Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 121

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824

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John Whitcomb and his son John, Jr., were among the founders of the town of Lancaster. After some thirty years of pioneer life in the colony John Whitcomb died September 24. 1662, aged about seventy-four years. He was buried in the old grave- yard at Lancaster, but there is no stone.

He married in England Frances -, and there his elder children were born. He had certainly five sons, perhaps six, and three daughters. He died intestate and the widow and children mutually agreed tinon a division of his estate, which was approved hy the court. His widow, Frances, made her will May 12. 1671, and died at Lancaster, May 17. 1671. She named her youngest daughter Mary as executrix. The children of John Whitcomb were: I. Catherine, married. 1644. Rodolphus Ellmes, of Scituate: re- sided there and had nine children. 2. James, born in England; settled in Boston; may have remained in Dorchester and Boston when his father removed- to Scituate: not mentioned in his father's will; owned a place of five acres opposite the Boston Common, died in Boston. November 23, 1686, mar- ried twice, Rebecca and Elizabeth ; had ten children. 3. John, born in England, may have been the oldest son; was most closely associated with his father.

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(Their signatures are found together in several places -once as early as 1652 when they both signed the town covenant of Lancaster, and in 1654-5 both are among the twenty families named in a petition for a township drawn up by John Whitcomb, Sr.). Married May 19, 1669, or January 16. 1671 ; prob- ably on the latter date, which is given by Savage; he died April 7, 1683, accidentally drowned, leaving wife Mary and two daughters. 4. Robert, remained at Scituate when his father went to Lancaster ; married 1660 by a Quaker preacher, in Rhode Island, to Mary Cudworth, daughter of General James Cud- worth, but this marriage being pronounced unlawful by the Puritan authorities he was remarried March 9. 1660. (She was born July 23, 1637). The preacher was Henry Hobson, of Rhode Island. Robert Whit- comb was the first to settle at "Beechwood" in the Beeches, the family place at Scituate where several generations of Whitcombs have lived. He had seven children. 5. Jonathan; was on the jury at the in- quest upon the death of Richard Mann. of Scituate, Massachusetts, February 16, 1655, with his brother- in-law. Rodolphus Ellmes, John Hoar and others. (See Mann Family Sketchi). He removed from Scituate to Lancaster ; married November 25, 1667, Hannah -: died February, 1690; July 18, 1692, his widow Hannah was killed by the Indians at the house of Peter Joslin, in Lancaster. He had eleven children. One of his descendants is G. Henry Whit- comb, the envelope manufacturer, of Worcester. 6 Abigail, no record. 7. Job. was a surveyor at Lancaster ; married May 19, 1669, Mary He did not return to Lancaster after King Philip's war, but settled at Wethersfield, Connecticut. He died 1683. He had six children and has many de- scendants in Connecticut. S. Josiah (see forward). 9. Mary, married John Moore, August 13, 1663, son of John and Anna (Smith) Moore.

(II) Josiah Whitcomb, son of John Whitcomb (I), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1638, and is believed to be the youngest son. He accon- panied his father's family from Scituate to Lan- caster in 1654, and his name appears variously in the records of Lancaster. In 1688 he received a bounty for killing a wolf. He was named in an action for damages for killing swine belonging to Stephen Gates. He married January 4, 1664, in Lancaster. Rebecca Waters, daughter of Lawrence and Ann (Linton) Waters, of Watertown, Lancaster and Charlestown. She was born February, 1640. During Queen Anne's war (1702-17) he was allowed a garrison for protection against the Indians. This garrison was situated in what is now called Bolton, set off from Lancaster in 1738. He lived in the southeastern part of Bolton. He was commander of the garrison. In 1705 he was selectman and in 1708 he and twenty-nine others signed the church covenant. In 1710 he was elected deputy to the general court. He died in 1718. In his will made March 20, 1718, he gave to each of his children one- eighth part of his right to land in Littleton. His widow died in 1726. His posterity is very numer- ous, thought to be the most numerous of the sons of John Whitcomb. Their is a gravestone in the Bolton graveyard marking his burial place. His children were: I. Josiah, born November 12, 1665; died same day. 2. Josiah, born January 7, 1667 ; mar- ried (first) 1690, Mary -; second Elizabeth -; he died April 12, 1718; widow married (second), March 25. 1719. Jabez Fairbanks, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 3. David (see forward). 4. Rebecca, born November 12. 1671: married Jacob Houghton, 1704. 5. Johannah, born March 8, 1674: married, December 26, 1708. Peter Joslin; died September 24. 1717. 6. Hezekiah, born September 14, 1681;

married Hannah -; lived in Bolton, where he was prominent in the church, died previous to June 20, 1732: had eight children. 7. Deborah, born December 26, 1683 ; probably died young. S. Damaris ; married. in Marlboro, Nathaniel Wilder. 9. Mary, named in father's will. 10. Abigail, born March 1.3. 1687-8: married Josiah White, June 26, 1706. IT. Eunice.

(III) David Whitcomb, son of Josiah Whit- comb (2), born February 20. 1668; married May 31. 1700, in Concord, Massachusetts. Widow Mary (Hayward) Fairbanks, who was descended from Resolved White who came over in the "Mayflower" with his parents. Her husband Jonathan Fair- banks was killed by the Indians at Lancaster, Massa- chusetts. September 4, 1697 ; she was taken a captive, but was returned January 17, 1699, on the Province Galley from Casco Bay. While in captivity she acquired a knowledge of herbs, and afterward she dispensed medicines and was called Doctress. They lived in the southeastern part of Bolton, where they kept a tavern. He died intestate April II, 1730. and his wife Mary died January 5, 1734, in the sixty-seventh year of her age.

The children of David and Mary (Hayward) (Fairbanks) Whitcomb were: I. David; married in Lancaster, Massachusetts, January 13, 1730-1, Betty White; joined the Lancaster church July 18, 1736, and in 1741 was dismissed to the Bolton church ; was called Deacon. will probated December 5, 1786, mentions ten children. 2. Jonathan, born at Lancas- ter. Massachusetts : married Rachel Woods, Decem- ber 12, 1722; died October 7, 1743. 3. Joseph, born at Lancaster. 4. Rebecca; baptized 1708; married Ezra Sawyer, January 16, 1725-6. 5. Benjamin, born in Lancaster; baptized October or November 26, IZIO; lived in Lunenburg in 1735; removed thence to northerly part of Leominster, Massachusetts, where he was elected deacon of the church Decem- ber 2, 1747; married Dorothy White, daughter of Captain John and Eunice (Wilder) White ; he died October. 1778. 6. Simon, born in Lancaster ; bap- tized there March 7. 1713-4: married Thankful Houghton, of Lancaster, July 12. 1733; had eleven children. Order of birth unknown.

(IV) Joseph Whitcomb, son of David Whit- comb (3), born in Lancaster; married Damaris Priest, daughter of John and Anna (Houghton) Priest, of Lancaster, January 20, 1725. and the births of their children are recorded in Lancaster. About 1760 the family moved to West Swanzey, New Hampshire, where Joseph Whitcomb built a saw mill and a grist mill, making the mill privilege on which now stands the Stratton mills and the Box and Bucket shops. He owned an extensive tract of land. He was about sixty when he went to Swanzey. He died November, 1792, at the age of ninety-two years, and was buried in Swanzey. His wife died No- vember 12, 1770. In the expedition which laid siege to Louisburg in 1745 Joseph Whitcomb was lieutenant in company four, of which John Warner was cap- tain and Samuel Willard colonel. He was also a lieutenant in the Crown Point Expedition in 1755. In the conquest of Canada in 1758 Joseph Whit- comh was captain in Colonel Timothy Ruggles' regi- ment. His five sons took a very prominent part in the revolution. One gained the title of general, two of colonel, one of lieutenant.

The children of Joseph and Damaris Whitcomb were: I. Abigail, born April 13. 1726; married Derby. 2. Elizabeth, born December 3, 1728. 3. Joseph, born March 15. 1731-2: married December 16 or 18, 1754, Elizabeth Wheelock, of Leominster, Massachusetts, was lieutenant in the revolutionary army at Ticonderoga according to town records;

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also other service: removed to Grafton, Vermont, in 1790 or 1792. 4. Benjamin ; born September 1, 1735; died young. 5. Damaris, born January 7, 1737: died young. 6. Benjamin, born September 29. 1738. 7. Jonathan Priest (see forward). 8. Elisha (twin) born October 18, 1742: had the military title of major : was eleven months and eight days in Canada in 1776; was in service also in 1777, called colonel afterward on records; was at the battle of Bunker Hill; married Joanna Whitcomb, of Leominster, Massachusetts : prominent citizen of Swanzey, state senator seven years ; died September 17, 1814; widow died December 17. 1835; had thirteen children. 9. Elizabeth (twin), born October 18, 1742. IO.

Damaris, born May 21, 1746; married April 3, 1765, Jonathan Carter; she died July 6, 1820. 11. Phile- mon, born October 29, 1748; had the military title of general in the revolution; had a saw mill and a trip hammer; married (first) Martha Sawyer, of Lunenburg (intentions March 23, 1770) ; married (second) Mrs. Anna Aldrich, widow of Amasa Aldrich; died January 10, 1824. 12. Abijah, born June 25 or 27. 1751 ; huilt a saw and grist mill on the west side of the river at West Swanzey, New Hampshire, and later with his brother Philemon built a saw mill at what is now Spragueville, New Hampshire : was in the battle of Bunker Hill; was a pensioner ; served in Captain Jonathan Whitcomb's company. Colonel Reed's regiment, of New Hamp- shire; married (first), November 6, 1786, Mary Seaver, daughter of Shubael Seaver: married (sec- ond) Susanna Warner. daughter of Daniel Warner. 13. Anna, born 1755: married June 19, 1775. John Carter.

(V) Jonathan Priest Whitcomb, son of Joseph Whitcomb (4), born January 14. 1740, at Leominster, Massachusetts ; married, September 5. 1764, Dorothy Carter. She was born March 9, 1746; died Octo- ber 22, 1827. He settled in Swanzey, New Hamp- shire, and kept the first store and the first tavern in the town. He served in the revolutionary war and was paid for eight and one-half months service at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the siege of Boston in 1775. He was captain of the largest com- pany in Colonel James Reid's regiment at Lexington, April 19. 1775, and at Bunker Hill June 17. 1775. His company encamped on Winter Hill, numbering about seventy men from Keene, New Hampshire. and Swanzey. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1775. He had a difficulty with a Captain Marcy, who accused him of cowardice, but a clean and gallant war record was sustained by the court of inquiry. Colonel and Mrs. Whitcomb used to make horseback trips to Boston to buy goods, and on one occasion brought home some lilacs, the first they ever saw, which were planted on the old home- stead. Colonel Jonathan died June 13, 1792, and his old regiment attended the funeral. His widow died at the home of her son Nathan. (Where the dates in this family are double it is due to a con- flict between the dates of the Swanzey history and the Carter Genealogy ).

The children of Colonel Jonathan Priest and Dorothy ( Carter) Whitcomb were: I. Dorothy, born March 3 or May 23, 1765: died May 2, 1825; married Nathan Capron and had four daughters. 2. Jonathan, born September 20, 1766, or 67: married May 11, 1786. Miriam Willard; he died December 13, 1811; resided at Swanzey. 3. John, born March 22, 1768: died October 17, 1770. 4. Nathan (see forward). 5. John, born March 9, 1772; married May 7, 1795. Esther Morse, of Swanzey, daughter of Henry Morse: removed to Grafton, Vermont, and Saxton's River, Vermont, where in 1830 he bought the old Judge Baxter place; died 1875. 6.

Ephraim, born June 4 or 9, 1774; died August 15, 1777. 7. Damaris, born April 29, 1777; died June, 1784. 8. Anna, born April 9, 1779; died June 17, 1784. 9. Ephraim, born February 26, 1782; inarried (first), in 1798, Dorothy Chamberlain; married (second) her sister, Charlotte Chamberlain, in 1817; he died March, 1869; was a saddle-maker by trade. IO. Salome, born March 3, 1784; died March or May 30, 1785. II. Salome, born April 25, 1786; married Amos Bailey.

(VI) Nathan Whitcomb, son of Colonel Jonathan Priest Whitcomb (5), was born May 14, 1770. He settled at Swanzey and died there. He married, October 23. 1791, Penelope White, of Milford, Massachusetts. She was born in 1771; died March 15, 1850. Their children were: I. Leonard, born January 26, 1793; married Betsey Woodward, dangh- ter of Josiah Woodward, February 9, 1819: died at West Swanzey in 1866, aged seventy-four years. 2. Carter (see forward). 3. Otis, born September, 1796; married July 22, 1818, Esther Osgood, daugh- ter of Ezekiel Osgood. He died March 18, 1882. He had eighteen children. His wife was born Octo- ber 17, 1799: died April 20, 1867. He was called captain and always took great interest in military matters. He has been made famous by Denman Thompson's play "Joshua Whitcomb." The char- acter of Joshua was a combination of Joshua Hol- brook and Otis Whitcomb. Mr. Thompson, the play- wright, was a native of Swanzey, and very fond of Mr. Whitcomb, and often had him at performances. Four or more sons were in the civil war. 4. Nathan, died in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 5. Alva. born about 1800; married Almira, daughter of Ezekiel Osgood. September 21, 1820; removed to Pennsyl- vania, where he died 1850. 6. Lyman, born April 22, 1804: married September 26, 1837. Eliza Curtis, daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth Curtis, of Sharon, Massachusetts. 7. Eliza, born at Swanzey: mar- ried May 12, 1839, Rev. James W. Bailey. 8. Son, horn 1812; died from scald, March 9, 1814. 9. Infant. 10. Infant : died young.

(VII) Carter Whitcomb, son of Nathan Whit- comb (6), was born at Swanzey, New Hampshire, February 9, 1794: married December 26, 1815, to Lucy Baker, daughter of Jonidab Baker, of Marl- boro, New Hampshire. She was born February 4, 1704: died October 3. 1890, aged ninety-six years. He died May 1, 1879. He was a merchant and manufacturer of woolen goods from 1815 to 1837 in Saxton's River village, Vermont, in partnership with Clement Godfrey. He took an active interest in military and town affairs and was colonel of a Vermont regiment. In 1837 he returned to Swan- zey and spent the remainder of his life there, on his farm. Except the youngest, his children were born in Saxton's River. His children were: I. Alonzo (see forward). 2. Carter, born May 27, 1820; married Emily Augusta Spring, of Worces- ter, Massachusetts, who was born December 11, 1827. in Uxbridge. He was in active business with his brother Alonzo until 1871. His death occurred December 1, 1880, in Worcester. His children were : Ida Francena, born April 29, 1851 ; married Walter G. Beal; Carrie Jane, born January 13, 1853: died February 4. 1856; Henry Carter, born August 29, 1857: resides in New York city; Franklin Luther, born March 5, 1862, at Worcester; married in Pitts- burg. Pennsylvania. November 15, 1893, Mary Piatt Parry : is a manufacturer of car-wheels in Chicago, where he lives; has three children: Carter Parry, horn January 9, 1895, at Detroit, Michigan : Franklin Luther. born June 15, 1896, at Chicago; Pemberton, born December 22, 1900, at Chicago. 3. Jonidab Baker. born October 2, 1823; married Cynthia A.

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Cutter, of Grafton, Vermont, April 5. 1855; settled in Berkley, California ; compiled "Ancestry and De- scendants of Colonel Jonathan Priest Whitcomb ;" died January 22, 1890. 4. Byron, born April 17, 1826: married Jamiary 12, 1858, Eliza V. Lott, of Flatlands, Long Island. New York; learned ma- chinist's trade at Worcester and removed to Fall River, Massachusetts; went to California in 1849; went with brother Jonidab Baker to the Yuba river at Foster's Bar: from 1858 to 1868 lived at Young Hill in Yuba county : removed then to Worcester, where he went into business for a few years, finally settled at Flatlands, Long Island ; has five children. 5. Clement Godfrey, born December 12, 1828; died April 1, 1893, at San Francisco; unmarried. 6. Lucy Jane, born May 9. 1834; married George Carpenter, of Swanzey, New Hampshire. 7. Henry Homer, born May 13, 1837; unmarried ; died September 12, 1899.

(VIII) Alonzo Whitcomb, son of Colonel Carter Whitcomb (7), was born at Saxton's River, Ver- mont, April 30. 1818. He came to Worcester in 1845 and was employed in the machine shops of S. C. Coombs & Company until 1849 when. with his brother Carter Whitcomb (q. v.) he purchased the copying- press business of George C. Taft. on Union street, in the old Howe & Goddard shop. In a few years they had developed this business largely and the firm, then known as C. Whitcomb & Co., moved in 1852. to secure larger quarters, into the Merrifield building at the corner of Exchange and Union streets, where it remained until burned out in the great fire of 1854. After the fire the Junction shop was oc- cupied temporarily. then the firm moved into the new Merrifield building at the corner of Exchange and Cypress streets. In addition to the manufacture of copying presses the firm also took up the manu- facture of metal-working machine tools soon after its first establishment in the Merrifield building, and this branch soon became the most important part of the business.

In 1871 Carter Whitcomb retired from the firm and the name was changed to The Whitcomb Manu- facturing Company. In 1872 Mr. Whitcomb moved to the Estabrook shop at the Junction, and later in 1877 to the Rice & Griffin shop on Gold street. Here he had another disastrous fire, having a $45.000 loss with only $5.000 insurance, but the business suffered no interruption. In 1892 he built the shop at the corner of Sargent and Gold streets, since occupied by his husiness. From 1866 to 1881 he was a part- ner in the firm of Rice & Whitcomb with Augustus Rice. in the business established by Timothy F. Taft, manufacturing metal shears and presses. Upon the retirement of Mr. Rice this business was united with the other. Mr. Whitcomb being sole owner of both. He was one of the founders of the Kabley Foundry. His partners in that concern were Frederick E. Reed and Arnold Kabley. Before the death of Mr. Whit- comb that business had been incorporated, and the officers were: President. Arnold Kabley : treasurer, Alonzo Whitcomb: director, F. E. Reed. The foundry is located at 56 Gold street. In spite of times of financial depression when it was the common thing for shops to shut down, Mr. Whitcomb always kept a certain number of men at work, preferring to suffer loss of profits himself to depriving men who had been faithful in their work for many years of their much needed wages,

Mr. Whitcomb died March 28, 1900. after an active business career of over fifty years. When over eighty he continued to do his work, and was remarkably active. He was of a quiet and retiring nature. He preferred his home life to public affairs and social ~ tivity. He owned the famous old Governor John Davis house on Lincoln street. Dickens,

Thackeray and other famous men have been guests in this house, which is one of the most interesting in the city. It is now the home of his son Alonzo Wilton.

Mr. Whitcomb married in 1857 Sybell (Ifeald) Clary, who was born in Troy, Maine, October 17, 1820. Mrs. Whitcomb and her daughter, Camilla Gertrude, reside at 35 Oxford street, the home built by Mr. Whitcomb in 1860. The children of Alonzo and Sybell ( Heald ) (Clary) Whitcomb were: Lucy Stella : married J. F. Browning; Camilla Gertrude ; Alonzo Wilton.

(IX) Alonzo Wilton Whitcomb, son of Alonzo Whitcomb (8), was born in Worcester, Massachu- setts, April 1I, 1862. He attended the Worcester schools and graduated in 1880 from the Worcester high school. He went to Amherst College where he graduated in 1884. He came directly into his father's business and worked in all the departments until thoroughly familiar with all its details and ma- chinery. He was associated with his father in part- nership until his death in 1900, and during most of the time in active management of the large interests of the firm. Upon the death of Alonzo Whitcomb the business was incorporated with Mrs. Sybell H. Whitcomb, president; Alonzo Wilton Whitcomb, treasurer ; Samuel H. Clary, clerk and director. The stock of Mr. Reed and Mr. Kabley in the Kabley Foundry was purchased, and the same officers chosen for the Kabley corporation. In 1905 a further con- solidation took place by the union of the P. Blais- dell Machine Co. and Whitcomb Manufacturing Com- pany, in one Massachusetts corporation, with a capi- tal of $200,000. This consolidation gives the new company a foundry and two large machine shops, each having a large and prosperous business. The officers of the new corporation are: President. A. W. Whitcomb; vice-president and treasurer, Charles E. Hildreth ; directors: William A. Blaisdell. Samuel H. Clary and Camilla G. Whitcomb. The company now makes a specialty of metal planers, engine lathes and upright drills. The ordinary force employed is three hundred and twenty-five. The name of the new corporation is the Whitcomb-Blaisdell Machine Tool Company.

Mr. Whitcomb is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge of Free Masons, and of the Commonwealth Club. He is a trustee of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association and on the Executive Coun- cil of the Worcester Metal Trades Association. He is a member of the Worcester Board of Trade.

He married April 4, 1894, Gertrude Coffey, who was born in Worcester, April 11, 1871. Their children are: Dorothy, born January 2, 1895; Pres- ton, born May 30, 1897; Wilton Alonzo, born April 4. 1900.

HENRY AUGUSTUS GREEN. Bartholomew Green was a soldier in the revolutionary war, serv- ing in Captain Samuel Dexter's company, Colonel Learned's regiment. The company return is dated Roxbury Camp, January, 1776. This company was raised in New Braintree, Hardwick and Oakham, he being credited to the latter town. We find him also associated with the companies of Captain Barna- bas Sears and Captain Ralph Earll, Colonel Dan- forth Keyes' regiment, enlisting in the latter com- pany July 2, 1777, discharged January 4, 1778, roll dated Providence, and sworn to in Worcester county. (Vol. VI. p. 795, Mass. Soldiers and Sailors, War of Revolution).

Records seem to be wanting to connect this Bartholomew with other branches of the Green fam- ily, but it is perhaps a significant fact that one Joel Green, of Spencer, Massachusetts, also Jeduthan

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Green, of same town, served in Colonel Learned's regiment, and it is also a fact that children of both Bartholomew and Jeduthan made their homes in Rutland, Massachusetts, which fact at least is an intimation that there was a family relationship exist- ing between them. Jeduthan Green was son of Will- iam and Rebecca (Tucker) Green, and lived on the Charlton road in' Leicester, born October 27, 1744. Jeduthan enlisted from Spencer, and after the revo- lutionary war settled in Barre. William, father of Jeduthan, was born of Captain William and Sarah (Sprague) Green; his father was son of Thomas Green, of Malden, Massachusetts.

Bartholomew, the revolutionary soldier, married (as it would appear) rather late in life, in Barre, April II, 1804, Hannah, daughter of Skelton Felton, born September 2, 1778. Her mother was Silance Hale, born in Bolton, Massachusetts, February, 1776. Skelton Felton was in the fifth generation de- scent from Nathaniel Felton, who was born about 1615, came from Great Yarmouth, county of Nor- folk, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1633, where he lived. and died July 30, 1705, aged ninety years, leaving ten children. His son Nathaniel, born August 15, 1655, by wife Ann Horn, had eight children, among whom was Skelton, born about 1680, married, May, 1712, Hepsibah Sheldon; among their seven children was Joseph, baptized August 14, 1715, married Mary Trask, of Salem, in 1736, and had thirteen children, the seventh being Skel- ton, born December 21, 1750, and married Silance Hale. Children of Bartholomew Green, who died in Barre, January 8. 1835, and his wife Hannah, who died in Holden, Massachusetts, in 1846: Elbridge Gerry, James Sullivan, Josiah Martin, Bartholomew, Mary, Lydia, and Silance. No dates of their births appear on the town records of Barre.

James Sullivan Green was born 1807, in Barre, where he received his early education in the common schools, and in early life worked on the farm that was the property of his grandfather, Skelton Felton, of Barre, under the direction of his uncle. Captain Benjamin Felton, his mother's brother, who after the death of the father, July 9. 1822, administered on the estate. Captain Benjamin Felton died in Worcester, April 6. 1875, aged eighty-two years. After a number of years farm work, Mr. Green re- moved to Grafton, where for several years he kept the hotel now known as the Kirby House. He then went to Millbury, and conducted the Tourtelotte House, which for many years enjoyed an enjoyable reputation as a popular hostelry. September 12, 1837, Mr. Green married Abigail Martin, of Shrews- bury, daughter of John and Sarah (Fay) Brigham. At the time of this marriage, Mr. Green was a resident of Grafton. He died in Millbury, Novem- ber 21, 1844, aged thirty-seven years and three months. His children: James Oscar : Henry Au- gustus, see forward ; Marion Augusta ; Sarah Abigail, born May 7. 1843. in Millbury.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 121

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 824

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824