Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 32

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

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Mary Clark, wife of John3 Cutler, was a

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daughter of Benjamin Clark, felt-maker, and his wife, Miriam, daughter of Christopher Kilby, of Boston. A portrait of Mrs. Miriam Kilby Clark was painted by Copley, and is now in the possession of one of the Phillips family.

Enough has been here written to show that by virtue of his birth and his maternal ances- try Ambassador Meyer is a Bostonian of the Bostonians. He received his preparatory edu- cation in Mr. 'George W. C. Noble's school, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1879. The following two years he was in the office of Alpheus H. Hardy & Co., Boston; and in 1881 he became a member of the mercantile firm of Linder & Meyer, established, as above men- tioned, in 1848. The office is now on State Street, and the trade is East India and West India goods. Mr. Meyer is president of the Ames Plough Company, a director of the Old Colony Trust Company, also of the Bank of Commerce, trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings, of Boston; also a director in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and the Amory Manufacturing Company of Manches- ter, N. H. Politically, he is a Republican. For two years, 1889-90, he was a member of the Common Council of the city of Boston. In 1891 he was Alderman, and for five years, 1892-96, he was Representative from Ward Nine in the State Legislature. In 1892 he served on the Committees of Cities and Taxa- tion; in 1893 he was chairman of House Com- mittee on Railroads, and author of a bill which was passed to prevent "stock watering" of steam and street railways; in 1894, 1895, and 1896 he was Speaker of the House, being chosen for the third time by a unanimous vote. Of the tact, discretion, efficiency, and accept- ableness with which in the previous terms he had discharged the duties of the position no better evidence could be offered. In 1898 Mr. Meyer was appointed by Governor Wolcott chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Paris Exposition Managers. In 1899 he was chosen as the Massachusetts member of the Republi- can National Committee. His nomination to be Ambassador to Italy, which, as indicated by the press, met with general approval, was

confirmed by the Senate, December 14, 1900, and on the twenty-seventh he took the oath of office at the State Department, Washington. The Essex Club, a Republican organization of which he had been president, tendered him an enthusiastic reception at the Parker House on Saturday, December 29, and bade him good speed. In brief response Mr. Meyer impres- sively recalled the poet's words: "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; when falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; and, when Rome falls, the world."

Mr. Meyer was married June 25, 1885, to Marian Alice, daughter of Charles Hook and Isabella (Mason) Appleton, of Boston. He has three children - Julia Appleton, Alice, and George von L., Jr. Mrs. Meyer's father, Charles Hook Appleton, was a son of the Hon. William Appleton, of Boston, and a descend- ant in the seventh generation of Samuel' Appleton, the founder of the family in New England, who was an early settler at Ipswich. The line was: Samuel,' Lieutenant Samuel, 2 Major Isaac, 3 Isaac, 4 the Rev. Joseph, 5 Will- iam,6 Charles Hook. 7

Samuel,2 son of Samuel' and Judith (Ever- ard) Appleton, was b. at Little Waldingfield, England, 1625. He m., secondly, 1656, Mary, daughter of John Oliver, of Newbury. Major Isaac3 Appleton, b. in Ipswich, 1664, m. Priscilla Baker, daughter of Captain Thomas and Priscilla (Symonds) Baker, of Topsfield. Her mother was daughter of the Hon. Samuel Symonds, Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Colony (1673-78), and his second wife, Martha, widow of Daniel Eppes and daughter of Edmund Read, of Wickford, Essex, England, and also sister of Elizabeth, the second wife of John Winthrop, Jr. Isaac, 4 only son of Major Isaac3 and Priscilla Apple- ton, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Sawyer, of Wells, Me. Their son, Joseph, 5 b. at Ips- wich in 1751, was graduated at Brown Uni- versity in 1772, was ordained and settled as minister at North Brookfield, Mass., and d. there in 1795. He m. Mary, daughter of Jacob Hook, of Kingston, N. H., and had six children. The fourth, William6 Appleton, above mentioned, b. in 1786, was a wealthy and philanthropic Boston merchant, a member

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of Congress four years in the fifties and of the special session called July, 1861. He d. in 1862. His wife, grandmother of Mrs. Meyer, was Mary Ann, b. in 1794, daughter of James and Mehitable (Sullivan) Cutler, of Boston (see above). Being a niece of Anne, wife of Bishop Parker, she was cousin to William3 Parker, Mr. Meyer's maternal grandfather.

During the greater part of recent years, ex- cept when abroad, Mr. Meyer and his family have resided in Hamilton, where he has a fine farm of one hundred and fifty acres, in whose management and cultivation he takes great interest. Hamilton, it will be noted, was for- merly a part of Ipswich, the early home of the Appleton family in America. Mr. Meyer is a member of Trinity Church, Boston. His pa- ternal ancestors were of the Lutheran church. He has been fond of athletics from his youth up, rowing in his class eight at Harvard, and excels in polo playing. He is a member of the leading social clubs of Boston, the Harvard and Knickerbocker Clubs of New York, Resti- gouche Fishing Club of Metapedia, and the Myopia Hunt of Hamilton.

G ALEN JAMES, who was a resident of Medford for many years, was born in Scituate, Mass., September 29, 1790, son of John and Patience (Clapp) James. He was a direct descendant in the sixth generation from John' James and his wife, Lydia, who was a "Mayflower" descendant.

John1 James was admitted a freeman in Scit- uate in 1668. He purchased a farm at "the block house," on the North River, where he subsequently d. from wounds received in a fight with the Indians. His wife, Lydia, was a daughter of John, Sr., and Mary (Brewster) Turner, a grand-daughter of Jonathan and Lu- cretia (Oldham) Brewster, and a great-grand- daughter of Elder William Brewster, who came over on the "Mayflower." Deacon John2 James, the only son of John' and Lydia, was b. in 1676. His first wife, Eunice Stet- son, whom he m. in 1700, d. in 1719. His second wife was Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel Turner. Deacon John3 James, his eldest son, b. in 1709, m. in 1730, Rhoda, daughter of

Deacon George King. He m. for his second wife, Prudence Staunton. John4 James, b. in 1731, son of Deacon John2 and his first wife, Rhoda, m. in 1758, Sarah Jacobs, resided at Scituate, and was the father of Sarah, John (a Major in the militia), Hannah, George Joseph, and Charles, the eldest b. in 1759, the young- est, 1775.

Major John5 James, a native of Scituate, d. in Medford, Mass., January 9, 1836, aged fifty-nine years. He m. Patience Clapp, who was b. August 30, 1769, daughter of Captain Galen Clapp, and a descendant of Thomas Clapp, one of the pioneers of New England. Thomas' Clapp, who probably came to this country in 1633, was living in Dorchester in 1634, but later removed to Scituate, where his death occurred in 1684. Samuel2 Clapp, a life-long resident of Scituate, m. Hannah Gill. The next in line of descent was David3 Clapp, who m. Deborah Otis. Captain Galen+ Clapp, who m. Patience Brooks, was a seafaring man, being commander of a vessel for many years. He d. of fever in February, 1776.

Galen6 James learned the trade of ship- builder in Medford, serving an apprenticeship with Mr. Magoun. Subsequently forming a copartnership with Isaac Sprague, under the firm name of Sprague & James, with yard on Ship Street, now Riverside Avenue, he con- tinued in business many years. Both mem- bers of this firm, in 1842, when they had launched the barque "Altorf," their sixty- sixth ship, retired from shipbuilding. On May 24, 1849, Galen6 James, in company with Deacon Edward W. Fay, of Medford, issued the first number of a new religious weekly paper, The Congregationalist, risking a large sum of money, and for years receiving no pecuniary return. After the death of Deacon Fay, in 1855, Mr. James took in two other partners. Thereafter he gradually withdrew from the management of the paper, and in 1866 entirely relinquished all of his financial interest therein. He was one of the founders of the First Trinitarian Congregational Church of Medford, and for many years served as one of its deacons. He was active and influential in promoting the interests of the town, and, as an earnest advocate of the temperance move-

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ment, was one of the first to abolish whiskey in the shipyards. He served as Selectman of Medford, and was largely instrumental in establishing the High School, the building at the time of its completion being the second of the kind erected in the State. He died April 14, 1879.

Deacon James married May 26, 1817, Mary Rand Turner, of Scituate, their intentions of marriage having been published April 27, 1817. She, born in 1794, was a daughter of Colonel Charles and Harriet (Jacobs) Turner. Her death occurred December 13, 1831. He married secondly, in 1833, Amanda Jacobs, of Scituate, an aunt of the distinguished states- man, Charles Sumner. She died February 23, 1871. By his second wife he had no children. Of the eight children born of his first mar- riage, but two - namely, Horace and Matilda Turner - survived their mother.

Horace7 James, born in Medford, May 6, 1818, died June 9, 1875. He was graduated at Yale College in the class of 1840, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1842. He was first settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Wrentham, Mass., later having charge of the Old South Church in Worcester, Mass. In 1861 he joined the Army of the Potomac as Chaplain of the Twenty-fifth Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in which were many of his Sunday-school pupils. After serving three years he remained, with the rank of Captain, in the employ of the government, being engaged in educational work in the South. He married Helen Leavitt, of Wes- ton, Mass., and had a large family of children. Of these the only survivor is Corinna, the wife of Homer Lane, of Medford, Mass.

Matilda Turner7 James was born in Med- ford, December 4, 1822. On August 13, 1851, she became the second wife of William Haskins, a prominent citizen of Medford. Mr. Haskins was born March 18, 1813, in Scituate, where he was reared and educated, being largely self taught. He was a ship calker by trade, working during his earlier life in the Medford yards. Subsequently he embarked in the lumber business, buying and shipping lumber from the South for shipbuilding pur- poses. The town was served by him in ya-

rious capacities, including those of Selectman and Overseer of the Poor. He attended the Congregational Church. His death occurred on May 19, 1871. Mrs. Haskins has no children.

OHN CURTIS NICHOLS, a retired cabinet manufacturer residing in the city of Woburn, Mass., was born Feb- ruary 29, 1828, in the adjoining town of Stoneham. His parents were Tracy Collins and Louisa R. (Kimball) Nichols. His father was b. in 1803 in Milford, N. H., being the son of Benjamin and Elmira (Blanchard) Nich- ols. The parentage and time and place of birth of his grandfather Benjamin and of his grandmother Elmira, who died when her son Tracy was a young child, are unknown to the present writer. The family tradition is that the father and mother of Benjamin Nichols, with his elder brothers and sisters, came to this country from Scotland before the Revolu- tionary War, that their son Benjamin was b. in Massachusetts and removed thence to that part of Amherst, N. H., which is now Milford. The grave of Elmira, wife of Benjamin Nich- ols, is in the Elm Street Cemetery at Milford, N. H.

As recorded in the history of Amherst, N. H., Benjamin Nichols was m. November 5, 1809, to his second wife, Comfort Tay. She was the widow of Jesse Tay, a sea captain, to whom she, as Comfort Tidd, was m. in Wo- burn in 1791. She was a descendant of John Tidd, an early settler of Woburn. By her first marriage she had two daughters and a son Jesse, Jr. Captain Tay d. at Bedford, N. H., in 1797. Benjamin Nichols spent his last years on a farm in Bedford, N. H. In 1831 he was one of the subscribers to the fund for building a new Presbyterian meeting-house at Bedford. He was made a Lieutenant in the militia in February, 1825, Captain, March I, 1828, and discharged from the service April 17, 1830, probably being then beyond the age when military duty was required. His children, beside Tracy Collins above named, were : Blanch- ard, Benjamin, Stephen, Elnathan, Nancy Co- nant, Rebecca, Lucy Blanchard, and Betsy,

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Tracy Collins Nichols, son of Benjamin and father of John Curtis Nichols, left his New Hampshire home in early manhood, and, com- ing to Massachusetts, served an apprenticeship and learned the trade of tanner and currier, working at first in Danvers and later in Wo- burn, where he eventually engaged in the tan- ning and currying business on his own account. He d. February 2, 1881, aged seventy-seven years, eight months, and twenty-three days. He was first m. at twenty-three years of age to Louisa R. Kimball, daughter of Ezra7 and Lydia R. (Fowle) Kimball. Ezra Kimball, her father, was a descendant in the seventh generation of Richard' Kimball, who came to America in 1634, was at Watertown a few years, then settled in Ipswich, Mass. From Richard' the line was continued through his son Richard,2 b. in England in 1623, who settled at Wenham; Samuel, 3 who m. Mary Witt; Deacon Jonathan, 4 of Wenham, who was m. in Boston by the Rev. Cotton Mather, July 28, 1709, to Hannah Hopkins; Jonathan, 5 b. in Boston, 1710, who m. Martha Ober, of Beverly, and resided at Wenham; Ezra,6 b. in 1744, who m. in 1768 Sally Holmes, and was father of Ezra7 above mentioned, who was b. in Ipswich, Mass., in 1771, and d. on April 30, 1845.

Ezra6 Kimball, grandfather of Louisa R., wife of Tracy C. Nichols, was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. He enlisted March I, 1777, for three years, in Captain White's com- pany, Colonel Putnam's regiment, Massachu- setts line, and was Sergeant. Discharged February 19, 1780. He served also at three other times.

Lydia R. Fowle, who was m. to Ezra7 Kim- ball in 1802, was b. February 4, 1781, daugh- ter of John and Lois Fowle, of Woburn. John Fowle, third, and Lois Richardson were m. at Woburn, October 18, 1780. Ezra and Lydia Kimball had nine children, namely: Jere Holmes, b. June 16, 1802; Clarissa B., b. September, 1804; Louisa R., April, 1806; Francis Fowle, May 4, 1807; Mary Gipson, February 9, 1809; Ezra Curtis, December 21, 18II; Thomas Waterman, August, 1814; and Alfred and Lydia, twins, July, 1819. It is thought that Louisa R, was b, at New Ipswich,

N. H., where her father was some time a resi- dent. She d. at Woburn, April 20, 1837, aged thirty-one years.

Tracy C. Nichols m. for his second wife, April 1, 1838, Mrs. Lydia Stratton Richard- son. His children by his first wife were : George Collins, John Curtis, Stillman, and Mary Louisa; by his second, Martha Ann, Charles Albert, Sarah Maria, and Frank Calvin.

G EORGE WHEATLAND, of Boston, dealer in real estate, is a native of Salem, Essex County, formerly a thriving seaport, now the quiet seat of wealth and culture. The notable family to which he belongs was severed not many generations back from the parent stock in England. Captain Richard' Wheatland, the immigrant progeni- tor, a prosperous Salem merchant in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, was b. at Wareham, England, in 1762, son of Peter and Bridget (Foxcroft) Wheatland. In 1783, after three years of service in the English navy, he came to Salem, Mass., and during the next seventeen years he led a seafaring life, being successively sailor, subordinate officer, and captain of East India ships. Retiring from the sea about the year 1800, he devoted him- self to mercantile pursuits. His first wife, Margaret Silver, d. in 1789, leaving no chil- dren. He m. October 29, 1796, Martha Good- hue, daughter of Stephen5 and Martha (Pres- cott) Goodhue, of Danvers. She was b. in 1770, and d. in 1826.

Stephen Goodhue, her father, was a son of Benjamin4 and Martha (Hardy) Goodhue, of Salem, and grandson of William3 Goodhue, b. in 1666, who m. Mary Lowden, and lived at Ipswich. The preceding ancestors were: Jo- seph2 Goodhue and his first wife, Sarah Whipple, daughter of Elder John Whipple, of Ipswich; and Joseph's father, William' Good- hue, b. in England in 1612-13, who m. Margery Watson, of Kent, and came to New England in 1635-36. William' Goodhue was promi- nent among the first settlers of Ipswich, serv- ing as Deacon of the church, as moderator of town meetings, as Selectman, and as Repre- sentative to the General Court,

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Martha Prescott, wife of Stephen Goodhue, was b. in Salem in 1744, being the second child of Benjamin4 and Rebecca (Minot) Pres- cott. Her elder sister, Rebecca, m. Roger. Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and was the mother of Sarah Sher- man, who was the wife of the Hon. Samuel Hoar and the mother of the Hon. George Fris- bie Hoar, of Worcester. Benjamin+ Prescott (Harvard College, 1736), a Salem merchant, was b. in 1717, son of the Rev. Benjamin3 and Elizabeth (Higginson) Prescott. The line of descent from John' Prescott, who landed at Boston in 1640, and a few years later was one of the founders of the town of Lancaster, is through Captain Jonathan2 Prescott and his second wife, Elizabeth Hoar, the Rev. Benja- min, 3 above named, b. in 1687, being their sixth child. He was graduated at Harvard in 1709, and was ordained and settled in 1713 as minister of the Second Precinct of Salem, now Peabody. His first wife, Elizabeth, mother of his son Benjamin+ Prescott, was b. in Salem in 1696, daughter of John+ and Hannah (Gard- ner) Higginson. Her father, John Higginson, was a descendant in the fourth generation of the Rev. Francis Higginson, the first minister of the First Church in Salem, the line continuing from Francis' and his wife, Ann, through the Rev. John2 and Sarah (Whitfield) Higginson; and John, 3 a Salem merchant, whose first wife, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Symmes) Savage, was the mother of John+ Higginson and grandmother of Mrs. Elizabeth Higginson Prescott. Rebecca Minot, wife of Benjamin+ Prescott, was b. in Concord, Mass., in 1720, daughter of the Hon. James4 and Martha (Lane) Minot. Her father was son of Dr. James3 and Rebecca (Wheeler) Minot, of Con- cord, grandson of Captain John2 Minot, of Dorchester, and great-grandson of George Minot, who was one of the first settlers of Dorchester and for thirty years Ruling Elder of the church.

Captain Richard Wheatland d. March 18, 1830. His wife, Martha Goodhue, d. August 13, 1826. Their children were: Stephen, Richard Goodhue, Benjamin, George, Martha, and Henry. Stephen, the eldest-born, who was graduated at Harvard in 1816, d. at sea

unmarried in 1818. Richard G. (Harvard College, 1818), ship-owner and shipmaster, m. Mary B. Richardson, and d. in 1834. Benja- min (Harvard College, 1819), business man, m. Mary E. Bemis, and d. at Salem in 1864. Martha m. Robert E. Bemis, for many years agent of mills at Chicopee. Henry, b. in 1812 (Harvard, Bachelor of Arts 1832, Doc- tor of Medicine 1837), the late Dr. Wheatland, of Salem, president of the Essex Institute, d. in 1893. His wife, Mary C. Mack, d. in 1862.

George Wheatland, Sr., b. in 1804 (Harvard College, 1824), studied law in the office of the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1828. He settled in Salem, and devoted himself to the practice of his pro- fession, taking an active interest also in public affairs. He was a member of the Common Council of Salem in 1841 and Alderman in 1842 and 1843. He served three years as Representative in the Legislature and two years, 1845 and 1846, as Senator. He was a trustee of the Salem Lyceum and of the Asiatic National Bank of that city and president of the Harmony Grove Cemetery Association. He d. in 1893. He m. February 3, 1833, Hannah Bemis, daughter of John6 and Hannah (Bemis) Richardson. She was b. in 1811, and d. at Salem, March 15, 1840, leaving one child - George, born October 21, 1839, whose name begins this sketch, and whose personal history is outlined below. John6 Richardson, Mr. Wheatland's maternal grandfather, who d. in Newton in 1837, was a son of Edwards and Abigail (Chenery) Richardson and a descend- ant in the sixth generation of Ezekiel' Rich- ardson, who was one of the founders in 1641 of the town of Woburn. The line was: Eze- kiel'; Theophilus,2 who m. Mary Champney ; Ezekiel, 3 who m. Elizabeth Swan; Theophi- lus, + who m. Ruth Swan, and was the father of Edwards.

George Wheatland, son of George, Sr., above named, received an education in the public schools of Salem fitting him for college. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1860, and was subsequently admitted to the Suffolk bar from the office of Judge Horace Gray. In

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1862 he enlisted for service in the Civil War, being mustered in September 19 as Cap- tain of Company E, Forty-eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. Promoted to Major on December 8, same year, he was on General Auger's staff, and was with General Banks at Baton Rouge, being Provost Judge. He was

mustered out September 3, 1863. Mr. Wheat- land has been engaged in the real estate busi- ness since 1865, operating largely in the Back Bay, his offices being at 24 Congress Street, Boston. He is a well-preserved and vigorous man. In politics he is a Republi- can. He is a member of the Somerset Club, of Boston, and the Nahant Club.

At Trinity Church, Boston, July 20, 1864, Mr. Wheatland was m. to Florence de Sau- merez Dumaresq, who was born in Boston, June 24, 1843, daughter of Captain Philip" and Margarita (Deblois) Dumaresq. Captain Philip" Dumaresq, b. in 1804, son of James10 and Sarah (Farwell) Dumaresq, of Swan Island, was educated at Gardiner, Me., and, entering the merchant marine service, had command of a fine ship when he was only twenty years of age. For many years he was the leading shipmaster sailing from the port of Boston. James1º was a son of Philip,9 a loyalist of Boston, Halifax, and Nassau, and grandson of Philip8 Dumaresq, who came to Boston from the Isle of Jersey, and m. in 1716 Susan, daughter of Captain Henri Ferry, for- merly of Havre de Grace. Seven preceding generations of the family had lived in the Isle of Jersey.

Mr. and Mrs. Wheatland have three chil- dren - Philip Dumaresq, Florence Saumerez Dumaresq, and George, Jr. Philip Dumaresq Wheatland, born in Salem, April 9, 1865, married June 2, 1887, Alice Ellerton Pratt, daughter of Edward Ellerton and Miriam Fos- ter (Choate) Pratt and grand-daughter of the Hon. Rufus Choate. He resides in San Fran- cisco, Cal. Florence Saumerez Dumaresq Wheatland, born April 19, 1870, married No- vember 30, 1889, Jacob Crowninshield Rogers Peabody, son of Francis and Helen (Blood- good) Peabody. George, third of the name, known as George Wheatland, Jr., born in Bos- ton, April. 12, 1873, married October 15,

1896, Rebecca Rogers, daughter of Arthur Saltonstall and Annie Rodman (Nichols) Rogers, of Salem. He is in business on State Street with his father, and resides in Salem.

ALTER KEITH SHAW, a resident of Concord, who is in business in Boston as a cotton broker, was born March 13, 1868, in Abington, Mass. Son of Elijah Anderson and Frances Emma (Dyer) Shaw, he is a descendant in the ninth genera- tion of Abraham' Shaw, an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Abraham Shaw m. in England on June 24, 1616, Bridget Best, daughter of Henry Best, of Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire. Coming to this country about 1635, he became an inhabitant of Watertown. In October, 1636, his house was burned, and he afterward removed to Dedham. His death probably occurred in 1638, as the inventory of his estate was dated that year. He left two sons, - Joseph and John, and two daughters. His son John,2 b. in England in 1630, m. Alice Phillips, daughter of Nicholas. Their eldest son, John Shaw, Jr., 3 was b. in Wey- mouth before the records began to be kept. By his wife Hannah he was the father of Joseph, + also of Weymouth, whose second wife was Mary Blanchard. Joseph, Jr., 5 b. in March, 1711, eldest son of Joseph4 and Mary, m. Ruth Dorby (or Derby).

Their son, Elijah6 Shaw, a lifelong resident of Abington, b. August 26, 1745, d. in July or June, 1823. He m. Hannah Smith, Janu- ary 12, 1769. Melvin7 Shaw, b. of this union January 22, 1791, d. March 17, 1836. He m. first Betsey Shaw, b. June 27, 1797, d. Sep- tember 13, 1819. He m., secondly, Dorinda Shaw, b. May 21, 1803, d. January 30, 1887. Both of his wives were daughters of Brackley and Betsey (Porter) Shaw. Their mother was a daughter of Micah and Mary (Stockbridge) Porter, of Weymouth, and grand-daughter of Richard+ and Ruth (Whitman) Porter. Rich- ard4 Porter was son of John, 3 whose father, John, 2 was son of Richard' Porter, who settled at Weymouth in 1635.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 32

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