Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 15

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

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ON. OLIVER HEBER DURRELL, one of the founders of the firm of Brown, Durrell & Co., merchants of Boston, at the time of his death, January 31, 1900, a member of Governor Crane's Council, was a native and lifelong resident of Cambridge, Mass. The date of his birth was September 11, 1847. His parents, Oliver Bourne and Betsy Gooch (Peabody) Durrell, both natives of Kennebunk, Me., were m. in Cambridge, November 26, 1846. His father was b. November 24, 1821, and d. in Cambridge, August 21, 1856; and his mother was b. November 25, 1827.

The Durrell family is of French origin. The founder of the New England branch was

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Philip Durrell, who came from Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, and settled in Kenne- bunk, Me., about two hundred years ago. From Philip' the Durrell line was continued through Benjamin,2 b. in Kennebunk in 1710, d. in 1784; Benjamin, Jr., 3 b. in 1748, d. in 1836; Thomas, 4 b. in 1783, d. in 1852; Oliver Bourne, 5 the father of Oliver Heber, who was of the sixth generation in this coun- try. In 1703 Philip Durrell's family were carried away by the Indians; and he left Ken- nebunk, returning, however, in 1714. In 1726 his wife was killed by the Indians, and in that year Philip and his son, Philip, Jr., became proprietors of the town of Arundel, Me., now Kennebunkport. Benjamin Durrell was chosen Captain of militia in May, 1775. During the years 1774, 1776, 1778, and 1779 he was one of the Committee of Correspond- ence, Inspection, and Safety at Arundel, and in 1776 a member of the Massachusetts Gen- eral Court from that town. Benjamin Durrell m. Judith Parker, and their son, Benjamin, Jr., m. Hannah Kimball.

Thomas grandfather of Oliver Heber, m. Esther Towne, daughter of Jacob6 and Sarah (Lewis) Towne. Her father was b. in 1758 at Wells, Me., and was son of Joseph5 and Rebecca (Crediford) Towne, both natives of that place. Jesse4 Towne, father of Joseph, was b. in Topsfield, Mass. He was a descend- ant in the fourth generation of William1 Towne, who was m. March 25, 1620, in the Church of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, England, to Joanna Blessing, and who, with his wife and six children, came to New England and re- ceived a grant of land at Salem in 1640, some years later removing to Topsfield. Edmund2 Towne, son of William,' m. Mary Browning ; and their son Joseph, 3 b. at Topsfield in 1661, m. Amy Smith, and was the father of Jesse4 above named, who was b. in 1697.

Through his mother, a daughter of John6 and Elvira (Wentworth) Peabody, the late Mr. Durrell of Cambridge, was descended from early settlers of Topsfield, Mass., Francis' Peabody, the immigrant progenitor of the family of this name, having become a resident there about 1651. The following is a brief record of the Peabody line of ancestry ; Fran-

cis, 1 b. at St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, England, in 1614, m. Mary Foster. His son Isaac, 2 b. in 1648 in Hampton, N.H., m. Sarah Estes, and d. in Topsfield in 1726. Matthew, 3 b. at Topsfield in 1699, m. in 1743 Sarah Dorman, and d. there in 1777. Seth, 4 b. in Topsfield in 1744, m. Abigail, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Goodwin) Kimball, and d. in Canaan, Me., in 1828. James,5 b. in Al- fred, Me., in 1772, m. in 1794, in Kennebunk, Meriam Mitchell. John,6 above named, b. at Kennebunk in 1798, d. there March 4, 1878.

Elvira Wentworth, who on February 22, 1824, became the wife of John6 Peabody, and was the mother of Betsy Gooch Peabody, was b. at Kennebunk in 1803, and d. there Feb- ruary 2, 1893. She was the daughter of Ben- jamin and Olive (Cousins) Wentworth. Her father, Benjamin, 5 was a representative of the fifth generation of the notable Colonial family founded by Elder William Wentworth, a prom- inent planter of Dover, N. H. The line was : William,1 Benjamin, 2-3 Bartholomew, 4 Benja- min. 5 William' Wentworth, b. in England in 1616, came to this country in his early manhood. On July 4, 1639, he signed the " combination " for a government at Exeter, N. H. In 1642 he removed with the Rev. John Wheelwright to Wells, Me., and about three years later settled at Dover, N. H., where he was active in public affairs, serving a number of years as Selectman. He was Elder of the First Church of Dover, and for several years he preached at Exeter and other places. In 1689, as related in Dr. Belknap's History, Elder Wentworth was instrumental in saving Heard's garrison from the Indians. Awakened by the bark of a dog just as the Indians were entering, he pushed them out, and, falling on his back, set his feet against the gate, and held it till he had alarmed the people. Two balls were fired through it, but both missed him. He d. at Rollinsford in 1697. Captain Benjamin2 Wentworth, his son by his second wife, m. Sarah Allen, who is thought to have come from Salisbury, Mass. Their son, Lieutenant Ben- jamin, 3 b. at Rollinsford, N. H., in 1703, m. Deborah Stimpson. Her father, Bartholomew Stimpson (or Stevenson), was killed by the Indians. Bartholomew+ Wentworth, b. in 1737,

JOHN BARTLETT.

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m. Ruth Hall, daughter of John and Sarah (Stackpole) Hall and a descendant of Deacon John' Hall, who was an inhabitant of Dover, N. H., as early as 1650.

Oliver Heber Durrell was left fatherless be- fore reaching the eighth anniversary of his birth. He was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, completing his studies in the high school, and in his later youth went to work in a hoopskirt factory, where he earned one dollar and fifty cents per week. After some time spent in that line of industry he became clerk in the employ of Brown, Dutton & Co., of Boston, wholesale dealers in dry goods, with whom he remained until the great fire of November, 1872. The firm was then dissolved and two new ones were formed - namely, Houghton & Dutton and that of Brown, Durrell & Co. (Joseph A. Brown, Oliver H. Durrell, and Thomas B. Fitzpat- rick), having a store at 105 Chauncy Street. Of this latter firm Mr. Durrell remained a member until his death. Mr. Durrell was an active and valued member of the Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church, prominent in religious and educational work. He was president of the Board of Missions of Boston ; four years, 1893-97, president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cambridge and a trustee of Boston University. He was a director of the Shoe and Leather National Bank of Boston and of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company; vice-president of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank ; a trustee and member of the Finance Committee of the Mas- sachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, Boston; and director of the Avon Home for Children, of Cambridge. A Republican in politics, he served one year as a member of the Common Council of Cambridge. Elected in November, 1899, to a seat in the Governor's Council, he took the oath of office in January, 1900, but, owing to failing health, was unable to serve. He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the American Revo- lution.

Mr. Durrell was married October 18, 1871, to Sophia Gertrude Eaton, of Greene, Me., daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Goodwin and Mehitable Farnham (Barker) Eaton. Mrs.

Eaton was the daughter of Jonathan and Lucy (Maxwell) Barker. The Rev. Ebenezer G. Eaton was son of Forest and Lois (Goodwin) Eaton and grandson of Joshua Eaton, of Maine. Mr. Durrell is survived by his wife, Sophia, and three children, namely: Maude, born April 7, 1874, who is married to James H. Grover, of Lynn; Ralph Oliver, born Septem- ber II, 1878; and Harold Clarke, born De. cember 3, 1882.

OHN BARTLETT, author and pub- lisher, now retired from active business life, was born at Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820, son of William and Susan (Thacher) Bartlett. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Robert Bartlett, b. in 1603, who landed at Plymouth from the "Ann" in July, 1623, and who m. about 1629 Mary, daughter of Richard Warren, one of the "Mayflower " pilgrims. From Robert' Bart- lett the line of descent is through Benjamin, 2 Samuel,3 Samuel,+ Samuel,5 Joseph,6 and William7 to John8. According to the genea- logical chart of W. P. Barttelot, M.P., of England, the original progenitor there of the Bartlett family was Adam Barttelot, who in- vaded England with William the Conqueror, made his seat at Farring, County Sussex, and was buried at Stopham, A. D. II00.

Benjamin2 Bartlett, b. in 1638, in 1656 m. Sarah Brewster (daughter of Love Brewster and grand-daughter of Elder William Brews- ter), and d. in 1691. Samuel3 m. in 1683 Hannah Peabodie, daughter of William Pea- bodie and grand-daughter of John and Priscilla Alden. Samuel,4 b. in 1688, m. Hannah Churchill in 1725. Their son, Samuel, 5 m. first Betsey Moore, of North Carolina, and secondly, in 1766, Elizabeth Jackson, of Plym- outh.

Joseph6 Bartlett, b. in 1762, son of Samuels and Betsey (Moore) Bartlett, m. Rebecca Churchill in 1784 and Lucy Dyer in 1821. When in his sixteenth year he shipped for ser- vice on board a privateer. Following the fort- unes of a privateersman for some time, he experienced many vicissitudes, including his capture six times by the enemy in as many

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different vessels. Subsequently he settled at Plymouth, and, becoming a wealthy ship-owner, built in 1807 in the Colonial style, the town's first three-story brick house, a house which is yet standing. He d. in 1835, at the age of seventy-three years. His children by his first wife, Rebecca, were: William, Joseph, John, Benjamin, Rebecca, Susan (b. in 1795), Au- gustus, Samuel, and Elizabeth Ann (who m. Albert Goodwin).

William7 Bartlett was b. at Plymouth in 1786. Going to sea at an early age, he used such diligence to master his calling that at the age of nineteen he was the owner and the cap- tain of a ship, the same vessel in which he made his first trip to England. His seafaring life lasted many years, and was very success- ful. A well-remembered incident of this period was his visit to the spot where fell the English general, Sir John Moore, during the siege of Corunna, in Spain, in 1809. When he retired from seafaring, he settled in Plymouth, where he spent his latter years; and he d. there in 1863. His wife, Susan, whom he m. in 1814, was b. in 1795, daughter of Dr. James and Susannah (Haywood) Thacher. Her immi- grant ancestor, Anthony Thacher, who landed at Ipswich in July, 1636, was wrecked a month later on the shore of the island, near Salem, which bears his name to this day, he and his wife having been the only survivors of the disaster. Her father, Dr. James Thacher, of the fifth generation of the family, b. in 1754, d. in 1844, having served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War, written the history of the war and a history of Plymouth, also several professional treatises, including one on hydro- phobia that anticipated Pasteur's theory by eighty years or more. Her paternal grand- mother was a grand-daughter of William Cod- dington, the first Governor of Aquidneck, or Rhode Island. William and Susan Bartlett had five children, namely : Susan Louisa, b. in 1815, who m. Charles O. Boutelle; Betsey Thacher, b. in 1818; John, the subject of this sketch, and the only child now living; Eliza, b. in 1825; and Mary, b. in 1827.

John Bartlett acquired his elementary educa- tion in the schools of his native town. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in a book-

store of Cambridge, and while in that position he made such good use of the opportunity it offered to improve his mind by study that he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1871 from Harvard University. From November, 1862, to July, 1863, he was a volunteer pay- master in the South Atlantic Squadron of the United States Navy. Mr. Bartlett first ap- peared as an author in 1855, being then thirty- four years old. His well-known compilation entitled "Familiar Quotations," which has met with a large sale, was first published by him in 1855, subsequent editions being issued by Little, Brown & Co. In 1876 he began work on a concordance of Shakespeare, and, with the able assistance of his wife, who shared his labors during the entire period of composi- tion and compilation, he finished it in 1894, in which year it was also published and copy- righted. The Shakespeare Phrase Book, pre- pared by Mr. Bartlett and published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1882, has been eagerly received. For twenty-four years Mr. Bartlett was a part- ner in this publishing firm. His business and industrial career covered a period of fifty-two years. In 1894 he was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Colonial Society of Boston and of the Sons of the Revolution. In his earlier years he belonged to many Boston clubs.

Mr. Bartlett was married June 4, 1851, to Hannah Staniford Willard, a daughter of Pro- fessor Sidney Willard and a grand-daughter of President Joseph Willard of Harvard College. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett reside in Cambridge. They have no children.

OSEPH AUGUSTUS WILLARD, the clerk of the Superior Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, was born in Cambridge, September 29, 1816. Son of Sidney and Elizabeth Anne (Andrews) Wil- lard, he traces his descent through ancestors of distinction from one of the early colonists of Massachusetts.

This colonist was Simon' Willard, who was baptized at Horsmonden, England, April 7, 1605. He m. Mary Sharpe, daughter of

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Henry and Jane (Feylde) Sharpe, of the afore- said Horsmonden. She was baptized October 16, 1614. In company with his wife and child, Simon Willard arrived in New England in 1634. The records show that in the fol- lowing year Governor Winthrop described him as a "merchant." His business consisted in buying furs from the Indians of the interior and exporting them. Soon after his arrival he became a resident of Cambridge. After a short stay here he removed to Concord, where he resided for twenty-four or twenty-five years, being an original settler. When the town was organized, he was chosen Clerk of the Writs, and he was afterward annually elected to that office for nineteen years. In March, 1637, he was commissioned Lieutenant Com- mandant in the town's military force; and in 1642 the General Court appointed him "Sur- veyor of Arms," also designating him "to exercise the military company at Concord." First elected a Deputy to the General Court in December, 1636 (the first election held in the town), he was afterward re-elected annually until 1654, excluding the years 1643, 1647, and 1648. By the General Court he was ap- pointed a member of the commission empowered to hold court in Concord for the years 1639, 1641, and 1652. In May, 1646, he was chosen Captain of Concord's military company; and the General Court in June, 1653, elected him Sergeant Major of the company. He removed about 1660 to Lancaster and in 1672 to Gro- ton. At the time of the Indian wars he was a Major in the militia. He d. at Charlestown, Mass., in April, 1676. He was thrice m., and he had seventeen children, nine sons and eight daughters. All of his sons and five daughters attained maturity, m., and left issue.

His son Samuel,2 b. at Concord, January 31, 1639-40, m. on August 8, 1664, Abigail Sherman, who was b. March 12, 1647, daugh- ter of the Rev. John and Mary (Launce) Sher- man. A second marriage, contracted about the year 1679, united Samuel Willard with Eunice, daughter of Edward Tyng. He d. at Boston, September 12, 1707.

John3 Willard, son of Samuel and Abigail Willard, was b. at Groton, Mass., September

8, 1673, and was graduated at Harvard Col- lege in 1690. He became a merchant, and was very prosperous for many years, but subse- quently he "suffered much from the ill man- agement of his partner in trade." He was also engaged in navigation. In the course of time he acquired a considerable estate in land. The necessities of his business obliged him to travel much abroad. In 1700 he took up his residence at Port Royal, Jamaica, now Kings- ton, where he d. in 1733. He m. Frances Sherburne, of Jamaica, in 1703 or 1704. It is believed that she survived her husband at least ten years.

Samuel+ Willard, son of John and Frances Willard, was b. at Kingston, Jamaica, in Sep- tember, about the year 1705. He was sent to Boston by his father at the age of seven to obtain a New England education and be at the same time under the supervision of his uncle, Josiah Willard, the Secretary of the Province. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, was admitted to Harvard, and in due course was graduated there in 1723. After leaving college he spent two years at the home of his parents. Then, having declined a so- licitation to take orders in the Episcopal church, being virtually a Congregational min- ister (there being no Congregational society in the island), he returned to New England. Here he devoted the next few years to studying for the church and to school teaching. He was ordained at Biddeford, Me., on September 30, 1730, and afterward became a zealous and effective preacher. On October 29, 1730, he

was joined in matrimony with his second cousin, Abigail Wright, b. February 19, 1707-8, daughter of Captain Samuel and Mary (Stevens) Wright, of Sudbury, afterward of Rutland. They had seven children. He d. at Kittery, Me., October 25, 1741.

Josephs Willard, son of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail Willard, b. at Biddeford, Decem- ber 29, 1738, taught school for a period in Scarboro, Me., and assisted young seamen in the study of navigation. Subsequently he prepared for college under the instruction of Master Morley, of York, then entered Har- vard, and was graduated there in 1765. After this he remained at Harvard as a resident grad-

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uate and a student of divinity. During his divinity course he served in the capacity of butler, and for six years in that of tutor, hav- ing been elected to the office in 1766. In November, 1772, he was ordained pastor of the First Church in Beverly, Mass. An exem- plary minister of the gospel, he was also a patriotic American, and freely gave his ser- vices on important committees connected with the movement that culminated in the War of Independence. He was one of the first sixty- two members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which was incorporated in 1780, its first corresponding secretary, one of its earlier vice-presidents, and the contributor of the first article in its memoirs. In 1781 he was elected president of Harvard College; and he subsequently discharged the duties of that office for twenty-three years, or till his death in 1804, in a manner to reflect the highest credit on the institution and to greatly advance its interests. When the illustrious Washing- ton in 1789, a few months after his first inau- guration as President of the United States, made his second visit to Cambridge, the honor of receiving him at Harvard fell to President Willard. In 1774 he m. Mary Sheafe, a daughter of Jacob Sheafe, of Portsmouth, N. H., who is described as "a merchant of rare sagacity and integrity."

Sidney6 Willard, son of Joseph and Mary Willard and the father of the subject of this sketch, was Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages at Harvard for twenty- four years, and was second Mayor of Cam- bridge.

The first of Professor Willard's two wives, Elizabeth Anne, daughter of Asa and Joanna (Heard) Andrews, of Ipswich, Mass., was the mother of Joseph A. His second wife was Hannah Staniford Heard, a native of Ipswich. Their daughter, Hannah S., is the wife of John Bartlett, of Cambridge, a sketch of whose life also appears in this work.

Mary Sheafe, the wife of Mr. Joseph A. Willard's paternal grandfather, was a daughter of Jacob5 and Hannah (Seavey) Sheafe, grand- daughter of Sampson4 and Sarah (Walton) Sheafe, and great-grand-daughter of Sampson3 and Mehitable Sheafe, Sampson3 being a son

of Edmund2 and Elizabeth (Cotton) Sheafe and grandson of Edmund' and Elizabeth (Taylor) Sheafe. Mr. Willard's maternal grandfather, Asas Andrews, was a son of Robert4 and Lucy (Bradstreet) Andrews, grandson of Robert3 and Deborah (Fry) Andrews, and great-grandson of Thomas2 and Rebecca Andrews, Thomas2 being a son of Robert' and Grace Andrews. Lucy Bradstreet Andrews, the wife of his great- grandfather, Robert4 Andrews, was a daughter of Simon and Elizabeth (Capen) Bradstreet. Her father was a son of John and Sarah (Per- kins) Bradstreet and grandson of Governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Anne, daugh- ter of Governor Thomas Dudley.

In his earlier years Mr. Willard was a pupil of Westford Academy. His education ended with a period spent in a private school of Cam- bridgeport, Mass., where one of his instructors was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and another James Freeman Clarke. At the age of fourteen he went to sea in the capacity of a "hand before the mast." During his first voyage, which lasted from October to the following April, he visited Jamaica, New Orleans, and San Domingo. Later he made many foreign voyages. After eight years passed in sea- faring he engaged in farming in Cambridge (for his father who had resigned his professor- ship at Harvard), and subsequently followed that calling until 1845. In the following year he was hired as a substitute for an absent clerk in the clerks' offices of the Court of Common Pleas in Boston. This engagement was made for only one week, but he was re- tained for nine years. In 1855 the Superior Court for the County of Suffolk was created, to which he was appointed assistant clerk. This court was abolished in 1859 and the present Superior Court created, to which he was ap- pointed as clerk in 1865 on the death of his predecessor ; and he has since held that posi- tion. For some time he has been the oldest active official connected with the Court House, and none other is held in higher esteem there. Besides being a Free and Accepted Mason, he has also membership in the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company.

Mr. Willard's wife, Penelope, whom he mar- ried September 5, 1841, and who died June I,

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1890, was a daughter of Peter and Penelope (Mitchell) Cochran and a grand-daughter of William and Mary (Morris) Cochran. Her mother, Mrs. Penelope Mitchell Cochran, was a daughter of Henry and Mary (Bethune) Mitchell and grand-daughter, on the maternal side, of George and Mary (Faneuil) Bethune. Mary Faneuil was a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Cutler) Faneuil, and sister of Peter Faneuil, of Faneuil Hall fame, they being children of Benjamin and Anne (Bureau) Fan- euil. Mrs. Cochran's maternal grandfather, George Bethune, was a son of George Bethune, Sr., and his wife (whose maiden name was Carey), and a grandson of David and Margaret (Wardlaw) Bethune.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard are the parents of six children; namely, Elizabeth Ann, Edward Augustus, Mary Mitchell, Penelope Frances, Sidney Faneuil, and Edith Gertrude. Eliza- beth Ann, now deceased, married Henry F. Coolidge, of Portland, Me. Edward A. mar- ried Emma Harris, of Cambridge. Mary M., who died July 10, 1892, was the wife of Alvan G. Clark, of Cambridge, the celebrated maker of telescope lenses, and had four children - Caroline, Alvan Willard, Elizabeth, and Mary Theodora. Penelope Frances Willard married Henry F. Coolidge after her sister's decease. Caroline Clark is the wife of Charles R. East- man. Elizabeth W. is the widow of the late Richard Grogan, who was accidentally killed by Mr. Eastman on July 4, 1900; and Mary Theodora is the wife of Sumner R. Hollander.

OLAND OLMSTED LAMB, vice- president and secretary of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, was born in Bev- erly, December 20, 1850. He is the youngest son of Samuel Tucker and Sarah Parkhurst (Flagg) Lamb, his father a native of the town of Charlton, Mass., and his mother of Beverly. On both paternal and maternal sides he comes of long lines of ancestry derived from early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, mainly of English origin, but with at least one strain of Scottish blood.

Thomas Lamb, who arrived at Roxbury in

1630 and was made freeman in May, 1631, was the founder of this branch of the Lamb family in New England. His homestead was situated between the meeting-house (the Rev. John Eliot's) and Stony Brook. Thomas Lamb. was one of the six persons appointed in 1643 to collect the money pledged by the in- habitants of the town as a perpetual charge upon their estates for the support of a free school, the Roxbury Latin School. These rents were discontinued about a hundred years later. Elizabeth, first wife of Thomas Lamb, d. in 1639; and he m. in July, 1640, Dorothy Harbittle, by whom he had one son, Caleb.

The descent of the subject of this sketch from Thomas' Lamb is through his son Abiel,2 who m. and had several children; Abiel, Jr., 3 who m. Hannah Taylor, of Marl- boro; Eben, 4 who m. Anne Greene, of Leices- ter; Eben, Jr.,5 of Charlton, who m. Mary White, and joined the Baptist church in 1776; Dr. Dan,6 of Charlton, b. in 1779, who m. Augusta Towne; and Samuel Tucker,7 above named, b. in July, 1819, who m. in 1840 Sarah Parkhurst Flagg, of Beverly and Worces- ter. Abiel Lamb was a soldier in King Philip's War. As Corporal of a company engaged in a scouring expedition in the fall of 1675, he had a narrow escape from being killed by the Indians; and in December of that year, as Lieutenant of Captain Johnson's Company, he took part in the swamp fight at South Kingston, R.I., in which Captain Johnson was killed. Abiel Lamb, Jr., was one of thirty- eight persons to whom the original Huguenot settlers of Oxford, after repeated attacks from the Indians, conveyed their twelve thousand acres of land, comprising that township. In 1721 Abiel Lamb, Jr., was dismissed from the church at Framingham to form with others a church at Oxford. Dr. Dan Lamb was for many years a successful medical practitioner of Charlton. He d. November 28, 1853, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. His wife, Au- gusta, was the daughter of General Salem and Ruth (Moore) Towne, of Oxford, Mass. Her father was a descendant in the sixth generation of William Towne, who was living at Salem, North Fields, as early as 1640, removed thence in 1651 to Topsfield, and was the

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 15

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