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(VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) French, was born 1790, and died September, 1874, at Braintree, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Rachel Weld. He had a common school education, and in his younger days followed the trade of butcher, was also a farmer, and had a large and successful dairy. He bought a large tract of land in Braintree, still owned by his descendants. He contributed gener- ously to the churches and charities of his na- tive town. Children: I. Ann Frances, mar- ried Hiram Clark. 2. Rachel T., married Elisha Moss, of Braintree. 3. Samuel Strong, mentioned below.
(VII) Samuel Strong, son of Samuel French, was born at Braintree, July 20, 1818, and died there April 11, 1897. He was edu- cated in the common schools, and learned his father's trade. He was associated with his father for many years in the meat and provi- sion business, and continued through his ac- tive life in this business with marked success. He was interested also in other lines of busi- ness and active in town affairs, was highway surveyor, and did much to improve the roads
of the town. He attended the Congregational church. He married, December 1, 1842, at South Braintree, Caroline Elizabeth Bates, born at South Weymouth, April 24, 1822, died July 23, 1907, at Braintree. She was buried in the cemetery at Mount Wollaston, by the side of her husband. Children, born at Braintree : I. Samuel Strong Bates, mentioned below. 2. George Addison, mentioned below. 3. Caroline Elizabeth, born June 30, 1853; married Charles Minchin.
(VIII) George Addison French, son of Samuel Strong French, was born at South Braintree, May 21, 1850. He attended the public schools of his native town. He worked at his father's trade until he was twenty-one, and then started in the same line of business on his own account. He is not now engaged in active business. He is fond of fine horses, and is a leading member of the Gentlemen's Driving Club. He has owned many valuable horses, and has many cups and trophies won by them on the race track, and in horse shows. He attends the Congregational church. He
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married, November 22, 1872, Katie Putnam Bishop, born May 21, 1852, at South Brain- tree, died May 28, 1897, at Braintree. They had no children.
LOOMIS (II) Lieutenant Samuel, son of Joseph Loomis (q. v.), was born in England, and came to New England with his father in 1638. He was admitted a freeman in 1654 and to the church November 26, 1661. He was a lieu- tenant and removed to Westfield, Massachu- setts, between 1672 and 1675. He sold his house in Windsor in 1679 and died October I, 1689. He married, December 27, 1653, Elizabeth Judd, who died May 7, 1696, daugh- ter of Thomas Judd. Children: I. Sergeant Samuel, married Hannah Hanchett, April 4, 1678; died November 6, 17II. 2. Elizabeth, married, 1673, Thomas Hanchett. 3. Ruth, born June 14, 1660, at Farmington ; married Benjamin Smith. 4. Sarah, February 3, 1662-63 ; married, November 12, 1689, John Bissell. 5. Joanna, October 22, 1665 ; mar- ried, November 20, 1691, Joseph Smith. 6. Benjamin, February II, 1667-68; married, January 6, 1703, Ann Fitch; died 1726. 7. Nehemiah, July 15, 1670 ; married, January 3, 1694, Thankful Weller; died February 4, 1740. 8. William, March 18, 1672, mentioned below. 9. Philip, February 22, 1675; mar- ried, 1704, Hannah -; died December I, 1746. Io. Mary, August 16, 1678.
(III) William, son of Lieutenant Samuel Loomis, was born at Westfield, Massachu- setts, March 18, 1672, died in 1738. He mar- ried, January 13, 1703, Martha Morley, who died February 22, 1753, aged seventy-one. Children: I. Martha, born February 24, 1704, died April, 1804, aged one hundred years, two months. 2. Joshua, August 24, 1706 ; married, April, 1735, Abigail Langdon ; died 1779. 3. Benjamin, August 30, 1708; married (first) Elizabeth Noble, 1734; (sec- ond) Rachel -; died 1787. 4. Ann, Au- gust 27, 1710. 5. William, September 15, 1712; married, 1739, Experience Smith. 6. James, November 15, 1714; married, 1739, Eunice Stricklen. 7. Thankful, November 19, 1716. 8. Jonathan, January 23, 1719, mentioned below. 9. Hezekiah, March 14, 172I. IO. Captain Noah, May 12, 1724; mar- ried, November 5, 1747, Rhoda Clark; died August 9, 1808.
(IV) Jonathan, son of William Loomis, was born at Westfield, January 23, 1719, died in 1798. He settled at West Springfield. He
married, May II, 1747, Hannah Selden, of Springfield. Children, born at West Spring- field: I. Jonathan, December 13, 1747 ; mar- ried, November 19, 1772, Louisa Lamb ; died April 16, 1836. 2. Noadiah, August 14, 1750, mentioned below. 3. Hannah, April 19, 1752 ; married Benjamin Copley. 4. Justus, March 7, 1754 ; married, 1782, Mary Bow ; died May 14, 1818. 5. Uriah, June 27, 1756; married May 20, 1783, Sarah Sheldon ; was in the rev- olution ; died March, 1844. 6. Pliny, August 26, 1758; married Louisa Stephenson ; died February 20, 1839. 7. Josiah, October 14, 1761 ; married, July 16, 1789, Sabra Ely ; died July 2, 1844. 8. Lucy, November 25, 1763 ; married Kendall King. 9. Clarke, March 12, 1766 ; married Nancy Bagg ; died 1820. IO. Charlotte, May 21, 1768; married Simeon Norton; died 1805. II. Hezekiah, January 6, 1771 ; married Rosa Rice ; died December 12, 1833.
(V) Noadiah, son of Jonathan Loomis, was born at West Springfield, August 14, 1750, died November 14, 1818. He lived all his life at West Springfield and married Thankful Bagg. Children: I. Amanda, born August 16, 1779; died 1856 ; married Zoluth Holton. 2. Howland, July 7, 1781 ; married (first) April 10, 1804, Asenath Butler ; (sec- ond) June 10, 1816, Laura Walcott; (third) August 15, 1818, Sarah Clapp ; died July 25, 1849. 3. Rodney, mentioned below.
(VI) Rodney, son of Noadiah Loomis, was born at West Springfield, October 27, 1786, died there May 28, 1828. He married Lucy- M. Mumford, who died March 3, 1829. Chil- dren, born at West Springfield: I. William, May 28, 1809; died unmarried September 7, 1832. 2. Timothy Horton, November 12, 1810; married, May 1, 1834, Caroline Broad. 3. Mary Ann, April 21, 1813 ; married, 1835, James Lloyd ; died June 10, 1838. 4. Amanda H., July 17, 1816 ; married, 1837, Thomas H. Hastings ; died August 12, 1839. 5. Francis Dwight, March 9, 1820, mentioned below. 6. Sophia Jane, October 22, 1824; married (first) William T. Southworth ; (second) Dav- id A. Reeves.
(VII) Francis Dwight, son of Rodney Loomis, was born in West Springfield, March 9, 1820, died in 1905, at Westfield. He mar- ried, May 19, 1841, Laura M. Brown, and who died March 23, 1907, at the age of eigh- ty-five. She was born at Lebanon, Connecti- cut. Mr. Loomis resided at New Haven, Connecticut, and Westfield, Massachusetts. Children, born at New Haven: I. William
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Horton, April 17, 1842; married, May 19, 1866, Anna R. Merrifield. 2. Violet Eldora, May 31, 1845, died September, 1896; mar- ried, February 12, 1872, Frederick L. Jack- son. 3. John Elwin, March 13, 1850, died October 22, 1857. 4. Francis Northrop, mentioned below.
(VIII) Francis Northrop, son of Francis Dwight Loomis, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, January 12, 1857. He attended the public schools of his native town. He be- gan his business life as clerk in a hardware store. He began to manufacture buttons for the whip manufacturers at Westfield and then engaged also in making whips. He after- wards started a store on Elm street, West- field. After conducting this business success- fully for a number of years he sold it. At present he is not engaged in business. Mr. Loomis has an excellent business reputation and enjoys the fullest confidence and esteem of his townsmen. He married Mary Louise, born 1857, at Westfield, daughter of Henry and Sarah ( Cooper ) Shepard. (See Shepard, VII). Child, Annie Laura, born September 6, 1887, at Westfield.
(The Shepard Line).
John Shepard, immigrant ancestor of the Westfield family of this sketch, was born at Wetheringset, county Suffolk, England, 1671. He died August 10, 1756. He was a descend- ant of John Shepard, of Mendlesham, Suffolk, living in 1550. He settled in Westfield, Mas- sachusetts. He married Elizabeth Woodruff, of Westfield.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Shepard, was born in Westfield in 1706, died in 1783. He married Elizabeth Noble. Children : I. David, born 1744, died 1817; lived at Chester, Massachusetts, and Amsterdam, New York; married Lucinda Mather, niece of Rev. Cot- ton Mather ; graduate of Yale College in 1766, surgeon in the American army in the revolu- tion, captain at Bunker Hill; delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1788; had son Mather. 2. Jonathan, settled at Bland- ford and had sons, Ezra, Jonathan, Elijah and Oliver.
(III) Jonathan, son of John (2) Shepard, was born about 1700-10. He married Rachel Lamkton, of Westfield (intention dated June 6, 1730). Children: I. Rachel, born March 23, 1731, died April 2, 1731. 2. Jonathan, March 23, 1732. 3. Eleanor, April, 1734, died February 1, 1745. 4. Desire, May 1, 1736, died September, 1738. 5. Amos, May 4, 1738,
died December 9, 1749. 6. Solomon, April I, 1742; soldier in the revolution. 7. Mary, November 22, 1744. 8. Noah, October 27, 1746, died August 2, 1747. 9. Eleanor, Au- gust 2, 1748. 10. Sarah, December 29, 1750. II. Amos, June 27, 1754.
(IV) William, son or nephew of Jonathan Shepard, was born about 1750. He was a sol- dier in the revolution. According to the cen- sus of 1790 he had a family of six males over sixteen, one under sixteen and four females in his family at that time.
(V) Jesse, son or nephew of William Shep- ard, was born about 1780. The records of Westfield do not reveal his family.
(VI) Warren, son of Jesse Shepard, was born in Westfield. He married (first)
Curtis; (second) Jerusha Sackett. Children : Lyman, William, Henry, mentioned below, Charles.
(VII) Henry, son of Warren Shepard, was born in Westfield in 1824, died in his na- tive town. He married Sarah Cooper, born 1828, died 1890, at Westfield. Children, born at Westfield : I. Frederick H., 1852; married Minnie Finch and had a son Edwin. 2. Mary Louise, 1857; married Francis Northrop Loomis. (See Loomis, VIII). 3. Carrie J., 1859; married William Connell.
Timothy Palmer was not the PALMER son but probably a near rela- tive of Nicholas Palmer, of Windsor, Connecticut, who had a son Timo- thy. Timothy settled in Suffield, Connecticut, and died there November 28, 1696. He was a surveyor of highways in 1682; constable 1684; selectman 1686-88. His name appears on the list of freemen in 1681-82. His home was on Feather street, where he owned sixty acres as early as 1674. He was granted another lot of ten acres in 1682. He married (first) Eliz- abetlı -; (second) June 3, 1670, Eliza- beth Huggins. She died October 1, 1716. Children : Timothy ; Esther, born 1676; child, died young ; child, died young; Thomas, born I682; Samuel, mentioned below.
(II) Samuel, son of Timothy Palmer, was born at Suffield, May 17, 1686; married, Feb- ruary 2, 1720-21, Elizabeth Smith.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Palmer, was born at Suffield, September 23, 1723; married October 17, 1751, Margaret Leonard, at Springfield. She died June 6, 1761, aged twenty-nine. Her gravestone is standing in the graveyard at Agawam. He was appointed guardian of her children April
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10, 1762. He was a cordwainer by trade. He removed to Springfield when a young man. He made a nuncupative will June 1, 1798, be- queathing to daughter Margaret. None of the other children objected to the probate of the will. He bequeathed his weaving materials and other personal property. Children: Mar- garet, Thankful, Temperance, Edmund, Gad, Samuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Palmer, was born May 31, 1761, in Spring- field. The family lived in West Springfield. He died January 2, 1833, aged seventy-one years, according to his gravestone in the Aga- wam burying ground. Horace Palmer was ap- pointed guardian of his children, and before 1844 married his widow. He married, about 1788, Abiah - -, born 1756, died October
8, 1833. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Nathan Rowley's company, Col- onel John Moseley's regiment, from Hamp- shire county, July and August, 1777. Of his eight children : Samuel; James A., mentioned below ; Francis; Louis.
(V) James A., son of Samuel (3) Palmer, was born in Feeding Hills, formerly West Springfield, and baptized in 1794. He died December 20, 1864, aged seventy years. He was a blacksmith and wagon maker by trade. He married Lucy , born 1797, died April 14, 1867. Children: Asa Northam, men- tioned below; Lucy Ann, married Carlton Strong, of Granville, Massachusetts; Adeline, born August 14, 1826, died January 16, 1853, at Feeding Hills, married Henry Wilcox, born December II, 1821, brother of Lucinda, who married Asa Nathan Palmer.
(VI) Asa Northam, son of James A. Pal- mer, was born in West Springfield or Feed- ing Hills, and lived at Feeding Hills. He was educated in the public schools, learned the trade of carpenter, and followed it for a time. In later years he was a farmer. He married Lucinda A. Wilcox, of an old Con- necticut family. He died July 3, 1889; his wife in 1901. Children : Albert; Adeline L .; Henry A. ; Edward and Frederick, twins, died in infancy ; Henry Asa, mentioned below.
(VII) Henry Asa, son of Asa Northam Palmer, was born in Feeding Hills, Novem- ber II, 1868, and was educated in the public and high schools of Westfield, Massachu- setts, whither his parents removed. He learned the trade of machinist, and worked at his trade manufacturing machinery used in making whips. He has a machine shop at Westfield, the center of the whip industry,
and has built up a flourishing industry in this specialty. He is a member of Mount Moriah Lodge of Free Masons, of Westfield; of Westfield Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar ; and of Melha Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. In religion he is a Congregationalist. He mar- ried, April, 1893, Frances Caroline, daughter of James B. Freeman of Westfield. Children : Lewis, born 1894, died 1900; Frances Caro- line, born December, 1901.
TEAD John Tead, immigrant ancestor of the Tead and Tidd families, was born in England, before 1600, and died at Woburn, Massachusetts, April 24, 1657. He was a tailor by trade. The name is spelled Tead, Todd, Tedd and Tidd in the early records. He was an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1637; admitted to the church March 10, 1639; selectman in 1647 at Wo- burn, where he settled. He was on the com- mittee on the country rate at Woburn in 1655. He was sergeant of the military company, the first man of the town bearing a military title. He bought Thomas Moulton's old house in Woburn, and sold a house the next year to Nathaniel Hadlock. He owned eight lots in Charlestown in 1638, the sixth of which was at Waterfield, now Winchester. He owned other land in Woburn. His wife Margaret died at Woburn, 1651. He married (second) Alice - , who married (second) at Cam- bridge, June II, 1657, William Mann. His will was dated April 9 and proved November IO, 1656. Children : John, mentioned below ; Samuel, died 1651, married Sarah Elizabeth, married June 13, 1642, Thomas Fuller, of Woburn; Mary, married December 24, 1644, Francis Kendall; Hannah, married William Savell, of Braintree.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Tead, was born about 1618, in England. He was a tailor, and embarked at Yarmouth, England, May 12, 1637, as servant for Samuel Greenfield, of Norwich, weaver. He was said to have been of Hartford, England. He settled at Cam- bridge Farms, where he died April 13. 1703. He married, at Woburn, April 14, 1650, Re- becca Wood, who died at Lexington, January IO. 1717, aged ninety-two years. He resided for a time in Woburn, and in 1686 removed to Cambridge Farms, the present town of Lexington, and by grant and purchase ac- quired a large amount of real estate. His homestead there was probably bought of David Fiske, June 1, 1686, and the property
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remained in the hands of his descendants al- most if not to the present day. Children: I. Hannah, born September 21, 1652; married Joseph Smith. 2. John, born February 26, 1654-5; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born November 13, 1656. 4. Samuel, born Janu- ary 16, 1658-9; died unmarried May 9, 1699. 5. Joseph, born January 18, 1660-1 ; died Feb- ruary, 1660-1. 6. Joseph, born January 20, 1661-2. 7. Daniel, married Lydia Carley. 8. Rebecca, married Thomas Blodgett.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Tead, was born at Woburn, February 26, 1654-5, and died there August 3, 1743. He married, June 12, 1678, Elizabeth Fifield, born September 7, 1657, died at Woburn, October 6, 1732, daughter of William and Mary Fifield of Hampton, New Hampshire. He served in King Philip's war, 1675-76, first in the garri- son at Groton, and also under Lieutenant Ed- ward Oakes in Captain Thomas Prentice's troop, June, 1676. He was sergeant of the Woburn militia from 1694 to 1737. Children : I. Elizabeth, born September 19, 1679. 2. John, November 2, 1681. 3. Joseph, March 8, 1684. 4. Rebecca, August 4, 1687; died May 21, 1738. 5. Mary, April 25, 1690. 6. Ebenezer, mentioned below.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of John (3) Tead, was born at Woburn, August 31, 1693, and died there August 18, 1725. He married Martha Wyman, born October 13, 1695, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Richardson) Wyman, of Woburn. She married (second) March 23, 1731, Major Joseph Richardson, of Woburn. On August 30, 1717, Ebenezer Tidd and Ed- ward Winn were chosen gaugers, the notice of which appointment is preserved in the Wo- burn Public Library. Children: 1. Samuel, born August 20, 1716. 2. Ebenezer, Septem- ber 24, 1718; mentioned below. 3. Jonathan, November 7, 1724.
(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1) Tead, was born at Woburn, September 24, 1718. He married (first) May 8. 1744, Eliza- beth Faulkner (Fortner in the records), of Medford, who died May 19, 1752; (second) January 1, 1755, Lucy Polly, of Medford. He resided in Charlestown and Medford. Chil- dren of first wife: I. Elizabeth, died young. 2. Ebenezer, born February 8, 1745-6; died young. 3. Ebenezer, born October 11, 1748 ; died January 12, 1757. 4. John, born June 28, 1751. Children of second wife: 5. Jacob, mentioned below. 6. Ebenzer, baptized Feb- ruary 27, 1757. 7. Lucy, born August 13, 1758.
(VI) Jacob, son of Ebenezer (2) Tead, was born October 18, 1755, and was baptized with other children of the family, February 27, 1757. He served in the revolution as matross in Captain James Swan's first company, Col- onel Craft's artillery, November I to Decem- ber 1, 1776; also in Captain Philip Maret's company, same regiment, December 1, 1776, to May 8, 1777; in Captain Robert Davis's company, Colonel Freeman's regiment, on duty at Rhode Island, December 4, 1777. He lived in Boston, where he married (first) Oc- tober 15, 1780, Sarah Floyd ; (second) in Bos- ton, July 18, 1786, Ruth Dawes ; Rev. Samuel Stillman officiated at both marriages. This is the only family mentioned in the Boston vi- tal records of the surname Tead or Tidd. In 1790 he was the only Tidd a head of fam- ily in Boston. There were eight in his family at that time. He may have lived also at Medford. He was of that town in 1794, when he owned land at Corde's, Charlestown. He conveyed this land in 1817. Sarah, probably a daughter, married, November 23, 1808, Nathaniel P. Russell, at Boston.
(VII) Edward Long Jennings, son of Jacob Tead, was born in Boston, September 16, 1799. He was a sail maker on Commer- cial street, Boston. He died October 7, 1839, at the age of forty years. He married, Janu- ary 18, 1823, Hannah Berry, born October 16, I800. Children : William; Angelina ; Lucy, married William Learned; Sarah, married Hilliard Goodale; Helen, unmarried; Edward Long, mentioned below.
(VIII) Edward Long, son of Edward Long Jennings Tead, was born July 15, 1826, in Boston. He attended the public schools there and won the Franklin medal for scholar- ship. He was a student in the Chauncey Hall School for one year. He began his business life in the employ of the Kimball Company, wholesale dealers in woolens. He left this position to become messenger of the newly organized Suffolk Bank of Boston, was pro- moted after a time to the position of paying teller, and was afterward cashier of the Faneuil Hall Bank. He was elected president of the National Exchange Bank of Boston, and filled this office with ability for a period of twenty-three years. He was honored by many private trusts and was executor and trustee of a number of large estates. He was a trustee of the Eliot Fund, Jamaica Plain. He was a modest man, seeking no public honors and accepting no public office. Once he declined the honor of having a steamship
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named for him, when a committee named for · the purpose waited upon him to secure his consent. He was a member of the Old South church of Boston. He died April 2, 1899. He married, May 8, 1851, Lucretia Hovey Cleas- by, born March 20, 1831, daughter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Burnham (Hovey) Cleasby. Her sister Lucy never married; her sister Sarah Frances married Mr. Riley ; her sister Mary married Hiram Hill, of Campton, New Hampshire. Children : Edward Sampson, mentioned below ; Mary E., unmarried.
(IX) Rev. Edward Sampson Tead, son of Edward Long Tead, was born in Boston. He attended the public schools at Jamaica Plain and fitted in the Boston high school for col- lege. He graduated from Amherst College in the class of 1875 with the degree of A. B. He was a student at Yale Divinity School in 1876- 77, then entered Andover Theological Semin- ary, from which he was graduated in the class of 1878. His first parish was at Westbrook, Maine, where he preached in the Congrega- tional church from 1878-84. He was pastor of the Prospect Hill Congregational Church, Somerville, Massachusetts, 1884-1901. Since then he has been secretary of the Congrega- tional Education Society. He is a trustee of the Atlanta Theological Seminary of Atlanta, Georgia; trustee of the Tabor Academy at Marion, Massachusetts; member of the Bos- ton Congregational Club. In politics he is a Republican. He married (first ) Louisa M., daughter of Jonathan S. and Caroline (Smith) Graves, of Hatfield, Massachusetts; (second) Louise M., daughter of John M. and Virginia (Moore) Ordway. Her father was a gradu- ate of Dartmouth College, and the salutator- ian of his class; taught school several years in Missouri; employed several years a chemist in the Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, New Hampshire ; became professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; professor of chemistry at Tulane University, New Orleans, for more than twenty years ; died July, 1909, at Saugus, Massachusetts. Children of first wife : I. Donald Graves, born March 5, 1880. 2. Stanley Hovey, Octo- ber 6, 1882. 3. Constance, June 15, 1886. Children of second wife: 4. Ordway, born September 10, 1891. 5. Phillips, September 29, 1893.
Benjamin Cooley, immigrant COOLEY ancestor, was an early settler in that part of Springfield called Longmeadow. From him are descend- ed all of the name in this country, as far as
known. He married Sarah who died August 23, 1684. He died August 17, 1684, and his will and inventory were filed Septem- ber 30 following and and agreement for divi- sion accepted. Children: I. Bethiah, born September 16, 1643, died December 9, 1771; married, December 5, 1664, Henry Chapin. 2. Obediah, September 27, 1646, mentioned be- low. 3. Elakin, January 8, 1648, died De- cember I, 17II. 4. Daniel, May 2, 1651, died February 9, 1727. 5. Sarah, February 27, 1653, married, January 5, 1679, Jonathan Morgan. 6. Benjamin, September 1, 1656, died November 29, 1731. 7. Mary, June 22, 1659, married, April 21, 1687, Thomas Terry. 8. Joseph, March 6, 1661, died May 20, 1740.
(II) Obadiah, son of Benjaman Cooley, was born September 27, 1646, died Septem- ber 3, 1690. He married, November 9, 1670, Rebecca Williams, who married ( second) No- vember 26, 1691, John Warner, and died Oc- tober 18, 1715. Children: I. Rebecca, born August 23, 1671. 2. Sarah, August 2, 1673. 3. Mary, December 9, 1675, married, May 28. 1696, John Ferry. 4. Obadiah, August I, 1678, mentioned below. 5. Anna, March 5, 1681, married, 1711, Nathan Collins. 6. Jo- seph, November 12, 1683, died September 20, 1767. 7. Jonathan, June 28, 1686, died Au- gust 2, 1752.
(III) Obadiah (2), son of Obadiah (I) Cooley, was born in Springfield, August I. 1678, died October 6, 1764. He married, January 22, 1702, Dorcas Hale. He bought land in Springfield, on the west side of the Great river, in 1730, and in 1738 purchased of Benjamin Ball three acres of land on the bank of the river, now known as the Isaac Humiston place, where he is supposed to have died. Children: I. Obadiah, born January 9, 1705, settled in Brookfield. 2. Noah, Au- gust 10, 1706, settled in Brimfield. 3. Moses, March 13, 1710, settled in Springfield. 4. David, June 27, 1712, settled in Palmer. 5. Abel, April 12, 1717, mentioned below. 6. Jacob, November 18, 1720, settled in Spring- field.
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