Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 150

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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(V) John Bisco, son of Nathaniel Bisco (4), the emigrant, baptized June 23, 1623, at Little Mis- sended, came to New England in 1639 with his father and

mother.

He learned his

father's trade of tanner. He was admitted a

freeman of Watertown, Massachusetts, April 18, 1650. He married, December 13, 1650, Elizabeth Bidleston; she died August 18, 1685, and he died October 18, 1690. His will, dated October 15, 1690, and proved November 21st, following, ap- pointed his sons-in-law, Abraham Jackson and Ed- ward Goffe, executors. He was selectman several times between 1650 and 1680, and was designated as Mr. Bisco when the term Mr. indicated a class distinction. Children of John and Elizabeth ( Bidles- ton) Bisco: I. John, born October 5, 1651, died young. 2. Elizabeth, born December 18, 1653, inar- ried, November 20, 1679, Abraham Jackson (born 1655, died 1739, son of Deacon Edward Jackson), had eleven children. 3. Thomas, born April 1, 1655. 4. Mary, born November 22, 1658, married Edward Goffe (born November 28, 1658, son of Samuel and Han- nah (Barnard) Goffe of Cambridge; tanner ; died about 1691. 5. Sarah, born March 14, 1661, died 1669.

(VI) Thomas Bisco, son of John Bisco (5), born Watertown, Massachusetts, April 1, 1655, died previous to October 15, 1690. He married, Decem- ber 24, 1684. Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Han- nalı (Manning) Stearns. Hannah Manning was eldest daughter of William and Dorothy Manning of Cambridge, and was born June 21, 1642. Hannah Stearns was born December 8, 1666. Samuel Stearns was the sixth child of Isaac and Mary Stearns, and was born April 24, 1638, died August 3. 1683. Isaac was from Stoke Nayland, Suffolk county, was a freeman of Watertown May 18, 1631; town officer ; tailor by trade; married Mary, daughter of John Barker, of Stoke Nayland. He died 1693, and Han- nah Biscoe, his widow, took out letters of adminis- tration January 1, 1693-4. She married (second), September 28, 1708, Samuel Gookin, Esq., high sheriff of Middlesex. Children of Thomas and Hannah ( Stearns) Bisco: I. John, born October 22, 1685. 2. Elizabeth, baptized July 17, 1687. 3. Thomas, baptized May. 1689.

(VII) John Bisco, son of Thomas Bisco (6), born Watertown, Massachusetts, October 22, 1685: he married. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February I, 1710-11, Sarah Remington. His will is dated September 6. 1714. and proved January 8, 1714-5. After the birth of his first child he removed to Cam-

bridge, where he was living at the time of his death. His children: I. Thomas, born Watertown, November II, 17II. 2. Name unknown. 3. Eliza- beth, born 1713: June 3, 1734, chose for her guardian Samuel Danforth; she resided in Reading in 1738.

(VIII) Thomas Bisco, son of John Bisco (7), born Watertown, November 1I, 1711, married, June 14, 1737, Abigail Mason, born in Watertown, Octo- ber 10, 1715, daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Monk) Mason. Joseph first settled in Boston and later at Watertown, where he was justice of the peace, town cterk. representative 1733 and 1734. Mary Monk was daughter of Elias and Hope Monk, of that part of Dorchester now called Stoughton. Joseph Mason was son of Joseph Mason and his wife, Mary Fiske, and was born October 2, 1688. Mary Fiske, born July 5, 1661, was daughter of John Fiske, born 1619. John Fiske was born in England, married December 11, 1651, Sarah Wyeth, eldest child of Nicholas Wyeth of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jo- seph Mason, Sr., was son of Capt. Hugh Mason, one of the first settlers of Watertown, Massachu- setts, and most prominent among the pioneers ; deputy to general court ten years ; selectman twenty- nine years; made captain May 5, 1652; died Octo- ber 10, 1678, aged seventy-three; wife Esther died May 1, 1692. Children of Thomas and Ahigail ( Mason) Bisco: I. John, born Watertown, April IO. 1738. 2. Josiah, born July 18, 1740, settled at Watertown; married, September 30, 1765, Grace Whitney; she died April 30, 1773, and he married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Grace ( Bond) Mason ; December, 1762, he returned from Woodstock, Con- necticut, to Watertown.

(1X) John Bisco. son of Thomas Bisco (S), born Watertown, April 10, 1738. He was a soldier at Lake George, 1756-7. He removed to Spencer, Massachusetts, 1763. He married, May 10. 1764, Deborah Prouty, born October 19, 1742, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Capen) Prouty, of Spencer. She died December 22, 1795, and he married (second), November. 1795. Mrs. Esther Moore, of Worcester. He died November 15, 1808. He settled in the cen- tral part of the town on the farm still known as the Bisco farm. The history of Spencer says: "He was a gentleman of good education, sound judgment and unblemished character." He had the respect and confidence of his townsmen to an unusual de- gree. He held the highest offices of honor and trust. From 1767 until his death he was town clerk. . selectman, assessor or treasurer. He was repre- sentative in general court 1777, 1780, 1781, and member of state constitutional convention 1779. He was appointed justice of the peace, with the duties of magistrate, by Governor John Hancock, in March, 1781. He was deacon of the Spencer church. "As a magistrate he was correct, faithful and impartial, as a churchman he was devout, pious and ex- emplary ; as a citizen and man he was honest. digni- fied and patriotic." (From the inscription on his gravestone). Children of Deacon John and Deboralı ( Prouty) Bisco: 1. John, born May 20, 1765. died May, 1812, unmarried. 2. Elizabeth, born October 9. 1767, married July 15, 1690, Enoch Mason. son of Capt. Ebenezer Mason, who removed from Water- town to Spencer : she died in Nelson, New York. 3. Abijah, born February 7, 1770, graduated Dart- mouth College 1708: candidate for ministry, but died 1801, before he was settled. 4. Jacob, born June 12, 1772, married January 1. 1700. Sarah, daughter of Capt. John Draper. 5. Abigail, born July 25. 1777, married November 7. 1799. David Prouty, Jr., son of Major David Prouty : she died April 22. 1846. 6. Anne, born March 8. 1780, married December 13. 1807. George W. Harwood, son of Maj. Peter Harwood, of Brookfield, Massachusetts.

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(X) Jacob Bisco, son of John Bisco (9), born Spencer, Massachusetts, June 12, 1772; married Saralı, daughter of Capt. Jolun Draper. He in- herited his father's homestead, and lived and died in Spencer. He died April 7, 1837, aged sixty- five years. His wife Sarah died May 27, 1855. Children of Jacob Bisco: I. Dwight, see forward. 2. Chloe, born August 20, 1800, married, August 18, 1818, Spencer Prouty, son of Reuben and Sally (Bartlett) Prouty. He was born at Marlboro, Ver- mont, September 20, 1796. She died February 22, 1823, at Spencer. 3. Adeline, born November 16, 1801. married, May 18, 1817, Abiathar Johnson, son of Abiathar and Meribah (Fuller) Johnson ; he was born at Weston, Massachusetts, September 30, 1795, died at Worcester. November 6, 1863; she died at North Brookfield, Massachusetts, September 14, IS27. 4. Foster, born July 10, 1803 (died at Spencer, June 18, 1881), married, September 16, 1830, Eunice Whipple . Rice,, daughter of Jonas and Esther (Bixby) Rice, of Worcester; she was born at Worcester, December 25, 1802, died at Spencer, January 17, 1863; he married (second), October 27, 1864, Mrs. Eliza Wallis, of Cherry Val- ley, Leicester, who was born June 2, 1813, and died at Spencer, March 24, 1877; he married (third), June 26. 1877. Martha Cecilia Rising, daughter of Julius and Statia Rising; she was born at West Suffield. Connecticut, November 11, 1832. 5. Emily, born September IO, 1804, married,

1827. Liberty Prouty, son of Eli and Rebekah (Browning) Prouty ; The born

was at

Spencer, July I.

1800, died at Spencer, February 27, 1854; she died at Spencer, April 6, 1857. 6. Alden, born October 25, 1806, married, August 17, 1833, Selinda Martin, of Oxford, Massachusetts; she was born February 24. 1810, died at Melrose, Massachusetts, May 19, 1874; he died at Leicester, January II, 1843. 7. John, born October 9, 1808, married, November 25. 1835, Letitia Moore Lee, of Woodbridge, New Jersey; she was born December 30, 1816, died in New York city, March 18, 1892; he died at New York city. February 7, 1895. 8. Hull, born Novem- ber 10, 1810, died unmarried at Spencer. April 23, 1836. 9. Roswell, born April 16, 1813. married, Au- gust 9, 1838, Abigail Watson Whittemore, daughter of Daniel and Fanny ( Prouty) Whittemore ; she was born in Spencer October 13, 1818, died May 10, 1886; he died May 5, 1896. 10. Lavinia Bisco, born August 16, 1815, married, May 10, 1838, Reuben Randall Hills, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ran- dall) Hills ; he was born at Richmond, New Hamp- shire, March 5. 1812. died at Leicester, April 5, 1893 ; she died at Leicester, April 30, 1901; they cele- brated their golden wedding May 10, 1888. II. Jacob, born October 8, 1817, married, April 15, 1849, Emeline Statia Rising, daugliter of Julius and Statia Rising : she was born at West Suffield, Connecticut, June 7. 1827: he died at Dudley, Massachusetts, March 25, 1896.

(XI) Dwight Bisco, son of Jacob Bisco (10), was born at Spencer, Massachusetts, April 27, 1799. For sixty years he was one of the leading citizens and business men of the town of Leicester, which adjoins Spencer, his native place. He was raised in Spencer and worked on his father's farm until twenty-two years of age, when with a silver dollar (as his biographer, Rev. Samuel May put it) as his only money capital, he came to Leicester and went to work for Cheney Hatch, manufacturer of card clothing-a business of which at that time Leicester had almost a monopoly. "Bringing with him." Mr. May says, "good character, intelligence. habits of industry and self-control and not afraid of work, he steadily acquired skill in this intricate and dif-

ficult manufacture." In 1826 he associated himself as partner with Isaac Southgate, Joshua Lamb, John Stone and Joseph A. Denny (See Denny Family), another house in the same business. In 1843 Mr. Denny and he bought the interests of the other part- ners and continued the business under the name of Bisco & Denny until Mr. Denny's death in 1875. It was then passed on by Mr. Bisco into the hands of his sons and of Mr. Denny's only son, he con- tinuing to occupy himself in the factory until Feb- ruary, 1882, when he withdrew entirely. He was then in his eighty-third year. In middle life he liad invested the chief part of his savings in the Leicester Boot Company. It was unfortunate, and was brought to end by the burning of the company's buildings and stock. The investment was a total loss. Mr. May says that with quiet courage he applied himself again to business as closely as in his youth, and was enabled in a few years to make good his loss and to present to his eight children at a Thanksgiving dinner table, $500 each. He was a leader in town affairs, repeatedly a selectinan of the town, a member of the state legislature in 1847 and 1848, director of the Leicester Bank for eleven years and treasurer of the Pine Grove Cemetery Company for forty years, deacon of the Unitarian Congregational church, and for forty years the treasurer.

He married, at Leicester, Massachusetts, Ruth Woodcock, daughter of John Woodcock, Sr., and sister of John, Josephus and Lucius Wood- cock, January 8, 1826, and they lived together more than fifty years when they celebrated their golden wedding, January 8, 1876. "we saw them," says Rev. Mr. Coolidge, "standing together a spectacle rarely witnessed, an unbroken family"-parents, children and grandchildren-a circle which death had then never entered. But in September of that year Mrs. Bisco died. She was born in Rutland, Massachusetts, December 13, 1802, and died in Leicester, September 20, 1876. Mr. Bisco died De- cember 7, 1882. In a notice of him in the Christian Register, Abraham Firth wrote of his public life, of "his marked faithfulness in all these relations and in every sphere of life in which he moved. He was always found on the side of virtue and of political and spiritual freedom. Brought up under the teach- ing of Calvinism, it never satisfied him." One who was long in daily business association with him wrote: in the Worcester Spy "he was known among his as- sociates as an honest, upright man, of superior sense and judgment." His pastor, during his later years, wrote of him, "I have never known a truer man, nor one of greater strength of character." A mem- orial book of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Bisco has been published.

The children of Dwight and Ruth (Woodcock) Bisco were: I. Emily Avesta, born April 11, 1826, married, August 29, 1848, Josiah Quincy Lamb, son of Liberty and Harriet (Stone) Lamb, of Oxford; she died at Webster, February 4, 1895; he was born at Oxford, May 9, 1823, died at Webster, February 23, 1886; their children: Clara Adeline Lamb, born at Webster, October 7, 1849, married William Morris, and had Alice Josephine, born June 2, 1877; Ruth Anna Lamb, born March 26, 1855, married. January 22, 1884, Charles Herman Klebart, son of Henry and Johanna Dorothy (Lippold) Klebart, who was born in Reietherback, Germany, December 25, 1841, and their children are: Arthur Herman Kle- bart, born at Wehster, February 10, 1885; Leroy Elmer, born at Webster, August 5, 1886, died Au- gust 25, 1886; Marion Emily, born March 15, 1888; Louise Frances, born June 10, 1893. 2. Charles Dwight, see forward. 3. George, born November

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28, 1830, married, November 24, 1853, Ellen Jose- phine Hill, daughter of Stephen and Charlotte (Lamb) Hill; she was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 6, 1835; they resided in Manchester, New Hampshire, where they celebrated their golden wedding November 26, 1903; their only child, Charles Edwin, born July 31, 1856, resides at Manchester. 4. John Waldo, born July 10, 1834, married, July 30, 1857, Ellen Maria Eames, daughter of William A. and Hannah Park (Waite) Eames; she was born at Worcester, December 30, 1837 ; he resided in Wor- cester and there died December 1, 1904; their only child, Annie Louise, born June 15, 1862, married, June 20, 1882, Joseph Bradford Sargent. (See Sar- gent sketch). 5. William, see forward. 6. Henry B., see forward. 7. Edward F., see forward. 8. Fred Alden, born February 25, 1847, married, June 16, 18SI, Abbie Eliza Hodges, daughter of Ira and Jane Hodges; she was born in Winslow, Maine, January 28, 1859; he died in Leicester, June 5, 1891 ; they had two children: Frederick Raymond, born at Leicester, January 19, 1883, died October 31, 1905; Lura Rosamond, born in Leicester, May 28, 1884.

(XII) Charles Dwight Bisco, second child of Dwight Bisco (II), was born in Leicester, January 6. 1828. He married, November 29, 1853, Elizabeth Ann Outley, at St. Louis ; she was born in Dublin, Ireland, August 15, 1833, died at New Orleans, Lou- isiana, December 6, 1880. He died at Newark, New Jersey, December 3, 1895. Their children were: I. Harry Dwight, born at St. Louis, October 26, 1854, married, April 26, 1876, Libby Carpenter, of Troy, New York, daughter of William O. Carpenter; he died at New York city, September 27, 1890. 2. Joseph Outley, born March 24. 1858. 3. Agnes Louise, born June 25, 1866, married, December 25, 1886, Horace Hurlburt Mitchell, one child, Mar- guerite Frances Mitchell, born in Newark, New Jersey. July 22, 1888.

(XI) William Bisco, fifth child of Dwight Bisco (II), was born in Leicester, February 21, 1839. He re- ceived a common school education in his native town. At the age of sixteen he began his apprenticeship in the card clothing manufactory of his father at Leicester. He became a skilful card machine opera- tor and continued in this occupation until the busi- ness was sold in 1890 to the American Card Cloth- ing Company. William, and in fact all his brothers except Edward, learned the trade of their father, serving a three years apprenticeship. Mr. Bisco never married. He was a quiet studious disposition and a love of nature that has been like an avocation to him. He is a skilful painter in oil and water colors, and is especially fond of painting flowers. Mr. Bisco is also interested in genealogy and local history. He is the family historian and has col- lected a vast amount of material about the family, and also incidentally about matters of local inter- est. He has some very valuable scrap-books for any student of Leicester history. He lives in the house in which he was born in Leicester with his brother, Henry Bisco. The homestead is full of treasures of antique furniture, plate and . china handed down for many generations. Mr. Bisco has among other articles of family interest the Bisco coat-of-arms painted in colors on parchment. The arms are: Az. three greyhounds courant sa. seiz- ing a hare ppr. The family motto is: "Grata sumie manu." He is a member of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association of Worcester, and of the First Con- gregational Church of Leicester. In politics he is a Republican.

(XII) Henry Bisco, sixth child of Dwight Bisco (II), was born in Leicester, March 19, 1841. He attended the public schools of his native town

and also Leicester Academy in 1859 and 1860. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed for three years, and except for the three months in winter while school kept he worked at his trade until he enlisted. He earned fifty dollars the first year, seventy-five dollars the second and one hundred and twenty-five dollars the third year. He served in the civil war in Company F of the Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, under Captain John D. Cogs- well and Colonel Isaac Burrill. When he was must- ered out of the service he went back to Leicester and has worked at his trade ever since. He is an expert card machine operator. He continued with the American Card Clothing Company after his father's business was absorbed by that concern in 1890. He worked in the central factory in Leicester until March, 1905, since then he has worked in the Worcester factory. Mr. Bisco lives in the Bisco homestead and has inherited many rare specimens of antique colonial furniture, china, pewter, etc. He is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge of Free Masons of Worcester, and has been president of the Leices- ter Masonic Association. He is at present quarter- master sergeant of George H. Thomas Post, No. Io, Grand Army of the Republic, and has filled about all the chairs. He was for seven years the com- mander. In politics he is an independent and in religion a Unitarian. He has for some years been treasurer of the Unitarian church at Leicester. He organized the relief corps connected with the Grand Army post while he was the commander, and his wife was the first president. It is called George H. Thomas Relief Corps, No. 152.

He married (first), at Ware, Massachusetts, Au- gust 29, 1864, Laura Melvinia Stowe, daugliter of John T. and Lavinia Stowe. She was born in Graf- ton, July 31, 1846, died at Leicester, September 29, 1884. He married (second), at Worcester, June 16, 1887, Moselle Olmstead, daughter of Sylvanus Eaton and Anna R. (Dean) Olmstead. She was born in New Braintree. November 20, 1858. The children of Henry and Laura M. Bisco were: Alice Maria, born August 6, 1868; Herbert Henry, born at Leicester, October 8, 1876.

(XII) Edward Foster Bisco, son of Dwight Bisco (II), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, February 19, 1844. He was brought up in his native town and attended the public schools there. He graduated from the high school in 1862, and went into the Leicester Bank (later the Leicester National Bank) to learn the banking business. In October. 1865, he took a position in the National Park Bank of New York city, where he gained valuable metropolitan experience, filling various positions there until July I. 1872, when he was elected secretary of the Wor- cester Safe Deposit and Trust Company to succeed the late Samuel T. Bigelow. He came to Worcester at that time, and has since made his home therc. He was secretary of this trust company until October, 1891, when he was elected president. In 1903 there was a revolution in the banking business of Wor- cester. The controlling interests in the Worcester Safe Deposit and Trust Company changed hands, and in February the Trust Company absorbed two of the largest and most prosperous national banks of the city-the Central National Bank and the City National Bank. Later in the year two more banks were absorbed-the First National Bank and the Citizens' National Bank of Worcester. The name was changed later to the simpler form of Worcester Trust Company. When Mr. Bisco became an officer of the bank in 1872 the deposits amounted to about $1,200,000. When the consolidation took place the deposits amounted to $3.300,000. After the con- solidation the deposits aggregated $9,000.000. The

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shrewd and prudent management of Mr. Bisco had much to do with bringing his bank to the foremost position among the banks and trust companies of Massachusetts, the largest outside of Boston. He was called to the presidency of the Washington Trust Company of Boston, October 1, 1904. The banking rooms of this company are at 20 Milk street, Boston. Mr. Bisco stands in the front rank of the successful bankers of the state. He has attained this position through much natural ability and con- stant devotion to his profession. He began at the lowest round of the ladder with a salary of $100 a year, and has thoroughly deserved all the success that he has won in life. Mr. Bisco continues to re- side at II Irving street, Worcester. He is a mem- ber of the Commonwealth Club, and of the Tatassit Canoe Club, a trustee of the People's Savings Bank of Worcester, and commissioner under the city government of the Jacques Fund of the City Hos- pital. He and his family attend the First Universal- ist Church. He is a Republican. He married, No- vember 29, 1866, Anna Eliza Sprague, daughter of Austin and Laura (Wilson) Sprague, of Leicester. She is a descendant of William Sprague, of Hing- ham, Massachusetts, who was a proprietor there in 1636. He was a brother of Richard Sprague and Ralph Sprague, both of Charlestown. The only child of Edward Foster Bisco is Adeline Maud, who re- sides with her parents in Worcester.

DRAPER FAMILY. Thomas Draper (1), an- cestor of Edward F. Bisco, lived and died in York- shire, England, in the parish of Hempstontell and vicarage of Halifax. He was a clothier by trade. His children were: Thomas; John; William ; James ; Mary; Martha; all except James died in England.

(If) James Draper, son of Thomas Draper (1), born in Hempstontefl, England, 1618, came to Rox- bury, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor 1640-50. He was proprietor of Lancaster in 1654. He is generally known from his religious tendencies as James Draper, the Puritan. His gravestone is to be seen in the West Roxbury graveyard. He married Stansfield, who came from the same parish in England. He died July, 1691, aged seventy- seven years. His children were James, John, Moses, Daniel, Jonathan.

(III) James Draper, son of James Draper (2), was born about 1660. He married Abigail Whiting of Dedham. He died April 30, 1698, aged forty- four years. His wife died October 25, 1721, aged fifty-nine. Their children : Nathaniel, William, James, Gideon, Ebenezer.

(IV) James Draper, son of James Draper (3), born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, about 1694, mar- ried Rachel Aldrich, who died early without issue. He married (second) Abigail Child. November 12, 1719. She was noted for musical gifts. They lived in Dedham. He was captain of the militia company there. He died April, 1768; she died November 12, 1767. Their children: I. James, born September 22, 1720, died Dedham, November 8. 1745. 2. Abigail, born December 12, 1721, married Henry White. 3. John, born June 16, 1723. 4. Joshua, born December 25. 1724. 5. Josiah. 6. Rachel. 7. Mary. 8. Abi- jah. 9. Samuel, and three others, all by the second wife. The first four came to Spencer, Massachu- setts.

(V) James Draper, son of James Draper (4), born Roxbury, Massachusetts, September 22, 1720, married Mehitable Whiting, of Dedham. November 12, 1742; (second) Martha Ward, widow of William Ward, Jr., of Southboro. He died March 2, 1781. She died September, 1791. Their children were: I.

Rebecca, married Benjamin Bemis, Jr., November 17, 1768. 2. John, born November 16, 1745. 3. James, born July 24, 1747, was in the revolution: 4. Ira, born February 14, 1753. 5. Mehitable, born August 29, 1756, married Noah Forbush, of Brook- field. November 9, 1779.

(VI) John Draper, son of James Draper (5), married Rebecca, daughter of Deacon John Muzzy, December 24, 1770. He died December 22, 1822, aged seventy-seven years. His wife Rebecca died April 29, 1818. Their children were born in Spencer. He was a private in Captain Ebenezer Mason's con- pany of minute men, Colonel Jonathan Warner's regiment, which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19. 1775. He was sergeant in Captain Joel Green's company, Col. Ebenezer Learned's regiment, enlisted May 3, 1775; was in Capt. Josiah White's company, 'Lt. Col. Benjamin Flagg's division, Col. Samuel Denny's regiment. 1777, and in Capt. David Prouty's company, September 25, 1777, which marched to reinforce the Northern army. The chil- dren of John Draper : I. Zenas, born May 31, 1772, married Jemima, daughter of Israel Allen. 2. Olive, born January 30, 1774, married Elias Hatch, Novem- ber 10, 1791. 3. Sarah, born August 8, 1779, mar- ried Jacob Bisco (X), 1799. 4. Charles, married Thomas Loring, September 28, 1803. 5. Nancy, born October 28, 1783, married Samuel Gleason, Feb- ruary 3, ISII. 6. Becca, born April 10, 1786, mar- ried January 18, 1817, Willard Pronty. 7. John, born July 22, 1788, married Lavinia, daughter of Eli Prouty, December 4. 1817. 8. Rhoda, born July IO, 1791, married, 1817, Ebenezer Cogswell. 9. Elea- zer Bradshaw, born August 26, 1795, married, May 15. 1821, Louisa Prouty.

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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 150

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