Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 72

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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In September, 1846, Mr. Stevens arrived with his ship in Boston, and returned to civil life. His vacations were devoted largely to travel. and he crossed the Atlantic forty-two times. Besides a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the United States, he had

many warm personal friends in Europe. Mr. Stevens was elected secretary of the New Eng- land Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Bos- ton, April 9, 1847, soon after the completion of his twenty-third year, and his connection witli this company continued until the end of his life, more than sixty years later. This com- pany was chartered in 1835, and was the first in this country to do a mutual life insurance business. Owing to financial difficulties the organization was not completed until 1843, and its first policy was issued early in the following year. From 1847 until the close of the year 1907, during which time Mr. Stevens was active in the management of its affairs, the company issued nearly seventy-six thous- and policies, covering an amount of nearly one hundred and seventy-nine millions of dollars. When he became secretary, its business was conducted in two small offices on State street, and at his death its building and the land on which it stands was valued by the city of Bos- ton at approximately one and one-half millions of dollars. Its present magnificent office build- ing was erected after the great fire of 1872. For seventeen years Mr. Stevens continued to serve as secretary ; was elected vice-president in 1864; and from 1865 until the close of his long and useful life he was its president, suc- ceeding Hon. Willard Phillips, one of the most active organizers of the company, who had served it as president twenty-two years. On the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. Stevens asso- ciation with the company, April 9, 1897, its officials and general agents tendered him a re- ception, at which he made an extended ad- dress treating on the growth and history of the company, and was presented with a silver loving cup, besides other momentos, including many beautiful flowers. Mr. Stevens was recognized as an able financier and his interest in other affairs than those of the insurance company was sought. He was officially con- nected with the Globe National Bank, and was interested in other enterprises calculated to build up and develop the city. He served in only one political office, representing ward 6 as a member of the common council in 1855 and 1865-66.

In 1855 he was proposed by his father for initiation in Columbian Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and was initiated as a mem- ber. When Aberdori Lodge was organized in 1861, Mr. Stevens became a charter member and was its first secretary. He affiliated with St. Paul's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and St. Bernard's Commandery, Knights Templar. He

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was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, and the society of Mayflower Descendants : of the Merchants, Union, Algonquin, Temple. Boston Art, and Boston Athletic clubs. He served two years as president of the Mer- chant's Club, and was a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association and the Bostonian Society. He was especially interested in the last named, owing to its attention to the his- tory of Boston, which was ever next his heart. To this society he presented a steel portrait of John Paul Jones, the revolutionary naval hero. which he found in a London print shop. He also presented the society a steel portrait of Captain Isaac Hull, in 1890. He was elected a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, June 1, 1870. Though active as a business man, Mr. Stevens found time for literary work, and was a prolific con- tributor to the press of his native city. In early life he was associated in a literary way with the Boston Daily Atlas, for which he pre- pared many book notices and theatrical criti- cisms. His articles relating to local history in the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette con- tributed during his later years excited wide interest and gave pleasure to a host of readers. While vice-president of the Merchant's Club, he read before that body an interesting paper entitled "The French Claims." He was also the author of "Some Account of John Paul Jones," "The Constitution and Isaac Hull." and "A Chapter of Provincial History." In poli- tics he was an earnest Republican. For many years he was interested in the religious work of Phillips Brooks, and he became a member of Trinity Church, of which Dr. Brooks was rector from 1869 to 1891. He retained a pew there until his death and counted among his best friends Mr. Brooks and the two who suc- ceeded him as rector during his lifetime. After an illness of several months, Mr. Stevens died, April 10, 1908. at his residence on Pinkney street, Boston. Ilis funeral was held at Trin- ity Church, and his body rests in Forest Hills Cemetery.

Mr. Stevens married in Boston, June 26, 1850, Catherine, daughter of Ezra and Chas- tine (Hartwell) Lincoln, of Boston (see Lin- coln, VII). They are survived by their only daughter, Mrs. Helen L. Jordan.

(The Sprague Line-See Edward Sprague 1).

(1\') Jeremialı, seventh son of Anthony and Elizabeth ( Bartlett ) Sprague, was born July 24, 1682, in llingham, where he was a farmer, and died March 7. 1759. His home was "over

the river" in what is now Hingham Centre. He married, about 1708, Priscilla Knight, born 1685, died August 3, 1775, in Hingham. Chil- dren : Jacob, born 1709; Knight, October 12, 17II ; Priscilla, March 22, 1713; Jeremiah, mentioned below; Susanna, April 4, 1716; Mary, February, 1718; John, March I. 1720; Nehemiah, February 21, 1722; Deborrah, March 17, 1726; and Jemima, March 20, 1728. (V) Jeremiah (2), third son of Jeremiah (I) and Priscilla (Knight) Sprague, was born December 18, 1714, in Hingham, where he was a weaver and resided on the paternal home- stead at Hingham Centre. He served as con- stable in 1755-56. He married, December 19, 1739, Elizabeth, born January 29, 1719, in Hingham, died in July, 1800, daughter of David and Elizabeth ( Ripley) Whiton. Chil- dren : Lydia, died young; Lydia, born May 7, 1742; Susanna, November II, 1744; Jere- miah, October 5, 1746: Ebed, January 8, 1749 : Elizabeth, July 22, 1751 ; Samuel, mentioned below : Joanna, July 5, 1755; Andrew, April I, 1759; Miles, February 14, 1762.

(VI) Samuel, third son of Jeremiah (2) and Elizabeth (Whiton) Sprague, was born December 22, 1753, in Hingham, and died June 20. 1844, in Boston. He settled in Boston, and was a member of the famous tea party whichli threw overboard a cargo in Boston harbor just before the revolution. He was also a soldier of the revolution, participating in the siege of Boston, and the battles of Trenton and Prince- ton. He enlisted May 27, 1775, and appears on a muster roll dated August I, of that year. as a gunner in Major Pierce's company, of Colonel Richard Gridley's artillery regiment. His service extended over two months, one week and three days. He was also in Captain Thomas Pierce's company, of Colonel Gridley's regiment. He also appears in a return made at Roxbury, September 29, 1775, as a member of Captain Thomas Pierce's company, Colonel Gridley's regiment, and received an order for a bounty coat or its equivalent, December 27th of that year. He also appears in Captain Pierce's company, of Colonel Knox's artillery, enlisting December 16, 1775, for the ensuing year, and reported as a member of Colonel Gridley's regiment. The Massachusetts rolls indicate the service of a Samuel Sprague with no address at various times in the year 1777 and 1781-82-83. He married, July 9, 1778. Joanna Thayer, of Boston, a daughter of Obadiah Thayer, born September 10. 1756, in Braintree. Children: Andrew, born October 8, 1785: George, December 24, 1781 ; James,

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August 16. 1783: Anna, December 15, 1784; Eliza, March 22, 1786; Lucretia, January 21. 1788 : Lydia, December 22, 1789; Charles, Oc- tober 26. 1791 ; Jeremiah, November 5, 1793; Metilda, mentioned below : Clerissa, June 17. 1798: Mary, May 1, 1800. Charles Sprague, the fourth son, was noted as a poet, and has been sometimes referred to as the Pope of America.

(VII) Matilda, fifth daughter of Samuel and Joanna ( Thayer) Sprague, was born No- vember 18, 1796, in Boston, and died October 27, 1881, in that city. She was the wife of Benjamin (2) Stevens, of Boston (see Ste- vens, VI).

The ancestry of Joanna Thayer, wife of Samuel (2) Sprague, is partially covered else- where in this work. Lieutenant Richard (4). son of Richard (3) Thayer, was born Janu- ary 26, 1685, in Braintree, where he passed his life. He married, February 6, 1710, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Anne (Bingley ) White, of Weymouth, direct descendant of Perigrine White, the first white child born in Plymouth colony. Children: Isaiah, Mary, James, Gideon, Obediah (died young), Anna and Obediah. Obediah, youngest child of Lieutenant Richard and Mary ( White ) Thay- er, was born March 29, 1724, in Braintree, in which town he made his home. He married, in 1751. Joanna Thayer. Children: Lydia, Susanna, Joanna, Rachel and Obediah. Jo- anna, third daughter of Obediah and Joanna (Thayer) Thayer, was born September 10, 1756, and married, July 9, 1778. Samuel Sprague, of Boston, as above noted.

(The Lincoln Line).

Hingham. Massachusetts, is distinguished as the home of all the first settlers of the name of Lincoln, and from these Hingham pioneers all the families of Lincoln with a colonial his- tory are descended. Abraham Lincoln traced his ancestry to one of the Hingham pioneers. and likewise Governor Lincoln, of Massachu- setts. and the Lincolns of Worcester and Bos- ton. The name Lincoln, with its variants --- Linkhorn. Linkoln. Lincon, was common in Hingham, England, for more than a century before the emigrants from that town founded Hingham, Massachusetts. There were eight of the name of Lincoln among the early set- tlers of Hingham, Massachusetts. The family came from Wymondham, county Norfolk, Lin- coln. There were three brothers, Daniel, Thomas and Samuel, who came in the party. accompanied by their mother Joan. There were

in the remarkable Lincoln Colony, of Hing- ham, no less then four of the name of Thomas Lincoln, and they were distinguished from one another by their trades. Thomas Lincoln, miller, removed to Taunton ; Thomas Lincoln, cooper, and Thomas Lincoln, husbandman, re- sided in Hingham. Wymondham, or Wind- ham, was probably the birthplace of Stephen and Thomas Lincoln, but they were closely connected with others of the name who came from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Massa- chusetts.

(I) Samuel Lincoln, a brother of Daniel and Thomas Lincoln, appears of record as being eighteen years old at the time of his sailing from Hingham, England, in 1637. He resided but a short time at Salem, and settled before the close of that year in Hingham, Mass- achusetts. He is designated in the early rec- ords as a weaver and also mariner ; he died May 26, 1690, in Hingham. He inherited con- siderable property from his brother Daniel in 1644. and from Thomas in 1675. In 1649 he purchased property on what is now North street, Hingham, near the present railroad sta- tion, consisting of five acres, which is still held by his descendants. His wife Martha died in Hingham, April 10, 1693. Children: Samuel, Daniel, Mordecai (died young), Mordecai, Thomas (died young), Mary, Thomas, Mar- tha. Sarah (died young), Sarah and Rebecca. ( II) Samuel (2), eldest child of Samuel ( I) and Martha Lincoln, was born August 25. 1650, in Hingham, and died there in March, 1721. He was a carpenter by occupation, and occupied the paternal homestead. In 1675- 76 he was a member of Captain Johnson's company, and participated as cavalryman in the Narragansett fight. He appears in the records in 1779 as foot-soldier among those willing to serve as troopers. He held various military offices, and was usually styled Coronet Lincoln, and served as selectman in 1694 and 1698. He married. April 29, 1687, Deborah. daughter of William and Rebecca ( Chubbuck ) Hersey, born January 1, 1666, died April 28. 1706. Children : Deborah, Samuel, Jedediah. Mary, Rebecca. Elisha, Lydia, Abigail and Susanna.

(III) Jedediah, second son of Samuel (2) and Deborah ( Hersey ) Lincoln, was born Oc- tober 2, 1692, in Hingham, where he died, September 23, 1783. near the close of his ninety-third year. He resided on the paternal homestead on North street, near Thaxter's bridge, was a glazier by occupation and served as constable in 1730. He married (first) Jan-

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uary 9, 1717, Bethia, daughter of Enoch and Mary (Lincoln) Whiton, born January 20, 1695, in Hingham, died September 24, 1734. He married (second), June 10, 1736, Mary Barber, of Pembroke, born 1668, died Novem- ber 22, 1775. Children: Jedediah, Enoch, Mary, William and Levi.

(IV) Enoch, second son of Jedediah and Bethia (Whiton) Lincoln, was born January 22, 1721, in Hingham, where he died in June, 1802. He was a glazier like his father, and resided on Lincoln street. He was evidently a man of considerable ability as he was fre- quently called to the public service. He was selectman in 1754-55-56 and 1781, and was representative to the general court in 1775-76- 77-78. He married (first) December 30, 1745, Rachel, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah ( Johnson) Fearing, baptized June 1, 1729, in Hingham, died May 16, 1782. He married (second) May 2, 1784, Mrs. Lydia Ripley, widow of Nehemiah Ripley, and daughter of Rev. Nehemiah and Lydia ( Jacob) Hobart, born February 9, 1733, in Hingham, died De- cember 26, 1803. Children of first marriage : Bethia, Enoch, Levi, Rachel, Amos, Sarah, Ezra, Leah, Jedediah, Abraham and Mercy.

(V) Ezra, fourth son of Enoch and Rachel (Fearing) Lincoln, was born November 26, 1756, in Hingham, and died January 11, 1829. He was a printer by occupation and spent most of his life in Boston. He married, June 27, 1784, Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth (Croade) Cushing, born November 8, 1755, in Hingham, died July 13, 1797. Children : Charlotte, Rachel and Ezra.

(VI) Ezra (2), only son of Ezra (I) and Rachel (Cushing) Lincoln, was born October 13, 1789, in Hingham, and resided in Boston, where he was a printer, and died in February, 1850. He married, November 19, 1814, Chas- tine Hartwell. Children: Chastine, Ezra, Hartwell, Adeline, Jerome, Lowell and Cath- erine.

(VII) Catherine, youngest child of Ezra (2) and Chastine ( Hartwell) Lincoln, was born March 20, 1827, in Boston, in which city she died October 27, 1909. She married, June 26, 1850, Benjamin Franklin Stevens, of Bos- ton ( see Stevens, VII).

PRIEST The Priest family is of Saxon and Welsh origin. The name Priest is one of the surnames de- rived from ecclesiastical dignitaries. The crest adopted by the priests was a martlet, and it was displayed in various forms. It was usually

a fanciful bird, its legs cut down to mere feathery stumps, and always without feet, as a mark of distinction to younger sons, to re- mind them "that they must rise by wings of virtue and merit, not trusting to their feet since they have little land to stand on."

All branches of the Priests of New England have traditions that they descended from Degory Priest, who came over in the "May- flower," but the genealogists fail to find satis- factory proof to verify this tradition. He was the first of that name to come to this country, was twenty-ninth among the signers of the Mayflower Compact, and had long been a member of the Leyden Company. In the Ley- den records he is named as having been from London. There is no record of his birth, but he was made a citizen of Leyden, November 16, 1616, and 1619 he made a deposition in which he called himself a hatter, and stated that he was forty years of age. It is natural to assume that others of the name who settled early in Massachusetts were relatives of Degory Priest and were led to come here through his immigration.

(I) The records show that James Priest was in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1637, and that he married a wife, Elizabeth, about that time. The wills of both are recorded in Suf- folk in 1676. This is, no doubt, the James Priest, who was made freeman at Weymouth, Massachusetts, May 10, 1643. In 1664 he deeded to his son Joseph one-half of his house in Boston. The following children are found of record: Elizabeth, born about 1638; James, May 8, 1640, died by suicide at Salem in 1664 : Deliverance, 1644: Mary ; Joseph ; Lydia, 1658 (died young ) : Lydia, March 16, 1662. There were, probably, others, including the following.

(II) John, probably a son of James and Elizabeth Priest, is mentioned by Savage as in Weymouth in 1657. This is probably a date of baptism, and there is reason to believe that he is the John Priest mentioned in Salem and Woburn. John Priest, of Salem, married, Feb- ruary 25, 1673, Elizabeth Gray, and had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married (second) in 1719, Thomas Humphries. One authority says Mrs. Humphries ( Elizabeth Priest) was born 1676, the records of Woburn say September 12, 1679, and of Salem, January 20, 1680. Some of these may refer to baptism. Charlestown records show that John Priest sold land near the Reading line in 1680 (recorded 1683) to Humphrey Miller. At that time his wife's name was Sarah. There may have been two . John Priests in the same neighborhood, or John

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Priest may have been twice married. Records are incomplete, and this matter may never be settled. John of Woburn had children born in that town: Elizabeth, September 12, 1679; John, November 1, 1681 ; Hannah and Daniel (twins), July 19, 1686; and probably others. The fact that Joseph Priest, a son of James of Weymouth, was a property-holder in Bos- ton and that a third son was in Salem would make it probable that John was located in this vicinity, Charlestown then including a large area. He was born about 1650, and died in 1704, in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where the inventory of his estate was made December 21 of that year. He was a property holder in Lancaster in 1688, when he was taxed for the building of the minister's house. According to Nourse, the historian, John Warner and John Priest were immigrants from Woburn. They were young men, church members, and were evidently deemed desirable acquisitions, for as an inducement to their coming hither the Lancastrian proprietors voted each a grant of thirty acres on the easterly side of Bare Hill. In the year 1675, when an army of fif- teen hundred Englishmen was raised in the three colonies-Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut-for the purpose of breaking the power of King Philip, John Priest, of Woburn, Massachusetts, who afterward removed to Lancaster, was one of thirteen men impressed from Woburn into military service. He prob- ably participated in the fight of December 19 of that year. He married, March 10, 1678, Rachel Garfield, born November 23, 1656, daughter of Samuel and Mary ( Benfield) Gar- field. His children, born at Woburn, were: Elizabeth, John, Daniel; and at Lancaster, Hannah, Gabriel, Joseph and Mary. (Men- tion of Daniel and Joseph and descendants ap- pears in this work). All descendants of John, of Woburn, and Rachel Garfield are in line with Edward Garfield, of Chester, England, born 1577, and therefore of the same ancestry as the late President Garfield. Edward Garfield was at Watertown, Massachusetts, where he died June 14, 1672, at the age of ninety-seven years.

(III) Daniel, second son of John and Rachel (Garfield) Priest, was born July 19, 1685, in Woburn, and settled in Harvard, Massachu- setts, where he was a landholder, and died October 9, 1773, near the close of his fifty- fourth year. The baptismal name of his wife was Elizabeth, and after his death she had six children baptized, namely: John, Daniel, Eunice, Hazadiah, Bettee and Silence.

(IV) John (2), eldest child of Daniel and

Elizabeth Priest, was born about 1712, prob- ably in Harvard, and resided in Marlboro, Massachusetts, where he married, March 25, 1742, Hannah Levermore, who survived him and died his widow in 1807. Children record- ed at Marlboro: Betty, born March 2, 1743; John, October 2, 1744; Daniel, September 16, 1746; Abraham, December 26, 1748; Silence, February 9, 1750; Isaac, July 2, 1752; Jacob, mentioned below; Comfort, March 4, 1758; Benjamin, February 18, 1764; Joseph, No- vember 28, 1765; Jonathan, October 6, 1767; Nathan, November 1, 1771.

(V) Jacob, fifth son of John and Hannah (Levermore) Priest, was born November 17, 1754, in Marlboro, and died in Lexington, Massachusetts, January 28, 1824. About 1790 he removed to Littleton, Massachusetts, where he engaged in farming. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving as a private in Captain Cyprian Howe's company of minute-men from Marlborough, which marched at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, to Cambridge. In Janu- ary, 1824, being then in his seventy-first year, he went to Lexington to visit relatives and walked into their house before knowing that they were ill with small-pox. Finding himself and wife exposed to the dread disease, he re- turned to his home and settled up his affairs, and again went to Lexington, where he died, as above noted. He was buried in about the middle of the old cemetery in Lexington Cen- tre. No record of his first marriage appears. He married ( second) Widow Sarah Longley, born Bancroft, September 16, 1766. His first two children are recorded in Marlboro, the others in Littleton, namely: Asa, mentioned below : Jacob, March 7, 1790; William, August 28, 1792; Nathan, February 16, 1795; Luther, August 3, 1797; Sarah, July 2, 1802; Sophia, September 1I, 1804.

(VI) Asa, son of Jacob Priest, was born June 13, 1788, in Marlboro, and was baptized at the First Church in that town, August IO, following, and was three years old when his parents removed to Littleton. He acquired the usual common school education of a farmer's son at that period, and early learned the trade of cooper which he followed in after life. He settled in the Newtown district in Littleton on a farm of seventy-five acres, where he raised general crops and produced milk and butter. He had his cooper shop on his home place, and employed several helpers. After the death of his father, he removed to the pa- rental farm, purchasing the interest therein of the other heirs, and here he continued to reside

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up to the time of his death in 1871. This is situated at the point now known as Priest's Crossing in the south part of the township, and the old cooper shop is still standing. He was a man of strict integrity, of strong prin- ciples, firm determination and some austerity. He was a member of the Unitarian church, serving on the parish committee, and on the building committee which erected its new house of worship in 1840. He was a strong Whig in political principle, and later an ardent Republican, and was representative of his town in the legislature. He served as select- man of Littleton, on the school committee, and was largely a man of affairs, both public and private. He enlisted as a soldier in the war of 1812, and marched to the defense of Bos- ton, and was later captain of the Littleton Militia Company. He married Nabby Buck- ley, daughter of Joseph and Nabby (Grimes) Buckley, born October 9, 1792, died April 27, 1850. Children: I. Joseph Andrew, men- tioned below. 2. Sarah Longley, born Febru- ary 25, 1819: married Rev. Eben G. Adams, of Templeton. 3. Abigail Jane, May 6, 1825 : became the wife of Franklin Priest, and re- sided in Decatur, Illinois. He was the first mayor and prominent in the affairs of De- catur. They had children: Hattie B. and Attie Lute.

(VII) Joseph Andrew, eldest child of Asa and Nabby ( Buckley) Priest, was born Au- gust 25. 1817, in Littleton, and died there Feb- ruary 28, 1892. He was brought up on his father's farm, attending the district school in winters during boyhood, and later attended the Lawrence Academy, at Groton, Massachusetts, leaving school at the age of about eighteen years. He made excellent use of his educa- tional opportunities, and became a teacher for ten or fifteen years in the schools of the local- ity, and Cushing Academy at Ashburnham. Massachusetts. In the meantime his summers were employed upon the farm. Soon after his marriage he settled in Littleton on the farm of his father, which he finally purchased and devoted his energy largely to the growing of fruits ; became one of the largest growers in the town, making a specialty of grapes and peaches, which yielded a handsome yearly in- come. He was a progressive, energetic man in his line, and adopted improved methods of fruit growing. He possessed a good sized herd of cattle, and a part of his income was derived from the production of milk. He early studied surveying, and most of the work of this character in Littleton and surrounding

towns in his time was done by him. It was said he knew every boundary line in that sec- tion. Much devoted to the interests of his family and of the community about him, he was held in high esteem by his townsmen and held many offices in their gift. For sixteen years he was chairman of the Littleton board of selectmen ; was many years a member of the school committee of which he was for twenty- five years chairman ; and also served as super- intendent of schools. A Republican in poli- tics, he often served his party as a delegate in conventions, and represented the town in the state legislature in 1868-69. A member of the Littleton Unitarian Church, he served on the parish committee, and on the building commit- tee when the church was remodeled in 1871. Early in life he was a member of the Little- ton Militia Company. He married, May 23, 1859, Mary Jane Bigelow, of Westminster. Massachusetts, born there February 3, 1834. died at Littleton, daughter of Benson and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Bigelow, of Westmin- ster. Benson Bigelow, born 1808, died May 28, 1835, was a farmer and active in the man- agement of town affairs. Children: I. Sarah Adams, born April 7, 1860: resides in Little- ton, unmarried. 2. Mary Jane, died at the age of twelve years. 3. Frank Bigelow, men- tioned below. 4. Edwin Hamilton, Septem- ber 12, 1865 : married Mary Louise, daughter of James Freeman, of Littleton, and has chil- dren : Louise Hamilton, Warren Freeman and Sylvia Bancroft. 5. George Lincoln, May 26, 1868: resides in Littleton and owns the pa- ternal homestead. 6. Herbert Bancroft. Feb- ruary 6, 1875 ; a practicing physician in Giro- ton, Massachusetts. 7. Benson Buckley, De- cember 14. 1876; a structural engineer with the American Bridge Company in New York.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 72

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