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42. 43. Jona. Bullen, w. Susannalı Broad, Apl. 14, '86, d. July 30, 1806, a. 49 ; 1. Michael, June 25, '87 ; II. Lucy Bucknam, Dec. 4, '96 ; III. Melinda, Nov. 1, 1800 ; Iv. Daniel, d. Oct. 3, 1802.
38. 45. Daniel, Ens., d. Oct. 28, 1801, w. Rachel Adams, m. Jan. 27, 1751; I. Sarah, Feb. 24, '55 ; II. Silence, Oct. 15, '53, d. Oct. 15, '53; III. Keziah, Dec. 24, '63; iv. Lydia, Nov. 29, '69, d. July 18, '80.
46 Judathan Bullen, ? m. Dolly Clark, July 2, '72, 2d w., Bathsheba Daniels, m. Nov. 9, 'S5 ; I. Elizabeth, Oct. 26, '72; 11. Mary, Oct. 28, '74 ; III. Judathan, May 12, '77, d. Oct. 8, '78 ; IV. John, Mar. 21, '79; v. David, Mar. 24, '82; vI. Judathan, Feb. 7, '84; VII. Walter, Ang. 6, '87, d. June 14, '88; VIII. Lowell, Oct. 8, '89; Ix. Susanna, Sep. 7, '92 ; x. Asa, June 19, '91 ; xI. Betsey, Mar. 17, '95; XII. Lewis, m. Esther Grout, 2d w., Mary A. Mann.
332, 52. Cpt. Sam'l do. w. Eliz'th, r. Med. village, kept a tavern ; 1. Rhoda, Jan. 30, '74, m. - Remmington, 2d, - - Lakeman, and had a dg. m. - Perkins, keeps boarding h., in Boston.
56. 53. II. Moses, Aug. 31, '75, d. Feb. 15, 1850, m. China Ware, r. Med., Bos., and d. in S. ; III. Sam'], May 27, '78, d. in S. C., leaving a family ; IV. Eliz'th, May 6, 'SO, m. Cpt. Vials ; v. Nancy, Sep. 7, '82, m. Lawyer Gates, rs. New York ; VI. Cynthia, Jan. 26, '85, m. three hus. ; VII. Patty, Mar. 18, '92, m. Lawyer Rawson, of Mend.
55. John Bullen, ? of Med., m. Eliz'th Adams, Dec. 21, '46 ; Comfort, do., ? m. Jona. Wheeler, Aug. 6, '42.
53. 56. Moses m. China Ware, of S., r. Med., Bos., and S., and had I. Charlotte Bullen, m. Baruch Leland, r. Stannocks, S. W. part of S.
John Burbank, w. Mary (pr. Emerson ) had at H. I. Josiah, Apl. 28, 1774, II. John, Feb. 25, '76 ; III. Daniel Emerson, Mar. 3, '78; IV. Samuel May 1, '83.
Samuel Burbank, w. Eunice Kendall, m. 1773. I. Sullivan, Oet. 8, 1776, at S.
BULLARD.
Among the early planters of New England appear seven men of the name of Bullard. The traditions concerning them are not reliable. That they were all brothers, is improbable, from indications of too great disparity of ages; from their omission to name children for each other, and a common father, if not from the con- tinued use of a different orthography by the same clerk in recording their different names. They were-
+ 1. Benjamin Bullard, who drew land in Watertown 1637 and '44. (See Chap. I.)
2. George Bullard, who was admitted to the Freeman's oath 1641, implying that he was a member of the church. He had land assigned him in Water- town, 1637, and died there, June, 1680, aged 81. (See Chap. IT.)
3. John Bullard, who took the Freeman's oath May 13, 1640, signed the social compact of Dedham 1 day, (6 month) 1636, where his wife Magdalen was rec'd to the chh. 1639, and d. 29d. (1 mo.) 1661. He had land assigned him in Medfield, 1650 and '59, and d. there July 4, 1668. (See Chap. III.)
4. Isaac Ballard, who signed the social compact of Dedham 1636, and where he, or another of the same name, m. Sarah Jones, from Dorchester, 3, (11) 1654, and was admitted townsman 1655, and d. at D. 11, (3) 1676, leaving a widow, Ann. (See Chap. IV.)
5. Nathaniel Bullard, who was admitted townsman at Dedham 1655, and free- inan May 15, 1690, and d. there 3, (11) 1681. (See Chap. v.)
6. Wm. Bullard, who took the Freeman's oath May 13, 1640, signed the social compact of Dedham 18, (6) 1636, where his wife was received to the church in 1639, and he was chosen Selectman in 1643.
7. Robert Bullard, who died at Watertown 24, (4) 1639, aged 40, leaving a widow, Anna.
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1. 8. Of the above list of Bullards, Benjamin is the only one whose entire race admit of being traced with certainty, and separated from all others bearing the name. The orthography of our early records, that is so variable, gener- ally preserves one mode of spelling his name; yet, from the inspection of private papers, and the uniformn substitution of e for a in the last syllable, and the omission of d final by one of the best informed clerks in the colony, arises the supposition that the name was originally identical with Bulwer ; and if so, then Bulwer may be a cor- ruption of Bullard. Our sires brought with them from England the following tradition of the origin of the name : " One called a Lard, in ancient times, when on a royal hunting excursion, outstripped his company in chase of a wild bull, and killed him- and ever after this feat was called the great Bull Lard. Hence his descendants were named Bullard."* The signature of Benjamin Bullard 1 has not been preserved, and
* This story may admit of neither proof nor refutation ; and yet, is there nothing in its favor in the fact that the name, in Europe, is without a coat-of-arms, rare, and of narrow range ? But, however this may be, the authenticity of the tradition need not be doubted ; for Mrs. Temper- ance D. Bullard, of Morristown, N. J., still living, (and long may she live to pray for the race and the world !) says that Mr. Jona. Bullard, a man of distinguished piety, who died 1824, aged
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very little can be ascertained concerning him. He was undoubtedly from England, and probably among the first planters of Watertown, in 1630. His name first occurs upon the records of that town in the oldest history of her inhabitants, and in the first division of her public lands in 1637. In 1644 more land was assigned him, and he became the proprietor of about 100 acres, and of a dwelling-house, on the W. side of Fresh Pond. How much longer he lived, or where he died, has not been discovered. The name of his wife was not improbably Sarah -, and he had but two children, who lived to heir his estate, viz. :
10. 9. 1. Benjamin,2 who inherited all his real estate at W., and IT. a daughter, men- tioned as the sister of Benj., in 1672.
9. 10. Benjamin,2 at the decease of his father, was probably a minor, and committed to the care of an unele at Dedham, where he appears about the time he is presumed to have attained his majority, and where he seems to have formed such connections as are usually preceded by a long and youthful acquaintance. He was admitted a townsman at Dedham 1, (11) 1655, which then implied a previous probation, a good moral character, and the age of 21. His marriage is not on record ; but circumstances almost as conclusive show that he m. Martha Fairbank, the sister of George F., of Dedham, who was of a good family, and connected with George F., of Somerby, in the vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire. Benj. Bullard and George Fair- bank soon after embarked together in an undertaking that must have required cour- age, enterprise, and means above the possession of most young men of their commu- nity. To Capt. Robert Kayne, of Boston, had been granted, in 1649, 1074 acres, at Pawsett Hill, and which is now partly in Sherborn and partly in Medway. Cpt. Kayne d. Mar. 23, 1655-6. Of his executors, soon after, Bullard and Fairbank are presumed to have bought the south half or third of this tract ; and Hill and Breek, also brothers-in-law, from Dorchester, purchasing at the same time another part, bounding them upon the N. These constituted the second company who planted W. of Charles River ; and they all located their dwellings with reference to natural security, and that which they soon provided. They settled here prior to Feb. 2, 1658, when their first child was born. Benj. Bullard and his brother-in-law seem to have divided their part of the tract as was then common, so as to give each other scattered lots and secure sites for building near each other. Bullard took the N. and S. W. parts, and located his dwelling on the N. side of Bogistow Pond, near a copi- ous and still valuable spring. The situation was admirably chosen for the capture of game, the rearing of stock, and for security against surprise from hostile Indians. The scenery was such as a man of taste would have chosen. It is still both beautiful and sublime. From his door he could survey the Broad Meadows, a wet prairie of five miles in extent, through which Charles River meanders, and which in vernal and autumnal seasons is converted into a lake. Hills beyond, covered with towering pines, then appeared mountains, while the soil beneath, lifted by roots two or three feet above its present level, concealed the hideous boulders which, in consequence of their decay, the absence of protecting liumus and leaves, and the action of deeper and more frequent frosts, have since risen to the surface, and occasioned an inconsiderate impeachment of the judgment and taste of many an early planter. His land was then arable and rich. But his was a frontier location, cut off by river and marsh, and a
90, used often to relate it in her hearing as a tradition from his father, who professed to have received it from Bullards of the first generation, born in New England. He was born in 1706, was cotemporary with some of them, and his character is well endorsed on the records of three churches. But it is no part of my object to derive our descent from a bull-hunting lord-though, as investigation proceeds, this, perchance, may yet be done-but from a higher stock, from one of the noble Puritans-men endowed of God with moral excellence and true dignity, compared with which the piles of the millionaire, and the glories of peers, primates and princes, are mean and contemptible.
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distance of four miles from the nearest settlement at Medfield. His prospects and life were in danger. He found Wood, Leland and Holbrook, settled from one to two miles N., and was soon joined by Rockwood and Daniels within one mile S., making, with Hill and Breck, one-third of a mile N., and Fairbank hard by on the S. W., a settlement of nine families, to be defended by themselves. /They knew the Indian character and mode of warfare-that he never made his assault in the night, nor was he wont to cross open fields in his approach, or fail, if hungry, to publish it by killing a strayed ox. They accordingly selected for the site of their garrison the N. bank of Bogistow Pond, having long, wet prairies on the E. and N. W. The intervening neck was by fire and steel soon denuded on the N. and S., and a large vacuity secured. The waters of the pond in summer, and of Bullard's spring in winter, attracted their cattle, to report the missing and sound the alarm. Here they prepared to live, as all of them virtually did, the rest of their lives, in a state of warfare. They built for a garrison-house a spacious and regular fortress. It was superior to any similar structure on the then frontier. It was 65 or 70 feet long, two stories high, all of faced stone, brought over ice from a quarry one mile distant at the N. W., and laid, in a workmanlike manner, in clay mortar. It had a double row of port holes on all sides, lined with white oak plank, and flaring inward, so as to require no one to expose himself before them, while the besieged, by taking cross aims, could direct their fire to every point of the compass. This fortress was lighted and entered at the S. end, overlooking the pond, where the bank was so low that assailants from that quarter, in levelling at the high windows, would only lodge bullets in a plank chamber floor, or among the furniture of the garret. The upper story was appropriated to the women and children, and had a room partitioned off for the sick. To this place of security our ancestors, for more than two generations, were accustomed to flee in times of alarm, and here no small number of their children were born. In this fort they were once besieged by a host of Philip's warriors, who, in despair of all other means, attempted to fire the building by running down the declivity above it a cart of burning flax. Arrested in its descent by a rock still to be seen, and an Indian who had run down to start it having been killed, a retreat was sounded, and the lives of our ancestors saved. Two months afterwards the enemy returned, when our fathers sallied forth and charged them with such execution that " they never dared to show their faces there afterwards." The walls of this edifice were carefully preserved by the descendants of Benj. Bullard, until about 1785, when the proprietor sold out to a Vandal, who demolished them., Will the present proprietor, Horatio Mason, Esq., palisade the rock that scotched the cart, and saved the lives of five of his own ances- tors ? Benj. Bullard early united in the enterprise of adding a new town to the colony, and of enlarging the borders of Zion. In 1662 he signed the first petition for the incorporation of Sherborn. In 1673, Oct. 3, he sold for £40 his patrimonial estate, in Watertown, to Justinian Holden. In 1674 he signed a second petition for the incorporation of Sherborn, when their prayer was granted, and he, by an Act of the General Court, with twelve other petitioners and twenty more of such as they might consent to receive as inhabitants, constituted a proprietor of lands, now compos- ing Sherborn, Holliston, and large districts of Framingham and Ashland. After the incorporation of Sherborn, Benj. Bullard was active in advancing her interests. In the petitions to the General Court, in the social compact of the town that he sub- scribed, he declared his high regard for the progress of the Gospel and the well-being of man. He was one of the six brethren to constitute the church at its formation. He served as Tythingman 1680, as Selectman, 1688; and was chosen to the very delicate office of seating the meeting when their house of worship was finished.
The Indian claim to lands granted in S. prior to the incorporation of the town, not having been extinguished by the original grantees, Benj. B. united with nine other owners of these grants, and for £20. paid to seven natives as principals, and em-
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powered by " the natural descendants of the ancient inhabitants and proprietors of the lands in and about S.," procured, June 12, 1682, a quit-claim to 4000 acres. These included his farm of 150 do. ; and in 1686 he was rated with the forty pro- prietors and inhabitants of S. to raise an equal amount to extinguish the Indian claim to the remainder of 10,000 acres included in the township. He was rated among the highest, and this rate having been early adopted as the rule whereby the common lands should be proportioned, he and his heirs drew large shares, and became the owners of much land. He died intestate, Sept. 27, 1689, and administration was granted to his son Samuel, and Sarah Bullard? pr. his mother or sister. His per- sonal estate was appraised Nov. 28, 1689, by John Harding and Joseph Bullard, at £235 16s. ; and from another inventory, [Mid. Prob.] he seems, for his day, to have left a good property in stock and lands. The ancient Bullard farm on Bogistow Brook, in Medway, the Bullard farms in the S. and W. of Sherborn, and in the N. and W. of Holliston, were inherited from him, and drawn in his right. These have been enjoyed by many generations of his race, and well may his memory claim their gratitude and reverence. How can they show them ? He sleeps hard by the scene of his toils and perils. On the apex of one of Nature's pyramids, whose base is laved by Charles River, repose his ashes, in company with those of the founders of Sher- born. Over them are scattered the fragments of broken headstones, on their way to the river, whose gurgling waters seem to chant unheard the requiem of the dead, and whose bosom offers a more hospitable home to the tenants of their graves than their degenerate children are willing to provide, with law and justice to aid them. Editors and travellers have cried "Shame !" in vain. Will the Bullards now interfere, redeem six feet, and mark it with a monument worthy of their great Puritan ancestor ? It can be readily and peaceably donc. There is not a spirited female of the race who cannot, by her pen, accomplish it. Benj. Bullard 2 m. 1st Martha Fairbanks, who d. Jan. 4, 1676-7. He m. 2d Elizabeth norge, 1677, and had
I. Mary, Sept. 14, 1663, d. July 31. '66, at Bogistow ;
15. 10. II. Samuel, Hn. and Capt., Dec. 26, 1667, m. Deborah Atherton ;
18. 11. III. Benj., Mar. 1, 1670, d. 1766, m. Tabitha Hove ; IV. Hannah, Aug. 6, 1672, m. Wmn. Sheffield, of S., May 30, '92;
v. Eleazer, Lt., June 27, 1676, m. wid. Sarah Leland, 1704, s. in Medfield ; and d. without issue ; he had land in Black Swamp, and several lots in Holl. ; 84. 12. VI. John, Mar. 7, 1678, m. Abigail Leland, dg. of Dea. Hopestill L .; VII. Elizabeth, Jan. 31, 1681, pr. d. yg., being no further reported ;
VIII. Mary, Feb. 20, 1683, m. Hopestill Leland, jun., of S., Feb. 24, 1701-2; 87. 13. Ix. Malachi, Mar. 8, 1685, m. Bathia Fisher ;
92. 14. x. Isaac, July 25, 1688, d. 1742, m. Sarah Morse ;
10. 15. Samuel,? Capt. and Hon., inherited the homestead, and became the most prominent citizen in Sherborn, and left indubitable evidence of talents and integrity. For a series of years he commonly acted as Moderator of her town meetings ; served five years as AAssessor ; nineteen years as Selectman ; represented her, 1708, '9, '23, '24 and '25, in the Great and General Court, and was active in procuring for the town a grant of 4000 acres west of Mendon. He lived in an eventful period of her history, during which the administration of her affairs seemed to devolve mainly on him. He d. Dec. 11, 1727, a. 60. His will, dated Sep. 20, 1726, and witnessed by Eleazer Bullard, John Breck, and Wm. Rider, and proved Jan. 8, '27, gave the use of all his estate, except farming utensils, to his wid. Deborah, while she remained his wid. ; and one third of the same if she should in. again ; and at her decease all should go to his son Benj., he paying £150 to the heirs of Martha Fairbank, and £200 to his sister Deborah Bullard. Benj. and his mother Deb. were made joint ex'rs. His personal estate was inventoried May 13, 1728, and 4
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appraised at £256. He m. Deborah Atherton, June, 1690, dau. of James Atherton, previously of Laneaster, where she was pr. b., and afterwards of Milton. Her father, pr. of the same family as Maj. Gen. Hump. A., d. in S., Aug. 6, 1710, and his wid. Hanh. Dec. 29, 1713. [Mid. Prob. 19, p. 37.] Capt. Samuel B. had
16. 1. Samuel,4 Jan. 31, 1692, d. Oct. 14, 1714, um. ; II. Martha,4 Feb. 11, 1695, m. Eleazer Fairbank, of S., Dec. 25, 1712, and was the grandmother of Amos Twitchell, M. D., of Keen, N. H.
21. 17. III. Benjamin,4 Lt., Feb. 16, 1696-7, d. 1762; rv. Deborah, b. June 3, 1704, d. Jly. 22, '05; v. Deborah,4 Nov. 9, 17 ** , d. Feb. 10, '57, m. Eleazer Holbrook, Apl. 4, '28, r. Sh.
11. 18. Benj. Bullard, 3d, inherited land that had been assigned to his father S. W., of Brush Hill, and built his house on the road from Holliston to the W., about half a mile N. E. of Whitney's Quarry. As inheritor of his father's right in common lands, he in 1716 drew lands adjoining the N. E. corner of Mendon, now Milford ; and in 1715, 37 acres W. of Mendon, now Douglas. At the 2d division of lands at D., in 1730, there were 45 acres more drawn "in his right," showing that he had disposed of his right in the grants at that place. He was chosen tythingman in 1722 and '28, and repeatedly surveyor of highways, in the alteration and improvement of which he took uncommon interest. He occupied naturally the best land in the township, and seems to have quietly devoted his days to its cultiva- tion, until they were nearly numbered, and he and his wife in need of affectionate care from their children. Two of the four had settled in Holl., and his home boy, born ab. 32 years before, was now of age, but unmarried ; and the father, under- standing that spinsters then, as well as now, were naturally averse to antiquities, and that his son either loved himself so that he could love nobody else, or that he had been kicked so often and hard that he would never more venture within the reach of a female blow, despaired of the arrival of any daughter-in-law, and removed in 1739-40 to his son Benjamin's, in Holliston. Here he spent the remainder of his days, and settled his estate. To Benj. he had given a deed of 60 aeres as early as May 29, 1727, and subsequently some other real estate in H. ; but on the 20th March, 1748, in consideration of his dutifulness in taking care of him and his wife, he conveyed to him all his right to common lands in S. and H., and to a tract in the eedar swamp in H. To Jona. he is presumed to have left his beautiful farm in S .; to Seth, other lands in H. and Douglas ; and to the old bachelor, at least, the privilege of grum- bling. He survived until about 1760, and d. intestate, aged ab. 90. He m. Ta- bitha -, and had at S.,
26. 19. I. Benj.,4 Mar. 4, 1702-3, d. 1766, m. 1st Judith Hill ; 2d, Ruth Hill ; 151. 194. II. Jona.,4 Oct. 24, '06, d. at Barre, June 4, 1784, " in his 78th year." 33. 20. III. Seth,4 Feb. 17, '08-9, d. 1775, m. Sarah Twitchell ; 2d, Lydia Haven ; IV. A son, who lived and d. um., leaving no trace of his existence but traditions.
17. 21. Benj., Lt., inherited the homestead, was constable in 1727, and served as selectman 15 years. IJe made his will Feb. 12, 1762, making ample pro- vision for his wid. Miriam, during her Ist widowhood, and magnanimously for her 2d do. should it oecur. His farm of 185 acres he divided to his three sons, giving Benjamin the home lot, or E. division, who exchanged it for the S. W. do., given to Peter. To Samuel he gave the N. W. do. To Deb. Twitchell and Keziah Leland, each, he gave half his lands in Doug. and £80; and to Martha Leland £86 ; and the rest of his estate to be equally divided among his 3 sons, the eldest to be sole ex'r. IIe m. Miriam Morse, b. June 30, 1700, m. Dec. 20, 1721, dg. of Samuel, and grd. dg. of Daniel, and gr. gd. dg. of Samuel Morse. She was long blind, and d. Dec. 9, 1774.
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He had I. Adam, A. M., Jan. S, 1722-3, grd. H. C., 1742, was assessor in S. 1747, and d. um. at Halifax, N. S. ; II. Deborah, Oct. 26, '25, m. Jona. Twitchell, of S., Mar. 1, '43-4 ; 111. Miriam, Nov. 27, '27, d. Aug. 4, '28; 35. 23. Iv. Samuel,5 Col., Aug. 2, '20, s. m. N. of Bogistow Pond ; v. Keziah,5 Jan. 11, '31-2, m. Henry Leland, of Sh. ;
41. 24. VI. Peter,5 Sep. 23, '34, s. at the homestead, N. of the Pond ; VII. Martha,2 Sep. 15, '37, m. Simon Leland, of Sh. ;
49. 25. VIII. Benjamin,5 Cpt., June 30, '41, s. N. W. of the Pond, where H. Mason rs.
19. 26. Benj.4 settled in Holl. prior to 1727, and built his house ab. 30 rods E. of the N. E. corner of Milford. He m. Judith Hill, the mother of all his children, Nov. 9, 1727, dg. of " old Mr. Ebenezer Hill," of S., whose lot of 192 acres, in Douglas, " falling well " at the drawing of shares in 1715, came forward after the town of S. had voted acceptance of a charge of £10 for the survey, and " freely undertook to satisfy the committee and surveyor." Benj. nı. 2d, Ruth IIill, Aug. 12, '62. He owned land in Holden, and with his brother Seth, Dec. 23, 1754, conveyed 75 acres to Samuel Bul- lard, [No. 23 and 35,] of Sherborn ; Benj. Bullard [No. 17] and Jason Haven witnessing the deed. He d. intestate, 1766. Administration was granted to his son Asa, cordwainer, Sept. 23, 1766, and his estate was in- ventoried at £636 1s. 11d., consisting of the homestead, 130 acres at Rocky Hill, a lot on Deer Br., and another in Cedar Swamp; all in II. To Asa all the real estate was assigned, and he appointed guardian of his brothers Ezekiel and Daniel, and sister Dinah, then in their minority. He had
50. 27. I. Asa,5 Jly. 10, 1730, d. 1804, to whom his real estate was assigned ; II. Judith,5 Aug. 20, '33, m. Seth Thayer, Feb. 6, '52, and had Hannah, Apl. 10, '54, m. Abner Leland, of H., and d. ab. 1850, at Ashland ; III. Tabitha,5 Feb. 8, '34-5, m. Mordecai Day, of Mend, '66 ;
63. 28. IV. Eleazer,5 Mar. 11, '37, m. Hannah Rawson ; v. Daniel, June 11, '39, d. without issue after 1767 ; VI. David,5 Aug. 11, '41, m. Hopestill Taft, of Mend., Nov. 27, 1766; VII. Mary,5 June 5, '44, m. Michael Madden ; VIII. Dinab, named in the settlement of his estate, m. - Stearns.
61. 31. Ix. Nathan,5 (not recorded, ) m. Bathsheba IIill ; x. Lydia, named among the heirs of his estate, Dec. 16, 1767, m. - Boynton. 32. XI. Ezekiel,5 Mar. 3, '48-9, settled in Maine.
20. 33. Seth,4 settled in Holl., m. Sarah Twitchell, Sep. 7, 1736, who was b. June 12, 1720, and d. Dec. 8, '51, dg. of Eben'r T., by. w. Sarah Pratt, and grd. dg. of Benj. T., of S., by w. Mary White, and pr. gr. grd. dg. of Joseph T. of Dorchester, who had land assigned him there 1635-6. Seth m. 2d, Lydia Haven, Oct. 18, '52, b. 1715, dg. of Richard H., of Fram. He had 67. 34. I. Ebenezer, Sep. 16, 1737, d. 1792 ; II. Sarah,5 April 1, '42, m. Solomon Walker ; III. Mary,5 Jan. 4. '45-6, m. Samuel Claflin.
23. 35. Samuel,5 Col., inherited one third of his father's farm, and built his house where the heirs of the late Elijah Hill reside. He was early invested with the honors of his fellow-citizens, and much confidence, through a long life, was placed in his judgment and integrity. He was received as Capt. B., a member of the Ancient Art. Co. 1755, chosen Selectman 1760, and served in that capacity nine years, and was Representative 1774. At the commencement, and during the Revo- lutionary War, he was an active and efficient Whig ; served one campaign at Ben- nington, and was often on committees of correspondence and vigilance. Ho married
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