Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 24

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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In recent years he has been called upon to serve on many important commissions to abolish grade crossings and to determine apportionments in the Metropolitan district. Mr. Rugg had a brief service in the common council of Worcester, representing his ward in 1894-95, and during his second year was president of the board. He has been a trustee of the Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank since 1897, and was a director of the First National Bank from 1900 to 1903, when the bank went into voluntary liquidation. He is a member of Athels- tan Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons ; Hiram Council; Worcester Chapter; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a member of the Worcester Club, Commonwealth Club, American Bar Association, Appalachian Club of Boston, American Forestry Association, Wor- cester Board of Trade, Worcester County Horti- cultural Society. Worcester County Agricultural Society, and the Worcester Society of Antiquity. Ile is president of the Amherst College Alumni Associa- tion (1906). a trustee of the School of Expression, Boston, an active member of the Church of the Unity ( Unitarian), of Worcester, a member of the parish committee, and a Republican in politics.

Mr. Rugg has met with uncommon success in the prosecution of his chosen profession because of the elements of success within him. He is studious, thoughtful, quick to comprehend, has in store a generous fund of practical knowledge, and is a gentleman and a man of honor. Aside from his extensive yet rapidly increasing legal practice, he has found time to respond to invitations to de- liver various addresses, among which might be named a memorial address at Sterling, Massa- chusetts, on the death of the late President McKin- ley ; and "Colonial Farm Life in Colonial New England," delivered before the Worcester Society of Antiquity. He has also delivered Memorial Day addresses before various Grand Army Posts, also on other public occasions, some of which may be found in print. He has also been called upon to act on various commissions and boards of arbitra- tions when questions of law were involved.

As these pages were undergoing revision, Mr. Rugg was paid the high compliment of having been selected by Governor Guild to fill the vacancy oc- casioned by the resignation of Hon. John Lathrop. and was accordingly commissioned associate justice of the supreme court, and took his seat on the bench, in the court house at Worcester, on October 1, 1906.

Mr. Rugg married, in Worcester, Massachusetts. April 10, 1889, Florence May Belcher, daughter of Charles and Esther (Jewett) Belcher, of Worcester. Their children are: Charles Belcher, horn Janu- ary 20, 1890; Arthur Prentice, Jr., born August 22, 1893; Esther Cynthia, born September 5, 1896; Don- ald Sterling, born August 18, 1898, died February 22, 1899.

ANDREW J. BANCROFT. Lieutenant Thomas Bancroft (1). son of John and Jane Bancroft, was born in England in 1622. He was the immigrant ancestor of Andrew J. Bancroft, of Lancaster. Massachusetts. His father also came over but died in Lynn in 1637. His mother, Jane Bancroft, had land assigned to her in Lynn where the family first settled in New England. She was living in Lynn in 1638.

Thomas Bancroft was living in Dedham. Massa- chusetts, in 1617, and was admitted to townsman in 1648. He removed in 1652 or 1653, when his name first appears on the church records of Read- ing. Massachusetts, but there is no proof that he ever lived within the limits of that town, but he

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certainly lived in that vicinity the remainder of his days. He hired a five hundred acre farm of Samuel Bennett in what is now Saugus, an adja- cent town, and the Reading church was the nearest to his home, so he belonged to that parish. The town lines in that neighborhood seem to have been indefinite. He was not a proprietor of the town of Reading, but his son Thomas lived in Reading and became a very prominent citizen there.

The home of Lieutenant Thomas Bancroft was just south of the Straits, a narrow roadway through the rocky hills leading from Reading to Saugus. It is still known as the Bancroft place. The sur- vey of the line between Lynn and Charlestown made about 1670 mentions the "house that was En- sign Bancroft's." About that time he bought seventy acres of land at Lynnfield, three miles from Reading church, which was still the nearest to his home. In 1678 the deed of the adjoining Holyoke farm recites "that it had been for some time in posses- sion and improvement of Thomas Bancroft and a half acre with building thereon was reserved and deeded to Bancroft."

Lieutenant Bancroft died in Lynn, August 19, 1691. The inventory of his estate was filed Novem- ber 24, 1691, by his son Ebenezer. It shows that he owned land at Reading and Lynn, etc. An agreement for a division of the property was made by the widow, Elizabeth, sons Thomas, John and Ebenezer; Joseph Brown, husband of the daughter Elizabeth, and Sarah Bancroft, the youngest daugh- ter. The widow died May 1, 17II.

He married (first) Alice Bacon, daughter of Michael Bacon, of Dedham, Massachusetts, March 31, 1647-8. She died March 29, 1648. He married ( second) Elizabeth Metcalf, daughter of Michale and Sarah Metcalf. She was admitted to the church December 14, 1651, at Dedham, and November 22, 1669, at Reading, by letter from Dedham. The only child of Lieutenant Thomas and Alice was : Thomas, born 1648, of whom later. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth were: Elizabeth, born and died 1650; John, born February 3, 1651-2, mar- ried Elizabeth Bacon; Elizabeth, born at Reading, December 7. 1653, married Joseph Brown; Sarah, born 1660, died 1661; Raham, born 1662, died 1683; Sarah, born 1665, married John Woodward; Eben- ezer, born 1667, married Abigail Eaton and resided at Lynnfield : Mary, born 1670.

(II) Thomas Bancroft, son of Lieutenant Thomas Bancroft (1), was born in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, in 1648 or 1649. He settled in Reading, Massachusetts, and became one of the most promi- nent citizens there. He was an officer in King Philip's war, selectman for several years. He re- sided in the western part of Reading where the old Bancroft homestead is to be seen at present. His was the fourth house built in the west parish ; it was near what is now called the Abraham Temple place.

He married in 1673, Sarah Poole, daughter of Jonathan and Judith Poole. Their children were : Thomas, of whom later; Jonathan, born and died 1675: Sarah, born 1676, married Abraham Bryant ; Mehitable, born 1678, married Parker: Jona- than, born 1681, married Sarah , died in 1702: Raham, born 1684: Judith, born 1688, married

Parker : Samuel, born 1691, died 1692; Samuel born 1693; Elizabeth, born 1696, married 1713.

(III) Captain Thomas Bancroft, son of Thomas Bancroft (2), was born in Reading. Massachusetts, 1673. He also settled in Reading. He married Mary Webster. Their children were: Thomas, born in Reading about 1705; Benjamin, of whom

later ; Jonathan, married Mary Pierpont ; Joshua, married Mary Lamson, resided in Reading and Worcester.

(IV) Captain Benjamin Bancroft, son of Cap- tain Thomas Bancroft (3), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, 1701 or 1702, died at Groton, July 21, 1787. He settled first in the adjoining town of Charlestown and later at Groton, Massachusetts. He joined the church at Charlestown, November 3, 1728. He bought his house there in 1723 of John Allum. He was a tanner by trade. He was cap- tain of militia and probably served in the colonial wars. He married Anna Lawrence, daughter of John Lawrence, of Lexington, and a descendant of John Lawrence, of Watertown. (See Lawrence pedigree with A. B. Lawrence sketch, Fitchburg, in this work.) The children of Captain Ben- jamin and Anna Bancroft were: Benjamin, Jr., of whom later: Edmund, born at Charles- town, Massachusetts, November 23, 1726, set- tled at Pepperell, formerly part of Groton; was treasurer, deputy to the general court, and captain : Anna, born December 20, 1728, at Groton, died November, 1806; Mary, born April 4, 1731, died December 1, 1732; Joseph, born September 5, 1733. died November 24, 1737; Mary, born February 6, 1735, died November 25, 1737; Joseph, born August. I, 1738, died November 2, 1745; Sarah, born Novem- ber 2, 1740, died November 2, 1745; Jonathan, born January 27, 1743, died October 26, 1745.

(V) Deacon Benjamin Bancroft, son of Captain Benjamin Bancroft (4), was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, September 29, 1724, and died at Groton, October 27, 1804, aged eighty years. He followed his father's trade, a tanner, and like his father became captain of the militia company. In the revolution his son Benjamin was a soldier. He stems to have served also at Rutland, guarding British prisoners in Captain Nathaniel Harrington's company, Colonel Abijah Stearns's regiment, in 1778. He was treasurer of the town and deacon of the church at Groton.

He married, October 18, 1749, Alice Tarbell, of Groton. She died November 29, 1781. Their chil- dren were: Benjamin, Jr., born August 7, 1750, at Charlestown or Groton; Abel, born at Groton, May 28, 1752; Thaddeus, born April 12, 1754: Wil- liam, born May 2, 1756, lieutenant in the revolution; married, 1782, Agnes Edes: Joseph, born July 3, 1760; Samuel, of whom later; Sarah, born July 29, 1767; John, born January 28, 1771.

(VI) Samuel Bancroft, son of Deacon Benja- min Bancroft (5), was born at Groton, Massa- chusetts, July 6, 1764. He settled in Groton. He married, May 7. 1789, Anigail Child. He was edu- cated in the common schools and learned the trade of stone mason, which he followed all his life. He' was also a farmer. His children were: Isaac, born November 6, 1789: Tarbell, May 19, 1792; Edmund, May 23, 1794; Abigail, October 23, 1796; Stowell, April 11, 1799; George W., August 11, 1801; Eliza, July 14, 1803.

(VII) Stowell Bancroft, son of Samuel Ban- croft (6), was born in Groton, Massachusetts, April II, 1799. He was educated in the district schools and learned the trade of his father, a stone mason, and followed it as a business during his active life. In politics he was an active Whig for many years. He resided in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. He married (first ) Mary Heywood, December 3, 1822; she died January 3, 1825. She was born February 7, 1796, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth ( Perkins) Trow. He married ( second) Martha D. Trow, July 3, 1825: she died December 15, 1876. He died March

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14, 1883. Of his children one was by the first mar- riage and five by the second. The child of Stowell and Mary was: Mary Elizabeth, born December 17, 1824. The children of Stowell and Martha Ban- croft were: Emily Heywood, born July 19, 1826, died December 29, 1875; Andrew Jackson, born April 28, 1829; Sabrina Francis, born August 28, 1831: William Henry Child, born August 10, 1833; Charles Bainbridge, born September 4, 1838, died June 2, 1903.

(VIII) Andrew J. Bancroft, son of Stowell Bancroft (7), and Martha

Dodge (Trow Bancroft, was

born in Dunstable, Massachu-

setts, April 28, 1829.

He removed to New

Hampshire with his parents when he was a young boy and attended the district schools there. He settled in Mount Vernon, New Hamp- shire, where he engaged in the business of lumber- ing and farming, achieving more than ordinary success. In 1856 he removed to Lancaster, Massa- chusetts, and settled there on a farm. For the past few years Mr. Bancroft has led a retired life. In politics Mr. Bancroft is a Republican. He has taken a leading part in town affairs in Lancaster and for over thirty years has been on the board of assessors. He has also served the town as road commissioner, overseer of the poor and selectman. He is an active attendant of the Congregational church and one of its most liberal supporters. Mr. Bancroft inherits the executive ability and strength of character that have made the Bancrofts for many generations leaders and men of prominence. He has given to his fellow citizens the utmost satis- faction in the various positions of trust and respon- sibility that he has filled.

He married, October, 1856, Mary A. Clough, daughter of James and Sarah (Sargent) Clough, of Orange, New Hampshire. Their children are: Ed- win E., born September 10, 1858, married Josephine Given, and they have three children; William L., born Fehruary 20, 1862, inarried Agnes White, and they have had two children: George A., born July I, 1865, married Edith R. Worcester ; Charles G., born December 3, 1867. imarried Blanche Hight. and they have two children; Martha S., born November 2, 1871.

WHITNEY FAMILY. John Whitney (1), the immigrant ancestor of Anna Henshaw Whitney, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1659. He settled early in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was living in June, 1635. He married in England, Elinor who was born in 1599 and died at Watertown, May II, 1659. He married (second) in Watertown, September 29, 1659, Judith Clement, who died before him. He died June 1, 1673. (Something of his ancestry and more of his early history will be found under the sketch of the Whitney family of Worcester, Massachusetts, in this work.)

The children of John and Elinor Whitney were: Mary, baptized in England, May 23. 1619, died young : John, of whom later ; Richard, born in Eng- land, 1626, married Martha Coldam; Nathaniel, born in England, 1627; Thomas, born in England, 1629. married Mary Kettell: Jonathan, born in Eng- land. 1634, married Lydia Jones: Joshua, born in Watertown, July 5. 1635, married Lydia

(second) Mary -; (third) Abigail Tarbell : Caleb, born at Watertown, July 12, 1640, buried July 12, 1640; Benjamin, born at Watertown, July 6. 1643. married Jane - and (second) Mary Poor. .(II) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (I), was born in England, 1620. He settled in Water- town. He married Ruth Reynolds, daughter of 6

Robert Reynolds, of Watertown, Weathersfield and Boston. John Whitney's estate was administercd by his widow and sons, John and Benjamin. The inventory dated October 26, 1692, included eighteen parcels of land amounting to two hundred and ten acres. His will was dated February 27, 1685; it was not proved. His homestall was a three-acre lot on the east side of Lexington street on land granted first to E. How, bought by him in 1643, the lot next south of the homestead of the Phillips family and probably the same lot occupied by his grandson, Bradshaw Whitney. He was a soldier in King Philip's war under Captain Hugh Mason. He died October 12, 1692.

The children of John and Ruth Whitney were: Jolin, born September 17. 1643, married Elizabeth Hinds: Ruth, horn April 15, 1645, married, June 20, 1664, John Shattuck, who was in the Squakeag figlit September 4. 1675, and was drowned soon afterward at Charlestown Ferry; Nathaniel, born February 1, 1646, married Sarah Hagar; Samuel, born July 26, 1648, married Mary Bemis; Mary, born April 29, 1650; Joseph, born January 15, 1651. married Martha Beach: Sarah, born March 17, 1653, married, October 18, 1681, Daniel Harrington : Elizabeth, born June 9, 1656, married, December 19, 1678, Daniel Warren : Hannah; Benjamin, born June 28, 1660, married Abigail Hagar.

(III) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (2), was born in Watertown, September 17, 1643, mar- ried in 1669, Elizabeth Harris, who was born No- vember 9, 1644, daughter of Robert Harris. She owned the covenant in the Roxbury church March 30, 1671. He was admitted a freeman in May, 1684. He was a member of the Second Church of Rox- bury, November 2, 1712, and doubtless had be- longed to the First Church there. His house lot, containing nine acres, was situated on Pond street, in that part of Roxbury called Jamaica Plain. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1676, and owned the covenant in the church at Roxbury in February, 1684. He was a tailor by trade. His will is dated September. 1718, and was proved March 13. 1726-7. He died March 4, 1726. The children of John and Elizabeth Whitney were: Dan- iel, born December 3. 1681, married Susanna Curtis; Timothy, born April 16, 1678, married Margaret Bacon; Elizabeth, born September 9, 1670; Ruth, born at Roxbury, baptized August 31, 1674. mar- ried, April 22. 1701, Joseph Adams, resided in' Brookline; Sarah, baptized August 2, 1684, died July 4, 1689; John, born April 1, 1672, died young.

(IV) Daniel Whitney, eldest son of John Whit- ney (3), was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, December 3. 1681. He lived at Roxbury. He mar- ried, June 21, 1704, Susanna Curtis. Their children were: John. born May 23, 1705, inherited land of his grandfather Whitney at Woodstock, Connecti- cut, then in Massachusetts; Elizabeth, born Febru- ary 4, 1706; Susanna, born February 21, 1708; Dan- iel, born March 26, 1711; Anna, born April 30, 1713; Elijah, of whom later; Ruth, born December 5, 1718; Elisha, born October 5, 1722; Esther, born July II, 1726, married, March 8, 1745, John White. (V) Elijah Whitney, son of Daniel Whitney (4), was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 15. 1715. He married Hannah They set- tled in Warwick, Massachusetts. where in 1776 he served on the committee of safety and correspon- dence. Their children, born at Roxbury, were : Elijah, born September 23, 1744; Elisha, born Oc- tober 6, 1747, of whom later; John, born November 29. 1740. married May Payson; Hannah, born June 13, 1756, baptized at Roxbury same year; Daniel, married Sarah Gay.

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(V1) Elisha Whitney, son of Elijah Whitney (5), was born at Roxbury, October 6, 1747. He married in Newton, Massachusetts, June 4, 1769, Abigail Dana. He was a lieutenant in the revolu- tion. His picture painted by Stuart is owned by his grandson, Benjamin D. Whitney. He resided at West Roxbury, Massachusetts. The children of Lieutenant Elisha and Abigail Whitney were: Experience, born February, 1776, died September 17, 1777; Abigail, born April 10, 1778, married, November 17, 1799, Joseph Seaver, of Boston ; Elisha, born February 4, 1780, married Sarah Heath ; Asa, of whom later; Pedy, born July 20, 1784, mar- ried in Roxbury, 1801, Colonel Josephi Dudley, who was born October 16, 1780; he owned and occupied the old Dudley homestead in Roxbury; he was a farmer strict in principles, generous with his for- tune; he gave a site for a townhouse in Roxbury ; William, born June 17, 1788, died unmarried ; Elizabeth, born March 3, 1793, died unmarried.

(VII) Asa Whitney, son of Elisha Whitney (6), was born in Boston, May 18, 1782. He married at Pomfret, Connecticut, December 31, 1805, Mary Ilammond, who was born December 7, 1787, and died 1845. He died March 4, 1826. He resided at Pomfret, Roxbury, Cambridge and Boston.

The children of Asa and Mary Whitney were : I. Benjamin Duick, born November 6, 1807, mar- ried (first) Elizabeth Williams and (second) Char- lotte Genella. 2. Daniel H., born October 7, 1809, died October 6, 1817. 3. Sarah Hammond, born May 23, 1812, died June 23, 1817. 4. Mary, born March 5, 1815, married Professor Cornelius C. Fel- ton, of Harvard University, who was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, November 6, 1807, and died in Chester, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1862. Ile graduated from Harvard in 1827, taught school two years at Geneseo, New York, was appointed Latin tutor at Harvard in 1829, became Greek tutor in 1830, college professor of Greek in 1832, and in 1834 was chosen Eliot professor of Greek literature. He was for many years regent of the college; in 1860 he was elected president and continued in the office until his death. He was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education and one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institute. He was one of the most profound and enthusiastic classical scholars in the country. He edited and translated a number of important works. He wrote "Greece. Ancient and Modern."-and other important books. 5. Emily, born September 27, 1817, married Dr. Joseph Sargent, of Worcester. (See sketch of Dr. Sargent and his family in this work. ) 6. Asa H., of whom later. 7. Sarah, born July 13, 1822, mar- ried Frederick W. Gale, of Worcester; both lost on the steamer "Arctic," September 27, 1854. S. Cath- erine Dean, born December 17, 1824, married. May, 1849. Dr. Henry Sargent. (See Sargent family of Worcester and Leicester.)

(VIII) Asa Hammond Whitney, son of Asa Whitney (7), was born in Boston, June 17, 1819. He married, October 3, 1842, Laura Leffingwell Henshaw, who was born June 23, 1820, at Warren, Ohio, and died April 20, 1886. He prepared for college in Boston schools and was graduated at Harvard College in 1838. After leaving college he made a voyage to the Mediterranean for his health and subsequently went to Rio Janiero as super- cargo. On his return he became the junior part- ner of the firm of Henshaw & Whitney, wholesale druggists, Boston. He resided in Cambridge; later he became interested in railroad business and re- moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where he managed the financial affairs of the Seaboard & Roanoke Rail- road Company, as its treasurer. He was a man of

great energy and earnestness of character. He re- sided late in life at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he died October 7, 1858.

The children of Asa Hammond and Laura Lef- fingwell Whitney were: I. Laura L., born June 15, 1843, died January 24, 1870. 2. Anna Henshaw, of whom later. 3. Richard Sullivan, born June 19, 1846, died August 23, 1847. 4. Catherine Dean, born June 17, 1849, married Robert George Lawton, of Hudson, New York, on the English frigate "Narcissus," off Havana, Cuba, May 31, 1871. He was born August 12, 1839, and died December 2, 1904: was a resident of Havana; member of the banking firm of Lawton Brothers. Their children were: Robert Henshaw Lawton, born in Havana, April 3. 1872, died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, December 10, ISSI; Sydney Allen Lawton, born at Lancaster, November 2, 1873, graduate of Harvard University, 1895, now with the firm of Wrenn Brothers, brokers, New York city; married, June 29, 1901, Harriet Sheldon Lawton, of Hudson, New York, and they reside at Rye. New York, and have two children-Sarah, born October 19, 1902, and Katharine, born October 14, 1904; Ethel Whitney Lawton, born at Lancaster. October 4, 1875, married Chester Parker, of South Lancaster, Massachusetts, at New York city, October 5, 1899; resides in Lan- caster and they have had three children-Chester Parker, Jr., born September 29, 1900; Felton Parker, born January 14, 1902. died March 21, 1902; and Lydia Parker, born November 4, 1903; Richard Henshaw Lawton, born in Lancaster, March 23, 1888, resides in Rye, New York. 4. Hammond Moore, born at Norfolk, Virginia, June 28, 1851, resides in Brookline, Massachusetts; married at Boston, November 13, 1879, Catherine Howard Reed, and their children are-Catherine, born at Longwood, Massachusetts, September 28, 1881, mar- ried, September 30, 1903, Theodore W. Little, at Cohasset, Massachusetts; they reside in Brookline; Margaret, born at Longwood. Massachusetts, De- cember 28, 1886, resides at Longwood. 5. Emily Stark, born at Norfolk, Virginia, July 10, 1854. resides at Lancaster.

(IX) Anna Henshaw Whitney, daughter of Asa Hammond Whitney (8), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 30, 1844. She attended school there and in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1855 she was sent to a boarding school at Keene, New Hampshire with her elder sister, Laura L. Whitney. In 1858 they entered Lasell Seminary at Auburn- dale, Massachusetts, graduating in 1860. During the next two years she was a teacher in Lasell Seminary and in the year following she taught for a year in a private school in Worcester. In Febru- ary, 1864, she accepted a position as teacher in the academy at Lancaster, which shortly became the Lancaster high school. With the exception of one year, 1880-I, spent abroad, she continued to teach there until 1888.

Miss Whitney has served several three-year terms on the school committee of Lancaster, and is at present secretary of the board. She is also secretary of the board of trustees of the Public Library.

Since giving up her work as teacher in the public schools she has taught drawing and painting to private pupils and in the public schools at times. Miss Whitney has an attractive home at Lancaster and pursues agriculture at her farm, "Few Acres," as one of her avocations. For many years she kept kennels of St. Bernards and pug dogs for pleasure and profit. and has officiated as judge of these and various other breeds at the leading bench shows in the United States and Canada, beginning

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soon after her return from Europe and continuing to the present time.

EZRA BURTON. The Burton family from which Ezra Burton, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, is descended, settled in Essex county. The progenitor was probably Boniface Burton, of Salem, who died June 13, 1669, at the age of one hundred and thir- teen years. He was one of the first settlers, being made a freeman May 6, 1635. He removed to Read- ing, Massachusetts, in 1644. His wife was Frances. The Burtons settled in New Hampshire where Mah- lon Burton, grandfather of Ezra Burton, was born. He is remembered as a man of fine physique and a public speaker of some distinction. He lived at Wilton, New Hampshire, where many of the de- scendants of the old Burton family are to be found today. In this section of southern New Hampshire the family has lived for five or more generations. Some of them went to Vermont after the revolu- tion when a new state was carved out of the wil- derness by the sons of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Among the children of Mahlon Burton was a son named for him, Mahlon Burton, Jr.

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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 24

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