetts. He died November 14, 1905. He married, January 6, 1848, Martha Tillinghast, daughter of Stephen and Mary Smith (Barker) Westcott, and de- scended through Jeremiah, Samuel, Benjamin, Captain James and James, from Stukely West- cott. one of the original proprietors of Provi- dence, Rhode Island. Stephen Westcott was a prominent and highly successful merchant in Boston. Thomas White Nickerson had six children : I. Florence, died young. 2. Ger- trude, married Rev. Charles McIlvaine Nichol- son. 3. Archibald Stuart, married Hattie Bennett. 4. Stephen Westcott. 5. Thomas White. 6. Philip Tillinghast, married Grace Livermore Tobey.

(VIII) Rev. Thomas White (2), son of Rev. Thomas White (I) Nickerson, was born in Boston, June 25, 1858. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1876, and from Harvard College in 1880. He then entered the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City, graduating in 1884, and receiving his B. D. degree in 1886. He was ordained deacon, June 18, 1884, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Bishop Paddock, and ordained priest in New York City, May 31, 1885, by Bishop Henry C. Potter. From September, 1884, to June, 1887, Mr. Nickerson was assistant to the rector of Calvary Church, New York, Dr. Henry Y. Satterlee, later bishop of Washing- ton. From June, 1887, to June, 1895, he was rector of St. Paul's, Paterson, New Jersey, and this initial charge developed a capacity for large service. He early established a mis- sion (now St. Luke's), and after his congre- gation grew to unwieldy proportions, divided the parish, thus founding the present St. Mark's Church. During his ministry a new church site was purchased by St. Paul's and the initial work generally accomplished which resulted in the erection of one of the most beautiful church edifices in New Jersey. His next charge was the rectorship of the Church of the Messiah, Boston, where he remained from 1895 to 1898. In the spring of 1900 he was secured as rector of St. Stephen's, Pitts- field, which he has since served with beneficent

results to both congregation and community. His parish is in a most flourishing condition, and a recognized valuable factor in the moral uplift of the city. He has taken an especially active interest in the local Union for Home Work, serving as chairman of its executive committee. He is president of the standing committee of the Diocese of Western Massa- chusetts; a member of the Pittsfield Monday Evening and Park clubs, of the Colonial Wars and Mayflower societies of Massachusetts, and of the Harvard Club of New York. He married, January 10, 1888, Mary Louisa Hoff- man. Her father was the distinguished dean of the General Theological Seminary of New York. He has one son, Hoffman, born De- cember 6, 1888; a graduate of St. Mark's School, Southborough, now a student at Har- vard College.

JOHNSON The Johnson family settled early at Leominster, Worces- ter county, Massachusetts. Those who have been traced of these first set- tlers were descendants of John Johnson, who settled as early as 1635 at Ipswich, Massa- chusetts. He was a proprietor of that town, a shoemaker by trade. He bought land in 1654 in Ipswich, removing later to the ad- jacent town of Rowley. He deposed in 1671 that he was sixty-seven years old. He died January 29, 1685-86.

(I) Walker Johnson, doubtless a descend- ant, was born in Leominster, but removed when a young man to Westmoreland, New Hampshire. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was killed while at work in a saw mill in 1829. He married Philena Puffer, daughter of Benjamin and Sally (White) Puffer. (See Puffer, VI). Children : Lydia, Martin, Charles F., Lewis, Sarah, Benjamin Walker, mentioned below.

(II) Benjamin Walker, son of Walker Johnson, was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, December 6, 1828. He was edu- cated there in the public schools, and during his boyhood worked on his father's farm. He came to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in 1848, and found employment in a boot and shoe factory. He followed the trade of shoemaker there until he retired in 1900. He was a Re- publican in politics and for a number of years was on the Republican town committee. He married, in 1851, Eveline D., daughter of Aaron Read. She died October 14, 1895. Children: I. Mary Elizabeth, born October I, 1856. 2. Aaron L., March 19, 1860, men-

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tioned below. 3. Ellen B., March 15, 1862. 4. Charles, May 6, 1867.

(III) Aaron L., son of Benjamin Walker Johnson, was born March 19, 1860, in Hopkin- ton. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and began his business career as clerk in a drug store. In 1875 he became clerk in the office of a coal and lumber firm in Hopkinton and continued with the same con- cern for a period of twelve years. Then he came to Orange, Massachusetts, in 1887, and bought a grocery store, which he has con- ducted since then with uniform success. He served on the board of selectmen in Orange and has held other offices of trust and honor. In politics a Republican. He married, Febru- ary 23, 1888, Sarah L., born October 28, 1866, daughter of George W. and Lydia Brown. Children, born at Orange: I. Roland W., April 22, 1889. 2. Read, October 6, 1893. 3. Aaron W., August 22, 1897.

(The Puffer Line, see George Puffer 1).

(IV) William, son of Jabez Puffer, was born at Sudbury, February 25, 1720. He mar- ried, June 8, 1742, Abigail Treadway, born October 5, 1726, daughter of Benjamin Tread- way, of Framingham. Her father was a town officer from 1749 to 1753, and a farmer. Wil- liam Puffer settled in Framingham and died there in 1757. Children: I. Jabez, born at Sudbury, July 16, 1743, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, Sudbury, August 2, 1746. 3. Mary, Framingham, 1747; baptized November 29, 1747. 4. Thankful, Framingham, June 16, 1749 ; married John Mixer.

(V) Jabez (2), son of William Puffer, was born at Sudbury, July 16, 1743. He resided on the Amasa Kendall place in Framingham. He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Treadway) Morse. He removed to Dublin, New Hampshire. Children, born at Framingham : I. William, March 4, 1764 (non compos). 2. Benjamin, April 6, 1765, mentioned below. 3. Mary, July 22, 1766 (non compos). 4. Rachel, January 5, 1768. 5. John, April 26, 1769. 6. Nathan, baptized March 3, 1772; married Priscilla Hastings. 7. Abel, born February 20, 1774 (non com- pos). 8. Abigail, January 13, 1776. 9. Jona - than, April 27, 1777, died July 25 following. 10. Comfort, 1779, died November, 1803.

(VI) Benjamin, son of Jabez (2) Puffer, was born at Framingham, April 6, 1765. He went with his father's family to Dublin, New Hampshire, about 1772. He settled in West- moreland, New Hampshire, but removed to

Richford, Vermont, near the Canadian line, about 1813. He died at the home of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Nancy Rogers, in Westfield, Vermont, in 1859. He was a farmer. He married Sally White, who died in April, 1826. Children : I. Martin, born at Westmoreland. 2. Erasmus, Westmoreland, August II, 1793, died October 22, 1886. 3. Nancy, married Rogers and resided in Westfield, Ver- mont. 4. Philena, married Walker Johnson (see Johnson, I).

The name of Gibbs was well GIBBS known in England before the emigration of the Puritans to America. William Gibbs, of Lenharn, York- shire, England, for signal service received a grant from the King of England, embracing a tract of land four miles square in the centre of the town. Tradition says he had three sons, the eldest of whom inherited the pa- ternal estate and remained thereon; the younger sons learned the ship carpenter's trade, and on arriving at majority received funds from their elder brother, with which they came to Boston, Massachusetts, to es- tablish themselves in life. One of these was undoubtedly Matthew Gibbs, mentioned be- low. One tradition says that one settled on the Cape, and the other at Newport, Rhode Island.

(I) Matthew Gibbs, immigrant ancestor, was born in England. He settled in Charles- town, Massachusetts, where he was living in 1650-54. He removed in 1654 to Sudbury and settled at Lanham, where he had a grant of land in 1659, and other grants in 1670. In 1661 he bought of Thomas Reed Sr. one- third of a farm granted to Rev. Edmund Brown, near Doeskin Hill, and in 1673 and 1678 he bought more of the same farm. He also owned Gookin and How land east of Indian Head. He died before 1697. He mar- ried, about 1651, Mary, daughter of Robert Bradish. She was admitted to the Charles- town church, September 23, 1652. Children : I. Mary, born 1652; married (first) John Goodridge ; (second) Thomas Frost Sr. 2. Hannah, 1654; married Samuel Winch. 3. Mattlew, about 1655. 4. Thomas, December 17, 1656. 5. Elizabeth, 1658 ; married John Russell. 6. Thomas, April 10, 1660; died 1688. 7. John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Matthew Gibbs, lived at Lanham, and died there April 2, 1718. He married (first) Anna, daughter of Thomas Gleason. He married (second) May 31, 1694.

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Sarah Cutler, of Reading. Children: I. Thomas, born April 19, 1689, mentioned be- low. 2. Mercy or Mary, August 3, 1691; married, October 15, 1718, at Brookfield, James Eakins. 3. John. 4. Nathaniel, mar- ried Bathsheba Parmenter. 5. Isaac. 6. Sarah, December 6, 1701; married Daniel Winch. 7. Jacob. 8. Israel, July II, 1706; married Mary Hamilton. 9. Ephraim, died young.

(III) Thomas, son of John Gibbs, was born April 19, 1689. He built a house on the Dane or Chase place; removed later to Quabin. He settled in Brookfield and married (first) Hannah - , who died December 19, 1717. He married (second) April 13, 1719, Sarah Walcott. Child of first wife: I. Abigail, born December 5, 1717, died young, Children of second wife : 2. Abraham, born January 16, 1719-20; married Keziah Atwood. 3. Han- nah, September 13, 1722. 4. Isaac, Novem- ber 22, 1724. 5. Jacob, April 21, 1727. 6. John, May 13, 1729. 7. David, June 9, 1731. 8. Solomon, September 16, 1736. 9. Jesse, January 5, 1738. 10. Joshua, April 18, 1742. II. Joseph, mentioned below.

(IV) Joseph, son or nephew of Thomas Gibbs, lived in Brookfield, He married, at Southborough, August 23, 1754, Sarah Bruce. Joseph of Brookfield married, June 3, 1762, Anna Clark, of Spencer. Joseph of Mendon was a soldier in the revolution in Captain William Jennison's company on the Lexing- ton alarm, April 19, 1775. Children: I. Dan- iel, mentioned below. 2. Willard, had son Willard born before 1779, had guardian ap- pointed 1793 ; was then of Spencer. Probably others, perhaps in Mendon.

(V) Daniel, son of Joseph Gibbs, was born probably at Spencer about 1760. He was a morocco tanner by trade, and settled when a young man at Charlestown, Massachusetts. Later in life he turned his attention to farm- ing. He lived to an advanced age. He mar- ried and among his children was John, men- tioned below.

(VI) John, son or nephew of Daniel Gibbs, was born about 1780 in Charlestown. He re- moved to Thomaston, Knox county, Maine, and engaged in farming. Afterward he re- moved to Canada and died there. The widow of John Gibbs married a man by name of Hadley, of Winterport, and had one child, Tohn, whose children still reside at Winterport, Maine. Children of John Gibbs: I. Miriam, born 1804; married her stepbrother Aaron Hadley, and settled at Waldo, Maine. 2. John,

mentioned below. 3. Amos, born in Rockland, Maine, 1811-12.

(VII) John (2), son of John (I) Gibbs, was born in Thomaston in 1807. He attended the public schools there and chose the profes- sion of teaching and followed it for nineteen years. Afterward he was a builder and contrac- tor and built several large mills. He finally turned to farming and located at Washington, Knox county, Maine, where he died in 1890, aged eighty-three years. His wife, Lucy (Jack- son ) Gibbs, lived to the age of eighty-five. She was born in Warren, Maine, January 9, 1806, a daughter of William Jackson, whose wid- owed mother married a man by name of Standish ; she was the daughter of John Ding- ley. John Gibbs was a Republican, and held various offices of trust and honor. He was a useful citizen and was held in universal re- spect. He was liberal in religion, gentle and kindly in manner. Children: I. Prentice M., born March 19, 1833, in Warren, Maine. 2. Nathaniel, born January 9, 1835, in Union, Maine. 3. Omar, born in Washington, Maine, November 27, 1836, died from wounds re- ceived in front of Richmond, 1862; was lieu- tenant colonel in Georgia cavalry. 4. Locero J., born July 16, 1844, mentioned below. 5. Esther H., born October 14, 1848, died April 23, 1909 : was the wife of William G. Field, of New York City ; he died in 1905.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 2

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