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(VIII) Clinton Brigham Scott, seventh child of Ebenezer Woodburn Scott (7), was born in Rut- land. Massachusetts, and when a young boy was brought up on a farm there. He went to the Rut- land schools. Soon after he was married he re- moved to Worcester and worked for several years in the meat market of Aaron Hammond, on Main street. He worked later in Prentice's market, South- bridge street, and Ring's market at the corner of Coral and Grafton streets. He went into business for himself in 1889 at 42 Chandler street and met with gratifying success. His market became one of the largest in the city at that time. He retired from business in 1895 and went to live on the homestead in Rutland. Mr. Scott is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge of Odd Fellows and of Wor- cester Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married, at Paxton, Clara A. Marsh, daughter of Luther and Augusta Marsh. She died Decem- ber 25, 1890, in Worcester. Their children: Charles Clinton, see forward; Clarence Nelson, born in Worcester, February 4, 1887, student of dentistry in his brother's office; Edith Clara, born in Wor- cester. December 18, 1890, lives with her father at Rutland.
(IX) Charles Clinton Scott, eldest child of Clinton Brigham Scott (8), was born in Paxton, June 28, 1878. His parents moved to Worcester with him when he was eighteen months old. He attended the public schools of Worcester, leaving the high school at the end of his second year. He entered the dental offices of Dr. F. H. Kendrick, where he remained for six months. In 1895 he entered the Dental School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. He won his degree at the end of his first year by crowding three years work into one. In the summer of 1896, after grad- uating. he entered the office of Dr. W. H. Sears, Worcester, where he practiced for three years. From 1899 to the fall of 1904 he was associated with Dr.
II. H. Gabler, of Worcester. Since then he has heen practicing at 578 Main street, where he has elaborately appointed offices and employs an opera- tor and assistant. He is a member of Anchoria Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the Massachusetts Dental Society and has been a member of the Hancock Club. He is a Republican and attends Piedmont Congregational church. He married, June 14, 1905, Bessie Bonker, daughter of Harry L. and Caroline (Haring) Bonker, of Worcester. Her father is at present an inspector of locomotives for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad and lives in Worcester.
(I) Nicholas Potter was the pioneer ancestor of Dr. Charles C. Scott, through Caroline Scott, who married Brigham Scott, mentioned above. He was a settler in Lynn as early as 1638, a brick- layer hy trade. He married (first) Eunice - He married (second) Alice Weeks and (third) Mary Gedney, daughter of John Gedney. His chil- dren: Mary, born and died 1659; Hannah, bap- tized March 25, 1661; Sarah, born October 4, 1662; Mary, born November 10, 1663; Samuel, baptized March 10, 1664-66, died March 10, 1664 -- 66; Hannah, baptized April 8, 1666; Lydia, baptized February IO, 1666-67, died 1668; Bethiah, baptized July 12, 1668; Samuel, baptized April 25, 1669; Lydia, bap- tized July 17, 1670; Robert, Elizabeth, Benjamin.
(11) Robert Potter, son of Nicholas Potter (1), was born in Lynn, New England, married Ruth Driver and lived in Lynn.
(III) Robert Potter, son of Robert Patter (2), was born March IS, 1661. married, January 9, 1682, Martha Hale and they lived in Lynn.
(IV) Ephraim Potter, son of Robert Potter (3), was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, February 5, 1683, and settled in Marlboro, Massachusetts. He married, November 23, 170S, Sarah Witt and their children all born in Marlboro, were: Mary, Sep- tember II, 1709; Martha, September 1, 1711; Jo- seph. February 3, 1713; Persis, August 29, 1715; Ephraim, March 5, 1718; Sarah, January 26, 1721 ; Theophilus, see forward; Elizabeth, January 25, 1728.
(V) Theophilus Potter, seventh child of Ephraim Potter (4), was born January 26, 1725, and settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts, where he died Septem- ber 13, 1814. He married in 1748 Lois Walker, of Sudbury. Of their children, the first four were born in Marlboro, the other eight in North Brook- field. Their children: Silas, born June 17, 1749; Barnabas, June 15, 1751; Ephraim, July 31, 1752; Hannah, December 17, 1755; Thomas, November 16, 1757; Abijah, January 23, 1760; Lois, January 30, 1762, married Thomas Knight; Thaddeus, May 18, 1764; Esther, January 15, 1767; Elizabeth, July 17. 1770, died young; Luke, see forward; Aaron, March 29, 1776.
(VI) Luke Potter, eleventh child of Theophilus Potter (5), was born in North Brookfield, April 28, 1772, and died October 19, 1812. He married Lydia Baker, the daughter of Joseph Baker. the first settler and proprietor of Bakersfield, Vermont, for whom that town was named. She died in North Brookfield, January 1810. Their children : Lydia, born 1794. died at Palmer in 1813; Nancy, born July 26, 1796; Roswell, born 1798, died at Stockholm, New York; Caroline. see forward ; Luke, born 1802, died in Canada about 1878; mar- ried Elvira Page, of Waterville, New York.
(V11) Caroline Potter, fourth child of Luke Potter (6), was born in North Brookfield, 1800. She died at Bakersfield. Vermont. She married Eben- ezer Brigham Scott, mentioned above.
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HORACE WYMAN. The name of Wyman is beyond doubt of Saxon origin, and in common with family names of the earliest period, appears in various different forms, as Wyman, Wiman, Wy- mant, Wymond, Wimond, etc. It is estimated that there are now in the United States about eight thousand persons who appear under one or another form of the name.
It was discovered by Henry F. Waters, A. M., of London, in the record of a will made by Francis Wyman, farmer, of the parish of West Mill, county of Herts (Hertfordshire), England, that he was the father of Francis and John Wyman, the emi- grant ancestors of the American branch of the family. The family estate in England was inherited by their elder brother Thomas. The names of John and Francis Wyman first appear in Woburn, Massa- chusetts, in 1640, as signers of town orders. They had farm houses near the town site of Woburn; that of John was demolished many years ago, but that built by Francis, in 1664, is yet standing. It was used for defensive purposes during King Phil- ip's war, and the loop-holes for the rifles of its defenders are still visible. It is now owned by the "Wyman Associates," and the descendants of the family have an annual re-union there. The broth- ers also owned houses in the village, opposite the park, at the junction of Main and Wyman streets. Their tannery was located nearby, and the vats yet exist, but are buried beneath several feet of earth. The ancient gravestone of Francis Wyman is still plainly discernable, but its inscription is wellnigh obliterated :
"Here lies ye bdy of Francis Wyman, aged about 82 years, died Nov. 28, 1699. The memory of ye just is blessed."
The line of descent of the Horace Wyman fam- ily of Worcester, is as follows :
(I) John Wyman, born in West Mill, Herts county, England, in 1621, emigrated to this country in 1640, and was' one of the first settlers of the town of Woburn, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Nutt, in 1644. He was a man of enterprise and marked independence. He, with others, was prose-
THE WYMAN HOMESTEAD Birthplace of Horace Wyman
cuted before the courts in December, 1671, some "for publicly manifesting contempt for the ordinance of infant baptism as administered in the church of Woburn," others for withdrawing from the worship of that church. Some of those prosecuted received public admonition, and others were fined. That he bore a prominent part in the Indian difficulties is established by documentary evidence.
(1) Sewell's "History of Woburn" says of the fifty-eight persons enlisted from that place in 1675 in King Philip's war, that one of the number, Simp- son, was apparently a Scotchman, one of those who, for espousing the cause of Charles II was sent over to this country by Cromwell after he had de- feated them at the battle at Dunbar, 1650, or of Worcester, 1651, to be sold, and being a tanner by trade, was bought by Lieutenant John Wyman, tanner, of Woburn, "on purpose for the manage- ment of his tanyard." (By "sale" is meant in- denture for a term, in payment of the ship passage of Simpson .- Ed.). "Mr. Wyman, his master, (having had his son slain in the fight at Narragan- sett) petitioned the general court May 16, 1676, that his servant Simpson might be returned," etc. This document is contained in the papers of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is as follows : To the Honorable Govers: ye Council now Sitting in Boston
The Petition of John Wyman
Humbly Sheweth that yore Petitioner Hath beene often out in the service of ye Country against the Indians : his sone also was out and slaine by the enemy : and his servants hath beene long out in the warrs and now being reduced to greate wants for clotheing : desires liberty to come downe from Had- ly where he now remains a garrison souldier . and he is a taner by traid and yore Petitioner bought him on purpose for that management of his tan yard : and himselfe being unexperienced in that calling doth humbly request that favore of your honors to consider the premisses and to grant his said servant Robert Simpson a dismission from this present service that so his lether now in the fatts may not be spoyled but yore Petitioner be ever engaged to pray &c. Jno. Wyman.
(II) Jonathan Wyman, son of John (1), born 1661, married Han- nah Fowle, 1690.
(III) Jonathan Wyman, son of Jonathan (2), born 1704, married Martha Thompson. He served in the war of the revolution.
(IV) Jonathan Wyman, son of Jonathan (3), born 1734, married Abigail Wright.
(V) Jonathan Wyman, son of Jonathan (4), born 1763, married Ruby Richardson. Their children were: Jonathan, born 1787: Abel, 1793: Abigail, 1795; Sylvester, Jo- seph. Stephen, Ray. Ruby, and Ipps. (VI) Abel Wyman, second son and child of Jonathan (5) and Ruby (Richardson) Wyman, was born in 1793, and died in 1864. He was a boot and shoe manufacturer, and was noted for his integrity, tact and sagacity in business relations, and was of strong moral character. He married Maria Wade, in 1817. Their children were: Charles Ans- tin, born 1817: Ward, 1819; Win- throp, 1821; Nancy Maria, 1823; Horace, 1827.
Maria (Wade) Wyman was the
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daughter of Ebenezer (5) and Leah Wade, whose other children were Nancy and Harriet. Her ances- try is traced back as follows :
(1) Jcnathan Wade, a native of England, cmi- grated to America from Denver, near Donnham Market, Norfolk county, in 1632. in the ship "Lion." Ilc first settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and after- wards removed to Medford, and was elected the first town clerk there in 1674. He was a prominent per- son in the town and the largest owner of land there, and paid the highest tax for many years. He gave a public landing place for boats and shipping on the Mystic river upon which the town is situated. (Il) Major Nathaniel Wade, son of Jonathan ( I), married Mercy Bradstreet, daughter of Gover- nor Simon and Anne Bradstreet, and granddaugh- ter of Governor Thomas Bradley (2).
Governor Bradstreet made an affidavit relative to this marriage, which is curious for its quaint phrasing as well as for the subject matter. It is quoted as follows from "Genealogy of the Dudley Family," vol. II, pp. 1031-1033 :
"When Mr. Jonathan Wade of Ipswich came first to my house att Andvar | yeare-72-to make a motion of marriage betwixt his son Nathaniel and | my daughter Mercy hee freely of himself told me what he would | give to his son viz. one halfe rf his ffarme att Mistic and one third pt of his | land in England when he Dyed: and that he should have liberty to make | use of pt of impved and broken upp ground vpon the sd ffarme till | hee could gett some broken vpp for him selfe vpon his own pt and like wise | that hee should live in and have the vse of halfe the house &c till he had one | of his owne blt upon his part of the ffarme I was willing to accept of his | offer or at least sd nothing against it but ppounded that hee would make his sd son a deede of guift of that third pt of his land in England to enjoy to | him and his heired after his cleath-this he was not free to do but sd it was | as sure for he had soe putt it into his will that his 3 sons should have | that in England equally devyded betwixt them vz each a pt. I objected | hee might alter his will when hee pleased & his wife might dye & hee marry | again and have othr children wch hee thought a vaine obiccon. much othr discourse there was about the stock on the ffarme &c but remayning vnwilling | to give a deed for that in England: saying hee might h'ue to spend it and often | repeating hee had soe ordered it in his will as aforesd wch hee should never alter without | great necessity or words to that purpos so wee pted for that time leaving | that matter to further con- sidracon after hee came home hee told sevall of my ffriends and others they informed me that he had pfferd them 1000 L and I would not accept of it. the next tyme he came to my howse after some | discourse about the premsis and pceiveing his resolucon as form'ly I consented | to accept of wt hee had formily ingaged. and left it to him to ad wt he pleased | towards the building of him a howse &c. and soe agreed that the young psons | might pceede in maryage with both o consent wch ac- cordingly they did.
S. BRADSTREET
The Hon, ble Simon Bradstreet, Esq. r | made oath to the truth of the above written | (Sept. 21, 1683.) | before SAMLL NOWELL, ASSISTT. |
( 1}{ ) Captain Samuel Wade, son of Nathaniel (2).
( IV) Nathaniel Wade, son of Samuel (3).
(V) Ebenezer Wade, son of Nathaniel (4).
(VI) Ebenezer Wade, son of Ebenezer (5). He Vol. I.
served in the French and Indian war, and also the revolutionary war.
(VII) Maria Wade, daughter of Ebenezer (6). married Abel Wyman.
Horace Wyman, youngest child of Abel and Maria ( Wade) Wyman, was born in Woburn. No- vember 27. 1827. He was educated at the Woburn and Francestown (New Hampshire ) Academies. He commenced his business career in 1846 as machinist in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in New Hampshire, and afterwards in the Lowell Machine Shop, and in the Hinckley Locomotive Works in Boston. He then entered into the employ of the Holyoke Water Power Company as a draughtsman, and in 1860 became associated with George Cromp- ton, of Worcester, as superintendent and manager of his Loom Works. He is noted for his mechanical ability and inventive genius, particularly in the line of loom and factory machinery.
The records of the United States Patent Office disclose the fact that he has taken out over one hundred and fifty patents, the great majority of them relating to textile machinery, many of his ma- chines being in use in the principal mills through- out the country, with the result of improved goods. in greater quantities in a given time, and at a re- duced cost of production. From time to time he has been associated with others, but the principal machines with which his name is connected were altogether conceived in his own brain and wrought out by his own masterly mechanical skill. The Crompton Loom Works of Worcester owed much of their success to improvements of his designing and introduction. When George Crompton died in 1886, the business was reorganized by incorporation. with Mr. Wyman as vice-president and manager, and when that corporation was merged into the Cromp- ton and Knowles Loom Works in 1897 he became its consulting mechanical engineer.
While Mr. Wyman has been thus busily engaged along lines which seemingly would tax the ability of one man to the utmost, he has at the same time been actively interested in various other enterprises entering into the commercial and financial life of the city, serving as president of the Worcester Storage Company, a director in the Quinsigamond Bank, the People's Savings Bank, and the Uxbridge & Black- stone Street Railway Company. He has also served as a member of the board of aldermen. He is an active member of the American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers, the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and of the board of managers of the Old Men's Home. He is also affiliated with local bodies of the Masonic fraternity. In politics he is a Republican. and his religious connection is with the Unitarian faith. Of studious habits and cultivated tastes, he has read and traveled much. He is familiarly acquainted with nearly all regions of the United States, and he has several times visited Europe, at times on business, and again solely for recreation and mental improve- ment. He has made much careful study of genea- logical subjects, and has published two works in- volving a great amount of careful and patient re- search: "The Wyman Families of Great and Little Hormead, Herts county, England," 1895 : and "Some Account of the Wyman Genealogy and Wyman Families in Herts county, England," 1897.
In 1860 Mr. Wyman married Louisa B. Horton. of Orleans, Massachusetts, who died in 1894. She was of English extraction. a daughter of Sparrow and Betsey ( Doane) Horton, and a descendant of John Doane. who was born in 1590. He arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1630, and was assistant
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to Governor Thomas Prince in 1633. Of this mar- riage were born four children :
( I) Horace Winfield Wyman, born May 30, 1861, died October II, 1905. He was educated in Wor- coster-in the public schools, the Worcester Acad- emy, and the Polytechnic Institute. In 1883, at the age of twenty-two, he formed a partnership with Lyman F. Gordon, a classmate at all the above named schools, and engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel drop forgings, an industry then in its comparative infancy. This business they built up and developed, until it has become one of the fore- most in the world: its product reaching all parts of the United States, and every foreign market open to American commerce. Mr. Wyman possessed in marked degree the mechanical taste and ability, as well as the inventive genius which characterize his father, and much of the efficiency and success of the great works with which he was identified, was due to his mechanical ability, joined to a keen business judgment. He was treasurer of the Worcester Stor- age Company, a trustee of the Worcester County Institute for Savings, and has been twice presi- dent of the Alumni Association of the Polytechnic Institute. He was a member of the International Iron and Steel Institute, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of prominent clubs in Boston, New York and Cleveland as well as of Wor- cester. In politics he was a Republican, but he never aspired to public office. In 1889 he married Mary Wills Haskill. of Atchison, Kansas, and their children are: Aurelia, Horace and Louise.
( II) Maria Louise, born in 1864.
(III) Josie Horton, born in 1867, died in 1868.
(IV) Adelaide Richards, born 1870, married in 1898, Ernest Wood, of the firm of C. G. Wood & Company, woolen manufacturers of Worcester.
THOMAS ARMIT PELLETT. Thomas Pellett (I), the immigrant ancestor of Thomas Armit Pel- lett, of Worcester, settled in Concord, Massachu- setts, where he married, March 5. 1660, Mary Dane or Deane, of Concord. He was a farmer. Their children, all born in Concord, were: Mary, born August 27, 1662; Thomas, born April 18, 1666; Daniel, born August 1, 1668; Samuel, born March 28, 1671; Richard, mentioned below; John, born November 9, 1675; Elizabeth, born April 8. 1679; Jonathan, born April 18, 1682; Sarah, born Septem- ber 5. 1685; Susanna, born January 18, 1690.
(II) Richard Pellett, eighth child of Thomas Pellett (I), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, April 23, 1673. He settled at Canterbury, Connecti- cut. and died there June 15, 1758. He married, April 2, 1703, Ann Brooks, of Canterbury. She died Octo- ber 25, 1756. Their children, all born in Canterbury. were: Jonathan, mentioned below; Thomas, born September 9, 1706. married March 18, 1730, Martha Tibbets: Samuel, born March 7, 1709, married ( first) Margaret -, who died February 28. 1748; (sec- ond). July, 1752. Hannah Underwood; Hezekiah. born April 28, 1712, married. March 5. 1738, Abigail Brown: John, born April 4, 1715; Ephraim, born June 21, 17!8. married Hannah -; Patience and Ann (twins), born August 8. 1721.
(II]) Jonathan Pellett, eldest child of Richard Pellett (2). was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, March 2. 17~4: married, February 20. 1733, Jerusha Bradford, who died June 15, 1788 .. She was a direct descendant of Elder William Bradford, who came in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth in 1620. The line is through William Bradford (1), who married ( first) Alice Richards; ( second) Widow Wiswell; ( third ) Widow Mary Holmes. Thomas Brad- ford (11). son of William Bradford (I), set-
tled in Norwich, Connecticut ; married (first) An- na Fitch, daughter of Rev. James Fitch, mar- ried (second) Priscilla Mason, daughter of Major John Mason, the hero of the Pequot war. James Bradford (III), son of Thomas Bradford (II). was the father of Jerusha Bradford, born June 27. 1716. Her sister Mary married William Pel- lett. The children of Jonathan and Jerusha ( Brad- ford) Pellett were all born in Canterbury, viz. : Jonathan, born June 20, 1734, died young; Edith, born March 25, 1735, died young : James, born Feb- ruary 9, 1737, died young: Jonathan, born October 19, 1739, died young; Thomas, born November 20, 1742; Jerusha, born June 6, 1744: Joseph, born March 18. 1748: David, born February 21, 1750; Jonathan, born July 12, 1753; Hepzibah, born Feb- ruary 25, 1757: Rufus, mentioned below.
(IV) Rufus Pellett, youngest child of Jonathan Pellett (3), was born at Canterbury, May 25, 1760. He also was a farmer at Canterbury, where he died in 1806. He married Drusilla Wheeler. Their chil- dren, all born at Canterbury, were: Rufus, born November 4, 1781: John, born July 4, 1783; grad- uate of Harvard College (M. D.), died at Salem, Massachusetts, 1809: Eunice, born October 26, 1784. married Joseph Graves, of Canterbury ; Esther, born December 9, 1786; Jonathan, died young ; Timothy, born May 4. 1791; Jonathan, born August 17, 1792; Archibald, died young: Chester, mentioned below ; Maria, born April 22, 1800, resided in Canterbury to advanced age: Marian, born March 25, 1803, married Aaron Stearns. of North Brookfield, removed to Whately : Heman, born September, 1805, 'died young. (V) Chester Pellett, ninth child of Rufus Pellett (4). was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, May, 1797. He was raised in his native town but re- moved to Wales. Massachusetts. Among his chil- dren was the father of Thomas Armit Pellett. John C. Pellett.
(V) John C. Pellett, son of Chester Pellett (5), was born in Canterbury, Connecticut. He re- sided at North Brookfield and Wales, Massachu- setts. He married, January 28, 1849, Sarah Har- wocd, who was born June 15, 1820, the daughter of Thomas Armit Harwood.
John C. Pellett was a railroad man, a section boss on the New London & Northern Railroad and later on the Vermont Central Railroad. He served two years in the civil war. He was color sergeant of the Eleventh Vermont Regiment and he lost his right arm in a skirmish during the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. He died at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1897. The children of John C. and Sarah ( Harwood) ) Pellett were: I. Marv, married Andrew Thomas, of Claremont, New Hampshire, and they have a son, Leon Andrew, and a daugh- ter. Genevieve Louise, both born in Brattleboro, Vermont. 2. John C., Jr., married Grace Double- day. of Binghamton, New York: married (second) Lizette Winslow; resides at 6 Jaques avenue, Wor- cester, is a mason and contractor, at present en- gaged in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has three chil- dren by the first wife: Charles Arnold, Louise, John. 3. Thomas A., mentioned below.
Thomas Armit Harwood, son of Captain Peter Harwood. was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 6. 1789: married (first), May 24, 1818, Han- nah Palmer Pellett, of North Brookfield, who died September 1, 1830; married (second), June 15, 1831, Ann Mead, of North Brookfield, who died August 30, 1870, aged eighty years; he died April 4. 1880, aged ninety-one vears. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. They had a large family of chil- dren. Thomas Armit Harwood, Jr., was in the British service ; had a very adventurous life all over
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the world; in 1879 was living in India under the name of Francis Hudson.
Peter Harwood, grandfather of Mrs. John C. Pellett, was the son of Major Peter Harwood, born in North Brookfield, September 16, 1765. He was a tavern keeper and farmer. He served three years in the revolutionary army with his father who was captain of the North Brookfield company. He suc- ceeded Captain Aaron Forbes as captain of the company and was himself succeeded by his brother, Captain Abel Harwood. He was selectman and as- sessor. He married, in Dover, New Hampshire, about 1788, Elizabeth Armit, who was born in Scot- land (North Brookfield history says London, Eng- land) and came to America when she was three years old. Captain Peter died in Spencer, April 17, 1836. Their eldest child was Thomas Armit Harwood, mentioned above.
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