Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 94

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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(For first generation see Timothy Clark 1).


(II) Cyrus Clark, son of Timo- CLARK thy Clark, was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, January 2, 1788, and died April 2, 1835. He married Tabitha Oakes, who died October 21, 1866 ( see Oakes).


(III) David Oakes, son of Cyrus Clark, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1, 1826. He was educated in the public schools. In1 1848 he sailed from Boston to Shanghai, China, where for four years he was a clerk in the employ of Wolcott, Bates & Company. He


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was then with Russell & Company as clerk eight years and partner nine years. He came from Shanghai to San Francisco in 1852 as supercargo, but returned the following year. He was at Foo Chow three years, then in 1856 returned to Shanghai. He established an agency of his firm in February, 1857, at Bang- kok, Siam, returning in December, 1859, to Hong Kong, and in July following to Foo Chow, where he remained until May, 1861, when he returned to his home and married. With his wife he returned to Foo Chow. In 1867 he came to Boston; in 1869 he retired from the firm. He represented the United States government at Foo Chow as consular agent 1854-56; was Swedish and Norwegian consul at Bangkok, Siam, 1857-60, and at Foo Chow, 1861-67. He died at Reidhurst, Milton, Massachusetts, December 13, 1883. He was a prominent figure in the Orient many years. He acquired a strong influence among the natives, and particularly with the second king, the executive of the kingdom of Siam, and was constantly consulted about foreign affairs. His name will long be remembered. In China also he was well known and highly respected at treaty ports, both because of his effective busi- ness talents and his admirable disposition and character. His justice and invariable consid- eration for all with whom he had dealings brought him the regard and confidence of the Chinese to an unusual degree. His perfect honesty and uprightness made him an involun- tary and unconscious missionary in the land. He lived fifteen years in Milton, Massachu- setts, making friends wherever he went by his amiable affectionate disposition, his consid- erate regard for others, and the transparent purity of his life and character. No man was better fitted to create and enjoy a happy home or to fill and surround it with all that can make a home what it should be. In the expression of his face and the tones of his voice there was a sweetness which told of his kindly affectionate nature ; while his conversation and personal bearing, however modest and unassuming, gave tokens of unusual intelligence and strength of character. These qualities persisted during his whole life, gaining for him in addition to busi- ness success, the richer satisfaction of con- scious integrity and a loving heart, while they secured for him the confidence and friendship of those whose sympathy and friendship should be dearest to him. For more than four months he faced death with a touching and beautiful serenity, knowing that it must come soon, and died at last in a moment without painful warn-


ing, as a good man might wish to die. He married Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of George Winslow (see Winslow family). Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth Read, born February 15, 1863, at Foo Chow; died May 20, 1876, at Bologna, Italy. 2. Winslow, mentioned below. 3. Elton, mentioned below.


(IV) Winslow, son of David Oakes Clark, was born in Malden, Massachusetts, June 12, 1869. When he was two years old the family went to Milton to live. He attended private schools in Milton, the Hopkinson School, Boylston Place, Boston, and was a special stu- dent in the Lawrence Scientific School of Har- vard University in the class of 1892. During the next ten years he lived at Hopkinson, Massachusetts. When the Spanish war came on he enlisted in the "Rough Riders," First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, under Colonel Leonard Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, May 28, 1898, at San Antonio, Texas. He proceeded with the command to Tampa Florida, and sailed with the regiment June 8, 1898, for Cuba. He took part in the battle of Las Guasimas. The regi- ment went into camp the following week at Camp Sevillia. He was wounded in the battle of Santiago. Colonel Roosevelt says in his book, "The Rough Riders": "Winslow Clark, a Harvard man, was first shot in the leg and then through the body. He made not the slightest murmur, only asking me to put his water canteen where he could get at it, which I did; he ultimately recovered; I bade them stay where they were while I went back and brought up the rest of the brigade. This was a decidedly cool request, for there was really no possible point in letting them stay there while I went back ; but at the moment it seem- ed perfectly natural to me, and apparently so to them, for they cheerfully nodded and sat down in the grass, firing back at the line of trenches from which the Spaniards were shoot- ing at them. The charge followed with a rush, when the men comprehended the order." In his official report Colonel Roosevelt said : "Great gallantry was also shown by four troop- ers whom I cannot identify, and by Trooper Winslow Clark, of G. It was after we had taken the first hill. I had called out to rush the second, and having by that time lost my horse, climbed a wire fence and started towards it. After going a couple of hundred yards under a heavy fire, I found that no one else had come ; as I discovered later, it was simply because in the confusion, with men shooting and being shot, they had not noticed me start.


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I told the five men to wait a moment-as it might be understood if we all ran back-until I ran back and started the regiment; and as soon as I did so the regiment came with a rush. But meanwhile the five men coolly lay down in the open, returning the fire from the trenches. It is to be wondered at that only Clark was seriously wounded ; and he called out as we passed again to lay his canteen where he could get it, but to continue the charge and leave him where he was. All the wounded had to be left until after the fight, for we could spare no men from the firing line." General Wheeler said: "Respectfully forwarded. Col. Roose- velt and his entire command deserve high com- mendation. I call especial attention to Col. Roosevelt's recommendation regarding * and special commendation of Troopers Rouland and Winslow Clark, of Troop G.". The regi- mental record and muster-out roll states : "Clark. Winslow, Milton, Mass. Absent on sick leave since July Ist on account of gunshot wound through lung received in battle. Right lung, severe. Missile or weapon, Manser rifle." Mr. Clark was an aide to Major Jenkins. In 1899 Congress voted a certificate of merit, signed by President Mckinley. In August, 1899, after he recovered from the wound, he was commissioned second lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to the Eleventh Cavalry, composed largely of former Rough Riders. He resigned from the service. He is now connected with the American Finishing Machinery Company of Boston. His home is in Vermont. He married, in August, 1899, Helen Gertrude Nutter, born in 1872, daugh- ter of the late Orrin F. and Anna (Hamm) Nutter, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire.


(IV) Elton, son of David Oakes Clark, was born May 27, 1872, at Milton, Massachusetts. He attended private schools in Milton, Milton Academy and the Hopkinson School of Boston, where he graduated in 1892. Ile entered Har- vard in the regular course, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1896. He began his business career in Galveston. Texas, in the cotton business, then became junior partner of the firm of Ingersoll, Amory & Company. and since 1900 has also been a member of the firm of Von Harten & Clark, of Galveston, Texas, cotton merchants. He re- sides at Framingham, Massachusetts. He mar- ried, April 18, 1900, Eleanor Hathaway Ladd. born October 20, 1878, daughter of William J. and Anna ( Watson) Ladd, of Milton. Chil- dren : 1. Elizabeth Winslow, born September 24. 1001. 2. William Oakes, born October 26.


1902. 3. Eleanor Hathaway, born April 5, 1908, at Framingham. The first two children were born at Dover, Massachusetts.


(The Winslow Line-See William Winslow 1).


(X) James (2) Winslow, son of James ( I) Winslow, was born at Freetown, Massachu- setts, August 6, 1725, and died November 16, 1802, at Farmington, Maine. He and his brothers who resided at Falmouth (Portland) receive large tracts of land from their father at Braod Bay, Maine, and removed thither in 1752. During the Indian troubles of the French and Indian war they were forced to return to Falmouth. With his wife and three children he set sail from Falmouth in the fall of 1760 and proceeded to what was Dr. Gardi- ner's estate at Cobbisiconte, or Gardinerstown. His wife and little daughter Sarah were the first white females in Gardiner, or Pittstown, Maine. The Winslows and McCauslands lived in the same cottage during the first winter. His son Jonathan Winslow, born March 23, 1761, was the first white child born in the town of Pittston. Winslow's house stood on the site of Widow Edmund's store of later years. Winslow erected a grist mill at the end of the lower dam, and it was called the Cobbossiconte grist mill, and settlers came from a great dis- tance to have grain ground. He settled later on a farm granted to him in 1763. Winslow assisted in building a mill at Damariscotta, and during his absence his wife and children con- ducted his farm. In his younger days he was drummer at the fort in Falmouth, but later joined the Society of Friends, yet during the Indian hostilities he had to erect the block- house near the present Universalist church. He was opposed to all war, however, and re- fused to serve in the revolution. In 1778-79 a British scouting party entered his house and demanded food. His wife was obliged to make a hasty pudding, but before the unwelcome guests had completed their meal they were constrained to leave in a hurry. One left be- hind him a silver spoon and another an iron- handled sword, which have been preserved as heirlooms in the family. He married, July 5, 1753. Anna Huston, born 1734, at Falmouth, daughter of - and Sarah (McCausland) Huston. She was born 1734, and died Febru- ary 15. 1827, and is buried in Farmington. She was a very energetic woman, and much relied on in cases of sickness. "Granny" Wins- low, ås she was called in later years, was the only physician, in fact, in whom the early set- tlers had any confidence, and she was the only


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one practicing in that section until 1769. Chil- dren, born at Pittston, except the eldest : I. Sarah, July 20, 1754 ; married Ebenezer Church. 2. Child, born at Pittston, 1760. 3. Child, died in infancy. 4. Jonathan, born March 23, 1761 ; died November 10, 1745; married Hannah Tarbox. 5. John, born 1764; married Sarah Baker. 6. Carpenter, born March 22, 1766; mentioned below. 7. Betsey, born June 20, 1770; married Rev. John Thompson. 8. Anna, married Eleazer Crowell. 9. George, born about 1772; drowned, 1788, while skating on Kennebec river. 10. James, born April 28, 1774 : died July 22, 1844; married Betsey Will- ard.


(XI) Carpenter, son of James (2) Winslow, was born in Pittston, Maine, March 22, 1766; died November 19, 1827, at Punxzutawney, Pennsylvania. He lived on the Augustus Col- burn farm, and in 1775 built two hundred batteaux for Arnold's expedition, for which he was never paid by the government. He was a ship-builder. During the revolution he was inclined to be a Tory, though too young to enter either army. He resided at Pittston, Wiscasset and Bristol, Maine, but all but the two youngest were born in Pittston, those being born at Wiscasset. He married, at Pittston, June 8, 1788, Elizabeth Colburn, born May 29, 1768, at Pittston, died July 11, 1845, at Punx- satawney, daughter of Major Reuben and Eliz- abeth (Lewis) Colburn, of Pittston. Chil- dren: I. Charles, born May 3, 1789; married Elizabeth Follansbee. 2. George, born April 24, 1791 ; mentioned below. 3. Carpenter, born January 3, 1793; married, May 25, 1817, Beulah Keene. 4. David, born September 10, 1794, shipmaster, captured or lost in Africa while in command of a slave ship, and nothing further known of him. 5. Reuben, born June 28, 1796; died August 26, 1871 ; married Eliza- beth Collin. 6. James, born April 14, 1798; married, October 26, 1820, Betsey Miller. 7. Ebenezer, born June 8, 1800; died in Illinois ; married Eliza Swain. 8. Caleb Smith, born October 2, 1801; married Caroline Barrett. 9. Joseph Wood, born December 10, 1804; married, February 16, 1832, Christiana Long.


(XII) George, son of Carpenter Winslow. was born at Pittston, April 24, 1791, and died at New York City, January 12, 1851, on his return from a visit to his son in California. He began life as a seafaring man, and rose step by step to the rank of master mariner. and sailed vessels many years to European and Chinese ports. His last command was the "Levant," owned by James and Thomas H.


Perkins, and stationed at Linton, China. Re- turning to this country in 1830 he settled in Malden and made his home in what is now Everett. He was appointed by Governor Briggs a commissioner on the Malden bridge. At the time of his death, Rev. John G. Adams said : "His death is an affliction to us all, to the town, to the neighborhood in which he lived, to our church, to his dear family, and to many other families and friends. He had resided here more than twenty years. He was one of our most efficient citizens. His retiring from business was not retiring from active life. He was still a busy man, taking care of what he had accumulated and doing good work with it. His generous heartedness was proverbial. On many occasions has it been evinced to his credit and to the credit of us all. His good taste, his love of order, his prudence as well as his liberality in expenditure, his integrity and honesty, are all so many other commenda- tions of his character as a public citizen. In these respects he has left the good impression of himself in many ways in many a mind. He was one of the most able, faithful and stead- fast friends of our society. There are those who have known him longer than myself, who when aid has been most needed in times of past trial and exertion have known most his liberality. It was constant and unchanging. His friendships were many and highly valued. Fresh and fragrant will be the remembrance of him in many hearts." He married, at Malden, February 13, 1821, Elizabeth Reid, born July 13, 1799, in Boston, daughter of Robert and Catherine (Dunker ) Reid. Her father was born in Sandy, one of the islands of Scotland. She died October 27, 1873, at Everett. Chil- dren: 1. George Reid, born October 30, 1821 ; died April 24, 1856, at Callao, Peru, South America. 2. Catherine Elizabeth, born May 2, 1832 ; married David Oakes Clark ( see Clark family). 3. Caroline Barrett, born February 24, 1836; married, April 12, 1859, John Rouls- tan Hall, of Roxbury. 4. Margaret Goodwin. born September 2, 1837. 5. Thomas Forbes. born January 29, 1739; died June 3, 1739.


Edward Oakes and Thomas OAKES Oakes, brothers, were both born in England, and Edward married there. They were in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, in 1642. Edward, the elder brother, was conspicuously identified with the early history of the colony. He was made freeman in 1642, was representative from Cambridge to the gen- eral court for fifteen years between 1659 and


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1682, and in 1684 represented Concord, where he died October 13, 1689. His wife's name was Jane -, and by her he had children : Uriah, born in England, who was president of Harvard College in 1649; Edward, born in England ; Mary ; Thomas, born June 18, 1644, graduated at Harvard college in 1662, and during King Philip's war was lieutenant of Captain Prentice's company, selectman twenty- six years, and representative to the general court fifteen years.


(I) Thomas Oakes, of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, younger brother of Edward Oakes, with whom he came from England to America, was made freeman in Cambridge, May 18, 1642, but he does not appear to have taken such a prominent part in town and colonial affairs as his brother. He married after land- ing in New England, the first name of his wife being Elizabeth. She survived him many years and married twice afterward, first Seth Sweetzer, and afterward Samuel Hayward, of Malden, to which place she took the young children of her first marriage. By his wife Elizabeth, Thomas Oakes had : Elizabeth, born November 3, 1646, died young ; Thomas, born November 5, 1648, died at the age of two months ; Elizabeth, born May 26, 1650; Han- nah, born May 4, 1657; Mary (probably a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ) who died in August, 1659; Thomas, baptized March 20, 1659. Thomas Oakes made his widow execu- trix of his will, he having left a fair property for his time.


(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) Oakes and his wife Elizabeth, was born after his father had died, and in the will he was given a double portion of the paternal estate. He was known as Thomas Oakes, of Malden, in which town the scene of his life was laid. He married May 22, 1689, Sarah Tufts, daugh- ter of Peter Tufts, who was the ancestor of one of the most important branches of the Tufts family in America. In 1663 he became proprietor of two hundred acres of land on the Mystic side in Malden, and also the owner of the Nowell grant. The children of Thomas Oakes and Sarah Tufts were: Thomas, born April 2, 1690: Sarah, May 23, 1694; Lydia, November 27. 1697: Uriah, June 22, 1700; Mary, May 24, 1702; Hannah, February 28, 1705: Elizabeth, May 27, 1707; Jonathan, Oc- tober 6, 1700: Abigail, December 24, 1714.


(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Oakes, was born April 2, 1690. He settled in Medford and died there November 14, 1760. He married ( first) October 27. 1720, Abigail


Brooks, died June 30, 1728, (second) Novem- ber 26, 1730, Sarah Blunt, of Andover, Massa- chusetts. Children, born at Medford, by first wife: I. Abigail, September 2, 1721. 2. Thomas, January 28, 1722-3. 3. Ebenezer, September 28, 1725. 4. Sarah, March 2, 1727. 5. Caleb, June 12, 1728. Children by second wife: 6. David, October 16, 1731. 7. William, August 16, 1732. 8. John, November 5, 1733. 9. David, January 15, 1734-35; mentioned below. 10. Isaac, baptized April 13, 1740. II. Isaac, baptized February 28, 1742.


(IV) David, son of Thomas (3) Oakes, was born at Medford, January 15, 1734-5. He married (first) December 30, 1764; (second) Abigail Children of first wife: I. Elizabeth, born November 21, 1765. 2. David, September, 1767; mentioned below. Child of second wife: 3. Mary, September, 1769.


(V) David (2), son of David (I) Oakes, was born at Medford, September 1767. His daughter Tabitha, born about 1790, died Octo- ber 21, 1866; married Cyrus Clark ( see Clark ).


COFFIN


In Fallaise, a town of Normandy, stands the old chateau of Courti- ton, once the home of the Nor-


man Coffins ; the name is now extinct in that vicinage. The chateau is now owned by Mons. Le Clere, who is the grandson of the last Miss


Coffin who married a Le Clere in 1796. Until her marriage the chateau had always been owned by a Coffin. ( The above information came through Admiral Henry E. Coffin, of the English navy, who is the nephew of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 16, 1759, made a baronet and granted a coat-of-arms in 1804). The family traces its ancestry to Sir Richard Coffin, Knight, who accompanied William the Con- queror from Normandy to England in the year 1066, to whom the manor of Alwington in the court of Devonshire was assigned. There are various branches of the family in county Devon. The English records show the name as Covin, whence it was changed to Cophin, and is also found as Kophin, Coffyn and Coffyne. Before 1254 the family was flourishing at Port- ledge near the sea, in the parish of Alwington, five miles from Biddeford, England. From the time of Henry VIII to Edward II, for a period of two hundred years, the heir always received the name of Richard, and so the fam- ily was perpetuated for many generations through that name. The name was early brought to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and has been borne by many leading men. The


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revolutionary war record of the family is an especially honorable one. The Portledge fam- ily bore these arms: Vert, five cros-crosslets argent. between four plates. These arms are also used by the American families.


(I) Tristram Coffin, a descendant of Sir Richard Coffin, mentioned above, lived in Brixton, county Devon, England. In his will he left legacies to Anne and John, children of his son, Nicholas Coffin; Richard and Joan, children of Lionel Coffin; Phillip Coffin and his son, Tristram; appointed Nicholas Coffin, mentioned below, his executor.


(II) Nicholas, son of Tristram Coffin, lived in Butler's parish, Devonshire, England, where he died in 1603. In his will, which was proved at Totness, in Devonshire, November 3, 1603, mention is made of his wife and five children. namely: Peter, Nicholas, Tristram, John and Anne.


(III) Peter, eldest child of Nicholas and Joan Coffin, was born on the Coffin estate at Brixton, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and died there in 1627-28. He married Joan, or Joanna Thember, and their six children were born and baptized in the parish of Brixton, Devonshire, England, in the order following : I. Tristram, 1605, see forward. 2. John, about 1607. He was a soldier, and died in the service from a mortal wound received in battle during the four years' siege of the fortified town during the civil war, and he died within the town about 1642. 3. Joan, born in England about 1609, and probably died there. 4. Deb- orah, died probably in England. 5. Eunice, born in England, came to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her parents; married William Butter and died in 1648. 6. Mary, married Alexander Adams, and had children: Mary, Susannah, John and Samuel. She died in 1677, or thereabouts. Widow Joan, with her children. Tristram, Eunice and Mary, her two sons-in-law, husbands of her daughters who were married in England, her daughter-in-law, Dionis, and five grandchildren, came to Salis- bury in 1642. She died in Boston, in May, 1661. aged seventy-seven years, and in the notice of her funeral it is quaintly stated that the Rev. Mr. Wilson "embalmed her memory."


(IV) Tristram, eldest child of Peter and Joan, or Joanna (Thember ) Coffin, was born in the parish of Brixton, Dorsetshire, England. probably in 1605. He was of the landed gentry of England, being heir to his father's estates in Brixton. and he was probably a churchman after the order of the time of Elizabeth. He was married to Dionis (the diminutive for


Dionysia, and after written Dionys), daugh- ter of Robert Stevens, of Brixton, England. It is a strange fact that the christian name of the immigrant forefather of all the Coffins in America, Tristram, is repeated and multiplied in every family in every generation, while the name of the foremother Dionis is repeated but once in all the generations, and that was when it was given to the eldest daughter of Stephen, the youngest child of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, but when she married Jacob Norton her name appears as Dinah. It is not known on which of the early ships conveying emigrants from England to New England the Coffin family took passage, but it is generally believed that it was the same ship that brought Robert Clement, the emigrant, who owned the ships "Hector," "Griffin," "Job Clement," and "Margaret Clement," and if Robert Clement, the immigrant, took passage in one of his own ships, Tristram Coffin, the immigrant, was a passenger in the same ship, and both men set- tled in Haverhill in 1642. The early settlers of Salisbury, which town was established Oc- tober 7. 1640, commenced a settlement at Pen- tucket the same year, and the Indian deed for this land was witnessed by Tristram Coffin in 1642, and in 1643 he removed to the place which was established as the town of Haverhill, Nor- folk county, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He settled near Robert Clement. Tradition has it that Tristram Coffin was the first man to plow land in the town of Haverhill, he con- structing his own plow. He changed his resi- dence to the "Rocks" the following year, and in 1648-49 removed to Newbury where he kept an ordinary and sold wine and liquors and kept the Newbury side of Carr's Ferry. In September, 1643, his wife Dionis was prose- cuted for selling beer for three pence per quart, while the regular price was but two pence, but she proved that she had put six bushels of malt into the hogshead, while the law only required the use of four bushels, and she was discharged. He returned to Salisbury and was commissioner of the town, and while living there planned the purchase of the estate of Nantucket, where he with his associates re- moved on account of religious persecution. At least, Thomas Macy, who was the pioneer set- tler on Nantucket Island, "fled from the officers of the law and sacrificed his property and home rather than submit to tyranny which punished a man for being hospitable to strangers in a rain storm, even though the strangers be Quakers." Macy returned to Salisbury and resided there in 1664, and when he left he sold




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