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3. Lydia, September 28, 1673. 4. Philip, Feb- ruary 29, 1676. 5. Abigail, October 27, 1678. 6. Esther, February 23, 1681. 7. John, July 18, 1684. 8. Bethia, April 18, 1689.
(IF) Joseph, son of Philip (I) Tabor, is the ancestor of the Tiverton family. In some places his name has been spelled Job. Chil- dren : I. John. 2. Ebenezer, mentioned below. 3. Mary, married, February 4, 1725, Richard Hart Jr. 4. Susannah. 5. Philip, settled in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Joseph Tabor, was born about 1690, and settled early at Tiver- ton, Rhode Island. He married his cousin, Abigail Tabor, December 1, 1715. She was born May 3, 1693, daughter of his uncle, Thomas Tabor. Children, born at Tiverton : I. Paul, March 30, 1716; resided at Tiverton. 2. i homas, March 30, or October 28, 1717; re -- sided at Tiverton. 3. Mary, August 24, 1719. 4. Joseph, September 21, 1721; mentioned below. 5. Hannah, September 13, 1723. 6. Walter, September 4, 1725, died June 17, 1730. 7. Lydia. October 24, 1728. 8. Walter, Octo- ber I, 1731. 9. Jacob, October 2, 1735.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Ebenezer Tabor. was born at Tiverton, September 21, 1721. He married, November 1, 1743, Abigail Saw- yer, born October 4, 1716, youngest daugh- ter of Josiah and Martha Sawyer. Children, born at Tiverton : 1. Judith, March 6, 1745. 2. Lemuel, December 30, 1748; settled at Adams, Jefferson county, New Jork. 3. Isaac, No- vember 1, 1750. 4. Ichabod, mentioned below.
(V) Ichabod, son of Joseph (2) Tabor, was born at Tiverton, March 11, 1755, died March I, 1835. He resided at Tiverton and Newport, Rhode Island, finally settled at Pawtucket. He married, May 19, 1774, Elizabeth Law- ton, born February 22, 1757, died February 19, 1829. Both are buried at Pawtucket. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Man- chester's company, Colonel Richmond's regi- ment in 1776 and was a pensioner in 1832. He was a deacon of the Pawtucket Baptist Church. Children : I. Joseph, born October 2, 1774, died September 2, 1795. 2. Lawton, August 30, 1776. 3. Nancy, born July 20, 1778, died March 5, 1860 ; married Daniel Wil- kinson. 4. Benjamin, May 18, 1782. 5. Pa- tience, born October 16, 1784, died March 16, 1840 ; married Reuben Jencks. 6. Ruth, Janu- ary 8, 1785 ; married Brown. 7. Isaac, December 23, 1787, mentioned below. 8. Samuel, October 8, 1789. 9. Eliza Knowles, December 29, 1791, died March 6, 1854. IO. John, April 17, 1795. II. Mary, June 10.
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1799, died October 4, 1878; married Samuel Curtis Collyer. 12. Joseph, September, 1801, died July, 1830, at Pawtucket.
(VI) Isaac, son of Ichabod Tabor, was born in Tiverton, December 23, 1787, died January 27, 1857. At the age of ten he re- moved with his parents to Pawtucket where he afterward learned the trade of spinning in the Slater cotton mill. At the age of twenty he went to work at Slatersville, Rhode Island, taking charge of the spinning in the mill there, and later having charge of other departments. Afterward he was in charge of the Slater gen- eral store for thirty years. In 1825 he bought a farm of ninety acres on the Branch Pike road. but he continued to live at Slatersville until 1835. He cleared part of this farm, built a house on it and conducted it the re- mainder of his life. He was a member of the First Baptist Church at Woonsocket for many years, and director and auditor of the Slaters- ville Bank. He was justice of the peace and trial justice of the town of Smithfield. He was a Whig in politics. He married (first) at the Friends Meeting House, October 8, 1809, Hannah Pierce, who died November II. 1848, and was buried in the Friends Burying ground at Union village. but removed later to Slatersville where a beautiful monument was erected by her son Samuel. Isaac Tabor mar- ried ( second) Mercy Smith, born March 12, 1785, died July 8, 1869, and is buried at Slat- ersville. Children, all by first wife: I. Eliz- abeth. July 2, 1810; married, April 14. 1843, Oliver Kelly; resided in Woonsocket ; died January 1. 1799, and is buried at Slatersville. 2. Benjamin Pierce, March 12, 1812, died at Worcester, December 19, 1845 : married, July 3. 1845. Elizabeth Passmore. 3. William Brown. December 31. 1814; married, in 1837, Charlotte Russell : died February 22, 1892. 4. Isaac Jr., February 28. 1817; married (first) in 1844. Rebecca Prewitt; (second) Emily Whitney; he died at Escondido, San Diego, California. 5. George. February 24, 1819, died September II. 1820. 6. Nancy William- son. June 25. 1821, died October 3, 1891 ; married, February 29, 1848, Deacon Ansell Holman. of North Smithfield. 7. Samuel Os- borne. September 20, 1823; mentioned below. 8. Mary Collyer, June 26, 1826, died March IO. 1854, at Pawtucket ; married, August 10, 1847, Alexander Meggett.
(VII) Deacon Samuel Osborne, son of Isaac Tabor, was born in Slatersville, Rhode Island, September 20, 1823, and is (1909) the only surviving member of his father's family.
He attended the public schools at Slatersville, the Manual Training School at Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Wilbraham Academy. When a young man he was clerk under his brother Benjamin in the Slatersville store for three years, and was afterward bookkeeper for a manufacturing concern in Wauregan, Connecticut, four years. He taught school eight winter terms in Millville, Burrillville and Smithfield, farming during the summer. He rented his father's farm until 1853. In the early sixties he accepted a position as book- keeper for the Forestdale Manufacturing Company, and continued with that concern fourteen years, being succeeded by his son Charles. After his father's death he bought the interests of the other heirs in the home- stead and has conducted it since then. He has always been interested in agriculture. He has resided on the homestead for fifty years or more, though since 1894, when he deeded it to his son Walter, the son has conducted it. He deeded other land to his other sons. Once he lost by fire all his machinery and barns, valued at six thousand dollars. He promptly rebuilt, however. In politics he was first a Whig, then a Republican, but in his later years he has been active in the Prohibition party and has been candidate of that party for various local offices and once for lieutenant governor. For a number of years he was supervisor of twelve school sections. He has been a mem- ber of the Thorndike Congregational Church since 1849, was deacon from 1869 to 1904, a period of thirty-five years, and has been super- intendent of the Sunday school, treasurer and clerk of the church at various times. He is trustee of the Slatersville Cemetery Associa- tion : agent for many years of the Pawtucket Fire Insurance Company. A useful citizen, a faithful and consistent Christian, an upright man of affairs, his life has been a model in the community. He enjoys good health in his old age. He has always been a total abstainer.
He married, October 6. 1816, Caroline F. Bowen, born at Scituate, June 19. 1823, died January 3. 1893. at Thorndike, and buried at Slatersville, daughter of Eber and Hannah (Hill) Bowen. Children: I. Benjamin Os- borne, born July 29, 1847; resides on the homestead. 2. Henry Bowen, March 18, 1851 ; lost at sea off Cape Horn, January 7, 1885. 3. George Edgar, October 11, 1852; farmer on the homestead since 1894; deacon of the Congregational church ; married, June 15, 1875, Alice M. Carpenter. 4. Joseph, Oc- tober 21. 1854, died February 10. 1855. 5.
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Hannah Elizabeth, September 6, 1856; mar- ried, January 25, 1883, Frank B. Davis, of Denver. 6. Caroline Bowen, November 3, 1858; married, December 29, 1880, Edward Fitts, superintendent of schools at Mansfield, Massachusetts. 7. Samuel Lincoln, April 23, 1861; farmer and poultry raiser at Branch Village, North Smithfield ; married, September 21, 1882, Lucy Mabel Aldrich. 8. Walter Holman, October 29, 1863 (twin) ; principal of school at Arlington, Rhode Island. 9. Al- bert Lawton, October 20, 1863, (twin), married, October 4, 1889, Mabel B. Cline : he resides at Oak Park, Illinois; piano and organ tuner. 10. Mary Lockwood, May 10, 1865 ; married, April 17, 1890, Herbert Ira Parkis, teller of the Whitinsville National Bank. II. Charles Ayer, mentioned below.
(VIII) Charles Ayer, son of Samuel O. Tabor, was born in Slatersville, in the town of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, November 1, 1866. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He began his business career as clerk in the office of the Forestdale Manufacturing Company and in time became paymaster of the mill. He re- signed in February, 1893, to become paymaster of the Clinton Manufacturing Company at Woonsocket. Rhode Island, and in September, 1894, became paymaster of the Thorndike Company at Thorndike, Massachusetts. He is at present the agent of these mills. Mr. Tabor is a member of Thomas Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Hampden Royal Arch Chapter; of Washington Council, Royal and Select Masters; of Springfield Comman- dery, Knights Templar : of Quaboag Council, Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a Republi- can, in religion a Congregationalist. He mar- ried ( first) June 4, 1890, Clara A. Sandford, died November II, 1899, daughter of William Il. and Julia .A. (Comstock) Sandford. He married (second) October 2, 1901. Harriet Luella Rust, daughter of Robert H. and Har- riet Rust. Children of second wife: I. Har- riet Rood, born April 20. 1903. 2. Charles Stewart. April 13, 1906.
HOOPER William Hooper, immigrant ancestor, came to Massachu- setts at the age of eighteen years. in the ship "James," sailing from Lon- don, July 13, 1635. Hle resided at Reading. Massachusetts, in 1644, and perhaps earlier. He was admitted a freeman May 10, 1648, and both he and wife Elizabeth were members of the church there. He lived in the part of
Reading now Wakefield, and owned consid- erable land. He was a weaver by trade. He married (second) Ruth He was a soldier in King Philip's war, under Captain Daniel Henchman, of Boston, 1675, and of Captain Wadsworth, 1676, unless the record refers to his son of the same name. He died December 5, 1678, aged sixty-one years. His will, dated at Reading, August 5, 1678, names his son William as his principal heir. His widow married Thomas Dutton, of Billerica, November 10, 1684. Children : 1. Mary, born November 24, 1647. 2. James, born and died 1649. 3. Sarah, born December 7, 1659. 4. Ruth, April 15, 1652; died 1653. 5. Ruth, born about April 15, 1653. 6. Rebeckah, Oc- tober 26, 1656. 7. William, November 3, 1658. 8. Hannah, March 31, 1662. 9. Eliz- abeth. August 20, 1665. 10. Thomas, April 2, 1668. 11. John, see forward.
(II) John, son of William Hooper, was born in Reading, July 5, 1670; married Sarah Har- den, born at Braintree, December 3, 1679, daughter of John and Hannah Harden. She married (second) Francis Woods, and died at Bridgewater, May 19, 1749. He was a car- penter by trade. He sold out his land at Reading in 1692, bought a farm at Bridge- water, and built a house there, which was burned in 1708, and he died January 9, that year from injuries received at the fire. Children : 1. John, born at Reading, before 1692: died young. 2. John, born at Brain- tree. November 6, 1697. 3. Thomas, July 20, 1699. 4. William, born at Braintree, Decem- ber 26, 1701. 5. Nathaniel, born at Bridge- water. November 16, 1703. 6. Sarah, Octo- ber 9. 1705. 7. James, mentioned below.
(III) James, son of John Hooper, was born May 4, 1708, at Bridgewater and died June 30, 1784: married, February 10, 1737, Mary, born in 1716, died December 28, 1757, daughter of Isaac and Abigail (Leavitt) Johnson. Chil- dren: I. Abiel, born 1740, died young. 2. Levi, mentioned below. 3. Mary, 1744. 4. James, 1746. 5. Abihail, 1747.
(IV) Levi, son of James Hooper, was bap- tized at Bridgewater, May 16, 1742; married (first ) June 25, 1766, Susanna, born July 7. 1743. died 1771, daughter of David and Eliza- beth (Cook) Leach. He married (second) 1771, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Hall, of Walpole, New Hampshire. He is said to have gone on a whaling voyage to Hudson's Bay when quite young. He enlisted at the age of seventeen in Colonel Thomas Clapp's regiment. General Amherst, April 6, 1759, and served
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until November 1, 1759, in Captain Israel Davis' company ; also in the same company at Louisburg, January I to November 17, 1760; also in Captain Josiah Dunbar's company, March 23 to November 20, 1762. After the service he traveled through the region about Walpole, New Hampshire, and was so pleased with the country that he afterward located there. He was prominent in town affairs, and delegate to the provincial court at Exeter, 1785 ; lieutenant of Walpole company of mil- itia reported to assembly January 4, 1776. He died October 22, 1806. Children: I. Chloe, born October 25, 1767. 2. Levi, August 5, 1770. 3. Susanna, July 19, 1772. 4. Salmon, August 7, 1774. 5. James Winslow, April 17, 1776. 6. James, June 17, 1778; mentioned below. 7. Elisha, September 21, 1781. 8. Sally. April 14, 1783.
(V) James Hooper, son of Levi Hooper, was born June 17, 1778, at Walpole ; married, January 18, 1802, Eleanor, born November 5, 1783. died February 28, 1858, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Levens) Wellington. He was a representative to the general court in 1830. He died May 30, 1867. Children, born at Walpole: I. James, August 31, 1803. 2. Charles, December 1I, 1804; died February 27, 1809. 3. Henry Wellington, November 28, 1807: married Mary Kimball Chase ; chil- dren: Martha A., Edward. Frances, Sarah, Charles, Janet, Josephine. 4. Charles, Decem- ber 16, 1809; married Almira A. Lane. 5. William, February 21, 1812; married Elvira Pulsifer : child : Frank Wellington, a professor in Brooklyn (New York) Institute. 6. Sal- mon, November II, 1814; died October 28, 1817. 7. Ellen, December 10, 1816; married Charles Lysander Jones. 8. Frances, Novem- ber II. 1819; married Lucius Allen Jones ; children : Frank H., Charles W. 9. Harriet, October 12, 1824; married, April 8, 1854. Franklin Way, of Charlestown, New Hamp- shire.
(VI) James (2). son of James (1) Hooper, was born August 31, 1803; married, January 19, 1826. Mary Lane, born September 3, 1801, daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth (Dan- forth) Lane. He died at Cambridge Decem- ber 31. 1877. Children, born at Walpole: I. Lucretia S., October 12, 1829. 2. Warren Lane, December 11, 1832; mentioned below. 3. Isabella Almira, July 24, 1836; married Henry Lane, of Boston, a merchant in New York City many years; children : Henry A., James Warren, Mabel F., Florence B., Eliza- beth Abbott, Richard.
(VII) Warren Lane, son of James (2) Hooper, was born December 11, 1832. He at- tended the public schools of his native town, and when a boy came to Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, where he found employment in the office of the soap factory of C. L. Jones. Af- terward he was engaged in the business of im- porting fruit in the firm of Barrett & Hooper of Boston. He was eminently successful as a merchant, and about 1895 he retired with a handsome competence. Since then he has de- voted his attention to a fine stock farm at Bedford, Massachusetts, widely known as Sunnyside Stock Farm and a model of its kind. He resides at Cambridge. In religion he is a Unitarian, in politics a Republican. He married, in New York City, June 17, 1870, Frances Annabella Hyde, born at Guilford, Vermont, June 15, 1835, daughter of Dr. Fran- ces Dana and Lurissa (Gregory ) Hyde. (See Hyde.) They have no children.
(I) Jonathan Hyde, the immi- HYDE grant, was born in England, in 1626. He came to Cambridge Vil- lage, now Newton, in 1647, and with his brother Samuel purchased two hundred and forty acres of land in 1652. They owned this place in common until 1661. He bought eighty acres more of Thomas Woolson in 1656, and settled on it, his house being about seventy rods north of the meeting house. He was called sergeant in some of the numerous deeds in which he was grantor or grantee. He had twenty-one children-fourteen by the first wife, seven by the second. He married (first ) Mary, daughter of William French, of Billerica : (second) Mary, daughter of John Rediat, of Marlborough. His marriage con- tract with his second wife is on record. In 1702 he gave to the town of Newton half an acre of land for a school site, and is said also to have given a site for a training field. He was selectman in 1691. He settled his own estate before death by deeds to his children. Children by first wife: I. Jonathan, born April 1, 1651 : died young. 2. and 3. Samuel and Joshua, twins, born May 23. 1653. . 4. Joshua. April 4, 1654. 5. Jonathan, April 1, 1655; mentioned below. 6. John, April 6, 1656. 7. Abraham, March 2, 1657. 8. Elizabeth, Sep- tember 4, 1659. 9. Daniel, August 2, 1661, died young. 10. William, September 12, 1662. II. Eleazer, baptized March 11, 1664. 12. Daniel, baptized 1665. 13. Ichabod, born Sep- tember 22, 1668. 14. Joseph, born May 27, 1672. Children of second wife: 15. Hannah,
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born October 14, 1677. 16. Sarah, April I. 1679. 17. Ruth, October 3, 1682. 18. Isaac, October 31, 1685. 19. Jacob, April 9, 168 -. 20. Lydia, March 1, 1689. 21. Ann, August 28, 1692.
(II) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (I) Hyde, was born at Newton, April 1, 1655; married Dorothy Kidder ; died August 2, 1731. Children, born in Newton: I. Jonathan ; men- tioned below. 2. Dorothy. 3. Hannah, April 1, 1677. 3. Mary, September 6, 1678. 4. Elizabeth, May 23, 1680. 5 .- 6. Ebenezer and Sarah, twins, October 17, 1685. 7. Abigail, August 8, 1688. 8. Ebenezer, 1691. 9. James, April 20, 1683. 10. Ann, August 18. 1690. died young. II. Isaac, December 17, 1693.
(III) Jonathan (3), son of Jonathan (2) Hyde, was born in Newton; died 1731 : mar- ried, April 4, 1706, Hannah Dana. He lived at Newton, but owned one hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Canterbury, Con- necticut. Children, born at Newton: Josiah. November 7. 1708: Caleb. 1713; Samuel, Sep- tember 7. 1719; Joshua, mentioned below ; Mary, 1724.
(IV) Joshua, son of Jonathan (3) Hyde, was born at Newton, October 12, 1722. In 1739, Edward Park, of Newton, was appointed his guardian. He settled in Canterbury. Con- necticut, with others of the family. About 1764 he removed to Putnam, Vermont, and bought about two thousand acres of land. which was called the Great Meadows.
(V) Jacob Dana, son of Joshua Hyde, was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, or vicinity, about 1760. He was a physician. He mar- ried Lucy Fitch, of Norwich, Connecticut. They settled at Guilford, Vermont.
(VI) Dr. Francis Dana Hyde, son of Jacob Hyde, was born at Guilford, Vermont, in 1796, and died there 1850. He was a gradu- ate of Yale College, a physician and surgeon of Richmond, Virginia, where he went shortly after leaving college, and practiced for five years, returning later to Vermont, and suc- ceeded to the practice of his father at Guil- ford. He was drowned in West river, a branch of the Connecticut river, with his nine- year old son, while on his way to visit a pa- tient. He married Lurissa Gregory, born at Guilford, daughter of William Gregory, a na- tive of Ashby. Massachusetts, and Sarah (Cutting) Gregory, of Guilford. Children : 1. Clara, married Moses Foster, of Andover. 2. Sarah, died young. 3. Frances A., married Warren I. Hooper. (See Hooper. ) 4. Dana W .. a Cambridge merchant, succeeding Ed-
ward Hyde; married Victoria Cutting; chil- dren: Ethel, married Russell Stearns, of Brookline, Massachusetts; Dana C., a Har- vard graduate. 5. Gertrude A. 6. Helen S., married George Weymouth, of Cambridge : children : Richard Dana Weymouth, died aged twenty-two, and Grace Cromwell Weymouth. 7. George L., married Henrietta, daughter of Dr. Robert Robbins, of Boston.
(For English ancestry see p. 914).
John Swan, immigrant ancestor SWAN of this family, descended doubt- less from the swans of Kent, Eng- land, was born in 1620-I, and brought to this country and raised in the family of Thomas Bittlestone, who provided by will, November 3. 1640, that his wife Elizabeth should be served five years by his " boy, John Swan," and she should then pay him five pounds, showing that he was under some sort of an apprenticeship at the time. Swan became a farmer at Menotomy, now Arlington. He was a member of the Cambridge church, but for some reason was excommunicated in 1684. "It would seem that he was not easily moved from his purposes, good or bad, "for in that day," says Paige, "when excommunication was generally regarded as an effectual bar against salvation, he withstood the power of the church more than twenty years ; but at length, when he had attained extreme old age, he made his peace with the brethren and was restored to communion, December 22, 1706." He died June 5. 1708, aged eighty-eight, as shown by gravestone. He was a proprietor of Cam- bridge in 1642. He had been earlier at Water- town, the town adjoining. He married (first) June 1. 1650, Rebecca Palfrey, died July 12. 1654: (second) March 2, 1655-6, Mary Pratt. of Charlestown, who died February II. 1702, in her seventieth year, daughter of Phineas and Mary ( Priest ) Pratt. Children of First wife: 1. Ruth, born March 10, 1652. 2. Ger- shom, June 30, 1654: married. December 20. 1677. Sarah Holden : died July 2, 1708. Chil- dren of second wife: 3. Samuel, born May 1, 1657 : died June 20, 1678. 4. Mary, born May 2. 1659. 5. Elizabeth, July 14, 1661 : married. July 27, 1687, Ezekiel Richardson. 6. Lydia, born July 28. 1683: 7. John, May 1. 1665 : married, April 11, 1692, Sarah Thompson, of Woburn. 8. Hannah, born February 27, 1667. 9. Mercey, about 1670: died June 23. 1748; married, December 19, 1706, John Perry, of Cambridge. 10. Ebenezer, mentioned below. ( 11) Ebenezer, son of John Swan, was born
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November 14, 1672, and died July 7, 1740. He married, March 2, 1698, Elizabeth Bruce, of Woburn. Children: I. Elizabeth. born March 29, 1699; married, January 8, 1724, Ezra Skinner, of Norton. 2. Sarah, born Feb- ruary 26, 1701 ; married, December 14, 1727, Ephraim Cook, of West Cambridge; died March 24, 1748. 3. Ebenezer, born March 23, 1704. 4. Mary, born March 4. 1706-7; died 1750. 5. Samuel, born April 5, 1711. 6. William, mentioned below.
(III) William, son of Ebenezer Swan, was born in Cambridge January 3, 1713-14, and baptized October 31. following. He was a goldsmith in Boston, and according to the records the only head of family of this sur- name in Boston. About 1752 he removed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, and in 1754 to Worcester. Massachusetts, where he died April 18, 1774, in his fifty-ninth year, and is buried on the common, the gravestone being buried under the sod. He was a leading singer of the first choir of Old South Church in 1770. He married (first) Ruth Polley; he married (sec- ond) Lavinia, daughter of Gershom Keyes. She removed to Northfield with some of her chil- dren after the death of her husband, and died there March 19, 1813, aged eighty-seven years. Children, born in Boston: 1. Sarah, March 7, 1743; died September 3, 1745. 2. William, born March 18, 1745. 3. Thomas, November IO, 1747 ; died December 3, 1748. 4. Lavinia, born August 1, 1749; married July 15, 1779. Jonathan Hunt. 5. Thomas, born August 7, 1751 : married Sally Speakman. Born at Worcester : 6. Edward, February 8, 1754 (bap- tized in Marlborough, February 17, 1754) ; soldier in the revolution, from Worcester ; died in service, 1779. 7. Catherine, born April 12, 1756 ; married. October 5, 1774, Caleb Lyman, of Northfield. 8. Timothy, born July 23, 1758; composer of the hymn tunes "China" and "Poland"; a musician of note ; publisher of "New England Harmony," 1801; died at Northfield. July 23, 1842. 9. Henry, born October 10, 1760; Methodist minister at Rowe, New York. 10. Benjamin, born November 12, 1762. II. Lucretia, February 14, 1764; married, March 5, 1791, John Hubbard. 13. Elizabeth, born April 20, 1767.
(I\') William (2), son of William (1)
Swan, was born March 18, 1745.
(\') Samuel, son of William (2) Swan, was born near Boston, in 1774, and died in 1822. He married Sarah Boyd, probably of the Wor- cester family, born in 1769, died 1848. He re- moved to Wilmington or Marlborough, New
Hampshire, near Northfield, Massachusetts. Children : 1. Salmon, born March 17, 1797; mentioned below. 2. Sarah, January 13, 1799. 3. Polly, February 17, 1801. 4. Clarissa, Feb- ruary 2, 1803. 5. Prudentia, May 28, 1805. 6. Samuel, June 7, 1807. 7. Manning, April 14, 1809. 8. Relief, May 25, 1811. 9. Bar- bara, June 8, 1813. 10. Lucy, March 14, 1816. (VI) Salmon, son of Samuel Swan, was born in Wilmington, Vermont, March 17, 1797, and died at Halifax, Vermont, May 17, 1857. He was a farmer. He bought one hundred acres of wild land, cleared his farm and built his house and barn at Halifax. He became wealthy for his day. He married Mary Harris, born December 5, 1792, died De- cember 21, 1869, daughter of John Harris, of Halifax. Her father was a prosperous farmer, civil engineer and surveyor, active in political affairs, and was fatally hurt while electioneering ; a Whig in politics, a Univer- salist in religion. Children: I. Marian Mel- vina, born March 5, 1822. 2. Mary Amanda, July 25, 1823, died September 21, 1891. 3. Susan Eliza, born March II, 1825. 4. George A .. August 16, 1826; died August 28, 1826. 5. Eunice Harris, born September 12, 1827 ; died August 20, 1870. 6. Henry Salmon, born February 16, 1829: mentioned below. 7. Olive, December 21, 1830. 8. Nancy Louise, December 10, 1832. 9. James Harvey, No- vember 8, 1835.
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