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Moses Greenleaf® Haskell, b. 1799, m. Rosilla Haines, as already indicated. She was a daughter of Captain Peter Haines, who went to Maine from New Hampshire in 1795. He was a farmer. Their children were as follows : Hester Anne, b. 1822, m. John G.
Francis; Moses G., b. 1824, d. without issue; Miranda J., b. 1826, d. without issue; Lovina H., b. 1828, d. in infancy; Lovina H. (sec- ond), b. 1830, d. without issue; William A., b. 1831 (deceased) ; Peter Haines, b. 1833, m. Mary Cartef, and had three children : Mary, b. 1868; Francis d. in infancy; and Edwin P., b. 1874; Edwin Bradbury, b. 1837, whose name begins this sketch; Eleanor R., b. 1839, m. Craig W. Haskell; Arabella Stanley, b. 1841, m. Charles A. Bent; Clar- ence G., b. 1843, d. of wounds in Civil War; and Clement Caldwell, b. 1847, d. at Jackson- ville, Fla., in February, 1900, aged fifty-two. Clement C. Haskell was twice m. By his first wife, Annie Barnard, he had two sons - Francis Osborne and Herbert Livermore; and by his second, Charlotte Osgood, he had a son Osgood and daughter Charlotte.
At the age of seventeen, having been edu- cated in the common schools of his native town and at Kent's Hill, Me., Seminary, Edwin B. Haskell began to learn type-setting in the office of the Portland (Me. ) Advertiser. After becoming expert at this craft he worked as a journeyman compositor in Portland, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., and in Bos- ton. He was last employed at type-setting in the office of the Boston Saturday Evening Ga- zette. In the spring of 1857 he left the Ga- zette to become a reporter on the staff of the Boston Journal. Three years later he with- drew from the Journal's staff to accept a better position on that of the Boston Herald, where he was Court, Legislative, and financial re- porter and editorial writer. In October, 1865, Mr. Haskell, Royal M. Pulsifer, Justin An- drews, Charles H. Andrews, and George G. Bailey conjointly purchased from Edwin G. Bailey one-third interest in the Herald, and in 1869 they acquired the remaining two-thirds. Under the new ownership Mr. Haskell became the editor-in-chief, and he continued in that capacity until the autumn of 1887, by which time he had individually acquired a third in- terest in the paper. Influenced by the finan- cial difficulties of Mr. Pulsifer, who was the Herald's business manager, he sold him his interest, and resigned his editorship. In the following spring, when the aspect of affairs
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had much improved, and the joint proprietors of the paper had reorganized so as to become a stock company, he was able to resume his ownership, but he did not return to the edito- rial desk.
A controlling interest in. the Minneapolis Tribune, purchased by Mr. Haskell in 1884, he disposed of some time later on satisfactory terms. He has owned a controlling interest in the Journal, an evening paper of Minneapolis, Minn., since 1889. He is also the owner of a third interest in the Morning Gazette-Herald and in the Evening News, both of St. Joseph, Mo. A stockholder of the Plant Investment Company, he is a director of that organization. He has been the president of the Boston Herald Corporation since his first election to that office in 1890. In Charlestown, Mass., during his early manhood, Mr. Haskell was a member of the School Committee and the president of the Common Council. First ap- pointed on the Metropolitan Park Commission in 1895, he was reappointed for five years in the spring of 1900. For many years he has been the president of the Newton Library trustees and of the Newton Cemetery Corpora- tion ; and he has served in the same capacity the Boston Press Club, the Newton Jersey Stock Club, and the Newton Club.
On August 29, 1861, Mr. Haskell was mar- ried to Celia Hill, of Readfield, Me., daughter of Jonas and Joanna (Hubbard) Hill. Of their seven children, three - Walter Brett, Elizabeth, and Helen - died in infancy. Those living are: William Edwin, born June 18, 1862 (Harvard College, 1884) ; Henry Hill, born January 6, 1869 (Harvard College, 1890) ; Margaret, born September 19, 1874; and Clarence Greenleaf, born December 18, 1879 (Harvard College, 1901). William E. Haskell settled in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1884, the year of his graduation, and is now the proprietor and publisher of the Minneapo- lis (Morning) Times and business manager of the New York Journal. He married, first, No- vember 1, 1884, Annie Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel C. and Martha (Gay) Mason, of Man- chester, N.H. Mrs. Annie E. Haskell died February, 1886, leaving one daughter - Mar- tha Gay. William E. Haskell married, sec-
ond, in April, 1887, Olga von Wedelstaedt, of St. Paul, Minn. They have four children : Celia Elizabeth, born September, 1887; Will- iam von W., born March, 1889; George Childs, born 1891; and Edwin Dudley, born 1896. Henry Hill Haskell follows the pro- fession of oculist in Boston. Since March, 1872, the family have resided in Newton, upon the estate known as "Vista Hill."
It is obvious that Mr. Haskell belongs to the class of self-made men, whose careers are so gratifyingly characteristic of American life. His chief work was performed in the capacity of editor of the Boston Herald for twenty-five years (1862-87), in which period he made the paper a great and influential journal. The editorial columns being under the absolute control of Mr. Haskell, he was able to lay the course the paper was to follow. Under his direction it became independent of political parties, and with independence came power. He allied it with the progressive movements of the day. In times when it took courage so to do, he stood conspicuously for purity in the public service and for reform in the tariff laws. For an honest currency he fought steadfastly, and his unpurchasable pen never hesitated to assail corruption, in high places and low, with vigor and impartiality.
To pilot a newspaper under cloudless skies and over smooth seas -to use it simply as a vehicle for the distribution of news - is not difficult; but to command a great journal, under a hidden sun, over waters that are swept into anger by the gusts and tempests and whirl- winds of popular passion; to hold it to the true course, guided solely by the compass of right, in the interest of the public welfare, requires clearness of vision, stoutness of heart, and inflexibility of purpose; and these high and rare qualities, seldom combined, Mr. Has- kell, as editor, certainly possessed. Accord- ing to the testimony of his associates, the good sense and wit with which nature endowed him, found expression through his pen in a style that was direct, condensed, and clear at the same time. He may well be said to have exemplified his family motto -" Vincit veri- tas." The Herald is still conducted editori- ally on the lines he then laid down.
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ANIEL PARKER WISE, proprietor of Weber's restaurant, Boston, is a lineal descendant of Joseph Wise (baptized 1725), who removed about 1777 from Lebanon, Conn., to Deerfield, Mass., and who d. at the latter place April 21, 1815. Joseph m. March 19, 1750, Judith Healy, of Deerfield, who d. in 1807 at the age of seventy-three. In Kingley's record - made from town, land, probate, and family records of Lebanon, Conn., by a former town clerk, Walter A. Kingsley - are found the names of two of their children: Zerviah, baptized De- cember 9, 1759; and Lucy, baptized January 17, 1762. The father is mentioned as Joseph Wise, Jr., by which it would seem that his father's name also was Joseph, were it not for the fact that in early records "junior" was sometimes used when the father's given name was different from that of the son mentioned. In Lebanon's old records of births, deaths, and marriages other children of Joseph and Judith (Healy) Wise are mentioned, namely : Han- nah, b. October 12, 1751 ; Huldah, b. July 22, 1753; Daniel, b. March 12, 1755; and Naomi, b. December 1I, 1756. It is said that their entire family included nine children. The fourth child and eldest son, Daniel, b. 1755, removed in 1789 to Winchester, N. H. He is said to have served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the company of Captain Joseph Stebbins, of Deerfield, from 1776 to 1780. His name in the history is given as on the pay-roll of that company in 1777, 1778, and 1779. His name was placed on the United States pension roll June 4, 1833; commence- ment of pension, March 4, 1831. He d. Feb- ruary 13, 1842. By his wife, Lydia Owens, of Winchester, whom he m. November 23, 1779, he had eleven children.
Daniel Wise, Jr., the second child and eldest son, b. December 19, 1781, m. Sarah Dexter, of Malden. Their son, Daniel Parker Wise, Sr., father of Daniel Parker Wise of the present generation, was b. in Winchester, N. H., October 12, 1811. He m. Martha Low Crockett, and they had children - Charles Henry, Daniel Parker, Emma Florence, Ed- ward Gorham, and Martha Dexter.
Daniel Parker Wise was born in Malden,
Mass., June 12, 1846. He married in Mal- den, May 26, 1869, Grace Nichols Bates, daughter of James W. and Anna T. (Bates) Bates, of Cohasset. Mrs. Wise is of the ninth generation of her family in America, her first progenitor in this country having been Clement1 Bates, who with his wife Anna and five chil- dren, and his brother James, embarked at Lon- don for New England April 6, 1635, in the ship "Elizabeth," William Stagg, master. Soon after their arrival James settled at Dor- chester, and Clement in that part of Hingham now known as Cohasset. Their English an- cestry has been traced back for several genera- tions, thus : Thomas Bate, of Lydd, Parish of All Hallows, Kent, England, d. in 1485, seven years before the discovery of America by Columbus. He had a son John, who d. at Lydd in 1522, leaving a son Andrew, who d. at Lydd in 1533. Andrew left a son James, who d. at Lydd in 1614, and who was the father of the emigrant brothers Clement and James. The line of descent from Clement' Bates to Grace N. Bates (Mrs. Wise) was con- tinued as follows : -
Joseph,2 b. in England in 1630, m. in Hingham, Mass., January 9, 1657, Esther Hilliard. She was b. March 25, 1642, and d. June 3, 1709. He d. April 30, 1706. Jo- seph, 3 b. September 28, 1660, m. Mary Lin- coln January 3, 1683-4. In 1705 he was Constable. He d. November 3, 1714. His wife, b. March 27, 1662, daughter of Samuel and Martha Lincoln, d. March, 1752.
Joseph, 4 b. May 6, 1687, d. April 7, 1750, was Surveyor of Highways, 1717, and Constable in 1722. He m. August 15, 1713, Deborah Clapp, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Gill) Clapp (m. June 13, 1666), and grand-daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Otis) Gill, Hannah Otis, b. 1645, being daughter of John and Margaret Otis.
Samuel5 Bates, b. March 25, 1718, d. 1789, was Constable in 1748. He m. in 1737 Mercy Beal (b. May 29, 1716), daughter of Thomas and Jael (Remington) Beal (m. June 13, 1710), and grand-daughter on the paternal side of John and Mary (Gill) Beal (m. Novem- ber 14, 1660), John (b. England 1627), being son of John' and Nazareth (Hobart) Beal.
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Nazareth (b. 1600, d. 1658) was daughter of Edward' and Margaret (Dewey) Hobart. Jael Remington, b. April 22, 1688, was daughter of Thomas and Remember (Stowell) Reming- ton (m. March 16, 1687). Remember Stow- ell, b. April 27, 1662, was daughter of Samuel and Mary (Farrow) Stowell (m. October 25, 1649), Mary Farrow, b. in England, being daughter of John and Frances Farrow, who came from England in 1645.
Samuel6 Bates, b. November 15, 1744, met his death by drowning off Cohasset Rocks No- vember 3, 1801. He was a master mariner. He m. October 18, 1764, Martha Beal, b. July 7, 1744, and d. 1805. She was a de- scendant of John' and Nazareth (Hobart) Beal, already mentioned, the line being : John,' Jeremiah, 2 Lazarus, 3 Jonathan, 4 Martha5. Jeremiah2 Beal, b. 1631, d. August 10, 1716, was a blacksmith, known also as "Lieuten- ant "; served as Constable, Selectman, and Representative; m. November 18, 1652, Sarah Ripley, daughter of William Ripley. Lazarus3 Beal, b. September 7, 1661, was Selectman and Representative; m. February 18, 1689, Susannah Lewis, daughter of Lieutenant James and Sarah (Lane) Lewis, and grand-daughter of George and Sarah (Jenkins) Lewis. Sarah Lane (b. March, 1637, m. 1655) was daughter of George Lane and wife Sarah, and grand- daughter of William1 Lane.
Jonathan4 Beal, b. July 20, 1708, d. August 18, 1720, m. Percilla Lincoln October 28, 1731. She was b. March 22, 1711, daughter of Hezekiah and Percella (Farrow) Lincoln (m. February 21, 1710), grand-daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Lincoln) Lincoln (m. January 23, 1677), and great-grand-daughter of Samuel and Martha Lincoln. Daniel Lincoln, b. January 2, 1652-3, d. April 29, 1732.
Samuel7 Bates, b. January 1, 1783, d. July 2, 1837. He was m. November 27, 1806, at Cohasset, to Joanna Nichols, daughter of Na- thaniels and Zebiah (Bates) Nichols. Her father appears with the rank of Lieutenant on the muster roll of Captain Cushing's company, Colonel Greaton's regiment, dated August I, 1775; service, two months, twenty-one days. She was a descendant of Thomas' and Rebecca (Josselyn) Nichols (the latter daughter of
Thomas and Rebecca Josselyn), the line being through Israel,2 b. 1650 (Constable 1690), and wife Mary; Nathaniel, 3 b. September 6, 1685 (Constable 1724, d. 1758), who m. Elizabeth Lincoln February 21, 1710-II; Nathaniel, 4 b. January 19, 1721 (Constable 1755, d. 1757), who m. Catherine Cushing July 9, 1747; and Lieutenant Nathaniels (father of Joanna). Her mother, Zebiah Bates, b. August 3, 1756, m. December 15, 1774, was blind. She was daughter of Joshua Bates, b. December I, 1724, and wife Grace Lincoln, b. April 3, 1725, grand-daughter of Joshua Bates, b. June 15, 1698, and wife Abigail Joy, b. December 29, 1701, great-grand-daughter of Joshua Bates, b. August 14, 1671, and wife Rachel Tower (b. March 16, 1674-5, m. January 15, 1695-6), and great-great-grand-daughter of Jo- seph and Esther (Hilliard) Bates, Joseph being son of Clement' Bates, the immigrant. Cath- erine Cushing, wife of the second Nathaniel Nichols, was b. May 5, 1728, daughter of Captain Stephen Cushing (b. November 8, 1689, m. February 18, 1719, d. April 3, 1749) and Katreen (Kilby) Cushing (b. Bos- ton, 1700), grand-daughter of Peter Cushing (b. March 29, 1646, m. June 4, 1685, d. April 14, 1719) and wife Hannah Hawke (b. July 22, 1655, d. April 4, 1737), great-grand- daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Gilman) Cush- ing (m. 1645), Daniel being son of Matthew and Margaret Cushing and Lydia daughter of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman. Elizabeth Lincoln, wife of the first Nathaniel Nichols was b. February 26, 1688, daughter of Daniel (b. January 2, 1652-3) and Elizabeth (Lin- coln) Lincoln. Elizabeth (b. December 2, 1656, m. January 23, 1677, d. December 28, 1741) was grand-daughter on paternal side of Samuel and Martha Lincoln, and on the ma- ternal of Thomas Lincoln, the husbandman, and his wife Margaret Langer, daughter of Richard Langer.
James W.8 Bates, father of Grace N. (Mrs. Wise), was b. March 14, 1816. He m. Janu- ary 29, 1845, Anna Tower Bates, who was b. September 8, 1818, daughter of Daniel and Sally (Tower) Bates, and a descendant of Clement Bates, the immigrant, through Jo- seph, Joshua, 3-4-5 Zealous,6 and Daniel ?. Jo-
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seph2 Bates, b. 1630, m. Esther Hilliard, as already noted. Joshua3 Bates, b. August 14, 1671, d. April, 1757, m. January 15, 1695-6, Rachel Tower, daughter of Ibrook and Marga- ret (Hardin) Tower (m. April 24, 1668) Ibrook (b. February, 1643-4, d. November IO, 1705) being son of John and Margaret (Ibrook) Tower (m. 1638-9), John, b. 1609, son of Robert and Dorothy (Damon) Tower. Mar- agret Ibrook was daughter of Richard. Joshua4 Bates m. December 28, 1721, Abigail Joy, b. 1701, daughter of Joseph (b. 1668, d. 1716) and Elizabeth (Andrews) Joy (b. 1665, m. 1690), grand-daughter of Joseph (b. Boston,. 1645) and Mary (Prince) Joy (b. Hingham, 1649, m. 1667), great - grand - daughter of Thomas and Joan (Gallop) Joy (daughter of John Gallop). Mary Prince was daughter of John and Margaret Prince, grand-daughter of John and Alice (Honor) Prince, and great- grand-daughter of Elder John' Prince, of Hull.
Joshua5 Bates (b. December 1, 1724, d. June 8, 1816) was Constable 1755; m. Grace Lin- coln, who was b. April 3, 1725. She was daughter of Elisha Lincoln (b. 1699, d. 1783), who m. 1723 Sarah Lewis, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Marsh Lewis, grand-daughter of Lieutenant James and Sarah (Lane) Lewis, great-grand-daughter of George (d. 1662) and Sarah (Jenkins) Lewis, and of George and Sarah (Beal) Lane, and great-great-grand- daughter of William Lane. Zealous Bates, b. March 1, 1754, m. August 20, 1775, Abigail Nichols, b. January 22, 1757, daughter of Daniel Nichols (b. March 16, 1711, Con- stable 1744) and wife Abigail Beal, b. June I, 1718, m. October 13, 1736. She was grand-daughter of Nathaniel (b. 1685) and Elizabeth Lincoln (b. 1688, m. February 21, 1710), great-grand-daughter of Israel Nichols, b. September 1, 1650, who has already been mentioned as son of Thomas and Rebecca (Josselyn) Nichols. Abigail Beal, above mentioned, was b. June 1, 1718, daughter of Lazarus (b. 1691) and Ruth (Andrews) Beal (m. 1717) grand-daughter of Lazarus and Susan- nah (Lewis) Beal, and great-grand-daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Ripley) Beal. Ruth Andrews was b. February 1, 1695, daughter of Thomas (b. 1663, d. 1727) and wife Abi-
gail Lincoln (b. 1673) daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Hawke Lincoln.
Daniel Bates, father of Anna T. Bates, was b. January 21, 1778, and d. December 4, 1860. He m. Sally Tower (b. October II, 1780), who d. April 25, 1857. She was daugh- ter of Levi (b. 1756, d. 1823) and Priscilla (Nichols) Tower, grand-daughter of Daniel (b. 1720, d. 1800) and Bethia (Nichols) Tower, great-grand-daughter of Daniel (b. 1692, d. 1774) and Sarah (Lincoln) Tower, and great-great-grand-daughter of Ibrook Tower. Priscilla Nichols, wife of Levi Tower, was b. February 18, 1758, and d. May 3, 1796. She was daughter of Thomas Nich- ols (b. November 13, 1716, Constable 1746) and wife Elizabeth Lincoln (b. 1716-7), daughter of Hezekiah Lincoln (b. 1681), grand- daughter of Nathaniel (b. 1685, d. 1758) and wife Elizabeth (Lincoln b. 1688), daughter of Daniel Lincoln (b. 1642), son of Samuel and Martha Lincoln, and great-grand-daughter of Israel Nichols (b. 1650) and wife Mary (m. September 26, 1679), the parents of Israel being Thomas and Rebecca (Josselyn) Nichols.
Bethia Nichols was b. May 12, 1724, daugh- ter of Roger (b. 1697), and Bethia (Winslow) Nichols, grand-daughter of Israel and Mary (Sumner) Nichols, and great-grand-daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Josselyn) Nichols. Sarah Lincoln, wife of Daniel Tower, first, was b. July 14, 1694, m. February 25, 1715-6, and d. July 7, 1754. She was daughter of . Mordecai (b. 1655), and Sarah (Jones) Lincoln, and grand-daughter of Samuel and Martha Lin- coln and of Abraham and Sarah (Whitman) Jones. Mary Sumner, wife of Israel Nichols, was daughter of Roger and Mary (Josselyn) Sumner. She d. February 27, 1723.
The children of James W. and Anna Tower (Bates) Bates were : Grace Nichols Bates, born November 7, 1849; Daniel Nichols Bates, July 8, 1853; James Warren Bates, June 7, 1858. Daniel Nichols Bates m. Mary Alma Fer- guson.
The children of Daniel Parker and Grace Nichols (Bates) Wise are: Blanche Bates Wise, Howard Parker Wise, Paul Tower Wise, Roland Nichols Wise, Harold Warren Wise.
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T HE GRAFFAM FAMILY is of Scotch origin, and the early form of the name seems to have been Grafton. A coat of arms was granted to the family of that name in England. Joseph Grafton, of Salem in 1636, was a freeman May 17, 1637. His wife Mary d. in November, 1674. He was a mariner and merchant, and was master of the ship "En- deavor" in 1641. He made two imperfect wills, which were set aside at his death. His second wife was Bethia, the widow of Captain Thomas Lothrop, and daughter of Samuel Rhea. Joseph Grafton's children were: Priscilla, who m. February 20, 1654, John Gardiner ; Joseph, Jr., baptized January 24, 1636, m. October 29, 1657, Hannah Hobart, of Hingham, Mass., and had children; m. , second, Elizabeth Brown, June 30, 1664; John, baptized April 28, 1639, m. December 1, 1659, Seth Gardi- ner, and had children; Nathaniel, baptized April 24, 1642 (d. at Barbadoes, February II, 1671), m. April 6, 1665, Eliza Maverick, and had children.
It is not known whether Joseph Grafton, above mentioned, was an ancestor of Captain Caleb Graffam, of Windham, with whom the authentic genealogy of the subject of this sketch begins. There was a Thomas Grafton, who was one of the early settlers in New Hampshire. Captain Caleb Graffam's name was called Grafton at Scarborough and Wind- ham, though he did not sign it that way in Windham, at least. A fac-simile of his sig- nature, with date of 1770, reads "Caleb Graf- fam," in a bold and legible hand, not one letter of which could be misread. The statement in the history of Scarborough that Caleb Graffam became an inhabitant of that town in 1714, if applying to Captain Caleb Graffam, as it ap- parently does, is a mistake, as he was then but two years old. The same history says that from 1727 until 1731 he lived at Dunstan as a tenant of William Vaughn,. of Portsmouth, N. H., who owned a portion of Robert Elliot's estate there.
Caleb Graffam removed to Windham about 1743, and was one of the early settlers of that town, where he became a useful citizen. At the beginning of the French and Indian War in 1745, he removed to Falmouth, now Port-
land, where his family resided. He was a Corporal in Captain George Berry's company of scouts from May 19, 1746, until January 19, 1747. In a report made in regard to the settle- ment of New Marblehead, now Windham, in 1749, now preserved in the Massachusetts archives, Caleb Graffam is said to have cleared nine acres of home lot No. 61, and had at that date built a garrison house on the lot. He was a garrison soldier there from April 8 to Octo- ber 31, 1757, for which service he was paid by the Colony. He was one of the signers to the petition to Governor Pownell, in 1758, for a minister and meeting-house for Windham, and the next May he signed a statement that the meeting-house had not been properly built and that it was not completed. On April 12, 1762, the year of the incorporation of the town of Windham, he signed a letter of thank's for the settling of the Rev. Peter Thatcher Smith over the Windham Church, and May 5 of the same year he was elected the first Selectman of the town at its incorporation. He was also elected a church warden and a tithing-man. Soon after, on August 4, he was appointed one of the committee to repair the fort or block- house, to make it suitable for public religious service, and to procure provisions for the ordi- nation of the Rev. Mr. Smith, and he was one of those who signed the agreement of the new minister.
In 1762 Caleb Graffam was the Captain of the town military company, which was a part of Colonel Samuel Waldo's regiment. In the report of that regiment his name is given as Grafton. He was Town Clerk in 1770, and kept the town records. At a town meeting held February 16, 1773, which was called to answer a letter from the town of Boston, Caleb Graffam was the moderator. He was put on the committee that was chosen to prepare an answer, and that committee reported the pre- amble and resolutions printed in Smith's His- tory of Windham, pages 25 and 26. At a town meeting held March 15, 1775, Captain Caleb Graffam was chosen to fix up the great gun and swivel as soon as possible, for ser- vices for the then impending Revolutionary War. Besides being the chairman of the Se- lectmen in 1762, he was Selectman in 1764,
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chairman again in 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1773, Selectman in 1779, and chairman again in 1780. He d. November II, 1784, at the age of seventy-two years, highly honored as a patriotic and public-spirited citizen. His wife was Lois Bennett, and the date of their marriage 1740. She was admitted to full communion in the Windham Church, February 19, 1774, and he was admitted to membership in the same church, April 8, 1770. She d. January 12, 1804, aged eighty-three years. They were both buried in the Smith Cemetery at South Windham, where their gravestones are in good condition. They had ten children - Peter, Abigail, Hannah, Mary, Sarah, Enoch, Caleb, Jr., Rebecca, Lois, and Eliza- beth.
Peter, 2 b. at Falmouth, April 31, 1742, the eldest child of Captain Caleb1 Graffam, m. at Windham, February 16, 1764, Mary Wilson ; secondly, at New Gloucester, December 21, 1775, Mary Allen. His children by the first wife were: Peggy, b. February 3, 1765; and Mary, February 7, 1768. By his second wife he had: Dorcas, b. October 21, 1776, m. Oc- tober 25, 1798, Joshua Bailey, of Falmouth; Lois, b. September 29, 1779, d. May 21, 1798; Lucy, b. March II, 1782; and Sarah, b. June 14, 1783. Peter Graffam moved from Wind- ham to New Gloucester. He served as Second Lieutenant in Captain Nathaniel Merrill's com- pany, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment, in .the Bagaduce expedition in 1779. He d. May 3, 1783, aged forty-one years.
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