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Gertrude Parsons, daughter of George and Abigail P. (Russell ) Parsons, May 5, 1875. ( See sketch of Russell family.) Children are: Henry Prescott, see forward: George Russell ( see forward ).
(IX) Henry Prescott Hovey, son of Henry A. (8), and Ava G. ( Parsons) Hovey, was born Febru- ary 24, 1881; married, January 20, 1904, Ethel May Howland, daughter of Lucius Howland, of Wor- cester, lineal descendants from John Howland, who came as Governor Carver's secretary to Plymouth in the Mayflower, and was a prominent man among the Pilgrim colonists. Henry P. Hovey is associated with his father and brother in the Hovey laundry. He is a graduate of the Worcester high school, elass of 1900.
(1X) George Russell Hovey, son of Henry A. (8). and Ava G. (Parsons) Hovey, was born at Worcester, September 2, 1883. He was educated in the public schools, graduating from the high school, class of 1901. He is the junior partner in the firm operating the Hovey laundry. He married Julia Blanche Anderson, of Worcester, January 10, 1906.
RUSSELL FAMILY. William Russell (I), of Cambridge, was the emigrant ancestor of a large and distinguished family. He was perhaps the fore- most citizen of Cambridge for many years. His name figures often and honorably in the early records. He married Martha -, in England, and his first child was born in the old country. He died February 14, 1661. Their children were: Joseph, born in England 1636; Benjamin, born in Cam- bridge; John, born in Cambridge, September II, 1645; Martha ; Philip, born about 1650; William, born April 28. 1655; Jason. born November 14. 1658; Joyce, born March 31, 1660, married Edmund Rice, of Sudbury, before 1681. His widow married Hum- phrey Bradshaw, March 24. 1665, and Thomas Hall, May 24, 1683; died about 1694.
(II) Jason Russell, son of William (I), and Martha, born November 14, 1658, at Cambridge ; married Mary Hubbard ( sometimes spelled Hobart ), daughter of James Hubbard, March 27, 1684. Their children were: Hubbard, see forward; Martha. born May 2, 1691, married Henry Dunster, February 25, 1707-8, and (second) Francis Locke, March 15, 1759; died June 27. 1771. Mr. Russell resided at Menotomy. the western part of Cambridge, some- time a part of the township, later West Cambridge, and now Arlington, Massachusetts. He was a se- lectman for four years, 1707-1711; died about April in 1736 .. His wife, Mary, died May 14. 1738.
(III ) Hubbard Russell, son of Jason (2), and Mary Russell, was born May 20, 1687; married Elizabeth Diekson, May 9, 1710. He also resided at Menotomy. He died June. 1726, at the age of thirty-nine and his widow married - Holden. ( probably Joseph Holden), of Watertown, June II, 1729. The children of Hubbard and Elizabeth Russell were: Jason, baptized March 25. 1711. died young; Mary, born December 7, 1712, married Da- vid Dunster; Margaret, born April 30, 1715; mar- ii-24
ried Joseph Belknap; Jason, see forward; Hubbard, baptized April 24, 1726, died young.
(IV) Jason Russell, son of Hubbard (3) and Elizabeth Russell, born January 25, 1716-7; married Elizabeth Winship, January 28, 1739-40. lle was killed by the British, April 19, 1775. Their chil- dren were: Jason, born March 7, 1741-2; Elizabeth, born December 27. 1743. died March 29, 1751; John, born August 4, 1746: Hubbard, born March 25. 1749, married Sarah Warren. of Weston (published March 31, 1774) : Thomas, born July 22, 1751 ; Noah, born July 15. 1753, died October 13. 1754; Elizabeth, born July 3, 1756, married Jonathan Webber, March 12, 1778; Mary, baptized May 17, 1762; Noah, born March 8, 1763.
His wife, Elizabeth, died August II, 1786. aged sixty-five. She had a Bible, bought with money sent by an anonymous friend in England, in con- sideration of the loss of her husband, who was murdered by the British troops. His home, where he was slain, after the battle of Lexington and Con- cord, by the retreating British, was in Arlington. A handsome granite monument has been erected by Arlington in memory of him and other early martyrs. Reports differ as to whether he was fight- ing or an invalid who refused to leave his home on the approach of the troops, saying to a neighbor who urged him to fly that: "An Englishman's house is his castle." He was nearly sixty years old, and the murder could not be justified whether he had been fighting at the side of his neighbors or not. The stone in the Precinet burying ground at Arling- ton bears the following inscription : "Mr. Jason Rus- sell was barbarously murdered in his own house by Gage's bloody troops on 19th April, 1775, aet. 50. His body is quietly resting in this grave with eleven of our friends who, in like manner with many others, were cruelly slain on that fatal day. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." A large granite obelisk erected later bears the following inseription : "Ereeted by the inhabitants of West Cambridge, .1. D. 1848, over the common grave of Jason Russell. Jason Winship, Jabez Wyman and nine others who were slain in this town by the British troops on their retreat from the battles of Lexington and Concord. April 19, 1775. Being among the first to lay down their lives in the struggle for American Independ- ence." The site of his house. (which is still stand- ing. 1905), has been marked by a tablet suitably inscribed.
(V) Noah Russell, son of Jason (4) and Eliza- beth Russell, was born at West Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, March 8, 1763; married Eunice Bemis, of Waltham. September 12, 1782; died at Arlington ( W'est Cambridge) November 6, 1724. He was pre- cinct collector in 1789, 1804-5, and precinet commit- teeman in 1807. Their children were: Eunice, bap- tized May 6, 1783. married Alpheus Leach. October 30. 1805; Jason, (see forward) ; Elizabeth, baptized September 7. 1788, died October 21, 1801: Josiah. baptized April 17, 1791, settled in New York city ; Lydia, born January 8, 1793, at Waltham, died May 30. 1886, at Arlington: married. August 25. 1814. Thomas H. Teel, who died December 11, 1853: Abi- gail. baptized September 6, 1795, married Daniel Frost, February 17, 1818.
(VI) Jason Russell, son of Noah (5) and Eunic. Russell, born March 2, 1785; died February 23. 1869. Married, March 10, 1809. Elizabeth Thorp, of Acton. born September 7, 1787, died July 5. 1874. The Russells were well off. Jason Russell's father was a man of wealth and influence, and Jason was the keeper of the general store at Arlington. About 1819 he left Arlington and bought a farm at Staf-
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ford, Connecticut. The children, of whom the first four were born in Arlington, the rest in Staf- ford, were: Jason, born July 16, 1810, mar- ried Amanda Maria Allen, February 15, 1841; William, born April 27. 1813, married Louisa Converse, June 17, 1834, died April 10, 1892; Sa- brina Elizabeth, born August 23, 1815, married Amasa Converse, November 19, 1840, died March 4, 1892; Thomas Emerson, born March 17, 1818, died in California, October 26, 1850; Benjamin Franklin, born August 22, 1820, married Elizabeth Gilman Colby, April 30, 1846; Adaline, born March 23, 1823, married Thomas Weaver, July 2. 1848: died May 5, 1893; Abigail Prescott, (see forward) ; George Prescott, born March 24, 1827; resides in Chicago; Charles Henry, born January 15, 1830. re- sides at Stafford, Connecticut; Louisa Jane, born September 27, 1833.
Elizabeth Thorpe, wife of Jason Russell, was daughter of Thomas and Sobrina Thorpe. Thomas Thrope was a revolutionary soldier from the battle of Lexington to the close. He was with the Acton minute men whom Gage's troops fired on. Fis father was Thomas Thorpe. The Thorpes were among the first settlers of Massachusetts. Sobrina Emerson, who married Thomas Thrope, was de- scended from Oliver Emerson, who married Fran- ces Prescott, a descendant of John Prescott, a black- smith, who settled at Watertown and later at Lan- caster in 1617. He built a mill there and began to grind corn June 23, 1654. He was descended from a titled family of Prescotts in England.
(VHI) Abigail Prescott Russell, daughter of Jason (6) and Elizabeth Russell, born November 12, 1824, married, December 25, 1849, at Worcester, Massachusetts, George Parsons, son of Eber Parsons, and grandson of John Parsons, who came from another old English family, and was among the first to settle in Massachusetts. Eber Parsons was born 1787 : died 1857. George Parsons was born in Sut- ton in 1826. He attended the public schools at Sutton and learned the trade of shoemaker. He was for many years overseer at the penitentiary at Rochester, New York, and afterward represented Elwanger & Barry, one of the Rochester seed and nursery houses, on the road. He enlisted in Com- pany D), Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, under Captain Studley, and was in the Peninsular campaign. Among other engagements he was in was Spottsyl- vania. He died from disease, contracted in the serv- ice, at the Fairfax Seminary hospital January 8, 1863, in Saldus county, Virginia, and is buried in the soldiers' cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia. The children of George Parsons and Abigail Prescott Russell were: Ida Estelle, ( see forward ) ; Ava Gertrude, born June 8, 1854; George Washington, born April 1. 1857, died February 17. 1896. Mrs. Parsons resides at 49 Austin street, Worcester, Massachusetts.
(Vill) Ida Estelle Parsons, daughter of George Parsons and Abigail P. Russell (7), born July 5. 1851: married George Warren Howe in 1872, and ( second) Elhridge F. Russell, February, 1887, and resides in Chicago ( 1905). They have no children. (VIII) Ava Gertrude, daughter of George Par- sons and Abigail P. Russell (7), born June 8, 1854; married Henry A. Hovey, of Worcester. May 5. 1875 (Sce sketch of Hovey family). Their chil- dren were: 1. Henry Prescott Hovey, born Feb- ruary 24, 1881; married, January 20. 1004. Ethel May Howland, daughter of Lucius Howland, of Worcester, a lineal descendant of John Howland, who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower." a stew- and or secretary for Anvern r Carver. 2 George
Russell Hovey, born September 2, 1883; married Julia Blanche Anderson, of Worcester, January 10, 1906.
EDWIN D. BRIGHAM. Thomas Brigham (1). immigrant ancestor of Edwin D. Brigham, of Ash- burnham, Massachusetts, is believed to have been born in Cumberland county, England. He sailed from London, England. April 18, 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," Edward Payne, master. He set- tled in Watertown, where he had a fourteen acre lot, which he bought of John Dogget, and part of his land was annexed to Cambridge, where he built his house on a three acre-and-a-half homestall. His lot was bounded by the land of Joseph Isaac and Simon Crosby, and the road from Cambridge to Watertown, about two thirds of a mile, abutting on the Charles river. lle resided there until 1648. He was admitted a freeman in 1639, was selectinan 1640-42-47, constable from 1639 to 1642 and one of the leading citizens. He owned a wind mill and had a large estate. He died December 18, 1653, and his widow married (second), March 1, 1655, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury and Marlborough. Her maiden name was Mercy Hurd and she is said to have come over with her sister for reasons of religion. She had two daughters by Edmund Rice. She married (third) William Hunt, of Marlborough, in 1664: he died in 1667 and she died December 23, 1693, after a third widowhood lasting twenty-six years. Children of Thomas and Mercy Brigham: Mary. Thomas, born 1640, see forward; John, March 9, 1049-50, married Samuel Wells; Samuel, January 12, 1652, died July 24, 1713.
(11) Thomas Brigham, Jr., son of Thomas Brigham (1), was born in Watertown, 1040. On the second marriage of his mother to Edmund Rice he seems to have lived at Marlborough in her house- hold. At the age of twenty-one he struck out for himself on a farm in Marlborough, bought of his step-father for thirty pounds, including a town right of twenty-four acres and a dwelling house. He received his deed August 28, 1665. He was one of a company that purchased six thousand acres of land of the Indians in 1686 and annexed it to Marlbor- ough. His home was on what is now or lately was caled the Warren Brigham place in the southwest part of the town on the south road to Northbor- ough. The old house built after King Philip's war was standing lately; it was used on occasions for garrison purposes, and was occupied in later years by Mrs. Lewis Ames. His will was dated April 17, proved January 2, 1717. He gave David and Ger- shom all his lands on the west side of the Assabet river, and other lands near them to Nathan and Jonathan in equal shares. Elnathan settled on part of the homestead.
He married Mary Rice, born September 19, 1646. daughter of Henry and Elizabeth ( Moore) Rice, and granddaughter of Edmund Rice, the immigrant. Ile married (second ), May 30, 1695, Susanna ( Shattuck) Morse, of Watertown. Children of Thomas and Mary Brigham: Thomas, born Feb- ruary 24, 1666; Nathan, June 17, 1071, ste for- ward; David, August II, 1673, died young ;- Jona- than, February 22, 1674, married Mary Fay ; Davis, April 12, 1678, died June, 1750; married (first ) Deborah - and (second) Mary Newton; Ger- shom, February 23, 1680, ( physician) died January 3. 1748-49; Elnathan, March 7, 1683, died April 10, 1758; married Bethia Ward; Mary, October 26, 1087, married April 30, 1710, Jonas lloughton. of Lancaster.
(111) Captain Nathan Brigham, son of Thomas
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Brigham (2), was born in Marlborough, Massachu- setts, June 17, 1671, died there February 16, 1746- 47. He was a weaver by trade. Ile had part of the homestead and the town right on which he drew his share of the common land. He was a leading citizen; selectman for seven years, in 1738 the last term. His will was dated April 5, 1733, and his estate was partitioned March 20, 1746-47. He mar- ried (first) Elizabeth How, who died March 29, 1733, aged sixty-nine years and four days. He mar- ried (second) Mehitable Parker. Children of Cap- tain Nathan and Elizabeth Brigham: Lieutenant Nathan, born November 28, 1693, married Dinah Rice; Thomas, February 22, 1695; Tabitha, August 20, 1698, died February 8, 1730-31; Elizabeth, January 4. 1700, married John Stow; Sarah, December 14, 1701, married Uriah Hagar; Zipporah, September 14, 1704, married John Warren; Hannah, March 9. 1706, married Jabez Rice; Ephraim (lieutenant ), .January 20, 1707-08, married Hannah Willard.
(IV ) Thomas Brigham, son of Captain Nathan Brigham (3), was born February 22, 1695. He settied on the Brigham homestead in the southwest part of the town of Marlborough. He was constable, tithingman, selectman three years, sealer of leather six years, on the petit jury 1738, and in 1731 on the committee to engage a school master. He was ad- ministrator of the estate of David Burnam, of Southboro, in 1757. He made his own will August 13, 1765, mentioning wife Sarah and all the chil- dren. His house is standing, or was lately, in the southwest part of the town near the "Agricultural Railroad," twenty-five rods from the house now or late of Alden Brigham.
He married, January 25. 1719-20, Sarah Stratton, born in 1701, died September 25, 1775. Their chil- dren: Adoniram, born March 17, 1720, married Elizabeth Brown; Lydia, March 14, 1721-22, mar- ried - --- Bigclow ; Ezekiel, February 14, 1723-24, died April 4, 1788; Elisha, November 25, 1726, died in Gratton; Ithamar, October 6, 1729, see forward; Sarah, March 12, 1731-32, died unmarried July 21, 1705; Thomas, April 23, 1734, died June 2, 1740; l'aul, March 26, 1737, died June 4, 1777; married Elizabeth Rice; Ephraim, April 6, 1739, died June 22, 1740; Abner, January 13, 1741-42, died Septem- ber 28, 17.46.
(V) Ithamar Brigham, son of Thomas Brigham (4), was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 6, 1729. He lived and died in his native place on the farm now or late of Alden Brigham. Ile was selectman of the town ten years. He married, September 13, 1753, Ruth Ward, who died May 29, 1766. He married (second) Mary Beamon, born December 1, 1734, married, March 29, 1768, died May 20, 1813, aged seventy-eight years. He was a soldier in the revolution as well as several of his sons. He was lieutenant in Captain William Brig- ham's company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment, April 19, 1775, on the Lexington aların and later he is called captain on the public records. Children of Captain Ithamar and Ruth Brigham: Ruth, born September 17, 1756, died September 20, 1797; lthamar, November 7, 1758, see forward; Daniel, November 15, 1760, died 1800; Silas, October 21, 1763, died September 27, 1838; married Persis Snow ; Abner, May 29, 1766, died July 5, 1766. Children of lthamar and Mary Brigham: Abner, December 21, 1768; Abraham, November 14, 1771, unmarried.
(VI) Ithamar Brigham, son of Captain Ithamar Brigham (5), was born in Marlborough, Massachu- setts, November 7, 1758, died March 12, 1836. He was a revolutionary soldier, serving in Captain William Morse's company, Colonel Jonathan Read's r.giment, sent to reinforce General Gates in 1777.
He married Catherine Barnes, born January 27, 1705, died April 13, 1804; (second), 1806, Martha Belknap; (third) Rogers. Children of Ithamnar and Catherine Brigham: Dr. Levi, born May I, 1784, died December 8, 1818; resided at Raymond, Maine; Aaron, December 29, 1785, a mer- chant on Long Wharf, Boston, resided in Lexing- ton; married, 1808, Comfort Valentine; Moses, July 22, 1788, married Susan Fosgate, daughter of Joel Fosgate, of Berlin; resided on the homestead of Thomas (IV), Marlboro; Jonas, August 29, 1790, was an officer in the war of 1812, died at New York city, February 9, 1822; Eli, July 18, 1794, died Oc- tober 21, 1850; Jonathan, October 5, 1796, married Joel Bullard, resided at Berlin; Abel, February 13, 1797, see forward.
(V11) Abel Brigham, son of Ithamar Brigham (6), was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 13, 1797. He was a farmer all his life on a place in the western part of Marlborough near the junction of Pleasant street and the Berlin road. In politics he was a Whig and in his last years a Re- publican. He was an active member and deacon of the Universalist Church of Marlborough. He mar- ried (first), May 13, 1821, Mary Bigelow, born Jan- mary 19, 1799, died May 23, 1843. He married ( sec- ond) Sally Felton. He died March, 1870. Children of Abel and Mary Brigham: Levi Samuel, born August 4, 1825, see forward; Catherine Elizabeth, married, April 4. 1849, Alden Phelps, resided at Fitchburg, now in Leominster; children-Samuel D., born December 8, died October 19, 1853; Mary B., born November 9, 1851; Austin A., born July 22, 1854; Lizzie R., born January 20, 1857, died 1905.
( VIII) Levi Samuel Brigham, son of Abel Brigham (7), was born in Marlborough, Massachu- setts, August 4, 1825. He received his education in the common schools of his native town. At the age of twenty years he began to learn the business of manufacturing shoes, and followed the trade of shoe- maker a number of years. Then he went into busi- ness on his own account, manufacturing boots and shoes in a factory on Pleasant street, where he con- tinued for some years, removing at length to Ashby, Massachusetts, where he bought the old Dr. Bowers place of forty acres, in 1856. After working this farm four years he sold it to - Herrick and re- moved to Groton, Massachusetts, in the section set off as Ayer, where he bought of David Whitte- more a tract of fifty acres and on this farm he re- mained until he died, April 1, 1891. He was em- ployed in Groton by Addison Gage Company as car- penter. Mr. Brigham was a member of the Uni- tarian Church and at one time an officer. In politics he was a Republican and served as constable of the town of Ayer. He was a member of Engine Com- pany No. 2, of Marlborough fire department, and a prominent citizen there.
He married, September 7, 1845, Sophronia Rice, born April 1, 1828, died May 16, 1848, daughter of Luke Rice, of Marlborough. Ile married (second), at Ashby, January 22, 1850, Elizabeth Davenport, born February 1, 1826, in Ashburnham, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth ( Whittemore) Davenport, of West Boylston, Massachusetts. The only child of Levi Samuel and Sophronia Brigham: Abel Rice, born November 21, 1846, was in civil war, Company B, Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers ; mar- ried, October 7, 1874, Adelaide Taber, of Rockville, Rhode Island; he died at Hopedale, May 18, 1906; children-Della Adelaide, born August 1, 1877, mar- ried Francisco Ballou Follett, of Providence, Rhode Island, a contractor; Everett Linwood, born Feb- ruary 24, 1880. Children of Levi Samuel and Eliza-
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beth Brigham: Edward Davenport, born November 13, 1850, see forward. Orison Orlando, August 1, 1852, married Edwina Chapman, of New York state; he died in Gardner, Massachusetts, March, 1889. Mary Alice, June 12, 1854, died August 7, 1855. Lizzie Jane, June 15, 1850, died September 8, 1850. Lyra Sophronia, born at Ashby, December 5, 1857, died January 22, 1902; married, November Io, 1880, Willis E. Knight, of Hancock, New Hampshire; children-Howard Lawton Night, born September 29, 1881; Flora May, born May 16, 1884; Harry Orrison Kight, born August 1, 1887; Elizabeth Ida Knight, born March 8, 1895. Louise Elmer, No- vember 29, 1861, lives at Gardner, Massachusetts. Bertis Bigelow, June 17, 1870, married, June 24, 1891, Mary Sprague, of Malone New York, and had one child-Clara Estelle, born April 17, 1895. (IN) Edwin Davenport Brigham, son of Levi Samuel Brigham (8), was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts, where eight generations of his fam- ily have lived, November 13, 1850. He went to school there for a short time, then removed with his parents when he was six years old to the town of Ashby, where he attended school four years. He finished his schooling at Groton, now Ayer, Massa- chusetts. He left the high school and went into the box shop of Joseph Manning, of Marlboro, and was there six months; then with Exley Parsons for a time, and then entered the employ of the Rumford Chemical Company at East Providence, Rhode Island, where he had charge of the stock for five years. He then went to the Seekonk Ice Company, Rhode Island, and for five years had charge of their teaming. He removed to Ashburnham in 1882 to
enter the ice business on his own account. In 1886 he added to his ice trade a wood and coal business and that also has prospered. Mr. Brigham has an ice house of eight hundred tons capacity. He has a handsome residence in Ashburnham on Central street. He has a large place and does some farming also. Mr. Brighan is a Congregationalist in religion. In politics he is an active Republicn, and has often served his party as delegate in nominating conven- tions. He was overseer of the poor in Ashburnham three years and superintendent of the water works six years. lle is a member of Naukeag Lodge, No. 196, Odd Fellows, of which he is past noble grand, and is at present one of the officers. He was grand lodge representative in 1905. Ile belongs to the Ashburnham Farmers' Club.
lle married, August 23, 1876, Elis Wanstrom, born August 21, 1854, daughter of Henry M. Wan- strom, of New Sweden, Maine, a blacksmith and carpenter. Children of Edward Davenport and Elis Brigham: Charles Edwin, born June 12, 1878, died April 8, 1902; he graduated from Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, 1895, later from Bryant & Sholter's Business Academy, and worked for the J. P. Squire Company, Boston; Fred Washington, born July 7, 1882, graduate of Cushing Academy, 1901, and of the Illinois College of Photography, now employed by the Rochester Camera Company, Rochester, New York.
WILLIAM SMITHI BROOKS. Captain Thomas Brooks (1), was the emigrant ancestor of William Smith Brooks, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He was born probably in London, England, and came to this country in the ship "Susan and Ellen" in 1635. He settled in Watertown, New England, in 1636. He was admitted a freeman at Watertown, December 7, 1636. Later he removed to Concord, Massachusetts, where many of his descendants have lived. He drew land on the uplands of Beaver brook in 1636. He was captain of the Concord company.
He was appointed by the general court constable of Concord, D:cember 8, 1638. He was representa- tive to the general court from Concord in 1642- 43-44-50-51-52-53. In 1640 he was appraiser of cattle and horses for taxation, and appointed a special officer to prevent drunkenness among the Indians. In 1657 he obtained of the general court a monopoly of the fur trade with the indians at Concord. His wife Grace died May 12, 1004. In the October fol- lowing he sold Ins homestead; he died May 21, 1607, leaving an estate valued at four hundred and forty-eight pounds. He made no will. Children of Captain Thomas and Grace Brooks were: Joshua, see forward; Caleb, born 1632; Gershom; Mary, married Captain Timothy Wheeler; Hannah, mar- ried, December 13, 1047, Thomas Fox.
(II) Deacon Joshua Brooks, eldest son of Cap- tain Thomas Brooks (I), was born in England probably. He married in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 17, 1053, Hannah Mason, daughter of Cap- tain Hugh Mason. He settled in the southern part of Concord, now Lincoln, Massachusetts, selling his share of the paternal estate to his brother, Caleb Brooks, of Mediord. He doubtless learned the fur business of Captain Mason, whose daughter he mar- ried. He was admitted a freeman May 26, 1652. Children of Deacon Joshua Brooks and Hannah Mason Brooks, his wife, were: Hannah, born in Concord, married Benjamin Pierce; John, born 1657; Noah, of Concord; Grace, born March 10, 1000-61; Daniel, see forward; Thomas, born Sep- tember 9, 1066; Esther, July 4, 1668; Elizabeth, De- cember 16, 1672; Job, July 26, 1675; Hugh, Jan- uary 1, 1077; Joseph, 1081.
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