Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 49

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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(III) Leo Herbert, son of Calvin Porter, was born in Florence, Northampton, July 19. 1860. He was educated in the public and high schools of Northampton and learned teleg- raphy. He entered the employ of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com- pany and was promoted from time to time. He was telegraph operator in the Western Union Telegraph office, ticket agent and teleg- rapher in various stations between New Haven and Northampton, and finally freight agent at Northampton, an office lie filled for twelve

years. In 1905 he resigned to accept the office of secretary and treasurer of the Palmer Mountain Tunnel Company, a mining corpora- tion with offices at Northampton and mines at Loomis, Okanogan county, Washington. He has filled this important duty to the present time. He is also engaged in the brokerage business and is interested in the automobile business. He is treasurer of the Porter Garage Company. He is a Republican in politics. He and his family attend the Congregational church. He is a member of the Northampton Club. He married, April 16, 1884, Hattie White, born at Union Grove, Wisconsin, daugh- ter of Ebenezer and Mary Ann (Coon) White. Her father was a native of Hadley, and her mother of Mohawk, New York. (See White, VII). They have one child, Mary Winifred, born at Northampton, March 21, 1886.

. (The White Line-See John White 1).

(IV) Ebenezer, son of Deacon Nathaniel (2) White, was born April 9, 1701, died March 23, 1733. He married, October 28, 1730, Rutlı Atherton, who died April 29, 1785, in her eighty-fifth year. Children: I. Rachel, born about 1731; died unmarried May 25, 1815, aged eighty-three. 2. Ebenezer, mentioned below.

(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1) White, was born about 1733, died October II, 1817. He lived in South Hadley and was in the revolution in Captain Samuel Fairfield's company. Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's regi- ment, from September 29 to December 12, 1778, at Dorchester ; also in Captain Oliver Smith's company, Colonel Eliston Porter's regiment, and marched for the relief of Ben-

nington in 1777. He may have had other ser- vice. He married Sarah Church, who died about 1802, aged about sixty-six, daughter of Samuel Church, of Amherst. Children : I. Sarah, born 1770; married, November, 1787, John Sumner. 2. Jonathan, October 29, 1774. 3. Elijah, mentioned below.

(VI) Elijah, son of Ebenezer (2) White. was born June 28. 1778, died November 24, 1856. He married December 24, 1799, Lucy Pierce, who died October 18, 1855, aged sev- enty-seven, daughter of Josiah Pierce, Jr. Children: 1. Josiah, born August 1, 1800; married Hannah Cushing. 2. Samuel Sumner, May 10, 1803. 3. Ebenezer, September II, 1805 : mentioned below. 4. Delia, January 20, 1808: married, March 28, 1827, Isaac Stall. 5. Margaret Smith, March 20, 1811 ; married. April, 1828, Lewis Tower.

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(VII) Ebenezer (3), son of Elijah White, was born September II, 1805. He resided in Dover, Wisconsin, and married, in 1829, Mary Ann Coon. Among their children was Hattie, born at Union Grove, Wisconsin, married Lee Herbert Porter (see Porter, III).

(For preceding generations see John Dwight 1).

(IV) Captain Edmund Dwight, DWIGHT son of Captain Henry Dwight, was born January 19, 1717. He was a merchant in Boston, Massachusetts, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he died October 28, 1755. He was enterprising, vigorous and though cut off in his prime made his mark in the world. He was a captain in his majesty's service and was an ensign in his company at the taking of Louisburg, June 4. 1745. He married, August 23, 1742, Eliza- beth, daughter of Captain James Scutt. She died in 1764. Children: I. Jonathan, born Tune 16, 1743, mentioned below. 2. James Scutt, February 3. 1745, died August II, 1748. 3. Edmund, April 19, 1747, died November 5, 1749. 4. Elizabeth, June 4, 1749, died Decem- ber 18, 1784. 5. Sarah, October 30, 1751, died June, 1785. 6. Henry, December 22, 1753. died November 12, 1798.

(V) Jonathan, son of Captain Edmund Dwight, was born in Boston, June 16, 1743, died September 5, 1831, at Springfield. He was sent by his father to live with his father's brother, Josiah Dwight, of Springfield ; was kindly received into the family and employed as clerk in his uncle's store there. During the revolution he was a Loyalist and became so unpopular with the Whigs that he retired from business. After the war he resumed, however. and in a measure was restored to public favor. He was a merchant of much enterprise and great energy, vigorous in mind and body, thor- oughly upright and honorable in his transac- tions. He was of medium size and goodly aspect, we are told. He built the church now occupied by the Second Congregational Society of the First Parish. Before his death he divid- ed his estate among his children. Mr. Dwight gave the family name in Springfield the same honor and distinction that Captain Timothy Dwight had at Northampton, Captain Timo- thy Dwight at Dedham and General Joseph Dwight at Stockbridge. He married, October 29, 1766, Margaret Ashley, of Westfield, born September 3, 1745, daughter of Dr. Israel and Margaret Moseley. She died February 8, 1789, and he married (second) March 29, 1790, Margaret Van Veghten Vanderspregel.

of New Haven. She died July 25, 1793, and he married (third) October 13, 1796, Han- nah Buck, of Brookfield, who died May 26, 1824, aged seventy-nine. Children: I. Lu- cinda, born September 10, 1767, mentioned below. 2. James Scutt, July 5, 1769, died March 18, 1822. 3. Margaret, February 5, 1771, died April 24, 1790. 4. Jonathan, Jr., December 28, 1772, died March 29, 1840. 5. Edmund, January 19, 1774, died August 12, 1775. 6. Sophia, September 4, 1776; died February 23, 1803. 7. Edmund, November 28, 1780, died April 1, 1849. 8. Rev. Henry, June 25, 1783 ; died September 6, 1857.

(VI) Lucinda, daughter of Jonathan Dwight, was born in Springfield, September 10, 1767; married, December 19, 1785, Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D. She was a woman of remark- able beauty and superior intelligence. Rev. Dr. Howard was born November 22, 1753, son of Nathan Howard, of Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts ; graduated at Harvard College in 178I and was a tutor there from 1783 to 1785; was installed as pastor of the Congregational church of Springfield and preached from 1785 to 1803. In 1819 he joined the Unitarian forces in Congregationalism. He was a thoughtful, sincere and able clergyman, frank in express- ing his opinions, conservative in expression though liberal in religious creed. They had one child, Lucinda Dwight Howard, mention- ed below.

(VII) Lucinda Dwight Howard, daughter of Rev. Bezaleel and Lucinda ( Dwight) How- ard, was born at Springfield, August 27, 1786, died October 17, 1828. She married, May 4, 1809, Samuel Orne, born August 27, 1786. died July 28, 1830. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1804 and was a prominent lawyer of Springfield. He amassed a large estate. Children: 1. Sophia Dwight Orne. born March 6, 1810; married Dr. Charles Chapin. 2. William Wetmore Orne, mention- ed below.

(VIII) William Wetmore Orne, son of Samuel and Lucinda Dwight ( Howard) Orne, and grandson of Captain William Orne, of Salem, descendant of the famous Orne family of Essex county, was born at Springfield, June 27, 1811, died April 28, 1852. He married, May 6, 1834, Lucy Gassett Dwight, born Janu- ary 20, 1817, daughter of James Scutt and Mary (Sanford) Dwight, mentioned above. William W. Orne was an upright and able man, a useful citizen and a shrewd and enter- prising merchant in his native town. Chil- dren: I. William Wetmore Orne, born Feb-

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ruary 14, 1835 ; merchant in New York, died unmarried August 8, 1862, aged twenty-seven years. 2. James Dwight Orne, September II, 1836; took part in thirty-six engagements in the civil war; captain and provost marshal; wool manufacturer in Philadelphia. 3. Lu- cinda Howard Orne, mentioned below.

(IX) Lucinda Howard Orne, daughter of William Wetmore and Lucy Gassett (Dwight ) Orne, was born October 8, 1840; married (first) George Walter Pratt, a wholesale sta- tioner of New York City, partner in the firm of Pratt, Oakley & Company, afterward in the same business in St. Louis, Missouri. He died at the early age of twenty-seven, and his widow married (second) Dwight Holland, a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Children of George Walter and Lucinda Howard (Orne) Pratt : George Dwight and Lucy Orne.

Henry Gorse lived at Duffield, GORSE Derbyshire, England. He was a silk hose knitter by trade. He had two brothers, namely : Thomas and Sam- uel. Henry Gorse married Hannah Roome, who bore him twelve children, namely : Rachel, Joseph, Henry, James, Ann, Rachel M., Sam- uel, Anna, William, Louise, Feargus I. and William, see forward. Joseph, Henry, James, Samuel and William came to America, and Feargus J. and William are the only ones living. In 1865 he and his wife came to live with their son William at Needham, Massachu- setts. He died there in 1870, his widow in 1872. He was of strong convictions, as an incident of his life at the close of the civil war shows. He took the northern view of slavery and secession, and once when an argument with an advocate of the southern view-point grew heated, he and his antagonist agreed to settle their differences by a set-to with their fists. Notwithstanding his years, Mr. Gorse was the victor.

(II) William, son of Henry Gorse, was born at Duffield, Derbyshire, England, May 26, 1841. He attended the schools of his native county in his boyhood, beginning at the age of twelve to work in a knitting factory, in which he was an apprentice for seven years. He acquired a thorough knowledge of the knitting industry. In 1860 he came to America, landing in Boston and finding employment in Roxbury. From 1861 to 1864 he was employed at his trade in the factory at Needham, Massachu- setts. During the next two years he manu- factured goods on his own account. Then he entered the employ of Lee Brothers, who were

doing an extensive business in the manufacture of knit goods at Needham. From 1871 to 1881 he made surgical elastic bandages for E. K. Hall at Highlandville, Needham. He then en- gaged in business again on his own account and has continued with marked success to the present time. He manufactures elastic hosiery, bandages, abdominal supports and other de- vices for the relief of patients suffering from local weakness or injuries and from certain derangements of the blood vessels and muscles. The importance of this business may be in- ferred from the fact that life itself depends upon these appliances, no other known substi- tute being in existence. The elastic stocking is the most effective remedy for varicose veins. The manufacture of such goods naturally calls for the highest mechanical skill and manipula- tion. Mr. Gorse was the first to start a ma- chine for the manufacture of this elastic ma- terial in New England. The art of interweav- ing rubber with non-elastic material such as cotton, linen or silk was practically unknown in this country until introduced in a factory at Germantown, Pennsylvania, by Vincent Sperry, an English artisan, in 1856. Mr. Gorse learned the trade in a Cheshire factory before coming to this country. As rubber is a perish- able material, the goods containing it are useless in about a year, so practically all the business is on special orders for immediate use. Most of the orders for Mr. Gorse's factory come from within fifty miles of Boston. He is a Republican in politics and much interested in public questions, especially in educational matters and temperance reform. He served on board of selectmen one year and had the largest vote of any man ever elected on the board. He has been an active member of the Sons of Temperance for thirty-five years and has filled the various offices of that order in succession. While worthy patriarch his divi- sion showed the greatest increase in member- ship in its history, with one exception. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, charter member of the Order of the Golden Cross, member of Golden Star and Norfolk Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Highlandville, is trustee, and for thirty years has been a teacher in the Sunday school. He married, December 24, 1861, Phebe Shaw, born April 30, 1842, died August 14, 1908, daughter of Robert and Phebe Shaw, both natives of England. Chil- dren: I. Henrietta, born December 19, 1862, died April 17, 1869. 2. Louise Maria, born

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August 17. 1864. died April 20, 1869. 3. Frank W., born February 22, 1866; settled in Needham; has a factory in same line as his father ; married Mary Thompson, born in Toronto, Canada ; two children: Florence and Marion. 4. Phebe Lilly, born January 25, 1868, married Arthur J. Littlehale, of Need- ham, who is engaged in knitting business there ; children: i. Arthur William Littlehale, born July 29, 1888, employed in the manufacture of surgical elastic bandages and hosiery with William Gorse; ii. Frances Littlehale, born January 1, 1890; iii. Roy F. Littlehale, born February 15, 1891; iv. Louis F. Littlehale, born December 31. 1895; Mr. Littlehale's grandmother died in 1907 at the age of one hundred and three years. 5. Etta Louise, born May 17. 1870, attended the Needham high school : married, June 26, 1901, James B. Les- ter. of Needham, a machinist ; she died Octo- ber 14, 1903. 6. Hannah, born July 8, 1872, attended the Needham high school ; assists her father in his business. 7. Minnie Mary, born August 27. 1874, graduate of the Needham high school in the class of 1893, and from Burdett's Business College, Boston; now her father's stenographer and bookkeeper. 8. William Henry, born July 27, 1878, died aged nine months.

SMITH Richard Smith, immigrant ances- tor, was born in England in 1617. Another and older Richard Smith settled about the same time in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and died about 1644. Some writers think the elder Richard was father of Richard, born 1617, or earlier, but the proof is lacking either for or against the theory. Richard Smith testified in September, 1684. that he was sixty-seven years old, that he came from Martha's Vineyard twenty or forty years since with his vessels, did some work for his brother-in-law, Matthias Treat. He married Rebecca Treat. He was admitted a freeman at Wethersfield in 1669. He received the gift of a home lot from Richard Treat in October, 1649; was collector in 1667; had a grant of land at Nayaug in 1672. He was a contributor to the building fund of the meeting house and was a soldier in King Philip's war. He owned land in New London in 1652. Children: I. Richard, mentioned below. 2. Esther, mar- ried John Strickland. 3. Beriah, married Rich- ard Fox. 4. Bethia, married, August 15, 1684, Joshua Stoddard. 5. Jonathan. 6. Samuel. 7. Joseph, mentioned below. 8. Benjamin.

(II) Joseph, son of Richard Smith, resided two or three years at Middletown, Connecti- cut, prior to 1654-55. In 1665 he had a home- stead recorded to him in Wethersfield, and removed to Rocky Hill, where he was one of the first settlers. He received from the town lands by the river side. He married, about 1653, Lydia, daughter of Thomas Wright. He died in 1673 and the inventory was taken November 25, 1673, amounting to four hun- dred and forty-one pounds, seven shillings, six pence. His wife Lydia was granted adminis- tration of the estate. Before 1687 the widow Lydia had married again, - - Harris. Chil- dren: 1. Lydia, born 1654, married

Cole. 2. Joseph, March, 1657-58; mentioned below. 3. Jonathan, August, 1663. 4. Sam- uel, August, 1667.

(III) Sergeant Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Smith, was born in March, 1657-58, and removed about 1680 to Hadley, Massachu- setts. He was admitted a freeman in 1690. In 1687 he had charge of the grist mill at Mill River, a lonely spot three miles north of the village. He was the first permanent settler at that place, and continued there until his death. He hired a part of the school land for many years, and he or his sons tended the mill most of the time during the Indian wars. The house over the mill had a room with a chimney, and this was apparently the only house for a long period. It does not appear that he or his family spent the nights there until after the permanent peace with the Indians in 1726. After that time he and his son Benjamin each built a small house there and lived in Mill River in 1731. He was a cooper by trade, and in 1696 was appointed sealer of weights and measures, which he was until his death. In the same year he was appointed meat packer and gauger of casks. In 1681 he was among those taxed for the building of the Fort river bridge. He kept an inn in Hadley in 1696, and was selectman in 1696-1707-10, and a member of the school committee in 1720. He died October 1, 1733, aged seventy-six. He married, February II, 1681, Rebecca Dickin- son, who died February 16, 1731, aged seventy- three, daughter of John Dickinson. Children : I. Joseph, born November 8, 1681, mentioned below. 2. John, October 24, 1684, died August 27, 1686. 3. John, January 5, 1687. 4. Rebecca, June II, 1689; married, February, 1712, Joseph Smith. 5. Jonathan, October 28, 1691. 6. Lydia, September 15, 1693; married, De- cember 26, 1720, Joseph Chamberlain. 7. Ben-

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jamin, January 22, 1696; married Elizabeth Crafts; died July 1, 1780. 8. Elizabeth, De- cember 22, 1701 ; died February 15, 1728.

(IV) Joseph (3), son of Sergeant Joseph (2) Smith, was born in Hadley, November 8, 1681, died October 21, 1767. He lived on the homestead and cared for the grist mill. He succeeded his father as sealer of weights and measurer, meat packer, and gauger of casks. He was also a cooper by trade. He was in the fight with the Indians in Deerfield meadows, February 29, 1704. He served as selectman of Hadley in 1735-37. He married, in 1715, Sarah Alexander, who died January 31, 1768. Children: I. Alexander, born October II, 1717, mentioned below. 2. Edward, March 26, 1719. 3. Reuben, April 2, 1721. 4. Sarah, November 9, 1722 ; married, December 3, 1747, Windsor Smith; died September 1, 1772. 5. Thomas, December 6, 1725.

(V) Alexander, son of Joseph (3) Smith, was born in Hadley, October II, 1717, in that part of the town which became Amherst, and died September 21, 1787. His estate was among the largest in Amherst and he was elected surveyor at the first town meeting. He kept a tavern on West street, south of the meeting house, from 1758 to 1783. He fought in the Indian war in 1754. He married, in 1743, Rebecca Warner, of Westfield, who died November 26, 1801, aged eighty-seven. Chil- dren: 1. Nathaniel Alexander, born February 22, 1744. 2. Hannah, January 12, 1746; mar- ried Oliver Lovell. 3. Joseph, January 4, 1748, died January 22 following. 4. Joseph, April II, 1750, mentioned below. 5. Rebecca, March 4, 1751, died March 10, 1752. 6. Re- becca, December 3, 1753; married (first) Lemuel Childs and (second) Martin Cooley ; died August 29, 1809. 7. Elias, February II, 1756. 8. Samuel, September 4, 1758.

(VI) Joseph (4), son of Alexander Smith, was born April 11, 1750. He married Eunice Goodman, daughter of Nathan Goodman, of Hatfield. Children: I. Nathan, born Decem- ber 4, 1776. 2. Sereno, March 27, 1779, men- tioned below. 3. Docia, September 16, 1783. 4. Parks, September 2, 1788. 5. Chester, Oc- tober 12, 1791. 6. Joseph, February 12, 1796.

(VII) Sereno, son of Joseph (4) Smith, was born March 27, 1779, died January 22. 1852. He was selectman of Hadley in 1841. He married, January 29, 1807, Betsey, daugh- ter of David Stockbridge. Children: I. Ed- mund, born December 19, 1808. 2. Theodocia, May 26, 1810; married George Allen. 3. Ches- ter, March 22, 1811. 4. Maria, February 19,

1813; married Francis Forward. 5. Elizabeth, May, 1816, died June 16, 1819. 6. Hinsdale, March 2, 1819, mentioned below. 7. Rufus, died aged four months.

(VIII) Hinsdale, son of Sereno Smith, was born in Hadley, March 2, 1819. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. In 1840 he engaged in the leaf tobacco busi- ness in New York and was the head of the firm of Hinsdale Smith & Company at time of his death. His partners were his son, Edmund H., and his nephew, Enos Smith, son of Ches- ter and Mary Ann (Smith) Smith. In politics he was a Republican; in religion a Congre- gationalist. He married (first) July 27, 1843, Lucy C. Root, of Feeding Hills, Massachu- setts. She died September 13, 1865, and he married (second) Pamelia C. Eastman, born October 1, 1831, daughter of Charles East- man. Children of first wife: I. Julia R., born August 8, 1844, died June, 1901. 2. Albert Palmer, October 22, 1846, died December 3, 1846. 3. Lucy M., October 26, 1848; married Francis H. Stoddard, professor in the New York University. 4. Edmond Harvey, Sep- tember 16, 1851, mentioned below. 5. Frank Stockbridge, September 10, 1853, died June, 1897. 6. Claribel H., December 11, 1863. Chil- dren of second wife: 7. Arthur Parks, May 24, 1868. 8. Hinsdale Jr., September 10, 1869.

(IX) Edmond Harvey, son of Hinsdale Smith, was born in Feeding Hills, Massachu- setts, September 16, 1851. He received his education in private schools and in Germany, and when a young man became associated with his father as partner in the firm of Hins- dale Smith & Company, leaf tobacco packers, New York and Springfield. After his father's death he continued the business in partnership with Enos Smith, his cousin. His home is at 75 Mulberry street, Springfield. He is a Re- publican in politics. He married (first) April 26, 1882, Annie M. L., born December 19, 1861, died March 30, 1896, daughter of James Parker. He married (second) March 9, 1898, Cora W., born October 27, 1869, daughter of William Atkinson. Children of first wife: I.

Bradford Palmer, born May 20, 1884; gradu- ate of Colgate University (A. B. 1908). 2. Theodore Ripley, July 17, 1885; graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1910. 3. James Parker, September 17, 1886; student at Col- gate University, class of 1911. 4. Rodney Lawrence, April 14, 1888; student at Colgate, class of 1912. 5. Edmond Harvey, March 30, 1896, died August 31, 1896. Child of second wife : 6. Julia Edmond, January 25, 1902.

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The origin of the name is the

WOOD same as that of Bywood, Atwood, etc., all being originally designa- tions of persons from the location of their homes in or near woods, similar in derivation to the names Hill, Pond, Rivers, Lake, Bridges, etc. The medieval spelling of this surname was Ate Wode, afterwards modified to Atwood and in a majority of cases to Wood, as the prefixes Ap, Mc, De, Le were dropped in other surnames. Almost every conceivable wood in England surnamed some family in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. In Domesday Book the name is found in its Latin form de Silva in county Suffolk. Some branches of the family have retained the ancient form of spelling to the present time, and the name Atwood is common in the United Kingdom as well as America. Among the American immigrants were Philip Atwood, who settled at Malden, Massachusetts, married Rachel Bacheller, Elizabeth Grover and Eliz- abeth -; and Herman Atwood, cord- wainer, who came from Sanderstead, county Surrey, fifteen miles from London, to Boston before 1643; deacon of the Second Church; died 1651, and from the several immigrants at Plymouth, many of whose descendants settled upon the spelling Wood. In fact, the Ply- mouth Atwoods, even the immigrants them- selves, used the two spellings interchangeably to judge from the records.

(I) Thomas Wood, of Rowley, Massachu- setts, came to New England probably soon after 1650. He married, April 7, 1654, Ann Todd (or Hunt), and they made their home in Rowley, Massachusetts, where he appears to have been a quiet and industrious citizen. He died there in September, 1687, and was buried on the twelfth day of the month. His widow survived until December 20, 1714. All of their children were born in Rowley. Among old family papers now preserved by a descendant in Worcester is a record written possibly by Ebenezer Wood, grandson of Thomas, giving the information that Thomas and Ann Wood came from Yorkshire, England, to Rowley. Children : Mary, John, Thomas, Ann, Ruth, Josiah and Elizabeth (twins), Samuel, Solo- mon, Ebenezer and James.

(II) Captain Ebenezer, sixth son of Thomas and Ann Wood, was born December 29, 1671, in Rowley, and settled in Mendon, Massachu- setts, where he died in 1736. He drew land there May 18, 1720, December 27, 1729, and at various other times. With his wife he was dismissed from the Rowley church to the

Mendon church, July 14, 1717. He married, April 5, 1695, Rachael Nichols; children : James, Ebenezer, Jonathan, David, Samuel, Jane, Moses and Eliphalet.

(III) Lieutenant Jonathan, third son of Captain Ebenezer and Rachael (Nichols) Wood, was born November 2, 1701, (1702 in family records), in Rowley, and settled in Upton, where his younger children were born. He was about sixteen years of age when with his father's family he went to Mendon. He bought a number of lots of land in that town in 1723, and the records of the town show that he added to his holdings almost yearly. His first wife bore the name of Margaret. He married (second) in 1750, (intentions dated January 2) Dorothy Crosby, of Shrewsbur- Only one child is recorded in Mendon, bur probably others were born there. The first wife was the mother of all his children, namely : Ezra, born about 1725; Daniel, March 28, 1735 ; Jonathan, Lois, Simeon and Eunice.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 49

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886