Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 4

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

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Otis Clapp m. first, in 1833, Ann Withington Emery Porter, daughter of Sylvanus Porter, of Boston. She d. October 27, 1843, and he m. October 2, 1844, Mary Hadley, daughter of Deacon Moses and Rebecca (de Carteret) Had- ley, of Boston. She d. December 10, 1871. Two children, Henry Otis and Joseph, b. of his first marriage, grew to maturity. Henry Otis,

b. September 17, 1835, m. Rose, daughter of the Rev. David Nelson, of Quincy, Ill., and d. August 1, 1866. Joseph, b. August 27, 1839, enlisted in the Eighth Regiment, Illinois Cav- alry, in the Civil War, and rose to be Captain, serving under General Farnsworth. He m. in 1864 Elmira J. Jackson, of Syracuse, N.Y. The children of Otis Clapp by his second wife were: Mary Webb, b. in 1845, who m. October 2, 1866, Charles M. Fuller, and became the mother of three children (Charles Otis Fuller, b. November II, 1868, d. September 27, 1882 ; Alice de Carteret Fuller, b. November 22, 1872; Ernest Fuller, b. May 9, 1875, d. Sep- tember 5, 1875) ; James Wilkinson, whose name begins this sketch and whose personal his- tory is given below ; and Rebecca H., b. July 17, 1851.

James Wilkinson Clapp was educated in Bos- ton. He attended successively the Phillips public school and the Chapman Hall School kept by Amos Baker in a building the site of which is now included in that of the Parker House. His first knowledge of drugs and his first experience in business he gained while yet a boy in his father's drug store at 3 Beacon Street, where at an early age he began to make himself useful. Received into partnership by his father on January I, 1874, he subsequently pursued his professional course of study at the Boston University School of Medicine, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine in 1877. He continued to devote his ener- gies to the drug business long before estab- lished by his father, and when his father died, and the entire control of the business fell to him, he was thoroughly qualified to carry it on and keep up the good name of the firm of Otis Clapp & Son, while pursuing a judicious policy of expan- sion. The store at 10 Park Square was opened August 1, 1887. The firm has another estab- lishment at 8A Beacon Street, Boston, and a third in Providence, R. I. The business, which is both wholesale and retail, from a small begin- ning has become one of the largest of its kind in the country. The goods include homœo- pathic products. Mr. Clapp's son, Lowell Tuckerman, has been a partner in the business since February 1, 1901.

Mr. Clapp was married October 20, 1868, to

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Eliza Tuckerman, daughter of John and Cath- erine (Tuttle) Tuckerman, of Boston. The third child born to Mr. and Mrs. Clapp died in infancy. The three surviving children are : Gertrude, born September 19, 1870; Amy, born February 1I, 1873 ; and Lowell Tucker- man, born April 9, 1879. Gertrude was mar- ried October 20, 1897, to Edward H. Angier, of Quincy, and now has one child, Otis Clapp Angier, born December 10, 1899. Lowell Tuckerman Clapp, after receiving his general education in the Brookline public schools, in- cluding the high school, pursued a three years' course of study at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and was graduated there in 1899, re- ceiving the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist.

While not an anti-imperialist, Mr. Clapp takes an independent course in politics within the Re- publican party. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, and had been its corresponding secretary for fifteen years when he resigned that office in 1897. He has written for medical periodicals upon sundry topics concerning pharmacy. He is the secretary of the Committee on Pharmacopoeia of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and one of the associate editors of the Pharma- copia of the American Institute.

LLSTON PORTER JOYCE, first City Clerk of Medford, is a son of Oakman Joyce, who removed from Marshfield to Medford in 1831, and died here July 21, 1899. His mother, whose maiden name was Mahala Sherman, is now (May, 1901) living in Medford, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. Mr. Joyce belongs to the seventh generation of the New England family founded by Walter Joyce, who appeared at Marshfield about the year 1668, and m. a few years later Elizabeth Low, daughter of John and Eliza- beth (Howland) Low. John Low was killed by the Indians at Rehoboth in 1676. His wife was a daughter of Arthur' Howland, who m. the widow Margaret Reed.

The children of Walter Joyce were: Lu- cinda,2 who m. Samuel Sylvester; Thomas, 2 who m. Elizabeth Bent; Mary; Elizabeth, 2 who m. David Hersey; Abigail,2 who m. Jo-

seph Lapham; Seth,? who m. Rachel Sherman ; and Bathsheba,2 who m. Ebenezer Mahurrin. Thomas 2 and his wife Elizabeth had one son, John,3 and two or three daughters. John, 3 b. in 1702, m. March, 1728-29, Abigail Ford. Their children were: Abiah, 4 who m. in 1749 Thomas Lapham ; John, 4 who m. in .1756 Faith Stebbins; Nathaniel,4 b. in 1742, who m. Jan- uary 18, 1764, Elizabeth Curtis, of Scituate, and had two children - Abigail5 and Samuel5; and Abigail,4 who m. in 1770 Mark Hatch. Samuel, 5 b. December 25, 1767, m. at Marsh- field, November 16, 1791, Elizabeth Hatch Oakman. Six children were the fruit of this union, namely : Samuel,6 who m. Elsie Sher- man; Elizabeth,6 who m. in 1818 James Keith (probably James Keith, of Marshfield, who was a son of George4 Keith and his wife, Elizabeth Ford, both of Bridgewater, and a lineal de- scendant of the Rev. James' Keith) ; Esther, who m. in 1823 Nathan Sherman; Nathaniel, 6 b. in 1799, who m. Nancy Sherman ; Albert, 6 b. in 1801; and Oakman,6 b. May 7, 1804, above mentioned as the father of the City Clerk of Medford.

Oakman Joyce for some time after removing to Medford was engaged as a contractor and builder, and built many of the public buildings of Medford. Afterward he was in the lumber business for a while, and later he was a ship carpenter, and with his brother, Samuel Joyce, was in the coal business. He served the town as Highway Surveyor and as a member of the School Committee. He m. September II, 1831, Mahala Sherman. She was b. Novem- ber 17, 1813, daughter of Amos Sherman, a Marshfield farmer, and his wife Nancy Holmes, widow of Hewett Joyce.

Amos Sherman, maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was b. in 1783; and he d. August 22, 1847. He was a descendant in the sixth generation of William Sherman, the founder of the Marshfield family of this sur- name, the line being : William,12 Ebenezer, 3 William, 4 Joseph,5 Amos6. William,' the im- migrant, was at Plymouth in 1632. He m. Prudence Hill in January, 1638-39, removed to Marshfield in 1642, and d. there in 1679. His children were: John, William,2 and Han- nah. William2 m. in 1667 Desire Doty, daugh-

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ter of Edward and Faith (Clark) Doty. Her father, it is well known, was one of the "May- flower " Pilgrims. He d. at Yarmouth in 1655. William2. Sherman served in King Philip's War; and, being disabled for a time in consequence of exposure and hardships in 1675, relief was afforded him by the Colony to the amount of twenty pounds. His children were : Hannah, who m. William Ring; Eliza- beth; William,3 who m. Mercy, daughter of Peregrine White; Patience; Experience, who m. Myles3 Standish, grandson of Captain Myles' Standish; and Ebenezer, 3 b. in 1680. Ebenezer3 Sherman m. in 1702 Margaret, daughter of Valentine Decrow. She d. in March, 1726; and he m. in 1730 Bathsheba Ford. By his first wife he had ten children, namely : Eleazer, who d. in 1723; Rachel, who m. Seth Joyce; William, b. in 1704, who m. Elizabeth Lapham; Elizabeth, who m. Jo- seph Wetherell; Joseph, who d. in 1732; Abi- gail, who m. a Mr. Carrier; Caleb; Elisha; Robert, who m. Mary Eames; and Ebenezer, who m. Elizabeth Wormall. Bathsheba, his daughter by his second wife, m. Isaiah Walker. William4 and Elizabeth (Lapham) Sherman had seven children - Joseph, Eleazer, Betsy, Lydia, Hannah, Abigail, and Desire. Joseph, 5 b. in 1732, m. Alice Shurtleff, of Marshfield, and was the father of Alice, Samuel, Huldah, Joseph, William, and Amos,6 above named. Nancy, wife of Amos Sherman, was the daugh- ter of John and Bathsheba (Walker) Holmes, of Marshfield. She was the mother of nine children, of whom the following is a record : Nancy, b. June 16, 1804, m. first Nathan Joyce and second Benjamin Keene; Elsie, b. March 12, 1806, m. Samuel Joyce; Amos, b. November 7, 1807, m. Almira Curtis; Lavinia, b. September 29, 1809, d. in 1829; William, b. July 4, 1811, m. Marietta Sherman; Ma- hala, b. November 17, 1813, m. September 11, 1831, Oakman Joyce; Eveline, b. October 24, 1816, m. Nathaniel Church; Japhet, b. Febru- ary 26, 1818, m. Sarah N. Baker; and Calvin, b. January 13, 1821, m. Elizabeth Crosby. Seven children were b. to Oakman and Mahala (Sherman) Joyce. The four now living are : Alonzo, Isabella Frances, Winslow, and All- ston Porter. Alonzo, b. August 22, 1834,

learned the trade of a ship-joiner, and is now engaged in business as a carpenter in Boston. He m. September 14, 1859, Mary Jane Tay (now deceased), daughter of Nathaniel Tay, of Medford. Isabella F., b. September 14, 1835, was m. June 1, 1859, to Daniel Bailey Wool- ley, of Vermont, a dry-goods dealer. They reside in Medford. Winslow, also a resident of Medford, b. February 6, 1844, a carpenter by trade, m. Elizabeth Jane Orr, daughter of Henry S. and Margaret J. Orr.

Allston Porter Joyce was born September 6, 1853, and is the youngest of the family. He was educated in the public schools of Medford, receiving his diploma from the high school in 1870. He began active life as book-keeper for C. H. Cummings & Co., 44 Commercial Street, Boston, continuing thus engaged eight years. The next year he carried on a grocery business in East Boston; the succeeding four years he spent in Chicago as book-keeper for a firm in the coal business; in the eight years following he was with the Boston Rubber Shoe Company ; and the year after, 1892, he was salesman for C. H. Cummings & Co. Elected as first City Clerk of Medford in 1893, he has since held that position by annual unanimous re-elections. He is also a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public. He attends the Universalist church, and holds the office of State treasurer of the Young People's Christian Union. He belongs to the Masonic Fraternity, being connected with Mount Hermon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Medford. He is a member and Past Chancel- lor of Cradock Lodge, No. 104, K. of P., also Deputy Grand Chancellor; a member of the Society of "Mayflower " Descendants and of the Medford Historical Society and the Fire- men's Veteran Association ; and honorary mem- ber of the Lawrence Light Guards. Mr. Joyce was married February 17, 1875, to Grace Jane Dearborn, of Medford. She was born at War- ren, Me., August 28, 1854, daughter of Jere- miah Smith and Clara Amanda (Jones) Dear- born.

Jeremiah S. Dearborn, father of Mrs. Joyce, was a son of Daniel and Jane (Blanchard) Dear- born, and a descendant in the seventh genera- tion of Godfrey' Dearborn, of Exeter and Hampton, N. H., who is said to have come to

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this country from Exeter, Devonshire, England. The line was: Godfrey,' Thomas,2 Jonathan, 3 Shubael, 4 Nathaniel,5 Daniel,6 Jeremiah7. God- frey' Dearborn was one of the thirty-five men who in 1639 signed the combination for the government of Exeter, N.H. In 1648 he was a Selectman. After about ten years' residence at Exeter he removed to Hampton, N. H., where in 1650 seats in church were assigned to him and his wife; and in 1653, 1663, and 1671 he was Selectman. His first wife, whose name is not known, d. at Hampton; and he m. in 1662 his second wife, Dorothy, widow of Phile- mon' Dalton, and mother of Samuel Dalton, of Hampton. Godfrey Dearborn's children - all by his first wife - were : Henry, Thomas, Es- ther, John, and Sarah. Thomas,2 who was b. in England in 1634, d. in 1710. He was Dea- con of the Hampton church, and he served three years as Selectman. He m. in 1665 Hannah Colcord, daughter of Edward Colcord. Their children were : Samuel, Ebenezer, Thomas, and Jonathan, who bore the military title of Cornet. Jonathan3 Dearborn, born in 1686, was twice m., and by his first wife, Mary, was father of seven children - Jonathan, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Daniel, Shubael, Abra- ham, and Mary. Shubael,4 b. in 1719, m. in 1750 Sarah Fogg, daughter of James Fogg, Jr., who was a grandson of Samuel' Fogg and his second wife, Mary Page. Shubael4 Dearborn about the year 1770 removed to Northfield, N. H., where he d. in 1796. He was one of the volunteers under Sir William Pepperell in 1745 in the expedition against Louisburg; and he brought home from this victorious campaign a French musket, which was used by his son in the War of the Revolution, and by Benjamin Glines in the War of 1812. The children of Shubael4 and his wife Sarah were: Nathaniel, 5 b. in 1751, who m. Hannah Godfrey, and d. in 1818; Shubael, b. March 12, 1752, m. Ruth Leavitt ; John, b. October 31, 1755, m. Molly Keazer; Elizabeth, b. October 16, 1758, m. David Keniston; Abraham, b. March 10, 1761, m. Nancy Sanborn; Mercy, b. April 26, 1766, m. John Bohannon; Sarah, b. August 8, 1768, m. John Clay; and Mary, b. May 22, 1774, m. Job Glines. The children of Nathaniels and Hannah (Godfrey) Dearborn were: Hannah,

who m. Aaron Collins; Annie, who m. Jona- than Arlin; James, who m. Betsy Carlin ; Daniel,6 who m. Jane Blanchard; Cornelia, who m. Thomas Glover; Huldah; and Nathan, who d. in the War of 1812. Daniel6 and his wife Jane had twelve children, namely : Jane, b. in 1804, who m. Amos Whitney; Webster, who m. Abbie Dinsmore; Daniel, who m. Elizabeth English; Ebenezer, who m. Abigail Collins; Narcissa, who m. Nelson Green ; Tristram, who m. Myra Glover; Elizabeth, who m. Joseph Bell; Jeremiah," the father of Mrs. Joyce; Abigail, who m. George Nason ; Almira, who m. John Johnson; Charlotte, who m. William Colvin; Samuel; and Grace, who m. John H. T. Collins. 1356455

Mr. and Mrs. Joyce have three children. The eldest, William Allston, born August 26, 1876, was educated in the public schools. He is now a civil engineer and draughtsman with the Boston Iron and Steel Company, and resides in Medford. October 31, 1900, he married Maud Isabelle Dyke, daughter of Oscar F. and Ellen F. (Berry) Dyke. The second, Fred Gurdjian, born December 10, 1880, was educated in the public schools of Medford, including the high school, and is now with the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, R. I. The third and youngest, Herbert Perkins, born December 12, 1885, is now in the high school.

ENRY EDWARD WAITE was born at North Brookfield, Mass., January 20, 1845, son of Otis and Polly (Johnson) Waite. Entering the high school of his native town at thirteen years of age, he graduated with high standing in his class, was appointed to a position in the custom-house at Boston, and the following year became book-keeper in the wholesale house of Burr Brothers & Co., of Boston, where he remained until 1869, then going South as treasurer of the Alabama & Chatta- nooga Railroad Company. In 1877 he began the development and introduction of the pres- ent successful postal machines, and for the past twelve years has been treasurer of The American Postal Machines Company at Boston.

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He married Ellen Ingersoll Broughton, daughter of Captain Nicholson and Nancy Harris (Hooper) Broughton, of Marblehead ; and for more than thirty years has resided in West Newton, Mass., employing his leisure moments in historical pursuits.

Painstaking genealogical research in printed histories and other records has disclosed a line of descent reaching back from this family, the present generation of Waites, to such ancient historical personages as Pharamond, first king of the Franks (d. 427) ; Theodomir, king of the Ostro Goths (d. 475); Merove, king of the Franks and ancestor of the Merovingian kings of France (d. 456) ; the famous Charles Martel, who, by his great victory over the Sar- acens in 732, forever arrested their further progress in Western Europe; his celebrated grandson Charlemagne, from whom descent is traced by more than one line; Louis I. (le débonnaire), king of France; Egbert, first king of England (d. 838) ; King Alfred the Great, of England (d. 901) ; and many other worthy or illustrious potentates of the Old World. Among the earliest American ances- tors of Henry Edward Waite were William Brewster, whom Savage calls "the most glori- ous of the 'Mayflower' passengers," and Roger Williams, "the first legislator in the world that provided for and established an absolute liberty of conscience."

The first direct progenitor of this branch of the Waite family in America was Richard1 Waite, of Watertown, b. 1608, d. 1669, a proprietor in 1637 and progenitor for several generations of a race of prosperous farmers (see History, North Brookfield, pp. 431, 762). By his wife, Mary, he was the father of Thomas,2 b. 1641, d. 1723, m. Sarah, daugh- ter of James Cutler. He was ancestor (through Thomas, 3 Richard, 4 Remick, 5 and Henry Mat- son6) of the Hon. Morrison R. Waite,7 Chief Justice of the United States. Joseph, 3 of Watertown, son of Thomas,2 b. 1683, a soldier in the Indian wars, d. at Worcester 1753. Wife, Sarah Merriam. Their son John,+ of Watertown, b. 1708, d. at Brookfield, 1761, a soldier himself, and leaving seven sons, whose military record in the History of North Brook- field is rarely exceeded by any one family.

He m. in 1728 Anna, daughter of John Well- ington, of Watertown. Their son John, 5 b. at Sudbury, 1730, of Rogers's Rangers in the French and Indian War and a Captain in the Revolution, d. at Brookfield, 1809, m. 1752 Martha, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Wol- cott, of Brookfield. Their son, Nathaniel6 Waite, of North Brookfield, b. 1761, a soldier in the Revolution, d. 1834, m. 1782 Mercy Jenks, a native of Providence, R. I., b. 1762. Their son, Otis7 Waite, of North Brookfield, b. 1790, a soldier of the War of 1812, d. 1869, m. 1825 Polly Johnson, of North Brookfield, b. 1802, daughter of Uriah Wyman and Han- nah (Totman) Johnson. They were the par- ents of Henry Edward, 8 as mentioned above.

The Roger Williams connection is traced through Mercy Jenks as follows: Her parents were Jonathan and Freelove (Winsor) Jenks. Freelove Winsor, b. at Providence, 1720, was daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Harding) Win- sor. Samuel, b. at Providence, 1677, minister of the First Baptist Church, was son of Samuel Winsor, of Providence, a preacher and Deputy of the General Court, who m. Mercy Williams, b. at Providence, 1640, daughter of Roger Williams. Jonathan+ Jenks, father of Mercy, was son of William3 and Patience (Sprague) Jenks, grandson of Joseph2 and Esther (Bal- lard) Jenks, and great-grandson of Joseph' Jenks (wife Elizabeth), b. 1602, of Hounslow, Middlesex County, England, d. at Lynn, Mass., 1683, "a man of great genius." He made the dies for coining the first money, also made the first fire-engine in the United States, and received in 1646 the first patent for inven- tions issued in America.

Patience Sprague, grandmother of Mercy Jenks, was daughter of Jonathan Sprague, of Providence, b. at Hingham 1648 (son of Will- iam), d. at Providence 1741, and his wife, Mehitable, b. at Scituate, daughter of William Holbrook. William Sprague, b. 1610, of Salem 1628, m. at Charlestown, 1635, Milli- cent, daughter of Anthony Eames, d. at Hing- ham 1675, was Selectman, Constable, and agent of the town. He was son of Edward' Sprague, a fuller, of County Dorset, England, by wife, Christian. As will be noted farther on, the wife of Henry Edward Waite is de-

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scended from Ralph Sprague, of Charlestown 1629, another son of Edward.

Uriah7 Wyman Johnson, Mr. Waite's ma- ternal grandfather, was a native of Woodstock, Conn., and a son of Uriah6 Johnson and his wife, Lucy. The following is a record of the ancestral line : John Johnson, of Roxbury 1630; Deputy to the first General Court, 1634, and subsequently for many years; Surveyor- general of all "ye arms" of the colony for eighteen years; wife, Margery. Isaac,2 Cap- tain of militia, also of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company, Deputy to the Gen- eral Court, was killed in the Indian fight at Narragansett, 1675; m. Elizabeth Porter, 1637. Nathaniel, 3 b. 1647, m. Marie, daugh- ter of Lawrence Smith, of Dorchester. Smith, 4 b. at Roxbury 1672, m. Sarah Miller. Smith, 5 b. at Woodstock, Conn., 1703, m. Experience Parker, of Roxbury. Uriah,6 b. 1730, m. Lucy Davenport, a descendant of Richard Davenport, of Salem 1628 (Richard,1 John, 2 Richard, 3 Nathaniel,4 Lucy5). Richard Dav- enport was commander of the Castle in Boston Harbor, now Fort Independence. It was he who cut the cross from the English flag by order of Governor Endicott.

Through Hannah Totman, wife of Uriah Wyman Johnson and mother of Polly, is traced the line from William Brewster, as fol- lows : William1; Jonathan2; Mary, 3 who m. John Turner; Benjamin4 Turner, who m. Elizabeth Hawkins; Hawkins 5 Turner, who m. Lucy Starr, of Groton, Conn. ; Grace6 Turner, who m. Ebenezer Totman, they being the parents of Hannah Totman. Another line of descent from William Brewster is through Jonathan2; Hannah, 3 who m. Samuel Starr; Jonathan, 4 who m. Elizabeth Morgan, and was father of Lucy Starr, above mentioned.

It is through Ebenezer Totman, father of Hannah, that the line is traced connecting this family with the illustrious historical person- ages mentioned above. Ebenezer Totman's mother was Lucretia Rose, whose mother was Hannah Ford, whose mother was Abigail Snow, whose mother was Abigail Warren (wife of Anthony Snow, of Plymouth 1638), whose father was Richard Warren, the "May- flower " Pilgrim. According to printed his-

tories, Richard was a descendant in the thir- teenth generation of John, eighth and last Earl of Warren and Surrey, b. 1286, d. 1347, titles and estates alienated to the king, whose father was William de Warren, killed in a tourna- ment in 1286, whose father was John, seventh Earl of Warren, etc., b. 1234, d. 1304. John's wife was Alice, daughter of Hugh le Brun, Count of the Marches of Aquitaine, whose wife was Isabella, relict of King John of Eng- land and a descendant of some of the kings of France, and through them related to all the celebrities already mentioned and many others. The father of John, seventh Earl of Warren, was William Plantagenet, whose mother, Isa- belle, m. first William de Blois, son of King Stephen. The wife of William (the sixth Earl of Warren) was Maud (d. 1236), daugh- ter of William, Earl of Pembroke, and a de- scendant, through her grandmother Eva, of Brian Boru, king of Munster, monarch of Ire- land, d. 1039. Through the Earls of Pembroke is traced the line from Egbert, first king of England, and from Alfred the Great through Godiva, Lady of Coventry of Tennyson's poems, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who d. in 1057.

Nicholson4 Broughton, father of Ellen Inger- soll Broughton (Mrs. Waite), was b. at Mar- blehead in 1790, and d. at West Newton in 1873. He was a sea captain, vessel owner, and merchant, and was captured by the British in 1815. He was twice m., both wives being daughters of the Hon. Nathaniel Hooper, of Marblehead. Nancy Harris Hooper, whom he wedded in 1822, was b. in 1802.

Nicholson4 Broughton was a descendant of John1 Broughton, of Marblehead 1720, a mer- chant and sea captain, who, it is thought, came from the south of England or the Channel Islands. Captain John1 Broughton was pro- genitor of a race "who seemed like descend- ants of the ancient sea kings." Through four generations, for over one hundred years, every male member of the family was master of a vessel, and every female member the wife of a sea captain. His family arms, transmitted by his son Nicholson2 to a grand-daughter, were "Argent a Chevron between three Mullets Gules." These arms are found in Fuller's

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"Worthies," published at London in 1662, borne by John de Broughton, Sheriff of Bed- ford and Bucks 48th and 50th Edward III. ; John Broughton, Sheriff of Bedford and Bucks 13th Henry VI. and Sheriff of Cumberland 14th and 25th Henry VI. ; Nicholas Broughton, Sheriff of Devonshire 24th Henry VI. ; John Broughton, Sheriff of Bedford and Bucks 38th Henry VI. and 5th Edward IV. Captain John1 Broughton m. December 3, 1718, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Maverick) Nor- man, grand-daughter of Lieutenant Richard Norman (who in 1683, while swimming ashore from his vessel, was drowned, thus originating the name of "Norman's Woe " off the Glouces- ter coast) and on the maternal side of Moses Maverick, one of the proprietors of the town, and his wife, Remember, daughter of Isaac Allerton, both "Mayflower " Pilgrims. They had five children - Anne, Sarah, John and Nicholson (twins), and Norman. Anne m., 1736, Captain Jonas Dennis, Jr. Sarah m., 1741, Captain Richard Webber. John d. in infancy. Norman d. young.

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 4

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