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a resident of Boston. 3. William Edward, died in infancy. 4. William Edward, October 17, 1816; lived and died in Boston. 5. Charles Henry, September 3, 1818; resided in Lowell, and left a son, John Fox Priest. 6. Cather- ine Brewer, September 11, 1820; married Samuel Hammond Gibbens, of Boston, and had a son, Frederick H., treasurer of the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. 7. Adeline Elizabeth (died young ) .. 8. George Augustus, July 25, 1824; was a citi- zen of Boston. 9. Elizabeth Tucker (died young). 10. Adeline Matilda, became the wife of William H. Lewis, of Boston. II. Ellen Marean, mentioned below. 12. Eliza- beth Tucker (died young). 13. Joseph Ste- vens Buckminster, died in youth.
(VIII) Ellen Marean, youngest child of John Fox and Catherine B. ( Marean) Priest, was born October 14, 1830, in Boston, and married ( first) June 8, 1854, Franklin Kings- bury ; (second ) November 20, 1867, John Thompson Langford, of Boston.
(IX) Ellen Mabel, daughter of John T. and Ellen M. ( Priest ) Langford, was born June 10, 1869, in Dorchester, and married, October 16, 1900, George Wesley Priest, of Newton. (See Priest, VIII, in previous line.) She graduated A. B., Boston University, 1893. She is a member of the Social Service Club of Newton; of the Massachusetts Society, Daughters of Founders and Patriots; and is state recording secretary of the Massachusetts Society, Daughters of the Revolution.
(The Hammond Line-See John Hammond 1).
(III) William Hammond, son of John (2) and Agnes Hammond, aforementioned as being the eldest son, appears to have gone to Mil- ford, where he reared a family of eight chil- dren among whom was Thomas, mentioned below.
(III) Thomas Hammond, of Lavenham, son of John (2) and Agnes Hammond, and brother of William, was probably born about 1545. He gave up the home left him by his father in Milford, and remained in Laven- ham. William Hammond, cousin of Thomas Hammond, of Newton, Massachusetts, son of Thomas Hamonde, of Lavenham, came to Watertown, and was the founder of that branch of the Hammond family.
(1V) Thomas, son of William and Mary Hammond, of Milford, England, and grandson of John and Agnes Hamonde, of Lavenham, England, was baptized at Milford, county of Suffolk, England, with his twin brother John,
September 2, 1603. He was first cousin of William Hammond, who settled in Watertown in 1636. He married in Lavenham, England, November 12, 1623, Elizabeth Cason, born in Great Whelnetham, a few miles north of Lavenham, before 1604, daughter of Robert and Prudence (Hammond) Cason. She was granddaughter of Robert and Elizabeth Ham- mond, of Great Whelnetham. Thomas Ham- mond was one of the first settlers of Hingham. He had lands granted him there in 1636; took the freeman's oath, March 9, 1636-37, and was on the grand jury in 1637. His two younger children were baptized in Hingham. The older children were undoubtedly born in England, although the place of their birth is not definitely ascertained. Thomas Hammond, Vincent Druce, John Parker, Nicholas Hodg- don and John Winchester all settled in Hing- ham about the same time ; all of these removed from there and settled in the same neighbor- hood, near the boundary lines between what are now the towns of Newton and Brookline. Nicholas Hodgdon first purchased sixty-seven acres of land on Cambridge Hill, which he sold, December 4, 1650, to Thomas Hammond and Vincent Druce, then of Hingham. They also bought thirteen acres granted by the town of Cambridge to Robert Bradick ; and sixteen acres in Muddy River, next to the lands of John Parker. Hammond and Druce bought in 1658 of Thomas Brattle and others, six hundred acres in Muddy River (now Brook- line ) called Royton Farm, which they held in common until 1664, when division was made, the pond being in Hammond's part. Ham- mond probably removed to Newton about 1650, but held lands in Hingham for some years after that date. In 1656 he bought from Esther Sparhawk three hundred and thirty acres more of land in Cambridge for forty pounds. His homestead in Newton was near the Brookline boundary and near the pond which has since borne his name. He was one of the wealthiest men in town in his day. He died leaving an unsigned will in his own hand- writing. In it he gives to his daughter, Eliz- abeth Woodward, one hundred and thirty acres of land, to his daughter Sarah Steadman's children one hundred acres of land, to his son Thomas, "the house he dwells in," and about five acres, to his son Nathaniel, "the house he dwells in and the upland adjoining the pond." 'To his wife, Elizabeth Hammond, the dwell- ing house, meadows and pastures on the north- east side of the highway. The meadow to be divided between sons Nathaniel and Thomas.
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After the wife's decease, the cattle to be di- vided between the two sons, and all the other movables to be divided between the three children. "Nathaniel shall have 1-3 part of the fruit of the orchard with Thomas, year by year, until he have an orchard of his own, and use of the barn until his brother help him build one." The inventory amounted to one thou- sand one hundred and thirty-nine pounds, six- teen shillings, and two pence, and was signed by Elder Wiswall and John Spring. It was dated October 25, 1675, and states that he de- ceased September 30, 1675. He had children : Thomas, born about 1630; Elizabeth, born about 1633-34, married George Woodward; Sarah, baptized September 13, 1640; married Nathaniel Stedman ;
Nathaniel, baptized March . 12, 1643.
(V) Thomas (2). son of Thomas (I) Hammond, was born in England, about 1630; died in Newton, Massachusetts, October 30, 1678, of small-pox. He married, December 17, 1662, Elizabeth Stedman, died in Newton, 1715. Thomas was a farmer on the estate left him by his father. The inventory of his estate was signed by James Trowbridge and Thomas Greenwood. Children: Elizabeth. born November 3, 1664; Thomas, December 16, 1666; Isaac and Sarah (twins), December 20, 1668; Nathaniel, February 3, 1671, prob- ably died young ; John, Apri' 30, 1674; Elea- zer, November 13, 1677.
(VI) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Hammond, was born in Newton, December 16, 1666; died in Newton, 1720. Married (first) June 15, 1693, Mehitable Very, of Boston, died 1704. He married (second) August 8, 1705, Mary Bacon, of Roxbury. Thomas was at one time selectman and owner of consid- erable land. Children: Mehitable, born Jan- uary 29, 1695; married James Patty ; John, mentioned below; Thomas, July 10, 1698; Caleb, July 4, 1700; Mary, February 13, 1707 ; married Samuel Benjamin, of Roxbury : Sam- uel. July 9, 1709.
(VII) John (3), son of Thomas (3) Ham- mond, was born March 16, 1696, baptized 1754, died 1763. He married, December II, 1718, Margaret Wilson, born August 28, 1699, died 1788, daughter of Samuel and Experience (Trowbridge) Wilson. He was a farmer in Newton. He bought from Rev. Jared Eliot, of Connecticut, three hundred and seventy acres of Governor Haynes' farm, in 1746, and gave six thousand pounds. His inventory amounted to six hundred and eighty pounds, one shilling and eight pence. Children : John,
July 25, 1719; Joshua, March 10, 1721; Thomas, April 23, 1723, died February 15, 1738; Mary and Margaret (twins), October 7, 1725; Daniel, October 18, 1727 ; Samuel, June 14, 1730; Abijah, November 5, 1732; Enoch, October 29, 1734; Anna, September 23, 1736; Martha, April 10, 1738, died October 12, 1757 ; Abigail, married John Marian, 1764.
(VIII) Margaret, daughter of John (3) and twin of his daughter Mary, born October 7, 1725 ; married, May 9, 1751, Thomas Ma- rean, born October 17, 1712, died November 20, 1767. Children: Thomas, October 17, 1753; Samuel, October 7, 1755; Martha, Oc- tober 6, 1758; Mary, May 28, 1760; William, December 13, 1764, died November 9, 1800.
(IX) William, third son of Thomas and Margaret (Hammond) Marean, was born as stated above, in 1764, died November 9, 1800; married, September 15, 1793, Sarah Brewer, born May 30, 1765, died August 10, 1825.
(X) Catherine Brewer, born July 21, 1794, died May 12, 1855 ; married John Fox Priest. (See Priest, VII.)
From the immigrant, John Gib- GIBSON son, has sprung a progeny of worthy citizens of New Eng- land, among whom have been found tillers of the soil, professional men, patriotic and valiant soldiers who fought both red and white foes, sober God-fearing church members, and keen successful business men.
(I) John Gibson was born (probably in England) in 1601, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1694, aged ninety-three years. The name of the ship, the year of his arrival, and the place of his first settlement are unknown. He was in Cambridge in 1634. and was made a freeman May 17, 1637. He first appears on Cambridge ( formerly New- town) records of August 4. 1634: "To John Gibson 6 Ackers," in the list of lots granted in Westend, that part of the town lying be- tween Sparks, Wyeth and Garden Streets ; Harvard and Brattle Squares, and Charles river. His house was built before "10th Oc- tober 1635." Family tradition says that Gib- son planted linden trees, and if tradition and boundaries can be made to agree, perhaps "The old house by the lindens," corner of Brattle and Sparks streets, made famous by Long- fellow's poem, "The Open Window," may have stood on land once owned by John Gib- son. He was probably a member of the church formed by Rev. Mr. Hooker on his ar- rival in 1633 : and on the removal in 1635 and
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1636 of the pastor and most of the families to Hartford, Connecticut, he became one of the succeeding society or First Church organ- ized February 1, 1636, by Rev. Thomas Shep- herd. In addition to his "nyne acr" house lot in the Westend, Goodman Gibson had other real estate in Cambridge, records of which ap- pear in the usual quaint form in the record books of that place and time. He was a hus- bandman, not an artisan, and an old record shows that John Gibson agreed with the town May 8, 1637, to summer one hundred cows for twenty pounds. There is no evidence that he ever held any church office, and of town offices only minor ones-appointed March 15, 1676, to view fences, and in 1678 to drive Westfield. He was a party to one law suit. In 1660 Winifred Holman was plaintiff against John Gibson Sr. and his wife and others, as the result of the defendants having accused Mary Holman, daughter of Widow Winifred, of being a witch ; and at the hearing "3 day of Aprill," several months after the accusation, the finding for John Gibson was "costs of Court, fifteen shillings, ten pence." In the time of the tyrant Andross, John Gibson and George Willow, whose respective ages were "about 87 and 86 years." as representatives of the settlers, petitioned James II for redress, stating that, "our title is now questioned to our lands, by us quietly possessed for near sixty years, and without which we cannot sub- sist." He married (first) Rebecca
who was buried December 1, 1661, in Rox- bury burying ground and the burial recorded by Rev. John Eliot. He married (second) July 24, 1662, Joan, widow of Henry Prentice, of Cambridge, "planter." The children of John Gibson, all by first wife, were : Rebecca, Mary, Martha, John and Samuel.
(II) John (2), of Cambridge, Massachu- setts, fourth child of John (I) and Rebecca Gibson, was born at Cambridge about 1641, and died there October 15, 1679. He lived in his native town and doubtless on the home- stead in the Westend, deeded him by his father, November 30, 1668, "3 acres and I-2 my house Cambridge." There is no record that he ever owned any real estate. Although a minor at the time of the suit "Holman versus Gibson" in 1660, he was one of the defendants, and boylike must have been very vehement against the supposed witch, Widow Winifred's daugh- ter, as he was sentenced either to openly ac- knowledge in court that "he hath wronged and scandalously slandered Marye Holman, by speeches irregularly, rashly and suddenly
spoken," or refusing to do this, to pay the plaintiff five pounds; of the two alternatives he wisely chose the former. He was a sol- dier in King Philip's war-a private on the list of Captain Thomas Prentice's troopers, August 27, 1675, in the first, or Mt. Hope ex- pedition, the company leaving Boston the pre- ceding June 24, fighting at Swansea, June 28, skirmishing in July on Mt. Hope Necks near Mt. Hope or Pokanoket ( Bristol, Rhode Island), the home of King Philip; private on list of Lieutenant Edward Oake's troopers, March 24, 1676, scouting near Marlboro; private on pay list of Captain Daniel Hench- man's company of foot, September 23, 1676, impressed the preceding April 27, starting May 27 and reaching Hadley, June 14, possibly the John Gibson on the list of Captain .Joshua Scottow's men at Black Point near Saco, Maine, September, 1677, the garrison being captured the following month by Mogg Me- gone, the celebrated Indian chief. Before and ever after his military service, he was a quiet farmer with nothing more to change the mo- notony of his life than fell to the lot of any other inhabitant of Cambridge at that time. He was admitted freeman about October II, 1670. His name appears from time to time on the town records as the holder of some small office, the last and most important, the ap- pointment in 1678 "to view fences in West- field." He died of small-pox when only thirty-eight years of age. The inventory of his estate showed forty-seven pounds, sixteen shillings including his house and three acres of land; sixteen pounds. In June following the court ordered: "Charlestown 15. 4. 1680. The Selectman of Cambridge ordered to dis- pose of ye children of Jno. Gibson & of such a pt of his estate as shall be necessary for ye putting them forth to service," etc. In the proprietor's records of 1683, under division of lots "beyond the 8 mile line," is given this al- lotment in the ninth squadron ; "John Gibson's heirs Twenty accers Three Commons." He married "9.10.1668," (December 9, 1668) Re- becca Errington, who was born in Cambridge, baptized in the First Church, December 4, 1713, daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Cut- ler) Errington. They had four children : Re- becca, Martha, Mary, and Timothy, whose sketch follows.
(III) Deacon Timothy, of Sudbury and Stow Massachusetts, fourth child of John (2) and Rebecca (Errington) Gibson, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1679, and died in Stow, July 14, 1757, and was buried in
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the Lower Village cemetery in the easterly part of Stow. He was brought up by Selectman Abraham Holman, of Cambridge, son of Will- iam and Winifred Holman, and after 1689 re- moved with him to Stow. He continued a member of the Holman household until 1703, when he removed to the northwest of Sudbury, and settled north of Assabet river on a sixty acre farm deeded to him June 21, 1703, by Mr. Holman "for divers and sundry good and weighty reasons moving me thereunto but in special manner to shew My love unto and care of Timothy Gibson now living with me & hath done from a child." Timothy Gibson re- ceived a second deed, November 29. 1708, to twenty acres from the same source, and again ten acres. April 23. 1711. Abraham Holman also appointed Timothy Gibson executor of his will. He was also the grantee of forty acres, house and barn from Mrs. Sarah Hol- man, and had other property in Stow, about one hundred acres in all. He was a large landowner in Lunenburg. Between 1728 and 1731 he removed from Sudbury to Stow-per- haps by merely moving to another part of his home farm, which lay on both sides of the town line. He was selectman of Stow, 1734- 35-36-39. and dissented to a grant of sixty pounds for Rev. John Gardner, May 17, 1736. He was deacon of the First Church probably during the pastorate of Mr. Gardner. His "house and fifty acres in Stow on Poniciticut Hill" passed from sire to son for nearly one hundred years, finally going to strangers in 1823. Deacon Timothy Gibson married (first) at Concord, Massachusetts, November 17, 1700, Rebecca Gates, of Stow, who was born in Marlboro, July 23, 1682, and died in Stow, January 21, 1754, in the seventy-third year of her age. She was the daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Woodward) Gates. He married (second) (published November 30, 1755) Mrs. Submit Taylor, of Sudbury, who died at Stow, January 29, 1759, "in the 75 yr of her age." Twelve children were born to him, all by first wife: Abraham, Timothy, Re- becca. John, Sarah, Samuel, Stephen (died young), Errington, Stephen, Isaac, Mary and Reuben.
(IV) Abraham, son of Deacon Timothy Gibson, was born in Stow, 1701, and died there November 8, 1740. He married Mary Wheeler, born at Stow, November 5, 1709, died there January 15, 1793, daughter of Deliver- ance and Mary (Davis) Wheeler. Her father was born at Cambridge in 1663, and died at Stow, February 4, 1716; married, May 28,
1691, Mary Davis, born at Concord, October 3, 1663, and died at Stow, June 27, 1748, daughter of Lieutenant Simon and Mary (Blood) Davis. Deliverance Wheeler was son of Captain Thomas Wheeler, the famous In- dian fighter, who died at Concord, December IO, 1676; married Ruth Wood, daughter of William and Mary Wood. He was captain of the second troop of horse, and by order he acted as escort, July 27, 1675, to Captain Ed- ward Hutchinson into the Nipmuck country. He was wounded August 2, 1675, in the am- buscade at Quaboag. He wrote an account of the expedition. Children: i. Alice Wheeler, died March 17. 1640-41 ; ii. Nathaniel Wheeler, died January 16, 1676-77 ; iii. Joseph Wheeler, of Stow ; iv. Ephraim Wheeler, died February 19, 1689 ; v. Thomas Wheeler, died January 9, 1676-77 : vi. Deliverance Wheeler, above men- tioned. Mary ( Davis) Wheeler was descended on her mother's side from Simon and Dolor Davis, of Cambridge.
(V) Lieutenant Abraham (2), eldest son of Abraham (1) and Mary (Wheeler) Gib- son, was born June 25, 1735, in Stow, and died in Lunenburg. September 9, 1813. In early life he was a school master and taught in Lunenburg ; later occupied the paternal home in Stow. He afterwards removed to Concord, and in 1768 to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he resided on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres on the east slope of Pearl Hill. He deeded part of the farm to Jeremiah Kinsman, March 25. 1786. Lieutenant Gibson was a member of Captain Abijah Hall's company, Colonel Willard's regiment at Crown Point, in the French and Indian war. He was also a minute-man of the revolution, in Captain Eben- ezer Wood's company. Colonel Asa Whit- comb's regiment. He married (intentions published, January 13, 1760) Esther Fox, born July 23, 1743, in Concord, baptized next day at the First Parish Church of that town, died April 30. 1803, at Rindge, New Hampshire, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (French) Fox. Her father was a housewright, born June 8, 1706, in Concord, and died there July 30. 1759. He married Rebecca Carey, who died at Concord, November 22, 1745, widow of James Carey, and daughter of Joseph and Eliz- abeth (Knight) French, of Bedford, Massa- chusetts. Thomas Fox was a son of Samuel Fox, born September II, 1670, at Concord, and died there January 15, 1734. Samuel Fox married, June 13, 1693, Ruth Knight, died September 21, 1741, in Concord, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Wright) Knight, of that
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town. Eliphalet, father of Samuel Fox, died in Concord, August 15, 171I. He married, October 26, 1665, Mary Wheeler, born Sep- tember 6, 1645, in Concord, died December 24, 1678, daughter of George and Catherine Wheeler, pioneers in Concord about 1635. Jon- athan Knight was the son of Philip and Mar- jorie Knight. Thomas, father of Eliphalet Fox, settled at Concord in 1640, and was ad- mitted a freeman there May 29, 1644. He had a wife Rebecca. Children of Abraham (2) and Esther (Fox) Gibson: Thomas, Esther, Mary, Rebecca, Sarah, Gardner, Abraham, Lucy and John.
(VI) Rebecca, third daughter of Abraham (2) and Esther (Fox) Gibson, was born No- vember 15, 1765, in Concord, and died June 30, 1814, in Lunenburg. She was married (intentions published August 1, 1785), to John Priest, of Lunenburg ( see Priest, VI).
(The Hartwell Line).
In the chapter of Domesday Book assigned to a description of military tenures of lands allotted in Northamptonshire, England, by William of Normandy to his followers, appears the designation of an allotment bearing the name of "Hertewelle." Similar records are found in the descriptions of lands in Bucks and Wilts. Several branches of these early families, including three or four baronies and with the name transmuted amid the multi- farious changes of orthography incident to the changes and growth of the English lan- guage to plain Hartwell, have spread over England, more than one offshoot having found their way to those counties of Ireland within the pale, notably about the time of the whole- sale transplanting of colonists to that island by Cromwell.
(I) From some one of these English fami- lies came William Hartwell, who appears among the early settlers of Concord. It can- not be positively stated whether or not William Hartwell was of the party of settlers under the lead of Major Simon Willard, who led the way in cutting loose from a neighborhood of their friends to penetrate the wilderness in search of homes, and which "made their pitch" within the limits of the historic town of Cam- bridge, September 12, 1635, O. S., but enough is known to make it extremely probable that he must have arrived in the settlement in the following year, 1636. A tract of land, contain- ing nine acres, "more or less" was allotted to him on which to erect a dwelling, situated, as near as can be judged, nearly a mile eastward
of the Public Square, along the Lexington or old "Bay" road, very nearly at the eastern bound of the property occupied in 1887 by E. W. Bull, Nathaniel Ball and Joshua Wheeler. If, as is assumed, Mr. Hartwell arrived in Concord in 1636, he was twenty-three years old at that time. He was made a freeman of the colony in 1642, appears as one of the peti- tioners for a grant of the town of Chelmsford, adjoining Concord on the north, in 1653, was one of a committee of nine citizens to frame rules for the guidance of the selectmen of the town in 1672, was a corporal in 1671, and in 1673 was appointed quartermaster, vice Henry Woodis, appointed cornet in the Second (Cap- tain Thomas Wheeler's ) Troop of Horse of Mid- dlesex county. He appears as one of the large landholders, with two hundred and forty-seven acres of land, in nineteen separately described tracts. He died March 12, 1690, "in ye 77th vear of his age," having made his will a short time previous, in which he mentions his daugh- ters, Sarah and Mary, and his sons John and Samuel. The youngest child of whom any- thing is known, Martha, appears to have died before him. His wife Jazan died August 5, 1695. The resting place of their remains is not known, but was doubtless in the old grave- yard on the hill south of the Public Square in Concord Village, where several of his de- scendants are buried.
(Il) Samuel, son of William and Jazan Hartwell, born January 26, 1645, died July 26, 1725. He served in the war against the Indians under the leadership of Philip of Pohanoket, his name appearing in the list of those to whom, or their descendants, lands were granted in 1735, the share allotted for his services passing to his grandson, Ephraim. It seems likely he was one of those who made the "hungry march" against the stronghold of Philip, and to whom a land gratuity was spe- cially promised, as the name of John, known to have been out in that year, does not appear among the grantees of land in 1735. He un- doubtedly settled near his father at marriage, lived nearer him at death than John, but noth- ing appears as yet to indicate with certainty whether it was he or his son Samuel who set- tled on the lands in the present bounds of Lin- coln, now held by his descendants. He mar- ried ( first ) October 26, 1665, Ruth, daughter of George and Catherine Wheeler, of Con- cord, born February 23, 1642, died December 9, 1713, and a sister of Mary Wheeler, wife of Eliphalet Fox and ancestor of Rebecca Gib- son Priest. The baptismal name of his second
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wife was Rebecca. She died January 23, 1722. He married (third) February 6, 1724, Eliza- beth Fletcher, of Chelmsford, born June 10, 1698, died October 4, 1732. Children, all born of first wife: Samuel, October 6, 1666; Mary, February 16, 1668; Ruth, October 17, 1669 ; William, August 16, 1671 ; John, June 18, 1673 ; Hannah, October 8, 1675: Sarah; Elizabeth ; Rebecca, February 14, 1683; Jane, November 30. 1684; Jonathan, mentioned below.
(III) Jonathan, youngest child of Samuel and Ruth ( Wheeler ) Hartwell, was born 1686, in Concord, Massachusetts ; and died in Little- ton, same colony, December 9, 1770. He set- tled in Littleton about 1720, and purchased a farm there, where his descendants have been numerous and influential in local affairs. He married ( first ) June 11, 1713, Hannah Blanch- ard. of Concord, born 1690, died January, 1763. He married ( second ) Hannah Willard, who died January 5. 1777. Children : James, born July 30, 1715: Josiah, September II, 1717: Nathan. mentioned below ; Simon, September 24, 1721 ; Hannah, April 2, 1723: Joseph, January 27, 1725; Benjamin. June II, 1734.
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