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iel Langdon, mentioned below. II. Mary, November 23, 1856; married Frank Chase. 12. Augusta, April 5, 1858, wife of John S. Ricker, of Rochester, New Hampshire. 13. George Henry, September 9, 1859; lumber- man of Farmington, New Hampshire. 14. Clara, May 3, 1861, wife of George White- house, of Lovell, Maine. 15. Walter Seott, July 26, 1862 ; lumberman of Sandwich.
(XII) Daniel Langdon, fifth son of Daniel Tappan and fifth child of his second wife, Rhoda Rhoda Straw Hadley, was born May 16, 1855, in Sandwich, and was educated in the district schools and a private high school under Daniel D. Beede. In 1875, at the age of twenty years, he went to Arlington, Mas- sachusetts, and soon entered the employ of Boyd, Leeds & Company, wholesale groeers, of Boston, remaining there several years as clerk and salesman. He subsequently worked for the wholesale grocers, Moulton & Good- win, and next became traveling salesman for the firm of Sanborn & Parker, paekers of pickles and eanned goods, with stores in New York and Boston. He afterward traveled some years for the Central Park Pickle Com- pany of New York, his route extending over the greater part of the United States and Canada. In 1887 he decided to give up trav- eling and engage in the market gardening business in Arlington, where he has one of the largest and most flourishing establish- ments of the seetion. Mr. Tappan is also in- terested in the building of houses to let. He now owns the old Tappan homestead in Sandwich, formerly the Worthen farm, the property of his maternal great-grandfather, Amos Worthen. He attends the Arlington Baptist Church, and is a member of the so- eiety ; he served on the building committee of the church. In polities, he is a Republican. He belongs to the Arlington Boat Club, the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and the Boston Market Gardeners' Association. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Arlington. He mar- ried, December 22, 1884, at Arlington, Ethel Eugenia Fisher, born 26, 1861, at Arlington, a graduate of Radeliffe College, 1883. Their only child is Arthur Newell Tap- pan, born December 6, 1885. He was edu- cated in the schools of Arlington, graduating from the high school and subsequently from Bryant & Strattan's Commercial School of Boston. He then entered the wholesale dry goods house of Brown-Durrell Company of Boston, where he is now (1909) employed as
salesman. He is a member of Bethel Lodge, No. 12, I. O. O. F., of Arlington, and of Hi- ram Lodge, A. F. and A. M.
(For early generations see preceding sketch).
(VI) Lieutenant Jacob Tap-
TAPPAN pan, son of Abraham Tappan (Toppan) was born in 1645.
He lived in Newbury, in the house on "Top- pan's Lane", built for him by his father about 1670. He owned the large traet of land through which Toppan street, later called Toppan lane, was eut before 1650, and in 1694 he built the present house, long known as the old Toppan house. He left it to his son Abraham, who in turn bequeathed it to his son Edward and he to his son Enoeh. In Mr. Currier's "Ould Newbury" there is a picture of this aneient mansion. He was admitted a freeman May 23, 1677; was fenee viewer 1680-8; tithing man, 1687; seleetman, 1688, and perhaps other years. He was on a eom- mittee "to stint as to herbage" ( for eattle) elected January 21, 1701-02. He took the pre- seribed oath of fidelity to England, May 13, 1669. He was ensign in Captain Noyes's com- pany in 1683, and was under arms in the war in 1690, under Captain Daniel Pieree. He or his son Jacob was sergeant under Captain Caleb Moody, in 1708. He had the rank of lieutenant late in life. He married, August 24, 1670, Hannah, daughter of Henry Sewall. She died at York, Maine, November II, 1699, and he married (second) Hannah ( Fes- senden) Sewall, widow of his brother-in-law John Sewall. Judge Sewall, his brother-in- law, ealls him "cousin and brother" in his famous diary. He often mentions the arrival in Boston of some member of "Brother Jacob Tappan's family." He went to Ram's Island, May 12, 1716, "with Brother Tappan and Cap- tain Greenleaf ; dined at Brother Tappan's ; vis- ited my relations." He visited Tappan's home May 10, 1707, and laid the foundation of the meeting house at Pipe Staff Hill. Children of Jacob, by first wife: I. Jacob, born May 20, 1671 ; married Sarah Kant. 2. Samuel, born 1672: died 1691, of small pox. 3. Jane, born 1674. 4. John, 1677 ; married, 1704, Ju- dith Moody. 5. Hannah, born 1679. 6. Eliz- abeth, 1680: married, 1701, Cutting. 7. Abraham, 1684; mentioned below. 8. Anne, 1686; married, 1710, Nathaniel Rolfe.
(VII) Abraham, son of Jaeob Tappan, was born at Newbury, in 1684. He was in the famous military company which had to be provided with snow-shoes for fighting Indians
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in the winter of 1706. He married, October 21, 1713, Esther, daughter of Michael Wig- glesworth, widow of John Sewall. Children : I. Edward, born 1715; mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, 1718. 3. Patience, April 20, 1720. 4. Samuel, 1722. 5. Jacob, 1725. 6. Michael, 1727.
(VIII) Edward, son of Abraham Tappan, was born in Newbury, in 1715; married, Sep- tember 7, 1743, Sarah Bailey, of an old Essex county family. Children, born in Newbury : I. Abraham, 1744; married Sarah Parker. 2. Anna, 1746; died 1753. 3. Sarah, 1748; mar- ried Colonel Josiah Little. 4. Mary, born 1750; married Nathaniel Little. 5. Patience, 1752; married Moses Moody. 6. Edward,
1754; married Rachel Smith. 7. Joshua (twin) 1756; died 1780. 8. Stephen, twin with John ; married Edna Little. 9. Enoch, 1759; married (first) February 21, 1794; Mary Cof- fin; (second) August 19, 1797, Mary Merrill. IO. Anna, 1761 ; married Jonathan Harris. II. Abner, 1764; mentioned below. 12. Judith, 1768; married, December, 1791, Joseph Coffin ; their son Joshua Coffin was the distinguished historian of Newbury.
(IX) Abner, son of Edward Tappan, was born in 1764. He married, in 1791, Elizabeth Stanford. He was a cabinet maker and fol- lowed his trade in Newburyport, formerly Newbury, Massachusetts. He was indus- trious and frugal, enterprising in business, employing a number of apprentices and jour- neymen in his shop. He was well known and highly respected. The work of his hands is still to be found in the homes of the old fam- ilies of the city. Children, born at Newbury- port : I. Sophia, 1792; married Oliver Crocker. 2. William. 3. Abner, 1797; mar- ried, June 2, 1828, Ann C. Nestor. 4. Rich- ard S., 1800; lost at sea, 1817. 5. Elizabeth, 1802; married, 1820, James Ruggles. 6.
Arianne, 1804; married, 1839, Serena Davis. 7. George, mentioned below, born 1807. 8. Harriet, 1810; married John Paul J. Haskell, of Rochester, Massachusetts.
(X) George, son of Abner Tappan, was born at Newburyport, January 7, 1807. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive town, and learned the trade of cabinet maker of his father. He worked at his trade for a time, but was obliged to relinquish it, owing to the fact that his eyesight was affected by the dust from the cherry wood which was used extensively in his work. He removed to New Bedford about 1830 and opened a crockery store on Union street, and this was iv-29
the beginning of a large and lucrative busi- ness which he carried on all his life. By his thrift and energy he accumulated a compe- tency, and his store was considered the best of the kind in the city. About a year before his death he erected the building called China Hall, which was the best in New Bedford at that time, and removed his business there. During the last part of his life his health be- came impaired, and while en route for New York on the steamer "Metropolis", he was stricken with heart disease during a collision, and died August 15, 1857. Mr. Tappan was a selfmade man, of high character and pur- pose. He established a reputation for fair and honorable dealing in public and private life, and enjoyed the confidence of all who knew him. He always advocated right principles, and was not afraid to uphold what he be- lieved was right, even in the face of opposi- tion. In politics he was a Republican, and in religion a Unitarian. He married, at New- buryport, November 10, 1829. Serena Da- vis, born at Newburyport, January 17, 1808, died at Hyde Park, February 5, 1896, daugh- ter of Aaron and Sarah Moore (Smith) Da- vis. Her father was an apothecary and doc- tor in Newburyport. Children: I. George Aaron, born November 1, 1830; died Novem- ber 17, 1830. 2. Sarah Ann Davis, born Oc- tober 6, 1831 ; died December 13, 1893 ; mar- ried, January 22, 1857, William Crapo, of New Bedford ; had Henry H. Crapo, born De- cember 31, 1862, and Stanford T. Crapo, born June 13, 1865. 3. George Aaron, born Au- gust 29, 1832 ; died May 13, 1835. 4. Serena Davis, born June 18, 1834; died May II, 1838. 5. Charles A., born November 13, 1838; died September 26, 1839. 6. William Crocker, mentioned below.
(XI) William Crocker, son of George Tap- pan, was born at New Bedford, Massachu- setts, April 17, 1842. He attended the Friends' Academy, a private school then kept by Abner J. Phipps, and Mr. Gleason's pri- vate school, from which he graduated in 1857. He then entered his father's store as clerk to learn the business. After the death of his father the business passed into the hands of Henry J. Taylor, and William C. Tappan re- mained in the store about five years. He then went to Boston in the spring of 1861, and with Alfred Whitney as a partner bought out the interest of his brother Luther Whitney at 15 Winter street, who was engaged in the gas fixture business. The new firm was called Whitney & Tappan, and did a successful busi-
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ness for twelve years. At this time he sold his share in the business to his partner and became a partner in the commission house of Rawson & Company, glassware, where he re- mained a year. Under the firm name of Mel- len & Tappan he entered the fancy crockery business witht Moses Mellen, for four years, and then became a partner of George N. Sea- man in the business of Japanese fancy goods on Boylston street. Subsequently he was two years salesman of Jones, McDuffy & Strat- ton, and for ten years manager of the crock- ery department of the store of William H. Zinn. He made his home in Dorchester. He has since acted as clerk of the vaults with the International Trust Company, on Milk street. He has resided at 20 Albion street, Hyde Park, for the last fourteen years. In politics Mr. Tappan is a Republican, and he is a member of the First Unitarian Church at Hyde Park. He was a member of the Knights of Honor for nineteen years, and is now a member of the Boston Bank Officers' Association. He married, Septem- ber 16, 1868, at Boston, Adelina Isabella Baker, born August 19, 1846, daughter of Philander and Rosanna (Harding) Baker, of Boston. Children: I. George, born July 26, 1870; died November 5, 1870. 2. Sarah Crapo, born June 27, 1873; married (first) October 9, 1895, Guy Burton Carter, of Dor- chester, who died September II, 1896, son of Frank H. and Frances (Burton) Carter ; mar- ried (second) Richard Coe, of Durham, New Hampshire, son of Joseph W. and Harriet S. (Churchill) Coe, of Durham. 3. Harold Harding, born February 19, 1883; died July 4, 1883. 4. Stanford Davis, born August 12, 1885; graduate of Dartmouth College. 1908; mill agent with the Hyde & Company cotton commission house.
(For ancestry, see Robert Topham 1 .* )
(VII) Peter Toppan, son of TOPPAN Dr. Peter Toppan, was born December 22, 1667. He mar- ried, April 28, 1696, Sarah Greenleaf. Chil- dren, born at Newbury: I. Peter, February 2, 1698. 2. Timothy, February 2, 1698 (twin) ; mentioned below. 3. Jane, 1700; married Benjamin Knight Jr. 4. Elizabeth, 1702; married Samuel Todd. 5. Mary, 1704. 6. Richard, 1707; married Scott. 7. Hannah, 1710: married John Moody Jr.
(VIII) Timothy, son of
Peter Toppan,
was born at Newbury, February 2, 1698, and died there September 2, 1796, aged ninety- eight years seven months. He married (first) Eleanor Coffin, died July 25, 1749; (second) Jane Harriman. Children, born at Newbury, by first wife: I. Enoch, 1723; married Coleman. 2. Moses, mentioned below.
(IX) Moses, son of Timothy Toppan, lived in Newbury. He married (first) Mary Lunt, in 1754; (second) 1759, Anne Browne. Child of first wife, born in Newbury: I. Francis. Children of second wife: 2. Ben- jamin, born 1760; married, February 12, 1784, Mary Hidden; eleven children. 3. Joshua, born 1762; mentioned below. 4. Moses, born 1767.
(X) Joshua, son of Moses Toppan, was born in Newbury, in 1762, and died at New- buryport, September 4, 18II. He resided on the homestead, was educated in the common schools, and assisted his father in the farm. His farm was situated on Mulberry street, and he deeded it to his son Joshua. He owned valuable real estate on State street which brought him a handsome income, and made a business of lending money, and became gen- erally known as "ready-money Josh". His house on Orange street was one of the finest in the town. He sold land for the meeting house. He served in the revolution, in Cap- tain Richard Titcomb's company, Colonel Na- thaniel Wade's regiment, July 4 to October IO, 1780. The company was raised in Essex county to reinforce the army of the North. He married
(XI) Henry, son of Joshua Toppan, was born at Newburyport, April 2, 1798, and died February 16, 1860. He attended the common and high school of his native town, and pre- pared for Harvard college. Owing to the death of his father he gave up his college course and went to work for several of the grocers in Newburyport. He inherited his father's estate, and soon afterward started in the grocery business on State street, later lo- cating on the corner of Pleasant street and Hollis Court. After being in business a num- ber of years his health became impaired and he sold his store and retired from active work. He owned much real estate in the business sec- tion of the town, and was a citizen of influ- ence. In politics he was in early life a Whig. and later a Republican. He attended the Old South Congregational church at Newbury- port, and was a great Bible student. His memory was remarkable, and it is said that he never forgot a face. He married, March 26,
*This branch of the family maintains the Toppan form of the family name.
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1821, Mary Brooklings, born June 7, 1801, died January 25, 1843, daughter of Samuel and Eunice (MacIntrye) Brookings. Children : I. Mary Elizabeth, born December 12, 1821; married March 12, 1846, James E. Foster. 2. Henry Philip, born December 30, 1822; mar- ried, April 7, 1853, Anna Choate Knapp ; chil- dren: i. Marianna, born October 2, 1854; ii. Carrie, June 16, 1857, died October 8, 1858; iii. Alice White, born January 25, 1862; iv. Henry Choate, February 12, 1864, married, April 8, 1888, Lucetta Stevens, and had Helen Stevens, born June 24, 1892. 3. Franklin Lafayette, born May 26, 1824; married Eliza- beth Horton; children: i. Frank W .; ii. Wil- lard L., married Lola Burns, and had Mau- rice; iii. Josephine, married Thomas Lith- gow, and had Josephine, Anna and Toppan Lithgow; iv. Florence; v. Emma, married William Sayles, and had Chester Sayles. 4. Albert Brookings, born August 29, 1827; mar- ried Angeline Persis Jacobs ; children : George Albert, born November 29, 1859, married, 1884, Lizzie Stevens Hervey, and had Albert Brookings, born July 10, 1884, William Her- vey, November 19, 1886, Edith, March 2, 1891, Helen, September 1, 1895, and Fred Lawrence, May 21, 1906; ii. Fred Lawrence, born August 10, 1863 ; iii. Arthur Wellington, married Lena Clough, and had Evelyn and Wellington Clough. 5. Charles William, born June 20, 1832. 6. Ellen Maria Winship, born July 10, 1833; died July 19, 1834. 7. Ellen Maria, born July 30, 1839; died November 5, 1908; married William E. Nash; children: i. William E., Henry Nash. 8. Francis Brown, born March 10, 1836; mentioned below. 9. Caleb Cushing, born January 16, 1838; mar- ried Harriet Eliza Russell. Io. Lewis W., born July 18, 1842; married (first) Sarah Winkley; (second) Cordana Cooledge; chil- dren : i. Carrie Lillian, born July 18, 1865, died September 18, 1865; by second wife: ii. Lillian ; iii. Edward Cooledge.
(XII) Francis Browne, son of Henry Top- pan, was born at Newburyport, March IO, 1836, and died at Brookline, Massachusetts, . April 25, 1901. He received his education in the public schools, and in early manhood re- moved to Chicago and found employment as a clerk in what was then the largest clothing store in the city. He returned east and went into business with his brother, Lewis W. Top- pan, in Portland, Maine, as a clothing dealer, the firm name being F. B. Toppan & Co. Af- ter some years of success the firm was dis- solved, and Mr. Toppan went to Boston and
entered the employ of L. D. Bayee, a clothier at 154 Washington street. Soon afterwards he opened a trunk store on Washington street, keeping it but a short time and then becoming clerk for D. O. Goodrich, a fancy goods deal- er at 302 Washington street, whose store was known as the Boston Bazaar. Mr. Toppan bought out his employer, and the firm was known as Toppan & Thomas, and later as Townsend & Toppan, in 1865, with a store at 296 Washington street. In 1869 he purchased his partner's interest and became sole pro- prietor, removing to 637 Washington street and making his home at Brighton. In 1870 he removed again to 19 West street. In 1877 he enlarged his store by adding the one at No. 23, carrying a line of Japanese goods. From 1872 to 1876 he made his home at 40 Dwight street, and then removed to Newton. From 1879 to 1883 he lived at 12 Berwick Park. During 1883, owing to the large increase of business, he moved his store to 144 Tremont street, where he did a large and profitable business until 1898, when he retired from active life. From 1885 he lived for four years at 119 St. Botolph street, then at 194 Huntington ave- nue, then removed to 836 Beacon street, then to Brookline, where he died. In politics he was a Republican, and he attended the Orth- odox Congregational church. He was a prom- inent Boston merchant for forty-five years. His exceeding good taste and his faculty for acquiring unique things made him well known in all parts of the country. After his retire- ment from business his services were eagerly sought for by many of the leading firms of Boston as buyer, but he declined all offers, preferring to spend his last years in the enjoy- ment of his home. He married, at Newbury- port, Mary Caroline Horton, born in New- buryport, died in Boston, February 14, 1902, daughter of John and Maria (Boynton) Hor- ton. Her father was a leading manufacturer of gold beads. Children : I. William Jourdan, born July II, 1872 ; mentioned below. 2. Car- oline Hortense, born October 5, 1879; mar- ried, September 9, 1902, Joseph Dean Evans, son of George Edwin and Jane ( Priest) Evans ; children : i. Joseph Dean Evans, born June 12, 1903; ii. Caroline Toppan Evans, January 12, 1909.
(XIII) William Jourdan, son of Francis Browne Toppan, was born in Boston, July II, 1872. He attended the Rice school in his na- tive city, and the Prince school, from which he was graduated in 1889. He then entered the English high school of Boston, and gradu-
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ated in the class of 1892. His parents desired him to go to college but he preferred a mer- cantile career, and he entered his father's em- ploy as a salesman. When his father retired from business he became clerk in the transfer department of the American Loan & Trust Company, State street. After three years with this concern he entered the employ of Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Tremont street, the lead- ing jewelers of Boston, as salesman in the art department, and soon became manager and buyer of the department. He has been active in the state militia from youth. He was first sergeant of the military company of the Eng- lish high school when he enlisted as private in the First Corps of Cadets, Company C, May 16, 1892, was elected corporal March 24, 1898, sergeant June 6, 1899, and served later on the non-commissioned staff. At his own request he was returned to his company in January, 1903, as a private. He was made quartermaster-sergeant of the company De- cember 24, 1903, and in the spring of 1908 be- came senior duty sergeant. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts. He is a Repub- lican in politics and a Congregationalist in re- ligion.
HULBERT The name Hulbert is spelled in different ways, Hulbert, Hulburt, Hulbut, Hurlbut, be- ing among those most commonly used. The coat-of-arms of the English family is: Quar- terly argent and sable in the sinister chief and dexter base, each a lion rampant, or, over all a bend gules, charged with the amulets of the third.
(I) Thomas Hulbert (or Hurlbut) came to America early, and was a soldier under Lion Gardiner in the fort at Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1635. It is supposed that he came with Gardiner in a fishing vessel, July 10, 1635. In an encounter with the Pequot Indians in 1637, he was wounded by an arrow, almost through the thigh. An account of this skirm- ish was left in a manuscript by Lion Gardiner, he being urged to write it, as he said, by Rob- ert Chapman, Thomas Hurlbut and Major Mason. They were a company of ten men and were attacked by about a hundred In- (lians, whom they successfully held off until they reached their homes. Thomas Hurlbut was a blacksmith by trade, and after the Pe- quot war established himself in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he was one of the early settlers. He was clerk of the train band in
1640 ; deputy to the general court, grand juror, and constable in 1644. He had grants of land in Wethersfield for his services in the Indian wars. It is said that the house occupied in
1888 by Miss Harriet Mitchell in Wethers- field was on the site of his house. He mar- ried Sarah Children : Thomas, John, mentioned below, Samuel, Joseph, Stephen, Cornelius.
(II) John, son of Thomas Hulbert, was born March 8, 1642. He learned the trade of blacksmith of his father. He worked at Wethersfield and at Killingworth. At the age of twenty-seven he received a proposition from the town of Middletown to locate among them, and contracted to work for the town seven years from October 25, 1669. He be- came a large landholder and leading citizen of the town. He was admitted a freeman in 1671 and was called sergeant. He died Au- gust 30, 1690. He married, December 15, 1670, Mary, born 1655, daughter of John and: Honor (Treat) Deming, of Whether sfield. Children: 1. John, born December 8, 1671. 2. Mary, baptized April 7, 1673, died young. 3. Thomas, born October 20, 1674. 4. Sarah, November 5, 1676. 5. Mary, November 17, 1678. 6. Mercy, February 17, 1680-81. 7. Ebenezer, January 17, 1682-83. 8. Margaret, February, 1684-85. 9. David, August II, 1688, mentioned below. 10. Mehitable, No- vember 23, 1690.
(III) David, son of John Hulbert, was born in Middletown, August 1I, 1688, died October 29, 1773. He was a blacksmith by trade, and settled first in Cromwell, Connec- ticut, then Middletown Upper Houses. He had a grant of four acres of land there, March 15, 1712. In 1727, with Samuel Tracy, he rented a grist-mill for eight years. In 1734 he sold his property and removed to Chatham. He married (first) September 22, 1709, Mary, born February 11, 1691, daughter of John Jr. and Mary Savage. In 1744 he removed to Groton, and bought land there in 1746, but re- turned to Chatham after 1760. He married (second) in Chatham, Mercy Chil- dren of first wife: 1. Mary, born December 15, 1709. 2. Mercy, February 22, 1713. 3. Abigail, June 2, 1714. 4. David Jr., Novem- ber 1, 1716. 5. William, November 28, 1718. 6. Honor, April 25, 1721. 7. Gideon, Janu- ary II, 1723, died January 16, 1724. 8. Stephen, mentioned below. 9. Thank ful, April 26, 1727. 10. Gideon, June 9, 1729. II. Mercy, April 1, 1731.
(IV) Stephen, son of David Hulbert, was
George Hullert
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born in Middletown about 1725, and lived to an advanced age. He received from his fath- er land in Middle Haddam, and in 1756 bought thirty-five acres with a house, and later other parcels of land. It is said that during some five years he was engaged in whaling voyages. During the revolution he was a royalist, and sold his farm and with nine or more of his sons went to Nova Scotia and purchased land. After the war he returned to Middle Haddam. About 1793 he removed with his family to Wintonbury, about four miles from Hartford, in what was since the town of Bloomfield, where he died. He mar-
ried Susannah Children : I. Anna, baptized June 2, 1745. 2. Sarah, January 24, 1748. 3. Stephen, April 8, 1750. 4. Jonah, May 20, 1753, mentioned below. 5. Thank- ful, March 14, 1756.
(V) Jonah, son of Stephen Hulbert, was baptized in Middle Haddam, Connecticut, May 20, 1753. He was a royalist and went with his father to Nova Scotia during the revolution. He returned to Middle Haddam and subsequently removed to Bloomfield, and later to Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He married (first) who died in Antigoni-
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