Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 122

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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Henry Augustus Green was born in Grafton, September 7. 1842. After the death of his father, the mother removed with her children to Shrews- bury. where the subject of this sketch attended the public schools, and when a young man secured em- ployment in the store of Mr. Bontelle, where he remained until September 25. 1862, when he enlisted in Company A, Fifty-first Massachusetts Infantry, serving with the Eighteenth Army Corps, in Cap- tain E. A. Wood's company, in the General Foster expedition. He was at New Berne, Kingston, White Hall and Goldsboro, North Carolina, being among the nine months men, and was honorably discharged July 27. 1862. On his return home he entered the employ of E. T. Smith in the wholesale grocery


trade in Worcester, Massachusetts. Here he re- mained until 1870, when he opened a store on Shrews- bury street for the sale of groceries on his own account, later taking Jesse Smith into partnership, the style of the firm being Smith & Green, dealing in groceries and provisions, lime and cement, their store being on the corner of Shrewsbury and Mul- bury streets, and there the business was continued up to the time of Mr. Green's death, November 26, 1893. Mr. Green was an attendant at the Uni- versalist church, and was a Republican in politics. He received his Master Mason degree in Montacute Lodge; his Royal Arch degree in Eureka Chapter ; his Knight Templar degree in Worcester County Commandery, No. 5. He was a member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, G. A. R. He married, Janu- ary, 1868, Frances Maria Gates, born March 20, 1846, in Worcester, daughter of Ephraim Gates, born in Worcester, October 27. 1815. Her mother. Maria ( Campbell) Gates, was born in Worcester, Febru- ary, 1822. Children of Henry Augustus and Frances M. Green: I. Walter James, born February, 1870, died February 8, 1871. 2. Alice Elizabeth, born December 12, 1872. 3. Albert Henry, born July 27, 1875; married Edith Wood Armington, of Wor- cester ; children : Richard Henry, Bradford, and Frances, born March 20, 1895. 4. Marion Frances, born October 6, 1880; married Frederick E. Goulding, of Worcester. 5. Florence Lillian, born October 25, 1882. 6. Cora Helen, born September 18, 1885.


THE HEYWOOD FAMILY OF WORCES- TER. The surname Heywood is distinct from Hay- wood, Hayward and Howard, although the spelling of each in every possible way makes it difficult not to confuse the families, especially where Hey- wards, Howards and Heywoods were living in the same town.


The derivation of the name Heywood is given in a pedigree prepared by Peter John Heywood. of Whitehaven, England. 1781, and published in "Hunter's Life and Times of Oliver Heywood," who was a non-conformist clergyman of note in the days of Charles I. The pedigree runs back to the year 1164, a period when surnames were beginning to come into use in the mother country. Often some local feature of a man's place of residence was em- ployed to distinguish him from others bearing the same Christian name. The earliest authentic docu- ment containing the name of Heywood or its proto- type is a title deed still preserved for a tract of land in Lancashire, from one Adame de Burgo or de Bury, who held the knight's fee to a large section of territory in the vicinity to Peter de Ey-wood, that is "of wooded island." The latter was the reputed founder of the Heywood family in England, from which the American family is descended. This estate remained in the possession of the descendants of Peter Heywood more than five hundred years, or until 1717 when Robert Heywood sold it to John Starkcy, of Rochdale, whose grandson, James Starkey, dying intestate, allowed the place to pass into the hands of the Crown. It is now an attractive public park, having been donated for.the purpose by Queen Victoria. While the English line is traced in an unbroken line from this Peter Heywood, the ancestry of the emigrants to America had not at last accounts been discovered. James and John Hey- wood, both about twenty-two years old, presumably brothers, came together in the ship "Planter" in 1635. They were both certified from Stepney Parish, Lon- don. James Heywood settled in Charlestown and Woburn where he died November 20, 1642. John Heywood is the ancestor of the Worcester and Gard- ner families of this name.


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(I) John Heywood, mentioned above, settled in Concord, Massachusetts, and was probably born in London, England, about 1620. He married (first), August 17, 1656, Rebecca Atkinson, daughter of Thomas Atkinson. She was probably not his first wife unless his age is estimated wrongly. She died 1665. He married (second), August 5, 1665, Sarah Simonds. He married (third) Priscilla -, who survived him. He was admitted a freeman in 1670.


The children of John and Rebecca (Atkinson) Heywood, born in Concord, were: Rebecca, born September 9, 1657, died young; Rebecca, May 13, 1660; John, Jr. (Deacon), mentioned below ; Persis, April 11, 1664; Benoni, July 31, 1665, died young ; The children of John and Sarah (Simonds) Hey- wood were: Sarah, born August 30, 1666; Judith, January 3, 1667; Mary, November 3, 1669; Abigail, April 9, 1672; William, April 17, 1674; Huldah, September 17, 1676; James, January 27, 1678-79; Joseph, January 3, 1680-81; Benjamin, March 17, 1682-83.


(Il) Deacon Jolin Heywood, third child of Jolin Heywood (I), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, April 5, 1662, where he also settled and lived, and where, January 2, 1718, he died. In 1676 he was a constable. He was keeper of an ordinary at Concord in his later years. He married Sarah -. Their children were: I. Sarah. 2. Thomas, born July 16, 1686. 3. Samuel, October 11, 1687, married Eliza- beth Hubbard in 1710, was deacon and town officer, died October 28, 1750, had thirteen children. 4.


Edmund, July 31, 1689. 5. Josiah, November 15, 1691. 6. Daniel, April 15, 1694, removed to Wor- cester and is ancestor of a large number of the Worcester family; married Hannalı, daughter of Obadiah Ward, another pioneer at Worcester; he lived and kept an inn on the site of the Bay State House, and his son and grandson maintained the tavern there for over a hundred years. 7. Eleazer, August 3, 1696. S. Nathan, September 24, 1698. 9. Sarah, January 18, 1700-01. IO. Jolin, March 14,


1703, settled in Lunenburg. II. Mary, March 23, 1704. 12. Phinelias, mentioned below. 13. Benja- min, October 25, 1709.


(III) Phinehas Heywood, twelfth child of Dea- con John Heywood (2), was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, July 18, 1707 .. He settled in Shrewsbury in 1739, in the northwest part near the Worcester line. His descendants have been and are very numer- ous in Worcester, Shrewsbury, Gardner, and other sections of Worcester county. He was a prominent man, being a selectman of Shrewsbury, representative to the general court, delegate to the provincial con- gress ; committee of safety and correspondence 1774 and 1775. He was concerned in one of the first overt acts of rebellion against the crown just a year before the battle of Lexington. Together with four- teen other Worcester county men, among whom was Colonel Timothy Bigelow and Joshua Bigelow, he was on the grand jury that signed the famous pro- test against Chief Justice Oliver who had been im- peached by the general court for accepting pay from the king in addition to his salary from the province. This protest presented to the judges of the superior court of judicature at Worcester, stated the purpose of the jurors to decline to act if the chief justice were present on the bench "because we apprehend it would be highly injurious to sub- ject a fellow-countryman to a trial at a bar where one of the judges is convicted in the minds of the . people more heinous in all probability than any that might come before him." The protest was read publicly by the clerk, considered by the four judges present, who at length stated that it was not prob- able that the chief justice would attend the session.


No attempt was made to discipline the rebellious jurors. Although greatly interested in the events that led up to the revolutionary war, he died at the very beginning of the conflict, March 6, 1776.


He married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Moore, of another of the important pioneer families of Worcester. She died June 20, 1797, aged eighty-six years. Their children, all born in Shrews- bury, were: I. Elizabeth, born May 15, 1755, mar- ried John Curtis, Jr., of another pioneer Worcester family. 2. Mary, married Samuel Jennison, an early Worcester family. 3. Seth. 4. Timothy, born Feb- ruary II, 1740, died at Westminster, 1825, aged eighty-five. 5. Keziah, April 30, 1742, married Bezaleel Howe, of Marlboro. 6. Phinehas, July 29, 1744. 7. Benjamin, October 25, 1746 (judge), father of Dr. Benjamin F., grandfather of John G. Hey- wood. 8. Nathaniel, baptized November 13, 1748, mentioned below. 9. John, born April 25, 1751. 10. Levi, May 12, 1753, settled in Gardner.


(IV) Nathaniel Heywood, eighth child of Phine- has Heywood (3), was born in Shrewsbury and baptized November 13, 1748. He married (first), April 23, 1778, and lived on the homestead at Shrews- bury. His wife died May 25, 1792, aged thirty-five. He married (second), July 1, 1793, Mary Chamber- lain, daughter of Deacon Jacob Chamberlain. She died November 21, 1802, aged thirty-nine. He died November 18, 1834, aged eighty-six.


He was a corporal in Captain Timothy Bigelow's company, Colonel Artemas Ward's regiment, April 19, 1775, at Lexington, and also in Captain Jonas Hubbard's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, in 1775. He was lieutenant under Captain William Gates, in 1777, and served in New York.


The children of Nathaniel and Hannah (Curtis) Heywood were: I. Levi, born September 21, 1777, died September 17, 1804. 2. Nathaniel, February 6, 1780, died October 4, 1836. 3. Benjamin, March 29, 1782. 4. John, August 24, 1784, died August 16, 1833, at Shrewsbury. 5. Phinchas, May 4, 1788. 6. Daniel, November 17, 1790, died December 20, 1802. The children of Nathaniel and Mary (Chamberlain) Hey- wood were: 7. Hannah, February 9, 1794. 8. Daniel, mentioned below. 9. Marietta, May 9, 1802, married Elijah Stow, of Grafton.


(V) Daniel Heywood, eighth child of Lieutenant Nathaniel Heywood (4), was born March 9, 1796, at Shrewsbury. He married, October 21, 1824, Maria Brooks, of Princeton. He settled in Shrewsbury and his children were born there, viz .: John Brooks, born August 8, 1825; George Chamberlain, June 18, 1827, died November 12, 1829; Charles Leland, men- tioned below; George Chamberlain, June 17, 1832; Edwin Chapin, September 27, 1836; Henry Adams, June 23, 1842. The baptisms of the children are recorded in the second parish, Worcester.


(VI) Charles Leland Heywood, third child of Daniel Heywood (5), of Shrewsbury and Wor- cester, Massachusetts, was born in Shrewsbury, Octo- ber 21, 1828.


(VII) Charles H. Heywood, son of Charles Le- land Heywood (6), was born in Worcester, Massa- chusetts. He married, November 22, 1886, Cora Maria Eaton, daughter of Amos Madison and Eliza Maria (Kelley) Eaton, of Worcester. Their chil- dren are: Muriel Clio, Vincey Eaton, and Charles Errol.


AMOS MADISON EATON. John Eaton (1) was the emigrant ancestor of Amos Madison Eaton, of Worcester. He was the son of Nicholas and Katherine (Marston) Eaton, and was baptized in England August 21, 1611. Nicholas Eaton was a curate and church warden. John Eaton received a


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bequest of ten pounds from his step-mother's will dated April 10, 1635.


John Eaton is believed to have come with others of the family on the sltip Elizabeth and Ann in April, 1635. He settled first in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, where he was a proprietor, and where May 25. 1636, he was admitted a freeman. He removed to Dedham a year later and was a proprietor there 111 1637. He had grants of land at Watertown, July, 1636, and February 28, 1636-37-38. He joined the Dedham church in 1641 and signed the famous Covenant there. He bought the rights of Thomas Hastings when he went to Dedham May II, 1637- He was first present at the Dedham town meeting, November 28, 1637, although he was one of a com- mittee in 1637 to cut pines for the meeting house. He helped build the first foot-bridge across the Charles river. He was on a committee to lay out land for settlers and survey highways. He was wood reeve for several years. He had the delicate task in 1647 of deciding who were behind on the highway work. In 1650 he was on the committee to repair the foot-bridge. He had numerous grants of land.


He married in England, Abigail Damon, or Dam- mant, who had two children, John and Jane, by her previous marriage. He died November 17, 1658. His will was made November 2, 1658, and proved December 16, 1658. The children of John and Abigail Eaton were : I. Mary, baptized in Dover, England, March 20, 1630-31, married, May 5, 1651, John Mason. 2. John, baptized in Dover, England, October 1, 1633, buried there January 27, 1734. 3. Thomas, born in England, 1634, died in Dedham, September 10, 1649. 4. John, born in Watertown, (see forward). 5. Abigail, born in Dedham, Jan- uary 6, 1640, inarried Robert Mason, of Med- field. 6. Jacob, born in Dedham, June 8, 1642, died March 20, 1646.


(II) John Eaton, fourth child of John Eaton (I), was born probably in 1636 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He inherited the homestead at Ded- ham He married Alice who died May 8, 1694.


The children of Jolin and Alice Eaton were: John, born July 15, 1665, died October 15, 1665; John, September 17, 1671; Thomas, July 23, 1675; William, August II, 1677; Judith, September 17, 1679, died April 26, 1780; Jonathan, (see forward) ; David, March 8, 1683, died March 28, 1683; Eben- ezer, May 3, 1687, died May 23, 1688.


(III) Jonathan Eaton, son of John Eaton (2), was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, September 3, 1681. He went to Connecticut in 1703, and bought land in Woodstock in the part now Putnam, Con- . necticut. In 1702 lie paid taxes in Dedham, in 1704 in Woodstock. In 1705 he paid in Dedhan only, being "eased from all rates" in Woodstock by special vote of the town. . He attended church at Woodstock until the establishment of a church at Killingly, January 28, 1730, of which he was chosen the first deacon. This church is now the North Society of Thompson, Connecticut. He mar- ried the second daughter of Comfort and Mary Starr, of Dedham. Comfort Starr was the son of John and the grandson of Dr. Comfort Starr, of Dedham, Massachusetts. Abiah ( Starr) Eaton was born February 8, 1687-88. Although her name was Abiah she was baptized Lydia, June 17, 1688. Her sister, Mary Starr, married her husband's brother, William Eaton. Deacon Jonathan Eaton died June 25, 1748, aged sixty-seven years. His wife died March 4, 1751.


The children of Deacon Jonathan and Abiah (Starr) Eaton, all recorded at Woodstock, were :


Lydia, born November 5, 1707, married Philemon Chandler ; Keziah, May 24, 1710; Alice, November 28, 1712; Susannah, April 8, 1715; Jerusha, April 16, 1717; Hannah, August 17, 1719; Jonathan, No- vember 10, 1721; John, May 18, 1724, settled at Adams, Massachusetts; Penelope, March 21, 1727; Comfort, September 25, 1729; Marston, October 21, 1731, died May 3, 1776, (see forward). (See Ded- ham Reg. Vol. II.) The gravestone of Jonathan is at Putnam, Connecticut.


(IV) Marston Eaton, youngest child of Jon- athan Eaton (3), was born in Killingly, Connecti- cut, in the section now Thompson. He married Elizabeth Lyon, of Woodstock, January 7, 1762. He removed to Belchertown, Massachusetts, in 1776, and shortly after his arrival there he died, May 3, 1776. He and his brother Comfort operated a mill on the Quinebaug river on land given them by their father. The children of Marston and Elizabeth (Lyon) Eaton were: Comfort; and Marston, see forward.


(V) Marston Eaton, second child of Marston Eaton (4), was born at Killingly, Connecticut, April 13, 1767. When a young boy he moved with his parents in 1776 to Belchertown, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. He also lived and went to school in the adjoining town of Pel- ham, Massachusetts. He moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1804 and established a store there removing to Pelham in 1806. He was prosperous and had what was for his day and location a for- tune. The loss of $10,000 of convention money embarrassed him, and he finally retired to his farm where he spent the later years of his life. His farm was in Pelham, where, October 10, 1845, he was accidently killed by a tree which he cut, and which fell upon him. He was a member of the Universalist Church. He was a Whig in politics and influential in town affairs. He was collector of taxes in Pelham for many years and held other town offices. He was a Free Mason. At the time of Shay's Rebellion he and other citizens in that vicinity started for Worcester to join the ranks of the malcontents, but he failed to carry out his pur- pose and went to Connecticut until the trouble was at an end.


He married Charlotte Dutton, of Ludlow, Massa- chusetts, December 22, 1793. Their children were: I. Rufus, born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, May I, 1794, married Fannie Holden. 2. Mary, born in Belchertown, December 29, 1796, married David Abercrombie, of Pelham, and had seven children. 3. De Marcus, September 10, 1798, married Ora Austin, of Canterbury, Connecticut. Their children were: Phebe A .. married Charles Ray, of Canter- bury; Fayette, married Fannie Lester, of Canter- bury, and had Elmer Ellsworth and Sarah; Calvin, married Payne, of Providence, Rhode Island, and had: Charles H. and one daughter. Mary Hannah, unmarried, lives in Canterbury, Connecti- cut ; and Lutheria. 4. Lily, June 29, 1800, mar- ried Asa Briggs, of North Adams, Massachusetts, and had eight children. 5. Walter, July 24, 1802, married Jerusha Austin, of Canterbury, Connecti- cut. 6. Jefferson, June 26, 1804. 7. Marston, see forward. 8. Hannah, September 25, 1808, died at age of three. 9. Madison, August 23. 1811. died October 19, 1836, married Orinda Hall of Shutes- bury, Massachusetts. IO. Calvin Dutton, October 20, 1814, married Harriet Dudley, of Dudley, Massa- chusetts, and had five children: Heman, Homer, . Julia, Cornelia, and Ellen. 11. Monroe, July 24. 1817, married Clarissa Boyden and had three chil- dren : Morton Monroe. Frank Lapierre, and Augusta, who lives in Hancock, Iowa.


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(VI) Marston Eaton, seventh child of Marston Eaton (5), was born in Pelham, Massachusetts, May 26, 1806. He received his early education in the district schools of his native town, but he was a self-educated man in the proper sense of the word. He was a life-long student. He began to teaclı school when he was about nineteen years old, working at home on his father's farm during the summer seasons. For about fifteen years he was a school teacher in Pelham, Amherst and vicinity. During this time he worked two summers for his brother DeMarcus, in Canterbury, Connecticut, in his axe factory. He then returned to his home and resumed teaching and farming for two or three years. In 1847 he came to Worcester with his fan- ily and settled near Millstone Hill. Later he


bought a farm in Holden and lived there for six or seven years, during which time he had charge of the quarries at Millstone Hill. He finally exchanged his Holden property for a farm at the corner of Belmont and Elizabeth streets, as the location is now known. He built two dwelling houses there. He lived there and in other parts of the city. In 1869 he retired from active business and went to Shrews- bury where he bought another farm on which he spent the remainder of his days and where he died January 3, 1873. He was a member of the Baptist church. He was a Republican in politics. He served in the militia in his younger days and was drummer of the Pelham Company, being very ex- pert with the drumsticks.


Marston Eaton married (first), May 23, 1829, in Millbury, Massachusetts, Betsey, daughter of Sylvanus and Alice (Sprague) Joslyn, of Douglas, Massachusetts. Sylvanus Joslyn was a farmer. He was drowned in a pond on his own farm. Marston Eaton married (second) Sarah Whitney, of Boyls- ton, Massachusetts. He married (third) Abigail Winter, of West Boylston. He married (fourth) Angeline L. Bond, of Worcester. The children of Marston and Betsey (Joslyn) Eaton were : I. Rufus Joslyn, born in Pelham, Massachusetts, 1831, mar- ried Julia Sampson, of Brookfield, Massachusetts, who died February, 1905. They had four children : Charles Henry, lives in Dallas, Texas, and has four children; Carrie Augusta, deceased, married Henry Boatmer, of Dallas, Texas, and had one child, James \V. Boatmer ; Grace, died young ; Mary Louise, mar- ried Henry W. Fobes, of New Braintree, Massachu- setts, lives in Dallas. Rufus Joslyn died in Dallas in 1896. 2. Amos Madison, see forward. 3. Marston Monroe, born in Worcester, June 14, 1836, inarried (first) Emily Thayer, of Barre, Massachusetts. They had two children: Bessie, who died young ; Emma Viola, deceased. He married (second) Marietta Knowlton, of Springville, New York. They had two children : Bessie, who was burned to death at the age of eighteen; Marston Monroe, Jr., of Deer Lodge, Montana, a Methodist clergyman, has four children : Marston Monroe, Jr., Mary Harriet, Pauline and Lois. 4. Calvin Jefferson, born in Wor- cester, June 3, 1839, killed at Gettysburg battle July 4. 1863; he was in Company B, Fifteenth Massa- chusetts Infantry. 5. Elizabeth Dimmis, born in Worcester, April 14, 1841, died in 1873, married Augustus D. A. Guild, of Worcester, who was killed in the battle of Spottsylvania; married, Thanks- giving Day, 1858, and had one child, Marston Augus- tus Guild, deceased, who married Ella Boutelle, of Aztalan, Wisconsin. They had four daughters : Bernice Alvira. Elizabeth Eaton, Cora Eaton, and Beulah. 6. Mary Harriet, born in Holden, Massa- chusetts, March 7, 1847, lives at 24 Maywood street, Worcester, unmarried. 7. Orinda, born in Holden, Massachusetts, April 6, 1849, married Benjamin T.


Marsh, of Worcester. The children of Marston and Angeline L. (Bond) Eaton were: 8. Walter Fayette, died young. 9. Lily Luthera, married Ed- ward A. Bartlett, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. They have five children: Henry A., Edith, Gladys, Herbert, and Everett. 10. Annie Eliza, married Charles A. Bacon, of Worcester, and they have five children : Hazel Irene, Eunice Evelyn, Arthur Charles, Ruth Belle, and Marston Eaton Bacon. II. Carrie Belle, married William T. Pratt, of Shrews- bury, Massachusetts. 12. Annie Frances, married Fred C. Pratt, of Shrewsbury, and had one child, Carlisle Clifton Pratt. Annie Frances Pratt died December 25, 190I.


(VII) Amos Madison Eaton, second son of Marston Eaton (6), was born in Pelham, Massachu- setts, October 21, 1833. At the age of ten or twelve years he came to Worcester with his father's family who soon afterward went to Holden where he at- tended the district schools. After receiving a com- mon school education he attended the Claremont ( New Hampshire) Academy. His first employ- ment was driving a baker's cart for George T. King, of Orange street, Worcester. Then, after a year or two in the bakery business, he went into partner- ship with Oran A. Kelley, on School street, in the retail grocery business. After two years he bought out his partner and for twenty-five years he car- ried on the business there, at 19 School street. After retiring from the grocery business he carried on a real estate business for about thirteen years and cared for his own real estate interests. He was also in the sand business for a few years and died while engaged in that line of business, July 4, 1895, at his home in Worcester, 807 Main street.


Mr. Eaton had a kindly social disposition that won him many friends. He was a man of upright- ness and integrity. He won the esteem of his friends by his frankness, honesty and good nature. He was a member of the Unitarian church. . In politics he was a Republican.


He married Eliza Maria Kelley, daughter of Oran A. Kelley, of Worcester. (See sketch of Oran A. Kelley's family in this work).


The only child of Amos Madison and Eliza Maria (Kelley) Eaton was Cora Maria, who married Charles H. Heywood, of Worcester, November 22, 1886. He is an inventor of .envelope machinery, and is a stockholder in the United States Envelope Company. Their home is in the west.


The children of Charles H. and Cora Maria (Eaton) Heywood are: Muriel Clio, Vincey Eaton and Charles Errol.


HENRY WARD BATES. The family of Bates, Bate or Batt as it was variously spelled in ancient times is an ancient name in England, and many members of the family in England as well as Amer- ica have been distinguished. The Bates coat of arms in England is a lion's head, erased. go. The name is a form of Bertelot (Bartlett), derived from the ancient name Bartholomew when surnames came into vogue. Five generations of the family are traced in England in the direct line of ancestry of Clement Bates, Hingham, the emigrant ancestor.




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