Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 81

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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Descendants of Abraham Howe, another emi- grant settler, also settled in Marlboro, however. In 1662 he and Goodman Rice were appointed to make a grant of land to Thomas Danforth, or rather de- termine the size of a grant made by the general court in payment of services. John Howe opened the first public house in Marlboro. He petitioned the general court September 30, 1662, to be excused from training because he was aged, thick of hearing and maintained three soldiers in his family. He died in Marlboro, May 28, 1680. His will was dated May 24, 1680, and proved June 15, 1680. He made bequests to his wife, Mary, and children : Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, Eleazer, Sarah Ward, Mary With- erby; grandchild, John, son of John. He gave Thomas "the horse he troops on."

His children were: John, born 1640, married, January 22, 1662, Elizabeth Woolson, was killed by

the Indians; Samuel, October 20, 1642, married June 5, 1663, at Sudbury, Martha Bent; Sarah, Sep- tember 25, 1644, married, June, 1667, Samuel Ward, died young; Mary, August 8, 1648; Isaac, August 8, 1648, married, June 17, 1671, Frances Wood; Josiah, married March 18, 1671, Mary Haynes, of Sudbury; Mary, June 18, 1654, married, September 18, 1672, John Wetherby; Thomas, June 12, 1656, married Sarah Hosmer; married (second) Mary Barron; Daniel, June 3, 1658, died 1661 ; Alexander, December 29, 1661, died January, 1662; Eleazer, Jan- uary 18, 1662, married, 1683, Hannah Howe, daugh- ter of Abraham Howe, of Marlboro.

(II) Colonel Samuel Howe, son of John Howe (I), was born October 20, 1642, in Sudbury, Massa- chusetts. He married, June 5, 1663, Martha Bent, daughter of John Bent, of Sudbury, and settled in his native town. He was admitted a freeman in Sudbury in 1671. He married (second) Sarah Clapp, September 18, 1685, and had other children. He was an important man in his day. He was colonel of the regiment made up of companies from the towns in the vicinity. He was a town officer.

The children of Samuel and Martha (Bent) Howe were: John, born July 24, 1664; Mary, March 2, 1665; Lydia; Samuel, May 19, 1668; Martha, Oc- tober 9, 1669; Daniel, November 2, 1674; David, November 2, 1674; Hannah, April 6, 1677. The children of Colonel Samuel and Sarah (Clapp) Howe were: Daniel, February 24, 1689; (probably) Moses, about 1695; Micagalı, August 22, 1700.

(III) David Howe, son of Colonel Samuel Howe (2), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, November 2, 1674. He married, December 25, 170 -- (probably 1702, record torn). He built and conducted the Wayside Inn. He received from his father, Samuel Howe, in 1702, the farm on which it is located. It was part of one hundred and thirty acres in the New Grant territory, either lot 48 or 49. The tavern was built a few years after David Howe acquired the land. The Indians were threatening during the first decade of the eighteenth century, and the work- men engaged in building it had to resort at night to the Parmenter garrison half a mile away. It was opened as a public house. It was not until 1746 that it became known as the Red Horse Tav- ern. In that year Colonel Ezekiel Howe, David's son and successor as tavern keeper, put up as a sign a red horse, a time honored custom of the early taverns, being to designate for the benefit of the unlettered the house by some picture or sign by which one who could not read might identify the house. In later years it became known as the Wayside Inn from the Tales of the Wayside Inn written by Longfellow. Of course, the old tavern cannot claim all that Longfellow ascribed to it, but no more fitting country tavern could have been selected for his purpose. It is a fine specimen of early architecture, plain, but spacious and in- teresting.

During the revolutionary war, when it was con- ducted by Colonel Ezekiel Howe, the Red Horse Inn was the centre of revolutionary activity. After the death of the famous old colonel his son, Adam Howe, conducted the hotel for forty years. Then came the railroads and the paths of travel changed. Lyman Howe was the last Howe in the direct line to run the hotel. He sold it in 1866. The Wayside Inn has been at times since then run as a road house. It is much frequented by lovers of Long- fellow. At present the old house is an attractive spot for automobile owners who are interested in colonial history and antiquities. The quiet dignity of the old tavern is very charming, much different is the scene there today from the bustle and activity

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of nearly two hundred years ago when the tavern was one of the best on the road from Boston to the colonies to the westward. It was a stopping place for settlers on their way to their new homes. It was a halting place for troops during all the Indian wars and the revolution. The farmers on their way to and from the market in Boston stopped therc. The stages to and from Boston passed there. Wash- ington and other celebrated men have slept in the old inn. It would be of great historic interest even if Longfellow had not immortalized it. The region round about corresponds well with the character of the building. It is on the edge of a plain in what is called the Peckham district at the foot of Nobscot Hill. Close to the inn runs a little brook known as Hop brook. The hotel stands at the side of the broad road, looking today much as it did probably a hundred and seventy-five years ago. David Howe died August 3, 1759, at Sudbury.

The children of David and Hepsibah (Death) Howe were: Thankful, born December 15, 1703, married Peter Howe, April 9, 1723; Hepsibah, Octo- ber 1, 1706; Eliphalet, June 3, 1710, settled in Rut- land; Israel, May 6, 1712, settled in Rutland ; Ruth, February 23, 1714-5; David, June 13, 1717; Ezekiel, April 5, 1720, settled in Sudbury, owned the tavern there.

(IV) Ezekiel Howe, son of David Howe (3), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, April 5, 1720. He married Bathsheba , January 19, 1743-4, and about the time of his marriage succeeded his father in the ownership of the tavern. It was in 1746 that he named it the Red Horse Tavern. He was chosen lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Henry Gard- ner's fourth Middlesex regiment, and commissioned February 15, 1776, but he declined to serve. He was chosen colonel of the same regiment and commis- sioned May 10, 1776. He marched with his regiment at the Lexington alarm and served most of the time during the revolution until ill health compelled him to resign in a letter dated January 26, 1779. The resignation was accepted February 4, 1779. He was in some of the New York campaigns.

Colonel Ezekiel Howe was probably the most prominent citizen of Sudbury and the vicinity at the period of the revolution. He was honored and re- spected by his fellow citizen, a man of property and influence. He held town offices and various positions of honor.

The children of Colonel Ezekiel and Bathsheba Howe were: Ruth, born May 2, 1745; Ann, January 8, 1746-7, (one record gives 1747-8) ; Hepsibah, April 27, 1749; Bathsheba, January 10, 1752; Molly, August 13, 1754; Ezekiel, May 19, 1756; Olive, July 19, 1758; Eliphalet March 23, 1761; Adam, May 15, 1763.

(V) Eliphalet Howe, son of Colonel Ezekiel Howe (4), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, March 23, 1761. He married Hannah Henry, June 19, 1788. She died September 23, 1822. He died December 7, 1834. He settled in Barre, near Rut- land, where his Uncle Eliphalet was one of the early settlers on Walnut Hill. The history of Rutland mentions the uncle among the first settlers. The name was spelled How in practically all the early records of Sudbury and Rutland, while an- other family named Howe was living in the same towns. The distinction of the families ceased when practically all the Howe family added the final "e." The IJowe family is one of the most prominent and numerous of all the early families in Worcester county. Eliphalet Howe's place was in Barre and there his descendants still live.

The children of Eliphalet and Hannah Howe were: Adam, born April 8, 1789, drowned June 13,

1806; Hannah, May 5, 1791, married Moses Law- rence, Jr., of Hardwick, February 18, 1819; Artemas, born July 3, 1796, married (intentions dated Decem- ber 18,) 1822, Sophia M. Wetherell, of Petersham ; Asenath, February 24, 1798, married John W. Wes- ton, December 29. 1819; Submit, October 9, 1799; Charlotte, June 18, 1802, married Stillman Clark, of Hardwick (intentions dated April 22,) 18.42; Eli- phalet, February 18, 1804.

(VI) Eliphalet Howe, Jr., son of Eliphalet Howe (5), was born in Barre, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 18, 1804. He married Keziah Kinsman, June 28, 1833. She was born January 1, 1802. He was a farmer living in Barre where all his children were born. The children of Eliphalet and Keziah Howe were: Samuel Austin, born May 6, 1834; Mercy Ellen, December 25, 1836, married Franklin Babbitt, died August 1, 1885; Augustus Elliott, born in Barre, October 23, 1837; Maria, October 23, 1839; Christina, May 4, 1843; Mary Elizabeth, November 1, 1847, died January 17, 1848; Frank.

(VII) Samuel Austin Howe, son of Eliphalet Howe (6), was born in Barre, Massachusetts, May 6, 1834. He died in Barre, February 12, 1905. He married, December 29, 1858, Lucy Jane Warner, who was born June 15, 1835, at Hardwick, Massachu- setts, of the well known Warner family. She died October 18, 1887. They lived in Barre and West- boro, where Mr. Howe carried on a farm and con- ducted a large milk route.

The children of Samuel A. and Lucy J. Howe were: Ella J., born December 19, 1859, married William A. Reed, June 18, 1879; has two children : William C., born April 4, 1880, and Vera, August 7, 1889; Daniel Austin, January 17, 1862, married Florence G. Tenney, December 5, 1899; Walter Eliphalet, Westboro, January 15, 1868, married Mary Ballou Upton, and had: Maud, Daniel W .; James Weston, Westboro, June 20, 1873, married Carrie Delano, and had one child, Madeline.

( VIII) Daniel Austin Howe, son of Samuel Austin Howe (7), was born in Barre, Massachu- setts, January 17, 1862. His father moved from Barre to Westboro when he was six years old, and he attended the public schools of Westboro, work- ing on his father's farm in the summers until he was seventeen years of age. He attended Bryan & Stratton's Commercial College in Boston. At the age of seventeen he went to work as bookkeeper for Chickering & Boynton, of Westboro. Four years later he bought the store, but sold it immedi- ately and came to Worcester to locate. With George E. Stearns he bought the tea and coffee business of Alfred Holden, of Worcester. This busi- ness had been established in 1857 by Mr. Holden and had been in successful operation for twenty- seven years. The firm of Stearns & Howe began business in 1883. After a short time Mr. Howe bought out his partner and has since that time been in business alone at the same location next the Bay State House on Main street, Worcester. When he bought the business it was retail and later he added the wholesale department. Now two-thirds of the business is wholesale. Mr. Howe deals in spices, canned goods and groceries, The house is known all over New England and Mr. Howe's salesmen cover most of New England in their regular trips. Mr. Howe has been a successful business man, and at the same time he has found time to own and con- duct a stock farm at Barre, the home of his an- cestors. The farm is Mr. Howe's summer home.

Mr. Howe was formerly a member of Anchoria Lodge of Odd Fellows; the Hancock Club; Utopia Rebekah Lodge, No. 107; Worcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is a member of the Worcester

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Board of Trade; Worcester Agricultural Society and the Worcester County Horticultural Society. He is a Republican in politics. He is an active member of Central Congregational Church and Sunday school, and has been auditor of the church.

He married, December 5, 1899, Florence Gray Tenney. She was born at Auburndale, Massachu- setts, August 5. 1877, the daughter of Arthur Bur- ton and Harriet Elizabeth (Gray) Tenney. Her father was born at Newport, New Hampshire, May. 1846. Her mother was born at Waterford, Con- necticut, September, 1844. She attended the Wor- cester schools and was graduated from the Wor- cester high school in the class of 1896. They re- side at 8 Burncoat street, Worcester. The children of Daniel Austin and Florence Gray (Tenney) Howe are: Mildred Gray, born February 24, 1901 ; Frank Warner, October 27, 1902; Daniel Austin, Jr., November 24, 1903; Florence Ella, September I, 1905.

THE TENNEY FAMILY. Thomas Tenney, the emigrant ancestor of Mrs. Daniel Austin Howe, (Florence Gray Tenney) was a member of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers's company of colonists from York- shire, England. They arrived in Salem, Massachu- setts, December 1, 1638, and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts, in April, 1639. He was one of the proprietors in 1643. He testified that he was sixty- six years old May 4, 1680, hence he was born in 1614. He was twenty-four years old when with his wife Ann he came to this country. She died and was buried September 26, 1657. He married (sec- ond). 1658, Elizabeth Parratt, of Rowley. She re- ceived a bequest of ten pounds from Rev. Ezekiel Rogers when he died. in 1660-I. Thomas Tenney's home lot is now or was lately owned and occupied by the Prime family, next south of house of George B. Blodget, now or formerly. Tenney had grants of land in 1661-67-70-73-74. He was ensign in the militia company. He was town marshal in 1653-4 to 1666. He gave the official warning of town meetings in 1650-53-60-61-66. He was overseer of the poor in 1656-64-71. He was selectman in 1660- 61-70. He was viewer of fences, highways and chimneys in 1669, constable in 1656, tithingman in 1680. His services were evidently in constant de- mand by his fellow citizens.

The children of Thomas and Ann Tenney were: John, horn December IT, 1610: Hannah. March 15, 1642; Mary, June 17. 1644; Thomas. July 16, 1648; James. August 15. 1650; Sarah, April 15, 1652, died April 10. 1653: Daniel. July 6. 1653.

(II) Deacon John Tenney, son of Thomas Ten- ney (I). was born in Rowley. Massachusetts, De- cember 14, 1640. He married, in Rowley. December 14. 1663. Mercy Parrat, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Parrat, of Rowley. She was born July 23, 1646, and died November 27. 1667. He married (second). in Merrimac, now Bradford, Massachu- setts. December 2. 1668. Susannah Woodbury. daugh- ter of Humphrey and Elizabeth Woodbury, of Beverly, Massachusetts.

John Tenney settled at Rowley, later at Brad- ford. Susannah, his wife, was born February 4, 1648. She was dismissed from the Beverly church to the First Church at Bradford in 1682-3. She died April 9, 1716. He bought one hundred acres of land of Edward Hazen. of Rowley, May 20, 1664. He was moderator of the first town meeting ever held in the town of Bradford, Massachusetts, February 2, 1668. In 1668 he was clerk of writs and in 1669 selectman. He was on the school com- mittee and on the first list of deacons of the church, dated December 13, 1702. He was one of a commit-

tee to hire the minister June 28, 1705, and on an im- portant committee appointed to heal differences in the church, showing that he must have been a per- son of tact and discretion. He was one of the com- mittee that invited Rev. Thomas Symmies to become the Bradford pastor, June 14, 1708. John Tenney made a large number of real estate deals at Row- ley. He died April 13, 1722. Of his children there are records only of two: Sarah, born October 17, 1665, baptized January 8, 1666; Samuel, November 20, 1667, baptized November 23, 1687.

(III) Deacon Samuel Tenney, son of John Ten- ney (2), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, No- vember 20, 1667. He married Abigail Bailey, dauglı- ter of Deacon Joseph Bailey. She died at Brad- ford. November 2, 1689. He married (second), in Bradford, December 18, 1690, Sarah Boynton, daugh- ter of Captain Joseph and Sarah (Swan) Boynton, of Bradford. She was born January II, 1671-2, and joined the church in full communion August 4, 1691, at Bradford. She died April 3, 1709. He married (third) Hannah Moody. of Newbury, Jan- uary 26, 1710-II. She joined the church July 1, 1716. She died October 29, 1745, at Bradford, now Groveland, Massachusetts.

His home lot was near or at the place of T. H. Finney, now or formerly, (1891). He joined the church January 23, 1687. He was chosen elder March 28, 1718. He was a shorthand writer, then a rare accomplishment, and used to take down the sermons for practice. He was a gifted singer and led the church service for twenty-five years. He was altogether one of the most distinguished men of his time. He repeatedly held most of the offices of trust and honor within the gift of his fellow citi- zens. He was a lieutenant in the provincial troops and member of the colonial assembly of 1725. He was one of the few who voted against the King's charter in the assembly. He died February 3, 1747-8, in his eighty-first year. A stone suitably inscribed marks his grave in the Groveland burying ground. His will was dated October 23, 1735.

The child of Samuel and Abigail (Bailey) Ten- ney was: Abigail, born November 22, 1689. The children of Samuel and Sarah Boynton (Tenney) were: Mercy, October 23, 1691; John, December 8, 1692; Susanna, February 5, 1694-5, married John Bailey; Sarah, March 29, 1696: Samuel, December 17, 1697; Joseph, March 16, 1698; Ann, September 24, 1700; Daniel, February 14, 1702; Jonathan, De- cember 8, 1703; Dorothy, December 20, 1704: Philip, December 16, 1706.

(IV) Daniel Tenney, son of Samuel Tenney (3), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, now Groveland, February 14, 1702. He married Sarah Kimball, who died August 31, 1732, aged twenty- seven years. He married (second), May 18, 1733. Ann Coleman, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. He settled in Bradford, where he joined the church June 26, 1720. He died May 7, 1751, and his son Thomas was appointed administrator of his estate. His widow died June 28, 1768, aged sixty-eight years, and was buried in the Groveland graveyard. The children of Daniel and Sarah (Kimball) Tenney were: Deborah, born June 30, 1726; Daniel, (twin) July 26, 1730, died young ; Thomas (twin), July 26, 1730. The children of Daniel and Ann ( Coleman) Tenney were: Daniel, March 16, 1734; Jonathan, January 29, 1735-6; Sarah, July 29, 1737; Shubael, January 5, 1739-40.

(V) Daniel Tenney, son of Daniel Tenney (4), was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, March 16, 1734. He married, June 25. 1761, Joanna Cheney. They settled in Bradford. The children of Daniel

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and Ann (Coleman) Tenney were: Daniel, born April 4, 1762; Eldad, April 20, 1764; Rhoda, August 25, 1766; Moses, April 16, 1769; Thomas, September 21, 1771; Aaron, July II, 1774; Joanna, March 8, 1776; Paul, September 12, or 24, 1781, M. D., was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1803 with A. M. degree; married, August 12, 1804, Anna Hoyt, daugliter of Samuel Hoyt, of Poplin, New Hamp- shire ; resided at Bedford Hills, Wilmot, New Hamp- shire, removed to Williamsburg, Ohio; died Septem- ber 29, 1844.

(VI) Thomas Tenney, son of Daniel Tenney (5), was born at Bradford, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 21, 1771. He married Hannah Long, of Hop- kinton, New Hampshire. He married (second) Susan Cheney. In1 1796 he removed to Newport, New Hampshire, and occupied first the Hiall Call farm; later and for many years he lived on the place now or formerly of H. F. Pike. He was a carpenter by trade. He died in Newport, 1841.

The children of Thomas Tenney were: Joshua, born December 2, 1795; Mary, December 3, 1798; Hannah, September o, 1800; Temperance, July 20, 1808; Susan, June 10, 1807; Abijah W., November 25, 1810; Isaac C., July II, 1814; Daniel \V., October 17, 1816.

(VII) Abijah W. Tenney, son of Thomas Ten- ney (6), was born in Newport, New Hampshire, November 25, 1810. He married, August 9, 1840, Hannah Stevens Jenks, daughter of Captain Bela W. and Mary (Stevens) Jenks. She was born No- vember 26, 1816, and died September 12, 1848. He married (second), June 15, 1849, Emily Baker, daughter of James and Sophia (Chapin) Baker. She was born April 22, 1823. He lived at Southville in Newport, New Hampshire. He was a man of very genial nature, yet just to all with whom he dealt, and exacting justice and, honesty in return. Living an earnest, Christian life, trusted and hon- ored by all who knew him, he exemplified the Golden Rule from day to day. He had very strict ideas in regard to temperance and his entire family was brought up in accordance with them. In politics he was a stanch Republican. Although very much interested in town as well as national affairs, and enjoying the esteem of his fellow-townsmen, yet he would never hold any public office as he disliked heartily the many disputes and controversies in which a man of public affairs must be concerned. Besides the farm which he always carried on, he was for many years engaged at his trade as a mill- wright. He was always considered a very good mechanic and was skilled at various trades.

The children of Abijah W. and Hannalı Stevens (Jenks) Tenney were: Abijalı Wallace, born Sep- tember 9, 1841, died September 22, 1844; Mary Jenks, May 18, 1845, married Thomas Adelbert Mon- tague: Arthur Burton, May 22, 1846; George Hub- bard, July 26, 1848, died December II, 1866.

(VIII) Arthur Burton Tenney, son of Abijah W. Tenney, (7), was born at Newport, New Hamp- shire, May 22, 1846. He received his education here at the district schools and until nineteen years old worked with his father. Then wishing to follow the carpenter's trade he left Newport, finally coming to Worcester. He returned to Newport where for a short time he was engaged in building. Soon he moved to Auburndale, Massachusetts, and there he took up the building business in company with Mr. Soule. He took his family next to Holyoke, Massa- chusetts, where they were settled for several years while he was engaged in New York and many of the nearer cities and towns until he finally came to Worcester, where he was connected with the erec-

tion of many of the large buildings of the city, the Knowles Loom Works being the last one. While living in Worcester he superintended the construc- tion of several large buildings in Providence, Rhode Island, among them being that of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co., and the B. H. Gladding Co.' After the death of his wife, which occurred in 1893, he settled in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he lived until 1900. Then, owing to poor health, he went to Los Angeles, California, where he is at present successfully engaged in architecture and building.

He married (first), at Worcester, September 17, 1868, Harriet Elizabeth Gray, who was born at Waterford, Connecticut, September 25, 1844.

The children of Arthur Burton and Harriet Elizabeth (Gray) Tenney were: Louis Burton, born December 18, 1872, married Mary Gould, of Paw- tucket, July 3, 1900, has one child, Florence G. ; Flor- ence Gray, August 5, 1877; Estelle Palmer, October I, 1882, died in Providence, Rhode Island, March 18, 1892. Mr. Tenney married (second), 1897, Mar- tha A. Sheldon, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(IX) Florence Gray Tenney, daughter of Ar- thur Burton Tenney (8), was born August 5, 1877, at Auburndale, Massachusetts. She married Daniel Austin Howe, December 5, 1899, at Worcester, Massachusetts. (See sketch of Daniel A. Howe and family.)

FRED WENDELL WHITE. Thomas White (1), of Weymouth, was the pioneer ancestor of Fred Wendell White, city treasurer of Worcester, Massachusetts.

He came from his home in England in 1624 or soon after, and settled in Weymouth. He was ad- mitted a freeman March 3, 1636, and was a deputy to the general court in 1636 and 1637, 1657 and 1670. He was a proprietor of the town as early as 1643. According to the deposition to the will of Anne Looman, made October 21, 1659, he was born in England in 1599 or 1600. He was a carpenter by trade. He died August, 1679. His will was dated July 5, 1679, and proved August 28, of that year. He mentioned the children named below, grandchil- dren Lydia, Mary and Ebenezer White, Pastor Sam- uel Torrey and Elder Edward Bates. Thomas Dyer, who witnessed the will, was of Mendon later.

The children of Thomas White were: Joseph, see forward; Samuel, born 1642, admitted a free- man 1666, married Mary Dyer, son of Thomas Dyer, named above; Thomas, admitted a freeman 1681, married Mary Pratt, of Braintree; Hannah, married. June 24, 1660, John Baxter; Ebenezer, (Lieutenant), married Hannah Phillips, daughter of Nicholas, settled in Weymouth.

(11) Captain Joseph White, son of Thomas White (1). was born about 1640 in Weymouth. He married, September 9, 1660, Lydia Rogers, daughter . of John Rogers, of Weymouth, one of the pioneers there. Captain White died March 23, 1706, his wife Lydia died May 8, 1727. He settled in Nipmuc or Mendon in 1663, and was formally accepted on the list of ten men from Weymouth, and thirteen from Braintree who constituted the first settlers of the town. His was one of the first fifteen families located in Mendon in 1662 and 1663. He was the largest taxpayer in the town for many years. He held many offices and served on special committees for the new town. Several of his children were born in Weymouth before he went to Mendon, several of them were born while the family was away from Mendon during King Philip's war. Savage gives eleven children. The Mendon records seem to give

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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 81

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