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('APT. NATHAN BARRETT2155, the third Nathan, and the last of his race on Ponkatasset Hill. Capt. Barrett carried ou during his life the large farm left to him from his ancestors. and the title of " Honest Nathan " was given to him by his neighbors and friends. Being kind-hearted, charitable, and a thorough Christian gentleman, he earned the high esteem of his townsmen. He was twice married : first to Marry S. Fuller, and a sceond time to his cousin. Luey A. Barrett2514.
C'OL. NATHAN BARRETT2215, of Staten Island, N. Y., was a colonel of New York militia about 1830. He was a Chris- tian and a philanthropist, highly esteemed and beloved. It was due to his exertions that the county house of his connty was greatly improved.
NATHAN M. BARRETT2283 was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion : enlisted in Company I, One Hundred Fifty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, serving three years and four months. He was at the battles of Winchester, Fisher
Hill. and Cedar Creek. At Angusta, Ga., he received, with several others, a commission as first lieutenant from Gov. Seymour of New York, as a complimentary testimonial. Hc was discharged Nov. 15, 1865. In 1866 he crossed the plains, and for two years thereafter was engaged in gold mining.
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NATHAN F. BABRETT2326, of New York, enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Regiment, Company I, New York State Volunteers, Sept. 19, 1862; served in the Nineteenth Army Corps in Louisiana nnder Banks through the Port IIndson and Red River campaigns. He joined Sheridan's army at Washington, abont August, 1864, and was in the Shenandoah campaign throughout. He was wounded at C'edar Creek in the left arm; joined Sherman's army at Savannah, and was in a division of Nineteenth Army Corps which relieved Gen. Geary at Savannah; was again in Sherman's army at Goldsboro, N. C., and was there at Johnston's surrender. Mustered ont of service at Hart's Island, New York, Nov. 9, 1865, holding commissions of second and first lientenants and sergeant-major. He is now a professor of landscape engineering. He designed the well-known towu of Pullman, III.
MAJOR OLIVER BARRETT744, of Bolton, lived in the old Barrett homestead ; held a major's commission in the militia of Massachusetts, and filled various offices of trust in the town and parish.
DR. PERRY GORDON BARRETT2051 graduated an M. D. at the Buffalo, N. Y., Medical College, theu settled at Walnnt Creck, Kan., remaining there until after the death of his first wife. He entered the United States Army in 1862, at Corinth, Miss., under contract until a vacancy for surgeon should ocenr. His first commission was assistant surgeon of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Corps. He was taken a prisoner at Rogersville, Tenn., and incarcerated in Libby Prison, at Richmond, Nov. 10, 1863. Ilis treatment while a prisoner was such as characterized that infamous prison. Gen. Neal Dow and Col. Streight were prisoners on the same floor at the time, in other departments. He remained for three weeks in Libby Prison, until his exchange. After a furlough of two weeks, he was ordered to join the command, near Knoxville, Tenn. Ile attempted to do so; the depri- vations and cruelties of his prison life had so affected his health that he was obliged to go into the hospital at Camp Nelson, near Lexington, Ky .. and did not recover till the following spring, joining the command at the time of the exciting chase after Morgan and his command, June 13, 1864. At the time of his promotion to the position of sur- geon of the Thirty-first United States Colored Troops he was ordered to join the forces then commanded by Gen. Grant, before Richmond and Petersburg, Va., where he re- mained in service until after the surrender of Lee. After this, his regiment was ordered to Texas, remaining during
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the summer on the east bank of the Rio Grande, at various points for a distance of two hundred miles ; returning with his regiment to Hartford, Conn., Dee. 1, 1865, where he was mustered ont of service. He resumed the practice of medicine at Erie, Pa., 1867, thence removed to Hood River, Oregon, in 1871.
CAPT. RICHARD BARRETT2125, of Concord, Mass., derived his education from the public schools of the town, spend- ing his spare time upon his father's large farm, taking a great interest in its affairs. He joined the Concord Artil- lery in 1837, thus following in the footsteps of his fore- fathers ; elected captain at the age of twenty-two, and hold- ing that position nearly all the time until 1871. At the time of election to the captainey of the Artillery, there was great rivalry existing between it and the Infantry, both famous organizations, thus necessitating incessant labor and energy in each of the captains of these organizations to endeavor to bring his company to the head. At the time of his father's death, in 1849, he became the owner of the " Lee Farm," which he sold some years later. He was in the grain business in Boston, and subsequently in the Inmber busi- ness at Manchester, Vt., returning to Coneord in 1855. In the War of the Rebellion he was captain of the Concord Artillery, Company G, Forty-seventh Regiment Massachu- setts Volunteers, in the Department of the Gulf, under Gen. Banks. Returning in 1863, he ocenpied a position in the United States marshal's office in Boston. In 1864 he be- canie secretary and treasurer of the Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company, still occupying the position ; twice elected to the Legislature, in 1859 and 1879; always a Re- publican, and a loyal supporter of his party. In early life, he was one of the selectmen, and for many years chairman of the board of assessors. He was greatly interested in the Middlesex Agricultural Society, and for some years its treasurer. Capt. Barrett resides on a fine farm, situated at the foot of Poukatasset Hill, about one mile from the centre of the town.
CAPT. RICHARD FAY BARRETT2130, of Concord, Mass., spent a few of his early years with his unele in Providence, going from thence to New York City, where he remained several years, then returning to Concord to take a position in the Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company's office, and is now the assistant secretary of that company. Capt. Barrett was for several years captain of the Concord Artil- lery and Infantry Company attached to the Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He has held the office of selectman and other town offices.
ROSWELL BARRETT793 of Bolton, Mass., a farmer, land surveyor, and justice of the peace, residing upon the Barrett homestead in Bolton. Mr. Barrett taught school for twenty- five years, and for more than forty years has been a member of the school committee, and has also held nearly every office
within the gift of the town and parish. He married his consin, Sarah Josephine Barrett"".
DEA. SAMUEL BARRETT1542 of Concord, Mass. The fol- lowing is from the New England Chronicle, Dec. 11, 1775 : " We hear from Concord, that a fine laboratory for gun mak- ing is set up there, by Dea. Barrett, where every branch of that business is carried on ; as the laboratory has the advan- tage of a water power, the boring, grinding, and poli-hing are done by that means."
MAJOR SAMUEL BARRETT2717 of Jamestown, N. Y. Dur- ing his minority he resided with his sister in Newfane. Vt., who had married Eli Crosby, Esq. He settled in JJames- town in 1816 ; after his marriage he was for a time landlord of the Cass House, a hotel then standing where now is the Jamestown House. Major Barrett soon became a leading citizen, and was a prominent man in all business matters pertaining to the town during his long life. When a young man he was a candidate, in opposition to the late Gen. Ris- ley, for the office of sheriff, on the Clintonian ticket. He was at times member of various mercantile copartnerships, one of the directors of the Chantanqua County Bank at the time of its organization. In 1835 he was elected president of the bank, to succeed Hou. E. T. Foot, its first president, who then resigned ; this position he retained to the time of his death. For several years supervisor of Jamestown, and one year member of the State Assembly ; filling all of these various positions creditably. A man of useful common-sense and sound judgment, of unquestioned integrity in public life, commanding also the confidence and respect of his asso- ciates in all the relations of life. He celebrated his golden wedding in 1868.
STEPHEN BARRETT1899, of Concord, Mass., was a farmer and kept a tannery. Ile was a seleetman. 1802 to 1807. and deputy representative, 1811. .
STEPHEN BARRETT2535, of Shirley, Mass., learned the trade of tanning with his father. He bought a tannery in Shirley in 1801, removed there and continued in the business until his deathı.
STEPHEN BARRETT2643 of Sangersfield. N. Y. Ile was one of the original settlers in Paris, N. Y .. being the third person to locate there in 1789. He remained in Paris six years, and then moved to Sangerstield. N. Y. He was a selectman in Paris, also justice in the town of Mohawk. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution for three years.
STEPHEN BARRETT2503 moved with his parents in 1804 to Chautauqua County. N. Y. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, in Capt. Martin B. Tuft's company, of New York State Militia. He moved with his family to Kingsville. Ohio, in 1821. In 1838 he moved, with a wife and nine
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daughters, to Beloit, Wis., near which place he had taken up a claim of land the previous year. One of his first ef- forts, after settling in his new home, was to aid in the organ- ization of a Baptist church, his family making more than one half of the original membership. He and his wife con- tinned to be members of this church until their death. In 1861, having been prosperous in their undertakings, they gave up housekeeping and lived until their deaths with their children. They were buried in Silver Lake Cemetery, Port- tage, Wis. Mr. Barrett was familiarly known as Dea. Barrett. Having a very large number of friends and ac- quaintance, his aid and counsel were sought by those in need, and none ever left him, on such occasions, regretfully. He lived a truly religions life.
PROF. STEPHEN P. BARRETT2953, of Lincoln, Neb., received his early education at the Kingsville Academy, beginning teaching in 1851, and tanght in their order at the following places : Plymouth, Ohio, Raysville and Waterbury, Pa., Geneva and Harpersfield, Ohio, and in 1855 in Nunda, N. Y., Literary Institution ; following this he entered the University of Rochester, graduating in the classical course July, 1859, degree of A. B., subsequently, in 1864, the de- gree of A. M. He was principal of boys' school, Chatta- nooga, Tenn .. two years ; public schools, Buchanan, Mich., seven years ; schools of the "Dalles," Oregon, four years ; Baker City Academy, Oregon, three years : and now princi- pal of High School, Lincoln, Neh.
CAPT. THEODORE A. BARRETT2452 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Barrett, when a boy, worked upon his step-father's farm and in the office of the Yeoman Gazette until abont 1834 (his father was at one time editor of the Yeoman Ga- zette and Concord Freeman, published at Concord, Mass.), when he ran away from home and shipped in the United States Navy at Charlestown, and was drafted to the frigate "Potomac," for the Mediterranean station ; arriving at that station, he was promoted to ship-yeoman. He followed the sea, being promoted in the various grades and given the com- mand of a ship in 1844. In 1861 he took the command of a steamer to be fitted out to capture blockade runners. Before the day he was to report for duty, he was attacked by inflam- matory rheumatism, and compelled to resign the command.
WILLIAM BARRETT2148, of Malden, Mass., served an ap- prenticeship at the clothing trade with a Mr. Minott of Bil- lerica, where he learned something of the trade of dyeing. After finishing his trade he went to Charlestown, Mass. ; here he made the acquaintance of a Mr. Thompson, an Eng- lishman, who was in the dyeing business in a small way. Mr. Barrett engaged with him and gained a thorough knowl- edge of the business, and afterwards came to have an interest in the business. Mr. Thompson neglected the work, being a man of unsteady habits. Mr. Barrett then determined to start for himself alone, and looking for a suitable location for
the growing business, he removed to Malden in 1804, and established his dye-works in that place. About 1808 he en- gaged in copartnership with Meshack Shattuck, as Barrett & Shattuck. This firm was dissolved at the death of Mr. Shattuck (by suicide), Dec. 11, 1811, Mr. Barrett continu- ing alone until his death. In 1816 all of his buildings were burned, they being of wood; he immediately rebuilt of brick, and of considerably enlarged capacity. His profitable business he left to his sons. Mr. Barrett was a public- spirited man, and took a forward part in any enterprise for the benefit of his town.
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REV. ADISON BROWN3402 graduated at Cambridge, 1826. Ile studied for the ministry at the Cambridge Theological School, and was settled over the Unitarian church and society of Brattleboro, Vt., 1832. Ile was a faithful pastor and well-beloved minister of the church for many years : his health failing, he was obliged to relinquish preaching for a while. Recovering his health partially, he established a school in Brattleboro, which he carried on for some years. He then became editor of the Vermont Phoenix, and was connected with that paper till nearly the close of his life. He never relinquished the ministry ; he loved his profession and continued to preach. as opportunity offered and health permitted, up to within a year or two of his death, which occurred in 1872. He was an upright man, respected and loved by all who knew him.
AMo> BROWN3327, of New Ipswich, N. H., was a farmer, and for a few years after his marriage he kept a store on the turnpike near his residence. In religious belief he was a Baptist, and for many years was a deacon of the Baptist church, thus following in the footsteps of his father. He was always partienlar to have daily family worship. He married his cousin, Hannah Brown3032, who was always a faithful sympathizer with her husband in his religious opin- ions. Both were constant in attending church. Amos Brown did much toward the support of the church. He built a Baptist church mostly at his own expense, and paid largely toward the support of the minister. He was for some time a selectman of his town.
LIEUT. CYRUS BROWN3123 was a civil engineer. He en- tered the Union Army soon after the breaking out of the Re- bellion, and was promoted to the office of lieutenant in the One Hundredth New York Volunteers. He was wounded at the storming of Fort Wagner, near Charleston, S. C., July 18, 1863 ; he remained on the battle-field all night, protect- ing himself by burrowing in the sand ; was captured by the Confederates in the morning and taken five miles to Charles- ton, where his shattered leg was amputated. In five days he was exchanged and taken to a hospital near New York, where he died Aug. 13, 1863.
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LIEUT. CYRUS W. BROWN3091, of Joliet, III., entered the Union Army in 1862. In 1863 he received his lieutenant's commission in the Third Pennsylvania Colored Regiment. He served in the approaches that compelled the evacuation of Fort Wayne, Morris Island, in 1864; also was with Gen. Seymour's expedition into Florida ; he served as an adjutant in the regiment. He has been four years State's attorney for Mill County, Ill.
CAPT. GUY A. BROWN3081, of Lincoln, Neb., is reporter for the Superior Court of Nebraska and State librarian. He enlisted in the Union Army, 1862, and served therein till the close of the war. He was a captain in the Ninth New York Artillery.
HERMAN BROWN3403 was for many years deacon in the Baptist church, following thus in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. His high religious and moral character was made known by his life and works.
REV. JOHN BROWN3025 received a good education in the grammar schools of Concord. He was a Baptist, and fre- quently in his early life preached in various places, whenever he received a call to do so. He removed, in 1817, from his farm in Sharon, N. H., with his family to Alexander, N. Y.
JOHN W. BROWN3070, of Batavia, N. Y., is a farmer. Has been elected several times to minor offices in his town, and five times to the office of supervisor ; and has for two terms represented the county in the State Legislature.
JOHN J. BROWN, M. D.3116, of Sheboygan, Wis. Educated himself for a physician, and practised medicine for several years. He has made several trips to tropical climes to gather specimens of conchology and botany ; has devoted part of his time to teaching; has taken an active part in public questions and occupied places of public trust.
REV. JOIN S. BROWN3405 of Lawrence, Kan. A grad- mate of Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and Union Col- lege, 1834. He taught school until he was settled as min- ister over the First Congregational Society and Church at Fitzwilliam, N. H., in 1844 ; removing from thence to Ashby, Mass., and with his family, to Lawrence, Kan., in 1857.
REV. JOSEPH BROWN3030 was educated for the ministry, and settled first in 1795 in Shapleigh, Me., over the Congre- gational church. He removed to Alfred, Me., in 1805; to Cavendish, Vt., about 1812, continuing in the ministry until his death.
JOSHUA. L. BROWN3067 was at first a farmer, afterwards studied ław, and held successively the office of deputy county clerk, county treasurer, county judge and surro- gate.
CAPT. JOSIAN BROWN3023 was a man of marked ability and influence, a true patriot and devoted Christian. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill, and his company was the last to retreat before the British regulars. He often related the fol- lowing incident. He said : " After we had order- to retreat, a brave youth of seventeen, who had fought by my side all day, had just loaded his gun and returned the ramrod to its place, when a British officer rode up flourishing his sword, and exclaimed, "My boy, lay down your arms; we've won the day !' The young brave, nothing terrified, drew up his gun and shot the officer down, and retorted, 'Then G- d- you, you 've lost it !' and fled amidst a storm of bullet- fired at him, escaping without harm." Five of his children settled in Whitingham, Vt., viz., Josiah, Joseph, Jonas, Amos, Nathan, and Sarah, who had married her cousin, Reuben Brown. These families were all farmers, men of note and influ- ence at that age, taking an active interest in the current events of the time, and did much towards supporting institutions the best calculated to promote permanent good to the people.
REUBEN BROWN3033 moved with his family from Now Ipswich, N. H., to Whitingham, Vt., about the year 1800. He lived in Whitingham till somewhere near 1811, then removed to Canada, and lived in Brownsville, a town named after Reuben Brown, that part of the country being newly settled ; he bought four hundred acres of good land, became prosperous and raised a large family. He married his cousin, Sarah Brown3326.
REV. NATHAN BROWN. D. D. 354, was born at New Ipswich, N. H., June 22. 1807, and died in Yokohama. Japan, Jan. 1, 1886. His boyhood was passed in Whiting- ham, Vt., whither his parents removed the year after his birth. Here his scholarly instincts began to develop in childhood, accompanied by an unusual concentration of char- acter. A strict conscientiousness showed itself as a marked trait almost from infancy. His relations to the unseen Father and the realities of the spiritual life were carly revealed to him, and at the age of nine he was baptized ou profession of his faith by Rev. Jonathan Wilson. To these gifts were added a powerful physical constitution, strength- ened by the out-door labors of a farmer's son. When six- teen years of age he entered Williams College. and gradua- ted at twenty, in September, 1827, the valedictorian of a class of thirty members. The three following years were mainly occupied in teaching. From 1829 to 1831 he was associated in the Bennington Seminary with his college friend and classmate, Rev. James Ballard, whose sister Eliza, daughter of Capt. William Ballard of East Claremont. Mass., he married May 6. 1830.
During the year 1831, Mr. Brown was editor of the Vermont Telegraph. a religious journal published at Bran- don. While there the way was opened for his entrance upon the foreign-missionary work, and the following winter was spent in preparatory study at Newton. Mass. He was
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ordained at Rutland, Vt., Ang. 15, 1832, and sailed for Burmah on Dee. 22 of that year, reaching Calcutta in May, and Manlmain in June, 1833. The next year he made a missionary tour up the Irrawaddy as far as Ava, distributing Christian books and tracts, and found the people generally ready to receive them, though in some cases the heathen rulers manifested hostility. Being appointed to establish a new mission in Assam, Mr. Brown left Burmah in Angust, 1835, and travelled inland up the Brahmaputra River seven hundred miles from Calcutta to Sudiya, a post near the northeastern frontier of the province, which it was hoped would prove a stepping-stone to China, whose seaports were then closed against foreigners. He labored in Assam for twenty years, mastering the language without dictionary or grammar, and enduring, with his heroic wife, the perils and hardships of pioneer missionary life, in a region then beyond the safeguards of civilization. Among their experiences in India were a night attack and massacre at Sndiya, by the Khamtis, in January, 1839; the sickness and death of their three eldest children (one of whom they buried at Maulmain on the day of their departure ) ; the deseerated grave of their first-born thrice opened by robbers for treasure, and left to wild beasts; repeated personal illness from fevers of the country and cholera ; until at last, with health broken down, Dr. and Mrs. Brown returned to America in 1855, leaving behind them many weeping converts as the fruit of their suf- ferings and labors, and those of their associates. In ad- dition to his other manifold missionary labors, Dr. Brown had translated the New Testament into Assamese. As a translator, he worked from the originals, with conscientious fidelity as to both text and translation, and his versions of the New Testament, both in Assamese and Japanese, while based on the requirements of the best modern scholarship, have already passed the tests of time and service. As an Oriental linguist, his characteristic was a comprehensive grasp of va- ried languages in their relationships to each other, resulting from patient research and an intuitive apprehension of lingual affinities. Among the languages to which he had given spceial study during this period of his life were the Burmese, the Shan and its cognates, and the Sanscrit. with several of its living dialeets, including, of course, the Assamese. As a missionary, his scheme of work was thorough and far-reach- ing, taking into account the intellectual, social, industrial, and moral elevation of the races for whom he labored. Dis- covering the foundations of the heathen religions to be based on a corrupted fabulous literature, he carly apprehended the importance of undermining those foundations by planting the seeds of scientific, historic, and religious truth ; and relied on the press and schools as next in importance to the living preacher. With this view, he established The Orunodoi (Dawn of Day ), an attractive monthly illustrated magazine, in the Assamese language. While broad in aim, he was re- markably praetieal and thorough in details. In Burmah and Assam he travelled from village to village, distributing tracts, becoming acquainted with the natives, and preaching ;
winning the affection even of ficree savages of the hills by his gentle, nnostentatious friendliness. His return to America, which seemed the overthrow of the hopes of a life- time, proved ultimately to be the introduction to a seeond and not less important mission, in behalf of the enslaved blacks of his own land. In 1856, Dr. Brown was called to the editorship of The American Baptist, an anti-slavery journal in New York City ; which post he held for fifteen years, during the stormiest period of the nation's history. His instincts and convictions had always been on the side of freedom : from carly manhood he was an abolitionist ; and he took up this new duty with all the zeal and religious en- thusiasmı which characterized his missionary work in foreign lands. His editorials, before and during the war, attraeted attention by their vigor and clearness. Recognized as one of the leading spirits in the anti-slavery movement, he was ap- pointed in 1862, with Cheever and Goodell, to wait upon President Lincoln and urge upon him the emancipation of the slaves. During this period of his life, after the assassination of President Lincoln, he wrote an allegorieal history of the Civil War, entitled " Magnus Maharba." Meanwhile his in- terest in philological studies continued mabated, and he or- ganized an association called "The American Philologieal Society," one object of which was to promote a system of scientific phonetics adapted to all languages. In this pho- netic form, as well as in the ordinary spelling, "Magnus Maharba " was published.
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