Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 72

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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church. It was a seedling in the year he began as custodian of the court house, and next year he transplanted it to its present location. It is as large as many elms of twice its age and nowhere is to be found a more graceful and beautiful tree.


Hon. Alfred S. Roe in an article in the Wor- cester Magazine, October, 1903, just after Mr. Kins- ley had completed his fifty years of service at the court house, reviewed briefly the history of those years. "In these fifty years," he said, "Mr. Kinsley saw no less than thirty-three different men sit upon the supreme bench and, had he been a note- taker, what a volume of reminiscences he might have prepared. He has followed the entire existence of the superior court, for he had been six years on duty when it was established and each one of the more than fifty judges left his own distinct impression on the mind of the messenger. He saw the progress of distinguished and elequent lawyers from their places as counsel to those of judges and two, Gray and Holmes, he saw promoted to the highest judicial positions attainable in the United States, viz. : seats in the supreme court of the nation. He was present when Charles Devens exchanged his pen for the the sword and went out to do battle for his coun- try."


Mr. Kinsley returned to Fletcher to marry an old schoolmate, August 24, 1854. His wife was Harriet Newell Mudgett, daughter of Jesse Mudgett, of Cambridge. Mrs. Kinsley died March 4, 1900. Mr. Kinsley is now retired. He resides at the rear of the Court House at 15 Court street, this being a portion of the Isaiah Thomas estate, which Mr. Kinsley purchased in 1883 and upon which he built two apartment houses. He is a member of Ply- mouth Congregational Church, although formerly a member of Central Church. He was one of the carly promoters of the Y. M. C. A. His children are : Catherine Montague, born in Worcester, June 23, 1855, married, 1878, Charles A. Reed. They have had ten children: Josephine E., born September I, 1880, wife of Rev. Tyler E. Gale; Henry D., born September 4, 1881, died August 16, 1882; Millicent E., born January 30, 1883; Horace B., born July 8, 1884; Karl, born March 11, 1886, died in infancy; Margaret K., born May 19, 1887: Katherine Mon- tague, born May 6, 1889, died June 2, 1900; Frank H., born July 27, 1891; Maybelle, born August 22, 1893; Raymond, born June II, 1897, died January 31, 1898. Fanny Amelia, born September 10, 1857, died January 17, 1863. Florence Josephine, born October 26, 1860, resides at home. Carrie Carleton, born March 26, 1864, is a public school teacher. Sumner Alvah, born April 8, 1868, married Maybelle Pierce, in 1893; they have two children: Katherine Montague, born October 9, 1896, and Mildred, born September 7,.1901. He (Sumner Alvah) is with the Woodbury-Carlton Engraving Company of Wor- cester, Massachusetts. Edward William, born Janu- ary 12, 1871, married, December, 1905, Edith Lan- caster. He is a member of the banking house of Kinsley & Adams of Worcester.


SHATTUCK FAMILY. William Shattuck (I). the progenitor of the Shattucks, of Worcester, and of most of the name in this country, was born in Eng- land in 1621 or 1622, and died at Watertown, Massa- chusetts, August 14, 1672. He was a young boy when he came to America, and his name does not appear in the records until 1642, when he was twenty years old. That same year he married Susanna . After the death of Shattuck she married Richard Norcross who survived her. She died December 1, 1686. Shattuck was a farmer and weaver. In 1853 one of his descendants, Lemuel


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Shattuck, had a monument erected on his grave and suitably inscribed. It is in the old graveyard on the road from Cambridge to Watertown west of Mount Auburn. Their children were: I. Susanna, born 1643; married J. Morse and J. Fay. 2. Mary, born August 25. 1645; married Jonathan Brown. 3. John, born February 11, 1647; married Ruth Whit- ney. 4. Philip, born 1648; married D. Barstow and R. Chamberlain. 5. Joanna, died April 4, 1673, un- married. 6. William ( see forward). 7. Rebecca, born 1655; married Samuel Church. 8. Abigail, born 1657; married J. Morse and J. Parker. 9. Benjamin, died in his twentieth year. 10. Samuel, born Feb- ruary 28, 1666; married Abigail


(II) William Shattuck, son of William (I) and Susanna Shattuck, born 1653, at Watertown, in the old homestead in the easterly parish on the high- way to the pond, where he lived all his life and died October 19, 1732, at the ripe old age of seven- ty-nine. Like his father he was a weaver, but like the versatile neighbors about him he did other things, such as farming and brick-making, as the season called him. He was a prominent man and held sev- eral town offices. He married Susanna Randall in 1678. She died May 8, 1723. Her father, Stephen Randall, married Susanna Barron. He died Feb- ruary 26, 1708. Susan Barron was the daughter of Ellis Barron, who died at Watertown, October 30, 1676, and sister of Moses Barron, born March I, 1643, who married Mary Learned, settled in Chelms- ford and was ancestor of Lucy Barron, wife of Dr. Benjamin Shattuck, (see forward). The children of William and Susanna Shattuck were: I. Susanna, married Samuel Holden. 2. Joanna, married Isaac Holden. 3. Elizabeth, born November 23, 1684; married R. Goddard and others. 4. William, born 1686; married Hepzibah Hammond. 5. Benjamin, (see forward). 6. Mary, baptized April 13. 1690: married William Greenleaf. 7. Abigail, married Joseph Holden. S. Joseph, born October 9, 1694; died October 15, 1694. 9. Jonathan, born October 16, 1695; married Elizabeth Stearns. 10. Robert, born January I, 1698; married Mary Pratt. II. Moses, born November 11, 1703; died at Boston, May 31, 1724, unmarried.


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(III) Rev. Benjamin Shattuck, son of William (2) and Susanna Shattuck, born at Watertown, July 30, 1687. He graduated at Harvard College in 1709 and engaged soon afterward as teacher of the pub- lic school at Littleton, at the princely salary of thirty pounds a year. The town engaged to build for him a new school house. During the next six years he studied for the ministry while he taught the youth of Littleton, and he was so well liked there that he was called to preach, and became the first minister of Littleton. He preached for fifteen years, then resigned, but spent the rest of his life in the same town. He died August 30, 1730. He married Martha Sherman, baptized September 1, 1689, the daughter of Joseph Sherman, blacksmith and prominent citi- zen of Watertown. This Joseph Sherman married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Winship, of Cam- bridge, and was the father of William Sherman, shoemaker, of Watertown, and grandfather of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. The father of Joseph Sherman was Captain John Sherman, a distinguished citizen, born 1613, at Ded- ham, Essex county, England, who came to America in 1634. The children of Rev. Benjamin Shattuck were: I. Stephen, born February 10, 1710, married Elizabeth Robbins. 2. Martha, born January 7, 1712 ; married Samuel Tuttle. 3. Benjamin, (see for- ward). 4. Timothy, married Desire Hall. 5. Wil- liam, born January 1, 1718; married Abigail Reed.


6. Sarah, December 13, 1719; married Jonathan Dix. 7. Ebenezer, born February 22, 1722. 8. Susanna, born April 8, 1724; married Caleb Taylor. 9. Eliza- beth, born February 13, 1726; married Elias Taylor. IO. Jonathan, born July, 1728; died February 19, 1745. II. Moses, born June, 1732; died December 13, 1737.


(IV) Dr. Benjamin Shattuck, son of Rev. Ben- jamin (3) and Martha (Sherman) Shattuck, born in Watertown, December 8, 1713; was a physician at Littleton, but removed shortly before his death to live with his son at Groton, where he died Octo- ber, 1790. He married, November 13, 1740, Dinah Hunt of Littleton, probably a descendant of William Hunt, one of the early settlers of Concord, Massa- chusetts. She was buried at Littleton, January 17, 1791. Their children were: 1. Moses, born Aug- ust 10, 1741, keeper of general stage house at Port- land, Maine, where he died February 1, 1801. He married Hannah, widow of Joseph Golding, daugh- ter of John Waite of Newbury, Massachusetts. She died December 22, 1800. Edmund, born July 20, 1744: married Abigail Chamberlain. 3. . Jonathan, (see forward). 4. Somers, born July 6, 1749; mar- ried Esther Rogers. 5. Arthur, born November 29, 1751, probably lost at sea.


(V) Jonathan Shattuck, son of Dr. Benjamin (4) and Dinah Shattuck, born in Littleton, August 9, 1746. In 1776 he bought of John Earle a farm in Oxford. In 1781, he removed to Chesterfield, New Hampshire and in 1787 to Townshend, Vermont, where he died April, 1821. He married September 15, 1767, Huldah Curtis, born at Dudley, Massa- chusetts, 1748. After his death she removed to Bakersfield, Vermont, where she died November I, 1821. Their children were: I. Jonathan, born September 20, 1768; married Mehitable Fairbanks. 2. Huldah, born March 24, 1770; married Harmon Davis, a blacksmith of Townshend, Vermont ; died October, 1805. 3. Arethusa, born August 15, 1772; married James Saunders, of Chesterfield, New Hampshire. 4. Elizabeth, born April 6, 1774; mar- ried Amos Coburn, farmer of Champion, New York ; died July, 1851. 5. Moses, born November 20, 1776; married Hannah Brigham. 6. Phebe, born June 27, 1778; married Winslow Wheelock, settled in LeRoy, New York. 7. Josiah, (see forward). 8. John, born September II, 1786, resided at Brandon, New York. 9. Benjamin, born March 20, 1789; married Lydia Jackman. 10 .. Hepsibah, born May 16, 1793. married Ezekiel Cady, chair-maker, of Wilmington, Vermont ; married (second) John Smith, farmer of the same town, died August, 1850.


(VI) Josiah Shattuck, son of Jonathan Shat- tuck (5). born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, October 20, 1781; died, 1858. He was a farmer at Bakersfield, Vermont. He married, October 25, ISIo, Susan B. Boutelle, born at Leominster, Massa- chusetts, February 9, 1792, daughter of William and Tabitha Boutelle; died 1877. Their children were: I. Harriet S., born March 4, 1812; died December 2, 1812. 2. William B., (see forward). 3. Harriet A., born February 9, 1818; married, March 5, 1837, James Maynard, a farmer of Bakersfield. 4. Jason L., born May 5, 1820; married, May 1, 1844, Lucy R. Farnsworth, who was a farmer at Bakersfield. Vermont. 5. Noel K., born May 9, 1822; married July 12, 1853. Emily A. Purdy, school teacher in Moundsville, Loudon county, Vermont. 6. Ora L., and 7. Orrilla L., born October 9, 1824: died 1855, unmarried. 8. Laura A., born November 3, 1826; married December, 1849, Horace H. Farnsworth, carpenter, teacher. 9. Henry and 10. Henrietta, born February 9, 1829; Henrietta died August 16, 1845.


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II. Lydia S., born October 3, 1831; married William H. Drake, born in New London, Connecticut, ina- chinist; resided in Bellows Falls, Vermont.


(VII) William Boutelle Shattuck, son of Josiah (6) and Susan Shattuck, born January 18, 1816; died December 9, 1893; married Emily M., daugh- ter of Simon and Phoebe (Bowen) Maynard, of Bakersfield, Vermont, formerly of Leominster, Mass- achusetts. She was born in 1813 and died April 8, 1879. Their children were: I. James Harlan (see forward). 2. William Oscar, born April 3, 1847, in Burlington, Vermont. 3. Raymond B., born May 26, 1856; died December 13, 1893.


(VIII) James Harlan Shattuck, son of William B. (7) and Emily M. (Maynard) Shattuck, was born May 25, 1844, at Bakersfield, Vermont, where his early years were spent. His education was ob- tained in the common schools of his native town and in Bakersfield Academy. At the age of twenty he came to Worcester, after a short stay in Boston, and started in the fruit and commission business, building up a large and successfull business. After twenty years of mercantile life he retired, and has since lived in the city of his adoption. In 1865 he enlisted for service on the frontier but on account of a full quota he was not called upon to serve.


Mr. Shattuck is a Republican. He is a mem- ber of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. He married, April 20, 1874. Anne Emerson Perley, daughter of Anderson and Edith Emerson Perley, of Enosberg, Vermont, born June 3, 1843. They have no children.


FREDERICK E. REED. Reed, Read, Reede, and Rede were all derived from the word Rehea, which had its origin in Phoenicia and Greece. The mode of spelling used by the Puritan ancestors was usually Reede and Reade. There are many accounts of the race of Reeds fighting against the Romans. They are to be found in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. About fourteen hundred or fifteen hundred years before the Christian era, in the great western emigration, the Reed families emigrated to the present England and Scotland, and Prince Reda, their chief, and his knights put to flight the Romans in 180, A. D. The Reads or Reeds are directly de- scended from these conquerors, who settled in the region now forming the barony of Redesdale. The present Baron of Redesdale is a relative and a prom- inent member of the House of Lords. The scenes in Scott's novels and poetical works are laid in this territory, rich in monuments of the past, and some of the present names of towns and parishes are de- rived from Reed, Redsford, for Reidsfors, Radham for Reedham, and Riddle for Redesdale.


As the line of England and Scotland was con- stantly changing according to the valor and the strength of parties, the Reeds have become mixed with both nations, and the barony of Redesdale, being on the border, the Reeds had the advantage of distinguishing themselves and consequently were promoted in civic government, and they were con- nected with the royal family of England long be- fore the days of William the Conqueror. There was: Withred, King of Kent, in the seventh cen- tury. Ethelred, or Read the Good, in 866. Alfred, or Reed the Shrewd, in 871. Eldred, or Reed the Elder in 946. Eethelred the Second, in 978.


When William the Conqueror took possession of the English throne, the legal heir to the throne was the brother-in-law of the King of Scotland. Wil- liam's heir married the legal heiress, the daughter of Edward the Confessor, who was Ethelred the Second's own son. So both houses became merged into one family. The Reeds are among the reign- ing princes of Northumberland, Kent, Wessex and


Mercia, and all are politically allied. Many ruins of castles and fortifications are to be found in Eng- land and Scotland along rivers, valleys, and high- lands, and there are still some splendid castles oc- cupied by the Reed descendants at the present time, as: Chipchase Castle at the junction of the Reed and Tyne rivers, which is now occupied by Sir Christopher Reed, and owned by Sir Christopher's son, who is deputy lieutenant of the county; also Ewellgrove, Ipsden House, Ashmans in Suffolk, Wood Parks in Galway, Rossenara in Kilkenny.


Brianus De Rede, 1139, living in Morpeth on Mensbach river, in the northern part of England, had: Robert, of Rede; William, bishop of Chiches- ter; Thomas, of Redydale. William's grandson, Gol- frinus, had: William; Thomas, of Redydale; Rob- ert. Thomas, of Redydale, had : Thomas and John. John, mayor of Norwich, 1388, had an only son, who married Isiod Stanley, and they had: Jolin, Both- omomew, Robert, William. William Reade, S. T. P., had a son, Sir William, whose son married Revecca, daughter and co-heir of Menis, whose first child, Mathew, married Alice. daughter of Andrew Wood, whose son William married Lucy Henage, who had Elias, John, and William. William sailed from Gravesend, county of Kent, in the "Assurance de London" in 1635, of which Isaac Bromwell and George Percy were masters. There were on this vessel at the time of sailing two hundred and twenty- one persons, the average age of whom was about twenty-five years. The vessel sailed July 24, 1635, and probably landed about a month later in Boston, whence Reade proceeded to Weymouth and settled there.


It is supposed that he came from Maidstone, near London. On March 9, 1636-7, he purchased from the estate of Zachery Bicknell his house and farm, which was located on the west side of Middle street. The old house stood on the knoll opposite the junc- tion of Middle and Charles streets. The premises were recently owned by James Clapp. They passed out of the family in 1769. William Reade was among the first settlers of Weymouth, which was made a plantation May 8, 1635. He was admitted a freeman September 2, 1635, and was elected deputy to the general court, December 7, 1636, and again Septem- ber 6, 1638. Rev. Joseph Hull and his company came to Weymouth in the spring of 1635, shortly before Reade settled there, and this band of very worthy set- tlers established one of the most noted colonies of the early days of the New England Puritans. In the same month that Mr. Reade left England another ship containing his future wife sailed. Avis Dea- con was on the "Alice." of which Richard Orchard was the master, and which sailed July 13, 1635, from Gravesend with thirty-two passengers, most of whom were young men and women. Her twin brother, Thomas Deacon, came on the boat with Reade. Avis Deacon married William Reade probably soon after her arrival in New England. Reade was al- lotted land in the first division at Weymouth and he acquired considerable real estate later.


The children of William and Avis (Deacon) Reade were: Margaret, born 1636, died July 6, 1659; married, May II, 1651, John Vining; Hannah, born 1637. married, April 2. 1658, Nicholas Whit- marsh; William, born October 15, 1639, married, 1675, Esther Thompson; Esther, born May 8, 1641 ; Ruth, born 1642, died 1663; married, December 19, 1662, John Whitman; Thomas, born 1645, died No- vember 14, 1719; married, in 1670, Sarah Bicknell ; Mary, born 1647, died 1655, unmarried; John, born 1649, died January 13, 1720; married Bethiah Frye ; James, died July 21, 1726; married, April 18, 1683, Susanna Richmond. There is considerable difficulty


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in tracing the children of William Reade of Wey- mouth and the authorities differ. In this sketch it has been thought best to follow the genealogy writ- ten by John L. Reed, published in 1901.


(II) William Reed, son of William Reed (1), was born October 15, 1639, at Weymouth, Massachusetts, and died in 1706. He was constable of Weymouth in 1675 and selectman in 1681. He was an extensive dealer in land. His will, dated October 26, 1705, was proved September 12, 1706. He lived on Pleas- ant street on the southwesterly side. In 1888 a part of the old house was still standing, having been remodeled and occupied by Paliner Loud. The old dam which Reed built across the river in 1680 or before 1690 is near the house. He owned all the land on both sides of the street from Hingham line to Ragged plain and from the river to a point west- erly from the house owned by William Dyer. He built a double house later on the site that had been occupied by William Dyer's house, and also a house between that and his own residence.


Esther Thompson, his wife, was the daughter of Lieutenant John Thompson, who was born in Wales and was only six years old when he landed in Wes- son's company in May, 1622. He married, December 6, 1645, Mary Cook, daughter of Francis Cook, who came in the Mayflower to Plymouth. She was born in Plymouth in 1626, died March 21, 1715. He settled thirteen miles west of Plymouth and built a log house there. The site is now in Halifax or Mid- dleboro. He lived there until his house was burned by the Indians. While living there he or his wife walked to the church at Plymouth every Sun- day. Jolin Thompson died June 16, 1696: He and his wife are buried at Middleboro, Massachu- setts. After his death the widow removed to Abing- ton. Mr. Thompson was a private in Lieutenant Edward Oaks' company, April 26, 1676, in King Philip's war. He removed to Weymouth and set- tled on land bought of John Raue, whose house had been burned by the Indians in King Philip's war. Some of the timbers of the original house are in the house now standing on the property. In 1900 the Thompson place at Halifax was sold to John Ljinberg and passed out of the hands of the Thomp- son family, which had owned it from the first set- tlement.


In 1669-70 William Reed was fence viewer of Weymouth. He was elected a selectman November 28, 1681, and in 1682 perambulated the Hingham line with Corporal French. He was again selectman in 1686 and 1687, 1695, 1696 and 1697. He also served the town on important special committees at vari- ous times. His will names his children: They were: John, born October 21, 1680, died young; William, born May 24, 1682, died June 3, 1753; married, 1703, Alice Nash; Jolin, born July 10, 1687, married (first) Sarah Hersey; married (second) Mary Whitmarsh ; Jacob, born November 6, 1691, died 1766, married (first) Sarah Hersey; married (second) Hannah Noyes, widow; Bushna, married Nicholas Porter ; Mercy, born at Weymouth, married Whit- marsh; Mary, born at Weymouth; Hester; Sarah, born March 21, 1694, married Hezekiah King.


(III) William Reed, son of William Reed (2), was born at Weymouth, May 24, 1682, died June 3, 1753. He married, 1703, Alice Nash. She died December 5, 1751. She was a daughter of Lieutenant Jacob Nash, the son of James Nash, who settled in Weymouth, in 1628. William Reed moved to Abing- ton in 1708. At the first town meeting held in Ab- ington he was elected town clefk and selectman. He was fence viewer in Weymouth in 1707, and served that town as a member of many important committees. Rev. Mr. Dodge in his journal June


3, 1753, says of William Reed : "Attended the funeral of the aged Capt. Reed, the largest I have ever seen in town. Ten at least of his descendants in the male line have been liberally educated. Of these two have been members of Congress, viz. : his grand- son, the late Rev. Dr. John Reed, of West Bridge- water and his son, Hon. John Reed, or Yarmouth, now a member. After the expiration of his present term he will have been in Congress twenty-two years-eighteen in succession"


The children of William Reed (3) were: Alice, born in Boston, October 19, 1703, died October 24, 1703; William, born December 15, 1704, died Novem- ber 21, 1724; Obadiah, born March 14, 1707, died November 4, 1753; married, October 19, 1731, Mary Nash; Ebenezer, born July 13, 1709, married, Feb- ruary 21, 1732, Hannah Thompson; Alice, born April 4, 1711, died September 29, 1724; Daniel, born December 6, 1713, died April 5, 1781 ; married (first) September 15, 1739, Ruth White; married (second), February 7, 1776, Sarah Hamlin; James, born March 3, 1716, died aged thirty-seven years; married, May 10, 1739, Abigail Nash; Solomon, born October 22, 1719. died 1785, married (first), in 1748, Abigail Stoughton, of Connecticut ; married (second) Sarah Reed, widow of Elijah Reed; Jacob; Moses, born January 15, 1723, married Pliebe ; Alice, born April 19, 1725, married, December 1, 1748, Jacob Reed.


(IV) Rev. Solomon Reed, son of Captain Wil- liam Reed (3), was born October 22, 1719, at Wey- mouth, Massachusetts. He died in the spring of 1785, aged sixty-six years. He married (first), in 1748, Abigail Stoughton, of Connecticut; married (second), Sarah Reed, the daughter of Jacob Reed, his father's youngest brother.


He graduated at Harvard College in 1739. He was ordained as minister of the Second Congrega- tional Church in Framingham in 1746, and remained there until 1756, when he was installed as minister of Titicut, a parish in the northwestern part of Middleboro and the southwest part of Bridge- water. His health failed in 1684 and he died in the spring of 1685, at little past sixty-five years of age. He seems to have been a very earnest and pious minister of the church. There are a few of his manuscript sermons in the archives of the Pil- grim Society at Plymouth, written in a fine clear hand, and showing decided ability as a writer. There is also a manuscript journal for the period from October 3, 1743, to January 9, 1745. During this period Rev. Mr. Whitefield was preaching in this country and laying the foundations of many churches.


In his will he mentions by name all his children except Sarah. His children were: Sarah, born 1750; John, born November II, 1751, married (first), in 1780, Hannah Sampson; married (second), in 1822, Mrs. Phebe Sampson Paddock; Solomon, born March 18, 1753, died February 2, 1808; married, March 14, 1781, Susannah Willard; Samuel, born 1754, died July 13, 1812; married, 1780, Anna Shaw ; Timothy, born 1756, married, 1788, Hannah King- man.


(V) Rev. Samuel Reed, son of Rev. Solomon Reed (4), was born probably at Framingham, Mass- achusetts, where his father was then pastor. He died July 13, 1812, aged fifty-seven, and in the thirty- third years of his ministry. He married, 1780, Anna Shaw, of Warwick, Massachusetts. He graduated at Yale College in 1777 and was ordained over the church and society at Warwick, Massachusetts, in 1779. He was said to be a man of sound sense, a de- voted Christian and much beloved by his people and the community generally. The inscription on the monument erected by his parishioners at Warwick




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