Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 106

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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William' Ford was b. in England in 1594, and d. in Marshfield, Mass., September 23, 1676, aged eighty-two years. Coming to America with his widowed mother in the "For- tune, " he lived for a while in Plymouth, where he m. He then removed to Duxbury and be- came proprietor of the grist mill at Mill Brook, which was built in 1640, being the first in this town. Subsequently he erected a grist mill in South Marshfield, probably in 1661, as a deed signed by him and his wife Ann, dated May 27, 1661, conveyed their land in Duxbury to Fran-

cis West. His Marshfield home was located on the east side of North River, called Gravelly Beach. His wife, Anna, who survived him, was buried September 1, 1684. Michael 2 Ford, their second child, d. July 29, 1729. December 12, 1667, he m. Abigail Snow, daughter of An- thony and Abigail (Warren) Snow, and after her death (buried June 26, 1682) he m. March 29, 1683, Bethiah Hatch, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth (Holbrook) Hatch. Elisha3

Ford, eighth child by the second marriage, was b. January 19, 1696. On January 1I, 1719, he m. Elizabeth Oakman, a daughter of Tobias and Elizabeth (Doty) Oakman, grand-daughter of Edward and Sarah (Faunce) Doty, who were m. February 26, 1663, and great-grand-daugh- ter of Edward Doty, a passenger on the "May- flower," who m. in 1635 Faith Clark. Sarah Faunce's father, John Faunce, m. in 1633-4 Patience Morton, who was b. in 1615, a daugh- ter of George and Julia (Carpenter) Morton, who were m. in Leyden in 1612, Juliana Carpenter being a sister of Alice Carpenter, the second wife of Governor William Bradford. Elisha+ Ford, b. November 16, 1734, m. in 1759 Eliz- abeth Tilden. Elisha5 Ford, b. September 19, 1764, m. January II, 1787, Lydia Turner, a direct descendant of Humphrey Turner, who came to America in 1628 and settled at Scit- uate, Mass., where he carried on the tanner's trade. James Turner6 Ford, b. September I, 1794, in Marshfield, Mass., d. February 8, 1852, in Duxbury, where he had carried on business as a merchant after giving up the trade of a hatter. On June 25, 1823, he m. Anna Dingley Waterman, a daughter of Asa Water- man, Esq., of Marshfield.

Mrs. Bradford on the maternal side is a de- scendant in the eighth generation of Thomas 1 Waterman, who emigrated with his family from Norwich, England, settling in Plymouth, Mass., in 1635. The line of descent is as fol- lows: Robert2 Waterman m. December II, 1638, Elizabeth Bourne, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bourne, of Marshfield, and set- tled in Marshfield. He d. September 10, 1652. His wife d. April 14, 1689 (Marsh- field Record).

Joseph3 Waterman, b. in 1639, d. 1708, m. Sarah Snow, d. 1741, daughter of Anthony and

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Abigail (Warren) Snow, and on the maternal side a grand-daughter of Richard and Eliza- beth (Bartlett) Warren. Anthony Snow was a son of Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow, and a grandson of Nicholas Snow, who (with his daughter Constance) came to Plym- outh in 1620 on the "Mayflower." Captain Anthony4 Waterman, b. June 4, 1684, d. April 3, 1715. He m. Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Seth Arnold, and grand-daughter of the Rev. Samuel Arnold. Deacon Thomas5 Water- man, b. April 29, 1710, d. December 16, 1783. He served twenty-one years as Deacon of the church. On January 25, 1732, he m. Abigail Thomas, a daughter of Deacon Israel Thomas (b. 1670, d. 1755) and his wife Bethia Sher- man, and a grand-daughter of John Thomas, who, prior to his death in 1676, was steward of Governor Edward Winslow's estate. Asa6 Waterman, a lifelong resident of "the Neck " at Marshfield, was b. January 7, 1748, and d. April 2, 1807. A man of good education, he was a capable surveyor, and also did much of the legal work required by his fellow-towns- men, by whom he was known as "Squire" Waterman. He m., first, August 26, 1790, Anna, daughter of Deacon Thomas Dingley, of Marshfield. She d. November 28, 1791, and he m. for his second wife, January 9, 1794, Ruth Little, a daughter of Deacon Thomas4 and Sarah (Baker) Little. Their daughter, Anna Dingley Waterman, m. James Turner Ford, Mrs. Bradford's father.

Through her maternal grandmother, Ruth Little Waterman, Mrs. Bradford shows descent from another "Mayflower " passenger, Rich- ard Warren, whose daughter, Ann Warren, m. in 1633 Thomas' Little, who landed at Plym- outh, Mass., in 1630. Ephraim2 Little, b. in 1650, m. November 22, 1672, Mary, daughter of Samuel Sturtevant. John3 Little, b. March 18, 1683, d. February 26, 1767, m. Constance Fobes, of Little Compton, R.I., who d. June 29, 1771, aged eighty-five years. Deacon Thomas4 Little, b. June 16, 1719, d. Decem- ber II, 1814. He m. for his second wife Sarah Baker, who was b. April 1, 1726, and d. No- vember 29, 1792. She was a daughter of Ken- elm and Patience (Doty) Baker, a grand-daugh- ter of Kenelm and Sarah Bradford Baker, and

great-grand-daughter of Deputy William Brad- ford. She was also a descendant of Edward Doty, the "Mayflower " passenger. Kenelm Baker, Jr., was a son of Kenelm or Kenelum Baker, Sr., who m. Sarah Bradford, the latter being a daughter of Major William and Alice (Richards) Bradford, and grand-daughter of Governor William Bradford. Samuel Baker, father of Kenelum Baker, Sr., m. Ellen Wins- low, daughter of Kenelum Winslow, a younger brother of Governor Edward Winslow. From the foregoing record it will be seen that Mrs. Bradford is a descendant of five "Mayflower " passengers, being seventh from William Brad- ford, eighth from Richard Warren (two lines), eighth from Stephen Hopkins, eighth from Constance Hopkins, and eighth from Edward Doty (two lines).

LGERNON SIDNEY LINCOLN, a former resident of Medford, Mass., was born February II, 1812, in Athol, Mass., and died September 4, 1887, in Medford. He was a son of Amasa Lincoln, and a lineal descendant of Thomas Lincoln, the miller, who came from England in 1635, received a grant of land at Hingham in 1636, but removed thence with his family before 1650 to Taunton. Thomas' Lincoln had five children - Thomas, John, Samuel, Mary, and Sarah - all baptized in Hingham; and by a second wife, whom he m. in Taunton, he had a daughter, it is said. The line was continued through his son Thomas,2 who m. Mary Austin ; their son Thomas, 3 b. Taunton, April 21, 1656, a soldier in King Philip's War, who m., first, Mary, daughter of Richard and Abigail Stacy, and m., second, Susanna, daughter of Samuel Smith; to Jonathan+ Lincoln, b. about 1687, who lived in Norton, Mass., formerly a part of Taunton.

Jonathan4 Lincoln was a farmer by occupa- tion. He m. Hannah Andrews, who d. in Norton, May 23, 1762, aged seventy-two years. They had seven children, namely : Jonathan, b. June 27, 1713; James, b. March 1, 1715; Elkanah, b. July 2, 1718; Abiel, b. March 5, 1720; Hannah, b. August 29, 1723 ; George, b. August 20, 1727; and Job, b. July 14, 1730.

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Elkanah5 Lincoln, the succeeding ancestor, b. July 2, 1718, inherited the paternal home- stead, and was engaged in farming during his active life. He was Assessor in 1766 and School Trustee in 1788. He (or perhaps it was his son Elkanah, the father being a Quaker) was a soldier in the Revolution, serv- ing as Corporal in Captain Isaac Hodges' com- pany, which marched from Norton to Tiverton, R.I., in December, 1776, and as Sergeant in Captain Israel Trow's company, Colonel Isaac Dean, on an alarm from Rhode Island in 1780. He m. Lydia Wetherell, by whom he had eight children, as follows: Lydia, b. October 5, 1745; Elkanah, b. April 30, 1747; Enos, b. September 17, 1749, d. May 6, 1819; Samuel, b. October 18, 1751 ; Prudence, b. April 7, 1754; Hannah, b. January 27, 1757; Amasa, b. June 25, 1762; and Luther, b. May 29, 1766, m. Ruth Macomber, and d. March 31, 1848.

The line was continued through Enos Lin- coln, who d. at Petersham May 6, 1819. At Norton, October 29, 1771, he m. Sarah Burt, who was b. July, 1752, and d. October 22, 1825, in Petersham, Mass. They had twelve children, namely : Enos, b. July 28, 1772, m. Ruth Shumway, and d. July 2, 1855; Sarah, b. in 1774, m. Samuel Clapp, of Petersham, and d. November 14, 1841; Lucinda, b. Octo- ber 8, 1776, m. Oliver Clapp, and d. Septem- ber 2, 1860; Lydia, b. February 13, 1779, m. May 31, 1797, William Pierce, and d. May 3, 1866; Susannah, b. March 12, 1781, m. Timo- thy Sprague, and d. August 3; 1833; Amasa (father of Algernon Sidney), b. at Petersham, April 29, 1783, d. in Athol, Mass., June 2, 1860; Burt, a cooper of Hardwick, b. Decem- ber 20, 1785, m. Mary Powers, and d. 1866; Alanson, b. March 4, 1788, m. September 9, 1818, Laura Graves, and d. May 24, 1849; Hannah, b. March 20, 1790, m. John Foster, and d. February 16, 1858; Prudence, b. May 23, 1792, d. October 29, 1860; Lucy, b. Novem- ber 1, 1794, m. the Rev. Joseph B. Goddard, and d. October 16, 1878; and Emily, b. Feb- ruary 25, 1797, d. March 23, 1816.

Amasa Lincoln, the sixth b., the father of Algernon Sidney, was a cooper by trade. He m. January 26, 1809, Zilpha Reed, who was

b. in August, 1785, and d. June 9, 1836. He m., second, December 14, 1837, Susan Fisher, of Templeton, who was b. October 1I, 1793, d. October 3, 1865. His children, nine in num- ber, were of his first marriage, their record being as follows: Algernon Sidney, the sub- ject of this sketch; Otis Lysander, b. Decem- ber 12, 1814, d. in 1815; Charles Otis, b. January 4, 1816, m. September 13, 1838, Mary Bullard, and d. in 1890; Amasa Wales, b. March 21, 1818, for many years a merchant in Springfield, and now residing in Roxbury, m. June 10, 1845, Mary Cutler Paige, of Barre, Mass. ; Lysander Reed, b. March 3, 1820, m. Laura A. Allen, of Chicopee, and d. July 17, 1869; William Dwight, b. February 4, 1822, m. June 4, 1872, Mrs. Florinda R. (Findlay) Strong, and d. at Hartford, Conn., March 13, 1878; Addison Justin, b. March 30, 1824, m. January 12, 1853, Harriet E. Bond, of Tem- pleton, who d. September 1, 1898, his own death occurring October 21, 1898; Estus Mil- ton, b. August 21, 1826, m. June 29, 1864, Arianna Grant Lord, of Boston, and resided in Boston and Brooklyn, dying in Somerville, June 17, 1898; Henry Clay, b. February 26, 1828, was drowned in the Chicopee River, July 31, 1845.

The children of Amasa Wales and Mary Cutler (Paige) Lincoln were : I. Harriet Em- meline (Lincoln), b. 1847 at Chicopee, d. Oc- tober 23, 1873. 2. Mary Paige, b. at Spring- field, 1854, m. at Arlington, Ernest Ellwell, of Somerville, and d. several years ago at Bev- erly Farms (December, 189-), after a very few years of married life, leaving no children. 3. Martha J., b. at Springfield, m. at Arling- ton, 1896, Domenicus Koppmann, of Boston, who d. January, 1900. Lives at West Rox- bury. Mr. Koppmann was for many years en- gineer of the State Board of River and Harbor Commissioners.

Addison Justin Lincoln, who m. Harriet E. Bond, was a merchant (dry-goods) in Northamp- ton for most of the thirty-five years he lived there - 1855 to 1890 - after which the parents went to live with their son William Addison Lincoln, at Springfield, Mr. Lincoln holding a position in the same company as his son. He was Deacon of the Edwards Church (Congrega-

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tional) at Northampton. His children were: I. Frederick Bond, b. in Templeton, 1853. 2. Henry Sidney, b. in Templeton, 1855, was drowned at Northampton, August 4, 1864. 3. William Addison, b. in Northampton, May 15, 1857, is now and has been for a number of years treasurer of the Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Company. He m. December I, 1880, Sarah Converse Flynt, of Monson, and for a few years they lived at Chicago and Pull- man, Ill. Mr. Lincoln returned to Massachu- setts to take his present position at Springfield. They have six children living (four sons). Another son d. in childhood. 4. Carrie Hard- ing (Lincoln), b. in Northampton, and lived there some years later than her parents. She lives now at her brother's in Springfield. 5. Annie Fiske, b. in Northampton, d. there 1864, aged about two years. 6. Helen Stod- dard, b. in Northampton, and m. there Janu- ary 1, 1890, Arthur Fairbanks Stone, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., editor of the St. Johnsbury Caledonian. Has two children, besides a lit- tle boy who d.

Algernon Sidney Lincoln acquired his early education in the district schools of Athol and at Templeton Academy, then a famous institu- tion of learning. From the age of fifteen until attaining his majority he was in the em- ploy of Colonel Artemas Lee, a general mer- chant in Templeton, attending school and working in the store. He subsequently spent a few years in the West, mainly in St. Louis, Mo., then returned to Templeton and vicinity, resuming business in connection with Colonel Lee, and later was also in business at Baldwins- ville in his own. name, Colonel Lee being with him as silent partner. Mr. Lincoln came to Boston in 1850 to take the position of pay- ing teller in the newly organized Bank of Com- merce, remaining there until 1885, when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, from which he never recovered. He was one of the trustees of the local savings bank and a member of the Unitarian church, also at times one of the Par- ish Committee. On June 30, 1847, he mar- ried Abigail Bigelow Stone, of Templeton, daughter of Colonel Leonard and Lydia (Rich- ardson) Stone. She died February 13, 1879. They had two children, namely: William

Sidney, born August 29, 1853, who died in November of the same year; and Agnes Wy- man, born July 16, 1856, in Medford, Mass., who has always lived at home.

Mrs. Lincoln was a descendant in the seventh generation of Simon' Stone, an early settler of Watertown, Mass., the line being : Simon, 1-2-3 Benjamin, 4 Captain Leonard, 5 Colonel Leonard,6 Abigail Bigelow (Mrs. Lin- coln). Simon,' who was baptized in England, February 9, 1585-6, was a son of David and Ursula Stone. He came to America in 1635 in the ship "Increase." He m. in England, August 5, 1616, at Much Bromley (now Great Bromley), Joan Clark, daughter of William Clark. They reared six children, namely : Frances, b. January, 1619; Ann, b. in Eng- land in 1624; Simon,2 b. in England in 1631; Mary, b. in England in 1632; John, b. in England in 1635; and Elizabeth, b. in Water- town in 1639. Simon Stone d. in Watertown, September 22, 1665. He m., second, in New England, about 1654, Mrs. Sarah Lumpkin, widow of Richard Lumpkin, of Ipswich, but all his children were by his first wife, Joan Clark Stone. Simon2 Stone d. in Water- town, February 27, 1708. His wife, Mary Whipple, daughter of John Whipple, of Ips- wich, d. June 2, 1720, having borne him twelve children. Simon3 Stone, b. in Water- town, September 8, 1656, d. in Groton, De- cember 19, 1741. He m., 1686, Sarah, daughter of Mathias Farnsworth, of Groton, and they became the parents of nine children. Benjamin4 Stone, b in Groton, August 12, 1706, d. there September 23, 1758. On May 13, 1736, he m. Emme Parker, daughter of James and Abigail (Prescott) Parker. They had ten children.

Captain Leonards Stone, the sixth child of his parents, was b. in Groton, April 13, 1746, and d. in Templeton, April 18, 1818. He in- herited from his father an original proprietor's rights of Narragansett Number Six, now Tem- pleton. He served in the Revolutionary War, and was afterwards Captain in the militia, re- ceiving his commission from Governor John Hancock. He m. February 10, 1781, Catha- rine Wyman, daughter of Nathaniel Wyman, and widow of Aaron Kendall. She was a

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great-grand-daughter of Francis Wyman, one of the original thirty-two proprietors of Wo- burn, December 18, 1640. She d. November 25, 1810. They were the parents of five chil- dren, as follows : Mary, b. March 9, 1782, m. William Hunting, of Templeton, removed to Ascott, Canada, in 1812, and d. May 27, 1853; Ephraim, b. April 14, 1783, m., first, Eunice Wyman, second, Elizabeth Goodridge, and d. February 10, 1861; Colonel Leonard (father of Mrs. Lincoln), b. October 26, 1784, d. January 20, 1857; William, b. March 24, 1788, d. in 1795; Betsey, b. June 5, 1791, m. in 1817 Hezekiah Hancock, and removed to Canada, where she d. in 1827, leaving two children, one other having d. in infancy.

Colonel Leonard6 Stone m. October 26, 1819, Lydia, daughter of Captain John Rich- ardson, of Templeton. The children b. of their union are as follows : Abigail Bigelow, b. November 28, 1820, m. Algernon Sidney Lincoln, the subject of this sketch; Leonard, b. September 11, 1822, d. June 19, 1862; Catherine Wyman, b. June 29, 1824, d. Octo- ber 18, 1827; William, b. May 1, 1827; Lydia Richardson, b. January 14, 1829, d. May 1, 1887; Ephraim Wyman, b. December 5, 1830; and Walter Scott, b. December 4, 1832, d. July 20, 1836. Leonard Stone, the second child, b. September 11, 1822, d. June 19, 1862. On October 25, 1848, he m. Mar- garet, daughter of the Rev. Charles and Anna (Smith) Wellington, the former of whom was pastor of the Templeton church for more than fifty years. Three children were b. of their union, namely : Leonard, who is paying teller of State National Bank, Boston; Charles Wellington, a graduate of Harvard, is princi- pal of the boys' school at 68 Chestnut Street, Boston; and Mary Wellington. William Stone, the fourth child, b. May 1, 1827, is a prominent citizen and well-known business man of Templeton. On June 22, 1854, he m. Martha Pomeroy Paige, daughter of Martin and Mary (Billings) Paige, of Providence, R. I. His children are: Frederick Paige, of the firm of Lord & Stone, Templeton; Lucius Paige, who d. in 1884; and William Sidney of Braintree. Ephraim Wyman Stone, the sixth child of Colonel Leonard Stone, resides in

Templeton. He was b. December 5, 1830, and m. September 14, 1858, Betsey Berdille Sawyer, daughter of George and Sarah (White) Sawyer. They are the parents of six children, namely : Abby Cook, wife of James M. May- nard, of Templeton; Helen Margaret, wife of Charles C. Hutchins, Professor in Bowdoin College; George Sawyer, of Templeton, Everett Wyman, recently of Braintree and now of Medford; Lydia Richardson, b. August 14, 1871, d. August 19, 1873; and Ralph Bush- nell, a student of Bowdoin College.

I EORGE THOMAS SAMPSON, of Medford, holds an important position as a division engineer of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. A native of Medford, he was born October I, 1855, a son of Elijah and Ellen Ruth (Wild) Sampson. He traces his ancestry back on the paternal side to six of the "Mayflower " pas- sengers - Henry Sampson, Myles Standish, John Alden, William and Alice Mullins, and their daughter, Priscilla Mullins, being de- scended likewise on the maternal side from the four last named.

Henry' Samson (as the name was then spelled) came over on the "Mayflower " with the family of his uncle, Edward Tillie, being then too young to sign the compact at Province- town. He was, however, enumerated in the assignment of land in 1623 and in the division of cattle in 1627, and was admitted a freeman in 1637. He m. at Plymouth, February 6, 1635-6, Ann Plummer, and afterwards removed to Duxbury, where he was Constable in 1661. In 1645 he was one of the original grantees of Bridgewater, but never lived there. He d. at Duxbury, December 24, 1684. His children were as follows: Elizabeth, who m. Robert Sproat; Hannah, who m. Josiah Holmes; an- other daughter, who m. John Hammond; John, who m. Mary Pease; Mary, who m. John Sum- mers; Dorcas, who m. Thomas Bonney ; James, who settled at Dartmouth; Stephen, whose wife was Elizabeth; and Caleb, who m. Mercy Standish.

Calebª Sampson was b. in Duxbury about 1660, and was living there in 1710. He m.

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Mercy Standish, a daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Alden) Standish. She was a grand- daughter on the paternal side of Captain Myles Standish, and on the maternal side of John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. He had eight chil- dren - David, Lora, Rachel, Priscilla, Alex- ander, Caleb, Joshua, and Jerusha.

Joshua3 Sampson d. in Duxbury, intestate, August 4, 1741. On May 23, 1724, he m. Mary Oakman, of Marshfield. She survived him, dying November 11, 1780, aged eighty- seven years. They had four children, namely : Amos, b. November 6, 1725; Anthony, b. April 19, 1728; Huldah, b. June 23, 1734, who m. Ichabod Delano; and Sarah, b. Octo- ber 5, 1741. [See Sampson Genealogy in "Giles Memorial," by John A. Vinton. ]

Amos4 Sampson, b. in 1725, d. in Duxbury, December, 1795. He m. October 19, 1744, Deborah Sampson, who was b. June 12, 1726, a daughter of Miles2 and Sarah (Studley) Samp- son. They became the parents of six chil- dren. Deborah Sampson was a descendant of Abraham1 Sampson, who arrived at Duxbury in 1638, was admitted freeman 1654, and was liv- ing in 1686. He m., first, a daughter of Sam- uel Nash. His second wife's name is not known. He had Samuel, George, Abraham, 2 and Isaac.

Abraham2 Sampson, of Duxbury, m. Lorah Standish, and had Rebecca, Abraham, Miles, Nathaniel Ebenezer, Sarah, and Grace.

Miles3 Sampson m. April 28, 1713, Sarah Studley, who d. in 1782, aged ninety-three. He d. in 1784, at the age of ninety-two; had children - Andrew, Alice (who m. Robert Sampson), Joseph, Sarah, Deborah, and others. [History of Duxbury. ]

Elijah5 Sampson (son of Amos and Deborah) was b. in Duxbury, October 25, 1757, d. Au- gust 21, 1834. He was a shoemaker by trade and a Revolutionary soldier. He served eight months in 1775; was in a company of militia that marched from Duxbury to Rhode Island on the alarm call of December 10, 1776; and was also in a company of one hundred men, under Captain Andrew Sampson, stationed at the fort on the Gurnet for the defence of the harbor of Plymouth from June 19, 1776, till end of summer of 1777. He m., first, in 1783,

Hannah Sprague, who was b. May 19, 1764, and d. September 11, 1817. His second wife also was named Hannah. His children, all by his first marriage, were as follows: Martin, b. October 10, 1783, who m., first, Sarah Free- man, and, second, Sarah Smith; Thomas, sub- ject of the succeeding paragraph; Hannah, b. July 23, 1788, who m. Moses Ventress; and Eden Sprague, b. December 1I, 1796, who m. Polly Sampson.

Thomas6 Sampson, b. in Duxbury, Mass., February 27, 1786, d. there July 8, 1840. He m. in Duxbury, Mary Thomas, of Hingham, who was b. in Braintree, Mass., April 17, 1791, and who d. in Duxbury, January 31, 1864. Their children, eleven in number, were as follows : Thomas, b. June 30, 1809, who m. Elizabeth Wright; Mary Thomas, b. in Dux- bury, April 25, 1811, who d. there June 15, 1896 (she m. George Louden, who was b. May 7, 1809, and d. in Duxbury, November 19, 1900; James, b. January 16, 1813, who d. March 16, 1813; Catherine, b. March 24, 1814, who m. December 19, 1845, Spencer Drew, and d. September 9, 1851; Martha, b. September II, 1817, who d. unmarried September 4, 1843; George Adams, b. at Duxbury, April 26, 1820, who m. Martha Parks, and d. in South Dakota, August 25, 1886; Elijah, b. April 30, 1823, who is next in the present line of descent ; James Prince, b. July 2, 1826, who m. May 20, 1848, Lucy Stetson, of Medford; Walter Henry, b. August 11, 1830, who d. in Chelsea, Mass., September 11, 1897 (he was a soldier in the Civil War, and m. Susan Will- iams, of Boston) ; Elizabeth Clay, b. Novem- ber 18, 1832, who m. Wilbur Fisk Brewster, and d. February 24, 1860; and Sidney Smith, b. October 17, 1836, who was in the United States Navy in the Civil War, and who d. in Chelsea, Mass., August 20, 1900.

Elijah7 Sampson was b. in Duxbury, April 30, 1823, and d. in Medford, November 3, 1887. In early life he and his brother James Prince learned. the trade of ship-calker with their elder brother, Thomas, after which they took contracts together from Mr. Cudworth, Mr. Foster, and other shipbuilders of Med- ford. Elijah was identified with the Medford Fire Department for a number of years. He

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m. Ellen Ruth Wild, who was b. October 18, 1828. She was a daughter of Silas and Ruth (Reed) Wild, and a descendant in the sixth generation from John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, and in the seventh generation from Will- iam and Alice Mullins, the line from John Alden being as follows: John' Alden m. Pris- cilla Mullins. Their seventh child and third daughter, Ruth2 Alden, m. December 3, 1657, John Bass; Sarah3 Bass, b. January 29, 1672, m. January 7, 1691-2, Ephraim Thayer ; James Thayer, b. March 16, 1712, m. 1748, Deborah Arnold; Abigail Thayer, b. February 4, 1761, m. Silas Wild, Sr. ; Silas5 Wild, Jr., b. Jan- uary 23, 1787, m. Ruth Reed, March 19, 1812; and Ellen Ruth6 Wild m. Elijah Sampson. The Thayer family descended from Richard1 Thayer, who was admitted a freeman of Boston in 1640. His children probably came from England to this country with him, there hav- ing been three sons - Richard, Zachariah, and Nathaniel - and six daughters - Jael, Deb- orah, Sarah, Hannah, Joannah, and Abigail. He settled in Braintree, where his death oc- curred August 27, 1695. Richard2 Thayer m. October 24, 1651, Dorothy Pray, of Braintree. Both d. in December, 1705, his death occur- ring on the fourth day of the month and hers on the eleventh. Their children were: Dor- othy, b. June 30, 1653; Richard, b. June 31, 1655; Nathaniel, b. June 1, 1658; Abigail, b. February 10, 1661; Joannah, b. December 13, 1665; Sarah, b. December 13, 1667; and Cornelius, b. July 18, 1670. Richard3 Thayer m. July 16, 1679, Rebecca Micall, who was b. November 21, 1658. They had ten children. Lieutenant Richard4 Thayer, b. January 26, 1685, was the third child and second son of his parents. On February 6, 1710, he m. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Anne White. She d. February 14, 1726, leaving seven chil- dren. By his second wife, Sarah Ford, to whom he was m. in 1730, he had four children. He m., third, Lydia Pray. Ruth5 Thayer, the third child of Lieutenant Richard and Sarah (Ford) Thayer, was b. in August, 1733, and d. December 29, 1793. She m. Captain Silas Wild, who was b. March 8, 1736, and d. Sep- tember 30, 1807. Silas Wild, b. January 13, 1762, m. Ruth Reed, March 19, 1812. Ellen

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 106

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850