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(V) Nathaniel, son of Deacon Henry Mor- rill, was born November 1, 1762, and died in 1844. He was a soldier in the revolution, from Hawke, New Hampshire, a recruit in the Con- tinental army in 1780, mustered at Kingston, by General Josiah Bartlett, and sent to Wor- cester, Massachusetts. He gave his age in 1780 as eighteen. He resided at Hawke and Sanbornton, New Hampshire. He was tax collector of Hawke before removing in 1801 to Sanbornton, where he owned lot 40, second division, near the Pennigewasset. He was a farmer, kind, benevolent and industrious. He married (first) June, 1783, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Edward Eastman. She died November 15, 1841, aged seventy-nine years. Her grave- stone quotes the lines: "Welcome day that ends the cares of my declining years." He married (second) Sally (Johnson) Flanders, widow of Eliphalet Flanders. He died Janu- ary 20, 1844, of paralysis, aged eighty-two
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years, and was buried on the farm. From his epitaph we quote :
"I've come to rest from mortal cares Beside the partner of my years."
Children of first wife, born at Sanbornton, except the eldest : I. Henry, May 5, 1784, bap- tized at Hawke. 2. Sarah, July 5, 1786; mar- ried David Shaw. 3. Susanna, December 14, 1788; married Samuel George. 4. Edward, June 21, 1791. 5. Nancy, May 9, 1793 ; mar- ried May 31, 1819, John Colby Jr. 6. Oba- diah Eastman, March 21, 1786. 7. Folsom, December 9, 1798; mentioned below. 8. Bet- sey, March 1, 1801 ; married John Simonds. 9. Huldah Weeks, October 3, 1804 : married Dea- con Joseph Fellows. 10. Nathaniel, December 13, 1807.
(VI) Folsom, son of Nathaniel Morrill, was born at Hawke, New Hampshire, December 9, 1798. He inherited half his father's home- stead at Sanbornton, and bought the other half of his brother Edward Morrill. He built a house north of his father's on the bank of the Penningewasset. He was a farmer and lumberman, and became one of the wealthiest and most influential men of his native town. He married, March 10, 1825, Rosilla, daugh- ter of Bradbury Morrison. She died Febru- ary 16, 1874, in her seventy-second year. Children, born at Sanbornton : I. Asa Morri- son, April 4, 1826 ; died July 8, 1849. 2. Na- thaniel Folsom, April 26, 1829 (twin) ; mar- ried Catherine A. Wilder, of New Ipswich, born April 20, 1834; resided 1875-80 in Wel- lesley, Massachusetts. 3. Bradbury Morri- son, (twin with Nathaniel), mentioned below. 4. Ambrosia Rosilla, November 24, 1836; married, December 31, 1873, Rev. Elisha H. Wright, born October 22, 1835; he was the Christian Baptist minister at Manchester and Hill, New Hampshire, in Connecticut, and Bristol, Rhode Island : after 1850 officiated at Hill, New Hampshire; children: i. Robert Wright, born October 3, 1877. 5. Obadiah, February II, 1844 : insurance broker at Con- cord ; married, January 1, 1874, Lilla W. Put- nam, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
(VII) Bradbury Morrison, son of Folsom Morrill, was born at Sanbornton, April 26, 1829. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He served two years and a half in the Twelfth New Hampshire Regi- ment in the civil war, and was wounded in the wrist at the battle of Gettysburg. He was first lieutenant of his company, when he re- signed on account of disability caused by his wound. In early life he was a daguerreotype iv-24
artist, and lived in various towns in New Hampshire. He became an insurance agent at the bridge ; was associated with his father at farming on the homestead in 1875-77. He removed to Claremont in 1878. His last years were spent at the home of his daughter at Roslindale, Massachusetts, where he was kill- ed in a railroad accident, April 26, 1892. In politics he was a Republican, and in religion a Universalist. He married (first) June 25, 1851, Ellen S. Sumner, died July 7, 1853, in her twenty-fourth year, daughter of George W. Sumner, of Hill, New Hampshire. He married (second) September 4, 1856, Anne E. Proctor, born May 14, 1834, died June 5, 1873, aged thirty-nine, sister of Professor John Carroll Proctor, of Dartmouth. Chil- dren by second wife, born in Sanbornton: I. Ellen S., August 1I, 1857; died November 29, 1859, of scalding from an accident. 2. Harvey Folsom, April 27, 1861. 3. Alice Bradbury, January 25, 1863; married Fred DeForest Rand, of Roslindale, Massachu- setts. (See Rand).
The first settler in New Eng- SIMPSON land by the name of Simpson was John of Watertown, Massachusetts, although about the same time Henry Simpson came from England and set- tled in York, Maine. He was there before 1640, and his only known son, Henry Simp- son, was born about 1647 and died in 1695. From Henry Jr. most of the Simpsons of Maine are descended. The Simpson family of Nottingham, New Hampshire, traces its an- cestry to Andrew Simpson, who was born in Scotland in 1697, married Elizabeth Patten, who was killed by the Indians; married ( sec- ond) Widow Brown, of York, Maine.
According to the history of Windham, New Hampshire, two more immigrants named Simpson are the progenitors of the Windham families of this name. Alexander Simpson, a weaver by trade, was the immigrant ancestor of most of them; was of Scotch descent com- ing from Ulster, Ireland, to Windham, where he bought land of James Wilson, November 24, 1747, with his brother-in-law, Adam Tem- pleton, a maker of spinning wheels.
(I) William Simpson, the other immigrant, according to the Windham history, came also from the north of Ireland, of Scotch Presby- terian stock, and settled in Greenland, form- erly Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His rela- tionship with Alexander is not known, but it is likely that he was a nephew or cousin, in-
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ferred both from the fact that they lived in the same town and from the similarity of names and close affiliation of the families. Jo- seph Simpson, who settled at Pembroke, was probably a brother of William ; two of his chil- dren married Simpsons from Greenland. It is presumed that Joseph Simpson, of Pembroke, William Simpson, of Greenland, and perhaps Thomas Simpson, of Haverhill, New Hamp- shire, were sons of a brother of Alexander, of Windham, and related to - Andrew Simp- son, of Nottingham. There were sev- eral of the name William Simpson in the revolution from New Hampshire. William Simpson, of Newmarket, perhaps this Wil- liam later of Greenland, was a shipwright en- listed in the army ; William Simpson, of Not- tingham, was a soldier, and likewise William, of Pembroke, of whom we know nothing fur- ther. William Simpson, of Greenland, was an active patriot, and in 1781 was one of the selectmen of that town. William Simpson married Mary Haynes, of Portsmouth. Chil- dren: I. Joseph, came to Windham about 1788 and lived where the T. W. Simpson house now stands; built Simpson's mills soon afterward ; married Jennie Wilson. 2. George, born in Greenland in 1767 ; removed to Wind- ham in 1783, and to Rumney, New Hamp- shire, in 1809; married Mary, daughter of Thomas Lang, of Lee, New Hampshire. 3. Samuel, mentioned below. Probably others.
(II) Samuel, son of William Simpson, was born July 13, 1779, in Greenland. New Hamp- shire, and came in 1812 to Rumney, a few years after his brother George settled there. He resided on the farm owned later by Blais- dell Merrill. His widow Sarah lived to be a great-great-grandmother. She was born April 25, 1782, died February 7, 1880. Her maiden name was also Simpson and she be- longed to the Greenland family, doubtless first or second cousin of her husband. Her sister Lydia married Nathan Clifford (6), Nathaniel (5), Isaac (4), Israel (3). John (2). George (1), and was the mother of seven children, of whom Hon. Nathan Clifford was a justice of the supreme court of the United States. At West Rumney Samuel Simpson cleared the farm now known as the B. H. Merrill place of one hundred acres, built first a log cabin and later a frame dwelling house. Afterward he also owned a farm in Groton. New Hamp- shire. He was the first farmer in this section to make a business of raising mules for which he found a good market at Portsmouth. Chil- dren: 1. Hugh B., mentioned below. 2. Ben-
jamin, married Charlotte Smith and had two children, Warren, and Arthur, whose son re- sides at Lockport, New Hampshire. 3. James M., settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts ; married (first) -; (second) Olive E. Simp- son, who is now living at Charlestown; chil- dren of second wife: Alice, Lizzie, Nellie, all school teachers. 4. Samuel, resided on the farm in Rumney ; married Fannie Elliott and had five children. 5. Albert, settled at Charles- town, Massachusetts ; married Caroline Whit- tle ; children : I. Carrie, unmarried ; ii. Albert of Rutland, Vermont ; iii. Mabel. 6. John. 7. Uylsses. 8. David.
(III) Hugh B., son of Samuel Simpson, was born in Greenland, New Hampshire, about 1800-05. He came with his father to Rumney in 1809. He attended the district schools of Rumney and left home when a boy to enter upon a mercantile career in Boston. For a time he studied for the Universalist min- istry, but his health failed. He returned to Rumney and cared for his parents in their old age. He bought a hotel at West Rumney and conducted it, in addition to his farm and gen- eral store there, until he sold out to his son, Clinton B. Simpson, in 1861. He was a Demo- crat in politics and held various offices of trust and honor. He was appointed postmaster of Rumney by President Buchanan ; was select- man of the town and represented it in the state legislature. He died in 1879. He mar- ried in 1836, Sarah A., born December 1, 1811, died August 3. 1882, daughter of John and Mary ( Murray) Edmunds, of Charlestown. Children : I. Clinton B., born July 10, 1840 ; succeeded his father in business in Rumney and is a prominent citizen there ; married Elvi- ra Smith : children: Edward H., Charles Al- bert, Carrie M., Arthur H. ; married (second) in 1882, Augusta Valentine : children : Edith. Hattie, Clinton. 2. Charles E .. March 2. 1845, mentioned below. 3. Mary C., 1849, died in 1872.
(IV) Charles Everett, son of Hugh B. Simpson, was born in Rumney, March 2, 1845. He attended the public schools in his native town. In 1864 he came to Charlestown and for ten years was in the employ of the Mid- dlesex Railway Company. He then engaged in the retail grocery business in Somerville. Massachusetts. In 1882 he established him- self in the confectionery business at Cam- bridge. Afterwards he became a member of the firm of H. J. Bushway Ice Company. At the end of five years he sold his interests in the ice business to Mr. Bushway and retired from
Charles Everettehmpson
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active business. He is a member of Putnam Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cam- bridge Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Cam- bridge Commandery, Knights Templar ; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine; Howard Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows; Bunker Hill Encampment of Charlestown ; Cambridge Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, October 15, 1873, Florence, born September 18, 1852, daughter of David and Tabitha (Lewis) Simpson. Their only child, Lewis Everett, born March 23, 1879, died young.
Joseph Morse, immigrant an-
MORSE cestor of this branch of the family in New England, was born in England about 1587. He settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was a pro- prietor in 1637. He was a planter. His son Joseph, who was also in Ipswich, later of Watertown, came earlier. Joseph, the father, married, in England, Dorothy His will, dated April 24, 1646, bequeathed to wife Dorothy and sons Joseph, John, and daugh- ter Hannah. Children : I. Joseph, mentioned below. 2. John, died 1694-95; married Dinah ; resided in Ipswich, Groton and Watertown. 3. Hannah, married, June 8, 1665, Thomas Newman, at Ipswich.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) Morse, was born in England, in 1610, and came to America in the ship "Elizabeth", of Ipswich, England, sailing April 30, 1634. He settled finally at Watertown, Massachusetts. He was then twenty-four years old. In 1636 he was one of the proprietors of Watertown. He died there March 4, 1690, and his estate was administered by his son John. He married Esther, daughter of John and Elizabeth Pierce, of Watertown. Children : I. Joseph, born April 3, 1637. 2. Deacon John, born February 28, 1639, mentioned below. 3. Jonathan, buried May 12, 1643, at Water- town. 4. Jonathan, born November 7, 1643, died July 31, 1686 ; town clerk of Groton, etc. 5. Esther, born March 7. 1645-46, married, December 22, 1669, Jonathan Bullard : lived at Watertown. 6. Sarah, married, June, 1669, Timothy Cooper ; lived at Groton. 7. Jeremiah, died September 27, 1719, at New- ton ; proprietor of Groton. 8. Isaac, lived at Newton ; wife died in 1714.
(III) Deacon John, son of Joseph (2) Morse, was born in Groton, February 28, 1639, died in Watertown, July 23, 1702. He served as ensign in the militia. He was con-
stable and as commissioner in 1689 and 1694. In 168I he was tithingman, and in 1694 and 1697 sealer of leather, showing that he was probably a tanner or cordwainer by trade. In 1692 he was serving in the army and the court ordered that his wife should be allowed a part of his wages while he was in the ser- vice. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married (second) in Watertown, April 27, 1666, Abigail Stearns, who died October 15, 1690, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Bark- er) Stearns. He married (third) Sarah
who as his widow gave bonds on his estate, which was administered by his son James. Children : I. Lydia, born April 6, 1660, died young. 2. John, born April 7, 1664, died young. 3. John, born in Watertown, May 10, 1666, died young. 4. James, born No- vember 25, 1668, married, April 27, 1699, Abi- gail Morse ; died 1718. 5. John, born March 15, 1669-1670, married (first) January 8, 1689, Elizabeth Godding; (second) Hepsebeth Stone. 6. Joseph, born August 25, 1671, mentioned below. 7. Abigail, born Decem- ber 23, 1673, died March 6, 1674. 8. Abigail, born August 6, 1677, married John Park- hurst ; died October 18, 1726. 9. Isaac, born January 7, 1679, died November 25, 1694. 10. Samuel, born June 21, 1682. II. Nathaniel, baptized January 29, 1687-88.
(IV) Joseph (3), son of Deacon John Morse, was born August 25, 1671, died while on a visit to Guilford, Connecticut, June 24, 1709. He married, August 25, 1691, Eliza- beth Sawtelle, who administered his estate August 12, 1709. She married (second) Feb- ruary 16, 1713-14. Benjamin Nourse, of Framingham. Children: I. Elizabeth, born 1691, married, October 24, 1712, John Thacher. 2. Joseph, born August 19, 1693, married Elizabeth Park. 3. Abigail, born January 1, 1696, married, 1718, Joshua Hem- ingway. 4. Zachariah, born August 12, 1699, married, November 16, 1724, Huldah Whit- ney. 5. Samuel, born July 7, 1702, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan, born February 10, 1704, married, May 17, 1734, Mary Cloyes. 7. Elizabeth, baptized March 6, 1708, married, December 10, 1730, John Cloyes.
(V) Samuel, son of Joseph (3) Morse, was born in Watertown, July 7, 1702, died April 25, 1782. His will was dated January I, 1778. He settled in Wrentham, where he was a blacksmith. He married ( first) June 7. 1732, Sarah Hill, born in Sherborn, November II, 1705, daughter of John and Hannah (Rockett) Hill. He married (second) in
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Wrentham, May 12, 1741, Sarah Puffer, who died February 8, 1772. He married (third) June 1, 1778, Sarah Parker. Children : I. Samuel, born May 4, 1733, mentioned below. 2. Benoni, born April 23, 1734. 3. Sarah, born May 16, 1735, married Ebenezer Allen. 4. Hannah, born August 20, 1736, married, November 27, 1755, Dr. Ebenezer Metcalf.
(VI) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Morse, was born in Wrentham, May 4, 1733, died in Franklin, June 3, 1798. His home was in that part of Wrentham which was in- corporated as Franklin. He was a blacksmith by trade. He married in Wrentham, June 15, 1758. Sarah Day, who died January 23, 1800, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Day. In 1773. with his wife Sarah, he deeded one-half his property in Wrentham to his son Samuel. Children, born in Wrentham and Franklin: I. Samuel, born June 10, 1759, died in the army at Fort George, July 26, 1776. 2. David, born January 10, 1761, died September 7, 1778. 3. Jason, born October 19, 1762. 4. Sarah, born December 17, 1764. 5. Peggy, born Decem- ber II, 1766. 6. Levi, born October 30, 1768, married, November 17, 1790, Keturah Fisher. 7. Joseph, born June 18, 1770. 8. Susannah, born January 10, 1773, died September 19, 1778. 9. Lois, born January 3, 1775, died September 19, 1778. 10. Samuel, born Janu- ary 3, 1779, mentioned below. II. Hannah, born June 3, 1783, married, November 6. 1806, Solomon Blake; died November 24. 1856.
(VII) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Morse, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, January 3, 1779. He settled in Waldobor- ough, Maine. He married, May 22, 1808. Olive Pond. born January 17. 1786, daughter of Robert and Olive ( Richardson) Pond, of Franklin. Her father was born at Wren- tham, December 29, 1755. died October 19, 1839; married, October 12, 1780, Olive Rich- ardson ; was a soldier in the revolution in Cap- tain Elijah Pond's company in 1775; in Cap- tain Asa Fairbank's company, Colonel Ben- jamin Hawes' regiment; in Captain John Gale's company, Colonel Eben Francis's regi- ment ; in Captain John Metcalf's company, Major Seth Bullard's regiment, in Rhode Is- land, 1780. Ezra Pond, father of Robert Pond, was born February 2, 1720, died August 24. 1758; married, January 14, 1714-15, Rachel Adams : lived on the estate of his grandfather. Robert Pond, in what is now Franklin; his second wife Rebecca died March 8, 1805. Ezra Pond, father of Ezra Pond, was born in Wren-
tham and lived in the part set off as Franklin; was town clerk ; married, November 26, 1718, Abigail Farrington, who died April 19, 1759; married (second) April 1, 1761, Margaret Metcalf. Robert Pond, father of Ezra Pond Sr., was born at Dedham, August 5, 1667, and settled at Wrentham; was a carpenter by trade ; married (first) Joanna (Lawrence ?) ; (second) January 16, 1728-29, Abigail Fisher ; ( third ) November 17, 1747, Sarah Shuttle- worth; he died July 3, 1750. Daniel Pond, father of Robert Pond, was the immigrant; he settled in Dedham ; married Abigail, daugh- ter of Edward Shepard. Children of Samuel and Olive (Pond) Morse, born at Waldobor- ough : I. Eliza A., born May 4, 1809, married James Hovey, of Waldoborough. 2. Sarah B., born November 18, 1811, married Franklin Brooks, of Coolege Hill or Cincinnati, Ohio. 3. Susan P., born December 4, 1814, married William Barnard, of Waldoborough. 4. Olive Richardson, born January, 1817, married Dea- con Selwyn Bancroft, of Lowell, Massachu- setts. 5. Mary Jane, born November 12, 1820, married Warren Ellis, of Newton Center, Massachusetts. 6. Harriet Newell, born Jan- mentioned below.
(VIII) Samuel Mills, son of Samuel (3) Morse, was born in Waldoborough, December 8. 1829. He attended the district school, and worked in his father's tannery and on the homestead during his boyhood. He was twen- ty years old when he left home to join a party of Forty-niners bound for the gold fields of California. He sailed from Boston in Janu- ary, 1850, on the ship "Rob Roy", making the voyage around Cape Horn in one hundred and ninety-six days, encountering much rough weather and many dangers. For three years he remained in the mining districts of Cali- fornia, and in 1853 sailed from San Francisco to Australia, where he spent nine months in Sidney and Melbourne. Then he proceeded to the Australian gold fields. He went from Australia to Callao, Peru, and then by steamer to Panama, crossed the isthmus by mule back, and sailed from Aspinwall to New York, whence he returned to Waldoborough. In 1855 he engaged in shipbuilding in his native town, and continued until that industry suf- fered a decline, also conducting a general hardware business. In order to give his chil- dren better educational advantages, he moved to Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1872, and there established himself in the book and sta- tionery business, continuing there for the fol- lowing eleven years. In 1883 he located at
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Orange City, Florida, and engaged in growing and shipping oranges. He has made his home there to the present time. In politics Mr. Morse was first a Whig, but upon the forma- tion of the Republican party joined its ranks and served as mayor of Orange City, Florida. He is a Congregationalist in religion, and while in Nashua, New Hampshire, served as deacon. He married (first) November 2, 1858, Frances Boyd, born September 20, 1835, at Hadley Hill, Goffstown, New Hampshire ; she died September 22, 1879. He married ( second) Sarah Louise Dunkley, born in Con- cord, New Hampshire, August 18, 1838, died July 2, 1907. He married (third) Mrs. Frances E. Manville, of Orange City, Florida. Children of first wife: I. Charles Hadley, born at Waldoborough, July 18, 1862. 2. Mary Olive, Waldoborough, August 28, 1864, graduate of the Nashua high school, student one year at Wellesley College ; teacher at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, one year ; returned home for a time and is now and has been since 1889 principal of the National Normal School at Mendoza, Argentine Republic, South Amer- ica. 3. Fred Samuel, born July 31, 1866, mentioned below. 4. Edna F., born April 26, 1870, died aged four months.
(IX) Fred Samuel, son of Samuel Mills Morse, was born in Waldoborough, July 31, 1866. He left Waldoborough with the family when he was six years old and attended the public schools of Nashua. At the end of his second year in the Nashua high school he left to engage in the lumber business at Burling- ton, Vermont, where he spent the following four years. He was in the employ of the Jack- son Manufacturing Company of Nashua in the winter of 1887-88, of the Export Lumber Company of Boston in 1888-89, and from 1889 to 1895 was with A. C. Dutton (whole- sale lumber), of Springfield, Massachusetts. During the following four years he was a trav- eling salesman for the lumber firm of Rice & Lockwood Lumber Company, with headquar- ters at Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1899 he engaged in the wholesale lumber business on his own account with offices in Springfield. In 1905 his business was incorporated as the Fred S. Morse Lumber Company, of which he is the president, treasurer and general man- ager. In religion he is a Congregationalist and in politics a Republican. He is a member of Springfield Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons : Springfield Commandery, Knights Tem- plar : Edward A. Raymond Consistory, thirty-
second degree, of Nashua, New Hampshire, and Melha Temple, Ancient Arabic Order No- bles of the Mystic Shrine. He married, Feb- ruary 21, 1900, Nellie Gloyd, born December 10, 1870, daughter of Benjamin Mahlon and Emily Frances (Booth) Gloyd. They have one child, Samuel Boyd, born August 28, 1907.
This has been a leading fam- RUMRILL ily in the Connecticut Valley since the "memory of man runneth not to the contrary". It has ever furnished its quota of soldiers to its afflicted country when soldiers were needed, and in the piping times of peace it has been con- cerned in the railroad development of west- ern Massachusetts and in material and in- tellectual growth of the splendid city on the banks of the tide-seeking Connecticut. With its cross-currents and comingling of the Pierce, Bliss and Chapin stock, it has an an- cestral tree to be proud of. To-day the fam- ily stands for what is best in the social, finan- cial and educational growth of Springfield.
(I) Simon Rumrill was of Enfield, Con- necticut, as early as 1672 ; in that year he was a fence-viewer. In 1680 he was granted thirty acres on Great river, and in 1683 lot No. 39, including five acres of meadow and two of field ; in 1885 was granted a home lot of five acres in the south field, also a lot on the Scantuck river, and another lot in Spring Meadow in 1698. He was a constable and tything man. In 1691 he was called to ac- count for not working out his highway tax, and fined. He died before 1715, for in a deed given by his sons that year he referred to him as deceased. His wife was Sarah, daugh- ter of John Fairman. Children : Sarah, born February, 1693; Simon, 1696; Ebenezer, 1701 ; John, mentioned below.
(II) John, youngest son of Simon and Sarah (Fairman) Rumrill, was born September 15, 1704, in Enfield, and died November 28, 1770, and his widow, January 21, 1772. He was a fence-viewer in 1737-39 and 1760, and sur- veyor of highway. He was granted nine acres of land on the south side of Great Brook in 1732, nine acres by "ye common- ers," and the same year eleven acres on "ye inward commons". He was witness to the will of Isaac Chandler, May 28, 1787. His registered brand-mark for cattle was a half penny on the underside of the near ear. In 1756 he served in the French war in Major- General Phineas Lyman's regiment, Captain Samuel Chandler's company, and was in the
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