Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 26

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


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His first business occupation after returning


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to civil life was that of cashier for one year to Blake Brothers & Co., bankers of Boston. He was naval officer for the districts of Boston and Charlestown from March 19, 1867, to June 8, 1869. In partnership with Hubbard Brothers & Co., he then followed the business of stock broker for five years, having been pre- viously elected a member of the Boston Stock Exchange. On January 1, 1874, he was elected treasurer of the Corbin Banking Com- pany of New York and Boston. The firm having abandoned its New England business, he sold out his interest in May, 1883, and in the following June resigned the treasurership. In November of the same year he organized the Eastern Banking Company, which began busi- ness under his presidency upon a paid-up capital of one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, and was incorporated in 1887. The General has been the president of the company ever since its organization. In the meantime he has had other business relations. He was the original treasurer of the New England Mortgage Security Company, having been elected thereto in 1875. He resigned this office June 14, 1879, but was afterward a director for several years. He was elected director of the Tremont National Bank, Janu- ary II, 1876, and annually re-elected there- after until the bank went into voluntary liquidation, December 6, 1898. On March 9, 1891, he was elected president of the Real Estate Exchange and Auction Board. In 1892 he declined re-election, and was then elected one of its vice-presidents.


Politically, General Osborn is an indepen- dent Republican. He served in the Common Council of Boston in 1867, 1868, and 1869; was appointed chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, June 23, 1886; declined reappointment in June, 1889, for the reason of a great increase of work in his busi- ness caused by the death of an associate. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Asso- ciation of Boston, and was its president in the years 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891. In March, 1868, he was elected Commander of the Mas- sachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. On January 20, 1869, he was elected Grand Com-


mander of the Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R.


He married first, September 5, 1867, Mary M. Mears, daughter of Granville and Susan V. (Moore) Mears, of Boston. She was born in Boston, June 18, 1840, and died July 20, 1875. She was the mother of two children, one of whom - namely, Esther, born February 16, 1869 - is living. The other died in infancy. Mr. Osborn married, secondly, June 17, 1879, Emily Tracy Bouvé, daughter of Thomas Tracy and Emily G. (Lincoln) Bouvé.


Thomas Tracy Bouvé, father of Mrs. Os- born, d. June 3, 1896. He was b. June 14, 1815, son of Ephraim Osborn Bouvé and his wife, Lydia Cushing Tracy. The late Mr. Bouvé's paternal grandfather, Jonathan Bouvé, a soldier of the Revolution, m. June 2, 1783, Mrs. Lydia Osborn Frothingham. Emily Gilbert Lincoln, who became the wife of Thomas Tracy Bouvé in 1839, and now sur- vives him as his widow, was b. at Hingham, January 7, 1814, a daughter of Barnabas6 and Rachel (Lincoln) Lincoln. Her father was a descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas Lincoln, cooper, who settled at Hingham about 1635-36. The line was continued from Thomas' and his wife, Avis (daughter of Will- iam Lane), through Joseph,2 b. in 1640, who m. first, in 1682, Prudence, b. in 1663, daughter of Andrew and Elinor Ford, of Wey- mouth; their son Israel, 3 b. in 1685, who m. in 1717 Margaret, b. in 1691, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Macvarlo) Stodder; Is- rael,4 b. in 1723, who m. first, in 1745, Deb- orah Cook, b. in 1724, daughter of Barnabas and Deborah (Bull) Cook; and their son Bar- nabas, 5 b. in 1751, m. in 1775 Olive, b. in 1753, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sprague) Gilbert, of Hingham, Barnabass being the father of Barnabas,6 b. in 1781, and grand- father of Mrs. Bouve.


Rachel Lincoln, who m. March 28, 1809, Barnabas6 Lincoln, was b. at Hingham, No- vember 21, 1777, a daughter of Nathan5 and Martha (Fearing) Lincoln. Her father, Na- than, 5 b. in 1738, was son of David4 and Mary (Hersey) Lincoln, who were m. in January, 1733-4. David4 was son of David3 and Mar- garet (Lincoln) Lincoln, David3 being son of


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Stephen2 and Elizabeth (Hawke) Lincoln (m. in 1660) and grandson of Stephen1 Lincoln, who, with his wife and son Stephen,2 came to New England in the ship "Diligent " in Au- gust, 1638, and shortly settled at Hingham. Margaret, wife of David3 Lincoln, was a daughter of Benjamin2 Lincoln, son


of Thomas, 1 above named.


By his second marriage General Osborn has five children, namely : Emily Bouvé, 8 born No- vember 18, 1880; Francis8 Bouvé, February 6, 1882; Violet, 8 October 25, 1887; Reginald Augustus, 8 July 26, 1891 ; and Danvers, 8 May 3, 1893.


B ENJAMIN FRANKLIN JANES, of Cambridge, Mass., a member of the firm of G. R. Fisk & Co., importers of millinery goods, Boston, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 8, 1841, son of Elihu and Emily (Foster) Janes. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Will- iam Janes, who, with his wife, Mary, came to America from England in 1637. By this wife William Janes had twelve children, one or more of whom were b. in England. She d. April 4, 1662; and he m. for his second wife, November 20, 1662, Mrs. Hannah Broughton, who bore him four children. He survived her nine years, her death taking place in March, 1681, and his September 20, 1690.


William Janes was a man of great moral force and sincere piety. Born in Essex, Eng- land, about the year 1610, during the reign of James I., he had imbibed in early life the principles of the Puritans, and with them suffered persecution for conscience' sake. He was associated with John Davenport and others in planting the New Haven Colony, of which for seventeen years he was one of the most conspicuous citizens. Besides being a teacher of the common branches of learning, he was a teaching Elder of the church; and he preached the first sermon at Northfield, Mass., in 1673. In 1652 he went to Wethersfield, a colony near Hartford, where he taught school for some time, subsequently, however, returning to New Haven. In 1657 he became an inhabitant of Northampton. He there served as recorder of


lands many years. He d. at Northampton in 1 690.


Samuel2 Janes, son of William and Hannah Janes, was b. at Northampton, October 9, 1663. He m. first, in 1680, Elizabeth Smead, who d. without issue. In 1692 he m. for his second wife Sarah Hinsdale, by whom he had seven children. After twelve years of happy married life at his home in Connecticut, his house was attacked by Indians, May 13, 1704, and he and his wife and three children were slain on the spot. His two elder sons, Samuel and Jonathan, were taken captives by the Indians, who, after the massacre, fled toward Canada, pursued by a small company from the town. Finding themselves hotly pursued, the Indians disposed of their captives in the usual savage fashion, and the two brothers were left for dead. They recovered, however, and grew up. One settled at Pas- comac, Mass., and the other at Northfield, Mass.


Jonathan Janes, 3 third child and second son of Samuel2 and Sarah Janes, was b. January 14, 1696. He m. Jemima Graves, April 19, 1732. They had four children, Ebenezer, the next in line of descent, being the second child and only son.


Ebenezer4 Janes, b. at Northfield in 1736, m. June 8, 1755, Sarah, daughter of Pedajah Field. Her father (b. 1707, d. Northfield, 1798) was son of John3 and Mary (Bennett) Field. John3 Field, who was b. in 1673, settled in Deerfield. In 1704 the Field family suffered from an Indian attack, and was broken up, John's wife and daughter Mary being taken captive. The wife returned home after being detained a prisoner for several years in Canada. John d. at Coventry, Conn., in 1718. He was son of Zechariah2 Field, who m. Sarah Webb, of Northampton, and settled in Deerfield. After Zechariah's death, which took place in 1674, his wife m. again. She was killed by Indians in 1704. Zechariah2 was son of Zech- ariah1 and Mary Field, the former of whom was b. in England in the year 1600, was in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, and d. at Hatfield in 1666.


Mrs. Sarah Field Janes d. March 5, 1766; and Ebenezer4 Janes m. for his second wife


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Mehitable Alexander, a native of Northfield. She was a daughter of Simeon and sister of the Rev. Caleb Alexander. Her immigrant ancestor (of whom she was a descendant in the fifth generation) was George Alexander, a Scotchman of strong character and sterling worth, who fled to America in the reign of Charles II. to escape religious persecution, and who early settled in Windsor, Conn., whence he removed to Northampton, Mass. Ebenezer4 Janes d. January 22, 1808. He was a man highly esteemed by his neighbors and fellow- townsmen for the excellence of his personal character, and was chosen by them as Repre- sentative to the General Court at Boston. He also served as Town Clerk for many years, and took a leading part in town and church affairs. Having inherited his father's estate, he im- proved it and added to it, and he subsequently became a large land-owner both in Northfield and the adjoining town.


Jonathan5 Janes, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Field) Janes, was b. February 25, 1756, and d. March 23, 1813. He m. Caroline Mattoon, daughter of Dr. Samuel3 and Abigail (Bard- well) Mattoon, of Northfield. She was b. December 6, 1757, and d. August 15, 1821. They had twelve children, of whom the eldest was Elihu, 6 grandfather of Benjamin F. Janes. Jonathan5 was a highly-esteemed citizen of Northfield. His house, situated upon an emi- nence not far from the village, commanded a pleasing prospect, and was the scene of many a happy gathering made bright with old-time hospitality.


Elihu6 Janes, b. July 27, 1778, d. in 1859. He m. May 25, 1806, Sarah Jarvis, who was b. June 20, 1786. When a comparatively young man Elihu6 went to Charlestown, Mass., where he entered into business as a butcher, and achieved a respectable standing in the community. He was of an amiable disposi- tion, beloved in his own family, social and benevolent, and ever true to the ties of friend- ship. He had nine children.


Elihu,7 fourth child and son of Elihu and Sarah (Jarvis) Janes, was b. September 12, 1813. On October 29, 1835, he m. Emily Foster, who was b. August 8, 1814, daughter of Robert and Emily (Sprague) Foster, of


Malden, Mass. They had six children, three of whom are now living, namely: Elizabeth Jarvis, b. December 16, 1838; Benjamin F., whose name begins this sketch; and Charles Albert, b. December 14, 1847, who is now a practising physician in Rochester, N. Y. The father, Elihu,7 d. July 3, 1891. His wife d. June 29, 1887.


Benjamin F. Janes, who was the third child and eldest son of his parents, was educated in the public schools of Charlestown, Mass. He commenced his business career shortly after leaving school, and for many years has been successfully engaged in the wholesale silk and straw goods business in Boston. He has the confidence and respect of his associates. Mr. Janes resided in Charlestown until 1892, when he removed to Cambridge, Mass.


He was married December 25, 1872, to Miss Anna Louise Brown, daughter of Captain Thomas W. and Mary Bunker (Crosby) Brown, of Nantucket, and a grand-daughter, on the maternal side, of Marshall and Nancy (Bunker) Crosby, of Edgartown, Mass. They have two children : Robert Foster, born in Charlestown, January 12, 1880; and Benjamin F., Jr., born in Charlestown, June 13, 1885. Mrs. Janes has two brothers - Horace Osborne Brown and Thomas Richmond Brown. Her father, Thomas W. Brown, who was b. in Salem, Mass., August 31, 1815, and who was for many years a steamboat captain, d. at Nan- tucket, Mass., March 14, 1892, and was buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket.


ON. LEONARD AUGUSTUS JONES, A.B., LL. B., Judge of the Court of Land Registration of Mas- sachusetts, was born in Templeton, Mass., January 13, 1832, the eldest son of Augustus Appleton and Mary (Partridge) Jones. He is a representative of the seventh generation of the family founded by Lewis Jones, who with his wife, Ann, joined the First Church at Roxbury (the Rev. John Eliot, pas- tor) about the year 1640. His lineage is: Lewis,' Josiah,2 James, 3 Aaron, 4.5 Augustus Appleton,6 Leonard Augustus7. This and fur- ther particulars that follow relating to his


LEONARD A. JONES.


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ancestors we learn from a genealogy compiled by William Blake Trask, entitled "Some of the Descendants of Lewis and Ann Jones, of Roxbury, Mass., through their Son Josiah and Grandson James."


In 1650 or about that date Lewis Jones removed to Watertown, where he d. at the age of about eighty, in April, 1680, having sur- vived his wife nearly four years. His will mentions his daughter, Lydia Whitney (wife of Jonathan), and his son Josiah, whom he made executor. Josiah2 m. in 1667 Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel and Sufferana (How) Treadway, of Watertown, and grand-daughter of Elder Edward How. He was a Captain of militia, was Selectman six years, and was a Deacon of the church of Weston, then the western precinct of Watertown, from January, 1709-10, till his death in 1714, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife d. in 1743, aged ninety-five years. They had ten children, all of whom m. and had families. James, 3 their sixth child and fourth son, b. in 1679, m. Sarah, daughter of Captain Moore, of East Sudbury, and had eleven children. Aaron, the ninth child, was b. at Weston in 1723. He was three times m. By his first wife, Silence Cutting, daughter of Robert and Abi- gail (Sawin) Cutting, of Weston and Sudbury, he had five children; by his second, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Charles Prescott, of Con- cord, he had two; and by his third, Miriam Brewer, he had five. Like his father and grandfather, he was a Captain of militia. He removed to Templeton in 1772, being one of the original proprietors of the town. The first potash works in Templeton were built by him. He d. April 19, 1820, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. He hired a substitute to serve for him seven months in the Revolutionary army, paying more than the proceeds of a sale of one hundred and forty acres of "excellent new land." Aaron, 5 b. in 1761, son of Aaron and Silence Jones, m. in 1785 Betsy Bush. He d. in Templeton in 1828, and his wife d. in 1834. They had seven children. Augustus Appleton,6 b. in 1797, the father of Judge Jones, was a farmer and manufacturer. For many years he held responsible public offices in Templeton. He was for eleven years a


Selectman, and was held in high respect for his thorough integrity of character. He d. August 14, 1878. He m. January 27, 1831, Mary Partridge, who was descended in the sixth generation from John Partridge, of Med- field, Mass., an early settler of that town. She was b. September 18, 1804, and d. June 5, 1875. They had five children, namely : Leonard Augustus,7 whose personal history is outlined below; James Lloyd, b. August 12, 1834, d. July 15, 1838; Edward Lloyd,7 b. July 11, 1839, who served as Sergeant in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers in 1862, and was commissioned Captain of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, May 14, 1863, served to December 16, 1864, was severely wounded in the attack on Fort Wag- ner, was afterward Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate of Ohio, and d. from the effects of his wound January 3, 1886; Julius Appleton, b. July 6, 1843, who m. Aurora Lucy Randall, of Augusta, Me. ; and, second, m. Ellen Sophia Holland, of Medford, Mass. ; and Charles Em- mons, b. November 15, 1848, who m. Novem- ber 4, 1871, Ida Wright, of Templeton.


Leonard A. Jones was fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., was graduated Bachelor of Arts at Harvard in 1855, and from the Harvard Law School in 1858. In his Senior year at college he received the first Bowdoin Prize for a dissertation, his sub- ject being "The Nature and Limitations of Instinct "; and he afterward received the prize open to resident graduates for a dissertation on "The Influence of the Science of Political Economy upon the Legislation of Modern Times" and in the same year, in the Law School, a prize for a dissertation on "The Right of a Legislature to change the Legal Character of Estates or the Title to Property by General or Special Enactments."


During the school year of 1856-57, before entering the Law School, he taught in the high school in St. Louis, and was offered an appoint- ment of a tutorship at Washington University. Admitted to the bar in Boston in February, 1858, after a few months spent in the law office of C. W. Loring, he began practice by himself at 5 Court Street, in the same office with Wilder Dwight, and a year or two later


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occupied an office with George Putnam at 4 Court Street. In 1866 he went into partner- ship with Edwin Hale Abbot, one of his Har- vard classmates, joined later by John Lathrop, afterward a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the firm then becom- ing Lathrop, Abbot & Jones. From 1876 Mr. Jones conducted his law business alone. For seventeen years, or since January, 1885, he has been one of the editors of the American Law Review. From 1891 to 1902 he was a com- missioner for Massachusetts for the Promotion of Uniform Legislation in the United States ; and in October, 1898, he was appointed by Governor Wolcott Judge of the Court of Land Registration for Massachusetts. He has been a contributor to various periodicals, among them the Atlantic Monthly (volume v.), Old and New, and North American Review. He is, however, best known as the author of legal works, which may well be characterized as voluminous and important, and are used in every part of the United States and to some extent in foreign countries. Some of them have reached the fifth revised edition. They are : -


A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 8vo, pages 983, 1006.


A Treatise on the Law of Corporate Bonds and Mortgages. Being the second edition of Railroad Securities, revised. One volume, 8vo, 680 pages.


A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Per- sonal Property. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. One volume, 8vo, 900 pages.


A Treatise on the Law of Pledges, including Collateral Securities. Second edition. One volume, 8vo, 907 pages.


A Treatise on the Law of Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable, and Maritime. Second edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 800 pages each.


Forms in Conveyancing. With practical notes. Fifth edition. One volume, 8vo, 985 pages.


A Treatise on the Law of Real Property, as applied between Vendor and Purchaser in Modern Conveyancing, or Estates in Fee and their Transfer by Deed. Two volumes, 8vo, pages 957, 853.


A Treatise on the Law of Easements. In continuation of the Author's Treatise on the Law of Real Property. One volume, 8vo, 830 pages.


An Index to Legal Periodical Literature. One volume, large 8vo; also second volume, 1899, including articles from 1887 to 1899 on Law, Legislation, Political Science, Econom- ics, Sociology, and Legal Biography.


Mr. Jones is also the American editor of volumes xix. to xxv. of English Ruling Cases, and one of the editors of "Memoirs of the Judiciary and Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century."


By invitation of the Virginia State Bar Association he delivered the annual address before that body at Virginia Beach in July, 1894, on "Uniformity of Laws through Na- tional and Interstate Codification."


Mr. Jones was married December 14, 1867, by the Rev. Edwin G. Adams, minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) of Templeton, to Miss Josephine Lee, daughter of Colonel Artemas Lee, of Templeton, and his wife, Lucy Bond. Colonel Lee's father was General Samuel Lee, of Barre, Mass .; and Lucy Bond was de- scended from Thomas and Elizabeth Bond, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, whose son William came to America and settled in Watertown about 1640, and was a neighbor of the ancestors of Mr. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have no children living, their only son and child having died in infancy. They reside on Mount Vernon Street, Boston.


ILLIAM HAMMATT BRADLEY, of Brookline, civil engineer and trustee, office 53 State Street, Bos- ton, was born in Boston, January 12, 1835, son of Edwin and Mary Jane (Hammatt) Brad- ley. On the paternal side he is descended from early settlers of Haverhill, Mass. It is known that Daniel' Bradley came to New Eng- land from London in 1635, and was made a freeman at Haverhill in 1642, being then twenty-seven years of age. He was killed by Indians on the parsonage road in August, 1689. He m. in 1662 Mary, daughter of John Williams. Their children were : Daniel,


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Jr., who m. Hannah Dow; Martha, who m. Ephraim Gile; Mary, who m. Booth Heath ; Sarah, who m. John Davenport; Hannah, who m. Joseph Heath; Isaac, who m. Elizabeth Clement; and Abraham, who m. Abigail Phil- brick, and removed to Concord, N. H.


After the death of Daniel' Bradley his brother Joseph,' also an early resident of Haverhill, but the date of whose arrival there is not known, was appointed administrator of his estate. Joseph™ Bradley m. in 1691 Han- nah, daughter of John and Sarah (Partridge) Heath, of Haverhill. In March, 1697, their three children - Joseph, Jr., Martha, and Sarah - were killed by Indians, and the mother was taken captive. In February, 1704, Joseph Bradley's house was burned, and his wife taken by the Indians and carried to Canada, where she remained in captivity two years. Joseph Bradley d. October 3, 1729. Mrs. Bradley in 1738 received from the General Court a grant of two hundred and fifty acres of land in Me- thuen. Titcomb's "Early New England People " mentions, besides the children named above who fell victims to Indian cruelty, "a second Joseph, David, Nehemiah, Samuel, and William." Joseph,2 son of Joseph' and Hannah (Heath) Bradley, is said to have been the ancestor of Deacon Amos Bradley, of Dra- cut, further named below as great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. (Bouton's His- tory of Concord, N. H.)


For nearly seventy years the ferry across the Merrimac River between Chelmsford (now Lowell) and Dracut, where it is now spanned by Central Bridge, was owned and operated by the Bradleys, and known as Bradley's Ferry. Amos Bradley, of Haverhill, purchased it, together with fifty-seven acres of land, with house, barn, and ferry buildings thereon, of Solomon Abbott, of Dracut, for two hundred and sixty-six pounds, thirteen shillings, six pence, on October 1, 1761 (East Cambridge Records, Lib. 59, fol. 521). Previous to this for three years it was known as Abbott's Ferry, Solomon having acquired it from Captain John White, of Dracut, April 18, 1758 (East Cam- bridge Records, Lib. 78, fol. 385). Up to that date it had been known as White's Ferry. By Amos Bradley and his sons, who succeeded


him, the ferry was carried on continuously up to October 26, 1827, when it was conveyed by Joseph Bradley to the Central Bridge Corpora- tion.


Edwin Bradley, father of William Hammatt, was b. in Dracut, September 18, 1805, being the eldest child of Nehemiah and Lydia (French) Bradley and a grandson of Amos and Elizabeth (Page) Bradley, natives of Ha- verhill, who became residents of Dracut. Amos Bradley d. in 1812, his wife Elizabeth in 1827.


Through Elizabeth Page, wife of Amos Bradley, his great-grandfather, Mr. William H. Bradley traces his descent from Mrs. Han- nah Dustin, the heroine of a well-known trag- edy of Colonial times, commemorated by the monument bearing, besides other inscriptions, her name with those of her companions - Mary Neff and Samuel Leonardson - and the date of their escape from Indian captivity by slaying their captors, March 30, 1697, at mid- night. Thomas' Dustin and Hannah Emer- son (daughter of Michael Emerson and his wife, Hannah Webster) were m. in 1679. They had thirteen children, among them Jona- than,2 b. in 1692, one of the imperilled little ones saved by the brave father when the mother with her infant in her arms was carried away. Jonathan Dustin m. Elizabeth Witts; and their daughter Hannah, b. in 1717, m. John Page, and was the mother of Elizabeth, Mrs. Amos Bradley.


Nehemiah Bradley, b. in Dracut, September 20, 1776, fifth child of Amos and Elizabeth, m. Lydia French, b. May 8, 1780, daughter of Benjamin and Bathsheba (Hill) French. A Benjamin French was b. in Billerica, Mass., February 10, 1725, son of John3 and Ruth (Richardson) French and grandson of Corporal John2 French, b. in England about 1635, who was brought to America in his infancy by his parents, Lieutenant William and Elizabeth French, who in 1652 settled at Billerica, hav- ing previously lived at Cambridge. There seems no reason to doubt that it was this Ben- jamin French who m. in 1766 Bathsheba Hill, who. was b. August 19, 1742, daughter of Ralph4 and Mehitable (Patten) Hill, of Bil- lerica, and grand-daughter of Samuel3 and his




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