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(III) Daniel Brooks, fifth child of Deacon Joshua Brooks (2), was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, November 15, 1663. He married, August 9, 1692, Ann Merriam. He died October 18, 1733, at the age of sixty-nine. Ilis will is dated January 6, 1728-29. It names his wife Anna, son John, daugh- ter Mary Wheeler, daughter Anna Jones and sons Samuel and Job, the two last named being the executors. Children of Daniel and Ann ( Merriam) Brooks were: Daniel, born June 5, 1693, died young ; Samuel, see forward; Hannah, February 21, 1695- 96; Job, April 16, 1698; Mary. May 2, 1099-1700; John, February 12, 1702; David; Timothy, August 3, 1711; Daniel, April 19, 1720; Josiah, May 21, 1722; Anna, March 20, 1725. John settled in West- minster ; Samuel was a graduate of Harvard; Charles settled in Princeton ; John lived in that part of Con- cord, set off as Acton in 1735-
(IV) Samuel Brooks, second child of Daniel Brooks (3), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, May 5, 1694. He married Elizabeth ---- , who died January 31, 1782, aged seventy-five. They re- sided in Concord, Massachusetts, where all their children were born. He died April 6, 1758, aged sixty-three years, ten months, twenty days. Their children were: Samuel, born August 23, 1739 ;. Enoch, see forward; Mary, April 3, 1743; Elisha, June 28, 1746; Anna, April 30, 1748, died May 17. 1767, aged nineteen years, six months; Sarah, Sep- tember 3, 1751; Mercy, April 26. 1755.
(V) Lieutenant Enoch Brooks, second child of Samuel Brooks (4), was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, March 16, 1741-42. He died in Princeton, Massachusetts, September 18, 1825, aged eighty- three years. He married, July 4, 1771, Hannah Jones, of Dedham, Massachusetts. She died at Princeton, Massachusetts, December 10, 1834, at the age of eighty-six years. He was a soldier of dis- tinction in the revolutionary war. Children of Lieutenant Enoch and Hannah (Jones) Brooks were all born in Princeton, where he settled before
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the revolution with others of the family from Con- cord. The children were: Elisha, born April 9, 1772; Jolin, May 12, 1774; Ezra, October 25, 1770, see forward; Samuel, December 2, 1779; Hannah, July 1, 1781 ; Enoch, Jr., May 1, 1785; Stephen, Sep- tember 23, 1787.
(VI) Ezra Brooks, son of Enoch Brooks (5), was born'in Princeton, Massachusetts, October 25, 1776. He married Sally Gregory. November 28, 1807. He was educated in the public schools of Princeton. Through all his active years he con- dueted the Brooks farm and lived in the home- stead. Children of Ezra and Sally (Gregory ) Brooks, all born in Princeton, were: Elmira, born April 29, 1809; Artemas Jones, September 6, 1811; see forward; Amos Jones, twin of the preceding, born September 6, 18I1; Sally, born September 13, 1813.
(VII) Artemas Jones Brooks, twin son of Ezra Brooks (6), was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, September 6, 1811. He married Sarah Smith, of Sudbury, (intentions dated October 12,) 1844. Jones Brooks, as he was generally known, was brought up on the old Brooks homestead and attended the public schools of his native town. He in his turn con- ducted the old farm in Princeton. He was a man of many friends, of exceptional good nature and happy disposition. In town affairs he was always interested and influential. He held some town offices. He was a Republican in politics. Children of Jones and Sarah ( Smith) Brooks were : William Smith, born in Princeton, May 26, 1846, see for- ward; Mary E., born in Princeton.
(VIII) William Smith Brooks, son of Artemas Jones Brooks (7), was born in Princeton, Massa- chusetts, May 26, 1840. He was educated in the Princeton public schools and at Easthampton Acad- emy. He followed the example of his forefathers and became a farmer. He has made the business of farming successful in a material way. In many respects the Brooks farm is a model. Mr. Brooks is a strong and influential Republican. He has always taken an interest in town affairs. He has held various minor town offices and is at present a selectman. In a community composed largely of farmers, Mr. Brooks has achieved a position of trust and honor, having the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and fellow citizens in an unusual degree. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He attends the Congregational Church.
He married, October, 1867, Ella Maria Fay, born January 3, 1848, died April 20, 1882, daugh- ter of Deacon John B. Fay, of Princeton, wlio married Sarah A. Hubbard, of Holden, October 7, 1841. John B. Fay was the son of Silas and Susanna (Brooks) Fay, and was born March 19, 1816. Silas married Susanna Brooks, October 9, 1804. He was the son of Silas and Anna ( Gleason) Fay. Children of William Smith and Ellen Maria (Fay) Brooks were born in Princeton, viz .: Mary E., born December 28, 1870, married 1897, Dr. T. H. Stim- son, and their children are: Fred H., William B., Elinor H. Frank H., born June 7, 1872, married Hattie Monroe and they have a daughter, Ella B. Wendell, born April 17, 1882, married, June 6, 1905, Jennie Chase, of Belgrade, Maine.
KNIGHT FAMILY, (I) John Knight, the emigrant of Watertown, Sudbury and Woburn, Massachusetts, is the progenitor of Dexter Knight, James J. Knight and George M. Knight, of Leices- ter, and of most of the families of the name in this section of the country. John Knight was a maltster and carpenter. He was a householder first at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, as early as 1635, and was a proprietor of the adjoining town of Watertown in the next year. In 1641 he was in Watertown, for he gave a bond for a payment in that year. Ile went to Sudbury in 1640, and at that time sold land in Watertown, August 4, 1640, and with his wife Mary sold other Watertown lands in 1652. Ile was one of the proprietors at Sudbury, but moved to Woburn and was proprietor there in 1650. His wife Mary died May 16, 1676. He died May 29, 1674. His will, dated February 14, 1672-3, was proved June 10, 1674; it confirmed a deed of gift to his grand- child, Elizabeth Knight, daughter of John Knight, Jr. ; made a bequest to Abigail Knight, sister of Elizabeth, and to his son-in-law, Robert Peirse, of Woburn, and his daughter, Mrs. Peirse.
(Il) John Knight, only son of John Knight (I), was born probably in England, and was a cooper by trade. He was in Charlestown with his father in 1653. Ile married, April 29, 1654, Ruha- mah Johnson. Ile married (second) a wife Persis, after 1660. His children were: Ruhamah, born Jan- uary 29, 1655, died same year; Elizabeth, born June 3, 1656; John, born November 4, 1657, married Abi- gail Craggen, March 2, 1683; she died June 17, 1707; he died November 9, 1735; had ten children born at Woburn, among them Samuel and John; Ruhamah, born February 16, 1659; Abigail. (The writer is not positive that the following are chil- dren of John by a second wife.) Persis, baptized May 2, 1670; Mary, born July 31, 1670; Persis, born March 17, 1672; John, born November 23, 1673; Samuel, born September 12, 1675.
(III) Samuel Knight, son of John Knight (2), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, September 12, 1675. He married and settled at Sudbury before 1717. His children were: Samuel, born 1709; Isaac, born at Woburn, March 20, 1717.
(IV) Samuel Knight, son of Samuel Knight (3), was born in Woburn, in 1710, and died Septem- ber II, ISO1. He married at Framingham, April 23, 1740, Mary Rice. They settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts, probably inheriting the lands of his grandfather there. Their children were : Asel (same as Asahel, man's name), born March 8, 1730-31, married Lucy Goodnow, February 20, 1760; Samuel, born April 29, 1733; Abigail, born April 14, 1735, married Jotham Bellows, February 14, 1753; Ann, born January 27, 1740-1; Mary, born September 28, 1742; Benjamin, born December 26, 1744.
(V) Samuel Knight, son of Samuel Knight (4), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, April 29, 1733- He married Ann Clapp, July 1, 1756. Their children were: Silas, born May 5, 1757; Azubah, born September 2, 1759; Persis, born January 12, 1762-3; Ann, born April 12, 1764; Mary, born Feb- ruary 21, 1767; Daniel, born April 1, 1770; Joel, born August 30, 1772; William, born May 9, 1775; Samuel, born March 30, 1777, married Ann Wheeler, November 20, 1803, and had Israel, Samuel, Dana and Thomas Jefferson. All the children were born in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
(VI) Silas Knight, son of Samuel Knight (5), was born in Sudbury, May 5, 1757, died September 8, 1842. He was a revolutionary soldier and a wheelwright by trade. He married Martha Good- now, who was born September 4, 1760, died March 19, 1836. He settled in New Braintree and Oak- ham, Massachusetts. His children were: Silas, born October 22, 1782, married Abiah E. Richmond, May 25, 1810; Hiram, born at Oakham, August 22, 1793.
(VII) Hiram Knight, son of Silas Knight (6), was born in Oakham, Massachusetts, August 22, 1793. Captain Hiram Knight was one of the suc-
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cessful business men of Leicester, who began life without capital and won a competence. He went to Leicester at the age of twenty-one to work at his trade. His first honie was on Main street in the house afterward occupied by the Leicester Boot Company. The next year he moved to Leicester Academy, of which he was the steward from 1819 to 1822. In 1823 he purchased the old Green Tavern. (See Green Family). It stood on the corner of Main and Paxton streets. Here for about two years he kept the tavern in addition to following the occupation of butchering and for a time was in part- nership with Reuben Merriam in making card cloth- ing and in a general store.
In 1825 he became a member of the firm of James and John A. Smith & Co., who built and occu- pied the factory where the woolen mill now stands. The company also built the boarding house and the brick factory above. This firm was founded by Winthrop Earle in 1802 in a building in the rear of Colonel Thomas Denny's factory, which stood east of the Leicester Hotel. After his death in 1807 Jolın Woodcock managed the business. The widow of Winthrop Earle married Alpheus Smith in 1808 and he entered the business. Mr. Woodcock invented the machine for splitting leather to a uniform thick- ness. In 1811 the factory was moved west of the hotel and in 1812 it was enlarged. In that year James Smith was admitted to partnership and the firm name became Woodcock & Smith. In 1813 the senior partner retired, and in the following year John A. and Rufus Smith took his interests and for a time the firm name was James & John A. Smith & Co. Rufus Smith died in 1818. Hiram Knight entered the firm October 18, 1825, with John Wood- cock and Emory Dreury. In 1827 and 1828 they built the brick factory. Mr. Dreury left the firm in 1829.
In addition to the making of card machines the firm began the manufacture of card clothing in Philadelphia with George W. Morse in charge, con- ducting business under the name of James Smith & Co. The firm name of the concern was Smith, Woodcock & Knight. The business was moved to the Central factory north of the church in 1848. In 1848 T. E. Woodcock and Dexter Knight, sons of the senior partners, were admitted to the firm and the name became Woodcock, Knight & Co. In 1867 the business passed into the hands of the younger generation. The partners were henceforth: T. E. Woodcock, Dexter Knight, George MI. Knight and James J. Knight. In the year preceding the factory had been enlarged. The firm was dissolved in 1881 and the property sold later to the American Card Clothing Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Knight kept the boarding house for the firm until about 1832, when they moved back to the Green Tavern. Mr. Knight had charge of most of the new buildings of the firm and he also had charge of the building of the brick school building on Pleasant street. His own resi- dence on the site of the old Green Tavern he built in 1843. It is now occupied by his son, Dexter. It is a picturesque and attractive house in the heart of the beautiful village. Mr. Knight at one time owned considerable land and carried on farming. He was an active member of the Worcester County Agri- cultural Society.
Captain Knight was engaged in the manufacture of card clothing in the period of the rapid develop- ment of that industry, when inventive genius was perfecting the wonderful machine for card setting, of which a gentleman once said, after watching its operation, "Why, it thinks!" He was not trained
to the business, but was a natural mechanic, in- genious and inventive. He made many improve- ments in the machinery used and according to the testimony of his partner, John Woodcock, made the first card clothing set by machinery in Leicester. Captain Knight was in the stage in Ohio when Christopher C. Baldwin, of Worcester, was killed. Hiram Knight was one of the directors of the Lei- cester Bank from 1850 to 1874. Between the years. 1836 and 1844 he served the town in various offices. He was assessor, moderator and selectman. He was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Bout- well when that office had the duties of magistrate. In politics he was a Democrat, but decidedly inde- pendent. He was a member of the State Constitu- tional Convention in 1853. In early life he was active in military affairs and was captain of the Leicester company. He was one of the early mem- bers of the Second Congregational Church, (Uni- tarian ).
"Captain Knight," writes Rev. A. H. Cool- idge, "was a man of sound judgment, self-reliant and of strict business integrity. He gave close at- tention to his business and was successful. He was wise and cautious in his investments and became one of the wealthy men of the town. For his success he was largely indebted to his wife. She was a woman of domestic tastes, and devoted herself un- tiringly to the varied duties of the household, acting her part with true womanly fidelity and fortitude. in all the varied experiences of the family, in pros- perity and in trial and sorrow. She was married at the age of seventeen years."
He married, April 28, 1818, Olive Barnes, whose. mother was Betsey Green, daughter of Willian Green, who was born in Leicester in 1743, the son of Wiliam and Rebeckah Green.
They had eleven children, seven of whom died young. Three sons, long known as the partners and successors in business of Captain Knight, are the only children who survived their parents. The children of Captain Hiram and Olive (Barnes) Knight were: Merrill, born September 20, 1818, died young; Ann Elizabeth, born March 18, 1820, died August 28, 1821; James Sullivan, born August 24, 1822, died January 5, 1831; George, born July 10,. 1824, died January 22, 1835; Dexter, born July 18, 1826; Jason, born October 24, 1828, died January 8, 1836; Susan, born September 16, 1830, died Jan- uary 18, 1856; Hiram, Jr., born September 5, 1833, died July 27. 1845; Rebecca Sprague, born October 12, 1836, died March 23, 1837; James Jason, born August 21, 1841 ; George Merrill, born March 10, 1844. Captain Knight died May 6, 1875, at the age of eighty-one years and eight months. His wife died April 19, 1879, at the age of seventy-eight.
(VIII) Dexter Knight, son of Captain Hiram Knight (7), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, July 18, 1826. Mr. Knight has been identified with the life of his native town from his birth. He attended the public schools and Leicester Acad- emy there. At the age of fifteen he began a mer- cantile career in the store of D. Rice & Co. Four years later when he was nineteen he was admitted to partnership in the firm and the name changed to. Rice & Knight. He soon left the store, however, to enter his father's factory, and as related in the sketch of his father, was admitted to the firm in 1848 at the same time that T. E. Woodcock was . admitted. For many years he was the head of the firm of Woodcock, Knight & Co., manufacturers of card clothing machines and makers of card cloth- ing. The history of this firm has been told in the sketch of Captain Hiram Knight. The firm was
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dissolved in 1881 and since then Mr. Knight has been occupied with his duties at the bank and with the care of his varied property interests.
Mr. Knight has been one of the men of public spirit who has made Leicester famous as one of the beautiful country villages of central Massachusetts. Together with Colonel Samuel E. Winslow and Charles A. Denny he was a large contributor to the cost of making the old Leicester common a park of unsurpassed beauty. The work done at the com- mon served as an example to the whole village, for the common with its graceful shrubbery and artistic trees and flowers seem hut a centre of a well planned design that takes in the whole. Mr. Knight is one of the park commissioners in charge of the park, as it is now called. He served for years on the board of trustees of the Leicester public library. He was one of the incorporators of the Leicester Hotel or Leicester Inn, as it is now called. He is treasurer of the Rawson Brook cemetery. Although not an aspirant for public office he has always been interested in town affairs and has helped in every movement designed to make the village more at- tractive or prosperous. In politics he is an inde- pendent Democrat, and is a member of the Second Congregational Church ( Unitarian).
Mr. Knight is well known in banking circles from his connection with the Leicester National Bank, of which he was a director for nearly thirty years, until it went into liquidation in 1904 because of the law prohibiting close relations between sav- ings and national banks in Massachusetts, and from his connection with the Leicester Savings Bank, of which he was successively trustee, auditor, member of the investment board. vice-president and presi- dent. He resigned from the Savings Bank in 1902.
Mr. Knight married, January 11, 1864, Priscilla Jenkins Bowen, of Mattapan, Massachusetts. She was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, July 18, 1841. They have had one child, N. Olive, who lives with her parents at the old homestead in Leicester.
(VIII) James Jason Knight, son of Captain Hiram Knight (7), was born in Leicester, Massa- chusetts, August 21, 1841. He attended the schools of his native town and received an academic edu- cation at Leicester Academy and at Wilbraham Academy. He went to work at an early age in the card clothing business of his father and learned the same thoroughly. In 1867 he became a partner in the firm with his two brothers and T. E. Woodcock. He was in active business in this firm until it was dissolved in 1881. The history of the business and the firm is given elsewhere in the sketch of his father, Captain Hiram Knight. Mr. Knight was recognized as one of the substantial business men of the town for a generation or more. He has for the past twenty years been occupied with the man- agement of his private affairs and his duties at the banks. He was a director of the Leicester National Bank and a trustee of the Leicester Savings Bank. He married Anna Holman, and they have one child, Susan Esther.
(VIII) George Merrill Knight, son of Captain Hiram Knight (7), was born in Leicester, Massa- chusetts. March 10, 1844. He was the youngest of eleven children. He attended the Leicester public schools, Williston Academy at Easthampton and Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. As related in the sketch of his father, Cap- tain Hiram Knight, he entered the firm of Wood- cock, Knight & Co., in 1867, after learning the busi- ness and he inherited his father's mechanical and inventive abilities. The history of the three Knight brothers from 1867 to 1881 when the firm was dis-
solved is much the same. They were prosperous in business and all acquired wealth. Since his retire- ment from business Mr. Knight has spent a large portion of Ins time in travel. As a friend recently said of him; "It is hard for him to find a new trip worth taking; he has been everywhere." Mr. Knight is a well informed man, as perhaps all men who have been educated by travel and observation must be. Certainly Mr. Knight has larger purposes than mere amusement in his journeyings. He is a trustee of the Rawson Brook cemetery, and persoually built the pink granite wall which surrounds it and the entrance gates. He gave them his personal atten- tion and paid all the bills. On account of his ab- sence from the village for the greater part of the time he has not accepted positions of honor and trust in the community. Ile is unmarried.
FRANK WALKER DAVIS. Dolor Davis (1), immigrant ancestor of Frank Walker Davis, of Ash- burnham, Massachusetts, was born in England ; set- tled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor as early as 1635. He removed to Dux- bury and was proprietor there. He was admitted freeman June 2, 1646. He and his wife were dis- missed from the church at Duxbury and joined that at Barnstable, August 27, 1648, and he lived there some years. He removed to Concord, but in his old age returned to Plymouth county. He made his will September 13, 1672. It was proved July 2, 1673, mentioning sons: Symon, Samuel, John; daughters: Mary Lewis and Ruth Hall; wife Jo- anna. (A full account of Dolor Davis will be found in the sketches of the Davis family of Wor- cester and elsewhere in this work.)
(II) Samuel Davis, son of Dolor Davis (2), was born in England or Cambridge, about 1635. He married, at Lynn, January 11, 1665-66, Mary Med- dowes. She died at Concord, October 3, 1710. He married (second), October 18, 1711, Ruth Taylor, who died August 6, 1720. He was admitted a free- man March 21, 1689-90. He settled in that part of Concord that became Bedford, and his farm was on the back road from Concord to Bedford. He di- vided his real estate among his sons before his death by deeds. The children: I. Mercy, born October 27, 1666, died December 18, 1667. 2. Sam- uel, see forward. 3. Daniel, born March 16, 1673, married at Concord, April 27, 1699, Mary Hubbard ; resided at Bedford; he died February 11, 1741, and she died February 2, 1769, aged eighty-seven. 4. Mary, born August 12, 1677, married, April 26, 1699, John Stearns. 5. Eleazer, born July 26, 1680, mar- ried May 7, 1705, Eunice Potter. 6. Lieutenant Simon, born August 9, 1683, married, 1713, Dorothy -; removed to Rutland about 1720; died Feb- ruary 16, 1763: buried at Holden. 7. Stephen, born March 20, 1686, married, March 26, 1713, at Con- cord, Elizabeth Fletcher; resided at Bedford.
(III) Samuel Davis, son of Samuel Davis (2), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, June 21. 1669. He resided at Bedford and Chelmsford, and was one of the early proprietors of Townsend. He married Abigail Read, March 2, 1697, and she died January 13, 1709. He married (second) Mary Law, about 1710. His children : Abigail, born January 27, 1698; Mary, November 18, 1700; Samuel, October 3, 1703, see forward; Jacob, July 8, 1707, settled in Lunen- burg; Eleazer. Stephen, John. The children of the second wife: Lydia, December 4, 1716; Martha ; Deliverance, November 27, 1722.
(IV) Samuel Davis, son of Samuel Davis (3), was born October 3. 1703, at Bedford, Massachu- setts. He settled in Lunenburg, perhaps in the part that became Townsend. He was fence viewer of
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Lunenburg in 1731-36, hog recve in 1733. lle seems 10 have been a carpenter by trade. He married (first) Sarah and (second ). January 13, 1746-47, at Lunenburg. Rebecca Larkin, of Groton. He died in 1775, at Lunenburg, leaving a widow Margaret. His children: Samuel, born March 20, 1730, died young; Sarah, December 7. 1732, died February 10, 1737: Samuel, June 7. 1735: Joseph, May 20, 1738, see forward : Submit, married Stearns ; Hannah, mentioned in will.
(V) Joseph Davis, son of Samuel Davis (4), was born at Lunenburg, May 20, 1738. Ile was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Samuel Stone's company of minute men, Colonel William Prescott's regiment, April 19, 1775. at Lexington. He served in 1776 in the Ashby company in New York. He settled in Townsend in the part set off as Ashby, and at one time owned what is now the center of Ashby. Later in life he moved to Maine and had a farm there. He died in Maine. He mar- ried at Lunenburg (intentions October 22, 1757, married November 8). Among his children were: Reuben, see forward ; Polly, married Wheeler and resided in Townsend.
(VI) Reuben Davis, son of Joseph Davis (5), was born at Ashby, Massachusetts, December 23. 1783. died December 1, IS35. He worked with his father and attended the district schools in his youth. He followed farming for his livelihood all his days. He had a farm in the eastern part of the town near the Townsend line. It was owned formerly by his son. Walker Davis. He did teaming in addition to his farming for several years, and was also the town sexton and undertaker. He died at Ashby. He was a member of the Orthodox church at Ash- by. He married Hannah Emerson Walker, dangh- ter of Captain Zacchens Walker. Their children :
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