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1731, Mercy Wellington, born May 26, 1711 ; Samuel, July 3, 1712, married Abigail Stearns; Elizabeth, January 3, 1715, died before 1743, not in father's will; Daniel, October 21, 1719, married Martha -; Jonathan, September 28, 1724, married, December 25, 1745, Abigail Blanchard.
(V) Jonas Peirce, son of John Peirce (4), was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, December 20, 1705. He married, January 4, 1727, Abigail Comee. They resided at Lexington and Westminster, Massachu- setts. Their children were: Jonas, born July 7, 1730, married Sarah Bridge and Lydia Gregory ; Nathan, December 15, 1732, married, December 26, 1753, Sarah Mead; Elizabeth, May 31, 1735, married, November 15, 1753, Timothy Fessenden ; John, July 4. 1736, married Abigail Davenport and - Beard ; Thaddeus, May 14, 1739, died December 14, 1760; Solomon, June 15, 1742; Abigail, August 3, 1744, married, March 30, 1762, Nathan Derby ; Mary, February 7, 1747.
(VI) Captain Solomon Peirce, son of Jonas Peirce (5), was born June 15, 1742. He married, December 15, 1763, Amity Fessenden, born June 15, 1743, died February 18, 1811. They moved from Lexington to Cambridge (Arlington). Both he and his wife Amity were transferred from the Lexing- ton Church to the Second Precinct Church at Cam- bridge, June 13. 1788.
Solomon Peirce was present and participated in the battle of Lexington. April 19, 1775, and was wounded in the engagement. He was on duty at the battle of Bunker Hill. June 17, 18. He served five days, March 4 to 8, 1776, at Dorchester Heights as a member of John Bridge's Lexington company. In the campaign against Burgoyne in 1777 he was sergeant in a Concord company under Captain George Minott. In 1780 he was made first lieutenant of Captain William Munroe's company. In this same company after the war closed he was made captain of the state militia, July 25, 1784. He died October 16, 1821.
Their children were: Amity, born August 26, 1765, married - Goodwin, died 1829; Jonas, No- vember 16, 1766; Abial, September 22, 1768, married (first) Peggy Russell, 1789; (second) Anna King- man, 1801. died 1816; Solomon, September 10, 1770, married Polly Green, 1794, and died in Boston ; Samuel, June 10, 1772, married Sophia Stedman, died 1861; Abijah, March 11, 1775, married (first) Mary Prentiss, (second) Lucy Emery, died 1843; Elizabeth, January 8, 1777, married, December 20, 1793, Amos Russell, died 1844: Lucy, March 10, 1779, married. April 5, 1797, Josiah Ditson, died 1859; Thaddeus, April 8, 1781, married Lucy Learned, died 1838; Leonard, March 17, 1783. mar- ried, 1803. Relief Allen, died at Danvers, Massa- chusetts. September 5, 1846; William, January 2, 1786, married (first) Elizabeth Floyd (second) Sarah Perkins (third) Caroline M. Mansfield, died 1878.
(VII) Jonas Peirce, son of Solomon Peirce (6), was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 16, 1766. He married Lydia Prentiss, who was baptized April 17. 1771, died September 6, 1865. He died January. 1833. He resided in Lexington and joined the Precinct Church in Cambridge (Arling- ton). Both outlived their covenant with this church, October 20, 1805, and on that date Lydia was again baptized. He was precinct assessor of Arlington in 1805 and 1807. Their children were: Lydia, born December 25. 1700, married Thomas Gould, born 1785: Anna D., October, 1792, married, April 14. 1814, Alfred Locke; Jonas, September, 1794, married Mary T. Livingston : George, August, 1796, married Harriet Russell; Roxa, August, 1799, married, Sep-
tember 30, 1821, Alfred Brooks, of Lexington; Ebenezer Prentiss, August, 1802, married Elizabeth R. Brown; Sarah P., January, 1804, married, Au- gust 29, 1824. Daniel Grant, of Lowell, Massachu- setts; Thomas P., May 28, 1806, baptized June 15, 1806, married Emeline Locke and Harriet Locke; John A. P., April 1, 1810, baptized May 27, 1810, married, Mary A. Locke; Amanda, May 20, 1813, married Stephen Morton, of Arlington; Elizabeth M., June 16, baptized September 29, 1816, married, November 24, 1836, Thomas Ramsdell, resided in Arlington.
(VIII) Ebenezer Prentiss Pierce, son of Jonas Peirce (7), was born at Arlington, Massachusetts, August 9, 1802. He married, May 3, 1827, at Arling- ton, Elizabeth Reed Brown, born June 21, 1804, in Charlestown, and died May 24, 1883. He died April 20, 1870. He was a farmer and resided in Arling- ton, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools. He was interested in public affairs and was a man of importance in the community. In politics he was a Whig. His children were: Susan L., born March, 1828; Eliza, September 18, 1829, married, November 13, 1848, Charles Keniston, born November II, 1827, died May 7, 1874; she died July 8, 1895; Emily, July 21, 1831, married, Novem- ber 14, 1852, Benjamin D. Swain, born May 20, 1826, died August 24, 1882; she died August 30, 1856; Frances A., November 21, 1833, married, May 15, 1860, Benjamin D. Swain (his first wife was Emily Pierce) ; Eben F., November 9, 1835 ; Thomas B., October 28, 1837, died January 26, 1902, un- married, at Townsend.
(1X) Eben F. Pierce, son of Ebenezer Prentiss Pierce (8), was born at Arlington, Massachusetts. November 9, 1835. He received his early educa- tion in the public schools of his native town. Upon leaving school he took up the trade of carpenter and worked at the same for a number of years. Being a skillful mechanic he naturally drifted into the higher branches of his craft. He worked at cabinet making and in 1860 came to Leominster to work in the piano case factory. He went to Erving, Massachusetts, in 1869. In 1871 he removed to Greenville, New Hampshire, and in 1880 to Marblehead, Massachusetts. He returned to Leom- inster, Massachusetts, in 1885, to open a furniture store, and the past twenty years this store has grown and prospered greatly. Their are few gen- eral furniture stores in the county with a larger stock or better facilities. The store is located on Main street in the centre of the trading district of the town.
In the fraternal and secret societies he is one of the well known men in the town. Among the orders to which he belongs are the Masons, Knights Templar, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red . Men, and Royal Arcanum. He is a director in the Leominster Co-operative Bank. He and his fam- ily attend the Unitarian Church at Leominster. Mr. Pierce is a man of enterprise and public spirit. He has won a high place in the esteem of business men for his square dealing and integrity. His per- sonal qualities have won for him many friends in the community where most of his life has been spent.
He married, June 14. 1863. Susan M. Fleming, horn December 18, 1837. a daughter of William Fleming. of Clinton, Massachusetts. She had four children, all of whom died in infancy. She died June 0, 1888. He married (second), October 10, 1889, Eva F. Prescott, of Greenville. New Hamp- shire. They have one child Marjorie Elizabeth, born August 12, 1891.
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BUCK FAMILY. William Buck (1), the immi- grant ancester of Eugene Richardson Buck and Thurston Buck, of Sterling, Massachusetts, was born in England, 1585. He came to New England, April 15, 1635, at the age of fifty, on the ship "Increase," and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His home there was in the West Field, northeast of Garden street, on a highway formerly to the Great Swamp, now Raymond street. He died in Cam- bridge, January 24, 1657-58, aged seventy-three years, and the inventory of his estate was filed by his son Roger, April 3, 1658. He probably had a wife and other children in England. So far as is known he and his son Roger were the only members of the family who came to America. William Buck fol- lowed his trade of plowwright in Cambridge.
(II) Roger Buck, son of William Buck (1), was born in England 1617. He came to this coun- try at the age of eighteen and settled with his father in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and succeeded to his father's estate there after his death in 1658. He also followed his father's trade of plowwright. He was for a time the public executioner, and the rec- ords show that he carried out orders of the court for public whippings of criminals in 1668. He re- moved to Woburn about 1685, and sold his home in Cambridge to his son-in-law, Thomas Baverick, with the stipulation that if the grantee wished to sell, Ephraim Buck should have the first chance to buy, viz .: the preference. Roger Buck died at Woburn, November 10, 1693. The children of Roger and Susan Buck, all born at Cambridge, were: Samuel, born February 6, 1642-43; John, September 2, 16.44, died 1664; Ephraim, Jr., July 26, 1646, see forward; Mary, born June 23, 1648, died August 31, 1669; Ruth, November 6, 1653, married Thomas Baverick; Elizabeth, July 5, 1657, married, August 20, 1678, Joshua Wood; Lydia, married, March 3, 1672-73, Henry Smith.
(III) Ephraim Buck, son of Roger Buck (2), was born in Cambridge, July 26, 1646. He went to Woburn and settled there with his father. He died 1721. His will was dated November 23, 1717, and proved March 20, 1720-21. He married, January I, 1670, Sarah Brooks. Their children, all born at Wo- burn, were: Sarah, born January 1I, 1674, married, February 21, 1694, Thomas Grover; Ephraim, Jr., July 13, 1676, see forward; John, January 1, 1678, died January 27, 1679; John, February 7, 1680, re- sided at Woburn; Samuel, November 13, 1682, set- tled in Woburn; Eunice, July 7, 1685; Ebenezer, May 20, 1689, settled in Woburn; Mary, October 28, 1691, married Nathaniel Pike.
(IV) Ephraim Buck, son of Ephraim Buck (3), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, July 13, 1676. He settled at Woburn, but possibly moved away about 1706. He married Esther Waget, December 3, 1696. Their children: Sarah, born September 8, 1697, married, May 22, 1729, William Fisk, of Andover; Hester, April 15, 1700; Ephraim, Octo- ber II, 1702, married, July 26, 1726, Abigail Pierce ; (second) Mary Wood, of Reading, May 9, 1728; Susanna, July 8, 1705; Isaac, about 1706, sce for- ward; probably other children.
(V) Isaac Buck, son of Ephraim Buck (4), was born about 1705 in Woburn, Massachusetts, or vicinity. He was living at Woburn when he mar- ried, at Reading, Massachusetts, December 3, 1729, Ruth Graves. Isaac Buck moved to Southboro and with his wife Ruth sold their rights in the estate of her father, Joseph Graves, late of Southboro, Massachusetts, October 19, 1757. Among their chil- dren were: Isaac, born about 1730; Esther, mar- ried at Southboro, May 4, 1762, Elisha Bruce, Jr .; probably others.
(VI) Isaac Buck, son of Isaac Buck (5), was born about 1730. He removed to Southboro with his father, and married Mary Richards about 1755. His children: Isaac, born in Southboro, September 27, 1757, see forward; Susanna, married, November 14, 1793, Elisha Bemis. The family removed to Bolton, Massachusetts.
(VII) Isaac Buck, son of Isaac Buck (0), was born at Southboro, September 27, 1757. He removed to Bolton with the family. He was of Bolton dur- ing the revolution, in Captain Benjamin Hastings company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment, in 1775- He was matross in Captain James Swan's company, Colonel James Craft's regiment, in 1776. He was also in Captain Philip Marett's company in 1776-77. He was in the Continental army in Captain John Houghton's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment, in 1778; in Captain Redding's company, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's regiment, in 1777; and in Captain Thomas Jackson's company, Colonel John Crane's Third Artillery regiment, in 1780 and 1781. He married, May 18, 1780, Patty Phillips, both of Lancaster. Their children: Silas, see forward ; Isaac, Jr., resided in Sterling.
(VIII) Silas Buck, son of Isaac Buck (7), was born at Sterling, Massachusetts. He was a carpen- ter by trade and built many houses in and about Sterling. He was also a millwright and was em- ployed in the various grist and saw mills of the vi- cinity, erecting and repairing. His farm was at West- Sterling and he carried it on besides working at his trade. He bought land in the eastern part of Holden of Joseph and Sally Gerry, November 28, 1808, sixty- one and a half acres bounded by land of John Par- menter. Silas and Deborah Buck sold land to Isaac Goodwin, attorney-at-law, March 4, 1811. Silas bought land in the west part of Sterling of Nathan Kendall, of Alfred, Maine, August 20, 1818. Silas Buck bought a ten acre lot of Luther Allen, in 1832, adjoining his farm in West Sterling, and he bought about ten acres of Jones Wilder, of Sterl- ing, April 6, 1821.
He married Deborah Beaman, of Sterling, born March 13, 1792, died July 19, 1830. He died at Sterling, September 27, 1863. His children : I. Silas Beaman, born July 18, 1810, died January 31, 1899; married, June 14, 1837, Sarah E. Smallidge and had five children-Mary E., born May 27, 1839, died February 27, 1903; married, January 6, 1864, Benjamin R. Rand; William D., born February 2, 1841, died June 6, 1880; married, April 11, 1869, Isabella Ellis; S. Augusta, born December 8, 1842, married, December 16, 1875, A. Leander Floyd ; Annie M., born December 13, 1844, died October 31, 1851; Silas E., born May 20, 1847, married, No- vember 19, 1874, Ellen A. Wellington. 2. Tamar Eddy, born at Sterling, September 27, 1812, died November 11, 1891; married, November 29, 1831, Ezekiel Hills, who died January 21, 1886, and they had-Silas B., born May 12, 1833, died December 31, 1902; married, September 11, 1860, Elizabeth N. Tut- tle ; Mary, born December 17, 1847. 3. John Sawyer, resided in Cambridge. 4. Sally, born in Sterling, March 16, 1816, died February 16, 1904; married Sewell Richardson, of Sterling, and they had chil- dren-Lysander, born February 24, 1843, died Au- gust 18, 1885; Ward B., born January 10, 1846; Sewell, born October 5, 1851; Mary Elizabeth, born January 26, 1852, died December 21, 1869; William, born November 6, 1854, died March 28, 1879; Sarah A., born September 22, 1856. 5. James Orison, see forward. 6. Mary Davis, born at Sterling, August 26, 1819, died November 3, 1904: married, April 28, 1843, Jeremiah W. Smallidge and had four children : William A., born October 20, 1844, died July 22,
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1863; Mary Ellen, born March 8, 1848, married, January 24, 1884, Frederick W. Chamberlain; Frank Walter, born September 24, 1851, married, Septem- ber 8, 1883, Emma Carson; Florence Elizabeth, born December 24, 1855, married, January 26, 1882, Sam- uel L. Kingsley. 7. Dolly Wilder, born at Sterling, March 9, 1824, died January 6, 1902; married, Sep- tember 26, 1846, Warren Willard Barron, born No- vember 21, 1823, died April 19, 1905; had five chil- dren-Andrew Warren, born April 2, 1848, died November 20, 1889; married (first), October 23, 1869, Kate M. Hughies and (second), July 2, 1879, Ella M. Wentworth; Emma Elizabeth, born April 15, 1851, married, December 23, 1874, Lewis E. Brown; Ella, born May 23, 1853, died May 29, 1853; Albert F., born October 30, 1854, died April 13, 1856; Fred Hastings, born September 29, 1857, died November 17, 1903; married, November 26, 1884,
Sarah A. Probert. 8. George, born at Sterling, March 10, 1826, married, March 24, 1861, Lucy Ann Allen and had four children-Ella Augusta, born May 9, 1862; Mary Elizabeth, born June 18, 1865, died September 15, 1896; Ruth Isabelle, born Octo- ber 7, 1867, married, October 6, 1897, Herbert Pick- ering ; Alice Elmina, born August 20, 1879. 9. De- boral Elizabeth, born at Sterling, July 15, 1830, died at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, March 2, 1902; married, May 12, 1846, Alfred Wheeler Crossman and had children-Willis Alfred, born June, 1847, married Louisa M. Sears, October, 1870; she died in 1896; children-Nellie E., born March, 1880, married Oscar A. Hardy and have Irene Louise Hardy ; Annie Florence Crossman, born February, 1857.
(IX) James Orison Buck, son of Silas Buck (8), was born at Sterling, Massachusetts, May 9, 1818. He was educated there in the common schools, beginning to work at an early age for William B. Richardson on his farm and in his saw mill, and continuing in his employ for a number of years. About 1850 he bought the small mill, where he spent much of his life afterward making chair stock, lad- der rungs and other lumber. He conducted his mill to the time of his death, December 25, 1893. Mr. Buck was Orthodox in religion, a member of the Sterling Congregational Church. In politics he was a Republican. He married Azubah Smith, of New York state, daughter of Elisha and Chloe (Pratt) Smith. Their children: Thurston, born November 14, 1851, see forward; Eugene Richardson, born in Princeton, June 30, 1853, see forward; Frank Her- bert, born at Princeton, unmarried, lives with his brothers.
(X) Thurston Buck, son of James Orison Buck (9), was born at Sterling, Massachusetts, November 14, 1851. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and at the New Ipswich Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He then began to work with his father in the manufacture of chair stock until he came of age, and afterward for two years was in partnership with his father in the manufacture of chair stock and ladders. He then began on his own account, working in his father's mill in the manufacture of ladders until 1880. After the first six months he was in partner- ship with his brother Eugene. In 1880 they bought the old Wilder mill, which was formerly a chair stock and saw mill, and he and his brother made chair stock, chairs and other lumber there with great success. In June, 1883, the mill was destroyed by fire with all its contents. Undismayed by the heavy loss the brothers rebuilt the mill and continued the manufacture of chairs, having discontinued the lad- der business when they moved from their father's shop. The firm name is T. & E. R. Buck. All the business and property interests of the brothers
they hold in common. From a small beginning in a mill thirty-five by forty feet, they have increased to a floor area of thirteen thousand square feet. Start- ing after the fire with very little capital, they now do one of the most extensive businesses in the mak- ing of wood seat chairs, employing some forty hands all the time, with orders constantly ahead of them. Indeed, the firm is so well established that for sev- eral years no business has been solicited and yet the business has constantly increased. They have one of the best equipped plants in the section, being constantly improved with new machinery for the various processes of turning, planing and boring. Power is furnished by a seventy-five horse-power engine. They use mostly native woods for their busi- ness. They have installed a system of hot air, blow- ing from patent blowers into hot air kilns which en- ables them to finish stock from the log to the com- pleted chair in ten days. In a year the mill consumes over two and one-half million pieces of turned stock and several hundred thousand feet of lumber. They made a spindle hardwood chair, hardwood, brace- arm dining chair and a cheaper wooden chair. Their market is all over the country. The plant occupies about four acres of ground. In addition to the mill business, the firm has dealt extensively in real estate. They bought the old town farm of one hundred and eighteen acres, the old Richardson place of one hundred and fifty acres and the old Walters place of one hundred and thirty-five acres, besides much other valuable property, amounting in all to over seven hundred acres. Thurston Buck has recently built for himself a handsome residence at Princeton. He attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican ; he has been a member of the school committee in Princeton. He was made a member of Trinity Lodge of Free Masons, November 28, 1874, and is now a member of Boylston Lodge at West Boylston.
He married, February 24, 1874, Olive A. Shep- ard, born April 15, 1858, daughter of Jeremiah and Adalia (Newton) Shepard, of West Boylston. Her father was a shoemaker. Children of Thurston and Olive A. Buck: Harry Thurston, born April 22, 1876, married Corinne E. Clapp, of Princeton, and have Ruth Angeline, born September 19, 1903; Lila Olive, born December 23, 1879, married Charles Her- bert Mansur, of Westminster, Massachusetts, and have Clyde Nelson, born February 26, 1903; Ethel Maria, born February 6, 1882, died November 7, 1904; married Ernest A. Mortimer and they have Philip Buck, born October 26, 1904, died April 28, 1905; Helen Azubah, born September 14, 1887, re- sides with parents.
(X) Eugene Richardson Buck, son of James Orison Buck (9), was born at Princeton, Massachu- setts, June 30, 1853. He received his education in the district school near his father's home, helping his father in the saw mill at the same time from an early age until he came of age. He earned his first wages, when he was twenty-one years old in his father's mill, where he continued to work for half a year. He worked for various employers until he was twenty-three years old, when he went into part- nership with his brother Thurston to manufacture ladder rungs, etc. From the beginning he has had charge of the buying and selling and outside work. The development and extent of the business of T. & E. R. Buck is given in the sketch of Thurston Buck, above. Eugene R. Buck has an attractive home in Princeton, near the mill. He attends the Prince- ton Congregational Church. In politics he is a Re- publican and has often been a delegate to state, con- gressional, county and representative conventions. He has been selectman of Princeton for the past two
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years and was for some years earlier. He has been constable eighteen years. He is a member of the Republican Club of Worcester.
He married, December 23, 1874, Ellen A. Reed, of Sterling, born December 25, 1856, daughter of Merrick and Mary E. (Maynard) Reed. Her father was a farmer and veteran of the civil war. Their children: Grace Lloyd, born September 10, 1881, married Roland S. Moore, of Princeton; Warren Eugene, February 16, 1883; James Merrick, Octo- ber 14, 1892; Norman Arthur, November 14. 1894; Raymond Thurston, August 7, 1895; Alta Christine, March 25, 1898.
CHARLES H. SHAW. John Robinson Shaw (1), grandfather of Charles H. Shaw, of Millbury, Massachusetts, was a native of White Hall, Moss- ley, Lancashire, England. He married Rachel White- head; their children : John Robinson, Jr., and Joseph.
(II) John Robinson Shaw, Jr., son of John Robinson (1), born in White Hall, Lancashire, Eng- land, December 16, 1820, died November 3, 1899; He married, December 15, 1846, Betty Broadbent. born also in White Hall, February 12, 1821, died February 27, 1902. They were married at the par- ish church at Rochdale, England, walking to and from the church, a distance of seven miles from home, and always called that walk their wedding journey. Late in 1854 Mr. Shaw decided to come to America, and after exceedingly rough passage, during which hope was almost abandoned at times. he, his wife and four children, landed in New Eng- land. He found employment at his trade in the shoe factory of ex-Congressman Joseph H. Walker, at Worcester, where he worked for two years, for one year in a Webster shoe factory, and then re- moved to Leicester. He worked for twenty years for Mowry A. Lapham, at Cherry Valley and Mill- bury. He resided in Maynard four years, then re- turned to Millbury, where he lived the rest of his life, and where he died. His children: 1. Hannah, born September 30, 1847, died October 1849. 2. Mary, born August 23, 1849. 3. Joseph, born July 16, 1851 ; died February 9. 1896. 4. James, born June 6, 1853; died August 4, 1858. 5. William, born May 10, 1855; died October 26, 1888. 6. Hannah, born July 25, 1858; died September 1, 1859. 7. Charles H., born August 19, 1865, mentioned below.
(II) Joseph Shaw, son of John Robinson, Sr. (1), born in White Hall, England, married Frances, daughter of William H. Harding, of Maynard, Massachusetts. Their children: Mason H., men- tioned below ; Everett Sydney ; Charles William.
(III) Mason H. Shaw, son of Joseph Shaw (2), married Agnes Tatro. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Millbury and at the Commercial col- lege of C. D. Post, Worcester. He entered the em- ploy of Curtis & Marble, manufacturers of ma- chinery, Worcester, and was bookkeeper for three years. Since then he has been bookkeeper for his uncle, Charles H. Shaw, of Millbury. He is secre- tary and treasurer of the Millbury Cadet Band. or- ganized in 1903, and is member of the Clerks' Asso- ciation of Millbury. Children of Mason H. and Agnes Shaw: Raymond, born October 6, 1904; Marion E., born April 6, 1906.
(III) Charles H. Shaw, son of John Robinson Shaw, Jr., (2), was born in Leasville, near Worces- ter, Massachusetts, August 19, 1865. ]le was edu- cated in the public schools at Millbury. He is the proprietor of a large general store on West Main street, Millbury, beyond Burbank Square. He deals in dry goods and groceries, coal and wood, etc., and has had a very successful business career. In
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