Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 107

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


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Ruth Wild, daughter of Silas, m. June 13, 1849, Elijah Sampson, by whom she had five children, namely: Martha Reed, William Reed, George Thomas, Mary Wild, and Ellen Ruth, who is the wife of Edward W. Hayes, of Medford. Martha R. is the wife of Charles D. Archibald, of Medford, by whom she has two children - Jennie S. and Warren Martin. William R., a commercial traveller, living in


California, m. Minnie Amelia Hawkes, who d. in 1898. Captain Silas Wild was a. Revolu- tionary soldier, his record being as follows: Captain in Colonel Benjamin Lincoln's regi- ment, which assembled on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Braintree, service nine days; Captain of the Seventh Company, Edmund Phinney's regiment, dated Fort George, De- cember 8, 1776, enlisted January 1, 1776, ser- vice eleven months, seven days; Captain in Colonel William Heath's regiment, dated Fort No. 2, October 6, 1775, Thirty-sixth Regiment of Foot, com. April 28, 1775; Captain, Fifth Suffolk County Regiment of Massachusetts, Col- onel Ebenezer Thayer, 3'ds. Regiment, com. July 17, 1777; Captain, Colonel Brooks's regi- ment, stationed at Cambridge, service February 3 to April 3, 1778; Captain, General Heath's regiment, Dorchester Camp, May 29, 1775.


George Thomas Sampson, after leaving the Medford High School, learned the profes- sion of civil engineering. In 1876 he entered the employ of the New York & New England Railroad Company, and in 1879 became prin- cipal assistant engineer, in which capacity he was actively engaged until 1898, when the road was absorbed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. Mr. Sampson was thereupon made division engineer of the Midland, Central, and Norwich Divisions of that system. In these positions he superin- tended the erection of the Summer Street bridge. For more than twenty years he has been actively identified in the construction of the docks, piers, grain elevator, and warehouses of the South Boston freight terminals of the road, thus assisting largely in the development of the transportation facilities of this branch of the great railway systems of the city. A Republican in politics, Mr. Sampson served for a number of years on the Town Committee,


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and in 1892 was a member of the first City Council. He belongs to the Boston Society of Civil Engineers; to Mt. Hermon Lodge, F. & A. M., of Medford; is a member and Past High Priest of Mystic Chapter, R. A. M .; a member of Medford Council, R. & S. M .; and a member and Past Regent of Medford Council, No. 94, Royal Arcanum.


On June 16, 1892, he married Nellie Lucy Teel, of Medford, a daughter of Elbridge and Maria E. (Richardson) Teel. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson have one child - Helen Ruth, born December 20, 1893, who is now attending school in Medford.


ON. CHARLES MANSFIELD BRUCE, of Malden, was born . in Ashtabula, Ohio, November: 28, 1863, son of Charles Emerson and Eliza Ann (Stone) Bruce. On the paternal side he is of British ancestry of Norman origin, the name in Great Britain dating back to the eleventh century, when "more than one de Bruce came with the Conqueror to England. Their services were rewarded by a. number of manors in Yorkshire -- upwards of 40, 000 acres of land, which fell to the lot of Robert de Bruce,' the head of the family." (Dictionary of National Biography, vol. vii., London, 1886.) A grandson of Robert de Bruce' (or Brus), a younger son of Robert,2 was the founder of the Scottish branch to which Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, belonged, he being a lineal descendant of Robert' in the eighth generation. Of that branch of the family in New England to which belongs Judge Bruce, of Malden, the first representative of whom we have at present date (March, 1902) authentic information is "John Bruce, of Sudbury, Framingham, whose wife was Elizabeth Dike (m. 1670). The wife d. in 1738, but was liv- ing March 30, 1738. On this date John Bruce deeds to his son John (b. 1674), in ' considera- tion of love, good will,' etc., 88 acres : condi- tions were that the son was to care for in health and sickness and give Christian burial to at death father and mother Elizabeth. [Middle- sex Deeds, 51 : 503. ] Have not been able to connect John with either Thomas Bruce, of


Marlboro, or George Bruse (Bruce), of Wo- burn." (MS., Anson Titus, genealogist. )


Beginning, then, with John Bruce, of Sud- bury and Framingham, Judge Bruce's line of descent is John1; John,2 b. 1674; John, 3 b. 1714; John, 4 b. 1745; Timothy, 5 b. 1784; Charles Emerson,6 b. 1819; Charles Mans- field, 7 b. 1863.


Temple's History of Framingham mentions John2 Bruce (John2 above) as a settler in that town; his wife Elizabeth, who d. about 1739, aged sixty-five; and nine children, the eldest Elizabeth, b. 1695, the eighth John, Jr., b. May 12, 1714. John2 Bruce sold the Framing- ham homestead in 1767 and removed to Brook- field.


John3 Bruce, b. in Framingham, son of John2 and Elizabeth, m. on January 11, 1733-4, Mary Potter, daughter of Ephraim Potter. Their son John4 Bruce, b. at Framingham, November 30, 1745, m. Temperance Packard. In 1776 he went to Rutland, Mass., and in 1786 to Pelham, Mass., where he remained two years, removing then to Hardwick, which was his place of residence until his death, October 13, 1824. His wife, Temperance Packard, d. there September 30,: 1834. She was a de- scendant of Samuel' Packard, one of the early settlers of West Bridgewater. A clock made for John! . Bruce by William Cranford, of Connecticut, in 1786, one of the first clocks made in this country, descended to his son Timothy5 in 1824, to Timothy's son Charles Emerson in 1849, and in 1899 to Judge Charles M., the present possessor.


Timothy5 Bruce was b. March 29, 1784, in Rutland, Mass., being one of the eight chil- dren of John4 Bruce and his wife Temperance. In 1842 he moved from Hardwick to Spring- field, Mass. He d. July 19, 1849. He m. 1812 (intentions published September 10) Sally Kimball, of Enfield, Mass., who was b. December 9, 1792, and d. September 20, 1870. Of the ten children b. of their union, two are now living; namely, Mary Ann and Henry James. Mary Ann has been twice m. Her first husband was Benjamin H. Merriam. Her second is William A. Prosser. Henry James Bruce m. Hepsie Goodnow, of Sudbury, Mass., and they are engaged in missionary


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work in India, being stationed at Satara. They have six children living.


Charles Emerson Bruce was b. February 4, 1819, at Hardwick, Mass., and d. January 8, 1899, at Malden, Mass. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1846 and from the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1849. He did not enter the ministry, but engaged in teaching, for a number of years having charge of the academy at Northfield, Mass., where the late Dwight L. Moody was one of his pupils. Going from there to Vermont, he was superin- tendent of the Brattleboro Academy several years, subsequently holding a similar position in the public schools of Ashtabula, Ohio, for a long time. While living in the latter place, he and his wife were members and very active workers of the Presbyterian church, of which he was one of the Elders. He also served on the School Board. During the Civil War he was very public-spirited and active, his entire sympathies being with the North. After set- tling in Malden, in 1881, he devoted himself to literary pursuits, compiling a number of direc- tories and writing several historical sketches.


On December 25, 1861, he m. Eliza Ann Stone, who was b. at Dublin, N. H., January 24, 1833, daughter of Aaron and Mary (Ward) Stone. Four children were the fruit of their union, namely : Charles Mansfield, the subject of this sketch; Mary Stone, b. June 1, 1866; Elinor Kimball, b. July 14, 1871; and Ethel Coolidge, b. June 16, 1873. On November 30, 1893, Elinor Kimball Bruce m. William Brackett Snow, of Stoneham, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Snow have three children : Bruce, b. October II, 1894; William Brackett, Jr., b. July 30, 1897; and Elinor Bruce, b. October 1, 1900.


Aaron Stone, the maternal grandfather of Judge Bruce, was a direct descendant in the seventh generation of Deacon Gregory Stone, the immigrant, the lineage being : Gregory, ' John,2 Nathaniel, 3 Hezekiah, 4 Eliphalet, 5 John,6 Aaron7. Deacon Gregory Stone, son of David and Ursula Stone, was baptized at Great Bromley, Essex County, England, April 19, 1592; d. Cambridge, Mass., November 30, 1672. He m., first, at Nayland, England, July 20, 1617, Margaret Garrad. She was buried


at Nayland, August 4, 1626. He m., second, Lydia Cooper, a widow, who came with him to New England about 1635-6. He owned land in Watertown, but lived in Cambridge. He was admitted a freeman May 25, 1636, was a Deputy to the General Court, and served as a Magistrate. He was elected Deacon of the Cambridge church in 1638, and was the last survivor of its original members. He d. No- vember 30, 1672. He had six children : John, Daniel, and David, by his first wife; and Eliz- abeth, Samuel, and Sarah, by the second wife, Lydia.


John2 Stone, baptized in England in 1618, came with his parents to Massachusetts, and was one of the early proprietors of Sudbury, sharing the first three divisions of land in that town. He settled among the Indians at Great Falls, on the border of "Sudbury Plantation," then a perfect wilderness, now the populous village of Saxonville in Framingham. He was Town Clerk of Sudbury in 1655. He d. May 5, 1683. The maiden name of his wife was Anne How. Nathaniel3 Stone, b. May II, 1660, m. April 25, 1684, Sarah Wayt. Hezekiah4 Stone, b. March 5, 1710, m. Ruth Howe, of Sudbury. Lieutenant Eliphalets Stone, b. at Framingham, December 5, 1735, the eldest son of his parents, removed to Marlboro, N. H., in 1771. He m. Lydia God- dard, who was b. in Berlin, Mass., September 4, 1737. Captain John6 Stone, b. March 7, 1764, d. April 13, 1849. On March 12, 1788, he m. Elizabeth Stanley, who d. November 4, 1813, leaving among other children a son Aaron7. He m. for his second wife Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Coolidge, and widow of Reuben Ward. She d. October 24, 1856. Mary Ward, who became the wife of her step- son, Aaron7 Stone, was one of her daughters by her first marriage.


Aaron7 Stone, b. at Marlboro, N. H., Febru- ary 28, 1802, d. June 30, 1869. Mary Ward, whom he m. on June 12, 1828, as stated above, was b. February 8, 1807, and d. May 15, 1882. Her father, Reuben Ward, was a descendant of William Ward, the immigrant ancestor, the line of descent being : William,' Samuel,ª Joseph, 3 Phineas, 4 Reuben, 5 Reuben, 6 Mary7.


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William' Ward, according to tradition, emi- grated to America from Yorkshire, England. His name is first recorded in Sudbury, where he shared in the divisions of land made in 1639 and in 1640. He was made a freeman in 1643, and appears to have been a man of importance, representing Sudbury at the Gen- eral Court in 1644, and serving as chairman of the Board of Selectmen a number of years. In 1660 he removed to Marlboro, Mass., and at the organization of the first church he was chosen Deacon. He, with many others, en- dured great hardships and sustained great losses by the Indian hostilities, more especially in King Philip's War in 1675 and 1676. He d. August 10, 1687, at an advanced age. His wife Elizabeth d. at Marlboro, December 9, 1700, aged eighty-seven years. Samuel2 Ward, b. September 24, 1641, d. in 1729, leaving a widow Elizabeth. His first wife, whom he m. on June 6, 1667, was Sarah How, daughter of John How. She was b. Septem- ber 25, 1644, and d. August II, 1707. Joseph3 Ward, a lifelong resident of Marlboro, b. 1670, d. June 30, 1717, m. June 5, 1700, Abiah Wheelock. Their son, Phineas4 Ward, was b. in Marlboro, August 5, 1705, and d. in that town, October 19, 1756. Reuben5 Ward, b. December 28, 1746, son of Phineas and his wife Mary, d. January 8, 1800. On June 13, 1771, at Marlboro, N. H., he m. Sarah Ken- dall, who d. April 12, 1812, in the fifty- seventh year of her age. Reuben6 Ward, b. in 1775, d. at Marlboro, N. H., June 2, 1808. He m. June 3, 1804, Rebecca Coolidge, daugh- ter of Samuel Coolidge, and grand-daughter of John Coolidge, who was b. in 1714, he being the eldest son of Isaac Coolidge, b. in 1685, and a descendant of John Coolidge, who was living at Watertown in 1636. Mary7 Ward m. Aaron7 Stone.


Charles Mansfield Bruce was graduated from the Roxbury Latin School with the class of 1882, and was admitted to Harvard College. Instead of taking the college course, however, he spent three years in the employ of the Bos- ton & Lowell Railroad Company, and after that he entered the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1888. Ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, he located


himself in Boston, where he has since been engaged in practice of his profession. He pays especial attention to corporation and railroad law, having reorganized the Norton and Taun- ton system of street railways and building (under a receivership of the United States Court) the White River Valley Railroad. On August 16, 1898, he was admitted to the United States Circuit Court. He was ap- pointed Special Justice of the First District Court of Eastern Middlesex, February 8, 1894, by Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge, and still retains that position. He is also a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public. Judge Bruce is prominent in Masonic circles, being a mem- ber of Converse Lodge, F. & A. M; the Tabernacle Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Mel- rose Council; and Beauseant Commandery. He is also connected with various other or- ganizations, belonging to the Middlesex Bar Association, the Kernwood Club, Malden Club, Middlesex Club (of the Executive Com- mittee of which he is a member), and the Malden Board of Trade. During the celebra- tion of the two hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of Malden he was secretary of the Committee on Police Regulations, having entire charge thereof, and was also a member of the Reception Committee. In politics he is a Re- publican.


On June 7, 1899, Judge Bruce married Annette Woodman Akers, of Portland, Me. Mrs. Bruce was born in Hollis, Me., a daugh- ter of George and Mary (Woodman) Akers.


LBERT CLARKE, lawyer, journalist, business man, and legislator, secretary and manager of the Home Market Club, and chairman of the United States Industrial Commission, was born Octo- ber 13, 1840, in Granville, Vt. His parents were Jedediah and Mary (Woodbury) Clarke. His father was b. in 1804 in Rochester, Vt., where his grandfather, Jonathan Rogers Clarke, d. in 1816. The grandfather was son of Tim- othy Clarke, who removed to Windham County, Vermont, from Connecticut. Mary Woodbury, wife of Jedediah Clarke, and mother of Colonel Clarke, was the daughter of Daniel and Ruth


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(Woodbury) Woodbury. Her mother was a grand-daughter of Peter Woodbury, of Peters- ham and Royalston, Mass., a soldier of the Revolution, who was commissioned Captain in the Seventh Worcester County Regiment, April 5, 1776, and in 1778 served in Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment in Rhode Island.


Brought up on the home farm in the heart of the Green Mountain region, educated in dis- trict schools and country academies, Albert Clarke subsequently applied himself to the study of law and to the practice of the profes- sion in Montpelier, in the mean time acquiring military experience in the service of his coun- try. On the twenty-fifth day of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Thirteenth Reg- iment, Vermont Volunteers. Promoted succes- sively to Sergeant, First Sergeant, and to First Lieutenant, he commanded his company at the battle of Gettysburg, taking part in two as- saults, one of which was in repulsing Picket's charge, being slightly wounded early in the action. While living in Vermont after the war, he was engaged in journalism as editor and publisher, and in the civil service of the State, being for four years first assistant clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives, in 1874 State Senator, twice a State Commis- sioner on Public Works, in 1865 Colonel on Governor Paul Dillingham's staff, and in 1878 chairman of the Platform Committee of the Republican State Convention. Selling his business in 1880, he spent a winter in Wash- ington, and in 1881 removed to Wellesley, Mass., and engaged in business and editorial work in Boston. He has held, and still holds, various positions of trust.


As a delegate from the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts to the Republican National Convention in 1892, he was a strong supporter of President Harrison. As Repre- sentative of the Ninth Norfolk District in the Legislature in 1896, 1897, and 1898, he served on the Committees on Taxation, Rules, and Ways and Means, being chairman of the latter, and instrumental in reducing the tax levy. He was the author of the law prohibiting prize fights in the State, of the Convention's roll- call law, and of the law to give seven dollars per month, State pay, to Massachusetts soldiers


and sailors in the Spanish-American War. The pen with which Governor Wolcott signed the last-named bill was presented by him to Colonel Clarke, and, with the autograph letter testifying to its identity, is kept as a memento in his office at the rooms of the Home Market Club, 77 Bedford Street. A bill to prevent the granting by railroad companies of free passes to State officers, judges, and legislators was ably championed by him in the Vermont Senate in 1874, long before its principles were adopted by Massachusetts and other States, and also embodied in the Interstate Commerce Law. Colonel Clarke has long been a conspic- uous advocate of protection and sound money. His speech pronounced a few years since before the New England Free Trade League on "The Failures of Free Trade " has been widely circu- lated, as also has his pamphlet called "Money Leaflets," issued in 1896, pronounced by the chairmen of the Republican State Commit- tees of Massachusetts and Indiana as "the best of its kind." His address on "Industrial Su- premacy " at the commencement in 1898 of the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, Phila- delphia, received high commendation, and was extensively circulated. As a member and, later, chairman of the United States Industrial Commission, appointed by President Mckinley in 1899, Colonel Clarke has rendered impor- tant services. Though it is many years since he has practised law, his legal opinions as Judge Advocate-General of the G. A. R. in 1897 were commended for their logic and learn- ing by the committee of able lawyers who re- viewed them, and a brief which he prepared led Governor Wolcott to veto a bill that had passed the General Court of Massachusetts.


His record has ever been that of a tireless worker and student. As an organizer and ex- ecutive he has shown unusual ability, and as an orator and campaign speaker he has an extended reputation. He was for some years a director of the National Prison Association, is vice- president of the National Statistical Associa- tion, and a trustee of Norwich (Vt.) Univer- sity. Before his removal from Wellesley to Boston in 1901, he often served as moderator of the Wellesley town meeting. He was for seven years president of the Wellesley Club,


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several times chairman of the standing com- mittee of the Unitarian church at Wellesley Hills, superintendent of the Sunday-school, and teacher of a Bible class. Upright and hon- orable, he is most esteemed by those who know him best. In 1896 and again in 1900 his friends sought to obtain for him the nomina- tion to Congress from the Fourth District. In 1896 his principal rival was nominated by one majority on the fifth ballot, and in 1900 his principal rival was nominated by two majority on the third ballot. He philosophically ac- cepted the result, and did not for a moment slacken his energetic work for the party.


Colonel Clarke was married January 21, 1864, to Josephine Briggs, daughter of the Hon. Ephraim Dean and Eliza (Hodgkins) Briggs, of Rochester, Vt. Three children have been born of this union - Albert Briggs, Josie Caroline, and Mary Elizabeth. Albert B. died in infancy. Josie C. died at the age of ten years. Mary E. resides with her parents at 879 Beacon Street, Boston.


DWARD LEWELLYN HILLER, City Electrician of Lynn, Mass., was born in Lynn, June 11, 1840, the second son of Edward and Charity (Meek) Hiller. According to the best information obtainable, the Hiller family has been resident in Marblehead for several generations. The town records give Benjamin Hiller, b. Decem- ber 28, 1800, son of George and Rebecca Hiller. He may have been a brother of the Edward Hiller above referred to, although there is no mention of Edward's birth in said records. An Edward Hiller is recorded as marrying Mary Hindley, November 24, 1787, and it is not improbable that they were the great-grand- parents of the subject of this sketch. It should be mentioned, however, that other marriage records are found, relating to those of that name, as : Thomas Hiller to Mary Chapman, July 23, 1789, and George Hiller to Rebecca Hindley, March 15, 1795.


The records relating to the Meek family are also fragmentary and unsatisfactory, and it has not been possible to establish a clear line of


descent to Charity, mother of Edward L. Hiller.


Edward Hiller, father of Edward L., was b. at Marblehead in 1806. Removing to Lynn, he was there employed for some years in shoe- making, and later was engaged in the provi- sion business. His wife Charity was the only daughter of Jacob and Mary (Salter) Meek. She was b. in Marblehead in 1808, and d. in Lynn in 1872. They had nine children, seven of whom lived to maturity ; namely, Jacob, Edward Lewellyn, John S., Thomas; Richard, Caroline, Ancis. Jacob, the eldest b., went to the Sandwich Islands when twenty-one years old, and resided there for sixteen years. He d. in 1871, while visiting his family in Lynn. John S. Hiller has served in the navy. He now resides in Lynn, and is a shoemaker. Thomas d. in 1875. Richard Hiller resides in Lynn, is m., and has a son Horace. Caro- line d. in 1872. She was the wife of John Lambert, and had one son, James. Ancis (deceased) m. Ira Clark, and had five children.


Edward Lewellyn Hiller was educated in the Lynn public schools, and from the close of his school days up to 1861 he was engaged as a clerk in the grocery business. On the break- ing out of the Civil War he enlisted in Com- pany F, Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteers, and served for three months with the Army of the Potomac. In 1862 he re-enlisted in the Eighth Battery, under Captain Cook, and again joined the Army of the Potomac, with which he served six months. He participated in the second battle at Sulphur Springs and the second battle of Bull Run, and was also present at the battles of South Mountain, Richelieu, and Fredericksburg. On the ex- piration of his second term of enlistment he was assigned to the Quartermaster's Depart- ment, Army of the Potomac, where he served until the close of the war. When peace was established, he returned to Lynn, and was employed in various capacities in the City Fire Department; in 1871 he was appointed Super- intendent of Fire Alarms; and in 1890 was elected City Electrician, which position he now holds. He is a member of the Bay State Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Lynn, and of Winne- purkit Tribe, I. O. R. M.


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He married in October, 1872, Lydia R., daughter of Joseph Hart, of Guysboro, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Hiller have three children, namely : Daisy M., born in 1873, who married John Pillsbury; Edward Leo, born in 1875; and Myrtle Lavinia, born in 1877, all of whom still reside with their parents.


SAAC BRADFORD, of Cambridge, Mass., was born September 28, 1870, only son of Isaac and Jane Ann (Davis) Bradford. He comes of honored Co- lonial stock, being a lineal descendant of William Bradford, who was b. at Austerfield, England, baptized March, 1589, came to Mas- sachusetts in the "Mayflower " in 1620, served as Governor of Plymouth Colony, and d. at Plymouth, Mass., May 9, 1657. The line of descent, we are told, is William,' William, 2 Samuel,3 Gamaliel,4 Seth,5 Isaac,6 Isaac,7 Isaac, 8 and Isaac9.


Captain Isaac Bradford, the paternal grand- father of Mr. Isaac Bradford, of Cambridge, was b. in 1793, and d. in Cambridge, Mass., April 23, 1854, aged sixty years, seven months. On November 24, 1833, he m. Sarah Beckford, of Salem, Mass. For many years of his active life he was engaged in the West India trade as master of a vessel. He was known as a man of strict integrity and a thorough seaman. His wife Sarah survived him many years.


Isaac8 Bradford was b. November 15, 1834, and d. December 19, 1898. He m., April 30, 1862, Jane Ann Davis, who was b. in Boston, August 28, 1835, a daughter of William and Jane Ann (Hutchings) Davis. Her father was a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of William' Davis, of Roxbury, who was b. in 1617, and d. December 9, 1683. His first wife was Elizabeth. His second wife, Alice Sharpe, whom he m. in 1658, was burned to death February 24, 1667. His third wife, Jane, d. in 1714. Ebenezer2 Davis (baptized April 9, 1678, d. May 14, 1712) was a black- smith. He m., April, 1700, Hannah, b. 1681, daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Phillips) White, of Weymouth. Colonel Aaron3 Davis (b. in Roxbury, April 26, 1709, and d. July 29, 1777) was a member of the




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