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(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Cheever, was born April 30, 1719. and bap- tized in Salem Village, afterwards Danvers, June 7. 1719. He was in Captain John Put- nam's company on the Lexington alarm. He lived in Danvers, and may have married twice. Children of Samuel and wife Elizabeth, born at Danvers : I. Elizabeth, April 20, 1752 (old style). 2. Leefe, February 14, 1754. 3. Samuel, September 12, 1756. 4. Samuel, bap- tized December 3, 1758. 5. Mary, born April 23. 1760. 6. Ezekiel, August 19, 1762. 7. Nathan. mentioned below. 8. Sarah, bap- tized July 31, 1768. .
(V) Nathan, son of Samuel (2) Cheever, was born June 17, 1765, he lived at Danvers. He married Mehitable Porter. Children, born at Danvers, ( except Ira) : 1. Porter, January 6, 1793. 2. Ezekiel, September 28, 1794. 3- Nathan, August 26, 1796. 4. Ira, mentioned below. 5. Sally, November 29, 1800. 6. Mary, December 1, 1802. 7. Cynthia Porter, March 16, 1805. 8. Samuel, July 8, 1807. 9. Mehitable Rea, June 8, 1810.
(VI) Ira, son of Nathan Cheever, was born at Hopkinton, New Hampshire, where his parents resided for a short time ( accord- ing to the Danvers vital records) July 20, 1798. He died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, September 1I, 1876. He married (first ) Mar- tha ( Safford ) Patch, widow of Captain Tracy Patch, of Marblehead; (second) Mehitable Felt, of Salem. He lived in Salem. Children of first wife: Tracy Patch, mentioned below ; Nancy. Children of second wife: Joseph Charles Felt, Henry Augustus, Anna. Two others died in infancy.
(VII) Tracy Patch, son of Ira Cheever. was born in Marblehead March 28, 1824. He lived at Chelsea, Massachusetts, where many of the Cheever family have lived for many generations. He married Louisa Rebecca Kil- burn, born July 12. 1833, daughter of John and Maria (Gage) Kilburn. Children, all born in Chelsea : 1. Albert Safford, born Sep- tember 17, 1857 : mentioned below. 2. Martha Louise, born April 13, 1863 ; never married. 3. Tracy Patch Jr., born February 12, 1865. (VIII) Albert S., son of Tracy Patch Cheever, was born in Chelsea, September 17, 1857. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town. He entered the
engineering department of the Fitchburg rail- road, and for nine years was chief engineer. In 1900, when the Fitchburg road was leased by the Boston & Maine Railroad Company in 1900, he was appointed superintendent of the Fitchburg division. He is well known and highly esteemed in railroad circles. He mar- ried. June 7, 1893, Josephine M., daughter of John J. and Mary (Brown) Grant, of Deer- field, Massachusetts. He makes his home in Somerville, Massachusetts, at 6 Aldersey street. Children : 1. Walter G., born at Fitch- burg. May 22, 1895. 2. Alice, born at Somer- ville, June 2, 1900. Another child, died in in- fancy.
Thomas Brown, immigrant an-
BROWN cestor, was born in 1628 and settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. He married Mary, born 1637, youngest child of Thomas and Mary Newall, of Lynn. Children: 1. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Mary, born February 10, 1655, died May 18, 1662. 3. Sarah, August 20, 1657, died Au- gust I, 1658. 4. Joseph, February 16, 1658. 5. Sarah, September 13, 1660, died April 2. 1662. 6. Jonathan, born and died April 12, 1662. 7. John, removed to Stonington. 8. Mary, born July 26, 1666. 9. Jonathan, Feb- ruary II, 1668. 10. Eleazer, August 4, 1670 : removed to Stonington. II. Ebenezer, March 16, 1672, died 1700. 12. Daniel, April 24. 1673, died young. 13. Ann (twin ), February 4, died February 7, 1674. 14. Grace (twin), February 4, died February 7, 1674. 15. Dan- iel, February 1. 1676, went to Stonington.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Brown, was born at Lynn and died December 27. 1723. He settled in Stonington, Connec- ticut. soon after his marriage. He married, February 8, 1677, Hannah Collins, at Lynn. Children, born in Stonington : 1. Samuel, December 8, 1678. 2. Hannah, December 5, 1680. 3. Mary, May 26, 1683. 4. Jerusha. December 25. 1688. 5. Sarah. July II, 1689. 6. Thomas, February 14. 1692, mentioned be- low. 7. Elizabeth, May 9, 1694. 8. Daniel, October 9, 1696. 9. Priscilla, January 30, 1699. 10. Humphrey. September 16, 1701.
(III ) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Brown, was born in Stonington, February 14. 1692; married, October 4, 1715. Deborah Holdridge. Children : I. Thomas, born April 5, 1717, mentioned below. 2. William, July 9, 1720. 3. Deborah, May 30. 1722. 4. Dorothy, February 20, 1724. 5. Jesse, Au- gust 18, 1731. 6. Samuel. July 14. 1734. 7.
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Lois, September 1, 1736.
(IV) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) Brown, was born April 5, 1717, at Stonington. He married ( first) April 27, 1737, Deborah Holdridge. He married (second) March 29, 1753, Sarah Randall. Children of first wife, born at Stonington: 1. Collins, born June 13, 1743, mentioned below. 2. Benoni, November 16, 1746. Children of second wife : 3. Wealthy, October 1, 1753. 4. Lucy, March 9, 1755. 5. Samuel, November 16, 1757. 6. Sarah, Oc- tober 1, 1758. 7. Perez, October 2, 1760. 8. Abel, August 7, 1762.
(V) Collins, son of Thomas (4) Brown, was born June 13, 1743. He settled in Spring- field, Massachusetts, but removed later to Ma- sonville, Delaware county, New York. He married Margaret, daughter of John Chapin, who was born May 1, 1753, married, August 5, 1775, Margaret Ely. His father was Phineas Chapin. Collins Brown lived some time in Springfield, where some of his children were born. He was the only Collins Brown in the state at the time of the census of 1790, and at that time had in his family at Spring- field two males over sixteen, one under six- teen, and three females. Children: 1. Abel, a farmer of Springfield. 2. Patty, married Ichabod Whitney. 3. Quartus, married Thirza Smith. 4. Ara, married Silas Kneeland. 5. Ann, died unmarried. 6. Polly, scalded to death. 7. Collins. 8. Unevilda, married David Teed. 9. Mary Ann, married Stephen Whitman. 10. Roland.
(VI) Roland, son of Collins Brown, was born in Chicopee, September 24, 1775. He married Lucy, daughter of John Frink Jr. She was born May 12, 1783. Children: I. Almena, born August 22, 1802. 2. Anson, February 3. 1805. 3. Lyman, October 2, 1807. 4. Sumner. December 31, 1810. 5. Alden, June 19, 1815. 6. Edmund R., February 20, 1820. 7. James M., November 4, 1822.
(VII) Alden, son of Roland Brown, was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, June 19, 1815. He was educated in the common schools, and when a young man went to Middletown, Connecticut, and learned the trade of machin- ist. Later he went to Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where he worked at his trade until 1843, when he engaged in the manufacture of paper, continuing until about 1848, where he return- ed to Springfield and there found employment in the United States armory as machinist and continued there until a short time before his death. In religious belief he was a Universal- ist and in politics a Democrat. He married.
January 5, 1843, Amy Arthur, a native of Philadelphia, daughter of Robert Arthur. Children : 1. George Alonzo, born October I, 1843. 2. Margaret Louise, February 3, 1847. 3. Luman Spencer, mentioned below.
(VIII) Luman Spencer, son of Alden Brown, was born at No. 29 Orleans street, Springfield, Massachusetts, November 4, 1855 He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and lived in the house in which he was born until his marriage ; he began house- keeping at No. 21 Orleans street, later re moved to No. 29 and 25 Orleans street, re- maining until December, 1901, when he moved to 71 Dartmouth Terrace. As a pupil in the public schools he had the privilege of instruc- tion under Charles Barrows, whom so many Springfield men and women remember for his ability as a teacher and his many fine qualities as a man. In 1870 Mr. Brown left school and started upon a mercantile career as clerk in Rude's stationery store. Afterward he was a clerk in his sister's store at 467 State street. This sister. Margaret Louise Brown, was a very capable and successful business woman. In 1882 Mr. Brown engaged in the manufac- ture of foundry facings at Willimansett, Mas- sachusetts, a suburb of Chicopee, Massachu- setts. He established the Springfield Facing Company and is the largest manufacturer of this line in New England. He is also presi- dent and treasurer of the L. S. Brown Char- coal Company, dealers in charcoal, Spring- field. In all these diversified industries and business interests Mr. Brown has achieved substantial success. He is a director of the Chapin National Bank, and an active member of the Springfield Board of Trade. He is a member of the St. Paul's Universalist Church of Springfield and has always been actively engaged in the work of the parish, first as a Sunday school scholar in the old Universalist church, corner of Stockbridge and Main streets : then at the new location, corner of Bridge and Chestnut streets for many years, and was an active member of the committee which advised selling the church and purchas- ing the beautiful stone structure at the corner of State and Spring streets, which was brought from the First Baptist parish late in the year 1908, thoroughly repaired, and open- ed for service as a Universalist church in March, 1909. He belongs to Springfield Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Nayasset Club and the Country Club. In politics he is inde- pendent. He married, March 8. 1876, Clara . 1. Rowland, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, born
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October 24, 1857, daughter of James Freder- ick Rowland, of Boston. Children: 1. Amy L., born January 22, 1880; married, August 20. 1899, Harry E. Steece, now of Steece, Cal- ifornia. 2. Sumner E., April 6, 1881; edu- cated in public schools of Springfield and Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts ; mining engineer by profes- sion. 3. Bessie, June II, 1885 ; married, Feb- ruary 24, 1904, C. H. Evans ; resides at Hud- son, New York. 4. Frances S., September 24, 1887, died September 11, 1891, aged four years. 5. Helen, November 16, 1891.
(For preceding generations, see Richard Towne 1). (III) Joseph, fourth and young-
TOWNE est son of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, was born about 1639, and baptized at Salem, Massachu- setts. September 3. 1648. March 22, 1690, he removed from Salem to Topsfield, where he became a prominent citizen and member of the church, and died there in 1713. He married Phebe, daughter of Thomas Perkins, of Topsfield : children: Phebe, born May 14, 1666, died January 3, 1669; Joanna, born January 22, 1668; Mary, March 27, 1670; Susannah. December 24, 1671 ; Joseph, March 22, 1673; Sarah, December 30, 1675; John, February 20, 1678; Martha, May 19, 1680; Phebe. July 23, 1685.
(IV) Joseph (2), elder son of Joseph (1) and Phebe ( Perkins ) Towne, was born March 22, 1673. at Topsfield, and died May 28, 1757. He married ( first ) November 9. 1699, Mar- garet Case, of Salem : (second ) November 5, 1707, Abigail Curtis, born October 21, 1680, died March 8. 1729; (third ) February 21. 1730. Mary Mower, of Lynn, who died Oc- tober 2, 1739. His children, four by his first wife. ten by his second and one by his third, were: Margaret, born August 6, 1700; Jo- seph, December 26, 1701 ; Archaelus, August 31, 1703; Israel; Elisha, September 5, 1708; Bartholomew. May 10, 1710; Mary, February 18. 1712; David, February 13, 1715; Abigail, May 3, 1716: Phebe, May 31, 1718; Hannah, February 15, 1720: Martha, August 25, 1722 ; Sarah, April 2, 1726; Jonathan, September 6, 1728; Eunice, August 22, 1733, died 1736.
(V) Israel, third son of Joseph (2) and Margaret (Case ) Towne, was born March 24, 1705, at Topsfield, Massachusetts, and died in Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1791. He was one of the early settlers of Narragansett, later called Soughegan, and in 1760 incorporated by New Hampshire and named Amherst. Tradi- tion has it his family was the fourth to settle
there, and his name is found connected with the organization of the church. He shared in the grants of land made by the general court between 1728 and 1733, to those and the de- scendants of those who in 1675 took part in King Philip's war, Amherst being No. 3. of these grants. He married, May 23, 1729, Grace Gardner, of Middleton, who died in 1803 ; children: Thomas, born 1732; Arche- laus, 1734; Israel ; Moses, May 6, 1739; Gard- ner, June 6, 1741 ; Elizabeth, January 13, 1745 ; Susannah, May 28, 1748; Mary, April 20, 175I.
(VI) Israel (2), third son of Israel ( I) and Grace (Gardner) Towne, was born No- vember 16, 1736, at Topsfield, Massachusetts. He went with his parents to Amherst, New Hampshire, and in 1762 purchased land in Stoddard, New Hampshire, where he became a prominent citizen, and died there, April 28. 1813. He has numerous descendants in this vicinity. He married, July 31, 1760, Lydia, daughter of Benjamin Hopkins; children : Israel ; William, born July 21, 1763; Gardner, May 1, 1765 ; Benjamin, March 23. 1767 ; An- drew, July II. 1769; Lydia, April II, 1772. died August 28, 1777; Daniel, August 20, 1774; Hannah, August 28, 1776 ; Lemuel, May IO, 1782.
(VII) Israel (3), eldest son of Israel (2) and Lydia ( Hopkins) Towne, was born June 14, 1761, at Stoddard, New Hampshire, and died May 2. 1848. He married Hannah Ab- bott, of Stoddard, who died March 9, 1847 : children: Lydia, born September II. 1781 : Archelaus, November 24, 1782; Israel; Han- nah, October 9, 1786; Esther, June 24, 1788; Grace, March 24, 1790; Gardner. February 16. 1792: Ebenezer. August 3, 1795; and Lucy. August 16, 1797.
(VIII ) Israel (4), second son of Israel (3) and Hannah ( Abbott) Towne, was born No- vember 22. 1784-5. at Stoddard. New Hamp- shire, and died at Amherst, New Hampshire. October 25. 1858. He married (first ) June 14, 1812, Clarissa Weld, born December 3, 1795. died January 13, 1815; (second) July 23, 1815, Sarah L. Brazier, born June II. 1796, died May 22, 1874. Children, two by first wife and eight by second wife: Sarah, born February 8, 1813, died April 15, 1813; Clarissa Weld, born October 9. 1814; Maria B., August 7, 1817; Pamelia C., May 1, 1822 ; Hannah C., April 5, 1825; Elizabeth B., March 29, 1827 ; James Weld ; Emily R., June 14, 1832; William Henry, May 27, 1835; Charles G., July 12, 1838.
(IX) James Weld, eldest son of Israel
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(4) and Sarah L. ( Brazier ) Towne, was born May 29, 1829, at Amherst, New Hampshire. There he received his early education, and learned the printer's trade, serving an appren- ticeship to the local paper, the "Farmers' Cabinet." He afterwards spent a short time in Boston, employed as journeyman printer, but becoming interested in the possibilities of the Pacific coast region, after the discovery of gold in 1852 he removed to the then young city of San Franeiseo and engaged in business. A few years later he returned east and married. after which he returned to San Francisco and resided there thirteen years, during which time he was successfully connected with the pioneer printing firm of Whiton, Towne & Company, later Towne & Bacon. In 1868 his health became poor and he returned east, tak- ing up a residenee in East Orange, New Jer- sey, and acting as the New York representa- tive of the paper house of Blake, Moffatt & Towne, of San Francisco. He married (first ) at Amherst, May 29, 1855, Cynthia Gowing, who died July 8, 1875: (seeond) October 3. 1877, Rebecca Eames, of Wilmington. Chil- dren, all by first wife: I. Arthur G., born May 12, 1856. 2. Emma, August 18, 1858; married Hugo Richards; lives in Preseott. Arizona. 3. Carrie. December 18, 1861 : mar - ried Frank W. Wilson, of East Orange, New Jersey. 4. Frank B., January 7, 1865. 5. Edward S. 6. Charles, died 1868. 7. Willie. died 1870. 8. Bessie, December 8, 1871, died 1886. 9. Joseph M., born July 7. 1875.
(X) Edward S., third son of James Weld and Cynthia (Gowing) Towne, was born April 18, 1866, at San Francisco, California. At the age of two years he was brought by his parents to East Orange, New Jersey, where he received his early education, attended the high school, where he graduated, and spent a year at Williston Academy. He then went to New York City, where he entered the employ of a wholesale house dealing in stoves, being con- nected with same about two and a half years, and then spent about the same length of time in the employ of a wholesale paper house. I 1888 he removed to Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he became connected with the National Blank Book Company, of which he is now as- sistant treasurer and secretary. He is a wide- awake progressive business man, and takes in- terest in the public affairs and improvements of Holyoke. He is a man of influence and probity, is a Republican in his political views, and for ten years has been treasurer of the Second Congregational Society and assistant
superintendent of its Sunday sehool. He be- longs to several Masonic orders-the Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Couneil ; Springfield Commandery, Knights Templar, and Melha Temple, Nobles of the Mystie Shrine ; he is thrice illustrious commander of Holyoke Council, by virtue of which he is a life member, and is a member of the grand council of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, through previous ehairs. He is one of the thirteen charter members of the Holyoke Canoe Club, organized Holyoke Yacht Club ; and was the first commodore ; is viee-president of the Holyoke Club, and member of the Springfield Automobile Club. He married. September 14. 1893, at Richmond, Indiana, Joanna Maude, daughter of John D. and Mary E. (Sands) Hogan, and they have one child, Herbert Sands, born October 9, 1899.
AMES This name, which was formerly Amyas, dates back to the early his- tory of England, and the more modern form of the name is of frequent oe- currence in the history of this country, both in military and eivil annals. Coat-of-arms : Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field.
(I) John Ames, of Bruton, Somersetshire, England, was born about 1565. He came to Massachusetts, in 1640, and settled in Bridge- water ; his brother, William, eame in 1638, and settled in Braintree. John was distinguished during King Philip's war and left considerable property. He married Elizabeth Hayward. Children : William (see forward ), John and others.
( II ) William, son of John and Elizabeth ( Hayward) Ames, was born in 1605, died in 1654. He married Hannah -- -. Children : Hannah, Rebecca. Lydia. John (see forward), Sarah and Deliveranee.
(III) John (2), only son of William and Hannah Ames, was born in 1647, died in 1726. He married Sarah, daughter of John and Eliz- abeth Hodgkins ( Palmer ) Willis. Children : John. William, Nathaniel ( see forward), Eliz- abeth, Thomas, Sarah, David and Hannah.
(IV) Nathaniel, son of John (2) and Sarah ( Willis) Ames, was born in 1677, died in 1736. He was an astronomer, captain and town officer. He married Susannah, daughter of John and Sarah (Latham) Howard, and granddaughter of John and Martha (Hay- ward) Howard. Sarah (Latham) Howard was daughter of Robert and Susannah ( Wins- low ) Latham, granddaughter of John and
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Mary (Chilton) Winslow, and great-grand- daughter of Edward and (Gilbert ) Winslow, and of James Chilton, who came in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and died the same year. Edward Winslow was the father of Edward Winslow, the governor of Plymouth Colony. Nathaniel and Susannah ( Howard) Ames had children: Nathaniel (see forward), Susannah. Seth, Sarah, Anne and Mary.
(V) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1) and Susannah (Howard) Ames, was born in 1708, died in 1764. He removed to Dedham, Massachusetts, where he was considered re- markable for his wit and wisdom. He was a physician and possessed of an astrological and litigious turn of mind, and was the author of "The Conceits of Nathaniel Ames." Dr. Ames was a maker of almanacs, and in one of them he predicted a snow storm about June 22; the announcement of such an unheard of thing was received with ridicule, but when the actual fact came true and there was a bona fide snow storm on that summer day, his prognostications were very much trusted, the sales of his future almanacs enormous, and the patrimony of the Ames family became greatly increased. He was known as "The inventor of the June snow storm." He was the keeper of a public inn in Dedham, which was known as the Woodward Tavern. He married (first) Fisher ; ( second) Deborah Fisher. Children : Na- thaniel. Seth, Fisher ( see forward), Deborah, William, Nathaniel, Seth and William.
The line of descent of Deborah Fisher is as follows : Anthony Fisher, born about 1555, of Syleham, Suffolk county, England, married Mary Fiske: Anthony, born in Syleham in 1591. came to Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1637, married Mary -; Daniel, born in Syle- ham, about 1618, came to Dedham in 1637, served as captain of militia, judge of court of assistants and of superior court of judicature, held other offices, and married Abigail Mariott ; Daniel. of Dedham, headed a delegation to Boston in 1689 and was personally active in seizing and imprisoning Governor Andros, married Mary Fuller; Jeremiah, of Dedham, served as captain of militia, selectman, town clerk and other offices, and married Deborah ( Colburn) Richards : their daughter, Deborah, married Nathaniel Ames.
(VI) Fisher, son of Nathaniel (2) and Deborah ( Fisher ) Ames, was born in Dedham, in 1758; died July 4, 1808. He was graduated from Harvard University at the early age of sixteen years. In 1778 he was a member of the state legislature, was elected to congress
from Suffolk county the same year, in opposi- tion to Samuel Adams, and was accounted the youngest member of the house of representa- tives ; was a delegate to the state convention to consider the Federal constitution the same year, and was a member of the governor's council, 1800. He remained in congress during the whole of Washington's administrations and was one of that great man's most trusted friends, and was the leader of the Federal party in the house of representatives. When the first President died the state of Massachusetts selected him as the most proper man to de- liver the state eulogy on Washington. As an orator he was more than most of the agitators of the revolutionary period. His style is calmer than theirs and his classical allusions are more chaste and severe. His information was very extensive, and from this source he drew hundreds of most happy instances. In fact, he rarely argued out a question logically, but intuitively sprang to his conclusion with an apt illustration, a word picture, a startling metaphor or a scintillating epigram. He was more instrumental than anyone else in securing the passage of the earliest copyright law. His influence in New England among the Federal- ists was all-powerful. His hatred of the Dem- ocrats was intense, as indicated in one of his most eloquent speeches when he was inveigh- ing against them and their principles: "If
every gravestone of a departed republic bore a lesson of wisdom and warning, the Demo- crats would shut their eyes rather than look upon it. They have no idea of any principles except their extremes, when they are no longer principles. It never happened in the world, and it never will, that a democracy has been kept out of the control of the fiercest turbu- lent spirits in the society. They breathe into it all their fury and make it subservient to the worst designs of the worst men. All history lies open for our warning-open like a church- yard, all whose lessons are solemn. and chiselled for eternity in the hard stone; lessons that whisper. O! that they would thunder to re- publics, 'Your passions and your vices forbid you to be free!'" Fisher Ames was a most charming personality and possessed of a most admirable character ; pure in private life and above the temptation of worldly gain. Still he did show himself once as a rather practical poli- tician. At the beginning of our national govern- ment the grave, pressing question was what was to be done with the depreciated continental money? Fisher Ames, being a friend of the President. a member of congress, was on the
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inside and knew what was about to happen ; he bought up all the depreciated paper currency he could obtain and reaped a harvest when the nation redeemed the continental bills. He mar- ried Frances, daughter of Hon. John and Han- nah ( Hopkins) Washington. Children: John Worthington, Nathaniel, Hannah, Jeremiah F., William, Seth (see forward) and Richard.
Hannah (Hopkins) Worthington, mother of Frances ( Worthington) Ames, was the daughter of Dr. Samuel and Esther (Ed- wards) Hopkins, the former a distinguished divine, and granddaughter of Timothy Ed- wards, also a distinguished minister in Con- necticut, whose son, Jonathan, followed worth- ily in his footsteps; Jonathan Edwards had a daughter Esther, who married Rev. Aaron Burr and became the mother of Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States. The paternal line of Mrs. Ames is as follows : Hugh Worthington, born about 1400; William, born about 1433, married Jane, daughter of "Norisse of the Speke ;" Richard, born about 1466, mar- ried Jane Holcroft, of Holcroft ; Thomas, born about 1500, married Anne, daughter of Rich- ard Ashton, of Croston; Edward, born about 1533, married Margaret, daughter of John Crell, of Torton ; Thomas, born about 1566, married Dorothy, daughter of Gilbert Langtree, of Lang- tree ; William, married - Bradshaw, of Litherland; Nicholas, married Jane, daughter of Richard Langtree, of Langtree; Alexander ; Nicholas, married Agnes, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Langtree) Worthington; Nich- olas, born about 1620, died in 1683, married (second) Susannah White; John, born 1679, died 1744, married, 1713, Mary Pratt; Hon. John, mentioned above, of Springfield, Massa- chusetts, was born in 1719, died in 1800, was graduated from Yale in 1740.
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